The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-08-07

quarters the people began to assemble.
There came hundreds of women in short
red dresses and long red aprons, wearing
handkerchiefs about their heads, and
these handkerchiefs were OF all
the colors of the rainbow. There
came hundreds Of bareheRded boys
and bareheaded girls, and half Of the
barefooted, barelegged women had bare
headed babies in their arms. There came
hundreds of barefooted men with their
hats in their hands or with no hats at all,
aud through this molly mass marched
number Of barehesded priests in black
gowns with long black hair hanging down
their backs. These entered the church
and presently came out with the holy ban
ners. AS they cid so many of the people
fell PROSTATE on the ground and some
bumped their heads against the cobble
stones in alteration. Every man and
woman, boy and girl made the sign of the
cross many times over and as the priests
moved onward. the thousands of bare
headed barefooted people went with them,
crossing themselves and praying as they
did go. In this way they marched through
out the town, and they will now go to some
shrine in the country and there repeat
their prayers for rain. / saw similar pro-
cession at Nolsk the other day, and Iunder-
stand that the people are praying for rain
al along the Folga. They are as a class
very devout, and they offer more prayers
in proportion TO their population than any
other people in the world.
HOW THE AMERICAN CORN WAS USED.
Much Of the American corn and flour
came 10 Samara, and have had talks with
the men who had charge of it and who
aided in It's distribution. | am now travel
ing with DR.. J. b. Hubbell of The Ameri-
can Red Cross society and we have visited
many of the districts to which our supplies
were sent. AS far as / can lind every bit
of the American gifts have been wisely and
consclentiously distributed, and here at
Samara the authorities would not give even
samples OF the corn 10 people who wanted
them for planting, but who were not IN 8
starving condition. There were many such
applications, but all were refused with the
statement that they could get such samples
il they wished from the peasants by giving
other food or az equivalent for them, but
that this corn came from America for the
people and every grain Of il should 20 to
them. ] drove out into the country this
afternoon 10 see an Englishman who has
been especially active in taking care of the
American food, but failed to get
access TO him, as he was down
with the typhus fever. Count Toll
stoi's son, whom we expected TO meet
here, is now working in one of the fever
districts of the interior and Mr.. TniSch-
K0n and others Oh Inc famine workers nave
just left after looking into the supplies
from the Tyrehead. All say that the Amer
lean food has done u vast deal of good, and
at Saratov, further down the Volga, / was
told that this feed had saved the lives OF
thousands. This was especially so among
the German colonists, of whom there were
more than hundreds and thousands on the
verge OF starvation. The Russians are
very clannish, and they believe Ia taking
care of their own people first. The result
is that Of the hundreds Of millions OF dol
lars given by the Russian people and by
the government very little If any went TO
the Germans. Said Mr.. Jacob Mueller q
German OF means living in Saratov, who
has devoted both his time and money dur
ing the past winter to the famine: The
American supplies saved the lives Of our
people. They came just at the right time.
There was just enough of them to help us
out and not bit too much. 1t seemed as
if the good God har managed it through
you for US"
IOWA CORN SPOILED IN TRANSIT
A part of the Iowa corn reached Russia
in very bad condition. One compartment