The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-23

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TOW To The famine stricken ropuia ticu
81 the city are sd3e,i the refugees from
she country districts. oheir racks depleted
- the iass o those wao have fallen out
ard died b. sfe wayskie never before
imagined taat human creatures could b.
- Fhastly thin. Thev book like Erialrous
81 legs They steep ir ths streets. ana
whsre 81 you hor fond a. you pass A
raghf che streets loek az n war lad been
raglnE, and the dead ief, on The fed
Taoss that don't zei up IN the morning
are attended 90 By ere Burial corrs. =
2snt always easy 20 tell which are tire
live ones. last week ! psss>d near some
cert ~ a priest VINO had been Eueeling
aer toxE tiu1e or rae Sidewalk w8th MS
forehead against the wall. After me-ln
point - lo.aticr-came two uaiive police
Enen. VIC spoke 20 the priest and touc ned
Rim. He ealiapset IN q heap I dou't
know aoT lonE he had beer dead but i
mast have besn quite q song time Il
was siarvaf.uu-
be@gars are eVervwhe~e. There ar a.
wags plenty q beEEars IN BOMBAY. they
tel ne, but usese fei 0xs are terribly ~
carnsst- Spnc o. them the professsonais
suppose. look pump erDuEh. bus tnere
q FeFF convincing show % rios or the
majority. J have seen bands a - or 10
q thee regwars. mostly BOYS ard cri.-
oreu, 81 clan1orlng wth their hands out
stretched. They VIII take anything To- th@
wBy Of food that Is ofisred. Buf tire r-eo-
pc Nho lie IN the cutters ard groas4
Nlth hardly enough strength SO mold oft
their bands. ore fhe hardest % patss bv
There b 10 fr.rkery ehers. e s. TIE ana
cesth with them generally death. We
gave rsoDey - one olG wornan VITO was
loo wessx % crawl AGREES The street ard
buy food with So hut she banded TIRE
money 60 a boy and sent him fu~ me food
only hop b. ever came back
The authorize o. thelT besf buf Il must
make them feel hopeless 20 see the scores
q starving people pouring into ere CITY
from TIE oozntrg districts. every day.
The worst o. e 81 that there Is food
here 70 feed fhoswands q they u9uld only
use a. ] could - cut to-day With a shot
gun and bag Sc psEecus IN the streetz
% the coy Nhy dou't do lf7 Because
cont want 70 be torn 90 bits BY a mob.
The pigeons are sacred birds ard are ten
DERBY fed on grain that might be saving
human lives. It's the same way with the
sacred goats and bulls. they own the
sgre~ts in the native quarter. No native
would think Of killing thgm Cor food or
ever helping himself 70 thck fodder lie
would rather de what a city 30 b..
one day, down on the river front ran
across q PROCESSION Of widows There
were ahon, twenty OF them ard they were
song 20 some temple 60 mourn for their
hu-hards who had an died within the
week. - ! was tod. WhetheF they had
starved or died Of the plague don't
know. rgth. very Hsssy. TIE women
Nore long black head coverings that
shrouded their faces. and they walked
f.ent FAR over. and ne sound OF their cry
lnx was = thine ] shsnt forgos. Mr. L.
took q picture o. them: one % whilh 4
enclose ! went away up a side street.
! dian't like the sound. That same day
J wandered into a part Of the native
quarter where the plague had fallen
heavily. Sosne Of the door posts had ten
~ twelve circles on them. with the date
- each Sase neatly inscribed. The ma
fFes seemed apathetlc about 70. They
caN s. q visitation % the Lord and let u
80 ~ that We found a crowd OF children
ral1inr In an open sewer that had APP
rarsntlT irfecied che whole street for the
ercle4 numbers we're thick aud there had
nssn eases o. the previous day but no.
sas1y antrrfsred with the children, There
EaB pr31ably no ofher place for them to
81. shere the danger Of infection wouldn't
Save been as great
rhs famine fund from America has fall
sr - greatly. I suppose you have the
g4FegtDn disaster Eow TO take up your
fcarttatis thoughts. But Il e hard 70
se4sea that anywhere else IN che world
uorsv wisely used. could be used 20 such
2-e-g tcf hfs-ssving as IN this city.