The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-21

thO ucyS pelOTe IeUlONeu lO duOlliCi place about twenty-five miles distant
 But said he, If you wish to see something of the work of the famine you have only to step down by our first signal and you will see the bodies of two | persons, who starved to death there two days ago. He deputed a porter to act as guide through the native city, where we went first. Such sights met oui eyes. We had never thought that such a state of affairs ever existed in India. On every hand were the dead and dy- | ing. Sometimes 1t was an aged person sometimes a youth or an infant The sun beat down almost unbearably. The wind carried the sand In clouds. There was scarcely any noise, though there were many people. They sat or lay 1 quietly in groups of from five to fifty beneath the trees by the roadside. Off, | ten one had fallen alone and was left there to die as he had fallen. The liv- ing, the dying and the dead were all to- gether. If one died in the center of a group no one attempted to remove the body. Why should they? All have sat or lain down there to die, and one by one they meet death-they all wait for 1 there ia no one who will give, so they resign themselves to their awful fate. | Passing on through the city, about one | mile, we came to its eastern boundary | In the bottom of the dry river bed and on it's banks were scores of dead bodies of persons who had starved to death. In many parts ot the city dead bodies were also to be found. At one place lay the body of woman who died two days before. Still they have what they call municipality at Dohad. But its mem bers do not care. The lleartlessness of those who are within a stone's throw of the sufferers, and who could help if they would, Is very manifest. Many we found dying of thirst within half a min ute's walf of the door or some rich Mo- hammedan or high caste Hindu who, until almost forced to it, would not turn a hand to alleviate the sufferngs of the dying
 It was dreadful to look upon the faces of the small children who had starved to death. Marks of infant beauty, in- termingled With those indicative of a painful death, were traceabe. What deaths they have met! And near them,
 
 same terrible sufferings and awaiting the same terrible end. Is any one re- sponsible, and will any one have to an- swer and say why it was permitted to be so? The missionaries are doing much, and would do more if they had the means
 As we walked about those quiet streets we saw deserted homes and faces and dead bodies-so many that had lain so long in the streets and by ways that we had to breath through a well wadded handkerchief We longed to be able to picture the sffuerings of these people to those who have laid by of their wealth, not for rainy day, but for thousands of them One sight would be sufficient to open the long closed purse, and thousands would pour out blessings on the givers.
 Lying in the midst of one of these groups was the fresh carcase of a child. We concluded that the flesh had been eaten from it by the jackals. We saw many carcases. but the peculiar situa- tion of this one brought to our mind what sort of nights the living dying people must pass in battling with those
  who were almost too weak to raise a hand, and who we are sure could not de- fend themselves in the event of an at- tack by a jackal or hungry dog. We saw dog feasting on the body of a woman. What must be the state of the minds of these people who sit day after day in site of these awful scenes, know ing full well that they are to be done away with in the very same manner? They are not without this knowledge, | but they are without the life and | to act as we would think they would. One of the bravest acts we wit ! messed was that of a little girl of about | seven years of age. attempting the care | of her two little brothers after the | mother had given up hope and lain | down near them to die. She was feed Ing a fire which burned beneath a broken pot in which simmered the al- most rotten bones and feet of dead an- mal.
 The scene was the most heartrending | we ever witnessed It cannot be paint ad too black No account we have ever read of any famine would picture the | state of affairs at Dohad.
 The municipal arrangements there ire greatly in need of investigation by authorities who have power to see that better things are done for the few in- labitants of the city who still survive. We shall feel very much gratified if, on 'eading this report, some one will take he matter in hand and see 1t through.