The Green Forest tribune., 1900-07-12
rHEFAMINE IN INDIA.
fxr3ntlitiOn of People Described and Method of Relief. AHMEDNAGAR, INDIA,
 May 19, 1900.
Special Correspondence.)


 Special Correspondence
 On my way to India l supposed ! was travelling 10000 miles to watch 10, ,0OO, ,000 people starve to death. After repeated visits to tho great relief camps, however, f ind I have come 10000 miles to Watch the Anglo-Saxon races in the act of saving the lives of millions of the "Aryan brown. !"
 Besides these particular ten millions of famine sufferers whose Wants are immediate, there are <(). 900 ,O0O others who, in bands
 10, ,00O or more, may at any
 6ment cry out for food. But
 the present I can write only offhe 1O,000,00O who are abso- 1uteIy dependent upon Govern nlent or private charity.
 M these, nearly 6,000,000 are f< and clothed and kept alive at HIS enumerous Government relief camps. As many as possible of the Remaining 4,0O0, 0,00O are being cared for by missionaries with money supplied by foreign con- stributions, notably America.
 There is no better thermometer of the famine than a Government relief camp. These camps, like thermometer, indicate the rise and fall in the intensity of the famine; they show the increase or decrease in the number of suffer- Iers, Recording to the number of 's,sple at the relief works. Last
 Yek the number of people being 'i14red for by the Government in- .creased by 61,000, so that the " ytotalof persons cared for by the ,n Eovernment is, at this writing, to tract figures, 5,611, ,00O.
 The Warwand camp is in the <, zSntre of the Deccan, in ordinary ,s 3e8 fertile and productive, but ' 5Sxin these famine times a great s6rt plain in the centre of the N Np' 6n1bay Presidency. Imagine a i"' n desert of brown parched up h, where never a green thing
 Sthe eye, where you breathe b. k8fr that well nigh suffocates
 Where not an insect sound is
 where only carrion birds :. n lin the still and dreadful air, ol.l HI the sun looks like disc of 'ts S pasted on the sky, and you eTs Sthe environment of the set
 & this Government camp. rfe he midst of this desert place, at and fe for yourself an hundred nam of grey jagged rocks, each Q sd Warming with human be- ans mel Tho, with chisel and ham,
 Ire breaking the rocks into cb, The sun cruel and re- o0'f' 8ly beats down it's scorch- b y ys upon uncovered heads, 'ris,s, ff{e hot air tries to absorb the P For Moisture yet in their poor, spf. s,a. led, shrunken bodies. The maR M these people looks like 7 and a' leather. Their bones pre- ant <. M outline as of a skeleton. De tq song is heard-only the a,Isd aeraI rs Kick of the hammers. New
 l4ile is seen-only a grin of @ nay be called a glad de- r. then the sun settles low on une.tl [zon, when the hours of ,,,. reaking are nearly over, ,edst', le two cents for the days asrsi z" almost earned.
 'le'esSss ;aSs hirds of these sad, silent Wort erouching on the rocks are
 Here are nursing moth- babe at breast; here are < gx.asss hbout to become mothers; '4S' little girls, only eight rell d, bearing a red mark on : i-1~1 |reheads, giving notice n are married; here are Mg !a'i y fourteen years of age, gl"r /. el aven heads, indicating W ,r y have even so soon ,01 7. .,so widowhood. All these, aN" men breaking stones at
 a day, in order to keep U LAM, elr poor bodies.
 n eond camp I visited was ,graP" camp at Ahmednagar, sg9 srest estPts Pessrvoir ars amR,1ySe Eor sSa
 l water for the city.
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