The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-09-02

Whole coGntry resounding with the busy
AU-l OF rcAureratiYe industry. let Us no.
t.rget tGeAe helpless enes, remem6e IA
th2, Chlist sax; l1asnuGh rs ys HAYS
Done ulto enc of il least OF these. ye
have done ~ Ento Me.
s2eacine OF present conditions. Mt.
Nl4I+.s s~ys:
Lord Curzon 10 Happy, Rains are fan.
inC ana now lho tanilAe district he.etotora
the AayM.na,lon Of desolAtion Will again
bloom like q 2ardea. SIll i've and nali
millions remain Al the government rel I
wurks earning cents a dag for nine
hours hard work b. eaking Stone, nu!id-
Ing tanks or mixing roads. When a. last
rsllet does come ana hc3e poor oesRars
are p mitsed to retu home, many a
vacant Place In the family circle viii bear
witness TO the tsrriole rayases Of starya-
ton. cholera, plague and smallpox, The
crop Is still two months oh--and that IL
Will Prove totally inadequate is Fore
gore conclusion.
Only lew days ago DR.. KiCpsch ca
bed dnOtHer 100000, which means lie
10 just that nGEy peopie-for another
month. Think Of u. a hundred thousand
men, women and children in lndia saved
from starvation Tor whole month,
through single remittance tiom the
country of the stars and Stripes! Was
for people we shall never see and whose
very thanks in language strange to US
shall never reach our ears?
But famine's doplora5le work still con-
tinuos. only last month Il man at Thana,
relief station Twenty-Five miles from
Bombay, was arrested for having buried
alive his two children Hls story was
pitifully sad. He and his wife and Two
children went to the relief works There
his wife died. re himself caught the fe-
vor. He could not shake 1t Off AL last
driven to despair he took his children
one night and left the station. HIS SUI
ferings we're fearfully intensified by those
of his llttle ones. They finally reached
a point where they could DO longer walk
DeatA was staring him In the face II
he did not get where help could be FOUND
they must all perish. His children, help-
less, urdble to continue the JourneS,
blocked his progress. He dug a grave,
threw stem in and filled It up. The ie-
yer had made him irresponsible ana ne
government will probably act leniently
in his case but the incident demonstrates
the fearful depths which the helpless
famine victims have reached during this
terrible dlspensation OF ProFiaence
I'm a recent interview DR.. kiopsch saio
that ne was under an everlasting oDllga-
Ion to the press Of this country for their
hearty cooperation in this great work,
and that India could never repay the deb
she owes to American journalists. During
his stay in India he never missed an o2-
portunity of expressing himself freely OIL
this subject and many OF the leading
papers of India directed the attention OF
The people 10 the extent % their indent-
edness TO American newspapers Tor the
tremendous assistance they had rendered
in awakening public interest In the suffer-
ings OF midas starving millions. IN
deed. nlne-fenths OF all the contributions
were the result OF newspaper work and
never was the bcnefcent influence OF the
press more manifest than IL this partieu-
la. instance.
THE great problem--indeed the greatest
thai now confronts Christendom In con-
nection with this most appalling Tragedy
Of the century Is that OF the ORPHANS who
must either be promptly cared for or
perish. Statistics carefully gathered Dy
missionaries fix the number no" nope
iessiy destitute al 100000 What TO 40
with these boys and girls Is the para
mount question OF the day In lodla.
Throughout the famine stricken area NJ
tie children are wandering about asking
OF any one who VIZ listen 90 their sm9lt.
plaIntive voices: ia bah humons Kha-
yanu Kahan nulse.' which, translated.
means Where can we get somethog 70
eats The traveller In India sees TINS
spectacle daily-little children reauesd TO
skeletons by starvation asking their way
10 the nearest poor haSse. Orphan ssy~
ums are almost unknown among the Hin