The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-05-31
Cold By men Wbo Starved
a TEEToTREER CAST on An ISLAND cRAUED
FOR RUN.
FOR RUN

RODS without food, but the second day
we put ourselves on short commons
they complained bitterly and appeared
20 be III extreme pain. At that time
suffered nothing. nor did I suffer until
some days afterWard. Indeed, al
though two or three of my men We're
almost dead from lack Of food by the
/ time we reached the nearest settle
ment, really suffered very little. The
only unpleasant sensations I can re-
call We're occasional bad aeadaches,
slight pains in the stomach, and now
and then a feeling of faintness. at
other times felt exceptionally strong,
although 1 had eaten hardly a scrap Of
food for days
If I were TO judge. by my. own feel
lngs / should say that the agOnies OF
starvation are much exaggerated. But
the sufferings of my men were terrible
enough. I asked one Of them how he
felt, when he was lying on the ground
one evening, too weak to move.
Boss he replied, me full Of devils
clawin' at me inside
Il gave the poor wretch little bran
dy, but he declared it made him feel
worse.
Z did not find that hunger in any
way affected my mental powers. On
the contrary, it seemed to improve
them was able to take the keenest
interest in my scientific work Pos
occupy my mind saved me from sUf-
fering as the others did. They, poor
wretches, had nothing to do but to
think Of food. I believe that was why
they suffered so keeniy."
Kipling's Experience at Starving.
Rudyard Kipling has experienced
that form Of starvation which is most
common in great centers of population
living for weeks and months at
time on an insufficient amount of food
He has admitted that he tried it for
the sake Of experience, and. Sn THE
Light That Failed he has described
his feelings.
1T is not easy" says Mr. Kipling.
for a man Of catholic tastes and
healthy appetites to exist for twenty
four days on fifty shillings NCc is il
cheering to begin the experiment alone
IN all the loneliness Of London.
Dick paid seven Shiilings week
for his lodging, which left him rather
less than a shilling a day for food and
| drink Half days investigation and
comparison brought him to the con-
clUsiOn that sausages and mashed po-
tatoess tWOpence a plate, were the best
food. Now, sausages once or twice a
week for breakfast are not unpleasant
As lunch even with mashed potatoes,
they become monOtonous. AS dinner
they are impertinent. At the end Of
three days DICK IOaeneg SauSaSeS, ana,
going forth, paWned his WatCS- to TeVel
on Sleeps head. which is not as cheap
as it looks, owing to the bones and the
gravy. Then he returned to sauSages
and mashed potatoes. Then he con-
fined himself entirely to mashed pota-
toes for day, and was unhappy be-
cause Of pain in his inside. Then he
pawned his waistcOat and his tie, and
thought regretfully of money thrown
away in times past
There are few things more edifying
unto art than the actual bellypinch of
hunger, and Dick, in his few walks
abrOad-he did not care fSr exercise: it
raised desires that could not be salts
/ fed-fOund himself dividing mankind
! into two classes-thOse who looked as
Il they might give him something to
eat, and those who looked otherwise.
| / never knew what I had to learn
about the human face he thought;
and. as a reward for his humility
/ Providence caused a cab driver at a
sausage shop where Dick fed that night
to leave half eaten a great chunk Of
bread. Dick took it-would have fought
all the world for its possessiOn-and
/ 1t cheered him.
The month dragged through at last,
and, nearly prancing with Impotence,
he went to draw his money"