The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-02-12

arrived.
For the next thirty or forty min
utes, naively she related, 81 spent the
time in cleansing my lords legs, arms
and hands, while afterward he did the
same for me-"
Ex-sultan Closely Guarded.
Ever since the war in Tripoli be-
gan, Abdul Hamid, the deposed Sui
tant of Turkey, has been so closely
guarded that it is believed he has no
idea what is happeniAe outside the
little world about him.
The former Sultan amuses himself
with carpenter work or discusses food
with his cook His interest in good
things to eat is as great as ever, and
daily he makes list of dainties he
desires.
He still hates his gaoler, Rassi Bey,
who answers for Abdurs safety with
his life. However, he has made
friends with Atuf Bey, the physician
assigned to guard his physical well
fare. Rassi Bey, it is known, has
orders to extend all due courtesies
to his prisoner, but should he attempt
to escape to kill him if necessary.
The old Sultan knows this and
loathes the man. He has not ad
dressed ten sentences to him since
he was brought to Villa Alladina
There is murmuring in quarters
where congregate those who dare to
speak their opinions, that the affairs
of Turkey re going badly. These
men insist that, though old Abdul
Hamid was a tyrant, he was a mon
arch on a really large scale, whereas
the Young Turks have proved just as
tyrannical, but far less clever states
men.
| Many Starving in Russia.
Incredible though it seems, there is
not the slightest doubt that twenty
million people in Russia are starving
this winter.
Some months ago the alarm was
sounded in the Russian press, but
OlllCldl ltCOSulIlOu VI IllC LCiliilAN, bN
: lated as usual, took place only re-
Gently, when, in reply to opposition
! questions in the duma, the premier
admitted a total failure of the crops
in eight eastern provinces, and a par
tial failure in twelve others. Taken
, altogether, the deficiency in all these
stricken provinces amounted to the
average crop.
Official house to house investiga-
, tons conducted by the government,
, that wanted to put an end to sensa-
, tional rumors circulated in Germany,
, enable the Russian prime minister to
announce that only" eight million
people were actually in danger of
starving to death in November, but
: since then the number has steadily
increased until it has now reached the
: formidable number above mentioned,
Recalls Similar Condition.
. 1t should be remembered that only
, five years ago, in 1907, these same
provinces on either side of the Ural
range, passed through a similar eXpe
rience. The people lost most of then
: horses and cattle, used up all theiI
stocks and savings, and incurred
, large debt to the state, which the
surpluses of the intervening years
have had to pay. Thus these
: wretched millions have now to face
} death by hunger practically withou
reserves or resources of any kind Il
i fall back upon. Hay and fodder have
II failed, as well as the grain crops
$ throughout this large region, Thus
. even from the statistics of the Opt
Il mistic bureaucracy the awful exten
v of the calamity may be imagined,
e But the actual facts speak still NOR
II eloquently of the suffering in the vii
e lagos. Having sold their cattle AM
II household wealth at ruinous prices
" averaging less than one-fifth of thei
20 value, the villages have been con
PEELED to satisfy the pangs of hunge
10 with acorns, bran. field weeds an
lie the bark of trees. The usual famin
Ie diseases scurvy and typhus-o
III course, have followed Until the sno'
~ began to fall and covered the grounc
the children and women went out an
collected the acOrns, which the
ne mixed with a little -four, for tn
Sc household consumption. The husE
ed could not be spared, and this "acor
ny bread" has brought on Severe int
nal pains, followed by sickness an
ry hemorrhages."
NV Appeals from Villages
9d' School teachers write pitiful lette
er from the villages to the newspaper
BE- describing how the children are pinil
away before their eyes while they a
ser powerless to help Similar appea
come from the doctors, whose healil
Ter art has no remedy for famine, II
ne village priests send out their cry: -
en- who have God in their hearts, he