The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1922-05-11

! out with some friends a few months
ago. Perhaps she could make her way
to Germany, or Tashkent orSamara
| no matter how far away, where food
! could be found, and then she could
send back for her family. Such ignor.
ance, such courage, and such distan.
ces'. She had only reached Samara, q
few hundred versts on her way. She
had been there for months and now
it was winter and she had no coat
She could not travel without a coat
What had become of her family?
She had written often, but there was
no answer. "Where can l get work
for my father?" She asked me. HE
is good carpenter, besides being q
farmer" Later that day saw a re.
lief worker who had been down the
Volga, and asked what was the sit,
, nation like in the town where this
girl had come from. Every bad," he
answered. They are mostly dead or
gone away"
The doctor was right. should not
! The doc: >r Was right. should .!.'t
haze heard the story. the girl was
no longer soothing and comfortable
| to me. When she came in I turned
| my head to the wall and tried to
=, puzzle out where a carpenter could
get work. l could not look at her,
for when did 1saw the older sister
and the boys and the mother and the
baby, all such fine, sturdy country
peasant people. And I thought how
they were scattered now, and prob
ably dead, and how she, a girl of
eighteen, had started out to save the
family, and was now working for
board and room in a hospital while
she had to borrow my coat to GO
out to market.
1t was only after several days that
my nerves were strong enough to for.
get that she was the suffering young
thing of eighteen to think of her ONLY
as the strong, silent person who
brought me my food. Ones nerves
must be hardened to that, if one is
to live thru a famine. For there are
hundreds of thousands of families
with tales as bad as hers, and unless
one manages to forget little how
human they are and how each one
suffers, one would soon go mad. Be-
sides they almost forget it them.
selves. The calamity is so inhuman
and colossal.
| The English nurse who was sent
down by the Quakers; from Moscow
to take care of me, used to go out
each day for walk in the city. She
brought back daily news. One day she
brought me news of three things at
once; a train, hospital and a news
| paper.
She saw a train in the station at
Samara. 1t was one of thirty-five
cars of food from Hardin in Man
churia. It was painted all~over with
friendly words and pictures from the
I"Harbin Committee for the relief of
hungry Russia. It was, the gift Of
poor workers and peasents from q
different part of the world. 4. -. Il Il
Later she stood by the door of the
emergency hospital at the station and
watched for the hopeless people turn
ed away from the. hospital, always
with the bitterly ironical words;
You are not ill you are only star
wing: They were young men from
the villages tottering with hunger as
they walked to the railway centers
in the hope of escape There was 3
father carrying little girl who,
could no longer walk She was surely
and slowly dying, but it was !
trouble for which the emergency hos
pital had no remedy Too many Had
=, and the only remedy for il was
food.
Passing away from the station, the
nurse noticed q Russian news bulletin
lon = wall T. told how certain news