Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, June 25, 1898, Page 4

Brana tRepits Peraite'Review By E. C. KILBW. TWO DOLLARS A YEAR IN ADVANCE Six Months.......... 1.00 | Three Months.... E atered ats the “postoffice ‘at Grand Rapid Minn. second-class matter. THE PLATFORM. FAMINES IN INDIA. Records of Some of the Most Destruct- ive In Former Years. With an overcrowded population of 200,000,000 peasants whose annual sup- ply of food depends on a rainfall sub- ject to decided irregularities, it is in- evitable that India should suffer from frequent and destructive famines. Me- teorological observations have dis- closed no rule of periodicity in these failures,of rainfall by which seasons of drought can be forecast with cer- taint They have, on the other hand, established the fact that the fall is hever either deficient or excessive in any single year throughout the whole of India, says a writer in the New York Observer. ‘There is always a re- serve of food supply in some part of the area which may be drawn upon for use in the needy districts. It has been discovered, too, that winters marked by an excessive snowfall in the Him- alayas are always followed by dimin- ished summer rainfall, generally in northern India, but sometimes in other portions of the great peninsula. Apart from these few facts, gathered within the last quarter of a century, there 1s littie data from which seasons of drought may be forecast, though it is known that a drought, once begun, generally extends over two or more years. The approach of scarcity can be determined only in the year in which it actually, occurs, and by a sys- tem of observations beginning with the June rainfall and continuing until autumn. Of the extent of the suffer- ing from drought and crop failure in the Asiatic world Western peoples have but a faint conception. In the great droughts in northern China in 1877-78 no less than 9,500,000 persons perished; and although during the present century at least no single fam- ine in India has attained that magni- tude, it is estimated that in the score or more disasters which have oc- curred, between 15,000,000 and 20,000,- 000 lives have been lost. That whick began in 1875 and culminated in 187% was the most prolonged and destruc- tive, resulting in the death of 5,500,- 000 persons. In 1865-66 a third of the population of 3,000,000 starved to death in Orissa, and in 1868-70 about 1,500,- 600 died from want in Rajputana. The famine of 1861 in the northwest prov- inces was a huge calamity, and the Berar drouth of 1873-74 was only pre- vented from becoming so by lavish ex- penditure on the part of the Indian goverhment. Prior to the white con- quest famines of immense dimensions devastated the peninsula, resulting oc- casionally in an appalling decimation of the feebler classes of the population. These classes are always so near star- vation that a season of drouth reduces them at once to extremities of hun- ger. In the old days the devices for famine relief in India were of the usual Asiatic sort. First the shops of the grain dealers were sacked and their owners murdered. the offices of the native governments were besieged and when the royal gran- aries were emptied the gods were pro- pitiated with sacrifices, ending with the slaughter of human victims and/ the distribution of their flesh over the barren fields. But during the past thirty years these devices have given way to the remedial measures of a more practical and effective kind. Taught by long experience, the govern- ment of India has elaborated a system of relief, machinelike in its opera- tions, capable of being put into effect at any time and of adjustment to the needs of any particular scarcity. The old noticn that a government cannot be made responsible for deaths from starvation any more than for deaths by | fever has disappeared. Every rural of- ficial is made to feel his responsibility and is minutely instructed beforehand as to his particular duty in such stages of scarcity. First a system of crop forecasts gives notice of the possible approach of famine. When the possi- bility becomes from further. reports probability the government begins ac- tive preparations to meet it. Its fore casts may not prove correct but it acts at once and energetically, knowing that if it waits to verify its estimates action will be too late to be effectual. Fish Chew Tobacco, Francis Harding, living near Lilly lake, N. Y., has made a discovery. He was out tip-up fishing, and had cut several holes in the ice. He had wait- ed in vain for a bite for several hours, when he bappened to toss a quid of tobacco in one of the holes. Quick as a flash it was snapped up and disap- peared beneath the water. This gave _him an idea, and, pulling up one of his many hooks, he placed a piece of plug tobacco on it. Instantly\there was a commotion, and he pulled in a fine four-pourd pickerel. Francis then dis- tributed his remaining supply of to- bacco on the various hooks, and the When that failed | | those about | throat to do so. | investigation of the case. A WOMAN DIES OF RABIES, Bitten by a Dog, She Exp'res ‘Three Months Later. Miss Jennie E. Glatigny died of rab- ies at her hame at Seventh and Bull ptreets yesterday ‘morning about 2 o’clock. Her sufferings from spasms of the throat and larynx just before her death were terrible, and dt was impos- sible to do anything for her relief, says the Savannah (Ga.) News of March 23. Dec. 29 Miss Glatigny took her dog and went out for a walk toward Mr. Kies- ling’s place, a short distance from her home. When near there she saw two dogs, one of which attacked her dog, and when she took a stick to beat it off the other dcg sprang at her and bit her through the right hand, between the thumb and forefinger. Miss Glat- igny went on to Mrs, Kiesling’s, where some turpentine was applied) to the wound and after some days it healed up. On Jan, 12 it broke out again and Dr. Stanley was called. He pricked the hand and let out a small accumula- tion of pus, after which it healed again and she took no further notice of it until Thursday, March 18, seveuty-nine Gays after the bite, when, about 12 o'clock noon, she began to feel a pain in the hand, which ran up the arm, through the shoulder and down her side. She was very restless Friday night and in the morning and com- | plained that the pain kept annoying her. She was about the same Friday night and Saturday morning about 10 o'clock she sent fer Dr. George H. Stone. When Dr. Stone called he found her suffering from this pain, but there were no other symptoms and it ap- peared that she had taken cold. The pain was easily relieved and it did not return. She had one choking spell and on the return of Dr. Stone Sunday morning she complained that she had not slept through the night, though she had suffered no pain. She then showed signs of rabies in her inability to swal- Jow and from then until 2 o'clock in the mSrning, when she died, there was a@ constant su sion of spasms when- ever she attempied to k ter, Al- though she wished for water eagerly, and would hold a ¢ of it in her band for aa hour at a time, while the ht of it did not seem disagreeable to her, yet when she attempted to swal- jjow it her effort would make the spasms of the throat still more intense and these kept up continuously to the time of her deaih, nature being unable to endure Jonger the severe strains pro- duced. Miss Glatigny was conscious to the time of ‘er death. She knew and would talk when she had long enough relief from the constantly recurring spasms of the Her case was accom- panied by all of the other symptoms of rabies, such as extreme neryous irrl- tability. Touching her nose at at- tempting to blow it-wou'd bring on a severe spn as would also any draught of air, no matter how slight, Gn one oce 1 the suggestive treat- ment was tried and she was finally en- abled to drink a glass of water through the induced beiief that she could do it. But this ld not be kept up and the spasms became more frequent and more severe until death relieved her. Yesterday morning Dr. Stone and Drs. Graham and Brunner held an autopsy tor the purpose of making a thorough There was no doubt in the minds of any of them that it was a true e of rabies, y tock some of the virus and will cuiti- vate it and try its effect on some an- imal, such as a rabbit, for the purpose of more thoroughly understanding the case. The German Emperor and Empress. 1 remembered that when I lived Berlin, when a chi ecarcely observed in any way vy Germans. ‘The churches were well nigh empty. You might have im- agined yourself in London upon a bank holiday. Hut the present emprcss*is a woman of very firm religious princi- ples and William Il, however change- able ke mey be in other matters, is a rock where his pious belief is con cerned. It has been the dearest wish of both himself and the empress to in- treduce the “‘Euglish Sunday” to the Germans, and it is wonderful, iadeed, how they have succeeded. The in- crease of belief is remarkable; the Ber- lin churches are now attended by crowds and ibe clergymen, tormerly at in , Sunday was the {a discount in society, are feted as if they were the military. Both emperor and empress always attend divine ser- vice in the morning. The preacher is forbidden, it is true, to speak longer than fifteen minutes and the congrega- tiou is warned against “staring” at their majesties. After church the royal vouple eutertain a few intimate friends and before bed time the arts some bible knowledge to her chiidren.—The Woman at Home. Writers of Books. lp a pretty large experience I have not found the men who write books superior in wit or learning to those who don’t write at all. In regard of mcre information, nonwrite~s must oft- en be superior to writers. You doi't expect a lawyer in full practice to be conversaat with all kinds of literature; he is too busy ‘with his law; and cc a writer is commoniy too busy with h. own Looks to be able to bestow atteu- tion ou the works of other peopie.— Thecherg, ‘The Unlikely, “No,” sighed the poster fsvmer as he sadly contemplated the pester cow, “I can’t say that | consider her a very ‘result was that in half an hour he had | likely animal, but we ail have our short- over fifteen pounds of fish. Since then he has made severe! large hauls in this “manner. comings, I suppose.”—Letroii Journal, ~~ OONSOLIVG HER INTENDED. George's Unnecessary Fears Were Dissipated by One Word. She had agreed to become his .wife. For a long time he had sat in silence, too full of emotion to say anything, s0 great was his happiness at having at last achieved the fondest dream of his life. At length his face, hitherto wreathed with smiles, became clouded A seowl of annoyance settled upon it. She, who had been attentively watch- ing his countenance, was quick to ob- serve the change. “What is the matter, George,” she asked in alarm. “You are not sorry you asked ne to marry you and that L consented? Oh, George, I hope that is not it.” “No, dear. You know I love you as never woman was loved before.” “Then what is it that causes you dis- tress? Tell me that I may console you. It is the duty of a little wife to comfort her husband in affliction, and I am going to be your little wifie. Ain’t I George?” / “Yes, darling, you are.” And there was silence during which no sound fell upon the air except a noise like the popping of champagne corks, “Well, Georgie, now tell me all about » “Well, dear, I was wondering what your father will say when I ask him for your hand. You are such a prec- fous jewel that I dare not ask him for you. I feel as if I were robbing him of the greatest and most precioug thing in the world.” “Well,” she replied, “if that’s all that’s the matter with you, I might as well tell you that father and I re- hearsed the whole act last night after you left, and I am sure he will reflect credit upon my lessons when you speak to him.” And a great load was lifted from his heart, while he immediately deposited another in his lap. HUNTERS HIT DY THEIR GAME. Wnstanees Where Spertsmen Hi Received Severe Blows from Blvd: Game kilted in flight has a piomen- tum that carries it 2 long way some times. The London Field relates sev- eral instances where the birds have Mit the sportsman. In one case George Monners was shooting in the woods of Long Island when a grouse, driven by beaters, came flying along fast and high up. He shot at it, and then, with the other barrel, fired at another bird, Just as he was about lowering his gun, after the second shot, he received a blow on the head that knocked him senseless. ‘The grouse first hit had tumbled against his herd. That same afterngon a wheelman, riding along near the line of huntess, admiring the scenery, did not observe a big black cock till its feathers brush- ed his head. The black cock had heen killed and had nearly hit him in ‘alling. The Badminton volume on shooting tells how the lafe Charles Leslie was knocked out at the battery by a grouse he had shot. A strong hat probably gaved him from serious injury. American hunters have had similar experience. A man was riding along in a wagon some time ago, according to Forest and Stream, when some- thing hit him on the head with enough foree to make him dizzy. An un- wounded partridge flying through the woods had hit him fair. Why the biré did not turn aside is as much a mys tery as the fact that partridges some times fly against house sides and are lailled in so do A Motion to Amend. Those people out in Colorado are cer- tainly stuck on silver. Now, the last time I was out there I attended church on Sunday, as I always do. The min ister was one of the good, old-style Methodists. He’@ grown up in the country, though, and called a spade a spade when it was necessary. He had reached his peroration, “and when the last day shall have come,’ he said, ‘and we shall have knocked on the pearly gates and they shall have opened to us, we shall enter the beaw tiful city and walk up the golden- paved streets and receive a goldet harp of a thousand strings; then, oh, Nhen, what joy will be—’ Just then, away down in the rear of the church, a little peaked-nosed runt with bow- legs, jumped up and shouted. ‘I rise for the purpose of making a motion.’ Well, the parson looked startled and quit speaking. ‘My motion is,’ said the peak-nosed fellow, ‘that wherever in chat there discourse the word “gold” appears, it be stricken out, and the word “silver” be substituted’ ‘Well, sir, about forty of that congre- gation got up to second the motion. Now. that just shows what the silver sentiment is in that state.” “Well, what did the preacher say?” asked the listeners. “Well, gentlemen, he looked at that little peaked-nose, bow-legged runt for a minute, gettin’ madder and madder ail the while, and he looked as if he was going to have a stroke of apo- plexy. He slammed the book shut and he banged his fjst down on the cover and said, ‘I'll see you durned first? ”-- New York Sun. Ballooning at Sea. The French navy is now being fitted out with vessels which are to carry on the science of ballooning at sea. A French cruiser, the Sfax, belonging to the Mediterraneai squadron, has been fitted out expressly for experiments | with balloons. The balloon itself is kept on deck in a hatf inflated condl- tion. It does not take up much space of itself, but the equipment necessary for proper balloon work demands a good deal of room. Whenever it may be deemed necessary to learn of the presence of vessels in the neighbor- hood of the French squadron, the bal- Jon will be inflated and sent up; and ts occupants will thus have a view of a far greater extent of oeean than could be seen from the deck or mast of a vessel. —Boston Advertiser. dueeinoek “Sumptuous performance?) Well, I guess. You remember the scene where Upp eitlain. discovers he doesn’t cut any ar ‘es, perfectly.” “Well, they use real ice there!” “J want ta know.”—Detroit Tribune, “LOWEST YET FOR CORN.” Yesterday when work was over, And the evening closing down, Reading through the evening paper News of country and of town, Glancing at commercial columns To Jearn how trade had ruled sines morn, I saw, in striking type, a headline Reading: “Lowest yet for corn!” “Lowest yet for corn!” What of it? Surely, nothing new to hear; Every week tells the same story, Month by month and year by year “Lowest yet for corn!” Consider— Though the story may be old— There are those who have to suffer Every time the tale is told. Every time the tale’s repeated Unto ears well-nigh forlorn Some surviving hope’s defeated, Hearing: “Lowest yet for corn.” But 1 fancy some are saying: “It is safe at all events; Safe to say Chicago market Won't go under twenty cents; When those fearless speculators See the chance before them here They'll hecome bold operators’”— And—“There’s nothing left to fear.” We have heard some such assei Bravely made from year to yea: “Lower than this last quotation, There is nothing left to fear.” a “Nothing left to fear!” they? Who are left with strength to cope With this ever-downward pressure? No! There’s nothing left to hope! Nothing left to hope; if wisdo: Has not yet the lesson taught, By the striking down of silve; Has the wretched wreck been wrought. Nothing left to hope! Remember! Back in eighteen seventy-three Gold and silver both sustained us, Silver coinage then was free. Unrestrained each noble metal Aided all the works of man, Each in turn relieved the otier On the bimetallic plan. Only once or twice this nation Had endured a panic’s sway, Now, like any poor relation, Panic comes full-dressed to stay! Dismal periods of depression, Disappeintment on all hands. See us raise in sad succession Half-priced crops on mortgaged lands. Half-priced crops, which in the selling, Leave such small rewards to toil, Sorrow quarters in the dwelling Of the tiller of the soil. Cunning tricksters said though silver Had been been king in days of yore, Now its royal reign was ended, It should be free-coined no more. Thus by tricks that treason played us, Silver’s coinage rights were sold; And the crime’s results have made us Slaves to Europe and to gold. Patiently till now we've borne it, But the outlook growing worse, Love of country! Love of freedom! Call us now to end the curse, We have got a heaven-selected Champion by God’s good grace, Bryan—by our votes elected— To the nation’s highest place. Bryan, and our silver treasure, | Free-coined dollars bright as morn, Banish sorrow! Welcome pleasure! Banish “Lowest yet for Corn,’ H. de B. a AYE Me RE AE es ak ae ON ae atk ae ate abe NE aK ste ae ate ae ate ate ate ae ate ate ate ae ate alte ae ale ate abe ae ale ate ae ae ate abt abe ate a ate ate cena nee eRe ane anes aoe ee FARMER A FOUL? {S THE The Goldbug Press Is Disposed to Assume That He Is. Under the caption “Bunkoing the Farner,” the Chicago Times-Herald recently printed the following remark- able editorial: “Wheat will bring you twice what it brings now, says the free silver bun- koer to the farmer. “But the purchasing power of our dollar wiil be half what it is now, an- swers the farmer to the free silver buu- koer. Go to. i “T have to buy as well as to sell, says the farmer.” This is the gist of the goldbug argu- ment. Do the farmers believe that dol- lar wheat is going to injure them? Will dollar wheat assist in paying mortgages and long-standing debts? For a generation the Republican ora- | tors have been talking “protection” to the farmers. They have alleged that protection raises the prices of manu- factured goods, increases the wages of city workmen, and consequently in- creases the demand and raises the price of farm products. They admit that protection does not directly benefit the farmer; that there is no protective tar- iff on his wheat, corn, oats and other products, but say the farmer gets an “indirect benefit dye to the increased price of manufactured goods and in- creased wages.” ‘What has the farmer done with the money derived from this “indirect ben- efit?” Higsfarm is mortgaged. 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