The Famine In Persia

The famine is quite bad here now The exporters of carpeta are enlployinr meu to pave the streets with the mónei sent to tliem. Mr. Want is bavifig i waü built arouad the ehureh graveyard and also a chapel is in process of construction by the poor masons who coulc uot ñnd work elsewhere. I say Mr. Ward is having it done, as he o versees the workmen and pays them everj evening. and gives e ach two pounds and a half of bread. Mr. Wright giyet out money amounting to fifteen dollara day, in sums from twenty cents to tifty, and distributes bread to about four hundred persons. We have four people in the house. The first one we took was a boy about ten years old, who was jut bfiginning to beg. Mr. Ward told him to ask nis mother if he could come evory day and open the iïate, and we would give him bread and money to buy braad for his motlier every day. He has been here over two months. The next one is a boy aboat fourteen years old. He was so nearly stai-ved that he had to be oarried here. Two days after he carne we sent him out to tind his fither, wliom he fearod was dead. He found him in the graveyard, whither he had gone to die, and brought him hore to us. Afterwardtho boy brought also an okler brother. Thev are very devoted to us now, and are full of whát they will do for us thip fall wlien they got work again. Theii work is bringing oharcoal from the mountains. It is very Mplesaot going out on the streets now, for the bogars entch ho!d of one's bridles and cling to ono's clothing. Yesterday I was oblljfod to strike a woman hard with my 'hip to make her let go of me. Those who are aotually starviug do not act in that way. In the streets people wil! run after us calling out: "In the name of the holy Jesus givo us bread!" Sorae ask for money. Mrs. (Hdfather, of Ourmiah, writes: " Women are eating their own children. The sinell in the city is terrible, and we fear a plague."