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Saturday, October 8,1921
VOLGA TOWNS IN
HUNGER DESPAIR
People Sit Silent in the Streets
Awaiting Death to End
Their Sufferings.
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PICTURES OF GRIM MISERY
Docks and Railroad Stations Pllsd
High With Belongings of Refugees
Driven From Their Land by
Drought and Grasshoppers.
Syzran, Russia.—There was a time
when Syzran was the most colorful
city along the Volga, but that time Is
> gone. Today It is crowded with dust
begrimed peasants, who group them
selves into gray musses in their search
for food.
There wus a time when the air was
filled with a perfect babel of tongues —
the languages of the Kalmucks, Mon
gols, Tartars, Chinese and Russians —
but the crowds that throng the streets
of the city at present are mute. Even
tire laughter of children has been si
lenced in the despair that has settled
over these tens of thousands, who sit,
crossing themselves, und wait for
what seems to be the inevitable.
Pictures of Grim Misery.
Pictures of misery seen here are du
plicated in Samara, Simbirsk, Saratoff,
Tsarit’zin, and every other city in the
famine-stricken valley of the Volga.
Pocks and railroad stations are plied
high with the belongings of the refu
gees, who were driven from their land
by the drougld and the clouds of
grasshoppers that destroyed even the
monger grain that had defied the heat
of the terrible summer now drawing
to a tragic close. Committees are try
ing to move the refugees to other
points where there Is some promise
of food, but It is necessary to use
the limited river and railroad trans
portation facilities to send seed grain
into the country and to bring bread
Into the famine districts.
Many professional beggars of the
gypsy type arc to be found hero and
In other large centers in southern
Russia, but the starving farmers ask
no alms and utter no cry. They
stand silent and await their fate with
the stoicism pictured so graphically
and truthfully by Tolstoy and Dosto
ievsky.
Sell Rings and Clothing.
Markets' have sprung up mushroom-
Hke here and there about the refugee
camps, offering for sale vegetables,
bread, flour and meat. They are sur
rounded by hungry people, who have
no money to offer, but who exchange
wedding rings, fur coats, caps, ket-
Uaa, pans, boots and other small pos
sessions. They know the Russia* win
ter Is coming, and that it will find
them wltheut shelter and clothing, but
they are obliged to give up the ne
cessities ftf the future to meet the de
mands of the present.
Large peasant families arrive In a
state of exhaustion, tlielr curts being
dragged by camels and starved
horses. There is no hay or grain
htwe, and there is slight prospect that
the animals can be kept alive until
spring.
In the carts are samovars, talking
machines, concertlnns und American
sewing machines, which are bartered
for food or for coffins. The dead
lie unnoticed for hours, while near
them are pitiful groups boiling a few
potatoes and onions with which to
keep alive. Some markets are under
armed guard, hut this appears to be
unnecessary, ns the peasants are too
weak and passive to take violent
measures.
Typhus Claiming Victims.
Great crowds attempt to cling to
the few trains that leave here dally,
and soldiers often pull some of the
refugees from the cars, frequently
separating families, some members of
which have managed to secrete them
selves between the cars.
Typhus has appeared In many
places and the hospital superintend
ent at Samara said the other day the
only way to handle the situation was
to segregate those who have been
stricken. They receive rations when
food is available, hut there Is no soap.
Five hundred sick children were
found grouped In one building In Sa
mara. Some of them were seen eat-
W lng leaves from shrubs, while others
were lying about on dirty beds, more
dead than alive. Most of these chil
dren were so ashen and emaciated
that they resembled old men and
women.
Germans Among Sufferers.
Many once prosperous German fam
ilies from Mariupol nnrt other Ger
man centers are among the refugees
at Samara anil are living In filth and
poverty In crowded dock sheds or
have no shelter at all. Several Ger
mans told the correspondent they had
relatives In Siberia and were trying
to reach Omsk, but they had exhaust
ed their money and could not get per
mission to migrate' eastward.
Miss Anna Haines of Philadelphia,
a worker for the Friends’ relief organ
ization, Is in Samara and recently
aald the mortality among children less
than three years old is very high and
that nearly 90 per cent are already
dead. She told of four persons dying
on a station platform In Samara the
other night while they were waiting
to be transferred to some other town.
Others were lying about and were so
helpless that It was difficult to dis
ifrggl&h between the living and the
tleud.
RICHES WAITING
FOR LOST GIRL
Palatial Home, Land and Fortune
for Child of Romance Who Is
Being Searched for.
New York.—Somewhere In the Unit*
•d States is a seventeen-year-old girl,
* Spnnlsh-Americau child of romance
and adventure, for whom n lnrge for
tune Is waiting.
Back In Spain an aristocratic old
Castilian grandfather Is fretting away
his last years for her, and. here In
V America, three wealthy uncles are
seeking her to tell her that a fourth
uncle has died and left her a great
estate.
Helen Owen, the missing heiress, Is
the daughter of the late Warren D.
Owen, a Roosevelt Rough Rider, who
won the daughter of Don Estehnn Gar
clo In Cuba. In the Spanlsh-Americnn
war. Rough Rider Owen fought ft duel
for the hand of Senorlta Gnrelo with
her proud old father, It Is stated by
She Escaped Through a Window.
Clyde Owen of Pittsburgh, Pa., who
went In Chicago seeking the girl.
Since then both have died, and the
girl has disnppcnn d, after 17 years of
as romantic a life as her parents lived
before her. The father died In April,
U*2i>, at New Bedford, Mass., and since
then the girl's uncle has died, leaving
his estate Np the young woman.
Helen, inheriting the temperament of
her parents, was too fond of the free
dom which she was accustomed to. She
enjoyed cabarets, dances and the
“movies.” It Is believed that the girl
came before the juvenile authorities
on several occasions.
The girl was sent to a home In Chi
cago because of her wild escapades.
She escaped through a window one
night and has never been heard of
since. It Is believed that she ho*
changed her name from Owen to Gor
don.
If the much-sought girl can be lo
cated, she will have a palatial house,
six neres of land and many thousands
of dollars.
lISTRIKEjF
j/loasted
Notice this delicious
flavor when you
smoke Lucky Strike
it’s sealed in by
the toasting process
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Flower Pots,
Bargain Price
It is time to repot your Flowers.
We ave a complete line of Flower
Pots, Vases, Hanging Baskets, etc.,
in Red and Greston colors. Several
designs. Come and see them. Get our
prices before buying elsewhere.
Peninsula Produce Exchange.
Pocomoke City, Md.
FOR SALE.
1. House and Lot on Cedar street,
where L. Thomas Hill now lives.
Electric lights and water.
2. Two building lots on said Cedar
street between above property and
where Elwood E. Matthews now
lives.
3. Building lot comer of Fourth
and Walnut streets. Apply to
I EWELL & CHILD,
Attorneys-ac-Law,
Pocomoke City, Md,
WORCESTER DEMOCRAT AND THfc LEDGER-ENTERPRISE
NEAR EASTKVOTe BEADS
Baubles Deemed by King and Peasant
to Hava Great Potenoy for
Good.
Constantinople.—The lack token of
the Near East Is the blue bead. Its
supposed potency Is recognized equal
ly by King Constantine, the sultan of
Turkey, Muatapha Kemal Pasha, Gen
eral Pnpoulas and on down to the
humblest soldier and peasant.
M. Gounarls, the right-hand man of
Constantine, carries a whole string of
beads, which he takes out of his pock
et and Ungers while being Interviewed
by foreign correspondents. No cabi
net meeting or war council In the
Near East Is complete without bends.
In the Angora parliament, where
the sittings are often stormy, mem
bers shake their beads at each other
and sometimes throw them across the
chamber. Peasants of Turkey and
Greece put their beads on their car
pets, hang them over the door like a
horseshoe, decorate the tails and bri
dles of their horses and horns of their
buffaloes and oxen with them.
WOULD-BE RESCUERS PERISH
Men Plunge Into Pond to Bave Boy
Whoso Antic* Lead Them to Be-
Hove He Was Drowning.
New York.—The shouts and splash-
Ings of Edward Anderson, eight years
old, were mistaken for the cries of
a drowning lad, and two workmen of
Elizabeth, N. J.—Paul Sap* and Mich
ael Sowenk —plunged Into a pond on
Staten Island to rescue him.
The boy, thinking the men were go
ing to arrest him, Swam to the bnnk.
When he looked back at the water
there was no one In sight.
Two policemen later recovered the
bodies of Saps and Sowenk from the
bottom of the pond. It Is believed
that crnmps seized them.
Girl Whistler Merely Happy.
Eureka, Cal. —Arrested for whist
ling. This sounds like the comic man's
idea of the “blue law” regime. But It
hnppened to Miss Janet Sunter of
Eureka.
She whistled, she admitted. But
George Meakln. a stranger In town,
heard her and misinterpreting the
promptings of a sunny disposition, re
ported to police that she was out of
her head, und needed attention. She
was brought to police court.
Did the Judge draw a long fuee and
fix a heavy, heavy penalty? He did
not "It’s all a mistake. 1 ' he said.
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