. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . turned, itwas suggested that I had not done things in a business way. How could weknow what sort of flour would be sent ? There are styles of flour more fit forthe trough of the swine than the mouths of hungry men and women. Well, as 2l8 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK is customary, when the flour came to New York, it was tested, and we foundindeed they had cheated us. They gave us better flour than we had bought in Chicago fine flour, but they sent us superfine. God bless the mer-chants of Chicago! WHAT FAMINE MEAN
. T. DeWitt Talmage : his life and work : biographical edition . turned, itwas suggested that I had not done things in a business way. How could weknow what sort of flour would be sent ? There are styles of flour more fit forthe trough of the swine than the mouths of hungry men and women. Well, as 2l8 T. DE WITT TALMAGE—HIS LIFE AND WORK is customary, when the flour came to New York, it was tested, and we foundindeed they had cheated us. They gave us better flour than we had bought in Chicago fine flour, but they sent us superfine. God bless the mer-chants of Chicago! WHAT FAMINE MEANS IN RUSSIA Now, we know nothing about famine in America. The grasshoppersmay kill the crops in Kansas, the freshets may destroy the crops along the Ohio,the potato worm may kill the vines of Long Island, the rust may get into thewheat of Michigan, yet when there has been dreadful scarcity in some parts ofthe land, there has been plenty in other parts. But in districts of Russia, vastenough to drop several nations into them, drought for six consecutive years. SUMMER Otf THE CZAR AT PRTERHOE has devastated and those districts were previously the most productive of all theempire. It was like what we would have in America if the hunger somehowgot out of hell and alighted in our land, and swept his wing over Minnesota,and said: Let nothing grow here, and over Missouri, and said: Let nothinggrow here, and over New York State, and said: Let nothing grow here, andover Ohio, and Georgia, and Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, and Nebraska,and Dakota, and the Carolinas, and said : Let nothing grow here, and the hun-ger fiend had swept the same withering and blasting wing over the best parts ofAmerica in the years 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892, and finally all ourfamilies were put on small allowance, and we all had risen from the table hun-gry, and after awhile the children had only quarter enough, and after awhile IN RUSSIAS ROYAL PALACES 219 only one meal a day, and af
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