. Review of reviews and world's work. work, itis kindness to make him or her earn the millions now employed on the relief worksbring their families with them and camp insqualid villages near the roads and dams onwhich they are laboring. The overcrowding ofthese villages, and the utter misery of the occu-pants, are causing fearful inroads of disease andan almost hopeless moral degradation. To thestarving ones that are unable to work, food isdoled out. To supply this there is the FamineInsurance Fund, maintained by an annual tax,and charitable contributions from wealthy In-dians—Lor
. Review of reviews and world's work. work, itis kindness to make him or her earn the millions now employed on the relief worksbring their families with them and camp insqualid villages near the roads and dams onwhich they are laboring. The overcrowding ofthese villages, and the utter misery of the occu-pants, are causing fearful inroads of disease andan almost hopeless moral degradation. To thestarving ones that are unable to work, food isdoled out. To supply this there is the FamineInsurance Fund, maintained by an annual tax,and charitable contributions from wealthy In-dians—Lord and Lady Curzon themselves havegiven $3,000—the English ^Lansion House Fund,and donations from America and other countries. With tlie realization in America of^forTndia^ this great calamity has come a rapid determination to send a generous con-tribution to the relief fund. Aroused by editorials in the Topeka Capital on thefamine situation, Kansas began to take subscrip-tions of corn for India, with Governor Stanley. at the head of the movement. Twenty thousandbushels were forwarded to New York and sent toIndia by the steamer Quito, which was charteredby the United States Government to convey thesupplies raised by the Christian Herald. Theship sailed onMay 10 with5,000 tons ofcorn, which,with various con-tribution s ofmoney, is to bedistributed i nIndia by an in-terdenomina-tional committeeof EcumenicalConference,when in sessionin New York,appointed acom-m i t te e of onehundred of theforemost citizensof the metropolisof relief, and theorganization is
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