India’s Continuing Plague
The Plague in India.—Notwithstanding all that the English Government has done and is doing, the awful plague is again raging in India. A cable despatch from London, under date of July 13, declares that from January to May 31 there have been more deaths from plague than any year since the appearance of the plague in 1896. In 1904 there were 1,022,299 deaths. This year the first six months toll off 991,003. Last year there were 332,181. The total deaths from plague in India from 1896 to May 31, 1907, was 5,402,245. Bad as the plague is, the sin and superstition is worse still. What a great, needy mission field India is! A Shower of Frogs.—It does not take much force to kill frogs. Boys do it very easily. Yet a heavy rainstorm sometimes drops them from the clouds alive, as it did near Nolin, Ky., July 12. They were said to have fallen as thick as grasshoppers in a newly mowed hay-field over a territory two miles square. They were very lively, too. How did they get into the clouds? What held them there? Why were they not killed when they fell?