Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 306, 21 October 1891 — Be Thankful. [ARTICLE]

Be Thankful.

While many of us here in Hawaii nei, are discontented and are complaining of hard times and worse coming, should read the accounts of suffering and starvation that is occurring in myriads in other parts of the globe. In comparison, we cannot help being thankful that we have an abundance for our daily wants, and feel a deep sympathy for the sufferers as we read of the terrible sufferings experienced, elsewhere, more especially in some of the provinces in Russia, through the failure of the crops, people eating grass and leaves, and thus lingering a painful existence which finally ends in death. Note and ponder well the following and compare the same with our condition: Great distress exists in Russia on account of famine. In the province of Pensa, peasants opened the grave of a woman, who had recently died of heart disease, and ate the flesh. The government made no arrests."