The Holy Mountain.

India is a very uncomfortable country, but so interesting that one does not notice discomfort until there is leisure to think about it. Drought makes every road a river of dust; other rivers are dried up. Grain is poor as well as scarce and garden products are sapless. As for food, the traveler is in a bad way. Apropos of the famine is a curious instance of the relations between Government and the natives which was unwittingly recorded this week by the Government organ, the Pioneer.