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TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA.
'I'onll'iiieJ from Second ''us '
younjr to rcincitiTji-r the position your fa
ther took lit tint lime,"-but with railinnt
smile, he reppouttcil, "Oh, yes, I remember,
I remember," ami there wns nu accent na
tion of t lie wotfl which t'etiionstrated to
me that these nccurrenees hml often been
tdllicil of in the itriicr!;il hnusehohl.
I stooil on NV.v Yoih ji.iitery (hiring the
war, n- I foi-.poM m:::iy of you 1 1 1 , looking
off through a tiii;;iiifyltiK -lass ukiii a
fleet of Kur.-hui sH-i. "What are they
ilninij there:" I c ' ,1, ii::J io everyone
asked. " hut lm-i .f hare tint HusKinn
warships in tr.ir Net-- York harbor?"
Word came !hit mother fleet of Uussinn
ships vus in San Wine'l- eohnrlior. "What
does tills in.'jin?'' teir I il rs asked, hut, did
not ti t lnirm-ti'iite t,
-V' r. In these two
the Unsshiu fleets
Tii- ir f-'veat: months
American hml.ors
geemed sound rv !.:-cp,
of iron spohc tin , v,
flllK, whether C i.-C. '
'i 1, !::al th'.f Uussiriii
in tiit air or tfroop-
Inn by ti e l!;.v-!:.fr. i;,.,,:
tio answer to
OUT ill'pti ii; ivell.-Nh.
William 11. .Seward, set-ret nry of str.to,
asked the Kiissian minister at Vashhit;
ton the meaning of those UiKsian ships in
1 American u a! er tiTK.I ' t no satisfactory
response. Admiral l'ariant said to a
Russiun oflicer nftn dinin;: iu the homo
" of the eminent politieina, Thrlnw Weed,
that niftker and unuiakfr of president,
' "What are you din hern with those Rus
sian vessels of war?" Not until the war
wan over was It found out that incuse of
foreign intervention till the j;umi and the
last Run of these two fleet in New York
and San Kraneiseo harbors were to open In
full diapason upon any ferrin ship that
ehotild dare to interfere with the riht of
Americans, north and south, to settle their
Own controversy.
But for those fleets and their presence in
American waters there can bo no doubt
that, two of the mightiest nations of Kurope
would havo mitiKled in our flht. Hut for
those two Heels the American government
would have been today only n name in his
tory. I declare before (joil and the nation
that I. believe Militia saved the United
States of America. Lost July I stood be
fore a great throng of RusMtum n the era
harra:;siiif: position of speaking to an au
dience three-fourths of which could not
Understand my language any more than I
Could understand the iff. Hut there were
two names that they thoroughly under
stood as well as you uinleratnml them, and
the utterance of thou,' t w a names brought
forth an acclamation that made the city
hall of St. Petersburg u:tl;a from foundn
tion stone to towers, and t hoso two unniks
were "George Washington" and "AI rn
ham Lincoln."
Now is it not important that we should
feel right toward that mighty, that God
Riven friend of more than one hundred
yearsf Yea, because it is a nation of more
possibilities than any other, except our
own, should we cultivate its friendship.
There is a vast realm of UtisHia as yet un
occupied. If the population of the rest of
Europe were poured into Russia It would
be only partially occupied. After awhile
America will he so well populated that the
tides of emigration will go the other way,
and by railroads from Russia, at Seining
straits where Asia comes within thirty
six miles of joining America millions of
people will pour down through Russia and
Siberia, and on down through all the re
gions waiting for the civilization of the
next century to come, and culture great
harvests and build mighty cit ies.
What tliu I'nitcd Slates now are on the
western hemisphere. Russia will he on the
t eastern hemisphere. Not only because of
what Russia has been to our republic, hut
because of what she will be, let us e, nse
the defamation of ail that, pertains to that
great empire, if Russia can afford to be
k thefriend of America, America can afford
to he tlie friend of Russia. And now I pro
ceed to do what I told the emperor and the
empress and all I In' imperial family at the
palace of I'elcrhof 1 would do if 1 ever got
back to America, and that is to answer
some of the calumnies which have been
announced and reiterated and stereotyped
against Russia.
HLANDKH8 A NSW I'.UK.I).
Calumny the First --The emperor and all
the imperial family are in perpetual dread
of assassination, "'hey are practically
prisoners in the winter palace, and trendies
with dynamite have been found dun around
the winter palace. They dare not venture
forth, except preenhd rod followed and
surrounded by a most elahorato military
guard.
My answer to t his Is that I never saw a
face more free from vtor, linrnt than the
emperor's f.ve. The n inter palace, around
which the t reaches ai e said to have bees
charged witlid nauiile, and iu which the
lmperiii family are .'.aid to be piisoners,
lias never been I he result nee of the impe
rial family one moment since t lie present
emperor has he.-n on the throne.
The winter palace has been changed into
a museum and a picture gallery and a
place of great levees. He spends his sum
mer iu tin' palace at. I terhof, fifteen or
twenty miles from St. lVterslnirti; lit- nu
' tunmsal the palace at I rat ehn.'i, and his
winters in a palace at St. l'eterslang, but
iu ctiite a dillri viit part of the city to that
occupied by t he w inter palace, lie rldrs
through the hit. is unattended, except by
the empress at his side and I he driver on
the box. There is not a person iu t hi s. audi
ence more free from fear of harm than lie
is. l is Hiih.ji i t . nut. only admire him but
almost worship hint.
There are it ii.!.
not had our hi
Wilkis linn!!," 1
. in Russia, but. have we
. t iuileau and .lohu
"i'.ul," says some one,
si.-iM i.i'l I he fat in r of t lie
"did nut I he l.ii
present empei or
that Russia has
' Ye.-., but in t he time
bad one nss;udnal ion of
emperor America h. i.' had I o presidents
assassinated. "Put is not the eni'H'roran
ji at f" ilv uleieh n man. has he
not potter without re-t i id ion" Yes, hut
it. nil depend.-upon what u.-e a in." i makes
of his potter.
Are you en a
.rat. in onr fa tnry, or
an autoera' in ;
in your sty le
on what ti e
whether to hh
the time of I'd.
who was the '
peror who 1 ;i.
penter I hat I e i
and a mechanic
ics, anil put o
lnlt;ht sympal i
in his last m
ing. Oh, help
that time the t !
most part, la i n
ieent ami U.ih.
were powerful.
To go no t'c
the grand fni 1
Nicholas had f.
ailminist ration
serfs. When i
meditated t he
reived the foil
air t'Me. i i' ail . it nerat
; lai-i'i,"..:- I. all iiep. nds
.i.l II, a'. e of .til I pn'A rl',
s or to i ; ; 'la - s, ami from
r t he I ir. ..I - t hat lin . ian
ollil.-r n!' e!i t i J: if. t he i in
ane in. o-iaio a aip ear
aiul't hc'.p ship cai peuieis,
lial he lai .iht ia'li in.s'lian
ponr men's k-h'I' t hat Iu
,7.e wit h poor im n. anil tvliu
- nid: "My l.or.l. I am dy
my unbelief!" I tay from
rone of 1, ussia lias, for t he
oeeiipie.i ii rulers as lu aef-
miiii syiniat iiel ic as lliey
it her back than Nicholas,
r of the pi,"-.-iil i niperor.
r t lie dominant i,!i a of his
the cmaiictpat ion of the
: was found that he pre
I'reeiloni i f t he si i i's he re-
v, im; lei I er i.f t ioeat from
a deputai inn
I
la i n im n: i our lu.pe- I
rial Majislv
ril and m ii-'
before them I
sanction, the
throughout t'
are pi t .'ed iy
Ilia ie -1 "s c ,
loyally su ; ' .
Hlls-iM , I. ' ,
serfs who .-.i 1
sistenee in 1 1
w ho cersi oi i '
nil. ai .1 v
opera! !. .ii el' .
Ulldnalil -lily r
and in i '
put the 1 . 1 e i I
The i ! v j r
last US hj. . :
Should ile t'rr
We learn I hat 1 he conn-
of the ct.ipuv havo 1
r ihdiber.it ion. , u Ii your
plan to abolish serfdom
:o Russian empire. We
willing to abide by jour
an in I his mutter ami to
. r w ill, but t here are in
... I of kmall owners of
.! , . mIi nt for Actual sub
. 1. I or of those serfs, and
l ', ill be h Ii v bully peu
...i.t my resource by the
. .pc.i i. ui. Tiny w ill then
i I to iie-pcrato measures,
. city of t !u ir di-spair will
..a;r n.aj. sty ill jeopanly."
r, plied in words tliat will
I iM.uy, "'jentlemiyi, if
of tor I'CTWim ti micb j
a cause, I am witling to meet my fate."
Vhen, utiiler an attack of pneumonia
from exposure to severe weather in the
service of he- r.' oji'e, that, emperor put
down hia Ik ; im if. p'l.'.v.v of dust, Rus
sia lost as t v ; a i I'ictrch as was ever
crow lied. Then came Aii :can.ler the Second,
father of tiiu prt'.'-ctit emperor. Amid the
Diighiicst opjXmitioii mal Innumerable
pre! efts, he, with one ttroke of his pen,
emancipated thirty million serfs, practi
cally snj ing: 'do free. I;.- your own mas
ters, and this ii for you aial your children
forever."
On the day lie v. lis basely assassinated
(and I w ill p len'lu Jcally say that I saw
his en map e ; p.ii.'rs, as looked when
hestepn. il f;. pi it, nut to sa.e himself, but
to lo(k ; fu r M.ii:! pisr people of the street
who had been lau t, and 1 saw the bed on
which i o died, the mi..ttre:.s yet crimson
with his life's blood) on the day he was
assassii.tcd he had on his table, fouud
afterward, a free coiftitution that pro
posed to give the right of suffrage to the
people of Ru.'.Kia. If it had not 1-ecn for
the as.- i.-t in at h n he would )me sihiii
signed that, i on .i'.ution, but that horrible
violence .put things back, us violence al
ways does.
What a marvelous charactr of kind-
liers wss Alexander Hie Second, the father
of the present emperor, so that the pros
cut emperor, Alexander the Third, in
herits his benignity. Alexander the
Second, hearing that a nobleman had
formed a conspiracy against his life, had
biin arrested. Then the eyes of the crimi
nal were bandaged, and he was put iu a
carriage, and for some time traveled on,
only stopping for food. After awhile the
bandage was removed, and supposing that
he must by that time have been almost in
Siberia he found that he was at the door of
his own home. But this punishment was
suSicient.
The fame emperor, having heard that a
poet had written a poem defamatory of his
empress, ordered the poet into his pres
ence. Expecting great severity, the poet
entered the palace and found the emperor
and empress and dukes and duchesses gath
ered together. "Good morning," said the
emperor to the offender, "I hear you have
written a most beautiful poem, and I have
sent for you that yoa may read it to us and
we may have the pleasure of hearing it."
The man cried out, "Send me to Siberia or
do anything with me, hut do not make me
read this poem in your presence," He was
compelled to read the defamatory poem,
nnd then the empress, against whom it was
aimed, said: "I do not think ho will write
any more verses about us again. Let him
go." A nd so he was freed.
' And now comes in Alexander the Third,
doing the best things possible for the na
tion which he loves and which as ardently
loves him. But what an undertaking to
rule one. hundred and twelve million peo
ple, made up of one hundred tribes and
races and speaking forty different lan
guages! Iiul, notwithstanding all this,
things there move on rnarvelously well,
and 1 do not believe that out of five hun
dred thousand Russians you would find
more than one person who dislikes the em
peror, and so that calumny of dread of
assassination drops so fiat it can fall no
flatter.
ESPIONAGE AND RKLIGION.
C'alumy the SecondIf you go to Russia
you are under severest er.pionage, stopped
here and questioned then:, and in danger
of arrest. Hut my opinion is that if a man
is disturbed iu Russia it is because he
ought to be disturbed, Russia is the only
country in Europe in which my baggage
was not examined. I carried in my hand,
tied tnget her with a cord so that their t itles
could be seen, a pile of eight or ten books,
all of them from lid to lid cursing Russia,
but 1 had no trouble in taking with me the
books. There is ten times more difficulty
iu getting jour luggage through the Amer
ican custom house than through the Rus
sian. I speak not of myself, for friends
intercede for me on American wharves,
and I am not det ained. 1 was several days
in Russia before 1 was asked if I liud any
passport at all.
Depend upon it, if limesfter a man be
lieves he is uncomfortably watched by the
police of St. Petersburg or Moscow, it is
because there is something suspicious
about him, nnd yon yourself had better,
when he is around, look after your silver
spoons. I promise you, an honest man or
nn hotifst woman, that when you go there,
as many of you will for European travel
isdestind to change its course from south
ern Europe to those northern regions you
will liavg no more molestation or super
visa! than in Brooklyn or in New York or
the quietest Long Island village.
Calumny the Third Russia and its ruler
are so opposed to any ot her religion except
the Greek religion that they will not allow
nny other religion; that nothing but perse
cntion and imprisonment nnd outrage in
tolerable await the disciples of any oilier
religion. Rut what are the facts? I had
a long ride in St. I'etersbHrg and its sub
urbs with the prefect, a brilliant, efficient
nnd lovely man, who is the highest official
in the city of St. Petersburg, and whoso
chief business Is to attend t he emperor. I
said to him, "I suppose your religion is
that of the (ireek church f" "No," said he;
"I am a Lutheran." "What is your reli
gion?" I said to one of the highest and
most influent ial nfllclals at St. Petersburg,
lie said, "I n m of the Church of England."
Myself, an American, of still anot her de
nomination of Christians, and never hav
ing been Inside a (ireek church in my life
until 1 went to Russia, could not have re
ceived more consideration had I been bap
tized In the (Ireek church and all my life
worshiped at her all a:'. I had It demon
stralwd to me very plainly that a man's re
ligion In l!us.i;i.hiatiii.tliinUdn with his
nrnrrrrncnt fur "it Iter otTlce or socinl op
tion. Tlie only questions tauten into con
sideration are honesty, fidelity, morality
and adaptation. I had not. been hi St.
Petersburg nu hour before I received nn
invitation to preach the (iospel of Christ
as I believed it. Besides nil this, have you
forgotten that the Crimean war, which
shook the earth, grew out of Russia's in
terference in behalf of the pnrsecuted
Christ ians of all nations in Turkey?
"Rut," says some one, "have there not
been pcrsecut ions of other religions in Rus
sia?" No doubt, just ns in ot I'er times iu
New England wo burned v. itches, ami as
we killed Quakers, and as the Jews in
America have been outrageously treated
ever since 1 can remember, and the Chi
iiesc in our land have been pelted, nnd
their stores torn down, and their way from
the steamer wharf to their destined quar
ters tracked with their own blond. The
devil of persecution is In every hind and in
all ages. Some of us in the different de
nominations of Christians in America have
fi ll the thrust of persecution lee!ise wo
thought ililVeivht ly or did t hiiius dilferent
ly from those who would, if they had the
power, put us in a furnace eight times
healed, one more degree of caloric than
Nebiiehadiie.ar's. Persecutions in all
lands, but 1 he emperor of Russia sane! ions
none of t In in.
I had a most satisfactory talk wit h the
emperor about the religions of the world,
and he thiuUa an I feels a.s you and I do,
that religion is something between u man
and his tie, I. and no one has a right to in
terfere with it. Yon may go right up to
St. Petersburg end Moscow with your
Episcopal liturgy, or your Prishyteriau
catechism, or your Congregationalist's lib
eralism, or your luimersloiilst's Baptistry,
or any other religion, ami if you mind your
own r.ilairs and let others mind tluirs you
w ill not lie limli sted.
OTIlKIi ( Al.V MNlKS HI I'l'TKt).
Calumny the Fourth Russia is so very
grapiiin of trmtory, and she seems to
wart tlie world. But what are tlie facts?
Dm im the last century and a quarter the
United States have taken possession of
everything bcl cen the thirteen rol -nies
and the Pacific eeeitii, nnd England, dur
itttf the some U.'l1"l P' time, has tarn
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miles, and by the extent of Her Hon -.in
has added two hundred and fifty million
population, while llussia lias added cur
ing that time ouly one-half the number of
square miles and about eighteen million of
population England's advanae of domain
by two hundred aud fifty million aptainst
Russia's advance of domain by eighteen
million. What a paltry Kussiau advance
of domain by eighteen million as compared
with the English advance of domain by
two hundred and fifty million! The United
States and Kugland Lad better keep still
about extravagant aud extortionate en
largement of domain.
Calumny the Fifth Siberia is a den of
horrors, and today people are driven like
dumb cattle; no trial is afforded to the
snspected ones; they are put into quick
silver mines, where they are whipped and
starved, and some day find themselves go
inn aronnd without any head. Some of
them do not get so far as Siberia. Women,
after being tied to stakes in tlie st reet s, are
disrobed and whipped to death in the pres
ence of howling mobs. Offenders hear their
own flesh siss under the hot irons.
But what are the facts? There are no
kinder people on earth than the Russians,
and to most of them cruelty is an impossi
bility. I hold in my hand a card. You
see on it that red circle. That is the gov
ernment's seal on a card giving me per
mission to visit all the prisons of St. Pe
tersburg, as I had expressed a wish in that
direction. As the messenger banded this
card to me he told me that a carriage was
at the door for my disposal in visiting the
prisons. It so happened, however, that I
was crowded with engagements and I could
not make the visitation. l!ut do you sup
pose such cheerful permission aud a car
riage to boot would have been afforded nie
If the prisons ot Russia are such hells on
earth as they have been described to bef
I asked an eminent and distinguished
American, "Have you visited tlie prisons
of St. Petersburg, and how do they differ
from American prisons?" 11a replied,
have visited them, and they are as well
ventilated and as well conditioned in every
respect as the majority of the prisons in
America." Are women whipped in the
street? No; that statement comes from t he
manufactory of fabrication, a manufactory
that runs day and night, so that the sup
ply may meet the demand.
Bint-iiiA.
But how about Siberia? My answer is,
Siberia is the prison of Russia, a prisou
more than twice the size of the United
States. John Howard, who did more for
the improvement of prisoners and tlie ref
ormation of criminals than any man that
ever lived, bis name a synonym for mercy
throughout Christendom, declared by
voice and pen that the system of transpor
tation of criminals from it ussia to Siberia
was an admirable plan, advocating open
air punishment rather than endutigi on
roent, and also hecausu it, was taking all
offenders hundreds of miles away from
their evil companion.-. .lohu Ifownd,
after witnessing t hw ph'.n of deportation of
criminals from l'us'-ia to Siberia, com
mended it. to Kiu;l .iisd.
if a tnaii commits mitolvr in Russia he
Is not electrocuted as we elec trocute him,
or choked to dent Ii by u hall er us we choke
him to dc-nth. ltussia is I hn only country
n earth from which t he rl; a! h penalty has
eecn driven, except in en-M-of lii'.'h t reason.
1.1 ii rile '.'ers and despera; e Mains are sent
a am iMhH-jmw,.. of Mie., mfcwiuHa
to iitT nrdnmued to rot kln.t ff
Dnnlsbinent In Kussla lint U ha has a lair
trial. So far as their beinr hustled off in
tho night nnil not knowing why they nre
exiled or punished is eoneerned, all the
criminals in Russia have an open trial he
fore a jury just as we have in America, ex
cept in revolutionary or riotous times, and
you know in America al such times the
writ of haheas corpus is suspended.
There are in liussia f,'raiid juries and
petit juries, and the right to challenge t ha
jurors, and tho prisoner confronts his ac
cuser, and, iiiiirl; this, ns iu no ot her coun
try, after a prisoner lias been condemned
by juries and judges he may appeal to the
minister of the interior, and after that to
the senate, nnd after that to the emperor,
who is constantly pardoning. As I said,
the violent and murderous are sent to the
hardest part of Siberia, but the more mod
erate criminals to more propitious parts of
Siberia, and those who have ouly a little
criminality to puns of Siberia positively
genial for climate, for you ought to know,
if you do not knew, that Siberia is so lari;e
and wide and lonK that it reaches from
frigidity to torridity, from almost arctic
blast to climate as mild as that of Italy.
Run your tinner Hlonj the map of the
world, and you w ill iiml that the lowest
part of Siberia is oil t he forty-filth decree
of latit ude, nnd the richest part of Italy is
on the same forty-fifth degree of latitude,
so that Siberia reaches from the furs irt
Mm north to the palm leaf fans at t he soul h.
It has been demonstrated that ninety
per cent, of the Hussian criminals colo
nized into Siberia go into a climate milder
than Xew York a land songful with birds
and embroidered with flora enough mani
fold to confound the Isit'inists. Much of
the soil is a rijh loam, and harvests wait
for a plow to liberate.t hem.
When a criminal is sent to Siberia, in the
Tast majority of cases it. gives him an op
portunity to make a new start under the
best possible cirruinstanees. The criminal
is allowed to take his or her family along,
and that is a mercy no ot her count ry grants.
In the quicksilver mines of Siberia-the
hardest place of expat ; i:it ion only one
fourth of the miners m e criminals. The
other three-fourths go t here because t liey
choose it ns a place to earn their living.
After Ileitis in Siberia awhile the con
demned go to c'iri'.iii:: a livelihood, nnd
they come to own their own farms mid
orchards and vineyards, many of these
people coining to wenit h, and t lioiisan is of
them under no induct n.ent would le .ve
t hose parts of Siberia which are paradises
for saluhrity ami luxuriance. Now v. I.ieh
do you think is the iiest style of a p: i n
Siberia or many of our A im riemi pi i ..:isf
When a man commits a his crime in mir
country, the jml looks into the ft '. 'hi
ened face of i..e cilpiir, and .. Vou
have Is fii fouuil ;-m il' y; I t;te:jee J 'l to
the penitent i.i.-y
to prison. He
walls. Ni Mi',
bathroom. II !
yearn he dies i f
ervatcil that f r
.( I 11 . .u s." I !. .es
be ween I eir
IY,-' air. N'j
. rve 1 hi" Ml
'ti or i- f-o en-
jjs nr.' h vita
lulu.
he
eoiisil
the re
wMi foIJf,l hrfnirs a wV.eer.ina IntrtiW
1 Werejgst
for
anrlWricrht
' H'l" i
foe crying
LoJlS.
"in preference to the shift In lite of tlie
average American prisoner, give mo Si
beria. Resides that, when offenders come
out of prisou in America, what chance
i have they? Ask the poorly supported so
cieties formed to get these people pieces
for work. Ask me, to whom the newly
liberated come from all the prisons im
ploring what they shall do. No one will
commend them. The pallor of incarc ra
tion is on their cheek. Who wants to em.
ploy in factory or store a man or woman
who, in answer to the question, "Where
did you live last?" should make for reply,
"State's prisou at Aubnrn or Moyamen
sing?" Now in Siberia they have a better
chance. They are never spoken of as crim
inals, but as unfortunates, and they are al
lowed every opportunity of retrieving their
lost reputation and lost fortunes.
I talked with the president ot the Na
tional Society of Russia for the Education
and Moralization of the Children of Sibe
rian Convicts. The president of that soci
ety, nppointed by the emperor, is a lady of
great accomplishments and much sym
pathy, which illumines her face and makes
tearful her eyes aud tremulous her voice.
Tho evening I passed at her house in St.
Petersburg was one of tho memorable
events of my lifetime. I will not attempt
to pronounce the name of that noble wom
an appointed by the ereperor as the presi
dent of the National Society cf Russia for
tho Education and Moraliaation of the Chil
dren of Convicts. Please to name any such
national Bociety in our country, supported
by government, for taking care of the chil
dren of convicts.
Till'. CZAK'S CLEMENCY.
The merciful character of the present em
peror was well illustrated in the following
occurrence: The riinn who supervised the
assassination of the father of the present
emperor, standing in the snow that awful
day when the dynamite shattered to pieces
the legs of Alexander tho Second I say
the man who supervised all this fled from
St. Petersburg and quit Russia. Bui after
awhil tl) tnuH xwpt'.uUui of iis criruei .tod
wrote to tho emueror asking for fonrlve
iiess for the luiinicr oi' Ins rattier, nnd
promising to be a good citizen, and ashing
if lie mixht come back to Russia. The em
peror pardoned the murderer ot hia fat her,
mid the forgiven assassiu is now living in
Russia unless recently deceased.
When I talked to the empress concerning
the sympathy felt in America for the suf
ferings of the, drought struck regions of
Russia, she evinced an absorbing interest
and n. compas'sion und nn emotion of man
ia r and speech such as we men can hardly
icalize, because it seems that God has re
served for woman as her great adornment
t he coronet , the tear jeweled coronet of ten
derness and commiseration. If you say
that it was a man, a divine man that came
to save the world, I say yes; but it was a
woman that gave the man. Witness nil the
Madonnas Italian, (ierman, English and
; l'lissian that bloom in the picture gal-
leries of Christendom. Sou of Mary, have
j mercy on us!
I Hut bow about tho knout, the cruol
I Uussian knout, that comes down on the i
. hare bar!? of agonized criminals? Why,
l liussia abolished the knout before it was
abolished from our American navy. But
! how about the political prisoners hustled
off to Siberia? According to the testimony
! of t he, most celebrated literary enemy of
lii'.ssm, only four hundred and forty-three
i political prisoners were sent to Siberia in
I ,,.,.. ...... r .......u r,titi..l ,iu.
ers did we put in prison pens during our
four years of civil war? Well, I will guess
at least.iiiio hundred thousand. America's
ttie hundred thousand political prisoners
versus Russia's four hundred and fo-ty-three
political prisoners. Nearly all these
lour hundred and forty-three of twenty
years were noblemen or people desperat.ely
opposed to the emancipation of the serfs.
And none of the political prisoners is sent
to t he famous Kara mines.
For the most part you are dependent for
information upon the testimony of pris
oners who nr sent to Siberia. They all
say they were innocent. Prisoners alwuys
are innocent. Ask all the prisoners of
America today, "Guilty or not guilty?"
and nineteen out of twenty will plead
"Not guilty." Ask them how they like
their prison, and how they like sheriffs,
and how they like the government of the
United States, and you will find these pris
oners admire the authority that arrested
them nnd punished them just about as
much as the political prisoners of Russia
like Siberia.
STOP DKFAMATION.
Rut you ask how will this Russophobia,
with which so many have been bitten and
poisoned, be cured? liy the God of Justice
blessing such books nnd pamphlets us are
now coming out from Professor de Arnaud,
of Washington; Mr. Horace Cutter, of San
Francisco; Air. Morfill, of England, and by
the opening of our American gates to the
writings of some twenty-four of the Kus
sian authors and aut horesses, in some re
spects as brilliant as the three or four
Russian authors already known the trans
lation of those twenty-four authors, which
I am authorized from Russia to offer fre
of charge to any responsible American pub
lishing house that will do them justice.
Let these Russians tell their own story,
for they are the oniy tmes fully competent
to do the work, as none but Americans can
fully tell tlie story of America, and as none
but Germans tan fully tell the story of
Germany, and none but Englishmen cau
fully tell the story of England, and none
but Frenchmen can fully tell the story of
France. Meanwhile let the international
defamation come to an end. Cease to speak
evil of dignities merely because they are
dignities, and of presidents merely because
they are presidents, and of emin rors merely
because they are emperors.
And may the blessing of God the Father,
and God the Sou uud God the Holy Ghost
lie upon all the members of the imperial
household of Russia, from the illustrious
head of that familv tlown to the tirineess.
seven years of age, who came skipping into ,
' . , ..
my presence in i lie pann e oi i cieriitu last
ia-t j
Biinniier! Glory to God in the highest, and
on earth peace, good will fo meul
Match Made of ComprpBeri I'ent.
In ftiji.-etj'.tettco of the growing t'ifC
culty tif pin uiiiig wood suitable for th
iiianufiu tui v of marches, German fac
tories !tre now tnakiiU them of cooi
pressed pi-ii.t, which is said to be an -
I
!
We will tell you
': us r ow during Mir elos nu out sale s iul other houses ifs the
prhes ? prtrtits other nu rch ril ts? ibovo thiir cost is exact--,
jly what we aw e you. Our reason for st- ying here until January
lht is simply to turn our goods into cash, not for the profits. Wo
are as well satisfied
as others would he at a profit. Of the great crowds that hard
been in our store since we decided to fell out at cost 'not-C3o
customer can say that in one instance have we asked anything
like the prices you are in the habit of paying. We mention a
few prices below, but these are only a very few of the many
bargains you will find : .
Clark's 0. N. T. Thread, 3c.
a spool.
Best sewing silk, 5c. a
spool.
Pins, lc. a paper.
Safety pins, 2c. a paper.
Ladies' and gents' hand
kerchiefs, 3c.
Ladies' black and fancy
hose, 5c. a pair.
Extra heavy
socks, 5c. a
pair.
Good working shirts,
r"v 1 f- I 1
15c,
tL.jv. jinu sau. ai Jieuo.
All wool red undershirts,
Would it not be
you can snve on anv
attentive salesmen wiu taKe pieasute in ssiowing you
whether you wish to buy or merely acquaint yourself
what the merchant pays for goods in Now York City.
LOOK OUT FOR
Nervous Prostration,
RleepleBBnesB,Sick and Nervoua Headache,
Backache, Dizziness, Morbid Fears, Ilot
Hysteria, Fits, St. Vitus Dance,
Opium Habit, Drunkenness, etc., are cured
by. Dr. Miles' Restorative Nervine. It
Soes not contain anT opiate. Trial bot
tle and fine books FREE at drugflata.
Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Indla&a.
TIHAL. BOTTLE FREE.
OVv fcN k MIX'!.!.
DOST III qi'mrrf.
BIST ii EiLrr.
WHITE'S
VERMIFUQ
FOR 20 YEARS
Has led all Worm Remedies.
EVERY BOTTLE GUARANTEED.
BOT.O KVKRYWIIKRE.
Pr..r.Jhy FltilinilstlN-T.lTl 111 Din. CO., BT.MtFIS
WEAK MEN, YOSlfi5,fE2ur
TtADf Mfttt TM
ureal bUKiisu iwrawy,
Gray's Specific
Meaicme
HfHKTMMt, WIN IU
IF YOU SUFFER 17
of hodyand mind, Hpermatorrlue, and Impo
tent)', and all diseases tiat arise from over
IndulKenee and wlf-ntmxe. an IxtssofMeio
rv ' P"e(. Dliiinesmif Vision, 1-reiiintiire
tili Aite.antl many other disease that lend
. , inM.,,,ty or fx.tiMumptlon and an early
grr.ve, write lor onr
rnp
im
lllet.
INK CO,
Buffalo,
N. V
drniri
Tlie Hpeelfle Medicine Is sold by nil
drnirelsis at If.MO per pne!ti:e, or nil pclijf
for tK an, or sent bv mat! on receipt oi neiey,
U.&VJ WE GUARANTEE
or money refunded
On neroii nt of counterfeit, have
ndopusl tlie Yellow Wraj tr, the only genu
ine. Hold In Clarkovttlf Teon and guarantM
Iwned by TtTPITOril WW r.
for to an, or sent bv mat! on receipt oi netey,
'SIM
GO EMI
G
frankly the diftbrenr-e
when we sell an article
35c.
Canton flannel and drill-
ing drawers, 20c. a pair.
Childs' suits, 4 to 13 years,
75c.
Knee pants, 19c. a pair.
Extra heavy pants, 39o.
Good brown domestic,
a yard.
Lonsdale bleached, 8c. a
yard.
Past colors dress einjrhnm.
61-2c.
Fine Dongola shoe, button,
$i.07:
to your interest to
arucio you tninit oi
NEW YORK COST
JACOB BAYEE,
SOME SPECIALS
Coulter
314 and 31t Oommoroo Sift
MANUF .CTURERS OF
Sash,Doors Blmds.Flooring
A large stook Cyi rests .Shingles oa hJurJidL
Contractors : and : Buildorc.
Plans and Specification
w-osxi:i
FOR SAL'S
Privately, my farm, lying oft the Ho; U m
vlllennd Nasliville joeo, one and oi -luilf
miles from Port Koyal, Montgomery e only,
Tennessee, containing M acre, about 175 In
a high state of cultivation, th remr lotler
well timbered aud well improve.',
Pine Dwelling, 4
Good Tenant IIoueos, 4
Good Cabins, Fino
Stable, Granary and
' Tobacco Bare ?,
Ilex den ninny other convenience t . th
vtav of bullitlngn. U'od orchHrd, exc lleul
water, both oprlug mid cistern, good winds
fi.i Mock wstor and well stocke t Witt flsli.
Trrms eiixv. M'ply to me on promt
to K. I). Moselry or W. W. burden,
vllle, Tenu.
S or
ran-
J. W. aiil.E 3,
DR. C. G. WILSON,
HOMiEOPATHIST
( PnivrtUt 0 Michigan.)
Mrdltf. and Surgical Tratnut of V om
n od Children and Ortflofal Hurirrrf
TIHrHOSI HO. .
H0I?IV? "I to 9m, tnn i to I mfTd M fjf
?TTW ?
if IU JLL JlUL o
between trading with
at our
Men's solid leather rtuns,
$1.08 a pair,
36-inch all wool flllinfiEa-
giisn casnmere, 21c. a jrwra.
All wool black HenrUtUu
38 inches wide, 51c. a jxi..
A full line of silk war
Henriettas less than ooflv
3c. Ladies' white Herino un
dershirts, 29c.
All linen toweli, 100.
Lace curtains, 65c ptir
and upwards.
Yard wide heavy brwm
domestic, 4 3-4c. a yard.
Ladies solid leather inn?
and outer sole shoe for
come in and see what
huymtf. route ana
goods
with
Prop.
IN A FEW DAYS
furnished and Estimates mad
4 MOLICITEDm
CDRI9
HEADAfWl.
tlRit
IIEslDACRl.
CUM
Minn little Clarkaun, f
urine, Mleli., writ: ''1
i.f-n troiHilad vllk MrflVk
liewlarli for abnol lw rf
and could not t DftblBg It
help mn, bat tlt rrttm
vised m to tk yoor Br
mooa lutiin, wnieu j ai.
srtr tHkllig two
l.Rve not hd in
Muee."
h4wt
Kor nale by Ttidhope Prog Oo.
I'-pwart if frftuds.fie nn jtm
pet. the j?onulne Dr. Thorn"' 1wifc
Oil It eures colds, croup, MlirrA,
de.fncws ard rtjrmhm. Wi?l
Tu lhopo Drug Ct.
Kvnnvlllend Terr Haute railroad, Pblc
go and Kiettern Illinois railroad. Til pr.
furred rout between the
SOUTH and lie NORTH
(Nashville and Chicago Limit.)
A elid Vestlbnled UkId enmpoMd f rnt
iriHii lmy Coaebes, I'nrlor. Rleaplog Bd I1'"
lug Cars. Leave NHbvill dlly t 1-M m
m., arriving in Chicago tl nett mnratBf O
Hi:'., where liamedlat connection I (ihll
ot the
North & Northwest
Kor further I ufomiatlon retail T to ebt-
nli-a, rate etc, writ Ui
W. 23. Hallsted,
CommeirlBl Agt.,K?iTUl, Jm.
,r P.M. CA U TBELL, O. P. A.f VH-
Kvau'vll!,lnA '
mm
EYANSYILLE ROUTE.