Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1882-03-16

tools of the Car. Now, these men have
no occupation in Russia after they are
educated. There is literally nothing to
do where they reside. they have had no
business experience. Consequently, they
become Nihilists. Nihilism in Russia
is the effervescence of the intellect de-
manding more and better institutions
than naked despotism; demanding ca
reer, congenial occupation, freedom of
speech and of action; in short, it is edu-
cation detssting absolutism and idleness.
The common people of Russia are devot-
ed to the Gar. They call him their
father. The cabman that drove us
around, the laborers, all the bottom
stratum of society, are legal to the soul,
and will kill man if he says anything
against their holy and dread master, the
Car. But these educated, unfiincElng
Nihilists mean to transform that society
to the likeness of Europe and America,
or to perish with it" .1-s.
~Mr. Cox do any of them in Europe
live as well as we do in the United
States?'
mo: there is no country like this any
where, yet the wholly commercial char
acter of our life sometimes fatigues the
brain"
The same evening 1 talked to an ac-
copplished American lady who had just
returned from several years absence IN
Europe. Said / Are you glad to get
back to Washington
81 was glad to get to America" she
said, "but l do not know that can say
the same about Washington. This is a
pleasant CLINE, and stranger to peliti-
cal society is for while entertained
here until she has seen something larger
and more real. This country gives no
rest to the sole of the feet to person in
pursuit of rest. 1t is one eternal tramp,
tramp, tramp. But in Washington,
where there is perhaps more repose than
in any other American society, one is
struck after return from study and
quiet in Europe, with the unsubstantial-
ity of the political society. 1t seems that
everybody is waiting for somebody else
to die and get his Office. The restlessness
of action here becomes the restlessness
of dependence and of small official am
bition. There are no pecuiiarities in
American society Of. q reposeful kind.
As soon as people make money in Amer
lea they rush into fine clothes and grow
more particular about their society. You
take an Italian watering place, and you
will see the oldest families in Europe,
like the Orsinis and Colonnas, come up
and put away all their fine clothing, and
wear straw hats and sit out On the beach,
hardly distinguishable from fishermen.
The most American-like woman | saw
at an Italian watering place, was the
widow of the late King Victor Eman-
uel, who was his mistress many years,
until he found himself about to die, as
he thought, and the priests would not
give him absolstion till he married this
woman. Old Victor Emmanuel left two
hundred illegitimate children, of course
not by the same mother, who were all
provided for in the civil list of the state,
according to his demand while alive.
This madam was an ignorant peasant
girl of great personal beauty. She came
out every day in a cavaleade with her
dress decolete, her bosom and throat and
arms covered with diamonds, rubies and
precious stones. and her dress AS mag
niticent as a wife of New York politi-
clan in Tweed's time, while she was
preceded by household seryants1and fol
lowed by them. This was the great
sight we had to disturb the serenity OF
the seaside, and it was repeated every
dav"