The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-17
THE RUSSIAN REALM.
Life In the Auiocrars Domains Not .
harden.
Russia Not Really as Ruthless as
Represented.
Manners aud Cusioms Described,

General Cassius N, Clay, formerly minis.
ter Va klstia, writes 10 tns IL chhond NV
Herald ~ iuil1EW IN your Journal oi De-
cfmbur a. iss paper which 10 a type OF the
tuaiiFnaat otlumnirs oi Tue nnti'kus'ian
press Tor n century or more, lived "a ~
Petersburg Tor nearly niue years, and made
Russian ile a study; miuRling win al
olHsses inr that pufpn,e dined WIN the
emperor and imperial fam lies, ana took
cabbage SOUP aud b ack bread with tho
woOdmen who ctmH rom the interior on
boats and raj q. pcrhsua there Is no
American livi0g or dead who can speak
Win moro authority tual ! can On tho rrnl
character ui Russia, / believe there
& no more charitable human nature on
e.r'h 9 an Russia f.yo the proofs. There
are 40 deaths by absolute puverty in tus'
aia 40 iu he great cities OF PARIS, London
New York Rrd C.her Eutupuin cities. be-
sides thu cha. table associations established
Dy law, the ursI mobiles in Russia, men ana
women, yearly, by OigtuizHu slcleties, COL
,oct funds by gifts, needle work aud other
methods for clothes, Houp-hOusea ANA bread,
which are distributed nll winter la 81.
Petersburg; and tuch methods are pursued
IN other cities. The infants that are
drowned aud thrown into sewers Ina Europe
aud America are taken NJ day old. ifnetd
be, and brought up nc the public expense
In 81, Petersburg, Moscow aud other cities
These children, when grown up 10 SUI n
BILE age, ARE put 20 service aud may make a
generous living
RUSSIA LIBERATED HER SLAVES,
not by war, aud gave them lands. Amer.
lea did neither. | diued with the nephew
OF Prince DOlsDTouki, governor general OF
Moscow (yiceroy), aud u liberated seri or
slave @Hs at the table az q guest, ana mace
the best dinner speech on the occasion.
The Russians open all their pleasure.
urOunlg haaiNa tina nunlip marks. the
whole people They uuyer bar the gates
and close the doors against the rabble, as
In England ana America. In summer the
yards are open and the windows without
bin 8 that the humblest peasants may eeo
aud hear the music. On oil great occ lsions
of n private nature all the poor are ieasled
or otherwise entertained by suitable menne.
In England and America even house ser
wants are treated with contempt,
and my own family demonstrated
on my return because | said good
morning. as was my habit in Russia, TO
them. The Russian noblemeu speak kindly
always to their interiors; the Englishmen
and Americans. outside OF the south, rarely
ever. The Russian empire is large and
yparsely populated. so that the means OF
subsistence do not at all press upon the in
crease OF population. In the large cities,
a. ! said, no absolute suffering for tho nee
ossaries OF life is possible.
Now az to prisons. There was a. no time
while / was In Rlssia so far rs | know and
believe, one equal in its iniamy TO the Ken
lucky penitentiary. Aud Governor Black
burn deserves not denunclation, but eter-
nal honor, for his manhood aud philan-
thropy, against the barbarian clam r. OF
the press Tor his reform. When | WAS in
st. Petersburg
THE CHOLERA
was several times in that city OF 100000
and there was no more sensation than II the
measles or whooping cough prevailed.
Every subject OF the disease was taken at
once TO wholesome hospitals. well attended,
and then, when convalescent, returned
without charge to their homes. The streets
OF s.. Petersburg were hundred times
cleaner than the streets alleys, and back
yards Of Richmond. They never burned
down the pest houses in Russia as they did
the other day in Madison county, when the
smallpox prevailed. AS to prisons and ST.
IBERIA, am glad TO have an opportunity to
relute some OF the worldwide calumnies OF
the anti. Russian press. Siberia is not sn
vile country as the French penal color y
of Cayenne or the original Australia vi
England. Three Siberian born ladies
NOODLES in ct. Petersburg; one
the p prSss NE s 81
the other sisters married we'll, one an offi.
Ger in the stan Of the EN- peror. have heard
them speak OF the "fatherlsnd" as would a
German. And these we're the desce ndants
OF Siberian exiles. do not hesitate to say
that Of all the people ever knew the Rus.
SLAMS are the most genial and hospitable.
II Is true the ranks in Russia are very dis
tinct and marked; but the humane spirit OF
Russia thaws all coldness, breaks all con-
barriers, and fuses the whole into
one national feeling as IN no other land.
That Is the reason OF the invincible courage
of the Russian army. What cslumniators
call "stoidity" is mistaken and heroic pa
/ could fill book OF similar
proof, but hold:
Wsd but some power the giftie gle us
So see ourselves as ithers see us!