The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-29
RUSSIAN VIEWS AND views.

70. 1891.
RUSSIAN NEWS AND views.
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The Governments NJ Bosnia and Montenegro al.
| vortisins for good women physicians whom they will
engage for their hospitals NJ liberal salaries. The
women OF those countries have adopted the preiudces
OF their NussemAn sisters ana will not Allow male
physicians 10 treat them In their illness This news
was received with great pleasure at 81. Petersburg
and quite number Of Russian women doctors departed
for the Balkan provinces.
Although the censor has prohibited the publication of
distressing from the famlshcd region. reports of
tho suffering appear here and there In the provincial
Russian papers. and copied with avidity by the
metropolitan press. Tho situation 10 becoming mora
Desperate every day. Tho farmers OF the governments
| in which the crops wore good withhold their grain
summer will yield better harvest than this summer
in the hupgersrcken region. Very little tno moro than
about 20 por cent? winter seed was this fall and
the drouehs have already spoit large portion OF that
Besides this tho exodus OF farming hands IL 30 Eroat
that tho next spring be proptious for labor In
the field there will be to do the necessary WORK.
Tho mortality In the famishng region 10 appalling.
and tho cold has only Just begun. "what win be
left OF by next May. God alone known r. exclaims
Snmarn publication.
The Minister Of Imperial Property last summer
appointed Or. Theostston specialist in biology and
medicine to study tho best means Of destroying the
shrew mouse. which 10 doing great damage in the
agricultural disscs especially in the Of
samar. Astrakhan. and Kherson. Dr.. Theotiston
travelled the last four months in the districts which
were most subject 70 tho rsvaees OF these pests and
tried To destroy them by various return
ed TO ST. Petersburg with the report OF his
He found that in well cultivated localities the shrew
could be successfully kept IN check by poison But
In the neghborhood OF prariss and unouvnted lands
this method would not avail the farmers could not
poison many mice a. would como from the stsppe.
The doctor to the conclusion that the hest way II
Kidding such localities from tho post would be inoeula
ing them with contagious dseases Tho meteorological
station Of Odessa recommended chickenpox for the
purpose But this again arouses tho apprehension thas
the mice injected might become dangerous
fowl to small cattle The doctor therefore
ordered to mako experiments this winter to md out
which disease would be the most effective on tho shrsw
mouse and ieast dangerous to fowl and SINAI cattle
Tho Technical Society Of Moscow 10 arranging an In.
ternatonai electrical exhibition. to 30 opened during
the next spring All articles for exhibition coming
from abroad will be admitted free Of importation du
ties excepting those destined for sale the premises
The has given his consent to the arranging Of
International Railway Congress in st. Petersburg dur
Ing the ensuing year
Tae Medical commission OF the War Department has
issued circular prohibiting tho OF Dr. Kochs fluid
in all military hospitals and sanitary institutions.
v1esn OF wilma says: press unanimous In the
assertion that the great trouble which befe this
year was due not much to the unfrendness Of tho
elements to tho Of peasants and the de-
moraiZod state OF our agricultural interests II proofs
required demonstrate this fact would cite
the example OF Kurand This province enjoys plenty
while It's neghbornR provinces OF White Russia are
suffering hunger. Tho meteorological conditions OF
Kurland and the neighooring provinces wero so similar
this year could say that the failure Of the
crops In tho latter was due to them The difference
was only in tho state OF intelligence among tho
peasants The Kurlnnd peasants are educated. They
rend and WRITE and proted by the suggestions that
made In the papers Agricultural subjecta They
did their stocks OF grain from last year. and
managed their work in the field this to get all
the profit there was to be had from their ands Their
ignorant neighbors the other hand were careiess
about their work this year as they always arc. The
result IL plenty in Kuriand and famine in the neghbor
ing States. This is tho effective lesson have
got the importance Of education among the common
people. When tho Kurland nobility. some thirty years
ago. began planting schools in their villages and
couraglng tho education OF tho people the Rus
alan mobiles laughed at them. what does the
peasant need education for" they said. Can they
drive their cattle to pasture draw the plough and
work in their gardens without being able TO read and
to write" Various reasons we're advanced to show
that popular education was disadvantageous to the
peasant and even dangerous to the country The Kur
land mobiles were represented almost rebels ex.
cessive Germanophs in their efforts to educate their
peasants Now We 500 the results OF that education
and wish that We had done they "a. We fesl the
consequences OF the ignorance Of peasautry in the
fsmine that prevails In the most productive region Of
the vast Russian empire and In deep modification We
must admit that the narrow minded policy Of our no
bity and public workers at tho bottom Of all this"
The GoveruorGeneral of Irkootst has declared that
the families OF wish exies Siberia have right OF
residence In the Siberian disricts and must b
ported back to the pale Of Jewish settlement.
Anew law has been enacted by the Senate and ap-
proved by the Gar. that the mstrca and statistical
records Of Protestant churches must henccforth no In
tho Russian language Any extract from such records
OF previous that be required for Judiciary
purposes must DO issued in the language in which It
written with exact translation into Russian.
attested by the signature OF the officiating minister
and the legal seal of tho church.
Tho Governor General Of Warsaw has abolished the
taxation passports for igraton required by jews
IN order to facilitate the emigration Of jews from the
land of the Gar.
The Natchalnk Chief OF Polce) Of st. Petersburg
has prohibited all factory owners and contractors
settling accounts with tho laborers they employ |
in q saloon any place whero sprituous drinks
sold. 1t found that many contractors had !
made 1t practice to pay their aborers at such places.
where aborers get inebrated aud cheated out Of
large portion Of their wages
The missionary work OF tho Greek Church ID very |
successful in Japan According to the latest reports
OF the St. Petersburg Synod there present
converts to tho faith Of that church in Japan.
When the building Of the great transsiberan Rail.
road decided upon rule adopted that all the
materials required for the road should be Of Russian
product and manufacture. The rails and steel ap-
planes for the eastern part Of the road ordered
at tho St. Petersburg foundres: those for tho western
part will be supplied by the foundes to tho TRIAL
Monntains From ST. Petersburg the materials must be
sent by water and foreign steamers have TO he char
tered for the purpose. Two such steamers freighed
with 100000 pools OF railroad supplies. have this
month left ST. Petersburg for eastern Siberia They
were chartered for $4,000 rubcs for tho cruise Now
the question arises in economic circles whether tho
supplies could not he got cheaper In foreign factories
IL the freight of those that manufactured at home
amounts to so much. The most aggravating crcum.
stance Is this. that tho freight must be paid In gold
and. tho Russian values hardly he expected to
rise the nOxt year. the Government may have to pay
for its freight than il has paid for the first