Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-11-06
IN HIDING ELEVEN MONTHS.
.ToTIiER CASE ov RUSSIAN rERsEcu.
1ION OF the JEWS.

despiaed aud prosecuted race, but there
"a a simple herolsm about them that
commands respect.
Their father, Abraham Zlsbowsky,
was a butcher In the little town Of
Hruskoy, ia the government Of kursk,
names which TO Americans are no
more than names, mere collocations OF
gutturzls, but which represent home
10 these people. Before the days OF
this extra hostility to the Hebrews
Abraham Zlabowssy, by furnishing
meat 10 the fifteen Jewish families out
ofthe three hundred or 30 which lived
In the village, made something like
twenty rubles week, which In pur-
chasing power corresponds TO $50.
lie bought him \ house and lot, for Ia
that provinces no Israclite may own
land wherein TO farm.
TIE anti-Semitic troubles drew on
and the income OF the father shrunk TO
seven or eight rublea n week. There
were seven In the family, aud II Isn't
easy 10 feed ana cloth 20 many on 81 a
week. But July 10th Of last year eight
gu, Of the fifteen jewish families were
ordered u leave within twenty.four
hours. Where thoy were 10 20 the
authorities didn't care, only they
were 10 leave Russia. Abraham
Zlabowsky fortunately hsd enough
money by him 10 10y q Storage ticket
TO San Antonis, Tex, where he has n
sister. fncsutlously he let 1t out 10
some one OF the counties, spies that he
Intended 10 20 TO America and leave
his family behind until he could get
enough money TO send for them.
That night after the father had gone
their house was set on hrc by some
body who was determinsd that tho
whole family must 90 too. The house
the Zlabowskys had paid for and
every stick Of furniture and every rag
u clothes except what they had on
their backs won't up In smoke and not
one Of the village turned hand 10
help put out tho fire.
What were the mother and childred
10 do7 Ifsnybody sheltered them II
were an efisnse punishable by Danish.
ment to Siberia. They had an uncle
named Joel Bardeirkl In the town Of
kanaiop, twenty -four vcrsts or twenty
Engllsh miles distant. The mother
walked there, carrying the youngest OF
the children. They fed by night ~
though they had been criminals. They
were lucky that no one challenged
them and had thsm put Into prison,
When people came along the road
they hid In the bushes.
This 10 the story told by Feive, the
10y, and translated nom the old Cor.
man and Hebrew jargon which Russian
Jews speak, by Mr.. ReiherE, the repre-
sentative OF the United Hohrw Chari-
ties, at tho Barge Onlce. Mrs.
Reinherz interrupted hero and told
how her own brother disguised himself
NJ a fisherman and lay In the bottom
of q wagon underneath fshiug. nets.
Old EllEnr Wight, Of Champaign,
H., almost always had runaway
slaves under corn fodder In q wagon.
Well, the Ziabowskys got to their
uaole's house all right, but the next
thing was 10 conceal themselves. For
eleven months this mother and flvo
children lay hid aSd were fed aud
clothed In their unolo's house. Mean
time man In San Antonio was striy-
ing To learn English with every wit he
had, that he might be able " earn
more money 80 rs TO bring the wife
and children over. IL may have been
that he was a little persistent In his
efforts " soil shoolaces and hsndkor-
chiefs. A man somstimes will DO
somewhat pushing when he has u
motive like that Of Abraham Llab-
owsky. Ho found that In this ooun-
try nobody believed for M Instant that
one Of the ingredients OF passover
bread was the blood Of . Christian
baby? over In Russia cvsry body be-
liey.s that. IL isn't 20 long ago that
the grandmother Of the present CIsr Of
Russia called q handsome young man
10 hor side, aud being told that he was
An IsfAelite, scratched bis wrists to SEE
II he would bleed like human being.
This sounds like fairy story, but II II
common talk among the Russian ref.
ugees here.
Anyway, Abrahsm Zkbewtky was
very anxious u get his family from
Russia and over TO San Antonia whore,
for instance, there IL one Of his own
who Ia millionaire aud respected oitl.
zen, with whom the governor Of tho
State OF Texas n not ashamed 10 shake
hands. Therefore, he put money In
his purse, and when ho put II In, hs
saw 10 II that II did not come cut
again soon, nj least, not until there
was enough OF u to buy tickets for the
mother and the i've children.
Ono dsy last month there came let
ter TO the house of Joel BardetEkl IN
Kanatop, and this letter told tho mum.
bvr and name OF u ticket for eaoh one
that could DO found nj n certain Office
In Hamburg. Then began tho modern
passover, out OF the house Of bondage
into the new land OF Canaan.
There are men who correspond 10
the conductors Of underground rail.
ways Of antebellum days. He didn't
bother with passports. He took tho
mother and tho little onos In a wagon
by night through Poland and passed
them from one place 10 another. Feive.
the sturdy lad aud Hinde, the girl OF
twelve, no loss sturdy than her brother,
trudged along atoot, carrying what few
traps they had. They slept where
they could o. nights. This boy doesn't
remember the names OF the town..
He wasn't interested Ia inqulTing.
All ho knows " that they had TO wade
thfugh river to get Into Neustadt,
Germany. They got mired and were
nearly drowned, more than that they
got separated from their mother.
When they arrived In Hamburg they
expected 10 And her. But she had not
come. They didn't know but she had
gone on 10 America. They didn't
know but she had been caught at the
frontier, perhaps thrown into prison,
and their friend soot TO Siberia. But
there was nothing for them to do but
to come on to America.
They arrived In New York weines.
day, on thu n. A. \. "Veendam,0 ami
were put into the detention pen. No
body knew them and they knew NO