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days ago In the papers that
the emperor and empress had walked
through the wards of the most virulent
cholera, talking with the patients
shaking hands with them and cheering
them up. II was no surprise to me, for
] said to myself: THAT Is Just like
them" Any one who has ever seen the
royal family will believe anything In
the way of kindness ascribed to them.
and will join me in the execration of
that too prevalent opinion that tyrant
is on the throne Of Russia. II God
spares my life, will yet show by facts
beyond dispute that the most slandered
and systematically lied about nation on
earth is Russia, and that no ruler ever
lived more for the elevation Of his peo-
pie in education and morals and religion
than Alexander III.
So put all the three prayers togeth.
er. God save the president of the
United Statesi God save the queen of
England God save the emperor and
empress of Russia! I will, whether In
sermons or lectures, have not yet de.
cided, show hat Observation-Disclosures
1m1u1A - 4h1uunwuif1aA - Dnblishad
against Russia are furnished By men
who have been hired by other countries
n"writc up" or rather write down
ESQ as to divert commerce from
s s,d' ens-e or because Of international
J.''ou =, sssia being larger than all
'ne reh' Vi TurOf>u ont together, you can
see now natural Wild be the Jealous.
les. know OF two prolsuent European
newspapers that keep meson saIsrie.
to catch up everything unfa,,~nbIe 10
Russia and magnify the inadept
And the stereotyped stories Of q.
berian cruelty in one case out Of hum
dred are true, but in ninety nine out Of
a hundred cases they are fabrication.
And in the one case as soon as IL Is re-
ported the official is discharged. They
who have been sent ito write up"s
Russia and Siberia have done all that
man would do who sent to write up"
New York should write up the Sums -
a specimen of New York Is, or sent 70
write up the American Congress should
write up some depraved politicians a. .
specimen of American statesmanship,
or sent 20 write up the sanitary condi.
ton of his country should send kodao
picture of all the warts and carbuncles
he could find as a specimen of American
| health. / believe / can reverse the
opinion of any man antagonistic to
Russia who will give me an honest hear
ing, as my own opinions have been re-
versed by what ! recently saw and
heard.
Before passing TO the other field Of
my summer observation, give you ono
little specimen OF the falsehoods about
Russia. l stood in London with my
ticket for St Petersburg, Russia. in my
! pocket II was o'clock in the after
noon, and at o'clock was TO take the
train An American physician came In
and said: you certainly are not going
TO Russia?" ! said: why not?" Then
a morning paper was shown me, saying
that in St Petersburg there were 1000
cases of virulent cholera; that the city
had been divided into hospital districts,
and the doctors were at their wits end
what to do with the number of patients;
the population was flying In terror. II
was almost as bad in Moscow.
While rejecting on these accounts,
two messages arrived from other friends
protesting against the foolhardiness of
my rushing into the presence of 1000
cases of cholera in one city. OF course
halted | halted for four days
Meanwhile a telegram from st. Peters
burg encouraged me to go. went
There was not a single case Of cholera
either in St Petersburg or Moscow. aud
there was not a single case in either
city until four weeks after l left those
cities. But the continental falsehood
had done its commercial errand. Tens
of thousands of Americans and Eng.
lishmen who proposed to summer in
Russia turned in other directions At
the large hotel in st. Petersburg at
which | stopped, though capable of
holding five hundred guests, and
months before every room and every
hallway and every mattress and every
pillow had been engaged by telegraph
by sightseers, all the orders were
and instead Of 500 guests, b.,
should say about thirty, and that in
GLIDING our party. And SO it was in all
the hotels in Northern Russia, and the
of that amount of CONNER
rial profits for those cities you may
imagine. But that whole subject Of
systematic fabrication. djourn to some
other hour. Yet, l must tell you Of
picture of pathos ard moral power i'm.
pressed upon my mind so that neither
time nor eternity can efface it. Tho
ship Leo swung to the docks a few
miles below St Petersburg, loaded
with -four from America. r..,t
The sailors on board huzzaed as they
came TO the wharf. From a yacht, on
which we had descended the river to
The sea, the prominent citizens of St
disembarked The bank
was crowded by prosperous citizens
who stood on the wharf and back Of
them by poor laborers who had come
down to offer their services free Of oil
charge for the removal Of the bread.
,tuffs from the ship TO the Imperial
freight train that took the flour 70 the
Interior free of charge. While we stood
here, the long freight train rumbled
lown TO the docks, the locomotive and
ZACH car decorated with a hag--ths
American flag and the Russian flag al.
ernating Though flag TO some eyes
S only floating rag, you ought to zee
now the American flag looks 8, 900 miles
from home.
1t looked that day like section Of
Heaven let down to cheer mortal vision.
Addresses of welcome and responses
were made and then the work began,
The only contest being who should lift
he hardest and the most expeditions
From ship To rail train. From rail train
10 lSneading board. From kneading
board to oven. From oven 10 the white
md quivering lips of the dying. Upon
al who, whether by contribution small
pr large, helped make that scene pos
,ibblc, may there come the benediction
If Him who declared; Il was hungry
md ye fed me-"
Among marine architects 1t is be-
ginning to be serious question II iron
IS not better than steel for ship build
ng purposes, and the cases of the old
sarah Sands, Great Britain and Great
Eastern are quoted as proving that iron
plated. with their increased thickness
md better rivcting, are much stronge,
md more lasting than any steel con-
,tructed vessel yet put TO breaking-up
est.
Not Dead Yet Customer 30 waiter
Who had brought him beefsteak very
nudh unt,rouhc,. w alter just send
,r tho butcher will y0uf Waiter