Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-21

SERVICE 81 HfH ptpIte, tlHi emperor put
down his hta 60 a. pillow Of dust, Rus
sia lost as l4JI "a nphafch as was ever
GROW ned. Then came a, Iander the Second,
father Of the present. emperor. Amid the
mighticst opposition aud innumerable
prot csts, he, with one stroke Of his pen,
emancipated twenty million scrfs, practi-
cally saying: "Lo free Be your own mas
tiers, and this is for you and your children
forever"
On the day he was basely ossassinated
land viii parent he Ideally say that | saw
his carriage p,ir,ors, as Il looked when
he stepped ty,-I it, not TO save himself, but
to look after some poor people Of the street
who bad been hurt, and saw the bed on
which he died, tie mattress yet crimson
with hi lifc's blood)-on the day he was
assassiEated he had Or his table, found
afterward, free constitution that pro-
posed tn give the right of suffrage to the
/ people Of Russia. If it had not been for
/ the assassination lie would have soon
| signed that COZ. Tuition, but that horri bic
! violence put things back, as violence al
ways does
What a marvellous character of kind
! Eess was Alexander the Second, the father
OF the present emperor, so that the pres
u,
berits his benignity. Alexander the
Second, hearing that nobleman had
formed conspiracy agnnst his life, had
him arrested. Then the eyes of the crlmi-
! nal were bandaged, and he was put iu a
carriage, and for some time travelled on,
only stopping for food. After awhile the
bandage was removed, and supposing that
he must by that time have been almost in
| L hat b. . L.. u
his own home. But this punishment was
sufficient.
The same emperor, having heard that
poet had written poem defamatory of his
empress, ordered the poet into his pres
ence. Expecting great severity the poet
entered the palace and found the emperor
and empress and dukes and duchesses gath
cred together. Good morning." said the
emperor to the offender II hear you have
written most beautiful poem, and have
sent for you that yoH may read it to us and
we may have the pleasure of hearing it,"
The man cried out, Send me to Siberia or
do anything with me, but do not make me
read this poem in your presence" He was
compelled to read the defamatory poem,
and then the empress, against whom it was
| aimed, said: II do not think he will write
CO." And so he was freed
| And now comes in Alexander the Third,
doing the best things possible for the ma
ton which he loves and which as ardently
| loves him. But what an undertaking. to
| rule one hundred and twelve million peo-
pie, made UP of one hundred tribes and
races and speaking forty different Ian
guages But, notwithstanding all this,
Z f,lI gl roll
and l do not believe that out of five hun
bred thousand Russians you would find
more than one person who dislkes the en-
peror, and so that calumny of dread Of
assassination drops so fat it can fall no
hatter.
ESPIONAGE AND RELIGION.
Calumy the Second--lf you 20 to Russia
you are under severest espionage, stopped
here and questioned there, and in danger
of arrest But my opinion is that if man
is disturbed in Russia it is because he
ought to be disturbed. Russia is the only
country in Europe in which my baggage
was not examined. ] carried in my hand,
tied together with cord SO that their titles
could be seen, pile Of eight or ten books,
all of them from lid to lid cursng Russia,
but had no trouble in taking with me the
books There is ten times more difficulty
in getting your luggage through the Amer
lean custom house than through the Rus
sian. | speak not of myself for friends
intercede for me on American wharves,
and am not detained. | was several days
in Russia before | was asked if | had any
passport ut all.
Depend upon it, if hereafter man be-
leves he is uncomfortaby watched by the
police Of ST. Petersburg or Moscow, it Is
because there is something suspicious
about him, and you yourself had better,
when he is around, look after your silver
spoons. promise you, an honest man or
m honest woman, that when you go there,
as many OF you will-for European travel
is destined TO change its course from south
ern Europe to those northern regions-you
will have no more molestation or super
visa than in Brooklyn or in New York or
the quietest Long Island village.
Calumny the Third-Russa and its ruler
are so opposed to any other religion except
the Greek religion that they will not allow
any other religion; that nothing but perse-
cution and Imprisonment and outrage in
tolerable await the disciples of any other
religion. But what are the facts' | had
long ride in St. Petersburg and its sub
urbs with the project, a brilliant efficient
and lovely man, who is the highest official
In the city OF St. Petersburg, and whose
chief business is to attend the emperor.
said to him, Il suppose your religion is
that of the Greek church," mo-" said he;
81 am n Lutheran" what is your reli-
gionY" | said to one Of the highest and
most influential officials at St. Petersburg.
He said, II an of the Church Of England"
Myself, an American, of still another de-
nomination of Christians, and never hay
! ing been inside Greek church in my life
until | went to Russia, could not have re-
ceived more consideration had been hap-
tized in the Greek church and all my life
worshipel mt her affairs. ] had 1t demon
strated to me very plainly that mans re-
ligion in Russia Lsas uuthingto do with his
rrprerrrcnt fur cItitr oiilCe or social pdSA
ton. The only questions taken into con-
sidcration are honesty, fidelity, morality
and adaptation. | had not been in st.
Petersburg au hour before | received an
invitation to preach the Gospel of Christ
as believed it, Besides all this, have you
forgotten that the Crimean war, which
shook the earth, grew out of Russia's in
reference in behalf Of the prosecuted
Christians OF all nations in Turkey?
"But," says some one, "hayo there not
been prosecutions of other religions n Rus
slap No doubt, just MS in other times In
New England we burned witches, and as
We killed Quakers, and as the Jews in
America have been outrageously treated
ever since | can remember, and the Chi
ncsc in our land have been peted, and
! their stores torn down, md their way from
/ the steamer wharf to their destined quar-
! tiers tracked with their own blood. The
! devil OF ncrsecnlinn Is In every land and in