The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-24

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not moving rapidly enough to suit him, the
driver was ordered to ride over them, which
he did, hruising and injuring many youths
and women.
A detachment of Austrian cavalry leav-
ing the city for change OF patrol at the
Russian frontier, on arriving at the cloth
hall on the market place, was somewhat
annoyed by the frenzied movement Of the
peasant market men in their efforts to get
out OF the way. An officer whose horse
| SHE'D from contact with rustic carrying
some fowls slung over his shoulder in willow
cages, drew his saber aud with a savage
overhead cut severed two fingers from the
defeuseless mans hand. Apparently it
would have been quite the same had the
| mans head followed his fl gers
AS though this were not sufficient infamy,
foot soldier standing near after an hum
BILE salute to the brave officer, picked the
| discovered fingers from the street and
tossed them, as though they hal been links
OF sausage. to bevy of half-famished dogs
shrinking and saarling beneath a Hupga-
rian gypsy cart standing near, aud these
animals devoured them after nearly devour-
ing each other in battle over these
unusual and delicious morsels
The treatment of the Polish Jews is indie
Scribably dreadful. Truly a majority of
| these here form q loathesome lot. But they
| are victims of misfortune. No jew is by
| nature slothful or vile. All Jews are active,
patient, vigorous and brave in all things
tending to self-sustenance. Those of Crecow
are mainly helpless victims of Russian per-
secution. So many have made their way
into all avenues of business that by very
| force of numbers and desperation of situa-
ton they swarm like wolves around every
opportunity OF the slightest gain. But
thousands upon thousands exist in q condi-
| ton of such awful want, starvation and
l
where q God was owned some touch of
human considers alton and pity might find
expression. You cannot find 1t in Cracow.
They are beaten from before soldiers and
| officials with slaves. Polics disperse beg
cling crowds with swords. striking right
and left and wounding promiscuously.
Those of gentle O. blood seem
to have acquired the right TO
avenge all Poland'J national wrongs
on these luckless humans. have
seen little girls not yet in their teens strike
them apparently as mere diversion. The
aristocracy from highest TO lowest consider
it no crime to chastise them ouenly and I'M
resentedly on any pretext of offense. The
very next NOR ming after my arrival here, ]
saw a half naked Jewish child being carried
along with broken leg dangling from Its
body. 1t had amused some lOrdling or Off
cial in q carriage, bsfore which the little one
had begged, to ride over it. had some re-
spect for Polish character, gained l will ad-
init from Polish history, before came tC
| Cracow.
| Whatever the Polish aristocracy have
| been in the past they are brutes beyond the
| limits of human language to reveal in their
| treatment of interiors and especially oil
these Jewish wretches OF misfortune aud
misery. And for my part can see NJ
altar or shrine or cruci6x or vicar of Coo
| in this ancient city without loathine
emblem, place and priest where such in
| human hearts con worse than murder and
| adore.
My guide through the ghastly shell of a
civilized city was secured through incident
of Ubiquitous brutality, trihing, indeed, for
| Cracow, but still illustrative of its genial
and kindly atmosphere l had truly been
unbearably pestered by a horde of Jews
| from money changers down to the most re-
pulsive Of beggars. and finally conceived
| the plan of Grraying myself In the most
| Polish and least expensive of attire.
1t proved a successful device. In this
rsinent had visited the Tabra mountains,
aud had returned to Cracow SO torn by
! brushwood and despatched by mud of the
| highways that l was quite free 70 enjoy the
| city from the neither side of aspect. 1t was
a relief, too, from strain upon both temper
| and purse.
In this habilament and attitude was
| STANDING DSlOT6 u DdkGI . hluuOW IuLSL 5SLbu
in an odd form of bread which is fashioned
| and baked in an excellent imitation of q
| crown of thorns, much used during the
| Lenten period in Galicia. AnotheTistill more
dolorous object than myself sto ID before the
window. 1t was a Polish Jew, ragged
wasted, wan and old. | have seen longing
and bunger on as many faces as has any
other one who lives; but never before saw
both go pathetic and terrible as in this one
| white face.
At this moment pevy of soldiers clankeG
by. Both myself and the ancient Jew stood
OF the edge OF the pavement. quite out OF
their Iordly way. Something in the old
mans face attracted the sodierE' attention
as well as my own. Some turned, glanced
and cursed. One said with al oath:
| He will draw the loaves the window
| through with that nCsel"
"If the loaf crown Of thorns) was his
belly therein, it should cut with blood his
peunch through" sneered another.
Zach Gottl" shouted the br&vest OF them
all as he sprang 20 the old mans side, in g
seeming frenzy of rage. feared he would
strike him down. But he did not. lie only
| spat in his face and called him jew dog =
''Ear.h rotn and names beastller still.
| Then they turned and went merrily away.
And it is true that this poor Old man, foI
| fear of his life, as he atterward told me,
| dare not attempt to remove the froCh [ Jul-
ness from his face until these Christian sol
diery had turned into the market place
| But [ had done 1t for him before that
then led him into the BAKERS and then
into cafe, and then into a wine shop, enC
Christmas money never did quicker oil
more direct missionary work than on that
morning when, God knows, for the first
and only time In my life longed to be G
| Rothschild.
This poor stranded old human had been 6
Jewish teacher in not remote Russian
village, and had been knouted out of his
home by Cossacks, his feeble wife perishine
in the fight from fright and fatigue. He
had got AS far as Crac0w. That, as with
| thousands upon thousands more, was TO be
his living grave under conditions of misery
and outrage moro awful than those which
| once made Infamous the name Of religion
10 Madrid, Nuremberg or Salem-unles'
the little l spared him could gee him tc
kinfOlk in Berlin.
He showed me the appalling scenes among
the Jews in CASHMERE, the Jewish quarter
Then, scholar that he was, he told me one
by one the legends gray and dim of The
cTumbling Zamek; pointed out the SOLID
silver shrine of St. S.anislau5 with its sup.
porting angels, the Flemish brasses above
| the tomb of ths cardlnal-blshop, son o.
Cnsimir, King of Poland, and all the graver
treasures and wonders uf the sixteen chapels
in the great cathedral led the way to tn;
university with its statue of Copernicu
who was once professor there; and brough