The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-10-18

months amid the ghaStl1neSs and the
horror and the typhus fever and the
smallpox that they might administer to
the suffering. l sat at the dinner table
in the house of one of our American rep
resentatives beside a baroness who had
not only impoverished her estates by her
contributions to the suffering, but who
left her own home and went down i'll
to the worst of the misery until pros
trated with fever, then reviving and
toiliug on until Frustrated by the small
pox. She had come home to get a little
strength, and i'll a few days she was
going down again to the suffering dis
tlicts, and she commissioned me to exc
cute in America a literary enterprise by
which she expects with her pen more
money, all Of which is to go for bread
to those who lack it. Then there are
the Bobrinskics. They are of the nobt-
ity-not only the nobility of earth, but
the nobility of heaven.
THE NOBILITY OF KINDNESS.
You know we have in America GER
tain names which are synonyms for
observation-disclosures Peabody, james
Lenox. William E. Dodge, Mr.. Slate.
and so on. What their names mean IL
America, Bobrinski means in Russia.
The emperor has made larger cOntribu-
lions toward this relief fund than any
monarch ever made for any cause since
the world stood. and the superb kind
ness written all over the faces of EN-
peror and empress and crown prince l.
demonstrated III what they have already
done and are doing for the sufferers i'll
their own country. When few days
ago read ii the papers that the en-
peror and empress, hearing an eXplO-
sion, stopped the royal rail train to find
out what accident had occurred, and the
empress klIelt down by the side of a
wounded laborer and held his head until
pillows and blankets could be brought.
and the two wounded men were put
upon the royal train to be carried to a
place where they could be better cared
for. said to my wife, Just like her.
When l saw few days ago in the pa
pers that the emperor and empress had
walked through the wards of the most
virulent cholera, talking with the pa
tients. shaking hands with them aLG
cheering them up, it was no surprise 70
me, for said to myself. That is just
like them" Any one who has ever see.I
the ROYAL family will believe anything
in the way of kindness ascribed to them,
and " i'll join me in the execratiOn Of
that too prevalent opinion that a tyrant
is on the throne of Russia.
If 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 people in education, morals and
religion than Alexander III. So put
all the three prayers tOgether-GOd say e
the president of the United States! God
save the queen of England! God save
the emperor and empress of Russia,
will, whether in sermons or lectures.
have not vet decided, show that nire
teeI-tweutieths of all the things written
and Published against Russia are fur
nished BIZ men who have been hired ~
other countries to write up or rathCl
write down Russia, so as TO divert com
merce from that empire, or because OF
international jealOusies. Russia being
| larger than ali the rest of Europe put to.
gether, You can see how natural would
! be the ieaiOuSieS. l know of two prom
| iuent European newspapers that keeI
! men on salaries to catch up everything
| unfavorable to Russia and magnify the
incident And the stereotyped stOrioc
| of Siberian cruelty in one case ont Of &
! hundred is true, but in niLety-nine out
! Of a hundred cases they are fabrication
! And in the one case, as soon as 1t Is re
! ported, the official is discharged. Those
! who have been sent ito write up" Rus
| STA and Siberia have done as that mar
would do who. sent to write up New
| York. should write up the slums as {
! s,ecimen of what New York is or. sen
! to write up the American congress
! sbOuId write up SINE depraTed Io!ld
! clans as a sT4eci1n6n of American Etatez,
mauship. OF, sent to write up the SAM
tary condition of this country, SHOULD
| send kodak picture of all the warts .ni
carbuncles he could md as a specimei
| of American health. | believe l can re
verse the opinion of any man antagonis
! tic to Russia who will give me an homes
hearing. as my own opinions have beer
reversed 10y what l recently Saw an,
| heard.
4 SLANDERED NATION.
|
my summer observation l give you on
little specimen of the falsehoods abou
! Russia. stood in London with III.
tickets for St. Petersburg, Russia. III III.
pocket. 1t vas two o'clock in the after
noon. and at three o'clock was to tax
the train. An American physician cam
in and said, You certainly are not goin,
| TO Russia" ! said, why noty' The
a morning paper was shown me, sayini
that in St. Petersburg there were 200
cases of viruIent cholera: the city ha
been divided into hospital districts, an'
the doctors We're at their wits end wha
10 do with the number of patients; til
population was flying in terror. Ii wa
almost as bad in Moscow. While 1t
fectiug ON these accounts two message
arrived from other friends prOtestja,
against the foOlhardiness of my rushing
into the presence of 1000 cases of cho.
| era IL one city. OF course | halted.