Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-10-27


tainly does know. and many a prayer Is
going up, warrant you, day by day. for
those who sent hour by the ship Leo. Per
haps some Of US at our tables rattle OF a
prayer that may mean nothing, although
we call it "saying grace" but warrant
when those people who received the bread
which saved their lives said grace" it
meant something.
Our religion may not demand that we
"cross ourselves" but have learned that
while crossing ones self in some cases may
mean nothing but mere form believe IN
most cases it means, "Oh, thou Of the suf-
fering cross of Calvary, have mercy on me
and accept my gratitude" Prefer your
own form of religion by all means, but do
not depreciate the religious forms Of others.
From all / can learn there were several
good people before we were born, and |
rather expect there will be several left |
after we are dead. have travelled in many |
lands, but tell you plainly. as told EN-
perot Alexander III in the palace at Peter |
hoff, that had never been so impressed
with the fidelity to their religion Of any
people as by what had seen in Russia,
and especially among her public men.
l said respectfully to Russian when
saw him cross himself, "What do you do
that for?" "Oh," he said, when do that
always say, God have mercy on mel "
hold in my hand something very suggest
i've. What does that black and uncomely
thing look likei That is what is called
hunger bread from Russia; that is what
millions of people lived on for months be-
fore help came from England, Scotland,
Ireland and America; thaS is mixture
which seems to have in it not one grain of
sustenance. 1t is a mixture of pig weed
and chaff and the sweepings of stables.
That is something which, if dropped in the
street. your dog or cat might sniff at, but
would not eat. That was the only food on
which millions of men and women lived.
You must look at that hunger bread of
Russia before you can get proper apprecia-
| ton of what an attractive and beautiful
thing a good loaf of bread is. 1t is so COM
mon to us we cannot realize its meaning.
Stop and look at it in a bakery window or
see it on your family tablet mean an hon
est loaf of bread, white as ball of packed
snow, with crust brown as the autumnal
woods, and for keen appetite more aro-
matte than flowers-a loaf of bread as you
remember it in childhood, when the knife
in the hand of your father or mother
cut clean through, from crust to crust, and
put before you, not a quarter of a slice or q
half slice, but full, round slice, and an
other and another, just suited to boy al
ways ready to eat and for the most time
hungry, even in a well supplied house.
remember and you remember, if you had a
healthy childhood, just how it tasted. My
Ny! Plum pudding does not taste as good
now as that plain bread then. 1t was then
bread at the table, and bread between
meals, and bread before breakfast and
bread before going to bed.
THE STAFF OF LIFE.
Why does not some poet ring canto on
q loaf of bread or some modern Raphael
paint it, or some historian tell its history
Noticed all over like wedding cake, or dot
ted like many articles of food, pretentious
J and with fantastic ingredients, but that
grandest product of the earth; that richest
! yield of the -four mill; that best benediction
of hot oven-a God given loaf of bread.
But the rhythm of it, the luxury of it, the
: meaning of it, the benediction of it, the
divine mercy of it, only those know who
have seen a famine. No wonder Christ
put this food into the sacrament and said
: of broken loaf of bread, "This is my
} body" Thank God that l ever saw that
) transcendent and compact kindness of the
l infinite Coda loaf of bread. And it was
e our Joy this summer to hand over a ship
t load of material for gladdening many thou.
t sands of Russians with such a beatitude.
= But have been asked by good people in
e Great Britain and America, again and
$ again, Why did not the prosperous people
l Of Russia ctop that suffering themselves
l making it useless for other nations to help!
! And am always glad when I hear the
e question asked, because it gives me an op
t portunity of explaining. Have you any
idea what it requires to feed twenty mil
: lion peoples There is only one being IL
e the universe who can do it, and that is th'
Being who this morning breakfasted six
e teen hundred million of the human race
/ The nobility of Russia have not only con
t tributed most lavishly, but many of then
d went down and staid for months amid tn
!, ghastliness, and the horror, and the typhu
! fever, and the smallpox that they nigh
:. administer to the suffering.
r sat at the dining table in the house O
r one of our American representatives be
e side baroness who had not only impoy
d erished her estates by her contributions t
q the suffering, but who left her own hom
|, and went down into the worst of the mis-
cry, until Frustrated with fever, then II
d viving and toiling on until Frustrated b
Z, the smallpox She had come home to &c
10 little strength, and in a few'days she wa
going down again to the suffering districts
n and she commissioned me to execute /
70 America literary enterpriseby which sh
y expects with her pen more money, all {
n which is to go for bread to those who lac
st it. Then there are the Bobrinskies. The
IT are of the nobility-not only the nobility
n earth, but the nobility of heaven. 70
n know we have in America certain namt
of which are synonyms for benevolence-
81 George Peabody, James Lenox, William
D. Dodge, Mr.. Slater and so ON. What the
se names mean in America Bobrinski NEAR
in Russia.
The emperor has made larger contribl
f. tions toward this relief fund than an
1t monarch ever made for any cause SIM
pit the world stood, and the superb kindne
ct written all over the faces of emperor an
I'd empress and crown prince is demonstrate
er in what they have already done and Al
lg doing for the sufferers in their own cou
I'd try. When few days ago read in IL
e papers that the emperor and empires
Id hearing an explosion, stopped the roy
n rail train to find out what accident he
I'd occurred, and the empress knelt down
r the side Of q wounded laborer and held b
ID head until pillows and blankets could
ut brought, and the two wounded men we
en put upon the royal train to be carried to
lie place where Trey could be better cared fo
I'D tsaid to my ife, "Just like her."
er When saw few days ago in the pape
re that the emperor and empress had walk
n through the wards of the most virulel
lie cholera. talking with the patients. shakir
al hands with them and cheering them up,
n was no surprise to me, for said to mysel
Il ''That is Just like them" Amy one wi
rd has ever seen the royal ramiiy VIII oelle