The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-10-20

anu PsieClaliy among ner pubic men. 4
said respectfully to Russian, when | saw
him eros himself; What do YOU do that
forY' "Oh," /" he said, when do that nj.
ways say: God have mercy on mel "
hold in my hand something very sugges-
tive. What does that black and uncomeiy
thing look like? That is what Is
called hunger bread from Russia;
lived on for months before help
came from England. SEQ; and. Ireland and
America; that is q mixture which seems to
have in not one grain of sustenance. II is n
mixture Of pig-weed and chan and the
swecpings Of stables That Is something
which, IL dropped in the street, your dog or
cat might snin at, but would not
eat. That was the only food on
which millions of men and women lived
You must look ut that huneer-bread Of Rus
sla before you can get uropcr appreciation OF
what an attractive and beautiful thing Loaf
of bread IL. IL is so common to us we CannO,
realize its meaning. stop and look at it IN u
bakery window or sea II ON your family
table, mean an honest loaf Of bread. white
rs ball Of packed snow with q crust brown
as tho autumnal woods. and for keen ap-
petite more aromatic than ilowers-a loaf oi
bread as YOU remember ii in childhood,
when the knife in the hand OF your father
or mother cut clean through from crust TO
crust anu put befo you, not a quarter of
slice or half slice. but full round slice
aud another and another Just suited To- boy
always ready to eat aud for the most time
hungry, even in well supplied house. u
was then bread the table and bread be
tween meals and bread before break fast and
bread before going 20 bed.
But | have been asked bv GOOD people In
Great Britain an America again and again.
why did not the prosperous people OF Rus
sia stop the SUFFERING themselves. making It
useless for other nations To- hclp2 And
al, f,f.l I hpaW fnf
asked because 1t gives me an opportunity
of explaining III ave vou any idea what II
requires tu feed - O)OODD people. There Is
only one being in the universe who can do
II. aud that Is the Being who, this morning
breakiastcd l,GD 100000 of the human race
The nobility of Russia have not only con
tribuicd most layishlv. but many uf them
went down and staid for months amid the
ghastliupss and the horror and the tyUhus
fever aud the smal.pO that they might al
minister To the suffering. ] sat nj the dining
table in the house of one OF uur Ameri-
can representatives beside baroness, who
had not only Impoverished her estates by
her contributions to the suffering, but who
left her own home and went down into th'
W rst of the misery and until prOstratrt
with fever; then Trviviii'', and toiling ot
until prosiratcd by the smallpox. she hao
come home 10 get a little strength, and III %
few days she was gcng down again to the
me to execute in America u literary enter
prise by which she expects with her per
more money all of which is tp - for bread
To- those who lack IT, Then there are tho
Bobrinskov. They are Of the nobility, no
only the nobility Of earth but the nubihiy
of heaven. You know we have ~ Amer
ca certain names which are synonyms io;
benevolcnce--Gcorge Peabody, James Len
or William r. Dodge. Mr.. Slater and 50 on
What their names mean in America $50
brinsll means in Russia The emperor has
made larger contributions toward this re
lief fund than any monarch ever made Tor
any cause since the world stood, and the
superb kindness written all over the faces of
emperor and empress and crown prince Is
demonstrated in what they have already
done and are doing for the sufferers IN their
own country.
When few days ago | read in the papers
that the emperor and empress hearing al
explosion. stopped the royal railtrain TO
find out what accident had occurred, and
the Empress kuclt down by the side OF u
wounded iaborrr ami held bis head until
pillows and blankets could aspsht and
the tTo ,, wo9nhsl b,.j mSslGrechoen pom ,1s the
- :; fi%-,oi ,a-ir@tt tt.ettr tettri4YW Tx 4Sidio my
fnQe leather. er." When ! saw ~,
days a. the cheapepers that thu emperor AID
empress'yad walked through the ward- II
the most virulent cholera, talking with tho
patients, shaking hands With them and
cheering them up, II was no surprise e. me,
for said TO myself That IS just Ike
them" Anyone who has ever seen the
royal family will believe anything in the
way of kindness ascribed to them, and Will
join me in the eNccratiOn of chat 900 prcYa-
lent opinion that tyrant IS on the throne
of Russia. II God spares my life Will vet
show by fncis beyond dispute that the most
slandcrcd and Systematically lied about ma.
/ ftpY m nurt n is Rnggiu and thNt fIlIpT
ever lived more for the elevation Of his pco-
pie III education and morals and rcli lion
than Alexander the Third. So ! put al, the
three prayers together; God save the resi-
dent Of the United states God save the
queen of England God save the emperor
and empress of Russia
| will, whether ia sermons or lectures |
have not decided show that niue'ccn-tNcn.
ticth of all the thlrgs wri ten ana puh. -Icd
against Russia are furnished by men no
have been hired by other countries to 'Nr!tc
up or rather write down Russia, So a- to
divert commerce from that empire, or ue-
cause of international lcHiousipS Russia
being larger than all the rest of Eurui Put
together. you can see how natural Won be
the jealousius / know of two prom urnt
European newspapers that Keep men on
salaries 10 catch mp everything unidyo' 'Jle
20 Russia anG mnlniiy the incident. nj
the sterotypcd stugic, 1t siberian cgue. rs IN
one case ont ofa hundred are true, bur in
nincty-niue out of a hundred cases they are
iabricatiOus. And in the one case as 'on
rs it is reported the official Is dlschI I'd.
/ They who have been sent ITO write -
Russia and Siberia have done ~ that an
would do who sent to write up New y nrk
should write up the slums rs Il sptcmo OF
what New York is or sent Ia writc uu the
American congress should write up ne
deprayod politicians as sp rimnn OF Au"rl-
can statesmenship. ! believe | eau reverse
the opinion OF any man antagonist. 10
Russia who will give me an honest hearing,
as my own opinions have been reverse by
what recently saw and heard,
] must tell YOU of u picture OF ua'hoS
and moral power impressed upon my m'nd
SO that neither time nor eternity can Glaze
il. The ship Leo swung 10 her docks itf"
miles below st. Petersburg, loaded with topr
from America. The sailors on board hutEiei
as they came 10 the wharf. From a yluhl
on which we had descended the river to me
sea, the prominent citizens Of 81. Petcrt.
burg disem barked. The bank was crowded.
with prosperous citizens who stood ON iht
wharf, aud back OF them by poor lablrrra
who had come down 10 offer their services