Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-10-17

only contributed most lavlShly, but
many of them went down and staid for
months amid the ghastliness 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 cur 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 in
to the worst of the misery until pros
trated with fever, then reviving and
toiling on uTtil Frustrated by the small
pox. She Id come home to get q little
strength, IN in few days she was
going down again to tie suffering dis
tricts, and s.e commissioned me to exc
cute in An-e.ica IL literary enterprise by
which she expects with her pen more
money. all = which is to go for bread
to those VINO lack t. Then there are
the Bobrinskies They are of the nobil-
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
benevolence-Geo Peabody, James
Leno1, William E. Dodge, Mr.. Slater,
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 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 EN-
peror and empress, hearing an explo-
sion, stopped the royal rail train to find
out what accident had occurred, and the
empress knelt down by the side of
wounded laborer and held his head until
pillows and blankets could be brought,
and the two wounded men We're put
upon the royal train to be carried to a
place where they could be better cared
for, [ said to my wife, s'Just like her.
When | saw a 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 and
cheering them up, it was no surprise to
me, for | said to myself, s'That is just
like them" Any one who has ever seen
the royal family will believe anything
in the way of kindness ascribed to them,
and will join me in the execration of
that too prevalent opinion that 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 save
the president of the United States! God
save the queen of England! God save
the emperor and empress of Russia! ;
will, whether in sermons OF lectures, |
have not yet decided, show that nir.e-
teen-twentieths of all the things written
and published against Russia are fur
nished by men who have been hired by
other countries to write up or rather
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-
be the jealousies. | know of two prom
inent European newspapers that keep
men on salaries to catch up everything
unfavorable to Russia and magnify the
incident And the stereotyped stories
of Siberian cruelty in one case out of a
hundred is true, but in ninety-nine cut
of q hundred cases they are fabrication
And in the one case, us soon as it is re
ported, the official is discharged Those
who have been sent s'to write up Rus
STA and Siberia have done as that man
would do who, sent to write up New
York, should write up the slums as a
specimen of what New York is, or, sent
to write up the American congress,
should write up some depraved politi-
clans as specimen of American states
manship, or, sent to write up the sani-
tary condition of this country. should
send a kodak picture Of all the warts and
carbuncles he could find as a specimen
of American health. | believe can re
verse the opinion of any man antagonis-
tic to Russia who will give me an honest
hearing, as my own opinions have been
reversed by what | recently saw and
heard.
y SLANDERED NATION.
Before passing to the other field of
my summer observation [ give you one
little specimen Of tie falsehoods about
Russia. | stood in London with my
tickets for st. Petersburg, Russia in my
pocket. 1t was two o'clock in the after
noon, and at three o'clock was to take
the train. An American physician came
in and said, you certainly are not going
to Russia" | said, ssWhy not?' Then
a morning paper was shown me, saying
that in ST. Petersburg there were 1900
cases of virulent cholera; the city had
been divided into hospital districts, and
the doctors were at their wits end what
to do with the number of patients; the
tlnrl11l alton was flying in terror. II 1traS