The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-23

buy cells. and snakes and chicken legs.
LAMBS feet are sold as a great dainty and
caves ieet are bought for soup bones.
among the oils which are used by the peas
aus Iof salaGs and cooking is sunflower oil,
anu one OF the great industries of this
country is sunnower raising The peasants
eat sunfiower seed in large QUANTITIES and
nlDole at them and chew upon them a we
DO peanuts. You can hardly find n man
VINO mas not some sunfiower seeds in bis
pucae., auu everywhere you go you see
women with baskets of these black and gray
seeds for sale. They taste very much liks
pumpkin seeds and the peasants eat them
at their gatherings just as the Chinese do
watermelon seeds at the theater.
A vast deal of business is done here in
Russia by peddllng On many of the husi
ness streets of Moscow there are long lines
OF Open-air stands and bare headed Russian
men and frowZy-headed women sell fruit.
vegetables and kniek-knacks under the
blaze OF the hot sun. There is an immense
business done in little booths, and the So
called thieves market is fixed institution
oil every Russian city. This name has come
largely from the guides and there is n O doubt
that many OF the articles sold are stolen. The
truth, however. Is that these markets
are secondhand markets and that many
CT the hue articles which these Jews and
Russian secondhand dealers sell have come
70 them In legitimate way This second
mana market In st. Petersburg covers nearly
whole block The building which
constitutes 1t is cut up into ali sorts of
ansies py areades, and you go through mar
row aisleS out upon which look little
cells packed full Of second hand goods. ana
presided over by hard-looking women and
yllialn0us men. 1t is said that ones DO ket
DOCK Is not at all safe in this quarter and
that stranger ought not to go through it
atone. had guide with me, and though
the crowd was rather noisy and somewhat
impudent In their requests that | should
Duy OF them. saw nothing very dangerous
or terrible. In some of these shops YOU
Will ind the finest of silver plate. There
are bushels of watches and old rugs which
are are almost worth their weight in gold.
The dealers. however, thoroughly ap-
preclate the value OF their goods and
real bargains are scarce. Much of the stpff
is said to be brought to the market
by servants, and row and then you can
pick up piece Of bric-a-brac or plate that
has been stolen from one OF the palaces
Russia has system Of pawnbroking, and
the pawnshops are connected with the
Government. The money is loaned upon
pledged articles at fixed rate, and all
pledges which are not redeemed are sold at
auction. This takes away great deal of
the pawning from the Jews, aud the result
is that you see few pawnbroking shops with
the golden balls above them here. The
jews, however, lend good deal of money
on mortgages, and the chief objection to
them on the part OF the Russians is that
shortly after Jew settles in peasant vii
lage he is found to possess mortgage on
every piece of valuable property in the
village The Russians themselves live
from hand to mouth. and both
peasants and mobiles spend their money as
fast as they make it. They are great Dor
rowers and ara wonderfully improvident.
The result is that the thrifty Jew has no
trouble in getting away with them, and this
IS largely the reason that the Gar and his
Government are anxious to get rid of him.
There is law in Russia that any Jew can
be sent back to the place of his nativity if
he moves thence without the permission
OF the Government and this Is what is
being done with the Jews who have emf
grated from one part of Russia 10 the other.
Many of the Jews, however. prefer in NOV
ing to leave the country, and it Is from
these we are getting large number Of our
sO-called expelled Jews.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.
Moscow, October 8.