Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-08-12

,ttteeiit' Anlhtufe OF 0eriuan, Russian and
Hebrew, and their newsr1pere. Of Mich
there are several. are ali printed Ia IN
same iarscn. The comc1uc NE Of this
curious colony i essentially Russian and
wholly novel. Tho tahla of every house
hoid holds Us aamovar. d tea urn, and by
y are usually to be found caviare. Eaitod
nerFinf, aud the materials for making
Russian cigarettes. Generally family
numbering from six to a dozen souls Is
crowded into two or three small rooms.
liney, dirty and poorly ventilated, and this
eus.pin drives the people Into the streets
surii's tnelr 'dle hours. Even in working
hours tie streets in some quarters are black
vain men, women and children. and at night
Is with the greatest dinlculty that ono
can make his way alonk the sidewalks
Then thin. sad-facel men and oAreworn
women M every door and recess. vcnders
OF over-ripe fruit and nsh line tho curbs,
present
However, the delicatosHen shops and cafes
which line oyery street are In strunre
measure elcan and attractive; hore CHEAP
vino rs served, and hoet-root ard cabbage
SOUPS are among the DISHES Included in
every menu. These places ure alwaya
crowded Of an evening and take the place
OF tho rich mans club. but the soda-water
fountains which dot the sidewalks are the
WFoHto meeung-nlaces OF the masses, and
the groups which crowd about thcm are
oisen picturesque in the extreme. Al o.
NE men wear long boards, and many Of the
elder ones, even In thest hot summer days
cling 10 the fur-lined clualss and long caps
81 tholr native land. Tho children, aud
there appear 10 be millions Of them. are
dirty, til-fed and unhealthy loolSing but
they play as only children DO. the greater
part OF whose life Is givon To the hardest
, ainS o. toii Their guines are strange
mixture OF those Of thor native and Adopted
co-niries--whlp ton, tag aud babki the lat
ter played with lsnuclkle homes set up like
nnepins and knocked down with q marble,
being tho favnrite pastimo
The signs over the shops and stores IN
the Hebrew quarters evidence the business
shfewiness OF their propriotors. The sign
above a small milk store reads. Good Frssh
MIX frore Jewish Cow" and a butcher In
LUDLOW street attracts custom by tho
strange legend above tho door: 'eTho Mes
siah has come. therefore meat IL only 6
cents a pouud." Many shops display
placard bearing the words: "Come In and
buy Of the worldnrmnns only friend. :"
One sign Is wholly absent from the Hebrew
quarter. that Of the pawnhroker, but this
may be because the people are so wrctchedly
poor that they have nothing 10 pawn. for
the Russian Hebrews. driven from home by
relentless persecution. almost always land
mere pennilcss. Once here thoy are COM
PEELED to accept wages IN the clothing and
similar trades that scarcely serve to keop
body and soul together, and IND the road
TO comfort and competence a hard aud
nearly impossible one. sun, they are keen
witted, quick to learn the advantages their
new home AFFORDS them. and number
among them many mon OF superior intel
loct. Students compelled TO leave Russia
Tor one reason or another flock to the
colony and east IN their lot with their
humber follows. With noble disinterest-
edncss they neglect the brighter aud more
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and as they are more profitable It ia not
surprising to note that nearly every male
member OF the colony Ia either u Nihihst
or an Anarchist.
That reminds mo that In tho Hebrew
colony one viii often moet mon and women
who have becn leading actors in tho fierce
relentless war between Nlhillsm and tho
Rus sian autocraoy, An old-iashioned
dwelling houlo in Elizabeth street. now tho
home Of Russian tradcsman, ~ tho favor
lie meoting place Of tn New York Nihillsts
spent an evening there last winter as
the guest Of man upon whose head a
heavy price has long been rOl BY the Rus-
sian Government. shall remember
through life the remarkable people / mat
and some OK the stories 1 heard there
One Of those present was a Jewega OF 30 or
hereabodta. She possessed a superb ply
slque. Her featnres were regular and
handsome, her hair golden and her eyes
y
woman sura % attract notice in any Father
ing. agme ono asked her what made her
Nihllist. and in answer aha told this
story;
Il was born" said she, 'in a small viii
laEe IN Russian Poland. My parents were
we'll TO do members Of their cluss. At the
age Of 20 married the rabbi OF Our village,
and for tine We were very happy togeth-
or. Then the Governor OF our Province, a
just and merciful man, was replaced by a
cruel and brutal soldier, Our friends at
the capital warned US against the new
Governor in advance and my husband the
sunday IN ale synagogue cau-
toned our people 60 give careful obslrv-
ance to the law and thus, " posslhlc, avoid
trouble lie spoke IN Hebrew but spy
reported his words 20 the new Governor.
He was arrested, hultally beaten In the
market place. and banished to Siberia for
life. was present whom he was logged
into insonslbility, and whom I could bear
IL no longer broke through the guard aud
vowed vengeance on all who were parties
to the outrage,
81 was arrested. tried and sentenced to
receive a hundred blows on the bare back