The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1902-11-07
beings, animated and enthusiastic.
"LooKINa FOR JESUS"

LOOhlNU fOR JEolO.
"Where are you going and what
:. to become of your" was asked OF
good-looking girl. who said she
sas only II years old and a wife.
"We are looking for Jesus" she
imply but earnestly replied.
Where do you expect TO find
lim2"
I've don't know; God is good
md viii guide us"
will you go with your men on
lie narch?"
"Yes."
fQu viii die if yeu go ON the
mas (your condition.
wv do not fear. We will die
Aesus sake
IT. Another place woman, dis
INd and halt dressed, writhed
" Sdgh in mortal agony on the
IL1 Grouped around her were
Ia and old women and children
STAGES expressing the most
sympathy. From tiers
IS heads were stretched out
Aaming eyes watched the
in the hall still sadder
4 ~ Witnessed, tor a woman
witb Eiehl, pleasing face whose
r aspi not altogether de-
tllfoned' INSTANTLY announced her
seHas the mother of Jesus. She
h~l an earnest audience, who
sesped 0tbelieve her story.
Cir Sjsrs, in describing the
m#ch 1.-THE Dcukhobors, said:
They came along slowly like a
bi&k cloud low down on the
pt9rie, thirty or forty abreast The
PROCESSION wassheaded by an old
NJ with flowing white hair. He
VI in his bare feet and was chant
8 sand waving his hands. Fol-
r. fng came the choir. blind
D, Tled by two stalwart Russians,
&A<4 two stretchers on which
q "a invaIids.
TeIhe progress was slow, and the
singing most doIeful, but the un-
musical sound never ceased. The
choir, | was informed, repeated
again and again the words;
any God, my God. why hast
thou forsaken me? Why art thou
50 far from helping me and from
the words of my roaring? Our
fatherstfusted in thee early, trust
ed and thou didst not deliver them.
They cried unto thee and were deg
liyered. They trusted in thee and
were not confounded."
"Methodically," continued Mr..
Speers, "the army advanced toward
me. addressed the leaders, and
the only satisfaction l could get
was that they were going .out to
preach Christ.
FORCE MAY HAVE To BE USED.
"The condition Of the marching army
could not very we'll be worse. The
fanatics do not speak English, have no
provisions nor clothing and have no
definite destination. The cold weather
may bring them to an accounting, but !
doubt 1t. Their leaders, Odmeroff,
Dendrofr and Zebroff, should be arrest
ed Force will have TO be used even
tually. as the situation hourly becomes
worse.
When l asked the leaders how they
expected to get food. they replied. From
heaven AS no provisions rained down
on them before they left here, they
seemed disappointed. All they had here
apples. raw potatoes and peanuts"
A Doukhobor iaborer, who arrived
from Winnipeg Thursday, appealed TO
an Interpreter to induce his young wife,
who had joined the fanatics, to return
to her home at Terpennie. All argu-
ments were in vain, however. The
woman was weak and emaciated from
hunger and loss of sleep. The craze
has separated hundreds of relatives
The Swan Lake immigration agent has
arrived at Yorkton, but has been unable
to induce any OF his people to return.
Only few, he says. will consent to 90
back to their villages. The McNutt
member of the Territorial Parliament
for Salt Coast, wires from that place:
Five hundred male Doukhobors
have just arrived. They halted IN