The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-07-17
HsIAtsE.
Man VISITED
COUNT TOlSToJ
Prof. Edward a. Steiner OF
GrinnelI Spent Some Time
on Estate.
RUSSIANS REVERE HIM
Much That Is Written About the Gree,
RUSSIANS REvERE HIN
Much That Is Written About the Greet
Patriarch Is Not True, Nor as In
terestins as the Things That
Are True.

Patriarch Is Not rue, Nor as In
terestins as the Things That
Are True.
Grinnell, Ia, July IS Professor Ed
ward A. Steiner of Iowa college, who
has been in Europe for some months
on a leave of absence, has returned TO
this country. While abroad he spent
considerable time on the Russian es-
tates of Count Leo Tolstoi, and he
talks most interestingly of the great
Russian.
Professor Steiner spent some time on
the estate of Count Tolstoi and with
the members OF Tolstoi circle. Pro-
fessor Steiner told yesterday of some
interesting experiments there.
'Tolstoi's estate, Yasnaya Poiyana,
is about twelve miles by rail from
Moscow" he said. "Tolstoi was ex-
ceedingly i'll when I arrived and had
been removed upstairs from the quar-
tiers which he had long occupied, a sort
of hovel like room on the lowest floor
Of III house. A physician lived with
him. He recovered soon, but he re-
mains, and will doubtless always re-
main, a broken down man, who will be
confined much to his house and will
never again be able to work in the
fields, as has long been his custom.
Soon after my arrival, three spirit
ualistic students came from England.
who were DESTROYS Of converting Toll
stoi to sp%iritualism. They were not at
all welcome, but they lived in the
house and were we'll treated, just as
everyone Is who goes to see Tolstoi.
Countess Tolstoi was in Moscow, and
these three men fastened themselves
upon Tolstoi and gave him no rest for
two days and two nights. They
ideas OF conversion, n TOlstOi talked
as lard as his health would permit to
convert them to his ideas. The strug-
gle was still on when the countess re-
turned and put them out of the house.
Tolstoi's Influence.
II took trips to Moscow and studied
what might be called the lower order
Of people in the city, with the idea
OF finding out from them what inf1u-
ence the efforts of Tolstoi in their be-
half had upon them. One incident is
enough to show the result. Moscow
is n of the most pious cities in the
world. At every corner there are holy
pictures n statues, at which the
citizens reverently stop and bow. The
driver of my cab, I noticed on my first
day Of investigation, passed by these
pictures unnoticed.
why don't you cross yourself?' ]
asked.
".Tolstoi said we must not he an
swered.
so I knew that the influence OF Toll
stoi had reached the cab drivers OF
MOSCOW, at least.
From my residence on the Tolstoi
estate, I am convinced that the count
knows everything that goes on in Rus
STA. There is not a revolutionary
scheme, I am sure, that any one is
Matching that Tolstoi does not hea1
about. All Of men are eager
to submit ideas of violence to him and
they go to see him in droves and tell
him their most secret thoughts with
out hesitation. But he sends them all
away after he las reasoned with them
and he told them hat they must not.
resort to violence, because the kingdom
of God is within them. There is no
telling how many revolutionary out
breaks he has averted.
THE Tolstoi circie.r
Much has been said about he 'Tol-
stoi circle in Miscow, and much that is
no at all true. The Tolstoi circle is
not a society at all. 1t is merely a lot
of men drawn together, who are try
ing to live up to Tolstoi's ideas in
some way.
They are musicians, bankers, art
lists and business men of all kinds who
have formed a sort of brotherhood that
has neither organization nor name,
Some have followed Tolstoi so far as
to give up everything they have in life
to the poor. others have accepted his
views in a modified form, but all Of
them are strong Tolstoians.
eth Jewish problem cannot be told
In an interview. In a small part o,
ed together 100000 Jews. who cannot
be farmers. who cannot own soil, VIII
are excluded from certain professions
and certain businesses, and who are
really held prisoners. There are al
least 10000 Jews in one Russian CITY
and two-thirds of them v know
where tomorrow's bread is comine
from.
In Kishinef, when I arrived. the
drivers almost tore me to pieces. SO
eager were they for work of some kind
A big, strong man will work all day for
an amount equal to IL cents; and he
will carry a heavy burden from one
end of the city to another for about +
cents. This Jewish problem is a big
fostering sore. There is more hunger
typhus among the Jews in Russia than
anywhere else In the world.
1.-The hatred of the Jews is not the
fault of the Russian people: they are.
not TO blame; it is the Russian govern.
mena. The government is anxious now
to keep the Jew as a scapegoat. The
Russian peasants are getting socialistic
ideas; they are getting ready for a rev.
olution. Never was there such a crit
lcal time in Russia as now, and the gov.
eminent knows 1t, so it seeks to divert
the peasant from the real sinner as
much as possible. and Sticking him on
the Jews"
Nh AnnREce RI