The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12

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Grocerywitz: Well, sir, dad, and
have got too much of Russia The
quickest of any two tourists you evel
heard of. That SkirmiSh we saw, the
day the Russians blessed the Neva
and shot blank cartridges filled with
old iron at the car, was not marker
to the trouble the next Sunday, when
the working people marched to the
Winter Palace, to present q petition &c
the Little Father
We thought a revolution was like q
play, and that it would be worth 60
ing miles to see. Dad was in South
America once when there was revo-
luton, where more than a dozen
greasers, with guns that wouldn
shoot, put on a dozen different KINDS
of uniforms, and yelled: Down with
the government" and frothed at the
mouth, and drank buttermilk and
yelled Spanish swear words, and acted
brave, until a native soldier with white
pajamas came out with a gun and
shot one of the revolutionists in the
thumb, when the revolution was sup
pressed and the next day the revolu-
tionists were pounding stone, with
cannon balls chained to their legs; and
dad thought a revolution in Russia
would be something like that, and
that we could get on front porch and
watch it as it went by, and joke with
the revolution, and throw confetti, like
it was a carnival, but the Sunday that
the Russian revolution was begun, we
had enough blood to last us all our
lives.
We got a place sitting on an iron
picket fence, and we saw the people
coming up the street towards the Win
ter Palace. dressed mostly in blouses,
and looking as innocent as a crowd of
sewer diggers at home going up TO the
city hall to ask for a raise in wages of
two shillings a day. Nobody had a
gun, and no one would have known
hhow to use a gun, and all looked like
Rpoor- people going to prayers. There
CWere troops everywhere, and every
soldier acted as though he was afraid
something would happen to spoil their
chance of killing anybody. The snow
on the streets was clean and as white
as the wings of peace dove, and dad
said the show was no better than a
parade of laboring men at home on
Labor Day
Suddenly some officer yelled to the
parade to stop, and the priest at the
head of the procession, who was car
rying a cross, slowed up a little. like
the drum major of a band when the
populace at home begins to throw eggs;
but they kept on, and then the shoot
ing began, and in minute men, wo-
men and children were rolling in the
snow, bleeding and dying, the march
efs were too stunned to run, and the
deadly guns kept on splitting fire. and
the street was full of dead and diving.
and then the Cossacks rode over the
dead and sabered and knouted the
living, and as the snow was patched
with red blood, dad tainted away and
Tell off the picket fence, and hung by
one pant leg, which caught on a pick
CT, and crowds rushed in every direc-
ton, and it was an hour before / could
get drosky TO haul dad to the hotel
Dad collapsed when he got to the
hotel, and got a doctor and a nurse.
ana for two days i had to watch the
revolution alone. while dad had fits of
remorse cause he brought me to such
charnel house, he said.
Well IL you ever go anywhere. tray-
ellng Tor pleasure, do not go to Rus
sia' because 1t is the saddest place on
earth. have seen no person smile or
laugh in all the ten days we have been
mere, except a Cossack when he run 2
saDer through a little girl, and his
laugh was like the coyote on the
prairie when he captures a little lamb.
The people look either heart-broken
or snarly. like the people confined i'm
an insane asylum at home.
The car, who week ago was loved
went to him, as to their God, and an
pealed for guidance, they'd get
IT, Is today hated by ali.
ana instead of nicholas the
Good, since he scampered away to
castle in the country, and crawIed
under bed, all the people call him
the title Jack Rabbit" and his fate
IS sealed, as bomb will blow him in
10 pieces so small they will have to he
a OF f~xx
Russia u' VI
Going to St Petersburg for a
Pheasant outing is q good deal like
visiting the Chicago stockyards 10
watch the bloody men kill the cattle.
anu the butchers in the stockyards
caiioused against any feeling for suf
ierlhg animals are like the soldiers
i here VINO shoot down their neighbors
because they are hired to do so. The
murder or those unarmed working
men, that Sunday has changed
helpless, pleading people into anarch
lists with deadly bombs i'm their
Diouses where they were accustomed
10 carry black bread to sustain life.
ana with the menace of japan i'm
the Far East and an outraged peopIe
a. nome, Russia is in bad way. and
u was the Car or a grand duke.
Wouiu ma Woodchuck hole and
arrange with the woodchuck for
furnished fat.
didn't think there was going to
De ANYTHING going on in Russia ex-
cept bloodshed and bombs, and things
10 make you sorry that you were here.
ana l was willing to take chloroform.
ana let them carry me home i'm
box with my description on the cover.
until the doctor told me that dad was
In a condition of nervousness that he
needed something to happen to get
ms mind off of the awful scenes he
had witnessed, and asked me if
couldn't think of something to ex-
cite him and wake him up. and then
dad said, after he got so he could go
outdoors: "Hennery, you have al
ways been Johnny on the spot when
l needed diversion. and / want you
to take your brain apart and oil the
works. and see if you can't conjure
up something to get my blood circu-
lating, and my pores open for bust
ness, and anything you think of goes.
and swear / will not kick if Won
scare the boots off of me-"
Well, that was right into my hand.