The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-12

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play. and that It would be wortl, going
miles TO see. Dad was In Sonth Amer
Lea once when there was a revolution,
]Eguhs that wouldn't shoot, put SonS a. dozen
lEdIfferent kinds OF unit forms. and yelled:
Is"Dowi, with the; government, VI and
l3frothcd at the MOUTH and drank butter-
milk and yelled Spanish swear words.
| and acted brave. NTH \ a. nat tive soldier.
with white pnjamas came out with %
| gun and shot one OF Il the revolu tlonlsts
In the thumb. when the revolution was
is,ppressed and the next day the sreYolu-
tIonists were pounding stone, with can :
non balls cha ined to their legs; ri and dad
thought d revolution IN Russia would be
something like that. and tina we could
get on a. front porch and wa Itch II as It
went by, and Joke wi tn the revolution,
and throw confetti Ike " & was a. ca rni--
l5ival. but that sunda " tia n the Russian
l$revolution was begun; we Ii had enough
blood TO last 5ua all our lives. d
We gotta place slttlnE on an Iron picket
fence. and we saw the people coming UP
the street towards the Winter Palace,
mostly dressed IN blouses, and looking
as innocent ms n crowd OF sewer diggers
mt home going up to the city hall TO ask
F:for q raise Ill, wages OF two shillings e.
day. Y n obodyf had q gun. and 81 n one
would have known how to use q gun, and,
all ~ looked like poor people going TO,
pra yers. I'll There were troops everywhere,
and every soldier cted Z as though no;
swas afraid something would happier to
spoil their cha cc Of ling body
i Th d & now on, 4 he streets was clean and
.s.,s WHIT ,asSt he wings a0f speace dove.
and dad I'd X he.i show was "a y p better,
than a parade Of oring men at home
on Labor, Day. s 5 &.
Suddenly some oalcer; yelled to fsthe
parade to stop. and the priest at 7 he head
OF the procession, who was ca frying a
cross, slowed up a little, like q drum
l5major of a band when tho populace q T
on, and thenEthe shooting began, and IN
~ minute men. women and children were
rolling in the snow, bleeding and dying,
1.-the marchers were too stunned to ri =,
and the deadly guns kept on splitting
| IRE, and the street was full dead and,
dying. and then the Cossacks rode over
tho dead and 50 bered and knouted the
living. md as the snow. Wal pa tched with
red blood dad tainted SWAY and fell off
the picket fence. and hung by one pant
leg, which caught on q picket, and.
crowds rushed lin every direction, and
1T was an hour before; I could get a.
droslsy to haul dad to the hotel.
Dad collapsed when he gotato the hotel
and i got a doctor and q nurse, and for
two days ! had TO wa tch the revolution.
alone. while dad 4 had II fits Of remorsoI
cause he brought me to such g charnel
house. he 50 Id. M 555i Pas s{
Well! II you ever go anywhere travel
| Ing for pleasure, do not go to 4sussia.
because 1t is the, sadd est place on earth
II have seen no person smile or laugh
IN all the ton days we have been here.
except Cossnck, when he run a saberi
through q little girl, and his laugh was vas
like the coyote onEithe prairie when
he captures a little lamb. Tho people
look either llea it broken or snarly, like.
tho people confined in an insane asylum
ut home. s Ii
The Gear, who "a week ago was loved
by the people, who believed IL they Went