Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-07-14

day. Nobody had gun, and no one
would have known how to use gun, and
all looked like poor people going to
prayers. Therew 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 q 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 carrying q
cross, slowed up little, like the drum
major of a band when the populace at
home begins to throw eggs, but they kept
on, and then the shooting began, and in
minute men. women and children were
rolling in the snow, bleeding and dying,
the marchers were too stunned to run,
and the deadly guns kept on splitting
fire, and the street was full of dead and
dying, 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 fell of
the picket fence, and hung by one pant
leg. which caught on a picket, and
crowds rushed in every direction, and
1t was an hour before could get q
drosky to haul dad to the hotel.
Dad collapsed when he got to the hotel,
andsI got doctor and a nurse. and for
two days l had to watch the revolution
alone, while dad had fits of remorse
cause he brought me to such a charnel
house. he said.
Well. If you ever go anywhere, travel
ing for pleasure, do not go to Rus
STA, because 1t is the saddest place on
earth. have seen no person smile or
laugh in all the ten days we have been
here, except Cossack when he run a
saber through a little girl, and his laugh
was like the coyote on the prairie when
he captures little lamb. The people
look either heart-broken or snarly, like
the people confined in an. insane asylum
at home, /. -'i - Si i5.a5
eTiie sczar, who week ago was loved
by the people, who believed If they went
to him, as to their God. and appealed for
guidance, is to-day hated by all, and in
stead Of Nicholas the Goon,'' since he
scampered away to castle in the coun.
try, and crawied under a bed, all the peo-
pie call him "the Little Jack Rabbit, :.
and his fate is sealed asa bomb will
blow him into pieces SO small they will
have to be swept UP in a dustpan for
burial, maybe before dad and can get
out,of Russia
Going to st. Petersburg FORT pleasant
outing is a good deal like visiting the
Chicago stockyards to watch the bloody
men kill the cattle, and the butchers In
1.-THE stockyards. calloused against any
Iieeling for suffering animals, are like
the soldiers here who shoot down their
neighbors because they are hired to d,
SO. The murder Of those unarmed work
ing men, that Sunday, has changed. I,
helpless, pleading people into anarchist
with deadly bombs In their blouse
where they were accustomed to carr
black bread to sustain life, and with tn
menace Of Japan in the far east and al
outraged people at home, Russia is in
bad way, and if was the czar or gram
duke, i would find a woodchuck hole an,
arrange with the woodchuck for fur
nished fiat.
didn't think there was going to b
anything going on in Russia excep
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