The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-03-10

founding progress he has made. |
could hardly believe my ears when l
heard my friend speaking Russian so
well. Mr.. Hardy, is there Jew con,
cealed in the store?"
"Nyet," replied Hardy.
He says No. and that convinces
me. Nevertheless, you shall come in
and see for yourselves, and if you find
a Jew here, | will agree to eat him,
without pepper or salt. Mr.. Hardy
come down and open the door"
Hardy complied with the request,
and Emery jumping briskly from the
carriage, entered, calling out cheer.
fully:
"Vladimar, Anatoli, Sergei, come in
and look about, and then you shall
take out barrel of vodka and all the
friends shall drink to my safe return
to Holy Russia"
The three men entered shamefaced.
ly, protesting that they would take
Mr.. Emery's word as to the Jew, but
he slapped them one by one heartily
| on the Dack, shouting:
Come in, brothers, come in"
Twenty minutes later they went out
Christians, there is no Jew here
Let us drink to the health of Fred,
erick Emery"
The mob dispersed.
Well" exclaimed old Emery, as he
| slammed down the iron shutter, what
in the devil does all this mean?"
1T means" explained Hardy, that
there has been a massacre Of Jews
and that Mordecai, whom | employed
to teach me Russian, fed here for
shelter. Wang, here, my Korean er
rand boy, and | disguised him as a
priest and sent him about his bust
ness"
Good" exclaimed Emery, good
Blamed clever!" He sprang to his
feet and paced the store He was an
eXcitable man. But | got here just
in time. ! came up on the Ingoda
Those blood-thirsty devils might have
set fire to the store and perhaps have
killed you. | think I'll stay here fol
month or so, and help you out. My
boy, | have great news. Good news!
Glorious news" Here he jumped upoT
the counter, and, sitting there, looked
triumphantly at Hardy, pulling fierce
ly meanwhile at his side whiskers.
What is it?" asked Hardy.
War, my boy; war between Russia
and Japan"
And do you call that good news?'
Yes, for merchants, for commerce
I fear you haven't acquired the com
mercial spirit yet, my boy Big con
tracts, tremendous sales, high prices
An unparalleled demand for every
thing on earth. Business. business
business, till you can't rest-that'!
what war means! Well have tremen
dous shipments of goods sent over t.
Vladivostok, and every steamer tha
comes up the river bringing them Il
our stores. It'll be big war, grea
big war; for little Japan is going t
/ give Russia the fight of her life!"
DO you think so?" asked Hardy
wonderingly. DO you think Japal
will be- able to stand up against Rus
sia?"
Stand up against her!" shoute'
Emery. why, she'll make her trem
| BILE to the very foundations. NJ
, friends out there will have something
l beside Jew-baiting to attend to wheI
4 that war breaks out. I've been Il
: Japan, looking the ground over, and
, know what I'm talking about. Did yo
t ever see mother cat pounce o.
4 a big clumsy dog? Well, Japan is
E whole nation of wildcats, 3O,000,0 90
V wildcats, and Russia is the clumsies
t kind of clumsy dog"
+ by the way said Hardy, II wor
e der what became of Mordecai's mott
8 er? forgot all about her in the eI
~ element"