The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-03-02

right. honest young man. with every
right TO ask for hts daughters hand.
The young mans father. too. had
saved old Eli from wolves in the for
est OF Sukhona, and they were the
stauncheBt friends. But Gregori had
had to wait. In order to come TO Eng
land he must have money and only
hard work could win Il for him.
After many years OF waiting Gregori
J was at last on his way to London-to
London-that great city OF the unop-
pressed, the free, What Joy for Ruth
there was in the prospect Of reunion
only lovers know. She had waited
long and patiently, and now Gregori,
her loved one, was leaving Poland
J with its cruel despotism, its tyranni-
cal masters, its pitlless slaves, for
England-would be with her on the
morrow, when the great ship sailed up
! the Thames and emptied it's human
freight upon the docks.
! That evening ELI had bought his
newspaper and learned therefrom that
another massacre among the Jews had
| taken place at Sukhono. Homes had
been pIundered houses RACED, sick and
! aged men torn from their beds and
/ tortured, strong men forced to wit
ness the ruin of their wives and
daughters, and tightening all. great
/ waves OF flame, caused by the hand OF
/ mad tncendtRrieS, dancing over the
/ devilish work. Eli knew the district
1 He knew its ruler and his tyranny
! Tie guessed shrewdly at the cause of
, the outrage. This man Dimitri Marko-
Vitchis fierce oppression had caused
/ revolt among the Jewish peasants
I The Poles, needing only the slightest
/ incentive TO an outburst, had taken i'm
mediate advantage of the opportunity
and fallen on their neighbors like
J wolves on flock of sheep Red ruin
| was the resultant still the nations
| shut their eyes 70 the doings of these
I despots! Would a time never come g?
| Ell Strassky Joined his family with a
! blessing. How wonderful his daugh-
ters mad made the place. Surely they
/ must have spent hours in getting the
| little rooms TO look their very hest
| Gregori would be there soon. and
! but why anticipate?
On the table lay a cloth of snowy
/ Wilderness. A double portion of white
bread, little fish, a small decanter
/ OF raisin wine, with a couple of
lighted candles in tall bronze candle
sticks were placed upon 1.-THE latter
10 signify the number of his children.
Later they had eaten. Eli broke the
! 1879 NANh MS SUIT VI tue massacre.
| 80 many Of our friends must be
there" he said. "Gregori, too but he
thank God, he had left before this
happened"
Ruth. a fine, handsome girl of %,
shuddered slightly.
He will be here tomorrow" she
said as If this was news. "Oh, father
| you cannot tell how glad 1 am"
Leah, ELS other daughter. sighed
II was little sigh, just audible hut
nobody seemed to notice it.
Ell explained at length the details
the awful fate that had overtaken
OF the terrible calamity that had be-
iallen his compatriots. They were as
children TO him and the thought of
the awful fate that had overtaken
them almost drove him to madness.
III only ne had the power" he said.
"he would deliver his countr, mon
from the hand OF the oppressors as
Moses OF old delivered his forbears
from the tyranny of the Egyptians.
The seven plaques should not satisfy
MS thirst for vengeance; Justice
should be death them, swift and
sure. Then he paused This was
not his usual spirit The event had
overwrought his highstrung nerves.
He would be patient. waiting for the
hand of God.
On the following day Eli and Ruth
went down to the Alien Immigration
offices in Great Tower Street. the girl
( tripping with JOY all the way. Every
thlng now was ready for her lover:
feast had been prepared, their home
mad been made TO look its best-everv-
thlng was ready to receive the immi-
grant as soon as the general inspection
SnOlin a Duh
~, her heart beating wildly all the
time. They saw patches of fellow
countrymen going away with their
friends, watched happy reunions, and
noticed the light step with which each
stranger reached the street. Yet
Gregori came not An hour passed.
and there was still no sign. Then Eli
proposed that they should make in
quiries. A terrible shock awaited
them.
Gregori Zarmoff had been deported
the officer said, from failure TO com
ply with the necessary demands"
That was all.
Two or three months later ELI
bought a newspaper and sat down to
read the news. In g prominent posi-
ton there he found a paragraph to this
effect:
Serious anti-Semitic riots have
again broken out in the district of
Sukhono. in Polish Russia. General
Markovitch. the governor of the dis
tr1ct' has been assassinated by a Jew
lsh peasant named Gregori Zarmoff.
who declared that the former had I'M
treated his mother. The Polish peas
ants slew Zarmoff without mercy be-
fore the eyes of his own parents"
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