Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-12-11
RASPUTN --- Devil or Sal t.;
: By the Princess RadziWlll =
Copyright 1917 All Rights Reserved
RAsPUTIN "a FRAUD AND NoTH-

ltASPl TN y FRAUD AND MI IL
ING ELSE"
] have already related that his house
had become a kind of Stock Exchange
in which everything could be bought
or sold. where all kinds Of shady trans
actions used 10 take place, and where
the most disgusting bargaining for
places and appointments was perpet-
ually going on. Gifts innumerable were
showerad upon him which he pretended
that he distributed to the poor, but
which in reality he carefully put into
his own pocket. This peasant who
when nc had arrived in ST. Petersburg
for tho first time had hardly possessed
a shirt to his back, had become very
rich man. He had bought several
houses. gamhled in shares and other
securities. and had contrived 20 Sccu-
mulatc a banking account which. if enc
is to believe all that has been related
amounted TO several millions. From
time 60 time. however, he used to como
OUT with some munificent offering &c
some charity or other with which he
threw dust ia peoples eyes. They
thought that il was I'm this manner that
ne employed all the money which was
Showered upon him by his numerous
admirers. II was in this way that he
the spot where by a strange coinei-
donce his murdered body vas found, a
church which was called the Salvation
Church which adjoined school foi
girls. There he used to go often. When
ever he went he was always met by
the clergy in charge with great pomp
as if he had been A bishop or some
great ecclesiastical dignitary. and was
awaited at the door with the cross anc
II
under the special protection of the
Netropolitan of Petrograd. pitirim. who
often celebrated divine service in IT
at which Rasputin always made 1t
noint 70 bc present But instead o.
awaiting the Metropolitan, as he ough
TO have done he had the habit OF ar
irving after him. Mgr. Pltlrim' now
ever. awaited his arrival just as M
would have waited for the emperor
Indeed fine submission which the offl
ciAl head of the clergy Of the capita
q ffected in regard to Rasputin Is on
of the most extraordinary eplsoues II
tbe latter's wonderful career.
In fact. when one reviews all one mas
heard concerning this parsonage one is
tan,nted 10 ask the question whether
l,i, .nuearancc in St. Petersburg mac
moi brought along with il an eploemIC
of madness among all those VINO nae
come in contact with MIN. IL hdI ~
seems possibIe that bishops, priests MIN
listers. high dignitaries, statesmen even
or at least men having the pretension
to be considered as such, should have
thought il necessary to go and seek the
favor of this vulgar, ill-bred, dirty
Russian mougik, devoid of honesty and
OF scruples. about whom the most dis
graceful stories were being repeated
everywhere. and whose presence in the
houses where he was daily visitor
used to give rise to the worst kind OF
gossip This gossip was of such ma
;urc that decent persons hesitated be
fore repeating il. let alone believing it
Like an ins:dious poison it defiled al
whom il touched. One fails to realize by
what kind of magic grave men like Mr.
Sabler for instance, who for some time
had occupied the highly responsible and
delicate functions of procurator OF the
Holy Synod, one OF the most important
posts in the whole Russian empire. could
be made so far TO forget himself as to
PROSTATE himself before Rasputin in his
agerness to become entitled to the lat
ter's good graces and protection. Ano
that he did so is at least not a matter
of doubt. if we are to believe the fol-
lowing letter which the monk Illiodore