The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1921-10-21

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when my hostess was finally able to
get some skins from potatoes an5
fixed US something to eat. it tasted
better than any food I ever ate. The .
room was cold and I had nothing to
eat. It was the worst experience [ /
ever encountered and, to add to the
distress of it all, was a girl Of only |
fifteen and away from home. No
mother, no father, no relatives, nobody
to assist me in anything. must ,
bear it all alone, and I only a cniid
This went on day after dav and
week after week; the times getting
no better. For a month the oniv thing
I could get was tea. I was vecv l.oor
in flesh. The tips of my fingers and
my face were swollen. After a while
we began to get some horse flesh to
eat. It was indeed good; tasted some
what like chicken. A terrible picture
was seen on the streets-women and
children lying on their door steps
waiting FOR someone to help them, but
without hopes Of having anyone come
to their assistance. No one could help.
The soldiers Of the Bolsheviki would
laugh at them IS they passed them
on the streets. Sometimes they would
take pieces Of bread from their pock-
cts and show the sarving people that
they, the Bolsheviki, had plenty to
eat. [ cannot begin to describe how
mean the Bolsheviks were. Some of
the Bolsheviki women would take
Everything from our women. In a
good many cases the women were
meaner than the men, When ladies
would go out on the streets with good
coats ana have rings ON their fingers,
those terrible women would take
everything away from them. Among
the rich, in houses where there were
plenty of servants before the war,
the Bolsheviks would make the ser
wants mistresses Of the homes and the
former mistresses would have to wait
on them. The poor and uneducated
were meaner than the more enlighten
ed, and would go into the homes and
take what they wanted without ask
ing for anything. They would say:
"What is yours is mine, and what is
mine is mine, also' They would say
ais f'I want that, and that; I like
your bed, I want your table ant
,chairs They took what they want
ed without asking for it. Not only
that. but would make you deliver
what they took to their homes. If yo1
) protested, they would kill you.
It was a long, long time before We
got plenty to eat. Many people die;
} on the streets from hunger and cold
: The lBolsheviks took the prettiest
| parks and made cemeteries of them
5 They destroyed the Government build
ings; they stole the girls from thei
rs md Il Id no
most Of the rich people. The Bolshe
viks made such large demands on tn,
people shat they could not pay, ane
they would take what they had
My parents did not hear from N,
for about three months and thought
t was dead. When they received tele
| gram that I was living and wel1, the,
5 looked on me as a newborn child Gos
| had sent them. We thought one,
that we would die from hunger an
[ cold and never see one another again
But God sent us help. The Germa,
soldiers and many Bolsheviki soldier
We're killed IN the streets and we hat
= bloody battle in the center OF tn
} city All the streets and sidewalk
were covered with blood.
Ny father was a very rich man
4 but the Bolsheviks forced him t
l start over again, after he was forty
e eight years old.
e With the help Of God and my faith
, er's brother. my dear uncle, Jaeol
Baron, who lives in Scotland Neck
! and Hon. Claude Kitchin, also citi
zen Of Scotland Neck, we were brough
0 to free country, God 3 country-th