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REV. TALMAGE’S SERMON. m Brdtm Dime Mbs Sides Witt Tbe Czar, *»D MV* Til BRIL U m CbtrNTRT HO XIHIINDBIM-POOD AS RUSSIA. Tbjlt: II. PRTICR 8:10; Preefitatlou* Sre tlicy, self- willed, thov arc not afraid to spink evil of cUgnitleV Amid n moat reprehensible crew, Peter here paints by odo slroke the portrait of those who delight to slash st people in authority, Now, wu alt lmvo a right to Criticise evil behavior, whether ir> hipli blares or low, but. the fact thnt on's is high up is no proof that he ought to be brought drown. It is a bud streak of buranu na’iiro now, as It was iu tho time of the text a bad streak of human nature that succcasof uny kind excites the jealeu antipathy of those who cannot climb the earno steep. There was never a David on n throne, that theto was not aome A bialoin who wanted to get it. Th re never was a Christ but the world bad saw and ham mer ready to faahlou a cross oh which to assassinate him. Out of this evil spliit grow not only individual but national and international defamation. To no country baa more injustice boon done than to our own in days that hie post Long before Marliu Gbuzxlcwit was printed, tho llternlure of the world scof fed »t everything American. Victor Hugo, as honeat ns ho wsslunequalled in litcrun power, wna bo misinformed conccrtdnp America that he wrote: “Tho no hi singular thing is tho need of whittling, with which all Americans are posa<s,ed. It is such that on Sunduys they give tlx* sailors little bits of wood because if they did not they would whittle the Bhip. Ii court, ut the moat critical moment, tin Judge whittling, says: 'Prisoner, an you guiltyf” and the accused trannuilh responds, whittling: ‘I am not guilty.”’ Lord John Russell called us “A bubbli - bursting nationality." But, our country has at last recovered from such carles', hue, and there Is not a street on nny city of Europe or Asia where the won •‘America" will not win deference. But, there is a sister nation on the oilier nidi of the sea now going through tho proem of internstional defamation. There le no souotry on earth no misunderstood in Russia, and no monarch more misrepie- seuted than Its empoior. Will ii not b in the cun so of justice if I try to set riglr the minds of these who composo this an- S ist. assemblage and the minds of tlins, whom, on botii Rides of the oreon, these words shall come? If the slander o one person is wicked, then tho slandei of one hundred and twontypnilllon people is on* hundred nnd twenty million time, move wicked. In the name of right, ous- ne»« and In behalf of civilization, arid for tho encouragement of all those good people who have been disheartened by tho scandnliz.atiim of Russia, I now sneak. But Russia Is so vast a subject that to trest it in one discourse is like at tempting to run Ningra falls over one mill wheel, Do not think that the ven marked courtesies extended me Inst sum mer by the emptror and empress mi,I Crown prince of Rusila lmve compliment od me Into the advocacy of that empire, fori shall present you authenticated facts that will rcveisn your opin ions, if they have bcon ' antagonis tic, as mine were reversed, I went last summer to Russia with as many baleful prejudices ns would maka an avnlanc'm from the mountain of fabrication w Ich has for years been heap <1 up against that empire. You ask how is it possible that such appalling misrepresentation', of Russia could stand? I account for it by the fact that tho Russian bingunto it to moat, an impartible wall. M»lign the United Slatt-H or miilign Great Britain or Germany or Prance, and by tho next, ca blegram the falsehood is exposed for we ull understand English, nnd many of our people are familiar with Gemma and Frcnoh. But the Ru-eliui language, beau tiful and easy to those born to spi nk It, is to most vocal organs an unpronounca- ble tongu", nnd if at' St. Petersburg or Moscow any anti Russian calumny were denied, mast of ilia world outside of Russia would never see or hear tho de nial. What are the motives for misrepresen tation? Commercial interest and inter national jealousy,' Russia is as large as nil the rest, ol Eurooe put together Re member that ant on is only a man or a woman on a big sonic. Go into any neighbothood of America and a k the physician who h i a small practice "hit he thinks of a physician who has a largo jvnetioc, Ask 11>« lawyer who has no br'efs what le thinks of the lawyer who li spine i«. nts filled with clerks trying io vain to transact the superabundant I n-loess that comes to him. Ask the tnieist r who has a vmy limited audience wlmt. ho thinks of tho minister who has oveiflowing audiences. Why doca not Europe like Ru-sio? Bicmso bite has em ti.'h acreage to swallow all Europe i t d (eel site had only half a meal. Rus- tia s n- long as North and South Ameri ca put togoiher. "But,” says some cue. “do you itv an to charge the authors and lecturers who have written or spoken against Russia with falsehood?" By no mean-. You can find in any city or na thru evils innumerable if you wish to discourse about thorn. 1 a ill at 8t. I'etetsburg to tho most etnii eat Indy of Russia out ide of the im perial family: “Are tkoso stories of cru elly mid outrage that I have heard and read about true?" She replied: “No. doul t -ome of them are true, but do ja\ij not in America eveu have officers of the law cruel and outrageous ill their treat ment of oil. inlets? Do you not havo in stance' where th; police havo clubbed in nocent persona? Have you no inatanoes where people in brief authority act ar rogantly!’ I replied: “Yes,‘we do." Then, iba said: "Why does the world bold our government responsible for et- ceptionnt outrages? As soon ns ntt offi cial is fouud to be erttel, lie immediately loses his place. "Then I bethought myself t Do llte people in America bold the govern ment it Washington responsible for the Homestead riots at Pittsburg, or for rail road resurrections, orfot the torch of the villiau that consumes n block of homes, or for the rufflaua who arrest a rail train, making the passengers hold up their arms until the pickets are nicked? Why then l old the emperor of Russia, who is an inipre-sivo nnd genial limn ns I have evtr looked at or talked with, resoonei- bbt for the wrongn enacted in a nation with a population twice us large in num bers as the millions of America? Sup pose one monarch in Europe ruled over England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Germ ray, Spain, Italy, Austria, Norway and Sweden. Would it be fair to hold tha mouaicb responsible for all that on- cuned iu that mighty dominion? Now, you must renu mber that A lexnnder III. reigns over wid. r dominion than nil those empires put together. As a n ition is only a man or a woman on a big scale, let me ask, would y u individually prefer to be judged by your faults or your virtues? All people, except our selves, It ive faults. I'h" p'BsibV’Ht attempting to write you!- biography would take you in yoltr weak'r moods, and the picture of jroh on tin: fi sr page of ytitit hiug'niplf, would lie as Jett Itiokid after m me me. micas bad been firm lined on you and yon Were te ring mail. Now, »s I am an i>! 11ii,In1 give you fair warning that If lever wrl ■ yobr tilogin by, I will ta « you at you In ked the day your divi dends came in 90 per cent, larger than you ever anticipated, or the morning on your way to business after your first chili) was born, or Ihe morning after your conversion when hfcaVeta bad rollod in on yont -olil. 1 bo most a'cchWed 1 ntnOcUH of all the enVlti aVe ttie tieisi- niiftK, who. wbelti'or tln.v judge ihdivid- ii il or Vintlonal character and whether they wield tongue or pen, are tilled with ntiaibematlz tlon nnd who have more to say about tile freckles on the ebe ks of beaulv I bail of the sun rises and sunsets that fiii'h it. It s mos important that this country have right Ideas ctir corning Russia, for, an ong all lie nations ibis clda of hi nvi n Hu-sia l« America** best friend. There ban tint licen mi bout 111 tile Ittst seVenty- five yiaia that the shipwreck of freo in stitutions In America would hot have called forth from all the dtkpolisma of Europe and Asia a shout of gladness wide ns canb and deep ns pcrdiiion. Hut who ever else failed us, Russin nev er did,nnd whoever else wns'douhtfu), Rus sia never whii. ItiiBsia, then an old gov e nnicnt, rmlluil on lire cradle of our government While yet in its eeri est in- finey. Einprels Cliitherinc, of Russia, in I7?!S, or lliereiibouts, offered kindly in- terference that our thirteen colonies might not go down under the cruelties of vire. Again, in 1B1 ii, Russia stretch- od forth reward us a merciful hand. When our dreadful civil war was rnging and Die two thunder clouds of northern and southern valor,clashed, Russia practi cally said to the nations of Europe: Keep your hands off and let the bravo men of tho north and the nnutlt settle iheir own troubles," I rehearsed somo of •hose scorn s to tho emneror Inst July, saying: 1 ‘You were probably too young to remember the position your father took . t that time,” but with radiant smile lie responded: "Oh, yes, I re number, I remembir," and there was an ncccutnntiou of the words which demou- stint'd to me that Iheso occurrei eoa had often licen talked of In the imperial household, i stood on New York bai- icry, dining the war as 1 suppose many of you did, looking off through a magni fying glass upon a fie. t of Russian ships "What are they doing there?” I asked, and so ev ry one a-kod: "What busl- nei-s lmve tlie Russian warships in our NiwYnik harbor?" Word came that mother fleet, of Russian ships was in Bail Frnnci.-co harbor. "What does this mean?" our rulers asked, but did not get immediate answer. In there two Amer ican harbors, the Russian fleets siemcd sound asleep and Ihe Russian flag, wheth er fl int, ng iu the air or drooping by the tl lystuffl, mndo no answer to out' inquisi tiveness. William II. Seward, secretary of state, asked the Russian minister at Washington, the meaning of ihoso Rus sian ships iu Amerienn waters, and got no satisfactory response Admiral Fur- rngut said t. > a Russian officer after dining in the hum ■ of tho oinincnt polit oiau, Thu low Rood, that maker arid unmaker of presidents: "What are you doing bore wit it those Russian vessels of war?" N"t until tho war was over was it found out that 111 ease of foreign intervention nil the guns nnd the last, gun of these two fleets iu New York and San FrnncUoo harbors were to open in full diapason upon any foreign ship that should dare to interfere with the right of Americans, north nnd routb, to settle their own con troversy. Hut. for those fleets, in our presence In Ainoiioan waters, there cau be no doubt that two of the mightiest nailot s of Europe would have mingled In our fight, Hut for those two flouts, the American government would hive been today only a natnti in history. I" declare before God and the nntion th'at I believe that Russia saved tha United States of America. List July I rtood lie- fore a grcai throng of Hussiiina in the eiiihnrr isslng position of spanking to an audience threr--fourths of which cold not understand my latiuimge any more than I O' uld m-deistand thelts. But there weri two names that they thoroughly un derstood us we 1 as you understand them, and tlie utterance of ihose two names brought forth uo acclamation that mad'' tho city hall of St-. Potersbuig qtnko from foundation a 1 one to tower, and those two ii«nim were "Geoigo Wnshiug- ton” Rtid "Abraham Lincoln." Now. is it i ot important that wo slvuld feel right toward that mighty, that God-giv en fri' ml, of more than one hundred year-? Y'H, In cause it is a nation of more possibilities than any other except our own should we cultivate its friend ship There is a vsrt realm of Russia as yet unoccupied. If the population of tlie rest of Europe were poured into Rus sin, it would ho only partially occupied. After a vvliilo, America will lie so well populated that tha tides of emigration will go the other way, and by railroads from Russia at Behring Straits-—where Asia comes within thirty- six miles of joining America—millions of people w II pour down through Russia nnd Siberia, and on down through all tho regions waiting for the civlliz ition o' tho ilex' century to emue and culture great harvests and build mighty cities. What tho United State* now are on the Western Hemisphere, Russia will be on the Eastern Hemisphere. Not only be- oiuso of what Russia has been to our republic but became of what she will be, let us cense tlie deiausatimi of all that pertains to that great empire. If Russia cam afford to be the friend of America, Amer ica cau afford to be the friend of Russia. And now I proceed to do what I told the emperor and empress and all the imperial family at the palace of Pcterhof l would do if 1 ever got. back to Amerioa, and Hist ia to answer somo of tho calumnies which have been announced and reitera ted and stereotyped against Russia. Calumny the First: The emperer and all the imperial family nre in perpetual dicud of sssnsslnatiou. They are practi cally prisoners in the winter palace, and trenches with dynamite have been found dug around ilie winter palace. They dare not venture fourth, except preceded mid followed mid surrounded by a most elaborate military guard. My answer to this is that I never sow a face more free from 'comment than the emperor’s face. The winter palace, around which the trenches are said to have been charged with dynamite and in which the imperial faimljuro said lo lie prisoners, has never beerothe risidenceof the imperial family one moment since the present emperor has been on the throne. That winter pnlneo has been changed into n museum aud a picture gall'ry and a place of great levees. He spends his summer in the palace at Pe- terh 'f, filt cn or twenty miles from St. Petersburg; his autumns at Gatschina, and his winters in a palace at St. Peters burg, but in quite a different part of the city to that qccupicd bythe winter palace. He rides through the streets unatteuded, exrent hv the < repress at bis side and the driver an i lia bo*. Thisre Is Mol a person in thili ftodlniihfl mole free from fear of harm than he is. His subjects not only admire Jiim jmt almost worship him. 'I here are cranks in Rti sia, but lmve we not bail our Charles Guitaau and John Wilkes Booth? “But," says somo one, "did not the Russians kill Ihe father of the pr« sent emperor?” Yes, hut in the time thnt Russia lias bad one assassina tion i femper. r, America linS had two president* assassinated. "Htit is not the emperor ab ntiiticrat?" Ry which yon Itleab; biis he not power witholn restric tion? Yis, hut it nil deponds upon what use a liian makes of his power. Are you an autocrat in your factory, or an auto crat in your store, or an autocrat in your style of business* It all depends upon what, use you make of your power, wheth er to h c«s or to oppress, and from the time of Paler the (treat—that Russiau who Was the Wonder of all time, the em peror who lieCatb" incogntt i a ship car penter that he might. In-Ip ship oarpeu- tera, and a ttici hnnib that lie might help mechanics, and put on poor men’s garb thnt he blight svrbpatluzc with men, and who in his Inst word* said: “My lord, 1 am dying. Oil, help my unbelief.” I say from that time the throne of Rii'sin has for the most part been occupied by rulers as beneficent nnd kind and sympa thetic as they were powerful. To go no further back I ban Nicholas, the grand father of the present emperor. Nicholas had for thb dominant Idea ol bis admin- ls‘ration I lib emancipation of tbe serfs. Wlion it was found that ho premeditated tho freedom of tbe serfs, he received the following le'ter of threat from a deputa tion of noblemen: “Your Imperial Maj esty: We lenrn thnt tho council and sen ate of the empire havo before them for deliberation,with your sanction, tho plan to abolish serfdom throughout the Rus sian empire. We nre perfectly willing to nliide by your maje-iy’s dei ision in this matter nnd to loyally support your will, but there arc in Kuss'a a large l umber of -mall owners of seifs, who are dependent for actual subsistence on tho labor of those serfs and who consequently will be left wholly penniless nnd without any resources by the operation of emanci pation. They will then un doubtedly resort to desperate meas ures,and in the extremity of their despair will put tho life of your majesty in jeopardy." Tho emperor replied in words that will Inst es long as history: "Gentlemen, if I should dlo hecanse of my de votimi in sinili a cause, I am wiling to meet my fine.” When under all stinck of pneumonia from exposure to sever-' weather in tlie -III vice of 1 Is people, that, emperor put down Ids head on Ihe pillow of dust, Itossia lost »s good a monarch ns wns over crowned. Then esme Alexander II, tlie fattier of the presold empe ror. Amid tho mightiest opposition, and in numerable protests, lw, with ons stioko of tit* pen, einniioipati d 20.000,000 serfs, practically saying: "Go free, itu your own masters, anil this Is for you and your children forever.” On tho day hewa-haselr assa-sinateit (and I wll pireuthe lcally -ay that l saw his carrlago la splinlnrs, us it looked when ho stepped from it not io rave himself, but to look after rein* poor peoplo of die street who had boon hurt, and I saw the bad on winch ho died, the mattre-s yet ot Ims-m with his life's blood)—on die clay he Whs assassinah d he had on Ills (able, found af terward, a freo constitution that propos- d to givo ttie right of suffrage to tlie people ol Rus sia. If it had not In on for the nsuHsaination, lie would have soon signed that eonslttudou but that horrible violence put things baok, as Violence ala ays dooo What a marvelous ohar- noler of klndne-s was Alexander If, die father of die present emperor, so that the present emperor, Alexander the Third, inherits Ids be nignity. Alexander tno Second, in arm.' tnu is nobi man had formed a conspiracy against Ids life, had turn arrested. Then tho eyes of the criminal were bandaged, and ho was'put in*-, carriage, and for same time traveled on, only stopping for fond. After awhile tlie bandage was removed, arid supposing that he must By that Itmo iuiTO been almost in Siberia, found that ha was at the door or his own home. Jim this punishment was suffloient. Th < same em peror having Imai d that a poet had written a poem dofiimutoiy of his empress, ordered tlie poet Into hie presence, Eiptci ng great sever ity, the poet entered tho palaoe. and found the emperor and cmpr.ss and dukes and dashes* gathered togeiher. “Goodmowing,"l-id the impiTor to tha offender. , gk.vA *tm Jure written a month-iuMinl pbeiifAwA VMnwflflm! for you that you way reaiUt i«s end we way have tho plca-ure of hearing IL" Tha men criidout, "Memt me to 81b ria, or do anything with mo, but do not mate me read this poem In tour prnonce.” Uo was comp, Tod to r- ad -ho defamatory pnem, and then tho impress againsi nonni is was Simon, sain i "i do not thluk he will write any more verse* about n- again. Lot him go." And so ho wna freed. And now comes in Alexander tho Third, doing the best things possible for tho nation which lie lives and whioh as exdent ly loves him. But what an undertaking to rale ono honored and twelve mill on people, ma-ki up of one hundred tithe* and rues ambspeaking foriy different language*. But liotw th tending all this, things tliree m -v* on m-rvi-lmi-ly well end T do not believe that out o live tm drt-d thonaand ltusslans you wold find more limn one person who dishkos the empoior, and so that calumny of dread or assassination drops so fiat it can tall no flat'er. Calumny the Second. If you go to Russia, you are under sever, si e-ploiiuge, stopped tiers and questioned them, and in danger of arre t. but my opinion is that if a mint is disturb d iu Itu-sis, it is because he ought to be di turbi d. Uimsia is tlie only onnntrv in Europe in which my baggage was not oxurntn- d. I on risd In my hand, tied togotlier with a c rd -o ibat their ti tles could bo seen, a pile of oiglit • r o n books ail of them from lid to ltd our-l ig Russia, lint I had no trouble ill lakiiiR with mo Ihe books. There is ten times more difficulty in getting your baggage through tlie American custom house than (htougli tlie Russian. I speak not for Ulya If, for friends hit reeded for mo i n American wharves, and 1 am not detained. I was several days in Russia b fora I was asked if 1 lisd any passpi r ai all. Depend upon it if hereafter a mao believe- bets nueomforiabtr watched by the polled ot St. Peters IIrg or Moboow, it is bee.use there is aomediing suspt- olous about h m, and von yours If laid be ter, when he is around, look after your-liver spoons, I promi-e you, tm honest man or an honest wo man, that »lion you go there us many of you wul, for European travel i- destined to chan e its eour-o from -on,hern Europe lo those north ern regions, you will lmve uo more mo esiation or supervise! than ill Brooklyn or in Now York or the quie'est Long 1-land village. Calumny ttie Third! Russia and its rulerara so oppo-ed to any other religion except the QICC, religion, that they will not allow sny oilier religion, that nothing but persecution anil linpnsoiiment and outrage intolerable await tlie disciples of any other religion, llut what are tho fsoi-? I Imd a long ride in Si. Pole sburg and its suburbs with tlie prefect, a brilliant, efficient amt lovely mail, who is tho highest oific.al ill tho city of St. Petersburg, and whoso chief business is to attend to the emperor. I said to him: "I suppose that vour religion is that of thu Greek church?" "No,” said he, "I am a Lutheran." "What is your re ligion?" I-aid lo one of tin highest mil moat, intlui utial officials at Bt. Petersburg. He said: "I am of the Church o England." Myself, an Amerio ti, of still another denomination ot Christians, and never having been inside of a Greek church in my life unti I went lo Rus sia, could not have reo ivod mor consideration had I ln-eii baptm d in ihe Greek church and all mi lif , worshipped at her altars. I had it- demon-1rated to me veiy plainly that a man’s r iiginn iu Russia lias moiling to do with his preferment of either office or social position- Tlie only quo-tious taken into such cousid-ra tion an lioLie.ty, fi leluy, morality and adapta tion. 1 had not lieeuiu S:. Petersburg an hour bofore 1 i roei-red an invitation to preach the gospel of Chr.st s- 1 believed it Bestdn all this, have you forgotten that the Crimean war, which shook tlie oarth. grew out of Russia’s interference iu behalf of tho i-eraecated Christ ians of all nations in Turkey. "But," says -omo one, "have ih re not been persecutions of oilier religions m Russia?" No doubt. Just as in oilier limes iu New England we burned witches and as wo killed Quaker- and as ttie Jews in America havo been ouirsgeoualy treated evi r sin.-e I can remember, and the Cbim se iu onr own laud have beeu pelted, and their stores lorn down, and the r way from the steamer wharf to 'heir destined quarters track.d with tlieir on n blood, 1 lie devil of persecution is in i very land and in ail ages. Some of us in the liiff. rt ut denominations of Chris inns in Amer- oa have felt tlie thrust of persecution, b cause wo thought differently or d d things differently fjpm those who would, if they hr/l the power, mu us in » fnruaw eight times heated, one Iiii-s a Hsii’i'll ns tinne-uf lluiti. I.ffuFa roosi -Uli-fiict iy H k wills (lieemperor about the re ign ns of the ivuri , nnd lie think' and reels as yon and 1 do, that rell. ion is something lie- iwten a man still his God, and no ope hm s light io inter ere with it. You may go rigid up to HI. P lersbn gahd Moscow wiih you 1 Ep s- nopal liturgy o you Prenhyt rlan catechism or your Cbm regal.onallst lib. r.lism or jonr Jm- ir.emlotiia '« B ptistry, or liny other religion, and if you tnmtl your Own • ff.iirs athl ltd others mind ibhlrs; yeti'will Hoi, Jib tntilMeu., Cnliin.tiy the Fourth! Ru ei*i» s - very : rasp ing or territory an t she so nm to want tin- world. Bat whit uro ihe facts? Daring the last coir ary and a quarter, ih Uniti d H:sle- hivo taken po Hession of everything betno n the tliirt eo colonies and Ho Paeifla Ocean, and England, during the snmo length of time, lias t-ken posHi-Mion of no rly tlir e million quire nidi s and hv the extent of her domain Ii -h added 2".0.00tl,00:> population, while Rims a ban added during Unit time oolv one half the number of sqimn mTcft amt about eighteen million of p .pnla ion--Engl tai’s advance of domain by 250 rib i.iiOii against Russia'sadvanc of iloinsIh by Id,Mo,CKX). Wiia a paloy llu-- siaa udvaitC'. ol rttnniitn by 1'8.0U'»,000 .- s com pared with ihe Etieli-h Advfttioa of domain by 250.000 0001 Tlie United Hales unit Euglu d had Intict- keep mill about extravagant amt ex- tort-innate nil reoment of domain. Calumny the Fifthi Hbera is a dm of hor rent, aud fob ay p, ople are driven like dumb cuttle; nn trial ia nfhudcd lo the siispec rd ones; they are put into quicksilver mines where tie y are whipped and starved and acin- tlat-find ibciiiftclVcs going nroimil without any head Home of them do not, get so fur a' iberhi Womon, after lining lied lo slalu-ft in tlie "tro* m, are disrobed and wi.iptaftl '0 death in the pres m o of Imwling moh«. OfTeude » hear their own flctih -Ins under tho li t i ons. Inn what ar the tacts? T her are no kinder people on ear'll than the Rus bans, and to mn-t of them, cruelty is nn impossibility. I hold in my naim a earn, inn so on it that n d ci'cie. That in tlie government’s seal on a c r-l giv ng me |H:rmiss.ii n to visit all the pr noun of -t. Petershu g as I had expressed a w -h in -lift d.rei lion. Aft tlie ineaseng. r liandnd this curd to me, lie told me that a carriage was at th- d> or lor my dlsito-ni in Visi'ing llio prisons. II -o liappi ned, however, Hint I waa op wded with engag'mi nts and 1 could not make lie vlahatlon. Blit do you suppo-fl such cheerful perm lesion and a ca riage to ho t woild liavi heoo iifforTed to me if tlie pri-ons of Iiii "i a a- sncti tiel son o»rtli as they hav- iieen drse-ihed o be? I asked an eminent and dlatfngui-tie trnerloati: ‘ H iv ■ you visited tho prisons of Ht. Petersburg, and how do they differ from Aim-i man prisons?" I!e rep! ed: "I have visited tin m and tin y a-e as weP ventilat'd and sh wi 1 conditioned in eviry respict as Ih majori'y of the primus-ii America." Are women ivhinpe i in tiro streets? No, that ststemcni cotnisfroin the inai ufnetory of fabrication, a manufaotO' y lint runs i.ny and night, so that tliesupplv may meet tlie demand. But how about fjibrrin? Mv answer in, Hilgi- rja t« tin- prison i f Itussift, a prison nior than twice the siz ■ of the United Htaten. John Ilow- aid, wlio did more for ho Imi rovemcsit or ini-oners and tti reformation of criminals than any man thnt ev. r lived, his name a synonym for mercy throughout Christendom, declare I In voice and is n dial the sti m of (ran poi tali' n of criminals irom Rna-ia to Hilierla wns an ud- nilln'ole plan, advocating open nir punl-hminl rutin r riinii dungeon men t and al-o because i was taking all offenders hundred of miles sway from their evil compniiii ns, John Howard, uf (or witnessing ttie pinn of depoi tanon of crini- tnslft fmm Ru-ftta to Hibnin, commended it to England. If a man commits murder in Bus- eia, he ia not ilectreontod as we eh ctri'O'.ite him, or ohokod to death hv n halter as we clioke him lo death. Russia ia the only country on earth from whioh tha death penalty lias br-on driven eieopt in tlio case of high treason. Murderer and desperate vlilslns sro a nt to the iiardeet part of Hib i in, 1 utno man is sent to Slliei ia or doomed to any kind of punishment l!tia*ia until he has a fair tri <1 Ho far as Iheir being linstled off in 'he night snd not know ng why they »re i xtled or puiilaliod is con cerned. all tbe orlmltials in JtiiHaia liuv - an open trial before a jury Juat as we hava'in America except In revolutionary or riotous tines, and you know ill.America at mtoh times th writ of liabnus oorpna is suspendod, Thoi e are in Rus sia grand Juries and po ii Jurlea.and tho right to challenge the Jurors, sod tho prisoner oonlrejfita hl» accuser, aud mark thin, as in no other conn in'. alter » prisoner hseheeu oondiinnod by the Juries nnd JndgcfaMIMH. appeal 10 tbe Minis ter of tho reel ami after that Sy pardoning.' der ns are i-ei but tiiti uioic pi ons ihtru iy a little.&ij w Iy pen know, If yen largo nndvHdi frier <Hiy *o ti to olimato as pr ftlouff _thpi thit the .pw' -forty-fifth degrsi part of tialy 1 - * eoutth I-1 oent. of lilt Bib ria no a lend songfll wiih flora eiintiu to Uni senate, :, wno ts cnnstsnt- vioieht and mnr- iwt rirt of Bibena, 1n«l« to more pn- ‘ ”ho have on- iberia post- yon ought to Siberia ia eo at it readies from atmcxit arolic h^ f HibCTlL^S^^ffie do, am) tho riohosi ie for y.fl'ih degree " reaoli * from the t leaf fans at the :r*ted 'batflO p*r Je bi loiii* <1 Into ler than New York and embroidered Id to ooi found Hie bciut'is. Mnolt of thu soil i« a rich io mand harvo-t wait for a-plow to ibct.ito them. When a er mlnal is sent io 8 liorla. iu tha vast ma jority ol case* it giro ■ him an opportunity lo make a new start nnder the host po-sible circumstances. The criminal is allowed o mho her family along. In the quicksilver mines nt Tibi ria, the hardest place of expand - lion, only i no-foiirrii of tlie ininere are crinr.- nds. The o la r three-fourths go ihere lavi-nst they olioose it us » place to turn thrir living. \ 1, r in mg in Hih. na awuue. ilio eou.t- mueo loesrninga livelihood, nj they nun hi n thrir own fanes and oreharda ant' vIik- varels, iiinny of ih -o |a*uple eorning to wealtli slot tlmus nids of tin in under no lnducomeiv would ieavo R ose psna of ilmna which are I'aradise.. for sa uliril, and luxuriance. Now ivh ell do y, u think is the besi style of a jiri on—Bihcr.a or miny of onr American iirisunsr Wnen a man commit- a big i rime in our eonn- in , th* judge look into ttie face of dm fright ened oulp.it aud -ays: “Yon have Iieen found g'lilty; 1 sen non - nil to t e penitent iarr lor ten years." He goes to prison. He is shut n ' etweon four walls. No sunlight. No lre-h ■dr. No bath-room Before!lie has serv d his tew i ears, lie dies of consumption, or s io ener- vatod iha f r Ihe rest of his life tie aits with foi l'd hands n wind* in: Invalid. Iu prefer ence '0 tils shut-in life of the average Am-r ■ can pels 'nee, giv«- uie 8 beria. Bes des thnt when ((Tenders com- oat of prison in Aiuerioa what ohenoo have they? Ask die pomly sup- p rtod s- ci- tits, f rii.od lo get these people ila«( ft to work. Ask me, to whom the newly liioi nteil o: mo item oil tlie prisons, imploring wlml they eliii II do. No one will commend thorn. The pallor of incarceration is on tlie.r cheek. Wli rants to employ iu faeiory or store a man or wontau who in answ> r to the questi n, "ivtiere did you live last?" shonhi make for repiyi "States prison at Auhnra or Moysmensiag." Now in Bitieria they have a better chance. They are never spoken o: as criminals, but na unfortunates, uml they are al lowed cv, ry opportunity of retrieving tlieir lost reputation sod lo-t fortunes. 1 talked with es ; d» ii- of tho National Society of Russia for the o h-oation anI nioraiixatiun of the chil dren of i-iberian ooiivicta. Tho president of thin society, appointed by the emperor, is uhv iy of gre at aocoiuplislimf nts anil imu-h sympathy which illumine.' la r ia e and makes toilful her eyes and tremulous her voice. Tho evening I pnsaed at her house in St. Petersburg was one of tho memorable events of my lifetime. I will not attempt to prenonneo tlie name of dial noble woman nppoin e t by ttio empert as tlie president of the National Society of Russ a for dio education and moraliaadon of die nmavtui oi ooimors. r ear* to name any mcli liati- na' sooiety in our eouutrv, supported by government for iakitig cart- of ihe chi dron oi" co-vie s. You know, if you know anything, that tli re i no chance in this country for s man wl o has been imprisoned, orfor his ohil- d en. God pi y them an I haste i tho time when we shall liv some national institution es- tabtish by ih-i congioss of the Unit -d Btates, im ate Ihe mercy of de Russian government toward the innocent children of iiup isonedof- ft n h rs. He who cliarges cruelty on die impe rial family and tho nobility of Russia belies men nut! women ns gracious and benignant as ever breathed oxygm- Tho nicreifnl eiiaraoter of tlie present cm- pircr was n-eUllluah a od in the following oo- ciuTcne : Tho man who supe vised the assiissi- nuiitnof tho father if llie present omperor, slamling in Ihe sn--w that awitil day, when the duianrte sliatte ei to pi ees die. legs of Akx- r.iidei the Second,—I say the man who super- vis -I all this flxt from Hi. Petersburg and quit Itussi . But after awhile the man repented of In- etime and wrote to the euip ror n-kiug for for iveuc.'s for the murder of his father and pioii: s ng to b“ » coo l oitixeu, and ask ng if tic might corheback to Russia. The empoior pardoned the mnrdirsr of his father, and the f, rgiven asaassm is now living iu Russia, unless recently deccai-ed. When I talked t i too em- lu'ess concerning the sympathy felt in America i n the reiffcrhigs of thoniought-struok regions of Rum I a, rim evinced an absorbing interred and a compsteduu aud «n emotion of manner and sr; ec-li such ns wo mon can hardly realize, befiai&l.t it sochilt that t)(«l has rff rvc<) for wo men as h r gr at adornment, (in iefifaj weled coronot of lendcmess amt eominis. ration. If you sny that i' waa a man, a divine man that came to save tlio world, 1 sny yes, but tt was h woman dint gave tie men. Witnem all the Madonii is, Ihdhin, German, Euglk-h nnd Rus sian, that bloom In the plotmo galleries "f (llinslt il'ltml. Soil of Mary, havo mercy on ue! Bill ho* ahSut the kiioitt, tll'i onri Riissi.ui kiiotit that cum « down on tho hare hack of itgoiii^ed.hriniina t? ." hv, Itu-sia abolished die kuoiit before it was abolished f.om bur Ameri- ■ an navv. But how about the pb’i 'bat priso ners bimth d off to Hi* eria? According to tho teatimony of ttie most celebrat'd literary ene my of Russia, only 44J political prison' rs wore aunt to Siberia iii iw.nty years. How many political prisoner* did we put in r rt-on pens during onr fourvears of civ ] war? W it, I sill gnrern at least RKUm America's 100,000 |»llt- Ical prhuincrs versus Russia's 441) po iUcal j ris - nWfc Nearly all there 44:) of twenty yean ♦eto nbbl ltien of peoplo di si-crately opposed 10 the emancipation ol tho -erf'. Aid none of the political prisoners are sent lo the fainotts Kara mines. For tlie m< st part, you nr- de pendent for Information upon the testimony of JinsqnOrB Who are sent to Hibo ia. They all say they tkere innocent. Prisoners alway- ate Itinoaeut. Aflk all the prisoners of Arn-floa to- dayl ''Guilty or libt guilty," and nineteen otit of twenty will plead "Not guilty." Ash Iheni how they like tlieir p ison and how they like aheiiffs and how thev like tlie government "f the United Starts, and you will find the e pris oner' admire the anthoi by that arr Btcd them and punish thorn Jiisi alxiut. >>s mile as the po litical prison-'!* of Russ a like H lie ift. Bui ythi ask, how Wi I this Itnssophobia, with which in ni-ny have been b tlen and poisoned, tieoured? By the god of ju-iice ble-sing such bosks and piiumjih'ts as are now o ming out from Professoi (In Arnand, or Wasliington; Jlr. Horace Cutter, of 8nu Franeiso ; Mr. Mortill, of England nnd by the ' polling of onr Ameri can gates to the writings of somo twenty-four of the Russian snthois and anth-reuses, in some fcspcct aH brillimit as tho tinee or fonr Ilua-lai! authors airoady known—tho 'ransla- tlon of tliosc tw-enti-lour antliors, which 1 am authoris' d from Russia to offer free of charge to any responsible Ameni an publishing house that will do them Justice. Let thesi Russian' tell their own story, for they are tho only ones fully 0-mp( lent (b do ihe work, os no e hut Americana can fully toll tbe story of America, and as none hilt. Oern ans can fully fill ttie story of Germany, lid none but Englishmen can fully tell the story of England, arid none hat Frenchmen enn fully tell tlie story of Franco. Meanwhile, let the iolernatjonal (In fant a'ion come to an end. Ceaso to apeak evil of dignities mereli b cuuhc tlicy arc dignities, and of presidents roeriiy because they are pres ident*, and of emperors merely b cause they are emperors. And may 'ho blessing of Gist Ihe Fa'twr, and G-d tho Son, and God the Holy Ghost, be upon ull tho nn labors of the imperial household of Russia from thu illustri ous head of that family down to tho princess, seven years of age, who rune skipping into my presence in ihe palace of Peterhof last summer. Glory to God in tin- highest and ontarlh peace, good will to men. SUHMAIUNK ( AHIjKS. Tlieir Miiiiiitiio‘iire uml tho Strips from Which They Are Laid. The inunufucturo of submarine rubles tins until quite lately never reached a large scale in nny country except, England. Some years ago Messrs, l’irclli established factories at Spezzla and -Milan, Italy, for tin: purpose of engaging in the manu facture of submarine cables, and with the assistance of the Italian Government they li ve laid a tew short cables in tin) Mediterranean, but they havo never had an opportunity of carrying out any really important cuhle-layiug work. When, iu 18B1), the French Government.insisted on assuming control of the telephone, and bought out tlie Paris Telephone Com pany, tho latter, which had already begun to dabble in submarine telegraph enterprises, decided to invest its capital in a submarine cable factory. Work on tiiis was begun iu 1800, r.ud last summer a full fledged submarine cable factory was inaugurated nt Calais. The company lias orders for u considerable amount of cable, and expects iu future to do all the work that the French Government may require. In America, although sub marine cables of groat excellence havo boon made for Many years by such firms as tho ■Rimwp Gutta Perch* Company and A. G. Day, these have ohiy buon in comparatively abort lengths, for river and harbor crossings. To the Bishop Gutta Pqrcha Company, I believe, belongs tho honor of being the only American manu facturer that lias ever shipped a subma rine cable abroad. A word or two is now in place about the ships from which cables arc laid and repaired. In 1805 ttie Great Eastern wus the only vessel afloat that could ship the entire Atlantic cable. She took it nil on board with ease, aud could have managed another bad it been necessary. The capacity of tho Great Eastern, which magnificent failure, by the way, wus lately disposed of lor old metal, was 20,- 000 tons. To-day there are three or four completely equipped telegraph steamers of about one-quarter the tonnage of the disintegrated leviathan which uro easily capable of laying an Atlantic cable in a single voyage. The fleet of cable ships to-day numbers about forty vessels, ranging in size from a few hundred tons up to live thousand. The majority of these electro mechanical crafts are re pairing ships belonging to tlie various telegraph companies and government ad ministrations which own submarine cables. Those repairing ships are sta tioned nt points of vantage along the great lines of cable eommuuicutiou, ready to steam otT at a moment's notice to the locality of any fault or break that may occur. The construction companies own between them some ten or twelve ships, most of them large vessels of several thousand tons burden with one or two smaller and more nimble steamers that do useful service in surveying, as consorts for their more bulky sister ships, and for luying short cables. Tlie two largest ships, the Bilvertown ami the Faraday, were both designed for cable-laying purposes. The first named vessel is provided with most enormous tauks, measuring fifty-three feet iu diameter by thirty feet deep. Site has a larger carrying capacity than any other tolegraph steamer afloat. On one ex pedition she sailed from the Thames with nearly 2,400 miles of cable, weighing 4,880 tons, and n considerable quantity of coal, of which very necessary com modity she lias accommodation for up ward of 2,300 tons. The large tauks of the Bilvertown enable her to pay out cable at a very high rate of speed, such huge coils unwinding very readily. Tlie Faraday was designed by the late Sir William Siemens especially for submarine cable laving. She was built the same fore and aft, and is provided with n rudder at the stem as well as at the stern; it was thought that this arrange ment would greatly facilitate maneuver ing when the ship was engaged in somo of the more delicate operations incident to cable laying that require very careful handling of the vessel, but us a matter of fact the peculiar buiid of the Faraday has not been found of any particular benefit in this respect.—[Electricity. Oh SALTO Arbuthnot, a D rector oE the Bank of England, who is making s stu .y of the American system ot finance, had a con ference with Assistant Secretary Nettletcn at the Treasury Department, and afterward Inspected the oash-room and the Treasury vaults. When using a towel do not always rub the faoe in the same direction. l T ou will thu* avoid wrinkles. N* Wander They Ortas. Groaning is permissible tri the rheumatic. Bat th groans will Boon cease when they take ristetter’s Stomach Bitters, which relieves le agortizlng malady w.tli gratifying prompt itude. InBigeStton, Constipation,malarial ail ments, sick hoadticfic,' biliousness, nt-rvone- ness and alack of pliysio(fl stnrtifnn, are imong tin- ailments overcome by tbl# eom- orehensfve remedy. Skvkh widows of revolutionary *■ 1- dieri afe ofl the roll* of the Knoxville (Teun.) pension office. Crimplexton cleared with Small Bile Bean*. One of the rfio*t. beautiful sights on earth is a happy child. The only heavy burdens are those we try to carry ourselves. False Worship will kill the soul as quick as no worship. Chicago, IP., has heron a canal to cost $30,- gto.OOi) which Is to carry targe vessels from the lakes to tin- Mis Isslppi. A Child F.nines The pleasant flavor, gehttri action And sooth ing effect of Syrup of Figs, when In heed of a laxative, an if the father or mother bo cos tive or bilious, tho most gratifying results fol low its use; so that it is the liest, family rem edy known and every family should have n bottle. Beware of Ointments far Catarrh That Contain Mercury, As mercury will surety destroy tho sense of smell and completely derange the whole sys tem when eutering it through the mucous sur faces. Much articles should nsver he used ex cept on prescriptions from reputable pbvai- ciaua. as ib* damage tbt-y will do Is ten redd to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hairs Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney Ac Co., Toledo, 0.,contaioM no mercury, and le t*ken int«unaliy. and acta directly upon the blood and mucoUA BUrfucee of (he nystem. In buying Hail’s Catarrh Cure be eure you get the genum®' it Ih taken internally. Mid made In Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney &X'o. Uf Hold by Druggists, pries 76c. per bottle. The Only One Ktcr Printed. CAN YOU FIND THE WOKO? There le a 3-inch dlwplay advertisement in this i>aper, this week, wnicn has no two word?* alike except ono word. The same is true ol each new one appearing each week, from Tho Dr. Harter Medicine Co. TdIh house placcH a “Creacent” on everything they make and publish' Look for it, Bend them the name of the word and they will return you book KQAimrUL UTHOOKAPHB or BAMPIsKM FU'ttt Work In Lll A serioR of 18 articleH by auccesuful i X art icles wuic . (' nirmn on for “Tho lira vest i»eco I Kver Saw’’ i* the topic of ant>ther scries by United .StateR CeneralH.The prospectus for the coming year of T e C- mi> in>on Is more varied and gen erous than ev.-r. Those who Bubacribc at once will receive tho paper free to Jan. i. lHp3,and for a full veur from that date.Ouly 31.ion year. AddreadTHEVoUTH’-... 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J Book to ** Mother a* * mailed FREE. • BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO e i • It is better to take Scott’s Emulsion of cod-liver oil when that decline in health begins—the decline which precedes consumption — ratiier than wait for the germ to begin to grow in our lungs. “Prevention is better than cure;” and surer. The say ing never was truer than here. What is it to prevent con sumption ? Let us send you a book on careful living ; free. Scon* & B )\v.NK,Chemiit i, 132 South 5th Avenue, New York. Your druggist keep-* Scott’s Emulsion of cod-liver oil—all druggist s wrv-.-h.n: do. $1. * OPIUM ^OVEPOLISH .ad Falnta wt ittM^rtgretks.romanJ'mreolJ. TUe?ti less. Dural ant, Odor- » tsu.u.-.v. and tho cmisuincr pays for uo tin 8 law parkagd mtli every purcha- - -Xou; vkV- -(■^owv iitood/?- I had a malignant breaking out on my leg below the knee, and waacuredsound and well with two and a half bottles of ESSES Other blood medicines hadI faded JBGRfll to do me any good. Will ^eatw & l was troubled from childhood wlib a niBff- gravalcd cafift of Tetter, nnd three bottion ot Ofjgi 0,,re ‘ ,m01,crm ^ 1 A 5 ;' B Mamt, ISSBtBS MoinrtUe, 1. T. Our book on Blood nnd Pkln nitres malted free. Bwirr Srscmo Co., Atlanta, Ga. 66 ‘August Flower’ ‘ ‘ For two years I suffered terribly with stomach trouble, and was for all that time under treatment by a physician. He finally, after trying everything, said my stomach was worn out, and that I would have to cease eating solid food. On the rec ommendation of a friend I procured abottleof August Flower. Itseem- ed to do me good at once. I gained strength and flesh rapidly. I feel now like a new man, and consider that August Flower has cured me.” Jas. K. Dederick, Saugerties, N.Y.® NATIONAL SURGICAL INSTITUTE, VTLANTA, <iA., . Diftoa if tliH Urinary OriiantLetc. •84M. i leer il hut raMvl circu- nr. Namo thiff napHr. 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