THE JEWISH CHRONICLE

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ments, both great and small. The
orders, however, are signed by the
emperor, who now cares for every
detail. In moments of special ex-
citement, he devises plans himself.
By Lucy Rice
He personally deposes generals and
army officers of high standing, and
in these days nobody is sure of his
"Would you like a drink ?" she a stranger overnight ? I am too far
tConcluded)
position. Everybody is trembling
from the city to get back to my
For a time the subdued thud of asked him quite placidly.
„
for fear that he will lose his job.
"Very much,” he answered, and hotel
the horse's hoofs on the soft earth
The question of desertion is w as s the only sound that disturbed began to dismount, not with the
"Oh, yes, indeed," she inter-
neither new . nor an unimportant the stillness. Presently, signs of agility of a young man, but with rupted him. "\Ve have lots and
one. By the desertion of such habitation came into view. Pros- unaccustomed, middle-aged slow- lots of room, and father and mother
will be glad to have you. I'm sure.
masses—the number amounts to perous looking farm storehouses ness.
The
girl
sprang
to
his
side
and,
There's
nothing mother likes better
many tens of thousands—the whole were scattered about over the land-
army is being demoralized. Such scape. Acting on a sudden im- in a matter-of-fact way, assisted than to entertain strangers."
As soon as the horse began to
a trouble will spread rapidly. It pulse, the man guided his horse into him to alight. Then, with a quick,
spread from towns to the front, a narrow path leading through a graceful movement, she dipped a drink, she said : "I will go to the
and from the front to the village; clump of trees, and, having gone a refreshing drink from the spring house now and tell mother you are
from the village to the city, and few paces, came suddenly upon a and smilingly handed it to him. 11e here, so that she may have another
again hack to the front. It is there- scene which caused him to draw regarded her wonderingly, his quiet, plate at the supper table ; and I will
fore easily intelligible that the staff rein quickly.
almost humble demeanor never al- send Labatt, my brother, down to
has taken very severe measures to
take charge of von and your horse."
Standing by a spring of cold, still tering.
stop this epidemic. General Alex- water a girl in a vivid pink dress "See, your horse is thirsty, too," The brother showed the same
eyeff being unable to point to the was in the act of drinking from an she said, calling attention to the im- hospitality his sister had mani-
Jews as having so many deserters artistic gourd dipper. Her bare, patient movements of the animal. fested, and they approached .to-
among them, started the charge that white throat pulsated with the "Come, let's go, down a little far- ;;ether a spacious dwelling of plain,
the Jews as a whole have exercised draughts of water which she drank titer, to the stream where we water stibmantial architecture. The mem-
hers of a large family were assent-
a strong demoralizing influence thirstily. Her dark hair was our horses, and satisfy him."
She took hold of the horse's rein Kling for the evening meal, and
upon the army, by their agitation slightly (lamp around her forehead.
amongst the soldiers, inducing them In one hand, hanging at her side, with an affectionate touch and led each one gave the stranger an un-
to desert.
affected welcome.
she held a large bunch of varicol- the way, chatting pleasantly.
Rebekah, the eldest daughter of
"Whose
daughter
are
you
?"
he
Inasmuch as the Jews are largely ored wild flowers. As she removed
occupied with agitation amongst the dipper from her moist lips, asked. And when she mentioned a the home, was moving about the
the soldiers, inducing the latter to she was seen to be beau- name which he remembered as an room with her soothing. restful
desert, you have to keep a watchful tiful. Not with a dashing, obtru- old and influential one in that part presence, arranging her wild flow-
eye on all Jews in the government, sive beauty, nor yet a prosaic, spirit- of the country when he was a small ers in vases, ministering to the
and on everyone individually. The less beauty, but with a restful, en- and humble citizen of the same lo- needs of the younger children, and
Jews must especially be watched in during loveliness of form and fea- cality, he marveled greatly at the smiling quietly at their chatter.
The stranger was escorted to the
their conversation which they may titre. Almost immediately her favorable issue of events. He then
indulge in in the large , stations, large, . unstartled dark eyes were told her - briefly of himself, and guest chamber to freshen up for
where a great many trains and pas- resting on the man who had now asked : "Have you accommoda- supper, and when he again ap-
sengers pass. The police and the d rawn near.
dons in your home for entertaining
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gate all about the habits of the
ing the Jews of espionage. .Now unteers in the sanitary corps, an-
Jews, and about the places where the Russian army."
The air is full with such rumors. the new charge of desertion, or of saver, "If the sanitary corps cannot
they are found, and about the la-
Everybody
is talking openly of re- the responsibility of the Jews for exist without the co-operation of
1
titre of their conversation.
.11 venge. Everybody seems to be wait- desertion, has been added to the the Jews, then it is better disbanded
the slightest suspicion a Jew
be brought at once before the mili- ing, and we unfortunate people are former and no one is such an opti- at once.
Even this is now a small matter.
tray tribunal. If it appears at this waiting also for the "day of reek- mist as to entertain the slightest il-
lusion
as
to
what
will
be
done.
oning,"
of
which
everybody
is
We
are facing amuch graver prob-
tribunal that there cannot be
The
despair
is
so
great
that
the
1
the
most
speaking
on
the
street
as
,em.
We know that Russian offi
brought any definite charge against
Jewish
masses
arc
living
in
a
state
terrible
reckoning
that
has
ever
cialdom tr i ed w i t h a ll means at i ts
the Jew, the suspicion remains, and
he shall at once be sent to Siberia. taken place. It is understood that of complete apathy. \Ve know that disposal to spread the impression
Everybody can see that the cir- this terror will be realized imme- the official 'correspondence between abroad that Jewish spies are respon-
cular casts a suspicion on all Rus- diately after the end of the war, the central and the provincial au- sil)le for the reverses of the army.
sian Jews. , Every police officer, when the excited savage soldiery thorities is preparing to carry on a Now new means of a similar kind
from the plain patrolman to the will return to their homes from the war of extermination against the are to he employed to spread the
captain, has the right to arrest any trenches. Everybody is waiting Jews systematically. We know that opinion abroad that the Jews are re-
Jew, and bring him before a court for this moment just as a man on the government has distributed no sponsible for the numerous deser-
martial on the slightest suspicion. trial is waiting for the jury to re- less than two thousand documents tions. The government needs such
And this suspicion is sufficient with- turn to the court room. What will on the Jewish question. \Ve know a charge as a pretext to account for
that every day the Jewish volun- its own defeat. It, therefore, is a
out any proof to exile the unfor- be our fate?
teers,
serving in the sanitary corps, duty of self-preservation for us, to
The uninitiated asks : "How
tunate man to Sibera. Nobody is
safe whether traveling on the train, about the Duma and public opin- are sent away from the front, communicate to foreign countries
whether sitting in his home, he can ion?" To these questions the Jews amongst them such as have at their this fact before the government has
never know what his lot will be, in answers with 'a satirical smile. No- own expense equipped sanitary a chance to do it, for we are now
whose hands his future will lie, how body takes such questions seriously trains. We know that new restric- facing the gravest crisis that Rus-
he may lose his life by an accident, The Duma ceased to be a Parlia- tions are constantly devised, to be sian Judaism ever had to face in
by ill will, by error, and anything ment long before the sessions were introduced at a later period, and its whole history.—The ..1mcrican
of that kind. Just as last year the closed. In fact, in the Duma the we shall hear about them very Israelite.
conversation in all public places demoralization and depression was shortly.
\Ve must remember who is now
turned upon espionage of the Jews, felt sooner than in any other
• 'Mabel Riegelman, the San Fran
so it is now occupied in every place branch of Russian society. • Dur- in the highest circles of the army.
with the Jews and their campaign ing the last days of the Duma ses- Can we wonder at anything, if all cisco prima donna, who has starred
to make the soldiers desert. Every- sion, opposition had practically at once an order is issued that all for many seasons in grand opera.
one who passes you seems to look ceased to exist. At that time the Jewish members must be expelled has joined the Boston Grand Opera
at you askance, and with his eyes Duma was merely an organ of the from the Russian cities society, and Company, where she will be heard
we learn that some of the
titters the suspicion : • "Well, most government. The best proof was when
commanding generals, to whom a in stellar roles. In private life Miss
likely you are the man who is the impossibility of discussing the
meant in the government's circular circular, which indirectly invited protest is directed against the ar- Riegelman is the wife of Marcus L.
and who is causing the disaster to the population to pogroms, accus- bitrary expulsions of Jewish vol- Samuels, a prominent attorney.

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