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Show WAR S1EDS LIGHT ON RUSSIA! TRAITS Peasants Firm in the Belief That Everything German Is "Anti Christ " CLAIM HIGHER POWER One Aged Man Would Lead Host Against Germans, Emulating Joan of Arc By JOHNSON MOKANGBS. Spe a Cab e to The Tr bune PETROGBAD pet 10 Many typi cal Kuss an tra ts are accentuated by the presont onflict Germany is tho anti Chr st to the peasants E erj where the peasants are b rn ng to ex pel ant Chr st in the shape of non Rus s an ideas words and c stoms Rus s a s enemies from tin o lmmemor al have been anti Chr sts In certain d s tr cts anc ent peasants who preached ant Christ against England during the Cr mean war are now wandering from v llage to village repeating that th s time the real ant Chr st has come It s an almost nn versal not on that there are transcendental virtues in the unc Itivated Russ an people that are lost through contact with foreigners Would Emulate Joan In Tula has apeared a religious old man Feoder Emelyanoff who calls him self Zhondok and wants to lead a peasant host aga nst the Germans some what in the manner of Joan of Arc He holds that artillery is unfa r and that the Germans should let the Russians get near instead of shoot ng them down Th s na ve not on appears also in the St Petersburg press The peasants of the Black Earth re gion are solid for exterminating the Germans the r pr nc pal gr evance be ing that the men from across the V s tula charge too much for their spades and na Is The eagerness of the young Russ ana for the war is producing bo no cur ous incidents It must be remembered that the war has not drained Russia of men as it has Germany and France There aro many exempt only sons for instance Many of these would enl st but are not desired at prosent In tho Tchisto pol d strict of Kazan provinoe where n ob 1 zat on began first of all a cer ta n Pavl Kovr n turned up in four cop es The surpr sed off cor in charge told three of the Pavl Kovrins that thev must belong to other units It turnel out that they were superfluous un trained men, who hearing that the gen u ne Pavl Kovrin was ill had hastened to take h s place Generous In Charity The peasants are mak ng great sao-r sao-r flees for the war The r kopecks given for Red Cross and other char table aims are mounting up to a large sum That was always the Russian way for the empire is overburdened with charitable institutions In remote parts of Olneta, I learn poasants have started reading clubs to cr t cise the war; and many communeB without being asked have set to mak ng good roads in order that the trans port of rye to the army may be made easier Other peasant communities are organ lzing the collect on of money eavedl from vodka Against the prohibition of vodka no peasant has raised his voice Enl ghtened public opinion and the newspapers are unanimously against re open ng the vodka shops The good be havior of the reservists during mobill zation is due largely to the drastio measures taken against the sale of dr nk How to Pay War Debt The temperance enth siast Tchelul sheff who has been warring on the drink traffle for many years says with some reason that the cost of the war w 11 be covered in a few years by sar ings due to stoppage of the vodka traf fio and that all the physical and moral suffer ng now impending will not be greater than that caused by drink In a decade The traffic m vodka wins ana otter alcohol o beverages is entirely eus pended In the years following 18B3 Count Wltte turned the production and sale of vodka into a state monopoly Tho state was to sell the vodka In sealed bottles The result was wide spread drinking in the street Tho nega t ve att tude of the poople toward the monopoly is well illustrated by the fact that small bottles are called little scoundrels (merzavtchiki) Including oxc se receipts the state gains $450 000 000 from vodka The duma and several ant alcohol congresses have condemned the monopoly as an instrument of na t onal demoralizat on the czar himself adopted that standpoint in a rescript is s ed at the time of M Kokovtseft s fall Today the 70 000 state lavkl (retali vodka shops) are closed May Mean Prohibition A etrpng agitation is going on to keep them closed till the end of the war That means that they would never be reopened The government has not gone so far but it has promised to respect resolut ons in favor of clos ng passed b peasant communes under the existing exist-ing local option law Hitherto these resoltuions have usually for fiscal rea sons been ignored Meantime St Peters burg has been transformed in a way which will be realized only by those who knew the city before the war Then on Sunday n ght as many as 10,000 drunken persons were arrested or ofte more helped by policemen to staesor home 8 nee the first mobilization da no drunken man has been Been The threat of a fine of 1 00 for the first of fense has kept reita rant proprietors and wine dealerB from trying to evad |