| Show FIERCE RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS UNDER RULE Dissenters From Orthodox Church in the Chelm Country Have Been Beaten To Death by Cossacks Others Have Been Shot on Steps of Their Churches Others Driven to Suicide Refused to Voluntarily be Converted I Special Correspondence Auff Aug re te r persecutions still con continue e continue n In that part J of o t tho ho Itu Ifill empire known as oho tho helm country liven Even In other parts of the tho empire Roman Homan priests arc tined lined and Imprisoned for baptizing young people who wish to enter that church At tho the present moment tho the Ilu lun l hat han declared tor those who took look tho the church of or by b form force tom Its owners and worshipers and anti It Into Inlo a temple of ot tho the orthodox Greek church church wax was built none lW years cars ago by hy Count and endowed by 1 hUt hlA ht family Their bodies found a IL mating costing place there thore till who Is III n 0 Greek considered d that tho the church should belong bolong to 10 Greek Grock Catho Catholics lies Tho Tim necessary alterations were cr mado but bUI according to 10 the tho Hus lan orthodox rite thin the bodies of ot the tho daul doL I may muy not Ho lie In tho the front port part of or the tho church so the tho remains of oc tho the founders rounder family tam 11 taken lukon from their graves In ht order to be bo moved to the tho cemetery So Bo strong la Is the tho reeling feeling rt between or orthodox and dissenters In the country that the orthodox workmen could not restrain themselves front from rom des desecrating the bodies Tho The founder of tho oho church was wa taken from his hili coffin and his embalmed em body boxly propped up on a L pile of ot birches while the oho mon mM worked its 1111 arias anna up and down don and mode made tho the thoIn sign In of at the thi cross after arlel the Iho orthodox fashion This mans man descendant d who went from Paris In order to see neo the tho re cc remains reo mains mama of or his luLa ancestors reverently re removed reo removed moved moed was WM horrified to find on enter entering entering ing InK the tho church yard 11 rd that they were all nil set et el against tho the church wall much to tho the amusement of or the tho workmen who put 1 11 them silent through h a mock catechism m When hon hen the Ih count applied to the tho authorities 4 ho he was told that noth Inc Ing In could bo be done SUPPRESSING TUB THE TU These are to tho mild remnants of or tho the terrible treatment these th of ot tho the country were subjected to until a u year or two l back hac ck Tho The wore a IL sect who though thou h practising some orthodox rites had sl al to 10 Home The Kudan Hu IRn reactionaries rO determined l to mako them or orthodox and take their thel churches away awny to 10 tolve give lve the Iho livings to batman clergy cler Hut But the iK I Peasants were u ern attached to 10 their cus customs customs customs toms mitt grimly determined d to 10 pre preserve servo serve them Tho Tim government culled called the th changes n y to hr rit this state of ot affairs reforms things thing the clergy were wre re told lold to abolish organs benches hymns In the Iho Polish o and many man other details The peasants JI were wr to sign 1 papers tr to the effect that they voluntarily their faith Tho The priests who would not submit were wern to 10 11 exiled and orthodox clergymen Installed In their stead tood In Iii Inmany Inmany many villages es where orthodox clergy wore w ro Installed tho the peasants peasant ceased to attend church at nt all nil In others othera they thy surrounded the tho churches and the th soldiers to take the orthodox priests In When hen they refused to 10 jo go fa the tho soldiers shot them down dawn Tho The mens mn corps is covered the tops slops and their places ploce were taken by b women and children I Seeing Reel that the resistance was l so I stubborn and that tho the soldiers quartered on the peasants I Mant were loath to I shoot hoot down clown their defenseless hosts tho the government sent orders from St Pe Pt Petersburg I that the tho soldiers were wern to 10 be besent besent I sent away auy y land and replaced by I Cossacks Rye lye that many man of or the soldiers wept 11 nt Rt leaving the tho peasants t II raying God bless you OU and help you Ou for the tho th Cossacks will treat you OU a 0 thou thousand sand Fand times s worse than we wo have done AD FLOGGED Th The peasants thus thu warned betimes entrusted their slender to sym sympathizing sympathizing landowners and und drove their theire e I cattle t tU into tho the forests knowing knowl only too well that thaI the fierce Cossacks would loot all nil they th could f lay la 3 their hands bands on With Uh the Ule Cossacks Co came carno the tho police pollee of officials and sumo omo orthodox clergy who ho hoe pave gave e them tho the declarations to sl sign n Ono One find and nd all refused r tu t d to do It II They were stripped naked and flogged 1 with the tho mouta n Cossacks whip consisting of or seven Reven leather thongs each Mch ono one knotted In several places each man received 50 60 J lushes lashes each woman 36 06 and nn l inch each child under 15 Iii 10 regardless of ot age ngo R or 01 ex sex exIt It Jt Is la l difficult to 10 describe these sicken Icken sickening ing Um Women omen and children died 1 under the tho whip and their husbands and fathers were er brought to 10 witness their I agony Even too the strongest men mon faint fainted od ed d Many though still refused to 10 sign wn their Ih lr religious faith ralth They were thrust Into prison to be b exiled to 10 Sl Si Siberia t beria while their farms and goods tOod were confiscated oven even NI to 10 the Ihl childrens bed bedding bedding ding lIn Tho Thin children of or these thellO exiles elIr were torn away limn from their parents and sent to tn foundling hospitals where they are arc bring brought up In tn the orthodox faith Many Man others wore wor turned out of or their homes hom s In tho the depth of or winter r and ex cx exposed e eJ posed Ofed J to tD such hardships that the tho th death tale rate Immediately went up per cent As tho the prisons became cram cratO 1111 now new newcomers no comers were kept In ht courtyards and andopen open sheds In spite of or the tho frost I find auhl mow anon Ono One peasant pt whom his purse pers cutora deprived of or nil all earthly t posses possession 1 Ion sion shut himself up In his hl cottage cott set fire tire to It and perished with wife and family ns as n protest against these Iho terrible persecutions In another case Ino a 11 man suffocated himself hta h wife unit alii family with charcoal fumes In order that thai his hI Infant child should 1 not b be 00 hII bap baptized IbM l by b the new orthodox priest who had been I forced on tho the parish Many r 1 who were wro not exiled were so robbed by hy bythe hythe bythe the Cossacks Cn In addition to 10 ment that they the hail nothing but hut their bare fields left Thus In courso of or time K peasants wern persuaded ns as official language has It II tr to Join the orthodox church R STORY STOn An Englishman En who witnessed many man manot of ot lusts th scenes coneR tol told the tho writer that lint hn he was WR present on the Iha occasion of ono one of ot mono conversions The Tho peasants of ot tho the whole village he ho said were driven to n a barn near nr the church stripped barn bare b r anti and flogged erl erlb by b the Cossacks till the th military don doo tor 01 said further lashing Inching would kill them They were tl them m forced at the whips end nd to enter a II half frozen river Im Immersed mersed up to 10 the Ihl waist waR urns tho Iho Cossacks Cossack Idea hIM of baptism and I after this they the re conducted through flies flics of at soldiers In to the parish church where names were wert entered n lUI as petitioners to 10 be received Into tho orthodox faith ralth As Aa 8 they the were sent home homo again they tho all cried You cnn can call all us orthodox but wo wn cling tf to the tho faith of our fathers I have 1110 never witnessed more terrible scenes enes though I am and a 1 pretty prett tough soldier nut Hut though nominally orthodox these EO 0 odd thousand peasants peasant organized what Is best hest described ns as a R religious strike that Is IR many man of them censed ceased to 10 mars marry or to 10 baptize their offspring they burled their dead In th the cemeteries cemeteries teries In tho the middle of or the night with without without without out funeral services service 8 Many Man of ot them received the Ih secret assistance of priests priest traveling RO SO miles anti even oIn crossing Into Inlo the th Austrian territory so o as All not to get Kot themselves and tho the priests Into trouble OBSTACLES IE All AH manner of ot romantic were found of ot holding services without the tho assistance of or the orthodox clergy though any priests of or the tho I Latin rite rile who were wore caught communicating with them Ihm were Imprisoned for or two years IM for lor the th first offense orten and exited exiled to SI gl SIberia berla berlo for tor the second cond Priests dressed il ilas as pedlars camo came over the frontier iron tier from rom Austria Au with packs of or ribbon ribbons and laces beneath bc ath which they Utu hid hill small moll sets Beta of ot sacred ared vessels e sel for tor saying mil Tho The priest would wear 81 n a peasants blouse bleue blou e anti a n 1 narrow ribbon solo sole In place pIRI of vestments An account of their adventures would fill nil a n book hook Sometimes they wore ore mysteriously done awa with whilst t tramping from one on nn village lIln to another At others the the police pollee tracked them therm down amid flung them Into the tho th citadel at Warsaw and thoy they tiara not heard har 1 of or again They circulated leaflets Ion let among tho the people telling them how to 10 baptize their chil ehll children dren siren and assist tho Iho dying when no priest was near lie Jews often orten used to distribute these thA leaflets among tho the peasants because they knew their way tiny a about aboul the country communes bettor better than anybody ody ohe and ana did not aro arouse th the suspicion of or the UtO orthodox clergy or orthe orthe the police Couples who could afford to go KO abroad got married In Cracow nn an Austrian city ell those who tuba could not nOI were married by a n chance priest In disguise or much more moro often orten had their unions unIon blessed by hy tho the village elders None ono of or those Ihode marriages were recognized recognized by the Iho state which branded randel the tho offspring as Illegitimate Not liot long lone ngo ago a groat sensation was created In parliament by Mr Ir BIzko who produced his hIli pass passport port In tho the tribune and complained that ho wax wim therein described as a bachelor though he ho wn tuns a n married man with n 1 family la II During the tho wo worst t tI I phrase hn e of or the persecutions ho ha had been married quite legally I I in Cracow Hut But the state In Ie considered that Ulal living In the tho Chelm country ho hn ought to te have gone Ione to nn Rn orthodox priest nod nn 1 has hUM refused refined roCIL to III recognize ro his mar I rings to 10 this day Those who declined to have hae their children baptized In the tho orthodox church churches were often utterly ruined by b the tho police who ho heel hall or orders orders ders eler to seize selzo and sell ell off otc every ory article tile tho unfortunate family possessed This resulted In many cases casus of or martyrdom Men Slen who refuted refused to take tako the oath of ot allegiance to the czar ciar in iii Greek and offered to 10 do so In Ho Ito Homan Itoman man church w were thrown Into prison TO HO If Tho These o peasants protested protected In many ways trays W but hut In vain they tho sent Kent n petition peti peU petition tion to 10 the tho foreign consuls serving In lit Poland giving n heartrending ac oc account account count of their troubles and begging for foreign Intervention on their IM hta h half balf Vast nl crowds determined to see sen seethe the HI papal Nuncio Cardinal when ht h passed lII Bt d through choir coun country country try tr Tho The police pollee hearing of or their set ctt tried to stop It by putting a L cordon of or soldiers near noar every 01 station the train was waa to 10 stop lap at nt and und thus thu preventing anybody from get Iet getting getting ting Un near him hire Hut the tho of ot hits hIM own a n fow few miles from one ont of or the th stations and thus on m some omo to give Iv an In nc ne n count of or their woes trees wo to 10 his hili eminence who wept OH an ho he listened to 10 them The authorities arranged that thai ho should I return turn by b another route mute and Homes Romes I protests were unable to stop the per persecutions A man who went to Rome Rometo to In plead the cause caulle at ILl the tho vat nt al lean was n thrown thron Into p prison on on his re return r return turn lurn to Fines nN equivalent to too HO o were wor Imposed on Un inlet l peasants 1 who wood weeded eded their gar gardens gardens dens den or mended roots roofs on any MY of or the 15 av orthodox holidays of the church railway s sRI Mild RI sal school teachers leacher were worl dismissed from irom situations without a word wont of ot warning warn III Many women married ac according according cording to tho oho rites of the Iho Roman Catholic church wore torn from husband hus hue husband band an and children sent Int back ak tn In th their lr native villages lIn labeled la as all and as such placed under police pollen supervision super supervision vision IRIon IN I LINE orthodox bishop of ot Chelm who represents represent this town in the nUll Rus Russian sian elan parliament declared In a recent Continued on pogo fourteen n RELIGIOUS PERSECUTIONS UNDER RUSSIAN SIAN RULE c I III ro paito thirteen fr thal 1111 8 wh hn tt Irr r forced to join his church hureh lire art r the and hopp Tho Thoo 0 who wh kr k u I to say Cf cr it Ih of consul from ho tho fuels have havo br taken Rhe a 1 different lIe rf f th Iho matter malter while nV M of lit whom there 1110 hundreds f r i a 11 an s condemn this policy Of a are re government III i a n nr ne v acl to bo passed through the dum duma rr quest of ot tho Iho b 11 h I m mall Catholic In arc arl toe to 11 f fr r J to move moo from one n n n othor without special perm tho general of Kief 1 i t mn not borrow money from t f K lr bank halik which Is b only for tor tho v n lenco of nf orthodox people n r m In they Inherit bu hU or lend monty on tato to an 1111 rt x person lerRon AH AM most of th lire Poles restrictions are nr p t unon upon the Polish may not bo ho used lIe even Iti lu Infant s hio n If i I Just JURt as n though American Ihl l 1 en n r obliged to their le leRn m nii 1 rt I their religious In tr lr t In Dutch Pu leh When hen one of tho t h Poll d i goes to law he mn mil n t hi even eIn a n cop of his hili legal Igal In h It own o n all 1 In must be n n ho must mURI talk lall In newt office stations and nil 1111 even the th clerk and ho arc bolh Poles loles born bred bre bren n r c |
