| Show CONDITIONS Urgently a n writer In a 11 prominent Am paper has lias spoken a n word In of ot politics and social customs He Ill admits that the tho ruler of ot the hessians Is omnipotent within his domain In theory but he ho explains that In point of ot fact tact both the czar and the are conspicuous for tor their re cc speet for tor the ithe law In In Russia he says sae everything very thin IK Is regulated by law lawand and the administration of justice is both th good am cheap Th The people hMO have no parliament chos chosen chosOn en On by th n Popular elections lee lions In would he explains under the circumstances bo be a n farce hut But there l is III n a fOrt nort of ci parliament IJ the Im hn Imperial council the members of which are by b tho the emperor arid and the council arc are the tho law makers In ken They The are of at state heads bends of ot govern covern government bent ment departments and other person who tho distinguished l hed themselves th There lher can can be no 10 doubt that nus la laIs Is a n much misunderstood country countr elm sim simply ply because bee ue It Is IIIi less ii known than most malt other European People who have havo traveled there have been agree agreeably agreeably ably surprised at nt the tho kindness mul cheerfulness l of the people At tho the same Caine time It can enn hardly be bo denied that social conditions there theme are In respects Ie barbarous Especially l Is la this tuI tho the case when tho the religious status statu of at atthe the tim vast Itt III n considered andor anderl and r I 1 was sas a n man maim of broad bond b ond hla hili Ide was that religious toleration should prevail Hut this view lam not gained mulch much ground The state nail church hurch are ure so 80 Intertwined that It would be bo Impossible to tn define delino clearly the tho boundaries between the tho two Ex Ix Excommunication I x communication train from the tho church tT nM very often otton banishment from the coun cotta country country try Priests are arc among the in the tho work of collecting money IM from tram tho tIme people purposes and such Rueh contributions of the thc two solicited olIell El before the tho very sery altar of at the tho sacred Images Time Tho czar Is flea tho the head hend of ot tho the church and the flue two Institutions In institutions tI meet In Him Soldiers serve as I executors of tho the decrees of ot tho tIme church A transgression of ot the rules ru I s o of oC the church very ery often Is Iii n a 1 crime rima against the state and nail vice vleo versa ver a Under tItle this lack IlIck of or freedom tho tue most cruel persecutions It Is l nut nat natso so BO very ry long bug ago ngo that n a Urr nt In told tho the pitiful I story of ot n a poor Polish 1 peasant who wh Q once Ollee made malle tho thu victim of oi Russian bigotry He lie was over eighty years yearn ear old oM and he ho was found dead In n a snowdrIft a 1 few teW sullen miles from tr m that city elt His Ills grand granddaughter graat daughter a n girl was dead by b his side Here is h the sto etC story story ry In parts part partIn parlIn In tho tim early eighties Felix was a Q fairly peasant owning n a piece of at land In the tho village of ot slot not far from Warsaw lw He lie was Jal he of his hili tribe and amid lived lIed In III peace with ht neighbors tho time government too Old OIl ago n o beginning to make Itself ls lt felt lett Felix ceded his property to his hll son anti and Was about to retire from active life liCe al altogether altogether together when a n St Petersburg decree ordered him to embrace the Greek faith falth and thus titus set an example to t the tho village The villagers appealed The Tho commissioner ordered ord red them to tore re rr return turn home homo afterward again appear n pear before him They did so no but when they thoY refused to abjure their faith ralth the son eon of ot tho the old ohl man was killed before his eyes ees In a it 1 most cruel crud manner mann r Tim Tho aa ca count mays a aThe The TIle Inhuman officer commanded l his men to tho the headstrong peasant flome some Russian punch They opened his Jaws jn B stuck n a 1 tunnel funnel In his throat antI and poured In III foul toul water Then they the danced on hl his stomach Under their kicks and anti spurring poor expired Then the old nIt man maci was taken In hand bond He Ite was asked a Wilt wiit thou now renounce thy th Ro Ito man heresies Felix shook his head had hada a Bring Dring in his hla granddaughter stia then but two years ears old and Felix loved the child chillI more than the tue light of ot his eyes eys lie He began to trem tremble tremble ble as ns ho he heard tho time order orderA A Cossack came carne In carrying the tue child on the point ot of his lance but the spear was drawn through tIme the little ones onos no and her tiny body was nfl yet ret uninjured U ni roil The commander placed six n nIn In one ono end of ot tho the room and six in III tho thin other ther othera a Abjure or the ball game gamo shall Ahall be body shall be the ball hail Then Felix broke down He threw himself on his hili face taca and cursing this the hour of ot his birth promised cd to become a 1 convert It If the childs life was waa spared d dAnd And there were w ro barrels of ot much rejoicing nail and nil all the peasants got boisterously drunk and d the boots boot boott of t the commissioner who had iad ld destroyed estro M them Item body bOOy and soul It Is almost Incredible that in fn a Christian country COUll try a cne ene like this thU can cail be enacted nUE la needs light It Jl needs religious freedom the mother of true liberty And ond the people also need that training which will enable them theta to tomake tomako snake make the proper use of ot that great pris privilege liege There Is no doubt that in there hero is excellent material for a 11 free tree and amid great nation but there is la still much to be done before that end can c n be reached H 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