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Show POOR RUSSIA. H Three years ago the world was shocked at H the story of the explosions and eruptions of jj Mont Pelee. In a day a fair island that at dawn H was smiling in sunlight and tropical luxuriance iM with the air filled with the songs of bright plu- mft maged birds, was, as the sun of that day went fl down, but a blasted and scoria swept desolation JH with the inhabitants of what had been a joyous :H city in the morning, dead in the dreadful streets. jH The situation in Russia brings back thoughts HI of that cataclysm, except that the one was a jH physical upheaval, the other Is the ujpheaval of H mamBwmmaammmmmmgmaBmKmmmmamBmammmmmwrJ H Hj a ' lit the passions of a great people. Her armies are HE ' ill perishing in the far Bast; her peasants are dy- Hffi jj I I ing in the streets of her cities; her palace steps II 1 are stained by the blood of her murdered princes, Ill and fear and apprehension of more disasters are l ill' everywhere. The war standards, the red flags ' I I I I I of anarchy and assassination are waving every- Jj I I 1 I i r wherj; the smouldorlng flres of revolution are Bi i I , ready to burst into flame, and the great white H , ill' Ozar dare not emerge from within his castle's Bj jj ft'' walls. j I' I I J As tha earth by storms and earthquakes was B l I fitted to become a fit habitation for man, so H I HI ! when the spirit of liberty takes possession of Bn HI II I human sols, it seems that only the weapons of Wm-n 111 111 ' cruelty are employed. 5P If If ThBre are whispers that a treaty of peace K'H I Hi I1 s aout t oe negotiated with Japan; that under ! I III f 1 ta0 fQar and sorrow Df tao Present, a parliament Jy 1 HI I of the People is about to be convened. IH I 111 111 LBt us uope tnat otu rumors may prove true, H I HI and that the inspiration, may come to those in H I W i f power to see that all the divinity in man comes B 2 HI SIIj- heart an brafn; that the only way to redeem B 1 Hi lii Russia is to make her people free and plant a K 1 lis If scfioolfiouse on every road crossing. No Nation K f fit I'1 can e suporior to Russia fifty years hence if her i I III people are but given the right opportunity, for I I the native stock of the rsce is splendid. Let us K I If hope that the opportunity will be given. |
