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Show "POOR RUSSIA. Chaos continues in Russia. The prayers of the exiles that have been ascending for years seem to have been heard, and it begins to look as though there can be no redemption until, upon the wreck of the present empire, through infinite suffering, a new civilization will have to be built. France, in '93, was as nothing compared with Russia's present condition. In France the commotion com-motion was in and immediately around the capital. capi-tal. In Russia, there seems to be chaos, from her army in the Orient to the last peasant in his hut. Nothing so great and unwieldy as the Russian empire ever before made such an appeal to the pity of mankind. The clamp that has been upon the minds and bodies of the people for centuries has been broken, and the people in the glare of the new light are reeling, confused like drunken men. |