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Show OlflE POVERTY IN RUSSIA. j Economlo Conditions Are Frightful In , the Etrffre. Tho had rrunomlr umllllnn of the Hunslan pos.aniry nmy be shown by 'he stnllsllcs of farm siilmn.ii. The Huuslan rovcllsi, lpnnhl. ones ' wrote a slory of ponnant llfo. whlrh j h rsll.'d "A Qiiirior of a Horse." and ahirh Tins Intended to set fnrlh. In the Riilse of IliMlon. tho social and eeotmmlr sinlus of an aRrlrnliural I population thnt hnd only one horni to j every four fnmlllni atntlstles com ' piled by the renntvos of the rontrnl provinces show thnt, even before tho arrleulturnl crisis became ai scute as It Is now 50 to 3d per rent of the pea-snt pea-snt farmers In the fnrnicrly rich provides prov-ides of ThernlRof. Vornnnrh. I'oUjvs. S:irntof, KurFk and Tsmbof dlil not have even a slrcln horse, while yearly one-third of the entire populnilon of Vornner.li had neither horse nor row. In the province of lllsrun 32.roo peasant peas-ant proprietors nut of S0O0O had no horse and 21.000 bad neither horse nor |