THE RUSSIAN JEW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 5, 7 January 1904, Page 3

THE RUSSIAN JEW.

KIM.' EDIVAIiD AS MEDIATOR. LONDON, dam. .1. Kim; Edward, according to the Dully Kspivss. is using si rolvg iiillnen.o on Hi,- ('/.,,• Mil I, a \ieiv to (he nmelioral ion of the condition of the dews ill Rimsiu. UNEXAMPLED PEIiSECUT lON. The dew ill Russia is never certain of (lie morrow or its happenings, lie cannot build for the future cither for himseli or his family, his work or bis happiness. At any moment, writes Colonel doiin I!. Weber, Special ('ommissioiier of Hie United States to Russia, his affairs may be disturbed by new regulations, or by new construction of old ones, iu which he has pain.'ully Ui-v.I of utmost 'ijicreilibl.-i-'a'cii-lic-e adjusted himself. Education in the higher degrees Drings wi'Ui it the right oi resilience outside of tho ivslirli'teil 1-ale. but the avenues of this goal are strewn with obstacles and barricaded with ililliculties. Such education means lo him not only expansion of in- ' tolled, but extension of the area within which lie may move. An instance of the retinemeut of tcchiiicalitic.: by vivo ollicials on the one hand and or the Uespemto energy on the other was Hio caw of Miss Petlin. who was graduated with honors at the Gymnasium of Minsk, in the Pale. Her mother was a mid-wife, and as such was entitled to live outside of the Pule, residing in .Moscow for several years. Having procured a divorce from her husband, she resumed her maidwi name, the daughter retaining that of iter father, the only one she was legally authorised lo bear. Upon the mother's right of residence. Viva <|j,:ug-htor, beri.fc a l.n.nor, was legally entitled to li\e with her mother. Hut owing to the technical difference, in names residence in Moscow was refused, and us she earnestly desired to complete her education at the pedagogical Institute of that city, so as to lit herself for teaching, she determined to take the ch-ances and remain. For nearly two years she lived there the life of a hunied animal, compelled to put up at night at the houses of friends nnd relatives, occasionally with liec mother, but no longer than two nights in succession in any one place, often without a place to go to for fear of the police, wandering nJ,>out tho streets all night, once in midwinter and once in the spring . when the weather was still cold. The director of the Institute endeavoured to obtain for her a permit to sijfuy h«gjalljv, 'hiywithout avail, and the bribe money paid by the mother to the police tinally proving insufficient, as the pressure increased, she ga\e up the unequal struggle and returned to the I'lile, where we met her. She was a. particularly bright, cultivated young liuly, who would shine in any circle. This is but one of many co-ties

which .cnny> under the Commisiiioner's observation, ull tending to show how Russia terrorises tho Jews. And yet, the writer goes on, the sun shines as bright and the stars bvitik'.o ns merrily there as in this land of personal and religious freedom, whoso blessings no American can thoroughly appreciate until he lies dug deep in the substrata of Russia, a land whose people profess to be Christians and claim ty Ho ci.vilisod. Scientists say that raiditim, the latest discovery in minerals, is infinitely mora valuaible than the i'tnest diamond. The "Regal" Shoe for woman is not a recent discovery, lout it is miles ahead oi any other shoo at 10s 6d a pair. The Melbourne Clothing Co, stock the "Regal."*