SAD PLIGHT OF ~ ~ THE DOUKHOBORS Pilgrimage of Religious Fanatics “Looking For Jesus." jlHFAHTS PERISH OH THE MARCH

Ibrlr Bodies Thrown Into Duke* hr the Rond Bide—Mromce Belief of Robb Inn Sect In Cnnndn. Two TkonBuud of Whom Ue. .ended on n Town In n PUInble Condition. Two thoasand Doukbobon hare imarebdd cm Vorktown, N. W. and

•the t(

hbfcot- know* *ntno handicraft, and oM! pontble aulutlon of the cattle question la that /boon who believe It to bo wrong to one domestic antmnfai will move Into

dare to come across any considerable body of men who are willing to risk their material proe[ierlty for the take Of their prtnclpha that the Interest aroused by the ••road colony” la natural enough. The Donkbobora have undoubtedly given eonie trouble to the Canadian government, and they have at timee shown a cuntunkoroua spirit which has dlapixilnted some jf those

ranglnj but. lo

• town has caplti

iwn, K. :ulated t

around and fairly Judged, they are a very worthy folk. Industrious, sober, honest and taking their religion seriously as a thing that should guide

_Hng a shot aays a dlspaUh from Win- i nlpeg, Manitoba, to the New York (Tribune. The spectacle presented waa fa lamentable one. The Doukhobora •had camped out a few ulghts ago without shelter, and the thermometer stood at 14 degrees below the freezing point The mob consisted of men, women and (Children, Including Infants in arms, one . [being born the other night, the-mother (marching In the procession. Some of (the sick were borne on Utters, some (few were barefoot, many' wore rubber _ * (boots and others coarse sandals made -iof bibdlng twine. , Simeon Tchemlnkov, who talks' a Utftle English and whose bare feet bore witness to his insane seal, explained that they'w>re-“»ooklng-for Jeans." - When asked where were h!s boots, he held up his naked foot and cried, ' ! Je-

eus bodts!”

; Immigration Agent Speers succeeded getting the sick, the women and housed In the Immigration and other buildings, much (against their wills. Mothers deserted tthclr babes and allowed them to be (taken into the shelter, refusing to fob

thclr practical life." __

DEVERY STRONG AND AGILE

{their farms they will do so. but If not (then they will continue as they are. (Infants that died on the march were •thrown Into bushes by the roadside. The Tjst contingent to descend on the town consisted of about 1,000 persons. After they had been taken care of a detachment of 400 arrived. Corporal J. Nugent and a detachment of mounted police stopped them on the street until arrangements for shelter could be found. The smiles of bystanders were answered by the recitation in Russian of a verse of, tl

ee me !. lean

ascetic, with unkept beard, disheveled •hair and bloodshot eyes, stood at the heed of the halted procession and prayed. He was protected from the cold by a long cape reaching from his shoulders to his feet while many of his followers had not sufficient clothing to prevent their perishing in the snow. ’A sympathetic citizen offered a glass of milk to a pallid baby, whose mother grilled the milk to prevent the beby drinking It Biscuits were offered to the children, but they were forbidden

; to eat them.

The Doukhobors’ camping ground •was about three miles from town.

scrub, picking the “God given and greaseless fruit” of the rosebush to satisfy their hunger. No labor of animals bad helped to produce this fruit and they could eat it without sin. Their 1 pboi arrival at York town their babies would be taken from them, and they gave

God. Hitherto the Doukhobors have not been propagandists, and they have not sought to extend their faith among their Canadian neighbors. Now they are missionaries and have invited outsiders to Join them, thus offering a chance to homestead the fertile land* reserved for exclusive settlement by . Dookhobors in all the years they have been In Manitoba. The Doukhobors. who emigrated to ' - ‘ i In 18B8, tersei to which they were subjected. Their name signifies “spirit wrestle^' and was used as long ago os 1785. At that time certain members of the Greek church who objected to the -.use of Icons were called “Iconoborm/’ or 1m-

“do

Then the term

Kbobor,” or spirit wrestler, was used to designate those whom the orthodox Russians regarded as wrestling against the Holy Spirit Like the terms Quaker and Methodist In England, the nickadhered to the sect and came

| . The persecution to which the Doukj bobors were subjected aroused an ln- ; tense religious feeling among them. One of their tenets was vegetarianism, j but after they settled In Canada many | - of them returned to the use of fish and U meat /Some of them, however, repudlI ated hot only the use of meat, but l .went So far a* to say it was wrong to ! enslave domestic animals and turned 4k recent English writer said of the

. > kert: .

t “The present circumstance* of the

Doukhobors are such as

possibility of the sect disintegrating «r at least dividing Into two or more

* separate bodies Such splits have oc-

ipnrpgd In (R* arul mnw

. ***1

the question of vegrtaclj ’imt of domestic animals.

present time, besides

tb*

Some villages are t

or leas strictly communistic, other village* are on an individualistic baahk •while some Doukbobor families have

two*. wb«e they get a living as carpesters and blacksmith*. Every DookI v v -

William 8. Dcvery, the ex-chlef of olice of Now York city, prevented what might have been a terrible accident at the Democratic rally In Madison Square Garden the other night, says the’ New York World. Dari ~ Hill was speaking. The crowd jiressed dose upon the i<]>caker , B stand. Thousand* of upturned faces showed

Itude was bent upon hear-

platl end.

multltu y word hrong d

itfann was breaking down at one The railing was tattering under the weight of a dozen boys who wore leaning upon It A police sergeant saw danger and quickly ordered several bluecoats to clear the hoys away. When I to move, wedged In os they were against the crowd on the stand, the pressure caused the railing to break with a crash. Devery was sitting near, and with the agility of a squirrel he sprang forward and grabbed the railing with one strong arm and u boy with the other. The lad was falling with the railing. A moment more and the entire mass of have been

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upon the heads of the crowd below. “Fve got it, but come quick!" sboot-

ed the doughty Devery.

A platoon of policemen rushed to his sslstance from above and below and managed to relieve the “Big Chief" before his strength gave out Immediately under the railing were three women and three men In a box. The platform would have fallen upon them with fearful force If Devery had not held tt. The thousands farther away saw Dcvery's struggles. Tugging at the

platform with one arm and with the falling boy with the! other, the “Big Chief” was a policeman again, doing luty as be used to do when be wore

the blue blouse.

“Hooray for Devery!” and "You'reall right chiefr cried thousands. Devery was red In the face frot terrific strain, but his flushed

turned all the redder with blushes as lie bowed bla acknowledgment to the

roaring crowd.

Mr. mil's speech was Interrupted by the demonstration for Devery. He turned and bowed to the hero of the moment and winked approvingly. 4

i the face

patched up the broken plat-

form, and Mr. HOI went on with his

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