Christian Herald und Zeichen unserer Zeit. Er konnte sich borgen. Promotionkam ihm schnell entgegen, vor allem während der Kriegszeit, als die Qualitäten der geduldigen Ausdauer von Härtetest, Mut und Geistesgegenwart in plötzlichen Notfällen, die ihn immer wieder zu unterscheiden hatten, von besonderem Wert waren. Im Alter von zwei Jahren war er einer der wertvollsten Mitarbeiter der Western Union Company. Zu dieser Zeit (1865) wurde das Projekt von einer Telegrafenleitung von diesem Land zum Eu-Seil über Alaska, Behring Sea und Siber-ia unterhalten. Das erste Atlantic Cable war gescheitert, und es gab einen allgemeinen Eindruck, dass die Onlypractica

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Christian herald and signs of our times . he could borrow. Promotioncame to him rapidly, especially during the warwhen the qualities of patient endurance of hard-ship, courage and presence of mind in suddenemergencies which have always distinguishedhim were of special value. At the age of twentyhe was one of the most valued employeesof the Western Union Company. At that time (1865) the project was entertain- ed of a telegraph line from this country to Eu-rope by way of Alaska, Behring Sea and Siber-ia. The first Atlantic Cable had failed, andthere was a general impression that the onlypracticable mode of telegraphic communicationwith Europe must be by land. An expeditionto survey the route was organized and Kennanat his own urgent request was assigned a place init. During that journey, he acquired a thoroughknowledge of the Russian language, and sawmuch of the country. He was courteously re-ceived by Russian officials, visited the prisons, and studied the exile system. He returnedwith a strong prejudice against the Nihilists, . contact with the exiles, lived with them in theirhuts, heard their stories and witnessed theirsufferings. He returned in 1886 to tell a verydifferent story from the one he had told before.Such a scathing denunciation of the RussianGovernment as he has issued, such a mercilessexposvire as he has made of the crudities, out-rages and persecutions perpetrated by Russianofficials on the men and women in their power, could not be surpassed. He brought back por-traits of many of the exiles, he talked with them, and has related their histories, he sawthe barbarities practiced on men andwomen, boys and girls, and he relatedthem with strict fidelity. The result hasbeen a feeling of indignation a scorn and loath-ing for the Russian Government throughoutthis country, and wherever the English lang-uage is spoken such as has never been felt forany Government. Mr. Kennan gives facts, de-tailed statements with date and place and leaveshis readers to form their o

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