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32 distant provinces of the empire. All his little belongings he had to get rid of at a great sacrifice, and when he at last arrived at his destination he was a ruined man.

Hard upon Titchenko's case followed that of Trofim Babienko. Babienko was not a very wise man; he was more zealous than discreet. His neighbours highly resented his references to their "idolatry" and "stupidity," and, taking the law into their own hands, they beat him severely. To complain of their treatment, he arrived before the governor of Kief. This potentate, without troubling himself to inquire into the merits of the case, ordered Babienko's immediate arrest and transportation to Ciscaucasia. His wife and family were not permitted to see him before his departure, and, deprived suddenly of their breadwinner, they were ruined.

Ivan Solovev's case is interesting, as it displays another method of breaking a man's heart and ruining his worldly prospects. He also was one of the Kief leaders, a young man of bright intelligence and ardent temperament. Accused before the governor of spreading heretical tenets, he received notice that within fourteen days he was to clear out of the bounds of the province of Kief. He had five children and a wife, and worked a flourishing little farm. Everything had to be sold at a ruinous loss. But in good heart he left all, and settled in the province of Kherson, where he resolutely began to repair his broken fortunes. His seed was hardly in the ground when he was informed by the local authority that the governor had ordered him to "move on." He was in debt for his seed and his cattle, so the Jews came in, seized everything, and one morning he and his family began a long tramp of 150 miles to Bessarabia. One old horse that they were able to save helped to relieve them on their march, for they all took turns at riding. They arrived, after a month's march, in Bessarabia, but two of the