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an instructor, and began a systematic campaign to help 

 unfortunate or mistaken young boys to become useful 

 both to themselves and to the world. So successful 

 was he that it was not long before the authorities them- 

 selves took up his plan and carried it out on a larger 

 scale than he could afford. Thus from his nucleus grew 

 a chain of similar schools that reached into every cor- 

 ner of Russia. 



He had a short, but glorious life his name on the 

 lips of all liberal Russians. He survived to see his 

 efforts take effect, but no longer; for, after he had 

 established several homes of this character in Odessa, 

 consumption developed and he died. There was not 

 any one, young or old, Jew or Christian, rich or poor, 

 illiterate or enlightened, who did not follow him either 

 in thought or in person to his last resting-place. Every 

 class was represented at his burial. As his fame spread 

 so rapidly a multitude knew, loved and appreciated him. 



I also wish to speak of Vladimir Chavkin. Years 

 ago, while still in his early thirties, he was one of Pas- 

 teur's assistants. When the bubonic plague broke out 

 in India he was one of the first to volunteer to risk his 

 life for the furtherance of science and humanity. He 

 undertook, as is now a matter of common knowledge, 

 the inoculation of the sick. Fortunately his splendid 

 efforts among the plague-stricken populace met with 

 such success that his name became known all over the 

 world. 



The critical months of 1881 dragged by. The sky 



