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Andre's diary was found too late to do him any good, but It may inflict another historical novel on the public. 'rhe uprising of Russian students would indicate that a little learning is a dangerous thing for absolute monarchies. A California farm hand has shot two men and killed himself for love. This is one trouble that climate doesn't seem to help. A Chicago boy who lately found a purse containing §IOOO got ten cents for returning it to the owner. Another authentic case of where virtue is its own reward. America no longer needs to protect itself. It is tho rest of the world, according to the London Saturday Re view, which needs to protect itself against America. Tho Prussian Diet has started a crusade against the advertising hill board. hut ours seem to have totally subsided, although the nuisance is as strongly In evidence as it ever was. Generally speaking, any measure is to be commended which has for its object the securing of greater care, accuracy and knowledge in tho sale of drugs and the compounding of pre scriptions. The problem of opening a new reser vation and getting the settlers into it without "rushing" is something of a puzzle. If the Government solves it to the satisfaction of everybody concerned, it may well consider itself wise. In the dialect of Greater New York a "siller" is one who is always at tho window; "to sill" is to lean over the window sill and wateli the hap penings in the street, and "silling" is tlie act of continually leaning over the window sill. These words are the outgrowth of the elevated system. Tho Germans have little reason to complain of our competition in Cen tral America, whose trade our mer chants permit the Germans to snatch from under their very noses. Our Consul at Bremen reports that the Ger man Investments iu Central America amount to $59,500,000, and the large German houses control most of the foreign trade with those countries. The direct trade with Germany runs from $7,000,000 to $11,000,000, and the German houses control the other for eign trade, which German steamships mostly carry. A Russian colony has been estab lished In Ellis County, Kansas, on a peculiar basis. The land Is sold not for cash, but for a given number of bushels of wheat. The buyer agrees to sow a given number of acres in wheat oacli year and one-half of the crop goes to the seller of the land until the obligation is satisfied. No Interest Is charged. The buyer may, according to his enterprise and Industry, pay for the land in two or three years, or, in the event of successive years of crop failures, the clearing off of the debt may be postponed for eight or ten years more. Whenever the crop fails, the seller gets nothing. The colony now numbers 4000, and an immense area of land has changed hands in the county on these conditions, which are easy to the buyer aud profitable to the seller. —Fifty thousand citizens of Indiana are employed In wood imiustrles, and receive annually $15,000,000 in wages. The product of this labor brings $50,- 000.000 each year to Indiana's manu facturers. Twenty peiw-ent of all horned cattle are killed for food in a year, 40 out of every 100 sheep and 00 out of every 100 pigs. BZ STILL. Be still; tho crown of lifejs silontnoss. Give thou a quiet hour to each long day. • Too much of time we speud in profitless And foolish talk—too little do we say. If thou wouldst gather words that shall avail, Learning a wisdom worthy to express, Leave for awhile thy chat and empty tale— Study the golden speech of silentness. —Arthur L. Salmon. A. A A. A. A. A. j ABiT A HE Miss Betty Mayne bad been back in Lindenthorpe tor a week, and tor a week Lindenthorpe had been shocked. Miss Mayne felt hurt. When she re turned she bad been homesick for the sea and the seaboard folks, left be hind when her aunt carried her up to London years before; and friendliness was in her heart toward them, in stead- of receiving the sdme, she had been met with envy and jealousy and all uncharitableness. Partly it was her fault, partly theirs. They only remembered her as the imp and scape goat of the village, who played on tho rocks all day long with bare feet, and they resented her grown up i'ashiona bility. She could not help realizing that she was better dressed, knew more of the world and was in many ways a hundred years ahead of Lin denthorpe. Then, again, Mr. Silas At tenborough, who always did the tight thing, and whose actions, accordingly, were viewed with an indulgenteye, had seemed in danger of doing the wrong thing. "Moonstruck," Miss Griggs de clared him to be. And the Minx wau not even flattered. It was on Sunday that the shock of shocks occurred. To begin with, sev eral minutes after service had begun Miss Betty Mayne walked in—almost strolled in—as cool as a cucumber, and clad in the most outrageously fine dress, and stood in the entrance (in stead of modestly finding herself a seat) poking away at the stones with a green parasol, until Mr. Atteubor ough, who was church warden —the youngest church warden Lindenthorpe had ever had—rose in his Sunday best to show her to a place. People were more disgusted than sur prised when Miss Mayne, after fanning herself ostentatiously for some time, rose and stalked out of church by the front door. Such behavior was to be expected from a Minx. It was what followed that left Lindenthorpe re signed to anything short of an earth quake. Miss Mayne wandered down toward the beach in a pensive mood and took a seat on a hit of sandstone. She was a pretty sight in blue and gold, whatever Miss Griggs' opinion might be. A church warden is at lib erty to differ from a Sunday school mistress on a question like this, and Mr. Silas Attenborough, as he walked from church down to the sea, and saw the Minx on her rock, differed in toto from Miss Griggs. He felt a desire to rebuke the Minx for her conduct in church that morning, but was it wise to venture to the rocks? He was in his gupday clothes, and not very sure of foot among the siippery weeds. Neverthless, his sense of duty being strong, Mr. Attenborough crossed the rubicon and at length reached tho Sandstone rock. The Minx nodded to him. "I saw you in church this morn ing," she said. "I zee you," said Mr. Attenborough. "It was very funny," she went on. "The very first thing I noticed was a chalk mark on your coat from leaning against the pillars, and I do believe you'vo got it on still." This was hardly the conversation Mr. Attenborough had pictured to him self, and be rubbed the chalk away before replying. "It seemed you left church avore the sermon?" "Dreadfully ventilated, isn't it?" she said, nodding. "I really wonder peo ple don't get suffocated sometimes." "It were a powerful sermon." "Short ones always are, 1 think. Or did you come after me before it was finished?" "Coom after?" —Mr. Attenborough was taken aback. He had hurried, cer tainly; but he hardly expected the Minx to notice that. "Coom after avore t' sermon was finished?" He recovered himself indig nantly. "I shouldn't think oft. But—" "You didn't expect to see me here?" Since the Minx sat on a rock in full view of tho shore, Mr. Attenborough evaded what seemed a fruitless ques tion. "It's agreeable by t' sea here avore dinner," he remarked. "The same as ever," she said —"all Llndenthorpe's rhe same as ever—the sea and the village and the folks. They might have slept and never waked since the day I left—seven years ago. Oh!" —she roused herself to sudden animation—"but I'd like to shock them!" "Shock 'em?" said Mr. Attenbor ough, aghast. "Shock you all —because I detest people who can be shocked. And If 1 knew for certain that I detested Lin denthorpe I'd be content to leave It and never see it again." She sank back against the rock. "Would you now?" said Mr. Atten borough, astonished. She nodded. "It's quite true," she said. "I doan't think I'm easy t' shock," he said guardedly. "You?" She shook with laughter. "You? Why, you were shocked in church this morning. You'd be shocked if I were to push you into that pool; you're shocked now at hearing me suggest such a thing." I "T" church is different," remarked he, hastily changing from the pool. "But out of t' church I'm not easy t' shock." "You think so?- "Solomon trewth," said Mr. Atten borough decidedly. "Perhaps you're right," she said. "But," she pointed a finger toward the shore, "is that Miss Griggs over there?" He followed the direction of her fin ger, and saw that most of the congre gation were assembled in groups about the shore. " 'Tis indeed," he groaned; "an" Miss Griffin and t' whole Sunday school watching us. I think that we shud be getting back." "Don't let me keep you," she said. "It is not keeping me. 'Tis only"— He looked about him for an excuse. "Zip me! T' sea." — "What do you mean?" "T' sea," said Mr. Attenborough. "It's coom up"— She sprang to her feet in great in dignation— "This comes of your talking. Why couldn't you keep your eyes open— what is to be done?" "Could yew wade?" suggested Mr. Attenborough, apologetically. He knew nothing of the rocks and what depliths cut him off from the shore. Only he remembered that in old days the imp of the illage knew every inch— "Wade? In my best things?" Her scornful tone made him feel more at fault than ever. "P'raps they'll send us a boat," he said. "After we're drowned?" "P'raps I could —take yew over to th' shore?" "Se how deep it is first," she said imperiously. He let himself down gingerly, and the water closed over the ltneps of his best trousers. "Think yew would loijce to be car ried?" he asked, dolefully, stretching out his arms for her to hurry. But she kept him there while she struggled to hide her laughter, and then said threateningly— "lf you drop me, I shall never for give you." "And if I doan't drop yew?" said he. "Lindenthorpe never will"— "Coom," he said. And at that she let him take her in his arms. The folk of Lindenthorpe on the beach were taking much interest in the pro ceedings. "The Minx!" said Miss Griggs! "did you ever?" Tho church warden was splashing through pools of water, regardless of his appearance, and only careful to protect the affect ed burden in his arms. Most of Lin denthorpe was assembled on the shin gle when he reached tho uninvaded sand. Miss Betty Mayne made no mo tion of descent. "Shall I set yew doon hero?" he asked. "No, she said, "it's damp—l should wet my shoes. Carry me right up to the shingle." He breathed hard, not because of her weight, which was nothing, but because of the publicity of the thing.. "Whom be I carrying?" he asked. "Be I carrying ma sweetheart?" "If —you will," she said, stormed by his unexpected boldness. He put her down in the middle of the assembled folk, some of whom feigned to be watching the sea. Miss Griggs hap pened to be the nearest, and she shook her head archly at the church warden. "I'm shocked." sho said. "We're all shocked, Mr. Attenborough." "Are yew?" said he. "I'm —I'm sweethearted." —Tho King. HORSES NOT AS HARDY AS MEN. During War These Animals Succumb to Hunger and Fatigue. There have been many instances in which fights have beer, lost or won ac cording to the number and condition of the horses engaged. When the siege of Plevna commenced the Rus sians were bringing all their stores and food from Sistova by the aid of GO,OOO draft horses, and at the end of the siege it was found that no less than 22,000 of them had died from hard work and exhaustion. The want of rest and food- tells on a horse far more than on a man. for in the case of the latter there are stimulating in fluences of patriotism, the -lory of vic tory, and other feelings which are not existent in the nature of a horse. Quite half the horses in England sent to the Crimea never returned, most of them having died from hard work and starvation. Indeed, only about 500 were killed in action. So reduced and starved have the poor beasts become on occasions of this kind that they havo been known to eat one another's tails and to gnaw the wheels of the gun carriages. Na poleon took with him across the Nie man 60.000 cavalry horses, and on his return in six months he could only muster 10,000. More than half the horses which were engaged in ou Egyptian war of 188? were disabled; GOO of these were killed and only three-fifths slain in action. In tho Afghan war of IS3B It Is said that .3000 camels and half tho horses engaged were lost in three months. It will thus bo seen that actual fighting does not claim so many horses as starvation or overwork. Defective snoelng, sore backs, want of food and rest, and other similar causes go far toward rendering horses useless for practical warfare. One more and im portant cause needs car-ful attention, and It Is tho danger of injury horses run when being shipped across the sea. They are in constant motion; they continually fall—many of them to lis trampled to death —and the rest become frightened, kick and batter one another about, and aro rendered useless. As an Instance of this, it was found that one regiment on the way to the Peninsula war was deprived of just half of its horses on the voyage. —London Golden Penny. THE UNREST IN RUSSIA. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE PART TAKEN BY THE WQRKiNC CLASS. New Departure in the History of Nlliillsin A lteinnrkiible I'ro|mgnn<la—Scholars Preaching the Gottpcl ol Peaceful Devo lution—"Underground Trades Unions." The characteristic feature of the disturbances in St. Petersburg is the participation of large numbers of fac tory workingmen In the demonstra tions led by college students, states the New York Commercial Advertiser. The despatches from St. Petersburg tell of "a bloody encounter between Cossacks and workingmen." This is a new departure In the history of Nihilism. The movement which began in the seventies by "going among the people" for purposes of peaceful prop aganda, and which culminated in tho killing of Alexander 11. in 1881, was al most exclusively a crusade of cultured young men and women. The educated revolutionists started out upon the theory advocated by Nlcolai Chernyshevski, the leading Russian critic and economist of the sixties, that the better classes owed their superior position to tho labor and sufferings of tho masses, and that it was their moral duty to pay the debt by working for the economical and intellectual elevation of tho pleas antry. Accordingly, the early phases of Nihilism—a name, by the way, which is seldom applied to the Russian revolutionists in their own country— were of a purely educational nature. Tho first secret organization to which the present movement is directly traced and of which Prince Kropotkln, the scientist and anarchist, now lec turing in this country, was an active member, was started by a man named Chaikovski. The Chaikovtz. or Chailc ovists, originally confined themselves to the spreading of literature allowed by the censor and delivering lectures to working people. Prince Kropotkin and others were arrested. The move ment spread. Hundreds of educated young people learned to speak the dia lect of the common people, and putting on peasant garb went to teach the un lettered to read and to write, and to preach the gospel of peaceful social ism. The agitators were sent to Si beria by the hundred, while scores of them died of consumption or, went In sane in tho political prisons of St. Petersburg and Kharkoff. In 1879 tho Russian socialists held a secret convention and split into two factions, the majority assuming the name of Narodovoltzi (party of the will of the people), while the minority remained faithful to the old policy of propaganda among tho peasants. The Naradovoltzi favored a constitutional government as a first step which would clear the way of socialist agita tion. "In order to preach equality and liberty one must first mako sure that one will not be buried alive Re trying to teach a peasant, to sign his name," they reasoned. "All our ef forts have been set at naught by this barbaric government of ours, and be fore we do anything lot us socureeomo freedom of speech and assemblage— rights which the people of every civ ilized country havo hecn enjoying for years." As an inevitable means to this end, however, as a "deplorable necessity," the will of the people started a series of "terroristic" measures, expecting to demoralize the government by kill ing off its more obnoxious officials and thus to bring the panic-stricken czar to terms. In order to show that tills "terror" was forced on them by the government, and was justifiable under tho peculiar conditions under which the Nihilists had to work, the organ of the "underground party" printed, among other things, an obituary of James Garfield, condemning tho as sassin and expressing deep sympathy with tho mourning republic. The terrorists who staked their lives by mining the tracks of railroads over which the czar was to pass, attacking the monarch in broad daylight, or blowing up his dinins-hali, included tho sons and daughters of some of the highest families In tho country. Thus, Sophia Perovskaya, the young woman who gave the signal to fire the fatal bomb upon Alexander 11., was the daughter of a former gov ernor of a province of St. Petersburg and the niece of a cabinet minister. The last issue of the paper pub lished by tho terrorists was printed In ISBG. Since that time the party of the Will of the People has been dwind ling In numbers, gradually giving away to "the Social Democratic party." Tho underlying principles of this or ganization are identical with the dec larations of the socialist parties of western Europe. Like the German fol lowers of Karl Marx, for example, tho Russian Social-Democrats are bitter ly opposed to anarchism in prinicplo as well as in practice, and if they justify, in exceptional instances, "the terror," they refer the student of their movement to the special conditions which call forth such a departure from their general policy. The basic idea of socialism in west ern Europe is that the "cooperative commonwealth" is to come as the natural outcome of the growth of cap ital on the one hand and of the antag onism between the interests of capital and labor on the other. The Social- Democratic movements in Germany, France, Belgium. Austria and other countries are. therefore, essentially labor movements. This is at present the case in Russia. "Capitalist indus try" in our country is developing rap idly, say the Nihilists of the new school, and the field for socialistic trades unionism, which is tho Insepar able concomitant of this progress, is growing apace." The attention of tho Nihilists is thus concentrated upon the working men. They help them in tone of strike and they look upon them as th backbone of the revolution which they advocate. That the new Nihilism is meeting with considerable success is shown by the growing trade-union movement in Russia. An organized strike for an advance in wages was a very uncommon occurrence in that country in the days when the "Will of the People" was at the zenith of its strength. Now these conflicts be tween capital and labor are the order of the day. As trades unions are strictly forbid den in Russia the labor organizations are all secret societies, and their rev olutionary character is implied by the very nature of their existence. The working people who take part in the strikes accuse the government of sid ing with capital, and as they clamor for the right of assemblage and of struggling for better wages by the same methods which are regarded as legitimate in western Europe, these "class conscious" workingmen, as the socialists are fond of calling them, naturally form the main force making for the extortion of constitutional re form from the czar. The conflict between students and the military in St. Petersburg the other day grew out of the severe treat ment of college students by Bogolye poff, the minister of education and the excommunication of Count Tolstoi. But the rank and flle of the demonstra tion was made up of workingmen who had learned in the "underground" trade unions to demand political free dom and to revero the names of the great Russian writers and thinkers. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The finest humau hair is blonde, and red is the coarsest. The thick ness of human hair varies from the 250 th to the 600 th of an inch. In Polynesia baby girls of a year old are placed in wicker cages, and in cages they remain until the time they are married. Happily the children do not seem to mind much, and they grow fat and healthy. At the ago of 12 years or thereabouts most of the little damsels leave their cages to be married. In a chronological record of some of our United States histories is found the following note: "1757, Mont calm took ft. William Henry; massa cre." Judge of the teacher's surprise when a pupil arose, and with a confi dent air said: "In 1757 Montcalm took a fit. and William Henry was massacred." Compressed oxygen and earburcttcd hydrogen were made use of by bur glars lately in breaking open a. safe in a London postoffiee. It is supposed that they provided themselves with a bottle of oxygen and obtained the other gas from a jet i.n the building, thus producing a flame intense enough to destroy the lock. Since the patent office was first es tablished in 1790. only 5757 patents have been granted to women. There are other interesting figures. There have been 415 patents issued to colored men, of which 28 were granted to one inventor and 22 to another. More than 80 percent of the patonts issued are to citizens of the United States. The dry lake of the Mojavo desert in southern California, about 7xo miles in extent, has a sandy surface almost as level and smooth as a floor, without a sign of vegetation. Two miners named Hoyt who livo near by lately got up a land sailboat for navigating this singular lake. It is made very much like an iceboat, only instead of runners it has wheels. It can be sailed in any direction, and as close to the wind as a sailboat. It has made as high a rate of speed as 40 miles an hour and is a completo success. An ingenious Austrian inventor ha 3 just patented a sneaking clock, which he claims will be of tho greatest value to people of forgetful and irregular habits. It consists of a clock phono graph combination. In place of the usual striking attachment is a phono graph, which can be set to sneak a sentence at any hour desired, and thus become an unfailing reminder of the duties of each successive hour. There is no mechanical difficulty in the way of charging this moral time piece with any number of daily ex hortations. It can be set to speak once or a dozen times, and may be trus'ted never to forget its message so long as the clock is duly wound up. Click of the IltiHhinon. In talking the Bushmen give the impression of being in the transition stage, between the click and throat method, of conversing. Imagine the hollow, indistinct utterances such as proceed from a roofless mouth, re lieved by numerous clicks, and you know as much of this language as I am able to give you. In 1896 a few of these people, copying the Maiye, adopted the village system and cereal cultivation for the first time. The great bulk of them still exist on most primitive lines. They wander about the bush without cover, sleeping where they happen to bo when the sun goes down, and eating what they find, main ly roots, snakes and berries, as being easily acquired. In wet weather they place a piece of detached bark over the head, and leave the rest of the body to look after itself.—The Geo graphical Journal. Ovorloliicr It. "There's such a thing as being too cool in the face of danger," says the Manayunk Philosopher. "Many a man's reputation has suffered by his temperature getting so low as to make his teeth chatter."—Philadelphia Rec ord. MAUD. The Man with the Hoe, on that sum- nier's day When Maud Muiler raked the hay. Was at work iu the corn, just over the fence— And Mnml was a girl of good horse sense. When the Man with the Hoe said, "Marry me!" "Go get a reputation!" snid she. He worked it right, and in course of time lie, too, was written up in rhyme. And so they wore wed, 'mid feasting and laughter, And lived very happily ever after. —Detroit Journal. HUMOROUS. Muggins—Why do you allow your boy to work in a bowling alley? Bug gins—Oh, just for pin money. "The shirtwaist must be about to bloom." Why do you think so?" "Be cause there goes one on a bud." Hoax—l suppose when the footpad held you up you were greatly in ' —"cd. Joax—Well, he left me cents less. Teacher—Man proposes anil —and what? Who can complete the sen tence? Bright Pupil—And that's the end of him. Romantic Maid —I wonder what tho wild waves are saying? Practical Youth—Oh, they are probably telling fish stories to each other. Nell—Has Mr. Slokoche proposed to you, yet? Belle —No. He reminds me of a self evident truth. "How do you mean?" "He goes without saying." Teacher—Of course you understand the difference between liking and lov ing? Pupil—Yes. miss; I like my fa ther and mother, hut I love apple pie. Towne—So he's really dead. Well, he made a hard fight. If ever a man had an iron will ho was the man. Browne —Yes, hut I'll bet the lawyers will break it. Prison Visitor —This wouldn't have happened to you if you had been I taught to pray from your childhood. I Convicted Burglar—You're wrong. I was taught to prey from my childhood. | "And do these Indian girls never ! evince a tendency to relapse into their former savagery?" Tears sprang lo the eyes of the mission worker. "Ah, yes," sighed she. "Only last evening they set the table without putting doy lies under the finger bowls." They were on the train, on their wedding trip. "It seems to me the conductor is rather personal," com plained the bride. "Perhaps he thinks this is a personally-conducted tour," replied the groom, who was still rat tled from has receut experience. "So you quarrelled with George?" said one young woman. "Yes," an swered tho other, with much pathos. "Is your engagement broken oif?" "Oh, no. I told liim I never wanted to see his . face again, and he said that he would leave me forever. But we didn't go so far as to break off our engage ment." A PYRAMID OF DIMES. Thfy Count In the Grand Total of the Government'!* Itecoiptfl. "Does the government make much out of these pretty blue stamps?" she asked the clerk at the stamp window as her gloved hand dropped a dime on the glass counter in payment for a special delivery letter to Charlie. "Certainly, miss." responded the clerk. "The government must get revenue from some source other than the internal revenue and import taxes. It tries to make both ends meet in the postal service and endeavors to earn an honest penny or two extra. "You will now, upon mailing that letter, obtain a special service, for which, of course, you ought to pay. Tho government cleans up a neat little pile each year from dimes paid for special delivery stamps, receiving last year 5,191,000 pieces, and employing 2173 messenger boys to deliver them, the average time for tho delivery of each letter being 15 minutes. "The government received In rev enue from his source dimes to the amount of $627,800, and paid for run ning this branch of the service $477,- 100, making a neat little profit of $147,000. "You see, miss, the carrying in the mails of love letters like tho one in your hand, and other missives, costs money, and the department spent last year $107,700,000 to do it. As it re ceived only $102,300,000, there was a deficiency of $5,385,000. Of these re ceipts $94,000,000 came from the sales of postage stamps, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers and postal cards. So every cent the government may make adds to the total receipts and lessens the deficiency, even down to the amount received from the sale of - waste paper. The profit it makes on the sale of the little stamp hooks with leaves that won't stick together at an advance of only one cent over the face value of the stamps in the book has yielded $4500 in a single month." —Washington Star. Virtue Poorly He worded. A curious example of the reward of excessive virtue is the case of certain British pickle manufacturers who have been making their pint bottles hold a little more than a pint, to be on the safe side of the English law. When these pint bottles arrived at Canada they found that there was a law in operation which provides that any package measuring more than u pint must pay duty as a quart.—London Clirenicle. It takes a brfive man to face a den tist, and even then the dentist can take the nerve out of him.
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