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    Moscow, in the streets of which ter
ritle battles were fought between the
revolutionary mobs and the soldiers
of the czar, is the oldest and most
famous city in the Russian empire.
In picturesque sights and wealth of
tradition it is not surpassed by any in
the world, and recent events have
made it still more historic, by adding
another bloody chapter to its chron
icles.
For many centuries Moscow was
the chief city of the realm, the heart
of Muscovy, where the czars held high
court in the barbarously beautiful
buildings which they erected to per
petuate their memory. Even now, al
though for reasons of convenience the
governmental activities have been
transferred to St. Petersburg, it is still
the official capital of the empire. Here
the slow growth of years ha6 built up
that mighty inclosure of palaces and
barbarous times in which it was built,
so s*ngular, so outside of all archi
tectural traditions. Ivan the Terrible
had this cathedral built as a thanks
offering for the capture of Kazan, and
when it was completed he found it so
beautiful, admirable and amazing that
he ordered the eyes of the architect—
an Italian, it was said—to be put out
in order that he might not be able to
construct any other like it.
Architect Put to Death.
“According to another version of
the same legend, the czar asked the
author of the church if he could not
build a still more beautiful one, and
upon his replying in the affirmative,
he had his head cut off, so that Vas
sili Blajennoi should remain without
a rival. It would be difficult to im
agine a cruelty more flattering in its
jealousy, and this Ivan the Terrible
must have been at bottom a true art
HEART OF CZAR’S DEFENSE IN MOSCOW.
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The Kremlin, Walled and Moated, on One Side of Which Is the Red Square
Where Troops Were Massed.
fortresses, the Kremlin, within the
walls of which are grouped many
famous buildings.
Scene of Many Tragedies.
Here Ivan the Terrible, murderer of
3,000 men and women, held his grim
sway. Here, when a boy, Peter the
Great saw his two uncles butchered
Here Boris Goodunuff, craftiest of the
boyars, smiled and cringed until his
chance came and then usurped the
throne. Here every czar and scion of
the royal line of Rurik has been
buried, usually after a violent end.
Here Napoleon’s star began to set in
the smoke of flaming houses. Here
Grand Duke Sergius was blown to
pieces by a bomb less than one year
ago. If ghosts returned to earth to
haunt the scenes of tragedies, Mos
cow would be populated with uncan
ny shadows.
After passing down the very streets
which only the other day were stained
with blood and strewn with corpses,
through the Red Square and along the
walls of the Kremlin, Theophile Gau
tier, the famous Frenchman of letters,
wrote
"Before long we reached the Kitai
Gorod, which is the business quarter
on the Krasnaia, the Red Square, or
rather the beautiful square, for in
Russia the words red and beautiful
are synonymous. One of the sides of
this is occupied by the long facade of
the Gostiny-Dvor, an immense bazaar,
intersected by streets, covered with
glass roofs and containing not less
than 6,000 shops. The wall of the
Kremlin, or Kreml, rises at the other
extremity, with its doors pierced in its
steep-roofed towers. allowing a
glimpse over Its battlements of the cu
polas, towers and spires of the
churches and convents within.
Church Like a Dream.
“At the other corner, strange as the
architecture of a dream, rises like a
vision the impossible church of Vas
sill Blajennoi, which causes the rea
son to doubt the witness of the eyes.
One gazes at it with every appearance
of reality and asks oneself if it is not
a fantastic mirage, an edifice of clouds
strangely colored by the sunshine,
that the movement of the air will
transform or make vanish. It is be
yond doubt the most original monu
ment in the world, recalling nothing
that one has ever seen, nor attaching
Itself to any order of architecture.
"A legend is told of Vassili Blajen
noi that probably is not true, but that
does not on this account the less ex
press with force and poetry the feel
ing of dazed admiration this edifice
must have produced upon the half
Woman ot it.
"No,” she said, “I’m afraid I do not
love you enough to become your wife,
but 1 shall always be your friend and
sincerely wish for your happiness.”
“Oh, that's all right,” he rejoined.
“I have made up my mind to-”
“Please don’t do anything rash,”
she interrupted.
“I'll not,” he continued. “I’m going
to propose to Miss Plumpleigh to-mor
row.”
"Oh, horrors!” she exclaimed.
"Please give me another day to con
sider, dear.”
Vetsran Proofreader Retired.
Raymond Lynch, known as “Judge"
Lynch, veteran proofreader of the
Courier-Journal, has been retired by
that paper on a pension for life at full
pay. Mr. l ynch was born in Louis
ville in 1824 and in 1836 was appren
ticed to the Louisville Journal. With
one or two slight interruptions he con
tinued in the newspaper business, go
ing with the Courier-Journal when it
absorbed the Journal and the Demo
crat in 1868. On Jan. 28 next he would
have served exactly seventy years.
1st, an impassioned dilletante. This
ferocity in matters of art displeases
us less than indifference.”
After speaking of the extraordinary
shape of the structure, seeming as if
“the architect, seated in the middle
of his work, had beaten out a building
au repousse,” Gautier, describes its
amazing color scheme, or lack of it,
as follows: “What adds still more to
the extraordinary effect produced by
the Vassili Illajennoi is that it is col
ored from base to pinnacle with the
most incongruous colors, which, how
ever, produce an ensemble both har
monious and charming. Red, blue, ap
ple-green. yellow, each claims its
place in the adornment of the build
ing. Columns, capitals, arches, or
naments, are painted in different col
ors that throw them out into power
ful relief. In the rare flat spaces,,
divisions have been simulated, panels
inclosing pots of flowers, rosettes, in
terlacing chimerical figures. Illumi
nation has storied the domes of the
bell-towers with drawings, like the
foliage on India shawls, and thus
placed, on the roof of the church, they
resemble the kiosks of the sultans.
“In order that nothing might be
lacking to the magic effect of the
scene, particles of snow, caught on
the projections of the roof, the friezes
and the carvings, scattered silver
spangles over the variegated robe of
Vissili Blajennoi, adorning with a
M. Durnovo, Minister of the Interior.
Map of Baltic Provinces, Russia,
Authority, and Minister Whc
Progress in Railreading.
“Yes,” says the lady whose dress
case is covered with strange foreign
labels, “the way railroads are run
nowadays is a great improvement over
what they were fifty years ago.”
“But surely you had no experience
as a traveler fifty years ago,'’ says
her friend.
“1 don’t mean that. But nowadays,
don’t you notice, w'hen there is a
wreck it is always had at some point
convenient to a cluster of farm houses
where the victims can go for coffee
and to get warm?”
Secretary Bonaparte’s Joke.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte
rarely misses an opportunity to
make a joke. The other day he re-,
ceived a visit from Admiral Endicott
of the bureau of yards and docks, who
announced that it has been decided to
use the government vessels Glacier,
Brutus and Caesar in towing the great
new dry, dock to Manila. “Perhaps,
Admiral,’’ said the secretary, “it might
be well to put Brutus and Caesar under
peace bonds while they are engaged
in the work.”
Center of Revolt Against the Czar’s
is in Control of the Situation.
Expensive Discovery.
“No,” said the first man, “we di<
not give our daughter a musical edu
cation. We realized, when she wa:
very young that she simply could no)
sing, and that was all there was to it
Of course, we regretted it, but what
could we do?”
“I envy you,” says the second man
“Envy us? Why, your daughter has
graduated from two of the most cele
brated. singing schools.”
“Yes, and it has cost me $4,000 tc
discover that she can’t sing a note,
either.”
Lee Not To Be Bribed.'
While so much is being printed
about high-salaried- officials of-' insur
ance companies the interesting fact
is recalled that forty years ago Robert
E. Lee was offered the presidency 6T a
northern insurance company at a sal
ary large enough for those days. He
wrote that he hadn’t the ability not
the experience to command such a
| salary. He was told that his name
was worth it. “What influence 1
have with the southern people is not
for sale,” said Lee. >J •
‘housand dazzling points this marvel
ous decoration.”
This cathedral, so strikingly de
scribed by the French writer, looked
down upon spaces where machine
guns were playing upon a desperate
'nob, and where, with pistols and hand
grenades, the revolutionists were giv
!ng pitched batle to the well-armed
soldiery.
Within the forbidding walls which
rfse just beyond the picturesque
church of Vasil Blajennoi is the Acro
polis of Russia, the Kremlin, where
the sacred relics and the crown jewels
of the czars find shelter Ivan II. sur
rm nded it with the parape;s which,
restored and rebuilt in many places,
ire now being fortified by the govern
ment in order to prevent its buildings,
within which are the richest treasures
in the world, from being looted by the
revolutionis's. Outside us gates 25.
000 troops were massed bv Governor
General Dcubassoff.
Many Stately Buildings.
The Kreiulin is an imposing collec
tion of buildings, standing upon a flat
topped hill that is enveloped by its
tower-flanked walls. It is washed on
all sides by the River Volga, and .its
outer circumference is nearly a mile
and a half long. Among the stately
edifices grouped together under the
one famous word “Kremlin” are the
ancient palace of the czars, the palace
of the holy synod, the Church of the
Assumption, where the czars are
crowned; the Church of the Annun
ciation, in which they are baptized
and married; the Church of St. Mich
ael, where most of them have been
buried; two monasteries, two bar
racks housing 3,000 soldiers, a monu
ment to the memory of Alexander II..
who freed the serfs; the great bells of
Moscow, now cracked and voiceless;
the tower of Ivan and the national
treasury, in which all relics of the
Romanoff dynasty are stored.
Gautier compares the Kremlin to
the Alhambra, saying:
“The Kremlin has many points in
common with the Alhambra. Kike'the
Moorish fortress, it occupies the top
of a hill; it contains royal demesnes,
churches, squares and among'the', an
cient edifices, a modern palace that is
imbedded in them as unfelioitously as
the palace of Charles V., among the
delicate Arabian architecture, which
it crushes with its weight. The tower
of Ivan Veliki is in fact by no means
unlike the Torre de la Vela; and be
yond the Kremlin, as beyond the Al
hambra, lies stretched a scene of won
derful beauty, a panorama that the
ravished eye holds ever in enchanted
remembrance.
Oriental in Appearance. -
“Strange as it may seem, the Krem
lin, as seen from the outside, presents
a more oriental appearance than the
Alhambra itself, with its massive red
towers that give no hint of the mag
nificence of their interior. Above the
walls, with their sloping battlements,
peeping between the towers with their
carved roofs are myriads of cupolas,
like balls of shining gold, with tulip
shaped bell towers reflecting in the
sunshine a thousand colors from their
metallic sides. The wall, white as a
silver basket, incloses this bouquet of
golden flowers, till one feels as if he
were gazing at one of those ‘fairy
cities built by the fancy of the Arab
ian story teller, a crystallization in
stone of the ‘Thousand and One
Nights.’ And when winter sprinkles
with its diamond powder these build
ings beautiful as a dream, one could
readily fancy oneself transported to
another planet, for nothing like to it
has ever been one’s fortune to behold
before.”
The jewels, silver, gold and relics. In
the national treasury wdthin the
Kremlin are claimed to represent an
intrinsic value of $600,000,000.
MARSHAL WAS UNDULY LENIENT.
Nebraska Official Removed From
Office by the President.
Irving Baxter, United States district
attorney for Nebraska, has been re
moved from office by President Roose
velt.
District Attorney Baxter, who was
appointed to office last spring, prose
cuted on behalf of the government
the case against Richards & Comstock,
cattle raisers, who were charged with
fencing illegally the ;public* lands in
Nebraska and whose prosecution was
brought about by investigations into
land frauds made under the direction
of Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock.
The men were convicted and senten
ced to six hours in the custody of the
United States marshal. Practically
no defense was made in the trial.
In carrying out the sentence the
United States marshals deputized the
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attorneys of Richards & Comstock to
take charge of the defendants for the
six hours of their sentence. For ex
ercising this leniency the marshal was
removed from office.
TRIUMPH OF MODERN HYGIENE.
Largely Shown In Constantly Increas
ing Longevity.
There can be no question that the
prevalence of certain diseases has in
creased during the last half century.
Conspicuous among these are diabetes
and insomnia, both of which are large
ly due to the mental stress of a hard
er struggle for existence. The in
creased consumption of alcohol and
the free use of narcotics are also re
sponsible for many morbid conditions
unknown to our hardier forbears. But,
in comparing the present prevalence
of diseases with that of the past there
are several factors for which due al
lowance is often not made. One of
these is that our forefathers died, as
a rule, at a considerably younger age
than their descendants; if they did
not perish by the sword they were
moved down from time to time by the
plague and other devasting epidemics.
In this way they escaped many of the
diseases not only of old age, but of
advanced middle generation represent
ed to a much larger extent than is nnw
the case the survival of the fittest.
Most of the weaklings is that it has
preserved a large proportion ef these
lives.—Practitioner.
Storms on Mars Terrific.
Weather wise prophets are ifeiflng
bulletins of the rain and shine in
Mars. The most tumultous tempests
that the elements’’(iffer me earth
dweller are holidays compared With
the storms of two Weeks and again
of .forty-one days ip. length which Prof.
Pickering of Harvard has. found rag-'
ing around Martians. . The clouds of
Mars are always light yellow. The
desert regions are a darker shade of
yellow. Long duration of storms .and
long clear intervals between are char
acteristics of Martian weather. One
possible reason for the great meteor
ological changes is the greater tenuity,
of atmosphere there. . Mars presents
vast, and conspicuous changes In ap
pearance, whereas a Martian, astrono
mer, looking, towards earth, would
find that the. annual cbwges which he
could perceive ,oven the ,su rfaee 'dt our
planet, present considerable sameness
and lack of variety. .,,...
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Great WeetEoming To Its Own;
; The mighty west Is coming-intoMts
own. The present growth'of the-coun
try is authoritatively Stated to center
west of a line drawn from Chicago to
New Orleans. The secret of the
growth Is found not In nny fever for
sudden wealth but is the secret of a
working race. The wheat fields of the
Dakotas and Montana, the timber
lands of Washington and Oregon, the
salmon fisheries of the north coast,
the coal mines of British Columbia
are stubborn resources to be developed
slowly by coaxing and humoring with
.a risk of long years and all the for
tunes of the pioneers. Through labor;
serf-sacrifice, patience, and courage
these, great .states are being built .with
golden destinies. The capitalists of
the mighty west, whose “mightier
place in the politics, commerce, and
affairs of the union is almost axio
matic.” • ..
Beauties on Waistc3atButtons.
‘■‘Old masters” are being pressed
• into service for th'e embellishment of
men's fancy waistcoats.
'■A* London tailofdlg firm is selling
sets of six miniathre reproductions of
portraits of beautiful— women by
Gainsborough, Greuze and Lawrence,
just as big as a sixpence. These are
considered appropriate when posed on
tartan plaids, fancy checks or knitted
vests.
The buttons are said -to be- much
sought aftdr "by ladies as gifts for
men friends.—London Daily Mail.
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e ’Railroad Men Must' Be "SobSr,
The Prussian Minister of - Public
.Works has ordered, that-in future
, drivers and firemen on the state rail
ways must be total abstainers. In
-temperance.. has. .caused- marry acci
dents on Prussian railroads of late.
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i Rejoice'With'Wofrd's Progress.
; Things art-, not what th^y.■ dtgre
when you were a boy, and you should
be glad of it. When you tregih ‘to re
gret the fact your usefulness is over.
—John A. Howland. - ‘: '
TANTALUM A HARD SUBSTANCE.
Diamond Drill Has No Effect On This
Metal.
Tantalum cuts tantalum, rvimonds
cannot cut It. T^he only effect pro
duced by a diamond drill, worked day
and night for three days on a sheet
of pure metallic tentglum one twenty
fifth of an inch thick, with a speed of
5,000 revolutions per minute, was a
slight dint in the-sheet and the wear
ing out of the diamond. Tantalum dif
fer^ from all other known substances
in combining extreme hardness with
extreme ductility. When red hot it is
easily rolled into wires and sheets or
-drawn into wire. It is. scarcely affec
ted by the oxygen of the air even at a
red heat, and not at all at ordinary
temperatures, and it is not dissolved
by the strongest acids, nor does it
amalgamate with' mercury. It melts
only at the highest attainable temper
atures, and is therefore well fitted for
filaments in incandescent lamps, being
much stronger than carbon. If it can
be obtained in sufficient quantity - it
should prove most useful. It will fur
nish better boring tools than the dia
mond drill, cheaper electric lights than
carbon, and as a plate or a wire hard
er than diamond, yet strong and tough,
it suggests almost limitless uses.
Every’other hard substance is brittle,
a fact tvhich' has hampered the en
gineer for centuries.
CHOSEN MINISTER TO NORWAY.
Herbert H. D. Peirce First American
Representative at New Court'.
Herbert H. D. Peirce,- who has been
selected by the president to be the
first United States minister to Norway,
has for several years been third as
sistant secretary of state at Washing
ton. His most recent work that came
to the notice of the public was as rep
resentative of the state department
of the Portsmouth peace conference.
As third secretary, the consular ser
vice has been under his immediate
charge, and in 1904 he made a trip
around the world inspecting United
States consulates. The results of
this trip, which are found in the rec
ommendation fo.r the improvement of
the consular service, are regarded as
of great value. . Mr. Peirce has held
secretaryships in the diplomatic ser
vice, including that of first secretary
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at St. Petersburg, where he was
charge d’affaires. In the absence of
the secretary of state he has frequent
ly been in charge of the state depart
ment. ’ ‘ 5
Hens Now Rival of Cow,
The farmer’s' hen is becoming a
worthy companion to his cow, says
Secretary of Argriculture Wilson. The
annual production of eggs Is now a
score of billions. Poultry products
have climbed to a place of. more than
half a billion dollars in value. Dur-.
lng the last sixteen years the domestic
exports of farm products have amount
ed to' $12,000,000,000, more than
enough, to buy all of the railroads of
the country at their commercial value,
and this was a mere.surplus for whieh
there was no demand at home. Wealth
production on the farms of the. United.
{States .in ^905reached the highest
amount ever atalned in this or any
other country—$6,415,(500,000. Should
there be no release from his present
position as a wealth producer three
years hence the farmer will find that
the ‘ farming element,-- about 35 per
cent of the population, has produced
an amount of wealth within ten years
equal • to one-half of : the entire na
tional wealth produced in threercen
turies. *
Brazil Woods Beautiful.
- Beautiful Brazil woods are recom
mended to capitalists. Cabinet woods
of many kinds abound, are easy to
reach, and fairly easy to get. Be
cause of the lack of enterprise among
the Brazilians only small quantities
have been exported. Communication
with the woods- is had. freights and
wages are high. An American com
pany' with $5,000,000 is beginning to
exploit: some of the best regions. It
hopes to overcome obstacles by the ap
plication of moderd milling and trans
portation methods. An elevated swing
ing railroad will carry the logs from,
the woods to the mills, which are to
be located near or on good roads.
Evangelist’s Quick Wit.
Dr. Torrey, the English evangelist,
is a man of ready wit, which he uses
writh effect when interrupted while
speaking. On one occasion in London
a.bibulous fellow arose and announced
waveringly that he did not believe
everything in the bible. “I don’t see how
anybody can walk on Water,” he de
clared. “Can yoif do it, Dr. Torrey?”
The preacher looked grimly at the
man for a Tridrtient and then answer
ed: “Well I can walk orr water better
than I can on rum.”
'• Depew and'-“TiVri” SuifTvart;'
■Senator Depew oeedpiw larger.
amount -of $page; 19-the Qonffesstonal,
directory than any other member, and
Congressman “Tim” Sullivan has the
"s&ortest biography- in- the*dbook.- "Both ,
are. from New York.- , v.-i*
’’ ‘ Lucky Fail of Stethoscope.
vA* young and pretty Bellevue nurse
dropped-her Stethoscope out of the
hospital window ifl May^i-t. It..hit the
shoulder of a masculine passerby.
The two were married in June.
KJ/fG OF CATUWEAJV ISLAND
tjapt. u. u. Kivers is now absolute
ruler of the Island of Orchilla, in the
Carribean sea, says the Baltimore Sun.
He threw out his lines and made fast
there twelve years ago, and will prob
ably make it his harbor the rest of
his life—this though he is the only
white man on the island, and though
he has seen the members of his"family,
who live at 2103 Gough street, only
twice in fifteen years.
Capt. Rivers is king and cabinet
combined, and not one of his thirty
West Indian negroes under his sway
dares question his rule, but when he
leaves Orchilla he leaves his royalty
behind.
The captain is not a comic-opera
king. He doesn’t wear birds of para
dise plumes when he’s on the throne,
but down there in that lonely little
spot, with the blue Caribbean, about
him and the tropical nights above, he
superintends the gathering of gua
no, from the coral reefs, which the sea
is eternally uncovering. Boston capi
talists first bought the product of Or
chilla. They secured Capt. Rivers’
services fifteen years ago. The island
is now owned by a company of Balti
more. Other islands are to be ac
quired by tlie company, and the cap
tain is here Joking for a viceroy to aid
him in the management of his king
dom. - "
Do the cares of royalty wear heav
ily upon him? No; he simply sees that
the men get out at their work at sun
rise—there are no women on the
island—and that they keep at it until
sundown, save for the two-hour rest
at noon. Need an army or courts of
justice? The captain smiles. No; of
course, there are times when discip
line must be enforced, but then a man
knows how to do that. The captain
had not had twenty years of seafaring
for nothing before he took charge of
the island.
"My greatest difficulty,” he said, “is
the fact that the men will get drunk.
How do they get it? Easy enough. Or
chilla is surrounded by a number of
smaller islands. In the seasons when
birds are there there are many men
hunting their eggs. They always
carry rum. Suddenly you find your
crew drunk on you, and you know
that somewhere out on the keys are
the egg hunters. What amusements
have they? Sleep. When they've
been working from sunrise to sunset
they want that.
“Of course you can’t kee'p the men
from their women and children all the
time. They come from Bonaire, in the
Dutch West Indies and once every
six months I take the old crew in the
footsteps of the father and grandson
in the footsteps of the son. They are
a quiet,, easy lot."
OTHE'R TIMES, OTHE'R GIRLS
Oh, Time, from o’er thy hill of shades
bring back the day I knew;
Bring back <fhe little village church; bring
back the “preacher,’’ too.
There let me sit, as* oft I did, and hear
the parson drone
Of man’s first fall, the judgment day, the
lightnings round the throne.
The winter days w'ere cold. I wot, but lit
tle was the harm.
For he could paint a hell so hot it served
to keep us warm.
There let me yawn till, “tenthly” past, we
heard our final doom;
Then let me haste to join the boys out in
the anteroom.
It was that anteroom, I fear, that led us
church to try.
For there we stood in shuffling rows to
see the girls go by.
Ah, Timef if you will be so kind, turn
back unto that day.
And let me stand with shuffling boys, and
wait for Millie Ray.
Her eyes were like the shining stars or
gems that know’ no flaws.
Her lips were e’en the crimson bow that
only Cupid fdraws;
And though a clumsy oaf was I, I’d reg
istered a vow
That some night I would see her home, or
ask'her. anyhow.
And so I stood with shuffling boys within
that anteroom.
And tried to screw my courage up to
meet her spoken doom.
Alackaday I and w’oe is me! or woe, at
least,was I!—
Some other chump would ask her first,
before the girls got by!
I think I stood thus in that room some
seven times or more.
And each time saw some other chap
escort her from the door;
And every time that other chap was one
that I could lick—
I tell you, m£n and brethren, it made mo
mighty sick—
Yesw I could lick him. and I knew; his
name was Willie Drew.
And I thrashed him once a weeJv for, say,
a year or two.
Apd so I said: “Well, blame it all! if that
has got a show’.
I guess that . I need only ask, and it will
be a ‘go.’
I’ll ask her sure next Sunday night.” How
run our schemes awry!
I stood there like a leaden chump, and
saw the girls go by.
Ah, Time, thou art a sullen wight, nor
heea our worst mishap;
Yet bring me back those days again, and
“tire” that other chap.
Bring back sweet Millie; let her smile, as
oft she used to do—
But do not let her waste those smiles
upon that 'Willie Drew.
Still as the weeks went drowsing by, no
more .in life to roam.
I vowed, and vowed again, that I w'ould
ask to see her home
I never did: I never dared—confession is
the thing—
But, oh* the years, the freakish years,
some strange conditions bring.
For Millie married Will, and when to
church last week went I,
I saw the boys stand at the door, to s-2e
her girls go by.
—A. J. Waterhouse in San Francisco Call.
TEACHING THE yOVffG CHINESE
Writing of schools for Chinese chil
dren a resident of China says: "Usu
ally the father teaches his sons the
first rules of arithmetic, reading and
drawing. But when his son is 6 years
old he sends him to school, so that the
teacher can be tormented with him.
The'school is in most cases the pri
vate undertaking of some better situ
ated Chinese or of a small communi
ty; the government has rarely any
thing to do with it. The teacher, a
former disappointed expectant official,
(Joes his best to pour into his scholars
his own scanty knowledge. The value
of such a school education is ot course
Very small. In spite of this, many
well-established Chinese merchants in
the treaty ports have had no other
school education and have attained at
most only to some pigeon English,
and yet they are in active and suc
cessful dealings with the Europeans,
knowing well how to count and to
hold their‘own. We have to admire
the gift of preception and the busi
ness, capacity of . the Chinese under
such circumstances as these.
“School lasts usually from 8 o’clock
in the morning till sunset, with one
hour's break for the midday meal.
Chinese boys have no Sunday, but on
the way to and from school there is
as much rushing about and playing
as with our schoolboys at home. Then
the primer and the slate, wrapped up
a cloth, are quickly laid on the
ground when It is the time to give a
cuff or a blow. We see boys enjoy
ing the games pt ball, blind man's
buff, soldiers, robbers or horses,
where the pigtail serves as reins, fly
ing kites and many other well-known
games..
“Girls as a rule are not sent to
school; the mother superintends their
training in housework. As. soon as
the girls are old enough they are
taught to cook, sew, make and mend
clothes and indeed to do all domestic
work. But the enlightened Chinese
sends his daughter to school when the
nearness of a mission or some other
school gives him an opportunity.
CALL FO‘R AN EXPLANATION
Now, what are you going to do with
a Story like this, when it comes from
two dignified, veracious men, .who sol
emnly declare it to be true?
David and Zebulon, bachelors, are
Old cronies—not so old that they
have to-tie their teeth in. with brown
yam, you understand, but old enough
to have settled down to the serious
matters of life, soch as hair invigor
ators and obesity belts. For a long
tim§ they have lived together, occupy
ing adjoining rooms, between' which
the1 door is seldom closed. According
-to the testimony of .both, neither of
fhem is given to talking in his sleep".
The other night, howeVer, fcebulon
dreamed that he' was 'telling a- funny
story to David, -It seemed* excruciat
ingly funny to Zebulon and he was an
noyed at David's apparent inability
to see the humor of "tt,so; he told it
again, emphasizing the point of the
joke so energetically that he actually
spoke aloud, thus waking himself. He
was sure he had" epokenf, for when he
was well awake the tone of his own
voice still lingered in his ears.
For a moment he lay, trying to re
call the story, which on the instant of
waking, had vanished from his mind,
when suddenly David, in the next
room, uttered a loud laugh, which, in
turn, awoke him.
Zebulon hopped out of bed and went
to David's room.
“What are you laughing at?” he ask
ed. !
“Did I laugh aloud?” David wanted
to know. "I thought I did.”
“You certainly did. Were you
asleep?”
“Yes,” said David; “I woke myself
laughing at a funny story you were
telling'me.” He then went ahead and
told the story, which Zebulon recog
nized as the one he had dreamed of
telling to David.
Now, then, ye psychologists and me
taphysicians, get to work on that and
see what you can make of it.—Brook
lyn Eagle.
WOMAff STA*RTLET> *By LlOffS
«■£/.. ,?y
Mrs. L. Hinde, whose husband is
sub-commissioner of the British East
Africa protectorate, has had the re
markable experience of being Stalked
by lions, »nd the still more remark
able fortune of living to- tell the tale,
says Blackwood’s Magazine. It was
on the Uganda railway, in a spot his:
toric for the ravages - of man-eating
lions,...that Mrs. Hinde met with the
thrilling adventure which she relates.
Camping out, the pariy in which
Mrs. Hinde was could hear with hor
-,rtd regularity the screams of the
w-retched victims as they were carried
off for the man-eater’s nightly re
pasts.
‘ "The camp was seventy miles from
-the- nearest connecting link with ,lhe
outside world, and communication had
to be kept up daily by native mail
runners. ' It was-the habit of the lions
to keep- pace in .the long grass with
the runners, on the track, and having
selected the most appetizing member.
of the party, to pounce upon him and
carry him off into the bush.
On one occasion, when out map
making, Mr. and Mrs. Hinde came
upon a party of a dozen'lions, possibly
the man-eating troop. Mr. Hinde fired
twice, dropping two of the beasts. He
then suggested that Mrs. Hinde should
ride back to camp while he approach
ed the two lions, who might be dan
gerous, even though mortally hit.
After riding for half an hour Mrs.
Hinde looked back and saw six of the
lions following her. The two native
gun-bearers ran away, leaving her un
armed, alone with her sais, an hour
from camp.
She set off at a fast gallop, the sais
running by her side. In their path
arose an angry rhinoceros which fled
froih them on to thC lion3.'
Mrs. .Hinde reached camp in safety,
while Mr. Hinde was field up. by the
‘rhinoceftis, on Which he did riot ven
ture to fire tor fear of ttiming it on
. Mrs. fiiind/2. ... , ,
’ Hope Defetred. ,i i
„ -jpat had' just finished chopping the’1
sticks for.^the -good ..lady, , and , :she,’ 1 >
beneVol’ent soui, had asked him wheth* \
er he -wOuitil prefer a cup of tea or a ’
drop of whisky. * t
“Can a duck swim-?” said Pat. “Sure, ■
I'll be tapin' a drop o’ the cratur, if, 3
ye don’t mind.”
So she fetched him a glass of whis- !
;y .and water., ' t , ,
Pat" tasted arid seemed not very
fell plbaried.1 ■ t t:
"Eeggin’ yo.ur,i pardon, mum, and
rhich did ye be after puttin’ in the
;!ass first, the whisky or the water?”
“Xhe whisky first,1 of Course, which
s proper,” she,replied. .
“Oil, it’ll be pH right then. Pll be
omin’ to the whisky by and by.”