Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1892, Page 10

wT - ’ THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY. “OCTOBER 29, 1892—SIXTEEN © PAGES, get money out of them. ‘The Russian is natur- ally sugpicious, and have to have the means of identification or the is in and your record is looked up. - It takes about a day for » stranger to get a check cashed at » country bank, and charges are made for every- thing. ' In Sguring up the amount due yon tons strung ou Wires. fastead of eletiatior by tons strung on ti figures, and he adda and tiplice and divides rather as the Europeans. There are pawnbroking shops in all the towns.” These are licensed by tha govern- ment, and the pawnbrokers have fo make large deposits and pay well for the privilege. ‘THE IMPMRIAL BANK. Speaking of the Imperial Bank, it is inter- esting to note how this immense sum of nearly $50,000,000 worth of taxes is collected every subtracts, multiplice Chinese do than the | IN THE TENDER. Men Long Accustomed to Danger Show No Fear of Death. EDUCATED BRAVERY. The Locomotive Fireman and His Bravery and Danger—A Sad Tale Told at the Round ‘House—How Brave “Jim” Collins Saved & Train—The Wreck at Big Shanty—The Pas- as the bright particular star occurred not long since at Big Shanty station out in Kansaa, ‘The Alton “hummer” was running at a great rate of ineer and fireman HALLOWEEN NIGHT. October 31 a Night of Mystery, on Which Bead Carefully if You Would See Your Future Mate. ees ee SOME SURE CHARMS. Fairies and Sprites Play Merry Pranke— Some Old Charms Which Never Fail. man or msid, who found one cried out “Oyni- ver,” and was answered by the first oni or maid, who found one. These two were tined to be united in wedlock. SOME FURTHER cmARMR. | The baking of special cakes and the bnilding of big bonfires were ceremonies rarely left un- performed. It was the custom to build these great fires, let them die down, and then in the ashes form a circle of stones, each one marked to represent one of the village families, Then the good folk went to bed and they next morn- examined the circle. If any stone were in Washington. | Correspondence of The Evening Star. New Youn, October 98, 1892, ia par CHAPPIE, ITS GOING TO rain “Yumpa.” “We'll got wet.” “Not muck. Ill take you under y um You are mistaken.” year aud where it comes from, This isa Di ountry, but the revenue would, if divi mong the Russian people, amount to $25a family, and the expenditures of the govern- ment are enormous. The emperor, in addition to hi vate fortune, has practically the control of all the reyenues of the empire and his word is law us to the disbursement of this vast sum. He has a big ot tion under him and he has his cabinet just as our Presi- dent has. This vast empire ie. divided up into Provinces or states, each of whick haa its gov- | ernor, who rules the state much as our govern- ors do, but who is appointed by the emperor, S Every’ state is di Up into districts and every district into towns and villages, and there are elective assemblies in the towns, counties and states, which have much to say as to the distribution of the taxes, and every village de- cides just how much each of its members shall VASE Sa Ee Written for The Evening Star. © DAISY PETALS falling, answering, | loves me—a little—in- differently—pa ately—not at all, speed down s grade, the look keeping a sharp er a few miles dis- passed. —_—s——— | ITH BUT ONE EX- ception the locomotive fireman haé@ess chance for his life, when a de- railment or run-in oc- curs, than any other railroad employe or passenger. The oneex- ception is the railway mail clerk. The fire- man, while at work makingsteam by shovel- ing in coal or raking said the other, drawing from his pocket around brass check. ‘This is the way Ialways carry my umbrella, Do you see that umbrelia-stand on the corner? This Check entitles me to my pick of all those umbrelias Come across the street and we'll get one of them.” ractices as changing buggy wheels, ringi joor bells, pelting’ windows with beane an |Sormand removing front gates are but a few drops in the bucket of the emall boy's pranks lebrating this night. But of all the games ‘bobbing for apples” is the one jolliest, Some broken chicken bones | #0licitous mothers have substituted for the over the door nor four-| “bobbing” the practice of dropping fork | new dodge, isn't it, dear boy?” * | from ® certain beight, aiming it to strike one of | asked Chappie No. leas his friend raised th leaf clovers in the shoe, | the apples. Although this may be Jes pro- | umbrella ser. they "buth to esoape the com- nor hundred white | ductive of colds than “bobb’ it is nothing | mencing sprinkle. horses and three gray | more than a matter of marksmanship and ha* | Vans, rather so,” assented Chapple No. 2 mules, nor yet the | Mone of the sturdy merriment of the genuine | “you see, I pay €3 ubecriber to | game. There are several methods of procuring | concern that make Sital counting 01 Tis cpsloin bobbing. IE & have attun ltr nine nights of nine | not difticult at all to catch it with the teeth and | nim bright stare, nor any | jift it out and if it be very little then it can be hhim to shut down the engine every minute, but on and on he went, and rounded the last curve between the train and the siding witha rush. Then it was too Inte. Another headlight dashed into view. The engineer with a wild cry of fright threw himself from the window of the cab and rolled down the bank out of harm's way. Not so his fireman. Quick as a flash he sprang over the boiler and was in the engineer's place. Back came the ponderous lever and on with a crash went the alr brakes. Some claim that the fireman did not have time to reason. His hands flew to the air lever, throttle and whistle valve as if controlled by mechanism. ‘The motion was wholly involun- GOVERNMENT BUILDI} BANKING IN RUSSIA. Queer Features of Money Lending in the Land of the Czar. small shopkeepers, vodka sellers and mer- chante, practically control the money. business of the smaller settlements. In some villages you will find the Hebrew, who has in some way crept in from Poland, who is loaning money at big rates of interest to peasants and who has often { mortgages on nearly every available piece of | property in the town. and though the nominal tates of interest are only from 6 to 12 per cent, these Koulaks, merchants and Hebrews so ar- em often, but didn't know ment to sell his crops or his labor for the next summer for money. In some provinces the | land proprietors advance small sums of money | ‘on ® contract with a man that he isto give th one or two days a week of labor for a year in payment for it, and the system is such that in stances have been known of men getting two | | what they were for. The brass check t from 100 to 200 per cent. > bed | tas other charms, are so potent for lovers as those | #ucked in. It is the big, hard, stemless ones | = to en nbonite chanonee fa sepespetaen <i 2 — mpalnpchege Aapehatirean deed legend fn SE ae See. Ne pennant _over the immense MT the engineer had time to think that an ac- | °f Halloween, for it ison this night that the | fhat require the most ekill. ‘The best wav is t0 | free in enchouge for SEYC 7 r z Ps is “4 | 2 Ne for their | of flaming coals, has his view in front entirely | _ es 5 push one to the bottom of the tub—mind you, | ¢j e up my check. HONEYCOMBED WITH DEBT. | planted. and when the peasant is hard up in opulation and they pay more . t employe | Cident wae about to happen and hed time to | fairies are out playing tricks nanghtr and gen~ | [ig not fair touse the hands ot ah otinn mane Rar igtt pane hie hee: | the winter he will make any sort of an agree- F000 of direct taxes every year, | blocked and, like the government employe | f)4ent mes abont to happen a window, his fire- | tle and when spirits roam through the air. It | : yoa directly in bis rear, knows nothing of a sudden run-in until the crash comes. | It is a strange circumstance, but nevertheless | true, that in almost every wreck wherein lite is lost or the victims forever crippled the suffer- ers will be found to be firemen. . | it firmly with the teeth and bring it up on this night of mystery and mischief, fun and| It results in breathlessness and wetness, but frolic, that mortals get glimpses into the to- | is sure. Another sport isto bang an apple from Elec bin . | the ceiling bya long cord, start it to twirling. Rites there are in plenty for the men and for | and then try to take bites out of it without | ‘ touching it with the hands. Both of these a the maids. Is there a youth with no concep- | old s oh games. dey wed are not, entoniliar ‘The bulk of the revenue, however, is col- THE TAXES. lected in indirect taxes,and Russia has a higher wall of protection about it than the United All sorts of imports are taxed and there is a revenue tax on spirits which amounts man had an equal chance for his life. As it | was his life paid the forfeit for his bravery. | But it was a case of educated bravery, as often found in the tender as in the cab of the loco- | motive. Sach men, long accustomed to danger, | show no fear of deat! | Fhe Government Ranning Millions Be-| hind Every Year—Kussian Paper Money | and What It Brings—The Government Bank and the Land Bank for Peasants. idea exactly, dear bo: be & beastly bother, don't you . to have to fetch the umbrelia all the way back to the stand rou got it from. Do you send your m cb it?” 5 dear boy. T am not obli At the longest but @ few seconds bad elapsed | tion of his cardiac future, let him consult the | to the Americas bors and girls, take th brelia back to the stand 23 ~ A og days a week from a peasant for #) to 9130,000, and the rt taxes| Ashe stands at his work, braced against one | from the time the engine passed the switch | uy yogi = J s |; BReken menace sik thee Oe fe Te Sen ey of The Reesing Stes. sor fx ohent. 8 cf car monny. | ses eae 10,000,008 Nearly | until the two headlights erashed together. | “/U8Bies Three.” He will at least discover "se ceremonies with their faint re-| received it, All I have to do is to leave 1 end of the tender, the train flying over the road ata tercific rate of speed, the hazardous part of his labor is quickly discernible. Should the links rt between the locomotive and tender a terrible death is his. One fal Pp will precipitate him head foremost from the | whether he isto live and die single or to marry, | ner yeepentanpedirgy trio gy cosh th ‘ tition ost curiously blended. with | and if he is to marry, whether it will be maid even traces of the stern worship of th: raids or widow. On this eve let therb be threé aau-| can at lenst be traced hack te the Tenan mae cers placed in a row—one empty, one contsin-| to Pomona, She was the gracious and beauti- ing water and the other ink. The person trving | The truth of it is the peasants are like| ¢, thing under the sun is taxed and the tax children. |The majority of them do not know | list is greater than ours was during the worst how to take care of themselves, They do not | part of the civil war. You bave to pay a tax see beyond the day and they are willing to | {> carry on any kind of a business here, and a promise anything for money. These Koi | clerk in astore is taxed for the privilege of are the worst set of usurers in the world. They | clerking. It costs about $6 a year fer the right Probably the fireman saw from the color of the | | switch lamp that there was trouble ahead. If he did the time which elapsed before the crash might have occupied twenty seconds. It would have been as easy to jump through the cab one of the stands that happens to be cons It seems to be cloaring off now, and, loca so, I'l simply drop this down town.* “But how about “Oh. when I leave the umbrella at whatever USSIA to be the richest coun- try of the world. Its emperor has an income | ful goddess of fruits, It was o: ng that but, blind- of more than $10,000,000 a year and the annual revenues of the govern- ment are almost half billion dollars. In its natural resources there antry which pares with it, and ald, if it developed inde- is no it ese, be more f the outside world then Chins is to- to do with, and its finances are admini constitute less than 6 per cent of the popula- tion and many of them have grown quite wealthy. Originally poor, they are acquainted with all the tricks of ‘the peasants, and they know »w to grind them down to the lowest point, and they usually prefer payment in labor rather than in money. The wages in Russia are so} to sell tobacco, and if you want to runa back- ney coach or a sledge you must take out a li- cense at a cost of $5. You pay $300 a year for keeping a distillery and $75 for selling wine in vern, and if you keep a restaurant of an kind you have to take outa license for i you own a horse it will cost you @3a year in taxes and a dog you can have for 50 cents. If you have a law suit you will have to pay a tax on the amount of money involved in it. Ra road tickets are taxed and 25 per cent is charged onexpress rates. There isa tax for fire insurance and there are taxes on hous narrow opening at the side and, as the engine strikes a sharp curve, this result is not easily guarded against. Ho has to be continually on the alert against curves, and to the green fire- man the swerving awing of the engine is some- | thing execedingly difficult to stand up under. About the only time the fireman has of leisure when the train is going down grade. Then the engine ia shut off. the steam saved and the fireman climbs up onto his little leather covered seat in the cab opposite the engineer and en- joys a few minutes well-earned rest. THE FREIGHT LOCOMOTIVE FIREMAN window as to have made the motions necessary to save the train. Here is a fine point for metaph; The | fireman must have thought that his time had | come, A man thinks hard in seconds like those. He may not be able to tell his exact thoughts, but be knew that a responsibility rested upon him. Experience brought about | that state of mind. He bad been over the road hundreds of times, each time with a mind full of the dangers of his position, He was con- stantly fearing an occurrence such as took place at Big Shanty. When the supreme in- stant came and the engineer threw himself from ns. must know nothing of their order, folded, he is led to them, and he dij into one. If it be the empty on has only bachelor his finger . then Fate ‘oom-in store for him. If it be the inky one, then he is to marry a widow, and if the one with clear water, then he id. Sometimes it is tried three ler to verify the answer, the sau- cers being changed each time, Burns in his “Halloween” describes “Auld Uncle John” as trying it three times. | the grateful people, wh n their harvests a gathered in, should ice of some of their bounty. 2 a burnt offering, and as the # smoked and crackled they watched and prayed for signs of future pros- perity and happiness. nets ME, AND MRS. BOWSER. He Spends an Evening at Home, With Not Pleasant Results. “You stand L choose the person in charge gives me another check. I put that in my pocket and when next I want an umbrella J go and get one from the nearest stand. Jt is the same process over again. The checks for this year are all marked 1592. und on January 1 next I shall have to buy a new one for 1898. I can get it at any of the stands by paying #8.” “So that provides you with umbrellas for @ iv. dear boy.” “It's a great echeme. But what strikes me From the St. Louis Repub. 4 pendent c hold furniture and personal property. You | since the ad option of the “‘modoc"’ and “hog” | the cab he looked upon it as inevitable, and, wha wedlock’s Joys “Ah! But this is nice!” exclaimed Mr. Bow- =~ Me afford bd have poor day. The troth is, however, that Rnssia is Innd note in your purchases at the stores that all im- | engines by the big corporations, has a task be- | clinchii teeth, he did his duty religiously. hoy ene Pee ser as he kicked off his shoes and fell into the Pram x rus — + i 4 poor. It has more « than it hnows what ported goods have little metal tags fastened to| fore him in keeping up steam almost the equal| Probably he murmured a prayer for oe He Beaved them nthe tre —e, ° ered i such a shiftiess way that it runs behind mi them by wires and these are the government stamps put on by the custom house officers. If of the iron puddier in the rolling mill. His chief relief comes in the way of long “lay jes he closed the throttle and the air brake, for the sleeping passengers behind him.’ His wrath that night ta, especially chestnuts, have always played big rocking chair the other evening. may talk as much as you will, Mrs. Bowser, but 1 think that ne rticle of apparel should die tinguish a gentleman more than his umbrella, ; ; F ; Y . Why, you can almost read people's characters : a ladv wishes ribbon for her hair ora man buys relief : action was not mechanical. It was a sort of | an important part in these ceremonies. Some-| there's no place like bome, I pity men who | by line - of dollars every year and its government debt ’ AN DEWTORS. Shey find upon them there little | ore tds cree aairtig movies mascenger | Pravery for which. yeare of experience had | where'it ie told that at ove tine, hong ago anny | have no henen.” phe peg py ~ Sg ey constantly incrrascs. It already ower more low that itis impossibie for a peasant eve stamps, the cost of which has been added to | Orr arsocralic oF swiftly moving passenger, | trained an already brave, cool man. were used in the Catholic celebrations of the} “Tam glad you like to spend your evenings ; . 4 than @2.500.000,000. or more than 5,500,000,000 get m joney ahead, am pos shinplasters of from £0 cents to $1 ward, and this paper money keeps fiuc K so that « great speculation goes on in baying God ending it. Tuere ia stock market here in Mt Petersburg which bas at times as lively with stocks as well as with cards. I had quite avam of English ¢: me into Rus- sin some month ago, and I have changed this from time to time into this Russian paper. I am now getting from 10 to 15 per cent more for it than I did in the summer and the value of has been increasing ever since I came here. | ring the time of Alexander II the govern- ment tried to keep mp the value of the Russian peper and the Russian bonds by sending gold and it w Russia has t pay 4 per cen! scones as Wail street, and the Russane gamble | Cay | and the czar would not let them starve. | and there is a bank here under the gover: | which was organized to lend money to the | and less careful of making both ends meet. cropare all that he has to mortgage. Just ..on nccount of the recent famine and the ss in the shape of cattle and horses, the | ts have become more in debt than ever, | and the hundreds of millions of dollars which the government has loaned to the villages on account of the famine has made the Mussian peneant the poorest man in the world. No one | in Russia outside of the peasants sees how they | possibly repay the government for this fam ine money and no one expects it. The ezar will probably forgive the debt some time in the fu ture, when he wishes to be expecially gracious | to the people, and several Russian statesmen | have told that the only reason why the | money was not given outright was because such a gift would tend to make the Russians a nation | of paupers and tocause the peasants not to| work at all, on the basis that the government POOR NOBLES. The nobles of Russia grow poorer every year, en: nobles upon mortgages on their land. The loans of this bank asiready amount to more | than $50,000,000, and a number of estates have | been sold under foreclosures of mortgages by | it. Not long ago it was said that 3,000 estates | readvertised for sale by this bauk of the nobility, and the large estates which used to | revail in Kussia are fast being divided up by Kit and high interest. ‘The nobles know ttle more than the peasants about taking care of their property, and they are more extravagant Before serfdom was abolished they had more the price of the goods. PROTECTION AND THE WORLD'S FAIR. This Russian proteetion crowds nearly all classes of foreign goods out of the mazket, and grown up in ke: The hardware of this country is noted for its excellence and there a a great mazy American specialtibs® sold here American which are made in other parts of Europe or in Kussin, I find that American goods stand very weil, and such things as agri- cultural machi wad hand tools could be im- orted and sold ata profit. The Germans and English are selling some American goods In thi way, and the Germans are imitating some of our goods and shipping them here. Merchants tell me that it would pay the American mang. facturers to send their ogents here to study the market and to furnish goods to suit it. But nothing can be done by circulars or through other parties, The Germans are very jealous of American trade and they are doing all the; can to crowd it out of the markets of the world. Thave found some large land owners who are using American agricultural machinery, and I | have meta number who have told me they in- tended to study our agricuitural methods when | they came to America to visit the world’s fair; and in this case they will probably ship some of our machines back to Russia from Chica eneral Crawford tells me there will at least one thousand exhibits from Russia at the Chicago exposition, and the czar is prepar- ing to show something’as to the resources and ities of his country. Fax G. Canesten. under it a large manufacturing busivess has | freight and pasenger, was about tive or six feet nquare, while at the present time the fire- box of a “hog” engine is fully twelve feet Jong and the big passenger flyers about two feot less. Into these boxes coal must be shoveled almost continuously on a fast run, ag the engine eats it up in a way that almost makes the grain elevator jealous ax it devours the grain in the hold of a vessel alongride. PLUCK AND ENDURANCE REQUIRED. Although the work of a fireman is exceedingly arduous and the risk to life and limb very high, his labors develop the man, If he does not possess the proper amount of stamina a vacancy soon occurs, but if the necessary amount of pluck and endurance is forthcoming a year's experience will put him on the road to promo- tion as master of the engine. As the firemen earn, on an average, about $65a month and the engineers about $110, it can be readily seen that the promotion is eagerly looked forward to. A reporter of Tag Evexro Stan, while mak- ing his rounds on® day recently, accosted one of these “knights of the coal shovel” as he wis about donning his suit of blue jean down at the round house on Virginia avenue. A major part of the above facts were gleaned from him. THE FIREMEN HANDICAPPED. In addition he said: “The one great handicap we have when a mishap is about to occur is the noise occasioned by the jarring of the locomotive. The en- gineer has time, perhaps, to reverse his. engine and give a warning call, but it has frequently happened that the first intimation of danger is Not one of the passengers was killed, and only a stall number were injured, but the fire- | lost his life. But what of that; be did his | men know how. | > | ELECTRIC CIGAR LIGHTING, | An Invention That May Largely Do Away With Matches. SIGN IN FRONT OF A DOWN-TOWN . cigar rhop re “Walk in and light your cigar by electri A Sran writer, whose “two-fer” had gone out when half burned, responded to the invitation. On the cigar counter was a small machine on wooden base, the visible part of which con. sisted chiefly of two objects resembling in min- iature the electrodes comm: y attached for grasping with the hands to « galvanic appa- ratus, A printed card directed the customer to take hold of one of these and pull it out of the tube which held it. Tt was e very simple affair, On pulling out the metal rod the end of it came into contact with a wire point, thus completing the circuit. Inside of tixe rod was a wick projecting slightly from its extremity, and this was set atire in- stantaneously by the electric spark. The rod withdrawn from its tube made a small torch, which was applied to the “two-fer” aforesaid, whereupon an agreeable fragrance suggestive of cabbage perfumed the atmosphere. ‘be rod | was then thrust back into the tube again, the | end of it going into an extinguisher. by which the flame was put out. This made it ready for | next day—All “Nuterack Night’ is a name sometimes heard in the northern part of England, bu “Halloween"’ October 31. A favorite charm, ono of the most widely practiced ones, is to burn chestnuts, thereby discovering true love. As described by Gay in pretty verse: t is not heard any place cise. the most universal name for t boune * mand ard fey sates inns shy paeaiees tow Por twas thy id's beteuely wo There ix another way of performing this cere- tis very popular among the Irish ‘Two nuts are placed on the coals side by hide, one named for the lover and one for his sweetheart, According to their burning so will their life be, or in the quaint verse, “Lines on Nuts Burning on Alihallows Eve:” These glowing nuts are emblems true Of what in human lite we view ‘The fil-matched couple fret and tame And in the sirife themselves cousuine; Or from each other wildly start And with a noise forever part: But see the bappy, happy pair ¥ y turn Aud as the vita! sparks dec Towetber geutly sink away TA life's ordeal being past ‘Their mingied ashes rest at last. VEGETABLES AND on: Pallimg thecabbage or “kail” stalyp is another charm, true in its prophecy. Two=a man and maid—blindfolded, hand in hand, run out into the garden: and pull up the first stalks that at home,” she replied. “Yes, this is nice!” musingly continued Mr. | Bowser as he spread out his feet and rubbed his hands. “I am in the mood for a regular old- fashioned visit tonight. Husband and wife should never grow old toeach other. I think they ought to sit down now and then and sort of renew their courtship.” “I think so, too, aud I know it would be bet- ter for both.” “I was reading an article in a newspaper the other day which said that a honeymoon founded on love should never end. I think ours was founded on love.” “Yes,” replied Mrs. Bowser, “I think it was. Don't you remember how you used to say you would willingly jump over Niagara Falls for me? During the last three months of” “Do you mean to say that I ever made use of any stich tomfool expression as that?” de- manded Mr. Bowser, suddenly roused to a state of activity. “Certainly, dear. For the last three months of our courtship you came over to the house three times a day, and you said — “Mrs. Bowser, what are you talking about?” he shouted as he rose up with a beautiful blush on his cheeks. “I might have called two or three times a week in answer to your urgent re- quests, but don’t try to make out that 1 had no more sense than a pumpkin!” “I remember one evening in particular,” she said, as if to herself. “There was a full moon and the sky was without a cloud. We sat on the piazza and you insisted on holding my the famous picture of “Dantel be din- Lions’ Den’ the prophet was to from the lions by bis blue cotton tinguishe umbrella. t's a bore to carry an umbrella.” “That is one reason why this method of do- | ing things is desirable. One doesn't have te | bother with lugging an umbrella about asa pre- caution against possible rain, Besides, it ise safeguard against losing umbrellas. I used to lose about four umbrellas a year on an a’ never get caught inthe rain for lack of one, and I don't have to bother with carrying umbrella all day when it is cloudy.” “I should think that a good many of the um~ brellas would never be returned to the com- LOCKED IN AN ICE OBEST, A Hotel Walter's Unpleasant Experiences im @ Hotel at Syracuse, N. ¥. Henry Williams is a colored waiter at the Yates House, Syracuse. He is # conscientious fellow, and for several years has not indulged in the popular game of shooting craps, says the Syracuse Standard. He came to the conclusion that it wasn't right, He never won enything, The other evening, however, he played « soli- tary game of freeze-out that he will remember she ncion of ‘ | the garden and pall up the fn that | fhe whonever he thinks of the Yates. He threw up Byron Paco gene i - the reversing of the engine, which throws. the | the neat person who might desire « light, they tduch, Then they return toexatine their | band.” teat hohansvtainen tans ‘ aerate iy eparact ore aes omeee fireman to his knees or on hin faco and before | It was explained that ihe wick te all the | forvunes, “Worse luck ifthe stom Deawkeund | _“"Not much, Urs, Bowser! It's heap more Shute coe ee for the lost of the land, which was sold to the peasants, they find themselves poor. There | are a large number of private banks in addition | to these government banks, and these, Iam he can recover himself and make the leap for life he is buried under the coal in the tener and pushed up against the firebox to be thd § roasted to death. Then again,the space throng way through the rod, and occasionally it was | | necessary to unscrew the handle and pour in a| small quantity of oil, enough to keep the wick supplied. The battery was concealed in the | and clumsy, the roots free from carth and the taste of the stem bitter. we one denotes that #0 will the wife or husband be ugly and awk- ward. The amount of earth clinging to the roots likely that you wanted me to hold it! Yea, I remember now—you put up a job go that I was obliged to hold it.” “As you were holding my hand you wondered perienced was positively chilly. Y e a shaeae ~stos > Py “a | times when he th there had been crooked. told, are making money,and they are payi which the fireman is compelled to leap for| wooden base and was calculated to last fora | denotes the amount of dowry and the taste of oy = pimndende Gegred and you said | work that merited the use of a razor, but never dividends of from 6 to 15 per cent annually. safety is so narrow that it reminds one of an | couple of years without renewal. | the stem the temper of the future partner— thon: ih airs Meenas, re was he so certain of a as be was the These banks came into existence about the attempt to jump through a doorway while the| Before long this device is to be applied to | amiable or crose, bie Ay rough the years to come.” , | Other nigbt. A razor wouldn't him. He time that the serfs were freed, and there were door is coming to. If canght it's a case of | small contrivances of a size suitable for being | Finally the stems are placed above the door wary noneumae! Kovers tn the seseni ~ | ak of in Russia outside of the n to be established the money in cireu- lat increased, and in about ten | ‘Kitty bur the door,’ because the victim will “Well,” replied the fireman, “I can make more money at firing than any other business, carried in the pocket, batte y and all being put | pase Only One Word, in due order. The Christian name of the first man who passes under. The first woman is counted for the frst stalk belonging toa man or boy. Are you trving to make out that I didn't ing him. ‘‘we were strolling in the garden. You | had been quiet for a long, long time. I asked you what you were thinking of and you put prayed for an ax. The matter cam it accidentally, A ks before 1864. ‘Russia is just have the life crushed out of him inan ‘nstant, | up in a bulk about half thai of an ordinary re~ | Person to pass under the door will be the Chris- | know enough to get under a wagon shed when | theater party (stag) came in for @ a paar ales de is Gol ack bedene thie aus the tender invariably mounts the locomotive | volver. ‘Chus the smoker will be enabled to | tian oame of the future partner of the owner of | it wy through, and yor ouskt Jobe ail the | supper. Wine, Philadelphia squab, t rhets of Europe. This | time the State” did all the busi- | in a collision.” light his cigar gr cigarette by electricity | the first stalk, the second to pase under will be | way through. and you ought to be glad to keep | Titton &e., wore required. Beary wes sat t was found that a « ness of the It has a capital of less than “Why don’t you leave the railroad and take | always, instead of using matches. One ai-| the name of the second’s. Of course, if the | * aa sora i gh ae ver mind- | 20 to the refrigerator in the vent to the bonds cheap ip | $$ private deposits were over up some other occupation?” inquired the re- | vantage of this plan will be that it will serve | first stalk bea girl's then it must be the first : were trating ia de never mind- | bring up the game. That ice box is a monster. m im the $125,000,000. As soon as the private banks porter. Perfectly well in « gale of wind. It has a spring door, with spring lock attach- ment: 90 that in order to keep it open it mueb be held back with acutch. Henry opened the nae years the deposits doubled and banking capi my education is not of the best, and then | », The next charm mvolves quite a good deal, | Your arm around me and said you realized hiow | he nold back with « cate oe ot oye ee ae one coe peed | qobces i oead hantass oo onganaer comm Gay. Ther MO bela coe, es this | Tho directions generally require something | Uaworthy you were, but you would make every | 00%; and, kno’ in dak tee —"4 a T ememtinguriictemerceaa ree! Asto being killed, that never worries me.| _T%°Y ® row, this man and this | jD° a a lonely room bold. a mirror in | ffortto render my life happy. I saw tears in | Win a'bagg the meric tock ery to neg 5 money is turned over as rapidly here in Russia When my time comes I'll have to go, and I'm | Woman. the right hand anda candle in the left and re Bo a tion and Henry found himself alone with 10,000 the i penta chammnnek debt, | 2 4BF where almost in the world. The Ruseian | AUSTIN FERRALL. taking the chance of that time being away off. | He was bigh-tempered and strong. comb the hair with the other, in the meantime | ‘Mrs. Bowser, are you talking tome?” he de- end this ix so with individuals as well a4 with the d the government. Both tional Bank or Bank of Russis issues in the neighborhood of $400.000.000 of paper and it | Its BELONGED TO MKS. WASHINGTON. “Have I ever been eaught in a wreck? Not of any consequence, but I was a witness of poor She was cold and haughty. “Madam,” he said, “may I have one word eating an apple. Watch alwa in the mirror and you will be rewarded by seeing therein the manded as he bobbed up again. “Certainly, dear.” unds of XXX ice; the coldest and most fect ice be bad ever seen. Te hemmered on, up Pires pes J the door, yelled and kicked up terrible row, states, the vidlages has more than €400,000,000 of assets. 4 ‘Jim’ Given's untimely take-off, and T'll never | with you before I go?” face of your true love, who will look over your | _ “And you mean to say thet I passed any euch | but be socmed. to be trested ‘as coldly by the nobles and peasan down with the | original capital was only about £12.000,000, but | Austin Ferrall Not Washington's Body | forget it. Tell you about it? Well, Idon't (ef Rasta cen “nals hse Masel goa us shoulder.” It may happen that — in Ota wide world outside as he was by the ice inside. ment of enorme its business amounts to 250,000,000 every year Servant, bat His Wife's Slave. mind. It's a sad but short tale. vee you,’ watching the mirror you eat your hair and care- 3 masta has more 4 and it has deposits in trust amounting to more replied, After fifteen minutes he began to realise i “ * i fully comb the apple, but then the fates are not | _,"“Never! Never! Never! Unworthy of you! | an expedition to the north meant. He was ran R. AND MRS. H. T. DAINGERFIELD eee “Perhaps not,” he retorted, “but for your ye unkind and they m: rgive. If the | The idea! Tears in my eyes! You'd better YY? Saghingotieens tno bea i Aierig | han toe. oo, Tre tke beak through whieh | ME vi ee ndly, wear Berrys Ve,|_“Glven wat diag on the Bichnond and Den: | ow stbs?as Sol mtnute ee shea i FE gir can carry out ce Program etacty ax ez |comslts doctor aboat the top of your headi | SHINE RA. Hears i wok old, and be fab ear os tre and Rev. P. P. Phillips, rector of Grace Church, | Ville road and was in the wreck that occurred | I have very briefly to say. seribed there will be a maximum degree of | Like other young men under similar circum-| Y) jcath, He began a song and damee there ia ae Ga Gop wy pees bee ae Berryville, are the guests of Mr. and Mra, | bout thirty miles down the road two years| She nodded frigidly. ~~ certainty about the result. but in this age of | stances, I might have been little flat, but I | the dark. with hicking, aceompaylanent, exters fi icbetk as yeomniguael Ske Mabtn tal ee ought down | back. My train was on a siding nota hundred | Thanks," he replied. “I can explain in| inability among girls compromises are often preVer acted the part of an idiot!” nal and internal, that, had it been put om tie pe Somes 1. Habs, Sek Vong bath Seveght down | EE weap Teeth aid oot cues tevin tne 4 | S22 we i resorted to, for it is not many girls who can P, “Speaking about honeymoons,” eid Mrs. | 'stage, would have entitled bim toe oulacy of poner Spee. with them Austin Ferrall, an old colored man | fash. Crconscious of his, impending fate he she said. “We shall see, manage @ mirror, candle, apple and comb ali | Bowser, as she looked into vacancy, * you | $13 e week. ry yenr, and since Sis who was born a slave at Mt. Vernon. was caught at his post, hurled with great foree red. at the same time and do Justice tothe mirror | remember the evening mother came out on the 1" iienry not returning within the time a over 7 Uncle Ferrall is the son of Sinai, the maid of | against a boiler head, left enveloped in scalding cage and apple. Omitting either the apple or comb | Piazza and foun co kneeling at my feet? ‘4 alj | Nith tho game, search was made, ice box, 200,000 families. Mrs. Washington, born at Mt. Vernon in 1802, | team, and, powerless to escape from the horri- id up her hand at that, and having the mirror already conveniently se win Te — — Ayes an was visited, but the door was ‘enpacte «ny g these loans were made to villages and through ad rp way ry atyeash: Wash. | ble torture, Cee compelled to remain where | 4M a ‘ laced in the room are the methods of an ease- | Your es in Texas before have made | thing was’ in order there. The corridor, this banis the pessanie h Prantaneonpabtin me: bu 55 ote Haan: | he was found until his eyes were boiled out and | Agsin she held up the warning signal, loving generation, bu: they are not always sue- | #uch a fool of msselt aan | ber and othe petal the betibemenuenaie 4,000,000 acres of lus h they still ington’s boys, for his mother was Mrs, Wash-| his flesh almost cooked by the surrounding| ‘“Madam— z cessful. t was the nigh that old Mr. Pritchard's | the rounds for the ing waiter. Several st- ic lediaeinan ingtoa’s property, but remembers much about | heat. | Unconscionsness first came to his relief, | 4 Pere] time she stopped him on the very} 4 funny thing happened once ona Halloween, | horse backed off the bridge and killed him. taches of the hotel were found who had seem, “ there are various ways of the place, the Washington and Lewis families | but life remained a few hours. threshold of his explanation, but be essayed the | 4 housefal of girls had assembled to peer into Tinerer beard of old Mr. Fritchard of old | Henry go below, but no one who had seen hia loaning money to farmers and the government and the property. “But,” aid be to aSraz| ‘The circumstances of Given’s death are sad | *® the future, and among other charurs they tried 7 _— Senter eae pg dof |Peturn. Another visit was made to the refrig of Russia makes advances on grain stored in Pl cankian 4 enough to bring tears to the eyes of the Nisei hd ol - this one as modified. “One or twa tried without t was about an hour before we gut word of | Crator and the wild and blood-treeing screams aioe dees ake an man, “I can’t tell you all about the land, for | Strongest, even though told as bare facts. At | ,, “Pardon me,” she said. “you do not geem to | seeing anything other than thelr own faces in the accident,” quietly continued Mrs. Bowser. | Srthe imprisoned man were faintly beerd, Hie saad toleenined Ge « Tie Tsaver Washington bad more land than I can court. 1| the time of the collision he was shovelin » able satya! you said you would. the glassand the crowd had almost decided | “We sat on the piazza listening to py tinge el a voice under the ground. He wae re- Department can autborive any railway company know the round-top barn the general and his | coal, and no doubt his engineer called to him, perce, begap again, that there was no good in it, when one girl came : rl rape 2 feo fo Jeased, and now his fellows at the hotel have to make «ach advances and the company. will colored carpenters built and mill, Sshing | but’on account of the noise the warning was} 80 «i eT heres a running down declaring that she had seen some- | knelt at my eet, ek see et Ry na jm both | only to mention “game” to cause him to tare lean not more than 60 per cent of the value of shores and the Mt. Vernon and Woodlawn | lost. The force of the unexpected collision fe Erew red in the face and less elevated in | thing. ‘What! Anybody you knew?” ex-| of yours and sai tour honeymoon shou! tke grain deposited with it. It will receive at least 6 per cont in advance for this serview, and waddition to this the peasant will bave to Pay about 2 per cent per annum for a wphing fund and one-third of one per cent to the for negotiating the loan. Buch leans usually run for sit months and Mf the money advanced is not paid at the end A RUSSIAN all the great government operations go on and TPE. lacea, When Mra. Washington died Major wrence Lewis succeeded to most of the slave roperty. PrPremember, too, my old grandmother Kitty, who died at Arlington Heights. When I wasa boy,” he continued, “Major Lewis found that Iwas untit for outdoor labor because of the white swelling, and he called in four doctors, threw him with great force against the fire box and then out on to the north side of the rail- road track, his body striking finally against the head of one of the burst locomotive boilers. Stunned by the shock, he was left where he was thrown. When the locomotives came together the boilers of both engines were burst. ‘The pent-up steam poured forth in scalding vol- temper. Perhapa she softened a ttle, “Judith,” he began again, disregarding all signs, “when I said I only wanted « word I didn't know what I was talking about. I need athousand. Maybe more. Let's call the diffi- culty off. Next time I say I only want one word I won't aed i.” ‘She vmiled and the 6:22 shone again. claimed all the girls in one breath “Girls, I saw ever #0 many faces, but none dis tinet cnough to be rec ‘They all looked natural, too.” Every one wanted to try then, but no more such wonderful apparitions showed themselves to the others. For why? Because that girl had somehow happened last forever. When mother came out and caught you you pretended to be looking all around for a lost nickel. Don't you remember?” “Mra, B-B-Bowser!” ir. Bowser, “I 28 sat down here to spond’ pleasant evening?” “Yen, dear.” “In the bosom of my family!” nor pale. + Habitual Posture, From the Youth's Companion. Comparatively few persons have both sides of the body of perfectly similar proportions, One leg or onearm issborter than the other. The der. two sides of the bead are often of unequal size, ie - i \d that picture was a group felt a tenderness for you, but—but—" | Few persons have ears of an equal size and of the time the grain may be sold ab public auc- the treasury department leaves da ‘ot | Who pr to cut my leg, and Dr. Henry | umes, enveloping poor Given's body while it the sun shone again wall was reflected ané _ z ee to vedecns A Unt of the proceeds all Geh,C heer ta Ghiard almost constantly with | Daingerfield was one. ‘The major asked me if [ | lay: unable fo “move, and if not remdored, ‘Mikes Bas Coe of college boys. ‘This was the explanation of i. gece om gel and ingulted me | *7™metrically placed. ‘The size and positions charges for storage, expenses of sale, interest it Not long ago the ministry of finance | YUld rather die or have my leg cutoff, and I | totally unconscious by the shock already re- aiuuh ta eoees bes mnasts Reeene. the “ai ay yA lag ag om 1 | Of the eyes vary. In the mouth and throat alse ee SERS But be peid before the orgauized « system of savings banks Eere, and | $id that T would sooner die with the eg on. | cetv Ree ene Oe Cele eee |: Wichtateiaies BERG Tunas bet tink, —— You have called mea fool, an idiot, a cabbage | We 2nd inequality, and the cartilage enue of the grain cam receive anything and Le there are now more than eight hundred of these | Y°" know that what the major said he wouldn't | escaping steam was at ree ag ge agg noe | on sttondin ne aa which 28 | Eating firsta raw egg and then filling the | ,oujnnre called ‘You have made ‘out thatI | the two nasal cavities is oftener shat is leit. Ihe officers of the railway and their deposite are increasing right along | 8° back on, and so he told the doctors that he | His Fee ae cence een we fotnd| we misationed yesterday, wee tebon in the | oo vith anit, which alse must bh exten Gm didn't know putty from strawberrics! 1 now | an vertical. the Lepsrigl Hank postelne to the amount gntil they cow amount to more than | declined ithe business, of cutting the leg | him ne odlecth snore Ronan eerious., 1 cen | western part of the Teland of Yezo, it is _note- bring about a thiretinens that the lover faithfal | see how it comesabout that husbaads are driven of his Gondition of inequality in the two sides wu whieh they have on band and they are | $90,000,000. Pr were imagi worthy that albino animals are regarded by the from bh rey become villains and L ly is called a symmetry. nen e . him that the should come off,| Am story was told of railroadin; will bring a of water to relieve. This will aaah, ane ew x ve ment for the money it foaus THE CREDIT aTETE, Sethe wetidet agents ee ibaa ean ores | Penneylvania., The hero ie “Jim” Colling | Japanese ine superstitious light, ‘The ap- | {i bring a glass of water to relieve. ‘This will | Seem berm ‘This is my last evening at home | ee eee a erent eee et Deas. going on nc A large part of the business of Russia is based | he will never be able to pay back the money | It was one of the wildest rides and bravest nets es ae beet omen for | sleeve, hang it up by the fire to dry and then | Tomorrow night I talking about | #0ticed the influence of habitual posture on the year It is very popular and a g upon credit, but very little baying is done by | you have spent on him, but thajonly way to do | which have ever taken place on a railroad. It | the reigning mikado, and lonally signal- | lie in bed and watch until midnight. The iy, Mr. ah ‘and health the peamnts take adtantag: cheek, and the man with his bank account | i where he won't have to | occurred on the Central railroad of New Ji izes. reiga. For example, one reign is called | future husband or wife will surely come to wren — ight, Mrs, Bowser, I go tomy | There isa tendency onder they do so, for the charges are much draws his money and pays his bills in it rather | work in the weather,’ and took me to | between Penobscot and Coalport. through | ‘‘bakuchi' nenkan,_ Png of the white | turn it, ‘ite Senees. cae to te, eae > expecially Jee than those of the usurers who abound in than with his check book. The mercbants, as prenticed me to Mr. James | freight was very heavy one, and left pheasani a. ku hoo nenkan,” or last Halloween I was waukia, ¢ to the prize fight, and I finally bring up | babitual postures district of Russia and who are sucking rule, give long credit and the retailers buying | Atkinson and I served singyears, I learned the | fifteen minutes behind Penobscot a | period eg rp er sp a Bd nilslitgess came ay tne toa suktn casloon, it's act wy fale an ates | 0 the Life blved out uf the pe bills ods usually give 30 notes until nine | trade and went back to wn, where ashop | heavy grade commences and continues\down often mentioned in their fables, and white ‘Aud the very «ray breeks of Tain Gesa, from home—maliciously and driven | body on one sfter the sale." At the end of nine | was built, and 1 did all the smithing for that by eeepc th Arete shee | tae goddee of Tariitees Dees the orem | lke dae most poowctal: dintas wah the | rem hime, tucizan eal. Gasignelty Griven pene ey it is customary to give a note or draft | Place and Mount Vernon. train started . panes, | y e opposite vable at ninety days’ eight and an extension | “Maj. Lewis wae in the revOlution with Wath- | engineer, an. account of the extra fone trers | as among the ancient, Grecky int ts | Sepa tedcare thn lowe of abeoeliciote tent =| Sea an ee en meme El er uhm, niin aioe one-half of all the busi-| Iagton and Lafayette, and was tbe nephew of |and being bebind time, delaying to whistle — ar alii Mar ype wom ey“ oan | ness done is on credit and cash buyers in the | W , # son of Fielding Lewis and Bettie | down breaks until the train thered con- the Rani crew pnt net meee part pf the body is | wholesale trade get from 2to5 per cent dis | Washi I t when Lafayette came | siderable headway. When the whistle rapide Tn this position | count, ‘The retail trade of nearly all the cities | to Alexandria and the eagle on the arch, tied | sounded the brakemen sprang for their particu- pep organs are thrown | of Russia is carried on on a cash basis and the | there by wires. The fell and they say he Jar batch of cars, but the heavy wind and the ithe position. and the f¢ Stat does aoa shame oun to pay | fainted. When the died I became the | rain compelled them*to crawl along on their wont S ‘exaggerates this result, cash. ‘The nobility are usually allowed to run | property of Miller Lewis and obtained | hands and knees. Pinched ber So aaeaas accounts and ifone bas real estate there ie | 2 before the war.’ All this time the train was dashing down the eee scious balancing of not much trouble in getting credit. Iam told old au peghaler ant ho was not lent grade, gathering impetus as each tele- tino the excation When che was biqiea ty column. Even the Rat there are few houses in St. Petersburg or bent with or tase He is ‘graph my = ——— @uito and be become joscow which are not or have not n white Lang check ae. 4 mortgaged.and I find very fair banking institu- | lame and cannot hear yell. he| putting on the brakes. Almost before es ge ane tions in «ll of these t Kussian cies which on gt slong well ond op in yester- | realized it twenty miles had been passed od It is a well-known physiological lew thet the seem to be doing very well. Webaves consul was ‘to show Eeyore the frpin wee dashing slong at the rate of sev- preg ‘at Moscow who has one of the largest banks of scenes of his bo; at it Vernon | enty miles an hour, 'y miles away, in the Russian Dukes Saluting while neglect causes that city ard who bas made a fortune in show- | which he bad joages ee once more before | yards at Coalport station, they were to be From the London ay The steady ing these Russians h: he died and to it out the graves and other | switched to allow a passenger to go by. On Monday the Grand Duke ect of envy books lot Jentsh extraction and he had experience | familiar objects to the Lewis’. b pa Rae] Liga re ening speed, Michael, propping ‘one arm | with some —— nothing but death before : berg and ‘use of ove arm or | Europe before Michael Kane and wife were instantly killed rare on cars the n vibe Biarritz, other—each such T em told. by their carriage being struck bys Blue Line or aS RA . too, 5 about its own result unless and he made fe flyer at Chester, Pe. yesterday. errs the gave the word to Bayoune made to counteract | Russia. His business establishment ‘Afire that started store Fireman arena they ‘The | second floor of ane several blocks followed other to, | efty, and it will be surprising to Americans to day cod conse ‘the grand er er | know that most ‘McCoy has ‘thusiasm pation or stairs. You find Mass., for was rather exerciae of certain floor, but many John broken in taking of a certain ments have no to the over them more was | establishment. imprisonment in the etib “