Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 5, 1886, Page 9

AMONG THE WITS AND WACS. ‘ The Prond Roaring “Bird" of the Pra Poetically Picture PARSON BAXTER ON LOVE Pugilistic Mittens Lung Kids at the Bar A Variea Testing A Pair of nt of and Assort Laughs Scasonable Smiles, The Fawon of the Cowhoy. P. T, Pensell in National Weekly, 1 the cowboy of legend and ste -eastern JOungsters so cre The slaughter And few b 1 out my fire, ns is ever my glory, ved when they dr Astride of m | ferror t defy any And af broneho I speed o'et the prairie, 1L who my daring behold, ivilized conistabulary lantes the country can hold. As frec as the proud soaring bird of the ocean, 1skim oh plaing And 110 man dare make the least treacherous wotion That lic lives for a minute to do it again. I'he joys of existence 1don’t elaim forever— Somie day | must mizzle like other galoots; Old Boy” will be most devilish clever wets me laid out while I stand in my hoots. When I'in roped at the roundup of judgment eternal, And corralied i1 a furnace forever to dwell, I'ilbe able to show them some 1S infer: my way over mountain and Ifh nal, I won't be a tenderfoot in h—, on Baxter's Discourse on Love. xus Siftings: Berlubbed brederes and sistern: De subjee for dis chinm’s d am “‘Lub. Who's dat snickerin® back dar near th doun? Ef I heahs any monah ob dat sni erin’ de Lord am gwinter pint me a com mittee ob one ter frow a few niggahs out inter de street and stomp ‘em. Ef yer visits a_ young ooman, yon am onc, she am lerble ter be won., and den you'll_ bote be one. Den the trubble be iing, for lemme toll yer dar's a hig v ob solid troof running from all dis he newspaper talk abouttoliin’ pins, murder. in-laws, ots. Dar’s so much troof in em dat I has come ter de conclushun dat de bes time ter marry am on or about de thirty-forf or thirty-fifth day ob February. Better nebber den late. When hit comes ter eourting dars one pint whar de cullud luvyur has de advan- tage of the white luvyer. Yer nebber neered teli, did yer, ob'a cullud gemman gittin a taste ob powdered chalk’ on s mouf from tastin’ de mug ob de object of his affeeshuns? De cullud niggah nebber comes home with enufl pearl powder on his Sunday close ter make folks ask ef ho has been playin® eheckers in a flour mill. De proverb says lub am blind. Mcebbe %0, but I notices' dat hit pulls down de windy curtains all de same, and hit ain’t nehber too blind ter size up a bank ac count Men am like flies. Bofe of em_yield ter de 'tractivencss ob be lasses. Matri- money am like a ¢ De bird*what' ontside wants ter git in, and dem what's inside wants ter git out. Dar’s u rollin’ pin hangin® down from one eend ob de honey moon. I knowed a young married woman ter buy two rollin’ ins. She kep one to remonstrate wid her husband wid when he cum home late from de lodge. Most ob you married niggahs knows what I'se a bintin’ at. Den dars de murder-in-law queshon. De Bible explaing why a maL has no use for ns murder-in-law. Hit 8 stinetly N0 man can serb two master 08, pdren an sistern, at first Inh ¢ de time fly, but after awhile tme makes de lub fly. ar's a tribe ob Africans called de Caf- Among de Caflres a man nebber de face ob s murder-in-law. 1 on dat’s whar the toon started “Who mudder now?” Heah! heah! use my levi We will now ss de hat for do beneriit ob de bermght- ed Africans. Uncle Moses, please tiake eharge of de head gear. The Pair of Mits. W. 8. Pedlar in Detroit Free Press, A puir of mitts,by clever wits,V nado and senton duty, W ithekillful hands the woolly in forms of penuty, girands were knit With tingors quick The puir wore fush- B0 stout, nnd hints thrown in d e with its promise bol mock the cold, And keep thread, vithout Il wdm ire the pair An dblcssourliitie Mollie fair. A nd whut sho thinks of 'us “roo Pressis tho ba thnits Us il int puir of mit ts, And then wifriend ghip lin k8 u e nnd hoarts 8o lght, foned neatly. With ocolors bright, And ereotly. The constitute i pair rm. And while For Printers Only. Proyidence Journal: The Impecuni- ous Compositor presented Himseclf at the Counting-room on_a recent evening and ashed for Pern to “Go up-stairs.” Being told t nst the Rules at that Hou > asked that one of the Compositor: alled Down. He was informed that it would be Neces turnish His Nuaime, not as o gun fiulul faith, but that the Man above Stuirs fight Know with whom he had to Deal, He at first demurred, but concluded to compromise the matter by sending up u Note. In due course the note Returned, accompanied with a very Diminutive Package. The note was read, the pack- age scanned, and the 1. C., breathing Vengeance, hastily Departed.” So Indig: nant was he that the note was left open on the Counter. It read as follows: TRIEND— Pl down a Yonrs, AM ——, ANM Yon do not say what kind of Tyon want, so I se you an agate , those being the most nuiny collection.” Resp'y yours, ase send lower ons in A Low Hate West, Washington Critic: The crowd was talking on the subject of t Pas! cheap rates, ete, “Well,'" re marked Major Stc when there came “1 went from Washington clear to anciseo once for nothing.” *“The walking must have been good that year,'” S s. “Irodeall the way ina Pullman,” said the Major, with a smile. *“Did you have a passt’’ asked Chambers, “No puss.” “You kuew all ductors, perhaps,” said Leach- “Didn’t know a soul,” replied the Major, hghting a cigar. *Then how in thunder did you make it#? asked Knott, who was unxious to get a low rate west. “*Easiest thing in the world,” responded the Mujor, coolly; I had & sweotheart in 'Frisco, and 1 went out to marry her. When I got there I found she 1 al- ready mariied another feilow. and if you don't eall that going to San Francisco for nothing you may have this $15 suit I've ot on for 10 cents, half cash and the bal- ance ut ninety duys.'” He Wanted to Know, “What part of a wagon resembles a baby?" shouted Blimly, as he rushed into the oflice after ten months’ tbsence yesterday morning All bis ussoeiates greeted him cordially, wanted to know where he had been and a thousand other things; but he answered some of their questions in an absent minded manner and some of them not at all. After appearing boved by their cordiahty for rly two munutes, he shouted again® “What part of & wagon rescinb a baby Nobody could tell. So one of the re- porters yentured o ask him to solve the BEE: SU NDAY, DECEMBER 5. 1886~TWELVIE PAGES. THE OMAHA DAILY West of Orchard Hill and North of Walnut Hill WITHIN FIVE MINUTES WALK Ot the BELT LINE DEPOT Advantageously LLocated on Military Avenue, Prices Very Low. Terms, One Tenth Cash Balance to Suit Purchasers These Lots are Now on Sale at the Office of W. G. ALBRIGHT, 218 SOUTH FIFTEENTH STREET. 218 A STORY OF REMORSE AND SUICIDE. Atlanta Constitution: The people at Red Top could not imagine why Bart Bradford wanted to settle among them. 1t was the dream of their lives to get away from Red Top. The place had been going down from the start, if it ever had one It had no railroads, no commerce, no industries, no past and apparently no future. Still, the Red Top people were loyal to their town when they came in contact with strangers. So, when Burt Bradford and his wife, after spending several days at the hotel, expressed a desire to make their home in the community, the inhabi- tants, with ir ible unanimity, assured them that Red Top was about to enjoy & boom and they wero lucky in coming along just in time to grow up with 1t. Atter making the usual inquiries con- cerning the society, the water, and the general health of the town, the Bradfords decided toremain. Bradford had 1 thousand dollars with him, and this he immediately invested in a grocery store and small cottage. The fortunate citi: zens who had converted their property into cash straightway for parts un- known, leaving the newcomers to won- der attheir folly in abandoning a town with a boom juss ahead of it. Such ce- centric conduct, however, was a common thing in that neighbor hood, and the old residents thought nothing of it. Although not an old man, he was not more than forty,if that, Bart Bradford generally wore a look of settled melan- choly, Attimes he had the look of a lunted animal, but as & rule he was quict and good-natured, and he soon became very popular. His wife was a mere girl, and, the country folks said, **as pretty as apieture.” Despite Bradford’s peculiar mood plain that he loved his wife, heel. He replaced his shoe se takes the ment, rose up and be courteously, and the puir walked off. ‘They were at least half a block away before the vietim od sufliciently fo “Vhell! vhell! T pays ti 0 wards und goes twice to Cliicago, but yet 1 vhas some lunatics who ougit to be lod around mit & rope!” conundrum. The city editor fainted, and after a mo- had to be revived by the application, where it would do the most good, of & pocket flask, when Blimly replied: “The off-spring.” A Short Language Lesson. Of the man who d id sing, we say that he sang, Or we speak of the songhe has sung; ‘Thien permit us to say of the gun that can bang, It has often proceeded to bung. Feamen e when 11 mightelimb a flight of stair Inquisitive party—"“And do you go up that ladder all ‘day long®’ Pat—'No, sur; half ov the toime O1 cum down.’ *"This beats me,” as the egg remarked when it saw the spoon. Some Americansare too proud to beg and too honest: to steal, so they get trusted. Kate Field says sheistired of the world, and “‘would liko to.live apart from the fashionable bustle.” Why don’t you take it oft, then, Kate, and give it to the hired girl? The vital question, “What is a sausage ?’ is being discussed before n Nebraska court. 1Itis believed that the jury will disagree. 1t isno trouble to meet a hill. But to get out of the way of it is most diflicult. Catherine Owen has published a book called “Ten Dollars Enough.” She may ink so now, but by the time sho gets all jet trimming and stuff for_the over- she will find that about $10 more is v, notincluding the dressinak n'dollurs is cnough for the ma- terial, but the trimming and making cost like sixty. 11 right. Kecp Ethe money anuther year and then come to see me.” Bradford returned home in a state of mystification. DLnnfi before the year expired, however, the Red Top merchant received a visit from the lawyer. Bradford took him into his little office back of his store, and sat down in great agitation. “‘No bad news, I hope,” he said. “‘Both bad and good,” replied the law- yer, “Let me hear the worst,” groaned Bradford. “I am not here press you for mone to tell that will interest you.” He locked the ofiice door, and drew his chair close to Bradford. “The first Mrs, Rradford is dead,” said the man of law, in a harsh. rasping voice. ‘I'he man before him wrung his hands but_said nothing. “T suppose you wondered why I let you vithout any secur- ¢ with you Foreign ana Domestic. Rambler: *Pa, what's this that's al- ways in_the paper headed ‘Foreign and Domestic.” Can't a thing be foreign and domestic, 100t" *No, my son, of course not.” “Yes, it can, too. Look at Bridget.” He Quailed in the Face of Bare Facts. Washington Of theman who can write, we say he has written, And also properly say that he wrote: 80 then, when a do has another dog bitten. We ean say he did bite, or else that hé bote. Of a man who has ridden, And ‘tojould also bo proper to say that he Then :?‘)E? ot remark of the boat that can T 3 smoothly has glidden, or else that it glode, Guessing on Beans, “‘What's all this crowd doing here?” asked a stranger, as he found the pave- ment blockaded in front of a Broadway store. ‘“‘Why,” replied a bystander, *‘the proprictor offers a’ prize for the closest guess as to the number of beans in th bottle.”” **How are the guesses running ‘From 900 up to 15,000, 0, pshew Why, there must be at jeast 100,000 beans “Where might you be “I? O, 'm from the out there estimating the vies from the number of " said his visitor, “to . but i have a story Critic: Dr. Bartlewt preached at the New York Avenue Pres- byterian church yesterday on the spread of the gospel and during his remarks on proportionute civilization he said thav of the earth’s population five hundred mul- lion were clothed and two hundred and iif(?‘ million clotheless. *'What did you think of the ones to Brown on their way home. cellent,” said Brown; *‘only T thought the doctor was slightly off on his fizures in ng there was more than | Washington Critic: A certai half the earth’s population only partiully | engineer, now high in the fession, is clothed.” Buid to have got his start from his first “I think he is right'” said Jones re- | report of a survey. He had been sent flectively. out to ins river which a congres- “How do you make it out? *“Why, | sional lobby wanted improved for navi- there's Europe and--"" gation, and when'he returned he handed “‘Hold on!" interrupted Jones, Com- | in this brief but comprehensive state- mence nearer home. Did you ever at- | ment: ‘“Ihe river is not worth a dam tend a full dress reception in Washing- — - ton?" Baptist Educational Work Brown quailed in the fuce of the bare braska. ots. The convention called to meet in Lin- coln, Neb., November 80, gonvened in the Baptist church and wa lled to order by the chairman, Bush, About fifty reproscntatives of the churches were present. A constitution and by-laws for an educational association were adopted. The object of the association is to foster education among our Baptist people of the state. A board of fiftcen was chosen we say he can nd were 5o ¢ radford nodded “‘Well, it was not my money. longed to the first Mrs. Bradford. Don't interrupt me. You know that in your trips west you fell in love with a pretty face, You basely deserted your wife, o good plain woman, and secured an [lli- nois divoree from her. Again I must ask you not to interrupt me. You married your present wife and concealed y here, where I dare s: you have never spent a happy hou “God knows 1t Bradford, “Your deserted Ysuffered rmon?"’ It be- civil from, west, e population of names in the directories. s true!” exclaimed in wife,”” continued the untold mortification. almost heart-broken, but she bore up bravely. Shortly ufter you left her the death of ‘an unelé brought her a small fortune, some §20,000 or so. She employed me to keep an eye on you and report your movements and your cireum- stances 1 visited your town. I bribed the village photographer to grive me pho- tographs’of your” wife and’ babics, and sent them to the first Mrs. Bradford. | wrote to her all about you, how eharit able you were to the “poor, and 1 wrote The Raison D'Etre, Eleanor Kirk. ame old sea and the same old § ; sels sailing by The same old farmer rakinz the sand: same old fisherman rowing to land; and the same old mud; me old cow and the same old cud; 1o old toad ¢ ame old trec; ame old ter rier barking at me. ‘The same piazza, dusty and bar Tho samo old woman taking the air, With the endless stories of long ago, He Doesn’t Want Them Published. . W, Foxs in Tid-Iits. He wrote tyrieal effusions, and in rythmical Tuxurianee he bent to every passing whin of literary prurience; And his Muse would stalk and sidle Through epics suicidal, For he rode & bareback 1egasus without a bit or bridle! He voured his soul’s profusion out Tn ron- deaus, odes and sonnets upon Seraphina’s to re- Of the sama old ball and the same old beau; The same old dresses, ugly as sin, ‘Ihe same old rush when the all comes in; The same old fools and the same wise men, ‘The same old pigs in the same old pen. Old gobblers, old men, old work, old pla The same old night and the same old day} The same old fog to straighten the air, Antiguity’s chestnut everywhere. And it's eat, and drink, and_sketch and sew, And dress—for whom, T'd like to know? ¥ strata and fossils, and liens and geese, Andthey eall this health, and rest, and peace. 0, bother such rest and health, say I; LUdrather be ill, perchance to die— ‘Than live in tho days bofore the flood, An antique clam in historic mud. But this LIl add, though 'twill prove me bold-— One nice ynung map would atone for the old, And take'the mildew from land and se Aud I xuess wiat’s what's the matter ! and i equally apparent that she idolized hin, The years volled by und not oc- curred to_disturb the quiet course of events at Red Top, The Bradfords were not long in finding out that the alleged boom was a myth, but they did not seem to mind it much, The groce ot Bradford busy during the day, and in the meantime the little cottage had been brightened and enlivened by the presence of twonew mmates, a curly-headed boy and a black-eyed, rosy-cheeked girl. To a casual observer it was ¢ oy little famuly. If there was a skeleton” hidden omewhere 1w closet nobody snspected s presence. \{'I n the periodical spell of hard times eame along Red Top suffered: sever Several my its failed ontright. B ford found it impossible to make collec tions, and saw ruin staring him in the face. His brave little wife cheered him up. She made all sorts of suggestions, and just to humor her Bradford adopted one of them, He advertised in a daily paper published n the city where he pur chased s goods, that he desired to bor- row three thousand dollars on a ) time, the moucy to be invested, th vertisement said, in a safe business. To the poor tellow’s infinite surp few days later, ne received a lette sking him to call and sce about the desired loan. Bradford d his wife and babics and ok the : for the city, When he returned the next day he was jubilant, He had the money. To his wife he said that he could not understand s luck. The law had asked him a few questions about his busi- Ress, and bad Jat bim have the mokes an his note for a year's time at thelegal rate of interest. Little Mrs. Bradford did not see anything surprising in the traunsac tion. Bhe believed that her husband’s business reputation was known the big city, aud it scemed to her a matter of course that people should he willing to lend money to such a mwan Bradford met with another surprise, At the end of twelve months he ’1"““" that he could raise only about half of the sum due the city lawyer, When he went eyebrows or on Angelina’s ponnets; And the wild, poetic iy Swept his Intellcetual chasm ceive propositions for the loeation of a college in the state, and lu’l\ul\ hl!u'gu ot cetuia m .+ | the same when located. number of A oy, 405 SWERL | propositions were presented by different 4 ¥ ¥ clod towns, Fairfield = offered $4,000 and And tho Muse's |imu.|rmm songland in | " site valued ot §2,400. Fair- imany a tuneful carol blew through bis | mont offered 5,000 in money, a menfal vacuum as the wind blows through At ot LA IRODOT O 8 a barrel. d And, like pleas before a jury, s more, laid out in town lot Songs filled up with sound und fury Ashland offered §15,000 on condition th Came forth with a vast lung power, jingle- | 15,000 m vere added. Nobras Jerk and too-roo-loo-ree ! City offe; a block 1n And he sent these songs and poems to the | the city .o puildings —on it publishers and editors, but they all re- | all value; §85,000 more. Grand Island d, throngh Mr. C. urned unwelcome, like' bis most solici ous creditors; i W. Scarff, of that place, ten acres of land And now, since their declination, for , 1,000 toward the emvloyment of a financ agont to canvass the oy o How lie vows with indign - tion: 1 ""l‘,‘"‘b},‘t‘,‘d arlze wy pocisby promiscuous | country for the sehool, and to dupli- & cate in money all that could be raised for s that purpose daring the next five years . Knocked Ont by a Ria. This proposition was presented fo the . ‘Texas Siftings: A nice little boy, reared | board of trustees atwl discussed at con- in the intetlectual and neterodox atmos- | siderable length, It was considered a phere of Boston, hapnened to be s witness | very liberal offer bugit was thought by in a case in Cincinnati, and the question | some of our wise and conservative he arose as to his being old enough to under- | that we were not_qjrite ready to a any of these offers at present. stand the nuture of an outh, so the judge whole matter of acepting and locating inyestigated him, “Well, Wendall ™ he said, kimdly, “do | the institution was deferred to the next meoting of the board to be held in Lin- you know where bad little boys will go when they diey coln in Febr . at the time of the meet- *No, sir,"” rephed the boy, with con- | ing of the board of the Nebraska Baptist fidenc: > state convention. ‘krom now till then _ “Goodness graciou exclaimed the | the subject is open to all places in the he saloonist. i:nlgu, with shocked surprise, “don’t you | state to send in their propositious. The now they will go to hells” Baptists of Nebraska are in earnest in do your” this matter and any place that would like se I'do.” to put $100,000 into an institution that "'H‘u\\' do you know it will be worth to the place some ten or “Tne Bible says so.” fifteen thousand a year, besides the in st trues” tellectual and moral benefit has the op- !'Certainly ki 7% portunity of getting 1ts otfer ready by the .(lun you prove it¢" 15t of February. offer can be pre- ‘No, not positively; but we take it on | sented to L.'D. Rolms, president of the board, Omaha, or Z, C. Rush, secretary. faith," explained the judge. “*Do yon accept that kind of testimony | St. Edward, of to any other Iembers of his ‘courty'” inquired the boy, A'uullf’. board ¢ d aska, growing at the rate of 60,000 t the judge didn’t answer; he hel the saloonist, and & couple of $1 bills | up s hands and begged the lawyer to | inhabitants'a year, building towns, cities and railroads at' an unparaHeled rate, were handed to No, 2 take the witness, No. 1 sat down on the walk, pulled off — opening up her rich acres by the million, is also alive to the intetlectual in- his shoe and held it up that the saloonist Little Bits of Fun. reut wight sce u peuny screwed fast to the - The man who lectures on the benefits | terests of her vaf:- Z.C. Rusn. also that your present wife, n young and babyisi thing, was perfectly devoted to you.” Bradford smd sought, the floor difliculty. “Now you understand it,” said the at- torney. ‘When you advertised for a rorted the fact to the first Mrs, id she furnished the money adford nothing but his eyes wd he breathed with did not utter a bedside when she di week ago toduy. Her last utternnee was « message of love and forgivness, She Willod afl her property to you. Have you ¥ questions ¥’ =1 cannot k wretched man, “have mercy on leaye me.” The lnwyer rose and unlocked the door, “Lam a'poor hand at delivering such messages,” he said, “but £ am glad'to sce that you do feel badly about it.” Go home and compose yourseif, and in . few days run up and see me, and vio'll arcange the details of this business,” He bowed himself out, and leaping into Lis earriage, drove off n a hurry. Bradford’s clerk thought that” his em ployer remained a long time in the littie oftice. An hour passed, and still the mer chant did not come out. Darkncss cume, but no light was to be scen in the oflice’ Too impatient to wuit any longer, the clerk carried a lamp back to the oilice and looked in Stretelied on the floor, stiff and stark, lay the body of Bart Bradiord, with lus throut cut from to ear. The g knife still viasped in the hand of the dead man told the horrible story only wo well - Tialy wants to borrow 3,500,000 lires this is @ very busy senson with newspaper correspondents we are afraid this country cun't oblige her, 1, n gaid the we and He Was Some Lunatics. Detroit ¥ Press: A saloon-keeper on Grati ot street sat at his door the other ufternoon, wondering why it was that so many men in Detroit preferred butter- nilk to beer, when two strangers came wlong. One of them placed a penny on the sidewlak, placed his right heel on the penny, and then bont over to see how far Lo eonld reach and mark the flagstone with a nail. As he reached out he hited his heel off the penny, and the other man icked up the coin, “slipped it into his et, and winked at l‘ het’s a long reach,” said No. 1, as he aightened up, Yes, but you lifted your heel oft the cen o, I didn't." “Bet you a dollar.” “I'll take 1t.” “Hold on, shentlemens,” said the beer- seller, ns he rose up. L like to make some bets myself.” “I'bet you#2 my heel is on & penny,” said No. 1 1 tako dot bet awful queck,” replied g€, o from e S10K headache, wind on the stomach billiousness, nausea, are promptly and grecably banished by Dr. J. 1. Mo s Little Liver and Kidney Pillets a vial. p o e e e e e BAKER PLACE=—= A VERY SERIOUS QUESTION. of Tenants in Ruge M The Severe Oppression THE EXACTIONS OF LANDLORDSY ~ A Startling Deer of Populatioty Some Suggestive Figures, ase The present conditifh of things in Rags wr isco Chronicle toadvocates of land nationaly < to the more rational economists, whe rd occupying ownership as the besg of possible agrarian systems and land- lordism a8 the worst. For Russia is fast vory ard fandlordism in its mos® pronounced form, and the people ared being divorced wholsale from the sofl which their fathers tulled and by whiel alone themselves ean live. In soothel generation, at the present rate of pr groess (or degradation), there will be ma one side an agricultural proletariat o sixty or seventy millions, on the other class of Koulaks and “‘mir-eaters, ing all the land and virtually ownings| those by whom it 18 cuitivated. ‘Thes present system, as I have shown in pree vioug letters, is based on the bondage of the peasants. Konlaks (usurers) and lands lords lend theiv money. taking us seeurs ity the hypotheeation of the borrower's future labor, and once in deabt the Russ sian peasant 18 never fr o becomes the bondslave of his creditor, who exaote his pound of flesh with Shylock-like fas rocity. must be as disconrs re Ing tow GETTING EVEN But the debtor, wnen his creditor is a landlord, has a simple yet effeetive. way of avenging himself. He works as little and inefliciently as he knows how. The free laborer does twice as much and does it w great deal better, and for this evil there is no remedy except one that 189 worse than the diseiise it is meant to cure —a well-baid overscer for every bondage- man. For the veasant who i workings oft a debt does not fear dismissal— wants itin fact, and the government allows na one to use the rod but itself. The koulak or local usurer isin a better position tham the big landlord. A peasant himsclf, he works in the fieclds with his bondsmen, und can see that they Being mores over a man of impoi in the village, ne is naturatly more served than the absentee obvious that under these cultural progress and scientifie farming are quite out’ of the question. Bondage abor 15 cheaper than: any other, clicaper even than machmery. Besides, who would invest money i labor-saving machines when he can' lend it ov two or threq hundred per ecnt per anuum. So it comes pass that landowners und nsurors grow rich, cereals nre expor and the peasants die. Hardly a year pa that parts of Russia_ are” not dovastated by famines, Instances of anthropopo 2y often oceur, the wretehed persants being reduced to'sueh s tha desperation they eat human flesh ally prey on cach other. INTERRE FIGURES, Here are a fow figures bearing on the same subject, tigures which are more elo~ quent and significant than torrents of words and reams of description. They haye also the further advantuage of bein, official and indisputable. The genery mortality in Russia_is from 83 to 87 pex thousand, a rate which exceeds that of Norway and Sweden (countries possess- ing an almost identical climate) by 1 and 112 per thousand respeetively; that of England by 64, that of Germany by 8, and that of France by 87 per thousand. It is a well-known fact and lies in the na. ture of things that the death rate sSuld be less i rural than in urban distrie In the rural districts of Norway an Sweden the rate 13 17 per thousand; im the rural districts of England 18 per thousand. And this, according to high authority, is much as it ought to be, In England when the mors of a rural district exceeds per thou v offi- cial inquiry is ordered touching the cause thr 10 the reverse obtain. In the tral provinces of the empir rate in the raral districts is 62 pe and as compared with a general rate of 36 per thousand. As in the same provin- ces the mean birth rateis45 per thousand, it follows that the population is dimin- ishing at the rate of 17 per thousand per year.” The cause, us openly stated at o recent meeting of the Russian society of surgeons, under the Presidency of DF. Botkin, body servant to the emperor, is deficieney of bread—in othes words, starvation—and this in the most fertile and productive part of the country, where cercals are grown lurgely for ex- vort. Where the earth yields its increase most bountifully, in fuct, there Death reaps ats richest haryest. A few more figures by way of emphasis and illustra- tion, In England the town merality ex- ceeds that of the country by per thou- sund, in ance by 24, " Sweden by 8 and i Prussia by 7. In Russia, ‘on the other hand, the” mortality of ' thirteen provinces g agreater aren than the Austrinn empire, deaths are relatively more numerous m the country than in the towns. According to Professor Jan- cen’s “Statistics,” the mortality in the of Moscow 18 33 per cent less thin in the rural regions of the proyinecs; in St. Petersburg the differcnce, as againse the country, is 17 per thousand and in Kazan and Kiell 27 and 30 per thousand respeet- thous- A FEARFmL RESPONSIBILIT And tor all tFe misery and sufl which thesc figurcs dunote, for the y sian government is primarily and solel responsible It is the government that is driving the peasants by thousands under the Juggernaut wheels of Koulaks, usu and Tandlord DOITOWS mone, s Limself aslave, The tax has no mercy, Arres ruth acted, even in time f who fiils to pay is first ogged an sold out. In ‘the winter of 1 tax inspector of Novgorod oftieially re- ported that 1,500 peasants in his district hadbeen condemned to receive floggings for not paying their taxes, i |f 500 had uetually been flogged + insy tor, more mereiful than his masters, picided in behalf of those who yet suflered for 4 remission of th 5. The Kussiun millions, in short, are far worse ofl than ever were the sluved on intations of the south, Much as the educated clusses of Russia bave suf- fered by persecution, proseription and exile, by deprivation of liberty of speedh and of action, and in other ways, their rings as compared with those of the masses of their countrymen are bu drop of water to the oiean \ peasants, with a fuith which would | £t were not pathetic; still by the goodness of their lord and master, To thein the czar is still o ni-divine father would help them it he could, but whose good intentions on their Lalf ar antinuadly thwarted by the i ignity and ancompetency of his How™ long this illusion wi idure heaven only itis now being rudely assuiled by rn logic of fu und wien it disa re will be suen hrow in country of the the wo s Tom wit Lope that somee 6f 1hose ped to sow wind Ml | lave 1o reap the whariwing knows, by e & liters | i William Westall in the San wion 1 holded ' 3 ¥ s