Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 19, 1887, Page 11

wi)MEN'S HITCHING STRAP. The Joys, Borrows and Philosophy of the Haltered Throng, WHERE THE DEMON LURKED, fhe Wife as a Fiscal Partner—Suicide Among Married Men—True Words for Wives and Advice to Young Husbands, Angel or Demon, Ella Whester Wil ou eatl me an angel of love and of light, A being of goodness and heavenly fire, Seot mllt l'r;nn God’s kingdom to guide you ari:h In paths where your spirit may mount and _ aspire, You say that I glow like a star on its course, Like aray from the altar, 8 spark from the source. Now list to my answer: let all the world near it I speak unatraid what [ know to be true; A P"N' faithful love is the creative spirit That makes women angels, 1live but in you, ‘We are bound soul to soul by life’s holiest n s, And if I am an angel,why,you are the cause, As my hip skims the sea L look up from her deck, Fair, firm at the wheel shines love’s beauti- ful form; And shall I scorn the bark that last night went to wreck, By tl'm pilot abandoned to darkness and storm? My craft was no stancher; she too had been Had u:ou“wnoelmln deserted or slept at his tluld;(zgwn the wealth of my soul at your (Some woman does this for some man every No de:{n’:’mla creature who walks in the lln:}\rmrkoflur heart than I might have, 1 Had y“nlg\vnnlonlr wiisused the treasure you As w‘ggar:;y men with heart riches have done This l“x:xene.'mm God's altar, this holy love ‘That burus like sweet incense forever for you, Mizht now be a wild conflagration of shame Had yl:u tortured my heart or been base or untroe. For angels and devils are cast in one mould, Tin lu[\'.n x]l&tdc! them upwaraand downward, hold. ¥ tell ron the women that make fervent wives Am} »we"a(‘. tender mothers, had fate been ess fair, Are the women that might have abandoned their lives ‘To the madness that springs trom the ends in_despair, As the fire on the hearth, which sheds bright- ness around, Neglected may level the walls to the ground. ‘This world mmakes grave errors in judging these things, Great zood and great evil are born in one reast ove horns us and hoofs us, and glves us our wings, And the best could be worst, and the worst could be best. &ou may thank your own worth for what I grew to e, &‘or the dlclunn lurked under the angel and me The Wife and Her Purse. Harper’s Bazar: Few men can under- stand how hard it is for a sensitive, high- spirited woman to ask for money even from her own husband, although such a custom as umni; the empty household urse on the hall table with his hat hould help to open the vision of dull enarital eyes, and make him suspect that possibly there are other needs besides supplying his and her children’s material wants for which a good wife may crave an independent purse, and that as he— yet with no desire to hide his expendit- ure—does not feel it his duty to bring home his cigar and lunch bills, so she might like to haye a pocket regularly filled, into which, uncriticised, she may dip for the extra present, or book, or philanthropie ‘‘fad.” So binding 18 custom amongst respect- sble peopla that even when a woman has a fortune of her own at marriage she meekly transfers not only its charge, but the disbursement of its income, to her husband, puts entirely aside her fesponsibility as a free agent intrusted with a certain stewardship, and sinks into the othordox, obedient wife, who .cannot give Mm,lv1 even a pitiable per- centage without his consent. Some may say that a woman who thus acts, when the law gives her control of her own meouns, shows lack of sense; but we are ?onv.undlnz against a social law, that orm of law more binding on woman than statutes or codes.. It is the un- written law on our hearts, and minds, and consciences which controls and re¥- ulates all relations of life that are duly and reverently ordered; and these are the supreme tribunals whose decrees women can quietly influence, and by which men's actions can more strongly affected than by the most drastic legislative enactments or renowned di- vorce-court decisions. Social and domestic habits mako or mar happiness, therefore it 1s here that good women should try to bring about needed wise reforms and changes—re- forms and changes which, fitly and thoughtfully chambpioned, will produce results in our homes very ditferent from those wo fear ma frow out of the de- mands of a so-called *‘radical element,’ whose false ideas of reform threaten de- struction of much that woman hold and must dways ho' “pd. Every woman piess¢d in_having a hus- band who treats her as a fiseal partner, as well as a beloved wife, should try to increase the number of her class, first by witnessing to the tendency of such con- duct to incrense mutual respect and in- telligent interest in each other’s work and duties; and, secondly, by so training hersons and daughters that when their time comes to make homes they shall be founded on the same sure basis of mutual responsibility aud common justice The silly, extravagant woman will never “look w to the ways of her household” nor *‘consider’’ the value of cither field or character; but with her we are not now concerned. What we hold is that were a rule of mutual financial rights once recognized as the only rela- tion—moditied, of course, by circum- stances and fortune—that should exist between married people, there would be more Lnnt men, generous women, and happy households Suicide An Married Men. New York Tribune: An insurance pa- er, “‘the Chronicle,’” has been collecting ho statistics of suicides in the United States. Many of the facts gathered and the conelusions derived from them were iven to the 'Iribune recently, Among the most singular and perplexing is the fact that “‘the elassification by condition shows ;& greater proportion of suicides among the married than the unmarried, which is contrary to the accepted the- ory."” iContrary it certainly is to the statisties of suicides in Europe, where the fact that more bachelors than bene- dict; shuffle off their mortal coil volun- tarily bus long been cited as one of the most obvious reasons for entering into the holy state of matrimony. 1f, there- fore, 1t'is true, as stated, that the Ameri- ean married man is more prone to sui- side than his married brother, how dreadful a series of conjectures and sur- mises is opened up, and how heavy is the fnferential indictment preferred against the wife of the period. For it is impos- mible to escape the conelusion that it the 1 ‘*only of Ameriean suicides are mar- men, their desperate deeds must at a8t be in part attributed to their condi- jon. Now it may well be asked what there THE OMAHA DAILY BEE is or can be in Amorican_married lito o | to differentiate it from the married life of the old world. Inthe Iatter mea fly to wedlock a8 & guarantee agamnst the morbid humors which are supposed to impel the lonely bachelor to the halter or the stream. Can it be believed that in the land of the free and the home of the brave a contrary stream of tendency runs? Is it conceivable that husbands here are in some mysterious way moved to scek in the otuer world relief from troubles which overwhelm them in this? The questien is not less deep than deli- cate, and the more it is pondered the itappear. For whereas in he prevailing system of govern- ment discountenance divorce, with us, until quite recently, the facility for dis- 1 the marriage bond has be i judgement of many thinki ive. Moreover, Shakespeare has ob- served upon the universal disposition among men rather than to “‘bear the ills they bave than fly to others that they know not ofs’ and what must be the nature and extent of the present and material ills whose weight causes married men thus to go counter to the common ex- perience of the race and choose death with all it brings oefore comtinued ex- istence on the plane of matrimoney ¥ There 18, indeed, one peculiarly Ameri- can phenomenon which, orso it may seem to the eynical, possibly has some connection with the strange reversal of suicidal statistics in relation to marr’ It is known :\umnit men as the woms rights question, Its manifestations have in some respects bec awe-Inspiring, and it is perhaps conceivable that he: and there a married man of abnorr feeble mind, finding so portentous a pre ence looming up in his housebold and overturning all his fixed 1dens as to the vropricties of things and their fitness, might be so. overcome s to lay violent hands upon himself. Uf course thisis the merest conjecture. The real explana- tion of the dificrence between the sui- cidal tendeneics of married and unms ricd men Lere and in Kurope may be far more abstruse and difticult of compr hension. It is possible that the im- easurable superiority of the Ameri girl over all other created beings some times proves too much for the sanity of the rash man who has aspired to part- nerhip with her, and that subsequent realization of his own defic i genders despair and the suici act. But it is all 2 mystery, and we can but grope blindly after the solution unless, indeed, we are prepared to adoot the Alexandrian method of undoing the Gordian knot and throw the onus of proof upon the mischievious statisticians who have involved us in the perplexity by denying flatly the truth of the central averment. And that course, which is not without its advantages, is open to anybody. My Wedding Ring. Dakota Bell, Hail! bright and simple ornament, What haleyon days with thee I've spent; 1n fond reinembrance now 1 sing And hail with joy my wedding ring. Sweet token of a husband's love, Dear emblem of the bond above; Blesg’d be the day—the hour 1 sing When first 1 hailed my wedding ring, Bright jewel, fairest of the fair, No gem w thee L can compare: Thy praises and thy charmns I sing And hail with joy my wedding ring. Sweet pledge of constancy and truth— Golden Gordian knot of youth— Thy mystic, matchless tie I sing And hail with joy my wedding ring. Dear valued gift, L prize thee well, This trath I hope my life will tell} The golded chain of love I sing And hail with joy my wedding ring. True Words for Wives, Mary Kyle Dallas in New York Ledger: What absurd little things peopie guarrel about! What trivial matters cause ill- feelngn families! The mutton being roasted too little, or the beef too much; an opinion about the temperature of the house or the style of curtains that to be bought for the front windc definition of a word, or 1ts pronunciation, are things that might be argued pleas- antly about, but surely are not topics worth a quarrel when peace and good- will are of so much importance in the home. A little 1l feeling is like a little seed that may grow into a large tree whicn will shadow the — whole house. Many a man and woman must look back with regret on the hasty word or the cold reproach which was the entering wedge that split a hiousehold in _two, and yet how few make a point of uttering the soft word that turned away wrath. Quarreling is one of the original sins, I suppose, the babies sitting on the floor will fall out over their toys, and one will push down the block tower that the other has built wrth great pains, and there will be a name called” and a ‘‘face made," and a slap given, and mamma will be called to settle a quarrel, and no truth cap be got at, for each is right in his own esti- mation, and each has been wronged by the other. So it is through life. A re: onable quarrel about great matters may be settled, and the parties made friends again, but little tiffts about nothing are such foolish, intangible things that reason cannot overcome them. Nazging a Bad Habit, Truly. Sacramento (Cal.) Record-Uniol Young wives and husbands cannot b too strongly reminded of the probable shipwreck they will make of their happi- ness if they yield to that ill temper which expresses itself in discourtesy, want of compliance, unuecessary opposition,and above all, that most disastrous amus ment of “nagging’’ and ating 1 row, Hundreds of houscholds have gone wrong for the mere want of checking in time the habit of annoying as a_relief to the momentary fecling of irritation or dis- cowmtort, Be Happy and You will Be Good. Toronto (ilobe: The only way to make a woman angehie is to treat her as if she were an angel. The best advice to be oiven to husbands is,be good and you will %v happy. To wives, be happy and you will be good. A A Young Husband Seeks Advice. New York World: On the supposition, evidently, that “an_editor knows cvery- thing,” & |wrl)lexed young husband has sent us the following: To the Editor of the World: My wife has for some time been corresponding with young men—former lovers—havin, letters sent to a private letter-box, an has sent a ticket to one to attend an ex- cursion where she 18 going without my knowledge. I aceidentally found some letters secreted in her dressing-case a few days ago and have them—of which, of course she is not awa There is nothing wrong between them, so far as [ can see from the letters, but the epistles are of a loving nature, and that,I believe, is not eriminal according to our laws, What would you advise me lufidu\“v o Our inquiring friend has manifestly lost the confidence of his wife. This is a sad state of afluirs to experience or to contemplate. Has it ever occurred to him seriously to ask the reason why?! As a rule, good husbands make good wives— though we are afraid the reverseis not so generally true. Love inspires and sus- tains love. Confidence begets confi- dence. This young wife appears to be fond of excursions. Has her husband kept up the invitations to outings that no doubt were frequent durinfi is court- ship? 1f he hml‘aouu 80, we doubt if the wife would have sought other company for her pluuurlr:};, The dropping of lover-like ways and polite attentions by husbands is responsible for a great deal of uuhnrpines& in married life and a lsrge proportion of such trouble as “G. W, B,” s himsel 5 I‘Vo advise this young husband to try and win back his wife ithe same meth- ods that won her in the tirst place. 1f he will give her his entire love and confi dence, spend his evenings at home, in: vite her to such pleasures and recreations as she enjoys and he can afford, he will probably find that she will have no wish for surreptitious correspondence or dangerous friendships, Let him try it and report the result. It Works Both Ways, Jacksonville News: New Orleans papers are discussing the quustion whether the husband has the right to open Lis wife's letters, recently decided by a French judge in the affirmative. In this country the husband would be mighty glad to compromise on a rule to prohibit the wife from opening his let- ters. CONNUBIALITIES. Dan Rice, the aged circus clown, has just married a younz widow. She wiil crack the whip over him more effectually than the ring- master ever did. The rriage of John T. McKever, the treasurer ot the Madison Square theatr Frances Bishop, the well-known soubrette star, will take place next \Wednesday morn- fng at St. Luke's Lpiscopal ehurch, New York. Tlie term “honeymoon® which is the four- weeks holiday taken by a newly married couple immediately after the wedd g, origi- nated from the old German custom of drink- 1ng metheglin made from honey for thirty days, or i moo! after a wedding feast, and hence the honeymoon.” ‘The Rey. Prescott Evarts, the eldest son of Senator Evarts, and s Conover, daughter of M. Ricliard Conover, will be warried on June 22 at South Amboy, N. Y. [twill be a morning church wedding, Miss Mary Evarts, the eldest of Senator Evart's five daughters, will be one of the eight brides- maids. ‘The groom elect is the eldest of four sons and is the assistant rector of the Church of the Holy Communion, having been or- dained about year ago. Mr, Kvarts has re- leased his New York Louseand refurnished it the for occupancy of the young minister and bis bride. Henry Probaseo, the retired millionaire merchant, will be married next ‘Thursday to Miss Grace Sherlock, eldest daughter of Thomas Sherlock, the' steamboat proprietor. ZT00In is nearly seventy years ot age,and Miss Sherlock is about thirty, ke 1s an art connoisseur, and his collection of pief was sold recently in New S Ilis iirst wife died about two ye an £50,000 in_ re- mansion. Miss nother have had entire aralion of the residence for its new occupants. ‘I'ne wedding will be a quiet affair, and at the cdyelusion” of the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Probasco will go direct to'New York and sail for Europe. At Boston, June 11, a notable wedding oe- curied in s ¢ when Miss Pauline Revere was martied to Nathaniel Thayer. 1t was peculiarly fitting that the ceremony should take piace at this churel, w fashioned interior and st tions, for Miss Revere is a descendant ot o of the oldest families of New England. is the daughter of Major Paul J. LKevere, who was Killed in the war of the rebellion, and he was the grandson of the famous Paul Revereof revolutionary tame, the hero of Longtellow’s poem. ~Mr. Thayer also repre- one of Boston’s oldest and most re- ted families. Miss Revere was one of Miss Awmes’ brideswaids at the late Awes- Hopper wedding, An unequaled sensation of its kind agitates the people of that well known summer sort, the mountain town ot Asheville, N. C. ‘Tuesday papers there announced that on Wednesday, at Trinity Kpiscopal church, Rev. Percy R. Eubanks, of the Episcopal varishes of Lexington and Concord, would marry Miss Netty Ilenry, aaughter of the late Judge Henry, of Asheville. All the parties were well known and society was interested. ‘Lhe groom, a very stylish young clergyman of line family, left for sheville 'l'uvstl:l( night. pon his ar- rival there early Wednesday morning, he be- gan to prepare for the marriage. As he was uttiring himself his best man’ came in~ with the appalling announcement that there was no bride, ‘The preacher was literally struck all ot a t tl vs, Lt was vily veiied, } outof Asheviile the previous evenin, had gone east. EDUCATIO They are 222,257 people in Boston over ten years old who cannot read or write. Havard’s gymnasium cost $110.000. Yale's 8 (00, and Columbia’s $156,000, Havard’s oldest living graduate is Mr William R. Sever, of Plymouth, Mass., who was ninety-six years old last Monday. It is said that Houn. William L. Gilbert will found a female collese at Winsted, Conn. It will have an endowment of $400,- Women will share equally with men the benefits in every department of the uni- versity provided” by Mr. Stanford in Cali- fornia. ‘The graquating elass at Cornell numbers 100, at Syracuse sixty, twelve of whom are medies: at Indiana state university twenty- one, and at Wooster forty-six, ‘The commenccment at the United States naval academy at Aunapolis was beid June 10, 4 s of torty-live gradug , Robert Stocker of Minnesota, standing tirs| The 300 young women of Wellesley col- lege do the housework of the college on the co-operative plan. It takes cach one of them forty-five minutes a day to do their share. ‘The sultan of Turkey has schools for women at Con: century agoit was considered an inpropriety for a ‘Turkish woman to know how to read. There are twenty persons whose gifts to colleges in this country aguregate over 323, 000,000, Three of “these—Stephen Girard, John Hopkins aud Asa Packer—gave oyer $14,000,000, Tue alumni of the university of Paris nuibered l\uarl(\‘ 11,000 last year. OF th D786 were studying law and studying medicine, while only v were: studying theolozy. The female stu- dents nuwbered 167, Ex-Governor Hoadley, of Obhio, will de liver the oration at the Phi Betta Kapoa cele- bration at Dartinouth college this month. He will probebly receive an hounwrary degree from the colloge at commencement. Vassar graduated a class of thirt new degrees, Doctor of Philosophy, Bachelor of Music, have been added by the trustees, The trustees have asked Tfor £100,000 to more tully equip the institution, and it will very likely be secured. ‘The university of Pennsylvania held commencenient. exercises Wednesday, and they were notable because the class re- ceiving degrees is the largest ever sent out by the university, numbering 154, This, of course, is not inclusive of the graduates of the départment of medicine, whose com- mencement is separately held. ‘The noteworthy feature of the one hundred nd thirty-third commencement of Colmmbia college, New York city, Wednesday, was the graduation of the first womau to coinplete the full four years’ course in the school of arts, and receive the degree of bachelor of letters, ‘This pioneer 18 Miss Mary Da) Hankey, of Staten Island. President Barnard is re- ported as saying that he has been ‘*‘aston- 1shed” at her achievements. *'It has been,” says a dispateh, “*a common thing for her in ost difiieult study to do what the bovs e sweep a max,” and sometimes she has done this all through ‘the list.” Neverthe- less, she does not receive the same degree that given to the young men who pursue an . but the special degree of b Itis not a tri- umph of co-edu Woman's course 15 outside of the regular currienia: Columbia, no more than Harvard, opens its front door to women; it isonly a very pleasant side door. But President Barnard belives in co-educa- tion, to a degree. e Death of Many Aged Persons. Troy Press, June 7: We learn from a private source that during the lasttwent, two months the Congregational minister at Rockport in the state of Massachusetts has buried from his congregation sixteen veople, the eldest of whom was 85, the youngest 60, and the average of their ages 1s 76 years. It is doubtful if any other town in the country can show a similar record of deaths out of one church of so many elderly people in so short a time with so high an nverage of age. Up to a varying point well removed frow the date of birth, Rockport must be a very healthy town e—— To increase the stamina of an enfeebled system the nourishing properties of the blood must be increased. Dr. J. H. Me- Lean’s Slmnmhomnfi Cordial and Blood Purifier, enriches aud purities the blood Inilufflll it with strength giving constit- uoul [wo and its COUNT TOLSTOL AT HOME. Mr. George Kennan's Visit tothe Great Bus- sian Novelist. A NOBLE IN A PEASANT'S DRESS. The Count Heels a Pair of Shoes While He Discourses on Philos ophy and Non-Resistance— A Striking Figure. Mr. George Kennan, the well known Siberian traveler, recently visited Count Tolstoi in Russia and publishes in the June Century an account of the great novelist's social and political views, Mr. Kennan had just made an extended tour in Siberia, under the auspices of the Century, and was the bearer of import- ant messages to ‘Tolstoi from some of the political exiles. He was especially charged with the deiivery to Count Tol- stoi of a narrative of the' ‘hunger strike which took place in the prison at Ir- koutsk in Deccmber, 1881, and lasted sixteen days, This heroice protest against injustice and intolerable cruelty by vol- untary self-starvation was undertaken by four political convicts, all educated women, who were brought very near to death, The narrative was written by Madame Rossikova, one of the ‘hunger strikers,” and was smuggled out of the prison by an administrative exile, who occupied & cell next to her's and had succeded in ovnening communication with her at night by meansof a cord with a small weight “attached, which he swung within reach of her window, Count Tolstoi read three or four pages of the manuscript and then returned it to Mr. Kenanan, It was expected that the American’s mission to the great teacher of non-resistance would be; ruit and it must be conceded it was a failure. Kennan's paper is an extremely in- ingone, in spte of a determined effort on his part to make it dall. Cq Tolstoi’s doctrine of non-resistanc one 1n which the world at large can have any great interest. It is the personality of the novehist, notthe theories of the po- litical doctrinaire, that commands atten- tion. Yortunately the man forced his way to the front and Mr. Kennan's arti- cle, conscquence, is one of the most noteworthy inauy American magazine for many % day. Count ‘Lolstoi, at the time Mr. Kennan visited him, was living on his estate, near the village of Yasnaya Polyana, in the province of Tula. 1t was necessary to find some conveyance from Tula, where the visitor left the traiu, to the count’s hou: “Selecting from the throng of droshky driversat the station,’ Mr. Kennan writes, “‘one in whos 0 there was an attractive expression of mingled shrewdoess and good humor, 1 called him tome and asked him if he knew Count Tolstoi. ‘Khow our Bahrin! he exclaimed, with a broad smile and the half-caressing, half-deferential manner of the Russian peasant who has been ac- customed to associate upon terms of per- mitted equality with his superiors. ‘How is it possihle not to know the Graf* Why, he is ours'—he lives 1n Yasna Polyana, only fifteen versts from here. *“Is there an inn or a post station in Ynzn:\lyn Polyana where I can go?' 1 in- quired. e 0, revlied the droshky driver; ‘but why go toan inn? You can stay with the Count; he is a plain, simple man [sofsem prosto1]; he always shakes hands with me when [ go there, and he works in the fields just like a common muzhik. He is a good man, our Bahrin; he will be d to have you stay with him.'"’ ‘Lhe property w n a rather unkempt condition and Mr. Kennan was not sure as to what constituted the front door of the mansion. = A lady sat on a bench at the end of the house under the shade of o He asked her if the Count was at *'She replied that she believed he " he s “'and asking me to follow 1 the house, requested me to be seated in a_small reception room, and then, turning to an open_door in a wooden partition, she ealled in English: “Count, are you, there®' A deep yoice from the othor stde of the partition re- plied, ‘Yes.": *A/gentleman wishes to see you,’ she said, and then, without waiting for a response, she returned to the cro- quet gronnd. There was a sound of a moving chair in'the adjoining room, and in a moment Count Tolstoi appeared at the door. I had heard not a little from his friends with regard to his_eccentrici- ties in the matter of dress; L had been shown photographs of him in peasant gard, and L did not therefore expect to see a man clothed in soft raiment, but I was hardly prepared, nevertheless, for the ne_unconventionality of his attire. ““The day was & warm and sultry one. He bad just returned from work in the fields and his apparel consisted of heavy calfskin shoes, loose, almost shapeless trousers of the coarse homespun linen of the Russi; wts and a white cotton undershirt without collar or neckerchief. He wore neither coat or walstcoat, and everything that he had on seemed to bo of domestic manufacture. But even in this coarse peasant garb Count Tolstoi was a striking and impressive figure, The massive proportions of his heavily moulded frame were only rendered the more apparent by the seantiness and plainness of his dréss, and his strong, res- olute, virile face, deeply sunburned by exposure in the fields, seemed to acquire added strength from the feminine ar- ngement of Lis 1ron gray hair, which parted 1n the middle and brush k over the temples. Count Tolstoi's ay be best deseribed in Tusean ‘moulded with the fist and pol- is ith the pickaxe,” and the impres- sion they convey 1s that of independence, self cehance and unconquerable strength The face does not m at first glance to be that of a student or aspecu- lative thinker, but rather that of & man of action accustomed to deal promptly decisively with perilous emergenci to fight fiercely for his own h rardless of odds. The rather small eyes R L Oy e o B peculiar gray which hhts up in excite- ment with a” flash like that of drawn steel; the nose is large and prominent with a singular wideness and bluntness at the end; the lips are full and firmly closed; and the outlines of the chin and Jaws, so far as they can be seen through the full gray beard, only give additional emphasis to the expression of virile strength, which is the di\m.gniming characteristic of the large, rugged face. “L explained to him," Mr. Kennan con- tinues, “‘that my call was the resuit partly of a promise which I had made to some of lus friends and admirers in Siberia, and partly of a desire to make the per- sonal acquaintance of an author whose books had given me 50 much pleasure. ** “What books of mine have you read®’ asked quickly. Ireplied that I had all of his novels,meluding ‘War and Anna Karennina’ and ‘The Cos- {ave you seen any of my latter writ- iugs!‘ he wquired. * ‘No,’ 1 saud; ‘they have all, or nearly all, appeared since 1 went to Siberia." “*Ah!" he responded, ‘then you don’t know me at all. We will get ac quainted.’ “'At this momept my ragged and gen- erally unpresectable droshky driver, whose existence | had whullfv forgotten, entered the door, Count Tolstoi at once rose, greeted im onrdinlltyi as an old ac- quaintance, shook his hand as warmly as he had shaken mine and asked him with unaflected intercst a number of questions about his domestic affairs and the ndWs of the day in Tula. It was perhaps a trifling incidept, but 1 was not at what | SUNDAY JUNE 19, 1887 time as woll acquainted as I now am with Count Tolstoi's ideas concerning gocial questions, and to see a wealthy Russian noble, and the greatest of livin; novelists, shaking hands upon terms of perfect uq'unlll._y with a poor, ragged and not overclean droshky driver whom I had picked up in the streets of Tula was the first of the series of surprises which umnlq‘my visitto Count Tolstoi memor- able. The reception room where Mr. Kennan met Count Tolstoi was small and nearly square, and scemed to serve a double purpose as a reception room and & hall. Two of its walis were of white plaster; the third counsisted of one side of a I:lr,u- oven covered with glazed tiles, and the fourth was formed by an unpamted wooden partition pierced by a door which opened apparently into Count Tolstoi’s library or work room. The tloor was bare; the furniture, which was old- fashioned in form, consisted of two or three plain chairs,'a deep sofe, or settle, upholstered with worn green morocco, and a smail cheap table without a cloth, Three pairs of antlers were fastened against the walls, ana upon one of them hung an old slouch hat and a white cot- ton shirt similar hich Count Tolstoi h S marble bust in a niche behind the settle, and two engraved portraits, one of Dickens and one of Schopenhauer, were hung against the wall, “‘At lunch,” Mr, Kenr met, for the firet time, C large family, which consisted of the countess, a stately, dark-haired lady,who must in her youth have been extremely beautiful; the cldest son, who had re- cently by graduated trom one of the Russian universities; the eldest daughter, a girl perhaps twenty years of age; two bright-faced nieces and three or four younge ildren. There were also pre ent & young man in a highly ornament peasant costume, worn evidently from caprice or in 1mitation of the count, and two ladies of middle age whose relations to the family I could not determine, but who were probably nothing more than mere friends and converts to the Tolstor philosophy. “The lunch passed quickly with bright, svontancous n which all jomed without th ce of formality or restrain course of which Count Tolstoi himself man- ifested more boyishaess and gayety than T had yet given him credit tor. When we had risen from the table he produced and proceeded to sell at auction to the highest bidder a richly embroidered towel, the work of a peasant woman, which, he said, had been brought to him as a present but which he was unwilling to accept because the giver was ve: poor and really in need of the money that the towel represented. Amid general laugh- ter Count Tolstoi's son and I, who were the principal bidders, ran the price up by suecessive offers of five kopeks more to two roubles and a half, when the auc- tioncer, with non-professional candor, declared that that was too much; that the American traveler in the course of the bidding had offered two roubles, which was about what the towel was worth,and that consequently it was his duty to award it to him.” Young Tolstoi, with mock indignation, protested agal the unfairness of that sort ot an auction, but his motion for u new trial was overruled on the novel ground that the towel be- longed to the auctioneer, who therefore had’an unquestionable right to knock it down to any bidder whom he chose. His son langhingly acquiesced in the ruling, and the merry group which had gathered about the auctioneer dispersed.”” Some time after luncheon Count Tolstor proposed a walk. A short distance from the house they met Miss Tolstoi, the count’s eldest” daughter, dressed as a peasant girl, on her way home from the fields where'she had been raking hay with the village girls of Yasnaya Polyana. The peasant dress of brigh scarlet, cut low 1n the neck all around, the braided hair, and the strings of large colorer glass beads wh hung in fes- toons over her breast, changed her ap- pearance so completely that Mr, Kennan did not recognize her until her father called her by name. It appeared that she shared his views with regard to manual toil and was accustomed to work 1 the fields of any poor neighbor who was 1n need of assistance. Count Tolstoi himself had spent the morning in spreading manure over the land of a voor widow who lived near his estate, and would have devoted the afternoon to the same occupation but for Mr. Ken- nan’s visit. Mr. Kennan’s account of the manner in which Count Tolstoi spends his ev ings will be read with interest. Hesays: ‘“‘T'he Countess Tolstor invited me to drink tea in her sitting-room, and there we were soon afterward joined by the count, who brought in with him a large lap-board, an oven box, or tray, contain- ing shoemaker's instruments and ap- pliances, and an unfinished pair of shoes, Seating himself quictly in a good light,he Iaid the board across his knees, took up one of the shoes, and began to put on a heel, ag if it were the mest natural thing in the world for the authorof ‘Anna Karennina,’ and the owner of an estate worth 600,000 roubles, to_spend his even- ings in cobbling. I had already betn surprised so many times that dny that my ncrvous organization had nearly ceased to respond to that sort of emotional stimulation; but the di covery that Count Tolstoi was a shoe- maker had still enough piquancy and grotesqueness about 1t to excite ‘n first thrill of wonderment, I seated myself di- rectly opposite him, where I eould ocea- sionally facilitate his labor by handing him the ary implements, and he discoursed learncdly upon shoemaking as an_art, and explained to me the fine points of workmanship involv ting on a _heel and the extre of trimming the sole n y ting the ‘“‘upper.” He more honest pride in his a shoe than in his ability to write ‘War and Peace’ or ‘The Cossacks; but after watehing the vrogress of his labor for half an hour with an unprejudiced, if an uneritieal eye, 1 decided, with all respect for the versatihity of his talents, that [ would rather read one of his novels than wear a pair of his shoes.” e RELIGIOUS. Bishop Harrls, of the Methodist E churei, Lias gone to Europe for the summer, ‘The southern Baptist convention, rejre- senting a membership of nearly 2,000,000, has just closed its annual session in Louisville, ‘The managers of the Bantist congress have y wade a full programme for ti on at Indianapolis, November The jubilee of the ordination as priest of Leo XTI, will be celebrated next December The Enclish Catholie bishops will issue a send an address to the holy father and raisa collections for him. ‘The Episcopal rector of Naugatuck, Conn., and a high ehurchwan at that, invited the loeal Consregational pastor to preach in his pulpit the other Sunday. The luvitation, it is said, was extended “with the consent of Bishop Williams, Kansas, with a pobulation of 1,500,000, 200,000 church members, divided bely 132,000 Protestants and 63,000 Catholies. number is divided into 2,671 ehurch o) zations, worshiping in 1650 editices, total v of ehureh property is estimated at nearly £5,000,000, ‘The Rev. Heary Van Rensselaer, a mem- ber of the well-known Albany family ot that name, and heretotore a winister of the Episcopal church, 'was recently ordained a Cawnolie priest, and wil ] hereafter devote himself to the missionary work awong thé Indians of Montana. ‘The growth of the Free church movement apoears in the summary ot stahistics of the diocese of Albany in the Journal of the elgnmnlh annual convention, acgording to which that diocese contains: Curches, 116; ~TWELVE PAGES, ehapals 92; froe churches and chapels, 118y churches otherwise supported. 20, About half a million dollars has already been subseribed to she fund for the erection of the six million dollar I'rotestant Episcopat cathedral in New York, —JolinJacob Astor, Cornelius Vanderbilt and D. Willis James wave one hundred thousand each. B|slul:s Potter thinks that the entire amount ask for will be subscribed in due time. G W, McCormic, a wealthy citizen of ‘Thomasville, Ga., who is not a member of any chureb, surprised the several white pas- tors of the ditfercnt churches in that city re- cently by pre m‘un each of them with a house andTot. In R‘Xocu(ml the deeds he mentioned no other consideration than that the preachers’ lives had been spent in “coing about doing good.” One of the staangest of religious sects is that which calls itself The New and Latter House of Israel. Its headquarters is in Chiatham, Eugland.in which town its devoteas are building an immense wmple which will cost $230,000. ‘They believe that they will not dicand that they are the remnant of true sraclites who will reign with Christ for a thousand years, Their founder was a man named Jezriel, who 18 now dead. His death was a great shock to the believers, but his wite elaimed that it was an accident and de- clared herselt to be his succs T, - —— BINGU RILIES. A Macon mule has an artificial throat. e was sick with something like l.ll’f’lh{l"s. and the veterinary surgeon seeing that it would soon be impossible for the animal to breathe through his windpipe a portion of the pipe Was remo nd a silver tube was inserted, and now the mule breathes freely, ‘The wife of Mr. Hey. of Americus, Ga., wears a handsome breastpin which was made out of a petrined strawberry which grew on her husband's farm. ‘Lhe Ln-rrr is beauti- colored, resembling a bright ruby, and is very hard, It weighs about two ounces and glistens in the lignt like a ball of fire. A Virginja paper relates that a white hand- Kerchiof Tolded 1 four layers. was placed over the face of a woman “sho died lately in Louisa county, and_when it was removed there were four distinet pictures of her on it the size of a quarter of a dollar. Spirits of camphor had been put on the woman's tuce just before bier death, nna Dennis, of Tiffin, 0., died v n years ago, and her body, interred the other day, was found to be thoroughly petrified, with the ex- ception of the feet,” It was so heavy that ten men were rejuired to move it. A piece chipped from the body resembled tlinty lime- stone. == Battle Creek, Mich., has got a baby boy tlree years old that spends all his pennies for cigars, and has been known to smoke five in one day. He will steal a pipe and beg passers-by for tobacco. The boy hasa perf mania for tobacco that develo] itself before he could talk, He wears dresses and is very small of his age, The petritied body of & human being was found on the farm of Martin Edwards, near Windsor, 111, in a ditch last week. 'The body is that of a short, fleshy person, and is sup- posed to be that of ‘an ancient mound- builder. It is vur{ hard and looks exactly like soapstone. The head is long and narrow, the forehead hixh and prominent, with high cheek bones, square chin_and a small neck. The body was b u off at the knees, the lower limbs being sing. Its total length, to the knees, is two feet nine inches, and its weight is about 170 pounds. Ara Soule of Grant, Minn,, noticed that one of his favorite hens had ceased laying egus, but was growing remarkably I Finally, after attaining an _astonishing siz the hen died, and Mr. Soule was curious enough to hold a post-mortem examination. He cut the fowl open and was somewhat astonisied when four well developed chick- ens popped out and began strutting around the barn yard. Ie supposes that some trouble with the hen’s organization had stopped the egress of the egs and that the natural heat of the body incubated the chicken germs. There is a sink-hole on the lineof the Carthage and Adirondack railroad, near Harrisville, N. Y., into which ton after ton of gravel has been dumped, but only to have it disappear from sight.” A short time ago the railrond employes succeeded in filling it up to a level with the surrounding country, but when a couple of cars were pushed over 1t they sank at once in eighteen feet of water’ and a brakeman narrowly escaped drowning. Altogether 300 carloads ot iravel and any quantity of rubbish have been thrown into the hole, and the railrond peo- ple think that it is bottomless, Mr. Ingersoll nas exposed his idea of hea- ?'eu, It is made of stone and holds two gal- ons. An Ohio man who has just returned from Texas surprises his local paper with the statement of a great moral improvement in that country. He says they no longer hang a man for being a Baptist. At arecent church sociable in Reading there was half an hour in which all persons were fined 6 cents each time they laughed, gikgled or smiled. They had a solemn time aud the receipts were small. An absent-minded Pittsburg preacher re- marked in a eulogy from his pulpit last Sun- day that ‘‘death”loves a mining shark,” Thereupon four stock-brokers and a nan with a brother in Colorado got up and left the sacred building. A tiny iad, the son of a Baptist minister was the fond owner of two kittens, Return- ing home oune day the father was surprised to see his son approach with the kittens and ry them toa pool of water. *What are ou doing, my boy?” said the father. *‘L am Roing to baptize kittens for Jesus, papa.” ‘Two of our little folks were seated by the table a few evenings since, watching a moih which was fluttering around the | . They said nothing until it flew into the flame and was scorched. “O Berty,” cried the younger, ‘it hasn't any eves, has it?” 1 ’spect not,” said Be “Why didn’t God make him some?’ *Oh, ’'spect he forgot it, or else it jumped about so he couldn’t fix 'em i The little erand-daugiiter of Mrs, Mary A. Livermore says the Youth'’s Companion, dis- likes to be made to wind. One Sunday, fter some outbreak, her father got down thie and showed her the text: “Children, ents.” Shelooked aiscontented, t pter, while her father went up st esently she pur- sued him, Bible in hand, ealling eageriy: “Papa! papal ltsays some more. 1t says, ‘I’arents, provoke not your children to \l\-r.xu!,' and that is what you do to me every day ! i e PEPPERMINT DROPS. A man may be a bad egg, but he's all right till he gets broke. Never holler mouse when you see a lady climbing over a fence or gewting into a wagon, hen Buffalo Bill's braves drink too much British fire-water they scalp a hair of the bull-dog that bit them. Long Brauch policemen are longing for the advent of the season, with its big apples and trim nurse girls. According to an eminent Englishauthority, a goose lives fifty years. Provided, of course, he refrains trom blowing out the gas when he retires. The queen of the Belgians reeently took m(—lllclfi with the oflicers of a regiment ot antry. Her dinner was a plate of cabb: soup and a pickled pig's foot. The Y college baseball nine have adopted a latten for a mascot. It will be a Mighty mean antagonist who eries “rats’ when the maseot is in the field, Don’t let the iceman paln_any of his last season’s fly-blown stock upon you. Old ice be deteeted by its warm and mudd feeling, Avoid it if you have artisf ling sherry cobblers: \e Watertown Times says that the spec- tacle of a horse wrazing in a front yard, while agoose kept him from strayinz b holding the halter, did not attract attention as it would if the goose had not been an “exiled talor's goose,” weighing about twenty pounds. “Are we making progress?” an exchauce | auxiously inquires. 1f we are not, what do 1,500 poinds to the ton of coal and four inches of froth to the glass of lager beer mean? Progress—making progress? What isthe bottom doing in the middle of the straw berry box if we are not? An important question came to the frontin a meeting of colored Christians in New York the other day, when a brother asked warrant there was for the fact that angels were always painted as white and the devil as black. e believed that there were black sswell as white angels, and he was wore than half inclined to insist that the devil was a white map, It is evident that the peo- ple who are looking around for something to fight over have been losing some of their acuteness, would have been up long ago. Anybody baving specified information on this point should let himself be heard. what 11 Baw Angels and a Bsautiful Olty. feveland Plaindealer: In s Wood: land cemetery on Decoration day a lady was discoverad placing flowers onanow. made grave. On the grave inclosed in a glass was a photograph of a beautiful bout twelve years old. he waus my danghter,” said the lady. Yes, [ know she is my daughter still. She 18 not here, but she'is as much alive as ever she was. A curious thing pened just before she diod. She had uch, but was peaceful and guict towards the end. She said she heard musio around her and saw angels m the room. She ealled them angels but said they were all people she had known, but very beautiful with shinin, rarments. She saw and talked with them, and told us what they'said to her. She saw and deseribed her sister, who ad died before, and other friends and relatives. She said she saw a great way off, as it were a beautiful city and the gates were open. Inside were houscs and lawns and treos and tlowers and peo- ple walking and going about there pence- tul and havpy. My little girl said she went to the gate of the beautiful eity and would have entered, but thero came one who sadd no, but that in two days more she should come: —and the gate was shut. Then my little girl gaid 1o me: ‘Mother, in two days I will ie. I will leave you, but I will ‘go mto ity and you will come to me there." It was as she said. In just two days she died and saw the vision to the last. No, it was not delirium. The child was in her right mind. I'do not doubt that the vision was a reality.’ e ism Pay? When Rev. Sam Jones and Rev. nall came to thig city last year their services were attended by immense numbers of persons, and the results of the meetings in that respect went beyond the expectation of the most sanguine promoters of the movement. It wasinevitable that some friction should be developed with the ministers of the conservative denominations, but on the whole the clergy of the city accorded the evangelists u hoarty welcome and loft a free ficld for the excreise of their voca- tions. This was stood that Re revisit this c will by mlu year ago, and it is under- am Jones will shortly It is probable that he if only for the reason that Mr. Sm a very sick man. 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