Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1892, Page 9

— Iv PART TWO. | THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. Y—SECOND YEAR, OMAHA, SUNDAY MOR 1892—SIXTEEN PAGES. PRGES 9TO 186. " NUMBER 50 HAYDEN BROTHERS MARVELOUS PRICES. SPECIAI 4 a Decorated imported ten sets,in brown, blue and pink, $8.54, worth $10. Decorated dinner sct, 100 picces, in all colors, very best imported ware, $7, worth $20, Decorated toilot sot, $1.9 Flint blown tumblers, with your init- fal, 5 per set, worth $1.50. Mme. Streeter’s patent flat irons, 8 I‘?l , handle and stand, $1.05, worth Plated knives and forks, 75¢ per set of knives or forks. Plated ten spoons 25¢ nor set. Salt and pepper 2¢ cach, Snuces dishes, 6 for 10c. Large fruit dishes 10¢, worth 40c. Tin poils Tin tea pots 5e, Iron frame wringers $1.75, worth $3, Wood frame, wringers $2, worth 3 Just received a carload of genuine Western hers. Butter ladles 50. Hatchets 5o, Mincing knives 8c. Tin top jellies Zic. Quart Mason fruit jars 75¢ per dozen. Butter crocks and water cooler 2¢ per gallon, Cups and saucers 2ic ench, Dinner plates 2 ¥ ‘Wash bowls and pitchers 204c each. Chumbers 15¢ each. Half gallon glass water pitcher 19¢, Flower pots 1c each, Six boxes, ull sizes, tacks He. Stove polish I¢ per puckage. Wire flip egg beaters, 3¢ each. Mucilage 2¢ per bottle. Tack pullers 8¢ each. Glass lemon squeezers 5c each. Mouse traps 1c each. Flat irons 3¢ per pound. Tooth picks Zc per box. Butter dishes fe. Spoon holde Sugar bowls 5 Creamers / Patent cream whippers 10c. Shoe polish 2¢ per box. Ink 2¢ per bottle. Letting Down : the Prices. Hayden Bros. best superlative flour 81.25. Money cannot buy any better. Queen olives, just imporied from Se- vilie, Spain. These are the best and largest olives you ever bought, per quart 35c. -1b can extra quality Bartlett pears The Meinberg Music Stock from -1b can peaches 20c. 3-1b can extra quality California apri- cots 174c. -1b can extra quality of all kinds of California plums 15e, Imported sardines, bought, 1 Domestic sardines 33c. Pouted ham e, Pouted ox tongue e, Deviled hum e, Sugar cured hams, average 12 1bs. 13¢ extra quality California quart. finest you ever-# Sugar cured hams, average 20 1bs, 12 Bouneless ham 10c. Pigs feet, these aro very fine, 3jc. Sugar cured picnic hanis 10c, Dried beef 7ic. Blue Enamel Ware. We huve the above style in all sizes, from 19c for 1 quart up to 79c for a 10 This is cheaper than you can buy tin for. Made from one solid plece of stecl. Sold everywhere at Toe to$l. Our price 49, Coffee Pots. Made from the very best tin, be. Sold everywhere at 25c. Wash Basin. Made from heavy block tin, 8¢, sold everywhere at 10c. T——=» Milk Pans. \ I IRE Made from the best tin all sizes, from 8 up to Tea Kettle 15c. Sold everywhere at dae. Ice Tongs. - Theo finest family tongs \ made. Sold everywhere 3 ut 50c. ¥ Our Price 5c. Sheriff. ~ THE EDGAR _. Somothing New in a Grater, 20c. Kettles. In solid steel and enamel, from 85¢ up to $1.25, Dish Pans. The very best made 152, Sold regulury at 86c and 40c. Pails, 15c. Regular price 25c. Dippers 3c Regular price 10c. Ice Axes 10c. Regular price 83c. e sot. sold regularighey 15¢ per st Table spoons, 100 per sct. Sold regu- lar at 30c per set. ' i Extra Heavy Tin Sauce Pans 13c. Regulur price 250, Extra Heavy Tin Preserve Kettle. 18c. Regular price 80c. Extra Heavy | Cooking Pots. \ In blue cnamel ware, from 1 quart up to 12quarts. Price from 19¢ up to 7 Blue Enamel Sauce Pans from 22¢ up to 8ic, worth three times us much. The Sir Humphrey Dover Toaster. The finost toaster in the,world, You cannot bura anything in it. 19c. Worth 500, Steel Kettles. Maag from a B solid pieceof stecl, | Last forevery Oy price 95c. Re, lurly sold at $2. Never Break Wool Dress Goods. inch colored gloria silk, usual price 81,25, Monday 85c. 40 inch navy bluo storm serge, regular price 85c, Monday ¢ o4 inch all wool flannel Monday 5he. 40 inch Scoteh plaids, Fremont price 50¢, Mond 40 inch Priestle; Fremont pr s black whip , Monday 85e. 44 inch s a, black, Fromont price $1.75, Monday $1.10. 46 inch all wool bluck serge, Fromont price 85c, Monday 65e 40 inch fanc, blacks, Monday only 40 inch all wool bluck grenadine, Fre- mont price 81, Monday 65, 40 inch black brilliuntine, Fremont price 75c, Monday only 49¢. o Silks. Cheney Bros. very best china siiks in very small neat patterns, black ground, 68c; sold everywhere for 81. All new and desirable goods. Remnants of black and colored faille and gros grain silks, also moire silks, dle, worth $1.7 Black faille silks 81; Fremout price as 81, ck Guinet o was 2,25, The very best qualit silks $1.60; Fremont price was $2.50. This means a saving of from 810 to 812 on u dress pattern. cord, ids and stripes in silks $1,40; Fremont black Guinet Furnishing Goods. Closing out all ladies’ and gents’ fur- nishing goods at cost before taking stock. Our fall goods commence to ar- rive and we must have more room. Ladies’ fast bluck cotton hose reduced to 5¢ per pair. 1 case of ladies’ cotton hose,Richelieu ribbed, come in tans and modes, reduced to 12{¢ per pair. Gents’' outing shirts, worth 75e, reduced to 1 case of ladies’ 26 inch silk umbrellas, oxidized handles, worth $2, $2.50 and i, reduced to $1.50. 100 dozen ladies’ corsets, worth $1, re- duced to s0c. 50 dozen be reduced to On Monday, all our 40c mitts reduced to Zie. dark colors, ? shirt waists, worth 40c, Notion Department. 500 gross fancy and plain dress buttons 10 be closed out” Monday at 10¢, 15¢ and 25¢ per card; well worth 23c to Tae. Ml)n s trimmings virtually given nway on . Will be put on sale in three immense lots. 5 Lot 1 at 5e per yard worth 10¢ to pev yard. A7 Lot 2t 10e per yard, worth-30c to 5¢ per yardos o { Lot 8 at 25c per yard, worth 50c t #1.25 por yard. The Fremant Bankrupt Dry Goods Stock Money Losing Sale. Closing out bankrupt stock Brandenbnrg suiting reduced to 10¢. Canton cloth cut down to 10¢. Imported crinkle seersucker 10¢. Pongee reduced to 10¢, Summer wash silk now 10e y inch wide suitin ard. inch w nadin ¢ white orblack dress goods now 10¢ yard. Zephyr flannel now 10¢ yard, Bedford cord 10¢ Bedford 5 Crepe Japon 74 Monday will bo the last chanco this senson to buy 32 inch wide Pacific lnwn, corded or plain challis, Berthsire lawn, ete, at 24c yard; they are nearly all gone. Just think, 25c for a dress pat- tern, Special bargain in white dress goods ut b yard, All these at less than cost; stock must be reduced. We place on sale 200 6-4 chenille table covers, fringed, new designs, new color- ings, worth $2.75 to $3.50; your choice of allon Monday $1.98 each. Closing sale on remnants of wash dress goods. Fine table linen from the Fromont stock, in remnants at big bargnins; white shaker flannel 5e, 8¢ and l0e. Lonsdale and Fruit of Loom muslin 7ie yard, 4-4 brown sheeting 5¢ Bleached muslin Zie Unbleached cotton flannel 8c. Bargainsin all departments. Cloak Department. 250 black jackets for spring and fall wear,all sizes, vegular price $3.50 to $3 luced to 81.75, $2.75 and $4. light colored wrappers, with silk front, very stylish, cheap at $3; to close $3. nd 7e yard. All our light colored dresses worth $2. reduced to 4 Ladies’ s sts to close for exact- ly one-half their former price. Closing Out 0dd pairs of lace curtains in all grados to make room for fall goods; will be sold at about half price for u fow days. ‘We also have an over stock of fringes in cotton, wool and silk from the I're- mont stock that must be sold at once. Oar new fall stock of cavpets has ar riv and is open for inspection. We have afew of the bankrupt carpets left— 3 ply for 47¢ per yard. All wool for 53¢ and 60c per yard. Drug Department. If you use perfumes, prepure to buy them now. The most exauisite triple handkerchief extracts manufuetured, on sale Monday at 15¢ and 25¢ an ounce. 24 1b box sea salt 18¢, lectrie belts only 23c. Hoosier curling fluid 19e. Ayer’ recamier eronm $1.05. Malvina or viola cream 85¢, , Best tguic 20c. 7 Kcnn;\y ‘s medical discovery $1.15. Nestle's milk food 40¢.. i 2 qt fountain syringe 49¢. Bay rum, bottle 19c. . = Entire Stock Meinberg Music Store from Sheriff Sale. It is conceded that their is no bettor music man in the entire west than Mr. Moinberg. His stock was too large and costly for his location, and his creditors forced Mr. Melnburg to tho wall. We purchased the entiro stock at less than one-third its value, and will close it out at less than half rogu prices. Fine violins,cclobrated Bruno guitars, Dobson hanjos, German accordinns, cor— nets, harmonicas, zithers, mandolins, drums, violin bows, musical findings of all kinds. 6,000 copies choicest music at 7o, Full line of Amervican and foroign music. In fact, everything that goos to maice up a first class music store stock. Mr, Meinberg’s manager is in full charge and will make the lowest prices ever known for these goods. Toys and Fancy Goods The toy department 13 now complote and is showing the finest line of dolls, and toys ever displayed in Omaha. Pricos lower than eve Butter, Cheese Etc. We will sell country butter for 100, 12ic and 14¢, made in Nebraska and is always fresh from best makers. Our Dodge crenmery will sell at 16¢, 18c and 20c. Remember our butter is all made from selected cream and the cream comes from Nebraska cows millk. Our motto is first class buttor at low- ost prices. In our cheese department wo handle only the finest qualities of imported and domest| | Young America full croam choese 100, Wisconsin full cream 10e. | - Eustern process full cream 12ic and 14c. Imported Swiss 15c and 1740 Imported brick 10¢, 1240 and 14e. Just received a shipment of fancy lim- burger cheese we will sell for 12jc por pound. HAYDEN BROS., Furniture. Several carloads of furniture direck from factory on road. Wo must make room; we are therefore selling our fanoy and cane rockers away down. You can now buy one cheup. Fine oak centes table 18x18 for 95c, worth $1.60. Elegant line of pictures and easels at orices to move the whole lot. Trunksand valises at hot weather prices. Books, Books. 1,000 nice eloth bound booke at 10a worth s0c. 750 paper covered novels at 10¢ ench. Albert Ross popular novels at 89¢ each. Webster’s unabridged dictionaty, cloth bound, 75¢. Rand &-McNally standard atlas of the world, 81.50; worth 5. 4 & 3 l'“Gg{'onr prices on office uunpfiel of alt | nds. FAMINE 0N THE VOLGA Relief Works of Nijni-Novgorod and the Situatiou in famara and Saratov. WHERE AMERICAN CORN GAVE RELIEF Laborers Work Fourteen Hours a Day for Twenty-five Cents. PEOPLE ON THE VERGE OF STARVATION Fatulous Loss of Live Stzck in the Famine- Stricken Provinces, A RUSSIAN GOVERNOR ON THE FAMINE Frank G. Carpentor Tells of the Miserable Exist, the Russiun Gloomy Prospect ¥ uud of Mensures for Kellef, e of oor, the fore Them SAMARA, Russia, July 17.—[Special Corre- spondence of Tue Bee.]—1 am now in the worst of the famioe districts of Russia, 1 entered thom about Moscow, and L passed through hundreds of miles of famine terri- tory in coming to the Volga. The hunger mod sickness was great in Kazan and Nijo, whieh proviuces 1 visitea on my way to Sawara, sed all along this great river, from here to the Caspian sea, there are today mil- lious who are dependent on the supplies they getfrom charity, The typhus fever has, to & cortain extent, subsided, but the report has just been rocelved here that the Asiatic cholera, which has been ravaging Persis, is steadily warching into the regions about the Cospian scs, and vhat it is alrendy at tho mouth of the Volga at Astrakhan, Tho fright here regarding it is terrible, and should it make its wuy northward, as it in all probability will, the horroes of the last winter will be surpassed by those of the cowing fall. These millions, who have been half starving for months, are uot in a condi tion to izht with the direase, and the cholera can briug butone result—the aeath of millious The authorities are dolug all they can to pre- wvent such & terrible disaster, but the trade of Volga is s0 great aud its teavsl so iwm- mense that it is hard to see how they can succeed. Neurly the whole Asiatic trade of o ompire is dependent upon it, aud its ghiousan ds of boats move up and down it in 4 vast unending caravan of ships and barges. A few wmiles above here at Kazan all of the Biberian trade onters thoe Volga, and this river may be called the great trade artery of European and Astatic Russia, which sonds out its brauches to every part of this vast smpire. Grasshoppers and Drouth. At this writing in July the péople are foar- fulus to tho present crop. (irasshoppers bave bogun to make their appearance aod there is danger of drouth, A fow days of good rains may turn the scale and bring every- thing out il right, but the continuance of the present weather will ruln the prospocts of & good harvest. 1 saw today & vast assem blage of Deasants going out with the priests foto the country t pray for rain, They wore barcheadod sud barefooted and they carried the sncred banners of their churches on which were painted the picture of the Saviour and the saints, and they marched with their hoads down crossing themselves as they went. It was at the biggest Russian church of Samara that this procession was formed and I happened to bo there at tho time it came together. I saw perhaps 100 men, women dnd children standing about tne door and stopped to photograph them, when the bells rang out from all quarters the peoplo began to assemble. There camo hundreds of women in short red dress- es and long red aprons, wearing handker- chiefs about their heads, and these handker- chiefs were of all colors of the rainbow. There came hundreds of bareneaded boys and barencaded girls, and half of the bare- footed, bedraggled women had bareheaded babies iu their arms, There came hundreds of burefooted men with their hats in their hands or with no hats at all, and through this motley mass marched a number of bare- headed priosts in black gowns with long black hair hanging down their backs. Theso entered the church nnd presently came out with the holy banners. As they did so many of the people fell prostrate on the ground and some bumped their heads againstthe cob- blo stones In adoration, Kvery man aud woman, boy and girl made the sign of the cross many times over, and as the priests moved onward the thousands of bareheaded, barefooted people went with them, crossing themsejves and. preying as thoy did so. In this way they marched through the town, and they will go to some shrine in the coun- try und there repeat their prayers for rain. Isaw a similar procession at Volsk the other day aad I understand that the peoplo ure praying for rain all along the Volga. Thoy are ns a class very devout and offer more prayers in proportion to their population than any other people in the world, How the American Corn Was Used, Nuch cf the American corn and flour camo toSamara and I have had talks with the mon who had charge of it and who aided 1n its distribution. Iam now traveling with Dr. J. B. Hubbell of the American Red Cross socioty and we have visited many of the distriots to which our supplies were sent. As faras I can find every bitof the Ameri can gifts bave been wisely and conscien- tlously distributed, and here at Samara the authorities would not give even samples of ho corn to piople who wanted them for planting, but who were not in & starving oondition, There were many such applica- tions, but all were refused with the stute- meut that they could get such samples if they wishod from the peasants by giving other food or an equivalent for them, but this corn came from and every grain of it should drove out into tha country this afternoon to sce an Englishwan who has beon especlally active in takiug care of tne American food, but failed to get access tohim as he was down with the typhus fever. Count lolstai's 800, Whom We expacted to meat here, is now working in oue of the fever aistricts of the interior, sud Mr. Thischkoff and others of tho famine workers have just leit after look- ing to the supplies from the Tynehead. All suy thav the Awerican food has done a vast deal of good, and at down the Volga. I was told thet this food bad saved the lives of thousands. This was especially so smong the German colonists, of whom there werc more thun bundreds aud thousands ou the vergo of starvation, The Kussians aro very clannish and they beliove in takiug care of their own go tothem. I | people first, Tho result is that of the bus- Amorica for the poople | Saratoy, further | rods of miliions of dollars wiver by the Russion people and by. the government very little if any. went to the Gormans. Said Mr. Jacob Mueller. & German of means living in Saratov, who has devoted both bis time and money during the past winter to the famine: “The American suoplies savea the lives of our people. They came just atthe right time. Thore was just enough of them tohelp us out and not a bit too much, It scemod as if the good God had managed it throuzh you for us." Towa Corn Spoiled In Transit. A part ot the Iowa corn reached Russia in a very bad condition. Oue compartment of the hold was filled with corn which had heated and it was steaming when it was taken out. There was 1o place to be found 1n Riga whore the corn could be dried and it was put into the cars and rushed off to the faunne aistricts. Care was not taken to keep this corn separate from some of the good corn and a number of carloads were spoiled. Somo of this spoiled corn came to Samara and another lot of it wont to Sara- tov. The best of it was driea and given to the peovle for food and tho rest was used for the cattle. The Famine and ve S| k. The effect of the famine on stock of uli kinds has been terrible. 'This province of Sumura is about as large as the state of Now York. It1s to a large extent a stock-raising country, and the people depend upon their horses, cows aud sheep to furnish thom their livelihood. During tho pastsix months thoy have Lost 1.500,000 sheep, 600,000 horses, and at least 500,000 cows, When the famine was at its worst they had nothing to foed their stock, and they toro tho thutch off their huts and kept them alive for months on this sort of food. The poasant’s hut has a kiud of box- like room uuder this ridge roof of thuteh, and this could be done and still leaye a compara- tively sheltered place for the family, The saimals ate this thatch greedily. It is mado of straw, and 1t fs on many of the housos fully eightoen inches th When it was not too ola it formed a fairly gooa food, but the supply was so scanty that hundreds of thousands of the cattle were almost dead be- fore the grass camo in tho spring, and the plowing had to be done. Tho norses would pull the plow for & yard or s0 ana then iie down almost doad-tired in the furrough, and it would be, perhaps, & half ' hour before they could be roused up to sta ger on for another tew yards, and then il down. 130th cattle and horses were killod by 1ho peoplo for food and 1n the winter horsos were sold for a dollur apiece for which the people could have gotten 0 und $100 tho summer beforo. Germans came in and bought norses on speculation and much stock was shipped out of the country, In Saratoy nearly balf of the horses whicll the provinco bad last year have disappeared, and through- out the whole of the fumiune vegions there has been a declmation of stock which will re quir years to repiuce. Tho weakucss and tho loss of the stock naturally produced the plantiog of & much smaller acreage than usual, and though in many parts of Kussia throush which I buve traveled the crops are comparatively good, there can hardly be evough to keep the peoplo during the coming yeur without tho aild of the governweut or outsido aid. “Tho horses of Russia are among the flnest in the world and tho meat of the couniry will compare favoraoly with thatof England, Iu this veglou, however, such horses us | sco show the offeots of the famine still, and you can count the ribs ou the cattlo in the flelds. The loas of borses throughout the famine aistricts must have amounted o many miliions in uumber, and in some of Lhe dis. tricts fully baif of the Live slock bas been kuled or sold, The Kussian Peasants, 1 find it hard to give an idea of the famine situation iu Kussis, the liussian peasants aro 80 gifferent in every respect from the people of tho rast of the worid. Thoy live differ- ently, they are goverued differently and they do their work and manage their affairs afier a diffcrent manner frow the farmers of Europe or the United States. Tnoir wants | are so smuil that 2 cents a day per person nas kept thousands alive during this famine, una at Saratoy [ was told that $5 a day had been tho total cost of feeding 400 people for weeks, This was smong tue Catbolic mans, and they each got one aud a-haif pounds of black broad # day apiece, and this furnished at cost amounted to 2 cents. In vme places 1 found oup kitchens giving inners at 214 cents w eal, and such kitchens are now estaplished in all the towns. Think of feedmg a man 0060 or 70 conts o month and you get an idea of haw these people have been living during the past winter. This gave them rye bread and water with a meal of cabbage soup, and in some of tho districts they did not even huye.this. In pars of this province of Sumara. they made a bread of dried grass wixed with a little bir of rye, and I bave seen specimens of this, The samesort of bread was made in Kazan and Nijni-Novgorod. A décent American horso would turn up his nose at it. In parts of Saratov the dead-cattle and horses were mado into soup, and at one place 200 gallons of water, forty pounds of rye und & hind quarter of a dead horse formed the materials out of which the soup for the village was made. Near Nijni tbere wero instances of children biting theic arms aud fingers so as to satisfy their hunger, but I have so far heard of no cases of cannibalism, though such hayo been reported. 'The most of the deatns from the famine hayg been from typhus and disease, but cousidering the vast humbver of destitute, raoging from 50,000,000 to 40,000, 000, the mortality has been 'tomparatively small and much “less than it would have been among any other beople 1n the world, The diet of the Russian peasant in the best of times consists of little more than cabbage soup, rye bread and. potatoss, Ho gets fat ou pumpking and cucumbers aud knows but little of meat. tle bas now and then u piece of dry fish, and his religion gives bim many fast aays, when ho does uot dare to drink milk or eat butter. The Government Works, I see overywhers the work of tue Russian governwent in behalf of the famine sufferers, 1 do not think thattue wachinery of the czar in managiog his people is LY any means per- fect. I chink, in fact, fuis far from being s, snd there is probabiyas much oppression and corruption golug po.in the government hera s in any goverpmaot in christendomn Sull, [ beliove in givisg the Russians credit for the good théy are §oing aud for the mil- lions they are spon to help the people. In Nijni-Noviarod, where I first struck the Volga, | found abgut £.000 men at work wiaening the roads,asd laying out public purks under the; goverhmont surveyors, and I'was told that'theig wages came out of the government approp n for the famine. Along the Volga at this point the road that runs below the city off Nijni1s about thirty feer wide. 1v is belog widened to about 100 feet and tne oills are baing chopped down and substantial wolls bullt. ‘These thousands of workmen receive about 25 cents & day and board thewselyes, “The streots of Nijni were packed full of men wanting work and I found Uousaadsaldopine uud louting aiong the whar! under the blazing sun, Mea bare touded and bareldggea lay with their fac upturaed, sleepibg on the cobble stone street uext the river: at, mldaay and women with bags on tueir bagks pud stafls in their bands wandered through e stréets asking ulms. Hero and theve along the road were bread ors, who sold blg loaves of black bread us & dishpan 1 such as could buy. [ loaf sold Was welghed first uud parts of loaves wore at s0much a pound. In company with the architeet of the wovern- ment [ visiled Lhe relief Works s Lbo men at thetr, lubors.” They workea as nurd as any laborgrs I bave ever seon and 1 asked asgdo the hours they put in for fy | was fold that the day jussian Laboring day auring the summer, ““And what was thist" | asked. “From 4 o'clock in the morniug until 8 o'clock @t mght,"’ was tno reply. :;r:m secms 1 we Lo be s very long day," said I, “Ob 1" replied the srchitéct, “they don's d watched was the usuak work all of that ume. * Thoy hiave two hours | off at noon," Stilt this gave the men fourteen hours of ana as I looked a® them aigging and ing, while the s at rolled down their fuces, cheerfully putting in this time at less than 2 cents an hour I could nov help thrak- ing of our workmen, whoare hardly sauistied with 82 for eight hours of similar work. Suil 25 cents is good wages here, and you can biro men in good times for this sum, A Kussian Contractor'’s Kitchen, 1 waus at the works at the time that the 8 o'clock bells rang and the men stopped work. It was light s miaday in America and I could see these thousanas of workmen, in red shirts and caps ud calico pantaloons, troop- 1ng down from the hillside with their picks and stovels in_ their bands, Each man had to tuke care of his own tools, and thoso who | used wheelbarrows had to take the iron wheels of these in their hands, not daring to loave them, for fear they woula b> stolen, As each man stopped work he crossea him- self and muttered a prayer, and as they up to whers I stood many of them were s praying. I wonderedau this, and an English friend who was with mesaid: ‘‘Yes, thoy aro praying now. They are thanking God that the day is done. Tomorrow morning they will again thauk Him when thoy begin work, and they will pray again when tbey stop for dinner. They pray and thank Ged all tho time, and when they havea chance to steal anything they even thank God then forgiving them the chance,”” This 15 rathes Lard ou tho Russian peasant, but there is a grain of truth in it notwithstand- ing. The people pray so much that tnoy do it automatically, and though there is a great deal of religion among the people there i wore suverstition and form than real intelli- gent piety. Board at Nino Cents u Day, Just before the men stopped work I visited the kitehen of the contractor, where about 700 men wore boarded by Lim at 9 cents a day, Tuis board was voluntary on their purt, und they only patronized him because he had a botter feed for the money than any- one vlse, Imagine a room about thirty feet square taking up the wholo of a shed of logs and boards, and in this put o great oven about four feet high and so made that it forms @ square box, filling nearly the whole of the room. This oven box is wade of bricks and in its top are ereat holes, in which are sunk six kottles, which will each hold about & hogshead of Huid and in which were boiliug the evening ration of soup for the men. Some of this koup was of beans aud another kottio was of cabbage, while in u third hogshead buckwhoeat mush was steaming away. I tastd all of those, eating o bit with & wooden spoon out of the great ladlos banded me by tne cooks, and I did not flud~ them at all bad. In another purt of the kitchen were stacks of great loaves of the bluck oread which the veasants cat, -aud as we looked av this I asked for tho bill of fare of this 4-cent eating house, The reply was that each man four meals for this sum, two of which con- sisted of cold broad und’ water and the two of which were hot. Buach man receiv: four pounds of bread o day and the meals were taken in the following order! At tho morniug, after working three bou an empty stomach, the men eat & broakfast of broad and water. At 11 they knock off for dinne) d at this time tney sit down at long tables and have some of this hot soup aud bread. At b p. m. thoy take another lunch of bread and water, aud at &, after thoy ars through with their day’s work, they have more soup. with a littlo of this buck wheat mush, In bis soup each man gets three-quariers of a pound of meat, and the vations all told for the sum of ¥ conts are better than cau bo gotten Buywbere else in tho world. ‘Phey are far superior to what Lhe peasants are accustomed to at home and they grow faton thew. How the Peasants Eat, I don’t know whether this peasaut board- 1uk house coutractor furaishes the dishes or not, but suppose he d-es. I watched a meal of the workinen sud the extra expease in this regard could not be large. Tho men ste s [ have seen the peasants in mauy places where they are served with dinners by the fawluo rellof people, und in fack just as they | cloth upou them i — eat in thelr own homes. The only dishes were wooden bowls the size of thosein which the ordinary American family chops its hash or the farmer’s wife works her butter. These boswls were about three inches deep and they wero filled with a thick soup. The tables were knocked up, ouly of rough planks, and were two feet wide and 100 fect loug, with benches running along both sides of them so as to form seats for the men. Phiere was no but the white surface of each tablo 3 rlzed off with charconl 1nto squares, and each square had & LUMDOY Up to ten, and av the cud of the ten squares o sec- ond series of ten numbers began. iach man had thus his own square place at the table, and one of these bowls was set in the couter of each gavg and contained cnough for ten persous. lustoad of a plate a cup or asaucer,ench mut: bad in his hand a spoon of vellow wood wuich would hold about twice s much as the ordinary tablespoou, and the men took their turas in dippiug their spoons. into the soup and carryiow it totheir mouths. There was # rigid order about tho whole and there was no chance for @ nau to get a spoon- ful more than his share. As to this service, however, not ono of the nundred long: bearded men at the tavle ovjected, and the majority of them would not know how to handle dishes of porcelan sud knives aud 3 Cents n Day. The avove is, as I have said, fat living for these people. They are furnishea 1t by a contractor, who makes some mouoy out of it and who is dependent for his custom on the oxcellency of his board, Tho famine relief kitehens, which are supported by the go ment ana charity, give dinners for 5 konec & plece or 215 cents a day. Duriug the worst part of the winter diuners wero givén for loss thun 1 cent a moal, and during the fam- ine one such meal was given daily to thou- sands who could not even pay this amount, for nothing. There was one of theso kitch- ens, at Nijoi Novgorod, which was serving hunareds of these 214 cont meals to all who paia for them and giving them to such as could prove themselves destitute, For this 214 cents they gave u bowl of soup, with a bit of meut as big as the pulm of your haud and a pound und a half of bread, und on fast days flah took the placo of meat.” Oue of the customs in regard Lo this diningroom seemed to be an excellent ono, aud if eating rooms on asimilar plan could bo established in America iv would be 4 good thing. This cus tom was the giving of beggars meal tickets instead of money, - The proprictors of Lhe establishment sold twenty of their diuner tickets for 50 conts and the citizens of the town bought these by the uundred, aud when approached by beggars for alas they gave tuem tickeis of these 21§ cont meals fu- stead of money. Such tickets eould not,-of course, be used AL the Vodks 8bops or sa- loons aud they prevented fraud on the part of the beggars. vernor on the Famine, During a lunch which Dr. Hubbell a self took with the governor of Nijui } rod we had a loug talk about the fumin 1jui Novgorod was oue of the first dis tricts 10 take measures to aid the peoplo, his story of tho situation was icteresting. This Nijii goveruor saw that tho famine was at band long vefore it came. The erops had been ba al yeurs, and as far back as M 01, he seut for reporis from the various districts ot his province and found thut out of eleyen, which comprise it, only two had enough Lo carry thew through tho winter, This is one of tho greatest grain centers of Russis and the governor av once boughit a lot of grain ou his own respons bility, and beforo he bad even notiric czur L@ had purchased 2,000 tons of and sent it to the uflicted of his provis He than upplied to the minister of the in; terlor for a loan for his people and got §500. 000 or about 1,000,000 roubles, Hu closel the saloons and stopped the grain speculutors who were trylug 10 make a corner in ths mirket aud raise the prices, and findiug that according to the constitution of the village that the government loan was belug used by the well-to-do as weil as tbe starving ho changed it aund made different laws, 5o that the men who got the money and not the vil lagos were resnousible for the loan. Al ready tbis proviuce of Nijni, which is balf as large as Oblo or Kentucky, aud which has as many people as the state of Michigan, has had about $3,000,000 for the famine from the government and the governor tells me that this amount went to about 600,000 people. 1t was all given to nonworkers and no one between tho ages of 15 and 55 was aided by it. These were in general supposed to bo able to work for themselves, and such of them as were nos were generally supplied by private and not by government cnacity. In addition to this ha hought a great quantity of grain and ha, for the stock of his province and made sucl arrangements with the government that ho has had from 8,000 to 10,000 men working at cutting wood in tho government fores Last Docember he recervoa $150,000 from t governmont to employ his most needy in the making of roads, and so ha has goue on through the whole of the famino wutching the interests of his people and doing the best tio could to fight the 1amine. 1 cito his case asan instanco of the work that has been done by certain of the officials in the famine districts. Muny of the governors have not done 50 well, and it would be 10doed strange if in tho handling of more than half a dillion of dollars some of it had not stuck to the hands of thousands of men who eame in con- t with it. I find, however, that relief Works are going on in most of thoss provinces, and I beliove that as & gonoral thing the government money has been fairly distributed and thatevery cent of the Ameri- can supplies have gone to those for whom they were intended and to thoso who noeded ihem tho most. FIANK G. CARPENTER. WORLD'S FALi NOTES, ‘The cost of Michigan's exbiblt will amoun to #500,000, Aztec relics will form an interesting par of the Mexican exhibit. A groat rellef map of the canal system of tho state is to bo exhibited by New York. The voard of trade of Dubuque, ia, bas appointed & committee Lo Prepars au_exuiois for that city to be sont told’ the Wors fair, No application for space wal be granted after August 1. Allotment of space 15 now bolug wude. e apace applied for is double the smount available. Canads will ereot &' World's fair building at Chicago 100 feer lone by forty-four fect wide, with u ten-foot veranda surrounding all sides, Plaus have been submitted pproval. An oxact reproduction of the fleet In which Colugibus set sail ou his voyage of discovery is promised for tho fair. It will be & most Justructive exhibit, and it will be especiully enjoyed by the youth of America. ‘I'ne flora of Montaua will be shown at the World’s fair by a collection as compiote as it 15 possible to make it. The state has about 1,000 different varieties of wild flowers and of these 800 have already beon coileced. The exhibit will includo also o display of wrasses and forage plants. Many of the states ure vrepaving similar exhibits of their flora. Chicago draws consolation from the dise covery thut the Sunday closing provision wiil not apply to the Midway plaisance, where the private exhivits and maoy of the state buuidings will bo located, The plaisance om- braces tho torritory botween Fifty-ninth ana Sixtioth streets, outside Jackson park. & is about 5)0 wide and a mile long. On this thoroughfure will be grouped typioal snops restuurants and theators of many nationi and while noue of theso places will have the same relation to the fair as the buildings in Juckson park, thoy will, nevertbeless, be uns ofcial exnibits of tho fair. Besides there will be no charge for “‘admission,” M. Ribot, the Frouch minister of foreigm affaivs, 1s & man of lizht ana learning o whom ex Minister Whitelaw RReld ouce said that be considored tha republic fortunate i having found & Fronchmau "nudhllnyulnnls in miud, manners and presence’’ o receive the representatives of Lhe powers, M. Riboy is oue of the besl speakers in tbe house of deputios aud its tallest member. 1t will be recalled that Mme. Ribot is s Americun womun, 8d sccording L0 popular reporte mush of ber busbaud's advascement dn pub. llg life bas been due Lo ber ambitious en=. couragement, :