The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 10, 1896, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 10, 1896. HE late Colonel James L. L. F. | me%li Jour gaseas 1ot sn!er, gor n_mytbe ' e - | hold some Fiji Island musical instru Warssphad, lor Yoa been plan- | "0 0 *an elephant’s grinder, a shark’s ning for the classification of his |y, 11, "and then a piece of the ship Cad belongings, being desirous of put- | ;yys, in which that famous friend of ting beyond the perils of the auc- | America, the Marquis de Lafavette, made tion counter snch of them as were of rare 1 his first trip to the anited colonies in 1777. historical vaiue. He seemed quite hale | Colonel Warren prized rfl_mdbn)?f wor;g and hearty only a year ago when he in- | dearly. To his intimate friends he wou! " i 3 | sometimes, while in & reminiscent mood, formed a friend rhat “‘the very thought of | |ioire the scene of the laying of the cor- executors pawing around and hawking | nerstone of Bunker Hill monument in his collection to idle-minded sightseers | 1825. Lafayette was there, the guest of haunted him.”” But the colonel’s object, | the Nation, and Warren, then only 20 VIEW OF THE INTERIOR OF COLONEL WARREN'S OLD CURIOSITY [Sketched by a **Call” artist.] SHOP. 'iears of age, was one of the guard of nor to the Frenchman who played so | glorious a part at the side of Washington. And so that piece of the ship Cadmus told | volumes to the eye of the nonagenarian. A few steps further on is a work of art— “Bunker Hill Monument’—made of rare and beautifui shells, crystals and moss- agate. On the floor below itisa cannon- { ball dug up by young Warren in 1823 on | the hillside where his immortal namesake inspired the Continentals by flaming words and flashing sword to deeds which hewed a way for liberty. ‘Would you know something of interest about the early history of agriculture in California? The tall broom, with the very long brush, leaning against yonder case, will tell you a little and give you a hint as to where you may find more. The label on it reads: “First broom made in Cali- fornia—1852. Exhibited in Sacramento at Warren’s Agricultural Fair on J street.” In fact, Colonel Warren |held the first agricultural fair in the Golden State, and he has been styled ‘‘the father of husbandry in Califor- nia.”” He is credited with having been the foremost man at the dawn of statehood here to call the attention of the general public to the desirability of cultivating the soil and of seeking fortune by its tillage rather than continue the crush to the crowded mines. Herelies a box containing sixty specimens, each in a little bottle by itseif, of California native flower seeds, packed in 1852 and 1853. A catalogue ac- companies the box. May not some spe- cialist in floriculture find value in these? | Might not these same seeds serve to ex- lain away a doubt as to some fact of a lower’s nativity ? Over there in the corner, black with dust, is a sack of flour of the first ever manufactured in California. It was made by Warren himself in 1853. Look around at the paintings on_the wall. Let us wipe away some of the dust. Ah! there is an ancient vainting by Rudolf Wargitzky, Berlin, entitled “The Piger and the Madonna.”. It is excellently well preserved. An oil painting of General John A. Sutter, by one of the early Cali- fornia artists, occupies a prominent place. It is said to be the finest likeness in ex- istence of that man whose name is so indelibly associated with our pioneer times. An oil portrait.of the “good gray voet,”” Walt Whitman, hangs next to ig and next to that again is a portrait of War | ren, painted by W.C. Pratt at Boston in 1827. Stacked up on a table is a pile of samples of California woods prepared by Thomas respect, was never accomplished. a of himself making a disposition s effects never got beyond the stage of intention, and when he passed out of the world of flesh some three weeks ago his curios and his treasures cf literature science and art were still scattered about his veritable “old curiosity-shop” at 1004 Howard street, and the confused heaps of | his pavers, books, magazines, pictures and relics were almost hidden underneath the undisturbed dust of months. To-day the executors are performing the | laborious task that Colonel Warren laid | out for some historiographer, and the rich | mementos of old times that represent the | patient in-gathering of four score years may soon be disposed of in the very man- ner that was invested with perils to the mind of the pioneer—under the auc- tioneer’s hammer. 0Old Colonel Warren was 2 walking en- cyclopedia of information. He possessed a splendid memory, and from the year 1815, when a mere child of 10, he continued to collect and store papers and periodicals that might become of value at a future day. ltis to be regretted that the Colonel | did not find time, in his later years, to write a volume with reference to his col- | lection, for much of the interesting history of many of the relics was buried forever when the man whose chief pride they were was laid below the reaches of the sun. Still, as vou push or sidle your wa through that memory-haunted shop Witg its wealth of old boc cases of relics and mineralogical specimens, stacks of albums, trunks and boxes filled with his- tory-breathing letters and manuscripts and tokens from everywhere, and march through a narrow aisle, upon each side of which newspapers are piled from floor to ceiling—and when you are assured, furthermore, that heaped up there out of sight are complete files of leading papers and magazines from the very beginning of the century—you hardly feel that any- taing is needed to inform you of their value. The books and wpapers speak for themselves, and the late owner had labeled many of the relics with a careful pen. The executors are taking an inventory of the contents of the shop, and it will be weeks before they can possibly form an estimate of the value of the collection. It is rathera puzzle where to begin to | describe the mass of things in this long, dark room. Ip the first glass case that ! h : SOME OF THE THINGS TO BE SEEN IN THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. [Sketched by a ‘“Call” artist.] FILES OF OLD NEWSPAPERS ,WERE PILED AS®BIGH AS THE CEILING. (Sketched by a “Call’ artist.] Hatch, woodworker. The samples em- brace the yellow pine, big-tree sequoia, laurel, ash, fir, curly redwood, live and white oak, maple, “alder, white cedar, shitam wood, camphor, pear, birch, ma-f drone, sugar pine, sycamore, nutmeg, plain redwood and walnut varieties. Here is a set of carved ivory chessmen, marvels of exquisite workmanship. A slip of paper in the box informs the curi- ous that “this is the best set of chessmen on the Pacific Coast and it was purchased from Samuel Brannan, then of the firm o Osborn & Brannan, on Montgomery street, in 1849, and I paid $50 in gold for them.'’ The colonel valued highly an iron model of the burial casket of Napoleon the Great, purchased in Paris in 1847, It is made so as to serve as an ink well. Between the years 1820 and 1845 Colonel ‘Warren conducted the Nonatnum Vale Gardens, at Brighton, Mass,, and among his effects is a visitor’s record-book of that resort, containing autographs of such illustrious Americans as Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Emerson, Longfellow, hrynnt and Flihu Burritt. Colonel Warren traveled in Europe with Ole Bull when the latter was in his prime, and about the shop are numerous pictures and autographs of the great master of the violin. At the bottom of one large like- ness of himself the musician wrote: Homage to Colonel Warren, the father -grlcul:i‘xre in California, the father of tl% homeless, the father of his friends, the staneh defender of liberty in the aits and sciences, and the protector of his admiring friend, X OLE Bu! San Francisco, March 4, 1870, o In the mountain of papers, above referred to, the deceased only a year ago ventured the opiniop that there were nearly 2,000,000 of newspapers and periodicals. " Had the colonel lived for another decade, the in- crease in his newspaper collection would have crowded him out of doors. A copy of the **California Silk-Growers’ Manual,”’ by Louis Prevost, pioneer silk cuiturist of the Pacific Coast (1867), is marked ‘‘very rare—price §25.” Stumbling over a coral tree from the Solomon Islands, you run against a table full of rare books. There is a *‘Collection of Church Music,”” by the Boston Handel and Haydn Society, printed in 1823, and a complete set of the British poets—well bound and finely preserved, in fifty volumes—editea by Robert Walsh Jr., and published by Samuel T. Bradford, Phila- delphia, in 1822. Rare books abound on the numerous shelves. One of the rich mementos of famous peopleisa I"Fie chest made of a combina- tion of gold, silver and copper, and said to have been the treasure safe of the great Rolla of Peru. The collections of old European and American coins, and of stamps from nearly all nations, are extensive and valuable. There is no telling. indeed, what a new wealth of curios and relics may be dis- covered when the contents of the old shop are thoroughly explored. Toward the close of the colonel’s life he was constantly at his desk in the dusky room during the daytime, ana at night he reposed on a cot in a valley between his mountains of papers. The ola place was more than a home to him. He lived there among old friends and darling memories and dreamed old dreams over and over again. He prized everythine in the shop, even to the type vyn!x which he had long ago printed the California Farmer. Tie colonel in his day had been hotel-keeper, temperance lecturer, merchant, newspaper editor and agriculturist. At last his rela- tives forced him to leave his treasure- house_in order that his life might be pro- longed in a more healthful atmosphere and by a more regular mode of living. He had to be carried out,and he made those who gently bore him halt at the doorway while he cast a iong, lingering, reluctant, farewell look at his busts and his birds and his pictures and his books. Then he said, “Let us go,” and the vete- ran of 90 years was driven away—his last journey but one, the journey to the grave. < Yes, we propose to conduct our whist articles to reach and assist the beginners who will study a little. We also intend to remain in shallow water, and not to wade out “over our heads,”” which seems to be the fashion with those that go into print possessed with a smattering knowledge of the game. It is the custom with many whist writers to tell all about the “‘grand coup,” the “fourchette,” the *‘echo of the call,” the ‘‘sub-echo” and other things before they try to get their readers out of their whist kilts. Like many others that play at the game, in our own opinion we knew more about whist before we ever read cr knew there was such a thing as a book published on the game than we did after ten years of hard study. For about five years we have been a pupil of Miss Kate Wheelock, and if the little queen will per- mit us to be one of her loval subjects five years more we will continue to be one of her pupils. Her judgment and knowledge of the game is so great that no question in whist ever comes ug that we do not submit the same to her royal highness as well as other whist authorities and no one is ever more willing than our queen to help along those who are trving to help themselves. This much we havesaid in an- swer to letters received, asking if our whist column will continue, as_it has started in, io help those who are willing to study a itt “Whist” for April is just at hand. Many things that are said in this num- ber will be food for the ‘“‘tad” players. The columns of Whist are open for writers on the game from all schools, and just now before the June congress takes place, Whist is undoubtedly encouraging this class of players to get them to show up in full force at the congress, and prove by their play that their different systems of fads have or have not ground to stand on. In the game just at the present time there are a lot of players who are beating a “tom-tom,” or playing on one string, called the short-suit game. Every whist playver of the first rank knows there are times when a hand demands the opening of a short suit just as well as other hands demand the opening of the long suit. It is not possible for it to occur in the lifetime of an individual that two deals in whist were ever exactly alike, consequently they are never played alike. Some three years ago, in an article that appeared in the Brooklyn Eagle on the subject of how to open the game and how your partner should treat your original lead, we made the following statement: When the original leader opens a plain suit, with both elements of strength declared, his partner should put forth all his energies to es- tablish that suit immediately and bring it in later, and Dot try to establish one in his own hand. In this case, when the partner obtains the lead for the first time, if he has a card that will assist in the establishment of his partner's suit, he should lead it at once, ulways bearing in mind that a very long suit will seldom, if ever, go round more than twice; or, should he have four trumps, better still commence at once to exhaust them, if no one has “called” orstarted a cail. Itis often the best whist to do so, even from three, particularly if you have are-entry card and can force the last trum: from the adversary. Inthis case I.wouid. b waysdo it. Again, should the onginal leader open a suft notyery strauf, and his partner has & better one, he should inform him at once by his re- turn lead, speaking by the card, and should say,“The suit I am leading from is a better one than you opened, and therefore you must abandon yours and assist me to establish this one in my hand.” The essence of all good whist play is to make all the tricks possible in each hand. In our opinion the long and strong suit system is the best way of accomplishing it. "But should neither you or your partner hold such a suit, then I contend is the time to go in for a ruffin orshort-suit game, Iclaim that it is not good whist for the original ieader to open his best suit and expect his partner when he gets the lead to do the same, merely to show the strong suit of each partner, as advocated by some au- thorities. There is no case on record where in one deal two plain suits were ever established &nd brought in. This being a fact what s the use of following such line of play. In this same article the writer took issue with Cavendish and urged the adoption of the fourth best from ace and four small. Since his letter was written the latter has become universally adopted in this coun- try. Commenting on the above letter John H. Briggs, whose fame as a whist-player and whist-writer is known wherever whist is played, says: Your advice upon the return of your part- ner’s suit WAS & great surprise to me.. It has been & wonder that whist-players have not dis- covered the truths which i;ou tell your readers on the subject. You ought to have a great deal of interest shown in your good work, but 1suppose the “cranks” pass it by because it is free, and probably most of them can beat the books. As a warning to short-suit players we submit the following from the "pen of Milton C. Work in the Evening Telegraph of a recen: date on short-suit leads without vital reason : We do not know a Philadelphia player of any considerable whist caliber who bgue)ves in short-suit doctrines, but there are many who take an occasional “flyer.”” A short-suit hand which occurred in the second four match be- tween Hamilton and Art last night, however, will doubtless prove a warning against such experiments important The leader cards were four king, eight and two small, ace, queen, . jack and two others of omne side suit, a small singleton and a three-card suit, headed by aten. The lead of the ten cost five tricks, and would have cost six had a trick not been Jost in the end play by the other side. Yet this is the ideal short-suit hand, viz.: open- ing a streugthening card and keeping a tenace to be led ug to. The plaver who led the short suit got his tenace not led up to but led through and found the king solus to his left. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. We are asked “When that Woodland match is to take place.” James H. Doolittle of the St. Nicholas Hotel, an ardent devotee of whist, ar ranged a match game between the Wood- land Whist Club of Woodland and th- Trist Duplicate Whist Club of this Citye and for some unknown reason he backs, out. We ave asked our ovinion in regard to the original lead of jack or queen from ace, king, queen, jack and others. It isa mat- '§3 n matches. trumps, ter of no great importance, but it certainly simplifies the jack lead, and for that reason alone we consider it a good innovation for advanced players to lead queen from this combination, and when you lead jack you deny holding the ace. >3 G. H. D,—?)n trick 4 East led 8 of dia- monds, West holding 4 small should re- tain the lowest—play third best—when he cannot head the trick; for the pur- Egu of enabling partner to count num- vand on second round of the same suit he should play second best remaining. ‘WHISTLETS. On Saturday, June 27, the last day of the A. W. L. congress, there is to be a bicycle parade, and it is estimated that at least 10,000 wheelmen will participate. All whist-players and . delegates are recom- mended to bring their wheels with them. THE CALL would like to ask how a whist- player could get there without “wheels”— they all have them. The international whist match proposed by the Whist Editor of THE CALL is very likely to bear fruit. The London News of April 7 says a move is on foot to attain that end. C. S. Averill and wife of Syracuse, N. Y., have been spending a few weeks in Cali- fornia. Mr. Averill and our Whist Editor were boys together—no wonder he loves whist. rs. Averill is a student of the game also. SAN FRANCISCO WHIST CLUB. (Announcement for May, 1896.) The ladies’ trophy play will be continued as already announced. Regular tournaments on Mondsy, Wednesday and Saturday evenings will be as heretofore. No prizes will beawarded excepting on the evening of Wednesday, May 20, when the couple making the highest num- ber of points above the average (subject to handicap) will be awarded prizes. The continuous play of straight whist for prizes, as previously announced, will continue until further notice. The game will be found interesting, aud {t is hoved that each member will qualify for the prize by playing the requi- site number of thirty games. The entire front page of Leslie’s Weekly, one of the leading illustrated papers of New York, is given up to a beautiful draw- ing, “An Evening at Whist.” E. C. Howell’s new book now in press will be out in a few weeks, It will treat on the “Strategic Game.”” The announcement for whist play in the Trist Duplicate Whist Club for May is the same as April, with one exception. No more straight whist will be played on Saturday nights. Duplicate only—visitors like it better. The whist play ot the great Frencn ex- Eerc Deschapelles often called forth out- ursts of applause, such as handclapping and cheers from the onlookers. We know of only one instance in this country where such a thing happened. ‘Whist-players in England always score honors. Players in this country never do. ANSWERS TO PROBLEM 5. ‘We received fifty-three letters inclosing solutions to problem 5. Eleven out of the number are correct. They were received in the following order: First, Mrs, F. H. Atwater, Petaluma; second, J. McKinstry, San Franclsco; third, J. E. Mc. Gowan, San Francisco; fourth, George E. Housken, Stockton; fifth, Eliza R. Dainger- field, San Francisco; sixth, H. H. Hotaling, San Francisco; seventh, Walter A. Stafford, Stanford University; eighth, Theo Rosseter, Alameda; ninth, Eglantine Caldara, San Francisco; tenth, John B. McNamar, 'Atlas; eleventh, E. C. Brown, Oakland. The following comes from far-off Maine: BRUNSWICK, Me., April 27, 1896. Dear Editor: In answer to vour Petaluma whist problem of April 12, we beg leave to submit the following as the only natural and practical answer to the question: South takes the trick with the queen of ‘dia- monds and returns the six of clubs, This seems to be, witnout doubt, the only lead in- dicated by the fall of the cards, and if followed out correctly gives the side five tricks. Trumps are contra-indicated of course; it is not & place for the short-suit lead of the single- ton kiug of hearts: and the fall of East’s jack on North’s iead of diamonds bars that suit, so the simple lead of the long and strong suit of clubs is all that is left. For having applied the eleven rule, South sees that the control of diamonds lies with himself and his partner and it Is his manifest duty to indicate to North the other suit on which they must rely for tricks, the strength in trumps being declared against them. The other deal given in the same number re- | quires no discussion, being of course a natu- ral “slam” band. Though across the continent we very much enjoi; your whist items. Respectfully yours, “The Friday Night Duplicate Whist Club.” HArRY B. RUSS, Secretary, of Brunswick, Me. When we published vroblem 5 we made the following statement: “We will give a whistbook to the first one that sends us the number of tricks that North and South can make playing this hand agyou please, all cards exposed or otherwise.” Mrs. Atwater was the “first” to send us the correct solution. She wins the prize. We request her to send us the title of the book she would like—any one pdblished in this country. Mrs. Atwater's analysis of the play is as follows: South gets out three rounds of tramps and at trick 4 leads the thirteenth tramp and forces a discard from all the others, which has the most effect on West’s hand. If West discards s heart South leads ace of clubs then the deuce of hearts. If West discards a diamond North ‘makes four heart tricks instead of five, and South makes three diamonds instead of two. If West should discard a club, then at trick 6 South would lead queen club, and then go on with hearts as before. Trick 7 South must here lead his ace clubs, as he might later in the hand block the ctub suit in North hand. This deal occurred in . actual play some years ago and is known as “the great Vienna coup.” PRIZE PROBLEM XNO. 6 Is taken from April number of Whist. It is by W. H. Whitfield of London. Whist gives the twenty-second edition of Cayvendish for the best analysis. All answers to our whist editor will be sent to Whist, and we will give one year’s subscriptior to Whist for the best answer. Spades trumps. North to lead. North and South to make 6 out of the 8 tricks. Answers will be published in June Whist; also in onr own column. B TALKS ON 0L DAY She Thinks People Were Much Better a Hundred Years Ago. A H;)me and Children Followed—Now It Is a Hotel and a Pood'e Puppy. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 4—"In the days of old”—that was what I heard com- ing up the staircase. The voice that sang the words never knew the days of old, though it was a sweet, clear one. But the words themselves set me to wondering. Were the days of old' better than these days? In the days of long ago, were men and women any better, and nobler, or was life more desirable? It is true that in the days of old nobody got up early in the morning, called *“‘Central,” and bad a row with her to gain the morning amiability. In the days of long ago nobody telegraphed a ‘“‘How- do-you-do” to San Francisco and got a “Good evening’ in such a short time that it could not be connted. Ail hfe was slow, and it seems to me, somehow, that all life was better. There were some luxuries missing. ‘We did not have strawberries in NEW TO-DAY: —DRY GOODS. CLOAK DEPARTMENT SPECIALS THAT ARE WORTHY OF PROMPT ATTENTION! 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People did not have as mary clothes in the olg times. A matron freshened from season to season the black satin or black silk that was her “best dress.”” and only brought out on special occasions, such as the marriage of a son or a daughter, the brocade that, it was whispered, came from France. not twenty yards of imitation, but one yard of real lace, and, the festivity over, it was carefully put away and remained in the seclusion of a carved chest, witih the perfume of cloves and lavender, until another feast day came about. In those old days servants were better. Why? Because mistresses took an interest in them, and the one that intended to marry was assisted in getting her household linen, while the one who nursed “‘my mother and all her children, me and all my children, > was buried from the house | of her mistress, often beside her mistress, and laid to sleep forever with that best tribute, love and sincere tears. In those old days men made love to women as they do nowadays, but that love-mak- ing culminated in marriage. Men spoke to women with more reverence than they do just now, and when young Knicker- bocker took to visiting Miss Stuyvesant every Sunday night both families knew what it meant, and Mme. Knickerbocker and Mme. Stuyvesant looked through their linen chests to see what could be spared, and Mme. Stuyvesant wondered if it would be wise to give these young people, just starting in life, a silver tea' service. Now- adays, their descendants demand diamond tiaras, necklaces and wonderful sunbursts that too often cover hearts that have mar- ried for diamonds and not for crowns of love. In thoseold days a mother willed her fur cloak to her daughter; it was worth it; it was real sable or real ermine; and styles did not change with the fancy of every cocotte, as they do nowadays. A well-cut, well-made garment was in the fashion, and the mother’s fur surcoat was gladly assumed vy the daughterand willed by her to her eldest daughter. In those days marriage didn’t mean, al- ways, the union of great wealth and great social power; sometimes & man married entirely for love, and his father could sym- athize with him, even though his mother onged for him to wed one of the rich oung ladies who came of an afternoon to nit and drink coffee with her. But the father’s heart went out to the son and he settled a dower on the poor girl and the marriage meant the making ofa home; indeed, it meant more than that. It meant surrounding two young {aeople with six or eight, or ten or twelve ittie people, born of their love, and each greeted gladly. Nowadays, marriage too often means a hotel and a puppy. 1 am fond of dogs, but there is no dog that can take the place of a baby, and no ple who are marriea can find perfect appiness when they make their family consist of theirtwo selves and a dog. Itis true that there are some unhappy people to whom G6d doesn’t send little children; but those to whom he does send them should receive them with open arms and remember that, as they are children born of wedded love, so they will encourage and keep young the wedded love forever. In With this brocade was worn, | these days women forget the wonderful | bond that a little child is. What foolish i women they are! A husband may be led | astray, may sin grievously, but if he can | ask his pardon through the eyes of a little | child where is the wife who would not | grant it to him? A wife may seem foolish, | & bit tiresome, and sometimes even silly, | but if her love for her husband lisps itself 1 in the voices of little children her weak- | nesses will be forgotten and only her vir- jtue remembered. And yet there are | women who do not care to be mothers! In those days of old, women may have been—if such a thingis possible—overreli- gious. And such a thing is possible—in a way. The hot Sunday dinner was un- | known and children wept over the cate- | chism and went to sleep and were wakened | up to hear the clergyman preach about the horrors of hell and the certainty of small | boys and small girls getting there, but | somehow it made a good backbone in men | and women, ‘did that queer religious treat- ment. I have known what it was to: sit upon a bench, that was uncushioned, at a silent meeting; no preaching against hell ever equaled that. For that meant two hours of absolute silence, ending in a sigh of relief, when the older Quakers, who sat up and faced everybody, shookx hands. During that time there came before me, as no preacher could have painted it, the sins I had committed. I remem- bered kicking Ned, the dog; I re- membered sticking out my tongue at Henry Clay, the canary bird, and I re- membered, worst of all, that when I was sent up to the bathroom one day and told to wash my face and hands thoroughly, Ionly gave them what in my Southern home would be called “a lick and & prom- ise.” Itell you, my friend, that a still | meeting of two hours will convince a sen- sitive child that it stands before God on a | par with Judas and Ananias. But this | never hurt me. In fact, I think I always felt better, and as I frisked home, hang- ing to my grandfather’s hand, I would nod at father Gibbons and stretch my mouth very wide to show that my sec- ond teeth were all quite in. But those days are only, after all, a little while ago. They seem like yesterday to me. Here is a question for the very learned people— why is it that we forget the wonderful things that happened a month ago and remember so perfectly everything that happened twenty-five years ago? The X rays cannot explain that. ‘T'o'be quite honest, I have very little helief 1n the X rays. What good will it do some girl who is horribly unhappy, inasmuch as she feels she is to be a victim to consumption, to bave an X ray thrown on her and make the doubt a certainty? Yes, my friend, I am a believer in hope. It is an old-fashioned belief, but then L am a bit old-fashioned and have a leaning even toward Judas, fully believing that While the lamp bolds out to burn The vilest sinner may return. In the days of old, women who did not believe were unknown. Nowadays we may have cleverer women—I doubt it. But in those days little children hung around their mother's knees and learned to say their prayers, and, later on, when they were big children and the sorrows of life came to them they returned to that mother and wept out on her heart the griefs that they could not tell. Bas. Sixty langnages are spoken in the im- § ense empire governed by the Czar of ussia.