; Published by Roanoke Publishing Co.
fcF0R GOD, FOR COUNTRY AND FOR TRUTH."
W. FliKTCHKH AUSBOS, EDITOB.
C. V. W. AUSBON, BUSINESS MANAGER.
VOL.111.
PLVMOUTflf NC, FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1892.
NO. 43.
. , The Russian Czar has an income of
$25,000 a day, which makes President
Harrison's $137 per diem look rather
aiall.
'. During the present financial year the
English War Office expects to gave oyer
. , $185,000 on account of favorable con
tract for bread, meat and forago.
' Emin Pasha claims to have discovered
the much sought source of tho River
i Nile,' but as he does not tell where it is
there is. a 'suspicion, suggests the . New
York Press, that his source of the Nile
is in the imagination of his mind. .
' ? " The net indebtedness of the world in
1890 aggregated $26,917,096,000, of
which amount the debt of the Govern.
roent of . the United States constituted
3.40 per cent. ; the total debt of the sev
- eral : States and - Territories, together
. " ''with'i.that of their respective counties,
1.86 per cent., and the total debt of all
, the foreign countries. 95.24 per cent.
Assuming that five persons constitute a
family, the average debt per family for
the year above named was $78.15 in the
United States.
, Harper'n Magazine contains an articlo
on the. VOld Shipping Merchants of New
York,' written by George W. Sheldon,
and illustrated by C. D. Gibson and F.
II. Schell. , It will be a surprise to some
to learn that these merchants, who ex-.
ercised so important an . influence on
trade during the first half of the century,
left no successors. They were men who
ownel, wholly or in part, the packet
and clipper ships of the transatlantic
'service, and they did a large business in
exporting. But where is the American
house that exports to-day f The busi
ness is in the hands of foreigners, and
is done so differently that were the doers
' of it fifty years ago to . make their ap
pearance on 'Change, they could not un
derstand what is going on..
- Close observers say that the sparrow is
rapidly decreasing in number, and that
its utter extermination is oal; a question
v I nine. H, . jl uuuiO) if una, , illlUS
. and other devices to catch and kill these
birds are fast doing their work of devas
tation, making it certain that this pest
iferous little bird will become extinct.
The sparrow, which was introduced with
the purpose of ridding tht country of the
insects, that are injurious to fruits of all
kinds, has proved to be an enemy just
as destructive to buds and blossoms as
. are any of the known insect foes to the
same growth, so that w?.th the sparrow
exterminated, opines tho St. Louis Star-
Stayings, we may not only, have greater
; fruit crops, but a rctnrn of our native
"... sweet song bird?, which were driven out
of the groves of thisr region at tho in-
. ' coming of tho sparrow.
Jones's Mines, perhaps the oldest iron
.." mines in Pennsylvania, are to be aban
doned. . They recoived their name, from
1 David Jones, a "Welsh ironmaster, who
purchased in 1735 about one thousand
teres of land in Carnarvon Township,
Berks County, upon a part of which
tract the mines were worked. Jones
made a fortune out' of them for himself
' . and his ; descendants. Two miles from
' Mcrgantown there still stands the fine
old family mansion, which was built by
Jonathan Jones (a son of David)," who
otqu u fnlmipl in ihtt ftp.vnlntiona.rv Arm.
Until recently a large force ot . men were
employed at the mines, but the expanse
of following the iron ore is considered ,
. too great in the present condition of the
iron trade, and the pumps and other ma-
chinery are to be withdrawn and . the
. ehsfts allowed to fill with-water. ...
' . The New York Independent laments:
The American: popple have shown so
' much aptness and skill in almost all
''ether" lines of Industry and business
enterprise that it is mortjfying to have
to confess that we have been greatly be
hind other nations in shipbuilding.
With the finest timber in the world in
great : abundance, with all kinds of
metal in great supply, with rolling
mills and steel mills and other metal
works, we., should' be first in ship
building. It is gratifying, however, to
be told by a foreign shipbuilder, who
has visited our shores twice within a
decade, that we have taken a long step
forward in j shipbuilding in this period,
lie' says the quality of our American
built warships is almost as good as that
of the British warships, and they are
built quite as cheaply. If we can build
as cheaply now we ought to be abie to
build more cheaply after having bad a
little mors experience.
SECRET THOUGHTS.
I hold it true that f oughts are thinjr
Endowed with bodies, breath and wiugs,
And that we Rend them forth to fill
The world with good results or ill.
That which we rail our secret thought,
Speeds to the earth's remotest spot.
And leaves its blessings or its woes
Like tracks behind it as it goes.
It is God's law, Remember it
In your still chamber as you sit
With thoughts you wenld not dart have
known, ,
And yet make corhrades when alone
These thoughts have lifej and they will fly
And leave their impress by and by.
Like some marsh breeze, whose poisoned
. breath
Breathes into home3 its fevered breath.
And after you have quite forgot
Or all outgrown some vanished thought,
Back to your mind to make its home,
A dove or raven, it will come.
Then let your secret thoughts be fair;,
They have a vital part and share
In shaping worlds and molding fate
God's system is so intricate.
Ella W. Wilcox, in New York Press.
QUJXARVO'S RIVAL.
LOODY Sedge
moor's battle had
been fought and lost.
xxignt naa come
again, and in the old
gray church of Wes
ton Zoyland 500 of
the beaten rebels lay
imprisoned. -Jt
The scene inside
the church was aw
ful in its weird im
pressiveness. 'The
lurid glare of a few
torches which were stuck at intervals
against the pillars revealed the, forms of
men sitting and lying on the seats and
floor in every attitude of dejection and
despair. Up and down the aisles the iron
shod heels of the sentries rang upon the
pavement. The greater part of the prison
era were silent,or only moaning with the
pain of recent wounds ; some were pray
ing , one was raving,maa witn terror. Ana
in truth he and his companions had good
cause Tor fear, for their conquerer was
feversham, the General of the Royalists,
whose only mode of dealing with a rebel
was to hang or shoot him without more
ado, and who was only waiting for the
daybreak to begin the work of slaughter.
A few only kept their resolution
among them two were sitting together
in the shadow of the pulpit steps. Both
of these rzen had been conspicuous in
the fight, and both knew well that they
must die at daybreak.
The elder of the two was a man of
about thirty-five, with powerful thick
set frame, and strong and rugged fea
tures; a bad man to have against one,
one might say. Ho was by trade a horse
breaker, and a great part of his business
was to break in the wild colts of the
marsh. His companion was some six or
eight years younger. His figure was tall
and slight, but finely made, and his face
was singularly handsome. He was the
Bwiftest runner in the West of England,
perhaps in the whole kingdom. His name
was David Dare; that of the elder man
John Quixarvyn. Both were natives of
the town of Axbridge,but, until the day
before, they had been str&sgera to each
other. Chance had made them comrades
in the contest, 'where they had fought
side by side and where the same troop of
Royaltsts..had seized them both.
The two were silent. Quixarvyn had
pulled out a short black pipe, had filled
and lighted it and was now smoking
tranquilly, , His companion had also
pulled out something from his breast,but
it was not a pipe; it was the portrait of
a beautiful young girl, no took a long
look at the lovely face, a look which said
farewell. '.. , '
- Quixarvyn watched him. In the dim
light in which Jthey sat he could not see
the features of the portrait, but he
guessed how the. case stood.
"Poor fellow 1" he said, with more
tenderness than would have been ex
pected from his looks. Then, after a
minute's silence, he went on, as much
to himself as to the other. "And yet
my case is harder. I was in loveI am
in love, God help me! and I also have
her portrait in my breast. What would
I give if I could look on it as you can
look on yours!"
Dare looked at htm with interest.
What!" he said, "have you also the
same trouble a poor girl who wit go
distracted when Bhe hears of what has
happened to you?" .
"No," said the other bitterly; "she
will not go distracted ; she has had
enough of roc, and I shall have the pain
oi dying unrevenged upon the knave
who robbed me of her."
' It was strange to see how in a mo
ment his eyes had grown ablaze with
passion. The young man looked at him
in astonishment. '
' . " Who was it!" he inquired.
"Who was it?" echoed the other. "Do
you think if I knew tha. that I should
now have cause to writhe at dying with
out crying quits with him? No, I do
not know him. I only know she loved
me, ' that she cooled toward me; that
when 1 7 asked her plainly whether she
had found a younger and a better look
ing man she confessed that it was true
and threw herself upon my generosity to
set her free from our engagement. I
did so in a frenzy of mad passion. But
whew" I asked her for bis name she would
not tell me, fearing, I dare say, that I
might twist his neck. I should soon
have found him, but then this war broke
out and in my rage I could not keep
myself from rushing to the fight to cool
my blood with , blows. And so here I
am, going to be shot at daybreak. But
I swear to heaven if I only had that fel
low in ray power for one brief minute I
could die contented."
"You are right," said the other; "I
should feel the same." ' '..'"
Quixarvyn drew a portrait from his
breast and held it out to his companion.
' "Look," he said, "is this a face to jilt
a man? though it is one to drive him
crazy. Let me look at yours -it is not
more innocent. than this one, I dare
swear." :.. . :
The young man took the portrait and
at the same tine handed him his own.
Each looked in silence at the portrait in
his hand in a silence of amazement, of
stupefaction. The two portraits repre
sented the same person!'
Quixarvyn was the first to break the
silence. ' '. '.; - i ":
"What!" be: said, drawing a deep
breath and bursting into a low laugh,
which was both fierce and glad, "you,
was it? To think that I have found you
after all ! Fate is kinder to me than I
fancied."
. The other returned his gaze.
"Well," he said, "it was I, it appears;
though I never knew it, nor suspected
it. And," he added 6imply,' 'it has
been no one's fault." ' ,
"No one's fault?" ...
"No, no one's. Mary Seldon liked
you, but she did not love you, and when
we met she found out her mistake.
You frightened her with your mad
humors, Without mentioning your
name she told me the whole story. . You
could not make her happy, and I could ;
that's the whole case. . Do you blame
her?" ' '
. "No," said Quixarvyn, thrusting the
portrait back into his breast, "I don't.
But I have sworn to be equal with the
man who turned her mind against me
I will never believe he acted by fair
means and I am going, to do it. De
fend yourself; I give you warning."
Both men sprang to their feet at the
same instant, and stood glaring at each
other. At that moment there was
heard outside the church the rattle of a
drum.
Only the rattle .of a drum. But the
sound struck them motionless as figures
turned to stone. Nor was the effect on
their companions less remarkable. There
was a moments silence in the church,
deep as the silence of the dead; then a
movement a long thrill of horror. That
summons meant that day was - breaking,
and that their hour was come.
The guards set instantly to work to
prepare the first batch of prisoners to be
led out of the church. Dare and Quix
arvyn were among the first seized. With
about a dozen others tbey were marched
into the open air. The gray dawn was
scarcely giving way to the first streaks
of sunrise as tbey passed out of the
churchyard gates; but the whole village
was wide awake and in a tumult of ex
citement; indeed, there had been little
sleep that night. ' Every window was
alive with terror-stricken gazers as the
party of doomed men, surrounded by a
band of soldiers, were hurried through
the narrow streets and out upon the
open moor.
At the border of the moor sat an
officer on horseback, surrounded by a
troop of soldiers. Here the party
halted and the guards saluted. The
officer was a man of about forty, whose
dandified appearance, which was as trim
as that of a toy soldier newly painted,
showed eddly in the midst of soldiers
stained with battle. This was Lord
Feversham a man in whose nature
vanity, callousness and love of pleasure
were about equally combined. His face
was gay with pleasant expectation as the
rebels were drawn up before him.
'Good !" he remarked. These were
all ringleaders, were they? Sergeant
John, draw up your firing party and
shoot down every man of them." ,
The order was instantly obeyed. The
firing party was draw up, the prisoners
were ranged in line at a few paces dis
tance. At one extremity of the line
David Dare and John Quixarvyn found
themselves once more side by side.
An officer who sat on horseback st
Feversham's right hand observed them.
"I know those two," he said, point
ing to them with his finger. "Pity two
such fellows should be done for. One
of them is the best runner in the coun
try side, and the other the best rider."
"Eh? What!" said Feversham, stand
ing up in his stirrups. "Hold there a
moment, Sergeant; I spy a chance of
gallant sport. rWhat say you, Major?
a race between these two across the
moor, the one on foot, the other mount
ed. Wuivou back the runnerl
The Major was a man of some human
ity. ' He reflected for a moment. :
"Agreed I ' he said.' "And to insure
that both shall do their best let the win
ner haye the promise of his life."
Feversham received this proposal with
by no means a good grace, for to spare a
rebel hurt him to the soul. But the
delightful prospect of seeing two men
racing for their lives and of being able,
after all, to shoot the looser, at length
reconciled him to the scheme. ' He gnve
his orders and the two prisoners were
led out of the line.
Out upon the moor, about a quarter
of a mile - away, stood a solitary tree.
fhis was selected as toe starting point.
A double lino of troopers was drawn up
stretched from the tree, to the spot where
tho General was stationed, leaving a
space 1m tween them like a racecourse
some yards wide. At the end of the
course Feversham and the Majcr.sat op
posite each other. Whichever of the
two competitors should pass between
them fiist would be rewarded ; with his
life and liberty. '
And what were the sensations of the
pair while these preparations were in
progress!
David Dare, standing before the mus
kets of the firing r.arty, had heard the
strange proposal with a sudden thrill of
hope, so keen that it was ' almost ' like a
pain. Then for a moment his heart fell
again. He knew his own speed, of foot,
but he knew also that against a fleet
horse urged by a skillful rider spurring
for dear life his chance was likely to be
small. Still there was hope again and he
could do his best. More he could not
do, though success meant life and life
with Mary Seldon.
In the meantime a trooper had dis
mounted, and Quixarvyn, armed with
whip and spurs, having taken his place
in the saddle, the horse was led by a
couple of soldiers to the starting point.
Unlike his rival, Quixarvyn's face showed
no elation. For one moment, on hear
ing the proposal, a gleam had come into
his eyes, but now he rode with down
bent head, as if lost in thought. A sen
tence seemed to be constantly running
in his head the sentence used by Dare
in their quarrel in the church "You
could not make her happy, and I could."
He muttered the words . over twenty
times. It was not until the tree was
reached and the horse was halted with
his head toward the spot where Fever
sham, discernible far off between the
lines, sat writing, that he started, roused
himself ami looked about him.
David Dare was standing on his right,
stripped to the waist and without his
shoes, ready for the starter's signal.
Quixarvyn's guards dropped the horse's
bridle; and Sergrant John, who stood
between tne two competitors, drew a
pistol from his belt to give the signal.
The excitement at that moment was
intense Not a sound was heard in the
still morning air,but all down the double
lines were faces fixed intently on the
two competitors. Feversham and the
Major, with glasses, at their eyes, sat
motionless as statues. ; 1
The Serjeant raised his pistol. The
report rang out.
At the same instant horse and man
shot out together from the mark. At
first the runner, practiced at flying from
the start, and having less momentum
than the horde, drew out in front. In a
few seconds he was some twenty yards
ahead. ' Then the gap between them
ceased to widen ; then it was seen to be
decreasing; the horse was gaining
slowly at first, but gaining surely, stride
by stride. When half the course was
covered tho horse had drawn up level
and then came such a race as bad never
yet been seen. For a hundred yards and
more the two ran locked together, Bide
by side, the runner almost flying over the
crisp turf, the horse stretched out in a
fierce gallop, with the rider standiag in
the stirrups. And now the goal was only
fifty yards avwiy; but the gazers drew a
deep ' bieath as they saw that now the
horse was gaining was drawing out in
front. For one. instant it seemed that
all was over; the next, to their amaze
ment, they were conscious that the horse
was failing. Then they saw a gallant
sight; they saw the runner nerve him
self for a last effort and close upon the
goal, dash past tha hone and past the
judges and fall headlong on the turf.
At that scene, in spite of discipline, a
frantic cheer broke forth along the line.
Even Feversham himself smiled grimly,
as one who, though he had just lost a
bet, had gained its full equivalent in
pleasurable excrtemcnt. y
The winner, wao had fallen panting
and exhausted, was raised into a sitting
posture by two troopers, and in a few
seconds he was able, though still weak
and dizzy, to stand upon his . feet and
look about him. ,
A few paces off his beaten rival stood
beside his horse. ' Dare looked at him,
and their eyes mat. L Quixarvyn's face
bore an almost imperceptible smile ;but it
was not this, but something in his look
which the other could not have defined,
which struck him backward like a
shock. "Ho staggered back a pace or
two, bewildered by the light which
broke upon his mind. Then he stepped
up to his rival's side, and the guards, who
saw no cause to interfere, falling back a
little, he put his mouth close to Quix
arvyn's ear: .
"You pulled that horse, he said.
Quixarvyan lookod at him, but
answered not a word. ,
"You let me win," the other went on,
his voice breaking. "For her sake you
did it."
Quixarvyn drove his nails into his
palms; he had acted, he was acting, not
without a bitter coat. -"".
"Make her happy, ' he said, briefly.
As he spoke he turned away and strode
swiftly to his old position at tho head of
the line of prisoners, before which the
firing party was again drawn up.
Dare turned hi back upon the scene
and thrust his finger in his ears. Never
theless, he could still hear with horrible
distinctness1 the Sergeant's loud, clear
voice, with an interval between the
words
"Ready!'
"Present 1" V
"Fire!"
Almost as tho word was given came
the crash of the report. Moved by an
impulse which he oould not conquer he
turned around with a shudder. - The
soldiers were lowering their smoking
muskets, and a thick white cloud hang
above the line of the prisoners stretched
upon the ground. At the extremity of
the line Quixarvyn lay upon his face,
with bis right hand clenched upon a
portrait which be had taken from his
breast, and a bullet through bis heart.
The Strand Magazine. " "
SELECT SIFTIXGS.
A clock made in 1671 is still in going
order. ' ; t
Chinese military drums' are made of
wood. ' . '
There is a singing grove near Ham
burg, Conn. - ':
The Burmese, Karens, Hungere and
Khan3 use lead and silver in bullion for
cuirency. ;
A little Philadelphia boy has a pet
rabbit which he has trained to draw a
small wagon.' '
Four pounds of gold have been col
lected from the soot of the chimney of :
the Royal Mint in Berlin, Germany.
A St. Louis (Mo) woman has opened
an office for the cure of "afflicted minds,
cranks, fanatics, bigots and . agnostics."
It has been proposed to put jinrikshas,
the Japanese sedan chairs on wheels,
drawn by men, in the streets o( London.
There is in Buffalo, N. Y., one line
of street cars on which a car crosses
fifty four railroad tracks in making one.
round tiip. ,
A ricochet shot from -the new maga
zine rifle adopted in England broke a
cottage window four miles distant from
the firing point.
In a Philadelphia cold-storage house,'
an English hare has been kept frozen for
fourteen months and is still apparently in
good condition.
There ii a strong flow of natural gas
in the Ventura River. When lighted,it .
is said, the flames extend over a space
eight feet wide. - ' :
Recently between Tewkesbury and
Cheltenham, in England, in three min
utes, 700 words were sent'to a newspa
per office and correctly received over a
telephone wire.
At Dresden, Germany, they are bak
ing an American corn bread that is find
ing much favor and is much cheaper thin
their ordinary bread. A pound costs a
trifle over thioe cents,
: The typewriter is fast superseding tho
pen in telerrapby. Operators are learn
ing to handle the typewriter everywhere,
and new hands are npt employed unless
they are experts at the "machine."
The superstition of the yellow donkey
of India, the atory ot the swift ass of
Eastern Asia and . the ass of Dionysius
and many othej marvelous ass stories, are
all survivals of that curious form of re
ligious worship the adoration of the
ass's head. - :
The Mormcn Temple in Salt Lako
City, Utah, is built in the form of an
ellipse, and, ajthough it is of enormous
dimension, it is so well constructed
with regajd to acoustics that a person
standing in tha focus at one ed can
carry on a conversation in a whisper with
any one in the frcusat the other end. V
There wore ' blooded dojrs in early
Egypt, and highly prized. Their names
were carved on monuments which, still
remain. une or tnem, nis name snow
ing his foreign origin, was called Abai-
karou, a faithiul transcription of the
word abaikour, by which the hunting
dog is designated in many of the Berber
dialects. .
A classic account of the distribution
of wheat over lha primeval world shows
that Ceres, having taught her favorite,
Triptolemus, tha art of agriculture and
the science of breadmaking, gave him
her chariot, a celestial vehicle, and that
in it he traveled night and day distribut
ing this valuuhle grain among all nations
of the earth.
Many a huntsman through a long life
has chased tte fox with enthusiastic
ardor who would be surprised to
know that in the very tip of his tail or
brush is a Uttio bunch of hairs twenty-
five or thirty in number, which gives
forth to the despairing and almost van
quished beast the refreshing and stimu
lating odor of nolcts.
The very Olio collection of postage
stamps bequeathed to the trustees of the
British Museum by the late Mr. lapling,
Member of Parliament, contains about
200,000 stamps, and its value ii esti
mated "at $300,000. Its lata owner was
occupied for over twenty years in its
formation, it is without doubt tne finest
collection in tkie world.
In Dikio, in Adenmouah, in Logone
and elsewhere small cotton strips are the
regular currency. In Bagirarl these
strips are so small that from seventy to
150 of them would have to be pieced
together to make a Bhirt. In Dar-
foor- the gfty, coarse shirting circu
lates as money, and in Tiout, in upper
Egypt, this material is dyed dark or blue
and then cut tno pieces of three yards
length. .'
Flights of Insects.
Dr. Marey, the eminent French physi
ologist, has been studying the flight of
insects by photo-chronography, the ap
paratus used ti obtain photographs allow
ing exposures to be made so short as
1-25,000 of n second. His observations
indicate that wings of insects in flight by
meeting obliquely the resistance of the
air in to-and-fro movements, act in a
very similar manner to the scull usod to
propel LoaM.New York Witness,
THE FAMINE IN RUSSIA.
QBAPHIO' PEN PICTURES OP THE
AWFUL DESTITUTION,
Nearly aMHllon People Dying of Hun
ger In One Province Measures ot
Relief America Leads.
Concerning the awful - destitution
that prevails in the Kazan Province, on
the banks of the : Volga, the following
letter was recently written by M. Mik
hnevitch, a staff correspondent of the
fit. PelersburgNovosti, who, in company
with a physician, made a - tour of that
district. I translate it from the Dziea
nik Poznanskio, Posen, Prussia, says,
the Countess Norraikow . in Harper's
Weekly. It was intended only for pri
vate circulation, as the Russian Govern
ment in putting forth every possible
effort to suppress the facts in regard to
the suffering that is being endured by the
perishing thousands . ;.
"The famine is increasing at a most
appalling rate. The aid thus far rendered
the sufferers is but a drop in the ocean of
distress. ' We come first to the village of
Jlikhaylovka, which comprises about
fifteen hundred inhabitants. The
place had the . appearance of being
quite . deserted, as , scarcely any
one was seen upon the streets. On
entering a peasant's house, our attention
was first attracted to a bundle of rags
and an old hat that was lying, upon a 4
bench. As the pile seemed occasionally
to move, we turned it over, and were
astonished to find the man of the household
lying underneath, apparently suffering
from a high fever. His body was almost
rigid, and as the doctor examined him,
he betrayed hardly any signs of life. His
face was pale and expressionless, save,
perhaps as it indicated the abandonment
of hope. His eyes were fixed on us,
though they manifested not the slightest
gleam of intelligence.
"Just think of it I In Kazan Province
alone there are 950,000 human beings
dying of hunger, while fifteen neighbor
ing provinces contain 27,000,000 of
people almost as bad! A' truly pathetic
picture is 4 Rented by these millions of
peasants gthe slow death of starva
tion without a murmur, while the Gov
ernment Relief Committee have as yet
only discussed a means of alleviating the
distress I The deliberations of this dis
tinguished commission, under the presi
dency of the Czarowitz, are securely
bound with red tape and impenetrable ,
mystery, though, thus far, they have
seemed to consist mainly in diligent ef
forts to suppress all accurate news relat
ing to a calamity . unparalleled in the
history of this sorrow-stticken empire.
Perhaps this is why the civilized nation .
of the globe have as yet looked only with
apparent indifference upon this laments-
ble situation. But I am proud ; to note
that the United States were the first to
offer assistance, which was gratefully ac
cepted; while through the mule-like
stupidity of the autocrat on the Russian
throne, the prompt aid of England was
peremptorily refused. - - v
"The fact is, it will require at least
two billion rubles (a billion dollars) to
provide the food, clothing, seed, and
cattle that shall be necessary to tide over
this disaster, and it is needed at once.
Count Tolstoi, with the help ot his wife,
two sons and two daughters, is feeaing
over a thousand families. In Moscow
he has started a relief . fund, while at
many other points he has opened soup
kitchens, to which the famishing people
flock in thousands, blessing the - philan
thropist's honored name. Hia address
is 15 Dolgokhamonicheski '.. Pereoulok,
Moscow, Russia. All lovers of human
ity who desire to aid in this worthy
cause by prompt donations may send
their contributions to the above address,
through bankers in all parts of the world
doing business in Russia, and ' all ' such .
may rest assured of its safe transmission
and intelligent distribution.
"If the needed relief be not immediate
and abundant, we may ' expect in the
spring an epidemic of disease which will
menace not only the lives of the Russian
survivors, but also the entire population
of the European and Asiatic continents..
It will thus be seen that other nations,
in this emergency, have a political and
practical as well as a moral and Chris
tian duty to perform.
"It has been estimated by expert statis
ticians that to sustain the lives of ' these
5,000,000 families till next harvest there
shall be required 9,000,000,000 pounds
of grain ; 50,000,000 rubles for the pur
chase of seed, 4,500,000,000 pounds of
meat; 750,000,000 rubles for the pur
chase of horses, cows, sheep, hogs, and
poultry, ,and 50,000,000 rubles fot
clothes. I am pleased thus to be able to
give the outeide world a rough idea of
the extent and the probable consequences
of this famine."
Evidences everywhere abound that tho
terrible situation is the direct and logi
cal result of the despotic system of
Government, which is maintained by
1,500,000 soldiers, besides an immense
army of police and spies. Contributory
if not primary causes are involved in the
agrarian or land question, and the out
rageous taxation of the peasantry which
has been going on for centuries.
When to Try on New Shoes.
There is a time for everything in this
world, and so it is that the best time to
get fitted to shoes is in the latter part of
L the day. The feet are then at tho maxi
mum size. Activity naturally enlarges
them. Much standing tends, also, to
enlarge the feet. New shoes should al
ways be tried on over moderately thick
itockings. New York Journal,