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tering the Kremlin are the great Tower
of Ivan and the great bell of Moscow, I
both of which are pictured in all the .
biographies, and in such an exaggerated
manner as to cause much Disappointment
when one beholds them for the first
time. I thought the tower was almost
as high as the Washington monument,
and it is 525 feet, but the colors in which
it is painted destroy the effect. The
base of the structure is occupied by a
chapel, dedicated to st. Nicholas, the
patron of all ladies about to marry, and,
one meets many of them there, particu-
larly on Saturday, for Sunday is the
popular day for weddings, and they go
to say their prayers before the ceremony.
Within the tower, above the chapel,
rs the famous chime of bells, thirty-four
in number. the smaller ones being cast
of soy silver. The largest weighs
siXty-tour tons, and the smallest only a
few hundred pounds. They are without
doubt the finest set Of bells in the world,
but are seldom rung, except on Easter
morning and when the Gear is in town.
A considerable volume has been written
about the bells of Moscow, for they are
numerous and fine in all the churches.
The Gar KOlokol, as the great bell of
Moscow is called at home, stands at the
foot of the tower upon granite pedes-.
tai 1t was cast in the fourteenth CEN
fury by the Car Boris Gudenoff, as
measure of atonement for the Innocent
blood through which he waded to the
throne. The Tower of Ivan was origin
ally built to shelter the king of bells,
but no architect has ever been found
with courage enough to hang it,,
Boris erected a scaffolding to support
it, and it is said to have been.
rung during his time, but the hangings
gave way in 1854 and the bell was
smashed. The Empress Anna had it rel
cast, in even larger size. There is a.
great piece broken out of the side, which
tradition says is due to an imperfection,
caused by the ladies who threw their
jewels into the molten metal when the
bell was recast. But the truth of his
tory compels me to state this is not true.
During a fire in the Kremlin in 1737,i
the bell was in the midst of the flames,
and was so heated that when streams of
water were thrown upon it a great crack
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the Terrible to appease the Almighty and
the saints for the murder of his son and
heir to the throne in a fit Of passion
Ivan employed an Italian architect to
make the plans, and commanded him to
construct q church unlike any that ever
existed, the cost not to be taken into
consideration; and when the work was
done the Car had the architects eyes
put ont, so that he could not build an
other Every one who looks at the
structure to-day comedies that the pun
ishment was just, for it is monster OF
ugliness.
When Napoleon rode into the Krem-
lin he looked at st. Basil's, and, turning
ing to one Of his officers, said: SHave the
monstrosity destroyed at once" But for
some reason unknown his orders were not
obeyed, and the church still stands. The
Russian people believe that st. Basil
prevented its destruction. St. Basil was
an idiot. The ancient Russians, and
their descendants to a certain extent,
like some tribes of savages, regard idiots
as sacred. The hand of the Lord has
been placed upon them, and although
they were and still are allowed to roam
at will the people always give them food
and shelter, and protect them from harm,
believing that they have the especial
patronage of st. Basil. The church is a
series of eight octagonS, each connected
with the other by passage, and con-
tanning a separate chapel There are
eight grotesque domes, no two OF them
alike, and all painted in different col
ors-the most gorgeous that can be con
ceiVed of.
THE OLD PLACE OF EXECUTION.
In front of st. Basil's is the Lobnoe
Miesto, a circular stone tribune about
thirty feet in diameter, from which the
ancient Cars proclaimed their ukases.
1t was also the place Of execution, the
/ 9ufilotine of Russia, and upon the block
in the center many heads have rolled
There are grooves In the stone floor TO-
the blood to run down. and upon spikes
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marshes. They are drawn by teams
hitched to lumber wagons, and generally
carry baggage and provisions enough to
last them through. On the high land
bordering the marshes are erected rows
of one and two story shanties, and into
these the pickers are slowed. SOme-
times tents are necessary to shelter this
overflow. In a few days everybody
knows his neighbor, and labor COM
mune is established. Fun and hard work
are equally mixed 1t is a welcome
change to these people who, for a few
days, get out of the humdrum rut of
their existence, see new faces. crack
jokes, dance and sing, and add small
sum Of money to their scanty savings for
the winter.
1t is an interesting sight to see the
pickers go to work in the morning.
Everybody is dressed for the job. On
the heads of the women are broad
brimmed straw hats tied down over the
ears, sunbonnetS, shakers, or the clean
white linen clothes, after the style Of the
German market women. An old jacket,
a calico skirt, and heavy pair Of shoes
and stockings complete the costume. The
men wear anything that wont hurt,
but all, by previous experience, know
enough to keep dry wraps in camp in
case of a wet sinking marsh or a sudden
shower. Every one carries a large
shallow milk pan, and each picker is
| provided with Slated rectangular box
| holding exactly a bushel. Arriving at
the ground to be picked the hands are
ranged in row, under the direction OF
a boss to every forty pickers. The boxes
are thrown on the ground, the piekers
get on their hands and knees and COM
mence to fill the shallow pans 1t is in
this work, as with all other kinds, some
| grow wonderfully skillful, and with
deft fingers running through the
vines, like a comb, I'LL their pans
quickly, while others are clumsy and
slow. As they are paid by the box the
earnings vary accordingly. AS the line
/ of pickers advance across q @forty" il
grows irregular, and keeps the bosses
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for those who prepare a delicious sauce
relish for Thanksgiving dinner. 1t is
over twenty-five years since the golden
discovery was made that there is money
to be made in cranberries. During these
years fortunes have been made and
other fortunes expended to place what
appeared worthless marsh in a condition
to bear fruit The little city of Berlin,
Green Lake County, Wis, writes a cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune, is the
center of a cranberry producing area
that turns out thousands of barrels of
fruit annually, which fact has given the
place the name of Cranberry City," a
name which it proudly wears in contra
distinction to its sister city, RipOn,
whose prosaic pursuit of late years has
been the growth of cucumbers, and is
3herefore dubbed "Pickleville."
z AT first the men who made money out
of cranberry culture were those who
had great holdings of wild marsh, sur
rounded with tamaracks and garnished
with a wilderness of sage brush and
huckleberry bushes. The crop blossomed
in wild neglect and the fortunate pos
SCISSORS of these tracts found themselves
taking off from $40, 900 to $50, 900 in clear
profits annually without spending dol
lar except to the pickers. Then the
hunt began for marsh land that would
grow CAoAOOAAAOS- 1AoAS "SAS . SSSoA u
in finding from three to ten and fifteen
acres tracts, and in numerous instances
pools were formed so that larger areas
might be purchased and parceled out.
The small growers went to work plant
ing vines, and have now the satisfac-
ton of reaping ample returns. Fortune
has been more tickle with the big growers.
The science of the culture was pushed
too far, perhaps. The great canals that
were dug for flooding purposes and the ex-
pensive pumping machinery that was put
In have not had the effect of producing a
corresponding increase in the crop. Gran
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years ago.
1t is to the intercession of this image
that the pious Russians attribute the
downfall of Napoleon, and all his subse-
Quent misfortunes are due to his failure
to take off his hat as he passed through
the gate. That act of respect is required
of every one. Even the Gar uncovers
when he enters the Kremlin this way,
and woe be to any man, citizen or stran-
ger, Christian or pagan, who attempts to
pass the Gate of the Redeemer with his
hat on his had.
ALL HATS MUST COME OFF.
I thought I would try the experiment,
riding though in drosky one day. The
driver pulled up his horse suddenly and
cried, "Schlapa! Scblapa, Batushka;
Schiapal' (your hat you aat, little
father, your hat, your hat) while an ex-
cited crowd of citizens ran toward me
from all directions. I made signs to
show that did not understand, at which
the driver backed his horse out from un-
der the gate, and taking off his own hat
again, made gestures to show that I was
to do the same with mine. / still refused
to understand. when an excited bystander
grabbed my hat from my head, threw it
into the bottom of the drosky, and ex
claimed "Go on, you fool"
1t win be noticed that the crescent as
well as the cross appears upon most Of
the church towers in Moscow, and it is
explained in this way: When the Mo
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ceeding year witnesses a grand rally OF
men, women and children from a radius
of twenty miles to the cranberry fields
The pickers are generally enlisted from
the foreign element, although there may
be seen a liberal sprinkling of the native
Americans and occasionally small band
OF the Winnebago Indians
Fifty years ago the Indians were the
only ones who appeared on the cranberry
exchange, dumping a few blanketfuls Of
the berries on the market, and, after
spending the proceeds in beads and @ben-
zine, " went OF whooping. Now they are
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berries are like Indians, they are not
benefited by too much civilizing. The
same marsh cannot be relied upon to
WELD every year. Aside from the Snat-
ural intentions" of the berry it is
threatened with destruction from vari-
ous sources-heaVy floods, worms, blight,
scalding, drought and early frosts being
among the dangers; so that a man who
burdens his mind with the probable fate
OF q crop from the time it blossoms
through the summer season is not likely
TO be at peace with himself. However,
there is rarely a year when there is q
general failure Of the crop, and each sue
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winds, and tread them into the soft
marsh, and they will return good for
evil by spring up and bearing fruit. In
the spring these broad acres of swamp
land are literal mating of cranberry
vegetation, covered with tiny white
blossom. If one out of ten of these
blossoms, or even one in hundred, runs
the gauntlet, good crop is assured. The
harvest begins the first week in Sep
TENDER and generally lasts from ten
days to two weeks.
At the appointed time motley tide OF
humanity sets in toward the eranberry
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tongue, and each of the old Tartar towns
has its kremlin, writes Mr.. William
3. Curtis. But what the Acropoh
was to Athens, the Colosseum to Rome,
the Alhambra to Spain, the doge's palace
to Venice, the Bastile to Paris, and the
Tower to London, the Kremiin is to the
holy city of Russia-the fortress that in
closes and protects its capital-not only
the legal residence of the Gar but the
vatican of the Russian church. 1t stands
upon an eminenee, a city within city,
surrounded on three sides by the River
Volga and inclosed within wall that
is nearly mile and half long.
The group Of buildings within the
walls consists of the ancient palace of
the Gar, the Treasury, the palace of the
holy synod, two monasteries, the great
Tower of Ivan, the Church of the As
sumption, in which the Cars must be
crowned, the Church of the Annuncia-
ton, in which they must be baptized and
married, and the Church of st. Michael,
in which their royal bones, until the last
century, were laid. There are also bar
racks for soldiers, dormitories for
priests, and several buildings of minor
Importance gorgeous cluster of mag
niicence and decay-every foot of
ground having its history, every wall
and window its romance, and every room
its tragedy.
GREAT ARCHITECTURAL AlOESTROSITY.
The Kremlin is entered by six great
gates, the most famous of which is ~the
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Gate of the Redeemer." Without the
walls, across a wide parade ground, that
is called the Krasnoi ploshtshad, or Red
square, is the famous Church of st.
Basil the Idiot, known throughout the
world as the most striking of architect
ural 1honstrosities. 1t was erected in
the fifteenth century by the order Of Ivan
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ais who have been executed in Moscow
for 400 years have always been allowed
to come to the Gate of the Redeemer and
say their prayers before it, and it has
held prominent place in the history
and in the veneration of the people since
it was discovered at Smolensk nearly 500
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IN the wall Of the KremIin Opposite the
heads Of the executed were exhibited.
The present Gate of the Redeemer was
built by an italian architect the same
year that America was discovered, and
over it has hung ever since the famous
Icon Of the Redeemer, which is the pal
ladium Of the Russian Empire. Grimm
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hammedan Tartars captured the city,
and refgned there for two hundred years,
they removed the crosses from all the
churches and put mp crescents instead
When the Tartars were driven out they
left the crescents where they were and
the Russians placed crosses upon them as
a sign Of triumph. The Russian cross, as
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join fragment of turkey, they can
think Of the cranberry's marshy BIRTH.
place, and the dream of jollity through.
Which the berry passed before it was
hurried to market to be cooked. sugared,
and squeezed for their benefit.
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THERE is something crooked about
the law of retribution. It isn't the
woman just In front with the big hat
who gets her feet stepped on when the
man goes In pursuit of cloves.
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.HO has not heard OF
the mighty Kremlin
the great fortress
that has stood for a
thousand years and
sheltered for so many
centuries the throne
and the treasures of
the Russian Empire?
The word m e an s
citadel in the Tartar
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ali know, has even arms, and this is ex=
planned BY q peculiar belief the people
have that the Savior was <1eformed, that
His legs were shorter than His body. 4
tried to discover the origin Of this theory,
but was unable to do So
THE GREAT TOWER AND BELL
The first objects to be seen upon en-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-12-04

A LOVER differs from some medical
prescriptions in that he cannot very
wei be shaken before he is taken.
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SAUCE FOR THE TURKEY.
SCENES IN THE CRANBERRY
MARSHES OF WISCONSIN.

Immense Tracts of Hitherto Worthless
Lands Devoted to the Production of the
Thanksgiving Berry-How and Where
1t GrOws-Winnebago Indians the First
to Pick the ruit-Amusements and
Housing of the Harvesters During the
Season.
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THE MIGHTY KREMLIN.
A FORTRESS BUILT A THOU
SAND YEARS AGO.

It Is to MOSCOW What the Acropo1Is was
10 Athens-A History Of the Great Cfta-
del-A Great Architectural 1Eonstrosity-l
The Tower OF Ivan and the Big Bell.
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HO S E who have
never taken the trou-
BILE to study cranber-
ry culture have no
intelligent C on c e p
ton of the possibili-
ties of this agricul-
tura l industry, its
present Importance,
a d tn e methods
adopted to gather in
the crop and fit it
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PEOPLE get so well acquainted with
their own faults that they don't mind
their existence.
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cracked piece fell out, and has never
been restored. The great bell weighs
IA, 900 pounds. is two feet thick. and
fifty-four feet in circumference ,T 1Ti.>s
weight Of the broken piece is eleven. tons.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-12-04

A COUNTER irritant-the shopper Who
doesn't buy anything -
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-12-04
OUR FEAsT-DAY.
BY HELEN CHASE

But thou, Q grand old Feast-day,
Thou hast no need OF these
To draw us to thee. Though thou bring
Gray skies and leafiess trees
A hundred welcomes to thee!
Ye altar fires of home, 49,
Shine out, and kindred gather
From sea to mountain dome.
So hail thee, grand old Feast-day!
The Wind-swept orchard boughs
Have flung their ruddy gold and green
Upon the earth; the mows
Are rich with grain; the burrows
Sleep meath the suns yelled ray
And all the land is glad and greets
A new Thanksgiving Day.
The Press., 1890-02-20

London Times A remarkable scene was witnessed on the Wear at Sunderland recently. Moored at the manor quay, near Messrs. J. l.. Thompson's shipyard, was the steamer Wild Flower, of London, which, having been ashore at Southwold, had Just come to the Wear for repairs. She carried oil in bulk and was being pumped dry preparatory to being jdocked. A quantity of oil from the tanks appears to have got mixed with the water in the bilges, and this was pumped into the river. Suddenly the river near the Wild Flower became wrapped in flames. The cause of this is supposed to have been hot rivet falling from Messrs. Thompson's shipyard into the oil in the water. In few min- utes the river for about 200 yards was one mass of flames, which rose to a great height and completely enveloped several vessels in the vicinity. The flames in the river soon died out through the exhaustion of the oil, but the vessels were left burn- ing and continued to do so for about an hour, when the police extinguished the flames with the aid of the fire queen ap- paratus and fire barrows. The vessels damaged were the Wild Flower, the De- ronda and the Douglas of Sunderland and the tug Earl of Dumfries. These were all much damaged about the hulls, docks and riggings, the damage amounting to several thousands of pounds. During the excite ment man was drowned He and two others were on board the steamer Deronda when it caught fire. All three leaped in- to the water and two got safely to some baulks of wood, but a young man named John Thompson sank and was drowned, his body being subsequently recovered
The Press., 1890-02-20
TO DISSATISFIED EASTERN FARMERS.

An correspondent of the Willlmantic Journal from northwestern Kansas gives a melancholy picture of the condition of the farmers of that country-and what he tells is equally true of Nebraska and the Da- kotas. If any of our farmers feel discon- tented with their small returns, let them consider the state of their western breth- ren and thank heaven they are still in New England. This gentleman says:
 "We have had bountiful crops here the past year. Garden produce was never bet ter. Yet those who made that a means of support have had but scanty living with economy, because of the low rates of the market. Oats were heavy yield. Wheat was splendid in quality and quantity. Potatoes abundant and of finest growth. Corn is immense and sound. But the prices are sickening to the poor, hard king of crops in sunny Ramsay, is to-day (Jan. 27) worth 12 cents per bushel has ranged from IS to 15 cents. Oats have been from 8 to 12} cents, wheat from 35 to 45 cents, rye 20 to 30 cents, potatoes 15 to 25 cents. Prairie hay was abundant and good, and worth from g. to $3 per ton, and this is about the only thing the .rmers have made anything on this sea. sJn. A good young calf brings from 50 cents to $1.5O. Good fat cattle are only $1. 25 per hundred alive. Everything else IS in about the same proportion. The universal cry is, no money No money No money II! And this cry has become q vail of distress on every hand. Yet those in high places, the politicians and million aires, assure us that the country is in very prosperous condition! ! The masses are getting poorer every year, actually in rags, unable to pay the interest on their debts, scarcely to pay their taxes. Men are discouraged, broken spirited, even desperate, becoming more and moro dis honest. What a picture! Yet 'tis true, and the causes are not far to seek. Class legislation, the aggregation of money in the hands of the few, the masses of toilers made serfs by scarcity of money, usury. and mortgages. There must come a radi- cal change or the nation is doomed. But there are some encouraging signs even in this dark picture. The masses seem to be struggling up to higher plane and manifestlng disposition to burst the shackles that bind them. Alliances and union combinations may become power that will yet shatter the rings, trusts, and monopolies, and save the nation from its imminent peril. God speed the day
The Press., 1890-02-20

cant for charity, if he was deserving he always received, and there are almost numberless incidents of his benifcence, although by far the larger number are un- known to both his family and most inti- mate friends. One instance, in particular, is his paying off a mortgage of $1 ,500 up. on the house of poor woman who lived in New Ulm. Another is his care of an old and decrepit man over 30 years of age.
 While he lay upon his sick bed this old man died, but nothing would satisfy him until he had been assured that all arrange ments for the funeral and provision for the support of the widow had been made. In Plymouth church he was also generous giver, and his contributions amounted up into the thousands of dollars, nearly all in individual contributions to various objects of church work. He was very modest about his charity, and was very much ad- verse to its becoming generally known.
The Press., 1890-02-20
PUBLIC OPINION.

Various critiques on public opinion go the rounds from time to time, in most cases anything but mplimentary. Often they seem to be needed caustics, touching up one or another objectionable manifesto tion of this giant power, for sbch we re- gard it, for good or for evil, most frequent ly for good. Why should 1t not be? Pub- lie opinion is the enlightened expression of an educated community, sitting as a jury on current events. Public opinion not only affects the enforcement of the law, but 1t reaches what the law fails to touch, punishes where the officers of the law are powerless. A single illustration may not be out of place. ..... A watchman saw light in a cellar un- der store at an unusual hour. On in- vestigatlon he found candle burning in c.refully prepared train of inf .mmable substance. The light was extiuguished, and men kept watch for some clue or proof as to who had so attempted to destroy the building and it's contents. The next morning the proprietor of one of the stores Tn the building came into his store, walked through and went direct to the cellar and to the train which had been laid, in ap- parent surprise that the plan had failed to work. He was arrested, but was not con- victed, and left the court room a free man. Yet public opinion pronounced him guilty, and there was no longer any possibility of his doing successful business in that town. People felt very much as did cit izen in a more recent case. Referring to the fiery furnace of burning building he said that not until a much hotter place froze over would he believe the suspected individual to be innocent. -
 Yet the old principle prevails, "better that nine guilty men escape than one inno- cent man be punished. s....