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these on the ground there may be a woman
with her babies about her and with other babies
tied to the branches of the trees in the oblong
shallow boxes which constitute the cradles Of
Russia. Other women NAV be sitting about
spinning sewing. and on the steps Of the
huts or in the doorways you will see old men
and shock-hared children.
THE HOUSES.
There is little difference in the houses of a
Russian village. They are all of one story and
the average hut is not more than twenty feet
square. Its log walls are about eigh. feet from
the ground at the top where they meet the
ridge roof of brown thatch and this thatch is of
straw and is often eighteen inches thick. 1t is
put on well that it will last for years and
during the past winter great MANY of the
houses were unroofed to g$e this straw thatch
to the starving cattle and horses. 1 saw in the
famine districts many huts which were covered
with bare poles, and in which the people are
sheltered today only by the board ceiling which
runs across these walls of logs forming the
floor Of the loft of the huts. The average
Russian hut has one doorand two little windows
at the front, with sometimes a second window
in the rear. The front door is much like rude
stable door such as is sometimes knocked up by
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REV. f. NJ. REYNOLDS
OF the NJ. E. Church

The new arrival was a stout-built man Of me-
dunn height, forid complexion and deter
mined look about his large month He at
tired in loosely fitting suit of gray stuff badly
worm.
Glad to see vou," said Mr.. Dormer pleas
antlv. lone of the crying needs of this camp
is pastor. The Standard since it started has
done its best to reform the camp. but its efforts
have been futile. No use irving. What Bodie
wants is spiritual awakening. Itspeople want
to be aroused to the imminent danger they are
in. 1t is dreadfully immoral place
II have heard So" replied Mr.. Reynolds,
quietly. "For the past few weeks l have been
laboring for the Master in Aurora
.What success?"
mot as great as l could desire. People seem
to be careless of their soul salvation. There
are great many families at Aurora. but found
few devout Christians"
.'Are you going to preach here?'
"fes. have seen the members of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Miners Union and
thev have kindly consented to my using their
hall on next Sunday evening. The object of nv
call was to see you about getting out some
dodgers calling attention to the meeting
What do You wish on the dodgers?'
Mr.. Reynolds thought a moment and wrote:
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chow TO WIN AT FARO"
Subject of the First Sermon Preached in
Bodie.

Subject of the First Sermon Preached I'm
Bodie.
From the San Francisco Examiner
In 1878 Bodie was the wickedest town in all
the world. 1t had been q mining camp in 1861,
had been worked out, rediscovered by George
Story in 1877 and by August, 1878. contained
Is, 600 inhabitants.
The daily accounts Of the days doings at
Creede, Col. are commonplace compared with
a recital of the feverish existence at Bodie
during the boom. The bad Man from Bodie''
acquired worldwide fame. The hurdy -gurdies
never closed and were crowded at all hours.
Magnificent saloons cropped up with plate-glass
mirrors and furnishings in solid woods and
marbles. Dave Magic. the slayer OF David S.
Terry; Bill Withrow, since famous $ a shotgun
messenger; John Wagner and Sam Pitcher, who
spent $4,000 in furnishing his bar room were
the principal saloon keepers and. consequently,
the leading citizens.
The camp had it's daily paper, the Standard.
edited by Frank Kenyon, who after ward died in
Guatemala. and managed by John VI. Dormer.
subsequently secretary of state of Nevada. All
the miners and workingmen were well paid. and
gambling was the principal diversion. Every
saloon had its faro bank. But up TO the time
the place contained $4,000 people there was no
church in town. and worse than that, no sermon
had been preached there. Bodie had been given
over to the Evil One.
On Tuesday, August 26, 1878, a memorable
event happened in the history of the camp.
The boom was at its height. A few days prior
Russian Pete had made a big strike in the
southern end of the Slgourney. the Booker on
Booker Flat was looking up and everything
about the camp, even to the hurdy-gurdy girls.
wore a roseate hue.
1t was early in the afternoon when a stranger
entered the Office of the Standard and pre-
sented his card to Mr. Dormer. 1t read:
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holes for fuel and an oven. rose from the floor
to the ceiling.
In the side facing the room. leaving about
two f-et for the chimney there was cut out
under the ceiling ledge about three feet high
and Of the depth Of the stove. This was in fact
the top Of the stove and it formed, was told.
the bed OF the family in the winter time This
family included several married sons and
daughters. and it had in addition to the old
folks about twelve children and grandchildren.
In some way or another they all packed them
selves IN ON this ledge at night, and they
huddled together upon the log floor below in
the day time. The whole space in the room
was not much larger than that of one of six
room house occupied by an American day
laborer. and its furniture consisted of four
rude chairs. some benches which ran around
the walls and rude table. on which the family
ate their meals. There were no pictures on the
walls ann no plaster or paper. In one corner
HING rude painting of the Virgin with little
candle burning before it, and I noted that
while was present one OF the girls looked at
this and crossed herself. On one Of the benches
lay sheepskin coat and I saw one garment
hanging from the wall. II there were any
other clothes belonging to the family they may
have been stored IN a boz. which saw in the
room outside, but they we're not in sight.
THE PEASANTS scASr WARDROBE.
The Russian peasant requires but a small
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EQUAL TO THE OCCASION,
How an Old Lady Abashed a Burglar b
Her Eonchalance.

How an Old Lady Abashed a Burglar by
Her Eonchalance.
From Yonth's Conipanion.
Receptions OF the common kind may be
guided hy manual of etiquette, but when the
question is one of receiving burglar the ora
Giles are dumb, and the surprised, unwilling
hostess must act for herself. Aunt" Lucy
Watts, who lives in a lonely farm house on the
Falmouth road near Portland, Me-, originated
method tina. others might very well adopt. The
method presupposes presence of mind, courage
and truthfulness. but these exercised the result
should be satisfactory, as in her case. She tells
the story in her brief, brisk. decided way:
"isacc n Ruth N the young ones had gone o
Waterville to spend the day, n left me all ole
alone-all but this drafted rheumatic. That
staid right by me. sane's II most generly does.
Worried me so't went to bed at dark
"A light in my eyes walked me ND sudden.
long the middle o. the night. Their wuz q
big Teller, with cloth over his face stan in lest
inside the door. riz up in bed, n we looked
at each other.
"'What ye want? saws l.
Where's the silver?' says he.
Huh! tn amt none, says I, n laughed.
me bavin' silverr
Seemed to kind o. discourage him, n he
moved backwards."
Say, says I agin. latch the door when 70
leave! N then shook up my pillsr n turned
over n went to sleep.
N he didn't take nothin'."
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How He Got Rich.

From the Detroit Free Press.
There could hardly hive been q greater con-
trast between two men who had been chums IT
school and afterward at college.
The first had a tinge Of gray in his hair.
wrinkles on his brow and was round-shouldered
from long hours spent over = desk. He was
trud2ing slowly hoineward.
The second was well dressed. and when he
walked had a more elastic step than the first
But he wasn't walking; he was driving rs
usual. There were some lines Of care on his
face. but altogether he looked prosperous and
happy.
"Thst mans worth half q Million" said one
OF the two men who had stopped to watch him
drive past
And that man isn't worth ESQ.," said the
other, nodding toward the one who was trudg-
ing along on the other side OF the street
Il knew them when they were both poor"
said the first Both started out to become
nch. and for q year OF 90 il seemed an even
thing. Each was striving and struggling for
the same end
Il know. and one failed
Both failed
Il mean one failed TO get rich"
Both failed to get rich. The other went
into bankruptcy and paid tsn cents on the dol
lar. That's how he did get rich"
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From the London Daily Telegraph.
A very curious case has Just been brought
before one Of the Rouen Law courts Some time
agoa tigh.-rope dancer was performing at a
local musical hall when the wire suddenly broke
and she fell from giddy height right on the
unfortunate conductor OF the orchestra. who
was so overcome by the shock that he tainted.
and when be recovered CONSEQUENCES was found
to be both deaf and dumb. The affair created
no little excitement in the Norman town and
tremendous controversy soon prevailed. The
Inhabitants. indeed. were divided into two
camps-one side inclining TO the opinion that
the uplucky conductor was only sham
ming, while the other stoutly and in
dignantly maintained that there could
not be the slightest doubt a. to his
good faith. Although nearly two years have
elapsed since the accident occurred. the uufor-
tunate musician has not uttered syllable nor
has he shown by the most feeble sign that he
can hear word that IL addressed TO him. His
application for damages, however, has been re-
jsoted. In the Judgment il IL set forth that n be
became dumb II il not owing 10 his receiving"
the tight-rope dancer on his head, but TO the
.'saisissement" resulting thsrefrom, and at
tributable to his excessively nervous tsmpera-
mont This Judgment Il exciting certain
amount Of critcisn considerable sympsthy be-
ing felt IN many quarters for tbs unlucky vic-
tim Of the muae han accident
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GOING HONE FROM WORK.

washboard nor has am ideas of wishing
machines or patent wringers. She doe, not
even know what a wash tub is, and the clo.he,
of the family are carried by her to the nearest
stream, aud standing in her bare legs in the
wafer she pounds the dir. GU, OF them with a
club. The culinary arrangements are quite as
primitive, and cooking has not the terror for
the Russian woman that it has for the Amsri-
can In the iirst place there is little TO cook
and the methods OF cooking are very few
There are practically no dishes 70 wash, and as
to table linen and napkins they are unhsard
Of and unknown. The dining table is easily set
for dinner. The main dish is SOUP and thi, il
furnished in wooden bowl as big around a, n
tin wash basin and about the length of finger
in depth. Tbs family sit around or benches
and chairs. each with big wooden spoon which
Will hold twice as much one Of oar table spoons
in his hands and with these he dips on. the soup
from the common dish and carries it to his
mouth
RICH PEASANTS MENU.
There are no knives and forks to be seen on
the table and plates and cups and saucers are
missing. l went with the Countess Tolstoi
through one Of her villages on the Tolstoi
estate at Yasnia Polyana, and in one Of the
houses which We visited we found the family at
dinner. The countess told me that this was one
Of the richest families Of peasants she had on
her estate, and what do you think was their
menu II was cabbage soup and rye bread
The family we're sitting around the table and
there were about ten Of them in all. Each had
one Of these wooden spoons and they were
scooping out the soup at u great rate. They
had no butter and no meat, and the Russian
peasants see but little of either. They are
happy II they get bit OF meat once a week,
and their chief diet is cabbage soup and rye
bread, with a sort Of q buckwheat mush as
change. They have milk from their cows and
eggs from their hens and their favorito drink
is a sort Of beer which they make from black
bread called kvas. They are very rigid as to
fast days and they eat now and then bit Of dry
fish, which Is cheap in Russia. They are fond
Of sour cabbage and cucumbers and they eat
their cucumbers raw with the skins on. But
they have no idea Of what we would call garden
stun, and In the famine parts of Russia, where
the people are still being largely supported by
charity, there are vast quantities Of greens
going to waste which would be used greediiy
in any other part Of Europe or in the United
States In the black plain which I have
described as the garden of Russia
and az the most fertile part Of Europe visited
II village where found the bake oven OF Q large
landed proprietor going night and day baking
American corn meal and -four into bread for
the people. There were hundreds Of loaves Of
this black bread In the ovens and the Villagers
came every day 70 ct food. SIN In driving
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person would care to utilize the bakeoven for
this plrpose / hsar that in the winter the
peasants sometimes rush naked out from the
hot bath and roll in the snow and this can
conceive TO be possible for in the country vii
lagos Of Japan a man will come naked from the
hot bath into the cold winter air and walk home
with his clothes under his arm
NO MODERN CoNvESIENCEs
OF course villages Of this nature have no san
itary arrangements whitever. There are no
street lamps or water works. and the women Of
the family draw the water from the well of the
town o. carry it from the nearest stream. No
Russian girl of such peasant village ever sees
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RELIGIOUS SERVICES
At Miners Union Hall. Sunday Evening,
August 81, 1878.
Rev. E. NJ. REYNOLDS of the Methodist
Church will preach at 40 O'Clock
Subject-''And He said unto them, follow
me. and will make you fishers of men,"
SINNERS AND CHRISTIANS CORDIALLY
INVITED.

''That subject won't draw" said Mr.. Dor
mer, promptly and emphatically why, you
won't have corporals guard there. You must
preach on some live subject; something in
touch with the people; some: hing that appeals
to their sympathies. to their everyday life
The text from st. Matthew is all right in its
place. but it is not the thing here.
Can YOU give me subject, then? asked the
minister.
Stocks and faro are what interest people
here. Few people can beat ei.he- game. Why
not preach or How 10 Beat Faro"
Ir. Reynold- knitted his brows a moment
He evidently was weighing the matter in his
mind. and ii took him very few moments to de-
eide.
I'm do it, he said earnestly
Then he took his pencil again and wrote.
This Is what III have on those dodgers, he
remarked as he handed over VIVA, he had written:
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- think YOU are right" he said to Dormer
I'll ne ordinary laymen NAV not understand this.
90 not. | merely use the catch phrases which
have heard on the street. But every maa in
Dodie will know what il means
Rev. Or. Eeynolt, had an immense crowd 10
hear him. His application OF How 10 Win at
taro 20 the pospei of 81. Matthew had thrill
ing and beneficial effect. he wound up his adj
dress rs follows:
My friends. have been in yoUr camp but
few days. During the shoyt time have re-
sided here | haze been deeply impressed with
the wealth OF your mines and ,he enornity of
your wlckedness. Crime in all it, shades and
stages. instead OF being frowned upon and dis
countenanccd, is encouraged. The chief amase-
ments of the people of Bodie are gambling,
drinking and carousing.
What a precarious living il afforded the
gambler. Perhaps you never have thought of
his before. Pass your saloons at any hour of
the day or night and see the poor wretches
who have lost all at the gambling tables. sur
reptitiously trying to appease their hunger at
lies have lost all hope and hang about these
places in their despair
Il have advertised that would tell you this
evening how to win ut faro. / mean in a
spiritual way. Let us assume. my hearers
that the world is the layout and the church is
the casekeeper The king represents our Lord
and the jack the devil. Do you want everlast-
ing happiness! Do Won want eternal life? II
you do copper the jack on the heel and play the
king to win. Bundles and infinite will be
your JOY when the last turn Is made and the
casekeeper makes 1t jack. king for you have
won a crown in the heavenly Kingdom
But many of you-in fact. nearly all of Won
copper the king and play the jack to win 1t
Is terrible wager, for at the last turn YOU win
find that You have lost eternaliy!
my friends. let me entreat you, by every
thing that Is dear IN this transitory life and
sacred in the everlasting life. to come and
change your systemi Copper the Jack on the
heel and play the king open. And when the
last great turn is made there will be no splits
no whipsaws, and You won't be afraid to set
yotir chips in 1t will be kind deal"
Seven gamblers confessed their sins there
and then and enough money was taken in to
build church without mortgaging the prop
erty. Russian Pete passed the hat
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regularity or order. There are no gardens
in front of them nor behind them. They have
no front yards fenced of from the road and
have not yet seen any sign of a sidewalk of any
kind in any village l have visited. The street
il not paved and the only part free from grass
is the center, where the wagons have cut ruts
into the black soil. The remainder is
lawn of good solid turf. on which the
cattle Craze, the dogs and the children play and
upon which the people meet in the evening to
gossip and chat. Now and then You find tree
or so on one of these village streets, and under
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IRST THE FAMINE
and now the cholera
have brought to the at
tention Of the world ore
of the least known and
at the same time one Of
the strongest clements
Of its population The
Russian peasants are
typical of the one-sev-
enth of the world which
they own. The great
Russian empire is
packed full of unde-
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it. They are all down on the beach. So the
theater manager arrsnges huge box, pastcs its
play bills thereon, mounts the box on wheels.
bitches a horse thereto, engages q driver and
the thing proceeds to perambulate the town, q
small boy concealed within meanwhile violently
ringing large COW bell, with view OF being
heard above the roaring Of the surf.
People put their heads out Of the window as
1t passes and some confess to the belief that IL
is fire and others hazard the opinion that IL IL
the fragment Of a circus, but whether any pa
irons for the theater are gained by its invita-
ton deponeut hath not said. A. E. L.
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over the fields to this place saw great quanti-
ties Of weeds which we use for our tables in the
shape Of salads and vegetables going TO waste,
and such things % green peas and the hundreds
OF other vegetables which we raise these peasants
don't eat Their only vegetable outside Of cab.
bages and cucumbers SEEMS to be potatoes, and
as to farming, they raise the same crops from
the same seed year after year.
FRANK G., CARPryrrn
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T THE BATHING
hour the entire coast
from Maine to Florida
looks nowadays like a
bad dream, wherein
feminine nightmare
fat Nightmares and thin
nightmares - stalk up
and down the sands or
sport in the waves with
escaped convicts and
poor, puny, would-be
athletes. For despite
the correspondents who
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A Pair Of Shoes.

From the Phiiadelphia Times.
curious shoe has been found in an old
house built in 100 at Newburyport, Mass., and
which was recently demolished. The upper IL
Of calf-skin and closed with wax thread. The
sole and heel are Of one piece and made of
wood. The upper is fastened to the sole with
common tscks, the edge Of the sole being
mortised the thickness of the upper leather to
receive 1t. Across the toe the tacks are brass.
On the under edge of the sole from the shauk d
band Of iron like . horss-shoe chauneIod 70
receive the nails. The shoe il fastened By an
iron clasp, which in it. day vas sonswhat esnA-
msutAI
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fssss. Z pssmaisfsly old xhes bs,lasss
SsSs.g % sssB - ssalp kssas.y ed pFsv0s
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100, 900, 600 PEASANTS
The Russian Common People and a
Look at Their Villages.

RUSSIA'S VAST RESOURCES.
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In the oloaning.

They sat In the hammock at twilight.
And the old folks thought they beloved.
But I, being near, heard her whisper.
'3Oh, Jack, ron ought to get shaved.-
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Special Correspondents Of The Evening Star.
MOSCOW July % 1870
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CITIES PLAYGROUND
The Unconventional Scenes on the
Beach at Atlantic City.
WOMEN FAT AND WOMEN THIN

scanty Bathing Suits Compared with Civil
isstion's Garb-The Golden Mean So Dr.
ncult - Find-Nothing 10 Surprising at the
Seashore-Rival Attractions.
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How the Poorest People of the w orld should
he the Riehest-The Russian Farms and
Poor Methods of Agriculfure-How a Peas
ant Village Looks-The Russian Bath.
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The Russian peasant requires but a small
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1892-12-28
Set UP a Plea of Usury

CHICAGO, Dec. 27-Allison, Schafler
q Co., contractors for the elevated
Worlds Fair tracks of the Illinois Cen
trail railway, borrowed about 100000
from the Western National bank of
New York. Last month the bank be-
gan SUIT to recover the amount. Today
the defendants entered plea of usury,
setting forth that the bank, besides
charging the legal six per cent. exacted
"a bonus of twenty per cent. for making
the loan, contrary to the laws of the
state Of New York, thus rendering the
notes void. Notwithstanding this the
bank proceeded to sell and bought it
for the ridiculous sum of $4,000. The
securities put up as collateral amount
to 81 100000. They ask that the notes
be cancelled and the securities re-
turned
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MoAulife On a Rampage

New YORK, Dec. 27-Jack Nc
Aulifle, the champion lightweight pu-
gilist, was on the rampage last night.
He arrived at the Sturtevant House
about midnight. He had been drink
ing wine during the evening and was
decidedly pugnacious. He asked the
clerk to let him see ID. II. Benton, a
Boston newspaper man who is here to
represent Dick Burgess, the English
in the negotiations for the
proposed "a, 500 battle at COney Island.
Benton, who is a cripple, had retired
for the night, but thinking that Me-
Aulifle had come to pay friendly call
sent down word to the pugilist to
"come righ up" McAulifle, who was
accompanied by his secretary, Ed Stod-
dard, had no sooner entered the room
than he made rush for Benton and
punched him viciOusly in the face,
cutting cash over his eye and making
his nose bleed copiOusly. He then
hammered Benton over the head with
"a cane while the latter was sitting on
the side of the bed. Jack Haggerty, "A
sporting man, and one of the hotel
porters were present when the assault
was committed, and after a great deal
of trouble succeeded in hustling Nc
Aulifle out of the hotel TO Broadway
where he yelled himself hoarse. The
hotel people said McAulifle was drunk
and should have been arrested. 1t will
take several days for Benton's bruises
IN heal