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than fourth of European Russia, and the
great bulk of this land is mortgaged to the
State, and is being paid for on the INSTALL
ment plan. This peasant land is owned,
not by individuals, but by villages in COM
mon, and these villages have assumed the
debt for the land which was assessed upon
them at the time that the serfs were freed
bv Alexander IL, and they work the lands
in common, dividing them up among them
selves every few years, but never giving
anyone fee simple title to his portion,
but only allowing him to use it for limited
period There are more than 800, 900, 900
acres of land held in this way in different
parts of Russia, or enough land to make
eight States the size of Ohio or Kentucky.
This land is held by about 5000, 900 own
ers, and the average amount of land held
by each of these Russian peasants is less
than 13 acres. In the rich lands the aver
age is much smaller than this, and about
Tula the Countess Tolstoi told me that it
was not more than three acres per person.
The Russian nobility, who used to own
nearly all of this peasant land, and who
till generation ago had the peasants as
their serfs or half slaves, are growing
poorer and poorer. They received pay for
their lands, which were given to the
peasants on basis of per cent revenue
value of them. But they have not made
gradually selling what they have left, and
in the future Russia may some time become
land of small proprietors Still, as it is
they still have a vast deal of real estate,
and 1 have travelled through the farms of
mobiles where you could ride all day on
horseback at good Russian speed which is
about the fastest in the world, and not get
to the end of their estates. Almost all of
the mobiles are extravagant. Some of them
are as poor as church mice, and to be noble
in Russia is no sign of long pedigree,
great wealth or great amount of culture.
There are something like q million mobiles
in the empire, and of these only little
over one hundred Thousand are land holders,
and of these the average holding is less
than Z, 900 acres.
Since the serfs were freed the merchant
class has been rising in Russia, and though
hear the mobiles now and then speak of
them rather sneeringly they are rapidly ac-
quiring land. This class already owns areas
which aggregate territory equal to that of
the State of Indiana, and other lands are
held by private companies and by the
churches and monasteries. The monssteries
are very rich and they own not only great
tracts of leased lands, but also town
property and business blocks One of the
best streets in Moscow is owned almost
altogether by the monasterIes, who hold ON
to their investments as the Catholic Church
does to that which it owns in some of our
cities and who understand how to get good
rents and good profits from their estates.
A Mistaken Opinion of Russia.
R ussia, however, is g nation of peasants
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CFrom a snap shot by Eli Perkins.l

toned to sandals, ache in kid slippers, but
the Empress has said Chinese methods must
60, and the swell girls and boys are bound
to give up sandals and kimonos, quit chop
sticks and the Geisha dancing and whirl in
the German.
After the dance was over I peeped through
a lattice work and saw bevy of Japanese
beauties taking a rest. They had thrown
off kid slippers and corsets and put their
bare feet into sandals and were squatted
cross-legged on the foor-resting! Dear
corsetless children of nature, how they en-
joyed sweet and picturesque liberty after an
hours debauche in civilized fashion and
flirting.
Those Who Refuse to Be Civilized.
Some of the naughty old Daimios, the
proud fellows who lost their swords when
the Mikado squelched the Tykoon in 1868,
will not be Europeanised. It is not m
common to see them leave their sandals at
the door of the Imperial Hotel dining
room in Toxic and march as proud as
Caesars, but with bare feet, over the Japanese
floors. Sometimes ne checks his sandals
but walks in with his hat on and his kimono
wrapped around him like Roman toga. In
fact the kimono is Roman toga and a
grand old Japanese Daimio looks not unlike
the statue of Augustus in Rome.
Going down the mountain from Miyano-
shita the next day in a jinriksha it was
amusing to watch these romantic Yankee
girls behind their broad breasted muscular
coolies. When the acrobats would turn q
precipice down which you look hundreds of
feet into foaming cataracts, the girls would
scream with glee; and the cool les would
look around proud of their burdens. But
what q contrast: In the jinriksha was the
bright cultured Yankee girl, enthusiastic,
froft h11f pofi In fho
strong animal man, with shining skin and
swelling tendona
1t would be an immense attraction If the
manager of the Chicago Fair could have
dozen of these Japanese jinriksha runners
at the Fair.
Sir Edwin Arnold Is Popular.
Everybody in Japan is in love with Sir
Edwin Arnold, but the coming poet laure-
ate is especially gracious to America The
poet is here to drown his grief at the loss of
lady Arnold and suppose We Americans
amuse him. The poet makes his home at
the beautiful Imperial Hotel in Toxic, the
finest hotel in the Orient.
Among Americans here are Heber Bishop,
the curio collector, young Sentor Lespenard
Stuart and Georgia Cayvan, Daniel Froh-
dealer spoke OF selling kimono to Miss
Cayvan.
''Yes," said my wife, "she is an actress. "
"Actress," repeated the Japanese regret
fully; 'T beg pardon for mentioning her
name"
''Not at ALL" said my wife. American
actresses are most worthy people, and Miss
Cayvan is a great artist See, she is even
now talking with an American admiral"
1t seems that acting is not high calling
in Japan. The Geisha girls are actresses.
I'm afraid if Daniel Frohman don't send
some one over here to keep poet laureates,
foreign Ministers and navy officers away
from Miss Cayvan that they will steal his
leading lady. ELI PERKINS
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on the mountain-two by tram, an hour
with horses, an hour in kagos and jinriki-
shas, and there you can sit in that great
bird cage, the Fujiya Hotel, and firt with
pretty girls in four languages"
Pretty girls in four languages settled it,
and wewere off for the Japanese Saratoga
The road lay through rice fields or through
rural villages where they were pounding
rice or weaving cloth for the Japanese
kimono In many cases the women were
decollete to their waists, children naked as
angels and men protected only by strip
around the loins But there was no con-
scious immodesty. A man with the sinews
of a Hercules would meet powerful
woman and then would come siege of
Japanese politeness.
Etiquette at the japanese Saratoga.
'It is a great honor to meet your honor
able self" says the woman, smiling and
bowling double,
''No, you confer an honor upon me, and
Blowing almost to the ground) am aston
ished that one so honorable should speak to
a pigmy like myself"
"Your politeness Glowing still lower)
overcomes me-"
"And your gracious condescension (bow-
ing almost to the ground) fills me with
happiness"
And so these Chesterfelds 60 on with a
dozen more kind sayings and polite bows
for five minutes.
All the houses we passed were as open as
sheds and their whole interiors could be
tsken in at glance. There were no chairs,
no tables. no beds, no stoves, but always a
screen, flower vase, and bath tub.
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girls dressed in kimonos and brilliant obs
(sashes) flock through halls and dining
rooms like birds, always laughing like the
three little maids from school apd always
innocentIy modest they are too. Sometimes
I see the young gentlemen admiring the
pretty hands and necks of the girls as they
pat their red cheeks. When asked Koko
and Meto what wages they received they
said in broken English:
"We get 81 month and our pretty
clothes"
''But the presents you get?"
"We give those to master and at the end
of the year he makes us present"
The prices at the Fujiya like all Japanese
hotels is So day. The hotels are away up
in the mountains above the clouds and look
out on Fuiiyama. This is favorite resort
of Sir Edwin Arnold. The poet finished
to-day Japanese drama, the story of Ad-
yuma, for London manager to be put on the
stage in Japanese costumes
80, yes" he said as he read a romantic
section of the play, 81 have put it in q lot
of coloring and plenty of singing and girls.
In fact am an old hand at the drama and
shall put in what Tennyson left out I am
offered $4,000 for the play"
The American Girl Always Ahead.
The guests of this Japanese Saratoga are
cosmopolite. There are golden-haired
Yankee girls from Boston and Chicago, the
solemn English girl and phlegmatic Ger
man girl who drinks beer at Weisbaden.
The American girl abroad is always to the
front. She dances prettier, firts harder
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YOU SHALL NOT REMAIN UNDER MY ROOF.

darkly, hoarsely; "Back to the home you
have dishonored."
"JamesF
"Don't call me James, don't speak to
| me, !" continued Sir James with rising pas
sion. 81 saw 1t with my own eyes; would
believe nothing against you; nothing that
| others were ready to whisper in my ears.
But saw you steal out to meet the man
| Dare-the soldier who has followed you
here-I saw you In his arms, 1t was enough,
| and everything is ended between us
Miriam did not speak; her face blsnohed
and her lips trembled, but still she looked
| up into her husbands face, as he launched
his bitter accusations against her
''To have fallen SO low; who to look at
you would believe it possible? To have
letters sent to you addressed to your maid;
letters from your lover; and to send your
maid with letters to himl You see know
everything, SO any denial on your part In
useless"
~ am not denying anything" said
Miriam; 'but you are mistaken"
'Mistakenp' cried Sir James with q bitter
laugh; ''would that L were, but I know
that am not. 1 even saw your vile signals
from the windows Of your husbands house.
Had you no thought of your good name nor
mine? Why did you marry ms2 But I
need not ask" Z"
II married you, meaning to act rightly to
you, and have done you no wrong" an
swered Miriam more firmly. "w6at you
saw was a last parting with an old friend,
who is leaving England at once"
'You had better go with him, " scofed
Sir James.
''No, James" said Miriam, bursting into
sudden tears. 'T will not 60 with him;
have no wish to go with him, though you
NAV not believe me- ...
81 do not believe you; or believe you
this far, that you prefer the comforts of the
home 1 can give you to the one you would
share with private soldierl I am honored
truly; you wish to stay under your hus-
bands root, and meet your lovers outside
it."
"Say no more, that is enough" cried
Miriam. IT will not stay under your roof
to listen to such words"
"No, you certainly shall not stay under
my root, said Sir James, with gloomy
emphasis; 'my roof shall never shelter .
dishonored, wife,
ately, and then left the room, leaving Miriam
overwhelmed with this sudden blow. That
he should speak thus to her; he who seemed
to love her so deeply that he never seemed
happy out OF her presence. She forgot that
it was this very love which made him 30
harsh and bitter; forgot that she had fatally
comprmised herself in his sight She had
gone out to meet Hugh Ferrars with NO
thought OF wronging Sir James. Gone to
try to help Ferrars to escape, and also 70
avoid the tragic story Of the death OF
Robert Conrsy ever being revived, She
had hoped that her husband would never
hear it; and that Joan's delirious words
would never reach his cara And this was
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might wander for hundreds and hundreds of
miles and never find any signs of habita-
tions and which are not penetrated BY rail-
roads, and travelled for hours from Peters
burg to Moscow through woods more wild
than any in America This is known as the
forest zone of Russia 1t includes more than
400, 900, 900 acres, and takes In the most Of
the northern part of Russia in Europe.
Below this zone of forests comes this black
lands zone where now am, and below this
and running parallel with it across Russia
is the arabic steppes zone, which is bringing
forth good crops, but which needs manure
to help 1t, and which in its character is
much like our Western prairies. 1t is used
largely for grazing and it grows wild grasses
which are often seven and eight feet high.
This zone has as much land as Texas, and it
is said that Texas could feed the whole
United States. am told that the soil in
that part of Russia is much like tAat OF
Texas, and when Russia is well open up
by railroads this zone will be an 'impo liant
factor in the agricultural markets of the
world. As it is now only about one-tenth
of even the black lands region is cultivated
and Russia already supplies the greater part
of the food of Europe. Germany and the
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1900 miles long. 1t runs through the east
ern part of European Russia, and it has
such branches that it forms trade artery
for Central and South Russia and Siberia
1t is connected by canal with the Neva, and
goods can be taken by water from Astra-
kahn to St Petersburg, and by hundreds of
its branches and connections can be shipped
from the Baltic to the most out-of-the-way
regions of the country. The Don, which
flows into the Black Sea, runs for part of
its course not far from the Volga. and there
are half dozen navigable rivers which go
into the Black Sea
North Russia is filled with lakes and
streams, and it is only in the South that the
lack of water is felt Here in the great
black plain drought causes bad crops, and
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Sometimes the bath tub, which is a half
barrel, was in the back room and sometimes
in front. 1t is warmed once day by a lit
tie sheet iron stove in the side of the tub,
the pipe of which runs through the half
barrel A handful of charcoal warns the
water for whole family or hotel
They do not bathe, but simply sit there
and soak. Often the members of several
families will be seen bathing together.
Carter Harrison, who wrote most inter-
esting book on Japan, says he was once
bathing with his two boys when Japanese
lady and gentleman got into the same bath.
"Seeing we were foreigners, however," said
Mr. Harrison, "they politely bowed them
selves out"
In three months in Japan have not seen
a drunken nor an angry man. Neither have
I seen a saloon and rarely meat market.
Tobacco is seldom used and opium never.
The diet of the people is as innocent as their
costume.
Carrying a Trunk Up q Mountain.
After sitting an hour in tram car, riding
along rice fields where women were hoeing
rice with their hands as they walked knee
deep in the water, we struck the Kago car
riers who carried us up the mountain to
Miyanoshita
Now came test of manhood Our party
of three had very stupidity brought 200
pound Saratoga trunk instead of repacking
our things into Japanese baskets. Our
Kago carriers looked at the great trunk and
then looked at the Fujiys Hotel four miles
away on the top of the mountain. Then
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other countries of the Continent have been
much affected by the prohibition of the
grain exports from Russia during the famine,
and it is this more than anything else that
has set the Germans to studying and e1-
perimenting on our corn to see if they can
not get some combination of corn and rye
which will feed their army and leave them
independent of Russia. As it is they have
been getting large proportion of their rye
from Russia and rye is the staple bread food
of the Germans.
How Russian Lands Are Divided.
The land laws of Russia are far different
from those of the United States, and the
land is divided up in a way that is not
known elsewhere, The Gar owns more
than half of all the lands of the Empire,
and great part of the vast forests of Russia
belong to the Crown. The forests are man
aged by the officers of the Grown, and the
wood from them is cut by the peasants
either for wages or on speculation. The
Crown has something like 80, ,000, 900 acres
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thus only makes US more miserable, it is far
better that we should say goodby."
sDon't cheat me of my last hour-my
love, answer me this question: Do you be-
ieve that those whose souls and hearts are
knit as fast as ours can ever change, In all
time, through all eternity?"
"How can I tell, Hugh?" said Miriam,
raising her dark eyes to his, show can I lift
the veil that is between us and death?"
"But some day 1t will be lifted; some day
the weary bonds of earth will fall away"
Miriam slightly shuddered.
'1 look beyond them" continued Hugh
Ferrars; 81 feel in that hereafter my soul
will be with you"
'Yet, have only wrought you misery
here, Hugh-me and mine"
"And great Joy; was it not joy to know
of your love. to feel it now? You will never
forget me, Miriam?"
fNo, no; but you frighten me; feel
guilty to listen to such words"
"Who is to hear them? See that wild
duck there skimming on the loch. will he
tell his mate of q mans last despairing
words to the woman he loves, for there is
no other listener"
"But why need you despair-in new
land"
Eyes, In a new land, where there will be
no more trouble, no more bitter regret"
'There must always be regret for US, Hugh
bitter regret-but still we ought to try to
do what is right now; and shall be so much
happier when know you are safe"
"You will soon know it, dear"
"And do take the money, to please your
old friend" urged Miriam.
ST would do anything to please my old
friend as you call yourself, but do not
want the money. have more than 1
want"
''Then will say no more-and now,
Hugh, must say goodby."
He stood looking at her in silence for
moment or two, and then took her in his
arms and held her to his breast, passionately
kissing her lips
"My love, my love-" he murmured.
"Goodby, dear Hugh" whispered Mir
lam, in a voice broken with a sob
'tFor little while-only for a little
WHILE" said Ferrars.
"Goodby," again said Miriam, trying to
release herself from his arms, but he held
her fast.
''Stay a little; remember it is the last
time-it is harder to part even than 1
thought"
'But we must part-go dear Hugh, God
bless you and keep you on your Journey"
Again he kissed her; again he clasped her
to his breast, and then they parted. Hugh
Ferrars watching her with strained eyes, as
with trembling footsteps she hurried home
ward.
She was agitated and moved to the very
hsart-stringa And she was frightened al
90; frightened by Hugh Ferrars' desparing
words, and also with the fear that her ab-
sence should be noticed In the household.
She therefore walked on a. quickly as
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she could and was almost breathless when
she reached the steps which led from the
loch-side to the grounds of Kintore.
Here she paused moment to collect her
sell, and glanced half-frightened backwards.
But Ferrars had not followed her Then
she ascended the steps, and passed through
the grounds, and entered the hall while the
butler was IN the very act of lighting. She
did not speak to him, but went up the stair
case to her own room and entered it It was
getting little dusk now, so she struck .
match, and Lit one of the candles on the
toilet-table As she did so, she thought some-
thing stirred in the adjoining dressing-room
her husbands dressing-room. She went
therefore to the open door, and saw Sir
James standing by the window.
James, have you got back?" she said
At the sound of her voice he turned
round and look at her, and when she saw
the expression of his face she gave little
cry.
Still Sir James did not speak; he stood
there looking at her haggard, hollog-eyed,
like a man whose death-warrant had just
fallen on his ears.
SIS there anything the matter?" at last
asked Miriam, falteringly.
Then Sir James tongue was loosed.
"Why have you come back?' he asked
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they laughingly tied a rope around the
trunk, put pole through 1t and started on
a fox trot with the huge weight
"Here stopr' I. said. "Leave it. 1t
will kill you"
"Can DOR they laughed and on they
went and when the first jinrikisha reached
the hotel, there stood my two coolies with
the trunkl could not lift one end of this
Saratoga. The strongest hotel porter would
have asked 30 cents to carry it up one pair
of stairs in America, and these athletes had
carried it on a run four miles up mount
ain and when paid them 20 cents apiece,
the regular price, they thanked us again
and bowed three times to the ground.
''For shamer' said my tender hearted
wife with tears in her eyes. ''Give them
more, double it, such brave grand menp'
''All rightw ! said, Patting the men on
their sinewy backs, 'take MORE" and they
laughed and cried with joy as they took it.
The hotels Arc Like Bird Cages. :.
The watering place hotels here are like
great bird cages, aud pretty Japanese waiter
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CHAPTER XIII.
RITTER WORDS.

CHAPTER XXlll.
BITTER WORDS.
Miriam was silent. There was dim con-
seriousness in her heart that his words were
not quite true; that another feeling had
crept there; but of this she could not speak.
"You would make me very happy if you
would take the money have brought, she
said, "and then must go home"
$50 soon? Do not grudge me an hour,
one short, brief hour"
"Well, if you like, I will stay little
longer"
"Yes, do; let us cheat ourselves; fancy we
are once more in the old dear days, just for
an hour. Let us forget the hideous past;
forget everything but our love.
"Oh! hush, Hugh, hush!''
edo you remember the moonlight night
at Tyeford when we first met in secret,
Miriam? I can see the waves still with
their silver crests, and hear their moan
your head was upon my breast then, Mir
ism, let it rest there moment now."
81 cannotl cannot! o! Hugh, talking
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SARATOGA OF JAPAN.
Eli Perkins Takes Some Snap Shots
at Life in MiyanoshiJa.
ETIQUETTE THAT IS AMUSING.
The American Girl Always Several Laps
Ahead Of Every other.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD AND HIS NEW PLAY
[coRREs poNDENcE OF THE DISPATCH,
MIYANosHITA, JAPAN, July IA.

F you Americans want
to see nature and fun and
love and sentiment, I"
said Sir Edwin Arnold as
he sat on the veranda of
the Grand Hotel at
Yokohama, Ego up to
AIiyanoshita, the Sara
toga Of Japan"
"Where is it2" I asked.
'Four hours from here
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Pets That Ara Cheap.

The most inexpensive kind of pet you can
keep is the alligator. One of these reptiles
lived along comfortably in London for sigh-
teen months without eating morsel, and
would probably have gone longer had not
some one given him q small piece of mutton.
It IL difhoult, in view of this fact, to see
why the alligator has been given SO large 3
mouth. He could almost get along without
any If 1t were not for his smile
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and climbs higher than any of the rest.
She gets an autograph from Sir Edwin
while the English girl Is asleep, and has the
English girls lover at her feet while she
plays the samisen, the Japanese banjo.
In the evening it was amusing to see the
Japanese guests try to dance the round
dancSs! The Japanese are bound to become
European. The Emperor and Empress dress
in European costumes, walk on English
carpets and eat French dishes. The swell
young Japanese has his Tuxedo and the
girls are struggling into kid gloves and
corsets. Their little feet, always accus-
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WRITTEN FOR THE DISPATCH
BY DORA RUSSELL,
Author of Footprints in the Snow" The Broken Seal Ths
Track of the Storm" "a Fatal Past Etc
COPYRIGHT, 1899. BY DORA RUssELLl
WRITTEN FOR THE d
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