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WTARFIELD & HALL,
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DRUGGISTS,

Prescriptions 4 speciality.
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cncs Coxes Gclatine, Corn Starch Sea Moss
Farine, Spices of all kinds, and select stock
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CONFECTIONERY.
WITH ALL FLAY0RS.
Brengles Ice-Cream Soda Fountain,

At 531 King street, gives Nectar. the drink
of gods and pretty girls. His ICE CREAM
never mclts in stingy mouths. His PIES are
the standard dessert of the Old Dominion.
All his CONNECTIONS are first-clasS, and ne
makes speciality of summer catering. lmylO
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COAL AND WOOD.

Coal COAL. c0AL'
We invite the attention of dealers and con-
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pared Coal of the following varieties
LYKEN'S VALLEY. LORBERRY
and SHAMOKIN RED ASH.
WHITE ASH (frcc-burning and hardy of
steamer, broken, egg, stove and nut sizes.
Also GEORGES CREEK, CUMBERLAND
and KANAWHA SPLINT, from West Va.
Making Coal a speciality. we aim to keep
only the HIGHEST GRADES.
Yards tloorcd, and all Coal sent out WELL
SCREENED and FREE FROM IMPURITIES
J. r. ZIMMERMAN,
Wharf and Yards foot of Queen street.
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FAMILY TRADE.
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Manufacturers of Standard Pharmaceutical
Preparations.
We have made large additions to our stock
and are buying leading Proprietary Articles,
Chemicals &c. direct from the manufacturers
We are therefore enabled to supply the trade
with all goods usually carried by a well-ap-
pointed WHOLESALE DRUG HOUSE at
prices as low as those given by the best houses
in larger cities. Ali goods forwarded by first
freight or express after receipt of order
Promptncss is our speciality. We guarantee
the purity of all drugs furnished. Core
spondence invited.
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The following houses, whose advertisements
appear in the GAZETTE, will be found reliable,
and are commended to the attention of pur-
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

great deal Of time over his mail, and that he
ought to have someone else to attend to it.
The Gar grew quite angry. and asked the man
who he was, that he presumed to come between
him and his subjects.
He gets about hundred and twenty petit
tions every day, and he passes upon these. He
has mind of his own, and he judges things for
himself During my visit to the Countess Toll
stoi, she told me that the officials would have
liked to have punished her husband, and have
made him stop his work among the peasants,
but that the Gar had said to them: :" Let that
man alone. l have looked into his case, and
believe him to be an honest man." It is the
same with other matters. He comes to de-
cision slowly. but when he sets his foot down,
nothing can change him.
The Gar is a well-educated man. He under
stands all about foreign questions. and he pays
more attention to these than he does to home
matters. He has his own ideas about the other
monarchs of the world. and l heard last night
bon mot which he made concerning the conceit
of the German Emperor. Said he: Der Gott
wesst allies, aber der Kaiser west allies besser !;
which, being translated, reads, GOD knows
everything. but the German Emperor knows .
little more"
The Gear reads the newspapers. Every word
world comes back here to st. Petersburg and il
laid before him. It will not be strange if he
hears Of this letter, and he is very sensitive a.
to what is said about his people. As far as
can learn, he cares as much for his people as
his people care for him, and he gave millions
Of dollars out Of his own pocket during the late
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

was once covered with gold leaf. and it took
100000 worth of gold ~ gid it, After time.
owing to the dampness Of the climate, this gold
began to peel Of aifd 'Catharine the Great, who
made this palace, inteiided to paint it, and q
couple of spectators offered her $3.50 900 for the
privilege of scrapihg off the gold
az am not quite so hard up" said the old
Empress, "that l have TO sell my old clothes to
keep myself going" and she sent them away
and painted the gold over
There is room in this palace which has
walls and ceiling of tortoise shell. There is
another which is papered with mother Of pearl,
and the whole palace is full of expensive con-
ceits. There is a Chinese room which is fur
nished in teak wood. There are Japanese
rooms which are walled with bamboo, and
there are a number Of apartments hung with
Gobelin tapestry. The ball room covers more
than half an acre, and its floor is of wooden
mosaics so bright that you can see Just how
your back hair looks in it.
The palace all told, has 500 rooms and its
floors alone must have cost fortunes There is
one which was done by Venetian artist,
which it is said cost $50 per square inch, and
there is one room which is walled with amber,
and another lined with the lapus lazuli.
The furniture is rs fine as the rooms, and there
is card with top as big around rs Q
wagon wheel, which is covered with pearls
larger than the biggest marrowfat pea.
The builder of this palace was one Of the
most voluptuous of the Russian Expresses.
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the present Gar, and when he was in England
he visited all sorts of places At one time he
went into the courts, and seeing the lawyers
with wigs on, asked what they were. He was
told they were lawyers; whereupon he said !:
Lawyers, are they3 Why, have only two Of
them in the whole of my kingdom, and intend
to hang them as soon as get back"
This Gar killed his own son, divorced his wife.
and married a peasant girl, who ruled Russia
after he was dead. Another instance showing
the power of the Car of Russia over all mat
tiers spiritual and temporal was seen in Nicho-
las who reigned at the beg inning of this CEN
tury. There was great fuss in the Church as
to whether there was any purgatory or not,
and the long arguments of both sides were
submitted to the Gar. He glanced at them,
and wrote over the corner of one Of them. No
Purgatory," and that fixed il. From that time
on every one of these hundred million Russians
were convinced that he would 60 to hell or
heaven direct and that there was no interme-
diate state. This was the grandfather of the
present Gar. aud his grandson takes after him
in laying down the rules for the Church.
IT is hard for an American to realize the re-
ligious position of this Russian Emperor. He
is the father of the people, and he is looked
The Russian always says, " For God and the
Gar" and every Russian makes prayer for
the Gar every time be crosses himself The
Russians believe the Gear can do no wrong I
mean by this ninety-nine hundreds of the
Russians Now and then you find one who
doubts the Availability Of the Emperor, but the
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

She picked out her sweethearts from among
her courtiers and kept them with her in royal
style until she got tired of them, when she
made them a present OF fortune and sent
them off and filed their places with others. It
took 900 men to take care of this palace of
Tsarkoe Selo, and it is 10 miles around it's
palace grounds. Catherine was literary
woman and an able monarch, notwithstanding
her extravagances and her licentiousness, and
it was she who got the Germans into Russia
and founded those provinces along the Volga
which haye created so much talk during the
present time. She was warrior as well as an
Empress, and she used to ride astrlde OF her
horse at the head of her troops and lead them
on to battle.
The Gear has not had much to do with this
big palace since the assassination of his father.
He seems to connect it with the assassination,
and when he goes into the country he takes his
palaces of Gatchina and Psterhof in preference.
Peterhof is On the Gulf of Finland. It is Q
magnificent palace in the forest on the banks
of the gulf 1t has beautiful fountains hun
dreds of statues and all sorts Of wonderful
effects in the way of illumination. There are
fairy nymphs, there are waterfalls and floating
gardens and there is nothing in the world
more grand than an illumination here. All Of
st. Petersburg goes to Peterhof during the hot
season. and 1t is not an uncommon thing TO see
the Gar walking around among the people
there
And just here want to say one thing about
the Gar entirely different from what people
suppose. He is not secluded nor guarded as the
papers state. If he has guards you do not see
them. and though there are undoubtedly always
guards in citizens clothes about him. none but
the police know who these are, and have
never seen king who had less pomp about his
daily life than has this autocrat Of all the Rus
sas. He rides about the country in phaeton
buggy with the Empress, and often drives him
self During the Winter he often takes walk
along the Neva, and he drives with few attend
ants about him through ST. Petersburg nearly
every week. Whatever he is he certainly il
not q coward, and l am told that he looks upon
his possible death by violence as q matter of
fate, and that he goes on his way just as
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

He ID an autocrat Of autecrats, and the
fact that he does not use his power is be-
cause he prefers TO withhold his hand.
One of the ancestors of this present Gar, the
Emperor Paul. was once asked who were the
most important Eaen IN Russia. He replied:
There are no important men in Russia but
those happen to speak to, and their Importance
lasts only while am speaking"
In the annals of history you viii find few
menarchs who have had the terrible power
of these Russian Cars. Take Ivan the Terri
BILE, who built many of the finest churches /
see here in Russia. He took the Government
into his own hands when he was ID years of
age, and one of his amusements was fast
eping his enemies between two boards and
saving them in pieces from head to foot.
Another festive way he had was sewing a man
fn bear skin and sticking the hounds On him.
He had lot of other little royal amusements
which were fun for him, but rather hard on bis
subjects.
One of the eueerest churches in the world is
that Of St. BASIL at Moscow. 1t 10 of sll the
ColoH OF the rainbow. and it has 8 half dozsa
onion shaped domes and it makes you think
that the goddess of architecture must have
been drunk when she produced it. The Rus
SLAMS consider il very fine, and il was Ivan who
built il. The architect was an Italian. When
it was done the Emperor asked the architect if
he could make another like it and the archi-
toct rubbing his hands together. and expecting
D big job for church in another city of the
Empire, said that he could whereupon Ivan
ordered his eyes to be put out, in order that he
might never produce its counterpart
1t was shortly after this time. just little
more than 100 years after Columbus discovered
America, that the ancestors Of the present Gar
began TO rule. ! saw at Moscow the old house
Of the Romanhoffs, in which Michael, the first
Sovereign OF this Dynasty, was born. 1t is a
four-story structure built around . court. and
it ID still in the possession of the family. Peter
the Great was the grandson of this man
Michael, and he was one of the gre&t-great-
great-grandfathers Of the present Gar.
You fAd everywhere about st. Petersburg
evidences of his power and bis caprices This
city of St Petersburg. where write this letter,
rose from marsh at the raising of his hand.
j went over across the river yesterday and took
. look at the log cabin in which he lived while
the city was building, and l saw there the
boat which he made with his own hsnds. He
was great fellow 10 work with tools, and there
ID big sledge with little house made of
hingiass on the top Of it, in the Museum of
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

vast majority look upon His Majesty as coming
from Heaven.
1t is this reverence which they hold for
the Gar that constitutes the stability Of the
Russian people, and ENSURES the permanency Of
the present Russian Government. The people
know that there are abuses, but they believe,
and rightly, too that they come from the cor
rupt servants of the Car, and are not perpe-
trated with his knowledge. / have paid con-
siderable attention to the study of the Russian
Government during my travels here, and /
believe that the Car is conscientious in all his
acts and that he does the best he can for his
people. He does not believe in a republican
form of Government, however, nor in q con-
stitutional monarchy. and be would like to
increase the power Of the Emperor as much
as he can. His father, Alexander H., was just
the reverse. He freed the serfs and allowed
free thought to reign. He was just about to
establish constitutional monarchy when the
Nihilists assassinated him.
With such an example, the present Gar went
The National tribune., 1892-09-01
Reunion Of Old Sailors and soldiers.

Two coming important events Of interest to
sailors and soldiers of the late war will be the Re-
union of the Naval Veterans at Baltimore Sept. Is
To 10 and the Encampment of the Grand Army Of
the Republic at Washington commencing sept 20.
Immediately after the Sailors Reunion. Interest
in the Reunion will be heightened by the presence
OF the White Squadron in the harbor of Baltimore
The GAR. Encampment will bs the occasion Of
the greatest military assembiage In Washington
since the Grand Review Of 1865. following the fall
of Richmond. For both of these events the Balti-
more 4 Ohio Railroad will sell tickets at greatly
sions In the way of stopoyer privileges. Tickets
will be sold from Sept. IL to 20 inclusive valid for
return journey unit! Oct 10. and will be good to
stop off, going returning, at all stations between
Cumberland and Baitimore-a region rendered
familiar to all veterans by the constant warfare
along the Potomac.
For more detailed information ~ to time Of
trains, rates. and sleeping-cAr accommodation,
apply to nearest B. 4 O. sgent.
The National tribune., 1892-09-01
TEE EMpREss AND CHILDREN.

TO the other extreme. He re-estabIished tie
censorship of the press, took away some Of the
privileges his father had given the people, and
today the Russian Government is more intol-
Grant than it was 20 years ago.
And still, the Russians have rights Of which
we have no idea. The Gar considers himself,
as have said, the father of his people. Anyone
eau appeal to him. aud in most cases he will be
answered. The Cars mail every day consists
of hundreds of letters which are carefully exam
ined, and all of which, either in brief or in fact
have to be presented to him. Not long ago one
of his ministers suggested to him that he wasted
The National tribune., 1892-09-01
A Last Reuuest,

"Wait minute" said the Texas desperado,
who had been convicted Of horse stealing and
murder.
whats the matter now?" asked the Sheriff.
al wish to ask favor before / am taking to
the scaffold."
"Well, what is it?"
Let one of your Deputies 60 upstairs and get
my lucky penny"
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

Imperial Carriages here. which be built He
made his OWN boots, and ! . 5inkered at every
thing under the sun, FROM the making of an
empire to the building Of canoe. He made
the sIphabc. that Is now used In Russia. He
cut the head off the Pope Of the Russian Church.
end constituted himself, the Car as its head.
He butt a savy, and was the FIRST of the Rus
tian nlot.arcas to 20 down to the Caspian Sea,
aud 10 visit Persia The power which he had
the present Gear could exercise If he would,
and Peter had way Of killing sny man who
opposed him.
He was good deal more Of traveller than
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

HE Gar of Russia is
the richest monarch in
the world. He has
more power than any
other monarch in the
world, and he stands
out among the Nations
as the ruler of one
tenth Of all the people
on the globe. He can
raise his hands, and
any one of his subjects
may have to march TO
Siberia He can wish
Q man dead and the
man lives no more on
the facG Of the globe.
The National tribune., 1892-09-01
and His Wonderful Palaces About
st. Petersburg.

Power of this Automatically of His Pre-
decessors-How Ivan the Terrible Sawed
ND His Enemies-The Romanhof House at
Moscow-Peter the Great and the Cars
Grandfather-The Gar as Pope-His Home
Iife-A PEN Picture of Him In 1899.
The National tribune., 1892-09-01
Excursion to Luray Caverns.

The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will run the
second popular excursion to Luray Caverns on
Friday, Sept. 2. Round-trip rate So. so, includ-
ing admission to the Caverns. For time of
trains from Baltimore, Nd, or intermediate
stations to Washington Junction consult ap-
pended table:
The National tribune., 1892-09-01
SrAruE or PErER rHk CHEAT.

STATUE OF PETER THE GREAT.
though he was entirely free from danger.
There are, it seems to me, many things to I'D.
mire in his character. He loves his wife and
is true to her, and all over Russia the men who
act in many cases far differently toward their
wives respect him for it.
FRANK @. CARPENTER.
The National tribune., 1892-09-01
Who Can Aid Herr

Nervous headache. sick headache. and similar
troubles are cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla.
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

Special Correspondence THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.
ST PETERSBURG, AUG. q, 1892.
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

The customary price Of G. a. r. cards is 50
per 100, but THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
wiH furnish yos NTH 100, haring..a fine picture
of yov
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

ington, D. c., il anxious to know tho address,
if living. of her husband, John Cornell. who
served as a private in Co E. 1st regiment Of
the Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry Of Mary
land. The last known Of him was when he
left Georgetown. d. c., IA years ago. for Balti-
more. Nd, where he went to see man who
lived near that city by the name of John Erd-
man. Whether he saw Mr.. Erdman or not il
not known, as he has never been heard from
since leaving Georgetown. He was in poor
health at the timo and Ills wife is Of the opin-
ion that he is dead. II there are any comrades
who know anything Of him they will confer .
great favor upon hts wife by letting her know
the facts. dg 80
THE NATIONAL 54RIBUEES portrait
cards are the biggest thing exs. See advertise-
ment in another column.
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Juvenile amenities.

Juvenile Amenities.
Street & Smiths Good Net1s.
Mamma-Aren't you good friends with that
little girl any more ?ssg1
Small daughter-Yes'm.
Then why didn't yon bow to herr"
"Cause Pm all dressed up"
The National tribune., 1892-09-01
STRIKES,
A Timely Article on the Present
Relations Between the Employer
and The Employed.
BY EDGAR FREEMAN STRONG, OF THE UNI
vERsITY OF WISCONSIN.
Ii readers of THE Ma

LII readers of THE Ma
lTfoNAL TRIBUNE know
THAT three important
lstrik es have occurred
this Summer, 80 widely
liave they been dis
Ieussed both by the gen.
.ral public aud the
newspapers. The rise
land progress of each has
been watched with an
interest exceeded in
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

Returning, train leaves Lusay at 6ss u m.
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WANTED-ADDRESSES.

YxTANTED-By Frank Brown, Victory Mills Sara.
w togs Co, ". Y.-The address OF any conrads OF
enlisted man worked the trains did train duty
between Chattanooga and Nashville in April, 1855
The National tribune., 1892-09-01

readiness to strike and Withdraw their services
il they are not given fair share of the profits.
The very fact that they are ready and able to
do this often secures them an increase in wages
without strike, aud always more favorable
terms than would otherwise be possible.
Strikes for an increase of wages are success
full in the great majority of cases, because they
occur in prosperous times, when there is larger
product to divide. But when trade is dull,
and it becomes necessary to cut down wages, .
strike against the reduction generally fails.
The assertion is commonly made that strikes
are nearly always failures. This is not true,
and Iaborers are we'll aware of it. In the nine
months from Nov. l, 1879, to Oct. l, 1880. there
occurred 121 strikes for an increase of wages
of which 80 were won and 10 compromised. In
the same time there were 26 strikes against q
reduction of wages, Of which Il were lost
three compromised. and two won. These fig
ures also bear out the statement just made that
strikes for an increase of wages generally sue
coed, while those against reduction generally
fail.
The President of tho Cigarmakers' Inter
national Union testified before Senate Com.
mittee in 1888 that there had then been 1862
strikes among the cigarmakers, of which 20a
were successful, 1877 lost, 12 compromised. and
10 then in progress. The expenditures for the
strikes amounted to $2o6. 4446I, while the gain
to the members OF the Union amounted to ST.
5000 per annum, and the reductions pro-
vented 10 at least $500 900 per annum.
However, If one gains, the other loses, and
every strike, therefore, involves loss to one side
or the other. Both would be benefited if the
result of the strike could be reached without
the strike. Here is the great opportunity to
secure peace by arbitration. Arbitration will
do it, and whenever fairly and honestly tried
has given satisfaction. All the leading labor
unions favor the settling of disputes in this
manner.
The declaration Of the Knights of Labor
quoted above indicates this very clearly, but
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-04-02
Arsenic md American Apple..

LONDON, January 9 1884, The Horticultural
papers are renewing their attack on American
apples, on the ground that they contain arsenic
and the attacks are being generally copied in
the daily press. The charge is that growers
sprinkle arsenic on their trees to prevent the
ravages Of moth which eats nothing but apples
and pears. All the papers do not take the same
charge, as arsenic would not be applied when
the trees are in fruit The editor OF the Hor-
ticultural Times is the author Of the arsenic
scare" as 1t is called here Immense quaint
ties of American apples are sold in England
and bring high prices, which perhaps explains
the reason for the attack.
Spraying fruit trees, plants and vines for the
prevention of the ravages of insects and fungus
diseases is no longer an experiment, but .
necessity, in order to get large crops Of perfect
fruit For full information on this subject
address William Stahl. manufacturer Of Ex-
celsior Spraying Outfits, Quincy, III. who will
send, free, full and complete treatise ON this
subject