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he ought to be a philosopher and reformer
and instead of writing good novels he is vast
ing his time in penning thoughts in support of
his impractical theories
His life, however, ia iniaccord with his teach
ings. While was at his house he wss off among
the peasants ministering AS best he could to
those afflicted by the famine and his daughter
was with him. When he is at home he works
a part of every day in the fields, and / saw the
old shoe bench in his library where he makes
his boots. The Countess told me that the peas.
ants often acted very nngratefully to him. and
that in return for his kindness they stole his
wood and took advantage Of his good nature by
not doing half work for him. He was for q
time very angry at the civilized goings on in
his household. lie did not like to see the French
and English goyernesse5 around, and even now
he will not talk about his novels He calls
them trash and does not realize that they are
the best works he has ever done or will do.
In the meantime the Countess, like the good
woman that she is does the best she can in
managing tho property and taking care of him
and her family. She is a fair type of the high
toned. well-educated Russian woman, and the
late famine has brought ont the character of
these women They have gone by the scores
out of their luxurious homes right down into
the famine districts, and have lived with the
peasants and have taken care of them. Many
of them have spent fortunes upon the peasants,
and some have mortgaged their property in
order to relieve the people of their villages.
Some have caught the typhus fever and other
diseases while going about their work of mercy,
and they have shown themselves as noble ~
any women of the world.
FRANK g. CARPENTER.
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It's social organizations a. the United States.
Many of the old mobiles have during recent
years devoted themselves to trade, and not
few Of them are farming their estates on scien-
tifc principles. They have the elements of
progress in them, and the most of them arc
anxious that Russia should take lis place AZ
one of the great nations of the globe.
The educated among them are in favor Of
the elevation of the peasant, and they are less
snobbish than the mobiles of any other country
They work with the peasants in running the
Government, and they treat them in many
cases 90 though they were their children, ad-
vising with them and helping them in time OF
famine. They appreciate that their only hope
for the future is In their own efforts and their
own brains. and they are gradually turning
their attention to money making and to the
development OF the country.
Many of them use American machines on
their farms, and large number of them are
engaged in manufacturing. Some of them are
bankers. and though the great majority belong
to the Government and the army the fact of Q
man being in trade and making his own living
in one way or another, grows moro respectable
in Russia year after year, and slowly but surely
the car of democratic thought is working its
way over the cordIroy roads of Russian civil
izsticn.
Il would seem TO me that IL Russia ever does
become democracy it will have less further
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Work of tie Pension Office.

During the week ending Oct %, 1892 4,790
claims were received, of which those filed for
service since March a. 1861, under acts prior to
that of Jan. %, 1887. were III original invalid,
pa original widows, IL bounty land, 319 navy,
157 accrued and 1923 applications for increase /;
filed under act Jan. n, 1887, Mexican war, Al !;
under act Juno q, 1890. $40 original invalid,
BIT original widows; applications for increase
under same act 1,125; under act July 81, 1892,
Indian wars. o.; under act Aug S, 1892. Army
Nurses, 102; prior applications under former
acts and under act June q, 1890, 534.
Number of claims received to date under act
of June II, $780, $50, 100. Claims disposed of
to date under said act 1912.
Number of rejected claims reopened, $40.
The names and postofice addresses of 1897
comrades were furnished for the use of claim
ants. There were 65274 pieces of mail matter
received; A. 08 letters and blanks sent out.
Number of cases detailed to Special Examin-
ers, 337; reports and cases from Special Exam
liners, 325; cases on hand for special examina-
tion. G,352.
Report of certificates issued: Original. 3213 /;
increase 2,0s3; accrued, 1863; total, 5,465.
Total number of claims pending, by actual
count Oct IL, 790,655.
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hot-beds at Yasnia Polynia, and she has mum.
Der of peasant villagers who rely upon her for
advice and assistance whenever they get into
trouble. and who act to large extent as her
tenant farmers.
Tolstoi himself was in times past very fair
business man, bnt he has cranky notion now
that he has no right to any property bnt the
amount which he can earn from day to day by
laboring with his hands. and he wanted his
wife to give up all her right to the estate and
to divide il out among the peasants. He went
into the fields himself and plowed and spaded
and did all kinds of hard work. He made his
own clothes, and put up little shoe shop in
his house in order that he could make his own
boots there during the Winter, and he really
wanted to reduce his family to the poverty Of
the poorest peasants.
Madame Tolstoi objected to this. She told
him that be might live in this way if he would,
and she would do the best she could to be
good wife to him while he was doing SO, but
that she could not consent to reduce her family
to this state, and that they must have q civil
,ged life, and that the sbildren must be well
educated. Tolstoi objected for while and
grumbied great deal, but he finally gave in.
and now he lives with his family, but will
have nothing to do rs to the management of
his property. He ID, yOu know, one of the
greatest novelists Of the world, but since he has
taken this cranky idea into his head he thinks
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why Gen. Sherman Did Not Volunteer.
fCnufuyul

From the time of Gen. Sherman's converse
tion with Mr.. Lincoln he distrusted the prepa-
rations of the Administration, which savored
greatly of militia and raw recruits. With this
army Gen. Sherman was unwilling to cast his
lot, believing that he was worthy Of a better
command or of none. In April he writes to
John:
But I say volunteers and militia never
were and never Will BIO fit for invasion, and
when tried it will be defeated and dropt by
Lincoln like hot potato"
And in tho same letter:
"Tho time will come in this country when
professional knowledge will be appreciated,
when men that can be trusted will be wanted,
and / will bide my time. / may miss the
chance; and, if so, all right; but cannot and
will not mix myself in this present call.
The first movements of orr Government will
fail. and the leaders will be east aside. A sec
ond or third set will arise, and among them
may be, but at present will not volunteer as
o soldier or anything else. If Congress meet,
or if National Convention be called, and the
Regular Army be put on footing with the
wants of the country, if I am offered place
that suits me, l may accept. But in the pres
ent call / will not volunteer"
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Disinfecting Water.
London Lancet. ]


DR.. Hans Brackebusch answers Inquiries as
to the best method of disinfecting water for
household use as follows:
Fill stone vessel capable of holding about
90 liters to within hands breadth from the
top with water, add three heaped tablespoon
fnls of cement, and stir the mixture with
large wooden spoon for five minutes. The wa
ter then clears very quickly, and is fit for
washing the body and for cooking everything
except pulse
To get drinking water, filter through coffee
paper into a carafe and add seltzer till the
turbines resulting at first disappears. The
cement contains much free lime that the
killing of the bacilli is certain. The dissolved
lime is converted by the carbonic acid of the
settler into bicarbonate of lime, the substance
to which mountain water owes its freshness.
The cement must DO fresh and must not have
lain beside smelling substances. Five pfen-
ngs' Ia little more than alfpenny) worth Of
ssltzer sufiices for FIVE liters of water.
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The Dead Line Of so

is an expression which has,its origin In the fact
that the intense activity of modern life has worn
out 30 many busy men and women BY the time
they attain that age. 48g
Every one knows that much OF the worlds best
work has been done by aged workers. and there 10
no sadder sight, or keener disappointment, than
when intellectual prime finds the skilful worker
without physical strength to do
The problem then 10 how to move the dead
limo" ten or twenty or thirty years forward, and
thus allow The wisdom and experience OF q Hse-
time TO add the oap-stone TO o ifesimes work.
Common sense clearly teaches that no drug VIII
do this; but long experience has as clearly demon.
srated that Drs Starkey & Paien's Compound
Oxygen will-tbat IL has DONE ana Is doing THIS
very thing for thousands of master workmen In
every part Of the land.
Many grateful letters attest this fact beyond the
doubts Of The most ineieduous. feoPle In the
highest walks OF lfe--statesmen. reIormers ana
philanthropsts physicians editors, and business
men. clearly and ehecrfuliy testify OF the wonder
full power OF natures help for natures needs a.
offered Ia Compound Oxygen
Any person in need of better health. or Rreaser
working strength, who will send his ADDRESS TO u:
csn obtain such proof ms would convince any nina
capable Of weighing the evidence Of others. Do
you need hepf Can you weigh evidonne1 WIN
you write to-day? Address Drs. srAaxEY q PALEN.
1879 Arch street. Philadelphia or chicago. can
Francisco, New York, and Toronto Onks
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great fortunes in Russia are numbered. Some
time ago Russia established q bank to loan
money to peasants. in order that they might
purchase land. and it is now only two years
since state hanks were organized to lend money
"a the nobility, and they have already borrowed
e00000000 roubles, or 100000, 000 Many of
them have mortgaged their estates to keep
their people alive during the famine. and some
have fed thousands upon thousands of peasants
during the last year. raising the money for this
purpose by losns on their property.
I am told that the very rich mobiles are now
limited. The 0rloff estate, it is true, consists
Of more than 100000 acres, and the Demidoff
family get fortunes every year out of their
mines, but the vast riches of the mobiles of the
past are unknown, and hard times and reckless
extravagances are fast reducing these people TO
poverty. 1t is estimated that at the present
yRte the mobiles of the District Of Moscow, who
Nere among the richest of the mobiles of the
pest, will have practically no money at all
within &c years from now, and there are Counts
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and they have q princely way about them
which you cannot find anywhere else in the
world.
Many of the richest of the noble families
have histories that are full of romance. The
Demidof, which is one of the great millionaire
families of to-day, sprang from q blacksmith
who lived in the time of Peter the Great. The
blacksmith Demidof had deserted from the
army, but he was an expert at casting cannon
balls, and he showed himself so enterprising in
other respects that Peter gave him foundry
and had him cast cannon-bails for bis army.
He gave him, also, some copper mines, and the
first Demidof worked these so well that he
was afterward made noble He was given
other mines in the Ural Meuntains
The Demidoff family of to-day still own the
best of these mines. They got so rich that they
lent money to the Government and during the
first Russo Turkish war the Government bor-
rowed 100000 roubles of the head of the
Demidof family. In lending it, no said:
will give it to you on this condition: I
don't care for any interest but / want the
money paid promptly when it is due; and If it
is not paid, L ask for no other compensation
than that may give Her Majesty's ambassador
box on the ear for each million"
The money was taken, and Catharine the
Second paid ii, for she was too much of woman
to allow her ears TO be boxed even by proxy, for
$500, 1000 slap. This Demidof was rare
bird. He did not seem to care for money in
the least, and one of his amusements was the
having Of persons stand before him for an hour
at q time. If during this time they could
stand without winking their eyelids the least
bit, be gave them q fortune; but if they did
not, it Was a part of the contract that they
must submit to a whipping with the knout
upon their bare backs. 1t is needless to say
that most of them got the whipping.
1t was the freeing of the serfs that broke up
the Russian nobility, and the day will proba-
bly, como when Russia will be as democratic in
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What FIossie Thought.
Detroit Free Press

Flossie was enjoying herself out in the cool
green grass with two or three Of her playmates
when her mother called her.
Come in, Flossie," she said; "the grass is
too damp for you to be playing in It,"
"Tisn't vet. mamma" pouted Flossic. ITS
just as dry as it can be-"
No, it isn't. / know better than you what
is best. Come on in the house." and the mother
led the way.
Flossie rose slowly.
"Well, / guess / must" she said to the
others Mamma thinks don't know any
thing about anything / know about, and
there's no good in telling her anything about
anything" and Flossie followed.
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an die he did afors could gle him bsck ter
the hotel.
"Mebbe 'twar bis 'magination-I hesru tell
o. sech things-au' mebbe Hank did bite him.
Then sgin it mighter ben q snake hid In
Hanks clothes thes did the btin' Fur swa'r
the two little blue pin-holes in Jon'than's
cheek-the only marks I could find on him
was the bites Of rattlor er I never seed
rattler's bites"
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just as Wen to be Correct.

Yes, brethren" says tho clergyman who is
preaching the funeral sermon, "our deceased
brother was cut down in a single night-torn
from the arms Of his loving wife, who is thus
left discousolate widow at the early age of "A
years"
twenty-five if you please" sobs the widow
in the front pew, emerging from her handker-
chief for an instant.
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y
He famine In Russia is
seriously affecting the
nobility. The papers
have only spoken of the
troubles of the peasants,
but hundreds upon
hundreds of the mobiles
are on the verge of
bankruptcy from the
famine, and there are as
many mortgages here in
Russia today as there
are on the town lots of
our overlooked West
erD cities. The Rus
sian nobility grows
poorer and poorer every
wear and the days of
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Reward of Virtue,
Is,reet q Smiths Good News. |

Erect Dc Smiths Good NelUs.I
Little Dick-I told mamma what good boy
/ was to-day and she gave me q penny, and
then gave il to Johnny Stout if he'd COM
mence goin' to school
Litt.o Dot-What good will that do?
Littlo Dick-When / tell mamma that
Johnnie Stout is goin' to school, she'll keep me
home COS Johnnie Stout's brothers got the
measles.
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She Couldn't.
ILgl

"why wers you 50 cross to your husband al
breakfast"
81 just couldn't help it. felt as If must
scold at somebody or burst. just physical
irritability, you know-and then everything
went wrong. Breakfast was Late the steak
was burnt. the coffee thin. and cakes heavy"
Then why didn't you scold the cook 2"
al couldn't She'd leave"
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a Modest Nan.

Wife (at the Black Crook III should think
you'd be ashamed to use that opera-glass SO con-
tinually. @
Husband-rm only looking with one eye M
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The NOBILITY
OF RUSSIA.
Stories and Gossip About the Million
Mobiles of the Land of the Gar.

Nheir Poverty and Their Extravagance-A
Fortune for not Winking-The Demidoff
Famiiy-Peasants Bought and Soid-How
Catherine H. Made NOTES.-The Freeing
of the Standardization Russia's Greatest
Need-The Women of Russia and Their
Wonderful neutrality-suspicious. Tolstoi
and Others.
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TIE MAN SNAKE.
A Story Of the Famous Rattlesnake
Gulch.
BY r. r. WILLARD.

IMME a ticket fur
Las Jnlas-thet God
fursaken place, whsr
they spell hiek'ry with
q - dam fur water,
dig fur wood. an call q
.jackass a bureau"
He was tall, awk-
ward, angular, and
Arizonian. He stood
before me in the line
at the railway ticket
window, and when the
- Y..I- ,-z.
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ST. PETERSBURG, 1892.
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One of the brightest women / met is the
wife Of TolEtoi, the novelist. She speaks sew
eral languages, and is packed full of good ideas
aud of practical common sense. She manages
the Tolstoi estates that they bring in fair
income. and she makes ali arrangements az to
her farms. She has a large garden and many
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-12-09
Six Pages.

Re just and fear not;
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be
Thy Country's, thy Gods. and Truths.
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DUST TO DUST.

The funeral of the late Colonel
Jonathan Austin took place at the
family residence at Waikiki yester-
day afternoon, and was attended
by a large concourse, including
brethren OF the Masonic Order,
members of the Grand Army of the
Republic, members of the Diplo-
matte and Consular Corps and of
the various departments of the
Government.
Rev. DR.. Beckwith conducted the
services, which consisted of reading
a selection of scripture, fervent
prayer, and the singing of the
hymns-"O, think of the home
over there" and "Sweet bye and
bye" Many flowers and wreaths
were sent in by loving friends, and
in such abundance that an express
had to be engaged to carry the
beautiful tributes to the last resting
place of the deceased.
The pail bearers were Judge
Hartwell, Captain Mist, United
States Consul Severance, ex-Minis-
ter Gulick, Hon. ]. 0. Carter, j. A.
Hassinger, J. n. Wright and M. N.
Sanders. The remains were con-
veyed to the Nuuanu Cemetery
where rest those of deceased's wife
and brother, who died some years
since. A very long procession Of
carriages followed, numbering some
forty or fifty.
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FRIDAY. DECEMBER 8, 1892.

THE long-expected report on the
Audit Act has at last been pre-
scented to the House. Owing to the
long delay and the approaching
end of the session, the committee
abandon the idea of attempting
any radical change in the Act, and
they present a bill modifying the
law in two particulars only. The
first proposes to abolish the provi-
sion that the larry of the Auditor
cannot be reduced, and the second
provides that all the funds COL
lected by every department of the
Government shall be subject to the
supervision granted by law to the
Auditor. Both of these amend
ments are commendable. The first
formally sets aside feature of the
Act which must, in any case, be
imperative, as the power of the
Legislature to fix salaries as it sees
fit cannot be curtailed by sta
tute. The second, if adopted
will bring about a much
needed reform. 1t is generally
admitted that the present system
is abusive. All taxes of whatever
description should be turned into
the general Treasury as a Govern
ment realization, to be credited tc
the proper accounts, and drawn
against by the proper authorities
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The Hilo and Hamakua districts
have waited so long for their pro-
missed railway that they have come
to disbelieve in the power or the
disposition of private individuals
to take up the matter, and to
look to the Government in
stead. The assumption in the
House yesterday was that the
rejection of Noble Horner's bill
would delay the matter for another
two years. IF it does not have that
effect, then there is nothing to cry
about. If the O. R. & L. Co. nego-
tiations now in progress terminate
happily, then there is no reason
why the same guarantee company
should not take up the bonds of
the Hilo & Hamakua Railway.
In such an event, the work might
be begun next summer. We are
informed that the anticipations
here expressed are by no means
extravagant.
It is to be hoped that the ap-
pointment of the commission to
investigate the railway question
and report to the next Legislature
| will not prevent the Cabinet
from entering into contract with
any responsible persons who
may offer to build a road before
the next Legislature meets. The
appointment of the commission
should certainly not have such an
effect. The Legislature should not
omit to define its intentions in the
matter. The Hilo and Hamakua
railroad will give a tremendous
impetus to the prosperity of the
island of Hawaii, and, with it, to
the entire group. The Hon. J. M
Horner deserves great credit for the
energetic manner in which he has
| advocated this as well as other
public improvements; and il is a
great pity that his eminently sound
and useful bill should have beer
| wet-blanketed.
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A Correction.

Mr.. EDITOR: In your report
this morning of Wednesdays de-
bate on the Appropriation to Pri-
vate Schools, Minister P. c. Jones
is reported as saying Last year the
Iolani College received $4,000"
Your reporter must have misunder-
stood him. It was to st. Louis
College, not to Iolani, that this
grant was made by the last Legis-
lature. Space for this correction
will oblige.
Yours faithfully,
ALFRED WILLIS.
Iolani College, Dec. s, 1892.
THE Minister named the Iolani
College, but the one intended was
undoubtedly the st. Louis College.
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To Tell Ones Age.

Give the number of the month in
which you were born. Double it.
Add 5. Multiply by so. Add age.
Subtract 365. Multiply by 100.
Add number of day of the month
on which you were born. Add
II 500. In the result the first two
left-hand figures will be the month,
the second two the age, the third
two the day of the month.-New
York World.
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Saturday, December 10, 1892

AT IL NOON OF SAID DAY.
E~ Further particulars can be had
of G. w. ASHFORD, Attorney for mort
gage.
Honolulu, October IL, 1892.
HENRY SMITH, Trustee,
Mortgage.
The premises covered by said mort
gage consist of:
1st.-All those premises situated at Ka-
palama, Honolulu, more particularly
described in deed from William G.
Achi to said Daniel P. Namauu, dated
January Z, 1891, and recorded in Liber-,
at pages.
3d.-All those premises situated at
Kaohe, S. Koua, Hawaii, more particu-
larly described in Royal Patent COOL, l..
G. Award 7494 to Elekaula, and conveyed
to said mortgagor by said deed of
Lumaawe.
3245-5t
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Big antborttp

December 25, 1892, and January l,
1893, being Christmas and New Years
Days, falling on Sunday; MONDAY,
December 20, 1892, and MONDAY,
January 2, 1898, will be observed as
Public Holidays and all Government
Offices throughout the Kingdom will be
closed on those days.
G. n. WILCOX,
Minister OF the Interior.
3248 1861