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Had Sand and Sense.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrst
"You cannot always judge a book by the
cover" said Maj. Tom Speedweil at the Laclede
III any man despises q dude I do. 1 am
prejudiced against any man who uses per-
fumery. wears silk hal, a standup collar or car
ries cane. When / find man doing all those
ridiculous things at one and the same time il ia
all can do to refrain from personal violence. 1
yearn to hit him, just on general principles
Add to these ofenses against the canons of horse
sense buttonhole bouquet, a curled mustache
and lisp, and my fingers fairly Jingle for a
grip OF bis neck, my toes for coup de grace.
Yet saw just that kind Of a biped perform
an act OF heroism that made me think better
Of mankind. l was walking down Madison
street, Chicago, last summer, when there
was suddenly raised that most appalling of
all cries Of terror, Mad dog!' An old lady
and little girl were crossing tho street.
down the center Of which big mastif was
plunging, with bloodshot eyes and foamins
mouth, pursued by a couple Of offcers. He
made straight for the old lady caught her dress
and dragged her down. He then sprang at her
throat, but before he reached it q youn2ster,
tricked out IN the toggery ! abhor, had him by
the neck. The beast ragged like q demon, but
the dude held him fast until the oficer came
mp and put bullet through his head. He then
picked up ha silk tile, brushed it with his elbow
and said, with an idiotic lisp: Every dog in the
thity thould be killed; everybody that keepth
dog in the thity thould be hanged His p6ilos-
ophy was n sound as his nerve. / went homo
and wrote with piece Of chalk across the head
board Of my bed: "A man may dress Ike a cad
and look Ike DID fool and still have sand and
sense 10 give away"
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IpHr BEfoRE HArcHINa.

small that only single spermatozoon can pass
through at one time, and, as quickly a one has
entered, it closes up. Presently the intruding
pollywog is observed to lose its spindle shape
and IL transformed into n nucleus resembling
that OF the egg. likewise surrounded by granules
OF protoplasm. The two nuclei approach each
other and blend into single germ cell With
that joining the life Of the future fish may be
said to begin. The single cell divides itself into
two, the two into four, tho four into eight, and
so on, continually doubling. until very soon
the little shad begins 10 be recognizable. The
first picture represents one inside the egg forty
four hours after the latter was impregnated.
In the Matching jars, where the eggs are kept
continually agitated BY how of fresh water.
from four 10 ten DAYS elapsc before the young
fishes emerge from their inclosing capsules and
begin to swim about The yime required de-
ponds mainly upon the temperature Of the
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..
in his childrsns studies and even mastered the
Greek language that he might aid our Oldest
boy in his study OF it He delighted in society,
and our life Was full Of happiness. Then all ii
once he changed. The things he liked best
became disgusting to him. He reversed the
opera glasses and the big things of his former life
6windlsd into nothing. He began to study the
church. humbled himself and led the life Of
peasant From the writing of fiction he turned
to philosophy aud ethics, and in short his
whole nature became different and he was
another num-"
Then there are two Tolstois?" said l.
"rwoY' replied the countess. There are not
only two; there are . hundred. The count
changes every day. and you can never tell what
he viii be next. He Is earnest and honest In his
beliefs, and he Is almost forced to do what he
thinks to be right. He IL more COM
Portable now in his habits Of life than he was
some wears ago. Then he wanted to give ND
everything TO the poor and have us an live -
the peasants do. He does not believe that one
has any right 70 more than another, and with
him to believe 10 to do. / would not consent TO
this. however. Unjust have my children educated
and I mid that our life must be = civilized ons.
He then refused TO have anything to 10 with his
property or his estates, and for q time be went
On In his way and we In ours. accommodating
ourselves ~ best we could to him. He was a
first irritable. and would ask why I Per
sisted in teaching the children French
and having them govcrnsssss for
English and German. He looked upon our taIk
and our life g artificial nonsense. aad hi ixTi-
tation from this of coarss Affected his whiting
For time the children feared 10 talk among
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ing. We we're sitting about the sanoysr In tne
dining room of ths counts homo ut iasnia
Polyana and we're in the midst of q long chat
about the great Russian novelist The count
himself xas far of n the interior, away from
the railroads. in company with his daughter,
takngcare of the siek and halfstarving pea sants,
and his wife and the smaller children were on
the estate alone. On a long trip from the lower
part of the Volga to Moscow / had stopped
over q train to pay nv respects to the
count, and With DR.. Hubben, the agent
OF the Bed Croes. had been received
most kindly by the countess. We had walked
the peasants in their homes, had eaton supper
around the family table. and now in answer to
my questions the countess was giving me bits OF
story and fact about her husbands intellectual
life The count himself" said she, docs not
Ike 10 talk about his novels or his writings, and
1beg yoa Il you should write to him not to
mention that you have been reading his works.
He Is always enthusiastic while at work, but
when the work Is finished he is dissatisfied with
IL and does not want IL to go to the publishers.
He does not Ike to talk about himself, and IL
any one persists in making his writings the sub
5ect Of the conversation he will often excuse
himself and leave the room"
THE COUNTIES ToLsroI.
Bat before I write further let me give you
fsv words about the countess. She is to my
mind quite - interesting . character "a Toll
ssoi himself. and did she keep a diary imagine
10 would rank In its interesting stories with that
Of yane Welsh, the wife OF that other philo-
sophie genius, Thomas Carlyle. She has for
thirty years been the better half Of Tols.oi's
eres4 soul. and she h today the balance wheel
which, a far as possible, holds him in check
ana which keeps him and the family from the
poverty Of the peasants. A good wife and a
loving mother. she il was that prevented Toll
stoi sailing all he had and giving his property to
ths poor, and she IL Il who today manages the
eseotss, attends TO the education Of the chill
drsa, takes caro- Of al the details Of her hus-
hand's affairs and his house, and at
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steadily at it until he had completed the first
draft, but It was many months before it was
finished and ready for the press"
ToLsror's LITERARY xErHops.

nnlehed ana ready Tor the press.
ToLsroI's LITERARY METHODS.
"Does the count write rapidly?'' I asked.
~ do not think he can be said to produce
very rapidly" was the reply. HE is very care
full ss to the character of his writings and he
believes the world would be much better off il
many OF the writers Of the present day would
burn their works in manuscript. He holds on
to his own works long as possible and he OBJ
lects, as rule, to having them published. He
enjoys his work as he composes but a great
and correction. He revises his writings again
and again, and he never corrects his own manu-
script, but be must have q new copy made for
him on clean paper. He Is not O very legible
writer, as you see from his note books, and he
writes on all sorts of paper. He picks up any
thing that comes to hand when thought strikes
him and writes 1t down upon it. A large
and War and Peace we're written on
the backs OF envelopes, half sheets of note paper
torn from short letters, and some of his best
thoughts have been penned on the backs Of old
pieces Of paper upon which the children have
been drawing pictures and have thrown away
For this reason ii is hard to preserve his manu-
scripts, and such as we have are stored away in.
the museum in Moscow After my husband
has written his manuscript ii is copied for him.
For years copied again and again everything
he wrote and now my daughters do il for him.
can't tell you how many times l copied parts
Of the novel War and Peace for revision and
rerevision, but know that copied the COM
pleted story seven times before it was brought
into the state in which it went to the printers"
here asked as to how the copy was prepared
for Tolstoi for revision, and the countess took
of the sheet, leaving margin Of two inches at
the ends Of the lines.
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Eugene Fields Story About wolcots.
nom the Chscaco Nevs-Record

From the Chicago News-Record.
The Sun Of last Sunday printed an appre.
ciative article upon the subject Of Senator Ed.
ward o. Wolcott's career, his talents and his
idiosyncrasies. Curiously enough, however. i,
neglected to give one incident which fairly Il.
lustrstes, we think, the gentleman fearlessness
1t seems that upon an occasion some years ago
. friend took wolcott for adrive in the suburbs
OF Leadvflle, and Wolcott expressed suspicion
that the horses were perhaps too frisky to be
Trustworthy. Thereupon the friend set about
bantering and badgering Wolcott upon his ex.
cessive timidity. Wolcott bore this badinaee
patiently, till presently they began to descend
one Of those steep, almost PERCEPTIONS inelines
In which Colorado roads abound
s"Will You let me driver asked Wolcott,
Certainly" answered the other
But no sooner had Wolcott got the reins than
he turned to his companion and said: "You
have been shaming me for my timidity. Ny
With that he flung the reins out over the
horses backs and began plying the whip furi-
ously. The frightened horses dashed down the
hill, swinging the buggy around curves and
against boulders In such wise a. to threaten it,
demolition. Wolcott continued to ply the whip
and to shout ct the maddened brutes. Hfs
friend chung, white and trembling, to his seat,
II Is . marvel that both were not killed.
Finally the buggy was overturned, the horses
broke away and woleott and his friend were
left in confused heap, with broken arm, Q
sprainsd ankle and . dozen body cuts and
bruises between EN-.
'sWer, how do you hks IT." aiked wolcott,
gathering himself together and emerging nimbly
from the debris.
The other answered feebly but proudly, ~
hatnt squealed yeti"
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from tine Couectof.
Extraordinary prices were paid ct the sale of
the Comtesse d'Yvon's collections in Paris last
month. piece Of tapestry after Vatican
realized E5,oAo. Two other hangings belong
ing to the same set were sold for c., $40 and
some portieres Of the regency period fetched
ESQ pair. A set Of tapestry Of the regency
period realized $4,000. The price Of Louis
XIV sofa and tWo arm chairs was 81 40 and a
drawing room suite en- petit point realized
El,2oo. Loub XVI ut Of drawing room fur
niture after Boucher was bought by NJ
Chauchard, proprietor Of the Magasins Louvre.
for Es, $50. Louis XIV set Of twenty chairs
and sofas fstched 81 700. A 6re screen Of Gobe-
lin tapestry realised q 80 and Q small tsian-
gular tahls Of Henri Dsux ware commanded
El,0oo, while lnster plasss from Urblno and
Guhoio went a. frUn E2oo 70 Ele0 each.
Madame d'Yvon appeared 70 havs uads al her
plate and jewelry also realised very Nh prices
and 90 did the laces, Il which two nounsn Of
old Venetian point fetched ESQ.,
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STORY OF A sHAD EGO,
What the Microscope Shows OF the secress
nj Nmfrr-

What the Microscope Shows OF the Secrets
of Nature.
CTRANGE THAT THE MYSTERY OF THE
~ source Of life and being should be ooa-
tanned in so small thing a single shad egg!
How does it happen that this little sphere less
than quarter Of an inch in diameter, brings
forth highly elaborate vertebrate animal2
Presumably nobody will ever know. But even
to examine such an object under the microscope
and watch the germ within it develop Is IKE
looking with supernatural eye into the remoter
secrets of nature
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,,c.a oorrs.pondnos Of tn. Evening" STAT

TULA, July :, 1892.
o KNOW ALL WO-
men we must love and
be loved by one This
was the answer in the
words Of a French writer
which my husband gave
in reply to the question
as to how he could de-
scribe just how a woman
would think, actand feel
under any and all cir
cumstances.
1t was the Countess
Tolstoi who WAS soeak-
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HELD A GRUDGE SIXTY YEARS.
Why the Commodore and the Admiral
Would Not Be Introduced.

Why the Commodore and the Admiral
Would Not BE Introduced.
From the New York Recorder
funny social row among navy people wa,
called up not long ago in 'tho navy yard Office
in New York, when two silver-haired and dis
tinguished-looking gentlemen came in. having
business to transact with the navy cashier in
charge. There had been not very long before
a change OF officers in control of this mpor tant
financial branch OF the service. and the new pay
officer happened not to be familiar with the pc
cuhar relations, or, more properly, absence OF
relations, between these venerable men. They
were both retired naval officers, one an ad.
miral and the other a commodore. who had
been SO long inactive that no one knew any.
thing of them but the paymaster who signs
their checks or gives them their money at the
end Of each month.
Neither recognized the other, and each sat in
the paymaster's private Office enveloped in
dignity Of that magnificent kind SO often found
IN these ancient commanders OF men aioat. 1t
seemed to take the clerk unnecessarily long to
ill out the checks, and the cashier who is an
exceedingly sociable man. became nervous
over the indifference manifested toward one
another by the old officers. He thought it must
be that they did not know each other-sinsular
as such thing would be, for all navy fellows
know all other navy fellows after they have
Deen III the service two or more years. So he
turned TO them with great affability and said:
Admiral, you know Commodore So-and-So.
don you2 Commodore, this is Admiral So
and-So. BE introduced, gentlemen"
The commodore arose stif1y. and to the pay
officer, In gruff voice, which Edwin Forrest
would haze envied him:
I'm thank you, sir, for nv check have no
desire to extend my acquaintance
Then the admiral arose, stretched himself his
full six feet, with q stately swagger, and said to
the paymaster:
IN thank Won. sir to observe that came first.
and further, I'll thank you, sir, TO give me that
check without wasting any more of nv time,
Here, by -, I've been here. by -, twenty
minutes or half an hour for little service that
calls, by-for about two minutes work. You
hear that, sir!''
Neither had been waiting longer than Eve
minutes; but no doubt it seemed twenty or
thirty to the irritable mariner. owing to the
disagreeabIe situation. Each received his
check and bowed his thanks with the formality
Of a reigning prince, and each took his DEPART
ure in different direction in the long corridor
The polite paymaster was dumfounded. He
had never in all his years of cruisi1g-and he ia
now a paw INSPECTOR. which in the nav meons
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How the Engagement Was Broken.

How the Engagement Was Broken.
From the Detroit Free Press.
Where are my suspenders, maw?" shrieked
a Jefferson avenue belle to her mother, across
the upstairs hall.
"iour father borrowed them while meuded
his" was the answer
II can't find my four-in-haad tie"
"Your brother To wore IL last nieht-you
will find it in his room"
.'But, NAV, where's my sin yachting shirt2"
"Algy wore il to the regatta"
There was brief silence. Then the voice
wailed across tho hall again:
NAV, can't ind my riding trou-s-e-r-s."
Charles has them on, - was the response.
linen ured-iooking young man who had
been waiting unannounced Ia the hsll below
rose up and softly stole away.
''She might want my boots next" he sid
YEARLY, and no one knows Why that engage
ment Il of.
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He likes small sheets of paper arranged like
this, said she, "and copy only on one side
OF the page. He corrects on the margin and
sometimes on the other side Of the page He
always uses pen in his writing. and never has
any doubt a. to the work until it is completed
when, from being enthusiastic, he becomes dis
couraged and dissatisfied. One of the greatest
regrets o. his life today is that he has wasted.
as he calls il. much of his time in writing
novels, and he refers to his novels as that nom
sense"
THE KRRUTzER SONATA.
'Does he ever speak of the Kreutzer Sonata
and is he, as has been reported, writing sequel
to it?''
NO." replied Count Tolstoi's wife. she has
no intention of writing anything more along
those lines. He said to me. speaking Of the
'kreutzer Sonata not long ago. Please don't
mention that disgusting story again; am sick
OF hearing about it, / don't think he will write
another novel He is devoting himself to phil
osophical essays upon his peculiar ideas Of what
society and life should be, and he regards fic-
ton as nonsense and folly. He is now working
on large treatise against war and in favor of
Matchmaking society and government He
thinks the world is all wrong and he is doing
what he can to help set it right. As for myself.
] think 1t Is great mistake, and 1 tell him 30.
His forte. it seems to me, is in novel writing
and he ought to follow it, have urged him to
continue In fiction and to put forth his ideas
u he would advocate them, in a great novel
that would stir mems souls and make them
think AZ he does. II he would do this he could
accomplish more for his cause than by his
philosophical essays. He thinks. however, diff
ferently, and we must be content.
THE TWO roLsroIs.
'In order to understand my husband and his
works, the Countess Tolstoi went on, .you
must not look upon him as he Is today His
life 10 made up Of different periods and he is q
different man now than he has been in the past
Until about ten or eleven years ago he had
what might be called almost ideal literary
life, during which his best novels were written,
when both himself and his family were pros
porous and happy, and when his life was full
Of enjoyment, leisure and hard work During
this time he was interested in everything that
any practical man OF the world is interested in
He devoted himself to his family, to the
management Of his estates and found
plenty Of time for writing. He slept well and
had leisure for everything. He was interested
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COUNTESS T0LST0I
A Chat With the Wife of the Great
Novelist About Her Husband.
HIS LITERARY METHODS

Toistoi's Wonderful knowledge OF Women
and How He Acquired 1.-THE Story of
Anna Karsnina-Tsisfoi'sM anuscripts and
Peep Into His Note Books.
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FonrY-FoCR HOURS AFTER IMPREeNArIoN.
When, In the process of propagating shad
artifcially. quantity of eggs are taken from
living female some "milt" from a male fish is
poured upon them. This renders them fertile
but just how il very wonderful indeed. What
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transparent membrane. perforated by single
minute opposing. In the center of the little
globe is tho germ nucleus OF the fish that is to
be. surrounded by protoplasm.
The ''milt'' of the male shad, seen under the
microscope. is full of spindle-shaped pollywogs,
called "sperrnatozoa." which are exceedingly
lively and active. 1t is only necessary that one
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invaluable nerve toaic, oe1t9atfu! beseraea. ~
one o. ne bese reztorefa VIXEN Ne eneFSes ~
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ing. he ia evidently getting to be quite fish,
On the seventeenth day after Matching, as
shown in the last drawing of all, he il fully
formed young shad-rather goggle-eyed, but
with fair knowledge of the world and pretty
good notion as to how to look out for number
one.
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0ss-.why don't ycu rsiss . nussaeher'
Hs-I don'tkno6. WY dony your Boo
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From tAs Jswslae cifrulR.
sn mepy .ssp q gusst ~ serene
quoted Fiedgelsy - b and 0vsndolin McNab
ssrollsd along IL beach.
'T Win you were . diysr, i" eoyly responded
the charming young maid.
"whyy'
'sYoa could got ma ons Of thsn"
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is there almost visibly at work. Let us see how
much Of this operation the microscope will
reveal.
To begin with. shad egg i, simply spherical
capsule filled with albuminous matter The
capsule is composed Of a very thin and
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water. The second represents a shad that
just ready TO ''chip the SHE'LL" as il were. ii
carries yolk sack full of nourishing food
which will remain attached to him for som
days after he is Matched until he is able to tax
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makes the germ inside the small spherical enve-
lope transform itself INTO creature of compli-
Gated structure, developing within few hours
conspicuous eyes, q backbone, a brain. heart,
intestines, &C.? The first cause back of creation
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care of himself
The same shad. Immediately after Matching.
is shown in the third cut II will be seen that
he looks rather incomplete as vet.
However, in the fourth picture. which shows
him as he appears on the third day after hatch
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that he considered him his MASTER"
lis he . Bible reader?" asked
yes" was the reply. HE knows every line
Of the gospels by heart, and he reads the Bible
very often. He believe, in Christ and tries to
follow his teachings e. he understands them"
THE EDUCATION OF THE RUSSIAN PEASANTS.
1t is impossible for any one who has not been
in Russia to appreciate the ignorance Of the
Russian peasants. With intellects naturally
strong, they have never been reused to ambi-
ton or study, and 10 great majority Of them can
not read nor writes Few newspapers are taken
by them. and the family that has any reading
matter in its house is the great exception.
Some years ago Tolst0i orRanized q cheap
library, connected with o colporteur scheme
which should disseminate the best reading
among the peasants at the lowest possible cost
A great many books were published at from one
cent TO three cents volume, and these were
good stories, religious tracts, sound essays, and
they included the best thoughts Of the best
men inliterature. They were especially adapted
to the peasant end were doing great good, Thev
were selling at the rate Of from four to ave
millions year, and their sale was rapidly gain
ing up to abort time ago, when, as Countess
Tolstoi tells me. Tie government stopped their
circulation. She does not think the govern
ment Is anxious 10 educate the psasants, and she
says that the peasants' school whieh had been
established on the estate snd which was taught
by her daughter has been closed by tho order Of
the police.
VISIT TO ONE OF IoasrOsS VILLAGES.
At the invitation u the countess We accom-
paniedher on walk to one Of her villages. lille
within short distance of the house and consists
Of two long rows Of matched one-story houses,
the most Of which are made Of logs, though one o.
two Of the new ones are OF brick. We entered
some Of the houses, and saw that the peasants
almost workhiped The countess. Some Of the
young girls among than caught hsr BY The hand
and walked along with her, and one ysung wo-
man lsansd out Of The window Of hsr hat and
kissed her. 'sThat woman" ays Madame Tolr
stol, '.is great fFisuA Of nink 6As vs. Dbl