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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-03

but after many adventures reached this
country.
His escape was due to the fact that he
went across Siberia instead of going east
At VladvOstock he took ship for Alaska,
but did not feel safe there, as he was too
near the emissaries of his Russian tyrant
master.
Stiffel tried many places to make his
home, but somehow did not fee! safe until
he found his present abode. He did not
want TO live in big cities. because in such
locations there was no more pleasure in
life Tor him as long as his country is in its
present condition. He knows he is per-
fectly safe from arrest IN America, but
the Car has other ways of getting revenge
The most importanI object TO Stffel was
to conceal his identity, and he went to
work in the lumber-mllls in the noun tains,
but there was recognized by man who
had also escaped from Russia The man
was convict, however, and Stiffel would
have nothing 10 do with him.
After his identi was known Stiffel was
surprised 10 iHd that bis telloW-WOrkmen
sympathiZed with him and kindly offered
to kill any one from Russia who molested
him. Nevertheless he concluded to bury
himself from the world, and, buying a
couple of burros, started out.
The spot he selected for his cabin is
a bout II, 600 feet above sea level, and since
he has been living there only five people
have called on him. The house is built of
HSdNy IOSS anu pIdCeu CIOSH up against
RgroupOf enormous granite bow derS. The
roof slopes toward the front door. but that
is done so that the snow will slide off with
out endangeriag the structure.
The interior consists of three rooms, the
middle one containing an enormous fire.
place, woodpie and a chair and table.
The other rooms are, with the exec ption
of a large number of books, as bare of
furniture as it is possible to imagine
human habitation.
1t is here that Stiffel spends his time.
Twice a year he goes to Visalia to mail
letters and get supplies and see that his
money is all right.
In summer he wanders over the noun
taIns after game. but in winter ne is
showed in most of the time. One year
snow covered his house to such depth
that he could not get out, and the only
way he got air was through the chimney.
By looking up he could see walls of snow
on both sides, where the heat from the
fire had melted a passageway. 1t was a
most isolated life, and for fourteen weeks
he only saw the patch of sky over the
chimney and the walls of his rooms. Fortu-
nately be had plenty of fTewood and pro-
But in this place Stiffel seems contented
to live and die in what he calls freedom.
That he belongs to the upper class OF
Russians there can be no doubt, as he is
we'll educated and refined.
1t seems strange for a man to be con-
tented in place like this. and it is hard
to comprehend how he is any better off
than in Siberia.
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UNDER THE SNOW,
Awful Life of a Russian
Refugee.
HE CALLS 1T FREEDOM.
His Uncomfortable Home Is on the
Barren Side of Mount
Whitney.

The wids of California are filed Win
all sorts of strange habitations occupied
by strange people. Some OF the people
have good reasons for living the lives OF
hermits, and some are, most likely. little
insane.
There is one man. though, who is not
insane, yet has about as strange home IN
as lonesome a locality as ever a man oceu-
pied. His name is Peter Stiffel. and he
lives far up toward the peak of Mount
Whitney, where for six months of the
year it could not be reached by another
human being without the aid of wings,
and during the other six months it is a
matter of toll and hardship 20 reach his
abode.
just exactly what Stiffeps story is can
not be ascertained, but he is a Russian
nobleman by birth. who in an unfortunate
moment several years ago said something
that offended the Gar. Having too much
sense to stay at home and stand trial.
knowing that be would have no show to
escape Siberia, he fled at once, taking as
much money with him as he could carry.
He had difficulty in getting out of Russia
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line with the points of the quarters. If
they project beyond this line look out for
curb.
The hind feet are rather more oval in
shape than the front ones, the hoof will be
deeper and the heel narrower Note If
the animal stands firmly on all four feet.
See him at walk, trot, and then, If a
saddle animal, at brisk gallon. and n ote
how he moves. If he ''favors" any foot
your ear will detect it. Examine and COM
pare all the joints of the legs, looking out
for all swellings. hard or soft. If you note
any inequality see if there is similar one
on the other leg. Look or the inner side OF
SPAWN is hard bOny swelling that
may be felt there. BOg-spavin and
blOOd-Spayin are soft BloOd-spavln is
rare, and both it and bog-spavin are incur
able. If there are white marks or cuts on
the animals knees pass him by. He has
been down AMI probably stumbles. EX-
anime the fetlock JOINTS for marks OF in
terfeTing or oyer-reaching.
Look on the inner side of the fOrefeet
for Quarter-crack, which shows as
scanned line from cOrOnet to shoe, or II
may only extend half way. See that the
frog and horn of the hOof look healthy
The frog should yield to pressure. Don't
have anything 10 do with an animal
that ''goes a little lame when be first
comes out of the STALL" The dealer will
tell you be ''comes all right after little,
but he should be all right at the begin
ming. After sharp exercise listen to his
breathing. His TANKS should move regu-
larly and easily. He should not pant,
and his heart should not beat violently
nor irregularly.
If the horse has been foundered the
story will be told in the feet and the mus
Giles of the chest. He will at first move a
little stiffiy forward, ''limbering up" after
travelling n little way. ANY degree Of
founder renders a horse unsOund. ANY
cough or discharge from the nose should
cause horse To be rejected. Always, in
fact, keep away from horse with
discharge from the nose. Look out.
too, for sores on the inside of thighs or on
neck or hips. They are seldom harmless.
After ten years you will not be able TO tell
horses age from the teeth, but must
judge from general condition and appear
ance and get guarantee from the dealer.
lOu should, of course, have the pTivi-
lege of trying the horse. when you can
test bis wind and, if desirable, get yeter-
inaIy's opinion on him. See IL he has any
tricks then (biting, cribbng and kicking
are all tricks constituting unSoundness
and render a horse returnable).
III your horse answers TO all the tests
given above. has a good, hearty appetite
(never buy a light feeder, he won't do
good work. and you are sure you know
enough to take care of him you need not
fear TO select him for companion. He
will be truer than most human beings and,
in all likelihood, will prove better to Won
than you are to him. MISS RUSSELL.
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like ii. Even the babies yell at the for
eigners in some of these towns. The dogs,
who Will not modest a strange native,
recognize a foreigner by his smell anu
rush for him, swapping at his heels. l
carry a good club. and l think that this
protects me TO a certain extent from both
dogs and men. This is one Of the most
rebellious parts of China, and the Chinese
here are far different from those you find
10 America. They are big, brOad-shoulderd
fellows, with stronger features than the
men of South China, whence our coolies
come. They speak a different language
and are more Independent in their actions.
The better classes all over the empire hate
the foreigners, and the millions which the
VicerOy Of HankOw is putting into his
factories and rolling-mills are spent be-
cause ne hopes by them TO make China
entirely independent Of the rest of the
world.
1t was throughout this Yangtse Valley
that the great riots of 1891 began and they
extended from here all over the empire.
They resulted IN the massacre Of hundreds
upon hundreds of native Christians, and
for time all sorts of foreigners feared
for their lives. At Wusuch one IF The
English customs officers and a Methodist
missionary were killed by the mob and
foreign property was burned and looted at
dozen different stations along The river.
To-day an intense dislike TO foreigners
prevails among the literary aud official
classes of the empire.
They look upon US as SayageS and Doors,
and they would if they dared sweep US
from the country to-day. 1t is from them
that the stories come as to the wickedness
of the Europeans. They distribute books
full of all sorts of lies about tile mission
aries. and the chief cause of every riot
comes from such publications. just be-
fore the TieDtsin massacre pamphlet was
Issued charging the foreigners with steal
ing Chinese babies and cutting them up
fer medicine, and the same stories were
printed and shipped over the empire by
the million during the riots of three years
ago. At this time there were published COL
Ored prints, under the title of the Devils
Picture Gallery" These represented in
the vlest of scenes the alleged practices and
institutions of the religion of the foreign
ers. | have secured set of these prints,
and they lie before me as l write. l have
also procured translation of the Chinese
characters which surround them and which
so explain the pictures that the most ig-
nOrant Chinaman can see Just what they
mean. The word for hog and Jesus are
pronounced almost the same in Chinese,
and the Christian religion Is called here the
worship of the hog. Among the pictures
are cuts of hogs, labeled Jesus, hanging 10
crosses. One of the hogs so hung is flied
with arrows, which Chinese soldiers are
shooting into him, and a mandarin is d.
rectlng the attack. The foreigners are
represented In these pictures by goats,
the words or characters representing the
two being practically the same, ana one
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CHINESE RIOTS.
Attempts Made to Drive
Out Foreigners.
IMPELLED BY THE LITERATI.
How Americans Are Abused in the
Interior of the Celestial
Empire.

KIUKIANG. China, April 23.-See the
long-haired barbariaus. Look at the kid
naDers of babies.
There goes pig-goat. blue-eyed devil
These are some of the expressions which
are hurled at me in Chinese in every city
visit. A tall Chinaman in a blue silk
gown and big spectacles spat at me as
walked through the streets here this morn
Ing, and wherever l stop crowd collects
and the remarks which my interpreter
translates for me are by no means elegant
nor polite. At Hankow l had great
trouble In getting a man to 90 about with
me. There was well-edueated China
man. who spoke good English. but he
said II he went the people would call
him "a foreigners dog" and he evil
IDENTIFY did not want to be seen on the
street in my company. 1 confess l don't
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-03
A SNAP SHOT.
Photographic Rather in the Act
of Striking a Man

of Striking a Man.
r. G. Beveridge. well-known local
amateur photographer, has secured snap
shot picture of rattlesnake biting man.
and. so far as known, the picture is the
only one of the kind in existence. 1t is
hardly necessary to state that it was OBJ
tanned by accident.
DR.. G. j. Reynolds. formerly of this city,
has been spending few Gays in the woods
in this vicinity assisting Rattlesnake Pete
Gruber catch snakes for the latter's muse
um, and 30 illustrate the process TO his
friends in Pittsburg he determined TO take
a series of photographs. The box of
twenty-five snakes already captured. to-
gether with the photograph 0utht, was
taken 10 q ledge of rocks near Slveriyvlile
by Dr. Reynolds, Pete and Beverldge.
The snakes were photographed IN differ
ent postuIes, and as a climax IL was de-
cided 10 illustrate how the biggest snake
of he lot was captured.
1t was placed on'the top of huge mass
of rock, and the doctor posed as If he had
lust caught sight of the reptile and was
motioning to Pete. who was climbing up
the face of the rock. In his anxiety TO get
a good pose DR.. Reynolds failed TO notice
that while he was getting into position the
snake had worked its way to he edge of
the rock. When PETE put his hand over
the edge to steady himself the snake, over
five feet long. struck savagely at the NOV
ing finger. lis teeth graZed the ball of the
thumb, cut the skin, but did not draw
blood, and a quantity of venom spread
itself over the thumb, but was washed eff
with the contents of bottle of ammonia
and did not do any damage.
The photographer was so startled by the
snake striking that he eonvulsIveIy
squeezed the bulb connected with the
shutter OF his camera and secured what is
probably the most unique photograph In
the State.-0il CITY Derrick.
Mount WASHINGTON is the hio hast IF +ba
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-03
Goethe'S Idea.
New York Evening Post.


One day in jena an old man sat in
hotel by himself drinking wine.
He occupied as retired corner as
he could find at one Of the tables,
As ne slowly drank from his glass it
could be seen that he was thoughtful.
modest, unassuming in his manners
and. withal, a gentleman Not far
off sat three noisy students, who
were also drinking wine and INDUCING
in much hilariousness of an unpleas.
ant disagreeable sort. At length, as they
dashed OFT glass after glass of the fiery
stuff it was observed by them
that the old man carefully mixed
his wine with waller before he
drank it. This rather offended their sense
OF the respect and honor due to undiluted
wine. So one of the students went over
to the table where the old man SAT so
quietly and said:
Herr, do you know that YOU commit
great sin, the noble gift of God, this wines
TO dilute with water?"
The old man arose, and with quiet en-
phasis replied:
water alone makes man dumb,
AS witness in water the fishes
win wine alone men foolish become,
AS list at the board to their wishes,
And so to neither will be a slave.
But in their mixture find the good L crave.
Having thus spoken he as quietly as be-
fore took his departure The students
suddenly grew still as mice, Tor they now
recognized in the quiet. uno btruSlve old
man the great poet Goethe.
The aVmadillo is the mOuser of South
American samilies.
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EL-ASKRl.
A TRANSLATION FROM THE ARABIC.
From the Academy.

TRANSLATION FROM THE ARABIC.
From the Academy.
Soldier, when beheld you 60,
In conscious aud apparent pride,
Through crowded streets, mid women's woe,
Glory your mistress, death your bride
Soldier, as 1 beheld you pass.
You raised the trumpet tossed your head,
And with wild fervOr, through the brass,
The rally from your lips was sped.
oh! then such rapture shook my blood,
OF pride and anguish, love and fear,
As never maiden understood
Except she held soldier deari
Aud from that hour live bereft
OF all IN life that once was mine;
For by that blast my heart was cleft
But. soldier, both the halves are thinei
GEORGE DOUGLAS.
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ing medallion portrait in profile, carried
out in marble by the late Mr.. Birch. r. A.
Encircling the medallion is the inscription: :
"L Know that NV Redeemer Livetb,"
which air of Handlers was the favorite of
the diva. A Tyre. with date of the sing
er's birth and death. supports the whole.
A large gathering was present at the cere-
mony of unveiling, including Mr. Gold
schmidt. the husband of Jenny Lind,
with his sons. daughter and grandchil-
dren. with many distinguished persons of
the social and musical world.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-03

Recently Unveiled in Westminster
Abbey.
New York Times.
The memorial recently unveiled in the
Poets Corner, in Westminster Abbey. to
the famous singer. Jenny Lind. is strik-
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Her Little Opinion.

my heart is light"
He gayly said,
al thought" she murmured,
TWAS your head"
Washington Star.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-03
ALL IN RHYME.
The Fire of Passion.

Ihey said that the girl was an excellent match,
so knew from the very start
That Ii e'er our combustible natures met
She would kiDdle a fame IN my heart.
boston Budget.
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were for months in danger of their lives
and the man who thinks thas preaching
the gospe!to the heather Chinee is a sine
cure is very much mistaken.
FRANK g. CARPENTER.
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In Chicago.

In the game 'twixt spring and winter
We can notice now. alas
That. no matter what the cards are,
Winter still objects to pass.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Looking Forward.

1 never strike a man who's down
Not that / hAte to give him pain,
But that fear that he perchance
May soon be on his feet again.
-HarDeris Bazaar
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Different Styles.

In poiysyllsbles she wrote,
his sweet-grl-graduate to be;
But when she talks. with pain we note,
She murmurs " rats % necessarily.
Atlanta Constitution,
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PLAYED WITH HIS HEELS.
Colonel Larke, the Crimean Veteran,
Struck Off a Tune on the Organ.

Colonel Julian K. LaIke, the well-kn0wn
journalist and veteran of the Crmean
war, astonished his friends recently By
performing a uniaue and original feat. He
is by birth az Englishman, and served
calamity in the CTimean war. In one of
the battles he was wounded in the spot
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-06-03

Mount Washington is the highest of the
White Mountains-62S5 feel.
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The avmadillo is the mouser of South
American samilies.
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TO JENNY LIND.

Copyright. 1894.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-17

yet in the distribution of patronage 1S5
Populists of this county were given
places
The Commercial club at Lawrence and
the faculty at the State university are
preparing to entertain the members of
the State Editorial association when they
visit Lawrence at the close of the annual
meeting.
Rev. j. D. Botkin. who made the Pop
ulist race for Congress in the Third dis
trict and went down to defeat with the
balance of the ticket, it is said wants to
be chaplain Of the senate. 1t is said that
governor Lewelling has endorsed him.
Judge A w. Benson of Ottawa is
talked Of as one Of the judges likely to
be appointed the court of appeals to
be created by the legislature this winter.
He is not candidate but the lawyers in
his part Of the state are all for him.
A meeting of Missouri river shippers
was held at Leavenworth recently, at
which o. b. Taylor. the Leavenworth
wholesale grocer, was endorsed for rail
road commissioner. Shippers we're pres
ent, it is said, from Kansas City, Kan,
Atchison and Leavenworth.
Frank Montgomery the new Topeka
correspondent of the Kansas City Jour
nal, had occasion to use the W ord peri
cies' in article the other day, and his
establishment was great when it appeared
in the next days paper as "pinocle.' He
Immediately bought typewriter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-17
Will BE A BANQUET.
The Visiting City Omcers win be Royalty
Entertained.

The city council is considering ow
best the representatives Of the cities of
the first class can be entertained when
they meet in Topeka January 3. to con
slider legislative measures affecting the
cities of Kansas.
The committee on entertainment re-
ports that it has made an investigation
and finds that it will cost about $500 to
entertain the visitors there will be 100
OF them. They reported that banquet
at a hotel would cost two dollars apiece
and then the visitors must be taken to
the theater just as they were in Kansas
City, if there is a theater.
The question of raising the money was
discussed and Mayor Harrison suggested
subscription and offered to give S25.
He thought each councilman might raise
q like amount
Councilman Fulton suggested that the
ladies Of the G. A. r would give the
banquet at half the price charged by the
hotels This met the approval Of all the
councilman and the committee viii see
the ladies to make arrang ements with
them to give the banquet ia q. A r
hall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-12-17
UNION PACIFIC TIVE.
A New Card Went Into Effect Yesterday
But With Few Changes.

New Gard Went Into Effect Yesterday
But With Few Changes.
There was a change Of time on the
Union Pacific road yesterday. 1t isn't q
very big change only one passenger
train each way being changed a very
few minutes.
The eastern vestibuled express still
leaves Denver at 8:2J p. m. Topeka at
$3.50 p. N, and reaches Kansas City at
p. N. The Kansas City fast line leaves
Denver at 1890 D. m. as formerly but
now leaves Topeka at CAT a. m, instead
of a. m, and reaches Kansas City at 8
a. m, instead Of $3.50 a. N.
There is not much more change in the
westbOund time. The night express
still leaves Kansas City at $40 p. N,
Topeka at S:55 p. N. and reaches Denver
at 1:40 p. m. The Denver and Pacific
limited will leave Kansas City as for
merly at 9 a. m, but leaves Topeka at
1850 a m. instead Of II a. m, and
reaches Denver at 500 a. ID. instead of
q 40 a. m. as formerly.
There are also some changes in the
time of freight trains.
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certificate of election. In that case the
supreme court held that the act Of 1851
was valid in effect that the legislature
might prescribe the manner of electing
state printer aside from the provision
Of the constitution that the two houses
should meet in joint session.
at may be somewhat difficult to find
reason why the law of 1879 could be de-
clared unconstitutional when the su-
preme court has already held that the
the law Of 1861 was valid.
The provisions Of the law seem to be
plain: That some one must have a ma
jOrity Of all the members elected to each
house and as one house is Republican
and the other opposition they VIII prob
ably not be able to agree"