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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-24
CHRISTMAS FASHIONS FOR MEN.
Our Own London Correspondent Tells what
Will Be Worn by Gentlemen who Lead
the Styles for the Coming Winter.

rolling; its band is worn a little wider
and it may be a dress band" Of cloth:
or an afternoon band of corded silk
with tendency toward the silk
The ever-fasbionable derby comes
this year in two distinct styles. There
is the low derby and the high derby.
and quite tale hangs to the wearing
of the same.
Early last season the London hat
ters held a consultation and models
were invited to appear before them.
IN order to test the derby styles for
the coming fall. A popular vote was
taken among the hatters with this re-
SUIT Ihat short man looked better
IN a low derby and a tall man was
more suitably fitted out with q high
derby. This is exactly the reverse Of
the rule of the previous winters. but
is.
Londoners are generally a little late
buying their winter wardrobe: they
are so conservative and so afraid to
spend their money! But Christmas
winter.
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IN DARK RUSSIA

It IS nov certain that it was Toll
stoi's influence that persuaded the Gar
to issue his famous prOnunciamento of
peace For years the Car and his
famous subject were kept apart. Polit-
zeal enemies and prejudice kept them
from meeting on the ground upon
which they felt the most intensely
the Russian peasant.
Tolstoi's political friends said, "Send
him down the path where his father
lies" intending that Tolstoi should go
on writing in favor of the peasant and
that the peasant should go on plotting
against the Car.
But TOlstofs 'Tsar Feodor," his
wonderful play produced last year at
St Petersburg, had a mighty effect
upon the Car, who read it many times.
And there was d. visit from the Count
esS TOlStOi, who went quietly to the
Court of Russia The result was a
great deal of correspondence and the
pronunciamentO.
In no country upon which Christ
mas falls is there the utter, dense
darkness of human suffering that is
to be found in Russia. The Car knew
it when he sent out his proclamation,
and the more highly educated of the
Russians knew that it was more for a
moral effect at home than for any prob
able effect upon the world that His
Majesty wrote the document He
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-24
CHRISTMAS FEAST
OF OLD WORLD RUL Frs,

The Gear of Russia will dine on
Christmas Day at 6 o'clock At that
hour there viii stand upon the Rus
sian royal table a whole roasted pig.
kneehng with a sprfg of green in his
mouth. He will be stuffed with boiled
buckwheat or kasche, which viii be
mixed with the chopped liver, heart
ana other edible adjuncts Of the ami
NAL
The royal pig is specially raised
and killed for Christmas Day. For
years the royal cattleman has raised
one strain of pig from which the prize
pig is selected every year for the rulers
Christmas dinner. The animal never
weighs more than eight pounds and is
In color a very dark brown like a Jer-
sey pig.
Out of regard for the Cars En-
glish wife there Is English roast beef.
but the other dishes are essentially
Russian. There is the pasca, which is
mixture of cheese, cream butter.
sugar and raisins, and there is tfe
kouI1sche, which is a raisin cake. And
then there are the roasted eggs which
are on every Russian table. The Gar
drinks a great deal of Koumyss Of
which he is very fond. and all the fine
wines of the kingdom. He dimes long
and literally, and the Russians con
slider him a very good eater and, in
deed, he should be, for he descended
from a very long line Of gentlemen
THE KAISER'S DINNER
The German Emperor IS a marvel
Gus dinner giver. This ruler under
stands the art of eating with all Ma
tons and his Christmas dinners are
like his every day life-a grand inter
national mixture.
The Emperor has a Christmas din
ner of all Nations, consisting of, among
other things, roast beef and turkey
He also has sour kraut, sausages and
for a great central dish a goose stuffed
with chestnuts. The dessert consists
of cheese cake, baked apples and
CIR AZ aaH HHres
Christmas dinner table which is spread
at 2 O'Clock.
FRANZ JOSEF"S FEAST.
Franz Josef, though only a few
miles from his German cousins eats
decidedly different food Vieunese
cooking is more delicate than German.
or is so considered. The goose IS roast
ed brown and is served with brown
potatoes. And then there is a very
nice compete of pears and rice. Very
small round sausages, nudes and coffee
bread are served as an entree and the
dessert consists of a marvellous pud-
ding in which there are nuts OF ali
kinds served with hard sauce The
late Empress had a great many private
dishes which are now a part OF the
Austrian cookery. She brought them
from Paris, where her sister, the Ouch
ess d A lencon, was a noted eQicure-
HUMBERT'S RELIGIOUS SPREAD
The King and Queen Of Italy go to
church on Christmas morning as regu-
larly as they dine Christmas night
Being the strictest of Roman Catho-
lies their Christmas Day is spent in
worship at a long mass. The great
feast day in Italy is observed at 8
o'clock at night with big Christmas
dinner. Here too, our National bird
has travelled, and King I1umbert win
eat a marvellous turkey stuffed with
chestnuts, with eels as a side dish
He will have maccaroni, scouOps and
tarts Of honey and almonds
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can understand best the peasant if he
lives as he does; so he makes his own
boots and puts together his own blue
blouse which he wears when working
in the field.
At first, like all reformers, he car
nothing and do nothing except live as
a peasant. Soon, through the influence
of the Countess, he saw that he could
best bring about the good of Russia
by devoting himself less to hard work
and more to literature. Consequently
he stopped work half of each day and
wrote series of essays which en-
gagged the entire world and caught the
attention of his master, the Gar.
Christmas light is certainly break
ing over darkest Russia, and the young
Gear may be the man who in history
will have earned the credit of breaking
up Nihilism in Russia, through the sim
plest of measures
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The first Yankee trader has reach
ed the Sulus. He went via the Philip
pines where he found a great many
ahead of him; but, hearing that there
was no American trader in the Sulu
Islands, he took a steamer and arrived
at the largest of that beautiful little
group two weeks ago.
His cargo consisted of bright col
ored blankets, beads, looking glasses
and Yankee notions OF all sorts. Get
ting a long cart and a lean, but willing
horse he started through the islands
stopping at each of the villages en-
route He did a thriving business.
specially in looking glasses, for they
were unknown to the islanders and sold
On sight. It was truly beautiful to be-
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wished the peasants to feel that it was
for the unfolding of her dignity among
nations that Russia kept a standing
army, not for the subjugation of the
peasant and the Nihilist.
THE POET AND THE CZAR.
The correspondence that passed be-
tween TOlstOi- and the Gzar was re-
markable. Here is a plain extract from
one of the letters written by the au-
thor to his ruler. The Gar had writ
ten that he feared disarmament lest
the people should over-rule the ruler
and the peace of the nation should he
threatened. TOlstoi wrote back:
What you say of the danger that
threatens US is a delusion. All the
States say that they want peace, and
all are armed against one another All
men are brothers and it matters not
at all whether one belong to one State
or another. Those threats of other
States that you write do not brighten
US, and are of no Importance to u.s.
1.-The law which is given to US by
God prohibits not only murder, but
any sort of violence. We cannot be a
party to your preparations of murder
We cannot give money for that purpose
and cannot enter into the organiza-
tons that you have formed. In them
the reason and the conscience of men
are perverted They become an instru-
ment of violence, ready to obey any
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hold the girlish delight with which the
Sulu bellies seized the looking-glass
With Yankee thrift, on his Jour-
ney, he picked up curiosities and now
he has as fine collection of bric-a-
brac and pottery as you would care
to see. Sold at auction in this citv
his collection would bring thousands of
dollars. There is every kind of So
called Japanese work, for the indus
triOus Sulus excel in finger craft, such
as enamel and lacquer and inIaid
work.
But he proposes to do no auction
work. He has contracted with a very
large firm in New York to receive his
shipments and he will send over Sulu
Island pottery at the rate of a cargo
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eyil-minded person who wishes to
WELD that instrument
This the Car pondered long and
earnestly.
The immediate result was that he
made certain very advantageous rules
for the peasant Previously he had
abolshed the use of the knOut, by
which 5000 peasants have annually
persisted in Russia. Now he decreed
that the land owners should observe
certain rights of the peasant, such
as the proper drainage of land and the
privilege of living in dwellings long
occupied by his ancestors.
Once he wrote to Tolstoi and asked
him what he called the new religion
which he had found; and Tolstoi wrote
back the single word, christianity"
Subsequently in a letter he thus de-
scribed his own conversion:
CONVERSION OF TOLSTOI
It's all SO 1felike; 1 might have
experienced it yesterday: A beauti-
full spring morning, Gods birds singing
and His insects humming in the grass.
My horse, tired of the great burden
which I. brutelike, imposed upon his
back, stood still under the wooden
image of Christ at the cross-road one
sees from yonder windows. I was so
ture that INDUCED the beast, allow
ing the reins to rest upon his neck
while he rummaged for young grass
and leaves By and by a group of mou-
jik pilgrims intruded upon my resting
place, and without knowing what I was
doing I listened to their prayers. It
was the most wholesome medicine ever
to a doubling soul. The
and the ignorance of the
moujik, the confding moujik, the ever
hopeful mOujik, touched my heart. I
came from under that cross a new
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every two weeks, which is as often as
the trading vessels stop at the islands
/ This trader is a New Highlander
as you may suppose. He is thrifty and
will doubtless come home with the dis
ttnction of having been the first man
to make a living in the Sulus.
The islands have a population Of
$4,000 and the area is $50 square miles.
They are fertile with a number of
pretty mountain chains running
through them.
Other traders will soon follow and
we shall soon have an entirely new line
of bric-a-brac from the Colonies Tbe
Dutch originally traded in this wav
with the Indians, purchasing valuable
territory for fire water"
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man. When I led my beast OF burden
GODS creature like myself-aWay,
I knew that the Kingdom of God was
within US, and that the literal inter
probation of the sermon on the mount
shouId pc the GROWING rule of a Chris
tian's life"
This is the more remarkable COM
ing from a man who had always been
a follower of religion, and the Gar
IS supposed, after reading it, to have
had the same experience.
Inc russian peasant has heard of
the pronunciamento of the Car, and
to-day Car Nicholas II, is stronger
in the affections of the people than
any Gar who has ever ruled the Rus
slams. Peasants daily crowd around
the country home of Tolstoi and ask
him If 1T is true that their ruler is
going to abolish Siberia and give up
the great soldiery which in every way
Expresses the peasant. To all of this
Tolsto1 replies that he is.
NO two men could be at present
IN greater sympathy with each other
than Tolstoi and the Gar. The rumor
was circulated a few months ago that
Tolstoi was summoned by the holy
synod OF Russia, to trial for hetero-
doXy, but this was found to be mis-
rake. 1t was a cousin of Tolstoi and
not the Count himself. While the I'M
certainty lasted Tolstoi only said Gear
ing"
"ONLY TWENTY-FIVE"
4O4SlOl was porn, according to the
almanac, 20 years ago last September
But according to his own words he
was born in 1873, just twenty-five years
ago, on the occasion of his conversion
1t was then that he retired to the sim
pie country place which had long be-
longed to the Tolstoi family and began
to live the life of a peasant. He took
his family with him.
Count Tolstoi's family at pres emit
consists of the Countess and two
daughters Tatiana and Marie. Tolstoi
was married in 1862 to q Jewess, the
daughter of a Moscow physician, NJ
Behr. The Countess was a girl of only
IS, desperately in love with To1stoi. In
the thirty-six years since then she has
borne him thirteen children, nine of
whom are now living; the youngest is
mere child. The Countess has been
most Industrious all her life and has
fostered the property of the Count to
such a good purpose that though he
accepts no rents and will take nothing
for his writings. he is g. very rich man
or, rather, his family is rich.
Ten years ago he called his family
and servants together one evening and
vide his entire property among the
poor. His wife swooned. What" she
exclaimed, give away everything?"
Next day the Count recOnsidered
his decision to the extent of dividing
his property among his wife and chill
dren, 50 that he is now a mere pauper,
depending upon the bounty of the
Countess, who is, however, a very
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THE YEAR 1899.

The prophets who look into the
stars and tell you what is coming are
predicting a great European war for
1899. This has been forecast by each,
individually, since the dawn of the first
sign of '99. The war clouds rise in the
East of Europe, but eliminate in the
West, descending in fury upon south
western Europe. This might mean
France and it might mean Spain.
England, all say, will whet her bat
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tie sword, and trail her flag In blood,
but, as they prophesy, it will be the
blood of victory-She need not worry
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generous giver
The home where he lives is the
place where he was born--H asnaya :.
Polyane, which has been In the 4OIsto'
family for a century.
Early in the century Yasnaya Poly
ane, or Clearfield, to translate its
name, was one of the greatest estates
of Russia, and the family mansion Of
that period had few rivals anywhere
in the Empire, but to-day the place
reminds one very much of the neglect
ed country homes OF our own south
But two side wings remain OF the OLD
house, the main part having been moVeo
away several years ago in payment OF
a debt which the Count had contracted
The farm is managed by the countess
or her baiIiff, and it affords the fanny
a very pleasant living IN su!IllI L.5 an
Some revenue in winter. 1t is situated
on the railway to Sebastopol' apouG
ia miles due south of Moscow, and
one can see the two white remnants
of the old mansion from the tram
HIS LIFE.
Tolstoi's views might be fntoler-
ab1a to his friends were it not that he
is a cultured man. He is an artistic
GRAFT. Colonel Tolstoi was born in 1873
on the estate where he now lives in
Yasnaya POlyane. His famlly OeIons-
ed to the Russian nobility.
Tolstoi received an excellent educa-
+ion at the University of Moscow, and,
like his father, who had been a CoIoneI
In the army, he became a sooner some
wears of his life he spent IN the eau
cases hut when the CrimeaR. War
broke broke out he asked to be transferred
70 fhe Danube. In the campaign Of
1854 he was on. the staff of Gortsche-
koff at the storming OF the Seoast0poi-
ITa ocouitted himself with such gallan-
try that he was placed in command Of
a division. After the war he became
attached to the imperial court OF st.
Petersburg.
RATIONAL REFORM.
He accidentally saw the misery Of
the Russian peasant and set to work
70 remedy it. His WIFE to a certain ex-
tent. sympathizes with him, although
she does not go quite to his extreme OF
simple life. The Tolstoi family really
live in simple comfort and dine waited
Iipon by servants, not served by the
hands of the Countess as many sup
pose The Count himself dresses in the
toughest clothes, for he feels that he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-22
WHAT is GOING ON TO-DAY.

washington's Birthday celebrations
Colonial Club dinner. Sherman Square. p. m
New-York Southern Society dinner. Hotel savoy
p.
Carteret Gun Club piseon-shootins tournament
Garden City.
Dog Show Madison Square Garden
Merchants and Manufacturers Board OF iraue
dinner, Waldorf-Astora, Z p. M
Parade and reception OF 9Th Regiment armory'
p. m. ,
Annual meeting Of Sons Of the American Revou-
ton, Windsor Hotel. D. m
Hebrew sheltering Guardian Society reception
to p. m $1,000,
Vegetarian Society monthly meeting. No W Filth
ave, p. m.
Seawanhaka- Corinthian Yacht Club, NO ~ East
Twenty-second-st $50 p. m.
Prohibition conference and dinner. Grano CEN
trail Palace afternoon and evening.
Linnaan Society. Museum OF Natural History.
p.
Baptist Boys Brigade reception and review 9Th
Regiment Armory. p. m
Exercises Of children Of Baron de Hirsch English
schools East Broadway and Je1erson-st, IL a. m
City History Clubs annual entertainment. Thala
Theatre. 2:30 p. m.
Fraterna Benevolent Association masquerade ball.
Grand Central Palace
Sons OF the Revolution annual dinner. belmont
CO.'S p m.
Jewish Alliance entertainment Temple Emanu-
FL evening
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-22
WHITE PLAINS.

Court white Plains No s4s Foresters Of America,
rave q successful entertainment and reception IN
A. Johns Hall last night. The four-act comedy
Tho Diplomat" was presented by T. Seymour
Strattou and Miss Ina Cloughan OF New-York City.
assisted by the following amateurs OF this village:
Miss Mary Brennan Miss Mamie Gaynor Miss
Emma Mccarthy. Miss Ella Sullivan. Miss Bina
Acton, Miss George Prior and Miss Rena Stark
weather and E. F. Fitzgerald Barry Adams, VIII
Following the play there was reception and dance.
In the Surrogates Court. Kate Daley. OF Mount
Vernon has been appointed guardian of Charlotte
A. c. Gand a minor. Letters OF administration
have been issued to George e Stormes In the estate
OF Amelia Stormes, OF Greenburg. The will of
James Harrison, Of Mount Vernon. who died on jan
uary 49, 1898 mas been admitted to probate. William
Bennett Is executor 49,
All the public Offices In the county buildings will
be closed to-day in observance OF Washington $
Birthday. The Board Of Supervisors, however. VIII
hold its usual session In the morning.
In the Board Of Supervisors yesterday resolution
was introduced directing the County Treasurer 10
issue bonds TO the amount OF S13530 go redeemable
at the rate OF $4,000 year after 1900 the proceeds
OF Warburton-ave. north from Yonkers. in the town
OF Greenburg The law under which the extension
was laid out directs that the building OF the neces-
sary bridges be made county charge. BY request,
the resolution was laid until this morning. The
Board adopted a resolution directing the County
Treasurer TO pay for extra watchmen "a the county
jail during the rebuilding Of the structure sum
not to exceed $50 month.
In the Supreme Court, Justice Martin ]. Keogh
has appointed William H Scrugham referee in the
suit OF Clarence A Pearsail against the Board Of
Educ alton of Yonkers.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-22
TARRYTOWN.

The meeting OF the Republican Town Committee
10 set dates for the primaries In Greenburg Town
ship has been postponed until Saturday next.
Ex-President James Bird and James Parr have
formed contracting and building nrm TO be known
Bird & Parr.
The regular meeting Of the Board OF Trustees will
not DC neld this evening but will probably be held
Thursday evening Instead The meeting is
awaited with considerable interest owing 10 the re-
ports that the trustees intend rent the Terry and
Hackley places 10 the highest bidders
The members Of Jackson Engine Company Will
give reception for their friends this evening
John n. Felter, AN old resident OF this village and
veteran or the Civil War died at his home No
90 West Maiil-st. on Sunday. He was the son OF
Jonn ana Amanda Felter. and born In larry
town nfty years ago When the Civil War
proke out he enlisted In Company n. 32d Regiment
1855 ne returned TO Tarrytown and a few months
afterward re-enlisted IN the 7th New-York Heavy
Artillery. With which he served until the close OF
the war he Is survived by his mother. two sons
ana a married daughter His funeral will be held
William r. Compton. pastor OF the Asbury Method
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MOUNT VERNON.

The HIN winds and continued rainlan nase "a
much damage TO property along the Hutchinson aA'
Taronx rivers Both streams are swollen lar oe'
shstr ernbankments and have filed the ceiais ane
An sons instances the lower floors OF heisnpoi'"s
houses The storage building Of the Union Nai',os
Cornnsnv in South Ffth-ave., has been wreekeo Ny
tha End and much damage has been caused W As t
smslIsr craft IN the harbor by the extremely MS"
tides. ~ ,.o., builder died
George " Rowland well known punoeii, o ors
on Sunday at his home. No. 2oS west lnhIoai nas
Mr. Rowland was fifty years OLD sno ie "a Ella
widow and two children The funeral VIII DC n .ba
al his home tonight, the Rev i; T.. SINFUL Vi '
Nisthodist Episcopal Church officiating. -.
A COMMITTEES of the Board of tSducatlon Coho1st
ting Of Lieutenant Henry E. Rhoades. CHAIRMAN, aiu
trustees A Noel Brakeman Jesse Lantz ana 't LIZ
AZ Anderson gave public hearing yesterday aLsea
noon in the High School Building TO listen 10 stae
ments regarding the graduates OF the hiSn oCnou'
class of 1896 who have not yet received their olpo
maS hn,, who received Regents certificates Instead
This was because the majority Of the members OF
the Board has held that they did not complete the
ntire three years course prescribed among moss
who appeared on behalf Of the pupils were mrs Ed
ward Cav Mrs Joseph S. Woods Mrs Charies n
Stecker John e Bryant George II. Lowell oscar
MYERS and others Some Of the speeches were Dit
fer and extremely sarcastic. but the members list
ened to them complacently until Mr. Myers assaiied
the Board when President Brakeman sprang TO ms
feet and contradicted the formers statements An
other outbreak was made when Mrs. Joseph s.
was vigorously applauded by the other women
When the hearing closed II was announced tina. the
committee would make known its decision 10 the
Board OF Education rr