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leve that God has ordered everything for

OF approval on tho Lords Prayer, recon-
| mends 1t for use relating. as an example 10
be followed, tho way he recites the Lords
Prayer. and the mental comments and
reservations he applies to each part OF
1T as he prays by himself
In listening to the reading Of those letters
| the thing that strikes one most forcibly
| is the monumental. overpowering pride
Of the writer
| Another thing that strikes one in Tolstoy'
argumentative letters is not only his total
intolerance OF the opinion Of his adver-
saries, but also his obs tinate refusal to get
| acquainted with the standpoint of people
| who oppose him.
Father PETROL, priest OF st. Petersburg.
very much thought Of here on account Of
his broad intellect and earnestness, a man
very popular in consequence of his marked
oratorical talent. went to see Count Tostoy
lately-just as SO many other people do
who are interested in Tolstoy's teachings
| Count Tolstoy received the young priest
| very amiably-Father Petrol is hardly
40 years old-entered into conversation with
him and was so mated by him that
he detained him hour after hour, never
ceasing to question him and to argue with
him; finally. when the visitor had 10 leave.
| Tolstoy made him promise faithfully to
return again soon and to pay him longer
visit: When the priest finally left Tolstoy
was full ofenthusiasm about him and praised
him highly to the Countess and friends
| staying at Yassnaya Poliana at that time
declaring that he. To!stoy, had learned
lot from Petrofmany things new and
important that he had never known before.
and that the more he thought of their
mind that he had to ask Petrol about whea
| the other returned to pay him visit
However whether any one suggested il
| or 1t was an afterthought Of the great man
| himself, in day or two Tolstoy was seized
with the suspicion that the priest Petrol
| the Holy Synod on a special mission to
| bring him back into the fold of the Or
| thodoA Church. a suspicion which is de-
| clared preposterous by all who know Petrol
| here, friends and foes OF Tolstoy alike
| Still, this suspicion taking firm hold of Tol-
stoy, he obstinately refused to see Petrol
| when the priest came again according
| to promise and sent out the Countess to
| him with excuses, a very hard task indeed
she found seeing that Petrol had come in
accordance with a promise extracted from
him by the Count himself.
The discontented people in Russia are per-
petually making use of Tolstoys name
to vent their spite or to forward their own
aims. Thus at the very height Of popular
Jewish riots st Kishineff the Norosh, which
is the main organ Of the ,S,ws in st. Peters
burg. and other pro-Jewish papers, pub
lished the news that Count Tolstoy had con-
tributed 5000 roubles to the fund that was
being collected for the benefit of the pillaged
Jews The sister OF Countess To!stoy.
who had just come back from TIE Tolstoy
| estates, assured all most emphatically that
Count Tolstoy has not given anything
to the fund for the Jews, relnarking besides
shnt . hal 10 ,0h tr ,fl
ways of extending help TO people; if he did
he would find himself pauEer pretty
soon. so many are the begging letters adj
dressed to him.
The other day Telstoy's second sen, also
| called Count Leo Tolstoy. publicly denied
the fact in the following letter he addressed
TO the Norosf:
THE papers have announced that my
father L. y, Tolstoy has donated l5CcO
roubles for the benefit Of the kisf neff
ton Of this false news. Not to deny it
would be 10 expose himself 70 comnenca-
ton for thing he has not done, whc on
the other hand were he to deny it. having
made that donation. the denial must be
taken. to mean disapproval Of any donations
Father is very much disturbed end erieved
at the crime committed at Kishirefi."
see very often people wh" are and
snd Msie ali Ye1 II. i"ms now ws and o hSn '%s
across people who are in the habit e stay
ing with the Count at Yassnaya poiana
or else where. and all are quite ,siivc in
their declarations that Count ToiHtoY is
in charity-save when money for ,ha,
purpose is entrusted 10 his care by adj
inirers from abroad. Such WAS the case
at the time Of the famine in the Nolga gov
ernmenfs ten years ago When | was in
Russia in 1894 and visited my own homa
in In co o1,a n n n. ~ ~
Count 1olstoy" eStat" l., situated. ! heard
on all sides comments on the good work
Tolstoy had done the year before. organizing
soup Kitchens with tho money contribu I'd
mostly landed proprie'ors lik, ro!stoy
were doing III" same work on hrhaN
Of the starving peasants, ard ding it AT
their own expense. never expecting and
never receiving any praise or recogni-
ton for il.
Even in cases when Count Tols,oy Is
moved TO generosity Ii- impulses ar"
che ck ~ Inv his level -headso =, practical wife.
who is far The batter ma ager vi tho
iwo and herself conducts he puhlicGt io,,
Of all her hussbards pr,93duI,'io.ns. deriving
immense profit. from IN" business. How
great those returns ar" may b" iGdg II
from he fac' that when Russian writcr,
G.. y. Moostvcv v, made The at'emp' q ccurla
Of years ago "f getting cnt photography
Of Tclstov's works. ne had 10 rece do before
having ascertained that in Russia alone
Jolstov's works have had p circulation -
over ten million copies, W i!n all over 'ho
world. counting his sricl's, ~ oo0 ,OC0 copies
have been sold.
Many curious facts are related as to tho
shrrwdress of the Counters in saving M
the money coming to the Count through
his prodrlc'ier The other day friends
Of the Count recalled how when Totoy's
NAV THE Fruits of Enligh'mont,' Plody
Prosres,cheniyn. -"as given her" Tolsto:
announced that any one was w"lcom" 10
sct his play or 70 Translate and publish
anv Of his works Not wi'hs'ariing this
declaration CT hcr husband Countess
Jolstoy was very prompt in coming 20
tho capital 10 claim the Counts royalty
from the manager Of tho play and was
successful in proving TO the manager that
the returns from the product Of H." fathers
pen were tho lawful property Of his wife
and children and not his to civ" or throw
away.
The sister Of Countess Jo!stoy brought
the first authenticated news that Count
Tolstoy has put tho finishing touches ON
the large novel from life in the Caucasus. en-
titled "Hadji Moorad, on whith he has been
at work for thefast year, and that he also has
made good progress on his aut oblc graphy
Tolstoy. saws she, has completed five chap
tere of his autobiography and is so ergrcss ed
in the work that there is fair prospect Of
his bringing it to a successful termination.
"'Hadii Moorad' will not be published