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surface character, brilliant outwardly,
but with no roots in the nation.
Thus it is seen that reforms which
were instituted did not reach down to
the lower levels of life, the serfs, the
slaves of the country, were left out of
the reckoning. 1t remained for Alex
ander H. to extend to them relief and
make his reign illustrious by their
emancipation. After the disasters OF
the Crimean war he sought 10 develop
the internal prosperity of Russia, and
the abolition CT slavery was step in
this direction. For several years he
was preparing for this radical step, for
classes were opposed to reform, wishing
to retain their hold on the common peo-
pie, and the emancipation was not eff
fected until many difficulties had. been
overcome. The decree was promulgated
in 1861. Among the other reforms in
stituted during Alexander were the Sc
curing of publicity of trials, and inter-
vention of jury in criminal cases, and
the abolishing of corporal punishment
in the army The press was also given
some semblance of liberty and devel-
oped repidly.
And it has remained for the present
czar, Nicholas H., the grandson of Alex
ander H., to continue these reforms. In
1903 decree was issued providing for
the freedom of religion throughout the
empire, establishment Of some degree
of local self-government, and abolish
ing forced labor, and the extensive re-
fnryoe Vxybi oh mara n r clIn pad a a ffYnn
of the christening of the heir born in
August of this year are Of such recent
date to hardly need mentioning. These
included general amnesty in the case
of all political offenders, the abolish
ment of corporal punishment among
rural classes, so that Russia can no lon
ger be called the land of the knout, the
RENTING of arrears owing to the state
for land purchases, general amnesty to
FinIanders who had emigrated without
authorization, and the setting apart
of 81 100000 from tne state funds for
the benefit Of landless people of Fin
land.
These successive reforms since the
emancipation of the serfs in 1861 have
awakened in the lower classes a desire
for greater rights and liberties, and the
fact that the zemstyos were permitted to
meet and present an appeal shows the
disposition of the government to deal
generously with such movements. What
acts will follow the pronouncement OF
the zemstvoists it is impossible to say,
but it may take the form of summoning
an elective body to act in consultative
capacity to the sovereign. Surely it is
true that,
Every bondman in his own hand bears
the power to cancel his captivity"
and it is certain that the Russia of the
future will be the land of freer and
more enlightened people.
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a pretty and becoming hood which
can be placed over disheveled Golf
fure with excellent results. Such a
gown is ideal for travelling purposes
For such garments as the saut-de-
lit and the dressing-goWp, there Is a
cashmere-back washing satin, which
is really coy. This can be lined with
flannel for extra warmth if the wear
er be chilly person. Here again lace
is the. only trimming required. The
smart woman at the moment loves
these washing satins, especially for
night-gowns Silk, satin and finest
linens are sparingly trimmed with
lace-in many cases, indeed, no lace
at all is used, the trimming taking
the shape of fine hand work and
broad hemstitchings. There has been
an extraordinary change made of late
in underwear; everything is now very
simple, and white reigns supreme.
Parisians and the best-dressed Eng
lishwomen are particularly addicted
to fine batiste, linen, French lawn and
cambria. Here, too, beautiful hand
stitchery is the chief trimming,
though occasionally entire deux of
very fine Valenciennes lace are used.
Then I am told that, in their love of
simplicity, few Parisians are even
wearing pyjamas. Of course. such
garments are practical, but they can
never be pretty, and do not seriously
deserve a place among the lingerie of
the really chic woman. Three or four
seasons ago colored underwear was all
the rage-pale yellows, mauves, pinks
and blues, and even black being worn
in preference to white; but now the
craze is for the simplest of white
lingerie, and this seems to me the
acme of daintiness.
With many women the combination
is a necessary garment, either of silk,
silk and wool, or wooden mixtures,
but this need no longer be ugly be-
cause it is warm and comfortable.
This woven underwear to-day is we'll
shaped and nicely finished, and is OBJ
tainable at all the leading drapery es-
adjustments.
For ordinary day wear, It IS a good
idea to line your brocade petticoat
with a thin pongee, which adds great
ly to it's warmth. The chic dresser
is wearing with her morning, tailor
made costume, petticoats to harmon
ize with her dress instead of the
bright contrasts of last season. This
is matter in which every woman
can exercise her individual taste,
though quietness of detail in this re-
spect is more or less characteristic of
the well-dressed woman.
Then we have recently witnessed a
return to the flannel petticoat. Need
less to say, it is very different from the
old-fashioned red flannel garment
worn by our grandmothers, being to-
day beautifully cut and shaped and
trimmed with button-hole stitching,
fine embroidery or coarse Torchon
lace. It is mostly made in white, pale
pink or blue.
ELLEN OSMONDE.
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present appeal, which has just been
made, and the unrest which prevails
under the present form of absolute mon
archy may not produce immediate
reformation, it indicates the trend of
things and is sure sign in the political
heavens of the changes which must
come sooner or later in that great slav
empire. In fact, it is better that it
should take years to realize these hopes
of constitutional liberty, for it is ques-
tionable whether the people are quail
fed for judicious and intelligent par
ticipation in the affairs of government.
In the words of M. SCuvorin, the veteran
editor of the Novoe Vremya, "Amerl-
cans cannot realize the difficulty, even
danger, of suddenly introducing instltu-
lions into our country. Even our states
men are not versed III the arts of gov
eminent. The fact is, We have not had
the opportunity to learn the art of gov
eminent. All this sufficiently indicates
the necessity for greatest caution in in
PRODUCING the representative system ana
the great danger in adopting an ill-dl-
gested western constitution wholesale"
The zemestvo is a Russian institution
of recent years and marks the develop
ment and tendency towards greater
political liberties. 1t is a local elective
assembly which has the regulation and
oversight of affairs with in its district.
The late M. Won Plehve, minister OF the
interior, introduced into the law OF l9Oz
acts enabling the admission or consul
tive members to the council OF law, put
these have remained dead letter OWING
to the opposition of the bureaucrats OF
the empire. Students of Russian gov
eminent believe that Won Plehve would
gradually have extended the zemstyo
system and have introduced other re-
forms of a liberal tendency, in fact M.
White declared that Won Plehve would
"bring Russia to a cons Tuition" But
Won Plehve spoiled everything and in
yited the untimely and violent end to
his career by preceding the intended re-
forms with policy of repression.
The history of the development or
the Russian empire and the reforms
which have slowly and laboriously made
their way, offers some interesting sub
16CtS LOT COHSlu6EdLlOus w uCA OuG NNDU
siders the incongruous and divergent
peoples and vast stretches OF country
which have gone to make up the Rus
sian empire of to-day, it is nothing
short of marvellous that semblance OF
harmonious union and great govern
ment could have been wrought out OF
such unpromising material.
Modern Russia was born into the fam
Ily of nations OF Europe when Ivan the
great. prince of Moscow, threw off the
yoke Of her Mongol conquerors, who mad
ruled for two centuries and a half. But
# remained for Peter tne Great to bring
in his era of expansion and development
and growth. His work was nothing
short of revolution. He compelled
the mobiles 10 submit to his absolute
authority. He called into Russia from
Holland and other nations of Europe
artisans, merchants, officers and artists
and gave his country its first lessons in
industrial, economic and political ex-
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matches the dress in one of it's tones
Point d'esprit is a suitable and lovely
material, as is also that fine, plain, yell
lowish net seen nowadays on the high
priced waists shown at the stores. But
perhaps best of all is very sheer muslin
or lawn. finished with little tracery of
hand-work. Whatever is selected, re-
member these white affairs will need
frequent laundering, as all their beauty
depends on their giving an exquisite
finish to the toilet, for this cannot
be done when they are in the least
soiled.
Trimmed sleeves as we'll as full sleeves
are favored, but be careful not to have
these so elaborate that they will be fussy
and detract from elegance. One shown
in the illustration is comparatively SIM
ple and yet adapted to the caprice of the
moment. The velvet band and lace frill,
as we'll as the design of the sleeve, make
it appropriate only for afternoon or
evening wear.
Short sleeves are very much the thing,
but generally are an expensive luxury,
requiring long gloves. Still, the under
sleeve fashion may help out here the
woman who wants to economic, and by
it's addition one can have waist do
double duty; appear with the under
sleeves as suitable for street wear; with
out the sleeves serve for elaborate oc-
casions. The three-quarter sleeve Is
making it's way, and is especially pretty
when finished at the hand with double
frill of deep white ruching.
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fury, and is considered one of the most
remarkable and beautiful of modern
buildings The area occupied by the
building is 10000 square feet, con
siderably greater than that of st.
Peters, at Rome. The estimated cost
was 100000 francs, but the final
cost amounted to 100000 francs
$50, 000. 000) Owing to the Unequal
tiles of the site, the difficulties of build
ing added greatly to the expense of the
work.
The occasion of the opening of the
magnificent palace of justice was fit-
ting one-the jubilee of Belgium's ex-
istence as a separate kingdom. The old
Palais de Justice was an unattractive
pile, formerly a Jesuit monastery, and
in the new edifice Belgium displays the
pride and ambition of the nation, sug-
costing that there still exists the ideal
of grandeur and glory that in the old
days were an inseparable part of the
land The architects design was an
avowadly ambitious one, and the large
pile is reminiscent of the massive
structures of ancient Egypt and AS
syria. The architectural scheme is de-
scribed as pyramidal. each successive
section diminishing in bulk. The main
body of the building is crowded with
a rectangular structure surrounded
with columns, which supports a ro-
tunda. likewise encirc1ed with columns;
and topping all is dome, compare
lively small, bearing aloft a gilded
cross. The cross is 400 feet from the
pavement.
The rotunua is ornamented with
colossal figures of Justice, Law.
Strength ard Clemency. Colossal
statues of Demosthenes, Lycurgus,
Cicero and Domitius Ulpian embellish
the flight of steps leading to the yes
THULE In the waiting-room, or Sale
des Pas Perdus, one is impressed anew
with the size, bigness; it is stu
ated under the dome, which has an in
terror height of $40 feet.
In addition to the central hall, the
palace contains q large and 245 small
er rooms, and there are eight court
yards. The library and several of the
lesser rooms are fitted up with much
splendor, some of them being lined
with marble and furnished with ebony
chairs.
1t is said that whole quarters of the
town We're leveled with the ground, to
find space and an appropriate terrace
for the temple of justice; and the
writer who makes this statement re-
marks that in the new courts there Is
room for the robbers and murderers of
q whole quarter of century.
There is diversity of opinion in
regard TO the palace OF justice as a
work of art. To give an architects
estimate of the edifice, and to present
IN idea of its grand and antique char
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pansion. He started the modern Rus
STA on her career and established the
autocracy which after centuries is only
beginning to feel the impulses of the
common people for share and voice in
the government. In Peter the Great we
have the rare spectacle of a nation being
formed by the work of one man within
the period of 4S years. He was not
afraid of hard work himself and learned
the trade of shipbuilding in Holland.
He transformed the customs, habits and
costumes Of the Slavs. He opened UP
schools and colleges, and the mobiles and
burghers were encouraged to educate
themselves. He ameliorated the con-
dition of the serfs without abolishing
slavery.
Such were the great reforms which
Peter established, and in Catherine H.,
who calHe to the throne, or rather, who
seized the throne 81 years after Peter
had passed off the stage of life, he had
a worthy successor. Not only did she
continue his work Of conquest, adding
territory to tho st and south to the
Russian domain, but she also was active
in bringing about reforms within the
nation. She reorganized justice and
education, that is for the higher classes.
She collected about her the most emf
nent French philosophers, and French
literature became the model which Rus
sian writer's endeavored to copy, and
with her reign begins Russian litera-
ture. But the condition of the serfs was
not relieved. They were still fast bound
in slavery, and the civilization which
was so marked was of a merely fictitious
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The story of Sumatra leaf tobacco,
as grown under cheese-cloth in Con-
necticut, is one of the romantic epi-
sodes of agriculture, says a writer in
Country Life in America. A Florida
fruit grower had some tobacco plants
that got into his pineapple shed by ac-
cident, and he noticed that they were
taller and of finer texture. under the
lath shade. The bureau of soils, while
surveying the Connecticut valley,
found soil that was practically the
same as that of Sumatra, on which
the famous tobacco is grown. (The
bureau has samples of soil from al
NEST every important agricultural re-
gion of the worldly The government
got an expert 10 start an industry,
and the first two years some OF the
sree, ers made over 100 per cent. profit.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-12-22
Foxy Boy.

"Gran'ma," says George, you gave
me awful little piece of pie!"
why, Georgie!" cries the dear old
lady, 81 gave you an extra large piece.
I remember cutting an enormous piece
for YOU"
"Gran'ma, the small boy rumi-
mates a few minutes before speaking
again-"Gran'ma your glasses magni-
fly a good deal, don't they ?"-Cleye-
land Leader.
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T- HE Peace palace, at The
.HYGMM Hague, is to be built, on a
N4EJAk smaller scale, on the plan
ON VI Of the Brussels Palace of
Sl3G'V Justice. The Palace Of JUS
Ss@ tice, famed for it's noble
beauty, is structure Of
comparatively recent building, and was
formally opened April, 1889.
The subject of municipal art is one
in which the residents Of Brussels are
vitality interested, matter in which
they hold leading place. Artists and
philosophical citizens combine to
make Of Brussels city beautiful, one
that will prove attractive to travellers,
as well as to townsmen; and, as Brad
ford Colt De Wolf says, writing in the
Art Journal: Modern art, it is thus
expected, will do for the Belgian cities
what medieval art has done, and still
does, for Venice, Pistoza, and also for
Bruges Nothing is considered too
unimportant to come within the scope
of the new movement, from door
knob to the facade Of a cathedral"
The Rue de Ia Regence in Brussels Is
lined with handsome buildings, and it
terminates in the vast Palais de JUS
tice. The harmonious proportions of
the palace of justice, designed by the
Belgian architect, Joseph Poelaert, at
tracts many art pilgrims to Brussels.
Up to $780, it was the largest archi-
tectural work of the nineteenth cen
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Not DISPOSED to criticise.

Don't you think" asked Mrs. Old
castle, that our minister is becoming
somewhat recondite?"
"Oh, l don't know" replied her
hostess. Josiah thinks so, but it
don't seem to me that he weighs q
pound more than he ought to for a
man as tall as him. Chicago Record
Herald.
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Fish's Fault.

Deacon Good-Don't you think it cruel
for you to draw fish out of his native
element by sharp iron hook?
Fisherboy-It's no fault of mine.
When I'm just giving a worm salt
water bath. what does fish want to hook
himself onto my line for? It's no bust.
ness of his-Boston Transcript
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ROMANCE OF SVMATRA LEAF

The industry, as a Whole, A6 success
full. A large company with plenty of
capital is necessary, for it costs
$3.50 to cover and grow an acre of
this tobacco. The growers receive
from s120 to $3.50 per pound for the
product. The imported article brings
$3.50 to So, and we have been i'm
porting about s6,oO0.Ooo worth year.
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nished by the problem how to bring all
into harmony of scale without de-
tracing too much from it's pecul-
lar effect of picturesque ard pi-
quaint, and almost aggressive, grand,
eur. Of course, it would be easy
enough to reduce the whole compost
ton to one or another form of classic
simplicity, but there is something here
quite averse to all simplicity which
constitutes the leading motive of the
artist On the whole, this edifice may
perhaps be described as the dream of
a scene painter unexpectedly realized:
in which magnifcence must be accept
ed in lieu of taste and the vague admira-
ton of the multitude for the analysis
of the critic
Grant Allen dismisses this great
structure with a few words: 1.-The end
of the street is blocked by the gigantic
and massive facade of the new Palais de
Justice, one of the hugest buildings of
our period, imposing byits mere colossal
size, and its almost Egyptian stolidity,
but not architecturally pleasing"
That the palace has been chosen as
model for the Peace palace to be built
from Mr.. Carnegie's overflow of mill
lions would indicate that Mr.. Aliens
judgment was more or less personal
one. For the selection of a suitable
design for the projected arbitration
building, there have been held con-
ferences of architects and leading au-
thorities on art, and their judgment
has been given in favor of a reduced
copy of the Brussels Palais de Justice.
Brussels, as we remarked above, is
city vitality awake to the influences
of beauty, and in both it's works of
art and natural beauty it has much to
be proud of. Contrary to cities in gen.
eral. it has about it little suggestion of
unwholesome town life-there is such
generosity of boulevard extent, so
much foliage and freshness. IN the
center of the town is pleasant little
park, and the suburbs are within easy
reach of all. There are numerous mu-
seums and works of art. and the town
presents an unusual combination of old
historic associations side by side with
evidences of intensely modern progress
siveness. Luxury and taste are no
ticeable in the shops, wealth and adorn-
ment have much part in the life of the
city. CHRISTOPHER WEBSTER.
Encouraged.
do you think she asked the der
matologist, that you can make my
nose beautiful"
''Well, l may not be able to make IL
beautiful. but I couldn't help improv-
ing it some even il were to hit 1t
with q maIlet n-Chicaco Racord-Her-
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First of Her Kind.

Baroness Overlook is the first female
Russian composer to attract attention
in her own land. Her leading compost
lions have been performed in the lead.
ing theaters Of ST. Petersburg.
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A Hero.

She Charlie, they say kissing is
awfully dangerous
He-Is that SO? Then just watch
me win one of those hero medals.-.<
Chicago Journal.
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the top at all odds. Not that they need
be very voluminous, but what fullness
there is must come above. This fact
borne in mind, there is infinite variety
obtainable by the infinite number of peo-
pie that are DESTROYS of following the
fashions but want chance for individual
preferences. The mutton-leg sleeve,
periodically revived, has some admirers,
but it is considered the best taste not
to exaggerate the width at the top.
Especially for velvet coats is this mode
liked, although it is seen on waists, on
shirt waists and bodice for dressy occa-
sions; if employed for the latter, add to
the dressy look by frill OF lace at the
wrist.
Another old fashion that has come to
the fore once more is the elbow and
three-quarter length that allows Of an
under-sleeve. This is quaint and very
pretty fashion and bids fair to become
more and more popular, but probably
not tiresomely common. The under
sleeves can be recommended also for
this, but they can be made acceptably
of almost any bit of material left over,
just so 1t is dainty and fluffy looking. A
desirable but expensive material used
for these is chiffon, shaded kind that
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where the light first shined; next in
France, and then in the other govern
ments of Europe. 1t was in England
that the first blow at absolute monarchy
was struck when the barons of the
realm wrested from King John the
declaration of rights which came to be
known as the Magma Charta. The next
decided step in this direction was taken
in 1910 when the long parliament
triumphed over the king, and Cromwell,
after many victories in the field, con-
trolled parliament in the interests of
the people and condemned the king.
The execution of Charles |. in 1649
caused profound dismay in monarchial
Europe, but it struck the first note of
real freedom for the people, the sound
of which has not ceased to carry its
message to one nation after another I'M
til to-day we find the Russian peasantry
awakening to it's first faint notes and
listening intently for the fuller strains
that shall break over the cars domin-
ions when constitutional liberties shall
have been wrested from the emperor
and the bureaucrats.
The appeal of the zemstvoists for a
change in the form of the government
which will recognize the rights of the
common people to representation indi-
Gates the drift of affairs. While the
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Experience.

LAHOA 4G44CEs
Lets see," said Mr.. Shiverton, s1ast
year we gave the children a drum and a
lot of other musical instruments as
Christmas gifts"
eyes,"
well, this year let us try to give them
something on Christmas that we won't
feel like taking away from them the next
day."-Washingto Star.
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Asst years skirt can be worn
all right, likewise last years
girdle, and also the bodice
If only the sleeves are
changed. Just take them
out and turn them upside
down; give them fullness at