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the petitioners and give them an an
swer; but his soldiers were. The ottl-
cial list of dead gives the number Of
victims as 1913. On February 1.-the
Gar received II deputation of work
ingmen at the Tsarskoe Selo, made a
speech to them, the burden of which
was, Return to your work. May God
assist W gave them dinner, and
then dismissed them. The thirty four
men thus received are said to have
been selected by the police for the pa
ternal demonstration, and not to have
been in any case intelligent represent
tatives of the wcrkmen.
Since then the Car has intimatad
that he may convoke. after centuries
of inactivity. the old Zemsky Sober.
or consultative national assembly of
notables. which body was partly elect
ed and partly nominated. in order to
have it deal with the present condi-
tons. That this would be entirely sat
isfactory to the parties demanding re-
forms is not likely. yet it is generally
agreed that there would be percepti-
BILE advance.-Philadelp Ledger.
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labor's Scorned Appeal for Justice
threatens the Rule of the Auto
Cracy-Gi d Of Factories the
Rising Stal Liberty.

The present agitation and unrest In
Russia are due primarily to the rise
of class of industrial workers. The
peasant has been called III from the
held to work in factories and shops;
he has had his intellect frightened by
contact with thinkers in the cities, and
being no longer isolated, he begins to
understand that things are not as they
should be. and, taking courage, he
asks the great autocrat to right the
wrongs.
What terrorists could not accom-
plish in thirty years the transformed
peasant may be on the eve Of achiev-
ing. Russia's insecurity has been
fastened by the method of utilizing
the peasant in the industries. About
. dozen years ago Russia became con-
WINGED of destiny of Immense indus
trial achievement and of commerce.
In order to make this awakening n
reality. subsidies were paid to COM
panies, tariffs adjusted so that foreign
competition would cease to exist, and
factories and workshops blossomed in
every great city in Russia. To man
these numerous plants peasants were
encouraged to work In them, and to
prevent the peasant from forgetting
that he was regarded as only about
one-half human. the lowest wages in
Europe-and wages are everywhere
modest on the continent-were paid
to him.
About 2 per cent of the present
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Father Gopon is the priest leader Of
the Russian people in their effort to
obtain constitutional government.
He headed the crowd of Russians that
sought to enter the Narva gate and
reach the palace square in st. Peters
burg, where he hoped to give the Car
n petition for constitution. Cossacks
shot down his followers, but spared
the priest, who escaped and disap-
peared from public sight.
Gopon Is the son of peasant. AS a
youth he served as swineherd, but
later was sent to Poltava school,
whence he is reported to have been
expelled for ultra socialistic views.
Later, however, lie was admitted to the
priesthood under certain restrictions.
His face is alleged to resemble that OF
a mystic, and he is said to possess a
wonderful voice. His power over his
followers among the workmen is
strong.
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ENGINE ANo 1aUck IN ONE.
Philadelphia Has Combined Chemical
and Ladder Fire Wagon.

and Ladder Fire Wagon.
Fire station No. 10, at Goth street
and Baltimore avenue, says the Phila-
delphia Record, has the distinction of
possessing the only ladder truck and
chemical engine combined in the city.
Curiously enough, the crew of truck
No. ID consists Of thirteen men, but
the superstitious need find nothing
threatening in this coincidence, for
among thirteen men there is always
one, and sometimes two, off duty, and
the truck is worked by eleven or
twelve men. The truck is fully equip
ped, both for rescue and to fight fire.
In addition to a full supply of hand
ladders it has -65-foot extension lad
der of the kind that is raised automat-
tcally and leaned in any direction. The
chemical engine has two tanks, each
of which has capacity of thirty five
gallons. and can raise a pressure Of
300 pounds to the square inch. Each
tank is kept loaded with water and
soda and the vitriol may be thrown
in instantly by the turning of crank.
Three extra charges are always car
ried, and either tank may be operated
while the other is being charged. Since
they are so connected as to feed a COM
mon hose. this may be done without
stoppage of the stream. The hose car.
ried is 300 feet long.
There is also llfe-net and porta.
bic fire extinguisher on the truck; also
the various axes and other implements
usually carried. The whole machine
may be pulled by either two or three
horses, according to the length of the
run.
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population of European Russia are In
dustrlal workers-about 2,25O,OOO out
of l15,0OO.00O. Less than five years
ago they numbered little more than
100000. and to this rapid growth of
the only class which can hope eventu-
ally to get the asked-for reform Is
due the quickening of the spread OF
revolutionary propaganda, which in
the natural course of things perhaps
would have taken twenty-five years to
accomplish.
Three days before that fateful Sun
day, when hundreds of workers were
shot down In st. Petersburg by the
soldlery. the movement in the capital
was simply the usual demonstration
of big strike. BY Sunday it was a
revolt-peaceful, yet revolt. The
strikers have now returned to their
work benches and machines: the dead
have been buried: the Car has sub
scribed $4,000 to the relief of the
families of the victims OF the massa-
ere; st. Petersburg is quiet, but the
revolution has come.
To aggravate the situation comes
the assassination of the Grand Duke
Sergius in the Kremlln, coupled with
the declaration by political revolution
lists that General Trepoff, the Grand
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four to eight months; II property has
been damaged or persons injured, the
asitators may be given sixteen months
imprisonment
III September, 1900, there was held
in Paris labor and socialist congress
which threw some light upon indus
trial Russia. There were present sew
cnty-two delegates from the empire,
most of them, of course, refugees, but
they held twenty-three mandates from
organizations In Russia. One report
presented gave particulars of 217
strikes. about half of which had in
volved 236,O2O men. The demands had
been usually for shorter hours and
better wages, for Russians beneficial
labor laws will not permit an en-
ployer to work his men more than
1l1A hours day. In the greater num-
concessions Since the st. Petersburg
strike of 1896. the Social Democratic
Union has maintained secret labor
press. and has sown the seeds of sedi-
ton widely throughout Industrial
Russia.
Insepurablc from Politics.
The labor movement III Russia is
inseparable from political liberty. and
the propaganda is carried on by nu-
merous organizations, among them the
Russian Social Democratic party, the
RUSSIAN Socialist Revolutionary party,
the General Union of Jewish Workers,
the Polish Proletarian party, the Lit
tie Russian Revolutionary party. the
Georgian Revolutionary Federalist
party, the American Revolutionary
Federation, the Union of Liberation
democratic Constitutionalists,. the
Polish National League and the Fin
nish Party of Active Resistance.
Two years ago Father Gapon. who
led the recent movement In ST. Peters
burg. tried to establish colony for
the unemployed, and the memorandum,
on the subject which he submitted to
the Empress received high praise. bu,
permission was never given. Then the
government made an attempt to have
Il hand in the labor organizations
which it, of courae, knew We're In ey-
istence. A former spy, Zubatoff. who
had risen to be chief Of police In Mos.
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and looked at the man on the low
cot.
Isis he much hurt?" she asked.
LET me-" she insisted. rubbing Hunt
ington's forehead, and kneeling beside
him while the others stood around in
blank astonishment.
"Just knocked silly, reckon, Miss
Westcott," drawled big Kentucklan,
who knew both Polly and Huntington
and-Cupid. Hello. Hunt.' he said,
as Huntington opened his eyes. Come,
fellows, he's all right
Polly flashed him look of gratitude
as the crowd left the little room.
"Mr. Lathrop, you mustn't miss the
game, really" she added, as the fresh
man stood politely impatient.
And although Lathrop was only a
freshman. he noticed that when he
took Miss Westcott home after the
game she was happier than she had
been on the way out, and that she
was wearing diamond he had not
observed on her hand before.-Indian
apolls Sun.
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SPEAKING WELL OF OTHERS.
y Wallace Rice.

IA Probably nothing pleasss human being more
III than to hear that he has been well spoken of by
~ another. 1t makes little difference whether he
M Is conscious of deserving compliment not,
~ 1t does him good to get and it is safe say
that the unexpected 1t Is the better he
i likes It.
IN There Is slang expression which shows
Jhow deeply this is felt. When some is saying
unkind things of another testers have taken advan
of this state.of feeling observe person
lacked HE always speaks well of you" And has
failed the person attacking made thoroughly
uncomfortable by this observaon-whlch the
u made.
Once in long time the average man is blessed with
friend who makes practice Of saying kind things
others and with this refrains from saying unknd things
There not many of this sort of man-perhaps
lifetime sums up the usual experience Yet what
fort from the knowledge that here person
least who IL sefelected guardian of my" good
as he Is of the good of all his other rends
In his single person gives the lie to that desperately
cynical statement, God from my friends: can
take care of my enemies"
There always plenty of the Of folk who come
to with things else has said written
Of you. They the kind who it for the best
who often in justification the statement Faithful
the wounds of friend" 1t Is only true tina,
strangers little to wound, friends say
and relatives can-and often do-say the most. But in
saying kind things the revers appears to be true
You meet some one and come to know him very SLIGHT
~ You hear after little that he has expressed himself
as admiring How much pleased you than
you well has made the same remark; while
II kinsman Of had said It, would hardly have
thought of 1t at all.
Our lives depend upon the good opinion Of the world
and in this lies the explanation The comparative stranger
stands for the great world In your Of thar
those who connected with you by friendship OF
blood since he is not already preudced In your
stands better chance of speaking the be vel
spoken of-that is all many of live for Lets help the
cause along.
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100000 strikers out. 1t was then that
the petition was framed which was
sent to the Gar. In this paper there
were demanded measures dealing with
the peoples lack of rights, measures
to remedy the poverty of the people
and measures to remove the oppres-
sions of labor by capital. The keynote
of the petition was the prayer: "Di-
rect, therefore. that the election for
the Constitutional Assembly be made
by general secret ballot; that is our
chief demand. Everything is contain
ed therein"
The Car Offers Husks.
All the world knows that the Car
was not ut the Winter Palace to meer
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midst of people at proudest and the most CON
ceited in the world people with devotion to the faith
that neither bayonet cannon nor even the sackipp
their capital is sufficient to shake.
The Chinese believe Bible as sincerely as the
most orthodox Christian does in his They believe 1t con
tans all the wisdom that learning in this world
To suppose there should be anything would be equal to
telling Christian that there ought another addition
to the New Testament Yet the doctrines of the Chimes
Bible are denounced and other teachings offered that
are about alien to the Chinese mind air is to fish,
In surveying the whole history of missions In China
one does not of hope until he comes to the Chi
neseAmerican treaty of 1903 In that treaty clause
which takes the first step toward the solution OF the mis-.
sonary problem In China In that treaty provided that
missionaries shall in lawsuits and that no
distinction shall be made in the Chinese to Christian
converts The is exempted from contributions TO
the temples and idols and the missionary may purchas e
land for the erection Of buildings mission purposes hut
not for the benefit Of the Individual Thus for the first
time mission work in China is built upon the foundation
truth and not Of fraud.
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CUPID ON THE GR|D|RON.


SNOLLY slid the ring back and
forth on her finger. watching
the reflection of the flames in
the sparkling stone.
Ell fancy you had better take this
back" she said. her glance meeting
that Of the young man on the hassock
at her feet.
"Polly!"
..And you'd better call me Miss
Westcott, too-or at least Peauline,"
she continued.
.Pollym Huntington did not remove
his gaze from her face.
Here she said, handing him the
ring. III l have to go to all the dances
and 'proms' and theater parties with
other men, will not wear your ring"
There was an air of finality about
Polly which very much amused her
companion. but he had more tact than
to give evidence of 1t.
you had better keep 1t, dear" he
said.
miss westcott, please" Polly cor
rected, her eyes flashing challenging
ly. What right had he TO take his dis
missal SO cooly7
Huntington took the ring and fas-
tened 1t on his Kappa Sigma pin pen
dantwlse. Polly watched him. II hate
football" she cried with vehemence.
at was at football game that we
met" reminded Huntington.
"Was 1t? had forgotten"
Huntington Rugged his knee and
watched the flames dance. He knew
she had not forgotten.
"You became engaged to me on the
way home from football game, too
he persisted.
II had forgotten that Also" she re-
torted. frigidly.
Huntington suppressed a smile
which, had 1t been allowed to escape,
might have ended in uproarious laugh.
ter.
"And 1t is over football that we have
become-er-disengaged - temporari.
ly?" 1t was with trepidation that the
big halfback added the final word.
Temporarily, indeed" Polly could
not summon voice for further utter.
ance. His presumption with without
precedent.
Huntington nodded his head at her,
and dangled the ring on his waistcoat.
81 want you to understand distinct.
ly, Mr.. Huntington, that our engage.
ment is at an end, definitely and final.
I IT,"
And may ask whys'
"For the good and SUFFICIENT reason
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experiences it, is almost an unknown
condition among Russian Industrial
workers. 1t is not unusual For work
men to live in the factories where
they work. IN Moscow, probably the
chief industrial center, it is assorted
that about 81 per cent of the opera
tives inhabit the factories, ana the
practice is very general in the central
provinces. In Moscow only about 25
Ter cent have their own houses. and
about Is per cent live In rooms in
novels. Outside the central provinces
only about Is per cent of the opera
tiyes dwell in their workshops, and in
st. Petersburg none is permitted to
do so.
Laws for Master and Mar.
In 1856 law was made intending
to harmonic the relations Of master
and man. Three distinct forms of
labor contracts We're fixed: % for u
determinate period; (2) for ~, indef-
mite period, by the week or month;
and (9 by the piece. If it was de-
sired to break the contract by either
party fourteen days notice was de-
manded. If the employer violates the
contract he is liable to fine Of 300
rubles about $3.50; If the workman
violates the agreement. he is given n
months imprisonment. If an operator
breaks the law three times, or if hi,
be responsible for disturbances cans
ing police Intervention. he may be I'M
prisoned three months and forbidden
to manage factory for two years.
All regulations in the factories and
shops must be approved by the fac
tory inspector, and it is said that these
inspectors have been known to over
Injustice of Fine Systcm.
The laws upon their face appear t.
be In favor of the worker: indeed,
some of the Russian operators insist
that they are SO in fact; yet by the
fine system, which is also a law, and
which permits the employer 10 deduct
amounts from the wage-earners not
exceeding third of the total wage
fol various named causes for defec.
| tive work. inexcusable absence and III
| fraction of factory regulationsl, it is
commonly reported that one Moscow
manufacturer. who insists that thG
workingman is 'just an animal anil
| should be treated as SUCH" has made
S5o0,0G0 year out of fines alone.
Strikes are expressly forbidden by
law In Russia, and it is said that o.ti
"ially they never occur. This means
that there are no statistics Oh the sub
.iect, for. in 1896, there were strikes
last year there We're labor disorder.
that We're perilously near strikes, anu
last month the government, not desir
ing to admit revolt was on foot ii
st. Petersburg, was content to !ool
upon the demonstration In its earlier
stage us a strike. The law agains
strikes is intended to be exemplary
~ workman attempting to strike may
be imprisoned from one week to tiv,
months. A workman fomenting {
strike may be imprisoned for from
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Duke Vladimir and the Car himself
are marked for death.
Factories unduly Fostcrcd

FACTORIES Unduly FOstered.
Russia's industries have been fos.
tered at the expense of her agricultn-
raj and other interests. but along with
Its growth has come II growth of in
telligence which has already made the
autocracy feel insecure. Although
manufactures and mining are still i'll
their infancy in Russia, they are con
stantly growing In Importance Russl;,
now has as large an output of pig iron
as France, but inconsiderable in COM
parison to that OF the United States.
Since 1899 the pig iron output has ex-
perienced a slight falling Off. In 1899
the output was 2,7O1 600 metric tons
and in 1903, the most recent figures
available. there were o,4OOOOO metric
tons.
Nearly 10 per cent of the adult
workers of the country are row Ell
gagged in the Industries, and the power
of the class has been enormously i'll
creased by Its concentration in thu
towns. In thirty years the town pop
ulations of the empire have grow
AAOAh o,ooSsNNO W
The defect in Russia's trade cxpan
sion Is to be found In Its artificial
character. The foundation and growth
of her Industries have not beer
healthy or natural; they did not lie
pend upon genuine organizing abilit,
attracted by an open market, but wer,
unsound from top to bottom. Russia,
iron. for instance. is very dear, anc
is produced by subscription of the en-
tire people. Witte was father of til,
policy, and the paternal stimulation
which he fostered led to overspecuia
ton. which was followed by the in
evitable crisis. With the bursting Of
some Of the industrial bubbles a few
! years ago Russia experienced a new
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than strongly suggestive Of its failure as beacher The
chemist called for harmless shade of artificial
coorng that would accenuate the natural shade as to
allow the purchaser to nothing but that color
Then the cleaning powder carry with It this
color description the chief distinguishing feature Of the
powder To-day to change the the powder prob
ably would ruin Its prestige A wise business man had
done the next best thing.
The greatest problems life continue to be exnressed
in the worlds query What is the best thing? That
first best thing will continue be in the untred mind
the easiest of determinations 1t of the next"
best thing that fortunes wrecked find foundations
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spain's Orange Groves.

The Spanish orange region extends
over Eastern and South Catalonia.
Valencia. Alicante. Murcia. Malaga
sna Seville and in parts of Valencia
and Murcia the trees now grow in for
ests, the soil of the famous yalenclan
"huerta," lavlshly MANFRED with gu
ano, being the richest in Europe. Here
a single full grown tree will yield l.
500 and at times as many as 1880 or
anges in season, fruit bearing begin
ming when the trees reach their sixth
year and increasing until they are 20.
when degeneration usually sets In.
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An Impromptu Augmentation.

Will Carleton while travelling recent.
ly in stage coach among the Green
mountains is said to have fallen into a
literary conversation with prosperous
farmer. In the course of conversation
the farmer, who had no suspicion of
the authors identity. quoted from Mr..
Carleton's poems to Illustrate some
point he was trying to make "Oh,
that's from Carleton!" said the poet,
land never have been in the habit of
believing half he said" The farmer
eyed him n moment somewhat con.
temptuously. We'll. stranger" he re.
torted slowly. 81 don't know you nor
i don't want to be nncivil. but if you
ever know half as much as Will earle.
ton does you'll know twice as much as
Won do now
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Desert Tracts Fast Going.

Desert Tracts Fast Going.
Irrigation is rs useful in New York
State farming as 1t is in many places
where it Is supposed to be more appli-
cable to the conditions. The new CEN
sus bulletin Just issued states that ar
tlftcial provision against drought Is
used in Maine. Massachusetts, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ala
bama and Mississippi Exceptionally
high yields of fruit and vegetables are
reported as made possible by its use.
Thousands of miles Of canals, says
the bulletin. are distributing water
upon more than 100000 acres of land,
producing crops worth $100,O0O00O a
year.
The increase from 1890 to 1902 was
20 per cent: S93,pOOOOO has been in
vested in irrigation works. Running
streams provide three-fourths of the
irrigation now III use. wells and
springs the remainder
California leads in cost of Irrigation
works, Utah coming next. The Nor
mons settled III an arid tract which
they have made to blossom like gar.
lien by bringing water down from the
mountains. In irrigated area Colorado
ranks first But the California irrI-a
gated land averages more valuable and
is more lntensively worked.
More than 80 per cent of the coun.
try's irrigated farms are in the semi
arid region between the Rockies and
the Mississippi using the headwaters
of the latter stream. This takes in
part of the Great American DESERT
of old Biographies.
The Columbia river basin is third
in Importance In Irrigation projects. 1t
alone supplies nearly 2o0D6~ farms
with water. The Colorado river throu.
much OF It's course lies in a canyon so
deep that 1t cannot be coaxed out to
work. Only twenty systems are sup
piled from the main stream. Systems
heading near Yuma, Ariz., are turning
desert lands into region of marvellous
richness.
Not until 1897 was irrigation applied
to coast lands in the Southern States
ouPl'oSCu oSlole tuSll De StllldDle luz
pasturase only. Now they are produce
ing big crops of rice upon thousands
of acres. American rice Is crop
with vast future.
Texas and Arizona are curiously
handicapped as to Irrigation by the
present treaty with Mexico which for.
bids the impounding of any part Of the
waters of the Rio Grande. Probably
in the future there will be no difficult
ty in arranging this matter. Streams
subject to sudden floods, like the Rio
Grande and the Mississippi, are i'm
proved by the construction Of head
water storage systems. These tend to
diminish floods. Extreme low water
Is also indirectly minimlzed by head
water impounding. Rain tends to in
crease in frequency in the dry season
upon lands abundantly supplied with
water from reservoirs. Evaporation
cools the air and promotes rain.