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The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-17
COUNTESS SOPHIE ToLsToY ON
 THE WAR.

The following letter has been address ed to friend by Countess Sophie, the wife of Count Leo Telstoy:
 Dear Friend: Knowing that, although living abroad, you nevertheless take to heart the sufferings which We are pass ing through in Russia, cannot with hold from expressing to you my feel ings principally concerning the war and everything that is grievfng my heart.
 It is said that in Russia there is no unity of opinion or feeling, but that there exists, on the contrary, com plete disparity of views. I am extreme ly pained by articles in various un- sympathetic papers, such as the Noyoye Vremya, Moshovskia and others, which call for the continuation of the war and are opposed to peace, without entering into any political considerations, although personally l am persuaded that the continuation of the war Is not only useless, but will lead to increasingly greater losses and disorders, by those disaffected masses In whom the war has awakened con- tempt for human life and an aimless brutal thirst for blood. I simply can not understand those who dare to con- tinue to advocate war.
 Is is possible that these people are bereft of the most elementary love to- ward humanity and of the understand ing of goodness-na ay. of more imagina- tion, that they are able to live with the innocent victims of war and their for
 saken families through these desperate sunerings under which the whole of 1 Russia is now groaning2
 Some imagine that the people are re garding war and death with wisdom and equanimiy. This is not correct. am living in the country. I have seen a son of my own off to the war, have
 experienced and seen these partings with heartrending grief, and never
 have witnessed aught else than tears
 sorrow, and condemnation of the cause
 for which the men were being seni
 away I know of very few exceptions and those not among the people, bu the educated younger generation.
 l Peace cannot be a disgrace, as st
 many wrongly imagine. A lost war f not disgrace, but misfortune. 4
 spiritually undaveloped unchristian lnation such as the Japanese wa I bound to conquer, for among them i rife the principle of patriotism, Whicf lis opposed to the! Christian principl, of love to one's neighbor, and there
 fore of opposition to war. They hay, VI F. t ' Y , pE 4
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slopes a dense canebrake has been planted which rises some thirty feet more in the air and absolutely cuts off all vision of the interior expanse of water. At intervals of some thirty yards, for half the circumference of the circle and on the landward side, ditches about six feet deep and five wide have been dug. These ditches, with the wa ters of the lake some eighteen inches deep in them, are about a hundred feet long, banked with earth, and sodded on each side some three feet above the surface of the surrounding land. $ Where they enter the lake, two right angled turns are made, which assure complete screening of the lake from the outside view, or vice versa.
 A thousand tame ducks are kept in this to decoy the. wild ones into the by way feeding ditches.
 When the ducks once enter the ditch and begin feeding, the warden pulls the bell wire and warns the host and his guests at the house several hundr- ed yards away, and, as the birds ap- proach, he pulls a seccond string, which connects with and closes a light wire gate where the ditch debouehes into the lake. The ducks are thus trapped in a deep, narrow ditch, from which they have no escape, except in upward fight.
 The netsmen hurry to either side of
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Left Alone.

It was an actor man who spake
 While tears rolled down his cheeks And wet the. roots of stubby beard
 Unshayed for several weeks. "Alas!" he cried, Pm left alone;
 He's gone before, he said. r 'But two men -e'er could play old Rip, And one of them is dead" He struck me for a dollar bill
 With which to drown his woes.
 That was my way, and Joe's. / | Whats mine is yours, and yours is
 mine," sEg.s
 He often to me said. Alas, but two could play old Rip
 And tn other one is dead.p The old school actor man turned round
 To hide his swelling grief. The way we used to chum, he said, Is almost past belief. If Joe grew tired he wired me And ]. played in his stead-- Yes, only two could play old Rip And th' other one is dead begged the old school actor man To come with. me and dine: .i Said he, My grief is such a load sI really should decline
 But yet I'll go; perhaps the change, \ Will do me good' he Said.g T may forget there were two Rips And tn other one is dead." When next you play the good old
 Said I, s.Tn surely go.e t The old school actor man looked sad
 And shook his head for no. l I'll ne'er again play that old part, i
 Twould break my heart" he said. To think that of the two great Rips The other one is dead. The Commoner.
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said: Granting that a wise selection Of varieties has been made and that you take good care of your trees, you will not regret the day you decided to become a nut grower" It is gratifying to learn that the outlook for the pecan crop this year fin Georgia and probably in other Southern States is favorable, all indications pointing to a large crop Announcement is made that the Agri- cultural department at Washington will try to introduce the cultivation of the pistachio nut on a large scale in California and Arizona In parts of that region which are scarcely capable Of producing anything else of value conditions are regarded as highly fav- orable for the introduction of the pis- tachio nut. In California the cultiva- ton of the walnut has not proved as successful as was expected. The trees in many sections are found to be dis eased. It is thought however, that walnuts can be produced successfully in La Habra Valley, which is in the frost- less belt. The cultivation of peanuts is to be attempted in Pennsylvania. MT Charles H. Barus ;. of West Chester announces that he will give every farmer in that section enough of the nuts to plant a small tract and will purchase the entire crop at good pricee. ..,. ? ,gs'. ,
 It has lately been urged that more attention be paid to the butternut. We second the motion. It is good and neglected nut.
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AxorHEn FLr IN gHE oINTmENE

Score another, but not for the muni- cipaI ownership of public utilities. The municipal ownership of the Staten Isl- and ferry illustrates some of the dan gers of municipal ownership and oper- ation of transportation agencies. While the ferry was under private manage ment the gross income is stated to have been $427. .OOO annually, and the running expenses s420, 900 for the same period. It is estimated that the city will incur annually deficit of s25O,OOO per annum instead of making profit of s7,OOo, The loss may be in part offset by the su- perior service the city ferryboats will afford, but this can by no means be taken as explaining the whole differ ence. The coal bills for the city boats, 1t is stated, will be far in excess of the amounts paid by the private company.
 | And so forth and so on. By and by it will perhaps be generally perceived that all is not gold that glitters.
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Mr. Timmid-WelI. now. you've got me.
 Miss Passay-Oh. MT. Tirnmid, this is so sudden.-Philadelphia Press. ..
 "A woman should know without ask ing whether her husband is happy said the model wife.
 T can tell" answered young Mrs. Torkins. When Charley comes home late to dinner and cans speak above a whisper know the home team has won another game."-Washingto Star.
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PRoGRKss IN THE SUDAN.

They are getting along in Africa.
 Lord Cromer's annual report upon the
 Sudan is a record of progress almost
 equal to that which has been made in Egypt, in spite of the difficulties caused
 by the size of the country and the lack of means of communication. The dis
 tance from Wady Halfa to Kondokoro
 is about 1,200 miles as the crow flies, and from the borders of Darfur to the
 Abyssinian frontier is a distance of nearly 1000 miles. The province of Kordofan alone, governed by some thir- ty British and Egyptian officials, covers
 an area greater than the whole of France, and yet the only present dan- ger to travellers in any part of the country comes from wild beasts. The
 growth of revenue has exceeded all ex' pectations. From g51O00 in the year
 that followed Omdurman it has risen to
 e576,O0O for 1904 exceeding all esti-
 mates. The deficit shrunk last year to
 G53, ,00O. This result is all the more
 gratifying in view of the adopted policy of low taxation. Equally satisfactory
 is the increase of child population and
 the gradual disappearance of the slave trade Applications for loans with which to buy cattle or to construct wa terwheels are frequent; and last veal the area of land under cultivation in- creased by 1O2,37S acres, of which 54,55S are artificially irrigated. Education starting from the Gordon college as g center, is beginning to produce some ef- lsfect, and in some localities the in. habitants have expressed their willing. ness to pay Q school rate. A local DO lice force is in process of organization
 Lord Cromer urgently calls for a large expenditure for irrigation, which, he holds will work miracles in the Sudan and prove of great ultimate benefit tc Egypt also.
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 NOT EASY TO RhST N0T.

People used to take an ocean trip to
 get clear away from men and things that were troubling them. Now, as the
 Providence Journal points out, the
 wireless telegraph has made it possible to worry almost from shore to shore.
 Mr. William D. Haviland arrived on
 the American liner St. Louis on Sum day, having had an agitated trip be- cause in the little wireless newspaper
 published on the vessel he found one morning the statement that his fathers
 house at Limoges, where serious la- Dor trouble has been in progress, was surrounded by strikers who had threat
 ened to do bodily harm to the elder
 Haviland. MT. Haviland the younger had intended to escape the worries in- cident to the strike at Limoges by talk ing the transatlantic trip, but as soon as he received this intelligence from home he began to use the wireless tele- graph facilities of the snip to the ut-
 most to obtain other information and
 to impress upon his associates at Linn oges the necessity of taking every pos- sible step to insure his fathers safety.
 As it happened, nothing serious oc-
 cured at Limoges, but for two days
 MT. Haviland was badly worried.
 Perhaps by and by the only way to
 get a rest will be to be buried or cre-
 mated, and even then one may be dis 1 turbed.
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not yet grown up to this stage, but the Russians are on the way to it.
 Besides, what disgrace can be greater than that of torturing men and com- polling them to commit the greatest crime imaginable-that of depriving iothers of their lives by cruel eompli- eated improved methods, invented by a shameful wrongly directed civilization?
 What cruelty can be greater than that of leaving hundreds of thousands iof children and aged people without fathers and sons, foodless, unclothed. dying from want; than that of com polling to suffer hundreds of thousands Tor weeping mothers, wives, fathers, and children, many dying or becoming Ill through grief; than that of leaving the fields uncultivated in order to inl- pose upon future generations enormous State debts? l Better let go all those lands which are acquired by such insanely cruel methods, in order that the remaining land should prosper and the people
 bless their rulers. . Yesterday, on returning home, the first thing saw at the entrance of my house was pale woman, thin as a skeleton, who was leaning in exhaus-
 tion against post. asked her what she wanted.
 We are dying from hugerl us! Five ichildren; I am the sixth.
 And where is your husband?
 In the hospital. Mafmed at the war, unable to work:
 l After a short silence the woman
 sighed and asked me: And what is the
 news? Will they soon stop the war? l Nothing is heard about that. I Then what is he doing? she said in a I tone of unspeakable suffering. I Whom do you mean? l Why the Czar! How many people arc dying of hungar, how many orphans
 he has sent begging! Good God! I This is what the people say, this is what a common mother feels, but a ] mother with the same feeling toward 4 her hungry suffering child, emaciated from it's extreme privations- a mother in this respect similar to us, ladies, Iempresses. in this feeling common to I all mortals.
 I But if czars and generals are afraid lof the disgrace of peace, then let us mothers of all masses revolt against those slaughters which have so rent Jour. hearts. Countess Sophie Tolstoy, in London Times.
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NOT AIB IN BR4ZfL.

Nuts grow in Brazil, as the people learned from Charlies aunt. but Bra
 gil is not the only place where they can
 and do grow. A company has been
 organized in Louisiana, with a capital of $2O0,000, for the purpose of estab- fishing a pecan nut nursery in that State. A t:arm of 15O acres has been purchased and active operations have talready begun. It is the intention of the company to put a half million trees on the market every year. The cultivation of the pecan nut has prov ed q profitable industry in the South. It is said that the largest grove of cultivated oceans in the world is in Louisiana. That there is money in the cultivation of the pecan and other nuts lis recognized by the up-to-date farm CTS in the South. MT. J. B. Wight, of Cairo, Georgia, speaking before the Georgia Horticultural society recently.
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HUNTING.
stella-Mhat is she lika2 2

Stella-What is she like?
 Bella-Well, she is a woman with a past before her.-New York Sun.
 ''Is it true that the .Bloptons are liv- ing beyond their income?"
 Worse than that. They're living be- yond their credit. Brooklyn Life.
 Do you think that mosquitoes carry malaria?"
 T dunno" answered Farmer Corn tossel. They never took any away from here. Washington Star ... <Jinks-Here, try one of these cigars; they are something I can recommend. Barry-If it's all the same to you, I think I'll take one of the kind you smoke yourself Boston Transcript. DO you keep fresh fish?" asked the lady customer. ,#&5 r4 s s:1. 7sss s Not if I can help it." replied the village butcher. T always aim to sell them right away."--C Chicago Daily News. . rSs-a #.t a D'Auber-Is sketchleigh much of an artist? :a2ga3r t@ -. Smearitt-The Illustrator? No, he copies everything Couldn't draw his salary without using tracing paper.-- Cleveland Leader.
 "No,'' said Mrs. Housekeep, "rny hus- band is not at home. He's out hunting, | as usual.'' %' v Hunting? Why, this is the close sea- son" '-@5+-.1s5-.s-t-,8' :, 5. $
 He's hunting cook. That season is always open. Philadelphia Ledger.
 Some children are very tiresome when they recite." ss ,s.t Is4g l "Yes,'' answered the proud father,
 tbut we avoided that, We taught Reg inald to recite two pieces, Little Drops of Water and 'Hamlet's Soliloquy,' So that he can appeal to all tastes.'-- Washington Star. ..-,-egf@3 -
 "She strikes me as a woman of con- stant singleness of purpose She's so---'' s {. s, " l 'She does seem likely" interrupted I the spiteful thing, "to be a woman of constant singlensss, but wouldn't say l of purpose I think she can't helr lf.'-Philadelphia Press. 7s Miss Passay (coyly)-I saw the cutest painting to-day of the-er-what is the name of that little god that represents lmatrimony? 5 sta,y.-,.sss--
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the nk-protected ditch. and line uE along it's entire length, with their long
 poled nets held rigidly and their eyes fixed on the cut in the earth. A warden creeps to the rear end of the ditch, and cautiously peeps over. With a series of frightened squawks and a splashing and Tapping of many wings, the terri fled birds rise like bullets from the wa ter; the nets sweep through the air, and are brought bottomside up on the rearward side, when a few of the most lucky and skilful are found to have a threshing, loudly quacking duck en- meshed therein. William Dinwiddle in Harper's Weekly.
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tion. Of course the monkeys hand went up and down and the animal wondered what sort of game was be- ing played. Then the officer patted it's head and fed it with candy till soon the langur thought it fine to work the punka. The experiment was successful and now thousands of monkeys are in harness.
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Tn an address at the Hampton Insti- tute anniversary Booker Washington pointed to the example of the Japanese as an encouraging one for the negroes, and concluded with the good-natured thrust: "And now they say the Japan csc are members of the white race"
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Marquis Kuroda's pond is some ten [acres in extent. Around its entire cir conference a great mcundlike wall some fifteen feet in height has been thrown up, and upon it's summit and
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Perhaps even the smart Japanese haven't thought of this: The German War department will soon issue to its officers maps about as big as the palm of the hand. Thus the big ordnance maps are reduced by photography to a size easy to carry. The officers will have magnifying glasses to read them,
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The following letter asking for an in crease of salary was received by firm in Shanghai from two Chinese clerks in its employment: Dear sirs Being respectfully to ask you the pardon for allow us to request you the favor how ever we understand that you are an in telIigent and patronaged us this so long while. Therefore we venture dare not to solicit your assistance for increase little of our salaries that we can enough to support this family. Recent ly at Shanghai the house rent and pro- visions, etc, are double dear between since for few years which compel us to ask you for the favor. Hoping you will kindly enough to grant us this re- questing and keep attention for us of this affair. >&
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Monkeys are actually made to work in Malabar, India, which is perhaps
 the only place in the world where they earn their salt. The Malabar monkey is of the fine species known as the
 langur. It is very warm in Malabar and there is a fan called the punka, which used to be kept in motion by a slave. It required slave to work each punka, but now every punka in Malabar is worked by a monkey. Ii was an English officer who conceived the idea of making a. langur work in that manner. The fan is a movable frame, covered with canvas and sus- pended from the ceiling. The motion Is caused by pulling a cord. The off, cer tied the hands of the ,langur to one of the cords and then by means ot another cord put the machine in mo-
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DUCK HUNTING WITH NETS IN
 JAPAN.
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A curious competition between ele- plants. horses and men in pulling and pushing has taken place in connection with the exhibition given by a great circus and menagerie. Seventy five men pulling on ropes registered 5000 pounds on a gauge which credited one elephant with 5000 pounds pulling and 7,2oo pounds pushing. Two horses with a short pull scored 5000 pounds, and 25O0 on a long pull Four horses pull ed 5000 pounds, or as much as one ele- phant, but 20 per cent. less than sin gle elephant pushed. Two camels made the surprisingly poor record of 1000 pounds, or the equivalent of about nine teen men.
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Mrs. Letitia Tyler semple, daughter of President Tyler and once mistress { of the White House, will celebrate her eighty-fourth birthday on Thursday at her home in Richmond, Va. Mrs. Sem pie was borne at Woodbourne, Charles County, Va. May il, 1921. Eighteen years later she married Purser James semple, Of the navy. The following year her father was elected vice presi- dent on the ticket with William Henry Harrison, at whose death shortly after the inauguration MT. Tyler succeeded to the presidency. Mrs. Tyler, then an in valid, resigned her social duties to her daughters, Mrs. semple assuming the chief cares. .s.-
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Fifteen years ago Hotel Keeper H. H.. Stevens. of Colorado Springs, being about to visit California, tried to sell his $50 COW, and, not succeeding in that, pastured her at the Broadmoor dairy. In his absence the dairy was sold out COWS and all--to MT. Smith. When Stevens got back and undertook to re- claim his COW Smith wouldn't listen to him, He brought suit; it was the be- ginning of a fifteen years litigation. < he COW died long ago, but it was only last week that the Colorado Supreme court decided the case finally against Stevens. He says he'll now haul Smith into the federal courts if his lawyers can manage it. k
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