New York Tribune Poland Once More 5febr 1905

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3,0 need to ask: "Which is the- prince?" lie on is can be teen at onco to be of royal.blood. He has a magnificent chest, which he throws out like a lion; his voice rolls from It like that of a lion, as is the custom with princes. He has a very fine £ beard, which is nearly white, and appearance; majesty :uHI« to of his which the of thesa handsome sentences ;.if 00, ho Is to be his bni.iiioss also makes him look the finer, as congratulated.' I meant only to say tnat tne baldness is becoming to large men and li theremerely n gardens consists best originality in very becoming ato him.— (Ham Mukasa, priworking out to perfection some idea «*•' will fore vate secretary to Katlklro mi Uganda., In the exactly adapt the place to its conditions and

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.-.".DROPPING.:; .THE PILOT.' William's) tr^Tfce If*thing alter -Ml (Emperor a \u25a0>. la;sfCP?sk«n which really struck me as ttion of his character was his dismissal of Bisnumber* of people thin was marck. By vast thougUt the act •>( aa exultßi I young ruler eager restraint, r-p'cape \u25a0':-. to and this opinion was conptie*a>ly promoted .in English speaking counephemeral cause— Tcnniti's cartoon tries by an In "Puj.ch" entitled "Dropping th« Pilot." Ah t:V»st people f ho read tills Rill.renifinbfjrjjthe. as an Irou CoaJiceHor wes therein represented • old. weather beaten y.Viui. In storm coat and frying slowly and heavily down t".' inou'west'ir. l&angway at Uie Bids of a grtoi s!iip vhUe.far \u0084«.-....

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The best window garden lever saw was made than, a woman who probably knew .less i i three wai dozen kinds of plants. The place window was window bay, of which the centre windows were left hare of plants. The two side staged with well" grown 4re*anlums, oxahs. very othonna farfugium and two or three other common things, and festooned with German ever saw ivy. The poorest window garden I was ir.y own, with plants that every one knew jbovr him. losnJr.sr over. tho bulwarks, was the were bought of the florist. the key to good Jyoung Erfcperor, Jaunty; jvith a satisfied smirk. The above example \u25a0'\u25a0•\u25a0 ,an<J wearing Ms '"rown. There was Id lUat little original garden*— the garden must ba one's own lerawing a :ark of genius, and it sped far; In th« sense that one rhakes it or directs it so jprobably n<> other cartoon in inch." ever pro- that it shall express the very spirit of the piace duced Si d'.'Vp an effect. sr.v<» poeslMy that which and of the owner.— (The Garden Magazine. . appeared during the- Crimean War with the 3«?g?nd, "General February Turned Traitor." It HOW DOES THE ROBIN KXOW7 "went everywhere, appealing to deep sentiment In recently observed a robin boring for grubs In I human hearts. Bismarck is the a country dooryard. It is a common enough ; And yet, to me. admiring greatest man siro • . Lut2?er. but reflecting !»!plit to witness one seize an angleworm an.i \u25a0JTpon ihf vant interests involved, this act was drap it from its burrow In the turf, but Iam not a stronger sur» that I ever before *~w om drill for grubs \t proof ihal the young monarch was Certainly this and bring the big while morsel- to the surface. rrcfin than, any one had supposed. deep pang. Vst&mifsal must have caused him a The robin 1 oiii speaking of had a nest of young At! his previous life had shown that he admired in a maple near by, and she- worked the neighSlsmarcX. almost adored him. The dismissal borhood eery Industriously for foou. She would V*v*>£i?;" ruling alone, of tak- Miff and erect. Now and then she would suding into his own hands the vast work begun by denly her head tow ird the ground and bring Richelieu; but that was the merest nothing eye orbend ear for :imoment to bear Intently upon it. compared with this. This ffu, apparently, .as Then she would spring to boring- the turf vigif Ix>uls XIII,immediately after the triumphs orously with her bill, changing her attitude at of Richelieu, had dismissed him and declared each stroke, alert and watchful, throwing up the his purpose of henceforth bfinp his own Prime grass roots and little jets of soil, stabbing deepZllnlster. Th* young Emperor had found himself at the parting of fbo ways, and had deliberately chosen the right path, and this in ispiie of almost .universal outcries at home and abroad. The old Emperor William could let Bismarck have his way to any extent: when his Chancellor sulked, he oould drive to the paljtbre In the Wltaelin Strafe, pat bis old servant on the back, chaff him. scold aim. lau^h at him •and set him going again, and no one thought T.».ss of the old monarch on that account- But ifor'the young Emperor William to do this was fatal. It classed him at once among the ro!s faineants, the mere il^urrncads. "the solemnly by a

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DO ANIMATE P.rAI.LY THINK? THINK" ANIMALS REAIXY We M habitually impute thought to animals that ive come unconf-xlcusly to look upon thorn iis possessing this power. Thus the dog 3eerr.s to think' about his dinner vrhen prompted by hunger, or about his home and his master whoa separated from them. The bird seems to think jabout its mate, its neot, its young, Its enemies. The fox Main to think about the hound that it *i«»Ers baying upon its track and tries to eludo lit; the beaver \u25a0rums to think about it« dam. the tnuskrat about its house in the fall. the iwoodperker out the cell In the dozy "limb [which it will need as a lodging place In the fruiter. That is, all these creatures act as if they thought. We know that urrder similar conMitioris we think, .nd therefor* Tie impute rbought to them. But of mental Images, concepts, processes lik» our own, they probably have Innate or inherited Impulse, which col] instinct, end outward, stimuli explain frost of the actions of the animals. (John .Burroughs. In Harper's stage sine

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A VISIT TO POPE LEO XIII.

|J There were three red and gold armchairs at one end of the room, with a thick, handsome rsrpet In front \u25a0\u25a0( them. The Pope sat on the one in the middle, put no on his rlßht and W. very figure:

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From time to time the Pope to me and asked mo (always In Italian}turned if politic* Interested me— believed all French women -vere keen politicians— also IfI had found many old friends In Rome. T told him I was co p!<>as*d to see Felice Malatesta as v.c came in arid that we wore going to meet Cardinal Howard one day at breakfast. Ishouldn't think he took as much interest In the social life of Rome " s P jo ono did.—(Mary King Waddington. In 2s2Scribner's Magazine.

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last week public attention hero sanguinary ; has ence more b*en attracted, by important riot* at Warsaw. Lodz and in other cities and towns of Poland, to a people whose clefate has always excited In a very marked time the From Kree the Interest of American*. when Thaddeus Kosciusko fought for the- Independence of the United States, as aide-de-camp being comto George Washington, his services memorated by means of, a monument on the by the banks of the Hudson at West Point and which President Negroes, for Koa-ciuiko School Thomas Jefferson founded at Newark, Poland symlot has always appealed to American of her recovery struggle for the pathy. Her many difindependence, which has continued in During the

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wonderful examples* of has furnished self-sacribravery, patriotism and of chivalrous fice, that anything which affects the welfare of the Poles meets with a keener appreciation over here than anywhere else In the world. whatsoever of tn.s While thero Is no prospect success, since Gerstruggle being crowned with many and Austria-Hungary, which in the eighof teenth century participated in the division the Poland with Russia, are bound together with indelatter to prevent any restoration of Polish had dismy second day, to my camp, which I in th* Polish pendence, yet the situation patched from Lahore by mil and bullock-cart some exceedprovinces of tho Czar Just at present Is seven or*»teht days previously." pays Major J. S a matter of more serious conEdye In "The Graphic." "My servant* had a good ingly grave, and than at any dinner ready for me, -but some difficulty in making cern to the Muscovite government the former Insurtime in the last fifty years. In rections, and especially In the one of lhU>. a peasantry and the wide gulf existed between tho in educated, well to do and patrician classes Poland, the peasantry being badly treated by the landowners, who exacted from them labor without pay. and regarded them much In the same lightthat the Russian P.arine looked upon of the his serf. Indeed, it was only the influence now, strongly Roman Catholic clergy, then, as Imbued with nationalist B *ntiment3. which led the peasantry to lend their assistance to tho leaders of the revolutionary movement of 186% And which -was essentially one of the classes. among the most efficacious means adopted by the Russian government to wean the masses from the Insurgent cause were the promises of the liberation of the peasants from the servitude to their landlords and the Investment of the tenants with the ownership of their holdings. Immense estates, belonging to members of the nobility implicated In the rebellion, were thus distributed among the peasantry, while others were either presented to Russian officials or \u25a0old to them for a mere song. The- forTo-day the situation has charged. mer gulf bet-ween th© educated Poles and the peasantry Is almost completely bridged over, for the nobles have come to the conclusion that they are powerless to recover their independence without the support of the nearly two million peasants In Poland, and are therefore endeavorIng by every means in their power to conciliate their good will, and to educate them in what This is not they describe as a patriotic sense. difficult, for the peasant ownership of land, which compel owing to the laws of succession, the division of a dead man's land, no matter how small Its area, In equal parts among all his heirs, has proved a terrible failure, resulting in widespread diftres3. Moreover, the Russian twoscore nobles who obtained Polish castles years ago, either by grant from tha Imperial them, or government, which had confiscated merely at a nominal price at the compul•ory sal**, are now In such a state of financial distress and insolvency that they are glad to dispose of their lands in Poland to the former owners of the estates. The Russian government, In the hope of winning over th9Polish nobility, far from opposing, has encouraged this, and In consequence thereof there has for the last ten years or so been a steady flow eastward of the Polish aristocracy, and the Potockis, the Zamoyskls. the CzartorlFkis. the Poninskls and hundreds of other bearers of equally illustrious names are once more In possession of those castles and domains with which their families have been Identified since time Immemorial. such

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ACROSS THE GREAT SALT LAKE BY RAIL. survey When, on February 10. 1000. the- first in whose mind* was born was made,to the men the distance between Lucln shorten the plan instead of and Ogden by going across tho lakeundertaking by an confronted around It were than that which loomed up more stupendous pyramids for tho before the royal builder of the only to consider ways of getting his had latter Booklove;s Magazine. former had to material to the spot, while the plan not only that, but the far more difficult A DANGEROUS SPORT. , it keeping there. feat of a good solid To drive fast Bnd daringly does not noceoThe pvramld builders had at least tho Orient, but the sarlly r< iulre re- klessm s». Ihave bt^n sad- foundation on the sands of bottomless, and often dled with a great repul tioi for daredevlltry, Great Salt Lake seemed only bul It I am n< i reckless bul cal- when bottom was reached It proved to be all the chances and dare treacherous quicksands. culating.^ i June, • to t )• (hem becat Work was begun from the Oeden Mid In ! have reckoned th'im and am confldent of mj* ibility !\u25a0> escape the 1002 and after many discouragements and an nearly upid mind that does expenditure of $13,000,000. the Lucin cutnol know what danger Is. l am aware of all off was completed. And now the trains on the route glide smoothly over the Its being taken whenever l am • driving Southern Pacific sullen, and t ow just what 1 am •1 • 11l k.1 Ik.1 k. Au- eighteen miles of firm roadbed, while the in which oven tomobile racing Is the most dangerous F]tort lonely waters of Great Ball Lake, we have. A man risks death every time he the fi?hea of the ocean cannot live, slitter wonat the n;p of sixty miles an hour, but derlngly up at the little conqueror of steam and surely over the calculate bo as to reduce the chances steel which glides so swiftly and him. rl automobile driver \u25a0car upon M* breast.— (The Four Track News. necessary any does riaks more than .-\u25a0 perfornn r. Tho cha RKHOR SHOOTING. like the acrobat, is a skilled performer. In •bile racing, however, the dangers are perilous .sports in other a Ereater than because to the machine may moan very slight Goats in India Is •i.(.•!•\u25a0: death. A loose nut, ;i defective piece of Stalking steel, or .i nail on the nark is sufficient t>> end Fatiguing Sport. fatally. Such thoughts must not be entertained, however, at the outset of ;i contest. [f a man is in the least apprehensive he should "Railing tomo twenty-two hourp. driving some sixty or seventy miles nnd marching: through the not start In a race. If he d< i n accident la I cartain. (Barney Oldlield, in The Met- hills another five mile? brought me. at the end of

•mcrcl;.- dangers to the young monarch, -but to &is dynasty and to the empire. !* To :n« his recognition of thta fact v.-as and Is proof tha.t the favorab> judgments of him [Mitch Ihad h°ard expressed In Berlin were well ndod (Andrew D. Whit*. In The Century

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de fledged rattler ready to hunt and ready toEach of death. fend himself with the sting flat, triangular little head is provided with the long, sharp poison fang* contal »ln RaiKer, in venom of the mother snake. (A. W.

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RAILROAD PHILANTHROPY, i The railroads In the United States in Increas- er and deeper, growing every moment more and and an Insurance company, respectively. They •ng: numbers are making provisions to offset in ' more excited, till finally a fat grub is seized and organize a trust company with $1,000,000 capisome measure the hard conditions that Fur- brought forth. Time after time, during several tal, of which the Insurance company furnishes -ounfl the lives of their employes. Mr. Max :days, I saw her mine for grubs in this way and the majority; they then elect G president and Jltebenack. the assistant controller of the Perm- I drag them forth. How did she know where to controller of the trust company and make him sylvania Raiiroad, has made a survey The drill? insect was in every case an inch betheir associate or a dummy. The trust comof the I tfltOMUl Institution* supported by the rail!low the nurface. Did she hear it gnawing th« pany receives $5,000,000 of the people's money roads of the country, and the showing la noteroots of the grasses, or did she see a movement on deposit. The Insurance company deposits worthy. Twenty-four railroads conduct insur- In the turf beneath which the grub was at work? $5,000,000 of Its surplus funds and the savings ance bureaus. Nina of these, employing nearly :I know not. Ionly know that she struck her bank $5,000,000 more. The "Trust" then purone-fourth of the railroad employes in the game unerringly each time. Only twice did I chases for $5,000,000 the stock of an Industrial country. carry on relief associations which dis- nee her make a few thrusts and then desist, as corporation. It borrows the ffi.QOO.OOO and an burse J2.230.000 a year. Sixteen railroads, em- ifBhe hid been for the moment deceived. (John additional $5,000,000, which represents Its own Ploying nearly 40 per cent of our railroad work- Burroughs, in Outing. first profit, from tho trust company through men, have pension funds to provide for em- I Irresponsible dummies, depositing the indusi>!oyea of long who have reached the trial stock as collateral. The "Trust" next REAL. SELF-CONTROL. age of sixty-fiveservice or seventy. The system v.as i causes the trust company to issue bonds for To most people self-control means the control started only four years ago. and yet twelve of < $15,000,000. These bonds are based upon and •is railroads have now a total of twenty-threo ; of appearances and not the control 'of realities. secure by nothing of worth but the stock. The bonds; for sale. •BTO*rsd ViznAonera on their lists. In many This is a radical mistake, and must be corrected; company {offers trust The cases the funds are maintained by the Interest If we are to get a clear Idea of self-control, insurance company these buys $7,500,000 of th« on a Bum originally set aside to cover the »-x- Hr.d if we are to make a fair start In acquiring and the trust company, through dumbonds pense. Two railroads, the Pennsylvania and aa a permanent habit. mies*, th« other m..~:-'hmiii. By th.- operation the ItIf a man is ugly to me, and I want to knock co far the '•Trust 'shows a profit of $10,000,000. Baltimore and Ohio, maintain savings departments. The system of the Baltimore and Ohio him down, Mid refrain from doing ho simply After making this prpf}t nd tho true worth of permits the Immediate relatives of employes, an because it would not appear well, and Is not bonds becoming known, these th)O.(MH). This loss is divided as my hatred; if, to and for the sake of appear$3,333,000 to the Ings bank $& THE DRUMMING OF GROUSE. follows: ances, 1 do not act or speak from it, 1 am 333,000 to the insurance company and $3,333,« --SVno has not heard the drumming of ruffed none the leps at Its mercy, and it will find an 000 directly to the people, less the •mall amount gtpuse while In the woods during the spring outlet wherever it can do so without, debasing will be recovered from the stockholders. v.-hieh months? Itis the most common sound of woo- me In the eyes of other mm more willingthan (Thesa losses will be eted In in unimporing, beard from every thicket at every of lam to be debased. My selfish dt\«ire to Injure tant ay by the $1,000,000 original capital^ -h« day. Them is still a misconceptionhour hate is counterbalanced by my selfish as to the man I In this case tin"Trust" has done nothing now the drumming Is done. Th« general belief desire to stand well In t!u- eyes of othor men. for which tho«»(» responsible for It can be hold 'ti, that -the bird produces the bound by There can I" no true self-control so lor.;; as civjlly workcriminally or liable. Neither ha • ins Its iMngs rapidly; using them to strike its either form of selfishness dominates my actions. Insurance company, the pavings hank, nor tbo body or a log. the appearances is merely outward The control of trust company, and vet. if thero had been no It is true that the ruffed 'grouse, like most repression, and a very common of this "TniPl" and any on** of the three institutions chickens, flaps Its wings In the excitement of its may be observed In tho effort to instance control a lauHi m?d3 the loss directly through its own acjoy« song, but that the drumming is produced —(Annie Pay son Call, In Leslie's Monthl; Maga- had tioiis. the officers of that institution would have In that manner Is a myth. I have often watched zlne. been civilly and perhaps criminally held rea dock which, standing on a log and drumming —^Thomas W. Lawson, in Everytor dear life, apparently did not move a feather, EDWARD VIIAND THE KATIKIRO OF body's Magazine. though I must state that the drumming was UGANDA. not so loud as If the wings had been flapped. Flapping the wings evidently fills with air the When we passed through the door we saw BABY RATTLESNAKES. of the the bird, "Father of the Nation" sitting upon his iuase end throat but Is not an lnThe fallacies surrounding the rattlesnake bedtopensabte agency In producing '.he drumming. throne, dressed (a magnificent kingly raiment gin with the very coming of the reptile. Many J£\the ruffed grouse could work its ing« aa He bowed his head threo times, and we did the suppose that, like the garter snake, the bull Quickly a« the dosing strophe of the drumming, fame and bowed three times; and he then told snake, the members of the "racer" family and it 'would be. the swiftest motor In existence.— the Katiklro to si. down, and he Bat down on our other non-poisonous snakes, the rattlesnake (Coantry Life In America. a golden chair, while I and Captain Hobar! is batched in broods numbering from forty to stood up. eighty. As has been intimated, however, rattle' King asked the Katiklro: The you "Do . . "ORIGINAL" GARDENING. like snakes are born into the world, as are all mem« this country Very much?" And he replied: "It bera of the vlperold family. In litters numbering Originality in garaiffie, as In everything else, is a very fine country, and the work which is from seven to twelve. : nitty be good or bad. One of the most "original" done In this country. of yours Is most wonderful Between the middle of July and the middle of am amazed at the houses and streetsrardens Iever saw was in a little town in I August the babies appear. Lively, self-reliant, JWUthern Michigan. It was a mere front yard. the people like locusts in j numbers; and and the dangerous little fellows they are, fourteen Inches suppose, net more than fifty.,feet square. It railway train* which go marvellously fast- a long, no thicker than a lead pencil, marked like I was an Intricate geometrical pattern, as cle\ rer three months* Journey on foot is done in eight the adult snakes, and provided with a single in the design of a carpet, with diminutive hours." '-.S':'' button at the end of tho tall the first link In the The King- then Btood up very straight— when series of rattles ,Eplaehe* of gi-stvi?!. krj""1 of boa and shearto be developed, ring by ring, tniertainingly you would think he had not a up ti-^Jefs,. interesting . ll.wr»«< he Elands shedding of the skin* ia&CcIndescribably ugly. with each body, straightens Joint in his because he Motionless, eyes gleaming, the long mother and himpenius-of truer originality Is as- rare as self so nicely—and wo said goodby to one an- lies extended n roes the back of a sand hum<
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consequence is that at present the relations between the Polish nobility and the peasantry ar-j characterized by a good will that the latter do not entertain toward tha Russian government, for the latter has no more lands to distribute, is forced to adopt harsh measures In order to secure the payment of the onerous taxes, and is unable to do anything toward tha relief of the destitution and distress of the peasant -i, who, of course, resent bitterly the endeavors made by Incompetent, brutal and tactless officials to Russianize them, both as regards language and FRONTIER OP INDIA. creed, no matter at what cost or by what means. (The Oi «. Another feature of the actual crisis In Poland the Iron tent pegs hold in the rocky ground. Iis the condition of the working classes. Poland now had six days to shoot, and on the fifth day the has a large number of manufacturing Industries following Incident occurred: Soon after daylight, within its borders, and consequently a great and when six miles away from camp. I descried laboring population. Now. the chief characterisone of a bunch of wild goats. I was some half a mile off them, having been sitting down for some tic of the Polish workmen is their affinity with minutes, scanning the horizon with my glasses, the workmen of Western Europe. Unfortunatewhen I noticed a solitary female, evidently doing ly the labor laws that exist in Poland were desentinel, by the regular way she was marching up vised by Russians to meet the requirements of and down on a rlilgo of rock some hundred yards labor la Russia proper, which are entirely disin length, Itdid not take me long to stalk to with- tinct ana different from those In Poland. In in MM yards of her and search the ground for the Europe, as in this country, the rights remainder, "which I knew must be near; but how to "Western cross that 200 yards of shale and stones to the of labor, even to the extent of strikes that shelter of the big rock at the end of her beat was paralyze entire Industries, an not only recoga conundrum Icould not guess; for I expected to nized, but even protected by law, while everysee the herd on tho far slope of the ridge upon thing in connection therewith can be done openlay watching her lor ly and aboveboard. which she had her beat. I In Russia matters are enfully an hour, but no change made she from her tirely different in this respect. Strikes constiregular beat. Then I noticed that she occasionally crime, and concerted action on tha part dipped down about tho middle of tho ridge and was tute a against capital la construed ad conout of view for a few seconds. I timed her; and of labor .Labor unions, such as wo understand taking the average time she was oat of view, I es- spiracy. timnUil that if Isprinted fast I could cross that them here, are compelled by the nature of RusJM yards before she reappeared. So, watching my sia's labor. laws to take the form of secret opportunity, when she again dipptd from view, I that id to say, illegal—societies, and these natwas up and ran hard for the huge bowlder at the urally develop revolutionary leanings that are end of her beat. •I lay still to recover my breath when Ihad carefully fostered by the socialist element of tho In fact, the nearly reached the bowlder and wan covered by It labor party in Western Europe. from her view, and then crept quietly close up and relations] bet.veen labor in Western Europe and peered round its right-hand edge to see the herd Iin Poland have become so close that the workexpected standing and lying about, and ouu old ing classes In the former kingdom of @obieskl billyhigh up in a torn tree, with his torn feet still are firmly resolved to submit no longer to what higher up. where he was nibbling the topmost they describe as the intolerable tyranny of Russhoots. Then there was a general post, for. withlaws, which leave them completely seeing out or hearing me, they got my wind, the sia's labor old billyleaping right out of tho tree and standing defenceless and at tho mercy of their employers. in the foreground quite clone to me. the other j This is the chief causa of the labor riots at scampering here, there and everywhere, and I. Warsaw and In most of the great industrial waiting a few seconds to pick out the one with the centres of Poland In th» last wick. That the best horn*, selected one as they scampered oft and riots have been fomented by foreign labor assostood for a moment on th« ledge before descending ciations and socialistic societies, and even down hundreds of precipitous feet. I thoLght I muat nave mi«ed. as pa running forward to thu financed by the latter, there la every reason to spot vvhei"d had Btood the one I ured was believe. Homing loV b« seen, only tar down— at therevertialmost cally uowii-weie tho herd descending, Of course. th« most sensible way of dealing and at last they reached the bottom ana crowed a while, with the situation would be to Institute special foaming torrent— which was so far below that 1 could no. hear its roar, but only »•« it as me a whit* labor legislation on purely Western lines for looking wooliy streak-and the goai» begun to as- Poland, to meet the peculiar conditions of labor cend the opposite slope, being lome 600 to »uO varan off, when 1 noticed one was lagging befcind and there, which are so different from anywhere else utter a while stopping to rest altogether "It was nopeleas lor me to attempt to descend In the Czar's dominions, save, perhaps, In FinIn their tracks, so. making a detour of a couple of land. By that means alone could the revolumiles, 1 managed to reach th« stream where they tionary tendencies of the present labor movehad crossed, and Boon found tracks of blood 1 followed -lowly ail day; then. du»k ciwhich on 1 ment In Poland be checked and disarmed. This hail to start back some live or alx miles to cam n was advocated by the late Prince Imeretlntore daylight the next morning 1 was up and away, to take up the truck* again, this being tne eky, the most enlightened anil progressive of laat day I had lor shooting, as i had to allow two Russian Governors General of Poland In recent days for my Journey back. And luck favored ma years, and for after tracking for about a mile my atu-ntiuii also by Count Wttte. more than was directed to an old crow perched on a rock any other Muscovite statesman, who. right up near tm» dead end of a rocky ravine, commands tho and knowing from experience these birds are often sure confidence and respect of foreign nations. But guide* to a carcass, I proceeded to climb up to init la so diametrically opposed to tho policy purspect, and. sure enough, found my goat quite dead right at the end of the ravine. I cut oft his head' sued by those In power at St. Peters: of and. together with the bead of another I later Russianizing everything and of "bringing every that day, returned to camp well i/i.-aaedshothaving portion shot four markber during my •:* day* of mootof the empire. Including Poland, Finland. ing," -. J- "*. tha Caucasus. Siberia, *nd Turkest*n;» under tha

—

Kingdom In the

eventually In the bosom of th» Church, with the elimination of every vestige of nationalist sentiment or racial feeling, that It Is hopeless to dream of any recourse

laws and

to such remedy, the only alternative being force. Nor must it be forgotten that the masses la Poland are far better educated than their Russian fellow citizens of the same class. This •% due to the native Catholic clergy, whose Influence, especially among the peasantry, is very great. Thanks to the priests, both peasants and laborers In Poland, as a general rule, know ho/» But they hava to read their own language. nothing to read. For the newspapers are mostly printed in.Russian, and in the few public libraries that exist the works are almost exclusively Russian, while booksellers who venture to embark in the sala of Polish literature are "discouraged" by the Russian police, who fear, not perhaps without reason, that Polish works will

tend

to

expense

foster the nationalist sentiment at th» of Russia. The result of this Is that

practically the only reading matter within th» reach of the masses in Poland is those revolutionary and socialistic pamphlets, books and papers printed In Polish with which th« revolutionary and socialist committees rr.am.~3 to flood the- entire kingdom. Ithas lr.oro Hum once been suggested at St. Petersburg that great advantage would be derived from the establishment in Poland of a system of public libraries filled with works printed in. Polish, with mean* of circulating th» books, not only In ths industrial centres, but also in the villages, It being pointed cut that In this way the laboring man and the peasant might be weaned from revolutionary literature, which now constitute* their only mental pabulum, It was even show:\ how this might be done at a relative!; small co6t. especially If the co-operation of the Catholia clergy were obtained. But this, like many othfp excellent suggestions, remains bidden an ay in some pigeonhole at St. Petersburg, where th* statesmen in control are too often handicapped by their Ignorance of the true situation of affairs In Poland, and unwillingto follow the r;--

ommendations

of those able Muscovite oSfctala

on the spot who really understand tha conditions which prevail there. From this it will bo seen that, as I hat a stated above, tho state of Poland is very grave, economically a3 v ci! 23 politically. Nor that there is any danger of Russian Poland recoverIng her Independence by means of a revolution, for neither Austria nor Germany could pexsgS this, but would bo forced In self-protection to»' come to the assistance of the Czar in suppressing any revolt. Still, at the sarr:c time, a rising in Poland at an early date is more than probable, and. Inasmuch as on this occasion th» Russian government will find itself confronted by the aristocracy, the raldila classes, th» peasantry and the labor element, all working together in unison, encouraged, too, by the clerjy,

essentially nationalist, the rebeuioa will be much more difficult to deal with than, any of tho previous Insurrections, and will constitute a dismaying addition to OM numerous troubles which are now crowding one after another upon the Czar and his empire. Everything is ripe for a revolt in Poland, and unfortunately there Is no means of bringing horr.<* of their to the people there the. hopelessness cause, for, while individuallyclever and trillion:. the nobles as well as the educated clashes la.c'< that levelheadedness and Judgment which may be described as political sense, an-1 thong!) some of their number ha". \u25a0 achieved distinction, especially in Austria, as statesmen, aa soldier.* and &3 diplomats, yet the Poll . pe-oyie, eve.; when—they -enjoyed Independence, hrtve nevegiven any evidence of the possession of thos* qualities .which are indispensable to successful Indeed, until the kingdom self-sovjefrfnjent. was !"absorbed, by Russia, Prussia ai;& Austria. PolancTTwaa, by"reason of tt> internal disturb* ances, the political volcano of Europe.

which is

EX-ATTACHE.

SOME NEW SAWS. Maxims

of the Late Lord

Dalling

and Buhcer. The maxims of wisdom are the pieces of g!as> la a kaleidoscope; they remain forever unchanged and In the earns case, but every ago shades t>.*ra

Into a new combination Innine cases out of

of colors. ten

ex-

a man who car.rot

plain his Ideas Is tho dupe of his imagination ta thinking ha has any.

To say to a man when you ask Mm a rarer, "Don't do It if It inconveniences you." is irseaa way of savins yourself from an obligation and depriving another of the merit of conferring one. The flattery of one's friends Is required as a drara to keep up one's spirits against tae. injustice d oca's enemies.

Do not trust to your railroads r.or our telegraph nor your schools as a teat of civilization: tha real refinement of a nation Is to be found in tae justice of Its Ideas and the courtesy of Its xn&nntrs. The knowledge of the most value to us Is that which wo gain so insensibly and gradually as net to perceive ws havo acquired It until its effect becomes visible In our conduct.

The quiet of a city is tho qulot that ona most appreciates, for the aen^a of quiet in the country is lost by want of contrast. You will never be trusted Ifyou Co more to gata an enemy than to serve a friend. You are not obliged to give your hand to any but never give your finger.

eaee

The way to be always respected to 101 0 be a!way»H earnest.

When you notice a vague accusation you gtv* a reality and turn a shadow Into a substance*

•»•

You cannot show a greater want of taot than ta, console a person by maJuog Uxbt at

attempting to bis grief. *

One of the charms of an Intimacy between two persons of different sexes is that the man loves th* woman for qualities he does not envy, and tit* woman appreciates the man for Qualities she doe* not pretend to possess. The best \u25a0**? success.

a: «S-;oir.g

* failure is to obtain

Friendship and familiarity are twin sister* much alike, but rarely agreeing.

a

wer»

Whilst a second rate man is considering how aa should take the lead, a first rate man takes It. There are a great many Idle men constantly busy about something which they know Is not tne this* that ought to oscuyy them.

When you go into mixed company. th« air y»» should carry with you there Is that of fearing \u25a0• one and wishing to offend no one. Religious persecution Is the effect of *a exaggerated vanity rendered ferocious by the test in-

tentions.

The

he who turns life to the best for himself: the good man. ha who teaekes

practical man la

account

others bow to do so.

A Spanish proverb says that "He who sNkes) himself all sugar, the (Urn will eat him uo;~ b*t another observes, "He who make* »ti»so!f a* vinegar will never catch any flies."

.Make any one think be has been clever or a*r««able, and ha *iU thrak >•»«* b*vs fc-»«a so^—P«la*-" teentk Ceatury, K2jS£lßߣB|