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: - i . . r . . > .-, *-:; "V ' " *' .- AT THE PLAY. BT VH. "W. LOSS. Hie music from the cornet. Across the grand hall 6wept, And silence fell upon the throng As each sweet note its measure kept, Across the room from where yon sat, I caught a look from your grand eye# Teat made my blood run swift and hot. And all my soul to rapture rise. The mimic play upon the stage, xoe oeauues in tneir fuss nuu Unheeded passed before mv sight? I only saw your perfect face. Hie curtain fell, the play was done^ Of merriment and glee, But my life's play has just begun. To end, perchance, in tragedy. Pbont Royal, Va. The Piccadilly Puzzle, rain nnuknr An i rrmnmiD mtlCATkl IDC BlVftl W A IL&aiDLC Miavirj IN THE LIFE OF AH ENGLISH I0BLEMM. By F. W. HUME. CHAPTER Xn. MTLES DESMOKB FIXDS FBI END 8. . YT/F.R T1 F R . thereof sort of a fellow, and C0D6^ered himself decidedly hardly treated at being fljgfe arrested on such a serious } charge as that of the murder of Lena Sarschine. 7 According to the cynical 1 creed prevailing now-a-day8, all his friends should have turned theii backs on him now he was in trouble, but there is a wonderful lot of undiscovered ^ood even in friends, and none of them And he sadly needed help, poor fellow, for his position -was a very critical one, the evidence against him* being as follows: 1. He had laBt seen Lena Sarschine live on the night of the murder. 2. He had been met in St. James street by Ellersby not far from the scene of the crime. 2. He had in his possession the dagger with which the crime was, to all appearance*, committed. Myles answered these accusation ae follows: 1. He had not seen Lena Sarsohine on that night, bnt another lady who6e name he refused to divulge. 2. His presence in St. James street on the nignt in question was purely accidental. 3. And the dagger he had fonnd in the vise was one he had taken from Lena Sarschine on the afternoon of the day he had called to see Calliston about the elopement. "I'll tell you about that dagger," explained Myles to Norwood, his solicitor. I was at Calliston's rooms on the Monday afternoon looking over his papers, when Lena Sarschine came in like a madwoman to Bee Calliston. I tried to qniet her, but 6he refused to be pacified, and palling out the dagger said she would kill Calliston first and Lady Balscombe afterward. I tried to take it from bei and she flung it away?neither of us knew it was poisoned, or Idon'tthink we wonld have been so reckless over it. In falling the dagger rested slantwise from the floor to the fender, and in springing to get it I put my foot on it and broke the handle off. In case she should get it again, I put the pieces in my pocket and took them Home?I left them on a Bide table, so if they were found in the ornaments some one must have placed them there?and Lena Sarschine went away on that day, and since then I have Been nothing ol her." 'Then who -was the lady you saw on that night?" a*ked his solicitor. "I cannot tell yon," replied the yonng man, doggedly. "I gave my word to ihe lady I would sot say she had been there till I had permission, and till I get it 1 cannot. "When will yon get it?" "When Calliston returns in his yacht." "Why, in that caBe," said Norwood, "yon must mean Lady Balscombe?" "I han> not 6aid bo." "No," replied Norwood, quickly, "bul you say your permission to speak must come from a lady, and the only lady on board the yacht is Lady Balscombe, a? ehe ran away with Lord Calliston. Come, tell me, was it Lady Balscombe you saw thai night?" "I won't answer you." All that Norwood could do could not get any other answer from the obstinate young man, so in despair the lawyer left him. "It's impossible to perform miracles,* he muttered to himself, as he went back to his office, "and if thi6 young fool won't tell me the whole truth I cannot see what I can do." On arriving at his office he found a lady waiting to Bee him, and on glancing carelessly at the card handed to him by hie clerk, started violently. "Miss Penfold," he said. "By Jove! she was engaged to Lord Calliston. Now, I wonder what she wants?" The young lady made her appearance, and, the door being closed, Boon enlightened him on that point. "You are Mr. Desmond's lawyer?" she asked. "Yes, I have that honor," replied Norwood, rather puzzled to know what she had come about. "I?I take a great interest in Mr. Desmond," said the girl, hesitating, "in fact, I'm engaged to him." "But I thought Lord Calliston " "Lord Calliston is nothing to me," she broke in, impatiently. "I never did like him. though my tuardian wished me to marry bim, and I love tayles .Desmond. If I did not I would not be here." "Well, of course I feel sure he is innocent." "Innocent! I never had any doubt on the subject, but I want to know what chanceB there are of proving his innocence." ?.;il a* n At VYH* uc a uuucuiiuanor, dbiu mv?xwood, thoughtfully, " as I can get him to tell me nothing." "What is it he refuses to tell you?" asked Miss Penfold. "The name of the lady whom he saw at Lord Calliston's chambers on the night of the murder. I believe myself it was Lady Balscombe." "Lady Balscombe!" cried \lay, in as. tonishment, "why what would take her there?" "Perhaps she went to meet Lord Callis. ton. The reason why I think it's she is that Mr. Desmond says he promised the lady he saw that he would not 6peak without her permission, and then he tells me he cannot Bpeak till Lord Calliston's yacht comes back, and as Lady Bals- | combe is the only lady on board it must be hen" "But whv should he refuse to tell you it wrb her?" ' Norwood shrugged his shoulders. "Well, it's bnrdiy the thing for a lady to visit chambers at thnt hour of th# night?her reputation " "Her reputation!" repeated May Pen fold, contemytaouslv-: "be need not trv to eave it now, considering sne*B thrown it away by eloping with Lord Calli6ton; but what else is there in his favor?" "The principal thing is the dagger," said Norwood; "he told me he took it from Lena Sarschine and brought it home?so if his landlady or any one else put it away, they must have seen it?and bo it wiU>how the truth of his stcrr." "liten in order to nnd out it will oe be6t to Bee his landlady." "Certainly?but I don't know where she lives." j "I do?Primrose Crescent, Bloomsbury. Ton go there and find out what you can." "I may as well try," said Norwood, thoughtfully, "but I'm afraid it's a forlorn hope." "Forlorn hopes generally succeed," replied May, with a confident smile. "So iou go to his lodgings, and then let me nown the result of your inquiries." Norwood agreed to this, and after Miss Fenfold had departed, called a cab and drove to the address of Myles Desmond. Kondalina, more wan and ghost-like than ever, opened the door and informed the lawyer that Mrs. Mulgy bad gone out. "That's a pity," said Norwood, in a disappointed tone. "Are you the servant? ' "Yes, sir," replied Kondalina, dropping a courtesy. "And you attend to all the lodgers?" "Yes, sir." "Oh! then perhapB you can tell me what I want to know,"said Norwood, cheerfully. "Take me up to Mr. Desmond's room." Kondalina, being a London girl, was very sharp, and looked keenly at Mr. Norwood to see if he had any design of burglary. The scrutiny proving satisfactory, she led him upstairs, and showed him Desmond's sitting-room. 11 " ?-a a a Plow, men, saiu ^grwuuu, iB&iug a seat, "I want you to answer me a few questions." Rondalina looked frightened, and 6aid, "Yes, Bir," in a mechanical manner. "First," asked Norwood, "do you duet this room and put things straight?" "I do, sir." "Do you remember seeing a broken dagger about the place?a blade and a handle?" Rondalina twisted her apron up into a knot and thought hard, and then intimated she had seen it. "Ohi?and when did you see it? "About a week or so ago, sir," replied Rondalina. "Mr. Desmond, sir, he comes in at 5 o'clock when I was a-layin' of the cloth for dinner, nnd ses he, 'I ain't agoin' to stay in for dinner, 'cause I'm agoin' hout,' then he takes the kuife from hiB pocket, being broken in two, and throws the bits on the table and goes out to put his clothes on. I takes the dinnei things downstairs, and when I comes up be were gone, so I Bets to work an' tidies up the room." "WaB the dagger still on the table?" "The knife, sir," corrected Rondalina. "Yes, sir, it were, and I puts the bit6 in the h'ornamentB bo as to keep 'em out of the way of the children, an' I 'ope ii weren't wrong, sir." "No, not at all," replied Norwood, "but tell me, did Mr. Desmond come back on that night?" "Yes, sir?but not till late, sir?3 o'clock in the morning. He adn't his latch-key, bo I 'ad to git h'up and let him in." "Was he sober?" "Quite, sir, only he seemed upset like, and goes up to his room without saying a word." This was all the information obtainable from Kondalina, so Norwood departed from the house very much 6&tis tied with what he had discovered. He drove straight to Park lane and told May Penfold all Bondalinn had Baid. "You see," he said, in conclusion, "this evidence will prove one thintf, that Desmond could not have committed the crime with that dagger." "Then I suppose they'll 6ay ho did it with another, said May, bitterly. "If they do bo they will damage their own case," replied Norwood, coolly, "for Dowker swears the crime was committed by this special dagger, and if Desmond did not use it?as can be proved by the evidence of the servant?no one else could have done so; by the way, you say Sir Bupert was down at Berkshire on that niffht. "He was," replied May, "but he came up by a late train and then went to his club shortly before twelve." "Is he in?" asked the lawyer. "No; but you will be able to Bee him about 5 o'clock," said Miss Penfold. "He haB been Bhut up in his library since the elopment of his' wife, but had to go out to-day on business." , "I'llcall then." I "What do you want to see him about?" [ "I am anxious to ascertain if he knew of his wife's movements on that night, and whether she left the house." "I don't think he can tell yoa that, as his wife and he were on bad terms, and occupied different rooms. Besides, even if you find out that Lady Balscombe visited Lord Calliston's chambers on that night, it won't Gave Mylea.n 1 aon't Know so mncn about that," replied Norwood, cheerfully. "It will help to unravel this mystery, and when everything is made plain I'm certain Myles Desmond won't be the man to suffer for this crime." CHAPTER XIII. f MY LADY'S HUSBAND. Many people thought Calliston's visits merely need as a stalking-horse to conceal the designs of the young man on Lady Balscombe. When the blow came and the lady eloped, no one was surprised except the unsuspecting husband, who, having raised hiB wife from an obscure position to a brilliant one, and given her all Bhe could wish for, never dreamt for a moment she would reward him in 60 base a manner. Sir Rupert, however, had no idea of playing the complacent husband in thiB case, and at once proceeded to take steps for a divorce. The difficulty was to serve the guilty pair with citations, for as the yacht had gone to the Azores there was no cbance of doing ao until she returned to England, or until she touched at some civilized port easy to be reached by the lone arm of the law. The baronet sat in his library reading s letter from his lawyers, which informed him that Calliston's yacht, the Seamew, had put into port for repairs, as she had been disabled in a storm, and that the} had sent over a clerk to serve the citatioc at once. Just then Miss tenfold entered, followed by Norwood, at the sight of whom Sir Rupert seemed surprised, but laid nothing. "This gentleman wishes to 6peak with you, Sir Rupurt," said May, advancing toward the baronet. "He is " "A lawyer, I know," replied Sir Rupert, coldly pushing a chair toward his ward, "I've seen him in court?and what is the object of your visit, sir?"he said, tuoing to Norwood. "I've called to see you about this arrest Mvlflc Ttflsmond for the mnrder of Lena Sar6chine," Bays Norwood, placing tie bat on the table. "I know nothing about him," replied the baronet, looking angrily at May. "Why do yoa come to me for informalion?" "Because we want to Bave Mr. Desmond's life." said May. boldly. "His ate?a murderer'/" "He is no murderer," said the yonng girl, quickly. "Appearances are againBt him, but he is innocent." "I believe you love this feliow still," ?aid Balscombe, contemptuously. "So much that I'm going to marry him," ebe replied. "And what's all thiB got to do with me," asked Balscombe, haughtily. "'Simply this, that I have reason to believe Lady Balscombe had something to do with the case." "Lady Balscombe!" echoed Sir Rupert, turning pale with fury. "Take care. sir. take care. My affairs have nothing to do with yon, and Lady B.ilscombe's folly is quite apart from thiB?this murder. * "I think not," answered Norwood, quietly, "for in my opinion Lady Balscombe left this house and went to Lord Calliston's chambers on the night of the murder and saw Mr. Desmond. "Did Mr. Desmond tell you this?" said BalBcombe, in a nervous voice. "No; Mr. Desmond refuses to tell anything," rejoined Norwood, "but I am certain it was Lady Balscombe, and as you came up from Berkshire on that night I thought you might tell me at what hour Lady Balscombe went out." "I am no spy on my wife's movements," retorted the baronet, haughtily. "I came up from Berkshire, it is true, and unaerBtooa rrom my servants that m? wife was in her room. As we wera not on good termB I did not see her, but went straight to my club. From there I did not return till about 3 in the morning. I then went to bed and did not know of Lady Balscombe's flight till next morning, when it was too late to stop her. So, you see, I can tell you nothing." Norwood was about to reply when knock came to the door and the servant, entering, gave a card to Sir Rupert, which he glanced at and then handed to Aorwoou. "Here is tho detective who has the case in hand," he said, quietly. "Perhaps, if you question him, yon may find ont what yon want to know. Show the gentleman in." "Dowker's a clever man," said Norwood, when the servant had retired; "he arrested Desmond, bo I presume he has come here to get evidence against him. Now, Miss Penfold, we must pat our witi against his." "Yes, and between the two 6tooIs poor Desmond will fall to the ground," replied the baronet, with a cold smile. "Here is your detective." Mr. Dowker, being announced by the servant, entered the room quietly, and bowed first to MiBS Penfold and then to Sir Rupert. fcHow do yon do, Mr. Norwood?" he said, calmly. "I did not think to meet you nere, dui x suppose we re on me Bttiue errand." "Not quite," replied Norwood. "You want to destroy Myles Desmond. I wish to save him." "There you are wrong," said Dowker, placing bis hat beBide a chair and taking niB seat. "I want to save him also." "Save him?" cried May, starting up. "Yes, because I believe him to be innocent." "Then why arrest him?" asked Norwood. Dowker shrugged his shoulders. "The evidence against him was too strong to permit him being at large, but from what I have learned lately I have reason to believe he is not the guilty man." This remark, coming from such a source, produced the profoundest impres? sion in the mind or May Penfold, and Norwood himself seemed relieved, while the baronet stood on the hearthrug and Innlrar] etalirilv on. "Then we can work together?" Gaid the lawyer, "Yes, to prove the innocence of Mr. Desmond," replied Dowker. "And in doing bo we will d.scoter the real crim> inal. "And now," observed Balecombe in a cold voioe, "having settled this little matter about helping Mr. Desmond, whom I sincerely trnst will be proven innocent of this charge, perhaps, Mr. Dowker, yon will inform me the reason of yonr visit?" "Certainly, sir," replied Dowker, deliberately. "I want to ask yon a few questions about Lady Balscombe." Two of his listeners looked at him in surprise, 6truck by the singularity of the coincidence that be should nave called on exactly the same errand as they did. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Rot in FlnwflM. A skilled botanist and horticul turist, whose annual displays of rare plants and flowers are one of the features of his city conservatory, said: "The mysteries of plant life are even more interesting and intricate than the secrets of insect life. The sex in plants and flowers and trees is just as distinctive as in the human species, and it is no uncommon thing to observe at the close of the day or at early morn a dashing male plant or flower bending its form over far enough to kiss the nectar from the petal lips of its nearest floral Juno. "Then some of the handsomest and most delicately formed and tinted plants and flowers are as ruthless and as savage in their inftincts as the cannibals of the Fiji Islands. The entire order of pitcher plants, notably among them the beautiful 'wild duck' or 'Indian moccasin' plant, whose delicately pink shaded purse-like sack is the admiration of all wild flower seekers, owes its existence to the flies and small insects which are attracted within its folds by the delicately flavored moisture of its cup and smothered and starved to death by the spasmodic closing of its outer door,hemming all intruders in as completely as a cell of the old Bastile, and on the9e strange feasts the beautiful plant lives and thrives."?Philadelphia Press. Eer Heart Transposed. A clear case of suicide was the finding of the coroner's jury upon Annie Munson, the laundress who died in great agony Monday morning from arsenical poisoning. At the post-mortem exauination held bv Dr. Hektoen a most pecu liar and rare anatomical condition was found in addition to traces of arsenic. In speaking of the case after the inquest bad been beld Dr. Hektoen said that in holding nearly 2000 post mortems he had never found as complete a case of transposition as he had in the Munson examination. "Every part was clearly transposed," continued the surgeon, 4'and had been so from birth. The heart was upon the right side, ahd the other members of the viscera were completely transposed. It is a rare and most unusual case, and one that is well worth receiving careful attention from surgeons. The woman suffered no inconvenience therefrom, however, and from talks I have had with her acquaintances and friends I have learned that she paid but little attention to the transposition ol her vital organs.''?Chicago Inter-Ocean. The Great Poultry Nation. France produces more poultry than, possibly, any foreign nation. The Houdan, La Felche and Toulouse gee9e are largely bred and kept for market, and have the reputation of being among the be9t market poultry. In the suburbs of Paris, Bordeaux, Versailles, Toulouse and Havre may be seen hundreds of poor farmers raising market poultry, from which they derive a meager living yet a happy life.?New York Independent. "The old peerage," says Lady Somerset, bewailing the decadence o 1 England, "is giving place to the new beerage." It doesn't appear, however, that the services of the old peerage to the people who supported its members in idleness were such as to cause any grieving over its disappearance. "RUSSIA'S FAMINE. PEN AND PENCIL SKETCHES OF DIKE DISTRESS. People Seeking Banishment to Siberia That Thev Mar be Saved From Perishing?A Case of Cannabalism. NE of the York Herenters (V^ves a graphic acJ^ou?t of the famine A- ^ in. Russia and the measures which are being taken for the relief nf the distressed inhabitants. He says: The gross laxity of all Government departments in Russia and the utter ab9ence of proper administrative methods, joined to the flagrant and oft condoned corruption and dishonesty of all grades of officials, naturally makes the Government helpless for all practical purposes in the face of a sudden and great disaster like the famine. The peccant and peculating bureaucrat is one of the greatest curses in Russia. 'He is the old ma:; of the sea upon the back of a long euduring, fleeced and oppressed nation. The condition to which public administration has become reduced is strikingly illustrated in the foliowtng account of two very recent occurrences in St. Pet' ersburg: Within the past three weeks a baker was brought before the courts charged with adulterating his bread by the admixture of sand. With appalling effontery he admitted that he did use sand in making bread, adding that this was downright beneficial to the consumer! Justice of the Peace Borodin, who tried the case, handed down a decision practically to the effect that no doubt the accused was an unappreciated discoverer of scientific truths; that doubtless he had 1'scooped1' his contemporaries in the baking trade in this instance,and that henceforth sand would be recognized as a valuable addition to the composition of breadstuff3. The accused, in 3hort, was a benefactor of the race! In the second example Justice of the Peace Busoff iooms up as an equally perfect survival of the classic Dogberry. Before his august tribunal was arraigned a grain dealer accused of giving false i-l-A Tir:4k nn/) r?An/1ornno WtlgUU TV Jill puaipuua auu jjummv?v?u deliberation Justice Busoff delivered his masterly exposition of the law. "The defendant," he declared, "in giving light weight was merely engaged in a purely commercial transaction, and hence did not come within the scope of the criminal code." But it is time that I should touch upon the actual features and phases of the afflicted districts and their unhappy population under the darkening shadow of want. For months a warfare has been waged against the encroachments of famine, and the interest of the globe has awakened at the tales of distress whose harrowing details have almost monopoolized the channels of international communication. It is in the many sided region of the Volga?the land on which time and its changes have set their unerring seal; where history has been made and empires reared and extinguished; where the fierce struggle for race domination waged RED CROSS AGEKT8 for centuries, involving in its varying fortunes both Aryan, Semite and Turanian ; it is here, in these later days of the nineteenth century of our Christian era, that human beings have had to die like sheep for lack of common sustenance, for want of necessaries of the moBt ordinary kind -whose procurement to us would be a task of the simplest nature, and which we would scorn, save as the unadorned accessories of our ordinary J-'-i. ') uier.. ""juijjuiijr ujuwci ivi^a ?iuc kindly stream tbat pilots Russian commerce to the markets of other climea and welcomes to the heart of Muscovy the argosies of foreign continents, -where the vast granaries are located which store the generous gifts of harvest time and ON THE ZLATOC6T RAILROAD. throng the river with ladtn ships?it is upon your banks that the voice of distress has been heard for weary months until the nations heard it and wept in sympathy at the sound. All the Volga country from JIazan to Astrakhan has been visited by the fam ine, and Russians, Tartars and Mongols have been numbered among its victims, as well as the thrifty German colonizers, who have always been more prosperous than the rest of the population. A good / . / / deal has been said and written abont < Kazan, Astrakhan and other parts of the 1 fan:ine country, but I am enabled to sup- ' ply somt facts about the condition of an i important section hitherto ignored in the i printed accounts, but which is located in 1 the famine centre. i The Government of the Czar, in cast- ; ing around for ideas suggesting practical < erhpmpa fnr rplipm'niT thft distress. COllld hardly fail to adopt the favorite resource i of most Governments under similar cir- : cumstances and decide upon starting relief works. These in some cases have taken the form of railroad construction, and apart from the benefit they will immediately confer upon the people, will prove a future source of good to the very toiler now engaged in pushing them forward to completion. In fact, they will prove a safeguard against one of the most potent causes of the present distress ?the want of adequate means of transportation. Were it not for the sad lack 1 in], CHtJRCHTARD SCENE IN ' existing in this respect many lives could have been saved from the holocaust of famine. Access to the depots of relief has been so difficult in a majority of cases that people died before succor could reach them or they could reach it. Had a comprehensive system of railroads ex* isted an incalculable amount of suffering micht have been averted and numberless eases of hardship brought within the sphere of official aid. Hence the peasantry work with a will upon these railroads, rejoicing in the task. , Letters from Russia just received by me contain accounts of the railroad now being constructed from Zlatoust, east of Samara, to Tcherliabinsk, in the very heart of the Ural district. It will form a branch of the Samara-Ufa-Zlatoust Railroad, and its route lies through a most nis>fitroanria romnn Tt tr?Vf>nu?S thfi i? -~e> ? ? banks of, and in some instances crosses the Satka, Sim and Yourzany Rivers. It is hoped that this project, now well under way and which has a line of operations extending through some of the very worst of the famine ridden districts, will prove a great blessing to the people, who \ are flocking in numbers to seek engagements on the works. Zlatoust is a great entrepot and base of supplies, where relief is dispensed to the famine sufferers. To show the difficulty of intercommunication in many parts of Russia I may mention that this town has been literally overrun with famished peasants. They have traveled in some instances as far as four hundred versts in their little p*? - k WR[ DI6THIBUTCNG FOOD. carts, numbers falling by the way worn out and exhausted, while their overtaxed animals dropped dead in their traces. There were at one time as many as ten thousand carts gathered at Zlatoust, whose owners had braved all kinds of I hardship and fatigue in their toilsome i journey in search of grain. Arrived at ] their destination, they fiercely fought among themselves for places in the long line of applicants waiting to be served. Many were detained at Zlatoust for a period of sixteen days awaiting their turn. , It was a striking and pathetic scene that this multitude presented, congregated around the squares and in the streets of the town, sheltering as best they might from the severity of the winter weather, content if at last their wants were supplied and they could commence their return journey to undergo a repetition of the hardships encountered on their way thither. The region stretching from Zlatoust to the Ural districts is on the direct route to Siberia. The condition of its inhabitants has recently been such that the ; efforts of philanthropists were turned* toward the task of alleviation. What Count Tolstoi has done in other districts in establishing soup kitchens and relief stands is duplicated here by Professor Schmurlo. This humanitarian deserves the highest praise for his noble work, in the prosecution of which be has expended his time, money and thought, gruding nothing in his de3ire to give relief. The people he has labored for owe him a heavy debt of gratitude. To show < the state of the district where the Pro- ' fessor has been working?more especially , on the Petrofskoi estate, near Tcherliabinsk?my informant describes some in cidents that came unuer nis own ooservatiou. One day, in company with one of Professor Schmurlo's attaches, he visited the hut of a distressed family. While interrogating the woman who greeted them the visitors were surprised to see some bones in a corner of the room 1/ingupon a board, and which bore the appearance of having had fresh meat recently cut from them. Knowing the utterly wrctcbed state of the family and the impossibility of their having any means of procuring meat, the visitors were impelled to question the woman and to their intense horror at kst ~ elicited the truth that the bones were ' from the arm of an eight-year-old child, which had wandered into the hot from some other family, aimlessly casting u-onnd in the hope of relief, and had finally succumbed from lack of sustenance, whereupon the half-crazed people yielded to the uncontrollable impulse of cannibalism. So frequent has the commission ot crime become since the advent of the (amine that the prisons are crowded with culprits who have either been tried or are awaiting trial. Goaded to desperation by the pressure of want, the or* clinarilv self-contained and patient moujik has resorted to the commission of offences most a! which are of a petty ature, but bring him within the operation of the law all the same. If the distress does not very soon begin to sensibly abate, it looks as though the Government would be forced to erect additional prisons. The fact that crime is prevalent ZlMm rHE FAMINE DISTRICT. proves the terrible state the people are in. Men prefer being sentenced to Siberia rather than languish under brief sentences in ihe local jails, where the food is worse than poisonous, and in order to force their judges to inflict terms of Siberian exi'e upon them they resort to various tricks,becoming violent id court, cursing tne juage. ana using insulting language toward the law and its administration. A man named Nerilskoi was arrested for theft at Sara* tof recently, tried and sentenced to six months in the local prison. Before he FIBE, BUT 50 FOOD. could be removed from the court room he pointed his finger at the jury box and exclaimed: "Gentlemen, you are a mere set of pigs?pigs?pigs, and fit only to try pigs." Thereupon he was promptly sentenced to five years' banishment to Siberia, and departed rejoicing. He had attained his desire, and was as pleased as though he had secured a prize. 1 Historic Belie Coming 'to America. The old half-timbered house at Fenny Drayton, the birthplace of George Pox, the founder of the Society of Friends, has recently been sold to some American gentlemen. Disappointed at not being able to purchase anything at Stratford-on-Avon, they were determined to have something from Shakespeare's country. The house, which stands on the estate of Captain Eyre, of Lindley, is now being taken down bit by bit, and each part carefully marked and packed I J5g?aeEBeg?gj THE BIRTHPLACE OP GEOBGE VOX. for shipping to America, where it will be re-erected. It is stated that the price paid for it was considered to be three or four times its value for ordinary purposes. To Ron by Electricity. The vehicle represented in the illustration was recently subjected to a trial in Boston. The motive power is electiicity, AN ELECTRICAL WAGON. ind it can be run over any kind of road, [t is believed by many people that the conveyance of the future will have electricity as the hauling power. No Safe is Safe. -pjnL-ortnn the ?reat detective of XJ\JU A o New York, while in Indianapolis, Ind., the other day took a look at the safebreaking tools that were captured a couple of weeks ago from Waters and Watson, the noted crooks and burglars. Pinkerton said that the ordinary safe offered scarcely any resistance at all to the operations of the professional cracksman. "The doors of some of them almost fiy open when you look at them," said he, and I'm not surprised that a burglar ha? no difficulty in opening an ordinary iroD safe with such tools as these." SABBATH SCHOOLf lNTERNATIOfJA.fi WESSON FOlHB Lesson Text:, "Delight in GoffHH House," Psalm lxxxhr., 1-2?Gold- HH en Text: Psalm lxxx'.r., M 4?Commentary. 8H 1. "How amiable are Thv tabernacle?, Lord of Hosts." See David's lore for dwelling place, the tabernacle is which was pleased to dwell among the children (flW Israel. The instruction to Moses was, them make Me a sanctuary, that ( suufllB dwell among them'' (Ex. xxx.. 8, 28)^B| Amiable is the same as beloved or well be^^H loved, and is so translated in Dent. xxsiii^H| 12; Isa. v., 1. The title "Lord of Hosts* first found in I Sam. i., 8, and is first heart^Hfl from the lips of Hannah in the sam^^H chapter (verse 11) in a time of great distraati^Bj It is a name full of comfort to all who an^^H helpless and alone. See it fotfr times in psalm. 2. '"My soul longeth, yea, even fainteO^^H for the courts of the Lord: my heart a my flesh crieth out for the living God." was not the house that he thought so mujed^^H of, but tbe living God who there among Bis people Israel. The reason whjMH be so earnestly desired this?one tbing?wa*H| that he might behold the beauty of Jehovat^^H (Ps. xxvii., 4). He had a holy appetite Jo^^| God Himself. yjflj 3. "Yea, tbe sparrow hath found an hotm^H| and the swallow a neat for herself, wbai^^H she may lav her yonnz. even thine' altan^^H O Lord of Hosts, ay King and my GodJ^H| There were two altar?, one for sacrifice aad^H| one for incense, signifying Christ's work atonement whereby we are saved, and work of intercession whereby we are kqg(?^H He envies the birdf, worthless and resttafc^B who feed and live atxmt the tabernacle. OcH possibly he speaks of the neglect of these alrflH tars upon which the birds now make tboi^H nests, and his soul sighs because of such of Israel. ! 4. "Blessed are they that dwell in house. They will be still praising Thee^^H fctelah" So in Ps. Izv. 4, he speaks of. tbfl^H blefseAess of dwelling in God's house a&d^H ?i _;*i, di. _?j n>i. UtMUg WblSUCU WibU U10 ((UVA1UCO?. VUiJ UUVSVHI who are tae redeemed of the Lord, and cao^H truly say as iu the previous verse, "Ifffl King and my Ood,': know anything of sucoHnj blessedness, and only suca can truly p raise God. Selah is found *eventy-three times ittHD| the Psalms and taree times in Hab. iii., apd^H signifies a pause or rest and is suggestivaoCHg meditation. Am I among these blessed?. .-99 5. "Blessed is the man whose strength Thee, in whose heart are the high ways'* (R.V.i. Bel ore we can have much joy the Lord we must learn that He alone is oor^H salvation and our strength and our aooC^H (Ex. xv? 'J: Fs. cxviii.. 14; Isa. xji., 2), anaH| must leant to say, "My soul wait thou ontrHH upon God" (Ps. fxii., 3, 2, 5, 6, 7). Than shau^B we find in heart and lite the highway of hotkHB ness or wholeness of God (Isa. xxxv., 8, 109? |H 0. "Passing through the valley o? weei^M ing they make it a place of springs; yea. tbtt^D -.1- 4* 1.1 T - H O l HI ezu-jy rtxiu wveruiu *o wiui ucwajp n* V.). The dreariest paths and dry est placsi H on earth become places of springs and bkm^^H iugs by the very presence of those who cmK^H say to God "All my springs are in (Ps. lxxxvii., 7). They beoome indeed lite and lignt of the world because of presence in them of Him who is the and the Light. They are as trees by the water?, ttiey do not sea when heat camsth, I nor cenae from yielding fruit (Jer. xviL? 8;K| 7. "They go from strength to streng&jflj eyery one of them in Zion appeareth befoNf^H God. The people of Israel journeying . Jerusalem three times in the year to keimH toe various leasts, as Uod had appointed H (Ex. xziii., 14-17), and their joy on the mfl made glad the land (Dent, xvi, 11, 14, l? H| If). All true Christians journeying thronfrh B this world to tbe New Jerusalem shoqid j^H bring joy and gladness as they joarney, be- H cause they are children of God and knop flB tbat they shall every one be at the marrlag*'AH of the Lamb (John x., 27, 28; PhiL L, 6; fl s. "6 Lord God of Hoet8,hear ray prayer, H give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.'' If we H cannot gather with the saints in their asMn*v:^| blies we can always pray; and God Himself will be our sanctuary even in the midst at < H our enemies (Ezi*. xi., 16). Every name of jtM God is full of signitlcance. Jehovah is oojrf^H Righteousness (Jer. xxiil., 6. Ps. xi., 7). Eiohim is our Faithful Creator (I Pet.iv.,10*. |Bj T^irH Grtrl of Host* rnminda n* of all thki H host* of heaven who rejoice to do His biddifaipH^H on behalf of His redeemed (Heb. i., 74). ;H "While God of Jacobis suggestivd o; the fall- I ness of His mercy for all who coma to Hhh,vJ| however crooked they may be. Pause and flH meditate on this. Bjfl 9. "Behold. 0 God, our shield and IbiNr^H upon the face of Thfce anointed." Wheo^H Abram was tempted to be afraid of wja&^H might come to him from the king* t root HI whose hands be bad rescued Lot, Jehovah bM said to him, "I am thy shield" ((Jen. xv., 1). He Is a wall of fire around abouc all trust in Him (Zech. ii., 5). See also versell^K of our lesson and Ps. xxziv., 7. Israel is His anointed (Ps. cv.. 15), but Israel's lf? H siah is the true Anointed (fa. b., 'J; I Sam. |B 44 in frti? wVismia aoba frmnru erance to His people. He can only )ook^^| upon us with approval for Hie sake. 10. "For a day in Thy courts u better than a thousand. 1 had rather be a doorkeeper in the housa of my Goj than to dwell in tne tents of wickedness." Some one has said that God's worn is better than the daril's beet. What though we should have all that the world can give? it soon passes away, but he that doeth the will of UodH abideth forever (I Johnii., 17). Better far, like Moses, to suffer affliction with the peopie of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sta;H| ior a season fHeb. li.. 25,) iffi 11. "For the Lord God is a sun and shield.! The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will He withhold from them that ! walk uprightly." He is our Sun, source o?*/ all light and life. Soon He shall arise as the j Sun of Righteousness for alt the world, aodij then shall the Righteous shine forth as the/ Sun (Mai. iv., 2; Math, xiii., 43). While wer H wait for that glory which He has given unu '.V in r.Tnhn -rvii. 22) we know that He is win H us full of grace and truth and will supjffly. all our need (John i., 14; Mjith. xxviii., /20; Rom. viii., 32: Phil, iv., 19; Ps. xxxiv.yiO).; M 12. "0 Lord of Hosts, blessed is the /man: H that trusteth in Thee." He is the source of all good, the sum of all happiness, the da- D fense from all evil, who then can estimate I the blessedness of such as abide in Hir?. 'A* H He is aU Righteousness we can only enioj- l Him as we walk uprightly; but talking H with Him and staid on Him there i?' perfect H pea<* and strength, continual freshness and fl fruitfolness, tnllneeB of joy and pleasures fl forsrermore (Isa. xxri., 3, 4; Jer.'xviL, 7,8; Ps. zri., 11). Therefore keep yonrself in tha E Jove of God, abide in Him and thus antedate H the joys of toe kingdom.?Lesson Helper. H Thb "ethics," so called, of that ll ' 1? u-j 1 111^ I II medical proiesaion uau a curious xuuvj ma tratlon in the Field case in New fJ York. One expert of high standing ] In the profession gave a written^ opinion?for which he took 250?' that Field was insane. Subsequently; he went into court and testified that he regarded Field as sane; and though It does not appear that he got any special fee for hie testimony he prob-f ably did, because the profession has practically combined to refuse to testify as experts without being paid as such, and not as ordinary witnesses. This is not as bad, of course, as advertising would 1/e; but it certainly is singular. f] The English people do not like to copy American ideas, but they ara compelled to in many things because of the superiority of the American methods. The railways have been slow to see the superiority of tha American train, but they are coming to it very gracefully. They have! adopted our baggage car and checfc J system, our plan of lighting coaches, ] and now the Southeastern Railway advertises an American train with American built coaches running between London and Hastings. The days of the old compartment cars are numbered, and before many years tha