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THE DKEAM. *T OZUS MIDSCMMEB. V h*v? slept through the night, John, without you, Alone on the old cottage bed. Oh! the life that 1 lived iu my dreaming; Bow delightful it was in its set>min?. Until the bright sun with its beaming Awakened my old sleepy head. John, it seemed as though we were both tod dlere, Both stub-toed, bare-footed boys, With not a thing on us but dresses. Just escaped from dear mother'b careseet. Each provided with bread and molasses? For once, John, were not making noise; We were sitting in beautiful 6unlight x.ii:oyiBg our nifiii wim mo uiei, While the cat and dog, John. were beeccchiDg And were now aad ttien reaching. Were ub leeeouB in charity teaching. With watering mouths and with eyes. Do not langh, my dear boy. when I tell yog ThAt Kover's plan worked for biiu right. For we let him c-Lauge bites with each other. First the one did and then did the other; But we got a good licking from mother, He took the wbole lunch at one bite. Chicago, 111. JANET LEE In the Shadow of the Gallows. BY DAVID LOWRY. CHAPTER XXIT. BEAPIJJG THE WHIRLWIND, T was as Janet said. John Lee did not deem it wise to inform his wife and daughter that the authorities had ^-X^aS [buried what they presumed [were the remains of his [brother Martin. He had good |reason for pursuing this j r cour8e> 88 be 6ee& later, k Furthermore, he had trav* 1 ^y~v^JjeIed many miles in quest of (7rj?^/#friends upon whom he could ^^j^-^rely in his extremity. He Ca_.?called upon influential Y vR/ f friends in Boston, who wrote 0 ?to the judges; the foremost j people in the colony inter- | ested themselves in behnlf of Janet Lee 1 and ber mother. Discreet messengers, who were abundantly able to meet all j questions, were dispatched to people ' whom John Lee could not reach by let- i ter. Ho had by bis earnest solicitations | f revailed upon one of the judges to visit j pswich jail and satisfy himself concerning the conduct ai.d appoarance of the j prisoners. More than this. He now recalled many things which warranted the opinion that his wife and daughters were victims of a conspiracy. There was something in Giles Ellis' manner that excited John Lee's suspicions. Giles was by turns patronizing and sympathetic. In public he was lofty in his professions of piety, severe in tois denunciation of witchcraft. John Lee's mind was in constant turmoil. 1?4 ? L- Tvllio Viiq ennl I L>Ul US UU UMtUCU lu U'lio ? revolted. He could not respect the religion that caused a man to turn against his own flesh and blood, as often happened. When he left his wife and daughter in IpswichJail.it was for the purpose of meeting a friend?a man whose influence was acknowledged even by the judges, upon whom he relied to bring the matter to a speedy and safe conclusion. Meanwhile the jailer yielded to the clamor of the curious, who journeyed many miles to view the witches in Ipswich Jail. The people whose curiosity was thus gratified gazed upon the prisoners, and commented Ireely upon their appear, once. Shortly after Dorothea Lee regained consciousness, the jailer opened the door and admitted Ezra Eastv and Ann Bigger, followed by Grizzle Meade. "How now?" demanded Janet, fiercely. "By whose authority do you enter here? 'lis enough you are permitted to look in on us. Haaven preserve us from 6uch base liars!" "Is this the spirit I find you in?" Grizzle Meade auswered, as Ezra recoiled in fear. "Kub'w you not the gallows is ? . ? "It were better you were attending your customers, Grizzle Meade. The jailer shall answer for admitting you here unbidden." "And they will not hold their heads so high to-morrow," 6aid Ann Bigger. "There will be two witches less in the world then," Grizzle added. Then Dorothea Lee suddenly faced them with flashing eyes. "Mark my words, Grizzle Meade. 'Tie the evil in thy heart hast brought thee here to gloat upon ns. Dost find in my eyes, or m Janet's, signs of fear.-''' Here Dorothea advanced with npliftei hand suddenly. The apprentice and Ann fell back hastily, but Grizzle Meade made an effort, as if she would hold her ground; but even she recoiled presently, as Dorothea's voice was raised: "The hoar, be sure, will come?it may be soon?when you will rue the speech you have made to me. Judge not, lest ye be indeed." Ab these words fell upon Grizzle Meade's ears she trembled and grew deadly pale. She turned about and walked to the door. Ezra Easty. like one in mortal fear, was at her heels, while Ann Bigger, ashamed of his cowardice, caught him roughly, reminding him of his ill manners. Instead of walking forth they were pushed bick by the jailer nnd a group entered. Then the door was closed quic-Kly again and Dorothea and Janet ?<ee stood facing two of the Judges. One of these the prisoners had often seen. It was Thomas Danforth, Deputy Governor. Beside him stood his associate. Near him stood Arthur Proctor and the sailor, while Abner Bain looked over Proctor's Bho lder. The Judges spoke apart, and at they poke the door opened aga n and Giles * ElliB, accompanied by Daniel Meade, stepped inside. Now, those inside the jail formed foar groups. First, the mother and daughter, who sat on a rude bench; next, the Judges; then Proctor, his uncle and the sailor; the landlcrd of Globe Inn, his wife, and John Lee's servants were huddled together around GileB filiis. "Think you we will wait on John Lee?" J aid one of the judges. Sir Thomas Danforth surveyed those near calmly; Giles Ellis advanced to him, whispered in his ear, then returned to the corner. The Deputy laised his eyebrows as he glanced at his kinsman, and a strange smile flitted over his face. "John Lee should be here. But time is precious," Thomas Danforth replied. "Tny name?" demanded the Deputy of the snilor. "Thomas Jones," the sailor answered promptly. "Art a friend of Martin Lee?" "I wns?I am." "Didet see the body some said was Martin Lee's?" "I mike bold to say 'tis no more Martin Lie than'tis me." j "What brought tbee here?" "To serve my old mate. Martin Lee. He thinks my blood is on Lis bead? 'twas nothing, but I was most at fault, as bait' a score will tell you wbo " "Stay. I have heard the story from Proctor," said Thomas Danforth. wav.ng his hft 4. Then tbe Deputy turned to Sain. "Dost know this cailo-''" "Truly and well ten years ago?before he went to sea to foreign parts." "C?n you vouch for him?" 'Cheerfully," Abner replied, promptly. !Thedeputy turned to Gi!e6 El'is. " 'Ti8 also your opinion tbe body is not tl*; of Martin Lee. Said he not so to j.j?" The deputy looked at his associate, who bowed." The deputy now looked directly at the pri^onera. Janet Lee's eyes met hie fearlessly. "18 it true what my kinsman tells me? Have no fear." "All fear has left me; I could not live otherwise. If Giles Ellis has said I promised to be his wife?and that be what you mean, 'tis true." Upon bearing tms all turned to Elli;; then every eye was fixed upon Arthur Proctor, who advanced quickly to Janet's sir!a. snvinc: "What do I hear! Marry Giles EIHb!" He looked at her mother in affright. "Dorothea Lee. i: it thy wish " " 'Tie as strange to me as it is to thee. Speak, Janet, hast thou promised Giles Ellis?** "I speak nauqht but truth, mother." There was silence for a time, which was broken by Proctor saying: "Now do I believe in witchcraft, since I hear with my own ears that which I would not have believed. No! Not and an angel from heaven had told it me." On hearing wnich Janet turned aside and burst into tears. The Deputy now spoke. "We have reason to believe that the body taken from the sea is not that of Martin Lee. Moreover, if the statements made to U6 within the past four and twenty hours be verified?which those who made them profess to be abundantly able to do?it iB possible that you, Dorothea and Janet Lee, will be speedily enlarged, in which case Janet Lee may have good reason to marry Giles Ellis without being subject to the charge of witchcraft or falling a victim to sorcery." "I had rather see her in her gravel" cried Dorothea, who, after bestowing a look of amazement upon her daughter, also gave way to tears. The thoughts of all present, and chiefly interested in these extraordinary proceedings, were 60 fully occupied with the misfortunes of which they were the victims that they did not note the language of the Deoutv Governor nor his manner. Abner Bain alone seemed to be indifferent. Something in his looks and easy bearing restored confidence to the sailor, who, in turn, slapped Proctor hastily by way of congratulation on the shonlder, as he whispered: "All's not lost yetf And at that instant John Lee entered, with a flushed face, and another followed quickly at his heels, at the sight of whom jjaniel Meade threw up his hands. But Grizzle grasped his arm with a grasp ' that made bim wince, and the only outcry made was the 6tartled cry that eBcapei Dorothea Lee's lips: "Janet! 'Tis Martin Lee!" "Aye!" exclaimed Tom Jones, heartily, as he grasped Martin Lee'6 hand, 'this is my old mate, living and hearty." "How can you rejoice, mother?" said Janet Lee, "seeing he is come to take our place. They will hang him for the horse and lambs. I wish he were a thousand miles from here!" "Hr.ve patience, Janet," said her father; "all will yet end well." "I fear*Master Lee, you have hasteqpd the ill most men who love their kin would avoid. It were better your brother Martin had not come of hif own accord to Ipswich jail. 1 did not think vou would biing him here, or be prevailed upon to set others on his path, keenly as you feel the disgrace he naB brought upon the name." - -nil:- v.u l>: ?'.t (.Tiles JjiUB LOIU uiiuecAi luxbiAjr ao us spoke. Janet Lee looked at him -with terror and apprehension in her eves. "Didst not promise me h But Giles interrupted her, "I did not promise liberty to Martin I Lee. That thou canst not say." Whereupon Janet lowered her head and turned her face to the wall, as Giles addressed the Deputy Governor. "Lest any should be misled, 'tis well I make this matter plain. Knowing fall well Martin Lee was alive?the proof of which whs given me beyond all dispute? and knowing justice would be merciful with Dorothea and her daughter, whoBe only offense was in snccoring their relative, and not in carrying out compacts with witches, I did say the judges would deal with them according to the light." "You doubtless encouraged the prisoners because of the great confidence you have in our judgment," said Sir Thomas Danforth. Giles bowed. "There is nothing in all the records of the deliberations we have presided over that could warrant the inference that other than the public welfare and strict and impartial justice has guided oar conclusions?" This speech, put in the form of an interrogatory, in a precise and formal manner elicited another and deeper bow and smile from Giles Ellis as he replied: "Which I have ever maintained, and ever will." "'XiB well," answered Sir Thoma9. "Justice to yourself and me demands so much, since you have claimed me as your kinsman, which claim, bear in mind, I have never denied. And now, we will Lear what Martin Lee ba? to say. Be brief, and yet make thy meaning plain, passing over the ap2rehension_th%t caused you to seek lodgings at Globe inn, instead of going directly to John Lee's house. This 6ailor has made it clear you feared the officers might pursue you, when there was no cause for pursuit. *'Tis possible your early visit to yonr brother's waB the result of this fear of apprehension. But is it not much more probable that thou killed John Winslow's best horse and lambs in thy drunken frenzy, just as thy evil passions caused thee to strike down thy fast friend here a little while before? And what hast thoo to say finally concerning the death of Daniel Meade's son!' n "An he should clear himself of the murder of the horse and sheep, how will he wash his hands of my son's blood?" Baid Grizzle Meade, fiercely. "An you will give me time," began Martin Lee, "I will make straight answer to all these. As for the bad blood against my friend here, there never was any. It was a sudden quarrel in drink?albeit, strange as it may appear, search all the ships' logs I have sailed in, it was my ? ' -- -ill V- 1 _ -4. J 1 nrsi, as 11 win oe iny inst, uruuaeu quarrel." "Yet we can prove he drank a pint in a little time the night he murdered our eon," said Daniel Meade. "Cease. Let no one speak without our permission," Baid the Deputy, severely. "I did drink freely, but I was cold, and went to bed as clear in my mind as I am now. I did not tremble as others tremble now," Martin Lee replied, with a meaning glance at the landlord. "Proceed?say what thou hast to tell enucerning all that took place after you went to bed." The judges gazed upon him sternlv; Dorothea and Janet listened wi'h throbbing heartB. "Sav, now, as the landlord makes out, that I've had my drink, find the customers are gone, and I am tired, having walked fast and far on the worst night a man could be out. I am sleepy, and the mo ment my head touches the bed, I am Bemud asleep. Then comes a man to my window. I made sure he wanted my money, so I fall foul of him the moment he comes through the window; and he begs my mercy, and tells me he is the landlord's son, and has ran awny, and is a sailor, which, feeling his hands, I make sure of. He tells me he is in trouble ? and I was in trouble, or I would not bive been tb(-re. He has come homo to LMt until he gels rest, but durst not let. h?s futber end mother know, lest they scold aiid beat bim * "That is a lie!" Daniel Meade shouted. His wife esclnimed at the nsnw time: "An invention of the d^vil'e! We 86t store by our son. as all lf'iow." The Associate Judge waved a hand at them angrily, and Martin Lee proceeded calmly: "So I gave him my bed, and laid me down on a bench near the wall, and in the dead of the night I teard a footstep on the stairs." * 'After drinking a pint, as he confessee himself," said Daniel Meade. "A marvelous light sleeper, to be ec weary and ready for bed," Grizzle interjected. "Sirs," said Martin Lee calmly, "I j have been a sailor many years?you can judge why sailors may be light sleepers. I listen, and some one?I do not know who?enters. I was a fool to talk of my diamonds " "He said never a word of diamonds that night, as Giles Ellis will bear me out?ves, and Samuel Hobbp, were he here. Dan el Meade glared at Martir Lfle fiercely. "Samuel Hobbs will be here presently," said the Deputy, and at that moment the Marshal of. Salem Quietly entered, and after speaking to 6ome one outside closed the door. "I said I tad that about me," Martin I Lee added, "that was *01111 seeing, ai I this man"?he turned to the Marshal? "will no doubt testify an he be sworn." "If you speak of the boast you made when you Btruok your breast, I saw and heard yon," said Hobbs, gravely. "So, as I hare said, I ho >ra a footstep, and some one came into my room, and it being dark I waited until I could understand his errand; but very soon I did hear a blow on the beJ. and a ghasth sigh like as if the breath were 6urelj leaving one's body, and then I fcneM murder was done." " 'Tis a lie! as bald a lie as man ever told!" Daniel Meade's features twitched; I the sweat started on his forehead a9 he faced Martin Lee. "There was no blow struck save that the bullet made that came from your pistol, as all here know." "Aye, thou base slayer of horses and lambs?thou knowest there was no blow " "Silence!" commanded the judge who stood by Sir Thomas Danforth, "and see that you do not interrupt him again at your peril. Proceed?and bear in mind, what thou uayest here thou must repeat in Salem, when thir matter is disposed of fully." Martin Lee bowed and resumed without change of tone, or manifesting more concern than he had before being cau tioned. "Although it was dark, I saw between me and the window a flash; then I knew the mail bending over the bed baa a knire. So, knowing the peril I was in, seeing the blow was meant for me, because ol the money I had on me, but which I had put under my pillow with my diamonds. I took chance aim in the dark, lired, and striking the man down, sprang out of the window, and finding below it the board the landlord's son came in on, 1 slid to the ground and made my way to John Lee's, more by good fortune than be. cause I knew where to find it. I concealed nothing from first to last." "He speaks the truth," said Dorothea Lee; " 'twag told me and Janet before my hus'^nd knew he was in the house." "Then, foreseeing the trouble I would bring upon my brother, I resolved to conceal myself, and so " "I did counsel him to conceal himself in the house on Will's Hill," Dorothea interposed. "That is the truth, your worshipful, if I die for it," Martin Lee concluded. "And your money and diamonds?" said Sir Thomas. "I left behind me." Grizzle Meade's fury on hearing this wa3 uncontrollable. "Thou'rt the prince of liirs! See how little makes tbee a J)erjurer of perjurers. Did not all who ooked on our son see the place where | tny DUiiei bitock mm.'; auu uuw iu charge us with robbery?dost not fear lest ..the Almighty should strike thee dead, base liar! "Fit food for the gallows thou art,* said Daniel Meade, "with thy lies." "Who speaks of the gallows here may find it wiser he held bis tongue," said Justice Hurkins, severely. "Must we hold our peace while his renomous tongue wags?" criei Grizzle Meade. "Hark ye, Grizzle Meade," said Justice Harkins. "Mayhap the Marshal has something to 6ay to thee." " "lis only thin. Since Martin Lee has the courage to stand face to face with yoa and Daniel Meade, you would do well to hold your peace." Whereat Daniel Meade fell back a pace and Grizzle grew paler than the prisoners who were gazing upon her cruel face. "Thou hast something to say concerning this matter," said Sir Thornis, addressing Proctor, who advanced and spoke out clearly. "I have, and I bring witnesses to prov? what I say." And now, for the first time Bince they entered Ipswich Jail, Dorothea and Janet Lee looked from one to the other with as little fear and rostraint as though they were merely witnesses to the scene passing before thftn. The apprentice was haggard and pale, and Ann Bigger looked fearfully from Giles Ellis to Proctor, on whom all eves were cast. "Long before I met Martin Lee, certain circumstances, wnereof yon have been duly advised by my uncle here" (Giles Ellis shot a look of malice at Proctor on hearing this, and trembled), "warranted us in applying to yon for authority to exhume the body of the murdered man." (Here Daniel Meade groped [ blindly, but Grizzlo grasped his arm and whispered in his ear.) "Marshal Hobbs, my uncle Abner Bain, Tom Jones, and myself performed the task. But, lest there might be some who would question our knowledge, we had near at hand a physician of repute. We found " "Stay," said the Deputy. "Bring the Indian in." The Marshal advanced to the door, opened it, made a sign, and Indian Joe was suddenly thrust into the midBt of them. The Indian walked with difficulty; he crouihei when he encountered th* eyeB of Gibs Ellis fixed balefully upon him. He dl\ not trust himself to look at tbe Judge*, ihut gazed steadfastly upon the floor. Siv Vhomas made a sign, and Proctor resumed? . x uo ^ujo-viau obi vww4* our presence and we beheld a terrible wound, made by a sword or knife, sufficient to cause instant death, rb the paper duly certified by us and signed by the physician and now in your possesion plwinly proves." On hearing this Daniel Meade uttered a hoarse cry. lifted his hards wildly in the air, and fell in a fit. Grizzle Meade, seeing him lying at her feet, turned hor head slowly. Awe, hatred and terror were depicted in every lineament as 8ae looked at Arthur Proctor. "Proceed," said Sir Thomas. ""'lis as well Daniel Meade'B ears are closed for the present." "There was a wound in the head, caused by the bullet from Martin Lee's pistol. But the physician, after examining it carefully, declares it could not have produced death, if it even stunned the man. It was ft scalp wound. Death was earned iustnntly by the thrust of the sharj> instrument, which cut the henrt in twain." As these terrible words were uttered Grizzle Meade turned a greenish hue, purole snote suddenlv Bt.ot. into her cheeks, tEat~were livid until now: Her eyeballs were distended with horror. Then she, too, fell on the floor beside her haslxmd. I There was bustle and confusion: the jailer and his tfife brou^nt ijelp and bore them out. Giles Ellis "and Ann Bigger approached the entrance, followed by Ezra Easty, but the jailer at a sign suddenly closed the door. "Since the murder is as goo:l as confesseil," said Justice Darifo.tb, "we will proceed with other matters connected with this unnatural crime." And now the countenance of tbo Deputv was us set and hard as the hinges of fate. "Great injustice has been done John Lee's wifa and daughter. I fear, and it wiil go hi.rd with all who have been instrumental in misleading the authorities. As for these here," he indicated ihe apprentice, Ann Biegcr, ond Indiai Joe with a sweep of his hand "they will one aud all lie here / and await onr~pleasure. But,'* here Justice Danforth looked sternly at bis kinsmnn, who strove, bat in vain, to meet his look, "as for my kinsman there, the punishment be deserves is much gieater, since he has. it seems, brought reproach both upon bis lather that was my cousin, and disgrace on his own head. Speak!" said the justice, sternly, as ho turned the Indinn. "Who was it you saw in John Winslow's field? You swore 'twas Martin Lee here." The Indian crouched; he looked quickly J from one to the other, and, seeing scorn in their faces, suddenly stood erect. "I lied. He," pointing to Giles, "would ' have killed me." "Then it was Giles Ellis you saw in the field." Joe nodded, gTavely. "To perjury and suborning witnesses you have added a crime which mu6t be expiated on the gallows, Giles Ellis," said Justice Danforth. "But you have said I am an upright and impartial judge, and 60 I charge you to prepare within one week to mike answer to the | charges brought against you, in the presto ce of the DeoDln of Sslem. As for you. Dorothea Lee and Janef, you are free to accompany us to Salem." So saying, the justices, without farther speech, departed from Ipswich jail, followed by the Lees, Arthur Proctor, hiB uncle, and Tom Jones walking after them. The news spread from Ipswich to Salem in advance of them. Strange as it ma-.- seem, when the Lees were well housed again, and Martin Lee rejoiced at the recovery of his diamonds, which were found concealed in Globe Inn, where the landlord and his wife had hoped they would never be discovered, there was not one in Salem that did not openly rejoice at their release, and, judging from their own testimony, many had predicted it. And now that there was nothing to prevent it, and as all the country knew they were betrothed, Arthur Proctor and Janet I Lee were speedily married. The morning after their marriage, word was brought to Salem from Ipswich of the death of Daniel and Grizzle Meade. The Judges set a day for their trial; the end oromised to be sneedv. The orisoners, upon learning that" the diamonc&s were found, no longer denied the charge that they had appropiiated the money Martin Lee had placed under his pillow, in his purse, as well as the Bilk bag in whicb lie carried his diamonds. He testified that he had in the purse "upwards of sixty guineas and notes to the value of eightypounds." Moreover, it w,<s no* made plain to all that the counterpart to the cnrionsly made purse?and the only one of which anyboly had any knowledge?was in the possession of Janet Lee, a present male to her by Martin | Lee before he made Mb last voyage. His own had never been ont of his possession save in the interval covering toe time ha was wrecked, and a prisoner in Africa. In the meantime it lay in the hanas of jeweler in Liverpool. The shrewdnes? Arthur Proctor displayed in obtaining from John Lee Janet's parse, and producing it in the presence of the landlord of Globe Inn and his wife, thereby obtaining the first cine that led to their eiposnre, was commented upon mora than the exhnming of the remains of the landlord's son. These things being freely commented upon in the presence of Grizzle Meade and her husband, dreading the scorn tbey knew they would be subjected to during a public trial for their crimes, tbey mustered sufficient couiage to hang themselves in Ipswich Jail. When their fellow-prisoners awoke one morning, they beheld, in the gray light, two forms hanging against the prison walls. When Ezra Easty beheld them, he fell in a lit, and when he revived was a simpleton, and died a'simpleton. Ann Bigger was detained many months ia Ipswich Jail. As for Giles Ellis, he presented a pitiable spectacle dnring his trial, which took place within a fortnight, and when he was hanged on Will's Hill 'tw&s said no man or woman betrayed snch a craven spirit as ho who wantonly killed his neighbor's horse and sheep and conspired to cast the blame upon an innocent man. Tradition says Martin Lee and Tom Jones, having more than sufficed theix wants, give lip the sea, and"settled down to their grog; and their comfort," to emplov their otrn language, in Salem. The Globe Inn changed hands repeatedly, bnt it never throve. From a publio house it became a workshop. Years after the incidents here related took place, it waP pointed ont ae the scene of the most striking tragedies to be found in the records of Salem. rTH3 KM).] WORDS OF WISDOM. The brilliant daughter makes a brittle wife. Arms, women and books should be looked after daily. Fame is said to be a monument erected after one is dead and buried. When one man will trust another with bia umbrella it is safe to say that the other man is honest. A man in love can do more thinking without thinking of anything at all than any one else on earth. He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. Very few women grow old without becoming more patient, and the years seldom add up on a man's shoulders without making him more iretiui. The communist is one who has yearnings for equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny and pocket your shilling. Tbe girls of sixteen who consider themselves young ladies should not snub the ugly-looking boys of the same age. When the girls are twenty-two and a trifle shelt-worn the boys will be young men and may remember the snub3. It pays to be polite all the time. Every man expects in his own case to have ample time to get his worldly affairs in good shape before he dies, but no man ever has. Men hope to leave enough to keep their wives, but they leave it in such shape that the women lose half the threads in trying to get affairs untangled. A dandy is a clothes-wearing man?a man wliose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of bis soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object?tbe wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that as others dress to lire, he lives to dress. 11 we woric upon marote, it wni perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds, if we imbue thein with principle?, with the just fear of tbe in finite and love of our fellow-men, we engrave on these tablets someiaing which will brighten to all eternity. A.v Important legal contest has been entered upon over the question whether a telephone can be used by the mouth only, and whether placing a sounder at the instrument and ticking off a message by telegraphic signal is an infraction of privilegea. LAND OF THE CZAR. WHAT RUSSIA IS DOIN'G TO PREVJfcNT A FAMINE IN 1893. The Famine Sufferers Have Received $330,000,000?Wonderful Private GUCs of the Nobles? Peculiarities of the People. ^jggjgggHE reports which are iH' received daily here 8fj from the famine disZM tricts, says Prank 6. ?Carpenter in a St. *f If) Petersburg letter to I fho TtToahinfrtrin Star. 1 I are very encouraging, 1 I aQd though the f*mJ . - ine is still raging, the 1 V|Cy}I / ?! backbone of the deU I fil lv?-mon Kuss^an 6tar" jjllL. (;aI| JILlw-. vation will, it is be?^s=s fiU~-? lievcd, be broken by \Lg?Jr? the first of Septem. ber, when the har" vest will have been gathered. Great want and much suffering, however, must continue to exist for the next year or so in many of the States, and the drought may precipitate a second famine equally as terrible as the present one. Notwithstanding all that has been published concerning the famine, we in the United States have but little idea of its terrible extent and of the wonderful manner in which the Russians have handled it. No countrv in the world. with perhaps the exception of the United States, could withstand such a strain as Russia is now undergoing, and there is no Nation in the world, except '' iiliI BUS5IAN 7 perhaps one, that would rise to the : emergency and do so much for its peo- i pie as Russia is doing. The contribu- i tions America has made have been of 1 great good, and they are most thank- i fully, and, I might also say, tearfully re- i ceived, but they are only a drop in the i bucket to what Russia herself is doing, i Our and other outside gifts amount, all told, to perhaps three-quarters of a j f million dollars. Tho donations of the i Government and the people - represent i in the neighborhood of $350,000,- i 000, and the Czar himself lias i * L x ? * 1 ?i 1 ?n /Mif i j given auout ieu uiiiuuu uunato . I of bis private lun^. The Govern- i | ment loans to the famine villages amount to more than one hundred million dol- 1 lar?, ana these loans no one ever expects i that the peasants will repay. It is a I physical impossibility for them to do so, i and, as one of the chief officials of tbe 1 Government said to me latterly, the Cnr does not expect repayment. He always gives a present to the people upon certain occasions, such as the coronarioa of a grand duke, and at the next event one of his presents will probably be the forgiving of thSs debt. This one hundred mil- i lion dollars was given almost outright by the Government, but in addiion to it numerous schemes have been favored and authorized by tbe Czar to get money for the sufferers, and the bulk of the gifts have come from tbe people. Consul General Crawford estimates that the gifts of private eitizen3 in Russia | to this famino have been not les3 than 350,000,000 roubles or the enormous j sum of $175,000,000. The gifts almost I J surpass comprehension, and all told, not | witnstancnng xne yass pupuiauuu u> | { Russia, they amount, including those of the Government, to ?3 for each man, woman and child in the whole Russian Empire, or .to $15 per family. When you remember that of the twenty edd million families that make up the Russian people cot many more than one million of them probably has ever had 315 at one time in its possession you get some idea of the mighty strain this has been on those who could give and have given. The nobility have in all cases led the list, and hundreds of well-educated girls and women of the best families of this and other Russian cities are now in the famine districts fighting the demons of starvation, typhus fever and the smallpox in i behalf of the peasants. A number of i 1 ' FEASANT WOMAN*. these ladies huTf wght :h<- diseases of the peasants, and a F.uM.'ao coaalew who vupnL St. w^3 amoni , those who took the smrfllpox. Almoafc all of the great landed proprietors in the f&mine districts are doing what they can to help their people. I hear of men who have been feeding and caring for five, ten and in some cases even twenty and twenty-five thousand peasants, and Count Bobrinsky, who is at the head of the transportation of famine relief here, is, in connection with his family, support* ing nearly thirty thousand people out oY his own means, and at the same time aidin? in the distribution of the foreign and Government relief fund among the people outside of his estates. This relief work is not done spasmodically nor without system. Tboto is a thorough organization, and a* good brains as you will find anywhere in the woild are mauaging it. me peasants themselves are like children, and they require the advice and the care of children. These people of Russia of the highest classes go and stay with them. They visit them in their huts, take care of the sick?for there are but few doctors?and nurse them. With them is the Russian lied Cross which has raised about $35,000,000 for the sufferers, and which .works, as do all outside institutions, directly under the Government. The Government of Russia is planning great works to prevent the recurrence of such a condition as now exists. A fund of $10,000,000 has been set aside to build elevators and places for the storage of grain in all of the various districts, and through our Consul General, Dr. John SL Crawford, the Interior Department has investigated our system of crop reports and has just now decided to adopt this system for Russia. Secretary Rusk forwarded full information and from now on the same organized system that we have constructed will be in ~ atufers. force here. Heretofore Russia has had do agricultural statistics and the peasants have lived from hand to mouth. They are not economical or thrifty nor accumulative in our sense of the word, and it requires a study of their character and their condition to understand the situation. No one who visits Ru&ia can be unimpressed with the strength of character wen in the faces of the people. I first saw these Russian peasants at Jerusalem about four years ago. It was at Easter time, and they had come by the thousands on a pilgrimage "to the boly sepulcher, and of the polyglot humanity which was gathered there from the four quartern of the world there were none so r i ,ng in feature and in frame as these Slavs. I sec here every day walking tbe streets of St. Petersburg with bundles on their backs, driving cabs or droschkies ard working on the streets, men whose nobility and strength of features would create remark in the American crowd, and at every corner you meet men whose faces arc such that ycu would be proud to acknowledge them if you found them among your ancestral portraits. Their foreheads are high and broad, their eyes A DROSCHKY DRIVER. straight, honest and kindly. Their nose9 are large and clean cut, and their cheek bones cften rather prominent. Nearly all are bearded and many are long-haired oud part their hair in the middle. Their frames are as strong as-their faces. They are a big-boned, well-joined race, and they look as though they were made to stay. The women are of the same character as the men. They are not handsome nor pretty, but they look kind and motherly and what we would call fine | looking. They lack taste in dress, bave^no ideas of the harmony of colors, and wear ?I mean the peasants?handkerchiefs of all brightest colors of the rainbow upon their heads. Tneir ircsses are of red, biuc or other gay colors, and they are gathered iu at the neck and waist, Klid fall to the feet in ungraceful folds. They are sturdy of frame aud rather dull and quiot in manner. They do as much worl: as the men, and the men and womeu worlc in the fields side by side. The meu of the lower classes, as I see them here, are more picturesque in their r' ecs than the women. Russia is the land of the cap, the long coat and the ten boot-, and the peasants wear coats of i:ome?pun, with long frocks, and even 5'.'?h as uress i:> sheepskios, with the fur turned in. have their coafs reaching to bfclcw tlu: knees. Here io St. Petersburg I see few without overcoats, but =1 of red calico, shirt ana pa.italoons, the V shirt coming outside the panta and' belted at the waist, and his feet are cor ered with a sort of coarsely woven straw I shoe and his ankles are swaddled in rag*. J The better class of poor people or the 8j ordinarily well-to-do men here weai I Ion g coats, with top boots, and the Na- a tional cap is woin by nearly every 9 one. This is to a large extent the H costume of the rich, though the wealthy flj all over the civilized world dress much. ,'jM the same as we do. The difference here J is largely in the quality of goods worn, \ and St. Petersburg may be said to be a: an city where the people wear ulsters, caps JH and high boots the year round, no matter whether it be as hot as Tophet or as cold as Alaska. These Russian boots, are worth looking at. They are about" A the only cheap thing in Russia, and yott can get a pair made to order for fivei 9 dollars. The same leather and the same* a| work in the United States would cost IS you twenty-lire dollars, and the finish of g the be3t leather is as fine at that of * I portfolio or pocket book. These boots- " reach to the knees, and the best of them I shine like patent leather. The pantaloons are always tucked inside of them. nnd thpi (> is a fancv section about six inches wide above the ankle of every I boot, in which the leather lies la M wrinkles with the regularity of a wash-' board. It takes at leastjUwio^-as much S leather to make a patf oj jRmwftft-boota- jfl as it does an ^nerican pair, and the M same may be rfam o( the over- V coat. The dft^B^dK^r^dplMre cloth than anj| world H over. It takes more of good doth?for ; | the blue goods they wear seem to be of ez- I cellent material?to make a droschky 1 drivers coat ttao#o make a ladies'" -fl trained ball dress, and this coat has to be- I padded and quilted. This coat has long skirts, and it is made very large so that the cabby can staff his body oat, and especially his back, to give himsfelf the appearance of prosperous fatness. Nine- * tenths of these drivers are padded in thi? way, and no well-to-do man wonld own i a lean coachman. Lieutenant Allen, themilitary attache of our legation here, told me yesterday that his coachman appeared to be of dime-museum fatness when he engaged him, and that he sapposed his great frame was that of nature,. until one day he met him before he bad put in his pads And he was as thin as a !*' ( rail and looked so different* that it was some time before he knew him. Speaking of Russian caps, the officers- ; whom you see here by thA thousand al] ? 3 j. weartnem, anu toe muai. ui lug evmius have caps as a part of their uniform. Every servant or messenger wears a cap and the boys from the age of fonr wear loDg-visored cap3 and little overcoat* just like their fathers. Even the little girls wear caps, and the favorite head covering of the little maidens of from two to six or seven years, whom I set running about with their nurses in the. parks, is a jockey cap of the brightest red, blue, yellow or green silk. The colors of the1 caps of the men are usually dark, though they are trimmed with aU shades of borders and bands, and each color denotes something. The policemen, as a rule, have red bands about their caps. Some of the private soldiers wear caps of white. Others wear cape 80WIN0 THE SEED. like Tarn O'Shanters, and the cavalry have as many different kinds of headgear as the infantry. Some officers have green bands about their caps and othen blue, and in short there is every possible cap combination from the shaggy fur of . I the peasant from the wilds of north j Russia to the brimless astrakhan, which, with it red silk crown, copers the head of the cartridge breasted Caucassian | soldiers. The overcoats of the people from the different parts of the country are also different, and the officers wear coats of different colors and of different grades of length, ranging from the feet to the top of the boots in size. All told the dress of the men is the moot picturesque one of Europe, and the crowds which throng the streets of St. Petersburg are like those of no other capital of the world. The men are naturally large and fine-looking. These long ulsters make them look bigger, and the general effect produced is that of a Nation of giants. F.ltzabeth Wore an Amulet. Queen Elizabeth, during her last illness, wore around ber neck a charm made of gold which had been bequeathed ha by an old woman in Wales who declared that so long as the queen wore it she would never be ill. The amulet, as was generally the case, proved of no avail; ' and Elizabeth, notwithstanding her faith in the charm, not only sickened, bul died. During the plague in London, people wore amulets to keep oft the dread destroyer. Amulets of arsenic were wore near the heart. Quills of quick silvei were hung around the neck, and also the powder of toads.?Detroit Free Press. "A Swell Turu Out.'1 ~ " ?Life. Montana produced 15,000,000 poundi of wool last year,