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4P *' m ' RUSSIAN PEASANTS. SHIFTLESSNESS AND IMPROVl- DENCE OF QUONDAM SERFS. The Kind of People Who Trampled Each Other to Death at the Corona tion Fenat—Numbers and Variety of the Nationalities in the Empire. Subjects of the Czar. The awful panic in which over 2.000 persons lost their lives on the Hodynsky Plain, just outside the walls of Moscow, did not seem to mar the festivities of the coronation, for, although the Czar and Czarina went through the form of vi.-.it- ing the hospitals and speaking to those who, though maimed, were fortunate enough to escape death, the dancing and rejoicings went on according to the pro gram already arranged, and the ghastly incident seemed to make little impression on the court circle. Those who perished in the terrible rush for the food provided ESQUIMAUX IX RUSSIA. by the beneficence of the Czar were only peasants, and that the death of a few hun dreds or even a few thousands of peasants should be permitted to interfere with the general joyousness of the occasion when a young Czar is crowned was not to be thought of for a moment, so the merry making and the funerals progressed at the same time, and while the strains of the waltz floated out from the windows of the Kremlin palaces, the wails of widows and orphans went up from the plain outside, where the dead were being bunt'd in great trenches, with scarcely more formality than would be shown in the case of so many cattle. Showing, as it does, the little esteem in which the mass of Russian population is held by the court and bettei incident is painfully suggestive,‘for it in dicates that between the rulerj and (Tie jailed in that vast empire there is a great gulf fixed tUat hardly can be bridged even by the wings of liutnan sympathy. For Russia is but a compulsory aggregation of conquered provinces, held together by the iron hand of despotism, the 120,000,000 human units which make up the popula tion being regarded only as so many items the Middte Ages and their ideas still pre- vail; Kutsia has not yex emerged from the darkness of the feudal system. It is true that the Emiieror Alexander issued a decree abolishing serfdom, and thereby technically emancipated over 20,000,000 serfs, but emancipation, to men unpre pared to take advantage of it. is a mock ery, and to the present day the great masses of Russian jx-asantry are free only in name. They may not be sold with the estates, but without means to move else where, without the knowledge that they can better their condition by moving, and under the belief that they would l>e brought back if they did go, the name of freedom becomes a hollow delusion. In fact, though they have the name, it is all in reality that they do have, and to all intents and purposes they are just as much in slavery now as before the Czar’s decree. 1 he bulk of Russian laborers are agri cultural, and in this vast empire agricul ture is carried on in a fashion only less primitive than in Palestine or Egypt. In our patent offiee may be seen over 10.0<>0 models of plows; in Russia there is but one, and that one a clumsy affair which, from time immemorial, has been in use among the peasantry, nor can they be per suaded to change it for a better, for of all human beings the Russian peasant is the most conservative. He is now what his fathers were 3(X> years ago; wears the same kind of clothing they wore, keeps himself warm in winter and roasts in sum mer under the same kind of sheepskin cloak that was in common use all over Europe in the days of the Empress Anna, and cannot be induced to make a change, for what was good enough for his father is good enough for him. In the country districts a sort of com mune system, apparently contrived with extreme ingenuity to k.-ep the people poor, is in vogue almost everywhere, 'i he farm ers live in a village, having a sort of local self-government, which every year or two partitions out the fields among the popu lation. making a reassignment so frequent- 1> that no farmer feels any particular in terest in the permanent improvement of the ground allotted to him. for lie knows that in a year or two he will be given an other field. and that the rewards of his im provements, should he make any, will bo reaped by another. The result is. no one improves the ground to which ne is as signed; each strives to get from it all he can during the season he holds it. and to put on it as little labor and expense as possible. All the agricultural community of Russia thus, after a fashion, lives from hand to mouth, no one feeling called on to make any especial exertion, for when a man grows old the community is bound to take care of him, and one of the strong est incentives to prpvidence ami self-de nying exertion is taken away. Ihis system alone would bo enough to account for the general poverty and mis ery of the peasantry in the Russian Em pire, but there are others quite ns potent. The people are grossly ignorant and sup erstitious beyond belief. There is a pre will be as drunk as ever. So the student of Russian political economics must take into account, not only the number of holi days. but also the number of days after the holidays, for working the day after a vodki drunk is an impossibility, and thus is the effectiveness of the Russian laborer still further reduced. If he can make enough to support his family and get drunk, too, so much the better, if not. the family goes hungry, for to the Rus sian peasant a holiday without vodki is but a barivti ideality. Such are the ignorant, shiftless, improv ident people who crowded the neighbor hood of the ancient capital in anticipation of a free feast from the hand of the Czar. That they trampled each other to death at the tables, that they were drowned in the beer provided for their use. is not to be wondered at, for a herd of cattle would act quite as intelligently ns the degraded creatures who starved themselves for a whole day that they might be better pre pared to profit by the Czar’s generosity. The future of this vast mass of ignorance may well be viewed with apprehension. The Russian peasants do not now know their strength, just as the equally ignor ant and down-trodden French jieasantry a century ago were ignorant of their power, but when they discover it, us some day they surely will, the aristocracy of Russia may fare as badly as did the no bility that crowded fbe gay court of Louis XVI. The d:.y of reckoning may l»e dis tant, for national movements are gen erally slow, but, on the other hand, the world moves faster and goes further now in a decade than it formerly did in a cen tury, so there may be men living who will see the social earthquake that will occur when the Russian peasants discover their wrongs and rise to take vengeance on their oppressors. of vnMjth or jmioh material for the TnerciJess conscription when the Czar ueoils sojiiiefs lo figli{ liis battles, .-'triiu.h a miscellaneous and heterogen eous mass of peoples ns mage up the cni- pire it is'impossible that there should be any cohesion. No State on the earth, not even the British, contains so verier! a col lection of nationalities a? tKe Russian Empire. Oyer 100 nations, speaking near ly As many languages and dialects, nc- ■fc'nowledge the authority of the Czar, and so wide is the dominion of this potentate that he governs alike sealskin-clad Esqui maux of the polar circle and half-naked savages on the torrid plains to the east of the Caspian, where the heat of the sun, reflected from burning sands, renders life almost unendurable. Between these extremes are crowded Russians, Poles. Lithuanians, Finns, Lapps, Germans from the Baltic prov inces of Germany, Poles, Hungarians, Serbs. Slavs, Cossacks of a dozen tribes, Tehuds, Vots, Livs, Esths, Tartars. Xo- gais, Mcshtcherjaks, Bashkirs, Kirghiz. Yakuts. Buriats, Tnngusians, Ainos, Chi nese, Calmueks, Samoyeds, Ostiaks, l’z- baeks, Turcomans. Tajiks, Circassians, Georgians. Ijesghians. Grusians, Per sians. Armenians. Turks, Jews, Greeks, Ix-sides scores of others, whoso names are even less known than these. Some of these tribes comprise only a few hundred thousand of the population, but, on the other hand, several number millions, and annually send thousands of soldiers into the armies of the Czar. So far ns Europe is concerned, however, the great bulk of the population is Russian, and it is proba ble that most of the unfortunates who were trampled to death at the coronation feast were of that nationality and of the lowest and poorest classes of the peas antry. Attracted by the unusual occa sion and by the prodigality, barbarian in A PEASANT DINNER. its profusion, with which the populace are always entertained at such an event, they came by hundreds of thousands, an undis ciplined, half-starved rabble, and when the signal was given to approach the tables prepared, there was a rush like that of a stampeded herd of cattle and whole sale death wn* the natural result. The wretched peasants who trod one another into the earth to get a meal were the product of ages of iron oppression. Historians paint graphic pictures of the condition of the commons, the farmers, farm laborers and country people general ly in the days when all Europe was owned by kings and barons, and when the tiners of the soil were bought and sold with the estates on which they lived, but we do not need to go back five centuries to wit ness such a state of affairs. for U exista .u Russia to-da/. In the land ef ta* Lza-, RACING OSTRICH, > a Sulky and Able to Cover ground Like the Wind. ich does not hide his head in thgd, as his forebears used to do explains of Timbnotoo. Ha dead game sporting ostrich from Rookies. He carries a bit in his nh and does his rnnmng be- twee&e thills A>f a racing snlkv. Whe»puts his* head anywhere, it is in enger or under the wire m front judge’s stand. Hebe pioneer of ostrich racing, whioia trainer thinks, is the popu lar 8] of the future. Tlairthplace of this first-rate sporiidea is Denver, and the man with om it originated contends that ere were ostriches in plenty, ostriftoing could be made as profit able ittraction as horse racing and coultgiaintaiued at much smaller coat He* vision of ostrich trainers and aye traveling over the “cir cuit’the future, with “strings” of swifUthered bipeds, grooms and exer^ioye. He hears in his dreams the Is of odds erving “Tiinbuotoo "Bird 8 on; Alagazan RiM 1 to 3 andfT Ho foresees long delays at leeting “fields” of big os- lishing past the grand stand >f dust, and the snap shot ng the button at the fin- thousands cheer and the cackle. Feed Your nerves upon rich, red blood and you will not be nervous. Blood is made rich and pure by Hood’s Sarsaparilla The One True RlooJ Purifier. All druggists. $1 HERE IT {eiis? of popular education, it is true, but to the peasant farmers it is only a pre tense. for not one in ten can read a line. The clergy of the Greek Church, always passively and frequently actively, oppose efforts at advancement, and the result is that schools, when they exist at all, qn; devoted rather to the devotional than to tjie intellectual training of the young and thus "the ignorance is perpetuated. The home life of the Russian peasant is exceedingly rude and primitive. In the country districts log houses, greatly re sembling those once in use in the early days of this country, ore very common, while in regions where stone is more easily obtained than lumber, the houses are of that material. The lower class Russian is not noted for his cleanliness, and. though he may take a vapor bath every Saturday night, his company is not always rendered the more agreeable, in virtue of that fact, the rest of the week, for his ideas of cleanliness do not always extend as far as clean clothing, and his sheepskin jacket mid eloak frequently swarm with vermin. Long beards and hair are the rule rather than the excep tion, despite the efforts of Peter the Great to abolish both, and these capillary at tractions are usually so unkempt and un- cared for as to detract greatly from the personal appearance of the wearer. The home is no more attractive than its owner. Two or tfyree miserably dark roogis, often shared with domestic animals, a big firict stove on one side, which, in very cold weather, serves as the bed of all the in mates of the house, a bench, a table, a few crude cooking utensils and a sacred picture in the corner, constitute the fur nishings and furniture, while pork. milk, cheese and black bread, so coarse and ill- smelling as often to lie repulsive, form the leading articles of diet. Poor and in sufficient ns his food may be. however, every Russian peasant considers himself fully compensated if. on the frequent holi days. he has the means of getting an ade quate supply of vodki. and of all the mean drinks that ever went down the human throat, this is probably the vilest. Imag ine the worst possible brand of whisky, mingled with the stalest beer ever drawn by a bum from a three-day-old t>eer keg, tinctured with asafoetida, tobacco juice, a little essence of “jinison weed,” a flavor ing of wormwood and gall and a taste of liquid fire, and there is vodki. Only n Russian throat can stand it, and even a Russian throat can endure it only on holi day occasions. The Russians do not drink as incidental to occasions of sociability. The Englishman, Frenchman, German and American may get drunk, but it is generally because they are with friends, and, flushed with social emotion and con versation, transcend the limits of pru dent drinking. The Russian gets drunk with premeditatiort and malice afore thought; deliberately goes to a shop where his favorite tipple is sold, pays his money, and in a moment swallows enough to make a beast of him for twenty-four hours, and even longer, for it is a pecu liarity of vodki that it can make a man drunker for a longer time and for less money than any other drink known to the tippler. It is even said in Russia that after a vodki drunk has apparently iuu Its course and gone the way of all drunks, the subject maj revive it by going and lying in the sua, and in a quarter of an hour ( Passing of the Piano. You can rent a piano now cheaper than you can rent a typewriter. Either there is a greater surplus of pianos than usual or then* is a marked falling off In the demand. Maybe It Is both. You can get a piano as low as $2 per month. A very good Instrument can be bail for $;{. And these prices can be applied on the purchase of a new onfe. A typewriter—second-hand at that— will cost you $5 a month, says the New York Herald. Is there any significance In this? Have women begun to give up the piano for the typewriter? The latter can be bought new for from $85 to $125, while the piano comes at from $500 to $1,000. On the basis of the typewriter, the piano ought to rent for at least $25 a month. On the basis of the piano the typewriter ought to rent for 50 cents A mouth. The piano has unquestionably met with severe setbacks recently. Not only lias the typewriter opened a more useful field for young women than was before offered by the piano, and con sequently withdrawn many of the sex from the career ornamental, it has been supplemented by the Increasing mania for out-of-door sinirts. Instead of sit ting down and twirling a piano st^ol, as was the custom of her sisterhood of a generation or so ago, the modern young woman mounts her wheel and takes a spin In the park and the rli of arrest for scorching on the vard. Flat life is death to the plat? limited snace forbids a musical in- strument tliat encroaches so materially on the necessities of the family and which makes as much noise as a brass band. Besides, the courts have inter dicted the piano in flat life. It has been legally decided a nuisance. Complaint anywhere is immediately followed by suppression. The banjo and the guitar and the plaintive mandolin ornament the little flat parlor. The piano Is for roomier homes and for a life disassociated with the scram ble for dally bread and butter. Balloon Game In Paris. The newest sport in Fazis is the bal loon game, which Is played In this fash ion; A number of toy balloons are en tered for the competition, and in each of them Is placed an envelope, contain ing u postal card, which is addressed to the Judge of the contest. The little balloons are then set free, and after more or less time come to earth again, In different parts of the country. Those who find them see the envelopes and; notice thereon a request that the time when each balloon was found, and also the place, lx* written on the postal card, which is then to be dropped in the, postofflee. At the end of a week the various postal cards are comparetjjind the prize Ts awnrneiT to tliat balloon w'hlch traveled the greatest distance In the shortest time. Not a costly sport this, and one which is likely to give a, great impetus to a new Industry, the; manufacture of racing balloons. ! grraOH THAT IS A PACER. ■ to take time by the fore- e in the game in season to irly winning, he has broken ig-limbed, rangy and full- trich to harness, and has Ig in front of a feather- y twice a day. licnlar ostrich—the first of ostriches—is one of the t the menagerie at Elitch’s Gardti the Highlands of Denver. Elit«a place patterned after the garde' the Old World. You might fanm^i that you were in Vienna or .roe/ vho drives the racing os- Ivor yet had conrage to get fully extended, so nobody, act Denver, where the strange lent is a familiar sight, |t how badly the ostrich ter the pacing records if be ace to try. , ations Without Patents. look back on the history of ht^Rogress you will find that none ofKeat epoch-making inventions hMbeen patented. The man who liMret fire, whether Prometbeys orftrty from whom be stole the idAd not get a patent for it. N^did the man who made the >el—in every sense one of the mefolutionary inventions in the hiJtf man. The same thing may belaf the invention of soap, can- dlwipowder, umbrellas and the mate compass, or, to come down to Iwn day, of the steam engine amieiectric telegraph. is a general notion that if yon didlprotect inventions by means of [ts. inventors would cease to invLnd material progress would conlistandstill. But history doeti notTthis out in the least. Men witftit mechanical gifts do not ex- ercipm solely with a view to com- tnerfcroflt any more than astrono- merlch the heavens for new worlds wittmje to registering patents ami Hoawompanies on the results of thei«>veries.—London Troth. On’y One Way to Get Volunteers. There had been a lack of men joining the ranks, and the colonel was visit ing n recruiting station, inspecting the workings of his recruiting sergeants. Suddenly a terrible noise of shouting and shuffling of feet came through the open window. Now It came from the stairway, intermingled with sundry loud bumps and knocks, and the door burst open, showing a red-faced, pers piring little sergeant pushing, haul ing and tugging at a big country lad. The latter was doing his best to es cape the firm grip of the soldier. “Halt!” cried the colonel. “How is this?” he said to the sergeant. “Is this the way you secure recruits—by force, sir?” The red-faced sergeant looked up and down, then at the colonel, and blurted out: “Bure, sir, the only way to get them vol unteers Is by force, sir.” Divorce in Japan. In Japan one marriage in every three ends In divorce. This is not so very surprising, seeing that a woman, for instance, may be divorced for talking too much, or because her mother-in-law develops a dislike for her. The more a woman knows about lit erature and art, the less she knows about housekeeping. Every woman who Is jealous of her husband, develops a Rider Haggard Imag'natioo. rr Hood's Pillsalways reliable, ttceuta sumption ^ Wnt to :«ora all about a Bom? How to Pick Oat a, Good One* Know Imp«rfac-| Uotuand to Guard again*! , Fraud? Detort Dteraao and >. Mart a Cure when oatao ta poaaiMrr ToU the Ago by the Toetb? 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Usually a man does not have time to work on his own scheme, he is bothered so much by other schemers. Jnst Watch the Chickens. On a rainy morning a good deal of wisdom may be learned from the chick ens. If It Is to be a soggy, rainy, driz zly day—all day—the chickens will get out and stand about In tbe rain with an utterly Indifferent manner. They look Just as human beings feel. And they keep It up all day. But if the rain Is to eontinue but a few hours the chickens will stay under shelter. They cannot be kept out. They hurry under cover when disturb ed, and stay there till the fair weather comes—which it does presently. And then they go out and enjoy tbe sun shine. The chickens know. I f you see them ont In the rain In the morning, make up your mind It will rain all day. If they avoid the rain in the morning, have hope. The sun will soon appear. Have Lived Long In the Land. The most remarkable Instance of longevity In the history of the Nutmeg State, perhaps, is noted in the Kimball family of the town of Preston, one member of It, Mrs. Abby S. Cook, who Is passing the closing years of her life In the home of her daughter, Mrs. Will iam H. Cook, of Franklin street, this city, having celebrated on Tuesday the 90th anniversary of her birthday. Mrs. Cook Is the widow of the late Isaac H. Usually a man does not have time to work on his own scheme, he Is bothered so much by other schemers. Htats or Ohio, Citt op Toledo, t Lccao Couirrr. ("• Frank J. Csenry miakei oath that he I* the aeniur partner of the firm of K. J. Chemrt A Co.,doing budlneeelu t he City of Tolrtln, County and State Aforesaid, and that said firm will pay thssnm of ome honored dollars for earn and every case of CATAhrh that cannot be cared by the use Hall's Catarrh Core. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscribed In my ! -—> pretence, this 6tt» day of December, SEAL f A. D. l&ft A. 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Uali’s Family Pill* pout a Kangaroo Cat. ever hear of a kangaroo 111 see from tbe pictare, it’s it. Ik has fur like a eat, it cat, and it can catch mice But it sits up on its hind , kangaroo, has a long stoat lumps like a kangaroo. Its jug, almost like that of a I dog. A man who lives in are the boot. A Physician's Testimony. "I know It to bo a radical euro for letter, •alt rheum, eczema and all kindred dlsea-e* of the akin and scalp. I never preacribe any thing eUe in all skin I roubles." M. L. Fielder. M. D., Eclectic P. O., Elmore Co., Ala. 1 box by mail tor 50c. in stamp*. J. T. SnrrrniwK. Savannah. Ga. Gladness Comes W ith a better understanding of the transient nature of the many phys ical ills which vanish before proper ef forts—gentle efforts—pleasant efforv^— tightly directed. There is comfort in the knowledge that so many forms of sickness are not due to any actual dis ease, but simply to a constipated condi tion of the sytitem, which the pleasant family laxative, Syrup of Figs, prompt ly removes. Tliat is why it is the only remedy with millions of fttmilies. amli» everywhere esteemed so highly by all who value good health. Its beneficial effects are due to the fact, that it is the one remedy which promotes internal cleanliness, without debilitating the organs on which it acts. It is therefore Bllimportant, in order to get its bene ficial effects, to noto when you pur chase, that you have the genuine article, which is manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, and sold by all rep utable druggists. If in the enjoyment of good health, end the system is regular, then laxa tives or other remedies aro not needed. If afflicted with any actual disease, one may be commended tothemost skillful physicians, but if in need of a laxative, then one should have the best, and with the well-informed everywhere. Byrupof Figs stands highest and is most largely used and rives moat general satisfactions 8. N. U.-35 Money in Chickens FITflotopped freeand perman**ntlycnrod. No fit* aftar first day’* u*e of Dm. Kline"* Great NerveRkstoheu. Free WlriAlbotbeundtreat- iae. bend to Dv* Kline, U01 Arcb St.e Phiie.» P<4* Owing to high rents not many more than half of tbo oottagu* at Newport, B. L, are occupied tbi* seaaou. '• Penny wl*e and pound foolish" ar» tboae who think it economv to us* cheap soda and team soaps, instead of the good old Dobbins’ Electric Soap; for sale by all (rrorers since 1865. Try it once. Me sure, buy venuina. Cbikt’s new tariff, which want into effect July 4, is tbe lint lo be based on the pro tective' plan After phvrfclans had (riven me up, I was saved by Plso’e Cure.—Ralph Eriko, Wil liamsport, Pa., Nov. S2, 18J.1. Mr*. WlnsloW*Socthtnc Syrup for children teethimr. softens the gums, reduces Icfiamma- Mon.allsyspaln. cur»« wind colic.2.V. a bottle, CO. For ‘/5c. In sbump* w* mmt a M> PAUK book gtvlag tao exp arias oo of a practical i'oulwy Halter -BO« aa amateur, but a maa wurktag dollar* sod coats—durtog K jeers, ll keecOes how to Decoo* Lad Cure Diaeasae; reed lor Egg* clso for ratteoiug: which KowUU have lor breeding; everything ro- cukiUeior iiruStaolr r-niilry rate- lag. HOOK rUlll.loUlNU I.eosui-U rttrrei. Ae>v k ora. tumedd A KANOAROO CAT. Oak Parj it waa a weeks il of a hi rather have om yourself ought s kangaroo cat when ^ten, and at the age of six ild jnmp easily to the top board fence/ They are I in this country, and if you | them you may consider Hunatc.—Chicago Record. Reliable Charloite Merchants siaTJiiift.^rrisaaEOBriHj Call on them when you go to Charlotte N. C. Write (hem If you do not go, and have your orders flUrd by mall. In answering advertisement* kindly men- tlon (hi* paper. MfMftWP * EST WORK. - casonaide Prices * wifi MliU Wr te News & Times Pt'g. Houne. PmVffTYtFE. M. AND h EW8,16-15 W. Trade i UftfUiUftilAlso Pianos, O gans & Bicycles. MfU WAW9 and lager beer. r. SOSA WaUR pohtner brewing CO., C. Vainer, 317 8. College Street. WW f H* ROOM. 2*1 W. TRADE 8T. WUjUh VieUlltf Only finit-clasR place in city eNMINP Surreys. Phaetons, Road wagons, ■ UtfoaBii Carts. Etc. Man uaoturers Agents Writ for catalogue. 8. 8. Me - inch A co. RAILWAY FAIF toCharlotu> Uommer - I collage during Aug HA AND aolxool of »1xox-*1a*axxcS AUat'MTA. «A. No ten book* used. Actual batiuae* froa <1*r ef anterlng. Businos* psperv. collage •nrr-ocy sad ■odd* used, (tend ter hsodaoma.r illnairsted « ‘tan*. Board ehesper thaa in nay Seutheru city. iftDIfllfl WHIBKY habltscared. Books uriun rut. hr. a. a. wooilky. atlaxt*. A Trustworthy Treatment. Indorsed ntid Used by the V. a. Gov ernment, in the Soldiers’ and bailors’ NmUoiihI Homes. If yon nr<> nddlcted to the LIQUOR, MOR. I’hlNK, Ol'U .M. LAUDANUM, CHLORAL, COCAINE or TOBACCO habits and Wl>|? to lie CURED with little or no discomfort and freedom from all possible danger, address for information THK KKKLKY INSTITUrK. N- West corner Lady and Marion Streeta, or Drawer 27 Columbia, S.C. LEESVILLE GOLLEBE. For terms of our SIX FREE SCHOLAR SHIPS to your county In Vocal Music, OU Painting. Drswing, Book-keeping, Short- band, Type-writing, Telegraphy, and Pen krtj write at once. No Competitive exami- °‘lI. HAYNES, A.K, msldont. LMivilfo S. G.