Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 January 1897 — Page 3

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1897.

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TOLSTOI'S TIME COME Tim II4LY SYMID OT Ill'SSIA HAS SIMMO.M'.D HII T4 TUIAL. The I'hilosophrr, Poet, Author and oclullst .May Lose All His Possessions for Heterodosy. NVw: York Herald. i'ount Iyof Tolstoi Is to lf exxcommunlcatol by the Holy Synod of Ku.-sia. That 13 the news which is flashed over to us by cable from St. Petersburg. The orthodox church can no longer tolerate him; she will cast him out from h-r fold. With considerable show of reason it is held that his works are calculated to and do undermine the church. The cable- adds that the synod was Incited to th!.s action by M. Pobedonostzoff, the procurer ge-neral of the synod. Tolstoi will be cited before the holy and reverend merr.bfrs for trial. The probable outcome Is that he will be deprived of hU civil rights. But Czar Nicholas is still his frienJ. It Is improbable that he will a.?ent to any action that goes further than condemnation of some of Count Tolstoi's tracts and essays. For years Tolstoi has lived In constant expectation of arrest. A traveler who recently visited him says that his arrival ueemed to disquiet the ladies. Inquiring the reason, ho was enlightened by the Countess Maria. Tolstoi's daughter: "The approach of a sledge," she explained, "always excites" us. Every minute we fear that gendarmes may come to take away our father." Nor are these apprehension? groundless. The enemies of the harmless count are many, and it is not their fault that his liberties have not already been seriously curtailed, liy persistently and maliciously misrepresenting his actions and words they do their t-st to stir up public opinion against him. Yet Tolstoi had no chance to reply to newspaper attack. Ho could not set himself risht with the Government, with the Eublle or with hi neighbors. Sk great had een the commotio n created by the garbled telegraph articles throughout the length and breadth of the land that th censors had decided njt to allow the subject to be kept open. Let u.- turn for a moment to a brief consideration of the life work of this extraordinary man. Christlned and educated in the orthodox Greek Church, at the age of eiht?en he discarded all bcliet in anything. "For thirty years," he ;-ays, "I was a Nlnillfd not a revolutionary Socialist, but a man who Indieved in nothing." Finding nj morality and little real faith in the professed adherents of his national church. it Is not surprising that he discarded Its teachings. He extended his studies in every direction. Ho did all he ceuld to develop his physical power?. He became a soldier, and won distinction in the army. Returning from the war and settling In St. Petersburg, he won greater distinction as an author. Having- abundant wealth at his disposal, he plunged Into all sorts of excesses. "Lying", robbery, adultery of all kind.-, drunkenness, violence and murder, all committed by me, not one crime omitted, and yet I was not the less considered by my equal.- a comparatively moral man. Such wiw my life during ten years." And he adds: "I grew disgusted with all mankind and with myself." THE REACTION CAME. Even the literature which won him fame he felt persuaded was a lie. He was presuming to teach, when he knew nothing and believed nothing. He sought relief in marriage. This led him away from his eearch after the meaning of life, and for a time he lived happily. Suddenly this happiness and peace came to a pudden stop. "When asking himself how he should educate his children, the how was supplemented by a "why." "Why should he educate them at all? What was the use of scholarship, of teaching to others the names which human Ignorance has given to the unknowable? What was all life but vanity and vexation of spirit? At test he, reached the comforting conclusion that life was contrary to reason. Therefore.he ought to accept, a the basis of his life, what was contrary to reason. For "all that men sincerely believe In must be true." His faith returned to him. Hut now he was to go through a new series of struggles. He came back to the orthodox church, humbled himself and conformed to Its ordinances. Hut he could not accept it. Its forms were meaningless. Its morality was worse than queslonable. Its anathemas against both Protestants and Catholics unreasonable, narrow and childish. The same objections were to be found In all other churches. lint he learneil much from his association with the common people. Finally, he concluded they had solved the truo secret of life. Then h turmd once more to the sayings of Christ and succeeded in rinding in them Just about what he had worked out In his own mind. The key to the entire system he finds In the words of Christ. "Resist not evil." These words he takes Pterally. and from them evolves his famous doctrine of nonreslstance. In the New Testament two different laws are referred to the written, which Jesus abrogated, and the law eternal, the law of non res stance, which he. on the other hand, affirmed. "Judge not that ye bo not Judged" Is a literal command. It sweeps away all courts of Justice, all punishment of crime by the state. Tolstoi therefore lands himself In what looks like a curious dilemma. He would abolish the state, yet he would abolish all reslstence to the state. As to the personal conduct of life, he enforced the duty of chastity, temperance and poverty. So deeply had the latter virtue Impressed itself upon his mind that when he had completed the work he call.d all his family around him and told them ho was going to give all his property away to the poor. (Jreat was the family dismay. Countess Tolstoi fairly swooned away. "Sell all thou hast and give it to the poor" was a pretty enough precept, but to translate it Into action was hard indeed. So Tolstoi left the hous, telling his family that they could no what they liked with his money. As for himself, he had no further need of it. A simple blouse and plain food would suffice for him. He has adhered to this resolution. He does not own so much now as a kopek. Ills estates, his money, his hordes everything he posseses have been made over to his wife and children. PLOWMAN AND SHOEMAKER. Fhyslcal duty he held was a labor Imposed upon every man. It is better to actually labor for and with the poor In their particular employment than it is to work in your own higher, and possibly more remunerative, intellectual held and then give the ioor the results of your Tabor. In the one case you not only help the people who need help, but you set the poor and the Idle an example. If. on the other hand, you work exclusively In your own higher intellectual t'.eld and give the poor the results of your labor as you would give alms to a beffgur, you encourage Idleness and dependence; you establish a social class distinction between yourself and tho recipient of your alms; you break down his elf-respcct and se!f-rdlnnee and you Inspire liiiii with a longing to eseaio from the hard ennuitifn of his own life of dally physical toil and t sh;r your lifo. whirh ho thinks is easier than his. That is not tne way to help the poor or to promote the brotherhood of man. Ever sine the new llt?ht brok" upon him tills high born aristocrat, this brilliant Intellectual leader, has spent a portion of rvf'ry day i:i plowing and in making sdioos. Ill his last pnNmical work. "The Kingdom nf t;r.d Is Within You." Tolstoi followed vut bis idfa to thir logical extreme. He declared that, whatever the crimes of the peoile. th-re can be no crime equal to that of government its-lf. The established drtrotlsii of Itu.s;-.la and the established State church which upholds it are the greatest possibly infamy. He denied that If the people were left whollv to themst-lvtM they could ever commit crimes -t, abominable that the sum of their eli would equal the sum of th wrong done by the dpotie churrh and the tyrannical Mate of Russia. Tolstoi talis his doctrine Christianity. He Insists on the pn-vepts of Christ r.s furnishing the only rub-s fur the riuht government of human conduct. Vet he rejects the en- ! tire doctrinal rrrr.ev.ork of the Christian scheme of redemption, including original uln. atonement. t!i- Trinity and the divinity of Christ, an t he has llttl - faith in the immortality of the soul. His reJIeion U a r 11gloil of this world, based alnn.yt entirely o; torrest rial cenvld. rations. If he refers frequently to the teru-hliigs of Christ and accept His precepts as the rules which should icovern hunun -ondu.t it l not because hrelieves that Chrit was (od, but because he regards tho so precepts as a formal embodiment of the higlt-ft and noblest phllooyhy of life, and as a rcvtlatlon in a cer

tain sense (or shall wo say a Tolstoiesque sense?j of the divine will and character.

THE THIIltli: OF "IS I'OIH." Ilovr (ien. ;rttnt Wan Welcomed Into Pekln by Patriotic Anierleuii llo). Boston Globe. In tho summer of 179 General Grant was In China on his trip around the world. Ills visits from city to city were looked forward to by all the foreign residents, but to none did more Importance attach to his coming than to the American missionaries, so long absent from their native land. There was in the city of Peking a little band of these missionary children whose numerous pranks had caused them to become familiarly known among the American residents as "Cs Four." It was composed of two pairs of brothers with only two years difference between the ages of the oldest and youngest of the four. Two of them had been born in America, and from that fact considered themselves much more important than their less fortunate comrades who had never seen the land that they claimed as their own, though one f them had literally been born under the Hag. for in the hour of his nativity his father had with patriotic instinct spread the stars and stripes above. They were true Americans, however, and In the breast of each one of "us four" there burned a sturdy patriotism. It had frequently devolved upon them in their numerous arguments with missionary children of other nationalities to demonstrate, ofttimes with force of arms, the superiority of America and Americans over the balance of the universe, until the youthful part of the community had been pretty well convinced. When thev heard of Grant's coming visit to Peking their four little heads were seen together in frequent consultation, for they, too, were determined in some way to give the general some token of special welcome. But their plans were kept secret, although each of them suddenly announced at home that he must have a Hag. This was no small request, for flags could not be got, and there was but a single one at the mission. Several ladies, however, joined hands to gratify their wish. Bunting was bousht. and. alter several days to each one of "us four" a flag was presented. One day the word was giver: that Grant's procession was In sight of the city and a large number of missionaries. living within easy distance of the city wall, went up on the wall to watch the cavalcade come In. There was to be r.o demonstration at Grant's entry into the city, for with the methods of travel in vogue there, no one could tell when it would occur. But this was the opportunity for "us four," and along the steep Incline ascending the Peking city wall that day, they trudged, each one with his priceless treasure rolled up under his arm. It was a momentous occasion In their young lives: they were going to offer their tribute to the greatest of living warriors, whose greatness, indeed, over all others, and especially over all English warriors, they had often proved with their own sturdy little arms until none of their companions flared to dispute It. The boys planted themselves above the arch of the great Inner gate, for in entering the Tartar city you must always pass through two gate . the inner gate being protected by a sen.l-clreular wall which is pierced by other gates. Here "us four" waited until they learned from the others that the procession had entered the outer gate; then, unfolding their Hags they hid them behind the parapet until the great imperial chair, borne by eight carriers, in which the general rode, came through the outer gate and entered the space v. ithin the semi-circular wall. Then drawing their tiny flags they waved them vigorously, shouting, at tho top of their voices, "Hurrah for Oeneral Grant." The general heard, and, glancing out of his sedan chair up at the great twre wall over the inner grate, toward which the carriers were rapidly bearing him, he saw the four small boys with their flags, and with a wave of his hand he passed Into the gate and out of their sight. The general had Just entered the ancient capital of the oldest empire in the world, and, though borne through Its gates In an Imperial chair, there was not a sign of welcome. Not a cheer nor a fleck of color displayed in anticipation of his coming. The great hurrying masses whom he passed scarcely raised their eyes In Inquiry. Here at last he had found a people among whom his name and fame were unknown. The striking contrast of this entry with those of his Into other capitals must have been noticed by the general, and It is not strange that he felt touched by the sight of those little Hags and the sound of those childish cheers, for they were his sole welcome as ho passed Into the great capital of China. After arriving at the American legation he inquired of Secretary Holcomb who his youthful salutors were, and on being told he expressed the desire to meet them. Mr. Holcomb sent word to the boys, and designated the time at which General Grant would receive them. "I's four" had prone back from the gate well satistietf with the outcome of their plans and delighted that the general had noticed and waved his hand to ihm. but when the summons came for a personal Interview their joy was unbounded. At the apjxdnted time they presented themselves at the legation tinder the eare of the father of one of the pairs. Prince King was Just leaving from his memorable call on General Grant. The general received the boys In the private parlors of the legation, and. taking each one of them by the hand, he Introduced t:u-m to Mrs. Grant. There was no one else present, and the general gathered those four boys around him and told them how touched he felt by their welcome and the sight of their little flags: how pleased he was to rind them so full of fervor and patriotism, although living In a heathen land, so far away from home. The boys sat In wonder as the soldier told them how proud they should be of their country, and closed with an exhortation for each one to prove himself a worthy American, and to never do aught to disgrace his country. Shaking hands with his guests at the end. the general said: "Well, boys, if I ever write a book of my travels I shall mention In it your welcome to me at the gates of Peking." And no prouder boys ever went from the presence of greatness than us four" on that day. THE SCHOOLBOY OF SII1ERA. School ExerrUea and Even Play Conducted After Military Model. Harper's Round Table. The military rule that governs all Russia extends to tho schools and colleges. They are free pullllc schools, almost as fully as with us. and are attended by the children of the peasants and poor townspeople as well as by tho sons of government otliclals and rich merchants, who later are to go to the university at Tomsk, or perhaps to Russia, for their college course. Hut here, though some are nobles by birth and others are mere inasants. ad are treated exactly alike, and all dress In a uniform closely copied from that of the army. Even the girls who always have separate schools from the boys wear a simple regulation dress, so that there Is no heart burning in little Anna, from the cottage in the back street, because little Lady Anna, from the great house on tho square, has a lino dress. Tho teachers are all regarded as ofllcers of the government, and wear a military uniform. The school is drilled in tactics every day, and conducts all its exercises after military models, training its boys into soldierly young men. Even their play is mixed up with this. The uniform Is not so pretty as that worn by the cadets of our own military schools, and It is comical to see ji little chap, with a round, roguish face under his Hat cap. wearing big boots, and a gray overcoat belted about with skirts long enough to touch the ground: but when he has earned the rank of corporal or sergeant in his school battalion, and feels the marks of his rank on his collar, he struts about as proud as a peacock. Gymnastics aro cultivated everywhere, and each school has a large hall devoted to calisthenics and to exercises upon the bars, ladders, vaulting horse, swinging rings, trapeze, etc.. while many schools have out-of-loor aparntus to be used in warm weather. Everybody must go through these exorcises. anl Fonie excel greatly in them, as you would cxect of the sons of Cossacks, as many of them are. A Vnnlnlied Civilisation. Lippincott's Magazine. The pioneers of civilization in South America were the Jesuit. Although their influence In many respects may not always have been what was most conducive to the prosperity of the new settlement, yet their mode of treating the natives was more humane and their plan for the development and progress of the country more advanced than any other attempts of that period. They sought to establish a permanent home for their sect with a wealth and splendor that wou'd equal that of the Old WorlJ. and their work was characterized by prudence. Industry, and wisdom. Other s. ttlers ame only as fortunehunting adven'urers to enclave the natives, pillage the country, nr-1 tlun return to their own land with Ill-gotten gains. Monuments of the Je.-uits still remain In churches, aqueducts, eiti s in ruins, and the history of a hundred prosperous missions; from the Amazon to Brazil's southern lord rs we ee their sign. The tut'seduct of Rio de Janeiro, the hundred churches of Bahla. the stone water darns on the rivers of lijyaz. the crumbling ruins of almost every state nf llrazil. tell of the Jesuit occupation, other settlers of that Ieriod left almost nothing behind them: their ml-slon v.-a to d-.troy. tear dawn, and drive out ths only elrir nt of good the country had. thai they irUht establish the reign of terror, slavery, amd tapine that cursed the country to long.

BRUTALITY IN UNIFORM

im)k;mtii:s to which germax civilians Aim .SlilJCCTKD. ft Hon the Arrognnt Army OfHcers Make Life a Burden fo People AVlto Do ot Wear n Uniform. New York Sun. The Bruesewltz affair has come to be regarded apparently as one of the crowning atrocities of German militarism. The spectacle of an armed officer assassinating on the spot an unarmed civilian, whose original offense was to bump chairs with him accidentally In a restaurant, has been held up to view by the press cf all civilized lands as an illustration of what the German people must suffer at th hands of their own standing army. The man who knows not Germany and the Germans would be quite likely to think, after reading of this assassination: The brutality of officer toward civilian could gD no further; no more striking example of military oppression in times of peace could be given by a highly civilized people. Y'et anybody who has lived in Germany In recent years knows that it is not the Bruesewitzes who do most in that empire to oppress and torment the civilian subjects of the Hohenzollerns. It is not the ofllcers stamping about with drawn swords and furious threats in the saloons, nor yet those ever ready with their cards to demand meetings with swords or pistols, who make the self-respecting civilian long for other lands and less tempestuous scenes. Such men of action are rare in the German army, or, if not rare, take pains to hide their true natures. It is not the military assassin's stab nor the military bully's challenge that harasses the ordinary civilian In Germany. It is rather the load of class contempt which the officers' corps puts upon the backs of the rest of the nation. That is the burden that kills. Y'ou may resent the insult of any one man in Germany. If you are a German, you at least can tight a duel and save your self-respect at the expense of a doctor's bill. If you are an American, you can thrash your antagonist to your own satisfaction, even though your style of revenge does not suit anybody else. But who can face and demolish the front of a whole army corps? Who can stand out against the thousands of commissioned officers, intrenched in the vested privileges of active service and reinforced by tens of thousands who have gone into the reserves with the same ideas of position and prerogative? It is like trying to upset centuries of Prussian military tradition and to revolutionize with one man's strength the whole political and social fabric of the German empire. From the present point of view the effort is hopeless. Most German civilians, outside of the titled class, must compromise with self-respect and take things as they come. Most foreigners must, choose between a similar course and helping themselves from difficulty to difficulty, until the neighborhood becomes too hot for them. and they move on to France or England to escape a series of duels or a pariah's life, far even from the civilian's smiie. The aim of the writer of this article is to give a few Instances of what civilians In Germany bear, how some bear it and others do not, and why a man who Intends to become acclimated anywhere between the Vosges and the Vistula must prepare for occasional crises In his continental career, especially if he be an American with the temperament and temper that an American usually Is born with. As the intention Is not to illustrate the tragic side of the subject, the doing of the Bruesewltz and his fellow-assassins will not be considered; only tiie unheroic, everyday side of the everlasting conflict will be touched. AN ARROGANT LIEUTENANT. Early In this month the Berlin newsnepers published a brief narrative, which, on account of its familiar Incidents, is well calculated to define the principal features of an encounter between a German reserve lieutenant and a GermantivUian. The two saw each other for the lirst time during the dinner hour on the fast express between Dresden and Berlin. The civilian was a Chemnitz merchant of considerable property, one who, in New York, would pass as an Influential business man, and would sit on platforms to lend dignity to lolltleal demonstrations. He finished his meal in the dining car before the lieutenant reached the desert. He threw back his coat front, lighted his cigar, and leaned back to puff it. at peace with his soul. The lieutenant laid down knife and fork and looked at him. The merchaat blew out smoky ring.-, all unconscious of the brewing storm, and apparently did not know there was an officer In the car. Several of his fellow-travelers became uneasy. They fe;trd trouble was coming. They saw that the lieutenant had "Axed" (llxlrt) the merchant, that Is. had fastened his eyes upon him so intently as to give cause for the fateful question, "Why do you stare at me?" etc.. to the flhtlng point. They tried to warn the merchant of his danger, to motion him that he was offending the lieutenant ami would do well to cease smoking for the time being, but In vain. The merchant smoked on in serene obliviousness, and the lieutenant stared on with growing wrath. After five minutes' suspense, the lieutenant broke the painful silence with the sharp, rising, nasal tone which Is used by lieutenants to betoken anger. He brought the waiter to his .side with a call that aroused even the merchant from Chemnitz. Pointing to the merchant, he demanded: "What kind of a creature Is that with a cigar?" The waiter shook his head In dump trepidation. Then the lieutenant shouted the words are quoted literally: "Anyhow, you go and tell that fellow ahead there that he must take that stinker tstanker) out of his mouth." If an unacclimated American had been present he might have prepared to move out of the way of trouble; he probably would have hauled his hand luggage into, a remote corner: he doubtless would have remarked that the merchant, though a little heavy, ought to carry all the money and win the contest In style. A Frenchman would have expected a blow and an exchange of cards. A Russian would have expected anything from coitee cups to pistols on the spot or later, and a German well, a Gfrman would have expected just what happened. The Chemnitz merchant took his cigar from his mouth, and remarked courteously that he had not Intended to violate any rule against smoking. He added that he did not smoke "stinkers" and that he regarded it as rather discourteous to call him a "fellow." Cp jumped the lieutenant with both arms raised and roared: "If you don't get out of here Instantly I will put a leg on you that will help you run. You would not be the lirst person of your kind that 1 have put legs on." I NAD ICQ U ATE A PO LOG V. That was the last words in the scene; the Chemnitz merchant turned and fled to the next compartment, as he gald afterward, for fear that he might be sacrificed on the spot as was Bruesewitz's victim. The eight civilians who had witnessed the provocation, apology, menace and flight jumped tip. brimful of indignation, but like the proper Gcrmn civilians they were. they did not let any indignation spill over in the leutenant's presence; that might have consequences. So instead they preserved their peace until they were alor.e with the Chemnitz merchant, when they advised him to make it warm for the lieutenant in one way or another that would not involve pt.rsor.al violence. So far this little narrative of the merchant and the lieutenant has moved along conventional lines, but the rest of it is a little out of the routine. When the train reached the Anhalt station In Prrlin the Chemnitz merchant, encouraged and supported by the eight other civilians, took steps to learn who the reserve lieutenant was. and to complain of hint to the military authorities, guile unexpectedly this brought the young man to terms, and he matte a grumbling excuse for his conduct, and requested the merchant to let tiie matter drop. This exceptional outcome of tne scene on the train is given merely for the. record; It has no signlricance as regards the essential features of rumpuses of this class. These features are that the German officer opens hostilities by grossly insulting the civilian, and continues them bv refuting to accept any apology that the civilian may offer for being present or. being alive, by threatening to thrash or Mab the clvillm. and finally by putting the civilian to flight. That a civilian should run to save his skin from an army ottlcrr s attack Is a tradition that seems to bring no shame with It in Germany. Men tell of tWir running to escape the military bully I a3 frankly as they might tell of running

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from a supernatural monster when it passeth the power of man to resist. Persons acquainted with the Bruesewltz case will remember that the lieutenant gave the morfal thrust as the machinist tied after vainly offering an apology. So. too. in the case of Lieutenant Baron Sallsch and the young shopkeeper Weymann, in Coblenz. Sallseh reproached Weymann. and frightened him into the usual flight. He pursued the fleeing man to the middle of the Rhine river bridge, reviled him. refused to accept his apologies, and eventually chased him K.me two hundred or three bundied feet and ran him through with his sword. HANSEN'S EXPERIENCE. A rather bumptious young man from Cincinnati had doubts when he reached Heidelberg that the policy of cut-and-run was so common among German civilians under military stress of circumstances. He was a stalwart German-American, who was the soul of honor and courtesy under ordinary conditions, but pugnacious to the last degree when he thought anybody was trying to curtail a single one of his inborn rights and privileges. While American from scalp to sole, he took considerable pride in his mother's family, which was tine old professional stock in Goettingen. He, therefore, was reluctant to believe that humiliation could be an established and undisputed custom between two equally Intelligent classes in Germany. He was skeptical for several weeks; then something happened which not only changed his views, but also ltd to a series of interesting Incidents. In the same house with us the.rX', lived the most prosperous haberdasher irtit IheuKluerg. about forty years old. well built, muscular, active, businesslike and agreeable. Twice a week he came in to drink punch with us. and improve our German by conversation. One Wednesday night he did not come at S o'clock, the appointed hour. Half a:i hour passed, and the Cincinnati man remarked that Hansen must have stayed unusually late at Haeberlein's, and probably would not come at all. A moment later, however, the door burst open, and in hurried Hansen not. however, the sle k. affable, dignified Hansen of former evenings, but a disheveled, white-faetd. rumpled and exhausted Hansen, looking as If he might have slid in from the towering Galsberg at our doors. His story was soon told. H had run foul of a lieutenant. He was playing his regular game of billiards at Haeberlein's when three young army officers entered. Ail the tables were lull; excepting Hansen and his friend, however, the plovers were Saxo-Borussens, who. though o'nly corps students, are rather pugnacious In their way. and. If put to It. will tight about anybody with about r.ny weapons. Two of the lieutenants wished to play billiards, and they .apparently decided to obtain a table by strategy. Naturally, their plan did not Involve a" Saxo-Borussen table, for the students might make trouble; they, therefore, drifted on to the table at which Hansen and hits friend were playing. First, they stared the two civilians out of countenance, then they began criticising the shots. Still Hansen and his friend stuck to their guns. Then one lieutenant laid his hands on the cushion Just as Hansen drove the cue ball round the table. The ball struck the lieutenant's Angers. "Thunder and lightning, you blockhead, didn't you ever have any bringing up?" shouted the lieutenant, advancing on Hansen, while his companions encouraged him to "teach the shameless fellow some manners." "But you put your Angers there after I shot." protested Hansen. "Blockhead, hold your tongue before I give you a lesson!" The lieutenant put his hand on his sword hilt and Hansen ran. Thefe was a table In the way. and Hansen fell over It. There was a chair, too. ami he stumbled on It. He grasped his hat and coat, fled with them to the street, put them on as he ran. and did not stop running until he had turned Into the Galsberg strasse. He closed his narrative with the question: "Did you ever hear of such rude behavior? Is it not a shame for an officer to attack a peaceable man in this way? ' The riminnatl young man eyed the stalwart German angrily. "What did you run for?" he asked. "What did I run for?" reiterated the haberdasher. "What did I run for? Why the man might have killed me If I hadn't run. You don't know how crazy those fellows are when they are provoked. He would have run me through with his sword." "Why didn't you hit him In the jaw? He wouldn't remember long about his sword if you had landed once with that right of yours." The suggestion seemed to daze Hansen. After ji little, meditafon he replied, however, with a mixture of awe, pride and contempt: "That would cause a great scandal. We do not do such things in Germany. You may in America, but here we don't punch like rowdies." This replv put the whole thing In a nutshell; it was the proper thing, according to the customs of the country, for a civilian to run from an army officer ; it was the Improper thing to return a blow for an insult, 0 to knock down a lieutanent before he could draw his sword to run you through. This view did not appeal to the Cincinnati man's sens" ,f propriety, however; in fact, Hansen's development of It roused his ire. Thereby hangs a sequence of tales which is calculated to teach a lesson to foreigners ambitious to demonstrate their superiority to the traditions of militarism in Germany. A CASE OF BACKDOWN. A few days after Hansen's skirmish at Haeberlein's the Cincinnati young man. who for convenience may be called Newhill. sat at dinner In the restaurant of Luhr's Hotel. In the Haup strasse. Every time a man in uniform entered Newhill eyed him as if he had a special grievance against him. 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remained rigid and stared on. The lieutenant rose slowly, evidently intending to descend upon Newhill and demand an explanation. Newhill, too, rose slowly, his mouth set and his face gradually losing color. When two men face each other thus in Germany a panorama of cards, seconds, doctors, duels and hospitals whirls past tho mind's eye of every spectator, an avalanche of events is supposed to be started in the direction of the field of honor and its course Is regarded as irresistible. So at Luhr's Hotel on that evening everybody ceased eating and gazed p if hypotized on the two men who stood nd faced each other. The lieutenant took a step or two toward Newhill, and his three fellow-offi-cers affected to pass a few derisive comments on Newhlll's behavior. Newhill did not move. His eyes were fastened on the advancing lieutenant, and his hands were clenched in a way that the Americans understood, even If the Germans did not. Just before the lieutenant was within arm's reach, he opened his mouth to address Newhill. but something must have told him that he had reached the.danger line, for he suddenly turned to a table of diners, politely asked for a match, lighted his cigarette, and returned to his party. It was a clear case of funk. To be sure, the lieutenant's companions tried to cover his retreat by casting scornful looks on Newhill and remarking "ridiculous!" In audible tones, but Newhill looked back with as much scorn and more defiance, and remarked "ridiculous" still more loudly. Newhlll's purpose was to meet the lieutenant at every point, and be carried it out. for the officers, without remarks, left the restaurant a few minutes later. This little success gave Newhill the idea that he had solved the lieutenant problem. He told his friends that if a man would only show the needful amount of grit, he could moei these fellows and heat 'them at. their own game. It would be purposeless to trace Newhlll's course through all the numerous little scenes like the one at Luhr's. which were enacted by him at the City Park concerts, on the. castle terrace and In Haeberlein's. Suffice it here to say that within a few weeks he regarded himself as competent to handle the whole question of militarism In, peace, and was looked on askance by most of the young officers of the Heidelberg garrison. He was a "had American." no doubt. In their opinion, and the best thing to be done with him was to make Heidelberg too hot for him. NEWH ILL'S METHOD. While bearding militarism In its lalr Newhill had found time also to fancy strongly a handsome American girl. who. being something of a flirt, had been written down as unspeakable in the books of all thoroughbred Germans In Heidelberg. She had a peculiar red gown, and this gown and j Newhlll's pride were what went before his t fall. He fell In with her at a city park ' concert one evening and picked her out. ! After they had circled round the little promenade before the band stand and the ! refreshment pagoda a fewT times, he left her in a seat while he went to the restaurant for a fresh cigar. He was delayed there a minute or two, and when he returned to the young woman In red she was choking back the tears. She had nothing to say at first except that she must go home at once, that Germany Was a horrid country, and that German officers were abominable. Little by little Newhill wrung from her tho story of her sorrow. While he was in the restaurant a German lieutenant in uniform and a Bohemian reserve lieutenant in civile had passed. The German lieutenant had bent forward toward her and exclaimed: "Ah. but she Is a stunning creature!" To which the reserve lieutenant had added: "An English bird of paradise; perhaps she would go back to Prague with me." The officer had emphasized his remark with a leer an J a bow. Newhill took the young woman In red to her door. Then ho hastened back to the city park. An American friend there knew something of tho trouble, for he had noticed the officers apparently flirting with the girl in red. He said he could recognize the two men. but they had gone. There was a long chase In and about Heidelberg for the two officers. Finally the Bohemian was found alone in the restaurant on the Castle terrace. Newhill walked up to the table at which the officer sat and began speaking to him. The Bohemian rose. Newhill related what had happened In the city park and demanded an apology. The officer, bursting with insulted dignity, refused to give one. That was about all th(re was of it, except that Newhill staggered the officer with a blow on the forehead, bowled htm over with another blow on the jaw, and, in response to a rush of persons, moro or less unconcerned, scattered abroad a easeful of visiting cards. The officer gave no signs of interest In passing events, and so Newhill returned to his. quarters in the Villa Eerghelm. at the lower end of the town, to which he had moved recently. He recollected that he had told somebody he would bo at home from 11 to 12 t'clock the next day. He kept bis word, and punctually at 11.01 lie received a rail from a lieutenant nf massive proportions. Evidently the largest man in the garrson had been selected to deal with the North American savage. a challenge: DECLINED. "Swords, without bandages." was the burden of the lieutenant's message, the privilege of "raising" the weapons to pistols being left to Newhill. After some beatlng about the bush Newhill saltl he would not light not that he was afraid of the outcomo if he should: he was willing to demonstrate his qualifications by going at once with his caller to the tennis court behind the house and pinking a half dollar on the first shot. However, he thought the reserve officer had been punished enough; he was satisfied with things as they were. It was not customary in America to light duelJ. and, as an American, he felt able to take care of himself anywhere in the American fashion. The officer remonstrated, but In vain. Then he told Newhill that such conduct was ungentlernanly. Newhill thereuon walked to the door, threw it open and pointed to it In mute invitation to the lieutenant to go It he couiu i.ot .iestraln hi tongue. The lieutenant evidently thought that more violence was coming, for. with the announcement that his person was inviolable and that Newhill would be chastised in the street, he went out. Newhill replied. "1 guess not," and went down to luncheon. Newhill thought at first that he had triumphed, but he must have had serious mis

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They had heard he was to be waylaid and beaten or run through, and they were ready to see the fight out on hi.- side. Gradually Newhill succumbed to the pressure around, him. In the beginning he had resolutely returned scowl for scowl, sneer for sneer, and stare for stare. If an officer stopped near hlra In the street Newhill stopped, loo. If the officer grunted Pful." Newhill. too, grunted "Pfui." If an officer made as if to brush him to one side of the walk, Newhill went straight ahad on a line of microscopical and mathematical exactness. For two or three weeks he did not yield a hair's breadth to anybody. But he was outnumbered. Those who glowered on him and whispered about him were 20 or 300 to his one. A man can't ko through any considerable part of his life scowling, sneering, staring and pfuing without ceasing, even for the sake of passing some of that life In Heldieberg, and the strain of always being prepared to insult somebody, and never coming to the point soon began to wear out Newhili's nerves. His purpose of facing down German custom and tradition grew weak. He began to curse the country and to stay at home nights, and then. Just live weeks after his celebrated fight, he threw Up the game and announced that he was tired of Germany: the girl In red had gone to Switzerland; he would go. too. And he wt nt, leaving with me all the souvenirs of the country he had collected In Heldieberg. lie never sent for them. WHITE HOI SE SCHOOL. Mm. Cleveland's Klndersnrten Will Soon Ue Dlnbniided. New York Tribune. The Whit'- House kindergarten will soon be an Institution of the past. It Is now In session on weekly mornings, except Saturdays, from It:3a to 12:30 o'clock. Fourteen children have the happiest time imaginable there. Mrs. Cleveland is exceedingly particular about the associates of her children, but she has invited twelve others to attend the family school, who are all children of personal friends of the Clevelands. They are gathered under the supervision of Miss Mary Bannister Willard. who carries out the German idea characteristic of the Pes-talozzi-Froebel Haus. in which she spent eleven years preparing for a place. The German language is encouraged, and the children speak it during piny. They also recite little "pieces" and sing songs In the tongue. Mrs. Cleveland exercises her good sense in the simple furnishings of the school room and its surroundings. Everyday promptly at 9:30 the group of girls and boys meet in the large, pleasant nursery, in the sunny, southern side of the house. From the window can be seen the White Lot and the mall stretching down the Potomac river, across which may be seen the heights of Arlington. Among the children are those of Secretary Thurber and a daughter of one of the South American ministers. The young "gartners make books of wrapping paper, and In them are kept the basket weavings and scrap pictures. Balls are used in the schoolroom and In the park at play. Their blocks, letters, pictures and "gifts" are not any better than those used In the humblest school. Frugality Is one of the qualities taught. There Is a "system of occupation." This idea was originated by Frau Sehrader. who Is a grandnlece of Froebel. and was trained by him personally. Miss Willard was one of her pupils. Frau Sehrader- calls it "the object for the month." That is. she found that children, having no central object, come to lack a sense of continuity and logical sequence. For Instance, at Christmas time the children's thoughts were centered about the tree, and from the moment they became Interested a new month began. They had eight "experience lessons." When they entered the room where the tree was. they saw pine tree needles and noticed that these were slippery; then they observed that the tree had no roots and was dry. Another lesson took up trees, so'newhat more minutely, and the latter part of the week needles were gathered up and carried to the kindergarten-rooms, and each child drew a skeleton, with brown chalk, of a simple twig, and learned the shape of branches. Then each sewed a branch in colors on a card, matching the different yams to the branch. The next step was the modeling of a pine cone with kindergarten clay, which is easy enough, even for little ones. They roll the clay ball., forming a good Imitation of cones by indenting with the lincer nails or a hairpin. The cones will be dried so that the pine Feeds can lie shaken out by each little pupil, who will p!ant them In boxes. Everything is done by the c hildren when that Is IKissiMc After the tree Is strlpied the carpenter will saw off the top, and the "wee" ones will trim it with shreds of bacon and bits of apple and then set it out for the sparrows to enjoy. This will bring on the "sparrows" and bird lessons. The birds may be watched from the nursery windows as they t'it about In the park, and in the early spring the children will feed them and look fcr nests. The whole "garten" may visit the carpenter and see him at work. Every effort is made to Instruct the pupils aUiut what is happening In the outside world. Frau Sehrader Insists upon housework for ail those who attend her school. It should be understood that no work well done Is Ignoble; an altruistic obiect makes altruistic work. The dress of the White House family is remarkably simple, from the mistress do.n to ;he baby of the household. It Is generally remarked that Cabinet families are noted also for their simplicity of costume when on the street. The conservatories attached to the White House are frequently visited by the small members of the household cf th" executive mansion, and the rare and hcajtlful plants are enjoyed by them. As roon as schooltime Is over the nurses accompany the young family for a drive and the luncheon Is served. Callers at the afternoon reception are curious to get a glimpse of the little ones. If only while going to and from the carriage. Miss Willard Is most loyal to the mistress of the White House. Her td.sUr. Mrs. Katherine Willard Baldwin, was a schoolmate of Mrs. Cleveland. Mrs. Baldwin 11, es In

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THE ciiixook. Life in the Northwent n Seen by Weather llureau Olmrrver, A. B. Coo. Voluntary Observer tDatri Klpp. Mont.. Dec. 10. I8s6), in "C S. Weather Review." Picture to yourself a wild waste of Know, wind-beaten and blizzard furrowed until tha vast expanse resembles a billowy white sea, The frigid air. blowing half a pale, is filled. with needle-like snow and ice crystals which sting the flesh like bits of poisonous Insects, and sift through the finest crevices. The sun. low down in the southern horizon, looks like a frozen globe, with halves, crescents and bright prismatic bars encircling It. Great herds of range cattle, which roam at will and thrive on the nutritious grasses Indigenous to the northern slope, wander aimlessly here and there, or more frequently drift with the wind In vain attempts to find food and shelter; moaning In distress from cold and hunge r, the f noses hung with bloody icicles, their legs galled and bleeding from breaking the hard snow crust as they travel they appeal to the hardest heart for pity. It Is sure death for human beings to be caught out In one of these awful blizzards, with the temperature down to 30 or Tici degrees below zero, unless "rescue is speedy. Yet. such conditions frequently exist In this latitude, as they did for fifteen days in NovemlKT. WH. when it seemed as If the elements bad conspired to brlnjf about another Ice age, and annihilate every living thing. . ' ... . ,'. Would the "chinook" never come? TJio wind veered and harked, now howling as if In derision, and anon N-eoming calm, as If in contemplation of the desolation on tho face of nature, while the poor dumb animals continued their ceaseless tramp, crying with pain ami starvation. At last, on Dec. 1, at alout the hour of sunset, there was a change which experienced plainsmen interpreted as favorable to the coming of the war.n southwest wind. At sun set the temperature wan only 13 degrees, the air scarcely in motion, but occasionally seemed to descend from overhead. Over the mountains in the southwest a great bank of black clouds hung, dark ami awesome, whose wide expanse was unbroken by line or break; only at the upper c-dgo the curled and serrated cloud, blown Into tatters by wind, was seen to le the advance courier of the long-praj'ed for "chinook." How eagerly we watched Its approach! How we strained our hearing for the first welcome night of the gentle breath! But it was not until ll::r p. rn. that the lirst inlluence was felt. First, a puff of heat. summe-r-IIke in comparison with what had existed for two week, and we run to our Instrument shelter te observe the temperature. l"V goes the mercury 34 degrees in seven minutes. Now the wind has come with a t wenty-rtve-mlle velocity. Now the cattle stop traveling, nnd with muzzles turned toward the wind, low with satisfaction. Weary with two weeks' standing on their feet they Ue down In the snow, for they know that their Falvation has come; that now their IkkMcs will not freeze to the ground. The wind Increases in strength and warmth: P. blows now In one steady roar; the temperature ha rizen to lis d green, the great expanse of snow thirty Inches eleep on a level is lecoming damp nr.d honeycmbed by the hot wind. and we retire satisheet that the "chinook" Is a genuine and lasting one. Twelve hours afterward there are bire brown hills everywhere; the plains are covered with floods of water. In a few days the wind will evaporate the moisture, and the roads will be dry and hard. Were It not for the "chinook ' winds the northern slope country would not be habitable, nor could domestic animals survive the winters. Time for Wnr. Louisville Courier-Journal. Sarah Grand, so It is raid, has taken the MS. of a new novel, which she has nearly finished, with in r to Sjaln. whcrj she Intends sending the' rest of the winter months on account of her health. Now let slip the dogs of war. Let hostilities against the land of the Dons t no longer delayed. Iet us rise up ami sweep Spain frcri the face of the earth, if at the same tine we can also sweep Ha rail and her MS. breaks up tltat haitg on The STUBBORN COLD that hans on, creeping down on the I.unfcs, often cndin in Pneumonia, Is checked by "77." The OBSTINATK COI.I) that clings to the Throat, threatening Tonsilitisam! even Diphtheria, Is stopped by "77." The TICNACIOl'S COLD, with pains anJ chills "all over," lcalin to Grip, Is broken by 77.' Br. Humphrey. H pk1.-; atl.ic Manual rf lMi-t a f nt ur 1 irutSKt.! er .M.ule.t Krw. A mall twttltr f ;l-int l-t. ti. trie ejt poclai. Ni l 5-y 1mik '-t s. t.r m m on tet-lift ef Z't ce-UtH IT tHe fer U Iliiiiiiu rr ' Mfst. .. cVr. William iuxA Juha lrv. l. New Yak.

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