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EXILED FROM RUSSIA,
A Body of Russian Quakers Who Are Settling
in the Canadian Northwest to (
Escape Persecution.
A largo body of sturdy men and
Cornell, exiled from their native land
on account of their religious opinions,
consisting of 2000 of the 7500 Russian
Quakers, known ns Doukhobors or
“Tolstoi’s pets,” who are settling in
tho Canadian Northwest, arrived at
St. John, N. B., a few days ago and
immediately proceeded by rail to their
new home.
When tho Doukhobors landed on
Canadian soil they were greetod by a
party of their representatives in
America, among them being tho Rus
sian Prince HilkofT. Their arrival
was made tho occasion of a service
consisting of prayer and supplication
in which they gavo thanks to God for
having brought them safely to a land
of freedom.
Tho Universal 'Brotherhood Chris
tians, as tho Doukhobors (i. e., “Spir
it-Wrestlers”) prefer to bo called, have
suffered terrible persecution, especially
since June, 1895, and many of them
have died for their faith.
Tho Russian Government has ban
ished tho men of theso people by
scores to distant parts of Siberia. It
lias used its arbitrary power to send
Cossacks to attack and flog large mini-
bora of unarmed and unresisting men
and women; to quarter Cossacks on
villages where they outraged women;
to uproot an industrious settlement of
peaceful people; to oblige them to
abandon their cultivated lauds; to re
duce many of them to tho.verge of
starvation; to coniine a population,
accustomed to tho cold climate of a
district lying 5000 feet above tho seu-
levol, in hot and unhealthy valleys,
where out of 1000 people about 1000
perished within three years; to do
moil to death by Hogging, underfeed
ing, and physical violence in the
MEMBERS or THIS FIRST PAWTY 01' DOl'K'
HOBOIIS TO BEACH CANADA.
“penal battalions;” and finally, as an
act of mercy, the Russian Government
has consented that theso ruined poo*
plo may leave their country, provided
that they go at their own expense,
that they never return, and that they
loave behind those of their number
who have been summoned for military
eervioo.
The strangest fact in this drama of
Russian life is that it was mainly
through the influence of Russia’s
greatest philosopher, Count Tolstoi,
that tho Russian authorities permitted
theHo people to leave their native
land. This fearless man of peace, ' ows* House,” for the aged, tho
whoso banishment. the Government | plinus,
farm engaged in the peaceful pursuit
of tilling the soil, tho Russian Gov
ernment fears his power more thau
that of any other mnu.
Tho Doukhobors believe in the pre
cepts, “Resist not him that is evil,” but
“love your enemies;” and they be
lieve in overcoming evil with good.
They refuse to enter the Russian
army, believing that it is wrong to
prepare to kill men, and tho question,
therefore, “What is to bo done with
men who would rather die than kill?”
has made its way into practical politics.
years, and in whose hands the disposal
of these charity funds had rested, the
courts of justice decided that tho
money should be. regarded as the per
sonal property of her heirs. This led ;
to a split among tho Doukhobors,who
numbered about 20,000 at that time. *
A considerable majority of them re
garded Peter Verigin as the new leader.
His conduct at this trying time ap- I
pears to have been remarkable. He !
refused advantageous oilers made to
him, and set himself energetically to
work to revive the old faith and the
old custom of the Doukhobors. He
and they returned to vegetarianism ;
and total abstinence from intoxicants.
They left off smoking. They redivided
their property voluntarily, so as to do
away with the distinctions between
rich and poor, and they again began
to insist oil the strict doctrine of non-
resistance. The Government felt that
Peter Verigin had better be removed,
especially as the conscription was then
being introduced into tho Caucasus.
He was therefore, about twelve years
ago, banished to Lapland. It was a
matter of “political expediency.”
OUR DIPLOMACY IS BEST.
IT HAS WON CREATER VICTORIES
THAN THE EUROPEAN METHOD.
DOUKHOBOIt CHILDREN NOW IN CANADA.
Homo 7500 Doukhobors aro prepar
ing to migrate to Canada, where free
land has been granted to them. Their
new home is where the Territories of
Assiniboia and Saskatchewan and tho
Province of Manitoba meet. In Rus
sia, and also in England, money has
been collected to enable them to be
gin to cultivate the laud granted them
in tho country of their adoption, and
in the United States also, a “Tolsloi
Fund” has boon raised with the same
object.
The man they look up to as their
leader is Peter Verigin. In his younger
days he is said not to have been as
steady as he should have been. Those
were days when the Doukhobors, hav
ing been exiled by Nicholas I. to the
Caucasus, had settled on the lands al
lotted to them, bleak as those lands
wore. Conscription had not as yet
been introduced into the Caucasus to
trouble them, and they waxed fat, for
got to obey the precepts of their
fathers, smoked, drank strong difink,
ate meat, accumulated private prop
erty, discussed their religion as a
matter of intellectual interest, and
eased their consciences by being very
haritable.” They founded a “Wid-
1 such as by any misfortune
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hobora to emigrate.)
migu
tor
is considering, used his influence
with the Czar, with the result that the
persecution of the Russian Quakers
ceases with their emigration to a far-
off laud. Count Tolstoi is one of tho
mightiest individual forces in Russia
o-day, and though he dresses in the
^ of a peasant and lives upon his
were in want. Their “Widows’House”
accumulated a capital of some $250,-
000; 1 and with so much property they
were dragged into the net of the law,
to have recourse to which was contrary
to their principles.
On the death of the woman who had
beeu regarded as their leader for many
It is customary for tho inhabitants
of tho Caucasus to possess arms, but
tho Doukhobors feel that so long as
you possess a weapon it is difficult to ab
stain from using it when anyone comes
to steal your horso or cow. So to re
move temptation and to hold fast to
the rule “Resist not him that is evil,”
they resolved to destroy all their arms.
This decision was carried out simul
taneously in the throe districts they
inhabited, on the night of 28tli of
Juno, 1895. In the Kars district tho
affair passed off quietly. In ‘the gov
ernment or Elisavetpol Hie authorities
made it an oxouse for arresting forty
Doukhobors, who were kept in confine
ment more thau two years. But it
was in the government of Tiflis that
tho most amazing results followed.
A large assembly of Doukhobor men
and women attended the ceremony of
burning the arms, and accompanied it
by singing psalms or hymns. Tho
bonfire was already burning down,
and day had already dawned, when
two Cossack regiments arrived upon
tho scene and were ordered to charge
tho Doukhobors. The Cossacks charged
at them; but seeing a crowd of unarmed
and unresisting peasants, thej' in
stinctively stopped when close upon
them, and only when the order to at
tack had been repeated did they again
advance and begin to flog men and
women indiscriminately with their
whips. They struck right and left,
cutting the heads and laces of the
people; and when the lashes of their
whips were wearing out, orders were
given to attach fresh lashes to the
whips, and the Hogging recommenced.
Few stranger scenes are recorded in
history. Here were some thousands
of people bent on carrying out the dic
tates of their religion, which was the
Christian religion professed by
their Government. And here were two
regiments of Cossacks cruelly (though
in some cases reluctantly) beating men
and women, till clothes and ground
were stained with blood, and' their
psalms were turned into cries for
mercy and into groans of pain.
Why this was done nobody seems
to know. No one was tried for it, and
no one was punished for it, nor has
any apology or explanation ever been
offered to the Doukhobors. The au
thorities in St. Petersburg depend for
their information on the local authori
ties who committed this blunder or
perpetrated this crime. The news
papers have strict instructions not to
make any reference to such matters;
and three friends of Leo Tolstoi’s,
Vladimir Tcliertkoff, Paul Birnkoff,
and Ivan Tregonbofl*, who went to St.
Petersburg with a carefully worded
•statement of what had occurred, aud
who wished to see the Emperor about
it, were banished, without trial and
without being allowed to make the
matter public.
Puuishment fell not on those who
had done the wrong, but on those who
had suffered it unresistingly. Cos
sacks were quartered on their village,
and there outraged women aud stole
property. Four thousand people had
to abandon their homes, sell their well-
cultivated lands at a few days’ notice,
aud be scattered in banishment to un
healthy districts, where about 1000 of
them perished in three years of want,
disease, or ill-treatment.
Love is a fountain, not a cistern.
IVo Are Absolutely Frank In Our Deal.
Inca With Ollier Nation* and I)o No t
Send Our ltepreaentutlvea Abroad to
lde—Dewey Our Typical Diplomat.
At the recent session at New Haven,
Conn., of the American Economic and
Historical Association Professor E. A.
Grosvenor, of Amherst College, made
the most enthusiastically received ad
dress of the convention on the subject
“American Diplomacy.” He declared
American diplomacy to be superior to
European diplomacy. Professor Gros
venor said:
“A few days ago a learned lady of
my acquaintance asked me on what I
was to speak here. I replied ‘Ameri
can Diplomacy.’ She exclaimed: ‘I
didn’t know there was any.’ Quota
tions might be multiplied that voice
the conviction that the United States
possesses no diplomatists, or at least
none to bo compared with those of
Europe. If the opinion current in
America of American diplomacy be
founded on fact, our condition it piti
able, oven perilous, aud cannot fail to
produce in each of us a feeling of hu
miliation and shame. The recognition
of American independence by the
Dutch Republic was a memorable
achievement of American diplomacy.
For months John Adams, the Ameri
can Envoy, had beeu denied an en
trance to the States General. Tho
second treaty with Great Britain, ef
fected by Chief Justico Jay, was hardly
loss an American diplomatic victory.
Its stipulations were fair for both the
contracting parties, but the gains were
distinctively our own.
“It would be an agreeable task to
trace the history of American diplo
macy, decade by decade, down to the
present time. It is not difficult to
prove that there has been no degener
acy in it since those ljeroic days.
There is no better training for the
business of European diplomacy than
tho school of practical American poli
tics. It is a better training than is
afforded by the inherited blood of an
ambassadorial line or by the partiality
of a prince or by routine from child
hood in the monotony of office.
“I make no claim that our diplomatic
service is perfect, or that all American
Foreign Ministers have been saints or
sages. Sometimes we have had inef
ficient, sometimes timid, shuffling
men, but what General Woodford said
of himself was the record of his col
leagues: ‘When your Minister reached
Spain he was absolutely direct and
frauk in bis dealings.’ In scholarly
culture our diplomatic representatives
have surpassed those of any other
land. No foreign country has sum
moned to its services such a host of
historians, political economists, poets,
orators, journalists and educators of
every class. Any discussion on this
subject is incomplete which does not
recognize the ability in diplomacy dis
played by the officers of our navy—in
1815, Decatur in Algiers; in 1854,
Perry in the Gulf of Yeddo; in 1867,
Farragut in his European visit on the
flagship Franklin; iu 1898, Dewey in
Manila Bay.
“Tho American diplomatist lives in
a glass house, where he may not only
be seeu, but stoned. The European
diplomatist still inhabits a half-modi-
icval castle, almost impregnablo to
criticism aud difficult of access except
by tho privileged few. In this later
dny the nations listen to catch tlie ac
cents of that Western State which has
revealed itself to them.
“I am well aware that many are
clamorous for the adoption of tho Eu
ropean system of diplomacy. Does
American diplomacy oiler only an un
certain title and jproraise nothing of
real accomplishment? Tho immensity
of its achievement covers the whole
nineteenth century of international
law. It has broken the caste shackles
of birth, has successfully asserted the
right of expatriation, has declared the
seas aud straits and continental rivers
‘God’s highways,’ destined to be free
for man. It has compelled the rights
of neutrals to be recognized by every
civilized State. Now it is building
the scaffolding foi* achievement no less
great, the exemption of private prop
erty from capture on sea as it is ex
empt from capture on land.
“During 189S three famous univers
ities hold a regatta. One crew rowed
a foreign stroke, one a stroke half for
eign, and the third one American. In
the van finished tho boat propelled by
the American stroke. In honorable
nearness followed the boat with tho
stroke half foreign and half American.
The crew taught with tho foreign train
ing was left behind. The American
stroke is the stroke for us, whether
ou the Thames, the Seine, tho Tiber,
the Spree or the Weiu. And that not
because 6f provincial prejudice or na
tional pride, but because of the facts
of history.”
Tho Bight Shop.
Owing to good crops and other
causes, tho prosperity of Kansas has/
beeu very groat during the last year
or two, and thousands of farmers have
been,enabled to remove the financial
encumbrances that rested upon their
broad acres.
A man in one of the interior coun
ties, having disposed of his crop to
good advantage aifd finding himself
possessed of several thousand dollars
iu cash, went to the county-seat one
day, and while on his way to the court
house stepped into an attorney’s of
fice to obtain a little legal advice.
“You’re a lawyer, ain’t you?” he
said, addressing the only occupant of
the room.
“Yes, sir,” answered the other.
“What can I do for you?”
“What’s your name?”
“My uamo is Derrick.”
“You’ll do,” rejoined the farmer,
nodding his head. “I want your
help, Mr. Derrick, in liftin’ a mort
gage off my farm.”
WE EAT TOO MUCH.'
A Restricted Diet Is the Main Cure of All
the Famous Spas and Health Resorts.
“Of the many cures in vogue, and
recognized from their records as
worthy the name, nine-tenths of them
depend upon reducing the diet for
their effectiveness,” is tho position
taken by Ella Morris Kretsclimar
writing on “The Subject of Diet” in
the Woman’s Home Companion.
“A wide-spread fad during tho last
few years has been the ‘no breakfast
cure,’ and thousands of dysjieptics
have gained health, the stout have
grown thin and the thin have grown
stout, *11 through lifting tho burden
from overtaxed digestions. An equally
popular cure preceding this was the
leaving off of the evening meal—
equally effective, of course, just ns a
mid-day meal cure’ would be if it
should be promulgated.
“One of the most splendid cures,
for all ills, in Europe is the grapd
cure, practised in Germany; and it is
said that any one taking the treatment
drops off the wear and tear of five
years—actually renews himself by so
much. The sanitariums where this
treatment is given are beautifully aud
healthfully situated and comfortably
appointed. The patient is given
nothing but unfermented grape-juice
for a period of four weeks—beginning
with a generous amount, decreased to
a minimum allowance (as little as the
system will bear without great weak
ening), aud gradually increased to the
first amount.
‘At all European spas and Ameri
can springs, where peoplo aro so
benefited, what is the course? A re
stricted diet and a Hooding of the
system with pure water—resting and
washing tho system, in other words.
“Animals, those not dominated by
tho habits and thought-atmosphere of
man, do not overeat, and even domes
tic animals stop short their nourish
ment when in anywise ill. A dog
will bury the food not immediately
required; other animals leave oft’ be
fore or at repletion. Man alone will
eat without hunger, solely to tickle
hi3 palate, being, indeed, the only
gorging animal save (truth is merci
less) tho occupant of the sty.”
First Firing on tho Merrlmnc.
Probably no single vessel was over
exposed to such a hail of shot and
shell as fell upon the Merrimac before
sho sank in Santiago Harbor. From
Lieutenant Hobson’s aocount of this
famous exploit, graphically given in
the Century, wo extract this account
of the firufc firing upon tho ship, whon
it came within a quarter of a mile of
Morro Castle.
Another ship’s length aud a flash
darted out from the wator’s odgo at
the left side of the entrance. Tho ex
pected crash through the ship’s side
did not follow, nor did tho projectile
pass over; it must have passed astern.
Strange to miss at such short range!
Another flash—another miss! This
time tho projectile plaiuly passed
astern. Nightglasses on the spot re
vealed a dark object—a picket-boat
with rapid-fire guns lying in the
shadow. As sure as fate he is firing
at our rudder, and we shall bo obliged
to pass him broadside within a ship’s
length! If wo only had a rapid-fire
gun we could dispose of tho miserable
object in teu seconds; yet there ho lay
unmolested, firing point-blank at our
exposed rudder, so vital to complete
success. A flash of rage and exasper-
atiou passed over me. The admira
tion duo this gallant little picket-boat
did not come till afterward.
Glasses ou the starboard bow showed
tho sharp, steep, step-like fall with
which the western point of Morro
drops into ihe water. This was tl^e
looked-for guide, the channel carrying
deep water right up to tho wall. “A
touch of port helm, sir,” was the
order. “A touch of port helm, sir,”
was the response. “Steady!” “Steady,
sir.” Now, even without helm, we
should pass down safe. Suddenly
there was a crash from the port side.
“The western battery has opened on
us, sir!” called Charette, who was
still ou the bridge, waiting to take the
message to the engineroom if tele
graph and signal-cord should be shot
away. “Very well; pay no attention
to it,” I replied, without turning.
Ill the Prlfon.
Warden—A reporter wants to see
you. What shall I say?
Convict—Tell him I am not at home.
—Fliegende Blatter.
Coat of Nicaragua Canal.
Tho estimates ns to the cause of constructing
tho Nicaragua Canal vary lrom $115,000,000
to $150,000,000. How different are the estimates
of the peoplo as to tlie vnluo of Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters for stomach, liver, blood nml
klduey diseases. It Is agreed everywhere
that this remedy Is unsurpassed for indiges
tion, biliousness, constipation, nervousness
and sleeplossness. It Is such an ngreeablo
medicine to tnko. It tusteB good as well ns
does gopd.
Dennty Is Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathar
tic clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the body. Begin to-day to
Danish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,—beauty for ten cents. All drug
gists, satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
Ouo of tho stations of the railway which Is
to be built from tho Hod son to the top of
Mount Sinai will bo on the spot where it is
supposed Moses stood when ho received tho
tablos of the law.
Race Conflict in Austria.
The struggle of the races in Austria
grows more acute. The Germans,
despairing of their old ascendency,are
advising their followers to turn
Protestant in a body aud so remove
all prejudices against them in tho
Gorman Empire. The advice is not
likely to be followed,.but it reveals
tho bitterness of ratfe feeling more
than any recent incident. Even in the
Tyrol, it is said, the Germans de
mand that the clergy shall no longer
intervene in politics. The quarrel,
too, has reached the army. Some re
servists recently answered questions
whether they were present in Czechish,
though it is an unalterable maxim in
Austria that words of command or
obedieneb should all be iu one
language, and that language German.
Tho Minister of War, therefore,
punished an officer who had accepted
replies not made in German, and the
popular irritation is directed against
the war office, which is in theory re
sponsible to tho Emperor only. In
the excited state of feeling any acci
dent'may bring matters to a head,
and compel the Emperor to enforce
silence for a time, and therefore to
govern alone. His alternative is to
restore the Germans to their ascend
ency, which tho Slavs would now
hardly bear.—London Spectator.
(Making Good Use of Them* *
It may offend the ladies of the emer
gency relief board to know it, but the
linen which was sent to the Manila
volunteers, including night-shirts, was
used to clean the rifles. “Rags are
scarce,” was the laconic explanation,
“and it is better to have our guns iu
good shape than to sleep in night'
gowns.”
To Cure a Cold in One Day.
Tnko I.nxative Bromo Quinine Tnblots. All
Druggists refund money If It fails to euro. 25c.
An automatic electric music loaf-turner is
one of tho latest patents. It is claimed for it
that it can bo easily attached to any pinno
music rack, and it is worked by touching a
button with the foot.
Edncnto Tour Bowels XTitn Jnscnrstd.
Candy Cathartic, euro constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund monoy.
Soulful youth (at the piano)—Do you sing
True Greatness
In Medicine
Is proved by the health of tho peoplo
who have taken it. More pooplo
have boon made well, more cases of
disease and sickness have been cured
by Hood’s Sarsaparilla than by any
other medicine in tho world. The
peculiar combination, proportion
and process in its preparation make
Hood’s Sarsaparilla peculiar to itself
and unequalled by any other.
The Nava! Engineer in Rattle. 7
It you were scaled up in a hen tod
fi\>n tuuk floating on the sea and ham
mered by missiles which now and then
let In daylight aud splinfrs, you
would get a dim Idea of the lot of tho
engineer’s men aboard a buttle ship in
action. But the engineer’s men have
to work In the hurly-burly, and you
would go mad lu your tank. The en
emy’s Bhot pounds the ship, but the en
gineer and his men know not where
the enemy is or where the ship is
heading. And they can’t stop to think
about It. Keep that bearing cool,
smother it In oil, down It in water!
Keep It cool, or the game’s up! The
men on deck can lej; the splinters lie
where they fall, but the men in the
engine room have to keep the splinters
out of the machinery. .Steam pipes
are pierced. Mend ’em. Crawl behind
the boilers and stop that steam leak.
Impossible to shut off anything. Scald
ed? Never mind. It’s nil in the day’s
work. Don't let tho water down. Pass
the coal lively. And, while you’re
about it, put out that fire in the
bunkers. Iu the lower engine rooms
the thermometer shows 130 degrees In
front of the ventilating blowers; in the
apper engine rooms, 190 degrees.— En
gineering Magazine.
STORIES OF RELIEF.
Two Letters to Mrs. Pinkham.
Mrs. John Williams, Englishtown,’
N. J., writes:
“ Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—I cannot be
gin to tell you how I suffered before
taking your remedies. I was so weak
that I could hardly walk across the floor
without falling. I had womb trouble
and such a boaring-down feeling ; also
suffered with my back and limbs, pain
in womb, inflammation of the bladder,
piles and indigestion. Before I had
taken one bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound I felt a great deal
better, and after taking two and one-
half bottles and half a box of your
Liver Pills I was cured. If more would
take your medicine they would Dot
have to suffer so much.”
Mrs. Joseph Peterson, 513 East St.,
Warren, Pa., writes: j
“Dear Mrs. Pinkham:—I have suf
fered with womb trouble over fifteen
years. I had inflammation, enlarge
ment and displacement of tho womb.
I had the backache constantly, also
headache, and was so dizzy. I had
heart trouble, it seemed as though my
heart was in my throat at times chok
ing me. I could not walk around and
I could not lie down, for then my heart
would beat so fast I would feel as
‘though I was smothering. I had to
sit up in bed nights in order to breathe.
I was so weak I could not do any
thing.
“I have now taken several bot
tles of Lydia E. Pinkham’s "Vegetable
Compound, and used three pack
ages of Sanative Wash, and can say
I am nerfectly cured. I do not think
I could have lived long if Mrs. Pink-
ham's medicine had not helped me.”
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