THE SUNT AY OKXGOyiANV PORTEAXD, ' JUTT TT, ' 17I2L
NICHOLAS H-UOUOR 0
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BuSSlXS CZAG SHOWN ToBEfefiLU'
Rice est Saloon Keeper.
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He Runs 30,000 Sa
foons, 4,000 Distilleries
andCains a Yearly Profit
of 400 Million Dollars
Russia Under the
Double Ciflrse of Autoc
racy and Drunkenness
Grafting Officials Aid
in the Degradation of the
People.
RT K. Dl'NBAR.
I T. PETERSBCRO. May 2 . (Bpe-
rial Correspondence.) Who ta tha
world a greatest liquor saloon
keeper? I do not mean tha beat known
figure In tha throat Irrigation bust
ntia. "Mr. Dnolcy" Is an easy first In
that galley. But considered from tha
vlw. point of rank and dignity tha
philosopher of the Archy road la a bad
second to Nicholas If. Cxsr of All tliv
Russlas. and despotic rulir of mora
than 10.090.000 subjects.
Nicholas Is not only the man of
I highest rank ever employed In this
lucrative trade, but he owns a larger
I number of wine atorea and spirit aa-
loons than any other Individual In tha
universe. He has over SO. 000 kabaks
Russian for drinking aaloon complete
control of 4000 spirit factorlea and dis
tilleries, and rakea In yearly total of
between "0.000.000 and 1400.000.000
I by aelllnr vodka to tha dutiful soakers
of his realm.
Ha la tha real ll'iuor king un!i"e
I in the history nf the rlvl!l.ed world.
The latest statistics prov- that tha
"sar'a vodka revenue of 110 was just
H0.00n.000 more than that of the year
sefore. Hla managera expert and hope
that tha next returna will show a still
Larger Increase In the traffic.
This bualnesa la in fact tha Czar a
I monopoly. Hla subjects who are fond
I of a Joke call vodka "monnpol" and to
drink to the "Little rather." who farma
the liquor trade, la an action that
covers desire with the rloak of loyalty.
None are allowed to compete with
him. under pain of heavy flnee ana
I even, on occasion, imprisonment, tne
poorest subject who doles the spirit
out of a bottle for money paya IJOO
to the Czar, so Jealous la he of Ma
monopoly. No distillery In the empire
may sell their spirits to anybody elae.
it home or abroad, without hla special
permission which Is never granted till
tha petitioner haa apent large aume In
greasing tha palms of the Czar'a spe
cial official.
Prinking aaloona are opened by Im
perial commsmd n Russia. There must
be at least ena In each hamlet, no mat
ter how small. Larger village have a
minimum of two, lest the monjlk ba
wearied and turn home without leav
ing hla quota at tba Cxaj-'e atore. In
tha mora civilised communities a
strange thing happened a short while
back. The elders of the neighborhoods
In question resilied that the ecourge
of the countryside tii not famine
TME rose at the old King yiace
were In their wonted early-Jun
perfection. The Martha Washing
ton, tha Baltimore Belle, and the Prai
rie Queen close together on the eouth
side of the walk whence their blended
fragrance challenged the exotic. o
frano. olden Gate, and flombreulll. La
France stood in the anuthwest corner
alone. La Franra accepted no chal
lenge. She waa easily queen and she
kew It queen for all the Summer ex
cept two weeka In mid-June when the
great Hundred Leaf roee-tfee flung
bout the sweets of Araby. aplce and
musk and ambergris, and a dozen others
too subtly blsnded for analysis.
Hundred I.caf waa showing vivid
pink at the tips of her buds now. Fareh
King saw a she came in rrom ner iu-
hour day at the schoolhouse. Sarah
was strangely tired, and she eat down
In the porch before going In to Grand
ma King' harp-eyed Inspection. Hur.
ly the front yard waa a soothing pros
pect for weary eyes. The fences were
Irreproachable In freah white paint, the
graveled walk Innocent of the tiniest
spike of weed; and the three acree of
ground were veritable dream-garden
of reses.
The rose at the Pld King Place were
traditional. Nobody could remember
when they had not been there. During
June court, when the long window of
the courthouse were wide open, visit
ing lawyers were aware of something
they could not analsc. a subtle some
thing that brought unbidden plcturea of
the long-age to them. Once when Hun
dred Leaf waa In full bloom Judge
Bi'oadnag had unaccountably charged
the Jury favorably to the poor devil
who. by all right of law, deserved
state's prison.
People walking past tha old King
Place In the late twilight Inhaled the
delicious breath of the roses aa a mat
ter of course. To be sure they some
times thought "Sarah King's a good
girl to look after her grandma's place
aa aha doee not many girls would take
such Intereet In flowers.
Tba girl who sat now In the porch
was aware of this kindly approval, and
It had been sweet, but ah waa 21 and
It was losing Its flavor. Thla duty
of "keeping up'' the old place In Its
' traditional beauty had begug to weigh.
When she was 1 Orandpa King died.
t'nbesltatlngly Parah put on the yoke.
Grandpa King left enough to feed tha
tw womenfolk and cover their naked
ness, but the keeping up of the place
would require money, ready money.
The fencea must be repelred, the grav.
led walk taken car of and then
tbe flower, tba roses. Three acres of
I r mm j . MX M -e-z eash. a m I a sM
ignorance and vodka, which depravea
men. women and children till they ran
think of nothing else. They therefore
arranged to shut down half the aa
loona and get the people to spend
money on a school or two and a few
agricultural machines Instead. Many
communltlea took up the Idea with
seat. Oldish moujlks could ba seen
poring over primers and copy books
and tilling tha land In a more Intelli
gent way. But the government drove
them back to the drlnklng-hells; the
police ordered tha saloons to be re
opened and tha village schoola closed,
and fined the communes for abol
ishing drink and starting education.
Drunkennesa psya too well. That la
what the government said In effect
when the communes protested; and
they were about right. Moreover a
fuddled vodka-aoaked brain doe not
worry about reforms.
Qaelllag the Rlotrra.
Whso upsets happen tha rioters
make a bee line for the aaloona, pour
tba .vodka Into the gutter, aet a light
tc It, and dance around the flames with
mad. derlstva yells, a If they were
rejoicing at the death of their worst
foe. Temperance agitators, themselves
drunk the dsy before, make them
ewear never to enter a kabak for tha
reel of their Uvea nor touch the
poison which ssps the natlon'a
trens-th Wit every now srwl then
flower-adorned ground waa a good
deal for a K-year-eld girl to contem
plate, but Sarah did not once falter.
The first of her meager achool money
went to fertilise the rosea. Grandma
King patted tha girl's head: "You're
a good child, Sarah. We'll pull to
gether and mebbe after all wa can
keep up the place and the roses, yor
Grandpa's roses."
The wistful look tn the old- eyes
made Fareh'a own flit, but she threw
hark her strong young shoulder and
aald:
"I will alwaya keep up tha place
and tha roses. I know I can do It."
Sarah did do It. But she wore on
gray ault three yeara, and sturdy, aen
alble boots built to stand wear. At
II she gave up the May day picnic be
cause abe would not take tha requisite
dollar from the hoard for tha purchase
of the Fall roses.
"Tore Grandpa alwaya bought every
new rose that came out In the cata
logues." said Grandma King wistfully
whenever the mail brought one ef the
eeductlve, gorgeously colored "annual
announcements."
The purchase of new rosea alone wag
no small thing to a fit salary, whieh
waa no aalary at all for three months
ef the year. Then there waa tha
money paid to Jim Carithera fop labor
tne big roae required a man's han
dling and the fertiliser, and the freah
paint. There waa nothing left for per
sonal adornment.
After the picnic, when she waa II. J
Sarah had been dropped from the list
of possible participants In any planned
gaiety. "Sarah can't go," those In
charge eald. "Sarah haa her school
and her reading and her rosea. Sarah'
such a dutiful girl."
Yes, praise bad been aweet. But the
years had gone by and Sarah waa 21,
and It was not enough. Thla particu
lar June evening aa she sat In the
porch the approval of her fellows
seemed to Sarah King peculiarly In
aufflclenWand all because of a thing
ao trivial that her cheeks burned with
shame In the remembrance of It- Sarah
had walked home behind John Dexter
and the new minister a niece who waa
at the parsonage for the summer.
Sarah waa used to seeing John walk
with the little blonde, smiling down
at her aa they walked: but today
Sarah had been close behind ths cou
ple, close enough to note the subtle
daintiness of ths girls apparel, to
hear the unmistakable silken whisper
of the skirts. At the crossing the
lifted blue serge skirt had left visible
a margin of blue silk shot with white.
A audden childish pang had come to
Sarah, a pang whose hurt she nursed
now in the scented twilight ef tha
porch.
She looked serosa the open square
where an Irregular dark blur marked
the ancient rambling bouse In wblch
John Dexter lived alone with two fam
the soldiers Are on the rlotera aa an
object lesson. New saloon ar op
ened, prices are lowered and the har
vest gathered In. ao that each year
aeea mora millions of dollars spent
In drink and more and more drunk
enness, poverty, dlseaaa and filth
among the miserable wrecke who
prowl about the countryside or huddle
In city slums.
The prlca of drink is never raised,
even In a dear year like tha present
Tha difference Is covered by putting
up the price of methylated spirits, used
for lighting and heating, by 40 per
cent. Aa bread Is the staff of life, ao
liquor Is the staff of the autocracy.
Russia's national drink la distilled
from potatoea and cereala In such a
way that the proportion of lulphurto
acid to spirit Is aa nine to ten. It I
very atrong. fiery and always swal
lowed rapidly. It easily aftacta tha
bralna ef drinkers, who consequently
often become vodka-mad.. Fierce quar
rels and stabbing are tha common se
quels. Reaction brings suicidal depression.
Henca tha large number of suicide in
Russia, which have tncreaaed In pro
portion with the advance In vodka eon
sumption. In April the suicides In Bt.
Petersburg alone during one night
reached tha total of ii. Tha vtctlma
were young men and women and all
had been drinking hard for some dsvs.
ily aervant. "Uncle Ephralm" had
not lighted the hall lamp yet. Thlnga
were not very well ordered at John a
home. His rosea tumbled aver the gal
lery rail In aweet confusion: weed
peeped fearlessly between the erum
bllng bricks nf hla pavements. Nobody
could say that John "kept up" the
place he had Inherited. John went
through hla daya aerenely. nearly al
waya with a laugh on hla mouth, al
waya with a laugh In his eyes a
laugh that laughed at and with things.
Wa It the tantalising laugh In the
eyes or was it the big muscular frame?
Sarah did not know. But she aat yet
longer In the porch before ahe dared
Grandma King'a eyes.
Jimmy Kerr came up the front walk
calling:
'Sarah, I brought your mall from
the postofflce, and Ma says please aend
her a bunch of roses to carry to Mia'
Level. Mlsa Level'a real sick."
Glad nf action. Sarah took the
aheara from their nail In the porch
and cut a peck of the fragrant an.
nual. Afterward aha looked at the
manila envelop Jimmy had handed
her.
"Another flower catalogue!" ahe
eald In atarnge petulance, and went
Into tha houae and threw tba envelop
on tha living-room table.
But after the aupper dishes had been
put away and ahe waa again In the
glow of tha llvlng-reom lamp, Sarah
opened the catalogue dutifully. It was
not a flower catalogue at all, but one
Men In touch with the working and
peasant classes are horrified at the
heavy list of drink victims, for 10 per
cent of tha town population become
confirmed drink fiends before they are
SS yeara old, while 4S per cent of the
girls between 7 and 11 fall Into tha
vodka habit.
It Is alway vodka, never beer, a In
Germany. Doctors and engineers met
at Moscow laat year to talk over some
way of fighting the fiend, but the po
lice worried them to such an extent
that they oould not finish their con
gress. But. though several were ar
rested before two daya were rassed,
they did manage to adopt a resolution
asking the government to open schoola
throughout Russia, thinking that, aa
Tt per cent of the total population can
neither read nor write, drink must play
a chief part In tha national Ufa. But
tha government did not see the point
"Education leads to discontent." they
explained, "and discontent spells revo
lution. We ftnd drunkenness far mora
profitable
So, while the government paya Just
IV, centi per head for education In one
year, each cltlxsn leave sums varying
from It cent to 17.60 In the Czar'
drinking saloons. His portrait hangs
on the walls, to remind all comers of
their duties toward Imperial revenues.
Tha kabak Is" tha one bright spot in
tha average Russian s life. Hla home,
given up to the family, pigs, fowls and
often a cow. Is snualld beyond the con
of the monster catch-dellara sent out
by a Chicago dry gooda house. Sarah'a
mouth drooped pathetically. Why
should any on aend her such a cata
logue? Her eyes were compelled by a
color-plate. She had been mistaken
after all; It waa a flower catalogue-
no. But the pictured warea were
strangely flower-like In their exquis
ite color. What were they? Sarah
looked more cloaely at tha page. The
flower-like garmenta were silk blouses
so folded that the overlapping frill
indeed simulated many-petalled roaes.
They were green, crimson. mauve,
blue, pink the pink was prettiest. It
waa Ului on of Hundred Leafs blos
soms. Grandma King dosed peacefully
in her chair. Still Sarah held the cata
logue open at the eame page. Could
she? Jim Carithera would not be
able to do the Summer work on the
roae garden now anyhow. He wae at
work on a Job over at Beda whieh
would keep him a month. Khe had the
111 aha would have paid Jim for the
work if he had been able to do It.
Dared she? With cheeks scarlst for
shame Sarah drew the writing-pad
close and dipped her pen In the ink.
Grandma King awoke just aa Sarah
wa finishing her letter. "Whafa that
you're orderln,' Sarah? Rose or
bulbs ?"
The naked truth would hurt. Sarah
could, not explain what she did not
herself understand. 8h took tha eas
iest way: "A rose."
"What color, child?"
"Pink." lied Sarah miserably, and
resolved not to send her letter with
the foolish order.
But the naughty wind of destiny
that blew to Sarah King the dry goods
catalogue waa at work early the next,
morning when It sent Jimmy for more
roses "for Mis' Johnson's daughter's
wsddlng bnkay." Aa Sarah clipped tha
Marerhal Nella and Mlerophyllaa the
dreary prospect of the procession of
the years awoke In her unwonted self
pity. "You'll never need to bloom for me,
exrpt for my coffin," she told the
white rose-tree In a voice she knew
was maudlin but couldn't suppress
"and even then there will ba nobody
to put you on."
Jimmy took tha flower, but cam
back to the porch to say:
"Got anything for the postofflce? I'm
goln' right pest there."
Sarah asked Jtmmy to wait a minute.
Then aha walked deliberately to the
living-room and took from her port
folio the letter ahe had written the
night before. She Inclosed two 1)11 Is
from her purse and gave Johnny di
rection for registering the letter. A
h hurried to the schoolhouse she tried
to Justify hsrself:
"I am going to live out my life In
the same old way. Nothing to look for
ward to but white roses on my coffin
at least there'll be nobody to put them
en." She was growing mixed In br
logic end her eyes were misty with an
other access of self-pity when she fin
ished: "But at any rat I will have,
ception of Western citizens. He knows
neither games nor sports; football or
baaeball are undreamed of; cluba are
forbidden by law. All hla spare time
and he haa a lot la spent toping
under the shadow of tha Czar'a por
trait. Early Orlaita mt Maessly.
Liquor saloons and the aale of vodka
have been the crown'a monopoly, with
out a break, alnra the Ifth century;
thst Is. when the weakening of the
Tartar yoka and Moslem customs gave
atrong drink a free hagd. Jn those
days, when tha Csara ef Muecovy, as
they were then called, wanted cash to
make war, quell a tumult or fill up
tha ravagea of famine, they farmed out
their kabaka to tha highest bidder,
getting cash In advance. Then they
went back to tha old plan and ran tha
aloona themselves. They have not
farmed them out sine 111. Fines
then the trade haa Increased by leaps
and bounds, and reversion to the farm
ing aystsm would now mean a yearly
loss of (17.000.000.
Right here was the reason why, when
General Booth asked permsslon to
start a branch of tha Salvation Army
In St. Petersburg, he was refused. The
authorities feared the loss Involved to
the crown. They knew Salvationists
teach sobriety, which means a drop In
tha vodka receipts. Native temperance
movements Are snubbed In the same
way. ,
Rut ansrt from the enela vrrint of
the pleasure of wearing one garment
In accord with my taete befor I die."
Meanwhile Jimmy had shifted the big
bunch of roses so that he might more
carefully examlnei the superscription of
the letter In which h bad with bis own
eyes serq tarah King put two five-dollar
bills.
"Phew." he said, "Chicago. More
ftstwera, I reckon. Seems like thev'd get
enough roses by this time. Rut It's
new ones every Spring and Fall. They
ain't never satisfied."
John Dexter had passed by on hla
leisurely way to lite office., while Sarah
cut the roaaa for Mra. Johnson's daugh
ter's wedding bouquet, but Sarah'a back
had been tn the street. John rested hie
arm on the fence and watched Sarah
with tha tantalising smil In his eyes.
Sarah King- wa the prettieet girl lie
anew, and by long odde the finest.
Strange how a girl could be as pretty
as Sarah and not know It. John was
not surei that a pretty girl was not
prettier when eha did not know It. He
watched the round arms reaching for
the topmost roses for a little, then went
on hie way. saying to himself: "Its a
pity Sarah doesn't know how pretty
she Is."
By Friday morning Sarah'a twinae of
conscience bad become a downright
ache that vanquished her childish self,
pity. Grandma King'a Interest in the
new four-year-old roae sha was expect.
Ing was becoming torture, and worse,
Sarah bad to engage In the pettleat
dissembling. Every time Jimmy came
up the graveled walk with the mall she
must hurry to Intercept the package
she looked for. What If Jimmy ehould
bring It when she was absent? Sha
the people, the advantage ta not alto
gether on the credit side. The Csar1
army suffers much from the vodka
fiend. General Keppen, "who haa been
trying In vain to propagate Ideas of
temperance among toe troops, ssye
that S per cent of the crimes com
mitted by soldiers are dona when they
have been drinking heavily. He ad.
mita. too. that many young men tak
to drink when In the army. The sol
diers spend the little money they get
In the regimental saloons, while their
officers get drunk, at the supper tables,
so that all ths money paid out In this
wsy comes quickly back.
Each regiment of S600 men swells
tha Czar'a receipts for vodka by 114.
000 per year. On the other hand, of
ficers declare that the Russian soldier
could not live without drink, aa the
food la too bad and scanty to satisfy
him. and the barracks are kept eo cold
that ha would be frosen to death It h
kept to the week tea supplied by the
government. Only one-ftfth of the fuel
allotted goes Into the stoves, and tha
pound of mest per man shrinks to lees
than a quarter before It reaches the
eoup caldron. Turveyora and the food
supply committee get the benefit, of
the dlffervniee. The reglmentel boots
are made of brown paper, and the uni
forms and underclothing are often the
cheapest ahnddy But army purveyor
and the food-aupply committee live like
millionaires, snd their wives and
daughters 'spend whole fortunes on
awall clothes. This leaves the barest
margin for tha soldler s comforts, so
he aeeka warmth and oblivion In
drink. Orsft Is rooted as firmly In ad-
dared not dwell on the hurt to gentle
Grandma King.
When at dusk on Friday evening
Sarah did receive from Jimmy's hand a
Hat package, she had already derided
that she would never open it. She
would keep It as a reminder of the
wicked vanity of a woman old enough
to be above surh things. She rsn up
stairs and locked the box In her trunk.
After tea Sarah deliberately rhose a
lengthy psesage In the Old Testament,
one that had ever been a particular
trial to her patience. Rut (Jiandma
King'a attention waned visibly toward
the end. and she could scarcely wait a
reverent Interval before saying:
"Sarah, I've foraot what kind of a
rose you ordered from Chicago. Soems
to me It s a long time coming."
Sarah went to bed In a ehaetened mood.
She would wear her gray suit another
year what was the difference between
three and four years? She would sell
her corsl necklace to Mrs. (leltner and
get the money to take the plaie of the
ten dnllars she had squsndered. Then
she would order the handsomest rose In
the Fall catalogue for Grandma King.
But even for the third time the wind
of deatlny played trl.-ke with Sarah
King when on Saturday afternoon, s
she was starting down the graveled
walk to set out on her way ti the
sewing circle. It blew the irreslellbU
spice and honey of Hundred I-caf di
rectly In her face. Sarah stopped and
picked a bunch for her belt, and as
she fastened the mass of bloom she
was compelled by the charming effect
of the pink against the grey of her
girdle. She had never known before
how beautiful were Just the right
shades of pink and gray together. She
went bark tu her chamber and unlocked
her trunk.
Released from ,the narrow quartos
of the box In which It had been mailed,
tha ahlnlng frilled blouse expanded to
It proper shape with a delicious rustle.
Sarah locked the door, and when ahe
emerged a few minutes later she was
a glorified Sarah.
She was still a glorified Sarah who
walked homewards about sundown and
who even forgot the exlstencs of a cer
tain law office on the square. She
approached the low frame building
without knowing that she did so. All
her senses were engrossed with the de
lightful fltnees and daintiness of hsr
apparel, a feeling she had missed all
of her 'llf. John Dexter happened to
come to the door ef hi office at that
moment. He wa not conscious of the
pink dslntlness. He did not see it. He
saw only the fare above It. He forgot
to put hla hat bark en his head, and
stood there looking at the faded red
brick of the courthouse behind which
the slender figure had disappeared.
The tentallxlng emlle was gnns from
his eyes. Did Sarah King know she
wss prttr? - He put on his hst snd
set his feet In the path through the
courthouse square, for the first time in
his life a men in a hurry.
Sarah did know.- She bad mme Into
her own. Suddenly something had
bloomed within Br, something choksl
ff!
v
mlnletratlve Russia aa Ignorance la
hackled on the poor.
Resides these saloons snd distilleries,
the Csar owns vlnevards In the Crimea.
The wine goes to Frame, where It la
dortored to a certain extent, snd re
Imported as French wine. Ills Majesty
owns the oldest vintage in tha world.
Home yeara ago, workmen on one of
hla Crimean estates dug Into whst
seemed to be a cave. When opened
It proved to be a wine cellar, walled up
by Greek colonists some 1000 years
sgo. The wine had nearly all evapo
rated from the emphorao, or Greek
wine jara. closely sealed though they
were. But the fumes of 20 centuries
bad covered the IneUle of the cave with
a growth whose very smell made tha
workmen blind drunk.
New Crimean wine, put Into this
cave, become mellow and very choice
In a couple of years. Its bouquet can
not be tolil from that of old Hungarian
wine. As there are only a few sm
phnraa In the rave, they are only
broachod on the rarest occasions, one of
them being the christening of the little
Csarevltch. Only the Imperial family
Is served with thla rurlnua wine, so
thst courtiers shake their heads when
asked whst it tastes Ilka and admit
their Ignorance. Rut onlookers say
thst It affects the feet. If not the head,
and tends to sadness rather than mirth.
Though thousands of serious men
snd Momen lit Rusela look upon the
Czar's kabaka as one nf the country's
greatest scandals, none ran put a stop
to them. Czars have not been their
subjects' saloonkeepers since 400 yesr
for nothing: and so long aa Nicholas I
autocrat his saloons ars likely to flour
ish throughout the length and
breadth of his empire. Russia will
have to pa through more blood end
tesrs before the double emancipation
la won from tvrannv and vodka.
by duty and sacrifice to a summer In.
stead of a springtime flowering. Give
the word back to the French from
whom we borrowed It. Ranlsh It from
the vocabulary of the cultured" Rut
the thing exists, potent, eternal. The
feminine. It Is a wonian'a own. And
tha fragrance of It may he as whole
somely aweet as Is the perfume of tne
rlove-plnk hy which she sends her
wireless message to The Right Ree:
"See how 1 have decked myself for
you!"
With her arms around Grandma
King's neck Sarah told her liappln":
"We are to he married In September,
but v.e sre going to stay right here
with you and keep up the place and
the rees Junt as they have slwsya
been."
Grandma King'a faded blue eye
didn't fill with tears. They smiled.
"Wrll, Child, I can't say I'm sur
prised grratlv. Pretty girls aa pretty
as you rarely po to their gravea stn
gle. If you'll Ionic in my bureau
drawer, rlaht-hand aide at the hack,
you'll find a re.l box with the money
In it to buy the flxln you need.
There's plenty to buy them nice, white
silk storkln's and all. Ilildes have got
to have white silk storkln's. I've been
savin' the money ever since you were
a hahy. There, now, ijon't cry, dearie,
when you're so soon to marry the man
you've given your heart to. I'm glad
you're goin' to keep up tha old place
and the roeea. Yore (irandpa'll be
glad, too. That reminds me. You'd
better order some new roses right now,
three-year-olds. We need another pink
In the northeast corner to balance La
France on the other side of the walk.
There ain't anything prettier than a
Hundred Leaf. I remember yore
Grandpa set ut one the year we mar
ried." (Copyright by Shortstorv Pub. Co.)
Anicrlcnn Autos tn India.
V.. R. Consular and Trade Reports.
The outlook for future extensive
business In American motor vehicles
throughout India was never so prom
ising aa at the present. American
automobiles received a gigantic ad
vertisement through the action of van
nus Indian governments In placing
large orders for American :srs for use
at the recent coronation durbar at
Ie1hl. One American ooinpany alone
reports it furnished different provincial
governments In India with 70 cars In
connection with the -lurhsr. and claims
that no lees than 11 of its machines
were registered at Delhi during tha
celebration. The total nflmber of
American cars of all makes In use at
the durbar was so large as to npca.
slnn wide comment, and the Impression
rraatod was most favorable. A Madras
firm, through which the local govern,
ment ordered 10 American automobiles
for orrinal uie at Delhi, stales thst tha
preference thus shown In fsvor of
Amerlrsn rsrs will result In a large
ly Increased demand hereabouts for
motor vehicles of American manufacture.