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and a half days. It Is now possible by I It carried of first, second, third and Ing a man to go about ringing a belt “Are you getting tired? \V- Tl.X'l! be tho “North Express” to go from Lon I fourth class passengers 152.315. It and crying the wares of bis patron. through soon.” I Sometimes, in hours of solitude. don to St. Petersburg in two days and brought 189,606 settlers into the coun That is one of the street noises we have “Not at all. riease go on.” — The soul cun hear a song “That night after supper, Jlmntls 3REAT TRANS-SIBERIAN RAIL four hours. It will therefore be possible try, besides 33,1)00 workmen and 2,258 lost. I sometimes think k would be a From choristers whose ,-y, * have viewed to reach I’ekin from 'Loudon in seven or cc-nvlcts. Iu lSlkJ the connecting, or good scheme to revive It. It would pay came in with a dirty postal card in liis A world devoid of wrong. WAY SYSTEM. eight days. But tins iu the future. Otnsk-Obl, section carried Into the while Its novelty lasts. The queerest hand screamin ’ ‘ auntie, I've got it. I've And in the silence of the night, While the road is uewand stiff thespeed country 37,500 passengers of the differ profession of all professions, I think, Is got it.’ Iu dreams we seem to see “We had him say ‘auntie’ and ‘uncle’ W hen the Czar'a Stupeudnous Project at which the trains will run will not ent classes and 116,02.) settlers. In the professional window gazer. All Tlie dawn of right and glorious light Of the bountiful yet-to-be. because, as I told Ezry, if God had ever la Completed Our Pac.flc Coast May be greater than twenty miles an hour, 1896 ou the third section, the Chela- pursuits are professions’ these days, but even so It will be possible to go binsk,, were carried 23,768 passenger* as you lire aware. We haven’t any meant us to lie called father and mother Become More Important than the from London to Japan in sixteen days and 3,072 settlers. That was thought ‘trades’ left. Never heard of a window It bafil'-s the soul with heavenly bliss, he’d have given us some children of out Atlantic- and to China in seventeen days. The to be a good beginning, but it is stated gazer? Umiuxed witli earthly ill, own, And gently ns a mother’s kiss shortest cut at present from London that since 18t)t>, the road having been •'There are many in Chicago, and al “I asked Jimmie wliat he’d got and It soothes its pain until Tbe Russian minister of railroads Is to those countries is across the At- enormously extended and old stations though they don't get rich they are paid he said tlie letter. He said he thought Beyond the gloom of present days juoted in recent St. Petersburg dis lantic, across the United States or improved and new stations established, enough to keep body and soul together. I felt so bad that lie run over to th* We fancy we can see patches as saying that there la no Canada and across the Pacific, the passenger business has largely In A window gazer, as the name implies. postoffice himself after supper iuid Su The peaceful haze and pleasant ways longer doubt that the trans-Siberian and with the best of luck It takes creased. Official tables are not at hand, Is a man or woman who makes a living san Snell gave him this. I lunl my sus Of the beautiful yet-to-be. road xylll be finished next year and from thirty to thirty-five days to make but It Is Believed that during the last by gazing into a window. You know picions right away, and I said to him that when it is completed it will be pos It. At first thought tills promised short- two years not less than 350.000 emi that if you stand in State street, look We see a world whore virtue thrives; 'How did it get so dirty?' ‘I don’t know; sible to make the trip around the world enlng of the time would seem to bode grants have arrived in Siberia. From fixedly at the twelfth story of a build We bear the grand refrain It was that way when Miss Snell gav» in thirty-three days. In this same dis anything bpt good to the transconti all accounts the most of them are con ing across the way, you will have a From the harumny of happy lives, It to nte.’ patch Bremen is taken for the Euro nental traffic of the United States aud tented aud doing fairly well. The total sidewalk blocking crowd about you in And catch the sweeter strain “ 'Don’t tell me a lie, Jimmie,’ said I, Of tin1 melody of honest worth. pean starting point, for the reason that Canada which has been heretofore af receipts last year for transportation of no time at all. Well, that is wliat the and he says, ’ Why, no, auntie, 1 never The music of innocent glee It is reached by steamer from New forded by England in her commerce passengers and freights were upward wlndpw gazer does. He strolls i usual And ehildlbh mirth that will gladden the <lo.’ So 1 didn't say no more, but sent York; thence the route Indicated is with Asiatic countries. But the intense of $3,500,000. These figures will serve ly along until opposite his employer's hint to bed. eart 11 from Bremen to St. Petersburg in one rivalry existing between England and to change the ideas many hold of that window. Then he stops and gazes with “Anyway, I had my receipt and early Iu the beautiful yet-to-be. and a half days; St. Petersburg to Vla- Russia Is to lie taken into account. The country. Siberia lias ever been re an appearance of deepest interest. In next tnornln’ I had the cake in baking. divostock, ten days; Viadlvostock to trans-Siberian road will not be extens garded as a frozen waste, uninhabited five minutes a crowd is gazing with Where youth mid maid will be free to woo It wits a good deal of trouble to make San Francisco by steamer, four and ively patronized by England—it will be except by exiles and quite uninhabit him. As individuals of this crowd get And win the crown of life. You put white batter first, then pink, >ne-half days; San Francisco to Chi supported by Russian traffic and, in a able. A country that can furnish such enough and move on others will take And whisper the si-cret, ever new, and almonds In that, that hadn't beet) cago, three aud one half days; Chicago degree, by German. Time, it is true, an amount of business to a new rail their places for possibly half an hour. Yet older than human life, blanched, to imitate the seeds. When Mid singing birds mid fragrant flowers, to New York, one day; New York to is a valuable element in commerce, but road is plainly something very different From a near-by street corner the orig It was baked I iced it with green iclug While love's young dream is free Bremen, seven days. it will be lost sight of by the English from that inator of the audience Is looking on. for the rind. A little before nine I told From hostile powers in lovely bowers Should this longest railroad In the while pushing their own interests in When the road is completed the pas When the crowd has melted away to Ezry to hitch up, and Jimmie, who was Of tlie beautiful yet-to-be. senger business will be largely ln- tally he gathers another by the same hanging around, says, ‘Auntie, shan’t 1 —Chicago Chronicle. creased, for the way passenger traffic simple method. , He works from 10 in go put on my Sunday clothes?’ ‘No, 1 will increase, and it is certain that the morning until 9 at night, and he is can't have any little boys with me, xvltc thousands every year will prefer to go paid $2 a day. This may seem a large » * don’t tell the truth,’ said I. ‘Oh, I did all-rail around the world, especially sum for such work, but it is not when « » tell tlie truth, and can't I go to tlie fair! as that way It Is cheaper and quicker. the character of the window gazer is All the boys are goin' and I’ve saved Tickets from Warsaw to Viadlvostock taken into consideration. He must be Ct ** my money ever so long for a ride on th« • 1» razzle-dazzle, and the merry-go-round cost 120 rubles, or $82.-10. From Lon a gentleman in appearance. To dress don to Viadlvostock the cost of a ticket well is a desideratum with him. You Willie Hudson and I was goin’ togetli is $119, first-class; a second-class ticket will perceive that a man fitted out like er.’ ’You deceived me about that pos 'M real sorry. Miss is considerably cheaper. A Chicago a tramp might look into a window for tai,' said I. ‘If you’d owned up yot Phelps, that you forgot it, I’d forgiven you, though that person knowing the fare to New York an hour without exciting any attention must leave this and London can easily calculate the or inducing anyone to stop and look was bad enough. But lying 1 won’t week.” cost of transportation from his city with him. The nearer a window gazer tolerate In anybody. There's sotnt "1 am sorry, too. through Europe to Viadlvostock. Tlie can approach to the ensemble of a man boiled ham and biscuit in tlie pantry, But 1 have had a price of a first-class ticket by the Suez of leisure and wealth out for a stroll you can get for your dinner. And I la dutiful long sum canal to Japan is $-128. Add the price the more valuable his services are. The want you to learn tlie fifth chapter of mer, and It is near of sleeping berth, twelve nights, by tlie same things hold good of women gaz Acts by lieart.’ Then we rode away, ly over now. An Siberian route, and still there Is a sav ers. They are generally placed in front lint I couldn't seem to forget ills face.” other we< k would ing of $190. It is estimated that 160,- of the displays in the liner millinery “You were strict with him,” I ven- only make me re- 000 first-class passengers will use the shops of the department stores. You tured. grot going more.” new route annually. Expectations can spot one nt any time by taking the “Yes, but Miss Phelps, I never could “Maybe that's so, but next week’ll be equally high are entertalued of ths trouble to hang about any establish bear deceit. Well, when we got to the our county full', nnd I'd like you to see fair, it was half past ten, and tlie entry freight traffic. Goods going over the ment of this character and keeping GREAT RAILWAY SYSTEM THAT RUSSIA IS BUILDING. It. Have you ever been to one?” road to the east and those coming west your eyes open.”—Chicago Chronicle. books had closed at ten. And tlie man I admitted that my education in tliat stilil ids orders was so strict lie couldn't world be completed next year it xv'll opposition to those of their most dan will be those that can pay the highest respect had been neglected. For It was admit my cake. So my day was spoiled Siberian Gentleman's L l'e. have been nine years in course of con gerous rival. England, at any rate rates, such as furs, gold, silver, plat I wlio had spent tlie summer among tlie “For five months of the year the Sibe you can guess. But I told Ezry we struction. Tlie preliminary plan of its until tlie Nicaraguan cana! is construct inum and tea. As the estimated cost Jersey hills, mid tlie fund of good might as well see what was there. Tlie construction was outlined by the late ed, will continue to support tho Cana of building and equipping the road is rian man of fashion lives in the open stories with which my liostess was sup pumpkins was bigger than ever; there Emperor Alexander III. of Russia in dian Pacific Railroad by her shipments, $160,000,000, the highest earnings it air, either at the mining camp or In the plied had often entertained me. Hop was quilts with nine thousand line his rescript addressed In May, 1891, to and at the same time and from the may be capable of xx ill be needed to hunting field,” says Thomas G. Allen, ing for one now 1 asked, “Wliat are hundred and ninety-nine pieces in ’em; tlie Czarowltz. Surveys were made for same source the transcontinental lilies pay a profit on the investment. But Jr., in Ladies'.Home Journal. “He Is they like. Mrs. Conover?” tlie band played its loudest; and tlie portions of this cortinuous trans-Sibe within tlie United States will have as the road is owned by the Russian an early bird under all circumstances, “Well. 1 suppose 'agricultural exhibi girls and their beaux were goin' round Government and as aliove all thing« a and Invariably rises between 7 and 8 rian road in 1887-88. Designed to be each a share of benefits. tions' is tlie real name for ’em, Imt we together ns happy ns could be.” military road, pecuniary profits are o’clock, although he may have had but gin at Clielablnsk, near tlie boundary Course of Empire Turned Back. don't often say It. They generally last not what are mainly sought. a couple of hours’ rest. Nearly every “Didn't you look nt tlie cakes?” between European and Asiatic Russia. It Is for other reasons not to be feared three or four days. And tlie farmers Ma-iy Branch Roads. meal Is succeeded by a nap. However, “Yes, we looked at the cakes,” an It was to end in Viadlvostock on the that the course of commerce—of em take their best bred stock, mid their swered Mrs. Conover dryly. ", And whe From almost the first the activity dressing operations do not take very Pacific ocean and, together with the pire—will be changed, turned back on biggest fruits and vegetables. Then do yon s’pose got I lie first premium?” system of Russian railroads, wns des itself, aud made to move toward the of tlie Russians in Siberia has not been long, for when he retires the Siberian their wives send bread, mid preserves, "I haven't the slightest idea.” tine l for conr.e ting th.' Baltic Sea with east. It has ever been westward go confined to building the main line. only divests himself of his coat and nnd Jellies; nnd in tlie fancy tent they Branch roads were early contemplated boots. Shifts are unknown in Siberia, “Why, Susan Snell! and for water the Facllle. For the sake of facility of ing, aud there is every reason to be have pnteliwork qttllts, and embroider melon cake! She was standing there, construction It was divided into seven lieve that it will continue in that direc and some of them are completed. The and in many houses beds, also. The ies mid oil paintings. And tlie best of lint she didn't see me. and when some lines under the following names, re- tion. Civilization, so far as we know, Russian railroad from Ekatriuburg to samovar is set on the dining-room talile every class gets n premium.” body congratulated her she said, ‘yes, pcctively: The West r : S" e an Ra i began in tlie Euplnates valley, moved the navigable part of tlie Dwina is at 8 a. m., together with eggs, black “Money?” I queried. it's somethin’ new. Tlie receipt coma road. SS5 miles; tlie Central Siberian. to tlie Nile valley, and then to tlie east nearly completed and the products of and white bread, sardines, jam and "Yes. five dollars or so. imt the honor from Mrs. Stiles over at Stilesville!' 1.149 miles; the Baikal Loop Line, 105 end of the Mediterranean. Rome took Siberia will thus have an important cakes, etc. Breakfast is eaten, aud Is really more than tlie money.” That was too much for me. I grabbed miles; tlie Trans Baikal Railroad, 689 it up and spread it entirely around tlie outlet to the White Sea, and hand washed down by five or six glasses of "Will you send anything?'' was my miles; tho Ann or. 1.111 miles; the Mediterranean, and afterward it drift next question. !'.: -./a North Otissouri. 227 miles, and tlie ed out Into the Atlantic. There w "No. I never did but once, mid such a Sou’ll Gussoin I. 252 ndles. So that the never any change or shadow of tut time ns I lutd then! Shall 1 tell you total length of tlie railroad In Asiatic iug In the course civilization won about it?" Rn«sia was designed to lie 4.5(,7 miles pursue In its march over the xvot. “Y< s, please, 1 wish you would.” mid the total dlstanee from St. Peters Meanwhile eastern trade was had by / b “Well. It was three years ago. the first burg t - 1 Ind'.iostocl:, or from the Ba! | the advancing nations- first Venice year .llmmle come to us. You know possessed it, then Spain and Portugal, We never had any children mid Ezry and next Holland and England. Venice was bound to adopt n boy. So lie got ceased as a world power, ami her suc Jimmie out of tlm orphan asylum down cessors to the trade of the Orient, to Elizabeth.” while continuing iu the rich traffic, “Did you send him to the fair looked ever out toward the west. At asked. Mrs. Conover sometimes needed length nations surrendered that trade to be brought back to the main track In to commercial companies, and them her story telling. Now a shadow cross selves sought more and more to dis ed her placid face ns she answered. cover aud occupy new lands in the dis “Yes, .llmmle went that year and ev tant west. Exactly three centuries ery year since. But I'll go on with my HA1T.WAV AC iOS« Till; STKI'I’H*. ago England incorporated the East In story. 1 was lookin' over the premium tie Sea to the Pacific, was estimated at dia company, when England was HA1> tin. CAKE I1AKIXO KAIII.V NEXT list wh<*n Ezry brought it home and I MOHN t N<1. 6,232 miles. This gigantic work lias gaged In making conquests on nskisl him If lit1 wouldn’t enter that Al derney Iteifer. She's the cow we call Ezry's arm. and gut out of there. 'That been prosecuted with marvelous vigor American continent. “Westward 'Daisy' non . !r*ul she was so pretty and poor txiy,' said 1. ‘Let's get home as and steadlmss and a year ago was de course of empire takes its way.” was pursuing that course when it tame. But lie said no, she wasn't regis fast ns we can.' of course Ezry had tc clared to bo nearing completion. the Atlantic States of this republic and tered, mut her keep would cost more laugh at me, though he told me ths Changes in the Line. Changes have been necessitated In made its way over the Alleghenies and than tlie premium. And I felt real sor post musters had a right to look at j>os- ry, for I did want one of them first till cards to «ee there wasn't anything tlie line by recent events iu China— Into the Mississippi valley. Again it premium cards. We was the only one objectionable on them, sech as duns fet originally only one port on the Pacific was pursuing that course when, in of the neighbors that hadn't one. money, etc., Imt I guess lie didu't ex was thought of. Viadlvostock, and that 1S49-50, the Pacific coast was reached, ‘‘Then 1 saw they'd added a new de cuse Susan Snell any more than I did was to be reached, first, by a northerly and the intermediate country began to partment nml would give live dollars We made old Billy go ills best, and and then by a southerly bend enthely be occupied by intelligent people. Our for the best cake, anti 1 made up my when we got hero found that dear child through Russian territory. But owing interest Iu “empire" is. or was until mind I'il have that. Ami when I told asleep, with Ids head laid on the Bible. to Interests obtained by Russia in Man recently, limited to these United Ezry lie said. 'Go ahead, mother. If open to tlie fifth chapter of Acts, and chitrht it was deemed Inexpedient to States. How far that interest may ex anybody In this county can make better lilg tear drops dried on his face. I woke follow the line as It was originally sur tend and how permanently nobody cake than yours I've never et It.’" him up in a hurry and told him lit veyed. and accordingly a new Uno di Just now can say. But ft Is absolutely AROUND THE WORLD IN THIRTY-THREE DAYS. "I think Mr. Conover was right,” I should go to tlie fair next day, and that rect from Irkutsk southwest to Vladl- certain that the part the United States Interrnpicil. 1 was sorry I'd misjudged him. Aud vostoek was adopted. Still more recent are to have in the trade aud commerce A pleased look passed over the face of lie Jest put both arms around my neck. events iu China have caused another of tit« beyond—of all the Asiatic coun In hand with the building of the main tea stired up with sugar, cream and the story teller as she continued, "A lit ami said, 'Oh, nuntie, I’m so glad 1 can change in the main line to be made, and tries—Is to be Immense and soon to be Siberian water ways connecting with sometimes Jam. At 1 o'clock dinner is tle while before him and me bail been go, Imt I'm gladder yet that you know In consequence not Viadlvostock but realized. Tlie completion of the trans- the railroad is progressing, and surveys served, and at 5 in the afternoon an over to Malinlj Stiles' to stay all night. 1 told tlie truth, for 1 promised mamma Port Arthur will be the terminus on Siberian railroad Is nn event of the are preparing for the building of other small meal, much like that of the And on till* supper table they hail some most tlte la*t thing that I'd always in the Paeltie. So that the trans Siberian greatest significance to this country. branch roads to all the more important morning. Is taken. A meat supper fol Railroad divides Into three prongs as It means, first, that Siberia, a country towns of the various provinces and to lows at 0 o’clock. thin' tliat looked for all tlie world like true, and I always mean to be.' “Well, that taught me two things if 1 near approach is made to the Pacific. as large ns nil North America and the mining districts. Few of these a water melon, but when you came to Naming the Child. ent it was cake. So I told Ezry 1 was didn't get the first premium," said Mrs One prong goes straight ou to Vladi about as diversified as respects cli branches will be built, however, until “Among the plantation negroes in the mate nnd soil and general fertility ns the trunk line is completed, for most vostok. another strikes down through going to semi for M.thaly's receipt, and Conover, ns she rose to leave me, “Out old times," writes a correspondent, make that, lie said it was too late, for Is that there Is more tlian one kind ol Manchuria and a third bears In a south large portions of North America, will of the energy and money will be de "the naming of a child was a matter of ‘.hat was Wednesday, aud the fair open stealln', and tlie other that we are Jesi erly direction down to Port Arthur. l-e filled up with industrious people, voted to the main road until the great great moment. Since they all had the ed the next Tuesday. But I told him ns bound to respect tlie rights and feel Either of theae latter Is a shorter cut nnd that before the twentieth century project Is an accomplished fact. An enormous part of the country that same surname, the distinction had to If it went out the next morning I could in's of children as If they was growi to the «ea by several handled miles, the Is half out all Asia will be teeming lie made iu some other way. And since Port Arthur route being the shortest with new life and sharing modern is tributary to the Siberian Railroad is get nil answer Friday or Saturday nt folks."- Ohio Farmer. there were 100 or more to lie named, of the three. Viadlvostock Is not to be prosjterlty. Secondly, it means flint amply blessed by nature and is capa the l.ltest, and I'tl bake my cake Mon the Bible, classics, literature and his the United States will then exchange ble of supporting an enormous popu abandoned; it will have its railroad and day after 1 tlltl the washing. Tlie ••Orphln’»'' Question, tory were culled from very freely by Tlie following colloquy is reported be I k * made In consequence a commercial products on a large scale with Siberia. lation. This road will be the main fac the master or some other memlrnr of “So I wrote the letter nml sent Jim mie off to mill It, and Friday night tween tlie late Mr. Spurgeon aud a boy place of importance, but it has the dis China and every other country in that tor in the next century in the develop the family to assist the parents iu this advantage of being during one half the quarter of the globe. Then the Pacific ment of an Important fraction of the looked for the answer. But Jimmie iu ids orphanage: matter. Among the various names 1 came liome empty luimled. Saturilay “Mla'r 8pudgiu. a'jwsing there was year under snow and lee. Tort Arthur Ocean will be white with steam and earth's surface. We* have only to recall this was the most original one: our glance over the list of the projected afternoon I drove oltl Billy Into the vil an orphln 'sylum an* a hunnered er is open the year round. But this latter sail, ns the Atlantic now Is—and Elijah the Prophet Lucius K. Polk lage for the things. I got almonds, and ptilns in it. nu' all tile orphln* liad un- port Is In China and before Russia de Pacific States will be populated per- lines connecting the Sii>erian road with Mars Abberth L----- . The later name haps not less dens-»ly than Japan, The China to get an idea of the immense in cided to extend Its trans-Siberian Rail red sugar, nml green sngar. On the way des an' auntses to bring 'em cakes an' was a compliment to one of the young home I stoppeil to the postoffiee. Susan apples, 'cept one orphln wot hadu't no road thither Russia must have come to civilization on the Pacific coast will be fluence which Russia Is certalj) to wield masters, and not to have given th« Buell, the same ns has It now, hail It one. ouglitln somebody give that orphln a satisfactory understanding with the l>e*t on this continent, and the over all the Interests of Eastern Asia. title would have been an act of dis China. Within the present year. then, i splendor of it« tradiug and commercial *|X;H‘IICV?” then. courtesy. The name, however, was “I think so. Bob." replied Mr. Spur St Petersburg will be connected by achievement* will eclipse nnything that WINDOW-GAZERS EARN MONEY. “And she said there was nothing she abbreviated to ’Prop.' and he was so rail not only with Viadlvostock, but has been known in the past on the east could give me, I was awful disap geon. “But why?" with Port Arthur, and probably within ern side of this continent. Only—the New Method Emploteil hy Merchant* called.”—New York Tribune. “ 'Cause I’m him.” said Bob. pointed. but I thought the letter would to Attract Attention. The story goes that the “orphln" bad next year by branch roads with Can United State* hesitates to face about come Monday tnornln'. So I got up at Some men consider that they are not “ Modern conditions, need« and com ton aud Pekin. aud face the Pacific and the Orient. 4 o'clock so a« to get my washin' out. the sixpence.—-Spare Moment*. dressed up unless they have a whit« petition develop many queer pursuits." It is estimated that after the road Is It 1* Already Profitable. But Jimmie dhln't bring it up from that handkerchief showing In their upper Such sections of the Siberian railroad •aid the State street merchant. “The The record for fading rapidly hat repaired after the first few years of mall either. coat pockets. buslnes* of carrying signs about the traffic the Journey from St. Petersburg ns are being operated are reported to “It was «trange," I commented. *s been broken by the shirt waist Here If a man avoids scraping acquaint Mrs. Conover paused to take another tofore. it was carried by the girl wh< to Pekin will be made In five days li* earning operating exienaea. The street—‘sandwiching- It is called—Is a pair of »ock* from the pile she *•« married. ami went to live iu her bus From London the most Important har first, or western, section earned ex century old. Merchants used ro ad ances he misses lots of scrapes a»> bor on the Japan Sea will be seventeen pense* the first year, which was 1894. vertise their goods, you know, by hir- ¡uaintauees get a man into. baud's family. data lug. THE RUSSIA’S BIG BEAU TIFUL YET-TO-BE. S Ths First Premium. 5 ROAD