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KEELI MYSTERY SOLVED of experimental psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, who under- ABYSSINIA'S SUSPENSION BRIDGE. A Kemarkable Structure Made With Cables and Braces of Tinea. Many and strange were the things seen by the French expedition Bon-valot de Bonchamps in Africa, but nothing stranger than the bridge of EXILED FROM RUSSIA. A Body of Russian Quakers Who Are Settling in the Canadian Northwest to Escape Persecution. ago, banished to Lapland.

It was matter of "political expediency." It is customary for the inhabitants of the Caucasus to possess arms, but the Doukhobors feel that so long as yon possess a weapon it is difficult to abstain from using it when anyone comes to steal your horse or cow. So to remove 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 ont simultaneously in the three districts they inhabited, on the night of 28th of June, 1895. In the Ears district the affair passed off quietly. In the government or Elisavetpol the authorities made it an excuse for arresting forty Doukhobors, who were kept in confinement more than two years.

But it was in the government of Tiflis tbat the most amazing results followed. A large assembly of Doukhobor men and women attended the ceremony of burning the arms, and accompanied it singing psalms or hymns. The uonfire was already burning down, therefore, "What is to lie done with men who would rather die than kill?" has made its way into practical politics. some iouu uouKUooors are prepor ing to migrate to Cauada, where free land has been granted to them. Their new home is where the Territories of Assiniboia and Saskatchewan and the Province of Manitoba meet.

In Russia, and also iu England, money has been collected to enable them to be-giu to cultivate the laud granted them ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN HAWAII. Tho Man Who Eetabllnlicd the Anglo Saion Speech in the Island. That 25,000 American soldiers fonud Honolulu an American city, and that the annexation commission found Hawaii ready for American self-government, is due in no small measure to Alatau Tamchiboulao Atkinson. Alatan Tamchiboulao Atkinson, a son of that English traveler and writer who first made known to western Europe the principal facts regarding Russia's great doniaiu in Central Asia, was born in Central Asia. His baptismal names are the Tartar names of the range of mountains within the shadow of which he was born and oi the village where he first saw the light.

Alatau means "variegated mountain" and Tamchiboulac "dropping spring." Educated at Rugby nuder Dr. Temple, now archbishop of Canterbury, Atkinson went to Hawaii thirty years ago a young man. For many years inspector-general of schools of Hawaii, with tbat imbred Anglo-Saxon contempt of indigenous languages which is rapidly making English the language of the deliberately set' himself the task of making English the language of the islands. He foresaw that great events must have great stage. The Mediterranean served the ancient world: the Atlantio has served the modern world up to our time.

Bat the coming events, as the world grows larger, will be the greatest in its drama and must have the largest stage for their enactment, the broad Pacific. Atkinson saw that Hawaii from its geographical position had a large part to play in the future, as America is beginning to recognize, and to be fitted to play it Hawaii, he said, must have language, not a mere dialeot without a literature and without a history. He became inspector-general of sohools when instruction in most of the government and many of the private sohools was in Hawaiian. When he rotirod from the offioe English was the language of instruction in all but three of the government schools, none of the three attended by more than fifteen pupils. Almost without exception the private sohools were conducted in English, and in the very school founded as her monument by the lost of the Kame-hamehas the Hawaiian language is tabooed.

There is a Hawaiian legend that the language was given to the islanders by one of their ancient heroes to keep them separate from their kinsmen of the South Paciflo, so that, traffic and intercourse being stopped by the barrier of alien speech, none would be tempted to covet and seize their islands, and the Hawaiians should forever remain an isolated and distinct people. Alatau Tamchiboulao Atkinson, in order that Hawaii should be able to take its part in the world's work, has in reality given it a language. Chicago Record. A large body of sturdy men and women, exiled from their native laud on aoconnt of their religion opinions, consisting ot suuu 01 tne vouu Russian yuakers, Known ns uouknoDors or "Tolstoi's pets," who are settling iu the Canadian Northwest, arrived at St. John, N.

a few days and immediately proceeded by rail to their new home. When the Doukhobors landed on Canadian soil they were greeted by a party of their representatives in America, anionic them being the Russian Priuce Their arrival was made the occasion of a service consisting of prayer and supplication in which they gave thanks to God for having brought them safely to a laud of freedom. Prince Hilkofl' said the Trench Government bad offered free transportation to the Doukhobors to settle in a French colony. The otter was declined, as the people preferred to settle in Anglo-Saxon dominions, where they would not be subject to conscription. The Universal Brotherhood Christians, as the Doukhobors (i.

"Spir prefer to be called, have. sunerea ternoie persecution, especially sincu June, 1895, and many of them have died for their faith. The Russian Government has banished the men of these people by scores to distant parts of Siberia. It has used its arbitrary power to send Cossacks to attack and flog large numbers of unarmed aud unresisting meu and women; to quarter Cossacks on villages where they outraged women; to uproot an industrious settlement of peaceful people; to oblige them to abaudou their cultivated lands; to reduce many of them to the verge of starvation; to confine a population, accustomed to the cold climate of a district lying 5000 feet above the sea-level, in hot and unhealthy valleys, where out of 4000 people about 1000 perished within three years; to do men to death by flogging, underfeeding, and physical violence in the UBHBEB8 OF THE FIRST PABTY OF DOUKHOBORS TO BEACH CANADA. "penal battalions;" and finally, as an aet of mercy, the Russian Government has consented tbat these ruined people may leave their country, provided that they go at their own expense, that they never retain, and that they leave behind those of their number who have been summoned for military service.

The strangest fast in this drama of Russian through life is that it was mainly the influence of Russia's COUNT LEO TOLSTOI. (The Influence of the Bussian philosopher with the Czar enabled the persecuted Doukhobors to emigrate.) took the inquiry as a study of delu sions, and Dr. N. G. Miller, who had special training in exploration and research in the way of mound digging, and accordingly superintended all the digging operations in Keely's laboratory.

Besides these gentleman there were in the party of investigation Clarence B. Moore, sou of Mis. Bloomfield Moore, and Coleman Sellers. The in- vestittltrrs foAliiiortiiar. thArA bail haon fraud of some kind in Keely's work, determined to make a thorough investigation of the building.

They examined every nook and cranny, dug into the earth in the subcellar aud examined all the debris, bored through the partition walls, ripped np all the flooring in fact, missed no opportunity to discover any evidence that would tend to sustain their belief that Keely's motor was a fraud. A BICYCLE FIRE ENGINE. The New Apparatus That Has Been Invented In Germany. German fire apparatus builders have, after several years of trial, produced a fire bicycle, which, if it falls short of being perfect, is an invention far ahead of anything of its kind in use in tho United StatesT It is a four wheeled truck, with a low, compact superstructure, is fully equipped as an engine and has a complete outfit of life saving apparatus. The wheels have solid rubber tires, it is pedalled by two firemen, sitting tandem, aud runs rapidly on good roads, while its handling aud manoeuvering are extremely simple.

The firemen having the one in charge at Gruenewald, a subnrb of Berlin, recently covered a mile, made the hydrant attachment and were at work in something less than five minutes. The bicycle engine carries the following tools and implements, stowed snugly away and each held securely in place: Life saving sack, fonr water gauges, heavy woolen cloth or blanket, pickaxe, hydraulic key, staudpipe or nozzle, sftaj pipe or nozzle, spade, adjustable rope and hooked ladder, life line, leather pouch, with life saving gun and line; medicine chest, with bandages and drugs; smoke mask, with vinegar and ammonia iu bottles, 'and leather pouch, bell, lantern and sixty feet of hose, tool chest, torch. The weight of the bicycle itself and all it carries is 377 pounds, aud the price of the entire outfit is about $275. In other particulars of fire equipment also the Germans are ahead of us. In Berlin the firemen wear water jackets, with a double skin, which they are able to fill with water from the hose.

If the space between the two Iayors becomes overfilled the water escapes through a valve at the top of the helmet and flows down over the firemen like a cascade, thus doubly protecting him. The smoke helmets, also a German invention, are largely used throughout Germany, and in Austria, Holland and Italy, and are now on trial in some of our fire departments. The smoke helmets en able the wearer to breathe and to see with some degre of comfort in a smoke-laden atmosphere. Some of the newer patterns of these helmets contain a means of telephone communication leading out of the building and into the street below. CURIOUS FACTS.

The Chinese have a special god for every disease. A speck of gold weighing le3s than one-millionth part of a grain can be seen with the eye. Texas has an annual cotton crop of between three and four million bales, and only four small cotton mills. Gaust is the smallest republic as to area, which is exactly one mile. The population numbers 150.

It is situated iu the Pyrenees. Among birds the swan lives to be oldest, in extreme cases reaching 300 years; the falcon has been known to live over 162 years. A stick with which Lieutenant Pate struck Queen Victoria on the head in 1850 is to be sold at auction in London. Pate served seven years in jail for the act. There is a town in the far West named Aquarium; the Postmaster's name is Fish, the name of the Mayor is Scales, and Water street is the principal thoroughfare.

Shears no bigger than a piu is one of the exhibits of the skill of a Sheffield workman. A dozen of these shears weigh less than half a grain, or about the weight of a postage stamp. They are as perfectly made as shears of ordinary size. A window made entirely of stone has just been presented to a French cathedral. The stone is nephrite found in Siberia and so beautifully transparent that when placed as it is it catches the sun's rays, and reflects them into the interior of the cathedral.

A society for the education of cats has been organized in Pittsburg. The President of this society declares: "We feel assured that nnder onr process of culture many hidden and unsuspected good qualities in the nature of the cat will be brought to the surface." Opera originated with the Greeks; the earliest librettos were by Sophocles and schylus, snch as the Agamemnon and Antigone; a band of lyres and flutes constituted the orchestra, the dialogues were musically declatnod and tho choruses sung to the best music of the time. Newspaper In Contempt. The Massachusetts Supreme Court has recently affirmed tho judgment ol the Supreme Court in the eases the of Gazette Company of Worcester and the Telegram Newspaper Company of Worcester against the Commonwealth, in whioh the Superior Court imposed a fine of $100 each, for contempt of oonit. In a case on trial in the Superior Court at Worcester, one Loring was trying to get damages from the town of Holden for land taken for the abolition of railroad crossing.

The Gazette and the Telegram both printed an item during the trial relative to an offer said to have been made by the town ta Loring. The Supreme Court fonnd that the publication clinch matter was likely to obstruct the course of justice, and fined each newspaper-oomnany 100. THE "LUMINIFEROUS ETHER" FOUND TO BE COMPRESSED AIR. Startling Kzposare Followlue Keely'e Death Ht Motor Glcantle Fraud His laboratory a gyateut of Pipe Which Supplied tho Motive Power. At last the secret of the celebrated "Keely motor," abont which there has been so much mystery and specula-.

lion, aud into which, as it were, so many thousands of dollars have been poured, has been solved. For twenty-five years John W. Keely led many people to believe that he had discovered a new force in, nature; a force that would produce the most tremendous results in physics; that would revolutionize mechanics, and that his celebrated motor would ruji indefinitely without the aid of steam, electricity, air or gas. But now that he is dead his laboratory iu Philadelphia has beeu thoroughly ransacked by a party of scientific investigators, aud they affirm, in view of all the evidence they have gathered, that the agency Keely used in the performance of bis bewildering experiments was simply compressed air. There were many people who were disposed to criticise Keely and his pretentions, and he was attackedjfrom all sides.

But there were also many people who believed in him, and who contributed liberally to his company, "The Keely Motor Company." This money enabled Keely to live not only in very pretentions style, but also to maintain his laboratory. However, nothing of the experiments. The motor upon which he bad been at work for so many years never "moted," and discoveries made within the last few days show the whole thing was a fraud so much of a fraud, in fact, that Mr. Keely will go down in history as one of the most success ful and monumental humbugs of the S. There were quite a number of machines and contrivances in Keely's laboratory, bnt the two that mystified people most were tne motor and tne lever macnine.

Keely claimed in 138 that it was moved by vaporio tension. Later he said the force was conveyed to it by wires, and was purely vibrating. But the discovery of tubing in the dismantled laboratory proves quite conclusively that the force which moved the lever and enabled it to lift enormous weights was compressed air from the steel sphere unearthed under the flooring of the first story of the laboratory. With regard to the Keely engine or motor the motor that never "moted," but was always going to do so Keely called it a rotary etherio engine. He also called it a harmonic engine.

The power that moved it, to quote his own words, was obtained from "interatomic air, or, rather, luminiferous ether." He claimed he had this power under complete control; that it was greater iu force by five or six times thau gunpowder, and that he could so increase the power, "by multiplied concentration," that in eight seconds he could produce a pressure of twenty-eight thousand pounds to the squaro inch. Tho total weight of the motor was about twenty-five thousand ds aud ft colIcction motor was about twenty-five thousand of noda water retorts, The force that started this engine and kept it going, Mr. Keely claimed, was the etheric force he had discovered, but tho discoveries made in his former laboratory would indicate that the force was the compressed air stored in the big steel sphere. Any- how, this wonderful bitof mechanism, destined to revolutionize all methods of propelling machinery, never left Keely's shop and was never put to a practical test. Whenever Keely gave an exhibition of it he poured about 1.

lr i 1 water into a pinna arnnrl pipe con nected with one of the retorts. Then he struck various parts of the machine with a violin bow and this was fol- lowed by the tightening and looscn- ing of bolts and screws. Then the machine began to operate and the be- holders marvelled. Tbey will prob- ably realize now that the'half glass of water released the compressed air in the big steel sphere and that it was compressed air that ran the motor and not any etheric force. Mr.

Keely's laboratory is a ramshackle sort of builriiug. The first floor is divided into three compartments. The first is fairly well lighted and shows that the floor con- tnius several traps. It was under the flooring of this compartment that the big steel sphere was unearthed several days ago. The second compartment, which is dark and very dimly lighted, also contains some traps.

The rear room is said to be a private room, and contains one trap. The upper floor of tho laboratory is the mysterious chamber in which the "motor" mysteries were performed. This floor is di vided into three compartments. In is an office, next to that an exhibition room, aud behind that tho room that is called the main exhibition room. The floor is full of traps.

It was here that Mr. Keely gave his exhibitions of the alleged wonderful powers of his motor. A peculiar feature about the exhibitions was that Mr. Keely would never givo them except upon twenty-four hours' notice. The reason for this has been discovered, wheu investigation has shown that Mr.

Keoly required time to arrange for these experiments timo to prepare the compressed apparatus to achieve the results he claimed wero produced by his new force in nature, and which, for the want of a better name, ho called etheric force. But now that Keely is dead bis laboratory has been thoroughly ransacked by a party of scientific investigators at the instance of tho Philadelphia P. ess. They affirm, in view of all tho evidence they have gathered, tbat the ageucy Keely used in the performance of his bewildering experiments was nothing more or less than compressed air. These investigators were Professor Curl Hering, a consulting electrical engineer of wide'experi encoj Professor Arthur W.

Goodspeed, assistant professor of physics in the University of Pennsylvania, who. while a student of vibratory forces, is also one of 'the scientists who visited the Keely workshop some years ago at the request of the late Mrs. Bloom-field Moore, who was one of the most substantial finnnmal hano-ura of rtaalv? Professor Lightner Witmer. professor A WONDERFUL ABYSSINIAN STRUCTURE. vines over the Omo River in Abyssinia.

In most parts of Africa bridges are undreamed of; big rivers are crossed by rafts and little ones forded. But in the mountains of Abyssinia the torrents, that pour down to joit the Nile are not so lightly stemmed. Over one of these the Abyssinians.who have something like a settled country and stable government, have thrown the bridge. Unlike the Brooklyn Bridge or the Suspension Bridge of Niagara, these Abyssinian engineers had no cables, no scientific bands of steel. Instead they had only nature's growth with which to withstand nature's force.

But ingenuity succeeded in the absence of other resource. It is built upon the suspension plan, hung from big cables made of twisted creepers; from these depend the uprights bearing the floor supports. The roadway is very narrow, for no one ever travels across the hills except with caravans of porters bearing trade goods. The skill with which the bridge is built is something marvelous. The Bonvalot de Bonchamps party set out from Djiboutti, on the Red Sea, and traveled across the Somali desert and the Abyssinian hills to join Marohand at Fashoda, which he reached from the west coast.

Thus they planned to throw a strip of French soil right across the Dark Continent It reached the head waters of the Sobat and went boating merrily down the river; but meanwhile the British gunboats reached the junction of the Sobat with the White Nile and the expedition is now toiling back to Djibouti. The road going out is a good deal longer than it was going in, Canada's Famout Horsewoman. Miss Elsie Jones, of Brockville, Canada, is noted as being the only lady in Canada who ever personally superintended the training of a horse for racing. Miss Jones is a magnificent horsewoman, a member of the Montreal Hunt Club and knows more of a horse's points than most men. Over three years ago Miss Jones came into possession of a young thorougbred colt, sired by Wickham, dam Fanny Carter.

She thought the colt showed promise and undertook to train it for racing. How well she succeeded is shown by the fact that when the colt Wickler was two years old he weighed 950 pounds and stood 15.2, color of glossy, golden chestnut. When he was eighteen months old he was put in training, and in a month's time he worked one-quarter in 0.24, one-half in 0.53 no whip or spur used. Miss Jones's splendid riding is so widely known that she was asked to ride one of the horses exhibited at the horse show by a New York man. She is a slight, fine-looking girl, with a pretty figure and clear, well-cut features.

Her admirable management of her horse attraoted much attention at the horse show. She is the daughter of Mrs. M. Jones, who owns one of the best herds of Jersey cattle iu Canada, and who in her youth was one of the best horsewomen in the country. The Mechanical Housemaid.

A machine called "the mechanical housemaid" was patented a few years ago. The apparatus churns butter, washes and irons clothes, rocks the baby, and, in fact, performs almost all the rest of the household tasks except plain and fancy automatic sewing. The patentee, in his specifications, describes the operation of the machine at great length. "You place your baby, in the cradle," he says, in effect; "your cream in the churn, your clothes to be washed in the receptacle provid-ded therefor, etc and the rest is the merest tnrni a magical crank. Milwaukee had 2578 manufacturing establishments in 1898, employing 56,297 persons and having an output valued at $141,000,000.

The latest available statistics 'for 1896) place our annuat production of petroleum at 60,960,361 barrels. MISS ELSIE JOKES. greatest philosopher, Count Tolstoi, money should be regarded as the per-that the Russian authorities permitted sonal property of her heirs. This led these people to leave their native to a split among the Doukhobors, who land. This fearless mau of peace, numbered about 20,000 at that time.

in the country of their adoption, and in the United States also, a "Tolstoi Fund" has been raised with the same object. The man they look np 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, having been exiled by Nicholas I. to the Caucasus, had settled on the lands allotted to them, bleak as those- lands were.

Conscription had not as yet been introduced into the Caucasus to trouble them, and they waxed fat, forgot to obey the precepts of their fathers, smoked, drank strong drink, ate meat, accumulated private property, discussed their religion as a matter of intellectual interest, and eased their consciences by being very "charitable." They founded a "Wid ows' House, for the aged, the or phans, or such as by any misfortune were in want. Their "Widows' House" accumulated a capital of some 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 been regarded as their leader for many years, and in whose hands the disposal of these charity funds had rested, the courts of justice decided that the A considerable majority of them regarded Peter Yerigin as the new leader. His conduct at this trying time appears to bare been remarkable. Me refused advantageous tiers made to him, and himself energetically to work tn rnvive the old faith and the old custom of tho 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 on the strict doctrine of non-resistance. The Government felt that Pter Yerigin had better be removed, especially as the conscription was then boiog introduced into the Caucasus. He was therefore, about twelve yean and day had already dawned, when two Cossack regiments arrived upon the scene and were ordered to charge the Doukhobors.

The Cossacks charged at them but seeing a crowd of unarmed end unresisting peasants, they instinctively stopped when close upou them, and only when the order to attack had been repeated did they again advance and begin to flog men aud women indiscriminately with their whips. They struck right and left, cutting the heads and faces of the people; aud when the lashes of the.r whins vam wparinir nut nrrtnfa vam given to attach fresh lashes to the whips, and the flogging recommeuced. Few stranger scenes are recorded in history. Here were some thousands of people bent on carrying out the dictates of their religion, which was the Christian religion professed by their Government. Aud here were two regiments of Cossacks cruelly (though in some cases reluctantly) beating men and women, till clothes and ground were stained with blood, aud their psalms were turned into ories for mercy and into groaus of pain.

Whv thm vu nnfiA nnhMv imitib to know. No one was tried for it. aud no one was punished for it, nor has any apology or explanation ever been offered to the Doukhobors. The authorities in St. Petersburg depend for their information on the local authorities who committed this blunder or perpetrated this crime.

The newspapers have strict instructions not to make any reference to such matters; and threo friends of Leo Tolstoi's, Vladimir Tchertkoff, Paul Birnkoff, and Ivan Tregonboff, who went to St. Petersburg with a carefully worded statement of what had occurred, and 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, bnt on those who had suffered it unresistingly. Cossacks were quartered on their village, and there outraged women and stole property. Four thousaud people had to abandon their homes, selltheir well-cultivated lands at a few days' notice, and bo scattered in banishment to unhealthy districts, where about 1000 of them perished in three years of want, uincuau, in iii-ircuiiuieui.

King Ciiro'a Palace. Tho old world is to be given a good idea at lie Pans Exhibition of what Americau corn is. A corn palace will be built showing a tremendous car of com rising tower fashion from its front, and this palace it is proposed to have a earn kitohen and restaurant, in whiob aorn bread, oorn padding, corn fritters, corn dodgers, Johnny eake, eaoeoUsh and all other forms of thin vegetable will be served. A BUrtPIWO FOB TUB PABIS I i i i i i i Cicero Was a Famous Punster. When Cicero was in his prime it was the fashion to credit him with almost every joke in circulation.

But this did not quite please him. While he was on a military expedition to Asia, he wrote home to a friend that all sorts of wretched puns were passed off in bis name, because he was absent and could not defend himself. Julius Caesar thought so highly of Cicero's smart sayings that he made a large collection of them. Of course they lose a great deal in translation, and witticisms that haye to be explained never seem to amount to muoh. However, you shall hear one or two.

There was a Senator who hated to be reminded that his father had been a cook. Cicero pretended to compliment him on his knowledge of law, bnt used words that had a double significance, and sounded as if he was praising a cook for his gravV. Another Senator was equally ashamed of being the son of a tailor, Cicero congratulated him on his sharpness in a point of argument, and said, "Yon have touohed the thing with a needle." I am happy to say that he oonld rise above puns, when he saw an opportunity, and his sharp thrusts of raillery were as much dreaded as his powerful oratory. When the rich Crassus was close upon sixty years he remarked in a public speech that none of his family had ever passed that age. Cicero declared that the statement was made to gain popularity, because nothing could please the oitizens more than to hear from Cras-bus himself that he was near his end.

St. Nioholas Magazine. Intimidating Roughs. "Once, when 'Long John' Went-worth was Mayor of Chicago," says the Journal, of that city, "a hot campaign was in progress. The rough element was showing signs of turbulence, and 'Long John knew that the police force was totally nnable to cone with it if there' should be a riot.

There wasn't much of any police force in those days. The few officers that there were didn't have any uniform outside of a plug bat On the front of this was a semi-circle of tin, with the man's number on it. There was no money to pay for additional officers, so 'Long John' bethought himself of a bright scheme. He had a figure '0' added to the number on every one of those hats. On Eleotion Day the different members of the force where stationed con spicuously wnere tne trouble ws most likely to break out.

The rough saw the numbers, '350 where they had before seen on 25 '35. The word around that 'Long John' had adds several hundred men to the poire foree. and thetoutrh crowd were so ii timidated that they never dared to a thing. Found a Heated Cavern. A natural cave has been opened by miners at work on the property of Gift and Weatherman, in Colorado, which gives promise of proving a great natural wonder.

They were running a tunnel and suddenly broke into a cave filled with hot air. Going further they fonnd that they had opened info cavern eighty feet in length. Thefe was on opening from this into another cavern and their investigations revealed zo less than five of these rooms, aggregating 500 feet in length and varyiug from a few feet to fifty feet in width. They are reported to be filled with beautiful stalactites and" stalagmites and other forms of brilliant eolor. DOVKHOBOB CHILDREN KOW IK CANADA.

whose banishment the Government 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 land. Count Tolstoi is one of the mightiest individual forces in Russia to-day, and though he dresses in the garb of a peasant and lives upon his farm engaged in the peaceful pursuit of tilling the soil, the Russian Government fears his power more than that of any other man. The Doukhobors believe in the precepts, "Resist uot him that is evil," lint "lore your enemies;" and they believe in overcoming evil with good. Taey refuse to enter the Bussian army, believing that it. is wrong to prepare to kill men, and the question,.