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T«totoy Muet Have Made His PHnter'a Life a Burden.
When "Anna Kareniaa" began to epOM out in Ui« monthly Uusski Vjr^t- ¦Ik, writea Count Ilya Tolstoy in tilai "Bcmiuisoenees ut Tolstoy.", long gal- Icy proofs were posted 'to my father •ad be looked them through and cor¬ rected them.
At first he would mark the margins with the ordinary t^liogniphlcal signs. Utters umltLetl, marks of punctuation and so on; then he would change in¬ dividual woi'dii, aud then whole seu- tCBpctl That would l>« followed by eraiores aud addltlonx uuUI the proof abeets t)ecaiiiH a mass of patches that waa perfectly black In places. It was impossible to seud Uiem back as tliey itood, iKK-ayse no one except my mother could m»k<* bead or ..Jail of the tangle of Flgns, tfnu.>«po»»ltlons and erii.sure«. My mother wouid sit up all ulght copy ing the whole thing out iifresh.
Id tlie mori.iiJK the ijages lay on her table, ueutJy piled together, and cover ed with hei- liiie. clear hand Writing. Everything wi.uld be reiuly so that
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when Ljrovotchlia came down he could send the proof sheets off by post My father would carry them to bis atndy to hare "oue last look," and by even¬ ing the sheets were alt written over and messed up once more.
•iJonya, my dear, I am'Vei^ sorry, but, I've spoilt all your work again; I promise I won't do It any more," he would say. showing her the passages he h*d inked over, with a guilty air. "We'll send them off tomorrow with¬ out fall." But that tomorrow was often put [Off for weeks, or even for months.
"There's Jut«t one bit I want to look through again," my father would say. but he would get wrrled away and re¬ write it all afresh. There were even occasions when, after be had posted the proofs, my father corrected them by telegraph the next day.
Several times. In consequence of these corre<-tlon8. the printing of the novel in the Russkl Vyestnlk was inter¬ rupted, and sometimes It did not come out for m(uithH together.
Old HIekory.
The fifth grade class in histtvy sto¬ ries had been studying about Andrew Jackson, from his lx)yhood up. EMnally the day came for them to write all they had learned of this great man. Bert».a' bright little fellow of nine years, i^te among other Interesting things:
"Andrew Jack.vui was called 'Old Hickory' beoauHe when he was a boy he was a little tough."—New York Trib-
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Department of Agriculture In At¬ tempting to Bettor Thoir Opportuni- tiaa Will Issue Spoclal Instructions. Lottars From 2^41 Women on the Farm Say They Are Ovorworkod.
Washington.—A picture of farm life In the United Statas which has nevpr been e<iualed and iierhaps never will be, because It Is told lu the testimony of thousands of farmers' wives, is con¬ tained lu a document which has taken the department of agriculture a year and a half to prepare, and which is now only Just completed.
It lu an appealing, human aud in many re.specUs a pitiful story. It re¬ veals iu a vivid way the truth of a complaint that has been frequently made iu past years—that of all the factors in the rural problem the one that has t)eeu most neglected Is the farmer's wlfi'.
This was called forcilily to the atten¬ tion of the department In a letter In the summer of .luly. Ifil3. Secretary Houston decided to find out for him¬ self. He wrote lo O.'i.OOO farmers' wives throughout the Inited States asklup them to tell him their greatest needs and what tlicy thouRht the department of aKriculture could do to help them, lie received li.li-ll replies, representing, however, the opinion of many thousand women, hecause many of the writers hud sulimlttod his luaulry to their nelslihors or women's clubs, granges or church orgMiii/.utions.
One .Michifran woman expressed her hopelessness in the following:
"The farm is run for the benefit of the f.uni ami not the family. Of what use is it fo liuy more land to raise more com to fee<l more hogs to buy more land?"
luterestiii^ extracts from other let¬ ters from north, .south, ea.st and west are as follows:
'¦.\of one farmer in 100 watches his wife to see if she Is overworking, as he does his horses."
"1 would have a law passed whereby no man should be allowed to have a farm unless he would provide for his wife as well as he does for his stock."
"The busy liou.sewlfe can get along with any old thing as long as she lives, and n fine monument at tlie grave Is enough for her."
"Gt t out a government bulletin on 'The Care of the Wives and Daugh¬ ters,' to be sent out along with the stock bulletins or poultry circulars."
"Taxes and Interest are our undoing. Put the taxes upon the rich man, the mlllionuire. the woman who wears dia¬ monds aud velvets and give us poor farmers' wives a chance to buy a "best dress' a few times In our lives."
"The farm woman is about the only IndivUliuil we know of who earns an Income and doesn't get It."
"It is not the lack of cosmetics that ages us women of the farm before our time. It la the inauition of the tread¬ mill, the life of hard, incessant labor without reward."
Some of the letters have an element of humor Oue says:
"It is the women's own fault If they are Imposed on. I get nearly every¬ thing 1 need. If I don't get It one year I kwp on until I do, and I don't think I am a very nagging woman."
Another writes:
••Invent some kind of an adjustable aluminium chain shirt so us women won't have to be always,patching."
Still another:
"We need a law to prevent a doctor from using an opiate for everything from the toothache to cancer."
Again, there are pleas for Instruc¬ tion In cooking. One letter contains the following:
•'In one home the mother put eggs to fry for supper before she put her biscuit into the oven to bake, aud fried them steadily during the entire time the biscuits were baking. The next day I saw her, while getting a quick luucji, |l;i( e a frying pan over the fire with at K-ast a pint of lard in it, and as soon as it was wann, but not all melted, breali three eggs Into It, from which she tiiKilly took them tough, leathery and altogether Indigestible."
Perhaps tlu' most general complaint i.s that the wife beuelits less than any other person, or even aniiual. on the farm, fnuu the progress made in labor saving (Um h-es and other lmi>rove- menls. .Vs one puts It: "A sheep dip, but no bathtub: a flue buggy and a poor tij'liy ciirriage."
Tile tciteis. as a whole, paint coun¬ try life in .\nierlr-a anything but the roseate hues with which it Is usually pictured. The reasons ascribed are many. but. as one farmer's wife, prob- iiltly the most pbllosophl.c of all, ex- (iresses it; "It >;eems to me, after all, it Is just according to the man we lire with."
The document of the department of sgrloulfure Is prepareil In four re ports, dealiiir: with the scx'lal and labor pconomlc. domestic and pdncntlonni i nee<ls of turm women. ^
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PE80UD IN AIR BATJLES.
Brought Down Gorman Taubo and Made Two Priaonors.
Pari*. — Another daring exploit has been added to the long list of those auccessfuily carried out by Adolpbe Pegoud. the famuna Freuch aviator, who la reporteci to hive atucked and brought down a Gorman tanbe near Bt Me^ehould while be was alone on patrol duty.
The report of the incident says that r^ben Pegoud saw the German ap¬ proaching he flew rapidly toward the hostile air craft and sent It to earth with a few well placed shots. Pegoud then landed beside the taube and took
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prisoner the <;erman pilot ;iiid observ¬ er, neither of whom was injured.
Earlier in the same day Pegoud is re¬ ported to h.'ive driven off three other German aeroplMnes, one of which had dropped nine bombs on a railroad sta¬ tion.
Pegoud, who flrst gained fame In lOl.'l as the oiiglnator of the fent of flying upside down In an aeroplane, was awarded the French military me<l- al early in March for services rendered! to the army during the war.
TERRIER'S LG;.G VIGIL
Ckiarded Basket For Twenty-foup (Hours Before Yielding.
St. l-ouis. — Ignoring all blandish¬ ments, a ,Skye*terrier guarded an em¬ pty basket for twenty-four hours at Taylor and Adams strt'i-ts, Kirkwood, until tlnall.v a boy made friends with the dog and coaxeil It to his home, to which he also took the basket.
Persons living in the neighborhood flrst ob.servetl the dog at Its vigU the ]irevions afternoon. It refused to let anybody touch the basket and could not be lursd away by tempting offers of food.
Mrs. .1. J. Wilkins carriwl food aud water to the dog and gave it a sack to lie upon. King Ambler, fourteen- year-old sou of -Vrfhur .\mbler, mude overtures to the terrier for ii long tiine before he won its contldt^nce sufficient¬ ly for it to permit him to take the bas¬ ket.
Who owns the dog and the basket could not be ascertained, and youug Ambler said he hoped the owner would not turn up.
TEACHERS ALL GET MARRIED
Superintendent of Battle Creek (Mich.) Schools Is Growing Desperate.
Battle Creek, .Mich.—William G. Co- burn, superintendent of schools, com¬ plains of the Inroads that ('upld makes on his corps of teachers. An amazing proportion of them leave each year to marry. This year nineteen teachers are wearing diamond solitaires.
Professor Coburn has made many vlslf.s to normal s( liools to fill vacan¬ cies, and he says that next year he will have to do it all over again.
Last year he warned the County clerk against issuing marriage licenses to schoolteachers under contract. Ho declared that 'i. wumnn who will break her contr.ict with the .school board would not hesitate very long about breaking .i uiiirrlage contract." •The county clerk x.uldn't see his way clear to turn down an ap[ilicnnt for a license.
Mr. Coburn has been superintendent of schoiil.s here for twenf.v years, and recently he was rc-ele«-te<l for another term.
Electric Lig^t Good Bait. Mount Vernon. 111.-Chauncey Houch- In, Fre<l Van Nada and Rex Fowler. White river ttsherineu* have Invented R plan which has been helpful to them in catching fish. They made an ar¬ rangement for^ lighting the water, which attracted huiidre<ls of fish to the place, and these cMgerly bit at the bait dropped to them on hooks. The catches were unusually large. The arrange- tocnt for lighting the water consisted of eight dry batteries, to which an •lectrlc light was attached and drop¬ ped Into the water. The wire was hearlly insulated to prevent cbargtng *he water with electricity.
PAIN ENGftAe m HEART OF O'AMAdE
Son Died In Biltie Just Before -He Lett For Dardaoeiles.
LOUIB B. BKASDEIS.
Attemoy For Gevornment Olli- ) fieiali In tiM Rigta iank C«m.
Paris.—General A. O. L. d'Amade, commander of the French expedition- arj- forces at the Dardanelles and hero of many hard fought campaigns, bas lost his youngest son, aged eighteen, who was a second lieutenant of Infan¬ try. A friend of the general has just riK-eived from him the following let¬ ter, written while he was on the way to the Dardanelles:
"Dear Sir—1 am very late In ac¬ knowledging the re<-eipt of your letter. The cause of the delay Is a great mis¬ fortune which has come upon us. 1 have lost my youngest .son, Gerard d'Amade. a second Heutenant. of eight¬ een years, who had only just been re¬ ceived nt St. Cyr In the la.'it competi¬ tion of .luly. I!n4.
"lie fell gloriously for France during a iilglit reconiioltering expedition in the Argoiine. .Mortally wcumded, he fell upon tlie very treiiclios of the ene¬ my will. Ii he h«l recelve<l Instmctioiis to reciuiiKiiter.
"Two iJernian generals who were witnesses of ,his bravery and couru.:je wrote me expressing sponianeously their ji'lmlnitirin and infoiiued me that our poor ( UiUl had been hurled neiir V—, in the great forest of .\rgoiine
•'I liave no need to tell you that It is a gr(«!it pain, but we <-otild offer to Go<l an'l ti) Krancr' notliin'.! more beau¬ tiful, liiilhitig more pure, nothing more generous. (h:ui that child. We arc proud of bini. hut iiftcr the war wn shall ninuru him nutll death
"I carry with nic in my nv'^v niissioii this pain, engraved deeply in my licurl, as ail example of courage and as a great r(>asnn to lioiie you may never know the pain that we have suffend, '
WILEY DEFENDS KISSING.
Says Women Should Bo Kissed on the
Cheek—He Was Never In Danger.
Chicago.-- Dr. llarvry \V. Wiley, imre food cxiiert. wliu Is nii .-i li'ur uruiii'i better c;ire «.f !!:o nation's tcclli, tonk U]! the c|Ueslion <if ki-!>-iim in an .id dnss befon- the t'ity club.
"Girls must have good tj'cth If they want to be kissiible." he siiid. "Haliicw should be kissed, too. but not on the mouth, and women ni.iy be safely kissed on the ¦ Iii'ck unless they nre lieautitipd with [ioIsoikhis paint or rouge.
"If ilicrc Is iiny (liiii'.;er in kissbrj." he cen'ludod. •ncihody r-ver threnleneil He."
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Anthony's Nose.
Anthr)ny's No.se, at the northwest corner of Westchester county, .\. Y.. reaches an altitiKh.' of 1.2'JS feet above the Hudson ri^'cr. The scenery from this point jii.'^t nt the enlraiice fo flic fainons HighUiiids Ikis been descrilieii as file most beautIful on the globe. This pnrli( ular ii'iint h;is lirought worldwide fume fo the noble Iludsoii. the Hhine of .\.in«'ni.i. .Miigazine of Amcricjin History.
Ceyloef'a Coeoanut Trees. The biland of Ceylon has about 66.'- 000.000 trees, yielding 1J!00.000,000 co- connat». many of which are used local¬ ly for food and drink.
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I.,<>ave Merrick for New York, Penn¬ sylvania Station. Brooklyn and Inter- m«MllAtn stationii. weok-daya. 6.It. t.i2. t.lK «.5«, I7.1R, T.3», 8.01, g.Sl, IV.tl A. M.: 12.32. 3.09. 4.17. 6.38. «.4]. ».8S, lO.tS P. M.: Sunday*. C.48. ».30 A. M.: ir04. 2.44, 4.28. 5.33. 8.08. 10.47 P. U.
Iffavo Fr«'eport for New York. Penn- (lylvania Station and Brooklyn, week¬ day*. 6.20. S.&«. «.4e. 7.00, 17.21. 17.47. 8.0&. 18.17, 8.65, 9.47, 10.17 A. M.; 1S.I7.' 3.13. 4.21. S.03, 6.43, 6.45, ».3«, 11.01 P. M.; Sunday*. 6.51. 9.24 A. M.: J3.08, 2.48. 4.32, 5.37. 6.40. 8.12. 10.51 P. *
Trains leav* Freeport for AmItTville, Babylon, Patchoftue and Intermediate station*, week-days. na4.44, 8.10, a9.32,,<. 11.5r> A. M.: si.43, Ba2.2:. 2.44. a3,M, h4.5!I. f5,2T, alB.55. ««.]9. 6.45, a7.0«v^l4. a9.u:, al0.4r I>. M.: 12.17. 3.04 ni#tlt; Sundays. 5.31. a».20 A. M.; 12.39. 237. a.t.52. 7.32. U9.02. all.14 P. M.; •1.42. night.
Train* leave New York. Pennsylvania. Station, for Freeport. Merrick and prin¬ cipal Intermediate stations, na3.38, 7.06, a8.36. 11.00 A. M.; .sal2.4H. sal.34, 2.00. aS.OO. a4.03. f4.44 except Merrick. laS.OO. a5.39. 5.54. a6.I7, 6.50, a8.ll. aD.SO. 11.30 P. M.: al.lO niKht: Sunday*, 4.30, a».24. 11.14 A. M.; 1,17. a2.5S. 6.39. aS.OH. slO.18 r. M.; a12.35 nlirhf.
aTraln* run to uabylon only
cliun* on Monday only
kStops Oil signal; runs lo .I.imaica only.
mNo Brooklyn connections.
sSalurdays only.
fKxcopt Saturday*.
ii;Nf r't liollilay.s.
tKXLV'pt .Siiiurdiiy* and holidays
Train* leave Urooklyn. Flatbuati Av.e» nu"' StRtlon. about toe same time aS those shown from N<>w Vork. pHnnityl-' lania Station. Thi* lime table subject lo chaiipe without notice.
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