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Work, Think, Love, Worship, Pray, But
"Give •Attention to Reading" Also.
Text: "Give attendance unto reati-
hig."—X. Tim. 4, 18. Paul's advice
to Timothy.
Few things are more instrective
•than the study of the intellectual me-
• thods of men who lia-ve achieved sue -
cess. For rnany days I have been
associated with a nein who is almost
4 magician in liis skill of manufac-
turing or using time. With marvel-
ous art he has so laid out his honors
as to athieve the impossible. On
Tuesday morning he works on Ins
new book. On Wednesday he works
upon his long novel or snort stories.
Thursday he gives to the writing of
verse, lyrics, odes or drama. Friday
Is always reserved fox' magazine ar-
ticle or a column in a newspaper. On
Saturday meriting lie writes the
Sunday morning sermon; Sanniday
evening he writes at a four-liour sit-
• ting the Sunday evening sermon.
On Monday he starts for the cad
sliope, the auction -rooms, tile art
.galleries. • Eight -thirty every Morning
finds him at his desk, wliere he re-
• mains for five hours, until 1.80: Then
come two hours in active exercise,
• usually out of oors. The evenings
are for lectures or public addresses.
• It isns sirenuoue piograanine, but by
adhering to it be has achieved some:
sixteen volumes, essays, poems, nov-
els, lectures, sermons and studies -of
English literature. It is a marvelous
record. His career cannot be • ex-
plained by saying "the man is a
genius. He has unusual gifts." He
insists that he would,never have ac-
complished any more than other keen
if he liati use'd , •
OT.eiER MEN'S METHODS.
"Give attention unto reading."
Never were the books so many and
so inviting, but never were men so
tired when night cones. • Many an
overworked man e,xclairns, "Once 1,
too, read boons. But not now."
Many a man, also, early in life finds
lie is losing his intellectual spring,
and tla'at the creative toueli is going.
Is there no mental law of therapeu-
tics? Strangely enough, there is.
Could' these tired men rest themselves
by reading? Beyond all doubt; and
gain culture and growth while doing
it. The musician knows that pounn-
leg the some string will scion wear
the cliord out. Athletes now that
the use of tlie same nanscle brings
speedy tire. Artists rest the jaded
sense by changing from blue to gold
and crimson to purple. Even the bi-
cycler has discovered that he rests
soonest, not by sitting quietly, but
by such a use of the arms as to
throw the blood out of the legs. Tins
law is intellectual also. The mind is
not divided into compartments, nev-
ertheless the intellect seems to Inn
different parte-of the brain. Consider
the habits of nay friend. One day
furnishes the momentum for the next
one; that is the secret of Ins entire
career. So we find this man at 50
years of age as grown even strong-
er., liealthier and happier.
And there are multitudes of young
men whe need above all things else
to study the law of mental rest
through mental work. By mastering
It thee would 'double the r intellee-
tual output and recover
THE CREATIVE TOUCH.
But if the change of one's thought
by reading and writing brings rest,
it also secures mental fertility and
productiveness. In the realm of
the fields everything depends on fer-
tilization. Here aro the clover fields,
with red and white, Here are tho
apple orchards on widely separated
hills. But here, too, aro the honey
bees that flit from field to field and
orchard to orchard, parrying pollen,
and fertilizing bough and branch.
And thoughts must speed from the
field of poetry to that of fiction;
from notion. to history, to politics;
from biography to religion, for so
the intellect is fertilized and the im-
agination fed. For that reason Mr.
Gladstone kept three desks—at one
desk he worked on politics, statistio
proposed laws. .At another desk he
worked on his literary task, the
Greek or Latin, poet, while religious
books were piled on the third: The one
subject helped the other. 1VIMA lie
found something in literature that
started his mind going on politics,
once the flame was fully kindled, he
turned to the -new theme at the next
desk. What freshness, therefore, in
his articles!'• Wliat 'variety in hin
thinking! Staleness is impossible to
a raan with such a method. Here is
the secret of intellectual fertility,.
The mind works in two states.
First of all it is quiet, passive and
receptive. • Then the intellect is like
the candle that is unlighted; light is
there, only it is latent. In another
Mood the intellect is fully kindled.
Some event, some crisis of sorrow or
joy, a great oration or song or ser-
mon or drama has kindled the flame,
and the mind glows hour *after hour,
' EMITTING SPARICS.
13yron understood the law. Horead
• until he found a thought that would
rouse his creative power, and then
he would seize his pen and write.
Ruskin knew the law, and used to
send his servant out to bring a
golden bough for his table to kindle
his raind while he was writing on
trees and leaves. The bodk was the
match that kindled the candle and
released its flame. Some books give
the information, are treasure -houses
of ideas; their authors have distilled
fon ns the very essence of their gen-
ius, their thoughts, their ambitions,
their aspirations, their dreanas, their
passions and their victories. Many
a tired youtb flings himself down at
night to rest in soddenness, when
what he needs is to read. Are you
depressed? Read books of mirth
and laughter. Are you peeking ,ithe
path to success? Read the biograp-
hies of the great. Are you content-
ed, having lost ambition? Open to
the story of the inventors, the mer-
chants, the statesmen, the heroes.
Are you pessimistic and miserable
and conscious of your sin? Read
the story of that Divine Teacher
who dwelt in Bethlehem and who
journeyed over the continents and
the centuries like an advancing sum-
mer that carries beauty and bounty
in its wings. Work, think, love,
worship, pray, but "give attention
to reading" •also.
THE SUNDAY S0110014
• FOURTH QUARTERLY REVIEW,
DEC. 18,
Golden Text: Thou Shalt Worship
the Lord. Thy God, and Him
only shalt thou serve.
Luke 4. 8.
• FOR SENIOR SCHOLARS.
As an Introduction to the review
exercise which follows, the "Pre-
• view" for the Quarter, preceding the
first lesson, may be referred to, and
In addition the - following questions
answered: What is the general topic
• ef study for the Qularter? Approxi-
mately how many years of Jewish
history 'do the lessons Over? With
whose reign in Israel do they begin?
What lesson is of necessity ()mitten
from the review?
In Lesson I., Elisha Succeeds Eli-
jah, Elitha returns from beyond the
Jordan in the • spirit and power of
his great predecessor. What two
miracles are recorded in thislesson?
What wa,s the purpose of performing
them? What goodly heritage have
We as Christians? '
'er In Lesson II., The -Widow's Oil
Increased, we saw a parable enacted.
Tel the story. What lessons did the
• miracle teach? Repeatthe Golden
Text:
nn Leseon 111., Elielin and the
Snunannalite, th'e prophet restored a
boy to life. Who was the boy's mo-
ther? Where was rillielha? VVIeo called
him? Wliat 'did he dn? What Ionians
did the miracle teach.
Lesson IV., lillislia and Nisaman,
told about the cure of a leper, Who
was the lope? What do you nnow
about leprosy? lIove was the know-
ledge of God spread by this miracle?
Is sin like lep,rosy in any respect?
With Leeson V., Elislia, at Dothan,
our study • of the story of Elislia
ends. Who sent an army to Dothan
to capture Eliehan Why? How 'did
the undertaking prosper? Inbat did
this lesson teach us about "help in-
visible' '?
In Lesson VL, :Mash, the Boy
inieg, we learned how the royal line
of David was preserved by the loyal-
ty of two persons,. Tell the story.
• Hew may otir loyalty to Christ fur-
ther his kingdom/ What other fruits
may it bear?
tn Leeson VIT., Joiten llepaire the
Temple, ave learited about plane
which failed ahd a plan wIncli suc-
• ceeded, Who were the tWo leaders in
• this unilertaling? What leSsone Were
cirawn front the story in °Ur Applica-
tion?
In Lesson VIII., we studied Isaiali's
Message to Judah. What can you
tell about Isaiah's- life? What is
said about lemons unfaithfulness
and ingratituide? Vow have these af-
fected the moral life of the nation?
its internal national prosperity?
What points were made in the Appli-
cation? • •
Lesson IX., was a 'Temperance Les-
son. Isaiah warns tne drunkards of
Judah'. Against whom is the first
"woe" of his message directed? How
Was his message received? 'What
was nis reply to those who mocked
him? Give the points made in the
Application.
In Lesson X., Hezeiciali Reopens the
Temple, we learned about •another
king who was a reformer? What did
he do? Why? Give briefly the history
of the temple. What did the sacri-
fices eyaileolize?
With Lesson XL, Captivity oi the
Ten Tribes, our study of Jewish Ins -
tory closes for this year. How non
Iliad the northern kingdom now ex-
isted? Wliat was the rause of its
downfall? Had God warned tne na-
tion? Does sin anetays bring ruin to
natione?
FOR INTERMEDIATE SCAOLAAS.
Leeson L—Elislia, Succeeds Elijah.
2 Kings 2. 12-22.—What did Elisha
say when he saw Elijah taken away?
What miracle was ivrought as he re-
turned? "ow was he received at
Jericho? What effort was made to
find Elijah? - What miracle was per-
formed at Jericho? What is the peti-
tion in the Golden Text?
Lesson 11.—The Widow's Oil In-
creased. 2 Kings 4, 1-7.—What
troubles had come to the widow and
her family? What did Ensile tell
her to do? What was to be done
with the empty \Tools/ How much
oil was obtained? What was done
with it? How is the Golden. Text
i 1 us crated?
Lesson ILT.—Elisha and the Shut:t-
axmen°. ietnings n, 25-87.—Who
was the woman, and what did Elisha
know of her? Mat had just hap-
pened in her home? What did Elitha
order te be done? Hew was the
child brought to life at last? Who
is the Giver of all nie? (Golden
Text.)
Lesson IV.--Elisha and, Naanaan.
2 Kings 5. 1-14.—Who WSS Nactratin.?
What suggestion was made to cure
his disease? To wilt= was Naos-
man sent? How did he come to find
Elisha? What instruttioris were
gieren hint? Inoev was he et last in -
&Iced to obey? Who is the Great
nhysicien? (Oolclen Text.)
Lesson V,—Filiebit at Dothan. 2
Kings 6, 8e23,—What service did
Ennui render te the king of nsrael?
What was done to capture Elisha?
Vthat ineaits of defense did be bane?
)That was 'SWIM with the Syrian
army? What treatment did they
reeeive? How was the Golden Text
shown to be true?
Lesson VI.--J'oash, the Boy King,
2 Kiegs 11. 1 -16. --What did Atha,
nail do to naake herself queen? IloW
was one saved from the massacre?
"That arrangements wore afterward
made to melse him Icing? •,How was
the plan carried eut? What itteeanae
of Athaliah?
Lesson VIL—Joash Repairs the
Temple. 2 Kings 12. 4-l5.—Why was
the temple out of repair? How wen
the money for repairs collected at
first? What changes were made in
the plan? What spirit was manifest-
ed by those who did the work?
Lesson VIII.—Isia,b,'s Message to
Judah. Isa. 1. 1-9, 16-20,—Who
was Isaiah, and when did lte prop-
hesy? What accusations did God
bring against Judah? What chastise-
ments had been givens What require-
mentsare made? What promises
and Warnings are given? What mes-
sage from Gone is in the Golden
Text?
Lesson IX.—World's Temperance
Sunday. Is. 28. 1-18.—To what
people were tho words addressed?
What special sins were they practic-
ing? What destruction was threaten-
ed? What classes of people were
glen to drunkenness? What answer
was made to the exhortations 6! the
prophet? What is the safe rule and
practice in respect to ,intoxicating,
beverages?
• Lesson X.—Ilezenieth Reopens' the
Temple. 2 Chron, 29. 1S-al.—What
neglect of, -the tenaple made renova-
tion necessary?; What was done to
prepare it for services'? What offer-
ings were fent made? What were
the musical features, of the senvioe?
What offerings closed the exercises.
What trustworthy promise is in the
Golden Text?
Lesson XL—Captivity of the Ten
Tribes. 2 Kings 17., 6-18.—How was
Samaria captured? What was done
with the people? What causes are
given for the destruction of the na-
tion? What warnings had been re-
jected? What abominable forms of
heathenism were practiced by the
Israelities? What eternal truth is
given in the Golden Text?
4
PUN WITH FIGURES.
Frenchman Disports With Sinister
Statistics.
borne people console themselves for
everything and find an argument to
keep others from worrying. Every
on has read the account of the
slaughter in Manchuria. The losses
of the Russians in the eight days'
battle south of •Alukden are estimat-
ed at about 45,000 men. Add the
loss of the Jape, approximately—for
they have not yet been reported—
and you find a tall total.
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TOM WREeT AND HTS WIFE JENNY
feLehilenirebelrenpawttaiSngrnaitkingsnitinup whitellr
her bill, and murmuring gurgling lit-
tle love -songs to herself, Jenny was
a good housekeeper, and Unit every -
'Mug scrupulonsly clean and neat
about the sill -beam on the inner side
of which her nest was placed, No
untidy bit of feather or straw was an
lowed to remain on the premises, and
so careful and insistent bad she been
in this respect that even Tom Wren
had become almost as neat and me-
thodical as his wife. But he was not
unhappy about it. One of nis daily
love -songs, in which the notes rippled
ad tutable'd over each other like a
nainantre cascade bubbling and spark-
ling in the spring sunshine, would
nave been a revelation to the most
skeptical of hen-pecked husbands, and
perhaps have been an insight of a
heaven lie was perversely consenting
to be barred from.
No, Jenny was not a shrew, except
perhaps away from her 'own ,home—
and that was from a dread of being
imposed on—and Tom was anything
but cowed. All day long Jenny sang
about her liousewitely duties of reno-
vating and cleaning, and 'all day
long, when not assisting her, Tom
was perched upon the railing of the
outside stairs, or perhaps on a
clothe -post, singing ecstatically to
her gad himself and the world around:
Fortunately they were both of a
mei-oriel temperament, as otherwise
the surroundings might have checked
somewhat the spontaneity of their
eongs. The kitchen door • was not six
feet away front the nest, and the
outside stairs, still nearer, was the
common entrance of the family and
the house -animals. 'Usually there was
a cat upon the stairs, and frequently
two or three clogs bounding up or
down, and many, many' times a Slay
some members of the family, young
or old, were stamping or talking nois-
ily on the stairs or piazza. The nest
was out of sight, and so placed on
the sill that no cat could jump to it
but tevseyry time the Wrens went in or
eut li
had to fly down from the
beam and across the stairs.
They were not at all timid. An
odd fact was that they considered
themselves the owners, and all the
others the intruders. In scolding and
ordering them off Jenny became the
shrew. and Tom the loud, harsh -voiced
wrangler. The cats and dogs especi-
ally called out this side of their na-
tures. At sight of a cat Jenny would
work herself into a perfect frenzy of
passion, and with tail erect and eyes
Lashing she would our forth a tirade
of vituperation that was endurable
During the eight months since the only because it was in bird -language
commencement of hostilities, the On such occasions Tom added his
losses on both sides must have been loud, incessant sconding to the • up -
200,000 men. But that amounts to roar; which was not lessened by the
nothing, or so little that the thing
is not worth speaking of. The aver-
age life of a man is 89 years on all
points of the globe, and a man dies
at the rate of one a second or a lit-
tle over. Now the Russo-Japanese
war has lasted eight •months, and
during these eight months in all the
known -world we find that the deaths
are 60 a minute, 3600 an hour, 86,-
400 a day and 2,592,000 a month.
Therefore, for eight months, the
deaths foot up a.total of 20,786,-
000. Now what do 200,000 men
killed in Manchuria in eight months
amount to compared with the 20,-
786,000 who have died during the
same period? The proportion is 1
per cent. It is just as if somebody
discovered that in a town in which
the mortality is usually 150 a week
there died last week 152.
The philosophers who reason in
this way leave little room for an
answer. - Statistics are admirably
made for closing people's mouths.
The fortune of France is estimated
at about 400 milliards, and its pop-
ulation is about 88,000,000. Conse-
quently each one of us is the happy
possesser of about 10,500 francs.
Nine out of ten will be very much
surprised at the good news; and
some may ask you to be good
enough to mention the name of your
madhouse.
THEY WERE MARRIED.
"Put yourself in my place, young
man. Would you want your only
daughter n" to marry a penniless
youth?"
"Put yourself in nay place, sir.
Would you want to remain a penni-
less youth, when there were rich
men's datighters to marry?"
"You confess that you'd marry my
child simply liecause of her father's
wealth?"
nAnd you confess that you with-
hold her from me simply because of
my: poverty?"
'Wliat other reason could I have?"
"Wliat other reason could influence
nTnie talk is quite useless!"
ofluite."
"We nave nothing to gain by It."
e
".Absolutely nothing."
"You take , it plailosninibeally
enough."
"Why sncreldn't I? Your &eight&
and I were married a month ago."
FIRING Onn FRIENDS.
That fright or panic bane been re-
sponSible for many ill-considered
acts is a, fact which Must be taken
into consideration. In the Spat -lien -
American War, for instance, a regi-
xnent of Americans found themselves
fired open frantically by the Cunaris
they lead collie to help, 'end all I:te-
al/1500 forsooth, a Cu -bad sentry had
been frigliteeed by a straying liorse.
--Pearson's Weekly.
11/.••••••••••••
Great Britain consumes more but-
ter than any Other manila The aver-
age per lined is thirteen pounds
year, as against eight pounds in
Cermany, four Tenants in Frame, aid
nwe Prete:de In Minato,
fact that the cat was in the habit
of moving stealthily toward , tnem
with her tail sweeping uneasily to
and fro, as though nothing would
please her better than that they
should approach near enough for a
spring.
This morning Jenny bad freed her
mind to them before the family got
up, then had scolded the various
membeis of the family for going out
and in, and finally had nearly lost
her tail -feathers in an 'effort to share
the breakfast of one of the 'dogs while
he was chasing the cat from the
yard.
Tom had left her an hour before to
get a few more feathers or some bits
of down, or even a very soft piece of
wool from a sheep's back, to, finish
the nest.
Another half-liour went by, and
then the song began to hush away
into expectancy. It was long since
time for him to return. The wool
cOuld have been found in a few min-
utes, the clown Obtained along the
river, where ferns abounded, and
even the feathers, as a last resort,
could have been snatched from the
breast of a placidly feeding lien.
The sheep were feeding in one of
the fields below, but Tom was no-
where in their vicinity. Further
down wound the river, and from there
came the voices of many sparrows in
noisy altercation. She hoped that
Tom. had not gotten into any trouble
with them. They were such quarrel-
some birds, and were in the habit of
fighting among th'emselves, or attack-
ing an outsider 'a dozen or more at a
time, without any sense of justice or
fair play. Tom would. Beet any one
or two of throe of them even though
he knew he would be beaten. But
what could lie do against a whole
flock? They would tear him to piece
es.
But Tom's voice could not be 'dis-
tinguished among the others, and
though there were many sparrows in
sight .along the river, she could not
see him among them. She was pois-
ing her wings for a search in that
direction, when there came a sudden
whirring of wings, and Tom dropped
upon the roof beside her. In his bill
were a dozen or more tiny, soft, 'de-
licately gray feathers with a brown-
ish tinge, exactly matching their own
breasts, Jennie uttered a chirp of de-
light, and caught the feathers in her
own bill. Tom had such an eye for
color and harniony. Re was a dear
fellow, anyway.
It was not until after they had re-
turned to the nest, and the feathers
had been arrahgecf for both comfort
and effect, that slie noticed Tom's
appearance. One wing was badlir
Soiled, with ith feathers rumpled: a
little spot of blood domed on his
breast, and near one eye was a fresh
sear that looked as though it had
been received in a recent pugilistic
encounter, Jenriy uttered a chirp of
pity and reproach. "Oli, Tom!" she
cried; "what in the world have you
been UP to?"
Toni looked diSeoncertect "It's no-
thing worth reentiening," he pro-
tested, ,'Jitst a lot of those mar-
tin. and Sparr0we.1
"But what did they do?" Jenny
per,e0iu,sted.well, u you must know,,,
Said Toni, desnerately, "they run me
off, The martins tliink they own that
pasture awl the sheep. I had a niee
lot of wool, and they got after me.
I wouldn't give it up until they hurt
rey wing and were pouncing on me
from all sides. After I got away irOm
them I went to the river -bank, and
gathering the finest lot of down you
ienvger SmaZ ettelialinSrprt1.°W‘011Wppa: sew•atctho-
Wink I was doing the work for
them," disgustedly, "After I got all
I could carry lie ordered ine to put it
down. Of course I wouldn't, and lie
Called a friend, and they pitched into
me. 1 fought them until about forty
others joined in, and one of them
struck me in the eye, then I got away
the beet I could. Those sparrows
think they own the whole world,
esPecially•when a lot of them get to-
gether. Well, after that I went to the
°rcanrdd''b
4Ahad beautiful suncess," com-
mended Jenny, enthusiastically.
"Oh, I don't know. Most of the
feathers were too big or too little,
or too much oil color, 1 went from
one end of the oreliarn to the other.
Though of course I found these,"
hastily.
"And
they're the finest lot we've
Sound in all our married life,'t she
cooed. "You know that. It's just
praise you're fishing for. But what's
the -snatter with you, Tom Wren?"
sundenly:, "You act as if you'd been
stetiling-nor telling n lie. Oh, I know
you. How'd rou net that blood on
your breast?"
Tom's Bills sank. -Ine could not dis-
seirible,, thounli at that moment he
longingly for some of the
sparrows' bravado, so he could -meet
her glance. As it was, Els bill sank
lower. Jenny's keen eyes read him
through with sudden comprehension.
"Tom Wren!" she cried, sharply,
"did you pull tlaose feathers from
your own breast?"
Tom tried to shake his head, but
couldn't. Tliat would have been too
much against his nature. There seem-
ed but one thing for him to do. He
flew hurriedly to the rail outside,
where he commenced to sing.
110W ABOUT IT BOYS?
Do you lift your hat when meeting
or parting from mother, sister or
other women of your acquaintance on
the street?
Does that same troublesome head
covering come off the instant you en-
ter the liouse, or when you are ac-
knowledging a favor? It should.
Do you know tlfat it is common
politeness to allow a woman to pre-
cede you wlien entering a room un-
less she requests you to go first?
Do you always remeanber to wait
for women and older people to be
seated first? -
Straight in the face—is that the
way you look at people when they
are speaking to you? Remember to
do it.
Are yoti aware that it is improper
to play with knife, fork or spoon at
the table or to gather your napkin
up in a bunch?
Jot these pointers down in your
nainds, boys. They are the little things
that make for good breeding and
ease in society of others_
ANGLOPHOBIA IN RUSSIA
Icraw, tbct Moscow eection in per**
Jar. On the ether hand, there 1.0 no
trace of' it at all in the inner court
circlaas epart from the grand dneal
circle, nor yet in the ministerial. The
middle clasees, what there aini ot
them, are always more er less pro-,
Englisb, and so are the overwhelm-
ing majority of the literory nese.
As for the people, the masses as
apart from the classes, ouch of then%
as are townworkers, factory hands
egidridatdhaneirlaikteiOnhavfeorthe EnrnasZnelt un, btlionuilltkds-
in a great raeaeure to the fact tlia,t
revolutionary prolsogenelistn for their
own purposes, always depict her as cie
sort of working men's paradise. The
peasants cannot fairly be saW tie
be either for or against us, seeing
-
that the overwlielming majority of
them do not know that we exist. Ales
a point of fact, if a censua could be
taken, it would undoubtedly be found
that for every Anglophobe among
the czar's subjecte there are several
Anglophiles. And this is the more
remarkable, as for years 'tient every-
thing that could be done has been
done to promote the spread of An-
glophobia in Russia.
• THE HATER'S REASONS.
Even in linssian circles where
England is most hated, says The
London World, there is nothing in-
stinctive in tlie feeling against her,
the !haters have or think they have•
good reason for hating her. Tf Rus-
sian soldiers and sailors, with the
Grand Duke Alexis and the Grand
Duke Alexander at their head, are
violently -anti -English at the , present
moment, it is beemike the3r are con-
vinced that thie disastrous wan in
which they are new engaged is en-
tirely our handiwork—that we•protnp-
ted the Japanese to attaek them, and
are now actually fleeting against
them secretly, side by side with their,
open foe, They are firmly convinced,
too, thanks in a great measure to
their German news -purveyors, that
we are quite wild with delight with
the anisfortunes that have befallen
them in this war, and that we rend
the very firmament with our rejoic-
ings and our shouts of triumph every
time we Hear they are defeated. Even
before this struggle began they had,
of course, their grievances against
us, owing to the part we played in
1878 in robbing them, as tney celled
it, of the fruits of their war with
Turkey. Were it not for England,
the Russian flag would be flying over
Constantinople to -day; this is . a
point concerning winch they have '
never a doubt, nor yet has any Pan -
slave This fact accounts surely for
any enmity Russian soldiers, sailors
or Panslavs may cherish against the
English nation.
ItHASON OF IT ALL.
Tlima M. Pobindonostzeff and his
followers nave also goon reason for
their lAnglophobia. In their eyes,
England is the pexsonifioation of con-
stitutionalism, religious toleration,
freedom of the press and everything,
else that their souls most abhor; just,
as, in the eyes of the bureaucrats, she
Is the personification of everything
that entails on them trouble, an-
noyance and anxiety. The one party -
regards her as a .danger to Russia,
morally and spiritually; the other, as
donostezeff's complaint.
sians," is the burden of M. Pobie-
a danger socially and poli,trEicavIelr3r.
yi
"English ideas are nelson to Rus -
Russian who falls under their in-
fluence is 'demoralized." nEnglisli
ideas are poison for Russians," offi-
cialdom cries, day in, nay out.
"Every Russian who falls under thein
influence straightway begins to dream
of a constitution and to plot against
the state." This being the case, it
is, of course, the most natural thing
in the world that the clergy and the
officials should unite in fighting)
tooth and nail against the spread
of English ideas in Russia. And the
way they fight is by trying to excite!
hatred of England, trying to stir
up against her national ill -feeling.
'This is their regular plan of cam-
paign; and, while carrying it out,
they can always count on the condiat
easpport of the army, the navy and
the whole Pan -Slav section of soci-
ety. The anti -English propoganda in
no new thing in Russia; it wee starti
ed years agoe and was already in
full swing in the black famine year:
Of this we have proof; for, whent
plague followed the famine, men were.
found going • about among the peas-
ants, telling them, that it was all the
fault of the money sent through the
English relief fund. The Englisbl
Queen was jealous of the czar because
he had more subjects than she had,
these emissaries declared. She had,
therefore, preten'ded to be sorry when
she beard that his crops had failede
and had sent money to buy corn foz
the poor. This money, however, she
had smeared with poison before she
sent it, that it minht infect the Run-
sians ivitli the "'plague and cause
them to, die, so that she I:nig-tit have;
more people than the czar had. From;
that day to this, this story arid
many more of the same kind have
been deliberately sprea-d abrea-dt
aan.ong the uneducated clasees lia:
Russia. Yet, in spite of it al], there
is infinitely less Anglophobia in Rus-
sia, than there is in Germa,ner—strong
proof, surely, Wet between the Rus-
sian nation and. the English there
must be much -innate friendly sympa-
thy.
BRITAIN HELD RESPONSII3Li
FOR THE WAR.
Seed Was Sown and Cultivated by
GGerman Press and
Statesmen.
• For months past "Anglophobia in
Russia" has been a favorite subject
of discussion wherever Germans do
congregate. There is nardly a jour-
nalist in the Vaterland but has pub-
lished articles dealing with the when
and wherefores of the blind, instinc-
tive hatred which, according to him,
Russians of every class entertain for
England and all things English.
Some few Germane, just one here and
there, have bemoaned aloud this Rus-
sian Anglophobia as a real misfor-
tune for the whole world, because a
source of danger to the peace of
Europe. On the other lian,d, the
overwhelming majority of them have
rejoiced at it, and still continue to
rejoice, nolding that it is a, source
of weakness alike to Russia and to
England, and therefore a source of
strength to Germany. Vie one pa.rty
however, seems to take it for grant-
ed, equally with tlie other, that the
national antipathy does really exist;
and that it is a political factor that
must be reckoned with. As for the
'German government, they no not take
for granted—in public, at any rate --
that it does exist, but they go out
of their way sometimes to draw at-
tention to itsnexistence. This is a
signincant fact, one whith it be-
hoves English folk to bear well in
mind just now; for the kaiser's min-
isters know well whether their laiensa
ler fellow -countrymen know or not,
that there is no blind, instinctive
hatred ol England in Russia: that
wblat lietren of her exists there is the
result of much careful sowing of
ions, much cannel watering and
tending. These ministers know, too,
just as BIC:meanie himself knew years
ago, diet the only nation for avhini
the Russians', as a. nation, entertain
instinctive liatred iS the German.
IN CERTAIN CIRCLES.
That Anglophobia is tamp:int, in
tertain circles in Russia it Would be
absurd, oe eourse, to deny—it is to
be met with at every turn just now.
IA naval and enilitary circles, especi-
ally the elven where the influence of
the Grand Dune Alexie is paramount,
the feeling against England is un-
doubtedly running high, as well as in
various circles where M. robin:foto-
steal reigns suerente—where lie Is
regarded as a saint, a, patron and o.
far-sighted statesiman, tier- only
statesman Russia lute Who under-
stankis what the really teetacts nt io
running high, too, although not
much higher perhaps than usual,
banoeg cantle sections of the lattrealle
NEW Biunsfa SUBMARINE.
The latest British submarine bas
been launched with great searecy at
the Barrow works of Messrs. Vickera
Sons, and Maxim. Miss Cavenclislie
daughter of Mr, Victor Cavendish,
M.P., performed the simple ceremon
Little is knoevri about the new craf
neve that it will have greater speed'
and diving power than its predeces-
sors. :It will be called B1, and has
an additionel length of fifty feet
and girth of twenty feet compared
with submarine Ala
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