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LIFE IN RURAL RUSSIA.

FORMER LANDOWNERS.

EXPERIENCHS.

The following is taken from a letter written by a former Russian landowner who is now leading the life of a peasant with his father and brother on a aflotinent fortning part of the family estatal:---

I would like to describe to you in detail our life aurt occupations, so as to give you an idea of how so many educates and cultured pople live in Russia nowadays.

As you know, when the Bevolution cane, my father, my three brothers, and I managed to receive the permission of the invertoont to stay in the constry upon our estate (although it is not ours any more). We were given a standard allotment from our former land on condition that we worked it ourselves, and we settled down to the cave life.

Of work there was plenty and at first, it was lund to give up old habits and tastes and to live like peasants; besides our little piece of land, through our want of skill, set in the lxginning to yield roough to make loth ends mees Gradually, howover, we began to get accustomed to the new Taleur and things began to improve

Work is distributed in this way. Father is our shepherd. Each morning he takes the Bible, a copy of Pascal, and a small pivce of bread, and goes off with the few cows, and sheep we have. He is the sower as well, so that when sowing time comes, ous of us has to take his place and mint our little herd. One of my brothers keeps house, attends to the vegetable gardens, of which we have two, teilks the cows and ¦ feels the chickens; another looks after nur two houses, and the third and myself do all the rough work in the fields.

PASSWORDS FOR DRINKS. -

ELABORATE CEREMONIAL IN NEW YORK.

A "special drinking correspondent." was recently appointed by the A York World. to investigate the effects of prohibition in the metropolis.

He discovered that New York has become a city of passwords. Without a knowledga of these a drink between meals is impossible; armed with them the business man cap slake his thirst in business hours at any one of a

of well-guarded offices,

At dinner time, of enurse, the probleın is simple. You visit a restaurant where you are known to the head waiter wat your order is promptly brought in a coffee cup or in a tumbler, according to the degree of caution in vogue at the ea tablishment. Chanipagne is served in a tall glass beside which is discreetly placed a champagne cork to certify the quality of the glass's contents.

Mr.

la business hours the found admittance anywhere depende i upun correspondent

thi "Charlies” hạ Open Sesame. of useily's, and the door opene

to the door-keeper. "A friend few doors away the ceremonial was nure A elaborate. The correspondent, after ter aring his glove from his right band, held it under his chin like a beard and observed "I'M

filics isn't it?" At another establishment he

rottenday for poni was admitted when he lifted las hat and RAR, "I've come to see about a dog Placing his foot on the rail, the drinking correspondent inquired of the attendant it he would accept Canadian money. The answer was

"Sure," and whisky produced.

PAESIDENT GLASS."

In the skyscrapers of the financial district the investigator discovered about in places where it way as good as ever it used to to it." Sandy Hook is the rendezvous of the bootleg smugglers.

A typical experience was had on the lith our of a big etice building. The correspon deat entered a door marked "Merchandise for

Inside was A Export."

secretary and two typists. The

secretary with n

smile pleasant

said, "The general is waiting for you in the board voor. The visitor went through the board room door with his guil nad found a dozen men sitting and saroking, One said, "Howdy, general and waved

This division of labour is observed until the hay harvest, when all of us, except fab-end stuff with a genuine Sandy Hook ther, have to work from dawn to dark, for we have no hired labourers, anal have to rely on ourselves to have all the hay stored away by the harvest time. Then the hardest time begins. At sunrise we are already in the fields, reaping till sunset,, with only a few minutes at midday to swallow the bread and wilk we bring with as, far nolxxiy ims time for lunch. When night comes them is not much rest either, for the pes sants let their horses loose, and we have to patrol our bells, in turns, chasing the nway. Just before dawn we go home for breakfast, and come back immediatsy after.

When all the harvest is pleated from the fields, thrashed, and stored, I usually take with me the one thrashing machine we have left, sad go to work in Villages as hired labourer. The peasants willingly give me work, and 1 pass from one village to nother till the sutrima. During this nomad life 1 usually stay with my employers, who feed me, and pay me in kind, a percentage upon the grain thrashed. To do the peasant justice I must say that they always treated me well, gave me plenty to eat, and often even kiĺlöd a chicken or ́a rabbit in my honour. Daring the first summer they also gave me a pair of hoots, as I had no foot- wear of any description.

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them towards a door marked "President- Private, observing, I think you'll find President Glass insult."

In the farther sanctum were a score of men at little tables and waiters running. about with glasses on trays.

EXPLOSIVES HIDDEN IN RAILWAY TUNNEL

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DISCOVERY BY GLASGOW POLICE

A sensational discovery was made by the Glasgow police on April 9th of argo quantity of explosives in the Halgray Tunnel on the Caledonian section of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway, which runs between Bellshaugh Junction and Kelsinside Station, in the westerd district of the One hundred and twelve pounds of gelignite cartridges and twenty-seven yards of fuse were found specially stored away about 180 yards. inside the tunnel on the up line from the junction. They had been carefully wrapped up in a piece of cloth and put into a hole sped out in the middle between the sleepers, and everything had been covered over with ashes.

in auturan, after going home with my hard-earned grain, I can afford a little rest, and am able oven to read and stily in the evening+ Bit rest in our kind of life not to be changed. As long as and is absorbed in work the whole day, and is almost dropping with fatigue when bedtime cornes, there is no time to think; but in the long autumn evenings, when the family gathers round the little oil lamp, or when one lies awake at night, not tired enough to fall asleep at once, all kinds of thoughts come to torture one. Pic

res of the past rise before one's eyes, the

The hiding-place was a very good ons for military school, the regiment, the War

those who desired to secrete the explosives, Ond involuntarily begins to drew com- parisons between the time, not so long agof view of the traffic passing through the bat exceptionally dangerous from the point when life seemed full of promise, and the

Tunnel, 13 the gel within a foot of SOUTH MANCHURIA AND CHOSE dreary, hopeless existence of to-day.

one of the rails it Lecome crisp as a Ferhaps I am morbid, but it is harder result of frost, it might easily have been ex- for me that for my brothers, for they ploded by the vibration of passing trains, HOSHIGAURA-Fincat Seaside Summer Holiday Resort in North China. Five miles were still children twelve or thirteen while the suction of a train passing through from Dairan, but connected with the city by mecisi motor and carriage road and e'ectric years old when the crush came and the tunnel might have blown the ashes away Iramway. Yamato Hotel (35 rooms) and 13 farnished bangalows in charming cliff garden they have lapted themselves more and caused part of the enclosed cloth to be Bathing, Boating, Fishing, Golf, Tennis, Billiards, Orchestra twice a week. Capital place easily to the new life. Father and they are drawn on to the rails.

quite engrossed in farming, full of schemes The authorities regard the find as signifi OGONDAI Most beautiful and select Seaside Resort in the Far East. Two miles from Port about all kinds of improvements and cant, as it was only the previous Friday that Arthur. Formerly the Summer Resort of the high Russian officers and officials. Yamato plans so as to increase the productiveness of a daring raid was made by masked and arm Estol and 20 villas and bungalows, mostly with detached servants' quarters. Excellent our land. They are happy, and I au gladed men on an explosives store at Knights Bathing, Wonderful Scenery, Historic Battlefields, Ruined and Dismantled Forts Miles foto see then so, but am often afraid. woxd Brickworks, about two miles from the charming Walks and Drives. Abandint Pionicing Facilition, Orchestra twice a week.

Who knows what the future has in

tors tunnel, when store

about 50lb. of gelignite were Best place for high-class families.

for then; and for all of us Are we to be stolen. The quantity recovered exceeds that buricul alive for the rest of our lives, away stolen from the brickworks, which leads the from civilization, without the companion-police to believe that the tunnel was used as ship of cultured men, always desperately a secret explosives store, and that the inten fighting for a mere existente?

tion was to smuggle the material over to Ireland.

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I often think how surprised you would be to see as we are now. Our life has reached the utmost limit of simplicity, but, although this common fato has reduced the peasants and ourselves to the same level, it is

only superficial. It is true that all ill-will has long ago disappeared, and no enmity exists between the peasrats and the landowners, but we still remain too different, too unlike them to be drawn together.

The peasants' lot is a hard one, too, especially this year, with such a poor harvest Many of them long for the old state of things, when there always was the Landowner to turn to in the hour of need. Now there is nobody near them who could help; so reriembering the past, they beg

their landowners to come back, promising to help them in every way, to repair the damaged country houses, and even to provide food for them.-Times,

WHAT SOCIALISM MEANS.

FORCED LABOUR AS IN RUSSIA,

At a conference of Midlands branches of the British Workere League, which was formed in 1916, to combat pacifism, Me J. H. Seddon, the chairman, said Socialist politics would mean the conscription of Labour and destruction us in Russia.

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