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Show BISON IN MONTANA services of the nearest orthodox church, neglect to open protestations BACK. of loyal devotion to the Greek Orthodox church were some of the causes Constantlne Petrovitch Pobiedonostzeff, the Son of a Peasant, and a that sufficed to plunge men and woRadical Fanatic, Exercises a Very Strong Influence O the Czar. men Into misery. Roman Catholics in Russia, too, Iron hand, All things considered, It la probable ment of Russia when he fell a victim have felt Pobiedonostzeff's of measures that there Is no other man living In all to the assassin's bombs, was driven for all the numerous the severe repression taken against the world who has caused bo much suf- Into retirement, and Pobledonostzeff Poles the last 20 years have during so Burrounded the new czar with men fering and hatred, or who has been due directly to his influence. To been powerful a foe In all fonns of modern who shared his own political opinion. Catholic is in All his life Pobledonostzeff has been be a Pole and a Roman progress as Constantlne Petrovitch an enemy to be the procurator's eyes Pobledonostzeff, the son of a peasant Inspired by two Ideals, which he has God and the czar, and he has done of 80 little does his tremendous Influence striven with the whole force of his his utmost to crush the 8,000,000 of appear on the surface that his name Iron will to realize or to bring within Roman would be scarcely remembered if It did sight of realization. One la that the Polish Catholics under foot. arrested been Catholic have priests not happen to be such a queer, formid- Slavs are chosen people, destined to on the slenderable looking affair. Yet It is not too be the ruling race of the world. The and thrown into prison Roman Catholic much to say that he comes consider- other Is that the doctrines of the est of pretexts. schools hare been broken up, and all ably nearer to being the czar of Russia Greek Orthodox church are the only of eorts obstacles put in the yay of allowable fprm of the Christian rethan Nicholas II himself. Catholic Roman worshipers. The man is of especial Interest just ligion, and as such destined to prePobledonostzeff has Just recently dominate over beall other forms of now because he Is primarily respona elaborated scheme, which has al sible for the Klshlneft massacre of lief held throughout the world. been sanctioned by the czar, and He dreams of a Russian empire that ready Jews, which. aroused such Indignation will be into force Bhortly, to per put would include the whole of the conIn the United States, and furthermore more effective secute Roman Catholics because he la the bitterest enemy that tinent of Asia, the other powers InterThis scheme consists briefly of the ly. tho United States has anywhere In the ested in the far east having been ejecta of of "Infected formation area" kind world. Whenever there has been a ed from China; the English, with their of of western made the the up part bedangerous ideas of political liberalism question of friendly five the of of and province Volhynla tween RiiHsla and her neighbor across and religious toleration, driven from Polish in which the most the raclflc, Pobiednpstzeff's weighty India, and the shah deposed to make Roman provinces Catholics reside. In this area opinion has always been thrown room for a Russian governor general every single Roman Catholic school Is against It. His notion Is that orthodox at Teheran. to be closed, the use of the Polish lanand despotic Russia would be contamMoreover, Pobledonostzeff 'b ambition is to be strictly prohibited in all inated by too close association with would not halt at the boundaries of guage state the schools, and Roman Catholics tolerant and republican America, while Asia. Russia, according to his scheme are to be prohibited from Inheriting or on the other hand America, where In of the universe, ought to swallow upl from purchasing land. These measures bis opinion anarchy reigns supreme, all the Balkan states, together with will be followed In due course by would be strengthened by the friend- Turkey and Greece thrown in as a further coercive legislation, so that ship of Russia. The hostility of the tempting morsel to give Russia a foot- the Polish Catholics are preparing to Austria, procurator of the holy synod Is a fac- hold in the Mediterranean. of extreme another undergo period tor which American statesmen who too, being a country in which the mapersecution. seek an entente with Russia always jority of the inhabitants are Slavs, is Pobledonostzeff has spared no effort will have to face. regarded by Pobledonostzeff as a to stimulate and he was Ills ruthless fanaticism has broken future Russian province. of the violent the persecuinstigator In this vast' Russian empire,, emup thousands of families, ruined countstained of tions Jews which have the less men of the noblest character, and bracing the whole of Asia and more III Alexander of both the reputation driven the best elements In Russia than half Europe, the only religion tolII. The and Nicholas the czar, present Into a cruel exile. His long life has erated would be that of the Orthodox been devoted to working evil, unre- Greek church,: under the banner of story of the sufferings of the Jews in deemed by one single act of charity or which Buddhists, Brahmins, Moslems Russia Is too well known to need repeknown but it is not so nobility. He has been the evil spirit of and heathens alike would be united, tition,Pobledonostzeff Isgenerally that the originator to dream. two czars In succession. Whenever according Pobiedonostzeff's It will be seen that Pobledonostzeff of the Russian government's antitheir belter instincts prompted them On occasions various Semitic policy. to break loose from the traditions of is a man of extraordinary vivid imhe has addressed circulars to the Cecil Rhodes a Russian Russian and Russian despotism tyran- agination of the Orthodox Greek church, ny Pobiodonostzeff has always been at but unlike most Imaginative men, he clergy attention to the necessity their His hands is narrow minded to excess, so that he calling Land to turn them back. of preventing Jews from obtaining are stained with the blood of countless regards those who do not share his or political power, by massacred Jews, knounted peasants political and religious conceptions as public influence the up . feelings of the people working and bludgeoned students and working-mendangerous elements In society, and a on one occasion he and them, against great deal of his time and energy have to the Instruction a issued general The story of the Russian pope's rise been spent in a vain attempt to crush of him the Inform to parpriesthood from the Orthodox from plebeian beginnings to the high- all dissenters mur case of of "ritual ticulars any as all est position open to a subject of the Greek church In Russia, as well ders" committed by Jews in their dis of adherents political progressive Pobiedonostof czar Is the best proof tricts, denoting thereby that he ap zeff's wonderful energy and ability. parties. His accession to the procuratorship proved the barbarous "ritual murder' His father was a poor peasant in the . , of the holy synod waa followed im- theory. province of Kharkoff, but Constantlne Those who are Intimately acquainted Petrovitch was not content to follow In mediately by a revival of the persecu- with the condition of affairs In Russia, Methof the Stundlsta, Baptists, the paternal footsteps, and worked his tion know to what extent Pobled who and In sects Protestant and other odists way to Kleff to study at the university Influence has been thrown cnostzeffs In this taken The Russia. first step The village priest In his there. on the side of violent into the scale to was a circular direction every priest catlve place aided him In taking this hold him directly reRusfirst step In his career, and the assist- of the Orthodox Greek church in for such savage outbursts of ance thus given to him laid the founda- sia containing instructions to organize sponsible of feeling as have recently tion of the fanatical devotion to the local boycotts against the adherents at Klshlneft and as been witnessed orthodox Creek church all other sects. The priests were told Interests of the have . . . a previously occurred In many r. H V m mAat the minds of the people to uo. to workan onextent wnicn nas Buuiufiuvui.j uwu other parts of Russia without getting that all sectarians prominent characteristic. The young puch the degree of publicity obtained by the man had a brilliant university career, would be regarded as persons living Klshlneft massacre. be would God and and left Kleff to study law In SL under the curse of In commercial and the Caucasian Provinces of the off from all social Petersburg, where he continued his cut Po Russian Intercourse with their neighbors. empire, where the czar has close connection with clerical circles. to a the nearly million Armenian subjects. priests Thanks partly to his exceptional bledonostzeff urged was a It Pobledonostzeff established the not or that abilities, and partly to the Influence teach their congregationsa to lous Prince Galltzln aa governor genwith do business to sin sectarian, which was exorcised In hU favor In to or even with specific Instructions to la him meet speak eral, society the Interests of orthodoxy, he was : to him. dragoon the Armenians Into becoming summoned at an early age to be proof Muscovite slaves. Plve hundred Armen was in that many result The parts fessor of law at Moscow university, still Influence lan schools were forcibly closed and where selectRussia, priestly nd a year or two later, he waa of all adherents the large sums Invested In them confis the supreme, ed to be tutor to several grand dukes reigns were shunned cated. Prince Galltzin's adralnlstra sects by Protestant the the of the Imperial family, Including fel!-In Hon was so tyrannical that the Armen a that way citizens Alextheir Czar one b) afterward became to them lans envied their brothers who were of thousands despair drove tutor as brought ander III. Hi duties were broken under Abdul Hamld's yoke. When the homes him Into contact with the reigning and ruin. Happy massacres of the Armenians occurred their from torn were czar, Alexander II, and he contrived to up. husbands from tbelf parents In Asia Minor and the Armenian fugl secure hi high favor, while gradually wives and children, the persecution: bat the erlea tlves sought to eecape from their tightening his grip on the mind and through fell on deaf Turkish assassins by fleeing across the Intellect of the future czar. He rose to of the Innocent sufferers continued Russian frontier Into the Caucasian Pobledonostzeff ears, and be privy councillor and senator. extermination the provinces. It was Pobledonostzeff who promote When Alexander II was assassinated lentlessly -bad cossacks dispatched In force to unbelievers." and Alexander III ascended the throne of the reand drive them back Into the hands of the social that boycott Finding of all the Russia. PobleJonostze! Baahl B zonks, who were thirsting for to failed excommunication reaped the harvest for which he had ligious an opportunity of torturing and mutilof destruction total czar the about new bring been carefully sowing. The them before death came as a PobiedonohUeff Protectant ating sects, the made him procurator of the holy symd welcome relief. a lecrei to czar the l sign pllM-achief persuaded nd chose him to Ik his The of the Finns, which drawn had up himself persecution he teH which advisor, so that Poblelonost c now is the and f arrest exciting righteous Indignathe the deporfatlm Ihe authorizing pp-at one strike world. Is of civilized whole tion the and directing Protestant of In Rm"U sectarians, ml church Orthodox Greek also Inwhich Pobledonostzeff action s'work, emn're. the local police officials to take the chancellor of the measures cludes the coercive against promptitude The last 20 years of RwHn hiVcrv against them with greatofficialdom workers and is the students, Russian nlsfT'-'nagainst and a was It severity. lave provel that always prompt In executing such com peasants, and against the political for RimM and for the world that AM this mauds as thoe. and the decree had pioneers of a more enlightened form of n chon t before hundroda government In Russia. But It Is not advisee rf the not long len Issued tstion. Tiklng caused who refused to re only against the heterodox in religion by Alexander of Protectants impress; on thir vav and politics that Pobiedonostzeff's were faith In their irs'lrg"'C deth. he no'np of dissent severity has born directed, for he has sin the to r ward a ! with pant etpiate th new tW-taken effective steps to suppress all Pobiedonostzeff's from rellglou and Ir.g ta'r1 of progressive thought dissent from his own supreme will the unspeakable suffering opinions by rrn. Ivr"! Melikoff, within the orthodox church. of servl terms of penal long !flhor of fh" wn'l":Vin wHn horrors Members of the orthodox church The of mines Si'.pria. In of the tw'e Alexander II had een on the point 1 who icur PoLlsdonostzeff s enaity ar of a Bible, abaet.ee front the tnr tht bftter irvern- POWER OF RUSSIA'S THRONE. -- life-lon- g .- anti-Semitis- . . anti-Semitis- anti-Jewis- h ... 1 -- I w 1 e ? n e sirdl lr pr-rres- tr-gl- ftd - , simply sent to Sousdal, an old monastery in the province of Vladimir, which he has turned into a prison for religious offenses. Prisoners there are subjected to extreme forms of solitary confinement and many of them become raving maniacs. Many of them, too, die there and are burled within the prison walls, their graves being leveled so that all traces of them are lost. The inmates of Sousdal now number about 200, and include 108 priests, 52 officers, 4 bishops, 2 princes, 2 barons. 1 count, 1 general and a shoemaker, a list of which shows Pobiedonostzeff's catholicity of hatred, for no one can be Imprisoned at Sousdal except by special order of the czar, and this order Is only given at Pobiedonostzeff's request. The most recent additions to the Sousdal prisoners were Cvietkoff, Fiedoslejeff and Kovaleff. Cvietkoff was a priest who lived as a hermit In a cave and impressed many people by his truly saintly life. This brought down Pobiedonostzeff's wrath upon his head, and he was transferred to Sous dal. Fiedoslejeff was an orthodox priest who declared that it was bad for the church to be ruled absolutely by the holy synod and demanded that a council consisting of the whole clergy should control the synod. This, of course, was rank treason, and he,: too, found his way to Sousdal. Kovaleff was incarcerated there for some equal ly trivial offense, and Kamiensky, the Is celebrated Ruthenian historian. in confinement pining away solitary because the procurator disagreed with the trend of his historical works. Pobiedonostzeff's Influence has by no means been confined to Russian domestic affairs;, on the contrary, it has been exercised in a marked degree over the foreign policy of the czar's government In accordance with his whole scheme of politics, Pobledonostzeff regards nations which have thrown off the shackles of depotlsm with suspicion and dislike. Pobledonostzeff it was who persuaded Nicholas II to give his assent to the excommunication of Tolstoi, an act which will ever be a disgrace to his name and reign. Pobledonostzeff is was who restrained the young czar's Inclination toward reform and who has always contrived to undo whatever the czar has done In the way of progress. Millions curse his name, and millions will rejoice when death removes him forever from the possibility of doing further mischief to mankind. Withal his life has been a total failure. The sects whom he sought to exterminate are growing and spreading, the doctrines he hates are being accepted by more and more Russians every year, and the great principles of tolerance and equality which he has sought to combat are unconquerable and destined to triumph. SERGIUS VOLKHOVSKY. CLEVELAND'S ONLY PROMISE. Was Made to Jay Cooke While on a Fishing Trip. Grover Cleveland was In setting the Southprompt extremely ern editor right who had printed a long Interview to the effect that Mr. Cleveland was not a candidate for pres ident The only definite statement that the has made on this Inter-subje- ct was drawn from him a week or two ago by the venerable Jay Cooke of this city. Both Mr. Cooke and Mr. Cleveland are devoted declples of Izaak Walton, and they recently met on a fishing excursion in a favorite bay on Lake Erie. They had gotten through with their sport and were returning to Sandusky, when Mr. Cooke said to Mr. Cleveland: They say that you may be a candidate for president tint year. Now. If you are elected I want you to promise me th you will do something to prevent congress from disturbing the fishing grounds of this portion of Lake Erie." "Well." said Mr. Cleveland laughing. "I will promise you. If I am eWt-eto do everything I can to the fishing up here Intact" The story leaked out on the street an ! there was a good deal of amusomnr over the manner In which the sphinx of Princeton was drawn out Philadelphia News Bureau. . Cuecess In Building Up a Herd From Small Beginnings. The University of Montana, Missoula, maintains a biological station neai Flathead lake, In the northwesters part of the state. Prof. Morton J. director of the station, describes It "A Biological Reconnoissance," pub. Ushed last year by the university, thi herd of 220 buffaloes on the Flathead Indian reservation. The herd, derived from 30 animals purchased In 1884 by Charles Allard and Michael Pablo, has In 20 years increased to more than 350, or 110 times the original number. Many of the animals have been sold to show enterprises and to eastern cities for parks and zoological gardens. The conditions here are more favorable thaa laYellowstone park for buffalo. The animals are constantly attenued by a herder and therefore are not afraid of a man, while the Yellowstone park herd Is rarely seen. The park nerd also ranges at a high altlture, over 7,000 feet, where snows are deep and winters are long and se vere; but the Flathead herd ranges at an altitude below 8.000 feet, where deep snows do not occur and hay or grain may be taken to the animals In a few hours. Their range does not excesd 70 to 100 Bquare miles, and the anlmalf might oe maintained on a much smaller range. The cows do not bear calves until they are four or five years old, and about half of them produce every year. The fertility of the herd is not decreas ing. The herder keeps note of the decrease, looks after the calves, and, in fact the animals are much more carefully attended than the range cattle among whom they graze. Prof. Elrod is of the opinion that success of thl3 the enterprlsa Ehould stimulate congress to increase its efforts to save the buffalo from extinction. An appropriation of $8,000 would buy as large a herd as Allard and Pablo purchased In the beginning. With the same care the herd should increase to between 400 ana 500 in 20 years. If a tract of land containing from 50 to 100 square miles were set apart for a buffalo range, with an appropriation of $5,000, there would be no difficulty In developing a herd that would be a credit to the nation. The care of the herd should be placed under the jurisdiction of the biological survey of the department of agriculture. It Is hardly to be expected that the animals will thrive in Yellowstone park, whers the winters are long and severe, tht summers short and protection Is afforded to wild animate which prey upon the El-ro- d, calves. A Small Critic. recall a pretty little Incident In connection with the late Sir Augustus Harris which fittingly illustrates his paternal solicitude. I had made a working model of a transformation scene for one of his pantomimes, and he came Into the painting room to inspect It, bringing with him his daughter, a little dot of a girl. He put her upon a chair In front of the model, and sail to me, "Now, let us see It work." The scene commenced with a hansom cab. In which a gentleman sat, bringing home toys on a snowy night for bis little girl, while the waifs were heard playing outside. Then the scene changed to the child's bedroom, with the little one asleep In a cot, showing Sauta Claus, Christmas trees and the rest. It next developed Into a phantasmagoria of all sorts oi toys and During the unfolding of the scene, tht eyes of little Miss Harris beamed with, delight, and she clapped her tiny hauls at each successive development, her enjoyment being reflected la the smiling countenance of Sir Augustus, whj never took his eyes off the little mitt. At length he said, "All right, Bruce Bmith, get 00 with it" "But Sir Augustus.' I replied. "I don't think you have even looked at It" "No," he admitted. "But I have watched my little girl and she seems so pleased that it Is sure to delight the little ones la th audience. Bo get on with it at once, W, Bruce Smith In M. A. P. I bon-bon- s. d. kp The duke an duchess of Mancacstrr are to pay another visit to the, United Elates. The duchess docs not like ihl country as well as the land of her adoption, but the duke has always a longlnj lo be over In the freedom of the States. They sre to be at Palm Beach this winter and will stop In New York a fw "ays en route. Modern Version. Cinderella was weeping bitterly. Maud (at the p.rty) There's Irene "Never mind," said the fairy with a In the corne, talking to Cholly 'ver wave of her hand, "111 make you a El rm She has to do something to pate. twentieth century cook." kill time. Hereupon her sisters hastily return-eMabel Is that why she looks datr from the ball and begged her to at the clock every few minutes? take eight nights out of every week-Ha- rper' Chicago Tri'june. Bazar. A d trs |