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Show THI! TRUCKMAN AND BWniJI'nit luillgnanl HnrprUe of Ibe letter al I lie Nrrte of Hi lurmer. "I am no painter," wild Mr. War-bllnRton, War-bllnRton, "but If I were, nnd aomubody aliould slrt m a rommlulon to paint n plotura of 'Indignant Hurprlac,' 1 ihoulil try to aet down on caiiro the face and figure of a atreot-aweeper whom I aaw the other day In n narrow downtown atrret While bla handcart waa aundlug agalnal tho curb oil one aide of the alroet, the awoeper hltnaelt being nt tlial moment on the other plying ply-ing lil broom, there cams along a younii man driving, n truck, who found that It wag jtolng tu be a very narrow luiueeto far him tu get through In the apace that wag left between lite hand cart and tho outllta panning on tho other aide, but be didn't healtato on that account, ho kept straight ahead, and yot not recklessly; as a matter of fact, ha used reasonable raro about tho handcart. There was, liowover, not room for lilm to paaaj ho alruck tho handcart, but ho etruck It very Gently, and as ho kept u-ifotns ''' wheels drew tho handcart partly (around iind opntd.lt,.,but lidliln't acnlnst tho curb, or nuythlns of tho sort, where It would smash, but kept I moving nil tho Unto, as prossuro was appllod, which tho truckman saw, and, keeping n-ROlng, but ready to stop nt any moment, ho continued to pull the handcart up and around and over until be had left it undlKnltlcdly strnnded on Us sldo on tho sidewalk. During tha list of tho handcarts clattering, truck-comiHdled truck-comiHdled cvrntlons tho sweeper had stood over thcro on tha other sldo of tha street, looking on with indignant surprise, hut tliero was nothing for bltn tn do but to waits the truck would be past lung before ho could get ncrosa tho street, ond In n moment It was gone; tho skillful drlier havlug turned the handrnrt over and tiver without I banning It In tho slightest degree, and I without changing n musclo on his face I In the operation." The reform of tho calendar has several time lieon propoaod In Ktiasla, but tho matter haa, on Mich occasion been referred re-ferred to nn Imperial commission, a euphemism for getting rid of It. Another An-other nltempt Is, however, now to be made to adopt Ilia (Iregorlnn compulation, compula-tion, mid this llmo the subject Is to be deliberated upon by tba Impanel Academy at Belenoes, under tha presidency presi-dency of the (.Irami Duke of Conslan-tln, Conslan-tln, assisted by tba ministers of state. What difficulties there may lie In bringing about the change la not very evident to non-Ituaelana. If tho government gov-ernment desired to make the alteration, altera-tion, a tikuaa of tho Tsar would servo tho purpose. |