Show russian fatalism one day a russian village official was riding with fiad no in search of some strayed horses the black soil was like dust and lie sighed heavily as his mare sank bank in the light stuff i II 11 ah he lie said mid what land is this it is like a woman broken with sorrow how can she find food for her child has it been so all summer I 1 asked not so indeed there was frost ia in spring and men said frost and fair weather but then came the dryness and though mass was said in the fields it yent went to nothing and then we dug up the drunkards the what IT the lie drunkards your lionor lioner often it is that when the drunkards are pulled out of their graves and flung flu ng into pools of water that rain will come we know not why but not only rain came but hail and fierce storm and fire and with ered the tile little that was grown then after that dryness again and now he shrugged his shoulders the famine must there bo be famine I 1 asked 3 lie said with a smile tha the grain is soon eaten and then what whit will no provision bo be made mado for the fu future turee who should make provision now we v e can call buy much and eat much afterward well the little father sep us did diet so depending on tho czar and public charity tsy ay rest content in making no provision for the future temple bar |