RUSSIA'S "THIN BLUE LINE."

There is no land frontier in the ' world bo strikingly guarded an that imaginary lints which stretches across < Asia from the Caucasus to the Pacific, and marks the south-eaatera boundary of the Russian Empire. Along this line, like & row of tiny pawns in some huge game of chess, are scattered the frontier oitpos f8 of the Cossack*-— {hat famous irregular • arna' of the Russian military system. Oie to every twenty miles or so of the frontier these posts stand—in all some threes thousand miles or more. • The con spicuous feature of each outpost is a bluft tower built of stone or of noud and logs On this is erected a sra>r>d tower of wooden lattice wo-k with a kind of crow'a nest on the top Bptide this composite structure are the stables for the Cossack ponies ; the lower portion of the double tower forms a guard room and dormitory. Up in the crow's nest, by night and day, ■watch a vigilant pair of Cossack eyee. Afc their owner's command is a sema phore for day signalling; at night lights are employed. Just in sight, on either hand, are the flanking outposts, also with their lights by night and their semaphore signals by day. Silently they whisper to one another across the Asian Id!Is and plaine,Bleep leßs, loyal—for God and tie Cz ir. Fifteen men there are to each posh, and each day three take the duty of watching from the tower-top. Thus, one day in five each man does eight hours'sentinel duty--two hours up, four hours' rest, <hen two hours oi wa'ching ag^ir, and so on till the day is finished, when three other Cossacks thke the ' shift' for the npxt twenty four hoars. Once a month the posts are relieved from a district d< p6^ or the nearest garrison. Including the Cos sack el em nfc in the latter centres, and the men actually on outpost duty, there cannot be fewer than 45,000 Coasacka on the Asiatic frontier. To these must be added the 40,000 men of the regular army who form the so called ' frontier battalions.' Bat it in the blue coated Ooseack who, along this vast and vulnerable boundary, fur ztishes, in a truly literal sense, the eyes of*the"Rusßian|[Empire. If this magnificent string of commu nication b&s a disadvantage, it is that the Cossack warders are not, in the real purport of the phrase, trained signalmen. They have merely been taught to interpret and report certam arbitrary signals, capable of conveying Bach warnings and requests as are likely to be necessary. The posts, how* ever, act in cage of need as a chain of depots, supplying despatch riders who have not their equal in the whole world. A written message can thus be carried in twenty mile stages with an almost incredible speed. The Cossack despatch rider bestrides one horse and leads a re 1 ay, both animals advancing at the wildest gallop. Jtiy this means a communication of vital importance could be hurdled across Asia inside a week —un American express train could not da it in less than four and a half d»ys. There is a story on the frontier of a crack Cossack rider ■who, on one occasion, was whir'ing through Turkestan with a message marked 'urgent' when a tiger sprang out of the juogle and leapt upon the neck of the horse he was riding, The Oo?fea<sk swung himself, as he had done a thousand imes before, into the saddle of the beast he «&^ ridiDg as relay, mcl without breaking gallop continued his headlong career, lea"ing the tiger to its meal !— Express

Treat Anarchists as Lunatics

Dr Emmanuel Kegis, an authority on men'al diseases and a professor at the Medical College of Bordeaux, has mode * sprcial study of regicides. Iv a bo< k on the subject he has jost pub'ished, ho dwells at length on the necessty of preventing ansrohy from spreading «ny further, and he insists that the turest way to effi ct this olject is io trrat regicides and other criminal »nßrchistß as if they were lunatics. Nothing h gained by killing them, he eayp, whereas much will be gained by shutting them up in lunatic asylums. Regicidep, he explains, may be divided into two classes, the true and the fake. The former try to kill sove reigns because their temperament and training ioapel them to commit Bucb crimfß; the latter fo'low their example because chance or a momentary impulse has driven them half crazy and has filled them with a desire to shed blood, The sole aim of the true anarchist is to destroy a potentate; the sole aim of the pseudo-anarchist is to punish some one who he thinks is his enemy.

The anarchists, continuee Doctor Rpgis, are neither wholly Bane nor who ly insane. Most of them, how ever, have hereditary blemishes and are so unbalanced that, no matter how intellectual and brilliant they may be, they are in reality abnormal beings, n striking characteristic of whom is their inability to resist temptation to commit crime which constantly besets them. They are, in fact, degenerates, and statistics show that in most coses several of their immediate relatives have been the victims of suicide or epilepsy They are as a rn!e sickly in childhood. Mystics they also are, the result being that they believe them selves destined to do some great deed which will win for them the crow,n of martyrdom.

It i important to note the fact, he Bays, that nothing annoys or humiliates these fanatics so much as to be con sidered insane, and hence irresponsible for tbeir crimes. Against snch an imputation thf-y have always protested, and still protest moat loudly. In view of this fact, the suppression of anarchy can only be effected by treating the regicide as a lunatic. Complete sup pression we need not expect, since there have been regicides, just as there have been lunatics, since the world began, but partial suppression we may confidently hope for. Nothing harts an anarchkt more than to hint that he is not in his right mind, and nothing Is more likely to iraka him abstain from crime.

TSE ASHBORTOH QDARDIAS t WBBNESaAf, NO?EMB»fIiC 14, MOO

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WOOL. WOOL, WOOL I AM now making LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES,' FREE OF COMMISSION, I upon all Wool placed in my bands for sale, either In Aahburton, Ghristehnrcn, Tiraaru, or for Shipment. This Season* WOOL SALES for Canterbury have been fixed as under, viz :— CHBISTCHUECH—NowMber 22, 1900, December 13, 1900 January 17, 1901, February 19,1901 TlMAßTJ—Norember 30, 1900, January 3,1901, February 7, 1901 I shall be rtpreuented both at OHRISTOHURCH and TIMARU. WOOLPAOES AND ALL STATION REQUISITES SUPPLIED AT LOWEST MARKET RATES DIVID THOMAS. ASHBURTON. PURE SEEDS, I have Jat«ly«act«i, regardless of cost, the MOST COMPLETE FEED CLEAN IKG PLANT iouth of the line, and I now ask Farmer! to Inspect the same at work. I AM PREPARED TO CLEAN FOR FARMERS ANY DESCRIPTION OF SEEDS OR GRAIN AKD WILL GUARANTEE TO GIVE THEM SATISFACTION T can supply best Ryegrass and Cocksfoot locally grown, also beet Clovers, drowed by my own Machines, the purity of which must be seen to be appreciated AIeo—HURST & SON'S ENGLISH OLOVERS t |TURNIPS, RAPE, LUCERNE, TREFOIL, &c. D. THOMAS ASHBURTON it CHARMING SPRING NOVELTIES. JUST OPENED: 50 CASES NEW GOODS. VTEW MILLINERY, FLOWERS, FEATHERS, RIBBON, Aa New Dreis Fabrics, Sergei, Coitume Cloth; will; not shrink or «pofc|>ith rain. Novelties In Zephyrt, Prints, Fancy Piques, Spotted MuiHop, Lustte», plalD'&.fig'l'^' Special Value in Black Dress Goods of all kinds. Magnificent Assortment o 1 Plain and Figured Silks, Mantles; Corsets, P X^and.G B, and also various other makes ; Lace Curtains, White Counterpanes* Umbrellas and Sanshadet, all prices. Up-to-date Millinery, very stylish. IMEU?3BMAKING.—Ladies leaving their orders are getting >very Jiatisfaofcion |in] fit and style. ', AILOBING.--A thoroughly op to date Stock oflSuitlugs and Tronserlog^tn English, Scotch, Irish, and Colonial Tweed*. Satisfaction Guabanmbd, 10 Oases [of LINOLEUM and CARPETS just opened. ANDREW 0 R R. G. MEpDINS, •• TUB PEOPLE'S IRONMONGER," Opposite Arcade, Burnett Street. BOWLS^BOWLS. BOWLS. TAYLOR'S First Quality and Presentation. Inspection Invited. SHEEP SHIRKS. SHEEP SHEARS. BB A, TU S, 11 A» and Shepherd ferindf. Oil Stones, Raddle, Lamp Black, Branding Oil, and ail Requisite* for the Shearing Season. LAWN MOWERS7~LAWH MOWERS. The Latest Improved—« The Pastime," easiest rnnning Machine made. Alsc, New jEasy, Orescent, F & N, etc. LINOLEUMS. LINOLEUMS. f \UR FIRST SHIPMENT FOR THE SPRING NOW LANDED, EX .8 uOTHIO Choice and Novel Designs in all Widths. Remnants of Last Season's Goods at Reduced Prices. CARPETS, CARPET SQUARES, RUGS & MATS. j MITCHELL AND TURNER.



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