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The newest event In Moscow Is no surprise to any student of Russian current history, as it marches from despotism, through cruelty and oppression, by murder, to ' Insurrection and revolt. The Grand Duke Sergius -was probably the best hated man, next to Von Plehve. He was the incarnation of the system by -which the small Romanoff clan over rides the people of every class. He. was stern and cruel both in private and public life, often described as the evil genius of his -nephew, the Czar. While his wife, the Princess Elisabeth of Hesse, the sister of the Czarina,, was the bouI of the Red Cross agency at home for the provision of comforts and aid for the sick and wounded soldiery, the Grand Duke Sergius was the lead ing spirit of the circle surrounding the Czar, insisting on the prosecution of the war to the bitter end. In him also the repression of every murmur, of every cry of woe of peasant or arti san, was the habit of his mind, the in spiration of his life. As Governor of Moscow he ruled the city with an iron hand. The means of his assassination, the self-sacrifice of the agents involved, show great thoroughness of prepara- - tion. Here was no chance shot from a half-loaded 4 cannon, flt to frighten rather than to kill, but a desperate plot Of desperate men. Strange irony of fate that this detested son is destroyed in the very culmination of the hatred of the people by the same means, which cut short his father's life a father who had gone a long way to loose the peas ants' bondage. Neither in public nor in private circles will any tears be "shed. His relations with his wife were the talk of Europe but a few years back. He came of a race of tyrants and has met a tyrant's death. Surely this was no sudden resolve or thoughtless act of desperation. It bears every mark of grim purpose and delib- eratlon, and may -well give pause to the oppressors of the Russian people. As sassination ever brings horror to its contemplation. In this case, at least, it is ah awful token that the chains hold ing down the educated and intelligent classes of the people, no less than the peasant and artisan are strained to the breaking point. The height of devotion of the Jap anese to his Emperor and country is shown in his laying down his life in war against his Russian enemy. The Russian rises to the acme of self-sacrifice when he gives himself to slaying the highest but one Russian or them all. MATTERS OF CIVIC PRIDE. What has become of the Civic Im provement League, or of some of its branches, of which a few months ago we heard so much? What of the Rose Society that was sworn to do Its part, and more, toward making Portland blossom as a Persian garden? Has the real of members of these organizations waned, that we have heard nothing of the Spring campaign of paint and cleanliness and bloom, the inauguration of which will soon be due? Where are MoCusker and Hyland, Samuels and Holman where? And Mrs. Shafford and Mrs. Rose Hoyt and all the rest? The last days of the last month of Winter are being Vapidly counted Off. Vegetation will awake from its sleep in a few weeks. Has the campaign been planned and are workers ready and eager to put the city in the bast possible trim to receive the visitors that have bVen invited most cordially to come here next Summer, thousands of whom have accepted the Invitation? What we want for our grand June opening, auxiliary to the chief attrac tion of the Lewis and Clark Pair, is a clean city, a city of roses, a city of .good sidewalks,- trim shade trees where these still remain), and fresh paint. We want to have the spitting nuisance And menace In public places abated, and, if mortals might be so bold in the asking, we want dogs kept off the prin cipal, streets, at least, from the first of June to the fifteenth of October, inclu-, 6lve. It is an even thing between ex Pectorators of tobacco juice and dogs as polluters of building corners and streets. The former should be forced to observe the common rules of decency (and incidentally the city ordinance), and the latter should be kept off the streets during the months when the city is on dress parade. This is asking very little, but it mejms a great deal if the campaign of clean liness of which but now we heard so much Is to be successfully carried on. The man's right to chew tobacco is not questioned; his right to make this habit contribute to public disgust and un cWnness is, or ehould be, denied. A citizen's right to keep dogs Is unques tioned, providing he pays the pre scribed fee Into the city treasury in support of this, right, but the privilege of defiling- the streets is not guaranteed by the tag which shows that a license to keep a dog has been paid. Matters of this kind must be attended to If we are to have a city even decent ly clean during the months of the com ing Summer, and it is none too soon to begin to agitate them. As to the roses, the plants that can be depended upon to make a gorgeous showing of bloom in June and a delightful presentment throughout the season have already been set out It may be hoped that the enthusiasm that led to their planting by hundreds and thousands throughout the city will be rekindled at the ap proach of Spring and find expression in the Intelligent care that will encour age them to do their best and thus set the seal of delight and of fragrance upon the title "The Rose City,' which Portland has1 assumed. WHAT NEXT? The Jayne local-option biy was beaten because it undertook, to do too much. It sought to make radical changes in a measure that had the ap proval of the people approval obtained by falsehood and fraud, but neverthe less a law because they had decreed it. If the liquor dealers had sought merely to make the local-option law what It was intended to be or rather what the voters Intended that It should be a precinct measure, and not a county pro hibition measure, there might have been no objection to its amendment. Instead, the Jayne bill sought to re form throughout the whole structure. The advantage now. is largely with the prohibitionists; the liquor dealers sought to secure It for themselves. The sole purpose of the prohibitionists is to make prohibition easy; the liquor deal ers wanted to make it hard, very hard. The prohibitionists planned to go as far as possible to make a county once for prohibition always for prohibition; the liquor dealers proposed that there should be no vote on the subiect un less there was a decided and obvious demand for It. The prohibitionists had adopted the familiar device of the ger rymander in the trrourjlntr of nreeinets: the liquor dealers responded by asking that oertaln precincts lying partly in and partly outside incorporated towns be not permitted to vote. It may be accepted as final that the principle of local option has come to stay; but that is far from saying that the present law has come-to stay. Not long since there was loud outcry be cause the liquor interest was seeking to take the sacred referendum away from the people; but the same people who were so fearful that the rights of the referendum would be invaded have now denied the referendum to any local-option measure whatever except the one they themselves proposed under the Initiative. In -other words, a ellnue of prohibitionists Who frarfced a local- option bill and submitted It to the peo ple deny the right of the Legislature to take the initiative in framing a bill to be passed on by the people. Under this policy Brother Tufts got before the people a bill that may or may not have been prepared In the back room of a bank, and never saw the light of -day until it was offered to the voter without chance of amendment; while the Legis lature, after discussing openly a new local-option act, fails, because of the violent objection of Brother Tufts, Brother McAllister and their allies, to get any measure before the electorate. Now what is likely to be the result? The foes of the present law will doubt less seek to enact under the initiative a law that is local option In fact as well as In name. The friends of the nresent act may. If they desire, submit another amendatory of certain provisions which ail agree should be changed. PerhaDs some other propagandists will sret un still another measure taking middle ground. If the Legislature had been permitted to frame and refer an act, there would at least have been a. clean- cut issue. Now there will be confusion. We afe rapidly finding out that the ini tiative is a great thing. WAONEIt MOVES WEST. To those accustomed to regard Chi cago as something of a metropolis the latest Issues of the Chicago papers will convey a distinct shock. Columns are devoted to the first performance of" "Parsifal" In- the city. "Parelfal,' which was in New York a nine days' wonder, but has long since been for gotten in the art question involved in subway advertising, only now produced for the first time in Chicago. It seems incredible. There may not be many muslclovers in Chicago, but there is plenty of money, and the packers are accustomed to buy what the world as sures them Is good, whether in the way of pictures or of universities. It seems, therefore, that Chicago money was sadly lacking in enterprise when the best it could do was to bring a warmed- over "Parsifal" to the home of the greatest 6tockyards in the world. And when the opera had really been made a certainty., what bucolic hesita tion Chicago displayed in the matter of dress, the most Important part of a high musical education. "Parsiral" be gan at 5:30 in the afternoon, and the disciples of Wagner were confronted with an appalling situation. The be ginning of the opera was too early for evening dress and yet evening dress was demanded before the performance ended. Was a man to bring along a suit in a grip and change his clothes between the acts? Obviously embar rassing, if not impossible. So the men of Chicago fell down ignominiously. borne or tnem wore bor-coated busi ness suits," others wore "afternoon cos tume." One man In evening .dress was detected by the Chronicle reporter. With the women, bless them. It was different "they wore long wraps over their evening gowns." Trust a woman to solve any problem of dress. And. besides, there was "one low-cut gown, rather a rarity In a Chicago theater." With the end of the first act at 7:15 came another distressing problem. solved in various ways. Some of the spectators went out to dinner, other brought their dinners out of their pock- ets, and made a furtive meal during the Intermission. Chicago lacked enter prise in this respect, also: Tamale wagons might have been run dawn the aisles, or a, good lunch counter might have been Installed. As it was, every one had to shift for himself during the Intermission. All discomfort was for gotten, however, when the second act began. Then "the women threw aside their long coats of the afternoon and revealed magnificent costumes. . Even some of the men presented a changed appearance. They no longer wore the garments of the afternoon, but were attired In the long black coat of the evening." Excellent And the music? Oh, yes, the music A line sandwiched between two paragraphs on dress says that "Parsifal" received "adequate dra matic and musical Interpretation." Chi cago is not without hope. A provincial city-might easily have paid more atten tion to the music SANTO DOMINGO. The long message of the President to the Senate explaining the protocol of the treaty entered Into with the kov ernment of Santo Domingo on Febru ary 7 repays careful reading. In great detail the President describes the con dition there, closely approaching an archy. The internal condition of the Island, with revolutions active or Imml nent In several plates, and destruction of the properties pledged both to Amer ican and other foreign creditors in full sight demands immediate action. If the United States declines the initiative It Will be takn hv snmn ntVinr- nnwer In that case The Hague Tribunal' will surely follow the Venezuelan precedent and the power first moving will secure the right of preferential payment The debtor, the government of Santo Do mingo, will be entirely "unable to Day. and the United States would have either to allow that forelm nower to seine some Custom-House or other to obtain the means of nayinjr the debts due to its citizens,. or else, by virtue of .the Monroe Doctrine, must itself take possession and assume control of the receipts and payments from the customs revenues, so' forestalling and forbidding the action of anv other power. By the peaceful agency of the proposed treaty the second condition, Just described, comes into Immediate being, without the delays and risk of friction with the island government and wfith foreign powers. The United States, at the request of tne bankrupt island government and with the hearty approval of the other foreign creditors, enters into official possession and control of the various Custom-Houses of the island and re ceives and manages the customs dues. In so doing it displaces the official American agent already in charre of the Custom-House at Puerto Plata and' one other. This agent was there under the award of the arbitration tribunal of July, 1904, defining and securing the rights of the American Santo Domlnro Improvement Corporation in respect of sums due them by the award, aggre gating $4,500,000, with interest at 4 per cent The President gives a summary or, the financial situation in the following figures: Debts, due to for eign nations, $22,000,000, of which $18. 000,000 is recognized: debts due the American company, $4,500,000, and in terest, Installments heavily in arrear; revenues front customs under Domini can management, $1,850,000 a year; re quired for home administration, $1,300, 000; balance available for foreign and unliquidated indebtedness, $350,000 a year. Evidently the American receiver has a great and a long task ahead of him. Judging from past history, these ex citable mulattoes will not abandon their revolutionary habit The public peace will be disturbed. Loss of life and property will follow. No public native force will or could restore order. The United States will have to keep the peace, and a new debit account will be opened. It will be obvious that the actions of the President in arriving at the terms shown in the protocol are not inspired by the desire and purpose or maintaining the Monroe Doctrine. But this lifesaving and disorder-repressing and rights-enforcing doctrine is the means, and the only means, for deal ing honorably and intelligently with this emergency. That It should be to the interest alike of -Santo Domingo, of the United States and of ail the foreign creditors that the Monroe Doctrine should be now put in operation is the blessing to all parties concerned, not the result of the open or covert threat of any. No case of the "big stick" here. It is not conceivable that the Senate should do otherwise than sustain promptly the hands of the President. Some journals forbode the permanent possession of the island by the United States. That is not. now the question. Present conditions demand present ac tion. The President demonstrates its urgency. What may. not what will, re sult we need not argue now. Sufficient unto the day. ' AN ANTIQUATED COURT. The Senate of the United States Is now sitting as a court of Imneachmont or the eighth time In the 115 years under our Constitution. Five of the civil officers brought before this high court of inquiry have been Federal Judges. Of these, Judge Pickering, of New Hampshire, in 1803, was tried for drunkenness and other unjudicial con duct and was deposed from office, on the plea of insanity, urged by his rela tives. In 1805 Samuel Chase, of Mary land, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, was impeached on charges of partisan and arbitrary decisions, but the charges were not sustained. In 1830 a District Judge in Missouri was tried and acquitted, and In I860 a District Judge in Tennessee was convicted of treason, he having accepted office un der the Confederate Government Judge Swayne is the fifth member of the Judi ciary who has been haled before the Senate to answer to charges affecting his position. The three administrative officers trted have all escaped conviction. The trial of Andrew Johnson. PrelflAnr nf t-i United States, Is within the memory of the present generation, having taken place In 1869. He escaped conviction by a single vote, much to the chairrin of those in Congress and out of it who op posed his reconstruction policy. In the nearly forty years that have passed since then the people have come to be thankful for the "single vote' that In the heat of political feeling at the time, very many were disposed to view as a calamity. Another and later Impeach ment of an administrative officer was that of W. W. Belknap, Secretary of war under President Grant. He was impeached for misdemeanors, but re signed before his trial was ordered, and,' though subsequently prosecuted, was acquitted. Nearly thirty years nave nas&eri. nnA. again, as said by the New Tork Trib- i une, "the clumsy machinery invented for impeaching' and removing faithless Federal officials is In motion? Again a Federal Judge Is the grist brought to this antiquated and seldom-used judi cial mllL He Is hopeful of acquittal, and with but two convictions in 115 years on the musty record to which his case- will be added, there la good reason for his hope. The capital-removal bill has passed both the House and Senate at Olympia, and is now up to the Governor for ap proval or veto. Before anything can be done toward making Tacoma the new seat for state government the matter must.be submitted to the people at the Fall election in 1906. While the bill passed the House by a larger majority than was expected, there Is no assur ance that it will meet with executive approval. It must be remembered that Governor Mead is to reside at Olympia for four years, and he would not add to his popularity by aiding In any way in the removal of the mainstay of the city. Olympia. has a number of very impor tant Industries near her doors, and would probably worry along without the state capital, but it would not be an easy matter to convince her citizens to that effect just now. The Chicago wheat market yesterday enjoyed a drop that was fully as 'sensa tional as the advance of the day previ ous. This caused a temporary cessa tion o the talk that John W. Gates In tended to put the cereal up to $2 per bushel, but there will be a renewal as soon as the shearing Is completed on the bear side of the market. It Is an Interesting game, and conditions are favorable for a corner in May. Pend ing the culmination of that corner, how ever, it might be wise for the small speculator with gambling proclivities to bet his money on the high card or endeavor to determine which of the shells the pea Is under. In this way fce will, to use a sporting phrase, "get as good a run for his money" and will have the advantage of witnessing the turning of the trick. Astoria advices are that a logging railroad will be built up the Necanicum River from Seaside. As the loggings road in many portions of the North west has been the forerunner of some thing better, it will not be long before the iron horse will be rushing around Necarney Mountain and thence on to the Elk Creek country, rich .In scenery as well as in timber. Another logging road which has great possibilities ahead, of it is that which is headed for the Nehalem by way of Goble. Logging roads have placed a very important part In the development of the Pacific Northwest, and it is to be hoped that both the Nehalem and the Necanicum project will be pushed through. to some thing of greater Importance than now appears on the surface. According to the testimony of one Jordan, Senatorial votes are worth only $350 'each In California, even when ob tainable in "blocks of four." An As toria man has just precipitated a libel suit by saying that he was offered $2000 for a vote four years ago, and over In Washington there are rumors that the price of this merchantable commodity soared so high that even a millionaire was forced out of the market The price, however, seems to' be subject to the law of supply and demand, and to use a market' phrase, when "large buy ers have withdrawn from the market" prices show an immediate decline. It Is now reported that the Addicks barrel has been exhausted and the owner thereof is still outside the United States Senate likewise the peniten tiary. From a long-distance view it would seem that the Delaware Legis lature haG made quite a move on the -back track toward resneetabilitv hv abandoning Addicks and hia empty bar rel ana taking up Millionaire Dupoht Details In full, however, might disclose unpleasant facts, bo for the present the public can enjoy to the limit the knowl edge that the Senatorial aspiralfons of the unspeakable Addicks have gone glimmering. Stinkpots and prayers to the Great Joss will no longer be the favorite weapons of the Chinese if a London Telegraph disDatch from its Toklo cor respondent is to be believed. The cor respondent claims the best authority for the statement that Japan intends after the War to establish herself in Pekln as China's principal adviser. If this is -true, the children of the great Confucius Will be hauled wll Intn th front ranklof civilization with a sud denness entirely at variance with their former movements in war, politics or religion. According to estimates of the Na tional Department of Agriculture there were at the beginning of the present ear li,057,702 horses in the United States, of the aggregate value of $L200,- 310,020. This effectually disproves the prediction made some fifteen or twentv years ago that upplied electricity would in a few years put the horse out of commission, and Indeed practically out of the market. General Grlppenberg may be right in his criticism of Kuropatkin; there Is no means of knowing the exact facts. One thing Is certain, however; every accu sation Grlppenberg in St Petersburg makes against Kuropatkin In Man churia damages his own reputation In the eye3 of the world. Kuropatkin Is bearing the burden and heat of the day and patriotic soldiers would swallow their differences to aid him In his task. Charges of a most damaging nature are made against Commissioner Thomas, of the Port of Portland Com mission, and he has not met them sat isfactorily. He should take Immediate steps to vindicate himself, or he should get off the commission. The "graft" has got to be unsafe business. The Czar, it is announced, has "ar rived at no definite conclusion about summoning the Zemsky Sobor." There are occasions when even a Russian au tocrat -might be thought to be able to see .the signs of the times. N Most people hereabouts think that February has played her unseeemly pranks quite long enough and are ready to exclaim with Thompson, "Come, gen--tie Spring, ethereal mlldnees, come." Assassins' bombs kill tnor than Rus sian tyrants. Each of them shatters another hope of the liberals. "Gas" Addicks is said to bedown and out In other words, his barrel is now all bunghole. . , The bomb is a. great leveler. NOTE AND C03IMENT. A small newsboy on Washington street yesterday evening created a wild but short-lived demand for his papers by shouting, "All about the assassination of the grand Jury!" "Pshaw! It's only a ,Grand Duke," disgustedly exclaimed the first purchaser. Lots of men would organize an anti work league, if it didn't require so much work. If the Chinese start, a Tong war in Portland they'll find the police after them hammer and tongs. V "W. E. T.," who says he is-'ntterly- op posed to the way In which the money voted" by the taxpayers for the benefit of the teachers is being handled." sends the following lines: The taxpayers, full of sympathr For teachers underpaid. x Have voted thirty thousand To be for the'm outlaid A very rice donation. And poaalbly enough. But the teachers get the sympathy. While, fclgler gota tha atuff. The worst thing the President went up against at his dinner in Littlo Hunirarv was "kaposztas retes." All the other eat ables and drinkables were more or less mild, alphabetically. The Marquis of Anglesey is to go on the stage. The stage has more of a kick coming about the persons sent It by the nobility than the nobility "has about the persons sent It by the stage. General Grippenborg has arrived at the front That Is to say, he has reached St. Petersburg from Mukden. They can't give Gates a Jar. Hoeh appears to have considered ar senic the food of love. Any of the Russian Grand Dukes de sirous of keeping up the excitement arc in time to try baseball umpiringthls season. That the war is causing much distress In Japan, is argued by the Kobe Chronicle from the frequency of petty thefts. The metal work of the public water taps in Kobe and the lids of the fire hydrants are being stolen dally. Among the scraps of book-boosting in formation sent out by publishers we note one to the effect that Margaret Potter gets up every morning at 6 o'clock and writes until 9. Wo have read only one o this early bird's books and It was marked by & tone of settled melancholy. Even the name, "The Castle of Twilight," sounds uncheerful. "N"ow we know why. Any mere mortal that leaves a warm bed at such a forsaken hour as 6 o'clock on a gray morning must be affected by the melancholy of an un-alred world- Further we read that In Miss Potter's opinion a certain "amount of "a very vivid kind of day dreaming is necessary" when one la not 'actually engaged" In "writing down sentences and words." It may be so, biit what a .shock for Bugglns. vividly day dreaming of a millionaire touring the Riviera in his motor car, to be rudely awakened by Mrs. Bugglns with a com mand to run and split some more wood. How could the poor man resume his writ ing with nothing but the fragments of shattered drcama as Inspiration? The tour of the millionaire would be a poor spirit less thing if completed In such circum stances. According to a Missouri paper the young people of Osage have invented a brand new dance, called, for the present, the "mule-kiok two-step." "It is described as a round dance in which each couple kicks at tho other passing by. it Is evident that a recreation combining the best elements- of dancing and of football must become Immensely popular, so young Portland should write for the rules at once. A Tabloid Historical Novel. I. Fair Maid and Good Knight. , II. Bad Knight abducts Fair Maid. III. Good Knight chases Bad Knight and Fair Maid. IV. Good Knight fights Bad Knight. V. Good night. Bad Knight. VI. Good Knight weds Fair Muld. Good boy! VII. Good-bye. Madame Humbert, the French - Mrs. Chadvlck, is said by the prison authori ties to be learning with exceptional quick ness "the trade of stay-making. Why shouldn't she she has always been jug gling with false figures. Trepoff, the man who now rules St Petersburg, left Moscow with the inten tion of going to the front. "Since I must be shot at," he Is credited With saying, "I prefer to be a target for professional Japanese soldiers rather than for dirty amateurs in Moscow." As he had been stabbed twice and shot at four times he had some reason for hi3 remarks. If a man must die a violent death it seems only fair that the job should be done by men that "know how." Spltters are to be spitted on the skewer of the law after this. New York has Just had a sparnn of the. same variety. Several men were arrested In the lobby of tle Metropolitan Opcra-House and forced to pungle up bail, but the excite ment blew over in a couple of days. Port land's is not likely to last much longer. WEX. J. How to Treat Soldiers. Pall Mall Gazettec. We are unhappily too familiar with the story of the Crimecn or Mutiny vet eran who ends his days in the workhouse or at tfio street crossing. "So less pitiful, from every point of view. Is the case of Arthur Langton, aged only 27 years, late Quartermaster-Sergeant of the 5th Lan cers, who has 13 years service and cer tificates to exemplary character at hia back, and was discharged from the army In consequence of wounds received at Ladysmith. Ho tried for employment, failed to get it and took to the occupa tion of shoeblack in the streets of Lon don. The end of the story, so far, is that he got Into trouble with the police for obstructing the pavement, hit the-policeman who reproved .him, and Is now under remand at Westminister. He has been drawing his magnificent pension of 2. a day. but wasting It, apparently. In drink, and was therefore In a weak and giddy condition from lack of food. The wound in his head Is held responsible for his foolishness; but there will be an un easy feeling that his country also may bo partly responsible for this poor fel low's sad plight Oldest English Castle. Kansas City Journal. . The oldest Inhabited residence hi the British kingdom is said to be DunvegaU Castle, in the Isle of Skye-tho seat of tho McLeods of McLeod part of which dates from the ninth century, or a couple of hundred years before the conquest of Eng land by William the Norman. A B C OF THE Summary of Events X, ratlin jsr Tip to the FerMaagea .From the London Mail. A. Alexis, Grand Duke Uncle of the Csar. Grand. Admiral of the Russian fleet. Born January 2. 1850. Ambassadors in St. Feternborir American: Robert S. HcCormlck: British? Sir Charles Hardlnge. French: M. Bompard. German: Count von Alvensleben. AnitchkoCT Palace The residence of the Czar'w mother, the Dowager Empress. In the Nvsky TProjJpect, one of the sreat streets In St. Petersburg:. C. Cossacks A, warlike race in the south of Russia. The Cossacks form a largo pro portion of the Russian army. On a war strength they number 1 82.003, and the peace effectives are given as 05,930. though probably not moro really than 58,000 are permanently with the colors. Cxar Nicholas II. Born May 6. ISGS. Eldest son of Alexander III. Ascended the throne October 20. 1S94. Married No vember 14. 1304. Has four daughters and one son: Olga, born November 15. 1893: Tatlaaa. June 10. 1897; Marie. June 20. 1809; Anastasia. June IS. 1901; and Alexia Nicholievltch. August 12. 1004. Czarina Alexandra Fcodorovna, daughter of Ludwlg IV. Grand Duke of Ilesse. Born June 6, 1S72. F. Finland Part of the Russian Empire. Area, 144.254 square mites; population. 3,000,000. An Independent archduchy until, a year or two ago. the Czar took away its free dom In defiance of tha constitution ho had sworn to defend. Seething wltlt dis-- conienu I'cterhor. the Czar's residence. Is on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Foulon, General Chief of Police in St. Petersburg. G. Gopon, Father Leader of the strikers. A peasant's son. 35 years old. In his boy hood he tended sheep, but was well edu cated, although expelled from school for propagating Liberal Ideas. Became a clerk In tho statistical department of the municipality, and ultimately entered the priesthood. His advanced Ideas, however, hindered him from taking up a general pastorate, and he has of late devoted him self to the welfare of the working classes. Has written a book on Christian Socialism. His letters to the Czar reveal a nobility of character and intellect. Gorky, Jlaxlm Russian author, who has al lied himself with the strikers and at tended their meetings. Began lire as a shoemaker In 1878: has been a baker, por ter and a strolling player: has sold ap ples In the streets; walked acroes Rus sia on foot and worked on the railways. Published his first story in 1802. sines when his books have reached enormous circulations. Gorky's bitter life affects all hi3 writings, and his tales of real life In Russia have been a factor In the changed eplrit of the Russian people. I. Ikon Carried by the strikers In the pro cessions. A sacred picture. Whole villages are emraged always In painting Ikons, which are sold at a shilling a hundred. K. Kolplno A town 17 miles from St. Peters burg: Crown machinery works and found ries for the navy. L. XJvadia Palace The Czar's residence at U vadla. xm the southern coast of the Crimea. M. Marie, Downsrer Empress Mother of th Czar, widow of Alexander III. Born No vember 20, 1S47. Married November 9, 1806. Martial Law Under the martial law pro claimed In St. Petersburg any accused person cah be arrested, tried, sentenced and executed within six hours. Mlrsky, Prince Svlatopolk Minister of the Interior since the assassination of M. Plohve. Attached to the bureaucracy, but Inclined to relorms. He refused, how ever, to meet ''the deputation of the men on Saturday. ' Moujlk A Russian peasant. A BOYCOTT BY VARDAMAN. WASHINGTON", D. C. Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi, intends to boycott the inauguration of President Roosevelt He has written a sharp letter to that effect to L. Q. C. Lamar, son of the famous Missl&sipplan, who served in President Cleveland's Cabi net and on the Supreme Court bench. In which it is understood he take3 oc casion to express his candid opinion of President Roosevelt. Mr. Lamar, who Is quite sensitive about the good name of Mississippi, declined to make the letter public. The subcommittee having charge of high school representation sent out a letter to the various Governors asking them to Bend a delegation of high .school, students to participate In the Inaugural parade. It was this which ga.ve Governor Vardaman his oppor tunity to show that he is still off the -reservation. He replied to Mr. Lamar, saying that he would have nothing to do with the Inauguration and that he would not send any high school students or any body else. That much Is made known concerning the letter, but Governor Vardaman's reasons for his declination are locked In Mr. Lamar's breast. Jottings. New Tork Corr. in Ghicago Journal. (Those items camo to hand just as we were going to press too late for our typo to sot thorn up. Ed.) New Tork, Feb. 3. Ed Hanks ha built a new sidewalk in front of his place on Fourteenth street Good for Ed. The Hoffman House has a new chim ney. The proprietor of the Dime Restau rant treated ye scribe to a fine dish of oysters last Saturday. Thanks, One of our Broadway policemen shot a mad dog in front of the Morton hoU36 Friday A. M. Quite a number of women were scart. A. Carnegie is home again. - Somcof our merchants are talking of holding a fair in honor of Hendrlk Hud son's birthday. The Sixth avenue street-car line has put on two new cars. Thoy are beauties. We were shown through the new dry goods store yesterday. The men that run it are Mr. Marks and Mr. Cohen, formerly of Dublin, Ireland. Shows are becoming popular here. The opera-house was filled three nights last week. There was a bail at the St. Regis last night There was a good attendance and a fine time was had. More Anon. The Life of a Bride. Minneapolis Tribune. A woman may know that she has ceased to be a bride only when she finds herself saying uncom plimentary things to her husband. The first time her nusband criticises her frocks. When she discovers she is jealous. When he grows economical with his kisses. When she begins to nag. When he becomes sarcastic about the food. When she does not mind coming to breakfast In curl papers. When he tells her now pretty some other woman looks. " When he begins to eulogize his mother. When a meal becomes so quiet that 3he can plan a whole frock between the courses. When he begins to go to his club. When she begins to hunt up her old friends and enjoys calling on them. When he comes in late for dinner. When she forgets to come homo from the matinee in time to greet him be fore dinner. A Busy Microbe. United States Consular Reports. A discovery, it is announced, has been made by Mathew Nellson, a Glasgow man, now residing In Florence. Italy, of a mi crobe which he asserts devours all zymo tic germs in drainage. Further oartlcu tars are not yet forthcoming. RUSSIAN CRISIS ' Empire's Unhappy Dilemma Important and Events. Mouravlcff. Count Minister of Justice. Re ceived Father Gopon in a long conference but was unfavorable to the strikers. X. va The "Thames" of St. Petersburg. The "blessing of tho waters," the ceremony t which a gunshot was fired at the Czar re cently, takes plac once a year, on the Feast of the Epiphany. The function Is 1000 years old. Xersky Prospect The principal street of St. Petersburg, off the Neva. O. OTga. Grand Tiuchcsa Born June 13. 1SS2. Sister of the Emperor. Married the Duke of Oldenburg. ( r. Paul. Grand Bake Uncle of the Czar. Born September 21. 1SS0. Married Princess Alexandra, daughter of the King of Greece. roland Part of the Russian Empire. Area nearly 50.000 squaro miles. Population 9.000,000. Honeycombed with revolution ary societies for the re-cstablishmont of Polish independence. Putllofl Name of the proprietor of the works In which the strike began. ' R. Rydxcffoky, M. Assistant Minister of the Interior: gave the strikers' deputation a cold reception on Saturday night.4 S. Serglus, Grand Dnkc Uncle of the Czar. His life is said to have been attempted at Moscow, the Governorship of which he lately resigned under pressure of public opinion. Born April 29. 1S57. Married Princess Elizabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt. Sevastopol The famous harbor in the Cri- mea. The Russian Admiralty has vast works here, said to be now In flame. Two months ago a serious mutiny was re ported here, 3000 men taking part In th disturbance. The troops were called out and at first refused to Are cn the sailors. Strike The strike which haa had so ter rible a development began on January 10 at the Putlloff works. On the ISth it be came "a political movement, under the direction of Father Gopon demanding universal suffrage, amnesty for political prisoners, liberty or the press and liberty of conscience and the right to combino and hojd moctlngs. From 12.000 on the first day the strikers grew to 45.000 on the third day. 75.000 on the fourth and 100, 000 on the fifth and 141.000 on the sixth. Afterwards it became general throughout , the city, every Industry being affected. I and 272 factories closed. T. Tsarkoa Selo Royal residence and town. 15 miles from St. Petersburg. A popular Summer resort. Tho royal palace, where the Czar is said to have spent Sunday, is surrounded by beautiful parks and gar dens. ' IT. Uhlans A body of cavalry formed after the type of the Prussian Uhlans; Its principal weapon Is the Jance. Ukase A decree of the Czar. The most re cent, issued some weeks ago. promised many reforms, including freedom of the press, freedom of conscience and exten sion of local governent. None Of thes reforms, nowever, have been put Into operation. W. Winter Palace; Royal palace in St. Peters burg. It has a front -of 455 feet and a breadth of 350 feet. Stands on the banks of tho Neva. Burnt down In 1837 and re stored lb 1S39. It has a portrait gallery ot tho Romanoffs, and the crown Jewels are here, including a diamond weighing 185 karats and valued at 2.309,410 ruble? Wltto, M. One df the strongest Russian statesmen, now out of oGlce. He was a private man. nothing more, he told a deputation on Saturday. In the presence of the deputation he rang up Prince Mlrsky on the telephone and Urged the Prince to meet the men. but In vain. M. Wltte Is understood to be opposed to the war with Japan, and his economic policy, when in office, was based on the conviction that the peasant was taxed to his utmost limit and could bear no more burdens. Z. Zemstvo A local council. ODD BITS 0F0REG0N LIFE. Charon Not Attending to Business. Sexprong Corr. Arlington Appeal. We hear lots of complaint about the Castle Rock ferry. Back Friday at Reuben. Reuben Corr. St Helens Mist. Nearly every lady in this, vicinity had their house plants frozen last Fridav night. Mr. Jones' Busy Day. Bucll Corr. Sheridan Sun. Mr. R. R. Jones killed a panther meas uring eight feet frOm head t6 tip of tall, on Camp Creek last Saturday. ' Matrimony Will Out. ' Clatskanle Corr. St Helens Mist. It Is reported that Paul Birkenreld ha3 purchased the cottage in the southern part of the city, built by Vine Tichneor, and will soon take unto himself a wife. Power of the Press. Newburg Graphic Some days ago a subscriber telephoned a "for sale" notice to the Graphic. It "leaked" from the office and as a re sult the subscriber sold all the property advertised before the paper was Issued. Verily it pays, and quickly, to advertise. To Cure Pessimism. Physical Culture., Hang these words on your bedpost or tack them into your brain: I am going to become an optimist From now on I am going to change my entire life and my style of think ing. I will endeavor hereafter to be gen erous in my view toward others, broad minded, large-spirited and kind, think ing well of everybody, mean to nobody, and overlooking tho littlo faults, be lieving that there are other qualities in the man that overwhelm the defi ciency. "There is so muoh bad in the best of us and so much good in tho worst of us that it behooves each one of us to be charitable to the rest of us." I shall see tho bright side of every thing. I shall talk like an optimist, laugh liko an optimist and move about like an optimist conscious of the fact that I shall radiate sunshine and make every one around me happier. Wisdom of Little Fritz. Lustige Blaetter. "It's 7 o'clock, Fritz! We must run home." "No; if I go home now, I shall be whipped for being so Iato. I'm going to stay till 9, and then I'll get bonbons and kisses because I'm not drowned." Do You Remember? Century. Do you remember, little wife. How years ago we two together Saw naught but love illumine life In sunny days or "Winter weather? Do you remember how we two Would stare Into each other's eyes. Till all the earth grew heavenly blue. And speech was lost In happy sighs! Do you another thing recall. That used to happen often then; How, simply passing In the hall. We'd stop to smile and kiss again? Do you remember how I sat And. reading, held your hand in mine. Caressing It wltlr gentle pat " One pat for every blessed line? Do you recall while at the play Through hours of agony we tarried? The lovers' griefs brought us dismay; Oh. we rejoiced when they were married. Ah. me. 'twas years and years ago When all this happened that I sing. And manv a tlm the Winter snow Has slipped from olive slopes of Spring. And now oh, nensense; let us tell; A fig for laugh of maids or men; -.You'll hide your blushes? I'll not Well We're ten times worse than we were tbeu. v