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THE MOSCOW TRAGEDY.
The "best description of the Russian
government evidently Ib autocracy
tempered by assassination. 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.
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