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The Czarina Distraught Over Mys
terious Death Threat That Was
Pinned to Her Infant Sons Pillow
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PINNED to the pillow where Bleeps
the child who, if his life be pro
longed, will sonic day succeed to
lite throne pf Russia, the Czarina, it has
been reported, recently found a note.
Jn brief, terrible words it informed the
unhappy lady that It waa useless to at
tempt to protect the life of her son, that
both the hoy and his father were certain
to be stricken within the twelvemonth.
Mow came it in this place, protected
hs it is by thousands of soldiers, this
frightful threat, every word of which
was a stab to tlie mother's heart. Is
mystery not explained. It Is inr.onipre
heiuiiblo that the most daring Nihilist
rould have passed all the guards and
utolen his way into the moat private of
chambers. Yet the Czarina has preferred
to believe ' this explanation, rather than
accept the other and more awful theory,
that treachery in her own royal house
hold menaces the life of her beloved boy.
The horror of thin incident is but typi
cal of what the royal mothers of Kurope
Br now suffering. t
It 1s the custom to laud the courage
and devotion of mothers of the poor,
and their heroism is Justly praised, but
the least fortunate of them is no more
torn by dread, anguish, fright and mis
cry than half a dozen of Kurope on whose
heads are, set crowns and whose shoul
ders arc wrapped in the purple of king
hood The fright of th Czarina over the
newest throat on the life of her eon
snd her husband, arc but the renewal
of scares that have increased in violence
in the last two years. A score of Rue
clan generals and men high in power
MILLIONAIRES IN CONGRESS
1 lilrty
The Senate Millionaires.
Stuion ttuRBonhelm. Colorado. . , HO.000.COO
Isbrc Strphcnsou. WUconsln. . . . ;;.(hmi.ok
Sirphen 1. Klktns, West Virginia IWOOO.ot'O
. laon TV. Alrirleh. Ttttmi Island. V.MXHi.ooo
John Kean Npw Jcrnry ". . 10,00.0
Itcdrteld r roc tor. Vermont S.000.000
llmry A. Pu Pont. Delaware.. 7.00.ni
Jonathan Hourne. Jr., on'teon . . 7.0HMMM
I'rancis l. New lands. NVvntla 6.000 jmh
I'hauneey M. lrpcv. New York.. ft.OiKl.OoO
tieo. P. Wetmore. Khodc Island p.000,000
M.iruan W. Bulkeley. Connecticut S.oOo.uoo
Levi Ankenv. Washlimton 3.tMH.OO0
Ueorp S. Nixon, Nevada a.OoO.OOO
W. Murrav Crane. Massachusetts :t.oi".ooo
Khr.mi Hale. Maine .. R. 0n VOoO
ignite C Perk Ins. California ... S.ihhi.ooo
V'ramln K. Warren. Wyoming. L'.immi.i'OO
Nnt'iHii B. Soot 1. West Virginia. S.oort.ihMi
Philander C. Knox. Pennsylvania .I.oto.o"
Joyeph B. Foiaker. Ohio LVOoo.OiK)
llciiiv Cabot loilge. Mass ,,.m,,mo
Thomas . Piatt. New York .... l.Ooo.OoO
Jop'-pli W. Bailey, Texas a,lMO.OnO
Albert J. Hopkins, Illinois 1.0oo,4HH
Thomas 6. Martin, Virprrhla .... 1.0OO.(Mh
U vrv A. Ktrhardson, Delaware. Loon.tMHl
William AUlen Smith, Michlsan. l.wm.wo
Piai.k Obadiah Rrtn, N. Jersey l.ooo.ooO
Koheit L. Owon. Oklahoma .... I.Otm.oeo
Uolj Tenrwse. PonnsyUaiHa .... HiOOooO
Keed tfinoot, Utah l.lHHMHa)
500, 000
The Houte't Millionairra.
J "tin K. Andrus. New York! flT.
William B. McKlnlry, Illinois. . . l.V
Cooi kc V BnO. rcmisy Ivanla . . . lit.
Frank O, l.o-wden, 1 1 1 i 11 oi o,
XverH A. Ha cp. California .... I.
I nll V. I-af-an. Pennsylvania. .
Joseph VS. Cannon. Illinois
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Martin K. Olmstead. Pennsylvania 1.
l.lawellyn Powers. Maine 3.
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Wm. W. Foulkri'd, Pennsylvania., a
Martin B. Malon. UHnoli J
Fraud B. Harrison. New York.. J
John W. Weeks, Mfachujieits. . 1
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IN THE "United States Senate every
third man is a millionaire. In the
House of Representatives one man in
every 27 is reckoned worth a million or
more dollars. To bo explicit, the Senate
has 32 millionaires and the House 14.
It is a good deal easier to say this man
or that la a millionaire than it Is to sub
stantiate the- statement. Men of riches
are not given to putting forth appraise
ments of their financial worth. The man
with a humired thousand dollars often
makes more display than the man worth
a hnndrrd times as much. When a man's
fortune in ten millions or more it Ls tm
iosfihlc accurately to suuc it That
have fallen by the mob, the ptetol and
the danger of the fanatic. When the
bumb thrown into his carriage blew the
Grand Duke Sergius to fragments, the
unhappy Czarina saw the assassin's hand
penetrate into her own family. She
knows that the land is honeycombed with
hatred of her line. Her husband, her son.
herself and even her poor little daugh
ters are in the glare of this hatred. One
instant's relaxing of vigilance on the part
of the guarding auldiers, treachery in her
own' household, or carelessness on the
part of herself or her children, may mean
a new tragedy in unhappy Russia, and
more blood of royalty ts pi lied in the never
ending battle with 'Nihilism.
These are tne thoughts the Czarina car
ries with her day and night. These added
to the normal burden of every mother,
the ills of ttie children, their education,
their tendencies, make a weight under
which the truest Spartan might bend.
With every attack on royalty, success
ful or unsuccessful, the fears 'of the
Czarina must be augmented. She must
feel that the chain is tightening, that the
regieides are coming closer. Thirty peo
ple were killed .a couple of years ago
when soldiers fired into a palace of the
Czar, and it was only chance that saved
Nicholas from being numbered with the
slain. v
Nbw in the killing of the ruler of Por
tugal and his sou. the Crown Prince, is
carried to the Czarina the terrible proof
that no precautions can assure safety to
that ruler for whose life his people thirst.
Queen Amelia, in the prime of her life,
robbed of her loved husband and idolized
sou, forms another touching instance of
the woes that beset royal motherhood.
'Not even was she permitted the scant
consolation of grief. When Carlos and
L.uiz were stricken, and her young son,
- two in the Senate and 14 in the Houso.
much wealth, in certain lines of Invest-'
ment. might well shrink or swell a million
dollars over night.
The 46 men named in the accompanying
list are generally accepted by their col
lea arues in Congress as millionaires. The
estimates placed upon their wealth are
based upon information secured from
members of their own state delegations
and frbm other reasonably trustworthy
sources. Some of the fortunes set oppo
site their names may be too high; others
may be too low. But the figures approx
imate correctness.
Many Are Ncar-Millloualres,
There may be other millionaires in Con
gress, but if there are they have suc
ceeded in suppressing general knowledge
of the fact that they have crossed the line
which is accepted as marking the begin
ning of plutocracy. There are any num
ber of men known to be very wealthy
who have not boon set down as million
aires. For instance, Vice-President Fair,
banks is often referred to as a million
aire, but the best obtainable information
places his fortune at between $3)0.000 and
$7io,00rt. Charles A. Culberson, of Texas,
the lemocratlc leader in the Senate, is
another whom common report has placed
In the millionaire class. Senator Culber
son is a rich man, but his friends declare
that to write him down a millionaire
is to exaggerate his wealth. Senator
Brandegee. of Connecticut; Senator Over
man, of North Carolina; Senator Burn
ham, of New Hampshire; Senator Dilling
ham, of Vermont; Senator Flint, of Cali
fornia, and others are in the near-millionaire
class, and most of the Senators
are well fixed. Senator Brown, of Ne
braska, it is iaid, is the only member of
the upper branch of Congress who does
not ow n his own house.
Others on Millionaires lii&t.
Going on down the list, Kean. of New
Jersey, is not regarded seriously as a
statesman, though he is a useful Senator,
and Proctor, of Vermont, does not influ
ence his fellows beyond the respect they
give his hard-headed business qualities.
lu Pont and Bourne are new Senators,
so must b passed. Newlands. of Nevada,
accounted the richest Democrat, lacks a
lot of being most influential among the
minority. If there Is any man in the Sen
ate of l"ss influence than Ipew. of New
York, it is Wet more, of Rhode Island,
who is placed just beneath Dcpcw in the
THE SUNDAY. OREGOXLVX,- PORTLAND, MAKCIl lv, llius,
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ManueL brought to" the throne, a strong
hand was demanded to shape his course
properly, lest the threats of a republic be
carried out. Forced to stifle her tears,
Amelia had to carry herself before the
public with a brave face, and take a res
olute, position back of her son in the
demano:-for subjection on . part of her
people.
Portugal's nearest neighbor and ancient
rival. Spain, has another case of unhappy
royal-motherhood.
Queen Christina's long period of re?
geney, .during the. minority of -Alfonso,
was one unbroken succession of suffering.
The boy's health was bad, to start with.
The jealousy of ministers 'made her task
harder, her country was engulfed in debt,
and as Alfonso grew to young manhood,
he developed wild traits that robbed the
mother of peace, night and day.
Then came the disastrous conflict with
the United States, which took away the
colonial possessions of Spain in the new
world, cost an enormous sum of money,
and resulted only in humiliation and the
death of many of the leaders and friends
of the Queen's happier days.
On several occasions the Queen was
horrified by narrow escapes of her King
son from assassination. In France, .while
riding in a carriage with President Lou
bet, he was made the target for an An
scaling of fortunes. To find a Senator
of large influence among the other mil
lionaires it is necessary to go down the
list to Crane, of Massachusetts, and Hale,
of -.Maine, the latter of whom is one of the
three most powerful members of the Sen
ate. Farther down, in a group are Knox,
Foraker and Iodge, each of whom is in
fluential in his own way. Skipping Piatt,
of New York, who takes rank with
Depew and Wetmore, we come to Bailey,
of Texas. Bailey is influential, and he is
not; it depends upon the question which
happens to be before the Senate. There
is no other man on the millionaire list
who would take rank in a first division
of Senators.
A recapitulation shows that of the 32
Senators put down as millionaires, eight
may be regarded as in the first, rank of
Influence, and 17 as secondary, or even
lower in rank. The other eight are new
members, with their status yet to be
determined.
Kick Men Weak In House.
It is not to be expected that in the
House, with Us larger membership and
fewer millionaires, the millionaires would
be so conspicuously influential, tout it is
somewhat surprising that of the 14 men
on the House's roll of riches Speaker
Cannon is the onlly one who has attained
anything like eminence and power In that
body. It is doubtful if half of the capl
toi guides would -be able to point out
Andrus. of New York, the richest man in
the House. Aside from Speaker Cannon,
the best known of the House's million
aires is Bourke Cockran, of New York,
but he is not influential even in the coun
cils of the minority. Cockran has world
wide fame as an orator, and when it is
announced that he is to speak, riot only
are the galleries tilled, but every member
who can manage it is in his seat. That is
because Congressmen, the same as other
folks, like to be entertained and Cockran
Is entertaining. But neither mueic nor
tears nor yet laughter or applause do the
work of Congress. The orator al ways
may havtf an audience in Congress, but
the day has passed when oratory writes
laws upon the statute book?.
John Dal roll of Pittsburg, Speaker Can
non's first lieutenant, is a wealthy man,
and a million often has been charged up
to him. But he enters emphatic denial to
the impeachment, and will have to be
taken at his word. Among the other men
of potent influence upon procedure in the
lie use. no one is more than moderately
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rVataaasia I it-iiint--- -""-ri if n'Bi . utMiTir tm il HI mr
archist's bomb, which just missed him.
Again in London it was known that a
plot was directed against him, and finally
on the occasion of his marriage, which
should have been a great day-, for. the
Queen, since- it represented the comple
tion of her plan to marry him into one
of the great families of Europe, a bomb
just missed taking the lives of the young
ruler fcnd his bride. Kven now, in time
of comparative peace for Spain, the woes
of the mother continue. She has been
pushed into the background and divested
of all her power, a condition the more
distressing from the fact that her long
regency had accustomed her to command.
. Queen Natalie, once the ruPer of Servia.
drank the cup of w-oe to its dregs when
the murdered bodies of her son and his
supplied with worldly goods. John Sharp
Williams, the Democratic leader, is "well
fixed." He inherited plantations in Mis
sissippi which have increased In value,
but it will be many years before they
will make him a millionaire.
Given Standing by Years.
All through the House there are other
men of good-sized fortunes, and some are
so poor that their salaries- are expended
in advance. Poor and rich alike seem to
be about as influential as their length of
service, their mental qualities, and in
dustry entitle them to be. Of the three,
length of service probably is greatest in
determining the standing of a man. For
In this body of large and shifting mem
bership, only the man whose constituents
will keep him there has opportunity of
impressing himself upon its deliberations.
It would seem, therefore, that so far
as the House is concerned it must be
acquitted of dollar dominance. It is true
that Speaker Cannon, the autocrat of the
House, la a millionaire, but it is easy to
demonstrate that the influence he wields
does not arise from his money. Since the
Reed rules were first adopted, authority
has centered in the hands of the Speaker,
and most, if not all, the Speakers who
have ruled by virtue of those rules have
been poor men. Reed himself had noth
ing, and it was' largely because of his
poverty that he quit Congress to practice
law in. New York.
In the Senate it is not so easy to sep
arate wealth and power. It is true the
richest senators are not, and have not
been most influential. Clark of Mon
tana, for Instance, was a negligible quan
tity as a senator. On the other hand, we
find Aldrich, rated as worth $12,000,000,
made largely in street railway operations,
the father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller,
jr., and grandfather of the richest baby
in the. world, first in influence among
the ambassadors of the sovereign states.
Fairnees. though, compels a look farther
and we find that he has been a senator
for 36 yeans, and that he served four
years in the House before elevation to
the Senate. Thirty years in Congress for
a man endowed as Aldrich is certainly
ought to account for a lot of power.
Kansas City Star.
Ink-l'rablr.
There are microbes and bacilli
And such critics all about.
Oft they Ket Into our syptem
Then we flght and drive 'era out.
But the hardest term to conquer
Is the one that ink contains.
For the scribble bus's a sticker
Once it gets Into your veins.
. Boston Traascrlnt.
wife, the infamous Draga, were thrown
into the garden from-the windows of the
royal palace in Belgrade in order to make
way-.for King Peter. 9
Similar was the experience of Queen
Margarctta. of Italy, whoso husband, the
much regretted Humbert gave up his
life to the assassin, Brescia. She has
never recovered from t he shock of the
violent death of her spouse, and lives a
life that is ever tormented by the fear
that her son, the present King, may
share the same fate.
The sweet-faced Kmpress of Germany
has never had the happy motherhood
that is the right of her lovely nature.
Her royal lrusband's health has never
been of the best, and he has undermined
it by attempting such a programme of
FEUD CLAIMS SIXTY VICTIMS
Hatficld-McC'oy Conflict Tiat Began Over Kazor-Back Hog Continued for 18 Years.
THB death -of Tom Hatfield, the
famous mountain feudist, at
Louisa, Ky., makes about the 60th
victim of the Hattield-MeCoy feud that
began 48 years ago as the result of one
of tlie McCoy razor-back pigs swimming
Tus River from the McCoy place on the
Kentucky side to tlie ancestral home of
the Hatlields in West Virginia.
Tom Hatfield, a descendant of the ter
rible "Devil Anse" Hatfield, was the one
member of that murderous family who
bad been supposed to have a charmed
life. He always escaped' without a
scratch in the scores of murderous bat
tles' between the. Hatfield and McCoy
clans, says the New York Times.
As they tell it on the Tug River, the
w.ar between the Hatfield and McCoys
began just before tlie outbreak of the
Civil War, and it all started over the
ownership of g. Kentucky razor-back hos.
Tlie McCoys at the time were loading
a boat with razor-backs that were con
signed to a Cincinnati porkpacker, when
one of the pigs jumped over tlie boat
railing Into Tug River, and swam straight
for Hatfield territory. The McCoy ne
groes were sent over to capture the pig.
They soon returned and told old Ran
dolph McCoy, the head of the McCoy
clan, that tlie Hatrield negroes had chased
the animal into a ravine and held it. Old
;'Rand" sent word to "Anse' Hatfield
that he wanted his hog back.
"I you think you have boys enough;"
old "Anse" sent word back, "why don't
you come and get the old pig?"
Civil War Delays Feud.
It is said that tlie McCoys were laying
out a plan of battie for the recapture of
the pig when the news that the Civil War
was on readied the West Virginia-Kentucky
mountains. All the McCoys shoul
dered their guns and enlisted for the
South, as did most of the Hatnelds. Some
of the Hatnelds. however. It is said,
fought for the Union.
When the war ended the Hatnelds that
had not been killed in battle and the sur
viving McCoys came back to their homes,
the Hatfields to the West Virzfnia side
and the McCoys to the Kentucky side of
the Tug River, and the incident of the
pig, as was rapidly proved, had not been
forgotten.
Soon after the warring families re
work as would have, daunted the powers
of a man three times as strong.
The growing of a powerful Socialistic
party committed to opposition to the
ruler's military programme has had the
effect of unsettling the nation to such an
extent that the utmost precautions have
to be taken to protect the Kaiser from an
outbreak.
The sons of the Kmpress. while per
haps no worse or no better in morals
than the ordinary, have been a source of
worry from the nature Gf the temptations
that assail youngsters in their exalted
position. Several stories have reached
the- outer world of instances where all
the diplomacy of the Empress had .to be
exerted to prevent the undesirable mar
riage of one of her sops. .
turned there was an election in ' West
Virginia, and the McCoys went across
the river to help one of the candidates.
In the course of the day three of the
McCoy boys, the youngest only 10 and
the eldest about 20 years, met some of
the Hatnelds, one of whom was "Bad
Anse."
There was a fight, and when it was
over Anse was dead from 31 stab wounds.
Later tlie Hatfields captured tlie three
McCoy's, took them to a secluded spot,
tied them to trees, and shot them dead.
Petition Signed at Gun Muzzle.
The McCoys being Kentuckians, the
Governor of that state demanded that
their murderers be returned to Kentucky
for trial. Thereupon the Hatfields got up
a petition and made ' all the neighbors
sign it. When some refused to do so, the
Hatfields made them do so at the muzzle
of Winchester rifles.
The Governor of West Virginia read
this petition and decided that the McCoys
had treated the Hatfields very shabbily,
and they stayed in West Virginia.
A few weeks later John Logan and
Sam Bird, followers of the feudists, were
found dead on the banks of the Tug
River, each with a bullet hole in his head.
So the war went on, and every now
and then news that a Hatfield or a Mc
Coy had been killed 'reached the outside
world.
In 1887 came the bloodiest battles in the
history of tlie feud. In that year the Mc
Coys, led bj; FVank Phillips, raided the
Hatfield strongholds. The fighting lasted
a week and when it was over there were
several dead on both sides.
- A few weeks later the Hatfields re
turned the compliment, and raided the
McCoy territory in Kentucky.
Hatfields Burn SfeCoy Home.
They went to old Randolph McCoy's
home at night, and set the house on tire.
The smoke drov the McCoys out of the
house, and when old Randolph opened the
door he met a shower of bullets.
With his son Calvin the old man re
treated Into the garret, where they opened
a window and began firing through the
smoke. In the meantime Miss Aiophane
McCoy, a young woman, ran out of the
house witli a churn full of milk -to try
to put out the fire. She was shot dead.
later old Mrs. McCoy, the girl's grand
mother, was shot, as was also Calvin
McCoy. "Old Rand" escaped. Krencr
The Dowager Queen of Holland has had
more than her share of trouble, though
it has been of a somewhat different kind
from that which has beset her sister
Queens.
Her woes have grown out of her daugh
ter's unhappy marriage. Holland has
seen no revolutions, nor threats of regi
cide, but the sturdy burghers deeply re
sent the lack of an heir to the throne,
and cordially hate the Prince Consort.
Henry, who at times has been charged
with abusing his wife, W'iVhetmlna.
. All three near heirs to the throne at
present are German. There are the
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimer, a German
sovereign prince, brought up as a soldier
in the Prussian army. Next come his
father's sister. Princess Henry, of Ruess,
formerly wife of the Ambassador to Vi
enna! and finally her son, the Prince
Henry of Reuss.
To any of these as ruler the people of
Holland would be antagonistic, for it is
feared the strong-minded Kaiser would '
exert an effort to get Holland for part
of his domain. The mother of Wilhcl
mlna. intensely proud of the traditions
of her country, revolts at the thought of
a Teuton ruler, and the lack of an heir
to her daughter is an unending tragedy.
The gentle Alexandra, of Britain, has
had her shares of woes of royal mother
hood. In fact, no Queen ot Europe nan
been exempt, and to add to the pain of
it. is the law. of court lif that exacts of
King, Prince or Queen, that in -the face
of the people a smile must ever Be therefj
even though the heart break. .
Hatfield also met his fate here, while
others of his clan were desperately
wounded.
A week later 13 McCoys met 13 Hat
fields, and this time the aim of the
McCoys was so good that they secured
a temporary victory. Among the Hatfield
victims was the notorious Jim Vance.
In 1890 the law got Blisha Hatfield, and.
he paid the penalty of his misdeeds on
the gallows, the McCoys witnessing the
execution. In February, 1890, "Uncle Joe"
Johnson, a member of one of the gauss,
was killed while out on bail for killing
Phil Tumbler.
Pardon ATler Lire- Sentence.
In the Fall of 1WH) there was a story
printed to the effect that the Hatfields
had hung Green McCoy and Milt Haley.
Later the McCoys retaliated and killed
two of the enemy. Then Mrs. James
Brown, before marriage a Hatrield, was
killed. Next John Hatfield killed Ruther
ford McCoy. John was sent to prison for
life, but was later pardoned.
The next most famous battle resulted
in the death of Uenuty Sheriff "Doc"'
Ellis. Ellis was trying to make an ar
rest, when Ellas Hatfield killed him. For
this Elias Hatfield got 12 years, but was
soon pardoned, the doctors saying he had
consumption. He got well and married a
coal-operator's daughter, and a few
months later he was run over and killed
by a train.
Now comes the death of Tom liatlicld.
who was found tied to a tree by tlie
.McCoys and left to die. His friends res
cued him, but exposure necessitated the
amputation of both legs. He then lived
but a short time.
It is said that one of the Hatfield girls
wrote on one of the white pillars in fiont
of the Hatfield home this line:
"There is no place like home.
Underneath a stranger afterward wrot:
"At least this side of hell."
Thn Htentot Tot.
It a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To tot ere the tot ciuld totter.
Ought the Hottentot tot .
To be taught- to say "aught"
Or "naught." or what ought to be taught
her?
Or
If to hoot and toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by a Hottentot tooter,
Should the tooter get hot if the Hottentot
tot
Hoot and toot at the IJotlentot tutor?
Charles S. l'uuiam.