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CZARINA WHO TRIES TO WORK CHANGE
Bus'sians Good Lovers but Unfaithful HusbandsAll Classes Have Two or Three Wives Openly Acknowledged
in Society and Czarina's Effort at Reform Brings Only Laughs.
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-Russian! make the best lovers In
lb world." enthusiastically
Cimtd Mise Halite Ermlnle Reeves, the
well-known American authoref. a few
moattia ao In Peterbur. Aa wife of
roat Wfceeler. who la In the American
diplomatic serrtce. and now etatloned
at St. rterbr-. Mia Reerea haa had
plenty of opportunities of studying
Rutslan aocleiy. And ret her atate
ment. which aroused great Interest as
cornice from a. distlna-ulshed American,
waa denied br sereral Russlana "They
are the best lorers. perhaps." answered
pe Princess, ""but they make the worst
husbands la the world." "They are
a-lorlously unfaithful." remarked one
of the Tsar a adjutants, addlns. -But
what dos that matter?"
The fact Terrains that the marrlae-e
bond Is looser In Russia than farther
wet. no matter what class you take.
Nobody looks upon It aa final, whether
Prince or peasant. Plvorce. though
theoretically so difficult to obtain that
forelgnera wonder why the holy synod
does not chanpe an antiquated proced
ure, la easier than In any other coun
try.' not barring America. The other
day a well-known diplomat waa In a
Petersburg drawing-room and asked a
Russian to introduce him to hla wife.
"Which oneT" was the retort. "There
are three of them here at thla moment.
My latest Is standing over there." This
Is not a rare case.
To have three wives, not divorced,
and Ur with them all seems ridicu
lous, and Tt It happens In Russia and
all three are received In aoclety. Rua
slans are far less strict about these
things than Americans are. Take, for
Instance, the case of Count Tarlo. who
Is well known In Moscow and Peters
burg society. He haa three wives. One
he married "In a civil marriage In
Petersburg. Thla civil marriage con
sists In putting In the papers an an
nouncement to the effect that Mr. So-and-So.
la henceforward going to ac
knowledge Mrs. or Miss Somebody as
Ms wife. Some people object to re
ceive the lady for a tlmf. Rut hun
dreds of houses are open to her and
the stricter ones give In after a while.
Marriage Badly Mixed.
So Count Tarlo had a wife In Peters
burg. IU second wife lives In Moscow.
He married her while still young, so
she ouht to be called his first wife.
The lady and the Count differed on some
olnts. and each went a separate way
But there are children. Tarlo goes to
lee them and lives In his wlfes house
and goes with her Into society while
the visit lasts. In Moscow the elder
wife Is received as the Countess Tarlo;
In St. Petersburg, the younger one en
joys this distinction. The Count's third
wife lives in the country, where she
meets are receives the neighboring
landed proprietors as the Countess
Tarlo. The most extraordinary part
about such domestic conditions, from
our point of view. Is that Russian law
ran not touch theni so long as the In
terested parties do not complain,
though the church, of course, forbids
a man to have more than one wife or
a woman more than one husband at a
time. The church only allows her
clergy to marry once, and forbids the
remarriage of a widower-clergyman;
but does not appear to think such re
strictions necessary for the laity.
inmi.ar of the manr cases of big
amy." as It would be called anywhere
els. Is that of Olonel Millar, who mar
ried a Miss de Roberts when he was
Governor of Kovno. a large town In
Lithuania- The Count left this post
after some years and removed to Pe
i...),nrr while his wife remained at
their estate nesr Kovno. When In
Petersburg he met a Madame Pxcva
nek. who had been divorced from her
.ttnd- and proclaimed her as his
wife. He Is now Chief Magistrate of
the City of Warsaw, and goes Into Rus
sian society with his "second" wife.
Wife No. 1 Is still In the country, but
makes no attempt to press for her
rights or get a divorce. Her husband
visits her occasionally and her children
are with their father most or tne ume.
This state of things would not be tol
erated In American society, both the
man and his second wife would find It
hard to get a footing Into any respect
able house. And yet these cases are so
common In Russia that nobody takea
iht notice of them.
Mrange Ca.e Confusing.
A curious Instance of this kind elec
trifled even Ft. Petersburg some time
uo. A young army Captain. Apanoff,
who had lust married, was sent out on
active service. Several years passed,
and his wife heard no newa of him. ao
she thought him dead, though his name
had never appeared on the lists of
killed which were Issued by the War
Office. Last year she married another
man. without producing the certificate
of her first husband'a death, which
would be demanded In any other coun
try. After she had been married sev
eral months a visitor was announced
riir as she sat In the drawing
room, and her first husband entered.
The situation was exceedingly awk
ward, but what astonished their friends
most wis the fact that the first hus
band. Instead of settling the question
h a duel, or at any rate a game of
cards. In which the disputed wife
formed the stakes, insisted in taking
' the question before the tribunal and
riRlmlnz his wife In a legal way. This
step puszled the Judges aa much as 1
antonlshed society. There waa no
precedent to go on. and both martlages
were quite legal accornina m ioo cu
tnm of the country. The case Is no
likely to be decided for years, and
everybody blames the parties concerned
for not "fixing It up" privately, society
Micr ready to accept their verdlct-
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Foreigners who see these things going
on In perfectly -good - society r
thelr eyebrowa and ask "Why?"
The answer Is so difficult to find that
vn throw Russians who have traveled
much disagree about It. Most of them
put It down to the Asiatic Influence of
ation and this la the
oi.lnlon of a member of the Holy Synod,
who seld: "The question, of course.
seems almost Inexplicable to foreigner.
Rut nobody can understand us Russians
unlera he understands the Influence of
the Tartar. Though remaining Orthodox
In name, the Runinans of that time were
so used to seeing all sorts of Moham
medan customs. Including polygamy, all
around them, that It ceased to trouble ,
them, and found many imitators imom
the pure RuswIunJ-. as well as among those
who had married into iannr ....
Boveral t hrlstian Kings, of Rus and Mus
covy, which compose the modern Russia.
followed the Tartar laemons 10 m. -
tent of keeping three or four wtvee. The
life of a RusMnn woman was spent In a
harem till Pctor the Great, who had
learned other Ideas In Europe, determined
to Introduce them into kussss- i"
women "caught on" so very reluctantly
hat he was obliged to Jssue rescript
which forbade womfyt to cover mcir
r.M. i miMi and ordered them to at
tend the theaters Cxar Peter opened In
Moscow and St. FetereDurg.
Wires IVon at Dice.
cwnn..n rA esoeclallv French cus
toms, gradually came In; but these seml
Ortenutl views of marriage still remain.
Kvtn today wives are nought and sold.
The parties concerned settle the matter
by gambling for the woman. More than
one well-known dame in St. Petersburg
society owes her present position to the
turn of a card, or the throw or mo uit-o.
One peculiar union is wnat is -
political marrUige. of wnicn air. .
Mrs. Ivanoir are a iair
Ivanoff was a revolutionist ana mraio
of the same party as her husband, whom.
owever. she had never seen oeiore
nisrrlnge was arranged. ne wae im
prisoned. Her advice was greany ntru
by those outsme. as snti nu
eral bold attacks on the government. Only
her mother, father or husband was al
lowed to visit her. Her parenu.
not revolutionaries, and she bad no bus
band. So the committee of the party or-
crcd Ivanoff to marry her, so as 10 p
the right to visit ner id pn.u.u
obeyed and now visits her twice a week,
carrying party messages to and 1.
One reason wny loreignera " "
Russian customs on tne spot cu u.
Idealise peasant me is me
they take auch a very proealo view of
marriage. M .
Courtship, as we understand It. is
almost unknown In the Russian village.
A glrVa beauty counts lor nuim
her chances of finding a husband, with
the result that a pretty rlrl generally
leavea her native nest as soon as pos
alble, to seek an Irregular life In the
towns. What the peasants look lor
are robust health and a strong pair of
arms, alnce the women do all mens
work, even to PrlcKiayin. n .
too. of a Russian worklngman making.
home" for bis mate woum u.c.
enter their heads. The customs are tar
n.trirchai for mat. im "
married pair live with the bridegroom a
father and mother. Indeed, the bride
haa been chosen by her mother-in-law.
with the help of a woman called
.khr a aort Of gO-Detween in mo
marriage market. The bride brings no
Mriinn but her wedding outfit, con
.i.H.. r h!f m. dozen chemises, two
pairs of boots, a sheepskin, pillows and
a bed cover, but enriches her husband s
family by working for mm in tne neiu
u nm ilia ion to And work, gen
erally spending the whole Winter, and
often many years, away from his na
tive village. The aoll la too badly tilled
to enable the whole family to live on
it. so he must go away. He returns
home for the harvest, when all pos
sible hands are needed In the country.
If his work does not keep him in the
factories. But the chances are ten to
nn that he haa taken to himself a
second wife In the town, who. though
knowing of the existence of wife num
ber one. does not trouble about her.
Distances are so long and communica
tion so difficult thatrthey will probably
never see one another, though cases
are by no means rare when they meet
and even live together on fairly good
terms.
Gorky's Case Is Recalled.
This system helps one to understand
Gorky's astonishment when New York
tabooed him for traveling about with
a lady who waa not his wife. "She is
my wife In my eyes and the eyes of
God," he Indignantly toia nowppr
T tinrietirtand tne stales i
all." he complained on reacning cm-
rone. "They eay it is a ireo
nd yet I couia not. nuu
mtmm W M Willi HI ICVVBU " " '
These words explain the whole differ-
ence between Russian laeas nu uui.
The lady with whom he went to
America was known among his rnenas
his wife. His -first.- who kucw.
too, and did not oojecu iwc,
he aeked. "ehould other people?"
The same Ideas run mrouKn an
classes, and this is wny noooay ever
stops to censure them. People rush
Into marriage witnout nesnanun
cause It IS so eaey 10 biio -
yoke as soon as It proves Duroensumo.
The present Tsarina's Ideas about the
marriage bond have done much
towards making her unpopular among
the aristocracy. Having been brought
up in her simple German home with
very different Idea, ahe was Inex
pressibly shocked at the "laxity." as
she termed It, which prevailed among
the ladles of the court. She even went
so far as to say she would not receive
divorced women into ner immuii
circle. "Then you will see nobody," the
Dowager Empress V al to n? J'"
torted. Many ladies were cut off the
llet of waiting ladies, or "frayling. as
they are called, on this account, with
the result that the aristocracy only
frequented the court when absolutely
obliged to do so. This curtailment of
the circle of the Tsarina has grown to
such an extent that many princely
houses think It useless to go to the
capital and live In Moscow, always the
"capital of the dlecontented." since St
Petersburg was built. The Tsarina
gave great offense once by calling out
Indignantly to a maid of honor, whom
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she saw kissing one of the little Grand
Duchesses. "How dare you embrace my
child?' The maid of honor was so hurt
that ahe persuaded her husband to
give up a very high position at court
ao that she might retire. The Tsarina
explained her words by saying that
though she could not help seeing the
wife of a high official at court, she
felt that the caress of a woman of
such utterly worthless reputation
could only contaminate an innocent
child. The Tsar has quite bowed to
her opinion in this matter, but his
mother laughs at her daughter-in-law,
collecting around her many of those
friends of her youth on whose foibles
and "Asiatic ideas," as the young Tsar
ina calls them, she has winked for ao
long.
But. so far. the Empress Is alone In
her efforts to reform Kussia's ideas on
the subject of marriage. People all
over the country, where political lib
erty Is . a myth, enjoy, and evidently
mean to keep, an amount of individual
license unknown elsewhere. Social se
verity Is therefore tabooed. Nobody
asks how many wives a man hae, or
how many husbands a woman has
wedded. Even the ordinary forms are
uncared for. Married men and women
openly go about with their sweethearts
and no hostess would dream of asking
her friends without Including their af
finities In the Invitation. The "liaisons"
are talked about quite openly and
lapses from domestic virtue are Invari
ably excused.
field for civil prohibitive legislation?
Our next subject will be "The Deca
logue and the Republic."
OIL LEASE CAUSES MURDER
Rich Kansan Kills President ot
Company Which Contests.
CANET, Kan.. Jan.' 7. J. T. S. Nee.
ley, president of the Wichita Pipe Line,
president of the Lima fOhlo) Trust
Company, and head of several large oil
companies, was snot ana Kiuea mo
Palace Hotel here this morning by Al
O. Truskett, a prominent business man
of Caney. The shooting was the result
of litigation over an oil lease. Truskett
surrendered Immediately. -
Truskett Is of one of the oldest and
wealthiest families In the city.
The lease which led to the litigation
between Truskett and the pipe line
company was to a tract of oil land four
miles south of this city. Robert F,
Goodman, a minor Indian, who owned
the tract, leased it several years ago.
to Hugh Bronson. an oil man. wio later
disposed or it to Winkler, Anerfleld &
Hicks, a local oil firm, for $400. Trus
kett paid this firm J9100 for the lease.
Shortly afterward the Wichita Pipe
Line Company claimed the lease of the
tract, saying It had come into posses,
slon of it through a lease by Goodman
to Fred C. Losser and Herbert Scott,
who were interested in the Wichita
Company. The company asserted that
the leasing to Truskett had been il
legal. . ,
Owen Owen, of Caney, a nephew of
Senator Owen, of Oklahoma traveled
with the Indian boy, Goodman, from the
time the rival claims arose until the
boy became of age, September 24 last.
It was said Owen was In the employ of
the Wichita Company. On the date
Goodman became of age, the Wichita
Company began action In the Federal
Court to clear its lease to the land.
Litigation haa been in progress ever
since. Truskett asserted the pipe line
company used undue Influence on the
Indian boy, spirited him away and
finally bought from him the lease for
J5000. i
VEIN OF COAL IS FOUND
Property of I4ttel, Near Centralla,
Will Bo Developed at Once.
CENTRALIA, Wash., Jan. 1. (Spe
cial.) Another industry has been add
ed to Lewis County. At Llttel. eight
miles from Centralla, a splendid vein
of coal has been discovered after care
ful development, and the company ex
pects to have more than 200 men at
work there before the end of this year.
About 60 miners will begin work with
in a few days.
A remarkable feature about the new
mine is the difference of Its coal from
the kind hitherto mined In this oounty.
Nothing but lignite has, so far, been
mined here, but the new vein is lounci
to be bituminous, similar to the coal
mined In Virginia collieries.
CHRISTIANITY'S AUTHOR
IS RULER OF NATIONS
Writer Sees Divine Power IfctabUshiiii Its Rule on Earth in the Unrest
and Upheaval Among Nations.
Jfo. S.
- BT REV. J. H. 'LErPER.
Having reached the conclusion in our
last article that the American Republic
is a Christian Nation, we proceed to
elucidate the necessary and reasonable
deductions. To be Christian is to be in
harmony with Chrlat In word and con
duct. Christ sustains a much closer re
lation to the church than he does to the
state. He Is the head of the church
(Colosslans. 1:18) and "the head over
all thlnaa (else) to the church." (Ephe-
slans. 1:22).
It might be profitable to secuiansta to
discern the import of that phrase. "Head
over all things to the church," and then
to remember that the "all things in
cludes civil government. This world In
Its present probation would not stand
an hour were it not for the presence. ot
God's redeemed people In It. It ft
axiomatic that the great Redeemer of
man could never have accomplished his
mission to our world unless all things
and all powers had been made subject
unto him. Bad men pale In his pres
ence; and devils tremble. Of course the
secularist refuses to accept either our
argument or conclusion. So much the
worse for him. He Is Coleridge's owl
flitting athwart the aky under glare
of the noonday aun, seeing nothing
not even the aun itself. We refer the
reader to the Bible as authority in our
riiiu?uaslon In the confidence that all
will recognise the propriety of doing
so without our stopping here to estab
lish Its Inerrancy.
The Bible's assertions of the supreme
rulershlp of the Redeemer of man are
so numerous that we shall refer to a
very few of the most prominent- All
Bible scholars agree that the person
referred to In Psalm 110:1 as lord."
from the Hebrew AdonU Is the Messiah
of the Old Testament and the Christ
of the New Testament. The first, sec
ond, fifth and sixth verses proclaim
his supremacy over human rulers. He
la expressly declared in this official
character In the book of Daniel (7:
13-14.) He himself laid claim, to uni
versal supremacy. "All power is given
ti ma In heaven and In earth" (Mat
thew 2S:18.) John, while on the island
of Patmos heard a voice from heaven
,.vlni: "The kingdoms of thla world
are become the kingdoms of our Lord
and of his Christ; and he ahall reign
forever and ever" (Keveiationa n:io.j
This power has never been and never
will be surrendered or delgated to any
man or angel. Men have denied Its
iatence and - myriads still deny and
ignore It. They are anarchists in the
realm of 3od
Why do heethea nations rage? Why vain
thinH do MODle mind?
of earth In plots Dsas; rulers are
In league combined.
Tim. asalnst the lrd they speak
aialnit hla Christ they say:
t ... . inln their bands to braak, let us
fmt their cords away.
Ha shall laush who sits above. Ood most
high shall scorn them all.
Them nl anger fierce reproce; burning wrath
h.;l tn them fa.ll.
Tht fact for the recognition of
which we are pleading is as clearly
....rteil In the letter to the Romans.
(13:1-7) as It Is possible for human
language to make it. (&ee the pas
sage.) When Paul wrote these words
Nero was on the Roman throne wield
ing in the moBt diabolical manner the
scepter or tne empire. e waa nroaiy
abusing tne power wun wnicn no w
thus
clothed. His administration was a
travesty of Justice. Paul was enjoy
ing obedience to civil authority as an
authority of God. He was not com
mending Its awful abuse by a wicked
emperor whose hands were red with
the blood of his own mother and w'fe
and with the blood of thousands of
the followers of Christ. Nero stepped
out into the blackness of darkness by
his own suicidal hand at the age of
31 to account to him who has said:
"Vengeance is mine; I will repay saith
the Lord." But he left the throne be
hind him. And the righteous features
or Roman law remain to this day 'n
the Jurisprudence, of civilized nations.
But only those elements of Roman law
traceable to the divine source have
come down to us through the ages.
The infallible lawgiver is gradually
and surely casting the Jurisprudence
of the world to the knowledge of
the rock principles of civic righteous
ness. "He must reign till he has pot
all enemies under his feet." (Cor.
1:24.)
The gradual and certain fulfillment
of this prediction is exactly what Is
causing the unrest and upheavals
among the nations. "I came not to
bring peace on- the earth," said Jesus,
"but a sword." And as long as satan
Is permitted to muster his minions
against the advance of Christian civil
ization that sword will refuse fo re
turn to its scabbard. People who pray
have for long, long ages been Implor
ing the lord of nations to establish
his rule on, the earth: "Thy kingdom
come," has been their prayer. There
are encouraging signs of an approach
ing answer to that prayer. It can
only be answered after the removal of
dominant evils. The most serious
feature of the situation is the fact
that some of the most formidable
forces of evil have succeeded in forti
fying themselves behind human enact
ment. For example, there are on the stat
ute books of various states of the Re
public more than two-score reasons
for divorcing husbands and wives. All
but one or two of these reasons are
in contravention of the divine law.
How has it worked? Between 1868 and
1887 (I have no later statistics) 328.
716 divorces were granted" by our
courts! In the .llrht of such figures
what becomes of the sanctity and
purity of the home?. Tell me of your
firesides and I will tell you of your
Nation. The stability of the Nation can
be secure only when the' home is main
tained on the divine basis of marriage
and divorce.
The drink traffic has succeeded In
drawing the folds of our National flag
about Its unspeakable form. Its friends
conceived the strategic idea of enlist
ing the Savler of sinners and placing
him at the head of their ranks; be
cause he furnished unfermented wine
at a Jewish wedding! They would
have us believe It was intoxicating
stuff. And thus they would make a
brewer out of the son of God! But
the same spirit that sanctioned that
act of Jesus Christ held Solomon's
pen while he wrote: "Look not thou
on the wine when It is red. when It
glveth Its color In the cup, when It
moveth Itself aright (ferments). At
the last It blteth like a serpent and
stingeth like an adder." (Prov. 23:31
32.) Htfw suggestive is the next verse of
the kindred of the vices! "Thine eyes
shall behold strange (lewd) women
and thy heart shall utter perverse
things"! (obscenity and profanity.)
The pen of Solomon easily glided from
the description of the one vice to. the
other. Then as now they were in
separable. Are the vices a legitimate
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