RB Ears A ART ARR 5 Br CLR LVS 15 ERM NICHOLAS 11 HIDES 'HIMSELF "FROM OUBSIDE WORLD, 1 As He Is In Deadly Fear of Assassi- nation--He Angers the Diplomats. The assassination by a woman of Rasputin, the priest-of Mystiven, who was reputed to be the power be- hind the Russian throne, again calls attention to the curipus life led by the czar of all the Russians, who has shut himself off fom nearly every- body but the spiritualists who have the ear of the czar and himself. Nicholas Ii is having a pew wall built to the north of Peterhof Park where he dwells every summer, and dhe will shortly have the high gates i of T'sarskoe Selo made still higher. These are signs and symbols of his latest hermit-like phase. At the new palace at Livadia, whence he recently THE STANDARD ARTICLE SOLD EVERYWHERE Phone, 201 Garage, 917. Le WE, if FLOUR returned, were other hermit lnnova- Our Robin Hood Brand 'of Sour tions, suth a sound-proof doors. in good quality, for thi=z he brought all the way from ANDREW MACLEAN France the architect Robert Chaudet Outarlo 8 . These operations meap that Nicho ans from human life ahd realizing the nickname given him by his subjects AUTOS FOR HIRE after the massacre of January, 1905, ? "Schimnik Nikolai," the hermit At - Wg Nicholas. For three years Nichol ' ' lace cell, and then to St. Petersburg B Later he made some centenary jour: ibby 8. Garage neys;, showing bimself to few, and many. This qualified return to the world, got a bad check by the assass- ination in 1911 of Stolypin. {of a hermit thah ever. When the Romanoff tercentenary was celebrat ed last year only a few thousand AS et ~~ lcral's frightened face over the heads DO NOT RENT. of menacing soldiers. Now even the { motor car leurs around the palace ' # WHY NOT BUY? . Selo, becomes more and more a mo En have wat hap. | Rastery of gloomy people, who are al- We have some gre at bar lowed small communication with the } TO a v vial} mouths discreetly shut b I oms, . good lo ality, at Diplomats, high officials, and the £1500. 1'wo houses, $1600, chiofs of the army regard the imper ha WE A / o d Ie cality Apply to of all are the diplomats. Some of thom have been in St. Petersburg a whole decade, and during that decade ERS' SUPPLY CO. tertainments The levees, drawing 2nd Floor, Room 4, : King Edward Building has s guarantee In every tor | the.west wing where he works, and Land las 11 is withdrawing mere than ever as ventured only twice out of-his pa i fugitive tours through Italy and Ger Since then Nicholas has been more frightened subjects saw their auto- have been. curtailed, and Tsarkoe gains. Two bungalows with joutside world and who keep their lial seclusion as a scandal. Angriesl THE KINGSTON BUILD there have been only two court en rooms, and court balls have entirely ceased, St. Petersburg, once Eu rope's liveliest city, is now the dull est Big nobles without official po sitipns have taken to living in Mos cow as the livelier town. This is reflected in the reports of {R | the police building department, which show that since 1904 there have been seven times as many large villas and good-class apartment houses put up [Bin Moscow as in St Petersburg. High politics are seriously affected Under Alexander 111 and his prede { cossors the foreign diplomats had ) oppprtunities of talking to the czar Fresh Caught Salmo. Live Lobster Dominion Fish Co. evely week, and Bismark, when am baskador at St. Petersburg, carried on Gis wost important negotiations Such =o with" Alexander 1I direct. thing is no longer possible. Ministers also have cause of com- plaint. Twice during the present reign their opportunities of talking politics with the autocrat have been curtailed. Up to 1905 every minister had one weekly audience, when the czar was at "St, Petersburg or ai either of hi# suburban palaces. He was further summoned for special audiences two or three times a 2 does ita work month, and he had the right, when # in a quick and affairs were pressing ,to demand spe a easy way. . cial audiences. After 1905 the . . weekly visit was all that was left It is never sticky, never dust-oollect- . ro vook ® ing. With * (A Risa of During the last year the weekly i visits have been cut short. On the Minimum Rub- Maximum Shine days appointed for audiences the In tins. 18¢, 25¢, 50c. 4 1b. tins 300 1b.. czar's aide-de-camp telephones to the fue use in large instisutions minister's quarters, asking if there Whether it is a polish for fier, furniture, is anything pressing, as if not, the 8 boots, grate or metal, "Cobra" does its audience may be delayed or a me § work quickly and economically: morandum may be submitted, on the , Ask Your Dealer margin of which the czar will write For, 2¢ in stamps to cover postage and his views All this is the result o packing we will esud 4 large etme of Nicholas' now chronic dislike of see ing the human face. When minister of education Sasso went to Tsarkoe Selo, immediately after the restaur ant scandal, in which he wascpub licly boxed by two<young men, he POLISH sagas | BLY & nary 90. uw g . his anti-human moods. Even pre ; mier Goyemykin 8 sometimes turn AAA AAR AAA " poi Furniture S$ ecial ences. Now the head of the govern ment contents himself with one ------------ TTT WATFORD was not received. Casso thought thi od away, When Witte was premier HINTS ON LIVING ROOM PIECE: | weekly audience and with occasional N i. -. Good Figure byaSim- | | i TORONTO ENGLAND was a hint to resign. In reality it he had Audiences three times a week, telephone messages communicated p¢ Rubbing Process Ihe egaed Fotab ae meant that Nicholas was in one of and Stolypig had two weekly audi by irresponsible underlings. | Three weeks ago 1 read .n 1 new { paper ¢f a lady who found that a sin 'ple mixture of herbs could" be rubbed ROOUKERS, EASY CHAIRS, COUUR- fon fleshy Places and that this would ' | gradually dissolve excessive I wy KS, DAVENPORTS, dua dissolv Xcessive Tat wa rely in need of' just such advice, so obtalned from a druggist 1 drachm lof quassia chips-and a S-ounce bottle lof Aréemone. After taking them home {1 put the quassia chips in a pan and | poured over them a teacupful of bothing { water. After standing about one min- {utes 1 strained it through a cloth and { added the aremone. Then I poured the mixture into a bottle and applied it freely. every night and morning with wy hands for about ten minutes, using a gircular movement The fat just ssgmed to melt away each time that 1 { rubbed it on and 1 never dreamed vi © Su edsy to et slender Friends are amased at the improve- ment in my arance, for I have re- dyced 18 pounds of fat from my hips and abd and 1 look i§ DATs younger. Now I feel just Hke stop- Sveery fat woman 1 see and telling 'B:--The above prescription I= ny means, though & 11 ently. in welg its use, and rmiess. CB Ls il Li ic maha Sa na iin + { Frances Ii ' NEEDLE IN BODY FOR 30 YEARS Wo: ks Way Out Through Woman s . Shoulder. Selinsgrove, Pa., July 20.-- F.r 'several months Mrs. Lesta Dreese, 36 years old, hac bad strange pains to her shogid.: She imagined it was rheumatism, but recently it changed to an it hing sensation and when the lady arose the otheé? niorning her nighties: caught on the point of a npedle, yro- tuding feom her shoulde¥ Her hus- band removed the needle wi'. little effort, and the 'rheumatism' has since. disappeared. When Mrs. Dreese was six years old and just learning to sew she accidentally swallowed the needa. i'hysicians were unable to locite it, and as Mrs. Dreese suffered nc in- conv: nience at thé time, no fur'her aitompts were made to remova it. MISS ANNA ADAMS GORDON President of the United * States "White B a Foe ih The fight for International spread of the doctrine of temperance is headed by Miss Anna Gordon, a dis ciple, friend and secretary of the late Willard, so many year the president of (he Women's Chris tian Temperance Union, and the on ly woman whose achievements wol recognition by a statue in the famou hall of fame at the Capital in Wash ington Miss Gordon, as president is devoting her best energies to ths work along the lines laid down b! Miss Willard Miss Gordon was private secretary U Miss Willard and her services have been extensive in the field of temper ance propaganda. Once she wa honorary secretary of the World's W C. T. U., she was world's superin tendent of the great organization' juvenile work, and it was mainly duc to her efforts that: the great exhibi of the collection of dimes from child ren the world over was made at th world's fhir at Chicago. Miss Gor don is an author of hymns and poem: and articles of various kinds. She lives at Evanston, Illinois. Would Rather Laugh. A little boy was gitting on one o! the benches in Central park, New York, watching people ride the don keys An exceedingly fat womar hired a donkey and was about tt mount when she saw the small bo) and said to him: "Little boy, don't you want me t« hire a donkey for you?" "No, thank you. I'd rather sii here and laugh." «How-it feels to be the only X - For twenty-one year™ THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, JULY S TO HONOR AMONG OF GREA1 HUMORIST. #riends 'of His shood Days Havc insured a Call For a Reunion t Dedicate Monument, St. Petersburgh, as it is called in he book Mark Twain wrote about Com Sawyer of Hannibal, Mo., to use 1s every day name, is preparing fai \ big homecoming this fall on the da) shen the monunient to the autho: will be dedicated. The chums ol Mark Twain, assisted by the lates rendration, hope to have the presid .nt, the governor of Missouri and many other statesmen there, and are also endeavoring te make connect ions with the more noted humorist: 0 as Lo have a convention of thal guild, Then, of course, subpoenas nave been issued for all former re- sidents of Hannibal to appear and tc "fail not at their peril," The niohument is placed on the Xf hijshest point in the new Riverside park, from which vantage one can ffnee many miles of the majestic Fa- ther of Waters. It is said Ma I'wain himself, who knew the stream from St. Paul to its mouth better than he did his lessons at school, once remarked this was the finest view on. the river, 1t takes in al- most every foot of ground over 'which rom Sawyer, Joe Harper, Huckleber- ry Finn, and the clan conducted their | enterprises. Tom Sawyer's land is an ideal play- ground. The redman discovered its heauty and resources. Then came the wrench aid American settlers. These were followed by Tom Lawyer's con- raries, ow grey haired men, butfirm in their conviction there is no better place on earth. Hannibal on-the-M skippl 12 a picture town, rivaling in location many of the more famous. cities of the RDINE. «In such an environment it was. no wonder that Sam Clemens, the irk: spattered printer boy, should grow up with an imagination that=set all the world to talking A flat, wn- sightly countr$ could never have pro- duced such a story telling artist. Tom Sawyer's Land, Sam found scenic counterparts on is own playground for the interest- ng places in the big world about hich he never tired of reading For : buccaneer's island there was Glas- osx Island, just below the city, and 'urtle Island just above. Either vas well adapted for the seclus- on of a piratical rendezous, and both sed as such by Tom Sawyer, Huckle verry Finn, Joe Harper, and the bal- nee of the young "desperadoes" ho followed the black banner of heir 'desperate' leader. The brigand caves of romance core no more. sinister and niyster- ous than McDBugal's cave, with its niles and wiles of unexplored laby- inths, its wonderful waterfall, its dng's parlor, its cathedral, and is egion of dreadful black bats. , "Bingen-on-the-Rhine"' wag a head iner, on the last day of school al {annibal until one day Clemens, vho in his youth loved to find out hings, told the boys that the river hey had been declaiming about so nuch was only 1,700 feet wide, while he Mississippi was aver a 'mile wide. From Lover's Leap on the south, Jf the crest of Riverview pary on he north, you can view with the un- \ided eye forty miles of magnificent iver, and every mile a different cene. It would take a fast express \n hour to pass your sight, travelling he length of your vision, or a swift teamboat over two hours. There are still living in Hannibal + number of old men who were boy- 10d chums of Samuel Clemens, and hey will, of course, be prominent in he celebration. "HUNTING FOR DEW WORMS. fisherman on the street' --Timely cartoon by James Friss," FR mA SR RRS FA 8 Bp NED TR 8 0 ti nghieiiei 3 ' 3 wins 21,194, . .{ PRIEST STOPS KISSING BRIDE. Maintains Solemnity Without Any | Survivals of Barbarism. Chicago, July 21.--These are the | rules that hereafter will govern wed-- {ing ceremonies in Our Lady. of Lourdes church: 1---Don't kiss the bride in church, +t the train or anywhere in'*publie. a. Don't throw rice at the bride sr bridesmaids anywhere. 3----Don't throw flowers like pag- ans. 4--Don't throw old shoes or pla- card cabs, The rules were promulgated by Father James M. Scanlan, who three months ago took charge of the par- ish. He came from' St. John's church, in the First Ward, where for fourteen years he was pastor. Our Lady of Lourdes church is lo- cated in a neighborhood where there are many young people, and where social gayeties throng the calendar. Hence the announcement of Father Scanlan created more interest than anything that haggoccurred in the parish for months. get that it is a sacrament when per- formed in the church, but the cus- toms that have grown up, silly and meaningless except for some super- stition, are survivals of barbatism. {t is brutal, to Kiss the bride en masse, to mob her in publie, and to pelt her with rice and shoes. Such customs foster brutality and super- stition. I don't object to some fun at home. it may be all right to kiss the bride there, but rice throwing | should be barred every where." WOMAN MAKES SNUFF Conducts Only Factory of Its Kind In Indiana. South Bend, Ind. July 21.-- This city has a unique industry which, according to Peter J. Kruyer, Uni- ted States revenue collechor, was one of the reasons for bringing the revenue office to South Bend i The only snuff manufacturing firm in the seventy-nine counties, 1 ich comprise the seventh revenue ihe United States. district, is situated here. It is one of the few industries of the kind n The local huff factory is rum en- tircly By a woman, Mrs. A Soder- berg Her husband, an employs? nt a local factory, had been a vser of suuff for many years, and fina'lr Mrs. Soderberg decided to begin 'is manufacture although she despises the drug : The: gross annual business of th concern to-day is $15,000, of which $2,000 must be paid to the go ern- ment in taxes * vot Like Olden Days. United States Senator Isaac Ste- 1 phenson, of Wisconsin, was 85 years, old on June 18 On the morning | of that day he picked up a list of food supplies that the cooks at his hig lumber company's camps may araw on. 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