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THE CZAR|NA'S HOME LIFE
Barbaric Splendor of Russia's
Court Oppresses Her
HAS SCORES OF PALACES
But Simplicity Is the Rule Of Her
Household
tious-simplicity Marks the Furnish.
ings Of Her Private Rooms

ST, PETERSBURG, Jan. 14.-A peep
into the home life of the empress of Rus
sia throws a pleasing side light on the
somewhat austere young woman whom
fate has elevated to position more DOW
erful than that occupied by any of her
sex in the world, not excepting her
grandmother, the queen Of England.
Victoria is the creature Of her ministers.
The czarina dominates her empire and
dominates it for good
The yourg car has been criticised of
late for acting independently of his min
listers. Some have limited that he would
develop into a second edition of Emperor
William of Germany. But it is not
egotism that impels Nicholas to throw
off the yoke Of precedence; it is the wis
dom of his wife. She has fixed upon
practical ideal for the government of
Russia, and it includes many features
offensive to the czar's advisers. On many
questions he has had to chose between
the wishes Of his wife and of his minis
ters. The later were based upon the iron
bound system of Russian policy; the
former upon the simple rules of kindly
Christianity. and those have been fol.
Lowed almost without exception.
To the outside world the empress is
a cold, naughty woman, with a stately
repose as calm as a statue. She has
made few real friends in the court cir
Gle because of the many changes she has
enforced in customs of long standing,
But in private life she is another woman.
Goodness and stateliness vanish, giving
way to good humor and genial pleasan-
tries.
haps five feet, eight or nine inches in
height, and her erect carriage makes her
seem even taller Her husband is good
two or three inches shorter. Her COM
plexion Is of unusual fairness, her fea-
lures regular and her large eyes are of
a dark grayish blue. She has one tiny
imperfection, small mole at the corner
of the mouth. Her voice is low and
deep,almost like that of tragedy queen,
but when she laughs it breaks into a
musical falsetto.
HER CHANGED LIFE
When she was Princess Alix of Hesse
her surroundings were comparatively
poor for a parsonage of royal blood, and
many economies were necessarily prac-
ticed of which the outside world knew
next to nothing. She has lived in an
English lodging house, and, what is
more, she sent the owner of that house
a magnificent gift shortly after her mar
riage. The change from comparative
poverty to empress of the most splendid
court in the world was indeed a change.
To picture the magnificence of the Rus
sian court would be be work of years.
The wealth of centuries of mobiles. the
treasures Of unnumbered rulers of Ash
attic Kingdoms, the riches torn from hun
dreds Of millions of servile subjects for
generation after generation, and all ac-
cumulated and accommodating form an
aggregation of wealth that is immeas-
ureable.
Much Of the oriental love Of spIentior
formed dominating trait in all the
czars Of Russia up to the present en-
peror and his father. The result is a
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RicklnDa

No wonder litigation thrives. There are
nearly 100000 lawyers in this country.
In ancient Roman history the Julian pc
riod began 4113 B. c. In modern Kansas
City history the Julian history dates from
Dec. 10, 1895.
Rich asphalt fields have just been dis
covered in Mexico which threaten to rival
those of Trinidad. The American vice
consul at Matamoras telegraphs that an
asphalt field. twenty miles square. has just
been found near that place and that capt.
taiists are preparing to work it.
The president of leading Chicago ma
tional bank. whose capital is $1,O00,000. is
an 1rishman, the vice president is He
brew, the cashier is Scotchman and the
assistant cashier Is an American. That
bank is cosmopolitan enough officially to
attract patronage from all classes.
There are goingt ODE some remarkable
features in the big Inauguration parade
in Washington March 4th, and one of them
Will be the appearance in line of the Allie
gheny County SiX-Footers' club of Pitts
burg, Pa- Every one of the 100 members
of this organization Is at least six fee.
tall and some of them are veritabe giants.
They will be equipped with full dress uni
forms.
When DR.. Munford was in control of the
Kansas City Times he offered a $lOO prize
for the best short story of western life,
New Years, 1893 1t was won by Capt
Henry King, then of Topeka in a very
graceful sketch. He moved to st. Louis a
few months later, where he became an
editorial writer on the Globe Democrat.
Recently he was appointed managing edi-
tor of that paper, succeeding the late j. B.
McCullagh.
Waterloo, where Napoleon was finally
oVerthrown, is small village in Belgium,
on the edge of the forest of Soignies, eight
miles southeast of Brussels. Even the
musketry fire of the great battle was
distinctly heard in the Belgium capital. In
French history Waterloo is frequently al
luded to as the battle of Quatre-Bras, Just
as the south employs different names for
several of the big battles of the rebellion.
A successful monkey farm has been es
tablished in the Florida Everglades by w.
w. Jacobus of Brick Church. N. j., who
has succeeded in raising breed of
monkeys whose meat, when properly
dressed, is found to be most beneficial for
epicures and dyspeptics. Mr.. Jacobus and
his partners in the enterprise have de-
voted large portion of the last year to
putting the monkey farm in paying condi-
tioni and are now about to market large
output of meat
At Hartford City, Ind, hog swallowed
with evidences of great enjoyment a cou-
pie of quarts of nitro glycerine, which had
run out ia can on the ground. In a. few
minutes the animal began to get gay. It
snapped at the heels of a horse and when
it received a. kick as reward for its au-
dacity, the poor porker exploded with a
loud noise, and a portion of it's flesh was
afterwards picked up on an adjoining
farm.
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Boston Athletes Meet and R0nte
Enthusiasm
A SKATING CHAMPIONSHIP
Decided at an international Meet at
Montreal
Philadelphia Gets this National Wheel fleet .
Pugs Preparing for Big Hills and
Little Ones
Associated Press Special Wire


BOSTON, Feb. 6.-The big indoor
meeting of the Boston Athletic associa-
ton was held tonight in Mechanics
hall. Intense enthusiasm was shown by
the 5000 people who witnessed the games
The cream of the athletic talent of the
country competed, and representatives
from all the principal colleges competed,
Yale sending delegation Of twenty-five
men.
Champion Amateur Sprinter B. j.
Wefers was the favorite with the crowd
and when he won the 40-yard invita-
tion scratch over Grosvenor ofthe Tech
nology, and other good ones. equaling
the worlds record of 3-5 second, held
by Bloss, the spectators yelled them
selves hoarse. The first chance of the
novices to show their speed was in the
novice 40-yards scratch. r. M. Graft,
the Yale freshman, who was looked upon
as the coming amateur runner, won the
sixth heat In the fast time of Az seconds,
which was the best time made in the
trials. The final heat of this race was
one of the closest and hardest contested
during the evening. K. c. Jones of Phil
lips Exeter, made fight with Graft for
first honors. These two men easily ran
away from the field ana nnished dead
heat. This was run over. Great in
terest was shown in the team races, and
wnen Manager Graham stated that the
Il. a. A. was unable to get a team to-
getner, having at present but five run
ners on the track, there was great disap-
pointment. Harvard's colors were 10
the front in her relay race with Penn
sylvania. The latter took the lead at
the start but Harvard took the lead with
Williams, her second man, and held it
throughout. Holster winning by two
thirds OF lap, the time being Sis.
Old Eli carried away the honors in
tlie Team race with Georgetown, although
Wefers of the latter team made a
plucky fight in the last thirty yards.
Amherst downed her old rival Will
ilams, and Brown university defeated
Technology.
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broken pens and stained blotting paper,
still litter the table; in the wash stand
stand the cracked oval piece of soap,
halfworn, the frayed towels and rough
shaving brush, all intact. Between the
windows looks down a little clock. 1t
has stopped, and the hands point to
1888, the moment when the czar ceased
to breathe.
A more touching sight is little shelf
near the marrow bed on which the Car
slept. On this shelf are outspread a few
little brown frocks simply made, be-
longing to a child of 10 years. They
were worn by the young grand duchess.
who was the child darling of the empe-
ror's heart. Near the frocks Is a piece
of rude woolen embroidery, worked by
childish hands ThA czartreasured thess
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it's grandeur and for the saille reaeon
she avoids the kremlin at Moscow. ~
dozen miles out from this city at Tsa18-
koe Selo is a nest of royal palaces, ana
in another direction about the same dis
tance there is another nest at Peteuhosv
each palace having wonderful parn
and gardens. and loaded with the 40
cumulated treasures of centuries
Her tavorite abode Is small and ~
cluded mansion in Peterhof park AM
other favorite Is q small palace, tho
Alexander, in the woods OF TsArpkoa
Selo, near the great summer pA1aoSs
500 feet in length, built BY Catherine a.
There she enjoys strict privacy An0
with her baby daughter OtuA Nveo ~
undisturbed life OF tho ordinary venar -
HAsCEI.I MAGUT0Gs
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used to talk to his generals in confidence,
one enters another bare study, which
was also his bedroom.
Here all is left as at the moment of
death. There is the shabby old leath-
ern armchair and worn gray dressing
gown lying over it's back. On each ta-
BILE lies loosely folded pocket handker-
chief-for it was the fancy of the owner
to find one ready ON every table to which
he might turn. On his writing table lay
an old brass box of matches and half
smoked cigarette, laid down when the
czar went out for his last drive. Two or
three little bronze vases and a small
marble lion for table weight, some
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before these are realized some good Is
bound to be accomplished.
SCORES OF PALACES
The palaces of the czarina are num-
bered by the score, each teeming with
it's burden of glaring wealth. In and
around this city the royal couple have
a dozen palaces the most prominent be-
ing the famous Winter Palace of st. Pc
tersburg. In this palace is the grandest
picture gallery the world over, and the
finest collection Of Greek art and Greek
vases in Europe.
The palace swarns with a. afunctionary
called tha footman usher, a resplendent
parsonage in dress coat edged with
thick gold braid from tails to collar,
knee-brseohes. fox cloth CATERS and sill
yer huckled dhoeD. There must be hun.
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dreds of these in the palace; they are
to be seen at every turn. 1t would be idle
to attempt to describe the magnificence
of the immense state rooms, many of
them as large as a great cathedral and
the walls almost covered with shields of
gold and silver.
The lofty gilded chapel is of pecul-
lar interest, because of it's relics One
is pictured image of immense age, rep
resenting the face of Jesus Christ and
attributed to the hands of the painter
St. Luke the Apostle. The gold metal
surface about the head inlaid with a
necklace of diamonds and single sap
phire of vast size. Beneath the ancient
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picture and in the same glass case are
two embalmed but crumbling human
hands. One, in a massive box, set with
twelve diamonds, is the hand of st. John
the Baptist; the other is the hand of a
woman, the slender bones of finger
encircled with an old jeweled ring. This
latter is the hand of Mary Magdalene.
A TRAGIC REMINDER.
Near the private apartments of the
empress are a suite of rooms which fill
that section Of the palace with ave.
They are the rooms Of the assassinated
Alexander II. Here he died on March l.,
1881, an hour after the dynamite bomb
had shattered his body. The first room
was his library. Passing into the inner
room from this library 70 an intimate
council chamber. where the OLD GEAR
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colossal super1uity of magnificence
which must have chilled the blood of the
young woman who had. perhaps. felt
the pinch of poverty At any rate she
contrasted the tremendous waste of
wealth with the terrible poverty of the
moujik, the forlorn creature whose num-
Der Is legion in the Russian empire; the
man who lives in thatched hut and tills
a tiny scrap of barren land, his wNe and
children working at his side for the
meanest living and for the ever present
tax gatherer. 1t is this contrast which
drove the czarina to formulate changes
in the internal government of the en-
pire, and while it may be many years
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poor little mementoes above all OF HE
vast riches, and always kept them near
SIMPLICITY THH RIJI,r

Nearby are the roomz of the czarina,
and their furnishings show clearly her
desire to be rid of the presence Of over-
powering riches. A broad, comfortable
sofa Is covered with ordinary cretonnS,
and the bedroom croclery Is plain ana
cheap. The chairs of oak are simple In
design. There is no wealth Of gold ana
silver In these rooms, everything being
sacrificed to simplicity and comfort.
When she can avoid 1t the czarina doef
not live in the winter palace, because q
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In THE RING
preparations for tho Big niil-Some Smaller
Contests


CARSON, New, Feb. 6.-Prize-fight
matters are at standstill, awaiting the
arrival of Dan Stuart, who will be here
tomorrow or the next day. E. G. Cook
arrived this morning and will remain
here until it Is announced in what town
the fight will take place. and then he
VIII select training quarters for Corbett.
whose agent he is
THE HOT END.
DALLAS, Tex, Feb. CA renress,-
tat1ve or the Associated Press inter
viewed Mr. Stuart in regard to the bill
introduced in the Nevada Legislatures
G1,,s 'ne price OF admission at ST. Mr..
stuart SAID: 1T has been an uphill
hight for years. with the hot end, aiwavs
vomiting IN my direction | would %
ahead with the fight If the admissinn
was placed at 30 cents. | nledpad ~,
word upward of two years ago to hrimo
these TWO men together, and on1v the
aeath OF one of the principals can sion
1t now" eoh slop
THREE STAR CONTESTS
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 6.-The Cali
..ta no,nia atntetic club announces three
star contests for February 22d its ona,,
ing night. Jeffries and Stenzlar taSar, Hpsn-
signed articles of agreement for ho~
ing contest before the newly organized
club. Jeffries arrived today from Los
Angeles, and looks strong and husky He
scales 200 pounds and expects to entar
the ring at that weight. Stelzner has
TAKEN on considerable weight since his
sOJourn IN Caiirornia. and will scale over
lS5 pounds when he faces Jeffries.
Australian Billy Smith and Henry
Peffers are to meet the same night as
well as Spider" Kelly and Lon Agnew
A KNOCKOUT BLOW
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-Paddy Purte1l of
Kansas City, who was matched to meet
John Gornpan of Long island City at the
Polo Athletic club for q 15-round bout
was eick with tonsilitis and Dick Moore
Of Minneapolis took his place. Gorman
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OkIahoma Divorces

Hundreds Of divorce DEGREES on the court
records of Oklahoma are about to be can.
celed on account of the non-payment of
the costs, and as this will annul the DEGREES
those who have failed to pay and have since
remarked will be subject to prosecution for
bigamy. The Oklahoma law provides that
no divorce granted in the territory shall be
valid unless all the costs are paid, and
when a divorce is granted it becomes eff
fective for either party only when the
costs have ben fully satisfied, no matter
against whom assessed.-Dubuque Tele-
prpnh
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ON THE WHEEL
Philadelphia Gets the National Meet-Some
Indoor Races


BOSTON, Feb. 6.-The balloting of the
League of American Wheelmen closed
today at noon, ana Philadelphia re-
ceived the greatest number of votes, and
the national meet will be held in that
city. OF the 267 delegates voting. 23S
cast their votes for the Quaker City,
while "a voted for Columbus, Ohio, and
the balance for Nashville, Tenn.
A CENTURY RACE
CLEVELAND, Feb. 6.-The 100 mile
bicycle race at Central armory tonight
between Louis Gimm and Teddy Gale
Tor $zoO side was won by Gimm by
about 10 feet. The race was witnessed
by crowd that filled the armory. The
start was at $40 and the finish at
ll:4O:66, the time being hours and SO
seconds.
A NEW PARK.
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.-Sacra-
mento Is soon to have an athletic park
similar to the velodrome in this city. NJ.
N. WtnanS Is the promoter of the en-
terprise, which is prompted by the
prospect Of a California baseball league
this season. 1t will be located at either
East or Oak park, and the expectation
is to build the best grounds for athletic
sports west Of Chicago. The diamond
VIII be surrounded by four-lap track
SAliIhoi " Tic Oil6 Ut the VelOQrOme,
Mr.. Winans was in the city today and
closed several contracts for the new
athletic park.
A NEW ASSOCIATION.
NEW YORK, Feb. 6.-An event If
much Importance to the cycling frater-
nifty took place at the Everett house to-
night when the National Cycle Track
association was formed The associa-
tion will hold the same position to the
various racing tracks as the League of
American Wheelmen holds to the bicy-
Gle riders of the country The follow
ing officers were elected: Edward C.
Hodges of Boston, president; b. f. Pc
louse of Louisville, vice president; II. e.
QUICKER, secretary; l.. NJ Rich, treas
urer Constitution and bylaws were
adopted. The association, the constitu
ton says. shall consist of bicycle track
owners or those holding tracks for BIZ
cycle purposes only, and on land leased
Tor that purpose. The objects are the
advancement of bicycle racing. i'm
Provements Of tracks, methods of con-
quoting race meets, and all other inter-
ests which will mutually benefit the as
ISOLATION, the racing men and the pub
lie. ~"
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SDOrf1n0 Nnfea

MANCHESTER, Feb. 6-At Bolton to-
day A. +. Downer beat Bredin by yard
and half In four-hun'dred yard foot
race for purse of 100 pounds. Time,
"A AS.
LONDON. Feb. 6.--The Field reprints
in an article from the Winnipeg Free
Press on January 18th on the subject of
crew from Winnipeg which it is pro-
posed they send to the Henley regetta
and ipsinuates that the men are inelig-
ih1e
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showed up to good advantage in the
early stages OF the game. but Moore )
experience began to tell after the third
round. He was Gorman's master in the
matter of generalship. There was a deal
of sluggiug on both sides up to the tenth
round, when both men showed signs OF
fatigue. During the thirteenth round
German gave splendid account of HIM
self and knocked Moore out with a
body blow In the fourteenth.
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A Detroit PecuIiQrity

Liberty Of the person is too sacred to
be handled about by the ambitious Hawk
shaws and gruff turnkeys. Any man, be
to the peril of being thrown into prison
along with the disgusting felons to re-
main there without redress until the police
ransack his home or get material to prove
lease him. This is all wrong. It il a sys-
tenn peculiar to Detroit elone.-Detroit
Journal.
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Wants No .Judpe

SAN JOSE, Feb. 6.-San Jose grange is
making a determined fight against the
proposed third superior judge for this
county A vigorous protest was signed
by the grange and forwarded to the gov
ernor this afternoon
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Civilization for Africa
TACnAI

TACOMA. Feb. 6.-The ship Senator, now
loading wheat and lumber here for South
Africa, will carry to Delagoa three tons
of nickel-.n-the-siot machines, which ar
rived today from San Francisco. They will
be distributed from Delagoa bay through
out South Africa
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The Cirte Die0iat

CHICAGO, Feb. 6-Moritz Rosenthal.
the great pianist. has recovered his health
sufficiently to take trip to Southern CAL
ifornia. He will resume his concert work
In this city the latter part of March and
then return to the east
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The OIL OLD Story

SEATTLE, Feb. 6.-Grace Perry. 10 wears
of age. said to be a daughter of good Los
Angeles family, suicided today by taking
carbolic acid because her lover was about
TO desert her. The police say she had been
living with Edward Cole for the past ten
no ~''
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lEnRIlsh lnso'ence

PARIS, Feb. 6.-The Libre Perole and
Journal describes the remarks of Sir
Michael Hiscks-Beach in the house of
commons yesterday on the future policy
of Great Britain toward Egypt as being
an ...'insolent challenge to France and Rus
sia."
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Ara,aach Nieli.~

BERNIE, Switzerland. Feb. 6.-Five men
In sleighs and seven horses have been
overwhelmed by an avalanche near the
hospice of F'leua on the road leading from
Davostlah to Engad
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Mrs. Beecher Gaining

STAMFORD, Conn. Feb. 6.-Mrs. Henry
Ward Beecher has rallied somewhat and a.
noon was resting comfortably. She was
conscious and appeared to have regained
some vitality.
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GAINED SIXTEEN POUNDS
Charles Emerson Tells Of His Remarkable n
covery Under DR.. Shores Trsstnsnt

Charles F. Emerson, commercial trav.
nue., says: 'I suffered with catarrh Of the
head, nose and throat for eight years. I
hawked and spit constantly, and my stom-
ach was in terrible shape. woke UP at
night with a terrible weight on my chest
and I felt was snothering. lost flesh
rapidly, as could not take SOLID food, ana
had to live on light gruels. began treat
I have gained sixteen pounds. can now
eat anything, do not hawk and, spit drop
ping in the throat entirely stopped, sna
am perfectly restored to health and never
felt better in my life."
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UNTIL MARCH THE FIRST ONLY

Dr. Shores will Give His
First and BroadwayThs Superiority
Shores Treatment All Applies to
Old Well
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He Has Gained Nina Pounds In One Month
Under Dr.. Shores Treatment

w. G. Doughty a well-known merchant
of prosperos Lordsburg, who is also post
master of that city, says: II have suffered
with stomach and liver trouble for thirty
two years. I had catarrh of the stomach,
had frequent pains. bloated up after eat
ing, had capricious appetite and had to
diet myself 1 have treated with DR.. Shores
one month and have gained nine pounds.
My pains and disagreeable symptoms have
left me. have an enormous appetite, and
cheerfully recommend DR.. Shores treat
ment who have suffered like myself"
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One Price for All

treating with Dr. shores know just
month is all ~
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in One Treatment

The Spasms of Asthma and Hay Fever Instantly Relic
In One Treatment
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bochdt
and
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moNm and
|dteNya he root o
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CURING DEAFNESS
The rarveis Of Or. Shores Improved Treat-
ment Demonstrated Daily

Arnold Sleek, aged %, who lives near the
East Side park in the Griffin place, and is
employed as moulder al the Jones Brass
works, College street, says: Il have been
from deafness ever since I was
1 year old. 1 could not hear watch tick
and was very deaf. have ben treated by
DR.. Shores for three weeks ,and there has
been wonderful improvement in my hear
ing, which is rapidly coming back again
as the result of his treatment
ay Fever Instantly Relieved
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Home Treatment No one deprived Of the benefits Of Dr. Shores
attending Dr.
hm Patients living
the benefit of Dr. city. symptom