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DYNASTY OF THE RoMANcFFs.
First Of the Cars Was Chosen by a
Representative Assembly.

The Romauon dynasty Of Cars, ol
which the present emperor Of Russia
is a member has ruled the empire
since 1873, vixen Nichae! Feodoro'
witch Rolnauon was elected car by
an assembly Of representatives,, fol-
lowing national uprising says the
New York Tribune. Tho previous
rulers. the descendants Of Ivan H.
who threw on the yoke Of the Mon
sol. IN Use, became extinct aboN,
1892. and the country had been torn
by wars among The mobiles, ard by
popular risirgs against them il was
as the champion Of The last Of these
risinCs that the RumaruG dynasty
cane into power
The steady growth u tie Russian
empire began about hat time Michael
purchased peace from the Poles and
devoted himself TO strengthening the
empire. but under his son the terri
tory given the Poles was recovered
and his grandson conquered the Cos
sacks ard fought the FIRST successful
war with the Turks Another grand
son OF Michael. Peter the Great, Is
considered in many respects the real
founder Of the empire as a modern
power. II was he who introduced
into the semiOriental customs Of the
Russians Of his day the Occidental
customs which have been so fruitful a
source Of trouble ever since. Under
Peter the empire wrested territory
from the Turks, Poland and Sweden,
and the internal administration Of the
government, as well as its foreign pol.
icy. was placed practically on the
footing II now occupies.
The next period OF rapid develop.
ment In Russia came under Catherine
II. Q762.96), who assembled the throne
after causing the murder Of her hus'
band, Peter III. She furthered the
spread Of Western civilization in the
empire, enacted laws favorable to the
development Of commerce and indus
try, and introduced administrative
changes She was the guiding spirit
in the spoliation Of Poland, and fought
the Turks in two successful wars Her
son, Paul carried on constant fight
with his aristocracy, and established
the censorship Of the press and the
secret police system. He was prepar
ing to make war on England when
he was assasslnated by conspirators
Alexander l., who assumed power In
1901, was a lover Of peace. and abol
ished serfdom In the Baltic provinces
It was he who fought Napoleon. and
led him into the disastrous invasion
OF Russia The latter years OF his
reign we're less liberal. and his son
carried on reactionary policy. His
grandson, Alexander H.. however
proved the most liberal OF Rdssia's
rulers, and. while prosecuting the ex
pansion Of the empire in all directions
Instituted many internal reforms. He
abolished the secret police. and was
said to be about to propose marked
changes In the form Of government
when he was assasslnated in 1881.
His son. Alexander ILL.,. took as ad
visers the extreme reaotlonarles and
autocrats. He was succeeded In 1884,
by Nicholas H., the chief feature Of
whose reign has beer the develop
ment Of Asiatic Russia.
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ship.sulldins in Great Britain.

"lloyd'S Register Of British and
Foreign Shipping" for 1904 shows in
striking dcta'l the supremacy of the
United Kingdom in ship.bulld.ng
That country during the year built
nearly twice as large tonnage as all
otter countries put together, lnclld.
ing sailing ships ,hreefiths Of the
toanage added 10 the worlds mercan.
Tile marine was launched in British
sAipyards Including war vessels. the
total British output. 7i9 vessels Of
l332,337 tons, considerably exceeded
the total foreign output. Among for.
e.In countries the three leading
places are held by the United States,
$500 tons; Germany, 2O20O and
France. $1,000 Philadelphia Ledger
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Charm Of Mexican Capital.


What Is the essential charm OF this
ancient city despite its putting on an
unfamiliar newnesS? One finds It in
the genial climate, the absence of
snow and ice, the general courtesy and
an impalpable something which makes
life agreeable. Perhaps the fatalistic
microbe in the Spanish and the Indian
blood explains IL; no one seems bitten
by the demon of hurry; what is TO han.
pen will happen, and why heat ones
brain over the future?
You find happy faces in the swarm.
ing tenement houses, in the little
shops Of this cit: Of the small com.
merce,' and in the plazas and lovely
little gardens with which the eli,
abounds A western friend who was
here few weeks ago said. 81 sbould
sum up the City Of Mexico as n cItv
OF gardens'" He was a widely tr,v.
eled man, and found many points of
comparison between this town and
southern European cities. vet with tho
piQuant aboriginal addition. Defectsq
Yes Plenty OF them; yet so far the
ruthless hand Of the reformer bos
spared most things that make life
pleasant in this tropical town Tho
trouble with your true reformer is that
ne has narrow sympathies: he is "im.
paled on an idea, and gives Won por
any one, a rest!
People OF the old'fashloned sort here
comp in that the American. and some
other varieties Of the genus foreigner
are spelling the city. Hardly as yo,
! can take you TO find old mansiops -,
the colonial days ten minutes md
less, away from the modern hus,nn,s
town. 50 cosmopolitan and mp In d,,o
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Cosmopolitan Society.
In one hospitable home. son HAN
find. ut I o'clock, antiquariaps sine
genial old priests, with taste Tor old
things and old themes, and lad!,, who
with wealth. are not I'm society. but
live quite as their grandmother, iit
Faithful old family servants wait On
the company, and two hours rent
over the table seem to pass In ta' an
hour. You tear Yourself away regret.
fully. yua have lived In the 18Th cen.
fury. aud portraits on the wall ucail
the 10th. There Is a library with
many books: there Is a bright CHrJCri
around the courtyard, and Gagged birds
are singing as il captivity wern me
most Gclightlul condition Of hri llfe
Perhaps a clergyman from Rom u
Havana. or old Seville, with a d!N ring
accent anu not aNcrse 10 a gOo3 cigar
with his conoe.
This is the kind OF life one fu, In
this city OF many shades Of hf' Take
this contrast; A tiny apartment on a
roof. aud remember that roofs h"ro are
! fiat. II {, a roof.house of five rooms.
French people, alert, hospitablr intel.
loctual inhabit IT, A little rooted
arbor has been built here, AMI Vines
cover il, and 80 one dimes several
stories above the busy street The
round table set for si'. Some sound
clarct through which the sun 10 pass.
ing fingers and reflects rosy lish on
the snowy cloth. Madame Is gay ard
full OF talk, and monsieur, su.ffug q
sayory oder from the tiny kitchen
smacks MS lips in anticipation
This is a hit of France provincial
France on a Mexican rooftor IFS,
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In book just published Rider Hag.
gard gives one more illustration OF the
utj.made statements that an authors
genius is generally an unknown guam
tity among his servants. One OF his
gardeners, an old Suffolk man, did
rot wish his employers orchids TO be
sent to flower show, Like many
gardeners he distrusted the impartial
ity Of the judges. Yielding at last, he
said: We'll, dare say. like other
gentlemen, yew would like to see your
name In print for once" He had
never heard Of King Solomon's
Mines
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lottery tickets. Wonderfully quiet the
nawsboys, who are not permitted to
cry the news, they having shown at
one time remarkable inyentiveness
In tabrlcating sensational cries. They
may now only call out the names #
the papers they sell. Always a ragged
lot, but as bright as are everywhere
lads OF their class and occupation.
RefuGio street runs down into indie.
pendencia, part Of which also passes
through the grounds of the once exist.
ent Franciscan Convent
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Ways Of the Relormer.

Ways Of the Reformer.
Let Us thank the great ami GENIAL
God that he has made our world 49,
full OF diversity, H. bon Dieu loves
his French people with the cultivated
!alate. FL buen DIos finds the McNi
cans in their pleasant homes most
agreeable Perhaps he has a use. in
his inscrutable purpose, for lanky re-.
formers Of the dismal sort. Let us ub
serve, chucklC, and question not. Life
Is as we make IT, The man with the
hAed idea is disturber Of the public
peace. Him We must avoid. seeking
sunny ncokS away from his accus.
toned haunts.
! nave French friend; he can 90
To the most commonplace restaurant,
and, by some magic and a talk with
the cook, produce a lunch, or n little
dinner that will make the afternoon a
slice OF Nlryana. When dining. avoid
me company Of the serious; they are
"c"luIalNlhg. seek ever the company
OF the gay and soclable. Avoid also
politics. A pest! Shun the Japs and
me Russians, Who would dream Of
discussing Wholesale murder? he.
longed To club here. some years ago
where we had rule that any one who
talked shop, politics, anything heavy
al dinner, should pay $40 fine. II
worked admirably. We kept our TEN.
Pers ana Questions. Sometimes an In.
cautious CUES; from north of the Rio
"rande' or a solemn British member
OF Parliament with a club card VIC.
Iated the rule. A shout would 20 upl
None OF that! Here we dine and are
happy. Nothing serlous!"
so lie may be lived even in Mexl,o:
one may dine and in good humor and
good company Too long have the dull
ana creary, the boresome faddlst. dom.
mated In this world Of ours. The ia.
QUESTION should be revived for a fcw
years, Make a clean sweep. and zee
TOW the sun will ss'ne all the brighter
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Peace Now STEMS Only Wish.

Having recovered his farm in the
Orange Free State eX.President Steyn
has returned to South Africa and says
he hopes to finish his life as quietly
as did Napoleon In St. Helena"
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Observation-Disclosures
! MexicO's Essential Charm
A.o...,.oN...-.ON..-VN-.-SN-..-aN-'s--ON''--~0N-
lsrnc,nl Ccrre .nondenccO

in many respccts-to mansions Where
around charming dinner tables. 0ne
finds good company, all talking ct mat
tcrs apart from commerce, scientific
speculation lads and the He.
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

Amen, and ament But what shall
1t profit a man though be gain the
whole world. and lose his own mind?
And what shall 1t profit him that he
is called the Pearl OF the Ages, the
Esteemed Center OF the Universe, the
Shadow Of God on Earth. and q few
other pet names if he pass his days
in the fear of death? And, again,
what shall it profit him if the camels
of justice and mercy stand ever at his
Nay more, what shall it profit his
people that his intentions are of such
superior quality that the mere drip
pings thereof are sufficient to supply
the whole world with goodness, if
he carry them not out?
That his Holy Majesty. the Shadow
of God on Earth, could at a moments
notice furnish paving material for the
entire broad, well-shaded road that
leads to hell, no one doubts. He
means well; his intentions are excel
lent. But unfortunately the trif1ing
detail that for thirty years has pre-
vented the elevation of Abdul Hamid's
glory above that of the Sun and Moon
is-execution. That's where he falls
down. Still more unfortunately
where he succeeds. his long suit, his
successful specially is-execution.
It is the wholesale executions and
banishments that have followed the
recent attempts to assassinate him
that have reused the civilized world
once more TO question the sanity of
this finest Pearl of the Age The con-
stantly recurring ebullitions of blood
thirstiness unparalleled in civiliza-
ton are most charitably explained as
paroxysms of homicidal mania. The
hideous tales of murder and massa-
ere that have been coming out Of Tur-
key for at least decade are best ac-
counted for by the supposition that
long years of trying to dodge Death
have unhinged a mind which heredity
had already tainted with insanity.
For it must be remembered that
Abdul Hamid succeeded his brother
Murad, whose mind is said to have
given away in the excitement of the
strenuous days that placed him on
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

matte in the case Of the Sultan of
Turkey as in that Of the Prince of
Denmark Certainly in both cases the
madness has method In the case Of
the Turk the method is not entirely
without value. in that after thirty
years as Sultan Abdul Hamid still
lives Which, all things considered
is q notable achievement.
Some allowance, too, must be made
for his race and blood It is hardly
fair to judge a Turk by the rules of
civilization. The Sultan himself is
an anachronism. The Turk has been
not aptly described as the aboriginal
savage, camped on the ruins which he
created, Of a civilization which he de-
moHshed." In the eyes of the Orien-
tai Abdul Hamid's black and bloody
crimes are chiefly criminal in that
they have not been black and bloody
enough to accomplish their end. The
rule OF the Osmanli has ever been
rule of terror. By terror the Sui
ta1s climbed to supreme power. BY
terror they have maintained them
selves for five centuries on the throne
of the Caesars; and to terror this
latest Of them seems to have sue
cumbed. Indeed. it is chiefly because
her sultans can no longer inspire suf-
fcient terror that the Ottoman en-
pire is crumbling.
Fear does not run in the OthmaDn
family. There is that to be said of
them. They have not been towards.
They haze carved out their realms
with their sclmitars and governed
them by their own autocratic wills.
And if Abdul Hamid is the craven
wretch which the balance OF evidence
seems TO make them out, it is his
position which has made him so.
Thirty years in which one could al
ways hear the rustlfng of the gar
ments Of Death. thirty years of Death
as ones vis-a-y1s at the table, ones
bed-fellow by night, ones constant
companion by day is calculated to
unnerye the strongest.
Abdul Hamid lives like Domitian
Of old, in constant suspicion of his
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

TO have been ttexiied;'' but it is a
question whether they were not sent
to another world, for their families
have been unable to find the slightest
trace Of them IN this
To resume, Abdul Hamid was
brought up in the seclusion Of the
seraglio with no expectation of ever
being sultan. His uncle, Abdul Aziz,
succeeded his father, for according to
Ottoman laws Of succession the
throne descends to the eldest male Of
the Sultan's famiIy-which is natural
ly more often a brother than a SON.
After Aziz 1t was to go to Murad,
Hamid's elder brother.
Aziz was removed by his ministers,
led by the Vezir Mithad. Murad be-
came Sultan, but before he could be
formally proclaimed and crowned his
mind became unbalanced through the
excitement of his unc1e's exile and as
sassination and his own sudden eIeva-
ton. And Hamid was brought out of
the cloistral seclusion Of the seraglio
to take his brothers place. tt is said
that he was only expected to take it
temporarily-to act as regent IL fact
but he took it permanently, with a
strong hand and has kept it ever
since.
Authorities differ as to whether he
wanted the job. He certainly made
believe that he didn't But many
argue that that was merely a bluff TO
save himself from the odium Of his
brothers removal and lifelong tncar-
ceration in a palace which has been
his prison and his insane asylum ever
since At any rate he certainly ap-
peared to object strenuously to be-
ing made Sultan, and to shrink from
the perilous dignity Of a tottering
throne. But it was Hobson's choice.
He was made to understand that
either he would be Sultan or he would
be put out of the way by whomsoeVer
Mithad chose TO make Sultan. So he
came out of his serag1io and for a
few years, flung suddenly as he was,
in his earliest manhood, into the
midst of that debauchery which
makes Constantinople the cesspooI Of
civilization, he certainly went the
pace, and gave himself up to a life Of
excess, profigacy and riot. Then he
reformed, became an asceic, and TO
some extent a miser.
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

the throne; he succeeding his Uncle
Aziz, who was first dethroned by his
ministers, and shortly afterward re
moved" and his job offered to Murad
Whether Murad was as crazy as his
brother made him out, probably only
Hamid knows, and perhaps not he.
At any rate he can hardly be expect
ed to. tell. The physicians who at
tended Murad at the beginning of his
trouble stated that he was by no
means incurable. But for more than
a quarter of q century he has lived
in a n-asylum-palace in full view
of the Yildiz palace where lives his
brother who rules in his place. And
it is the Sultan himself who has thus
affixed to his race and blood the taint
of insanity.
Is Abdul Hamid mad? Was Hamlet
insane? The two questions have
been asked with almost equal fire.
quency and the answer is as probIe-
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

harem, eventually to become the
mother of the present Sultan. There
has even been a scurrilous story
af1oat to the effect that his father
was not Abdul Mejid. but an Arme-
nian cook employed in the palace.
There is probably nothing IN it, but
It is a sore subject with Abdul Hamid,
and one for which he has made 9TH
ers smart.
Just recently because Of a song in
which allusion was made to this in
sulting fable" fourteen students Of
the military medical college were
summarily dealt with. They are said
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

It was not an easy position for q
young man. Without training, with
out preparation, without a single
friend whom he could trust he
was brought suddenly out from
the more than monastie secIu-
sion of a seraglio 'fin the country
many miles from Constantinople, by
the very men who had deposed his
uncle and brother and established on
a throne reeling from the blows Of
domestic insurrection and foreign
war The last days Of the Ottoman
Empire seemed to have come. It was
facing the Russo-Turkish war. Among
the powers not one would help;
among his pashas, not one to trust.
Possibly the young Sultan's igno-
rance may have helped him. For
though he is no fool. in common with
other Turks he seems absolutely un-
able to grasp the elementary facts
which underlie modern civilization,
utterly unable to accommodate him
self TO the march Of progress. If he
had a wider range Of knowledge, or
a more vivid imagination he might
have gone the way Of Murad twenty
years ago-the way that he is going
now Judging by the mad recklessness
of his retributi0ns.
AS it is for thirty years he has
Continued on Page Six, this section.l
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

surroundings. He changes his body
guard every week. He never allows
his ministers to leave his palace with
out permission. He has spies every-
wherein the ministry, in his harem,
in the street, in other mems harems.
An atmosphere of suspicion is the
breath Of his life. If his butler could
trust his cook, the Sultan's life might
be taken in the night. His press is
gagged; his ministers are puppets.
They have to be for anyone who dis
tinguishes himself is banished lest 6le
discOntented gather around him. So
no one must be conspicuous; everyone
must be reduced to the dead level of
mediocrity.
His fear Of assassination amounts
to an obsession. 1t is told that a
gardener in the palace grounds be-
coming suddenly aware of the Sui
tan's nearness Strengthened himself
preparatory to making suitable obeis-
ance. The motion startled the Crown
of the Ages. who imagined it presaged
an attack upon his sacred person and
shot the man dead. On searching the
corpse he was found to be absolutely
without weapon Of any description
so it was all the Sultan's imagination.
One Of his own daughters is said to
have been put to torture as a child
to make her confess a non-eXistent
plot. The Sultan had been called
from the room, and left behind him a
pistol which he was wont to carry
Returning hurriedly for it he found
the child lingering curiously this
strange bright toy. And he ir1me-
diately imagined that his enemies had
corrupted the youngster.
Again local potentate having been
granted an audience stumbled over
a rug in his endeavor to back out of
the presence, as etiquette demands
He threw up his arms to balance him
self, and as he recovered his equilib-
rum was astonished to find that the
Sultan had disappeared. He had gone
into hole In the wall behind a secret
door, imagining that the mans per-
fectly innocent motion was a signal
for an attack
a word as to. his personal history.
His father was Abdul Mejid. His
mother was a slave Of Armenian ori-
gin, but converted to Islam. She
had been a dancing girl in the house
hold Of Esme-Sultana, sister of Mejid,
who saw her there, took a fancy to
her and had her transferred to his
The Washington times., 1905-08-13

HE finest Pearl Of the
Age, and the esteemed
Center of the Universe;
at whose grand portals
stand the camels Of
justice and mercy, and
TO whom the eyes Of the kings and
people in the West have been drawn;
the rulers there finding an example in
political prowess, and the classes
model of mercy and kindness; our
Lord and Master the Sultan of the
Two Shores, and the High King Of the
Two Seas; the Crown of Ages and the
Pride Of All Countries, the greatest of
all Kalifs; the Shadow of God on
Earth; the successor of the Apostle of
the Lord of the Universe. the Victo-
rious Conqueror (Al Ghazi) Sultan
Abdul Hamid Khan.
May God protect his Kingdom, and
place his glory above the Sun and
the Moon, and may the Lord supply
all the world with the goodness which
proceeds from his Majesty's good in
tentions."
III. Anthony salmone. in the Nineteenth
Century. translated from a Turkish news
paper.l
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1905-08-26


and place at which the owner q lot piece or p.rrs Of land 60
specified
OF land and before City
Be made
aforesaid Council hall either
conansd
rebuilding repair against the lot or piece OF land
described
speined o
Sidewalks
pring VIII TO than
II nonresn and have agents
ee to have she
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Of said Sidewalk repair IN ,as public = would @
and the expense shah be collected
q
the last named repairs The super
Coaal of IKE Kind as IN other
which designated In this Ordinance and the
the against persons and prop
a sxs proved
Book OF EIpenses for the Goa
the once Of the CITY Clerk SAID
divided Columns o anent width tor All en-
therein Afaasr specified AZ the sos OF each
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fo0xing set ef words each set
serpIoE Of Materials Furnished Work
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Of which shan be written the ~o1
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provisions az his repealed = -. -.
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