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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-03

The NEWS from Russia now is as un-
reliable as it was during the Japanese
Russian war and should be taken with a
sack of salt. Yesterdays telegram por'
trayed a most terrific state of affairs in
that unfortunate country, but later U. S.
Ambassador Meyer, at st. Petersburg,
wired the State Department that the re-
volt of soldiers had been suppressed and
the city was o. He declared that
the rere a board the Rus
MED. 1t will be
It year when Mr..
at ship builder, re-
y he stated that
and bloodshed in
=, published broadcast in
lied States, caused no more ex-
citement in that city than was incident
to an election day row in New York city.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1906-08-03
From Washington.

A SAFE prediction is that it will rain.
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Tho way Of escape was sthl open 10 her,
butthe threat was made by the revolutionary
societies that II no longer matters 10 which
country she goes or how obscurely and
harmlessly in the future she lives; the de-
termination yet remains TO take her lie.
Now no promise Of the VehmRerioht in the
fourteenth or fifteenth centuries ever oar
ried with IL more certainty Of death than this
warning, for not once but many times has IL
been proved that tbs teFforists seek to live
up to their vows.
The death Of Trepoff, who was officially
only the victim Of heart trouble, a recent
murder in Lausanne and the fall Of Gen.
MINI. who was followed for months before
the fatal blow was struck, were all cases in
point that determined the Cars mother to
begin a strange fight for her life,
Though many courts in various parts Of
Europe were thrown open to the fugitive
she was ina way notfreet o Acceptany Of her
many invitations. The expedient she hit
upon was Of quite another sort,
Last May in an obscure Swedish port a
big black yacht cast anchor and was boarded
by two or three persons in the plainest
clothes. Nobody was allowed near the
boat, no name was upon her bow or stern;
in the night she disappeared and about h
same time it leaked out that the Dowager
Impress and her son, tie Grand Duke
Michael, rad with a few trusted friends
and servants left Russia
Since that afternoon late IN May the
former Empress Of all the Rus,ias has
rarely or never set her DOT on shore. She
has mad, her htms with her son = TIE
yacht, voluntarily exiled herself to no land,
but has gone wandering forth, a hunted.
prescribed creature, heart and health broken
TO escape on the face OF the waters the
assasein's hand.
There, at least, on the sea she feels herself
safe, or comparatively so, and the white
Pole Star is the only home TO which she
may now lay claim. This swift pleasure
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filed with watchers and spiee, fitted with
sounding boards and mirrors to reflect
every whisper and every form, with trap
doors and secret passages to afford easy
means Of escape, but she preserved her
light heaTtedness. her contempG Of fear,
and 1t wax not until after an all but success
ful effort was made on the life Of her son
Michael, while he was an infant in arms,
that she yielded to her husbands entreaties
and learned how to wear concealed a small
dagger and a tiny pistol after the fashion
OF most royal Russian ladies,
Yet even in the attempts upon herself
and her child the fearless Dagmar showed
herself a good deal Of a heroine. In this
tnstance-it happened years a9o--it was a
woman. a nihilist, who got into the palace
and into the imperial apartmenks. She had
come dressed ar n Of the royal nurses and
she found the Empress alone with the baby
Grand Duke in her arms.
At a fash in the very opening Of the door,
the quick witted Dagmar saw that there had
been ~treachery, and before the bogus nurse
could lift her arms to strike or fire, the
young mother, with a smile seeming ly Of re-
lief at the sight of the nurse. hastily stepped
forward as IL TO lay the child in the woman =
arms. As she did so she pretended TO STUN
BILE and. grasping the would be ASSASSIN
around the arms, gave a loud cry.
In an instant, of course, the room was
filed by guards. and the intruder was eau ght
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SANTOs-DUMONT's BAGATELLMst
Aeronaut's Latest SHIP Ii LIKE q Hug4
AlbatrOss.

Bagatelle is the name 81 NJ. Santos
Dumont's new airship, says the Paris
correspondent OF Truth.
The new airship is somewhat like q huge
albatrose, it's wings having a forty foot
span and its engines developing 50 horse
power. The wings or planes are tilted up
ward in a forward direction and the frame
is mounted on three wheels. II starts like
a motor tricycle., running on the ground
after the manner Of a bird about to take
the wing.
The correspondent saw il gather a speed
Of Over twenty miles an hour, when the
forward part OF the aviator, catching the
wind on account Of it's tilt. was lifted clean
above the ground. The back wheel, bow-
ever, kept touch with the soil.
II was clear at that moment IN those
present that had the load on board been
displaced a little forward and lightened to
the extent Of a few pounds-or perhaps
wen a few O~unces-they would have wit
messed the conquest of the air What
was ever more striking was 10 see this
artificial bird double back under the action
of it, tail. II may be called a tail, although
il il placed forward. Its ability to steer
could not he due to the wheels, since two
out of three were OF the ground.
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The Breaking Of an Empress
Dagmar Of RUssia at Last a Victim Of the Terror - In Exile
at Sea Trying to Escape Assassination.

A. list the Russian terror has broken
do~p INC ateel nerves and the iron constitu-
,ion a. one who has been described IA the
most hish spirited and calmly courageous
vonan hat the present generation has seen,
Tbj- u the Dowager Empress Of Russia.
,ster 20 he Kings Of Denmark and Greece
and raa Queen Of England. and mother OF
gar Nicholas II. Her husband was the late
Ale, auder Ill, one Of the few Russian
Tnpc-ors who have been allowed to die
Geccntiy m bed.
While the Empress il 50 and has lived
sim, she was a girl in the health destroying
Russian court, she was until two years ago
q rer-cn Of remarkably youthful appear
snce Inn figure and buoyantly hopeful
d,sp1s!ron. She even rivalled her sister.
A.Aandra " England, who is only three
wears her senior. in the exquisite preserva-
ZION Of all her charms.
Though never at any time has she boasted
,he beauty Of the English Queen she has
sIvsve r~ioiced in the possession of an in
,~sllectual vivacity hat was inherited from
her mother, Queen Louise Of Denmark,
ard Ike old Queen Louise, Dagmar, as she
mas always been called in spite OF her
change Of name on entering the Russian
church. was deeply and determinedly
ambitious. Moreover she was her shrewd
rcther's f~avorlte daughter and to her
marriage the consort Of the good and mild
nd King Christian devoted the great diplo-
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Duke Sergius To some of his worst acts of
oppression. Of counselling Nicholas TO
Wholesale murder of his subjects.
In the present in1amed state Of the Rus
sian people a word OF the revoIutionists
against the Dowager Empress was enough
TO incite the uDkindest beliefs, and two
years ago her name appeared in the list Of
individuals to be e~xterminated by the ter
rorists. Not only was her name included
on the list but formal warning, as is usual,
was sent her.
At first she refused to believe it. She
ever laughed at il as she had been wont 10
laugh years ago when death came near
her. Nevertheless her children, and chief
among them the Gar. urged her to place
herself beyond the reach Of her enemies.
Whispers blew about TO the effect that the
Gar would give into his mothers hands
his heir and only son and that the two
would retire to Denmark to wait for faircr
skies to shine on troubled Russia.
Then, indeed. she might have done so,
for the terrOrists in their manifesto ex-
pressed a Willingness to erase her name
from the list of the condemned provided she
would leave the Empire never to return.
But the Empress, thus put upon her
mettle. refused to fee. and she also refused
TO leave the neighborhood of the Gar.
For months she stayed by her SON, who
is devoted to her, and not a little did she
succeed. they say, in Strengthening him
by her calm courage and by skilfully nurs-
ing the Czarevitch back to health at a time
when no nurse or physician was suf-
ficiently trusted for the task. Then a truce
wa declared between the mother and the
dauEhter-in-law. for common danger has
drawn the royal Russians very close to-
gether.
Last spring in the palace at Tsarskoe-
Selo an attempt was again made on the
Dowager's life. One rumor says that the
abortive effort was made by Mile. Kono-
~pliannoko, who recently suffered for the
murder OF Gen. MINI, but another m
il that il was an old and trusted servant
friend OF the Dowager who tired TO execute
the orders Of the terrorists.
However that may be, no one doubts the
main fact that the Empress's taking on was
very nearly accomplished and by poison.
From the effects Of whatever drug was
used Dagmar, despite her powerful con-
stitution. was slow In making a physical
recover while she emerged from the trial
with diminished courage and her nerves
shattered.
What became Of the would-bs assassin
or who he or she may ave been no one seems
to know outside that mysterious circle Of
royal Russians who still have their police
and bodyguard 20 protect their tragical
secrets. But IL il certain that "a soon as
she wal able n drag herself nut IT her bed
the panic stricken Dowager decided to hce
for her life -----
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that this woman WM brought into tho snare
Of poltics and ~quicklyAdown to her ruin.
She hated to give up her crown TO her
daughter-in-law, 10 get out Of her rooms In
the palaces; and though Alexander had
left her tremendously rich in money and
jewels she p~assionately resented giving up
the use Of the great regalia and the lesser
crown gems that only an Empress consort
is privileged to year, Notorious at the
time was the struggle that o on for
months between daughter and mother-in-
law over q certain ret OF marvellous pearls
that the Dowager all but refused TO resign.
And so, from bad TO worse. went the do
nestle situation until the contest between
the two women was extended from the Qucs-
ton of pearls to the right to influence the
son and husband.
For some years the Dowager held her
power over her son. 1t is probable that she
advised him to follow his fathers policy
and she still held one Of the trump cards
in her gam with her daughter-in-law,
because lacking the birth Of a son to Nicho-
las. the Grand Duke George was heir to the
throne,
But somehow with the death OF her hus-
band DaRmar's long run of luck came tn
an abrupt end. Grand Duke George died
miserably Of lung trouble, and at his death
his mother not only suffered but the loss
seemed 10 harden her. At court she formed
a party devoted to her interests, shs invested
great sums Of money in vague mismanaged
Manchurian enterprises, she dabbled in
dangerous politics, and so from being the
most loved she came 10 be the most de-
tested woman in eastern Europe.
Violent accusations Of extravaganza, Of
keeping in her pay an army Of spies, whose
business il was TO ferret out the names Of
plotters against her life and that Of tine
Grand Duke Michael, the only son save
Nicholas now left, were brought against
her by enemies. They even went further
and accused her OF advising the Grand
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and carried away, but the Empress sat down
in an armchair to laugh heartily at her own
quickness of action and to comfort her
baby boy. Never had any Russian Empress
been more esteemed than she in the earlier
years of her married life. II was plain to
ever the common folk and peasants that
she not only loved her husband dearly, but
exerted a %softening influence upon him,
She had learned with amazing quickness to
speak the Russian language, she accepted
the Russian religion and her Russian name,
Marie FeOdorovna, with honest enthusiasm,
and the Russian court etiquette and national
customs were adopted by her with seeming
delight.
Her superb health and the zest with which
she could endure the severest round, not
only of e1hausting court entertainments,
but still more exhausting religious oeremo-
mails. were also recommendations to popu-
larity. How much the Empress priced her
popularity and the authority that came from
it is indicated by the grief she now suffers
because il has vanished and she has been
hunted out Of the country inSNhich once she
was so esteemed.
But how much that popularity rested on
the good advice and affectionate control ex-
ercised by her husband can only be mea-
sured by the fact that from the moment
OF his death it began TO wane.
Twenty-eight years of lofty position al
the wife Of the most powerful monarch in
the world had not fitted the still youthful
Dagmar for dowagerhood, which in Russia
is usually no position at all so far a. infu-
ence is concerned. She was only 40 when
Alexander died, and Immediately after his
death the Russian people fairly wept like
children at her knees,
They knew the story OF those heavy
months when she had tenderiy and with
1 her two strong white hands nursah her
husband; they saw her go through the
ordeal Of his funeral without hinching or
excusing herself from one Of the duties
OF il, and they were not at all. inclined TO
like the new Empress.
Some good people just at this time drew
a pretty picture Of the DOwAger in retire
ment and cultivating the art Of being a
| grandmother. but the vigorous Dagmar
had no notion at all Of doing that. Though
as a wife and mother she had been a thor
Ough success. as a mOther-in-law she made
haste to display another side Of her char
acter and, seeing that Nicholas was no
such man as his father and thinking his
wife. pretty Alix of Hesse, a weakling too.
she decided TO. remain in R0ssia and a
a strong hsn1 in directing big affairs.
Though her husband, dOting in many
things as he had been, had never shared
with her his State cares. Dagmar was ever
a rood friend NJ most OF his brothers and
his uncles. and the Grand Dukes courted
her AID and influence in managing Nicholas
II. Il gas thus indeed and unfortunately
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natlc skill she possessed. Nothing indeed
N all her long and successful life gave
Queen Louise the satisfaction that she de-
rivai from the union Of her second daugh-
ter in 1894 with the then Czarevitch OF
Russia. who later became Emperor Alex
audcr III.
Fortunately the mother-in-law of Europe,
as queen Louise was sometimes called
died before troubles thick and fast began
To fall in the path OF her child. For all
gossip to the contrary, and in spite Of the
severe etiquette Of the Russian court, as
we'll as the very gloomy temperament OF
Emperor Alexander and the daily peril in
which Russian rulers ave lived since the
rise NJ nihilism. DaRmar was for years
ono 81 the hsppiest women on thrones in
Europe
some Of the old viking spirit OF her an
cestors was in the blood of tall, slim Dag
mar; il shone in her big. brilliant sea blue
eyes, and il is declared by those who helped
10 guard her inc were with her in moments
81 surprise and danger that she never
seemed TO understand he meaning OF the
word fear. Not ono or twice but fire.
quently in her career as vie OF the heir
and then OF the occupant Of the Russian
throne did she look 6e1th in the face as
IL thrc1tened herself, hsr husbard md
her children. and never once was she Known
to hlanch or shiver OF lose her presence
~ mind. She knew that POISON, the knife
a bullet OF a bomb might at-Nny instant
hurl her into eternity or snatch one OF her
loved ones from her; always her giant
husf and brooded over the possibility Of
a nlick and terrible end. but she kept ever
q light and confident hecrt.
The greater the dangers through which
She passed the more dauntless. she be-
cane. and no warnings could induce her
at first 10 take SPECIAL care OF herself
an through those brilliant but menaced
days ~ her early married life she was
stimulated to what appeared TO be fool
hardy exposure. She professed a SUPER
%stitious belief in a charm resting on her
lie. Until recently she never faltered
r. the faith that she was not fated to fall
by An assassin's hand.
Neither il the EmI efor,' she once
se-encly asserted to a friend whO con-
graduated her on an ESCAPE from murder,
and then she told the story o. a gyT5y
praphe,- made in her youth.
4 Romany lass, il seems. promised Dag
To- No when che was only 10 arl when her
father wac a seemingly obscure and GER
''t7'y poverty stricken king. that she
would ultimately marry tie greatest king
m earth, that he would die before her,
and that she would live 10 a great age and
enjoy a quiet and conventional end.
The frst part Of the gypey's promise
1avinE como tr;e. the Empress undovbt-
-dlv 'oryears bel ;evedf fully in the rest. She
bved surrounded bv soldiers, in palaces
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locus ELK TEETH.
An Industry ThAt Proves Profitable to the
Northwest Indians.

NV
Northwest Indians.
LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 9.-Tourists in the
Black Hills this fall say that the Sioux
Indians are doing a good business in Working
OF artificial elk teeth upon unsuspecting
visitors.
The Indians take small pieces Of bone,
polish them and fashion them into the
shape OF the real elk tooth. A squaw or a
buck will dangle one Of these at the end Of
a string necklace and mingling with a
crowd Of tourists will easily find a pur-
chaser. They usually get IS for one Of the
limitations, which cannot easily be told from
the genuine. They carry the fraud to the
point even of browning h end Of the tooth
to indicate that II Is Of considerable g
Elk teeth have been the principal orna-
ments of the Sioux, Crows, Crees, Bannocks
and other Northwestern tribes for CEN
turtles. They are supposed TO also have
value in warding Oh bad luck, n it has
always beer a part Of the Indian creed that
it is necessary to bury them with the dead
owner.
The principal demand for the teeth comes
from members Of the Elks and has caused
a big increase in prices in the last few years.
Two years z a well marked tooth could
be bought for SO and the best for SIS.
Nowadays a good one brings SIS.
Most Of the real elk teeth now in the mar
ket came from the graves Of dead Indians.
From the grave OF a Sioux chief at Pine
Ridge, =. d., $50 teeth were taken. This
chief, according to legend, was. one Of the
greatest hunters OF his time. Many Of the
teeth were beautifully cOlored from the
gay shades Of the Indian blanket in which
the chief had been buried.
+. r. Pelz, a wealthy manu- lcturer Of
San Francisco. is reputed to have the largest
collection Of teeth. He IN said to have
more than II eco pairs. the result Of nine
years of work. He a y that all OF them
were obtained in the Northwest from Indians
who dug them from graves for him. Only
the two eye teeth Of the animal are available
as ornaments. These are ususIly perfect
ana we'll gro WI. vhilo the others are de-
formed and ugly. An Indian, even in these
days, will seldom sell the tooth II any elk
he has him self killed. They have no COM
functions, hov ever, about opening the
CAVES Of the dead for them.
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Medicine for Plants.

From the Ner Orleans TiDtos-D,Fscrot.
4 very large and sturdy orange tree was
growing in a small pot.
IF that tree" said the florist. didn't take
pills. II would require a pot M big ass bsthtub
to grow In. But IL takes pills like a h~ypooAon-
driac.
nlant nnIa-oiIls no bigger than chestnuts fbst
contain eustenance for six months. a kin Of
tAbloid food. These chemists analyZe "A
plants ash, and make pills Of the constituent
salts. The pills, ENCLOSED in = metal cover, ara
buried In the earth az the plants roots, and
the metal. giving the plants dav by day tie
SUBSTANCES that they repuirs.
Pills are Also applied 70 weak, sick( planaa,
which they HELM wonderfully.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-28
ThanksuIyinu at St. Vincent's.

Thanksgiving Day is the annual do- nation day at St. Vincent's hospital, and in this year of high prosperity ill this district it is hoped the institution that gives over one-half of its space and services to the unfortunate and de- serving poor, will be generously anu appropriately remembered The Sis ters of Charity donate their time and skill, receiving nothing in return but bread and shelter and the plainest of clothes, and the order furnishes the appliances and building.
 In the present year 1924 patients have been received into the hospital, 553 of whom were treated without fee of any sort, and nearly as many more were treated at reduced rates, leaving about five hundred pay patients only. Over one.half of the outdoor patients, GOT in number, were treated without charge. lneSe ldclS anu nSulSo oioN that St. Vincents is essentially an ln- stitution of charity, and when the northerly wing is added it will be a charity institution of large proportions, one that will turn away no one who needs treatment among the deserving poor. To bring relief and comfort to the poor is perhaps the highest and best work that any one can readily promote, and on Thanksgiving Day those who have money or gifts to be- stow should remember the Sisters Of Charity. who make every dollar go a long ways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-28
ALL FOR LOVE.

By Lord Byron. talk not to me of name great in story; The days of our youth are the days of our glory: And the myrtle and ivy of sweet two-and- twenty Are worth all your laurels, though ever so plenty.
 that is wrinkled? 'Tis but as q dead flower with May-dew besprinkled; Then away with all such from the head that is hoary- What care l for the wreaths that can only give glory? O Fame-if l e'er took delight in thy praises, Twas less for the sake of thy high sounding phrases Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover She thought that I was not unworthy to love her. There chiefly I sought thee, there only found thee; Her glance was the best of the rays that surround thee; When it sparkled OCT augnt that was bright in my. story, I knew it was love, and felt 1t was glory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-11-28
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Savings Bank.

"You know 1t is really surprising how rapidly a young fellow on salary can run up savings account. when he orc ? gets started" observed a bank official last night.
 AS rule the young fellow who puts away five or more dollars a week lives about as well while he Is providing for that rainy day that's sure to come, as he does when he is spending every dollar that comes out of the pay envelope. It IS remarkable how little a person can sub sist upon. He can, as a rule, live nicely in keeping with his place in the social and business world, on his salary, and have a snug bit for the bank account. And then it is the easiest thing magn- able for him to spend about dollar more every seven days than he draws Saturday night The difference between the frugal, far-sighted person and the man who never makes quite enough sal ary, is the savings bank. And l tell you that little difference is a power in the commercial world"