Durango semi-weekly herald., 1906-05-14

'S""N tHe iast anu largest country in
, Europe adopts the parliamentary sys
tenn
Towards Taurida palace the eyes
|, OF all Russia are turned today. The
car, accompanied by the czarina and
the dowager empress arrived here in
the royal yacht at 1890. The party
proceeded to the Winter palace
TIE Deum services were held in all
the churches before large assemb-
lagos. The streets are thronged with
good humored laughing people.
The members of the douma began
gathering at noon, showing neither
timidity nor bravado
! ST. PETERSBURG, May 10.-The
cars address was delivered in the
Winter palace amid scene of ex-
treme magnihcence. After this cere-
mony the delegates marched to Tau
rida palace amid the cheers of the
enthusiastic populace. TIE douma
I was then opened with all the cere-
monial pomp for which the Russian
| court Is famous. The cars entry to
the city was SO quietly accomplished
that there was no excitement created.
Before going to the Winter palace
ne prayed at the tomb of his father
for divine guidance. 1t was his first
| appearance in the capital since that
bloody Sunday in January. 1905.
He read his address standing from
the ivory throne on either side of
which sat the czarna and the dow
ager empress. His voice was clear
and strong His address was largely
composed of generalities. He declar-
ed that order was as necessary for
Russia as freedom; expressed CON
cern for the welfare of the peasants.
and asked the delegates to cooper
ate in the work of making a new Rus
sia. At the conclusion of his address
the brilliantly uniformed courtiers
cheered loudly, but the deputies re-
mained passive. His address made a
better impression than was antici-
pated.
The czar's appearance was that of
man VINO has undergone great trou-
BILE. He seems to be in good health, |
but not strong.
CHICAGO, May 10.-Announcement |
was made to the pupils Of the higher |
schools and colleges of this city this |
morning that the board of instruction |
had decided to take the most drastic |
measures to wipe out the fraternities |
and school societies which they claim
are a menace and nindrance to the |
cause of education. None of them |
will be allowed to exist the coming |
year under penalty of absolute ex-
pulsion of any members.
WASHINGTON, May 10.-The
Longworths arrived here from the
west az ----- tadnu The president |
and Mrs. Roosevelt were at the sla-
ton to meet their daughter. The
Young congressman will spend the
next few days attending to his Off
cial duties, but the couple will not
remain long in Washington, as tney |
are to sail for Europe the first week
in June and will remain abroad until
late in the fall.
PHILADELPHIA hardest |
people in the world to reach" said |
Rev. Dr. Reuben A. Torrey. the Chi
cago evangelist, who is conducting a |
series of meetings in this city, in one |
of his sermons recently, "are society |
people And they can only be reach |
ed by society people. If some of
their number would be willing to |
come out openly and confess Christ, |
and then go among their friends,
great work could be accomplished.
"rhey will not come to these meet |
ings. because they do not care to |
mingle with the common crowd. If
private boxes were provided for them,
where they could sit apart from the |
others, they might come; but when 1t
comes to rubbing shoulders with the
common herd, they prefer to stay
away.
81 would like to see a revival
among the society women OF Phila-
delphia. If there were only a few OF
them in this city who were on fire
for God, and went out with a definite
purpose TO bring about definite end.
namely, the conversion Of their
friends, we would have It,
81 remember a Chicago society
woman who accomplished great
| ieal of good. She became interested
| in the Bible meetings and became
regular attendant. One day friend
| saw her going along the street and
| asked her where she was going.
"She replied that she was going to
the Bible meeting, and that she found
| them interesting. Her friend asked
if sne could go along. She went, and
it became the means Of converting
her and her husband as well. An
other woman was brought into the
| fold through them, and these three
women started Bible class, with 80
other society women as patronesses'
Just who they were was aat made
public, but 1t was said that at that
class $50,000,000 was represented,
and 80 souls were saved.
"And three women did ". ! wish
that suoh thing could happen In
Philadelphia,
The trouble is that you do not
value soul highly enough. II you
we're TO learn tonight that you had
been bequeathed 100000 you would