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\,h lv *V- VOL. 28. NO. 40. fTK APPEA KEEP S i nmT l-It aims to publish all the news possible. W doso impartially, wasting no words 8Its correspondents are able and energetic* ROM time to time the pj press of Europe has re- J"^ corded accounts of the ailments of the Russian empress. The Russian press, even now that there is supposed to no censorship in Russia, is forbidden to print any thing concerning the im perial family aside from the official reports dis tributed by the official news bureau From the various frag mentary reports it has become known that the czarina, who had come to Russia with lofty ideals and a liberal western education, is an invalid and a martyr alone in the palace of the c/ai, misunderstood and tormented with melancholy and fear Now a chronicler, intimately famil iar with the home life of the Russian czar, has described vividly the suffer ings of the woman who had hoped to reform the Rusisan czar and the Rus sian land, and it may be said without exaggeration, that Alexandra Feodo rovna is today the unhappiest of all Vllf ainiimumfitr" Princess Alice of Hesse-Darmstadt, according to the biographer of the czarina lived amid ideal and idyllic surroundings throughout her child hood The small, good looking prin cess, dressed as beautifully as her dolls was told that the flowers daily presented her were so beautiful and fragrant for her sake and that when she was crying, the little flowers were also shedding tears, and when she was laughing, the little flowers were kind hearted and obedient, and she did all she could to refrain from cry ing for she recalled that every tear drop of hers would cause so much pain to all those who loved her But the tears she repressed in her childhood days she is shedding now within the walls of the palace, as the queen of the long suffering Russian people Being of a sensitive, impres sionable and artistic nature, the prin cess was deeply interested in the best kind of literature She familiarized herself with the most important A\orks of the masters of fiction in Eu rope and she even made some at tempts at writing poetry and dramas. As she was frail, the physicians feared that she was undermining her health by devoting most of her time to books, and she was told that her health was more important than all the books in the world, and then for the first time she learned that she was not free The books were now se lected for her by physicians and she was permitted to read only a very limited number of such books. To while her time away she took up the study of drawing, and soon showed considerable talent in that direction. Little by little she commenced to notice the life beyond the boundary of her fairyland she saw the life of the people who were suffering and starving, and she learned that what was new to her was not new to her father to her mother, to her aunts, to all those who lived contented in her fair land of luxury And she began to ask herself the question which she was for a long time unable to answer: "How can they all remain care free and so shamelessly cheerful when be jond the windows of this palace is the moan of an entire suffering na- tion9" Princess Alice became the czarina of Russia She came to the Russian land at a time when the people, ex hausted by the burden of absolutism, were returning from the funeral of Alexander III., and were hopefully waiting for a more merciful reign on the part of the new czar. Nicholas, who was reputed at that time to be a liberal The first day of the new reign was marked by the Khodinka tragedy, when thousands of people lost their lives amid the festivities. The tragedy made a profound impression upon the czarina. It seemed to her a forebod ing of a terrible future. The superstitious inclinations and weaknesses of the czar, manifested in bis eagerness for a male heir to the Russian throne, filled the czarina with untold grief. She had to obey the orders of va rious charlatans who were welcome advisers of the czar. And the in trigues directed against, her in the palace added to the misery of the young empress She noticed that the czar was angry at her because she was "endeavoring to introduce in Rus sia western reforms and that she con sidered herself more intelligent than the entire household in the palace In the meantime storms of unrest had broken out in the land, and or ders were given to pacify the discon tented at all cost. The empress did not know of the horrors that were per petrated in Russia, and when she learned of them she consoled herself in the thought that all the cruelties directed against the Russian people were not committed by order of the czar. She believed that the czar, like herself, was ignorant of what was go ing on in the land. But she soon found out her error. Then her suffering grew ever more in tense. She looked with disgust upon the clique surrounding her, upon their hypocritical smiles and greetings, but she was unable to change anything even in the palace. It was then that she became seriously ill When the empress had recovered she divided her time between her chil dren and her desk She turned once more to the reading of books and also devoted considerable time to writing Nevertheless the feeling that she was alone and misunderstood in the palace weighed heavily upon her She grew ever more and mere melancholy. One day, after having worked for some time upon the tragedy she was writing, the empress entered the czar's study She found him seated at his desk looking over numerous docu ments He brightened up when she entered and he kissed her hands "Why are you so sad?" she asked. "I am thinking of the future of our children," he replied. The empress looked at him sur prised. "I do not understand" she began, looking Into his troubled eyes "A plot has just been unearthed," he said cheerfully, yet with a shade of confusion. "Oh, I know about it" "No, I mean another plota new one. They have just learned of it to- day." And shaking his head he added: "Do you understand now?" And he described to her in detail the conspiracy of the terrorists against his life. They became more sad than before. The shadow of dan ger was still hovering over their heads. They endeavored to calm each oth- er, but somehow their words were un certain "Thank God, it is all over now," said the empress, heaving a deep sigh. "I had a terrible presentiment during the last few days. Wherever I went I could not rid myself of the terrible thoughts that haunted me "Really. Do you know," answered the czar, "I also felt ill, feverish, weak. They keep me in a constant state of terror." The empress tried to calm him again. He smiled bitterly and hand ed her a document bearing numerous notes in red ink. The empress made an effort to ap pear calm as she read the document, for she felt that the emperor was watching her closely. "What wicked people! Savages!" said the empress as she looked up to him. "That is exactly what is troubling me," replied the emperor with a sad, forced smile "I should not like to leave to my son a heritage in such a dreadful state! "Do not speak of this, do not speak of this!" The empress advanced to him and took his hand. "With the help of God all will be well All will be well!" she repeated "And you, would you want to re main a widow?" the czar suddenly smiled strangely. His eyes were cold and moist The empress shuddered at these words. She released* his hand and looked at him fixedly "My dear," she said in tremulous voice, "I have wanted to speak to you seriously for some time. This is im possible! Do you understand? This life we are leading is impossible must do something to change it. must decide to do something!" The empress* voice quivered there were tears in her eyes. "For my sake and four yours, for the sake of our dear children, do something! Even if you have to even if you have to yield. Do it!" "What can I do?" asked the czar. "Tell me. Do they know what they want? Some of the people want one thing, others want another. Don't you know that yourself?" "Will you deny that there- is a sys tem of provocation and spying in Rus- sia," she demanded. The empress spoke with firmness and authority. "There is an Infernal machine in your hands," she said, "and yon look upon it as a plaything. I know that unon some occasions you speak with You You and ST. PAUL AND MINNEAPOLIS. MINN.. SATURDAY. OCTOBER 5,1912. authority, but when a matter requires energy and determination you yield to the first adviser who knows how to in fluence you'" Then the empress spoke more softly "I understand that you often find yourself in an embarrassing position. But you believe everything that should be repulsive to you. You yield to flat tery and" "My dear, do not talk to me about these fables You and I cannot think of anything that will change all this. The laws of nature cannot be changed. Some of the people will demand wa ter, others will demand fire. All I could do would be to make some con cessions. Otherwise everything must remain as it is It must be so. Do you understand?" The czar seemed pleased with his words. He leaned back in his arm chair and added angrily: "I have tried everything!" "But I cannot go on like this," cried the empress. "I cannot. I am going away. I have no strength any longer. I am afraid to look at myself! When I see anysaelf in a mirror I am seized with terror." "What can I do? You must consult the physicians." The empress looked at him angrily and shook her head. "Perhaps things will run more smoothly when you will be a widow," said the czar, rising from his seat and running back and forth in his study. "That is nonsense," he said sud denly and rang the bell, pausing in the center of the room perplexed. When the servant entered the czar shouted and stamped his feet The empress had fainted She was taken to her room and remained for a long time under the care of her physicians The czar neglected all important af fairs of state when the empress was ill In the evening the minister of the interior arrived at the palace with an important report When he was ushered into the czar's study the czar shouted at him nervously: "For God's sake leave me alone! The empress is ill! Do whatever you like! It is all the same to me" When the minister of the interior offered a few words of consolation the czar interrupted him: "I know you! I know everything! I know you all!" and he waved his hand. The minister of the interior walked out of the czar's study confused and humiliated. And the minister of the interior heard the czar shouting to himself: "Monarchy, constitution, anarchy. Even my nearest are against me." The health of the empress was shat tered and for a long time she was Buf fering from a nervous breakdown. During that illness various rumors were spreading in the palace. It was said that the czarina was planning to leave the palace and return to her na tive land. It was then also rumored that she wanted the czar to abdicate and leave Russia. But all knew that she rebuked the czar for bis lack of will power and determination. Defective Page PEAL. M "$ MAIN QITY Of CEYLON COLOMBO ALWAYS INTERESTING TO THE TRAVELER. Its Origin Goes Back Beyond the Pages of History and, Has Record In Writings of the Earliest Geographer. t. Colombo, Ceylon.Apart from its Importance as the chief city of Cey lon, Colombo, in consequence of its se lection as port of call on the Aus tralian route, has a special signifi cance. To so many English eyes it is the first glimpse of tropical luxuri ance, and, however much a man may afterward explore Equatorial regions, it still remains in his recollection as essentially typical of the Tropics. One day early in November I had my first view of Colombo, and beheld the low promontory which Ptolemy the geographer marked on his map in the second century A. D. as "Jovis Ex tremum." I thought on this, by first day in Colombo, as I stood in the streetsstreets as busy as Cheapsido at one o'clockthat it might well be called "The City of the Silent Feet," for the fact that nearly everyone goes barefoot lessens enormously the amount of noise The heat and the extreme humidity at first press hard upon the stranger, and a baffling en velope of lassitude seemed trying all the while to clog and hamper every movement of body or of limb. Two-wheeled bullock-carts innumer able passed along at a leisurely pace, many of them loaded with tea-chests and some with plantains or other fruit. The bullocks were little crea tures for the most part, sometimes black and sometimes fawn or a red dish brown, and the wooden yokes that lay across their necks were heavily fashioned. A thatch of palm leaves protected the goods from rain and sun. In the main thoroughfares tramways echoed the modernity of shops and office buildings, but the old order jostled with the new A herd of water buffaloes obstructed the tram lines on the steps of the pretentious general postoffice native letter-writers, under wide umbrellas, scribbled mis sives for their clients, and at every street corner squatted the sellers of betel, generally women. Of the wonderful Dagobas remain ing at Anuradhapura space will per mit no descriptionnot of the Thu parama, the most beautiful, where the right collarbone of Buddha was en- Where the right collar-bone of Bud dha was once enshrined: This Thu parama Dagoba Anuradhapura. shrined, of the vast mass of the Ruan weli and the four statues recently dis covered among its ruins of the great Ahhaya-Giri, the Jetavanarama, or the Lankarama. They and the scattered ruins in the depths of the forest show still the extent of the buildings of that sacred city beside which ancient Rome and Byzantium were but pigmy towns. BEAR IS UNINVITED GUEST Enters Sleeping Room, Whose Occu pant Vacates Instanter Without Waiting to Dress. Hood River, Ore.The citizens of the Oak Grove district, armed with the family weapons and followed by all of the dogs that qualified for the event, are passing the time in a bear hunt. A big brown bruin came down out of the Green Point hills a few days ago, raided a raspberry patch at the ranch of Esquire C. C. Lemmon, "de- stroyed the apiary of another rancher and entered the kitchen: of the Apple del. Robert Shinn, a graduate of the Oregon Agricultural college, who is caring for the Appledel tract, keeps bachelor's hall there. His slumbers of the early dawn were disturbed by the noise of the bear raiding the culi nary department. In a few seconds the bear had en tered his sleeping apartment. Shinn left hurriedly through art open window by his bed. The flapping of his night shirt waving an adieu so suddenly In the cool morning breeze frightened the bear, which turned over a cup board of jams and canned fruits la its hasty exit through the paatry. The bear Is said to be one of the largest ever seen In this region, and the ranchers fear that unless it ic killed it will begin to raid barnyards .filx &-V j^..,, f\ IDEAL FOR'THE FISHERMAN -ffi li}r- In the Black Canon. course through this chasm for upward of thirty miles before it emerges into another valley at State Bridge, three thousand feet lower than where it en tered the canon The trout fishing is along the upper half of the canon, which is traversed by a narrow gauge railroad. The low er half of the canon is impassable. Only three men ever made the trip through it They were government engineers who were reconnoitering for a location for the Gunnison tunnel to irrigate the Uncompahgre Valley. Their strong raft was wrecked, their instruments and clothing were lost .and they were rescued in an_jexhaust ed condition. Below the canon so much alkali and soil are discharged into the stream by the irrigating ditches that trout cannot live in it, but suckers flourish there, often attaining a length of from eighteen to twenty inches. During the latter part of May the suckers go up the small tributaries to spawn. After spawning they return in schools, tail first, to the river These small streams are rocky ar swift, and if the fish did not slacken speed by swimming against the current they might be bruised against the rocks. In the pools where the water was two or three feet deep the fish were so numerous that it was no uncom mon occurrence to throw out three and four fish with each thrust of the fork. The fish were weak and slug gish after spawning and did not make much effort to get out of the way The old woman brought out two washing tubs, a washboiler and a large dish pan, all of which were filled within half an hour with fish from twelve to eighteen inches in length, which she skinned and salted down for future use. She lamented that the fish were "a-gettin' skeercer every year." "Why, at comin' down time three years ago me and my old man got nigh onto a wagon load in no time," she said. TAKES BEAR IN BATHING Maid in Silk Bathing Suit, When Dared to Take Bruin Alongf Promptly Does So. Los Angeles, Cal.Miss Anna Fred ericks, a comely beach girl, went swimming through the breakers at Venice accompanied by a half-grown cinnamon bear. Miss Fredericks was one of the thou sands of bathers along the ocean front. She was clad in an attractive silk bathing suit and was accompanied by several friends, when R. I. Pierce of Pasadena strolled by, leading two half grown cinnamon bears, which he se cured in Northern California when the bears were only a few weeks old. "I dare you to take one of the bears in swimming," said a friend to Miss Fredericks. The young woman took the dare. Her escort, after futile attempts at dissuasion, secured one of the bears. The little animal was quite tame and trotted down to the surf line with Miss Fredericks. Thousands of beach visitors thronged the water front to watch the novel performance. At first the little bear snorted and fussed as the spray splashed over his nose, but finally, with a little grunt, he ducked into the breakers and followed the leash which Miss Fredericks carried. 96-Year-Old Man Buys His Tombstone. Albany, Mo.Samuel Stewart, nine ty-iix years old, of Gara, this county, who has lived in the state seventy-two years, has purchased the stone to adorn his .grave and excavated a mau soleum In large rock near his home, giving instructions to his rela tives that it servo as a receptacle for his coffin. 'in I A IJ^i'^^v THE APPEAL STEADILY GAll Jf i'N tl~ BEOAT7SB: & 4-it is the organ of ALL Afro-Americans. 5-Itis not controlled by any ring or clique. S-lt auks no support but the people's. 1? IV Gunnison River, Colorado's Famoust Stream, Has Reputation na .World _W44*p, f^fj. ig Denver.The Gunnison river flows, or rather leapsr down, ,the western slope of Colorado and is famed, for its trout Enthusiastic anglers frequently Journey there from England to whip its turbulent waters during the fish ing season, as the. trout, in this ice cold stream are celebrated for their exquisite flavor, and for their fighting qualities as well. This picturesque stream after flow ing placidly through a beautiful broad valley, hemmed in by snow capped peaks, suddenly breaks its leash and plunges into a series of rapids and cascades where it enters the Black Canon at Sapinero, whose granite walls rise on either side to a perpen dicular height \)f from two thousand to three thousand feet above the foam ing stream. It continues its tortuous NMESOTA HlfTORICAL 0CIY, $2.40 PER TEAR. 3AVE WORLD UMBRELLA /ONA3 HANWAY, ENGLISH MEK* CHANT DESERVES CREDIT. Braved Storm of Ridicule In Introduc ing Article That Is Now in Uni versal UseBi-Centenary la Just Being Celebrated. By E. W. PICKARD. London.Two hundred years ago to be more exact, in August, 1712 Jones Hanway was born in Portsbouth, England. Do you know who Jonas Hanway was? In the encyclopedias he is classed as a philanthropist and traveler, and he was both of these. Having been ap prenticed to a merchant in Lisbon, he became interested in trade with the east and journeyed through Persia, en during many hardships, after which he spent five years in St. Petersburg. In the way of philanthropy he was ac tive in the help of foundlings, fallen women, the poor and prisoners. But the one thing he did that makes his fame everlasting was to introduce the use of the umbrella to England and Europe generally. The umbrella for centuries untold bad been used in one form or another by the people of the far east, and Han wa in his travels became a warm ad /ocate of that shelter from the rain and the sun. After he had retired from business to London he had made for himself an umbrella not differing materially from those of today. One rainy day, when those who were so unfortunate as to be compelled to go out in the streets, were hurrying mis erably along bedraggled and dripping, out stepped Jonas Hanway, opened his contraption, and strolled leisurely along Fleet stret, dry as a bone and happy A.t least he would have been happy if his umbrella had warded off ridicule as it did rain. For his ap pearance created almost a riot. For getting the downpour, men, women and children first stared, then hooted and at last gathered in a mob that fol lowed the bold merchant along the street, laughing and jeering. Doors were thrown open and windows were flung up and it seemed as if the en lire population of that part of London came out to make fun of Jonas and Ms umbrella. The Britisher was conservative by nature, then as now, and this especial innovation did not please him. For centuries he had got wet when it rained, and why should he now change and keep dry? So Jonas retired to his house somewhat discomfited But he was persistent, so on the next rainy day he reappeared with his um brella. Once more the jeers and laughter. Once more the trailing, dripping crowd This time Jonas ex tended his walk and staid out as long as he wished, and growing more con- Hanway and His Umbrella. fld^nt, he let no wet day pass without one of these excursions. Week after week, month after month, and year after year this scene was repeated in the streets of London town. As time went on the people grew accustomed to seeing the eccentric Jonas and his umbrella, but it was fully thirty years before any considerable number of them could bring themselves to follow his example. And now look at them! Wherever the Englishman is found, there is the umbrella, as surely as the tea pot and the marmalade jar. Other nations, too, were slow to adopt the article, and for years the British tourist with his inevitable umbrella was an object of ridicule. He carried it to all parts of the earth, and today in lands where there is seldom any rain it is in continual use as a sunshade. Mex ico, South America, the entire South Pacific, Hindustan, and many another country are dotted with white umbrel las carried by European and native alike. No one ever saw the baboo of India without an umbrella, for it is an essential part of his English educa tion. The crude and clumsy umbrella that Hanway carried, of course has given place to the neat, close-rolled affair of today, with silk covering and handle of beautiful and expensive wood but the latter probably does not shed the rain any more surely than dldr the former, and if Jonas had not been so persistent we might still be without the blessed umbrella. So all honor to the memory of Jonas Hanway, English traveler and philanthropist, whose bicentenary has been forcibly brought to the notice of the people of bis native land by rains and floods that have made the sum mer the worst on record in the tight little isle.