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, THE CZAR'S FAMILY AT DOME
Czarina ii a Most Gracious Hostess,
but Serious-Minded.
FIVE-YEAE-OLD LAD IS THE BOSS
Former Lady t Waiting; ' Telia of a
Tlalt to Taarke-elo Finds
Feir Daaabtera D tarn I fled and
All of Family Frleadlr.
BT. rKTP:RSRrna. May l.-It Is the
csarlna custom to keep In touch with
those of her ladles who have married and
left her service. At this Easter season
each year her majesty sots apart inm
days for receiving the visits of former
dames d'honnetfr, hearing; tho news of
their families and for an hour or two re
viving old companionships. The writer has
Just met one who has paid her annual
private visit to court. Stories have reached
here from abroad representing the czarina '
as wholly . broken In health, mind and
spirit by the gloomy oppression of the
court's secluded life. This lady's experience
of an afternoon visit to the czar's family
Is first-hand evidence on the subject.
When she arrived at the little palace of
Tsarskoe-Belo a mansion no larger than
any rich family might occupy and not to
be confounded with the grrnt palace half
a mile away, which. Is used only for state
ceremonial purposes the first of the
Romanoffs that she saw was the czar's
daughter, the 1,1-year-old Grand Duchess
Olga. a, serious-faced girl, tall for her age,
already almost her father's height. As she
led the visitor to the czarina's private
apartments she told, her that her mother
was resting on a sofa to ease a pain on
her' left side. In the first minute or two
of her meeting with the empress the latter
Was. visibly suffering, but her welcome
was quite cordial and her animation came
Murally as the conversation developed.'
' Empress Look Old..
. One would say that the empress now
looks decidedly more than her 31 years.
8h9 has become stouter than most matrons
of 40 are, moves rather heavily, and her
, akin has a habitual, high-colored under-
flush, such as Is noticed often In people
whose heart action Is not satisfactory.
Moreover, her expression and poso of fea
tures, alwayr lather austere, have taken
a fixed seriousness which Is tracing lines
on hef face.
'Tet the czarina was a considerate and
resourceful hostess. Oilier visitors came,
also former ladles in waiting. Her majesty
played piano duets with one of them, and
he sang In Kngllsh and Russian. The Im
perial children were brought In. The girls
have a range of education far beyond what
one Wbuld expect at their nge. Their talk
I with each other Is usually carried on In
English, the language In which the czar
paid court to their mother when she was
f Princess Alice of Hesse. The csarlna, how
rver, nas acquired perfect proficiency In
Russian, an achievement which the dow
ager empress, Marie Feodorovna, although
It la well over forty years since she be
came consort to a czar of Russia, has
never reached. The dowager scarcely
peaks Russian at all; mostly French, and
sometimes Kngllsh.
'The czar's daughters, as my Informant
noticed, "never let you forget that they
are grand duchesses," but they are not
forgetful of the fenllngs of others. Their
mother makes them work hard at their
books history, geogpraphy, literature Hnd
languages; so far none of them has shown
their mother's taste and aptitude for music.
Even when tjbeir hair Js getting brushed '
tbey are kept talktng "lessons" wrth one
or other of their governesses. There has
never been any trouble with them on the
core of good behavior; one after another,
as they grow up, become quiet, obedient,
affectionate girls dignified and undemon
strative. It Is only to their little brother "Allos
cha" as everyone calls the 6-year-old
Csarevltch Alexis that the entire Impe
rial family unbends with a will. Ills favor
ite toy Is a drum about half hs big as
himself. With It strapped on him as on
a regimental bandsman, he goes thumping
and marching along the corridors of the
palace, followed in military step by his
four' sisters In Indian file, his Amazon
army. He has abundant animal spirits.
Is only now that a governess Is being en
gaged for him; hitherto his upbringing,
outside of his family and nurses, has been
entrusted to a herculean, good Matured
sailor from the yacht Standalt, whom
Alexis himself chose as his playmate. The
two elder girls take their meals dally with
tho czar and czarina.
The private sorrows of an empress are
a fine theme for romantic speculation, but
it is a certainty that Czarina Alexandra
has no cause for the chief grief that the
drajma of history has' ascribed to the con
sorts of absolute monarchs. Her husband
,i devotedly loyal to her and always has
been. Her health Is a real rare to him.
any wish she may express is Ms law. Hut
like most of the other princesses descended
from- iuem Victoria of England she has !
practically no intellectual Interests and
little mental vigor. The fnct that she Is In
a position of unparalleled power and op- !
portunlty to affect the government of mil- '
Hons of her fellow creatures has simply
never occurred to her. Her range of In
terest Is limited to her family ami house
hold, and for the rest she has the artistic
accomplishments of a moderately gifted
gentlewoman. She hates the strugelo of
politics. At the Winter Palace in St. I'eteis-
burg on the day of the opening of the first
Duma she delayed tho luncheon to the
great personages of the empire for hair an
hour while she wept hitter tears of out
raged dignity at what she thought the
brutal Ul-breedlng of the revolutionary ma
jority of the Duma In not bowing In re
sponse to the salutntlons from the throne,
(aarlna'a Life tilonmy.
There are, however, outstanding facts in
her life that have greatly deepened her
natural seriousness. Her three elder sis
ters I'rincess Ixuils of Hattenberg and
I'rincess Henry of Prussia (both with genial
sailor husbands), and the Grand Duchess
Elisabeth, widow of the murdered Grand
Duke Serge made far less brilliant matches
than she, but how much more of the sun
shine of the woild is theirs!
In tho delicate matter of marital pro
priety among the members of her hus
band's family the czarina Is out of sym
pathy with the sentiment alike of the Rus
sian masses and of the ruling families.
Most of the grand dukes and a considerable
portion of Russia's public men maintain
or have maintained publicly their mor-.
ganatic alliances, and It never occurs to
the Slav mind to give the subject a thought.
It Is not that opinion Is Immoral; rather It
is non-fnoral. To this the czarina cannot
reconcile herself. The widespread resent
ment lelt among officers of both navy and
army when she secured the expulsion of
her husband's cousin, the Grand Duke
Cyril, from ttie navy for marrying the di
vorced wife of her brother, the duke of
Hesse, has not died down yet, although
Cyril haa been reinstated. It is an episode
that has confirmed the czarina in her will
to live strictly within the limits of her
family circle and private friends, tacitly
Ignoring the caJl to her to take up some of
what have hitherto been considered the
public duties of an enthroned empress.
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BETTING PROBLEM IN FRANCE
Attempts to Pat Bookmakers Oat of
Business for Hrnefit of
Government.
PAIMS, May 1. A new phase of the
betting problem has come up In France.
Some eighteen years ago the government
discovered that betting on horse racs was
Immoral and forbade it by law. It was Im
mediately found that without betting no
body went to the races, and horse breed
ing, an Important matter In a country that
needs cavalry, began to suffer. So the
parts mutucls system was introduced and
the government received a percentage of
all money wagered to spend on public
works.
r.ookmakors were thus eliminated, a a
paragraph of the law said that "whoever
shall In any place or form practice betting
by offering bets to all comers" shall be
liable to certain severe penalties. . ,
This law was Intended to make It pos
sible for two Individuals to make a bet
together. War was waged successfully on
professional bookmakers and their business
was practically killed. , Buttluring the last
two or three years It has revived. Prosecu
tions for betting have failed, the book
makers pleading that they did not accept
them from "all comers," but only from
people they, knew personally.
The failure of two or three test cases of
this kind so encouraged bookmaking that
the government found that last year Its
percentage from the parts mutucls was
S5,0u0,0U) less than for l!io7, and that for the
first three months of this year the deficit
is nearly $l',au,0U0, us compared with 1H08.
M. Ruan, the minister for agrliculture, has
therefore drawn up a new regulation,
which U practically certain to become law,
in which 'he has eliminated the Words "to
all comers" and which reads: "Whoever
shall have habitually, In any place or form,
offered, given or received bets on horse
races shall be liable to the penalties of
article 410 i f the penal code."
The penalties arc imprisonment for at
least two or at most six months, with a
fine from SJO to $1,2(10. The lawyers are
now looking forward to test cases on the
meaning of "habitually."
DUTCH PRINCESS IS NAMED
Condition of Queen Mother and
Daughter la Reported as
Satisfactory.
THE HAGUE. May 1. The condition of
Queen tVUhelmlna, who yesterday gavo
birth to a daughter, and the infant princess
today is thoroughly satisfactory. The
princess has been named Juliana Louise
Emma Marie Wilhelmlna.
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Few people may fully realise It but it Is
nonetheless true that an almost complete
revolution is In progress In the methods of
conducting our national campaigns. Trite
old has not yet been wholly discarded nor
Is the new entirely Installed, but the
transition Is on and much headway al
ready made. The new campaigning. If It
may be characterised In a word, Is simply
the application of business methods to the
work of political organisation and political
education. The revolution has proceeded
further on the republican side than on the
democratic side, but it Is by no means con
fined to any one political party. It docs
not belong wholly to the campaign Just
closed, although more radical departures
from previous practice were taken this
year than ever before.
In the first place, the qualifications de
manded of the national chairman In these
days go beyond being merely "a good fel
low." He must have a business head upon
his shoulders. He must have a persqnal
acquaintance that he can utilize to get
Into close communication with the represent
ta4lves of Important factors whose help Is
needed. His task Is to Improvise In a few
weeks a nation-wide piece of administra
tive machinery that In ordinary "big" busi
ness would be built up gradually year by
year and to put It In good running order
for a sixty-day high-pressure spurt that
would throw out of gear the best con.
structed industrial mechanism ever put to
gether. Early In the present campaign I
heard Mr. Bryan say, with reference to
the difficulty he encountered In getting the
right man for national chairman:
"I am rather glad that we were unable
to find the ideal chairman; for if we had
a man in our party able to meet all the
requirements of the Ideal chairman, he
would have been nominated for president
Instead of me."
The chairman, of course, cannot do the
whole Job alone. He has to have aides
und lieutenants and the test of demon
strated ability has come to be applied to
their choice, also.
So It has come about in the evolution of
things political that the national headquar
ters Is no longer simply a loafing place
for idlers who, by some sort of a pull,
have manuged to connect with the payroll
Quite the contrary, the visitor to head
quarters discovers at the door that he has
entered a business establishment a great
suite of offices very similar to what is
Decupled by the management of some large
industrial concern doing business all over
the country or around the world. The
work of the campaign headquarters Is de
partmentlzed and the visitor is quickly per.
mltted to relieve himself of the object of
hia mission; if requiring further attention
It is sifted to the particular place where
his business may fit in. It has been hard
for many of the old-timers to wake up to
the new conditions confronting them, but a
few days devoted to the absplete practtbe
of "chair warning" usually accomplishes
the result and the answer "nothing doing"
is at last accepted as final.
What I mean to say Is that the really
notable reform of the new campaigning
has been the amputation of a deep en
crusted gangrene of graft. The political
on-hanger who has an Idea that he should
be taken care of simply because he was
taken caro of once has had his day. The
individual with a hair-brained scheme to
sell that Is to turn hundreds of thousands
of voters has- bumped Into an unsympa
thetic market. The blackmailer who
threatens to do all sorts of dire things If
his demands are not met forthwith has dis
covered that his political capital has been
willed out. To eradicate these abuses and
run the risk of consequences takes courage.
Refusal to accede to polite and Impolite
requests invites resentment and reprisals.
Tho man who has merely mercenary ends
to subserve and does not get what he
wants at the national headquarters of one
political party Is quite apt to look for It
at the other party headquarters. The
shortness of campaign funds on the republi
can side has helped much along this line
and the prospect of a public accounting of
the campuign expenditures has helped even
more.
Uke wise In the contracts for legitimate
services Bnd supplies. It Is not mere favor
itism that rules. It is a reasonable assump
tion that the democratic management will
give preference to democrats and the repub
lican management to republicans. The
bids, however, arc bona fide, the goods are
ordered by requisition, their receipt
checked by a purchasing agent and the bills
are audited the same as bills rendered to
any good business house. This feature of
the reformed methods was first to be
Inaugurated and has been an established
feature cf all parties for several campaigns.
The real business of the national cam
paign m;ini!gement In a presldental elec
tion, as already indicated, is that of politi
cal organization and political education.
The work of political organization, which
culminates In "getting out the vote," must
necessarily be executed by the state and
local committees and the national com
mittee officers can exercise only a super
visory oversight. This supervision Is com
ing to be more and more efficient and
effective with a regular system of Inspec
tion, reports, polls, checking and counter
checking. Only In particular cases or with
reference to particular classes, does the
national organization do anything except
to work through the state and local or
ganizations. With something like 14.000,000
voters scattered through forty-six states,
it Is manifestly impossible for any one or
two central offices to reach out to In
dividuals. In fact, so huge has the elec
torate grown and so Immense Is the ex
panse of our country that a dual organiza
tion of the national campaign management
has become imperative and the continent
has been cut In two by an arbitrary line on
the map to constitute an eastern and a
western division to facilitate the transac
tion of business.
The work of political education falls
naturally into two groups the dissemina
tion of literature and the distribution of
oratory. Political Instruction may be im
parted by word of mouth or ly printed
argument or appeal. "Spellbinding" seems
to have reached Its perfection In the spe
cial train tour. The political "big guns"
arc put in the field and routed the same
aj a theatrical troupe. An advance man
marks the Itinerary and looks after local
details. The special train Is equipped
with a full complement of speakers,
stenographers, press correspondents, liter
ature distributers, etc. It Is well adver
tised ahead of time and Is met at the
station by an expectant audience. The
I'.iauienilul candidates of four political
parties went special training this year. It
will be surprising If tills did not set a
1 rrcedeiit for all national campaigns of
the Immediate future. It la worth noting
that the candidate of the socialist party
la the only one so far who has ventured
und succeeded in meeting expenses by get
ting people to pay to hear him ask them
foi lluir votes. Special training Is such
luxury that it can be Indulged only for
the political headliners, but there Is a
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growing disposition abroad to demand
headliners or none at all. In a word, the
lesser oratorical luminaries are threatened
with eclipse because the people want to
see and hear the men of first magnitude
rather than the small fry and the expense
of circulating one or the other Is almost
trc same.
The literary output in a political contest
for national supremacy figures up to the
colossal. Editions of speeches and
pr.mphlets are turned out by the millions
and they are printed In nearly every
spoken language. The party papers are
enlisted and organized for a co-opeTatlve
onslaught on the political enemy. They
arc freely supplied with editorial sheets,
political news, cartoons, campaign poetry,
ready-to-prlnt plates and ready-to-clrcu-late
supplements. The bill board posters,
tho window lithographs, the buttons, the
songB, and the various campaign novelties
are all elements of campaign publicity.
The question of political advertising
presents a big problem Immediately in
front of the campaign managers. Four
years ago the republicans used space in
popular magazines and similar class pub
lications and a limited amount of such
space was used again this year by both
the great political parties. The republicans
confined their announcements by pro
claiming the records of the candidates,
while the democrats undertook to solicit
campaign contributions In this way. The
democrats Injected some real humor into
the political arena by the wording of their
advertisements In ' large type the reader
vas told that for twelve years under re
publican rule his . cost of living had been
Increasing much faster than his wages,
and then, after he was duly impressed
with his poverty, he was Invited to cut
off the coupon on the lower right hand
cirrner and mail it, together with $5, to
the treasurer of the democratic national
committee. It Is doubtful, therefore, If
this plan of advertising met the expectation
that It could be made to pay Its own way.
Involving, as It would, a very large out
Icy, I consider the matter of political ad
vi rtlslng one of the serious problems of
the new campaigning yet to be solved.
Last, but not least, the financing of our
piesidentlal campaigns Is being completely
metamorphosed. No law governing cam
paign contributions requiring publicity or
limiting their amount has yet been enacted
so far as national campaign funds are
concerned, but the court of public opinion
has registered several verdicts, which are
proving Just as effective as law In cur
tailing the abuses toward which former
methods were heading. The time has
passed when great sums of money, sub
scribed by the officers of a few big cor
porations, may be depended on to supply
the sinews of political warfare. Practic
ally all the funds employed In national
campaigns used to be collected in New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Boston,
and It was an almost unheard of thing for
contributions to come In from any part of
the country outside of these money cen
ters unless by some 'one already In official
life or hoping to be.
This year the democratic campaign fund
was collected In large part by direct ap
peal to Individuals through newspaper sub
scription lists. It was announced that not
over 110.000 would be accepted from any
one contributor, and while thia limit was
evaded In at least one Instance, there was
no general rush to override It, and the
subscriptions In excess of $1,000 were very
few Indeed. On the republican side, while
there were no stipulated dead lines, the
large subscriptions which would have ex
ceeded the democratic limit could be
counted on the fingers, and the total num
ber of contributors not only went well Into
the thousands for the first time, but were
distributed geographically over all the
states and territories.
The grand total doubtless look large,
but It must be remembered that. In the na
ture of thlnga, large sums of money are
needed for entirely legitimate purposes of
a campaign covering so large a country.
For the first time in our history, forty-sis
statts participated la the enaction of a
president of the United States and, with
the possible exception of 1806, more states
were classed as fighting ground than in
any other campaign. For such a long line
of battle an extensive and expensive equip
ment Is required to sustain the army of
combatants and push the fight. While a
great deal of illegitimate outlay in tho na
ture of graft and extravagance has been
cut off, other legitimate drafts on the cam
paign treasury have been acquired. The
railroads are no longer permitted to fur
nish free passes to political emissaries and
political spellbinders, nor are special trains
to be had for the asking. The Item of ex
penso for railway fare and train service
for candidates and orators alone foots up
into the hundreds of thousands of dollars
for rach committee. The railroads have
been decidedly tho gainers by the laws
that have stopped free transportation and
the sentiment that has at the same time
frowned down corporation contributions to
party treasuries.
That all these changes are in the direc
tion of Improvement In campaign methods
seems beyond question. They are plainly
making for political honesty and for a
higher levrl of political morality. The cam
paign of the future may, and doubtless
will, show still further Improvement. It
is a safe assertion that there will be no
retrograde movement, and that never again
will we go back in this country to the
wide-open, go-as-you-please, help-yourself.
hlt-or-miss system of handling a presiden
tial campaign In the name of any great
political party.
ROW OF FARMERS' WIVES
What it Means to Quit the Farm,
Move to Town and "Take
Thlnga Easy."
Farmers who retire and move to town
are more reckless of their neglect of fresh
air and exercise than city men. City men,
with their golf and other forms of outdoor
amushement, manage to make their play
help their bodies. They are constantly the
recipients of free advice. What city man
has not been warned of the advantages of
cold baths, of suitable clothing, of sleeping
with the window open, of temperate eating,
and of exercise In the open air? But the
poor retired farmer, with a fat bank ac
count and nothing to do, is ofteh a vic
tim of the prosperity which takes him
away from his work and places him In a
community where he has nothing to do.
lie sits around the house, plays cards with
his cronies and eats more than he can
stand without the physical labor to which
he has been accustomed. The general truth
of this statement holds In thousands of
small towns throughout the great middle
west, especially. The "women folks" par
ticularly the wives are not so often vic
tims of the easier life ot- the town after
the rough work of the farm. This Is be
cause they usually continue to do their
own housework, thus keeping up a whole
some amount of exercise. A Wisconsin
farmer, 64 years of age, told us the other
day how ho retired from the farm twenty
years ago, and how he came to continue
tha physical exercise which keeps him In
good condition. It was a country editor In
Iowa, who happened to give him the right
advice at the right time. He had Just
moved into town, and turned the farm
over to his son-in-law, when he chanced
to visit the editor, who was an old friend.
Here Is what the editor said to him:
"You are 45 now, Charlie, and you have
moved Into town to take It easy and have
a good time. Well, I II give you from two
to four years to live. I havo lived In this
one place for thirty-five years, and I have
seen a perfect stream of prosperous farm
ers retire, move to town, and then die
quickly. Their aivcrage llfo after they
leave off work is about thirty years. This
Is not guesswork. It Is a calculation I have
mado from facts which I have collected."
This scared Charley. So he kept at the
woodpile and the garden and the pump.
It Isn't easy to do work you don't have
to do, especially In bad weather. After
the generalizations already Indicated, we
called for mora specific Information from
Charley's own town (a beautiful little,
place of 2.000 population located In tho
center of a rich farming district In Wis
consin). "All right," he said, "let s have
a pencil and a sheet of paper." Then ho
took the main street of his town, which Is
inhabited chiefly by well-to-do retired
farmers, and began to make a list of the)
widows. The significance of this enumera
tion was somewhat startling. There were
twenty-seven, or. In other words, over half
of the houses on that street were occupied
by the widows of retired farmers. Collier's
Weekly.
That Tired Feeling and
Those Little Soldiers
There is probably no better indication that those
"Little Soldiers" in your blood -the white cor
puscles are deficient in health and strength and
may fail to defend your body against disease
germs, than "that tired feeling."
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produced by work and relieved by rest.
It is a tired feeling that has absolutely noth
ing to do with mental or physical exertion, and
makes a constant burden of itself.
You go to bed with it and get up with it.
It is common in the spring or on the return of
warm weather, and is a warning which only the
hazardous fail to heed.
It is due to an impure, impoverished or de
vitalized condition of the blood.
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