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u A REIGN OF MISFORTUNES. Cfcar Accused of Writing to Kaiser; Secretly. The character of Czar Nicholas II, of Russia, has been a theme of many contradictions. On one point, however. all chronicles have agreed, and that has been in regard to the essential timidity of the man. Circumstantial stories have been circulated from country to country during the progress of the great war that the czar was secretly maintaining a confidential correspondence with the kaiser. The letters of the a - i warring monarchs were saia xo nave j been dispatched by couriers from Pe- I trograd and Berlin, who would meet by prearrangement at some obscure point in Sweeden, where they would exchange the royal missives. This piece of gossip, attributed to high authority, illustrates the estimation in which the czar was held. He was believed to be fearful of the liberalizing forces fermenting in his unwieldy empire, and fretfully distrustful fo the democratic influence of his allies, England and France, upon the dawning aspirations of his own people. Fear for the future of autocracy in Russia was attributed to him as a motive for clinging with childlike dependence to the one European ruler who, although technically his enemy, was always to be counted upon as a last-ditch champion of the "divine right" of monarchs, whether Hohenzollern or Romanoff. Reign of Misfortunes. The story of the courier correspondence with the kaiser may not have been literally true, or, if true, it maj- never be proved?but this week's events in Russia point to the conclusion that it was at least a straw showing which way the wind blew in Russia. The reign of Czar Nicholas, now ingloriously ended by deposition, has been anything but a happy one. Its twenty-two years have been marked by mysterious misfortunes shadowing the personal fortune and fame of the monarch himself. The series began with his accession to the throne on the death of his father in 1894. Hundreds of peasants and laborers were killed in a disaster which gave a note of horror to his coronation festivities. The populace had been hidden to assemble in a plain near Moscow, where they would be treated to refreshments and a view of the young czar, who would say a few words to them from a high platform built for the purpose. Owing to culpable mismanagement, the crowding people were pushed into a deep ditch that had been dug around the plain, and many were crushed to death. Count Paul Yassili, a veteran Russian diplomat, and a bitter critic of the czar, wrote in .his memoirs this description of 1 what followed: A Stupid Blunder. The emperor was expected at any moment, and he could not be allowed to see all those bodies scattered everywhere about. Soldiers were requisitioned and they hastily?will such fatal stupidity be believed?? thrust the corpses under the very pavilion in which the sovereign was to alight and from the balcony of which he was to witness the feast. Thus by a terrible blunder of which he knew nothing, but for which he was ever after bitterly reproached, Nicholas II actually stood for more than five hours over the dead bodies of his subjects, killed in their endeavors to welcome him. Count Vassili adds that the czar appeared at a great court ball that evening without showing any sign of distress, and when a royal visitor expressed sorrow at the disaster, replied, calmly: "Yes, it is very sad; but such accidents happen often when there is a great congregation of people." Others have seen Czar Nicholas II as an idealist and humanitarian. Although no man of his time has been more hated and cursed, the late W. T. Stead, of England, believed him a passionately sincere apostle of universal peace. Andrew Carnegie holds the same view, largely inspired by the Czar's inauguration of the nrst peace conrerence at 1 ne?jtiague. Good Acts and Bad. The establishment of the Russian Duma, limited as its powers were intended to be, is another liberal project attributed to Nicholas by his democratic admirers. Others worth recalling are his attack on the great corrupt police system of Russia, his efforts to distribute more land to the peasants and settle them on small holdings, the amnesty he granted to revolutionary exiles, including Gorky, and his abolition by imperial ukase of the sale of vodka. But against these white pages in the history of his reign, his enemies continue to quote examples of the monarch's cynical heartlesseness, such as the slaughter of the workmen in Father Gapon's procession, intent only on presenting a peaceful petition to the "Little Father." His demeanor on the occasion of the assassination of his devoted ad A RKAL CONFLICT. Lloyd George and Asquith.?A Contrast. Behind the apparent conflicts, the real conflict was becoming visible to the farsighted, writes "A British Observer," in the March Atlantic. It was a conflict between .Mr. Asquith and Mr. George. In such a conflict waged in such an atmosphere of rumors, alarms, and passions, the odds were all in favor of the younger I man. Mr. Asquith was singularly | detached and aloof from the popular mind. He neither used the press, nor placated it. He was the least demonstrative man who ever appealed to a democarcy, and was not so much indifferent to the limelight as contemptuous of it. Mr. George, on the other hand, had an extraordianarv popular genius, used the press with great skill, had an incomparable gift of reclame, and was always in the public eye and on the crest of every wave. He had already come into touch with Lord Xorthcliffe, and all the enormous engines which the press monopolist controlled began to work against the government. The government fell, but the end aimed at was not achieved. Mr. Asquith - did not resign, but reconstructed his Cabinet on the basis of a coalition. In representative men of all parties. He was dominated by the single idea of preserving the unity of the country in the face of the enemy, and the measure of his devotion to that coalition he included represenfact that he consented to exclude from his cabinet his life-long friend. Lord Haldane, on whom an attack of peculiar virulence and malevolence tative men of all parties. OUR WAR CHIEFS. Upon Whom Heavy Responsibilities May Fall. Upon Major Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of the general staff of the United States army, and upon Admiral William S. Benson, president of the general board of the United States navy, says the American Review of Reviews, will fall the main responsibilities of organizing the military and naval forces of the nation for a successful conduct of operations in the event of war. Both officers are men of energy, sound judgment, and ript experience, and both enjoy, the confidence of the president. They are also surrounded by a corps of the most capable- officers, and are well able to properly handle the military situation at one of the most critical times in the nation's history. herent, the reactionary Prime Minister Stolypin, has been quoted as a nf Viic hoavtlofisnpss Ha was pi KJKJL \JL UIO shot down in a theater by one of his own agents. The Cazar was sitting with his daughters in the state box, but did not make the slightest movement to show that he was impressed by the tragic event. A chronicler who was present wrote: "The crowd that filled the theater began to cheer him with unusal enthusiasm, which he accepted with a slight bow in the direction of the audience; but he did not seem to evince particular interest as to the fate of his wounded minister. He returned to the palace without visiting the wounded man or making a personal inquiry as to his condition." Slave of Superstition, The Cazar has been called a slave to superstition. A succession of wonderworking priests have exercised great control over his actions, both private and imperial. The first of them was the famous Father John, of Cronstadt, who was regarded in Russia as a saint and abroad as an ignorant pretender. The Czarina, who was Princess Alix of HesseDarmstadt, shares her husband's mv&tirai tendfinev. and the entire Russian court has for many years been under the spell of one "holy man" after another. Count Vassili in his memoirs says of the Czarina: The Empress's nerves are certainly not in a sound condition, and this fact ought to be taken into consideration when thinking or speaking of her. She lives in dread of her husband and children being murdered. Her highly strung nature takes more seriously even than they deserve certain circumstances which surround her, and she has not enough command of herself tc meet with courage whatever fate lies before her. Not understanding that sovereigns must pay with their persons for the privileges of their position in the world, she spends her time in imploring her husband to put iiimself and his familiy into safety instead of urging him to come for ward and to confront whatever danger lies before him. Deep unhappiness brooded over the Empress for many years after her marriage because of her failure to give birth to an heir to the throne of the Romanoffs. She had four daughters in succession before the happy event arrived in 1904.?Sunday American. THK CASH REGISTER. How Universal Store Convenience Came Into Reing. There were no cash registers when John Henry Patterson was born? December 13, 1S44. His forebears were Scotch-Irish, the first to come to America (about 1728) being his I great-grandfather, whose son fought as a colonel in the Revolutionary war, founded the city of Lexington. Ky., became one of the three original owners of the land now covered by Cincinnati, and finally located on a 2,000 acre farm'near Dayton. Here John Henry was born, almost on the spot now occupied by the National Cash Register company. As a lad, one of eight children, he had to work hard on the farm. He received a good education, first in the Dayton schools and later at Miami university and Dartmouth college, where he graduated B. A. in ISO 7, Having previously served in the Civil war as a hundred day man although then only a stripling. Farm labor did not appeal to the bachelor of arts. Commerce appealed to him most, but he could not pick and choose jobs. Collecting tolls on the Miami & Erie canal, on duty night and day, Sundays and holidays, was the best he was able to land. This, however, was not commerce. He wanted to buy and sell things. Having saved a little money, he succeeded in borrowing a little more and set up as a retail coal dealer in Dayton. From selling coal he gravitated to mining coal and iron ore, in partnership with his brother, Frank, in Jackson county, some 80 miles from Dayton. To enable their miners to obtain supplies, the Pattersons, in conjunction with two other mining concerns, opened a store. Business was plentiful but profits were nil. At the end of two years the store had not netted a cent notwithstanding that all goods ' were Supposed to be sold on a reasonable margin of profit. Something was wrong; there was a leak somewhere. Hearing that a merchant in Dayton had invented a contrivance to keep a record of all sales, Mr. Patterson immediately telegraphed for two of the novel machines. The idea of the cash register had taken birth in 1879, in the brain of Jacob Rrtty, a Dayton merchant, who, suffering 1 from a breakdown due to overwork and worry in attempting to keep tabs ! on the details of his business, had started on a voyage to Europe. While in the engine room of the ship one day, he noticed a device that recorded the number of revolutions of the propeller shaft. Why not con. struct a machine that would record each coin put in the till? Hurrying . back, he set to work with his brother, , a skilled mechanic, and evolved the . first cash register. Mr. Patterson's was the first order . filled. Crude and clumsy though it was, the machine immediately turned . the store's loss into a ' substantial profit. Mr. Patterson's commercial . instinct told him that the new inven. tion had unlimited possibilities. "What is good for our store is good . for every store in the world," he told , himself. At the first opportunity he went to Dayton, investigated the situation thoroughly and, although only , a few machines had been turned out, he was so certain of the outlook that in 1884, he bought out the Ritty business and changed the name from the , National Manufacturing company to th9 National Cash Register company.?B. C. Forbes, in Leslie's. EXTRA SESSION APRIL 2. i _________ Congress Will Formally Declare State of War Exists. Washington, .March 21.?President . Wilson today met the constantly in, creasing probability of war with Ger> many by summoning congress to as, semble in extraordinary session April 2?two weeks earlier than the date he had chosen before the latest as, saults on American rights on the seas. When the president addresses congress he is expected to show how a state of war actually has existed for some time because of the unlawful aggressions of German submarines. Congress is expected formally to . declare a state of war existing, vote a large sum, probably half a billion ; dollars, for national defences of the United States as it empowered Presii dent McKinley to deal with the meni ace of Spain in 1898. Such action would not be a declar. ation of war except in a technical i sense and whether the United States and Germany actually go to war in t the fullest acceptation of the term will depend on what the imperial orAvornniont r1r?pc hpfnrp prmprpss is ViiiWlVllt Vt VN/C MVW V VV-3 . assembled or after it acts. Oregon as a leader in the production of steel is the ambition of Governor Withycombe. The State has almost unlimited power facilities in 1 the streams of the Cascades. Ore or * crude iron materials, it is said, may be obtained at cheap rates from ! China. ?-Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. ? SALE OF LAND UNDER ORDER OF i COURT. United States of America?Eastern District of South Carolina?In the District Court in Equity. S. S. Ray, trustee in Bankruptcy, Complainant, against Enterprise Bank, of Bamberg, Mrs. Bertha Riddle. Mrs. E. E. Ellery, Defendants. Under and by virtue of a decree made in the above entitled cause, filed Feb. 15, 1917, I will offer for sale and sell (subject to confirmation by the Court), at public auction, before the Court House of Bamberg County, S. C., at 11 o'clock, a. m., on the second day of April. A. D., 1917: PARCEL A: "ALL those certain lots of land, situate, lying and being in the town of Denmark, in tne County of Bamberg, in the State of South Carolina, on the line of the South Bound Railroad Company, 1 nown as lots No. 1 and 2 in block 53 on the map or plat of said town of Denmark, with the buildings tnereon; Dounaea as follows: On the North by lot No. 3 in said block 53; on the East by a lane; on the South by Sixth street, and on the West by Palmetto avenue. ALSO "ALL those certain lots of land known as lots 21, 22, 23, and 24, being the western half of said lots Nos. 21, 22, 23, and 24, in said block 53 here by mortgage and bounded North by lot No. 20 in block 53; on the East by the eastern half of said lots Nos. 21, 22, 23, 24, in said block 53; South by Sixth street and West by a lane, measuring front on Sixth street, fifty feet more or less, by one hundred feet, more or less on said lane. Being same lots of land conveyed to Reka Rich by Philip Rich by his deed dated the sixteenth day of June, 1897, and recorded in the clerk's office for Barnwell County in Book 6-T, at page 173. ALSO "ALL those certain lots of land situate, lying and being in the town of Denmark, in Bamberg County, in said State, known as lots 3 and 4, in block 53 on map or plat of town of Denmark, end bounded on the North by lots now or formerly of C. L. Wroton; on the East by a lane; on the South by lot No. 2, in block 53, and on the West by Palmetto avenue, being the same lots conveyed to Reka Rich by L. S. Trotti by his deed dated the first day of January, J897, i and recorded in Barnwell County in Book 6-H, at page 450. And .being same land conveyed to the said C. C. 1 Ellzey by Reka Rich by her deed . of conveyance dated 29th day of Noi vember, 1904, and recorded in the ( office of the clerk of court for Bamberg County, in Book E, at page 190." PARCEL B: "ALL those certain lots of land, with the buildings and improvements , thereon, situate, lying and being in , the town of Denmark, County of ' Bamberg, and State of South Caro: lina, and known and described in a ; plat of said town of Denmark, as ^ lots Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, in block 54 of said town, wliich said plat or map was made by W. J., 1 Gooding, Jr., civil engineer, and . bears date Dec. 22nd, 1896, and is recorded in the office of the clerk of court for Bamberg County, South Carolina." Terms of kale cash, purchaser to ; pay all taxes becoming due and payable after the 15th day of February, 1917. A. Al. ttUlihJK, 1 3-29. Special Master. RILEY & COPELAND I Successors to W. P. Riley. Fire, Life Accident INSURANCE Office in J. D. Copeland's Store BAMBERG, S. C. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Yonr druggist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in 6tol4days. The first application gives Ease and Rest. 50c. Best material and workmanship, light running, requires little power; simple, easy to ! handle. Are made in several sizes and are good, substantial money-making machines down to the smallest size. Write for Icatolog showing Engines, eoii ers and all Saw Mill supplies. I LOMBARD IRON WORKS & S I SUPPLY CO. | 1 Augusta, Ga. 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