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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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."
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; pay all taxes becoming due and payable
after the 15th day of February,
1917. A. Al. ttUlihJK,
1 3-29. Special Master.
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