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Show urlate A WOMAN, THE YELLOW PERIL. Mm Talk about "tho yellow peril!'- i turn 9 There is a sallow-complexioned wo- fl man at least sallow-complcxioned calljj fl by nature dark-eyed, with coarse Hps, who is the "yellow peril" that ind liberty-yearning Russians have reason ickot fl to dread far more than Europe lias to fear Jap and reconstructed China-ie China-ie my fl man- Twice on tho eve of tho St. Petersburg massacre, she rode In a body fl sleigh up and down tho Nevsky Pros- H pect to give courage to the people hills, fl who wer about to petition the Em- j gluey B eror for their rights. She was luring I B them into tho net laid by tho grand B ducal crow'd, which includes her prec- rary fl clous brother-in-law, Serglus, whose 9 very name stinks In tho nostrils of all dogs B Russians who are men, bo they of high or low degree. She abjured tho iover- B fa"u ln which she had been baptized, H cursed her former co-religionists, drop- k H ped the name of Dagmar which had ; our fl been borne by a saintly Queen ot II Denmark, her ancestress to become place if llie betrothed of tho then Czarevitch. I I Ho died on tho eve of their appointed have II marriage. The cause of his death IW showed how degenerate had become 1 cir- 11 tlie decendauts of tho great Catherine. She married his younger brother, a shall II bravo, slow-witted, uneducated IB boor, who was now heir to tho throne. II I'"iG many 'verts, she seemingly bets be-ts of II canio more bigoted in the religion she IH had adopted than those who wero born jplcs. it. She begot as her eldest son a craven at heart, who, among his broth- - l er offlcers in tho famous Preobrajen- II sky Guards, had tho reputation of in- l dulging in tho same weakness that killed his mother's first betrothed. ! When his father was gathered to tho I, gravo and ho became Emperor ho col- lapsed ln a fit of nervous prostration. : According to tho customs of Imperial Russia his mother is tho leading wo-j wo-j man In tho Emplro, and, being clover, sho Is a power in its councils. It was she that, out of hatred for Prussia, which had taken the Schleswlg-Hol-l m stein provinces from hor native land, WM hiought about tho alliance betweon J M ostracized Franco and Russia and so If tickled French vanity that francs II poured Into tho Imperial exchequer at II at Petersburg. It was tho regiment of this Ballow-faced, coarse-lipped wo- l man that committed more' murders I than any other in St. Petersburg last I bunday. She is tho Empress-Dowagor 1 01 Russia, younger sister of the gonlto I aJia, beloved Queen Alexandra of England. ' I Town Topics. |