Show ENTRANGE TO f DUMA DIFfICULT r Russian Bureaucrats Stud Study Ways of Keeping Aspirants Aspirant From Chamber If N Nt t 5 1 KILLS SELF TO GET MONEY MONE J Tragic Means of Chinese Il C to lo Make Col- Col ColIc Ic Ul Mucous s Ad Admitted 1 In III France 1 r J f BY LADY I Y Copyright ht 1907 London Feb 23 Effectual means mean have o been used to make malc the tho entrance lt to the duina duma In Russia difficult to al ull all reformers Profus or am and Count Hoyden have both been beaten in their elections The Tho count Is tho thoman I 4 man of all others who stands for COl or thet the t peaceful evolution Q of freedom but hut he heIs Is probably c considered all tho more inor dangerous because he Is likely to I bring about great reat results b by legitimate J c mate means and Bureaucracy Is det determined de tie- t to b bar lr out all reform whether er peaceful or OJ revolutionary revolutionary- 1 Mr lr Ir Foster Frazer who has recently j been moving about In Russia hasI has I r given as aN a most Interesting account of ot the different men of ot mark marl and th tho thi r. r bewildering bc differences o of ot the various parties are ure made mado plain to us by hy his i I pon pen the tho party that desires constitutional l I government go and ministers tie de- l pond l on the will vilI of the people represented rep rep- 7 r resented in iii an elected parliament constitute constitute one winS wing 1 The Socialists pure and simple who 1 work for or a republic form orm another the I Nationalists who want autonomy and andr r home rule for Poland and other dependencies de do- are arc a third There e is a movement also abo al o for 01 the emancipation o of the Jews Individualists Communists IsIs I ts and aTul a score of others It is this want of cohesion Ilon which makes the revolutionary power so o In in- in effective Tho Thi Th Russian himself Is not easy to rouse he ho Is wl witted slow arid and laz lazy cruel anti and sentimental and fatalist fatal fatal- 1st to the bael backbone bonc with all the fatalism fatalism fatalism fatal fatal- ism of oC the Asiatic H Ills Mis ls reverence Ic e for Is so rooted deep that Jt it Is Js a who will hold holti the peoples people s confidence Count Alexis I Ignatieff who recently met so tragic a death wa was those who were suddenly f pu pushed hed t to prominence by the emperor without apparently nn any adequate reason Ill Ills principal characteristic appears tc to have ha been the vividness of his hung Imag Ima which caused ed him to overlook o facts so completely that he never stayed to consider whether his Ms statements statements state state- ments were truth or 01 t tells th the tho following amusIn amusing amus- amus In ing ng anecdote concerning the vividness of or the fancy fanc of tho the lato late c unC It was said Mid d that being Invited to step Into tho the carriage e of ot Prince he forgot that the carriage c and pair were not his hh own and be began an to Improvise ise a wonderful stor story about th tinS tho merits and genealogy of the tho horses which were presented to him he a assured the prince b by the sultan himself Excuse me mc count said Prince B you vou forgot that the horses arc are mine Ah exclaimed the count I beg your 11 0 pardon It makes no difference they might have b been en mine Many ways have havo been heen evolved for or collecting mone money but probably the Idea of girls In her native province In China Is the most original After Arlel doln doing all she could to seek geek the tho necessary support she solemnly committed suicide In old order r to obtain her end Money Mone at once began to flow lowin Pin In and the school she he so desired to o start has received all the support that was needed nce-ded This self inn self martyred lady ady has been immortalized In a pIa play I for or the event has been drama- drama I and her name Is well I knon throughout China but hut It Is to tobe be bc JG remembered that suicide Is not forbidden but Is actually encouraged en en- as a heroic and a religious act Th The Tho o of women in man many provinces pro in China I is one of the most Interesting features of o our time tune Mrs Archibald Little who founded the Natural Feet society in China s says s 's that hat she has never nc forgotten seeing a school girl come forward forwar at a a. a great Ireat crowded meeting held at Soo- Soo chow how where the tho governors governor's wife and andall andall andall all the grand ladles ladies In place were seated In lii the foremost seats The Tue girl advanced attired In black silk silk Ilk trou trousers er and a short black jacket with a red crochet woollen shawl twisted round her throat after th the of the modern school girl 1 In that hut countr country Without the slightest shyness speaking one of the tho most lit dif cult Chinese dialects she poured forth orth with ith extreme earnestness a long pooch which of course Mrs Little was i-as as unable to understand Many lany people tried to stop her am anti and hen then appealed to the school mistress to o 0 bid her hel cease but nothing would ouId hi ay the flow How of oC her eloquence It was plain that she was b beseech beseech- s. 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I X U Ih I I im h lf to ux use fh ro rt 11 l' l dill tid II hk h. h Illy lout Ut n i h h. i th th- th Danish Dan Liti andra andl by I ol Ut aims m il h u at dL l II II I the he rov royal l arm Th li Ill ii anI ish and II t th h British r H jh lIn t t r f l ill arms alln J LII j. j very ery part palt o ot his lis being and amI the only Is possible i re reason why wily an aD uprising f t- t anywhere lies lIeg In Ln the fact that the ther Jews Jows and Poles loles of ot the Baltic alUc r the Germans and anti Armenians revolt ro against the tite barbaric methods brutal autocracy used by hy a front the s In Russia men irien spring to like mushrooms in an autumn night the tho same and amI America f- f In Europe ant j f. f men would wouW have to work their way it slowly to the front ilont but in Russia to prominence Is beckoned a tl man num f p t by Jy the finger flagor of ot the tile emperor Tho The Emperor Paul gave It as his F. F Russia there Is only one ono onet verdict In importance and that thatIs person of any 1 t be talking to Is tho the man I 1 happen while 1 I am talking to and only to to v r. F- F him This has nb absolutely represented seated conditions In Russia and yet f 1 It H I is a strange anomaly that with allI all os In the of democracy V vein is there thele a I has hM apparently nothing which I I Russian which It X overcome a n. moral paradox f. f Is impossible to lo account for fOI side by byL byr his religious devotion to the sl sIde o with r L' L humblest orl- orl of or the throne for or men inert Av- Av 6 gin n In can ri rise e If ir t thu tho emperor so 50 pleases their to demur being made a. a as l. l no r birth t The Tho 0 man who stands eminently pre Is isI I Ir r above all others in nu Russia Ia today I Count WItto lie He is a great personality person person- I 1 nItty and although for the time ho hohas has he been en displaced from extinguished power he and has haB hasby V h by no means been dynamic force will vili be that day da 1 effectively used It is II a strange fact married a lady of that Count ritto l has lias Jewl Jewish h blood and this alliance with caused caused him to be looked upon more suspicion than any other act in his career caleer as aM nothing Is 15 more deep deep- seated in the heart healt of ot the Russian t than LImn his hatred o of tho tile Jew Jow I the tile minister r of oe the Interior Late Into c 4 his life who wio has given riot 1101 i is a man The rho to alleviate the lot of ot the me meet t now difficulty that he has hal to that thai ho is ii in office Is 18 that men mon no t longer believe e In him Ministers have havo broken faith with the people 80 50 o often orten trust him prepared to that none are Mme has haR probably been beon a n great gat factor actor In the RU Russian ministers sucCess She is 18 a woman of Intelligence am and strong Judgment jud mont Unlike is tho ho titan man manlo looking for to lo whom Russians are all acknowledge his Integrity and liEs Ills firmness of purpose He lIe was absolute the man who made malic the fight In the theLi F Fe Few w a agree gree with vl th u Li i r. r him but all admirl ire him and In the entanglement of Russian affairs th the theman theman man who l keeps his word wold is the mar to all who were present to go goo Ing who her native place and anti as those hid did not understand her 1101 afterward 1111 a learned entreating them theta to o othe the people there thero not to bind hind their daughters daughters' feet She did not know to whom she was shortly appealing for a mission was arranged by the English speaking women women wo wo- men at that very place to endeavor to further th the work which this earnest earnest earnest earn earn- est school girl girt had begun It Is said that the girl has since become Christian an and ana converted all her family to Christianity She is ts evidently evi 1 dently ono one of or those heroines who havIng having hav hay I ing log been Inspired by a new Dew Idea see sec sc c ti In 1 l hear but hut the UH i forwarding III j of f ir their mission mission and sho she I Is numbered among that useful crowd whom we call fanatics rho Tho state of tho the women In China has recently been brought to my notice no no- flee tice as I 1 have been beon asked to accompany accompany pany party the deputation to lo the dowa dowager r empress of China which Is to be sent in order to en endeavor eavor to further the he movement which has been set on fool foot there thoro of establishing coli colleges egos for or women women wo wo- men In all the provinces and ami a united powerful and discreet movement will wll no doubt obtain that a large me measure sur 0 of ot Christian Influence should be ue brought to bear upon the new movement move mon ment mont which It IB is opening in that t vas vast realm Chinese e women have ha now their own vr dally daily paper which bears the appropriate if somewhat commonplace title of The Tho Woman's Womans Journal It Is published pub pub- in Pekin and antI there Is a strangely strange strange- ly Iy characteristic leading article In a recent number called The Proof That the tho World is Round The world must because if it I. I bo be round says the writer lit It were Vere flat list like a u plato and whirled d whit led I round and as aa surely It dots dot's do s. the wind caused by the tho great t whit lIng I I- I ing bIg would sweep all mankind oft elf tin the earth I There I Is no wind caused when y y y U u whirl a ball In your hands but hul what If It you OU should whirl a fan Our ancestors ances N tors believed that the world was waN lint Hat and their thell belief should always be received re rc received re- re respectfully oven even thOu though h we ma may think differently toda today but we e know now that the forel foreigners nels nel's 11 live on the other side of ot the world and if It I It were Oat flat the tile power to pull people off oft the world would work more mort strongly than titan it ft does docs on a u round world They would walk like hike flies s I on the ceiling We e rub ml our out eyes and aRid wonder wondel whether ther we WC are back bael In iii early medieval al tunes when we read ratI also an anI I article on en The Evils of Obtaining I I l ld B Evidence nce by Torture |