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- . '. .... . ' : ., PETRQOBAD DREAM Ell? OF FAR-SEEING PETtR HE 6REAT ! Russian "Capital Was Forced Into Bsing by Rayal Edict. CZAR BARS CEP.fjAN NAME Present Err;p: Incer.eed Against C r All the Russias, emany, Changes Ancient Title cf the Great City in Fit cf Facial Spleen. Petrcrad Petro;,: ad! In Russian. Peter the Great. This is the new name conferred upon St. Petersburg by the Czar because the old name, which the first Peter gave the capital in 170.'), had a German ending. Noth ing that is German, v. 'aether it be ending or berrhmin-sc or middle, is tc: erated in Russia today. WlK-n the news was ariounced c! the edict cf Czar Nicholas, whirl-, eliminated St. Petersburg every oiu sat up and had scriieihins to say abou the l'rce-and-easy wry Xir-halas shifteo good, old-fashioned nemt nciaturr about. It didn't u:ak any diiierenot whether they were Russian or not They tall but the Germans, of course1; wanted to have souk thin? to say abcu. r isolate Ru. ian waste, with a R Is U n g"le roaring about him, the youilg r locked tor a window- to the sea, is Ecica historian ably puts it. .ert to Prussia; he went to i:;iwcr; he" went to Holland. At '.niolerdau) he got a job. It was vvk ns; in a shipyard as a comnon ?htp ,r'rt. lie caulkad and, planed an 6 icraped nnd painted. Av.n he la'T.rti 'low to m;:'ke a ship s.i::i hov to ?an me, AH that remained to icw to fight one. Experience would each h'.ra '.his. When he left for hone he took with vim 5 -0 engineers, surc on-s shVo su'h'ers and artisans. He stored Dff in Vienna, and inspected the Aus trian army. V-- hen he ?;ci hcrrie he had to r'r; r v.:','m- in his army, but he d:.l ' i'h ills tharac.trisiie punch, an -J ci a'ut. ;-.uttiii:: ::n:y er into his p eople - a .0"tg cduc:.uc-ial lines. He reformed the cap l Jar. ne'eted verier'"; syfi:ms oi enumorr Men. encouraged conn. -tree, and abc'iihed much of the.- Mongol style of dress and manner v.hicii hud always been Russia's. AH the while he was locking arcirad for rncther ea window. He found it on' the Pa' tic. He started his ar.uy v?;;:ir:5t the Swedes, who then con- he fixl:d c?l his violin Wife Caysv'Mvc-V Vv'rs Torture and i'-iJf .$7 ,V.. .,V. V. ': . . . v.-:. ,Ji. A -.'v" Got on Her Ncr 03, So She Acks for 'Separations ' New York. Mrs. Jthel C. Larrabee, Jersey CiTy, names -no corespondent in the suit' for divorce she has brought against her husband, Albert P. Larra bee. She blames hie riddle. Mrs. Lairabee is a pretty blonde, twenty-e'sht ycars.ekl, and the couple have an eight-year-old daughter, whose custody Mrs. Larrabee demands. They were- married in 1903 at Kennebec. Me., and separated at Elizabeth, N. J., three years ago because, the wife says Larrabee had ccmleiely switched his devotion from her to his fiddle. They had lived h. piiy until he got the fhid'e fever. -lie was at his in strument, she during every hour away from bujii.e :-s. As to the quality of h's playi.!,;;, tiio inference to be drawn from he ) complaint is that he was no Kutelik. "1 never thought," says she, "that beautiful instrument could utter such unmusical sounds. It reminded me of a buzz saw going through a knot in a Maine sawmill." When .Mrs. Larrabee protested that his niusie gut on her nerves, she says, he took to staying away from home altogether, going wXerej he could get more sympathetic audiences. nun c Children Cry for Fleteh THE FARMERS THF CUSTOOIA.NS OH fh& -MA HUN'S AiUftALlTV. Cooperation of ChOrch, School ind Press fcssentia'' co Corr.aiututy Bufloing. -"c Allow no one to , Wve vo. V VJ0 Ml Coimrfcits, Imitations and ST4 Ut . r,:qerimo-its thttt trifle wltli a;.id en-J;lP"V i "rc ,)ut Infaiits and Cliiidrcn-Kxperiwice c-ii .;'u';:u'i of Ifif h 4 ife? r, n . WIlciL 1 Why C , :ri i ik so for over 30 vc-rs. has L A.V una nas Deea made under Tr, "L Aiirt re i changing euphonicu: guttural Petrcgrad. Some were of th. St. Petersburg tc opinion that th; changing cf the name was a direc' slur or. i he memory of Peter the Grea1 j sponsor for both th- city and its time j honored briquet. These were unfa miliar wh.h the fact that Petrcgrad when translated into American, mean.- ' Peter the Groat. Othvrs said Peter the Great hadn't immed the citv after ' himself. "It isn't Petersbirg. It's St. Pe tersburg," they ied cut, and ex plained that the man who directed the destiny uron which- was founded mod ern Russia h?d named his capital not after himself but after St. Peter. But when it was all over, even though many objected seriously, the czar's edict stands for Russia. St. Pe tersburg was no more. Petrograd had succeeded it! It is probable that could old Peter the Great rise from his vault in 'the fortress cf Saints Peter and Paul, he would not give a well-worn Russian kopeck what they called his city, so long as they kept it open to the sea and growing and free and clear of the Teuton throngs. as ne nes m ms c ?. ers cf the long Iimj - under the huge stcne Peter and Paul, n : !' ' :'-) . c y Hf.:- v.:-'-:'v V.v " - 1 STARTS-EXODUS TO CAPITAL Wi'e cf Swedish Mihister to U. S. Is Hirst to Retirrs to Washington fcr Winter Season. Washington. r.Inu-. W. A. F. Eken i greu, wife of th ; ,t)o' dish minister at j '-Xc ; hingten, is the !'.:st of the foreign ; 'ii 'onietic set to rr-t'irn to the capital Scene in Principal Thoroughfare of Petrograd. Tolled the Paltic roast. He was de- i i mm, w j f. at.M at Xan-a by Charles XII. His MMf s:ct among oth- , ! roons were raw, but- Peter kept his i 0 siSH R"S: ian rulers. .1 n-rve. He annexed part of Ingerman- '; -m! r'bD'vs of Saints ! l u:d. at the head of the Gulf of Fin- :jOT ns the greater ! 'and. The Swedes were too busy else- i'"5' . re 10 iaKe n l.ick. v.u wane ; Czar Nicholas Planting a Tree. ruler the Muscovites ever had may gain some chilly consolation from the knowledge that had it not been for him the present czar would never have been able to change tire name of St. Petersburg for there would have been no St. Petersburg to change. Peter the Great's troubles began the day of his birth, in 1672. His father, Czar Alecei Mikhailovitch, died. His half-brother was the heir, and suc ceeded the father, but died without issue when Peter was ten years old. He designated Peter as his successor, . despite the fact that ,he had an own (brother, Ivan, who wasthe real heir, but was feeble-minded. Peter 11 also had a half-sister, a belligerent soul, ITVith a lOVP fnr rn revolution, and tried to prevent the crowning of her youthful half-brother. There was a fight, and, as a compro mise, Peter and Ivan were crowned jointly, and Sophia, the half-sister, be came regent. Then followed trouble at home. Peter Xo el nd of his regent sister; ue objected; another fight; more !bloodshedj and at last the. sister ;was shut up In a couvenl. " van then held nominal roion Vlllt Ppter held the helm. In 1696 Ivan died and left Pe ter, then twenty-four,' head of the Rus sian people. . . 1 At this stage of the sarne. young-Pe-tef'Btarted to work. He 'long had a 'dream. It was a gigantic vision- ot the value of western civiliiaticn He nlanned Lo unite Ri:.:i nd" vpstt.ii civilization. But he needed a seaport ,to do it. Standing n Mv iui :tp;' k.':pt them bu-y he stp'rtcd the Vinning.s of v,hr-t l iter became St. j .'trt-Tf burg, and later still Pet-t graJ. j i The l.rst thing Tatar did a.ter cap- ! turing the site of St. Petersburg was j o build the fortreri of Saitrs Peter nd Paul, which ever since hts been he nnclp,,s ahut v hich ci'v has been built. The ccrnpletion of this fort marked a revolution in Russian history, inasmuch a it psrnblished that country as one of the Paltic pow ers, and characterized its entrance !nto the pclitics of the western world. With his usual directness, Peter di vided the job of building the city be tween his lieutenants and himself, keeping the hardest tasks for himcplf, as was his wVy. The (Canital of Rus sia had been Moscow. Py 1712 suffi cient advance at St Petersburg had been made to permit the transferral af the royal family to that point St. Petersburg had become a hobby with Peter. He issued an edict order ing peasants' from ail parts of the -ountry to appear at the new capita!. Ho levied a special fax. to stand the tiocfS. Then he collected all the '..r: gps in the land. There was great i difficulty at first in getting them. Pe- 'er issued another edict saying that '"urishment would be visited on any mm who employed a mason anywhere jrt in St. Petersburg. - The masons to have work so they all flocked ;o th capital. Then Peter 'set them at work building homes for his im ;.ored peasants. Next, he ordered all tvonrietors of more than 500 serfs to appear, at' the capital, build homes here, and live in them for the winter-season. Thus he populated his pet city with both the rich and the poorer classes. It was a radical pro cedure, but it was successful. at. Petersburg prospered. Today its population is more than 1,500,000. The enforced city has become one of the commercial and surely ne of the financial giants of Europe. Mmc. W. A. F. Ekengrcn. icr the winter sea.-on. The legation was established tor the summer at Mar Harbor, Me., but it has now been closed and the minister and Mme. Ekengren, together with the legation ?taff, have returned to Washington. FINDS AN "EXTINCT" PLANT GOODS SOLD BY HELIOGRAPH University Girl Discovers a Specimen of Cornus Torreya, a Species of Dogwood. Sacramento, Cal. Miss Margaret' Hyatt of this city, former Stanford university girl and daughter of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Edward Hyatt, discovered a specimen of rare dogwood, a valuable tree, in Deer creek, the old haunt of Ishi. the -borigine. Miss Hyatt was aecomna ' led on her trip bv Edward, Phyllis Percy and Victor Hyatt. A student of botany, Miss Hyatt ex amined various shrubs and wild brush during her travels in Butte coun ty canyon. She recognized the dog wood tree, known scientifically as tor i.us torreya, and sent out the member? i her party to obtain all the spec! mens possible. Only one speenner of the tree had been discovered in th history of the world and that in som- :tmote part of the continent half . ertury ago. It was lost and scientist, searched for itj, but in vain. It is of .n. specisl value except trom a botanier. standpoint. It bears a beautiful fic-wp, and can be used in garden decorations The twigs and specimens brought u .acraraento by the party were sen: to the bureaus of botany of the Stan ; ord and state uuivere itJes and wilf b i.y them distributed to the universities of the world. PEACE LEAGUES" ARE -Uhiici, Grocer Signals' u Forest Reserve Look out With Auto Headlight and Gets Bfg Order. v Tonaset, Was.bJ Harley Heath, -manager of the grocery department of C. E. Blackwell & Co;, has, initiated a method of selling goods by use. of the heliograph. Mr. Heath was formerly In the forest service, and,-by the use of an automobila headlight called the Aeneas mountain lookout of the United States forest service, a dis tance cf 15 miles. Mr. Heath hod-io aiJiculty-in getting in communication. Aftei .oine ' coiryer.-cn tte, e-i. ranger pla'cetr. an" order Jor-grucenr Christian Endeavor Society Woula Have One in Every Nation, in 'the World. By Peter Radford Lecturei National tinners' Union. The church. 'the oress and the school form a cnpie aiiiance oi p egress chat guides the destiny ot every commun ity, state ana nation Without tuem civilisation woula wither una aie and through them life may attain lib great est blessing, power and knowledge The tarmere ot this nation are greatly indebted to chis. social triumvirate tor their uplifting influence, and on behalf ot the, American plowmen I want to thank itiose engaged in these nign callings ior their able and efficient service, and l shall ofter to the or! ss a serier ot articles on co-operation between these important influences ana the farmers m the hope ot m i creasing the efficiency ot all ov mu,: tua) anoerstanding and organi-ed et iort. We win take up. first, the rural church Tre Farmers Are Great Church Buhd ers The American fanner is the greatest church Duiluei the world has ever i 1 known lie :k l.ti- r-usiodian of the ! n;1 'ion's morality; mon nis shoulders it-stb tne aih ot tile covenant' and J he ts more cesponsivp. to religious m- fiuences than any other class oi cit ! uenship The rM-mers. ot this nation have : built l?U.(H;t, enureses at a cost of Si.'0,00u.0'io ana the annua) contcibu- tion ot che nation toward all church i institutions approximates $200,000,000 per annum lhe tanners ot the Uni ted States builo ')l churches per day. There are 20.000,0u0 rural church com municants on the tarm, and 54 per cent ot the tctai membership of all churches reside in the country. The farm is the oower-house of all progress and the birthplace of all that is ncNe The Garden of Eden was in the country and the man who would get close to Goo must first get cloe to oature The Functions of a Rural Church. it the rural churches today are go ing tc "enaer a service which this age aemands, there must be co-operation between the religious, social and eco nomic life of the community. The church to attain its fullest meas t.re ot success must enrich the lives O) the people in the community it t- rves; it must ouiid character; devel-( Oi thought and increase the efficiency oi Quman life, it must serve the so on i Dusmess and intellectual, as well at the spiritual and moral side of life. 11 fchn'on does noi make a man more capable, more useful and more just, what good is it? V'e want a practical religion, one we can iive by and tarra by, as weli as die oy Fewer ana Better Churches. B.essed is that rural community which has out one place of worship. While competition is the life of trade, it is death to the rural church and moral starvation to the community. Petty sectarianism is a scourge that blights the life, and tne church preju dice, sapa the vitality, of many com munities. An over churched commun ity is a crime against religion, a seri ous handicap to society and a useless tax upon agriculture .While denominations are essential and church pride commendable, the high teaching of universal Christianity must prevail if the rural church is to fulfill its missionto agriculture We frequently nave three or four churches in a community which is not able to adequately support, one Small congregations attend services once a month and all fail to perform the re dgidup functions of the community, fbe division of religious forces and me oreaking into fragments or moral snorts is ofttimes dttie less than a calamity ana defeats the very purpose tltey seek to promote The evils or too many churches can oe minimized Dy co-operation The social and economic life ot a rural community are cspective units and cannot, oe successfully dividea by de nominational dnes, and the churches can only occupy this importarit. held oy co-operatioD and co-ordination. The efficient country church will i depnvfeiy serve its community dv iead- iji ii'-aK worthy efforts a community Dunning in uniting the oeople tn all cooperative endeavors for" the gen era; welfare of the community and nv arousing 9 real oye tor country life 3nd royalty to the country aome and tfu-?se results can only be successfully accomplished oy tne aniteo effort of the oress the school the church ana organlzeo rarmprs CJaplona. is? r hairni!c5?s Tibstit?it3 for oi v jcoric, Iro:s and Soot-iing- Syrupn. It 'i,-f. "'T.t ar contaius Boither Ophiui, jJIorMne i substance. Us aire is its guarantee. For more than iir- k v.;..; ? -aon. and. allays- Fevei?';.sl:;ios3. lias been in constant use for the relief of Co liatrJencyj, with! Colic, all Tecthiiy 7 A . .L "J" . 1 j. i T r. , 59 . SSsinJS th,e Food sivins althy and natural 44' The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend P mm 8 f3 M . I r J 1 t:s .! v ' The Kind Ycu Have Always Bought Tl'l . .... IWJ "HE CENTAUR COMPANY, N ' W YORK CITY, x '"r- wir ttii ii:r 'wftrTiBTOw- arann-a THIS SPAC E . .. . - . - T ---iri t-- i m liftarilMT iTTTHTIir imMl Ml i t"- r,-Jl i il i i I ! llMf i Wholesale Grocer, Feed and Seedsmen that sells direct , to the Consumer at Wholesale Prices. The biggest store of its kind South of New York. T'erry Grocery Go. South Boston, Va. Big Stor on Main St. zmounc nt Boston. EstaDiujuweut of a Chris tian Endeavor Peace league in every v ountiy Is planned by the trustees oi the United Sbciety of Christian En deavor. ihrpugh their presldenc, Francis E. Clark, the trustees have indorsed lJres- f OUGHT OVER THEIR SP0USES Two Women Met on Public Roatl, Near Homes and Quarreled Ovkr Merits of Their Husbarids.Tv" to be sent fcy tbe iaos-cn sta&e law. Ireside4t Wilson's request Haw ; Bottom, Md. Mrs. Blanche Wiles, twenty-five years old, and Mrs :dent Wilson's proclamation 6r a day J Margaret Biddle,- aged fifty, both of ji prayer for peace, October 4. In a j this places fought in a public road letter to the president Mr. Clark saye near their- homes until Mrs. . Biddle that the 60,000 Christian Endeavor so- was ' nearly killed. ' They came -to . lefcesof America, most of-which will blows while comparing the merits" of hold regular praer meetings. October their husbands. - 1 " - V, have been urged -to comply with! , - , iT There is 1 othing' that adds so much to your home a,s music A genuine piano or player piano of the best makes at a low price and on easy terms. This announce ment will interest good many people. The piano and player piano are becoming more popular daily. You have perhaps hesitated to give your home a piano as you did not feel able to give tlu price for a good one, and did not want'to purchase the cheap ones so extensively advertised. So you ar one of taose who wiH be interested in getting a genuine' piano or player at the price of a cheap one. We and the manufacturers guarantee every piano that we vsell to be at better piano than you can get at most places for from $75 to $100 'more. All piars sold under a contract to stay as thev are when sold and to'be keptin ttiheiree of charge for five years. Call, phone, or write for iree lmiormauon ,ana catalogue. ayeard Bro :Enipire Bldck,f Salisbury, N C. Phone-124. - - - ' - Phone 124. 9
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