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13 THE SUN Vancouver, B. Wednesday October 8, 19 TVentr Best Tea At Its Best i TELEPHONE IS TAPPED FOR HEARING SECRETS CASIXO IS TRICKED BY -MAX WITH A FAX ECZEMA ITCHED BURNED "SAL AD TEA is always the same, no mattei when or where you buy it. of Hesse, who Is a brother of T9aritsa Alexandra. Boris and Andrei are excluded because they nre hopelessly disreputable, and because Andrei wants to marry the elderly ballet dancer, Kseshinskaja, by whom he has a son, and whom he worships, as Is believed throughout Russia, because she Is enormously rich and he Is notoriously mean. The last resource Is younfr Grand Duke Pmltri, son of Nicholas' nnclo Paul.

The plan was to make him heir and marry him to Nicholas' daughter, Grand Duchess Olfra. Dmitri was then a fairly Intelligent, decent-living youth, but ho has since gone to the dogs. So among all the young Homnnnffs near the throne there Is not one who would make a tolerable czar. HEIR TOJHETHRONE Alexis is Not Likely to Live Long and Emporor is Palpably Worried. i I DOCTORS GIVE XO HOPE Extinction of Romanoff Line Seems Near and Woman May be the Successor.

Clever Gambling Swindle is I'n-niasked at Dcmivilln by the Wily Croupiers. TROUVILLE, Oct. 7. At the casino of Deauvllle, where "le tout Paris" Is yachting, bathing, flirting and tangoing at present, a very clever trickster has Just been laid by tho heels. This gentleman, It was noticed, never sat down at the tables without a fan, which he piled vigorously, no doubt to cool his brow, heated by the feverish chances of roulette.

Another peculiarity was that he never staked anything but notes of $20 or upwards. The croupiers, whose business it is to have the detective flair, had had their suspicions of the gentleman of the fan. His stakes had always a way of being heavier when ho won than when he lost. Now, croupiers are from long experience sceptical of luck, and this fact caused them to think. At last they discovered the trick.

Whenever the player won he would by a dexterous use of his fan, slip a bill or a couple of bills under his stake before It was paid. In this way, though he had actually risked only $20, he was paid on a stake of either $40 or $60. An examination of his room disclosed a sum of several thousand dollars and a number of entrance tickets to other casinos in France. Monte Carlo, It is noticeable, did not figure among these, for at Monte Carlo the croupiers take care Ml 70 Font YKARS WITIIOtT BRVIX. BERLIN, Oct.

7. A German medical reports the curious case of a child born without a brain, which, In spite of this handicap, lived to the age of almost 4 years. At the autopsy it was found that both the cerebrum and cerebellum, the so-called "big" and "little" brain, were completely lacking, only the medulla oblongata being present. This little knot of brain tissue at the base of tho main brain, which In fishes forms the solo brain, was able here to control the functions of the body necessary to a bare existence, but nothing more. The child lay In a state of coma, with contracted arms and almost motionless, during its whole existence.

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While agreeing that there Is sufficient evidence to warrant an enquiry, he seems to be of tho opinion that It is rather a matter of grave negligence and carelessness than of actual delinquency. EDUCATION IS WANTED. EDINBURGH, Oct. 7. A movement is on foot to form a Scottish dls- PIP w4 EH OF l'jiris Broker SuspeeUM of llilblng Switchboard to llwr Coiivorfwil Ions, PARIS, Oct.

7. A grain broker here is suspected of bribing telephone girls to let him hear private business communications of Important firms) In the samo lino of business. He protests his Innocence, though ho confesses to certain slight irregularities by which he managed to get communication of tho state of tho grain market sooner than his rivals. He energetically denies the principal charge brought against him that of having branch telephone lines from the offices of the leading grain-brokers led to bis olllee so that he could trip the wires, and anticipate movements in prices and sales. Several of the girl telephonists Involved have been suspended, and If they are proved guilty.

It must be admitted that the temptation put in their way was extremely difficult to resist. It Is said that the broker paid as much as $12n a month to several of to check any large stake as soon as It Is laid on the table. The trickster, who says he is a Brazilian, but gives hia name as Frank Perry, has been hunger-striking since his arrest. 21 HASTINGS STREET, Vancouver, b. or mixed from the finest Ceylon, with its exquisite flavo, sealed lead packages.

ror Kin-' 1 a trict of the Workers' Educational Af sorlatlon, strong branches having aTV ready been developed in Edinburgh Aberdeen and Govan. Several men! hers of the universities' staff, tl- labor organizations, and the co-operlS tlve movement are warmly supportlr, the work. In 1906 the branches numberjl thirteen with 283 affiliated socletieTf" today they number 168 branches wit" 2164 societies affiliated, and durirj, the past year the work of higher edim, cation for working men and workings women has been vigorously prose9 culod in the villages. The annuij, meeting of the association will be hed-in Leeds In the autumn. it Have You? Have Received This Announcement Through the Mail.

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Dept. 41D, Boston, V. S. JIEKLIX IS NOW SCENE OF BIG CRIME WAVE German XeHspajx-rs Draw Comparison Bctwoon It and Cities of Xew World. BERLIN, Oct 7.

A remarkable wave of crime has swept over Berlin in the past fortnight, causing one of the newspapers to comment that "Berlin can now compete as the seat of bloody crimes with darkest New York." There has been a murder for nearly every day during that period, In addition to several unsuccessful attempts to commit murder. The crimes took various forms. A house owner shot a tenant who was moving out The owner of a hotel of loose reputation killed an Indignant father who came to complain of happenings in the house. Two women of the working classes were killed by their paramours. A deceived husband shot down his rival.

A man murdered his aged wife with an axe as she slept An employee of a bathing establishment killed the owner, a woman, after a quarrel about losses on horse races. A seamstress was enticed into the woods by a bogus matrimonial agent and murdered. Still another man tried to end the lives of himself, a wife and grown daughter by turning on the gas at night Murders have become so frequent that the theory of the periodicity of crime has been advanced to account for them. A Berlin newspaper editorially questions whether the city is not growing permanently more criminal, but finds some comfort in the fact that a majority of the murders were crimes of passion, rather than premeditated ones. It suggests that the hot wave that passed over Berlin about the end of August and the early part of September caused this remarkable increase In crime, and that men give way to their passions more readily In hot weather than In days of moderate temperature.

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BO COR, WASHINGTON STREET. ST. FETERSBI'RG, Oct. 7. Court Physician Rauchfuss.

Russia's most I famous expert in pediatrics, has given imperative orders that the S-year- i old heir. Alexis, shall no longer be arried about and shown In his deplorable condition to the public. Incidents which happened during the czar's visit to Rostoff-Yaroslavl and to Kostroma led to this. At Rostoff little Alexis, while In the arms of his Cossack attendant, had a fit. At Kostroma he was so Irritated by the staring crowds that he got into a nervous temper, and has been queer ever since.

Ever since be lost the power of walking he has been dragged about by his unwise parents and shown on all possible occasions. Wherever the czar and the czarina go there is little Alexis, held up by a burly man In uniform, and looking the picture of woe. And all Russia knows that this is a confession that Alexis will never recover, for so long as there was any hope of his being able to walk again he was kept at home and the trouble was hushed up. Alexis Is old enough to be sensitive about his painful plight. Three of his doctors.

Rauchfuss, Botkln and Ostrogradslty, advised Nicholas II. to leave him at home. A fourth doctor declared the contrary, and Nicholas took the fourth doctor's advise because this showing the heir is the only way to disprove the mirror that ho Is dead. Nicholas has now taken his son off to Livndia In such a hopeless Btate that he cannot be carried at all. He lies all day In a bath chair looking blankly at the sea, and probably wondering how many months or years he has yet to live.

Disdain "Natural" Cures. Alexis' worst misfortune is that his parents rely more on supernatural than on natural cure. They have devoted the whole of 1913 to a series of attempts by prayer through spiritual ists, "wise women," "znacharkl. and downright humbugs to improve their doomed son's case. Shortly before leaving for Livadla the new cathedral at Cronstadt was the scene of such an attempt.

A horde of fanatical old beggar women, followers of the late Father John, congregated there and held a prayer meeting, at which they expected a "sign." It Is a year now since little Alexis first got ill in Spala palace, in the Blelovlezh forest, but hardly a word about It appeared the Russian press. Yet before Christmas of 1912 the four doctors who signed this bulletin had admitted that Alexis was hopelessly blck; that he would never walk again, and that at best his death is a question of years. Only in the unlikely event of healthy Nicholas II. himself soon dying will Alexis Niko-lalevltch become Czar of all the Rus-slas. This means the fulfillment of the Russian proverb "Alexeyu kak Alex-eyu" "As with Alexis, so with Alexis." The proverb is connected with the fate of tho grand duke Alexis Pe-trovltch, son of Peter the Great.

Peter put Alexis to death because Alexis Intrigued against his reforms. The Immediate cause of Alexis' Illness was his persistence In jumping off a chair into his bath, which made him knock his groin violently against a metal tap. Alexis was never strong. He suffers from the same complaint as King George uncle, the late duke of Albany, in that he has fewer than the normal number of skins and la liable to bleed at a rough touch. Alexis' case from the point of view of recovery, or even long life, Is hopeless.

Since Christmas he has not walked 100 yards. He still can stand, and was lately photographed standing In order to prove to the public that rumors were exaggerated. Nicholas last July demanded the formal opinion of the four doctors Rauchfuss, Botkln, Feodorff and Ostrogradsky and all four signed a paper saying "it Is not probable that his imperial highness the Grand Duke Alexis Nikolale-vltch will reach mature years." This was a mild way of pronouncing sentence of death. NVw Holr a Problem. Nicholas and Tsarltsa Alexandra are now entirely reconciled to the prospect of losing their son.

The empress" health is even better than formerly, though it had a setback after Alexis' fits In Rostoff and Kostroma. There was even the hope thnt another child might be born, who might be a son. Now this hope has been abandoned, and a fierce feud has been raging for two months on the problem of appointing a new heir. Nicholas II. desires to put off the evil day, as thnt will constitute In Itself a public acknowledgment of Alexis' condition.

Premier Kokovtseff advises that an heir must be found. Roforo Nicholas left for Livadla he received a memor-liil from Kokovtseff saying that he considered It his duty to have the question of the heir settled once and for all. Nicholas thereupon asked Minister nf Justice Stehlogovltoff for a memorandum on the family law which regulates the question. The trouble Is raised because If no alternative heir Is found the successor will be Grand Duka Michael Nicholas' only surviving brother, and Michael Is married to the divorcee Wruble, formerly Mamon-toff. He Is, further, hopelessly uneducated, Interests himself only In his stables, and Is unfit to rule.

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