REBELLION A VIRTUE.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13930, 11 February 1914, Page 7

REBELLION A VIRTUE.

It has been said that the Czar of all the Russias holds that a boy's brain is all the healthier and his will the stronger if he ia occasionally stirred to rebellion.

The servants in the Winter Palace at St. Petersburg were thrown into panic recently when it was discovered that the little Czarevitch had disappeared. Frantic searches were made in every direction, but no trace was found of seven-year-old Alexis.

The Czaritsa, always fearful of Nihilistic attempts, promptly conjured up mental visions of kidnappers. The Czar was less agitated, but none the less anxious as to the whereabouts of the heir to the. throne. It was ascullerymaid who found him —in a closet, where he had hidden himself with a tray of tarts for company.

Tlie boys was conducted to his father, who told him that his mother had been terribly anxious about him.

"Why,'' said Alexis, quite seriously, I only wanted to get out oi' my Tench lesson to-day."

By the Czar's orders, the boy got no punishment.

"My enemies often accuse me of weakness," he said. "But weakness is merely the condition of mind a man is reduced to when as a child he is not permitted to stir a finger without permission. That was my case."