The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1886-12-24

AND a DESCRIPTION OF THE LIFE
WHICH HE LEADS

How the AutoCrat i Obliged To Travel.
A Monarch with Many FIattcrers but
no TricndS-LivinG in "a Nightmare of
Terror.
hy friend the messenger was on his way
to 81. Petersburg in the autumn OF last
year. when his train stopped at small
Russian way station and was Shuuted OFF
upon side track. The station yard was
filed with soldiers, fling OF into lines
along the main track.
The messenger let down his window and
put ont his head To discover the cause of the
DELAY \ s6ldier said something L. him in
Russian, then poinad his gun AT his head.
\ travelling companion pulled the mesSen-
ger back. sayinE: You don't understand
Russian. ehe That man told you that ii you
didn't shut the window ami pun down the
curtain lie would blow your brains out
Naturally the window came up and the
curtain canlssdown. They sat thus in the
daIkenei compartment for a quarter Of an
hour. Then, with prollSious rattle and
roar, the flashed by them on the main
track short express train. Twenty min
ute more another rushed past in the same
direction Then. after some minutes the
soldier shouted To them that they might lift
the blind, AMI they resumed their journey.
Inquiry revealed that the ear had passed
them on his way TO the Skicruiwice meet
ing and thnt these precautions were ordered
all along the line. No one knew which OF
tn" trains bore him.
\ PICTURE OF THE GAR.
Tho ear himself seems To have many fiat
tcrrrs bat no friends. ] have talked ]
dar,~av. ut one time or another with =
score Of p.ou.. VIII" have mot him AMI are
fairly qualified 70 judge what manner of
man D." is Almost invariably he Is de
scr.hr,l as a big. hurlv. bcariSh sort Of man.
STRANGELY milk, amy of his more recent
ANCESTORS ON either side, ami with face ct
"A curious Teuton-Tnrtar type. picturesque
but unpleasant He has vast physical
strength, of the blacksmith sort, and has
the kind Of mind which not inrrvquentIv
goes with that order Of body-slow. honest.
Obstinate cou!iiing where faith is rrposcd.
suspicious everywhere else. In a way
George III must have been of the same
nature He was. with Louis WI. rather
coutcmp.uou,lv celebrated 10y his contem-
pOrary critics ~ one of the two faithful
husbands among the SovereiGnS OF Europe
Cool husbands seem To make bad kings
The present ear is said 10 be most de
voted and single minded spouSc-thc first
of his race. lie il par excellence family
man, TO WHOM the highest happiness would
be- the hom, circle, il he were allowed to
have a horne His tastes ar" simple; he
cats plainly and heavily: beiou. the burden
OF empire ,lme upon him he used L. be a
great sleeper. a mighty hunter, buH
friend of the few he liked, a hatcr of for
maliti"S diplomacy, and politics generally
in short. good, wholesome. rough plcbe-
ian prince. stupid and choleric but honest
and true Fate never played ON mortal a
cruclcr trick than when she suddenly
hurled uron this man the load Of czaTship
To be absolute master Of over 100. Geo 600
Of human beings Is in itself n task of mcon-
CciVahle magnitude When. further. the
task Is complicated by organized robbery
among Officials ana organized murder
among subjects. nv continual necessity of
provoking war BY aggression abroad and
ccaselcs5 terror of assassination at home
it becomes simply impossible.
& LIFE or TERROR.
\ les stubborn and less conscientious man
than the car would have cut his thTnat long
ago under the frighttul load imposed upon
him. He suffers and sticks to his post
lie does no good to himself or anybody else
His wife i a lale sPecter Of her former self
looking oil enough To Toe the mother of her
Older but marvclousiv preserved sister, the
Princess Of Wales. worn and gray haired
with her life 81 fright. Their eldest son.
the czarowitz. a hoy II Is Is in "a decline
from which There is little hope Of recovery
simply terrified out Of his life. But the
ear still muufuiiy tries To be ear. The
task i beyond him II there could be a
man made up of Bismarck, Washington,
Richciicu, Eouapartc and Tamorlanc put
on the Russian throne. perhaps Ia could
hold has place ami compel success.
The present Czar lives in the dazed night
mare ii terror which paralyzes prisoner
under indefinite sentence IT death. ANY
moment the messenger Of the AK may ap-
pear tie cannot sleep when h. eats, il i
rs AN animal. not n~ tie. master Of he world =
cn~tlie~t cuisine. lie tries to work. with
out understanding the things Ec does or
caring for them. He looks into every
mans face for sign IT mUrdcruus knowl-
edge He trusts nothing The
gulf between what h. is and what he is
supposed To- D.. il abysmal-thc jok" of
heInE ~ once the most powerful man on
earth and the poorest hunted slave i'm exist
rug' as 80 Eriutly IorTihle-that he becomes
% mailman almost in the effort To- cumprc-
hend the two extremes. The longing To as
~ert himself 10 rut 10 the test his autoc-
racv. drives him TO Wild and foolish meas
I Ure- His whole course toward his hated
cousin. ~. Hatteubcry. and the BUlEarianS
has been that Of crazy man. People who
know Eu-.:u h,.>t expect that his brain viii
Civ. way under the strain long before we
have hoard the last of the Bulgarian qu"S-
/ tinn.-IoEurll Cor. New York Times.
Won Nl.ifts'- Opiniou of ~hrr i,Ian.