Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-04-10
PICTURE OF THE CAR
AND A DESCRIPTION OF The ne.
WHICH He LEADS.

,,,,a, HE LIFE
WHICH He LEADS.
How the Autocrat is ObIiy.a A..
A Monarch with Many FIatters,.
no Frie"ds-Livins In Nirhtm.
Terror.
My friend the messenger was ON h;s
to st. Petersburg in the autumn, - way
year, when his train stopped at n s, t
russian way station and was shuntaa 'n ~.
upon side track. The station ward ,' ou
filed with soldiers, filing Off into r mas
along the main track. iiiies
The messenger let down his window 49,,
put out ms head to discover the cause Of ~
delay. A~oldier said something 10 ~, '',o
Russian, then pointed his gun ot lie h ~
A travelling companion pulled the ma ae.a
ger back saying: You don't nnda,s~.h
Russian, eh, That man told Won that 10
didn't shut the window and NIL L., you
curtain he would bow your bro;ps a =. .ne
Naturally the window came IN o,d =,
curtain came down. They sat tbu. T., y. .,'
darkened compartment for a Quarter 90 '.o
hour Thon, with a proligious ratt,o ..'a
roar, there flashed by them on the n aiu
track short express train. Twenty MN
utes more another rushed past in the sa,..
direction. Then, after some minutes 40
'oldier shouted to them that they mioht liz
the bind, and they resumed their iour,o1,
Inquiry revealed that the car had nassoa
them on his way to the Skierniwice mo-.
ms. and that these precautions were ordorod
all along the line. No one knew wh;oh -
the trains. bore him. u
PICTURE OF THE CAR
The car himself seems to have mar,,a
t~rers, but no friends. | have talbot :
daresay, at one time or another Will
scol , of people who have met him and ava
fairly qualified to judge what n,anner ~
man be is. Almost invariably he is do.
3cribcd as big, burly, boarish sort of man
strangely unlike any of his more recent
ancestors on either side, and with face ~
curious Teuton-Tartar type, pict,resoua
| but unpleasant. He has vast physical
strength, of tho blacksmith sort. and boo
| the kind OF mind which not infreuuentlv
| goes with that order of body-slow. honest
| Obstinate, confiding where faith is reposed
| suspicious everywhere else. In wav
| George III must have been of the sama
nature. He was, with Louis XVI. rather
| contemptuously celebrated by his contem-
| porary critics as one of the two faitbfn,
husbands among the sovereigns of Europe
| Good husbands seem to make bad kings
| The present car is said to be a most de
voted and single minded spouse-the first
of his race. He is par excellence a family
man, to whom the highest happiness would
be tho home circle, if he were allowed to
have a home. His tastes are simple. be
eats plainly and heavily; before the burden
| of empire came upon him he used to be
| great sleeper a mighty hunter, a bluff
friend of the few he liked, hater of for
malities, diplomGcy, ard politics generally
in short, good, wholesome, rough plebe-
ian prince, stupid and choleric but honest
and true. Fate never played on mortal a
| crueler trick than when she suddenly
hurled upon this man the load of czarshp.
| To be absolute master of over 100 DOC, 900
Of human beings is in itself task of incon-
ceivable magnitude. When, further, the
task is complicated by organized robbery
among officials and organized murder
among Subjects by continual necessity Of
provoking war by aggression abroad and
ceaseless terror of assassination at home
it becomes simply impossible.
& LIFE OF TERROR
| A less stubborn and less conscientious man
than the ear would have cut his throat long
ago under the frightful load imposed upon
him. He suffers and sticks to his post
He does 10 good to himself or anybo9 else
His wife is a pale specter of her ,rmer sell,
looking old enough to be the mother of her
older but marvelously preserved, sister, the
Princess of Wales, worn and gray -haired
with her life of fright. Their eldest son,
the cZarowitz, a boy of 1S, is in decline
from which there is little hope of recovery
simply terrified out OF his life. But the
car still manfully tries to be car The
task is beyond him. If there could be a
man made up Of Bismarck, Washington,
Richelieu, Bonaparte and Tamerlane put
on the Russian throne, perhaps hs could
hold his place and compel success.
The present car lives in the daZed night
marc of terror which paralyzes prisoner
under indefinite sentence of death Any
inomcnt the messenger of the ak may APP
pear. He cannot sleep; when he eats, it is
as an animal, not as the master of the world
costliest cuisine He tries to work, with
out understanding the things he does Or
caring for them He looks into every
mans face for sign of murderous knowl-
sdge. He trusts nothing-nobody. The
| qulf between what he is and what he is
supposed to DO is so abysmal-the joke OF
being at once the most powerful man on
earth and tho poorest hunted slave in exist
anco is so grimly horrible-that he becomes
4 mailman almost in the effort to compre
| lend tho two extremes. The longing to as
SORT himself, to put to tha test his autoc-
racy, drives him to wild and foolish meas
res. His whole course toward his hated
'ousiu, the Battenberg, and the Bulgarlans
Aas been that of a crazy man. People wnc
NOW Russia best expect that his brain VIII
Give way under the strain long before We
lavc heard the last of the bulgarian ques
'ion.-London Cor. New York Times.