New-York tribune., 1890-01-26
Instead, he has founded a Mortgsgs

the proprietors Instead, he has founded Mortgage
Bank out Of which the State furnishes the n0bes al
little cost, with the means Of keeping up and cuu
waiting their lands for since work is free ID becomes
daily more costly even in Russia, whose peasants
emigrate In numbers TO Asia. Yet another hank also
under state protection, supplies the peasants with
facilities for paving their rent and buying land.
Manufact1res have, too been encouraged under this
mineral wealth of Russia is last being turned 10
some account Stili much remains TO be done in
Holy Rn.sla ana the accident at B0rki, which has
opened the eyes Of the Gar TO the careless-not to
say dishonest-adminiStlation of his railways, may
also make MN perceive that in other departments also
there Is much that halts
This railway accident, %, which persons tried to
doubtcdly bona hde Of gross mismanacement
seems likely to have important results for the land
1t has certainly Immensely increased the popularity
OF the sOvcreigns wh0 themselves hurt behaved with
admirable fortude and selfdenal in aiding those
more severely injured For once etGuette broke
down. and master and servants were men and women
together There were twenty dead and thirty six
wounded on this occasion from an accident The mere
result jObbey and bad workmanship on the one hand
and scryile adulatOn of the Car the other nc
one having the COURAGE ,1i to tel him that on this
speed he always demands. When the shock
the 6e Ep es OF Th those hss heard of despair
many long day, cried ont in French ION sont
dren. dT While the Grand Duchess Xenia, thinking
it must be a Nihilist attack, called out, " Do NOT
kill me- do not XIII me- ana ana, ran o ior protection 70
Czarinas favOrite attendants for whom she has
never ceased to mourn: she herself r,ii received
it. for the Imperial party were at the table at the
time.
This wound has left behind it nervous trem.
bling Of the arm. while the accident itself proved
TO have given her nervous system seyerer shock
than at first appeared, when she bore up so
bravdy. sad period of nervous prostrauon
followed. and feared for her the fate OF her
sister Thyra. This terrible malady has, however,
been averted: the Empress naturally good health
and high spirits have reasserted Themselves, and
whenever occasion offers she dances as madly as
a kss to the Emperor, at Borkl, was that ~
his pet dog MahZutcha. Siberian long haircd
greyhound. who always slept at his bed foot, , ana
his constant companion In his study. When
Mahzutcha. She had the habit. on sign from her
master. of pulling AT the coattas Of the impor.
tunate visitor. Among the few objects not
smashed TO atoms In the Imperial carriage was a
stitouS nature at once beheld in this sign He
had the picture reproduced in gold together with his
10 each person present at BOri. His superstition
has been further nOur>hed by his almost miraculous
escape. lie regarded il As an indication that the
Almighty yi~illy protects him. and since that dav he
almo-t all the precautions with which he used Ia
I surround himself. And the p0pulace. vet more
ignorant and supcr,iou'. hold this view even more
strongly seeing in the escape at BOrk vet another
" God loves the Car
Russia and especially ignorant peasant Russia
adore its Emperor. The moujk figures 10 himself
his Imperial master with head surrounded by
golden nimbus. clad in flowing gown. with three finger
raised in henedcfiOn and seated upon throne O
rril 'cs side ly .de with the Trinity. When they
see the Gar and C/arina. In flesh and blood. II Il
often ~ first shock 10 them. But all Russia does
not consist of benighed mouiks. TN, vast Empir'
+, also brim n Of di>contented subjects. who crave
reforms and insist that they will have them. Wha
Russia needs hogcvor is not constitution II IS moi
ripe for that, but different system Of administration