The National tribune., 1892-09-01

famine He has established works all over the
Empire fer lettering the agricultural condition
of his country, and he is building railroads and
warehouses with view to prevent another
famine of this kind in the future.
Let me tell you how the Car looks He is
as big man as you have ever seen. and he has
great head fastened by short, thick neck to
broad shoulders. His face is Russian in type,
and it is covered with full, long beard. His
lips are rather thick, his nose not over promi-
nent, his ears large, and bis forehead broad and
full. He grows more bald every year, and he
has now no hair on the top of his head. He is
man Of big bones and . big frame. His fist
is like piece Of beef. and venture that he
could fell an with it. He weighs $50
pounds and every ounce of his flesh is as hard
as iron. He keeps his system in good condition
BY exercise, and he works part of every day.
wrestles with his children. He rides horse
back, and does everything, in fact, that will
keep his physique in fighting trim.
He lives plainly, and he is not big eater
like most Of the Russians. He takes nothing
but cup Of coffee and couple of rolls for bis
breakfast, and he has this in his bedcham-
Der. His luncheon and dinner he takes with
his family, but he does not eat much, and
never drinks more than one glass Of wine. He
is hard worker. He commences his labors
about o'clock In the morning, and works with
little cessation till o'clock in tie evening.
His evenings he always spends with his fam.
iiy and he often reads to his wife while she sews
or knits, just as good American husband and
wife might do in some country village.
The Gar of Russia is preeminently ilitary
| man. He has smelt powder, and served In the
Turko- Russian war. he does not believe In
: war; however, If IL can be prevented, and
though be has perhaps the largest and most
invincible army in the world, he uses il for
| defense rather than ofense.
There are 100000 soldiers in this Cars
army. This will give you some idea of his
power. He has LOO. DOC. 600 subjects under him,
| and there are 80 different Governments In
Russia. He has to consider all sorts of ques-
| TONS from the wants Of his people on the bor-
ders of Persia to those along the Amor River,
and he has a number of different races and
| dozen odd different religions. His country ia
one of the hardest in the world to govern. and
when you remember that he governs it in re-
Iigious as we'll as in other matters. you will SEQ
that he has no light task.
He is the richest monarch on the globe. No
| one knows how much he is worth. His gold
mines in Siberia have hardly been tapped, and
| they bring him in millions of dollars year.
His estates in the Altai Mountains are three
| times as big as England, and he has two or
| three tracts in Siberia which are as big rs New
York. He has vast ironworks in the Ural
Mountains, and he has more than ,000 600
| square miles Of cultivated lands aud forests.
| Suppose there are 1000, 600 people in the City
l Of New York. II the Gar should divide up
| his estate he could give every man, woman,
| and child of them 500 acres and have lot to
| spare.
| In times past the Gar owned many thousand
| serfs, and when this mans father emancipatcd
| the serfs he set 90 100000 of his own laborers
| FREQ. Think of man having 100000 men
| working for him, or 20.0Oo. 900 slaves. That is
| what Alexander ii. had when he decided to free
| all the serfs in Russia. and this gives you some
| idea Of the riches Of the Car.
| / wish could describe to you the Cars
| palaces. There is nothing so grand on the face
| of the globe The palace Of Tsarskoe-Selo
| which is Is miles south of here has walls which
are ialaid with malachite and lapus lazuli.
| Its floors arc of mother-of-pearl and ebony, and
it has many columns Of porphory, agate and
jasper.
1t was in this palace that the Gar and his
wife spent their life until his father was
sssassinated. aud he became Emperor. It has
park Of 2 600 acres around it, and it's exterior