The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-11-26

lowing anecdote may serve to show. Tt
soe,ns that, while the Czarewitch was
Eli a lieutenant, he returned home to
The palace OF Peterhoff one day, after
several hours spent In military manoeuv-
res, much fatlgued. After having re-
dressed on his bed. II was lust falling
90 aaiaenn he related to his reoimentai
comrades on the following day, awhen
Suddenly to my horror | saw the Gar
Standing at the foot of INV bed. You
NAV imagine my terror it was with
far different feelings that the young
Grand Duke Michael. now sixteen years
of age, regarded his father. During the
last trip of the imperial family to Copen-
hagen the Gar was reposing one warm
afTernoon on the deck in yerv low
SWING hammock. endeavoring to snatch
few moments sleep. His siesta was,
however, disturbed by the young Grand
Duke. who persisted in leaping over the
hammock, Notwithstanding the protests
of tho Emperor. At Dlast, thoroughly
irritated and with a view of enforcing
obedience to his behests, His Majesty
exclaimed: at is the Gar who com
mands YOU to stop this.n Instead, how
ever, of showing any signs of being i'm
pressed thereby, the young Grand Duke
seemed to be tickled by the comic aspect
of the affair, and simply threw himself
down on the deck and rolled over,
screaming with laughter, in which the
Gar. ill and sleepy as he was, was
ultimately forced to join. There is one
characteristic which the present Gear
shares with his younger brother, Michael
namely, a tendency to make fun of every
thing, to see in all things that come un-
der his notice above all the humorous
feature, and disposition to ridicule and
sarcasm. It is this trait which is respon-
I'LL e. no Totally II Tod fofi
which he enjoys OF being averse to Ger
mans and to Germany. There is, N
truth, something distinctly Teutonic
about the dreamy, metaphysical, studi-
GUS disposition Of the young Emperor,
who, Notwithstanding his satirical ten
denotes, is imbued with much of the
same mysticism with the same generous
cable theories for the amelioration of
the condition of mankind, az his. brother
monarch, Emperor William.
What little part the present Emperor
was permitted to take in the government
of the Empire of his father during the
lifetime of the latter gives bright prom
Use for the future. When called upon
as a member of the Council of the EN-
pire, of which body he was president,
to give expression to his views on the
subject of the difficult agrarian problem.
he cast very decided vote in favor not
only of the maintenance, but even OF the
increase of the autonomy and privileges
OF self government possessed by the vii
lage communes, or MRS. President of
the committee organized for the relief of
the starving Moujiks during the recent
famine, it was mainly due to his energy .
and untiring industry in the matter that
help reached the sufferers in time, in
stead of the money. as usual, sticking in
the pockets of the greedy and dishonest
officials through whose hands it had to
pass. The anonymous subscription OF
100, 900 rubles which reached the Social
list author, Count Leo Tolstol, at that
time for tn famishine Moujiks, came from
the Czarewitch,l and that the construction
of the trans-Siberian railroad has been
pushed forward with so much haste and
activity since his return from the far
Orient, it is because he was shocked be
yond all expression by the sufer1ngs
endless chain-gangs of political ard Grim
inal prisoners whom he me- smping
across the wild steppes of 81 while
on his way home from the Pacific coast.
1t would be idle to deny that there
have been unsavory stories CIRCULATED
a bout the young Emperor While still
Czarewitch. But there is no prince or
royal parsonage. not even ii he were an
angel from heaven,s who would NOT, by
virtue of his conspicuous position, be
made the object of ca1umny, and though
Nicholas is probably ne more saint
than any other young Russian, it is
prcb able that most of the tales current
q bout him have been invented by people
who were too ignorant of his personal
history to be able to relate anything else
about him. At any rate he has come to
the throne with, infinitely brighter prom
Uses of great, glorious and progressive
reign than any European monarch in ex-