The record-union., 1894-03-17
RUSSIAN ROYALTY.
The Future Ruler of the Great
Empire.
His Growing Domains-The Czarowitz.
Not Real Romanoff-A Pen Picture
of the Prominent Young Soldier
Speculation as to the Future
Czapira.

The giant ruler of giant nation stands
between Europe and anarchy. Alexan-
der III, who towers a head and shout
ders above his people, physically, IS
looked upon as the last of the Romanons.
that giant race of Anakim, whose grasp
is on the throne Of nation twice as large
as Rome at the hight of her power, ana
numbering now, in its thinly populated
and partially developed state, llZ,OOO,oUo
people. He has been very i'll Of late, and
in consequences there has been great
alarm, not only throughout the empire,
but all through Europe as well, writes
the London correspondent of the Chicago
Inter Ocean. Who is TO succeed him, be-
comes a question of great moment for the
people OF Europe. and may become so
for America, should the trade relations
grow stronger in the immediate future.
With the completion of the great Trans
siberian Railway, stretching almost half
way around the globe, with the estaD-
lishment of a great port on the racine,
there will develop q new and strange
commercial interest in this much secluded
nation. Shut off on the west coast by two
doors. the Baltic on the north and the
Black Sea entrance on the south. either Of
which can be closed by its enemies, this
immense nation will. in the near future,
have a great port on the Pacific. 1t will
become one of the great commercial cities
of the world, with lines of steamships
running to Vancouver, San francisco,
Panama and Valparaiso; to Melbourne,
Sidney, Calcutta and \ Yokohama. 1t will
be strange, indeed, if this growing, ire
pressibIe nation does not in hundred
nav, fifty years, possess all of Asia eX-
hot 80 hal E.nHllGh H.
thority.
THE MOVEMENT ON HERAT.
What means the new movement on
Herat OF 10000 Cossacks? Simply, that
once fixed in the Russian mind that He
rat and the country of the Ameers must
belong TO Russia, they are after II with
the directness of the bear that says to the
stranger: You are my meat" We are
not so old, but we remember the con-
quest of Circassia, of the Trans-Caucasus,
OF the Caspian, the Amoo Darya, OF lash
kent the MerV oasis, and all that long
string OF conquests that have added land
and people TO the domain of the white
Gar 1t is a very interesting history,
and in time it may concern us not little.
Who would succeed Alexander III. in
case nihilist bomb or a bad sore throat
should take a notion to remove him TO
the great majority? We said that he was
looked on as practically the last of the
Romanotfs, not but what he has success
ors, but the young man who stands as
his successor legally is of very different
stamp from those who have preceded
him. and the common expression, "He
is not Romanoff ~ voices the fear in
the minds of the people, and especially OF
official Russia, that he will never be what
his predecessors have been. Will man
with retrousse nose be able to control a
country so vast, so various, so much q
military despotism?
The Czarowitz, Nicholas Alexandra
witch, the eldest son OF Alexander III.
who will be 26 years old on May 10Th, is
the son of Princess Dagmar the daugh-
ter of King Christian of Denmark. but
who is known as the Empress Marie Fed
orowna. Princess Dagmar was sister to