The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-31
THE CARS SICKNESS.
FIRST I U1HENTIC DETAILS OF HIS
 MAL1DY.
Typhus From Diet of Frosted Oysters His Family and Home Life.

LlVaQla, Dec. lU.--lC IS not at Sl. Ge- tersburg that enc learns particulars of the Czars way of living, but at Yalta, where public notice Is harmless and
 where the screens put up to keep the
 population aloof are green trees in
 stead of granite walls. The Russians
 sigh when they speak of their Czar-- 1 not, as one might think, because he has
 had so grave an illness, but for diff
 ferent reason, not generally known out of Russia. The people, who< are deeply
 attached to Czar Nicholas, from whom
 at his very accession they hoped great 1 things, try to believe that this present
 attack of typhus will be physically the
 making of the Czar. There is no de-
 nying, every one says, that the Czar's
 health was such that 1t left everything
 to be desired. Since his former illness, which If it had lasted would have
 brought on epilepsy, and which was
 cured by trepanning, the Czar has not
 had perfect health, and, what Is worse
 among physical discomforts, he has suf-
 fered severely from melancholy and a
 depression that made him indifferent to
 what goes on Now, according to the QbClOIS, d SCNGlG dlldth oL y Piluo
 brings about such a thorough revolu-
 ton in the organization that the man
 who recovers from 1t Is, In fact, new
 man. It is especially from the appetite
 following typhus that a strengthening
 of the Czar's constitution is hoped, and
 when the bulletins speak of satisfactory
 appetite, this in the CZar's case Is
 very good symptom indeed.
 It was one of the great griefs of those
 who were responsible for the Czars well
 being that he refused to eat solid and
 healthful food long before he was over
 taken by this last Illness to which in
 his weak state he might easily have
 been a prey. I am told that he lived
 chiefly on frosted oysters, of which he
 ate a quantity every day-dangerous food at the best, since their being frost ed makes it impossible to be certain as
 to their freshness. The Czar's cook was much disposed to attribute his be- ing taken Ill with typhus to these frost ed oysters But this, of course, would not account for the gendarmes in the emperor's service being ill of the same disease.
 
 suffers from the particular kind of ty phus mostly prevailing In the Crimea. This is said to be the result of an over rich vegetation, which, as it dies and falls to the ground when winter comes, bound by no frosts, decays and creates malaria Besides this, the sanitary ar engagements of the imperial villa, which is close to the sea, and, with Its climb ing verdure, Is charming to the eye, are of the most primitive kind, and wholly unsatisfactory. The park of Livadia Is dotted all over with these little villas, which, with their wooden porches bal comics, gables and dormer windows painted In bright blue and red and yell low, with crimson ramblers and clema- tis climbing to the very roofs, and kept in perfect repair, look like brand-new toys for big children. As you drive up to the carpeted wooden steps on the beautifully graveled paths, guarded at each turning by Cossacke-not private soldiers, but on-conmissioned officers. bearded men who can be trusted--and as you are received by iackeys in scar- let liveries and white silk stockings, 1 you have feeling of having encroached | upon an intimacy to which none but 0 Russian should have a right
 Though the Crimean coast Is called | the Russian Rivieri, 1t does not quite | deserve the name when the climate Is considered. On the 18th of November | the season closes. Wintry storms and | very rough weather generally set in at | that time This year was an exception | and sunshine and blue seas continued | when December began But the beauty | of the landscape far exceeds that of the Riviera. The mountains behind Yalta, Gursuff, Massandra and Alupka are very high, and for the most part cov- cred with trees, and the gardens and ! parks surrounding hotels and villas In all these places are beautifully tended and are perehnially green with cypress, laurel and sempre verde. But the cy- press. when It appears in large num- bers, in groups and avenues, and es- pecially when 1t grows old and tall, is ! very melancholy tree, and 1t takes all the brightness of sunny sky and sea to relieve 1t of it's graveyard character. The architecture in all the places have named is very interesting. being so va- lied with touches of the Turkish among .he Russian buildings, which are gene rally distinguished by barbaric gildings md wealth of ornament that almost sffaces the striking features of the gen. eral contour Yalta has just built a ,hurch of enormous size on the hill, which, with its golden cupoas and it's pierced oriels, would be an ample cathe- iral for a city ten times it's size. In the park of Livadia, besides the large ,hurch which is without the wall, there s lovely little chapel close to the inn ,erial villa, all in marble, with the win lows in pierced marble of elaborate de- igns and with seven solid silver bells