The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-05

Hesse and as such has German blood in her veins
 The Czarina is several inches taller than the Czar. She is very beautiful and stately, but rather reserved in her manner. She has fair complexion, dark grayish-blue eyes and regular features. There is a small mole at the corner of her mouth. but this rather adds to her beauty. She has a low sweet voice and sings beautifully. The Czarina Is we'll educated. She speaks French, English, German and Italian and since her marriage has learn ed the Russian. She has some artistic talent. and. not strange in a German girl, she knows considerable about cook ing and household affairs. Before her marriage she was comparatively poor and now as the wife of the richest monarch of the world, she prefers to live simply. She does not like the splendor of the court and would rather be in the country with her family than in the great winter palace at St. Peters, burg.
 The Czar and the United States. It am told that he Czar Is very friend- ly to America. I was here ten years ago during the great famine when we sent vast sums to Russia. The Rus sians gave many times as much them selves. and the distribution of the funds was under the charge of the present Czar. who was then crown prince. The Czar came in contact with ,he mem bers of our Red Cross Society and to them he spoke again and again of the kindness of America to Russia. He re- members that kindness today and fre- Quently expresses his sentiment. Not long ago he said
 "The friendly feeling which exists be- tween Russia and America is genuine and trust 1t well endure forever
 At another time he spoke of what Rus sia had done for the United States dur ing our Civil War. saying that his father had informed him of the cordiallty which existed between the countries at that time. The CEar now uses American blows. reapers and mowers on his vast estate, and other things being equal he woui,. rather patronize America than any country of Europe.
 The Richest Man of the World.
 ' And this leads me to the vast posses sions owned by his majesty. He is by far the richest man of the whole. world Carnegie and Rockefeller not excepted. You kEow how much 640-acre farm is? The Czar has enough land of hts own to make a million such farms. The Rus sion crown owns one, million square miles of forests and cultivated lands. an area equal to one-third of the United States without Alaska and our outlying colonies. He has in addition mines in Siberia which produce a vast revenue. and bonds and stocks and gold galore. Indeed no one knows what his revenue Is. The crown domains are considered the private property of the imperial family, and there are millions coming from them which never get into the public reports. He has also vast amounts in jewels and other treasures, so that it is impossible to estimate his wealth.
 The CEars father was a careful busi- ness man. He watched the income and outgo and cut down the expenses of the estate which had been extravagant When he came to the throne he person. ally overhauled the accounts of the im- perial household and after a few days study reduced the ordinary expenses of the court to an amount of $125,000 a year. He then cut down the imperial stables and looked into the management of his palaces.
 In the Winter Palace there had been magnificent Persian carpet which he had especially admired as a prince Shortly after his accession he noticed that this had disappeared. He asked about 1t and was told 1t had been sent out to be cleaned. He ordered it brought back at once, but the days passed and it did not appear. He then looked into the matter and found that the officers of the household had ordered that the entire palace be refurnished and the valuable carpets and other things had been disposed of without an accounting.