The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-06

IIesse and as such has German blood in her veins.
 The csarina Is several inches taller
 than the czar. She is very beautiful
 and stately, but rather reserved in her
 manner. She has a 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 well 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 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 ard 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 Car Is very friend ly to America. l 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 she 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 I 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 cordiality which
 existed between the countries at that
 time. The Czar 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 a 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 eQudl to OHeStnlTu OL tHe OHitou 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 hts 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 1t Is impossible to estimate his wealth. ness man. He watched the income and outgo and cut down the expenses of the
 estate which had been extravagant 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.O0O a year. He then cut down the imperial stables palaces.
 a 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 it had been sent back at once, but the days passed and 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.