East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-08
SOME ROYAL NEST EGGS.
All Rulers Put Money Away in Antlci-
patton OF King Oscars Fate.

1t will no doubt astonish a large
number of people that kings and
queens, like poorer mortals, who have
the gift of prudence, are, with few
exceptions, as economical as Is con-
sistent with their high position, and
every year put by some portion of
their savings for rainy day Better
than anybody else, perhaps, mOnarchs
know that II is money makes the mare
go, and to spend all their incomes as
they get 1t is just as great folly in
themselves as in their subjects. The
late Queen Victoria was one of the
thriftiest of monarchs, and. though
her will has never been for the public
eye, there is reason to believe that the
fortune she left at her death was a
vry large one.
The modern king is, as rule, a
very practical gentleman. OF some 1t
is not too much to say that they do
not too much to say that they do not
place implicit confidence in the ma
ton of which they are the deal. OF
| nearly all of them it is certainly true
that they do not put all their eggs
into one basket.
Every year the present cZar and
czarina of Russia intrust large por-
| ton of their private savings TO the
British and French national banks.
Alexander II, grandfather of the en-
peror, Nicholas, was economical in a
high degree, and tine money he saved
is said to have run well into four mil
lions sterling. BY his will he left leg
| acies to various members of the i'm
| perial family which swallowed up n
third of his vast fortune. the remain
ing two-thirds being given to lady
| of the court, who had welded the SOW
ereign without mounting the throne
| AS this lady was not of the roval line
it was impossible that she could be
recognized as empress, and the Legacy
of two-thirds of the monarch's for
tune was the compensation Alexander
accorded to his morganatic spouse.
Alexander III, during his compare
lively short reign, also saved a con
siderable fortune. and this he left by
will to the present queen, Alexandra
| at the time of his death Princess o.
Wales
King Leopold, of Belgium has 2
universal reputation and not an envi
able one, as Leopold & Co., rubber
merchants. He founded the Congo
Free State of which he is sovereign
lord. and which RENTS to him every
year thousands upon thousands o.
pounds sterling, derived from the nat
ural products of the country. He i!
one of the largest rubber and ivory
dealers in the world. He is also ont
of the cleverest of financiers, anJ
knows his way about all the bourse'
of Europe.
The monarch who has the least con
fidence i'm the financial stability o.
his own country is the sultan of Tur
key. He declines to trust any Turk
ish bank with a farthing of his saw
ings. The fattest part of his fortune
| and IL is said to be not small, de
spite the fact that his country is in {
chronic state of bankruptcy-is de
posted in British banks. In Paris the!
say that every quarter a special mes
senger, flanked by a suitable escort
leaves London for Constantinople tC
carry to the sultan the interest on hi,
deposits. 1t is not generally known
that the sultan owns one of the big
gest streets of Constantinople, anc
has a sugar plantation in the Indies
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