Albuquerque morning journal., 1914-12-21

ttfhpl aHatfs through town meet
ings' and not through elected or APP
pointed officials. Their lands are
held on the common ownership basis.
and Is apportioned out for cultivation
from time to time.
With the bulk OF It's crops raised
py the peasaDtry. and for the most
part, employing most primitive
means OF farming. Russia is stili able
~ produce u very large percentage
81 the worlds food supply. In 1913
II gave to civilization nearly fourth
OF its wheat. n full fourth Of its oats,
third of It's barley and more than
half Of It's rye. That year its wheat
crop was 20o.000,ooo bushels greater
than our own. It's oat crop equalled
ours. It's barley crop was three times
AZ great as ours. and its rye twenty
five times Ms large as ours.
Leads In Horses.
Russia has more horses than any
other nation on earth. with $4,000
600 as compared with our 10000
more sheep than any other nation,
with So,oo0,0o0 as compared with our
50,000,0Qo; nearly as many cattle,
with 5i.0oo.0 as compared with our
59,OOo,o00.
"Thc latest authoritative informa-
tlon on Russian educational condi-
tions. that for 1908, shows that only
2ll out OF every thousand people in
the empire could read and write. and
there were two illiterate women for
every illiterate man. With our ioo,-
100000 population in 1912, we had
an enrolment of 19.2lS.0O0 school
children. With her population Of l72,-
900 900, Russia's total enrolment was
100000 and 2S Of these were boys
for every 10 who were girls.
"And yet the first woman civil en-
gineer in the world was a Russian.
and the educated woman of Russia
enjoys freedom equal to that of her
kind In any other country In the
world. They are even allowed to be-
come professors in mems universities,
and after twenty years Of service are
retired on pensions, which continue
during the lives Of their husbands. II
they are married and are survived bv
the heads of their houses.
The Tsar's Salary.
"The Tsar of Russia Is well paid
ruler. He receives the revenues from
the Russian crown lands, and their
area IN equal to that of one-third OF
the United States. Several years ago
the imperial treasurer Is reported to
have advised the Tsar: Your majesty
need have no fear of ever coming to
feel the sting Of poverty. Financially,
yca are solveney itself With one
hand you could buy out the American
multi-millionaires Morgan and Rock
efellcr. and still have enough left to
talk business with Baron Rothschild'
II is said that the tsar was displeased
OF the flippancy Of the holder of his
purse-strings. Whether the study Is
apoohrypal or not. IL does not mis-
represent the tsar's wealth.
Cathedral Splcndors.
II have seen the famous eathedrals'
of Europe-the noted structures OF
France. Germany, England. Italy and
Turkey--but was utterly unprepared
for the splendor and brilliancy of ST.
Isaacs at Petrograd. with its pillars
thirty feet high OF lapis lazulI and
malachite, its altar rails of solid sill
yer. containing half a ton of the pre-
cious metal and its icons of pearls
studded with huge diamonds, sap
phlres. emeralds and rubies
His religion Is very real to the
Russian, and his God Is really omni-
present to him: he sees His Spirit
everywhere and everywhere acknowl-
edges 1t With the sign Of the cross
and the words oh Lord. have mer-
cy.' or Glory be to Thee, Oh Lord "
Mr.. Grosvenor also brings out the
surprising fact that Russia has in the
neighborhood OF 3S,000,000 men be-
tween the ages of rs and A inclu-
sive. and that 1t annually has about
100000 boys reaching the age OF is.