The German Emperor is really an original being. The village
of Wysztyten, on the Russian border, was on August 26th destroyed by fire. The Czar set aside 5,000 roubles for the suffering people, and, it is supposed, distrust- ing his own officials, asked the German Emperor to see that the money was properly transmitted. The Emperor accepted the commission, and carried the money himself to the Russian village to be distributed by his own "most trusted chief forester." He even made a speech to the homeless, telling them that "they would see from this how the eye of their exalted Sovereign reaches over the whole of his great Empire, even to its border towns, and that his warm and kindly heart beats for all his subjects, however distant." The "moat trusted chief forester " could, of course, have taken the money, and one wonders if the Czar intended that pretty scene, or will quite like it. To be praised is pleasant, but to be patted on the back as by a superior in the midst of his Own subjects,—that must be for a Russian Czar quite a novel experience.
