THE LEGEND OF THE CZAR'S EAR.
A strike recently occurred among the peasants in the western districts of Che Cherson Province of Russia. The disturbance was investigated by the police and the rather extraordinary reasons for the outbreak were ascertained. It seems that a picture of the Gsar was recently tent to all communal councils i n Russia, including, of coarse, those in Cherson. As the picture only presented a side view of the Czar, only one ear was visible. This led the peasants to beieve that the Csar possessed only one ear, and the loss of the other they thus accounted far: When Alexander 111 died (say these peat* ants) his widow and old adviser began to confer together, afterwards inviting Nicholas 11. to join them. As soon as Car Nicholas entered the room he declared ibat all land in Russia mast be equally divided among the peasants. One of his counsellors replied: " As sure aa you cannot see your own earyou won't divide the land." The Csar thereupon immediately cat off one ear, and remarked, " As surely as I now see my ear I will divide the land." The peasants of Cherson were so convinced of the truth of this legend (hat they firmly believed that a strike againßt the landowners would be followedby the intervention of the Czar in their behalf, and the division of the land among themselves.
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2478, 14 August 1903, Page 6
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