He who mounted it held in his hand a scale in order to weigh the maintenance of mankind.

He was Famine.
The fourth animal saluted the breaking of the fourth seal with a great roaring--"Come and see!" And there appeared a pale-colored horse.

His rider was called Death, and power was given him to destroy with the sword and with hunger and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
The four horsemen were beginning their mad, desolating course over the heads of terrified humanity.
Tchernoff was describing the four scourges of the earth exactly as though he were seeing them.

The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire.

His Oriental countenance was contracted with hatred as if smelling out his victims.