, 1877-07-22

hard-hearted as the caprice Of the Emnresz
When the hospitals were full, he issued An
order forbfddlng any soldier to be sick under
| penalty of being buried alive; and when hfa
turned his own batteries upon them and forced s
| them to advance. s'You will take Ismail. cost
what It may" were the orders which SnWnrrnan. m.
received and 9o,0 600 Turks perlshed in the s:ees
and massacre before the dispatch was sent ln
| Catharine, 'sMother, Ismail is at your feet. :,
| The determination Of the Semiramis Of the
| North was a. inyincible ~ the courage of
SuwarTow. The wives Of Alexander and
| Nicholas were gcntler souls.
Alexander bargained at Tilsit for the con
quest OF Constantinople, saying to Napoleon,
~ must have the key TINT unlocks tue door Of
my house." Nicholas made TWO tremendous
efforts to wrcstt the key from Turkish hands.
When his armies invaded Bulgaria In 1875 be-
went to the front and stroVe to arouse the eo-
thusiasm OF his soldiers. Two fortrcsses wcre
but the siege Of Shu1nIa was disastrous fail
ure, and the troops withdrew to winter quarters.
greatly dsncartene1. Although the Emperor
had purchased the surrender Of Varna, bis
presence hampcred his Generals and did mo,e
harm than good: Setting sail for Odessa, hs
narrowly escaped shipwreck on the Turkish
coast, and during the second year Ut the cam
plign he remained at st. Petersburg. It was
we'll for the Russian arms that he stated
away, for Diehitsch never would hare
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Emperor in his camp. Foiled BY the
plague in 1899, Nicholas was defeated by the
Allies in 1855, and died Of broken heart.
The CrfmelE war was forced upon the nation
By the unyiclding will Of Nicholas. The people
had no heart in It; it was their masters busi-
ness; but ibc disgrace Of defeat sank deep into
their souls. They began to question the utility
Of the Imperial system. After all their sacrifices
corner Of their territory hatt been lupped oil
and their fleet had been driven from the Black
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gone for nothing. The pnlicy Of repression had
failed, and men asked one another in 1nnfticd
whispers, 1. Is there nothing bettcr?" 1t that
fcvcrish time, when d1scontent was fostering in
the mass OF the poD,tIation and army officers
der bad tie courage aud wisdom to e1nancipato
&c, 900 scrfs. He placed himself at tho
head of i national movement, and in
troluccd popular reforms, which oyer-
shadow the glarlns injustice Of his
tolerance arc still unknown, but the New Rus
sia Of Alexander is not the Old Russia OF Ncho-
las, and Catherine, and Peter the Great. In
crossing the Danube, and hast ming to the front
at the critical moment Of the war, the Car wilt
20 to his own place at the head OF uew national
movement.
When Alexander was heir to the throne, be
vent from court to court in quest Of a wife.
The Grand Duke Louis, OF Hesse-Darmstadt,
1ad several DAUGHTERS, but only one Of them
5lSlScu Lllc 1buSSlAH Whit utr SfSLef3
we're arraycd in jewels and silks, the Youngest
mt apartan simr rle white dress. It wis Marie
the present Empress OF Russia.
She has always been In hearty accord with the
1zar's policy toward MS people, and her place Is
y his side at the Cabinet If not in camp She
nay not have the genius for jewel bargain
reich the wife Of Peter the Great displayed On
he banks Of the Pr,1th, but she can at least
LAY the part of Cornclia, and point to her Jew
Is in the camp-fve sons fighting under the
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