Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-03-29
THE CAR.
How He Conducts Himself. lin the Bosom
af Hls EnHklY.

OF His Family.
To see the emperor at best advantage
he must be sought In the bosom Of his
family, says Leisure Hour. Indeed,
whatever he may think Of bis divine
mission, nature cut him out for a sim
pie bourgeois But he and his wife are
never happier than when they can leave
all state cares behind them, throw of
the yoke of etiquette and live for their
children at Gstschina, at Peterhof, or,
best Of all, in Denmark, in which IA
try the car unbends in a manner never
been elsewhere. There is not so great
. romp as he among all his nephews and
~oieces; he Is master of all the childish
revels. To these princes and priDcesses
the autocratof all the Russias Is simply
uncle Sasha, and cries of"Uncle SashaI
Uncle SashaI" resound all over the
place. A favorite pastime OF his is TO
stand amid the merry throng and chal-
lenge them TO pull him down. But they
never succeed, either separately or
united. The car has most wonderful
strength OF muscle. lie can bend a
horseshoe or strangle q bear by mere
force of hand. Once while in Denmark,
while a conjurer was showing his skill,
the car offered TO produce a specimen
Of his own ability; he took a pack of
cards and tore them through with great
est ease. At Gatschina he loves 20 go
fishing with the harpoon by torchlight.
Like Mr.. Gladstone, he is fond of fell
ing trees, but, unlike that gentleman,
he equally enjoys saving them into
lengths.
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and W daughters. The empress has
her daughters much with her, and has
not even a so-called governess for them.
Her own personal attendant and her
lady of honor also serve for them. In
part this springs from the emperor's
love for simplicity of life, but in part
also that they try TO surround them
selves with as few people as possible, so
that as little as may be concerning their
private life should transpire TO the
outer world, OF whom they are, and not
without reason, much afraid. The
empress superintends in person the edu-
cation of the two little duchesses,
Xenie and Ola, aged respectively IA and
6. The emperor in his leisure NOM
ents tries to do the same for his boys.
Especially he loves to give them music
and dancing lessons, for he thinks
himself a great musician and has
prediction for the corret-
a-piston. One day a minister
busy reading to him an imporsant docuS
ment beheld the car vanish suddenly
TO intone In the adjoining room a rhap-
sody on his favorite instrument. "Ex.
cuse me-" he said, returning after half
an hour, but ! had so lovely an inspir-
alton" He takes care, however, that
they should also have better instruction
than he can give them, remembering
how his own education was neglected,
and how disastrous this has been for
him. His eldest son is his especial
care, but the ~czarewitch seems TO have
little aptitude for study, ind rarely sat
isles his masters, either by his private
conduct or by his application. Nor has
holm his person any of the fine bearing
Of the Romsnoffs. He is pallid, frail
and nervous, and great anxiety is felt
concerning his health.
The emperor is subject TO attacks Of
uncontrolled fury, Even the empress
herself has to suffer under them. 1t
was such An attack that gave rise TO the
story which went the rounds OF Europe
that he had killed one of his aids-de-
ramp. The following is the correct
version: 1t was at the time that great
nihilist, excitement prevailed, and in
the imperial household plots and sinis-
ter attempts were beheld in reality and
in imagination. Now the aids-de-camp
are forbidden TO smoke in the emperor's
ante-chamber when on duty. It hap.
pened that after dinner one OF the gen
tlemen, finding the time long,
lighted a cigarette. Alexander came
np Unexpectedly at that moment,
and seeing a spark and smoke
In the dim light of the falling
day, without stopping TO consider the
innocent cause of these phenomena,
thinking himself the victim of nihilist
outrage, fell upon the officer, shaking
him with fury, the frightened aide-de.
camp meanwhile crying aloud for help.
A moment. If course, suficed TO clear
up the matter, and the officer soon re.
covered from the effects of the emperor's
angry violence. Still the world re-
ported him dead, and the emperor heard
of this. He therefore took occasion on
their public meeting to address his so
called victim with: mon cher, how dc
you find yourself since ! killed you?'
Like his grandfather, Nicholas, from
whom he inherited his tendency to rage,
be is often sorry after, and tries 70
make rood his errors.