The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-03-03

very interesting history, and in time it may
concern us not little.
Who would succeed Alexander III, in case
a Nihilist bomb, or bad sore throat, should
take q notion to remove him to the great
majority? We said that he was looked on as
practically the last Of the Romanoffs, not but
what he has successors, but the young man
who stands as his successor legally, is Of a
very different stamp from those who have
preceded him, and the common expression
"Heis not a aRomanoff " voices the fear in the
minds Of the people, and especially of official
Russia, that he will mover be what his pre-
decessors have been. viii a man with--a
retrousse nose, be able to control a country
so vast, so various, so much military des-
potism?
The Czar1witch, Nicholas Aloyanlrowitch,
the oldest son Of Alexander Ill, who will be
26 years old on May 10th, is the son OF Prin-
cess DGgmar the daughter Of King Christian,
Of Denmark, but who is known as the En-
press Marie Feodorowna. Princess Dagmar
was sister to Alexandra, the Princess Of Wales
and the Duchess Of Cumberland, cy-Queen of
Hanover, and was betrothed to the brother Of
the present Car Alexander; when that broth
er, a promising young man, died in Nice, of
consumption, it WIS his wish that the young
princess should marry Alexander. The future
ruler was born at Gatchina amid the reioic-
ings Of u great people. They realize that any
failure in the succession, means anarchy and
war, and when he attained his legal majority,
sixteen years in 1854, the reioicings through
out the Empire were great and magnificent
Since that time only two events have
brought him prominently before his people,
and that Of Europe-his Gonning, the uni
form Of a commissioned officer on attaining
his majority, and his voyage around the
world, in 1890. War is still the trade Of
kings, and every successor to a throne, must
go through the military training, on which
may at some time rest the destiny Of his
Empire. The lie OF n Russian grand duke
is not all sunshine There is a great deal Of
hard work attached to it. From his very
infancy he is turned over to the caro- Of
tutors and professors. The C2Grewitoh has
harder ordeal to go through than any Of
his brothers or cousins. His education is
directed to preparing him for the woighty
cares of state. There is not branch Of
political science that he is not thoroughly
grounded in. 1t is no wonder then, that
these young men on escaping from thea hard
grind OF the school-room are apt to plunge
deeply into the pleasures Of life. On at
tanning his majority Czarewtch Nicholas
went through the ordeal Of public oXami-
nation, that is his father, the Car and his
immediate relatives were present, when the
professors that had prepared him, put a
number of searching questions.
Having passed with credit, Nicholas en-
tered the army, being attached first 20 an
infantry and then to a cavalry regiment.
He had to riso through the various grades,
though in his case, promotion was oXcep-
tionally rapid. The post OF " Hoffman Of the
CossNcks' is mGdc more Of an honorary
character, but it serves to prepare him for
higher commands. The Czarewitch is quite
as unaffected in his demeanor "a whom ho
was young 82ldie-, and he was chen very
popular, and lat5r with the Cossocks whose
commcnder-n-cnief lie is. His reputation
among his brother officers Of the Proo-
bra2enski Guard and later with the Hussars
of the Guard, Is thet of a 6Ga comaGde, who
never allowed his rank to prevent him from
entering cordially into cll tho ahuserents
OF mess room at regiment0l club.
oz-!.o ROYALTY that doth heiren an Emperor,