The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-01-26
CzAROWITz TO MARRY.
Eligible Processes In q Flutter Of
Expectancy.
Nicholas Not . Son After the Czar's Own
Heart-His Liberal Views and Liter
airy Tastes Not Suited to the
Lion Hearted Romano6.
IcoPYRIGHr, Isp4.l

In the courts of Europe. This tiIe the
owner of the heart is the czarowitz,
eldest son of the car, the coming au-
tocrat of all the Russians, the power
| full ruler that is to be of hundreds of
millions of people This young man is
looking for wife, a woman who will
some day sit on the Russian throne,
the most powerful of her sex in the
world Concerning this fortunate
woman that dreadful little rogue,
rumor, has much to say. But this
much lacks confirmation. Yesterday
It was the daughter of the prince
of Wales. tomorrow it is Dam
ish princess, and next week we
shall have another story and an
! other name. Indeed. the heir of
the throne of Russia is the most en-
gagged. but by no means the most
engaging. young man in Europe.
There is no eligible young woman con-
nected with any of the ruling European
houses whose name has not been con-
nected with his in a matrimonial way.
1t may be that the young grand duke
knows little of this. for his tutors and
his fathers press censors do not allow
him to see any of the gossip that there
| is flying about him and other royal
| personages.
Who is this Grand Duke Nicholas,
fated some day to be the most power
| full man in the world?
He may become car of Russia, q.
any time. should the anarchists or nihil-
| lists succeed in their designs of killing
the present head of the Romanoffs.
Little is known about him. He has
! not figured to any extent in the news
| paper press of Europe. He may or he
may not have had escapades as other
royal sprigs have had, but one never
hears anything about them. He is
| kept in seclusion. He is not allowed
the freedom that ordinary princes of
/ Europe are allowed. Powerful as his
father is, his heir is in some respects
prisoner. He is being brought up in
| queer way. The greatest enjoyment
! he seems to get out of life is in riding
bicycle, and in running over TO Lon
don when he gets a chance. where he
has good romp without interference.
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and George, are far from being kept in
| seclusion. George. indeed. has seen
! service in the Russian navy. AS the
, immediate heir 70 the throne and in
view of the uncertainty as to the life
tenure of the car, it has been the
! policy of Alexander III. to keep the
! czarowitz from any dangerous. or even
! public post of duty. This accounts,
: in the main, for the fact that so little
is known of the young man who is now,
I by the way. few months over twenty
! five years of age.
Truth be told there is very little
! about the young man to-attract atten-
! ton, aside from his position as the
! eldest son of the car. The grand
duke, in fact, is & very colorless youth,
| indeed. He lacks strength mentally
and physically. He has shown no tai
ent for anything of consequence.
There is nothing of the Tartar about
| him. He is not at all Romanoff in
! appearance. These men have nearly all
of them been of the most impressive
appearance. The mad Emperor Paul
was fine looking man. Alexander III.
was one of the handsomest men. in
point of physique and face, in Europe.
| The present car is veritable Ajax,
and is held to be the strongest man in
Europe. Grand Duke Nicholas is
weakling. He has neither the Roman
| of face nor physique, but instead re-
sembles his Danish mother. Frequent
| " there are rumors that the car has
| determined to use his autocratic powers
| and name his robust second SOC as his
successor. There is probably nothing
| in these reports The one soft spot
in the character of the present car is
| his love for his wife. Her influence
over him is remarkable; and she, wom-
an-like, loves her firstborn child, who
! has her face and amiable disposition;
therefore she is not likely to allow him
to be set aside if she can help it-as she
| probably can.
The grand duke has latterly been
/ kept even more in seclusion than he
was formerly. The car is supersti-
tious and his wife is timid. The muir
| derous attack made on their son, when
he was on visit to japan with Prince
George of Greece, which might have
resulted fatally had it not been for the
readiness of the Greek prince, threw
the car into a panic. The young man
| has not been allowed to do much
going abroad in democratic way since
then
1t appears true, however, that
though the car may love his son well
enough in paternal way he has no
especial admiration for him as a pros
pective ruler of Russia The massive
| imperial crown of Russia and the flow
. ing robes Of state have looked impress