Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1899-11-25
In ROYAL FAMILIES.
A Great Contrast in Vitality and
Temperament.


with Ger!l.an princesses have made the
FORMER i1TIi houses more German than
anything eise. The mother of the pres
ent car was u Dane, but the mother
of the kaiser was English by birth,
though almost wholly German in
blood. ..'
These facts make the sharp contrast
in vitality and temperament between
the Romanoffs and Hohenzollerns all
the more remarkable. The Russian
family are short-lived. Few of it's men
live beyond GO, and hardly any have
reached 65. Many die young. Even
when, as in the case of the late EN-
peror Alexander III. and the Car Mich
olas l., they are very large and power
full, they only illustrate the difference
between muscular strength and the
tenacity of the vital forces which gives
old age. The German Hohenzollerns
are very different.
Many of the princes of the family
which reigns in the German empire
have been long-lived. Most of them
have shown great energy and capacity
for exertion. Some have been both big
and strong. The royal house is marked
by resolute and rather sanguine tenn
permanent. Its head is usually a Wig
orous, practical, healthy man of the
type we'll able to make Roadway in the
world anywhere, no matter under what
conditions he might have been born and
reared. There has been very little of
the morbidness, inertia and inclination
toward abstract speculation and de-
spondency which have been noted in
most of the Romanoffs.
Now the ruler of the German empire
has large family of boys. There are
six sons to only one daughter, and all
of the children are believed to be sturd;-
and promising. Some of the oldest bows
are already more than a match in vigor
and endurance, it is probable, for the
RUSSIAN car, who is young enough to
be In the very prime of his strength.
There is not the least danger of any
lack of a virile and hardy heir to the
German throne for a long time. The
present kaiser, in spite of all the
stories told Of his ear and his arm, to
say nothing of his mind and temper,
gives abundant proof that he has i'm
mense energy and fairly tingles with
life and vitality.
The contrast is great in St. Peters
burg. The car is neither large nor
powerful. His vitality is believed to be
low and his temperament has a good
deal of the Romanoff tendency towards
gloom, or at least a keen consciousness
of the dark side of life. He is nine wears
younger than the kaiser, but the latter
seems the more youthful nan. exc, st,
perhaps, in tic Russian cI.:,itTu:'x dis
position to indulge in fancirS ard hg-a:
which would have been TOO iL>l,issi.
Tor the kaiser of any age. The c.&I
has three dauT tiers, but no SCH. The
heir to the thru":. therefore, under the
Russian law, j.: lis youngest brother,
Grand Duke Michael.
The prince is strong enough, but
Grand Duke George, who was three
years ycUngtr ;han the head Of the
, family an:: but seven years elder thar
Grand Duke Miclael, has i;ist sue
cumbcd to consumption aftCr 4 lang
fight for life. lie was on - years piti.
Grand Duke Michael, who rDys stands
next to u" throne, is not QUicc 81. He
may not live even to the age OF his
brother who ncS died.
These family conditions cannot fail
to have a depressing effect uvon the
car. His EIv,r buoyant disposition
.wt!l be less aInguine than ever, AMI in
EusSia any man who has Il sensitive
nature and is in a position Of power
AID responsibility has plenty cf fca-
SONS for sadness and doubt. Z * clS%
to b. oppressed by the dark facts OF
life in n land so vastA SO poor, SO sadly
in r2cd of many great and difficult
charges.
o. course, it is true that Russia has
great &c sources and unmedsurcG prom.
Uses for the distant future. The coun-
iry is believed by excellent authorities
10 u entering an epoch OF wonderful
development and gains in many dircc-
tons. "iih better times for the Eus-
sian T>".,e. &uG happ:2r = r',n:Uns o.
eNis Z. hc.. tlG world my brighten, also.
-" thS k2manoiTs, and the family rlay
snake OF its tendency for premature