The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-03-11
A PEN PICTURE OF THE CAR
Weak and Melancholy, WhOl-
" Untitled for His Task

10 III 49,
in Europe than the Car. writes Ar
mold White in Everybody's Magazine.
His detractors declare him to be 6,
melancholy, luxurious man, surround
ed by a wall of detail, dominated by
women ard impotent for good or evil.
His admirers describe him as a man
with a great mission for the advance
ment of the humanitarian idea. which
is struggling with militarism In every
country on the continent of Europe.
OF the two theories as to the Cars
character, which Is the more correct?
The evidence Is contradictory, and for
the analysis of a great personality. is
necessarily incomplete without a full
knowledge of the influences of heredity
upon character, and the effect of n
vironment upon habit.
AS to heredity, the lineage of the
Romanoffs is a gruesome story. The
Car has inherited from his ancestors
an accumulated burden of horror and
sorrow that Is more conducive to set
tied melancholy han to healthy Judg-
ment, to fatalism n despair than to
sob. iety and nobility of life.
Nevertheless, the Emperor Nicholas
who is approaching a time of life when
he can no longer be spoken of as q
young man, is as right meaning and
not bear upon his shoulders the ac-
cumulated memory of bloodshed, ma
lightly and strife. Cons. der for a mo-
ment the history of his ancestors. AL
exander III. his father, died in the
arms of a miracle monger, Father John
Cronstadt. The superstition of Alexan-
der III was a pure survival of medieval
times. He would cross himself, and
even fall Upon his knees and pray, If
a cloud obscured the sun when he was
looking tn ough a window. Credulty
Of his kind was encouraged under the
powerful influence of his philosophic
tutor, NJ. Constantine -Pobedonosteff.
The & andmother of the Car was
assassinated while driving through a
public street. His great-grandfather
overwhelmed with the Crimean disas-
ters, is generally believed in Russia
to have committed suicide. There is
a mystery about the illness and dealt
planned. The emperor Paul was muir
dered in 1901, while Catherine II. HE
mother, although a great sovereign,
and a woman and a woman of remark
able abilities, would have been ac-
counted a degenerate and a criminal
f she had not been empress. The
qualities transmitted to her posterity
were not those hat make successful
craftsmanship. The husband of Cath
crime. Peter III, was made way with
and Is supposed to have been murder
ed.
This Is the family history of the
Gar. 1t is impossible that a record Of
so much bloodshed, violence and dis
aster can be without influence upon
his cha acter. If this be so, the mel
In choly of the Ear is accounted for
In personal conversation with the
Car one Is struck Immediately with
the shrinking shyness and softly APP
~prehensive, almist feminine sweetness
Of the Russian emperor. The contrast
between the melancholy and reflective
Ear and the e~xuberantly vital kaiser
who bubbles and boils with unexpend-
ed life power, can be appreciated only
by those who have ~sed with
both. 1t must not be supposed that
Ear Nicholas III is destitute of manly
strength because his habitual outlook
on life is lather one of oriental resig-
nation than of the hopefulness that
might be expected from the head of a
g. eat christian nation. The Car is
remarkable for a dignity which is the
moe noticeable because ne is small in
size. his voice is gentle and womanly.
The dignity is like the dignity of the
.ate Queen Victoria, which impressed
esefy one who entered he's presence.
Ii is not too much to say that the
p. esent Gar is not popular with the
russian people. The Russians like a
Jovial, bully ruler. who can d. ink hard.
VINO loves nghting and whose persona
courage is undouoted. Eve since the
episode at Otsu, when the Car 8 life
was endangered by a would-be murd-
erer, thee has been a doubt as to the
pc sonal cou. age of the Car. This
doubt is owing to an indiscreet letter
which was w4itten by the crown prince
of Greece to his father. and which by
some incident or indiscretion was read
10 others. From Athens the report
was widely circulated throughout Eu-
.ope. The letter described the episode
of the attempted assassination, and
the crown prince of Greece. after he
had dwelt on the scene wherein the
Japanese mailman had st. uck his cou-
sin, the Ca owitch used the words
which have become historical in Eu-
rope, "Then MCKEE ram" "Nick.e' Is
the pet name by which the Car Is
known to his relatives. especially his
cousins, with whom he loves to cycle.
For a long time the half disaffected
and contemptuous clans. which form
society in Russia. repeated with many
sh. Jugs of their shoulde.s. Then Nick
lie ram" The episode is not TO. gotten,