Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-04-04


tiOns and reflections:
There is no more mysterious figure
i'm Europe than the car. His de-
tractors declare him 10 be a mel
anchOly. luxurious man. surrounded by
& wall Of detail, dominated by women
and impotent for good or evil. His
admirers describe him as a man with
great mission for the advancement
OF the humanitarian idea which is
struggling with militarism in every
country in Europe The cars de-
tractors say that the key to the char
acter TO the head of the house OF RO-
manor is 10 be found in the manner
in which he has drifted into war with
Japan.
His friends aver that the key to
the cars character is TO be found in
the project for the great Siberian
railway which has linked the Pacific
with the Baltic by iron rails and
modern engines. They declare that
tine true note OF the cars character
is struck by the project for The Hague
tribunal.
"Of the two theories as to the cars
character. which is the more correcty
The evidence is contradictory, and the
analysis of a great personality is
necessarily incomplete without the
knowledge of the influences OF
heredity upon character and the effect
OF environment upon habit.
The lineage of the Romanoffs is
grewsome story. The car has in
herited from his ancestors an ac-
Cumulated burden of horror and sorrow
I that is more conducive to settled
melancholy than 10 healthy judgment:
and 10 fatalism and despair than TO
sObriety and cheerfulness. Neverthe
less. the Emperor Nicholas, who is
approaching a time Of life when he
can no longer be spoken Of as young
man. is as right meaning. benevolent
and clement a ruler as though he did
not bear upon his shoulders &C,
cUmulaJed memories of bloodshed,
malignity and strife.
] After some details as TO the cars
habits the writer says:
In personal conversation with the
car men are struck Immediately with
the shrinking shyness and softly ap.
Z prehensive, almost feminine. sweet
ness Of the Russian emperor. The
/ contrast between the melancholy ana
reflective car anu the eXuberant
vitality of the kaiser. bubbling and
boiling with unexpended life power.
can be appreciated best by those who
have cOnversed with both IL must
not be supposed that the Czal
Nicholas II. is destitute of strength be
cause his habitual outlook on life is
rather one OF oriental resignation than
OF the hOpefulness that might be ex-
pected from the head of a great
Christian nation. The car is remark
able for a dignity which is the more
noticeable because he is small in size
and his voice is gentle and womanly.
The event in the cars life which
has chiefly influenced his habit and
outlook on life was his journey to the
far east I'm 1891 After visiting India
f. he returned overland via Siberia
along the route of the railway that
has now been constructed. The long
and mOnOtOnous journey through
Siberia is understood to have stirred
the pulse OF the czarowitz, and TO
have nodded his character and policy
to an extent undreamed OF by western
critics. was recently informed by
one who accompanied the present car
ON his journey 10 the far east that the
spectacle of Russian power in the far
east. the possibilities of its develop
ment and the extraordinary argi-
cultural and industrial future that
awaits the development OF the rich
and virgin soil OF Siberia. produced
an overwhelming effect upon the mind
OF the czarowitz."
In summing up. the writer gives his
estimate of the car as follows:
'The car is a kindly, saddened,
Overworked and unhappy man. His
desire to do his duty Compels him TO
engage i'm an unceasing struggle with
details which are never overtaken.
In this struggle he is helped by one
Of the best and noblest of women,
whose virtues are derived through
her mother. from our own Queen
Victoria. When the car was a boy he
had an English nurse who taught him
10 speak English without accent, and
planted i'm his mind a love of English
methods OF life and habits which he
has never lost. When the car is in
private costume he has recourse to an
English tailor English family life is
his delight. and the English con.
.stitutional system he regards with a
favorable eye. In character he IL
more like his grandfather than his
father. but Notwithstanding his un-
doubted abilities and fine disposition.
he is too completely in the hands OF