Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-03-31

ABOVE heading appears in the current
foFthlghtly Review. The writer ap-
parently knows whereof he treats. He
opens his sketch" with some ques
lions and reflections:
There is no more mysterious figure
IN Europe than the car. His de-
tractors declare him TO be a mel
ancholy, luxurious man, surrounded by
a 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
Iof 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 to 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
the true note of the cars character
rs struck by the project for The Hague
tribunal
of the two theories as to the cars
character, which is the more correct?
The evidence is contradictory, and the
analysis of 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 a
grewsome story The car has in
herited from his ancestors an ac-
cumulated burden of horror and sorrow
that is more conducive to settled
melancholy than to healthy judgment:
and to 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 a young
man, is as right meaning, benevolent
and clement a ruler as though he did
not bear upon his shoulders &C
cumulated memories of bloodshed
malignity and strife.
After some details as to the cZar's
habits the writer says:
In personal conversation with the
czar men are struck Immediately with
the shrinking shyness and softly ap
prehensive, almost feminine. sweet
ness of the Russian emperor. The
contrast betweenf the melancholy anC
reflective car and the exuberan1
vitality of the kaiser. bubbling ant
can be appreciated best by those wht
have conversed with both. 1t mus
not be supposed that the Czal
Nicholas ii. is destitute of strength be
cause his habitual outlook on life i:
rather one of oriental resignation THAI
OF the hopefulness that might be ex
pected from the head of grea
Christian nation. The czar is remark
able for dignity which is the NOR,
noticeable because he is small in sig,
and his voice is gentle and womanly
The event in the cars life whicl
has chiefly influenced his habit an,
outlook on life was his journey to tn
far east in 1891. After visiting Indi
he returned overland via Siberia
along the route of the railway tina
has now been constructed. The lon,
and monotonous journey through
Siberia is understood to have stirre
the pulse of the czarowitz, and t.
have nodded his character and polio
to an extent undreamed of by western
critics. | was recently informed b
one who accompanied the present cza
on his journey to the far east that tn
spectacle of Russian power in the ia
east, the possibilities of it's develol
ment, and the extraordinary arg
cultural and industrial future tina
awaits the development of the ric
and virgin soil of Siberia, produce
an overwhelming effect upon the min
of the czarowitz''
III summing up, the writer gives hi
estimate of the car as follows:
THE czar is O. kindly, saddened
overworked and unhappy man. Hi
NSoAiV " w Ills NuLs IOMpCiS MIN =
engage in an unceasing struggle wit
details which are never overtaker
In this struggle he is helped by on
of the best and noblest of women
whose virtues are derived throug
her mother, from our own Quee
Victoria. When the car was boy b
had an English nurse who taught hir
to speak English without accent, an
planted in his mind love of Englis
methods of life and habits which
has never lost. When the car is /
private costume he has recourse to a
English tailor, English family life
his delight, and the English col
stitutional system he regards with
favorable eye. In character he
more like his grandfather than hi
father. but Notwithstanding his III
doubted abilities and fine disposition
he is too completely in the hands {