Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-07-09

| him. The car had under Considera
| ton new scheme Of gymnastics for
| the army, suggested 10y one OF the
grand dukes. Experienced officers say
that the scheme was impractlcable,
and the minister OF war also was
against a. Tho ear had just expressed
his approval of NJ Rodiger By giving
him a villa and ordering ii ia be
furnished and decorated at the Inn
perial expense Theophilus knew that
the minister disapproyod of the GYM
nastic scheme. and. therefore pcrsuad-
ed the czar that II was an excellent
one. So well did ne succeed that. when
the minister presented himself at
TSarskoc Sclo. the car was ready TO
do anything rather than abandon H.
NJ. R0digcr was shown into the i'm
pcrial presence, gave his report and
condemned tho scheme. Nicholas H.
grew rcd with anger. "'rhcn We cannot
work together any longer he said
and dismissed tho minister. who re-
turned TO 81. Petersburg ruined man
He broke tho news to his wife who
was choosing furniture for the viIIp-
which ~ course. they had to give back
at once TO tho car.
This incident gives a better idea Of
the cars disposition and The I'M
stable position of Russian ministers
than hair q dozen pages Of douma
reports Tho gvmuqstic scheme FOR on
fee never has been adopted. but
promptly was forgotten when some
thing else came along
The grand duke Peter Nicholacvitch.
ono OF the leaders Of the rcactionary
rarty i'm Russia Is great friend NJ
Theophilus. Tho grand duke ALWAYS
had lot ~ influence with his imperial
cousin and now. of course. he is in
crelSing II through the monk who ia
vors the anti-rcf1rm party. This
doublo-barrelcd influence OF reaction is
causing Russian reformors "A lot Of
anxiety and even the prime minister
tremhles for TheoThilus and his friends
think he is too liberal in his ideas and
have warned him that he will fan II
he is not careful
ARMY FOR THE RICH
Peter Nicholacvitch's one idea is to
make the army SO strong that nothing
can threaten the cars absolutism. hut
he is rather stupid and enterprisiny
people with reactipnary opinions hood
wink him at every knowing that
he is q favoritc ~ the cars and there
fore can get hold ~ money. The grand
duke has an aide-dc-camp who is u
very clever draughtsman and hoped
thereby 20 attract attention at court.
where he was ignored He persuaded
Peter NicholaeVitCh-and Theophilus
that the army would be FAR moro popu-
lar and powerful 10 II were more at
tractive 20 young nohlemen. and that
the only way o. make Il more attrac-
tive was to change an the uniforms.
Tho grand duke agreed and told him To
prepare sketchc. which were laid be-
fore the czar They looked 30 pretty
that his majesty Was captivnted AMI
ordered them.
The sketches we're sent to tho minister
n war. backed by an imperial decree
and the poor minister was obliged 90
dress the troops accordingly. The new
uniforms are expensive and impractical
20 the last degree. Officers In line regi-
mcnts now have tn pay as much for
their uniforms as those In the cavalry
formerly paid. 80 that poor men shul
the army more than over. one Of the
absurd Innovations introduced In this
way H. the rule that gendarmos must
wear two swords-one on the right side
and ono on tho left Naturally. theiY
freedom Of action Is much hampered.
The cars latest favorite was also