The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1915-01-30

Nicholas Nicholaevitch. we're now the best in
Europe,
Meantime the Nicholas family life not
free from the scandal which often has made
the title grand duke reproach. He first mar
ried the midde-aged widow of wealthy trader
He did not bring her to court. but left her at
MOSCOW, where she would be safe from the
sights her extraction might earn her In higher
company. She dieG and her husband, now rich
man. only too quickly welded the Princess Anas
tasia OF Montenegro. with whom he had long
been in love 1t while she the wife OF
another man. the duke of Leuchtenberg. that
Nicholas Nfcholaievitch wooed and won her. She
persuaded Car Nicholas to permit her divorce.
Anastasia is a large framed vigorous. ambi
tious woman, devoted to the cause of the Savs
She is frebrand and unscrupulous in methods
to further her husbands progress to the position
of natural leader OF the Russian Slavs 1t is
said her husband is atogethe too intimate with
certain lady Of the imperial ballet but this
does not seem to affect the relations between the
welded couple. She is always magnihcently
clad and is as rega in figure as her husband
Throughout the japanese the soldiers
hoped Grand Duke Nicholas would be ade their
leader and he was again and again promised to
them. Many believed final disaster would have
been averted if the czar had conquered his jeal-
ousy of his popular cousin After the WI, when
the throne threatened by the revolut.onsts,
the car was forced to fall back on the man he
had sighted and the grand duke restored order
by stern He was in danger of assassina-
ton, and commanded admiration by constantly
going about the streets unattended
Just what happened when the present war
broke out remains to be told. 1t will be In
teresting story. 1t is known that the aspired
to follow the kaisers example, take the field
with his soldiers. and "be his field marshal"
What pressure brought to bear to dissuad1
him from this purpose and to force his accept
of Grand Duke Nicholas is hard to say But
there rumors that the mobilization well
along before the knew of 1t.
1t is to be remembered there is Juaker party
in Russia well in Prussia And this party
claims the grand duke leader
The present situation is this: The cabinet
council OF the empire meets every day at Peter
hof. Its resolutions outwardly submitted to
the for confirmation: but a matter OF
fact, the cabinet simply O. KS the orders OF the
alpowerful commander in chief and the czar
then also attaches his signature. In time Of war
the cabinet does not dare iefy the army head.
does the czar
II all this is concealed from the mass OF the
Russian people. 1t is entirely clear to that astute
German. the czarina Supposed to be nervous
invalid she has suddenly donned the garments of
the Sisters OF Charity with her daughters and
entered the hospital wards She is even present
at operations and has bounds up the soldiers
wounds with her hands Anyone who knows
the almost religious attitude of the Russian peas
ant to the Little Father" can realize the wild
enthusiasm aroused among those whom the car
ina thus visits
Can the czarna be striving to win lack for
her family the personal popularity the grand
duke is taking from her husband: It may be co.