Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1915-01-29

blessing them and encouraging them Discre-
ton is thrown to the winds Several times he
has penetrated to the batt)efelds of Poland and
would have exposed himself to the shrapnel of
the Prussians had not his encourage skillfully
rendered this impossible
His dress is simple and he is often in
peasant garb-that is a suit of some fine ma
terial cut in peasant blouse style, manly-look-
ing costume of which the true Russian is very
proud.
More remarkable STILL the queen, always be-
fore the most exclusive of royalty, has gone
among her people, visiting the sick and wound
ed. The Russians scarcely knew her before.
There is in all this ostensibe activity little
more than the 1esire to arouse and encourage
the fighting nation. There is more, for instance.
than inspired the visit of King George to his
troops in Flanders. This extra element is anxi-
ETY., lively fear and not of German howitzers.
The victories of Russian have their sweet
ness mixed with bitterness for the czar and his
family
WHY? The reason is none other than the ma
iestic figure of tn Grand Duke Nicholas Mich
olaievitch the commander in chief of the Mus
coyite forces The car Las long suffered by
physical comparison with his soldier cousin
now he suffers in more serious way.
If ever there was king in looks 1t is Mich
olas Nicholaievtch He is full six feet six inches
in his stockings lean but graceful. with head
in which the keenest intelligence is combined
with vast dignity and force
When he is with the car the latter by COM
harrison is weak and insignificant looking. cod
died monarch In secret the cars subjects are
not slow to speak of this and many avow history
of the past twenty-five years would have been Tar
different if this tall Mars had been in his cousins
place that the humiliation Of the defeat oy japan
would have been spared the proud Russians
# has TO be rememb red that the commander 10
chief has taken his commission to make him dlc-
tator of Russia The procamations TO the Poles
and the Jews promising liberties in exchange ter
LOYALTY during the war not signed by the
czar hut nv Nicholas Nicholaievitch. rms was
astonishing in itself and many have malntalned
made the promises null and void because the
promising party would never have the power II
he had the wish to carry out his obligations to
the oppressed peoples
Yet would the car dare to oppose his victorF
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carry out these promises? Such an issue might
prove a popular one for .icholas Nicholaievltch.
The history of Grand Duke Nicholas begins IN
an unhappy youth He chung to his Herman
mother whose Russian husband had woeIuiN
wronged her and ruined the family fortune. But
come to manhood he followed straight In his
fathers footsteps for the parent was one OF
Gar Alexander rs famous field marshais, who
MANY times had scourged the enemies of Rus
STA.
Alexander III wa not especially fond OF The
Young Grand Duke Nicholas. for noble and peas
ant alike consciously or unconsciodsly gave more
homage 10 this splendid giant than to the three
spindling dull sons of the ruler He ordered
that the psans suke's activities Lust be
limi,ed to ~ c: velry - tho only result was
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