Rocky Ford enterprise., 1915-01-29

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 middle4aged 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 died and her husband. now a rich
man. only too quickly welded the Princess Anas-
tasia of Montenegro with whom he had long
been in love. II while she the wife of
another man. the duke OF Leuchtenberg. that
Nicholas Nicholaievitch wooed and won her. She
persuaded Gar Nicholas to permit her divorce.
Anastasia is largeframed, vigorous. ambi-
tous woman, devoted to the cause of the Slavs.
She is firebrand and INSCRIPTIONS in methods
further her husbands progress to the position
of natural leader of the Russian Slavs 1t is
said her husband is altogethe 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 magnificently
clad and is rega In figure as her husband.
Throughout the Japanese war 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 wSl, when
the throne threatened by the revolut:onists.
the car forced to fall back on the man he
had sighted and the grand duke restored order
by stern means He was in danger of assassina,
ton, and commanded admiration by constantly
going about the streets unattended.
Just what happened when the present
broke out remains to be told 1t Will be In
teresting story 1t is known that the car aspired
to follow the kaisers example, take the field
with his soldiers. and "be his field marshal"
What pressure brought to bear to dissuad-
him from this purpose and to force his accept.
ance OF Grand Duke Nicholas Is hard to say But
there rumors that the mobilization was well
along before the knew OF it.
1t is to be remembered there is Julker 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 car for confirmation; but, matter Of
fact, the cabinet simply o. KS the orders of the
alLpowerful commander in chief and the czar
then also attaches his signature. In time of
the cabinet does not dare defy the army head,
does the
IL all this is concealed from the of the
Russian people, II 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 present
at operations and has bound up the soldiers
wounds with her own hands. Anyone who knows
the almost religious attitude of the Russian peas
ant to the Little Father" realize the wild
enthusiasm aroused among those whom the czar.
ina thus visits
Can the czarna be striving to win back for
her family the personal popularity the grand
duke is taking from her husband? 1t may be SO.