The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1915-01-30

Nicholas Nicholaievitch, were now the best in
Europe!
Meantime the Nicholas family life was not
free from the scandal which so often has made
the title grand duke" reproach He first mar
r1ed the middle-aged widow of a 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 dice and her husband. now a rich
man, only too quickly welded the Princess Anas-
tasa of Montenegro, with whom he had long
been in love- It while she was the wife of
another man, the duke OF Leuchte1berg that
Nicholas Nicholaievitch wooed and won her. She
persuaded Gar Nicholas to permit her divorce.
Anastasia is a large-framed, vigorous ambi-
tious woman, devoted to the cause Of the Slavs.
She is a frebrand and INSCRIPTIONS in methods
to further her husbands progress to the position
of natural leader of the Russian Slavs- 1t is
said her husband is aItOgethe- too intimate with
a 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 regal in figure 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 had conquered his jeal-
ousy of his popular cousin After the WEI, when
the throne threatened by the revolut;onists,
the forced to fall back on the man he
had sighted and the grand duke restored order
by stern means. He was in danger of assassna-
ton, and commanded admiration by constantly
going about the streets unattended
Just what happened when the present
broke out remains to be told It will be an in
teresting story. 1t is that the car aspired
to follow the kaisers example, take the field
with his soldiers, and "'be his own 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 are rumors that the mobilization was well
along before the knew Of it.
1t is to be remem bered there is a Ju1ker party
in Russia as 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
alIpowerfuI commander in chief and the
then also attaches his signature. In time OF war
the cabinet does not dare defy the army head
does the car.
Russian people, it is entirely clear to that astute
German, the czarfna- 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 even 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 car
ina thus visits.
Can the czarina be striving to win Lack for
her family the personal popularity the grand
duke is taking from her husband? 1t may be