Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1915-01-28

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blessing them and encouraging them. Discre-
tion is thrown to the winds. Several times he
has penetrated to the battlefelds of Poland and
would have exposed himself to the shrapneI of
the Prussians had not his encourage skillfully
rendered this impossible.
His dress is simple and he is often seen in
peasant garb-that is a suit of some fine ma
terial cut in peasant blouse style, a 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 ostensible activity a little
more than the desire 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., a lively fear and not of German howitzers.
The victories Of Russian arms have their sweet
ness mixed with bitterness for the czar and his
family
Why? The reason is none other than the ma
jestic figure Of tn Grand Duke Nicholas Mich
olaievitch, the commander in chief of the Mus.
covite forces. The czar has long suffered by
physical comparison with his soldier cousin
now he suffers in a more serious way.
If ever there was, a king in looks 1t Is Mich
olas Nicholaievitch. He Is full six feet six inches
in his stockings, lean but graceful, with q head
in which the keenest intelligence is combined
with vast dignity and force.
When he is with the car the latter by com.
parison is weak and insignificant looking, o cod
died monarch. In secret the czar's subjects are
not slow to speak OF this and many avow history
Of the past twenty-five years would have been FAR
different if this tall Mars had been in his cousins
Mace. that the humiliation Of the defeat by Japan
would have been spared the proud Russians.
II has to be that the commander in
chief, has taken his commission to make him die
totor If Russia. The p~roclamations to the Poles
and the Jews promising liberties in exchange for
LOYALTY during the war were not signed by the
czar hut by Nicholas Nicholaievitch. This was
astonishing in itself and many have maintained
made the promises null and void because the
nrnmising party would never have the power, II
he had the wish, to carry out his obligations TO
the oppressed peoples.
Vet would the car dare to oppose his victort
o,s general by refusing to grant q request to
carry out these promises? Such an issue might
uroye a popular one for ..icholas Nicholalevitcn.
The history Of Grand Duke Nicholas begins In
an unhappy youth. He chung to his German
mother. whose Russian husband had woeIuhy
wronped her and ruined the family fortune. But
come to manhood, he followed straight in his
fathers footsteps, for the parent was one OF
Cvar Alexander IFS famous field marshals, who
many times had scourged the enemies OF Rus
STA.
Alexander III wac not especially fond OF the
vo,,np Grand Duke Nicholas. for noble and peas
ant alike consciously or unconsciously gave more
homage TO this splendid giant than to the three
.nindlinp. dull sons OF the ruler. He ordered
.hot tbe grand dukes army activities must be
TINTED to the cavalry-but the only result was
soon to be told that his horsemen. thanks 70