The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-09-11
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head. ,he nau very lOngste4.ll %, ut
tie black eyes of the kind always de-
scribed as beady, large mouth and q
prominent nose. y, With his slickery
hair and glittering eyes hemust have
strongly suggested theS stage edition
OF Svengali. According to all accounts
he had no charm ofscOnversat ton nor
OF manner, and his ignorance was as
plain as his arrogance the instant
he began to talk. tii IS 2s.43g
Although here was the last man in
the world that you would think a self
respecting woman would have an
amour with. Yet it is related that
over many intelligent and rather wise
women he exercised an extraordinary
power and over hundreds of others
i what seemed like an uncanny fasci
nation. All this is usually accounted
for in Russia on the theory that he
possessed some secret of hypnotlsm.
With the other unpleasant traits he
was famous booZe.tighter. Even al
ter the prohibition IL vodka he seem
ed always to be well supplied WITH II.
quor, and it was the common belief
among those that observed him that
he could stand more rum than any
other man in Petrograd. When he
was on a drinking bout he chose tn~
most disreputable companions and
went on q wild bat that lasted for sew.
eral days and wound up in the lowest
dives Of the city. -. ~. - W.
The police knew him we'll and fedr.
ed him, for they had accurate knowl.
edge both of his power and renlorse.
less use of it. When he came in his
borrowed robes of priesthood. ne
had no right to claim roaring AM,
|roistering, they stood aside and let
him CO. Any person tsat was with
him was immune IF he were q Grim
inal that the police had long wanted,
no one dared lay hands upon him. He
was q friend Of Rasputin- and Rasput-
in was the all-powerful OF Russia.
He had a power to pull himself to-
gether as great as his other unusual
gifts. The next day after a frightful
debauch he would appear In fresh
canonicals and go about talking piety
and rolling up his eyes to heaven, and
those that saw him even at close
range could hardly detect any sign Of
the souse upon him. ~
y. Traded With Germany.
It was not possible that these
things could last. All the. time the
mobiles that happened by some chance
to be still loyal to Russia were hear
ing the stories of his trading with
Germany, while the people at large
were gathering hatred for his cruelty.
There was only. one class in the
community that. found anything to
approve in him. That was the revo.
lutionary agitatOrs. They used him
all about Russia as first class ex-
ample of the folly of monarchy, and
couldn't have had better. They
saw to 1t that his name and deeds
became known throughout the land.
and to this day the comic illustrated
papers are using him as a text. !,
~ In Russia where nobody, you might
say, had a vote or a voice in the gov
eminent there was no civilized way
to get at such, a creature There was
no law that could be invoked against
him. The only real law was the will
Of the car and that was all ro,. the
czarina, and the czarina was all for
Rasputin g. -, aa (
There was no way to counteract his
Influence He was the only person
the czarina trusted or would really
listen to. -'s-rs.>e s-,s,s
Under these conditions there was
nothing for his oppone:"s to do but
to kill him. - 80 81 Fl y
One night on his way home ri
winter he was shot at, the bullet
piercing the back of the sleigh and
him by a few inches. NR
long after an assassin made his way
into Respntin's house and tried to
stab him. Several times. according I'd
the story, thugs lay in wait for him
10 beat him up. asn i, III.
He escaped all these and hogan to
have the renutatiOr.of a charmed life!
He must have taken little stock iii
that himself He now went about
Petrograd with body guard of picked
men. 800
His fears nut 70 check upon his
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he used to talk about the czarina al
ne talked about drab. '"i
After time he began to talk loose.
" about the then Grand Duchess OF
ga the ears Oldest child, and that
IN the end, did for him. - ~. =
The~ex-grand duchess seems by all
accounts to be- a rather superior
'oung woman, considering the inisfof.
unes of her birth and bringing up!
There was q young nohleman in Pc;
rograd that had profound respect
md admiration for her When nd
that sRasputin had boasted in.
dive that before long he would have
Ter also in his power( this. fyounA
looleman made up his mind that the
ime had come to silence that ribald' ,
Ongue and the task belonged to him,
He performed 1t. conscientiously,
nd that was the end of Rasputin :, ,
It seemed as it with that shot the
'eople woke up to the enormity of
he whole degrading burden that
ursed them and bowed them to the
round.
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