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About The North Platte semi-weekly tribune. (North Platte, Neb.) 1895-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 29, 1915)
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"SBEWP V MW V Ov NUffl i W te&WZS IM KitiKX NJ I Xiil 1 1 1 1 If l v Villi m s '--""wwn ?f I i H)Jl"lSr All I l 1 JsW.t ' v ' jt 1 1 1 1 IF JSBre1' yTJ4h 1 l XI I I I T I IC? mTJu i 1 1 j 1 1 I I l I L ' , i i w . I 4 r I ljLtlf HIS war baa mado tho czar a changed man. Instead of tho invisible- aristocrat, concealed from bis peoplo behind great palaco walls, cnormour parks and flics of Imporlal guards, pro .ectod with lnflnlto caro from tho assassin, ho has bocomo al most a domocratlc ruler. Evorywhoro ho appears among his peoplo and among his boI- dlors. rotUrntne tholr creatines. blessing them and encouraging them. Discre tion Is thrown to tho winds. Several times ho lias penetrated to tho battlbflolds "of Poland and would havo exposed himself to tho shrapnel of tho Prussians bad not his entourage skillfully tendered this impossible. His dross Is simple and ho Is often scon In peasant garb that Is a suit of some flno ma terial cut In peasant blouse style, a manly-look-ang costume of which tho truo Russian is very Iproud. Moro remarkable still, tho queen, always bo iforo tho most exclusive of royalty, has gono among her poople, visiting tho sick nnd wound cd, Tho Russians scarcoly know her before. There is in all this ostensible activity a ltttlo more than tho desire to arouse and encourago 'tho lighting nation. Thoro 1b moro, for Instance, than Inspired tho yUlt of King Qoorgo to his jtroops in Flanders, This extra oloment is nnxl joty, a lively fettr and not of Gorman howitzers. rTho victories of Russian arms havo tholr sweot (ncss mixod with bitterness for tho czar and his (family Why? Tho reason Ib nono other than tho ma bestlc figure of ths Grand Duko NIcholan Nlch- lalovltch, tho commander In chief of tho Mub ovlto forces. Tho czar has long suffored by hyslcal comparison with his soldier cousin ow ho suffers In a moro serious way. I If ever thoro was a king iu looks It Is Nich olas Nlcholniovltch. Ho 1b full six foot six Inches tin hlB stockings, lean but graceful, with .a head In which tho keenest intelligence is combined with vast dignity and forco. When ho Is with tho czar tho latter by com parison Is weak and Insignificant looking, a cod dled monarch. In socrot tho czar's subjocts aro "wot Blow to speak of this and many avow history cf tho past twonty-flvo years would havo boon far different if this tall Mars had been In his cousin's laco, that tho humiliation of tho dofoat by Japan would have been spared tho proud Russians. Jt has to bo remomborcd that tho commander In chief has taken his commlsbton to niako him dic tator of Russia. Tho proclamations to thrf Polos and tho Jowa promising liberties In exchange for loyalty during tho war were not signed by tho crar. but by Nicholas Nlcholalovltch. This was tiBtonlBhlng In Itself and many havo maintalnod mado tho promises null and void bocauso tho promising party would never havo tho powor, If Eie had tho wish, to carry out his obligations to he oppressed peoples. Yet, would tho czar daro to oppose his victori ous general by refusing to grant a roquost to tearry out tboso promises? Such nn Issuo might jprovo a popular one for lllcholas Nlcholalovltch. The history of Grand Duko Nicholas beglnB In n unhappy youth. Ho clung to Ills German mother, whoso Russian husband had woefully wronged her and ruined tho family fortune. Dut come to manhood, ho followed straight in his father's footsteps, for tho parent was one of Czar Alexander U'b famous field raarshols, who many times had scourged tho onemlea of Rus sia. Alexander III wnu not ospoclally fond of tho young Grand Duko Nicholas, for noblo and peas ant alike consciously or unconsciously gave moro homage to this Bplondld giant than to tho throa HPlndllng. dull sons of tho ruler. Ho ordered that tho grand duke's army activities luust bo limited to the cavalry but tho only result was poou to bo told that his horsoraon, thanks to &&1AZ? zmzypAZtzes Nicholas Nlcholalovltch, wero now tho best In Europo! Meantlmo tho Nicholas' family life was not freo from tho scandal which so often has mado tho tltlo "grand duko" a roproach. He first mar ried tho middle-aged widow of a wealthy trader. Ho did not bring hor to court, but left her at Moscow, whoro Bho would be safe from the slights hor extraction might earn her in higher company. Sho diod and hor husband, now a rich man, only too quickly wedded tho Princess Anns tasla of Montenegro, with whom ho had long boon in love. It was whilo sho was tho wlfo of anothor man, tho duko of Louchtenberg, that Nicholas Nlcholalovltch wooed and won her. Sho persuaded Czar Nicholas to permit hor divorce. Annstasla is a largo-framed, vigorous, ambi tious woman, devoted to tho cause of tho Slavs. She is a firebrand and unscrupulous iu methods to further hor husband's progress to tho position of natural .leader of tho Russian Slavs. It Is said her husband is altogetho. too intimate with a certain lady of tho Imporlal ballot, but this does not seem to nffoct tho relations botween tho weddod couplo. Sho Is always magnificently clad and Is as recal in figure as hor husband. Throughput the Japanese war tho soldiers hoped Grand Duko Nicholas would bo i&do tholr leader and ho was again and again promised to them. Many believed llnal disaster would havo been nvorted If tho czar had conquered hlB Jeal ousy of his popular cousin. After tho wu, when tho throno was threatened by tho revolutionists, tho czar was forced to fall back on tho man ho had slighted and tho grand duko restored order by stern means. Ho was In danger of assassina tion, and commanded admiration by oonbtantly going about the streets unattended. Just what happened when tho present war broko out remains to bo told. ' It will bo an in teresting story. It Is known that tho czar aspired to follow tho kalsor'B oxamplo, tako tho field with his soldiers, and "bo his own field marshal." What pressure was brought to boar to dlssuado him from this purposo and to forco his accept ance of Grand Duko Nicholas Is hard to oay. Dut thoro aro rumors that tho mobilization waB well along boforo tho czar know of It. It Is to bo romemborod thero Is a Junker party in Russia ns well as In Prussia, And this party claims tho grand duko as leador. Tho presont situation is this: Tho cablnot council of the empire moots every day at Poter hof. Its resolutions are outwardly submitted to tho czar for confirmation; but, as a matter of fact, tho cablnot simply O. K.'s tho ordors of tho all-powerful commander In chief and tho cznr then also attaches his signature In tlmo of war tho cablnot does not daro defy tho army head, nor does tho czar. If all this Is concealed from the mass of tho RtiBslan peoplo, It Is entirely clear to that astuto Gorman, tho czarina. Supposed to bo a nervous Invalid, sho has suddenly donned the garmtnta of tho Sisters of Charity with hor daughters and entered tho hospital wards. Sho Is oven prosent at operations and has bound up tho soldier' wounds with her own hands. Anyone who knows tho almost religious attitude of tho Russian peas ant to tho "Llttlo Father" can roallzo tho wild enthusiasm aroused among those whom tho czar ina thus visits Can tho czarina bo striving to win Luck for hor family the personal popularity tho grand duko Is taking from hor husband? It may bo so. y2F22&e ZSC-' GZ&FtfrdW Hor little son, now ten years old, Is Buffering from an obscuro ailment and may never grow to maturity. If ho lives ho might havo hard work in gaining the throne, for the tradition of blood Inheritance Is not any too strong in Russia. Many times in hor history Russia has seen Inherl tanco by might Instead. It tho czarevitch dies the succession wouia iau to tho Grand Duchess Olga, eldest daughter of tho czar. To bolster up her claims the czarina is said to bo working for a marriage with tho Grand Duko Dmitri. Dmitri Is closer to tho uc cossion than Grand Duke Nicholas. But ho is llttlo of tho Boldlcr a handBomo fellow, yot too elegant and Irresponsible If tho betrothal wero announced of Olga and Dmitri with tho proclamation that Olga 1c to ascend tho throno In tho event of her brothor's death, the party of tho Grand Duko Nicholas would know what that meant. It might bo well followed by a conflict. Would tho army stand by tho czar or by their loader of the great war? WORK ON THE FIRING LINE Monk Went Into Twelvo Battles With Bavarians and Was Wounded In Foot. A South Gorman monk who entered tho First regiment of tho Bavarian Royal Guards as a vol unteer officer at tho boglnnlng of the war, is now lying wounded In the hospital at Freiburg. Ho described his experiences when ho was Inter viewed: "On August 10 our battalion was sont direct to tho , frontier. Then wo proceeded in forced marches aa rapidly as posslblo to tho Vosges mountains, where tho French had already taken up tholr positions. "Tho French had intrenched themselves bo se curely nnd firmly that they could hardly get out again. All who flod wo ahot down. At nlno o'clock their positions wore, ours. They throw away everything they had rifles, blankets and knapsacks In tho panic of fear. All their trenches wero full of dead and wounded. "Our artillery had como up meanwhile; their nhrnnrml torn fpnrfnl ennn in the ranks of the fleeing Frenchmen, as they could not scatter In tho narrow valley through which thoy had to re treat "Tho French prisoners wo took seemed to re gard us as raonatora. Everywhere wo went after ward tho French terrlflod tho peoplo by crying, 'Tho Bavarians aro coming!' They remember us still from 1870. "I took part In twelvo great battles. Tho last was near Eplnal, whoro wo woro lying three days under (Ire. I was wounded about four o'clock in tho afternoon of the third day. That was tho worst day of nil. Tho shrapnel burst over us from two sides at onco. Wo sought protection even behind tho dead. "It was tho fiercest flro I over saw. 1 pushed my way back through tho hall of bullets, and a piece of shrapnel tore my knnpsack open. Finally I reached a dismantled battery and lay down under cover of tho timbers. Tho bullet which passed through my foot was buried in tho solo of my shoe, and tho shrapnel was found In tho meat tin. I havo them both aa souvenirs " Lieut. Gen. Erich G. A. S. von Falkenhayn, recently made chief of staff of tho German army to succeed Von Moltko, is only alxty-threo years old rather young ns tho ago of com manding officers goes in modorn armies. Ho is live, energetic; a bun dle of nerves, sometimes agreeable, sometimes irascible, intuitional, aristo cratic and vonture&omo. The only active servico undertaken by Falkenhayn provlous to tho present war waa during tho Boxer rebellion, when he served on tho staff of Count Walderseo. After tho Boxor war ho was retained by tho Chinese govern ment to Instruct a number of young ofllcers In tho Chinese nrmy. For a dozen yeara or moro tho kaiser has boon particularly interested In Falkenhayn. As a definite earnest of hlB trust and regard ho placed un dor Falkenhayn's chargo and intrifstod to him tho military education of tho crown prince. Ono reason for tho camaraderio which has developed botween Falkenhayn and tho crown princo (though tho now chief of staff is considerably older than tho heir apparent)' Ilea in the superior birth of tho general. His noble blood dates back seven or eight centuries. His viewpoint on all matters is purely that of tho soldier. Ho has never boon a diplomat and never an agitator. GABE E. PARKER Animated by a sense of obligation to his own peoplo, tho Indian race, and especially to tho Choctaw nation, which contributed from tribal funds to pay for his education In the public In dian schools of Indian territory, Gabe E. Parker, appointed by the president commissioner of the Five Civilized tribes, takes up those duties with the anxiety and hopo to advance' tho in terests and welfare of those Intrusted to his chargo. Muskogee, Okla., is his headquarters. Mr. Parker is one-eighth Indian. His mother was one-quarter Choctaw. His father, a Kentuckian, owned a ranch in Indian territory, near Fort Towsen, now in southeast Oklahoma, whero Gabo E. Parker was born September 29, 1878. Ho has ono brother and two sisters. The country schoolhouse, an Indian school for tho children of the Choctaw nation, provided him with tho rudi ments of his education. Later he went to Spencer academy, also an Indian institution of learning. He obtained his degree as a bachelor of aclenco from Henry Kendall college. Two thlnga stand out In his memory of college days: That ho met his wife, who was a fellow student; that he closed his course as valedictorian of his class, graduat ing with tho highest honors In 1809. Tho death of his mother diverted him from tho study of law, and ho re-, turned as an assistant teacher to Spencer academy after his graduation, and' in three months was made principal teacher. After a year of teaching thero, in 1900 he was transferred as principal to Armstrong academy, another In-, dian institution, and in 1904 was superintendent Ho was occupying this post, when called to Washington to become register of the treasury. HEROINE OF PRETTY ROMANCE Elizabeth Reld Rogers, a pretty south ern girl who made her Washington debut two years ago, has como into a romance that reads like a atory book, inasmuch as sho Is credited with be ing engaged to tho nephew of tho kaiser one Princo Christian of Ger many, a captain In the imperial navy, on duty at present, on a man-of-war in tho Kiel canal. t Tho young folks met at Cairo, whero MIbs Rogers was stopping with hor mother, who sets the pretty girl a diffi cult example to follow when it comes to looks. Mrs. Rogers was a Tennessee belle .and beauty, Mlaa Eunice Tomlln of Jackson. Sho married a scion of tho BIuo Grass stato, in young Reld Rog ers of Mt. Sterling, Ky., a protege of tho multimillionaire, Theodore P. Shonts of New York and Panama, largely through whose instrumentality Mr. Rogers, whose mother and Mrs. Shonts were intimate friends, becamo general counsel of the Panama canal. The Rogerses aro prominent in tho utradiplomatlc set in Washington, where they have been spending tho last few winters. Miss Rogers Is all vivacity and temperament and charm. She shows hor Kentucklness in her devotion to horses. Slid and her father ride together frequently. Mrs. Rogers and Miss Rogers are In Berlin. T3k'ii T'imi iriiiJ y" ' "s, PENNSYLVANIA'S NEW GOVERNOR THE WIDOW'S HINT. "Is It truo that tho widow proposed to Tomn kins?" "Yes, In a way. Tompkins was calling thero ouo evening, whon sho handod him n novol to read entitled 'Put Yourself In His Placo.' Tomp kins took tho hint." PLAYED A DUAL ROLE. "Now," Bald n newly-mado husband, "I am your captain, and you must lot mo command you through llfo." "You havo a dual capacity," replied the former widow, "because you aro my captain and my sec ond mate, also." London Telegraph. Martin G. Brumbaugh, tho new gov ernor of Pennsylvania, Is ono of tho best-known men of that state aa an educator and friend of the schoola. HIb achievements as a county super intendent, then as tho organizer of the schools In Porto Rico, and in tho last eight yeara aa superintendent of schools In Philadelphia, won for him popularity and tho greatest support a candidate for governor has received In recent yeara In Pennsylvania. Doctor Brumbaugh Is a rugged, healthy flguo of a man, a perfect product of outdoor llfo and truly rep resentative of his German stock. Ho is tho picture of a powerful athlete, erect, and towering over six feet. Ho is im pressive of tho physical giant, rather than the intellectual, Nothing in his appearance betokens the lines of a student or recluse. Ills leonine head, double-barreled equare Jaws, and thick yot well-developed body, recall to mind ono of the characters in Wagner's operas. Tho most striking facial characteristic of tho man Is his cnggy, beetling brows. His keen, discerning, kindly glance travels beneath tits abundance of hair, overhanging his steely eyes. 1 --X t; vtfj a , i