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Show A Typical Ollleer. "Our father was a typical officer of the time of Nicholas I," says Prlnco Krupotkln, hi thu Atlantic. "Not that he was Imbued with a warllkn spirit or much iu love with camp life; I doubt whether hu sp nt one singlo night of his llfu ut a bivouac fire or took part in one tduglu battle. But under Nicholas I, that was of u quite second- 1 ' I I I i nry Importnnoo. Tho trim military 3 man of those times was the officer who M waa enanrored of the military nab M form nud utterly despised all j other sorts of nttlre, whoso sol "- I (lien were trained vo porforra almost Inhuman tricks wl'h their leas and, rifles (to break Iho wood of a rifle Into " pieces while presenting arms was one of those famous tricks), and who could show on a parudo a row of soldlors as " porfecily aligned and ns moiTodiMj ng Grand Duko Mlohael said once of regiment, after having kept It for 009 hour motionless, presenting nrras, 'only t hey bro.tthel' To respond to thu then current conception of a military uua was certainly-mv father'-) Ideal." |
