Eureka Reporter | 1904-05-13 | Page 4 | Pen Portrait of Czar

pen portrait of czar all are agreed that as a man nicho 1 II 11 has a charming character A tender hearted and devoted son he was never guilty of marked acts he has no private vices and his do bestic life Is simple and pure with out intellectual endowment of an ex kind he Is intelligent well read and well traveled and the only time he was ever in personal danger of his life was during his tour through japan his majesty has quickness of per caption sensibility and taste but it Is not so certain that his mind Is of the und which can master all the details and aspects of a complicated question in discussing a political problem with a man for example like bismarck he would have been as mere clay in the hands of the potter to Is not the big all embracing brain or the scientific and historical atlon lie sees clearly enough perhaps within his horizon but there Is nothing to show that this Is of any great range though trained of course as a sol dier he lacks the temperament and the tastes of one while so alve is hi heart and so little calca to resist even a description of the horrors of a battlefield that on the occasion of his coronation when so many of his poorer subjects were crushed to death on the plain at moscow he was afflicted with a severe attack of jaundice nicholas la as gentle as his mother from whom more than from his herculean father he has inherited his temperament and physique and certainly no one ever looked less what destiny has mado him the absolute ruler of over of his fellow creatures than does nicholas II 11 charles lowe in london mail