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SUXfiAY, AUfiUST 1 1010
THE SUNDAY MORNING OBSERVER
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Has Beon Ungrateful.
i Story. of Great Ruulan Military Com.
rrfcnder Most Amazing Romanes
of the War His Splenaid Gen.
cralshlp U Recalled.
From Mnrrh. 1017, till Ot-tt.Wr. jois,
Grand Duke Nicholas Hmiwnoir. for
mer communder In ehlof uf lh Itun
slan armies and one of the must 'bril
liant generals of tlvgrriit war, was
a prisoner In flie town of Yaltti In the
Crimea. He Is now In Milan wltji his
family, hninhly housed. The story of
"Bg Nlrk" Is one of the most amaz
ing romances of the war, the Pitts
burgh Cinzette-Times states.
When the holshevlkl gained control
of Itussla Nicholas wu residing at
Tlflls. where he had been governor un
der the czar and under the I.voff
regime. He was summoned to Yalta
by the bolshevik authorities and obeyed
the summons. Ills brother, his wife,
his slster-ln-lnn- and other members of
his family and his suite were Impris
oned with him. Twenty-five bolshevik
soldiers were detailed to guard the dis
tinguished prisoners.
Late In the summer of WIS It was
decided by the Ynltn soviet to execute
all the prisoners. The bolshevik guards
absolutely declined to permit the sen
tence of dentil to be executed and sent
the Bring squad back to heudquarters.
Three times thereafter executioners
were sent to kill the prisoners, but In
each Instance the guard prevented the
cnrrylng-out of the sentence.
When the Germans came to Yalta
Nicholas declined to permit the Oer
mnns to enter the house that had been
his prison, declaring his utter loath
ing of nil things fierman. Soon after
this the allies took Yalta and Nicholas
wns rescued.
All the private fortune of the grand
duke has been lost. His lands have
been confiscated. At Milan he lives
comfortably, but very unostentatiously.
Democracy owes much to Orand
Duke Nicholas.. He was. In fnct, a
stanch upholder of the old Russian nlt
solutlsm: Hut first of all Nicholas was
a Russian. He knew'' Russia's snlvn
tlon depended on the vanquishing of
Germany. He was a leader of con
summate skill nnd It Is more than prob
able thnt only his splendid generalship
prevented Germany from winning the
war In the enrly stages. Ills retreat
before the tremendous attack of Mack
esen nnd Hlndenhurg, which resulted
In the saving of the 'Russian armies,
was one of the most notable chapters
of the war.
Between Ibe bolsbevlst Russia of to
day and the old nutocrntlc Russia for
which Nicholas fought, practical stu
dents and statesmen tlnd little choice,
but It must be admitted that the au
tocracy produced great men, while the
gutter ' communism has found only
scoundrels for It.s lenders. In the
Awarding of justice thire should be
some provision for this gigantic Rus
sian, who In 1014 and 1!U5 prevented
Germany from marching to easy vic
tory. No Horses on Largest Farm.
A 20O.nni)-aorc farm, the largest In
'the world, whi'ch Is the direct result of
the government's efforts to stimulate
the growing of wheat. Is described by
Robert II. Mnulton In Kverybody's.
"The farm Is devoted entirely to
wheat, and If It produces somewhere
nround the country's nverage of twen-ty-olcht
bushels per acre, which Is
practically certain. It will add approxi
mately fi.(Vi0.iiO bushels to the 11)1!)
wheat crop," .says the writer.
"All of the work Is being done with
tmctors. . !,(ist fall when the first
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iamim" superior to
ny oher front lace corset,
for without the VcsnZiA
features no corset can pos- j
sibly be just xs good.- It
contains the master touch of
cientific construction..
Tou do'not sacrifice com-1
fort for style and yon do not !
acrifice" style for comfort
m hen you wca .
"A cmftlet lino alwaa on
Land, ptu'd At f 250 UJ
arund etas' broken, there rereonrty
monster machines nt work tearing up
thepmlrle sod. They0 plow on an
average of one acre a minute for the
workQig time. A record was toide
one daj of 1S0 acre, turned and
orncen. the seeding, harvesting,
etc., will also be done by tractors, and
(flen. of course, there are the thrash-
Inn machines. Hence. tff, nJsoWb'
no-aecouutness of .horses atxt this
place."
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An Indian suffragist. ho la t wldo
ly-knnwn speaker, went to er door the
other morning to buy some blackber
ries of a. jjoun country woman, re
ports the Indlan.liolls Nefs. The ber
ries were fine, but the.suffniglst wish
ed tiem at a lower price than they
wire offered. "Why. they Just grow
along the roadside so plentifully mat
all you have to do Is to pick them."
she told the woman. "Don't you think
you are charging a rather exorbitant
ice for your laborT" ' '
The country woman put her boxes
hack Into her bnsket. "I've known of
blgher-prlced labor," she retorted tea- I
Illy. "Words are more plentiful than I
bluckberrlos and yet our cluh had to
pay you $iri last winter for putting a
buuvb of them together."
Hit Resolve.
"It Is hotter to do your losing early
In the season."
"I know that axiom." said the base
ball manager, "hut If I happen to win
a few games I'll endeavor to hear It
with resignation." LoulsvlUo Courier
Journal. No Loss of Animation.
"I suppose Crimson Gulch Is quieter
since the bar closed."
"Not yet," said Cactus Joe. "All
you've got to do Is to say 'prohibition'
and everybody begins to argue at
the top of his voice."
VERMIN OLD PEST OF ARMIES
Reference to Them Found In Writings
of the Romans, and in English
Literature.
The ntnvspnpf-rs have hnd murh to
sny about the 'Melon sine" of the re- -turning
troops, I'lilllp Halo writes In j
the lioston Herald. The word ts not '
a pretty one and It Is not to he found
In the dictionaries, hut the war hns '
brought with It many new words, some I
of which will disappear, some of which (
will soon he regarded as orthodox and j
of good nnd regular stumllng. j
No soldier need he ashamed of neo-1
essnry submission to the process. It
mny console him to recall the case of
Thomas Otway, nn Oxford man, the
author of "Venice Preserved" and
"The Orphan." As a cornet in n regi
ment of horse, he joined In 1(178 the
army under Monmouth in Flanders.
It wns reported that he came hack
from Flanders "mnngy nnd covered
with vermin." Rochester tnunted him
"with this In his "Session of the Poets."
It should also he remembered thnt
when the troops were dlshnnded and
rocfilld. th mony voted br the enm-
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propgtntcdQ The si&llerfl were gald
only Oy fleentureso &1 the credit of
these was so hiw that they wefe? hunl
ly snlnhlife Q o
It was observed In the sixteenth cen-
tuer that "lice eontetb also of thnt
:cloth that Is trained In the wool with
Vhe fat orgrense0of a horse or of a
swine, and therefore the northern
1 cloths worn of a sweating body do
bri,d lice In 12 hi'Ors." The "humor"
of an tndlvldual had much t do. with
the character of the pest. J.lce gen
dered of sungulne humor were red and
great-; -ef phlegmntte, white; of choler
ic, yellow, long, swift nnJ sharp: of
melancholic, ashen colored, lean and
slow in moving. Anyone of these pests
"grleveth more In the skin with the
feet and with creeping, thnn he doth
with bltln. . , . And the leaner
that a louse Is, Ibe sharn.T she blteth
nnd grleveth." There were many are
proved remedies even In the elder
I'liny's time, thus: "The old skin or
slough that snakes do cast off In the
spring, whosoever drlnketh la his or
dinary drink. It will kill ull tl.e ver-
niln of the body within three days."
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Story of a Dog.
"Marathon races In Ibe woods wlU
never become universal for "'e reason
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that speed and stamina like (flat of
lluell Crannell's dog are not universal
In the four-footed hunters," says War
wick S. Cnrpentenj secretory of the
conservation commission. "MS Cran-(
nell lljgs nt West Glens Falls, uwP
while hunting neat there recently his
log picked up a fox track. The dog
was picked up next day near Cran
berry lake, more Hum seventy miles
nway, .
"Accounts do not state whether tbe.
dog wns still k'olng stniPg or whether
he might hnve taken the fox back tn
Mr. .'rannell, but timnly that Identifi
cation of the dog was made hf the
conservation commission license tag
and that Mr. Crauncll went after the
dog. .
"The nicjml of all this Is that If one
owns a dog good enough to run a fox,
through two counties she should suro
ly be protected by an idcntlncatlon'
disk." New York Times.
Make the Best of Today.
AntlMpatlng tomorrow's opportuni
ties nnd regretting yesterday's failures
Is scarcely n fair way to spend today.
It Is dividing the present nnd bestow
lug It upon two periods that have no
right to It.
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