Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1894 — Decline of the Cossack. [ARTICLE]

Decline of the Cossack.

Whether Nicholas 11. is or is not a peace-loving monarch like hisfathe?; the present Czar will have one less temptation to wage war than Alexander 111. had at his accession. The difference lies in the waning power of the Cossack so well described by Poultney Bigelow in the November Harper’s Magazine, Instead of becoming the terror of Europe in a Continental war. it is probable that the Cossack would now meet his match, if not his superior, in the German cavalryman. The Cossack, whom Mr. Bigeldw describes as the Russian Cowbpy, is bpipg civilized, and, as a consequence* ail his dash and pride of race are being conventionalized out of him. The Cossack of history, like the Cowboy of ol romance, is fast disappearing from the earth before the railway and tbs steam-plow. His nose Is red! but then who And his fingers too, are blue. ; BuVgtTe him a chance and ke.w ill say, “Is this cog! enovgh tor you?”