Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1886-06-09

telling but the sentinel on watch or the
officer commanding him may himself
be one of the dreaded Nihilists.
The activity, the boldness and the
skill in plotting of the members of this
secret organization has certainly been
most extraordinary. In spite of the
Czar's sentinels and guards, in spite of
the elaborate system of protection ex-
ercised in his encourage they have
again and again demonstrated their
ability to reach the person of the En-
peror.
Under his breakfast plate, within
the folds of his napkin, even beside his
pillow upon awakening in the morning
the Gar has found communications
from the Executive Committee of the
Nihilists urging upon him reforms,
warning him against further eppres-
sion, threatening him with death.
With every year fresh precautions
have been. added as safeguards to bis
life. There are those whose duty it is
to search any room into which the
Gear is about to enter. Sleeping or
waking, soldiers are SO posted that
guard after guarj has to be passed be-
fore even the approaches to the royal
apartments can be reached; even the
food he eats is analysed before he
touches it, lest it contain Nihilistic
poison. Analysed not by one person,
for one alone could not be trusted, but
by several. AS before stated, among
all his guards and sentinels the Gar
only trusts one implicitly-the great
Siberian hound who nightly sleeps be-
side his bed.
The perpetual danger and constant
atmosphere of surveillance in which
the Gear lies have had the effect of
making him somewhat moody, morose
and mechanical in his methods. He
rarely smiles now as be did when he
was the Czarovitch and, with the Prin-
cess Dagmar, he rode and walked
through the streets of Copenhagen
almost unattended. the object of popu-
lar favor, the recipient of popular
cheers.
As going out into the public streets
or travelling about in his vast country
is attended to him by good deal OF
danger, often entailing many hours
precautionary preparation and a guard
composed of sometimes as many as
100, 900 men, the Gar spends most
of his time in his great Winter Palace,
his chief pleasure consisting in read.
ing. He has large study fitted up
with maps and globes. historical works
and books of great value. He is also
a great reader of foreign newspapers.
The Gar is very small eater, due
| probably to his being confined indoors.
Owing to the constant state of terror
ism in which t.ey live, both he and the
Czarina have unquestionably grown
very nervous. They are both very
irreg ular in their habits, especially the
Car. He goes to bed very late at
night, often not before 8 or 4 o clock.
He rises correspondingly late in the
day, rarely breakfasting before noon.
He rarely eats any thing for breakfast
except an egg. Provided he cracks
the egg she'll himself it would seem
that he can eat with a feeling of toler-
able security that he is not partaking
of poisoned food. But even this slight
sense of security is denied the Russian
Car, for sometime since the ingenious
Nihilists actually manufactured lot
of poisoned eggs and succeeded in in
PRODUCING them into the royal palace.
Their deadly nature was discovered in
time, but for some weeks after that the
Imperial demand for eggs went down
below zero.
After breakfast the Gar does not
usually eat until his dinner in the eve
ming. This meal is followed by a sup
per late at night His favorite drinks
are cold tea, coffee and chocolate. His
favorite wines are claret and cham
payne. He has a hatred of hook, pos
sibly because it is German wine, and
the Car hates everything German.
This dislike of Germany has been inten-
sitied BY the fact that his wife is of the
house of Denmark, and the relations
of Germany and Denmark are some
what strained. The Gar smokes q
good deal.
TIE -Czarina's time is mostly passed
in company of one or two favored con-
fidants and with her children. Her
influence over the Gar is very great.
She is devotedly attached to her sister,
the Princess of Wales, and has time
and again used her strongest influence
to avert ruptures between Russia and
England. z*..->..zzz
Ceremonies differ in every country,
but true politeness is ever the same.