The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-10-27
Kieff. Warsaw, Moscow. Odessa, and Novo
Toherkask.
MILITARY PLOT.

They were all tried by a court-martial at
Tifiis over which presided Prince Dondu-
koff korsakoff.
These Nihilst murder plots excited the
police agents Of the imperial government
belonging to the famous Third Section"
OF the administrative system to extreme
activity in preventative and detective
measures, and il mas been said as many as
SUI persons were arrested on suspicion OF
being concerned in this conspiracy, the
widest-spread one under Alexander Ill.
Five hundred Of the arrested suspects were
subsequently released, there being not
sufficient evidence against them, and the
days are past when they could be SEN
fenced without regular trial.
Alexander III. saw his own father multi
lated and bleeding % death. His own train
and carriage We're blown to shreds, and as
a result his own nerves were no longer OF
iron. He was many time portrayed as q
coward. The impression was wrong one,
and the elaborate system of espionage and
| the immoral practice of employing agents
who sometimes organized the crime which
they discovered, contributed to impart con-
sistency to charge which his credible ca
reer as an officer should amply suffice to
refute. Personal courage is one of the most
striking characteristics of the Romanoffs
and of moral courage the Gar certainly
possessed enough for hero or martyr.
The masses of the people believed in him
and were loyal to him. II was this fact
with which the Nihilists found it hardest
to contend. Transportation had no terrors
for the Nihilists, and they will gladly face
certain death in their struggle for a free
Russia; but the stolid loyalty of the
masses always confronts them, fact far
more terrible, almost hopeless as the
bleak wastes of Siberia. 1.-The people"
says Stepniak, deploring the superstition of
the Carbon. ssrepose implicit confidence in
the Cars wisdom and Justice. He is abso-
lutte master of he life and property of every
man within his dominions. No exception
may be taken to his orders. The occasional
blunders made by he Car, however heavy
they may be, must be borne with patience,
as they can be only temporary: the Gar
will redress the evil as soon as he is better
informed on the matter"
Once when Alexander was in Moscow the
walls of the city blazed out one night with
posters announcing that the committee"
had decreed that at certain hour two days
later the Gar should die. Arrests by the
Wholesale were made, but the police could
get no trail of the persons no had posted
the threat.
BRAVE TO RASHNEsS IN MOSCOW.
At the hour announced for him to die the
Gar announced that he was going to the
Church of the Annunciation within the
walls of the kremlin. His family and his
heads of police legged him to do nothing of
the sort, but Alexander said if his time had
come he was ready to die like soldier. So
he arrayed himself in the splendid uniform
of Field Marshal, ordered the police
guard dismissed, and walked quietly unat-
tended across the parade ground to the
chufch. half mile from his palace. While
mass was being celebrated and the Gar
was at his devotions the news OF his rash
ness spread over the city. Great crowds
floc ked into the Kremlin. At least 10000
people were there. After the mass Alexan-
der, having committed his soul to G cd.
walked calmly out of the church and into
the throng which opened lane for him.
His elbows brushed ie people as he walked.
there would have been no need for bomb or
pistol-a thrust of pocket knife would
have made an end of Alexander Alexan-
dl ovitch.
But not hand WAS lifted against him.
Alexander reached the steps of the palace,
turned facing the great crowd. and spoke.
CZARINA HIS CONSTANT COMPANION.
The Gar and the Czarina were a most
devoted couple. They were seldom sepa-
rated; when he went to st. Petersburg from
the Winter Palace she accompanied him.
She was always by his side when he re-
viewed his troops, when he went to ride in
the parks when he went cruising in the
imperial yacht. She seemed always afraid
to leave him lest harm should come.
Once. SO the story goes, the Crown Prince
Nicholas. then a bit of lad years old.
said to his father; ''lf anybody should
shoot you. papa, would kill him.
The Gear laughed. but the Czarina, never
willing to jest on that subject, said: And
l should Kill myself"
The Gar spent as much time as he could
at the Tsarskoe-Selo palace, built by the
wicked Empress Catherine. This palace is
the smallest. but the most homelke of the
royal abodes, and was favorite resort with
Alexander ever, since he first lived there
as Grown Prince. This palace abounds with
trophies of the Czar's prowess as hunter
On the right of the main hall are the Office
rooms where Alexander worked more assid-
uOusly than any of his ministers.
Being absolutely unapproachable and sell
dom seen of ordinary mortals the widest
stories have been printed about Alexander
He was for years described in the English
papers as great coward, a drunkard, a
man of wild. vicious, and uncontr ola BILE
temper, monarch altogether disrepu table i,
a libertine. other writers though declare
that all such statements as these are the
outgrowth of English malice. Nearly all
the evil things said against him have been
vehemently denied. Several years ago all
the newspapers of the world printed ac-
counts of how loyal young officer alone
with the Car made a sudden unguarded
movement. Alexander thought it was an
attack and struck the officer dead with a
terrible blow of his sword. This story is de-
clared by the traveller William Eleroy Cur
tbs to be an absolute falsehood Another
story widely printed represented that Alex
ander heat the Secretary of the German
Legation over the head with cane. There
were continual accounts of his wild plunges
into debauchery. of his efforts to free his,
troubled mind from its constant fear. 1t