The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-15

NuSAAlOiS VI Tie COdcu Or Ll6 DOQlSS OF
the occupants. or course, petition throw
ing was at once declared a nuisance in |
Berlin and people indulging in this old !
time relic arrested. Next Baron
Richthofen learned that the anarchists
had abandoned firearms and chemicals,
deciding to return to the knife. To meet
this new emergency fast driving was de-
cided upOa by all the courts and gov
ernments. Carnot alone would not hear
OF 1t. lie was suffering from the popu.
larity bacillus, poor man! He ordered |
his coach moved at a lesurely trot to give
the people time to enjoy his smile of self
sufticency. Alas! it cost him his life, one
of the most innocent ever sacrificed on |
the altar of pOlitics -... |
Bismarck. told, his intimates that a |
good dog, by which he meant a fierce,
man-attacking dog, was worth dozen
detectives and an army corps 3.of spies.
After~-the Kissingen .attentat~ He en-
ployed dogs, and he was not bothered by
assassins for the rest Of his days. Sin
gular that the kaiser refuses to profit by
this example. Bismarck, by the way, did
not discharge his two-legged badyguard
after engaging four-legged life preserv
erS.
but TO return to the matter of petition
throwing. The cable informed us a couple
or weeks ago that the emperor fell off
MS horse in Cassel, the animal having
grown unmanageabe in consequence of
flower bombardment by citizens lining the
streets through which his majesty was
passing. He might have broken his neck
there and then, might have suffered
the loss of an eye, or might have been
Killed by some agency concealed in a
bouquet. When mOnarchs cease to yearn
for applause would be assassins will be at
their wits ends not before.
'''rispi,' said the diplomat ":nay not
nav. been King Umberto's good genius,
but he drummed some good horse SENSE
llto his majcstys head The king of
1tstly leyess bis bis wife and Will not driye out
with the Queen fofk FEAR that a bullet or
dagger thust intended for him may strike
her! Noble thought; I know one or two
Kings who would compel their wives to
attend them on al occasions if her mai
estys presence would contribute to their
own safety or divide threatening dangers!
But Cr1spi went further, Out of half
EuGdEea l hasne sltt marked for the galieys
re selected! one, Pietro by name, and
dragging ball and chain for the rest of
his life or of living in luxury and keeping
his dagger ard fists ready for reaicides.
You can imagine the result. During the
last five years Pietro has Swallowed the
king by day and night. He attends him
in the council chamber and to mass: he
sleeps on the threshold of their maJesties'
bedroom. When the king is about to
drive out, Iietro Xanines the horses and
the carriage. He takes a bite or a spoon
ful out of every dish before it is placed on
UmbertOs and l1arguerite's table. Dis
guised as a military attache this lustv
ex-cutthroat, who has a record as a throt-
tier, sits to his majestys left in the royal
cQach. with dagger up his sleeve or
rides by his side at parades and reviews
Inc car Is surrounded by half a hun
dred men of the Pietro stamp the pick of
the Don-Cossacks. Splendid harbarians
lheE are. and the minister of police sees
70 IT that the Influences OF, civilization. 4
40 not touch them Beyond the soap point |
Ihey must keep clean. must. indeed be
paragors of cleanliness, but reading and |
writing. even the Russian language, are
closed books to them. knowledge might |
mar their supreme self-confidence: it |
might interfere with disciplined if they
spoke any language besides their vernac- |
ular it might lay them open to foreign in |
fuences. Inc members Of the imperial !
family order the Cossacks about by |
signs: they are permitted to speak only
to their direct superiors. The arrange
ment works we'll enough in doors, but |
for public occasions there's another !
When the car rides or drives or walks |
anywhere outside of his own APARTMENTS
ne is surrounded by veritabe cluster of |
dlgnitaries and guards dressed to give
them the appearance of superior rank. |
And Nicholas, being, small man. COM
pletely disappears in the of humanity |
engulfng him. To hit him, an assassin |
would have to hurl a missile from above, |
and then it's ten to one that he would |
kill some nobody, or half a dozen Of them
Officially the personal safety of the car |
is intrusted to the master Of the police, |
who is again controlled by general |
chosen by the car for longer or shorter
period or for different localities, as the |
case may be.
THE presidents, or masters of police, |
of st. Petersburg. Berlin, Vienna, Rome |
and of all the capitals of Europe report |
Hoil y IN hai hat h,1c
having precedence over any other af- |
fairs of state. William. Nicholas Fran
els Joseph, and even Leopold would |
sooner think of dispensing with the an
cient custom of holding a morning con-
fab with their cooks than begrudge the |
time allotted for the interview with the
chief Of mouchards.- STILL and in spite Of |
all precautions these chiefs are only +
mortals. The man to whom the life of
Alexander III. was intrusted for tens of
years during the cars annual holiday
season in Denmark the Copenhagen |
chief of police, Petersen, was unmasked !
not long ago as bride taker, black
mailer and blackleg generally. And then
it was suddenly remembered that once or |
twice in Alexander's stay in the Danish /
capital, attempts had been made upon |
his life. Maybe Petersen arranged or |
abetted The regicides. The truth will |
never be known. for the dishonest chief |
committed suicide before he could be |
interrogated." ~,
According to the Press informant, the |
emperor of Austria, who is pious man,
employs few. precautionary measures
save the military ones peculiar to his po-
sition his position as the head Of a
great army. OF course his civil cabinet is
always on the lookout for Czech. Magyar,
Croat ard Polish n'alcontents. but Fran
els Joseph takes little interest in the mat
ter. At the same time he does not be-
lieve in encouraging attempts upon his
life. A would-be conspirator, or regicide,
who falls into the hands of the Austrian
police is sure to suffer the full penalty
Of the law, or even a little more than the
law allows When the emperor travels
secret service men precede and accom-
pany him. II have met his majesty sew
eral times when abroad" said the diplo-
| mat. land on one or two of these occa-
sions the late Empress Elizabeth was
with him. The imperial couple. when
leaving the hotel, was always escorted by
detectives in plain clothes, a measure par
ticularly distasteful to her majesty. AS
her friends often prophesied,> she has now
paid the penalty of her highmindednes
to encourage which, as the Geneva au-
| thorities seem to have done, was almost
a crime.
| There is Queen Victoria No other
majesty or highness has simpler tastes
than the empress of India, yet she coun-
tenances every precaution Scotland Yard
advises for her safety. For many years
watch and house dog; the Office has now
fallen to her Indian secretary, and is in
good hands.
1.-THE bluest blood Of the Roman arts
tocracy,'' continued the diplomat, guar
antees the personal safety Of the pope,