The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-02

corps of $50 mounted men about his
person all the time. They are. called
body gendarmes and, like the Field
jaeger, are really nothing more nor less
than royal footmen, paid out of the
peoples, instead of out of the Kaisers
treasury. When the Kaiser goes riding
two body gendarmes, one or two adj
jutants and two grooms accompany
him, but hundred or more gendarmes
or Feldjaegers in citizens dress ira
verse the park in all directions to look
for suspicious characters and be at
hand when necessary.
Life preservers and spies in every
day garb, that's the proper idea con-
tinued the diplomat. It's the love of
show and trappings that has killed
many monarch Alexander II made
himself the target of Nihilists because
he insisted upon riding between the
captain of his bodyguard and the chief
of police. The first ones sleigh pre-
ceded the 'Polizeimeister's vehicle, al
ways closely followed his Majesty's. To
make doubly sure the Car dispensed
with the imperial livery, but how could
that deceive any one when the captain
of the bodyguard and the police presi-
dent insisted upon wearing the striking
panoply of their rank? Perhaps I
shouldn't say that they insisted. Per-
haps it was cOurtly usage that COM
PEELED them to appear in the Emperor's
dor.
1.-THE German Emperor has adopted
a new scheme-new because it's old
enough to be thought new. AS gen.
eral thing he drives at braakneck pace,
and to facilitate the utmost SwiftnesS
the horses are harnessed close to the
carriage. Fast driving may foil as
sassins in some instances, but it is not
always permissible, and, moreover, the /.
hankering after applause, the desire to
appear stately or a king Wetf beloved
dictate the occasional abandonment of
this precaution.
"a month or so before Carnot was as
sassinated the Berlin police got wind
that an attempt on the Emperor's life
would be made in this fashion,: An in
dividual would throw a petition into. I lie
Emperor's carriage, the paper envelope
of which would ignite a small parcel
of dynamite the instant it struck the
slightest resistance on the bottom, the
sides or the cushions of the coach or
the bodies of the occupants. OF course
petition throwing was at once declared
a nuisance in Berlin, and people in
dulging in this old-time frolic were ar
rested Next Baron RichthOfen' learned
that the anarchists had abandoned fire
arms and chemicals, deciding TO return
to the knife. To meet this new emer-.
gercy fast driving was decided upon
by all the courts and governments.
Carnot alone would not hear of it. He
was suffering from the popularity
bacillus, poor man! He ordered his
coach moved at leisurely trot to give
the people tirne to enjoy his smile Of
self-sufficiency Alas it cost him his
life, che of the most innoc ant ever sac
riGced on the altar of politics.
Bismarck told his intimates that
good dog, by which he meant fierce.
man-attacking dog, was worth a dozen
detectives and an army corps of spies:
After the Kissingen attentat' he EN-.
ployed dogs, and he was not bothered
by assassins for the rest of his days.
Singular that the Kaiser refuses to
profit by this example. Bismarck, by
the way, did not discharge his two
legged bodyguard after engaging four
legged life preservers.
'Crispi," said the diplomat, may not
have been King Umberto's good genius.
but he drummed some good horse sense
into his Majestys head.
"And what do you conside the best
means of combating regicides2
THAT employed by Napoleon III, who
outlived ten attempts upon his life,
answered the diplomat decidedly. Ma
poleon's bodyguard was the famous
Italian Griccelli who, every time ne
learned of conspiracy against his
master sought out the conspirators and
slaughtered them in cold blood. Dead
men are harmless and-hold their
tongues.