Evening star., 1900-11-08
Notions.
GUARDING THE CZAR,
Tedious Experience of an American
Woman in Poland Recently.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.


From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
The attempt Of nihilists to assassinate the
czar by blowing up the train on which he
was travelling was read with much inter-
est by one gentleman whose wife was COM
PEELED to forego her dinner a few weeks
ago on account of the preparations made
to guard the railroad track over which
the czar was shortly to pass. The gentle
man told of the incident yesterday as his
wife described it in a letter just received
In July last" said the gentleman, my
wife sailed from New York to visit her sis
ter in Poland. After spending few weeks
with her sister she set out on Journey
100 miles farther north, to visit other rea-
tions- Her sister and brother-n-law took
her in their carriage fifteen miles from
their home to the large town of B1elostok
on the railroad between Warsaw and St
petersburg, where she was to take the
train. They intended to have a pleasant
afternoon of it, and to reach Bjelostok
an hour and a half before the train ar
rived so that they might have a good din
ner together But before they reached
the town an incident occurred that Illus
tIates the practice of scattering soldiers
along the track when the cZar is about to
pass in his special train on any of the
railroads in the Russian domain, as was
mentioned in the account of the plot to
kill the cZar.
MY friends were blissfully ignorant of
the fact that his imperial majesty was on
his way from st. Petersburg to his hunting
forest about twenty miles south of their
home. This vast estate, known as the
Bjelovej forest, is one of the finest game
preserves of Europe. 1t is filled with every
sort OF game known in Russia, cnd is the
only place in Europe where a few speci-
mems of American bison are kept. The
forest was formerly owned by a wealthy
citizen of Russia, but was purchased by
| the present cars father and is kept ex-
clusively as hunting ground for the MEM
bers Of the imperial family
We'll. my friends had arrived at the out
| skirts Of Bjelostok when they suddenly saw
| great scurrying Of cavalry and infantry
| few rods of it. AS they approached the
| soldiers an officer saw Them and trotted
! toward the carriage with hand uplifted.
What's the matter? asked our brother
| in-law ~ -
His majesty is coming and you must
| stay here till his train passes
| "'When's the train dueS
| Don't know. Stay where You are.
It'll be along presently
Cant you let usscross over to the sta
| tion? 20, 81
There was nothing to do but to wait,
and it was a hungry and uncomfortable
| hour and a half that they spent there,
| wardly patient and, composed as became
| two subjects and s0ne 1ex-subject of the
ruler of Russia. There were no special
| privileges for residents of America and my
| dismayed wife saw the prospects of dinner
| vanishing, for there was no eating house
| within reach, as the track and the lines of
| soldiers extended just outside the town.
Just as they began to wonder IL his inn
perial majesty would ever come. there was
| sudden roar uD the track the soldiers
| became all alert, and the special train with
its precious freight sped by on the wings
| of the wind. Then the agony was over,
| the czar had had safe transit as far as
| my wife's party were concerned, and they
| whipped up to the station just the north
bound train drew in. There was not a
| minute to lose and my wife started on
her way with 4 few sandwiches in her lap,
| though she would have given the cars
bunting forest for hot dinner and big
| one. ,.54 g
Il was amused by our sisters rather
conclusive reply to gentle moan from
| my wife during that tedious time of wait
ing:
Wei. all I've got to say mused my
| wife, is that the business that calls me
north 10 just as important to me as the