The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-04-02
EYES THAT WATCH THE GEAR.

Emperor of Russia Is Never Unguarded,
 Even When He Seems Most So.
 Tit Bits
 If it were possible for a mans life to be made secure by human agency, ruler who has ever lived could have smiled so confidently in the face of danger as Nicho- las, CEar of Russia. who is guarded by an elaborate network of defenses which stretches from London to Buenos Ayres.
 His palaces are guarded by regiments of soldiers strong and resolute enough to keep a small army at bay. and an inner circle of picked troops is drawn around the apartments he is occupying; in courtyards and corridors and by chamber doors these grim. watchful sentinels are stationed night and day. ready at any moment to challenge and shoot. or to shoot without a challenge. But this is only the outward and visible sign of the gigantic and complex machinery by which the life of one man Is shielded.
 The real work of protection is done by an army of secret police. the most perfectly organized in the world whose sole duty 1t is to ferret out and frustrate every plot against their august masters life. This agency stretches It's tentacles over half world; 1t has agents in London Paris and Berlin. in New York. and Chicago, in Buenos Ayres. and even in Paterson. New Jersey. It has its hundreds of spies scattered throughout Russia. of both and in every rank of life, from count to crossing sweeper, and all so effectualy concealed that the very lady man takes in to din ner or the man who sells one a paper in the streets may be one of them.
 Every householder even is enlisted into the service; for he must. under heavy pen aities, report Sths arrival or departure of every guest or lodser; and letters and tele- grams are ransacked for evidences of pIott- ing. When the czAr travels by rail all traffic is suspended and every yard of his journey is under lynx-eyed supervision; while between hIa capital and his favorlte Palace of Tsarkoe Selo he travels on a line sacred to his august self
 When he takes his drives abroad he is usually surrounded by an escort of Cossacks each ready to draw or fire at the least sug- Eestion of danger. while behind him sits Cossack, with one hand on the butt of his revolver and the other the hilt of his sword On the occasions when he ventures without escort, and to all appearances un- protected. there are invisible eyes every where watching and guarding his safety; while as a further protection. he drives or rides so swiftly that neither bomb nor bull let could well touch him. He never at tends a theatre until his secret police have first certified that no suspicious person has gained admittanceS nor takes a journey of any kind until every yard of it has been made secure as human watchfulness can make 1t.
 As if these multiplied and minute pre- cautions were not sufficient. 1t is said, on good authority. that he Is often represented by a deputy and a double. who personates his Emperor and runs all the risk, while the Czar makes the journey unrecognized by a different route. The present Czar has not. however. yet adopted a safety expedient invented by his father. the late Emperor. This took the form of figure made in exact imitation of Alexander, and supplied with mechanism which enabled 1t to move from side to side. bend the head. and salute with absolutely lfe-like realism.
 This dummy. 1t Is said, frequently took the place of Alexander in his daily drives;