The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1906-12-08
Continued fror, fist page.


At that moment came the second ex
| plosion, which shook the whole city. and
a minute or two later, when the Grand
Duke Michael bent over the Tangled
body OF his brother and asked him if
he wished TO be removed TO I nearby
house. he caught these faint words:
Quick, home-carry to palace-therc
die"
GLARS AS HOME LOVERS AND HOME
! MAKERS.
In these last words OF great em-
peror stands revealed the latter day
. Romanoffs' love of home and family.
. Historians unite in declaring that both
alexander II and his son and successor,
| tine third Alexander, in their home life
were above reproach; and though Mich
olas II is being damned for many things
these days, even his bi,terest enemies
credit him with being good husband
and father, and an intense lover OF his
home.
The apple of Alexander HIS eyes was
his son George. 1t was pathetic to see
the father, giant in stature, with the
strength ef an OK, with hands that could
crumple a plate of silver, tagging
around after and doing the bidding OF
this delicate boy.
One day the two went cut hunting,
The lad shot a duck, which fell into
what looked to be a shallow stretch OF
water The boy plunged in after the
game, only to find himself swiftly sink
ing in a treacherous bog. His cries
brought his father, whose great strength
enabled him to extrieatc his son, even
after the latter had been swallowed by
the bog up to his neck.
Both returned to the palace wet
through and chilled, and the boy in a
| hiah fever. In the middle of the night
the father wished to go to the boys
room to see how he was. The Czarina,
thinking Of her husband, objected, say
ing that the trip through the long, windy
corridors to the other end of the palace
would be dangerous, especially as he
was still chilled from his experience of
the afternoon The Gar had never been
able to stand up against the pleadings
of his wife; he lay back in bed, feigned
sleep, and she, thinking that she had ac-
complished her object, returned to her
room
A little later the Car, clad only in
bathrobe and slippers, was quietly
slipping to his boys room There he
remained for some time watching beside
the sleeping child before returning to
bed
A day or two later the chill had set
t. I'd in the Cars vital organs; how it
came to do so was brought out by the
doctors questioning. And few weeks
after that the Gar was lying cold in
death.
THANK GOD FOR woRoNzoFF y
| Another story of this same Cars
parental tenderness has been told round
the world
When Alexander travelled by rail his
train was always divided in four sec
tiens, that the Nihilists would not be
able TO locate the section in which he
was secreted and thus blow it up. But,
despite this recaution, the bomb throw
ers did ascertain once on which section
the Car would travel, and it was
promptly blown to hits.
The Gar succeeded in extricatins the
Czarina, his daughter and himself from
the wreckage, strewn with dead and
dying guards. A little group, they stood,
unguarded and in the midst of carnage,
On the barren steppe. Suddenly the
nerves of the child gave way; she flung
herself into her fathers arms and
sobhed out:
"Oh, papa, now they'll come and muir
der US sll!'
And the Gar, oblivious to the prob
able truth of his child's heart cry. COM
forted her, and was discovered so en-
gagged when protection arrived
Alexander III was not without q sense
of humor; its possession is saving
grace to a Gar even.
1t was while he was Czarevitch that
he assumed command of the famous
Preobrajenski regiment, portion OF
which recently revolted against the
Gar. Shortly after he had taken COM
mand it became necessary for the names
of the officers to be read to him. Ger
man name after German name was