Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-01-09
THE UNlUcKY CAR.
Misehanees That Have Attended His
Reion-May a FatefuI Month.

Reign-May a Fateful Month.
1t has been suggested that Nicholas
II. czar Of all the Russias. is the un-
luckiest Of living men. One would have
no difficulty in showing at least that
the car has had more mischance than
any other monarch on a throne.
His first mishap was that which pro-
pheticaly. came to him in Japan. He
was touring Europe and Asia in 1891
with Prince George of Greece. At Ossu,
Japan although he had had splendid
entertainment from the Mikado, there
was a Japanese drew a sword to kill
him, when Prince George thrust 1t
aside.
| Afterward a Japanese maiden, in
atonement, went to a temple, placed a
sword hilt down on the ground and fell
upon It, You might call the event good
or bad luck, since the CZarewitch was
preserved.
But what he was preserved for was
to turn later the first sod Of the Siber-
ian railway at the eastern end; and
for the dignity-which he in no meas
ure desired, but shrank from-of the
crown which came to him soon after by
reason of the death Of his father, AL
exander III, at Livadia.
This attack occurred II Maya
month eventful to Nicholas II. 1t was
in May that he was born, thirty-seven
years ago.
He did not want at 26 to rule the
destiny of 130,000,000 people. He had
always detested official life and the
homage of courtiers. But the duties
and responsibilities of autocracy fell
upon him.
He began badly. On the occasion OF
his coronation thousands Of his poor
er subjects were crushed to death on
Khudynskoi Plain. On that plain came
what many regarded as the fatal evil
dence of the i'll luck which pursues and
makes his life woeful. Just before his
accession he had become betrothed to
the Princess Alix of Hesse. This, too
was outside his reckoning. Gossip had
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man princess, and that the Princess
Helene dOrleans, daughter of the
| Comte de Paris. was very much admir-
ed by him.
| III luck seemed to pursue him In his
married life. For time it seemed as
though his wife would bear him moth
ing but daughters and no heir to the
throne. In 1895 she gave birth to the
| girl christened Olga; two years after
| to the one named Tatiana; two years
later to Marie then in 1901 to Anasta-
sia.
Meantime the czar ard the people
and the czarina herself were disap-
pointed. In August last year the car
| ina bore him another child-and 1t was
a boy. So his luck in this respect may
be said to have turned.
| However much a Liberal at heart
the best accounts agree that the car
took up his inherited authority first
with disaster, and then with firm pur-
pose Of continuing his fathers poll
cies. He kept his fathers counselors
and declared he would uphold the prin-
ciple Of autocracy.
His i'll luck interferred here, too
Pobiedonostseff was obliged to retire
Muravieff was taken from him by sud
den DEATH M. de Plehve, his baleful
minister Of the interior, a Muscovite
Grand Vizier, was destroyed by g
bomb. His best beloved uncle, the
Grand Duke Sergius, was blown to
pieces by a bomb. His governor of
Finland was struck down.
Death has threatened his own person
many times. In Italy, in 1908, man
named Goertz was apprehended In
time to spoil a plot of assassination.
An anarchist obtained admission to a
state reception at the palace Of Tsar-
skoe-Selo in the uniform Of superior
officer Of the gendarmerie and was dis
covered, with bombs in his pockets, just
in time. A girl student, Mile. Merre-
zhevsky, was frustrated in an atttmpi
to kill him at the spring review In 1904
When, last January, with his court
| the CZdI was liiS NSA ASiitoity ~
blessing the water Of the River Neva,
a shrapnel from a battery which was
firing a salute exploded near the royal
pavilion, killing one man and wounding
others.
He completed the Siberian railway,
as his father desired in order to con-
solidate Russian power in Asia and
extend Russian trade, industry and
commerce. But this railway was one
of the causes that brought about the
unlucky war with Japan.
The ineffectiveness Of his numerous
reforms and attempts at conciliation-
annulments of peasants indebt edness,
openings of altars of the Old Faith tc
undisturbed worship, DEGREES of reli-
gious freedom to all, concessions to the
Jews, abolitions Of fiogging and Siber-
ian exile-the failure of these benefits
to pacify his country might we'll be
ascribed to the sinister element which
seems to inhere In all his undertakings
Then there are all the disasters OF
the war with Japan and the massacre!
in various parts of the empire to be
considered in an account of the mis-
chances that have attended his reign.
New York Sun.
| CLEANING MEMS CLoTHEs.-A tailor
of fifty years experience gives the fol-
lowing information
All mems clothing to be cleaned
should be thoroughly beaten anc
brushed. Some things are so dirty II
is absolutely necessary to wash them
as any other woolen goods. Iron or
the wrong side. To remove spots use
the following:
Two ounces of hartshorn, al ounce
of CASTLE soap, a quarter of an ounce
of saltpeter. Dissolve in a quart OF
rain water.
He has used many cleaning mixtures
but considers this the best. Put a wad
of soft cloth Qike an old toweD under
the spot. saturate well and rub hard
The secret of success lies in hard rub
bing. which will drive the grease
through into the wad of cloth. Rub
dark goods with dark WOolen and light