Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-13
RUSSIA AND ROYALTY
| Shadow That DarkenS the
 Path of the CzarS.
THE FEAR OF ASSASSlNATioE

,f tup cZdFS uft! cAteuu tiit "'i'H eound. Wherever the ruler of all the Russias may happen to Ie. there the
 hudow of fear lies.
 Once in Paris, once in the palace gardens. Alexander II. was fired at. Again in the Winter Palace square ,ne Solorieff. wearing the uniform of .1 official. passed the guards one day. and again the czar was fired upon Alexander ran for the palace. Solo rieff followed him and fired three tines The ear ran in zigzags. how .ver, and so escaped. Not long after ward two mines were laid to blow up the imperial train. One did not ex- plode. but the second wrecked the train. Once more the czar escaped Watching eyes had saved him. their owners having persuaded the ruler to take another train.
 Later Alexander II. owed his life to the fact that he came late to func ton at the palace. A bomb blew clean out a large portion of the imperial resi- dence but the czar was not present.
 But of all the attempts on the lives Df Russia's rulers two stand out most clearly for their amazing ingenuity Oae tells the story of little unpre tentious shop in Malaja Sadovaja street. Kobozeff. then unknown tn the police. took the shop and set out to impress the police. who were al- ways making sudden inspections of premises along the thoroughfares through which Alexander II. passed that he was nothing but q provision dealer. Nearly every one in that street. was paid spy. but kobozed iokeG with his customers. pleased his purve-ors and was most atfable and apparently harmless.
 The dealer inspired confidence. and ais custom increased gradually. Nc wonder for most of the parcels that lis customers were carrying away by lay contained nothing but earth .arth that during the night hours had ,een scraped by the man and nis uifc from beneath the street. It was by such ingenious method that tun- i nel was hollowed and cleared under uV luOEOuSu1dTt duu Il LUluS OC neath the way the czar often passed. m innocent couch upon which the housewife slept covering the entry to che tunnel
 Yet all the work was useless. On the day the scheme was to be carried ,u, the czar upset all the arrange 1 nents by going off to lunch with the Grand Duchess Catherine Michaelovna. Among those who were watching on behalf of the terrorists was beauti- 1 crl girl-a countess. too-named Pe- rc.skaya. It was she who. seeing the altered arrangements, gave warning. rhc ear would return to the palac, mother way. Along this route four men carrying bombs were stationed One threw his. Men and horses were killed all 0round. but the cZar stepped from his coach unscathed. A second man holding bomb came forward and threw it. ''This time the effect was awful" says Waclaw Gasiorow. ski. who describes the incident in his book. Tragic Russia" 1.-The czar fell as If cut by a scythe. His legs were shattered to pieces" So died the cza1 who had escaped as by miracle many times.
 Alexander III. followed. and ther. were attempts upon his life. Tn. fourth was one of the most sens. .ional in the entire list of nihilist plots
 On a bright autumn day the imp" rial train travelled at full speed on the track we'll guarded by soldiers. It was toward noon. The imperial family were in the dining car. where lunch was about to be served. The cook and bis help were making the last prcpara tions for 1t when an assistant WIS raken i'll.
 The court physician attended tn. man and. having stated that he had fever. with symptoms of some ine!s plicable ailment. decided that the mar could not remain in the imperial tra!r and he was left at the next statiCn
 The train moved forward towar Borki. travelling at the speed of eight ki!ometers an hour. Then the cleo trical bell notified the cook that the WCAC ACuOJ AOA AAtI~ U con. X few seconds after the bell sounded a terrific noise was heard and violent explosion changed in the twinkling of an eye the luxurious i'm perial train into heap of broken iron, of wrecked cars, of mn.ilatee corpses. enveloped in smoke aud mad, all the more narrowing by the moan Ing and cries for help of the wounded Yet the czar escaped! The dinin@ room car that the nihilists had H. teuded should be grave for the cZaf his family and his suit saved him. f,A although its roof and floor wer, wrecked its sides were preserved They inclined toward the center. proi, ped each other like two cards and re mained in that position. protectf those who were there from bein; crushed.
 The cook who had beep put of II train had worked the whole thing. l; had placed an internal machine iD cono of surar and had faEed his I.