Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-03-12

tered F1iS BOdy-An IhTernai UdCTiHS
 That Failed to Kill Alexander III.
 The shadow that falls across the patk ,f tho czars may extend the worlG tound Wherever the ruler of all the eussias may happen to te. there the ,badow of fear lies.
 Once in Paris. once in the palace sardens. Alexander II. was fired at Again in the Winter Palace square ,np Soloreff, wearing the uniform Of m 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 aver. 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 large portion of the imperial resi- dence. but the czar was not present.
 But of all the attempts on the lives pf Russia's rulers two stand out most clearly for their aUazing ingenuity. One tells the story of little unpre tentiouS. shop in Malaja Sadovaja street. KobozeT. then unknown tn the police. took the shop and sci out to impress the police. who were al, ways making sudden inspections ot premises along the thornuthfar"s through which Alexander II. passed that he was nothing but a provision leoler Nearly every one in that street was a paid spy. but k@t:}1".t jol1ed with his customers. pleased it!s eurveyors and was most atTabIe ans! apparently harmless.
 he dealer inspired confidence, ana ais custom increased gradually. Nc wonder. for most of the parcels ,h:t his customers were carrying aWay ny t!ay contained nothing but earth earth that during the night hours had peep seraped by the man and ais wife from beneath the street. It was by such ingenious method that q tun- nc! was hollowed and cleared under the thoroughfare and q mine laid be. neath the way the czar often passed, m innocent couch upon which the housewife slept covering the entry to the tunnel
 Yet all the work was useless. On -he day the scheme was to be carried nu, the czar upset all the arrange ncnts by going off to lunch with the Grand Duchess Catherine Michaelovna.
 Among those who were watching on behalf of the terrorists was beauti- 'ul girl-a countess. too-named Pe- re. skaya. It was she who. seeing the altered arrangements, gave warning. 'i!.r czar would return to the palaces ann,her way. Along this route foM7 men carrying bombs were stationed One threw his. Men and horses were killed all oround but the cZar stepped from his coach unscathed. A second man holding a bomb came forward and threw 1t. "This time the effect was awful" says Waclaw Gasiorow ski. who describes the incident in his book. Tragic Russia" ''The czar fell as if cut by scythe. His legs were shattered to pieces" So died the czar who had escaped as by miracle many times.
 Alexander III. followed. and ther~ were attempts upon his life. The fourth was one of the most sense tional in the entire list of nihilist plots
 On bright autumn day the impe rial train travelled at full speed on the track we'll guarded by soldiers. It was coward noon. The imperial family were in the dining car. where lunch was about to be served. The cook and his help were making the last prepara lions for 1t when an assistant wrs aken i'll.
 The court physician attended th'' man and. having stated that he had fever. with symptoms of some ineS plicable ailment, decided that the m;w could not remain in the imperial trair and he was left at the next station.
 The train moved forward towai' Borki. travelling at the speed of eigh. kilometers an hour Then the elec trical bell notified the cook that th' imperial family were ready for lunch con. A few seconds after the bel sounded a terrific noise was heard and a violent explosion changed in th~ twinkling of an eye the luxurious in perial train into heap of broken iron, of wrecked cars, of mu:ilatef corpses. enveIoped in smoke and mad, all the. more narrowing by the moan In. and cries for help of the wounded, Yet the czar escaped! The din;n': room car that the nihilists had f tended should he grave for the cza, his family and his suit saved him. fe although its roof and floor wcr wrecked its sides were preserve, They inclined toward the center. pro-, ped each other like two cards and II tnained in that position protecthss those who were there from bein-