Show L tir M TI I t J 1 1 t J j jI l 1 rAL f I I JI i l iM iMI 1 i ij Lf T I Ll j t 1 t q qt r I I Ii 1 j X i i Ilov lD One Ole of the I he Czars Ministers I il 1 1 J f iY 1 Did His lis Host Besl to Bring Brin on 01 J I il ilI t i The War q j t fl r i iA 1 A r i 0 I II I g i IT I WAS FOR SPECULATION I 1 1 i 4 H j dX r L c ca Vis a Notified to Leave Russia ia forever For Hr Jh x ejA i hc Another Minister V as s 5 I Ij il Revolution ut at Home t t f I 1 1 0 friia r 1 lb Icu Too lato to slop Alop Jv In Inti LONDON L the ti war tho thu mun mUl who did ll most to tn J J canto It II and expected most profit I roOt mt from It was WM thrown out of or hi high t M J f foll oll by the und bidden to l avo 1 H lr 1 n 8 I 1 forever He I 11 Hod tC I to tho South HoUI I t I I I MI 1 J Jor of or c hert he Is 11 living on al the 1 t IJ t j j j millions milons ho 10 In the region that I F t tI li I to I a n bloody i Il largely fl because 1 of or his i l This l fn a I 1 I n oC until late lately 1 r I i t ly II of ot stole state and thu f m tf 1 way 1 In which ho hI fomented the U f Li Itil conflict Is II hen hert described In I U t r detail for tho first time to I n clon of a I f C I I family but his parents were Impecunious 1 r i 1 ous ou and glad to tn obtain for tor their lr 1 o oOl son Ol a post opt ns IS page pa In the Imperial t I r household a II position which In III I can only be ho lilted by I lads with wih blua i i e blood In I their veins ll Young jin 1 10 oft of ell rpt the tho Imperial at lt thu of or Id and served In tho I J Ild as I n Iare for two years ar when ho he ob obtained l i 1 a n as ni lieutenant In Inthe II I 1 the crack regiment 1 of or guards His IR mill mi I l fi lory InrI rank procured him access SS to tha th 1 11 1 t teAt best eAt circles of or society In II tho Russian nu 1 Moll capital and ald for tor u a few rew years 1111 ho he was WIS one OM i I J Ii of Ir the favorites of o the tho 1 drawing rooms of or fit Rt Petersburg i 1 il The rho young man mal however was of or an ti 11 enterprising turn tur of or mind and soon 1 It after nUel ho had hll attained hi t ir ond birthday ho threw up lp his hl commis commission 11 1 r I 1 sion In II the army Ir abandoned the pleasures pleas teng l 1 ures of ur and proceeded to Kast Kastern i I Ii q ern l to make his fortune Noth Nothing oth 01 tA 11 ing was 11 hoard of or him for tor a II decade th f I when suddenly he reappeared In St F 11 1 Petersburg and announced that he ho had 11 f nie l become a through his enter enterprises t id In th far cast Ho He hail hll bought hought f i up lp pasture and arable land be besides le tit 1 h i sides Ahles property In the neighborhood of ot W i t I Vladivostok Port Arthur Athu and Dalny ft i I m lt He HI hall had acquainted himself with tho in intricacies liI l of the thc administration nn de development y I of or Manchuria and III Eastern I I t Siberia Ho gained tho car of ot the czar i i iwho who t nil ni questions with J j 1 him hll by h tho hour I ISI TO 0 POWER Ji 11 f I i t or returned to tn thu far cast castas i as ni the or of lt thu czar 1 Ji I I I 1 to tl whom he 11 revealed many weak points I q I In management of ot far til east eastern 1 1 f fI At this ho i J ern I pur 1 rhoMel extensive of ot land In 11 Korea Iona and tho czar 01 tho fj dowager empress IN of r and I I 1 dukes of ot the Imperial family to V 1 N Invest money mOle In similar purchases s of ot f t I j land with the result that t the tho emperor toll I Iw of 0 and his relatives have boon been i w i freely tle accused of ur shaping shuping pol policy r t icy Ic In regard to 10 Korea In accordance l 4 with their own 01 private Interests Other Othor i y H 0 Ii Investments which off ot advised Ht j I Ithe the tho czar CZI and his mother tn to make n Si HI Siberia i F beria herll turned out to be he brilliant success successes II I 4 I es lS 1111 Ids power at It court cOUll grew Iel proportionately f tr IV j I m r I 1 1 M I was WIH the direct causa CalAI II I ll F of M 1 de 11 retirement from if M I de do Witte lie o power thought d 4 to tl be ho unassailable was summoned to tn 1 1 I the tho car to explain certain defects In Inthe 11 j f the tho of o the 1 dP railway discovered by I and f 4 hi reported by h him to tho I ht M 1 do Ila II ht Ito assured tha tho Cl that there wore IO 1 t 1 n 1 N 1 r I no such nich defects whereupon thereupon the th czar exclaimed ex claimed t Hut fut tay W those mistaKes were wore committed Does Doe your majesty maJest accept lIe the word of ot this adventurer In preference to tomine tomine mine mlle was wai M d I dc lie Wittes response The fhe said MIJ nothing for tor the mo moment moI I ment but hUt the n next i days dayi gazette con the Announcement that nuo n n l r had been J en appointed secretary of or l state All JI wan eras amazed for such a position po hail bad n never ver cr before been Leen given glnn to n 1 man absolutely with without without out experience M r 1 do tie re reo sinned by U WRY ny of oC protest and the tho mr czar full tull of or confidence In the iho Kentus of his hh new favorite In let Witte go without mak milk making milkIng making ing the least effort to dissuade him from retirement came In 4 triumph from Crom the th far east cast to take up his hie post poet ns secretary of ot state and It Is le sl that soon euon s lon after Reter his hl arrival and Installation In the situation became critical I and nd the n so diplomatic conflict R a n dan serous character It has haa been shown since the war broke brol e out that De off oft used all 1111 his hie with tha the czar In favor or of ot war At a critical stage of ot the negotiations negotiation With Japan one onu of lit the th grand dukes of or orthe l the Imperial family who previously had been ortI s friend paw eau iw reason to tot t change his opinion of ot the secretary of ot state arid and opened ope net the czars eyes to the truth concerning the who I wanted to undertake e a n war for tor forthe forthe the benefit of ot his own financial interests In Korea Koren It WaR van too loo late to stop Flop tol the th war but the tha czar ordered to leave IMI Russia forever and the former f Imperial favorite lied fled to the tho south of ot France Ho Ito married n a beautiful wo woman woman man of ot the who Is sharing his banishment and hili hie mil millions millions lions Vona With the career of ot ot must bo ho coupled that of ot another former min minIster Ister lster until lately Imperial state secretary of i who although he has hRs had Imd no direct hand In causing tho war Is responsible for tor a 11 state of ot affairs that seems likely to crown eron the horrors of or war with a revolutionary outbreak Like his hll fellow tell 0 minister climbed from tho the bottom to the top and has hall tumbled to tho the hot torn tom again time The careers areorA of at both men ment t ore are more significant of the tho present pre ent con ran condition of ot affairs In than whole columns of figures concerning her army urmand and navy would be beM beM M JI Is le the son Ion of or a n village priest of orthodox Greek confession on Ho Ita was WM aa sent by his lili parents tn to n nl the University of St Petersburg where hert I like HO so many young oung Russians lIus he quick quickly ly Iy Imbued with HO so lall I mid revolutionary opinions HP Ill n neglected il his hlA studies to devote himself to secret R cret socialist propaganda and during his hl vacations made walking tours through remote districts stirring up III discontent against the tho existing order filer of ot things In Russia la lIe He learned to know when and where the tho secret s R were held became berame acquainted with nil all I Ithe the methods methode of ot secret organization and the menus adopted 1 by the students In Bt St P Petersburg Moscow Iosco Kleff I and oth other tr er r Russian university towns town to corre correspond spond pond with each tAch other and got Alt to know by been henrt tho the confidential code employ rt 4 to transmit eacret communications i I from one ont center conter to another Young had harl no ulterior mo me I Irive rive In acquiring all RII this knowledge for hU his hl ballet boll f In socialism I W was wal and he hEt woe was Wl prepared to himself for tor the great cause of ot liberty lI erty His Nis neglect of ot hl his academic lu prevented him from being grad Krall I 1 Mated and thus cut him off oft from ninny many far r only to those tho I possessing pO e th tha e university adversity degree e of ot of doctor of ot f phil philO o or law 1111 or science On leaving leaving tho the university lt he joined the staff of ot n revolutionary Journal printed on n tI secret pres prow In the cellar of ot a house hous In a n suburb of or the capital and circulated by b stealth the empire At t the same tints time he hI be became became the tho central came one une of the members member of or executive of or the Russian revolutionary and thereby one of the lenders leaders of ot the movement throughout tho the country coun country try tn lib Ills election to this tills post of ot trust shows howl what ab confidence his hili companions had hAIl In his sincerity and how convinced they were sere that the we he had made proved beyond beon doubt his hla loyalty loyally to the party In his hlA double capacity of ot writer and organizer received the miser miserable et able pittance of ot 15 IU 5 a n week so eo that he was p permanently on the verge one of or star starvation and destitution Moreover his hi political activity exposed him to the tho hourly risk of at arrest and Ind deputation to Siberia This life continued until the discovery by the th police pollee of the subterranean ul premises s In which the tho revolutionary sheet was wan produced and ROll the thu arrest of or mo mn most t of ot those thoS connected with It II 1 for r the 1111 moment only to sink Into the depths th o of abject poverty In vain he sought aid among his party friends In vein aln he begged bp ell for tor some other equally equal modest modestno no post t connected with t 1 tV organization There was wis no for tor him ami and he was left leCt to starve Other occupations were practically closed to him for tor he was on the black liSt Hit of the political police pollee and he had no for Cor any 1 particular kind I of ot work A TRAITOR At t this Juncture his belated arrest for far torIl participation Il In the tho Issue of ot the resole organ ensued and antI saw sass w himself elC face tuce to taco face with a 1 long tong period of oC exile In Siberia In this mom moment nt of or deepest despair ho he was lIS offered a 1 par pardon pardon don dOli If It he ho would Join the tho famous third section as na the secret service son Ice political police were then called Sub Suu was unable to withstand the tho temptation At tho the outset outlet he furnished the chief of at police In St Petersburg with the names Mmes and addresses es of or sever never nl hundred active members of or revolutionary societies and revealed JO 90 0 of oC the thu secret meeting moling places of or his hiD former po 10 1 i friend following on en this cry he ha the time names mimes and anal ml mitt dresses of or the tho revolutionary is rs cs In InI I Moscow rO CO Kleff Odessa and man pro 1 cities Including hose tho o of ot the tho prominent members member of or various sit students ancients political leagues Io aut The fhe result was wall that tho Russian IRn au nU authorities tl were able to deal a u Mi a s slot sloe of ot crushing cru blows lous At nt the rt olt I organization atlon III In nil all parts puts ur of th thin country Within a tm no l J s than 3 S secret meeting pints s In lu dif tl f terent parts of ot RIA hn hurl l n tin un and mire moto than al il 11 of offenders jr r fenders arrested us as the th IlIrE direct t or 01 Hull reet result remit re lIlt nt of f The rime Russian llan government was lighted ti O with sill it its 8 roes new and amt nd re ar lN of ot all kinds Y wore were showered red upon him himO to so O that th obtaining promotion by hy leaps leRI and hounds bounds rose ro to supreme control of ot the police throughout the tho country It was vas it a 1 strange climax to the time career of or the former revolutionary ron con J tor and It was only on I natural that the Iho government should be lee t clous at first of or sincerity and reliability hits HIM i r permanent loyalty loyally to the government was secured d by J u II ell en method characteristic of or the th way say wa things 8 are nto done In Russia Tho ho govern caused the secret of their theil series of ot successful raids and captures to be III betrayed to the revolutionary parties the members of ot which thus 11 that their former friend and II wa fur for 01 their troubles Not ninny many days elapsed be hI before tore fore hr ho re llan an nn Intimation that tho the central executive p committee had nn rn damned him to death and amid that h it would be ho assassinated at nt the tho o t NN M II Within a n week ok three unsuccessful ful till attempts attempt to murder hail had been trade mlle by b of or the revo roo revolutionary patties 11 so so that Intense hat hatred hatred red of ot his hlA former friends Inspired Ins him with nn an unexampled ferocity In III hunt I MN Nf NJ W W X X XIn N Ing In them down dOlln anti bringing them to Justice as It Is la administered In Russia HII III Henceforth loyalty lo to the government wan wn w as assured and his lils term tens of ot as state secretary of ot pollen police bo NM IN IN N w came coins a veritable reign of ot terror tor for the tha revolutionists Political suspects were wern mercilessly knouted without special reasons and arbitrarily condemned to toJ banishment J or long Ion periods of ot for tor the most trivial offenses It has ha been estimated that hat during five eve I r years of bAles ns liS tate state po police police lice procured tho the banishment of oC about bout political suspects etl and the condemnation to terms torsos of or In III Hussla of more 0 O Othe the occasion of ot several local revolt received the thanks of ot the tho cz ez for tor the tho prompt and energetic manner manure i which he restored order and the unruly elements clemen III Throughout hu hl official career he lived In perpetual fear of oC Assassination anti and the precautions taken to Insure his safety made him hint practically the slave of or his own vigilant subordinates In the end overreached him himself I self pelf During DUrin a n period of or he ho conceived the Idea of ot artificially stir stirring stirring ring rill up rebellions rebellious In order that ho 1 might have the honor of ot crushing them Emissaries were dispatched to various towns Ihor contrived to organ ize local revolts which the state mate sere see rotary of voile police with his foreknowledge o trouble was seas as able to crush lr sh with still greater ter facility than limn previous gen gear I ulna outbreaks Encouraged by the tho sue sUC sUCcess corn cess of oC his scheme stirred up tip other rebellions Just to gain the tho credit for tor suppressing them Finally 11 II R II ids emissaries who Ito had halt In to work up liP n a formidable af of fair the settlement of at ii would bring to the tho zenith of fame went too far tar and organized u n rising at nt Odessa which the tho minister was unable to suppress One of ot his subordinates told the whole truth to one of ot the grand dukes of ot the Imperial Imp family tl 11 who In his turn Informed the czar that his hla state secretary of police wan wall nothing more than an nn agent of or the tho I most dangerous type The czar promptly Suba tort toft who lion has since been living In die dis disgrace grace at nt a n remote amid desolate d village Ill o oIn In the tho Caucasus where ho Is I under per permanent permanent manent police I oll e supervision At t the height of ot his success married n a 1 woman of ot tho the Russian nobil tty lly 11 She has not deserted him |