Show THE UNEASY CZAR the emperor of russia is in a state of panic which can neither be imagined nor described it was given out that he would be the guest of the german emperor at the marble palace potsdam and when all kinds of expensive preparations had bad been made there he decided that he would be safer in berlin and a large sum was expended in arranging for his reception at the schloss farally only one day before the emperor arrived count scho u va loff received a telegram from cop copenhagen en to intimate that his majesty would alight at the Riss russian siau embassy an aej J the message was quickly followed by the arrival of the ahi imperial workmen seven in number who now go in advance of the emperor whenever and wherever he travels therease The there are two carpenters two masons two locksmiths lock smiths and a foreman they most carefully examine the chimneys looks locks flooring walls and furniture of the house which the emperor is to occupy and his own apartments are subjected to a most rigorous search the chimneys are objects of special attention and every flue which leads to a room which the emperor is likely to enter is thoroughly barred both top and bottom ottom li and as if these precautions were not sufficient police agents from st petersburg patrol the roof both night and day both in appearance and in manner the emperor has become a muscovite of the old cossack type he is a colossal figure being a giant both in height and in girth quite bald with a flat nose an immense sweeping mustache and a stupendous beard which flow his chest I 1 learn that he has beer beep both infuriated fu furia ted a and nd terri terrified fl ed by the abeld accident ent to the shahs shags special train the cial report on which disaster was laid before him when he reached st petersburg the embankment along which the train was running simply collapsed the accident being an exact repetition of the one which betel the imperial train at borki last year and the emperor is now convinced that all the russian railways are rotten so that in the event of war there would be a complete failure in the transport arrangements and if the railways are all w wrong ron 9 his bis majesty justifiably eon concludes conclude clude that probably he would find bi his army and navy in a similar condition when the time of trial arrives the emperor is as I 1 have often before remarked in constant dread of assassination and this state of ever present fear added to the her edit iary melancholy of the romanoff family has so utterly shattered his nerves that for days together he is practically not responsible for his actions he smokes incessantly and not only endeavors to sustain his spirits by copious libations of champagne and brandy but of late he be has taken to drugging himself with eb chloral loral by the way the shah is so thoroughly convinced that the accident to his train was a cunning plot devised for his destruction that since his return to teheran lie ne has refused to receive prince the russian minister london truth |