The herald., 1894-11-02
THB CZAR IS DEAD
Russia Mourns Her
Ruler.
He Passed Away Yesterday
at 2:15 p. m.
Death Had No Terrors for
sz!:s ssissszSSssssssS
Calmly as a Babe He Sank to
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An Affectionate Farewell to
His Family.
The Czarina Utterly Frustrated
With Grief.
All Russia STEPPED in ProfOundest
Sorrow.
Mourning In Every Capital in Europe.
The Czsrowisz Assumes the Inn
psrial Functions-Troops Swear
Allegiance to Him.
An AffectiOnate Farewell to
His Family.
The Czarina Utterly Prostra
With Grief.
All Russia STEPPED in Prof0undest
Sorrow.
Mourning In Every Capital in Europss
The Czsrowitz Assumes the Inn
psriAl Functions-Tro1p Swear
Allegiance to Him.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ST. PETERsBURa. Nov. 1.-The angel
Of death, in the shadow Of whose
pinions the autocrat of all the Russiaa
has been lying for many days, today
beckoned and the soul of the man who
had in bis hands tho lives and destinies
of millions upon millions. was borne
away. Calmly and peacefully as .
sleeping babe. he, who by his slightest
word, could have plunged Europe into q
war, the horrors of which would defy
description, fell into the dreamlsss sleep
which he feared not. He, though the
head OF the church whose members
number over 7o,0Oo,oOO persons. took
his last rites = few days before death
claimed him from all his greatness.
At 2:l5 O'Clock this afternoon the
summons came, and few hours later
the thunderous booming OF cannon At
Lividia and ST. Petersburg announced
that the car was dead. and that he who
had been the Grand Duke Nicholas,
reigned in his stead. On lightning
wings the news OF Russia's loss spread
throughout the world, and 1t is safe ia
say that everywhere the intelligence
ereated sympathy for the family Of him
VINO by his policy had maintained the
peace OF Europe. From America came
words Of sympathy, for the dead ruler
had always been . friend Of the great
republic Of tho west. and Americanv
have not forgotten how we'll his father,
friendship sustained the north in the
war OF the rebellion.
Among the peasants OF Russia he will
be mourned with deep and abiding
sorrow. for was he not the peasant
czar?" Noae OF the grandiloquent titlea
borne by him was thought as much Of
as the one bestowed upon him by his
lowly subjects, whose virtues were mag
nifsd in him and whose vices in him
were entirely lacking.
He who denies the popularity of the
czar among the lowly classes OF Russia
is blinded by prejudice. His kind acts
to them in their seasons OF plague and
famine will never be forgotten, and to-
night in thousands upon thousands Of
homes, from Vladivostock on the Pacific
to the fortress OF the Caucasus millions
OF people as they kneel before their
icons will pray from the bottom OF theii
hearts for the reposs of the soul OF theiy
''little father" who was to them "a
great in soul as he was in stature.
There will be sincere mourning, too,
in the royal and imperial families o.
Europe. Not the conventional mourn
ing prescribed by rule. but the mourn
ing OF little children. For who has not
heard of the annual visits of the czar to
Copenhagen. the home Of his beloved
czarins, where with the children Of en-
perors, kings and princes around him,
he was the biggest child of them all.
joining in all their sports and romping
with them like big boy.
His death will DC a most bitter loss to
the beloved wife he loved so well that
it was proverb in st. Petersburg that
he was the "only Russian who was true
to his wife,"
His home was an ideal one. and all his
pleasure was found with his own family.
But as the czar. and not the man, he
could bs as stern, as unrelenting as fate
itself He has banished men and women
to Siberia, but they were men and
women who sought to kill him. or to
overturn the government OF which he
-Aa the absolute head. cad which hes