San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-10-11
THE GAR ALSO Is HUMAN.

The cable carried the touching
story OF the Cars ailments and
their cause across the ocean. We
are told this:
VIENNA, Sept. 3O.-The Tageblatt
publishes letter from st. Peters
burg, stating that the Gar is suf-
fering with two distinct maladies.
He has been affected for some time
with highly-developed neurasthe-
MIA, coupled with anRmia. When
! the attacks are severer than usual
his whole household is alarmed.
The second disease was long in CO.
veloping. At first it was taken for
diabetes, then Bright's disease and
inally for tuberculosis affection
OF the kidneys. The kidney affection
was aggravated lately by a cold
contracted during a night visit to
his son, Grand Duke George. Be-
fore he left st. Petersburg the Gar
on one occasion visited a telegraph
office at l o'clock in the morning
and sent telegram to Abbas-
tuman, inquiring after the Grand
Duke Georges health. His Ma
jesty waited at the office for an
hour and a half for the reply,
which, when it came, proved I'M
satisfactory. He returned to his
bedroom, and throwing himself in
to chair, exclaimed: ooh, God,
what have l done to be so severely
punished ~
On the night of Grand Duke
Georges arrival at Spala, the Gar
visited his room after every
body had retired for the night,
passing half dressed through the
cold corridors. He watched his
sleeping son for long time, with
the result that he caught chill.
The Gar like many other hui
man beings is an affectionate pa
rent. AS David lamented over the
death of his son, Absalom, so the
mighty potentate Of Russia Ia
ments in state of self denial over
his sick sick son, George; he is hui
man, his heart is vulnerable.
The Car like many ordinary
mortals in the hour of visitation,
feels and confesses that there is a
God of justice above us who pun
ishes the sinner according to his
wickedness, and cries out, "Oh,
God, what have / done to be so Sc
verely punished" There is no n.y.
pocrisy in this exclamation and
no stimulation. The man who
has power unlimited, whose
very command is law for
hundreds of millions of people, who
reigns on earth like a demi-god, in
the solitude and silence of night,
overwhelmed with anxiety and APP
prehension, sorrow and grief, kneels
in the husband sings fortl shs coIS
fession, his belief In a Gou of JUS
tice, the dicta of righteousness, as
Pharaoh of old, groaning under
heavy visitations exclaimed: "God
is just, | and my people are the
wicked" You see, the Car is
human he signs, laments and be-
lieves.
And now comes the mystery. The
ilidh w hOSC uuiltu
the abyss of misery hundreds Of
thousands of human beings who
sends myriads Of men and women
to the mines OF Siberia to wear out
a miserable existence, who drove
thousands to despair and suicide,
to the gallOws; the same man who
exiled tens of thousands of Jews
and dissenters, drove the others
into crushing poverty and starva-
tion-This man in the hour Of his
agony asks God what he has done
to be punished so severely. This
is psychological mystery, case
of self-delusion and self-deception
without parallel or precedent in
history, so that we are inclined to
believe the whole story is fictitious
There can be no such contradic-
ton in human nature, and the
Gar is human after all, no God
and no satan. Unless some one
solves this mystery, we cannot be-
lieve this story.-American Israel
tie.