The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-11-02


his stead. On lightning wings the news
of Russia's loss spread throughout the
world, and it is safe to say that everywhere
the intelligence created sympathy for the
family Of him who by his policy had MAIN
tanned the peace Of Europe.
From America came words Of sympathy,
for the dead ruler had always been friend
of the great republic Of the west and
Americans have not forgotten how well
his fathers friendship sustained the north
| in the war Of the rebellion.
Among the peasants of Russia he will be
mourncd with % deep and abiding sorrow,
I for was he not the peasant czar?" None Of
| the grandiloquCnt titles borne by him was
| thought as much of as the one bestowed
/ upon him by his lowly subjects, whose vir-
! tues were magui1ied in him, and whose
! vices i'm him were entirely lacking He
who denies the popularity of the car
among the lowly classes Of Russia is
blinded by prejudice His kind acts to
, them in their seasons of plague and fam
inc will never be forgotten, and today in
I thousands upon thousands of homes, from
| VladiN Nostook, in the Pacific, TO the fort
resses' of the Caucasus millions Of people
are praying from the bottom of their
hearts for the rcpose of tho soul of their
"Little Father, who was to them as great
in soul as he was in stature.
And there will be sincere mourning, too,
in the royal and imperial families of
Europe Not the conventional mourning
prescribed by rule, but the mourning Of
little children For who has not heard of
the annual visits Of the car to Copenhagen,
the home OF his beloved cZarina, when,
with the children of empcrors kings and
princes around him he was the biggest
child Of them all, joining in all their sports
and romping with them like a big boy.
His death will be most bitter loss tC
the wife he loved so well that it was q
proverb in St Petersburg that he was "thC
only Russian who was true TO his wife u
His home life was an ideal one, and all his
pleasure was found with his own family.
But as the cZar and not the man b,
could be as stern and unrelontiug as fat,
itself He has banished men and womer
to Siberia but they were men and womeI
who sought to kill him or TO oyorturn th,
government of which he was the absolute
head, and which he, by the most solemn
oaths in the mother city Of Bussia-Mos
cow-had sworn to maintain in its integ
rity.
5 Since Tuesday, when the doctors in
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room for hope, his majesty calmly waite
] for the end, attending to necessary stat
2 and family affairs in the short intervals q
3 consciousness and freedom from pair
+ These were necessarily brief, the doctor
$ having had recourse TO sodatiyes to pre-
cure sleep and allay pain, On Wodnesda
4 the czar was still able to be taken TO
+ window of the palace, whence he gaze
out upon the country he loved so well Q
to earn for himself the appellation of til
peasant czar" The night passed wit
2 an aggrayation of all the symptoms and
C continuous distressing cough The do
% tors and the czarina remained In atten,
Is ance upon him throughout the night, onl
/ snatching brief intervals for sleep in Il
ante-rooms.
The morning broke with rain and wiI
', and heavy clouds and the weather mus
u colder As the day advanced the weakne
Il increased so rapidly that the czar himsel
unconscious, recognized that he could lii
only few hours. He expressed a desire
D receive the sacrament, which was admi
II istered tohim by Court Chaplain VanishC
1t and Father Ivan, in the presence of Il
3 whole family.
Y The ozar then cOnversed long and go
/ nestly with Father Ivan, concluding
ID asking his family 30 gather round hil
lt He spoke 60 each member separately al
er at the greatest length with the ozarin
II He blessed all his children present. 7
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