The morning call., 1894-11-02
DEATH Is HIS.
Alexander Has Gone
to Rest.
NICHOLAS THE CAR.
Sits on the Throne of
His Fathers.
PEACEFUL AT THE LAST.
The Dying Emperor Blessed His
Family.
ALL RUSSIA PLUNGED in GRIEF.
Whatever the Worlds Estimate OF
Him, the Moujiks Loved Their
Little Father.
The Dying Emperor Blessed His
Family.
ALL RUSSIA PLUNGED in GRIEF.

ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 1.-The angel of
death, in the shadow of whose pinons the
autocrat OF all the Russias has been
lying for many days, to-day beckoned and
the soul of the man VINO had In bis hands
the lives and destipies of millions upon
millions was borne away.
Calmly and peacefully as a drowsy babe,
he who. by his slightest word, could have
plunged Europe into war, the horrors of
which would defy description, fell into
dreamless sleep.
He. though the head OF the church
whose members number over 10000, 900
persons took his last rites few days be-
fore death claimed him from all his great
ness. At 2:15 o'clock this afternoon the
summons came, and few hours later the
thunderOus booming of cannon at Livadia
and st. Petersburg announced that the
Gar 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 it is
safe TO say that everywhere the intelIi-
gence created sympathy for the family of
him who. By his policy. had maintained
the peace OF Europe. From America came
words Of sympathy. for tbs dead ruler had
always been friend of the great republic
of the West, and Americans have not for
gotten how well his fathers friendship
sustained the North in the time OF the
rebellion.
Among the peasants of Russia he will
be nlourned with a deep and abiding sor-
row, for was he not the Peasant Gar?
None of the grandloquent titles borne by
him was thought as much of as the one
bestowed upon him by his lowly subjects,
whose virtues were magnified in him, and
whose vices IN him were entirely lacking.
He who denies the popularity of the
Gar among the lower classes of Russia
is blinded by prejudice. His kind acts to
them in their seasons Of plague aud
famine will never be forgotten, and to-
night in thousands upon thousands OF
homes, from Vladiyostock on the Pacific
to the Vistula, and from Archangel to the
fOrtresses of the Caucasus, millions of
people as they kneel before their icons
will pray from the bottom of their hearts
for the repose of the soul of their Little
Father" who was to them as great in soul
as he was in stature.
There will be sincere mourning, too, in
the royal and imperial families, sf Europe.
Not lne conventional mourning prescribed
by rule. but the mourning of little chill
dren. For who has not heard of the an
nual visits of the Gar to Copenhagen, the
home of his beloved Czarins, where.
with the children of Emperors.
Kings and Princes around him, he
was the biggest child of them all
joined in all their sports and romping with
them like big boy. His death will be a
most bitter loss to the wife he loved so
we'll that It was a proverb in st. Peters
burg 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 Gar, and not the man, ne
could be as relentless as stern fate itself
He has banished men and women to ST.
IBERIA, but they were men and women who
sought TO kill him, or to overturn the
Government OF which he was the absolute
head, and which he, by the most solemn
oatbs in the mother city of Russia-Mos-
cow-had sworn to maintain in It's integ-
rity.
Since Tuesday. when the doctors in
formed the Gar that there was not longer
room for hope, his Majesty composedly
waited for the end, attending to necessary
state and family affairs in short intervals
OF consciousness and freedom from pain.
These were necessarily brief. the doctors
having had recourse to sedatiyes 10 pro-
cure sleep and allay pain.
On Wednesday the Gar was still able to
be taken to a window OF the palace,
whence he gazed out upon the country he
loved. The night passed with all the
symptoms and dry cough. DR.. Zaccbarid
remained in attendance upon him through
out the night, only snatching brief inter
vals for sleep in the anterooms.
The morning broke with rain and wind
and heavy clouds. and the weather was
much colder. AS the day advanced weak
ness increased so rapidly that the Gar
himself recognized that he could only live
a few hours. lie expressed a desire to
receive the sacram ent. which was admin
istered to him by Court Chaplain Yanisheff
and Father Ivan, in ibe presence of the
whole family.
The Car then conversed long and
earnestly with Father Ivan, concluding by
asking his family to again gather around