The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-24
THE MoURsFUL FATE OF THE GAR

The death Of the car OF Russia at the
early age Of 20 Is not far OF. He is liable
to die any day: his kidney, have become
50 enfeebled that any sudden cold would
stop their action and death By blood pol
soning would soon follow.
Gen. Hancock, a man Of suparb. robust
physiqae like the cxIr. took cold while
suffering from kidney trouble OF long
standing, and died IN few days of blood
poisoning.
The family Of the car since the days OF
Emperor Paul OF Russia. who governed
50 insanely that ne was assassinassd, seem
doomed TO melancholy fate. Alexander
the First died In his prime. the victim of
confirmed melanchoiia- Emperor Mich
olas, the father Of Alexander the Second,
committed suicide. according TO the most
authentic reports current AT the time Of
hls death, although some authorities hold
that he was murdered and others that he
died Of a broken heart over the defeat of
his armies in the Crimea. Alexander the
Second was slain in the prime Of life by
nihilisti: bomb.
Alexander the Third, who is on his
desthbed. has had a melancholy reign.
Like his grandfather Nicholas and his
father. he was q man of giant frame and
vast muscular strength; he has led an mp
right and abste mious life. aud yet We find
him dying before he - so of 8 disease that
is usually associated with intemperance
and lifelong dissipation.
The probability is that his disease Is
hereditary, aud that II has made rapid sd-
vances TO q fatal conclusion because of the
melancholy life that the car has been
obliged to lead.
Since the day he mounted The throne he
has known that his life has been sought
by nihiiisi conspirators; he has been shut
up within his palace walls as within a
fortress; he has been obliged 10 travel sur
rounded by swarm OF soldiers and police
his life has been repeatedly attempted.
and more than once ne has escaped
by a miracle. lie has found traitors and
assassins nesting within his palace walls;
he has found them among srmy and navy
officers; among his nobility, and such
life must inevitably produce anxiety and
ultimately chronic melancholia. a condi-
ton sure 10 develop the germs Of his her
edltary disease.
II Is . popular error that the disease OF
which the car Is dying is one 20 which
persons OF free life. incorporate in eating
and drinking. are peculiarly prone. This
Is mistake. Many persons of absolutely
pure lives and Absieminous habits, such as
pious women and clergymen whose lives
have been models OF seli-restraint, die OF
such diseases. Hard mental labor and ex-
perisnee exhaasting to the nervous system,
involving chronic mental anxiety, seem to
develop such diseases as rapidly as gross
dissipation.
Alexander the Third is the only man of
the house Of Romanofi who has ever led
good life. who has ever been faithful
husband and upright father. His prede-
csssors have been distinguished for lieen-
tiousness or intemperAnce; some of them
for both vices. Bu; the present car has
led good lite. and yet with a gigantic.
robust frame he is on his dea.hbed with a
lingering disease At ~.
Doubtless the nervous anxiety, the
mental worry. the hypochondrA caused
BY his knowledge that he was a target day
and night FOR asssssins has helped 70 rap
idly develop the germs Of bis hereditary
disease and force Il 20 a fatal conclusion.
Just rs Gen. Grants cancer never made
its appearances until after a severe fall.
which famed him. followed by the crash
of Grant and Ward In Wall street which.
10 this proud and honest man. was 4 moot
sgoniEsng experience.
Gen. Sherman Was once laughed AZ for
saying that Ferdinand Ward killed Grant /;
that il. had il not been for that frigatfullv
depressing disaster Grants cancer would
never have come TO the surface and be
might have lived ten 70 fifteen years
longer AID thea died OF some other com.
plant
Nevertheless Gen. sherman was prob
ably right, for great Enslish surgeon, for
twenty years in charge OF the London
Cancer hospital. stated in the Nsassesata
Ceafurv that the large majority Of persons
suffering from cancer we're women. and
the only explanation offered wss that the
virus Of cancer slGmbcred in the system
until the resistant powers OF nature ~
some bodily shock or depressing mental
exnerisnee lost their vitality.
Women are more prone 10 mental de-
preston and more sensitive 20 bodily
shocks than men. Women safer feSrfully
| from bereavement Of pArenE, husband 81
child; their long vigiis by the sick bed ex-
haas, them: their lonely breeding ove'
domestic loss impair, their vitality and
therefore the sluneeFing virus q hsredi-
tAry disease soon claims them FOR It's vie
tim. THIS Is tEns Of consumption. of oaa.
eer. Of diabetes and kindred kidney COM