Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-03-20
snscIal correspondence.

- T. PETERSBURG March 9--Em-
press Alexandra OF Russia. the
cars wife, is the unhsppiost
woman under the sun. Her life
Is nothing more than prolonged mis-
cry. and she prays fervently for death
Co relieve her from the crushing bur
dens OF her pitiabe existence at the
imperial court OF Russia Her fate
may well excite the deep sympathy OF
the civilized world for although she is
a victim OF that unholy system of gov
eminent that still prevails I'm her hus-
bands dominions. she IS an innocent
sufferer for the terrible wrongs per-
.petrated by others.
The Empress Alexandra is high
.souled lberal-minded. generous and
loving woman. She is a woman Of the
most refined tastes and generous in
stmcts; she loves the common people.
and their sorrows appeal TO her with
tremendous force. She Is in deep sym
pathy with the progressive movement
in Russia and she abhors the crimes
that have been committed during her
husbands reign and are stiu being per
retrated in Russia day by day. Yet,
far from being able to terminate them.
she herself has been struck down and
her happiness destroyed by that very
system which she would gladly abolish
IN tne interest Of others. Both her
mental and her physical condition are
truly pitiablei She is suffering from
the most extreme form of nervous de
preston and exhaustion She cannot
sleep and she cannot eat. The pro-
longed loss Of appetite and system
attic lack Of nourishment have reduced
her 10 a condition OF physical prostra-
ton.
Is A COMPLETE WRECK.
After tho long summer cruise in the
Baltic sea, undertaken primarily i'm the
hope Of restoring her health, the czari-
ma was so weak that she could not
walk ashore, but had to be carried in
am armchair. Now she rarely ven
lures outside the palace, but is gem
orally wheeled about the private
grounds iu a bath chair. She is only
go years old. but she is a complete
wreck Much of her time Is spent ina
fits OF depression, during which she lies
moUonless in apathetic despair. Some
times the terrible calm of her profound
melancholy Is varied by passionate fits
of weeping, which hJrrify and alarm
the members OF her family and the
ladies' Of her suite. At nights she can
not sleep. but sees awful visions OF the
thousands OF unhappy men and women
who during her husbands reign and
by virtue OF the death WarranSs signed
hy his hand have died on the gallows
simply because they held political opn-
ions which were considered objection
bic by the recognized and accredited
representatives, OF law and order, as
these terms are understood in Russia.
When she falls into fitful slumbcrs her
sleep. such as IL Is. r. disturbed by
gruesome dreams and nightmares
dreams OF blood and hellish horrors,
visions Of an inferno created not by
the imagination Of a great horror but
by the revolving realities OF the pre-
dominant political system in Russia
CONSTANT FEAR OF DEATH.
Day and night she broods over the
condition Of Russia and over the uu-
happy isolation OF the imperial family
often she starts up from her gloomy
feNelles IN sudden gust OF rear tndl
assassins who have so often chosen the
rulers OF Russia as the victims OF their
cruel murders may be close at hand in-
tent on terminating With one decisive
blow that system OF oppression which
ls Incorporated in the cars imperial
person. At other times she storms into
lhe nursery 20 make sure that her be-
loved children are an alive having im-
sgined In her mental agony that they
lad already been felled by the dagger
Or "A terrorist or destroyed by the fiag-
ments OF a revolutionary bomb. She