New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-11-18
T0LST0Y GROWS WEAKER
Poor Heart Action Causing HIS
Physicians Grave Anxiety.
HIS RECOVERY DOUBTFUL
Neither Countess Nor Other
members of His Family Al
lowed to See the Patient.

Astapova. Russia, Nov. 17.--Althoush
nope mas not yet been given up, the at
tehdailts of Count Tostoy recognize that
MS life Is in the balance, and that al
though the strong constitution of the
great Russian has carried him through
other grave struggles against disease
his system has become so weakened and
his heart has responded so feebly to
restoratives that it will be next to a
miracle if he RECEIVERS from his present
attack
During the carly stages of the infam-
nation OF the lungs from which he IS
suffering it was the temperature when
gave cause for anxiety: now it is the
heart. The patients temperature was
not particularly high to-day. but the
heart action was extremely bad, Toll
stoy alternated part of the time between
Inconsistencies and deliriup.
1t was announced early this evening
that the Inflammation had been con-
fined to a comparatively small section
of the lung and that expectoration was
free. The heart, however. caused con
ful stimuant, was administered. Oxy-
gen was not resorted 10.
The physicians have issued frequent
bulletins, in which they refer to the per
sistent temperature. \ cIyster was adj
miniStered as a means of relieving this.
and as an Immediate result the patients
temperature fell from 1913 to 100, less,
lily there was easier breathing, and the
pulse dropped slightly.
The patient faces a critical night He
was sleeping quietly at a late hour.
An exhortatory telegram addressed TO
Tolstoy by Antonfus, metropolitan Of St
Petersburg, presiding over the Synod,
and the departure Of Bishop Cyril for
Astapova mark the extreme solicitude
of the Church to gather Tolstoy into its
folds.
The text of the telegram from the
Metropolitan is as follows:
Since the very first moment of your
rupture with the Church | necessarily
prayed. and I pray now. that God may
restore you to the Church. Possibly He
is soon to summon you to the judgment
seat. ! nplOre yoU in your sickness now
| to reconcile yourself with the Church and
the Orthodox Russian people. May God
bless youi
Count Tchertkoff and the other attend
, ants decided that it was unthinkable to
submit the telegram to Tolstoy in his
present condition.
At the time OF the writer's serious i'll
ness al Crimea in 1900 similar exhorta-
ton was sent to him, and secret orders
were dispatched to Crmca to allow only
the representatives of the Church en-
trance to the bedcFamber during his
dying moments, as the synod had de-
termined at any cost to bury him. On
that occasion, when he regained CON
sciousness, Tolstoy directed this answer
to the clericais:
Even in the face of death twice two
makes four
Only his intimates who have been with
him since his flight from Yasnaya Poll
ana are permitted to he at the bedside.
The authors wife and others of the FAM
lily who have come here are refused ad-
mission to the hut in which the father is
lying. lest their presence excite the
patient.
London. Nov. 1S-A dispatch from St.
Petersburg TO The Times says that the
Holy Synod has been discussing the ques-
ton of resembling the decree of excom-
muncation against ToIstoy. Premier Stoly-
pin is urging The synod to lose no time in
deciding the question one way or another.
He points out the consequences OF refusing
Christian burial in some form
The Reputation of his error on Toistoy's
part. however. is absolutely necessary be-
fore the synod can 20 against the canon
law regarding communication 1t is be
lieved that the Bishop of Tamboff has gone
to Astapova to ascertain the views on this
point of Tostoy. either from himself or his
immediate friends.