The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-10-28

Carl Sandburg, famous American
poet, and staff correspondent of the
Newspaper Enterprise Association,
returned recently from Stockholm
and other centers of northern Eu-
rope, bringing with him an immense
amount of human interest documents,
pictures and news features from
Russia, Germany and the neutral ma
lions of the north.
One of the most interesting prizes
is a letter-the last one written by
the ex-czarina, before the abdication,
to the ear, who died as Nicholas
Romanoff, plain citizen, being muir
dered by revolutionists.
The strangest letter of love, poll
tics, war and religion ever written
by a woman" Sandburg calls this
document. at was written when the
rumblings of revolutions were shak-
ing the car loose from the throne
of the Romanoff dynasty. 1t is a page
of terrible realities, high tragedy con-
fessions of a wife"
The czarina never saw her husband
as car again after she wrote this let
ter. The next time she saw him he
had stepped off the throne and flung
his crowns, sceptors and emoluments
into the street. Her last words to
him as GEAR were, eve are always
together and shall never be parted.
Goodbye, my dear! Come back
soon. Be good, go to the Mother
Mary church, where l have so often
prayed for you"
When the revolutionary struggles
! in Russia have let down and they
terday rather than today and tomor-
row there will be no more letters pub
lished, it is predicted. The full text
of the czarina's last letter to the car
as car, reads as follows:
Tsarkoe, Selo, Feb. 27, 1917-My
Best Beloved: Sorrow and a hut was
inside of me when l let you go by
yourself without any company at all
from our rare little Bebe. What a
CHASTITY time it is we are living
through! And our parting at this
time makes it all the more CHASTITY.
For now when you are tired and worn
out | cannot be near to take care of
you.
God has laid heavy cross on you.
| wish deep within me that I could
help you carry this burden. You are
brave and plucky. With all of my soul
| am suffering with you, more than
can say in any words | write you.
What can I do more than pray to God
and pray again? Our dear friend
(Rasputin) who now finds himself in
the other world, he, too, prays to God
for you. There he is near to us. But
how willingly | would consent to bear
his comforting and quiet voice now.
I am convinced God is going to re-
ward you for what you must now suf-
fer and stand against. But how long
must we now wait?
1t does seem as though our situa-
ton is going to improve. My dear,
all you need is to be firm ard show
the strength of your hand! That is
| iustwhat the Russians need. You have
never failed to show them kindness
and goodness of heartfelt them now
understand that your fist is doubled
and ready! They ask chat of you
themselves. Many have said lately to
me- eve need the knout" 1t is
strange, but such is the nature of the
Slav.
To be firm now means to be cruel
and warmly loving at one and the
same time. From the time they first
came to know you and Kalinjin min
lister Protopopov) they have been
more quiet. You must teach them
to be afraid of you-your affection
is too little for them. A child that
cares for it's father must be afraid
to be disohedient and bring sorrow to