Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-02-13 | Page 8 | The Death of Ex-King Milan

THE DEATH OF O EXI KING MILAN 1 rHE rr DEATH OF MILAN coming a it did so soon soon so n alter after 00 th thI I I I demise lemise of t Queen Victoria presented a sad contrast to tou the passing p away of England illustrious sovereign AU All that goes to a dying dylag mor mortal mortal tal was WW the deathbed heritage of ne Victoria She Sh wa was surrounded by her chit iren and grandchildren hoe ho was wai snared shared by a nation and ancl sympathised S 4 with by the whole civilized world orld The of o Servia Senia died deserted by friends and family lJ f lUy A message sent to tu hs his son BOn and to hi hEa wife Ife was wan unheeded Just before be he died he re re a note from Queen Qu en Nata that t if her presence were really de desired dered she he rome come but Iut neither n she be ator or the son on who had succeeded to the throne of Servia was wan with Ida the fallen monarch in his bis last lut hours EiM Ei the Contrast between the th deaths death of the and the queen was wasn wb n nt t greater than the difference in their lives In Victorias s long bug o life Ufe was ex e I the highest hight t ty f of loving virtuous womanhood As An queen she ex ox elf j the th prerogatives o r office always with the th view vS to the welfare of I her subjects and her ber influence for good 1 had bad a far deeper effect on th the tho poli poll policies cies eie of If he ht her ministers than the world imagined In life w we find al almost I most an exact t ac t antithesis As An a man nan he b f was wan dissolute end and immoral as king kingho I he ho was selfish and careless rare of the welfare of his hla subjects subject His married life Ife I was He and aDd his Russian R wife were illegally divorced Later there thereas van as dsa a reconciliation which bieh revolted re only in renewed quarrels and nd a ft final separation i arati m in As Asa a monarch in la pursuance of ambition he embroiled hi hk country in disastrous wars wan W and in 1 SS was wan forced tor d to abdicate te when he Ills I Isun son sun succeeded Buc dd him hint to the trone throne I IThe The ends enda of both Victoria and Milan were in keeping with their lives I and t le afi e what is ill too often otten overlooked that rewards r dB and punish punishment I ment are re in the great eat majority of eaten cases not delayed until unU another world Is reached reab It would be hard to imagine a happier death than that pf f the pure II C and I a nd I va ble queen of cd f England I or a greater torment tan tSan must have liae eked ed the dying bh q of the for m x kI of Servia 1