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Show And strangers who happened into the land seked the cause of all this hilarity; this dissolution of sorrow and gravity. Had the war eventually ended? Not at all The little "Csardlne" Alexlar bad just donned his first pair of pants 1 . . .. TIME FOB, EEJOICUS-Q. All Russia was rejoicing. The Czar was pacing up and down his palatial Ubrary, his face wreathed In smiles, and a pleasing and satisfied look In hi ' bright, blue eyes. The Czarina was the . picture - of happiness Itself, a she loung-ed beneath the oldVgold tapestries In her boudrtr, a flush of ecstasy stand- - ? out on tte cheeks that were usually so pallia. ..Outside the colossal pa!ace the Czar's ' tut; 'ta f r.i'T-.lng merry anthems cf rri,.se. Its L.UXa that h-jrri'"-t'' i-l fro r'i only cheerful occupdits X .o ha,J i ...-3 of glatines for every- , one whom they encountered. Kiosks were beautifully decorated. The good news had spread from the borders of Hungary to th Black sea. The peasant forgot their hard struggles strug-gles for the right to exist, and were filled with gratification at the message which had gone forth from the palace. Patriarch and th nobility were raising rais-ing glasses of kumls and toasting their grand rulers. All was gayety where before be-fore dreary silence and expectancy had relfrned. , The black cloud which had hef-n j-'n-erf'-sf "for so many, year over i ar 1 id rreite- into sun j p..ln, a- i: jrol en effulgence lit up I the t.-oa mlrttfu countenances. |