The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-23
LAR TO GET DIVORCE
|sSIAN RULER DIsPLEAsED
 WITH HIS SPOUSE.
k of Male Heir to Throne Her hief offending-Has Likewise Become Unpopular Among
 the Courta Attaches. <

Petersburg Special CablegTam. 3 q he Czarina has been . victim of pro nd and growing melancholy since her e of becoming mother again was he'd two months ago. To add to her pair a noted physician of Vienna who | made a study of her ancestors has prted that for some hundreds or years women of her stock have been greatly .the preponderance, that the mothers e had families chiefly composed Of ghters. Her woeful eountenance ana absentmindedness to the point or bmy silence in the company of others Ie strengthened belief in the rumor It the Czar is seriously thinking or Ing the advice of high church digni- i es to divorce her in order that he Y marry a woman whose children will | all be daughters.
 .he Czarfna is the mother of four chill n. all girls. She thought she had one re chance of regaining the good will of l Russian people by presenting the Czar h son this Autumn, but she was med to the bitterest disappointment pugh one of the mysterious freaks of lre.
 sople outside of this country cannot prehend me eagerness of the Rus ls for an heir to the throne, as no nan can reign in Russia while the e line holds out. One powerful reason wishing a son born to the Czar Is to e a peaceful succession. It Is. feared the Czar's rather frail brother, now presumptive, may not live long, and If Nicholas passes away without an
 the empire may be rent by strife veen his four uncles for-the throne. the Russian church authorities who e power to divorce and who suspect
 the Czarina's forced conversion to r so-called orthodox belief was not ere are said to. be pressing the "au- Waf Af or pIsaufa a Gf fn mt her
 Unpopular at Court.
 4le Czarina's lot is made still unhap- by numerous courtiers whose enmity has aroused. Beine the daughter of en Victoria's favorite daughter, Alice. has inherited or acquired good Ny of her grandmother's' ideas about ,riety and reform. Soon after the ly and popular Princess Alix of Hesse ume Czarina Alexandra Feodorovna saw a court lady smoking in the pal and remarked loud enough for the of- <ier to hear that she regarded cigar in a woman's mouth as offensive as path in a mans. She forbade the lady he court to smoke in her presence, ough her own sister, Grand Duchess se, smokes like locomotive, or even o near her with the smell of tobacco 1er garments. Thereupon the women m to spitefullv> call her "The Ger " and "The Englishwoman'-f in es and habits she is more English i German--and the men soon echoed epithets.
 Officials Dislike Her
 < preover. many once high officials have r grievances. That long time impos- court figure. Prince Sandy" Dolgo- ;i, was turned out of the position of i'd master of ceremonies by the Czar- because she regarded his airs and Q of his peculiar wife as insufferable.
 Czarina peremptoriiy dismissed on Frederick, an old minister of the 4. for disobeying her order not to .raph anything when the CEar was
 two years ago without letting her It, The baron had answered an anx-
 message of inquiry from the Czars her.
 ,meroIs other dignitaries trace their nfall to the Czarina and 1t is even ,pered that the late Count Muraveff, herlv foreign minister. committed sui
 because she blocked plan he had to rob England when embarrassed of nand of the Red Sea. It can easily urnaised. therefore that the Czarina he object of the revenge of powerful onages and that their intrigues alone i'd make her life miserable.
 The Family Tainted.
 q Czar, whose marriage with Princess
 was real love match. is not only tIv distressed over his cherished 's condition. but is exceedingly aix-
 about his brother, the heir presump-