The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-02
THE HUMAN PROCESSION


 Few modern monarchs have ascend
 ed the throne enjoying such a wide
 popularity among their subjects or fac
 ing a future so pregnant with possi-
 bilities as Constantine, the new King
 of the Hellenes. Able, diplomatic,
 keenly intellectual, related to the most
 powerful royal houses of Europe. Con
 stantine has the added advantage of
 youth, for he will pass his forty-f1fth
 milestone today. To their Konstan-
 tinos-to give him his Greek name
 the Hellenes look for the accomplish ment and realization of their centuries
 old dream, the restoration of the an-
 cfent gIortes of the Byzantine empire.
 The last of the Byzantine imperial
 house was Constantine XII, and there is tradition, firmly held by the Greeks for generations that another Con
 stantine would be raised up as the restorer of the vanished regime. To the blonde Dane, therefore, there opens up a vista that leads to an imperial throne in Constantinop1e, the Byzan-. tium of the ancients, the linking of the present with glorious past, and the triumph of the cross over the cres- cent. Vain dreams, perhaps, and yet stranger visions have come true.
 King Constantine was born in Athens on August 3, 1868. and was edu- cated by private tutors from Germany, who taught him to speak German, French, English, Danish and Latin. Afterward he graduated from the Greek military academy, and travel ed in Germany, France, and Denmark, studying military maneuvers. Always in the forefront of his mind was the possibility of war with Turkey, and in 1897 it came. The Grown Prince had warned the ministers and the peo- pie that the country was all unpre- a i0f Ta1Tf ad- monitions fell on ears deafened by ha- tired and passion. The Greek army, armed with condemned French rifles purchased for $2 each, and with artil- Iery long obsolete, was no match for the Turks. When the war was over and Greece had been huniIiated be- fore the world, the Greeks turned up on the King and Crown Prince, and | laid the responsibility for defeat at the | door of the royal palace. Constantine | was hooted whenever he went into the | streets. Only four years ago the pres ent King was driven from Athens by l popular clamor because he had oppos- l ed the movement for the annexation | of Crete. He shook the dust of Greece ! from his feet and went to St Peters | burg to take a command in the Czars army, but was soon called back, and | was received with wild acclaim. He again assumed the leadership of the army, and in the recent war with | Turkey led the forces that captured SaIonikf.
 King Constantine is a brother-in-law of Emperor William of Germany, but | he is at "outs'' with that monarch. was brought up in the Greek faith, and his wife, Queen sSo-r phia, renounced the Lutheran religion to accept that of her husband. This action on the part of his sister arous- ed the anger of the Kaiser.
 STa ls111or of ia almost l giant in stature, towering well over six feet. The King and Queen So- phia have had five chiIdren-Crovn Prince George, now in his twenty~ fourth year; Prince Alexander, twap- -y: Princess Helene, seventeen; Prince Paul, thirteen and Princess Irene, ten
 William Watson, the distinguished English poet, was born in Yorkshire 1fty-five years ago today. the son of ] merchant His first volume of verse vas published in 1S8o The author # '@The Woman with the Serpent's Tongue" has made several visits to and some of his impressions Ire set forth in his latest collection of verse, t"The Muse in Exile
 The first edible celery grown in Eng and was introduced by the French Ta1lard, during his captiv- ty after his defeat at Blenhein by Marlborough 2o9 years ago today. Like omatoes and other vegetables, celery vas long considered to be poisonous. md this belief was not without basis if fact as regards the wild celery, a ank, coarse and peculiar smelling ,lant with furrowed stalk and leaves, which was to be ound along ditcbes and in marshes II over Europe. The French were the lrst to reduce it to cultivation, by which the stalks lost their acrid and 'oisonous qualities and assumed the nild and sweet aromatic taste which makes celery so delicious in salads i nd as relish. Marshal Tallard was ! cry fond Of the plant, and, while held '
 prisoner in England, began it's cuI- ivation there. At first the English were mortified at the thought of eat ' ng what they called t'smallage." and 7 1oked upon as a pestfferous weed, but { a taste for celery was ac- : uired, and its cultivation spread to lmerica. To the botanist celery is nown as Apium graveolens, while in rench it is celeri, in Italian seleri, in ferman selinon, and in Latin the same . s in German. the word being synony- nous with parsley.