The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-22
EDITORIAL NOTES

The first railway in New Jersey, called the Camden & Amboy, was opened eighty-one years ago today. Oct. 22, 1882. It was fourteen miles in length, and it's termini were at Flights town and Bordentown- The latter place was then famous, as the home of Joseph Bonaparte, brother of Napo- leon. The Camden 6 Amboy line was Incorporated in 18S0.s The first road iii Pennsylvania, the Mauch Chunk & Summit Hill, nine miles, was opened tp 1927; in Massachusetts. the Granite, at Quincy, thr ee miles, in 1927; in Ma TyIand, the Baltimore & Ohio, fifteen miles, in 1850; in South Carolina. st charlestons seven miles, in 1880; in New York the Mohawk & Hudson, twelve miles. in 1881; in Virginia, the Richmond & Chesterfield, thirteen miles, in 1881; in Louisiana, the New Orleans & Lake Ponchartrain, five miles, in 1881; in Delaware, the New castle & Frenchtown. sixteen miles, in 1892: and in Ohio and Michigan, the EErie & Kalamazoo, from Toledo, O., to Adrian. Mich, thfrty-two miles, in 1886
 This is the birthday of two of the worlds queens:
 Augusta Victoria. Empress Of Ger many. and that dear, divine Sarah
 
 The first lady of Germany will pass her hfty-hfth milestone today, having been born at Do1zig, Oct. p, 1858, the daughter of Duke Friedrich of Schles- wig Ho1stein onderburg-Augusten burg. Like Mime. Sarah, the older she grows the younger she looks. Although her hair is of snowy whiteuess, her face is youthful
 The sublime Sarah, now a great grandmother and proud of 1t, has had several birthdays attributed to her. According to the best authority-Mme. Sarah herself-Rosina Sarah was born in Paris.-mong Doc. must we tell it?- on Oct 22 1S45, and this is sixty-eight years ago today. Other tauthorities' give Oct z3rd of that year as her birthday, still others insist that she was born Oct 22. 1S44 and one bio- graphical reference gives April 9, 1S43. as the date, and Havre as the place of her arrival in the world.
 Mime. Sarah's mother was a Jewess and her father Frenchman, who held a petty government office. She was @ducated in a convent, and at eighteen made her theatrical debut at the Com. edie Franchise. Since then she has "died" on the stage nearly 50O00 times. Stabbing has been her favorite method, but she has died from self-adminis-, tered poison over dO,0 900 times jumped into the Seine some I, 900 times and has sent no less than 5000 stage bull lets crashing through her brain. After so many tragic experiences, it is small wonder that the great actress keeps a coffin in her house, and has built tomb, partly with her own hands. Mime. Bernhardt has often declared that death has no terrors for her, and that. in whatever form the grim angel comess-and may he be long delayed!- he will not be unfamiliar to her.
 Despite the gIories of her career, Mime. Bernhardt asserts that her greatest joys have come from mother hood and grand-motherhood and great-grand-mo However, she hold that motherhood is not incompat- ible with a career. nor with voting.
 Nobody can deny that Mime, Sarah has solved the problem Of how to be young though old. Here is the secret: Eggs and shrinps. but otherwise vegetarian diet; work ten months a year. and rest two months, preferably by the sea; exercise every day, be aI- truistic in spirit, aRd don't worry
 Lord Alfred Douglas, brother of the Marquis Of Queensberry and son of the author of the famous prize ring code, is forty three today. He has had a spectacular career in England, Canada and the United States. Last April he was convicted of labelling his xather-tn-law, and a few months be- OLv the petition of a. money-lender, who was a creditor for $87O Lord AIfred's association with Oscar Wilde, the poet which resulted in a public scandal and Wilde's Imprisonment in Reading gao1 has also recently been rehashed in the course of libel suit brought by Doug las against the author of a biography Of Wilde. Lord Alfred spent some years in Canada and the Northwestern States, and followed number of un- conventional occupations. He was the editor of The Academy for several years, and is the author Of ''The City Of the SouI'' and a volume of Son nsts.'
 American negroes will begin in New York to-day a celebration of the semi centenary of their emancipation from slavery. A feature of the celebration will be great exposition, showing the Industrial, education and religious pro- gress of Afro-Americans since Lin coln's proclamation
 An Eng1ishman, John Hawkins, was responsible for the introduction of the first black slaves in America Tn 1882 Hawkins whose project had been financed by wealthy Londoners, fitted out three ships and sailed to the coast of Guinea By Hreachery. decep- ton and force he procured 300 negroes and transported them to Santo Do mingo, where he sold them to the spaniards. Queen Elizabeth roundIy denounced the traffic, to which Flaw tins piousIy replied that he was en- gagged in the work for thes good of &he souls of the Africans as it intro Aalced them to Christianity and civiI- sEation. The descendants of these and. ether negroes sold to the Spaniards of &anto Domingo were later to rise against their masters, and, under the leadership of the great Touissaint FOuverture- and Dessa1iaes, drive the