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his mother should have precedence
over his wife. But what the younger
of the two Expresses resented was
that he should allow himself to be
guided wholly by his mothers COun-
sells. which he preferred to those of his
consort owing to the latter's igno-
rance OF Russian life, customs, tradi-
tons, ideas and prejudices and her
utter lack of sympathy and under
standing Of the land OF her adoption.
Empress Alexandra had talent
for caricature, and one OF her favorite
skits OF this kind was that which rep
resented the Car in an infants high
chair, being fed with pap by a woman
who bore an unmistakable resem-
hlanCe TO her imperial mother-in-law.
After the birth Of the little Caro-
Witch Alexis and the appearance at the
court OF Petrograd of n succession Of
spirltualist takers, beginning with the
Lyons barber, Philippe, and winding
up with the iGnohle Rasputin, Nicholas
was gradiSfly drawn away from his
mother His wife had at length sue
ceeded in supplanting her mother-in-
law as the dominant influence over
him. Something much akin TO an es-
arrangement took place, fostered, of
course. by all the Germanophile ele-
ment at the court Of petrograd and in
the higher cir".es OF tho Government.
Empress Marie could rot Counte-
nance, and alas, could not prevent the
disastrous course pursued by the Mus
covite court and Government. It was
only when the inevitable revolution
came and Nicholas was forced to alb
dictate that his mother few to his
side and spent the night Immediately
following his abandonment of the
crown with him, in her railroad car
at a wayside station on the line TO
Petrosrad, comforting him and coun-
selling him. The following morning
they parted. he to go northward to
his captivity at Tsarskoe -Selo, whence
the Allies were bound in honor to save
him for his personal loyal services
to their cause during the first two
years Of the war--she to make her way
south to tho Crimea. where she has
remained, awaiting his coming with
true maternal patience.
Born and bred as n Princess OF the
Danes. who are perhaps the most
democratic people OF all Europe a
people whose liberalism is OF so AL
Nanced u character That they fronn
on all titles of nobility and refuse
TO recognize any differences of birth
and of rank--she always favored the
Inauguration of liberal reforms i'm
Russia, although Berlin, aware of her
hatred FOL Prussia, ever endoaYorcd
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Fastest Growing Trees

7 lard. fine grained. durable wood
usually grows slowly. A most
remarkable exception is the
eucalyptus, and this gives the tree its
great value in reforestation. It is said
that the eucalyptus grows five times
as rapidly as any other tree. Seed
lings have been observed to make an
average growth of six inches a day.
and one tree attained a height of 1875
feet and diameter of thirty-six
inches in nine years.
The eucalyptus will not thrive where
there are frosts, but in the South it
promises TO go a long way toward
filling the place once occupied by
other hardwoods which have been
greatly reduced by demands for furni-
ture and Cooperage stock.
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mans seem to have taken hendish
delight in preventing news OF prison
ers from reaching their relatives, With
the object of thereby increasing the
miseries OF the war.
The Hopes OF Luffness form part
of that great Scottish house OF Hope
of which the young Marquis Of LIN
lthgow is the chieftain. It is a large
clan, which has played a prominent
role not only in the annals of Scotland
but also in the history of England
and of Holland. while at one time it
was conspicuous in the realms OF
finance and OF society in Paris.
CIansmen often In Court.
Being so numerous, it is not sur
prlsing that the clans name should
frequently appear in litigation in the
English and Scotch courts, and this
therefore gave a certain amount OF
piquancy to an inadvertent remark
made by a leading Scotch di-
vine at a religious service held at
the parish church, near Hopetown
House, at South Queens Ferry County
Linlithgow, on the occasion OF the
coming OF age OF the late Marquis.
The church was crowded with men,
bers OF the Hope clan. Their feelings
can be better imagined than described
when the presiding Presbyterian min
lister on taking his place in the pull
pit opened his sermon with the words.
MY brethren. the world is full OF
blasted hopes"
Lord Rosebery is devoted to his
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uiar disturbances in the streets OF Co
pehhagen with the object OF embar-
RAISING the Danish Government and
compelling 1t to abandon resistance.
IL was one OF these mobs, which
after smashing all the windows OF III.
royal palace, happened to encounter
the carriage in which the late King
Christian was driving with his daurh
ter who then bore the name of Dar-
mar, and began pelting the royal eoui-
page with stones. A sharp flint strIcl,
the young Princess on the forehead.
cutting deep cash, of which the scar
remains to this day, n scar for which
she mas always held the Prussians re-
sponslble rather than the people of
Copenhagen
lr!ncesS Dagmar exchanged her
name for Marie on the occasion Of her
conversion to the Orthodox Greek
Church and OF her wedding at petrn-
grad. Her marriage may be said 10
have been contracted urAer the shadow
of death. For she had previously been
betrothed to her husbands elder
brother the Czarovitch Nicholas AIeX-
androvitch. He succumbed TO an affec-
ton of the lungs within few weeks
Of the date appointed for tho wedding
and when his fianCee was summoned
i'm haste from Copenhagen to his death
bee AT Nice he placed her hand in that
OF his favorite brother Alexander and
entreated them as his last wish and
prayer TO marry one another.
The union thus strangely ARRANGED
developed in course OF time into a full
fiedged love match
Empress Marie may he regarded az
having been tho soul and the real au-
thor OF that Franco Russian alliance
which developed afterward, first OF all
into the Triple Entente and then into
that coalition Of Entente Powers
which has wo- the great war.
Hating the Prussians for what her
native land OF Denmark had suffered AT
their hands, she never rested until she
had drawn her husband away from the
so-called Three Emperor Alliance. a
creation of Bismarck and had through
him committed Russia to an alliance
with France.
She was vdeawake enough 10 he
come aware before she had been long
IN Petrograd that Teuton influences.
then dominant there were Intentionally
/ Oct. mental to the best interests OF tho
land OF her adoption. and that Rus
sias only safety lay in emanCipating
herself from her Teuton servitude and
/ from Teuton reaction and in throwing
! IN her lot with radical France and lib
! crai Great Britain.
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chivalrous, one dav when calling
upon one of his acouaintances in Paris
who hammered to he a Cabinet Minister
at the time he was kent waiting longer
than he relished in the ante-room.
He relieved his feelings bv roundly
abusing the doorkeeper. who in reality
was doing nothing hut his duty. On
the following morning he received at
his hotel on the place vendome a call
that they had come for the purpose
of demanding satisfaction for the in
sults which he had heaped unon their
princinal on the nreviors day giving
him tho choice NJ nistols or of swords
They oxnIained IN ord Dalrenv that
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Bv F. CUNLIFFE-OWEN.

~ y Thursday next just thirty
l eight years will have elapsed
~ since the fateful date when the
shocking assassination Of Alexander
IL, surnamed The Liberator because
of his emancipation Of the serfs,
transformed Crown Princess Marie of
Russia into Czarina and elevated her
to a seat on the always perilous Mus
covite throne. She became Empress
under the most ominous and tragic
circums1aA& For the crown r9ay &c
said to have descended upon her
shapely head, as she knelt by the
deathbed OF her father-in-law, Alex
ander II, and watched grief stricken,
his release from his earthly sufferings,
after he had had the entire lower por-
nm rt his oooy blown to pieces by a
N!hilist bomb on March 10, 1881.
To-day Empress Marie, whose life
from that time on has been one unin-
terrupted strain OF fear and anxiety
for the safety OF those to her most
near and dear, and who may be said
10 have. walked ever since then in
remains one OF the most pathetic fig
ures in Europe. For she is waiting
I'm small villa near Livadia, on the
shores of the Crimean peninsula, for
the coming of that eldest son OF hers,
Nicholas H., whose murder, under the
most frightful and atrocious circum-
stances, has boon repeatedly and cir
cumstantially reported. but whom she
insists upon believing to he still in
the land Of the living and to have
miraculously escaped the horrible des-
tiny said To have been melted out TO
him by the Bolsheviki.
Seventy-two years OF age. her for
merly superb brown hair silvered by
sorrow, retaining but little Of that Gle.
Eance and elasticity of form, Of that
sprightlinef7< OF that vim and win.
someness, which distinguished her as
the most fascinating and interchangeable
OF dancers at the court balls Of Petro.
grad in the days when she was {
mere Crown Princess and before sh,
Lecame burdened by the heavy crown
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for her was to protect her from fur
Their indignities. insults and invasions
OF her privacy by the Bolshevikl bri-
gands and TO see that she was no
longer denied the foodstuffs needed for
her small household.
Then there came that interregnum
between the flight OF the Germans and
the arrival OF the Allies, when for
some days she was again exposed to
the animosities OF the Bolsheviki.
Finally one morning a great war
ship anchored just off the shore on
which her villa was situated. From its
masthead fluttered the white ensign of
England, The Dardanelles had been
opened Constantinople had been oc-
cupied by the Allies, the English fleet
was in the Black Sea, and from that
time on Empress Marie, although she
remains IN her villa awaiting the ar
rival Of her eldest son, has been safe
under the protection OF the great guns
OF that British warsh,p.
Once more her sister. Queen Alexan-
ORA, and her nephew, King George,
have entreated her to avail herself of
the now open route through the Oar
dAnelles to the Mediterranean to take
passage on board an English warship
and to make her home with them in
England. at Sandringham in Norfolk
shire, and at Marlborough House in
London, in country where she has
spent in times gone by so many happy
months and where she is so generally
admired and beloved. But she still lin
gers on, waiting for her first born
convinced that his steps will be guided
thither sooner or later. Every evening
a lamp is placed in the window Of her
bedroom facing inland and kept burn
ing throughout the night to show the
imperial wanderer, II he comes along.
that his mother is still waiting for
him.
C1ar Mothers Fsvorite.
stories nave been circulated to the
effect that there was but little love
lost between Nicholas and his mother
Alexander III. undoubtedly preferred
his younger son Michael But Mich
olas was the favorite OF his mother
from early childhood, and ii was spe
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all parliamentary candidates and there
fore she was out of the race.
Mrs. Hopes behavior during the
electoral campaign excited much rep
rotation in Scotland, at any rate
among the people OF the better class.
1t was shown in court during her suit
for the recovery of her children that
her conduct had been so improper as
10 cause rude comment.
When the judge presiding at the
Court of Sessions at Edinburgh heard
this evidence in theAproceedings which
she had instituted against her mother
in-law he was so shocked that he de-
cided against her.
Yet MVs Hope of Luffness comes of
good stock, and was married in 1871
as Miss Margaret Cockton, daughter
of the late ]. G. Cockton of Kirkbor-
ough, in Cumberland, to Col. George
Everard Hope of Luffness Castle
Aberlady, in East Lothian. The
Colonel went to the front with his
regiment, the Grenadier Guards, al
the outset Of the war and took part In
nearly all the fighting until October,
1911 when he vanished from human
ken during one of the night encoun-
ters and has been missing ever since
His Death JudicialIy Assumed.
As no trace OF him could be found
in any OF the German prison camps,
despite inquiries instituted through
the good offices of King Alfonso of
| Spain and President Ador OF Switzer.
land, his death was at length judicially
assumed by the courts, and while his
/ large estate, including much landed
property in Haddlngtonshire, remained
i vested in the family trustee, including
the Earl OF Stanhope and Sir John
! Hope. NJ p of Craighall, his widow
/ in default OF any will or testamentarN
directions. was appointed guardian OF
/ his two children, of whom the boy in
herits the entire entailed property.
The necessary legal steps are now
BEING taken TO deprive Mrs. Hope per-
y manently of any further care of the
children. making the present pro
vlsional decision of the court final amt
to bar her from Luffness Castle.
1t may be added that Lady, Mary
like so many mothers In the presen,
war. will not believe that her only snrl
is dead. She is convinced in her owr
mind that he will reappear just in thy.
same way that so many other officers
and men are now turning up who have
been officially accounted first as miss
! ing and then as dead, For the Ger
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The doorkeeper resigned his position
in the ante-chamber OF the Cabinet
Minister, accepted the annuity settled
upon him by Lord Dalmeny, and then
the duel took place. each of the prin-
cipals soemnly firing far above one
anothers heads, Then they shook
hands and Lord Dalmeny invited his
adversary and the latter's seconds to a
de jeuner.
Lord Dalmeny died about the time OF
the fall of the second French empire
But the eX-doorkeeper survived until
shortly before the great war, dying at
an extreme old age and in comfort,
thanks to the annuity settled upon
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Neil Primroses widow, Lady Vic
toria. continued after her husbands
death to make her home with her
father-in law, Lord Rosebery, at the
lattcr's request. and is very rich. She
was the sole legatee of her husband.
who had inherited some years before
his marriage a very large fortune from
an old spinster aunt OF his mother, a
Miss Mary Cohen. AS for the property
of his mother, who as Hannah de
Rothschild was the wealthiest of all
the Rothschild he!resses, Lord Rose
berry by the terms of her will has had
complete and exclusive possessive en-
joyment thereof for the term of his
life. 1t is only on his demise that the
property will pass to his 'and her chill
dren, who include his eldest son, Lord
Dalmeny, and his daughters the Mar
chioness OF Crewe and Lady Sibyl
Grant.
Neil Primrose spent much OF his
boyhood at Sandringham, and was so
much liked by the royal family there
| that when he made his maiden speech
| in Parliament Queen Alexandra with
two of her daughters drove down to
| Westminster to honor the occasion
with her presence. this being the first
visit ever paid by her TO the House of
Commons
Neil had much in him that recalled
his grandfather. Archibald, Lord Dali
meny. The latter was very high
spirited and at the same time very
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~ hold her up to ohioQuy as the dom
inant influence of reaction in what was
so long known as the Land OF the
Cars
Far from beng opposed to the re-
forms OF one kind and another inaug-
Urated by Nicholas. and with which
his reign will at all times be identi-
fed in history she encouraged him
therein and accorded him her sup
port merely supulating that the re-
forms should be OF a gradual and pro-
gressive nature. In this she was in
fun accord with the advice OF her
brother-in-law, King Edward, in
whose sound sense and know 0dSc Of
the world she had the utmost conf
denCe-and with the advice OF Ter
most sagacious counsellors at home
and abroad.
Not Aversc to Liberalism.
The real adversarics Of Liberalism
and Of popular forms Of government in
Russia were the members of the bu-
reaucracy, men for the most part of
German parentage or ancestry, who
considered it incumbent upon them
selves to prefer the interests OF the
land Of their origin to those of tho land
Of their adoption. In the latter por-
ton OF the reign OF Nicholas II, these
clements secured through Rasputin
and other creatures Of his kind an in
fluenCe over Empress Alexandra by
convincing her it was her duty to Sc
cure Russian sovereignty in a condi-
ton of unimpaired autocracy as the
sacred heritage of her only son, whom
she idolized
Perhaps the best proof that Empress
Marie was never regarded as an OBJ
staCle to Liberal reform in Russia is to
be found in the remarkable immunity
which she has always enjoyed from at
tempts upon her life. She has seen all
sorts and conditions OF statesmen and
as well great dignitaries or the crown
and OF near and dear relatives among
the members OF the imperial family
struck down by revolutionary assas-
sins. But no one has ever raised his
hand against her since she came 10
Russia as a bride more than half a
century ago.
The only attack ever made upon En-
press Marie occurred not in Russia but
in Denmark three years prior to R@r
marriage aud When she Vas but &c
years of age. 1t was in 1864, during tho
progress Of the Prussian invasion OF
Denmark, which resulted in the latter's
! loss OF her duchies Of Schleswig anc
HolsteiD. Prussia in accordance Will
her customary nxthoas organized pop
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ager Empress of Russia Still Believes the Gar Is Alive

who always interviewed for him against
his fathers disposition to severity and
even harshness.
How great was the confidence and
affection between Nicholas and his
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mother is apparent from the fact that
curing all the early years of his reign
her influence dominated over that of
his wife. 1t was in accordance with
Russian law and custom that she as
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OF the chief lieuteuants Of Premier
Lloyd George, could not resign him
self TO remain at home engaged in po-
litical and administrative work while
so many OF his friends and relatives
were risking their lives at the front.
He insisted upon having a share in the
fighting, and Just at the moment when
his political career seemed most prom
Using he suddenly threw up his offices
and dignities, volunteered for service
in Palestine under Gen. Sir Edmund
Allenby and fell, struck down by a
Turkish bullet, in the taking OF Beth
lehem, where he now lies buried. He
was very popular in New York. where
he was a frequent visitor, usually maxi
ing his headquarters at the Brook
Club, which had this advantage in his
eyes. that it is open and in fun swing
during all the twentyfour hours OF
the day and where it is just as easy
20 dine at 4 o'clock in the morning as
at the more normal hour OF s in the
evening.
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~ Thursday next just thirty
eight years will have elapsed
~ since the fateful date when the
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-10
CRUSADE OF THE JTTNEYS

TT~ THE inward turning the parade the jit- 1 neys to Hartford striking There moved hundred modern automobile conveyance worth from $O0 to 5000 per each driven a by owner
 These engaged in the business earning living ancient occupation that of carrying passengers hre assembled to protest against the destruction terprise by legislative fiat.
 Perhaps issue in the state has been clearly than the issue between the neys and the trolley monopoly Upon the side corporation which stench i'll nagemen civic corruption immoral prac tice from the early days of trolley lines.
 Upon the other side, group of individuals earning scany, but honest living under conditions highly to the community.
 The tneys carrying people for five cents, very 1y to their destinations. The monopoly people very slowly, for six cents.
 The legislature has been asked however to remit the of the slow hghchargng monopoly give free highways and bridges; to lend it $2OOOOOO and finally
 TO CRUSH THE JITNEYS.
 There proposed to legislature the ican union proposition insolent; unAmerican destructive of respect for law and order
 The Bridgeport Chamber of Commerce joins those against such unfortunate legislation. Bridgeport Chamber are 10 be equally congratulated.
 The spirit of fair play not dead in Bridgeport us hope il lives in the General Assembly.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-10
LOOKING BACK 50 YEARS
(From the Farmer, April Il, 1S69)


 The steam fire engine Excelsior around town this morning. accustom the horses to the dragging of the
 
 The docks beginning lively appearance, from the gradual influx Of eoastng vessels
 large fire raging Long Island yesterday, which plainly visible from the high lands of North Bridgeport supposed from the extent of the ground which eXend ed, to be woods fire.
 Messrs Dennison advertise Hydraulic Cement Pipe for drains etc They have experienced and practical employed both manufacturing the and putting It down Their of business is East Main street. East Washington avenue.
 mail Boston delayed several hours at Brenied account of the collision of locomotive with water tank spout The act supposed to be the act ot a Ous individuals. their friends Under the Johnson administration the making eight hours legal days work construed to their labor Under Grants administration 1t Is held that there must be reduction we'll as in tea con organizations throughout the Unon dpleased by this ruling have brought strong to bear on the President in he hope that he in conjunction with Congress VII restore the old practice of paying full wages to all government em tpOyees. PLEASANTREES OF THE CAMPAIGN
 Party politics has it's peasantries and humorS as well as its asperes The following bit of the humorous appeared Tn the Litchfeld Sentinel, previous to electlon:- Sing a song of Beardsley, Beardsey full of rye Beardsley hunting and down After public pie. Beardsley went to Wnsted
 And all the birds did sing Sidney, Sidney you should not Have a-Wanderng Sing of Beardsey, Sing of Peck, captains to the ship All has gone to wreck! Better have stad at home Sid And saved your Sunday clothes, For wonder comes the iron man, Who'll nip off your Sdnev's stumping operations unfortunate. They aided instead of iniuring the cause of MT Barnu1n
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-10
SERVICE MEMBERSHIP WORLD WAR VETERANS OF AMERICA

Executive Offices, Holland Building, 10th Street and Broad way N r. City. Bridgeport Camp No l. Sergeant Frank J. Mitchell, 684 Brooks street. Bridgeport.
 Date -.......-....-..... To the Board of Drectors:-
 The undersigned officer enlisted man former officer or enlisted the of the United States believing the desrabty and need for the World War Vet erans America being general sympathy with the prin cpes upon which organization is founded and wishing the work being done by this organization hereby suhscribes for membership.
  City State Organization Rank Serial No. 
 Membership Fee for Officers and Men in the Service former Officers and Men in the Service, ONE DOLLAR.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-04-10
NAME W. P. KIRK
 NEW PRESIDENT OF
 BRIDGEPORT CLUB

The Bridgeport club elected William P. Kirk it's president at a meeting held last night. The gathering was very enthusiastic because the treas urers report showed that the club had the best year in it's history and is now completely out of debt. It was stated that Steward Wallace deserves praise for his work in making the club at tractive. Members who are returning from the national service are soon to be honored by the organization and among the special guests will be Ma jor F. J. Adams, who Is expected to arrive from France today.
 The other officers elected last night were:
 Vice president, William A. La.nk; secretary. Lieut.. Lesley J. Burby; treasurer, James A Turner: boarl of governors, Thomas L. Dougless Chas. H. Botsford, John Hotz Wesley L. Norton, Frank J. F'unkie and William Chew. The nominating committee con-}Rs sed Frank J. Edgett, James Logan and Joseph Smith
 James A. Turner Charles Botsford. John Hotz and Frank F'unkie were re, elected to their respective offices