Evening star., 1923-08-09
Running U. S. Liquor Barrier
Like Civil War Blockade Running

at the coronation banquet in Westm.n
ster Hall to hurl a challenge to any
one who contested the rights of the
newly crowned sovereign to the scepter
OF the realm. Nearly every one of the
men of the Hartwell family. during the
last four hundred years, have been
either officers OF the army or the navy
and many have lost their lives on the
battlefield.
While the British government has ex-
pressed in parliament its strong dis
approval of Sir Brodrick Hartwell's rum
running enterprise, ii is difficult TO see
by what means il can take any steps
to prevent ii as long as his ships re-
main on the high seas. beyond the ter
ritorial limits OF American waters. But
il cannot be denied that the aYowed
object Of the undertaking IS to evade
the American prohibition laws BY bring
ing liquid goods with the reach Of
Americans who are afflicted with thirst
Since Gleb de Bodkin. who was with
the late czar and czarina at To-
bolsk. is now in New York and has
published an account of his expe
riences there, it may be as we'll TO eX-
plain that he is the son of that heroic
physician, Dr. Eugene de Bodkiu,
who, though he might have saved
himself. like other members of the
imperial suite. insisted on remaining
with Nicholas. his consort and his
children in devoted attendance on
them until their terrible death at
Ekaterinenburg. when he was mas
sacred with them by the bolshevik
jailers in the cellars of the dismal
house in which they had been impris-
oned. DR.. Eugene de Bodkin came
by his attachment to the late EN-
Il
for his father, also physician. died
as the principal medical attendant of
the late cars grandmother Empress
Marie. He won his place in her con
fdence and in that of her husband.
Alexander IL. by an extraordinary
display of independence. Besides be
ing afflicted with consumption, she
was, likewise, suffering from disease
of the heart. Like many other in
Nalids. she was convinced that the
doctors in attendance and the physi
clans whom they called into consul
tation from all parts of the world failed
to understand her case.
This was due rather to the extraor-
binary modesty of the imperial LADY
than to any ignorance on the part Of
the physician. For she was so de
vout and so extremely pious that she
could not be prevailed upon to per
nit them to examine her chest in the
ordinary way.
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Ever on the lookout for physician
who could cure her ills and relieve
her sufferings, she readily granted
permission TO one of her ladies-in-
waiting to present young and at
the time wholly unknown doctor Of
the name Of Bodkin. He came and
created most favorable impression
upon the empress until the moment
when he asked her to remove the
bodice of her dress in order to enable
him to examine her chest. She re-
fused to comply. and added, with some
manifestations of surprise and indig
nation, that all the physicians who
had attended her. until then, had pre-
Scribed for her without requiring any
such immodest display.
If your imperial majesty declines,
i must refuse to either prescribe or
to advise" replied Bodkin with great
dignity. 1T is utterly impossible for
any one to diagnose case correctly
without thorough examination
And before the astonished czarina
could utter word he began bowling
himself out and backed almost into
the very arms of Alexander II, who
was just entering the room.
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The emperor asked for an explana-
tion and on receiving 1t was so much
struck by the young doctors indie
pendence as we'll as by his trans
parent honesty and common sense.
that he dismissed him very graciouslH
after making him promise to call
upon him the following day at noon.
When Bodkin came the next day, the
czar himself led him TO tho empress
who had, in the meanwhile, been per-
suadad by her husband to submit to
the examination, and the remedies
which the young doctor administered
to her. as result of his diagnosis,
afforded her so much relief and proved
so beneficial that from that time
forth she accorded to him her com
plete confidence and favor and would
not submit to the ministrations of
any other physician.
In course of time the favor which
he thus found with her was extended
to him BY the czar and by all the
other members of the reigning house.
and when. finally. he passed away.
full of years and of honors. he left
his son. DIR. Eugene de Bodkin, to
take his place as chief physician to
the sovereign and TO his family and
to furnish to the history of Russia
and to that of the medical profession
/ lasting illustration of heroic self
sacrifice and of martyrdom for the
sake of those who had confided them-
selves to his deveted-care.4. a.--.