Show I 0 t 1 I a t 1 p t I B d' d l BY ur DeRwOOD Sh Showing in In the h Sad S d C Case of f The Proudest Queen s' s si i oWIng Lase ase 0 ot ta v. v ir 1 j in i Europe Has Been m i J A fee the the Empress Dowager of rr R Reduced educed Beggary to Actual r t 1 i I Russia Now in In Poverty 4 tit i r A F J a h 1 the Distressing Individual p r rS rM S t iIi Lr 4 4 1 I 1 7 1 1 6 I c ual Results of the Worlds World's W or ds i f r L a A v Revulsion Against I t X I. I 4 t A u r A 11 Thrones r 1 t Tho The Do Dowager v alter En p t oso v f 1 ti l of Russia Now Destitute CJ v I uM I pU i J I j r I th S I Sr r ti k f W 1 J i ff I 1 7 Y a 0 I J V 61 71 I t J r Yv t o- o 7 Copyright Underwood Underwood t I a l r I Splendors of the Imperial Palace at Peterhof Russia Where the Impoverished l I O II I I 7 Empress Dowager Once LIved in in Luxury 1 J In i j ly t C J. J t. t r r r By Clive Mars Marshan Marshall r HE rising waves naves of ot world democracy beating f THE I r P against the feudal thrones of or Europe have hae haver swept more than ono one king and queen into the f backwaters backwaters of or private life lire F. F Events of or war have have- wrested the sceptre from r. r the grasp rasp grasp of or others sighted Far sighted observers rejoice In to the belief betler that these these- violent upheavals aro clearing the way for eventual freedom of or the nations But like all revolutionary changes tho the 5 sweep or of events c has bas Wro wrought m many ny poignant pois-nant personal tragedies None Is more moro pathetic than that of or tho the tho great Russian Dowager Empress Maria a once once mistress of or an empire who Is now living int In t actual poverty in the tho Crimean town of or Yalta An Empress in Poverty i She has bas been reduced to actual want and like ithe the humblest peasant woman of ot Belgium or Invaded In In- IL waded Franco France Is applying to the tho American gOIL gov gov- t for retie relief The Tho proudest t Queen of ot Europe and on one of or the most beautiful has bas been reduced to actual beg beg- Wy gary Tho The fact that human liberty mn may be served bytho by bythe the tho tho downfall of ot the tho empress sun still leaves room In he heart for pity and s sympathy toward the woman woman wom an and American Amerman an Minister Morris at Stockholm Stockholm IB Ii tr trying to raise monc for tho the money royal roal suppliant Behind the fact tact that Maria Iaria na Feodoro has suf sur suffered greater pr privations than than others of at the ro royal al Russian Russian family there lies a sinister suspicion f The cruel hand of at the Iho has probably probably ably been Instrumental in her IIer sorrow sorro There are aro reasons reasons why the Kai Kaiser ser ma be may taking an especial pleasure in her sufferings f Maria Marla was the Princess Dagmar of ot Denmark daughter of the tho late latt KIn King Christian IX Her marriage to the tho Grand Duke Alexander of ot Russia who became Czar Alexander III ill was par displeasing to B Berlin In the tho Arst place It upset the tho tradition that the must choose booso their queens queens among Prussian Prussia n princesses In tot the he second place the Danish royal family harbored har har- bored antl Prussian anti Prussian feelings nn and It was not t to o li bo Lo o oan expected that German Gorman an intrigue In Russia would be favored by a n Danish princess on the Russian throne 1 j Tho rho Germans sought ought In vain t to to prevent preheat the marriage o. The They never novel forgave tors-avo it But Dut they were unable enable to stay her influence History knows the tho blessings she sho brought to the Russian em empire l las tire No consort rt of a sovereign h has bas as ever been I lar r. r Like LUre the tho princess in tho fairy tale more mOlO she was both good and ami beautiful She brought to t the e court II n an atmosphere of or purity Y of at moral beauty which made it different erent from any other In Europe J During her reign she alIo succeeded In shaking oft off German Serman Influence and convinced her husband that R Russia was great enough and bl big enough to work out aut t lJ its own salvation without seeking guidance t tram from rom Berlin i 1 I. I fiShe She disliked the and made mado no of ot her feelings feeling Prance Franco on tho the other hand found In her a warm and sympathetic friend She hated hypocrisy and applied her hel energy toward leading Russia along a path entirely different from rom the lie one pursued by the Germans who were already plotting world conquest In the light of oC these facts it Il is ens easy to understand understand under under- stand wh why the tho Germans now In control of or Russian Hussian affairs may may bo be taking InS a diabolical pleasure in the tho humiliation and poverty of the woman who ho reused refused re re- re- re used fused to be bo corrupted b by their influence While Whilo Czar Nicholas and his Prussian wife He have ve equally been deprived of ot their royal splendor they have not suffered as Maria tarla has suffered They have o at least been comfortably provided pro for Like the dowager empress they have 1130 0 undergone a tremendous reversal at tho the hands of fate but they are aro probably living as aswell aswell aswell well today In Siberia as the tho average n American family in i comfortable circumstances 1 Mr and ancl anc rs Romanoff in Siberia y ud J stor story perhaps halt half fiction and halt half r fr Issue of or the f which appeared In a recent Liberator pictures N Nicholas cholas Romanoff and Mrs Ml Romanoff living with their son like a good bourgeois family at Siberia Mrs Irs Romanoff is represented no ao 8 taking lakIng an ac actual ual pleas pleas- re In the ho commonplace duties or of housekeeping and homo home making matins while Nicholas ruddy cheeked and healthier than he ever er was on the tho imperial throne adds a n few Cew rubles to the comfortable family fam ram it ily ih Income by shoveling snow The enormous change chanse which fate has wrought In tho the lives os of tho the dowager empress and other other members of or tho the Imperial Russian house can only be realized when ono one recalls recas that the Romanoff family was ono one of or tho the richest in the whole world The rhe Czar and his family had an annual Income of or so 50 man many millions that It has never been computed He Ho was In possession of the revenue from the tho crown domains consisting of more than a million square miles of cultivated lands landa and forests be be- siMS sides gold and other mines In Siberia This vast wealth was considered the private property of or t tho o Imperial family The They lived amid amill luxury that was almost orl orl- surrounded by literally thousands of or servants servants ser ser ser- ants moving from tram palaces to palaces which were among tho the marvels of or tho the world American travelers who visited Russia Hussla In tho the thoI I days before the war will wm recall the tho almost unbelievable splendor of or the tho ho Peterhof palace the tho Hermitage Nowhere elso else on earth was there thero such uch a dazzling display of oriental luxury combined with occidental richness and art An And now now after tHer a lifetime spent amid these theae gorgeous surroundings s made possible by untold wealth and imperial power lower tho the great Romanoff has har been family reduced d to tu circumstances which In th the cas case of or the dowager empress at least amount to tu literal poverty an and destitution j Other mem o of or t the tho o Russian E nobility es espe p e those suspected of at anti German anti sympathies have suffered almost as much It Ills Is report reported tl that former court noblemen and noblewomen exiled to Crimea are doing their own o washing and workIng work work- Ing in tho the vineyards hiring themselves out as day jay laborers to farmers for tor a wage wase of or less Jess than 2 3 2 per day the downfall Of ot the tho imperial Russian c r y f-y t 1 I I 1 r rIi rl J I I P I Ii J f. i t i PI b rode dl i kt Below a Photograph a h of t f nr ar Taken Totten Before His l Fall all in tho the nn st G of Playful 1 I 4 16 Exercise Sadly Prophetic of His Later Lator Th i Situation 1 1 1 01 1 h z T 1 J i or I 1 1 I I lr 0 r. r 1 L J. 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J PS VH p w j f 1 b 1 p 1 J Nc c Feature Service 1318 1719 throne Is the most spectacular event r of or tho the kin kind kine that has occurred In tho the century no less than half a score of ot kings and queens have lost their thrones either as the result of upheavals Incident to the world war or of or revolutions tending toward democracy The End of Divine Right While an nn Imperial power that of Germany German has baa been responsible for tor some of or the collapses of royal In power It Jt is believed bello that the eventual e result these cases wit wll contribute none tl the tho o less toward the tho final demo democracy era C of the world The Tho day of or the tUe divino right of kings kins is passing Among tho the t to go SO in this century wore were tho the Emperor and Empress of or China where revolution hed an eastern democracy patterned somewhat somewhat somewhat some some- what on that of the United Stales States Soon afterward King Manuel of or Portugal lost his throne and that lithe European country country country coun coun- try became a democracy King Peter of or Serbia King Bing Ferdinand of or Roumania Roumania Rou Rou- mania while not technically dethroned have ha lost their kingdoms and their royal power King Albert lbert of at Belgium th that t heroic figure whoso little realm was free freo and happy happ under a constitutional government that embodied manyI many I 7 C sr M democratic principles is 15 today a a. King without a countr country King Ling Constantine of ot Greece and his bis German wife I JA r wore forced to abdicate b by Greek pa patriots who ho backed by tho the allies refused to see seo their country i drawn into tho world war on tho the side of ot tho the Huns 1 And today todar the efforts of at the tho civilized world are n bent toward accomplishing tho the downfall of at the g two imperial houses bouses which are the anI only ones left leCt lefton on earth that represent in fact if It not In form the tha f 3 combined power po and evil of ot absolute feudal mono mon the arch archy the and the Wiring J Words a Minute 4 t SEVEN SEVEN LEAGUE I stride has recently been r t L A made in speed high peed telegraphy y An appa appa- 4 r u which In actual tests has proved Its ability to transmit over oyer a single grounded wire words a u. minute has been baen evolved The rhe real significance of or this escapes one until d dIt It Is realized that words set In type will wUl fill t seven teen and a R halt half standard magazine pages Details of ot what appears to be an epoch making achievement must bo be withheld for military reasons rea rea- reasons sons says sas Popular Mechanics It is a war Invention invention tion and has bas for Us its chief purpose the liberation of hundreds of or expert operators for tor the signal nal r l corps without disorganizing our much needed commercial com cont Y inertial mercial lines lines- No o secret I is divulged however r when the apparatus is described as a printing tel telegraph telegraph tele tele- graph system m depending upon a n universally used recording instrument that has never before been t 1 associated with telegraphy teles-raph ore are handled In lu or 1 Messages an any language or cipher with equal facility and rapidity The speed of or words a minute does not hinge upon the use of at an nn abbreviating code but b by such an agency It could bo be Increased several se fold told Crack operators are not required In two hours hours' time It Itis ita is claimed a witted quick person with no previous of ot telegraphy telegraph can bo be trained 1 knowledge to send sen and receive messages messas 4 v |