The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1918-08-13
CAR DRUGcE::D||.I / Il, NJ. ! I. 7.
TO AID. KAISER
Russian Court Lady Gives Some
Inside Facts !. 'iiIi IeIh,
QuAck BR!BED BYi. slElal1.llll Z i. !


Drug When He Signed ABdlcAtiotIH!a
Administered by Man In lnRay.stleeH
man Government u ghA,ga Il
From Russian of high birth Wild
was q lady-in-waiting to the ,czartnh
Of Russia, are learned some, lphttia,i.
lars Of the events which iinlhe dfataly
preceded and followed the tzafss, sbdl;
cation which are not generally known
The woman lost all she !possesssd II
the upheaval Of Russia and it'd .tioW
connected with the American ,lStd
Gross. The czarina banishtdi hgt
from court before the revolution be!
cause her husband who was, IN ;tKe
diplomatic service, had incurred the
imperial displeasure. VI, Il
The lady in question says that ,ths
car and czarina were warned of their
danger some weeks before the irevofu-
tion started. In particular did Prin
cess Vasiltchioff, a member Of the i'm.
perial court, and wife of a. prgtnihent
member Of the council of the empire,
warn her. The princess isa good Rusl
sian patriot, and. like manly others,
was appalled, at the signs f6f ,coihihg
anarchy. '.HtiHf IN
So much alarmed was she that jshs
wrote q personal letter to tha c7arifa,
telling her that If she wished to saye
Russia and her own family she mis(
dismiss Rasputin and the Germans ,at
court and see that the army hal aid!
munltlon. isiN NjNa,s
Advice Enraged czarina. Ti
She wrote this in Russian, which
was against Russian cohrti etiauetts
(Which admitted only French). and ,oh
single sheets torn from writing block
instead Of on double paper-another
crime against etiquette. -
Two more crimes were that she ati-
dressed the letter to "Her. Majesty
instead Of to ''Her Imperial Highness.' y
and posted 1t il 'petrograd in the Or
dinary way instead of sending 1t
through Baron Frederlcks, the court
minister. a sort of high priest for the
observance of etiquette, an old man of
recent German extraction. but a very
decent kind Of person all the same.
In due time the czarina. received and
read the letter. She was furious
furious because 30 many rules of eti.
quette had been broken, and still more
furious because the writer dared tell
her that she and her husband were
unpopular and were losing Russia.
II shall never, have any of the Rus
sian arlstocracy, to court, again." she
cried nngrily. II always hated them,
love only the poor people and the
soldiers. At my next ball l shall have
none but poor people and soldiers. The
soldiers adore me-"
| She had this entirely false idea oi
the soldiers devotion, because people
| about the court used to flake" CRATE
ful letters to her from imaginary sol
diers. Thus. while the troops were al.
ready cursing the imperial pair and
| vOwing revenge for oil their sufferings
SDr all the shortage of ammunition
and for often being sent to be butch
cred just because general needed Il
decoration, but had no artillery tC
cover his attack, the czarIna was say
ing she "adOred" soldiers and would
Hil her ballroom with them.
She not only banlshed the princess
from court, but ordered Tint she and
her husband be exiled to Siberia. And
Prince and Princess Vasiltchikofl
would have gone to Siberia on foot In
the depth of winter but for BarOr
Frederlcks, who managed to get the
sentence. softcned to exile to the
princes estate In the heart of RuS5iA
They were kept prisoners on Their &C
tate till the revolution started o c1-
pile Of months later.
The incident shows how blino {h
imperial family were till the inac
ute. and how the czarina. t. G5--a@t
by birth, had imblbed the aUi;,-s
traditions of Catherine the Gfea. an-
Ivan the Terrible.
prussed by kaIser's or1ss.
The same information said. ttst t
car was suffering from ihc oilCc.a e.
terrible Thlbetan drug when 1
signed his abdicatiOn.
Everybody at the court k2ow is'
the princess said. "He signed his 81 4
abdlcatlon and his sons without {
murmur, and we all knew hin fer tl
obstinate man. For days afte;W1l q
he was still In state of stupcr. Crl'
when he came to himself did ra zeal
lie what he had done. Then g wr.
too late. But his despair wHS t3rr!
ble."
"Who drugged himf" wa a4he1-
"A quack from fThibet. who Er
risen to be the most influential potsci
at court after Rasputin's deatn" s'p
answered. HE was FRIEND oi t,as
putin and Of Mile. Veroubha, Who ha'
, unbounded influence over the caaGina
And the Quack was paid by the kaill
to drug the czar.
"Every one In Petrograd knows Val,
: we'll that the car would never nav
signed separate peace with Germany
He was not a clever man. and had al
7 lowed all kinds of abuses to arise II
) the government, tht he was n man o
honor. The kaiser knew he had t
get rid OF him. And the kaiser fOs