The Cordova daily times., 1918-09-09

man Government
 From a Russian of high birth who was lady-ln-waiting to the czarina of Russia. are learned some partcu lars of the events which Immediately preceded and followed the czars abdi- cation which are not generally known. .The woman lost all she possessed in the upheaval of Russia and Is now connected with the American Red Cross. The czarina banlshed her from court before the revolution be- cause her husband, who was' in the diplomatic service, had incurred the imperial dlspleasure.
 The lady in question says that the cZar and cZarina were warned of their danger some weeks before the revou- tlon started. In particular did Prin- cess VasiltchiOff, member of the i'm | perial court, and wife of a prominent member of the council of the empire, warn her. The princess Is a good Rus sian patriot. and. like many others, was appalled, at the signs of coming anarchy.
 So much alarmed was she that she wrote personal letter to the czarina, telling her that If she wished to save Russia and her own family she must | dismiss Rasputin and the Germans at court and see that the army had am intuition.
 Advice Enraeed czarina.
 She wrote this in Russian, which was against Russian court etiquette (which admitted only French), and on single sheets torn from writing block instead of on double paper-another crime against etiquette.
 Two more crimes were that she ad- dressed the letter to Her Majesty" instead of to "IIer Imperial Highness," and posted it In Petrograd in the or dinary way instead of sending it through Baron Fredericks, the court minister, sort of high priest for the observance of etiquette, an old man of recent German extraction, but very decent kind of person all the same. In due time the CZarina received and read the letter. She was furious furious because so many rules of etl- qucttc had been broken, and still more furious because the writer dared tell her that she and her husband were unpopular and were losing Russia.
 Il shall never have any of the Rus sian arlStoCracy to court again" she cried angrily. "I always hated them. l love only the poor people and the soldiers At my next ball I shall have none put poor people and soldiers. The soldiers adore me"
 She had thIs entirely false idea of the soldiers devotion, because people about the court used to fake" grate- full letters to her from imaginary sol dlers Thus, while the troops were al- 1 ready cursing the imperial pair and vowing revenge for all their sufferings, for all the shortage of ammunition and for often being sent to be butch 1 cred just because n general needed 1 decoration, but had no artillery to 1 cover his attack, the czarina was say i ing she "udored" soldiers and would 1 fill her ballroom with them.
 She not only bunished the princess from court, but ordered that she and her husband be exiled to Siberia. And Prince and Princess Vasiltchikoff would have gone to Siberia on foot in the depth of winter but for Baron Frcdericks, who managed to get the sentence sOftcned to exile to the princes estate In the heart of Russia. 1 They were kept prisoners on their es- tate till the revolution started u cou- pie of months later.
 The incident shows how blind the 1 imperial family were till the last min ute. and how the czarina. a German by birth. had imbIbed the autocrst 1 traditions of Catherine the Great and | Ivan the Terrible.
 Drusged by kalsers Order. | The same information said that the czar was suffering from the effects of l terrible Thibetan drug when he 1 signed his abdication.
 Everybody at the court knew It." the princess said. "He signed his own l abdiCatlOn and his sons without murmur. and we all knew him for an obstinate man. For days afterward he was still in state of stupor Only when he came to himself did he real ize what he had done. Then it was too late. But his despair was terri ble."
 "Who drugged hlm?" was asked.
 "A quack from Thlbet. who had risen to be the most influential person at court after Rasputlns death," she answered. "He was a friend of Ras- putin and of Mile. Veroubha, who had