"CIVILIZATION" ADEPT. AT KILLING
WINTER IS SEVERE IN TRENCH LIFE
W A R ZO NE OBS ERVAT ION S
SAXONY J3ECOMES WEARY OE STRIFE
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL IS POPULAR
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WINTER LIFE
.IN TRENCHES
Cofd' Weather Brings intense
V-..Suffering to Men on .
-:: : - First Line, .
Fertility of Mesopotamia!! Land?, Real
GRAND DUKE-
IS IDOLIZED
Writing to lantern Mvipapn" an ' Irish
ffWr la the RrltMi ifnj Mm tbe winter
baxfeblpe of tae troops ou tbe battle front at
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F THE sever cold has been, felt in
London, where there is at least some
measure of shelter and warmth for
most people, what must be the experi
ence of those who have to facethe rlg
OriNf this unusual weather In the open
air, not by day alone, but through the
night as well?
Each season presents its special dif
ficulties to the men who hold the line.
In summer the files are a veritable
plague, and the mud in rainy weather
is an everlasting source of inconve
nience, to eay the lfeasU It is, how
ever, in the depth of winter that the
test- of endurance is most stringently
applied 16. the men who hold the line. J
Imagine a body of men marching
through the snow up to the. trenches
when a frost of 25 degrees prevails.
' Everything they pass In their march la
frozen hard. The village street la-deserted,
save for the troops engaged, on
work. The few remaining villagers
remain indoors cowering over their
stoves and only move to the windows
to look out at the men who march past
on their way to the 11 e. It 1 so cold
out of doors that it Is almost tmpos-(
sible to bear -the sting of the wind
upon one's face. But the boys, who'
are for the trenches swing along, dog
gedly, It may be, but cherrily wlthaL
': Vast the Graveyard. -On
they go! Past the church, upon
which' the snow lies thick; past the
graveyard, where all the mounds are
.covered with spotless palls of white,
and where the little memorial crosses
glitter with the frost and Ice; oh past
the village street, on and on into the
open country inarch the boys who are
for the line. Their pipers are at their
head, but it Is impossible almost to
play, so Intense Is the cold! On and
on the boys stride through the coun
tryside, .and now at length they reach
the crossroads near which is the en
trance to the long communication
trench leading to the line.
into this trench the men go, and in
single file trudge along to their desti
nation, the very front. As they eater
the.treneh- ana disappear, it has an
"uncanny effect. It is as though the
now had swallowed them up! For'
the rest of their journey they are
shadowed mostly by th,e trench.
When you who read these lines turn
to a warm bed .at night, let your mind
travel to the line and picture, if you
can, the men who are defending you in
your home the men who through the
long hours of the night In the frost
'and snow stand under the blazing
Stars- on the fire-step peering with
never flagging attention out over the
sandbags toward the enemy!
Trench Comfort Xilmited.
In some trenches the dugouts are
very few, and the merest shelters of
sandbag and board and sheet iron are
: sll-rith protection the -men- have- At
nlicht, even where there are dugouts.
te alert Watch over the parapet must
be kppt VIP from the first step. Vigi
lance can never be relaxed. Kvery
sign, every .move, every shadow in No
Mns' Ijind musl be regarded closely.
One- never knows when an tack may
come nothing can be lefto chance.
And so, from dusk till daylight, tbe
i fire-step is manned with ever-ready
sentries.: Think of what that means
all night long with anything from CO
to 30 degrees of frost, or In pelting,
blinding snow or rain or slf-et!
To Beat High Costs. e
Los,. Angeles, Cal.. March Jl, And
here's another way to beat the high
cost, pf living; "Stop entertaining."
ay.s a well known Us' Angeles ma.
trori. who was formerly widely known
for her hospitality and frequent enter
tainments. Lecturer Is Punished.
Amsterdam. Marclf 31. Ilerr Ver
eyen, professor of philosophy at Bonn,
has been sent to. the front for deliver
ing a lecture against Christian dogmas.
GLASS OF WATER
BEFORE YOD EAT
. ANY BREAKFAST
Wash Poison from system each
morning and feel fresh
as a daisy.
.Every day yon clean the house you
live in to get rid of the dust and dirt
which collected through the previous
day. i Tour body, the house your soul
lives' In. also becomes filled up each
twenty-four hours with all manner of
filth i and poison. If only every man
and woman could realise the Wonders
of drinking phosphated hot water,
what a gratifying change would take
place.
Instead of the thousands of sickly,
. anaemic-looking men, women and girls
with pasty or muddy complexions; In
stead of the multitudes . of "nerve
wrecks," "rundowns," "b rain fags,"
and pessimists, we should see a virile,
optimistic throng of rosy-cheeked peo
ple everywhere.
Everyone, whether sick or well,
' should drink each morning before
- breakfast, a glass of real hot water
with a teaspoonful of limestone phoa-
- phate in it to wash from the stomach,
. liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels
. the- previous day's -Indigestible waste,
sour fermentations and poisons, .thus
cleansing, ' sweetening and freshening
the entire alimentary canal before put
tlngmore food into the stomach.
Those subject to sick headache, bil
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism,
colds; and particularly those who have
a pallid, sallow complexion and who
.are constipated very often, are urged
. to obtain a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate at the drug store which will
cost but a trifle but is sufficient to
demonstrate the quick and remarkable
change in both health and appearance
awaiting . those who practice internal,
sanitation, n W must remembex: that
i nside , cleanliness -fa more Important
than outside, because tbe skin does not
absorb impurities to contaminate the
blood, while the pores in the thirty
feet of bowels do. (Ad.)
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KEY TO THE PICTURES
THE steamships Orleans and Rochester were the first two American
vessels to defy the German decree of a war zone at sea, and suc
cessfully conclude voyages to European ports. The top photo
graph shows the welcome accorded the Orleans upon her arrival-at
Bordeaux, where French army men boarded the vessel to grest the
American officers and crew.
The lower photograph shows a powerful French gun paused by the
wayside with the gunners taking advantage of the halt to read the latest
Paris news already two weeks old. .
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CRUELTY OF MEDIAEVAL
ERA IS OUTDONE TODAY
I Liquid . Fire and Poisonous Gases Means of Killing Far.
;More'Hideous Than Agencies of Death Employed 1
. by the "Barbarians,"
CAPTAIN KIDD A SMALL
FRIGHTFUL, mediaeval cruelty,
such as would have been consid
ered a thing only of the distant
past four yeara ago, now lives again,
says Sidney Dark, writing in a London
newspaper. Human life has become a
thing of slight moment and human
suffering of even less account.
"I have always doubted whether the
mechanical progress of 'what was once
described as the 'so-called nineteenth
century' made mankind one whit hap
pier or kinder or better," saya Mr.
Darlt
"It is certainly true that during the"
hundred years before the war regard
for human life was intensified, but
this probably had an entirely commer
cial and unworthy foundation. Undfer
the commercial system a man's life
has a certain money yalue Only the j
foolish slavedriver whips his slaves to
death.
"With this greater disinclination to
take the lives of others came a much
more tender solicitude for oneself.
Men hung on to life as they had nevr
hung on to' it before, but, while they
grew afraid to die. most of them grew
afraid really to live. -
Readiness to Die.
"Since the outbreak of war there i
has been among the mass of people in
the belligerent countries a concentra
tion' on national, rather than personal,
interests, arM this has been accompa
nied by a cheerful readiness to die
which la a little appalling to those of
'us who are still swaddled in nineteenth
century cotton-wool.
We had supposed that the "progress
of civilization' had ymade barbarous
and calculated cruelty impossible. We
have seen during the past two and a
half years the most scientifically edu
cated people in Europe adopting and
applauding the appalling methods of
massacre and torture employed by me-
dleaval mercenaries and by the Huns
of Attlla. - . .
"All of us have shivered at stories
of the peoples, of beleaguered, cities
pouring molten lead on the heads of
heir assailants! The Germans have
sprayed their enemies with liquid fire,
and have puffed poisonous gases in
their faces. This sort of thing being
done on one side-is immediately mnd
necessarily copied by the other; so
that a modern battlefield becomes 'a
scene of calculated torture that might
well fill the heart of an ancient Ital
ian swashbuckler with envy.
Crecy aad the somme.
"Try to compare the battlefield of
Crecy with the battlefield of tbe Som
me I In the one case you had men
killed by clean wounds inflicted by
arrows and,' men bashing each other
over the bead with clubs and . battle
axes. There must have been, elation
and excitement in the combat, and it
was conducted according to chivalrous
and accepted rules. ' i-
"On the modern battlefield the sol
dier seldom sees the enemy. , He fires
horrible devastating infernal machines
at him from guns miles away. - He
riddles him with machine gun -bullets.
He poisons him and burns him)
s "The wounded are per force left in
hundreds ; of- cases to die in agony
where they falk i What a monstrous
Joke it is in face of all this that we
should talk of irogress and vaunt our
selves the moral superiors of our fore
fathers! -
, "Captaim Xldd Ontdoaa.
r Think, again, of the stories of pi
rates on the Spanish mala that thrilled
PERFORMER UPON THE SEA
our nurseries! How we writhed with
indignation at the horrors of walking
the plank! What a small thing this
was, after all, to the prowess of the
German submarine, that, safely en
trenched under the water, sends de
struction by torpedo into the very
vitals of an unsuspecting ship!. Cap
tain Kldd was- at least ready to fight
before he murdered.
"The sinking of the Lusitahla, as a
sheer horror, has no equal in the his
tory of the seas.
"The city was- taken and the women
and children - were put to the sword.
This is 'a commonplace of the history
of the past, but all the massacre that
the world haa ever seen have been
outshone by the calm, methodical kill
Ing of - the Armenians by the Turks.
"Try to imagine what it. means to
assassinate 700.OOO people! These un
rortunates were butchered to make a
Turkish holiday.
fThe. whole thing Is not only hor
rible, but it is utterly and hopelessly
bewildering. On the one hand we are
astounded by the extraordinary hero
ism of common average men. On the
other hand we are stunned by discov
ering that bestial cruelty can still be
-perpetrated as part of a definite po
litical policy, just as it was perpetrat
ed by the worst of the Roman emper
ors, and by the most evil decadents
who ever ruled In Byzantium."
Brazilian Society
. Is Very Proud Now
Rio de Janeiro, March 31. (TJ. P.)
Considerable chest is' being put on
by Brazilian society just now over
the fact that the new emperor of Aus
tria, Charles I, is the great grand
son of woman who was bon
and reared In this city. The Brazil
ian ancestor of the emperor was the
Princess Maria da Gloria, -daughter
of Dom Pedro and T. epoldfna ' Jo
seph Carolina, archduchess of Aus
tria.
Pr incest Maria da Gloria, was born
on April 4, 1819, and a quaint old de
scription of the event tells of the
celebration that - was given in . her
honor.- . ... .. :
"The people wera told by criers
and were permitted to have lights in
their houses. Rockets were fired and
the " forts : and ships in the harbor
made a continuous bombardment. Te
Deum was sung in the churches and
the nobility- flocked to court to kiss
th hand of the infant. The schoone
Lepoldlna was immediately dispatched
to carry the happy news to-Portugal.
The celebration lasted Ive days.
Princess Maria da Gloria was but
Is when she left Rio. She was at
that time elevated to the throne " of
Portugal. In 1S35 she was married
to Prince Charles August Eugene Na
poleon de Leuchtenberg but was left
a widow two months later.
In 1836 she was married, to Duke
Ferdinand de Saxe Coburg Bonany of
Austria and in this marriage had four
son a Her; reign in -Portugal
stormy in the extreme and she fought
down several revolutions.- She died
in It 53, leaving her husband and the
four -sons, the 1dest of whom is Em
peror Charles' grandfather.
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WAR-WEARY SAXONY TYPICAL
VICE CONSUL WHO DESCRIBES EXISTING
Rnmcr from various oarcee that the Ru-
ian revolution has found echoes in riot is
German industrial eesUrs has an Interesting
sidelight in tbe accompanying article, in whtca
A. OortU Both. American vice eonaul at Pkaaen.
SjBXoay. describes the conditions exlutlnr uaoni
rthe working clasaee of the eeBtral powers. Mr.
Both haa just spent eeren years in the Saxon
Indus trial district.
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AGE . earning Germany's nerves
have been worn raw by the in
creasing weight of suffering that
the jwar has brought it. TMs class of
Germans has become sullen, dissatis
fied, with the government, almost re
bellious. While the- middle class re
mains intensely patriotic, parading be
fore the casaal observer a unified and
determined' Germany, fatigue of war
is making alarming strides among the
working people. A great many of
these humble people want peace at any
price at the price of their colonies, of
Alsace-Lorraine, even of their coun
try's prastlgl ana position.
Workars Besom mestaVe. '
Th?e working people, at least in Sax
ony, are becoming restive. They have
hungered and grieved and overworked
for many months, ' with conditions
steadily growing -worse and with each
promise of peace fading into an indef
inite prospect of endurance. All foods
but tbe very, coarsest are beyond their
means. The ration of these coarse
foods s insufficient. The poor' have
been subsisting throughout - the . last
year upon bread, potatoes, turnips and
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Pushed much" farther by the. galling
stress : of ' starvation, overwork ' and
loss, of dear ones, a second peasants
war may well be added to the miseries
of central Europe. v , ;
. The standard of living; among the
working people has been lowered f ear
fuHy. It is now on a par with the
coolie standard of overcrowded Asia.
Their work has increased; their Share
in comforts haa diminished, and their
amusements have entirely fallen away.
The urban . poor - have become desper
stely poor,and they are beginning to
realise that each added month of the
war means that their plight must be
come more and more hopelesaV:
- In the beginning all waa wild en-
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thuslasm for the war. The people
crowded around the railway stations
to see the troop trains hurling past
every 25 minutea. Then came the
floods of wounded, the difficult read
justments made necessary by the ab
sence of wage earners, and then the
numbing pinch of hunger. Worst of
all waa the atmosphere that settled
down upon the land, an atmosphere of
want,' of fear, of suffering, of black
depression, which seemed to seep
through and through on and chill the
consciousness; .
' ' All Are Taciturn. '
An ' eternal New England Sunday
gripped the formerly bustling munu-!
facturing towns in my district. The
streets were bare of traffic. People!
passed about their errands silently.
There was no laughing, whistiUig, loud
talking or jovial greeting. The busi
ness streets were dotted everywhere
by stores closed up .by war. Grass
crew between the-cobbles In the 'road
way. 1 Now and again oxen dragging
primitive carts of farm produce lum
bered i through the streets. Restau
rants and cafes were deserted. It cost
money to frequent them, and. more
over, they had nothing to sell.
It is hard to describe life under
these conditions. The best I can do is
to say; that it was suffocating. When
not going to and fro about their work,
th less well-to-do. hid their unbappl
ness in their rooms. ' As it was, one
was forever meeting on the street hollow-cheeked,
emaciated, dry-eyed suf
ferer. ; X felt as though I had escaped
from a dank prison when I got back
to this country and saw . happy,
healthy., well-fed people again.
V' - j- ' Strain la Teniae;.
. The strain is beginning to tell, I
have heard ' the emperor soundly be
rated by his famished subjects in the
shops that the poor frequent. I have
often . during the last months of my
stayv listened to strangely seditious
talk among the workers, men and
women,. which grew in violence after
the check, at Verdun. ' Th working
women have threatened a number of
times t get out ' of hand and rough
things, i In Saxony, at least, war is
Prize Sought by England in Near East
Such Is Report of German Commission on Natural Resources of
-Asia Minor Turkey Offers Field for Profitable Investment.; .
imUE possibilities for German ln
I dustry and' German capital In
A Turkey, are ; almost unlimited. "
declared a member of the German com
mittee -of manufacturers, bankers and
industrial, experts .which went to Asia
Minor several months ago, .upon his re
turn to Berlin. .V , V.
"The result : of ur Investigations
was a surprise to . ourselves." the
spokesman of the ' committee contin
ued. : "We found the conditions for
manufacturing enterprises far more
favorable than we expected. The
necessary raw materials can be ob
tained at a very small coat after th
systematlc development of the country
is started. Armenia and Syria contain
enormous mineral treasure, which may
be utilized , with little trouble. The
buildlnr of railroads does not present
any great difficulties, and In some of
the mountain districts there is abun
dant waterpower for .manufacturing
purposes. To start the planned Indus
tries it will be necessary to. bring a
larce number of skilled" workmen from
rGermany and Austria-Hungary, , but
the Turks are a very Intelligent race,
and there is.no doubt that within a
few vears a larae arm v of efficient in-
rdustrial workers can be trained."
In regard to Mesopotamia, the ex
pert Baid:
"After, traveling through the ancient
country which, is supposed to. have
been the cradle of mankind and civil
ization. I can well understand why
England is making such great efforts
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OF ALL GERMANY SAYS .
successfully throttling,. one by one, all
the people) impulses for living.
The Saxon casualty list has ' been
very heayy. Th PlSuen regiment has
been wiped out aix time. All th
young, "daahing, professional officers,
who led the first onslaught, have been
wiped out. Th troops are now offi
cered by men of all classes, who have
made good in th field, and in some
cases that I know of the derivation of
th f fleers testifies to the startling
SAGE AND SULB
DARKENS GRAY HAIR
Brush- this through faded.
treaked locks and they be
come dark, glossy, youthful.
Almost everyone knows that' Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compounded,
brings back the natural voior and
lustre to the hair when faded, streaked
or gray. Years ago the only way to
get this mixture was to make it at
heme, which is mussy and trouble
some. Nowadays, by asking at any
drug store for "Wyetn'a Sag and Sul
phur Compound," y on will get a large
bottle of this famous old recipe, im
proved by the addition of other in
gredients, for about to cents. I -
Don't stsy gray! Try it! No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
youp' hair, as it does it so- naturally
and evenly. Tour dampen a sponge or
soft brash with it and draw this
through your hair, taking on small
strand- at a time; by morning th gray
hair disappears, and after another ap
plication or two. your . hair becomes
beautifully dark, glossy, and attractive.
-'W.yeth's i sage - ana Hulphur Corn
pound la a delightful toilet requisite
for those who desire dark hair and a
youthful appearance. - It is sot . in
tended for the cure, mitigation or pre
vention, of disease. -, , . (Adv.)
o prevent this how comparatively un
productive territory from coming Under
German control, . The attempt of the
British to conquer the entire Tigris
and Euphrates district Is not inspired
by the fear that India may be threat
ened If the central powers extend their
control . tox the - Persian . gulf., They
know that Mesopotamia can be made
the richest- farming country in the
whole world with-the proper methods
and tin outlay -of about a billion dol
lars for a gigantic irrigation system.
"The English government feels that
the reclamation of the now mostly
barren lands of Mesopotamia will
make the central powers independent
of imports over the seas and bring un
told wealth.-not only to Turkey, but'
also to her sponsors and allies. With
in five .years after the conclusion of
peace Mesopotamia will be able to fur
nish all the foodstuffs Germany haa
to import, and In 10 or 15 years Meso
Dotamla arraln. corn, cotton, etc.. will
be more than sufficient for the need
of all Europe."'
Drinking Schedule Hit.
London, .March 31. Parliament, aft
er long and solemn deliberation, has
decided that the bar in connection with
the house shall close at the same hours
that public bars close.. The result is
expected to be some inconvenience
causing certain members to take
drink, before making a speech. Instead
of after, as has been their custom.
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democratizing effects of war. The call
tor more men is always Insistent. The
high school boys go out once" a week
for drill. Boy Scouts drill from 12 to
1. -The land has been denuded of Its
physically fit men. -axoay's
Sorden Immense.
Saxony has borne an over-large
share of the war suffering. It is pri
marily a manufacturing country, and,
so, has suffered most keenly from the
effects of food ahortage. At one time
last year the Saxons were eating a.
bread eked out with chopped straw.
Then Saxony did an enormous export
business. The war swept this busi
ness away and closed hundreds of fac
tories. I knew many men In my district-who.
wealthy in 181, their all
wiped out by war, saw themselves
paupers in 1915.
A revolution, an economic revolution,
has already been worked in -Saxony, a
revolution of destruction whose effects
will outltye this generation. The Sax
on poor realize this better- than their
more fortunate countrymen, and tbey
are bitterly, very bitterly, war-weary.
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Snail Farmers in
France Get Rich
. Paris, March 11- French snail farm
ers are making small fortunes out-of
tbe war. More than, half the French
supply of this delicacy, has been cut
off by tlM German occupation of Lux.
mi berg, Belgium, and Northern Franc;,
and the market pric has risen accord
ingly. Th demand for snails has alw
been stimulated by the new food regu
lations, which class snails with oysters
as a' hors d'oeirrre, of which on may
tat as much as one pleases. ' ;
As many as a half million first dual
ity snails, wrtb ft to $19 a thousand,
ran be reared or an acre of land. They
have to be: fed - enly once a day. prf--rably
In th evening. A bed, f on
hundred thousand snails will consume
a wagon joad of cabbages In a few min
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Michael Held in High Favor. -
in Russia as Far as the !;
Royalty Goes, v
GRAND DUKE MICHAEL. ALEX AN -DROVITqH.
in whose favor Nich
olas abdicated and who In turn' has .
declared in' favor' of the provisional
government, was himself blr -to the
throne until the birth of the-cm r- .
vltch In 10. - ' " ;
This- energetic brother of tbe late
cxar is 10 years younger than the de-.
posed monarch. He is the faverite son ;
of the Dowager Kmgavss Maria Fes
drovana, sister of the Dawsger Queen j
Alexandra of Great Britain. , i
All accounts agree that . the grand '
Owke has loathed the German Influence
in the Russian imperial family, court
and army, which has resulted in his
present elevation. - For two "years im
mediately preceding the war he lived In
England, occupying for, a time the es
tate of Lord Lytton at Knebwerth. -
Until the war began, little was
known of toe man who now rules Rv-
sla, aave for the fact that ha had mar-
Uried a morganatic wife and angered the
csar, vlth whom ha was at swords
paints. Immediately thr wvr began, '
however, he returned to Russia and of
fered his sword to the csar. - C -
A. Hatioaal Xdol -4 , :
in the army, the grand duke, though
his fame spread but little from the
confines of Russia, became a sort of
national idol for the raoujlks, second
only to. the Grand Duke Nicholas. In
the campaign near Ixmna he was said ,
to have handled his troops with consid
erable skill, but what endeared him- es-
f ecialiy to tne Russians was the fact
hat he exposed himself with reckless
ness to Shell and shrapnel fire, exhort
ing his soldiers appeals to . a their
bravery, love of country and devotion -to
the holy church. "' , , ,. ... : jj
On thla occasion slsoMt 'was pub
lished throughout Russia that the
grand duke was another such marl at
the Csar Alexander II, who Issued the
ukase giving freedom from- sertdom to
the peasants. Though In early Ufa he
seemed to have the rather flabby Quali
ties of the Romanoffs, it was said
that . in the war, At not before, he
had amply proved his strength of will.
The now regent of Russia was ban-,
ished Yronvthe empire early in Janu
ary. 1911, by the csar, whom "now he -'
virtually -replaces on the throne, "save
only for thjs pretensa of rule of a feeble -boy.
He Was banished because of the
romance through Which, mainly, the "
grand duke is best known fo the world, -though
that romance is- often fconfnsed
with a similar one in which his uncle
the Grand Ikike Michael Mlchasto- :
vltch. and the. Countess Ada Torby
were the principals.
Unlike some affairs of the heart In
which Russians of the blood royal have .
taken part, this one shed no unpleas
ant light upon the grand duke. The .
grand duke refused a mistress from the ,
ranks of the imperial ballet, a course
almost unprecedented, and refused also -a
wife from . the royal princesses of -Europe.
Instead he married in Vienna,
on October 16. 1911. the Countess Na-
talis Scheretnetersky. a divorcee. v
Countess -Natalt had . been divorced
from Captain von Woulfert, a Russian
officer stationed at Moscow. The two
children born, during that period, when
the captain well knew that the grand -duke,
and not he. had his wife's af fee- ' ,
tions, were claimed by Michael as be
longing to him. But by marrying the
woman whom he loved, the grand duke
had triumphed over the standards of
morality of the Russian court, which
held that to toe highly unnecessary. v-
Csar Infuriated. .
Though his wife was beautiful and
intelligent, the czar was Infuriated at
his brother and banished him from.
Russia He was removed from his post
as colonel of the regiment of chevalier
guards at etrograd. and at the same
time an Imperial ukase was Issued es
tablishing a guardianship -over his per
sonal property and affairs, and 'his9
estates were taken over and adminls-
terd , , '
A year later ft was reported that
Michael had refused to yield Nto tbe
rear s desire that ho abdicate his post-
tion as next to the czarevitch in the ,
line of succession. In this the dow
ager , empress supported her' favorita
son. The one thing tbe csar could hot '
do was to strike off the nam ef his
next lineal successor without the tat
ter's consent or his being found men
tally incapable. , - . - ;.
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