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Show rAIr MJAUA1 TiCliiUM, LfAlU', lEliJCUAKl JiUILMMi, V' THE BROKEN HEART OF THE EXILED PRINCESS PALEY Cprtht, ' & IVi. Asfotix J 7r j tda - t--u jt'oL ' Ct. ALUa et-- ,- 3 'uh da A A. L &LA k. r ifauJx. nAyj 1 CykttJJ r. tD&uZe- - V- Y i- Y - v 'hv. IsAaXLiL3 0-- djL , By Princess Catherine Radziwill The Princes Pa ley, now a widowed fugitive in Finland, as she appeared in INDEED, if we are to believe all that we most reliable sources, the mur- der of the unfortunate Nicholas II and of his whole family was decided upon by Trotzky on that very winter day when, together with Lenine, he proclaimed the establishment of the mew Russian soviet republic. On January 12, 1018, a few days after Kerensky was overthrown, the Grand Duke Michael Alexandroviti h, the farmer czars brother, was arrested in the paluce of where he had been living under police supervision, and, together with his wife and children, taken to Petrograd, where they were kept for a few days in the Smolna Institute, and thence they were sent into exile to Perm in tbe Ural mountains, where they remained prisoners, closely watched, for something like six month. A short time after the czars assassination the Grand Duke Michael was shot by a Bring squad composed of Lett and Chinese soldiers under the command of a Bolshevist commissary called Krawsky, A ho declared he was acting under orders from the Petrograd His two boys were strangled the Soviet. same day by some Red Guards, who, priding themselves on their historical knowledge, facetiously declared that they were imitating the example set by King Richard III of England when be caused bis two nephews to be smothered under feather pillows. Wbat became of their mother, the Countess Brassow, is not known, but it is probable that she has shared the fate of her husband and children. Gat-sebin- a, the Grand Duke Michael, tbe next to the Russian throne was the Grand Duke Cyril, married to an English princess, the sister of the queen of Ru mania. They were warned in time of the decision of the Bolshevists to arrest them, and managed to escape first to Finland and then to the Baltic provinces, where they are of tbcif living at present on the estate of one Etter. Mr. friends, The Grand Duke Cyrils brother Boris had such a detestable reputation that even Trotzky deemed him to be inoffensive, and he was allowed to make his way to France, politely whence the Fyench Government asked him to remove, and he is now living at San Remo, on the. Italian Riviera, together with his wife. Tbe latter ia a lady of doubtful antecedents, divorced from a rich eastern merchant, and is rather well endowed with worldly goods. The yoimgest brother of these two grand dukes, Andrew, is still in Russia, living in Kislowod-k- , in tbe Caucasus. with his mother and the dancer Kfbesjneha. the former favorite of Nicholas II, whom he has married. Tbe Bolshevist hive aso left him alone. On Marli 1H. J91S, occurred the first of the many humble tiagcilu. Wuisli have be AFTER -- court dress before the overthrow of the Romanoffs fallen the Romanoffs. This was the arrest of the Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, the Grand Duke Serge Michaylovitch, the three young sons of tbe late Grand Duke Constantine and. Prince Vladimir Paley, the young son of Grand Duke Pauls Reeond marThe eldest of Constantines sons. riage. Prince John, was the husband of the Princes Helene, of Serbia, the beautiful daughter of old King Peter of Serbia. All were seut into exile to a remote spot in the Ural, a village called Alapaievsk. There they remained until the following July, when a detachment of Red Guards arrived from Moscow with instructions to put them to death. They were told that the government had decided to remove them further into Siberia, and were taken, under escort, to some abandoned coal pit near a secluded r spot iu uuv w Lue immense forest, aol w those ' pits the unfortunate victim hen thrown alive, one after the other. Grand Duchess Elizabeth aw her relative an pushed into this grave, ahe screamed implored her tormentor to spare them, upon which the commander of the detachment o aoldier to whom the execution had been intrusted, seized with pity and some kind of rough mercy, threw a handkerchief over the face of the unhappy woman, and a h hurled her into the coal pit discharged bis revolver into her right ear, putting thn a quick end to her sufferings. The bodies were recovered later, and by the care of General Knox, former British military attache in Russia, decently buried in a neighboring chufch. There remained in Petrograd the Grand iD " s: uiove-lucoi- U Hi beard bristles with speak energy. activity. Hi quickness of wit and Intellect have set tbeir seal on the physical man. Body aud brain are matched to a remarkable degree in a rapier-lik- e keenness. He is a live wire a human dynamo. th Dear Friend: J RECEIVED jcur kind and affectionate letter of February 2d a few da ago, and I desire to thank you with all my poor, tortured and broken heart you who have known the grand duke, who have been witness of our love, our good fortune you, more than any other friend, will understand my distrew and despiur. During the first four days I did not shed a single tear; now I weep night end day, and as fime passe I comprehend my misfortune more and more. Is it because I had been too happy that God ha sent blow upon blow to try me ao? First of all, this accursed revolution our wounded pride (oh, not for myself, but for him, my adored one, who was innocent, and upon whom fell the counter-blofor everything that had happened without him in Russia); then the ruin of our whole fortune; the exile of our dear Vladimir; the arrest of the grand duke; the assassination of the emperor; the nationalization of oar beautiful home; the confiscation of all our ready money; and, after five and a hlf montra of imprisonment, five and a half months of martyrdom death, for him (and consequently for me!) at the hand of these bandits, these assassins, with whom the Allies desire to confer at Princes Island! Ten times a day I reread his dear, last notes, written in pencil from tha prison hospital where he had been after November 23; and hi last words arc, I kiss you fondly. 1 love you so. P. He had hoped so much that I would come to free him. The bandits had agreed to his release for 00,000 rubles, payable in Finland; and I had found friends who would have been happy to advance this amount. Nicholas Michaelovitrh had also offered millions for his own liberation. Why, at the last moment, these monsters should have preferred to kill these four innocent persona no 6ne can understand. Since July 5 I have been And this by no means ends my misfortunes. d Vladimir, exiled in March, 1918, to without any news from my Alapaievsk, in the Urals, with Elizabeth Feodorovna, Serge Michaelovitch (with wham he shared his room) and the three young Constantines. In the beginning we were very quiet about their fate, because the Bolshevists had announced in the newspapers that the former prince had been kidnaped and one was looking for them," and we felt sure that they would be safe and sound in Siberia, together with Michael Alexandrovitch. And, behold, the sinister newa reaches us that all had been killed and that Knox, the former English military attache, had seen their bodies! This news would have put an end to me if, before my departure from Petrograd, Maxim Gorky bad not told me that Volodia had been saved by a French general while he was in Siberia. Did he Invent thla to console me? I do not know; but, unhappy as I am, I clutch at this last ray of hope, and if I lose it, considering the weakness of my heart, which the doctors are bracing with digitalis and atrophanthe, I do not believe that I could survive it long. And yet I must continue to live a while longer. Irene is only fifteen years old and Natalia thirteen. They are two angeia, who take care of me night and day, and whom grief, in a few weeks, brought to womanhood. The grand duke adored them and rejoiced ao greatly that they were ao gentle, so wise, and I will add Irene so beautiful! But notwithstanding my great tenderness for them, it wa the grand duke and Volodia whom I loved most in the world! Life in Finland being extravagantly expensive and there being no longer any hope that the Allies will rid Petrograd from the monsters who rule there; nor any hope, either, of recovering the body of the grand duke to give it Christian burial, I am dreaming of going to Copenhagen to await events ehere. Afterward, if I find my Volodia alive, we will go to Paris, where, after selling our house in Boulogne, We will be able to live modestly. So there, my dear friend, you have my sad and heartrending history. Thank you for having written to me and a thousand affectionate greetings. OLGA PALEY. AY My Duke Paul Alexandrovitrh, with bit wife, the Princess Paley, their two daughter, and cousin, the Grand Duke Dmitry Nicholas and George Michaj-lovitcthe last named married to Princes Marie of Greece, the niece of Queen Alexandre. They also were arrested and conveyed, first, to the fortress, where they were detained in an awful cell with other prisoners belonging to the lowest classes and subjected to tbe most abominable insult. Whenever the soldiers who guarded them took them out for their daily exercise in the yard of the fortres they used to jeer at tbein, and, pretending to salute them, railed them in derision. They your majesties were left for days together without any decent food, and compelled, under the most trivial pretext, to atrip entirely, and allow their jailers to search through their clothe and tbeir pockets. The health of tbe Grand Duke Paul broke down at last, and then a group of Bolshevist leaders, who feared that if he died in prison they might lose tbeir chance of making some money, approached his wife, the Rrinceti Paley, who, thanks to the intervention of Maxim Gorky, bad been released from prison, and offered to grant her the liberty of her husband in exchange for the sura of 000.000 rubles, which were to be At the same time tbe paid in Finland. Grand Duke Nicholas Michaylovttch was told that he would be allowed to escape from the fortress in considi ration of the payment of 3,000,000 rubles. He was known to be extremely rich and to have put aside considerable sums abroad, which account for the large amount of money that wa asked from him. prisoners eagerly caugbt at tbi ray THEhope and negotiatiod were started iu Slot kholm, where Swediih bank undertook to transmit the sums required by tbe unscrupulous men who were .bargaining in such a shameless way for human lives. Unfortunately, Stockholm swarmed with Boishe- - Some years ago I met Shaw. I waa prepared, forgetting the passage of time, for bis vivid red beard. But I waa surI sat on his right hand at table prised. and took a good look at him. The Irish eyes were as keenly blue a ever, the laugh - scendant of Peter the Great. Tbe bodi were eewn into sack end thrown into t Nevn, to be carried ewey to the see by i vist spies, one of whom, called Lewitiky. who bimHclf afterward met with a horrible death, became aware of tbe transaction, and after vainly trying to obtain a share of tbe plunder betrayed it to aoiu other Bolshevist leaders. Among the latter was Apfeibaum, alias Zinovief, who, infuriated to find that be and bis friend bad been left out of the transaction, stormed the hospital in tbe fortres to which the graud dukes bad been transferred from their unhealthy underground cells and murdered them in tbe most horrible manner possible, by beating out their brain with tbeir heavy nailed boots and driving their spurs into tbe victim' current. The Princes Paley never knew the detal of this horrible tragedy and could not undei stand why ail her effort to save her bubai bad failed. She wrote tbe letter reprodua in facsimile aud translated in full on th page to a friend a few week after tbe mui der of her husband. Tbe Grand Duke Paul waa tbe seventeen) Romanoff to be put to death, and none i them in direct line of succeaaion to the crow ia left in the land of tbe living. Grand Du) Nicholas Nirholaievitch, the former com mander-i- n chief of the Russian army, mas aged to escape out of the Crimea, and ta gether with his wife and hi brother livt in a small resort of the Italian Riviera call Santa Margherita. The Dowager Empcei Marie has found a refuge in England wit her sister, the Dowager Queen Alexandra. ejes. A the blood streamed down tbe face of the Grand Duke Paul tbe soldier kept sing-- , iug and laughing and asking him bow be liked the way lie was being treated. He never replied a word nor uttered a complaint, aud died with a courage worthy of a de Luncheon With Hall Caine and G. B: Shaw By THE person who loves book, is interested in how they are written and th personalities of their writers I know of no more fascinating experience than to be where two or three men or women of letters get together at some Informal meal, and to ait quietly and listen while they converse about their contemporaries or gossip to their hearts content about other literary people. Tbe other day I had this Watts-Dunto- n joy. I bad lunch at tbe Savoy Hotel with George Bernard Shaw, Sir Hall Caine and Judge Hcqry Neil, of Chicago. Hail Caine and Bernard Shaw are old In tbeir young days, when Shew friends. was a critic of the theatre and Hail Caine was still allowing other people to adapt bis novels to the stage, Sbaw made a furious onslaught on him for not doing tbe work himself. Hall Caine behaved ao much better than Sbaw had ever known a man of letters to behave under similar provocation (this is Shaws own account of the matter) that he never again wrote a word in disparagement of him, nor suffered any of tha vulgar and envious attacks on him which were the penalties of his enormous popularity to pass without dissociating himself with them. ever seen a picture of HAVE youIf you have, get it again, perch It up in front of you and gaze at It add perhaps score of years, modernize ft but only a very little and there you have th distinguished Manx novelist and dramatist. Fie is getting on in years now, Sir Hall Of middle height. Ills hair la no Caine. longer auburn red as it used to be. He wears it long. Silver white and silky it fall iu a soft cascade over his collar a wide collar with wings. His beard ia cut a la imperial, which again emphasizes bis His ex- - t likeiiness to the bard of Avon. is benevolent, yet poetic, strange pressioa for so successful a man now and again on surprises in bis face an odd look of wistful-nesa passionate yearning as of dreams, i ere are Urge desires, still upeatisfied. and limpid, brown in color. George Bernard Shaw look as if be took a bath every hour of the day. He ia taller than the ordiuary, thinner than the ordinary, noire active and qui k iu hi than the uitlaieiy. Hu action b March. 1913. Eaucha, Imatra (Finland). well-love- - b, A d. Z4MV his LETTER written in French by tha widow of the Grand Duke Paul to a friend la one of the most heartrending document relating to the murder of the Russian imperial family, la word which are o many 'eobg and tears tbe letter tells how the unfortunate womans hopes were alternately raised and dashed to the ground, until almost nothing remained but black despair. When the Bolshevists assumed the reins of government, if their administration can be called a government in Russia, they found that with the exception of the former emperor, his wife and children, who had been already exiled to Tobolsk by the Kerensky cabinet, the other members of the imperial family were living quietly eithvr in Petro-graFinland or the Crimea, and the Grand Duches Elizabeth Feodorovna, the empresss sister, in the convent which she had. built in Moscow, of which she was the mother abbess. The question as to what was to be don to them leave them in liberty or imprison them was at once raised by Trotzky, in spite .of the efforts of Lenine, who would have liked to send them all abroad. But bad very little to say in the matter and was overruled by the extremists of his party, who held the opinion that the only way to insure a quick triumph for the doctrines of bolshevism was to inaugurate a system of terror. They declared also that so long as the Romanoffs were allowed their liberty they would conspire against the safety of tbe state in favor of a restoration of the , monarchy. ' 4 hx'tfLd c'cuj eb' && (U. VkzttL . xtcZ-- u ltUu. dzLzJL, pA Aes JVx3 'JWW 'Tmw fiut li-24- w cjyt'. clj V. hjAbe. QuiAaj--- at7 JJ!uf a7 jkJt iwfe, tZth. Tot77- - (tiJ tJ n &4 aH& 'tri-u- s AAhJZ JlAuoA Thi , tklAJL &&bt - ej- The Letter of the Princess cgU- - & cJ-- ' tGAjuJ' U t ;cJ- du f 'Irruf iuc . Lu Chvu. -- ?UuJd Ldjor C. by FgHtg - 7 y ftlw $M 1920, Helen R. MacDonald ter wrinkles at the corners just as ready to work overtime. Hi mouth Is just as humor-oas of yore. He throws back bis bead with great burst of boyish laughter whenever a story please him and the subaltern in the room, boy of tweuty-ou- e or so, atare superciliously at the glee of this man, sixty-tw- o years young. But his beard! The famous fiery, arrogant red has faded. Perhaps it never waa so red as I bad come to tbiuk; memory colors. Time, witlg alchemy mor potent than any peroxide, has bleached it white. But it is a youthful white, a virile, robust white, just a arresting as the fiery red used to be. Not a word that might not have fallen from the most commonplace of men was heard until the waiter, reciting hi litany of dishes amid glum silence, said Egg in jelly. h light-hearte- d Instantly Shaw'a voice rang out with a new note in it. Egg in jelly, he said, with Napoleonic decision. And they say, I whispered to myself, that this man never epeaka seriously 1 AH men follow the man who knows hla own mind. We all had egg in jelly. Shaw, a vegetarian, then demanded ; and Hall Caine joined him, leaving Judge Neil and myself to go our own carnivorous ways. We compromised for Scotch salmon. ; We ended with fruit salad and coffee. W hen Shaw refused coffee Ilali Caine, who had just sent for a cigar, asked him whether be smoked. When I was a young man, said Shaw, my father said, I'm afraid Ive been bit of a failure. So, my son, take me as a guide. B hatever I've done, I advise you not to do. My father smoked. He also drank. I took bis advice. In answer to Bernard Shaw's query as to hi birthplace, Mr. Hall Came said quaintly, I should have been born in my nalive place. Weren't yon? said Shaw. " No, said Hall Caine, I waa bora ia Runcorn. My mother was tuere on a visit at the t dm ; but of course 1 belong t the Die of Man, the most beautiful place iu the world. ui , of course. Where were you born, Shaw! Dublin. I was born there in 183 And the plaeo fills me with a sort smoldering fury. I love the country row Dublin; there ia no such air near a ci iu tbe world. But oace across the cai bridge and on the flags, I use the most Iur language, at every step. I walk along, U up and see that Im in Baggot .tree Damn Baggot street! I growl. notice Im in Stephens Green. Again Dan Stephen a Green, I mutter. Jta very ha on my wife; for she ia to Dublin, and would extremely attach, stay there more fn quently if J didnt ewear so much. I ft more comfortable in London. Here I interjected a con vers, tioual remark about my blandly beloved A meric Have you ever been there? I ,bked M Shaw. No, be said, rested. Hhn h.0,lld ,by as you? fur Came, with a smile. I have be all over America. Its civ ized country, I assure you. reasonably Perhaps th. why is it? Not at all, said Shaw, you have h a providential escape. In most of the stal of America they have laws that laying you do anything whatsoever that could po sibly excite admiration in a woman you a -- . liable to several years Mi imprisonment. MacDonald here is contemplating my o brown auit in cold blood ; but she should m in my summer clothes with a hehotro collar and purple tie! Nbe could put i away for five year for them in the gtut, If you bad ever traveled half a nule by n with any other lady but your wife j, would have perished in America du So I keep away from America." geon. We talked on upon what did d touch? At last Shaw looked at hi wtr Hall Caine followed suit. Juage Xt,l to, out his Waltham. Half past three, bhuw elaime Were been talking for cea.'y two a f bourn! My dear." tinning to m It's a long time int I talked o miK I am sorry." , 1 wasn t. - ooe-bal- , -- |