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CZAR WAS BLIND
TO EMPIRE'S NEED
Neither He Nor Empress Could
See Where Nation Was
Drifting
By Associated Press
London, March 22. A dispatch to
Reuter's Telegram' Company from
Petrograd says:
"Numerous interviews with tho
grand dukes are daily appearing in
the newspapers. They show the blind
ness of the former emperor and em
press to actualities. Grand Duko Cy
ril, who is now known as Admiral Ro
manoff. and who was the first grand
duke to recognize tho new govern
ment, is quoted as saying:
•' 'My house porter and myself seo
eye to eye. Under the old government
we would have lost the war. It was
useless to talk to the emperor about it.
We fcould not break down the wall
built by former Premier Sturmer,
Bishop Pitrim and former Minister of
Justice Chtcheglovitoff, and latterly M.
Protopopoff.'
"After the grand dukes, individually
and collectively, hal failed to con
vince the emperor of threatening rev
olution, they deputised Grand Duke
Cyril's wife, the Grand Duchess Vic
toria. to attempt to open the eyes of
the empress who was the actual ruler
Grand Duchess Victoria in the course
of an interview with the empress out
lined a desirable cabinet.
" 'But those are enemies of the
dynasty,' exclaimed the empress. 'Who
are against us? Only Petrograd and
a handful of ignorant bridge-playing
aristocrats. In twenty years on the
throne I know Russia, and I know the
people love our family.'
"Toward the end the grand dukes
only appeared at Tsarskoe-Selo for
official functions."
HOW THE RUSSIANS
TOOLED THE JAPS
"In one battle of the Russo-
Japanese War, a Russian eight-gun
battery took position in a level field,
a few hundred yards in rear of a low
ridge that completely concealed it
from all points in the Japanese lines.
The {lattery commander conducted
the fire from a higher ridge in rear
of the battery. One Japanese infantry
attack after another crumbled under
the Are of the battery. The Jap
anese artillery tried in vain to locate
it. When their fire fell somewhat
away from the battery its (Ire be
came slow and irregular—to the hos
tile artillery a sure sign of effect—
and they poured their heaviest lire on
the spot; when their tire fell near
the battery. It increased its rate and
the Japanese sought to locate it else
iwhere. The ruse worked successfully
'through a long summer day."—Major
'E. D. Scott, in National Service Maga
zine for March.
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EMPEROR AND
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UNDER ARREST
Royal Castle Described in
Petrograd Press as "Nest
of German Spies"
By Associated Press
Petrograd, March 22.—Ail order for
the arrest of Nicholas Romanoff and
Alexandra Feodorovna, former em
peror and empress of Russia, has been
issued by the provisional government.
General Alexieff has been charged
i with the doty of guarding the pri
j soners until members of the duma
. arrive with an escort to take them
I
to Tsarskoe-Selo.
The Russian Volia, in a long un
signed article, exposes what It terms
tho treason of tho court clique and
: alleges that Tsarskoe-Selo was a "nest
■ of German sple.s" Tho paper says
• that a special committee has been ap
i pointed to investigate tho "crimes of
former ministers during the last Bac
chanalian nightmare years of the
dynasty, on which Rasputin put the
final touches." The article says in
part:
"The first crime was treason and
espionage and had its nest in the
j palace. The court was partly and
II chiefly German and the pitiful role of
Sturmer in his efforts to drag Russia
i toward a separate peace was known
everywhere. The press of our allies
accused Russia of giving Germany
I Russian military secrets.
Treason in Castle
"Alexci Khvostoff. who was dis
missed as minister of the interior be
cause ho aimed to divorce Nicholas
and Alexandra and kill Rasputin, de
clared to friends that ho had docu
ments showing the connection between
the court and Berlin and that Rasputin
was surrounded by German spies who
were sending out military secrets
■ easily learned from the drunken monk.
Khvostoff. himself one of the band of
• dark forces, did nothing to hinder the
treason at Tsarskoe-Selo.
"Wc know from the letter of Gen
eral Guehkoff, minister of war, to Gen
eral AlexlefT that Sturmer and Belaleff
refused England's offer to give half a
I million rifles to the Russian army.
| Similar facts have bee a collected by
the defense committee of the imperial
duma. Wo know the consequences of
General SoukhomlinofT'3 doings when
he was only governor of Kiev and
when he surrounded himself with
spies. His nearest friend was com
mander of the Austrian spy organ
ization. Our military secret servico
know, but could do nothing. • The re
sult of his treason was a Russian de
j feat costing millions of lives. What are
iweto do now? Allow Nicholas to live
in beautiful Livadia, among the flowers
lie was so fond of and among the con
j Uitlons of freedom he always dented to
i others? Allow him to do this so that
he may organize other dark forces for
the re-establishment of the Roman
offs?"
MOTHER AND SON
ARE SEPARATED
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'spostlone, anxiously awaiting news
I that her boy has been found.
The mother and son reside at Brad
| dock. A brother of Mrs. Sposilone
idled at Passiac, N. J., and the funeral
was to have taken place this morning.
Mrs. Spasilone and her boy left Brad
dock yesterday and were enroute east
on train No. 44 last evening. The
young man who is 23 years of age was
j given a SSO bill by the mother to pur
chase tickets. The nearest point to
j Passiac is Newark.
I Shortly after the train left Brad
dock, the son said he was going to the
smoking car. At Johnstown he got off
■the train, telling his mother he in
tended tp buy some sandwiches and
cigars. The parent supposed the young
I man had returne dto the smoking car
and did not know lie was not on the
train until she reached Harrisburg.
j W nrd was sent to Johnstown and
'othei points to search for the missing
son. j In the meantime, the mother,
l>r?kenhearted over her boy's dlsap
| pearance and fearing ho had met with
some foul play, became too 111 to re
jsume her journey. She was eared for
until this morning at the home of
I David Goldberg, the Pennsylvania rail
jtoart interpreter, when she resumed
her journey. In the meantime, the
i relatives at Passiac were notified and I
it he funeral nostponed until Mrs. 1
Sposilone arrived. Up to late this aft
ernoon the missing son had not been
located.
THIRTEENTH OX WAV HOME
El Paso, Texas, March 22. The
Thirteenth Pennsylvania Infantry en
| trained last night for home to be mus-
I tered out of the federal service.
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design Harrisburg's new high schools, has had extensive experience in draw lng plans for school buildings.
Above is the Yeatman high school, Minneapolis, designed by Mr. Ittne r, and said to be one of the best in
Minnesota. Mr. Ittner has been tha architect for many other buildings in other cities, including Erie, St. Jjouls
and Washington, D. C. His appointment is recommended by a special committee Including two members of the
School Board and two members of the citizen advisory committee.
FRENCH JOYOUS AT
RELIEF FROM BONDAGE
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hall of Nesle to-day to the correspond
ent, speaking for herself and her two
little children, their pallid faces and
high cheekbones giving evidence of
their privations.
Wherever one went in the territory
recently evacuated by the Germans the
same story was repeated. There are
many other stories of hardships be
ing told, although most of the inhab
itants said the German soldiers had
been well disciplined and kept strictly
under control. It was repeatedly as
serted, however, that within the past
few weeks the Germans had appropri
ated some of the American relief stores
to their own use, even to the extent
of three-fourths of the supplies. It
was also said that the Germans took t
possession of the white flour, rssuing |
black Hour instead to the inhabitants. ,
Some of the peasants encountered j
in the evacuated territory were plainly j
joyous at their liberation. Others ap
peared to have their spirits broken.
Their attitude was one of absolute sub
mission to anything that might hap
pen. Many young children who had
seen nothing but German soldiers in
their lives stared to-day in almost
stupid wonder at the British tommiei
clad in khaki and wearing their stee.
hats.
Gi-rinnnN Broke I'p Homes
One of the greatest ordeals the peo
ple said they had to endure was to
stand by and see their homes broken
up by the Germans as the'soldiers were
leaving. In some Instances the French
inhabitants who had been held virtu
ally as prisoners during the German
occupation had been segregated in cer- |
tain parts of the villages while the
work of destruction was going on elße- ]
where At Rouy, however, it was stat
ed and reiterated by scores of porsons
that the inhabitants of this village
and of several other villages had been
gathered at Petit in certain
houses and told to remain in them a
certain number of hours while the
Germans, got away. While so horded
together, they declared, the Germans
had sent 20U shell into the village,
killing several persons. The funerals
which were in progress in the village
to-day lent color to the story. People
in other villages also assert that they
distinctly heard this tiring and thought
that a battle was in progress.
Pitiful Scenes
It was pitiful to motor to-day
through villages which had been far
from the firing line and untouched by
any shells and yet were lying in ab
solute rui.fr. Active steps are being
taken by both the British ana the
French to relieve the people In the lib
erated zone. About the only Pfons
seen are old men, women and children.
Bovs who had attained the age of six
teen years or- more since the German
occupation and ...en who were consid
ered over the military age by the
French were taken off by the Germans
for work behind their lines. Many of
these French boys and old men had
been compelled to work in the German
trenches where they said they also met
many Belgians and Russians the latter
of course being prisoners of war.
HIGH COST OF AKTILLERY
Always a costly arm, field artillery
is more so now than eve*, due to the
complicated engines it uses. The
equipment alone, exclusive of men
and horses, for the artillery of a
corps In our army reaches a cost of
more than 12,000,000, its visible sup
ply of ammunition twice that amount.
For an army of a million men the
cost is more than $ 12,000,000; that
of ammunition more than $240,000,-
000. It need scarcely be said that
such costly machinery of war must
be provided in time of peace.—Major
E. D. Scott, in National Service Maga
zine for March,
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ARMIES CLASH IN
BIGGEST FIGHT OF WAR
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are threatened by far greater disaster
than even the loss of Bagdad.
Attiuk liuss I.ilies
What may prove to bo the opening
of a German offensive on the Russian
front is reported in to-day's Russian
oliieial statement.
The German attack was delivered
towards the northern end of the front
in the region southeast of Vilna, al
most directly east of Lida. The Rus
sian position there was breeched, but
afterwards the Germans were driven
out of a village they had occupied. A
portion of the positions, however, re
mained in their hands.
The Berlin official statement reports
this movement as a raid in force and
does not mention the retention of any
ground gained. The Russian position
was penetrated as far a# the second
line, it is declared, and tho raiders re
turned with 225 prisoners, two guns,
six machine guns and other booty.
The German statement also reports
a revival of activity on the Rumanian
front, with the armies of Archduke
Joseph and Field Marshal
Von Mackensen. Petrograd also
speaks of Teutonic activity in the re
gion of Foksh&ni, along the line in
Southern Moldavia. The aerial and
artillery arms of the service are In
tensely busy here, as if in preparation
for an infantry movement
In the aerial fighting on the Franco-
Belgian front a prince of the Prussian
royal house apparently has been killed
or captured. Berlin reports that an
airplane which was piloted by Prince
Friederich Karl, a cousin of the Ger
man emperor, failed to return from a
raid over the British lines between Ar
ras and Peronne.
WHY UNIVERSAL SERVICE
IS IMPERATIVE
"Warfaro of the modern type is the
biggest collective enterprise that man
is called upon to undertake," Bays
Professor Ralph Barton Perry in the
March number of National Service
magazine. "It requires division of
labor upon an enormous scale. It is
Important, then, fchat the burden
should be distributed not only quan
titatively, but with due regard for the
different aptitudes of individuals, and
for the economic burdens which they
already carry as a public service. No
one would think it either just or ex
pedient that a talented surgeon
should be sent Into a bayonet charge,
or that a skilful organizer should be
assigned to the aviation service, or
that a man of middle age with a de
pendent family should be sent to the
front at the commencement of hos
tilities. And yet this is precisely
what happens under the so-called
voluntary system, or under what
might better be called no system.
There are many forms of useful mili
tary service, and there arc many de
grees of hardship and risk. In order
that these shall be distributed most
effectively and least wastefully, it is
necessary that the nation should be
organized as a whole with an approp
riate duty assigned to every citizen,
and with every citizen forewarned to
perform that duty well.
CIVII. WAR VETERAN IKIICS v
AT HOME OK HIS SON
Tyrus P. Scheffler, aged 78, died
last night at the home of his son, Ed
ward Scheffler, 1402 Vernon street.
He was a veteran of the Civil, War
and was a member of Post 58, G. A. R,,
The post will have charge of the fu
neral services, which will be held
from his late horn* Saturday after
noon at 2 o'clock. Interment will be
made in the East Harrisburg Ceme
tery.
He Is survived by the son with
whom he made his home and four
daughters. Mrs. John Reed, Mrs.
Miller, Harrlsburg; Mrs. Law
renee AVriglit, of near Bendervllle,
Adams county, and Mrs. E. J. Con
over, Atlanta. Or. Fifteen grand-
I children and three great grandchildren
I also BurvlvQ
. —. n . .1
Mechanicsburg Couple
Married at Mount Joy
Mechanicsburg, Pa., March 22.
Miss Helen C. Stambaugh and J. Nor
ris Brubaker, both of Mechanicsburg
quietly slipped oft to Mt. Joy on Tues
day, where they were married at 1
o'clock In the afternoon, to the sur
prise of their friends here. Both are
well-known young people. The bride
who was employed at Bowman's Store,
at Harrisburg, is the daughter of Tol
bert C. Stambaugli, of South York
street, and was graduated from the
Mechanicsburg high school. Mr. Bru
baker is in the grocery business with
his father. A. B. Brubaker, on the
corner of Keller and oYrk streets. He
is also substitute mailcariier and a
member of the Church of God choir,
lie was a graduate of the Mechanics
burg high school. Mr. and Mrs. Bru
baker will make their home in Me
chanicsburg.
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MARCH 22, 1917.
NEW ARMORY BILL
v FOR $2295,000
Big Preparedness Measure Is
Presented to Legislature
by Chester Member
A jircpirfdmca measure in the
shape of at bill to appropriate $2,235,-
000 for construction of armories for j
the organisations of the National
Gward wis prewntel in the House to
day by Mr. Whttaktr, Chester, wh Is :
captain of Battery C of the First AT- '
Blsmt at Phoenlxvtlle.
The bill was draws by the State'
Armory Board and la designed to pro- |
vide a building- for every organization j
in • the Guard not having a building
nour having: facilities or which has not
.sufficient quarters.
The allowance for an infantry field
hospital or ambxdanoe companj' shall
be $50,000; battery, troop, signal corps
or engineer company, $75,000, while
machine sib, headquarters and supply
organizations are to have the same
allowance as infantry units. The
| board is authorized to receive dona-1
lions of siSlos.
An appropriation of $290,000 for
maintenance of present armories is
also made.
Bills Passed
The House passed finally:
Fixing salarios of probation officers
In Allegheny county. *
Authorizing publication of report of
"mine code" commission of 1913.
Repealing sinking fund commission
act of April 3, 1909.
Increasing salaries of three clerks
In office of Philadelphia court clerks.
Authorizing counties to pay $25 for
expenses of conventions of county
commissioners.
Increasing terms of -registry asses
sors to townships and boroughs con
taining more than one election dis
trict to four years.
Transferring jurisdiction in Juve
nile cases from the Allegheny county
court to the Quarter sessions court.
The House adjourned at 12.10 p. m_
until 9 p. m. Monday after clearing the
second reading calendar and advanc
ing the new military code.
Mr. TTrich, Lebanon, in the House
to-day presented a bill establishing a
cause of physical training in the
schools of the State under a bureau in
the Department of Public Instruction,
providing lor payment of cost of edu
cation of children In orphanages and
similar institutions.
Other bills presented:
MeVlc&r, Allegheny, amending bor
ough code so that the office of borough
manager may be established.
Mr. Stofllet. Northampton: Author
izing cities and boroughs to pass or
dinances foT licensing of cats and to
adopt regulations "to govern the run
ning at large of cats."
Mr. Thomas, Luzerne, presented a
bill amending the act giving all per
sonal property taxes to counties so
that counties shall return to third
class cities, that part of the taxes col
lected in such municipalities.
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PARDON BOARD IS
NOT LENIENT NOW
York Couniians Fail to Get
Recommendations For Open
ing of Prison Doors
The State Board of Pardons lasfc
night announced that It had refused
to recommend pardons in both of the.
York county cases presented late in
tho day. They included the Italians
i convicted of dynamiting and Stewart
Chttaon* who figured iu a sensational
holdup.
j The decisions were announced a-1 '
follows:
! Uecooifljended Andrew Botavnlr
: Allegheny, perjury; James K. Foye,
I Philadelphia, forgery; Ixaaie Bona
-1 vttiL, Klfc, rape; Mayme Hilty, Indiana,
I larceny; David Sahara, Philadelphia,
| burglary.
Kef used—Albert M oore, Allegheny,
! robbery; Jacob Yellla, Lehigh, per
jjnry, Stanley J. Kordeck, Montgom
ery, larceny, etc..; Joseph Catalano, co
aL, York, throwing explosives; Stew
art Ohilson, York, robbery; George
Shapanski, Luzerne, burglary; Salva
tore Zangare, Lancaster, second de
gree murder; Harold Uerggrcn, Phila-.
I'delphia, robbery.
| Rehearings refused—John Mlonklo
nvicz, Luzerne, mischief; Frank Tact-,
eel, Philadelphia, conspiracy,
| Rehearings granted—James Baker,
Philadelphia, assault and battery:
J Frank Minnich, York, felonious en
try; Mike Metro, Luzerne, larceny?
j Angelo di Ernienegildo, Chester, sec
j ond degree murder; Willis li Schug
j Hnd James A. Heij, Northampton, rob
| bery.
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woman. If your hair Is thinning out
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| itching scalp and remove all dandiufC
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Apply frequently massaging tl'e scblp
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nourishes the famished roots stimulat
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Parisian Sago Is also woman's favor
ite hair dressing because it makes her
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and easy to dress attractively. it's
guaranteed harmless, is inexpensive
and easily obtainable at all drug coun
ters.