Only 21 Years Old, a Prisoner in Her Own Palace, Forced to Watch {The Grand Duchess Maris as: She Appeir eared at the Time of Her Last Birthday--Her Twenty- HE Grand Duchess Marie Adelaide of Luxemburg is one of the most pathetic (figures in the world. THis preity young giflL barely ' twenty-one years old, was adored by her prosperous little country before the war broke out. To-day she is practically a prisoner In her Lown palace, unable to go out with- h out a military escort and forced to "look from her prison windows upon a people starving, terrified and [forced to live upon charity. For over a year the little Grand Duchess has striven bravely to assert her rights and that of her people, in face of the overwhelm- ing power of the German Empire, but the struggle is naturally a hopeless one. Luxemburg is re- to be occupied by 300,008 soldiers," more than the entire population of the country. " To "complete her misery, the Grand Duchess has been informed that she must marry a German prince, the object. of course, being to Insure future control of Luxem- burg. Before the war it was pro- posed that she should marry Prince Henry of Bavaria, nephew of the King of Bavaria, but she refused to accept p Some of the most eligible young neces of Europe then sought her and but she was most exacting. What an amazing change in her position today! Surrounded by a vast army of enemy soldie 4 Jioased to marry sean her wil is little princess a8 a Carthaginian i 7 -* « maiden of old chosen to be a vic- "tim of Moloch, According to the last reports the Grand Duchess has become a phys- fecal "wreck from the hopeless struggle and the sight of the mis- ery around her. She has expressed her intention of abdicating her throne and retiring to a convent to find relief from her sorrows. She wishes to leave her throne to a younger sister, who, being more of a child than herself, has not been £0 much affected by the tragedy that has overtaken Luxemburg." This little neutral state, only 998 equare miles in area, had the mis- fortune to lie on the direct path from Berlin to Paris when the war broke out. Three railway lines from the principal North German centres of population come together in the little town of Luxemburg, which, situated in a mountainous country itself, commands the flat "and comparatively unprotected area of Nerthern France. Two hundred thousand German "soldiers were rushed thsough" Lux- emburg as fast as they could be hurled, The young Grand Duchess bravely stationed herself in. the centre of the main road leading into Luxemburg and declared that they had no right to pass. Germam officers seized her horses and led her out of the way. Considerable mystery has been maintained concerning conditions in Luxemburg, for it is an impor- tant strategic tentre and has been the Kalsér's headquarters for a Don't Try to Her Once Prosperous _ People Starve and Die, i She Wishes to -. Abdicate and Bury Her Sorrows in a Convent ' ' the beleaguered Dpchy has just been brought to New York by Joseph Lenoir, a native of Luxemburg. "Conditions in Lux- emburg are worse than in Belgium," sald Mr. Lenoir. "The identity of the people bas been obliterated and every clause of the treaty of 1867 has been violated by the invaders. "A few days before I left it was announc- ed that Grand Duch- 'sss Marie was to en- ter a convent and that she had renounced her "title in favor of her younger sister. Announcement of the Duchess's intention was not allowed to be made public in the press, "The people are starving, because the Germans have requi- sitioned all the food and materials of all kinds. Meat and bwead and cannot be bought gone up 500 per cent by poor people. "The daily wage paid to Luxemburg people is about twen- ty cents, a sum too small to keep body and soul together. "Leading editors andd{politicians have been sentenced tov death or secretly imprisoned in Germany. M. Fournelle, manager of a rail road, was sentenced to death on a charge of giving aid to the French, ® but on the plea of the Grand "Duchess" this was commuted - to twenty years' imprisonment. "Many houses where French women and children took refuge were burned down and women and children shot down by the troops. In" Hussigny two German officers attacked a charming young woman and her brother shot and killed one of the officers. The young man was "shot down, his father hanged and the young woman turned over to the troops, so that she died within a few days." It is not surprising that the sight and knowledge of such things hap- pening all about her _should |_make - time. Some interesting news of 8" "sensitive young woman desire to > [The Little Grand 'Duchess of Luxemburg at the Time of Her Accession to the Throne ® © leave the world and go into a convent. A death-like si lence, broken only occasionally, has 'allen over Luxem- burg. It is rarely that ™ anyone" fa- millar with the place ~ like Ir. Lenoir is allowed to reach the out- side world. The inhabitants are not permitted to leave the country except in extraordinary cases, Most of them, moreover, are with- out means to travel. It is inevitable that there should be many incon- sistenciew in reports comiag from a country in such a position. Many reports reaching neutral countries "have represented the Grand Duchess as suffering the extremes of indig- nity and hardships, while some of the German papers, on the other Make Your Cigar Last Too Long The Grand Duchess Paying "paid "to LMOST everybody knows what happens when a man who has been accustomed to the excessive use of alcohol is sud- denly deprived of it altogether, but we are less familiar with the effects of the abrupt ces- sation of the tobacco habit. There are probably several reasons for this. One is that neither the public nor the medical profession has yet 'earned to regard the use of tobacco, even in excess, as capable of doing serious harm to the smoker. Certainly the habit fs not generally looked upon as compar able to alcoholism in thig respect. Another reason is that it is rare for a devotee of tobacco to foreswear it entirely, even though he Knows that it is doing him harm. It is true that he may cut down his customary allowance te ope-half or one-third, but those are excep- tions where the habit is suddenly stopped. ~ » Buch 2ases do occur, Rover, and the most distressing feature is the mental depression of the patient, , This may be $0 great as to inter fere seriously with the dally routine of his life, and he may come to the ~omclusion that it is better for him to risk the dangers which lurk in nicotine rather than Bu a nuisance to his friends and relatives. A little investigation may prevent such a state of affairs and allow the patient to resume his habit to some extent without harm. The physician should find out not only how much his patient smokes in a day, but also how he smokes. ; 1t will be found that many men smoke u cigar or cigarette to the bitter end. The more fastidious ones use holders, while the less par- \ ticular impale the butt on a toothpick or the point of a penknife and stay with it to the last Basp. Whether such a custom is the product 'ot thriftiness or merely represents an all-consum- ing affection for My Lady Nicotine is not always easy to tell, but the effect is the same in any case. The closer the burning nae is to the Copyright, 1016, by the Star Company. mouth the more are its toxic effects enhanced, says a writer in the Medical Record. Nicotine (if that 1s what causes the trouble) is of course present only in an infinitesimal quantity in tobacco smoke, but it seems to be more poisonous under such circumstances; and then litile or none of it is lost when the dis tance traversed is so small. The long pipes which we are wont to as- sociate with phlegmatic Dutchmen are un~ doubtedly much less harmful than the com- paratively short pipe favored by the Anglo- Saxons. Some of this latter variety, however, are made with a well or some other patent at- tachment, and it would seem that these should be recommended to men who suffer from smoking. x in the case of cigars and cigarettes' phy- elcians urge that they be discardedéwhen about three-quarters smoked, no matter how much agony such a course entails to the thrifty or to the tobaccoloving soul. © BY UNDER™Q0p R UNOCERWOOD: NY. The Picturesque City of Luxemburg, with the Palace Where a the Grand Duchess Is Held Vistuliy a Prisoner, # Her Last Visit - the Parliament of the Duchy, Which Has Been Suppressed by the Invaders. hand, have declared that she sym- pathizes with the German 'cause and is grateful for the compen- sation allowed for the injury done by the German army in Luxemburg. A former governess of the Grand Duchess, now in Switzer land, has described how she visit her former pupil. When the visito® reached the door- way of the grand ducal palace in Luxemburg she was faced by two stern sentries, who presented their bayonets . at her. An of ficer then stepped forward and told her she could not enter the palace without explaining her busi- ness. 3 "At this moment," says the vis- itor, "the Grand Duchess hersell rushed out into the doorway and threw her arms about me. " 'My dear old teacher! Do not allow There soldiers to frighten you.' "Saying this, she took my arm. and between the two bayonets we passed on into the palais, where fn previous years 1 had the honor of teaching her little Highness her first French lessons, "I had scarcely seated myself be- side her when she began weeping bitterly." The former governess then re lates what the Grand Duchess said to her: "Not satisfied with destroying our beautiful scenery. the Germans have also stolen our public build- ings, our local government, our post, ' our educational establish- ments, and they have forcibly taken charge of our railroad, for which we have spent more than 16,000.000 "They a our telegraph sys- » ad whenever niy people pro- Great Britain ---- "Reserved. tested too strongly they arrested them and sent them to remote Prussian military prisons. More than two hundred of my leading citizens have been sent out of their country to Germany. "My people, my once happy and prosperous people, are to-day poor and at the verge of starvation! "Even I have to receive a per mit from a Prussian officer before I can drive my owii car on my own roads in my own land. I must even get a permit from a Prussian officer before I can use the telephone. which was established by our own funds. "The péople of Belgium have rea- , * son to be proud of their great achievements in fighting the arro- gant conqueror, but we feel we were robbed in the small hours of the night. "Had we suspected the treaty. breaking intentions of the Prus slans we would have rushed to arms. "if we had had forty-eight hours' notice we would have put at least 25,000 men on our eastern frontier. "For all practical purposes my country is annexed, and the Hiisery of my people is deeper than that of the Belgians. "I sincerely envy the Queen of the Belgians in her present posi- tion, for my present plight is more bitter than hers. "My country, with its 300.000 population, has been harboring hundreds of Cerman spies, and when the appointed hour came these muon turned out to be officers in the Imperial German armies. Even my two German drivers were © disguised officers, and * when that fateful first of August night had arrived they appeared in German uniforms. "The Germans had their outposts estab- lished everywhere in my country, and my unsuspecting people had always treated these tréacherous spies with the ut- most consideration. "They have publish. ed broadcast that I have received the Iron Cross from the German Emperor. It is not true. I have received a medal from the Red Cross wifi fals. | ¥They Have alto published. that the fmpérial German Gov ment has compensat- ed my people for the damage they have done to my beautiful land. That is alse Incorrect. They can not compensate for the damage the 800,000 soldiers have done to the scenery of my land with money and, even then, they have only paid the paltry sum of $100,000 for de stroying hundreds-of buildings 'for military reasons.' They seem to think that one can commit every imaginable sin and outrage 'for military reasons.' They never men. tion the fact that we have spent more than $300.000 for our Red Cross in taking care of their wound ed soldiers." Whatever the rights or wrongt of the invasion of Luxemburg, it §a certain that the Grand Duchess is the most unfortunate young prin cess of Rurope. The Grand Duchess is the oldest of six sisters. Her family is & @ branch of the House of Orange, which - rules in Holland. Wilhelmina became Queen of Hol- land she could not succeed to Lux emburg on account t St the Salle law. A Sistan t Spusin of in then be- came Gran e of Luxembu: He dled in 1890; leavi ie children, and then the Parllamen of