Show A ROMANCE OF effi DAY it proves T that hat chivalric devotion la Is not yot doad dead an italian prince Irl nc inglr in love loio rn an A rian nirl girl and Is I 1 it J toa but fullest ills ai M etheart to the ti tomb who will say that this aliis thal ago lias has killed all romance tin tho following narrative tive is I 1 a n truo true one according to tile new york tribune and is vouched couched for by very high authority the charming grace and dramatic expression with w ili 1 I it was told is of course lost in fix this C second edition lilt but as a sad yet true tale of which an american girl is tile the hL li eroine roina it is given herewith at as nearly as possible as related ono one of our rich oil kings icings or if it was riot not oil 1 liu I was kin king of something rich went to paris a littre little over a year ago taking with him ills his wile and lits ills beautiful daughter it lovely and childlike maiden who showed not the slightest trace of resca blance to the worthy people her parents all tit eliat it money could do to develop tills this charming creature had been lavished upon her silo could sing bins most sweetly play with charming interpretation terp danco dance liko like a laouri draw and paint with uncommon talent in short bho was perfection und and her parents simply idolized glicr ter she hall not been ion long in parts paris when she attracted the alution attention of young prince Z heir of one of the olde oldest st families of italy through gli an all cini eminent tient american whom the prince irinco numbered mong among a ills acquaintances lie to obtained an introduction to tile the young youn lady and became li her r devoted cavalier surround lag ill her with attentions and showering upon her flowers bonbons bonbonis bon bons every tiling thing that the world deems it permissible for a young man to bestow upon a maiden the father fat lier however viewed its ills attentions with cold dislike and finally took his daughter away from paris our american family found pleasant quarters in naples and thither tire prince followed them renewed his hia attentions tent ions and finally waited upon the father to request permission to win the girl for liis his wife lie ile met with a prompt and decided refusal disappointed and astonished toni shed the prince who was young handsome and rich find and 1 tal 0 reasons reason s said the trdy sturdy Anic american letin each one of which would be sufficient to bottle the question in the first place I 1 would never give my daughter to a roman catholic secondly iio biall never marry a foreigner and last und and by no means least alic is all w wo c have and her inot mother herand and I 1 could never consent to be separated f from roin her in vain the prince plead the father was vas obdurate and again the girl who seems to have been wonderfully passive in the affair was taken away this aliis time back to paris prince Z remained tit at home disconsolate and now comes the part of the story which is ia equally disappointing and romantic the girl lied died after a few days of sudden illness of course sho oto ought to have lived and married the prince but this is a true story and wo we can not change t the 1 facts A mutual friend wired the P prince ri who arrived however lio wever too late to see tile face of lier her whom lie ile had loved so passionately and suddenly meeting on the common ground of 1 grief rief for the loved and lost the prince and father w were ere reconciled A largo large ship was cl altered and its largest cabin beautifully fully fitted up as a chapel in ili which upon a bier in front of the altar was placed the coffin containing tile embalmed embalm ed body of tho the dead girl then tho the father and lover set sail for home all tho the long voyage tile candles are kept burning and daily service is held in the mortuary chapel clithe alio two moir mourners ners invariably a attend t tho the millionaire owns liis ills ow own n docks and tho the stately ship sails up into the harbor coming to anchor at the very portals of the maidens own dearly loved home antho on tho dock are 2000 workmen of her fathers father ls with crapo crape on hat and sleeve waiting for their dead slowly tho the coffin is ia lowered to tile the boat reverently it is ia carried on tho the land where stand tile tho many men with bowed heads to receive it very carefully and tenderly it is lifted by six chosen bearers and slowly and solemnly it is borno borne up the long longaven avenue to alie house the father and tile tho prince become Int intimate imato through their weird journey and in mutual sympathy walk together in the procession d the men forming two by two and falling into rank the last rites are paid tho the body committed to its native earth and without one look at tho the new world the prince takes a steamer the dy day after af ter for L europe drope that this man should havo have been fated to love this woman with a love as strong as aa death seems passing strange that this medieval story should belong to our own time and country seems stranger yet but it is all quite true and recent |