Show A MILD MACHIAVELLI Signor Crispi Who Resigned as Prime Minister of Italy SHE HAD HER STOCKINGS ON G B Gray Who Is the Champion Shot Patter of the WorldLawn Tennis and Turf Talk Signor Crispi lately reigned prime minister min-ister from tho cabinet of King Humbert of Italy bono of those men who become prominent prom-inent though devoid of principle and who when their ill deeds ore brought to tho public notice still havo the audacity and ability to hold their own Signor Crispi is an ambitious ambi-tious schemer bo is as slippery as an eel tho adviser of the king ho has always been detested de-tested by Humbert and that excellent woman Queen Marguerite who if the admiration ad-miration of all Europe The main clog to Crispis career a clog that ho has successfully dragged along with him though ho could not cast it off is his want of principle s prin-ciple in marriage The minister has had attached to him ° At different times throe women each of whom ho has called his wife Ho I camo of a family tracing ancestry ito i-to a Roman consul Crispus so coiled 0 from his crinkled f hair In 1848 Sig jr Crispi was a cnisri member of tho Neapolitan bar and during the revolution of that year was appointed under secretary of the war department of tho provincial government gov-ernment When Bombas troops suppressed tho rebellion Crispl escaped execution by getting away to Paris There ho lived for raveral years In ISoD while Crispi i was in edo on tho island of Malta ho met lime Crispi No 1 a pretty peasant girl whom ho married A year later by a revolution in Italy ho was enabled to return to his home and ignoring lime Crispi tho first married Mme Crispi the second who was one of Garibaldis heroines hero-ines Tho triumph of the revolution mado Crispi a prominent man and ho was elected to parliament He presented lime Crispi No 2 at official receptions who being profuse pro-fuse with decorations created a sensation But Crispi continued to rise And neither ais wife nor his so called wife was good enough for him in his exalted station Suddenly Sud-denly wife No 1 died Crispi who was a lawyer know that while this wife lived ho was not legally married to No 2 Instead of legalizing this marr DtO by another ceremony after No1 died ho married a young Italian girl of noble birth wbo became wife No 3 Crispi was accused of bigamy and trigamy and many other things unpleasant to mention men-tion Ho know that in the eyes of the law ho had but ono legal wife NoJ and attempted at-tempted to brazen it out Ho was appointed minister of foreign affairs on the 2Cth of December De-cember 1877 and on tho 2Cth of the following follow-ing January married wife No 3 presenting a few days later his brido at court where she was most cordially received by Queen Hargucrlto Then came trouble A little Neapolitan opposition sheet The Piccolo published without Ii with-out one line of commentary a document r which beforo a week had passed was reproduced repro-duced in every newspaper in Europe It was simply a copy of tho marriage certificate of tho statesman dated 4th of May 1S34 by which it appeared that he had then been reg Mlarly and legitimately wedded to a common vjroman still living on a pension from him her legal husband at Malta It is a base slander a vile falsehood clamored Crispi let my enemies prove their assertions But the pressure was too strong for tho minister and on the Gth of March after two months and a half of office he resigned his portfolio Queen Marguerita protesting that she would not appear at auy reception or ceremony to which that birbone was admitted or ad missable However political reasons aro stronger in Italy than bigamy and Crispi went back into the Italian cabinet But Mme Crispi No3 has had to fight for position About a year ago tho Duke of Torlonia was deposed from the mayoralty of Rome Mme Crispi was supposed to be at tho bottom of his deposition having been slighted by the duchess Mme Crispi in tho house of a foreign ambassador saw th o Duchess Torlonia Mme Crispi asked to be presented The duchess haughtily refused and when Mme Crispis request was insisted upon the duchess loft the house Mme Crispi in revenge for this affront made most public demanded Torlonlas removal which no one in Homo believed would have been thought of If it had not been for Mme Crispis desire for revenge Signor Crispis only passion is said to be politics He neglects literature and knows tho names of tho most famous authors and poets only from hearsay At tho theatre ho goes to sleep whenever ho is obliged to accompany ac-company his family but as soon as ho enters j the chamber of deputies ho is a different man On the platform ho stands straight liko an arrow his fist tightly clinched and his voice grows loud as thunder His speeches aro caustic nervous trenchant not always fluent but enlivened at every point by logical hits and conclusions which unveil his thoughts and show him as ho is Ho is getting along in years being now 71 Perhaps ho will be able to get through his career without taking any more wives |