Show m GIVES ES UP WEALTH FOR PEASANT GIRL Prince Readily Renounces His In Inheritance Inheritance Inheritance to Marry Washer womans Daughter GERMANYS GREAT CATCH StO Told to 10 the Public In Print for tho FIrSt Time Loto And Two wo Duels Special Correspondence EKLIN EmIN Dec 20 That Count Francis Erbach young W German B nobleman of ot rank hud created a II sensation In this coun country country try by marrying n a washerwoman pretty daughters daughter American readers have already been h cn told by b a few ow lines In tho the cable dispatches Hardly Hurdly more mere than thull a IL suggestion llon however was WM wa thus given of ot what shat hat must be described ns as a one of et the tha most striking romances In III the tho annals of German society Some fomo of at the details hero horo given In connection with It IL have not even been published In Berlin but with the accompanying photographs s have been re received from Crom a reliable correspondent In Inthe Inthe the tho neighborhood of ot the counts ances ancestral Iral estate In the German Grand Duchy of If Hesse U se I think It will III be agreed that the story atory they the tell of for loves oves pike cake has hos had few parallels In either cither tact fact or To 70 begin with It should be remembered Wred that the German aristocracy IH Is t J far fr more exclusive lve far mote more jealous of ot Its It rights and privileges than limn the aristocracy of ot England or France or Italy ItaI German counts and barons with withA Ith A ft line of ancestors tor l extending hack back to the darkest e early middle ages ge look lookdown lookdown lookdown down with contempt on the mushroom families that have hae sprung up tip In Eng England land hind onti other countries during the thelast thelast thelast last three of o four centuries The Er bachs aro aa not Ml only a 11 noble family but they ore are a family which means that they enjoy absolute nb equal equality ity fly of ot birth with all the royal families of e The Thu counts of ot Erbach grbach trace their descent back to the thu noble war warrior of ot the thet tenth century Ever that remote period every even mule malo and very every ner present reigning count of ot Erbach hoe has been of ot noble nobl birth The Tho children of ot those thoe Iho o who contracted have ha ve been excluded from the succession lIon sion Hia HIGHNESS Eight hundred years cars ago the tho counts it ot Erbach were the Independent mon Inon of at a state situated In south Ger Ocr Germany Germany many on the right bunk bank of the md nd they continued to rule over their which were then absorbed In the Grand Duchy of ot Hesse Ilene i After Atter I Ithe the tho loss los of oC the tho actual suzerainty the tho I founts of ot Erbach received the tho guaran guarantee I Itee tee that their rank and that of ot their descendants escen should be considered equal to lo that of ot nil alt reigning houses h forever lad ind ever At the tho panic paine time the head of at the family CamU who Mill la Is entitled to call himself the tha Reigning Count Gount received the right of ot styling slUng himself Serene highness In common with the mem memo members tiers bers t ot of the tho various reigning families In Germany and counts of at Erbach ran rail never be arrested and are exempt ex from Irom the tile necessity n of ot In any nn law court either elthel as defendant In a ivil III action or as ns a n witness to give evl evi Jence on oath It If their should be necessary a n special commissioner Is required to watt wait upon them In I n their i wn home and to take their evidence privately In such cases their arc considered con ns as weighty as liS the evidence of at ordinary mortals given gen genan in tn oath A count of ot Erbach I la is thus equal In Tonic rank and birth to the tha German emperor or the czar of ot and his line of or descent from fromI I genealogical point pol lit of at fur far ur purer than that of any mono inca at present reigning In Eurn It ItIs Is 18 R necessary to 10 bear these circum In mind In order to In i the of ot the offense which Count i Francis rancIs Erasmus Erbach has hae committed In marrying a plebeian peasant girl RANK R I AND WEALTH W AITH The counts of ot Erbach possess not on op only 01 ly Iy high rank and birth but also large and great wealth Their land landed td tel possessions urn ard dotted about Hesse lIesse r anti Bavaria as well velI ns nil In Inthe Inthe Inthe the Austrian provinces of ot ind niI Salzburg These Thee estates cover rover an area of ot rather jather more than 10 09 OG acres and are arc n it source of or rich an annual annual nual nuat revenue to their owners owner The reigning Count of ot Erbach three stately castle castles SItuated on ha hs In Hesse and Salz Salzburg ulzburg burg burl ns us well as us a magnificent In itt Berlin a II smaller palace In Munich and ind ad a n third town ton residence r In Vienna A villa on en tho the shores of Lake Con lIance another villa at nt the tho fashionable routh louth German summer resort of ot Baden fladen adell fladen and half a dozen hunting lodges tm their various complete the tho number of at houses nt at the of ot the The annual Income of the tho reigning Count of ot Erbach Is known to one ono million dollars TIlE THE ELDEST SON iON SONI Count Francis Erasmus Erbach Is the I am dest sun inn of ot the reigning count anti sas M thus the heir to all nil tho the wealth and Hory of at the family He lie was brought UP Ut In tn strict seclusion and ancl his hla tutors look ook Ok especial pains to 10 Imbue him bliP with the he e family pride anil with respeCt for forIt Or the he family traditions Ho Ito was taught It to o regard nn an Erbach ns as a superior be beg beng beng in ng g who must not on any nn account con himself by contact with per fonn rn rn of ot birth Ho was taught b to o recite the names of ot his ancestors nek to the tho tenth century and to re remember reo member that those tholo who had married women omen of at lower birth than themselves h hami fel d been heen be expelled from Crom the family In InI Count Francis Erasmus jived I I ell and grew Ir W up In this thu suffocating atmosphere until ho he reached tho the ago ngo fO of ot 18 lB when like most her h r young yng German noblemen he be beme wm me n a student nt ot the tho University of ot po onn Inn Here for tor the first lirt time he came Into n 0 contact with the outside world i and gained come practical nl knowledge of ot other classes of ot society BECAME mCA m FA nn an Intelligent and amiable youth the time yo nix noble nobleman nobleman man rapidly became n a favorite among his hi students and had hud every op opportunity I of ot participating In III nil tho the riotous pleasures wHich characterize life lite at nt a 1 Gorman G university lie He learned to 10 be a II arid and to 10 be lit an nn ex cx expert pert lert shot hot with a n revolver III In order to 10 I tight the duels which fall all to 10 the tle lot of ot every over wellborn Gorman student The rough tumble life at Bonn knocked a good lood dell deal l ni I of if ot of his hU head bend ca cil him men mentally mentally tally tull to revise many mall of ot the principles which his tutors had to Im Impress press his memory About n a year after he lie began his hili studies nt lit he riding I I ell 11 I one day In the forests of the ancestral estate e tut at ut Erbach Inness when ho he saw MI nt for tor the first time the th girl Irl who has hall now become Ills his wife The young count who made a till fig figore ore ure on lila hili spirited steed accosted the pel girl tri on the of ot asking her which road he ought to and contrived to enter entel Into conversation c ner atoll with her He lie found that eho me Intelligent In III conversation coner an all who sho ho was attractive In appearance e Henceforth li the tho youthful courted courter tio te peasant ant girl with unremitting patience notwithstanding nil the thc obstacle which placed Ip In his way 1 ills His discovery l coen that the she he was the daughter of the village lIIa e washerwoman Frau lId did not dampen his ardor The meet meetIngs meetIngs Ings logs of ot the couple had to be clandes clandell clandestine tine for tor the count recognized the Im Ito Impossibility possibility of ot courting the tho washer womans daughter In public Conse Consequently e they met In secluded paths of tha surrounding tore and wandered arm In arm unfrequented whore where they the were comparatively safe lIate front from observation ob IO I PEASANT I ASA T OWL GUilt It was as Impossible however r that a n ayoung young or mich l hed ap appearance anil to so wel we known through throughout out the neighborhood ns RB the young count should walk abroad i with n a 1 pretty prett peasant l girl without sooner Booner or late lat f a at The first opposition cnn from the thu relatives of ot ho the tho gIrl whose father h ard the rumor that she he wan wall keeping with the thu young youns nobleman Happening to meet Inlet the th count on a R country road soon eoon after afterward ward the peasant nt accosted steel him him and and eald My neighbor tells me that your our serene haunts the neighborhood of my m cottage when I am jun away from Crom home In tp order to 10 pay ay at nt attentions to my daughter Anna ithna I do donot donot donot not want an any fine pursuing my daughter who Is 1 a good girt Iri aol and will marry a man mall In station of life I must beg belt your Our serene to bo be good enough to 10 cease ceo your our attentions to my tin daughter and not to turn t rn her h r ead h by II but hut butto hutto butto to leave leae her In pence peace WAS DEEPLY IN IX I LOVE IOE Count Francis Frn was con disconcerted by this unexpected that hn hI was vas deep deeply ly iy I In love loye lo e with the girl and that he saw no reason why wh ho should not continue continua to 10 see lee her A l sepe cene occurred oc In nt th of ot which Anna Annas brother appeared to back UD U bla bia father Mora or ors words n nr nI nr I r k 4 anti finally the Ihl two peas peasants peasants ants antA Helz d the young oun aristocrat drugged I tU him hi in Into an a ii og shrub shrubbery shrubbery bery and there administered d to tu him the roundest thrashing which their muscular arms arias WHO capable of Indict Indicting d dIll lug ing Ill Undaunted by h this chastisement however Count Con nt Erasmus ra mua con continued to wo WOO won the peasant girl anti and Anna who wan as very much In Inlove Inlove love with vi lb her handsome anel a highborn ii admirer repudiated all responsibility for her Iter relatives violence anti and contin continued con tin to 10 meet her lover in the time forest torell After ACter that time however they the took more care to keep their meetings secret Continued thus for tor nearly two years ears the time count meeting the peasant girl ns nit often oCten as us lie he carne came from front the uni university to spend pend lila hili nt at home and as nil months went rent by h the people of the bega n to gossip mote moro anti amid more about his hla attach attachment ment TO 10 tAnH MAlli The story of ot the th thrashing adminis terell to lei the count by the time girls r anti brother began to be I anti lost nothing In repetition The result was that Count Erasmus father ether the reigning count coun heard of oC the und demanded ex cx explanations explanations from rein his hla son eon on A violet luar quarrel rel rei rd ensued In the course of which Count CountI Francis Informed his hili Infuriated I ed el parent that he ito was wall fully cUr full determined to marry marr the tho Daugh Daughter ter as ns soon as ns hu hl came cams of ot age e On this occasion Count Francis Erasmus who was ns then Ihen within n a few tC weeks weoka of ot his hili t birthday received receive his sec second ond thrashing In connection with his romantic love lovo affair II r Ills His other father lost loat loatI control of Imis hili temper to such an extent I that he seized s lz the nearest horsewhip hor und belabored the obstinate mm son with the butt Jutt end cal IN l I During Durin tho time whole period I of her nt nl to the tho young count Anna Amu continued to te work In her moth mothern h ern erlI little village laundry and rind could coul bo ho I Iu u N N rN trA THE TUE AMERICAN CONSULATE WHICH WAS WS STONED BY DY HOODLUMS AT RIGA BIGA Alarming reports are continually being b received 1 from Riga mg One of the tho dispatches that t jJ at al Joined tho the revolutionary party and ami that tho the town ton was b shelled h lIell amid burned It U was further stated In tn the tho dispatch that the tho flames lIames could be seen een from rota Ht ift Petersburg The TIle latter part of ot tho the dis dispatch dispatch patch later Inter proved to be untrue At one time while hlll the tho mob mol was on ott tho the way flY to the Hebrew quarter where they wet set lI t tire lire to lo several houes oma some hoodlum tenee the American Consulate Con The police arrested the th tone throwers amid the tho plaudits It 8 of ot the tho mob moll The German and Swedish Consulates their to lQ tend semi to Itoi IlLa to protect prot t foreigner Core I I Scott Keen standing before time the washtub man mall tiling or Ironing tho the linen or hanging i I tho tile clothes clothe on a n line lino In tho time garden from cam i y morning mig till hi ii evening eve ni a g She o I was a 1 honest girl and utti nothing could be he saRi Hald against her hel ex ox except that she loved laed u II man far her In lii rank and station a circumstance which excited both holh time tho suspicion ant envy of ot her 1111 villagers ns os well weli ns as the thu anger and on resentment of ot her own parents Count Francis Erasmus had to face many other obstacles to his ance once All the members of ot the tho Erbach orally family among themselves not to tf speak to lu him or to recognize him ns us u n nIela aida ida Iela live until he lie gave a II solemn to abandon his matrimonial project Hu Ito was Willi boycotted not nol only cy D C hits his own on rela rola relatives tives hut but by b the members of ot the other all ratio families In the neighbor neighborhood neIghborhood hood On two occasions this social nodal boycott hocott Involved the time oun I II I rima ii In I a duels I itch with timer other o you 0 I aristocrats whose who o neglect to trent treat hint him I with the ordinary marks of respect Ir lr him him tu to such tuch nn an extent that IM im II challenged challen them to One Ono duel VII fought with n a certain Baron Ga On Gablenz blenz hiens and the other with u a 1 Count nuch IllS HIS FIUST DUEL Tilt Tho first duel was WIS ought fought with I and amid Count Francis Erasmus I Ill s us who hud heroine become most proficient In lii th 1110 of ot this weapon at Bonn his antagonist by br a Il wound sound on un the right arm aria The other uther duel UI with Count Butch was s ns fought under the Ito most se tie severe vere ere conditions The Tue combatants took up their stand opposite nl Otto ono another nt lit itta n II distance of ur IB Hi paces harts and it wim agreed that they thy should exchange ex shots with pistols until ont ono of ot theta them was this dis disabled U In Itt this case rase again Count Fran Francis I rall cis els emerged from the cocoon encounter ter n nil as victor having disabled dl his op opponent opponent by ly a shot hot which lodged In tho the right shoulder The so social vial dill boycott however which continual continually ly I extended caused him much Incon Inconvenience inconvenience amid and nt at times time made life almost unbearable but never for or ona 01 moment did he ho waver In his hili de lIe devotion to tho thin pretty daughter As A soon Bonn us as ho lie had attained his Imis ma ml majority last l fount began besan to consider con plans for marrying Anna S In his hiso own o n neighborhood he ho found tl the obstacles cles to be Insurmountable In Germany a multitude of |