Show r i PRINCE MAY LOSE RANK AND WEALTH f Son of Spanish Kings King's Aunt i Must Contest Claim of ofT c. c T r Another t J DOESN'T WANT THE BRIDE BRIDEr h. h r Th Thrilling rifling Romance Revived in iii int t Life and Loves of Old Madrid 1 fr Sp Special Cable CaMo to lo The Tho Republican Vienna Jan PrIncess r Princess Beatrice of ot Saxo Saxe who sho 1 la 18 engaged to marry Prince of or Bourbon tho Sll 1 of ot Prince Antoine and tho the Infanta J 4 Is threatened with a a- a f cation catlon that may shear her hor future lius- lius band of ot on one of ot hits life titles and much of I his fortune The princes prince's father Is also Duke Dulc of or Galliera but a special from fir says that a claimant for tor tho thor r title of ot Duke of ot Galliera has appeared t Le- Le In the person of th the tho gran grandson lson of ot the first duke Tho The claimant says lie ho is I prepared to fight for his title and at atthe th the same time ho he will vIll sue the Bourbons Dourt hour Dour t bons for or twenty millions of francs v lent b by his grandmother the first duchess luche to the present duko's dukos father the Into Duke Dule Anton do Montpensier p. p p. p The fhe present ut Duke of or does docs L oi lf not deny the financial but It maintains that the alleged 1 loan was an nn unconditional gift sift b by the duchess to his father who died ten years ago Thet Tho The of I t title ho lie says was tas conferred upon him i r b by the king Icing of Italy In 1805 1895 and according according ac- ac cording to royal roal diploma will be Int In- In t- t b by his eldest son the tho fiance r of ot Princess Beatrice To this the Triest claimant makes if b r answer as ns follows FIr Duke of vC T- T The first Duke Dulce of Galliera was mj my z grandfather the great Italian Italian- cler cier Ferrari who built bull t and aull acquired an nil Immense fortune b by bull building the railway between n Paris Lyons Lons and the tue Mediterranean Plus IX TX cr created I f Duke DuIc of or Galliera My i g grandmother ll 1 i was noblewoman In her own right a o marquise member of one of the tho oldest old old- est cst aristocratic families In iii Italy Shortly before In my nn died lell he lie Invited his wife to isit his library n room she had hIlt never uever 1 It proved to be a vault like apartment secured b by immense fireproof doors Upon shelves along the steel teel walls wt there stood some three hundred l volumes volumes vol vol- 01 umes all aU bound In blac vel velvet velet et with locks of gold gol The uTho duke handed my mr grandmother a it bunch of at golden goldei I keys cs c's numbered like the volumes volume saying to her Will you please take down volume No o I want to acquainted with In my books I. 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I Tue duchess UCh 8 opened the tho volume Till T jg fly leaf JunC proved d to bo be u u a thousand bond five thu per cr c cent nt In In- In terest And nd so BO o wera tile the other v l leaves oa etl of ot the thu 1 book volume iu e 10 held In Jn tier hand lland represented n a 1 million francs franca v i 1 4 41 1 tw sv rf One of three O l hundred un rc i j. j j 4 o odd ld ou tho shelves II to tho of ono one million francs The duchess In mj my grandmother though of or course aware that the duke duke- was an extremely rich man mann was iraa dumb dum founded by the thu of the treasure treas treas- ur ure which w was s placed at h her r unconditional disposal b by the duko's dukos death leath which occurred shortly nfl after r tho the event vent described My Jy grandmother mother had always been e n noted for her charities nn and thus suddenly suddenly sud sud- dent denly made mado Q absolute mistress of ot the worlds world's greatest cash fortune fortun tho 1 ure of ot giving became a L mania with herk her k If herFor For schools hospitals old peoples people's homes asylums etc she gave away millions within a a. few low months after the dukes duke's s 's death She Sho gave In Indiscriminately ll S. S to all who appealed tl to tu her r allowing th thA slightest st inquiry to cc maue maae regarding a 0 beneficiary Among her Item greatest l gifts gUts was one I of francs for finishing the port vort of Genoa on which her late husband hus bus husi i band han had Already spent SIlent t J francs When Leo XIII celebrated his 1 jubilee as nil a 0 priest she brought t him In n a a. golden strong box francs lt In new Kohl gold pieces s In short she gave away ICO 10 volumes of ot her library which menus means francs In tho the course courso p of a few tow years cars The Thc Dul Duke e of ot left two sons J the Ule elder of at whom died quite young V c c and I am ani tho the son of tho younger and t onlY heir k I My I father tather this younger son eon was wasa a n. simple man caring nothing for riches L' L and und despising titles lie Ho refused to tot t take talce tho the name of ot Duko Duke of ff when ho became of ot a age e and called I l- l himself plain Ferrari As a n student ho lived In a n. furnished room In Sn the Paris Quartier Latin on and l In Insisted insisted In- In upon making his lila own living lJ by literary labors and by giving lesS lessons les les- les S sons sons and ana not I. I shortly before Sli her bel death could his mother the duchess duchess duch duch- ess persuade Ie him to accept an n annuity of ot francs a 0 mere bagatelle S Afterward h. he gave s up ui his Italian ItalianS S S citizenship II and emigrated to Austria S where I was born i 1 The 11 of Of In r f. f 1888 aged 73 A An As she felt death approaching approaching ap ap- ap- ap she asked that her cot be carried Into the library and there 1 gazing at tho now sadly depleted book bool bookS bookshelves I S shelves she breathed l her last a woo wooden wood wood- l- l en on crucifix In her han hand l and the tho Injunction r r.- r. Hon tion on her hol lips that all tho the remaining remain remain- i r 5 ing books bools be turned 1 over to the tho poor as ns I Indeed ml her last testament pro pro- vl vided tt Thus the tho poor and nu charitable ble institutions lustS lust lust- S got the rest relSt of my grandfathers grandfather's S ers er's 5 Immense fortune and nothing re remains remains re- re 1 l' l mains to ire but the slender pension i c of francs per year which de descended dor do- do r j 1 from my llor father ather and the claim 4 to francs which my grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother other lent to the Duke Duko of 1 ler tho the late lato father of tho the Bourbon Fb 5 prince who assumed my title of ot Duke 5 of t Calliera I l I The Tho loan was ns made early carly In 18 1870 iO S and I claim principal and Interest as S tho the sole solo surviving heir hell of ot Ferrari the Duke of ot Gal Gal- 1 s r Italian financier created S. flora by 11 Popo Plus IX |