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Show :A STUBBORN LITTLE QUEEN. Says She Will Marry the Man She Loves, or Die an Old Aaid. , '- "I will marrr Hi" man I loto, or ill in old maid " Thu. tcniely did Wllhetmlna. llcl lnd' rnnch-woooil queen, nnnounco tier woman'! prrrogatlr; n llttlo while ngo. and ni that tlmo there wero nt lenat ten youn? prince of prominent prom-inent station In llfo whom the world nt largo considered eligible Tho mo.t recent Information from nero the water namea Prince Fcrdlnnnd Joachim Joach-im Alhrecht of I'niMln, the efconil aon of I'rlnco Frederick Alhrecht, Ilexent of Ilmnawlck, n tho farored inllor. 1 he youns mnn I 23 years of arje, hay. Ing been born In Hanorer. 8ept 17. JIOUAND'flOIItf.QUniWANDIinil MOTIIDKTIIR ENOAOIIMKNT OK WII.Iini.MINA TO A OEHMAK I'KINCIJ IS AKNOUNCRD 1S76. Ho ll four ycara older than WIN belmlna. It I. currently reported In tlerlln that tho Prusalan prlnc. Albrecht, la actually betrothed to Holland's fair younir queen, but for the matter of "actual botrothal," tills statement has been made several limes before of Wll-helmtnn Wll-helmtnn and I'rlnco William of Wlede. I'rlnco Ilcmard Henry, a grandson of tho (Irani! Duko of Saxe-Welmar-Uls-ennch, I'rlnco HtiRene of Sweden, nnd I'rlnco Louts Napoleon The youthful queen of the Nether-lauds Nether-lauds tins been a much-engaged sovereign sov-ereign since her coronation day. nnd, Indeed, for n yeir boforo that notable nota-ble oront the world at Urge mado and unmade matches for the ruler of tho land of dykes and broad-armed wind mills Queen Wllhetmlna Is one of the most Interesting young women In tho world, and certainly among royalty she Is aboro comparison Not sines Queen Victoria ascended her throne,slxty-two years ago, has thero been such a mar-rlago mar-rlago to make, nnd never In recent yjtara hare so many princes sued for one fair lady's hand fUrnngo as It may seem, It Is absolutely abso-lutely Imperatlro that the queen should marry without delay, for upon this event depend the security of Holland, tho permanence of the dynasty und tho continuance of tho country In quiet, monarchical ways Wllhclmlmi Is tho Inst representative In Holland of the ancient and Illustrious bouse of Orange, which Is forever endeared to the Dutch people by tho service of William Wil-liam tho Bllont. All her near relatives are descended on the paternal side from some florman house, nnd there Is nothing the Dutch rear moro than absorption ab-sorption Into the (lerman empire. Young Queen Wllhelmlna Is not hand-somo. hand-somo. but decidedly attractive She has fair hair, a graceful figure, an open, kindly sensitive face Her training train-ing ha been that of nn Ideal Dutch housewife On Aug 31, 1897 alio was 18 years old, nnd, being legally of ago, began to relgu On Aug 31 she was enthroned at Amsterdam with splendid ceremonial The queen's chief palaces are nt Amsterdam Am-sterdam and The Hague Her favorlto country house IsSoesldlJk, ' The House In tho Woods " The law requires that she shall marry & Protestant, and It Is furthermore further-more expected that the fortunate suitor shall bo a member of a reigning royal family Since Wllhelmlna receives an annual salary of four millions of dollars, dol-lars, to bo her husband Is the be.it position po-sition a prince without at' n 3111 obtain, from '"flnsn 'i. Etatnipo nt ' so to speak, or l."s iu t Income and 1 r In pryml- nenre - .i stst "v w-lor.a u. "thcr Ml it. will certainly lie re 1 jj.n i May bo called .i cor 't, Hi ; tea w.iuplo nr T -M 4 husbkndor he may ,. vt called king consot. That Is . ratter for future decTslon. The prince consort's poiltlon will be a somewhit anomalous one. Although Al-though he will bsvo the second rank In tho kingdom ho will have no authority au-thority In this respect nn ordlnar member of pirllament will be more Important If he Is very tactful he may make himself nn Important personage per-sonage In the kingdom, us Queen Victoria Vic-toria husband did If not, he will bi n nonentity or a nulsanco. The courtship of n queen Is a very curious process Bhe enjoys a prlyl-lego prlyl-lego which ordinary girls only hav. In leap year It Is Improper to propose pro-pose to n queen A suitor, who rami not sue but must wait until be It spoken to will appear n ,cry ,irang, person In ordinary republican oyis, Thoro nro soma rather ruslnallig thing about Ulna n ttluacunMirt. When ho stay up very Into at night he feel that tho ruler of the nation Is sitting up for him, prepared to overwhelm him wllh words of reproach re-proach or condemnation If ho persists In tho practice of wandering from his own fireside alio ran have him nrreit-ed nrreit-ed for treason |