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Show P. . ( PICTURE OF ROYALTY how nunopcAN Nontna dio- POHT THEMSELVns. rrlnrrM lnUa or SUte Cobtirt (lotha, iero lit tho Ijaron nf KnclanJ, In-mrrtralnl In-mrrtralnl In n Allium Retail tit Her Ilrrent tlotags. mtS?! IIB Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg add I loth daughter ot the king ot lll-glum lll-glum has nested troiu a pnlsce to an asylma llohlnd the cradle of Ionise Ion-ise ot Helglum there were tradl- Mi mum ll0,", '" l'1",,), were example galore The first were In her lilooj, the second before Iw rye. The prince. waa 17 when her marriage occurred. Her husband. Incidentally In-cidentally her cousin, was Just old enough to be tier father Keen acme tbe room you would hate taken hltn for a brewer; do to, for a fool The Kill herself waa not bewitching A Vcnui In everything but beauty, a Minerva In all but bralm. at once passionate pas-sionate and obatlnate, ahe waa Just the Itlnd of creature who require for guidance guid-ance the hand of Iron In the velvet glove. Tho hand of Philip of Hsx-Coburg Hsx-Coburg and Ootha km more abakr than firm. Already, at llonn, In the knelppea nf hla student corpa, he hid displayed a capacity for liquor which m viewed with profound rcapect. Subsequently, on the Prater, at Viennese Vien-nese ori lea and meas tnbles, tbe capacity capa-city diminished, but tbe liquor Increased, Increas-ed, llchlnd lilt cradle there had been the same condition, and beilde It the same examples. The raarrlaite was In consequence, delightfully saeorlrd Th happy couple bad no Illusion, concern-lriK concern-lriK even other, and while between tbem no love w'ss loat. dlataate waa not pronounred. nf equal rank, and, prov pectlrely, ot equal wealth, unburdened by middle-clam virtues, unhampered by the prejudice of plainer folk mutually mu-tually cxpectsnt ot reclpiocal Indul ccnee, possessed of the name blood.wllli jlh tame Inclinations In It, there Is not tin Imaginable reason why, after the fashion of their kind, they should not Jiave illaparted themselves without scandal and In peace. Hut not a bit jot It. The prince, who Is n field niar-bal niar-bal In tbe Austrian army, and who at the lime waa statlnnnl at Vienna, took hla hrldo there, put her In a palace, and left her unprotected, save by rank, to run wild. Society there la the moat Ifnalldloua In lluronc. tlarrlne that nf ;Naplea, It Is tho moat corrupt. Tho women are worse than pretty. They posset n seduction of voice. Joined to o sorcery of manner, and a sweetness nf face, which It unexcecded. Among ladles of such allurements n heavy Pel-slan Pel-slan might. In ordinary circumstances, run wild It ahe liked, but the would run alone. And, a a matter of fact, for a while thla particular Ilelglan did. Meanwhile a ureal event bail occurred. A pretty little altter, whom alio had left Jn pinafores at Hniasela, had developed Into nothing Ices Mian the wife of the Austrian crown lirlnco. and na suoh had been graduated prospective cm-pre cm-pre nf the realm Prom that moment tho rose with which this story bat to to ceased to be a wall flower. (Iter tho conventionalities which girt the prince n )oung nobleman presumed to clamber. Itebuked by the prince, he clambered back again The next to venture. I.lcut. (leta von Mattnchoch by name, was, by reason of hla position posi-tion ns her husband's adjutant, freed rom any necessity of bothering with tbe bagatelles of the door, and, by the same token, being behind tbe hedge, bad no need to clamber over. Thtre were tho conventionalities of life ob- served, and there too, might any form of fuss have t n avoided, Hut bow shall ladles ot a certain disposition be unado content? Whether It be that this princess was suddenly attacked by the germs of that malaria which already al-ready had carted off others ounger, piunci: phiu.ip. better and fairer than she; whether -the echoes or the subsiding scandals lu which tho crown prince of Austria and tbe heir presumptive to the throne of llelgltim successfully disappeared, had suddenly awakened tbe Instincts of her race; whether It was one or another ut theso Incentlvtt, or all comblned.whlch affected her, one may surmlse.yet never know. Hut tbe fact remains that off they went. Such Is tho story of the elopement ot this prlneess On learning learn-ing the facts, tbe husband, Instead of thanking the lieutenant, had hlra out and got pinked for his pains Previous jo the duel the fads In the elopement were not generally known The princess prin-cess had betaken herself to Nice, where she rented villa and whero she was chaperoned by her daughter, Dora, the betrothed of Duke Ounther, a brother of the empress of Germany The lieutenant lieu-tenant called every day until called away by the husband. After the duel he returned and It was then the real fight occurred. The pair departed from Nice, leaving a hillock of hills behind, snd tnado for a castle which the lieutenant lieu-tenant poetesatd at Agram, sn upland In Croatia. A council of war was then held by her family snd a few days ago "asaESSBSSBSBSSBSSSaSSBStSSBBSW ths lady, having been lured from her tttuttnant wss conveyed to an asylum. Buch are the facts The duel Is the Crtt that has occurred between a royal and a commoner. As such it Is suggestively sugges-tively end of the rentury Moreover, though IjuIm of llelglum Is by no meant the first ot her rank to bedrab-ble bedrab-ble the ermine, she la tbe only prlneess of modern times who because of Inconsequences, In-consequences, hst been put away n Insane If the precedent Is to be followed fol-lowed the asylums of Europe will havo to bt enlarged. KDOMl SALTtm. |