River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1878-11-14

MS soldieriy bearing and his handsome
face; and, as the caste does not ,
shine by its intelligence or education. bis
blunt answers were as good as his fellow ]
mobiles bon mots. He bore his honors
grufiiy: and for a man who
has not been borne to such things per-
haps that is the oRlv way of bearing
them we'll. His curtness was easily ana
perhaps not inaccurately taken for the
reserve of force. For indispensable
verbal civilities and such other conven-
tionalitles of courtesy as could not be
with in his new career he was
indebted to the constant coaching of the
Queen, one of the most accomplished
women of her time.
All this while Christina was governing
Spain well or i'll, and more often very i'll.
Her great object was 10 secure the success
sion of her daughter, Isabella, with real
power for himself as Regent for the child
TO this end, after successfully wheedliDg
her first husband in favor ef the reyoca
ton of the law against female heirship TO
the throne, she proceeded TO try the same |
experiment with the Nation on larger |
scale. The Liberals shed their blood for |
her in long and bitter civil war against |
the, perhaps, better claim of the heir male |
as represented by the hea ] of the Cariist |
faction. And when they had served her |
turn, she handed them and the whole Ma
ton over TO a succession of the most arDi-
trary Ministers ever known in modem
times. There was but one remedy an
other civil war--and she had to run for
her life. Isabella, then put nine years
old, was left behind as a warming pan
under the tutelage of Espartero. Rian
Zares. of course, went with his wife TO
France. Louis Philippe at first received
him rather coolly, but remembering that
the exiled Queen had still a royal
daughter 10 marry, and that the way to
her heart was through the show OF re-
spect to her peasant husband, he seen
altered his demesnor. christina soon
began to pave the way for her return by
palace plots; and when she thought the
Nation might be induced to bear with her
once more, she found means to get the
Cortes to advance the period OF Isabella's
coming of age by about year. The child
of thirteen thus officially declared 10 be
woman, there YVES no gainsaying her
wish TO have her mother once more by
her side, and Christina came back, IN
reality, though not IN name, to exercise
all her old powe~. Her first act was to
obtain the public ratification OF her mar
rage with Rianzares and to legitimatize
their children lone of them known to-day
as the Princess del Drogo. another as the
Msrchioness OF Campo Sagrado.
Her second essay in government lasted
eleven years eleven years Of trial for her
ami for the people. She was child in
politics, or | was going to say, what was
Just as bad, a woman, only ! remember
there have been too many Exceptions OF
high feminine competence IN affairs to
make it possible for them to prove my
rule. She was without the most eiemen-
tary notions OF the tendencies of her
time She wanted to govern Nation
like nursery, and her only remedy for
popular disalfection was more rod. AT
length she had TO be driven out once
more, and this lime for good, as ruler,
though she now and then revisited Spain
as tourist. The palace was almost as
tired of her as the country, for there had
been frequent chickering's IN the Royal
family through Isabellas want of respect
for her step-father. When Isabella was
but Queen she had to speak o. "Papa
Rianzares" with every show OF dutiful
respect; VIXEN she became both queen
and woman she could venture to give
the words an infection of disdain that
turned them into nickname. She re-
sented the mesalliance and drew great
comfort from the reflection that she
would never commit herself in that way.
It was rather shocking to remark the
fTankness with which the mother subse-
Al ali e ii oh IN
which the daughter had done worse. END
see her with the impartiality Of Judge
marking shades IF blame among the fav-
orites who had brought contempt on the
Royal name. "That poor EarfoIi. He
was the only honest one among them,
and he has been made the scapegoat for
all their ofenses. Tie ruined himself for
Isabella. The rest have nearly made her
ruin herself for them And the papers
treat him as the vilest of mankind. New
er talk to me OF public opinion after
thatl"
Rienazares was never known TO say
anything on the subject; he kept his own
counsel in family matters. 1t YVES Sc
cret between him and his cigarette. For
all the humility of his origin, he was of
the pure race of Ccnsort- Princes, and, like
one of the most illustrious of them. be
had wife who thought he would have
been in the right place if fortune had
only permitted him to take hers. Chris
tina carried out this disposition in all
things, down to the end of their welded
life, for she would have gladly changed
roles with him in bereavement In 1873
when he died at the age Of sixty three,
her junior by three years. From that
time fattery itself could 20 longer deny
that she was an old women. Her silvery
hair, indeed, could grow no whittier, but
her piercing eye lost its brightness, and,
ifshe retained her curious smile, it was
somewhat changed in character, as
Though in dcrision of the emptiness of
life. Rianzares may have been worthy of
the love OF such woman, but, like the
rest of us, he was hardly worthy of such
woman's love. She adored him to the
very last, and there is just this to be
said in his favor, that he bore her no
malice for it, if he did not yield her q
full return Paris Cor. ". 7. World.