The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-02-16

the old song reminds us. .' vcman must weep;r however high their birth, they cannot hope 10 escape their lot. And men should work. But when the men are heirs-exSectant of empires they have their own ideas on that subject.
 The oldest, and worst, probably. of the whole batch of royal ex,les we have seen n Paris in this generation was the duke of Brunswick. He painted and padded like an actress. and would have given any roue in France or Germany a thous- and yards start n mile for wickeduesS and would have beaten him in a canter Next to him might be ranked that shameless old sinner. William of Hol- land. Not content with breaking his hrst wife's heart by his neglect, he has taken second. young enough 10 be his daughter. She came very near losing her crown. though-or. should say. very near to not getting it-tor eight or nine years ago her present lord was in the clutches of fascinating actress, and so infatuated was the royal sinner that he had twice proposed to marry her On dit, Mile. Ambre, to oblige the Holland CTS, twice declined the honor. She was made Comtesse d' Amboise. however. and soon after wen, on the opera,ie stage. where she may be 10 this hour. for aush' know. In the days of her left-handed glory she lived in superb hotel the king had gwen her, Tn the Rue de Chchy. AL most facing II was the apartment former ly occupied by Victor Hugo, and next door stood the rowdy place then styled the skating rink. now the Palace Theatre. The mansion was magnlncenily furnish ed. and the chairs. l am told. were adoyned by the embroidered initials "A Ameliel and w William in,er,wined and surmounted by crown. Over the manselplece was portrait of her pro tectors. King William was very ,ole- rant of such trifles. So leng as hts Ame- lie smiled on hum, he minded not who else had basked in her favor.
 Her story was romantic. She was child of the desert. and m her youth had begged Tn the street for living Her Algerian blood gave strange and vo- iup,uous attraction to her face. which by all the canons of the Greeks and Romans would have been pronunced ugly. In her movements she reminded one ot beautiful and ucachetous serpent. Like Sarah Bernhardt. she had the serpen,'s suppleness and grace and fascination. Besides all this, she had more passable voice. Amelie Ambrc had her quarter O; an hour of success at the ltallens, ln '' Frasiata, an opera which fitted her and her talen, to perfection. never saw her ae, Tn any other opera, and, unless am much mistaken, shortly after her debut she left for America.
 Little Alfonso of Spain was for many years an exile here, with his lady mother He was thorough Ffenehman then. and loved parls as much as he seems nov 10 detesi Il. li was in Pans he learned 10 love his nrst wife. poor Mercedes, whose memory he forgot so quickly Alter he lett Us. we saw good deal of his hope iul, throat-eutting. braggadoclo cousin, Don Carlos. who would probably ask no better than to settle down somewhere near the Bois. and do his plotting and in triEuing at d distance. The Trench au- thoTities have had so much trouble with this lively Bourbon. however, that they do not encourage him 10 stop long when he occasionally honors the Champs Elys- ees by visit. He will md them more
 
 flends have been setting him up as sue cessor to the Com;e de Chambord. Don Carlos. after all. Is less objectionable specimen of seedy royaly than William of Holland or the late iamented Prince of Orange He IS sort of royal Dick furpln, and has played bold and plct uresque par, in the highway robberles of nis tune. Ills adventures in love and Wal are sensational ani amusing. lie mrgh, write some wond .rful memoirs Ii he chose. They would lick M Claudes into cooked hat m pom, oi enmlnal interest. But Don Carlos pre- fers to go on writing political manites- toes He regards himself as martyr ard champion. am afraid he will be d king in exile till ,h. end of his na,u. ral lite. Yet there's no telling.
 am inclined 10 think Daudet slightly deiudes himself when he tells people he had no ID ention of putting this king and tha; queen into his novel. The pen pct ures he draws are 100 speaking He nigh, as well expect us 10 believe tha; the Due de Mora, Tn Le NaDab,' was not sketched from the Dac de Morny or that the original of Jansoule, was not the adveniurer Bravais. D.udei has in his comparatively short expcrience, amassed an almost inexhaustible stock of notes aoon, the men he met when was the Due de Morny's private secretary. He IS finishing another novel now. which will be entitled ''L Les Ruptures. The exac; name is m, decided vet When !, ap- pears you may espec: very pretty dis iurbance. The characters he introduces are all well known, and two of them a, leas: are h.st@rc As usual, mosl oi the incidents described are not only founded upon facts. oet are facts. There ~lll be considerable difference of opinion. no doubt, as oH pfevlous occ asions 4s ;o the artistlc value .ud Inc morality of ne kind oi realism aif.cted by the author oi Kings Eu.e ba, oi one 'hsng 'here IS no dou1' whatever esery Doey ~ili want 10 read iae pool. and enIoy me dis- closures. l..ae i- Nassb and T. h.v~a- gelis.e, ane .-e, 9o2 en Ia wiil run through Is ny CT N:y e4.'ions |,