Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-11-11
!. THE RUSSIAN PRINCESS.
A Poor Little Onshoot OF Royalty Re-
ducSd to AbJeeA Poverty.

hOh VIC AkSo hASU hCE ohO "Oo 4lN-
ing in the Hotel Bristel--a pretty, aria-
tocratic little lady, trifle too fair, with
curly white hair, pale blue eyes, and
beautiful, clear complexion. Some
people said she was Russian spy, but
she maintained that she was Russian
Princess, and insisted on being adj
dressed as Your Excellcncy." Thus
writes Paris correspondent OF the Pail
Mall Gazette. eve have notion at
home that Russian Princesses abound
like blackberries in the month of Sep
TENDER. 1t appears that Russians hold
different opinion; but that is o detail.
So our aristocratic little lady had no
difficulty in getting herself addressed
as Your Excellency,' and spoken Of
seriously as tho Russian Princess, yet I
doubt if any of us believed in her higher
rank. She was very extravaganza and
generous, had a 1ady's maid, man of
affairs, and lady's companion, and she
occupied q fiat on the first floor. This
means considerable income.
"One day she announced her intention
of visiting st. Petersburg. 1t was
whispered that she was connected mys-
tcriously with an august person in that
capital. This was accepted in the same
skeptical spirit as we did her rank of
Princess and her limited assertion that
high quarters in st. Petersburg would
be fluttered by her appearance. The
fact is that we had grown into the way
of disbelieving her pretty and romantic
fairy tales, wherein sovercigns and
courtiers and diplomats, courts and pal
aces and embassies figured largely.
so we continued to wink and smile,
and unfit hnr xIyicl Gov Nov
and a pleasant return as she drove away
from the Hotel Bristol with her COM
panion, her maid and her homme
d'atfaires, followed by the very sincere
regro .. of all the menials Of that aristo-
cratic establishment. Judge, then, our
complete dismay to learn in couple of
months that our charming little Russian
lady had been flung into mad-house-
yes, a mad-house! she and her poor
lady's companion. She might have had
n few harmless eccentricities and de-
lusions upon her birth. But if we are
all to suffer Imprisonment for tho sake
Of an innocent delusion, good gracious!
would the world hold together? We
made inquiries at the Russian Embassy,
for we-were honestly attached to the
pretty little creature. We were either
AhSU bJ hAJ oGSIIOuO S1ACHC0 VI Wy
refusal to listen to US. At last we be-
thought ourselves of the English EN-
bassy, remembering the English COM
panion. And here we learned that our
curly-headcd Princess was not SO much
astray as we had imagined. Unfortu-
nately for herself the claim was oblique.
She was the daughter of late august
person, during whose life she had been
,,rnl.k
mention Of courtiers and ambassadors
Upon his death the next august person
allowed her splendid pension rs sort
Of recognition OF her as step-sistor.
"Now, just at that moment the DOW
rrful person to whom she owed her pom
sion was prematurely called away to q
land where pensions OF o different sort
arc settled. His sudden withdrawal
caused q sensation we all can yet recall.
1T hardly subsidized when our poor little
Princess placed hor foot on her native
ground, to be atonce captured and flung
into an asylum. They could not on the
spur Of the moment cast her into q pris-
on, SO they decided she was mad. AS
prccaution they locked up the English
companion, and some months elapsed
before she was able to get tho
car of tho English Embassy.
Tho English Ambassador rescued her
and paid her fare down to Paris. and
that was how we learned the story.
Through tho English Government, or,
rs my little Princess will have it, tho
personal friendly efforts of a very illus-
trious parsonage, she was ut tho end of
nine awful months liberated, enfeebled
in health and deprived Of her pension.
Sho was conducted to Brussels, thence
fore bly, conveyed to Paris. and, as a pre-
vontive against further voyage, the poor
lady has been deprived Of her fathers
fortune. left to her, as we'll as hor PEN
sion. 10 $50. ID. ~. .-t
''Sho is dressed in rags almost, is in
delicate health, unable in sickness to
havo doctor to attend her because she
can not afford tho fee, to have food,