Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-09-13
A LA WANAKAKER
The French Government Prohibits
the Sale of a Book.
Entitled ''Amours Of the Sovcreigns
of the Balkans" and IL Deals
With Ex-king Milan.

New YORK, Sept. Ga Paris cable
says: The French government has per-
emptorily prohibited the further publ
cation and sale Of a pamphlet by an
anonymous author entitled "Amours of
the Sovereigns Of the Balkans" and
special gendarmes arc busily engaged
today in confiscating all copies to be
found on the kiosks and in the book
stores. The pamphlet in question is a
spicily worded one, and a lengthy chap
ter of it deals with the intrigues of ex-
King Milan, Of Servia, and will hardly
be appreciated by the ex-sovereign who
is now in Paris, and has devoted him.
self to a well-known American lady
who has resided here for the past eight
cen months. One Of the stories told of
the ex-king Is new and delightfully."-
salubrious. A short time after the SOL
emnization of his marriage with Queen
Natalie, he became violently enamored
of a Russian lady's maid whom the
queen had brought with her from her
Russian home. This girl, Wassilissa
by name, was remarkably beautiful and
irresistibly seducing, and her dark eyes
flashed a glance which turned the mon
! arch's blood to flame. His advances
we're not repulsed. and in a few days he
had placed himself in an attitude which
did not admit of any doubt as TO its OBJ
ject. In this interesting position he
was discovered by his queen. A terri
bic scene ensued, there were tears and
reproachcs, and the enchanting WASH
LISA was banished from the court,
This, however, did not prevent her
from bringing a bouncing boy into the
world about the same time that the
queens ACCOMPLISHMENT was officially an
nounced. The child was christened
Milan, and is at this moment in Paris
not many blocks away from the resi-
dence Of the eX-klng. From that time,
says the pamphlet, all was fish that
came to the net of the amorous king.
Maids of honor, tradesmen's wives, act
resses at the Belgrade theater and ladies
of still more easy virtue, in turn at
tracted his attention and were the re-
cipients of his fayors. Another chap
ter is devoted the amours of Alexander
B~attenberg when he governed the neigh
boring kingdom Of Bulgaria. After the
coronation of the car, Alexander the
Third, at which he was present, he took
from Moscow to his home in Sofia a
beautiful girl, Natascha by name. She
was installed in a pretty villa near Sofa
and daily visited by Alexander. The
car demonstrated, but without effect,
and to this day there is a GOODNESS be-
tween them of which the fair demoiselle
is the cause On King Charles of Rou-
mania the pamphlet says that he
was a participant with Alexander of
~Battenberg in many of his amours.
The two men had been in the
habit Of meeting at the frontiers of
their respective states under pretext of
hunting together, but the chase was
generally terminated by a choice supper
in which young ladies sent from Buch-
Arrest and even from Vienna we're par
Elephants. The queen of Roumania,
well known as a poetess under the name
of Carmen Silva, heard, however, of the
gojngs on of her husband, and not long
ago she reprimaded him so effectually
that he was compelled to keep his room
for a week in order that his ministers
might not discover that a queen is some
times as spiteful as a cat. Since that
time the hunting parties have been
practically abandoned, and the illustri-
Gus ~Battenberg, profiting by the expert
ence of the unfortunate husband, has
kept we'll out of the way of the queen. \