Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-03-21

Acknowledged king OF France. and the
Comte de Paris took high rank as a
scholar and writer.
In 1867 he married his beautiful and
talented cousin, Isabella, daughter Of the
Due de Montpensier, and this boy was
born to them Feb. 6, 1869 All these are
''of the younger branch for the Comte
de Chambord, as the direcs descendant
of Charles Y, is by strict law of descent
nearer the throne. When, however, in
1882, the people overthrew Charles X,
they ruled out that line as q fnaity and
gave the crown to Louis Philippe, who
was a son of Philippe Egalite, who was
a descendant on his mothers side from
Louis XIV, and on his fathers from
that kings brother, and therefore had
concentrated in him q little more of the
blood of the original and beloved Bour-
bon, Henry w, than any other claim
ant.
In the early days Of the republic little
attention was paid to these kinglets-the
more claimants there were of that sort
he less likelihood there was OF any of
hem menacing the goyernment--the
boy The Republicans really dreaded was
the prince imperial, son of Louis Napo-
leon. Very opportunity he Went to
South Africa with the British troops and
got killed By the Zulus, and so his cousin,
young Victor Napoleon, became his heir,
and that practically ended the imperial
lists chances. Meanwhile the kingiets
had been gaining popular favor, and one
r Il 4
to the high office Of division general in
the French army. The Comtc de Paris
family gradually set up q sort of court
in their magnificent mansion in the Fau-
bourg st. German, and the attempt Of
the so called Henry "" or Comte de
Chambord, Of the older branch, to assert
his claims to the throne of Spain brought
on o crisis
The expulsion law, which was the net
result of the agitation, forbade the re-
turn to France of any claimant, and
when, therefore, the duke presented
himself at the Bureau de Requirement
early in the morning and gravely an
nounced his name, that lac was u citizen
of France and had come as q patriotic
| Frenchmen, in compliance with the law,
to begin his three years service, the Off
cials were completely shaken from their
| propriety. One can hut regret that
there wasn't Yankee or an Irishman in
control there to have promptly ordered
| him into barracks with the toughest"
! lot of recruits that could be selected;
one night of such a practical joke would
have made him hail the government ar
rest as Il relief. The prefect of Paris
police arrested him that evening, and he
spent the night in the Concergerie in
stead. 1t appeared in the preliminary
examination that he entered France by
night and in disguise.
His intimate friend, the young Due
de Luynes, had been spending some days
with him at Lausanne, where he was a
student in the Swiss Military academy.
When he announced his intention the
Due de Luynes assured him the punish
ment would lie severe. Philippe, etc,
declared that imprisonment had no ter
rors for him; France had called her
able bodied young patriots to the ranks;
he was one Of them and must 90.
The two friends proceeded to Geneva.
Philippe, who is a blonde, concealed his
hair with q brown wig and changed his
clothes; they took the night express and
by daylight were in Paris After break.
fast with the De Luynes, at their elegant
mansion, he proceeded to "enlist mot
for three years, but for as many months
as the government may think it policy
to conGne him. So strongly do old ideas
hold sway in Europe, and so strongly
(from the American standpoipJ do peo
pie there reason, that journalists and
ministers from other nations have dis
patched to their journals and anxious
monarchs that the government of France
"does not appear seriously shaken" Peo
pie on this side Of the water hardly know
whether to sneer at a government which
can imagine danger in headstrong boy
OF laugh at one which boasts of not be
ing "seriously shaken" All Europe agi
tated by a boys freak is such ludicroul
comment on recent assurances of "sta
bility" that the American can only fal
back on the Californian's comment:
Is their civilization failure,
And is the Caucasian played outi