The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-19

Ao%lWL<S short, any MEM
aM E%S Der of any Of the
g .2s to-day, whose 10
could be envied by any sane man, or whole
some minded womans Royalty Is an
anachronism in these days. The masnih'
cent old time melodrama with all us pump
and pageantry has degenerated into
puerile farce, the splendid protagonis'S y.
the past, If they could revisit the stage Oh
their former elories, would find their roles
enacted by a lot of shutting players, mad
men, imbeciles, rakes, rascals or lnVailus'
who have inherited the accumulated men
tai, moral and bodily ailments produced oy
the excuses Of their ancestors, ard oy Tue
unnatural intermarriages which would de-
teriorste the most wholesome stock.
HAPPY AS A KING!
Is the Gar Of Russia happy, who lives In
a perpetual dread of assassination that
preys alike upon his health ana ms splrlts
until he has become hopeless hypocon-
. driac. whose nerves can only be soothed by
oebiIisating injections of morphine! is the
Prince of Wales happy, who has shattered
his constitution by over indulgence IN Tor
hidden pleasures, and whe Is 10 day polhIeu
st with the finger of scorn by the conserva-
tive element the very element upon wnlcn
depends his chance OF succeeding 10 tne
throne of England. And is the good old
motherly lady, the commonplace, but emf
nently respectable martinez, whose valetu-
diuarisn existence may be prolonged, with
all the attended Iniseries of impaired dIges-
ton, beyond that OF her invalid sons
Queen Victoria happy, while scandals OF al
sorts assail her own household! The
L. a1a1 lor orad
less miserable than the older and more in
telligent members of q not very Intelligent
family, but his happiness, at best, is the
happiness of vacuous and almost ldlotlc
brain, which finds it's sole exhilarant mum
limited champagne and in the qualification
of brutal passions.
tsTHE SULTAN Is HAPPY MAN."
sang Thackeray, in well known ballad.
He is happy if the Car of Russia is happy,
If King Milan, OF Servia, is happy-if to
be consumed with morbid fear Of assassi-
nation is happiness.
There is no mere miserable household in
the world than that of the imperial family
of Austria. The awful fate of Prince Ru-
dolph hangs like a black pail over his
unfortunate parents. Emperor Francis Is
weary and heartbroken man, the empress
is on the verge of insanity. She carries
doll around with her which she calls Prince
shelves in daily fear that her husband, in
order to secure a direct heir to the crown,
may secure divorce from her and marry
again. If she be half insane many of her
royal cousins are wholly so. There Is King
Otto OF Bavaria, who sits a driveller and a
show in the magnificent palace of F'ursten-
reid. He is usually immersed IN sullen
stupor. putting away at cigarette. Thirty
times day he takes . fresh cigarette.
When he lights il he burns whole box OF
matches and grins with imbecile Joy at the
noise and the flame. Then he relapses into
vacuity. At rare intervals he emits a
feeble cry to be taken back to his beloved
Munich. He recognizes no one, not the
doctors, or servants, or members Of his own
family: no one, save an Cid woman who
now has charge of the silver and who was
his nurse in infancy. When he sees her he
calls her by name and may bid her fetch
MIN some beer, sr send her on some other
errand, but the next moment he mas for
gotten ali about his order.
THERE Is THAT OTHER ROYAL SUFFERER
poor Charlotte, the ex-Empress Of Mexico,
who is awaiting her release from mind
less existence at the chateau of Borche-
grave near Brussels. There are rumors,
indeed, that she is not as insane as she is
painted; that she is only Kept under re-
straint by her royal brother, King Leo
pold OF Belgium, in order that he may
retain control of her fortune and
recoup by foul means the immense losses
he sustained in the Congo Free state. But
these are only rumors and cannot be sub
stantiated. Dom Pedro's mind is said to be
partly unhinged. His grandson, Prince
Augustin, of Saxe-Coburg, is undeniably
insane and is confined in an asylum at
Gratz, In Syria, which also gives shelter
10 Prince Charles, of Lichtenstein, and the
Duchess of Augustenberg, mother-in-law
Of vNiiha1n nf Garrnonu Tho
of Cumberland, sister Of the present Gar
ina, was insane for many years, the Car S
uncle went raplng mad at the autumn
maneuvers last year, and il is whispered
that the CZarina herself is threatened with
denentia, that the King Of Wurtemberg is
queer, and that the Queen Of Roumania
Is subject to Authorizations.
THERE ARE Two RULERS,
who though not insane are doomed to a liy-
ing death within the walls of mysterious,
yet magnificent prisons on the Bosphorus.
One is Ismail, who from 1868 until his alb
dication in 1879, was the all-powerful
khedive of Egypt, one of the most import
ant and interesting figures in the world,
who even after his .bdication kept himself
before the public through his boundless
wealth and hospitality, but who to-day has
dropped out OF the minds and memories of
everyone. We have said that he was not
insane He never has been sdjudged So
But what wild freak was 1t which in 1887
induced him to leave the security of his
adopted home at La Favorita and the beauti-
full palace of King Humbert, to trust him
self to the mercy of the sultan at Constant
noplel Abdul Hamid received him with
open arms and permitted him TO take up
his residence in the palace of Ermaglan.
But two days after Ismaips landing, the
walls Of the palace closed on him forever
Only through dim harem whispers is it
known that he is still alive.
We have said that his companion in
misfortune was not insane. Yet IL was on
the pretended ground of insanity that this
companion, Sultan Murad, the predecessor
of Abdul Hamid, was deposed from the
throne and
SHUT 0P IN A LIVING TOMB
It Is true that his nerves had been shat
tered by the assassination of his prede-
cessor, Abdul AZiz, but according to the
most authentic evidence, his brain was
never affected. He incurred the dislike of
the parasites OF the court by institutipp
economical reforms that seriously threat.
ened their incomes. They persuaded the
Sheik- ul-lslam, who as the ecclssiastical
head of the empire has authority in such
cases, to declare him insane and substitute
in his place his younger brother. Abdul
Ramid. This was on August 81, 1876. Ever
since that time, Murad has remained con
fined il the palace of Teheragan, guarded
by armed patrols, who warn all boats from
approaching within three hundred yards
of the palace. WHAT wonder if the present
Sultan lives in mortal fear that the Sbe;k-
ul-Islam may at any moment proclaim that
his elder brother, and indeed saner brother
has recovered his faculties and SO reiustare
him on the threnei