The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1893-04-19
GAVE qHORNS FOR LOVE.
GRITTY CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY
OF ROYALTY.
r,e Little God Has Had Much to DO with
Destinies of the Great KiiAgdOm--A
Grand Duke Folly

.r,,o1i,tIe God Has Had Much to Do With
Destipies of the Great KingdOm--A
Grand Dukes Folly
Marriages with which sta&ecraft has
Cor r,,re TO do than love are common
enough in royal circles. In fact, it may
no said that sentiment is very rarely a
factor in bringing about these unions.
MANY hearts, born and reared in the lux
nriouse ease of a palace, have been sac
rfced for the good of the realm or in the
interests of a dynasty. Yet royalties
would not Ae human if they did not love.
The purple Of King or Queen is no more
nroof AGAINST the arrows of Cupid thaa
the rags that seek to cover beggars
limbs The willy god enters the doors of
beudors with as much malice prepense
as he does when visiting a hut or a howell
Hence it is that there are to-day several
couples on European thrones who are
welded simply because they liked each
other Among them are King George
and Queen Olga of Greece; King Georges
father andmOther the King and Queen of
Denmark. and Humbert and Margherita,
Of Italy. Queen Victoria is another of
those sovereigns who married for love.
Her late spouse, Albert, is even still
mourned by
His August Relict,
although he has been dead over quar-
ter Of a century. Victoria's daughter,
Beatrice, might have justly aspired to
partnership with plutocrat or a poten-
tate, but she would have neither; she
contented herself with poor German
Lieutenant, whose only claim on her
family pride was the fact that he bore
the title of Prince Battenberg, was tall,
Well-built, handsome, but brainless
4 youth, and looked to best advantage IN
his uniform. The Queens daughter was
introduced to the popinjay and forth
with fell head over ears in love with him.
Her mother trowned on the young lady's
b passion. Her brother, the Prince of
Wales, swore that he would not have
such beggar for a brother-in-law, but
as the ole saying has it, 'When woman
WIls,Ishe Wills" and Beatrice had her
way in the end One of the sisters of
Tie late King of Spain refused to become
Inc blide of an Austrian Archduke be-
cause
She Loved Plain,
simple doctor of medicine, whom she
subsequently married. When she was
'Wltted with having formed such mes
alAance the witty woman, who deserved
!" have been an American, replied: 81
prefer to have a man without title
amer than title without a man." Even
IL 'heSe degenerate days, when chivalry
among crowned as we'll as uncrowned
HeaoS is considered nothing better than
mere TeliCt of a semi-barbarous age,
'HVfe are still Princes alive who have
o'eflDced almost everything the world
lO'uS aear for the girl of their choice.
lInce Oscar, the second son of Oscar
T., oI Swenden, conceived a tender at
a'nineht for certain Mile. Munck, one
I'S mothers maids of honor, delight
'i'y Oeauteous blonde with deep blue
!'S ana golden hair. On announcing to
10 royal father his intentions of wedding
NC 'aay' the former observed:
DuV my son, Mile. Munck is only the
u6nter Of a petty colonel. She has
got one drop of blue blood in her
feiuS."
ldotte."
Replied the Youth,
'lously, reminding the King of his
democratic origin, for the Berna-
''VS' as every one knows, were mid
''"SS French family who owed the
SHe Of Sweden to Napoleon Bona
ven, my son, if you marry this lady, -"
,a'Sed Oscar H., in the most frigid
sus' you will have to renounce
%, ,,''nlng for her hand"
Shall do SO, SIRE" was the heroic