Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-09-08
RAT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER s, 1894


 tures they were forced before tho end of a week to appeal to the authorities of one of tho towns that they had reached for finan- cini assistance. On his return tho prince attempted to explain his absence by tho conooction of fable to the effect that he and his friends had been seized and ab- ducted by party of masked men. and for few days the newspapers were full of the alleged outrage. But the police soon dis covered that therc was not word of truth In the story, and the prince, to his great disgust, was not only condemned to two months' close arrest, but, what was far worse, was forced to make a public con fession before the entire officers school of his untruthfulness.
 Severe, but Just.
 Sometimes tho disciplining of princes extends far beyond a mere term of arrest Thus there Is an Austrian archduke who has been deprived of his rank in the army, of his royal attributes and banished for some offense which has mover been mado known outside tho imperial circle at Vi- enna, but which aroused the bitterest re- sentiment of the ordinarily kind old em- peror. And there Is a Russian grand duke, the eldest brother of Queen Olga of Greece and a first cousin of tho czar, who has been similarly disgraccd, and who has been confined for many years within tho limits of small garrisoned town in central Asia, to all intents and purposes dead to his family and to the world. His punish ment, though severe, was well merited, for, to satisfy the pccuniary exigencies of the American adventures, Fanny Lear alias Mrs. Hattie Blackford of Philadel- phia, who had him within her tolls, ho rifled not only his mothers jewel case, but also sacrilegiously sold the jeweled icons and the priceless chalices of the imperial chapel. One of tho members of the reign ing house of Spain, the late Prince Henry of Bourbon, duke of Seville, who was at one time affianced to Queen Isabella, be- came involved in pronunciamento against the crown and suffered not merely arrest, but a long term ot imprisonment in n fortress, and, curiously enough, his son, the present duke of Seville, has been ovcrtakcn by a similar fate and would be still behind the bars had 1t not been for an act of clcmency on the part of Queen Re gent Christina when her son, tho little king, attained his seventh birthday. Under "curatel!"
 Frederick the Great, too, spent two years as Q prisoner in the fortress of Kustrin and would have been beheaded by his in- furiated father had it not been for the in- terfercnce of tho Austrian and English ambassadors. Besides these methods thcro is what Is known as "curatel, the coun- terpart of tho ''conseIlle judicinire" of French jurisprudence, which is inflicted upon men of rank and family who have shown hy their reckless extravagancc or misconduct that they arc incapable of managing their affairs. There is n largo number of German princes, members of reigning houses, who arc under ''curatcl, and thus deprived not only of their rank in tho army, but also of tho exercise of my of their urcroratiycs md Drivilepes as well as of the management of their own affairs, being subjected to all the dishbili- ties and disadvantages of either an infant or a lunatic.
 There arc only thrcc cases talked of where the disciplining of royal person. ngcs is asserted to havo gone to the length | of personal violence. Queen Isabella of Spain, long after she had ascended tho throne, had her cars boxed by her mother at a meeting of the privy council, old Queen Christina being infuriated by some | progressive and liberal reform to which her daughter had given her sanction. But tho other two cases arc those of Archduke Otto of Austria and of tho late Duke of Clarcncc. As the Castigations did not take place in public, of course nothing can Do | sAid about the matter with certainty. But | it Is asserted that Emperor Francis Joseph | soundly boxed tho ears of his dlsrcputable | nephew for outrageous behavior to his young wife when she was on the eve of childbirth, while the Prince of Wales is said to have horsewhippcd the Duke of | Clarence for an offcnse of which he was subsequently, shown to have been entirely | innocent. It Is this net of injustice due | to his hot temper that is believed to have | contributed to the poignancy of the grief | of tho royal WClshman when his son died. BARON SARTOR.