The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-09-07


attempted to explain his absence by the
connection OF a fable to the effect that rs
and his friends had been seized and abb
Quoted by a party OF masked men, and for
few days the newspapers were full of the
alleged outrage But the police soon dis
covered that there 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 so make public con-
fession before the entire officers school OF
his untruthfulness.
Severe, but Just.
Sometimes the disciplining of princes
extends far beyond 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 never been made
known outside the imperial circle at vi
emma. but which aroused the bitterest We
sentiment Of the ordinarily Kind old en-
peror. And there is a Russian grand duke,
the eldest brother OF Queen Olga OF Greece
and a first cousin of the car, who has
been similarly disgraoed, and who has been
confined for many years within the limits
of a 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 pecuDiery exigencies Of
the American adventures, Fanny Lear,
alias Mrs Hattie Blackboard OF Philadel-
phia, who had him within her tolls, he
rifled not only his mothers jewel case, but
also sacrilegiously sold the jeweled icons
and the priceless chalices of the imperial
chapel. One Of the 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 a pronunciamento
against the crown and suffered not merely
arrest, but long term OF Imprisonment
in a fortress, and, curiOusly enough, his
son, the present duke of Seville, has been
overtallen by similar fate and would be
still behind the bars had it not been for an
act Of clemency on the part of Queen Re
gent Christina when her son, the little
king attained his seventh birthday.
Under "CurateI."
Frederick tho Great, too, spent two years
as prisoner IN the fortress of Knstrin
and would have been beheaded by his in
furiated father had it not been for the in
reference of the Austrian and English
ambassadors. Besides these methods there
Is what is known as ''curatel," the coun-
tcrpart of the "conseille Judiciaire" of
French jurisprudence, which is inflicted
upon men of rank and family who have
shown by their reckless extravaganza or
misconduct that they are incapable of
managing their affairs. There is large
number of German princes, members Of
and thus deprived not only of their rank
in the army, but also of the exercise of
any Of their prerogatives and privileges
as well as of the management Of their own
affairs, being subjected TO all the disabili-
ties and disadvantages of either an infant
or lunatic.
There are only three cases talked OF
where the disciplining of royal person
ages is asserted to have gone to the length
of personal violence. Queen Isabella of
Spain, long after she had assembled the
throne, had her ears boxed by her mother
at meeting of the privy council, old
Queen Christina being Infatuated by some
progressive and liberal reform to which
her daughter had given her sanction. Bus
the other two cases are those of Archduke
Otto of Austria and of the late Duke of
Clarence. As the castigations did not take
place in public, of course nothing can be
said about the matter with certainty. But
it is asserted that Emperor Francis Joseph
soundly boxed the ears of his disreputable
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 horsewhipped the Duke of
Clarence for an offense of which he was
subsequently shown to have been entirely
innocent. 1t is this act Of injustice due
to his hot temper that is believed to hav
contributed to the poignancy of the grief
of the royal Welshman when his son died
BARON SARTOR