Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-06-19
ROYAL RAKES.
Many of Them Have Got What
They Deserve.
THE RESULTS OF THEIR AMOURS
Causes of Some of the Strange Deaths
That we Hear About.-King of
Belgium.

Seville fair by the peasant lover of the
rustic beauty whom the unworthy de-
soendant of King Henry ". had kissed
against her will. one more will be
added to the long list of royal and i'm
perial princes who, since the beginning
of the present century. have lost their
lives in escapades of an unsayory char
acter. The Duke seems to have visited
the fair along with the Duke of Alba.
so we'll known in the United States,
and with the Marquis de la Nina. son
of the widowed Duchess of Fernan-
Nunez, after breakfast at which he
had imbibed considerably more of those
heady Spanish wines than his by no
means strong head could carry As
usual with him, his exhilaration as.
sumed very obstreperous form. and
his companions experienced the ut
most difficulty in preventing him
from getting into trouble on every side.
AT a moment when their watchful-
ness was relaxed for an instant he
caught sight of a beautiful young peas
ant girl who had just stopped near him
for a minute to recover the breath
which she had lost in dancing the fam
dango, and deliberately put his arm
round her waist and imprinted loud,
smacking kiss on her lips. in utter dis
regard of the furious gestures of her
fiancee and partner in the dance. Hot
words followed, and when the duke
attempted to raise his cane upon the
man the latter whipped out his long
Spanish knife. and before any one
could interfere, inflicted serious
wound in the Princes breast. Indeed,
the injury is of SO grave character
that the Comtesse de Paris and her
daughter, the Princess Helene, have
been compelled to leave for Spain IN
hot haste. while the Queen of Portugal
has left Lisbon to take her place at the
bedside of her trother. 1t would be
fitting end to career which may be
said to have been without one redeem
ing feature, without one bright point.
Great hopes may have been centered
upon the head of the Duke, who was
to have revived all the glories of
French royalty, to have set ablaze once
more the enthusiasm and loyalty for
the throne, and to have redeemed the
mistakes of his father, the Comte de
Paris. and of his great grandfather.
King Louis Philippe. Yet. should
he die he will have passed down to
the grave-an unhonored one at that
without having done a single thing to
! o1ro N fo,r h Golf fo
to the sympathy and remembrance of
his countrymen. His life has been one
long succession of amorous escapades,
frequently of an extremely ridiculous
and undignified character and which
gave one the impression of a caricature
of King Henry ~. whom he en-
deavored to APE. entirely forgetting
that LIE Roi Vert Gallant redeemed
some of his errors by his magnificent
gallantry on the field of battle.
His fate will serve to recall that of
Prince Baldwin of Belgium. the heir to
the throne of King Leopold. whose
sudden death. in spite of all official
denials, was due to the just vengeance
of a betrayed husband, his death
wound having been received under the
later's roof, and were it not that King
Leopold seeks his diversions of analo
gous character among the lower classes,
and even among those who make a
public procession of vice, he, too,
might look forward to a similar fate.
having inherited apparently all the dis.
regard for the laws of morality and
propriety which distinguished old
King Leopold, his father. the uncle
and revered guardian of Queen Vic.
toria.
OF Crown Prince Rudolph of Austris
and of his tragic death at Meyerling
SO much has been written that it il
unnecessary to make here more than 6
passing reference to his fate. 1t will
suffice to state that his death was pre-
ceded by what could only be described
as an orgie, and that the circumstance
of his violent end were of such horri
) BILE character that a dense veil of secrec,
has always been drawn over the entir
affair, the only thing which was per
mitted to become known being tn
fact that the Baroness Marie Vetchers
the lady love of the Prince. and &C
cording to the gossips of the Viennes
Court. his illigitimate sister, was mur
dered by him prior to his own death, AM
that the majority of the prelates an
priests of the Austro- Hungarian Empir
l declined to celebrate requiem service
? for him. although urgently requeste
: to do so by the sorrowing Emperor an
2 Empress.
t Prince Eugene of Wurtemberg, hus
= band of the Grand Duchess Vera c
z Russia and father of those pretty twin
. who are reputed to be the wealthies
of I'll the royal heiresses of Europe
g having inherited most of the money c
d old Queen Olga of Wurtem berg, like
wise met with his death under circun