Kansas City daily journal., 1896-09-27

Carlos became the third pretender. On his
behalf Carlist uprisings-speedily repress-
ed-took place in 1853, 1870 and 1872. but the
| insurrection headed by him in person after
proved much more formidable and kept the
Basque provinces in great confusion till -
beginning of 1876. when, it was. finally
crushed, and the last of their ancient
privileges was stripped from the Basques.
whose noble and unQuestioning loyalty Of
nature did not know how to abandon a
lost cause even when disaster was a fore
gone conclusion.
Don Carlos himself crossed over into
France and issued from Paris the pronun-
ciamento already quoted. When expelled
for expressing sympathy with the Legit-
imists. in 1881, he took refuge in London,
and SINCE then. has mainly alternated be-
tween Venice and Viareggio, where he has
splendid establishments.
First Marriage.
Don Carlos has been twice married. His
first wife was Princess de Bourbon and a
niece of the Comte de Chambord. At the
time of the marriage, in 1867 and for many
years sTTbbseeuenty Tba the couple We're very
! they established themselves after the last
Carlist failure. was of the whited sepulchre
ciass-hrilliant to look at. but within the
scene of a perpetual struggle for the
ineoessaries of life. Once the Don had to
sell his favorite war steed to keep the pot
| boiling. Some Carlist friends bought it in
and presented it TO the. pretender. who
sold it again. On another occasion he
went so far as to pledge at the mente de
pets; or public pawnbroking establishment
the Order of the Golden Fleece which had
belonged to his illustrious ancestor. EN-
peror Charles V.
The discreditable character of the trans
action was not so much the actual act of
pawHing as the ingratitude of Don Carlos
to the faithful old general and trusted
adherent who had conducted the negotia-
tons with the pawnbroker on his behalf.
UEmindful of the fact that the general in
question had been devoted to his cause for
over twenty years and had spent both
blood and money in his service, he coolly
charged him with the crime of stealing
the jewels when requested by his wife and
other royal and imperial relatives to ac-
count for its presence at the monte de
piete" of Milan.
Don Carlos possibly imagined that the
generals loyalty and devotion to himself
would prove sufficient to induce him to
remain silent with regard to the true char
acter OF the disappearance and pawnins
The general not only laid bare the whol9
facts OF the case. bu. produced document
ary evidence which established to the sat
isfaction of the court his own innocence
and the part played in the matter by Don
Carlos, who had even used the money
raised thereon to satisfy the exigencies OF
notorious demf-mondaine with whom his
nane was associated at the time.
The deaths of the Comte and Comtesse
de Chambord. who bequeathed the larger
part of their immense wealth to their fay
| orite niece, wife of Don Carlos, temporar-
| ily put an end to his financial difficulties,
When. however. the duchess died, in 1893.
| 1t was found that she had left her money
; in trust for her children, assigning only a
small allowance to her husband, who had
shamefully neglected her. and from whom
ten or fifteen years Of her life. Monetary
troubles once more weighed upon the pre-
| tender to the Spanish crown.
| Second Marriage.
| He cast about him for a method Of re-
lief. Within twelvemonth after his first
wife's death his Legitimist followers were
eagement TO wealthy Princess Marie Ber-
the de Rohan.
The marriage took place on April %. 1891.
His new bride was just twenty years his
junior and is a member of the illustrious
house of Rohan. which alone Of all the no.
bic families of France and Austria pos
ereiSn as "couscfn.'' It was a privilege
which in olden times belonged to the ducal
houses of Rohan. Lorraine. Savoy and
has been absorbed by that of Hapsburg.
while the ducal family of Savoy now oc-
curies the throne of Italy: The De
hans, and hence 1t is the latter alone who
retain this curious privilege.
Nevertheless, the marriage was looked
but in the circle OF the Legftinist French
nobility who dwell in that aristocratic
Parisian quarter known as the Faubours
st. Germain. .sa-
Sirce the death Of the Comte de Cham
bord they had looked with new interest
upon Don Carlos as q possible pretsnder
throne. for by that death he became the
head OF the branch of the Bourbons which
desoends in direct Line. frem the second
bcrd the male line of Louis Nv became
extinct; The Orleans line. the head Of
which Is the Due d'OrleanS, descends from
the Due d'Orleans. brother OF Louis
XIV.
His royal highness has five children by
his first marriage. among them one son,
Don Jayne, now in his 26th year. who
is, no doubt. willing and anxious to pose
either as Dauphin of France or Infanta of
The King OF pills IA Reechan,.-prrcua uawc