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The two parties met in Difbonti. There
was a sharp rivalry between them, with
series of incidents to be made public
later. The upshot of the meeting was chat
Bonvalot told the prince some bitter
truths, denounced him as a suspicious
ana untrustworthy person." reproacheQ
MN with having undertaken his cXpedi-
ton with questionable motives. and then
parted company with him in high temper
The two parties of Frenchmen reached
the court almost simultaneously and were
received on the same day by the Negus.
Bonvaiot was so disguised with the COM
petition of the princely adventurer that
he then gave I'D his mission and started
homeward. He had been expected to
press onward and seek new routes for
Frances African trade, but the abundance
and quality of the presents afforded by
Pflnce Elenrfs private enterprise had
weakened the missions prestige and crea-
ted such confusion in the Abyssinan mind
as regards the motives of the two parties
that the special envoy found his only dig
nifed course to be retreat
1t was noteworthy that at this time the
interest of the French people in the gyra.
tons of Henry Tvs descendant had fallen
away almost completely. To be sure, he
was pumping up all his energies to help
along the great cause of "publicity," He
wrote his letters regularly TO his home ad-
vertisers and labored with the proverbial
African assiduity to keep his undertaking
in the public eye.
AT Menelek's court" says the Paris
correspondent of the Vienna Neue Frele
Presse, in explaining the origin of the ad-
vertising scheme which has had such par
alyzing success, he prince HenrD saw
the italian prisoners and observed them
through French spectaces. Then it may
be, there occurred to him the thought
that he might use them for his advertis-
ing purposes. With his newspaper CORE
spondence so far he had excited little pub
lie attention. But public attention was
what he was after; that was what he had
gone to Africa for. He wanted to make
the French people talk about him. >
He must think of something new to ad-
vertise himself"
While in this mood, the prince, who, far
from home. must be his own press agent.
hit upon the unlucky plan Of abusing the
Italians, who had been defeated by Meme
lexis men. He acted upon the idea
once, and sent to the gentlemen whom the
Berlin daily calls his "organizers and pro-
moters," a scorching denunciation of the
italian troops who far from their home,
had proved themselves a miserable and
disgraceful lot He spoke of the private
soldiers as if they were tramps; they stole
he said, and they begged. He had heard
Italian officers propose toasts to Meneleks
health, and had seen them fire salutes to
Menelek on the anniversary of Italy's de-
feat from the Italian guns captured by the
Abyssinians on the battlefield.
This letter overshot the mark 1t adj
vertised Prince Henri more than any man
in Europe has been advertised since Bou-
LANCER shook the foundations of the repub-
lie The Italians are not a calm or taci-
turn people, and it is wei; within the truth
to say that they seldom have overleaped
the bounds of both calmness
and taciturnity with such vocif-
erous unanimity as since Prince
Henri's little press agent scheme took on
the form of cold type Not a newspaper
in the peninsula has failed to hurl broad
side after broadside at the author; hardly
an officer of higher rank than a lieuten-
ant has omitted to pie epithets on the
young man. both in print and out. That
the type did not melt and the paper burn
is attributable only to the fact that, as the
Viennese say, type and paper endure all
things.
Gen. Albertone, the ranking officer of the
Italians taken prisoners by Menelek, pro-
claimed at once in an open letter that if
Henri Of Orleans really had written these
things, Henri of Orleans twas neither a
IoDltIIdtl ipI q decent human DelNG.
While the officers and editors of all Italy
were raging, those officers who had return
ed from military imprisonment in Abys-
sinia met, cast lots, and thus selected
Lieut.. PM to call out the prince At the
same time Albertone came forward with
a demand for a duel and numerous other
men high in the army We're proclaimnS
their eagerness to draw Prince Henri's
blood. Prince Henrrs newspaper hackers
in Paris became alarmed and began to
apologize for their protege. He might
have got his information at second hand,
said the Figaro; perhaps he wrote in good
faith. but only from hearsay evidence.
There certainly must be rxtenuating cir
cumstances; the Italian officers We're too
hasty; duel would be too deplorable IT
was all Of no use. The fat was in the fire.
Prince Henri appeared in Alexandra in
the midst of the Italian national spasm,
promptly had himself interviewed. and as
severated his willingness 20 meet the
whole Italian army, man by man, on the
field of honor, excluding, Of course, those
who were not Of royal bloor or high mill
tary rank lie would defend the honor Of
France: he would make good the word Of
a French prince he had not said too much
in condemnation of the Italian officers, but
too little.
So this remarkable young man went to
the field OF honor yesterday, still acting
his familiar part There. deplorab.e as his
case may now seem, he was hoist with his
own advertisement. a warning to any fu-
ture prince who might wish TO play the
adventurer with end-of-the-century i'm
proVements.