The age-herald., 1897-09-12

For some time Don Carlos and his wife have been at Lueerne and all re- ports from the Swiss retreat indicate unusual activity among his immediate advisors and followers. His son, Don Jaime, Is now twenty-six years, and according to the Salic law is the heir to the throne. Unlike his ancestors this young man has never taken the field to win back the throne and the time has come, in the opinion of the restless ones, for him show the world that he has the same blood that forced the original Pretender into the historical war.
 Don Jaime is a military man born and bred. After completing his school ing he secured admission to Russian cavalry regiment by express permis- I sion of the Czar, and his training in the great military camps of the Rus sian army has made of him one of te best soldiers in Europe.
 Don Carlos, hls father, is still a comparatively young man, not having yet reached his fftieth birthday. He was married when he was twenty-two and his bride was but seventeen. They have both lived most eventful lives but time has treated them tenderly, and
  plotted almost since the hour of his birth to win throne s vigorous and strong, with nerves or iron. Y Don Carlos was born under. cir cumstances, which he says, has added to his determination to finally con- uuor. In 1848 the feeling against tha Bourbons was most intense through out Europe. At that time Don Juan, father of the present Pretender, and | his wife the Princess Maria Beatrix of Modena, were living at Venice where the antipathy to all Bourbons was ' most violent. While in a venetian the atre one night the royal couple were
 attacked by a mob and narrowly es- caped with their lives. Don Juan im- mediately decided to flee to Austria. The journey was a tedious one owing to the precautions which had to be taken against possible attacks, as the feeling in Austria was almost as bitter as in Venice At small inn in Ley ] back the Princess was taken i'll and 1 there Don Carlos was born i'll March
 30, his birth being hastened by the ex-
 citing scenes which his mother had | just passed through.
 1 The Emperor Ferdinand of Austria, | took considerable interest in the boy 1 and when he became old enough to understand his position in the world, l the Emperor selected a Spanish priest
 as tutor for him, with the idea that i the priest would so ould the boys mind as to convince him of the futility
 of struggling to reach the Spanish throne. Instead the priest developed into the most vivulent of Carlists and
 nothing was left undone by him to
 show the boy that his one mission in
 life was to continue the war begun by l his grandfather.
 The priest treated the boy as if he i were really the King of Spain and Don
 Carlos has never failed to conduct
 himself in keeping with the character
 of one, high born and set apart for
 kinghood.
 When he was but nineteen, when living in Venice with his mother, he fell in love with the Princess Margar- ita the fourteen-year-o daughter of
 the Duke of Parma. Owing to the ex-
 treme youth of the girl it was arranged
 that the marriage thould not take
 place until the completion of her edu-
 cation. This consumed three years
 and then the marriage was solemnized
 with as much pomp as if King had
 really taken unto himself bride.
 During his stay at Lucerne Don Car.
 los has talked with unusual freedom
 and has given several interviews to
 correspondents of various European
 papers in which he has spoken hope fully nf the overlook. This has led
 more than one authority in the drift
 of European politics to predict that
 the Spanish throne will be differently
 occupied before the ending of the year
 and this means also that the freedom of Cuba will naturally follow.