The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-29

a serious kind with. a rebellious Duke of
bavaria Henry the Quarrelsome Of Bava-
ria claimed the regency under the infant
emperor, otto Ill. but was denied by the
imperial Diet. Thereafter as King and
emperor fought and struggled for the mas
terry IN the chaotic political condition of the
ume bavaria fell to the lot of the adher-
ents of one or the other as the tide of bat
Tie howed, But in the time of Frederick T.
the heroic Barbarossa, definite landmark
appears in the annals of the picturesque
ana ancient duchy. In 1850, when Henry
me Lion OF SaXony had been humbled for
the moment by the Emperor, Bavaria, as
one OF the dependencies of the imperial
sway, was allotted 10 the Count Palatne
Of Wittelsbach. Otto. or Othon. From that
ume to the foundation of the present royal
me by the Count Palatine, Christian H.,
the succession is sufficiently clear.
QUO Wilhelm Luitpold is the son OF
KING Macmillan IL and Princess Marie
OF Prussia. He was born at Munich on
April n. lSiS and has been insane more
than half his life. He nominally succeeded
TO- the throne on June 10, 1885, when his
brother. King Ludwig II, committed sui
clde by drowning himself in the beautiful
lake OF Starnberg. IN the park of Berg
castle, three days after his deposition upon
the score Of insanity Ottos succession
was mere form, as the regency of his
uncle, Prince Luitpod, established upon
the dethronement of Ludwig H. was con-
unued and finally affirmed by the Bava-
rian Diet
The unfortunate Otto, however was not
born insane. The faint, which, it may be
conceded, was in his blood was made vir-
ulent and active by the circumstances of
his life thus while his brother Ludwig
with a brilliant imagination aud a true
instinct for art, sought comfort In music
poetry and beautiful architectural crea-
tons, even when madness had laid its
dark hand upon His mind, Otto of a
grosser nature, and with more unworthy
tastes, had become lower than beasts and
was building houses of mud.
The royal brothers were trained ia
school in which the church had strong
hand. The regimen of their lives might
have served as the model for youths devot-
ed to a sacred calling. Their royal moth
er, in her attempts to implant the hove Of
simplicity in their minds denied them
Inquiries which no lad of p!ebian blood
even would surrender without vigorous
aud prolonged protest. The Princes were
not even taught to ride, and King Lud-
wig never mounted horse until sum
moned suddenly TO the throne in 1864
The life of exotic plants was in fast the
life that the fated brothers led, and when
at a critical period of their youth, the
breath of actual practical existence was
waited in upon them, that which would
have been revivifying and an elixir of en-
ergy to healthy minds was fatal to them
Ludwig sought the pure ideal, but, having
no compensating balance within his own
nature, his very virtues led TO his descent
to, the plane of the mere voluptuary from
which II was but short step to insanity
Handsome and noble in gesture and mien
In his youth, he became obese and repul-
sive in later life. Love had laid it's spell
upon him. but his idol had been shattered
One strong passion alone solaced him un-
til he died--his admiration for and appreci-
alton of the music OF Wagner.
Such was Ludwig; even more forbidding
and dreadful Is the fate of hapless Otto
Confined in the palace Of Fuerstenried. in
the midst of the Bavarian forest, his life
Is burden to himself and others. Guarded
by soldiers, who dread the duty assigned
them, he drags out the existence of one
whose mind is a blank. His stature like
that of his brother is gigantic. His beard
grows unkempt, and his eyes, In their lack
luster aud vacant stare, too gloomily be-
tray his condition of idiocy.
The hfe of the Princess Is simplicity IT.
self. She has reared a large family, and
her domestic virtues are widely known and
appreciated in Europe. The Princess,
however, has other and more striking
claims to notablity, even to fame. To the
so-called "Legitimist league" of England,
she is known as the direct heir of the
Stuarts and of Charles the FIRST Before
her marriage she was Princess Marie Te-
resa Henrietta Dorothea. daughter and
only child of Archduke Ferdinand of Este
and his wife, the Archduchess Franziska
Marie She was born in 1S49 Her claim
as heiress Of the Stuarts rests upon her
descent from Victor Amadeus IL, Duke of
Savoy and King of Sardinia. Princess
Henrietta Anna. daughter OF Charles J.,
married Philip Duke of Orleans. brother
Of the Grande Monarque, Louis XIV.
Their daughter, Anna, married Victor
Amadeus. Queen Victoria's descent from
the Stuarts comes only through the Prin-
cess Elizabeth, sister Of Charles /, and
wife of Frederick V, Elector Palatine and
King OF Bohemia