The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-12-07
GOING ABOUT INCOG.
MONARCHS SOMETIMES HAVE
STRANGE ADVENTURES.
Amusing Stories of Royal Person
ages Who Have Divested Themselves
of All Signs of Their Rank and
Travelled as Com mon People.

Many amusing stories are told of the
adventures Of royal personages when
they have Invested themselves of what
may be called their official dress and
assumed the gulse of ordinary mortals
Andno one loves more to tell these tales
OF misadyenture than the royalties
themselves.
The Car still recounts the story of
an experience he had some years ago
In Scotland. 1t was in the early days
Of his cycling enthusiasm. and he was
riding in company with Princess Maud.
When the royal cyclists were walking
with their machines up one of the steep
hills near Balmoral they overlook an
old Scotchman. who wished them good
day" and seemed disposed for gossip.
The young pair entered into the spirit
OF the adventure and chatted merrily
about their cycling until they reached
the top of the hill. Before they re-
mounted the garrulous old man looked
wonderlngly at the machines and said:
"Weel, weel, they're grand things for
you tOon lasses and laddies" When
they had got out of hearing the royal
pair literally laughed until they cried.
and the Gar even yet answers to the
name of "the toon laddie" among his
cousins.
Not many months ago the German
Emperor sustained a shock. Like King
Leopold OF Belgium, the Kaiser leyes
occasionally to take a solitary ramble
In the country. One day last summer
while at Potsdam he had wandered
farther than usual. and at dusk found
himself, dusty and weary, still a dozen
miles from the palace. When at this
stage n country woman driving n cart
overlook him he greeted her politely
and asked her to allow him TO take n
seat in the cart. The woman looked
down critically at the dusty and dishev-
eled man, and whipping up her horse
said: Not me; | don't like the looks of
you" Some distance ahead a mounted
patrol stopped the woman and asked
what the Emperor had said to her.
"The Kaiser?' she queried in amaze
ment. What KaiserT' Then, as the
truth gradually dawned on her she
turned pale, gave frightened look at
the dusty figure coming nearer aud
drove rapidly away.
Ex-Queen Emma of the Netherlands
and her daughter. the Queen of to-
day, had many amusing experiences In
their wanderings incognito. Last sum
mer, when they were staying at one of
the hotels in the Tyrol. the young
queen won all hearts by her sweetness
Of disposition and vivacity. There was
one young Englishman who was so
overcome by her charms that he fol
lowed her everywhere in spite of a
frowning mamma. and. II must be said,
with some mlschievous encouragement
from the daughter His attention at
last became so marked that one day
the young girl and her mother disap-
peared without warning. and 1t was
only some days after the young Eng
llshman learned through the newspa-
pers that the young lady he had wooed
so persistently was the Queen of Hol-
land.
Many good stories are told of the Gu
rlous adventures Of Queen Margaret of
Italy on her mountaineering exeur-
slons The story of how she entertain
ed party of tourist climbers in one of
the mountain huts is well known, but
few who have heard of another little
adventure which befell her last sum-
mer. The Queen, whose energy Is al
ways the envy and despair of her suite,
had wandered away from her attend
ants, and had not only lost her way but
was both hungry and fatigued, when
she saw peasants cottage In the dis
lance.
Making her way to It, her knock was
answered by an old peasant woman.
whom she asked for rest and refresh
ment. Come in, my dear and vel
come" the kindly old peasant said. The
Queen entered and insisted on helping
her hostess prepare the simple meal of
milk and bread. When the belated at
PENDANTS reached the cottage they
found the Queen and the old woman
gosslping and eating with all the free
dom OF old friends, and II was not
until some days later, when a hand
some present arrived at the cottage.
that the woman learned how she had
entertained her Queen.