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pavaria was amanced 20 Francis Jo-
seph of Austria. She was sincerely tond
oil her lover and was educated with inc
distinct view OF becoming Empress OF
Austria. There was 10 reason Why lhe
young man should not have Kept DIS
promise save tne one tO him an import
amt reason Juet as the long standing
engagement was about TO be consuIn-
mated. France. Joseph met ms nance
Younger sister Elizabeth, with whom Hc
Immediately fel violently n love. Princes
Helene was forgotten and was LETT 10
nurse an almost broken heart while tho
younger ud more beautiful sister VINO
was recently murdered by Che Anarchist
r.rcchini. assumed hcr position all the
head of thc House of Austria.
The story of the sad fate of the
Duchess d.Alcucon. who met terrible
death 800 ue Paris charity bazaar ilfe,
ended a romance that at one time was
The sensation OF au Europe. The Ouch
ces d'AlluCOu Was formerly tne beaul-
fl Sophia of Bavaria and in 1857 her
cousin. the mad King Louis fen sd love
with her Ills was 90 life luu oI cA-
cosses hut hc reached ibis highest note
OF rapture il his love for this DeautIui
eiu A marble bust of her was en-
shrincd in his palace and each day ne
surrounded &C. with banks OF the raresl
eNodcs. Tie had thousands of pictures
OF her printed. beneath which were en-
craVed The words sophia. Queen of Ba-
Naria." Thee were 10 be distributed
throughout the kingdom on the day oil
their wedding. Suddenly there was a
rovulsiou in The fantastic mind OF the
already half mad monarch.
The FIRST inkling OF the estrangemcnt
was when the heavy marble bust came
crashing through O. window Of the pale
ace. nearly Killing a sentry who was
ON duty in the courtyard. In the pail
ace an was in am uproar for Louis.
half clad and with hair tousled was
rushing from one apartment 20 another
urging bis attendants 90 use more speed
in the destruction of tho precious pic
lures of thc princess. Barfus, the arr
tist was called out OF bed TO destroy
tho plate and then hale crazed. the
king without completing his toilet fed
60 his castle on tho Starenberg Lake
After the death OF the king il was stated
that his iiltlnE OF Princess sophia was
due 90 his belief that q strong attach
mont existed between the beautiful girl
ana Edgar llaufstacngl the son of the
Munich artist Sophia married the Duke
d'Alencon. bit her affection for him was
never strong and on learning OF Kme
Louis suicide. I'm 1856 sho became in
sane and for several years was an in
mate OF an asylum.
An almost parallel romance helped Ia
wreck the mind Of mad King Otto OF
Bavaria He loved the beautiful Coun-
tess Larisch and the young girl sxercis-
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comedies. but the fact remains That
royal personages are often very. very
human. and that princcsses ana princes
of the blood have been jHted in just as
cruel fashion as if they had been the
Misses Jones or the Mr.. smiths OF our
prosaic every day life.
Perhaps the most serious Of all the
modern royal fittings was the casting
aside of the beautiful and dieniAed frn-
cess Helene Of Montenegro by the present
car Of an the Russians. They called
her the modern Helen This quDcniy
tan and wondrously beautiful maiden
and when 10 was arranged THAT she
should marry tho Czarowitch. she Was
taken from her pastoboaro and eut count
ar Montenegro 90 Sc Petersburg Don of-
der that she micht Doe educated iu a
manner 20 ht her 10 bc the trat lady
in the magnidceuce OF the royal house
hold OF Russia. She looked every inDn
The part and the youue Czar witch was
an ideal lover. SO Courtly and FUN of
kindnness until that fatal day when fata
brought him face 10 face with the pa-
fhetcally beautiful AiX Of Hesse
Helen went back TO- her tawdry little
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And before L knew &C. I had hit her
SQUARE u the face. SHE slaapcd at iny
coat witn one hand ANA fought on lur
blows WILl tine other. But gtdalei
her by the throat and,smaddened Dy nt'
white desperate race, struck her again
and again.
WHOM ioosed her she fell hat upon
the floor and ! thought she Was dead
but no. iu I'll minute she struggled to het
stood stupidity watching her. She opened
tlo door and fell upon The SILL
Brute that j was i can hardly pea.
90 recall be- even now, / staggered 10 tne
door after her and pushed her out with
ms foot. i noticed. as ] did so, That sine
lay suI and that there was little stream
OF blood trickllng down her forehead.
stood gazing az her in stupid wonder Tor
ii minute then Il slammed the door anu
locked it-With her outside.
The nest morning ] was awakened by
a stream OF yellow sunlight when cteps
in Through a broken blind. l sat upilsh-
for "a minute wondering wnat nao nap
penod. for lay, partly dressed, upon ths
floor. while tho bed stood wnlte ana uH-
touched Oh the opposite side or the rom .'..
Then &c AN came back. But where was
Nary2 Half dazed. still, and with my
head splitting 1 walked TO the door anu
oueuoI IL. She was not there, ana 1
would have thought 81 AN a horrid dream
but for triclle of blood upon me door
sim and rag of Marys dress when haa
torn of iu the door. 1 called Mary pu.
-he ala not come l called louder, Du.
sho did no, answer. As / called again
the people down stairs came out INTO tne
ham and skunk back. They must not
know. -
But soon I began 20 hear strange
noises in the street. Peeping out through
the blinds | saw a crowd taking *
citodly. ana i'm the midst a bluecoaP VINO
was bending over something
The crowd grew larger and larger, l
quietly watching from above; ana alief
what seemed 20 me hours, they cinie
with q wagon and took it away-the poay
OF a woman. She was young and pretty
for I got a glimpse OF her face. And
yes. God forgive me- 1t was Mary!
The next day 7 went 20 work-lor 1hes
must not know-and that night | mover
away. 7 expected every minute that fhey
would come and get me- but meanwnHe
I worked with quiet doggedness, for a
man breads 20 be arrested-and for MUIR
der. Days worked and nights I dreami
dreams-oh. such dreams And so two
days passed away
The third day an awful fascination
drew me toward the morgue for there !
read they had carried the woman and
went down. chose noon. when I could
90 without leaving nv work. and IN the
brief five minutes / was there | identi
fod Mary I knew her laid out though
she was with fifty other women. a.
cold and bruised. l should have knowl
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-19
A SATURDAY NIGHT TRAGEDY.
BN Anguish Prescott.

1t was a bleak dismal day. and the
place bieaker and more dismal than the
day Yes. it was shverng cold that
morning no tho TOrguc. although outside
the air was damp and fOggy, Dut not cold.
The people who visit the morgue are
seldom happy souls. None more miser-
able than j, that bleak, dismal day, as i
sneaked I'm and as quietly crept out
was looking for face. and / found &c.,
Never shall I forget-What common
place way to begin q tragedy-tne day
on which I went out from my home with
the brand OF cain upon my forehead and
the heart OF a murderer iu my bosom.
have lived 1t over again a thousand
times, and suffered a thousand fortunes.
And the sight of the face afterwards, iu
the morgue. Oh it IS too horrible. My
head swims and my brain grows tortu-
Gus when 1 recall it. Recall IL! God.
Do 1 ever forget il.
came home that day drunk Not
blind but ugly as men get when they
have taken "a glass too much. ana wins
ky always did craze me.
We had been married only year, my
Mary and 1, and We We're looking into
the beyond very earnestly. Mary was
happy as q lark an day long, for she
was "a loving wife and loneed TO lll our
home with the glad voices that make
home worth having. 1 was happy. too.
] had turned over my new lear year
before. and with Gods help had kept it
clean. Yes from Tom Dean, the drunk
ard. had become Tom Dean. the sober
1 had not taken one drop since ! was
married. and Mary and ! were rs proud
al it as we could be. And spring was
coming. Spring, with new life and new
responsibilities.
4 don't know how II happened. but it
must have been my good fortune that
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gan sobbing as though she would never
stop.
Let so on me-" 7 said trying 20 shake
her off. But She chung The closer.
"Oh. Tom. Tom she cried, and each
time / thought she would sob her heart
out.
"D- YOU" 7 shouted, pulling at her
arms that were ciasped around my neck.
"If you don't shut up with your oh,
Tom Tom Tu kil you
AT this Mary let go and drew back from
me as though 7 had struck her.
OF mean &c." I yelled. now crazy with
drunken frenzy land 81 you don't be-
Ueve It, take that"
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her In ten mlllions-Mary with her
smooth brown aud ner gentle face. no"
changed she was. What oark lines uA-
der her oyes. 4 might easily not nave
known her-shc was SO dluercnl
went back to my Work. why oiI
they not come TO arrest me 1neie Z" i7
a reward out for the murderer OF tn'
woman who lay in the street dead.
Strange they did not suspect me.
one week later. though it seemed d
wear. / went back home. i could NOT yen
what drew me there, but when SATURDAY
night came, there came thOusn.s OF
Mary and home, and could not keep
away.
The rooms were empty when I opened
the door. and when / stepped inside j
felt gh0stly and creepy. The bed lay
smooth and white as week ago. me
twilight crept I'm through the windows.
The furniture. poor but comlOrtllle'
stood ia the old places in the room. le-
vOnd was Mary pantry all set with tln5
Just as she had left it that day. EFen
her wOrk-basket was there with q stock
ing hanging from one side of DC. step
ped over 10 the rocking chair-my chali -
and there stood my slippers, as She had
SET them q week ag0-the night I struck
her doWn-and there was my jacket by
the stove 20 warm.
An agony of remorse came over me-
'Nary. Mary" cried aloud, throwing
myself upon the floor and breahng-man
though ] was-into Wild sobs. Mary.
come back for God sake. Come back
There was a rustic from the room bee
yond. and then 1 felt soft hand upon
my head: while a gentle voice said.
TON, Tom dear"
] sat bolt upright
Forgive me- Tom"
DC was Marys voice and Mary herse. f..
none other than my own Mary. j held
ont my hand and she took &C. Forgive
me. Tom" she said again.
Forgive I cried as soon as 7 could
speak there is nothing for me 20 for
give Mary Maryl"
And then I'm the quiet evening She told
me how she had crept down the stairs
that awful night, an stunned. and how
kindly the people down stairs had taken
her in For three davs she lav thCB bee
tween life and death for they feared
that he skull was fractured But how
She came back ~ STRENGTH in n few DAYS
under their kind nurs'ne OF knew Won
would come back Tom" said sho "anl
SO came up here and waited for you "
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ging for q drink. and next Ching Z knew
i was 300 saloon over the bar. Aha-
was adj. lut dc meant great deal, Tor
drank, not one but many glasses. ANA
when i cot home that night it, was late
and 4 was drunk.
Mary was sitting mp for me- Poor GIRL
She had walked che street for an h0ut
watching our door for fear of MISSING
me- and she was tired. but when sle
saw me. OH shall j ever forget thai,
look? Dazed though I was. 4 saw the
horror in her eyes. and maudln though
the whisky had made me, 1 read her pee
pr5aeh
And 30 madieucl me.
"Mary / said. "Mary. go 90 bed"
ooh Tom" sine began. but she couldn't
get any further She spraue toward me
threw her arms around mv neck and be-
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tempted me. ] had got a raise that day,
and The thought Of promotion made my
spirits rise lIv companions knew 10
too. and they came cr0wding around me.
after work was over. urging me % treat
ana show what good fellow 1 Has.
Five dollars month may not Doe much
20 some people, but % our little family
10 was great deal Mary would make
st go as far as dfty. I thought as i nu-
ishod my work that afternoon, and I
planned how i would surprise her with
the extra money the next payday
can't ten yct how BE- came about but
soon 1 found myself in the street with
crowd OF fellows around me- all beg
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-02-19
BROKEN HEARTED QUEENS
Jhe JiIt8 of Royal Lovers and How They Have Con-
soIed Themselves Some Have Become Insane
Others Have Mended Their Broken Hearts.

trauon OF the instability Of royal az
lection. for Umbertos son was engaged
to several Of the eligible young women
of Europe. including tho daughter OF
saxe-Coburg Gotha and the more do
nestle Princess Maud of Wales before
he met the desirable young woman VINO
may one day become the Queen of italy.
The royal house of Bavaria has had
more than it's share of these illustra-
tions of the Inconsistency of royal hearts.
MANY years ago Princess Helene OF
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Lovers who have been ruthlessiy 3ll-
e6 win admit that the throwing over
process is not an agreeable one TO the
person thrown over" but those who
have suffered this indignity may ma
consolation in the fact that 'jhtng mas
played a most important part IN inc
romantic history of Europe. IL Is diff
cult Tor Ordinary beings 20 look upon
royalty as mere men and women play
ing their own little II paradoxically.
exalted parts in life's tragedies and
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kingdom "a woman scorned.' and ku-
rope was in CONSERVATION. 10 all endeo
much better than had been feared. how
ever Nicholas welded the maiden or
his choice and not long ago Helene. who
Is more than six feet IN height. married
the diminutive Prince OF Naples. the
heir 20 the throne Of Italy.
II Helene had suffered the indignity
of being Tilted her husband has had
many times the doubtful pleasure OF
doing tho jilting The record OF his
love affairs makes an interesting Illus
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-26

posed not to be in keeping with the
French temperament A remarkable
change is coming over the new sport
ing generation The bull fight zone,
which a few years ago had its extreme
at Aries, has been pushed to Boulogne,
in the east of Roubaix. in the north,
in determined attack On the capital.
Had the intelligent beast not gored
and trampled his way through the spec
tators at Enghein, few Sundays ago,
the corrida would have been planted
at the gates of Paris. The combat be-
tween the lion and the bull at Roubaix,
instead of disgusting the public, only
divided it into two camps of partisans
--of bull and lion. The Charlemont-
Driscoll match, which was to have de-
cided the vexed question of Anglo
Saxon boxing versus Gallo kicking, de-
cided nothing except that there must
be more such matches.
When we paid $40 each last week to
see the long promised fight put up by
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A GOOD REASON FOR 1T.

1t has been known in this village for
several years past that we did not live
in harmony with our wife. Some have
taken sides with her, and some with us,
and there has been much gossip. We
have lived in hopes that our wife would
see fit to change her ways, and thus
bring peace to our distracted household,
but she is an obstinate, determined
woman and would have her way. Last
Friday, as we were printing 200 auction
bills for George Green, Henry Davis
Fuller, the popular saw mill man, en-
tered the Office and said to us:
John, you must bear it like man"
We felt a chill go over us as we
asked him what had happened.
Your wife has run away" was his
startling announcement.
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that the old lion, toothless, weary with
his years, refused to come to time. and,
cruelty gored, moaned piteously in his
corner? The public clamored for a
better fight, and it was only on prom
Use Of two lions, to be furnished at an
early date, that they vacated the arena
peaceably. Since then two lions fought
one bull. The winter population OF
Biarritz fiocked as one great family TO
the little town. The bull was lacerated
badly, but the lions, females, were in
jured mortally. Coming north, the
Paris ladies who participated in these
new emotions have given such enthusi-
astic accounts of them that all society
may be counted on at the next bull and
lion fight.
Meanwhile Enghein, ten miles outside
of Paris, is building a proper bull
ring. to become the professed home OF
the sport near the capital. l was pres
ent at the first tragic fiasco in which
the bull escaped.
All around, a public paying twenty
francs a seat, a really brilliant public,
more than half made UP Of fashionables,
discussed inpatientiy the enc question
would the horses be protected, would
the bulls have leather balls upon their
horns? The first bull out, perfect
devil, black as ink, left no illusion. He
had long sharp horns, and all uncov-
cred. When the poor old horses were
led in their short leather walstcoats
wobbled on them pitiably.. 1t was not
difficult to foresee their finish. HAD
not the bull developed other views, the
horses would have been gored as cruel
ly as at Bordeaux Or Raubaix.
DASH THROUGH THE CROWD.
The bull had not been leased twice
he had only one spear thrust in his
sheulder-when, like flash OF hight
ming, he leaped the frail wooden fence,
dashed headlong into the crowd, gor-
ing. trampling right and left a clear
track through the cursing men and
screaming women, through the canvas
tent. and out into the freedom of the
| fields. He left a track of blood and
wounds behind him. That no one was
| killed appears miraculous.
| So stands the new bloody "sport"
to-day in Paris. Both the bull fight
and the rib-smashing contest came off
! within the last month. A new spirit
certainly has come to Paris. 1t is
bloody. vicious, wicked. sport is
| responsible for it. Sport causes reck-
/ less chauffeurs to run down pedestri-
| ans with their automobile racers In
the full avenue of the ChampsEly-
| sees. Sport is responsible for the
! Aero Balooning Club, from whose ex-
| dua oil DIV
The old Paris night life Of soft de-
bauch is waning. Young men seek
| their beds to get an early morning
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Charlemont--the most celebrated OF
French feet-boxers--it was with ming
led apprehensions. Said Charlemont, in
many interviews: Il know to what
am exposing myself, or, rather, to what
am exposing my adversary, for there
are certain kicks that are terrible"
No one has seen a savate fight to fin
ish, where the kicker should wear
street shoes. For years this "profes-
sor" of French boxing has assured his
phpils-gilded youth-of their invinci-
bility; and Driscoll, heavy, unimagin
alive, good-natured English pug, was
half intimidated by the warnings of the
professors" partisans just before the
fight. II was told that Charlemont
would break my leg. in fifteen seconds, >"
he says, 'but that could have a bit of
a fight and then lie down in the first
round, and keep on the ground for ten
seconds"
A few years ago, at the Pelican Club.
in London, they matched Charlemont
against an Irish bruiser OF the name
of Donaghue for a mere boxing bout.
Donaghue had never seen savate. A
kick in the stomach sent him flying.
The fourth-and final-round Dona-
ghue, warned to get close and stay
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there" punched Charlemont around
the ring SO that the unsportful French
man asked permission to put on his
Shoes That settled it. A general
murmuring of indignation went up
from the Pelicans. They gave the
fight to Donaghue. This French pro
fesor" never had fought serious bat
tie. at would not do to fight in shoes
for keeps" the argument has always
been, "because bones would be broken
in the fllJt round" Therefore, the
bouts CT the 1Societe de la Boxe
Franchise" the Joinville Military
School and the various Paris profess
sors' annual benefits showed the sa-
vate as an extremely graceful species
of gymnastics only, with the tacit I'M
derstanding that it merely needed
shoes to make it terrible. Men
shuddered at the thought of it.
In the seclusion of a private riding
academy, in the presence of a select
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audience Of 200 men willing to cay
$40 for reserved seats, with no less a
swell than the young Baron Henri de
Rothschild for doctor, Jerry Driscoll
one-time champion Of the British
navy, stood up to receive the terrible
kicks of the Frenchman.
BEGINNING OF THE SPORT.
Wang! Charlemonts heavy foot
came crashing down on Driscolls
tibia, in the celebrated coup de pied
bas!
Wang! and biff! Three times he
came down on that tibia with such
force that we could hear him grunt.
Yet there was nothing broken! The
dreaded coup de pied has failed to JUS
tlfy its reputation! Driscoll always
smiling that silly smile of his, received
the F'renchman's heel upon his shin
bone as if the heavy winter shoes did
not exist. He must have legs of iron,"
exclaimed Professor Victor Casteres.
Round Even the Frenchman's
weight, $50 pounds, was in his favor,
against the 146 pounds of Driscoll The
8-ounce 'gloves-not 4-ounce gloves as
has been stated-proved from the first
a serious handicap to the Englishman
as well. Lack of experience forced
him to take three bad shin kicks in
this first round, while he got back only
once with a blow on the Frenchman's
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heart. Then the Frenchman, clinch-
Ing, got him by the neck, in a peculiar
wrestler's grip, which caused a mo-
ments excl .ement.
Break away" called all the Eng
lish present.
Break his neck" cried--the French
sports. 1t was enough to make an UNI
dertaker smile. and out of it all came
the Englishman with his hand TO his
lip, complaining, in an injured tone,
why, gentlemen, the beggar's bit me-"
1t was even so! But a little thing
like chance bite was not enough to
stop SO expensive contest.
During seven rounds Drescoll pun
muled with his piIlowlike gloves, un-
able to do serious damage, although
he landed many forceful blows Char
lemont kicked with his heavy winter
shoes, but he failed to land any blow
that seemed to damage his antagonist.
KICKED IN THE GROIN.
Round land last).-fn this round
came what might have been expected
from the Frenchman's crazy anger, a
foul kick. 1t may have been an scci-
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fight could have refrained from worry
ing at the lack of precautions taken
to protect the public
But when the bull fights came boldly
to the north the colder tempered spirit
of the people took a refuge in the law.
The only legal weapon of the govern
ment was the article of the code forbid
ding public cruelty to domestic animals.
Now, said the patrons of the bull ring,
the wild Spanish bull is not a domestic
animal.
Around this article the legal battle
wages, one decision being for, the next
against. Is the bull a domestic ami
imal? Well, certainly lion is not So,
when they promised at Roubaix to
match a bull against a lion there was
no means to stop it. What matters it
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start Regenerating sport" which Is
to save the race, puts its taboo upon
the lighter vices But the French
temperament is hot stuff. Bull fights
and rib smashing Old fashioned
Frenchmen shake their heads dubi-
ously. STERLING HEILIG.
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"Tt can't be.
but she has"

ut can't be-"
"But she has"
We hurried home to find that II was
true. Our wife had fed in one horse
wagon with her brother Dan, leaving
letter behind in which she said that
she'd die rather than return. 1t is
needless to say that We were terribly
upset. For the last five days we have
thought of nothing but suicide, and
have been unable to work For this
reason we issue only a half sheet this
week. Time will Tighten the blow, and
next week, if we can get our sister
Rebeeea, to keep house for us, We hope
to resume our editorial labors You
who have never had your wife run away
from you don't know what a void il
leaves, and how man may be suddenly
precipltated to TIM depths of black de-
spair. and we ask your indulgens until
our appetite returns.-Hasting Gazette.