Arizona republican., 1899-06-23

repudated by the grand duke, until
 the Russian czarevitch, Alexander, af- | t:rward Emperor Alexander II. hap pened to, catch sight of the girl, to fall in love With her and to insist upon making her his wife In fact, I can not recall any circumstance in con- nection with the reig1ing families of Flu 0pe that recalls more Yividly to m.nd the familiar story story of "CIn- derel1a' than the extraordinary
 change brought about in the fortunes of Princess Marie of Hesse through the heir to the thrcE.e Of Russia hap pening to fall in love with her
 
 Inasmuoh as the reigning grand duke has only a daughter and his sole male relatives are Q couple of elderly uncles, one 56 years Of age and the other 62 who are each of them nor ganatically married, some very troU- blesome questions are likely to arise in the event of the grand duke sue cumbing to his present illness. The succession of either of his two uacleS to the throne will be made conditional upon It's agreeing to discard his nor 2anatic wife and to marry a princess of some reignirg family, with a view b providing an heir to the crown. If the elder of the two princes tn ques- ton refuses to comply with this stipu- lation, then the succession will pass to his younger brother, Prince Will lam.
 The morganatic marriage system has the advantage in such cases as these that the morganatic wife can be put away without any form of eccle- Slastlcal or civil process, and constt> tutes no bar whatsoever to a right handed marri age to a person of equal rank and status Thus. for instance. the French duke of Berry was ecc'e- hastically marT;lsd to an English gri of the name o0 Amy Brown, and they had several children, when, with the object of furnishing an heir to the throne of his father, K:ng Charles x, he was forced to wed that princess of tha royal house of Naples by whom he became the father of the Comte de Chambord, who reigned for few hours over France as a child under the name of King Henry " In the same way Prince Christian of Schieswig- Holstein had a morganatic wife and children living in the neighbo-hood of Frankfort when he married Prin- cess Helena, third daughter of Queen Victoria, at Windsor castle 1 could cite many more such cases. There is much reason to believe that the duke oG York had really gone through a re- ligfous ceremony of marriage with the daughter of Admiral Sir Michael Culme Seymour at Malta. but it was not allowed to interfere in any way with his subsequent marriage to Princess May of Teck. Still anoth3r instance is that of King George ", who was undoubtedly married accord ing to full religious rites to Mrs Fits herbert at the time he became the husband Of Princess Caroline of Brunswick
 Should both Prince Henry and Prince William of Hesse prefer their morganatic wives to the throne of HesSe, it is probable that an endeavor would be made to transfer the crown to the so-called Cassel branch of the house. The head of this branch, who is known by the title Of the IandgraVa of Hesse, and who enjoys the style of royal highness," is stoms blind, and under the circumstances would pr0b- ably waive whatever rights he night have in favor of his younger brother, Prince Frederick Charles. who, being married to Princess Marguerite of Prussia, is a ibrother-in-Iaw of the kaiser. Of course it would be of great to the latter to have . brother-in-Iaw who is devoted to him on the throne of Hesss, rather than q mere cousin, such as the present grand duke, who is one of the leaders of the German confederation against Elm peror William. Primes Frederick Charles of Hesse, by the by, is the father Of twins.
 Many, many years have elapsed since any European ruler has died of and the only instance I can recall in modern tines Of a royal or imperial parsonage being stricken with the malady is Princess Mathilde l of Saxony, daughter of Prince George, l the heir to the throne of Saxony. In | the last century, however, two kings | of France, a number of members of the imperial house of Hapsburg, and | Queen Anne of Great Britain were | among those who died Of this malady, l while King William III only escaped | through the devotion of his page l young Count Bentinck. Tho physic | i9 IS declared that the king would sue eumb owing to the eruption having rs- fused to come to the surface, unless | son1 healthy person who had never | had the disease would enter the royal | bed and hold the king n his arms Tor | =Omle time. Young BentiDck respoGd- ad to this appeal, thereby saving the | kings l;f5, but naturally contracting the malady himself and had his good | o0h,ng face disfgured. But he was rewarded by the king by being ere ltsd duke of Portland, and over vhelmed with honors, emoluments and 'iChes. He became the founder of the present dukedom of Portland.
 
 Lord Brassey apparently is bent up )n beating the record of Lord Onslow IS the most unlUlcky of colonial gov ernOrs Since he has been governor of the Australian colony of Victoria he las tunIbled into the shark-infested larbor of Melbourne, he has been l. hree ting-s badly injured i1 bicycle JlGsions, he has been pitched off hs