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Special Correspondence.


Special Correspondence.
Lisbon. Portugal, Dec. 3. 1898.
1t is the old story Of shabby gem
tIlIty. the wide world oyer-the more
hopelessly down-at-heel and out-at.el-
bow, the larger mantle OF naughty re-
serve is needed to cover II. Therefore
poor old Portugal puts on more and
more official airs as her poverty in
creases. Always extremely punctilious
In the smallest details Of court ell
quette, she has drawn the lines ever
tighter and tighter, while richer mon
arches have been relaxing them In this
dawn Of the twentieth century-untll
today the Portuguese court Is by far
the most stately and ceremonious In
Europe. For an unofficial American
to gain audience with the king or
queen, is as we'll nigh impossible as
for the scriptural rich man to enter the
kingdom Of heaven. "a cat may look
at king, you know, and all the world
is welcome 10 come and shake the hand
OF great Americas rulers at least on
the first day Of a new year; but he who
asplres to gaze at Portuguese royalty
must take his chances with the popu-
lace on the Lisbon bOuleyards, or in
the theater, or at one Of the infrequent
seml-public functions in the palace to
which he may perhaps be admitted
through the intercession Of the minister
plenipotentiary from his country. Our
party has enjoyed all these oppOrtuni-
ties. King Carlos /, who is consid-
crably under forty years Of age, min
giles more freely with the people than
did any of his predecessors, and may
often be met in the streets Of Lisbon
on foot, or riding his splendid charger,
or in his
GLITTERING STATE CARRIAGE,
whose crimson and gliding reminds one
Of the regulation circus chariot The
only difficulty is TO tell the king from
the courtlers who surround him. He
Is younger than most Of them. and his
Lress is decidedly less conspicuous
than their bedizened uniforms. King
Charles looks much as his uncle, Dom
Pedro ii Of Brazil, must have looked
at the same age-a stout, fair haired,
blue-eyed young giant, the very anti
podes Of our preconcelved notion Of
the swarthy Latin. The truth Is that
blondes are almost as numerous as
brunettes in the upper classes OF both
Spain and Portugal. Carlos / has
French, German and Italian blood in
his veins, and goodness knows what
other admiXtures, along with the orig
tho ~
He Is directly descended from the an
cient house OF Braganza-a house which
the Emperor Napoleon officially de-
clared TO be extinct, but which yet APP
pears to be very much alive. His
mother. Marie Pia, was the youngest
daughter of King Victor Emanuel, Of
Italy. His grandmother was
the archduchess Marie Josepha, daugh-
ter Of Emperor Francles / Of Austria;
and among his ancestors was Amalia
Of Bavaria, Augustus Charles Eug me
Napoleon, Prince Ferdinand of SAKE
Coburgr Gothic, and scions Of other
royal houses in various parts Of Eu-
rope, BY the way. tbs often
ENORMOUSLY STATED
that Elsie Hensler, the English dancer,
was his grandmother. King Ferdinand
ii, his grandfather, after the death Of
his royal consort, the famous Marie
da Gloria GRANDMOTHER Of the present
king, morganatically married the
pretty dancing girl, and died soon af-
forwards. The late king, Dom
Luis /, was a model monarch, be-
loved by the people. In his grave
he wears the medals bestowed upon him
by the city Of Lisbon, and the Humane
Society of Oporto, for his heroism in
that dreadful time, a few years ago
when cholera and yellow fever to-
gether ravaged the capital. While the
nobility fed, and everybody Who pos
sessed enough mil reis to get away,
scattered, fled like rats from sinking
ship, all the male members Of the royal
family staid by 10 the last-rega rdless
of the experiences OF their relatives in
a similar way, In 81. when Dom Pedro
V, and his two younger brothers, Dom
Ferdinand and Dom Joao, refusing TO
desert their subjects In time OF need,
died Of the pestilence. Dom Luis went
about freely among the stricken peo-
pie in the worst dens OF the city. When
demonstrated with he replied. MY
post Is where the hand Of sickness
weighs most heavily and where the
sickle is moving down the flowers of
my subjects. My place is beside the
suffering and sorrowful; 1t is for that
am your king"
Dom Luis died In the autumn OF So.
when his eldest son, Carlos, succeeded
TO the throne-not a month before the
revolution in Brazil by which his great
uncle. the good Dom Pedro ii, was
forced 10 abdicate, to the
LASTING ILL-FORTUNE
OF the country he had so wisely and
kindly governed, Carlos | was then
about % years old, and he Immediately
married (for loyel one Of the most
beautiful princesses in Europe, Amelie
de Bourbon, daughter OF the Comte de
Paris. Theirs was a happy romance,
rather rare in royal circles, where mar
riages are usually matters OF state ar
rangement. Carlos, then Duke Of Bra
ganza. had been very obstinate, declar-
ing he would choose and WOO a wife for
himself, or he would not wed at all. As
he neared the end OF his teens" an
other and another European princess
was suggested TO him as a suitable
partner; but In vain. Either he de-
clined altogether TO visit the court