Arizona republican., 1900-09-04

of Bavaria and his cousin, Sophie, dur ing the early days of their engagement When the king was led by the disg. ace fuI c0nspiracy Of one of the court io tilt his fair cousin in so sensational a manner. he not only smashed with his own hanG the exquisite marble bust which he had caused to be made of her by the leading sculptor of the day, but likewise moved heaven and earth to secure all of the photographs taken of her and himself together as an afIi- anced couple.
 Equally highly plized by the collect ors of these "caued-in" portraits of royalty is the one showing the crown prince Ferdinand of Roumania tend IT, ly ci5sping the hand of Helen Vaca.es- GU, the maid Of honor to his aunt. the queen of Roumania. and whom he wa about to marry when the engagement was broken off by the king of the Rou- manian government. which eXilzd the woman. threatened Ferdinand with the forfeiture of his succession to the throne, and sent Queen Elizabeth. who had encouraged the attachment b. tween her maid cf honor and the crown prince, t0 Germany. where she spent q couple of years under the care of her brother. the prince of Weld.
 Everybody knows too, the trouble which the late Prince Bismarck took tu secure the supprg- -sign of the photo graph in which h. appeared with the actress Pauline Lucca. taken at Gas tCin, and which vas q source of no end of annoyance to himself and family.
 
 With regard to the present bank ruptcy of Lord SuGeley. with liabiIi- ties to the tune of half million dol lars. il may be remembered that he had already failed once before. some sev1 r years ago. On that occasion. however, his insolvency was more eXcusablc than in the present instance for he b. can involved in ruin in an effort 10 help the great Auglo-Spanish banking house of Murrietta to tide over their difficulties and tO staVe off the ruin by which they were .,imately Ov6rtaken. There is an impression in London that if Lord Sudeley came to the rescue of the Murriettas he did 90 at the in stance of the Prince of Wales. who was very fond of them. Their beautiful house, by the way. in Carlton Housa terrace. is now the property of William Waldorf Astor. At any rate when Lord Sudeley failed seven years ago he was an object of almost universal smyp1- thy which was still further strength ened by the knowledge that his wife had she wished to do so, could have spared him the disgrace of bankrupt cy, as she is one of the very richest women in her own right. in England. In fact. few months before the bank rup,cy. Lady Sudc'ey inherited from her aunt, old Mrs. Tollomache, an in- come of $250C00 per annum. while 2 year previously sh. had inherited from an uncle property to the amount of S GOO 900.
 Lord Sudeley's present financial en- barrasments are due to stock exchange speculations and to his connection with a number of more or less unfortunate and questionable companies in the city. Indeed, the only enterprs Sc in which he eVer. achieved success in that in connection with the manufactu e of jam. He used to turn out over a thousand tons of jam. .-the so-called Beach" glass jar brand-evcry year. the fruits being grown on his Glouces- tershire estates. But he ias long since of all his jam enterprises to g company, and his interest in the un- dertakings has cassd.-Marqu!se de Font roy in Washington Post.