Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-10-10
King Leopold Of Belgium is Happy II
Discover His.
kino Edwards Is Locked Up..Those Of OtheI
Monarchs.


| other equally reliable newspapers
recorded him as seen strollinS along "a
| Paris boulevard. Instead of being an
moved the King has expressed his sat
/ iscaction. realizing henceforth he will
| b.. able to saddle the publisher with all
| the mis,leeds and the moral mdiscre
| ions which are constantly being placed
| ia his record. I'm fact. he has already
taken advantage of the similarity be
tween himself and the publisher to i'm
puta to the latter several motor acct
dents which he has had and of which
| he is heartily ashamed. as he is eX-
| ceedingly Jealous and proud of his
| skin in the mana cement OF his auto
mobile King I.ecpold has been one Of
| tn few European rulers who has until
now been without II double. owing
prohah bly, to his great stature, his re-
| mall,able beard and his amazingly
| long nose.
Nearly every other monarch has been
| blessed or cursed. as the case may be.
with II double. Most of the anointed
of III" I.oid seem IL look upon ii as
great fun. King Edwards double.
however. has had to be locked up. He
| is Baron Alfred Stern, the multi
| millionaire brother of Lord Wands-
worth. and specialists do not hesitate
| to declare that the lunaCy of the baron
| has been to a great extent brought
| about by his having been So frequently
mistaken by strangers for Edward VII
and accorded the. homa &c and tokens OF
respect due 10 the latter Just before
| being paced under restraint he excited
| a considerable disturbance in Pail Mall
az the very height of the season by en-
deavoring To force his way into the
Narlbol rough House. declaring that h"
was lis master and that he had right
| 10 admission into his own palace.
| Owing To his extraordinary resem-
blancc to Edward VII the spectacle
| which he presented struggling in the
hands Of the police threatened al one
moment to result in a riot. some of the
spectators being under the impression
| that ii was their future King in per
son who was being thus roughly
handled and the object Of an outrage.
Baron de Stern is by no means the
only man whose insanity has been
| brought about by his extraordinary
! likeness to a royal parsonage. Thus
| the late cars double was the well
known Copenhagen banker. carsven.
| Flattcred in the first place. by the
comments excited by his amazing re-
| semblance TO the Muscovite autocrat.
| ne set to work To increase it by every
| means in his power, copying the cut Of
| the Emnerors beard. initiating
| A!exanders gestures, and the fun tones
| of his voice, and actually going to the
length Of having the top Of his head
| ~haved III order to ape the Cars bald
| ness. Everything would have been all
| right if matters had stopped there Eut
| the banker ended with becoming 50
| thoroughly impued with the idea tina;
| ne was not the Emperor's double. but
| the Emperor himself that he grew
| convinced that he was in danger OF
assassination by the Nihilists. and that
| The latter We're plotting by night and
| by day to take his life. He became
| afflicted with the persecution mania.
| and after attempting suicide. with the
| object, as he declared. of escaping the
| nitro glyccrine bombs with which he
| ina Gined he was threatened. he had
| finally to be locked up as hopelessly
| insane.
IitSluent IsbuDtt mas MS double,
| who, fortunately. only spends part Of
| the year at Paris, and lives the re-
/ mainder of the time at Il little country
place near Rouen. He is retired
manufacturer. who has made a fortune
| in gloves.
Emeperor Napoeon's double was old
| Father Godillot, the well-known mill
| tary contractor. who was the exact
| counterpart of the monarch. for whom
he used continually to be taken. all the
| more as he got into the way of mitat-
| ing all his Sovereign's mannerisms,
such as the dropping of the eyelids.
the strokng of the heavy mustache.
and. above all. the peculiar waddling
walk
People We're never tired of making fun
Of this resemblance. and whenever the
imperial government perpetrated any
piece of policy that the public considered
as a mistake. they would insist that the
fault was due. not to Napoleon. but to
| Godillot, on the ground that whenever
| the Emperor felt too bored to attend thu
council OF ministers he would send Godi,-
| lot to take his place. the likeness being So
strong that the ministers would never
know the difference.
On several occasions however Godillot
got the Emperor into very serious trou-
bic. as for instance. when he allowed him
sell To be persuaded to attend a dinner
given by the Infamous Maru,Iise de Paiva.
who was at that time the queen of th,,
half world in the French capital and =
German government spy and who died
as Countess of Henckel DOnnersmarck
The people who had persuaded GodillOt
to attend the dinner were bent on com
promising the Emperor Quite Il number
Of newspaper men had been warned that
the Emperor was going TO dine there and
when they saw Godiliot entering thcy
naturally believed the thing to be trIe
and circulated the news far and wide.
| me tale being generally believed. and do
ing the Emperor no end of harm besides
getting him into much trouble with the
Empress In fact. there are people who
beheve to this day that it was Napoleon
himseif who dined with Nine de Paiya.
ana mat the statement which GodiIlot
had published over his signature i'm most
OF the Partisan newspapers to the effcct
that 1t was he who had been the woman's
guest that evening, had been written
S either because ne was forced to do it, or
because he was really anxious TO get the
emperor out of trouble at me expense of
his own reputation.
Just before Godillots death q. Mic,
the late Queen Victoria visited his mag
nihcent hot houses and flowers there IN
comment being made i'm his presence ms ia
the graciousness displayed by the Queen,
ne replied: Oh you see, she cotIian't
help IT. she was continually taking M.
far th..