Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1901-12-11

the throne of England, whom he
resembles so closely in appearance,
stature and temperament. They
look enough alike to be brothers, can
wear each others clothing and are
constant orrespondents. The Duke
Of York, you may remember, se-
oretly married the daughter of Vice
Admiral Seymour of the British
navy, when he was an ensign on one
of the ships Of the Mediterranean
fleet, and lived with her openly at
Malta, with the knowledge and ap-
pare atty with the approval of her
father. Nobody interferred with
their domestic happiness until the
death of his elder brother, the Duke
of Clarence, when Edward became
heir presumptive. Such q relation
ship could not be overlooked, as there
is a law forbidding the heir to the
British throne to contract marriage
with a. commoner or marry without
the consent of the sovereign. Simi-
lar laws exist in all monarohies.
Hence the archbishop of Canterbury
and Lord Coleridge, the chief justice,
pronounced divorce, and the young
woman was provided with an ample
fortune. She has since married an
officer in the British army, who went
on the retired list and is now living
in Canada, while her royal husband
and lover married his second cousin,
the fiancee of his dead brother, the
Duchess of Teck.
When Nicholas II was czarowitz,
and about 10 years old, he fell in
love with a ballet girl named Masha,
a daughter of the race which his
father was even then persecuting
with inexorable severity. She came
from q little town near Warsaw, and
danced her way into the imperial
opera house at st. Petersburg, where
she made profound sensation by
her beauty and graces and turned
the heads of all the princes and grand
dukes. She gave herself to the
Prince Imperial, and he was so in
fatuated that he determined 10 marry
her and sacrifice even his title to the
throne. 1t was infrequently reported
that a marriage had actually taken
place over the German frontier. The
czar finally interferred and having
failed to persuade his son to give up
the girl, appealed to her. The result
was a compromise by which both
pledged themselyesnot to complicate
affairs by marriage, provided TREY
were permitted to live as husband
and wife. Masha retired from the
stage and took possession of sumptu-
GUS apartments upon one Of the finest
streets in st. Petersburg. She was
frequently seen with the czarowitz in
the parks, at the opera and other
public places. Everybody knew who
he was, but ho seemed 70 be proud
of her rather than otherwise, and his
devotion was approved by tolerant
public sentiment, which is accus-
toned to such affairs.
Nicholas had been living with the
Jewish dancer for three years, and
she had borne him two children,
when the declining health of his
father made it imperative for the
czarowitz to marry. The sons of
kings and cmperors are trained to
discipline, and usually have a high
appreciation of responsibilities that
rest upon them, 30 he promptly
acquiesced in the plans Of the minis.
try. The young and beautiful
Princess Alix, daughter Of the Grand
Duke of Hesse and the favorite
grandchild Of Queen Victoria, was
selected for his wife, and the Polish
Jewess, with her two children, was
sent to the South of Russia, where
she has since occupied pretty villa,
and is said to have married, or at
least to have. promised to marry, a
young duke.
1t was Queen Victoria who made
the match. But Alix would not give
her consent, and the betrothal did
not take place until she was sum-
moned to the death bed of Alexan-
der III, at Livadia, and there, few
hours before he died, yielded to his
importInities, clasped hands with his