The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-12
SERV|bN BIO()DS
! N PARTISAN LIE
Have Had High Times All
through Ages
ONE NO BETTER THAN REST
6eorgevitch Estate Strained to
Limit Several Times
ONE NO BETTER THAN REST

have chosen for their revolution. the
Partisan life Of members Of their rival
royal houses has some interest. Obreno-
witch, with the Gambling King Milan,
TO head the dynasty. now extinct-Kara-
georgevitch, with the Gambling Prince
Arsene, best known of his now rising
house-Paris has long watched them come
and pass in the changing drama of her
i''Kings in Exile
{ NJ. Delcasse, as minister of foreign
r.falrs, has expressed his opinion that
European Servian has just equalled the
most theatrical revolutions American
Republics In realty the Servians just
show themselves to be ancestors for
another .@ge surviving in the 10Th century.
The INJURED Of their king and queen and
court is like nothing so much as the
slav historical romances of Sienkiewicz.
with tingermarks of blood across the
pages. In Paris II is not the reign of VOL
ence. but that which succeeds it in
Lombrosos theory, which has prevailed
in their royal way of living. The gambling
table and the. race course. shady specula-
tions and money borrowing on historic
assets. are apt to mark the way of all
Adventures of the Balkans. after they
have spent principle and interest of their |
estates which existed majestically along I
the Danube.
Both branches of the Karageorgevitc !
family have long had their Partisan rep !
resentatives. The cider branch, which /
seems to be put calmy aside in the |
present settlement of the crown, consists |
of the Princess George and her two sons. |
Alexis and Bodjar. The dissension in the |
family dates from the usurpation of the !
crown. over the head of the young prince /
Prince George, by his uncle Alexander |
In 1872, when the Karageorgevitches had |
been forced to abandon. The Obrenovitch |
had himself expelled the Karag eorgevitch 4
sovereign in 1917. In 1912 Prince Alexan-
der declared his elder brothers child
George. too young to reign and comfort
ably seated himself on the throne. He sat
on until 1858, when the Obrenvitch came
back triumphantly. Since then Paris has
sheltered the uncrowned family-that is
what was left of it. for tales of seventeen
assassinated Karageorgevitches are told
by it's members, while the counter-assas-
sination of the Obrenovitch king in 1868
has been attributed to them, as will be
the present bloody extinction of their
enemy's race.
! Prince Alexis, whom the present crisis
FINDS hunting the chamois on his estates
in Austria, is the head of the house by
right of primogeniture and has more than
once publicly protested against the pre-
tensions of his cousin Peter, who seems to
have been proclaimed the new king. Per-
haps primogeniture does not count for
much in the. Servian state of society. Bo-
jidar, the younger brother, has an almost
universal reputation of culture from the
memoirs of Marie Bashkirtseff He was
her friend and the devoted pupil of her
master in painting. Bastien Lepage.
Prince Bojidar has a good name of his
own as a decorative artist in leather work
and carved wood With his brother and
mother he has long lived in a modest
house close by the Bots de Boulogne. This
branch of the family has been happily
undistinguished by the sportive habits
which have brought the other before the
public eye.
Peter, the new king, like all of these
Servian princes-Obrenovitch and Kara
alike-has his education in
France He has the Balkan type. straight
long nose large jaws and square chin.
with an angular forehead, jet-black hair I
and fierce mustaches carefully kempt and
eyes blacker still. AS a student he dressed
well, in spite of inhabiting the Latin
Quarter. prepared himself for the military !
school of Sain Cyr as a foreign pupil /
and Issued from it to serve in the French
army during the Franco-Prussian war.
He was on the staff of General Billot
who in the later times was the French
wzr minister OF the Dreyfus affair and he
saw his cousin Prince Cassimir killed be-
fore his eyes ut NinerseNeL
After the war he spent the revenues
of his immense hungarian estates In the
famous resorts all over the continent,
wherever the traditions of princely gamb-
ling were kept UP. He spent much Of his
time in Paris and was very prominent
mamber of the sporting clubs until one
dav the exiled King Miilan-the hated
elected against his pro
test and began 2 classical spending of
Servian revenues over the green table.
Prince Peter at once resigned his member 9
shin and has passed his middle age for
themost part at Geneva and in Russia
directing the education of his two sons.
They have become Russian afficers. like
heir uncle Arsene. younger brother OF I
the new king. ]
yArsene is not often seen by the banks Of I
he Neva and reporters with sure instinct
nave SOUGHT TO md him in the present d
,onjuncture ut the Bar lie Helder. The {
,xuberantly lowering but somewhat faded h
adv who presides as barmaid at this !
thoroughly Partisan. utterly cosmopolitan
md commonly unknown resort. gave IN n
mr., q characteristic answer: The prince p
,,iu not Sc cnvone-therefore be has q
,one 70 the css," Then she added with p
conjunction: only think. he's majesty
md I have thee'd and thou'd him thou
,eing in French the address Of the utmost =
familiarity. As the French also say. the
,arnaid is not likely TO make a sickness =.
II IT Others seem likely 10 recover ;,
,esIth-at least. one coniiding trenchinah ?,
las been seen in search Of The now
oval highaess to remind him OF le-u'
rancs which he had lent him. But this
: the rnerest Partisan gossip. FOR the
Java yeorgevitch estates safe across the ,
rontier in Hungary can hardly have :
vaporated, though their revenues nave .
zen severely strained. Il seems 10 nave
zen a precaution of the original hero
Sara George-Black George-thus 10 pro-
oct his fanily's fortune against the u
,oiitical uncertainties OF their country G
of Ex-Oueen Nataiie-ObreRovtch by
carriage and mother OF the dead king
he Partisan life is limited to her recent u
-. he