New-York tribune., 1905-11-29
HoAxEs OF sovERErGNs

.-.onv the soyereigns who have been hoaxed by
sgsky adventurers posturing as ENJOYS have been
F4peror William. the late Gar and the late King
zumbert In the case of the Kaiser several ma
fvss from the interior Of Africa were, through
s,ne strange mistake, welcomed with official
bonors on their arrival in Germany, and after
ward at Berlin. as ernissaries from one OF the
-nost peverful rnonarchs of Central Africa They
were soiemnly received at court. loaded with pres
s7s and were the guests os honor at grand mill
7.,v review before It suddenly discovered
tAst they had no official mission whatever; that
thev were not dignitaries but were natives OF the
humber class. sent TO Europe In connection with
some showmans enterprise or other. and that a
stg mistake had been made Very quietly they
we're shipped back to Africa
The late King Humbert and the Italian Court
we're IN the same way hoaxed number of years
aso by an alleged Abyssinian dignitary who with
his dusky wife, visited Rome and gave the people
there 10 understand that he intrusted with the
duty Of negotiating treaty Of friendship in behalf
Of the Negus with Italy, acknowledging the latters
suzerainty and accepting her protection. It was
at the time when relations between Abyssinia and
Italy we're exceedingly strained and when the gov
ernment OF the day at Rome the subject Of no
end Of popular obloQuy on account OF having IN
waived the country in adventure in Ethiopia,
from which neither glory nor pIoht but only dis-
aster. loss Of Life and money and ruin were 10 De
derived. The arrival Of the alleged Aeyssinlan
mission at Rome with the announcement OF the
sheet which it had in view. served 10 save the
saministration from overthrow. to help 1t through
most dificuit crisis and TO prolong its existence
Only after the Cabinet had weathered the storm
srd was again in smooth waters was the startling
discovery made that the alleged envoy from Aoys-
sinia was an adventurer with no commission what
sesrer from the Negus and that his dusky female
companion far from being a princess. was Ger
tsinly not qualified by her unsarory antecedents
70 enjoy the honor of presentation at the court
Of Queen Margherita- The precious pair were
quickly bundled out of the country, and TO this
day there are people who believe and who charge
that the fraud perpetrated by the ministers Of
the day at the expense of the Court of the Quiri-
nal and Of the Italian people for the purpose Of
saving the administration from overthrow.
The late Gar was also hoaxed by bogus mission
from Abyssnia-which was aided and abetted by
that rufanly Cossack chief and soldier OF fortune
Ashinoff. for purposes of his own. The trick was
discovered. the emissaries turned out of the coun-
Hy and Ashinof deported to Siberia to repent at
lslsure for his temerity in playing joke upon the
sutoerat of all the Russias.
The Queen Regent of Spain was the victim in
similar manner of an alleged Ambassador from
Morocco the late King OF Portugal of bogus ENJOYS
fum kings of the territories bordering upon his
colonial possessions in Africa, and even the late
Leo XIII was on more than occasion imposed
upon in this fashion: while blackleg scion of the
German noble house OF Sayn Wittgenstein, who has
snes been forced by his disgracefuI conduct to
abandon the name and title which he had inherited
at his birth actually took advantage Of the absence
o. the German Minister Plenipotentiary from Pekng
10 pass himself of there prince Of the reignng
house OF Prussia intrusted with special mission
fson old Emperor William. and received by
ts Chinese authorities with royal honors and
Ehelmed by them with gifts before the sudden
rrar OF the resident German Envoy rendered
nasty fight necessary
HOW EUGENE WAS HoAxED.
Perhaps the most amusing hoax of this kind that
ever took place was that played upon the Empress
Eugenis at the Palace of St. Cloud, with the con-
nYance It must be admitted OF her husband, the
Emperor. The newspapers had been full Of the
impending arrival of a special embassy from the
King Of Burnah and little else discussed by
he Empress and her ladies. One day it was init
mated 10 them thai the embassy had arrived. The
Emperor and Empress had taken their places on
insr thrones VITA the various dgnitaries and
1aoies Of the court ranged about them. The doors
q the farther end of the throne room opened and
ue members Of the embassy appeared. crawling
u al fours and indulging IN the most extraordi-
nay eontortions Suddenly, IN the midst of Of
sae most extravagant antics. the gray beard and
Saeer headdress Of the most venerable member Of
s embassy fell Off disclosing. TO the anlazement
: me Empress. the familiar features Of the Mar
Nss &c Galifet. It long before the Empress
iogaye the Joke thus played upon her by De Gal
adst, the Princes Achine and Joachim and num-
W Of other young officers attached TO the court,
sid when the real embassy arrived from Burnah
sothing in the world could induce her to have any
ahg TO DO with fits reception.
MARQUISE DE FONTENoY.
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