Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-17

mers before his marriage. In the carry
years after his marriage he was SO awed
by the acquisition of St1.0O Russian
sabie-lined overcoat that he went straight
way and had his portrait painted By Lee
Fevre.
Little by little he ran up first his per-
sonal expenses. lie paid Sl9.B0 for an
oyercoat lined with sea-otter Then 10 was
a s9e9 pelisse lined with silver fox. At
,he.time these things almost dazed him
And later, when he became habituafed to
great sums. it Was with reckiessness far
from the born rich mans born respect sor
establishment and say:
todsy?'
Thank you. m'lud. yes. MUD, a Marie
Antoinette center table very expensive
you. m lud' -
''A-a-h. send 1t around"
He would sign an acceptance for $4,000
pounds. have the countess countersign It:
and the table would be delivered A couple
or weeks later he would drop Into the place
again.
.A-a.h. Asher. my dear. anything new
Thank you. MUD, I'm quite disturbed.
M iud. Fancy, We absolutely require ?
Marie Antoinette center table TO complete
a collection and cahn't find 1t anywhere
why l possess such table. I Nigh.
let you nave it-for ready money, Asher
Ihank you. m'lud. What would yo,ir
ludship say to 5000 pounds?'
A-a-h. I'll send 1t around
IL was a period on which young J,a.teI-
lane now looks back with horror After
the crash. when 500, 900 out of their $500
600 a year was held back for the paymen,
or debts, Count Boni swore that he woula
rehabiiitata himself.
Back to the Old Town.
In tho department OF the lower Alps. on
the Ferdon river. not far from Diene. there
lies the ancient little town of Castellane.
with Its population of 100 souls The local
Industry is candted fruits The town "a
built round the foot of great rock It's
streets being Irregular and badly built on
the height of the rock Is what remains of
the ancient stronghold of the Castellanes-
who never did anything worth mentioning
in a biographical dictionary between m,
original Boniface de Castellane (the Trou-
badour}, who got his head cut off iu 1857
and the late marshal, who began life as a
Bonaparust. continued as a monarchist and
ended as a Bonapartist again--to the end a
vigorous beater-down of all republicans
To his good town OF Cssteilane young Boui
took his wife and political preceptor'
Ii came out after the mysterious suicide OF
the late nationalist leader. Syveton. that
for some years past he had received So 900
annually from Count Boni de Castellane Il,
this capacity.
The Casteilanes did good In Castellane
They threw money into the little old town
IL was one of the happIest periods OF the
ire or the countess when her curly headed
husband sat mp late at night to study states
manship 1t was no trflins problem he had
set before him. The elections were at
hand Were he to be elected deputy Il must
be as republican. Yet all his sympathies
were aristocratfc. How he succeeded In
charming the constituency may be imagined
when you learn he was elected deputy for
Casteiiane by LASS votes. against 1.6S2 for
Siegfried. the other republican and IT. for
Blanc. the radical-sociaIist
Now I'll show those legislators how 10
wear their frock coatsi" was his first OBJ
servation after taking oath to support the
republic. All the deputies Tor coneressmenN
wear frock coats But what sad affairs
they are. of ancient cut or of no cut enyeI-
op1ng the deputy like black stovepipe-sn
effect ludicrousiy heightened by the depu-
Ties almost universal persistence In wear
Ing plain black broadcloth pants Nor
would they wear fancy vests 1t was not
this sort of independence of the British
| tailor that Count Boni had advocated
Delving Into Politics.
When two years had passed and the
French deputies had fully demonstrated
their indifference to the frock-coated OBJ
ject lesson that was meekly passing to and
fro beneath their eyes. the Count OF Castel-
lane gave them up as a bad Job and turned
his attention to enlightening his fellow
countrymen at large on foreign politics.
He had worked hard with his political
preceptor." In the investigation of the
Syyeton suicide II was shown that the uu-
happy nationalist leader. whose errors were,
of private conduct only, and spent his whole
time during several summers coaching Boni
on his chosen subject. Syveton had been a
university professor He was a man of bril-
liant parts. devoted openly to nationalisn
| suspected of Bonapartism or royalism, or
any ism to upset the present way of things
In France; and if he labored to beat states
manship into the head of his pupil it was
as much to make rich and Influential par
tisan to his ideas as to earn the SIS 600 sal
airy Boni paid him.
What are Count Bonrs politics? Recently
when the republicans of all shades were
called into caucus previous to Falleres
them.
What? Is Castellane a republican," in
qured Juares of Rouvier
so he tells his constituents" replied the
prime minister. Again in the old days
when the aristocratic youth OF Paris
mobbed President Isoubet on the AuteuiI
race track Count Bonf de Castellane es-
capped arrest and slipped through the plot
trial a republican deputy. Yet he had
sooner slipped through than he did a
characteristic thing
A certain Montjarret had long been
Partisan celebrity piqueir or CHIEF
outrfder of the presidential cortege Well
this circus-like parsonage had come to the
Lonbet household as a relic from the dis
play.ioEing regime OF Felix Faure at a mo-
ment when every one was asking himself
If king or emperor were not due suddenly:
and when Baron Christiaui smashed Presi-
dent Loubets high hat MontJarret dramat-
iSSiShcu pOSIltOl as NJ. IOuDet
outrider.
Rescued the Lackey.
For a moment Montjarret had applause
for his devotion to an idea, though but Il
domestic servant; then obscurlty threatened
to engulf him. Count Boni rescued him.
Have you nobly refused to serve the i'm
mende Loubet?' he said to the posing lac
key. Come to me, then, I charge myself
with your And although he had already
more grooms and drivers than his stables
required. he installed Montjarret as his out
rider. Montjarret is still there Most of the
time he sits on an upturned bucket smo...
ing his pipe and waiting-waiting for pay
day to come round, waiting for the king to
come Into his ownl
Meanwhile Count Bonf actually enter
tained a king In the future he NAV look
back on that apotheosis as the most brilliant
moment of his career. 1t was when the
King OF Portugal was having good time In
Paris. In his pink palace Count Boni has
splendid private theater. The palace is
enormous. greater far than 1t appears from
outside. Its monumental stairway, lined
by thirty powdered lackeys when the guests
of a great fete pass down Ii to the theater