Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1906-06-12
LEWISTOWN, MONT, June II, 1906
A BLOODY RECEPTION.

Many American heiresses have
courted royalty and bartered their for
tunes for the sake of title. To marry
count. duke or a lord has been
their controlling ambition. That some
of them have been love matches ami
the marital state a happy one, cannot
be denied But in several cases a
risk was taken at the expense OF
high-sounding name, only to be follow
ed by sorrow and regret. In the mat
ter of nationality, tastes aud habits,
differences arose that could not be
reconciled, while it was found. when
too late, that gilt and tinsel carried
with it multitude of sins.
But if American girls have taken
risks in homogeneous and unnatural
marriages, it remained for an English
girl to surprise the world by consent
ing to become the wife and queen OF
King Alfonso of Spain; the degenerate
scion of a race that has nothing III
common with English-speaking people.
Ambition for power and high station
must have been the controlling mo-
tive with Princess Ena. The Mime
apolis Journal, speaking of her tragic
reception in Madrid, paints a picture
of her care-free life in the past and
makes a horoscope of her future in
which there is great contrast. The
writer says:
~, I'M, Of =, hnt o
had terrible introduction to the
sparkling eminence of queenship.
Born the daughter of younger 'lauSh-
ter Of Queen Victoria she had enjoyed
for the eighteen years of her life all
The privileges of royalty with none of
the disagreeable responsibilities. She
was taught only so much of the ETH
Quette of her station as answered 20
fit her for her purely ornamental po-
sition in society. She saw nothing Of
the world of sorrow, she knew nothing
practically of the deadly dangers which
enmesh a throne. Her uncle, at once
the most popular and most influential
man in his kingdom. Travelled at home
and abroad with apparent safety. Her
mother shopped in the town of London
with the freedom of a lawyers wife.
She herself was no more to the pub
Tic than almost any other school girl
og a noble family. Her comings and
goings We're scarcely noted in the
court guide.
Suddenly she is transported from
this atmosphere of ease and admira-
ton TO Madrid. The throne of the an
cient Escoral is hers but. alas, she
must reach it through blood. The
whole panaroma of life rolls before
her in the horror Of the moment when
she heard the deafening crash of the
bomb and looking from her carriage
windows. beheld the best blood of
Spain literally flowing at her feet.
The crushing weight of sustaining
a role in q dreadful drama is hers.
She has joined the ranks of those who,
however earnestly they may love and
labor, can never cure the ineradcabic
hatred OF monarchical institutions and
iONai persons. IL Wits d ttillott Hoiil''
coming for a bride. Spain is a land
of dark and demoniac passions as we'll
as of stately and austere refinement
Between the hatred of the canaflle
and the Journalism OF the aristocrac!
the frank. engaging but altogether nat
ural English princess stands Sigh
chance OF a happy life. She may liv,
to forget her red wedding day. Sh'
may live to regret that the murdere
did not include her among his helpless
victims"