New-York tribune., 1907-11-13
-aHu Duke Of Tuscany and therefore an uncle OF
Archduke Henry Ferdinand

-A1N'-uUhe henry Ferdinand
" 0~1>IRlC But LEARNED ARCHDUKE.
Finally there is the ex-Archduke Johns brother.
Archduke Louis Salvador a most learned and ec-
cehulc man. who for a number of years lived at
!ieH' seaside resort few miles from Alex
ai-Aila' uhuer the name of Professor Neufed. with
ms natural children. preserving his incognito in
"e srictest fashion and absolutely declining any
OF the honors due TO his rank either from the
o4icldis or from the public. His principal home is
'he oid monastery of La CartugG, La Palma,
OF the island Of Majorca, which he transformed
INTO an ideal place Like his brother, the ex-Arch-
cuke John, he has always been intensely averse
to the pomp, ceremony and etiquette or court life
ana passionately fond of the sea, and his yacht
Mike has visited many foreign ports usually
der the incognitO name OF Captain Nelndorf. Once
he was shipwrecked on the coast of Morocco and
narrowly escaped falling into the hands of the
warlike tribes that infest the Moorish coast, who
would undoubtedly have carried him and his men
into captivity TO the mountains, TO be held for
ransom or sold into slavery He described the adj
venture in book printed for private circulation
dedicated TO the murdered Empress, and which
have now before me, entitled "Shpwreck; OF. a
Midsummer Nights Dream In it he describes his
yacht "the only place I call my real home
In all my chateaus and residences IN Austria and
Hungary, and my own dear island of
Majorca, feel exactly as if I in hotel.
still, in n jail There is absolutely feeling
of home there" The archduke has published
character. particularly botany. natural history
and geographical research, which have won for
him considerable celebrity in the scientific world
and membership IN the Institute OF France. He
has visited many American port and other
portions of the United States without any sus-
picon being entertained to his identity. He is
not handsome, not distinguished looking
dresses badly and conveys far more the impress
sion of q seafarng or Of student than Of n
prince OF the blood.
KING HAAKON LOSES HIS PREMIER.
King Haakon is losing his Prime Minister Mi
chelsen, who is sometimes described the Bis
marck of Scandinavia" and to whom more than
any one else the King Is indebted for his election
to the Norwegian throne. If the prime minister ia
retiring. It is not because he has lost the confidence
Of his sovereign or as the result OF any parlia-
mentary defeat political crisis. but solely in
| consequence OF his health He is afflicted with
very serious fors of heart disease. and his resig-
nation from office has for months been
urged upon him by his physicians as Indispensable
to the preservation of his life. He has put of
from week to week his retirement. owing to his
anxiety to obtain the international recognition or
the neutrality Of Norway and the guarantee from
the great powers to assist in its preservation
While the fulhlment OF this project has not been
yet officially proclaimed. yet the fact that
NJ. Nicholson is asking King Haakon to release him
from the burden Of office indicates that he has
accomplished his object.
The Importance OF this TO Norway may be gath
cred from the recent uterances OF the Swedish and
Norwegian press For 1t is Sweden more than
of any other country that Norway stands in dread
| Thus, only the other day the leading Stockholm
newspaper, the Mia Dagligt Allehanda' which
represents the party in Office and is supposed TO
express the views OF the government. declared that
/ Sveden's honor was being assailed by Norway to
such an extent by the latters appeals 70 the powers
for the guarantee of her neutrality that the honor
OF Sweden would require the OF force against
Norway, and its military chastsemert The paper
went on to say that the extensive ornaments now
in progress in Sweden for the object Of placing
her in position 10 undertake this task Of chastise-
ment at any moment.
In Norway these utterances. and still more the
| extraordinary military activity in Sweden. have
alarmed the people. and the leading newspaper at
Christania, the "Aften Posten" openly charges the
Swedish government with the intention OF breaking
the Karlstadt treaty. BY invading the neutra! zone
provided for by the latter. and OF forcing a war
upon Norway The paper eXhorts the government
and the people TO keep its powder dry" and TO
respond to the Swedish armanents by strengthen
ing the defences Of the frontier such extent
20 discourage the Swedes from their contemplated
military excursion TO Chrlstiania," which the
Crown Prince OF Sweden threatened on a memora-
bic occasion in a public address ut Stockholm some
wears ago MARQUISE DE FONTENOT