New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-04-21


garb. with short golden locks hidden under her
white cOif the work for which her youth Of
obedience, restraint and sorrow had prepared
her. Her father sent her TO the Netherlands to
govern that portion Of Charles's inheritance and
to care for the children in the place Of the IN
happy mother far away in her Spanish prison
Little Ferdinand. the second boy. and the baby
Catalina, remained in Spain. Charles. Eleonore.
Isabel and Marie lived with their aunt at Ma
lines and all their affairs were managed by her
with remarkable ability. She governed inteIi-
gently. unseIfshly and justIy-justly at least in
/ so far as her ever-schemins father. her many
greedy enemies. her proud burghers, and her
often empty purse would let her Fighting was
going on somewhere throughout those early
years Of the sixteenth century. and fighting was
expensive. Macmillan. bent conquest in
many directions but unable to pay for his IN
dertakings. was continually writing for money
to his beloved daughter" the Governor Gen
eral Of the rich Netherlands.
He never could understand why Marguerite
should not induce the burghers OF the Netherlands
/ foreign mercenaries who. when their pay was in
2rTe3r would turn upon Their enployers or 'ly'i
was called The Regent meantime found the great
est difficulty IN raising funds Tor necessafy *
penses for the defence OF the country. aod the
guerilla warfare with Guelderland
| Charles in later years she had asked nothing for
/ her expenses. but had spent her dowTy from
Savoy almost entirely for imperial needs but even
then she could not meet the constant den1nls
rison Of TieI impore the Princess Marguerte 20
pay c Saf or bombed or shiT, on their backs and
have nothing to eat II they have cIoth sem H..
payment for foTsDight they hey Mil b By
! 70 give up the town from poverty
The princess's gentle persistence and quiet
common sense. her biographer reminds US. saved
hT no Ta4t
Emperor MaximiIian not of those who learn
from experience and he was necessarily starting
upon new enterprises with insufficient founda-
ton One Of his plans she pleasantly but de-
| cidedly crushed in the bUd-she would not marry
the English King. Henry VII, nor anybody else
Duchess Of Savoy she remained 10 her hfe's
end. Now and then she administered a gentle
rebuke as when in response to his proposal for
a meeting at Tourney she wrote that she was
willing to ride thither il it is necessary and
will do him service. but it is not proper for a
widow woman to go trotting about and visiting
armies for pleasure
| Eight years Marguerite ruled in the Neither
lands. doing her duty anxiousy and as con-
scientiOusIy as she might She was the tender
est Of mothers to her brothers daughters and
they turned to her all their lives for sympathy
and help. If little Charles achieved greatness
as the Emperor Charles v. something of his
powers he owed. doubt. 70 the training and
example of this devoted aunt At fifteen the
/ boy to his majority ruler of the Neither
lands and the transfer of authority made
with cruel Indifference to Marguerite's feelings
and with equally cruel injustice to her conduct
his regent The author only urge
excuse for Charles's youthful brutality that on
first coming into possession OF a great kingdom
with the world at his feet his bOyish instinct
was TO assert at once his absolute independence OF
/ all petticOat government" Macmillan prompt
" gave his grandson verbal trOuncing and the
youth descended in measure from his high
horse AS he grew older he came to under
stand something of what he owed the princess,
and II was with expressions Of complete con-
fdence and affection that from his seat of gov
eminent in Spain he appointed her to her long
time office of Governor of the Netherlands Her
last political act regent, at the end of eleven
years Of judiCiOuS rule to engineer the
Ladies' Peace at Cambray. She proposed to
Charles that she should meet her old friend.
Louise OF Savoy. mother OF Francis 1 of France,
and make treaty which should stop the war
fare then deSOlating the Continent. Her plan
was fulfilled and it was. with some draw backs.
a fitting close to a life of earnest heIpfulness
and devotion to duty. MargueriteS last days
were spent in her palace at MalineS. She found
many occupations for herself beside the strictly
, feminine ones belonging to the needle. She
accomplished in questions of art and purchased
some of the most famous pictures of her time