New-York tribune., 1908-08-16

classes for while people In Paris accustomed
to the necessities of official courtesy, interna-
tional comfy and court etiquette, will appreci-
ate the obligations imposed upon the President
at Copenhagen and the trick played upon him
by Prince George Of Greece, the masses Of the
Republican voters In France will be tempted
by the portrait Of the Chief Magistrate stand.
ing between a princess of Orleans and a princess
OF Bonaparte to believe the stories ma'iciously
circulated by his political adversaries to the
effect that his head has been turned by the
pliments showered upon him by foreign rulers,
and that he no longer be relied upon to safe
guard the republic against the designs of its
Bonapartist and Orleanist and Royast enemies
AFFRONT TO M FAURE.
OF course it would have been preferable in
many ways that the two princesses In question
should have absented themselves from Copen-
bagen, and, better still, from Denmark, during
the visit of the President, representing as they
do two dynasties engaged in open war upon the
actual government Of France and bent upon its
destruction. Their presence was bound to prove
quite awkward as that of Prince Louis
Bonaparte at ST. Petersburg during the visit of
the late President Faure to the Court of Russia
The prince. who is a younger brother of the
Bonapartist Pretender, and who at the time
commanded the Czarfns's regiment of Lancers of
the Guard, not only refraned in a most pointed
manner from according to the Emperor's visitor
the customary. military courteses but likewise
when he received the Cross of Commander of
the Legion of Honor conferred upon all the
colonels at the head of the guard regiments TAX
ing part IN the review at Tsarskoe- -Seo refused
to accept 1t from the Chief Magistrate of France
and sent it back to him with curt message to
that effect Here, again. 1t would have been
Infinitely better if Prince Louis who Is now, q
retired general of Russian cavalry had absente5
himsef from ST Petersburg during the stav
there or President Faure, instead of remaining
to ahront the latter and to embarrass the Gar
and the two Czarinas.
sometimes awkward rencontres of this kind
are accidental. and therefore unavoidable Two
weeks ago. for instance, Alfonso XII who had
motored from San Sebastian to Biarrftz with his
orother-in-ia"' Prince Ferdinand of Bavaria In
order to do some shopping and make some calls
suddenly found himself face to face on the load
ing square of the town with Don Jaime only
son and heir of Don Carlos, the Carlist Preten
DER and owing to the latter's age. infirmities
and Incidence, now the active chief or +ba ,,t
tant Cariist party, and as such axiIad from,
Spain Neither of them saluted though tba
young King could not forbear a smile which
iichered Ior moment on his mobile features
ana "hen an hour later Alfonso motored back
10 oah oeoastian' he was followed at an interval
Oh ten minutes by Don jaime. who is making his
headquarters at st. Jean de Luz. Just on the
French side of the Spanish frontier so as to be
within easy reach OF his adherents in Spain
The two automobiles were in sight of each
other during most of the trip, and Don Alfonso
is said to have esteemed it fortunate under tbs
circumstances that there breakdown of
MS machine, which would have exposed him to
an offer of assistance from the prince 1vbo 10
endeavoring to deprive him OF his throne
Their meeting at Biarritz a fortnight ago re-
calls one of a similar nature which witnessed
a number Of years ago at Paris 1t was at an
official ball given by Senator Teisseranc de Bort.
Minister Of Commerce, in honor of the various
royal personages at Paris in connection with
the International Exhibition of 1878 The Teis
serancs had the hazest ideas about interns
tional etiquette. and the Protocol or Depart
ment OF Ceremonies OF the French government