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New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
HARD TO GET GUARANTEE FUND.

IN the mean time the 100000 guarantee fund is
coming persons think that it will never
come at all. Denver is normally Republican city
Practically all the weather. citizens, the banks the
aree corporations. the public service institutions
ire in the Republican fold It is from these that
he bulk OF the subscriptions TO the fund came
Now the history of the fund is amusing 1t was
started by ex-senator Patterson, leader OF the State
Democracy The bait held out was that the fund
should be raised simply guarantee that Denver
could take care of the expenses Of the Republican
National Convention. The great friendship of the
present administration for the West was pointed
oui, ana the argument advanced that if Denver
came through with the guarantee fund, the Repub-
lican convention with all its attendants OF prosper
ity and wealth. would come this way and leave be-
hind it e solid residuun of investments. all of
which would rebound the lasting wealth and
prosperity Of Denver and Colorado Little or
nothing was said about getting the Democratic
convention, except that possibly if the Republican
gathering came here the Democrats might follow
50 the guarantee fund was raised, na4aiy by Re
publican pledges
No one on the inside seriously thought that me
Republican party would West. When he
Denver proposition turned down most OF
the subscribers dismissed the subject from sheir
Hsinos. They had done their patriotic duty by the
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
acterized by romantic circumstances which have
not reached the ears of the general public.
ADOPTS A FOUNDING.

Thus on the eve of the marriage of the Duke
of San Fernando to one of the royal nieces OF
King Ferdinand. at Madrid in the early part OF
the last century hammer bearing the name
and address of the duke md containing a little
bov few months old was found in one of the
gateWays of his palace. The duke, realizing the
impression that would be created in the mind of
hissbride if the story reached her ears from
other lips than his own, at once informed her of
the affair Fortunately for the baby, the
princess was a kind hearted woman She chose
to regard it a mascot destined to bring hap
pness to her married life and decided 10 adopt
the little fellow. AS her union proved childless,
she and the duke by degrees came TO look upon
the founding as their own son and had him edu-
Gated as such at Madrid and at Paris along
with other young Spanards of high degree.
Moreover they left him their entire fortune,
which he in turn his death few years ago,
beoueathed TO the present King. He used to go
bv the name of Don Alessandro Soler. He was
not a srandee. and accordingly had no recog-
nized position at court He was not even a
hdalgo-nothing. in point of law, but found
ling yet ne was honored and welcome guest
in all the grandest houses of the Spanish aris-
tocracy was admitted TO the most exclusive
coteres at Madrid. and was on footing of
equality with the haughtiest descendants of the
ancient nobility of CASTLE and of Arragon. His
pronounced Bourbon features and the regard
manifested for him by the late Queen Isabella,
and indeed. by the entire Royal House of Spain.
gave rise to a story that he was the offspring of
secret marriage contracted in Italy by Old
Queen Christina with young Englishman of
the name of Ward before her union to King
Ferdinand This in measure con-
firmed when Don Alessandro bequeathed all his
fortune the present King, who was not en-
abed to secure possession thereof until there
had been some litigation Nothing definite,
however. in regard to the origin of Don Ales
sandro was ever known beyond the fact that he
had been adopted as a founding by the Duke
of San Ferna ndo and by his royal duchess.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

Board Of Aldermen have to pass special a2pro-
priaticn to pay his fare.
Prices to be kept normal with club IL neees-
sary Denverites realize that the sacred honor OF
our fair city, is at stake Those who want TO
charge boom prices for ham sandwiches, billiard
table sleeping quarters or hacks will be persuaded
that there less obvious ways Of getting the
coin. The programme of outside entertainment mas
net yet been decided There are some VINO
think that the show at the convention hall VIII De
enough. An enterprsing railroad company mas
promised to bring trainoad of real snow from
neghborlng mountain each morning to keep down
the temperature if things should warm UP between
Cleveland and Bryan
1t is impossible that young tornado will be
provided for the visitors There was one in lsb at
about the date the convention will be held. 1t
picked up half dozen sxty-foot trolley ears anu
stood them end The tornado finally ended aiter
it had struck the grandstand at the baseball park
''We'll have 10 lay in supply of dollar bills for
the Eastern delegation remarked one of the re-
ception committee at the Denver Club the othef
day.
What fer?" asked his guest, Brooklynite
You people from the effete East are not used to
silver dollars" replied the Denver man.
Don't you believe we're not" said the man from
Brooklyn a. You forget, sir that we've had
panic, in which there were days when we'd have
been glad enough TO take copper money Silver
dollars pass without question in Brooklyn and
Manhattan, and you won't find the delegates KICK
ing that score"
Well I relieved to hear it,, said the
committeeman ''Therell be trouble getting sill
dollars, for have United States mint right
inside the city limits
Not the least interesting part of the Denver
show will be the boomers from Boulder, Colorado
Springs and Cripple Creek, who will probably in
sist being sideshew despite the frowns OF
real Denvertes. They will have all sorts of argu-
ments why the delegates from the East should
least take look at their beautiful home towns.
The pixies Peak Bust man will be on hand
with his personally conducted tours and delegates
who don't find the convention sufficiently up IN
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
DEATH FOLLOWS RECONCILIATION.

On the following morning the archduke was
seized with a violent attack of Illness and on
the evening of the same day his wife, who had
lust been created the Baroness Waideck by the
Emperor was also Frustrated by sudden sick
ness believed to have been ptOmaine poisoning
The sufferings of the archduke and OF the new
baroness were very brief. and on the following
evening they succumbed. within an hour OF each
other. leaving their only child. Marie. an orphan
and alone in the hotel The suddenness OF her
parents death and the loneliness OF the young
girl, who was without any relatives her
mothers side and whose bereavement was rem
dered doubly cruel by the fact that il occurred
at the very moment when brighter prospects
seemed to be opening up for the little family
after their many years of banishment and OF
financial stress aroused universal sympathy.
nowhere more than among her imperial kins-
folk Archduke and Archduchess Rainer. who
are childIess at once came forward. took charge
of the girl. and adopted her. the Emperor con-
ferring upon her the title Of countess in her own
right A few years later she contracted. with
the consent OF the Emperor and OF her adaptive
parents, a marriage with the eldest son of the
Duke della Grazzia, who abandoned to his son
on that occasion his second title of Prince
Campofranco.
In fact. adop-iOns of children by princes and
princesses of the blood are far more frequent
than is generally known often romance plays
a considerable part in them, sometimes dramatic
and even tragic. There cases in which the
adoption may be regarded effort to repair
a wrong perpetrated by others and an attempt
to brighten the lot of those who seem born 10
be the innocent victims of fate But this inter
ference with the course of destiny is not always
attended with success Sometimes IL gives riss
to unattainable ambitions. the disappointment
of which results in bitterness. anmOsity and the
rankest ingratitude. In fact. II was only the
other day when woman who had been brought
up by royal princess in Germany. and Of whom
her benefactress had been forced to get rid on
account of her behavior, actually instituted legal
proceedings against the princess on the ground
that the latter had not fulfilled her announced
intentions Of bestowing upon her prOtegee the
larger part of her fortune EX-ATTACHE.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
LUCKY WARDS
OF ROYALTY.
WHO SOMETIMES THROW
GOOD FORTUNE AWAY.
Odd Reasons That Move Regal Folk
to Play the Benign Part OF
Fairy Godparents.

Copyright 1905. the Brentwood Company All riEhts
Teserved}
English newspapers have been extolling the
good fortune of a young girl of the name or
Alice Steele who an inmate of the village home
at Alderstone founded in memory of the late
Princess Mary of Cambridge, Duchess of Teck
attracted the attention of the latter's daughter,
the Princess of Wales. So great is the interest
which England's future queen has conceived for
the girl that she has removed her from the in
stitution has sent her to excellent school and
has promised to make permanent provision Tor
her welfare. That the sympathy of the princess
for the girl is of mere ephemeral character
is shown by the fact that il originated several
years ago. and that was so pronounced as TO
lead the consort of the heir apparent to send
presents to Alice Steele all the way from India
during the winter that the prince and princess
spent there. The English newspapers write
about the affair, which they call an adoption,
as if it were an unusual and even unique oc-
currence This is far from being the case. The
annals of royalty contain scores Of other in
stances of the same kind, many of them char
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05

with the latter at court. Indeed. the young
archduchess and Princess Aglae Auersperg were
always together, and cannot recall any photo-
graph of the archduchess as child or as a
young girl without the princess figuring beside
her Princess Aglae is now happily married to
Count Ferdinand Knsky, Master of the Horse
Privy Councillor and Chamberlain to the En-
peror She has almost as large family of chill
dren as her imperial friend and foster sister.
and that the affectionate intimacy between them
still subsists is shown by the fact that whereas
one of the girls bears the name of Marie Valerie
onesof the boys is called Rudolph. in memory OF
the Ill fated and sincerely lamented Crown
Prince. Let add that younger brother of
Princess Aglae, namely, Prince Francis or
Auersperg. makes his home in New York, where
he is practising physician, and is married to
an American girl Miss Florence Hazard. daugh
ter of a wholesale grocer, who has made for
tune by the manufacture of a popular sauce.
Russia's reigning Czarina has assumed the
responsibility for the education, welfare and
future of several young people. Some of them
are children of officers who lost their lives either
in the recent war with Japan or else at the
hands of the revolutionists. Perhaps the most
interesting of all these proteges of the younger
of the two empresses is her morganatic brother
1t may be remembered that her father the late
rnorganatic marriage at Darmstadt with the
divorced wife of a Russian diplomat of the name
of Koomine, the lady being by birth a Countess
Kapnist. The grand duke was forced by Queen
Victoria Cthe mother Of his first wife) and by
other of his relatives. including the late Emperor
and Empress Frederick and old Emperor Will
lam, TO abandon his bride soon as they
learned of the marriage, that is to say within
forty-eight hours of its taking place. Queen
Victoria, indeed who happened TO be at DARN
stadt at the time, carried the grand duke off to
England, to prevent his seeing Nine. de
Kolomine again. Three months afterward the
union was dissolved by the German courts. the
lady receiving an annuity of $4,000 year and
the title of Countess of Romrod- At the end
of the year she gave birth 10 son of whom
the grand duke the father. and of whose
welfare and future the Czarina has assumed
charge since she has been in Russia
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
BUFFALO SLAUGHTER.

Much the Indians indebted to the shaggy
wild OK the white mans debt is scarcely less
From the day when COrtez and his first
the buffalo in the menagerie of King Montezuma.
nearly four hundred years ago. that debt has
been growing. Thousands upon thousands OF the
early settlers of our country. and of those who
crossed the plains before the DAYS OF the railroad
were saved from bitter hardship. and in cases
from death itself by the food. clothing and fuel
provided by the vast herds whose range covered
one-third of the entire continent Of North Amer
ica and extended from the Great Slave Lake
Mexico and from Western New York to beyond
the Great Divide
And how have We repaid debit No good
American can hear the answer without feeling
OF shame. As soon as the great transcontinentsf
railroads were opened and gave easy access to the
plains we permitted hordes of men. many OF them
from the lower strata of society. to the
ranges, and by a series of massacres never
equaIIed by any people since the world began to
reduce a race of splendid animals. numbering sew
era millions. handful so ptifully small that
for a time it thought to be practically extinct
The barbarous brutality practised in accomplish
ing the final slaughter is almost beyond belief
When the buffaloes had from long persecution.
become extremely difficult to approach, the hunt
ers kept fires blazing all night along the river
banks and guarded every water hole. well know
ing that sooner or later the tortured creatures
would be driven to face the deadly rifles in
desperate effort to slake their thirst. And when.
after Drawing whitening fire. the last gaunt REM
nant stood to their bellies in the water. fercey
sucking in their last long draft. they wers
shot where they stood. and the firing ceased only
when there was nothing more to shoot Now.
when we remember what the buffalo meant TO
men whose memories we revere-to such men as
Peter Kahn and Mark Catesby. to Daniel Boone
and Davy Crockett. to Lewis and Clark, to Georss
Catlin and John James Audubon. the mention or
their names makes US blush for very shame
Country Life in America
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
A MILE ABOVE SEA LEVEL.

r,en,er * particuarly proud of the fact that she
& 9.a feet above sea level. and the Democrauc
Convention will find itself higher in the air 1han
.,-er before whether il renoTninates Nlllaih sen
-;,..e F,rvau or not But lurking in TINS ht'le
-,-.e~ of altitude is a sad blow for the eonViVla
t-as,er,,ers to whom a national convention Is an
occa sion for celebration
Il can't drink here like / could IN the East 10
,,,nla int which DenNerites have heard uhi 'iieS
,-e -ire0 There is something more than theoI! vi
llu-io,, in the declaration A highban in Denver
= rHc equivalent of three or four IN East 18Th
s-resr A ouart of wine will 10 twice as many
heads i'm the cafe of the Brown Palace Ho'ei @s
Il, will ia a Tammany saloon in New YORK
The altitude is likewise hard on mNeueia'e
smokers They have TO cut their daily consump
,for 81 cigars in half they will find themselves
,orpling over in dead faints or going to the hospi
4al with over stimulated hearts
The altitude is also blamed for spirit of unrest
ro4,nd the mummy Of a cliff dweler in Mancos
canyon and took it 10 Denver for exhibition in the
STATE Museum which occupies part of the Capt.
,al Building. After a nights the mummy ap-
,,srentiv grew tired OF sleeping on her back and
turned over on her side. This strange turning in
the Tnur77rnys long sleep occurred within locked
.1ass case and has never been explained.
II j. soberly admitted that so far as things 10
cat and rlsces 20 sleep concerned Denver can
NOT heeir 70 take care of the crowd The only con-
ISOLATION done" that is being handed out by the
neonle who brought the convention TO the city is
hat il won't be much of crowd anyhow, as the
nomination of Bryan is almost a certainty, and
few will care TO pay fares so far West to whoop ii
IN for 2 man whose nomination is always the prel-
r7e 70 2 Democratic funeral.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
HOUSES MAY EoT WELCOME GUESTS.

0enyAr has taken care of other conventions as
large as the Democratic National Convention is
likely TO be-the Grand Army of the Republic and
the Elks. for example-but a very large part OF
the numbers represented by these gatherings were
the wives and daughters Of the delegates and visi-
tors. Only few of them found accommodations in
the hotels and the rest apportoned to private
houses Now, il is one thing to open ones house
to d Grand Army veteran and something entirely
different to show the hospitality to bunch
Of TaInmany braves or members of the Cock County
Democracy. with their attendant 'jags" Besides
this Of all that came to the other conventions. only
d small proportion actually interested in the
formal proceedings and the rest came along to
have a good time, visit around and swell the great
paTades- SO that, by running breakfast from $50
until Il: dinner from II until $3.50, and supper
from until g. the hotels and restaurants were
able to feed all the mutitudes. But if the
1ion is to have any time for proceedings at all
there must be more regular meal hours.
Apart from the regular business. Denver has
transient hotel accommodations for about four
thousand persons. The restaurants and boarding
houses can take oc about many more. 1t
is estimated that fifteen thousand persons will be
brought here directly indirectly by the conven-
lion. Where VIII they eat ana sleep?
Il has been suggested that the Democratic lead
srs plan convention that viii be so exciting that
will want TO sleep. Denver entertained the
Eks without trouble, but they did not come to
Denver sleep
IN the gambling houses and saloons, say the
wide open element, what good Democrat cares
whether he is asleep or awake when he can get
next 10 a game? What Bourbon desires mere eating
when there liquors, with free lunch accom-
panmentg
II is admitted, of course. that the present gam
bling accommodations of the city will be wholly
inadequate TO the pressure. One group of 'cap-
talists," therefore, is arranging for mammoth
raeetrack and meet, with bookmaking auxiliary,
of course. Another bunch plans a temporary casino
outskirts OF the city which will leave Monte
Carlo somewhat IN the shade. The rivalry between
The various elements is already growing bitter.
Just the other day two leading exponents Of
Democratic thought to blows in the street
after an exchange of bilIingsgate, which grew out
Of q dispute which should have the main pull
with the big racetrack.
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
CHASED ELEPHANT,
CAUGHT JACKASS.
HOW WILL DENVER GET
HER 100000 BACK?
Plans for Separating Democratic
National Contention Delegates
from Their Moneu.

Denver. Jan. 4 Ospeciar.-Or Dad Peters's house
Was next the track. Twenty trains a day went
by, and behind every train. yelpng, barking. snap
ping his feeth, Peters's brindle dog And I'm
s-wondering." said Peters. what thet durn fool
dawg would do IL he was ketch of them
trains
This well worn tale illustrates just how Denver
feels to-day having captured" the Democratic
National Convention at cost of S0o,eeo The city
whole did not want the Democratic convention
Il did want the Republican one. The party of
hunters with the see.ceo ammunition bag which
went cunning had promised to bring back the ele-
phant. and nov that its booty turns out to be the
decrepit jackass enthusiasm is hard TO find
The only persons here who really joyful are
the gamblers and the saioonkeepers- Denver has a
Democratic city administration, and the town has
been wide open" for many years. Lately senti-
ment has been growing in favor OF more ciVliized
conditions. but with the national Tom Taggart
party coming IL is argued that the only way 10 get
that $4,000 back will be through ue N~iious
games and the saloons.
r,erz-er is further West than the Democrats have
ever gone before. and the Tammany braves OF
Gotham probably have not yet awakened TO d rear
.zation of iust what il means Nhen lhey lefih
ne nrice OF a railroad ticket from Broadway 10
Denver they are gong 'o s"4i'A "
shock. -
The Democrats have frequently come part way
KTest and the delegates rather enjoyed the tip
INTO new lands That however. was IN the Gays
of railroad passes. Even the leaders, unless they
are lucky enough be railroad presidents-aho
,,cst railroad presidents are Repubcans-wfii have
TO tav fare this year, thanks to the activity Oh 'e
Interstate Commerce Commission
Viii, .rusades against honest graft under way
in al paris Of the country politics mas NOT peel
as profitable the last four years as in the eoou on,
eaxe The Democratic politicians are particularly
tard IN and already urgent appeals nave peel
made 10 The Denver committee 10 force the ran
roads 10 put the the lowest possible no'ch-
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
AN UNGRATEFUL WARD.

Empress Elizabeth of Austria adopted two lit
tie girls in their early childhood. one of them
was her own niece. daughter of Duke Louis of
Bavaria by his morganatic wife. the actress
Henrietta Mendel The latter had received on
her marriage the title of Baroness Waliersee
and this was accorded also to the child whom
she. bore 10 the duke and who was christened
Marie Marie Won Waersee brought up
exclusively by her aunt. the Empress. at the
court Of Austria, and there il doubt that ct
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
SOME VERBS OF ACTIVE MOTION.

What does Beat itH mean?" asked the man or
an inquiring frame of mind OF his well informed
friend
Why was the reply, that means to go, de-
part be of take your leave, and don't be slow
about it. I don't know what IL came from unless
il is a bit of polcemen's slang for Get or my
beatr or Clear out unless you want me to beat
your
Il am reminded OF line in Of Dr. Oliver
Wendell Holiness amusing poems. scattered
through the pages OF his delightful 'Autocrat Of
the Breakfast Table, II runs:
Departi BE ori Excedsi
Eyadei Evampl
but it takes Latin scholar to discover tne derfva-
tions of all his verbs Of notion
There is a story of a Frenchman who on his
way to England was made the victim OF practical
Joke in regard to the verb CO. whose went,
going gone irregular enough. goodness
knowst He was found be struggling with this
variation: L go; thou departest; he clears out; we
cut stick; you make tracks; they absquatulate.
and as ne read it he exclaimed: Mon Diea! what
irregular verbs you have In your English LAM
guager''
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
air. can readily be accommodated on the

the air. can readily be accommodated on the
mountain railway.
Denver is city of about two hundred thou
sand inhabitants and the people are asking them
selves what their city is going to get for her
s100O00
Investors?
People who appreciate the beautiful?
Tourists?
Or simply a selfish horde OF politicians, who will
remember nothing of Denver except the awful
head the next morning and the long search to get
a billiard table TO sleep upon?
New-York tribune., 1908-01-05
SELF-iNTERESE.

real estate firm had lots fer sale in a new . SUB
Ivss writing the advertisements siOquence towins
fron, mis- pen He urged intending purchasers tc
seize the passing moment - -.
Napoleon not only met the opportunity ne Gro
ated it, -. = 49,, s.,u-,,,.
The senior partner read thS Hhe IN INC aU'0ANA'
TaeDt slowly and carefully
This fellow Napoleon he observed. ouizzlcany
whats the of advertising nm Win out
money g''-BostOn Post