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Tsarskoe-Selo, refused to accept it from
the Chief Magistrate of France, anG
sent it back to him with a curt mes
sage to that effect. Here, again, il
would have beer infinitely better il
Prince Louis, who is now retired gen
eral of Russian cavalry, had absented
himself from st. Petersburg during the
STAY there of President Faure, instead
of remaining to affront 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 in.
stance, Alfonso XII, who had motored
| from San Sebastian to Biarritz with
his brother-in-law, Prince Ferdinand of
Bavaria. in order TO do some shopping
and make some calls, suddenly found
| himself face to face on the leading
square of the town with Don Jaime,
only son and heir of Don Carlos, the
Carlist Pretender, and, owing to the
latter s age, infrmities and Incidence,
now the active chief of the militant
Carlist party, and as such exiled from
Spain Neither of them saluted, though
the young King could not forbear a
smile, which fickered for moment on
his mobile features. And when an hour
later Alfonso motored back to San
Sebastian, he was followed at an inter
val of 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 the circumstances that
there was no breakdown of his machine,
which would have exposed him to an
offer of assistance from the prince, who
is endeavoring to deprive him of his
throne.
Their meeting at Biarritz fortnight
ago. recalls one of a similar nature
which I witnessed number of years
ago at Paris. 1t was at an official ball
given by Senator Teisseranc de Bort,
of Commerce, in honor of the
various royal personages at Paris IN
with the International EX-
hibitiOn of 1873. The Teisserancs had
the haziest ideas about international
etiquette, and the Protocol or Depart |
ment of Ceremonies of the French gov
eminent i'm those days had far from at
tanned its present degree of experience
and perfection. The invitations were |
sent out without any regard as to the /
feelings of the invited guests toward |
,ne another, and thus it happened that |
1t one moment there were assembled |
in the great ballroom old Queen Isa-
bella of Spain, her husband, King |
Francis, from whom she was separated; /
Don Carlos, the Spanish Pretender, and |
he late Duke of Aosta, who Gather of |
he Duke of the Abruzzi), had few
years previously been forced by Bour.
BON Vaccinations at Madrid to abdi-
.ate the throne of Spain, to which he
lad been elected in 1870. As soon as
hey had all become aware of one an
,ther s presence, Don Carlos and King
Francis each hastily withdrew in diff
'erent directions, betraying evidence
# the utmost embarrassment to the
many eyes that We're watching them.
But ex-King Amadeus, who was the
most chivalrous hammered of men,
rossed the room to where Queen Isa-
,ella was sitting, bowling low, begged
cave to present his homage to her,
lissed the hand which she extended to
lin, and then in response to her invi+
alton seated himself by her side, and
in friendly conversation. He
gain kissed her hand on retiring, and
amidst a quiet murmur eff
appreciation on the part of the French
md foreign dignitaries present, caused