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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-01-02
AMERICAN WOMEN
NEAR TO THRONES
There Is Not Nobility in the World. Except
ing China's, That Has Not Had Fair
Daughter of United States in 1t.

along with it. She who was known
in the Louisiana metropolis as Miss
Marguerite Alice Heine not only pos
sesses the distinction of being the only
person of New World birth who has
shared a genuine realm with a ruler,
but also is the only Jewess ever legiti-
mately married to a reigning Christian
prince. Her marriage to Prince Albert
of Monaco was not morganatic. For
13 years she was a real not a titular,
princess
Her father was a cousin of Heinrich
Heine, the great German lyric poet,
and her own cousin married nephew
of Napoleon Ills finance minister
She herself, as most of her family, is
not of the Jewish faith As Miss Heine,
daughter of the New Orleans banker,
who. after making his money there, re-
tired to Paris to live, she married Ar
mande Due de Richelieu, who died
Prince Albert of Monaco, the present
prince, who is best klsown for his work
as photographer, had been married
to Lady Mary Hamilton, but she had
secured a divorce. On October 81,
1889, at Paris, he married the widowed
Duchess de Richelieu and the famous
old Grimaldi palace at Monte Carlo
was the scene Of great festivities when
he brought his bride home. The whole
four square miles and a half of the
principality were bedecked with Vene-
tian masts and triumphal arches and a
cantata was performed in the cathedral
in her honor. Such was the reception
of the bride. In 1902 she secured a
judicial separation from the prince and
still enjoys her freedom. The son of
Prince Albert, who is his heir, is not
her son, but the offspring of Lady
Mary Hamilton, now the wife of Count
Tassilo Festetics of Hungary.
A King in ThraIl.
plebeian Ohio woman for years
held a king in thrall and Nine. Musard
is, / believe, the one case of the kind
in the annals of the New World On
the other hand, shameless European
adventuresses who have fascinated
mcnarchs have been many. The story
is now forty or fifty years old. Mario
Musard, a Frenchman of Belgium, was
the leader of an orchestra in Paris in
the heyday of his career. He made
flying trip to this country and took
back with him a wife, who was a ma
tive of a small Ohio town and was
named Eliza Parker. He himself was
at best an adventurer and she his
willing assistant. While he was en-
Baden-Baden he succeeded in throwing
his wide-awake, ambitious and pretty
wife in the way of the austere William
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III of Holland in such a manner as
completely to capture him.
The relations of king and beauty
were for many years a scandal, but
they had made her of independent
means. For one day William Ill drew
from his writing table a package Of old
mortgages on some lands in Pennsyl-
vania and gave them as a souvenir to
the fair Eliza, who, with all her
Haunting of propriety, had a good
head for business. She promptly fore
closed the mortgages and became POS
sessed of some of the richest petro-
leum lands in the world in the days
when kerosene was just beginning to
be recognized as an extremely valua-
bic natural product She thus became
one of the richest women in Europe
All of this happened about 1860. and
Nine. Musard promptly set up an es-
tablishment In Paris without bothering
to separate herself from her legal hus-
band. who forthwith dropDed from
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and after being educated at Frencr
military schools he began to publish a
royalist newspaper in Paris, which
caused his speedy expulsion from the
republic
He had fortune of his own and i'm
agined that he was destined to con
Quer worlds and rule all the CON
quered. Leaving France by govern.
mental invitation he was shipwrecked
on Trinidad and conceived the king
dom he was afterward to establish for
a minute or two. The next year he
married Anna Flagler in the United
States, but marriage, instead of quiet
ing his restless spirit, seemed only to
incite his romantic disposition The
Odysseys he performed were as start
ling as that of Macmillan to Mexico,
which was then fresh. in the minds of
the world, and without any manner of
excuse excepting his own perverse de-
sire he roved over the world, and al
ways encountered adventures that had
no place in the life of nineteenth cen
fury citizen. He should have lived in
the days of the three musqueteers or
earlier in the crusading times to have
been entirely at home with bis period.
Harden-Hickey's End.
1t was in 1894 that he set out in a
yacht with his wife. They were
wrecked off Trinidad, and the baron
set up the government he had planned
six years before. At least he began
along those lines, and got as far as
taking the title of James I. for himself
and awarding that of Queen Anna to
his wife His rule was so short-Hved
that he did not even have opportunity
to get his extrayagant plans out of his
head even onto paper The big island
on the Venezuelan coast was discov-
cred by Columbus on his third voyage,
and for century before King James
proclaimed himself had belonged to
England. At the time it had British
governor and 200, 600 inhabitants. King
James, therefore, speedily encountered
John Bull. and as quickly as the ex-
changes of the Information regarding
his usurpation could be made the
London government dispatched
cruiser to deal with this brand-new
problem of colonial control
King James and Queen Anna, at the
time constituting all the royal govern
ment, were exported to Key West. and
the king died as king for want of
place to rule
Harden-Hickey finally shot himself.
and the baroness brooded over his
death until she became insane and
last summer was committed to Con-
necticut asylum
The present widowed Countess Al
bert Won waIdersee, whose husband
was the famous German field marshal.
is an aunt by marriage to the German
empress She acquired the relation
ship by her previous marriage to
Prince gu Noer-
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sight in an exceedingly obliging man
In Profliaate spIendor.

She purchased a sumptuous hotel.
built palatial stables for her 80 magni-
fcent horses and entertained with sy-
baritic laFishness. Her palace was the
Mecca of high society during the Third
Empire. Her splendor equaled her
profiigacy. At dinner in honor of
the Prince de Chimay she wore dress
embroidered with more than 900
pearls Her stables were marvels of
equine luxury, and tickets of admis-
sion were issued to them as to great
art collections She was accustomed
to giving elaborate breakfasts in them,
at which such notables as Arsene
Houssaye, Theophile Gautier and the
painters Chaplin and Zeim were
guests The table service at these re-
pasts was performed alternately by
three coa1-black negroes and three
white men, all in her own special liv-
cry. Her equipages were more magni-
ficent even than the Empress Euge-
MES. Her entertainments in the
Avenue de lena and at her country
seat, the Chateau de Vfllequiers,
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l.
Va "a delphia Public Led
ger "A Veteran Dip
w w lomat' has this to
say of American
born women who
have shared royal thrones:
The American woman has gone
rywhere and become everything by
marriage. There is not a nobility in
the world, excepting Chinas, but that
has its American woman in it. But
royal families have been of necessity
more exclusive when wives are to be
chosen for their scions and royalty has
generally evinced little prediction for
those outside of equally exalted fam
lilies, even in Europe. On the CONT
nent, in fact, it is practically true that
only those sheep blackened, or at least
sunburned, by the fierce light that
beats upon a throne have married non
royal persons. Those who have made
morganatic but perfectly honorable
marriages, like Grand Duke Michael of
Russia, are very rare
Yet there are now living a countess,
widow of a king whose love for the
Boston girl changed the course of nine
teenth century history; an American
princess who actually shared a throne
or at least a PALACES still alive;
and another, a New Yorker born, is
aunt by marriage of the German en-
press. Prince Leopold of Lippe-B ies-
terfeld, who died few months ago,
nearly lost his principality of Lippe-
Detmold because his grandmother was
a Philadelphia. Feminine citizens of
the United States have reached the
dubious positions of unofficial consort
of king of Holland, wife of throne
less Bonaparte who had to give up his
American spouse to enter royal ranks;
and it was daughter of John H Flag
Ter of New York who was wife of the
first and only king" of Trinidad, the
self-styled James 1. of the island
A Remarkable List.
This is a remarkable list when the
conditions and barriers to be burned
or pushed away are kept in mind. The
mere fact that every royal family is
subject to its own laws by which mes
alliances are viewed in as serious
light as are criminal acts under the
laws of the non-royal is only the
smallest obstacle to be overcome In
most European countries the Sale
law prohibiting the inheritance of the
throne in the female line Is recognized,
and accordingly there is less super
vision of the love affairs Of a princess
than of prince and a corresponding
care in selecting wives for the latter
Even for royalty-albeit youthful-to
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were on superb scale, and enthusiast
tically do bon vivants of that time
recall them, and declare that never
since have their like been seen.
End Comes Suddenly.
When Nine. Musards edifice col
lapsed 1t was with a startling sudden
ness. First the favor of the Dutch
sovereign was lost to her and Europe
was nearly plunged into war thereby.
In 1867 she betrayed her royal lovers
negotiations with Napoleon III. for the
sale of Luxembourg to France. The
king was in need of money. while the
woman was enjoying the height of lux
ury as result of his gift. Luxembourg
was his and he sought to sell, thus VIC
lating the treaty guaranteeing its neu-
trality. In March the treaty of cession
to Napoleon was drawn up. William
confided the contemplated act to his
Egeria. Nine. Musard betrayed the
fact, some SAY to the German ambas-
sador, others to the Marquise de Palva.
The disposition of the sovereignty of
the duchy had been settled 80 years
before by a concert of the powers.
Germany was furious over the plotted
scheme and was was only averted by
the calling of conference in London
which settled Luxemburg's neutrality
and decreed that it should remain in
the possession of the house of Orange
Nassau. Egeria had lost her Numa.
Dies in Asylum.
Nemesis followed hard after The
indiscreet talk of madam lost her royal
friend, but she was wealthy. and one
report had it that she had divulged the
y
in fact. giIded spy in the pay OF Ger
many Her joyful life as the adulated
of all adulators bade fair to last long.
But one night in her box at the opera
she was suddenly seized with a paraly-
tic attack Her left eye was so af-
fected she was never able to open it
again She soon lost her mind: few
months later she became raving ma
MAC and tried to kill Chaplin, the
painter She was shut up in the asy-
lum of DR.. Blanche, the famous spe-
cialist, and died shortly, leaving what
remained of her fortune to her Ameri-
can relatives The parasites who had
lowered about her made on with a
good portion of her money, and 1t is
needless to say that the heirs of the
obliging Musard put In a claim that
had to be fought in the courts. So
ended in oblivion the glittering course
of the fair American who became
queen of society and mistress of roy
atty.
Through the contemporary records
of her meteor-like career Mario Mus
ard plays the part of ghost as he did
in life. It was not even known
whether he was French or Belgian in
origin The nearest an assiduous
American could come to writing his
history so wears ago was the six
words He leads orchestras.. that is
ALL The sentence was written in
1858, when Musard was in New York
and was expected to inaugurate there
Saturday evening masked balls similar
to those which had become SO popular
under his direction at Paris that the
chronicler declared that
Guizot, the then strongest man In
France. might be killed without Great
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-01-02
The Waistcoat Warm.

The pretty little plaided silk waist
coats intended for wear beneath the
Jacket are destined to help through
the cold weather any number of wom-
en- who purchased winter suits early
in the season simply because they
looked smart, forgetting that the natty
coats, slashed away in front and with
only a strap to hold them together
over the chest, are scarcely suited to
a northern winter. The little waist
coats are interlined with chamois and
have satin backs that exactly match
the coat Innings. Some of them are
made with high, snug collars which
fasten in incroyable fashion about the
throat
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tW
!IN!OQ!E.

1t is noticeable feature of the
girdles that they all fasten at the
side.
The American beauty waistcoat
adds a smart touch to a black coat
suit.
1t is fancy Just now to line fun
coats with brocade in the shade of the
skin.
Single buttons at prices current in
jewelry departments are not at all un-
usual
Dog collars come in links of solid
jet or In links studded with cut Jet
beads.
One fad is the employment of black
chiffon with colored cloth and silk
gowns.
Long, full wraps for evening and
afternoon are made of old-fashioned
brocade-
The Russian tiara Is crescent shaped
with tiny outstanding points. It In
worn upright like crown.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-01-02
Feathers on Hat Crowns.

One of the popular devices for TRIM
ming large hats now is to use four
extra thick short plumes. =. stems
of these are well cut off and the
feathers are mounted in the center
of the crown.
They fall to the brim, in an inn
mense cascade quite covering the
crown. There is no other trimming
on the hat.
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defy royalty is no small matter, and
scions of ruling houses like Archduke
Francis Ferdinand of Austria, who sue
cumbed to the charms of a non-royal
woman, must needs be only morgana-
tically married But Princess Hohen-
berg's rendering of the archduke's
heart captive was q comparatively
simple matter she having been lady
in waiting at court and 50 virtually
one of the royal family circle But the
American woman can enjoy no such
advantage if she sets her cap for a
princeling- Women citizens OF the re-
public, thousands of them, have been
years abroad. and only gimpsed an oc-
casio1al royal parsonage
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-01-02
A New Orleans Girl.

all to make New Orleans girl q rul-
ing princess in Monaco Only she
could not endure the dignity long on
account of the prince she had to take
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09
BRIDE. OF GA MELTS:
PARDONS NAUGHTY Bay
Has Husband of 35 Arrested. But
How Can She Resist Those
Eyes2

NEW. YORK. Dec, SO avitaiE
angry did that two months bride
jeanette Hitchcock. siXty-four years
ole, become when her husband little
more than hah her age. took her Eorse
and carriage. that she had him arrest
ed So. there But as she is sixty-four
as aforesaid. and he is thirty-tVe, II
followed that after he had gazed with
large. mournful eyes upon her IN the
Harlem court yesterday she thawed.
softened. melted and forgave.
Miss jeanette Sufferp startled ler-
scy society when she eloped with her
Chauffeur. Frank Hitchcock. and mar
risd him. she owns houses in Ram
sey and Paterson. y. J.. and Suitern,
". Y. and she told reporter yesteI-
day that her fortune was about $500
600 The town OF Suffern got its name
from an ancestor of hers.
In court she told Magistrate House
that when she and her husband were
out driving two weeks ago he abused
the horse She demonstrated Hc
turned his abuse upon her She GOT
out OF tina Carriage aud be drove away
and left her Next day she learned
that he had sold the horse and car
risge. worth $500. for sfe2 That hurt
her feelings SO greatly that sh6 sold
the furniture ia their house ar~No. ~
Lawrence-st. and Hruv ed~tD the Martha
Washn-~ur~ t5tel--s' where she has
lived since.
Ilitcl,aaek- said his vile had present.
cd the horse and carriage tO him
Magistrate House said he didG't think
that q charge OF grand larceny would
hold against her husband Mrs Hitch
cock replied that She didn't care any
how; all She wanted was her team.
Frank doesn't have to work she
said. and ! really don't care If DE
doesn't work | have plenty of money
10 keep him. and am Wiling 30 take
care OF him But | won't stand his
abuse. TN forgive him If he will tell
me where he sold my team Sc that
u'ay buy it back.
Hitchcock gave her the name OF a
horse dealer in Paterson, y J., where
he said he had sold the carriage and
horse, ana agreed 10 accompany hrg
there
III You will do that. dearie she
said, smiling at him, "all will bee for.
given and we'll be happy again
So they -isft-;he court room together.
pyomising--the magistrate thar they
would return and tell him lhl result of
their Paterson trip,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09
BANK STATISTICS SHOW
WAVE OF PROSPERITY IN U. S.
Monetary Commissions Report Says
Total Deposits Are S1S,595, 100000
Credited to 25,C00. 900 Oepostors

WASHINGTON. Dec. 9-lf banking
statistics are true index TO economic
conditions. the people OF the United
Scaro~ arc now enjoying greater
measure or prosperity than ever be
fore
This is the statement Of the Ma
tionai Monetary Commission in the
most comprehensive report ever com.
piled on The condition OF national.
state and other banks Practically
all incorporated banks and large
number az private banks sent in their
statements OF condition on April rs.
1909 The number OF banks report
ing was. National 6.S93; state 1919,
mutual and stock savings LOB; pri-
waite 1.497 and loan and trust com
pauies 1919.
iu round figures the resources OF
these banks reached S2l,10: 90 600
Tie total deposits are S13. ,000 00(
credited 10 over $1,000, 600 depositors
OF whom about one-third have &C
counts in savings banks. The aver
age rate of interest paid by savings
banks is 355 per cent The great
number OF depositors is accounted for
IN Dar, bv the fact that in many in
stances single individuals have de
posts ia several banks.
The banks have loans TO the
amount Of S1l.373. 600 900 and a capital
OF sl.SO0. 900 ,000 The number OF
banks has more than doubled since
1900 Resources show an increase OF
about per cent over 1908 and -
per cent over the amount reported IN
1000 while loans have increased Tor
Der cent i'm nine years, capital stock
has increased - per cent: individual
deposits % per cent and total deposits
~ per cent The average per capita
bank resources for the entire country
s9o- "a
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09

birds over and viii free them In Jose
phine county.
These birds are rated a. among the
finest songsters in the world. They
are about the size OF native American
larks. but are the color OF the wren.
Because Of their splendid voice the
Chinese keep them i'm cages in their
homes
This importation is the second of
Chinese birds to this state. The Mon
golian. Denny or Chinese pheasant was
brought 20 Oregon from china by the
late O. y. Denny OF Portland. who
served as consuLgeneral at Tien-fsn
The birds were liberated here % years
ago and have become the states
greatest game birds.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09

waited II away from there l.i.s
horse which was i'm the barn Ea,
hltched TO the Manager There .l4I
found &C. eating hay but taV uauI
oh. where was It.?
Some local oracles- are COMPARING
this feat 10 the one Of -tivist,. iu
IS that extracted all the nails uup
Bud Oatcake's fourrOOm cottage aua
left the iumber neatly stacked u Uf.
front ward
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09
stunn for is Years

by Indigestion's pangs-ttryiug. many
doctors and 100000 worth OF medicine
in vain. II. =. Ayscue. ~ lngleside
N. c., at last used Dr Kings New
Lie Pits. and writes thcf wholly
nured him. They cure Constipation
Biliousness. Sick Headache. Stomach.
Liver. Kidney and Bowel troubles. At
y. G. Kinsel. Central Drug Co, Gray
& Worcester.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09
OH. YOU TORNADO ,

Freak Wind in Kansas Subtract .
Barn, Leaving One Horse.
ANTHONY. Kas., Dec. 9--They arc
still talking about il, hereahouts. ,adl
latest Harper county tornado. There
was individuality displayed by tina,
tornado, individuality of -tAa-fsft+.-.l
Kansas type
When the funnel.shapcd cloud
swerved down upon jed nalautyrp's
100 acres il discerned a bccti, r.l
barn that was an artistic blot upou
tie landscape. The tornado critically
yanked the barn from its roots AMI
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09
MANCHURIAN LARKS TO SING
IN THE FORESTS OF OREGON
Sweet Singers the Chinese Keep in
Home. First Ever IN America.
10 Sing Next Spring.

PORTLAND, Ore Dec MAN
,aurian larks Will be- liberated in one
con next spring They will be the first
o' the specie. ever brOught 90
America Mrs Fred Il Fisher, wife
of the American consul at Mn
CbNaug Manchuria brought j. OF the
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09

vet had OF this wonderful new means
OF locomotion. When will il dispiace
the two rails IN our streets and or
our railroads? The monorail was one
az the great discoveries OF the year
900
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09

The tallcst people in the world arc
the Patagonians The shortest The Lap
landers.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-09

England The car is 80 feet long and
10 feet wide The photograph shows
the car in actual operation. carrying
full complement of passengers.
This picture fresh from London.
gives the best description We nave
The daily Alaskan., 1909-11-08
.M.-L INSPECT
 ! YUKON RIVER
tsy United Press.J

ST. PAUL. Nov. S-The National Inland waterways commission will send a subcommittee of five mem. bers to Alaska next spring to inyestI- gate and make a report upon the rt- yer transportation facilities. The committe will take the first steamer down the Yukon river from White horse. Senator Piles of Washington and Congressman Stevens of Mime sota will be in the party.
The daily Alaskan., 1909-11-08
CENTRAL BANK 5U5TEM
 WILL CONCENTRATE G0.N
the currency.

the currency.
 If they prove competent the active banl, officers who are to be selected jointly by the boards will serve for life. The policy of the bank is to be left to the board of directors. The present plan is for the central bank to handle all government receipts and disbursements its branches replacing gubtreasuries. It will issue its own Lotes which will be secured by a large reserve of gold and gIlt-edge commercial paper or credit represent ing the actual transmission of busi ness between solvent concerns No loans made or discounts will be ac. cepted on bonds, stocks, realty mort gages or any speculative securities.
 1t is said that it will not be the purpose of the bank to make large profits, but rather provide a reserve of credit strength and support to ma. tlonal banks, any profits that may be made will be divided between the stockholders and the United States treasury.
 Although President Taft and the chairman of the banking and rnan. clal committees of the senate and house are friendly to the scheme the public is admittedly skepticaI The public fears that it will concen, trate money power and give Wall street control of the nations currcn, cy.