Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-12-08

That law excludes the Due dor
leans as head of the younger branch
Of the Bourbons, Prince Victor as
chief of the Napoleonic house, and
Don Jaime as claimant of the old "a
Bourbon or legitimist line. IN
Don Jaime, now duke of Madrid, ME-
means business as far as the throne W M
of Spain is concerned. Though he MM
looks upon his claim to the throne of W SEa
France as being more historical than M Ms%S
practical, still the fact that he has
been proclaimed officially the head ~:
Of the legitimist line brings him I'M VIZ W
der the law of exclusion. NJ "a
The expulsion of his father by Ma W.
poleon III. has bearing upon the N
case OF the present claimant Hitler >N
to law of expulsion has not been
able to keep him out of Spain, with
er he has gone whenever he pleased
Very different from the old Bour- b/
bons, whose motto was mo compro- cON,
mise and no surrender" is this pro- W. -
gressive prince and popular military
man. Even the veteran republican
Henri Rochefort, speaks of him as being very
liberal and entirely Of the twentieth century
Since his fathers followers have pro
claimed Don jaime their chief the Carlists
have taken on a new life and under exist
ing conditions in the peninsula he NAV soor
find himself seated on the throne for which
his father and his grandfather vainly took tn,
field. 1t Is interesting to note in this connec
ton that Count Urban de Maille, president O
the Carlist society of Paris, offered dukedon
to Boston merchant in consideration O
financial aid for the cause.
OF those who have misgivings no on
stands more in fear and trembling than tn
Dowager Queen Christina. For, while Do
Jaime has qualified admiration for her pos
humous son, Alfonso Kill, he has suprem
contempt for the intriguing ex-nun who ORE
vented his sisters from marrying Austria
Rrchdukes. At Biarrtz he has frequently bee
within speaking distance of his cousin. Kin
Alfonso. though they have never exchange
words.
Don jaime is the hero of a novel, of whic
the villain is the Duo d'Albe and the heroin
wellknown Washington belle. He is an of
Ger of the Russian army and has seen actiy
service in Manchuria. He has the reputatio
Of being well versed in the science of war an
p Of not knowing fear.
He looks upon the Due d'Orleans as
visionary and speaks OF the Napoleon
princes with contempt. The platonic Orleal
lists, who merely get up banuuets and elm
glasses, he contrasts with the fighting Car
lists, who have twice taken the field and al
ready to do so again. He has more Bourbo
blood In his veins than any man living for /
is Bourbon from both sides of the house h
mother having been Marguerite. princesse
Bourbon-Parma. He was educated at an En-
lish college and speaks and writes the Englis
language like a graduate of the university
Dublin.
The heir to two thrones. for years he live
in Paris attic, where Carlist chiefs called
pay their respects to royalty and where {
certain days they passed to inscribe the
names. Love and war have been his favori
pastimes and both got him into trouble Wi
his millionaire father. He helped to arm Il
Carlists of the Basque country during Il
Standardization war and became estrangt
from Carlos because the latter would q
strike blow. He fell in love with beautif
German princess at the court Of st. Peter
burg but his father frowned upon the ms
rage because the lady belongs to the Luther,