Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1909-12-16

meet-and to fall in love with-a half
starved, addressed girl about FIVE hun
bred years ago. Because the boy hap
pened to be a prince and the girl q
princess that same love affair led to
series Of terrible wars and to the con-
quering and final losing Of great ma
ton. The boy was Mad Prince Hal"
son of King Henry Nv. Of England.
The girl was Princess Catherine,
daughter Of insane King Charles Of
France. Unlike most royal mar
riages, theirs was a genuin love
match. Nor did 'the course Of true
love" run smooth.
Mad Prince Halls" wild FRANKS had
led the English to tremble for their
Kingdoms welfare in the event Of his
coming to the throne. Yet when, In
1413, he succeeded his father as king,
he sobered down as by magic and
proved himself wise, able ruler. Al
most his first act after becoming King
Henry V. was to ask the hand Of
Princess Catherine in marriage. He
had seen but little of the princess; yet
he had learned to love her, and he
sent for her at once to share his
crown. But by his counsellors' advice
Tho Cost Of One ne also asked
Gas her dowery)
the provinces in France that had in
bygone years been captured by Eng
land and that were now French terri
tory once more. The French govern
ment angrily refused to grant these
terms. Not at all discouraged, Henry
resolved to win the princess and the
provinces as we'll. So, declaring he
had a hereditary right to the French
throne, he declared war on France,
and in 1415 invaded that country.
He could not have chosen a better
time for his attack. The king of
France was insane (playing cards are
said to have been invented to amuse
this crazy monarchy, and the kingdom
was rent by two warning factions.
Princess Catherine had been sadly
neglected and had had wretched girl
hood. Her father being insane, the
care Of the girl aid been left to her
mother, an idle, wicked woman, who
did not give Catherine enough food
nor clothing. Ragged, hungry, i'll
treated, the poor child was an object
Of pity until her father, in lucid in
terval, removed her from her mothers
charge and sent her to a convent to be
educated.
1t was largely on account Of this 49,
year-old girl that France, in 1415, was
invaded by an English army. Henry
swept all before him. The French OPP
posed him at Agincourt and are said
to have outnumbered his army by ten
to one. Yet he won great victory,
crushing the national pride Of France.
A second invasion ended even more
triumphantly. The French, utterly
overwhelmed, begged for peace. The
terms Henry granted were unheard OF
in their exorbitance. First and fore
most he demanded the hand Of Cath
crime. Then he compelled his beaten
foes to agree that he should succeed
crazy King Charles at the latter's
death as ruler Of France. In the
meantime he was to govern the realm
as regent.
He married Catherine and took her
back to England with him in triumph.
Her fatherland's fall was the price Of
her hand. And her husband had
brought about that fall. She and
Henry were married, and early In
1921 she was crowned queen Of Eng
land. The next December the couples
ou..r,s only son (known
to history as
os0O"O " Henry VII was
born. Few children have started life