The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-06-24

emit emperor. although thorou9h
man OF the world he had no toIera-
ton for those moral shortcomings
which society. especially at ST Pc.
tersburg. is disposed too often TO re-
gard with lenient eye. Thus. while
colonel commanding the regiment OF
Chevaller GUARDS. he was called upon
10 deal with scandal connected with
some of the officers under his orders.
and In which one OF the dignitarIes Of
the court, man bearing a name
was by reason OF his power and
wealth the person chiefly at fault.
Count Keller was so indignant tina,
question, and that he should not only
be dismissed. but likewise punished.
Alexander Ill, in spite OF his recti-
rude and horror OF everything that
hush up this scandal whereupon KEEL
Ter al once rendered his resignation
which was accepted. and he was
placed on the retired list Alexander
instead of being angry with Keller
Tor his uncompromls!ng attitude.
seemed TO admire him the more for it
Shortly afterwards he promoted him
10 the rank OF mator-general on the
retired list, and repeatedly nominated
him as member of imperial commits
sions. where his services were recog-
nized by public acknowledgment of
his sovereign's thanks and by orders
Before Nicholas had been very Ions
on the throne, Keller was restored TIC
active service as general in command
OF the Imperial Military Academy at st
pointed Governor of katerinoslaw.
where he remained until the outbreak
OF the war. his province being the
only one in European Russia where
there were no peasant disturbances or
Nihilistic activity or revolutionary out
RACES AS soon as kuropatk!n was
appointed to the supreme command of
the forces of the Far East he called
upon his old comrade and fellow
member of the STAFF of General Skobo-
left 10 join him. Offering him the com
nund of the cavalry, which Keller
Immediately accepted. In the battle
in which he was killed his nineteen
Year old son, who had accompanied
him TO the front, was wounded. dan
gerously, though not MORALLY.
Hans Won Flotow, who has won tho
hand of the generals widow. Is a man
in the neiShborhood of fifty. has been
Rome and in Paris, and was for some
time the right hand man and chef de
cabinet of Prince Buelow in all mat
ters relating TO foreign affairs.
In reply to the inquiry of reader.
who writes to ask me concerning the
Identity of the Due de Caylus. of Paris.
whose daughter is about to marry
the Comte Jean de Nettancourt
would say that his dukedom Is not a
French one but pertains to Spain. The
last French Duke of Caylus died in
Paris six years ago, without leaving
any children. He was one OF the
very few French mobiles to possess a
grandezza of Spain. which came into
through marriage. in the middle OF tho
eighteenth century, along with the
nobiliary honors being heritable
through the female line. This Spanish
dukedom of Caylus thus acquired was
transformed into French dukedom by
King Louis XVI. shortly before the
great Revolution. and was confirmed
by Louis XVIII. after the Restoration
1S17
dukedom, as well as his french titles
of Marquis and Count de Lignerac, be-
came extinct. His Spanish honors.
however. that Is to say, the grandezza
and the Spanish title of Duke de
Caylus. went, by virtue Of special
patent granted by the Queen Regent
of Spain in 1893, to his nephew, Count
Marie de Lignerac-de Caylus. married
to the Count de Rouge, was the only
sister of the late. duke. The present
Comtesse de Rouge and Spanish Duch-
ess de Caylus is by birth member OF
the well-known French house of
Rohan-Chabot. While her future som
in-law's mother, namely, the Comtesse
riage a Princess de Bautfremont-
Courtenay.
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