Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1911-03-17

stantly In the midst OF his sin.
The whole houseful of heirs to the
ancient and powerful empire of Aus
tria has proved cheerfully ready to
give up all for love. Archduke Jo-
seph Ferdinand, madly in love with
Frsulein Nitzko. the daughter Of a
Viennese restaurant keeper, fung
away his chances FOR the throne by
fleeing with her to Germany. He had
been placed in line of succession by
the same sort of romance on the part
of his brother. the Archduke Leopold
Salvador, who married a soubrette
named Adamowicz eight years ago.
He has been followed in the success
sion by the Archduke Francis Fer
dinand. who as openly defied Emper-
o. Francis Joseph and all the laws of
the realm by marrying Countess So
phia Chotek, the lovely widow of a
Hungarian nobleman.
But that last defiance, with the low
er the only heir left, broke the anathe-
ma that had been previously visited
on all those royal lovers of the reign
ing family. After years of futile ef-
fort to part them the old emperor has
been compelled to acknowledge his
unwelcome heiress by marriage, to
raise her in rank and put things in
order for her seat on the throne be-
side her husband.
Sacrifice All for Love.
The Archduke Charles Louis, infat-
uated with the daughter of Prof. Gu
Der, of the Vienna university, vows
he will never wed any other woman;
and even the women Of the race show
the same determined spirit in paying
whatever bitter price the sweet kisses
of love may require.
The most sensational scandal
Europe's courts knew for years was
the elopement of Louise, sister of
Archduke Leopold and crown prin.
cess of Saxony, who eloped from her
royal palace with Giron, the tutor of
her children, and is now plain Nine.
Toselh, lost to all the friends and
grandeurs Of her former high estate.
The Portuguese throne, which young
Manuel lost for few kisses from a
French Coincidence, might possibly
have gone to the duke Of Braganza.
who was recognized at the court of
Austria as a legitimate pretender to
the Portuguese crown. But the charm
ing face-and, perhaps, the more
charming figure-of Anita Stewart and
her millions flashed into his view the
golden aureole that is so binding to
princes as well as common mortals.
Francis Joseph, who has no poor taste
himself In pretty women, has always
been the bar to Cupid in the realm,
with Cupid either sneaking under or
boldly vaulting over to make the
matches he has set his heart on
Braganza was given the alternative,
by the emperor, of formally renounc-
ing his claims to the Portuguese
throne or of abandoning his marriage
with the dainty and wealthy Anita
1t was the throne that was sacrificed
when the choice had to be made.
Then Anita also paid dearly because
ohO Ao0 W btan0 III aDOul - AllAlOu
of the princes debts.
Vanderbilt Put Love First.
Precisely the same remuneration Of
heirship was made to the full extent |
or proud position and immense wealth |
that is possible in America, by that |
brilliant and firm-natured son of his |
fatiser, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., when |
he married Grace Wilson and told his |
father that he might do as he pleased |
with the s4O,000.000 of the Vanderbilt |
fortune-which was exactly what |
stern old Cornelius did Alfred |
Gwynne got the bulk of the fortune
and the headship of the family, so far
as the fathers dictum could convey
them.
While the dictum worked practical
ly with the cash, it has failed with
the leadership. Cornelius is recog-
nized, socially, as the chief of the VAN
derbilts, here and abroad, and he has
earned 100000 on his own account
since his father died and cut him OF
with the s1,OO0,O00 a Vanderbilt was
to need to keep him from
starving.
The price that w. e. Corey is be-
Iieved to have paid to escape from the
bonds that held him to the wife who
stood by him until he made his fortune
N steel in order to enjoy the kisses of
gorgeous Maybelle Gilman. is general
" put at $4,000 900. H. M. Fiagler,
he Florida magnate, whose first wife
became insane, and who wanted to
wed Miss Mary Lily KEENAN,. of VIII
N. c., spent $4,100,000, first
and last, before he could place the bril-
ial kiss on the new Mrs. Fqagler's
lips.
James b. Dukes first bridal oscu-
ation for his second wife cost him
81. 500, 900. in the form of the magnifi-
cent new residence he had built to
content her with her lot
The kings and queens of earlier
times may have paid as much; but
the market value of kisses has GER
tainly risen for the proletariat of the
present. The two sexes offer differ
emit explanations. each, equally cred
table to the human race.
The women think it is because the
men have more to give for them; the
men believe the kisses are worth more
han they used to be.
Perhaps both are right.
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