Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-11-10

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l~ ~ NV fairs of royalty, but II IS an ex-
IR5sI m WIZ act term Of purely German
lNlMA 1F | genealogical law, and means
|lWD u legal and binding marriage that
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>AN to royal rank
Now IL false morganatic
marriage Is the easiest thing imaginable and q
true disadvantageous but quite possible,
how shall we sufficiently admire an emperor
who lifts little countess to be empress beside
him? Add an unstable throne, new in ITSELF
newly mounted, IL sore need Of royal alliances;
add the bitter opposition of his family. the
laugh of the world, the contempt of statesmen,
and the enlargement of partisans; make the
beloved one foreigner completely unpopular
with his people, and you will have the ele-
ments of Napoleon HIS heroism in loving
Eugene
Few kings since Cophetua have loved. like
this
Among SO many royal loves that lacked de-
Votion, 1t shines like a star.
1t begins with gypsy at Madrid. Eugenie's
mother, a widow, camarera mayor to the
queen, lived il her own house in the Plaza del
Angel
One day-Eugepie being thirteen and tom
boy-they refused to take her in the Prado
carriage promenade, which, with the opera
still remains the common ground where poor
proud families meet the great ones of Madrid
equals. The Countess de Montjo chung to
her carriage and her opera box
Alone, Tomboy Eugene was sliding down
the banister. She slid too strong, banged
against the fiyscreen front door, and fell mani
mate. A gypsy woman, passing, took the girls
head in her lap and brought her to. Then she
looked attentively at her and said:
THE senorita was born under the open sky
the night of battle"
What" exclaimed the countess, returned
with the carriage. She was struck By the
truth Of the words. Thirteen years ago at
Granada an earthquake had forced them to
camp night in the garden. and Eugene was
there prematurey born.
What will be her future?" asked the super
stitious mother.
"She will be queen" said the gypsy
The prediction was bold and beauty only
could lift the thirteen-year-old girl to it's
realization; but beauty had already done much
for that family
SO dreamed the mother. She herself had
been a really poor GIRL daughter of a British
subject who had failed in business in Malaga.
His name was Kirkpatrick, and he had long
been American vice-consul He had married
one of two beautiful sisters, yet still poorer
see how hereditary beauty will force its way,
through four generations, from its unadorned
self to a throne!
whose sole possession was her beauty. Gre
vigne French wine merchant of Malaga, mar
riad her and had two lovely daughters; and
two foreign consuls French de Lesseps and
Scotch Kirkpatrick lifted them by marriage to
the first rounds of the social ladder. From the
De Lesseps alliance came the grand Francois
of Suez and Panama; but Kirkpatrlcks Wne
gave him daughter of such rare charms tnat
a Spanish grandee, with place at court
orofIU
love.
He was a duke a marquis, a viscount and
q haron but the title by which he had been
known to the world was Count de MonuJo.
He had two daughters fairer yet than molher,
grandmother or greatgrandmother. and ne
died Eugene was one, her sister Pacca was
the other.
On the thirteenyearold girl the gypsy's pre-
diction made a formative impression Con-
Armipg II as she grew Up she saw her elder
sister pacca maria Francisca) make an I'M
precadanted match even in that family. Pacca
caught the rich and mighty Duke OF Ava
Higher than the Duke of Alva could only be a
king
Eugene. growing up, refused brilliant Span
Ssh offers: first the Duke OF Ossuna. then the
rich and handsome young Duke OF Sesto'
Sasto In truth inspired her with "a certain
sympathy and admiration. He was SO atuac-
%ivai" Rut II was not love. Deep In her neart
she loved dream prince, the unknown OF the
gypsy. endowed by her girls fancy with a .nou-
sand charming attributes She smiled at the
sbsurdity of IT. Where could such prince be!
Yet she held off from all other sultors
When her mother took her to Paris her
seert leaned at an unexpected premonition
The handsome, dark-browed, careworn man.
stiII Young who as French president received
at the Elysee, became a romantic figure IN ner
ewes. Eugene wished to attend presidential
reception. Her mother hesitated 1t wouio
make them ridiculous with the mildewed smart
set.
"p,+ NV father was an officer of the great
Nanoleon said Eugene, and she had her way
rAs prince president, weighed down with the