The Washington herald., 1911-09-25

stairway to a small room above, the
seven caretakers discovered on a table
in the center of the chamber a dust
covered large casket. The seven locks
which opened the outer door also fitted
in the seven locks of the box, which,
when opened. disclosed all of the jewels
within. safe and in good condition. There
We're the bohemian crown, as well as
all the other royal insignia. the golden
diadem the sCepter. the globe. and the
royal mantle. The gems radiated the
same glitter and light as ever, only the
gold setting was blackencd with age.
! The seven dignitaries thereupOn signed
statement that the Bohemian crown
! jewels were ,afe.
For the benefit OF those OF my readers
who may marvel at the oft-recurring use
Of the word seven as regards the
! locks and the number of Caretakers, |
will add that in medieval times the King
! of bohemia was one of the Seven" vas
sails of the Emperor OF the Holy Roman
empire of the German nation" which
seven had the right and the power TO
| elect their emperor whenever one had
either died or was derOsed or had alb
diCated. Readers Of Schiller will reCOI-
| leCt the paSSaee in his poem Der Graf
Won Hapsburg Rudolph. who at AK
! Chapelle was crowned emperor after
having been elected by the seven
"Reichsgrafen.'
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la Liherdad. at Buenos Ayres. prints
the hardly credible news that the Prin-
cess Alice De Bourbon. sister to Don
Jaime de Bourbon. Duke Of Madrid, the
rretendar TO the throne OF Spain. is tour
ing the Argentine Republic as a circus
rider. The career of that scion Of the
European nobility is romantic. even more
so than usual. She was the wife OF 4
German prince. Fuerst Friedrich Won
SChOeneherg- Kaldenhurg, whom she mar
ried to escape her fathers welI-known
cruelty, but il appears that the unfOr-
tunate girl went from the frying pan
into the fire, for she found her new lord
so exceptionally brutal that she was
forced to divorce him after the birth
of her son.
y year later the princess appeared in
print as the victim OF an enormous theft
She owned a diamond necklace valued
at $lINMO. which CnCe had been the prop
erty Of the unfortunate Marie Antoinette
Among her household at the time was
an engineer by the name Of Despans
He stole the gem and rawned It ror
5000 francs. II was recovered and the
man put in Jail.
This made the princess feel the neces-
sity Of a legitimate protector. and she
married the Chevalier Limo Prete a for
mer captain in the Italian cavalry. Tn-
pair went to Florida to raise oranges
The next heard Of Princess Alice was as
a Red Cross nurse in Manchuria during
the RuSSo-JapaneSC war where she did
FIN" work Her sister Elviya vanished
with Roman artist, Count Folchi, and
was said to have gone to America
Beatrice married an Italian, the Prince
de Massimo, and was so unhappy that
twice she tried to drown herself in the
Tiber Blanche, the eldest Of the girls.
married the Austrian Archduke Leopold
Salvador. Alice is a circus rider, and
there is a blank space left in the AL
manaCh de GOtha for her address.
The city of Moscow is collecting SOU
venirs for the centenary celebration Of
the invasion of that city by Napoleon
and his defeat. and great interest is
being manifested as TO the fate of the /
large cross of the Church of Ivan We /
liki. in Kremlin. Napoleon had this !
cross taken down. believing 1t to be !
solid gold. His intention was to have |
II placed over the dome of the "Inva- |
lides," in Paris. Incidentally, he meant !
to punish the Muskovites for setting |
fire to their city. The cross was be- !
lieved by him to have a legendary con-
nectiOn with the greatness of Russia
With many difficulties the cross. |
sixteen feet. was finally !
brought down. but had to be aban- |
doned on the march to SmoIensk.
where it fell into the lake at Semlevo. |
Recently that lake. by order of the
Russian government, was drained. Re- |
mains of horses. carts. harness, uni /
forms, &C, were brought to light. but !
no cross.
The Muskovites now seem to have
become convinced that the big cross
never left their city and that it was
juried under the wreckage of the many
<remlin buildings which were blown
lp by Napoleon's order. But, If found
'r not. one thing is certain, Napoleon
lad nothing for his pains. for the cross
vas not OF gold. The real gold cross
undetected by his army. It
tands to this day over the dome of a
church in the Kremlin conglomerate,
which the French soldiers passed and
epassed every day, without being
ware of their prize.