The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-15
OF NOBILITY
COME BACKTONATI

rss,iit,', loi INosS Ninan5 possesses "A
fortune estimated at some $40, 600 90:
and up to the time OF his daughters
ueatn thought VerY-hi8hly OF his SON
M law who wouldN doubtless have ben
Gifted extensively under his will.
AS soon as his numerous Fronch
creditors heard that De Bearn had at
!chGth been awarded entire possession
of the trust fund that had been form
cd for his wife at the time of her
marriage they commenced proceedings
10 recover the amount of their bills
and having obtained Judgment agains:
re BearEi are now attaching all mis-
property In Maryland which he left
invested there on account OF the OK
GcHence OF the securities. Had he al
lowed Tho entire estate to remain in
trust 1t would have been secure from
ms creditors and he would not have
alienated tho good will and even affec-
ton OF his northumberland Baltimore
iathcr-in law.
Count Henri do Bearn as have on
several occasions pointed out in these
,ached TO the French embassy here. is
not n French prince and has no right
TO style himself Prince" do Bearrl.
his princely title Is that OF Prince
&c Chaliais. and 1t comes to him by
patent from tho King of Spain by rea-
son of tho fact tl1t his mother, Cecil
90 Talleyrnnd- Pcrisord. was Spanish
Princess dc Challais In his own right
nor has hc received any sanction of
| the French government to use the title
OF Princn dc Challais. much less that
! IL.
| only French title is that of comte aud
f, II dates from tho time OF tho first
Napoleon. His patronymc is Dc Ga
iard, and he is Dc Bearn only on the
| distafC side.
Few foreigners save those who have
tived In Sweden are aware that Stock
hoim possesses nm organization akin
Y 70 tho old time Patriarchs Of New
'hia and to the Alinack's of eighty and
hundred years ago in London. which
| rules society and which determines
fashion asf %no a 5sa who Soons to tho world Ct
therefrom. Founded $50 years ago BY,
.he eccentric Queen Christine. daugh-
aSr Of King Gustavus Adolphus, OF the
ihirtS Years War. 1t bears at her In
stance the name OF the Amaranth; that
Imaginary flower which is supposed
never never to fade and which Milton. IN
tai Amaranth." and as having been
removed from Paradise to Heaven on
account of mans sin. and which Leng-
| fellow describes as the unfadfng flower
of immortality.
The society has nourishcd without
Interruption ever since it came Into
eAiatencc Its powers never wane.
~ superior to that OF royalty, since
there arc q number OF people who have
cut quito figure at court, hut who
have never satisfied the requirements
OF the Amaranth Society. 1t is quite
as autocratic as Almaclls. which. dur
Ing the reign OF George ". compelled
tho great Duke of wellington, a couple
| OF years after his E|tory at water
100, to withdraw from one of Its balls
because he was not arr;Lycd IN tho
regulation frock dress: that Is. black
knee-Drecchcs and silk stockings, de-
creed by the patroncsses.
The Amnranth Society gives ono
grand ball each winter. at which the
badges of the s-c!ety are presented to
the newly-clccted members with old
tiipc ceremony. Election to tho order
and invitation to its annual ball mean
much more to maiden of the Swedish
! aristocracy. titled or untitled, than
aristocracy. while entirely Indifferent
| TO titles, attaches tho utmost import
ancc to name. lineage and purity of
! descent, comprising in it's ranks repre-
| sentatiVcs of some of tho Erandcst
houses of England. SCOTLAND. Northern
Germany and HOLLAND, whose ancestors
| fought under King Gustavus Adolphus
wards settled in Sweden. 1t is very
| much attached to its traditions and so
! exclusive that 1t turned Il cold Shout
| der to and blackballed members OF
| tho now rcigning house of Berna-
! dottn until some tiflc after the uc-
| ccsSon of the latS King Oscar to
the throne. Much as 1t likes and re-
! affections may be said to be centred
in the Crown Prince, who Is the first
| member of his dynasty to have in his
veins the blood OF the old and historic
| swedish house of Vasa. through his
| mother.
| Copyright, 1912, by tho Brentwood
Company