The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1912-04-13

as Manuel was, is that boy kings don't |
even think twice, especially Spanish |
and Portuguese kinglets. Manuel had |
sought all over Europe for a pretty
princess who would take her chances
beside him on the throne, with the
dynamite and the rifle bullets which
the Portuguese conspirators handle so
loosely liable to happen along any
minute; and he was really in quite
an unhappy frame of mind when he
ran across Mile Deslys.
And that is the time when a pretty
woman's lips look most alluring. He
was not much more than boy, and a
boy can't be expected to know that
kisses are expensive, because he is
SO near to his childhood, when all
womankind seems eager to give them
to him for nothing.
The revolutionaries needed only
that single indiscretion to give them
the weapon they needed to insure
| popular support-the boy king was
| going the way of all kings, duplicat
! ing the career of his father, Carlos,
| wasting the wealth of the people on
| French actress. Mile. Gaby Deslys
may not have received the price he
| paid for the kisses that her pretty
mouth vouchsafed him; but Manuel as
suredly paid it over to the blood stain
ed creditors who demanded it. The
bitterest part of it has been that near
ly every other pretty woman who had
met him was believed to be willing to
let him take twice as many kisses for
nothing young kings being
rather scarce-while he still held his
royal position.
But he came off rather luckily in his
misfortune as compared with the ap
palling tragedy that was enacted a
few years ago in Servia, when King
Alexander, equally foolish king and
yet more ardent lover, closed a career
of miserable ineptitude and the rash
est follies with all the splendid cour-
age of the primal, heroic man, defend
ing the woman he had mated with.
Queen Draga was of the same class
as ManueIs inamorata, but far more
notorious. She gave the same weapon
for her lovers destruction into the
pitiess hands of his foes.
Servian Monarch's Romance.
But Servia's monarch, if he was
reckless had the courage of his love
He married her, made her his queen
with full knowledge of the risk he ran
And when, in the alarm of that as
sassins' midnight raid, he might have
saved himself by leaving her TO the un
escapable fate they confronted, he
fought out the hopeless fight there
beside her, and persisted with her
Life and throne Servia's king gave
for womans kisses; but there are few
men with blood in their veins who
will believe that royal lover gave his
| soul
But all three may have been the
! price paid by Austr1a's Crown Prince
: Rudolf for the kisses of the Baroness!
, Betsera with whom he was desperate
, ly in love. The pair were found deaf
: in the hunting seat of Mayerling, ant
: the only explanation of the TRACED!
> ever accepted has been that ven
geance found him out suddenly, in
: stantly in the midst of his sin.
e The whole houseful of heirs to tn
: ancient and powerful empire of Aus
;, tria has proved cheerfully ready I
r give up all for love. Archduke Jc
t seph Ferdinand, madly in love wit
S Fraulein Nitzko, the daughter of
Viennese restaurant keeper, fun
away his chances for the throne b
r fleeing with her to Germany. He ha
t been placed in line of succession b
n the same sort of romance on the par
g of his brother, the Archduke Leopol
d Salvador, who married a soubrett
# named Adamowicz eight years agt
s He has been followed in the succe
i sion by the Archduke Francis Fe
dinand, who as openly jefied Empe
or Francis Joseph and all the laws
e the realm by marrying Countess S,
IS phia Chotek, the lovely widow of
e Hungarian nobleman
W But that last defiance, with the 10
al er the only heir left, broke the anath
,e ma that had been previously visite
al on all those royal lovers Of the reig
d. ing family. After years of futile c
fort TO part them the old emperor h;
6, been compelled to acknowledge h