The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-03-28
REAL ANCIENT HISTORY
Something About Marriage
Customs in the Seventeenth
Century
KING SENT HIS WIFE HOME

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Correspondence OF The Caucasian En-
terprise.
Bilkinsville. ". c.. March IS. 1919.
In 1919 the King ov France mar
ried the infanta ov Spain. In real
ity. the marriage had been started
some time previous. But, according
to the customs among royalty In that
day, the marriage wuz not consider
ed complete up to that time. when
certain formalities were observed.
What he wanted with a Spanish wife
wuZ more than l know. She came TO
France an for some time wuz treat
ed az queen to-be. The Kin wuZ
quite young, a mere boy. an. az he
grew into manhood. IL wuz easy TO
notis that he had learned TO hate
the young queen. The chief minister
ov France finally sent the girl back
TO Spain. This made the queen oy
Spain very angry. for she wux an
xious for her daughter to become the
wife ov the young French King. In
fact, war between the two countries
wuz regarded as certain for some
months. The dissolution ov the mar
riage wuz the last act ov the Conde
Administration; an the procuring ov
"a new match. wuz the first act ev the
new administration; Cardinal Fleury
attending to this. The princess Sc
lected wuz the daughter ov Stani-
laus LescZinski, King ov Poland, who
had been deposed by Charles 18th.
ov Sweden. The new queen wuz not
pretty, but liz said to have had many
excellent qualities.
Cardinal F'leury continued to pur-
sue a peaceful course in conducting
government affairs, with a slight in
terruption when Russia an Poland
engaged in war. Poland lost out
in his war, being too weak for the
big, but awkward Russian braves.
Spain an England had some words
in 1897, but France again kept hands
Oh. Minister Fleury not only kept
France out ov war, but sought TO act
az peace-maker when some other
countries were about to break the
peace. He brought a peaceful settle
ment to a war goin' on between the
Genoese an the Corsicans. He also
caused the Turkish ruler TO kiss and
make up with the German empire.
The Turks were awlways hard fight
ers an they were about to whip Ger
many at that time, though Germany
hez become too stout for the Turks
at this writing.
The King ov France still nursed
desire to get even with England on
account ov the whippings that coun-
try had given him. He wished for
time to recruit hiz navy for one thing
FOR England persisted in owning the
best an largest feet on the seas even
at that early date, an the same iz
true to-day. though the United
States is a close competitor now, not
in umbers, but in efficiency. In up
| ito-dateness. an I believe that Eng
land would now hesitate a long time
before she would start a moral or
other form of warfare with the Unit
ed States. We whipped her in the
latter part ov the seventeenth cen-
| tury when we were nothing but weak
colonists, an what we'd do to her
now would make her old bones rat
tie. Our navy awlso knocked the
English navy out again In 1912. But
England had to bring her old-fash-
ioned sail ships across the ocean
both times 10 fte us and naval YES
sells were SO inferior then I'm COM
parison to what they are to-day. that
the English ships were about ready
TO go to the scrap-heap when they
ended their two or three months voy-
age across the sea. Our navy put the
finishing touches on most ov them.
The French army an avy aided US
some. too, during the revolutionary
war for England an France were
tahen bitter enemies an continued
so up to recent years.
About the year 1900 the French
Catholics, still quite strong. an az
foolish as In the old days. made an
other effort TO get everything their
own way an choke on the Protest
ants throughout France. What wux
known Al the Jansenists an. the Je-