The Washington herald., 1913-03-19
FOREIGN GOSSIP.


Mark Antony fell under the spell of
CIeopatra's eyes and crowned career
OF folly with suicide.
When Count Franz Erbach succumbed
at sight of a peasant girl whom he had
met one day when riding in the forest
he determined that she and no other
should be his wife, at any cost. That
this girl, Ann Schultz. earned her daily
bread at the wash-tub, mattered nothing
to this heir to estates valued at a mil
lion dollars year. He defied his
fathers anger, fled with his peasant
maid to London. and married her, though
he became a disinherited outcast. who
was compelled to work for his living.
1t was the same spirit of pride and OF
self-sacrifice that manifested itself when
Prince Eberwyn zu Bentheim-Steinfurt.
cousin of the Queen Of Holland. gave
his hand only a short time ago in the
Strand registry Office at London, to
Fraulein Langenfeld, daughter of
|tradesman, who had began life as a
peasant. The German Emperor himself
in vain had tried to dissuade him from
such a mad step" He turned a dear
ear to all the threats and entreaties OF
his family and formally renounced his
right to 10000 a year to his younger
brother. Prince Victor. And when Prince
Eberwyn had thus condemned himself to
poyerty and obscufity. he declared. he
was very happy. and that long as he
lived he would rejoice that he had the
firmness to place his happiness and that
of his bride above the medieval pref
udiccs of his house
Count Hans Won HochberG. heir TO the
Duchy of Rohnstock. at about the same
time WAS standing at an altar in New
Yorl, with Fraulien Louise Carow, a
German salesgirl, for whose sake he had
abandoned his claim to the family es-
tate. He was going to earn his living
as a chauffeur. this young hero OF ro-
nance said, and be happier sharinG
moor home with the woman he loves than
il he were Duke of Rohnstock, with halt
a million a year, but without her.
1t is but a sh t time since the heir
to a noble Italian house was latherinS
checks in the shop of a London barber,
as the first results of a similar adventure
in matrimony. Son and heir TO the
MARQUIS di Castro, of Naples. he has
turned his back on title and fortune at
the bidding of love in the form Oh
pretty young dressmaker whom ne
brought TO London TO wed.
Such romances of to-day could be null
tipled almost indefipitely-from the love
adventures OF the Archduke Leopolu oil
Austria. nephew of Emperor FRANZ
Josef. who was content to be an outcast
for the sake of Fraulien Ritter iarhi-
er's daughter and domestic servant 10
the Prince de BroSlie. VINO not long
ago was conducting an orchestra In
NJ, yorl, theater while the wife Tor
whom he had sacrificed everything but
happiness was singing on the same
stage. oh
sheridan reveled in the role OF coacn-
man for the pleasure of driving ms
adored Nightingale of Bath 10 neI
home night after night and exchahsiils
love rlances with her under the eyes OF
her unsuspecting father Canning put Uii
eroom's livery and did stable work In
eYchanre for the delight Of escorting. as
groom in attendance, his master
daughter on her daily rides. WiIliam
Pitt. most unsentimental OF men as nc
considered himself. was so intoxicated py
tho charms of a pretty maid OF Devon
shire that he drank her health out oi
one OF her dainty shoes. Mr. Seilwooo'
a notable man OF his day. served as a
footman in the house of a lady he loved
for twenty long years. until her nus
bands death set her free to accompany
him to the altar.
And 40 it has always been. from the
German baron. who had his right mana
cut OF because il had accidentally struck
the cheek of the woman whose httIe
finger was more to him than his whole
body, to the gilded young French NOBLE
man who served years of apprentice
chin and won fame as a lawyer to prove
IN his lady-loye that he was not the
butterfly of pleasure she believed him
to be.
This MAJ be the age of the literary
prisoner. but there is not one among
them who can boast to have MS wit
ing, Incorporated in a royal library as
George
Harrington. the prince of picketpockets.
who in 1870 was transported TO Botany
Rey. He is we'll known as the author
of the prologue to Young's tragedy, The
Revenge performed by convicts when
the first theater was opened at Sydney,
n. s. w, in 17sS. which begins:
From distant climes. Ger WIDESPREAD seas. We
como.
True patriots We for lie it understood
We left our country for countrys good.
Harrington, who lived to a good old
age and held the office of high constable
and superintendant of the convicts at
Paramatta wrote some half-dozen works
on New South Wales, the first editions
Of which are now sought for by book
collectors.
During the tenure of Office OF Sir How
.
OF criminal investigation in London
(Scotland Yard, very exacting duties fell
upon the police during the Fenian scare
and anarchist riots OF 1851 in guarding
the cabinet ministers from assassination,
all the members being under strict sur
yeillance. While one minister always car
ried a loaded revolver in his breast pocket
and on the approach of any suspicious
person put his hand on 1t, Mr.. Gladstone,
Mr. Balfour, and Mr.. W. E. Forster OBJ
iected to being shadowed and guarded
by detectives. and on more than one oc-
casion their defiance of the precautions
adopted for their safety resulted in the
ambush men being foiled- Mr.. Forster
once gave the detectives the slip and took
the only road for which the would-be
assassins were not prepared, while Glad
stone one night, walking home by an out
of-the-way route, missed Townsend when
the latter lay in wait, ready to fire his
pistol, which was found in his possession
by the officer who was on hand to see
the Prime Minister Home by the accus-
toned path.
British cabinet ministers are no less
zealously guarded to-day. Scotland Yard
has never been so vigilant in the pro-
lection of public men as It has been for
the last year or two, owing to the unrest
in political and international affairs. An
incident at the Hotel Cecil recently,
when Mr.. Lloyd George attended a din
ner. provides a striking illustration of the
manner and methods of Scotland Yard.
When the Chancellor entered the room
bo uaS accompanied nv three men in