The Hawaiian gazette., 1914-10-13
DEATH ENDS A
ROMANTIC REIGN
Prussian King Of Roumania Is
Dead-His Story Most
Interesting

NhoAAoo VI hehhoAaa ulou IN 0uCnaToot
yesterday, and his nephew, Ferdinand,
now roigns.
Charles Twas Roupania's first King.
The story Of his career. spanning sew
enty-five years, Is that or German
Prince elected TO govern Latin peo-
pie, out OF which oxperienco Rouman.
tans or those who have followed the
fortunes Of that buffer state will recall
much that is stirring n not romantic.
BORN A HoHENzoLLERN
Prince Charles was born Hohen-
zcllcrn. an Older branch Of the fa-1ily
than that Of Emperor william OF Ger.
map2, but none the les1 proud Of its
blood. no was the son Of Prince
Charles Anthony Of EfohensolIern-sig
maringen, who voluntarily resigned the
Hohenzollern regentship IN favor Of ths
Prussian crown and subsequently be-
came prime minister Of Prussia.
II was while Charles was serving, at
the age Of twenty-scven yoaB, as an
oficer Of high rank in the Prussian
guard, that the Turkish provinces Of
Wallachla and Moldavia united to call
themselves Roumania ana. casting their
eyes about Europe for foreign Prince
TO govern thcm-sfnce no native Prince
had been succeesful- the advice
of Napoleon III ard invited young
Charles TO be their Prince.
TRAVELLED IN DISGUISE
With Austria at that time preparing
TO fight Prussia, young Charles de-
parture for Rcumania was such peril
Gus undertaking that he made It 90.
cretly He disguised himself as Rus.
sian merchant bound for Odessa and
sailed down the Danube, jumping ashore
ON Roumanian territory on May 90,
1865, and made his way TO the palace
at Bucharest where he was proclaimed
Prince three days later. Napoleon III
had told him that nothing was more
diMcnlt than to govern q Latin race.
The young Prince soon found that he
had been well advised in this respect.
He was homesick and beset with in.
Vulnerable difficulties growing out Of
tho fact that the country was strug-
Cling with q new constitution that gavo
the people an unaccustomed liberty and
that he made no secret of his purpose
to plant among them the civilization Of
Germany, though he sincerely desired
TO become the best Roumanian Of them
ell. His great confidence IN the virtue
Of Hohenzollern blood brought him en-.
ergy and patience which later won tho
hearts Of his people. IS
CARMEN SYLVIA HIS BRIDE
In the meantime, at tho age Of thirty,
the young Prince paid court to Princess
Elizabeth Of Wied, with whom he fell
IN love at first sight when he mot her
in Cologne, and the marriage was cele-
brated on the banks of the Rhine II
the fall Of 1869. The Queen has since
become beloved among ner people for
her devotion toygood works and famous
throughout the world as a poet, with
the paeudonym Of Carmen sylvia
A boy was born TO the couple, but It
died at the age of six and they had
no other children. In 1876, when
there arose the question Of participant
ing in the Turko- Russian war, Prince
Charles stood firm for neutrality, but
when the Russians were on the point
of being crushed at Plevna and Grand
Duke Nicholas sent his famous call for
help, the Roumanian forces were led
to battle and with Charles at their
head decisiyely defeated the great Tur-
kish army.
Crowned With iron Crown
The renown of Prince Charles spread,
and four years later, out Of cannon
he had captured at Plevna the Rou
manian people cast him an iron crown
With consent of the Powers they
placed il on his head in 1881 From
this time on King Charles was univer-
sally acknowledged the leader of his
adopted people and the kingdom of
koumania became a factor in inter
national politics. She held aloof from
the common Balkan war against the
Turks, but was stirred in her own be!
half by Bulgarian greed for territory,
and after the war King Charles pressed
his country s claim for $500 miles of
territory as compensation for the neu-
trality Roumania had preserved, and
started an invasion Of Bulgaria. The
Sugars soon sued for peace and hand,
cd over the coveted strip, extending
about one hundred miles inland
BY Ourselves Aloiio
BY ourselves alone 2 are the words
which ornament the iron crown King,
Charles has worn lie. was never n
party TO international alliances, al
though groups represented ia both the
Triple Alliance and the Triple Entente
have been said TO be counting Rouman-
ian support. I
+ The bill of particulars rs TO the eoun-
try when Prince Charles entered Rou-
mania was diseouraging in evcry detail.
That which lie hands over to his sue
eessor, whom he adopted in the person
of his nephew, Prince Ferdinand, is
one which includes an efficient army
of nearly half million when on. war
footing, agriculture developed along
modern limos, oil production on vast
scale, railways spread widely, foreign
commerce developed to a degree which
exceeds that of all tho other Balkan
states put together. and a national
credit that needs no special guarantees.
The ono blot on the escutcheon re-.
Gently has been an alleged widespread
of the Jews, Of whom there
are some 100000 scattered among the
seven million inhabitants of the coun
try.
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