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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-23

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rie a happy mother, and the two (al-
though totally unlike in disposition
became fast friends. The royal couple
have five children-Crown Prince
Carol, to whom the people are devo-
ted; Princess Elizabeth. who rivals
her mother in beauty; Princess Marie,
Prince Nicholas and Princess Ileana.
The Queen is fond of society and
there is constant succession Of royal
and imperial visitors at the palace.
The Grand Duchess Cyril of Russia,
who is the Queens sister. Prince and
Princess Nicholas of Greece, her cous-
ins, and the Infanta Beatrice of Spain,
another sister, are usually among the
guests. Mrs. Spender Clay and her
brother, Waldorf Astor, have also
been frequent visitors at the Cotzoceni
Palace. The Queen is the idol OF the
army and is a colonel OF the Rou-
manian Hussars. Her firtations have
long been n subject OF gossip for the
people Of Bucharest, but as they have
always been harmless little attention
has been paid TO them by the King,
who fairly worships his charming
wife.
on one occasion tho Queen suddenly
left Bucharest and went to Turnu
Marguerite. whore an epidemic OF
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ber Of the family who belonged TO
the Church of Rome or who contract
ed an alliance with a member of that
sect. While Queen Marie was born
In England and partly brought up
there as n Protestant. to which faith
she still clings she was almost wholly
under Muscovite influence. for her
mother was the Grand Duchess Ma
rie, daughter of Alexander H. of Rus
sia. As the result of this training
Queen Marie is more Russian than
English. She bears strong dislike
10 the Kaiser, who during the life of
her father was continually meddling
In the affairs Of Sake Coburg and
Gotha. She married the king just
after his affair" with Helen Nacar-
escu, n maid of honor to Carmen Syl-
via Queen Elizabeth)-an affair
which sent the latter to a sanitarium
for several years and exlled the fair
maid Of honor from Roumania, caus-
ing King Carol no little sorrow over
the scandal.
However, the beautiful young Prin-
cess Marie soon caused Ferdinand to
forget all about his former love and
| things have gone on smoothly for the
/ twenty-five years of their married
life. When Queen Elizabeth came
back 20 Court she found Princess Ma.
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L. pold, but he renounced the honor
in favor OF his son Prince wilhelm.
the father-in-law of King Manuel Of
Portugal. Prince Wilhelm also de-
clined to rule Roumania and gave up
his claim to his brother. Prince Fer
dinand. who in October of last year
came to the throne.
King Ferdinand.
King Ferdinand was born in 1865,
and like all the Hohenzollern princes.
received a careful education in ac-
cordance with the principles of his
grandfather. Prince Charles Anthony,
who said, 1T is not enough to be born
a prince. we must also endeavor to
show that we deserve the title"
In January OF 1898 Ferdinand mar
ried the Princess Marie, daughter of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. who is known
as the fairest grand daughter OF
Queen Victoria. She was but seven
teen years Of age when she married
Ferdinand and was the first princess OF
the royal family OF England TO sacri-
fee her place in the line OF succession
TO the throne of the British Empire
by marrying a Catholic. the Parlia-
ment OF Westminster having passed a
law more than two hundred years
ago barring from succession any mem.
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The rale.

In the summer OF 1879 Charles
Walmsby. hardy spirit of the north
west and variously spoken of as being
an admirable man and one of morose
and domineering nature, started from
a Canadian trappers' outpost TO a
similar station on the American side
on the way he fell in with the stall
wart young hunter, Spo Pee, which
name signifies in Indian, the turtle.
with him was the lad. Good Rider.
When the three had reached Cut
Bank. a stream which winds from the
park into the plain and which has
now been set by the government 10
irrigating the lands OF the latter, the
white man was killed by Spo Pee. The
Indian says that the heart of the white
man was shown 20 be bad. that he was
beaten by him with a shovel tn,
wounds OF which he exhibited. thal
he killed him that the hunting ground
might be rid OF his evil spirit. The
boy. Good Rider. was not a witness OF
the killing but the prosecution held
that its object was robbery.
The trial Of Spo Pee took place but
three years after the Custer Massacre
and at that time little consideration
was shown the Indian in Montana
courts He was condemned 10 die
But the President Of the United States
and his sentence was com
muted 10 life imprisonment in the De-
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man understood. rhere was the year
long brooding which the wise ones
diagnosed as acute melancholia. then
the strange gestures. The man was
crazy.
Spo Pee was sent 10 the Government
Hospital FOR the Insane at Washing
ton. u. G.. His going was not reported
to his friends on the reservation. They
lost track of him. To them he had
gone away toward the rising sun with
the white man and had never re-
turned. They believed him dead. No
other creature in the world was in
terested in his fate.
With Maniacs.
At Washington the Indian took his
place among 5000 other men and
women who are wards Of the federal
government He was filed away
among others who were considered
permanent inmates. crazy people for
whom the government must care un-
iii death came.
II is difficult TO appreciate the i'm
preston that All Of this must have
had upon the young warrior from the
buffalo ranges With no conception
OF the nature of the race with which
he was thrown, with no understand
ing 10 tell him that these were not as
other white men, surrounded con-
stantly by wild. raving creatures who
must have impressed him as being OF
another world, with no capacity to
understand a word that was spoken
TO him. the free rowing Indian could
have been expected TO imagine him.
self bewitched. 10 have been thrown
IN evil WAYS. TO have lost his reason.
Yet for thirty-two years he lived IN
these surroundings. sat stolidly await
ing whatever might come. and re-
mafncd sane
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cholera was raging, and spent sew
eral weeks nursing the people who had
been stricken with this terrible NAL
ady. That part Of her character was
a revelation to those who looked upon
her as merely pretty woman whose
life was given over to pleasure, and
when she fell i'll as the result of over
work and exposure the sympathy of
the world went out to Roumania's
Queen.
Agricultural People.
The Roumanians are an agricultural
people, and owing to the richness of
the soil they have been able to raise
large crops without artificial processes
and by the aid of the most primitive
agricultural implements. The man
agement Of the Crown domains. which
consist of twelve estates. is an excel
lent example for the peasants who
frequently visit these estates for the
purpose of studying model farming.
Agricultural schools, too, were estab-
lished by King Carol. Sugar beets.
grapes and tobacco are raised with
success. The latter is cultivated un-
der the management of the Crown
alone.
The country abounds in mineral
| springs, and in the Argos district
traces Of old Roman baths are TO be
found dating back to 1873 A. D., thus
showing that the Roman had utilized
the sulphur and iodine waters. At
Sinaia, where the royal family has a
summer home, mineral springs abound
and within the last few years beautiful
villas have sprung up and the place
has taken on the style of a modern
health resort.
Roumania believes in education,
and one is surprised to find the coun-
| try dotted with fine school buildings.
Many of the wealthy families send
their children abroad to finish off"
which accounts for so many of the
residents of the cities OF Roumania
speaking perfect English Indeed, the
| progress made by the little country in
education is remarkable. for until the
suzerainty OF Turkey was lifted the
( people had few advantages along this
/ line.
As to the country, II is beautiful in
many places but near the northern
border It becomes less attractive with
it's dirty drab houses and wind-swept
plains. The country around Jassy is
particularly picturesque. being sur
rounded by vineyards and fields which
in the spring arc as green as an en-
erald. Many gypsies are to be found
in this section-people who wander
about leading a lazy life, gathering
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Brief Sketch of the Little Monarchy Ruled By A
ierman King and An English Queen Remark
able Fighting Qualities Inherited From Their
Ancestors, the DacianS ofthe manEmpire.

Charles Of Hohenzollern-s sigmaringon.
who accepted the appointment with
delight The Roumanians possess the
same lighting qualities for which their
ancestors We're famous. and their vic
tory az Plevna on September 18th.
1877, is cne OF the most remarkable
on record, for there mighty Russia was
outclassed by this little Black Sea
principality. Russia had asked per-
mission TO send her troops through
Roumania to the Turkish border and
Prince Charles had consented because
he did not want 10 precipitate trouble
at that time. As the Russians marched
they noted the splendid physique and
bearing OF the Roumanian soldiers,
for Prince Charles thought It well 10
show off his warriors. few weeks
later came that historical call for help
from Russla--the call that made Rou-
mania a kingdom-"Hurry over the
Danube to our aid and you can make
your own conditions as TO reward
Come quickly. that the reward may
be greater. We are the center Of
circle OF Turks. Hurryl" Prince
Charles started with thlrty-five thou
sand Roumanlans and saved the day
for the Russians. When the dawn
broke after that famous battle the
thousands Of men representing three
nations saw the standard OF Roumania
proudly floating in the breeze Of bat
tie. Hundreds Of Roumanians had
gone TO their death. but they had won
for their country place in history.
Plevna had made Roumania n king
dom, and at the close OF the war
Prince Charles was proclaimed king
under the title Of 1Sing Carol I.
King Carol I.
The coronation OF the new king took
place in 1881. The queen who. before
her marriage. was Princess Elizabeth
Won Weld. is known throughout the
world az Carmen SYLVIA name
which she used In her literary work
Although somewhat eccentHc in hcr
tastes. she IS popular with the people.
especially on account OF her charity
work among the helpless blind.
Tho succession TO the throne In the
event of the king being childless
(Which proved TO be tho case) was
fixed upon his elder brother. Prince
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could be alive and so held. They went
TO the asylum TO sec this mysterious
Blackfoot.
The guards led the stolid old Indian
from his grated cell. Heavy and
stopped and gray he was. shorn Of
his flowing hair. dressed in the clothes
Of the institution. A great lethargy
had settled down upon him. this man
who had not spoken nor heard an un-
derstood word for thirty-fve years.
His tribesmon spoke 10 him in his
native tongue and he understood it
not, so long had he lived in silence.
They talked TO him I'm the sign
language and aroused now and then
n glimmer Of understanding. The
women of the party. for there were
some such. murmured TO him Of the
croonings Of his mother and the leg
ends OF his tribe that make up the
Blackfoot Mother Goose. They coaXed
and courted his sleeping intelligence
with the instinct that can wake a
babe without frightening it.
The Awakening.
Fragmentarily the captive Indian
began to appreciate the situation. The
words of the Blackfoot language he
started to repeat after his visitors.
He mouthed them as a morsel sweet
TO the tongue but long forgotten. At
the end of two hours he was able to
say that he was Spo Pee, the Black
foot. that he had been in a long.
long, sleep, that he remembered the
Cut Bank where it came down from
the hills with its trout and that buff
falo herds were to be found on Two
Medicine.
Then his mind grew tired and re-
lapsed into inactivity. Two days later
the Blackfeet returned and talked
again with the prisoner. BY this time
he was beginning to get back his
words. He could tell Of White Calf
and Lazy Boy, two OF the chiefs still
living with whom he had hunted the
buffalo. He was able to ask for his
wife. Rainbow Light, and the baby
he had left in her arms. He was COM
ing back to normal.
Commissioner Sells Investigated the
causes that had led Spo Pee to his
present situation, the crime he had
committed and the conditions under
which it had been perpetrated lie
developed the fact that there was a
doubt as TO the circumstances that
led Ia the murder. He took the posi-
ton that. IL Spo Pee was guilty OF al
taat was charged against him. he had
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Found.

IOhhis
II was year ago that party of
Sioux Indians came to Washington TO
visit the Great White Father. They
wandered about the city viewing the
strange accomplishments of an age OF
invention and n people of mechanical
ingenuity. They rode on a street car
TO its end. where a great gate stood
invitingly open and parS-like vistas
beckoned. The Indians entered and
wandered about.
A party Of patients, for this was
the Government Asylum for the In
sane. was being taken out for an air
ing. The Sioux watched them Gu
riously until one came past them
whom they recognized as an Indian
They addressed him In the Sioux
language and he made no reply. They
had recourse to the universal language
of their people. that OF signs made
with the fingers. They made the sign
of the Sioux. A flicker of remem-
brance passed over the features Of
the Indian Of the Institution and he
automatically responded with the sign
of the Blackfoot. He passed on with
his fellows.
Uncommunicative. these Indians
said nothing to the authorities about
the man they had seen. Many months
had passed when one Of them en-
countered a party Of the Blackfoot
tribe. likewise in Washington for a
visit. He told his fellow red men that
there was a member Of that band in
the great institution for the insane.
The story Of Spo Pee was a legend
in the Blackfoot tribe. He was a
warrior. brave and strong. who had
gone away with the white men and
been lost. His fate was regarded as
a closed book. Yet the chiefs knew
of no ether max sf their tribe who
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OWN in the southeastern part
"a OF Europe, between the Black
Sea and the Carpathian Noun
tains, lies the country known as
unania. once the old Roman prov
e of Dacia. Before the land be-
ne part OF the Roman Empire it
inhabited by a warlilSe Aryan
Dpie who made frequent incursions
neighboring countries As early
s3b 3. c. Alexander the Great was
71pelled to make a military expe-
lon against them. The Romans, too,
N their legions against these war
re- Finally, the Emperor Trajan,
manned Dacicus, after two expedi-
ms t101-106 A. ID. subdued the
ID and made IL Roman province.
tiers were invited 10 come to the
tile plains along the Danube and
- whs formed what is known as
Balkan States. OF which Roumania
ona. .+..
Even fn the early days these little
lntries suffered from the incursions
tho Turks. who plundered the coun-
IN the most shameless manner
~ over the land.
After the Crimean War, however.
new era dRwned in the Balkans.
union OF the two principalities OF
lllachia and Moldavia was pro-
imed IN 1851, and Roumania be-
ne the name Of the united countries.
e emancipation OF the peasantry.
In 1864 helped TO bring about
at changes. The FIRST ruler Of
umania was Colonel Cuza, who had
I'm elected Hospodar or Lord OF
illachia and Moldavia in 1859, and
assumed the reins OF government
Ser the title Of Prince Alexandra
IN ]. His methods OF governing did
suit the people and a revolution
Ike out which forced Cuza 20 abdi-
e. II was then decided that repre-
tatives OF both countries elect as a
er a hereditary prince from one Of
reigning families of Europe 10 be
ruler OF Roumania. The Count OF
-nders was elected but declined the
ny
\>Prlncc Charles Elected.
At the nSxt meeting Of the Assem-
IS the hhoice fell upon Prince
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troit House Of Correction.
Torn From His Family.


Stoically the warrior bade farewell
20 his young wife, Rainbow Light. and
the three-year- old baby girl she had
borne him. Stoicaily he departed with
his captors ready for any fate that
might await him and knowing not
what to expect. Stoicaliy he rode by
stage coach to the Missouri. by steam
er down that stream to St. Louis. and
by the iron horse he had never seen
before from ST. Louis TO Detroit.
There he was thrust into prison where
none knew aught Of his language or
the life from which ne had come As
an Indian warrior he settled unmur-
muringly into the routine OF his i'm
prisonment
The dazed Indian spoke no word for
year With his hands in his lap he
sat silent and waited for the stroke to
fall About him were many white
men, but none who uttered a word
that he knew. Eventually he aroused
himself from his lethargy. He had
waited for death and Il had not come
He would ask for his wife and his
baby. He knew that Indians speak
many tongues but that all understand
the sign language. It is universal.
He broke his long inactivity by indus
friously making signs with his hands
to those who surrounded him. These
were strange gesticulations which no
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more than paid the penalty Of his
crimes. lie showed that the Indian
was still sane despite all that he had
passed through and had probably al
ways been sane. He argued that the
holding of a sane man in a madhouse.
lost to the world for a third of
century, was a national crime and one
that deserved the making Of amends
He recommended the pardon of the
Indian and the President acted favor
ably upon the recommendation.
The Home Coming.
The Homecoming of Spo Pee was
great occasion at the Blackfoot reser-
vation at Browning. Montana, in the
shadow of the snow-topped noun
tains of Glacier Park When the
plains were reached the old Indian
began TO take on a new life. His eyes
were glued to the window pane and
ne watched increasingly for the first
of the scenes of his youth that he
could recognize. Since his time there
has grown up on the Cut Bank a
town bearing that name. Beyond the
town is the first view Of the stream
that carves itself a deep trough
through the plain. when the sight
Of IL burst into the view Of the re-
turning Indian he exclaimed:
'Looki The Cut Bank. The body
of the white man whose heart was
bad lies there"
When the train reached Browning
there were 500 Indians from the res
ervation in waiting. When the re-
turning warrior stepped of they
surged down upon him in a wave OF
cordial reception. For a moment he
drew back in apprehension, but then
grasped the idea that these were his
own people. They gathered about him
i'm vast handshelSings and much DEM
onstrative rubbing OF his back. Long
Time-Sleep, one of the principal
chiefs. owns and operates a handsome
seven passenger automobile and Spo
Pee rode to the reservation in this
With him rode Mrs. Takes Gun, who
was the three-year- baby in the
arms Of Rainbow Light, the wife OF
Spo Pee when ne was taken away.
Mrs. Takes Gun is now a woman Of
thirty-eight and lives with her hus-
band in a lodge some miles bacl, In
the woods. The grandchildren OF Spo
Pee play at hunting as did the chill
dren Of the long ago. There the old
Indian is to md himself home anr
take up the life that was suspended
thirty five years ago.
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money by telling fortunes, etc.
"Paris of the Balkans"


Bucharest, the capital, is the real
city not only of Roumania but of the
Balkan States and has long been
known as the Paris Of the Balkans"
Among the natives it is known as the
CITY of Pleasure" a name equally
suitable and one which the native
word "Bucurescr' literally implies.
The principal street of the city-the
Calea VictOrien, is an avenue of pala-
tial buildings, the postohice being con-
sidered one of the finest (architect-
urally speaking) in the world. 1t is
built of white marble and is finer than
the town palace, which is a compara-
lively modest structure built so near
the street that one may look into the
royal apartments. There are several
fine hotels in the city at which Paris
prices are charged. Cafes and gamb-
ling establishments abound, for Buch-
Arrest is regarded as one Of the i'm
moral cities and gambling and
all other vices flourish in the
open, yet with all this it is one OF
the safest places in the world for a
woman travelling alone. A lady may
walk on the streets alone at night or
go to a place of amusement minus an
escort without the least fear of insult.
The Roumanians are the most polite
people in the world, and a stranger
who travels there meets courtesy at
every turn. The native women are
pretty. for as a noted writer has said
''she combines the beauty of the Hun
garian, the grace of the Austrian and
the wit of The French"
The upper classes, especially in
Bucharest, live in a perpetual round
of gayety which leaves them little time
for serious thought Trashy French
novels find favor in the fashionable
book shops, the excellent public Ii
braries being patronized almost ex-
clusively by the middle class. The
peasant women wear gay costumes,
/ frequently covering their heads with
wells of gauze bespangled with silver.
while the men wear white baggy trous-
ers often trimmed with lace and tight
shirts with flowing sleeves.
Military service is compulsory and
universal In time of peace the army
numbers about ninety-hve thousand
The total war strength is said to be
at least half million. with at least
one hundred and fifty thousand addi-
tional. If necessary. but at present un-
organized for duty "a mighty army
from a country Of 52.760 square miles
and a population of less than eight
million souls.
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Ordeal Unprecedented
In the History Of the
Nation -One Which De-
Il Ties the Imaginings of
The Eaters Ofthe Lotus.
WfI,fIl.sss ArHERToN pu PuY.


RIItS is the tragic tale of Spo Pee.
ne Indian. a sane man who has
sat stoically for thirty-two years
" in the midst of the gibbering
7ates OF St. Elizabeth's. Uncle Sans
htutlen for the mentally de-
oned
5e, awarrior against the Sioux and
sumter Of the buffalo. an abor,gine
rouched BY the white mans civin-
ien. was seized on his native Mon
a plains, tried by a court the de-
srations Of which he could not un-
stand, adjudged according to stand
Is he. had known no opportunity
learn. condemned TO die. Because
sat IN stole silence and because
later. made strange signs with his
IDS, his uncomprehending captor.
judged him insane. saved his III,
thrust him into a more cruel fat,
Incarcerating him for the span OF Z
Grafton among mad men who rave
women who tear their hair.
~ a. strange coincidence. the mer
his Reservation TO whom he haC
lost for all this time. have found
IN his barred cell. have placed his
G before a sympathetic Commits.
aer pf Indian Affairs who investi.
ed H. and a pardon has been Sc
sd .
'oday spo Pee sits in the lodge OF
baby. girl he left on the reserva-
10 tir<rty-hve years ago. among the
'ckf1ot indians with whom he hunt
'as Afyoufh. in the shadow Of the
mic koountains Of Glacier National
H. Mhere Montana breaks into
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