The daily Alaskan., 1915-01-09

the city were scattered. JosepGa, car irving the prince, who was supposed to be her child, escaped from the palace and made her way to her home in the
 country. She dared not let 1t be known
 that the babe was heir to the throne of Thungaria lest the fact reach the conquering king and be should be Kill. ed. She therefore kept her secret
 Twenty years passed. Thungaria was province of the kingdom of Boris, governed by viceroy. Bonverd was
 brought up by his foster mother under
 the name of Joseph Bernstein and unlike bis father, manifested predis
 position for q military life. At an early age he enlisted in the army of
 King Boris in corps stationed in rhungariN Being a fine soldier, be
 was rapidly promoted till at twenty years of age he was made captain.
 A few years later young man came
 to Thungaria and announced that he
 was Bouverd H., king of Thungaria.
 He declared that when the Serbs had
 conquered the country he had been taken by order of King Boris from his cradle in the palace and carried to the king, who had turned him over to
 one of hiz officers 70 be dispatched
 The officer, not reIishlng the work of killing an infant, had turned him over to a common soldier. who in turn com mIssioncd his wife to strangle him. The woman reported that she had done so, but instead had concealed him and aftcrward brought him mp as her own child
 Great changes had taken place since
 the conquest of Thungaria. King Boris
 had died and had been succeeded by his son. Boris w., who was a weakling.
 The young claimant to the throne Of Thungaria called upon his people to rise and throw off the yoke. It was quite likely that he would have sue ccCdcd in putting himself at the head or an army at once had not several of
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 been commissioned to inspect the
 prince and bis foster brother when they were babes, still lived. They at once visited the claimant to the throne and pronounced him an lmpOstor. He
 was of dark complexion, while the true prince was fair
 Joseph Bernstein was at the time serving with the army and had risen to be colonel He seldom saw his fos, ter mother. and she had never revealed to him the secret of his birth, fearing ! that he would attempt to lead a re volt which would surely fail, and in i stead of gaining a crown he would lose his head. Bernstein heard of the pre-, ! tender and espoused his cause, think ing 1t better that even q false pre-
 tender should lead the Thungarians to 1 liberty than that they should remain subjects of their conqueror.
 A secret meeting took place between
 the two men. Bernstein reported that the corps he commanded was largely
 composed of Thungarians and he could
 begin a revolt with 1t. The offer was accepted, and suddenly the vlceroy and aU the Serb civil officers of the gov
 crnmcnt were arrested The news spread rapidly. and the people sprang
 to arms. Not only was a sovereign at hand in tine claimant. but a military chfeftain in Bernstein. The army through q long term of years-a quar- | ter of a century had become largely | Hungarian aud only needed leader | Bernstein therefore found himself at
 the head of an army almost immedi' atcly
 But force composed entirely or | Serbs was sent to put down the rebel. | lion. and many battles were fought | At first it was a losing game for the 1 Thuugar!ans, but under Bernsteins 8 ! leadership they held their own until, ! gaining strength they were able to { meet the enemy under more adyan ] tageous circumstances Finally when | their general found himself in a posi- l ton to strike he sent his adversaries
 back in rout, dictating terms of peace
 in their capital which restored the in | dependence of Thungaria.
 i When Bernstein returned with this i treaty at the head of a victorious
 army one of the first persons he met | standing at the foot of the steps lead
 ing up to the palace, where he was
 going to report to the pretender, was l his foster mother.
 Hail King BonverdI" she said, ] kneeling before him.
 What do you mean, mother?" he i asked.
 1 Before the throng that were crowd ing upon the young victor she told the i story of how she had been his nurse,
 bow she had put her own son in his
 place when the Serbs broke into the
 palace and how she had taken him
 away and brought him up as her own l son.
 At that moment an old man who had
 been a member of King BonVerds ! NV1ll a