New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1918-07-18
The Baden Dynasty.
(Written for The Providence Journal
by Marquise de FOntenoy).

| the Grand Ducal throne of Baden,
making some public appeal to his
: countrymen. He has taken upon
| himself the duty of endeavoring to
| cohtfoNert every one Of President
! WILSON'S messages emanating from
| the White House, and, differing from
[ the Kaiser, argues that Germany can
never win by the sword alone, but
can only achieve complete victory
! through convincing her foes by APP
| peal to their recommended conscience,
! Whatever that NAV mean. His latest
! efusiOn, more sensible than the oth-
ers, and issued last week, warns not
! only Germany, but other more CIVIL
| lied nations as we'll, of the peril of
| the press, and propagation through
| out the world, of the doctrines Of
! the BolsheVi<i, which have reduced
| Russia to such an Understandable con-
dition of chaos, anarchy famine and
| general desoiation-a danger which
! threatens the United States quite as
mucI as most of the European ma
| tons
Prince Macmillan has been de-
! scribed in cable dispatches from Eu-
J rope as one of the saneSt and most
! level headed men in GERMANY How
| ever much we may admit has con-
| tentions about the Bolsheviki which
! are so self-evident as to partake Of
! the nature of platitudes, the asser-
| ton as to his sanity does not speak
| we'll for his fell-countrymen for he
| spent several years in the lunatic asy-
| lum at Purkersdorff, near Vienna,
! where Princess Louise Of Coburg.
| eldest daughter of the late KinG
Leopold of Belgium, was for a con-
| Sidera bic time under restraint.
In his youth Prince Macmillan
was extremely wild. The pace which
he had gone was too rapid, even for
! the Grandduchess Helen VladimirOv-
ma of Russia, whose father and BROTH
ers We're assuredly not straitlaced, or
| inclined to Puritanism. She there
fore felt herself constrained to break
off her engagement to him, almost on
| the very eve of the day appointed
for the wedding. Prince Max was
| genuinely in love with her. Her &C
| ton in fitting him was such shock
| to q constitution impaired by dissipa-
| ton that it affected his reason, and
he had to be committed to the Cele-
| brated Austrian retreat for the in
sane above mentioned. \ number of
years afterward he secured the hand
Of Princess Marie Louise of Bruins
wick and of Great Britain, whose
father, the septuagenarian Duke of
| Cumberland, eX-CrOWn Prince of
Hanover, and whose brother, the
sovereign Duke of Brunswick, are
both of them under restraint as men
tally disturbed, in the Cumberland
| Chateau on the shores of Lake Gmun-
! den, in Austria
Whether Prince Maxs only boy,
| now IL years Of age, will escape the
blight which rests upon the reigning
| house Of Baden. and of which he is
| for the present, next to his father,
| the only hope and heir, remains to
| be seen. With q father who has
spent some years in a Iunatic asylum,
and a mother whose brother and
father are insane, he is assuredly
somewhat handicapped. The blight
upon the Baden dynasty may be said
| to have found it's expression in the
, childleSsneSs and chronic state OF in
, valdism of the reigning Grand Duke,
likewise in the insanity of Grand
, Duke Louis, throughout the eight
years of his reign, during which
time the government of Baden was
administered by his younger brother,
Frederick, as regent, also in the re-
bellion, bloodshed and Prussian in
vasion which marked the reign of
Grand Duke Leopold and caused so
| many OF MS SUBJECTS 10 SEEK refuge
in America.
The blight is popularity supposed
? in Germany to have been due to the
curse placed upon the now reigning
= branch of the dynasty by Grand
Duchess Stephanie, wife of Grand
| Duke Charles, whose only son, Crown
| Prince Alexander, vanished from his
L cradle at the age Of II months. a
2 dying child, disfigured by erysipelas,
/ | being substituted in the little boys
e stead The disappearance of young
S Prince Alexander was aScribed by
/ | Grand Duchess Stephanie, and by the
/ German people generally, to Grand
| Duke Charles uncle, Louis, who was
| bent on securing to himself the sue
| cession to the throne and of pre-
n venting any son of the French born
t Grand Duchess Stephanie from sue
y ceeding to the crown The missing
s Crown Prince is said to have turned
I'D 20 years late under the name OF
"Kaspar Hauser," and it is signif1-
cant that on the very day when the
| Earl of Stanhopc and his daughter
the late Duchess of Cleveland, had
arranged for the meeting of Kaspa1
Hauser with Grand Duchess ste
| phanie, he should have been mys-
L I terious1y murdered without any trace
/ being obtained of the perpetrators OF
- the crime.
= Steel In Canada.
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