Year: 1878

lew with Christina that was his only
allure of the kind. He looked as good
grandee as the best of the i. thanks to
lis soldierly bearing and his handsome
ace; and, as the caste does not
'hine by its intelligence or education. his
blunt answers were as good as his fellow
aobles' bon mots. He bore his honors
grufhy: and for a man who
has not been borne to such things per-
hsps that is the only way of bearing
them we'll. His curtness was easily and
perhaps not inaccurately taken for the
reserve of force. For indispensable
verbal civilities and such other conven-
tionalitles of courtesy as could not be
dispensed with in bis new career he was
indebted to the constant coaching of the
Queen, one Of the most accomplished
women of her time.


Spain we'll or i'll, and laore often very ill.
Her great object was to secure the success
sion Of her daughter, Isabella, with real
power for himself as Regent for the child.
TO this end, after successfully wheedling
her first husband in favor cf the revoca-
tion Of the law against female heirship to
the throne, she proceeded to try the same
with the Nation on larger
scale. The Liberals ehed their blood Tor
her in long and bitter civil war against
the, perhaps, better claim Of the heir male
as represented by the heal of the Carlist
faction. And when they had served her
turn, she harded them and the whole Ma
ton over to a succession of the most arDi-
trary Ministers ever known in modem
times. There was but one remedy n
other civil war--and she had to run fos
her life. Isabella, then but nine years
old, was left behind as a warming pan
under the tutelage Of Espartero. Rian.
zares. Of course, went with his wife to
France. Louis Philippe at first received
him rather coolly, but remembering that
the exiled Queen had still royal
daughter to mary, and that the way to
her heart was through the show OF re-
spect to her peasant husband, he seen
altered his demeanor. christina soon
began to pave the way for her return by
palace plots; and when she thought the
Nation might be induced to bear with her
once more, she found means to get the
Cortes to advance the period OF 1sabella's
coming of age by about year. The child
of thirteen thus officially declared to be
woman, there was no gainsaying her
wish to have her mother once more BY
her side, and Christina came back, in
reality, though not in name, to exercise
all her old power. Her first act was to
obtain the public ratification OF her mar
riage with Rianzares and to legitima.ize
their children-one Of them known to-day
as the Princess del Drogo. another as the
Marchioness of Campo Sagrado.


Her second essay in government lasted
eleven years-eleven years Of trial for her
and for the people. She was child in
politics, or was going to say, what was
just as bad, woman, only remember
there have been too many exceptions Of
high feminine competence in affairs to
maze it possible for them to prove my
rule. She was without the most elemen-
tary notions Of the tendencies of her
time. She wanted to govern Nation
like nursery, and her only remedy for
popular disaffection was more rod. At
length she had to be driven out once
more, and this time for good, as a ruler,
though she now and then revisited Spain
as tourist. The palace was almost as
tired of her as the country, for there had
been frequent chickering's in the Royal
family through Isabella's want of respect
for her step.father. When Isabella was
but Queen she had to speak Of 'sPapa
Rianzares" with every show OF dutiful
respect; VIXEN she became both a queen
and a woman she could venture to give
tho words an infection of disdain that
turned them into nickname. She re-
sented the mesalliance and drew great
comfort from the reflection that she
would never commit herself in that way.
It was rather shocking to remark the
frankness with which tho mother subse-
quently talked of the other ways in
which the daughter had done worse. and
see her with the impartiality of a Judge
marking shades IF blame am,ng the fav-
orites who had brought contempt on the
Royal name. "That poor Marfori. He
was the only honest one among them,
and he has been made the scaPegoat for
al! their ofenses. He ruined himself for
Isabella. The rest have nearly made her
ruin herself for them! And the papers
treat him as the vilest of mankind. New
er talk to me Of public opinion after
that!'


Rianazares was never known TO say
anything on the subject; he KEEP: his own
counsel in family matters. It was q se-
cret between him and his cigarette. For
all the humility OF his origin, he was O.
the pure race of Ccnsort- Princes, and. like
one of the most illustrious of them. he
had wife who thought he would have


bee1 in the right place if fortune had


only permitted him to take hers. Chris


tina carried out this disposition in all


things, down to the end of their welded


life, for she would have gladly changed


roles with him In bereavement in 1871


when he died at the age of sixty three,


her junior by three years. From that


time flattery itself could 40 longer denv


that she was an old womon. Her silvery


hsir, indeed, could grow no whittier, but


her piercing eye lost its brightness, and.


If she retained her curious smile, it was


somewhat changed in character. a.


though in derision of the emptiness of


life. Rianzares may have been worthy of


the love OF such = woman, but, like the


rest of US, he was hardly worthy of such


woman's love. She ad0red him to the


very last, and there 10 just this to be
said in his favor, that he bore her no


malice for it, if he did not yield her s
full return.-Paris Cor. N. ?. World.


"Stop that car" cried old Mr.. Nosen-
gale, chasing flying car up Davision
street, the car fresh a. . daisy and Mr.
Noeengal badly blown, and tho distance
pole not mi1nte away. "Stop that car p
be shouted to Z, distant but fieet- limbed
boy: "Certainly," shrieked back tho
:TeIl it to- hold on" shouted the aban-
doned passenger. Hold on to !whati''''
yelled the boy. .2&"lake it wait for: me y
pulled NJ. Nosengale. you've got too
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