The Chandler Tribune. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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AMERICAN WOMEN
NEAR TO THRONES
There Is Not a Nobility in the World, Except-
ing Chinas, That Has Not Had a Fair
Daughter of United States in It.
_-KITING In I ho Plilia
jK J dolphin Public I.‘<1-
y® / gcr "A Veteran I ir
'fty W loniat" has Ibis to
y y sny of American-
horn women who
have shared royal thrones:
The American woman has gone
everywhere and become everything by
marriage. There is not a nobility in
the world, excepting China's, but that
lms its American woman in it. Hut
royal families have been of necessity
more exclusive when wives are to be
chosen for their scions ami royally has
generally evinced little prodded Inn Par
those outside of equally exulted fam-
ilies, even ia Europe Oa the conti-
nent, In fact, it is practically true that
only IItoso sheep blackened, or nt least
sunburned, by tho fierce light that
heals upon a throne have married non-
royal persons. Those who have made
morganatic but perfectly honorable
marriages, like (itaiitl Duke Michael of
Russia, aro very rare.
Yet there arc now living a countess,
widow of a king whose love for the
Dost on girl changed the coarse of nine-
teenth century history; nn American
princess who actually shared a throne
—or nt leant n palace—is slill alive;
and another, a Now Yorker born, is
aunt by marriage of the Gorman em-
press. Prince Leopold of Lippc-IMes
tot-fold, who died a few months ago,
nearly lost his principality of Lippo-
Detmold because his grandmother was
n Philadelphian. Feminine citizens of
the United States have reached the
dubious positions of unofficial consort
of a king of Holland, wife of a throne-
loss Uonaparlo who bud lo give up his
American spouse to enter royal ranks;
and it was a daughter of John II. Flag-
ler of Now York who was wife of the
lira! and only "king" of Trinidad, the
self-styled James 1. of tho island.
A Remarkable List.
Tills Is a remarkable list when the
conditions and harriers to lie burned
or pushed away aro kept in mind. The
mere fact that every royal family is
subject to Its own laws by which mes-
alliances aro viewed in ns serious a
light as are criminal acts under the
laws of the non-royal Is only the
along with it. Site who was known
in Hie Louisiana metropolis as Miss
Marguerite Alice Heine not only pos-
sesses the distinction of being the only
person of Now World birth who lias
shared a genuine realm with a ruler,
but also is tlte only Jewess ever legiti-
mainly married to a reigning Christian
prince. Her marriage lo Prince Albert \ ale's,
of Monaco was not morganatic. For
1.1 years she was a real, not a titular,
princess.
Her father was a cousin of Heinrich
Heine, the great German lyric poet,
and her own cousin married a nephew
of Napoleon ill's finance minlst.-T.
She herself, as most of her family, is
not of the Jewish faith. As Miss Ilelne,
daughter of the New Orleans banker,
who, after making his money there, re-
tired lo Paris lo live, she married Ar-
mnnde Due do Richelieu, who died.
Pt'luco Albert of Monaco, the - present
prince, who is host known for ills work
as a hydrographer, lmd been married
to Lady Mary Hamilton, hut she l*ul
secured a divorce. On October fit,
1889, at raids, he married the widowed
Duchess de Richelieu and the famous
old Grimaldi palace at Monte Carlo
was the scene of great festivities when
he brought Ills bride homo. The whole
four square miles and a half of the
principality were bedecked with Vene-
tian masts and triumphal arches and a
cantata was performed in the cathedral
in iier honor Such was the reception
of tho bride. lit 1902 site secured a
judicial separation from the prince and
still enjoys iter freedom. The son of
Prince Albert, who is his heir, is not
her son, but the offspring of Lady
Mary Hamilton, now the wife of Count
Tassilo Festetics of Hungary.
A King in Thrall.
A plebeian Ohio woman for years
held a king In thrall and Mine. Musard
is, 1 believe, the cue case of the kind
in the annals of the New World. On
(ho other hand, shameless European
adventuresses who have fascinated
monurchs have been many. The story
is new forty or fifty years old. Mario
Musard, a Frenchman of Belgium, was
the leader of an orchestra in Paris in
the heyday of his career. He made a
Hying trip to this country and took
sight in an exceedingly obliging man-
ner.
In Profligate Splendor.
She purchased a sumptuous hotel,
built palatial stables for her 80 magni-
ficent horses and entertained with sy-
baritic lavishness. Her palace was the
Mecca of high society during tlie Third
Empire. Her splendor equaled her
profligacy. At a dinner in honor of
the Prince de Chima.v she wore a dress
embroidered with more than 1,000
pearls. Her stables were marvels of
equine luxury, and tickets of admis-
sion were issued to them as to great
art collections. She was accustomed
to giving elaborate breakfasts in them,
at which such notables as Arsene
Iloussaye, Theophile Gautier and the
painters Chaplin and Zeiin were
gnosis. The table service at these re-
pasts was performed alternately by
three coal-black negroes and three
white men, all in her own special liv-
ery. Her equipages wore more magni-
ficent even than the Empress Enge-
Hi1 r entertainments in the
Avenue do lena and at her country
scat, the Chttuteau de Villequiers,
ing a tenth part of the demonstration
that would follow the death of Musard
by violent means. The fiddler bore an
unenviable reputation even then.
While New York's curiosity was
piqued to see him, Ihc town was not
ambitious to behold his activity. Wit-
ness the contemporary account: "Ff
we have masked balls here, there will
lie a scene of such immorality and pro-
fanity and disgrace of all kinds as
even this vicious city has never
known before."
Queen or trinidad.
There is opera bottffe equal to any
on the comic stage, as well as love and
trouble and infamy, in the history of
American women who have become
queens. One, for instance, ruled a
kingdom that existed only in the mind
of iter husband. The Baroness James
I la ."Jen-Hickey, daughter of John H.
Flagler and cousin of Henry M. Flag-
ler of the Standard Oil Company, was
queen of Trinidad for a space of time
after this fashion. Her husband was
an eccentric of American origin,
French citizenship, and strong royalist
leanings. His title was a papal one,
LAW VALID, SAYS COURT
TAX FERRET LAW CONSTITU-
TIONAL, SAYS THE COURT
DENIES WRIT TO PREVENT COLLECTIONS
Declares That the Law is Necessary
to Equalize Burden of Taxation
—Other News of Interest
to the Reader
smallest obstacle to bo overcome.
In I back with him a wife, who was a
most European countries the Salic
law prohibiting Iho Inheritance of the
Ihrone In the female line is recognized,
and accordingly there is a less super-
vision of tho love affairs of a princess
than of a prince and a corresponding
care in selecting wives for the latter.
Even for royalty—alboit youthful—to
live of a small Ohio town and was
named Eliza Parker. He himself was
at best an adventurer ami she his
willing assistant. While lie was en-
gaged In a professional capacity at
Baden-Baden he succeeded in throwing
his wide-awake, ambitious and pretty
wife in the way of the austere William
were on a superb scale, and enthusias-
tically do bon vivants of that time
recall them, and declare that never
since have their like been seen.
End Comes Suddenly.
When Mme. Musard's edifice col-
lapsed it was with a startling sudden-
ness. First the favor of the Dutch
i sovereign was lost to her and Europe
! was nearly plunged into war thereby,
i In 1867 she betrayed her royal lover's
I negotiations with Napoleon III. for the
sale of Luxemburg to France. The
king was in need of money, while the , States but marriaBe, insU,ad of qulet.
woman was enjoying the height of lux- j ln„ M= nnlv to
ury as a result of his gift. Luxemburg
Guthrie, Okla.—Th-c "tax ferret”
jaw is not only constitutional, but
just, decided the supreme court in
an opinion in the cases of George
Anderson vs. Fred Ritterbush, treas-
urer of Logan county, and Hannah
G. Gamble, administratrix, vs. J. S.
Patrick, treasurer of Kingfisher coun-
ty. In an exhaustive opinion Justice
Kane denies the writ of prohibition
asked by Anderson to prevent Ritter-
bush from collecting $3,408.93 in back
taxes due from 1S94 to 1907, with a
penalty of 50 per cent.
The collection of the back taxes is
constitutional, decides the supreme
court, but the penalty of 50 per cent
is knocked out. In the Kingfisher
county case the only difference is
colection of back taxes from an es-
tate, which is also declared constitu-
tional. In making his order of de-
nial Justice Kane speaks emphatical-
ly concerning those who would evade
taxes and the right of the state to
collect the same:
“A great many states have found it
necessary to pass laws such as the
one under consideration in order to
equalize the burdens of supporting
the state between those honest and
patriotic property owners who return
their property for taxation and pay
taxes upon the same, and the prop-
erty owner who shirks or for any
reason escapes this duty.
LAWTON AFTER GROUND
Wants Old Water Plant to Use for
Factory Purposes
Washington, D. C.—Efforts are un-
der way whereby the city of Lawton
is to be given title to the old water
plant east of Lawton and lying be-
tween the Frisco and Rock Island
tracks at that point.
Approximately seven acres of land
are involved which the <city, it is
said, proposes to offer as factory
sites. Representative Scott Ferris,
and after being educated at French who 1,aa bcen asked to secure ,he
military schools he began to publish a n'ccessai-y legislation will introduce
royalist newspaper in Paris, which
caused his speedy expulsion from the
republic.
He had a fortune of his own, and im-
agined that he was destined to con-
quer worlds and rule all the con-
quered. Leaving France by govern-
mental Invitation he was shipwrecked
on Trinidad and conceived the king-
dom he was afterward to establish for
a minute or two. The next year he
married Anna Flagler in the United
FACT VERIFIED.
Kid—Say, mister, got change fer
five dollars?
Kind Gentleman—Yes, my boy; here
It is.
Kid—Thanks, boss; I just wanted to
see it. I’d kinder got to thinkin’ dere
wasn’t dat much money in circulation!
LEWIS' "SINGLE BINDER."
A hand-made cigar fresh from the
table, wrapped in foil, thus keeping
fresh until smoked. A fresh cigar
made of good tobacco is the ideal
smoke. The old, well cured tobaccos
used arc so rich In quality that many
who formerly smoked 10c cigars now
smoke Lewis’ Single Binder Straight
5c. Lewis’ Single Binder costs tho
dealer some more than other 5c cigars,
but the higher price enables this fac-
tory to use extra quality tobacco.
There are many imitations; don’t be
fooled. There is no substitute! Tell
the dealer you want a Lewis “Single
Binder."
Didn’t Sleep Well.
Snicker—I dreamed lust night that I
was a millionaire.
Kicker—Well, I might as well have
been one for all the sleep I got last
night.—Bohemian Magazine.
defy royalty is no small matter, and
Melons of ruling houses like Archduke
Francis Ferdinand of Austria, who suc-
cumbed to the charms of a non-royal
woman, must needs be only morgaua-
tlcally married. But Princess Hohen-
berg's rendering of the archduke's
heart captive was a comparatively
simple matter, site having been a lady
In waiting at court and so virtually
one of the royal family circle. But the
American woman can enjoy no such
advantage if she sets her cap for a
princeling. Women oitlzens of the re-
public, thousands of them, have been
years abroad, and only glimpsed an oc-
casional royal personage.
A New Orleans Girl.
It required no judicial decision at
all to make a New Orleans girl a rul-
ing princess in Monaco. Ouly she
could not endure tho dignity long on
account of the prince she had to take
III. of Holland in such a manner
completely to capture him.
The relations of king and beauty
were for many years a scandal, but
they hud made her of independent :
mentis. For one day William III. drew
from his writing table a package of old
mortgages on some lands in Pennsyl-
vania and gave them as a souvenir to
the fair Eliza, who, with all her
flaunting of propriety, had a good
head for business. She promptly fore-
closed the mortgages and became pos-
sessed of some of the richest petro-
leum lands in the world in Hie days
when kerosene was just beginning to
lie recognized as an extremely valua-
ble natural product. She thus became
one of the richest women In Europe.
All of this happened about 1860, and
Mme. Musard promptly set up an es-
tablishment lit Paris without bothering
to separate herself from her legal hus-
band, who forthwith drouueil from
was his and lie sought to sell, thus vio-
; lating the treaty guaranteeing ils neu-
trality. In March the treaty of cession
! to Napoleon was drawn up. William
confided the contemplated act to his
Egeria. Mme. Musard betrayed the
fact, some say to the German ambas-
sador, others to the Marquise tie Paha.
Tlf disposition of the sovereignty of
tlte duchy had been settled 30 years
before by a concert of tlte powers.
Germany was furious over the plotted
scheme and was was only averted by
the calling of a conference in 'Loudon
which settled Luxemburg's neutrality
| and decreed that it should remain in
the possession of the house of Orange-
Nassau. Egeria had lost her Numa.
Dies in Asylum.
Nemesis followed hard after. The
indiscreet talk of madam lost her royal
! friend, but she was wealthy, and one
report had it that she had divulged the
secret negotiations for hard cash, was,
in fact, a gilded spy in the pay of Ger-
many. Her joyful life as the adulated
of all adulators bade fair to last long.
But one night in her box at the opera
she was suddenly seized with a paraly-
tic attack. Her left eye was so af-
fected she was never able to open it
again. She soon lost her mind; a few
months later she became a raving ma-
niac and tried to kill Chaplin, the
painter. Site was shut up in the asy-
lum of Dr. Blanche, the famous spe-
cialist, and died shortly, leaving what
remained of her fortune to her Ameri-
can relatives. The parasites who had
hovered about her made oft with a
good portion of her money, and it is
needless to say that the heirs of the
as j obliging Musard put in a claim that
1 had to be fought in the courts. So
ended in oblivion the glittering course
of the fair American who became
queen of society and mistress of roy-
alty.
Through tho contemporary records
of her meteor-like career Mario Mtts-
ard plays the part of ghost as he did
In life. It was not even known
whether he was French or Belgian in
origin. The nearest an assiduous
American could come to writing his
history 50 years ago was the six
words: "He leads orchestras; that is
all." The sentence was written in
1858, when Musard was In New York
and was expected to Inaugurate there
Saturday evening masked balls similar
to those which had become so popular
tinder his direction ut Paris that the
enthusiastic chronicler declared that
Guizot, the then strongest man in
France, might be killed without creat-
a bill at once for that purpose.
The Indians who now hold title to
the property, it is said, will release
it if reimbursed by the city. As Law-
ton proposes to do this, nothing
seems to prevent the early consum-
mation of the deal. The legislation
probably will be made a part of the
Indian appropriation hill which is
now tinder consideration liv the
house committee on Indian affairs.
ing his restless spirit, seemed only to
incite his romantic disposition. The
Odysseys he performed were as start-
ling as that of Maximilian to Mexico, |
which was then fresh in the .minds of I
tlte world, and without any manner of
excuse excepting his own perverse de-
sire. He roved over tho world, and al-
ways encountered adventures that had
no place in the life of a nineteenth cen-
tury citizen. He should have lived in
the days of tho three musqueteers or
earlier in the crusading times to have
been entirely at home with his period.
Harden-Hickey’s End.
It was in 1894 that he set out in a
yacht with his wife. They were
wrecked off Trinidad, and the baron
set up the government ho had planned
six years before. At least lie began
along those lines, and got as far as
taking the title of James I. for himself
and awarding that of Queen Anna to
his wife, ills rule was so short-lived
that he did not even have opportunity
to get his extravagant plaits out of his
head even onto paper. The big island
off the Venezuelan coast was discov-
ered by Columbus on his third voyage,
and for a century before King James
proclaimed himself had belonged to
England. At the time it had a British
governor and 200,000 inhabitants. King
Juine3, therefore, speedily encountered
John Bull, and as quickly as the ex-
changes of the information regarding
his usurpation could be made the
London government dispatched a
cruiser to deal with this brand-new
problem of colonial control.
King James and Queen Anna, at the
time constituting all the royal govern-
ment, were exported to Key West, and
the king died as king for want of a
place to rule.
Harden-Hickey finally shot himself,
and the baroness brooded over Mb
death until she became insane and
last summer was committed to a Con-j
neclicut asylum.
The present widowed Countess Al-
bert von Waldersee, whose husband
was the famous German field marshal, j
is an aunt by marriage to the German |
empress. Site acquired the relation-
ship by her previous marriage to
Prince ztt Noer.
Bishop Resigned Office.
After an active service of more than
twenty years, Bishop Cyrus D. Foss
has resigned the presidency of the I
Methodist Episcopal Board of Home
Missions and Church Extension, as-
signing as the reason his ill health of
the last year. Bishop Luther B. Wll-
i son lias been chosen to succeed him.
BUCKLES RESIGNS
Good Eye.
Mitchell’s Eye Salve was first com-
pounded in 1848 by Dr. Mitchell, a
noted eye specialist of Missouri. It i3
a clean, white, odorless salve with won-
derful curative properties. Simply ap-
ply to the eye lids, that’s all. Sold
everywhere. Price 25 cents.
As soon as a man begins to love his
work, then will he also begin to make
progress.—Ruskin.
fEUOW CLOTHES AUK UNSIGHTLY.
Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue.
All grocers sell large 2 oz. package, 5 cents.
It's awfully hard for a crooked man
to keep in the straight path.
ONI.Y ONE “ItltOMO QI IN'INT,"
That Is LAXATIVE ItltOMO QUININE. Look tor
lilt* signature of K. W.iiKOVK. Used tho World
over to Cure a Cold in uno Day. J&c.
When a woman has her hair fixed
up she is half dressed.
Those Tlrod, Aching Feet of Yours
nood Allen’s !•’. ot-Kuse. ‘j&c at your Imigglst'a.
Write A. »S. Olmsted. Lo Hoy, N. Y., for sample.
Sober second thoughts are alwaya
best for a toper.
Cashier Convicted of Embezzlement
Quits Oklahoma Bank
Oklahoma City, Okla.—C. M. Buck-
les, cashier of the First State Bank of
Oklahoma City since the organization
of that institution, resigned lti-3 posi-
tion with the hank. The action of
Mr. Buckles follows his recent trou-
b'.e in which a jury at El Reno re-
turned a verdict against him on H.->
charge of embezzlement. While Mr.
Buckles maintains that he is inno-
cent of wrong doing, and has prepar-
ed to> appeal his case, he felt that
under the circumstance! his position
her? with the bank should r.o lony-r
be maintained.
Lumber to be Reduced
Chicago, 111.—Edward Hines, tho
newly elected president of the Vir-
ginia and Rainy Lake Lurillter com-
pany, the largest combir-a of its kind
in the world, predicts a new era in
its production as a result of tho new
organization.
It is our intention to cheapen the
cost of the manufacturing end, and of
course, to cheapen the cost to con-
sumers proportionately,” says Mr.
Hites.
“We will not do this, however, at
the expense of the country by reck-
less or wasteful lumbering methods.'
Wright to Visit France
Springfield, Ohio.—Orville Wright,
who lias fully recovered from his in-
jurits suffered in the fall of hht aero-
plane nt Fort Myer, will sail for Paris
in about ten days.
Gets Life Imprisonment
Bellingham, Wash.—,T. K. Thomas
was sentenced to life imprisonment
for tho murder of his divorced wife
on July 19 last.
Pete Duffy III at El Reno
El R?no. Okla.—Stricken with ty-
phoid fever, P. P. Duffy, editor of
tit*' Anadarko Democrat, i-s critically
ill at a local hospital. Duffy is pres-
ident of the State Association of
Newi'.papor oditors and private secre-
tary to Lieutenant Governor Bellamy.
Horses Burned to Death
Roff. Okla.—Fifteen horses, a num-
lirv of vehicles and Several thousand
dollars' worth of fixtures and feed
were destroyed by a fire that burned
the livery barn of Cooper Bros.
This woman says Lydia E.
PinLliam’s Vegetable Compound
saved Iter life- Bead her letter.
Mrs. T. C. Willadsen, of Manning;
Iowa, writes to Mrs. Pmkliam:
“ I can truly say that Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound saved my
life, and 1 cannot express my gratitude
to you in words. B’or years X suffered
with tho worst forms of female com-
plaints, continually doctoring and
spending lots of money for medicino
without help. I wrote you for advice,
followed it as directed, and took Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and
it has restored me to perfect health.
Had it not been for you I should have
been in my grave to-day. I wish every
suffering woman would try it.”
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink-
ham’s Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, fibroid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear-
ing-down feeling, flatulency, indiges-
tion,dizziness,or nervous prostration.
Why don’t you try it ?
Mrs. Pinkhnm invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
Bite 1ms guided thousands to
health. Address. Lynn. Mass.
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Positively cured by
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They also relieve Dis-
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edy for Dizziness, Nau-
sea, Drowsiness, Bad
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T
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Fac-Simile Signature
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