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mama“; .v~.4%;-7WWWW~%â€" wear/mi can,naeézxtrgmgqugapawwwwoeflmflfimfis‘ *' ' vtvv.vy VVvvvvv~ l l if ROYAL CONSORTS. :1 i lWill Queen'VVilhelmina’s husband be permitted to use the title of King? Will he be invested with, the dignity of a Prince Consort? 501' will he have to remain content with the rank which he held prior to his mar- riage? ll‘his is a problem which is exciting a good deal of discussion, not only in Holland, but likewise in Gerâ€" many, and, in fact, at all the mon- archical courts of Europe. The con- census of opinion about the matter'is that, in vieW of the bitter jealousy of the Dutch as far as everything German is concerned, Queen VVilhel- mina’s husband, if he be a German Prince, will receive neither the status of King nor of Prince Consort. In that event, his position will be l very awkward one, and will demand the exercise of no end of tact and di- plomacy, especially if, in accorda- Ince with universal belief, the choice of the young Queen falls upon Prince William of W'icd. As mere husband of Queen Wilhelmina he will not be in the eyes’of Dutch law or cf any of the foreign courts a member of the royal family of Holland, nor entitled to the legal rights or social preroga-Z tives of the latter. He will be in the position of one of her ordinary subâ€" jects, and as such may be indicted at any time by the ordinary tribunals of the Netherlands for offenses against the law, of the land, including those of high treason and lose majeste. Both of these last named crimes lack defiâ€" nition and are in consequence more elastic in their application; and there is no knowing what a hot-tempered, impulsive and capricious young Queen might do if she were to find her husband paying attention to other women. demned their wives to lifelong im- prisonment on charges of high trea- son merely because they had reason to suspect their fidelity, and as recently as the last century the consort of King Beorge I. of England and the wife of the King of Denmark, sister of Seorgc IlI. of Great Britain, both suff- lred a fate of' this kind. Flirtation larried to excess on the part of a Queen Consort is regarded as treason. The same rule is applicable to the con- sorts of Queens and E-mpresses regu- ant. A Swedish Queen is on record as having put her morganatic husband to death at Fo-ntainbleau, on discov- ering his infatuation for an Italian beauty, and, while it is not probable, yet it is possible that the husband of Queen Wil-h-emina may be exposed, at any rate, to the loss of his freedom, if ' he does not bear himself with diplom- acy and discretion. According to all the recognized au- thorities bearing upon the subject, the royal family of a monarchical coun- try embreaces only the Queen Con- sort, th-e Queen Dowager and the lineal and legitimate descendants of the sov- ereign. But no provision is made for the consort of a Queen regnant or for an Empress regnant. Consequently the matter stands thus, that whereas a Queen Consort is a member of the reigning family and entitled to all the rights and prerogatives of the latter, the husband of a Queen or Empress regnant is not, unless specially so created by letters patent, or by sta- tute. In fact, it was not until Prince Albert of C'oburlg had been married to Queen Victoria for eighteen years that he became officially and legally a member of the British royal family through letters patent issued by the Queen in council conferring upon him the title of "Prince Consort of Great Britain.” Up to that time he had been without any officially recognized status in England, while abroad he was obliged to accept the precedence iuc to a mere Prince of the House of fioburg, who was not even a “ltoyal Highness." Al. lhe time of his mar- riage to Queen Victoria she made a xtroneg effort to give him rank and precedence immediately next to her, ind a bill to this effect was intro- luced into Parliament by the govern- ment of the day. But it [not with so much opposition in the House of Lords that, deeply chagrined, she was obliged to authorize her Min- isters to with-draw it, and her husband was left until 1857 without any defined rank, save that which he enjoyed as Prince of Coburg. ~At meetings of the Privy Council presided over by the Queen he was obliged, if any of her uncles were present, to take a lower seat at the table than they: and that he was com- pelled to yield the “pas” oven to his own children, and to acknowledge their superiority of rank, is demon- strated to the present day by the fact that, whereas in the House of Lords the chair bearin' the coat of arms of, _ x ., . g ‘ have gone down to their graves soured th'“ bitter almond’ seems to suggest the Prince of Wales is placed on the dais to the right of the throne, the“ It 01 embroidered with lie armoria 2 ° ’tltle of King Consort was conferred bearings of the Queen’s lamented hus- band is set at the left. A sensitive man. Prince Albert keenly felt the many sli-ghts to which he was subjected owing to his ab- sence of proper status, and, after hav- ing on one memorable occasion been obliged at an entertainment given at Cologne in honor of Queen Victoria, to walk at the tail end of the procession Kings have before this con-1130553”)le behind some Austrian ’Archdukes re- motely connected with Emperor Franâ€" cis Joseph, and to the rear of a num- ber of petty German Princes, he an- nounced his intention of taking no further part in any official function or court entertainment when abroad. :His position, far from exciting any sympathy on the part of the people of his adopted country, was, on the contrary, made more difficult by them. The London [press was never tired of abusing him in the most cruel fashion for alleged "German interference” in the affairs of the British nation. The advice which he was alleged to tender to the Queen was denounced as uncon- stitutional, and the Times in parti- cular distinguished itself by the_bit- terness with which it vituperated him as a "foreign intruder,” and as a usurper of privileges to which he had no legal or constitutional rights. This goes to show how exceedingly difficult and far from enviable is the posiion of the consort of the feminine‘ ruler of a stateâ€"a position for which there is practically no description or desagnation in diplomatic phraseo-- logy of “Le Marie de la Reine,” which .is likewise frequently used to describe in ordinary life a husband who is re- duced to an altogether secondary role, and obscured by his wife’s brilliancy, beauty and imperiousness. Perhaps .the best proof of the fact that the position of the husband of a Queen or Empress re-gnant is abnormal is fur- nished by the circumstances that so few. cases of this kind are to be found in the history of the 01d \Vorld. deed, they are not more than half dozen all told, namely Prince Albert l | political, and if some of the official dispatches sent by the envoys accredit- ed to the Court of Madrid to their re- spective governments are to be be- lieved, he actually was privy to sev- eral of the attempts made upon the life of the Queen. As long as his wife remained on the throne he was known as her most bitter enemy.- Indeed, many of the moral delinquencies of his wife were excused on the ground that her husband was such a morally and physically despicable atom of humanity. Toâ€"day he may be said to have outlived his reputation, and the only fault now laid to his change is that of an avarice which is‘quite as extreme in its way as the extrava- gance of his wife. Far different in every respect was the husband of Queen Marla of Portu- gal, Prince Ferdinand of Coburg, one of the handsomest men of the present century. He, too, received by legis- lative act and royal decree the title of King Consort at the time of his marâ€" riage. Between himself and his wife so much affection prevailed that she began by abandoning to him the reins of government. This, however, was viewed with great jealousy and ill will by the aristocracy and the peo- ple of Portugal, and before a year had passed a revolution had taken place at Lisbon, which forced the King Con- sort into aretirement from which he did not emerge until the death of the Queen, when he became Regent for the two years which elapsed until his eldest son attained his majority. The King Consort then withdrew’ once more into retirement, married an Am- erican-born actress, Elise Hensler, for whom he secured the German title of Countess of Edla, and, taking no fur- ther part either in politics or even in court life, devoted the remainder of his days to the collection of art treas- ures, which he bequeathed at his death 'In‘ a few years ago to his American wid- 8- : ow, who is still living. of Saxefioburg, the I husband ofgf [From this it will be seen that the Queen Victoria; Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-Cobuf-g, the Mazia Della Gloria of Portugal, who reigned in the third and fourth decade of the present century; Prince Francis of Bourbon, the husband of old Queen Isabel of Spain; Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Queen Anne of Great Britain, and Philip of Spain arcs in English history under the name of “Bloody Mary.” It is not to include in this list the name. of King William III., for, alâ€" though he was the husband of a Queen regnant of Great Britain, he was pro- they thought .cluimad by the Convention Parliament a sovereign jointly with herself, and after her death reigned alone for the space of eight years, his wife’s young- est sister, Queen Anne, only succeed- ing to the throne on his demise. Queen Anne’s husband, Prince George, being a son of the King of Denmark, and a royal persona'geyin his own right, while questions of preCcdence Were eli- minated by the fact that his wife’s only blood relations, her brother and her nephew, were in exile at Versail-‘ les. An amiable and. harmless man, Prince George may be. said to have played no role whatsoever in English history, which refers to him but rare-v ly, and then only in a rather con- temptuous manner. The same fate will be accorded by the annals of the timesto the hus- band cf Queen Isabella of Spain, who is still living in the utmost retirement in the suburbs of Paris, wife visits him twice a year, once on her name day and once on his own. His marriage was the outcome of the most where his disgraceful political intrigues that marred the reign of King Louis Philippe of France, and had the result of depriving the pat'hy when shortly after its celebra- latter of all sym- lion he was driven into exile by the French revolution of 1848. The fact of the matter was that Queen Isabella had fallen in love with her cousin, Prince Henry of Bourdon, a handsome and good-looking man, to whom, in- deed, she had tpliaghted her .troth. King Louis Philippe was, however, determâ€" ined to obtain the position of her con- sort for one of his sons, the Duke of Montpensier. But neither England nor the other great powers of Europe would hear of a French Prince ocean pying a. position of this kind at Ma- drid, for it was felt that if Queen; Isa- bella were to wed a French Prince, French influence would predominate in Spain, and the balance of power be disturbed in what is known as the concert of Europe. England, ina deed, went so far as to threaten to break off diplomatic relations with France if Queen Isabella’s marriage to the Duke of Montpensier took place. In nowise dismayed, King Louis Philippe, with the assistance of Queen Isabella’s infamous mother, the late Queen .C'hrislina, caused the Duke of Montpensier to marry Louise, the youngest sister of Queen Isabella, and forced the latter, sorely against her will and inclinations, to break off her engagement with Prince Henry and to Wed Prince l-‘rancis, a squeaky-voiced: dwarf of the most un}.;repossessin-g and ridiculous appearance, his selection for the posxtion by King- Louis Philippe consort of Queen] I l o l l lW'ied, a Prince who, while possessed; uture of the husband of Queen VVil- helmina of Holland will be fraught with no end of trouble and of diffi- culty. ' The Dutch are even yet more jealous than the English or the Portu- guese of foreign influence, and of all foreigners it is the Germans of whom they stand in the greatest dread. Now there is every reason to believe the consort of that Queen who fig} that the choice of Queen Wilhelminafull of has fallen upon Prince William of of considerable wealth, occupies, as far as birth and rank are concerned, NATE BULLDOG TENACITY. History Flu'nlsllcs Many Instances In Which ltrlllsh Pluck llas “ecu Stlmu Intrd by Defiant. .. Progress without a check occurs so seldom that it were wise not to ex- pect it. v No matter whether it‘be the individual striving for an ob- ject which he has set his heart upon attaining, or the business firm en- gaged in forcing its way to the fore- most ranks of commerce, or the generâ€" al who is leading an army into the enemy’s territory to avenge or up- hold thc honor of his own coun- try, 'all must expect checks-and re- buffs, no matter how well they think they have laid their plans. I’ But to those who possess grit and go, such checks serve only as stimu- lant: to greater exertions; the fact that they are held stationary for a time stiffens their nerve, and makes them more determined than ever to reach the goal. A reverse in no wise signifies defeat, for by its effect it really brings men nearer to ultimate victory, as they push forward with the grim determination that sweeps away every Obstacle. : History furnishes abundant proof that this is more especially applicable to Britons than to any other men on the face of the . globe. ‘ With us, a check is a moral victory ; our enemies, :who loudly'~ expressed their opinion that we should soon be sueing for peace in consequence of the check to our advance in South Africa, have had this fully demonstrated to them by the magnificent response 'of Britons to the call to arms. But ’they ought not to have needed this proof; the history of our country is confirmations, and even the past fifty years will give us {A CHECK IS A MORAL VICTORYâ€"IN- l . MANY BRILLIANT EXAMPLES. One of the most brilliant episodes ‘ an even lower status than that of the . of tho seige of SebastOpol was the at- I l i l ! | l l l and by Queen Christina being entire-l 1y due to the fact that the union was expected to remain childless, and, .consequenily, Isabella's younger sis- ‘ter Louise and her French husband, 'the Duke of Montpensier, would suc- ceed to the throne. As every one knows, those anticipations with re- gard lo the marriage of Queen Isa- bella remaining without issue were not realized, and, while Queen Isa- bella sliil survives, although deprived of her throne and in virtual exile, both hm‘ younger sister and llic lalzter’s husband. the Duke of Montpensier, and disappointed, and universally dis- liked. On the (lay of the marriage the upon Prince Francis by virtue of an act of the national Cortes and \of a royal decree. Moreover, precednece was granted to him immediately next to the sovereign. It is a matter of history that the marriage was a most unhappy one in every respect. The King Consort was in constant conflict with his wife, domestic as well as Princes of Coburg. father is a mere German nobleman, who holds the position of President of the Prussian House of Lords. The Dutch would have preferred that their Queen should have married a Danish prince in the person of Prince I-Iarold, the younger son of the Crown Prince of Denmark. But if they give their consent to their Queen’s union to Prince William of \Vicdâ€"and without Dutch legislative sanction she can contract no valid marriage-«they will only do so after devising every imâ€" aginable safeguard for protecting the government and the throne from what they do not hesitate to describe as the “pernicious effect of German inâ€" fluence” in Holland. There is not the slightest probability l under the circumstances, of Prince \Villiam receiving the title or rank of. King Consort of the Netherlands, and‘ it is equally unlikely that he will ever gain the status of a Prince Com. sort, such as Queen Victoria‘s hus- band only received three years before hls death, and fully eighteen years after his marriage. In fact, if the projected marriage takes place there is every reason to believe that he will remain after it, as before, a mere Prince of_Wied, possessed of the same prerogatives and precedence as before his marriage, and compelled to yield the “pas” to the Queen Mother, since she is a member of the royal family, whereas he, legally speaking, is not. It remains only to be said that he is a stalwart, handsome youth and universally popular. His elder bro- ther married the most intimate friend of the young Queen, Princess Pauline, the only child of the reigning King of W'urtembergâ€"Qa princess who is, however, debarred by the Salic law in Wurtemberg from succeeding to her POISO‘NOUS PLANTS. “ The: Never Give Warning to Mankind liy Appearance or odor. Man seems to have no instinctive knowledge of injurious Ip-lants from their appearance. Many of a pois~ onous nature have purple flowers, and early education has made some peo- ple suspicious of this color, but there is, no native instinct that warns them against such risk. Children play with the poisonous fox-glove, monkshobd, and deadly night-shade, and display no natural fear of their dangerous, pro- perties, w hile 511th plants as the dropwort, hemlock and fool’s parsley are as attractilve to the eye as the harmless parslrip and carrot, which they closely resemble. Man has. Ihowever, an instinctive dislike to the l taste of nearly all poisonous plants. A large number of them are noted for their bitterness, a quality that seems repulsive to all children, and is only acquiredl in things .wh-olesoane by adulls after experience. Some plants lit would be almost impossible to eat, as the max vomica err strychnlne, w1th lite acrid taste, and the monkshood, or I l I ..-._..r...._......-... _. _ ._-..-... . ..... aconile, from the tingling of tongue and tips that it causes. The flavor of prtussic acid in laurel leaves, and in danger, but this is the result of ed- ucation. While the sense of smell guides many of the herbivorous ani- male in their choice, we find that this helps man but little, although it is said that all the poisonous toadstools have a disagreeable odor. _.~__+â€" DON'T \VED ENGLISHWVOMI'EN. A Boer shatters the traditions of his race; If he weds an Englishmeâ€" man. Prince William’s ’ ‘ing the assault on the Great Redan, and the French Operating against the Little Redan‘. The attack is usually called a successful one, although we were compelled to fall back after a very sanguinary encounter... , But the Russians evidently understood vthat the check given to us would only .stimulate us to a greater effort, and in the night they wisely abandoned the southern ports. This was an elo- quent tribute to British tenacity: ' The Indian Mutiny afforded several instances of reverses leading to vic- .tories, but we-will confine our atten- i ; Among the struggles in and around Cawnpore, there was one on November 27th when General \Vindham attacked the Gawlior rebels ' and was repulsed; the rebels took part ;tion‘ to one. ,of' the city, and the prospects of the :(Britisb force did not look very great, but the victory followed promptly. ‘ On the very next day Sir C‘olin Camp- i bell arrived at Cawnpore, defeated the rebels with great slaughter and re- took the city. - , , When we decided to punish the Zulus for raids upon the British ter- iritory and outrages upon surrounding peoples, including those 011 the Trans- vaal, the Boers were glad that they crushing their hereditary foes. the purpose, and our advance was checked by the reverse at Isandula in January, 1879. Once more the effect ment of the task in hand]; it nerved us, and we went at it with OUR INNATE BULLDOG TENACITY. Reinforcements were promptly dis- patched, and, at Ulundi, King Ceteâ€" wayo learnt to his sorrow the exact signification of a “check” to Britain. Our next example is peculiarly ap- propriate at the present time, inas- much as it gave General Sir Frederick now Lord, Roberts the opportunity of execuling the remarkable exploit that make him famous, and it augurs well for the result of the camplaign which he has just undertaken to conduct. ,In July, 1880, the trololps of the weak Sibere Ali, who had been made Wall Candahar by the British, revolted and joined the army of the rebel Ayoob Khan. General Burrows marched to Maiwand, and with an inferior force made an attack on the strongly en- trenched position occupied by the rebels; but after a desperate fight he was compelled to withdraw, our loss being heavy. A fortnight later Robâ€" erts left Cabul with a force half as numerous as Ayoob’s, every man strong in the determination that the previous check should only be astep to victory. On September let the two armies met, and Ayoob was utterly routed, his camp and all his cannon falling into our hands. El-Teb, in the Soudan, was the scene of a reverse on February 4th, 1884, Baker Pasha was leading a body of Egyptian troops against the rebels, and was completely defeated. Al- though this was not a British reverse in the strict sense of the word, as the troops were Egyptian, yet it was a check to the rc-conquest of the Souâ€" dan, in which this country was so muclz interested, and we took it to ourselves. The victory in this case followed closely on the heels of the check; on February 29th, General Graham attacked the rebels with a British force of only one-third their number, and, after a desperate en~ counter, totally routed them. Our ,, “Wm” . ‘ .. . ..-.- .. “New”... . [in AT and. ; tack on the Redans, the British nak foes in killed was about thirty, where-x .13 the enemy lost nearly two. thous- and. In the early days of 1891 Manipul‘. :1 small, native state adjoining Assam and Burmah, gave us another example of a check, accompanied with brllo liant heroism, and followed by com- plete vilctolry.‘ M‘r. Grimi'wlood was ordered to push on from Assam to Manlpur {with-a small force, in ord-' or to recognise the Regent, and re- move the Sana-‘puitti; they were un- able to‘ effect their object, and Mr. Grimwood and others wer‘. treacher- ously murdered. After some fighting our men were compelled to withdraw and march back to Lakhipur, and, in the meantime, Lieut. Grant and elgh-u ty men marched from Burmah to Manipur, with the object of render- ing assistance, but was too late. Grant had the whole of the Manipur army against him; he skilfully de- fended his position, and in the end the Manipuris fled before an advancing Bri ish contingent under General Gra- ham. Manipur was deserted, but the natives gradually returned to their homes? while the Regent, the Sena- putti, and others were caught and l TRIED FOR MURDER. Manipur is now governed by a Rajaii appointed by Britain, and is subject to the British Government. ‘ The tragedy of Khartoum in Januâ€" ary, 1885, when the followers of the Mahdi rolled back the advanc: of civi- lization and stopped the progrtss of the British arms, will be for ever memorable. It became clear that this was a case where the object to be at- tained must be reached slowly but steadily; the vicotry that must fol- lowl the check would not b3 gained by a quick dash, but by the exercise of! that wmswenving determination through years of work that is just as characteristic of our race as the brilliant charge and dashing eXploit. The work was begun, and for the greater part of the fifteen years that have nearly ela‘psed in has been in the care of the soldier who is 'now in‘ South Africa ‘as Chief of Staff to’ Lord Ito/herbal With a determina- tion that nothing could upset, he has carried on the work step by step, and always getting nearer, until the time was ripe for the final blow. Then that final blow was struck, and the Sioudan was. colnqpelred {for Britta-in, Egypt, and civilization. ‘ , That we remain so calm under the check to [progress in South Africal need cause no surprise, for we know that this will onlyl lead to victory, as it always does. The British "never know when they are beaten,” said. Napoleon. The reason is plain -â€"we never are beaten; : S’l‘. _ VFWDUBEB. THE STORY OF A BRIGHT .YOUNG' GIRL’S RECOVERY. She “'us Flrst Attacked le'h Ln Grlppe, lhc After Effects Reaulllhg In 5:. Vllus’ Danceâ€"Friends “repaired of “or Reo «every. The mails from \Volfville to Gas»- pereau are, carried every day by an. official who is notedfo'r his willing- ness toaccommodate and the punc- tuality with which he discharges his duties. His name is Mr. Mariner Cleveland and- his home is. in Gasprer- eavu, where he resides with-his wife and grand-daughter, Miss Lizzie May Cleveland, a bright, girl of fifteen lyears. A few months ago the hculth ‘rf their grand-daughter was, asource of very- great anxiety to Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland, and the neighbors- who learned. of the physical condition of the little girl gravely shook their heads and, said to themselves that were annexed to a Power capable of, the fears. of the fond grand-Llirents. , {Were by no means groundless. When M’e sent out a force inadequate for; the news! reached the ears of an Acaw idien man, ashort timel ago, that the health of Miss Cleveland had beam re- stored, he hastened to interview Mr. was to ensure the better accomplish- Cleveland as, to the facts of the case. When he explained his errand boxh. Mr. and Mrs. Clevelalndl appeared on‘ ly too eager to give him the inform- ation, sought. audit is in accordance- with their wishes that we give to the public the facts of this remark- able cure. Early in December? 18.18. Miss Cleveland 'w-as taken ill with a severe attack of la grippe and fears. of her. recovery were entertained. Careful nursing, however, brought her through this malady, but .it left her system in acompxletelyi runâ€"down condition. This showed itself prin- cipally in) a weakness of the nerves. In January symptoms of St. Vitus‘ dance began to show themselves. At first these were not very prominent, but it was not long before she was rendered altogether helpless by this. terribly malady. In a short time she lost all control over the movements of her hands.and feet. For weeks she: had to be carried from room to room and was unable to feed'herself. Her grand-parents naturally became very much alarmed and having tried other remedies without effect, determined to give Dr. \Villiums’ Pink Pills a trial. Developments showed that, their con- fidence was not displaced. \Vhen three boxes had been used the condition of the patient had improved consider- ably. Then Mr. Cleveland bought six boxes more and continued their use- as before. The sufferer rapidly began. to recover. When she had consumed the fifth box Mrs. Cleveland reduced the dose to one pill a day and by the» time the sixth box was gone acorns- ple to cure was effected. M'iss Cleveland is now as vigorous and healthy as. could be desired. Her grandâ€"parent. are persuaded that Dr. VVilllams‘ Pink. Pills are alone responsible for her cure and are devoutly thankful for the re-- sults which. under Providence, they have produced. . Sold by all dealers or. Sent post paid at 50c. a box or sax boxes for $2.50, by addressing the Dr. \V‘llli3MS" Medicine 00., Brockville, Ont. 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