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REVELATIONS OF ROYAL | the glimpse of his mother's face that sharpened the dull hurt that has weighed down George's heart all through the years. Perhaps "Alleged to have taken her three In the medieval cloister of he sonsed In that tragic, children to Cleethorpes bench and Trapnitz, in Silesia (writes a "Tit- | humble gure burdens too great while they were playing to have Blis" Foreign Correspondent), a to be borne. It might have been. eloped with a inarried man, Alice black-robed priest is seen these at that moment this soldier-Prince Lawson, single, was charged ut days pacing the cloister garden in decided to carry his mother's load Grimsby
with abandoning the prayer. Occasionally he pauses on his shoulders just as any son children. Martin Brown, an ex-and turns his face towards the might. soldier, with whom she absconded sunset, Evening silhouettes his Prince George quietly entered, was remanded for abetting the figure against the twilight sky and the seminary at Freiburg, to em Hot Water Systems &c.
alleged offence. The couple, who marks him no different from other bark on a four years course of were arrested in Hull, pleaded not silent figures petitioning their preparation for the priesthood, Maker in the peace of a day that some time ago. He petitioned the ~~Specialists in Maumental-Work-guilty and were remunded,
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Only when visitors tread their | priesthood and also obtained his Bamber Bridge --magistrates way through the monastery paths father's consent. Now he has been grunted, in separation order, with does the stranger learn that the received into the priesthood in the. 2 weekly, 'against Williams | tall young priest whose bearing is Silesian village at Trepnitz, where Butterly, an elderly medical prae- somehow regal, in spite of his St. Hedwig, patron saint of Silesin, | titioner, of Walton-le-Dale, for humble, vesture, was until a few | is buried, persistent cruelty. The
wife weeks ago the former Crown alleged the husband drank heavily, Prince George of Saxony, eldest upset the bed, struck her with his son of the proud Frederick Ost and walking-stick, smushed the Augustus. III., before the war ruler erockery. spoiled the food, and of one of Germany's richest
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The Crown Prince wrote a tender letter to his mother, telling hep of his avowed intention to enter the priesthood to atone for her mistakes, confessing to her how through all the years he has brooded PALACE TO MONASTERY. over her troubles, and telling her From the royal pomp of a palace how he has always tortured him, where sixty servants waited on his self with the thought that, unless needs, this young Prince has turn- he made some sort of expiation, Miss Winifred Emery.
Mrs. Isabel Winifred. Munde ed to the quiet, humble fastnesses her soul would not be saved. A
of monastery walls.
little later he sent a courier to the (31 Winifred, Emery, the dis-The bright flashing habiliments tiny, humble quarters in Brussels, tinguished actresal, of The Corner, of soldier-royalty he has exchanged to ask her if she would not return Little Camanon Bexhill, who died for a simple black cassock, badge to the little German village where on July 15, aged 63, left property of poverty. No longer the shining he will be, for it is the intention of the gross value of £12,955, with helmet crowns his head The of George to guard his mother net personalty £7,826.
She gives humble biratta of the priest is tenderly for the rest of her days. her jewels to her husband, Mr there instead. Cyril Monde, requesting him to dispose of them according to any memorandum she may leave the house known as The Corner to her usband. for life, or until he shall again_nuarry, and then upon trust for her HOLL To her brothers, Kdward-Anderson Emery and Frederick Arthur Emery, she leaves £50 each.
After Seven Years.
After lying on the battlefields of France for nearly seven years, the body of an officer of the End Buttalion Grenadier Guards has been identified us that of Lieut. S. Hetley Pearson, of Beeston, Nolts.
in her variona conquests, "ramp" in modern fiction usually possesses flashing eyes of either green as black. Actually, there are no black even; dark brown or dark grey eyes have the appearance of heing black in certain lights, Schoolboys Vanish.
The sword, insingnia of man's pelde and earthly strength, he has laid down to pick up the cross, pledge of man's atonement.
Io all the history of European royalty it is doubtful If there was such a tragic plunge from the bright heights of power and wealth | to the black depths of poverty and despair as that which took place in the glamorous but bleak life of Louise.
---PERSECUTED PRINCESS.
But George, Crown Prince of Saxony, reared in all the old-world tradition and splendour of kings. has not given up the world and all its glittering allurements to atone
Bom fifty-four years ago, Louise, | for his own sins, though they may be manifold as the average man's. gifted, lively, and beautiful, was Here is a moting story a Shake-united at the age of twenty-one to speare or a Browning might set Prince Frederick Augustus of down. This young man, thirty-one Saxony. For awhile she was the years old, has given up the world reigning beauty and,belle of the Dresden Court. But that was be to explate the sins of his mother."
story, she became so persecuted fore, according to Louise's own by the family of her husband that she was
rights of succession and took the A few weeks ago he gave up all vows of priesthood with the avowed purpose of saving his mother's soul.
like some wild fowl that
Identification was establislied as the result of a handkerchief hearing the initials H. P.." found by
A QUEEN'S ELOPEMENT has fallen into the cage of a menshers of the War Graves Cuni
But a little while ago Europe fowler." mission in his pocket. The re was echoing with the Immutable The father of Frederick August- mainx have now been laid to rest philosophy that the fitful sun of the us, it is said, threatened to put her in the Villiers Faucon Communal famous Queen Louise of Saxony into an asylum because of her un- Cernetery extension. Lieut. Pear-was setting; that at last had come conventional and excitable tem son was the founder of the Beeston the semi-final curtain, the bleak-perament, which-displeased him Company of the Roys' Brigade and curtain that falls on the lives of and which he could not understand. LandsClub, one-of-the-largest-in-those who defy conventions and It was this complets lack of the country.
take the brighter baubles of life sympathy on the part of her Your Eyes..
without counting the cost of the husband's family, and the fear We are told that the eyes of the taking. A faded, broken-hearted, that they might carry out their intellectual man are grey, and it is elderly woman, the story went threat, which Louise claimed nfuct that, most men of genius the rounds that Louise, now far drove her to running with the tutor have grey eyes..
celebrated Giron, simply in order to com Brown eyes are removed from the said to express temperment rather madcap love with which she swept promise herself so that she than intellect, Although brown Europe with unparalleled sensa- might escape from the Dresden eves flash with anger, light up tion, was eking out her life and Court. with joy, and change swiftly with livelihood by selling embroideries Seven weeks after her dramatic
Switzerland jealousy, blue and grey eyes can on the streets of Brussels as a flight lato
with Giron, she left him on a plea from express greater sadness. fireen peddler.
What would be the next pitiful her mother and for the sake of her and black eyes sto supposed to be
the life-story of this children whom she dearly loved.. the most wicked. Becky Sharp's turn in green eyes played an important part glamorous Queen, who furnished Shortly after this the baby girl The European Courts with the greatest Pla Monica was born, that_sad of history, whose scandal they had ever known, Princess when she, a royal Princess with paternity was eventually acknow five beautiful children, fled in the ledged by the King, and whose dawn one morning with these engagement oddly enough, was announced "to the heir of the The story of her going richest Grand Duke in Hungary left its dregs for ever in her just at the moment a reporter dis life and caused her to seek the dovered her mother living in the Whether they were cluated by surcease of other madcap loves barest and most frugal quarters in a spirit of adventure or had lost which left a trial of overwhelming all Brussels and selling lace on their taste" for school after four sorrow in their wake. What would the streets to even maintain these. weeks summer holidays, is not be the next retribution destiny known, but, two young Londoners would ask of a woman who
FINAL SCENES.... have mysteriously-disappeared, and followed ber heart, forgetting that life's cup to the brim, that has been Bitterness and misery filling despite inquiries by the police, no life always demands a price? trace-Bas-been found of them. These were the questions tossed the unhappy fate of Louise. For The parents of the younger of the about in European capitals as every joy she has had there has two, Isidore Simlar, 8, live in once more. they echoed the been abysmal sorrow in tenfold. Molesey-buildings, Shoreditch. amazing sensation that filled them But now there has come into her Isidore was wearing brown cordu twenty-one years ago when the life the sweetest blessing a mother roy trousers, grey tweed coat and beautiful and talented wife of may know the love of a son to grey stockings and black laced Frederick Augustus, then Crown tend her along the wanfag days of hoots. He is slim-built, has dark Prince of Saxony, bartered riches, life when she needs him most. brown hair and blue eyes. He husbands, her motherhood, and blessed by the spirit of the good
His companion in her crown and stunned Germany the adventure. James Haywood, with the news that a Hapsburg St. Hedwig, this mother and son, 11. lives in the same buildings: had stolen off in her carriage be-whom the world once knew as a The lad is stated to be four feet fore sunrise to meet her lover. Queen and a Prince, will live their in height and of fresh" complexion. It was only a week or so ago that He was wearing a black and blue royal society was stirred with the bluzer, grey trousers, socks and news that the foriner Crown Prince George of Saxony had just signed shiry, and binek laced boots.
away all rights to any possible Mountain Disaster.
priesthood.ee throne and was about to enter, the
to
wore no. cap.
children's tutor?
In a little village of Silesia,
Lives. And who knows but that the priestly voice of this son may be the one to skrive his mother of her sins in the confessional? For surely, it is being said of this, young man who was once a Prince, life affords no greater example of filial love than his,
Fell in love with a pot full of glue; A monkey named Mizzy-Maroo
He swallowed it quick; And observed" I shall stick
Late last evening" (August 30) an Exchange telegraph, imessage MOTHER'S SUFFERINGS. from Rome announced that "two
All George's life has been Englishmen and three English shadowed by his mother's mad ects. women have perished in a snow- Always, she was his mother. He filled ravine in an attempt to elitab could not look down upon her, dis to the top of Cervind during a missing her as an erring woman, storm. The bodies of the nie as it was the custom la the Dresden have been extricated by guides. Court to look on Louise all through but those of the women are still the years. It is true he was obliged, To this diet, whatever they do.” buried. Earlier in the day now because of stern discipline, to was received of 'n tragedy, which follow the example of his father Hidovörtaken another party, pre- and brothers and have nothing to sumably British, touring the Alps, do with his mother, but never was Accompanied by their guide and ha'day le did not brood over her porter, a Mr. Carr, his sister, and plight."
The story goes that during the was
a Mr. Patterson, left Macignage, in Italy, for Zermatt, via the was Louise was in Brussels when Weissthor. Near the Cima di Jazzi | her husband and her tall soldier. the porter and Miss Carr fell into a sons were there as well. It la told crevasse, and their companions how this wife and mother one day were unable to hold them, us the lalier desperation ran close to the rope snapped Help was im carriage of the King and begged mediately sent for, and relief forgiveness, but he only answered party left Zermatt at once In the with a guttural "No As for ber meantime Miss Carr's father ance sons, she never saw any of them: ceeded in climbing down into the daring the war except just the face creveese-in-68 allemnt-le-micsour-
Jishopstoryčiau tald; this His daughter," but found that" "ube' van already dead. The body nhi
taken to the
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Idlers faces for a glimpse of her spied the features of bes born, George. And the bo
kis mother.
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