The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1900, Page 9

THE SUNDAY CALL. LMINA oF COQUETTE ANID JH be an insuperable objection, it was sald, al- though Protestantism had been one of the strings upon the Queen’s marriage at the time her partlal freedom descended upon her. What the Hollanders thought had nothing en fair to see. Beware, beware,” one of to do with the matter. “I shall marry for eq She had sald it ever since she was them sings. lo7e and not for state reasons,” she repeat- g youngster. “I don’t love him,” she “Trust her not; she is fooling said of the Duke of Abruzzl. Prince Bernard Henry of Saxe-Weimar died for her. He was her cousin. He had loved her ever since he was a little boy and had been per- mitted to play with her when he was good, angd had been re- stricted to smiling at ber across many terraces when he RS b she played beyond his endurance. He T saw through the dense smoks i which He had big, dark eyes and grew morbld, desperate. Health of mind they were always melancholy ang pody falled him, and he died. —full of the sadness and my ’ Did she care? E,D thee,” chants the chorus. The Duke of Abruzzi was one that could not-be fooled with, peo- ple said. He was none of your drawing ornaments, none of your f i officers, they ex- plaine was a real man, who 1 not depend upon his title for tinction. His love for the girl ; Queen brought out all the man in the form of the above me. kick him off 5 " ways said that she i b 0 sho for love, and that she € her net f b b was as ¢ never love a toy man. And ¢ ¢ Sor thik ¢ . tery of the Rhine storles and € wns of a contin s 1 t € not for this the young Duke of Abruzzi the castle legends .. Possibly she had her bad quarter of an ned s t N m aceful plowed his way through Arct! est myths. His s cur. But if she felt the least twinge o i s romantic as any ree she showed no sign As bk He loved a royal malden plump as ever she smiled on. Her en- when he was a boy and she a gagement had been announced and she eirl. He grew up with the love apparently had no time to think of a and never swerved from it. who was stupid enough to When he became a man he Last summer came the repo told Wilhelmina of it, and she petrothal to Prince Adolph gave hope without promise. Mecklenburg-Schwerin. At fir: He knew a short happiness (nought to be only another of her treach- followed by despair. The girl eriee. But the announcement is now made e is affectlons. and poetive by the formalities that only a European can appreciate, and the world knows that Wilhelmina, girl Queen of \the Netherlands, Is to marry the young Prince of the Wends, son of the only reigning family of Sla- wounds 1 1 vonic origin. She is to unite the that he had *“no sense of pain nor £ house of Orange with that whose of te . table of Grand Dukes began with . Niklot, and has been paraded down twenty-five generations After a two vears' record as the madde of all laughed In the face Frederick of Prussia, Nico- pecq is the las of Greece, Alfred of tne pe s oburg, Adolph of por 14 Schaumberg Lippe, Max of contr. Baden, - Swed any had pene " ¥ ¥ a2 W omplatned. trated before, and came back lack- & gy A possessing a e nobody could match, ked all to win her favor, he returned a hero for she laughed and cast him He had r and when know her own mind two her sa away. t to co Hollanders could hardly believe soclety hid this at first. They like the Duke of y cked it Abruzzi and they could not see why their Queen should not. He was » bravest of all her sultors, and an Italian besides, which them, not that they loved v more, but Germany less, and have dreaded » man allia e and a re- absorption into he German empire, will have her gyen the Roman e of the 4 rapidly and I was n W her own it, she’ll never ver does, of the flat ayed with suitt es. She'll grow exp an eed not The or ry mornin; w wn, but there shown that men may s her and dle for her in vain Still anoth- er way must bave been found i \ for want of a turnip pat 1 to emy P live for d to excite adm nt to W for for a : L Hunters.e.e Tell How It Feels To Be Eaten.e.e.e. How does a man feel when he is being chewed lion or a tiger? That ceedingly Interesting and the answer to it is o much more readily t ble to get from men who co deadly peril through some of the common accidents of life. J. Cr ther Hirst, an Englishman, has writ & book detalling the experience of big Eame hunters and others while der the attack of wild beasts. He rel ture of Lieutenant Vanderzee wit Uon, one of three which were found by tenant’s party. The lions were 400 ¥ and one of them, being shot in the hin. ed and made for its as it received two other fw g lets in which failed to stop its advance. It ; s : Lieutenant to the gr: und, bit him sev : B sy : the legs and arms, anq then—but not till then &FY¥ g gt b —it died of the wounds it previously had re- engineer on sy, celved. Lieutenant Vanderzee says: “I haq Who went o no feeling of paln Whatever, although there ™Wuch damag was a distinct feeling of being bitten—that Missed fire 1s, I was perfectly consclous, indeperdently the tiger of seeing the performance, that the lion was The tiger gnawing at me, but there was no pain. To 3 show that the feeling or, rather, the want of it, was In nowise due to excessive ter- ror, as might be the case wh a mals are concerned, I may men that, while my thighs were being gnawed, I b, > 8., tells of a wo- a ating gh she muscles of through the took two cartridges out of the bre man who was pocket of my shirt and threw them ut the Kaffir, who was hovering a few yards away, telling him to load my rif and immediately the 1 off me I scrambled up and, e from the Kaffir, loaded with it at the carcas: right hand was bad! tured near the wrist joint. I belleve that Dr. Livingstone mentions that a | dreamy feel or sort of Bl came over him while being ma In my case I have no recollectio any feeling of the kind One of Carl Hagenbeck's as: ants was attacked w e cage with a group of perform- ing lions. “What were your sen- tions when the lion had you with both claws and teeth?” was asked, and he sald “There was no pain then.” Afterward he wrote: “When the lion first came to me I dld not have any pain or tear, but seemed to lose all power over myself; but the second and third time I was much afraid I should lose my life. I not experience pain afterward, but the 0 fright was great, thought it was though I helped m¥y- ,.icior o seif as much as I ;o%pey could.” Colonel Noyes de- scribes an encounter |- S with a lion In So- .o piting my maliland. He had o0 far as I ca fired at the animal ..o goctor w < within short range ne case of Dr. Liv and this 18 wWhat 1. tnought the pa lnllowfd: “A9 1 gect of the nerves a tig was bitten twice through the arm; also of a man b neck and shoulder, wh hg a 0ays, but s d no pa fired the time my another on di ad a confl ss which had be brute. n and I next thing I nds at they w afterward s oI A reward of %0 rupees ($20) ha placed by the wa authort the head of a man & tigress on the y feit non #round ime. b in the Seoul distriet, Cen- tral es, 1 are the police to ® be Rilled by it in the mon of Ju S eral hunters are in search of the tigress in view of the rpward.