Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1886 — A Russian Princess. [ARTICLE]

A Russian Princess.

Karoline Bauer tells the story of the Princess Natalie Kurakin. She was an imposing and capativatin g beauty, w’ith the temper of a fiend, and became the most admired and feared woman at the court of the Emperor Alexander. Her husband idolized her, and, unfortunately, allowed her complete control over Jhimself. To indulge her love for pleasure and luxury he went beyond his means, and then sold one estate after another. Om e, when he handed her a little packet of banknotes he had won, as a sort of peace offering, Natalie seized them and threw them into the fire, to cure the General, as she said, of club gaming and late hours. Another night, when she was adorned in full splendor for a court ball, the General kept her waiting. At last he came, greatly excited, with a red face and flashing eyes. She supposed the excitement was caused by wine and told him so in vehement words. “No, dear darling, ” he protested, “I had the most important business to attend to, concerriing yourself and our Alexander. Look at these ruble notes —you will not throw them into the fire.” “I will, though!” she exclaimed. And as she spoke she snatched the notes from his hands and threw them into the flames. He shrieked in dispair and rushed forward to save them —to late! There was seen a bright blaze, and—“ Natalie,” he said in a hollow voice, “you have just destroyed our whole fortune—£6o,ooo. I hope if I should not return alive from the Caucasus that you may never have a bitter repentance. To-day I received orders from the Emperor’s own lips to join the army in the Caucasus to-mor-row. In order to secure your and our child’s future I to-day sold our last estate to the Crown, and everything now is ashes, ashes!” General Kurakin was killed in one of the first engagements in the Caucasus, and Natalie became the most heartless of widows. “It is as harmless as it is effective,” is what is said of Red Star Cough Cure by Dr. S. K. Cox, D. D., Analytic Chemist, Washington, D. C. Price, twenty-five cents.