»~ N' gq Bellefonte, Pa., August 7. 1908. m— —— w— w—— A FREAK OF THE CRAZY KING. He Frightened and Enraged the Great Diva by His Strange Whims, and When She Finally S8ang For Him In Munich it Drove Him Wild. When Patti was in the first heyday of her fame Ludwig II., the mad king of Bavaria, set his heart on having her sing for him at his private auditorium in Munich. He wrote letter after let. ter, begging, imploring, offering ex- travagant sums of money, but Patti resolutely refnsed to go. She had heard too many stories of Ludwig's freaks and was desperately afraid of him, but at last the king offered her a sum so enormous that it seemed ridiculous to refuse it. Then the singer plucked up courage and started for Munich. When she and her maid alighted at the sta- tion not even a carriage wae there to meet them, and they had to inquire the name of the best hotel and call a cab. That was the first shock to the diva's nerves and temper. After luncheon she started out to see the town and incl- dentally to examine the posters an- nouncing Europe’s greatest singer. Not a mention of her name could she find. She rushed back to the hotel and told her maid to pack the trunks. Just at that moment a resplendent officer delivered a letter from the king. The letter stated curtly that his maj- esty would wait for her at 7 o'clock precisely in the royal palace, where his singer In ordinary, Mme. Fischer, would give her further directions. Mme. Fischer would also sing with Mme. Patti the duets which his maj- esty wished to hear. A programme was inclosed. Patti wept with rage. “l have never been treated so bru- tally,” she sald. “I shall leave at once. Tell the king so. 1 will not sing— never, never, never!” The officer pleaded with the irate prima donna. His majesty had been wild with ex- citement ever since he knew she would come and had not slept for three nights, so great was his joy at the prospect of hearing her. “Besides,” added the officer, “you know your king is—is—is"— “Crazy,” snapped Patti. “Yes, that's very comforting, isn't it? I don’t know why 1 ever came.” Just then she caught sight-of this postscript: “The king commands Mme. Patti to appear in pure white, without any color whatever, and not by any means to wear a satin gown, but soft wool Silk is painful to his majesty.” “His majesty will have to be pained, I have no white woolen gown except my pelgnoir. 1 shall wear red velvet." “Red!” groaned the officer. “Oh, no, no! Red sends his majesty into fits. If you appear in red, he will scream and have convulsions. Oh, do be pa- tient, madame! 1 will bring Mme. Fischer to you. She understands the king's nerves. She will explain.” He fled from the room, and shortly after Mme, Fischer appeared upon the scene. She soothed Patti into good humor and also attacked the white wool peignoir and transformed it into a most becomipg Greek robe. Before 7 the royal carriage arrived at the hotel and Patti went to the pal- ace. She was led through dimly lighted rooms and corridors into Lud- wig's private theater, which was in utter darkness save for the moonlight that entered through the windows. Patti stood upon the dark stage, while an orchestra, somewhere out of sight, began a soft prelude. Through the gloom she could just make out a white face in the royal box opposite the stage. Not another auditor was in the great hail. Patt] felt the cold shivers creeping over her. She shook with nervousness and fear, and when she should have begun her aria not a sound could she make. She opened her mouth, but her throat was paralyzed from nervous the effort of her life and finished the aria tly and Colleges & Schools. stage in a temper. Mme. Fischer was behind the scenes, and Patti waited with her for the signal to sing the next number. A messenger appeared at the door. His majesty had had enough music and bad gome to his apartments. For a moment Patti stood stunned. Then she laughed. The rudeness was so colossal that it was funny. Mme. Fischer took the diva to supper and then home. The next morning Mme. Fischer called at the hotel once more, accom- panied by the court chamberlain, who bore the promised check, an autograph letter of thanks from the king and some jewels of great value. King Ludwig. Mme. Fischer said. was in one of his maddest moods, wild with re- gret, cursing himself and cursing Pat- ti. He had walked the floor all night. groaning that he was a traitor, for Patti's voice had =o ravished his senses shat for one moment he had gone over to Italian music and had been false to Wagner, the one musician who alone had satisfied his majesty’s soul. “That was better than having bored him,” added Patti, shrugging her shoul. ders. BARNUM’S OLD LION. How the Great Showman Turned His Death to Account. Among the features of the parades of the Barnum circus there was for- merly one that never failed to attract attention. On the top of one of the wild beast cages lay an enormous lion. He was not confined in any way, and nervous people watching the parade would shudder at the sight and con- template the terrible possibility of the lion springing into the midst of the crowd. But the venerable old king of beas‘s had reached the leonine dotage, and stiffened muscles and blunted claws rendered hin harmless. He was as mild as a kitten and in the winter quarters, where he was allowed to roam at will. sometimes had to be pro tected from the onslaughts of irrever ent and mischievous puppies. One night he wandered from the quarters, In the course of his travels he chanced on a barn where a meek eyed cow was placidly chewing her cud. A faint flicker of the slumbering jungle spirit stirred his pulse, and. with a crashing blow of the huge fore paw. the cow was slain; then, lying down beside his victim, he went to sleep and dreamed of the time when he was a shaggy little whelp playing with his brothers under the bright sun of his faroff African home. In the morning the owner of the cow, a stalwart female with the blood of Irish kings In her veins, entered the barn with milk pail in hand. She was filled with wrath at the sight that met her gaze. With a keen edged ax in her hand and grim determination in her eye she fearlessly approached the sleep- ing lion, and when the men sent out to search for him arrived he lay cold in death. Barnum promptly paid for the dead cow and engaged to appear on exhibition “the woman who in mortal combat had slain a lion.” The Oldest Treaty. The oldest text of a real treaty now in existence is that of the convention between Rameses Il1., king of Egypt. and the Prince of Kheta, which em- braces the articles of a permanent of- fensive and defensive alliance, with clauses providing for the extradition of emigrants, deserters, criminals and skilled workmen. This treaty was drawn up in the fourteenth century B. C. and Is the earliest record that we have of any international transac- tion. ‘ If I bad only known !"’ That is the ory of so many who pay the costly penalty Nature exacts even for sins of ignorance. 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