The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1885-07-10
ROYALTY ITALY.
The Right Of E'etsIiOu and the
Extent TO which "a IL Car
riC6.

When royalty la Italy visits any
| part Of the kingdom il must be an Aw-
| ipl bore To- receive 80 many petitions,
or supplIcas, as they call them, from
| people VINO thrust chem intu the hands
Of the attendants near the King or the
Queen. u is stated that 10 less than
5000 nf such written petitions we're
handed IN during the two weeks visit
! OF the King 10 Naples. IT required
the cOu-tau labor 81 two or more Of
his suite to read aualitoIde upon such
requests AS it would he proper to lay
before His Majesty. Many of them
came from persons Whose families have
once been ia Setter condition, and
who are not Of the usual begging kind,
bat who are too proud or too lazy to
work. Others are from half lunatics,
some from Italian Miclw hers aud
some few are from ready deserving
persons. Short work j. made of many
of these written requests, as the eX-
amineTs are generally Pretty well skill
ed in seeing through the motives Of
the sender. Bat doubtless sometimes
really rIeritOriOUs case Is not rightly
judged.
However that may he, one petition
last week proved 10y au accident 10 Toe
exceedingly successful, and rs il forms
u beautiful story OF an event which, ~
general rule, we only read of iu
books, but which really took place in
our streets ! give IL for your readers.
On Thursday, The 2lst, as the Queen
was returning 10 tie royal palaCa
from Der Afternoon drive on tie Via
CdrTacciOla, poor Wau approached
the royal carrIag- To hand tO the
Queen a supplica. lie took rather "A
novel mode OF doing this, for he placed
his petition in the hands Of his clean
little child, pretty, blonde little girl
of two years. He ran up 30 the car
riage, which was whIrllng swiftly
along, having his child in his arms,
and while in The act Of holding hi5 lit.
tie one up to the Queen, 20 That the
petition might be taken from the TOY
hand, he, by pure accident, AZ it turn
Ell out, lei the. little Irma (for-.Nb,t
was her nhnie Saigon into tbe 5mmbia, is
= sV's e, b. family osrnqs "hi,o V+-tirrs
Queen wa, Used; tie NJ. ,,-,,-
notherly tu1fict arose in her ftTh'!s
She took up the little one, kissed tand
placed il on the lap Of Inc noble lady,
her attendant, and when the child be-
gan TO cry, Papa ] want my papa -
tue beautiful MHTgherita did al she
COulu 10 COubole IIe lL.le lTIlf. III
the mean time the rapid pace of The
horses, leaving the father behind,
brought tine royal carriage TO the pal
ace, where the child was cared for.
The father, conducted by the police,
was taken TO the chiefs Office aud was
there thoroughly examined. lt was
found that lac had served liz country
AS "A soldier for twelve years, that he
had been really unfortunate and, with
hi large family, had almost been
driven To despair. lie had more than
once sought place ~ policeman. He
had on the previous week handed IHH
petition 10 the King, but had heard
nothing more from it. He supple
mented this with telegraphic de-
spatch, which cOst his family the price
OF IA dinner, but which was no more
successful than tire written petition,
for all such things must 60 through
the mill Of the two attendants of the
King, whose special business It IS to
attend 10 petitions. At length the
idea presented Itself TO him oi having
his supplica given TO the Queen 10y
Tie hand of his lille Irma. But The
happy accident Of the child's fall
amidst the soft rObe- Of 'be royal car
rage did more than anything el-c TO
call attention TO II deserving man, and
his cause has been warmly taken up
by the Queen Nipple Letter.