Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-19
ANOTHER MAD MONARCH.
King Milan's Mind Thought to Have
Become Unbalanced by His Excuses.

Vienna Letter in the New York Times
| The greatest anxiety reigns here with regard
| to Servia in the fate of which vast Austrian
interests, both of financial and POLITICAL ma
ture. are involved. very decided impression
prevails that King Milan has reached the end
of his tether and that he is on the eve of his
overthrow-if nothing worse. So firmly con-
WINGED are the moneyed classes thereof that it
| was only with the greatest difficulty that he
was able on the occasion of his recent stay here
| to obtain from the Laender bank a small loan
for his personal use. This was all the more
significant the bank in question has tor the
| past eight nine years not only possessed
complete control of the revenues of Serva
| but also a practical monopoly of all the great
| industrial enterprises of the country, and has
| hitherto always shown itself most accommo-
dating in the matter of personal loans to the
king.
| The fact is that while in Vienna Milan acted
and talked in such an extraordinary manner as
to give rise to the conviction that his mind has
| become completely unbalanced from the effects
of heavy drinking and other forms of debauch-
! erv. 1t any hesitation had remained on the
subject it must have been dispelled by his at
titude since his return to Belgrade. His first
act on reaching his capital was to break up al
together the entire progressist or philo-Aus-
trian party, and to drive its two principal lead
ers into exile. The sole apparent reason for
the luminosity of the king toward this party,
which alone in Servia has supported him in his
unpopular prO-Austrian policy. is that its lead
ers advocated the establishment of some kind
of a modus vivendi with the queen and the
avoidance of the public scandal of divorce.
In order to fully appreciate the conduct Of
Milan in this affair it is merely necessary to
point out that ever since 1878 he has sold him
| self body and soul to the Vienna government
and has displayed the utmost subserviency and
| bindest devotion to its behests. The word
| ''sold' is used advsedly, for the attitude Of
| the king toward Austria is based mainly on
financial grounds. Milan, is well known. is
| an inveterate gambler, and Is always unlucky
at cards, except when he plays with the Aus
trian or German ENJOYS. both of whom receive
! from their respective governments special
allowance to be devoted to the payment of their
| obviously intentional losses to his majesty. Be-
sides these gambling propensities which have
cost him untold thousands. he has squandered
enormous sums women of all kinds. and has
moreover been obliged to pay large amounts as
| hush money. and for the purpose of eXtricating
| himself from unclean and disreputable scrapes
A Celebrated Traveller.
/ From the New York Sun.
| Passenger Ito Chicago drummer)-''Do you
recognize that gentleman seated further up the
car? He is one of the greatest travellers in the
country. / don't know how many times he
crosses the ocean every year."
Chicago Drummer-'You don't say so!
never saw him before in my life. What's his
| name?'
| Passenger-"James Russell LOWELL
Chicago Drummer-"James Russell LOWELL
eh. What line of goods does he sell?''