New-York tribune., 1900-08-19

ensued in the squalfd tragedy of these anoint-
ed sovereigns scandalized Europe.
Those who participated make picturesque
assembly. First comes the unhappy mother
persiStently dressed in deep mourning, appealing
to every European pOtentate in turn, and get
ting back sermonettes on postcards Then there
the fire eating general from SerVia, who
shall go nameless; and the SerVian archbishop
the memory of whose unbruShed beaver is visit
fully recalled in WeSbaden to-day. In the cen
tire Of the combatants stands the little prince
himself, the son of a marriage managed so
badly. the descendant of peasants, the great
grand nephew of a man who herded swine.
Alexander having been snatched off by the
Prussian police, returned to King Milan.
That devoted parent had another little surprise
in store. He chose the birthday of the kingdom
in the following March The event had been
duly celebrated at the cathedral Midnight
found the Ministers and representatives from
foreign courts gathered together in the palace
to congratulate the sovereign.
Milan had not attended the service. He cleo
trified the assemblage by the curt announcement
that he proposed to resign. He was excited; his
but pumped down on his knees before his son.
In that attitude he gallOped through the oath of
fealty. No wonder the child burst into tears.
JUNE AND OCTOBER.
Thus get back to the starting point of this
sOrdid little tale: Ex-King Milan safe in he'd at
Vienna while the baby, Alexander l. reigned
in his stead. The baby has grown up since then
Now he announces he will marry a lady some
seventeen years his senior. She once belonged
to Queen Natalie's household, and the Ministers
declare that she is unworthy to sit upon the
throne. AS the reHSlOuS ceremony of betrOthal
took place last Wednesday the King cannot
change his mind. EX-King Milan has sent sew
eral cOmminatOTy kilograms All SerVia op-
poses the marriage, much so indeed that the
brides house in Belgrade has to be guarded
day and night. Meanwhile she and the King
are quite happy driving about the capital in an
open carriage.
Truly it is not good to be a king in Servia.
The mother who bore this one. and loved him.
visited Belgrade a few weeks after his accession.
She lived a month within speaking distance of
AleXander's palace before the Regents suffered
afternoon, to invite her warmly to go away "for
dynastic reasons She went and returned. For
a third time in her life this Bessara bian heiress
astonished Europe. When the King had secured
himself in his palace-again for dynastic rea-
sons'-his Ministers escorted the Queen to the
quay. Adherents rescued her, not without
bloodshed. In black, as always Natalie smiled
sadly the students who dragged her carriage
home. An effective deportation followed next
day. She took boat for Odessa from a frontier
town the Danube. The public stage knows
her more.
"She was too fond of politics." King Milan
chanted Natalies requiem from his little table
on the bouleVards Behind the miserable do
mestic dscord Of that most miserable of mar
ried couples doomed Russia, the Queens birth
place. whittier she returned. But in her
husbands eyes Russia the place where the
assassns came from; where the rival dynasty
had helped to hatch their plots.
King AeXander's appearances before his peo-
pie are coups detat He began seven years ago,
at the age of seventeen. Success in examina-
tions sDurred him on to invite the Regents to