Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-07-30

he was 20 his father irt:asttd lin with
important political missions TO TIE eo1sts
Of Europe and he discharged them in the
manner wished for by his father
/ His regard for Victor Emmanuel is said
to have been an exaggeration Of that
| idolatory with which AL Italians are said
to have held towaresshe old king aea
almost all Humberts biographers accredif
his youthful cottage and sagaeity to the
peryasive infueste OF his father Hum
bert & a boy, net Garibaldi Al Palermo
/ when that willy general was Ga the eve
Of his second invasion of Naples, but it
/ is not recorded that Humbert suspected
| the plot, although he supped with Carl
baidi and even accompanied him to the
| tbeater
When Victor Emmanuel had consum-
mated a pact between Italy and PRUSSIA
Hunbert WAS sent to Paris to sound the
French upon the acceptability of such an
alliance. The Seven Weeks war followed.
| In the campaign of 1866 Humbert and his
brother Amadeo fought SIDE BY side and
with noted gallantry.
Anadeo was wounded in the van Of bat
/ tie. and at custozza Prince Hurnbers,
leading his men In forlorn hope,
saved from humiliation by old Nino Bixio.
/ GarIbaIdfs great lieutenant. This was in
the beginning Of hostilities between Aus
| tria and Prussia Humbert holding the
| rank of lieutenant general and winning
| the admiration of both armies for hrs
| gallantry.
| The match between Margaret of Savoy
and Humbert was made by General Mena-
| brea, Victor Emmanueis prime L mister.
| She was regarded as the most b. aIItiful
as well as one of the best educated women
In Southern Europe. They lived happily
at Turin while Rome was separatetsfrom
Italy, but when the French Withdrew
from the ancient capital and the kingdom
was unified Prince Humbert and his bride
took UP their residence at the Quirinai.
The plan of the ministry had been TO
establish a court with Princess Margaret
at its head, but the efforts of the widowea-
king, Victor Emmanuel, to make tie Gouu-
tess di BIiraffore the real head of the
royal family frustrated the effort, abash
ed the matronly Princess Margaret and
in some degree scandalized the loyal
subjects of the old king.
Eight years after the final unifieatioh
of Italy Victor Emmanuel died, and Hum
| bert the First assembled the throne. queen
Margharita quickly displayed her ambi-
ton to shine as one of the most benen-
cent and lavish queens in Europe Nearer
TO her people than the new king himself,
refused nothing by the ministry ana
whimsical as child she was prodigal
with the resources OF her impoverished
| kingdom, and, il is said, that the first
serious quarrel between King Humbert
| and his queen was over the extravaganza
| which she INDUCED in. and for which ne
had no patience
Within year after his coronation an
| obscure fanatic attempted to assassinate
! him in Naples, but he escaped unframed
| and showed his amiability by committing
his assailants sentence to Punishment in
| stead of death. King Humbert was seat
ed with Queen Margharita in his carriage,
! accompanied by his little son and Bene-
| detto Cairolf prime minister, when
mendicant who had offered a paper to the
| king, drew a dagger and struck at him
| The queen dashed her bouquet into the
assassins face and Benedetto CaifoH
/ threw himself upon the assassin me
| dagger intended for the KING pierced
! Cairoli's breast, but he held TO ms pfls-
| oner TIL the guard relieved him.
| April - 1897, another attempt was mace
| IN kill him while he was driving with ms
aides and escorted by two earbineefs TO
| the race track at Gapanelle A workman
| from Artegna named Metro Acctaflto
rushed at the royal eqaipage and stabbed
| viciously at King Humbert. The KING
| leaned aside aud the blade of the dagger
or stilletto sank TO it's hilt in the cush-
ions of the carriage. The crowd then tel
/ 1lpon the Woud-be assassin.
Aceiarito WIS sentenced to the galieys'
AT his trial he acted like maniac, shout
! ing anarchistic denunciations OF soclety
| and declaring that he Would ike 10 XIII
| all who lived in comfort.
King Humberts reign has been mafkeo
more for his ability to keep his people
! knit together than for any extraordinary
! activity he has shown in the aiaHs o.
| the nations of Europe. Most OF the ms
| torians of modern affairs contend thas
| Italys stability since 1861, %nen Nictoi
Emmanuel was first saldted KING mas p ,s9a.
| due to the sagacity of her ministers rather
| than to the greatness of either Humpeft
ar his father But 1t is memorable that
even when Humbert aseended the throne
| the army and navy of his country were
! as nothing his people We're lmpoVerlsheu'
/ nd
| poor standing among the nations OF the
| earth.
| The triple alliance with its aceompan-
| ments of ready armies and equipped navy,
| has Hourished under his RUE, anu ms
neople remained loyal to him in spite OF
| Inc scandals which shook in turn every
! minister from place and power. Inc most
| notable achievements of KING HumpeIt
reign had been the contamination OF tho
| triple alliance between Germany Auslro-
! Hungary and Italy, and the securing ol
| Turkish adhesion to the compact as pre-
| calItionary measure against the possible
| encroachments of Russia and other pow
| ers Beyond this achievement lie seemed
| to have been content to care mostly LOT
| the internal and material advancement OF
! his people as though they were hs neigh
| bors companions and friends.
OF late years he had followed more
! closely in the humane and generous prac-
| tees of his amiabe wife visiting hespi-
| tails mingling with the poor and giving
! his personal care to charities that are moi
| included in the written duties of the state
| departments. Raised in a court where the
| chief business was military, King Hum
! bert did not receive as broad and thor
! ough an education as that obtained by
most latter day monarehs He was born
| and bred a soldier, but he lacked many IN
! tellectual attachments and in his younger
days fen into some frivoity which dis
| pleased, but did not estrange his gentle
| queen.
All his critics agreed that he was funda-
mentally honest and that he never trusted
1 d minister, nor a party whom or which
! he had not first won to love him. His
| brother Amadeus, the eX-king of Spain,
! lives at the old homestead palace in
Turin His eldest sister Is the wife of
! Prince Napoleon and his youngest the
wife of the king of Portugal who trans
J lated Shakespeare into Portuguese.
/
PRESIDENT IN CHURCH.