The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-25

| feversh, He did not stopato explain
but pumped down on his Rhees before
! his son, In that attitude he gallopec
! through the oath of feality. No won.
der the child burst into tears.
Thus we set back to the starting
point Of this sordd little tale: Elk
King Milan safe in bed at Vienna, while
the baby, Alexander /, reigned in his
stead. The baby has grown up since
then. Now he announces he will
| marry lady some seventeen years his
| senior. She once belonged to Queen
Natalie's household, and the Ministers
declare that she is unworthy to sit up
on the throne. AS the religious iere-
| mony Of betrothal took place last We'd
nesday the King cannot change his
mind. EX-King Milan has scent sever
al comminatory kilograms. All Seryia
opposes the marriage, SO much SO in
deed 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 few
weeks after his accession. She lived a
month within speaking distance of AL
eXander's palace before the Regents
suffered him to see her. He came at
last, one cherries afternoon, to invite
her warmly to go away, ''for dynastic
reasons" She went and returned. For
third time in her life this Bessarabian
heiress astonished Europe. When. the
king had secured himself in his palace
again for dynamite reasons"-his
ministers escorted the queen to the
quay. Adherents rescued her. not with
out bloodshed In black, as always,
Natalie smiled sadly on the students
who dragged her carriage horne. An
effective deportation followed next day.
She took boat for Odessa from from
tier town on the Danube. The bubble
stage knows her no more.
She was too fond OF politics" King
Milan chanted Natalies requiem from
his little table on the boulevards Be-
hind the miserable domestic discord of
that most miserable of married couples
doomed Russia, the queens birthplace,
whittier she returned. But in her hus-
bands eyes Russia was the place where
the assassins came from; where the RI
val dynasty had helped to hatch their
plots
King AleXander's appearances before
his people are coups d'etat. He began
seven years ago. at the age of seven
teen. Success in examinations spurred
him on to invite the Regents to dinner.
At midnight that appanaee of his race
q a III to ~ n ,Nf
his hand. The king, following the in
habit of his father, straight
way burst into rhetoric. Their authori-
ty, he told the Regents, was ended.
he meant to rule as well
as reign, He had them immured in the
dining room While he visited the garri-
son.
Politics is pushed to one side at pres
ent, Yet anything may happen any
midnight, from rhetoric to murder. Ex-
King Milan is on the frontier, no doubt !
seriously about another plunge
into the mysterious east. Report says
that his prospective daughter-in-la |
obtained her opportunity, that he might |
spy upon his son, Then both have
fooled him. Alexander wastes no time |
over idle triumphs.
He boasts he used to wait hours in |
he cold for a glimpse Of Nine. Draga,
low his bride, He may spend life
line In the cold for the same reason
he woman can well prove the ruin of
lis line. So we shall have another
ting In exile, whose inclination went
beyond his will, Exile or not, those
old hours of courtship must always
'rove sweet remembrance. They no
loubt conceded with the first coup
Petat when the boy told the Regents
ie meant to rule to be really king
lie who rules himself, whispers the un-
voice in each mans heart,
really king. He, and no other.--Lon-
on Mail.