Arizona republican., 1900-08-09

his poor, half-buried subject, holding him by the hand, wiping the moisture
 from his brow. administering to him both wine and comfort, and declining to leave him until he had been extricated from his plight. To another poor fel-
 low who feebly tried to thank him as he lay on a stretcher with a foot crushed, he said
 Don't talk now, it will make you worse. You will soon be all right again.
 The only moment at which he seemed to think of anything beyond the scene around him was when he ordered a message to be sent to the queen, who was waiting for him for luncheon, in forming her that he would be detained and that there was no cause for anx- iety.
 Indeed, whenever any catastrophe occurred entailing loss of life or injury it was always Humbert who was first on the scene, offering assistance and comfort and directing the work of res cue, while few can forget his meeting with the Cardinal Archbishop of Ma pies at the bedside of the cholera stricken patients in the great hospital of that city during the terrible epidem- ic of Asiatic cholera some ten years ago.
 It was entirely contrary to the wish es of the king that any steps were talk en to protect him from assassins, all though in 1878, shortly after his acces- sion to the throne. he had been deluged with the blood of his prime minister, who. seeing knife aimed at his sov- ereign's heart while driving through the streets of Naples with him. had thrust his body before that of Humbert, re- ceiving in his own breast the blow in- tended for his monarch. It was not, however, until the assassination of President Carnot that any precautions were adopted to shield him from a sim liar fate and from that time forth the king was shadowed wherever he went by a herculean eX-sergeant of carabi nieri, Piedmontese, like his majesty, who was forever on the watch and who al night slept on a couch drawn across the threshold of the kings private apartment. That Humbert should, in spite of this protection, have been laid low by the bullet of an assassin shows  guards devised for the preservation Of the rulers of the world, and how idle it is to struggle to avert fate.
 That Humbert should have been laid low by a man of the people seems as irexcusable and as inexplicable as the assassina ton of the Empress of Austria whose entire life was spent in doing good and who was justly entitled to look upon herself as being without single enemy in the world.
 For Humbert was the most dlmo- cratic of all the crowned heads of the old world. Indeed, he showed such pr5Gilection for tn common people that he used to be nicknamed the king of the Marmots," which may be idiomat- ically translated as the king of the hurdy-gurdy players" and. while he was invariably reserved, distant, and on his dignity with members of the aristocracy, the cordiality which he displayed in his intercourse with the peasants, the working classes, the com mon sailors, etc, showed that he felt more at home in their society than in that of the great nobles and patricians.
 In fact, it is difficult to understand V sin was one of the masses-could hope to accomplish by the death of this, from a popular point of view, most me ritorious of all monarchs. He has ruled in strict accordance with the terms of the constitution, his generosi- ty and financial integrity have sur passed that of every other sovereign, modern or ancient, since he not only paid his fathers colossal debts and sur rendered a considerable portion of his civil list to the treasury in order to diminish the burden of taxation upon his people, but was also the most lib- eral of all subscribers to every fund raised for the suffering and the poor, For his death merely results in the ac- oezsion to the throne of a prince who has already given proof of the fact that he is possessed of tendencies towards despotism that were altogether foreign to his fathers character.
 Il is pleasant to be able to relate that Italy's new king in spite of his diminu- tive stature, has inherited the bravery of his father, which is indeed tradition al to the ancient and illustrious house of Savoy. True. he has never had the op- portunity of displaying his gallantry on the field of battle. But at least on one occasion he has been face to face with death without losing his presence of mind or composure. The first time was when at the age of IA he was pres ent at some experiments with dynamite undertaken by the nOn-commissioned officers of an engineer regiment. An explosion took place. killing several of the men on tn spot and inflicting severe wound to the royal lads leg. Three years later he was again injured during some military experiments with explosives. and in spite of the fact that the prince was confined to his bed sev- eral weeks, the king insisted that his studies should continue uninterrupted, and Prof Morandy continued his daily lessons by Victor EmmanuePs b5dzide.
 Unlike Humbart, the new kRg or Italy has travelled far and wide and is personally acquainted not merely with most foreign rulers. but also with most of the statesmen of the countries with which Tta1Nr Di0y-c in tat,1 tiOO11 inter-