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The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

or bicycling or tennis playing or photo
graphing, in which the boy King has
found his pleasures.
Though he does not believe in war,
holding that the powers of a country
can best be maintained by extension
through purchase; by the care of trade,
rather than by the force of arms AL
fonso yet delights in military exercise.
He handles the saber, sword, revolver
and gun with rare deXerity, and three
days in the week he spends the whole
afternoon on the drill ground He is a
strict disciplinarian, too, and possessed
of tact that would do credit to a
much older head. One afternoon he
looked in vain for the officer in COM
mand of a royal guard then on duty.
At last, calling an adjutant, he asked
the name of the missing man.
1T is Captain M, your majesty"
came the answer.
Convey my compliments to Captain
M" replied the King, land say
that, though I often think of him, I
have not had the pleasure of seeing
him for a long time"
Talk of Marriage
Alfonso XIII has also been trained
especially of late years, in the duties
of government. He has attended cab
liiCl meetings, anu EFFORTS nave been
made to bring him into closer and
closer touch with his people His visits
to the hospitals, barracks, concerts and
theaters have become more and more
frequent and not long ago, when he
was seen to be present at a bull-f1ght.
he was enthusiastically cheered by the
populace. A vet further evidence of
the position he has now assumed comes
in the rumors which show that, in spite
of his youth, the subject of his mar
riage is already under discussion
The future Queen of Spain must. of
course, belong to the Roman Catholic
! Church. French and Austrian prin-
cesses have been mentioned in this con-
nection. though there are many who
hold that an Austrian alliance would
never be popular in Spain The ma
| tional vote. were such a thing to be
taken. would in all probability be given
to the Princess Louise d'Orleans. the
younger sister of the present Queen of
Portugal.
Owing to the great care with which
his mother has surrounded him, AL
fonso has grown from a delicate child
to healthy, well-grown youth, full of
life and vigor. He is above the aver
age hight, though slightly built, has
! fresh complexion, the least bit bronzed
by his out-of-door exercises, and brown
eyes that are both clear and expresL
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sSal GpAlRe@ >
MADRID.

When twenty-three she married Darn
ley, Rothwell when twenty-five and
through all these years her hopes were
constantly disappointed and her plans
turned to naught. Forced to abdicate
the throne that was hers by right, she
was beheaded less than a year later
On the continent eight Kings have
assumed the reins of government when
only boys. The present Emperor of
Austria was eighteen when, in 1913. he
was proclaimed. Charles XII of Swe-
den was fifteen, Louis TX of France
eleven, Louis XIII nine, Louis XIV and
Louis XIV each five. Louis XVI was
sixteen when he began the reign that
was to end in deposition and death on
the scaffold; Louis XVII, who became
rightful King when eight years old,
was dead two years later On the
other hand, Louis XVI, lie Grand"
wore the diadem of French royalty
for seventy-tw years, the longest
reign in history
To this company of boy rulers AL
fonso XIII of Spain is now to be add
ed. The regency of Queen Christina
is almost over and the mother who,
through storms of unpopularity. and
opposition, has preserved the throne
for her boy, will move away from the
great palace at Madrid to her country
home in the Pradox There is to be
hereafter nOI even the SUSPICION IndC
she is influencing the government.
Why Alfonso Is the Thirteenth.
1t was the will of Christina that gave
to Alfonso the unlucky XIII. The com
hined superstitions of superstitious
Spain was opposed to the mineral.
Ministers and statesmen pleaded that
this shadow should be withheld from
the young King. But the Queen was
unmoVed in her determination to pro-
long in the child the honorable name
of the father who had died before his
long-hoped-for son had come to glad
den his heart. Christina also wished to
compliment, through the mineral, AL
fOnso'S godfather Pope Leo XIII
"Since His Holiness has so marvellous
ly wthstood it's malignant influence. &"
she said. Il have faith that my son
also will be able to Withstand it."
If an almost perfect education can
help the young monarch in this he will
be fortunate and happy as even
mother-lo could wish Since he
could lisp he has been in the hands
of tutors, the wisest men of Spain. He
knows Latin, the root of all the ro-
nance languages; Spanish, the tongue
of his people; French, the glib medi-
UNI of European diplomacy; German,
the language to which his mother was
born in Austria; and English. which
even the Spaniard realizes has
become the language of COM
merce and advancement. he has
studied religion as thoroughly
as though he were to take orders,
and has been schooled fully in
geography. history mathematics. lit
crature, chemistry. physics and draw
ing. He plays so we'll on the piano
that what was once a task has become
as much of a recreation as the riding
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set up, proof read and cast into page
form ready for printing
Miss MacLane has, it seems, merely
recorded her odd thoughts, and because
these have been original and SEN
sational at times, the publishers feel
that the book will prove to be a Won
derful seller. AT any rate, those who
read the story will wonder whether the
young girl who wrote it is crazy or a
genius, or whether she simply needs to
be punished severely. Following are
extracts which show just what the
whole book is
I, of womankind and of 10 years,
will now begin to set down as full
and frank portrayal as 1 am able
of myself, Mary MacLane, for whom
the world contains not a parallel.
l am convinced of this, for l am odd.
l I'm distinctly original innately and
in development.
I have in me a quite unusual inten-
sity of life.
l can feel
have a marvellous capacity for mis-
cry and happiness.
1 am predetermined.
1 am a genius.
1 am a philosopher of my own good
peripatetic school.
care neither for right nor for wrong
my conscience is nil.
My brain is a conglomeration of ag-
gressive versatility. !
l have reached a truly wonderful
state of miserable morbid unhappiness.
1 know myself, Oh very we'll
1 have attained an egotism that is
rare indeed
1 have gone into the deep shadows.
All this constitutes oddly. 1 find
therefore, that l am quite odd.
Presently she compares herself with
Lord Byran and Marie Bashkirtseff,
but as to the latter she says, in most
things l go beyond her.
Where she is deep. I am deeper.
Where she is wonderful in her inten-
sity, l am still more wonderful in my
intensity.
Where she had philosophy. I am a
philosopher.
Where she had astonishing vanity
and conceit. l have yet more astonish-
ing vanity and conceit.
But she, forsooth, could paint good
pictures-and What can l do?
She had a beautiful face. and l am
a plain-featured. insignificant little an
imal.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

When, in 1898, Isabella was Queen
of Spain at the age of g. and Maria
was Queen of Portugal at the age of
Z, and Pedro was Emperor of Brazil
at the mature age of s, Greece was in
the rule of a boy not yet out of his
teens, Prince Ohio of Bavaria. He sat
on the throne at Athens during TWEEN
ty-nine years of almost constant dis
affection and turbulence, and then. in
1862, was expelled, only to be succeed
ed by another young man of IS, Prince
George of Denmark, the brother of
Queen Alexandra of England.
England has entered upon her chron-
icles the names of ten Infant mon
archs," the latest of whom was Vic
toria the Good herself who was but
IS on that historic June night when
she was awakened from her sleep in
the palace of Kensington to hear that
the King was dead and that the
Queen ruled. Henry VIII came to
the English throne when he was TO-
Edward III when he was IS and Rich
ard II when he was II. Two of the
Kings in whose reigns the island was
rent and torn by the wars of the
roses, Henry VI and Edward w, be-
gan their ruling when little more than
mere boys Edward " at 20 and Hen
ry VI when scarcely s. The next Ed
ward never lived even to be crowned,
for Edward V, rightfully succeeding to
the throne when IS, spent the twelve
weeks of his mockery of a reign as the
prisoner of his uncle of Gloucester in
the Tower of London, where he was
| murdered.
Henry VIII began his not over cred
table reign when IS. and when the
throne descended to his son, Edward
VI, that boy was in his tenth year;
he died before he was 16. Lady Jane
Grey, more sinned against than sin
ming" was Englands Queen for just
eleven months, which measured for her
forty-five weeks of plots and counter
plots, strife and suspicion, ending in
her execution before her nineteenth
birthday.
Small Kings in Scotland.
Five of the seven 'potentates in pin
azores" who sat upon the ancient
Stone of Scone in the neighboring
kingdom of Scotland met untimely
| deaths. James 1. who began to rule
when r. was murdered when "a, and
his son, James II, was accidentally
killed when 80, having worn the crown
of his father twenty three years. The
third James. coming to the throne at
the age of 8, was murdered when As;
the fourth, who began to rule when Is,
was slain in battle when Al the fifth.
only sixteen months, when his
little head was first weighed down by
the crown was dead at thirty. while
James VI. under whom the two king
doms We're at last united, was the only
one of all the line of whom it may be
said that he lived out the natural span
of life. He came to the throne when
only a month more than one year old,
and died when fifty-nine.
Ilis mother, the Inflated Marie-Stu-
art, found in her portion all the sor-
row that has come to be associated
| with the lives of infant monarchs. She
was crowned eight days after her
birth; she was a widow at eighteen.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

Copyright 1902 by Langdon Ballinger.
Born under an unlucky star to the
uneasiest crown in Europe, Alphonso
the XIII, is about to come officially
to his own. The tall, slim, nervous
looking man. who writes after his
name the unluckiest of all the num-
bers in the records of Spain comes of
age a week from yesterday when he
will assume in his own person those
ancient rights and privileges to which
he was born sixteen years ago Then
the only unmarried King in Europe
and the youngest King in the world
will sit on the throne in Madrid.
The southeastern peninsula of the
continent of Europe has produced it's
full quota of the potentates in pima
fOres, who have helped rule the world.
In the last sixty-nine years, counting
Alphonso in the ranks of the interest
ing little company, Spain and Portu-
gal between them have seen two queens
in tiny short dresses and two kings in
Elton jackets. Modern history num-
bers thirty-siX such small monarchs,
Brazil, Greece, France, England, Scot
tributing to the total of twenty fiVc
royal girls, most of whom lived up-
happy lives, and many of whom met
untimely or violent deaths.
Alphonso's own grandmother, Isa-
bella H. was one of these, into whose
life has come so much of sorrow,
though she bids more than fair to live
to see sitting on the throne of her an
cestOrs the frail and sickly boy. of
whom ii was openly predicted sixteen
years ago that he would never rule
the people to whom he had been born.
Isabella same to the throne when a
child of and actually took up the
reins of government ten years later.
Her troubles then began; to be stead
lily continued throughout her life, first
by her mother. Maria Cristina, trying
to force her to marry a man she did
not love, then by the enmity of her
mother after the little queen had been
welded to her cousin Francisco de As
sise. then by the uprising of the pop
ulace against Maria, before which that
self-willed matron fled into
France. and then. dozen
years later, by a similar outbreak
of the mercurial Spanish temper
forcing Isabella herself to follow her
mother, abdicating two years later in
favor of her son, Alfonso XII. the
father of the present King.
In the meantime, across the line in
Portugal, Queen Maria, whose father.
Dom Pedro ", had given her the
throne when she was but slip of a
child, not yet seven, was trying against
an Unaffected people and hostile min
istry to hold the power for herself,
while over in Brazil, her brother Pc
dro. one of the most charming of young
men. was doing his childish best to
satisfy the demands of a rebellious
people. Maria of Portugal died of
Encouragement. it is said Pedro of
Brazil, driven from his kingdom, died
of a broken heart.
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the death of King Alfonso XII, and
participated in the solemn functions
attending the funeral. About two
months later" he continues, Il re-
ceived. as did all other foreign repre-
sentatives, a notice to be prepared to
be present at the birth of an heir to
the throne. A day later another Of
fetal notice came to me, brought by a
royal eQuerry. This was a very i'm
portant looking document in a huge
envelope, tied with ribbons of the royal
color. and bearing the seal of the Lord
Chamberlain. On the third day came
from the royal palace a messenger, ac-
companied by a guard of soldiers, to
tell me 1 was wanted at once. The
previous message had instructed me to
wear court dress at the time of my
visit, and 1 remember how absurd 1
thought it was to appear in full even
! ing outfit at breakfast time, for my
final summons had arrived while I was
st> at coffee. But a swallow tall is
the only court dress an American diplo-
I mat can wear, so 1 put mine on and
accompanied the royal messenger back
to the palace"
Mr.. Curry then relates how he was
conducted to the Queens bed chamber.
where the ambassadors and ministers
of foreign governments and the high
court officials were all assembled. The
room was a large one, and across one
end heavy curtains had been drawn to
hide the royal bed! After the group of
diplomats had bean waiting for some
time a courtier appeared from behind
the curtains and cried out in a loud
tone, Long live the KING" He an
nounced that the heir to the throne
was a boy. Soon after a lady in wait
ing appeared bearing a huge silver
platter in her arms, on which lay the
baby King amid laces and frills.
The diplomats formed in a semi-cir-
Gle, and the court lady, bearing the in
FAINT monarch, passed around the line
to permit the officials to gaze upon the
child. Sls had got but half way
around when the youngster set up a
lusty howl, and 5he beat a hasty re-
treat behind the curtain. DR.. Curry
said that this incident did not occur
until after the infant had passed be-
fore his eyes, and he had performed
his duty as witness at the first public
appearance of the monarch who will
soon become the King of Spain-Al-
fOnso XIII. Langdon Ballinger.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

She was surrounded by admiring
alone, though there are people and peo-
pie.
She was a genius, and still more an
1 a genius.
She suffered with the pain of a wo-
man, young, and 1 suffer with the pain
of a woman, young and all alone.
And so it is.
Along some lines 1 have gotten to the
edge of the world. A step more and ]
fall off. l do not take the step. ]
stand on the edge, and 1 suffer
Nothing, oh, nothing on the earth
can suffer like a woman young and all
alone!
Yes, you may gaze long and curl
ously al the portrait in the front OF
this book. 1t is of one who is a genius
of egotism and analysis, genuine who
is awaiting the DEVILS coming-a gent
us with a wondrous liver within.
shall tell you more above this liver
think, before 1 have done.
Let me writhe and falter with pain:
let me go mad-but, oh, worldful OF
people-for the love of your God-give
me out of this seething darkness only
one DeduIlIul human nanQ TO touch
mine with love, one beautiful human
heart to know the aching sad loneli-
ness of mine, one beautiful, human soul
to mingle with mine in long. long rest
oh, for a human being, my soul
wails-a human being to love me!
Oh, to know-just once-what it is
to be loved!
Nineteen years without one faint
shadow of love is moldy, crumblins
age-is gray with the dust of centuries
How long have 1 livv,::
How long must 1 live!
1 am shrieking at you. cold, stpid
world.
Oh, the long. long waiting.
The millions of human beings.
1 am a human being and there is nc
One-no one-no one.
Who can know this that has not felt
it? You do not know-you can not
knw
Surely 1 do not ask too much. But
whether or not it is too much can not
go through the years without it-oh, ]
can mott
You have lived your r/SAeteen years
fine world, and you have lived through
some after years.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11
THE LITERARY OUTLOOK.

News of the AuthOrs-A Clever ParO-
dy of the Rubaiyat-The Tendency
of Some Publishers to Publish Any
thing-Objections to the Cult in
Literature-IS Mary MacLane Crazy
or Is She Another RaskirtseT:
One of the May magazines has
braved the danger of infringement of
copyright by publishing a revised set
of rules for the game of ping-p pong.
Several weeks ago two books on me
81 beet were published and the spon-
sors of one began suit against the
other for infringement of copyright 1t
seems that the name ping pong" was
copy lighted, but whether the protection
CT The law will extend. itself to one
publisher to the exclusion of all others
remains to be seen.
Stewart Edward White, author Of
THE Westerners" and The Blazed
Trail" has recently left New York Tor
his home in Michigan Mr.. White has
been spending the entire winter in New
Yo,k where he has mingled Ding-pong
with story writing. but when the signs
% SiiIng began to come, he heard the
WOO - "a calling" I.ytrY summer Mr.
W mt. goes North, either to an unire.
quen:yd section Of upper Michigan ~
TO the Hudson Bay country. Natur-
ally enough, he writes we'll of the
woods and its people. His "Blazed
Trail recently published has called
forth the most enthusiastic praise from
many well known writer's and critics.
Mrs. Humphrey Ward has completed
a new novel and by the time this has
gone through the process of serializa-
ton another will have been prepared.
Lady Roses Daughter Is the title Of
the present story, enough Of which has
not yet appeared TO judge of its char
acter, save that it is English
John Morley will have his Life of
Gladstone" ready for fan publication
and at the same time another firm will
bring out Bismark's letters TO the first
German Emperor. Maurice Hewlett
hopes 70 complete a new novel. THE
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11
Tuscan Crown" before the close of the

Tuscan Crown" before the close of the
year.
"Omar Khayyam, Jr," is a very
clever travesty on the verses of the
Persian poet, by Wallace Irwin, a
young journalist of San Francisco, who
may be remembered as the author of
THE Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum."
The book has just been published. 1t is
illustrated by Gellett Burgess. Here
are sample verses from the collection:
What though Gorgona at the Portal
knocks
And charms the squamiest Serpent in
her Locks?-
l wear tobbachanalian Wreaths of
Smoke,
And there are more Perfectos in the
Box.
All, Love, tn Invisible Buskin at the
Gate
mumes your Eyes that languored gaze
and wait,
And IN their IncandescenCe seem to ask
The World-old Question: is my Hat
on Straight?"
A Grand Piano underneath the Bough,
A Gramophone, a Chinese Gong, and
Thou,
Trying TO sing an anthem off the Key
o. Paradise were Wilderness enow!
Cecil Rhodes probably appeared as a
character in more novels than any one
man of his time. Morley Roberts took
him for The Colossus Anthony Hope
for The God in the Car" kipling as
the personification of much of his i'm
perialistic doctrines, and many other
well known writer's described the great
Rhodes under thinly yelled DISCUSSES
in their books.
Apropos of the Shakespeare Baconian
controversy, citizen Of an interior
town in Ohio suggests a solution. He
says that an amateur company gave a
performance of Hamlet in The local
theater recently and he thinks that If
the graves of both Shakespeare and
Bacon were opened TO see which one
turned over the great problem would
be solved at once.
Here is a comment of a New York
editor which should be read by all in
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

But in your nineteen years there ma.
some one to love you.
1t is that that counts.
Y Since you have had that some one g.,
your nineteen years, can you under
stand what life is to me-me-in M.
loneliness? 10y
My wailing, waiting soul burns with
but one desire-to be loved-oh. 70 h.
loved" Herbert Brewster.
The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-11

terested. not only in the publishing of
books, but also i'm the writing of them.
For many months past" he says, "a
publishing house (Which shall be I'm
named here) has been sending us week
after week piles of bound volumes of
the most varied kinds, protesting to
contain fiction, or poetry, or theology,
or what-not. We have looked into
them ALL at first with the expectation
of finding something worth reading; in
the end with the hope of finding out
why in the world they We're published.
They are all absolutely hopeless and
impossible from any literary stand
point The authors may have been
misguided into the belief that any one
can write by the rate at which books
are produced nowadays; but they fur
nish proof in black and white that
some people can not write 1t would
have been a mercy to them if some
firm, but kind critic had taken them
in hand and persuaded them not to
publish, even if they must write. 1t
would have saved their readers pain,
and the reviewers, too, for it is mot
pleasant to crush down ambition for
fame, or even the warnings for wealth.
The publishers readers must be a
say what stuff they would reject if
they accept thit Perhaps the circle
of each authors friends is large
enough to absorb an edition. Some of
the books have apparently passed
through more than one. 1t may be
that these authors have discriminating
friends. like the wealthy Boston mer-
chant with literary daughter. She
wrote novels and had them publish I'd.
and then her father bought up the edi-
ton and stored it in the cellar in one
% his warehouses. Her collected
works We're all found there when he
died. But what has a reviewer to do
with this stuff? 1t is not literature and
it would be barbarous to make fun of
poor incompetents. They are all alike
in disregard of art and in happy ig-
nownce of the ordinary requirements
Of style That might be passed over If
they had anything worth saying to
say"
Mr.. Will NJ. Payne has recently writ
ten a number of essays which have
been collected and published in book
form. As proper person 10 guide
the uninitiated into the right paths of
reading. Mr.. Payne is vouched for Nv
numerous literary friends and by
long training IN critical and magma