Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-10-06

Premier Maura, at an audience Wlth
the king, pointed out the danger Of US
ling the streets Of Madrid as a race
course, and the fact that the municipal
laws were broken by his majesty. Al
fonso was greatly angered over the re-
marks Of the premier. and at once de-
manded the governments resignation
for impertinence. The designations
were handed in and a new government
was formed.
Another and more serious phase Of
this young kings independence of
l thought and action Is concerned with
the mother who has devoted her life to
his education and rearing. Her care
has made him healthy, sturdy youth,
al hough he promised to inherit all the
physical weaknesses Of his siclxly faith
er. He Is capable of great physical en-
durance and can stand up under fati-
que that would exhaust men Of appar-
emily greater strength. Although he
has almost reached his majority he
follows still the daily routine laid out
by his mother when in 1891 his royal
curls were cut and he set out to pre-
pare himself for his high place.
His mother drew up timetable and
school routine. He still gets up every
morning at o'clock and says his pray
ers, for he has been brought UP to be
very religious.
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his toilet the king has breakfast with
his mother and sister, the Infanta Ma
ria Teresa The breakfast generally
consists of coffee, tea, bread, butter
and fresh eggs. He has chat with his
mother and sister, then goes to his
rooms to study under teachers care
fully selected. He is extremely good at
languages, and has mastered German,
as was proved by his conversation with
Emperor William at Vigo. He Is de-
voted to everything connected with the
military profession, is splendid horse
man, keen hunter and fine shot.
At II o'clock the king takes up offi-
cial business. At he takes luncheon
with his mother and sister, generally
inviting some Of the officers or minis
ters In attendance. The afternoon he
spends in exercising; then for an hour
reads magazines and newspapers and
dimes at 8 o'clock.
After dinner he plays billiards or
chess with his brother-in-law, the
Prince Of the Asturias, and except
when he visits a theater, which is sell
dom, he goes to bed at II o'clock.
His enemies say that, in spite Of her
years of devotion, the king Is lacking
in respect to his mother, who has CIV
him such autocratic ideas that he will
not tolerate the least interference with
his kingly conduct even from her.
The kings attitude toward the queen
mother is most severely criticized by
his political opponents. The king viii
have It clearly understood that his
word is supreme, and at the most tri-
fling opposition to his wishes he be-
comes .dictatorial. He has frequently
spat in the faces Of servants who have
neglected his orders. and where he
does not dare subject his victims to
this indignity he gives vent to his feel
ings by employing all the strongest
terms that Spanish profanity can COM
mand.
The most recent Of these scenes very
nearly resulted in an open rupture be-
| tween the king and the queen mother.
One evening, shortly after dinner, the
king. disguised as a laborer, had slip
ped away from the palace unrecognized
by the guards and proceeded alone and
on foot to the slums Of Madrid, where
he had made up his mind to attend a
workingman's ball. He passed the
hight dancing, drinking and playing
and returned to the palace at dawn
half intoxicated. The queen mother,
acquainted of his mysterious disap-
pearance from the palace, had spent
the night in agony. fancying him the
victim Of a plot.
| When she heard the cause Of his alb
sence she felt compelled to remon-
strate. She approached him In his
apartments and represented to him
that he was not only compromising his
reputation but endangering his crown.
The king. losing his temper. told her
to mind her own business and respect
his authority like the rest Of his sub
jec:s.
The queen replied that in the eyes OF
| God the son owed submission to his
mother. The king finally ordered her
out of the royal palace. The queen re-
naming impassive, the king cried vio-
lently:
II shall call my guards to throw you
into the streets of Madrid"
He was ringing to give the order
when his confessor, to whom the scene
had been reported by terrified SER
want, came hurriedly in and, closing the
doors, remained with the royal couple
until he succeeded in restoring peace.
The queen mother then declined to see
the king save In public, and passed
most Of her time in prayer
1t is not possible, Of course, to say
how much truth there is In such
story, that could have been known to
only a few persons. It was industri-
ously circulated. however, by the party
opposed to the king. His enemies de-
clared that his arrival early one morn
ing at a garrison near Madrid did not
come from an interest in the army, but
was due to a nervousness resulting
from a diseased mind. But they even
attributed his personal investigation OF
an explosion in the outskirts OF Ma
drid to the same cause. So it Is evil
dent that the kings enemies Will not
admit that his eccentricities are due 10
the exuberance Of youth.
NAMES OF FABRIcs.-Muslin Is named
for Mosul, in Asia.
| Serge comes from Xerga, the Span