The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-16
A KINGS REVENGE.
PoRTUoAL's RULER SAID TO
BE A VILLAIN.
After Lurins a Physician's wife from
Her Husband, He Deserts Her-when
She Finds Defender He Causes His
Assassination.

No scapegrace of European royalty
can compare in moral depravity with
Charles Ferdinand, king OF Portugal.
His private life is full of violations of
the precepts of morality by which his
subjects are governed and scarcely
month passes without some new story
OF scandalous conduct that shocks his
people. A recent tragic romance has
provoked all Lisbon into a fiutter Of
revolt and directs attention to this
equity monarch who goes his royal
way determined only by his royal
will. All the world knows the con-
temptible position he occupies among
the rulers Of Europe. His private for
tunes are SO reduced that he has been
Obliged several times to pawn the
royal crown that is the insignia of his
divine" superiority over his fellow
countrymen, and the fact that he has
handed over the foreign relations Of
his kingdom to England for anan-
cial consideration.
The Scandal of Europe.
But that he could stoop to such
depths of consciencelessness and viii
lainy as are revealed in his latest out
rageous act not even those most famil-
lar with his moral caliber could be-
lieve. Sonora M was the wife of
physician attached to the kings
household. She was young and fair,
with sparkling eyes, dark hair and
rose-hued cheeks-a picture of lowell
ness. Her husband distinguished him
self during the plague scare few
years ago; 1t was then the king met
both husband and wife. His royal
corpuleney has thorough apprecia-
tion OF feminine beauty. The physi-
clan and his wife were introduced to
the court circle and the former was
rapidly advanced. He believed that
his devotion to his country in its time
OF danger was the reason for his adj
yancement; the beautiful young wife
soon had reason to know that there
was other foundation for the prefer
ment. She yielded to the temptation
that meant social advancement She
became favorite Of the king and her
magnificent gowns were paid for out
of the royal treasury. She became a
member of Queen Amelie's household.
Husband Took 1t PhnosophicalIy.
When the unhappy physician at last
learned his fate. it is characteristic of
present-day court life at Lisbon that
he resigned himself to 1t listlessly.
There is nothing to be DONE" he
said, and all Lisbon agreed with him.
Up to this point the romance had
run smoothly. In Lisbon and Oporto
there are husbands by the hundred
who have passed through the same
misfortune. The procedure is simply
to wait for some new fancy of the
king to break the spell. Later on,
therefore, when Charles Ferdinand
had tired of her. the physicians
beautiful young wife had only to
make her peace with him, live for
time as II in mourning, and begin
the humdrum life anew. Unhappily
Tor them, neither husband nor wife
developed normally from here on. He
took to brooding over his misfortunes.
And she forgot that it was dangerous
to wound kings vanity.
A Jealous King.
Cast off by the king, no longer hold
ing a place in her husbands affec-
tions, though again his companion.
the physicians wife found it easy to
accept the favors which a young man
OF the landed gentry was able to be-
stow on her. This new attachment
did not escape the observation of the
king. Though he had tired of her
once. his jealousy was aroused. He
meditated revenge.
Not since Shakespeare's Iago is
there to be found a record OF revenge
to compare with this one for infa-
nous cynicism. Sending secretly for
the physician. now notoriously unbal-
anced by brooding over his wrongs,
the jealous king deliberately unfolded