The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-20
WAS THE WORLDS
LARGEST MONARCH
King Carlos Was an Ardent Sports
man and Possessed Great
STRENGTH
(Pittsburg Dispatch.D

Through the intermarriage of the
royal families, the murdered King Car
los of Portugal was related to nearly
all the sovereigns of Europe, and was
a cousin of King Edward of England
He was always a favorite of Edward
and on a recent visit to England was
lioniZed by the people of London.
Carlos was the largest man sitting
on a throne in his time. He was con-
siderably more than six feet tall, and
quite stout. He weighed 324 pounds
He was a crack shot, and on his shoot
ing expeditions with King Edward al
ways had a bigger bag than any other
man I'm the party.
Until the recent agitation which cul-
minated in his assassination he took lit
tie interest in state affairs, content to
draw his salary and let the leaders of
the political parties run the country.
He lolled about Europe and visited
his various royal relatives on the con-
tinent and in Great Britain. When the
weather was cool he amused himself
sometimes shooting small game, but he
never went after dangerous quarry.
Buncoing His Subjects.
About ten years ago he translated
several of Shakespeare's plays into
Portuguese and had them produced in
the Royal theatre at Lisbon. The trans
lations were very crude and the plays
were ridiculous. devoid of the genius Of
their maker. But the whole of Lisbon
and great crowds from the provinces
fiocked to the theatre, and the king
netted a handsome sum in royalties.
During the social reign Of Count Cas-
tellane and his American countess in
Paris Carlos was a guest of the pair,
and enjoyed himself at the expense Of
the Gould estate.
One of the mog notorious of royal
scandals in recent years grew out of
Carlos admiration for the wife OF a
country doctor, who attracted his at
tention while he was visiting in the
south of Portugal She was very
handsome woman, and Carlos imm adj
ately got an introduction. He became
interested in her husbands practice
and invited him to come to the capital,
where he commenced to treat the king
for obesity. The physician was deco
rated with two or three royal orders.
ostensibly for his services to science,
and was appointed court physician.
This at once made him famous, and
his practice became so large that he
was busy night and day. In the mean
time the pretty wife was not allowed
to suffer for companionship. She be-
came a constant attendant upon the
royal family. She was the kings part
ner at cards, his companion on motor
trips, his protector in mountain-climb-
ing expeditions. The court gossips got
busy, the queen was furious.
Throws over the King.
Then a young nobleman from the
south, who had been an admirer of the
doctors wife in the days before her
marriage, came to court. The woman
was indiscreet enough TO throw over
the king and take to her first love,
whom she would have married years
before but for a difference in rank.
Now, however, ennObled by the atten-
tions of a king, she was fit company
for any man in the country.
The king became angry. He knew
that the whole court was laughing at
him He tried to persuade the woman
of the folly of her ways, and he made
threats against the young nobeman.
The grandee stood his ground. Then
the king sent for the doctor. He told
the physician, as a matter of duty,
how he had been betrayed by the
young nobleman from his own prov
ince The doctor bought a revolver
and, hiding himself in the meeting
place which the king had told him of,
he waited for the pair. He saw enough
to be convinced that the king was the
soul of truth and honor, and then shot
the nObleman dead.
He received a nominal sentence in