El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-29

Italian Soldier Allows Thief
to Rob Him, Then Catches
Him.
ITALIAN KING rs
TOO HEAVILY TAXED

Rome, Italy. July Pa good story
is told TO illustrate the discipline and
that ancient BODY Of military oolice-
men who had their origin in Piedmont
and about whom SO much has been said
during the Camorrist trial.
The other day a company OF them
was drawn up outside the railway sta
ton for the arrival Of a royal prince.
The prince appeared at the door of the
station and all hands were raised in
salute when a Gardiner felt a little
tug at his pocket. Then he felt another
stronger pull. and remembered with
anguish that all his pay and boarded
wealth was in purse in his trousers
pocket, which was being insiduously
attacked, having been exposed by the
raising of his arm What should he
do? The foreign prince was just OPP
posite. and to put down his hand and
not salute was unthinkable, but at the
same time could flesh and blood, and
an officer of the law, too, deliberately
allow himself TO be robbed and ruined?
His desperate state of mind was shown
In the trembling Of that hand, which.
however. stayed glued to the forehead
while the precious purse was slowly
6nQ surely aDSlIdClSU Al 1dSl l1iC
agonizing moment came when ne felt
that the pulling had stopped and knew
that the thief had made off.
Got Has Money Back.
Fortunately, the theft had taken
sorse time as the thief evidently was
not very bold, and just as he got the
coveted prize in his hand, the captain
OF the Carabineers turned to give an
order. the saluting being over, and saw
what had happened. The order for
pursuit was given and the Gardiner
who had proved the power Of discipline
over human nature was the one who
caught his thief and recovered his
property intact
1t is not generally known that the
civil list of the king of Italy is larger
than that of almost any other sover-
eign. as it amounts TO over 100000
a year However, this does not mean
that Victor Emanuel can dispose of
more money than some other European
potentates. 1t must be remembered
that he has inherited the possessions
Of all the seven states in which Italy
was divided before the middle Of the
last century, and that many Of these
properties. such as historic palaces and
gorgeous villas not only are not pro-
ductive Of anything. but represent a
heavy burden on the budget OF the
royal house.
Now and then the question Of reduc-
ing the civil list comes up, but con-
trary to what takes place in other
countries. the king himself is favor
able to the reduction, on the condition
that he be relieved of a large number
of royal parks and palaces which he
never uses and which absorb about
two-thirds of the civil list for their
maintenance This point reached gem
orally, the question goes no further. as,
II the property which the king would
be ready to give up were taken over
by the state, there would be no saving
in the expenditure, which. in fact, as
everything managed by the govern
nent might come to cost more, while
II is out OF the question to lose such
national treasures, although in the
past there have been offers for them
from private persons. including the
Rothschild family.
Where Royalty Spends Summer.
The king and queen and their young
people have gathered in their Pied
montese castle of Racconigi, only 20
miles from Turin, to spend the sum-
mer quietly after the recent mourning.
The castle, which once. together with
Moncalieri. where princess Clothilde
died. and Stupinigi, where queen
Maria Pia breathed her last, was one
Of the strongholds of Piedmont. is now
surrounded by a peaceful village Of
10000 inha bitants. and contains very
sad relics for the italian royal family.
as in one corner Of the edifice there
are gathered the furniture of the bed
room in which king Charles Albert the
king who granted the constitution in
1913, died in voluntary exile at Opor-
10. Portugal, and the furniture of the
bedroom occupied by king Humbert
Just before he was shot by the anarch-
list Bresci at Monza
Life Ia Simple.
Notwithstanding these melancholy
momentoes. the life of the sovereigns
and the royal children there is reported
20 be very gay in its siplicity. The
little ones run about the park barefoot
ed and bareheaded, while the king
lays aside his generals uniform which
he wears all the year at Rome and
spends hours fishing and motoring in
the company Of his family. and the
queen has at last the possibility of
gratifying her tastes for shooting and
painting.
Princess Yolanda is the life of this
happy family. One day, asked II she
was mammals or papa's girl. she re-
piled, 81 am mammals girl in body
(she Is the image Of her mother)-so
[ must. necessarily. be papa's girl in
spirit"