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NOTES FROM ROME

Rome. July ga good story is tolt
to Illustrate the discipline and self.
control OF the famous Carabineers
that ancient body of military police.
men who had their origin in Piedmont
and about whom so much has beer
said during the Camorrist trial.
The other day a company of then
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 Gardiner felt a little
tug at his pocket. Then he felt anothe,
stronger pun, and remembered with
anguish that all his pay and horded
wealth was In purse In his trousers
pocket which was being insiduousJy
attacked, having been exposed by thf
raising Of his arm. What should he
DO? The foreign prince was just op.
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
and surely distracted. At last the
agoniZing moment came when he fel,
that the pulling had stopped and knew
that the thief had made off
Fortunately, the theft had taken
some time, as the thief evidently was
not very bcld, and just as he got the
coverfed prize in his hand, the captain
or the Carabineers turned to give an
order, the salui ing being over, and saw
what had happened. The order for
pursuit was given and the Gardiner
VINO had proved the power OF discipline
over human nature was the one who
caught his thief and recovered his
property intact.
IL lis not generally known that the
civil list OF the king OF Italy is larger
than that Of almost any other sover-
eign, as 1t amounts to over $4,000. 900
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
or 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 fav ,r-
able to the reduction ond the condition
tnat ne be relieved of 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
ment, might come to cost more, while
1t 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.
The king and queen and their young
people have gathered in their Pied
montest castle of Racconigi, only
twenty miles from Turin, to spend
the summer quietly after the recent
mourning. The castle, which once,
together with Moncalieri, where Prin-
cess Clothilde died and Stupinigi
where Queen Nara Pia breathed her
last was one of the strongholds of
pinApnnnF su n
peaceful village of 10000 inhabitants,
and contains very sad relics for the
Italian royal family, as In one corner
of the edifice there are gathered the
furniture of the bedroom in which
King Charles Albert, the king who
granted the constitution in 1S48, died
in voluntary exile at Oporto, Portugal.
and the furniture of the bedroom oc-
cupled by King Humbert just before
he was shot by the anarchist Bresc.
at Mona.
notwithstanding these melancholy
the life of the sovereigns
and the royal children there Is reported
to be very gay in it's simplicity. The
little ones run about the park bare |
footed 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 IL she
was mammals or papas girl, she re-
piled, Il am mammals girl in body
-(she is the image OF her mother)-
20 ] must, necessarily. be papa's girl
In spirit"