Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-29

literature and politics. He began life by
producing certain vaudevilles and come
dies. and made name by art criticisms
and volume of The Little Mysteries
of the Great Sales The empire appoint
ed him inspector OF beaux arts but lie
threw up the lucrative position to write
on the Figaro and Soieil-wherc he got
himself into so many duels that he SCENE 4
dangerous to the government. which de-
manded the Figaro 10 discharge him. In
1858 he founded the Lantcrne. a violenC
paper against Napoleon III, which a
most ruined him in fines and socially
forced him to his first exile i'm Belgium.
In 1SG9 he returned to France. got elect
ed deputy and founded the Marseilaiss
newspaper. Zen Victor Noir was kie
ny Prince Bona parte, Roclefort. as a yio-
lent denunciator of the crime was con-
demned to prison. There he remained un-
Ill the events of September released him
and made him member OF the govern
ment national defense
Five days later he was against il. lie
was against the government of Theirs ami
the national assembly of Versailles. He
was against the commune also. but lie
has always been even worse against the
commuIe's deStroyers
In word. tho wonderful old man has
always been against every;hing-except
great art, in all its forms.
This is why he thinks these matters SO
interesting. STERLING HELLO.
tho royal procession. \ man named Felto
was arr sted. 1t was found that he was
4 lllat.c. On many occasions since
Bon.bs Lave been found and sometime,
nave exploded in places where the king
was expected or had just passed In
January. 1904, bomb was found under 4
bench outside the palace. In the sprn.
OF 1900. While the king was visiting Paris,
ne ilad very narrow escape from death.
Again bomb was the weapon.
hihS Alfonso was driving back from
inc opera where he had attended a gaia
perfo. nance in the company OF Presiden.
IoGbet- The bomb struck trooper on
the shoulder, Ill opped To the ground ana
exploded. killing the troopers horse.
Eight persons were injured. King Al
fonso told President Loubet that three
times previously attempts had been made
To- assassinate him.
Or all the numerous attempts On the
life of the king undoubtedly the most
dramatic took place exactly one yea-
after the incident in Paris II was made
on May 81. 1906. and not only the life az
the king attempted this time. tut
also that of the queen. the beautiful PIin-
cess Ena OF Battenberg. then the bride OF
an hour
The assassin with nendish joy i'm plot
SO dlabolical conceived that ii would h.
a most charming scheme from an anarch-
lists point of view and at the same time
an incident most unexpected and dra-
matte TO take the life or the king and
rob him of his bride just at the first
moment of their wedding bliss This
then in furtherance of the scheme was
what occurred when the procession was
on its way TO the royal palace at Madrid
from the church where the nuptiai cere-
mony had been celebrated.
a bouquet was thrown at the ROYAL
carriage. In ii was bomb The end
of the carriage was shattered, one of the
horses drawing IL was killed. an equerry
in immediate attendance and ten onlook-
ers were picked up dead. but the king
and queen escaped uninjured
A description OF man who had hired
the room from which the bouquet was
thrown was circulated throughout the
country. Three days later civil guard
approached a man he suspected and was
shot down. the murderer az
quickly shooting himself. The body OF
the suspect was afterward identified as
that OF the man who had rented the
room. He was an anarchist named
Morales. born near Barcelona and edu.
Gated in Germany.
But the most remarkable feature OF
all these attempts at the kings life Is
hat while others have been killed by
he ou:rages rot hair OF the kin.'s
read has been injured.