Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1914-09-12

or another, but Albert has lived ra-
Their quietly.
Belgium has belonged to the Bel
gians only since 1880, when the peo-
Pile carried out a successful reyolu-
ton against Holland, by whom they
had been ruled.
When the country was invaded by
Napoleon l. on one side and by Eng
land and Germany on the other for
the battle of Waterloo in 1915, the
people did not defend their country.
There was no cry of neutrality being
violated. The difference is now that
the Belgians are fighting for their
own.
King Albert does not belong to
them by any bond of blood. He is
the grandson of the first king of the
Belgians, German prince of Sake
Coburg- Gotha, who was invited to
rule as Leopold /. His sovereignty
lasted for thirty-four years and that
Of his son, Leopold II. lasted for
I forty-four years King Albert as
cended the throne in 1909.
The king and Queen Elizabeth
have had TO sacrifice their nearest
and dearest family ties TO remain
loyal to Belgium during this war.
/ Both are as German as centuries of
4 German blood can make them. The
queen, who is the daughter of Duke
/ Carl Theodore of Bavaria, one of the
most celebrated eye specialists of
his generation, Is the namesake and
goddaughter OF her aunt, the muir
dered Empress Elizabeth of Aus
trla. who was assassinated at Gen
eva She up to now maintained the
most cordial relations with her aged
uncle. Emperor Francis Joseph Of
Austria Hungary.
King Albert, on his side. has many
ties in Germany. His mother was
( Princess Marie of Hohenzollern, of
the family of the kaiser His sister
is the wife of Prince Charles of Ho-
henzollern, a kinsman of the kaiser,
who lives in Berlin and is helping
the Germans to plan the control of
Belgium. King Albert's most init
mate friends have been the German
crown prince and the other sons of
the kaiser.
in the field, since his defiant reply
to the kaiser's demand to give Ger
man troops free passage through his
country. The royal palace at Lack
en-, where King Leopold spent large
fortune on the gardens alone, has
been turned over to the Red Cross
in which the queen herself has beer
enrolled. She is a regular graduate
nurse and holds a doctors certificate
also. King Albert is thirty-nine years
old and Queen Elizabeth veal
, younger Many Americans have me
: the king. He spent several months
in this country sixteen years ago.
4 He had dinner in Washington will
2 President Mckinley, was entertained
: at Newport by Mrs Potter Paine
and spent considerable time in NeN
York In St Louis he spent tire
days incognito at a hotel as "Johl
Banks, New York"
/ He has a private fortune of som
e twenty odd millions, besides a suffc
n emily liberal grant made by the Be
$ gian government.
n He and Queen Elizabeth did nc
9 have any formal coronation such a
n other sovereigns have, following tn
y example of Leopold H., who gave
n the people the large sum, many tho
q sands OF dollars, for which they ha
been taxed, to pay for the coron
10 ton. The new king and queen, hoy
~ ever, had state entry into Brusse
IL the day before Christmas five yea
TO ago, when the cannon doomed a S
= Lutte and the church bells rang o
IS as hundreds of thousands of the
W subjects thronged the streets to l
IN oeive their new rulers, They ha'
Tn three children, Prince Leopold. Prin
ed Charles and little Princess Marie.
M The king and queen have been We
hu democratic, easily accessible to
no classes of society and they have
M come so popular that the Socialis
ne who used to demand a republic
a. Belgium are now seldom heard fro
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