Royal romances of to-day . ing to in-spect any body of troops which may bequartered in the neighbourhood. I recall onceseeing the King overtake a body of infantry in thestreet called Arenal, in Madrid. As soon as theroyal automobile came up even with the rear rank,the order was given to the troops to have themswing round so as to face the sovereign in saluteas he went past. The King at once rose to his feetin the car, at the same time uncovering, and as thecar swept by the regiment, his piercing, intelligenteyes seemed to dart an individual glance to eachsoldier along the entire line. Not once
Royal romances of to-day . ing to in-spect any body of troops which may bequartered in the neighbourhood. I recall onceseeing the King overtake a body of infantry in thestreet called Arenal, in Madrid. As soon as theroyal automobile came up even with the rear rank,the order was given to the troops to have themswing round so as to face the sovereign in saluteas he went past. The King at once rose to his feetin the car, at the same time uncovering, and as thecar swept by the regiment, his piercing, intelligenteyes seemed to dart an individual glance to eachsoldier along the entire line. Not once did hiseyes wander from the troops, although a hurrahingcrowd blocked the pavement on the other side ofthe street. Ask any soldiers of the Mellila cam-paign who wore the cool sun helmets that the Kingpresented from his private purse, speak the nameof the King to any officer of the Spanish army andsee him square his shoulders. King Alfonso does not trust entirely to militarysupremacy, however, for he believes in the peace-. KING ALFONSO AND HIS HEIR. Queen Victoria Eugenie of Spain 6i ful progression of his country and appreciates tothe full the necessity of economic the time of the Spanish-American war whenCuba and the Philippines were lost to Spain, itseemed as if her greatest markets had been takenfrom her, but during recent years, since Don Al-fonso has extensively taken up the reins of sover-eignty, he has stimulated commerce and trade inother parts of the world. Spain has seaportswhich give her splendid natural commercial ad-vantages. A few years since, Spain went quietlybut earnestly to work to build up an exchange tradewith the new countries of the world which seemedto offer the greatest opportunity for large commer-cial expansion,—trade with the Argentine Repub-lic, Paraguay, Brazil, Chili, Peru and the last few years, under the wise counselof the King, these states have been courted diplo-matically and socially to the incalculable stimul
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