Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1893 — ALEXANDER I. OF SERVIA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ALEXANDER I. OF SERVIA.

A-Bixteen Year-Old Kin£ with a Man’s Head. Alexander,the “boy King” of Servla, whose recent coup d’etat has created quite a flurry In European politics, is a sou of ex-King Milan and ex-Queeu Natalie, and was born Aug. 14, 1876. He does not appear to have inherited the vices and weaknesses of his father, but is a manly young fellow, and has made a favorable Impression

wherever he has been. His life has been a stirring one. Ills associations have been almost entirely with men of affairs, and gray-haired professors at that, and at 16 he is older than a man of twice his years. It is generally believed that his bold stroke of defying the Regents, subsequently placing them under arrest and* proclaiming himself King, was inspired by Natalie, who has never forgiven the Regents for expelling her from the country.

Good Advice. Mr. Chauncey M. Depew has written for Donahoe’s Magazine an article in answer to the question, “Should young men go Into politics?” Mr. Depew answers no—that is, he strongly advises young men not to adopt politics as a career. But this answer is based upon present conditions—upon the low estate in which we find American politics to-day. How the tone of public life is to be raised unless young men of strong and conscientious patriotism and unselfishness enter it and strive to improve it, he does not tell us. Taking things as they are, however, this passage from Mr. Depew’s article is admirable; “Every young man should be interested in politics, and take as active a part in the political affairs of his neighborhood as the time at his disposal from his business will permit. He should belong to some party and understand its principles. He should attend Its caucuses, and do such party service as he can. He should never fail to vote on election day; when there are movements on foot for reforms necessitated by corruption, or to put bad men out of office, he should be on hand and ready to fight for the redemption of his city, town or State. ”

Not to .Blaine. Sir Walter Trevelyan, who died in 1879 at the age of 82, had inherited an immense cellar of wines, said to have been then the rarest collection in the world. Some of the wines were' bottled in 1752, and others in 1777. But the baronet was himself a total abstainer, and bequeathed his wines to Dr. Richardson, bis colleague in temperance agitation, to be “employed for scientific purposes.” Sir Walter’s wife would have wine on the dinner-table. A visitor, after a glass of port from a bottle bought by the baronet’s father In 1784, offered to purchase the whole at a guinea a bottle. “No, sir,” said Sir Walter, “I mean to have the whole carried out some day and emptied into the Wansbeek.” One night Sir Walter had such a severe attack of the gout that he was obliged to ascend the stairs on his knees —he was too self-reliant to permit a servant to carry him. A friend suggested that he might console himself by reflecting that he was not to blame. “No!” he answered, “my father and grandfather drank the port, and I came in for the gout.”—Youth’s Companion.

Story of a Lustrous Diamond. One of the finest diamonds in the world was found not long since in the Brazilian sands. It _came in a novel form. A small quartz rock was found, about the size and shape of an egg, lying in the sand along the bank of the Amazon in Brazil. This Was carried home by a Brazilian peasant, who was attracted by its odd shape and light weight. For some time it lay in his home with a number of other geological specimens, a mere -curiosity. Happening one day in handling it to drop it on a stone block, it burst open and lay in halves on the block. The hollow interior that gave the light weight to the stone was tilled with blood red sand. In this sand lay the diamond, a sparkling stone of the rarest quality. The stone was later sold to a diamond merchant and left th* the finder exceedingly wealthy.

KING ALEXANDER L.