Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1910 — QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S WORRIES. [ARTICLE]

QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S WORRIES.

Anxiety for the Safety of Brother and Slater Plainly Shown. It is an open secret in the household just now, and it must be patent to every one who takes an interest in European affairs, that Queen Alexandra is going through a time of great anxiety about her brother, the King of Greece, who is not only in danger of losing his throne but his life because of his fearless habit of walking unattended about the streets of his capital, as his father always did with perfect safety in Copenhagen, says the London Tatler. King George cannot be convinced of the fact that his beautiful country teems with some of the most treacherous desperadoes in the world, and his family suffer agonies of mind in consequence. Only io crowned heads and those nearly connected with them It is given to know the ghastly and ever-present fear that they pr those dear to them may at any hour die by violence. The life of her sister, the Dowager Empress of Russia, must have beep one long martyrdom to this kind of anxiety, and the times that she herself has narrowly escaped assassination In some shape or form can hardly be numbered. One cannot help feeling the greatest sympathy for our beloved Queen Alexandra, whose face often shows the great anxiety that she must be undergoing.