Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1913 — KING PUNISHES A DRIVER [ARTICLE]

KING PUNISHES A DRIVER

Monarch of Spgin Boxes Man’s Ears for Beating Exhausted Horse. Paris.—An Interesting anecdote of the king of Spain is now going the rounds of Paris. The other day, it is said, a man was driving up a steep hili just outside of Madrid a heavily laden cart drawn by two miserable horses, both of which looked to<be at the end of the tether. One of them, dead beat, fell "exhausted, and was unable to arise, in spite of the blows showered on the unfortunate beast by the driver, with the butt end of his whip. At this point a large automobile came into view over the brow of the hill, driven by a young man, with a lady at his side. The motorist took im the situation at a glance and at once stopped. Getting down, he skilfully raised the wretched horse to its legs, and then proceeded to box the ears of the driver soundly. “Now,” he said, starting his automobile, “you can, if you like, go and complain to the king of Spain.” The chivalrous motorist was Alfonso himself, with Queen Victoria.