Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1899 — Told of the King of Spain. [ARTICLE]

Told of the King of Spain.

A writer in the London Telegraph tells the following story about the King of Spain as throwing light on that royal lad’s life: “One day, during his history lesson, the king asked his professor to tell him how Spain came to lose Chile, Mexico and other Spanish-American colonies. The story was narrated so thrilllngly and artistically that the royal boy listened spellbound and continued after it had ended to sit absorbed in meditation. “At last, a thought having struck him, he looked up to bis professor and inquired, ‘What must I-do in order to get back those countries for Spain? ‘The first and most important thing of all,’ replied the cautious and diplomatic pedagogue, ‘is that your majesty should—should—grow up to be a man. When you are a man ’ ‘H’ml’ muttered the lad, disenchanted, ‘when I’m a man it is not a history professor’s advice ttjpt I shall be asking. I shall have a prime minister to tell me then.”