Show A recent cable said that the Infanta Alf Alfonso of Orleans gave up h his s honors and his regiment to marry the Princess Beatrice of Saxe-C Saxe Saxe-Coburg Saxe burg Gotha It seems that the true state of the case ease is that he a Catholic Catholic prince married a Protestant princess princess princess prin prin- cess and he was fired from his re regiment because he was married without the permission of the war authorities It seems he lie was going away with his regiment to Melilla when on a i brief leave leavo of absence absence ab ab- ab sence he lie went to Paris to visit his mother and from there went to Coburg to say good bye to his sweetheart But when he reached Coburg he lie married married marriel mar mar- ried riel the princess hence the upheaval All Spain is excited over ver it Th The chief reason was the tIle princess princess prin pru- cess is not a a- a Catholic and though Alfonso of Orleans Or Or- Jeans leans was his close personal friend the king degraded tIe- tIe graded him But it has stirred Spain to o its depths and the hopeful sign is that the Liberal press of Madrid is praising the degraded prince for his manliness in marrying the girl of his love regardless regard regard- less of all the tr trouble that it would brin bring upon him The Thc Spanish press would not have dared to do that only a few years jears ago and that it docs does it now is a sign that by and by bj even in n Spain there will be he a sundering of church and aud state and th the people will ill advance into freedom The church in America has grown tolerant tolerant tol tol- tol- tol with the result that it is drawing increasing increasing ing jog numbers to its fold fold- This fact ought to li bo lip impressed impressed im mi- pressed upon those who wh have charge of the church churchin in Europe for freedom makes a dull man a ministering min mm- spirit and the more snore freedom the more I sincere loyalty to the church |