Show KING m PETER SILENT servian ruler the loneliest potentate on european throne lives moodily and nd modestly Is laC callous allou to criticism and la Is figurehead in council cime C ime shadow ow a his HI reign belgrade they call him the silent king in belgrade Uel grade and the king who care lie la Is the loneliest monarch mo in europe athla king peter of servia tills this man without k friends lends or amusements whom other monarchs will III not know and whose personality and very thoughts are impenetrable peter Kara georgevitch Is an py man because his occupation Is gone all his life he be has plotted and intrigued to gain the servian throne the years he spent in his bis little villa at geneva were devoted to neg otla eions with conspirators conspiracies were meat and drink to him ile he ot of nothing but his cipher cor with the Nara karageorge georgo party in belgrade Del grale and the clandestine meetings with his supporters in switz erland efland having walked to the throne over the bodies of an assassinated king and queen he has no further need tor for con can a piracies pi uto ills future to Is fairly assured it would be a kindness to peter kara georgevitch it if he be lost his bis crown and were sent back to geneva to resume his intrigues by post lie he lives in a small tv a story led cream colored palace fronting on rel bel grades grade a principal street it la Is a mod e est a t royal residence with friench win dows and a lawn separated from the public pavement by an equally mod est iron fence there was once another palace it adjoined the present excessively new loo looking kink structure hut but after a king a and nd queen were murdered there one june morning nearly seven years ago and their mutilated bodies thrown into the forecourt the building was razed 0 king peter of servia serela 0 the ground that the sight might not conjure up unpleasant memories tor for king peter when he looked out ol at his front windows hence the stretch of cool green lawn with the curious raised mound in the center which marks the site of the old pallace eel lars like most of his bis subjects king pe ter rises early usually with ith the sun then at six a 0 clock he rides or arii darhes es for perhaps an hour with two or three equerries equer ries ile he remains indoors the rest of the day sometimes his erdl nary program is disturbed by a rell alous festival or a state ceremony but at the earliest possible moment he hastens back to his bis seclusion the king has no marked tastes in any direction ile he reads very little few members of at the court dine with him the officers in attendance arp are wearied almost beyond belond expression by their palace duties ills his majesty is never cross never excited never talk active ills conversation Is confined usually to amible ami ble monosyllables in no place does the king appear so machof much of it a gorgeous figurehead as when he holds a council describing one of these functions a cabinet min ister sold there hla his majesty bits wearing earing a generals s uniform and all his decora eions anxious to please we talk of a certain public matter and presently the king dompa a little As one minister s giving tits his views the king his ebes with nith a start and sq sos s os s quite right I 1 ahe he d discussion I 1 ells sion continues and perhaps another of my colleagues opposes the ale te of the one who ho has just spoken the king again slumbers peaceful ty ly for a time then opens his e ees ell with ith an approving smile and says quite right so between naps and with ith complacent com approval of everyone everone he finkles the matter in hand in the end the d alston Is ft hat the cabinet desired it to be and his majesty goes awai much ell relieved to ring for fresh coffee and the otest test news newspapers papers sometimes during the war or feer he roie roae at four 0 clock in the morning to drive into the country and review a regiment or two to he wag 88 always back in belgrade before six 0 clock shut up in his cream colored prison aribon b the time the capital was as awake aake lie he is not oner oer interested in military matters k man who has spent so BO many ears among tourists in switzerland cannot be ex pecked to I 1 ise ilse to the dignity degnit y of a war lord at the age of sixt |