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Show LURED KING FROM THRONE Story Comes From Berlin That Dancing Danc-ing Girl Was Partially Responsible Respon-sible for Manuel's Downfall. Berlin. A music hall dancer lost King Manuel of Portugal hl,s throne. The siren In the case is Mllo. Gaby des Lis, whoso dancing of tho "Jlu-Jltsu waltz" caught tho young monarch's fancy In Paris and threw his heart Intc a passion of yearning. It was the dancer who Inveigled tho young monarch Into extravagances which brought down upon his head tho wrath of his subjects. Tho story Is not a now ono in tho long history of tho downfall of kings and monarchs. The dancing girl and Manuel wero together constantly in Paris, and when tho youthful king returned re-turned to Lisbon ho took her with him. in Lisbon Manuel and tho dancer wero seen togother everywhere in public. This by Itself might havo dono no great harm in his subjects eyes. But he proceeded to heap rich presents upon her, to load her down with jewels jew-els and to buy her everything her flcklo fancy happened to crave. Times were hard. People wore clamoring clam-oring for work. Hunger was more than a mere name In Portugal. Whon starving men and women behold tho king's sweetheart ablazo with diamonds, dia-monds, whoso price was wrung from tho state and whose equivalent In food might havo saved many a llfo, trouble sot in. Tho nation murmured. Tho king was deaf to tho growing voice of complaint com-plaint and spent more and moro money on Mile, des Lis. His indifference indiffer-ence was nothing now in ine mstory of rulers. The young king's ministers tried to gloss over his faults. Tho excuses did not servo. Manuel continued to spend most of his time with Mile, des lis, shutting his eyes to tho complaints. com-plaints. As In the case of Henry III of Franco and other royalties of tho sumo tastes, tho "fling" lasted just a trifle longer than did tho sore-tried patience of tho people. Manuel awoke to find himself kicked off his throne and to know ho had thrown away a kingly career at tho feet of a dancing girl. |