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Show j KINO ALBERT NOW RULES. Promiaea Policy of Humanity In the Congo. , Hi imicls. Another young moiinrch wan added to Hie relgulng nover. eigne of Kurope ou Thuraday when Albert I. ancended the throne of II, i- . glum. The ufflcial ceremony wan brilliant bril-liant and the popular ncclnlm genuine. On Weilneaday all Uelglum mourned Thiirnday aomber aymboln of i.inurn-I i.inurn-I lug had been reidured with th Irlcolored orldamme. KverywhiTe there wua merrymaking, and Juyoua crlea filled the ulr. The xijne In the hnuae of parliament parlia-ment where Ihe oath to Ihe thionu waa taken waa Impreaalve. with Ita netting ef royally. Here the new mnn airh made an uddreaa deatlned, by Ita democratic tone und unequivocal ex-prenntona ex-prenntona on the great quentlon of the llelglnn Congo, to an tact ihe ulten Hon of the world. Colonization ahoiild mean rlvlllza Hon, nald i ht king The nation do-j do-j aired a nllcy or humanity and pro-grena pro-grena In the Congo, and no one hud a ! right lo doubt her promise thut auch 'n policy would be miilliluliicd- It 'mi-ant the growth of the nation nnd the ailvaneement of Hie mural and III itellectual htandard of ihe people. |