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PRINCE TO JOIN HUSSARS
/'1tADI',L ONS OF THE FAMOUS
REGIMENT,
'clad- Its Origin Under. a Warrant
Issued on July 23,
1715.
The King bas just constituted
himself colonel -in -chief, of the 10th
Hussars, and it is understood that
this regiment will have the honor
once more of bearing the name of
the Prince of Wales on its muster
roll, says the London Daily Mail.
The regiment had its origin under
a warrant issued on July 23, 1715,
and was raised by George I. (of
course as a regiment of dragoons)
in the first year of his reign, large-
ly
argely in view of the Jacobite demon-
strations against the House of Han-
over.
It bears on its colors Peninsula,
Waterloo, Sebastopol, Ali Musjid,
Afghanistan, Egypt and South Af-
rica, while in the actions of Cullod-
en, Minden,.Warbourg, Caupen (in
the retirement of Ooranna), and in
such comparative recent affairs as
El Teb and the relief of Kimberley
it has nobly distinguished itself.
"BEAU" SARBEUR.
It has borne on its muster rolls
remarkable soldiers of every degree
and character, ranging from such
leaders of men as Humphrey Gore
and Valentine Baker to the famous
Beau Brummell, to whom a com-
mission was given in 1795. ' The
military career of the dandy, how-
ever, was brief, as in.1798, when the
regiment was ordered to Manchest-
'•er, he declined to accompany it, re-
marking that he had no wish to go
•on "foreign service" and so remote
:from London.
From apurely military point of
-view bis retirement was no great
loss. "Beau" confessed that he
never knew, even by sight, a single
individual in his troop except one
•old soldier who always rode in the
front rank, and could be immediate-
ly recognized by his bottle nose.
The close association of this
"crack" corps with the heir appar-
ent to the throne dates from 1793,
.although ten years earlier the then
10th Dragoons were honored with
the title of the Prince of Wales'
•Own Regiment of Dragoons,when.
the Prince of Wales' plume, with
the rising sun and the red dragoon,
'became the regimental badges,
"Ich Dien" being adopted as their
:motto.
THE BADGE OF WALES.
The badges are, of course, the
ancient badges of Wales, while the
three ostrich feathers forming the
,plumps are traced to Queen Phil-
lippa, the mother -of the Black
Prince, who wore them as an ap-
,panage of the House -of Hainumit.
The appointment of George Prince
of Wales to be colonel commandant
of the regiment in 1793 was at his.
•own special request, and was whol-
•ly agreeable to the wishes of the
• :e and'three years
King and Queen,
later—on the, promotion of Sir Wil-
liam Pitt to the colonelcy of the
1st Dragoon Guards—the Princo of
Wales was appointed colonel of the
10th.
Ori l it
1820
•onelcy
ing th
able s
he h
•throne
THE
accession to the throne in
George IV. resigned the col -
of the 10th in favor of
Chart
os Lord Stewart, afterwards
Marqu
is of Londonderry, presort-
s officers with a silver centre-
piece
"agg a memorial el his favor-
entinents towards the corps
had commanded from the year
1793
till his succession to the
E ROYAL COLONEL.
Forty-one years were to elapse,,
.and the regiment, which had done
noble service• in- the Peninsula and
.at Waterloo, was to receive some
further hard knocks in the Crimea
and India before another Prince of
Wales was qualified by age to head
the officers' roll, On April 2, 1883,
Albert 'toward Prince of Wales was
,gazetted to the command . of the
10th Hussars, and until. the day of
his death took the keenest personal
interest in every detail connected
with the welfare of the regiment.
On many occasions the august
•colonel led the regiment past the
.saluting point at reviews; he sub-
.seribod to all its funds; he never
.neglected an opportunity of visit-
ing it in barracks and of being pre-
wont at the various sports and fes-
-tivities which it organized or in
which it took part; he always at-
tended the annual dinners when the.
gsgimeut was at home, and in 1872, i
just before his embarkation for
India he entertained all the officers
to dinner at Marlborough House.
The previous year the Prince,
with the present Viscount Valen-
tia acting as his A.D.C., had at
Aldershot taken command of a
cavalry, brigade composed of the
7th Dragoon Guards, the 10th Hus-
sars, and the 12th Lancers. It is
but the bare truth to say that the
knowledge whioh the late King un-
doubtedly possessed of cavaley
equipment, routine, requirements
and privileges, was largely due to
his close connection with the :gal-
lant corps which bore his name.
No circumstances of the royal
toui• .in India in 1875-6 were more
pleasing to the "heir -apparent' than
the constant attendance of: the 10th
Hussars both on parade and escort
duty, and a silver medal was struck
and presented to the officers who
had formed the personal escort.
A PRINCELY NOVITIATE.
The terrible disaster which occur-
red three years later, when Lieut.
Harford (brother of the Duchess of
Beaufort) and forty-six non-com-
missioned officers and men were
drowned in the Kabul River while
operating against the Khugianis,
was a source of heartfelt sorrow to
the. Prince, accentuated as it 'was
by the so-called "death march" a
few months later, when on the
march to 'Rawal Pindi thirty-eight
soldiers succumbed to cholera.
A further honor was to accrue to
the 10th Hussars, for on June 7,
1885, Prince Albert Victor was gaz-
etted to them, the regiment thus
figuring' in the army list as having
the Prince of Wales and his eldest
i .'u for son for itssenior and is a
�
of-
ficers. The young Prince proved
himself a zealous and efficient of-
ficer. Except that he had an equer-
ry in attendance, no difference
whatever could be observed in the
treatment of himself and his broth-
er officers, this procedure being in
strict accordance with the wishes of
his father and of Queen Victoria
herself,
The Prince worked hard, took
part in all the regimental fixtures,
rode with success in the point -to
point races, and was universally
and unaffectedly popular. He was
appointed captain of the regiment
in 1887, during the jubilee, and
two years later obtained his major-
ity.
GREAT POWER FROM THE SUN
•
Enough Energy for ' orld's Work
Now Going to Waste.
Professor Sir J. 3. Thompson de-
livered the first of a series of ad-
dresses on "Radiant Energy, and
Matter," at the Royal Institution,
London, a few days ago.
"The amount of energy sent to
us from the sun," he "said, "is
larger than many people realize. 'It
has been shown by measurements
that when the sun .is Shining in a
clear sky it transmits to se carp
power which corresponds to '7,000
horse power per acre. At present
this power is practically wasted,
and generally warms those places
where an addition to the tempera-
ture could be well dispensed with.
If we knew how to harness . this
power we could, by lowering the
temperature of the earth a degree
or so, obtain all the power neces-
sery to rim the works of the world.
"There is no doubt,that in the
energy of the sun lies a great re-
source to fall back upon when oth-
er powers are all used up."
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Moro than half the pares of life
aro •of anticipation..
We can persuade ourselves of
something quicker than we can per-
saade anybody else.
We were not meant to be always
happy ; and the best things do not
endure.
People are apt to despise what
they are unable to appreciate.
One of the great inistakes of the
past has been to suppose that any
woman with a little good -will on
her part and a deal of good nature
on her part of her partner can set
up a satisfactory home,
Some people are' often express-
ing wishes for the times which were
gone, but it is far better to maim
use of the present.
Breadth of mind is often but an-
o'thee name for slackness of morals,
A woman who loses her pride in
her children has, lost her pride in
herself.
It is human nature to bo selfish ;
unselfishness is theproduct of teach -
ng,
ROYAL CHEFS OF EUROPE
ONE FIELD IN WIUCII FRENCH
IDEAS ARE DOMINANT.
The German Emperor's About the
Only Court Without a French
Chef.
King George V., like his father,
never .allows a royal menu to be
published, If one does appear any-
where
nywhere it is against his wish. The
late Icing Edward thought that the
making public •of royal menus sav-
ored of ostentation, and his son
shares this prejudice.
King George's new chef is a
Frenchman, Henri Cedard, who
suoceeds another Frenchman, M.
Menager. The latter had a salary
of $10,000 a year, and atter twen-
ty-five years in the royal service
had become head of the kitchens of
the new Royal Automobile Club in
Pall Mall.
Tho most highly reputed royal
kitchens in Europe are those at
Windsor Castle. They were estab-
lished there seven centuries ago un-
der the arches of the castle and
have been adapted to modern
needs.
They are very handsome. While
those in Buckingham Palace are
white tiled, the. Windsor ka chens
are panelled in blank oak, a work
carried out by George III. at cost
of $50,000.' Each kitchen is in
charge of a special cook, who is an
expert in cooking soups or fish, en-
trees or roasts, vegetables or pas-
try. There are four sergeant
cooks, if the term may be used, un-
der the head chef. For the sweets
and pastry there are two special
chefs. In all about thirty princip-
als are engaged.
For cooking purposes there aro
about 800 pots and pans, for' the
most part in copper, and five men
have nothing to do but keep, them
scoured. These pots and pans
alone are worth $10,000.
VALUABLE` GOLD PLATE.
The goldplate which belongs to
the British sovereigns is of im-
mense value. Ordinarily it is kept
in a safe set in walls three feet
thick and always guarded by police.,
There are dishes bearing the arms
of the Tudor Kings. Others form-
ed part of the treasure of Tippoo
Sahib, the famous Indian chieftain.
There is one complete -service of
massive gold with. 8,000 forks and
spoons to match. That is for great
occasions, but there are several
other wonderful services for ordin-
ary use. Much of the silver is mod-
ern. The plate is valued in, millions
sterling, though a large part is on-
ly silver gilt and is excelled by the
solid gold dishes of several Indian
Rajahs.
Usually monarchs when in pri-
vate do not linger at the table.
King Edward was a very rapid eat-
er, but his son has to be more care-
ful. Dinner with him never lasts.
more than forty or fifty minutes.
Each service is presented in. dou-
ble, to that a choice is available,
and each bears the name of the un-
der ehef responsible for it. This
is an old custom due to the way
cooks had in times past of claiming
all the goad dishes and repudiating
any share in the bad ones..
Since the days of the Jacobites
no finger bowls -are provided at the
royal table. The Jacobites used
thorn to drink the health of the
King "over the water•"
Not in all royal palaces arethere
French cooks. The Kaiser must not
have one. German public opinion
is against it. In fact for years a
grand culinary quarrel has been in
progress in Germany. There aro
at least,
400 FRENCH GOOKS
in the best houses in Berlin. Even
the, Chancellor has a French cook,
but the Emperor, owing to the Pan
Germans idea, keeps to the native
article and his bill of fare written
out in German.
French methods, except when
macaroni is dealt with, are the'rule
at the court of Italy. An Italian
who has studied the art of cooking
in France, Signor de Amici, is the
chef.. -
The Pope holds by the cooking of
his native Venice and has an inor-
dinate fancy for his own special pil-
aff,, a complicated dish which con-
tains rice, two dozen prawns, a pint
or more of mussels, butter, cheese,
white wine, saffron, pepper, pars-
ley,.salt and so on and a minute
quantity of coffee.
Although in. Spain the cuisine of
the court is in charge of a French -
VI tin, M. Candoville, curiously
enough German influence is strong
at the royal table. Then there are
also the national tastes to con-
sider, these leading to the produc-
tion of olacken in a thick soup of
capsicum, dishes floating with oil,
cream tarts upon cabbage leaves
and the famous gazpaebo, a ,,pecu-
liar Spanish -cold soup whichcon-
tains ,
on -tains.. tomatoes, onions, cucumbers,
garlic, a glass of oil, vinegar, pep-
per and bread, to which before
serving powdered ice is added.
French influence is supreme in
the cuisine of the Czars, and has
long been, Once the. post of chef
in Russia was not without danger,
for there is a tradition of a cook
who, having' spoiled a roast, • was
impaled and
1t/SELF ItOASTED
before his own fire, In the eight-
eliebeetee
1l,Joed in Canadian hemos to produce
delicious home-made $tread, and a sup-
ply is always included:ia 9pertsmene'
and Campers' Outfits. Decline
all imitations. They never
give satisfaction and cost fust
as much,
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•men if 4 s 1,
e-enth century, when French cook-
ing was most famous, a chef at the
Russian court got as much as 100,-
000 livres a year. ' What is more,
he was so important that when in a
fit of pique he suddenly left the
Czar sent couriers after him to in
dupe him to return, and he did so
when he had got an apology from
the sovereign.
The present Czar's chef is Pierre
Cubit, who is also a major dome.
lie is a regular Parisian and goes
to Paris to purchase his best mat-
erials, The most important of these
are loies gras truffled, and chick-
ens. He has to provide food each
day for 300 people, because meals
are provided at the royal table not
only for Nicholas II. and his fam-
ily but for all the -members of the
court down to the civil and military
officials,
Cubat receives $20,000 a year.
One has ib remember his responsi-
bilities, for each cutlet, each piece
of bread, each portion of dessert
may carry death to the Czar in it,
M. Cubat keeps his precautions a
strict mystery. The truth is, that
the imperial kitchens are full of
secret police agents who act as
dishwashers, scullions, coal car-
riers, &c.
Codfish fried iti oil is the Czar's
favorite dish, chocolate cream de-
lights the Queen Wilhelmina of
Holland; Abdul Hamid lived on
eggs and milk ; Alfonso XIII. de-
clares that the best meal he ever
bad was when., detained through .a
motor car breakdown, he shared
the mea someart
e lofe cis
BY THE ROADSIDE.
President Fallieres of the French
Republic is all for his own. Gascon
dishes. He quarrelled with the
great Elysee chef, M. Teach, be-
cause the latter would not put gar-
licinto some of the dishes at a
state banquet or introduce the
President's local viands. Tesch had
served under men like Carnot, Fe-
lix Faure and Loubet, and promptly
pulled off his apron, as the French
say.
Now a woman cook serves in his
place. It is said that when M. Fal-
lieres goes to his vineyards in Loup-
illon he has one great feast on gar-
lic soup; but it also said that he
is'the author of a recipe for a salmi
of woodcock which is the joy of his
friends.
The present French President,
as a fact, does not impose his tastes
on the guests at the Elysee. The
custom is for all official dinners or
luncheons to be served by one or
other.. of the leading Paris restaur-
ants. Just as at the Mansion House
in London,and to a large extent now
with state dinners even at Bucking-
ham Palace or Windsor, most of the
dishes are brought in from one or
other of the best firms,
RE -INTERMENT IN CRETE.
Where People Wash the Bones 01
Their Ancestors.
For the last 3,000 or 4,000 years
the, practice of reinterment has
obtained in. Crete, says Professor
C. H, Hawes in the Wide World
Magazine. After two to five years
the bones of the deceased are col-
lected and reinterred.
In the course of my travels in
1909 I came to a village on the
north side of Lake Copes, in Nor -
ern Greece. Here in the church
was a gruesome sight—a basket fil-
led with bones, from which a skul
and a thigh peeped out; others
were tied in a great handkerchief,
and, to show the care that had been
taken, there was on the top a small
paper parcel containing bones of
the fingers and toes. The custom
here was to bury for five years in
light ,wooden coffins, and then dig
them up and place them in the
church, until sufficient had accu-
mulated for the ,priest to read the
necessary service, when they were
consigned en masse to.. a common
grave, Thus land was economized,
and the limited churchyard did du-
ty for centuries.
The explanation of the curious
color of the ancient bones is to be
sought in a practice observed in
this village, but unknown in Crete
In fact, when ]; mentioned 11 there
the people wase horrified. A friend
of mine was passing through the
village when lin saw some worsen
down at the stream washing and
scraping bones of their' deceased re-
latives preparatory to depositing
them in the church,
Holland, the great dairy country,
has a cow for every inhabitant.
Ghosts, of course, talk only, in
the dead languages:
A. DEVIL BY CHOICE WAS SIiJ1,
Princess Hashi Made a Good Job of
it Many Years Ago.
It is not often that a woman el-
ects to become a devil when in the
estimation of her friends 'she is not
one by nature, but the Princess
Hashi once made this choice with
satisfying results. As Fushinami
Ishibashi recounts the success of
the Princess's adventure in the
Japan Magazine, she did not add
to the honor of her family by her
exploits.
• The Princess lived in Iiioto,,Jap-
an, so far back that no man can re-
member when. She was the most
beautiful of all the 'ladies in the
court of the daimio and the fame of
her beauty spread over the land
just as the report of a wonderfully
blooming cherry tree would be car-
ried on the wings of gossip. . But
beauty in the ease of the Princess
Hashi seems to have been of the ac-
cepted depth; she was a very jeal-
ous and envious young person.
So long did she feed upon the
fruit of those dark humors that at
last she determined to beseech the
gods to give her the power of a de-
mon so that she might plague the
people she disliked. During many
days and dark nights she knelt he -
fore the shrine at Kibune, making
supplication.
At last the gods heard her, They
said that if she would consent to
forfeit all her beauty they would
grant her request. Not ouly must
she spoil her beauty but she must
live in the waters of the River Uji
for three weeks before the gift
should descend upon her.
The Princess Hashi started out to
fulfil all the conditions of promo-
tion to the demon world. She
streaked her fair face with pig-
ments, pulled out, her rose petal
nails and twisted her hair into two
ugly horns on either side of her
forehead, placing therein iron
spikes and rings. So altered, she
crept to the river one night and
slipped into its waters.
By day she hid herself in a clump
of rushes and by night she swam
under the shadows of the pines,
each night with a surer and strong-
er stroke. Day by day the horns
of hair on her head became harder,
and day by day the color she had
smeared on her body was set indel-
ibly. At the end of the probation-
ary three weeks the Princess Hashi
was a full -$edged water devil, one
of the Oni feared by all the human
folk of the land; and she was suf-
ficiently terrible to look upon, if
one may credit some of the por-
traits of her done by Tosa Tsuno-
take, the Japanese artist of de-
mons. She began her mission of
hate immediately.
She ranged palace halls and lurk-
ed in the branches of the pines by
moat sides. All her farmer lovers
she plagued interminably, and
young girls with beauty even ap-
proaching the fabulous beauty that
had been Hashi's fell ill of small-
pox or were stung by poisonous in-
sects.
There was a whole cycle of leg-
end around the deeds of this prin-
cess devil. and although it happen-
ed many hundreds of years ago
Hashi may be living yet. Japanese
maidens fear 11er witohnt ceasing.
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NO RESEMBLANCE.
"Now, Nora," said the departing
physician to the Irish girl, who
was nursing a bad case of fever, "if
the patient seas snakes again, give
him a dose of this medicine. 1
shall be in again at six."
The hour for his return arrived.
The physician opce more visited the
sick patient. and found him raving.
He had bean so, said the nursb, for
hours.
"And did you give him the medi-
cine " inquired the puzzled doctor.
Nora shook her head,
"Blit didn't I tell you to give it
to him if he saw snakes againf" de-
manded the physician.
"But he didn't say he saw snakes
this toime, doohter," replied the
nurse confidently: "He said he
saw red -white -and -blue turkeys,
wid straw' hats on!"
CUT RATTLER LOW.
"Do yon notice howthe color of
this dress matches my eyes' 1"
"Yes; and I also notice how the
cut of it matches that sore throat
you have."
The man who pleases only himself
has to supply the applause.
•
SPRING SKIN TROUBLES.
Pimples, Eruptions and "Spotty
Complexions."
At this season, scores of people=
girls and young women especially-
find their faces disfigured by pim-
ples, dark spots, eruptions, eto.
The skin needs attention—needs re-
novating after the trying time it
has passed through during the win -
Just think what it has gone
through! You have been 'out in
rain and sleet and snow. You have
been at one moment perspiring from
skating, or some other exertion.
Then you have stood to "cool off."
You have spent hours of the day in-
doors at a temperature equal to
summer heat. Then you have cov-
ered up -your skin—except your
face—and gone out into a tempera-
ture away bele w zero ! No wonder
that, with all these changes; the
skin of the face and neck shows
signs of needing attention.
Zam-Buk and Zam-Buk Soap are.
the -remedies. Smear Zam-Buk
lightly over the spots,the erup-
tions, the sallow catches, at night,
and wash with Zam-Buk Soap (only
25c. per tablet). Then notice how
quickly your appearance improves.
Zam-Buk is•also a sure cure for
skin injuries and diseases. Eczema,
ulcers, ringworm, yield to its use.
For outs, burns, bruises, children's
rashes, etc., it is unequalled, and
for piles. Mothers will find Zam-
Buk Soap best for baby's bath! All.
druggists and stores at 50c. box for
Zam-Buk and 25c. tablet (or 3 for
70c.) for the Soap. If you have
any difficulty in obtaining, order
from Zam-Buk Co., Toronto, and
send price.
FOUGHT AGAINST THE ZULUS
IN MANY CAllf" AIGNS IN
SOU II AFRICA,
Cql, Johan Colouhrandes bee Been
a Trader and hunter ell
Itis Life,
One door not often sit in a lea-
ther-cushioned chair just behind the
glass from the autos and the traf-
fic policemen on Fifth avenue, New
York, and see painted Zulus eharg-
ing against a wagon laager in Ma-
tabeleland, and hear the ze-e-e-ing
of the assagais that come whistling
against the boxes ex the Cape °arta
like rain on an iron roof. But then
it is not often that a man from, the
hot romance lands between the
Cape and the jungle comes to town
and sits before a long window with.
a tall glass at his side to talk ---
such a man as Co,. Johan William
Colenbrander, C.B., of Bulawayo,
United South Africa.
Col'. Colenbranderis
� o survived
many campaigns against the blacks
and one against the Boers, only to
be held up and robbed on Thirty-
fifth street, a blocs east of Broad-
way, shortly after lie came to New
York, is a stockily built little man
of 54, who possesses a modified Eng-
lish accent, despite his Dutch par-
entage, who can be drawn into
rominiseences only by veiled arti-
fice. For primarily Col. Colen-
brander has been a hunter and
trader ail his life in the South Af-
rican country, and the fact 'that he
has hobnobbed with the blacks one
day and fought hand to hand with
them the next is only incidental..
I "I WAS BORN IN AFRICA,"
he said, "and my name ought to
show that I am of Dutch descent.
So Dutch it is that when Do. Jame-
son organized his raid down there
before the Boer war he would not
take me along because he mistrust-
ed my name. Yet I was born in a
British colony, Natal, and I have
always been a British citizen and a
Briton at heart. It was a wild
land that I was born in, and there
was nothing but fighting, with lit-
tle periods of peace.
1 "1 had a Zulu nurse when I was
a youngster, and from her I
learned to speak the Zulu language
better than I could speak Dutch.
What she taught me stood me a
good turn more than once later in
life. That Zulu education was but
the starter, for when I grew older
I learned to speak pretty near all
the dialects thereabouts, and there
was hardly a native that I could
not address, sometimes in purer
diiilect than he used himself.
"When I was 15 I joined the
Mounted Rifles along the border' of
Zululand there, and it was not long
before the first Zulu war came
about. I volunteered, and I was %
the Ginginhlovu fight. I dare say
that name may not mean very much
to you, but you may believe me that
for those that were in that fight it
has an unforgettable sound."
GREATLY OUTNUMBERED:
"They outnumbered us five to
one, you know," ne said with his
eyes cocked on the gables of the
Mg hotel across the street. "We
were in the wagon laager, and they
were outside. They though that
because we had all been rained on,
and their powder was wet, ours
must be wet also. But that's where
they made a mistake. We had a
rapid fire gun, coo, whioh they
weren't counting on.
"I remember the yell they gave
when they came at us in a rush; 1
say, now, it was not a. pleasant
yell. They broke through the 'ea-
ger for a time, and the assegais
were plenty* thick thereabouts. But
we beat them back and, oh, such a
pile of dead blacks!"
LETTERS BY AEROPLANE.
First Aerial Postal Service in. the
ODD FACTS ABOUT DUST.
Four Thousand Million Particles
• of it in a. Puff of Smoke.
Dust would not be possible were
it not for the fact that matter is a1-
most infinitely divisible. It has
been estimated that an average puff
of smoke from a cigarette contains
about four thousand millions of
particles of dust.
A single grain of indigo will give
color to a ton of water; of course,
says Popular Mechanics, a drop of
this water must contain an im-
mense number of ultra -microscopic
particles of indigo.
A few grains of fluorescein, a
substance derived from coal tar,
will produce a distinct fluorescence,
shining with a yellowish green light
when strongly illuminated, in a
hundred tons of water. To produce
this result the fluorescein must be
divided into countless billions of
particles.
Every conceivable substance en-
ters into the composition of dust.
In street dust may be found bits of
iron and steel from the tires of wag-
ons, horseshoes and the nails of our
own shoes, bits of leather from
harness, fragments of wood, cot-
ton, silk, stone, gold, silver, cloth-
ing, wool, hair, animal excreta,
various ores, tin, paper, clay, sand,
moulds, bacteria—in fact, every-
thing under the sun.
A 1DEBILLSS RING.
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King George One of Few Monarchs
Willi That Record.
George V. is one of the very few
monarchs who have ever ascended
a throne without a penny of debt,
says Harper's Weekly. He will
have, therefore, no need, and he
certainly has no inclination, to
surround himself with the German -
Jewish capitalist set with whoni
King Edward rather too openly
mingled. The old English aristoc-
racy will come into its own .again
at the new King's tour 1, and the
atmosphere of the Royal -household
will be everything that is humdrum.
But while George V. is British
through and through, lie is not by
any means as negative a personal-
ity as many people think. The Eng-
lish papers; write of him as though
he 'ware a dummy. He is, as a
matter of fact, an outspoken, en-
ergetic, rather obstinate man, with
strong views of his own on public
questions; not at all afraid of re-
sponsibility, a close student of pot
hies and dolightfitlly indiscreet in
airing his opinion about amen` and
affairs—the very opposite, in short,
of the type of sovereign who is con-
tent to be a mere figurehead. Eng-
land does not yet know him, but
it will before very long.
World in Italia.
The mails which have reached
England from India last week
brought with them a postmark
which should pro' a of special in-
terest to collectors in years to come,
as possessors of this postmark will
have an official souvenir of what ie
claimed to be the first aerial post
in the world. The postmark, which
is stamped boldly in red, is eneir-
cled by the inscription t "First Ae-
rial. Post. U. P. Exhibition, Alla-
habad," and there is also a design
of an aeroplane crossing the anoun-
tains, with the year 1911' denoted.
The history of this new departure
is interesting. Captain Windham
wanted to demonstrate, by means
of practical expe.nnent, how the
aeroplane could be used by a be-
sieged 'town to communioato with
the outside world. He accordingly
obtained the sanction of the Post-
master -General of the United Prov-
inces and the Director -General of
Post Offices in India to inaugurate
an aerial post at the United Prov-
iuces Exhibition at Allahabad; and '
a die was specially cut, with which
each letter sentby the aerial post
is marked, Letters posted in Cal-
cutta. on Feb, 16, travelling by way
of the Allahabad aerial post and
'nsniline, have jest been received
in London.
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