The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-06-24

Rides. with their gray semi-somhreros
and black cocks plumes, who succeeded
them, escorting the premier Of New
South Wales, the Hon. 8. II. Reid.
Each Of the colonial premiers in turn
'~as escorted by q detachment Of native
soldiers, and each of them received some
recognition, though most Of them had
passed before being fully recognized.
The rremiers being disposed OF, then
succeeded a really most attractive dis
play, mounted troops of the crown COL
onies, the Rhodesian horse, the colonial
infantry, broken by three bands, typical
If the United Kingdom, those of St.
Georges the London Scottish and the
London Irish rifle volunteer corps, and
others. Then there passed the splendid
contingent from Canada, infantry, It's
strong, uniformed somewhat like the
regular service infantry, with Colonel
Alymer leading. Much applause was
bestowed on the fine marching Of these
men, whom every way kept the Domin-
ion to the front. Following came the
Real Oddities of the Parade
~ biO YVES VI AfoluOIcIS III llIl Vic
Zaptiehs from Cyprus divided honors
with the Dyaks of Borneo. Both are
military police. The Zaptiehs We're
mounted on island ponies, and naturally
were the Turkish fez, with a jacket
somewhat suggestive of Constantinople
and the minarets Of Stamboul. The
Borneo Dyaks, yellow colored, smallish
chang u-nrn a a ror1x, nvrop1pI INV %hn
crowd, owing to their head hunting pro-
civities, of which, however, no trace
could be noticed in their dress. These
and others coming after them empha-
sized and repeated the fact how widely
scattered are the races the queen rules.
The Trinidad field artillery, the Sierra
Leone militia, with their strange blue
turbans and depending tassels and
knickerbockers; the British Guiana
police, with their white curtained caps;
the Haussas in the familiar zouave cos
tunes of long ago, and the Royal Niger
Haussas-men who fought at Ilorin and
Bldad-in uniforms of Kharkill cloth,
trousers exposing the leg, and shaved
heads, were all blacks. The Haussas,
the blacklist of the blacks, wearing the
FURNISHED livery of the sum-" We're
most enthusiastically greeted.
The Military Procession.
The second procession passed the pal
ace 80 minutes after the ~colonials had
climbed Constitution Hill. 1t more than
eloquently filed in the picture of Brit
aims war strength; more than mag
niticently completed the carnival of
gorgeous costume and color. Scarlet
and blue and gold; white and yellow;
shining cuirasses and polished helmets;
plumes and ~tassels, furs, and gold and
silver spangled cloths, bullion en-
broideries and accoutrements; splendid
trappings for horses and more splendid
trappings for men, sashes and crosses
and medals-medals for the Crimean,
Indian, Seringapatam, the Nile, Ashanti,
Afghanistan, Chitral, South Africa,
China, and dozens of others, and here
and there the finest of them all, the fin
est and most highly priced the world
can show, the Victoria cross; death-deal-
ing weapons, swords and revolvers; car
bines and cutlasses; batteries of artil-
lery: men of splendid physique and
horses with rare action, fully entered
into the spirit and meaning Of it all, the
fondly carried colors for which these
men would die; and over all the rich
strains of that music they best loved to
hear-the sight was one to stir the blood
as only soldiers have stirred it since the
dawn of Hme. But the scores of troops
and companies were literally too m
Gus to mention except as a brilliant
whole. 1t seemed like nothing so much
as some stream of FURNISHED gold flow
ing between dark banks of human be-
ings, gathered to witness its passage to
a land of light.
The Queen at Last.
The empire had passed in review, and
the head of it all was now TO come, her
majesty. The royal procession proper
was interviewer with the crowd of wait
ing di~gnitaries of all sorts. First came
the aides de camp to the queen, these
being headed by the Prince of Wales
and the Dukes Of Cambridge and Con-
naught, and the Earl of Wemyss.
Then followed alone the lord ~lieuten-
ant of London, His Grace the Duke of
Westminster in a lord ~lieutenant's
dress. The duke was followed by a
glittering cavalcade of officers, the head
quarters staff. To them succeeded field
marshals.
Next came three officers of the auxil-
iary forces in attendance OF H.. r. H.
the Princess Of Wales, equerries, gen.
tlemen in waiting and military attaches,
foreign naval and military attaches, a
brilliant lot of gentlemen, uniformed in
| the dresses of all the courts of Europe
and half its crack regiments and wear
ing all its stars. Then a compliment
from the kaiser, a ~deputation from the
First Prussian Dragon Guards, Queen
of Great Britain and Ireland's Own"
After the Germans came the most
brilliant group of all the soldiery, the
officers of the imperial service, troops
from Iudia, in their uniforms, a mixture
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