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The Washington times., 1902-06-29

guards and the streets were lined with
English flags and cloth of gold.
India outdid all other countries in re-
ceiving the prince. The maharaiah Of
Cashmere built a special road thirty
miles long for the comfort of the prince
The maharaiah of Lahore presented
him with a ieweled sword, and then
with Oriental extravaganza fell on his
knees. exclaiming:
IF it be the win Of the great prince
to try It. here is my neck"
During the tour Of the Prince Of Wales
in America everyone insisted on ignoring
the incognito Of Baron Renfrew, which
he assumed. and foted him at every pos
sible occasion. His dancing excited live
" interest. and at the balls given in his
honor he stood up with a fresh partner
in each dance. The bellies Of New York
we're wild with delight at the opportun
ity Of dancing with EHgland's future
King.
Apart from all his youthful eXuberance
ard gayety, there is little doubt that the
visit Increased the good-feilowship be
tween England and the United States.
All America honored the young man wEo
stood bareheaded By the grave Of WASH
ington. especially when it was recalled
that he was the great-grandson OF
George III. who had opposed the colon
lists in their struggle for Independence.
President Buchanan, in writing to
Queen Victoria. spoke enthusiastically of
the good impression created. both in
public and private, by the prince. That
impression remained among those who
made his acquaintance at that time.
Edwards marriage with the Princess
Of Denmark is said to have
come about from a photograph of the
princess which was shown him while he
was Willing away summer IN his bacn-
elor quarters at White Lodge. He is re-
ported to have remarked upon seeing the
face that If she was rs lovely and amia-
bic as pictured she should bo his bride.
Everyone was fsvorably inclined to-
ward the match. and as his parents
were desirous that he should marry for
love. as they had done, an informal
meeting was planned. ,
The Washington times., 1902-06-29

King Edwards good humor was PROV
erbial. There are few men in private
life who could face the House of Lords,
have their headgear crushed down over
their ears by the swinging fists OF en-
thusiastic friends, and yet emerge kfrom
the smashed tile with a good-natured
The Washington times., 1902-06-29

On one occasion, when riding with ais
father along country road. the young
Prince of Wales neglected to return the
salute Of laboring man.
My son." said the prince consort. go
back at once and acknowledge the poor
mans civility"
The prince. rather crestfallen. had 10
turn his pony's head. follow the way
farer and make his bow. In this way
he was taught that all of his future sub
jects were entitled to his polite consid-
Grafton.
The Washington times., 1902-06-29

AS traveller the King visited nearly
all parts of the world. not only through
out Europe and America. but through
out the East. In Constantlnople he was
lavishly entertained by the Sultan.
Wherever the prince and the princess
went they were attended by thousand
The Washington times., 1902-06-29

The crown of England descends to the
nearest heir of the last wearer, be that
heir male or female-daughters being. OF
course. postponed to sons. Had the
Prince Of Wales had no children the Gu
rious sight be witnessed of a Marquis
Of Macduff stepping direct from the
Guards, or the benches of the House of
Commons. to the throne
IN that case the junior partner in the
great London banking house of Scott
& Co. would find himself in a position
more anomalous than that of of Queen
Victoria's husband, Prince Alberta
position. in fact TO find parallel for
which it would be necessary to go back
to the days of Mary Queen OF Scots and
the Earl of Darnley
The Washington times., 1902-06-29
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King Edward. by reason Of his long
years as traveller when Prince Of
Wales. has been said TO have been
known by sight TO more people than any
sovereign who ever lived.
He had visited practically all Of the
civilized lands long before the time
when he was called upon to assume the
throne. and everywhere he was greeted
by great crowds, always good natured,
which cheered aim and wished him well.
His love of travel, his fondness for
sports, and his ability to enjoy a joke
made Edwards life prolific of anec-
dotes. His love for children. too, has
been the basis OF many kindly stories.
The extent to which the term 'thc
business king" was justified, when ap-
piled TO King Edward. is illustrated by
a story told Of him shortly after the
death of Queen Victoria. He had two
relatives lin trade a state of being on
which English society is prone to frowns
the relatives being the brothers of the
late Duke of Argyll.
An intimate friend asked the King
how he liked it.
You know the great firm OF -
he asked. Well. would go into part
nership with them tomorrow if they
would have me-
The Washington times., 1902-06-29

In Marlborough House there was 4
small marble slab on which sat small
bottle of cognac and decanter of water
To what purpose these were put was not
known. No one ever had been seen to
use either. and their presence in the
entrance was a puzzle to many. They
represented emergency precautions and
were the result of an odd incident in the
early life OF Edward while Prince of
Wales
A mayor from one of the northern
towns had come TO Marlborough House
to see the future King with reference
to proposed visit to his town. The day
was hot and the mayor embarrassed
The result of the heat and the embarr-
sssment was that the frightened visitor
tainted at the feet of the prince before
he had spoken a dozen words
\ restorative was called for. but the
butler could not be found and there
was considerable delay. After some time
the liquor was secured, the mayor re-
vived and put az his ease SO far as
possible.
After the experience the cordial was
kept where II CO; Il be found readily in
case other visitors met the same fate
as the mayor from the northern town.
On somo OF The hunting excursions
which he wac fond Of taking while
Prince Of Wales, Edward ran counter to
the prejudiceg OF farmers against the
hunters who tore down their fences and
tramped over their fields. and In these
experiences the fact that he was the
future King did not alter the case a
bit
On one occasion while Edward was an
undergraduate at oxford he with an
equerry was taking n cross-cut over
fields when they ran into an angry
farmer who was lourishiug pitchfork.
The equerry attempted to explain who
4. was that was crossing the fields.
prince or no prince" replied the
farmer. TN have a sovereign before
you pass
The money was paid and the prince
remarked afterward that "a determined
man could do wonders with 4 pitchforll
and n little persuasion"
r-ipg Edwards qood hu,nor ,rae rro,,
The Washington times., 1902-06-29

TT HERE is an old story that ct the
time Of Edwards birth a proph-
ecy was made which ran:
King shall he be, but never
shall he he crowned"
Another prophecy Of q like foreboling
nature was made early in the present
year by Cheiro. the Partisan palmist,
who predicted the death Of Queen Vie
toria six months before it occurred.
Cheiro said:
Tho new King, near the month Of May
or June. this year, will he in serious
danger TO his life
For weeks King Edward has been
haunted with superstitious fear, en-
gendered by these prophecies. and st
times has appeared moody and morosc.
1t is said that he was apprchensive that
kc would never see his coronation day.
The Washington times., 1902-06-29
CTORIES THAT PORTRAY THE
- :: CHARACTER OF THE KING

laugh. Yet King Edward actually passed
this test.
History seldom records an instance of
any subject having struck his King and
yet survived and being accounted one Of
the most estimable Of me,. This record.
however, belongs to the veteran Lord
Wemyss, who recently celebrated his
eightythird birthday. The incident oc-
CURED in the House of Lords less than
two years ago.
There was a vigorous debate on. The
King. then heir apparent, was seated on
the cross benches listening eagerly. I'm
mediately behind him Lord Weymss
arose to address the House. He betrayed
his earncstness in the subject at issue
by the wild. vigorous swinging Of mis-
arms
Mere than once the earl's fists swooped
dangerously near the princes shining
hat. With period OF eloquence the
venerable peer concluded his address.
Down came his arms in gesture deliv-
cred with all the vigor he could COM
mand plump on the crown of the princes 5
high hat, driving it down over the royal
ears.
The earl's argument ended right there,
and turned into profuse apologies to the
prince. The latter interrupted with n
smile of good humor.
mo harm" said Edward. laughing.
but I'll just move out of the danger
zone"
The Washington times., 1902-06-29

For many. years the King ardent
sportsman though he was. had been un-
able TO win a Derby. Suddenly his for
tune changed. For the four years end
Ing in 1895 his winnings amounted to
about SAC. 900. but in the succeeding four
years they went up to 100000 The luck
turned when Persimmon fought the race
inch by inch in 1896 and won the "blue
ribbon" for the prince. Popular as he
has always been in England. he never
received such a greeting as he did after
winning the Derby.
The Washington times., 1902-06-29

The Princess of Wales was. until the
death of Prince Edward, like that ma
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
THE POPE's WARDROBE.

Gorgeous Robes of State fill Three
 Rooms-About His Caps and Slippers.
 One of the greatest burdens in the life
 ef Pope Leo XIII, is the necessity for
 constantly assuming the pomp of a | great ruler
 l The aged pontiff would fain live last
 days of his life in placid quietude, free l from the gorgeous ceremonials that are
 part of the duties of the office Not the least of the pope's trouble is the costly and extensive wardobe that he is compelled to keep always at hand, and the fact that every day, and somc-
 times more than once a day he has to submit to having his worn frame clothed in magnificent apparel in order to be dressed appropriately for some state occasion.
 No king or emperor can boast of a wardrobe so magnificent as that of Leo XIII These great rooms at the Vati- can are set apart for storage of these costumes, and a small army of atten- dants is always busy either putting away the garments, brushing them, or getting them ready for the pope's use.
 The pontiff dresses differently at different seasons of the year During Lent he assumes garments of red even his snoes being of ruby hue. At Easter the pontif appears clothed in i'm macuate white. The small cap that the pope wears and the slippers that encase his feet are always the color of his costume. He has caps and slippers enough to make a change every day in the year and not wear the same cap or slippers twice during the 365 days The | pope's slippers are a most important | part of his wardrobe. On great occa- sions he wears a gorgeous pair made of | fine velvet, with a golden cross em- | broidered on the right slipper. This | cross deyout visitors are permitted to kiss. On the left slipper there is em- broidered the crest of the church crossed key, sur1nounted by tiara and { draped with pallium.-
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
SHE FOUND THE SPOOL
4 TALE POINTING OUT THE
 DANGER OF HASTE,
What Happened in Washington
 HOusehoId

l One Washington household was l thrown Into state of confusion one
 morning last week. Mrs. Blank was
 seated at the sewing machine busily
 engaged in her work, but she found
 time to frequently shower her pet dog Bruiser with endearing terms. Having just e1nptied spool, she threw it to the
 dog at her feet. Bruiser gasped and, as his mistress thought, gulped down the spool
 With a shriek Mrs. Blank summoned
 the members of her household. They found her seated in the middle of the floor with the dog in her lap franticalIy,
 but faithfully, trying to extract the spool which she told them she could plainly feel in the dogs throat.
 What are you all standing there for?" she cried, Cant you do some- thing? Won't you do something? See, the poor thing is choking to death Look at his eyes! Help! help!"
 Naturally everybody wanted to help. The neighbors by this time had ex- pressed their willingness to assist, but when it came to the thing of actually passing her idol over to others Mrs. blank refused. She would not intrust her dogs life into other hands than her own, so she continued the attack with Vigor which Bruiser endured with phe- nomenal vitality.
 Finally the little dog fell over from sheer exhaustion, which called forth more shrieks. For the first time Mrs, Blanks eyes left the dogs throat. Looking around the room in desperation she saw the empty spool, which had rolled into a corner instead of Cruisers throat. Her stare, her gasp, her whole attitude, in fact told the tale, and i'm the group employed means by which the dog was resuscitated Had Mrs. Blank continued her hunt for the spool in Bruiser's throat much longer i the dog would have been minus his | larynx.- Washington Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
Read It iIs this Newspaper.

George Schaub, a well known German citizen of New Lebanon, Ohio Is con4 stant reader of the Dayton Volkszeit- ung. He knows that this paper aims to advertise only the best in it's coI4 umns, and when he saw Chamberlain's Pain Balm advertised therein for lame back he did not hesitate in buying a bottle of it for his wife who for elght weeks had suffered with the most ter-s rible pains in her back and could get no relief He says: After using the Pain Balm for a few days my wife said to me, I feel as though born anew and before using the entire contents of tho bottle the unbearable pains had entire- ly vanished and she could again take uu her household duties." He is verv thankful and hopes that all suffering likewise will hear of her wonderful re- covery. This valuable liniment is fou sale by all druggists.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
THE TYPICAL ENGLISHMAN

The typical Engishman's slowness to grasp the point Of joke is matter of record and constant source of delight to the American "joIier," says the Philadelphia Record A striking illu- stration of this overheard on a Willow Grove trolley car on Sunday afternon. Two young men were seated together in the forward end of the car, and one. by his accent and his air of guileless innocence, proclaimed his British nationality. The other was an Ameri- can of the genus kidder The latter was dilatinS upon the forociousness df the Jersey mosquito, and after relating several very tall yarns, wound up with this one: Last summer I was coming across the meadows this side of Atlantic City on my wheel when my attention was attracted by the sound of a COW bell It had such a strange, unusual sound that I dismounted to investigate, and soon encountered a huge mosquito. He had eaten the COW and was ringing the bell to attract the calf that he might devour that also" The Englishman listened to this story very gravely and without even cracking a smile, replied: "Oh, l say old chap you cawn't expect me to believe that, don't you know!"
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
A CURIOSITY OF HEREDITY.

| It is one of the curiosities of heredity
 ents are usually brighter than the
 children of old parents the children of old parents develop into the most in-
 telligent men and woman. A good
 illustration of this is to compare the savage races, which marry at very early age, with the white races which
 is the latest in marrying of all races.
 Teachers among the negroes of the
 South, in the Philippines in Polynesia.
 and in Australia tell us that the dark
 skinned children in their schools are
 brighter than the white children, yet we never took for great men among these races, and we would not find them if we did look.
 All of the great men of the world like Aristotle, Bacon Cuvier, and Franklin have been sons of very old men. When eminent men like King David, the Catos of Rome, the elder Pitt, and cer- tain branches of the Dana. Lee, and Livingston families of America have sons late in life, eminence is continued to the next generation, but when eminent men like Arkwright Bulwer- Lytton, Coleridge Cromwell, Peter the Great and Somon have sons in early life, the eminence immediately dis appears.
 Another good illustration may be found in the British nobility. Each noble family begins with an eminent man, and the noble branch is continued down through the eldest son. It has been a frequently observed fact that the eminence is very rarely continued to tho third genera ton, and usually dis appears in the second. It is true that eminent men have been produced in these noble families, but during the 800 years in which the law of primogeniture had been in force every such case has 1 come about through some accident which has elimna ted the eldest of the , eldest and has brought in some younger | branch to inherit the title.
 The conclusion to be drawn from this | is that young men should not marry be- fore they are 25. Neither should they | remain old bachelors beyond 30. Un- l married people do not live as long as married people, and no creature is so as an old bachelor with rela- Evening Post.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
PAINTING EYEBROWS IN cHINl

PAINTING EYEBROWS IN CHINA.
 Chinese physiognomists say the eye
 brows and whiskers of @ man are just as essential in their relations to his success in life as his other qualiflca- tions. If the eyebrows are feeble or the Whiskers are sickly, his luch will be thin and his health poor Therefore, to stop the train of bad luck which nature has unfortunately ordained for such a man he orders his eyebrows changed or replanted by planting professor
 This is done by first carefully pulling out the rebellious or unIucky hairs in the eyebrows. The next operation is to select spot of hair on the neck of the patient or behind his ears, that would suit for a fine eyebrow, and reduce these hairs to the right length.
 A pair of sharp pincers is picked up with the left hand, and selecting suit able sized hair, the operator jerks 1t out by the root, and with needlelfke in- strument in the right hand he pierces a minute hole in the skin of the bald eye brow in slanting direction, and while the point of the instrument is still on the edge of the hole, the root of the puled-up hair is carefully inserted, But if blood oozes out of it before the hair is planted the hole will not be used on that day for fear of fnflamma- tion and not sufficient nutriment for the hair to take proper root The operation is repeated till every hair in the eye brows Is replaced
 The patient is said to experience pain in the eyebrows for about twenty-four hours, after which he Is all right. The professor charges more for planting eyebrows than whiskers, because of the many varied degrees of slanting each hair to make or to suit the ideas of the physiogn York Mail and Express.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
THE AFRICAN ELEPHANT.
Efforts to Tame and Make Him Useful for Draught and Carriage Purposes

1 Efforts to Tame and Make Him Useful for Draught and Carriage Purposes. The need of animals to serve as beasts of burden in Africa is becoming more and more pressing with the exten- sion of white enterprises there Horses, cattle, mules and donkeys are adapted only to limited extent to be useful in tropical Africa, and even in the more temperate parts of the conti-
 nent the prevalence of the tsetse fly,
 whose bite is fatal to domestic animals,
 makes it impossible to employ them in
 theWork of the country. The camel is
 the ship of the desert" and will al-
 ways be of great service in the com
 merce of the Sahara; but the camel is
 useful only in the dryer parts of the
 continent An attempt was made, a
 number of years ago, to introduce cam
 els into the transport service of tropi-
 cal Africa. A number of camels were
 loaded With trade goods on the coast
 opposite Zanzibar and started inland
 for Lake Tanganyka, eight hundred
 miles from the Indian ocean. The ex-
 pertinent was a dismal failure, not one of the animals living to see the waters of the inland lakes. Another attempt with camels further north, along the Tana river was equally unsuccessful In fact, the camel is useless in the moist, hot regions of equatorial Africa.
 Railroads, to be sure, are penetrating the continent 10 a small extent but the | various industries of Africa require do- ] mestic animals just as we need them in ! enormous numbers, in spite of the fact | that we have a wonderful network of | railroads. It is a great disadvantage to | African enterprises to have to rely on 1 human pOrterage because it is the most | expensive form of transportation and | there are very lew commodities that , can stand so closely a form of carriage, 1
 These are the chief reasons why, in 1, the past few years, attention has been to the possibility of tanning the African elephant and using him as domestic animal. It has long been as- serted that the African variety cannot be reduced to servitude like his Asiatic brother. The fact is well known, how ever. that the ancients made large use of the African elephant as a beast of burden, particularly for war purposes.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28

twisted me from my loggerhead. And then he was back at the slings and tackle again. I lost all sense so com pletely that I got to talking to myself,
 like gurgeon to a child,
 TT found out later that my tenders
 sent down one signal after another; never took the first of them. Again and
 again the shark came back, and when
 he was still for moment I felt he was
 looking for me; and with the terror of it my breath came sucking in through my teeth like a whiting safety valve.
 Tt ended as suddenly as it began. In one of his doublings the brute got his tail round the harpoon line, exactly as a sailor kinks his leg around a rope he's sliding down. And, when the next moment he stiffened out again, with the rebound of a sprung bow the iron came away like a tooth on a string Proba- ply it had done no serious harm to that eighteen feet of gristle.
 For a moment he hung there, Vi- cious and uncertain. and then suddenly moved away through the shadow and out to sea. I never saw him again.
 "The color of my hair didn't do any lightning changing in that quarter of an hour; they pulled me up as red headed as ever. But rackon nonethe- less, that l got considerably older in wisdom. Since then, when I've been scared, I've generally been honest enough to own it, and when I've felt that l really had to go looking for trou- ble-well, I've always had better sense than to seek it with harpoon in the under sea"--Youths Companion.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-06-28
FOUGHT SHARK IN WATER
AFTER BEING NOSED BY MONS
 TER FOR SEVERAL DAYS,

The Young Diver Put a Harpoon Into the Sea Tiger and Trouble Began But the Man Escaped Harm and Came Up Butte as Red-Headed us Ever.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

edness and excellent judgment. He is
also a director of the North Carolina
Railroad Company and large stock
holder and director in the Commercial
National Bank of Charlotte.
From his stock farm at Graham the
best specimens of horse flesh, the best
cattle sheep and fowls, have gone out to
give an impetus to better stock raising
and his method of intensified farming has
spread over the section in which his farms
are located and serve as an object les
son for others. Mr.. Holt is a believer in
developing the best of everything. His
mills are up-to-da in construction and
equipment his farms are models of mod
ern agricultural development, his horses
are of the best blood. his cattle are Of
the best herds, his fowls are of the best
varieties. and his herd of Shetland Ponies
the finest in the South, his swine and
sheep are the very best. He was the
owner of John r. Gentry, the Tccing
king that great streak of track lightning.
who smashed records, including his own,
until he made what seems TO be an I'm