The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-26
rY la MAnaulsE DE FoNTENoY.

~ JUS y. has just appointed Colonel
DE- s Srib nssPans q t e the eagt9 or
the Swiss Guard, IL succession
TO Baron Leopold Meyer Won schauen-
see. The latter's SON Baron Fritz
Meyer, would probably have been APP
pointed as his fathers successor had
II not been for his financial and matrl-
United States he will be recalled as
having married Miss Maude Toland. Of
Philadelphia, the union turning out
very unhappiiy, owing to the baron's
neglect OF his wife and his insane eX-
trdvagance.
The Meyers OF schauensee are
among the oldest of the patrlclan
houses of Switzerland, and have for
the last 700 years made their home
at the Castle of Schauensee, on the
shores Of the Lake OF the Four can
tons, in Switzerland. which was grant
ed TO them In 1919 BY Emperor Rudolf
Of tIapsburg. They have been fervent
Roman Catholics for eight centuries.
cause the name of Meyer suggests the
Hebraic race. and when in conjunc-
tion with the title of baron nobii!ary
dignity of modern origin.
The Pope's Swiss Guard Is the only
corps of the kind now left In the
eighteenth century tho Kings of
France, of Naples. as well as the Car
of Russia. had their Swiss Guards.
anu d4illDuEu tHtY uStQ TO he DC
nounced in those days as mercenaries.
Yet they greatly distinguished them
selves by the heroism of their de-
Eensc OF the King and Queen of
France against the bloodthirsty revo-
lutionists when the latter stormed.
first of all Versailles, and afterwards
the Tuleries. The Swiss Guard of
existence with the overthrow of the
bourbon rule in Italy in 1882, and I'M
less | am much mistaken. the Swiss
Guard of the TuESi1n
banded by Emperor Paul.
The Swiss Guard of the Pope has
been in existence for over four centu-
ries, having been first formed in Oc-
tober. 1895, by Pope Julius H.. at the
suggestion of the Swiss Cardinal
Schinner and the uniforms designated
by Michael Angelo, at the request of
POPE julius remain identiceuy the
same as they We're in the days of the
master who painted tho
frescoes OF the slstlne chapel. During
several pontifcal relgns certain fea
lures of their uniform. notably their |
helmet. were modernized But PiuX X. |
has restored to them the armor and |!
The helmet worn by the corps when
t was first enrolled.
The Swiss Guard Is recruited al
most exclusively from men of the
.antons of Lucerne and of Zurich. |
fhey must be moro than Twenty-Five |
ears. of age. unmarried and six feet
- -, $50 VI eoiidiS LIZ toIpS iiuil-
'ered 200, being increased at times
o double that figure. To-day there |
ire but little over half that number.
of twelve commissioned Of |
commissioned officers and men They
re enlisted for a term of five years, at
he close of which they arc entitled
o nominal pension The latter
lowcver, is OF but little consideration,
o them, for they arc most of them
nen of good family, we'll to do, who
Mist in the Swiss Guard, partly for
he purpose of fulfilling what they be
ieve to be the traditional duties of
heir ~ families miles TO the church and part.
which 1t affords them of studying un-
Ter the most favorable conditions the
arious branches of art and litera-
ure, in the Vatican itself, and also
'eyond the papal borders In the ethyl
f Rome.
To the members Of the Swiss Guard
entrusted the guardianship Of what
nay be described as the frontiers OF
uty p Just inside the Vatican eh nag gate o
nd at the great bronze doors, and no
me- be he prince or peasant. can pass
n without either showing them an
ntrance card duly stamped with the
assword. OF course, since 1870 their
uties have been Of an essentially
acilic character But in former times
hey put up many a hard fight in be-
alf Of the Pontiff whom they had
worn to protect; and whom the Con
table of Bourbon stormed the Eter-
al City at the head of a French
rmy, something over 800 years ago,
G massacred every one OF them, to 1
he last man.
King George has promoted George
Iacurtney from the office of consul to
nat of nsul-general, at ISasfgar in
n m 40 D n IN
ointed consul general is a very re-
man, being half a China y
IAN; for whereas his father was the
lte Sir Hallidnv Mccartney. a Scotch
hyscian, who died as secretary and
of the Chinese embassy in
ondon, and who had previously filed
,veral offices of trust and Importance
China. his mother was the daughter !,
one OF the principal mandarins of
anlting, and retained her national
,lgon, instead of becoming con- II
art to Christianity, when she married
n Halliday Macartney while he was
rector of the imperial arsenal at
anking, she died after giving birth
a girl and to a hoy CHOW tho Brit