The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-07-10
THE NEW KING
 IS MAKING GOOD
Becoming Very Popular With
 Masses of People
WILL FOSTER CHARITY
New Ruler Is Very Fond of His Family Lffe-Nindsor Is Being Made Home-like and Comfortable.
 News of England

London, July 9.-(Special liking George
 is making good.
 That is the general verdict and the new king is becoming very popular with the general masses of the English people.
 King George is even more of a demo- crat than was King Edward. He always laboring classes, and for many years has taken an exceedingly active part in the work of bettering the conditions of the working classes of Great Britain.
 He has just decided to become patron and president of not only all of the char sociated, but of numerous other charities in which he was personally interested be- fore his coming to the throne.
 King George-has just received a list of the charities King Edward patronized and although several which the easy going King Edward loaned his name to may be dropped from the list as ques- tionable, King George will be president of more charitable societies than any oth- CT man living.
 It has also been practically decided by King George that the form the great national memorial England will erect to King Edward, will be the raising of a great fund of e5. GOO to place the hos pitals in the principal cities of Great Britain on a satisfactory basis and 1t is understood that King George will soon make an announcement along these lines
 King George is not believer in erect ing monuments of stone and bronze. He believes the greatest memorials that can be erected to any ruler is the founding of hospitals. charities and institutions that will work for the welfare of the masses of the people.
 There is new era ahead for England with King George at the helm. It is realized now that he intends to keep close up to the people. There will be no great extravagances, or squanderins of money on unnecessary luxurious enter tainments King George believes it hts duty to personally help solve the great in dustria1 problems which confront Great Britain today. He is personally taking great interest In the transporting of thousands of needy Englshmen to En- glish colonies especially Canada and he receives daily reports as to the progress made.
 King George has made good already. but I predict that he will be known to history as one of Great Britains great est rulers. He already has shown that he is the right man to prevent new and great dangers which confront the people of Great Britain.
 The King has been making a number of changes at Windsor and Queen Mary has had the private rooms restored to what they were during the early mar riage days of Queen Victoria. She Is having the former nursery remodeled
 A good many partition walls which the late king who was not quite so domes- ticated monarch as is King George, had put up. are being removed. Our new ruler is very fond of his family life. He has all the sailors liking for the domestic hearth and the court Windsor will not be unlike that of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert very homely and very happy.
 I should think they will regret having to leave their country house at Frog more. It is one of the most charming places imaginable. and had the supreme advantage to their maiestes when Prince and Princess of Wales of being very se- rluded The gardens about the house are delightful. and the hedges are so high and thick that even when standing in the private roadway before the house you can see very little of the building. Close by are the magnificent royal gardens. where the very choicest flowers are available all the year round Within a stone throw of Frogmore cottage is the famous doyal mausoleum, which so very few people have seen In a way 1t is the Tai Mahal of England except that it is not beautiful It is the shrine built by the queen for her husband When the queen died and was buried there the shrine was completed
 The king is fond of riding and has done a good deal this week. but has kept out of the way of crowds Sir Arthur Biggs and Major Wigram are his usual companions, though sometimes Prince John trots along at his fathers side. For a 5-year- old he is a bold rider. During the com ing week the king will be back in London and busy, but returns to Windsor for the confirmation of his sons Windsor is going to present him with an address, claiming the same rights of approaching the sovereign as does the city of Lon don
 Some 40 Americans from all parts of the United States sojourning in Edinburgh after the great Glasgow convention of the Worlds Womans Christian Temperance union. which had called them across seas, learned that in the old burying ground on Calton Hill was to be found a statue of Abraham Lincoln, commemorating the service of the Scottish soldiers who had fallen in Americas civil war. A pill grimage was made to the sacred spot: on the monument was placed a wreath of rare beauty-a wreath bearing these words:
 ''In loving veneration for Abraham, from United States delegates to the world s convention of the Woman's Christian Temperance union"
 After the placing of the wreath by Miss Leila Sewell of Massachusetts, national superintendent of the flower mission de- partment of the w. c. T. IT.. a short ad- dress was made by Mrs. Margaret Dye Ellis of New Jersey Identified with the w. c. T. U. from it's inception and now its able superintendent of '1egislation') and others.
 Mrs. Pritchard of New York and MT David Leigh Colvin, trustee of the Ma tional Intercollegiate Prohibition associa- tion.
 In closing the simple little service the pledge of the organization was spoken in unison, led by Mrs. Frances w. Graham of New York
 The crusade against bucketshops in the United States by the government has ap- parently driven many American bucket