The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-07-31
ROYAL VISITORS
MAY GIVE US CALL
Prince of Wales and His Broth
er Albert Head This Way
MAKE TOUR OF EMPIRE
Lady Ably Backs Proposition for Aerial
Passenger Line Between London
and Pnris-Mnny Husbands
Missing

London, July 3o.-((SpeciaD .-Uuless
there is change in theNplans of the
Prince of Wales and his brother, Prince
Albert, they will visit the United States
during thier tour of the empire which
is now being arranged.
King George, while the Prince of
Wales, travelled more extensively than any
of his predecessors and finds the intimate
knowledge he thus gained of his do
minions beyond the seas" Is of great
value to him now. 1t is his purpose to
give his sons an even wider knowledge
OF the great empire. One of them In the
course Of time will be called upon to
rule.
The tour of the princes will last at
least year. perhaps longer They will
visit South Africa, India Australia and
Canada. spending some time In each OF
these great empires within the empire
While in Canada, the present idea OF
the king is to arrange the itinerancy of
the princes so that they will be able to
see some of the great American cities
Just which American points VIII De
touched, Is of course impossible 10 say
\ yet. While King George does not hold
the Individual American in as high es-
!, teme as did his late father, he Is fuily
alive to the political Importance of fos-
tring the most friendly feeling posi-
BILE between the two great branches of
the nglo-Saxon race. He Is convinced
that visit to America by the little
prince will do much to advance. this
friendship and 1t is for this reason he
plany the American trip.
On their return the Prince of Wales
will go to one of the universities and
afterwards enter the army. His brother
will prosecute his duties at the naval
college, Dartmouth Rumor has 1t that
the dukedom of York will be his before
this time next year.
Lady Abby. who recently secured the
honor of being the first English woman
to make flight in an areoplane. Is an
enthusiastic believer in the future of air
navigation. She has offered to back a
scheme for an aerial passenger line be-
tween London and Paris to the extent
of $25O,O0O.
A committee Is to be formed by
Messrs Grahame White and President
Grey of the Aero club. of eminent ayia-
tors who will utilize the gift in the con-
struction Of an airship. combined air.
ship and plane, or aeroplane, which will
carry passengers from London to Paris.
One condition of the gift is that 1t must
be an all~British scheme from the for
nation of the committee to the material
employed in the airship or aeroplane.
1T is proposed that 1t should have
. carrying capacity of twenty passengers.
The prices realized for the seats are to
be devoted to charity. An aviation fac
tory, to be called the ABBY Aviation
factory" will be commenced on site
near London shortly
Though the phraseology is quaint and
formal and the facts are related with the
s studied preciseness of an old-fashioned
! lawyer tho, will of Mr.. Arthur Joseph
Munby Of Fig Tree-Court, Temple.
T. c., and of Pyeford. Surrey, barris-
ter-at-law. well known poet and lit
terateur. remains one of the most ro-
mantle documents ever lodged at Somer-
set house. To all but two or three in
climate friends who were In the testator's
N onfidence, 1t reveals for the first time
he story of his secret marriage to a
domestic servant Hannah Cullwick
forty-fve years ago, and the singular
almost pathetic, as far as the woman
was STANDARDIZATION which existed
between man and wife. THE said Han
nah,' runs one Of the extracts from, the
will in which Mr.. Munby refers to his
wife, has always refused and still she
might and could have had. and has al
ways insisted and still insists on being
nv servant as we'll as my wife," The
author Of this strange disclosure died on
January 10Th, last, aged eighty-one years.
and, as his will which has now been
proved shows, left estate of the value
of $125.Ooo.
Something of the romance of orchid
hunting was suggested by some of the
exhibits at the Royal Horticultural So
ciety's summer show at Holland park
! Kensington. One of the blooms was dis
covered in New Guinea, sprouting out OF
\ human skull Search led to the discov-
cry Of other orchids growing under SINH
/ lar conditions, for In New Guinea 1t Is
The practice of some of the natives not
70 bury their dead, but to place them on
shelving rocks. Another orchid to which
q curious history attaches Is one which
was found growing on the sea shore of
the Philippine Islands. 1t was 80 close
70 the waves that 1t was constantly
sprinlxled by the salt spray. 1t has been
found that these conditions are neces-
eary to its successful cultivation. and
drenchings of salt water are periodically
administered.
There has been an amusing sequel to
The publication OF the police case at
Kingston In which college man. who
was charged with smashing window,
refused to disclose his identity. He gave
khe assumed name of Westwood, and
told the bench that he did not want his
friends to know that he was in trouble.
Mr.. Nathan, the court missionary, who
hook an interest In "Westwood,' and
Pound "a labor home for him. has re-
cetyed no fewer than nine letters from
women in various parts of the country
Claiming "Westwood" as their missing
husband.
sorne Of the women enclosed a. photo
,raph of their husband. and asked TO be
informed II "Westwood'' was anything
ike their missing spouse.
Turs will cost less next year If the
anticipation made by Lord Strathcona
4 the meeting Of the Hudson's Bay COM
kany prove correct He said there will
probably be an increase In the present
ear in the fur collection. which would
ave the effect Of reducings the enor-
nously high prices which had prevailed
the fur market,
After sixty-one years, postal service
IRIS. Lucy Louisa Cabot has resigned the
osition of postmistress of Southwick
ussex. Her late husband was Capt
haries Cabot, a defendant OF the cele-
rated fifteenth century explorer Sc
astnin Cabot
The band of the Coldstream Guards,
hich is to ply at the Canadian Nation
Exhibition, to be held at Toronto IN
uruAt and September, will leave Bris-
Il on August 18th, in the Royal George.
the Royal line. recently inaugurated
the Canadian Northern railway sys-
M The band Of the Grenadier guards
nj leave Bristol for Quebec in the same
assel on the same date.
Boucher In Demand
Louisville, July 0.-According to ad-