The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-16
SERMONS ON THE
 PEACE OF NATIONS Preached in Many English
 Churches Today HORSE HAS DEFEAT Will No Longer Reign Supreme at Coronations of English Kings,
 As Automobiles Will Be Used

London, April 5.-(Special.) )-ln nearly all of the churches of England today sermons have touched upon the remarkable stride forward madt by the movement for the promotion of interna- tional peace and the debt of gratitude which the world owes to President Taft, but there is, strangely enough, among the ministers of the Church of England quite a number who dread the abolition of war, because they fear that the ab- sence of danger from without will tend to deteriorate and degenerate the na- tional character. The leader of these militant ecclesiasasts is Canon Tupper- Cary of York, one of our most eloquent ministers.
 do not know what this war loving servant of the Lord has to say today, but in his last sermon to business men of York he asserted with great empha- sis that peace has greater dangers than war and asked his listeners to put the frank question to themselves, when dis cussing the question of universal peace, how the English nation was to preserve the manly qualities that had made it powerful if Dreadnoughts were ycrapped and regiments disbanded. He himself felt convinced that even Christ, who was the Prince of Peace. never would wish the coming of peace which means moral degeneration and death to a nation.
 The horse has suffered another defeat. 1t will no longer reign supreme at the coronation of the kings of England, for the Earl Marshal in charge of the ar engagements of the coronation of King George has decided that the peers driv- Ing to Westminster Abbey to witness the grand ceremony shall, for the first time in history, be permitted to use au- tomobiles of any pattern or type they prefer, so there is a probability that In the midst of a festival, essentially medieval in its whole character, we shall see peers in coronets and ermine robes chasing down Whitehall In low, fog-colored, torpedo-sh cars. The king has not yet given his sanction to this new departure which is sure to de- prive the event of some of its pictur- esque grandeur, but as many peers have entirely given up maintaining a stable in London there Is little doubt that he will consent.
 If the Kaiser thinks that the future of Germany is on the sea. the Czar ev- idently believes that Russia's future is up in the air, for at the London aero exhibition the Russian government com missioners, after buying ten British built biplanes, 15 Farman biplanes and 45 Bleriot monoplanes. declared that Russia Intends to have an aerial fleet of 300 war aeroplanes before the end of the summer, and Is prepared to spend nearly s5.Ooo.O0o on military airships European governments have In fact been large buyers at the exhibition and the day before 1t closed M. Blerioi manager, M. Norbert Chereau, told me that his firm had received orders for rearly one hundred monoplanes from the French government, which al ready had 30 Bleriot machines in actual use and that nearly one hundred off cers in the French army have qualified as expert airmen. The Bleriot factory is indeed so crowded with orders that 1t cannot deliver any more monoplanes for i've months.
 France is stil far ahead of all oth CT nations and would be able to mobolize nn aerial navy of 300 aerop1anes In two days, most of them capable of a. speed of 60 miles an hour, while great quantity of shells specially made to be dropped from aeroplanes are stored In all the Notifications along the German 6gontier.
 Mumn11eS are one or the 1eW drt1CleS nowadays of which the demand exceeds the supply, but number of them will shortly come under the hammer here, so ambitious American collectors had better cable their orders if they want to make use of very rare opportunity. The late Lady Meux of Theobalde Park near London, left very fine collection of mummies and as no acceptable bid has been made for these venerable rel {oc Af ,o1o fnC rrhn 1tyad hi inc like 1000 B. C., they are to be sold at public auction like any other commo- dity.
 That mummies are not without their practical value Is proved by the fashion experts who discovered the much abused hobble skirt on a mummy in a tomb near Pyramids.
 Mummies seem to possess subtle fascination for many minds. The draw ing power of a genuine and well attest ed Egyptian mummy Is considerable and every museum longs to possess at least one, so the dispersal of the Meux collection. due to the refusal of the British museum trustees to take the lot is awakening a keen, though friendly rivalry among provincial museums.
 real mummy, possessed of undoubt- ed pedigree, so to speak, will fetch any thing from $500 to 5000. But so few have been the sales a auction that the present state of the market is undefin- able.
 One of the problems, a minor one it Is true, that will confront the First Uni versal Races Congress when it meets in London in July will be that of an off cial language. Many races speaking many tongues will be represented at the gathering, and it will be difficult, if not indeed impossible, to find common medium of speech
 At a preliminary meeting held at the Hotel Cecil, the general secretary of the congress said there would be four off cial anguages-Englsh, French, German and Italian. but he added that if there were interpreters the congress would be delighted to hear any language. The papers will be in two editions. English and French.
 A. Byne Drowned
 Capetown, April l5.--(Special. )-Particu- lars have reached here of the death of Mir. A. Byne, head jailer here at EntebbI y,,json Nairohi British East Africa