The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-03
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

 1 1sh Empire, extending to every conti nent of the world, the day will be a Ie- 1 gal holiday, King George being the only monarch whose natal day is thu | observed in all the divisions of botk hemispheres.
 Correspondents of number q: American newspapers have recently announced that King George will visi Canada next year, and it has ever been suggested that he may extenc h1s American trip to New York and San Franc1sco-and possibly to Bos- ton, Chicago, Atlanta and Los An
 geles. This information, which, aG one correspondent remarks "I send
 without reserve, and vouches for as
 coming from a "high source," has
 been received with considerable scep-
 ticism by the Dominion press. How
 ever, these stories have cropped up
 pers1stently for over year, and there
 IS so much smoke there must be some
 ire. Certainly the Canadians would welcome a visit from the sovereign,
 Wnos before his accession to the throne, was twice entertained by the people of the Dominion. In case the project should come to fruition, 1t is probable that a meeting between King George and President Wilson at Ni- agara Falls would be memorable feature.
 King Georges power and priv fIeges have often been discussed, but he has many of which the general public knows nothing, and to which he himself has probably given no atten- tion- That the King can do no wrong is still the law in England, and King George could not be held respon- s1ble for any crime, even if he were the sort of man to indulge in criminal propensities, which of course he isn't No subject may sue the King, yet the King may sue anybody. He may par don any malefactor, for it is the Kings peace' that is broken rny criminals Legally the King is aI- ways present at every sitting of the law court and. every session of parlia- ment. He is the legal owner of the bottoms of all British rivers, the legal guardian of all insane persons and idiots, and he has the sole right to print the Holy Bible in England, and could, if he desired, prevent the print ing of the Scriptures anywhere in the Empire.
 King George's birthday dinner to- day will be prepared by staff of twenty cooks under the supervision of M Cedards the chief chef, who re- ceives 8 salary of $1O,0oo a year. 'srhe dinner has pleased His Majesty is the message that is always sent to M. Cedard.
 Sam Bernard, who is one of the fun ntest of stage funny men, is just half in Birmingham, England, June 3, 1863. and originally bore the name of Samuel Barnett Coming to Amer ica at the age of four, Sam and his brother Dick were early afflicted with the itch for stage fame, and began wOodshed, to which the admission fee naV9h1A in niT19 Al fhtTfH6 Sam graduated onto the stage of a, lit tie New York playhouse with the inn posing name of the Grand Duke Thea ter, and to which the admission was five cents. The Bernard Brothers were billed as knockabout comedians, and also doubled as singers and dan eers. After tour of the vaudeville l houses of the East Sam returned to l 1is native land, and for a time played | n London music halls. Back in | Amrica. he became the comedian of | ! burIesque company. Ten years ago | ,tar with Hattie Williams in 'tThe Girl | From Kay's. Lately he has been ,he big scream in ''All for the Ladies' MT. Bernard was paid $1.5O a week at he Grand Duke. Recently he refus- | d a vaudeville contract for ten weeks tt $3,0OO a week-and it wasn't stage either.
 In eight of the Southern States of \ he Union the birthday of Jefferson Davis will be celebrated to-day as a ega1 holiday, marking the 1c5th an | 1iversary of the statesman who be- anne president of the Confederacy. Special obserVances will mark the day n all cities having branches of the United Confederate Veterans or the Sons or Daughters of the Confederacy.
 Special interest attaches to the ob ;ervance of the day at Muskegee, for it was at old Fort Gio- on, near that bustling city, that Jeff erson Davis wooed and won his bride, Zachary Taylor. Muskegee, now the econd city in size in Oklahoma, was hen non-existent, and Fort Gibson vas a frontier post in the wide stretch # wilderness then just being formed nto Indian Territory.
 Young Davis graduated from West Point in 1928, and soon afterward saw .ctiVe service in the Black Hawk war] n Wisconsin. He was employed la CT in various expeditions against the oawnees, Comanches and other ''hos i1es,'' and was promoted for gallantry 0 the rank of first lieutenant of dra- ;oons.
 t Fort Gibson he lived with his fam ly in a house built of logs, with an i'd fashioned fireplace and stone and surrounded by giant rees. The house and the trees are till standing. Near the house is a yell, with fram mework of ancient de- ign and a 'tmoss-covered bucket nd the youthful lieutenant. Jefferson Davis, had not been long at Fort Gib- on when he developed a terrible hirst. 4 Kentuckian by birth, he ould hardly have been suspected of a ondness for water as a beverage, and ct such was the case. Whenever he .ad a, moments leisure Lieut.. Davis his thirst, and iInme- lately repaired to the well to quench t. Probably it was only coinci- ence that pretty Betty Taylor, daugh- CT of the stern Zachery, also had ondness for water, fresh from the 1ell. (Fish from the Grand River, ear by, often appeared on the Taylor . fsk