The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
THE HUMAN PROCESSION

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's quarter of a million people will celebrate today the twenty-ninth birthday of their ruler. Duke Charles Edward, who is, with the exception of King Alfonso of Spain
 and Grand Duchess Marie of Luxem- burg, the youngest of Ezlrope's reign ing princes. The youthful monarch of the little German state rules, by the grace of God and Emperor William, in the stead of the Duke of Connaught, now Governor General of Canada, who refused the throne. He is the only son of the late Duke of Albany, fourth son of Queen Victoria. His succession was in this wise:
 Duke Ernst IT,, who was a brother of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's con sort, died in 1893, after a reign of near ly half century, and was succeeded
 by his nephew, Alfred, Duke of Edin- burgh, the second son of Queen Vic
 toria. He died in 1900. His only son. Prince Alfred, had died the previous year, and the Duke of Connaught thus became heir presumptive. The pros pect did not please him, and a few months later both the Duke and his sen, Prince Arthur, renounced their claims to the succession in favor of the young Duke of Albany. He has ruled since 1900.
 Duke Charles Edwards mother was the Princess Helen, daughter of Prince N1CO4SC O4 w fdA0CC1A1 c141OLAOA LHO-O% four German state. The Dukes wife is Princess Victoria Adelaide, eldest daughter Of the Duke of Sch1eswig- Ho1stein-S -Sonderburg-G -Glucksburg They have three children, two sons and al daughter
 give it it's German name, stands four teenth among, the twenty-six states comprising the German empire, with an area of 756 square miles. Coburg and Gotha were formerly separateI duehies, and are situated in Thur ingia about fourteen miles from each other. The territories Of the young Duke also include eight tiny scattered exclaves strewed promiscuously about tke map. The people of Coburg belong to the F'raneonian and those of Gotha to the Thuringian branch of the Teu- tonic family. The miniature nation has two capitals, one in each duchye
 Sisters of Charity throughout the world will to-day observe the festival of the founder of their order, St. Vim cent de Paul, who is also honored as ciety of St. Vincent de Paul and other Catholic benevolent organiza tions. The good St Vincent was born in 1876 and died in 1880. In his youth he was of lowly station and guarded his fathers pigs. Soon after his ordination to the Qr16SInOO0 ne was captured Dy pirates and sold into slavery on the Barbary coast. He converted his master to Christianity and together they fled to France, where Vincent began that ca- reer that made his name immortal The Sisters of Charity, founded by him in 1884, soon spread from France to other European countries, and now their benificent and self-sacri1cing spirit has girdled the globe. Wherev- CT there is poverty and sickness, and wherever there is suffering and sin, sorrow and shame, illness and death, wherever humanity cries aloud for Succor, there may be found the sue cessors of those angels of mercy who were first dispatched on their holy mission by St. Vincent de Paul. With mo home but the houses of the sick, no c1oister but the streets of the town and the rooms of the hospital, no rule but the VOW of obedience, and no veil but the holiest and most perfect mod esty,'' the Sisters of Charity still full fill the VOW imposed on them by the saint whose festival is celebrated each year on the nineteenth of July.
 Prince George, Duke of Sparta, heir apparent to the throne of Greece, will celebrate his twenty third birthday to- day. The youthful Prince Royal was with his father at the front during the last war with Turkey, and has played a. prominent part in more re- cent military activities, with the re- suit that he is tremendously popular with the people.
 Like his father, King Constantine, Prince George was born in Greece and brought up in the national creed of the country, the Greek Orthodox Church. The future King of the Hellenes (of the Greeks. not of Greece), is tall and so1dierly, and more German than Danish in appear ance. His mother was the Princess Sophia of Prussia, sister of Emperor braced the Greek Orthodox faith, which greatly angered the Kaiser, who objected strongly to the change of re- 1igion.
 Prince George is the oldest of four children, and has two brothers and one sister. His grandfather, the late King George l.. was a brother of the late King Frederick VIII, of Denmark, Dowager Queen Alexandra of Great Britain and the Dowager Empress of Russia. He was Prince William Chris tian A1phonse George when he was elected King of the HeIIenes just half a century ago. His queen, the grand mother of the Crown Prince, was the Grand Duchess Olga, eldest daughter of the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, granduncle to the Czar. The young Prince is thus related to the royal families of Denmark, England, Germany, Russia and Norway.
 Jamatca's new Governor, Col. Sir William Henry Manning, will pass the half-century mark today, having been born July 19, 1883. He was educated at Cam mbridge and the Royal Military 1 College at Sandhurst, and entered the 1 British army at twenty-three. He first saw active service in the second Bur emes war, in which he was wounded. | Later he accompanied expeditions to | the wild interior of India and to the | jungIes of Central Africa. He raised | and commanded the Central Africa | regiment. From 1910 until his ap- | pointment to the Jamaica post he was |