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diers. who came to his assistance, 70
a standstill, and then they fought
half a dozen police until they were ex.
hausted. In the police court the next
morning they begged to be let on In
time to go with their regiment to meet
Uncle Bill and the magistrate de-
clared that two such capable fighting
men would be much better employed In
France than in London.
There are no more enthusiastic ad-
vocates OF England's cause in the war
than the London Jews. Note was made
today of one women who keeps q small
shop in whitechapel. the Ghetto OF
London. who has five sons in the
army, and half the porters In the
wholesale meat market at Smithneld,
which is almost entirely in the hands
of Jews, have left to Join the colors.
England. of course, was one of the
first countries to admit Jews to civil
rights. The chief rabbi and Lord
Rohschild who has quite as much In
fuence as the chief rabbi. have made .
joint appeal to all ablebodied young
Jews to join kitchener's new army.
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his private income from money invest.
ed either in England or the colonies
and has not. therefore, suffered any
special loss by the war, but II has
necessitated many calls on his purse,
both in the way of helping his rela-
tives at home and In the subscriptions
he has been called upon to give to
the various charitable funds for the
relief of distress. The most extraor-
dinary economies have. therefore. been
made in the management of the royal
establishment. Porridge and fruit
form the regular breakfast now at
Buckingham Palace, with eggs and
bacon once week and fish twice
week. Meat has appeared on the royal
table only once week since the out
break of the war. the table being sup
piled practically altogether with fowls
from the farms at Windsor and
BalmoraL
One way and another the living ex-
penses at Buckingham Palace have
been reduced by nearly SO per cent. As
far as the royal table was concerned,
Queen Mary had not much difficulty in
putting these economies into practice,
but 1t was a different matter when it
came to cutting down rne table" of the
servants, especially of the upper serv-
ants. who fare sumptuously four times
a day. The idea Of the porridge and
fruit breakfast which the queen sug-
gested should be the same for the
servants as for the royal table was re-
ceived with no enthusiasm by the serv.
ants.
The master of the household. after
having vainly attempted to induce the
servants to accept the contemplated
economies in the management of the
servants hall, had to report to the
queen that it would not be possible to
carry them out without getting rid of
several of the servants, many of whom
have saved quite sufficient to enable
them to retire, but this was a thing
that especially at such a time the queen
did not at all desire to do. The chief
servants were summoned together and
an arrangement was arrived at with
them that they should receive a board
allowance and board themselves as
they please. Under this arrangement
the cost of the servants board will
probably be reduced by about 25 per
cent instead of the so per cent contem-
plated by the queen.
In general. at the present time O.
quiet, plain and unostentatious mode Of
wise for financial reasons among roy
alties resident in England. but 1t 10
highly expedient for other reasons. It
is evidence to the working classes
among whom distress is now wide.
spread and whose condition Is bound to
are being shared to some extent, at any
rate, by the reigning house.
There is so strong desire at Buck.
ingham Palace to create this impress
sion that a paragraph was prepared for
circulation to the press setting out the
practicing. but this somewhat panicy
notion. which originated among the la
dies of the royal household. was given
up on the advice OF Lord stamford-
toopyzisat. 1914. BY Curtis Bzevaa
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her maids in the stillroom, and super
vises all the work herself. The scene l.,
sold in bottles at prices ranging from.
SO cents to $3.50.
Prince and Princess Alexander OF
Teck, who are notoriously. among tho
most impecunious of royalties in Eng
land, have also lost practically all
their private means through the war.
* x
The prince, who is. of course, Queen
Mary's brother, received an income of
about $4,000 per annum from interest
on mortgages on real estate in north
Germany. and the princess has about
$4,000 per annum from German gov
ernment annunities.
Queen Mary has had to come from
time to time to the aid OF her brother.
but her majestry now has to support
both him and the princess and their
family altogether. The prince was ap-
pointed some little while back COVER
nor general of. Canada, but. 1t is un-
likely that his royal highness will
go to Canada until the war is over.
The prince was placed in a peculiarly
disagreeable position by the loss of
is the chairman Of a number of charit-
able committees. notably of the Mid
dlesex Hospital, which was founded by
the late Prince Francis of Teck for the
purpose of raising $1,250,0OO for the
hospital in question.
When the Prince Of Wales appealed
for funds to relieve the distress caused
by the war-the fund is the most gi-
gantic collection of its kind ever in
augurated in England, as may be
imagined from the fact that week
after it had open more than $5.00o.00o
had been taken-a committee OF man
agement was appointed by the prince;
who nominated Prince Alexender OF
Teck as its chairman. This appointment
was however, cancelled almost as soon
as it had been made for the reason
that the prince had obviously become
too much an. object of charity himsei1
as the result of the war to act as
chairman for a fund for the relief OF
those who will suffer In purse by It.
The prince and princess with their
family are now occupying few rooms
at st. James Palace. They have but Two
servants and are living In the plalnest
and simplest manner.
King of Portugal and Queen Victoria,
his wife, have suffered most severely
in pocket by the war and the royal
residence at Twickenham has been
thrown into utter confusion. The whole
of the income of the queen was derived
from German sources and. OF course,
ceased. but that did not amount to very
much, not more than a few hundreds
a year. But King Manuel. who had In
vested very largely lately in Russian
and French securities on the advice of
his banker In Paris. has. for the mo-
ment, been deprived of nearly the
whole of a considerable income except
ing the interest on some Of his holdings
in British industrial concerns, which
have declined about so per cent in
capital value.
The ex-monarch is in far worse cir
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Adams where "orders" said he was to
go, he turned it toward Brighton and
went home. Arrived there he told his
father he was fed up and decided to
chuck it."
the young man shed his uniform and
went out for a stroll on the front. He
was much astonished to be arrested a
few hours later as a deserter and still
more astonished when a detail of his
former comrades arrived the next
morning to take him back to London.
The corporal in charge Of this detail is
the son of friend of the writer-a lad
of eighteen, who few weeks ago was
learning to be newspaper reporter.
He handcuffed the deserter to his own
wrist and then producing his service
revolver showed it to the other youth
and said:
Look here now, I'm new at this job
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curtailed to the most ordinary neceS-
Stiles The royal establishment is. man
aging to get along with couple of
maid servants assisted in their work by
Queen Victoria. who helps to prepare
the dinner every day. So is the Eu-
ropean Armageddon reflected in what
used to be one of the most luxurious
royal establishments in London.
-. - ,~' -
Queen Alexandra has also felt the
results of the war severely. Her
majesty's carelessness about her
money affairs are matters that have
caused a good deal of talk in the royal
encourage of late. During the past
season Queen Alexandra entertained
in the most elaborate and costly way
at Marlborough House and as a result
piled up very considerable liabilities;
to pay these it became necessary that
she should overdraw her banking ac-
count for sum of about $250.0O0. While
arrangements were being made for this
overdraft the war broke out and her
majesty's bankers would not entertain
the idea of the loan.
1t also happened that shortly before
the war Queen Alexandra on the
Recommendation of one of her financial
advisers had purchased a large amount
of Canadian Pacific railway stock,
which slumped 20 to 80 points. in the
fore the outbreak Of hostilities ON the
continent.
Her majesty, for. some short time,
was placed in the mSst embarrassed
position, for she could not obtain even
any ready money, a fairly plentiful
supply of which is necessary to keep.
the establishments at Marlborough
House and Sandringham going, and
there were certain liabilities to trades
people on which, though there was no
actual legal obligation on the part of
Queen Alexandra to pay at once, pay
ment could not be withheld without
giving rise to much unpleasant gossip.
have large sums of money awaiting
investment. at once offered to advance
her majesty enough for her require
ments, but Queen Alexandra for sew
eral reasons particularly disliked the
idea of placing herself under any
obligation to her grandson. Her
majesty ultimately secured the money
which part of the gold plate at Marl-
borough House has been pledged as
security.
Prince Arthur of Connaught has
lost an income of about $4,000, arising
out of money invested in Germany
maternal grandfather. This was all
the private means the prince had
before his marriage, but he got. of
course, an immense fortune with his
wife and neither he nor the princess
has suffered any special inconven-
fence by the present financial disturb
ances.
The Duke Of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
a first cousin OF King George, who
has thrown in his lot with the Ger
mans and is fighting for his native
country. has 1T. for the moment a
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sum of about $4,000, which he had
banked in London and payment OF
which has been refused to the dukes
agent in London. King George made
n request that the money should be
paid to his cousins agent in London,
who happened to be a member of the
royal household, but the dukes bank
ers declined to part with the cash
unless compelled to do so by the gov
ernment, who declined to interfere in
the matter.
Before the outbreak of the war the
kaiser was holder of a considerable
block OF English government stock.
and also of some British industrial
shares and railway stock. Over two
months ago the kaiser disposed of
his holdings in English government
stock. which was assigned in trust for
the German emperor to the Princess
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beginning Of the month at time
when the stores of such goods were
usually exhausted at Cumberland
Lodge. and the tradesmen about Wind
sor. to MANY of whom the prince was
In debt. refused to deliver the usual
monthly orders without cash, which
the prince could not pay
An ordinary individual in the princes
position would not only have been
quickly landed in the bankruptcy court,
but probably have been Immediately
reduced to the direst poverty. AS it
was. King George came to his rela-
tive's aid. He paid off certain i'm
mediate pressing liabilities due by the
prince. and arranged with the trades
people at Windsor to supply Cumber-
way of food. the accounts for which
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GERMAN UHLANs CAPTURED FRENCH DRAGONS.


things" A man who lives close to
Boulter,s lock. on the Thames, which
a ta1icab the other night. and at the
entrance to dark lane his cab was
stopped by police sergeant.
Il beg your pardon. Mr.. -" he
have been loosing off all night at the
German spies. 80 I thought 1t would
be safer for you If 1 stopped you and
walked down the lane with you. They
know me by this time, but they might
pot you"
Another good story concerns a terri
torial at Dover, who was cycling along
a road with his rifle slung across his
back to join his battalion. He saw
man at the top of a telegraph pole, evil
IDENTIFY at work on the wires, while
motor cycle leaned against the pole at
the bottom. Surely this was the kaiser's
spy. who had been assigned to the work
of destroying England's telegraph sys-
tenn, and the amateur soldier unslung
shot. Fortunately he missed, and the
spy slid down the pole in hurry and
made off across the country without
waiting to mount his motor cycle. The
after him without hitting him. and
then brought the motor cycle into
Dover. A few hours later 1t was
eaI, claimed ed by T.. very much frightened
he was repairing the wires and that he
wasn't used to working under fire.
The vagaries of the British press
censorship continue alternately to en-
rage and amuse British newspaper
men. The chief cause of complaint is
the lack Of any apparent system in the
censorship. One censor will rigidly
cut (ont all names of places and regi-
ments from a dispatch, while another
censor reading a similar message at
the same time for another paper will
pass them intact.
A few days ago one of the biggest
Of the London papers received a most
interesting dispatch from France. 1t
was submitted to the censor and mutt
lated SO that it was worthless. The
next day another copy of the same
message was submitted and read by an
other retired colonel in the censorship
bureau. who passed it with only few
minor deletions. Colonel No. 1 saw the
publication and was furious. He re-
ported the paper to the chief censor,
and the editor was summoned before
that high and mighty official. He took
with him both copies of the message
with the censors' marks on them, and
when he was asked to explain why he
had published a message which was
forbidden he placed them before the
chief censor without word. No fam
lily newspaper would print what that
chief censor said about his staff of re-
tired colonels.
The censorship in France is becoming
more strict. even with regard to per-
fectly- plain and apparently innocent
business messages. The reason for this
is said to be that the French have dis
covered that some of the innocent"
messages were in skillfully devised
code and were telegraphed from Eng
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EX-KING WHOM THE WAR HAS
IMPOVERISHED.
DON MANUEL OF PORTUGAL, WHO
HAS BEEN DEPRIVED OF ALMOST
HIS ENTIRE INCOME. WHICH WAS
DERIVED FROM RUSSIAN AND
FRENCH SECURITIES.
Henry of Battenberg, through whom
the kaiser and several other German
royalties conduct their financial trans
actions in England The princess is:
foreign royalties in London. She, it
appears. is now the holder of the stock
and will continue to receive the In
terest on it until the end of the war.
when she will pass 1t on to the kaiser;
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troops in France, but we are told that
he is acting directly under theorders
Of Lord Kitchener, who is running the
war, as far as Britain is concerned,
from Whitehall. So close is the COM
munication between them that Kitche-
ner is almost kept in touch with the
progress of battle from hour to hour.
Kitchener, it is claimed. is in telephone
communication with Sir John French's
headquarters and actually talks to the
general in the field during the progress
of battle.
Some of the young men who have
Joined the territorials expecting that
they would be sent at once to fight the
kaiser are bitterly disappointed and
are fed up" with soldering, as they
get 1t. One of these whose. father is a
wealthy stockbroker and lives in
Brighton was sent to deliver some dis
patches the other day. He suddenly de-
cided to "chuck 1t" and instead of
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A ROYAL PRINCESS WHO IS
71S

Frinceas Alexnnder Of Teck, who, like
her husband. has lost the whole Of
her private means through the war.
VIII be discharged by the steward at
windsor Castle. and agreed to allow
his relative 5000 a month until the war
was over.
There are twenty-five servants at
Cumberland Lodge. and all of them
have agreed to remain in the service
OF the prince for the present without
wages Princess Christian is making
scent In the stillroom at Cumberland
Lodge and earns about ,$15 a week by
selling 1t to some of the West End
houses and to friends.
Her royal highness employs four Of
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IL because of the
war. which spares
neither the high
nor the lowly,
8 Q v raj minor
royalties resident
in England find
themselves with
in hailing dis
tance of the poor
house as a result
of having. for the
time being. been
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and I'm as nervous as you are. You're
not gong to get away and If you move
I'm likely to think you're trying to es-
cape, and plug you quick"
The deserter sat as still as a statue
during the journey of an hour and a
half to London.
Two very pacific British soldiers en-
tered pub in Pimlico, district of
West London. the other night. and an
nounced that they had no desire to
fight anybody, not even Uncle Bill"
as the "Tommies'' call the kaiser They
added a few drinks to the load they
were already carrying and then the
sergeant came in looking for them.
Forgetting their love of peace, they
fought the sergeant and two other SOL
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tions are not quite normal. The writer
met a choleric old gentleman the other
evening who was breathing wrath and
defiance against the territorials and
the war office and Lord Kitchener and
every one else whom he held RESPONSE
Bile. He is an enthusiastic motorist, and
it seems that as business is slack these
days he left the city early one after
noon for run down to Dovercourt.
Now Dovercourt is just across an
inlet of the sea from Harwich, the
base of the destroyer fotilla and one
of the most important naval ports on
the North sea- He got into Dovercourt
all right and had a good dinner and
then started to motor back after dark.
Just outside the town he was chal-
lenged by a territorial sentry. but the
writer had better let him tell the rest
of the story himself.
'"This is England. you know" he said,
$50 1 just waved to the beggar that 1t
was all right and drove on. What do
you think he did? He shot my tires,
sir, Shot my tires, and I almost went
into the ditch. Then he came running
up and threatened to stick his bayonet
sorts of papers before he was con-
vinced that I wasn't a blooming Ger
man spy!
Might as well be in Russia. wrote
to Kitchener and to the Times. but
Kitchener hasn't had the civility to
reply. and the Times hasn't published
my letter. I don't know what the
country is coming to when an English
man cannot motor about in his own
country without having his tires ruin
ed nv the territOrialS"
This man was at one end Of the So
cial scale. case at the other end was
supplied by young friend who Is
member of one Of London's crack ter
ritorial regiments and who has been
employed for the last fortnight guard
ing lonely railway tunnel near the
metropolis 1t was a dark night and he
there?" he called, but there was no re-
ply. and he repeated the challenge
three times. but still he heard the steps
coming nearer. IF you don't halt" he
The man halted and the friend put
him through the usual cross-examina-
tion. "Who am I and what do I want
here?" said the stranger. I'm a bloom
ing plate layer and I'm going about my
too. instead Of playing soldiers and
pointing your gun at British work.
man who's only trying to earn his liv-
ing"
A plate layer. it may be explained. Is
English for the man who walks the
railroad tracks at night to see II the
line is safe and has not been tampered
with.
Some of the territorials, it must be
admitted, are a bit too eager to use
their rifles. 1t may be nervousness, but
the fact is that they have been shoot
ing rather freely at German SPIES"
and as they are pretty good marksmen
and no one has been hit it is fair to
assume that they have been seeing
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NGLAND has been
at war for more
than a month
with the most
powerful enemy
that she has ever
faced in her whole
history, but there
are still I number
of Englishmen
who seem to fail
to realize even
now that condi-
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cumstances, as a matter of fact. than
he was at the time of the revolution In
Portugal. He has no resources to fall
back on and no one to come to his aid.
A number of the man servants en-
plOyed in his establishment were Aus
trians and have departed to their ma
tive country; others went because they
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could not receive their wages, or, worse
still, because they were unable to get
sufficient food. By converting such ar
ticles of value as gold and silver Or
naments and jewelry into cash at ridic-
ulously low prices King Manuel has
mediate wants and these have to be
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land to America and from there re-
telegraphed to Germany, where they
were decoded.
There surely never has been a war
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ENGaGH ROYALTIES WHOM SIGHT OF

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
LONDON. September II, 1914.
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Many of the English
Fail to Realize That
Conditions. Are Far
From Normal Sol
diers and the Spy
Scare Press Censors
in Hot Water The
Story of Two Good
Fighting Men-Keep-
ing in Touch With
Armies in the Field.

Special Correspondence OF The Star.
ra~Do&v
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in which the commanders in the field
were in such close touch with their
chiefs at home. Sir John French, of
course, Is commanding the British
The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1914-05-08
PRESIDENT UOODLEYS ADDRESS.

The address of President Woodley of the State Teachers Asso-
citation delivered in Jackson on Thursday night of last week at the
meeting OF the State Association, was a very creditable dellverance
and showed a spirit of interest aud zeal that bodies we'll for the
childhood Of the state. His discussions OF the various phases of the
schooi work OF the state, as a whole, must be approved and undoubt-
edlv is abundant proof OF the fact that the teachers of the state are
imbued with an honest and commendable desire to render the great
est possible service in their profession. They are studying and
planning to render the Young childhood of Mississippi more capable
and more efficient than tin adults Of the present day When we
come 10 think Of the fact that the matter OF schools is too often given,
alas too often, only secondary consideration by parenthood. and that
even IN our high schools scarcely more than twenty per cent of the
children who enter the lower grades pursue their studies thru the en-
tire course, the importance OF emphasizing our school work dawns
upon US with telling force. 1t is also a lanentable fact that in our
country schools that barely sixty per cent of the children of school
age attend the full five months term. The problems of the future
will be more difficult and more complex than those of the present
and they cannot be wisely and successfully dealt with except by
trained minds and by skilled hands and we who do not want our
children left in the race Of life must see that they attend school
regularly and continuously.
The State Association is made up OF a splendid teaching body
of men and women and they show that they are capable of directing
the school life of the state. There has been a very marked i'm
proyement in the standard of ability among those engaged in public
school work in Mississippi in the past dozen years.