Evening star., 1914-10-01

looked sadder and more anxious. The
old grandmother sat very heavily with
her head in her hands Her very de-
cent, kindly old face looked up for a
little; then as she could say nothing
and nothing could be said to her. her
head dropped again and she stared
wearily at the desk. Three young girls
with we'll kept hair listened curiously
In the end they all smiled very CRATE
fully to those who had done no more
than tried to speak to them.
Battalion Of sportsmen.
A new battalion Of strong, hardy,
sporting gentlemen up to forty-five
years of age" which is being raised by
Mr.. E. Cunliffe Owen, provides an op-
portunity for distinctive and valua-
BILE class Of recruits to join Lord
kltchencrs new army. Mr.. Cunliffe
owen. whose cousin is we'll known i'll
.ne Tn, american newspaper world. has set
already received applications from
some 500 who possess the required
qualifications. No military experience
Is insisted on. but all applicants must
ceptfonally flt." The age limit has been
placed as high as forty-f1ve, because it
Is recognized that men who hunt and
shoot are frequently at their best in
the early forties. Among those who
have already sent in their names are
doctors, consulting engineers and
stock are many of the
last named-in addition to the sporting
man Of leisure.
Interesting names in the list include
those OF Sir Norman Robert Pringle,
bart, Of Whitstable; Stephen Smith, a
brother Of F. e. Smith. George Cruik-
shank. the arctic and antarctic ex-
plorer: Walter Ropner, son of Sir Rob
ert Ropner, the well known West
Hartlepool sportsman; Rupert Reeve
Tattersan Of. the famous firm of turf
auctioneers. and Raymond Jourdain Of
brldport, an army coach well known
In the service.
The battalion when formed will train
IN the grounds of country house near
London, the mansion being used as
barracks. It will be an infantry bat
TALON. and Mrs. Cunliffe Owen, who is
one one OF the moving spirits in it's forma
smartest" in Lord .Kitchener's new
army. Mr.. Cunliffe Owen is a son of the
late Col. Cunliffe Owen, V. c., Royal
Engineers. who served in the Crimean
Val, ,Mar, ana his Wife, who is putting in
long days at the Hotel Cecil recruiting
ONCE, is his cousin, a daughter Of the
iate Sir Philip Cunlffre Owen, who was
director OF the South Kensington Mu-
scum 1or many years. and a personal
friend OF King Edward.
Irish and Scotch Mix.
Letters from Irish soldiers with the
expeditionary force tell of striking
reconciliation that has been brought
ABOUT through the war. Since the un-
fortunate incident in the streeta of
ouoiln last July. the Scottish border
ers have been blacklisted by, most of
me. the irish Regiments. and this means
.nat II ever the Scotsmen. had encoun-
tered Irish troops at the same stations
tnere would have been endless rows.
ine first opportunity the -borderers
nad OF coming into contact with the
Irlsh regiments was in France, and
tney were actually brigaded with one
OF the Irish regiments that had taken
the strongest vow Of vengeance. Nat
urally, the incident cropped I'D be-
tween the men, but there was a gen.
eral agreement that the hatchet must
be buried. .
There are other regiments that have
their feuds, and cannot be stationed
in the same town without the risk of
trouble such as that which resulted
from an indiscreet brigading of the
Connaught Rangers and Highland
these feuds Is a mystery, but it is the
case that the men Of the regiments af-
fected always feel in duty bound to
punch the head Of a man of the rival
regiment Wherever SEEN war DrinSs
peace so far as all these feuds are con-
cerned, and for the time being, at any
rate, bygones will be bygones.
Kaiser's Six Sons.
The kaiser's six sons are presuma bly,
all on active service, though one hears
nothing about the second, Prince Eitel
Fritz. who, in his boyhood, at least,
was looked upon as his fathers favor
lite. All six became, at the age of ten.
officers in the First Prussian Foot
Guards. in accordance with the custom
Of the House Of Hohenzollern, but the
third son, Prince .Adalbert, has been
consecrated to the service of the navy.
From their earliest years, care has
been taken to impregnate them all
with militarist ideas, but they. are
likely to have a lot of that nonsense
knocked out of their heads before this
campaign concludes. The crown prince,
in particular, has invited the Nemesis
tied with being among those who are
most responsible for the war.
Only two of the kaiser's sons have
children, namely, the crown prince,
who has four sons, and Prince August,
the fourth son. who has an infant son.
In this generation of the Hohenzollern
family there is a great .preponderance
of males, the number of females
ing extremely limited. Another point
of interest is that the leaiser's daugh-
ters-in-law are all Germans by birth.
Whether by inclination or policy, not
one of the kaiser's sons has gone out
side the German Empire for wife.
Percy Wyndham. a victim Of the war.
has not long survived his charming ia
ther, George Wyndham, whose only
child he was. 1t was five years since
he Joined the Coldstreams. He was
descendant OF the unfortunate Irish
patriot, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who
was his great-great- t-grandfather. His
great gra ndin other, Lady Ed
ward Fitzgerald, was the mysterious
Pamela. whose parentage- has for sew
eral generations been e matter of in
cessant speculation, though the ma
jority- OF inauirers think she was
child of Nine. de Genlis by the no
torious "Philip Ggalite,'' Duke of Or
leans, who voted for the execution of
Louis XVI, and was himself afterward
guillotined. Mr.. Percy -Wyndham mar
ried last year 4 ncaShire lady, Lord
Ribblesdaie's younger daughter.
Tonga Is Neutral.
King George II Of Tonga. the last of
the dusky monarchs of the Pacific
Islands, has heard of the war and has
formally declared his neutrality. His
majesty must have taken the respon-
sibility of this World-shaking pro-