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age Of cameras and reporters. Poise. then,
IS the chief quality he should cultivate.
Whatever happens, keep your posc; a
moments hesitation may mean abdication.
The way to avoid embarrassment is to re-
fuse to become embarrassed An amusing
story is told of King Hubert of Muden-
Muden. He was host to an assembly of lords
and ladies at lawn party near Muden
Castle. Late in the afternoon there was
sudden cloudburst. The guests were at loss
to know what to do; they dared not with
draw without his majesty's consent For
some minutes no one spoke. At length King
Hubert, noting the general distress Of his
guests, remarked in his inimitable dravl, ut
looks like rain The entire party was con-
vulsed at this unexpected witticism and Lord
Symken Nash came within an ace of swallow
ing his teaspoon But the tension was broken
and the festivities were resumed
At the time OF his coronation at Ham
burger Cathedral the Prince of Parmalee
exhibited remarkable sauoir- fare under the
most trying circumstances. At the very
climax of the ceremony, the crown Slipped
of the princes head and rolled under the
throne. There an awkward silence as
the Archbishop Of Loganbury recovered it
and presented it again to the youthful scion.
The prince observed the confusion Of the
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tropical birds, of hucs which only poets see
IN the painted cities of the mind, were con.
ilnod in gloomy pcnitcntiary or stone and
Wlrc cNtravaganuy rcpulsivc in the crud-
lty the burlosquc, of contrast Poor little
birds, what was your crime?
II enjoy this, you may say, because like
BIRDS. Say we and ! am with YOU. All
men, except the very dullest, like BIRDS be-
cause Of all natures designs in her work
shop they arc the most perfect and cx-
qulsltc. More than that-we associate them
with our most cherished and passionate
lougings Bird thou never vert but rather
a living symbol of that unquenchablc fire
of salvation which has burned up in the
human breast ever since we began to climb
so painfully out of tho ape. But of all
men, except such inspired priests Of nature
as Mr. W. II. Hudson, the Londoncr loves
them best. The green ccarings in his vast
forests Of brick and slate arc more to him
than sea and mountain to the countrvman,
and the too few birds, and common BIRDS
that sing in them a restorative for his in
valid state for the loss OF which .herc cou1l
be no earthly compensation. But to sec the
rarcr English birds, the brilliant coated
troplc birds, deceived indeed but by Il kind.
ly, cunning image Of the truth of their lib
crtY, and in colorablc imitation of their
natural surroundings, herein lies a match
less pleasure for him, soacc and relief to
the birds next best to natures sovereign
gift, and the true scope and meaning Of
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archbishop and relieved the situation bv saw
ing calmly "Pish, old dear, your pctticoat
hangs
Court history il II of similar graceful
incidents. The late aron Batz. whose oni-
grams are repeated this day in the prov
lnce Of kimmelstadt, was accosted one dav
by ncwsboy who tried to sell him a paper
wishing to have little sport with the lad
the baron, with an afectation of seriousness
SAID: Give me a paper and I'll pay YOU
the next time see you" "You go to hell"
replied the lad. What the baron said then
is not recorded, but it was something scream
lngly funny, doubt.
These few anecdotes show the need persons
OF royal blood have for presence of mind
and the ability to meet the most unforeseen
eXigencies.
Inc impression you make upon YOUR suh
Jects IS what counts Ivan the Terrible made
such an impression upon his subjects that
they haven't got over it yet. With enough
sel1-conhdence you can starve all the orphans
III the kingdom. A little study of the fore
going Will enable the most ordinary voutb
to become prince of the first magnitude
relgnng long and peacefully. True YOU can
not control the fist of fate, but by keepjno
your eyes open YOU may dodge when if
swings your way
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no restraint except that of DEATH falling
upon sleep far preferable to the genticst
conditions of otiose captivity
Let us be practical. You do not write
All article about a visit to the 200 upon the
plea Of abolishing it. Abolition is certainly
the ultimate logic Of the matter, but fear
we are not much nearer that than John Ball
was to the brotherhood of man. Until men
arc tree, doubt we shall permit the free
dom of the wild creatures But the idea
OF IT. Let us not lose hold Of that, for the
sake OF the beasts, and still more for the
sake OF the pleasure Of the good people who
come to sec them.
"Now, the latter, imagine, is a primary
consideration with the authorities Of the
100 II is certainly mine, as one Of these
good people. go there to enjoy myself.
ana these authorities are anxious for me TO
ENJOY myself by seeing all the wild Great
ures they have gathered together and pre-
serve with deal Of trouble and cxpcnsc.
ms seems new truism Is it? How
many companies, committees, corporations
oHcially recognized or otherwise, are there
~ inc world which deal in wild birds and
ahimaiH, dead or alive, for other than an
Interior motive? The 100, thank God. has
"o'h'hg TO 40 with commerce. IT is an as
'0'i@''oh winch exists for the benefit Of the
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what Becomes Of the Red Mans Soul?
HNHE North American Indian docs
not find his way often these days
n INTO the headlines of the news

"HE North American Indian docs
not find his way often these days
n INTO the headlines of the news
papers. The one-timc monarch Of
a vast continent is becoming more aod
more each year Il creature of myth and
hazy romance. However, there still are
redskins, still redskin problems for the
white man to grapplc with
A short time ago representatives of
the New York State-as we'll as the
tedcral-government met at Syracuse
with 'white -collared and tweed suited
descendants" of the painted and fcath-
cred chiefs who pow-wowcd with Gov
ernor Peter Stuyvesant on the banks of
the Normanskill and concluded treaty.
The purpose Of the recent meeting in
Syracuse was q discussion Of wavs
whereby the ancient pact may now be
amended and brought into alignment
with modern law and court jurisdiction.
A paragraph from one news account of
the event paints an interesting and half
Wlstful picture:
"A score or moro Indians from all of the
SIX Nation tribes were present, but had no
voice IN the discussion They sat stolidy
by and listened to the palefacc speakers
discuss what should be done with them.
They heard statements that the treaty was
working we'll; that the state should keep its
hands off Indian affairs; and they heard
other speakers argue the treaty did not
work, and that new laws were neccssarv."
SO are the mighty fallen.
w. ID. H. Laurence, in the course of an
article on the work of j. Fenimore
Cooper, published in "Thc English Re
vlew,' meditates upon the passing of the
red race. He reminds his readers of
Franklin's equation in providential
mathematics:
Rum + Savage %
and calls it "a specous little eouation."
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700. birds freedom is its spectators joy
as we'll as its own, and the nearer the zoo
approaches to gratifying this nterreIation
of pleasure, without reducing itself TO i
logical absurdty, the moro cxpressively will
it be realizing its proper function. A bird
without flight and its natural green refuge
Is like a spider without its web and man
without friendship.
'Ihnk what could be done in the 700
simply by following this thread out of the
labyrinth of concrete and iron bars! If the
guls and the weaver birds can have their
tethcrs so heightened, how in reason and
poetry can the rest of tho birds be denied
like privilege? II the bears .ave their
Mapp'n terraces the beavers their dam,
what is to prevent the foxes agitating cas-
IN their forlornncss they verify do) for
their holes, and the monkeys for the vor-
durc of swaying boughs? There is no room
Well, then, make room,"
Mr.. Massngham outlines plans for
giving at least q comparative freedom to
th- inmates Of the ZOO cages There
might have to be fewer creatures. But.
he observes, "an antelope galoping over
the grass is worth ten in a barren pen"
But what of the ptores-eagles, hawks
and condors? Well
MIR. Hudson, in Birds in 4 VILLAGE de-
scribcs how he once heard a preacher de-
iNerlng a sermon on genius. The life Of
the ordinary person was that of the canary
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prefers stuffed carcass to the living in
tclllgence, the bittern, avocet, glossy ibis
peregrlne, bustard, furze-wren. rodwit.
enough, nutcracker, hoopoc. bearded til
golden oriole and many others are either
vanished or but occasional annual visitors
10 our shores, when they are instantly shot
law or no law. Other species, the king
fisher, oyster catcher, crossbill. rinp.ouseI
pied fiycatcher, bullfnch and others, have
become so rare that but few years hence
must see their extinction. If the zoo IN
conjunction, say, with the Birds Protection
Hoc'ely' could induce pairs of as many as
possible OF these species to breed in the
gardens as the greater black backed gulls
also rare, arc, believe, breedng), and then
turn them out into the larger London parks
and the few bird sanctuaries we possess
when their numbers were on the increase
we might make up some lccway in those gaps
which the oaiishncss and cupidty of a few
people, who certainly do not represent tn
iceilng OF the mass of the population have
made IN our English bird life. SO with the
exotic species and the smaller English
mammals, like the badger And. after all.
the zoo has begun to make tentative experi.
ments these lines.
es, 1t would ali be very expensive. Yet,
II VIC can spend six millions a CAV on our
wars, cannot we spare a widows mite tow
ard an end which would bring so much
happiness to man, bird and beast?
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brother Earwis spent large fortune in the
study of entomology They found that a
bug can be bought for as much as 5000
plcrsks fl.39l, maybe more. King Fitz-
baugh of RomanS was an ardent bibophilc
and possessed private library rivalling the
AleNandrian. He always had a book at his
elbow to hurl at the prime minister, and
stated that after much experiment he had
discovered Quartos, despite their bulk to be
vastly superior to duodecimos as projectilcs
The smaller books seemed to make no i'm
prcssion whatever upon the prime minister;
folios, he further noted, have no practical
valec except as fans. Oscar the Grown
Prince OF Munnhagcn, collected coins, and
his brother, Prince Otto Ferdinand, collected
more whiskoy than any other man in the
realm; Otto Ferdinand also kept a mcnageric
of blue famingos, and is said to have died
devoted to his hobby.
The Ways to spend money arc countless;
! have never had trouble in finding WAYS.
But the young monarch should spend his
money wisely.
". On BchoUior il, Public.
with the exception of the men who sweep
the streets, no persons are more before the
public eye than arc the royalty. princes
every word and move arc important in this
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public on the one hand and of tho creatures
in its care ON the other. 1t is therefore a
thoroughly decent concern, founded. if we
admit tho right to imprison wild animals at
all (Which some of Us do noO, on ire
proachabe principles.
"Thcrc arc three states of mind. it seems
to me, which affect one at the zoo-or.
rather, three degrees cf single state os
mind There is the middle or passive state,
OF which the pride of the eye is the sole
umpire. Tho eye keeps on telephoning Vlg-
orously to She other faculties of impress
SION, but those faculties arc bored and keep
the receiver ON. The unusual, the curious
animal life arc visited as spectacles, and
they arc nothing more The attitude is
detached; it is an art for arts sake atti-
tudc, and its physical manifestations arc a
cape or an cyc-opencr. Secondly, there is
active though secret dislike. do not enjoy
seeing an English magpc shut up in a cage
"'th cement floor and not one lot Of
grcenery fer this woodland child to rest
on, play with or look at. To soc a NANCY
English fox trotting to and fro before the
bars of its cage with that awful, mechani-
cal, dcspaIrlng motion which looks as if it
would go implacably till DEATH does not
entertain me in the least. Nor docs the
sight Of couple of lcopards in cage not
much moro than twice the size of their
length. On this visit | went into 'Thc
Small Birds Avary,' where scores of little
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IN Its cage But the life of the genius, be-
cause MS aspirations were so much loftier
than those of other minds, and the differ
encc between his ideal and reality CORE
spondlngly greater is a much sadder affair
"A cloud came over his rough hewn, ma
Jcstlc figure; he drew himself up and
swayed his body from side to side, and shook
his black gown, and lifted his arms, as their
plumed homologucs are lifted by some great
Bird and let them fall again two or three
times; and then said, in deep. measured
tones, which seemed 20 express rage and
despair But did you ever see the eagle
in his cage ."
People, have noticed. do not linrer bv
that row of cages. Perhaps the dcsolat.
lmmoblllty, the glance, at once contemptu-
Gus and solemn, remote, broo6lng, retro
apectlvc, of those stern eyes that once be-
held the world below them like a drifting
leaf, is too much for them. To the soui}ine
problem there is no solution except the
keys of the city of the air
ut seems to me that there is vet another
and perfectly legitimate province of the
zoos business. Preservation is its motive
as an institution. If it serves, that is to
say, as kind of medium for the introduc-
ton of suitable foreign birds into Britain.
and the repatriation Of the extinct native
species, what truly patriotic Office it
would perform without deviatng one jot
from the exercise of its proper functions,
hanks to the kind of pre- daceous taste that
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ity. II we destroy one pole, the other col
lapses, or becomes doubly responsible. The
tiger destroys deer. Il al dec arc de-
stroyed. the tiger collapses. Similarly, if
all tigers are destroyed deer viii collapse,
for then there is no equipoise to keep them
vivid in their being. Between the beast
prodative and the beast ruminativc is a
balance in polarity. and the destruction of
either pole is destruction of both in the
long run.
with humanity it is not quite so simple
When the White American destroys the Red
Indian, he either ultimately brings about
his destruction he takes upon HIM
self the responsibility for the continuing
and perfectng of the passioned soul of the
destroyed This is true of any creature
balanced either in true polarity Of love or
of cnmity. The Aztec lives unappoased and
destructive within the Mexican, the red
Indian lives unappcsscd and inwardly
destructive in the American.
at is presumablc, however, that at
length the soul of the dead red man Will be
at with the soul of the living white
man And then We shall have a new race
Meanwhile, the will is fixed in the white
man; he works his automatic conclusions
How different is the deep, unexprcssed
passion III the American from the auto
matte spiritual ego which he demonstrates
to the world, this is matter for the world
to discover later on
fenlmore Cooper very beautifully gives
the myth Of the atonement the communion
between the soul of the white man and the
soul of the Indian He also gives the fren-
zled, weary running on of the self deter
mined ego, the mechanical spiritual being
OF America. Here are two classes of books
the famous Misunderstanding series, and
what We Will call the Anglo o-American series
such as 'Homeward Bound Eve Effingham'
The Spy, The Pilot and others. stories
concerning white Americans only These last.
arc now almost forgotten. They are thin.
and boodess. But they are not by anv
means without point, for Cooper was pro-
found and clever man."
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ut Did You Ever See the Eagle in His Caee?'

ME unique quality which the COM
mon sparrow has and which the
great and gorgeous Gagged Great
ures IN the 700 do not share is cx-
pressed by the sparrow itself, through
'he mediumship of II. j. Massingham.
writing in "The New Statesman" II Is
quality without which life itself is
nothing worth and which, though these
humans who pretend not to look at mo
possess it no moro than they do re-
spends to the profoundest need Of the
human spirit am free" And the
writer, taking this for his theme
goes on:
lhe freedom aud gadncss of all nature
are not the luxury Of dreamers, but bor
elemental, universal law, which no created
'''0g' except that ambiguous being, infinite
!" capacity, in thought how like god etc
even knows now to violate No, the sent;-
''s"' 10 on the other foot--the comfortable
"iuSory sentiment that coddled captive in
cage is happy. He is unhappy because he
N'Soocdlcnt on compulson 10 law Of
''ie' Ia" that bids him exercise his facnl.
Ties In all their freedom and variety With
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=: A Handy Guide for Princes -:

served Of Louis the Eleventh, "He's a ycg,,lor
guy Prince Rupprecht of Loburia was
from earliest childhood a systematic excr-
cscr. Each morning ON rising he beat his
ralct dc -chambrc over the head with an UNI
brella for ten minutes. The prince lived
until they had to chloroform him, and is
known to have worn out siXty-njnc uolcts-
dc -chombrcs.
If such routine seems too strenuous, other
exercises may be substituted bomb dodging.
for example, or mixing cocktails for the grand
duke, shooting lap dogs, etc
H. On Getting Moncy:
Money, which is useful in case ones credit
becomes impaired, is gained in two ways
First, by taxing the people, and second. by
selling out to the grand duke
Ill. On Spcndiag More Moucy:
1t is essential to know how to spend ones
revenues judiciousy. Many kings have
ruined themselves by such cxtravagant
follies the establishment of libraries and
universities, which,. as every bucbood knows,
are breeders of democracy. Be economical
and confinc your generosity to YOURSELF
The cultivation Of hobby will prove an
endless source of pleasure and expense lud
wig, "Thc Mad King of Nourosia." and his
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arc not far to seek. They are no further
of than the coming SHOWS.
"Do we imagine that the Aztccs arc in
stalled within the souls Of the present Mex
lcans? And are the red men at home within
the breasts OF the Yankees Of oday? As
suredy the dead Indians have the place in
the souls of present day Americans, but
whether they arc at peace there is another
question. 1t is said that Americans begin
to show obvious Red Indian qualities But
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For, he argues, proceeding like that we
might add up the universe to nought ="
And continuing, Mr.. Laurence says:
Rum plus Savage may equal a dead say
age. But is a dead savage nought? Bullet
plus Yankee may equal a dead Yankee But
is a dead Yankee nought, oithcf?
"1he Aztec is gone, the red Indian, the
Esquimau, the Inca. the Patagonian and
whittier? on sont les Hci9cs doptoa3 They
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they show no signs of peace in themselves
at is plain that the American is not at
one with the red man whom he has. per
force' lodged in his own soul. 1t is a
dangerous thing to destroy any vital exist
cnce out Of life, for then the destroyer
becomes responsible, in his own living body,
for the destroyed Upon the destroyer de-
wolves the necessity of continuing the
nature and being of the destroyed. This is
an axiom. 1t follows from the law of polar
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every vice Of man-and conse-
ouentlv most of his expensive
luxurics. Booze gone, smokes gong
And after that? Well, almost anything
is. perhaps, conceivable. Never agar"
will virtuous writers have at tneir o''-
nosa1 material such as has IN the past
been available upon which to oaSe Il
TRADE against the extravaganza ol '''e
mere male. All of which has peeh SET
down really to introduce clipping at
hand from an issue of The balllhlore
Weekly Sum-" dated 1856. a contcm-
porary of the same era compliments Inc
Weekly Sun upon being "one OF the
hest papers published south OF Ma
son and Dixon's line and, comment
ine upon the observations about to be
quoted here, says that while it defends
the ladies against the accusation Of be-
inr more selfish and eXtravagant than
the men, it yet ''does not deny that
manv women arc needlessly eXtrava-
can't" But it contends emphatically
that "fewer are SO than IS generally
supposed" and then proceeds in the fol
lowing strain, which, the contemporary
advises, Expresses precisely what we
have often thought on the same subject:
"Yet the fault is not all on one side. If
ladies love choice laces gentlemen like fine
cigars From the day aborer. who will
have his beer and tobacco, up to the rich
citizen, who drinks costly wines or drives
fast trotters. self qualification is the rule
with men rather than the exception. Many
husband who swears when he receives his
wife's bill for gloves spends twice as much
on oysters for himself Billiards, suppers
and sporting excursions consume their pro
portion, at least, of the family income. In
justice TO woman, too, it must be admitted.
that, while her prodgality arises from the
desire to look loveler which is but the in
stinct of her sex, to render herself more
pleasing 10 man, the extravaganza of man,
on the other hand, springs generally from
a selfish desire to crafty his appetite or
pander to morbid love of excitement. At
most, vanity is more pardonabc than gut-
tony or drunkenness. Women squander
HhOHey oH SHON, Hlell waste II on VINE or
horses. We rarely hear the stronger Sex
dcnouncing the weaker as spendthrlfts
without saying to ourselves, take first the
beam from thine own eye
"To what do these words tend? Not to
increase recriminations between man and
wife, but to foster mutual forbearance and
selfdenial. We wish to impress on our
readers that there is no station, however
exalted, no condition, however poor, in
which one sex does not often CRAFTY its
vanity or appetite at the expense of the
other. Sometimes it is the wife who is
selfish and spends more than her share;
but quite as often it is the husband. Gus
tom however, has warranted the latter in
complaining of extravaganza, while the
same custom has closed the mouth of the
former, till half the world thinks woman
has no cause to complain at all. We JUS
tlfy neither. We say both, as general
rule, squander too much But we main
tam that if husbands, instead of swearing
at their wives bills, would show the ex-
ample of economy by reducing their own
selfish expenses, the female Sex would not
be long in being shamed into retrenchment.
Inc last wees man sees arc his own"
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BY Weare FIolbrook
FROM "The Pogon'

ONSlDERlNG how generally neg
E lected they are, it is remarkable
a that princes get as we'll as they
do; | trust that they will be better
cared for In the future. 1t is with high
resolve to give the young sovereign an equal
chance with the young window-trimmer that
the following sugges lions are offered:
l. On Keeping Fit:
Mortality among royalty is surprisingly
high. The continuous round of banouets, re-
ceptlons and hunting trips, combined with
the strain of wearing the crown and hered-
tary decorations, has dragged many mon
arch into an untimey mausoleum. But the
young heir-apparent need not be alarmed -
an almost indestructibe constitution NAV be
acquired through few minutes daily cXer-
else. On rising, drink dpperful of i'm
ported rum and take hot bath. This builds
up the system. When you feel the system
slipping down again, drink more rum but
do not take another bath. The matter Of
exercise is important-not its quantity or
violence so much as its regularity Be reg
ular Sir Francis Furunklc very apty OBJ