Daily British Whig (1850), 2 Mar 1915, p. 6

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' PAGESIX rh DAILY BRITISH WHIG, TUESDAY, MAROH 2, 1015. -------- PROF. LANDS LECTURE BEFORE THE PHILOSOPHICAL CLUB OF QUEEN'S On "French Culture," Which Tends To Promote Sociability And the Cult of Everything That Is Gooa And True. Prof. J. M Lapos' lecture on "French Culture," before the Philo wophiecal Soetety of Queen's, on Mon day afternoon, drew a large audiences of students and townspeople e lecturer, in his miroductory re marks, charged the Germans with distorting the French and purport of culture. For nearly half a century the Germans have heen envied, worshipped, imitated in their conduct of cducational, military dnd : wivie affairs, sometimes wisely, but often to the moral loss and detriment of those who followed their. teach ing: Poor France, in the meanwhile, wondered if she had not bees trudg ing along the wrong path, and was afraid, defeated and, bleeding as she was, to lift her voice and speak of her truly ancient civilization, rich literature, . philosophy, sociability aad art. Prol. Ta 1 spelling nos said he had never thought of a cultwre which could be termed "French," unless it meant culture modified by French ' chdrac- ter. Culture in France has received its stimulus, jt a greatér or lees de gree, according te the periods reach ed dn its advance, from religion, the sociable instinct of the race, art and literature (Renaissance), philosophy (revolutionary period), and the mo dern eclectic oetrine of art for art's sake. French culture, if it has some thing peculiar to itself, must be studied in connection with the fol. lowing qualities of the people : 1. The social instinct? which France has incarnated with unbroken continuity from the first. 2. Their moral instinct, which 'does not exactly mean, as in English, right feeling, right thinking, and right doing, - but honor, reason, and a regard for posterity's opinion, quite independent of religion and the idea of God, 3. Their intelligence, a quality the French worship above all others, and respect whether ' embotlied in books, science, or ard, make the aim of their whole educational system, and honour in men who distinguish them- selves in these lines of effort. The press, the pulpit, the bar, the pro- fessor's chair receive equal, applause and appreciation with clever books and masterpieces of statuary or painting, 'if they display the same sentimentality. © The French ming s allected by. intellectual means rather amount of intelliegence, 4. Good sense and contempt than by 'emotional ones, apt to lack dignity, balance, The "ly off the handle" Frenchman is not real: Frenchman, he is not, certainly, a cultures re presentative of the soil. The reason France excels in comedy, comic apera, mathetvatios, plastic art, ete., rath. er than in symphony and drama, in that her Ego is not fervid enough. | She is too human, to quick to act, speak, and leave the folds of her | soul far the outer world. i 5. Manners, which they have cul- tivated for many centuries, and turn- ed into a temperament ,and racial tradition. No man can lay claim to | eulture and properly so, from the French standpoint, if he is lacking ih manners, 6. The art instinct which cares more for the true than even for the beautiful. France, with her centuries of cul-} ture knows nothing of Germany's! feeble, hesitating, blundering appli-! cation of modern ideas to life, and evént art. Moreover, Friitice never, at any period of her existence, cut herself off from the world to spend! her days and nights, like the Brah- mins and the German's gazing at her unbilical region, but always eagerly received at the best (he world had to give and gave at her best. She always loved, or never decply hated her neighbors, and prized their good will more than vie-| tory over them. Unlike German "kultur," "which | has been described as an intellectual in-breeding, fostered 14° am atmos! phere of superheated Ego. and uns! reality, French culture tends to pro- mote qualities of soclability equip- oise, and the cult of everything that] wy mand true. 1 © "To defend those ideals, the Tecs| "turer; in his perortation, | pictured' millions of Frenchmen to-day, maim- | ed, fighting and dying in Flanders, Champagne, Alsace-Lorraine, and on the seas; millions of Fronchwomen bidding the men to save this herit- age of past gengrations for the bene- | fit of their children--bidding them to fight and win, the SUPVIN OTS IAS the bodies o! fight, win, snd live. France hoped, EpRiTiy Jor which are propriety and erushed with heroes: to the friends of to enjoy the spectacle' land of France instead of gloomy. Germany, reward her by their ad- "miration. and aller soi many years of neglect and oblivion, | "and perhaps ask her »for an in Aatpretation of her truly human cul- i . Scott, in moving a vote of! Bis fue e to p! ¥ France in the civilization of the world and the exposition of her fem those lines. i 3 lecture conclades the series special papers recd before the Society, this year. i Jest the souls of | self Condensed Items By Telegraphic and From Exchanges A pew engineering company been authorized, for Toronte. Elections in fen cities of Maine on Monday resulted in the choice of seven republicans and three demo- crats as mayors. Joseph Oliver dent of the hibition, PITH op TUE NEWS j N MILITARY CIRCLES OTTAWA OFFICERS ARE PLEASED AT ORDER. NOT has Pel mitting Men Who Can Ride to Transfer From Third Contingent Units To the Artillery at Kingston. was re-elected Canadian National Fx Toronto, at the inaugural meeting of the directors. Dr. Warnock, liberal M.P. Leod, may go to the front. He has ofiered his services to the imperial government ' for the veterinary corps. T. Herbert Lennox, K.C., M.P.P., will be chairman of the public ac counts' committees of the Ontario leg islature if he will accept the posi- tion. Alfred J. McGee, secretary-treas- urer of the Timiskaming and North ern Ontario Railway Commission, died of pneumonia in Toronto on Monday. The war office has accepted the of- fer of the medical faculty of the University. of Toronto to furnish ana equip a 1,040 bed hospital for uce in the war. Major Godfrey left Toronto Ottawa to take charge of the Battalion, Mounted Rifles He was presented with a purse of gold be fore leaving. : Grant Watson, former secretary of the British legation in Brussels, is a prisoner in Germany He is amon the civil prisoners who will be ox- chdanged with Germany this week. LIKE THAT Of ITALY Within two or three days, the Sta Regiment, C.M.R., will receive or- ders to mobilize: The nine who went to Ottawa on Monday were to join thirty more and go overseas immeédi- ately, but this order has been can celled and they will wait in tha capital until the remainder of th: squadrons are mobilized. press The Ottawa Free Press says: Although they refused to make any comment, officers of the 38th Royal Ottawa Regiment and the 8th Cang- dian Mounted Rifles are not pleased with the divisional orders permitting men in these corps to transfer to the ranks of the artillery, which branch is pow recruiting. 1t is announced that the divisional order for Kinston says that any good men Who can ride, and prefer to join the artillery and are already recruited in the 8th C. M. R. or 38th Régiment C. E. F., are authorized to transfer to the artillery at Kings- ton. . According to. . artillery officers there were many men who waited around anxious to join that branch of the service, but gave up hope and enlisted with the other corps when it became apparent it would be some time before the battery started to enroll men. fhe order provides that these men may now join the branch they prefer. for Me for = ---- Private A. E. Pipe, of the 21st Bat- talion, met with an accident last Monday evening while present at the presentation ot the colors. He was accidently pushed dewn the stairs in the Armouries fracturing his leg. He is in the general hospital Hastings County Produces That Nay, Being Used at Govern- ment House. Toronto, March 2--A fine white marble that is gradually taking the The cavalry has been undergoing place of white marble used for in- constant 'hard work and is now in terior purposes that has hitherto splendid condition for active service. been imported from Italy is being Ajthough nothing has been given quarried at Bancroft, Hastings coun. ,u¢ officially, it is likely that the two ty, and being placed on the Cana- squadrons will be used in Egvpt as dian market. This marble is 6f a! on the French frontier practically very fine quality, and along with no cavalry can be used. some seven or eight other varities of marble brought from the quarrie, $s at present being used in the in- terior finishings of the new Governs Official notice has been received to recruit immediately the 25th and 26th Batteries for the 7th Brigade, ment House. The quarry was open- QE. F., Col. G. H. Ogilvie has sub- ed up some five years agd, but it i8 mired a Hst of officers for the bat- only within the last year that the tery to headquarters to be approv- white marble, so closely resembling eq [ach of the two batteries will the imported Italian variety, has pe in command of a major, a captain been taken out. Modern quarrying anq two subalterns, and the Ammu- machinery is installed in the Holdge nition Column, which will be station- property, which embraces some 1. a4 at Ottawa will be in coni- 000 acres, and it is intended to de: mand of a captain and three velop electrical energy from the wa- gyupalterns. No trouble is ex- cerpower on the property to 'be &p- pected in securing men for these pitied in the quarrying operations. batteries, as the call for the perman- eat R.C.H.A. battery in which the men have only one chance. in three of going overseas, was answered by 250 applications. . Only fifty of the 150 men will be sent overseas. LONDON'S REGIMENT, Famous Cockneys Have Responded te the Call to Arms. In reviewing recently, and. joining Orders have been received at ---for he hopes to be one of the first headquarters to continue recruiting to appear in the new uniform of the for infantry purposes, although no corps, the City Volunteers, which more cavalry is wanted. The two form a unit of the National Guard-- battlions for the third contingent, Sir Charles Johnston, Lord Mayor of the 38th and 39th, are up to London, was following a very ancient - strength, and it is likely that at precedent, least one more battalion will be es- In the days of Henry VIIL, when tablished. In some places the re- Britains shores were threatened by cruits have been coming in at the the French, the Lord Mayor and Ald- rate of thirty or forty a day to a ermen took a cencus of the number regiment, and it is felt that as mea of men in the city between the ages are urgently needed it would be bad of twenty-one and tixty who were poliéy to refuse to accept them. capable of bearine arms, and it is 3 -- rather amusing to read, in the quaint Pte. W. Carruthers, No. 4 com- phraseology of the time, that the pany. 21st Battalion, was in such a Corporation decided that '"'only able hurry to get to the front fhat he de- persons who had white harness With sorted from tho battalion and paid white coats, bows and arrows, hal- pig own fare to England. He berds, bills, or pole axes, and none aprested when he fried to enlist in others, should appear, except such as another regiment, and will be held! bear Moorisa pike: or hand gonnes, until the 21st Battalion reaches Eng- and white coats and caps with feath- jand. He was arrested when he ers, and white hose, cleanly shod. tried to enlist in another: regiment, With fifers and minstrels." and will be held until the 21st Bat- Apparently, however, the old Lon- talion reaches England. Eyery man don Volunteers made a brave show, in the battalion is very anxious to for we read that it wae a grand thing. get overseas, but this is the first {o behold them marching: through man who had adopted such a radical the streets of London with pikes, course. archers, and billmen, thirteen pieces of light ordnance, carried on carts, with powder and stone, leading the way to Westminster, whete they were ultimately reviewed by "Bluff King Hal." This was in 1539, and was the first royal review of the City of Lon-' don Volunteers, although Edward HE, in the ™ -- The 21st Battalion was to have continued on Tuesday the field work of Monday, néar Glenburnie, Hut the order was cancelied. Bate have been taken on fourteenth century, n= * h-of_the S)et Battalion. andl o Despite NORVY am 5 hives eo Strengt --the- V "running the waterway and Keeping Nisteg ht QVEry WAN Iw the eHy Beit open for traffic, the scheme has LR. Davies has been taken on should spend = ing with bow and arrow and learn to hugio and. Shoat, Furthermate, Edward III. in- sisted that capable men should thus, io eq to all 'overseas volunteers. employ their time instead of playing The discs ond about an inch in dia- games, and issued his famous_pro- ore and on them clamation forbidding, on pain of im- Jel. any man applying Jims 11 "to. the throwing of stones, wood, iron, handball, football, bandy-bal, cock-fighting, or other suchlike vain plays which had no profit in them." It is a curious fact that He VIII, who, whatever b alts a capable soldier, and founded Artiffery Company, which, from i days; was of invaluable vice to the kingdom as an officers'. Identification discs will soon be regimental number, name, unit and hurch. x : On Wednesday night, the 'brass | a concert to be other branches the men. Uniform is gradually. LW. Bo LS, sec tia ¥.M.CA., is in ness. ? aa was | ar stamped the by Hand of the 21st Battalion will give } the men. On Thursday lan address to the soldiers, and the tg | Choir of Princess Street Church wii! The R.C.H.A. depot battery is be- and har- -advanced to es of the work. QMS, Inst. Brown is instructing being issued £y ot the mi: -on_busi- aA i y ' PERCY SCOTT'S SHARE. He Made Marksmanship Chief Sport of British Navy. The great naval vietory of Sunday, Jan. 24, when one of Germany's fin- est battleships, the Blucher, was sunk, and two other battle-cruisers damaged, was due not only to the | superior guns, but also to the super- ior marksmanship of gunners, ; When the war broke out, and for some considerable time before, heavy, gun shooting was the sport par ex- cellence of the mavy, both '"'Gun-lay- ers' Test" and "Rattle Practice" ere- ating an astounding amount 'of en- thusiasm and emulation -- and also betting!---and Sir Percy Scott is the man, above all others, who 'was re- sponsible for it. Twelve years ago, gunnery was a dead letter, and target practice a 'nuisance. On Feb 2nd, 1902, Capt. Percy Scott, C.B., delivered a lecture at the United Ser- vic Institution of Hong Kong, on "The Fighting Efficiency of a Fleet which is Dependent on the Straight Shooting of the Guns." Out of that 'lecture arose a host of questions from the officers present, and one was in connection with creating interest and the need of competition. Captain Scott replied: "You relied entirely on | competition in the past; in Malta har- bor you never did the weekly sail drill without one er two men being killed in their anxiéty to be first ship in the fleet--that same spirit still lives. I only want to introduce' it in- to gunnery; we ought to make use of += the national vice, namely, "sport," and to create the same ambition among our officers and men in shoot- ing as existed in sail drill." { Weil, he certainly saw his ideal come to fruition before he retired, but it was not without a eonsiderable amount of unpleasantness. When, in February, 1905, he was appointed to the newly created post of In- structor of Target Practice, he found himself faced with a dead weight of opposition and indifference, but so vigorously did he prosecute his of- fice that he received the sobriquet of { "The cursed Sport," which he took quite smilingly, aad at last bad the | satisfaction of seeing the whole ser- vice as keenly enthusiastic over good shooting as he was himself. Now he has been recalled from the Retired pList to lend a hand with the present war. Barrie In the Chair. There is only one recorded Ine stance of Sir J. M. Barrie's acting as chairman of a publi nfeeting. It was on the occasion of a Burns cele- bration. Barrie took the chair as presiding officer, and them kept to it firmly. | Throughout the entire proceedings he | did not utter a single word, but re- | mained as if glued. to the horribly | conspicuous chaif,. loathing his pre- | dicament, the expressions on the faces of all about him, which made dismally clear the fact that he was a failure as a presiding officer. | ~ When thé meeting was almost half | finished, Barrie tobk advantage of a | talkative group in: front of him, and i quietly stole away before anyone had a chance to miss him. But the next week a well-known Saturday re | view printed a satirical article call- ed "Mr. Barrie in the Chair." The thing was simply withering in its ironical account of the dumb presid- ing officer who eventually fled, leav- ing a meeting to preside over itself. The greatest regret was naturally expressed by those who had persuad- ed Barrie to come to the Burns cele bration, and among his tre- | mendous indignation was felt and | vented. But some day they will | know, if they have not already found out, that the article was written by | Barrie himself! i Marvels of Sues Canal. Since 1596 something like £2,000,- | 000 bas been expended upon the wid- ening and improvement of the Suez j Canal. When first opened the chan- i nel had a uniform depth of 25 feet. It is now 31 feet deep, 108 feet wide at the bottom, and 420 feet at the 'water level. It is still being deepen- {ed and widened. Quite apart from | this work, says a writer in the Lon- | dom Magazine, a whole fleet of dredg- | ers are continually engaged on mere- | i ly keeping the channel 'free from {cand We get some idea of the | magnitude of this task when it is | stated that last year over 2,000,000 | cuble yards of material were taken Pte. A. G. Donaldson and A. J. gut of the canal by these dredgers. the, -- "thé heavy cost entailed tn and low=--rich and ke wh "Tpush and ¢rowd for more than th | almost from the first heen a | success, and Suez Cangl sharers are : much sought after. By the ! purchase, in 1875, for £3,976,5682 of i ihe 176502 £20 original shares held 3 em ---- _] Ee Ca Like most soldiers, the native pany with the Gurkhas, are with the allied forces the Britikh | but inwardly amuse at | i edive, the British Govern- i ment obtained joint control over the | IT ADDS VERY MUCH TO THE § COST OF LIVING. If We Had Bat Half As Much To Eat Of Good Plain Food We Would Be Well Fed. and In Better Health. The crying wants of the day are' largely, if not entirély, due to waste, | seeing that we waste as much food as We use, waste more of clothing than would make us comfortable and waste more of opportunity. than we! | improve. { Faets and figures are not nearly as convincing as experience, Were we! | to have a famine, or a financial panic, or if something should happen to cut us off from our supplies for a while, we should discover that we could get | along on mueh less than we now | think possible. Had we but half as much to eat as we think we must have, and it of the plainest, simplest sort, we would find! that we were well fed and in the en- | | Joyment of better health and with a, brighter prospect of life. We all agree that this is true, but We are not true enough to ourselves to.follow it. tis surprising how untrue we are' towards ourselves. And how prone we are, when it comes to paying the pen- alty, to blame it on Providence, or lay it to ili-1luck. ent sermon the Rev. Paul Dansingbfrg, a Unitarian, Kansas City, people the benefit of his earch anent poverty. He ve facts that are familiar to! ies, presented them in such man- ner as to make them impressive. There seems to be a demand for| just such Preaching, seeing that we are all anxious to know how te $0 live that we enjoy life and its many blessings at the least possible cost. People hear very little of this sort of preaching, hence their lack of in-! | terest in their homes, their families, and in themselves. Were they taught { that it is up to them to make good in their homes and to their children! they would at least be more thought- ful as to their manner of living. i We worry a whole lot more over | life than is really necessary, Were, We to think more seriously on the problem, count the cost and estimate the profits of careful and right living! life would become a thing of joy. | Perhaps some econimist will rise in Canada and prepare a table of fig-| ures for our equntry the same as the! one given by the Kansas City minist-| er. It would prove interesting read- | ing on waste and want. We have a problem of unemployed with us and such a table would be of great value. | "We must face the forbidding fact | that fo-day nearly one-third of the) population in the United States faces! starvation," said Mr. Dansingburg,| {and then continued: ! "Our income as a nation is $20, 000,000,000 a year. Vice, erime, | idleness, insanity, imbecility cost us 1$1,000,000,000 a year. Alcoholism! | ¢0sts us another $1,000,000,000 anc | | falls most héavily upon those least| able to bear it. It imposes a tax of | $5 a year upon every family; it is al | part of our barbarous inheritance and | remains with us because so far we have failed to provide a satisfaction | to take its place. i "Every year there are 10,000 peo- | ple killed in this country by preven | table accident and 100,000 injured ir | {the same way. And when we concei- ve what it costs to rear a child intc manhood we can in some measure realize this loss through accident and injury. "Our loss through needless disease | amounts every year to $3,000,000, 1000. The fire losses in the United | States exceed those in any other coun | try and mount many years to $4,000 { 060,000. The waste through faulty bookkeeping and tax governmental administration totals a fifth of our | allotment for purposes of govern: | ment and equals a tax on each fam- !ily of $25 a year. To get our pro- { duct to market every year costs up- {ward of $1,000,000,000. To this i there must be added what we lose | through changing styles and fash- | lons--and the things we buy whieh | do us little or no good. A tenth of ev | ery dollar goes to placate the fetish | of our credit and instaliment system | Bttack, it is raised high in the air | "From our $20,000,000,000 of! yearly national income we lose | through leakage and waste about 1.$12,000,000,000, leaving us a balan- i ce to our need and use of $800,000, 1000. If we are going to blame any- | one for poverty, we must blame high | shore of what belongs to them: we! ! must blame all who cost society more | than they render in equivalent ser- | vices! i ! Kineton bos. | GREAT WASTE OF FOOD Parker's Special Prices | LITTLE PORK SAUSAGE ..... CLEVELAND PORK SAUSAGE ..... HOME-MADE SAUSAGE WESTERN BEEF, LAMB, MUTTON AND PORK A SPECIALTY STRICTLY FRESH EGGS. 35¢. DO PARKER BROS. 217 Princess St. IVORY PRODUCERS, Curious Facts About the African Elephants. y The main supply of ivory is de | rived from the African elephant, and not from his Indian or Asiatic breth- ren. There are numerous differences between the two--the African beast being the larger, a foot 'taller, hav ing bigger ears, a somewhat flatter head, and with four nails on each foot; whereas the Asiatic. elephant has four nails on each hind foot and five on his fore feet. It is the absence of tusks in the Asiatic elephant, or their partial de- velopment, which is the great differ ence. The tusks of the African ele- phant vary with the size or age of the animal. They have mo roots like the teeth of animals, "but fit firmly into what are called premaxillary sockets," and if we should examine this buried or hidden portion, we should find that it was partly hollow, so to speak, the fvory at the root being very thin and surrounding a pulp, where the ivory is being secreted. As the animal inefeases in years the hollow in the tusk is filled up with solid material, and "in extreme- ly old elephants it disappears entire- | | ly, and the tusk is solid ivory." The dentine, as in the matured | tusk, begins in a pulp cavity, which may be 10 inches or more long, im- bedded in the skull, and this is soft. Sometimes it happens that a ball has been fired at an elephant, which is imbedded in the softer portion of the tusk, and after a while is sur- rounded by the barder ivory. Such balls are sometimes found by ivory workers. The true teeth of the elephant | have a curious method of progres- sion, "moving gradually forward from behind In regular. succession; each old front tooth, as it is worn away, being pushed out of place. by its successor." The wear and tear ow the teeth of this animated grinding-mill must be {mmense---a large Indian elephant consuming 800 pounds of green fod- der in 18 hours, An English officer in charge of ele- phants belonging to the Government found that for years the avimals had been given 250 pounds of green fod- der, and had been starved, because, through ignorance, the Government had fixed the rate. The elephant uses his tusks for attack and defence, but principally, in a wild state, to overturn trees of small growth, so that he can feed on their branches. Sir Samuel Baker measured mimosa trees four feet six inches in circum- ference and 30 feet high, which eles phants h pulled down, and the damage tBey cause is almost ineredi- ble. These trees, however, have no deep root, and are comparatively easy to oyerthrow. It is the trunk of the elephant which is its most remarkable feature Cuvier estimated it as containing 40,000 muscles. It is both hand and nose. Though the trunk is so useful, it is a very temder and delicate organ, and is not used in the rough mannér "In making an out of the way. When/a great wel is lifted, it is not the trunk, but t tusks, which are employed, the form- er only holding the object upon the latter." There are many facts in regard to elephants which are novel to readers since both possess the power of stor ing water. an Ge "Hunters bave often been asion- : ished at seeing elephants, which they | have been chasing for some time, in- sert their trunks in their mouths, and there obtain a supply of water that is blown over their dry and heated body." : ow wa | whieh camel, | for | tower, which was ' Phone 1683, Opposite Opera House. { '- REGIMENTAL BADGES, "+ British Distinctions Laden With Sentimental Love. To the civilian wind i is perfectly {impessible to grasp the great senu- ! mental value which regiments attach {to their badges, mottoes, and even | buttons. . It may svem almost child- ish, but. the abolition even of the | smallest Gevice--one whick his been gained by some honorable deed of a regiment--might almost bring about a mutiny in that regiment. Every portion of a regimental badge has, of course, some meaning. i Take that of the famous Gordon Highlanders. The cross, of course, is the cross of St. Aadrew, the patron saint of Scotland. The sprinx was gained in recognition of valiant ser. ¥ice doné by the Second Battalion in Egypt, the royal tiger on aceount of nineteen years' hard fighting in In- dia by the First Battalion, "The stag of ten" rising from a coronet is the crest of the Marquis pf Huntly, for the Second Battalion was raised by George Marquis of Huntly, | afterward the fifth and last Duke of | Gordon, while the ivy is the floral | emblem of the clan Gordon. The this- tle wreath which appears on the bat- talion badge of course represent Scot. land. Tbe motto of the reglemnt is | the mottz of clan Gordon. viz., "By- dard," meaning "Watchful" The baage of the Gurkhas is mere- { Iv twd crosred kukris, the kukri be- img a sharp, heavy, curved knife, which is never out of a'Gurkhs's hand when in his own country, and is primarily used - for cutting tracks through "the dense forest of Nepal, but is also an extremely handy wea- : pon for chopping off the head of a ! bullpek, a goat, or even a man; The badge of the Connaught Rang- ers. is a more simple one. The harp, of - course, is the harp of Ireland, ! while the motte, "Quis Separabit," aliudes to the union. Tt will be no- ticed that from the seroll of the badge | & eprig of shamrock issues from each end, belag the national! floral badge l'of Ireland. The gollar badge of the regiment is an elephant, an honor ; gained for service in India. The famond Guard¥ regiments are distinguished from all other fegl- ments by each company having a badge of its own a addition to that i of the regiment, Thus the first com- | pany of the Coldstreams has a white , lion passant, a badge of Edward IV; | the second compay has the Prince of Wales' feathers, a badge of the black prince; the thiri company a spotted panther, the badge of Henry VI, and 80 on, but the actual regimental badge of one of the Coldstreamers is , Simply the Star of the Garter. | As ome would suppose, the badge (of the Welsh regiment deals with | Wales, and consists of the Prince of | Wales' feathers surmounting }:is mot- | to, "Ich Dien," while the regimental | motto is *"Gweli angau na Chywi- lydd," meaning "Death rather than dishonor." On the belt buckle is the Welsh dragon in gilt metal, Princess | Patricia's Regiment has adopted tip | beautiful marguerite as a fitilng | badge for the corps. 1 | | Guarding St. Paul's. Fire experts say that St. Panl's | Cathedral can now be regarded as | 'being as safd as it can be made. The | work of protecting the historic build- | Ing against fire has occupled between | two and three years, and has cost | upwards of $25,000. |. The scheme is twofold in charac- as Imporfant as that "ter." There Is thie preventiv 18 quite : dealing with an outbreak, and in {this direction all the woodwork i which it has been possible to remove has been removed and iron substi- | tuted. For instance, in the clock open, and into | which fire from a big building pear could easily have all the i { ! of a fire. A system of fire mains and : "been ins special apparatus "for forcing water With regard te the ever-changing: as evidenced by the long '| struggle between the. allies wn the , there is t t ays Buckingham Palace by ition of the troops Wd arm ly. ' Th this apartment kept locked; and, with the corri- 1 bh. are guarded night and of all war. installed, with Ma CS ------ IADR on Gf Src

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