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H nwuuummrmunmvnnmw‘wa‘» â€".< .s . ‘1‘? The crowning of our King brings us in touch with the past life of our country. In fact we may conâ€" sider the coronation ceremonies of England as a miniature of our history. We have seen that some of these cere- monies had their origin in those far back periods in which every believer in Revelation must accord “a divine right” to the Kings of Judea; others have that mythical significance which proclaims them to be connected with the anbient hero-worship. of pagan ancestors, while again other features at once bring us to that time when feudalism reigned, by perpetuating certain feudal rights and customs of which they form the only plume of white ostrich feathers; white all the cloth on which the King walks We veeeeeeeeee [:3] relics of Feudal Days 1’ Perpelnated in the order pendant from it. The star consists of three Imperial crowns of gold, surrounded by the motto on a circle”of red, with rays issuing from the silver centre, forming a star, and is embroid- ered on the left side of the upper gar- ment. THE INSTALLATION DRESS. The installation dress is a surcoat of white satin, a mantle of crimson satin, lined with white, tied at the neck with a cordon of crimson silk and gold, with igold tassels, and the star of the order 'embroidered on the left shoulder; a white silk hat adorned with a standing attainder of the last Earl, it was grant- the matter to me. and I accepted the ed eventually to Henry IV. while Duke responsibility. of Lancaster; since that period it has “ ‘NOW.’ said I to the mall Whose hog been prudently suffered to merge in the had eaten the melon. ‘you are clearly crown. liable for what your hog destroyed, and The Court of Claims takesllts origin I think ten cents would cover all the from the ancient prerogatives of the damage (101133 . Lord High Steward, who sat judicially “He thought this was reasonable and in the Whitehall of the King’s palace promptly handed the amount over to at Westminster to receive the applica- me. tions and decide upon the claims of all “A5 I Put the money in my POCket 1- those who held lands on the tenure of said: ‘S‘mihg that this is “9-ch the performing seine personal. service at the amount of my fee for acting as referee, coronation, I can see/ no need of gomg any furth- All these offices of which we have er" spoken require no recognition of the “The contestants stared blankly at Court of Claims for their exercise, but one ahOther for a moment and then Ohé those which: follow are to be substan- Of them said that he was mighty 50"? tiated before this tribunal at each suc- that the Other hog ate the melon before cessive coronation. ‘ I came along. To tell the truth, I'was ‘ . sorry myself, for, according to all ac- THE GRAND ALMONER. counts, that melon was a buster.” The hereditary Grand Almoner of Eng- land is an honor attached to the Barony â€"D of Redford. lts‘duties are to collect and ‘ FACT AND GUESSES° ldistribute certain monies at the corona- We used to sing the old time hymn, “I ltion from a silver dish, which the Al- “rould Not Live Alwayn; moner claims for his fee, together with [gs now, however, hard to die in this .progressivc day: distinct, remaining traces. game, again, leather boots, edged and heeled; spurs of in the procession from the door of the we long to see the outcome from the bring to our minds the great civil wars and wars between Prince and peoplc,I and are memorials of the triumphs of our Kings over the liberties of the people, while others show the noble and suc- cessful struggles of the people against the encroachment of the Crown. THE RECOGNITION. One very interesting ceremony with which the coronoration, strictly so-call- ed. begins, is an elective rite, in which some of the more direct terms of ap- peal to the people are now obsolete. Its title, “The Recognition,” is of modern date, being first given by Sandford in his description of this part of the cere- mony of James II-‘s coronation. After re- citing the coronation oath a writer of Queen Elizabeth’s time thus gives the sum of the English coronation :â€"“Thcn doth the Archibishop, turning about to the people, declare what the King hath promised and sworn, and by the mouth of a herald at arms asketh their consents; whether they- be content to submit them- selves unto this man as their King, or no, under the conditions proposed ; whereunto when they have yielded them- selves, then beginneth the Archbishop to put on him the regal ornaments.” . The remainder of this ceremony seems rather meaningless. The people are ad- dressed :â€"-“Ye that are come this day to do your homage, service and bounden duty, are ye willing to do the same?” A feudal “recognition” and feudal “hom- age” is not for the people, but the pre- lates and peers to perform; the cere- mony, however, establishes a fact which may be corroborated in all our histories. the undoubted right of the- people to interfere with and limit the succession of their Princes, on extraordinary oc- casions, while it is the peaceful and sound policy' of the constitution to keep as near to the hereditary line as the emergency of the times shall allow. The significance of a coronation is now vastly different from what - it was anciently, when it was regarded as a species of Parliamentary meeting be- tween the King and his subjects. Now, when England is a republic in all the essentials, with the added glory of a. crowned'head, the coronation is more a splendid recognition of that fact. The coronation oath has undergone some remarkable changes. 0n the ac- cession of William and Mary it was ad- ministered in such form that should be taken by all succeeding Sovereigns. Anciently the King knelt while receiv- ing the sacred unction from the prelate of the day, who sat in his, chair at the high altarâ€"a deference to the priesthood which the Kings of France retained to the criod of the Revolution, and which the ioman Pontifical expressly requires. Since the Reformation our Monarchs have also dispensed with “sprinkling the crown' with holy water” and “censing it” before it is made use of in these im- portant ceremonies. ' 'KNIGHTS OF THE BATH. But the most‘important ceremonies of the coronation, which the superior econ- May or superior intelligence of modern times has taught us to omit, are the special creation of Knights of the Bath on this occasion, and the progress of the Court from the Tower through London. The ancient and noble order in ques- tion was so far very appropriately con- nected with the assumption of a sovereignty partly feudal, as it formed one of the most splendid feudal dis- tinctions.’ It was conferred with great solemnity among the Franks and, Sax- ons long prior to the Conquest, at which period our first William 'is shown by Mr. Anstey to have been in the habit of bestowing it both in his Norman and. English dominions. The candidate for that honor was required to keep his vigils with great strictness, after a prev‘ ious ablution from which the name of the order is derived, and which were together “meant to indicate the moral purity required of' him, as the motto “Tria Juncta in Uno” implied a peculiar devotion to the honor of the Holy Trin- ity. . After the reign of Charles H. the or- der ceased to be active until the ac- cession of the House of Brunswick. ,The Princes of this august House, however, have not revived the custom of an ex- traordinary creation of Knights as a part of the coronation ceremonies. The badge of the order exhibits a happy specimen of the art of moulding old in. stitutionshto modern purposes. it con- sists of a rose, thistle and shamrock, is- suing from a sceptre surrounded by three imperial crowns, enclosed within the ancient motto, “Tria Juncta in U110.” Of pure gold, chased and pierced, it is worn by the King-elect pendant from a red riband across the right shoulder. The collar is also of gold, weighing thirty ounces. troy, and is composed of nine imperial crewns and eight roses, thistles and shamreekt; issuing from a sceptre, enamelled in proper colors, tied or liiiked together with seventeen gold knots, en- amelled white, and having the badge of crimson and gold; a sword in a white leather scabbard, with cross hilt of gold. Each Knight is allowed three squires, who must be gentlemen of blood bearing court armour, and who are entitled during life to all the privileges and exemptions enjoyed by the- es- quires of the Sovereign’s body or the gentlemen of the Privy Chamber. The other ancient and disused custom of a royal progress from the Tower to Westminster is a theme of admiration with several of our ancient chroniclcrs, and must have been a highly interesting and popular accompaniment of the royal pageant. The Monarch ordinarily dined at the Tower on the day after the cre- ation of the Knights of the Bath, and devoted the greater part of the day. af- ter dinner,to this prolonged exhibition of himself to the people. PLACING, THG CROWN. The assistant offices of the corona- tion are, for the far greater part, ec- clesiastical or hereditary. They are connected, therefore, with all the re- ligious changes and family honors of the empire. The nobility bear in person a part in the royal day, and. approach and actually touch that crown, from Whicll, as the fountain of honor, they seem to renew and reinvigorate their most anc- ient claims to distinction, while the Me- tropolitan of the English church enjoys the exclusive right of consecrating and crowning the Monarch. The Lord Great Chamberlain’s office commences with carrying the King his shirt on the morning of the coronation and assisting the Chamberlain of the household to dress his Majesty. Queens regnant depute this office to some" of the ladies of the household. We are told that the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough last enjoyed it at the cor- onation of Queen Anne. The office gives a claim to all the furniture of the royal chamber, in which its duties begin. The idea. of our ancestors was that the cor- onation, and particularly the conse- cration of a King, conferred new honors and talents of the most sacred and ex- traordinary description. He was now made a new man, and elevated into a new order of beings. Hence every part of his oflice was new and Kingly. The Lord Chamberlain is Official governor of the palace for the time being, and the principal personal attendant of the King. . The Lord High Constable also attends the royal person, assists at the reception of the regalia from the Dean and Chap- ter of Westminster, and, together with the Earl Marshal, ushers the Champion into the hall. THE ROYAL CHAMPION. Whether we consider its uninterrupt- ed exercise, and that by one family for so many centuries, its feudal import, or its splendid and imposing effect, the office of Champion certainly eclipses all the other services of the coronation. Since the coronation of Richard 11., A. l). 1377, this office has been performed by a Dymoke, the head of the family of that name, who have held the Manor of Scrivelsby, in Lincolnshire, worth about £1,200 per annum, by the tenure of this service. During the reigns of Edward II. and III. the right was in dispute; prior to that time and from the days of the Conqueror it was Vested in the far’famed family of Marmion, whose chief came from Normandy with William, and is there supposed to have held the first of these possessions on condition of performing the service of Champion to the successive Dukes. We all know that the feudal system was established in the strictest form in England at the Conquest. and the of- fice of the Royal Championship is the most perfect relic of that system known to modern times. . The Championship is connected also with a remarkable feature of ancient jurisprudence, the wager of battle, re- ccntly abolished. . This was regarded as an appeal to the judgment of God. For a powerful and accurate description of the wager of battle recall the memorable combat scene of Ivanhoe. v in a mandate of Edward III. it speaks of the tenure of the manor appertain- ing to the royal Champion as follows :â€" “That the Manor of Scrivclsby is holden by grand scrgeantry, to wit, by the ser- vice of finding, on the day of corona- tion, an armed Knight, who shall prove by his body, if need be, that the King is true and rightful heir to the kingdom. Anciently, the Champion rode with the royal procession from the hall to the Abbey, and proclaimed the challenge on his way, as well as at the feast. ’ The office of the Lord High Steward of England is now indicated by the temporary guardianship of S..Edward’s crown being committed to an officer bearing this title on the day of the cor- onation, and his honorable place of .walking immediately before the King in the procession. The Earls of Leicester once enjoyed this great dignity here- ditarily; through them it descended to .the De Montford family. until. on the . “a, “ ' ' whinging“... "v 'hall at Westminster to the Abbey 'Church. _ i The many great inventions coming from The Chief Butlership is traced by au- his skilful handâ€" thentle records into the hands 0f Wh‘ The telegraph, the telephone, Marconi’s liam de Albini, who came to England wireless feat With .Whhhm the Conqueror. and has Seem marvelous in action and very hard been exercised by some of the noblest to beat. families in the*country since. It is now “That will the future bring us? Will a hereditary right of the Duke of Nor- wondersmuuiply folk as Earl of Arundel and entities the Unhem-d of in the ages past by those possessor to the best gold cup and cover, who prophesy? ' with all the vessels and wine remain- Yes; ships on hidden rollers hung will ing under the bar, and all the pots and plough the briny sea; cups, except those of gold and silver, Beneath the waves, in Holland boat, which shall be in the wine cellar after you’re safe to drink your tea; dinner. Airships made from aluminum, upheld The Dapifer, or Sewer, the Grand by buoyant gas Carver, the Grand l’anniter, or Provider Made simply from the atmosphere of Bread, and the Royal Napier, are of- through which they swiftly pass; iices that have been abandoned. “ The The lightning’s flash, harnessed by man, Chief Cnpbearcr, however, has retained through instruments of skill, his office, and the possession of the Gives up its power submissively, to do Manor of Great Wimondley, in Hertford- its master’s will; _ ' . shire, is his reward. Electric cars, on guarded track, Will The Chief Lardiner is also ’still enâ€"' Shortly show their power titled to notice as having the care and By hauling trainS. 0n sehedlfle time. management of the royal larder, and be- three hundred miles an hour;_ ing duly careful of “the remainder of Medical art and surgeon’s skillare do beef, mutton, venison, kids, lard and ing each their part ' > other ilcsh,” which fall to his share of To stay the march of dread disease. or I:he feast. This office has been attach- mend ,3 Plerced heart; . M to the Manor of Scoulton, in Nor- Motor machines of complex make Will \‘olk, from the :teign of Henry ll. 9;“ into Your field , And cut and thresh and bag your grain, A SbAT NEAT THE CUPBOARD no matter what the yield; We should not omit to notice that brain of restless man, will soon come to the fore the Lord Mayor and citizens of London And gwe you flopr' miuie from your claim a snug “seat next the cupboard, wheat, while waiting . at your on the left side ofthe hall,” in virtue door- _ of their right to assist the Chief Butler And now we read 9f , chemlsts who in his duties at the coronation feast; thhm‘gh learhmgs ‘ Stress and or that his Lordship serves the Klan Strlfe after dinner with wine in a gold cupc,’ Am 9%rgg‘éi1‘1’gerfiefrethey ten “3: 0f hew‘ having the cup and its cover for a fee. - it is remarkable that the city claims And some them are Whose Study Is the mystery of stars a rioht to perform the same service , . and ate receive a, similar fee at the: Foretell the time not distant when ' ’ ‘ 11 Mars. coronation of our Queen.” The Mayor , _ well hold commune w1t Bailiifs and Commonalty of Oxford also, I flunk that I was born too 50011 130 claim to assist in the office of butlery, Witness that display' - - . . Perhaps it’s best to sing the hymn, “I glgpfézccqiy’gthc humbler'rcwaid of three “,ould Not Live Alwayl” ‘ _ (T BARONS OF THE CINQUE PORTS one. ffifginregfiniujfig cgfgsg‘este’ m These ports claim to furnish sixteen ° ' . , . Promoters are the men who get the supporteis of the royal canopy 1n the meme with the guesses following proportion :â€"l-lastings, 3; y __Samuel'M'Moore Dover, 2; Hithe, 2; Rye, 2; Sandwich, 4... ' ' 3; Runmcy, 2; Winchclsea, 2. In an ac- .. The Baliuy Days. count of the coronation of Richard I. The time that hints the coming leaf. the canopy is called “a silk umbraculum, borne on four lances,” but it is now scale: composed of cloth of gold, having a gilt silver bell at each of the'four corners, Are pungent Odors. keen as grief- which are supported by four staves of silver. The origin of this claim is in- Now shad bush wears a. robe of white, volved in so much antiquity that it And orchard hint a leafy screen; charter of Charles 11. speaks of “the time of the contrary being never re- green membered to have been.” Above the limpid waters bright. There is one other claim. that of the Lord of the Isle of Man, to present the New songsters come with every morn, King, with the interesting present of And- whip-poor-will is overdue, - two falcons on the day of his coronation. Hawks and falcons were favorite snb- Before her tardy leaves are born. jects of amusement, and valuable pres- ' ents in those days, when the country, The cowslip now with radiant face being much overrun with wood, all spe- Makes mimic sunshine in the shade, cies of the feathered race must have Anemone is not afraid, abounded. Although 'she trembles in her place. The Isle of Man was given in the reign of Henry 1V. to the N orthumbcr-‘ Now adder’s tongue new gilds the mould, land family. On the forfeiture of that . The ferns unroll their woolly coils, Earldom Sir John Stanleybecame pos- . ‘ .And honey bee bcgins her toils sesscd of it on the present tenure of Where maple trees their fringe unfold. presenting the Kings of England with ' - two falcons on the day of their corona- The gouging]. dons his summer coat, tion, and, although the sovereignty was . purchased from the Duke of Athol by _‘ And butterflies of hardy race the Crown during the reign of William In genial'..sunshine bask and float, lV., that family still holds its manorial . . T‘ , _ rights by. the P‘h‘fm‘m‘m'v'e hi this duW- The artistgnow is sketching in H ‘ . The outlines of ‘his broad design . So‘faSt ‘to' deepen line on line, ’ Till June and summer days begin.- . ‘j 2:1} THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON. “Solomon might have done better, but Soon will shadow pitch her tent I doubt it,” laughed the attorney at law. “I was out in the country the And all the wounds of life be healed other day 011 a matter of busmess. and- By orchard bloom and lilac scent. .while there my attention was attract- .â€".John Burroughs, in the May scrib. ed to a peculiar situation that existed ner’s. among three old farmers, which promis- ed to become serious, as they were â€"-â€"-â€"A all stubborn, not one of them being willing to admit that he was in the wrong.’ It was like this: One of them had lanted a hill of watermelons near the New York Tribune, who is to his 1118 and the Vine had ghth 0V01' be the special representative of the V A HEAVY RENTAL. upon his neighbor’s land, where it had American people at, King Edward's Went its energies in developing a Single coronation, has taken Brook House, hth meth' The, farmer Who had Park Lane, London, at a. ren'tal, it planted the seed doused it. but the man is said, of $20,000 for six weeks, inâ€" 11110n .Whose ground “had grown Shld’ cluding the use of the servants, that It belollged to 111111: There had plate, linen, and everything Com_ been some line fence trouble between plete. This is just the sum that was them for years, and the melon episode paid by Sir Edward Thornton, the only increased the bitter feeling. The British Ambassador at St“ Peters_ old man who owned the land where the burg, for‘ the six_weeks: use of a melon was threatened to sue his neigh- mansion in MOSCOW at we co,.01n_ bor for, trespass if he picked it, and the tion of Alexander In. ‘ other "slwore that he would have the +____._ farmer arrested if he took the melon. Here matters rested till a hog belonging Mrs. FashiOnâ€""John ! I'm sure to another neighbor came along and ate there’s a burglar in the house. Mr. the melon. At this stage of the pro- F. (calmly)â€""I don’t wonder at it. c‘eedings the local minister stepped in He’s heard of the enormous price and tried to smooth the matter over. you gave for that last new bonnet He flnallv not them to acres to leave and he’s come after it 1”- W'hen buds are dropping chaff and And, wafted from the greening vale, While willows drop their veils of While spice-bush gold is coined anew The wild bee drones her mellow bass, Beneath the trees; ingr'ove and field, Mr. Whitelaw Reid, proprietor of UZAR BF Rille is HE IS TURIST, TELLS WHAT SHE SAW. Found the Czar a. Man of Force and. Ability, Devoid of Fear. And then Miss Kussncr gave me her keen, clear-visioned word port trait. of the Czar, writes Frank S. Arnett in Ainslcc’s Magazine. "He has the most beautiful eye imaginaâ€"‘ ble,‘and expressive of so much soull. He is all kindness and tenderness.’ yet, despite his lack of height... and slender and somewhat delicate 'v phy- sique, be impressed me as a. man of tremendous force and ability. He has a. nature all sunshine, and is Perfectly happy with his children, who were often with him in the tem- porary studio at the palace. He so loves his people that he simply can-l not believe that any of them Would harm him. He is positively with- out fear, appearing in the streets in his dorsky or his three-horscd troi< ka, unattended save by his coach man, who has been in the family for years. It is the same way inside the palace, Where he wanders about in the most informal way, the clatt ter of his spurs, which he always wears, being the only annokncement we had that he was entering the room. All that the papers have printed about iron-walled rooms and a. life of terror led by the Royal family is without one particle of truth. How can they print such things when they know nothing oi the real palace life, or else know that what they say is false? "All his life the Czar was educafr ed for kingship, and his personality seemed to me that of a born ruler of men, modest though he is, and even shy like the Empress. Even in the ordinary conversation that, accom- panied our sittings or the family gatherings "that sometimes took placc in the room where I painted, I gain- ed thc knowledge that the Czar has awarm- emotional nature, and a. vigâ€" orous intellect, that beneath his quiet exterior there is PASSION AND ENTHUSIASM. I think also, that I realized‘ that this beautiful Empress of blushes and downcast eyes, by her long rc« sidence in England with her grand- mother, Queen Victoriaâ€"she was. you know, a. lonely and motherless girl, being only six when- Princess Alice diedâ€"has been given a greater equality of feeling than would have been possible, perhaps, had she lived more in Germany. "Most of my work was done at the Winter Palace in St. Peters-burg, but on several occasions I was call< ed to sittings at Tsarkoe Seloe', the Royal summer residence sixteen miles outside the capital. Overwhelming as is its size, beautiful as are the chalets. scattered through its forest, splendid as are such rooms as the one floored with ebony inlaid with mother-of-pearl, it was none of these that interested me most, but the fact that here the 0231‘ and his bride spent their honeymoon. I-Icre prac- - tically alone, they passed almost all of the first winter, receiving abso« lutely no one except ministers of state, and these only men upon im- portant business, the Czarina. disâ€" spensing much of the time even with the attendance of her lady-i11â€"wait~ ing. “When I was about to leave Rus- ' sia, the Empress cordially pressed me to return the following year; and so I should have done had I not had that ungovernablc impulse to go to South Africa and paint Cecil Rhodes, the photographs of whose powerful head had an irresistible fascination for me, and who turned out to be as a. sitter, or, the worst of alllâ€"like a caged lion in my stu- dio. Yet his only unfavorable comâ€" ment on the portrait was the someâ€" what pathetic query: ‘Can’t you make me look a little kinder?’ “The Royal family of Russia had made me so welcome that I felt in~ expressiny sad at parting. More than that, it had been delightful to find them inbued with such a true APPRECIATION OF ART. Re; catedly they shoWed me that they felt that artists are few, and that great artists are geniuses. This they have been taught from birth, and their love for the beautiful is natural, surrounded as they have been from childhood with great mas- terpieces. Then, too, it is an inspir- ation to be with them, for they do everything so well and with all their hearts. They seem to realize that if it is not worth doing that way, it is not worth (icing at all and they just don’t. _ . “Royalty is not formidable. It is very human. It is, of course, above all, absolutely wellâ€"bred, and, hence, is charming and lovable in its home life. It never disappoints an artist in appointment. All have their offâ€" days, you may be sure, like the rest of us poor mortalsâ€"tired, headachy, and all that; but there is never one word of complaint, far less any in- dication of neglecting the sitting. How different is this from the ordin- ary woman of society, with whom the slightest indisposition or fatigue is sufficient excuse for a broken on- gagement. I really feel that the life of monarchs like those of Russia is one long, generous and kindly -sclf- sacrifice; but it must. sometimes bl heartâ€"breaking to live up to the law of noblcssc oblige." m~j--+“-‘m Spokesâ€"“The bicycle is a great moral factor. It keeps women from gossiping about their neighbors.’ Ne;ulsâ€"â€"“Ugh ! As far as I can see it helps them to run people devil more than ever." 3{-"_,Nn"‘.‘ -' H .<. c . ‘22; u «fi-I‘r ; .-.. a... v .5, .N/r ‘JWO‘J-v‘lsl .‘r‘ra -4-‘ '- ‘3»on .. K‘ 'v“ 1‘. I‘ ‘. c. u; ‘7‘ QC ' 74*" «N39, :4 3w . saw a, q. â€">~ «‘5‘ .13ty.3:s’.‘~si€ .j, .2 ,V, 1 .‘V p.1- 1 lg.