THE KING GROWS) HIS MAJESTY DOING "HIS BIT" IN THE WAR. -- His Is Attending to His Royal Duties With Tact and Wisdom. 'The following from the New York World, which has never been prone complimentary things about British royalty, is as significant a as it is interesting: While the British statesmen are making shreds and tatters of each other's reputation in their public quarrels, King George goes quietly on his way attending to the duties of his position, "playing the game" as far as he himself is concerned with great discretion and wisdom. His popu- larity with his subjects has wonder- fully increased accordingly, which is all the more remarkable because it was only in March, 1914, that the House of Commons witnessed an out- burst against the sovereign, led by the Radical and Labor members, which had not been known there for nearly a century. It was at the time of the Ulster crisis. Had to Coax Kitchener. When the war began he kept him- self in the background except for or- namental occasions, not having the constitutional privilege of his cousin, Williarn IL, of being the leader of the army in any sense of the word. It was only after much tactful persua- sion that he obtained permission from Lord Kitchener for the Prince of Wales to remain at the front perman- -Men of One of the Best Russian Infantry Regiments. This photograph shows the crack Russian Fonogorijski Regiment, which +has been doing heroic work in the fighting around Warsaw. ture gives an excellent idea of the type of men that compose the best of the Russian infantry battalions. The pic- ently. The King himself has been with the troops for only a short visit of a few days last fall. He has re- cently returned from a visit to Ad- miral Jellicoe and the navy. But not a day passes that he is not engaged upon his humane labors for the soldiers, and these are, after all,| with the expeditionary force in Flan- of no mean importance in arousing! ders sends the following graphic de- loyalty, patriotism and enthusiasm for, scriptions of life in the trenches: the war. The people have also _be- 'This trench warfare is so utterly come acquainted with their King | unprecedented that one often searches through his daily intercourse in a the mind in vain for some suitable way which before the war would have! parallel which will make people real- seemed hardly feasible, since it has) ize what it means to have to live for m¢éant the remova! of many artificial | days, sometimes for weeks on end in barriers. But King George's kindly, a narrow ditch. simple nature has stood the test and; "I was in some trenches the other the warm sympathy he has shown for, day. We were having tea round a the soldiers has become an asset for, table in a dug-out. The German the Government. | trenches were very close, and if you ; ad a fancy to finish with life all you Aid for Wounded. ad to do was to poke your head or The royal estate in' Scotiand at/an instant above the sandbags of the Balmoral has been in use asa. con-| parapet. valescent home for wounded officers; "On the German side an officer had for many months, while Windsor | tried to do this that morning. Five Castle and Buckingham Palace are minutes afterwards three men with a the centre of numerous arrange-_ stretcher had taken the body away. ments, charitable in their nature, for! "Men who live lik€"this, almost en the benefit of the soldiers. Begin- tete-a-tete with the Germans, positive- ning carly in June, the King, assisted. ly get to know their enemies by sight. by the Queen, began entertaining They give the snipers names, and one daily parties of convalescent soldiers hears of displays of frightfulness by at tea at Buckingham Palace, twenty, Karl and Fritz. One of our snipers, a men being invited for each oceasion, private, who had found himself an ad- many of them being allowed to bring mirable spot to operate from, was: along their nurses or their near rem-, quite an authority on the inmates of O'LEARY IS THEIR HERO. Six Germans to One Irishman is Irish Fighting Measure Now. A British correspondent at the front 13 tives. Tea is leid out in the gardens the trenches only a_ biscuit-throw with as much careful thought on the' away. It was he, incidentally, who part of His Majesty as if he were giv-' 'bagged' the German officer that ing a garden party to the court, and: morning. He regaled his mates with the men remain throughout the whole fabulous tales of 'old Germans with afternoon enjoying the sunshine and their long white beards,' who roam- fresh air and talking to the King.' ed about their trenches. For several weeks this hospitality has| "The other day I was in a position been supplemented by drives in the, which is less than 30 yards from the royal motors and carriages, as King German trenches, where the few- men George has ordered that the royal holding the place squat doubled up mews be devoted to this purpose as in a narrow trench with a stack of much as possible. Parties are made bombs at hand to repel an attack. I up every day. at the different London' sat down on the ground beside the hospitals, and Sir Charles Fitzwilliam,' Irishmen who were in that foul place! the Crown Equerry, and Capt. Ben.' and chatted with them. In a piece of | daw, superintendent of the mews, mirror stuck up on the parados send around motor brakes or carriages could see the German trench at a dis- a Caring for Crippled. to take the King's guests into the, tance considerably less than the width country. | of the Strand at its narrowest point. 'There's an Alleman that comes out o' ; that trinch one and agin,' they said The officials of the royal household, to me in hoarse whispers. 'Sure, and whose business it is to follow the, we often see him pattering about, a King's example, have been inviting gran' big fellow with great whiskers! the soldiers to their country places on him. 'Tis a pity not to shoot him. | for convalescence where hospital, We could get him every time.' I! treatment was not necessary. 'touched the mirror to move it. The' One of the most important charit-! next instant two bullets struck the able projects in which the King is in-' sandbags on the parados on either! terested is out at Roehampton, where side of the glass it a large residence, Roehampton House,! "The Germans 'do not realize that has been fitted up for the soldiers and the Irishman is first and last a sports-! sailors who have lost limbs in the, man to whom fair play is as the'! war. The old custom was to discharge' breath of life in his body. In the | such men from the hospital after the eyes of the Irish soldiers with*whom I| amnutation and send the artificial have talked out here, the German sol- | mh after them. Of course, not being dier, ravisher of women, slayer of | nerly fitted, they were generally! children, and torturer of prisoners, is! Sts and frequently were useless.' a foul and-unclean thing. Therefore ~ in the war an appeal was made not Roger Casement, but Mike! different method in treating O'Leary, is their hero; O'Leary not, » fortunate men, and the result so much for his splendid gallantry | een at Roehampton House, | generally speaking, but for the con- "ho mbless sailors and soldiers erete circumstances that he, an Irish- ~ be fitted by the most ex- man, alone and unaided, killed six! rs of artificial limbs. Fifty Germans. Henceforth six Germans to, 'ollars was granted from the one Irishman is the fighting measure * Wales Fund, the War Of- of the Irish troops. : Cros s and other organiz-| " Down the trinch here,' these Irish ug George and Queen soldiers said to me that day, 'you'll zerterously from their pri- find the grave of a' French woman They make frequent whom the Boches killed. There's an- men in the rounds which other under the bricks in. the farm mong the hospitals almost, there. The dead lie thick here; You can't 'put arpa to the earth without digging them up ~ im? | Hear Him? Giller. Ahead. Ob, how we drat . "You've got to be pretty smooth r rudent soul to get to the top nowadays. Yeo yew puts in "Yes, and you teat get smooth «is winter coal. on the top before you get there." EUROPE SWAMPED IN DEBT. Britain's Ability to Finance a De- structive War. England is now paying out daily fifteen million dollars, while the daily war expenditures of all Europe are sixteen times as great. Great Britain is spending the most money, with Ger- many second, Russia third and France fourth. One reason for Eng- land's heavier outlay is the greater pay she gives to her volunteer army of 3,000,000 men. In the other coun- tries the conscripted soldier receives practically no pay. The end of the first year of this greatest.of all wars shows that the banks of the four leading belligerents collectively have over $100,000,000 PERSONALIA. soi aici 1 Chatty Paragraphs About Famous | Folk of the Moment. The Queen has always held strong | views about exaggerated styles, and is | owing her good sense and taste by | holding aloof from the absurd short- | In the words of a fa-! skirt fashion. mous Court dressmaker, "Her Majes- | ty.dresses to look becomingly, and not | to endorse the whimsicalities of the | inventive designer. A reasonable claim to be a an one of the best-dressed men in British House of Commons could eo put forward on behalf of a member whois not very well known--Mr. Wil- liam MacGeagh Maccaw, Unionist, M. > ® more gold when the war began.) | P. for West Down, and.a great tra- e banks of France an peng a ia clothes, and | approximately $800,000,000 each of look very -and-span. the yellow metal, but both have nai slightly during the year, The B The reason why Mr. Hilaire Belloc, of Germany has gained $170,000, 000 who has been right about the war in gold since this time in 1914, but its most things, except in regard to total is still $200,000,000 below that shells, can speak so authoritatively | gafet The Bank | about the topographical features of of either France or Russia. of England gained $70,000,000 gold in 2 battlegrounds in the West, is that | the last twelve months. x years he made a practice of spend- | In discussing Britain's ability to ia his holidays in walks through the finance a destructive war, Sir George | country lanes of France and Belgium. | Paish, the ablest economist in Europe, enumerates some interesting f js First of all England owns twenty bil- Should see Lord Ancaster and ont % + 1 If one is i , one the | lions of foreign securities, of which Earl of Craven march, arm-in-arm, | only one-fortieth has been sold during from the Upper into the Lower House. the year. The nation has built 1,225,- 000 tons of new ships, exceeding by In the one case the suggestion is that | a Of an old-world country squire who) vast margin all the tonnage destroyed Might have stepped out of Dickens's by hostile fleets and submarines. In Pages; in the other case the sugges- normal years Englishmen invest hun- | tion is that of a Beau Brummel mod- dreds of millions in foreign stocks and bonds. At present the surplus is going into Government war loans. At the end of the present year Bri- tain's total debt will reach nine bil- lions. The other countries are ac- cumulating burdens which will be even more difficult for them to carry. For generations half the civilized ! world will still be struggling to liqui- date debts contracted to-day as the sequel of regal pride. ea TRADES THAT CURE. Recommended by Doctors on Hygienic Grounds. A great deal is written about trades that -kill--lead-poisoning in the pot- teries, "phossy-jaw" in the match factories, and so forth--but few peo- ple are aware that there are many rades which are medically recom- mended by the profession on hygienic grounds. Thus, men who lay asphalte in the streets rarely suffer from a day's ill- ness, while those employed in places where a large amount of electricity is generated enjoy a surprising abund- ance of vitality. Workers in salt-mines enjoy almost complete immunity from rheumatism. The healthiest occupation of all is said to be that in the petroleum works. Here the men never suffer from sore throats, diphtheria, quinsy, or kin- dred ailments. Indeed, petroleum fumes are so good for the fhroat, that it is quite common for sufferers from throat affections to "take 'the fumes," just as people "take the wa- ters" at Harrogate or Bath, England. A well-known tenor who was in danger of losing his voice once took on a job in one of the petroleum-refining rooms as an ordinary employee, with the result that he was soon able to resume his work on the concert plat- 'orm. Which reminds us that singing is excellent for consumption. Some- times it assists as a cure, but it is nearly always effective as a pre- ventive. ~ ' \ ernized The cravat exquisites in the British Parliament, of which Mr. "Lulu" Har- court and the Earl of Craven are the best known, include Lord Farquhar, who these sunny days has been evok- ing the admiration of all interested in such a-minor matter as neckwear by a sumptuous white silk cravat executed " ihre style. Mr. Harcourt and Craven, on the other hand, pre- on black. One's instinct is to picture an Am- bassador as a severe, official-looking man who is never seen in the street except in the orthodox tall hat and frock-coat. To meet the popular Ital- ian Ambassador in London, however, is to be disillusionized. He wears a bowler-hat, a lounge suit, and a black tie, carries a , silver-knobbed cane, and reinforces his sight with a monocle. There is a peculiar significance in Lord Robert Cecil going to the For- eign Office in a crisis like the present --he is the new Under-Secretary--for the Cecils have always had a penchant for diplomacy, and it may be remem- bered his father, the late Lord. Salis- when that statesman brought back "peace with honor." The Archbishop of 'Canterbury, who delivered such an impressive sermon at the Sheerness memorial service, is unequalled amongst living divines for his ability to deliver funeral orations. He uses the simplest of language, and obtains his effects by what is more a heart to heart talk than a piece of studied eloquence. Speaking extem- pore, he succeeds where a grandiose ant more ambitious sermon would ail. kl According to Professor Cole, fleas are very fond of music, particularly that of the trombone If a man falls into the water and splashes, ark will wait until he ing before trying to eat a a GERMANS IN RUSSIA. Why They Are Hated and Feared by | the Good-hearted Moujik. | The Russian peasant is good-heart- ed with the soul of a child. He bears all the repression of the Government as well as of the landlords and of- ficials with such patience that all the foreign students of Russian life were | astonished when they became familiar with the nature of the Russian "mou- | jik," says the London Times. His loy- ~|alty to authority is extreme, as we | can see particularly in regard to the | imperial edict suppressing vodka. But let even a private person or.even the Government try to touch land or to modify his traditional system of cultivating or administering it and he sees red." No law, ofan most radical Biexat2 of repression ean stop the ercuanere peasant in the fight for the integrity of his "mother nourish- earth." Laboring Russia lives by the earth; it is bread, existence, every- thing, and the laborer will die for its VICTORIA'S Geimmiveaten MAKES COURT LIFE GAY. --_-- Would Have Her Daughter Wed the ' Rumania does not know from da to day whether or not its Governmen Bucharest, its capital, making merry while it may and it is having a season of gayety outrivalling anything in its past experience. To call it the "pocket Paris" now would be a travesty upon the Paris of to< day, clad in mourning garments, som- bre and sad of countenance. The new Queen; formerly Princesa Marie of Edinburgh, the granddaugh- ter of the Russian Czar Alexander II and the English Queen Victoria, ha at last the chance to remodel the Bu charest court after her own ideas) which would make the capital as charming as Paris, as sumptuous ag Petrograd, as riotous as Monte Carlo, and as important to diplomacy and society as London. The most distinguished statesmen in Europe have given Bucharest al great deal of their attention during' the past year, playing the game for, Rumania's neutrality or for her par ticipation in the war upon one or on other side. Money has been sent in to the country from mysteriou sources and everybody seems to have plenty to spend upon the pleasures! of life. Dowager Queen en The Dowager Queen Elizabeth' (Carman Sylva) is living in strict re< tirement, and it is said that her health is far from satisfactory. For many, years she has been subject to a nerv< cus disease which increases with age( and her eyesight is weak. It is rumor ed that she is threatened with blind ness. She, of course, strongly disap+ proves of madcap gayeties at the pre- sent time The King, upon his throne for nine months and fully alive to the gravity of the problems his country has_ to solve, looks with disfavor upon this carnival of riotous living. Following the example of his uncle, the late King Charles, a Prussian officer and' a Hohenzollern prince, he has always sought\ to~-- e the soldiers lead a Spartan lite th sake of efficiency; and rte t this critical tima when Rumania's army may have the opportunity of rendering military ser- vices either to the allies or to the cen< tral powers so important as to de« mand almost any price in territory. Officers are Gay. y. Agricultural Russia hates Germany imore than commercial and intellect-' ual Russia does, and that hate has its historical "ground. Everybody' knows that the greatest part of the ;most fruitful districts of Russia be-| longed to the nobles for centuries, and the peasants, until the reign of Alexander II. were slaves of these ' nobles. In order to increase the in- ;come from the lands the landlords, |thanks to the German influence on S| Russia, mostly adopted the German method of agriculture, and for this purpose enormous numbers of Ger- man managers were appointed throughout Russia. They were given such powers that they could even punish the peasants with the knout. Thousands and thous- ands of Russian peasants were sent to Siberia or into the army in the days when the army was not yet conscript. Later these German managers gradually ruined their masters and became directly or indirectliy the pro- prietors of the best part of their pro- perty. Sometimes the pcasants re- volted, but they were powerless to de- fend their rights because the Govern- ment always supported the German owners or managers, even with the help of military forces at ne Thus the idea that "the Germans will possess the whole land of the peasants" has been deeply ingrained in the mind of the Russian landsman for centuries. If the Government had not defend- ed the German interests in Russia no single German landlord, manager or colonist would have remained alive in the Russian empire. That is a truth, and as a curious fact I can say that whereas a Jew is often welcom- ed in a village as a keen business man a German has always been ha So we can imagine what moral ef- fect must be produced among the Russian peasants when the - official news reached the numberless villages of Russia. "The: Germans are. marching to take our land, to violate our wives and daughters and to kill our old peo- fs | ple." (An-old man is the most re- spected person among the Russian peasants.) . ae Sure. He--What would you do if were adrift in an open boat without food? x She--Couldn't we get it to turtle and have soup? t turn Some of.the skyscrapers in } | York are so high that the top storeys ,are uninhabitable owing to their 'rocking movement, But the army officers, doubtless thinking to "make hay while the sun shines," are the gayest of the gay, , They make their first anpearance for the day. in the afternoon drive upon Chausee, where fashionable people crowd one another in.well-turned-out motor cars or in carriages drawn by magnificent big horses driven by Russian coachmen in long velvet coats of blue belted in by rainbow-hued sashes. The Queen's carriage or mo tor is frequently among them, any vacant seating space piled high witk white flowers, and for five o'clock tea at the Cafe Capsha, on the Gal. lea Victoria, or at the Athenee Palace Hotel, she mingles with her husband's subjects with the same democratic ins difference which she abrogated ta herself as a right when Crown Prin« cess in any and all cities of Europe, The army men, in bright-toned dress uniforms resplendent with gold braid, throng the promenade in the Gallea Victoria, clicking their spurs and dis- playing their ornamental swords, dividing the attention. of the ladies with the perfumed dandies who. send their linen to be laundered, and import London tailors to clothe their corset- ed figures at fabulous prices. The la- dies are profuse in their smiles and in the gett art of Parisian cosmetics --of a year ago, since Paris itself - has atitee later than that in her con- tributions to women of pleasure, while gowns and hats are as bizarre ri- ental Bucharest and about teh times as expensive as Paris in her heyday. Her Matrimonial Plans, een Marie's sympathies are be- lieved to centre. around the future of her children and the matrimonial al- liances she has been trying for sever- al years to arrange for her son, the Crown Prince, and her eldest daugh- ter, Princess Elizabeth. The latter she wants to marry to the Prince of Wales, and the mother's indignation has been intense that the English court did not think the Princess good enough for the match. Queen Mary's paternal grandmother was a little Polish girl, Countess Rredy, while Princess Elizabeth is descended from the Russian sovereigns as.well as the | English, and is besides quite the love- | liest Princess in Europe. | The suggested marriage of tha | Crown Prince of Rumania to the - ' Czar's eldest daughter, Grandduchess Olga, has been criticized in Russig also as a match not brilliant enougk 1 Pusuemmmveneecteeis "Wt Or The Cynic's View. "There's something in tuis world besides money." "Yep," said the cynic, "there's the rhouse." ew | | poor