The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1906, Page 4

NATIONAL GUARD BEING SHAKEN UP A SEVERELY FOR GOOD OF THE SERVICE STANDARD OF EFFICIENCY HIGH Weak Companies and Incompetent Officers to Be Ruthlessly Weeded Out and Day of Parade Soldiery Is Over. . n and m his r under rules War Department were before, but thos: t was for the . As a resuit in- tent commissioned Offic d s will be weeded out to such as are 8 by the true re when was “the protested knowledge red that mber re- more who ns rather before the been Guthrie 1 L. W. Jul- made a inspection will rapid-fire and un- ss they do | before the said be cited regimental of- v will be or how r work of ssigned cond In- to show reas at inspec- to Ave 1S ignorant ed the “electrical Major Thomas tired), inspector partment as well as for Lieutenant Jacob Second Infantry and fth Infan- g specially the first t and last named igade Second Lieu- has the added duty of the board of survey ed bein spector, e effect of the recent pparent in an in- ento. It spection and in the “military “too severe. , the commis- non-coms, who anybody had, the inspecting unanimousl al was a > men had up against, would govern been kno the it hotel where hey t ely d were t n being called to L faults of omission and commis- £ MAKES A BAD SHOWING. of Compan D of nspectior fantry, located at Marysville, J. Divver commanding, anding the strenuous ef- nmanding officer to mak: & disappointment to that the local papers an- d that “the inspecting officers disappointed and muster out may 7 rysville Appeal says tate that unless mor by the citizens of this it is not entir Department will accept the showing made Putting the whole thing it is that the property of t evening a nuts 1 the company if in much better condi- ast year, but the men have improved, &nd there was a decided numbers.” At the pre- ction of this company the e was 64.2 per cent an the or fon w report of last year standing sestionable. The s that ompany be inspected | egain in a short time, and if no im- proveme = found that it be discon- tinue d that the public property be headquarters.” In addition to the regular inspecting officers there were present Lieutenant | Colonel E. A. Forbes and Major Lon | Bond of the Second Infantry. The v one of the number ed at mpster, only 31 of the 31 the roll being present. In June fhe terms of fifteen members of the com- pany will expjre and it is said that not of th number will re-enlist, so will bring the company down to a mumber that will almest insure mustering out. Thé* inspecting “and officers, together with Mayor and Mayor-elect Hall and the hat its vieiting Eckert ofticers of the company, were.the guests lieutenant and Mrs. Brock at thélr me at a supper. CHICO COMPANY STANDS HIGH. In the reports that are to be present- any A, Second Infantry, located will stand high! It is certain per cent for arms and equipment, » high percentage on other points. The maneuvers exceptionally good, but the com- y was a Jittle at fault in the manual arms. The inspection -was in the presence of a wvery darge number of the citizens of the plece and vicinity, who braved the inclemency of the weather 10 see how the soldier boys would face the inspectors. The inspection was also witnesed by Colonel Seymour, commanding the Second Infantry, and Major Bond of the same organization.' At the close of the inspection Colonel Wilhelm ad- dressed the company-and complimented officers and men, after which the of- ficers and non-coms. went into Separate quarters to answer many questions af- feeting their knowledge of military tactics, company movements, of what to do in case of 2mergency and the like. “The regent inspection of the com- panies of the Second Brigade,” id Brigadier General John A. Koster, as had an effect that has never before been produced in the citizen soldiery of this State. It has given all the organizations & clear insight of what is expected of the National Guard of the State, not only « T | but will be a credit to the State.” | the State but by the War Depart- | ment, for if the latter should at any { time have occasion to call the Natlonal Guard Intd service it wants to have by men who may be relied upon, men who are proficient in the duties of soldiers, 10t men who wear ugiforms and who in case of need would have to go through a kindefgarten system of Imstruction be- fore belng assigned to practical duty. TO MAKE SOLDIERS. “It is just as easy for National Guards- men to acquire the knowledge that they ought to have as to learn the theoretical part of a soldier's duty. The intention is to make u goldier of every man in the if Uncle Sam at -any | brigade,. so that ime wants a company, a battallon,.a | regiment or a division ke will find a set | of men who will not only be ready to enter the service at a moment's notice, | ‘1t is' apparent that the intention is to make the guard an avalable force and that the days of the *“‘tin soldier” main- tained at the expense of the State are | | arawing to a close. Aside from the impediment in the mat- | | l.ter of evolutions on the fioor.of the {armory in cramento, odcasioned ® | by reason of the .men being un- able to hold their feet on the slippery waxed floor, Company E of the Second | | Infantry made a showing that any com- | pany may well feel proud of, and it is the impression of military men who were | oniockers that the company will receive high credit marks in the reports. | Troop B, Sacramento, at the inspection | the night of March 8, acting on the | gestion &f Brigadier General Koster, | su on the floor of the armory over- | the trouble experienced by Com- any E, Infantry. i Thé waxed floor was thoroughly | sprinkied and the result was that the good footing. The comp: creditable showing and f the organizations that “good” in the inspection men had made a very will 1 will show reports. one as TEUTENANT RESIGNS. Ralph J. Faneuf of Oakland has been elected first lMeutenant of Company G, Fifth Infantry, located in Alameda, to succeed George F. Schroder, who resigned immediately after the recent inspection, when he and other officers did not make | a satisfactory showing. The lleutenant- elect is a veteran of the Spanish-Ameri- can war. First Sergeant J. G. Pitts of Company | C, Fifth Infantry, located at Petaluma, | has been elected second lieutenant of the company. If he makes as good a com- missioned officer as he was a non-com. the company will be the gainer. Colusa is to haye a new armory for its company of la National Guard that | will surpass any in the State for inter- | al arrangements and appointments. It will be as large for a single company as is the Page-street armory in this city | for a whole regiment. 'This has been brought about by the business men of the | place, who realize that if men are to be made soldiers they must have quarters in which they can be properly instructed. Captain James W. Gillogly, ,command- | ing Company G, Fifth Infa located | at Alameda, has evidently piofited by the lessons of the inspection, for he has adopted a line of action By which he hopes to place his command in such a | position that in the future it will be | above adverse eriticism. The men of his | company are willing to be instructed and to carry out the instructions, but they | | need instruction from their officers and these officers need instruction from. the | superior officers of the regiment. | The range committee of Company D, | Fifth Infantry, has arranged a series of rifie matches for the season of '06.“Prac- tice will commence as soon as the com- | pany is advised of the amount of am- munition it will be allowed. Lieutenant | Johnson will have charge of the ranges | Quring_the practice shoots. | ELECTION AT HANFORD. W. H. Pape of Greenbrae has a device by which a twenty-two caliber shell can be used in a Krag-Jorgensen for indoor gallery practice. Cook W. H. Smith of Company D, Fifth Infantry, has been recommended for pro- motion to the position of corporal. Should it be decided to call off the an- nounced encampment in June for want of funds Company D of the Fifth will have a company camp for a week near Bolinas. There was an eleétion in Company I, Sixth Infantry, located at Hanford, iast weelk, at which Colonel George W. Stew- art presided. P. M. Norboe was elected captain, Owen H. Wynne first lieutenant and Jesse Buchanan second lieutenant. This company will be inspected March 24 and will be the last but one to be inspect- ed, the last being Company G at Bakers- field, two nights. after. After.the election | Colonel Stewart gave “the boys” a short talk and expressed the hope that the company may make a good showing at in- spection, after which Captain-elect Nor- boe expressed a determination to bring Company I back to the high standamd it | held a few years ago. He said that after | the inspection he will be in a position to know what the standard according to the War Department is, and that when he as- sumes command it will be his aim to make officers and men toe the mark. A new examining board for Sacramento and the Sixth Infantry has been ap- pointed. It is composed of Colonel Whitte- more, Colonel Guthrie and Major S. W. Kay. The experiences bf the past will make this board very careful in the exam- inations of such as shall appear before it in order to qualify for a commission. ACTIVITY AT FRESNO. Company F, Sixth Infantry, in conjunc- tion with Company C of the same regl- ment, both located in Fresno, were out March 9 on outpost duty under Major Ed- ward Jones for the purpose of carrying oMt movements which could not be demon- strated to advantage in the armories. For twe hours the companies guarded the city grammar school and went through ail maneuvers to guard it from attack. Yesterday Company F of the Sixth went into the woods thirty miles out of Fresno and there had a fleld day, with distance firing, skirmish firing, company drill, squad drill and a good deal more that soldfers ought to know. This company has been recruiting of late and expects many eligibles in a short time. The com- pany, somewhat envious of the handsome quarters that Company C has, will have its armory improved. Brigadier General Wankowski, com- | and regulations manding the First Brigade, becoming tired of the rows in Company F, Seventh Infantry, Los Angeles, and the trial by a court-martial of thirteen officers to ascertain if two non-coms had called each other names, has intimated that un- less a captain who will harmonize the warring factions In the company is se- lected there will be a recommendation that the company be mustered out of the service. There is some talk of inducing Frank L. Reynolds, former lieutenant colonel of the Seventh, to take command of the company, he being on the retired list. and having expressed a willingness to take the position if tendered him, it being a captaincy he at one time held. Before he is rounded up for the cap- taincy, it will have to be ascertained if his election will be satisfactory at brigade headquarters, because he at one time was in the feud that has for a long time prevented full harmony in the Seventh. TROOP HOLDS CAUCUS. Troop D, cavalry, at Los Angeles will soon have an election for first and second lientenant. At a reeent caucus the major- ity decided to advance Lieutenant Gunn, now second lieutenant, to first lleutenant, and Sergeant Jesse McComas to be sec- ond leutenant. First Lieutenant Jonas, now in commission, will become squadron quartermaster. This troop had a fleld day and target practice at the range on Sunday, March 11, but the weather was so stormy that the targets would rot stand and as the shooters did not have a fdir chance, it is probable that the scores, such as they were, will-be declared null and void. Captain Soloano, at one time commander of the troop, at a recent ban- quet stated that he wished to encourage target practice in the troop and promised to donate 835 a quarter for cup or medal to be competed for by the officers and men. In a few days there will be exhibited |in Shreve's window a beautiful silver trophy to be awarded to the company of the First Battalion of Coast Artillery that shall during a certain perlod make the best showing at the targets. This is to be competed for by each of the four com- panies and every man will have to shoot in order to be in on the score, as the | percentage will be made up from the cores at out-door ranges and the armory range. The trophy is valued at $100 and will have .to be won an agreed num- ber of times before it becomes the abso- lute property of the company. STATE CAMP LIKELY. Adjutant General Lauck is authority for the statement that there is a suffi- cient amount of money on hand to have some kind of an encampment bf the National Guard of this State during the month of June. but that the char- acter thereof has not yet been decided upon nor the exact date, In view of the fact that the war scare In regard | to China is at an end and that Congress seems to be favorable to aid the Na- tional Guard of the different States and Territories by a liberal allowance there is now a possibility that there may be | sufficient funds to enable the autiori- ties to have an encampment and mili- tary school of iInstruction on a large scale. But whatever course may be determined upon in this matter, the men in the ranks are anxious to know within a short time the date of the camp, so they can obtain from their employers leave of absence to enable them to do military duty for a week. Major Thomas Wilhelm, U. S. A. (re- tired), who holds the rank of colonel and assistant ‘inspector general of the National Guard of the State and to whom was referred the revision of the “Re@ Book,” which proved to be the| most misleading aggregation of rules that ever was placed between two covers, has submitted to superjor headquarters at Sacramento a report-of his revision. This will be of ‘advantage to the officers and the men, for. from this they-will gain a clear, idea of their duties, as the re- visfon is in consonance with law, prac- tical work and common sense . and in accordance with the rules and regula- tions of the War Department as.fay as | condttions in the National Guard will permit. —_——— No storé—not even a very. small one —remains “unknown” -in ‘this city one day after it has been advertised in th columns. —_—ee— TESTS OF EFFICACY OF AERIAL TORPEDO Swedish Army Officer’s Invention Propelled by Internal Motor. Major Unge of the Swedish army has invented a comparatively novel pro- Jjectile, which he thinks might be val- uable for coast defense. He calls it an aerial torpedo. Like the Whitehead device, it carries a charge of guncot- ton in its head, and in the body are provided meanps for automatic propul- sion. The latter differ from those em- ployed with submarine torpedoes. Ma- jor Unge substitutes for compressed air a composition consisting mainly of gunpowder. The gases of combustion do not escape directly, as they . do from a rocket, but actuate a tiny en- gine in the rear part of the shell; and, though it Is not so asserted in the cur- rent accounts, .the motor probably causes a propeller wheel outside the casing to revolve. The-inventor pro- poses to have three sizes, .their diam- eters being four, eight and twelve inches respectively, and their charges of guncotton varying from five to 100 pounds. % 7 Tests were made of the two smaller sizes a short time ago on the ordnance proving grounds of the Swedish Gov- ernment, and a number of foreign of- ficers were permitted to witness them. According to a correspondent of the London Times, the performance was highly instructive. The torpedoes were discharged from skeleton tubes set up at what was considered the most suit- able angle, the only impetus glven to the torpedoes being that:afforded: by the burning of the composition which they contained. What impressed somg observers as the most remarkable fea- ture of the trial was the fact that the course of the projectiles did not alter. A perfect alm seemed to be feasible, al- though the mounting ‘was a makeshift, The four-inch torpédoes traveled about a mile and a quarter (2200 vards) and the eight-inch torpedoes nearly three miles. The range of the largest size was not ascertained, but it could hardly have been less than five miles, and it might well have been greater. Inasmuch as projectiles of sponding calibers fired from rifled guns would go farther than Major Unge's torpedoes, one might be tempted to question the value of the latter, es- pecially for driving off war vessels which are threatening to attack a for- tified spot. The plan which has just been tested in Sweden, though, has two or three unique merits. Not only is the tube from which the projectiles are fired fmmensely cheaper than the coast defense gun and mount, but it is also light enough to be readily moved from one spot to another. The outfit which the London Times correspondent saw —probably that' which was suited to the discharge of an eight-inch torpedo —weighed only 700 pounds. A battery of such tubes could be shifted with the same ease as light’artillery and con- centration at a given point on short notice would be entirely practicable. Of course, the apparatus and the tor- pedoes would also be serviceable in fleld work. American military “officers will undoubtedly await further infor- mation about the system, and particu- larly in regard to the behavior of Ma- jor Unge's twelve-inch torpedo, with something more than curlosity. —————— corre- ‘Two street peddlers in Bradford, Eng- land, bought a horse for $11.25. It was killed by a motor car-one day and the | said a while ago that Mile. to owner of the car paid them' $115 for loss. Thereupon a new industry s up on the roads of England. % NITHOR'S BOOKS 10 BE BURNED Be Publicly Destroyed by the Authorities at Oxford WRITER GIVES OFFENSE Pretty Romance Connected With Statue of de Musset Recently Unveiled in Paris Special Dispatch to The Call LONDON, March 18.—Guy Thorne, who wrote “When It Was Dark,” keeps on getting free advertisement in a way that must be the envy of his fellow novelists. It is said that over 175,000 copies of “When It Was Dark” were sold in this country alone as the result of the striking refer- ence to that novel which was made by the Bishop of London in a sermon deliv- ered at Westminster Abbey, and now an even greater bit of good fortune has be- fallen the lucky Guy Thorne. For prac- tically at the very moment that a new novel from his pen is being announced as “ready,” it has been decided by the Union Soclety of Oxford that all of Thorne’s works that exist in the library of the famous university shall be ejected therefrom and ‘*‘publicly burne No reason for thus reviving an old time method of showing “‘abhorrence” has yet been assigned by the Oxford “Union.” The explanation, however, probably lies in the fact tRat Thorne criticises the Church of England pretty freely both in his last book, “A Lost Cause,” and his forthcoming one, which has already been published in serial form, and that Oxford is one of the great strongholds of “Es- tablishment,” as it is called. The thing has made a small sensa- tion, however, for most people sup- posed that the practice of book burn- ing had been done away with forever, even at Oxford. There it once flou ished exceedingly, especially in Revo- lution and Reformation times, but from 1849 to the present day no work had ben incinerated at the university. The last book to be burned there and the last to be burned in England -wa: Froude's famous “Nemesis of Faith. Accoridng to an official statement pub- lished on March 9, 1849, that work was “publicly burned by the authorities in the college hall,” and so one supposes that Guy Thorne's detested volumes will be treated in the same fashion. Apropos it may be recalled that this author’s real name was not Guy Thorne at all, but Ranger Gull, under which appellation most of his books have ap- peared. Like Cutliffe Hyne, who gav us ‘“Captain Kettle,” and who occa- sionally writes as “Wheaterby Ches- ney,” Mr. Gull apparently doesn’t think it policy to publish too often under one name and most of his “controversial” books have had “Guy Thorne” on their title page, with the odd result that the author is much better known under his assumed name than he is under his real one. The son of a clergyman, he began his writing career as a newspaper man and made his first success with a novel called “The Hypocrite.” Thit WdS as Rarger Gull. As Guy Thorne he first attracted attention with a weird story ¢alled “The Cave,” but “‘When “It' Was ‘Dark’” has Peen his biggest succkss” an® probably would ‘have madé a hit éven without thie Bishop of Lofidon's réecommendation, for its story of the resurrection” “disproved” was both ingenuois and’original. But it undoubtedly was the first advertisement from Dr. Winnington Ingram, who prac- | tically stands next to the'Archbishop of | Canterbury, that gave the book its big boom, and if Thorne's‘other books really are burned at Oxford the resuit is likely o be a big demand for his new volume. Clark Russell is' going to retire. Having celebrated his . sixty-fifth birthday this week, the veteran author of “The Wreck of the - Grosvenor” and “The Frozen Pirate” says that he is going to write no more, but to end his days.quietly at- Bath, ‘which has been his home for sev- eral years. The novelist declares, how- ever, that t.e temptation to write just one more book is-uncommonly strong, be- cause of late his reputation, has suffered in a way that has been wholly unde- served. | His grievance is that a.book recently | published under his name as a new work, and vigorously roasted by the crities, is not a new work at all, but a set of serial stories written several years ago and completely forgotten by him until their unauthorized appear- ance under a misleading title. So Clark Russell feels like showing that his hand has not lost its cunning if he-is sixty- five. Probably, however, he will con- tent himself with explaining the matter to his admirers, for bad health has made composition difficult to him for some time. In Paris the topic of the moment is the new statue of Alfred de Musset, which was unveiled the other day, and which probably not a few of this year's Ameri- can visitors will see ini the place of honor that has been given it beside the Comedie Francais. But, although the statue Is admittedly one of the flnest works or its kind in Paris it is the rather odd story of how it was executed and that of an uncommonly pretty little incldent in connection with its n{fl Ing that Pa- risians are finding most iftéresting. De Musset died: in®167, ~worh out, at 47, by . a ‘life_aof. intermittent ‘dissipation and. hard”work, and this statue shows him seated on a bench in a characteristic attitude of @ejection, his head sunk upon his breast. = Above him is Muse in the form of & hedutiful girl, Swho quotes to the poet his own famous lines: “Let us depart in .a kjss for an unknown worl el ¥, 4 Oddly enouh no less than three nota- ble people posed ‘for different parts of this statue at the request of Antonin Mercie, the sculpter, who never saw his subject in the flesh. These were de Mus- set’s sister, Mm, Lardin de Musset, who sat for the face; Albert Lambert, the actor, who . furnished the beard and moustache, thé crayat and romantic cape, and Paul .Escudfer, ex-president of the Municipal €ouncil, who proved to have Just the “figure” that Mercie wanted.' The romance of the .statue, however, has to do with the model who posed for the Muse. This was a young work girl and she took such an interest in the statue of De Musset that the sculptor Works of Guy Thoi'ne Will | Es FOE_OF THE KAISER, WHOSBE ENMITY ORIGINATES FROM CONTROL OF HANOVER. RAILROAD WRECKS DUE TO MUCH SPEED Many Accidents Are Caused by Swift Golng, but Other Causes Alleged. Whenever excessive speed is blamed for a wreck on the rails all railroad men set up a loud howl of protest. Yet it s the confidentially expressed opin- ion of disinterested parties who know the railroad business that four acci- dents out of five on every railroad sys- tem are caused by putting on too much steam where conditions require a slower pace. “In eight cases out of ten,” said one railroad man whose experience is that gained from many years of railroading in the United States, “the cause of rail- way accidents can be found in exces- sive speed—that Is, speed too great for the roadbed covered. There are in every railroad stretches of track where operating officials have a right to call for every ounce of speed the engine can make, but there are also a great many places where the least possible speed is required, places such as curves, track exposed to high water, yards, ac- tive switches and other such soft spots as they are called. ' “When the speed schedule is adjusted to the necessities of these conditions an engineer usually can take his train through in safety, but it is when the running time has been reduced without due consideration of these soft spots, and the engineer is forced to make high speed where safety requires a let down, that an accident is the final outcome. ‘“Perhaps, however, it is not always the fault of the officials that a train js called uvon for more than it can safely give, for the officials must rely upon what the engineer tells them, and it is seldom indeed that an engineer s willing t6 confess that he cannot make the pace asked of him. Besides this, there is the faith which every loco- motive driver has in the division super- intendent, which makes him willing to try_anything his boss siggests to him. Just as a’ dog will jump from a third or fourth-story window at the whistle of his master, the engineer will jump at the call of the superintendent, al- ways believing he would not ask what could not be done. “It is the hardest thing in the world to get an engineer to confess after a wreck that he was going at a high speed at the time. That Is why we al- ways hear of ‘spreading rails’ and such things when a train jumps the track. This explanation was once offered me as the cause of such an accident on the road of which I knew every inch. I got hold of the engineer and asked him how fast he was going at the time. He thought it might have been twenty miles an hour, on account of the curve. Little by little he increased his esti- mate until I found that he had time to make up and had taken the curve at a pace which acted on the train like the old game of crack the whip acts on the small boy on the end. * “The weak spots in a roadbed are the soots that set the limit on the speed to be made over that roadbed, and as these spots are taken more or less into consideration the chance of accident is increased and diminished.” ——————— Famous Indian Tribe, “The full-blooded Indian is gradually passing, just as the deer or the wild tur- key will soon die i penned up,” sald Colo- nel John N. Florer of Gray Horse, Ok- lahoma Territory, who has lived with the Osage Indians for thirty-three years, at the Coates House recently. “My pre- dicon is that in twenty-five years more there will not be a full-blooded Osage left. “When I first went among the Osages the tribe comprised between 6000 arid 8000 people. Now there are but 1700 or 1800 of them, including of course all those of mixed blood. The Osages have been holding their own pretty well in point of numbers in the last four or five years, but they are doomed to go the way of their fellows. “The dying out of the race is due in large measure to the change in their hab- its of life. They used to be out in the open air all the time, and when they traveled it was always ‘on horseback. Even when they moved their camps each Indian would round up his string of po- nies and make pack ‘animals of six or efght of them, to carry his belongings. Now they ride about in buggies and car- riages, the best to be had. They are rich enough to afford all the luxuries of that sort, and, with no Incentive to exertion, thelr lives are about as far removed from their former habits of activity as could “I was present at the council near Inde- pendence, Kans,, when the treaty was signed by which the tribe surrendered to the Government the Osage ceded lands in Southern Kansas ahd purchased in their stead the milllon and a half acres from the Cherokees, which they have since oc- cupled. That trade was a good thing for the Osages. They got $125 per acre for the land, and the deferred payments were to'draw 5 per cent interest. That mount- gave her the poet's books to read. Hav- ing devoured them, she was more in love than ever with the dead poet, and every day, when she came to pose, she brought a few flowers which she placed on the pedestal of "her. poet,” as she called him. But this {5 not all, for since the com- pletion of his statue the artist found out that the girl, who was quite bewitchingly pretty, came to him under an assumed name, and he has been unable to trace her. \ So this lover of -Alfred ‘de Musset did not receive a.card for. the unveiling of :h“r:u‘ttnet.h Among those who did, how- » at the express command of the French Minister of Fine Arts, wa: the aged Adele Collin, who kept house for nursed de Musset in his last years, she was one of the most noticed and in- terested people at tHe cerem onfes. It was Col W] th | ot s e M G, o miniscences o usset, othing more has been hgni‘ot the n-lnn.n Gt BN ed up rapidly, and is the source of the annuities which the Osages enjoy to-day. “Those were the good old days which the Indians always speak of as the ‘buf- falo days.’ I went out on the plains with them in their hunts for years. On the west from the Osage nation there used to be times when one could see buffalo for miles and miles. At a distance it looked like a_dark, surging sea. In one year there I bought 28,000 buffalo hides—more than there are in the whole country to- day. Of course there are lots of the younger members of the tribe to whom that is all a tradition, and they will sit around for hours and listen to the elders talk of the old times.”—Kansas City Jour- nal. Al itt retail hou hich Tuns -mb'xfinry w-p;.':;n:., and keeps accurate data of the expenses temwmwfl ‘:mh ,tne,nmwet, announ o e erage cost kage fo! 5 KASER'S 000 FIF MAY YIELD German Emperor and Duke of Cumberland Meet at the Funeral in Copenhagen FEUD LONG STANDING Determined Fight Made by Prussia to Gain Recogni- tion From Little Hanover Special Dispatch to The Cail. LONDON, March 18.—One of the men upon whom-.the eyes of all Europe are turned at present is the Duke of Cum- berland. For the first time since their estrangement, the Duke recently con- sented to- meet the German Emperor at the funeral.of the late King of Denmark, and now it is being asked whether the son ot the last King of Hanover is not finally to relinquish his claim to the lost throne of that country and to live at peace, hereafter, with the royal house of Prussia, which annexed his inheri- tance. > Those who expect him to do/so, how- ever, must have forgotten that the Duke promised his royal father when the latter | was on his deathbed always to look upon Prussia and Prussia’s‘rulers as his natural enemies, and he is not the man | to break his pledged word. Probably, in fact, he consented to break bread with, ‘Wilhelm II at Copenhagen only because it had been the wish of King Christian, who during his life made several futile attempts to bring about a reconcilation | between the two men. At any rate, the fact that no details whatever have been allowed to reach the public as to what took place at the meeting between the Duke and:the,Emperor is evidence that | it was purely a formal proceeding. STORY OF THE FEUD. The story of this historic feud is now such comparatively anclent history that its details may have been forgotten by | most people. It may not be amiss to explain, however, how the Dukes of Cumberland came t6 $it on the throne of Hanover, and how that throne was irre- vocably lost. FLANES SEAR BABY'S FLESH’ Child of Six Stirs Brush Fire and Wind Carries the Blaze to the Tot’s Garments HER BURNS ARE FATAL Parents of the Little One Badly Injured in Efforts to Save the Tiny Toddler FE S COVELO, March 18.—Yesterday af- ternoon the little §-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Rhodes during the absence of her father stirred up with a stick a brush fire started by her parent. A gust of wind carried the blaze toward her and in almest an in- stant she was a mass of flames. FHer father and mother ran to her assist- ance and both of them were badly burned in trying to save the little one. They tore off the child's clothing, but the fire had already burned her sa badly that the skin came with the gar< ments. A doctor was called, but she was past medical aid, dying within & few hours. ————— Glass That Is Heat-Proof. Glass that can be heated white hol and then plunged into cold water withou! breaking would seem an impossibility, but it has been recently made an accom- plished fact. It is made from Braszillam quartz pebbles, heated red hot and then thrown into distilled water. Then tha purest Dieces are selected and weided ‘with the oxyhydrogen blowpipe into long stems like straws, from which glass ves- sels of any shape can be' made. Thus far this quartz glass has been employed chiefly for making laboratory apparatus. ‘A test tube, however thin, made in this way. will_not break when a white ho¥ coal is dropped into it ———— Professor W. J. McGee, the scientist, slept four menths without a bed on the hot sands of Arizona to regain hig health. His scheme was a success. He occupied -his time in studying the in< sects and reptiles of the desert. As heiress to the crowns of England and Hanoyer, Queen Victoria would, un- der ordinary circumstances, have ruled over this kingdom of North Germany, but the Salic law prevented this and so the crown went to the oldest male mem- ber of the royal house of Hanover, Ej- nest, Duke of Cumberland, who was Queen Victoria’s paternal uncle. He in turn was succeeded in 1551 by his son George, the father of the present Duke of Cumberland, and this King it was who was so ill-advised as to throw in his lot with Austria against Prussia in the short but decisive 'war of 1866. As every one k(nows. Austria was badly beaten, and ing George of Hanover dethroned and his country taken possession of by Prus- sia, he was forced to take refuge across the Austrian border. Here he was joined, later on, by his son, the present Duke, who had fought with the Austrian forces, and who now was appointed to a colonelcy in the army of Francis Joseph. When his father died in 1878, the Duke notified the various powers of his- continued claim to the crown of Hanover, as well as to the duchies of Brunswick and Luneberg, and soon afterward he married the Princess Thyra of Denmark and thus became ADVERTISEMENTS. Relief During that trying period im which women so often suffer from nervousness, backache, sick headache, or other pains, there is nothing that can equal Dr. Miles’ Anti-Pain Pills. They stop the pains, soothe the nerves, and give to Women brother-in-law to the then heirs apparent of the British and the Russian thrones. LIVES AS COUNTRY SQUIRE. Meanwhile the Prussian Government had “sequestrated” or in other words taken possession. of the entire property of the Hanoverian crown, and it was af- firmed for many years that Bismarck made use of the proceeds in bribing a portion of the German press to support his pelicy. For many years, however, the Prussian royal family has continuously held out the olive branch to the house of Cumberland and made them every repara- tion in their power—short of giving them back the crown of Hanover. These overtures were begun by the late Emperor Frederick, the father of Wil- helm II, and when the present Emperor came to the throne he sent a special commission to Gmunden, the seat of the Cumberlands in Austria, with a commis- sion to negotiate a settlement, and at first all went smoothly. After some corre- spondence between the Duke and the Em- peror the “sequestration’] of the property of the Hanoverian crown was removed, the Duke professed his loyalty to the German fatherland, and his son, Prince George William, was recognized as the Duke of Brunswick. The Emperor, however, insisted that the Duke should formally abandon his royal claims. This the latter refused to do, and so the breach came about between them which has never been healed, and prob- ably never will be. The Duke of Cumberland's existing honors are, however, many. As a direct descendant of George III and a mem- ber of the British peerage he has a right to sit in the English House of Lords, and he is a general in the Brit. ish army. His family seat, Schloss Cumberland, near Gmunden, In Upper Austria, is a fine residence, loftily sttu- ated, and commanding beautiful views of the Austrian Alps. And here the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, who the relief so much desired. 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