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When, he traded Cabinet with © Mr; i McKenna, then First Lord jof the Admiralty, much of the irony. that would have been uttered by.press and public at Mr. oa Churchill's expense was sidetracked "Mr. Re 'W. Service. _ Some time ago a. British Colum: bian wrote a book of verse entitled "Derby Day in the Yukon; by Yu- kon Bilk!' The real of the I'g Bn Markwell" in writing i the Geores H. Doran Company of New York, who published the bobk and tho Doran Bgople. wrote "M. Markwell, When the rodk came; W. Service, the famaut Yiikon poet, received 'a copy from the. publish- ers, and when in New York some time afterwards he sent this letter of af appregiation 10. the head of the Sir: Shortly before leay- 1 received your book, un the ¥ukon,' and u Ptr your fadriess in me; I «thought the Ps goad stuff and: quite aid, Sod Forgot. 1 in animated discussion of the mean- ing of the change. There had been danger of war with Germany shortly before. That the Government had decided. that the fleet. needed an overhauling, an application of mew methods, was generally accepted as the underly- ing reason. It was argued that the | Government wanted more push and Suersy in the Admiralty, and that, in spite of all that had been Said | about him, nobody had push and energy developed better than this young man, half English, half Amer can. The fleet is very dear to the average Britisher's heart, and the experiment of putting Winston Churchill at the head of the Admiy- alty was watched with verying des grees of hope and trepidation: Mr. Churchill's first move was to have a new deal in the composition of the administrative body known as the Bea Lords. : He appointed new men. There was much comment on this rather radical move, but on the whole it was not in the line 'of ad: verse criticism, _BURPRISING ABPHOBATION: /The yegent creation of a naval general staff has been received with ® degree of approbation that is sur- ; RYjsing in view:of what amounted to XPress were'| B | the. re oe iby Fo hei is as- suredly: ourdough of an. early vintage. ¥ "Needless to say, I was immense: ly fla | at thé lines addressed "Feta 1 hae hos writer from 3 he 0 = 0 ip art w id dubdeis; " so he has a clear Bold. 7 conclu: sion, I wish ag it rtain: quarters to poke fun at anything of an administrative character for which Mr. Churchill was responsible." The general staff idea had its opponent, quite as aes ive a8 its friends, and. until Me. Earehil took the bull by the horiis 'and announced to the country that a staff was: to be 'created ying "By vour gg to 'have fourteen putable, | collection 0 the, Slamps of his'! 4 namesake fuolony, Prince of Walés #1 Toland, in' which' the 'Prince'of . Wales takes a ki terest. H 'Stamp vollecting sesins to be tak. ing 'a 'firmer hol its devotees,' ; and: Taking more" recruits thant, ever. W acon, one of the beist-kn St toh § in London, England, says that there are thou" sands more collagtors than there were ten' Years agow, 'Within that pericd, he says, "stamp collecting oh as grown from an.art to. a scienge. In the old days people collected for quantity, but now it is quality*! only' that pouints. "Value is found to-day in watermurks;: = In some' kinds of stamps perforations are 'the. hallmark of excellence. In British stamps, for example, the 'rarest are those with fourteen per- forations on the long. side.. But there are cases.in which those with: fourteen 'and '4 halt ot fifteen per- fordtions are the' prize specimens. The penny and halfpenny stamps of King Edward always used to perforations, The new "stamp printers, whose first Georgian 'stamps 'raised an outery; are still supplying halfpenny and | penny Edward stamps, some which have fourteen and a half and others fifteen perforations. Before long they will cease to issue King Edward stamps these fourteen and a half and fifteen perforation | specimens will become scarce, Or éven rare. Another stamp which should soon become valuable is the Italian war stamp surcharged 'Tripoli,' as' their issue continued only for a very short time. A : CRAZY. QUERIES. i Short and sharp wonld be the'! shrift of the person who dared to' intimate that every one 'of us at? times utters in perfect good faithi ridiculous--not to mention monsen-% s'dal remarks. | Yet the¥act is indis Foridnstante, what can be more foolish than the question "Oh, there you are; are yout" Y this is asked scores of times a day. Just. as absurd. is the query, 'Hel lo, going out 1" Pu to one palpably' preparing to t! 3 Equally: tion £0' oft dusband, He is crucial | int A | hed the door azZOT lips, 8) es gash ; Fuss [je hin if he 'ea dry