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? an ENGLISH Rov PRINGESS MARY IS VERY FOND OF OPEN -- ATR SPORTS. King George's Daughter Often Seen Stecring « Skiff on the Thames. It is understood that another twelvemonth is likely to elapss be-| 0 fore Princess. Mary is se writes a Beaton correspon- 2 court, ent. So far Princess Mary is. known to very few outside her own family and a few of her intimate friends, but it may be eaid that she possess- es a character and disposition that can only be described as nigprons he is ther mother's constant panion and is literally cieved by each of her brothers, while she in- variably has a kind word and a smile for all with whom" she is brought called upon to render her any ser- vice. She is somewhat shy and re- into contact or who are! b tee the case, and this year she hopes to be able to ce ond even more. It is also of interest to recalh that Princess Mary was fs first of the royal ladies to open an account in the Post Office savings bank, and to this che adds some eum of vary- have the principles of thrift incul- cee in them as soon as they eached a suitable a Therefore, he insisted that each in turn should open a savings bank account, and Princess Mary now has quite a sub- stantial sum standing to her ac- count. This ia bescnts the balance of her pocket money, a certain pro- portion of which the Queen insists that she shall save. LIGHTNING RODS. x Interesting Bulletin Issued by On- tario Agricultural College. A bulletin advocating the use of lightning rods on buildings has just een issued by the Ontario oe ment of Agriculture. Prof. H. Day, of the staff of the Onteris a tastes that she really shows herself; in her true light. The late Sir Richard Holmes, for many years the royal -- at Windsor Castle, once wrote Princess Mary in the- following| ° terms |. "Frank and open in countenance, BY high spirited in-character and af-! fectionate in disposition, Princess Mary will when she leaves school- room and comes out in the social world take all hearts by storm. She! is so natural, so jolly and so brim- ming over with the energy and joy of life. An old man, I hops I may be pardoned for trying to look into the future, and I_ must admit that I often wonder who will win the! : hand of our Princess. What an im- mensely lucky man he will be ! ! | Riding Her Favorite Pastime. Of late years Princess Mary has developed a great hiking or the open air, and riding is her favorite pastime. This is largely due to the influence of the King, whose con- stant companion she is when the court is staying either at Bucking- ham Palace or York Cottage. So far she has not yet made her ap pearance in the Row, but it is ex- pected that this will be done chad! King George resumes his morning | rides here later in the scason. She | is rapidly developing into a first rate horsewoman, and during the| past hunting season rode to hounds upon more than.one occasion. e Queen, curiously enough, has a Went fear of horses, and it is now some years since last she took a ride, while she confesses to a feel- i nervousness whenever her| er is out riding, and until returns. F riowere Mary, the other hand, shows no fear at all when out riding, 'al has often out- paced the whole of her brothers in a! sharp gallop threugh the Great! Park at Windsor. When the court is at Windsor and | her elder brothers are passing their} holidays there Princess Mary is of- ten to be seen on the Thames steer ing a skiff pulled by the young! Princes, and in this she shows con- siderable dexterity, the favorite haunts of the royal party being | either Virginia Water or the "Old Cut' near Datehet. Next to riding, boating is her favorite outdoor pas time. She swims well, but does this rather more as a matter of | duty and for the sake of her health than from any real liking for the BPOke | | ony Choose Her Own Dresses, Tay Now ' The Princess is now advanced to; the dignity of being allowed to} | choose her own dress. within cer tain limits of course, and usually | under the advice of the Queen, She | prefers a'very simple style of dress | and is not permitted to wear much} jewellery. Such ornaments as she | is to be seen wearing from time to] time are quite simple in their char- | | acter and are for the most part presents that have been made to} her by the members of her family. + Curiously like the Queen, both in! face, figure and many of her likes and dislikes, Princess Mary shows | this no more conspicucusly than she does in her liking for having an umbrella with her no matter where she may be going not what the wea ther conditions may be. From her earliest years Princess Mary has been carefully trained by her mother in what may be perhaps a greater number of garments made by her own hands to the annual display of the London Needlework Guild than. hor 'ever previously i pears feasible to fit the larger itry Agricultural College, is the author wa this bulletin, an e demon- ates, after a series of investiga- ons covering thirteen years, that | Hehtalee rods are the protection that science claims them to be. In | Ontesto in 1912 the efficiency of rods was 94/4 per cent. From the re- porte of insurance companies Prof. Day found that in every 200 farm ' buildings insured, 42 were rodded, whie® is 21 per cent., but out of every 200 farm buildings struck by | lightning only 3 were rodded. In this connection Prof. Day observes, "We should ae oxpected 42 if the rods were no Lightning rods in Iowa are re- corded as showing an efficiency « *" 98.7 per cent., and inspected r in Michigan show an efficiency of 99.9 per cent. Records in Iowa show that for the eight years 1905- ~~ the average number of insur- nce companies carrying risks on rodded buildings was 55. The high- est number of companies reporting in any one year was 68 and the low- est 46. The total lightning claims paid by all these companies for the whole eight years on rodded build- ings was only $4,;464.30--an aver- age of $10.15 per company per year. On unredded buildings they paid | lightning claims amounting to the} large sum of $341, 065.32, which is an average of $775.15 per company per year, and the number of unrod- ded buildings was the same as the rodded ones. In Michigan where a company in- sures. only rodded buildings .which have been inspected a risk of $55,- 172,075 was carried during four years, and damage claims arising} | from lightning during that time totalled only $32. A ST AR FOR RACH ONE or There Xre in tha Universe? 1.509 Millions of 'Stars. Dr. Sydney Chapman, Chief sistant of the Royal Dbse : STRANGE SECT MET FIRST IN THE YEAR 1906. Pilgrims Were Discovered Prostrate - On the Ground at Stenchenge By the Soldiers. °A sect called the "Sons of men,' Hesid t ipping since 1906' in the prehistoric stone circle of Stone- e stars visible to the naked as about six thousand, but 01 pa half these were visible at 4 one particular time. S| corroborate the 'solar-temple hypo- | st are of very different Brigh ne RSeS,, thesis of Sir Norman Lockyer, the and the ancients divided them sis grades of magnitudes. The pehostni:b by the new eect to pay that some stars were so page es Rha homage to the great lngeiaery er than others suggested th The services held by the age of our eyes could admit more Hight. Men at: Stoneheng> are thus d es- we should be able to perceive stars' cribed by V. Forbin in La N meses fainter, still. The telescope. does| 'If we are exactly informed, enable us to gather more light, $0} was for the first time in 1906, on that as we increase the size of th€| June 22 that a group of five or six telescope we are able to see fainter Asiatios were surprised by soldiers and fainter stars, Dea in manoeuvres -on Salis- ew years ago, an r as: bey Plain, while, prostrate be- tronomer, the late Mr; Frankia neath the treliths they recited mys- dams, photographed 'the oot terious litanies in 'their own lan- heavens on a uniform plan, on 206 plates, each 16 inches square, W are now preserved at Green Observatory. These plates been carefully examined there, Return Every. June. "Phe incident found no mention 4in the press. But the pilgrims re- 5,000 standard areas have been {turned in larger numbers year af- ep, and the number of stars of eath| ter year, always on June 21 or 22. magnitude, down to the 17th, 'This persistence finally attracted counted. upon them. Down to 'public attention and thet of the pa- Sth magnitude, the entire heavens pers, whose reporters as scertained show about 100,000 stars; down to the: following facts: __ the 14th, about 8 millions ; wn} "These pilgrims, Hindus, to the 17th, about 55 millions; betg™ . belonged to ha though the number of stars giv npgion of relatively recent origin, > each successive magnitude in whose name may be translated, creases, the rate of increase dim: 'The Universal League of the Sons nishes, so that if the same progres4/0f Men.' Founded, apparently, i sion is maintained in the Tibet, it has made rapid progress which are too faint to be phote "'famong the upper classes in Asia, graphed, it is clear that the total notably in India, Arabia and Per- number of stars will not be in- Sia; and it a} lready has numerous finite; and that, if we could photo-}4 adherents in Europe. In England graph down to the 24th or 25th {* sis professed by two or three thou- magnitude, we should have the im- sand persons, who meet to pray in ages of half the total number. -- | Several houses, transformed into n this way it has been possible 'temples ; among them two in Lon to calculate that there are in the #@on, one in Manchester and one in universe between 1,000 and 2,000 sLiverpool. = A rab s w ---- = ene < tars, say about ae Led By 'Sacred Five."" millions. The population of the a ' earth is estimated at abc oli the ty. As generally understood, the same number, viz., 1,500. 'million BEO"® of Men have selected the sum- so that there is a a for each" 'of er-solstice for their sun worship. he pilgrims were led by priests alled the 'Sacred Five,' who were elad in ample robes of purple cov- ered in part with white and gold : mein and wore strange turbans us. Six mushrooms would also vield between them about the same number of. spores. ir, at , lear PA acs sabia met - White before -- the dawn. These and other proofs submit ted by Prof. Day are pri actical | 'demonstrations of the scientific fact 'that lightning rods properly -- in- stalled as a protection, In giving directions the proper redding, ' for lof buildings the reader is reminded | electricity. Prof. rods should be in| that lightning Day asserts that / metallic connection with the build- jing and that no insulators should | be used. This method of atfach- | ment is directly opposite to that! jadupted when lightning rods were first used. is ----* WITH LEGS SEAPLANE Novel Machine for for Rislag From the) compulsory military service undex] great Eitar stone sactine prayers, the Defence Act in New Zeala. each in his own tongue. The trans- were made by Mr. N. Worrall omf fation of one of them is as follows: | bis landing at Bristol, Englamndg} -4* "7 believe that 'nature is the re- from the New Zealand liner, Ay | flected' majesty of the powers, and shire, ta@bove all of the omnipotent power Mr. Worrall's son Jim was among} behind the great whole.' n large majority who refused 'Believing in the Omnipotent submit to compulsory service on th | power, I believe in the great con- ground of conscientious objectio leeption of the infinite' ec: alled Allah, to militarism. For this refusal hi | universal majesty and truth, anc was prosecuted and sentenced t | infinite ove, who dwells in our 28 days' imprisonment on declinin ta pay a fine. So numerous were the youths wh elected to gu to gaol rather tha jheart. I believe in the growth of the intentional evolution of al aeee toward the bette r and toward pay fines that usual places of iy Hi the best. . carcéeration became too small ang} When the first ravs of the sun for a time they were confined. tw | finally gilded the front of the monu- in a cell, Afterwards the Militar}! jental triliths, the chief of the sa ortress on Ripa Island was utiligl! ceed five asked in a loud voice: led, and those whose conscienc Water. eost of w hich already.» ta | Experiments, the stated to amount 100,000, have recently been made | by a west of England aeroplane company with a nove] kind of sea- plane. This machine is fitted with a marine in addition to an aerial propeller. Beneath the boat-like body of the machine are four legs | to which are attached a number of | small, fixed blades. The marine propeller drives the water against the blades on the legs with suf ficient force to lift the body of the! machine clear of the surface, at) which point the aerial engine 1s brought into operation and the ma- {chine rises into the air. As a mat-| ter of fact. the seaplane thas not yet got aloft, as the experiments | have been confined to a low-power- | marine engine. but it now ap en- gine required. | The advantage of this machine | will be that it will enable the pilot to navigate his craft on the surface | of the water when he forced ty de-} ed scend through lack of petrol, en- s arts, ar : i ee a Se domesti¢ arte, aie! gine failure or other causes. The} was taught ho Oo cox i | : 1 . . . : . e constructed | dishes at quite an early age. She is] * sel hh ad win > Raley ting. too an excellent needlewoman, and; arn ua vies = weneanestal ree her | NS SeF ss is ~s oe = a to her soe eT! «ill probably foreshadow a type orl int nS irection, m we manutacture / b! } >, Sea-gi aft able to travel | of the thousands of warm and use- | huge, sea-going craft able 1B h! ful "nents that the Queen makes} alongside the fleet or patro ritis u garm< nts -- Se b s Sh ee sasts like a destroyer, Such a Chri by year for Cistripulion every! machine would also be able to carry am! ;}a ton or more of ammunition of | Made Many Garments for Peor, i fuel. and it would enable the light- } During the summer and the early! ° ut 78 go gotigad ters toe | pines ae ym -s at sea te med | euturn she eo war omega to-| 0M Taps At sem fb performed gether in the grounds at Windsor or! dingy oii A: ; the deck of af Balmoral when the weather per-| si ighting on th "7 mits. Last year. Queen Mary sent) °°" . a on Young women are as anxious to the new wrinkles as the older ones are to get rid of them, > ; | F , forbade 'manding either sufficient and pood | spend the next sixteen vears of his | Worrall, i tunate lads suffer is by suspense. | cal visits from police officers, Why They Met. 'Brothers, know ye wherefore we-are_met at this time in this sa- or inclosure )' their undertaking militar, aluties were removed thitherd The life of a prisoner on this is land is anything but pleasant, act cording to Mr. Worrall's story: t "And the faithful answer solemn a London Daily News rerresente4)},: tive. Twenty-three hours of tha)" « 'To proclaim our recognition of} 'day are spent in solitary confine ithe p ower of Allah. universal ma- ment, half an hour each in th \seaty and truth, -and infinite love. morning and evening being -- set}} apart for exercise. The little food i| the. sacred five, the great souls, an- allowed is of indifferent quality.' | gelic messengers 'ef Allah to the and on one occasion the | | Sons of Men.' resorted a hunger strike, de- "The ceremony was kept up un- "til sunset, during which time nei- ther the priests nor the faithful i weemed to be at all disconcerted by to food or none. On conviction only the initial «f fence is expunged, and refusal t+ the emiles of the curious, who had enrol at the time of liberation) pathered nearby to observe this means certain re-arrest. Thus & " jstrange festival of the sun. ---- PARADISE FOR WANDERERS. lad convicted at the age of 14 might life in the fortress. Many of the time-expired boyy! a and youths, who are fixed in theit/ Germany Encourages "Wanderlust" determination not to enrol, refuse and Provides Sleeping Places. to leave the island. In numerous instances, said My the imprisonment '# wrecking strong constitutions. Another way in which the unfo In order to further the "wander- lust'" among all students in Ger- many over 16 years of age and to} provide sleeping accommodations at} a Minimum expense, numerous Stu- | -- lad is convicted for refusing milf }denten and Schwieler Herbergen are tary service, and a fine is imposed being established. This movement | For weeks, in some cases month@, originated in Austria in 1884, but: reached Germany a few years later, and at present Germany Austria both in the number of "her- bergen" and in point of attendance. | The werd "'herbergen" signifies a} 1) 'place of shelter." and is here un- derstood to mean a domicile, house or other quarters where travelling students can find lodgings for the night. There are 576 of these her- bergen in Germany and Austria, which furnish lodging and break- fast free of charge to all students provided with the proper cards. The instatution of the Schueler he and his parents receive period} wh endeavor tu secure payment of ti fine. It was Jim Worrall's intention go to England to acquire addition experience in his business. A ber was securéd~for him on the. ho coming steamer, but on the day { sailing he was placed under arres§. | maewenasnen Vem Rather than call vou a liar. f your face some polite and cautiow people use the telephone. Psi o) all Sings toward good. and also a ] re oe was the eunasieedl ne a poses to enable young students to ee as much as possible of their own pao Durng every vacation large numbers of students make foot tours through the picturesque parts of the ea , and so general has this "trampi * beeome among the young agers that it is be- ginning to assume the guise of a national trait. Wander clubs have been organized to further systema- tic outings and excursions, and these have made walking almost a science. An ample knapsack ke vides abundant space for the neces sities in a trip, and with his aluini- num cooker the tramper is enabled to prepare a savory lunch wager the occasion may demand. It, wa in order to provide these wandecthe students with sleeping accommoda- tions at a low cost and also to keep them away from the public inns an taverns that the herbergen associa- tion was established. Practically dhe only experise ait- tached to enjoying the benefits of the institution is the payment of two marks (approximately 50 cents) for a membership card. Students must be at least 16 years of age and attending a high school or uni- versity in order to obtain member- ship cards: These cards entitle the holder to make use of the herber- gen twenty times; that is, he may spend the night in twenty different herbergen, and is also furnished a good, substantial each time, all free, places the cost of a night's lodging and breakfast at 214 cents The herbergen are usually pri- vate homes, smal] buildings espe- cially equipped for the purpose, or, in some caves, schoolrooms or other halls furnished by the municipality or by individuals. In only rare instances are taverns made use of, it being the aim of the her crgen management &o keep the youths away from tavern life as much as possible. During the vacation per- iod of 1912 the various: herbergen -- a total of 69,408 accommoda- ions, consisting of lodgings and breakfasts, to 11.080 students. ba ee! | eee SAVED PROM THE TIDE. Swinburne Had Narrow' Escape From Drowning. Algernon Charles Swinburne, the English poet, seemed immune from all the maladies that pursue unfor- tunate mankind. Writing of Swin- | burne, in "Portraits and Sketches,"' | Mr. Edmund Gosse says that he did} not. know fatigue; his agility and brightness were untiring. His cour- age and zest as a bather were su- perb.. When he was ad very. little "haa ie him to be fear ee th the wa ter, by taking.bim up in his ssi and flinging him among the waves. | pens: on, at At Eton, says his cousin, 7 geo could swim forever.' "us a) young man. he had a ae narrow escape from drowning. Swinburne was a daring bather, and he loved to go to Etretat be cause the opportunities for swim- ming in the sea were so excellent there. On a certain Friday in the | late summer, 1868, about ten} o'clock in the morning, the poet) went alone to a solitary point on| the eastern side of th eplage, the Porte d Amoft (for there is no res a lharbor at Etretat), took off his clothes, and plunged in as was his I ijwont. A few minutes later a man! lealled Coquerel, who was on the, t jo outlock at the semaphore, at the | foot of the cliffs on the eastern side lof the bay, heard cries for help and | 'piercing screams | He climbed up on a chalk rock, land saw that a swimmer, who had | ¢ | been caught by the tide, which runs | | very swiftly at that place, was be- | ing hurried out to sea, in spite of | | hi is violent struggles. As it was im- eile for Coquerel do any- lthing else to help the drowning | | man, he started to race along the! to Etretat. when he saw the | shore Marie-Marthe, one of the fishing | to ithe point. Coquerel called to the| | boatman, and directed him to the! | drifting and shouting man. The captain of the smack very uickly understood the situation, | and followed the poet, who no long- | b er struggled, but supported him- | self by floating on the surface of the tide. The water was hurrying him | FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL AROUT JOIN RULL AND HIS PEOPLE. (he Land That Reigns Supreme tn the Com- merelal World. Oecnrrences tn For only the second time eice the r was granted to Wenlock, Shropshire, in 1468, the freedom of the borough has been conferred on Alderman Dyas, who has been four times mayor, A fifth cavalry brigade has now come into being at York, and will have its headquarters at that city. It consists of the Soots Greys, York, 12th Lancers, Norwich, and the 20th Husears, Colchester. In the majority of cases, it is stated, the weight of coal examined by the officers of the city of London during delivery is the public, was found last year to be above that indicated on the weight ticket. The contingent of the Cheshire Regiment which is touring the coun- try received an enthusiastic weleome at Macclesfield. The streets or the town were decorated, and the troops were entertained at th: Town Hall. Thousands of people visited O lerton Grounds at Sheffield for % first day of the aviation week, whe Mr. Harold Bladburn, York- shire airman, flew in his Yorkshire- built aeroplanes from Leeds to Shef- field, 35 miles, in 25 minutes. Twelve families were rendered homeless in the village of Little Chesterford, Essex, "i a fire which spread from a haystack, a dozen cot- tages and two licensed houses be- ing burned down. Viscount Hampden has offered to defray half the cost of a new water supply for the village of Codicote, Kempton, near Whitwell, Herts. The total estimated of the scheme is $35,300. The Norfolk County Council have decided fo me the brown linnet out of the list of protected birds, owing to hl eruat damage it is do- ing in the county to the mustard and turnip seeds Major Eve! yn Wood, son of Fis ld Marshal Sir Evelyn Weod, has re tired frem the regular army on a j vd will, it is understood, be made a i evtenant-cylonel in the Territorials. About a dozen twelye-spoundér's shells filled with blank charges, as well asa number of empty shelis of e empty -car- are missing from the disee Batteries at. Portsmouth. In.applying to the Folkestone ma- for their the cost i on ' gistrate sanction to the | Boor rate of Folkestone near-Sand- ; gate, Mr. E. 8S. Large. the assistant overseer, said there chould tbe no | poor rate for thal parish. as it had no poor. Miss Bessie Trigg Spring Gar- dens Terrace, Broadw: ay, Cardiff, has been selected out appli- cants by the Lord Maycr to be the recipient of the Bute wee tdi tz dow- iry, which this year amounts to just over S150. A motor-car in which Dr. N.S. | Fini ef Harley | Street, London, was driving tu Margate. accorn panied by Mr. Julian Meiser, den- tist, of Wimpole Street. overturned | at Sarre Peak, and Mr. Meiser was fatally injured, Tt is stated that the unusual: | bitter state of party feeling ha caused sy many golfing M.P.'s t refuse to meet pelitica! opponents on the links, that the annual Par liamentary Handicap Tournament /May not be held this year. A freight train caught the end of a& wire partly Giscennected from poles alongside the line at ae pool, and draggi ng it taut, made sort of catapult that shot a wireman according to the commandments of | smacks of the village, come round; working on the pole inte the air and killed him. ----_* Walking on Water. 5 mote het German m! & been carried on Pare authorities wi 'th a pair of cigar- shaped = foot ; pontoons, or skates, made of rub- ber, by which it is believed a «<)l- to walk outranks | lalong so swiftly that the boat could, dier may be equipped not pick him-up until it had reach- jacross the rivers, carry heavy loads ed a point a mile to the trorfhiens}) ign the water, and fire his rifle with of the eastern point of Etretat. s much steadiness as on land. The fisherman, whose name was Mevice is about 6 feat long, and is Valnin. drew the poet out of the/ fastened on the foot like a snow- water. Captain Vallin was not ena! shoe. The motion. resembles skat- jless astonished at his capture than|ing rather than walking. and he- ithe Icarians were at theirs, for | cause ef this the, name = rubber | Swinburne displayed his usual viva. | skates. or water skate has been city. The weather was glorious; lywiven the device. A number of the rescuers rubbed the poet's body | these skates fastened together make with their horny hands, and then! a very serviceable raft, or they may they wrapped him in a spair sail,|}be used as a basis fora pontoum over which his mane of orange-! bridge. iruddy hair was spread to dry. He ----4gp---- began to preach to the captain and Ite kable 'his men, who surrounded him in emarkable Feat, | rapturous approval, the doctyines A remarkable feat was aceon of Republic, and then he recites to} plished by two members of a troup ye of Chinese periormers in a exhibiting in Berlin. cently, when tooks connected with ropes swung from the flies were caught in their queues, lifting: the performers, the table at which they * them "by the hour together,' poems of Victor Hugo." They guve him some food, and in the course of the morning the Marie-Marthe, with her singular supereargo, tack- ed into the harbor of Ypert. circus, Germany, re- e ee eee sat, and their chairs, high in the ' air, Here they swung. ail the Loviden women are wearing trou-[ while calmly drinking, for several sers. minutes. : { &