The times dispatch. [volume], February 04, 1912, Image 19

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Old World Mews Flashed by Cable t? The Times-Dispatch
COST OF LIVING
Waste in Kitchen and Ignorance
of What Js Good to Bat
Partly to Blame.
EVILS OF EXTRAVAGANCES
No People on Earth Probably
More Afraid of Fresh Air
Than the French.
DV WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS.
(.Special Cable il the Tirnes-Plspatch)
Purls. February a?Waste in the
kitchen, and Ignorance of what ia good
lo eat. according to Dr. Alfred Gotts
ehalk, though not belnu- responsible
for the high cost f>r living, certainly
add materially to u nnd prevent 'u
some lnstance!i the ma Hint "f en'ls
meet.
Or. Oottachalk Is n, well-known au?
thority o i economical problems, and a
writer of note. He blames the house-;
wife and the father of the family
with useless extravagances, this being
the greatest household evil of the day.
He docs not rncan jautomoblles and
such thliiKS. but the spending of much
money by all classes of society for
expensive foods, when other and cheap- ;
er table supplier, would be better for
both 'he purs'- and health
"The recent general rise in tho prices,
of necessary food stuffs U duo to manyi
things." ho nays. "But I do not pro-j
pore, to go Into tho causes of this stale,
of affairs. What I would like to dem-'
onstrMo Is, that the consumer, by care-j
fill manipulation of his household bud?
get, may effect Important economies
without any risk of his health, and. In
many cases, ho can do successful bat
tie against th.s speculators In food
? tuffe without resorting to violence.
"Ir. a general way. It may be said
that men eats more than he resilly
needs. Mo also has a regret able ten-'
lency to nartnke too largely of thi
dearer foods. And, for wont of a prop?
er culinary education, great prodigali?
ty it) shown lr. the kltchm. even In tho
case of the humblest households.
"There Is another fundamental pre?
judice In the matter of food It la the.
Idea that the more we eat the strongerI
we become. We cat as often as possl-j
ble nnd an much .ir possible, and W?]
train our c.-.iKren to rat beyond their]
desire When a man Is fatlgu? d (often!
because he la overeating) his friends;
will advise him lo eat *strengther.lng i
food.' Vet when one examines tho!
ptiestlon a bit closely, one finds that '
to reduce the puanlty of food eaten to I
the physiological minimum Is not con?
ducive to physical weakness.
"Take the ease of a Danish physician,
Hr. Hlnhode. During an experiment
lasting two and a half months he re?
duced his cost of living; to an In?
credible fig-tire, yet he found that his
Sen picture of Prr?l.lcnt Sun Yet Sen of the new republic of Chtnn.
strength Increased. nnd that he could
cycle up stiff hills without belns; un?
duly 'blown.' where formerly he used
ot necessity Ip walk.
"His first meal consisted of barley
rruc! cooked with water, with milk ami
I'UBiii added, and currants. His even*
tnjc repast was generally bread and
butler and a potato salad. His midday
meal he made his most Important O'ie.
Potatoes with Minor, oatmeal and
rhubarb, sometimes, was the composi?
tion of Uils. Again no would have
curried rice, oatmeal and rhubarb. Po?
tatoes, with parsley sauce, and plum
porridge; cabbage soup, with potatoes
and llack bread, an omelet with stewed
rhubarb and tjnar, were some other
menus for this Mime meal.
"Other examples n.re numerous. 1
have on the one side the food of the
Japanese, the Hindus and all the peo?
ple living near to r.ature. It may be
objected that these people live under
different conditions from our." Hut in
Europe there ate workmen?the Pieil
montcsc native? and masons, for In
To know how many manufacturers throw their profits on i he
scrap heap when ihey discard broken machinery. It is well to
remember that ihe wealthiest corporation in this country ob?
tains its dividends largely from by-products formerly thrown
on the scrap heap. Study your own case.
If you have broken castings, let us braze them. Our
shops introduced brazing of cast iron n the Southern
States.
We repair old parts where possible; make new ones
if needed.
INCORPORATED,
Successor to
MAYO IRON WORKS, Inc.,
one Madison 1186. 2404 E. Main Street.
TH E telephone has made it possible
to do shopping and marketing
satisfactorily, and with comfort, econ?
omy and despatch.
Practically every store and shop caters to telephone
trade and pays special attention to telephone orders,
so that telephone buying has become a habit with
hundreds of thousands of people.
When you want something that cannot beseemed in
your local shops, the Long Distance Service of the Bell
System connects you with the biggest markets of the
country, even though you are hundreds of miles away.
Are YOU a subscriber?
t S0?THEM BILL TEL. & TEL. COIPAM
OF VIRGINIA.
tuery- Bell Telephone is the Center of the Agwiem.
Rtanco?who work hard on a few har.d
fuls uf rice and maize.
"In spite r.f the examples of v.?ge
lariat .= who liave figured conspicuous
ly In sporting contests, many people
believe it Is really dangerous to eli?
minate meat from their diet. It is
limply a prc.i'idtce und a costly one at
that, for the rise In the prleo of meat
is th2 most serious of all
"My third point la culinary waste.
Many excellent food?, easy to prepare
In a savory manner, are never used, be?
cause they are quite unknown, The
po- i'bllltiea of cerenls, like barley and
oats, are not realized, and corn Is only
employed In certain regions, yet li is
both rich In nutritive value and quite
cheap.
"There Is a great waste in vege?
tables. The outside leaves of cabbages
and lettuce, for insance. Arc thrown
away ?o as t" ebtaln a nice looking
dish, but the big leaves and the stumps
of tht cabbages, peapods, and the thick
part of asparagus, mlgh be used in
the making of soups.
"And how many housewives know
how to prepare an appetizing dish with
tin tops of turnips, carrots, rnudlshes.
: or beets?
"An appreciable saving of mono;.- can
also be effected by the mothod of cook?
ing, i
i "The problem of the economical din?
ner table Is far from being beyond J
solution; hut the facts must be realized:
popular prejudices must give way to
practical teachings."
Afraid of Fresh Air.
There arc perhaps no people on earth
more afraid of fresh air than . the
French. Trains are hermlti-ally seal
el almost; tramways In many Instances
are constructed ilkc a bott'.e, with ono
end cpon and no means of getting ven?
tilation. And when there are windows
that will work they arc .so constructed
as to leave an opening at the top about
six inches wide. Save on the hottest
days In summer, the venturesomo In?
dividual who lowers a window gets
Very black looks for his pains, likewise,
as a rule, the request to seal up the
opening again.
Two French scientists have been col-1
leoting data on the subject of microbes
in the Paris atmosphere. Incidentally
they condemn the practice of Paris
restaurants, cafes, music halls, etc., of
chinking up every crack and squirting
perfume into the air by means of a
giant atomizer to keep down the stale
odor; also the practice of keeping fans
going, on the ground that the fans
I do not supply fresh air. but serve only
to mix dust and microbes evenly and
!thoroughly In the room. In several
restaurants, where the air was tested.
It was found that by 10 o'clock at night
the fans were circulating a stale atmos?
phere, containing 130,000 microbes per
cubic yard.
The outer air was also tested. In
the rue Montmartre an average of &5,
000 microbes per cubic yard were found.
In the Avenue du Rots du Itologne. th"
richest street in town, the Champs
Klyssos not excepted, the highest num?
ber of microbes were found, they num?
bering, on a pretty Sunday afternoon,
no less than 573.000 per cubic yard.
! Carriages and automobiles kicking up
the dust arc responsible for this vast
number.
TPHCO-ITALIAN IVAR STILL
OK ABSORBING INTEREST
( Rome, February 3.?The Tureo-ltalion war
j continues ol absorbing Interest to Italians,
land no matter what the monetary eost?ll
will soon reach $lfO.tXO,O00?popular f.-etlng
la that it cannot be too great to pay for the
unincatlor. of his Majesty's subjects that
hus resulted, let alone all other consldvru
: liens.
! The old antagonism of Neapolitans and
Plcdmontcse, of Calabrcse and Sicilians, of
Uchoeae and Venetians, and of Lombards
and Southerners, has disappeared before tue
common enemy. Old nnd new parlies havo
ceased to exist, with no other example In
history after 1w\ when Plus IX.. also hav?
ing Joined In the national war against Aus?
tria, the whole country was In accord
All classes, from the roya" family down
ti the poorest people, have their children
in the entrenchments. Queen Elena said;
"1 wish tri}' son Umbcrtol wore a dozen years
older, to be able to go to the fr?nt." The
[lueiiese of d'Aosta, her children too young
10 take part, went heracll as a nurse. The
manifestations of affection for the army
and navy are many. A women lent a rosotle
formed of the ItaHnn trl-color to the colo?
nel of a regiment, with ? nnpology because
It had laded, lind adding, "I made It with
the remains of the tricolor with which
my grnndmothei, when I was a ohlld, made
rosettes for the aoldlers of the Independence,
risking her head. May this same ribbon
make you victorious."
The devotion of the peasants is even more
moving, a woman of Hie Abruxxl sent to
her ton. who1 I* a sharpshooter and served
bravely under General Fora, two llologna
sausages, willing In poor Italian, ??Otic Is
for you nnd the other for your general, it*
1 has deserved It also."
SOLITARY LIFE IN
IMPERIAL STYLE
'Empress Charlotte" Reported to
Be Rapidly Declining
in Health.
PATHETIC LIFE HISTORY
Kindly Fate Blot: Out Half
Century of Her Tragic
Careci.
BY KAHI. II. VON WIEUA.ND.
Berlin, February 3-?"Empress Char?
lotte," ?te scventy-two-your-old widow
of Emperor .Uaxitnllllan of Mexico,
brothei of Emperor Fran/. Joseph of
Austria, who was captured and shot by
the Mexican Republican*, forty-four
year ago, is reported tu be rapidly
declining in health.
Empress Charlotte, aa i-he still Is
cailetl, is one of the most pathetic
figures In history, and a pitiable victim!
or the efforts of Napoleon III. to us-1
tablib a monarchy In the New Wold. I
Bereft of her reason during tne terri?
ble events that deprived her of hue - j
band and crown, a kindly fate has j
blotted out almost half a century that >
has followed, and to this day she is
Ignoant of the lag.lo ending of her
husband.
Mexico's "Empress" lives a solitary
life <n Imperial style, and with a small
court surrounding her. In the secluded
Castle of p.ouc.iout, between Brussels!
and Antwerp. Hie 1 attended with Im- i
perlal honors, and, regardless of the
fact that she is immensely wealthy. Is
cared for at the expense of the royal
house of Belgium, because she is a sis?
ter of the late King Leopold It Is said !
that at t'mes she still lives In the
past, Imagines that she still is In the |
imperial court of Mexico City, ami
speaks of Empeor Maxitnllllan as if
he were alive, but little of her exact j
mental condition and definite facts of
h?r secluded life 'n recent years Is
known, however. Her tragic past and
pathetic condition his, to a large ex?
tent, shielded her from public curiosity.'
This has In a measure been aroused
again by reports regarding the state]
of her health.
With a keen foreboding of what was]
to come, Empress Charlotte hastily i
left Mexico City, In 1S67. to plead w'th
Napoleon III., Emperor of France, not
to abandon her husband, whom he had
lured to the land of Montezuma by the
offer of an empire in t e New World.
Until recently, very little wit definitely
known of the incidents of that trip.
When ? Napoleon Intimated that he
was about to withdraw the French
troops from Mexico and leave Maxl
mlllian to his fate. Empress Charlotte, j
dee'ded to Immediately leave for Paris'
to see Napoleon. "We had the Impres-j
slon," wrote M dc Ealortle. a member |
of her household, a few years ago. I
"that her departure was the beginning j
of the end, and that she would never,
return to Mexico."
To escape Marshal Bazalne, the same |
Bazalne who four years later surren- |
dered Metz to the Germans, was tried,
convicted and fled from France, with
but whom the imperial couple made no!
move, it was necessary to arrange a I
bogus voyage. As a part of the pur- '
pose of the voyage was to denounce
Bazalne to his master, which the mar- I
shal guessed, an ostensible visit to!
Yucutan was planned for the Em?
press.
Charlotte l*ft Mexico City with an ,
Imposing suite, and while the populace
was erecting triumphal arches In her ,
honor, she sailed from Vera Cruz with ;
only two servants. When Bazalne '
learned that he had been fooled by a
woman he was furious and dispatched |
a warship after the fleeing Empress, j
but the latter's ship had a start of i
eight hours and was not overtaken. !
Almost a nervous wreck from fear
and worry about her household, lout
(buoyed up by hope, the young Em?
press, then but twenty-seven years of
age, had bitter foretaste of what she
was to experience whenupon arriving
at Brest she found that the French
government, officially advised of her
coming, failed to send ans' one to meet
her. At Paris there was no one at the
station to greet her. Her hopes were
blasted. She had to go to n hotel in
n cab. and fainted from grief. Arriving
at the hotel, she sent her maids away.
She spent the entire night weeping.
On the second day Napoleon Invited
her to luncheon, at rft. Cloud. She de?
clined, but announced her visit for that >
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farmer. Pulverled from high grade
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stingy man would consider cheap.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
has Just made a special low rate on
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Write or call at my store for prices,
chemical and physical tests.
Respectfully.
W. P. CUL.BERT.
Marlon. Va.
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Carriages?
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Automobiles.
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Horse Shoeing
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cmS'S already reached a point where tri? nucccnnor la lielus ' din
day. Arriving at St. Cloud, the Em?
press was in a pitiable mental and
nervous state.
Mine, del Barrio, who was in j/n ad?
joining room, tells of the meeting.
Napoleon ami Empress Eugenie, who
themselves four years later lost their
crowns and were hanishod from France,
met Empress Charlotte with smiley. An
hour passed in earnest discussion.
Charlotte tearfully pleading that he"
husband be not abandoned in a strange
land. .Suddenly her demeanor changed,
and She cried: "[ ought have never
to forgotten who 1 am and who you
are! 1 ought to have rt>meiu|i><#t-ed
that I have Bourbon blood In my I
veins. I ought never to have dls- j
honored my family by humiliating
myself before a Bonaparte?an ad?
venturer:" A Bhrlek and the fall of
a body toilowed.
Rushhing In. Ilm?, del Barrio found
her mistress in a fainting condition. 1
Eugenie was trying to hold wutor to
Charlotte's Hps. Recovering slightly,
she shouted wildly; -'(Jet away, mur?
derers! Take tlie poison away: They
want to poison me:" Napoleon's ro
tusal had robbed Empress. Charlotte
of her reason, at lcusl temporarily.
Physicians believed she would re?
cover. She wus sent to Switzerland
and then to Rome. She became culm
cr. and visited tho Pope to plead with
him to save the life of MaitlmllUan.
Plus IN. received her In his private
study after mass which she had at- \
tended. The Empress insisted upon
leaving her hat on In deliance of all
Vatican etiquette. His Holiness was
having his breakfast. He asked per?
mission to proceed with his meal. Em?
press Charlotte suddenly dipped hefl
lingers in his chocolate and then licked
them.
"Thl.-- Is not poisonous, surely," she!
declated. "1 am starved. Everything
ihey give nie to oat is poisoneo." I
Alarmed at nils str?ng behavior, the i
pontiff rung tor another cup of choco
late: She refused it, and Insisted upon
sharing tiie cup out of which His;
Holiness had been drinking.
Physicians were summoned, and the!
young Empress, after much difficulty,'
was removed from the Pope's studio.
Thon she refused to leave the Vatican,:
and insisted upon spending the night,
there?an unprecedented thing. As .she:
could only be removed by force, It was|
decided to humor her. Tho young Em?
press, driven Insane by sorrow and
worry, is the only woman in history
who ever spent tt night In the Vatican.
Subsequently Charlotte was taken to
Belgium, where her brother, King
Leopold, turned over to her the Chateau
of Tervueren, near Brussels, ona of tho
most beautiful royal residences In Eu?
rope. Several years ago she ,?et this,
on fire, and it was completely destroyed.
WILL ATTEMPT TO RESTORE
GARDEN OP THE FARNESH
Romp. February 3.?Professor Glacorno ]
Bonl, the archaeologist, who won fame by,
directing the excavation* of the Forum and '
Palatine, has now undertaken to restore to.
It! original glory the Bonus Romanus on .
the Palatine, which was nlso called Horto,
Farneslano, or Garden of the Fornese, from'
Cardinal Edonrdo Farnese, who. In the be?
ginning of the seventeenth century, entrust-,
rd to the doctor and chemist Aldino tho
description of that beautiful portion of the!
historic hill, which contained the new plants
Jusi sent from the American continent.
Professor Bonl givoe most interesting ac?
counts of this American flora transplanted
iniif Italy, am! speaks of the "'Mexican
Acacia," which came from San Domingo,
sprouted on the Palatine in Ifil! and flow,
ored three years later, nnd which was from
that t me for three centuries spread In all
the gardens Of Southern Europe under the
nAme of Acacia Indlca Farneslana. He t..fls
of the influence the Importation of trees,
plants and vegetables from North and South
America had on the landscape, on agricul?
ture and on the economic and hygienic con?
dition of the peoples of Europ*. The Hortus
Romanus.- which Michael Angelo designed
nnd began under Paul III., nnd which was
the prototype of all the gardens of France,
Germany, Belgium and Holland, became the
centre of thlf Moral Importation.
Queen Blena Is enthusiastic over the pre?
lect of the archaeologist nnd has ordered
that 3.000 of her highly-prized specie* of
roses be given to him to start the new gar?
den, which he found almost a tvllderneae \
only a few pines nnd cypresses several cen?
turies old having survived the long negu-ct.
The professor Intenda to replant the
Acacia Rablnla Paeiidoeacla. which Vespn
sleu rtnhln brought from the United Slntes
and planted for the first time In the Jard!n
du Rol in Paris In ls"?: the pineapple tree
which Christopher I olumhiis discovered In
Guafialupa In BIB, and which, when brought
to Europe. Charles V. refused to ta.it?; the
cinchona Callsaya. which. In IM?, bolnc
stnt to Count Chlnchon. Viceroy of Peru,
took from a corruption Of bis name that
ot China C'hlalno or Quinine, and tho Mag?
nolia Grandlflora, brought from the United i
Statss to Europo in 1734. The more modest |
plants will not be neglected. These Inolud*1
the Solanum Tuberosum, commonly called
potato, first Introduced Into Spain In the
middle of the sixteenth century; tho green
popper, used In Italy now as a vegttatne.
which Columbus found that tho natives of
Hayti ftnployed for flavoring; tobacco, which
Columbus's men found In 1492 wbon explor?
ing tho Island of Cuba; tomato, cultivated
bv the Mexicans amidst the matne:
tapioca, from equatorial America;' vanilla,]
which even lite native Americana used to J
Davor ebneolato. and the Jerusalem artl
choke, the yellow flowers of which flourish?
ed In Iho Palatine. Gnrdon of Cardinal
Farnese In 161? and was called Aster Peru
?lous Xuberotu*.
AMUSEMENT PARK
THREATENS ROME
RV HUMtY WOOD.
(Special Cable to the Times-Dispatchi
Home, February o.?Rome just at
present is belnr, seriously threatened
with a summer resort and anl?gtmont
pvirk. To the average American toutiat
who saves hla uarnlngs for six year.; to
com to Rome and tee the ruins, It
might seem that the Romans
siioub be satlsllcd with what
they already have, in the way
of wonders. without hankering
for amusement* of the Coney la
land variety, u iille the modern Roman
it. very pruuu of the rums of hi* pro?
genitors, he is nevertheless up-to-date
and ii real amusement park, something
yet unknown In Italy, la bound 10
come.
The nearest appioach Romo has yet
had to the giddy gayeties of Coney Is
laud came last summer, when, during
the exposition, an enterprising Im?
presario constructed ono of the old
time switchback railways?the kind
that was discarded In the L'n'tcd Statea
t ubout twenty years ago. The switch
i back was the death knell of every
i .Sunday-school In the Eternal City, and
the owner of the device cleaned up a
small fortune. Encouraged by this
success, another more daring Impresario
j erected one of the airship merry-go
I rounds, with the result that in order
to stop it long enough to all the
i bearings, it is almost necessary to call
: In the carab'nlerd to keep the crowds
i back.
In such a promising Held as that it
naturally followed that some enter?
prising amusement park manager
' would see great possibilities. The con
' tract for a "Roman Coney'1 has been
l'?t to a French syndicate, which will
not only build a park, but eighteen
miles of railroad necessary to connect
It with Rome.
The park will he located near Ost'n,
I where In the old days human beings
were fed to the wild beasts, making
I a Coney Island quite unnecessary.
1 Owing to the fact that all of the
streets of Rome are very narrow, It is
necessary for the proposed railroad to
penetrate to the centre of the city by
means of a tunnel. Unfortunately the
old Palatine and Capltoline hills, with
all their relies of the glory of ancient
Rome, arc In the direct light of way
an awful hue and cry has been raised
by that portion of the Roman citizen?
ship, which believes thnt Rome should
continue to remain a oily of the past,
over what Is likely to happen when the
awful shrieks of a "Coney Island ex?
press" are heard under the rostrum,
where the funeral sermon was delivered
over the body of Julius Caesar, and
undet the house of the Vestal Virgins,
where. In the absence of n steam heal?
ing plant, the virgins "?>.] to sit up
all r.icbt to stoke the tires.
Various expedients to overcome the
necessity of such n sacrilege have been
suggested, the most in to resting, but the
most Improbable one. being to bring
the tunnel under the bed of the Tiber.
The especial Inspiration In this idea
lies In the fact that Ihe entire bed of
that historic stream is supposed to bo
a mass of priceless art treasures. This
Is due to the fact that In the c-ood ild
days when the barbarians used to eome
to Rome to see the sights, 'heir tasle
for things classical was such that all
of the art treasures they could lay
their hap'ls on were promptly dumped
l"to the Tiber. <*>f course, amontrst the
other things that got dumped are sun
posed to be the golden candlesticks
and other golden vessels hrourht from
the Temnle nt Jerusalem by Titus, and
which disappeared after their arrival
In Rome.
I Tl Is. therefore, nrced that If the
' tunnel could be brought In under the
Tiber, mnnv of these priceless art
treasures Could be rescued and the
railroad could,; also be gotten int.. Ihe
I city without disturbing ton man-, nil' -'
of ancient Rome' Unfortnnatoly, how
lover, the Tiber Is verv badly warped
and those of the modern Romans who
want to got out to their Coney Island
in a hurry would obieet strenuously to
bavlncr to follow the curves of the riv?
er In order lo tret there.
The promoters of the amusement
park, however, promises to fled some
way.out of the difficulty, and next sum?
mer will see the modern Romans shnot
I Incr the ahtltos. living about on the
' inorrv-go-ronnds. and otherwise ??p.i"'1
lug themselves, within a short dis?
tance of the site of the old coliseum
I where tbo Romans of another age
amused themselves by watching the
I lions devour the Christiana.
FORMER OFFICER
CAUSE OF WORRY
Reason for Presence in Lon;loii
of Ex-Lieutenant Montagu
NTot Understood.
IN FIGHTING AT TRIPOLI
King George Issues Order Con?
cerning Rendition of N'a
tiona! Anthem.
IIY F.D. I,. K I'.K.V.
London, February .".?There is a,
young Englishman recently returned
from Tripoli, whose presence in London
Is causing British officialdom all sor;.*?
of worry, lie is ex-Lloutenant Herbert
F. -Montagu, aged twenty-three, who
has been lighting on the sido of the
Turks and wh i was recently sent nv
thern to England on u secret mission,
th. nature of which sleuths'from Um
Intelligence bureau of the War Olllco
hove vainly attcmped to discover.
Lieutenant Montagu belonged to ilia
Royal F?siliers, and while on leave
went to Tripoli shortly after the war
.started. Ills knowledge of military
science and his ability in handling men
quickly won recognition in the Tiirklsi:
camp. In a few weeks he had risen to
the command of the right wing of the
army investing Tripoli City. All this
was unknown to the British army offi?
cials, until Montagu sent to a London
paper j circumstantial account of the
allege,i atrocities committed by Italian
soldiers, and appealed to the Brltltdt
government "In tiie name of humanity'
to take steps to slop the war. For this
his tiamc was promptly stricken from
the British army list.
Montagu wa? a martyr to his sensa
or right. It was not on the political
slate for Hi government here to know
anything about the a.lroclttcs, so ho
had to go. If he ha.1 kept still ho
might have had the opportunity of
.serving again under the British Hag.
His dispatches, it Is admitted, did moro
than nnythlug else to stir up antl
ltallou feeling lit England.
Montagu was in the thick of the
lighting before Tripoli, leading hl.i
Arabs in person >n dozens of desperato
charges. In one engagement his cap
and coat were pierced by bullets, and,
charge of shrapnel wounded him In
the leg. While he was in the hospital,
the Arabs on the firing lino took turns
chanting prayers for his recovery.
When he was well enough to travel,
the Turkish commander ordered him
to London on the secret mission. Dur?
ing a hundred mile horseback rl'li ,
mounted Italians followed him. When
he motored from Ben Gardcne to Sfa\.
he was pursued In another car. Italian
sccrot service men were with hlin ori
the boat to Marseilles, and they
travelled in his compartment to Paris
l and Calais. They crossed with hint lb
Dover, and taking up the trail at Vic?
toria station, London, they followed
him in a taxi to the very door of his
mothers home. But tho Itnllans were
Just as unsuccassful in fathoming tilt*
real purpose of his visit as the British
detectives have been since.
On all other subjects connected With
I the war, Montagu talks freely. He d?
clare-- that the censored news from
Home Is a fabric of lies. "Tho Rome
reports." he said, "credited the Itallars
with absurdly small losses in engage
j mcnte, In which 1 took part. Their fig?
ures were manufactured. 1 know they
were wrong, for I personally counted
tho dead, theirs and our own.
"The Turkish forces are constantly
being reinforced. Hardly a day passed
I that a sheikh docs not come from the
i desert with a detachment of 100 to I -
0?0 righting men?all his own force?
I all aimed. In nddltlon to their rifle,
some of these desert warriors carry
' two-handled swords nnd wear chain
armor captured by their forefather.*
from the Crusaders centuries, ago.
"It Is curious to see such an outlit
In stioh a war. And, though I am a
Christian, 1 can not help teel thcru
Is a certain Jur.tice In Islam turning
against a Christian people the very
weapons which the early Christlanu
used against Islam.
"Turkey can carry on the war 'n
deflnltely. Italy can never more than
simply hold the coast cities. The
Ttirlcs have the entire resources of the
. Clllnterland at their disposal, and they
; are constantly drawing from Egypt, do
! spite tiie vigorous attempts of the Brlt
I Ish government In that country to pre.
I vent the transport of arms and sup?
plies. Furthermore, the war has served
i to strengthen the Moslem world. Turk
i and Arab have forgotten their old dlf
| forencea in lighting a common enemy.
And, hotter, braver, clenncr fight'ng
I nun I do not want for comrades."
King George has inherited all hi*
father's regard for. and insistence on
minor points of ceremonial nnd cou.r
otlqtiette, ur.d as a result of an army
order, .lust Issued regimental bandmas?
ters, are quaking in their shoes. lor
fear their rendering of the solemn
"God Save the King" may not pleaso
the royal ear.
"The order points out that during'
hin trip to India King George noticed
one of the bonds did not play tne na?
tional anthem in the proper 'tempo.'
His Majesty therefore directs thai In
future bandmasters will keep to the
?'empo' laid down in paragraph 1,105,
Kind's Regulations."
The paragraph in question says that
the "tempo'' Is eighty-four crochets to
the minute, and it la reported that th*
young and inexperienced bandmaster of
the Twenty-first Lancers at Port Sn'.d
j speeded up his band on the llrst verso
of the national anthem to the. rate, of
too crochets per minute, in other words,
he deprived the populnce of the ileas
ure of saluting King George for five
whole seconds. At the rate of eighty
four crochets to the minute, it takes
twenty-seven seconds to play the first
verse, and at 100 it takes twenty-two
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