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! THE-OREGON, SUNDAY JOURNAL PORTLAND, UNDAY MORNING, AUGUST - 7. 1910
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King George's Young
Heir Has Many
Startling Examples of
the Perilousness of His
rosihon
JTTTTJLES is 4 weird old country, so Ji
tlt ' Celtic in its ' relics and reminis
"tenets that the, Druid spirit can
not be said to be altogether dead even at this '
day, . And, doubtless, all manner of, kelpies,,
gnomes and fairies do antiquated stunts over
the ruins in the picturesque hills.
The presumption of a foreigner calling
himself prince of this land of magic and mys
tery is enough to arouse the wrath of -all the
: patron gnomes and spirits in the hills ; Per' i ,
haps this is the explanation of the strange
hoodoo that seems to have hung over the
nineteen youngsters who have home this title
in the last 6oo years. - . .
Seriously enough, the young princes of
England who have had the Welsh title affixed
to their names have ever been perverse '
mortals until they had finally passed it on to
their sons. There have been so many ex
amples of prodigality, rebellion, sowing of
wild oats and the like since Edward the
Second was born in Carnarvon castle that it
is now a question: Will the present prince.
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ompsnlon'of Sir John FalsU'ft and, accerdlnj to the
' bard, tb pal of half the thieves and freebootra la old
London. ' ''i-' -'-'v ' ' (
' Th despair of his, father and the tnembers of the'
court, who had no aytnpathy for, :h'l brawls, hts corn
' panions or his taates, he assumed the responsibilities
41 of his position when he was needed, and became the
; most popular ktngr of his age, j It may be remembered-
, that it was in the reign of Henry V, the transformed
Prlope Hal. that great victories were won oyer the
French on the continent by the-EnglJall longbowmen
' Aglncourt and others. How authentic Shakespeare Is -in
his portrayal we do not know. Thfs; however, la a
quotation from Hal as lie answered his upbralders and
' accusers; " . v
-: Be when this loose bhvlor I throw off, .. .
And pay the dsbt I nvr promised,
By how much better than my word 1 am.
By so much shall I falsity men's hopes;
; , . And. Itks brlKht metal on a ulln grrnund, -My
raformatlon flittering o'er my fault,
fihall show irtor goodly and attract more eyes
, i nun inai wnicn nam no roil to sei ic oil.
I'll so offend to make offense a skill; ' '
Ke(tem1na' ftmA..whti miin tna thlnlr f 11S
This seems to pe the prince or Wales spirit,' to make
the most of the opportunity, for'running astray, at the ;
same -time never losing sight of " the responsibility
ahead. Tit. la not forgotten Jn the present generation v
-, that King. Edward VII wa himself a true prlnce;6f '
Wales, if taking youth lightly is a part pf the efflce.
He, like Prince Hal, never lost "sight of the Impending-
, responsibility, and shouldered jt with good will and
no little ability when his playtime came to an end.
The various .Georges were in, their day as rebellious
and prodigal in oipfshion.or another as any princes , '
who. have borne -litle. . George Itwas, of course, an "
importation, but: the. second George. his son; fought
with his father from hjs earliest years on every con-
. celvable topic, and when it came time to ctfristen his
child came to an open breach with the parent as to the
-person pf the godfather, " They. were opposed. politically .
ae; well and, like a consistent prince the youngster
succeeded In worrying his father into wrath' at every
turn. ' i ,
Then came his son Frederick, who . never' lived to -reign,
but did all he could In his years as prince to
make his presence uncomfortably felt about the pal- .
ace. He married against; his father's will, and then, at
the time his wife was about to bear a child, he learned
that his father . had been solicitous 'enough, to make
special preparations tor its advent Out of sheer spite
he had his wife removed while In a critical' condition,
And furthered every political feud thereafter that could
possibly bring trouble upon the, royal household. .
His son, George III, was reared in seclusion and was
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really nevergiven a greaVopportunity ,to.do his part '
; until he was fully matured ana had come to the throne. '
Then, as all Americans know, he made up for lost time,
y The old-practices, which belong to. the. title were '
taken up by liis son with" great enthusiasm; hpwever.
George IV was. in his youth the veryhandsomest, most '
faithless, rebellious, profligate scamp of prln,ce. that
could possibly disgrace kingdom. It was said that
not only was he immoral and strongheaded,,fbut hla
f1' word ,wa8' not worth one of his royal buttons. ' T
The very, latest prince of ,Wales isi little prince
Edward, the l-year-old son of the reigning" King- s
, George. While his educatlon has been vry, simple and'
sane, his annual income will amount -to something like " ;
f a half million; and then there is that verlastfng hoo- '
rAa faaBgiiiv.:JTer'iHg'SinVfilc''eahno't'.be accounted -'
for .except, by crediting ' it 'to. the iangry old "Welsh '
i fairies, who have never yet been appeased. ' .
7 : - A COURTEOUS YOUNG I CHAP
There, is no telling yet how mtich of'a frlnce llal ,
the lad will be, though he is said to be. such a Cour-'-
teous, simple-mannered boy that England would be
i: quite surprised to hear of Jlm;outtlns;:upan'.o(':tli .
A traditional '.pranks. vCt la Just possible, '"'again, that the
Welsh hoodoo hits been appeased and thfi't; Jb future
the shade or old -Hal will have to look uptfn 1e devel-
Trinc&yJMr. of )Y?esXOest Son
of. f&rvy Wfto . Yevcr JYbfe;
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1 Birds Learning Ameri- s
; ; . can Ways;
FARMERS and grain raisers In all .parts of the coun. '
. try are up In arms against the English sparrow, '
and in many localities laws have been enacted
Authorizing a bounty for their destruction. Yet there
3are many things to indicate that the feathered irami
r' grant is not fltogether bad. , , , '
..'Any one who has a garden and who will take tb
time and pains to conduct a series of watchful tests wilt
see the English sparrow carefully watching other birds,; -
and In many, instances the sparrow 1 so inquisitive that -j. ;
it will go so far as to imitate the other btrs, and in so
doing It learns to catch arid destroy a number of destruo
tive worms and troublesome Insects. The little chippy Is
a great bird to dart down among the cabbages and hunt
among the broad and curly leaves for the troublesome :
cabbage worm, and the English sparrow has been seen .
watching these birds, and. then In order to do as they did
the sparrows darted down among the plants and in the
garden i of the 'writer have caught thousands of these ,
worm pests. ' ' ' -V
. In. a. cornfield where the owner had neglected ta
, destroy a troublesome weed known as "foxtail", grass, ,
' which bears a large pod of seeds', which ripen and scat
' ttt out in the autumn, the English sparrows were ery
busy .seating - seeds. Dozens of sparrows would visit.. -these
plants, and they could be seen gathering the seeds,.
They cracked the router coverlng. ln (search of the sweet ,, v
4 meats within, thus destroying the life germ of the seed.
Actual count revealed one sparrow destroying over a nun-
-.died seeds in a vlngle minute, and it only requires a few 1 "
moments' calculation to reveal the good a large flock of ,
BnDHrAW. mtcrkt BAmtillah
i . It Is well known that the American robin destroys a
grearmany cherries, and it has taken years of hard work
.on the part of those wishing our birds, protected to con.
vine the people ' the - robin does more good than harm.
When the English, sparrow was first brought to America
it was) never seen to trgubte small .fruits, but in recent
.years It has been known .to destroy quite a number of.
cherries end some other small fruit, A carerui investiga
tion of this habit baa revealed the fact that the sparrow.
,' opment of princes with a wry face, saying:; f,. -y , . '.. very 'often the robin and even the catbrd will not steal a
."AfArir wa wuri. nnr mrh vinifii ui-in m fa ;t rnorrv iinifiRfl ir rnniRins R worm
. , rrnnee,. bir . jacK' raistarr, see yondervBhrtmp-of a,
. prince in, his navy togs at an age when thou and 1 4
' were clanking flagons In every tavern in town..' I have
half a mind o believe that the. younger England lacks 4
much of the stuff from which good en were made. In
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- ' But, . then, Hal is long dead, so there. is no need' to a
' apologize for him.' Those of us who are not too deeply -
:; i drenched in medievalism can rejoice in the change of .'
- manners and declare that the time; has come . when
kinsrS' are more like other people, and -that 'lb-la no
; longer polite in princes to be rascals.? So we hope the
".little prince will escape the' hoodoo of - his job and be
a good sailor . lad, J-ist to prove that the old -Welsh
! kelpies are routed at last . .'. , - , , .v
The-robin and catbird
wilt eat some of the choicest fruit,-but the writer has
;neve found a sparrow eating a perfect cherry; v ... t
- In some localities, the sparrow has been eating tha
sweet corn, but investigation discloses the fact that much
of this variety of grain is Infested with a worm that eats
4 the point off the ears of corn, and if some of those who
.have been condemning the sparrow .will watch and be
more careful in their investigations and" a Jittl mora
generous in their opinions they will find the sparrow is la
a fatr war to completely eradicate this ugly pest. v
'.f.3: - .The; English parrow is fast learning American ways.
and in a few more-years It habits will be so completely
changed as to alter the shape of the bird's beak, mak-,
ing it, an insectivorous mra. insteaa oi one.aepenoiog
entirely, on grain for its living. K . . , ,
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be able to withstand the manifold tempta-
little Edward, son. of the newtktng, follow "'---. r ( r r
, , , . '. , . i i ' ' t. h a rnntrir.ntwusj hirh-mtnded ruler? - :
- Who can tellt And, to continue' this
in the fitful and troubled wake of his prede
cessors? - ...
Will this boy, now so amiable, be borne
down by the surfeit of good things to which
Ms title opens the wayf Or will he, like his
father, unlike most other holders of the title,
putting of questions, what commonsense
father and mother would tare to have their
child exposed to the character-destroying in
fluences which surround the prince of Wales f
IT MAY: be that all princes are wayward fellows,
with a certain tendency to have all out of llfe
therels In it Tor a'youngster as soon aa -they
realize what It means to be a king and sit on a
throne, with a whole nation looking on. But It seems
thaf the princes of Wales have been even more so
Inclined than the sons of other monarchs Some of
them have even forgotten to lay aside their PrlMely
capers when Invested with the royal marks and Pv
l?ges. But. to do them justice, they are the exception.
For if princes of Wales have been ftaughtj' fellows, as
Fhakespeare might have called them. In their youth,
they have generally settled down into sober old Kings
like the merry Prince Hal of "Henry IV . ,'.
We are not Inclined to have much patience with trie
ordinary lad who is 'having his fling." Only the old
people who hava outlived both the period of wild oats
and the subsequent period of self-righteousness have
much charity for the prodigatBut with princes, some
how II W different.
While it la only logical to assume that a man who
would be king Bhmild prepare himself by leading a
perfect and upright life, princes who live In the
ehadow of royalty kBow that a crown does not make a
man any the less human, and that after he is king so
much will be expected and demanded of him that he
will no longer be his own master, but the public serv
ant of a whole nation.:
Bo they are prompted to be mere human beings and
do most of the things that-are accounted weaknesses
before thsy reach the age of bondage, as they doubt
less regard tt. . : -t
HIS TIME TO FROLIC
So it is that the title of prince of Wales Is to the
Incipient king what a, course at college is to the son of
a great business man. He feels that it -la his time of ,
play before he gets down to serious things, and Inas
much as his future la assured, he, feels no great re
sponsibility in making the most of his opportunities.
There have been kings who were never princes of
Wales, old warriors for the most part, who by clever
n?es, diplomacy, courage and nerve won the coveted
hrone without passing through the period of aco
ytism. They correspond to the great business men
who have never had time nor opportunity to go to
college and "prepare for life." Their sons were the
princes of Wales and frisked about under the title as
the capitalist's son does in college, knowing what was
before them, Tather holding n in horror, waiting for
the last call to settle down and be rational like other
men who had to fight their way. . w
King Edward II was the first prince of Wales, and.
according to tradition, it came about in this way:' His
father, Edward I, was the man who seemed to have a
' mania for hounding down the old Celtic residents of
Uritain, who had retired to the mountains of Wales and
to Scotland. He had established himself in Wales
not Jong before his son Edward was born, and was
maintaining seat of the English government at
Carnarvon- aat. in north Walea.
As a measure of conciliation, the atory goes, he told
The Wels!LthaLJbe. yftuidglve. thaw .iuu bafsr
ti,lr own soil to ruie over them. So he sent for his
1'om. about to give birth to .a child, and the young
prince wss duly bom in the great castle op good, h.ls
torif Wl.-ih soil, which no one could dispute.
Whether this appeased the Welsh themselves or not
H ffuMrur. fr ttiey were a spirited race of fiery little
.-.; but the Welsh fairies, if wo ere to believe tradl.
m, started off tnelr campaign against this innovation
in fine form. The prince born on their soil and first
dubbed prince of Wales was a weakling in every sense
of the wprd. gome say that in his youth he bad few
vices; but men were liberal in those days, and it if
certain that he had still fewervirtues. He was weak
and stupid, false and Ignoble.
A ROYAL WEAKLING ;
By the time he came to ascend the throne his father
was making a great war upon Scotland and was Just
getting a foothold; but young Edward allowed all his
father's conquests to slip through his fingers, fcnd Scot
land gloried in her freedom and harassed the -borders
as never before, . .' , -,
Edward the Black. Prince was another prince of
Wales, famous enough, but, rather Infamous In his
way, too. However, he was never a king, although both
the office of prince and klng'fell to his son, Richard II,
another weakling, whose life was full- of tribulation
and brief enough, to satisfy s whatever,, powers were
avenging themselves in Wales upon the presumptuous
Englishmen. ' , ; .i-i.-r-i. ,.;:v.'r:--.,;,ii .
. The most famous of all scamp heirs to the throne,
however, was Shakespeare's jolly Prince Hal, the boon
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estate, is a thing of relatively recent development,,
but of already pretentious size. It is already so
big and so, planned for tho. system which takes'-the '
scholar to the- school, that its, directors -realized
the necessity of taking the school to the scholars.''
Th$ farmers' institutes marked halfway de
velopment in that very valuable innovation; but
still they did not make the scheme elastic enough
to reach the very farmers who most needed the -information
which the .agricultural college has to
furninh.
Thef railroads gumlied the1 lons-felt want1 by
furnishing; special trains '.which, 'in literal truth.
,-It is at this end that the Lehigh. Valley's motorcai
college Is working. Tha industrial department bought
it for the use of F. R. Stevens, the road's agricultural
xpert. ' " V, ::.-'. : ( .
Mr. Stevens was formerly connected with the. New
York state department of agriculture, and undertook :
his task with the railroad" company several months
automobile now rrcreeents-the smallest
agricultural 'college i in existence in ; the
United States,' with the sole exception of
the one th nTpmcp farmer carries under
his hat. . ? ' . .' ,
- The agricultural college, in its really popular
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HE tendency of all the railroads of late'has been
to help the farmer,: and in so doing to help
themselves,, : - ,
The proposition Is' simple: 1 Better farmers,
cr 5 p"s7T It gei'vcfop IT'ti re a eTTre Ig h'fsTg f ciadT
freights, larger' profits; ' larger'proflu well, that's
business.'-' -. ' ".-..':- :. ;.. : ' . '" ? '"
The pre-eminent-"Jim", tllll, whose faculty for
"constructive policies' has always borne a striking
family resemblsnce to genius -took the first step on
the Northern Pacific many years ago, 'when he pre-
ago," the' agricultural departments both of New Tori
and Pennsylvania consenting to co-operate with him.,
When the littlest college-on wheels had been
: i .;, " r v i r ... . .7 " , . j painted olive green ana cnnsienea AgnuuuuriBi ...
took the agricultural college to the people, ' and , fetters of silver, if was photographed aa it stood in
irmation" ' ' a 'field or aiiana mat was pianiea unaer jm. ow.itw"
aireciion last year. i--. ..' . ; - '
Then It-started on its mission along highwaya and
bvways. carrying- instructions in the newest and best
farm methods ; to every farmhouse which could ba ,
legitimately expected, tb contribute to the freight cars
of the-rallroad it.Beryes. v-.--- f'"u:l'r.:-
Beed selection -and germination, whlch may mea"n
the difference of 100 per cent in a crop of corn, can
be explained In ten minute. .The exact character! ot
a maVs soil can be explained to hton In ten days-time ,
mniiirh for Mr. Stevens to India him to send an
rteouate samnle to the State College, have It analyzed
.tiirnMd to him With definite instructions as
the treatment that particular soil ought to have,
mnst ftrofltable rotations and the full variety of c
depended , on the, importance , of ' the infprn
it could dispenie to bring .the people1 to tile trams,
, owJ;'(a$ j-list, a ;railroad---theXehigh ' Val;
, ley has gone all the Others one ' better, '.and has
filed down ,the special train .to the modest automo-,
bile , and the teaching jcorps to- a single' man. . -
and reaped, his reward later In enormous shipments of
livestock "which -made- the freight returns of 'other
'roads look like road to the poorhouse.- " -
JhjLJiissojiiBt'auU'a.uccegsaautlitieari-.agOj t i9 nfttHraiiidatd.
to
Its
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tented the farmers' along his line with blooded cattle nhr mxtrm fnr the Increase, in production.
has bran. learned downjto the ground -by the railway
managements ' of today, with fast-expresses for dis
posing ot early truck and vegetables as the hallmark
of their new lor. The "farm specials."whlch carry
corps of agricultural experts to station after station
of a road, where thev a-lve nrscticartalks and demon
strations to the 'assembled farmers, operate at the
Thfl mysteries of airaira. now mr.iesa imposing
than-tfiey were a lew years ago. sun ueier larmere
from . planting that superb; forage crop wherethelj
distance from railroad has left them uninfluenced and
uninformed by the new agriculture and its lewons
All these thinKs and countless others, the little
automobile enables the railroad s expert to bring
straight home to every man he deema U wise to reacU.