card to my mother to tell her I had seen the procession but I did not tell her I had been in that house. Then they told me to go straight to bed. I hadn't cried or screamed or done anything silly till then, but I felt that I couldn't go to bed, and I began to scream out loud, I couldn't help it. I found myself shivering with cold and shrieking: "I can't stay alone! The dead soldiers are here! I see them all round me!" So the mistresses sent one of my schoolfellows to sleep with me, and they told me not to talk of what I had seen. But I could not help thinking of it. I was three days in bed. I could not move, nor eat, nor sleep, and directly I shut my eyes I saw it all over again. The girls took turns in staying with me. I still dream about it very often. I shall never forget the King's wedding. [Lusitania launched. Evangelical Alli Victory over Zulus. ance celebrates its Diamond Jubilee in London. British win victory over Zulus. Cob- British bler Marakesh of Morocco, murderer of 36 women, walled-up alive. Wellman Arctic expedition sails from Antwerp. Roosevelt signs Statehood bills. President Sakay, Ladrone leader in the Philippines, surrenders. HAAKON VII., KING OF NORWAY (A.D. 1906) HROLF WISBY Characteristics and the King. Ο NCE more the ancient throne of Norway in the Drontheim Cathedral, vacant for more than five hundred years, will hold a sovereign. Prince Charles of Denmark has accepted the Storthing's proffer of the crown, and the coronation will take place, probably on New Year's Day, 1906. Who is this man Charles, what can he do, and why was he chosen by a parliament which has always shown republican tendencies? Prince Charles is a young man of thirtyancestry of three summers, of gentlemanly appearance, in excellent health, and of a very easy-going, liberal turn of mind. He is by nature well fitted to rule over the stubborn Norsemen, who do not mind the harness so long as they don't feel the whip. The very thing that is going to make Charles popular in Norway before he shows his face there, is the fact that he, as a typical "sailor prince," is considered a proper and natural connecting link between the old Viking spirit of feudal Norway and her present-day peaceful love of the sea. Another circumstance in favor of Charles is that he understands the language of the Norwegian people, and their traditions and history are part of those of his own country, Denmark, under the dominion of which Norway remained for four centuries. Charles is the second son of the Crown Prince of Denmark, whom he strongly resembles and this also counts in his favor, for the Crown Prince is a scion of the House of Sonderburg-Glücksburg, whereas the Crown Princess is a daughter of the Bernadotte, King Carl XV. of Sweden-and the Bernadottes were never popular in Norway. Queen Charles married, about a decade ago, the second and favorite daughter of the King of The new England, the Princess Maud Alexandra, with whom he fell in love at the Danish court. Through this marriage he brings with him to the Norse people a practical guarantee that the enormous Norwegian coast line will never lack the protection of the British fleet in time of trouble. Strategically considered, Charles is a very important acquisition for Norway. Diplomatically his family relationship with foreign courts is a political asset by which Norway is destined to benefit in more ways than one. Here is the family roster of Prince Charles, the future King Haakon VII. of Norway: Father and Mother.-Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark. Grandfather.-King Christian of Denmark., The King's relatives. Uncles.-King of England, King of Greece, Duke of Cumberland, Prince Waldemar of Denmark. Aunts. Queen Mother of England, Empress-Dowager of Russia, Queen of Greece, Princess Marie d'Orléans. Cousins. Czar of Russia, Prince of Wales, Prince George of Greece, Prince Aage of Brothers and Sisters.-Prince Christian of Denmark, heir-apparent; the Princes Harald and Gustav of Denmark; the Princesses Ingeborg, Thyra, and Dagmar. It is a peculiar coincidence that the first child in the family of the Danish Crown Prince and the first child in King Edward's family to wear the sceptre as Sovereign, is a second and not a first child, and both owe their success to the same fortunate accidentnamely, Norway's breach with Sweden. The official titles of King and Queen will be as follows in Norwegian: Kong Haakon den Syvende af Norge (King Haakon the Seventh of Norway.) Dronning Maud af Norge og Prinsesse af Storbrittanien og Irland (Queen Maud of Norway and Princess of Great Britain and Ireland). Charles loses his baptismal name and his hereditary title as a Prince of Denmark, whereas Maud retains both and gets a queenship in the bargain. This is the effect of an old Court ordinance in England, which prescribes that a princess of Great Britain and Ireland in marrying shall have the right to append this most envied of all English feminine titles to whatever name or title she may receive by marriage. The Queen-to-be of Norway is a pretty, stately girl who seems to be quite devoted to her husband, though it was said before her marriage that she was in love with a British noble who did not rank high enough to marry her. She has been reared almost exclusively in the atmosphere of Court life, and takes only a perfunctory interest in the out-door life, which her husband has made his by preference. Very likely the fresh breezes of Norway will have a salubrious effect on Princess Maud. The couple have a two-year old son, Alexander, who will be the Crown Prince of Alexander, Norway, and who as King will probably wear Norway. the title of Harald IV., as the Haralds and Haakons, it has been decided, will hereafter alternate on Norway's Court roster. [President Amador of Panama re-elected. H. K. Thaw shoots Stanford White in Madison Square Roof Garden. Congress passes railroad rate regulation, meat inspection, pure food, and Lake Erie and Ohio River ship Crown |