Show L AUTOS BEING USED IN PARCEL SERVICE Regular Express Line Started Up Between London and French Ca Capital ital COST IS NOT EXCESSIVE VISIT OF CORRESPONDENT TO EX SULTAN OF TURKEY BY HERBERT TEMPLE London Jan have In Invaded invaded the territory ot of the railroads and anda n a regular express parcel service by means ot of fast tast cars has been Inaugurated between London and Paris for the convenience ot of Londoners want to do their shopping In Paris or vice versa The service Is carried on by large 1 0 horse bors power moter vans the first ot of Which left London the other afternoon In time to catch the night boat from New NewHaven Newhaven Haven and landing at Dieppe at dawn It sped along the lanes ot of Normandy to Paris arriving In less than 24 hours The drivers speak English and French flu fluently and execute all shopping orders In person taking the goods back with them The service saves time lessens the risk ot of damage to goods In transport and the delay dalay In passing the customs The cost costIs costis Is only a trifle higher than the ordinary e express ss charges and the service has halli already al already ready become so popular that the firm which started It has already ordered n a dozen doren vans to be used In a 0 similar Lou Lon service Burgl Burglar and Proud of It ItI ItI I have been a burglar this last years I am no halfway burglar and I would kill a man for 6 I cents as freely treely as look at him This statement was Vat made by Henry When with William Churn he was ar arrested arrested rested at Chepstow all as a suspect Both men were charged at Chepstow with stealing boots and the former with at attempting attempting tempting to do grievous bOdily harm to Inspector Bulloch by whom he was ar arrested arrested rested When accosted by the Inspector ford tord drew a jimmy from his com pocket and aimed a 0 vicious blow at the of officers head Warding oft off the blow the Inspector knocked the prisoner down and held him by jiu jitsu methods until assistance Was obtained ob threatening In the meant meantime me to murder him When searched there Were found In Cull fords possession a stiletto s a razor a atin atin tin of pepper capable of at being used It Was alleged for blinding people a candle and a table knife kalfe who admitted previous convictions and his companion were committed for trial the bench Inspector Bullock Bulloch on his knowledge ot of Visit to An English newspaper correspondent correspondent dent Who has been allowed allowed the unusual un unusual usual privilege of Visiting Abdul Hamid In his villa vUla prison at Writes that ho he found the for tor former mer ruler of the faithful looking ten years younger than his latest photo photographs photographs graphs and evidently In splendid health His former nervousness and constant tear fear of assassination have dis disappeared disappeared appeared entirely but he still dreams of at returning to his old power He sleeps Well takes Walks In the beautiful beau beautiful park accompanied by his two sons Ions and for some hours every da day works as an amateur carpenter He likes to have tales told him after the manner ot of the Arabian Nights and shows a preference for the adventures ot of Eddin while now and then he reads a Turkish newspaper In the same villa with him are living his two sons two daughters and eleven ot of the women ot of his former harem The household Is waited wafted upon by thirteen For housekeeping the sultan is allowed a thousand pounds Turkish a month but part of it Is kept back for tor some somo ot of his former harem ladles ladies who have remained at Constantinople The villa Is closely guarded Inside and out by a 0 detachment ot of Infantry and one ot of gendarmes besides a number ot of police policemen policemen men all commanded by officers who are being constantly changed There Is a tel telephone telephone ephone from the villa ma to the nearest po police police I lice station and to the headquarters of the I Third army corps It may be as assumed that the life lite now passes monotonouslY and quietly enough The reports ot of his attempts at flight were ere unfounded and though It Is likely enough that he Would like to escape It Is impossible for him to do so without the assistance ot of his guards who are tar far too numerous and care carefully tully sele selected ted to make It possible Summer Pageant One of the most picturesque events ot of the year win be the historical pageant of London which Is to be the central tea fea feature ture ot of the Festival ot of Empire at the Crystal Palace In the summer After ter months ot of careful research by a commit committee tee over whIch G Lawrence Gomme th the clerk derk of the London county council and himself a distinguished antiquary pre presides presides sides the full list ot of scenes has bas now be been n completed These have been handed over in rough form torm to Frank Lascelles the master ot of the pageant who will be re responsible responsible for tor their arrangement having two to guide him In the details Mr Ir It will wUl be recalled pro produced produced most successfully the Canadian pa a for tor the tercentenary cele celebrations celebrations The chairman ot of the tho general council of the pageant Is the Earl of Plymouth and assocIated with him are the Duke of Fife the DUke ot of Devonshire Devon Devonshire shire Lord Strathcona and others More than an Idea that will wUl contrib contribute ute to the success ot of the tho undertaking has bas been borrowed from Wagnerian opera The pageant to be reduced produced at the Crys Crystal Crystel tel tal Palace Is to be In inn scenes arranged In a cycle of three series alter atter the Wagnerian method A cloud or steam curtain will be used to close each scene In all no fewer than persons participate In the display Opening with the dawn of history the pageant first presents a 0 scene of prehistoric London with the great forest to the north King Lud the legendary founder of the city Is the only character staged for Whose authenticIty no responsibility responsibility is taken Afterwards come the Romans who lay the true foundations ot of It Is sh shown wn under two the sacrifice offered to Diana and then by y a picture ot of the later Roman age when had been Intro Introduced introduced and the strategic Importance of ft the capital came to be realized and Its fortifications undertaken Dramatic Scenes Planned Saxon London Is to be reconstructed a Incident being the meeting ot of the citizens In the The Danish Invasion proVIdes perhaps the most dra dramatic matio matic scene In the pageant The river up which the Vikings sailed cannot be brought to the Crystal palace but the lakes In the grounds will be utilized and spectators will London bridge break In the middle and the defenders hurled burled Into the water The scene closes with the passing ot of the dead Olat Olaf up the river Ring Xing Harold marches out towards the south to meet William ot of Normandy after atter which the conqueror enters with his hla army val sports and a brilliant scene depicting a tournament In Cheapside before Edward the Third and Queen Philippa are later stages closes ot of London life with which part one I Very picturesque wID be the ride of at Canterbury Pilgrims with which the succeeding p part rt opens For a civic pageant typical ot of the most extravagant extravagant and luxurious period ot of English history Charles Ricketts has been In invited to design the c costumes I Wat Ty Tylers 1 lers rebellion furnished some stirring scenes then King Henry the Fifth re returns returns turns from Agincourt with all the opportunities for tor military display which such an event affords The close ot of the wars ot of the roses Is shown by the return ot of King Henry the Seventh after the defeat C and death ot of Richard at Bosworth field Then the dawn ot of the era ot of great dis discoveries the Merrle England or of the early years of Henry the Eighths reign and the spacious days ot of great Elizabeth which follow are all ail to be presented In turn In Us its later history London becomes more drab but there Is yet a strong ap appeAl appeal peAl to be made through the eye The third and concluding part ot of the pageant leaving Shakespeare and his players at the Globe be accurately indicate the foundation ot of the East India company with the th return ot of Captain Lancaster The lohe central episode lit In the subSequent beginnings ot of empire will be found In Inthe Inthe the connection of at Virginia and the now new colony with the city exemplified by the mall masque Que given In honor ot of Princess Poca ontas the famous Red Indian princess who was married to an Englishman Plague and fire depict the passing ot of old london rondon and with closing scenes ot of the capture ot of Quebec and the death of Wolfe and Montcalm ot of Captain Cook leaving Deptford on an expedition to the Uia South Seas and ot of the tho passing ot of Napo Napoleon Napoleon leon the pa ant comes to an end With an allegorical tableau depicting the I g gathering ot of the he colonies round the mother country I |