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Show Badge of Servitude. Would-bo artlBtociats In America who nro wont to decornto the lints of their coachmen with cockados are priibnbly ignorant of tho fact thnt from n Kuropcan standpoint tho cockade Is only used lo show thut tho wenrer Is n servant of royalty Across the water thp cockuila can be legally worn only by servants of royalty. Including naval nnd military olllcers, diplomatists, lieu tonants. deputy lieutenants nnd high sheriffs of counties. As worn by these, the color Is black. Tho black cockade was Introduced In lCngland by tho house o( Hanover, although provlous thereto It had been worn In various colors. A scarlet cockado was In vogue during the tlnio of Charlos I, Ills son adopted white, tho badge of tho Jacobites, while orange was the color of William of Orango. Orange remains the color in tho Netherlands. Illnck and white is tho color In Oer. many, blnck nnd yellow In Australia, tricolor In Franco, scarlet In Spain, bluo nnd white In Portugal that Is before the revolution uud black, red and yellow In Ilolglum. Tho word "cockade" comes train tho French "co enrde," orlglnnlly npplled to the rentb ers of tho rock worn by Croutlau sol dlers sen lug In the French army. |