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Show DUKE OF YORK SNUBBED, Mounted Police Had Good Ids of Their Dignity. Listening lo the conversation of th Canadian mounted police, aa on encounters en-counters thorn evorywher In th Northwest, II la distinc tly evident tbat they are men of a different stripe from I the Tommy Alklna of the llrltlsh rega-Inra, rega-Inra, says Lrsllo's Monthly. Tha mounted policeman Is a head, not aa I automaton nor a flunky. This waa curiously Illustrated during the visit i of the duke of York to the territories last year. Aa Ihe royal train ram Into one of the frontier towns two ' I liveried outrunners dushed breathless- ly lo the platform, shouting excitedly I for the police to "get out the royal horaes!" Th troopers of the university uni-versity type smiled and aald nothing; hut ono of the frontiersmen In khukl frowned and took a bite of chewing tobacco. to-bacco. The two little men In royal livery becnino apoplectic. ! "Don't you moil hear? Get out th ! horses! Who'a going In get out U horsoH?" The trooper In khnkl again calmly took consolation for the Insult from hla tobacco. "Iluve aome? No? Horaes? Did you say horaes? Well, ( don't burst your button!. What do you think you are folT Get 'em out ! yourself!" |