Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 229, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1917 — British King's Armory. [ARTICLE]

British King's Armory.

King George has many almost priceless treasures In his Buckingham palace, but none of them all can compare tn romantic Interest with the small armory of swords and daggers presented to his father by a hundred of the princes and nobles of India, as tokens of their devotion tobls throne, says London Tit-Bits, f T send my—most precious blade,” wrote the maharajah of Mysore, “as a tribute to the great lesson we have learned from English civilization — namely, that the pen is mightier than the swordand similar messages accompanied each gift, as evidence of the loyalty which the native princes of India have so magnificently demonstrated in the great war. Of all these weapons—swords and scimitars, tulwars and daggers, their hilts and scabbards ablaze with encrusted jewels—there is not one that has not a long and romantic history. Many of them have done deadly work in a hundred battles through many centuries; not a few were wielded by our own knights-in the crusades; all, had they tongues, could tell stories more strange and thrilling than almost any in fiction.