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the United States, White House," or 

 Excellency the President of the United 

 -." Letters begin "Mr. President." 



Prince: "His Royal Highness, Prince 



of "; or "His Royal Highness, the Duke 



of ." Letters begin "Sir"; he is referred 



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Queen: The Queen's Most Excellent Majes- 

 ty. Letters begin "Madam" and address her as 

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 addressed "The Chief Justice of the United 

 States"; or "The Honorable - , 



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 United States." Letters begin "Mr. Chief Jus- 

 tice." or "May it please your Honor." 



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 are addressed "Honorable , Asso- 

 ciate Justice of the Supreme Court." This 

 jurist is always referred to as "Mr. Jus- 

 tice ." 



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 Vice-President"; or "The Honorable the Vice- 

 President of the United States"; or "The Hon- 

 orable , Vice-President of the 



United States." Letters begin "Mr. Vice- 

 President" or "Sir." B.W. 



ADE, ayd, GEORGE (1866- ), an American 

 humorist and playwright, known principally as 

 the author of a series of fables written in 

 present-day slang, in which he combines racy 

 wit with a keen insight into the failings of hu- 

 man nature. Ade was born in Kentland, Ind., 

 and was educated at Purdue University. He 

 began his literary work as a writer for news- 

 papers in Lafayette, Ind., and in Chicago, 

 where his clever sketches in the Record, en- 

 titled Stories of the Streets and the Town, 

 won him a favorable reputation as a humorous 

 observer of the every-day life of every-day 

 people. His comic operas, The Sultan of Sulu 

 and Peggy, from Paris, and his comedies, The 

 County Chairman, The College Widow, The 

 Slim Princess and The Fair Co-ed, in some of 

 which Elsie Janis starred, were popular suc- 

 cesses. 



ADELAIDE, the third largest city in Aus- 

 tralia, capital of the original state of South 

 Australia, founded in 1836 and named after the 

 queen of William IV of England. It is situ- 

 ated seven miles from the ocean, on the banks 

 of the Torrens River and is 508 miles north- 

 west of Melbourne. The river, on the banks 

 of which are beautiful parks, divides the city 

 into North and South Adelaide, connected by 

 five handsome bridges. The city is one of the 



most beautiful in Australia, with broad, well- 

 kept streets, and many imposing buildings, 

 among which the houses of Parliament, the 

 town hall and the general post office are con- 

 spicuous. The city is governed by a mayor 

 and six aldermen, and is the only Australian 

 city in which the mayor is elected by the votes 

 of all the tax payers. 



The principal industries are the manufacture 

 of woolen, iron and earthenware goods, and an 

 extensive trade is carried on with the interior 

 and with foreign countries. Most of its ex- 

 ports are sent to British ports, but the com- 

 merce with the United States is rapidly grow- 

 ing. Adelaide is the terminus of an extensive 

 railroad system connecting it with Melbourne, 

 Sydney and Brisbane. The climate is healthy, 

 though excessively hot in the summer. The 

 real commercial center is at Port Adelaide on 

 the coast, the port of call for all European 

 steamers, and a flourishing town with about 

 21,000 inhabitants. The population of Ade- 

 laide in 1913, within a radius of ten miles 

 from the general post office, was 196,567. 



ADELER, MAX. See CLARK, CHARLES HEBER. 



ADEN, ah' den or a' den, a city and fortress 

 in Southern Arabia, a British possession often 

 called the Gibraltar of the East. It lies on the 

 shore of the Gulf of Aden, near the southern 

 end of the Red Sea. Ownership of Aden, to- 

 gether with the control of the Suez Canal, 

 therefore gives Great Britain command of the 

 short maritime route from Europe to India 

 and the Far East. Only the ships of friendly 

 nations may pass the frowning guns of the 

 fortress. 



Not only is Aden's position of strategic im- 

 portance in a military sense, but also in a 

 commercial sense. Its harbor is large and 

 deep, and it is 

 the most import- 

 ant of the coal- 

 ing stations on 

 the Suez Canal 

 route. It has an 

 extensive com- 

 merce, chiefly in 

 coffee, hides and 

 tobacco brought 



from the interior. ADEN 



The local control This section, at the south- 

 of the town and ern extremity of the Arabian 

 desert, is almost rainless, 

 of an area of hence all necessities of life 

 seventy - five must be Imported: 



square miles surrounding it is in the hands of 

 a political resident, who is also the commander 



