= ad titles of honot, hut, ATT KING OF - FPINGS BRITISH SOVEREIGNS MAY AND MAY NOT DO. Lulons Matters of Law--Rules and fegrlations Constituting Divisity Th. "Hedges" a Ruler--Ilesult wa ° Historical Indidext or Mere Custoin., a ordon Expreds 'there are many curious matters mw, of role sad riqueete, which constitute the ty which 'doth hedge a king." For wme there are histovical reasons in hei origin, for others such reasons itill exis, others of rule aml regula aon, and of etiquette, . others simply ihe erystallization of long custom aud yservance, "+ la sume matters the kibg is gov- rned by statute, in others he and his O regulation, aml .o divin pere wishes are supreme, but even in! he latter category there are matters nn which that plensure must be con: wed in writing. 7 fhe limit of the power of the sove- wign wos perhaps Dest illustrated ow | be old operations of the law of dt- ninder, though that law has for long een oksolete in practice and is now sodified by statute (1870). A "person _xcused oi tresson is tried by a court S£ law--the court of the Jord high toward, in which the peers are ulges and jury if the accused be peer r peecess--the ordinary law courts if hat bo not the case. Following up- n the verdict and before or aftyr ex- ulion of the judgment the man was ttaimed by the passing of anact teminder, Assuming that acts to have heen assed, the king could, if he chose, rant the yonvieted person 5 fuli and 'ee pardon. That relieved him from 10 execution of the judgment, but Mno- sing more, y the king could restore im to all his forfeited property, but w king could not weplace the man i his former postion, for he remasin- 1 unable sto inherit. Ho could restore forfeited peerages unless an- ther act of parlinment Feversed the it of 'attander the action of -the "wereign did not more than create ww peerages. The king could grant a stent of precedence, but that ave had no effect in the pds, where precedence 7 statutee, house iz governed ENGLAND $0 has to be submitted "to him before 'hand, and this list the king striking out and adding names at his "pleasure. There are a number of little details of etiquette which are ob: servixl, the most noticeable of which is that finger-glasses are never. placed upon the table if a member of (he royal family is. present. The reason for this goes back to Jacobite days, when the toast of the king was con verted into treason by the passing of the glass "over the water." The king neser acces a present perso exmept, of from a private relatives, and Dever course, his own io ied revises, permite the dedication of a boc himself if there is the smallest hood of the exploitation of this dedi cation for comncreial purposes Lhe rule, however, is ndaxed to the ex tent of Me frequent acceptance of copies of books from the suthois, but lin such cases the book is required to be Lound acurding to a. specified pattern. Whether it wav established etiquette or only personal inclination, it is dif- ficult definitely to state, but as the time of his accession King Edward 'resigned his membership of all the clubs to which he belonged, and he was a member of a number. He still, however, retained his veto with regard to the Marlborough elub, whith he had founded, * and 'by virtue of which he could velo any election, while any person nominated by him became a member without election. the only clubs to which King George belonged were the United Service and the Marlborough, King Edward signed all his offices as a Free Mason on his accession, but King George has never been witiated. The long-con- tinued agsofiation of the royal fam- masonry began as a safe- inst A very real danger of by the Ja- cobite 3 | No ofwe propcses for the hand of a royal princess iu marriage. The sov- éign intimates that such a match would be permitted, and no member of the Enghsk :cval family can mar- | ry without the cunsent of thé king. {Hf over the age of twenty-five they may marry without - tho royal sanc tion by giving twelve months' notice to the privy council, unless during that time the two houses of parlia- ment have exprissed disapproval. | a sub- | would | ject, has always kad a unique position . priced experts of in the oves of the law, as she has dl: | technical i The queen consort, although ways been regacded as free-from the disabilities of a married woman, and re- " . THE DAILY TOURIST AND CAPITAL, TO MANCHURIA. FLOCK Many Millions in Beans--Dairen an Objectt Lesson to Clvie Improve ment Clubs--1"ougee for Flying i Machines. Fourists are" overrunning Manchudia amd Loren. The grand' gator from thie grand tour of the world now is from inpan the to Pusan in Corey; thence by train to woul" spd from Seoul to the Yalu ~iver and on to Mubden, precisely fol- lowing in Kurohl's footsteps, There is an American standard gave] railway, with American cars, lotomu tives amd rails across all of Coren, and ote travels in comiort to the Yalu's| Links. Those historic banks are lined | "with the rafts of timber floated down | ACTORS narrow gtratts from the headwaters of the Yalu and are: about to He linked with a sreat | railway bridge. Dalny, "far away," had named Dairen, and according National Geographic Ma azine, wonderful place. De Witte's city felt ghe touen «Japanese and sanitary scence while the good | roa ls movement and the village beau- tification societies may find object les- sons there. : Dairen has chanted its face as well as its name and is a city redeemed, | where the steam voller has rolled con- | tinuously for three years, Tasi trans- | forming Kwank-tung mud sinks * and I ¢'ay bos into smooth park roadways. | Slam" tna 3 wen" re to the is a progress | i ! A film of green on the hillsides shows | where afforestation's miracle has be tzun its work. { The Russian left their droskies, the Japanese brought their jinrikishas, | and have since provided electric cars. | | The Japanese are not pulling - the | jinrikishas, driving the vehicles or do- | ; ing- any such manual labor in Man i churia. They are the employers of | labor, and labor in unlimited comes over from Cheioo, | Fifty thousand husky Shantung coo lies cross over this land of silver and opportunty and return' after the hae vest is gathered and outdoor work is suspended for the wiriter. Dmircn is a city ol éxperts ~of high and specialists ir all | ines. Brick works, cement | works, mills and factories fringe _the tewn, and a bank gives all the marble supply i The constitutional position of the in all matters of property, contract, | snd mosaic black iron and plate glass wereign acoounts for one---and to any of us gronning under the budget most important-~difference. The | Wereign pave no rates' or taxes. The and procedure, she sole, The use of the royal "we," still preserved in formal ranks as a femme though documents a dépositor is sipposed to want. A Japanese laboratory at Duiren is always discovering something for the benefit of Manchuria. The insatiable ason for this is that theoretically all of any kind, like .the old time ""'touch- | young. scientists and techinlogists as- | xes are levied in the king's r the purpose of carrying on the gov. lapsing into disuse. King name ng for the King's Evil," is gradually { sure one that after beans -wild silk Edward | pongee is the future great, crop of] hment, and that, as infact it would having followed the "example of Queen | Manchuria. we been before the days of the civil Wty the income of the king for ep of defrayiny the king's penditure was simply taking money 5m oné of his pockets to put it mito ' Which were written in the first per-| 40 other, | : So stringently is this theory ad fred to that the exemption from tax- fon extends no further than the per- n of the sovereign, and all other smbera"of the roval family are sub. Mt to the . "aw the rest us. The matter was tested by the te Prince Consort in domnection with ' » farming experiments at Windsor,' it is all a part of the same theory st the use of 'the royal arms by » royal warrant bolders is exempt- from the operation of the act ich enforces the taxation of arm- inl bearings, and this exemption of ) royal arms allows the family of ne, of King's Bromley to escape 'tation because - by royal gift they sr upon: their own arms a canton the arms of England to commemo- | ie the saving of King Charles II al- 1 the battle of Worcester by Mistress ne Lane, . ut the king does not evade the ment of his just debts, and, con-' ry to what is often supposed and huently stated, the king pays from privy purse both for his special ins and theatre tickets. If the king jposes to visit a theatre notice is t beforehand, and the royal box, in jee theatres which possess one, is I #ubject to the condition that it ¥t be._given up if intimation is re "ved that its use is required for his Jesty. : t is the accepted etiquette that the ig never writes a letter. It must t be supposed he never sets a pen paper to his relatives on personal ttors, and Queen Victoria wis a antinous correspondent with her of- al ministers, but outside such cases i only exception one can call to nd in recent years was the letter king wrote to George Herring in mection with the latter's munificent istance to the hospital Saturday ¢ The accepted story is that Mr. fring was offered a knighthood and lined and that the letter way writ! in consequence, but the story is! netimes told differently. 'hose who need to correspond with majesty, who are aware of the ht procedure, usually write to the g's secretary or a member of the | wsehold, asking that the matter in tion should be placed before the g. but petitions for the exercise of | prerogative in any form on mat- 5 of state are required to be sub ited through Si on. office. the king does not acrept invita- ne and a visit of any form is not peded thereby but by fn that he will pay it. rds he always invites himself, and matters of ial § tala oo Dhan { the king proposes to 'visit any ise, a list of the proposed guests his intima: | «Sq In other \¢"gueht | an, brightening up. Vietoria in his three mesgages "To My People," "Fo My People Boyond the ple of India," dated Fob. 4th, 1901, son singular. The King has no tnough undoubtedly he peVef now sils in pecrs, but the Cap of Maintenan eis st'll carried before him in his palace of. Westminster--pnd nowhege ~us on sign of his right of peerage. The kivg's motor cars carry number and his chauffeurs are amenable for exceeding the limit. The king - cannot bind his succes- | sors in the exercise of the royal pre- rogmtive, for the simple reason that there is no wav of enforcing the -ob-! hgation, inasmuch as the king can- not be sued in his own courts. surname, and he is a peer the house of no not | speed ; The Greatest of All Fleets. Montreal Star. When the great naval' manoeuvres begin next Monday, Sir William May will have wnder his command a fleet comprising three hundred and seven warships, with a total displacement of | a million and a quarter tons and which cost approximately hall a billion dol lars. Of her three hundred warships, ' the teh Dreadnoug'its, the Dreadnought cruisers, and the submarines alone represent the last word in naval coun struction. By setting a new standard, Great Britain has condemned to the ranks of the inefficient all of her great squadrons of « older battleships and cruisers. True, they need not"be drop: ped at once ftom the first fizhting line because the naval construction of her rivals, even Germany, is not compet ent to turn out new madel fignting machines ut more than a voy moder ate speed, but the day of their de gradation neverthelees, hand, The fizht for supremacy be ' n over again the: dav the first Dreadnought proved horse and it will no cided updil eithee Great Britain or combination of her probably ene mich attams redominance in the new fight ing machines, Tt is costly hat the in- terests at stake are too heavy to al low of any playing with economy at the expense of naval efficiency. 1s, close at ba de | LA Disappointing Discovery. Youth's Companion Anyone who imagines that life is lacking in ameniticse among the news- bovs in the big cities should listen, occasionally, to their talk, When these ' two--each with = his package of newy- papers under his armomet, one ap: peared somewhat glum! and disgrunt- led; whereupon the other bemevolently essayed to cheer him up. Bill, you "member dat dime | I lost yesterday--de one | was goin' to treat youse wid ' "Sure," assented Bill, sullenly; then with growing "reproachfulness of tone, "I treated youse twict already, Jim!" "Well," went on Jim, animatedly, "wot d'vouse t'ink 1 fou « 1 wuz feelin'. round in - pocket, an' I found, right here in dis pocket, I we" A dramatically timed pause. 1 "Youse found de dime!" exclaimed > "Say, vow'se always im a hurry. 1 waz tryin' to tell youse dat : de hole date dime got a a A Full Week Surely. Montreal Gazette. ° have a great time . on Seas," and "To the Princes aud Peo-' j bw Just now ¥ gered for solid acres, with billows The silk worms, fed on the leaves of oak toees instead of mulberry, pro. duce the thread for pongee or tus-ore! sific. Fosides the steadily increasing | nd for pongee as clothing in China, Europe and America pongee is the Dest material for the wings fiving machines and the bodies of dir ! idibles. s The Chefoo market was stripped] last year 'niter the great flight of the | aeroplane across the English channel. | As the worlll may oe flying on wings of pongee in a few years it Hecomes a matter of interest that the of pongee should be inore sed Beans are the great crop however, and by beans alone Manchuria could live and supply the world. The bean plant should be the crest, the symbol} the coat of arms of Manchuria. \Along | with the banana and after the kaoli-| ang, or giant midlet, beans are the most prolific crop. Thirty varieties grow in Manbhurin, They have al- ways been sent by tons by junks to} south China for food; fertilizing and] illuminating, and a Little to Japan. | After the Chinma-Japan war of 1805, ] when. the Japanese commissariat| learned their value for' man and best) and qrops, the exportation to Japan| increased three times, replacinz for-| tunately the failures in the herring! fishery that year as a fertiliver. Gen eral export continued to increase o) | un- | til in 1899 begns, bean cake and bean! © oil were 'exported to the value of $12,-| 000.600, and in 1909 the value nearly £75,000,000, . Daiven harbor way crowded all last winter with waiting ships. One hun. dred ships at a time lay at anchor waiting their turns, tea at a time, al the stone quays, and loading went on day and night. was beans and wld ten per compro when ground nt pre th carl ol oil, and sd mito great cubes weighing sixty pounds and more provides the best of all for tilizers foc the fields Japan and the sugar fields of Formosa, the I"hilippines and even Java, The beans are converted into and bean eurd in both Japan aud Chi na aud farnish those two popular ar- ticles of food----soy, the dark brown, pungent sauce resulting from a fe ! mentation of Yean dough. This bean it sent to England and Americy the shipload and when treated with cayenne pepper becomes the fu miliar red labeled Worcestershice sauce, Bean curd or bean cheese i¢ a com-! mon andl 'motirishing article of food, ! popular with all the people, and is a glean and atgractive looking dish. The Japanese with their mania for inves. ul BOY »OY i tigation and analysis have found that the liquid left from makin: the hean curl anl which used to be thrown awny has the same chfmical value fs milk and is of course maw times cheaper. ; Europe at present uses the beans for . making candles, soap and dog bis cuits and as an adulterant for' other flours. The oil is a substitute for olive oil that threatens to displace the' cottonseed imitation of olive oil. + The poppy fields of Mamduria, sav, soft pink or white blossoms, are more beautiful than the tulip fields of Hol- 'land, but with the growing moral ! genve and the rule of reform the pop- py must now disappear; and the ground will be given up to the ham- As ome jpurneys - across the prairies of Manchuria no sign of war remains. A LAND OF PRONISE has |. jor vy it vod with it as almost wr BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JULY #, 1910 save money, and when it arrives, make to EATONS: d never obtained before. 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A trial ofder will canvince you--send ns one ve OUR GUARANTEE . absolutely protects you in every instance. If vou are not per- fectly satisfiedewith our merchandise, our values, our prices or our servige, return the goods to us at once, and we will refund your money in full and pay all tran x & portation charges THE EATON MAIL ORDER SERVICE MEANS ECONCMY CANADA FOR YOU one s battle nhat ant stand how #1) where t the v battlefield strategie 1 he tenantX or idied Bort nd iad geing, WH outdoor poi ven ler new aiants, or ra return ol thuy, pave thet Ar the place n Port At { the mast enciure. A swith leads to the Lhrce Meter Hill: & great ple has dead on the harbor entrances to thei granite block blockading ships his fellows = been built high hill | and al memory the column taken : which ic sunk at the harbor tenance, They had ballasted t with their own tombstones The South Mangharian railway oaly a teack without bridges or roll ing stock when. the Japanese acquived * the only prize of the ware They floated & loan of $109. 000,000 at five per cent. and double: tracked (he road with steel rail? from Pittsburg, equipped Rt with locomo- tives from Philadelphia, Pullman cars from Chicago aml spent 'many more millions in the purchase of rallwey materials in America, as they are agaiti about to deo for abe Amung- Mukdes rasiway. " Besides pdbiag five per went, interest on this loan and six per ent. on the stock, the Bouth Manchurian railway reaps a surplus duch year. ips are increasicg by leaps and bounds, partly owing to the wonderful bean trade and to the opeming amd work. ing of more and more coil mines, eal that is said to be second only to Cars diff in quality. /- 0 4 heir of was | are after ? v store and a We whee, and Central and Soath vn simply from y corpuption the re chich the partners ste as opposite fines, and has not! y with the country. Camel's hair brashes, are hol made Hrom the hair of camels, but from hairs from the tails of Russian i Niberian squirrels. The hair of camels , however, usul for making fine fabrics, such as shawls, rags and un- derclothing, and. is. someting mixed | with sifk. ge "Lienuine French brier root pipes 10 dive not made from the roots of brier, ibut from the root of a white heath j which reaches a considerable size and is cultivated "iv the south of Frame {for pipemaking purposes: The name is derived from the French hriyere, the dinlect form of which is bricce, mean- ing. heath v . "We have a firmly fixed notion that a contipede has 100 feet, and naturally, {but we are misled by the name. Count Yam. Thery are about thirty feet on the largest size. ; 5 - We remark. that sech = ong "speaks through bis nose," when 5s a matter of fact thet queer, disagrevablé tope is produced when the nasal pag is Lat and and As +i i the The | Summer Dresses oe A\\ The Finest Display We Have Ever Made - Lovely Princess Dresses, in Madye, White, Cream, Pink and Blsek $1.00, 85.00, $5.50 up to $10.00. 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