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None other is 80 uni- formly reliable --yet it ig odorless and ' stainless and harm- Made by Thomas Keating, in London, Eng- land. Seld by all druggists. ar In tins only : 10c¢, 20c., 360. yy MM Pl... Constipation Vani Forever on ire 5 Spleiege Genuine mus bes Signature London Lager Now Perfected -- Best Bupable TRY IT Agent-----Jas. McParland, 339-341 King Street East. COWAN'S | PERFECTION COCOA Is good for Growing Girls and Boys--and they ke i. h ssesessvessInTIITIINOYE WESeesssassasts sets 'being exercised in the United THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, JANUARY 8. 1012 ACTS AS DEPUTY KING| PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT PERFORMS FUNCTIONS. As Only Male Adult of the Royal Fam. ily In England at Present, the Son of Canada's Governor-General Is Acting as Monarch Just Now -- 1s Very Popular In Great Britain and Is Envoy Extraordinary. How the functions of the are ing- dom during His Majesty's absence in India is as follows: Provisions have been made by Order in Council for delegating the exercise of vertain of the executive functions of the crown during the King's ab- sence. The language of the order is necessarily. wide, but as His Majesty during his absence is in daily telé- raphiec communication with his Min. sters, all matters of gravity and im. po-tance are in ordinary course sub- mitted to him. The persons named in the Commis sion are: Y H.R.H. Prfnce Arthur of Connaught. The Archbishop of Canterbury. The Lord Chancellor. The Lord President of the Council (Lord Morley of Blackburn), No legislation is needed for the pur- pose. The practice of appointing a Regent during the absence of a Bovereign abroad has been in abeyance since the reign of Henry 111. The appoint ment of a Regent would involve the passing of a special act of Parliament, as a Regency Act applies only to the death of the Bovereign when the heir to the throne is under age. That the precedent of 1821 is fol lowed, that when His Majesty in Council declares his intention of go- ing out of the kingdom he will nomi. nate as his Commissioner for the exer. cise of certain executive functions the persons named by the Prime Min. ister. The appointments specify the pow- ers to be exercised, and are made under the Great Beal, so that the as- sent of Parliament is not necessary. The power delegated to the Commis. sioners are not so wide ss in former days, when {facilities of communica. tion were more limited. But they cover a multitude of duties, guch as issuing of warrants afd letters pa- tent, the making of appointments, and the granting of licenses and dispen- sations that require the King's auth. ority. With his father, the Duke of Con. naught, now in Canada, Prince Arthur was the only adult male member of the royal family left in England when the King sailed for India. He will ceebrate his twenty-ninth birthday on Jan. 13 next, before the King's return. Prince Arthur is a favorite with the ublic. Crowds know well his open, andsome face, with its clear blue eyes, dnd his tall, straight figure--he ia the tallest member of the royal fam. fly--and they keep 8 special cheer for him. He has always been popular at Eton, at Bandhurst, in the regi- ments to which he has been attached, and during his many royal missions abroad, He is a sportsman, interested in all athletics, a fine "shot," and an excellent horseman. He has proved his worth as a hunter of big game during visits to Canada, East Africa and Russia. In Canada he won golden opinions; the people there quickly found that he had "no side." To be a watch and clock maker was his ambition when a child, but any "Pdeésire in this direction was checked by his father, who made the boy go round with a man who wound the household clocks at Bagshot Park. Prince Arthur found that the occupa- tion lacked excitement, and his am- bition turned elsewhere. After Eton he passed through Sandhurst, and was gazetted to a second lieutenancy in the 7th (Queen's Own) Hussars in May, 1901, during the South African war, When the regiment was ordered to the front Prince Arthur, as the young- est subaltern, was left, to his intense regret, at the cavalry derot. In 1803, when a full lieutenant, he went out to join his regiment in South Africa in charge of a draft of recruits. His service in the Transvaal was cut short by a severe attack of dysentery, which necessitated his being invalided home. To make himsell a thorough efficient officer he has ergone instruction oourses at the signalling and musketry schools. He has served with the Royal Horse Artillery and the B¢ots Greys. "As representative of the Sovereign. Prince Arthur has played many parts, During the illness of King Edward in 1902 he was deputed to show honor to the Bhah, who stated that the kind. ness, tact, and courtesy of the prince would be one of his happiest recollec- tions of Europe. Prince Arthur's first foreign mission wag in' December, 1904, when he represented the K in Rome at the baptism of the i heir to the Ital In quick succession he acted as the King's envoy at the funeral of the Dowager Duchess of Saxe.-Coburg-Gotha, and at the opening of the new Protestant cathedral in Berlin. On that occasion the ce was invested Bf the Kals- er with the Order of the B Eagle. He also welit to Berlin as the royal envoy at the wedding of the crown Te 2 i i I ihe! £ | i i fe MEMBERS AT PRAYERS. it Is a Means of Securing a Ses In British House of Commons Ever gince EBiuart days the Yom- mons have had their own chaplain to open their daily proceedings with a simple and impressive service. i The prayers are read daily by the chaplain immediately after the Speak. er enters the House; the Speaker him- self giving" thw respouses as he stands at the table. During the brief ser. vide the doors are closed, and no strangers or reporters sre allowed to ~ be present. Members of the Press Gal. lery are not allowed to take their seats during prayers. It is a noticeable fact that, how. ever crowded may be the House dur- ing this service, the Treasury and the front Opposition benches are al- ways empty ! The House of Commons, unfortun- ately, only provides sitting accomino- dation for about halt of its 670 mem- bers; and it is a rule of Parliament that a member wha is present at prdy. ers is entitled to retain the place he then occupies sgainst all comers un. til the House rises. Thy, if a legis lator is anxious to listefi to or take part ia an important debate, he can only e surs of a seat by claiming it at Pprayer-time. To make quite sure of the gest he' |b has thus secured he takes from a box n the table a small card bearing the ords "At prayers"; he writes his name on it, and places it in a slot provided for the purpose at the back of his seat. This done, his seat, for the rest of the day, is as inviolable as the crown itself. He can leave the House when he pleases and for any length of time; others may occu y his seat during his absence; but od moment. he _returns the interloper must vacate it in his favor, For Cabinet Ministers and ex-Min- isters seats on the front benches are always reserved. ere is no need to establish & right to them from day to day. And thus it is that these benches are deserted; and that many a man who attends church but seldom is to be seen in his place during prayers, as apparently devout as any of his more piously-minded fellows. In addition, however, to the daily religious service in the House of Com. mons there is a meeti for prayer held weekly in one of the rooms of the House. ------------------ Drunkards' Patron Saint, What has come to be known as St. Martin's Summer consists of a few lovely days about the second week of November. We hear a great deal about Bt. Luke's Summer; but St. Martin's Summer and his name-day, November 11, suffer neglect--posaibly because the saint was French, and not English, Perhaps, too, the knowledge that he is the Jom saint of drunkards has not added to his reputation. That of- fice came to him by accident. The reason he had thus doubtful honor thrust upon hm after his death was rather curious.\ The Vinalia, or Feast of Bacchus, always celebrated Later, when the reputation of the na handed on to the saint, although quite unmerited by him. * Beford his conversion he was a mili- tary tribune, stationed at Amiens. When one day, so the story goes, in midwinter, at the city gate of Amiens a miserable beggar appealed to him for help, the soldier drew his sword, and, dividing his cloak, gavé half of it to the wretched beggar. At night, so ii is said, Christ in person appear- ed to the astonished soldiér, clad in the very cloalt he had divided with the beggar a few hours before. nother legend is that the saint, having been annoyed by the behav- ior of one of the geese in his poultry. yard, ordered it to be slain and serv- ed up lor dinner. He died immediate. ly after ing of it, and the anni. versary has ever since been observed in France by the eating of goose on that day, November 11. Morris' Dream Poem. Coleridge was not the only great t who sometimes dreamt in song. Ps talking, says a correspondent, to William Morris about Coleridge and his wonderful dream fragment. Morris was eloquent in its praise, and I inquired of him if he, too, ever wrote poems in his sleep. Morris sat down promptly in a seat--we were walking in his hig garden at the back of Kelmscott House--and broke into one of his big laughs. 'Oh, yes," he said. "One night I had been reading 'Kubla Khan' again and wish. ing that I could dream anything hall as fine. And I did dream a poem that moved me to actual tears by its beau- ty." "And did you remsmber it when ou woke up?" I asked. ** Yes," said orris grimly, "one line. And the line ran: : The moonlight slept on a treacle sea. : "And then I ceased to weep," he added, "and haven't wished to dream poems again."'--London Standard. LL -------------------------- Sir W. E. Smith's Career. Bir William E. 8mith, who succeeds Sir Philip Watts as British Director of Naval Usnatrustion, lived od This outh seamen. He joi aath sek pind when 11 years of age. His first work was as rope. house boy, when as such he came in contact with all the mysteries of the old sailing ship era. In 1865 he was ticed as s shi wright ai Wool- Tis ft I to , . yard. Har four prenticeshi , and nt ears' a ! A the th Ken Singin Bekiol of Naval Avchicru in Constructors in 1873. ng and ONE OF NATURE'S MARVELS. New Zealand's Curious Sea Vbicane and Its Suiphur Vapors. Among the most curious, phenom.' : ena of New Zealand is its sea volcano. This is a great mountain of black scoria 830 feet high, from the top of which, ith m Joree, ite hie clouds. of vapor to a height of fu 2,000 feet. Tis not easy traveli on the island, for in places the blac pebbles of the beach are all astir with water boiling up through them, water 80 hot that a misstep might scald the foot seriously. At this point the crater wall has been bioken down {Siest to the sea evel and one ma: k into the great hollow island. The crater is a a full mile in diameter and hemmed in by walls many hundred feet high and very precipitous. The crater floor is an uneven plain of voleanic ash and scoria, with many litle fu- maroles or blow holes, through which hot sulphur vapors come wheezing out, hile every Jew minutes there is a sm; emblin neal and a low, dull, ro ling on Sie Jom The vapor ins to thicken as the traveler proc . and he very soon finds the cause. He is sto short by a great lake of steam ng water, quite filling this end of the crater and eing, as oan be seen when the clouds lift, nearly half a mile from either side. The water is too hot comfortgbly to apply the hand to it and is insup- ortable either to touch or to taste cause of a Strong 4nfusion of alum and sulphuric acid. On the farther border of the lake is a row of saliataras (chimnbys). They have built for themselves little pillar-like cones from ten to thirty feet high and a yard or two in diameter at the base, and through these open chimneys they trumpet steam and roaring sul- phuric gases with a violence frightful to Somidmplate. A demoniacal screech- in even at a considerable distance. The water of the lake is of a milky, opaque cast, not more than ten feet rp Lines upon the shore show that it ly rises and falls slightly with the tide of the sea outside. In man spots the water boils furiously wit much froth and foam, while still its heat is much below the boili point of 212 Fahrenheit. These are anger. ous places for boats; the abundant air in the water diminishes material. ly its buoyancy, and a boat sinks alarmingly low in crossing them: One expedition landed across the lake at one of the salfataras nearest the beach and proceeded to demolish it with oars. It was a chimney about two feet in diameter, clay without, while within it wes lined with ery. stals of sulphur of a beautiful straw Jallow splashed with vermilion spots. ushing inethe top of this chimne . the fragments would first fall down He throat and then come flying out into the air with explosions that were startlingly like a prolonged stentorian cough. Superstitions Up-to-Date. All of us are superstitions, more or less, but it is doubtful if there are many who would regard a piece of a suicide's rope as a luck-bringer. Yet it was oniy the other day, at an in- quest, that a man asked to be allowed to keep a portion of the rope with which a fellow-worker had hanged himself, "for good luck." Tt reminds one of the curious belief which exists among many people that to wear any article of clothing, or to Carry a piece of an article o wearing apparel, which belonged to a dead relative is sure to bring good luck. In the west of England the super- stition that green clothes bring trou. ble is still believed in, and one often hears the saying quoted, "Wear green, wear black." And how many people there are who still consider that to walk under a ladder brings bad luck; that seven ears' misfortune will follow the resking of a mirror; and that disas- ter is sure to follow the spilling of salt, unless three pinches are immedi. ately cast over the left shoulder. In the éast end of London parti- cularly it is a popular belief that misfortune is bound to befall a baby who gazes into a mirror before it is twelve months old, while it is very few people, however much they ma laugh at superstitious beliefs, Te will sit down at a table where there are thirteen guests. To the Manner Born. Max Muller, the famous Sanskrit scholar, was fond of recalli that he had once seen Queen Victoria and the Empress Eugenie enter, a Paris theatre together. The audience cheer. ed itsell hoarse, but what interested Prof. Muller was the contrast in the conduct of the two royalties. Both bowed in answer to the plan- dits, and then sat down, but whereas Eugenie glanced be her, much as Jou or I would do, to make sure of the chair being there to receive her, Victoria kept her eyes to the front and took the chair for granted. That was the difference between being born into the purple and mar. rying into it. Dickens at the Sea Shore. * For fourteen years Dickens made Broadstairs - his rinsipal summer home in England. London alone held a superior place in his affec tions. He felt his powers at their smplest when he was at the little channel coast town. Dicken hes giv- en the best picture of him®el! at his summer routine at Broadstairs: "In a bay window in a one pair sits from 9 o'clock to 1 a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckeloth, who writes and grins as if he thought he were very funny indeed. 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