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POWER OF E1>WAR1) Vll.
English Constitution's Theory
of the Rights of the Crown.
The average American, if asked
to give his idea of the powers of
King Edward, would probably re¬
ply something after this fashion :
“It is not sot down in black and
white what he may do and what
he may not do, but under the Brit¬
ish constitution the King is a good
deal of a figurehead, and in gener¬
al he does pretty much as Parlia¬
ment tells him.”
The American would thus have
answered according to the spirit
of British law. Theoretically,
however, his answer would l>e as
far wrong as could well be imagin
ed.
Under the British
the powers of ministers and mem¬
bers of Parliament are denied and
confined. But what the King may
do and may not do is not written.
It is an astonishing fact that the
crown is itself the interpreter of
its own prerogative. Naturally,
therefore, just at this time, the
rights and limitations of the crown
are interesting. “King and Em¬
peror, a Life History of Edward
VII,” just published in London,
gives considerable light on the
subject.
The limitations to the King’s
powers are most curious. He may
not spend a -sent of public money
without the consent of Parliament,
He may not create any new office
with fees. ■ He may not prevent
sentence being passed upon a pris¬
oner, though he may pardon neat¬
ly all offenders, a notable except
turn being the tnan convicted of a
certain form of Sabbath breaking.
He may not issue a proclamation
that is contrary to law or injurious
to the community—the exception,
for instance, of a whole town fi'ojn
jury service.
He may call every man to arms
to resist invasion, but he may not
compel any civilian to leave the
country, or exclude any man from
the House of Commons, or exempt
any one from the operation of qiv
dinary law, lie may set aside the
judgment of judges—except for
contempt court—but he may not
interfere with thorn on the bench
or dismiss them.
He is the only man in the king¬
dom who may not arrest a crimi¬
nal—the reason being that the
King is above a) 1 law and tho
prisoner, if unjustly arrested,
would have no recourse, In time
of peace he may not hand over one
inch of British territory to foreign
sway. He may not interfere in an
act of private as opposed t<> public
wrong.
Yet, increditable ns it may seem,
Edward VII might shatter the cm*
pire without breaking any law,
He has supreme command of the
naval foices and might sell every
ship,'disband the crews, and give
away the stores. At the same time
he might dismiss eyery officer,non¬
commissioned officer and private
in the army, from Lord Huberts
down. He has the power to can¬
cel the orders and acts of generals
and commandoes, to make war
with any country, and to obtain
peace at any price. All these acts
are strictly within the legal inter¬
pretation of the prerogative of tlie
crown.
King Edward is the supreme
power known to the law, lie cr.ti
do no wrong, He is head of the
state,, head of the legislature, head
of the church, head of the army,
head of the navy. He may ap¬
point any person to any office of
authority* and the person so ap*
pointed may not docline tho ap¬
pointment. lie may refuse to sign
any bill passed by either House of
Parliament. Ho appoints all bish¬
ops, and during the vacancy of
any see he has th - temporal pow¬
ers of the bishop of that see. lie
might mark his coronation by
making every man and woman a
baronet or a marchioness, and
none might decline the title.
He may discharge practically
all the civil servants of the king
dom. He may break every treaty,
dismiss every ambassador and re
call every British representative
from the capitals of Europe. He
may make money, ami
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The author’s conclusion is this:
“The extraordinary powers of the
crohn, however, need not alarm
us; neither need the King trouble
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idea and not the statute hook
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ter Ocean.
Vohuiiio Kills Twit Hundred,
Crstries, Island of St. Lucia, I).
W. I., Sept. 1.—The British steam¬
er Korona arrived here yesterday
evening from Fort (P France, Is¬
land of Martinique.
She reports that a terrible erup¬
tion of Mont Pelee occurred at 9
o’clock Saturday night and that
people who arrived at Fort, do
France from the northern part of
the island reported th a t the vil¬
lage of Morne Rouge had been en¬
tirely destroyed nt the lime of the
great eruption had Been swept by
a tidal wave.
About 200 persons lost their
lives.
i\ s)aop from the Island of St.
Vincent, which reached here this
morning, reports that Mont Pelee’e
crater is now quiet, but that the
detonations during Saturday night
were the loudest heard up to that
time and the inhabitants were ter¬
ribly alarmed.
Basse Terro, Island of Guada¬
lupe, French West Indies, Sunday,
August 8i.—The French trans
Atlantic company’s steamer Salva¬
dor, which has just arrived til
Point-A-Pitre, reports that she
ieft Fort dp France, Island of Mar¬
tinique, yesterday afternoon and
passed Mont Pelee the stupe <*yen
iny.
The volcano was tlien in violent
eruption. On approaching the is¬
lands of J.-es gaintes (small is¬
lands off the south extremity of
Guadalupe), ashes were falling on
the vessel.
She arriyed off jkiinteA-Pitfo at
a o'clock tun unable to enter that
port until 11 o’clock at night, ■- w
ing to the obscurity.
Itpff«<*ti«»nri «l* a Hacholor,
To know better is easy, it’s tlie
doing better when you know it
that’s hard.
Sumo people have such a habit
of being in hard lines that they
can get rid of one disease only by
catching another,
Somehow it makes a girl with a
thin neck awfully nervous to have
people say there is a sure way of
telling everybody’s measurements,
No matter how much a man
loves a woman he can’t help won¬
dering sometimes how small a
part gray matter plays ip that sort
of thing.
After a girl has got a good fig
ure and wavy hair and a smooth
complexion and attractive teeth
it vi 11 be time enough to worry
about brains.—New York Dress.
Nothing El*e So Sine.
Mothers who give their little ones
Mother’s Worm Syrup give them the
nicest tasting and most effective worm
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THU AGE LIMIT.
By M. 15. Wharton, D. D.
Much has been saiil of lute on
the subject, of the age limit, the
period when men should retire
from the active pursuits of life,
and consider themselves shelved.
A lot of young fellows anxious to
take the shoes of those who a iv
their seniors, and old fellows who
are lazy and wish to quit work are
all the time prating about the “age
limit.” Thanks he unto God He
seems to have set no limit at which
a man may cease to he useful, it
is all in the man and not in his
years. Disease or natural infirmi¬
ty may make a man old very eariv
in life, but by proper care there is
no telling how long a man may
live and he a potent factor in the
world’s progress.
Some of the world’s mightiest
achievements have been accom¬
plished by men far advanced in
years. I know that young men
have accomplished much, such as
Alexander the Great, Caesar, Na¬
poleon, Duke John of Lepanto,
Byron, Keats, etc., hut these tue
the exceptions. The world’s he¬
roes, martyrs, poets, philosophers,
many kings, have been old men.
For Moltke triumphed over
Louis Napoleon when he was eigh¬
ty; William 1st reigned over Ger¬
many at eighty, and Bismarck, the
power behind both, was earth’s
greatest chancellor when also an
octogenarian ; Gladstone was the
most vigorous thinker and writer
of Europe nt nighty, and John T.
Morgan is the foremost man in
the United States senate to-day at
nearly eighty; while his colleague,
General l’ettus, stands almost
peerless for vigor and even humor
at more than eighty. So strong is
he that jie yyill fie returned this fall
as his own successor for six years.
When we come to the pulpit,
Dr. Palme* v. urine must popular
orator in New Yorloans at 84, and
Dr. Cuyler, at 85, is the best reli¬
gious writer in America, while Dr.
J. L. M. Curry (I is strong and vig¬
orous orator and foreign minister
at 75. I heard Dr. Frank Pierce
preach a spendid sermoij gt 91
years of age. popej.oo is hearty
and vigorous at 93.
When wo come to the world of
letters we find Olive) 1 Wendell
Holmes composing some of his
sweetest, verses at 80, and saying,
‘It is better to he 70 young than
40 old Whittier, writing his best
pieces at 80 years of age, and Ten¬
nyson, Bryant, Longfellow, J.owell
and a lung Let or others having
their “poets’ eyes in fine, breezy
rolling” beneath the white, shaggy
locks of three score year# and ten
As to people in general, how old
they do get sometimes! I con¬
versed with my hide itml hearty
grandmother when she was over
100. When 1 was a boy 1 called to
s.*e two old ladies in Orange coun¬
ty, Virginia, tlm Misses Campbell.
One was CIS, ami the other, who
acted as housekeeper and maid ol
all work, was 90. I traveled a few
days ago with a Mr. McCall, of
Atlanta, who V>H me of his an¬
cestor, Daniel M, Call, of whom 1
had heard before, who married
when he was, 100 years old. Three
children were born to the mar¬
riage, and he lived to see the eld¬
est vote, dying at last at the good
old age of 127
Strolling around in Westmin¬
ster Abbey one day I came to the
monument of Thomas Parr, who
died at the great age of one hun¬
dred and fifty-two. 1 was told ol
one lady in Scotland who lived to
be one hundred and sixty-five*.
Moses beg in to lead the chih
lren of Israel !t |, eighty and died
atone hundred and ten “while his
>ye was yet undimmed and his
natural force unabated.” Joseph
lied nt one bnm.lr- d and ten. It
may he said men lived longer then.
The facts you s**e do not prove it.
They were not antediluvian like
Adam, Methu aleli, etc., who nr*
supposed by s.une to have belong¬
ed to dyuasti* s, like tin* Pharaohs,
•>r CJeopalras. There may be
-omething in this. I asked a Ger¬
man shoemaker in Coburg, Ger¬
many, how iotig he had lived in
that house. 1 was surprised to
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Mrs. Fred Ur\ra.th,
President Country ltenton
Harbor. Xlielt.
“After my first baby was bom 1 did not
seem to regain my strength although the
doctor gave me a tonic which lie consid¬
ered very superior, but instead ci getting
better I grew weaker every day. My hus¬
band insisted that 1 take Wine of Cardui
for a week and see what it would do for
me. i did take the medicine and was very
grateful slowly to find my strength and health
returning. In two weeks I was out
of bed And in a month I was able to take
up my usual duties. I am very enthusi¬
astic in its praise."
Wine of Cardui reinforces the organs
of generation and childbirth. for the ordeal of preg¬
nancy It prevents mis¬
carriage. No woman who takes Wine
of Cardui need fear the coming of her
child. If Mrs. Unrath had taken
Wine of Cardui before her baby came
she would not have been weakened as
she was. Her rapid recovery should
commend this great remedy of to Cardui every
expectant mother. Wine
regulates the menstrual flow.
wiNE°r Cardui
heal - him say, “J have been living
here in this house four hundred
and fifty years.” On expressing
my wonder |)e said that included
himself, his father, his grandfath¬
er, and his great grandfather, all
of whom had made and sold shoes
in that dingy old house.
1 would offer one word of advice
*o those who are advancing in
years, and that is don’t imagine
that you are old. Resolve that
yon will keep up the world’s pro¬
cession and lint drop out, and you
will-live to bury ninny of them
who are trying to push you from
your plank. T would advise such
to read Klnannr Kirk’s books. She
maintains that perpetual youth is
a duty, and that you can live ns
long as you wish. I don’t think
you can do this, but such is the
infiuence of mind over matter tlmi
resolving to be young, or nt/lenst
active, will kec.ji you so a long
time.
Tho idea of a deadline nt fifty
when a man just roaches bis best
is absurd The world needs the
-experience, the attainments. Un¬
wisdom of its old men, and they
should ic,solve to wear out, and
not rust out; keep in harness and
never retire till God puts his hand
upon tho throttle and bids the en¬
gine to stop.
Preston, Ga., Sept. 2—The. ne¬
gro hold here under charge of
•riniinnl assault upon a young
white woman yesterday, was taken
from jail at 4 o'clock and spirited
away to prevent a lynching by an
angry mob. For tin,* rest of tlx
day parties wore sent in all diiec
ions in search of the firming sher¬
iff anil his prisoner. Th ey eseap
■*d through somc'wi-ods back of
the jail.
The mob, consisting of 50 or 75
men, did not get on to lie* trail
until about 8 o'clock last night,
when most of them started north
to tin* home of Bailiff Chrislinii,
where the negro was thought to be.
The posse came back throng!,
town this morning in a quiet and
orderly manner. Nothing definit*
can be learned. Many think the
negro has been lynched.
Dointe-a-Pitrc, Island of Gumla
loupt*, F. \V. I., Sept. 2.—OllDert
of the French Line steamer Cana
da, which arrived from Martiuiqm
to-day, confirm the reports of tlx
eruption ol Mont Delee, and tie
Mare that 1,000 persons were kill
ed at Martinique and many se
riously injured. The sea entered
Foft tie France fora distance
forty tent. The French ornNeiv
Suchet anil Tage are bringing ilie
inhabitants uf the Northern part
uf (he island to Fort de France.
The previous scenes of distress
and panic are being repeated.
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QUAINT COLLEGE
Itnlex Prescribing; the Dress of Har¬
vard Students In Bygone Days.
Tin* curious laws regarding stmdents’
dress which prevailed at Harvard up to
the middle of the last century are illus¬
trated by two eighteenth century waist¬
coats which are among the collections
of tlie Boston Art museum. One
worn by a member of the class of 17-19
end the other by his son in 1784.
Tlie latter waistcoat is olive green in
color, conforming to the college regula¬
tions. which required either blue gray,
OKWasEyatti
read ;T,:!V7,:\Z in die old turn* m Harvard n'- ”,T haws.
vs ei e blue gray. V reslmien ol that date
weiv allowed only plain buttonholes,
BSTRS?
bn u on bolus except Hint they might
have them on their cuff buttonholes,
and the senior enjoyed frogs,
holes and buttons complete. Seniors
and juniors were permitted also to
wear black Oxford gowns, such as are
worn at graduation today, and a
gown," or dressing gown, was per¬
missible on certain unimportant occa¬
sions. It cost “not more than 10 shil¬
lings” for every appearance of gold or
silver adornment.
The rules of costume were changed,
of course, from time to time. In 1828.
for example, the prescribed dress con
sisted of a black mixed coat, single
breasted, “with a rolling cape square
at tire end and with pocket flaps, tin
waist reaching to the natural waist,
with lapels of the same length.” It is
explained that “black mixed,” called
also Oxford mixed, was black with not
more than one-twentieth nor less than
ouo-twenty-fifth part or white, The
senior was allowed to support his dig¬
nity with three “crow’s feet” of black
silk cord on tin* lower part of Ids coat
sleeve. Two crow’s feet were permitted
to tlie junior, oiu* to tlie sophomore and
none at uli to tlie freshman. The waist¬
coat was of black mixed or of black or.
when of cotton or linen fabric, uf white:
single breasted, with a standing collar.
The pautnluons were of black mixed.
APHORISMS.
Good counsels observed are chains of
grace.—l'’niK*r.
The beauty seen is partly In him who
sees it.—liovoe.
Admiration Is the daughter of Igno¬
rance.— Franklin.
In great attempts it is glorious oven
to fall.—Longinus.
The one prudence of life Is concen¬
tration,—Umcrson.
The golden age Is before us. not lie
hind tts.—St. Simon.
Levity In behavior !s the bane of all
that is good and virtuous.—Seneca.
Better be driven out from among
won than to be disliked by children.
Dana.
Loving kindness is greater tban laws,
hnd tin* charities of life are more tlmu
All Ceremonies.—Talmud.
Have you so much leisure from your
own business that you can take care
of that of other people that does not
belong to you 7—Terence.
A llnttU-Hnnkx'H Flings.
You oftmi hear of rendering a rattle¬
snake harmless by pulling out its
fangs. Then, again, you read of cases
where a serpent so treated has bitten
persons fatally. The reason for this is
that a poisonous snake is deprived only
temporarily of its venomous powers by
the extraction of the two incisors in
the upper jaw, at the bases of which
are the poison glands. Of course you
know that the fangs nre hollow, so
that when the animal strikes the ven
om gushes through them Into the tlesh
of the person struck. Now, by draw¬
ing the two teeth the snake may lie
rendered harmless for a few weeks,
but after a short time the two teeth
Just behind the original fangs move up
and take tlieir places, making connec¬
tion with the poison glands anil tliiiri
becoming poison fangs us good and ef¬
fective us the old ones.
Home* anil Cold.
Colonel Sir T. II. Holdicli, writing In
“The Indian Borderland” of the terrible
storms and wind and snow which over¬
take tlie traveler on the high passes of
the Herat mountains, remarks on tlie
superior- power of the horse to with¬
stand cold. In one stioli Storm "over
twenty men perished and many mules.
All the dogs with tlie caravan were
dead, but, so far as l can remember,
no horses. Yet some of the chargers of
the eleventh Bengal lancers got slowly
on their legs the day after the blizzard
literally sheeted with ice as an Ironclad
s sheeted with steel.” It is a fact worth
noting that tlie horse will stand cold
where u mule or a camel will not and
where a dog will die.
Galen In Nurirnr.
A curious feature to travelers In the
highroads of Norway Is tlie great num¬
ber of gates—upward of 10.000 In the
whole country—which have to lie open¬
ed. These gates, which either mark
tlie boundaries of the farms or sep¬
arate the home fields from the waste
conven |ence anil delay to the traveler.
who lias to stop fils vehicle and got
down to open them,
Cruel and (JniiNtiHl PiiniMliineiit.
Mrs. Boorum (hopelessly)—Mortimer,
I cannot make Willie mind.
Mr. Boorum (sternly)—William, do ns
your mother wishes, or I will make
you go anil sit In the cozy corner.—
Brooklyn Eagle.
Ilnrry'i Declaration.
She—Oh, Harry, It is awful! Papa
has forbidden you the liou.se!
He—That's nil right. It isn’t tin
bouse I ntn after; It’s you, darling.
Boston Transcript.
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THE COMMUTER.
How He Spends HI* Ilnurs of Daily
Railroad Traveling-.
The • much abused suburbanites,
whom the cartoonists picture as com¬
ing lo the city every morning from
“Louesomehurst," “host Man’s Lane,”
“I’lunehurst-by-the-’j rolley" and other
places with equally suggestive unmes,
nre an Interesting class of individ¬
uals. The transient element of the
city’s population spends several hours
every day whirling over tlie railroads.
When tlie novelty of these daily bits
of railroading lias passed into the
monotony of years of travel through
the S{uno country the commuter has.
learned to make the best of the time
he spends on the train.
The “card fiend" is a prominent fig¬
ure in tlds elnss. Both morning and
evening four or five games of cards
are going on in every sruokjag car, and
It Is safe to say that thousidtds of dol¬
lars change hands in this “innocent
amusement" while the j layers are hur¬
rying to or from business.
Next to the "card sharp” is the tnan
who only enjoys his cigar and paper.
He is oblivious to all his surround¬
ings aud only shows animation when
he is at his journey’s end.
Many of the policies and plann of
some of this city's most successful
business men have been born <*r de¬
veloped ou those trains. The siioit
respite between the bustle of the city
and the cares of home life is to tills
type of man a season for meditation.
Another Interesting commuter is tlie
individual who is ou good terms with
all Ids follows. He travels up and
down through the ear exercising Ids
repertory of latest jokes or sympa¬
thising with some gloomy looking
friend who thinks that nil tlie world
is against him. He seems to never
grow weary in his well doing.
The train life of the commuter is now
and then enlivened by wrecks. Though
tossed about and sometimes cut and
bruised, bo generally escapes serious
Injury. Such experiences ns these bt*
considers the spice ami coloring of his
existence.—New York Mail and Ex¬
press.
COLOR OF GOLD COINS.
Reasons For DilTereiieos In Tint ol
Ooiits of French 3Itnt«K'e.
Some time ago a Frenchman placed
together a number of gold coins of
French mintage of the beginning, mid¬
dle and end of the last century. IIo
was much surprised to see that they
differed in color. He set about finding
out the reasons for this difference, and
the results of Ids investigations have
been published in La Nature.
There is a paleness about the yellow
of the -10 and 20 franc pieces which
bear the effigies of Napoleon I and
Louis XVIII that is not observed in
the goldpieees of later mintage. Ono
admirer of these coins speaks of their
color as a “beautiful paleness” and ex¬
presses regret that it Is lacking in later
coins. The explanation of it Is very
simple. The alloy that entered into the
French gold coins of those days con¬
tained as much silver as copper, and it
was the silver that gave the coins tlieir
Interesting paleness.
The coins of the era of Napoleon III
were more golden in hue. The silver
had been taken out of the alloy.
The gold coins of today have a still
warmer and deeper tinge of yellow.
Tills is because the Paris mint, as well
as that in London, melts the gold and
the copper alloy in hermetically sealed
boxes, which prevents the copper from
being somewhat blenched, ns it always
Is when it Is attacked by hot air. So
tlie present coins have the full warm
uess of tint that a copper alloy can
g! vo.
If the coins of today are not so hand¬
some In ilie opinion of amateur collect¬
ors us those issued by the first Napo¬
leon, they are superior to those of ci¬
ther o/ the Napoleons in the fact that
It costs less to make them. The double
operation of Hie oxidation of the copper
and cleaning It off the surface of tho
coin with acids is no longer employed,
and the large elimination of copper
from the surface of the coins, formerly
practiced, made them less resistant un¬
der wear and tear than are the coins
now In circulation.
This signature ia on every box of the genuine
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