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Queer Phase of Life at Heidelberg University.

In England the s* mitted to prison only by the civil au- thority. In Oxford, it is true, the vice chancellor deals with undergraduate eaughtiness, principally in the form of debt and insubordination, for which he may impose a momentary penalty, but oe does not deprive the defaulter of lib- erty. There is, or was, a legend that a eertain apartment under theold Claren- don building was really the university

udent's body is com-

.“*qnod,’’ but for its authenticity it is

impossible to vouch.

Cambridge has its spinning house for female offenders—not lady students, but fadies who might prove a delusion and # anare to the mere male undergrad. There, if we except the irksome penalty ef ‘‘gating’’ (confinement to college or lotigings after a stated hour), our aca- femic efforts at incarceration may be said to end.

Iu Germany, however, the academic fungeon is a very stern fact. The Hei- d@elberg ‘‘carcer’’ is famous. Every read- ec of Mark Twain will recall his enter- taining description of the place and beww he contrived to visit it, even unwit- tingly enlisting as his guidea ‘‘Herr Professor.” His pretext was to see a yeang friend who had ‘‘got’’ 24 hours acd had conveniently arranged the day to suit Mark—for the German student vonvict goes to prison on the first suit- able day after conviction and sentence. WW Thursday is not convenient, he tells the officer sent to hale him to jail that kee will come on Friday or Saturday or Sanday, as the case may be. The officer mover doubts his word, and it is never troken.

The prison is up three flights of stairs, and is approached by a ‘‘zugang’’ as vichly decorated with the art work of convicts as the cell itself. The apart- ment is not roomy, but bigger than an erdinary prison cell. It has an iron grated window, 2 small stove, two wooden chairs, two old oak tables and @ narrow wooden bedutsad.

The furniture is profusely ornament- ed with carving, the work of languish- ing captives, who have placed on record their names, armoriad bearings, their erimes and the dates of their imprison- ment, together with quaint warnings and denunciations. Walls and ceilings are covered with portraits and legends executed in colored chalk and in soot, the prison candle forming a handy pen- ceil. Some of the inscriptions are pa- thetic. One runs, ‘‘E. Glinicke, four days for being too eager a spectator of arow.’’ If four days were meted out to @ mere spectator, what, one wonders, had been the sentence of the participa- tors? It must have been a moving spec- tacle.

Another record (also quoted by Mr. “lemens) bas the savor of a great name to it. Of course it isthe son that is meant, not the father. The legend is, “PF. Graf Bismarck, 27-29. II. '74.’’ This Mark Twain interprets as a record of twodays’ durance vile for Count Bis- marck in 1874. Had 1874 been leap year one might have been inchined to interpret the numeral ‘‘II’’ as February. But the ‘‘29"’ makes this difficult. So perhaps'the humorist is right.

A third specimen is too tragic for comment. It simply says, ‘‘R. Diergandt —for love—four days.’’ Ungenerous saccessors to that sad chamber have dealt harshly witi their forerunners’ reputations by ingenious substitution of heinous crimes, so that certain prison- ers go down to posterity as having been punished for theft and murder.

VYhe prisoner must supply his own bedding and is subject to various charges. On entering he pays about ten- pence, and on leaving a similar sum. Every day in prison costs sixpence; fi ¢ and light sixpence extra. The jai!-r supplies coffee fora trifie. Meals muy Be ordered from outside. Lvery prison- er leaves his carte de visite, which is fixed with a multitude of others on the door of tho cell. This queer album is glazed to protect the photographs.

Academic criminal] procedure in Hei- delberg is curious. If the city police ap- prehend a student, the captive shows his matriculation card. He is then ask- ed for his address and set free, but will hear more of the matter, for the civil authority reports him to the university. The Oxford regulation, by the way, is im certain cases almost identical. In Heidelberg the university court try and pass sentence, the civil power taking no further concern with the offense. The trial is very often conducted in the pris- ener’s absence, and he, poor wight, may have forgotten all about his peccadilo entil the university constable appears to conduct him to prison. But thither, seeing he may choose his day, he always repairs cheerfully.—London Sketch.

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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, JULY 15 1898.

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PROMISE VS. PERFORMANCE.

Great Increase of Public Expenditures by the Liberals,

A CAPITAL SPEECH BY HON. SENATOR FERGUSON.

[From the Senate Hansard.]

(Concluded. )

Fon. Mr. account?

Hon. Mr. Fergueon—I will deal with capital account by itself ,I will make adis~ tinct comparison and keep capital account by itself. Iam dealing with the expendi- ture on consolidated revenue and the ex- penditure for the year 1895—96 was $36,- 949,143, and I find that the expenditure on _cnsolidaied acccunt as contained in the estimates already brought down by my hon. friend for the incoming year is about $41 000.000 an increase from a ‘ew thou sand less than $37,000 000 in 1895-6, the last year of the Conservative administra tion, to avout $41,000 009 fr the vear for which we are now muking provision, and with the certainty befure us that, as in all

Scout—How much capital

other years, there will be supplementary estimates brong at down duriog the next session of parliament

providing for other expenditures in Connection with that year. It may he that not quite all of this $41,000,000 that is now being brought down will be expend

ed. Itis possible there may be «smal! sums that will not be expended, but I thiok I am perfectly safe in assuming that the estimates which in all certainty will be brought down during next session of parliament for this particular year with which we re dealing will be greater than any saving which can be eftected upon the main and supplementary estimates that are already before us. So that it is now certain that as far as consolidated rev- enue account is concerned this government is laying out for the expenditure of cer~ tainly not less—it may Le more than $41,

000,000 for the year 1898-99, and then when we compare that with the expendi-~ ture of the Liberal-Conservative govern - ment during the year 1895-96 of $36,949,- 000 we find that there is an increase of over $4,000,000 in consolidated revenue account alone. Here let me point ont to my hoo. friend the Minister of Justice the position in which he stands at thie moment before his former con« stituents in Bothwell. He promised them, so the premier said, in 1894, that is the Liberal party got into power he would and they would reduce the expenditure on cousclidated revenue by $4,060,000 a year —thatthey would make that reduction. Here we find my hen. friend for the first year in which he is in a position to make estimates, preparing, not only preparing but committing this parliament and the country, to an expenditure of over $4,000- 000 greater than what occurred under the Liberal~Conservative goveroment. So that my hon. friend ia sierting out in his career as a member of the adminiatra‘ins by spending, on consolidat2d revenue account alone, for tbe first year over $8,000,000 more than he promiced his constituents ofe Bothwell, he would spene if he were placed in the government of the country. That isthe position in which my hon. friend stands. My hon. friend said something about capital accounts. | have not these figures in detail. 1 do not intend to go very largely into them, and I notice that the figure: tha’ I have are based upon the estimate that were submitted to the House of Commons, and I pursue that as the estimates were going through the House some little changes were made, and

I notice that the fizgues that my hon friend has read, which 1 have no doubt are based

upon the supply bill a+ it finally went through the Honse, ditfer only in some very small particulars trom the figures 1 have iu my haad, and | account for it for the reason that some items may have been dropped in the House of Commons. Bu: altogether the difference is so very slight that it is not worth ta'king about. It only amounts to a few thousand in the whole Now, we find that in thie yearthere sre already estimates brought down for capital expenditure of about $7,000,000. [hey vary a little for the reason I have alread< explained. My figures are $6,900,000, and adding these to the figures, as I have them

it makes a total ex enditure of $48,000,000 provide. fo: in the estimates we have now betore

us, including capital accountand consol~ dated revenue expeditures for the year 1898-6. I wish to placethese figures on record, and I wish to call the attention of hon; gentlemen to the position in which they are now placed befere the people of this country in regard to this matter of ex~ penditure, Let uslook atthe matter of

| came into power,

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the debt. If I were to refer to the resoln- tion of the Quebec conference hon. gentle- men would see that it was particulariy emphatic on the point that the debt had been alarmingly increased. The resolu- tion I read made that declaraticn, Here we have hadthe debt going up by leaps and bounds since these hon, gentlemen We have the expend- iture increased on consolidated revenue in two years to the amount of $4,000,000. If that rate is maintained for 18 years, ip place of the increase, which ocer rred under

| the Conservative administration of $12,-

| 000,000 or from

$24,000,900 to $36,000,-

000 —sit would add to the expenditure of the country ou con- solidated

revenue account, something lixe

' $30,000,( 00, that is if they keep on as they

have been during thuse two years; so that when they complained of the alleged ex- traordinary acceleration in the increase of the expenditure of the country during the time the Conservative government were 1n power, it was a mere trifle compared with

going on under their own management. I find the lebt onthe 30th June, 1896, was $325,717,536.

Hon. Sir MacKenzie Bowell—that ‘s gross. Hon- Mr. Ferguson—Yes, that is gross ;

of covrae the comparison is fair encugh— while on the 30th of April, 1898, the gross leb° was about $336, 702,000, showing that 4n enormous increas? in the debt has also sone ov, and of course will have to go on when we are voting this year, asl have iust shown, about seven millions of capita! expenditure. That means nothing else than that an enormcqs increase will be ettected in the debt during the year that is now coming as has been done during the past year. But my hon. friend ‘he orcretary of State imagines he finds an excuse for # part of this excessive expenditure in the Yukon estimates and in the extension of the Intercolonial Rail - way to Montreal and in the provision that is now made for the plebiscite and some

other things which be mentioned. Iti true that these carual expenditures are being provided for in the esti- mates of the next year, but it

is equally true that in almost every year the yoveroment is confronted with casual expenditures of one kind or another, and ihe year 1898-9.' is not peculiar in the fact thac there are peculiar expenditures of this kind provided for within it. If there is to be a plebiscite in that year there will he no general election we have had in many other years,and if a large ex- penditure has to be provided forthe Yuk«n there ia no Northwest rebellion to deal with or any dtfliculty of thet kind; and it is quite easy to Show that no deduction ought to be made on account of these ¢x- penditures to which the bon. gentleman referred, unless, for the purpose of com- parison, you go back te former years wh p

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when the Coneervative goverb- ment was in power and elimin ate from ftieir expenditure equally

abnormal expenditurer that occurred iv a mostevery one of those years. ‘I here- fur, for purposes of comparison there is no use in presenting the statements of the hon gentleman tothe house unless you are willing to go back and reshape,revamp, a: it were, the expenditure during the Conservative administrauiou, Making cre- ait for expenditures which would be fairly compared with these. But while my bon. friend is ready to snatch at Yukou expen liture as a firet~rate ar- gament with which to justify himself and his friends before the country fora small part of the expenditure for next year, bave we forgotten that during the long time they were in opposition they refused stubbornly to give the Conservative gov- ernment credit or allowauce for the vast expenditures which it had to incur in connection with the acquisition and witb the development of the great North-west Territories. When they came into power this great heritage was placed under their care, the Pacific Railway had to be buiit, the postal system nad to be developed and an expensive system of Mounted Police had to be maintained ; provision bad to be made for the surveys of the land, and pro

vision had to be made for bringing that vast territory from alone land, -uch as it was then, and converting it step by step until i was prepared to take ite place slong the line of the provinces of the Dorin on of Canada. That was the reepon~ sib lity that devolved upon the Liberal Conservative government during all those years, which accounted for mueh of the ; increase in the debt which bad to be in- curred in building the great Cavadian Pacific Railway that was the founda-~ tion of the increased ex

penditure aod increased capital expendi- tnre and increased debt during the time the Conservative government were ip power. But the hon. gentlemen oppos~ ite who now staod pleading that we should exonerate them before the people of this conntry from their broken pledge, because they had an expenditure of halfa million dollars in connection withthe Yukon territory; the gentlemen who refused during all those years to give ‘1 eir predecessors the s'ighte-t credit tor tue enormous expenditures they had to in

cur in development of tne great Northwest and Manitoba, nuw com: and ask the House and the country to forgive them for their broken promises, for their extravagant expenditures and for their swollen estimates, zimply because they had to spend halfa millicn dollars in con- nection with the Yukon terri‘orv. Hon. gentiemen, I do vet propose to follow these observations any further. I cesire how- ever, to place on record my protest against these expenditures, not only because they are large as compared wiih the expendi- tures incurred during the Conservative administration, but because I believe these expenditures are extravagant in theusselves. I believe that as time goes on we shall see that our friends in the goveinment have deviated wideiy from the policy they pursued in opposition and the platform they then laid down. There must be some iaftluences at work, in which I would be very sorry to include eitber of the hon gentlemen who sit in this House, for I believe neither of them would be capa~ ble of being a party to what is corrupt. But

Icannot help believing that for some of

these extraordinary expenditures, which this country has now incurred and which

will weigh us down with a heavy debt in the future, there are,in mauy cases,reasons other than those drawn from the consid. eration of the publicinterest. I know my hon. friend is anxious to profess his own honesty andthe honesty of the govern-~ ment in reply to these observations. However, ! only make this observation in

some way to find in my mind an explana- tion of the extraordinary expenditures that are being incurred. I cannot understand why this government should vote such

ex!rayagant sums of money as

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Another lot of butter crocks, cream erocks, fruit jars, etc., are being sold cheap at W P Colwill’s.

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See our ready to wear pants at $1, $1.25, $1.50. and $2.00, all sizes, all styles.—W D McKay.

All straw hats reduced to half price. See our 20c and 25c hat, worth double the mouey.—W D McKay.

See the muslin we offer at 10c per vard. Also prints at 6c, 8c and 10c.—W D Mackay.

Dress muslins at 10c per yard; prints at 6c and up; flannelette 3cand up, at the Bargain Corner—W D McKay.

Delicious, crisp, early cabbage, ‘‘as nice as cauliflower and as tender as chicken,” 80 they tell us that use them, early beets, turnips, spinich, radish and lettnce, choice lemons, and last but not least, mushrooms at Gay’sstalls in market—every day at nursery gardens head of Prince Strect

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