, favor of prefereatial trale as Sir Charlee

THE

nestion of the fiscal poliev of Canada? Is

a ania net an thportant matter ” Wh it dices t} M rea Star, an ndepe dent paper anylhing leaning to the other side, say?

A voice— Ne, tt is Tors

Sir Charies Tupper—!t is only within

the last week or so, since it has seen Mr

Laurier’s chanves are so slim. (Cheers ) But what does that paper say? It says the demon of indefiniteness pursues Mr. | Laur Nobody can get out of him any thing belie vith reference to anv thing. Ido not blame him so much _ be- e:use ] think he does not know himeelf, (Cheers an i seme hisses ) Ido not think he eat help it. Let me tel my friend who is rivalling an acquatic bird (cheers and and some hisses), let me give him

this little ground for reflection: What do you think of a public man who never holds the same opinion on a great public

question twice ? Mr. Laurier on the fl or

of the House of Commons declared in

1379, “I do vet agree with wy friends eround me; I am in fav r of } rote tion "| Tiat was whea we were intro{ucing the

National Policy, and he

but after he had been taken in hand by

Sir Richard Cartwright,a much stronger and abler man than himself, he got new light and what did he say then? “Tam in favor ? trade; lam an out and out free trader (Cheers and Langhter.) Well, the Liberals stuck to that until the general election came on when they went dow neath the verdict of the electors; then g they were no searer power than befure and after having taken up and abandoned protection and free trade, thev found a new go> and what was it? Taey found that the only Saivation for Canada was not rree trade, but the very

opposite, pot the National Policy of Can- aia, buta mach higher tariff, and they dec'ared themselves 1 Tnrestrict- ed BP ociprocity United States, 1 meant adopting the tariff of the Re-

n favor of |

wit! the Willi He

whic

public to the South, and as I say, a mach higher than our Own, and which should te made at Washington. (Cheers). What do you think of that fer a policy? I am not going to weary you by discussing it at Jength but I have in my hand a speech

maiz by Mr. Laurier on the floor of the Honze of Commons, after the Jast general ele tion in which the Liberals were d - feated by a ma 25, the people not being able to see the thing as they saw it The elections were in March and in May Mr. Laurier declared: “Sir Charles Tuy

per wrote an article in the North American Review in which he says ‘Unrestricted

Recipr city is dead and buried!’ I know | ss much about it, and I amas good an authority as Sir Charles Tupper and I tell

Mjorilty OI

you that—mark, this was on the flor of the House of Commons and = yon will tiad it ia the

Hansard-—— unrestricted reciprocity is more s'ive than ever.” What does he say to- day ? Why you could not bribe him to talk sbout unrestricted reciprocity. (Laugh ter and cheers). One day he is a protec- tionist, the next jay be is a free trader, and the next day he is for unrestricted reciprocity. He has a different policy

= eas

agreed with us; |

DAILY EXAMINER >

shows he is not quite so ben'gh‘ed but that he is capable of learning something

But he is in this little ditficu'ty : He says, in regard to that important question, “The

moment I am in power I will send a com- mission to London to negotiate preferen- tial trade with Her Majesty’s Government there.” If we never get preferentia! trade until he is in a position to send a commis- sion to London, I am afraid we will hase to wait many a long day. (Laughter and cheers ) THE BEST EVIDENCK I can give you of their want of a policy is that from day to day they change and shift their ground, going from the North tothe South Pole on the same question, as they have no settled policy in regard to this question, There is also another curious difficulty in Mr. Laurier’s way. He has given a pledge that the momeat he gets into power he “ill send a commission to Washington to negotiate a treaiy there He believes in government by commission. He is in favor of sending a commission to Manitoba to ascertain whether the rises in the east, or lo investigate a matter that event. (Cheers.) His commission to Washington, however, is tO negotiate a treaty with the United States which is to admit natural products free, and which will include manufactures

sun

} that is as clear as

us well. (A voice—‘1891.") I heara gentleman say “1891.” Does he know why we did not negotiate a reciprocity

treaty iu 1891? I will tell him. The reason was that the United States declared that they wou'd not negotiate a treaty with Canada unless we would consent to discriminate against the Mother Country, (Cheers.) Sir, the only terms upon which Canada could ebtain a reciprocity treaty was that she should turn her back upon the Mother Couatry—a country that isa better market for Canada to-day than the United States ever was or ever will be. Therefore you have aman claiming the coufidence of the people of this country and declaring that he will send a commis sion to Washington to negotiate a treaty that 13 to discriminate against the mother country, and at the same time send a conmimission to Londou to ask for preferea- tial trade, which involves discrimination against the United States,

A voice—The Man.toba School tion.

Sir Charles

ques -

Tupper—A gentleman

speaks about

THE MANITOBA SCHOOL QUESTION, i can only say that upon that question my light has not been hidden under a bashel, (Cheers). I have not imitated Mr. Laur ier, who made one speech in the House of Commons, and when he got down among his French constituents at St. Roche de- livered another speech atterly unlike the former. (Some cries of “ No, no.”) If anybody is really anxious to hear it I have the evidence in my poseession to bear ont what Teay. I have got Le Soir, his own paper, and [ can furnish you with ih: exact word: that Mr. Laurier used. Io the one case, on the floor of the House of Commons, he said: “ We must not co- erce the majority. We must endeavor to persuade and dv the besi we can with the

wherever he thinks he can see a majority. ‘hen with all these little efforts to galvan ize the corpse of unrestricted reciprocity in'o life he failed, and now he knows it lies mouldering in the grave never to be resurrected, and you cannot find any man in the Liberal party so pocr as to do it (Laughter). No man will say a word for this poor unresurrected policy ef unrestricted reciprocity, and it has gone by the board. What next? Mr. Laurier has come out flit-footed with a brand new policy. (Laughter). He had declared for “ free trade as they have it in Eng- land.” Then someboly tovk him by th: button-hole and said: “My dear fellow, don’t say that. Why, you know at this moment the artizans, those interested in the agricultural industry, every class in England, is crying out to get rid of the policy of free trade as it exists there.” (Cheers and cries of “oh, oh.”) Does tbe man wh» interrupts nse, or the boys I suppose they are, know that from 1890 to 1894, vader free trade as it is in Eay- land, there was a falling otf of the exports

7veverence¢

of the prodacta of British aad {rish industry f between “47 and 48 million pound; sterling. ( -heers)

Does he know the ruin that has fallen upon the great agricultural iuterests of the Mo-

majority in Manitoba, but we cannot co- erce them.” That was his language in the House of Commons. When he got down among his French Roman Catholic constituents at St. Roche he said: “ [¢ they (the Provincial Government) prove obdurate we will fall back upon the law and the constitution and carry out

that whichis necessary todo justice to the Catholic minority.” Two statementa more unlike each other could not b:

uttered. I de not intend to deal with that question for the reason that on the floer of the House of Commons, in my address to the electors, and in my speeches every- where [ have proclaimed my determina- tion to stand by the law and the constitu- tion of the country, (cheers); and to do justice to a feeble French Roman Catholic minority juzt as I would to a powerful Protestant minority in the Prov- ince of Quebec if they were in the same position. (Cheers.) It is pot a question of forcing separate schools upon anybody. (t is a fact tbat ia the law and the consti- tution of the country there is a solemn compact made with the Protestants in Quebec, the Irish Catholics in Ontario and the French Catholics in Manitoba that their rights cannot be taken away from them without being able to go tothe Par-

ther Country is so great that it is deplored in the last Queen’s speech wih which Parhament was opened, as the most frightful cond:tion of things that the agri- culturists of England have ever known, and that means are now being tried to rescue them from the mi-ery in which they are plunged. Yet people talk abou: free trade. I observe that Mr. Laurier has recently got a little light on this sub- ject, and he now says: “[ have thouzht that matter over again. I intend to have free trade as itis in Engiand, but it will take about forty yearato do it. Do nat mind; you are not guing to be ruined right away.” Does anv one not kaow that Sir Richard Cartwright has declared he will not rest until the last vestige of protection is rooted out? Is there an intelligent man here who does not know that Mr. Laurier has declared that protection must be strack down? Inthe language of Sir Richard Cartwright “It is r ybbery, a villainous system that must be destroyed.” Where are they to-day? Mr. Laurier—(feeble cheers). I do not wonder they are gettiag fainter, bat I am going to say something encouraging for his friends. Mr. Laurier has recently shown that he is really cap- abie ef learning something, anil as he is a comparatively young man, in ten or fifteen years be may get sufficient inf r-nation to aitempt to lead a great party. (Laughter.) Whiat are the facts? Down in the county of Cape Breton, which I have had the honor to represent, and in @ short time will, I truet, have the honor to represent agaio, (eheer-), and in the county of Picton, that lias been represented since 1882, by my son, and i think he wil! te able to give a good account of himeelfon June 23rd (cheers); aud down in the county of Cumberland, represented by my distinguished friend and colleague, the preeat Miusister of Justice, Mr. Dickey, (cheers)—in all these counties the men who cre offering as the supporters of Mr. Laurier are de- elaring to the people that if elected they will support me, What is the meaning of that?

A voice -They want to get in.

Sir Charlies Tupper—That wes a sapient remark. When I say they are supportiog me, [ mean they are supporting, not Sir Charles Tupper, but Sir Charles Tupper’s policy. For twenty-tive years I have been contending on the floor of the House of Commons, aud maintaining throughout tLe country, the policy of the protection of our coal intereste. (Cheers.) Wio la opposed me? Every man in the Liberal party. Ail thet I have done, all that haa been accomplished by the Goveroment and perty to which [have the honor to belong, has been done in spite of all the Opposition that could be givea by the Lib- eral party. What will you think of them when I tell you that Mr. Laurier,at Sohmer Park in 1895, and also in Windsor Hui, in Montreal, declared that the first thing he would do when he got into power would be to make coal and iron free. He bus not chinged nor mortified that utterance. What must you think, then, when I tell you that my opporents in Cape Breton gud the Lih»ral candidates in the County of Pictou and the County of Cumberland, are alldeclaring that, if anything, they will make the duty on coal higher. I say, if ever there was a cas? of the principles of one party being stolen by asother this isacate.- These men, offering a3 sup-

Orters of the Liberal party, are pledged y their de :larations to sustain the policy T have mentioned. In view of this shift- mg from one policy to another, this esire to take advantage of every wind that blows, is it any wonder that Mr. Laurier, finding that the doctrine Of preferential trade, which I have advo- cated so strongly, bas taken a deep hold of the public mind, in one of hie recent Speeches says: “I am jus’ a3 much in

Pupper.”

Hament of Canada and obtain redresa. (Cheers.) Isay that under the cireum - stances, if instead of it being a@ question of aweak French Roman Catholic minority in Manitoba, the complaint came from a powerful and influential Protestant minor- ity in the Province of Quebec, there is no: a Protestant in Cenada who would not raise his voice, nor a Protestant palpit that would not resound with denunciations agaiust any Government who would fail to do them justice. (Cheers.) A Govern- ment, no matter of whom it might becom posed, who would allow a French majority tu take away the rights enjoved under the constitution Ly the Protestants in that Province would be unworthy of their pos ition and would deserve to b2 hurled in- dignantly from power. (Cheers.) When it happens not to be Protestants, but a weak French Roman Catholic minority, the Government are still more strongly bound to stand by them and to see that that which the highest judicial body in the Empire—the Judicial Committee of the Queen’s Privy Ceuncil in England—~—has declared to be the unalienable right of the French Catholics of Manitoba sha!] be re- stored tothem. (Cheere.) Iam abusing

the privilege of speakiug to-night ‘in oe- ecupying your attention at such great lengh, but I boid in my hand not only

the declaratioa of one of the greatest edu- cationis's, and one of the highest anthori- ties on that question to be found in

this country—Sir William Dawson, a Picton man, who has raised himself to the very front of educationists in this Dominion and long held the position of of principal of the great College of McGill in

Montreal —I have not only his declaration in the strongest term*, but I have the declaration, and [ will read itto you if you will pardon me for a single moment, of an equally high authority, the Rev. Dr. Shaw, whoisa@ man Of very eminent standing and very high position as you know, and who is the principalof the Wesleyan Theological College in Montreal. In dis- cussing the Remedial Bill on February llth last he said:

“1. do not go as faras Sir William Dawson on the merits of the separate echoc] system. I wish it were nct a necessity. My association with Roman Cathole students in my young days. mate me think more both of therm and their chureh. [ wish al! could be educated to- gether. But the question is a parely constitu. tional one. If the rigbts of the Roman Cath- olic tainority in Manitoba, described not by individual caprice, buc by the highest Cuurt in the Empire, be not respected, as one of the Protestant minority of Quebec, Isay the British North Americas Actis not worth ths pap ritis writtenon. Our grievances, if we have any, may at any time be a football! for political partisans. Iknew the remedial bill was 2 constitucional necessity from the start, and [have faith inthe loyal respect for au thocity,hcld by the people of Cana ta, to know thatin the end law must be maintained. I think it is quibling to point to the word “may.” Givenontre one hand a grievance judicially declared, and on the other a rem- edy which may be appliei, and every princi- ple of law declares that “may” means “shall” ‘The word “may” simply empowers the Dom- inion Parliament] to intervene, and the griev- ance judicially declared, creates the obliga tion for its relief.”

I give you a high authority in the Pres- byterian church and I give you an equally high suthority in the Methodist church showing that the course taken by the Gov- ernment was a course impose! upon them hy the Jaw and the constitution of the country; and if you tear up one leaf of the constitution, because you may have « number of friends who may not see eye to eye with you, you may tear up the whole constitution of the country, and you are left in the miserable position of not having any constitution. (Cheers).

Now, I also hold in my hand the author- ity of the Rev. Dr. Ismac Murray, (cheers and some laughter), who wrote to me this letter, dated North Sydney, May 21st. The Rev. Dr. Isaac Murray, at the mention of whose name very extraordinary sounds come from @ small corner of this hall, was,

That is @ hopeful eign. It

[ might say, the Moderator of the Synod

aint et

of the Preshyterian Church last year, and 4 man hokdine ta. hj the most distinguished position in the Presbyterian Church. He says: “Dear Sir Charles Tupper: I have just read your speech in Windsor Halil as published in the Mon- treal Star. It is simply grand. What splendid lines of progress to project, which originally in the face of such obstruction to pursue them so successfully, bespeak foresight and ability of the highest order, aud makes one thank God that vou are spared under Him to give your guiding hand still to advance such a grand far- reaching policy aS you inaugurated. | regret that I am still confined to crutches. I would have gone to Sydney to-day to see

shest and

you and to thank you for the great work carried on since you were here. I rejoice

in your success in remedial efforts and hope you will succeed. . . . . Any use youcan make of my name in sup- porting your action, not only op the school question but your Nation- al Policy, you are at liberty to refer to it, I consider it not only an honor bat a sign of the possession of right reason and true wisdom to sup- port your magnificent schemes to unify and strengthen our great Enpire of Great Britain. My prayer for you is that the Lord will give you strength to continue your work until crowned with suceess.” Thatis from the highest Protestant authorities in the Presbyterian and Metho- dist churches, and I may say that wher- ever I have gone about this country this question has only to be placed in a plain, matter of-fact manner befere the people for their prejadices to melt away, and for them to see that the Government had no alternative but todo that which, in the interest of truth and justice to the Roman Catholic minority, we would be com - pelied, under similar circumstances, to do fur the Protestant minority of Quebec. (Cheers). Isay this, and [ say it with thankfulness and pride, that there is no portion of this wide Dominion in which, in my judgment, it is so difficult to get up antagonism between Protestants and Catholics as in my native Province of Nova Scotia. This battle was fought out nearly forty years ago and settled forever, and under that settlement what have we seen? We have seen the carrying out of the policy which marked the illustrious career of Sir John Macdonald, “ equal justice to all, without respect to raze or

creed. The Province of Nova Scotia has flourished and prospered. Recognizing that principle, Protestants and Roman

Catholics have been able tostand shoulder to shoulder in promoting the progress and prosperity of our common country. Un- der that policy we have become a great, a united, a prosperous and happy people, and the maintenance of that policy of equal justice, without regard to race or creed, is a fundamental) principle that cannot be destroyed without doing the g ‘eatest injury to the people and the pro- gress of this country. (Cheers). BRIGHT PROSPECTS.

Ido not intend to keep you longer thax to say that, having travelled trom Win- nipeg in the far West away to the shores of Cape Bre'on, and advised from day to day of what is going on in the great pro- vinces of Ontario and Quebec, I eay to you that the prospects of the party I have the honor to lead were never brighter than they are to-day. (Cheers.) On the 23rd of June we shall receive that eudorsement which has distinga shed the great party to which I have belonged, and which wil! place them in a position to carry forward the progress and development of Uaneda as they have done in the past. i thank you for this maznificent assemblage of those who have greeted me here on this occasion and [ trust I shall be able to come back LO you atno distant day, and claim the falfilment of my promises, as [ did to- night, in respect of what I told you eighteen years ago, and that I shall then have the opportunity of standing in the same position, before one of the finest, most intelligent and most interesting audiences that I have ever in my life had an Opportunity of addressing. _ (Great cheering). /

HON. MR. DICKEY’S SPEECH,

Hon. Mr. Dickey, Minister of Justice, fol!owed Sir Charles, and on coming for- ward was greeted with cheers! and ap plause. In opening, he expressed the gratification he felt at addressing such a splendid andience as he saw before him. He pointed out that Sir Charles had been referred to by lis opponents as “a decrepit oll man,” but he (Mr. Dickey) did not think that Sir Charles gave any indication of decrepitude to-night. Neither had he given any indication of decrepitude throughout the campaign. Indeed, so great was his vitality that his son, Sir Charles Hibbert Tupper, who star.ed out with him, had to stay at Pictou, tired out with the werk of the campaign and he (Mr. Dickey) had to take his place.

Sir Charles had dealt so thoroughly with the questions agitating the public mind at this important period in the bis- tory of Canada that there was very little left for him tosay. Atthe risk of wearying, however, he would say a few words con- cerning

THE MANITOBA SOHOOL QUESTION. This question, he pointed out, was wot a new question, nor had the matter been brought into the politics of the day by the Liberal-Conservative party. But it is a question that has falien to the lot of the Libera!-Conservative party to settle. It is not an important question from a pecuniary point of view. It does not affecr the taxe- tion of any province of Canada. Many imagine that the question involved the matter of separate schools and Catholic domination. Bat separat schools are not an issue in any sense. The question had to be dealt with along the lines of the constitution and upon the principles of justice and equa! rights,

The Opposition claim that there is no compact and no grievance in respect to ths matter of separate schools. They deny everything, and throw the burden of proof upon the government. The course pursued by the government in this mat ter is the only one that could be pursued by a government desirous of maintaining the unity of Canada and meting out equal justice to all—to minorities as well as majorities. The whole case is so plain and clear that any one of ordinary intelli- geence who studies tie matter will readily ree that the course the Government 1s pursuing is the right one.

[t was in 1870, before Manitoba entered the Confederation, that the people of tha’ country passed a rrsotution favoring union with Canada, and failing in that, of uniting with the United Siates. Lateron, when Hon. Mr. McDougall went out to Manitoba, he was met on the prairie by a wuumber of half breeds, who stipulated that the rights which they en- joyed under the Hudson Bay Company should be guaranteed them. Mr. Me- Dougall was unable to give them this gnarantee, and they turned his horse about and would not allow bim to act as Governor. Subsequently

THE HOME GOVERNMENT

tovk the question up, and a proclamation was issued assuring the people that their rghts and privileges would be respected. Sir Donald Smith then went out and agreed to give them €25,000 for their

schools and roads and bridges. A delega- tion was sent >from Manitoba to deal with this matter, and

the resuit wasthe Manitoba Act. This act was approved by the people and passed the House. Thus the Manitoba Act re- presents the solemn compact made with the pre.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, who gave a decision upen the matter of the Manitoba school question, is

t compoted wholly of Protestants, and the

Lord Chancellor, who says the agreement with Manitoba is a compact that should be carried out, is the official head of the Protestant Church in England. What was Protestant enough for the Lord Chan- cellor was Protestant enonch for him, and

what was just enough for wie Chancellor was just enough for him. That was the

view the Government took of the matter, There is ONLY ONF COURSE

for the Government aud that isto take the | original ccn:ract as the ba-is ofthe cours? they should pursue. Equal rigbts and

ju-tice meant equal rights and justice :@ miLocivies, regard ess of race or creed and Without regard to numbers. He was not favorable to separate schools himself. But, as he had already pointed out, this was not a matter of ceparate schools. It was simp!y & question of abiding by the prin- ciples of the constitution. ‘The separate schools enjoyed by the people of Mauitoba for many yeara bad been swept away, and the Roman Catholic minority were com-

pelled to contribute = towards” sa system of education that was forced apo. = them. He knew of no question that was such a great

thing for the demagogue as the Manitoba School Question. It was intricate and calealated to arouse prejudice, which fact was not lost sight of by the demagogues. It is said that the schools of the Protestact minority in Quebec have been guaranteed by law, and that they cannot be taken from them. But this is only a partial truth. A‘l the essential rights enjoyed by the schools of ihe Protestant minority of Quebec are dependent upon the very clause that is now being called in to pro- tect the minority in Manitoba, Suppose, for instance, that some demagogue in Quebec were to get up an agitation against the Protestant schools of that province,what would be thought ®f him ? Would he not be looked upon as a dangerous man aad ap enemy of his country? He thoughi eo, Protestants should look into this mat- ter very carefully, and not allow religious prejudice or political parzizanship to inter- fere with the great principles of right and justice. The Manitoba School Quaestion should

NEVER MAVE ENTERED INTO POLITICS. It should have been taken hold ot by the Leaders on both sides of the House and settled in the common interest. But the Government, in their effort to settle the question, did not receive a particle of aid from the Opposition, although the whole trouble was caused by the action of a section of that party in Winnipeg.

Mr. Dickey then pointed out that Mr. Laurier, speaking of the School question on the floor of the House, said that if the Legislature of Quebec were to abolish the Protestant Schools of that Province, they would be inthe hands of the Roman Catholic Bishops, and asked if such imiquicous legislation were passed, if there was aman in the House who would not denounce the objectionable conduct andl catl upon the Government to abolish the law and pass remedial Jegivlation for the Province of Quebec! Mr. Dickey then weut on to show that the Protestants of Quebee were deeply interested in the con- stitutional settlement of this question, ani he appealed to the high seuse of jus- tice and right of the intelligent eleciors in the matter. As you are strong be merci~ ful, and remember your weaker brethren in Quebce.

It is smal] minorities who need protec- tion. Large minorities do not need it. It is not right to refuse justice to a minority in any province of the Dominion because that minority happens to be small. The Coueti(ution must be carried out and equal jus:ice accorded all regardless of race aud religion.

He h:d hcard this matter discussed by the ab'est Canadian statesmen, and he never heard a geod case made against it by any cf its opponents, When he took up the matter him-eelf he did so with the idea that Manitoba should not be interfered wih. But he soon changed his mind. The more he looked inte the mat- ter andthe more carefully he studied the case, the more strongly he wat convinced that the claim of the minority was a just one, and that their grievance should be re- dressed along the lines of the constitution.

WE ARE PROUD OF OUR LEADER,

sa'd Mr. Dickey, and we are prond of his

record. The policy which he has outlined cannot fail to benefit the coun- try. Preferential trade would

prove of great benefit to the country. The Government had adopted this policy, ard if there was one man in Canada able to make it a success that man was the pres- ent jJeader of the Liberal-Conservative pariy, Sir Charles Tupper. (Cheers ani applause.)

dr. Jenkins was the nezt epeaker, and was received with great applause. hi remarks were necessarily short, becau e of the late hour. He dealt with the branch railways, the trade policy ef the Govern ment aud remediai leislation. He had the fullest confidence in the good sense of the people of Canada, and f: lc sure that o4 the 25rd of June they would egain return the great Liberal-Conservative party to power,

At the conclusion of his spe-ch three cheers and a tiger were given for Dr. Jea- kins,

Hon. Mr. Ferguson then made a brief aldress, after which cheers were given for Sir Charles Tupper, Hon. Mr. Dickey, Hon. Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Blake, the can- didates and the Queen.

The meeting closed with the National Anthem.

CAMPAIGN NOTES,

—* Doesn’t look much like a boodler, does he ?”

Kveryone Votes—the meeting of last evening a great succe33.

—Sir Charles Tupper left for Halifax this morning. Hon. Mr. Dickey remains here to speak at Keneington this evening. He will leave for New Brunswick to~ morrow.

SS ee SUDDEN DEATH AT SUMMERSIDE,

Robert Peters, a fisherman, died suddenly

Children’s Clothing.

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Spxoisi, Desparoses ro THe Examinsr

“FARRER AT IT AGAIN,” A Nefarious Plot Discovered.

Orrawa, Jun? 2. Information which bas been in posses” ‘ion of the Government for some weeks shows in a most indisputable manner the nature of the nefarious plot of the Grits, Patrons and McCarthyites to overthrow the Government. The deal, it appears, h: a been brought about by Mallory, for the Patrons, McCarthy, on his own behalf, and Alexander Smith, Liberal organizer for Ontario. The gentlemen who enginer- ed the scheme was no less a personage

than that arch conspirator Ned Farrer.

ToE BANK SAROMETER.

Satisfactory Return From the Bank of Montreal.

Montreal, June 2,

Senator Drummond presided at the annual meeting of the Bank of Montreal ye-terday, in the absence of Sir Donald Smith. ‘The report is satisfactory, and the vice president said : “We have survived a reign of low prices and our resources are unimpaired. The savinzs of the working class are accumulating, and with more rettied political conditions we may con-~ fidently hope for greater prosperity.” The old board was reelected,

P. B. Island Fish Report.

Alberton -Cod good in all s«ctions of this district, but no effort made to take them; herring fair in this district.

Mimiuigash - Lobsters scarce.

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SWEDISH HABITS.

How the Steady Sons of the North Behave at Table.

The Swedes have a queer way of loco- motion at their meals. They often flit about like flies from one table to another, and sometimes seem to turn the menu topsy-turvy when they order a repast.

It is no rare thing to see them begin With cheese and biscuit; next proceed to ham and salad, with a slice of meat to follow; and then suddenly start up in the middle of their dinner to swallow, while they walk about, a plateful of pea soup.

A habit which they have of beginning each repast with what they call a ‘‘smor- gos,’’ not merely leads to much untidi- ness at mealtime, but makes them seem contented to live on bits and scraps.

The smorgos consists of little dishes, such as slices of smoked reindeer and caviare and sardines, with pickles, cheese and other viands provocative of thirst.

These are fished out withafork of gen- eral utility and laid on thumb-pieces of rye cake, thickly smeared with butter, which serve by way of plate. Then they are bitten into, regardless of the frag- ments which may fall on other dainties (fcr your true smorgos eater seldom sits to his repast), and they are finally washed down with a glass or two of spirits, which stand handy by their side.

Such a prelude to a meal is not merely unclean, but must vitiate the palate and injure the digestion. Indeed, I feel con- vinced that were the smorgosbord abol- ished, not merely would the cookery in Sweden soon improve, but very many of the peopie would be gradually weaned from their weakness for strong drink.

A Story of a Lost Diamond Ring.

“It is queer how lost valuables are sometimes recovered, and the story I tell you was related to me by George T. Dawson, who breathed much easier after he had again secured possession of his diamond ring,’’ said Tom Larrimore yesterday. ‘“‘Dawson was courting a pretty country girl, and on Sundays would drive out to her father’s farm in

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et the Dominion House in Suramerside | ® buggy and take her out riding. He was yesterday, about 12.15. He was in to din the proud possessor of a $300 diamond sterday, about 12.15. oy : — ner with two other men, and had hardly ae gt ade ces os a began eating when be choked. He was ede , _ mo . a a , started toa country church to attend helped into an adjoining room and left meeting.

there, where he was found about twenty minutes totwo, dead. An inquest was he'd and a post-mortem examination made, A verdict was given to the effect that Mr. Peters came to his death by val- vular heart disease, brought on by drin‘ ing.

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“The ring was too large for her finger, ‘nd somewhere on the road it slipped off and was: lost. Paterfamilias with other members of the family followed with a 2-horse wagon, and all gave up the trip to church and joined in the scarch for the diamond, but the gem was not to be found, It was springtime, and the roads were yery soft, which allowed the wagon wheels to become covered with the loamy soil. After dinner the boys were strolling around the yard, and one of them stopped at the wagon. Taking ont his penknife, he began cutting the mud on the wagon, when off dropped 2 lump of dirt, displaying the diamond ring stick- ing in its center. The ring had fallen in the wagon track and had been carried at least three miles ineased in the lump of mud which had adhered to the wheel.’’ —5St. Louis Republic.

Two Queer Cases.

Among the curious things in life few are more amazing than the constitutional peculiarities occasionally met with. The professor who delivered the introductory address to the students at one of the London hospitals thought it well to put his audience on their guard.

He instanced two very singular cares. Qne was that of a man to whom rice in any form was poison, Some friends wished to test this person's susceptibility, and at dinner surreptitiously got him to partake of biscuits in each of which was a grain of rice. He ate two or three his- cuits and soon after had to leave the ta- ble, declaring that he was being poisoned by rice, thongh he was absolutely certain he had not partaken of any.

The other case was one in which thé juice of a gooseberry acted as a powerful excitant and produced at once a virulent skin eruption, This man was so very

susceptible that he coald detect gonse- berry juice even when it was miasquer-

aded as champagne. Aca public dinner he whispered to his neighbor that it was gooseberry wine they were drinking, and as a proof he turned up his shirt sleeve and showed him the rash developing. That man was clearly intended by nature for a vine merchant.