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Some of the advantages purchasers have in buying from us are,saving of freight,ordering goods when you want them (not six months before), getting them without delay—which saves carrying a large stock which deteriorates on the shelves.
Our leathers are bought direetly from the tanneries, thereby saving commissions which many factories have to pay.
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We hope to see many new industries arise, “Gem of the Sea.”
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Tenders for Steamship Lines.
Toa tS wil! be received at the Financ: De- riment, Ottawa, up tu and including the Ist Gadel of May next, from persons or companies, for the perfor mance of the following steamship ser\ ices, viz.: —_ Ist. a line “f mail steamers sailing from Halifax to Havana, thence to Kingston, thence to =an- tiago de Ciba, the:ce to Canada; and (2nd) e line “f mail steamers between Canada and Porto Rico ani adjacent Islands. Trips to be made bj each line fortnightly. Steamers to be of a size sufficient to carry 2,000 tons of cargo and to be able to steam twelve knots an hur, averaging not less than eleven knois an hour. The con tract in either case to be for a period of five years. Tenders wi'l be received for the above services either separatels or together. Tenders to be marked on the outside “lenders for Steam- ship Service to West Indies.” the Government of Canada do not bind themselves to accept any tender. By command,
J. M. COURTNEY- Deputy Minister of Finance. Finance Department,
Ottawa, 7th Feb., 1887—febi9 law til april 30
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Truro, March 21, 1887.
FOR SALE,
Ten Shares in The | Examiner Pub- lishing Company,”
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(ali paid up) of the Capital stock of Tur EXAMiNER PUSLISHING COMPANY Wii be sold in lots of one or more shares, to sult purchasers.
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MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1887
The Year of the Mice.
In 1699 Dierville, a Provincial chronic- ler, said: *‘Prince Edward Island has « plague of mice or locusts every seven \years.” The mouse plague is a bygone misfortune in the Provinces. It once caused great distress from time to time noi only in Prince Edwards Island, but at Pic tou, Colchester and Antigonish. —
; In the spring of 1815 a mouse plague fell
upon Pictou and the surrounding country, so that instead of one Bishop Hatto there | Were hundreds, though the victims had not, jlike the cruel Bishop of the Rhine, been iguilty of any great misdeeds, and they had an easier escape.
The warm air of May loosened the frost, and just at the time that the earth usually sends forth her flowers, she sent forth in- stead, to the astonishment of all good peo- ple, mice. The earth seemed full of mice There were mouse holes in all the woeds and fields.
Where the early violets had bloomed, ithere were the eyes and noses of hungry | ine. The farmer went out to his barn ; mice scampered off before him and followed after him. When he went to feed his pigs he would find the trough full of mice. The farmer's wife found them in her cellar, closet and sleeping room. Cats and dogs guarded the barns ; but they often retreated before the attacks of the multitudinous foe They were not ordinary mice, small and timid, but were large and bold. They arn said to have resembled rats moie closely than their own species.
As the days grew warmer their numbers seemed to increase. They were as thick as grasshoppers in August. They devoured every eatable thing that was not protected by watchfulness and force.
The farmers would go out to plant their fields. The next morning they would find whatever they had put into the ground had been devoured by the mice. Corn, grain and vegetables alike disappeared.
There was a farmer in Merigomish, a bright, enterprising mau, who expected to add to his yearly income by raising a finc crop of oats. He prepared his field; and one morning he put his sacks on board his wagon, and, fillinga large measure from the sacks on arriving at the field, he went out to sow. He marched forward like a general; he scattered the vats to the right and left in the usual way; and when the oats in his measure were exhausted he turned about to repleaish the measure from a sack in the wagon. What was his astonishment to find an army of mice at his heels. He was greatly enraged. He strode back over the ground, “but only husks of all the oats he had suwn remain- ed. He cut down a young birch tree and made war on the mice. He drove them into the walls and woods, and was, at last, as he thought, master of the field.
He began to sow again, and continued the work during the morning. At noon he went home for his dinner and more oats. When he returned to his field, it see ned, like the wood in ** Macbeth,” to be moving. Of all the cats he had sown in the morning, not one was left.
At last the mice began to die for want of food. Fields were covered with them, the air was full of a sickening odor. The? late ing Vermin in many parts moved tow ‘ards the sea coast in vast numbers, as there was an abundance of shell-fish there. When they had devoured all the shell-tish they could tind, they died there, and the tides carried them away. The mice not only ate the fish, but the large fish ate the mice. The large fish caught in the bays were found to have mice in their maws,
It is said that there are old people living who remember the yearof the mice. lt was a custom for many years to speak of marriages, births and deaths as occurring on such and such a date before or after the year of the mice. Browuing’s story, **The Pied Piper of Hamelin” is a_ fiction, as is also Southey’s ** Bishop Hatto,” but this story is substantially true, and yet it has found no poet.
In Memoriam.
The session of the Summerside Presby- terian Church desires to express their deep regret at the death of Elder Thomas Bre- haut, and agree to record their deep sense of his worth asaman andaruling elder for a period of seventeen years. Possessing a brilliant mind, intense zeal, and a thor-
ough seriptural knowledge, he was eminently fitted for christian work. The session also recall with plea-
sure the intercourse which they had with their late brother—the meetings of session being always characterized with the utmost harmony and friendlieness, and in parting with him we feel that we have lost a warm- hearted man and wise councillor.
And also as a Session, we tender to Mrs. Brehaut and family our heartfelt sympa- thies in their sad bereavement,and offer the earnest prayer that God may givethem grace to bear up under this trial, and that He who has promised may bea Father to the fatherless.”’
W. B. Ramsay, aos Clerk.
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VOL. 19.—NO. 262.
Archbishop ©’Brien on the Sunday Law.
There is a bill before the Legislature of Nova Scotia, which provides that ferry boats, street cars, etc., shall all be stopped on Sunday, and that no amusements shall be permitted. Respecting this bill Arch- bishop O'brien writes to the Halifax Chronicle as fvilows:—
“A few words on the proposed Sunday observance law may not be out of place. Any enactment of the Legislature which tends to
nou™e on the morality of certain actions, demaads our serious consideration, and our calmest discussion.
**Not for one moment do I impugn the motives of the promoters of the bill; I am bound to believe them to be good. But those who diifer from them are not held to acknow- ledge that those motives are deducible either from reason or religion; much less are they obliged to forego their christian liberty in deference to the peculiar views that have as- sumed concrete form in the proposed bill.
** All good citizens are, I feel sure, in favor of a decorous and religious observance of the Sunday ; few will deny that it isso observed, generally speaking, in Halifax. Our Sunday observance laws cannot ve lax, when « fine can be unposed for shaving a man, or for sell- ing tive cents’ worth of candy. Both in law, then, aud in practice, Halifax is sound on the Sunday ovservance. Further legislation is not required,
“The Sunday rest is for the physical and inoral goui ot man, The wearied limbs re- quire repose, or a relaxation from the routine of the week's work. The pent and greasy air of the factory, or forge, or mine, is to be ex- changed for the breusy atinosphere of the fields, or the ozone of the sea shove. This is necessary for man’s physical good. Rest, moreover, from the cares and occupations of daily life is needed to give a man due leisure to think of and arrange the affairs of his sovl. True, we should adore God at all times; bit it is well, aye, necessary in our present state, to have one special day of the week to de- vote more fuily to that end than we otherwise could.
‘* Whatever, then, is inconsistent with the attainment of these two ends is unlawful on the sunday ; whatever conduces, in an _ order- ed manner, to one, or both, is lawful. Hence to enact a statute making penal anything that is included in the latter category is to restrict the just rights of men and to initiate a religious persecution.
**Strict as the law regarding the Jewish Sabbath unJonbtedly wos, the Pharisees made it still more onerous, and were openly rebuk- ed on that score by our Divine Kedeemer, but the Jewish Sabbath has nothing to do with christians ; it passed away for ever, with ail the ceremonial observances of that first dispensation. The eternal principles of mor- lity, true before the Lord had spoken on Mount Sinia, remained true after the old law had been r placed by the new. Hence the ten commandments remained ; God was still to be «miored, but the manner thereof was cumplete- ty changed: The Sabbath, with its cervemon- ial yoke, went down with the sacritices of sheep and oxen, Not to undersiand this is not to understand christianity. What the chrysalis is to the butterfly the old law was 0 the gospel Speman Yhe carnal mind of the Jews was fettered and held in subjec-
tion by ceremonies in t! 1is pupa state ; but the bright transformation, into the full light and itberty of the gospel, wes affected. To the yospel, then, and not to the old testament, are we to look for the Sunday law. Our Lord plainiy teaches us that, since he so often, of a set purpose, broke, so to speak, the Sab- vath,
** We are to learn the christian teaching on this question fromthe practice of the early chureh. We find the Sabbath no longer re- cognized, but the spiritual and physical needs of man are safeguarded by the christian Sun-
oy But it was no longer a day of g.oom, or bondage ; it was as joyful as the resurrection, of which it became the weekly reminder. It was a day for special adoration, as well as of physical relaxation. In a question of this nature the custom of the universal church, for iong ages, is surely of more weight than the opinions of a few in this late day of the chris- tian era.
** What, then, is the rational rule of Sunday observance? First, a cessation from servile works which might hinder the fulfilment of religious obligations, or deprive men of their needed physical rest. Second, to spend a part of the day in devotional exercises ; pay- ing our debt of adoration to God, and remind. ing ourselves of a future life in the midst of this busy and fleeting one. It is also a day for the performance of spiritual and corporal works of mercy.
‘**But no sensible man, much less one lovin God, imagines thata poor mortal shoul spend the whole Sunday in prayer or in some ious work. After the devotional exercises if the day are over we havea part left for our bodily good. That part may be lawfully spent in any devorous exercise, or amusement, or health-giving play. Surely every reason- able man will say that it isfar better, phy- sically and morally, that young and oid
should enjoy God’s bright sunshine and pure air, than to lounge round street corners, or to congregate in stuily
rooms reeking with foul air, and redolent of the fumes of the father’s last night pipe, or the son’s sickly cigar. If, as we are bound to believe, the promotion of morality is the obe ject of the of the bill, in God’s name let them look at facts--at men as they are, not as we might wish them to be—at the homes of thousands, and let them seek rather to draw men, by reasonable liberty, into the light of heaven and the pure air of our park and gardens. By all means strive to induce them to discharge the duty of worship; but leave them the God-given ‘liberty of rational recreation
One last word on the street cars. [f the employes are prevented from attending to wors! 11p on Sund Ly. by reason of their running let the managers provi ide, as they easily can, that they sh ll have ample opportunity in the future. This guaranteed, nothing turther is required. There can be no more wrong in ears running than in carriages doing it. If I may pay my coachman, monthly, to drive me on Sunday, surely that laborer may piy bis five cents to the company for the same pur-
se. Riding is a pleasing mode of locomotion, 4 eS
it is a source of p'easure, ond a bealth giving exercise. Let those who cannot afford the {1 tkury of a carriage, enjoy Us very iegiti- mate pleasure of riding, by heving liberty to
the str e’ ¢ ra, su! ject to the above provision, to carry them cheaply on Prom vt ®. +0. & GRIEN, Apb, vf Hallfax.
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