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THE DAILY EXAMINER.|

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‘Phe Examiner” and Temperance.

We shall not characterize in plain lan- the statements which have been made by the Guardian respecting Tue EXaMINER, lest we might fairly be accused of rudeness. fhe facts concerning Tas EXaMINER'S course inthe matter of the Scott Act are written broadly upon its face. Until the question whether or not the Scott Act should be repealed came up we gave it & steady support, because the Scott Act was the lew. When, in August last, the ques- tic f repeal was first discussed, demonstrated that drunkenness was on the increase in this city ; pointed out that it would be better to have free rum without law than free rum with broken law ; and asked the Scott Act promoters what they We waited for

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were guing to do about it. an answer for weeks, for months,—so long? indeed, that the Guardian (which declared Tue Examiner had gone over to the liquor dealers) announced that we had backed down and would no longer oppose the Seott Act. Receiving no answer, obtain- ing no satisfactioa, we declared for the repeal of the Act rather than for liquor selling in the law's despite, — but, throughout the entire contest opened THE EXAMINER'S columns to a free and fair dis- cussion of the whole matter. At the close of the discussion, on the evening previous to the ballot, we announced that Tue Ex- AMINER would, as all good citizens should, submit to the will of the majority; aud we uow, in accordance with that aanounce- the Seott Act beeause the polled —though only seven- in taver There has been, tof Cae Examiner, no sudden i Coutsersion,. We opposed

are uent, upholding f votes

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the contest went on, as t vful mvestigation and ob- ion, from the temperance point of : and we support the Aet at the pre- ime on exactly the same principle

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chat we supported it prev ious to the con- cest—the priuciple that in a free country, the duty of the minority to bow to the will of the majority, however small it may be, so soon as it has been constitutionally

expt essed,

Nothing to Cackle About.

We have heard a great deal of cackle in the past week about **the Scott Act Vic- tory.” It seems to us that prudence would have suggested that the less said about the What are the facts? nineteen and

victory the better. There are on the Voters’ List hundred and twenty-eigh} names ; only thirteen hundred and fifty-nine voters voted in recent Scott Act contest- Why didn’t the remaining five hundred and sixty-nine electors vote? We cannot, of course, gauge with absulute accuracy the { motives of men; but it may fairly be as- sumed that most of them stayed away from the polls because they could not be induced to vote foran Act which had worked no good, and would not vote on the same side a; the liquor dealers. But for the odium attached to the liquor traffic the five hun- dred and odd electors would have come forward and voted against the Seott Act ; and instead of merely holding their ground, the Scott Act promoters would have been overwhelmingly defeated. In such a situation, prudent and sincere promoters of the Scott Act would have striven to strengthen their position rather than to

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boast about their ‘‘ victory,” and heap taunts and sneers upon true temperance men among their opponents. To say

nothing about the liquor dealers and the liquor drinkers who (it is now known) sup- ported the Act, we submit that the Scott Act situation calls for earnest work rather than for cackling. The Scott Act pro- moters will not, if they are wise, run the risk of another contest on a record made up of broken promises and blasted expecta- tions.

Improved Governor.

There is a feature in the engines at the Elmira (N. Y.) reformatory that has just been made public through the columns of Elmira Daily Advertiser. This is an im- provement in the governor, which would roquire a good deal of space to fully de- scribe, but by which « very fine adjustment , is attained. So nicely and so «accurately |

thao 7" » } dogs the governor have the supply of steam undor its control that theze is no * pacing mi un en By accurate testa it has been demonstrated that there is a

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variation in speed of less than two per cent when the eatire load of one hundred horse- |

power is applied, or when it is taken from |

ol rine wlstever.

to electricians or men familiar with engines that this is @ marvellous achievement. The variation is so slight that it cannot be dis. oovere | wien looking at an electrio lHght operated by it, and it is-well known that the electric light is extremely sensitive to @ y change of the engine’s speed. Neither suuld thechange be discovered by the sparks m theshaft of thearmature where the copper brushes rest, although they also are very snsitive. -The test of shifting back and | forth from one engine to the other the power required for about 800 incandescent an i ten are lights was applied. A careful : atch o} the lights and of the sparks at the dynamo failed to reveal when the changes were made. The are lights that make bril-

liant the reformatory rounds nigh os vbuudy’ as thu teed tary, SUEY

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THE DA

ILY

Varia.

ut Justice going with halting foot was never more truly exempli- fied than in the case of the sever anarchists condemned to death for the murder of policemen in the Chicago riots last May twelve-month: Two had ther sentence commuted to condemnation to the peniten- tiary for life, one committed suicide with a

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fulminating cartridge, of which he had secretly possessed himself, and the remain-

hanged a short time ago. No one can feel any sympathy for the un- fortunate mer who were guilty of conspir- ing against the law ina republican state which boasts itself of being the freest couitry in the world, and it is astonis uing to hear of petitions for mercy elven miles in lehgth, being sent to the Governor of Illinois. It also seems more like torture than judgment to keep men fer months after they have been con- demued to death. It is sad to have to: say that all four died without a word of con- trition for théir crime or of faith in God on their lips.

ing four were

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I came across the following extract, re- lating to thé wondition of the peasantry of Ireland, in acopy of the Manchester Wvaid- ian a few days ago. The writer of it says :

*T decline to pity the Irish peasant for his made of jife, ‘He is infinite tiis hovel may

the wrong place,’ Taough

of London or Manchester. ¢datain “much matter in

yut its dirtiness ig not oppressive. peculiarly, and indeed vidi

to such things, lisagreeable swell in the worst Irish hovel. That frowsy aud sickening odor of humanity which everybedy who has visited the poor in English towns knows so well, is altogether absent. Moreover, though | know not what the total amount of their ablutions may be the faces at least of the children are fur cieau er than in England. Again, the diet, evi sisting of Indiay meal, potatves and milk, though not Inkurious, is wholesome and satis- fying, and the people being accustomed to it, crave for nothing better. And then let any

Lancashire man conceive, if he can, what an incalculable blessing the Irish pexsant enjoys

in an absolutely pure atmosphere, no coal ainoke, no gas fumes and no foys. can be more éxyuisite than thé air in the South and west of Ireland.” 7 * * o The infidel Ingersoll is capable, some- times, of roble expressions. One of his

best sentences is the following tribute to

womanhood »—''! tell you, women are more faithful than men. LI tell you, as a rule, women are nore faithful’ than men— ten times more faithful than men. I saw a man pursue his wife to the very ditch

und dust of degradation and take her in his

arms. I never saw a man stand at the shure where she had been morally wrecked, wai ing for the waves to bring back even her corpse t¢ his arms, ButI have seea women with their white arms lift wan from their mire of degradation and hold him to the bosom as though he was an angel.” ingersoll hag a soul after ali; whether he believes it oF not, ;

We are sptto th.nk of the heroes of

genius as if they had been as muck appre- ciated in their own day as they are now. But with many it was far otherwise, and in many instahees those whose venerate were pour, wretchedly poor, and

but little known, to suchan extent that their days ‘were shortened by absoiute Spencer

want. Homer was a _ beggar. died in want. Cervantes died of hunger.

Terrence, the dramatist, was a slave. Dry- den lived in poverty and distress. Sir Walter Raleigh died ou the scaffuld. But-

ler lived a life of penury and died poor. Bacon lived a life ot meanness and distress. Plantus, the Roman comic poet, torned a mill. Paul Borghese had fourteen trades, and yet starved with ail. Tasso, the Italian poet, was often distressed fur tive shillings.

Steele, the humorist, lived a life of perfect

warfare with bailiffs. Otway, the English dramatist, died prematurely and through hunger. Chatterton, the child of genius and misfotune, destruyed himself at eighteen. Beéntivoglic was refused admit- tanes into ju hosvital he had himself erected. was confineu fdr « debt of 640. ‘The death of Collins was through neglect, first causing mental! derangement, of Wakefiell ” was sold for » trifle to save him from the grip of the law. Fielding lies in the burying ground of the English factory at Lisbon without a stone to mark the spot. ** Paradiga Lost” for $75, ments, and finished his lute in obscurity.

Camoens, the celebrated writer of ‘* Lus- lad,” the grvat Portuguese epic, ended his days, it is said, in an almshouse, and at any rate was supported by a faithful black ser- Lisbon

vant, who begged in the streets of

for him. x % *

There is about the life of an author a

glamor which affects him from one point of view and the-public from another.

others it lies in the methods of his work.

In no age has the ferreting cyriosity about

the lives cf writers employed ge man hands and eyes. Biographies multiply, memoirs fecundate essays,and the man who

owns the penwiper of a poet is prouder thing the yitudent who has annotated his The’e are authors nowadays willing or iapertin- mlon essayist | has turned an honest penny letting in the

epic. to meot this spiric of enqui ence halfway. A diesar le

light uport the story of his earnings.

We fear the public will soon gauge a

writer's as accurately as a carpenter's wages. As an answer to the question, What sort of

living can # may make out of literature? a clever littht book, ‘‘ Authors and Author-

ship,” isa reply. It tells a great’ many

; things and: quotes a great many * views ” one of these engines, Jt need not be stated | upon the’ subject, but the answer comes jmainly-to this, that if you are fit for authorship and write for your own time you | will be likely to make a living by your pen; if you writs for a future generation, no matter how fit, you mugt take your pay in post obits. There is, gad to say “Fo much “if” about this answer that a man without means may starve trying to find ‘out his

relative fitness. Mr. William Shepherd,

the compilor of this little book, has without

hesitation used the labors of others to make it interestiug. : + *

How little the geeat naturalist, Charles D irwin, fecked of the turmoil oyer his * Origin of Species” these twenty odd years backmay be judged by the serenity with whic vestigations. In his book, ‘‘ Vagetable Mould and Earth Worms,” Nei) nadheme of Ubevrvvitus upbu teyetebts anid end

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ly better off than . working man who works in the poorer parts

idiculo: @ vy sensitive I have never yet sletected #

Nothing

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Savage died at Bristol, where he

Goldsmith’s ** Vicar

Milten sold his copyright of in three pay-

d the. public To him the fascigaiion is in his work itself; to

‘he has pursued his vsried in-

earth worms reaching back years. Nothing seems at first blush so in-

earth’s surface by those gliding creatures which gardner or farmer turns up with spade or ploughshare. his careful and painstaking, but perfectly lucid manner almost startles one by the logic of his conclusions, Worms are the

meadow as well asin the ploughed field, and can undermine and bury the works of man with a success that makes them one of the great forces of nature. Burrowing beneath they bring their ‘* castings ” of fine earth to the surface, and so keep up their work that what farmers call the tendency of things on the surface to ‘* work them- selves downward ” becomes a natural con- sequence to an oft-repeated process without any mystery at all init. Sifting the mould through their bodies the worms have been seen tu raise it at the rate of an inch in five years over certain fields which Mr. Darwin has kept under observation ; in certain cases they take ten years to raise the mould an inch. Though looked upon as destroy- ers they have been the conservators of the past, buryivg coins, weapons and even buildings for centuries from the sight of men. Mr. Darwin's observations on the habits aud structure of worms are deeply juteresting.

Funeral of Rev. Dr. Grant.

Tne funeral of Rev. Dr. Grant took place yesterday at Cardigan Bridge, and was at- tended by His Lordship Bishop MelIntyre, the Revs. Angus MeDonald, Charles Me: Donald, Wm. Phelan, James Afneas Mce- Donald, John Corbett, Dr. Walker, A. J. McIntyre, A. E. Burke, E. Boyd and J. C. MeLean, and a very large concourse of people, Catholic and Prptestant. At 9 ‘ctuck His Lordship began the recitation of the prayers preseribed by the ritual of the Catholic Chureh, when the corpse ws carried in procession to the church the clergy chanting the psalms appropriate to the occasion. Then the Office of the Dead was recited by the clergy, followed immediately after by the Celebration of « Solemn Mass of Requiem, His Lordship being the celebrant, assisted by the Revs. Fathers Burke and Corbett as Deacon and Sub-Deacon, Father Melntyre as Master of Geromonies, and © Dr. * Walker as Incense-bearer, respectively, ‘After Mass the Rev. J. A. Macdonald preached an appropriate discourse, dwelling feelingly upon the talents and yjrtues of the dead priest. The afflicted parishoners were visibly affected. The absolutions were then pronounced by the Right Reverend Bishop, assisted by the Deacon and Sub- Deacon of the Mass. The coffin was borne to the pretty little cemetery opposite the Church, by the elders of the two churches lately directed by the deceased clergyman, followed by hundreds _ of sympathetic friends, where the last rites were perform- ed, and all that was mortal of a revered and highly talented priest consigned to the sarth in the shadow of the great Mission Cross, thefe té await the resurrection Asa mark of respect towards the déad clergyman the stores at the Bridge were closed anc all business suspended,

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Temperance of Early Christians,

The Rey. D. J. McDonnell, of Toronto, questioned ina recent sermon the total

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abstineyce of the Apostle St. Paul ; where- upon a correspondent of the Globe submits to the public the following extracts from a speech by Cardinal Manning, delivered on 27th Uctuber, 1884. He says :—

“I said to myself, let me think awhile~ what did the early Christians do in the begin- ning? I then consulted the first of the great historians of the Christian Cbhurch--I mean of these later ages. He says there is every ground to believe that total abstinence from wine was the common practice of the early Christians ; and he says we have the evidence. I leave out the najges of those early writers, but we have it on the testimony of one of tlie earliest that St, Peter himself was @ total abstainer. Next we have the same evidence that St. James was a total abstainer; thirdly, that St. Matthew was a total abstainer; fourth, we have the evidence of St. Paul himself that St. Timothy was a total abstainer. The same historian goes on to say that st. Paul himself was @ total abstainer, for we have it on the evidenge of one of these authorities whom we have quoted.” ' The Cardinal goes on to speak of Rom. xiv., 2J, which wes Mr. Mac- elite text, and says;—‘'I have always been in the habit of interpreting that verse in a narrower sense. I have often said in speak- ing to you, that in those days when meat and wine were offered in heathen temples to idols, and having been offered to idols they were eaten and drunk by the worshippers. Ifa Christian were to eat of that meat or drink of that wine he might giye an impression, though a false impression, that he was of the same faith or uribelief of these heatheris ; there St. Paul ssid; ‘Though it is perfectly lawful for that meat and that wine to be used, neverthe- less do not drink it, for fear yeu give a false impression,” Now find that this great authority, the greatest of the historians of the Church, the one who laid the foundation of its history—the great Baronfus—he says that the argument of St. Paul in this way was that the ‘ practice of total abstinence was so wide- spread among Christians, and that they prized it so much, that ip some places scandal would be given if a Christian were ‘seen to depart from it, and therefore that the rule of ghavity was much more fine than the interpretation which I have hitherte given,’ The Cardinal, therefore, came to the conclusion that jn try- ing ta induce people to become total abstain- ers, we aye really trying to bring them back to the practice of the early Christians.”

Another Invention.

The ** Dynamograph ” is the name of the new ‘‘electric typewriter and automatic telegraph receiver end recorder,” as it is called. Tho Montreal Star reports that in appearance jt somewhat resembles the or- dinary mechanical typewriter with its key board and other surroundings. Great things are claigped for the inventjon, It is to supercede the telephone in’ this way. Suppose you have a **dynamograph” in your office, it is of course connected by wire like the telephone with otler offices. If you want to send a message you strike the letters, as on a typewriter, and two messages are written, one in the office of the receiver of the message, and the other in your own office. Thus all danger of mistakes is obviated and the sender has a eopy of his despatch to fyle. So at least the patentee says, and electricians say so toa.

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All the editors of St. Petersburg have been summoned by the press censor, and instructed. to adopl w mudvrate tone regard ing Germanys

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But Mr. Darwin iu!

wonderful earthturners that work in the |

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bus always been a

Christmas Rendezvous,

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but will for the present season

EXCEL |

BER NEY

Christmis Cards

(a tremendous stock from | Coat to $10 each.)

Gift Books, Photograph and Autograph Albums, Card Cases,

a full variety, &e, &c.

In order to accommodate our numerous Pat- roos and fw ilitate purchases, we have opened a grand

BAZAR

inthe large room immediately overhead, where

the larger TOYS AND GAMES We do not hesitate to say

are well arganged. that the Stock is LARGER, NEWER, BErTER and CHEAPER than hes ever beeu imported tw this Province. It is impossible to enumeraic. You can get almost

Everything You Require

to your fullest satisfaction.

THEO. L. CHAPPELLE, * * DIAMOND 300KSLORE, Ch'town, Dee. 3,°1487-—-ead

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T ! Margin to the Grocer, Quality to the Housekeeper —IN-

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254 Uuroy Sr., St Jonny, N. B Will put Woodiii’s-Germaa Baking Powder a@siinst any if thé murket, + Mes. J. H. SMITH.

‘the Citizens of

Nov 24, 3w.

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Public Meeting of Charlottetown :

[NBER and by virtuc of the provi-ions con- turned in tie Forty-eizhth section of the Cearloiteiown Town Water Works Ac: 1°87, ‘id» hereby cailu pubiic meciing of the Ciiz os of Charlottetown, to »e held on THURS VAY EVeNING, the Vighth day of December next, at Xo’cluek, in he Blarket al’, to taxe ino con- sideration the Keport . f the Water43on missjon- ers for the City of Charlotietown,” upon ‘tie Tenders and Specifications for the Consiraction of Water Works for the said City of Charlotte-

town. T. HEATH HAVILAND, Mayor of Chariotietown. Mayor's Office, Charlottetown, November 28, 1837~—t1 d

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Charlottetown, Noy. 10, 1387.

It's an ill wind that blows nobody Good.,

HE leading Dry Goods firms of the City are selling off at 20 and 30 per cent. dis- count (see advts.) Perhaps their profits war- rant the reductions in price; perhaps not. Anyway, it’s a cocd thing for the purchasers,

OUR «-DVICE.

Don't buy any mor Dry Goods than you need because they are cheap, Buy just what you would have boughtif no reductions had been made. Then you will find that you have a good 7 dollars on hand that you did not expect to have. Now, bring those dollars over to our store and Jay in a stock of

GOOD THINGS TO EAT.

(You can’t live on Dry Goods.) Get a box of Raisins, a few potnds of Currants, 5 or }0 Ibs, of Tea (ora half ohest if you havea large family), a good supply of Sngar, Rice, Spices, a tin of Kerosene Oil, and such other Gouris as you uced, We havea

BiG STOCK,

WHICH WE WILL SELL

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and the more you buy, the bigger the disco unt.

GEO. CARTER & CO,,

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Purses, Satchels, Plush Goods,

performing, is a sufficient guarautee that the Heating Works set

DECEMBER 3. i887. I 1 ' THE EXCELLENT STOCK CF GOODS FOR

87 HOLIDAY SEASON ’88 NOW OPENING.

They are Superior in Quality, Low in Price, Elegant in Appearance, and no Plush trash, as it is all gone out of fashion,

Christmas is drawing near, so do not wait until too late, but call at once on

BROWN’S BLOCK.

Dec. 3, 1887—eod

NEW STORE. NEW GOODS

TEWART & GATES beg to inform their friends, and ail who will favor them with their patronage, that they have

‘opened a New Grocery Store, in the premises formerly known

as “the Seven Cent Store,” where they are prepared to give ag

good value for your money as any house in the trade.

We import direct, and pay cash, and as our expenses are light, we are in a dosition to do as we say,

FLOUR, Choice Brands.

TEA, Very Choice.

SUGAR, Ail Qualities.

BEST AMERICAN KEROSENE OIL, Very Cheap; a large assortment of General Groceries which we will Sell Very Low.

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Give us a call and see if we do not mean what we say, ‘Goods delivered to any part of the city. "e J. STEWART, A. GATES.

Dec. 2, 1887—tu th fri sat

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HOT WATER HEATING APPARATUS

A. HERMANS & SON

A RE now prepared to enter on contracts for putting up in Dwellings, ete., on the newest £¥ and most approved plans, the HO’ WATER APPARATUs for Heating. vis character of the work which the firm of A. HER MANS & SON has been inthe habit : up by them will dé thorough and efficient.

Parties anxious t» inspect the Heating Process, as built by A. Hermans & Son, can do 80 by calling any day at the private residence of the firm, on Bayfield Street.

Boilers on hand. Coils, etc., manufactured on the premises as required.

A. HERMANS & SON,

Charlottetown, November 30, 1887.—6j

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CVENUOATS | OVERUATS

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Heavy Tweed Pants and Suits altogether Too Cheap. Call and See.

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