DAILY EXAMINER.
APRIL 18, 1888,
THE
Will the “ Patriot” Apologize ?
Has the Patriot no respect for its read
er i i feel no obligation to state » truth regarding the views of Couservative politicians on public ques- tions’? These questions present themselves to every ” io has read Sir Charles Tupper's s } appears in Hansard, and the t 1 put upon rT by our contemporary. his is what the organ said on Fri ‘
wo ad ms, each responsible to its own Partia formally appoiated a high ca “ge tre yomissioncr who actually made i Unrestricted Reciprocity to the United St Whata traitor! Mr. D. Fergu iva ( reial Union means Annexa e same fatal objection lies aginst the new scheme known as Unrestrict- ed Reciprocity. Is, then, Sir Charles Tupper the Treaty Commissioner of the Imperial ani Canadien Governments an annexation- ist? Of course he is if we are to believe Mr.
Fergusou, Not onl but Sir Charles must
also be a fool
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Every word of the above is unmitigated
buncombe and is besides a gross perversion of the truth.
717 of Hansard and he will find Sir Charles
Let the reader turn to page
Tupper making use of these words :
** You may go to Washington as 1 did, you may mingle for three months as 1 did with the leading men of all parties and all classes, you may go through the House of Represen- tatives from beginning to end, and canvass every Man; and you may go to the Senate of the United States and canvass every man, and L «av you will not find one who will talk to you on the subject of Unrestricted Recipro- eity. I discussed the question fully and freely from day to day with scores of leading public men in the United States— I did not meet a man with an intelligent head on his shoulders that would talk about such a th.ng fora single moment. Why, Sir, they treated the very proposition with scorn. I will not say that‘it was a waste of time
totake up a fortnight of the time of Parlia-
ment in discussing that which Is Just As RATIONAL AS TO HAVE BEEN [DISCUSSING HOW TO CONSTRUCT A RAILWAY ¥FROM CANADA TO THE MOON.”
Yet this isthe man and this the speech
it said favored Unrestricted How can the people in this read the Patriot and see no
which the Patri Reciprocity ! P otier paper, escape being laughed at when they talk on public questions with their Will the Patriot ap logize to its readers and to Sir Charles Tupper? nine 6 eiiciegntinmmntidimne
Matthew Arnold.
vince, who
in‘elligent neighbors
lun cable yesterday brought us word of the sudden death of Matthew Arnold. When Beecher disd, it was said that one
was r-moved whose opinion on any subject was 2.ways awaited with interest, as a thing necessary before discussion on it could be considered closed. Something simmilsr may be said of Matthew Arnold. On in ny points he was a kind of last court of ap, eal, whose pronouncement was all but faal. Mr. Arnold achieved distinction az aj et in his eerly manhood, and bade fair to rise into lofty eminence as such, but he found prose an easier, readier expression for the thoughts which, coming to him as discoveries, he made it his burden to repeat into the slow ears of his generation.
Mr. Arnold hes been a preacher of what is commonly called ‘*culture.” He has had many hard things to say of his country- men—of their want of refinement, their narrow views, their petty world, their mechanical Heaven. He once defined the poet to bea eritic of life. As an essayist
he hag been that,and that almost exclusive- ly. is, the personal end social side of things. He the forces and tendencies of civilization. He has been an student of religion, and has even come forward as an interpreter of Christian- ity. Onthe whole, his help has not been gratefully recoived. He was denounced as a most dangerous man—as the ‘‘ greatest enumy of the Cross of Christ ’—by, we think, Dr. Patton, of Princeton College. He has been characterized as showing a ‘“‘yast want of spiritual insight” by a pro- minent expounder of the New Theology. to seed” has been the And yet Mr. Arnold has gone on repeating with increased as- surance the convictions of his mature years; and honestly seems to have thought that he had needing to be said, and to be said again. He essayed the difficult task of separating what is vital and of worth in religion from what is extrinsic regarded the loving teaper and kindly, patient bearing of Jesus as the highest exhibition of human conduct, to become infected with which is the secret of manly life. Such a view is surely not unchristian. But Mr. Arnold stopped thore, interpreted the miraculous elements of the Gospel story as poetic ervations, or (he statement of inner truths in the dress of material fact.
Mr. Arnold, it has been said, elevated er.ticism into a science. He saw what was of value in books, and he had a keenjeye to besuty or defects of style. His own prose is of the his verse chaste and polished as dressed marble. His assumed or supposed importance was the jest of the
Everywhere he touches the moral, that
was ever‘ studying
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‘* Dead and gone verdict of another.
something
and accidental, and
and
clearest ;
envious; but it was only the ‘small weights” that weighed him lightly. We are sorry he has gone from us. For us he
The table of letters has ed of a noted guest, one whose was 2n inspiration to high effort, words were the soul of his!
presence. Not soon shall the world see his | like again.
can write no more yh
been : presence aD i wy
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THE DAILY EXAMINE
Temperance Demonstration.
Tue demonstration under the auspices of the W. C. 'T. U. was large and satisfac- tory. Y. M. C. A. Hall was crowded. Rey. Job Shenton occupied the chair. Prominent among those present were Kev. E. Whitman, Rev. E. Weston-Jones, Rev. James Simpson and Rev. Fred. E. J. Lloyd. St. Peter’s Boys’ Band contributed eral musical selections which were well ‘‘wonderfully well, for boys.”
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re :1dered
The vocal music by Mrs. Roome, and others, Miss Duchemin and_ others, and Mr. F. 4H. Beer and _ others,
was carefully selected and pleasing, and Miss Barr's Temperance story was capital. But the interest of the large audience centred in the temperance addresses de- livered by the Rev. Fred. E. J. Lioyd, Mr. J. M. Campbell and the chairman. The former pleaded eloquently and strong- ly for definiteness, heartiness and unity of action on the part of the churches and all Christian organizations, and called for
work in the cause of temperance rather than prate. He advocated total absti- nence and the taking of the pledge; but opposed the {idea of legal pro- hibition as impracticable. Both the latter gentlemen pleaded for the help of
‘*the strong arm of the law,” and Mr. Sherton contended that liquor = selling should be made ag diflicult and disreputable as possible. The W. C. T. U. are to ba congratulated on the great success of their first demonstration.
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Resolutions of Condolence.
Reso.vutions adopted April Ist, 1888, by the First Baptist Church and Sunday School of Omaha, Nebraska, on the death of Flera C., beloved wife of M. G. Mac- leod, Esq. :-—
Whereas, It has pleased our Lord, in His infinite wisdom, to take to Himself our be- loved sister, Mrs. Flora C. Macleod, whose pleasant, winning manner, whose noble, womanly character and faithful Christian life have endeared her to all; therefore be it
Resolved, That while sorrow fills our hearts for the loss ef one so dear to us, we bow in humble submission to Him, our Blessed Lord. He loved her, too, and Hehas a right to the best.
Resolved, That we extend to our bereaved Brother Macleod our deepest sympathy, and we pray the dear Lord to be ever near him in his affliction, and sustain him in this hour of agonizing trial.
Resolved, That the faithful labors of our departed sister will ever live in our memories, a grand example of splendid Christian fidelity. She exemplified in the highest degree what it is to bea disciple of Jesus ; not gloomy but glad in her faith. Sorrowing with the sor- rowful, she laughed with the happy ; faithful in all things, but not austere. Of her church she was an earnest member; to her class a devoted teacher ; to the stranger a welcoming friend, who made them feel that far away from dear ones, they might finda Christian home. We thank the dear Lord for our sis- ter's Christian life. We thank Him for. the triumph of her Christian faith in the last try- ing hour of earth; her life an example, her death an inspiration of the blessed pewer of Curist’s love and presence! May we emulate her life ; and oh, Divine Father ! out of Thine infinite goodness grant that our last day may be as hers.
“So rare the purity of her life, So sweet the harmony of its strife.” So gloriously triumphant was her death that we can almost hear the angels shout: ‘‘ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and let the earth- born come in.” ‘‘ Who is this earth-born?” “* A soul trusting in Jesus, redeemed through His blood.” *Clothed in her immortality, Her wonderful spirituality,
Washed from all sensuality She enters the Glorious Portal !”
** List |—you may catch the song they sing, The rapture and the triumphiag, And the royal welcome of ithe King, The King of the realm immortal.”
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In Memoriam.
Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, a large and respectable funeral cortege, headed by her four sons, followed the mortal remains of Mrs. William D. Lawson, which were this morning conveyed from her late residence, School Street, to- the famiiy burying gound at Covehead.
With feelings of sadness did we contem- plate the passing funeral train, with its ac- companiment of woe. Yet, with the higher vision of faith, could we look beyond to the ransomed spirit’s ‘triumphal car, and listen to the sweet, glad strains of the angel peans of welcome. ‘* Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord.” Blessed was the dear departed in her life of concordance with the will of Heaven: blessed was she in her lessons of patient, even of cheerful endurance of suffering: in her hopeful, sympathetic tenderness over the sufferings and failings of fothers: and in her posses- sion, ina marked degree, of the ‘*orna- ment of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price.’
Standing by the casket which contained the remains of our friend, and gazing for the last time upon that placid countenance, encircled with the halo of a well-spent life, and beautiful in the serenity of a peaceful death, we mused. There are who can build up, often by questionable means, most colossal fortunes, and there are who, by basely disregarding the rights of brother man, arrive at the highest weight of ambition; but how futile, how utterly worthless the mere attain- ment of evanescent wealth, or short- lived distinction, compared with the sure aud certain hope of an inheritanee unfad- ing, and a name recorded in the everlasting heavens.
Farewell to thee, Christian mother and courteous friend! No more upon earth shall we grasp thy kindly hand, or look into that reverend face, from which the years could never dispel the brightness of youth ; but yet shall we meet thee and greet thee again in that holier, happier land, where the chills of winter can never blight, nor the white-winged storm destroy.
Ol! for that bright land where no shadows e'er fall!
Nor sickness e’er withers, nor sorrows appall;
Where summers of gladness unceasingly roll
O’er the sinless home of the sanctified soul.
S. M. Ch’town, April 17th, 1888. — a + i Ae Curtosrrizs.—A calf was born recently in Burford township, County of Norfolk, Ont., with two well-defined heads, four eyes, four horns and two ears. It has five jaw bones
, siso, two belonging to one head and three
to the other. It died shortly after birth.
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| leap year.
NOTES AND COMMENTS. Thiegs Said and Done on the Streets and Elsewhere.
l was one of those who attended the temperance demonstration in Y, M. ©. A. Hall last evening, and was much pleased with what I saw and heard there. The musical. portion of the programme was nicely carried out, and the collection must have netted a considerable gum, But it was with the addresses that I was most impressed. They were moderate in tone, and their tenor showed that the speakers were not straining after effeet. ~ There was an abserice of the _blood-and-thunder stories, too often doled out at such gather- ings, and which usually have a debilitating effect upon those who hear them,
*_*
The address of Rev. Mr. Lloyd was one of the most sensible [ have heard on the subject for a long time. He is an easy, graceful speaker, one who says what he thinks and whose every utterance tells home. He said at the outset that he had no faith in legislation asa means of sup- pressing liquor drinking and that he was not in favor of prohibition. The work of temperance, he thought, could be best promoted by the churches and the christian people of every denomination uniting and working together. Intemperance in the matter of liquor drinking was, to his mind, not the only evil with which we had to eontend. ‘The vice of impurity was a much greater one. That stamped out, the other and he thought the lesser evil—would soon be considerably diminished if not altogether annihilated. Some people, he said, made areligion of temperance ; but that alone would not ensure salvation. The adulterer and the liar were excluded from Heaven as well as the drunkard. These are the main points of his address which was listened to with great attention and was well received by the large number of people present.
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During the short time that the rev. gentleman has been with us he has sized up our people pretty accurately. He is, I should judge from his remarks, well aware of the shallowness cf some of those who are continually crying Sestt Act and Prohi- bition, and who think that those who are of a different opinion from them are drunkards and fools. Here, as well as elsewhere, there are people who make a religion of temperance mainly to further their own ends—people who preach temperance abroad and drink liquor at home. To such hypo- crites the rev. gentleman’s remarks must have been gall and wormwood.
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The temperance address delivered in St. Dunstan’s Cathedral by His Lordship Bishop McIntyre on * Sunday last was to the point. Those who heard it say it was one of the best they have listened to there torsome time. That it was timely goes without saying. That it will be - followed by good results is the earnest wish of all interested in the mcral welfare of the city. Coming as it did from one who is so highly respected by all classes and creeds in . the community, one who is and always has been a true temperance man, it canaot. fail to have a beneficial effect. i tale
On Monday evening next the rates of assessment on real estate, personal pro- perty and incomes are to be fixed by the City Council. The estimates for the year are also to be submitted. It is hoped that, in adjusting both, our rulers will have due regard for the people. The taxes should be made as light as possible; and in the estimates the sum for street improvement should be sufficient to put our thorough- fares in at least passable condition. The plankways throughout the city are in a very bad state and should certainly be attended to during the coming summer. Had they received the attention they should. during the past few years, the outlay would not now be so large. But as they have not all that now remains to be done is for citizens to go down deep into their pockets and pay for past neglect.
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Leap year is now some months advanced. Up to the present it has hot been attended with any very serious results; at least none that I have heard of. (Our ladies, while they have been very kind to the gentlemen in the way of balls, parties and skates, have not done anything rash. They have not been too forward in ‘ pro- posing ;”” but no doubt, some of them have not been backward in trying to bring their favorites up to the mark when the oppor- tunity presented itself. However, this is a point which they never fail to take advant- age of, even inthe years when Februany has but the regulation number of days.
The popular impression among the young folk is that leap year, in so far as it relates to the giving of certain privileges to the ladies which the gentlemen are supposed to alone possess, is but)a myth. However true this may be. at the present day, and however little the ladies of Char- lottetown may appreciate their privileges, the fact remains that in the days of our forefathers men were compelled to recog- nise the matrimonial propesitions of the women, and to give them their most serious consideration. In proof 6f what I state I beg to subjoin a section from one of the old Saxon codes:— ;
‘‘Albeit, as often as leape yearre dothe oc- curre the women holdeth prerogative over the menne in watters of courtship, love and mat- rimonie, so that when the lady proposeth, it shall not be lawful for the man to say her nae, but shall entertain her proposal in all gude curtesie,”
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Then, again, in the Scotch statutes of 1228 is to be found the following which has a decidedly business-like air, and which, no doubt, was made use of by the women of that time for all it was worth:—
‘It is stutut and ordaint that during the reine of hor maist blessit majestie ilk forth year, known as leap year, ilk maiden layde of baith higk and low estait shall have liberty to besp-ak ye man she likes; it if he refuses to take her to be wif, he shall mulcted in the sum of one pound (£1) or less, as his estait may be, except an awis if he can make it appear that he is betrothed to one woman, and then he shall be free.”
* his latter section appears to me to have been framed by a congress of old maids, and foisted upon the Legislature of the day in Under it the unfortunate man had no fairplay at all. He had either to accept the heart and hand of the proposer
Fresu Frit just received at Connolly & or fork over £1 for the privilege of refusing.
Co., ex Northern Light.
An ugly, cantankerous woman would soon |
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become independently rich under the pro- tection of this law. Yet there are people to be found who persist in saying that ever since Eve's curivsity made us ‘ children of wrath,” women have had no privileges— that they were never so well treated as they are at the present day. Percy.
MARRIED.
At St. Dunstan’s Cathedral, on Tuesday, the 17th inst., by the Rev. Father Gallant, Mr. John Trainor to Miss Mary A. Trainor, both of Charlottetown.
$50 REWARD,
HE above reward will be given by the
City of Charlottetown to any person who will give such information as will lead to the conviction of the person or persons who broke the glass in the shop windows of Mr. Geo. D. Longworth, on Saturday night last, the 14th inst.
By order ot the Mayor,
A. H. MACPHERSON,
City Clerk.
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Encourage Home Institutions, and keep't Money in the Country.
GRO. CARTER & OO,
The Seedsmen,
Of Charlottetown, invite Farmers and Gar- eners from every part of the Island, wh ay be visiting the City, to call and inspect eir stock of Dicwer, Field and Garden
SEEDS.
Not only the Larcrst stock, but also th EST STRAINS and FINEST QUALITIES are here} ept. The Stock includes ‘‘ rvERYTHIN R THE FARM AND GARDEN ’’—Seed Wheat, over Seed, Timothy Seed, Vetches, Fodder Corn, Haszard’s Improved Tur- ip (guaranteed true), Carter's Pri Turnip, Carter's Mammot Prize Mangel, Danver’s Carrots, and early Three Hundred varieties of Flowe: d Vegetable Seeds. Seeds sent by mail, postage paid, or delivered free of charge on ard cars or steamers. Carrter’s ILLvs- RATED CATALOGUE YoR 1888, the finest
ublished in the Maritime Provinces, AILED FREK. It explains everything. end for it. Name and address on Postal
ard will do. . Addresa,—
EO. CARTER & C0., Seedsme
Charlottetown. P. E, I.
apls
STALLION BY AUCTION.
Tam instructed by MESSRS. AULD BROS. to sell by Auction,
ON THE MARKET SQUARE,
Ais
Tuesday Next, 24th Inst.,
AT 2 O'CLOCK, P. M.,
A very promising young Hernando Stallion. 4 Years Old,
Dam sired by ‘‘ Sporter,” he by “‘ Saladin.” beautiful young horse is ba almost an exact ccunterpart of his sire.
‘Terms easy and made known at
For further particulars apply to Auld Bros.,
or to , G. M. HARRIS, apls—dy tl sle Alctioneer,
WOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual
General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Charlottetown epeat will take place at the Gas Works, on TUESDAY, the 8th day of May, 1848, at the hour of Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, forthe purpose of el Directors and the general transacting of bus '
DENNIS MURPHY, Manager
This in color, and is
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‘HORSE DEPOT.
HAYING opened a book in connection with the JUB E HOTEL, for the benefit of Horsé Dealers, both purch and seller, where anew entering a Horse for sale will be require
to give a trucand satisfactory statement as age, weight, height, color, and if sound and f from vice. A fee of twenty-five cents will be
uired at time of booking.
urchasers would do well to call, as several valuable animals are already booked.
G. B. SIMS. Kensington, April 17, 1888—dy 2w
VIOLIN MUSIC.
R. M. LOWDEN continues to give in- struction on the Violin at 282 KENT STREET. Pupils taken from 10 years of age
upwards, Ch’town, April 17, 1888—Iw
FOR CHARTER.
HE Schooner RUSTIC, 66 Tons Register, T now in Georgetown, is open for charter to Newfoundland, Halifax or Cape Breton.
Apply to GEORGE COOMBS, apl6—lw Loid’s Wharf.
For Sale at a Bargain. very desirable House and Premises, si-
A tuate near the head of Queen Street, The House is almost new, and contains five good-sized Rooms, besides a large Kitchen attached. Good. title guaranteed. Terms easy. Apply to the subscriber, or at the office of James H. Reddin, Solicitor, Cameron
Block. GEORGE H, COOK. apl6—dy eod tf
TENDER FOR CHURCH At New Glasgow.
GEALED TENVERS will be received b the undersigned until THURSDAY,
May 10th, for Rebuilding and Painting the
Presbyterian Church at New Glasgow, accord-
ing to plans and specification at my office.
west tender not necessarily accepted. GEORGE HOUSTON.
New Glasgow, P. E. I., April 16, 1888. apl6—3i
eee tiennen
NOW OFFERING
cxmniginee fi Tl cxtmocmmi
BHEHR BROS.
MANY LINES OF GOODS,
At Largely Reduced Prices
To make Room for Large Importations of
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
EXPECTED DA‘'LY.
It Pays to buy your Dry Goods and Millinery at
BEER BROS..
wa SEE
JAMES PATON & C0.
Market Square.
HOUSE FURNISHINGS, &o, Carpets and Oil Cloths, ~ URTAINS, IN SILK AND TAPESTRY,
Laces, and erred Rae Curtain Poles and Fittings Complete,
Embroideries, 1H 4'H SHADES & SPRING ROLLERS,
Room Paper in Every Quality,
Charlottetown, Apr 18, 1888,—eod & w \
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An Sa
‘Dress Goods, tthe,
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Kid Gloves,
* YY
From Four Cents a Roll upward.
ILRAY'S ‘PATENT CURTAIN STRETCHER,
Every Housekeeper should have # Set. r wr
Hosiery,
eae
&e., &e.
JAMES PATON & CO., _ , April 4, 1888 —dy & wky thd BROWN’S BLOCK. | |
ATS, CLOTHING & TRUNKS ae
J. B. MACDO. Mens’ and Boys’ Felt Hats,
; Imported late last Fall, selling at Low Prices. . ¥ cmeiatioined lh: :
CLOTHING. © |
250 MENS’ SUITS (Worsted and Tweeds), and a lot of is separate COATS, PANTSand VESTS, selling at Great Bargains
to clear. $
cumemmnpeninn (vienna TRUNKS. Five. Hundred and Fifty Trunks, all sizes, from Fifty. Cente. to Six Dollars, best assortment in Town. Don’t buy until you
see this Stock. | J. B. MCDONALD, |
QUEEN STREET.
Hs |
Paper Haugigs for this Seam,
Our Immense Stock of Room Paper is now ready for sale.
WE HAVE OVER 30,000 ROLLS ON HAND,”
Bought in England; Scotland, United States“ahd Canada,
Newest. Patterns and Lowest Prices.
Staple & Fancy Dry Goods, Carpets & Ol Cloths
Ch’town, April 5, 1888—dy & wky
PERKINS & STERNS’.