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We Never Quarreled in Our Lives. Founded on Fact.

Amy was ceintiog of home, and how strange her present surrolindings would seem to them all, if she could picture it well; and thinking still more of hexshusband, the one strong tie that made her w , and even glad, to leave her old home her native country to share his Indian quarters as sergeant of the regi- ment.

She was proud of her husband; he was a fine stalwart, handsome man, and any woman must have admired him for his physical ap- pearance ; but the wife thought happily that she only knew the wealth of love in his nature, the tenderness he showed her, the character that was only e@mpletely manifested to her- self. They hafl been very happy, almost always—alwayg in England, in their first taste of home in barracks, where he had taken so much trouble-to smooth down little differ- ences and difficulties incidental to their style of life, that are more apt to trouble a soldier's wife than the wives of other men. And as to India—wei], if it had not been for the effect of the hot climiate, when he had a little spirit, just his daily ration, she would have had nothing to complain of here. She wished the Government wouldn't give spirits to soldiers in India; the sun was too fierce and hot to take it with safety.

She walketl up; and down the verandah wishing he would come. The soft breeze, warm and balmy, refreshed though it could not cool her, and she longed te share the quiet evening hovr with him. Besides, whenever he was late, there was the “little cloud” of anxiety, “mo bigger than a man’s hand,” perchance, yet it presaged to her a possible coming storm. How beautiful the night was! She had never read ‘‘ Lalla Rookh”; she knew nothing of Indian poetry: but she felt something of the exquisite charm of Eastern repose even in that not very sentimental kind of place, the soldiers’ quarters.

Ah, a footfall; he was coming, then. But the step was ansteady, staggering; alas ! for her bright hopes. If she could only have foreseen! Poor Amy Bevan! How was she to guess his savage mood, this fresh develop- ment of his Bruen state, his fierce impulse, his mad ? “She had done nothing to vex him, nothing but. what had ‘hitherto pleased him, when she waited in the verandah to wel- come him to his home.

This night nothing was right that she had

done, or d do. No longer mandlin or merry, e had often seen him when the sense n had made her turn disgusted away, but cruel, tyrannical; desperate;..if- she

dared to say a word, he threatened to kill her, and before she had understeod the threat almost—certainly before she had fully com- prebended him—the tragedy was enacted, his hand had raised the deadly weapon against her, and fired his rifle and shot her— dead.

The sound collected quite a little crowd in a few moments. What bad hedone? Why did he kill her? He could give no reasons; he did not understand the question. Poor un- happy wretch, he did not yet know his mis- ery. He could give no sensible answer to any of the many inquiries that were pourod upon him, Had you any quarrel? id she vex you? What did you do itfor? And each of those who asked could have told the only reason, better than he knew it himself, because he was drunk. He was hurried away to the guard room and locked for the night, heavily fettered. And Amy Choi lay still and cold in their neat bedroom, with a wistful wonder on the gentle dead face that was piteous to see, as if her last thought was a dread surprise that he whom she loved could be so terribly unkind, so cowardly, so eruel to ier, his faithful, loving wife. The speechle:s remonstrance on those marble lips was more eloquent than any words the living Amy could have spoken.

The morning came, and with it an awful revelation to the sergeant. Dimly, vaguely, the weight of the heavy fetters and his locked wrists made him realize that his drunkenness which he could remember, must have led to crime, which he in vain tried to recollect. ‘‘What am I herefor?” he asked quietly of his guard, dreading, yet curious to know the answer. ‘I know I was drunk last night, but—what did I do?”

“Do!” said the guard; ‘‘don’t pretend not to know, Melksham, you shot your poor wife and killed her.”

But the guard felt extremest pity for his

isgraced and guilty comrade, as he watched the awful agony that crept over his face as he listened to the accusation made against him, and saw how drops of perspiration came out upon his brow, and his poor lips quivered,and his hands trembled in their prisons. Strong men seldom faint, but Melksham was near fainting when the guard dashed water in his face, and felt himself compelled to try and break through that heart-rending spasm of mental anguish, ‘‘ Speak, old fellow.” he said; ‘‘mind you mustn’t incriminate yourself, but say something or you'll go mad.”

The poor fellow gasped and groaned rather than uttered the words, ‘‘Oh, God} my Any!”

‘* Had you any quarrel, Melksham?” asked the guard. ‘*There, there, I had better not question you.”

‘*Quarrel!” said the sergeant; ‘‘no, we never quarrelled. in our lives. 1 loved her as I love my own soul, God knows. It’s the drink. help me, it’s the cursed drink.”

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A few weeks later the condemned murderer sat in his cell, and beside him his captain, who good-naturedly visited him te say good- bye. Melksham had generally been so steady and well-spoken, so persevering a soldier, and so smart and orderly, that all his superior officers liked the man, while Amy was ntniver- sally respected by their wives. The tragedy had naturally awakened immense interest in the barracks, amd indeed, in a wider cirele, wherever the regiment was known.

Captain Mudie was a fine dashing young man, who put his naturally heroic, courage- ous nature into his lifeso fully as to inspire his men with a good deal of his own enthusi- asm. It was a bitter disappointment to him that Sergeant Melksham had di d not only his colors asa soldier of the Queen, but

that particular wee and that ial com- pany. Yet, on the other hand, Melksham’s repentance and remorse had been so bitter

so terrible, so true, that his captain, when- ever be came to see him did all in his power to comfort him; and being a Christian man, assuerd the miserable murderer that God would accept him, vile and lost as he left himself to be, since he rested only in Christ as the sacrifice made for the sin of the whole werld.

And now the captain and the sergeant met ‘for the lost time on earth and their hands

were clasped, and they looked once again into each other's eyes, and knew that a few hours would close Melksham’s earthly career.

** Oh !” said the poor fellow, ‘‘ I meant my life to have been so different, sir—a blessin to Amy, and an honor to my regiment, an faithful to my captain and my Queen.”

Then sobs choked his utterance, and the captain dashed his hand across his own eyes, for they were dim with unshed tears.

**Can I do anything for you, Melksham?” asked Captain Mudie.

‘* Yes, sir ; will you tell the regiment after Tam gone that drink is the rope that hanged me ?’

‘Very well, Melksham ; anything else?”

** If you would write to the old folks, and to her home, my poor Amy’s, and let them ae as gently as you can, sir, about the end.

And so they parted, the captain's voice broken and tearful as he strove to comfort the sorrow-stricken prisoner for the last few hours, and their dreaded ending.

Melkshdm was bad. The second life had been forfeited to the drink fiend, and Captain Mudie turned over and overin his mind the sergeant’s message to his comrades.

He had often talked with his wife about the sergeant and poor Amy ;° but he had not told her of this dying request. ‘*There’s' some- thing Melksham asked me to do, dear,” he said one day, ‘*‘and I don’t how to do it.”

‘* What's that?” said Mrs. Mudie, greatly wondering. *

‘*T haven’t courage for it,’ said her husband shrinkingly.

**Why, Fred, I never knew yon could possibly fail in courage; you’re the very soul of bravery,”

**T don’t feel so about this, love,” he said ; **that poor fellow asked me to tell the men that drink was thé rope that hanged him. Now, if I go on drinking I feel that I am taking one strand of the rope.”

‘* Then why not give it up?” she asked. ‘What! give up the drink altogether?” ‘* Certainly,” she responded ; ‘‘ and I will, too.” The captain put his arm round her, and kissed her tenderly. ‘** Darling,” he said, ‘‘you have solved my difficulty, and I feel you have decided aright. I will give the men poor Melksham’s message, and tell them also what I felt, and how you reasoned, and our resolve. Perchance it may save some home from getting wrecked as his was, and some poor fellow from suffering the mental anguish he endured.”—M. A. Paul. ae

Unrestricted Reciprecity.

THE OTHEB SIDE OF THE QUESTION AS PRE- SENTED BY HON, THOMAS WHITE.

In replying to the speech of Sir Richard Cartwright, on. Thomas White, first made amusing references to the pessimistic utter- ances of Cartwright and read the Globe lecture to those who thought similarly and who preached ruin and despair to the young men of Canada. Then quoting from Blake's speech, he showed that the ex-leader had declared free trade and direct taxation impracticable and that the demands of the revenue would ive adequate protection to Canadian manu- acturers. He then showed that the promises submitted by the grit party in 1882 were utterly discarded by Cartwright now. The

with wanting a policy, but at last they had’ secured one rather by the exigencies of party

than by the necessities of the couatry. It was

not a policy which could be acted upon by the independent action of the Canadian govern-

ment, nor by the opposition if they secured

office. The scheme would depend on the action

of an alien government, which had evidenced

no disposition to concede reciprocity, even in

natural products, and which had not even ac-

corded the Mackenzie government the court-

esy of submitting the reciprocity treaties

framed by their representatives to the proper

committee of congress.

THIS PROBLEM SHOULD BE LOOKED SQUARELY IN THE FACE,

The scheme would cause one-third decrease in the customs revenue, destroy Canadian manu- factures and place the distributing of the trade of the country in the hands of {the American middlemen. Cartwright had admitted that direct taxation would be necessary to supply the deficiency, and the speaker enforced the fact that direct taxation would, as it always had in civic and municipal taxation, bear more heavily upon the poorer population. Cartwright had also advocated the abolition of provincial subsidies, but the grit premiers, whom he had described as his friends, and who had adopted this new trade scheme, bad not only demanded subsidies, but increased upon their present allowances. Cartwright should discuss that scheme with his provin- cial friends. The fact was also noted that at present the United States had inaugursted legislation to remove $50,000,000 duties from

was one of competition and ot of exchange. Not more than 10 per cent. of the total of Canadian farm production goes to the United States. It was the interests of farmers to im-

roye the home market rather than the. mar-

et abroad. The unrestricted roosipreay scheme could only be temporary, and even under it manufacturers would have to choose whether to locate their industries in Canada or the United States. If Cartwright’s antici- pations were realized, American mannfactur- ers would gain complete control of the Cana- dian market. Why should Canadian manu- facturers be sacrificed when they are so closely allied with the develépment of Canadian manufacturing interests. Statistics were quoted at length to show that

CANADIAN FARMERS WERE MORE PROSPEROUS THAN ANY UPON Gop’s EARTH

Said he, “* there is not a body of farmers so prosperous as those of Ontario.” Cartwright—why do they leave it. \ Mr. White—some have es eine to go precisely such speeches as that given by Carturight to-night. Time had been on the side of the present government's policy and even now Canadian settlers were returning from Dakota where they had been induced to settle by the fallicious statements of gentle- men opposite. Statisties of lation were also quoted, showing that the provinces had progressed in this respect more rapidly than the New Ene states, Returning to the condition of the farmers, he quoted prices at Milwaukee and Chicago, showing that prices of farm products were lower in those cities than in Toronto, and closing at midnight he stated that'\Canada is to enter into the freest etre trade bane ny with the United States consistent "wi e t of general Canadian interests, Pt as , protest

against a speech such as Cartwrighs delivered

grits had been taunted by their own organs

imports. Our trade with the United States ;

to-day. His party had ten years trial in opposition owing to just such speeches as that delivered to-day. His party utterly mistakes the temper of the country if they ‘hink such views will prove acceptable to the Canadian people, snd in closing he quoted the words of George Brown, that settlers were returning trom Dakota where they had been induced to settle by fallacious statements of gentlemen

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MORTGAGE SALE.

To be sold by Public Auction, on FRIDAY, the Sixth day of April, A. D. 188%, at 12 o'clock, noon, at the Court House in Charlottetown, in Queen’s County, under a Powerof Sale con- tained in an Indenture of Mortgage dated the Twenty-sixth day of August, 1879, and made between Angus McDonald, and Mary McDon- ald, his wife, of the one part. and Francis P, Taylor, of the other part :-

ALL that tract, piece or parcel of Land situate, lying and being in Lot or Township Number Fifty-five, in King’s County, in Prince Edward ‘sland, bounded and described as follows: Com- mencing at a stake fixed in ihe shore of Boughton River; thence running south forty-five degrees west for the distance of ninety-nine chains ; thence running north forty-five degrees west for he distance of ten Chains; thence running north forty-five degrees east to the shore of Boughton ltiver, and following the course of the shore of id River to the place of commencement, con- t-ining One Hundred Acres of Land, a little more cr less.

For further particulars apply to Edward J. Howtgson, Solicitor, Charlottetown.

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MORTGAGE SALE.

To be sold by Pablic Auction, on TUESDAY, the 27th day of March, A. D. 1888, at the hour of Twelve o'clock, noun, in front of the Court House in Charlottetown :—

ALL that tract, piece or parcel of Land situate, lying and being on Lot or Township Number Thirty-Two, in Queen’s County, Prince Ed:vard Island, bounded and described as follow., that is eee tract, piece ‘= oe Land u and being on um hirty-

Two dtoresaia, beanded;

a line commencing on the west side of

and running westerly the southern boun- dary thereof to the south-west angle of said Hugh McEwen’s Farm; thence running south

five c' ; chence east to the North River Road aceenn y a line parallel with said Hugh Mc- Ewen’s southern boundary ; thence north along the western side of said road to the place of com- mencement, containing Thirity-Five Acres of Land, a little more or less.

The above sale is made under and by virtue of a power of sale contained in an Indenture of Mortgage bearing date the Seventeenth ~ of February, A. D. 1883, and made between Pene o aaemnnese , of the one part, and Johanna Carroll,

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