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THE DAILY EXAMINER.

OCTUBER 22, 1887.

Inconsistency.

ieee true inwardness of the political somersault of the Toronto Mail is not gen erally known. Some time ago Mr. Bunting, its proprietor, sought a nomination mm a Conservative constituency, and his ambi

t received a severe shock when Sir John 4. Macdonald

S e® that time

eppoted his candidature

Mr. Bunting has bitterly

» Government, and is bound, In}

the diplomatic relations between the Malagasy Government and Franew A few lyears ago France obtained t'1@ signature of | Madagascar to a treaty which was to do iwonders, though nobody but Frenchmen could see any in it. The principal thing was that France was to have direction of the foreign policy of the This was something, but Madagas- However, not

' i } | A rupture has occurred in Madagascar of

concession

the isl ind. lear has no foreign policy. — ito be beaten, M. Rouviers Government ihas interfered in the appointment of | British and American consuls, which is the earest approach to a cuncern of inter national importance that can be discovered.

"| Phe Queen of Madagascar acted for herself ‘

wD bore "te punish Sir John irit papers take great delight at the |in this matter, and the French Foreign esent tt quoting extensively from} Minister has broken off diplomatic relations . ry i er : | with the island. This is expected ta cause tae M — you MW Wir DS reune mber d that a renew il of the contest which Was S8O some 1 hs a when this same paper} jnglorious te France a few years ago. No

nti-Catholic Lee i the

tovernment, although it had |

Was Waging is a

U rusit nh press aene

is »b exponent of the policy of

the Administration long before. lts pre sent championin:

vd is pecul interesting when we con-

itterances on the question of

sidel past teciprocity Its new-found friends, the Grits, will find in it a consistent ally, for paper can be an exponent of Gritism ess s contradictory, evasive and de- ‘ > Our contemporary, the St. John Sun, shows up the inconsistency of the Mail in tne i llowing nannel \ ulemporary remarks that Commer al Union has become so popular that not

ven a let y paper is found to repeat the ex

used some timeayo by one of them

to the effect that th reciprocity

pression

e advocates ol

crus ide, the

VMuil as an}

the Commercial Union | visit of Signor Crispi to

one takes much interest in the adairs of Madagascar, but it it pitiable to see the French Republic bullying the plucky little kingdom. * % * The leading item of foreign news is have an

the

iwith Prince Bismarck at Fredrichsrud, which has caused a flutter amongst ths continental powers. In this case Signor

Crispi boldly went to meet the German Chancellor. The visit was primarily one of friendship. They did nyt diseuss the Roman question, as that was a domestic affair, but they had a discussion and came to understanding on the Bulgarian question, Italy’s growth in military and naval power had made it impossible to ignore the desire of Italian statesmen to have a hand in the settlement of the East- ern question, a desire which has ofter been

an

ishowa. Italy has joined im the alliance with France and Germany, for, as Signor Crispi says: ‘We cannot allow the

Mediterranean to become a Russian lake.”

wninawell.” This is the ym of reciprocity

t tv ve tire

old dishonest contusik

rmercial union Che Liberal-Conser- } sand the present government have way so far as we know, been in favor ot] cip ty As for the s iggestion about | arowning the pt mmoters of recipr ity, it} would Maraly lair tO charge the govern 1t party with that. ‘The expression was| i by the Coronto Maal, then | as now principally owned and | managed Mr. Bunting The Mai, |

movement. It . discussion which led opponent of

° ;

i ye an equally frenzied pro

»waed and managed by the same man, is now eadiny the commerciai union |

nut worth while euter tuto . berce #§ the acheme for reducing Canada to a} United

| mito @xy ;

: : , +} s Sek x i é moO ¥ oi vile

a& cispos

y 1tké a nuise about | i lons of any consequence, and i 3 Bat it is hardly tuir for | the comm ai Unlunists to charge the liberal] nservatives with oifensive language. which has been used VY DY one eise but commercial unionists themselves. meee naa Tae Guardian of to-day in a lengthy

editorial on the Seott Act says :~

‘We are striving for the renewal of the

Act and urging others to support it, on the distinct unde: standing that if successful every

icial charged with its enforcement, from the Stipendiary downwa:d, shall be. re- m wed from ottice. F

Uf course this sweeping ‘‘ understand-

ing “ must have been had with some one

in authority, and if carried out will include Prosecutor Hendersun, a

person ¢ x pressly named as Prosecutor bythe

Temperance Alliance of Charlottetown and appointed and paid by the City Council «at | its request. The fact that the Guardian |

nuw wants the appointee of the Alliance

dismissed is rather damaging evidence wgainst the Scutt Act. , , 7 - + ° OUk special despatches yesterday contain-

ed the information that Hon. Judge Angers

had been appointed Lieutenant-Governor

of the Province vf Quebec. Judge Angers, it will be remembered, eral and Attorney-General respectively in the Administration of Hon. Mr. Chapleau, and on the witharawal of that gentleman | feom Provincial politics, became leader of |

In

tion of 1882 he was returned to the House

his party in the Legisliture the elec-

of Commons as the r spresent ative of Mont-

and was afterwards appointed

He is about 50 years of age, aud a

morencl, Judge

son in-law of Senator Chinic.

DURING a recent eviction on the Lord Clan- ricarde in Ireland, Mary Campbell, daughter of one of the evicted tenants who was struck on the head with a crow- and severely injured.

estates

resisted,

Dal

Mn. GLApDsTONEe, in the course of his reply to an address presented him by the citizens of Nottingham, England, expressed his convic- tion that once Home Rule were granted Ire- land, all discord between Protestants and Catholics would cease.

hc acles

fue fisheries protection cruiser Critic ar- Port Hawkesbury on Thursday, whence she proceeded to Georgetown where her men will be pai off. Her officers report mackerel very plentiti l off the Bay St. Law- reace and Aspey Bay, but owing to the rough Weather the fishermen have not been able to do much setting.

rived at

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Tuomas H. Davies, the assistant freight agent of the New York (Central Railway, who absconded with $15,000 was caught in Canada last Wednesd ty, and taken back to New York, and placed in jail. This is what should be done with every one of the mapy Aime: ican embezziers who have, during the past few years iuflicted Canada with their presence

ELOPEMENTS are becoming fashionable, but they are not always attend ed with suc- cess. ‘She latest is repurted from Trenton, Out. Freddie Cooper and Jenuie Fiindall Were the parties thereto. Freddie was artist and Jennie a heiress. Each loved the other, but Jenuie’s guardian did not take kindly to Freddie ; in fact, he put his

is some consvlation

was Solicitor-Gen-

an)

Italy, of course, does not want to have France at one end,and Russia in Constanti- nople at the other end of the great inland sea. lhe chagrin of France is represented as be- ing very great and Russia cannot be too well pleased at being isolated. However, there for her in the facet that furkey is tosend to Bulgaria two c m- missioners to take charge of the Govern- ment of that state, Russia claiming that her own commissioner be the first in command, so that the Turkish official will only play second fiddle.

** *

Of course, as everybody expected in the present state of feeling between France and Germany, the recent outrage near the frontier of the latter country has greatly eXcited the people of the Republic. The

}iman who fired upon the shooting party and

killed a keeper and seriously wounded M. Wangen, was a German soldier, one of the forest patrol, whose duty it isto prevent poaching. He aflirmsthat he called upen the party several times to stop, as they were trespassing, but receiving no reply fired three shuts from his repeating rifle. The Freuch Ambassador has been informed that the German Government will pay com- pensation to the family of the keeper, and that the soldier will be tried by court- martial. But an Ultra-Radical French paper, which advocates throwing back in the face of Germany the money offered the widow of the unfortunate keeper, is likely to stir up the bitterest feelings, and thus prevent justice being done by the authori- ties. * *

Christmas Day falls on Sunday this year, A very pretty question uf mental arithmetic is, how often dves Christmas Day come on Sunday? It is one which few are able wo answer correctly off-hand, if they have not previously had occasion tothnk of the

matter. Some will answer boldly **every

}seven years,” because there are seven days ‘in the week, and the 25th day of December ; comes one day later in the week every year.

Others will remember that leap year is a disturbing element in the calculation ; and will say the answer is every six years, de- ducting one for the effect of leap year. A smaller number of persons will remember that, as leap year occurs every fourth year, it must sometimes «ccur twice before the seven days of the week are passed over. Fewer still bearin mird that leap year must sometimes make Christmas jump over the Sunday. Those who think it out will find that the event occurs in a series of 11, 6, Sand 6 years, and that this series is regularly repeated. In other words, the year in which Christmas Day falls on Sun- day during this century from 1870, are: 1870 plus 11, plus 6, plus 5, plus 6, then plus 11, &c., as befure. So, in reality, it occurs four times in 28 years, oron an average once in seven years. The next year in which Christmas falls on Sunday will be 1892. * *

The other day I was in a lawyer's oftice, and 1 could not but overhear # conversation between the lawyer and a fond parent, who was desirous of having his first-burn enter- ed as a student-at-law. ‘* I am sure,” said paterfamilias, ‘‘ he will make a good speak- er; he has a great fluw of language, and he is ready to talk upon any subject.” ‘* There is one thing,” replied the lawyer, ** which in the legal profession is far more import- ant than knowing how to talk—and that is to know how to kéep silent.” This, I imagine, was an exaggerated way of stating a truth. But I couid not help thinking afterwards whether there is not a good deal of talking among us of a very inferior kind. In the newspaper language of the day,every speech is ‘*eloquent,” (unless it is that of a political opponent( and every lecture is both “eloquent” and ‘‘learned.” The number of us who have heard eloquence, I imagine, is very few.

* * *

I have not been abletofind that the ablest men have been the most talkative. on the contrary, Washington seldom spoke. in public, and when he did, it was-in a few pointed sentences, delivered in a very easy conversational way. In the convention that framed the constitution of the United States, he made but two speeches, of a few words each; yet it is that but for the

tout down on their seeing each other at all. Neither liked this interference and decided to elope. They had everything prepared and were in the act of starting off when Jennie’s guardian appeared on the scene and demanded & stay of proceedings. Freddie drew a revolver and looked real sanguinary, but fhe guardian speedily dis- armed him, and after chastising him with a horse whip had him committed tojail. How true it is that the quuyse of taue love sei- dow rune smut,

thirty words of his first speech the con- {stitution would have been rejected, | Neither Franklin nor Jefferson were fluent | of speech, though one wrote the ‘* Declar- | ation of Independence” and the other |‘ snatched the lightning from the skies ‘and the septre from tyrants.” Thcuzh silent and slow-tungued,each in tht weight- iest debate was effective, because spoke truly and from & full mind, and drove a nail home with every blow.

| Neputevs uid his geumtest Uidiculty/ im sul

DAILY EXAMIN ER,

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a nen ann age ON AE CE ae

ing was in finding men of deeds rather than of words. When asked how he main- tained his influence over his superiors in age and experience, when he commanded in Italy, he said, ‘‘ By reserve.” » Moltke is said to be silent in eight languages.and rarely to speak except in the crash of shot and the shriek of shell.

When the Creator was to choose «a man for the greatest work ever done in this world, it was Moses, the man *“ slow (oi speech,” and not Aaron, the man who could “speak well,” that he commissioned.

. Afterwards I asked the lawyer what he meant by what he had told the fond father in his office. ‘** Exactly what I said,” he replied. ‘‘ I nave noticed,” he continued, that many tine young men have sacrificed their power and influence by learning to ‘* speak ” rather than to ** think.” Tf our young men, instead of learning to ‘* spout,” as itis appropriately named, (the French aptly name it flux de bouche—a mental diarrhaa) would read widely, and think deeply, and reason logically, they would act A person ought never to speak on any subject until he has read himself full ef it, and never to commence to read upon a subject until he has thought him- self hungry upon it.” These were not the exact waords of the lawyer, but they-ex- ress in'effeet what he said —and they seem- witome then, as they seem to me now, as | write them, words of thoughtfulness and wisdom.

seuai bly.

- . — Pr. Lathern on Tennyson.

IN spite of the very unfavorable weather, an audience of about four hundred asséin- bled last evening in the Second Methodist Church, to hear Dr. Lathern discourse on ‘The Masterpieces of Tennyson.” The chaw was occupied by Judge Heasley, who, in a very appropriate and hearty manner, introduced the lecturer. After a few pre- liminary remarks as to the birthplace and early life of the distinguished poet of the nation, the rey. lecturer entered upon his

~~ - SATURDAY. OCTOBER 22. 1887.

ee a tO eee en

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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The Scott Act.

Sin,—We are supposed in Canada to have that untrammelled freedom which is the proudest British boast. With feelings of comm sseration we read of those unhappy countries where the detested “mouchard, or | police spy, plies his raseally callmy, and in the name of Justice trainples on the hberty of the peeple ; where no one feels safe and everyone suspects his neighbor. But after all do we, in Prince Edward Island, enjoy this undisturbed freedom which char- acterizes our race? If, on the strength of anonymous information, which in nine cases out of ten, is furnished by some scoundrel who does not openly make his charge, re- spectable and influential citizens cap dragged to our’ common court, and there put through a cross-examination of. the most nonsensical "nature, 1 say we do not. For instance, take a young man of known good character. If he has an enemy who would fain do him an injury, nothing is easier than for that enemy, by false and anonymous information to have the young man ‘* subpoenaed.”

If his employer happens to be a man who never overluoks anything of the sort in his employes, the young man’s character is gone, when in reality he may be as inno- cent as the babe unborn.

This is quite possible —in fact, it must happen more or less when such a state of atfuirs exists. How itis that of all the witnesses in Scott Act cases who have »sroved themselves clear of the case, none have yet entered actions for damages, I cannot understand. I hold that they would have a strong, fair case for very sub- stantial damages.

lL was very much amused some time ago by reading in that polite journal, the @uar- dian, that the editor of Tae EXAMINER was at present sailing in the same buat as the rum-sellers.

Now it isa known fact that more than

theme, and for an hour anda half dwelt)

with his characteristic eloquence and chaste langnage on the various excellencies of the Victorian Laureate. After analyzing the

** Palace of Art,” ‘‘ The Two Voices,” and |

‘**The Holy Grail,” quotations were made from ‘‘In Memoriam,” ‘** The Princess,” *“Idylls of the King,” ‘**Charge of the Light Brigade’ ** Maud,” ** May Queen,” ‘*Clara Vere de Vere,” and some of the smaller puems. The renderings of the various selections were given in a manner which exhibited must admirably the style, grasp, force, fire, touching pathos and bril- liant diction of Tennyson as the sweet and royal singer of the times. It must have been very gratifying to Dr. Lathern to be greeted by suc) a large audience on such a stormy night, and we are sure that all were amply repaid for thelr attendance by the rich treat with which they were favored by the silver-tongued lecturer, as he dwelt on the masterpieces of the poet who has en- deared himself to the hearts of the British people and to the world at large.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.

Last evening the Rev. Dr. Lathern lec- tured toa good audience in the Second Methodist Church of this city on ‘* The masterpieces of Tennyson.” Judge Hensley occupied the chair and introduced the lecturer. After giving a short account of Tennyson's birth-place and parentage, the. Doctor proceeded to review some of his earlier poems. Among these | were ‘*Claribel,” ‘‘ Airy Fairy Lilian” and} ‘*‘ Mariana in thy Moated Grange.” From} the masterpieces he selected ‘‘In Me- | moriam ” as the one that should oecupy the first rank. It fills a foremost place in English literature und is one of the poems the world will not willingly let die. | He also mentioned ‘*The Princess,” | ‘**Tdylls of the King,” ‘* Locksley Hall,” ** Maud,” ‘‘ Ulysses,” ‘** Enoch Arden ” and ‘‘ The May Quee:” as being distin- | guished for their musical cadence, vividness of description, and pathos. The lecture was highly suggestive and instructive, ab- ounding in eloquent passages. Dr. Lathern gave a number of quotations from the finest of Tennyson’s poems with good effect. While we were very much pleased , with his rendering of the passages quoted, | we could have wished that he had nut de- | pended so much on his memory, as some of the lines were marred by being incorrectly quoted. The people of Charlottetown are in- | debted to Dr. Lathern fur his lecture which was one well calculated to direct their minds to the elevating study of poetry. No doubt in the coming winter many wi benefit by his advice and take up the study of some of the master-pieces of the Poet Laureat te.

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Sunday Shaving.

Messrs. J. J. Gillis and J. J. Regan yes- terday afternoon presented the following petition to His Honor the Stipendiary Magistrate :—

To Robert Rowan Fitzgerald, Exq.. Stipendiary Magistrate of the City of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island,

Siz,—We, the undersigned master Hair Dressers of the City of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, not wishing to open our Saloons on Sundays for the purpose of manual labor, and wishing others of the frateraity to conform ta the same, humbly ask you to co- operate with us in our ‘endeavors to close all tiair Dressing Saloons on Sundays.

Joun J. Recan, J. J. GIs, Georce M. Ropinson, Jouxy McArxg, Grorce V. Moore, A. Morpuy.

Ch’town, Oct. 20, 1887.

His Honor infortaed the deputation that he would look into the matter, and if there was a by-law bearing upon the subject would see that it was at once put in furce.1

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Tue November number of the Domestic Monthly, besides having attractive plates of the autumn fashions,” bas all the accepted styles for the coming winter clearly described The Domestic is always correct in its plates and descriptions, and for a long time Soa wae} one of the leading magazines for women. It never was better than at present. It is one of the most attractive magazines publish- ed, its cuntents are varied and its stories,

oems, etc., are by the most popular authors. Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher has edited one of its departments for many years, and all the well-known wiiters contribute. to-ite pages, The Domestic Monthly is published at. 853 Broadway, New Yo k, at $1.50 year, post-

three-quarters of the illicit tavern keepers in this city, and they are estimated at one hundred and fifty, voted for the Seott Act last election. Sume of those who did so _openly acknowledged it, and gave as their ‘reason that the Scott Act suited them to perfection, and that they never could ex- pect to get alicense. The prosecutor never troubled them ; if he did they would go to jail, and that wouldn't pay his salary by any means.

lt is pure hypocrisy for the supporters of the Act todeny this. They knuw it to be a fact, and any amount of wild talk can’t disprove it. Therefore, it will be seen that it is the Editor of the Guardian, not of the EXAMINER, that is sailing in the same boat with the ‘‘rummies.”” Whether he finds hunself in congenial company or not I can- not tell.

Law ceases to be law when it interferes with the liberty of the subject, or when it panders te the rich and binds down the lower classes.

Any one, who can afford to do so, may send to Halifax for his one or one hundred cases; but the poor man is unable to obtain his single glass of beer—that is, he is sup- posed to be unable to.

Let us hope that those who prefer liberty above all things, may prove their minds at the polls, andthuspromotetrue temperance® which, instead of meaning moderation, is now construed into fanaticism.

Yours, truly, MopeErartion,

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