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THE DAILY EXAMINER.

si ‘ IOV G

T H E Down With Them. = Tuy say there is alawonthestatute book

of the Province compelling farmers to cut

DAILY

AI down the thistles and weeds growing on the roadside, opposite their farms. Why

The quantity

The Trade in Liquers

is it not put into operation ‘

EXAMINER conten 7 Lav eek “e° f thistlesandother bad weeds noticeable in at the Scott Act is openly and defiantly our grain fields and along our roads is any- | violated in Charlottetown, and that the thiag but ereditable to the farmers. No | up n of Liquor has late ly been on smn u}] loss 1s occasioned by thistles in the crease ; and asked—in View of @n} _ 1 oa: , rop, alone, every year; and still, no pproaching Scott Act. election, —what ee neasures are taken to get clear of the pest. upholders of the Scott Act proposed to do For the sake of tidiness, itself, ofe would about it think war would be waged against these in-

The reply is (1) that Tak Examrver has The farmer who allows his lanes

up im

; ; truders. one over » the side f ’ uor e . : gone over to the side of the ilheit hqui and fence lines to grow daisies,

dealers, and (2) that drunkenness in this thistles or other obnoxious seeders, has'nt city 8 not on the increase a keen eye to his interests or reputation. We can afford to treat the charge that! \. 1. instance of the carelessness of our Tue Examiner has gone over to the hquol farmers on this point, it is only necessary dealers, with contempt. Nor need Wel. call the attention of the passer-by to the again point out that the community cannot spread of a dirty, yellow weed along the get rid of its responsibility for the evil _ highway leading from Tignish to Alberton. the liquor traflic by merely voting for 41 oi, weed is styled the baughlan, and it is ” er wage sea wena ~ prone) by said that the seed of it came over from the ee rene = 8 ee ee Old Country in a bed tick. One swing of nranees m SOS prysndeairg ” scythe would have saved the country _ . a eee Ho gogo “_ e from this pest when first it showed itself, ter, the opinion of Sir Leonard Tilley SN aaa ed en oe yellow head ornaments the 7 oe ee ao a ee ee -}roadsides for miles around the starting ee Bt a: point, and bids fair to make conquest of where the Scott 4.ct isthe law, and it 1s ; , 5 gens , _|the whole country in short. Out with ara, eee these objectionable weeds before the seed-

rnadead ithe a bee] bial . |ing time, and let us see the fair face of our \s tu the statement that liquor drinking 1s : : ee r ~ | wheat fields without spot or blemish. given 7

The ‘Subway.

1 the increase, no preof has been

that it is not true; but THe EXAMINER 1s

enged prove it. It would - note ci A Great deal was said at Cape Traverse be difficult to produce all the drunken men : : ; a — .tabout Free Trade and Commerel Union vyho have staggered about the streets cI

with the States. But very little, indeed, was said about the proposed Subway. Free | Trade with the States would undoubtedly

(be a great boon ; but the value of the boon

lottetown in the past few months, and | ; i

demonstrate that-the number is larger

} the

hose who staggered about the

than that of th

. + } » +) . ] i + waar streets during the same period of iast year, . 7 4 nek ; to this Province would be increased three- of three or tour years | . " , : fold at least if we had easy and continuous

produce the statis- | oS ;

r 'communication with the Mainland. The a i Grit orators, are, however, silent about the ot |

| Subway. very

: net tious to what he says about it. But after in the Departments ot the large and increas- .

:y ., | it has been obtained by his opponents, then ing quantities of liquors imported duty paid | ; . aoe , Ri ' : ‘he will, as in the case of the additional sub- from Halifax, Montreal and other Canadian | an :

: ‘. ; ; | sidy of $20,000 a year, be ready to claim ports, or of the large and increasing quan_ | . : "g ithe credit,

or the same period

ago We can, howe er,

es ‘ ade hu tics afforded by the Customs and Excise

Department. But even these are : , : Mr. Davies has to be cau- wholly satisfactory; for no account is taken

tities of liquors manufactured in distilleries

and breweries Halifax, Belleville and | * The Mother's Star.”

ther Canadian towns, and brought here. |

But the ofticial statistics prove clearly: A neatly printed | pamphlet, | entitled

hak shat teesil tna tiated to: taht ‘**Mother’s Star or Circus Eva,” has been : ® | placed on our table. The author, Rev. D.

“onl Oy 3+) >: Dra niite . } ‘ ‘ ;

“i on With this fFrovince, iD. Moore, of this city, evinees a great deal the Inland Revenue Department | of skill as a story-teller in the twenty-six . He describes the

5,192 ia at | fall of a young girl who had left ber coun-

rh 18, } pages of his pamphlet.

shows that in 1885-6. gallons of

spirits were warehoused here, of * which | try home on the death of her mother. In <,« 5 gallons were entered fur duty, while} her wanderings there-was ever one star n 1886-7, 7,206 gallons of spirits were that seemed to her the spirit of her warehoused, of which 5.045 were entered ,@¢Ppatted mother. She joined a circus and i Guy: Miaili the ladies Sncueene ta the ards drifted into the worst quarters

: matic: i amet: ‘NS! of St. John. Her mother’s star, however, em | was never wholly lost sight of, and by its

,gain, the same Department shows that, light she ultimately was led to a better ‘life. Mr. Moore vouches for the truth of his story, which, he says, is written as an incentive to Christian workers.

emai Gzowski Engineer 1887.

in 1385-6, 95,433 pounds of malt were, inthis Provin

tale; and in 1886-7, 119,607 pounds

e, manufactured into 26,550 gallons

‘ malt were mauufactured into 38,300 gallons | Competition, Mark deseladnee doubted increase. | THe competition this year for the Gzowski | Cup in connection with the annual inspec- hat since the first of July last. 3698 gallons tion of the Enginners is as follows :—

*) putoie! “| General idea,—In an expedition into an ware- | enemy's country, a company of Engineers Seott Act town | has been left behind on the line of com-

munication for the purpose of constructing |and subsequently guarding a bridge across | a considerable stream. There,are none of

During the month of February 1886,there | the enemy's forces in. the neighborhood, were entered ex warehouse. in anticipation | but the country is in a disturbed state and

of a change of tariff, 36,546 gallons of alco- |the spare population are decidedly hos-

holie liquors, valued at 36,000.

: ’ . } of brewed ale again the large, un- |

iuruing to the customs returns, we find

were entered for consumption ex use. Think of consuming nearly 4000 gallons of imported i

ror . : | Spirits 1n a iittie

more than a month.

ile.

eS ’ The Company is left to its own resources

of this —or almost the whole—was consum- | about six hours before nightfall, and in

ed in the fiseal year 1886-7—in addition to |this time it has to construct its encamp- ; ;

|ment and the necessary defences in order

24,026 galions entered for consumption dur- | ; | to be ready to commence work on the bridge

_ | the following morning at day break. The of umported spirits entered for consumption | work for the competition will be the con- and the | struction of the encampment and the de- fences which may be judged necessary for Ty Sia gt Baa Ee No notice being taken of the imaginary

ee Eh aise gmeeeemn, aaee nelelens. Attention is specially directed to the fol- tation was adulterated, making probably | lowing points :— 120,000 gallons. { (a) The nature of the site.

(b) The water supply. Of the ale and STI fr ‘ (c) The cooking and sanitary arrange-

here in from | ments. Montreal and Halifax, we can, (d) The arrangements for obtaining shel- Se te ter from the weather. N.B.—No use that over one-half the ale consumed here

The whole}

ing that same year. Sixty thousand gallons at Charlottetown during one year, Se ott Act in full swing !

But this not all.

lieving that the greater part of the impor- |

strong liquors imported

steamers, schooners, etc.,

of course vive no definite statistics. estimated ,S whatever to be made of tents or existing buildings. 7 ' (e) The size and arrangement of the camp month of | and its defence.

is obtained in this way,and at least a fourth

of the spirits. During a single

Sh The Garden Province.

We are pleased to notice such paragraphs as the following which we clip from the Moncton Transeript :—‘* Councillor Doyle, who returned from P.E. Island on Tuesday, expresses himself as delighted with the ap- pearance of the country, su faras he saw it, particularly the surrounding of Summer- more liquor now than side and Charlottetown. The crops every-

* . where presented a splended appearance, : time. We indicating that there would be an abundan- that as a whole, they have reached a higher | dance for man and beast in that Province, plane in respect to drunkenness than they | and a large surplus a rn less oan years eco... The... aiteli ate communities. e understands now rs 0 lig he oh | why P. K. Island is called ‘the garden of _ — eHorts | the St. Lawrence,’ and like a good many vf Gergymen, teachers, editors, temperance | other people does not understand. why, societies, have not been without good re-|with such fine farming facilities, ults. at home, the young men of that highly the Hecke! snewioationdld boas ‘ } favored Province ever think of going to Ht Act does not restrain those who the praitiés of the West or Notth West: “ulin the boudage of drink from grat fand why so many young men prefer the the | Uncertainty of mercantile occupation to the almost absolute certainty of success in Re sts, by Stati ities obtained at the public ony, if prosecuted with discretion and dilises:' ak We'uthe, jdiligence. Mr, H. H. Ayer, who has also y wh e know of the course | visited the Island, speaks in most glowing of the semi surreptitious traffic carried on | terms of the character of the country along by means of steamers, schooners, ete., we | “2° line of the Island railway, notwith- standing that there, as well as elsewhere, the road usually lies through comparatively she poorest lands. He was charmed. with the Whole appearance of the Province. ——~-2o-——

last year there were brought in from one

Canadian town in one steamer, 100 cases 20 puncheons, 44 barrels, 15 hogsheads and

This will

idea of the quantiy of intoxi-

one cask of intoxicating liquors. afford some cants consumed here of which no record is taken by our customs or excise offi tials.

We have not stated that our people, man lor man, consume

they did in the olden delieve

occ upied

liquor

But we do state and maintain that

'

‘yg her depraved appetites to

ful; and, judging by what we see on the

hink we are fully justified in our state- nent the

hat liquor drinking in this city has , s

ately been o : incre i i ton The increase, and in demand-

| heretics.

— eo ; Varia.

T observe ina New York paper, which is most rabid against England, that the editor has made a discovery over which he gloats in creat pride, viz: that St. George, the patron saint of England, was George of Cappadocia, the turbulent Arian Bishop of Alexandria, torn to pieces by the populace in 360, and revered as a saint by the Arian Our contemporary is entirely wrong, and has been misled by Gibbon in ‘The Decline and Fall,” (vol. 11.323) who is no great authority upon matters of this kind,

That St. George is a veritable cliaracter is beyond all reasonable doubt, and there seems no reason to deny that he was born in Armorica, and was beheaded in Diocle- tian's persecution, by order of Datianus, April 23, 303. St. Jerome (331-420) men- tions him in one of his martyrologies; in the next century there were many churches tu his honor. St. Gregory (540-604) has in his Sacramentary «a ‘* Preface for St. George's Day; and the Venerable Bede (672-735) in his martyrology says, ‘* At last St. George truly finished his martyr- dom by decapitation, although the gests of his passion are numbered among the apo- cryphal writings.”

In regard to his connection with England, Ashmole, in his ** History of the Order of the Garter,” says that King Arthur in the sixth century placed the picture of St. George on his banners; and Selden tells us he was patron saint of England in the Saxon times. It is quite certain that the Council of Oxford in 1222, commanded his festival to be observed in England as a holiday of lesser rank, and in 1330 he was adopted as the patron of the Order of the Garter.

The Dragon slain by St. George is simply a4 common allegory to express the triumph of the christian hero over evil, which St. John the Evangelist beheld under the image of a dragon. Similarly St. Michael, St. Margaret, St. Silvester and St. Martha are ail depicted as slaying dragons; the Saviour and the Blessed Vir- gin as treading them under their feet. Even John Bunyan avails himself of the same tigure, when he makes Christian encounter Apollyon and prevail against him.

*% *

I have been asked wherein the Socialists ditfer from the followers of Henry George. That a difference does exist may be assum- ed from the fact that the former were ejected from the Labor Party, which lately held its convention in the United States. They both desire to rob honest people of what belongs to them, but they differ some- what in their manner of doing it. The Socialists have heretofore been regarded as theorists from the time that Robert Owen, in 1814, published his theory of the wretched condition of society, and as a remedy advocated a community of property and the abolition of all rank in society. The Socialists and the Georgites are now engaged in bitterly denouncing one an- other; but the difference between them is evidently microscopic.

* *

In France General Boulanger has been posing before his country-men as a man of blood. M. Ferry im a speech at Epinal spoke of the General as a “St. Arnaud de cafe concert,” without mentioning him by name. This epithet, which is more or less unintelligible to English ears, Generai Boulanger has resented hotly, so much so that he sent a challenge to the ex-Premier to fight a duel. It has ended in smoke— uot the smoke of pistols, be it added—for the seconds were unable to come to terms. The representatives of the General wished to make the duel a real encounter, which should not be considered as having satisfied honor until blood had been drawn. M. Ferry’s seconds, however, insisted upon the stage duel which is so popular in France, and which probably alone has saved this remant of barbarism from a deserved and dishonored end. Neither side being will- ing to give way, the affair is at an end; but General Boulanger appears before his ad- mirers as a valiant officer with whom no one dares takes liberties, while in the eyes of his detractors he assumes the character ot a blood-thirsty swashbuckler who im- poses conditions which he knows will not be accepted.

¥ *

| have often been surprised at the man- ner in which a great many peuple apply the term ‘‘ fresco painting” to work which is of an entirely different character, and which does not call for anything like the talent required to paint frescoes. Fresco painting, proper, is a method of ornament- ing the walls and ceilings of buildings by painting designs in colors ground in water, and mixed with lime, upon the freshly laid plaster. The outline designs serve to give copies upon tracing paper, and these being attached to the wall in portions of conven- ient size, the outline is transterred to the wet plaster by going over the lines witha sharp point. The preparation of the wall is an especial care. Before the last coating (called by Italians intonaco) dries, the de- sign must be transferred to it, and the painting completed; consequently only small portions uf a fresco can be executed at one time. The joinings between the works of one day and that of the next are made to coincide with lines in the composi- tion or take place in theshadows. Mineral colors are almost exclusively used. Besides this process, called by the Italians buon fresco, or the true fresco, the early masters had other methods, the most important of which was the fresco seceo, or dry fresco, so called because the plastering was re-mois- tened before the color was applied, where- by the artist was enabled to quit his work at pleasure. In this manner were probably executed all the so-called ancient frescoes.

In a new method introduced in Germany and called the Stereochrome, the painting is fixed by a silica solution, so that it be- comes as hard as stone. The work, too, may be left and resumed at any time.

Among the earliest fresco paintings are those in the church of St. Francis, in Assisi, which were begun in the 13th cen- tury, by Giunta, of Pisa, and continued during the next century and a half by other painters of note. Next in date are the decorations of the Campo Santo, in Pisa, the walls of which employed some of the chief masters of fresco in the 14th and 15th centuries. The great names of the 15th century are Pietro della Francrsca, Masolino, Fillipo Lippi, Fra Angelico da Fiesole, Massacio, and Ghirlandaio. Luca Signorelli, Andrea Mantegna, Francesca Francia, Peruginio, the master of Raphael,

ing ‘‘ what our temperance men are ; ins ‘ i eae ap S93) Cox. Bou lnversvun is th visit St. John

shortly:

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Fra Bartolommeos, and some others belong and partly t the’

next, whith witn at once the culmin- |

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ation of the art of fresco painting, and its corruption and decline.

The three most ilustrioas painters of this latter era were Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Michael Angelo. Leonardo’s chief work is the well-known ** Last Supper,’ execut- ed for the refectory of the Convent of Sta, Maria delle Grazie, at Milan, of which only the mouldering remains are now visible. Of Michael Angelo’s frescoes the most}fam- ous are the series ‘on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Nearly every distinguish - ed painter of the age practiced fresco paint- ing; but the art rapidly deteriorated and, after the middle of the 17th century, no work in fresco of more than moderate merit was executed in Italy, The present cen- tury has witnessed a revival of fresco paint- ing in Europe, particularly in Germany. In England Cope, Dyce, Ward, Maclise, Her- bert,:Watts and others executed many large frescoes in the new houses of parliament ; but, in the opinion of eminent native ar- tists, the process is unsuited to the genius of the English school,and no completed fres- coes exist in England equal to the works by the same painters executed in oil. The only examples of fresco painting in America worthy of mention are in the National Capitol at Washington, and they are of little artistic value.

Starvation and Cannibalism.

A Winnipeg despatch to the Halifax Herald says: ** Letters have been received here from Messrs. Colin Fraser and Char- les Stewart, dated Fort Chipewyan, July Sth. They were thirty days getting there from the landing, about three times as long as they should have been, owing to lack of knowledge of the river, but by being care- ful they had no mishap. The flies were terrific. The country around Chipewyan is rocky, sometimes covered with moss or timber. Starvation last winter caused several cases of cannibalism. One old wo- man now at Chipewan admits having killed and eaten a whole family last winter at Little Red River. Starvation and cannibal- ism is reported from Mackenzie River.

SALT! SALT!

Now landing, on Queen’s Warf, 206 Begs Liver- pool SALT. Will be sold low while landing. Apply to

W. W. CLARKE, Ch’town, Aug. 27, 1887—lwk eod

CONVENT DE NOTRE DAME,

THE classes of this Institution shall be re- ba opened on THURSDAY, the first of Septem- r.

August 26, 1887—3i fri tu thur

H. W. VINNICOMBE.

Instructor of the Violin, formerly of the Exeter Oratorio and Philharmonic Orches- tra, pupil of John Rendal, R. A., England.

Tuition given on the Instrument individually— no: in Class. Danclas’ conservatory method used. Age preferred—twelve to sixteen years.

‘There is an Orchestral Class in connection for those that are sufficiently advanced, free of charge.

For particulars apply to H. W. Vinnicombe, Fitzroy Street, near St. James’ Church.

Orders for piano tuning left at C, P, Fletcher’s, will be attended to promptly.

N. B.—I have two fine old Violins fcr Sale. August 20, 1887.

Tie tity}

Wilt be Reopened, after the Midsummer Vacation, on

Monday, 29th August, Inst.,

AT 9 O'CLOCK, A. M.

It is poreeiote requested that all intending Pupils be in attendance at the Schools on that day in order that they may be graded into their proper departments, and commence the work of their grades,

ISAAC OXENHAM, Secretary of Schoo) Board. Ch’town, August 22nd, 1887--3i eod

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