no Fh RORUIR IP + osaecerns eenenenere ae Sire nll in ae il ee oe a nee, Lal a ee ee eS al u eres ee ee een een Pe ie ht oh, one naan THE DAILY EXAMINER. NOVEMBER I12 1837. Short Answers. i f finds itsélf without a case abuses Scott Act, and forthwith Tart EXAMIN because Tue EXAMINER, in Idest language, set f rth a few rea ns why tl Scott Act should not be up- We have a short answer for the urdia lhe liquor traflic and drunken- are very bad ; but the liquor traflic ind drunkenness, and sneaking and perjury superad L are Very much worse the quor tratlic and drunkenness have not een crushed by the Scott Act—drunken $$ na indeed, lately been onthe in crease ind the Scott A has und ubte dly iu i | ’ i 1g iter incentive neak i Pp : ll t un tl license (‘te ExaMIneR prefers the lesser of evils | therefo as in duty bound, mest and intelligent peo- le 7 ] té whi that they had better epeal the Scott Act and fall back upon the ' baw The Rev. Job Shenton maintains that Scott Act has very materially lessened inkenness, and that when men resort to dives to get bad liquor their moral 3 ; vlunted Mr. Shenton forgets that in the case referred to, the drunken m WwW ‘ mere b vs VW S¢ revire pass } 1 3 1 li y i tie I : i » \ ept the DD ys y 1 out of the low dives, there ti Da some hope init; bu boys ro ind rd with th men ol blunted ral sense If a man’s son resorts to the 1 ] ‘ sed I bbe ul g ‘ i id tl ‘ iv On ind accom pany him home with such admonition and punishment as he may deem meet, and he may have the tavern keeper prosecuted ; muutif the boy ; s tothe ‘* low dive” he i b found, pnd Lie keepet of the ive goes scott fres We submit that the erring boy and his parents are in a very ° 7 niuch worse position in the latter case than in the former. As to whether or not drunkenness has lately been on the increase leave that point to the judgment ol clbizens W h } h ive eye 3 unblinded pre} dice and heart to deplore 1e increasing evil [he statistics to which Mr. Shenton refers show that the reduc- n in the number of arrests for drunken- ness was much greater in the three years before the Scott Act went into operation than it wasin the and three years alter ; at the arrests for di unke nness increased from 197 in 1881 to 300 in 1886! that Mr. Shenten has not called attention to these facts. st range Mr. Shenton says that he and a friend eae “oh : examined the Scott Act petition and found hereon the names ot eighty-five from whom liquor could be obtained. Is persons not this a most damaging admission ? Kighty ive liquor dealers pointed out by one inan in a Scott Act town! But if one man could point out the names of so many ior dealers on one petition; is it’ not . } . : y C4800 ible to infer thata aozen men, look of ror t] , la é . ng over the whole town, could point out two or three hundred lhe Rev. Mr. Harrison is chiefly anxious } ‘ ‘ , ‘est there should be no law to take the place of the Scutt Act. Now. section five of Cap VI (passed June Tth 1879) enacts that the license laws shall be in suspense only so long as the Scott Act shall be in force ; consequently so soon as the Scott Act ceases to be law in Charlottetown the lieense laws come into operation. Cap. hiteen, section LVII vests the exclusive power over liquor licenses in a Licensing of three ; and the Licensing* Board have enacted that ‘* No person or persons, ither be ¢} ih ee ier by themselves, servants or families, hall a. : hall sell by retail, spirituous liquors in less s quantities than two gallons, without having iirat obtained a license for the sale thereof irom the Licensing Board”; further the Mayor, the Stipendiary Magistrate, or any member of the Lix ensing Board, the City 4f ‘arshal, or any police constable is author- ized to enter any house in which it is sus- pected that liquors are sold without license: ind by them or any of them, or on com- plamt of any citizen, the violater of the law may be subjected to +] the nenalties of the law. It is true that,unless there be legislation in the meantime, & Licensing Board cannot be elected before the first Tuesday in Septem ber next ; and therefore a license cannot be issued before that date. But the license law remains ; according to it liquor cannot be retailed without a license: and any one a who violates the law can We have tl the greatest be prosecuted and punished. respect for the Rev. Mr. Harrison, his person and his office ; like this he is not but we submit thatin a case the man who can prate with dignity about ‘‘absurd teaching.” When the conclusion we have arrived at has been disputed by a professional lawyer, it will be time enough for him to call out that the city isin danger of being flooded with ** free liquor,’ and that we are about to witness a ‘carnival of rum.” i _ ++ <P -+ eo — ——— — The Montreal Daily Witne 88s COM- menads Sir John’s appointment of Mr. John McDonald to the Senate as “a splendid political hit.” — Law hin beletinasha 1 is Chicas : phed in Uhicago onve ; but it had a hard battle. — THE DAILY EXAMINER, Varia. When the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Sir James Fergusson,a week or two ago, spoke with pardonable pride of Lord Salisbury the Foreign Office, ind asserted that England now stood higher of Europe than she had 3; success at in the estimati done for some vears, he was met with scoff- ing jeers on the part of the Radical press. What about France? said they. What ibout Egypt and the New Hebrides? The laugh is now on.the side of the Government. During the last few days an understanding has been come to, and an agreement signed, which has definitely seamed the open sore. It has been declared that the Suez Canal shall be neutral water. Alike in time of peace or war it shall be open to all vessels of* whatever nationality. Certain limita tions, such as _ that of landing troops, are reserved. France undertakes to carry out her pledge of evacuating the New Hebrides, in return for which we concede to her the Sovereignity over a few insignificant islands in the Pacific. hy these arangements every- body is satisfied. France is enthusiasti over her diplomatic success, and is ready to throw her arms around England in a sister ly embrace. The Tories are exulting in the wise statesmanship which the Prime Minister has displayed, while the Paily News wnstintingly congratulates hin upon what it describes as an adoption of the policy of Lord Granville. Australia no longer fears thar the unhealthy islands o! the New Hebrides will be turned inte a French penal settlement, whence the con- escape and overrun her fait and as for the islands of the bread ‘fruit tree-—they are not likely to ex- perience much unpleasantness by having France instead of England to protect them. x * victs might continent; Che political kaleidoscope in France has and there is a possi lity of very serious internal com- plications coming about. At the meeting of the Chamber on Tuesday for the autumn session a Bonapartist deputy, M. d’Ornano, moved for a coujmission to enquire into the illeged sale of decorations. On an applica- tion for urgency the Government resisted it, saying that a criminal prosecution was now pending. This was not considered enough by the Chamber, and the urgency motion was carried by 379 votes to 155. Chis may of course, have little effect on the Rouvier Aministration, but it may portend the fall of the Government. And as the name of M. Wilson, M. Grevy’s son in-law, is mixed up in the frauds, the President may have to resign also, although he is the soul of honor and probity. % + ust shifted Few of the people who handle Bank of England notes ever think of the amount of labor and ingenuity that is expended on their production. According to official re- port, these notes are made from pure white linen cuttings, never from rags that have been worn. They have been manufactured for nearly two hundred years by the same family, the Portals, Protestant refugees. So carefully is the paper prepared, that even the number of dips into the pulp made by each workman is registered on a dial by machinery, and the sheets are care- fully counted and booked to each person through hands they pass. The printing is done by a most curious process in Mr, Cve’s department within the bank building. There is an elaborate arrange- ment for securing that no note shall be exactly like any other in existence. Con- sequently there never was a duplicate of a Bank of England note, except by forgery. According to the City Press, the stock of paid notes of seven years 1s about 94,000,- 000 in number, and they fill 18,000 boxes, which, if placed side by side, would reach three miles. The notes ‘placed ina pile would be eight miles high; or, if joined end to end, would form aribbon 15,000 miles long; their superficial extent is more than that of Hyde Park ; their original value was over &15,000,000,000, and their weight over one hundred and twelve tons, + # * ehae wiose I see by late American papers that many people who have written to the Pope, com- plain of having received no answers. As the Pope’s correspondence is necessarily very large, there are secretaries who go through it, classify it, and destroy or subinit the missive to His Holiness, accord- as they thiak proper. Mgr. Boceali, the private chamberlain,has charge of this diffi- cult duty. It sometimes happens that a letter to -whick the writer attaches the greatest importance is in this way thrown into the waste basket. J am informed on good authority that if anyone is desjrous of a letter to the Pope surely reaching its des-_ tination, it may be accomplished by observ- ing the following directions. Inclose the letter in three envelopes, all three sealed, and each one bearing this inscription :—- To His Holiness Pope Leo XIII, Prefect of the Congregation of the Holy Office At the Vatican, (Personal) Rome. The prelate in charge opens the first envelope, then the second ; but the third he is obliged, under a heavy penalty, not to open, but to hand to the Holy Father him- self. oe I quote from my note book the significa- tion of the names of some of the countries in the world:— ' ' Europe signifies a country of white com- plexion. Asia signifies between, froni the fact that the geographers placed it between Europe and Africa. Africa signifies 3 land of corn or ears. Siberia signifies thirsty or dry. Spain, a country of rabbits or conies. It was once so infested with these animals that it sued Augustus for an army tuo destroy them. Italy, a country: of pitch, from its yielding great quantities of black pitch. Calabria for the same reason. Gaul, modern France, signifies yellow hair- ed, as yellow hair’ characterizes its inhabit- ants. : The English of Valedonia is a high hill. Hibernia is utm#st or last habitation. Britain, the country of tin ; great quantities being found on it and adjacent Island. Corsica, a woody place. Sardinia signifies the footsteps of men. Syracuse, bad flavor, so called from the bad marsh on which it stood. Rhodes, serpents or dragons which it pro- duced in abundance. Sicily, the county of grapes. Scylla, the whirlpool of destruction. Etna signifies a‘furnace,or dark or smoky. % 3 i * i Mr. Frank Spence, the hen. Secretary | of the Anti-Narcotic , League, , has made | -. some iiquiries as to: the smokers and‘noa- | smokers on thy bunch of Bishops. Among [the latter are the Bishops of Lichfield, Llandaff, Lincoln, Chester, St. Asaph, Sal isbury, Hereford, Chichester, Worcester, Winchester. The Wells has not used tobacco in any form for between fifty and sixty years. The Bishop of Worcester never smokes pipe or cigar, and never did. The Bishop of St. Albans think that tke case of the opponents of §to- bacco wottld be much strengthened by the fact of the abstinence of fifty or sixty Bishops. The Bishop of Durham is a non- smoker, but does not wish the statement to convey any sympathy with or feeling of necessity of a league against tobacco, The sishop of Gloucester and Bristol was a moderate smoker until 1860. ‘* When I found benetit from it cease I gave it up,” he says. The Bishop of Oxford is not and never has been a smoker. He believes that in time, in purse, in health, and in. cleanli- ness he has been the gainer. If he has lost, as some of his friends tell him, a measure of personal enjoyment, he can only say that the loss has not been felt. The Bishop of Liverpool isa non smoker, and entire!) s of the object of the Anti- Narcotu League. Wprroyve * % \lthougheIl am an anti-smoker, and should likeeto see the useless and expensive habit of smoking discontinued by dogrees, until our people at length abandoned it to he savages from whom they learned ity still if | had happened to ° be a Bishop, I should have declined to auswer any such impertinent questions as that of the hon. secretary of the Anti-Nareotic League. ‘dhe replies of the. Bishops of St. Albans and Durham are most sensible. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, who has tried tobacco and given it up, has a right to express his opinion, But the Bishop of Oxiord, who and never has been a smoker,” has no right to dogmatize at all. His answer is, itseems to me, a solemn warning to Bishops and others not to talk about what they are ignorant of lest they fall into arrant nonsense. * is DOL Y. M. C. A. The Devotional Committee have complet- ed arrangements for the observance of the “Week of Prayer,” beginning Sunday Nov. 13th. The subjects ,;tor the different meetings will be announced in the circulars issued by the Association, and in the daily papers during the week. Meetings will be held as follows:— On Sunday morning in the Young Men’s Parlor at 9.30 o'clock, Consecration Service, to which workers are particularlyinvited. A Mass Meeting will! be held at 4 o’clock Sun- day afternoon. During the week there will be meetings every evening except Wed- nesday in the Hall from 8 to 9 o’clock, ad- dressed by the city pastors, to which all are cordially invited. We cannot emphasize too strongly the importance of this special effort to reach the young men of this community, and we trust that our members will feel it a privi- lege, as well as a duty to make special! sac- rifices, that they may be able to be present at these meetings, and to assist as they are able. We trust that every young man in the stores, banks, offices, shops and factories, will be visited by some member of the As- ciation and urged to attend the meetings. LE TD. SEAMAN, President Y. M.-C. A. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Better Light Wanted. Si1r,—-I hear that the Y. M. C. A. of this city intend, if possible, to supply that institution with a Secretary, and with that object in view are canvassing their members for more liberal subscriptions. This is a moye in the right direction, and I would also suggest as another moye, that the co.n- mittee of managenient Jight the reading room entirely by gas and do away with those horribly-smelling lamps. I occasion- ally drop into have a read in the evening, but am always driven out again in a very short time by the horrible smell of smoky lamps which make the place quite unbear- able. ‘The Assogjation ‘is patronized -by a great many people simply on account of the reading rooms, who would be much better pleased had they more light and “téss stink. Reyj cP: a, ee ae A @zrestion. Six,—I bave read our letier signed by Mr. Harrison in this evening’s ExaMINnER. i have one, and only one question, to ask him, and which he or the ‘‘We,” for whom he writes, will please answer: It is admitted that under the Seott Act all the liquor a man can buy can be obtain- ed. Could any more than this be had if the Scott Act was not in force ’ Yours, &c., Nov. 11, 1887. VOTER. ae Another Questicen. Srr,—I notice in your issue of November 7th a certificaté stating that the Upper Prince Street Schoo] boiler had been tested and found to be in good order by Mr, J. A. Rowe, second engineer of the steamer Princess of Wales. Will Mr. Rowe please inform the public if he at the same time ex- amined the engineer in charge of said boiler and if he considers him a competent man for the position. Hyprav.ics. Rally Boys! Rally! Sim,—I see by your issue of yesterday that there is going to be a grand rally of the friends of temperance and the Scott Act in the Market Hall on Tuesday next. Is it not time for our friends, the antio’s to follow suit. Come along gentlemen, the electors are anxious to see and hear the friends and advocates of both sides. Vox Porvut. KOTEL ARRIVALS. OSBORNE HOUSF, Nov. 10.—R K Morrison, Eldon; William Richards, North Carleton, N B., J M Square- | brigs, Pinette; Riehard Smith, Pownal; D A Mon- } Victoria; J Suther- | Sutherland, Clifton; Wm. tague; ‘| W Johrs:on, Campbell, i land, Teronto. RANKIN HOUSE. _ ae. 11—Ches Lauden, Montreal; L A Mills, St John, N B; Heury. E* Etgus, * New York. : | has never smoked in his life, but does not | Bangor, Truro, Southwell, St. David’s and | Bishop of Bath -and | DIRECTIONS TO VOTERS At the Coming Scott Act Contest, VoterSWill vote in the polling district in which their names are registered, and will receive trom the Deputy Returning officer a Ballot in the following form : 24ru NovemBer, 1887. Voting on the Petition to the Governor General for the revocation of the Order in Council bringing into force of the second part of “The Canada Temperance Act” in the City of Charlottetown. i. West FOR THE PETITION. AGAINST THE PETITION. Ee OBEY Bach oh Wey em COE The petition upon which the votes are being taken is a petition to repeal the Scott Act in this city. Therefore, all voters who desire the repeal of the Act wili vote for the petition by placing a XK in the upper. space of the Ballot, opposite the printed words ‘For the Petition.” If a voter places any mark exeept a eross on the ballot the vote will be void and the ballot thrown away. WHERE 10 VOTE. Electors whose names are registered in Warp ONE V ote at Mast Professor Mellish’s house, Streets, West—aAt John McKachern’s office, Queen Street. Warp Two East—At Thomas Connolly’s, Sidney Street, opposite Richard Heartz’s Barn. > West—At George Thorne’s, Sidney St, opposite H, J. Calibeck’s store. WARD THREE East—At the Court House. West—At Needham’s. Auction Rooms, Market House. Warp Four Hast—-At Richard Maynard’s dwelling house, on the north side of King Square. Central—At Francis Stanley’s shop, op- posite Cameron's jewelry store, Kent Street. At office of William McLean, near J. D. MeLeod's corner. Warp Five East—At D. R. M. Hooper's, Euston St. West-—-At Fred Curtis’, Upper Queen Street. uectors in the East Royalty will vote at Wm. McLean's dwelling house, St. Peter’s Road, and the electors in West Royalty will vote at Luke Higgin’s house, near Gates Mill. LYCRUM, CHARLOTIETOWN. it H. PRICE WEBBER, Manager, This Saturday Eveningy Nov’ 12: the protean draina the LITTLE DETECTIVE. Admission 25, 35, and 50 cents. Seats for sale a! usual places, Doors open at 7|; Overture st 8 o'clock. For further particulars see bills of the day. Nov. 12, 1887. To LET.—A Brick House on the corner of Prince and Dorchester streets, containing nine rooms and shop, with out buildings attuched. Possession given immediately. For further @ar- ticulars apply to Mrs. Costello. oct 11 3i fri sat mon. ray Van I t e. PHr adjourned meeting of “The Charlotte town Board of Trade’ wi‘l be held at the Board Rooms, on MONDAY EVENING, the 14th instant, at Half-past Seven o'clock. By order, J. MACEACHERN, Secretary. Nov. 12, 18-7--2i FU G5-¢)-S-"1'~€)- 19 WINTER ARP ARGERENRT THE PALACE STEAMERS INTERNATIONAL 5.5. CO. Leave St. John for Boste:.. via Mustport and Port} ‘and, every Monday, and Thursday at 5.wv a. m. Fare from Charlottetowa to Boston, 25,50, 2nd class ; 39.00, ist Class. For tick te and ofher informatiou apply to G. A.SUARP, FE. W. HALES P. &. E-RY.., P. K.° | Steam Nav. Co. or to you. nearest Agent. Nov. 12, 18k7 -aol wy Ticket PE. (SURG RUILWAY THANKSGIVING DAY. RETURN TICKETS, at one first-class fare, wil] be issued to and from ali stations on this Rail- way by Afternoon Trains, on 16th Nov. Inst., and by all trains on THANKSGIVING DAY, Nov. 17th, good to return up to and on November Zist, 18387. J. UNSWORTH, . : : Acting Superintendent, Railway Office, Ch’town, Nov, 10, 1887. corner of Great George and King _ = = >» «= §ATURDAY, NOVEMOEE 12, 2007, COMMERC GEORGE Where You Can Exchange 30-CENT TEA IAL UNION, — —AT— E. FULLY, Your Money for What You Want at the Very Lowesi Prices. Ladies’ Dress Stuffs, Meltons and Gashmeres, Wool Shawls and Squaree,.. Fur Tippets, Flannels, Hats and Bonnets, Gloves and Hosiery, 5p ——_ , Men’s Overcoats, Reefers, Coats, Pants, Vests, Linders, Knit Top Shirig, Hats and Gaps —All Too Cheap. O— FOR 25 CENTS, | «. GEO: “Hi FU LE Sign of the LION, Queen Street. Ch’town, Nov. 12, 1887—eod & wky New Carpets New Dress ‘<oods at at JAMES PATON JAMES PATON ec e = New Velveteens JAMES PATON 8 New Cloths New Furs New Overcoats New Wool Goods | Lenn ‘New Mitts and Gloves at at New Hats and Bonnets at at JAMES PA?ON JAMES PATON JAMES PATON JAMES PATON JAMES PATON JAMES PATON New Underclothing = eet ‘New Collars, Braces, &¢., at JAMES PATON JAMES PATON ere &f & & & @ & g ° . S S ——— 1) Ch’town, Nov. 2. 1887.—dy & wky J. EB. NEW FALL §8eBs NOW. OPEN. MACDON ALD. Every department full of the Newest Goods, Everything New in Ladies’ Dress Goods. Everything New in Ladies’ Jackets, Everything New in mings. : Chitown, Sept. 26, 87—dy wy—pat Ladies’ Hats and Trim- ‘Tremendous Stock of Ready-made Olothing, - Every Inducement to Cash Buyers. Goods Bought Right. Our Prices will be found Lew. ep J. B. MACDONALD, & Apples and Fish. BY Auction, MONDAY, November Mth, at 11 o'clock, — ee 59 Barrels Gravensteins, 24 do Baldwins, 23 do ‘Tomkins, 30 do Pi; pins, &c. A Specially choice lot, fine and well put up. —ALSO— 150 Barrels Herring. A. MCNEILL, F Auctioneer, Ch’town, Nov. 11, 1887.—2i NOTICE. THE Brigt. Peeress has just arrived and will sail for Hamilton, Bermuda, on or about THURSDAY, Nov. 17th. As only a limited number of Horses and Cattle will be taken on deck, parties intending to ship horses will please apply at once to A. HORNE & CO., or to HENRY C. OUTHRBKIDGE at Peake’s No. 1 Wharf. Ch’town, Noy. 11, 1887—3i Number Directory. THE undersigned, having been authorized by the City Council, to number the doors of aii those willicg to pay for them, have so far filled the orde.ws received, with a few exceptions, as to warrant him in issuing a Directory, early in 188%, to be entitled *‘Koss’s Pocket Directory,” of the numbered dwellings and business places only, in the City of Charlottetown, with the names and occupation of such residents, &c. Persons desirous of having their doors uum- bered and names inserted in the new Directory, will be attended to by leaving their orders, before ist December next, at 276 King Street, or avy of the foliowing places, viz.— John Coombs, 56 Queen Street, C. B. Warren, 150 do 5S. W. Crabbe, 199 Grafton Street. David Chappell, 75 Prince Street. H. A. Harvie, 346 Kent Street. David Small, 86 Water Street. R. F. Madigan, 349 Pownal Street. D..L. Hooper, 23 Malpeque Read. JOHN ROSS. —ex pat tl 16, wky prs li Ch’town, Nov:4, 1887—Si-eod * RED CROSS LINE THE S. S. “WERANDA IS INTENDED TO SAIL AS FOLLOW: NEW YORK 70 CHARLOPTETOWS, NOVEMBER 20th. CHARLOTTETOWN 10 NEW YORE, VIA HALIFAX, NOVEMBER (2th. NOVEMBER 24th. Through Bills of Lading issued to Philadelphis. Baltimore, Savannah,’ Bermuda, West Indies. London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Havre, Ha and other European Ports. For freight or passage apply to FENTON Tf. NEWBERY, AGENT, Ch’town, Oct 28 Sa aera neces BAGS. NOW Landing Ex. Bonavista, 2,500 Grain and Potato Sacks Wholesale at Lowest Prices. F FENTON T. KWBERY. 1887, Nov. 11, 1887.—2i «ee RIFLE GALLERY: THE Gallery. King Street, has been re-opened for Kifle Practice. The dest rifles and — nition, and the “very best” Range ia the Lo Provinces, a. Lb DQGHERTY, | Nov. 3—ex pat 2wks JAMES PATON & CO. | Charlottetown and Summerside.