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WIDNEDAY, KAY ll, ill.
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It la complained. and not without rea-
southatthe average oewsollld' ¥°¢°“‘1l
morew good deeds, too many brim".
msutltiu, - battles, murders, aulcldne
mbberiee, thefts, divorces. lyochlngs, Bras,
accidents and other shocking things. It
ls related that when the late James
N Parton, historian and hl°$Il'lP|\¢l'» W5' ‘
reporter on a New York newspaper years
ago, he was impressed with this fact, and
was quite appalled by the record of crimes
and casualties which made up\he sum of
the days news.
Bs-was convinced that the number of
good deeds exceeded the number of the
bad ones and that the many noble, heroin
and charitable acts performed were more
than equally worthy of record. So le
procured a cigar' box and labelled it
“Good Deeds Dons This Day." That dey
and several more passed and still Ml'
Parton tells that his “poor box contained
only a few inslgnihcant items". He
emptied the box and began again and
followed on for several weeks when the
task was abandoned. And yet he said his
iaith was not shaken that in those weeks
hundreds of goood deeds had been done
and kind words spoken-more Hood than
bad-and yet mostly the evil were record-
ed because they were exceptional and the
good uurecordedbecsuse they were usual.
This is the common experience of
newspaper publishers and of observant
readers alike. And yet we believe there
is not a respectable newspaper whose
publisher would not rather record a irood
deed than a crime. And there ls, we
think more general recognition of good
services than there was formerly. It may
be that doing good is so frequent that its
` record would be thought commonplace.
And the doers of generous, humanitarian
u
and harsh arts are ees at sae class
,ser paaueiry. nm ie. iw. a inrveofi
pubiietasiesadsrlaflaaeeeefwblchlil
gdpqgsnan prone tolseek out all
poeisimbyweio er mentaths hllfl.
rataerthan tha virsssa sl their nsllh-
hors.
Part of the complaint ilratrefernd to
at the Nitillllbl N f-Nl *HUM Uh”
from a 'misconception of I-be uatlll 0|
news. Itisnotaswstbatlr.Biaaktcok
his usual walk, or his usual carriage 41|"
use evening. But ie is edu ir sie mee
nu awayand threwhimloni. 0' U il
aiewaiiraeaeuaao iuexenie arm. Itls
not news that Mr. Brown owned Nl
mmm eauiog ei nerr faithfully md
wsu yesterday, but itls news if hewas
caught robbing his emplcycr`s till. It is
octnewe that two thousand citlmena of
Charlottetown attended faithfully to their
ordinary calling ymterday, but lt is
news that one of their llllllllbl' 'll
arrested as drunk and dlmrkly and
that another was convicted d ldllit
liquor ooatrlfyto law. Newspapms soi-
lecs and sell newsas merchants huyaud
sell goods. , I
Asdapartoflre  N'
ferrsd to arises from a midiailmt of
the avenge newspaper. To make this
clear let the complaining reader 'irc over
the articles in his newpaper frog GIY £0
day from beginning to end, item by item
and he will readily see that _but a small
partlonis devoted to crime or violence.
In the news columns be will find the
prinslpal happenings In forclirn or distant
countries. of the war in Manchurla and in
Thlbet, the death or movement of pro-‘
minent persons, the record of half a donen
meetings of Parliaments, of City
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Gonslipatlon
Headsdie, blllousneas,haarthu.rn, indi-
gnation. and au liver ills are aired by
ic..~ |2121 '_ '--
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Nuwe That Wu Have
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sem sy an amggim. zs cents. '
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happealap_ab8smasmliis.»Gsiimstowa,
the eouaky districts and il thh city
Nlae tenths( these several itslal.I\_l*
hapsahnaihsdiu nambsrnslsrtceartal
or important work ear-riad on for tha
bsuails of the eommuaib, m- varlcas
happenings or more orlsas inipostaaoal
which have nothing todo wlthvha or
mime. By so much has the newslllwl'
been  Ludths averaa'cns'wl~
papal-aevsrsetsviea orerimelnafavor-`
able light or ioantiehag colors. Infact
the newspaper is sgxvat preveritivaas
wallasacorreetlvaofsvildoiaghis-than
is acucsly anything the wrong doa'
dreads so much antheuni‘ava-ablopuh-
liclb which the newspapers give to his
cllbnces. The newspaper la, as Cowpsr
loog ago deserlbedit, “a mapof busy
life, its fluctuations and its vastcoocauef
Itisamoraigeognphy. Ita pagpsrlghtly
readaifordperpetualwarnlngarrainatthe
mm me pimue 'ries hens ini- ua.
Itls aterrorto evlldoers audapraisetc
them that do well, and this perpetually.
The Japanese, not being Jewslcr Coria-
tiamhavs no Sunday, which hot has
heenplaced totheir discredit. But war
even between Christian nations takes
very little coguisanoe of the day of real.
The battle ol' Waterloo was fought on
Sundavi It was Napoleon, however, and
not Wellington who began the attack on
“that loud Sabhsth,"as Tennyson styled
it.
That last war between Japan and China
began July 28, 1894 and was ended by the
treaty of Shimoneseki,_April ll, 185. By
that treaty China ceded to Japan the Liao
Tuna peninsula, the island of Formosa
and the Peecadores Islands and agreed to
my an indemnity ot £33,000,(ll0 sterling.
0.i tm- joint nro‘est. of Russia, Germany
ami I<`ia..ce, Japan sure.-il ti forego the
annexation of the Li-'o '_' unrfeeuitsula.
Belore the eiuee of the wer the Japanese
armies neil all sou:li.r.. Muochuria and
nan -»'v n~.».d ncrihward nearly to
Mnkdeu. -
Accuntry correspondent is puzzled to
know how the Government can have $2),-
Oill of their own debentures in the
sinking fund, and wants it explained.
Well, a Goverment debenture for, say,
$541) is evidence that the Government
owes that much. `By buying up their
own debentures one by one so much of
the debt. would be paid at each purchase.
Just likes farmer buying up his own
notes of hand before they are due. Hs
does not have to pay the prlncipalaseoond
time, and he gets rid of paying interest.
A sinking fund is a fund added to from
year toyeai' in order to "sink" or extluii-
uish adebt when the debt comes due.
Because Government loans running for
a long term of years cannot usually he
paid until due. the sinking fund is formed
togradually accumulate the sum when
due. It amounts to the same thing
whether the fund is invested in Govern-
ment securities or the securities of other
bodies.
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The death of Sir Henry M. Stanley, the
African explorer was arinounced yester-
day. He was born in Wales of obscure
parentags in1841. The fouudiing adopted
the name of Stanley, which was that of
a merchant who gave him employment
in New Orleans, whither be had come a
poor boy, alone ani friendless. In
early life he served in the Confederate
army, and afterwards in the United
States navy. Thou he found congenial
work on a newspaper. _The New York
Herald sent him to Abyssiuia with the
British expedition in l&B, and in the
following year, sent him to Africa in
search of Livingstone, whom he found ln
1871. Thereafter his explorations and
adventures nlled the world with his fame.
Since lill) he has lived in England and
was for some time a member of
Parliament. Anumbero! books written
by him together with his travels and
explorations have done very much toward
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ve a reputa or eepin
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