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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1890-2-27, Page 6Only a Box. Quly a box, Bemire and strong, :hough and wooden, and eta. foot long, Lying here ut the drizzling rain, Waiting to take the t4 -bound train. Only its owner, just inside, 4''old, and livid, and glossy -eyed ; Little to him if the train be late, Nothing has he to do but wait. Only an open grave somewhere, Beady to e1o6e when he gots there; `rut's and grasses, and flowerets sweet, heady to press him 'nea1h their feat. Only a band of friends e.t home, Waiting to see the travel or emu(); Naught he will tell of distant lauds, lfa eaunot even press their hands. 1Te has no stories weird and bright, Ido has no gifts for a child's delight ; Be did not come with anything, Fie had not oven himself to bring, Yet they will softly him await, And ho will move about in state ; They will give him when he appears Sorrow and pity and tender tears, Only a box, secure and strong, ltuugh and wooden and six feet long; 1,ingels guide that soulless breast Ibto a lung and peaceful rest ! -TPill Carleton in the Toledo Commercial. THE DOSTERS : - .Romanee of Georgian Life They had a long talk. Rather Mr. Bull- iington dwelt at great length upon the awful Qonsequenoes of bringing into that neigh. borhood, and into houses which delicacy forbade him to particularize, such doctrines ipsprinkling, falling from grace, and in all dreadful human probability infant baptism. Zee truth of the whole business, on lelr. Ballington'() opinion, was that snoh as that °eight to Dome as nigh as anything in this vrhole world could Dome to make the deceased, to whom respeotfol, affectionate allhsion bad jest been made, turn over in lade coffin if he could do nothing else. At Tength he ended, and after taking the promised gourd, bade his hostess a mourn. fat adieu, and moved away as solemnly as he had Dome. Mrs. Joyner, although much more culti- vated than her pastor, and less narrowed in opinions, yet reverenced him mach ; doubtless the more for the sake of the affectionate relations that had existed be• twoen him and her late husband. There. fore she was mach affected by his words, and when Ellen returned she said : Ellen, I know, of course, that I have no right to your confidence or any influence upon you, although you are my own and only daughter, and I used to have both. I forgot to ask you how is Sister Doster." " She's well, ma," answered Ellen, lowly, holding her bonnet strings and looking as if she feared her mother was losing her reason. " All 1 glad to hear it ; but if yon have made up your mind to marry that Metho. Beat preacher, I think yon owe it to me and to the memory of your father to say =being of poor dear old Brother Bulling - ton, who, it anthing, is worse off about it than I've been until now -I think yon owe it to us all to have some sort of understand- ing that yon are not to be interfered with your religion ; that is, if you haven't already determined in your own mind to give it np. Ellen removed her bonnet at leisure ; re- adjaeted the combs in her hair ; then, siting down, answered : " Ma, Henry Dosterbaa never mentioned Methodism to me a single time that I can remember. Mr. Buffington has been here, r see. I thought they were his horse's tracks I noticed at the gate. And he has set you more against Henry. Did he have to say anything about Tom 2" " Some ; not very much." " What did he say, ma 2" " He only said -that is, he only intimated that -perhaps it wouldn't have been so bete if Tom--. What are yon laughing at, Ellen 2 " " Beg pardon, ma ; but, seeing what yon were going to say, I was comparing it with what Harriet told me of her mother saying, no longer ago than yesterday, about Henry Deaver, and of her preference for him over Tom. It is right curious. Yon agreed with Mr. Ballington ; now didn't you ma 2" " Well, if you must know, I did ; and I wish in my heart, if you must have a Dos• ter, that it was Tom, and that to -morrow." " Well, me," replied the daughter, after a little sigh, " I've heard yon say many and many a time that you married the man of your own choice, although he was not that of your parents, and that you never had cause to repent of it, and now you talk to me as if I had no right to govern myself aeeording to my own feelings. Yet, ma, yon know that if Tom Duster and I, no farther back than six months ago, had taken a fanny for each other, you would have been against it, and so would Mrs. 1'izeey have been as between Henry Doeter and Harriet, whom now she declares she would receive as a eon -in-law redily-yea, thankfully. What are two poor`, inexperi- enced girls to do in such a case ? " Ellen, notwithstanding her inexperience, Iooked at her mother as if she had the argument on her. Bat the latter confidently responded, " No, because neither of us had ever had a thought of your marrying Dos - tens of any kind. Martha May knows not what she's talking about when she talks that way ; but she's no strong Baptist any way and never was, and she's carried away with what people talk about what a great ortator that Henry Duster is, and going to be a bishop or some great somebody, when there's Tom Doster joining land right next to her, and iaduatrionsest young man in this whole section of country, and would make fhat plantation look another sort to what it been brought, and he's always been a good Baptist, and he's as good-look- ing spy day as Henry Doster, and to my taste better. And then what is to become of me when my only daughter is following a Methodiet preaoher wherever they've a mind to send him when people get tired of him in one place and another, and my only son no more managing than Will May, and iso little company or comfort to his mother otherwise 2 Bat I snppoee I'll have to frust that the good Lord will take care of me somehow in my old age." Then she wept freely, though without bitterness. " Ma," said Ellen, in manner as °onoilia • tory as her affectionate spirit could employ, I am glad you epoke to me so freely and candidly. I have hover. asked Hoary Dos - ter about what are to be my religions privileges, nor as to the relations I hon to be allowed to hold with you, the more dear to me because you are a widow, and because brother isnot as considerate of yon as he ought to be. Ho, as you well know, would no more have approve Tom Doeter's, Than he now approves henry's salt of me, although he would have swapped me to anybody who could have given to him Harriet in exchange. Let that go, But I toll you now, and yon may tell Mr. Ball- xngton if yon dhoae, that 1 have no idea, at lomat for the present, of quitting yours and my fathor'e church, Somehow, ma, my agents have seemed to become the dearer, tif os f l', p s b o, to my heart since since 1 have been rndelging another feeling," She binebed deeply, and covered her faoe. " Of course," recovering, she continued, 't no- ILL body Dan foresee what changes are to Dome over their lives : but now my expeotation is to oontiune a Baptist, praying always to be as gond a one es pa was and es you are. Can you be satisfied with that, ma ? "I'll have to be, I euppoee.. ,� " Still you'd feel tater if it was Toms and she playfully patted her mother's cheek. adel Removing :the• hand, yet no r y, " Yon li;uowI cannot tell a falsehood, Ellen." " Ah me 1 " sighed teae sweet girl, and p wept u to her ohambt CHAPTER X. 111r. Bullington's call was on a Wednes. day. On the following Friday evening our two girls went in the Joyner carriage, to spend the rent of the week at. tbo Ingrame'. Tom had business in town on the following day, and as that was the stated Conference Saturday for lilr. Bullington'e congregation in town, it occarred to Tom to do his pastor a little favor. So riding up to his gate toward sunset, he palled him out, and said ; " Brother Buffington, I have to go to town early in the morning on some bun - nets, and knowing your on was busy helping to put in wheat, I thought I'd l; co - pose to take you in my gig, if it will suit you and you can make it convenient to start immediately after breakfast." " Wby, .iommy-why, yes, my son," he answered. e It snit me exaot. I am might'ly pnebtd to git in my wheat before the dark nightie gives out. I'll be over to your ma's time you git your -breakfast, and--," Oh, no, I wouldn't have yon take ail that trouble. I'll ride over here." " Ali right, Tommy. 'Light, and tell me the news." " Sorry I can't stay, Brother Buliington ; 130 special news that I know of. I am glad I can accommodate you. Good -evening." " Eveuin', Tommy." And Mr. Bollington thought that he felt a little better ; for this was the first visit, brief as it was, that Tom had made him siuce the beginning of the rumors concern- ing him and Harriet May. Next morning he had just risen from an early breakfast, when, going to the door, he saw Tom's gig coming briskly toward his gate. ":My 1 my 1 You are bright and yearly this mornin'," was his salutation, as he advanced to meet him. Considering his prominence as a public man, Mr. Buffington had to a degree re- markable, even in his profession, a faculty of attention, at times of intense listening. Serious, indeed saturnine, in disposition, in the presence of one or more interlocutors he had a habit of compressing his lips, swelling bis jaws, and contracting his brows while regarding with solemnest at- tention a speaker, whether the latter's remarks were mutat to be taken as earnest or sportive. Afterward he would reflect most respectfully, oven severely, before giving the answer which subsequent silence might lead him to believe was expected. Joy or grief roomed to make no separate impression upon that et,antenanoe exoept that the former perha :- ...•e rather more agonizing. He never wept, at least with bis eyes, except on 0000sions of much hilarity, when, as it appeared, he was 'aaf- fering quick remorse for having been momentarily eeduoed from his habitually solemn port by manifestations of interest in the frivolities ot snoh a wicked world. On snoh occasions the corners of his month would let down, his lower lip shrink and hide behind its superior, all making it appear that in him, among the various emotions of the human heart, that exoited by humor was the most sorrowful. Tom was in high spirits. Any healthy young man with no uncommon load upon hie conscience ought to have been light of heart driving along the road on such a morning in the fall of the year, the sun, the air, the forest leaves, seeming as if they had been created purposely to gladden mankind. Tom rattled on gayly on this theme and on that. He believed that he said some good things, some excellent Things, in fact, for one used to more serious work than merely making merry. Some of them most have been extremely funny, judged by by the exoruoiating grief of his companion. When they had gotten as far as what town people nailed -the Two-mile Branch, and the horse had taken a drink and set out again, Tom said ; " Brother Billington, I want you to do me a favor. It won't take much time or trouble. Get up there, Bill." Mr. Buffington turned, and for a while looked savagely into Tom's face, at length answering, " You ought to know, Tommy, if you don't, that I'll do what lay in my power for you, or any of your people." " I thought so, or I wouldn't have taken the liberty of asking you. Brother Bull- ington, I want you to marry me." " The goodness gracious, Tommy 1" in due time Dame the response. " Why, I'll do it. In coarse I'll do it. When ? " " I'll let you know before long. I thought you'd do me that favor. The truth is, I wouldn't feel exactly right in giving the wedding -fee I've laid up to anybody else than yon, whom ma and I and all of us think so much of." Mr. Billington would surely have cried now if he had known how. Concentrating his gaze more and more fiercely upon Tom, he writhed and writhed, as Tom, waving his whip now and then, enlarged upon the pleasure it would be to him always here, after to remember that hie own pastor, and his wife's pastor, and the pastor of his parents, and the pastor of bis wife's parents, and the pastor of- -. But here they reached the Gateston Hotel. After alighting, Tom turned the horse over to the hostler, and said : " Let us go into the hotel palor for a little while, Brother Billington. I want to sae a couple of gentlemen there for a few minutes; after which you and I can con- tinue our oonvereetion." Entering, Mr. Ballington looked in slow, menacing astonishment, first at Mr. Swin- ger, then at Henry Doster. " Well met," said the former, rising, taking Mr. 8allington's hand, lifting it np, and shaking it cordially. " How do, Br'er Bnli'n't'n? Mornin', Tom. "tittle 'head 'o time, but better too soon than too late, special on the arrant you come on this mornin'. Take a seat, Br'er Bail'n't'n, and tell me all about yourself and tenthly. Hein't see you, not to shake hands 'long with you sense that day at the Shoals." After salutings and seatings all around, Mr. Buffington regarded Mr. Swinger sternly, as it to ward against assault. Bat the latter soon nut him at as mach ease as it was possible for him to feel in the corn. pany of dangerous heretics, who, plausible without, within were possessed of malignity and subtlety. After declaring- over and over again how glad he was to see his brother Buffington, and to notice how well he held his own, and if anything how gladder to be told that teas. Buffington and the children were .well _ as common, and after getting from Tom Doater such a promise as there would be no going bank on to help. Mr. Ballington in getting in his wheat during the dark nights, he said : " Henry, I don't think I Over told yon how bad Br'er B t t ' no da at all n n go lie o,. �,y the Shortie. I no doubt Tom lidera it. " Now, now, Br'er Swinger," said Mr. Ballington, " you goin' to tett on your oten self that a way ?" But they know that, in spite of such remonstrance, he was quite wilting for the story to go on, " Oh, yea; a gool thing's a gold thing, Br'er Butte:th'n, and when they on me, I'rn bound to lot t'other people git the good of it, even if I can't. Well, you see, Henry, it were a one Sadday eveuin', I reok'n it ben about or mighty nigh about, three year ago; ain't it, Br'er Bull'n't'n ?" " Be three year Sadday before the fourt' Sunday o' next mant'." " That's it. You see he ain't forgot, Well, sir, after preaobin' that mornin' to about a banditti o' people at our moor little Hope- well meetin'-house t'other side of Iggeeohee, as I rid by the stow at the Shoals on my way back home, I see Beer Bull'n't'n and a whole lot o' men thar in the peazer, and I thought I'd 'light and stop and howdy, and swap a few words with 'em all ; for Br'er 13u11'n't'n know I always liked him, if he is iieeh a rambnnotioae leabtis'. Him nor none of 'em notice me till they ,see me oomin' up the peazer steps, beacuse for why at that very -minute he were firin' away at a ter'ble rate agin we Metb'disses, and hie words, jes as I come up, wuz to the effect that if John the Harbiniger had ben a Meth'dis', the Soriptur' would 'a named him that etid o' John the Babtis' and he up, he did, and as he howdied along with me he say, " And here's Br'er Swinger, as good a man as they've got, and he can't deny my words.' Well, sir, you better believe 1 It were a Babtis' crowd, as yon know they're awful strong, up and down, on both sides o' the Igeeohee. Yit, I thought, never do not take up the old man's channelge, though I weren't in what a body might call fightin' fix, a not a expeotin' no snob. And then it were somehows, for the onliest time in my life, my idees, and my thoughts, and my argymente, and my words, and my speeches, everything I had, they all got jumbled together, and they got that piled up on top o' one 'pother, that I jos had to stop, and to set down, and see if I couldn't untangle 'em and gether 'em in hand. And then, right thar, at the very minute I begin to think I see daylight, ' Br'er Swinger 1 '-yoa might a heere him o mile away -he bawled out, he did, and he hollered, and say, ' Ah, Br'er Swinger, it were John the Babtis'• No Meth dis', them days - leastways o' them names. No wonder you speeohlees; but if you wuz able to talk, and could stand up and talk all day long, I'd jea take a cheer and eat down calm, and 'casion'ly fling in a primmary few remarks, and ask you to p'int out the chapter and the veerse wbar they tells "bout the Meth'disses in the Good Book,' And then he shook hie big sides, and the t'others they all broke out into a gener'l haw-haw. Well, sir, bless your soul ! All of a saddent I got so mad that for jes about a second if I didn't feel like haulin' oft and lettin' old Br'er Bnll'n't'n have it right in the mouth, for flingin' seek a laugh on me, onprepar'd for it as I were. But I know snob as that won't begin to do, because I know Br'er Bnll'n't'n have big a fiat aaeme, and it wouldn't do nohow." Here all broke into heartiest laughter ex- cept Mr. Ballington, who, what time he was not wiping his overflowing eyes, sat heaving his vast frame and glaring upon the nar- rator with a ferocity whose wretahednees was appalling. " And so until," resumed the historian of Ogeeohee border warfare, " what yon reck'n I done ? Wliy, sir,' I whirled in, I did, and I thought I'd try laughin' myself too. But you all know what sort o' laugh - in' that is when you know people see yon feel more liking cryin' than anything else ; and so the more I tried to laugh, the more the whole kerhoot of 'em laughed shore enough ; and at last I got np, and got away, and got on my horse, and baniehed off from thar." It Looked as if the agony of Mr. Balling - ton would soon become unendurable : but at this moment the light tread of ladies' feet was heard in in the hall, and presently the landlady of the hotel and Mrs. Ingram entered, followed by Ellen and Harriet. The last two were bonneted and beaming red. After shaking hands with her pastor, Ellen said, " Mr. Ballington, Tom told yon, I suppose, that we couldn't think of any- body nybody else marrying ns but yon." " Why, Ell'n-why, my child -why, yes ; but I thought -why, whar's-. You goin' to marry Tom ? and that not under the parencbal ruff ? " " We'll explain all that afterwards, Brother Buffington," said Tom, as he put into his hands the marriage license, out of which, as he opened it with fumbling hands, dropped two twenty -dollar gold pieces. With diffionity the preacher found his spectacles, and when the coins, so far beyond what he had ever received for 'tech a service, were lodged, one in one pocket of his trousers and the other in another, he performed the rite as well as he could. Then sitting, and putting his hands in his pockets, he looked around in abject despair. Then di.r. Swinger rose, and, as Henry and Harriet took their pieces, said," Here come another batch, Br'er Bnll'n't'n. Marryin', like everything else, ketchin', you know. Be ready." When all was spoken except the final prayer, Mr. Swinger turned and said, " Br'er Ball'n't'n, this couple is Meth'die' and Bebtin' both, you know, and it take two of us to hitch them to the traces ; so yon got to make the praar." Mr. Ballington, huge as he was, jumped as one roused from a dreaming sleep. Not having kept np at all with current events, his dazed eyes wandered around the room while he remained seated. " Yea hear me ? " said Mr. Swinger, in commanding tone. " Take them hands out o' them pockets, and git ont o' that cheer, and ask the good Lord to send His whole ratternue of angels down here on this yonng man and this young 'omen that's jes ben jinded in the banes. Out with 'em, and up with you, and when you're thoo I got another gold piece for you." That day was remembered by Mr. Bull• ington as the most eventful in all his exper• ienoe. About six months afterward, while elling of it to the family of his brother Cummings, near Fenn's Bridge, among other things he said " Hadn't ben I were a public man, I'd a be that nonpluehed and pulled to pieces I'd a forgot bow to talk and how to pray up to the Maslen. You see, when it first got out about them young people a keepin' Dom- p'ny, people put it that Tom was after Sister May's daughter and his cousin for Sister Jyner's. And they not disputed it, so they could get the mothers, and epeoial the brothers, to firin' away at the wrong feller, a hopin' that way they'd other take some sort o' chino to the right n, or least, ways git rioonciled to him. And bless your soul 1 it done it; that ie, with the mothers, which they was the niaineet once. Then it Wore they concluded to strike while the iron were hot, to keep down any more fusein' when it Were found out how the land lay shore enough. They wanted Emerly 'ingrain to let 'em have the thing over at her hoose ; but Emerly were ateared o' hurtin' feelin's so they immergrated to the _.. n tavern. And I tell you I wore no plashed , but old' Beer Swinger, with all his predijioe, say 1 Dome Ont splendid, and be never knowed till that mortoin' no more'n t'othher peoplewhich wan which mime e 'em. And -,_ when Henley Dorrreter hand me that twenty -dollar old piece, and 1 tack it, a • ' his ' be hutted and old seem his foelin a would - � r take Swinger's too, if I didn't take half the fee, I say to myself, heron' a Meth'dis' that if he's notbn' else hes liber 1. And it you believe me, Sitter Cummins, them. female mothers aotail laughed, and as for Sister J ner, she aotail orad, and both for joy, when the heard the news. And *born boys -well, they tee, matter o course, it were too late to call off and open on another trail. Willom May, he laughed too ; for he were already promised to Mary Anderson, that ehe's now his lawful wife. As for Hiom, he looked monet'oue cowed ; and ha do yit. Look like he don't feel like pattin' into young wimming'e society, nor young men's nether, but he rnther, when he go about at all -he rather take it out in roamin' in a hook by hisielf, Efar'i't, jes as I oxpeoted, have took up with the Meth. 'die'. Two kind o' wimming I've notussod in my expeuuoe o' people. One of 'em draws, and the tether lets other people drag them. You, for instance, Sister Cum- mins you drawed Br'er Cummins from 'mong the Meth'dis', beoause he see you wuz right, while Har'i't, like her cousin Emerly, were drug off. But it some con• eolation that it wore by a young man that if he's nothin' else he liber'l." TEE. END.. Terris and Titles. " Varlet " is the same word as " valet," and each is an offshoot of the fundal " vassal." Madame is " my lady," and sir has been extracted from the Latin " senior" through the French. " Dandelion " is dent de leon (the lion's tooth), and " vinegar" was once vin aigre (sour wine). " Biscuit " keeps alive the Latin bis cactus (twice cooked), and a verdict is simply a vere dictum (true saying). A " villain," before the stigma of die. graoe was attached to him, was a laborer on the villa of a Roman country gentleman. An Earl was an " elder " in the primi. tive society, while Pope is the same as " papa," and Czar and Kaiser are both " Caesars." Queen at first meant " wife " or e mother," and a survival of its early sig- nification exists in " queen," need now only in a bad sense. " Jimminy " is a reminiscence of the classical adjuration, 0 gemini, used by the Romans when they called upon the twine Castor and Pollex to help them. Redingote is " riding coat," borrowed by the French from our own language, and re- turned to ne in a new guise with the dress- maker's etamp of approval. " Slop " shop has nothing to do with slops, as some etymologists have asserted, but means clothing shops, the word coining from the Icelandic elopper, a coat. Lord is the Anglo-Saxon hlaford (loaf distributor). The Latin term for " lord " (dominos) has given us " dominie," the old term for preacher, and the same root is found in " dame." "Roamers" are peeple who go to Rome to see the Pope, and " saunterers" was the appellation bestowed on the religious enthusiasts who made the pilgrimage to the aainte terra -the Holy Land. Severely Condensed. " I want to send a telegram to my hus- band," said an excited young woman, who came hurrying into a Western Union tele. graph office the other morning. " Very well," replied the operator in attendance. " There are some blanks, and of course the briefer it is the lees it will Dost to send it." " Oh, I know that," she replied, and then she wrote : Dear George, -I've something too dread- ful to tell you, but please don't get exoited, dear, for it can't be helped now, and baby and I are perfectly safe. I don't know how it ever happened and nook says she don't know, and none of as Dan account for it, bat the house caught fire Iast night and burned to the ground. Just think of it Did you ever hear of anything so perfectly dreadful in all your life? I'm half wild over it. Bat please keep calm, dear. Baby and I are safe, and most of the things were saved, and yon mustn't think of anything but how much worse it might have been. What if baby had been burned. 0, George 1 don't it make you shudder to think of it ? But the dear Iittle darling is perfectly safe, and of bourse we went straight to mamma's, and you can't think how frightened she was until she knew we were safe. And I know just how shocked you'll be, you poor, dear boy, but as baby and I are safe you oughtn't to mind anything else. I can't imagine how the fire started. Can you Do you suppose some one set the house on fire ? 01a, it's too dreadful to think of. Come right home. MArux. P. S. -Remember that baby and* I are safe. M, " There," she said, as she handed the seven blanks she had written to the opera. tor, " I suppose it might be condensed a little." Yes, I think it might," he replied, as he took a fresh blank and wrote : Our house learned to the ground last night. All safe. Come home. MAMIE. A Stickler for Form. " What is the matter with you, Mattie ? " " I don't wish to talk with you after what you said about my smile." " Why I praised it. I think it is perfeot, lovely, enchanting." " That may be ; but yon didn't put it well. You said it was all wool and a yard wide." On the Wedding Journey. She (in the museum) -This is Minerva. He -Was she married ? She -No, she was the Goddess of Win- dom. All women are in league against the bachelor -the married women from sym. pithy with their unmarried sisters, and the unmarried from a desire to lessen the number of spinsters. With this league against him, offensive and defeneive, the unmarried man may find peace in Heaven, but he can eoaroe hope to find happiness on earth -this Bide of marriage. Mr. Moody the other day made a large congregation stand up while the piste was being passed, so that everyone could get his hand in bis pocket The late Mr. Talbot, father of the Eng- lish House of Comnaons, left a fortune of $25,000,000. It is to be divided amonghis daughters, the eldest receiving the major portion. Miss Talbot thus becomes the wealthiest woman in England tvith the ex. caption of Lady Howard de Walden. --Lady Pannoefote, WHO of the British Minister, has been astonished at the effect of a notice that she would be at home on Saturday afternoons from 4 to 6. Nearly 1,400 people called and moat insisted on shaking hands. -Osman Pasha, grand marshal of the Turkish army, whole heroism at Plevna was ono of the grandest incidents of the l3naso•Turkteh war, had written a Froneh poem for the journal published in New 'Rork ;by' Tello d'Apery, a 12•year.old boy. THE ONTARIO LEGISLATURE The following bills were introdaood and read the firet time : Mr. Bronson-Reepeoting St, Andrew'' Church, Ottawa. Mr. Drury -To consolidate the debt of the town of Orillia. Mr. Whitney -To change the name of Westminster village to that ot Winohester- Also, respecting pertain 'allowances for, roads in the township of Winchester.. Mr. Chisholm -To consolidate the debt of the town of Brampton. Mr. Wood (Brant) -To amend the Muni- cipal Aot. Mr. Moray-Respegting by-law No. 168 of the village of Thorold. The estimates for the ensning year were brought down to the House by message from His Honor the Lieutenant -Governor. Mr. Meredith called attention to the fact that several important measures promised by the Government had not yet been intro- duced, the result being that several Opposi• tion bills referring to the game matter had to be kept back. Mr. Mowat said the Government would bring forward its measures at the earliest possible moment. NOTICE OF MOTION Mr. Meredith -On Friday next -Bill entitled an Aot to amend the Registry Aot. A number of petitions wore presented. Mr. French -An Aot to amend the Separate School Aot and the High School Aot. Mr. Bishop -An Aot to regulate traffic on highways and bridges. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) -An Act respect- ing certain lands ot Christ Church, Hamilton. Mr. Drury -An Aot to amend the Act re- lating to the suppression of contagious' die - eases among animals, with [special retereuce to horses. Mr. Stratton -An Act to amend the Aot respecting landlord and tenant. Mr Creighton -Au Aot to amend the Act respecting the Department of Educa- tion. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) presented the annual report of the Agricultural and Arta Association. Mr. Rose (Huron) proceeded todeliver his Budget speech. He read the statement of receipts for 1889, which appeared in the TIMEm of Wednesday, showing a total of $3,538,405.08, and devoted some time to an exnanetive analysis of it. 'The expendi- ture statement was also minutely gone into and the following statement of assets and liabilities was presented : INVESTMENTS, INTEREST BEARING AND CASH ASSETS OF THE PROVINCE. Direct Investment: Dominion 6 per cent, bonds $ 200,000 00 Market value over par yahoo 10,009 01) Drainage 5 per cent. debentures, in- vested 31st December, 1889 .. Tile Drainage 5 per coot. deben- tures, invested 131st December, 1889 Drainage Works -Municipal Assess- ments 210,000 00 187481 14 78,456 69 224,742 01 $ 490,679 84 Capital held and debts due by the Derain. ion to Ontario, bearing interest : U. C. Grammer Schoolfund, (2 Yic„ 'cap. 10) U. C. building fund (18 sea„ Act 1854) Land improvement fund (see award) Ontario's share of library (see award) Common School fund (Consol Stats. cap, 26) -proceeds real- ized to Slet December, 1889, $2,446,594 64 -after deducting laud improvement fund. Por- tion belonging to Ontario Balance of unpaid subsidy and other credits geld by Dominion, according to statement of ac- count prepared c,y the Finance Minister, and transmitted to the Provincial Treasurer in Juno, 1886 Other debts due to the Province: Mortgages, re sale of asylum laude, bearing 6 per cent, interest 312,769 01 1,472,391 41 124,685 18 105,551 00 Bank balances : Currant accounts Special deposits Total LIADILITIES OF Tan 1,433,569 32 1,677,385 00 105,518 90 411,742 77 $6,436,397 83 PROVINCE AT PRESENT PAY- ABLE Balance due to municipalities re surplus distribution $ Balance due to municipalities re Land Improvement fund -in- terest Quebec's share of collections for Common School fund in 1889, made up as follows : Collections during 1889, on account of lands sold between 14th June, 1853, and 6th ltlarch,1861 Less 6 per cont., cost of manage- ment 1,291 31 3,256 57 10,423 36 625 40 $ 9,797 96 Less ono -quarter for Land Improve- ment fund 2,449 49 Collections during 1889, on sales made since 6th May, 1861 Less 6 per cent., cost of manage- ment 7,348 47 3,994 93 239 70 3,755 23 Quebec's $ 11;103 7 Q proportion according to population of 1881 4,597 51 Total $ 9,145 42 Surplus of assets after deducting liabilities presently payable $6,427,252 41 ESTIMATED RECEIPTS, 1890. subsidy $ 1,196,872 80 Internet on capital held and debts due by the Dominiun to Ontario 256,000 00 Interest on investments 61,000 ( 0 Crown Lands Department Public insti,.utione Education Department Ca,uaI revenue Licenses Law stamps Algoma taxes From insurance companies re fire at London Asylum Drainage assessment Toronto Asylum lands Insurance companies' assessments Assessment of counties re removal of lunatics 1,100,000 00 131,350 00 35,000 00 45,103 00 300,000 80 85,000 00 2,000 00 17,000 00 17,000 ( 0 83,000 00 3,000 00 6,000 00 Total $ 3,337,212 80 Mr. Ross explained the financial ques- tions in dispute between the Provinoiai and Dominion Governments, and suggested that, other propositions failing, the Do- minion and Province should appoint an arbitrator each, aid should these fail to agree a third should be appointed by these two to adjust the matters finally. 11Ir. H. E. Clarke was greeted with Oppo- sition cheers. He said that for a number of years peat there had been a deficit. Any person could satisfy themselves about this by ooneulting the public aocoante, or the hon. gentleman's own authorized speech. (Laughter.) The hon. gentleman never dwells on the deficits, but soars over the depthe of the unlike. 'Phe increase in population, the development of „the Pro. vinoo galled for ihoreased expenditure, but there was no increase in the population or development of the Province to correspond with thin increased outlay. Then where were the inoreaeed receipts 2 It was no advantage to hide the tree state of affairs from the publio by cooked statements, ootild be shown front the hon. gentleman's own statements that the expenses had in. creased $1,800,000. Bet no one could gather from the statement just furnished to the notion anything about the deficits without great trouble. He attaoked they item of annuitiee, and olaimed that the predeoeasor of the Hon. S. 0. Wood left a surplas in the treasury of $4,825,526 in hard Dash. Deduotiug the Dominion Gov- ornrnent eubeidy, capitalized by the hon, gentleman from the surplus of 1888; would leave only $3,886,360, or $939,000 less than when the Conservatives vacated the Treasury benches. The vaunted surplus was only a wooden dummy. The hon. gentleman bad referred to the trust feuds held by the Dominion Government. These funds did not belong. to the Province,elout' to the municipalities. They were not assets. Mr. Hardy -It is a mistake. We do own them and they are an asset. Mr, Creighton challenged the statement of the 'Treasurer, and spoke fur some time. Mr. J. Watere defended the amounts paid by the Government to asylums and public institutions. He said that the principle' item in the expenditure was the increase in the maintenance of the Central Prison owing to the new regulations. Since 1873 a great many asylums had been added to the Government list, The total reoeipta einoe 1871 were $86 663,902 ; the total es,- penditnre $85,725.325, leaving a balance by this showing of $938,577. Add to this the capital account of drainage and other de- bentures, which would give the surplus. Mr. Clancy moved the adjournment of the debate. Mr. Stratton -From the corporation of the county of Peterboro' and other corpoia- tione, praying for an amendment to the Aesesement Act. Mr. Guthrie -Petitions f rom the Munioi pality of the county of Wellington, praying for an act to amend the Assessment Act ; from Knights of Labor Assembly 2,980, praying for an Aot to constitute Boards of Arbitration ; from the Municipal Council of the county of Wellington, with referenoe to County Boards. Mr. Freeman -From the town of Lis- towel, with reaped to the consolidation of the town debt. Mr. Hese-From the township of Wal- lace, respecting the consolidation of the township debt. Mr. Lyon -From the village of Gore, praying for incorporation. Mr. Boas (Huron) -From the Huron Ontario Railway, praying for an Act of Incorporation to oonstruot a railway from Goderioh to Hamilton. Mr. O'Connor presented the report of the Committee on. Standing Orders. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) presented the report of the inspectors of factories. Mr. Guthrie -To amend the Municipal Aot. Mr. Lyon -To incorporate the town of Little Current, Mr. Awrey-Reepeoting the Hamilton Street Railway Company. Mr. Meacham -1 o amend the Act to authorize the appointment of Fire ,Guard- ians. Mr. Ingram -To enable the corporation of the city of St. Thomas to inane water- works debentures. Mr. Ferguson -To amend the Municipal Aot. Mr. H. E. Clarke -To enable Charles Northcote to settle certain lands. Mr. Davie -To amend an Act incorpor- ating the Toronto Dairy Co. Mr J. Leys-An Act to amend the Aot incorporating the Canada Landed Credit Company. Mr. Clancy wanted to know what were the gross amounts paid into the license fund for the years 1888 and 1889 respec- tively. How much of the fund the munici- palities imposed by by-law over and above the statutory duties in each of snoh years, and what were the gross amounts paid to The municipalities and the Province respec- tively for the same years. Mr. Gibson (Hamilton) replied that the gross amount p rid into the license fend in 1887 88 was $332,675.17. The groes amount paid in for 1888.89 was $470,855.50 The amounts imposed by municipalities by by- laws in excess of the stantory duties for liquor licenses for 1887-88 was $69,546, in 1888 89 it was $87,407. The gross amount paid to municipalities on account of liquor license fees for 188788 was $157,979.89, for 1888-89, $190,297.79. The gross amounts paid to the Province for liquor licenses in 1887-88 was $201,542.45, in 1888.89, §232,- 511.55. 232;511.55. Mr. Preston moved for an order of the Hoose fora return showing the number of schools aided by grants from the poor school fund for 1888 and 1889. He thought there should be a basis on which the in- formation could be supplied, and of which none at present existed to his knowledge. Mr. Ross (Middlesex) replied tbat the desired information could be found in the Public School accounts. He was not aware that a,ny changes had been made in the regulations,but if there had been they were slight. The department had been guided in their grants by the condition of the die- triote to be aided. Mr. Preston cited an instance in which he considered the amounts had not been fairly divided, and urged a more equitable dietribution of the grants. The matter was allowed to stand. Mr. Clancy moved that the debate be adjourned till Tuesday next. Carried. The House received a message from His Honor the Lieut -Governor, thanking them for the Address. Mr. Creighton complained that the print- ing of Bills had been delayed. A number of Bills had been presented, and as they had not been printed much delay in the business of the Hoagie was the consequence. Mr. Mowat explained that the matter would be attended to. Mr. Clanoy asked if the report of the Agricultural College and Experimental Farm would be forthcoming at an early date. Mr. Drury said that the manuscript was in the printer's hands, and would be pre- sented to the House in a few days. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. Waters -Bill to amend the Munici- pal Aot. Mr. Guthrie -Bill to amend the County Courts Aot. Mr. Stratton -Bill to amend the Menial - pal Aot. Mr. Ostrom -Bill to amend the Munici- pal Aot. Mr. Ostrom -Bill to amend the Aot re - spading the driving of saw -logs and other timber in lakes, rivers, create and streams, INFLUENCE OF HEREDITY. She was a toper's daughter, yet was I Hot lover and the maiden fair would wed. I Yin t tho question to bor. 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