HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1891-4-30, Page 2The Ministerb1 Ea1).
!i" the " the " Can,"
The ministerial call,
Which dootore love and dootors hate;
and 801210 OtneXS berate
With righteous zeal; more so of late ;
My Muse wOuld overhaul.
The eall—the annual call --
Unknown to Old St. Pail!
The Apostles went, with full consent,
Tel/110i= fie4,1s, ,,ebere they were sent ;
Akul seemingly were well ()cutout
To do so—big and mall.
The call—the worked-up call—
Tile stipulated al1;
Fixed up by men, whose love and grace
Shine sweetly in their cheek and face ;
Who never think, it a disgrace
To clicker for 0, call,
The oall—the onelmrse call I
Made by SOILS bOSS, tint2f3
Who poses a, the big bell sheep
On circuit bad, and who will keep
A row fermenting—bread and deep—
' hboald conference slight his call,
The call—the two -horse call,
Which means a swap:. that's all—
The jockeys call it "Zai1 exehange,"
The parsons but " a mild arrange,"
And fix it " subject to a change," •
At oonference—with a sonail,
The call—the ringer'zi
ofl—
Three cornered, that is all,
Which leaves some brother " in the saup,"
Or works him to a, lower group
By means to which self-seekers stoop ;
Then vow 'twas Heaven's eau,
The call, the saintly call,
Once "honor bright" for all ;
No longer conies from Heaven you know,
For when it did some got "uo show”—
Who yearly now move to and fro,
Transferred by louder call.
The can, the outside call—
Five or ten thousand eall
That with a fly takes lively dsh
Out of our book, to grace the dish
Of 'lobby kirks, whose people wish
High flyers that won't bawl.
The call, the lightning call—
The telegraphic call ;
"Send salary"—"some photographs,"
"Mso some newsy, paragraphs,'
"That tell of you' —"Your autograph ";
"Our board meets eon,' that's all.
The call, the boguseall,
Someone to boom, that's all;
Who goes about making pretense
That he is in demand immense,
Has many applications. hence
He'll wait a bigger calk
The call, the unsought call,
Just to descend, that s alt;
To work for Gorl—truth's sword to wield
On some noor circuit, mission field,
Which cannot now -much salary yield,
Goes in the stove, too small.
THE DOCTOR.
CHAPTER I.
"THE TaTTEE RIFT WITHIN THE LUTE."
"Do you see tbe carriage, Lizzie 2 They
should be here by this tirne. Look again,
ehild ; your eye; Isre younger than mine."
The speeker was is comely, rosyn'aced
dame of fifty years or thereabouts, with a
white apron reaching down to the bottom
of her steff areas, and a spotlest mnelin
cap shading her thick grey bands. Alto -
gather ehe looked what she was—a respect •
able, conddential servant—one, too, who
either from long service or strong love,
took more than the nanal amount of
interest in the affairs of her master, the
youngest, and withal the favorite practi-
tioner in Feninore, The little town of
Fenmore stands on a small elope, looking
down on the German Ocean, and behind it
stretch fens and salt marshes, desolate
enough to look npon. At the date of my
etory, it was a sleepy, out • of thenvay fishing
village; with one etraggling street of poor
homiest and tiny (chops; that was Fenmore
proper, hut round about in the wide tract
of country that went by that name for lack
of a better, there were several handsome
mansions.
In the immediate neighborhood of the
village there was the rector's house and Ptr.
Needham's, the land agent, among the rest
Dr. Lennard's. It stood on the highest
thonlder of the little hill, and its wide,
pleasant windows looked over corn fie1d3
and shining sands to the sea. It was all of
one deep mellow brown shied°, and a terrace
led from its lowastepped door to a sonny,
well.kept garden, than in a flush of
bloom, for it was June, " the month of
roses."
The garden eloped gently down, and it
had green shady nooks and mossy banks,
where the sun could not reaoh the dreamer,
and a cool, *inkling fountain, and a cosy,
flowenwrerobed summer house.
It was as pretty a home as any in the
kingdom, and to it, thie brigbt Jnne day, its
=tater is brineing home bis bride—bring.
ing her home with snob joy and pride that
his dark eyes are sparkling in liquid glad -
nese, and hie grave, sweet month cannot
keep from breaking into miles. An heiress,
a belle, queenof a brillant London ensson,
she had read those signs of her power on
more faces than her husband's; but some-
thing in its pessionate love, its entire,
unfaltering devotion, touched a new chord
in the heart of the bride, mealier bosom
flattered under its silken covering, her
pulse best higher as she neared her flature
bome, and for the Brat time, perhaps, the
eenee of her new life dawned upon har.
The }wagon had been an unustudly
brilliant one. Pauline was weary of ad-
miration, weary of London life altogether.
The real, earnest love in the eyes of the
young eoroatry doctor was inexpressibly
eweet to her woman's heart after the tinsel
and fletteries of the last few months. She
longed for change, and she acitepted
None of them reasons ever entered the
brain ot the happy lover as he took her in
his arrns, and kissed her red lips softly,
elmost reverently, with a great wonder and
joy in his heart that they ehotad be so
yielded to him. The word was all stin.
thine and beauty, and Pauline Grey was
the radianncentre from which all his glory
flowed out.
They were married at once; and this
bright Jane day he was bringing his trea-
sure home to the houee that in his eyes
only needed her preemies to be a little
earthly Eden." What the young bride
thought of it he could hardly tell, Inc the
eurtshine was flinging a dazzlingheze round
leer ag he stood to help her oat of the car.iage; and perhaps, too, the happy team in
his eyes helped to blind hint a little. Brit
Judith, the old servant, standieg back in
the shady hail, with no glance of love and
joy to dim her vittion, saw and inwardly
fretted at the baughty curl of the scarlet
Ilya, the suornful rise of the &rolled brown
AO the young bride stood for an infitant and
surveyed her new home.
8, A proud, tricksy oreeture I She'll be
as like as not to break his heart," thought
the old women, as she courtesied low, and
then stood aside and held back her ainff
th&t the sweeping elitism train of her
naistresa /night have ample room to pass.
IL gleam of the eniter ettnehine seemed to
follow the fair young areatere as she went
throtigh the dini storm hell smiling now,
and clinging like petted child to her hus-
band's erre.* From the wavy gold of her
thin& hair, as ib fell in flosey mole over her
shotildera—for the tiny lade bonnet bad
been shaken off and wag swingingby on
aring aa elle went to the delicate sheen of
her permit silk are% a lialft and ngloty
tleebeed to envelop her. net dtinty feet
rtng mit through, the quiet lime with s
jubilant glesdneee.
Pent Leonard, usually HO grave and quiet,
laughed with her in the fulness of his jay;
end this young doctor, who had almost
grevert an Old raan in hie lonely home, re.
newed hie youth, and told his heart to be
glad, hatierhtleh aki it had gained its desire,
and won the love of Pauline Grey.
The deeires of our hearts are not alwaye
good, for us. They sometimes coil tleeen.
selves into scorpion whips to scourge us;
and so Paul Lennard learned, in many a
bitter lesson, before the autumn passed into
winter. Not at onoe did he discover the
real feelings of the woman he called wife.
Foe a few short, blissfel weelcs she eeemeil
happy in her quaint nest of a home, and
gave bine back love Inc love. Then she
began to eret a little, only a little, at first ;
but day by day the plaint grew stronger,
till it broke into an open murmur; and the
love she had feigned to feel—perhaps she
had felt it Inc the time—was °set aside tte
a child might fling a toy it bad wearied of,
with no mare care Inc the pain she was
inflinkine than if tbe quivering human
heart held been indeed a Eleneeless pleything.
She wee bat a spoiled child, after all; and
like one, elle eigbed after forbidden plea-
sures. She lead been used during the whole
of her little life to being feted and admired,
and made much of. Pleasure was as the
breath or her nostrils, and almost as necese•
eary was admiration.
In the dreamy little fiebing village she
heel admiration, it is true, but unexpressed,
and of coarse, meth quality; and pleasure,
in the sense she read the word, was a thing,
undreamed ot there. The people, as 8118
knew them, were simple, and hospitable,
and kinaly.natured, but they lacked, one
and all, the hard surface -polish that gave
finch brilliance to her London world.
Their life was not her life, and she would
not fit herself to it.
Her busband saw this, and, in the pleni-
tude of his love, foreave it, and tried to
forge* the cruel stings her rawest gave his
faithful heart. He blamed only himself,
not her; and when all his efforts to content
this wilful woman, who was his, and yet a
stranger to him, failed, he did what his
own honest nature told biro was best to be
done—he spoke openly to her, and asked
her if it was indeed erne that his love had
ceased to suffito her.
They were standing together in the sunny
bay window of their eitting-room, looking
out silently on the fair view spread before
them. One, at least, sew little of it, and
perhaps it was the same with the other.
Within the last few weeks Paul Len.
nerd's pale, grave face had aged whole
years in its appearance, and the rare smile
*het made the e ark eyes so wonderful, and
the whole face bright, had not once crossed
it.
Mrs. Lennard steel and teamed her fore
head againet the glass, while her fingers
turned the gold circlet round and round,
and now and then nearly drew it off alto.
gether. Her husband, standing a little way
behind her, saw the movement and sighed;
it WEIS like the restlese toying of the captive
with hie chitin.
" Pauline," he said, abruptly, urged to
speak, as it were, by her dreamy unrest,
yon are not happy, I can see. Tell me
what I can do to make you so?"
She turned round quickly, and replied:
" You don't want to make me happy.
You don't care how I atn."
"1 care so much," said he, "that your
unhappiness is my torture. I would do
anything. I would lay down my life almost
to see you content."
" I do not want you to lay down your
life," ehe replied. " I only want you to do
very sensible, /aliment thing."
"What is that, love?" he asked.
"Lave this place, and go to London,"
said Pauline.
She had drawn 'natter to him as she
spoke, and her sunny head almost Mulled
his shoulder. The spell of her loveliness
was stealing over him. as it had atolen
once before, and hen felt thankfal when
she did not trample on it.
"1 °armee live here," she continued. "1
want to see someone, I want to go some-
where, Pani; I shall die if you keep me in
Fenrnore."
Then the illeeion fell upon him. It was
he she wearied of; and it was to be free of
his sooiety she longed (so te get to London.
To be free ot him! There was the winning,
coaxing, and sweetest beauty on that up.
turned Noe, brit no wifely love, no womanly
consideration, and the young doctor's
heart hardened as be looked down on it.
"1 cannot go to live in London," he said,
coldly; "bat you can go there on & visit if
you like."
"Ob, Paul, how can you be so owlet 7'
she cried. "How could you think of send-
ing me nal that way alone? Yon say I
may go, becauee you know that I cannot,"
she added, bunting into a storm of sobs.
After all, Pant was a citing lanaband, and
he loved Pauline. The tears did what no
bright glances could have done, they brought
back hi a tendernese, and he took her in his
same and kissed her hot cheek(' again and
again, soothing her like an infant."
"You will go to London, Pent " she
whispered through her tears; "you will go
to London ? "
'My precious darling, I cannot," he re.
Ptlea "my home is here, my aufes lie
here; it would be worse than beginning life
anew to go. Yon mast see this, Pauline,
if you consider one moment."
She fiang herself out of his arms, and
her eche ceased, as they had begun, on the
instant.
" T BPS nothing but that you are unkind
and hatefnl," she exclaimed. "1 knew you
would do nothing I wiehed you."
" "lateral, Pauline 7,, said he ; "that is
7 strong word. I think you cannot mean
g
"I do," she answered, sullenly, her
beauty under a cloud.
"1 osianot be hateful to you, you know,
if yon ever toyed me," said Peel" and
he tried to smile, but it was a faint
mockery, and his lips were white.
"1 never did love you," she replied. " I
only tbought 1 did."
"Pauline 1" said ber husband.
She answered nothing, but her angry
eyes turned reetlessly from the set face
before her.
"y00 thought you aid, Panline " (said
e. "Who made you think so? Who
ade you. ? " he repeated, when she did not
answer.
"You, I suppose, with yonr teak," said
Pauline. "Yon said I should be as happy
as a bird in your country home," she bald;
the tears began to flow again, plainly show-
ing the disappointment.
(To be continued.
Doesn't Recognize Himself.
It's awfally low or a relish to shave him.
self," maid Cheppie.
" Yeae," staid the witty dada. " I
alwaya nut inyffelf for thet very reaeon."
Ruda has tent on expenition to Abye.
airtia, with the inteteion of reaching the
great &Worm lakes front the northettet.
This mote, which is 600 wino in length,
hart only been trevelled dlatanee of 200
milts, hat it hes been Iona it, page
theoligh s. very popnlotte and fertile regieln.
When a man is "going to the dogs" he
ought to chews ecimething bettee then an
Went front room to rcoin ; her clear letigh anise geed bsg.
ONTARIO LEGISLATURE,
The following bills were read a geoond
time;
Respeoting the town of Brncebridge,
To authorize the town of Collingwood to
issue certain debentures.
To consolidate the debt of the town of
Emma.
To consolidate the debt of the town of
Port Artlaur.
To emend the A.ot to incorporate the
Parry Sound Coloni,zation Railway Com -
To enable the ynod of Huron to oonsoli•
date ened manage its truet funds.
Mr. Barr moved the seconding reading of
bis Bill to amend the Assessment Aot by
apportioning the assessment of real estate
between the mortgagee and the naortgager.
He believed such a measure wonld bevel a
benefioial effect upon the country generally
by encouraging investment in real estate.
He did not propose to inolade
sesemente Inc loud improvements and
drainage.
Mr. Hardy—Withdraw.
Mr. Meredith said that someeffort should
be made to remove, the anomedies of the
preeent law, and he hoped if this Bill were
drappect the Government would give the
matter some attention.
Mr. Fraser—Ina a pretty hard job.
Mr, Meredith—That's whet we pay you
for, Anybody could do the easy jobs.
The Bill was withdrawn.
Mr. Davis moved the f000nd reading of
n bill respecting the nee of velocipedes on
the public, highway. He had recently had
the importance ot such legislation urged
upon him by a deputation.
Mr. Gibson (ammilton) had reseived
deputation of bioyolists dead against the
legislation.
The bill was allowed to stand.
Mr. Meredith moved the second reading
of a bill to amend the nudioattue Aot.
The object of the bill was to provide that
wlserever a person brings an action to
recover damages for personal injuries it
should be lawful for she court, at discre-
tion, to issue an order for examination of
the person by a medical practitioner.
kir. Mowat thought it specially object.
tionable that a woman should be subject to
this examination.
Ur. Meredith thought the committee
could settle that. It women claimed
damages they should &leo stand the exam-
ination.
Tree bill was read a second fiche.
Ur. Awrey moved the second readiug of
a bill to reduce the octet of appeals to the
Court of Appeal. The object of the bill
was much as the words would imply. In
many Oates the cost Inc printing exceeded
the amount in dispute. He wished to
secure legislation that would provide for
lessening the number of copies of evidence
required in oases of appeal in the Appeal
Court. He did not see why it was that 40
copies were required in the Court of Appeal,
especially when so much less sufficed in
the Division Court, Queen's Benah and
Canal of Chancery. He wished to provide
that the seine copies might be used in the
Appeal Court as had been need in the other
courts.
The bill was read a second time.
Mr. Hardy moved the second reading of
a hill respecting liens for labor on loge and
timber, and the payment of wages thereon.
The purpose of the bill was to apply to the
newer districts of Rainy River, Thunder
Bay and Algoma, where, owing to the
diffioulties of lumbering, wages were not
regularly received. He was not aware that
a neoessity existed for any each legistation
in the older districts. The object was to
devise some process, if possible of obtain.
ing the results of the lien. This was a
more difficult thing than appeared on the
face of it. The proposition was, that for
chime of $200 or under sait might be
brought in the Division Court to enforce
the lien. The person desiring to retain his
lien should file a certificate with the °falser
of the district court, stating the, amount
claimed. This should be done in a limited
time. Suit could be brought in the or.
dinary way, or an attachment could be
issued if an affidavit was certified *0 as to
the nature of the debt.
Mr. Rosa proposed to amend the llth
clause by providing that where the trustees
of a High Sohool in any oity or town
notify the County Council that the school
is open to county pupils, the (iceman may
appoint three trustees.
Mr. Meredith objected that this would
give the county a share in the management
of the schools Inc whieh the cities or towns
provided the funds. Under the old law
there must be an agreement as to terms of
union before the comity would have repre.
sentation.
Mr. Ross considered the present propel -
tion more reasonable than the old law, as
it gave the comities three out of nine
trustees, instead of three out of six as
formerly. mean.
The amendment carried.
Mr. Ross said there was a diffioalty as to
the election of trustees at the end of the
year, and he now proposed to restore the
old practice. He moved an amendment to
thee effect.
The amendment carried.
Mr. Meredith thought that High school
boards ought not to be limited to charge
nonresident pupils fees not greater then
the oast of maintenance at WWI High
schools, as proposed by the hon. Minieter
of Ednoation. High schools were eseen•
tially for the benefit of the communities in
whit% they were erected.
The clause was carried in a slightly
amended form.
Mr Waters wanted the bit/ printed is
soon as possible that persons interested
might see the full drift of the amendments.
Dlr. Ross moved the second reading of a
bill to consolidate and revise the laws re-
specting the Education Department. He
proposed adding a clause giving the depart-
ment power to refer matters affecting
Public, High and Separate Soltools for
interpretation to the High Court of
justice.
The bill received its second reading.
The House went into committee, and
carried a bill to amend the Act respecting
cemetery companies.
Mr. Rose' bill respecting the profession
of stenographers received its second reading
without discussion.
AFTER 000058.
Mr. Harcourt moved the Home into
Committee of Supply.
Mr. Meredith took exception to the
inerease in the expenditure required Inc
the maintenance of the Toronto Asylum.
The expenditure on publio institutions
veaa yearly ittoreasing. The Government
were constitntly placing officiate on the
permitnent staff Or creating unneoessdry
officee.
The item for Maintenance, amoimthig to
6101,816, was carried,
Mr. Hardy ssid that the 'fere at the
agylunts was very solid and very plain—too
plaim In some of the inetitutions in the
United Statee which he had visited they
had more expenaive viottiele, molt as
pudding, etc. They were, too, titied tip
more elebdretely, gonnthing like &summer
•b()t8r.
M. Metedith Wished to knoe/ why the d
bursar had bon discharged at the Centro
Toronto.
Air. Oibeon (Ilamilton) explained that
the action had been taken on aegonnt of
the bursar using moneys teenporarily with-
out permieeion for accounts) received at the
institution. He had not been perfectly ao-
curate in his deleting(' with the funds of the
ineiitution. Although, perhaps, fraudulent
intent could not be established against the
gentleman, yet the irregularities that be
had been guilty of wore ouch auto neoeseie
tate a discontinuance en his [services.
Mr. °tinny was of the ophaion thet the
kind of meat served at the instituttona was
too eipeneive, that the beef was from ex.
port oattte, and not betahers' (tattle me was
called for.
Mr, Fraser read entracte from the exam.
ination of the offidels, in which the
superintendent hnd testified that nothing
better than butchers' cattle was toed.
The item,' amounting to $125,05, was
carried.
The items ander the head of public) in.
stitutioes, inaraigreition, agricultue, public
buildings and repairs thereto, and public)
worne, were paesed, and the committee
rose.
The following bills were introduced and
read a first bus:
To amenci the Municipal Act --Mr.
Mo -
Kay (Oxford).
To amend the Asseesment Aot—Mr.
Awrey.
Lo amend the Voters' List Act—Mr, Tait.
Mr. Mowet, in introducing a bill respect-
ing dispates under the drainage law, said
it had been suggested that there be ap.
pointed a special referee, and the Govern-
ment had concurred be that suggeetion.
He would have the powers of a Judge, and
would be a salaried °fewer with all powers
of an arbitrator, with a salary of about
63,000 a year. The bill waa drawn Up on
these lines.
Mr. Mowat introduced a bill entitled an
Act to detach from the Cha,nitery Division
of the High Court one of the Judges
thereof. He had coramunioeted with Sir
John Thonapson and understood there
would he no objetition from that source.
Mr. Wood (Hastings) moved a resolution
*het in the opinion of this House the sys•
tem ot paying provincial °niers by fees is
objectionable in prinoipie, and that the law
ought to be so amenaed as to provide for
the remuneration of the sheriffs, regietrara
of deeds, clerks of the peaae, and county
attorneye by salary instead of by fees, arid
a like change should be made in the mode
of remunerating all other provincial offi-
cers now paid by fees to whom the same
could be eatief aotorily applied.
1 pointed out that the cashiers of the Dank
of Commeree and of the Bank of Toronto
received 015,O00 a year, The manager 01
the Standard Bank received 012,090,
and of the Dominion Bank 011,000.
The Ontario Bank manager and the
manager of the Canada Permanent
were paid 010,00. Theft petitions of
trost called for. proportionate renew:lees.
tion. It wag HO ut regard to registrarship'
and the beauty of the present BYO= was
that under it an official was paid in pro-
portion to his responeibility. The othein
eion the Gremlin:Lent had oorne to se a
result of their experience we that the
present eystera wee the more workable of
the two. As far as sheriffe were concerned
the salary met= was inapractioable. The
Government had had under ooneideration
the geestion a taxing the eurplus received
over a reasonable remuneration, and wieh
out further announoerneut he would say
that the matter was 31411 occupying the
attentiort of the Government, and they
might submit a nommen to the House next
session dealing with it. As to the resole -
tion proposed, he din not think it (should
meet the (approval of the majority of the
House, tend asked them to vote it down.
To consolidate the deb..; ef the town of
Milton.
Respecting the city ef Kingston Gas end
Eleotrto Light Companies.
To amend the Act incorporating the
College of Ottawa.
The following Private Bills were given &
second reading:
To incorporate the Tilson Spur Line
Railway Company.
To amend the Act incorporating the
Synod of the Diocese of Niagara.
To provide for the consolidation of the
debenture debt of the city of London, eyed
for other purposee.
To enable the aorpolietion of the city of
Hamilton to issue certain debentures, and
for other purposes.
Dr. Baxter said the sahject had been
brought before the House in a temperate
epoch, but a good mote had not been made
out. It was easy to find tante. When the
late Sondfield Iiitacelonale was Premier of
Ontario the law provided for the diviction
of counties for registration parpoees, not
by the will of the House, but by order of
the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
When the Liberals come into power a
reform was made—a reform which was the
desire of the people. Mr. Edward Blake,
when Premier, brought in the law readjuet.
ins the whole eystem, and fixing what pro-
portion of the fees were retained by the
°fade's and what went to the countien the
proportions varying according to the
annual totals. If it were found now that
The subject of the fee system as com-
pared with remuneration by salary had
been discussed a great deal during the past
few months. The system was as old as the
offices for which it had been created. It
was no plea to urge in behalf of the system
that because it had existed so long it must
necessarily be good. What he under-
stood to be the tenor of the public feeling
in the matter was (1) that officials
should be fairly and amply paid for the
work done and the responsibilities devolv-
ing upon them; (2) that there should be
no distinction in the salaries, exoept in eo
far as there was a diatinotion in the %Thine
of the services rendered; (3) in estimating
the value of finch services the previous
standing of the officials should not be con-
sidered, but the service and responsibility
of the office ; (4) only persons capable of
discharging the duties should be appointed
to offices. The last clause the hon. gentle-
man considered equally as important as, if
not of greater importances than, the pre•
vions climate No greater wrong could be
done to the community than to seek to
underpay those offioiale who were laboring
for their daily bread. The man was worthy
of his hire, be that what it may. The
principle of paying official/tin consideration
of past services was ae absurd as it was
unjust. Dealing with the system ae it
affected comity attorneys and clerks of the
peaoe, the hon. gentleman stated that there
were forty-two such divisions in which
these °nom were appointed. The receipts
ranged from $9,964 as the total of the eight
lowest.feed offices to $24,062 for the eight
highest -feed. He totted anomalies in some
of the counties. In one county an offioial
held no less than fonr responsible 'talon°
offices, and though his salary was not ex-
oesseve his duties must have been onerous.
While a registrar received $9,000 for doing
almost nothing, the Attorney -General was
paict $5,000 for his servioes. Was there any
justice in that?
Mt. Mowat—The hon. gentleman thinks
I should be paid $10,000, I thank him.
(Government applause.)
Mr. Wood thought it an anomaly that
such permanent officiate should be paid
larger salaries than Ministers of the Crown,
who were much mare subject to change.
He contended he had established that the
system of payment by fees was objection-
able, and while he did not hold the Govern.
ment responsible for the existence of the
system, he contended that if they did not
make the change demanded the publio
would hold them responsible in the future.
Mr. Mowat congratulated the hon. gentle-
man on the fairness with which he had
presented the case. A very large part of
the feeling upon the Babied had arisen
from the exaggerations of the press. The
funnel figures varied enormously from the
salariee it was generally supposed the
registrars received. He did not say the
country would go to destruction if the
salary system were instituted. Bat at the
some titne he pointed out that the fee
system was not instituted by
this Government. The fee system
might be so regulated as to produce the
same remits as the salary system. The
only way to procure a reduction under the
fee system was not by its abolition. He
contended that in almost every respect the
fee system was the batter system if it did
not produce too large incomea. The chief
advantlige was that it paid men according
to the work they did. The disparity in 8
the incomes which had been complained
of was in reality an advantage, becaese it
apportioned the amount of income to the
amount of labor. To adopt a uniform
scale would be highly objectionable and
indefensible. The journals which had
opposed the system were not fully in- n
formed. One paper had declared that h
twenty of these officiele were receiving
more than the Attorney•Goneral. As a r
naatter of fob, there were not a quarter
that number, Ati officer paid by eatery 0
would confine laineself to office hours, but
when he was paid by fees sometimes he S
would work till midnight. If the eatery
systene were instituted the Moult would be
no gain to the Provinee. The receipts R
would be reduced and the expenditures
increased. It wee now complained that in 'T
many oases the fees charged were too high, CI
and that a change would remedy that. The
meaning of that was that the teoeipte ti
would be reduced. The oommutatiotrof
the fees of surrogate judges had in most W
inetences resulted in it reduction of the
amount of few. Complaint had been made R
of the income of the registrat in Toronto.
But three years ago, When there was a w
Coneervative in the office, no complaint
wee triad°, and the income then was $9,61.0.
The rtheipte of the office flaotuated. Dur-
ing the first quarter of the present year te
hey were not hilt whet they Aggregated b
tiring the Iftet quarter of last year. Ile D
in some oases the amounts retained by
eheriffa, registrars, or other offiaere, were
excessive, that could be remedied by an
extension of the prinoiple of the legislation
plaoed upon the statute book by Mr.Blake.
As for himself, he could vote consaien-
tionsly and with all due regard to his duty
to the Province against the proposal of his
hon. friend from North Hastings.
Mr. Davis moved in amendment the fol-
lowing resolution: That it is the opinion
of this House:
1. That remunerating eberiffe, registrars
of deeds, clerks of the peace, and coanty
attorneys by fees is in the publio interest,
preferable to a system of payment by
salary.
2. That placing these officers on selariee
would result in a general increase of the ex•
penee and oost of carrying on the necessary
businese of these offices.
3. That it is very probable that the
salaries to be paid to such °fauna and their
necessary assistants would considerably
exceed the total of fees received. and by
reason thereof the Province waif d in most,
if not in all, oases be burdenea with an
increase of expenditure.
4. That tte to registrars, the result of
such a change if made would in some in-
stances wipe out, and in others greatly re-
duce the amounts whittle under the present
system are payable to countiee out of the
fees received in registry offices.
5. That as to sheriff, the system of pay-
ment by ealacy conld not well be adopted,
and if adopted the work of these offioera
generally would be apt to be leas diligently
performed, and thereby the interests, not
alone of the general public), but of suitors,
itigante, judgment creditors, and others
would suffer and be greatly prejudiced.
6. That having regard to the public in-
terests, and of persons having to ennead
business in or through the offices of clerks
of the pe&ae and county attorneys, the
esults would probably be the mime as in
respeot of the business to be transacted in
sheriff'a offices, and in a somewhat lees
deeree.
7. That having heard the &entrance
given that the Attornoy-General purposes
before next session to make official enquiry
co to the remuneration at present actually
received by oath offioere respeotively, and
as to such other matters as will enable the
Government to fairly and fully consider in
what degree and with respect to what
offioes, if any, said remuneration might be
reduced, further consideration one the
question during the present eesaion ie un-
necessary.
The House divided at 12 30 p. m., it
being the first division of this Parliament.
Mr. Moredithe amendment to the amend.
ment, which affirms the salary principle,
was lost on a division of 30 ythe and 51
flans, as follows:
Yeas—Messrs, Barr, Busk Campbell (Algoma),
Clancy. Dunlop, Glendining, Godwin, Ham-
Hiscett, Kerns, McCleary, &sou, c-
enaghan, Magwood, Marter, Mea a , :e-
dit)), Metcalfe, Miscarapbell, Monk, Preston,
Reid, Rorke, Smith (Frontenac), Tooley, White,
Whitey, Willoughby, Wood (Hastings), Wylie
Nays—Messrs. Allau, Awrev, Balfour, Baxter,
Bishop, Blezard, Bronson, Caldwell, carpenter,
Charlton, Chisholm, Clarke (Wellington), cie-
li'2,ViL tur , rg „ n (Hamilton),
df; C °Iellmtt 1):= DFaivela, 41vginDfy
Gibson (Huron), Guthrie, Harcourt, Hardy.
Lockhart, houglarin, McKay (Oxford), McKay
eCinftV'Xgn:'4, Tanc,T'
Mack, Z , , T,
Paton, Porter, Ravsiie, Robillard, Boss, Sharpe,
with (York), Snider, Sprague, Stratton, Tait,:
Waters, Wood (13rant)-51.
The following pairs had been made: E.
F. Clarke with Mr. Biggar, Mr. Fell with
Mr. Garrow, Mr. Hudson with Mr. Gilmour,
Mr. H. E. Clarke with Mr. Fraser.
The only member of the House who was
ot paired and did not vote was Mr. Camp.
ell, of East Durham, Equal Righter.
The amendment by Mr. Dols was car-
ted on the same division reverned.
The Home went into conanaittee and
arried the following bilis:
To amend the aot ineorporetting the
plod of the Diocese of Niagara—Mr.
Harcourt.
To incorporate the Tinton Spur Line
enemy Company—Mr. McKay (Oxford),
Real:noting the Weston, High Park es
ouirmonottior. Street Reilway Company—Mr.
The following bills were read a second
me:
To incorporate the Port Arthur dr Fort
illiane Railway Company—Mr. Tait.
To incorporate the Mimico EtWitch Line
eiltvey Company—Mr. Gilmour.
To incorporate the Niagara River Rail.
ay Clompany—Mr. Tait
The House adjourned at 6,20 p. tn.
In the Britith Hone° of ComtrionaMinifle
r Chaplin amid that pleurinpueuntiOnis had
9e0p0tfoar°dtef°rtoetrld im41" 1"c" r"
TRADBf PRESTIGE AND SENTIMENT.
The Relations Between Great Britain aid
Her Colonies.
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PLAIN SPEAKING -
During the reoent Dominion election
campaign, the duty of Canadian loyalty to
the Mother Country was °hoe referred to.
and the man who &trod, to suggest tha#
love and loyalty should be reciproeal—that
a Canadian was wider no obligation to care
more for England than Engliehmen oared
for Canada—was ovevvihelnied with. re-
proaohee, It would bo interesting to know
now large a proportion of the people of
England there the viewe expressed in the
following editoriet of London Truth
There are doubtless many advantentesitt
being it codfith, a lobster, a Frenottunin or
a Newfoundlander, but I hempen to be a
numb -enduring evapsitor of the eparsirillye
United Kingdom. Therefore, 1 teen an
exclusively Beitish view of the dispute, and
wish from the bottom of nay heart thet the
Newfoundlaedere would plat& up a little
epirit and cut the painter. Not, of course,
that I ocinsider Newfoandiand'e genag or
staying of much oceseequence in itself; but
the example would be so useful. It la the
premier pas, the firet move in these matters,
then undies the difficsulty. 1.1 Newfound-
land would only go, perhape the other
colonies would follow suit.
What I event to know, is England the
better for her Colonies 7 Not e &Leslie braes
farthing. On the contrary she would be
infinitely rioher, infinitely, superdufinitely,
more respecteblo, more respected, and be-
yond all oomparieon whatever more power -
fat without therm Why, the only one of
the colonies she has had that is a feather in
her cap is the United States of America.
This independent colony, boosuse it is in,
dependent, and great, and power-
ful, and progressive, really is
a credit to the mother country..e.
But as for the others, I don't see that we
get meth credit oat of theta while they
remain in a (nate of impotent (and per-
petually equalling) babyhood, and ie we get
no credit out of thene, I am sure we get na
oash. On the coutrary we are always
being compelled to pot one hands in our
pockets on account of thew British bent -
lingo and ne'endo-wells, till they learn to
set up for themselves and run on their own
legs.
It in said that trade follows the flag.
There never wee each nonsense. Trade
follows the language, naturally, when there
no interference. Usaelly it is not al.
lowed to follow its natural bent, and then
trade takes a sensible view of ehe situation,
and paying not the slightest regard either
to the flag or the lengnege, follows the
oustorne duties. Where 4110 materna duties
are low or nil, trade pee ; where the
customs duties are high, trade keeps oat.
Trade is not a fool at ell. Trade does not
concluot its business on the principtee of an
after-dinner speech at the Mansion Homo.
" But then, it is said, " there is prestige.
Has prestige no value ?" Well, of course,
it has some; but the question is, as Dr.
Johnson would have said, what do you give
for it ? It is not a more profitable traneao-
tion to give a shilling's worth of mush Inc
sixpenny worth of prestige then to give two
fat pheasante in the hand Inc one sparrow
in the bush. I can understand prestige
being sometimes valuable as a "cheap den
fenoe of nations ;" but here we are paying
infinitely more to guard our prestige than
we pay to guard ourselves, maintaining
fleets at enorznous cost in Cele, than,
and the other ocean, whereas the ouly fleet
we really want ie s, good fleet in the "Silver
streak " that surrounds um
Again it is objeoted, "but there is mak-
e
ment." Well, I confees I have no senti-
ment about the Colonists. 1 am, indeed,
in what a theologian would call "perfect
charity" with them. I wish them no evil,
fen from it. Bat I can't distinguish them
from people of a host of other national-
ities with whom I have nothing whatever
in common. The mere facts that they are
in a certain very much mixed and
mainly conventional sense, my "own
flesh and blood," and speak (aerially at in -
'ordinate length) it more or less corrupt.
idiom of my own language, are
not enough to endear them to nee. On the
contrary, I find them profoundly aninter.
esting, and as for the "Great Statesmen"
whom they occasionally send over, on a
rattans ticket, wall, they may be green
steteemen "over *here," jaet itet "aver
there," me I am informed, the common
Scotch thistle soraetimes forgets that it it a
weed, and lifts its head with something
like the magnificence of a forint shrub. But
"over here," as distinguished from "over
there," they always appear to me very liket
what any British veetryman might be, if
he had been watered a little more (well,
yes, and perils/pa soaped a little more), and
grown under a bell glass—just about the
difference, in foot, between a cauliflower
bought at Les Belles and a cauliflower
bought at Covent -garden. If, therefore,
the emanalpittion of the Colonies is deeir-
able on other grounds, I see no reason to
oppose it on the ground of sentiment.
So far, in fact, ea I cede see, the mitt
thing in common between Engliehmen and
Colonista is the bad language which they
both nee in memento of irritation. Nowt
aurae is a trumpery thing to be sentimental
about. As for the Colonists themselvea, r
cannot for the life of me understand how
they can be content to go on in their
present hobbledehoy garments, trundling
their little °melons° cheeses of countries,
whittle not one European on* of ten can spon
without the aid of a rasp. Howeventhat is the
Coloniste' own affair. I don't want to
hurry them oat of !Knickerbockers and to
stir them up to the dignity of a With -key,
if they do not themselves feel old enough.
Personally (brit, of amaze, it is a rnerer
mettter of taste), it seems to me preferable'
to be the native de country of some sort
than to be merely the native of some
country's back garden. I don't think
I should care much to be a native of
a South American Republic. But / would
sooner (at least when no revolution was
going on) be a native of a South American!.
Republic than a mere colonist of any kind.
As a Chillier), a Peruvian, or a Brazilian,
I think I could hold up my head. Now,
really don't think 1 oould as a New South
Welshman, or rather New South Welsh bey.
But, as 1 said before, it is all a matter of
taste. If a man likes to be all his days a
hobbledehoy, let him. "
Referring to the New Orleans lynching,
many papers disotiss the question why the
Italian murder returns exceed those of
every other nation. The St, James' Gazette
shows that the Italians are eight times
more murderous than other Europeane;
that in Italy ten persons are tried every
day ffir murder and eight are convicted,
while & host of homicides are never rite
corded. The conclusion is that the Indian
has murder in his blood, and that resod
exeitability is heightened by a Warni
aliment and the national habit of the use
of the knife.
—The salaries of New Yotk school teach-
ers are very poor, the vacations in a year
emenint to about three- Montha and the
inconveniences they suffer are keener then
the Id 1