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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1892-4-21, Page 2who oe4 eforulaa Klee. aris but three little months ago Since istall and I were marrasch Ana Joy that an to bid us joy Since then has with us tareiees And yet a fidl.fledged Benedict, With ell my bliss, am I, As cloth appear ouch morning When 1 kiSs my Nell good-bye; For it's "Don't forget the curtain rings, The carpet tacks and hatehet, .And take this piece of ribbon, love, And see if you can match it. Oh. happy is the evening hour, When IYell the tea is pouring And 1 am sitting opposite, Iler every move adoring ; 'And happy are the morning times That all too q niokly fly Until I stand upon the same And kiss my Nell good-bYn ; And it's Don't forget the linen, dear, And match these buttons. sweeting, • And call around at Mme. rs. And get that yard of pleating." In Lover's and we twain Weide And there will dwell forever; • No doubt or grief shall be allowed. Our wedded souls to sever. So faithfully her name I breathe In every- ardent sigh I'm glad to be the errand boy Who lii-ses her good-bye, When it's "Run around to Stacey's, George, And. get three sheets of batting, •And bring four spools of ` Afty ' taro id lAke that I use for ta,ting.' —George Horton. A BARITONE'S DEVOTION; OR A TALE OF SUNNY ITALY, Clare felt sad it heart, as she kept watch while the nese rested after her night's work ; she could gue.s s pretty accoeately what it Was that was weighing upon 'ado's mind, but how to comfort hien she d 1 not know. He lay quite still, with closed ayes, his lips just ported that he might b melte with less effort ; but the hand wheal lay outside the bedclothes was tightly ()Ruched, and the face bore an expression of silent misery, which was almost more than Clare could endure. " Is the pain still so bed ?" she asked at length. He opened his eyes; they were so hope- less, so full of dumb distress, that it seemed to herthey must be th,e eyes of some other num.• She could not have believed thab Carlo could ever. have gone down to such depths of wretchedness. "Much better, thank you," he answered, just above his breath ; and Clare was thank- ful that his eyelids fell once more for she could not keep back her tears. And so the hours pasted on, and she koew that she was °km to a man who was passing through the vrorst suffering that can be borne, and yet felt as powerless to reach him as if he had ben a thousand miles away. At last, early 'lathe afternoon, he seemed to make an effort to break the rigid quiet in which he had so long lain. She stood up to arrange • his pillows afresh, and he took. her hand in his and held it fast ilt a fevered grasp. "If I could only sleep, Clare ! if I could only skeet !" he exclaimed. They were the first words he had voluntarily spoken, and she took them as a good sign; clearly he began to see that he must do all that he could to free himself from ab- sorption in this one painful idea; even in his illness the duty of self-mastery lingered . vaguely with hun, spite of his failing powers. " There is one sovereign vane dy or sleeplessness," said Clare, '1 Let us see whether it will have any effect on you " ; and taking a Bible from the shelf she began to read in a. low, soft, slightly monotonous Voice from the Book of Job. Whether it was the musical rhythm of the • words, or the continuous sound, or the graphic picture set forth in that grand old poem, it would be hard to say; but for some reason the mental picture of .Anita and Comerio gradually faded, the per- ceptioa of his own pain passed away, he seemed to be living quite out of the nine- •teenth century—to be Job and not himself • —though it was, in fact, the personal per- ception of the truth of the poem which made its effect on him so powerful. For the thing which I greatly feared is mime upon me,'" read Clare; and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. twas not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet, yet trouble came.'" When Eliphaz the Temanite began to argue, Carlo felt himself sliding away inr,o blissfuldrowsiness, and soon Clare perceived that the old charm had worked well and • that he was sound asleep. One glance into his eyes showed Clare that he was himself againoand the doctor, too, on his second. insit, was surprised and pleased to fincl vilest a favorable turn his patient hild taken. The alarming prostration had passed; thse terrible depression, which seems incapable of wishing to live or of making any effort to recover, had given place to a strong desire for health. Though speaking was still an effort to him, he asked two or three eager questions. "hall I get better, do you think ?" "013, there is nob a doubt of it, if you go on as well as you have begun," said the doctor. "WiU my voice be injured ?" "There is no reason why it should not be as good as ever when you recover your strength." " How soon could I possibly be fit to sing in public again ?" The doctor liked his spirit, and answered with a smile: "This day nine weeks, if you have no relapse. But don't excite your- -self about it, and don't talk too much. What you want now is perfect rest of mind and body." "One more weed," broke in Carlo. "Is there anything I can do to get well sooner?" "You can help yourself very materially Ly obedience to orders, and. by •keeping yourself quiet. All anxiety and excitement *ill retard your recovery. This attack of pleurisy is the beat thing that could have happened to you, for you are altogether mrerworked and overstrained, and you nriust have rest. In these hurrying days people seem to have forgotten how to rest, that's the worst of it. If you'll only go on as you • Eve begun this afternoon, though, I shall be quit,e satisfied with you." , As Sardoni etad once remarked, however, Carlo Was in some respects "old-fashioned," and the doctor found that he had not for- gotten, even in his overstrained, nineteenth. eentury life, the seciet of rest ; thab he wad fast learning what Thomas a Kemple deemed the work of a perfect man, 4‘ To pass through many cum, as it were, with - rent cam • not with the indiffereime of a sfuggard: but with that privilege of a mind at liberty." CHAPTER XXVIII. A ril•48Tontai01. Kate Britton was an indefatigable worker. Parish work was her delight and • to her mind the luckless wight Whir did not go clistricavirdeing, who was not an atdent teetotaler, who could hot shove a well oedema Su' rido.y-school class as the visible fruits of persevering work, hardly deeerved toleration. Carlo Donati was Piet noW much on her mind, She had a feeling that he mud have been brought to • 1Vferlebank for some epecial perpose. Vdhat•lorious thieg it would infliction •of the invalid's presence, and when ie a fortnighth time he was well enough to epend most of the day in the mornusg.room, wifich adjoined his bedroom, she was roily glad to have an opportunity for beginning her operations, As a rule phe cordially dieliked youug men, and the one thorn in the otherwise perfect bliss of her parish -work was the inevitable curate; in her fear that she might be supposed to make her worle an excuse for flirtation, she ren to the opposite extreme, openly avowed herselt as a man-hater, and snubbed the entire biennial succession of deacons, who were ordained to the title of the quiet little country parish, but at the close of their two years' novitiate invariably passed an to larger spheres of work. The morning room was a bright, sunny, cheerful room, being south, and Carlo enjoyed his chauge of quarters very much; he was glad to see Kate, too, for she interested him, and he delighted in treeing the slight likeness to Francesca. which he had noticed when he first came to Merle - bank. Kate, who was inordinately self- conscious, quickly perceived that hie eyes followed her as she moved. about the rooms arranging flowers in the vases, and she felt provoked, for it would be so horribly like a story book if the invalid were to fall in love with leer ; yet she could not snub him as she snubbed the curate, because she wanted to influence him for his goocl, and longed for the honor and glory of persuading him to quit the stage. Reflecting that this was the Monday in Holy Week, she thought she would supply him with suitable literature—at any rate the offer of books would make a good opening for conversation. So she began boldly, yet with an effort that surprised her; somehow, although she had astonishing theories as to the universal depravity of young men she had an undefined consciousness that aarlo Donati was not so immeasurably beneath her as the curates and the men to be met with at dances and tennis parties. This perception did not please her, "Clare said your things had been put in here," she began; "but I don't see any- thing but music—no books at all." "1 don't think I have any," said Carlo; "1 am not much of a reader." She went across to her own particular book -shelf, and, to do her justice, chose out a few books really worth reading ; eschewed "Treasury of Devotion," as likely to he uncongenial to one of Carlo's turn of mind, and returned bearing "The ChristianYear," Taylor's "Holy Living and Dying," and a book of meditations for Holy -Week, of , which she was fond. He thanked her, but when later in the morning she saw him again, the found, to her great disgust, that he was poring over "Les Huguenots," and that her books were pushed aside. "You didn't like them ?" she said, with a touch of disappointment in her tone. "I'm afraid I didn't read much," he said, apologetically; "you see, to have • this Maga within reach was more than I could resist. We have not yet done Les Huguenots,' but".,we shall rehearse it in the summer, and give it in Americo. this autumn. Do you know it well?" "1 have never heard. an opera in my life," said Kate feeling annoyed at his astonish- ment. "Do you really mean to go back to such a life? 'it must surely be very bad for you." "But you see the doctor quite gives me hope of being as strong as ever again," re- plied Carlo, thinking she must refer to his health. "1 didn't mean that," replied Kate ; " I meant it must surely be a very bad life in other ways." " Ib is very much like other lives, I fancy; it is what you like to make it," he replied, quietly. lie did not feel that he could verywell enter bite a discussion with a young girl on the special temptations of stage life, and there was a silence. "Bat clearly," said Kate, "the life mese be full of excitement. Surely your constant craving to get back to it shows how engross- ing and dangerous it must be." He could not explain to her that it was no anxiety for applause which made him so eager to be back once more in Merlino's troupe, so he turned the conversation, and Kate naturally concluded that her remark had struck home. She despised him. for evading the subject, but noticing that he looked tired, offered to read to him. He seemed relieved at the proposal, and opening "The Christian Year," asked her to read over again something which had taken his fancy. Very nmele perplexed as to the Italian's ohmmeter, she walked that afternoon down to the village, but had scarcely left the grounds when she encountered the vicar. "1 was just coming to your house," he re- marked. "1 hear you have a young Italian. staying with you, and was miming to inquire after him. Is he betterV' "013, he is much better, thank you," said Kate. "1 wish you woald go to see him, for perhaps you who feel so strongly about such matters would be able to persuade him to leave the stage. I can't understand him at all; he seems quite wrapped up in his profession, and it is se leid to think of a really good man wastiea his life in work of that sort." "1 shall be very happy to see him," Redd the vicar ; "13 will be quite a treat to me to talk Italian again !" And without more delay he made his way to the house, smiling to himself a little at:Kate Britton's eager- ness to influence all she came across, and rather pleased at the prospect of a new ac- quaintance in his small and not very inter- esting parish. He had preached only a little while ago against theatres, and it was satisfactory to be brought face to face in this way with a veritable member of the profession. Having received a message that Signor Donati woald be very glad to see him, the vicar followed the servant upstairs to the morning room, where he found the invalid. on a couch drawn close to the fire. The formal greetings were only just over when Carl ,o having thoroughly etudied the strong, intellectual face of his visitor—his calm, deep-set eyes, and the sort ofgeneral air of " iron -gray " which characterized him —exclaimed, with an excitement which sur- prised the vicar : "1 believe, mr—indeed, I am quite BIM —that we have met before !" Now the vicar had at that moment been thinking of his sermon at St. Cyprian's, and adtnittipg to himself that this eater, et any rate, did not et all fill in with his preconceived notion of the members of the " unhallovved calling," sof naturally enough, he thought that Carlo must refer tothis occasion. "Can yeti have been in the congregation at $t. Oyppriaide when /preached there the other day ?" he exclaimed. "1 little thought I was addressing any one cohnected with the stage." Ah t was it indeed you who preached that sermon ?" Mid Carlo? quickly. "'Yes, I was there with my friend Sardoni, the tenor of the company but we were quite at the back of the chetah, and could not even riee the pulpit. Was it indeed you who preathed ? That is one of the oddest coincidences 1 ever knew." "Bub when cen you have met tee be- ano ?" said the vicar, looking puzzled. 'Can I have Met you 10 Italy and have be if the caul copeittee hire that, he was forgotten ?" leading a rife Unworthy ef a true hien, and I Do you remember being in Naples Iasb induce Ilimao ghee up his profeseion • Maee artfl ping One afternbon into ode of With this in Pie* Kate put up with the the odes in the Piedde Plehishitos and talk. ing with your companion as to the improve ment of the world in general in the nine- teenth century." " WW1 Stanley! Yes, yes, I remember it quite well," said the vicar. "1)o you remernber how you said that men were not more willing to live the life of the Crucified ? Well, I was sitting close by and heard you, and I owe you much, for those words haunted me continually, and -- but this will, I fear, Aihock you—they helped me to choose my present profession 1" The vicar smiled a little. He could just perceive, though not tat clearly as Carlo perceivesa the irony of the situation. Mr. Britton had given him a hint as to Donati' waive in goiug on the stage, and had ex- pressed a hope that the vicar, if he had any opportunity, would do his best to dissuade him from returning to it, feeling convinced that Biadteme Merlino's case was hopeless. And now to be told that it was be some degree owing to words of his that the choice had been made was, to say the least of it, startling, while the knowledge that the Italian had been listening in St.Cyprien's to his tirade against theatres vexed him not a little. The -dear was a kind-hearted man, though many people considered him hard; but, as a matter of fact, the idea of having denounced such& man as Donati to his face" and having probably pained him, caused him serious annoyance. "I have always disapproved of the stage," he said, after a brief pause. "But I am exceedingly sorry that you heard that ser- mon the other uight, for it must have seemed hard and unjust to you, I ani afraid," "1 will tell you quite candidly just how ib was," said Carlo. "It did vex me, I must allow, but then I was beginning to feel ill and overcome, and had had. rather a rough time of it through the week, and ib seemed hard to lose the sense of fellowship which one counts on getting, at any rate, in church. Bub what vexed me most of all, and perhaps made me exaggerate your de- • nunciation, was that my friend Sardonawhe does not go in mutat for church -services, happenea that night to have come with me." "Did it de him any harm,do you think?" asked the vicar. Carlo hesitated. "He was very angry about it," he said, at length ; "unreasonably angry,I thought. But he has a good deal to trouble him, and there were reasons, which made any attack from the Church on our profession specially painful to him." Re broke off asthe door opened, and looked with feverish eagerness towards the servant who entered: with the afternoon letters. "Will you excuse mo just for one minute ?" he said. "This is from my friend Sordoni, of whom we were just speaking. It you will allow me—I am ashamed to ask suck a thing--bitt I am very anxious to see how things are going with them." He opened the envelope, tossed it aside, and began to read eagerly. Involuntarily the vicar glanced ab the handwriting of the direction. It was large and marked—a peculiar and thoroughly characteristic hand. The color rose to his forehead, his lips trembled. He waited,, partly to recover his self-control, partly to allow Carlo time to glance through the letter, then, with undis- guised eagerness, he exclaimed: "This friend of yours, Signor fJonabi— what did you say be was called ?" " Sardoni ; he is primo tenere of our troupe, Such a. good-hearted fellow 1 I don't know wha.t.I should: do without him 1" "But that, perhaps, is an assumed name? What is his true name! Ise he not an Englishman ?a "He is English, but he keeps entirely to his norn de guerro," said. Carlo. ' Even you, his friend,, do not know his true name ?" "Yes, I do know it ; but he does not wish it generally known. Have you any special reason for asking ?. Good heavens"! he exclaimed, as an idea suddenly occurred to him'"can it possibly be that which alteredhim so much after the sermon? Sir, I beg you to tell, me your name! I have only heard. you speken of as th3 vicar." "My name is John. Postlethwayte," said the vicar, watchitig with anxiety indescri- bable the effect of his words on the Italian. There was no mistaking the intense ex- citement which dawned in Carlo's face. "Von saw and recognized this writing ?" he asked, breathlessly, pointing to the en- velop; then, as the vicar signed an assent, "Thank Go& I have come across you ? 1 see there Call beno doubt that yon are his father 1" Tears started to the Englishman's eeyes. Carlo observed. this with relief The vicar did not seem nearly so hard and unaompro- mesing as Sardoni had led him to expect. " My son was here, then, in Ash. borough 1" he exclaimed—" was actually in the church that night, and never came near me! I have spent my life in looking for him—have wandered all over the continent in the hope of finding him once more—and does he now avoid and shun me when we are in the same town ?" • ' "It must have been that which made him feel the sermon so much,' said ,Carlo. "Ke knew you disapproved of the stage ; he was afraid you would not believe that heirel turned over a new leaf—lie told me that long ago; and then, of course, when he heard you speak so strongly against actors and their calling, he would naturally be repulsed and disheartened 1" The vicar paced the room in great dis- tress. It was indescribably bitter to him to realize that his son should have happened to hear that one sermon, and to reflect that the whole course of his life might have been altered had his theme been of reconciliation and charity. "But all will be well now," said Carlo ; "for if you have searched for him, then you must really care to be reconciled to him —and, indeed, he wishes your forgiveness. The very first day after we landed in England we' went straight to your old home, fully expecting to find you there. It was then he told me all about it, and gave me his true name. Poor Jack 1 I shall never forget his misery when he found a stranger in your place." "Did he go, indeed, to the old home ?" asked the vicar, eagerly. "My poor boy 1 if only I had been there to meet hirn ! But surely he could have foiled out in the via lege where I had gone to? " He did send me to make inquiries," said Carlo, "and the old sexton told me you were at Cleevering, in Mourashire. But svhert Jack fotind how, through his fault, your home had beat broken up and your work smelled, he said he could not write to you or seek you out, Indeed, I doubt if we shall ever get him here utdess we take hint altogether by surprise. He would erty that he would not come baok be Elf disgrace to you in a new perish," "If you don't mind," he said, "1 think it would be much better if I wrote to him and begged him to come down and see me; I think I meld write urgently enough to bring hint, and on Good Friday them will of course be no opera, and it is ponsible thab he might be able to arrange to Stay over Easter- Sanday. Will you Mind lust handing me that pockeabook, and I will rele whore the company will be? Ah, yes, 1 thought so ; they Will be at Worcester, and oh Sat- urday will be givitig Marta.' I have no iltielet that Malin° will let Whorl take flown* in Jackie place e he did so once in the autiunn." Spite of ais excitement and anxiety, the vicar could not but preoeive that his visit was tiring the invalid. 11 1 am ashamed to have forgotten your illness in my own great joy," he said, rising to go. "1 little thought what nessrs awaited me when I mune Isere. "This is worth being sick for," said Carlo. "1 shall write to Jack by thfirst post to -morrow" Probably the doctor would have highly disapproved had lie known of the little plot which was being worked out in his patient's room; but only Clare and Mr. Britton were taken into the eecret, toed in truth the ex- citement and hope acted like a sort of tonk, and Carlo forgot for a time his own anxieties in planning his various arrange- ments for that eventful Good Friday, Sardoni bad written to say that he would come at halfmast three in the afteenoon, and Carlo awaited hie arrival in 8011113 trOpi- dait1011, Sardoni might now be expected to Arrive at any minute, and the vicar, wait- ing with Carlo in the morningeroom, was enduring tortures of suspense and anxiety. " When we hear lairn arrive," said Carlo quietly, "1 want you to go through that inner door into the next room ; leave the door ajar. Then when Jack comes, I will tell hirn the whole truth, and how I came across you, and how you recognized his writing. That being settled, I shall ask him to help me to my bedroom. When you hear us get up, then leave my room where you have waited by the other door, leading into the passage, and come back here. J. know you are thinking me like a stage. manager, but, don't you see, this is the only means of getting me out of the way. You will now meet alone and unobserved; Jack will have been prepared, and will not feel that we have dealt unfairly by him ; and yet be will in a sense be surprised when he goes back to find you there,bemuse he will have been bracing up his mind to the idea of seeking you out at the vicarage." And now a brisk, familiar step was heard in the passage, the maid -servant announced, in the most prim and ordinary way,"Signor &admit," and the next moment Jack strode into the room. The vicar bit his lip hard as he heard the hearty, cheerful voice which had been silent' to him for so many years. Well, old fellow, how are you Why, you are looking almost yourself again. This is a case of Mother Hubbard's dog; I thought I should find you reader to make your last will and testament, as you were so anxious to see me once more.. I shall take back good news for the troupe „ we are all longingfor you back again,, though Comerio tries hard to be civil, and to win golden opinions. And that reminds me, Val; I've just hit upon a way of turning an honest penny." "Presently I want you to tell me all," interposed (halo, seizing at once on the momentary pause. "Bub, Jack, first of all, there is something I must telle you.. What parish do you think this house is ht 11 Parish ! How should I know V" said Sardoni. "It is in the parish of Cleevering," said Carlo, quietly. Sardoni sprung to, hirefeet. "Good God, Dented ! and didyou bring me here for that reason? Have Inot told you that nothing will induce me torevive the old disgrace? Look here !' That attack we heard in the church the other night on the stage—that was spoken by my father! Do you think, after that, he would care to have me coming home?" "I know he would," said Carlo. "Don't be angry, Jack; just hear me quietly. to the end. I did not betray you, but your father has found you oat." He told himgraphi- cally just what had happened,then con- tinued, Do you think he was thinking of the`h disgrace' when he threw up; every- thing to go and search for you onthe con- tinent ? Do you think he cares a rush for what people say when his first impulse, was to go straight to Worcester and see you? Perhaps it would have been bettere after all, if I had not suggested this other plan." " No, no 1" broke in Sctodoni. ;. " I could never have stood that. But yet I doubt if I can do it, Val. • It was hard enough last time with you And alone •!! Noe I cam% do it ! You'll. never know what it is to an Englishman—the mere walking up to the house and ringing the bell I" 11 But you would at least do as much as that for one who has tramped all over Europe for you ?" said Carlo. "It's not that," sal& Sardoni, brushing his hand impatiently across his eyes, It's not that I mean. Upon my soul, Donati, I think you are too good to understand how ib is with me." Carlo replied only by one of his expeessive gestures. "Too tired to discuss the matter further, we will say. Give me an arm, will' you, Jack? I will go to my roomand rest, and will see you again later on." "1 forgot how ill you had been 1" said Sardoni, with compunction." "And now I have tried you, and thought only of my own a 7 ffairs like the brute that I am !" To be Oonannen. eiretuouoina Rbettniatic Repellant Is the only reliable remedy known that strengthens andbenefitsthe system, besides curing rheumatism., sciatica, lumbago, eta Prepared by W. A. McCollom, druggist, Tilsonburg. Sold by wholesale and retail druggists. A Wise Woman. Mr. Snaggle, snappishly—Don't be cor- recting that boy always, Sarah. Let nature take its course, won't you? Mrs. Snaggle, laying aside the shingle -- I'll do nothing of the sort, Mr. Snaggle. I don't intend that any woman shall have such a husband as I've got if I can pre- vent it. Confirmed. The favorable impression produced on the first appearance of the agreeable liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs a few years ago ha been more than confirmed by the pleasant experience of all who have used it, and the success of the proprietors and manufac- turers the California Fig Syrup Company. "If I were to commit Suicide," said Gus De Jay to his father's physician, "what kind of a verdict wodld the Corwoner bwing in '? " "Justifiable homicide," was the emphatic reply. Henry George has removed from the poor- house to more comfortable and dignified quarters the widow of the man who be- queathed him his foreuno. Friend -1 know you are a proud and happy father, and I've no doubt that baby is a regular cherub and all that, but I don't see why you need hold your head so high? Young Father—That's to keep from drop- ping asleep. —" Say," said the elderly, farmer -looking man, "I want a little piece put in the paper that I want a woman who can cook, wash, iron, milk four cows an' manage a market waggon." "All right," said the advertising clerk. "Shall 1 state whet wages will be paid ?" Wages nothin' 1" shouted the farnier-looking man. "1 want to marry her." It is reported that Emin Pasha has recov- ered the inutienee stores of ivory which he Was hated to abandon when he left the Equateritel Province with Stanley, DOMINION PARLIAMENT. ' Mr, Patterson (Weft Huron), replying to Mr. Sutherlend, said the papers relating to the London election were very volumilions mid much trouble was found ba gettingthem all. They would be placed on the table as soon as possible. Mr. Bergeron said that in coining from Montreal thie morning the train was almost delayed near St. Polycarpe by the overflow of water, some forty acres being flooded He thought it opportune to call the attention of the Government to this matter, that they might find out whether the proper course of the water was stopped by the construction of the proposed Soulanges Canal. Mr. Tisdale asked whether it was the in- tention of the Government to increase the interest upon deposits in the PeseGflice Savings Bank to a per cent. Sir Adolphe Caron replied that it was not the presentintention of the Coven:uncut th make such an increase. Mr. Choquette asked whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce a measure with a view to euspending the operation of the Electoral Franchise Acb and to provide that no revision of the electoral lists shall take place this year? Mr. Patterson (Huron) replied that such was the intention of the Government,. Mr. Laurier—Abolish it altogether. Mr. Taylor asked whether it was the in- tention of the Government to erect a stilt. able monument th the memory of the late Premier on the grounds near the House of Commons ? Sir John Thompson—It is the intention of the Government to erect such a monu- ment as soon as a vote of Parliament is obtained for it. Mr. Edgar moved for copies of letters patent and supplementary letters patent of the Dominion Cotton Mills Company and the Canadian Colored Cotton Mills Com- pany, and spoke at some length upon the subject of the mow poly incotton mamba - Ma Flint, moving for an order of the House for a list of all revisiog officers and the atnount of moneys paideto each; for the last revision of the electoral lists, urged the Government th have an annual revision as a matter of justice to those entitled th vote throughout the country. Mr. Patterson (Huron) said the papers would be brought down as expeditiously as possible. Many of the claims for moneys by officers had not yet been received. Mr. Laurier said the tact that there was th be no revision this year was evidence that the Act was cumbersome and expensive. The Act had never been applied as it was on the statute book. They had never yet had an annual revision. • Mr. Bowen moved the second reading of the bill respecting aid by United States wreckers in Canadian waters. The bill passed its second reading. Mr. Tupper's bill th amend the Pilotage Act, whereby vessels of 120 tons instead of 80 tons should be exempted from dues, passed its second reading and was reported in com- mibtee. The House Supply. On an item of $6,320 for the Jamaica, Exposition, revote, Mr. Somerville drew attention to the item in the Auditor -General's report credited as $3,000 toA. Brown'services and expenses. He did not see how he could receive pay- ment for services while he was remember of this House. On item census, to complete (including the Governor -General's warrant forM000), $95.000, Mr. McMullen asked as to the expected total expenditure on the census. Mr. Carling replied it was expected the total cost would be $520,000: On Custonis items, Sir Richard Cartwright objected to- the Government paying Customs (Akers large bonuses for invading merchants' establish- ments inorder to find theinguilty of viola- tion of the Cost:nem law. Mr. McGregor mid he could prove it, and would give one case. There was one officer named Albert Drouilliard who re- ceived a salary of $650. A year ago he seized a scow, the Mary Alice, on the claitn that she bad been smuggled. This was disproved, but she was seized again on the claim, that repairs on her had been made in Detroit and smug- gled. The receipts of the ship yard in Walkerville were produced to prove thatthe repairs had been made there.The vessel was kept from midsummer until fall, and not only was the owner, who was a. poor man, kept out of the u.se of his vessel, but the costs of taking care of her were added, about $1:50. This. same man had visited merchants, and threatened to seize their goods if they did not pay him money. In calling attention to, this case Mr. McGregor acquitted of all blame the Windsor Customs officers tenerally., went into Oomrsiittee Mr. utherlande while admitting that some such system as this might be neces- sary, presented several cases of hardship arising out of it, and urged the Minister to see to it that abuses were prevented. Mr. Bowell defended the eyetem all neces- sary, and explained that all seizures made were reported. • Just as there might be thefts, so there might be cams of black- mail, but every effort was made to prevent them. A Bin respecting the Great Nerthern Railway Company was introduced by Mr. Taylor and read a first time. Mr. Edgar read his charges against Sir Adolphe Caron, as contained in the notice of motionefiled by him two days ago and already published. He proceeded: Having made that statement, 1 propose to found upon it a resolution of which I have given notice. There are some considerations apart helm the nature of the °bargee which favor urgency. There is the question of the length of the session. • This affects the con- venience of members of the House. If there is unreasonable delay ib will needlessly pro- long the session, and I desire to show that when I made these charges I wished for an investigation at the earliest possible opportunity. Mr. Speaker—Looking at it from my point of view, I think it is very doubtful whether this is a question of privilege at all. This question, of course could be brought up without notice, in the acme way, but as it has been put upon the notice paper, and se it has not the element of urgency requir- ing it to be immediately dealt with, I do • not think it can be taken oat of its ordinary place in the notice paper, except by the unanimous consent of the House„ Mr. Sutherland asked that the motion re- specting the London election case stand in the absence of his hon. friend from West LaSlirlirbn. JtOlmThompson—I cannot acede to Shat. All other business on the paper being dis- P°sear. ° Edgar mem and moved hie motion impeaching Sir Adolphe Caron. Ile said in moving his resolution that he eupposed it would be referred to the Coninuttee on Privileges and Elections, because that imemecl to be the committee favored by the Government to make inquiries of thiselfnd. He assumed thab in a charge so einin and distinot the House would as Mattet Of comae grant a committee of •gelry. lie would therefore make no fu er comment. Sir Adolphe Caron eald he desired in aneWer to the Chargee Made by the member, for West Ontarle to Make a stritemeot to the House, whith would be abort. Re took this first opportunity to state to the Holum that iin every particular the charges made by the hon. geutleinan were false. Un- eolicited,rued without asking for them, he had received letters and telegrams from the managers of both the companies mentioned, in the charges made by the hon. gentleman stetting that the charge that he had received money was absolutely false. At this period of the proceedings he gave an emphatic denial, and that was all he had to say at present. The following Bills were read a first time: Respecting the Pontiac at Pacific junction Railway Company—Mr, Murray. Respecting the Canada Atlantic Railway Company—Mr. Corbould. On the itein, ammunition $50,000, Mr. Charlton called the attention of the Minister of Militia to the necessity for a change in the arms furnished to the Canadian militia. The present arm was thee old Snider, a rifle which had been in use for. thirty years And was completely out of date. He suggested that the Minister should get all information possible on the subject so aa to choose an efficient arm. Mr. Denison favored the purchase of mime late perfected arm rather than the purchase of Martini rifles, which were already out of date. Ma Prior favored the purthase of Mar- tinis, whieh were good enough for all prae- Meal purposes, and were specially good for rifle range shooting. The new magazine rifles were too complicated to be put into the hands of any except thoroughly trained men, particularly when there were not good armories to keep them in. Mr. Davies said the difficulty was not in, She arms alone. The report showed that the expenditure had not resulted in the permanent 1 enefit that the people who had to foot the bill had the right to expect. Mr. Hazen thought thee; the Marta:doilies in store should be distributed amoug the city corps, as in the cities they could be taken care of in the armories provided. ahlrs Hughes contended there should be no discrimination as between city and rural corps. The damage to rifles did not take place in armories but in the camps. There were no rifle racks in the tents, and rifles were left upon the ground, so that if there was rain in the night they were found in the mud. There was dew also during the camping season, and thus also the rides were injured. Mr. Fraser thought that fighting would net be called for in Canada hereafter. There was no country wibh which Canada need go to war. Mr. Fraser said there was no danger from the Indians with an honest adminis- tration of Indian affaire. Even such. honesty as the present Administration showed was practically a guarantee against an Indian outbreak. He agreed, however, that if war ever came the fighting would have to be done by the country boys. But if money was to be expended it should nob be for play or show, but for useful purposes. He feared that much money had been waisted. Mr. Bowen said that the Government recognized the value of the policy advocate& hy the member for North Norfolk (Mr. Charlton), that of investigating thequestion of arms. They already had ten of thaLee- Metford guns hi store for experiment, and. samples of the Lee-Metford No. 2, a. new improvement, had been sent for. These rifles would cost about $20 each, so that to equip the number of volunteers who are drilled every year would cost about $500,000, and th equip the whole active militia would cost about twice that amount. The Snider - rifle was used in the Northwest, and no complaint was made as to its efficiency. He agreed that the Indians were not likely to. • rise under just British rule. He referred to t le suggestion made by the Major-General, Shat instead of the allowance for captains for contingencies,a system should be established of employing caretakers of stores, these caretakers to be part of the Permanent military Staff. This and other suggestions would receive careful consideration. Mr. Sutherland complained that the report of the Minister of Militia had not been brought down before, so that the mem. leers might be able to master the facts and suggestions it contained before entering upon the discusaion of the questions m. supply, He hoped under the new Minister of Militia there would be greater efficiency in the administration. • It was not lack of money that caused the stores and equip- ments th be so poor, but laok of proper administration. If had been felt for some time that it was useless th naake representria tions in favor of reforms in militia adminiss. tration. He hoped that under the new Minister there would be an improvement. Mr. Kirkpatrick reminded the House of the fact that extra clerks in the Civil Service, who as volunteers, went out to put down the Hull riots, were docked their ply in the service for the days they were absent. He thought these men should be paid. Mr. Casey spoke at some length on the subject of procuring betthr arms for the militia. Snider rifles were used in the Northwest it was true but they were op- posed only to old Hudson's Bay flint locks in the hands Of the Indians and half- breeds. Mr. Somerville ridiculed the tone taken by the member for West Toronto (Mr. Denison), and thought he could not claim to know quite so mach of military affairs as he pretended. He read a Series of papere, which he said wereaffidavits made by Serga Slater, formerly a member of the Governor.. General's Body Guard in Toronto, anti others, charging frauds in the pay sheets, false arrest, and other wrongs against CoL Fred. C. 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