The Exeter Advocate, 1888-5-17, Page 6THE TII.i4EA.D-oy LIFE;
OR,
SUNSIIINE AND SHADE.
CHAPTER
Wbeever. Mews Behemien Loneont knows
the sineking roofl. of the Ceeyee Row Clue.
Ne more comfortable or emaget.ial divsa
exist, AOYWhere hetWeen Regent 'Cireue ai
Ryele Park Corner than that ehoeen peredise
of utirecomalemi genie:tee Tee Cheyne Rew
Beale anAip oretremes A ACM er AO of milee
itetere breelefeet, while leek* aif te ohort
attoll through the: Park wotilel 'kill them
,enteiglat With sheetmilumetioe. Ai
togeteem :e• typieel poet 0 elm. AeWeat
MedVit ilark ea4 hendeeme geetlietic-
leoleleg men ; ond as he set. thee ,moniesoly
Club le not kirge„ meeed, bet it pridea itself with_ eho peer held hefero him, le en lee -
upon beine extremely seleet—toe eeleet to 1 stediee LI,It!tivie of na WM gr4Bea Many a
admit epee he list of membere peero, pewit p4mtet reiga betoe done worse then cboose
eiens. eeeetry gentlemee, or inealeitents 0 the aueleer of ..eneom /mei agenenitee toe
eligible nonily reskienees le Meyfair or p.a. the euetwee a a pretty Agetlemy ponbeller.
greela. Two qualideetione are underatood S4 Werren Relf, the unkneee meriete
to. be nadamemeible, Sit caredidatee fer men-
bemblp ; ehey mnst be truly greet, and they
meet be undmieseful. Peseeesien ef a, dna.
reoeieus suburben villa excluiee, innefaree
Ihe Caeyne Row Club ie empb.atieany
the heatiiplartera Of the at Belieinien
*lute teought to himself, mWe arreenmr
oppente, al he raiefil eyea by ?hence
from :the etchinge le the Portio/lo, and
glanced, AC:Oes Casually With a haety Wok at
ehe undiseevered poen
"Hes tee Ciiering Gram reviewed your
clan; tee gatherineeplant of ulthuog ertests, Anew' volatile peer be asked politely, his
nereannovensts. valuta 'metes and uabeed, glatice neeetieg elamiegeret while he flung
ed 50441 and nelitieel reformers generally, clown the paper on the teble 'beside him.
1110= anh. az the ehoicest spirits of the i Teo feet me end stood "441 hie bands
age during tht nrointienery poled whea behind hat bet* in ae, easy poeturebefore the
nelety in it st47Z 4114 leeeterieg feeteen le i empty firepleee, "I believe it ha e deigeed
seeadieg tweuty years 'in dim:ever/0g feel to wake. roe Mai ow cilium el judicioue
Unit. the here feet of thee dietimmeiehed ex- g abume" be aaewele4: half Yeeeoii with ale
leteneee Rena menage anew% Dim mateml assumptton of peoutuao inamenetein eau.
deal...gusto Poselethweitee ereenew awl tamer- 1 contempt for the Ofterine Orem Review awl
igg ergs ; tem Peetiettiwalterers hie kerne:- 1 alleite /ekes or epinieem collectively, " Tie
ta gonuezA tato 3igmale§ rpzivo wee teL yseetlase treth, the iiithemehz wee teat.
eympetlietie tylitptAAII. everebeely who i dentet ottereet me, In the firet plaem I
lit anybody hike OtIZO been a member of the cue re' it' eelP 0" vereeei Aed in
t deer old Veeyne Rew e royal Actademi, V.A wala plaN 1 don't 4:tra at all for re.
e iime end Celainet ediniatere Aud Soviet 1 elewere genereill, et' foe the paiieg emit
deprimilete mid fieeceedul pmete etiil e e '
with liagering pride Ala afetetiou *
dare whett they toughed there, en yet undie
eovered, eit a aught chop owl a gime o
draught dant by me MOM of the eleturieen
Nem that the teeth mu number ..v of thent
t p •
Altegetiler ittrOVIOWif, feet
bre ede eoutetept, Co be quite cendid,
hee written to neetty ef teem"
"If eriticiera fiteraturiee like grit -icing
Art.mntyv , the yowl; petater repined, eratimee
▪ WPImoutiegrell cell: the (hope IOW 141Yir WIth OW nat141 polite exteptioe
eiteereeipeetmeeemeeieyowist aneeinglieheel youreelf, .14emingem emet ney I think
faeta trensier theerelvea et owe to it Meeet vete" =eh tbo whet de Yeti
lier eke in Pell Melt nearthe Tete of York's I meat, 1 ahould like to know, be; eiyiug rgi
Cameo, Beane uterleirmeneete the TAVerit, den% eare fer emir Arise wren • Sorely no
as eeedhre profanely tent: it : risen greet. Malt C31.1 inaything great, ia literature or
nem Visite anther on the lordly muffed ereeeerb showlideehiefe or Piee`dlehlee,
c940.43 of weeermo. COMee to thata-unleee b t1'g1he
No ram, It lam beim wiately obesrved, lime in bin owa VOZAtICUs.'
iliteAlieri when he tee daughtene „ ,F4e4PSv,r, let „oehed a ,aleal.i?,a.1 heel,
to • reeer_n« TAO r4Ste seed 1A4UleP55 ratepeyer eueeeP3C4Pg or Plg'4Wg4U;;;14
amide revu. Afe seen 04 SOlitit IMMUCS j liaia with A tidiOAtO vest of hie thin
tehareelier of the 13401Cir•gr, Amon Beee thetet no &eV. true ; bet he veme-
Browse mime CW4 ZA SO41 AS gbillaelt by. reeking', queer! Who en teeth, at the
eleetml an Ameginte, au 64= 45 TOMPT:ii45 rreZMAt dey ootild eveie peetend talent -mil
' nelieve peetryi Time wee, 1 dereney
though1m by Be rile= Sure of it..•••Viag
the herd, hoary old impeeter, wee a Alert *
aud woe Aleut the world tvitit
limo, geed tbeir selmeripoes to the digueled 314 is Welds nrefeeed etetveetio
pubettliee Weraler Id, they all peon-
tIceutly With i'
ear teerd deter& the lee=
institution in the Pieceillty layerem and
pm en their DATOte. their benearie their-
eq.= 44. the weiteineerre leer eeene, the In hie linmeent O1tweet that when he mode
olind word. I don't Man to live and elle
in Grab Street, My soul looks forwerd
aorality, and a footmen in livery."
Reif smiled dabioitele, end hawked the
ashon off ttia vigar into the Jepeneee
trey that etood by his side. "Thea
you look plum poetry merely aefl
ultimete inmate ef teething money r he /Jag'
vatted, with a, deprecetexy look.
'Money Not motley only, um' dear
fellow, but poeition, reputation, recosition,
/miaow, Dem any man work for enethieg
0101 Any ream 1 Mean, but cobbler% mad
eutheeleets
" I don't lenow. I may be en en-
thneisse tayFelf," gel( enswered elowly;
$` but I certainly do werk at Art to a great
eXteitt for art'e sake, became 1 really 101/0
and admire and delight ia it. Of eouree
sliould like to melte mezmy too, withie zee
mi -
nable liteits—enough to keep myself and
my people% a modeet aert of wey, without
the footmen or tke eligible family residence.
Not that want to be seedieefnle either ;
•from whet I've Emma Stlecessful mem in-
cline to believe that mimeos aa rule has a
very eetienereting effeet upon chemeter.
Llterature, eclence, wed at thrive best A
breezy, braCing airs never aito at been A
EMC:c4- tl'Bf al man mereelf ; and if I go on as I'm
doing now, 401 no doable suceeed la
not eneeeediege But apert from the numey
aed the livelitend altogether, I love my were
aa like dein*t; nad 1
like to see mytelf geowleg stmegee aud
freer at le ewe),
" 9:14V4 all very well for you," Mamie-
mplied with aeothee expenelve wave of
his greeehal bane. " neotine delete work
you cere her, ae 1 piey lawn -Mum; for a
11M4441 4UMIQP404rog ;44 ememethiee
with yen there.—Lete quit the eubeeen It
twee uto aliweyes iuto a gloomy peen
Whet aroyea ening, 0 do witb youreelf thie
manner ?
" I Ohp 145441 thi4gq li4P•
PQE% Oolug down ie my eub to petite SWeee
mudbauks eti tile (meet of Seffolic."
4* SUfatik to wit t zee the gager of LW
ill that Why, thetei Just wizere I'm going,
tom 1 mean 0 teke tfiX or eight incite
holidey, if 4 peer dredge ef e, joeradist
ever lie 4514 11444;34 in Wvae at ell—
with Woke for review, and preefa tor cameo -
mei editorial cereumnieetiotie for ceu-
eideretion alweys weleddeg like A tOit Of
leed upen his malieppy brawn ; end I pro -
pew to bury myeelt alive up to TIO MU in
write obeeure. outed-theeveo Selfelit viltege
they WhIteetetude-elleve yeti ever
howl et it r
" Ono
h, I kw it R =sacred with
mile 0 delielitfel f444141i5irCa40. " lee
ne for mud. I go there peinting ameie
again. You'd call it the fuouient little
oda oitl•werid, villene you ever came
eeywhere eloglead. Nathieg
be uglier, quennem oe mere perfemly
lum It live at ;be mouth of o deer
I muddy creek, with a funny old Oil
numpleg the 'WIMP ell SURiliC4 xece
dowel ; end exerted, for roam wee ream
le QUO great liat eedge and 4eapIttlit
with wider -birdie end tatter...need with dikes,
where the lierene eth ell day item, poled on
one leg in the middle of the ammo es edit
ite mice, meetly es if they were eitting,
Merits for their nortralte."
delieletful ter a peinter, rVO AO
ditlibt," Hugh elemingerreplied, half yewzo
in to himaelf, " especially for a plater to
whom rued and heroin are breed and butter,
aud brat:Wet water is liaff2 and Alleapp ;
but namely, eillnits an ettosetive
platen to the luertistiopublio, among whom
I take the liberty, for Oreaalen
humbly to rault nlyeelL 1 go them, in fact,
co wiartyr M prineiple. I live for other&
A member of my farally—not to put too flue
a point upon it, a letly—abidee tor the pre-
iemt mamma at Whiteetromi, end belleva
hereelf to be elemal or poseetued by presentee,
the rieett of a lien or claim to a =tele
a aliquot portion of ray time autlettentiou.
I've never admitted the claim myself (being
kgally,minded soul); bat just one of the
natural seveotnese of my diepoeilime, I go
down occasion/11v (Without prejudiee)
whatever pert of *angina she may chance
to be inhabitine for the take of not illsap.
pointing her foregone expectations, however
ill-founded, ape be the mane more or leso—
You obeerve, speak with the charming
preohion 0 the Hagfish stutambooli."
" But how do you racan to got to White.
etrand?" At naked eutidenly after a short
muse: " It's a diffioult Vito to repel, you
now. Teere's no etation nearer than ten
miles off, and that a country one, ,so that
when you arrire there, you cen got no con.
veyance to take youover.'
So any kind couein geve me to under-
stand. She was kind enough to provide me
with minute instrantians tor her baokless
wilds. I believe I'm to hire a aostermong-
er's oart or something of the sorb to convey
my portmanteau; and I'm to get across my
self by the aid of the natural means of
carnation with. Whieb. A generous providence
or survival of the fittest has been good
enough to endow me by hereditary trans-
mission. At least, so my cousin Ride in-
struets me."
"Why not come round with me in the tub?"
Reif suggested goadhumoredly.
Whai ? your yacht ? liatherley was tel-
ling me on were the proud possessor of a
ship—Are you going round that Way any
time shortly ?"
"Wellhe's not exactly whaa you call a
yacht," lf replied, with an apologetiu tinge
te
in his t e of voice. "She's only a tub,
you know', an open boat almost, Jeith a cov-
ered welt and just room for three to sleep
and feed) in. She'rs a perfect treasure to a
marine painter in the mud -and -buoy busi-
ness. BUt I won't for a moment pretend to
say she't comfortable for a landsman. If
you 000 with me, in fact, you'll have to
rough in'
"1 be roughing it.—How long will ib
take us lo cruise round to Whitestrand ?"
" Oh,1 the voyage depends entirely upon
the win and tide. Selling boats take their
own tin e. The Turtle—that's what I
call her doesn t hurry. She's lying now off
the Po at the Tower, taking ()are of herself
-
in the beence of all her regular crew; and
Potts, y mete, he's away in the north, in-
tendin to meet me next: week at Lowestoft,
where y mother and sister are stopping in
lodgin . We can start on our cruise when.
• ever y like—say, if you choose, tomorrow
morni
f4VC.Writ9 b4Urac gf %mil Mallets fer the I eneplale" rhyme to "Me or p'redum
incipeut, the e:lop end claret of the leas dim 1'414 oe "Cali BO" ha Wall really aid
• tinguithed hut aii,to lively car:avow:ere by•truly .enriching humanity with a noble gift
the Green Perk purliciem 0 theme piney. But who in Leaden, ha the
In the nmekin7,-roollt of this trolly great century, can for a. inomeut area,
• unmectegui fteltemien eeelety, at the to believe in Om came" of Vootry? Leok
yang, tee aewett Cho atutglingt awl the ee, 4 triolet ea the them of " eittelluir
teg.entleia Lend= manneonewarin evening1 at thie lase new volume of my own, ler ex -
in it hot Jely,Ilugh Maseteger, oldie Utter ample i. -.You won't look at it, of comae,
Beer, eat lazily by the big bow window, titre- len well aware, but thetho no twitter : no -
lug over the pages of the ha number ef the body ever does look at any immortal works,
Charing 0104 Ark!: Teat he was trniy I'm oely too prolottudly gem:lees,. 1 cut
great,. nobody could deem Ho wee in very them unnelf in 4 duty copy at %litho fibre -
feet *diviue bent or, to be more etxictly ries, in order to erea.to a delusive impression
accurate, the author of n }goals and ntlod. MI the mind of the publie fleet I've had at
RAM volume of minor peaty. Even away icest a tiolitety render. Bat let that pun"
from the Ceeeme Row Club, youe but the %Value Relf looked up at lam a little
meet remote of muntry-coueme—ray from untimely. "1 don't like to hear you run
the wiiiler Reds of Cornwall or the crofter- down poetry like that," he told, with un
clod rCeet'Skri of the Ide of Syke—cuuld ovideat *ago of disepprohatiore "Int
have doubted for a moment the patent not te poet myself, of mum; but still nu
fact that /high Zieeeleger was a die- euro it islet all a mere matter of rhymes
tinguished (hough unknown) poet;and refrains, of epithets and prettinesses.
the modern ealzool, :to admirably did he itt Srliat touelme our heaven lies deeper then
hie part in life as to features, &en, and mere expreasion, I'm certain. It lies in the
general appeeraneeiniectionelicions per- very core and fibre of the man. Thera aro
eons were wont at times unkindly to hymen peesagee even in your own poeme—tlaough
ate that Ilueh wee a poet, not because he yee're a great dee( too eynicel to admit it
found ia himself any special aptitude for now—that came straight out of the depths
gauging -Immo or building the lofty thyme, of your own heart, 1 venture to conjeeture
but bemuse his tate and bearing imperative- —those Linea on a Leek of Heir, for ex-
ly compelled him to adopt the thankless ample. Aha, opal.° 1 there 1 touched you
profemion of bard in 6o1i.defence. This on the raw. Ilut if yon think so lightly of
was ill natured, and it WAS/ also untrue; for poetry as a pursuit, as you say, I wonder
Hugh efeesinger had lisped in numbers—at why you ever came to take to it."
least in penny ones—ever since he MB able "Take to it, my dear fellow 1 What an
to liep in print at all. He had taken to Arcadian idea 1 Ziz if men nowadays chose
poetry alinest from his very cradle; and hed their ephere in life deliberately. Why,
astonished his father at sixteenby a rhymed. what on earth makes any of no ever teke to
version of an title of Horne, worth the in- anything, I should like to know, in this
apiratioa of the great Dr. Watts himself, miserable workaday modern world of oure
and not, perhapa, far below the poetic Bscause We're simply pitchforked into it by
standard of Nr. alartin Farquhar Tupper. circumstances, Does the crossing sweeper
At Oxford he had perpetrated a capital sweep crossing; do you suppose, for ex-
Newdigete ; and two years after gaining bis ample, by pure preference for the profession
fellowship at Oriel, he had published anony- of a sweep? Does the milkman get up at
measly, an parchment eovere, Echoes from. five in the morning becense he sees in the
Caimans, and other Poems, which had purveying of skim -milk to babes and
fairly succeeded by careful naming in at. eneklinga a useful and important and
tabling the dignity of a,second edition, under even /teem:tare/ industry to the rising gen-
his own name. So that Massingern claim oration of this orate Metropolia ? Don
to the sodality of the craft whose workmen the dustman empty the (lemma° bin out
are 'born nob made' might perhaps be con- of disinterested regard for public smite,
sidered as of the genuine order, and not tion? or the engine -driver dash through
entirely dependent, as cynics averred, upon rain and snow in a drear.nightel DOOM -
his long hair, his pensive eyes, his dark- ber like a Combisb prophet, oub of high
• brown cheek,or the earelees twist of his and noble enthusiasm of humanity ?"
necktie and his shirt collar. • And he snapped his fingers with an em -
11 evertheless, oven la these minor details phatio negative. "We don't choose our
of the poetical character, it must candidly plae,es in life at all, my dear boy," he went
be confessed that Hugh Messinger outstrip. on after a pause ; "we get tumbled into
ped by several points many of the more re- them by pure cap:oleo of circumstances,
cognised bards whose popular works are If I'd chosen mine, instead of strictly made
published in regulation greeu-cloth octavos, tieing the thankleas muse, I'd certainly have
and whose bate and cloaks, of unique; build, adopted the exalted profession of a landed
adorn with their presence the vestibule pege proprietor, with the pleasing duty of receiv-
of the Atheneum itself. The undistinguish. ing my rents (by proxy) once every quarter,
ed authorZof Echoes from Callimachus -was and spending them royally with becoming
tall and slight, and a trifle affected -looking. magnificence, in noble ways, like the Greek
That his face was beautiful, extremely one reade about in Aristotle. I always ad -
beautiful, even a hostile reviewer in the or- mired that amiable Greek gentleman ; the
pan of another clique could hardly venture megaloprepee, I think Aristotle calls hira.
seriously to deny: those large sad eyes, that His berth would suit me down to the ground.
long black hair, that exquisitely chiselled He had nothing at all of any sort to de, and
and melancholy mouth, would alone have he did it most gracefully with princely gen-
sufficed to attract attention and exhort ad. erosity on a sufficient income."
miration anywhere in the universe, or at "But you must write poetry for something
the very least in the solar system, Hugh or other, Messinger; for if it ien't rude to
Messinger, in short, was (like Coleridge) a make the suggestion, you cam hardly write
noticeable man. It would have been inipoli- ib, you know, ,for a livelihoed."
Bible to pees tarn by, even in a crowded Meesinger's dark face flushed visibly. "I
street, without a hurried glance of observe- write for fame," he answered majestically,
• tion and pleaeure at his singularly granefal with a lordly wave of his long thin hand.
and noble face. He looked and moved " For glory—for honor—for time—for eter.
every inch a poet; delicate, refined, eulti- nity. Or, to be more precisely definite, if
voted, expressive, and sicklied o'er with you prefer the phrase, for filthy lucre. In
that pale cast of thought wlaioh modern the coarse and crude phraseology of
asetheticisra BO cruelly demands as a proof political economists, poetry taxes rank
of attachment from her highest votaries. nowadays, I humbly conceive, as a long in -
Yet at the same time, in elate of deceptive vestment. Pm &journalist by trade—a mere
appearances to the contrary: he was strong journeyman j our natist the gushing penny -
in muscular strergth : a wiry inan thin, a -liner of a iftitile and demoralised London
but well knit: one of theme faltacions, press. But I have a soul within me above
uncanny, long -limbed creatures who oan penny -a -lining ; I aspire ultimately to a
The Remedy for intemperance.
Ib may be questioned whether the pre-
sent le an age of faith, but there can be no
doubt, that in morals it excels all its prede-
ceseors. War is atilt waged, but it coulee
at longer intervals and nre-ch ie done to
softera ito horrom extreme poverty is nob
unknown, but it rarely lege to meet ellevia-
tion ; the relations et the mixee are better
regulated, and women. placed on a higher
plane than alee has ever before attained
peatileuce eo loner, claws it e MilliMPS of
vietime, and the intemperate use 0 ateong
drink te mare andeeenore condemned by the
world. at large. In eegterel to the Instnemed,
however, more controversy has arisen than
on any other geestion a a like
kind. It laas eltvaye been and, hi still
all eel that alclaolio ferias aro rieeful when
nee m mederetion, and oe the other hand
le bee beee aa stroegly repeeted,that they are
not Only neelesebne aetuelly hurtful seem IA
o email a Mimber of easee we to be unworthy
oi consideration, and that ebeedenently timer
manufeczeire end eale shoald be euppreased
by the indiction of fium and itapriSenraeut
arid the quarrel le not yet eettled even in
the most moral ited retigioue cemzeureities.
There ere ignite poems a the driekiug
imestiem however, which are eeteled, No-
body defends the wage earner who epode
a large part of hits income on tirink,beats his
r.tfe end ohlidrea and reduen them to per
erty. Nobody denude the rich man
wbo ries to a bar -room six or more
tinrea a day, treete and la treated, and
though poseibly seber —ler there are
men nicapeble of beeeming drank — yeb
*nimbi money which • ought to go
towards the advenceinent of hie family, end
keep himeelf ot AMOS of Mingo:me exeite,
emo e lujurioue to heath end 0 wink -Meer
ineelleet Owl hen givea Nobady
maw defeat:la the men, Wee &take bettle
of pert at dinner, a* Wea the eltitthilit of the
tether; or pertekee of five or more itiude ef
wino at one eitthag. Bigia inT;Pg14041 where
the climate reueere liquor lege noeletio than.
our excitieg Nellie American atestoepherte
evy drinking end the mixture of letetne
pee out of feeltiett. No one deinde
termer wise Mho hie jew of witiakey
o from 244rkki makee eerie:my
nuebierved by neighbere, Abell upon
Nebedy (Womb OA young fain
greeme about the reedettle tevern,
tee, play garde, and thick till they
to melte their why Bet
till reepeereble eitmene nem love
end weele feta do dim good,
ego that they doll benefit foam a
quentley of minuileet, end gum-
repriete them to a.heneen
of mew, spirits, er beer, in order
tting (Iowa denuketumen
' of 44 Probibitin" lo
t mean that eo alcahol
t in Malec nor Rev= le
en. It ia sold tamer
re, Tee Came -
erase t tele metier a
givee the Jimmied M. D.
er wenn* litOtailtlat lo
Power of deteraniaing
I not &IA iutemicazite
be then the Atm weer,
general comet Of
demi benetleial re-
er cot in itee workbag;
t4 mired it when.
he law ormits d in elm meantime
to o rtelelf e t 1 n, Waal Datferiu,
Om Tito altrogatien
Norfolh, we nano°, Duda;
Stormont, and Gingerly by Inge major'.
ties dwell that it has failed to nem the
desired result. Sa long tm liquor can be lin
treducte fro:a tho large eitiee and tOtViia, or
from neighbouring counties where the Act
pot in tome, no ellicieut or permanent ae.
e ptence of the eyetein eau be expectee any.
tore. A conviction is slowly but aunty
iabenin� Melt ou the miads of the enemies
ef empennage, thetnothing buelegielatiou
appliee to tins whole Demiuion ab once end
not oily to the We, but the importetion and
maintfacture of intoxicants wilt accomplish
the object In vietv. Temperance men aro
teasting money and tinze introducing the
inoperative Seott A,et into nee:rate counties
which. ripletly directed might seizure it Dam -
inion measure infinitely more eileetive and
far-reaching in its results.
If tetnperaueo advooates would oluinge
their formula and offer to eell good limier
to all lit to be trueted with It,. and no the
tame tinao aternly forbid intoxicante to the
young and to the mature who do not know
where to atop, they would make better
speed in their work. Prohibitiou is the
word they use, but it is not prohibition
which they advacete., or have any hope of
now securing, and it would be better to
abandon it. The Scott elob is defective ae-
cordiug to their view, because it gives the
sale to those who make a profit-, by it and
who aro therefore tempted to sell to drunk-
ards, and the objection is well founded.
Above all things they desire that the sale
should be placed in the hands of those who
do not share in the profits. It is obvious
that thie cannot be done except by public
officials receiving salaries. To trust the ap-
pointment of such. persons to municipalities,
or even provinces, -which would be tempted
to loosen restrietion on itahisz to gain com-
mercial advantages over their neighboura,
would not be advisable and it is imps.
siblo to resist the conolUsion that it is the
D eninion Government temperance men
must look for a satiefitotory settlement
of thtir difficulties. Already that Govern-
ment regulates the manufacture of li-
quor, and. could easily make arrangements
either to acquire the distilleries and brewer.
les, or purchase their products. The im-
portation of foreign liquors is but another
step not presenting extraordinary difficul-
ties.
Obztacles would doubtless be encountered
in carrying tile plan into effect, but none
would be insurmountable. Governments
diary on very large manufacturing establieh-
raents with success. They have their choice
of the best men in the commuuity as their
servants. So far as the prohibitory rules
were concerned, they would be closely
watched by temperance advocates, mid
errors would be speedily and sternly expos.
ed. Every drunkard convicted, every dime
committed resulting from liquor would be
set down to their account, and they would
feel_ all the force of public opinion. It might
be that there would be leakages in handling
so much money and liquor, but these would
be detected and punished. Against them
must be set the prolate of the retail
sale, which would fall into the
coffers of the Government. There would
probably be only one selling place in ev,ch
oity, town or township, and if present pridas
were continued the profits would be large,
though the Wes would be reduced by re-
fusing to sell to minor; to drunkards, to
those k ern to:be in danger of falling iuto
intemperate hebitsie
There would be inenite gain to the tem-
peranee cauee fromplacing the manufactnre,
importation), and sale of 'tenor in the betide
of the Goverement Doubtless for a time
emblin opinion would awing to and fro, but
the exelnsion of private Interests from the
traffio would be toe enormoue g.441/ and if
the majority of the people Were ea favor of
striot reguletion, that mejority would, la the
end, secure all they wiehed, The feenedlan
population is not at preeent very large, and
the propeaml cheep could be meth more
emily introduced than in more populorm
muntriem Oece hatroducecl 110 bOXVVIO
MAMber4 iVilarct the eystene—dt Oen-
eon B/IQW$ la Week.,
l'ELRIAS OF TRV:TAIL
Dost thee love life? Then .to riot aquander
tiTtt ; for that, it the stn fe life is mule
et-- [Franklin.
Devote eecit day to the object thee
time,
and every evening well zni something
done,—(Goethe.
Method Le like packing tillage into it
bee.; a good pecker will gee io Itele as Much
more as a bad one,
The desire of more teed nectee rises; up.ley
T.k.aturak gradeation to mast, and alter teat
to eli.[—efeeEstrauge.
The proper s'aq to cheek eleitileeis
to deeplee ; attempt to overteke and re -
fate it, and le wilt outraa you,
lf every nereou would be half aa geed
as he expeeMhia oeighbar to be wbet
beeveit thm world WOU14bat .^Vilither
No-
\Vlmn deetin tire greeter reo�aeBor
has came, it is never otte teederrette thee
we repent of, but war eleVerity.—Weargo
As riches sod favor forsake a Mail WO
diecover him to be a fool; but nobody
intle Owl it out la his preepadte,—ifie
Brnyere.
!ewe wolt be pungent, be bele! ; for
with words as wtth venbeetne, the
mure *hey are COPIC/Atied the deeper they
• le
We moat not hepe vthelly to cheep
their original terapere, nor make the tow
etnetve itud seam, nor the inelaueboly
eperrive, evitheat epellime teem—.eke.
Vhe -11e31$ is the daughter ef employ-,
eit arid 1 bane knewn e man to mime
funerai merely ho -
e7 ie—Biebop
ut etel I love Xt5t the
111ZU Vall) eso kok withoot emenian ripen
the 641441;
*7 Ilf, wbea the dusk of OVtat•
Eng brebee gather ewer tho veteey eye,
and the eizadowe o twelight grew breed.
er and deeper epee the widerateretiling,—
(Lieogfellow,
Tee emend of pen beanie= at five in the
moraine or et eine at night, lieer.i by e
creeitor, rnalsee Mot eney meuthe longs;
but if bet &CGS yon et a billiard table or
bears your voice at a tavern, when you,
meld ba a work, he tends for hie mouoy
he nue Wain.
(TO 134 CIONTINITBD.)
Noti e was published in the Canada ea-
sette o the 28th ult. of the continuance
for th s season of the special rate of toll
en g ain and fooci preclude pasaing
thron h the Si. Lawrence and Welland
canal and of the exemption of the same
kora O1IS on the St. Lawrence canals if they
have aid full tone through the Welland
motel.
Woman as a Martyr.
ory reeords the blifEkripga of con me
a, and we read of them with wonder
repathyt Bat them aro hying toolny
an our mtdst thouttande of other martyrs who
have Inc stronger eleints upon our mesidera.
Om—women who are suilltrere from thoue
ailments peculiar to their se; our Wire;
daughters and deter; perhaps, whose lives
are an unremitting round of suirering,
there no relief they ery, yes, there is;
Dr. Pierce's Favotite Presoripuon will re-
move eat " dragging down" feeling, will
banish that bachathe, will restore every
funetien to its normal condition, To all suf-
ferers from female complaints—and their
name is Legion—we say ; get the "Preacripe
tion"at ouce ; it will be worth fer more thee
its weieht in gold to you.
The Cur hat expressed %strong antipathy
to Gen, Bat:longer.
Symptoms of Catarrh.
A profase tont many times excessively ote
lenelve discharge, with "stopping up" of
the nose at times, impairment of the sense
of smell and taste, watering or weak oyes,
Impaired hearing, irregular appetite, owe-
eional nausea, presume and pain over the
eyes, and at times in the back of the head,
occasional chilly/sensation; cola feet, aud a
feeling of lassitude and debility, are symp-
toms which are common to catarrh, yet all
of them are not preeent in every case. Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy cures catarrh in ite
-worst forms and stages. It is ptomaine to
use, and contains Ito poisonous or caustic
drugs. 01 druggist; for 50 cents.
The first sampleof gold coin bearing Em-
peror Prederiok's effigy Jaime been issued.
A Voluntary Statement.
The writer of this paragraph once had an
elder and only brother. Brougl t up to-
gether, we were almost inseparable, hopeful
and ambitions. Expousre planted the seeds
of consumption in the elder, and in a few
weeke, in the month of May, "good store
of flowers were stuck round about his wind-
ing sheet." Every attention and every
remedy that neve could give or obtain were
unavailing. Since that sad day, I have
learned, through the most trustworthy au-
thority, and from experience in its use, that
a real remedy now exists, that of Dr. Pierce,
called the "Golden Medical Discovery."
A thotteend pities that it was not discovered
ages ago, but how thankful the present gen- .
eration should De that it can now avail it-
self of so potent a remedy.
Berglare broke into a jewellery store in
Munich on Sunday night and earned away
goods worth g25,0o0.
people who are subject to bad breath, foul (meted
tongue, or any diearder of the Stomach, can at once
be relieved by using Dr. Carson% Stomach Bitter°.
Vie old and tried remedy. Lek your Druggist.
Gen. Boulanger has written a letter pro-
teating against the warlike WOWS which have
been attributed to him.
Wes 1 0004/1 01711B cures in one minute.
A resolution has been introdueed in the
Fretieh Chamber of Deputies in favour of
international arbitration.
CDTGALEBB Hem listerwint restoree grey and faded
hair to its natural eoior and prevents falling out.
Why is a moeguito like a musician who
plays for money? Because, after the seren-
ade is over he sends in his bill.
Whenever your Stamm% or Bowela get out of or.
der, causing Billousneee, Dyepepsla, or IndigestIca,
and their attendant evils, take at once a dose of Di.
eanson's Stomach Bitters. Beet fatally medicine,
Ail Druggists, 60 cents.