Mr. Yo1,&. AkrN AN.
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PoHce-MtrmfcronC Gc.-On Thurs
dav morning, the officers brought up an old
offender as a confirmed drunkard and vaga-
bond, one who had often been arrested and
permitted to run loose, upon promise of a
mcndment While his commitment to the
Penitentiary for four months was making out,
hc begged to say few words and being an
Intelligent man he delivered himself i'll the
following manner:


MAY it please your honour, am an Eng
lishman by birth, and have been frequently
drunk in old England, but never punished
for il. | was not in that country as am in
this. and it arose from the extravagant price
Of liuuor.-lIcrc, i'll this free and happy
country, as YOU call it, can get drunk for
three cents, YOU have no excisc-you have
no tax upon liquors. you sell TOR three cents
that which in EngGnl, would cost shilling
sterling; YOU throw te nptation in the way OF
a poor devil-he yields to the iniirmity of his
nature, and you then lock him up in prison
for four months. am an honest man.
though do get drank. and the Scripture
says, San honest man is the nohlest work OF
God" but when those words were written,
America was not discovered, for you tempt
us to sin, and then punish rs for SHINING.


You can fly to arms to preserve your lib-
crtles, you can Sheu your Diood III ueiehCc "
your Country, vet YOU cannot prevent the
awful increase Of drunkards-Tou want mo-
rA couragcj to adopt the only and the sure
remedy, which is, to lay a tax upon spirit
uous liquors SO as to place them out Of the
reach of the poor and labouring classes, wh'
will then be as sober on compulson as the,
arc now drunken upon attraction'-Sos saying
with profound bow he walked off in custod
of the officer. .dduoeate.
Roses--Tt is reported that Roses were irs
, brought from Italy to England in the year 1922
They were consecratcd as presents from til
: Pope, and in 1896 they were placed over tn
5 goals of confcsslonals as the symbols OF secrec
t Hence the meaning Of the phrase ''under til
, rpsz.n