Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-08-16

| other his breast exactly Wnere Iney
had been aimed, and either must have
proved fatal. We started down the
river, and on the way frightened out
another deer, but did not get a shot
At half-past two his lordship was
dressed, and at three we were back to
camp and in bed, having had glory
enough for one night. D.
%~@O%-
Minister Sehenek on the Treaty Oi
Washington.
Mr.. Schenck attended, on July IA
banquet given by the merchant
tailors' company in their stately cor,
porate hall, in Threadneedle street
London. In order to understand a
playful allusion in General Schenck's
address upon the occasion, it should
be stated that nearly 400 years ago,
namely, in 1888, a feud Of long stand
ing between the merchant taiIors' and
the skinners' companies, as to which
should have the right of precedence
in civic pageants, was amicably set
tied on a reference to the then lord
mayor, who ruled that once a year
the merchant tailors should invite the
skinners' company to dinner in their
corporate hall, and that the eompli-
ment should be annually returned by
the skinners' company. From that
day to this for nearly four centuries
the custom of inviting each other to
dinner alternately, in accordance with
that decision, has been maintained.
The master of the company, Mr..
William T. Elliott, occupied the chair
on the present occasion, having on
his right the master and wardens of
the skinners' company, and the Amer
lean minister on his immediate left.
AS a further compliment of the latter,
and to the country he represents, a
star spangled banner was suspended
over his seat. After giving the usual
loyal and constitutional toasts, the
master, in complimentary language,
proposed 1.-THE Health of His Excel
lency," which was received with en-
thusiasm. Mr. Sehenck, in rising to
respond to the toast, was cheered
again and again. He said:
Master, wardens, and gentlemen, I
should certainly be devoid of all SEN
sibility if were not to thank you as
I do most heartily, for this kind rec
ognitio1, for this toast, and for the
greeting with which it has been re-
ceived. If I fail to express to you,
not for myself alone, but for the coun-
try have the honor TO represent, a
full appreciation of the kindness thus
expressed, pray you impute it to our
youth, in the presence Of your age.
CCheers and q laugh. You talk of a
settlement before the era of the dis
covery of America. All that / can
reply to that is that even youth some
times may have its satisfactiOns q
laugh1, and if the aldermen, headed
by the mayor, in 1888, brought about
a peaceful arbitration between these
two guilds, it is a matter of great sat
isfaction to me that at a much later
date, young as we are, it has been my
good fortune, though not an alderman
or a mayor Ia laugh, to have help to
propose an arbitration which I trust
is to settle all differences which may
have arisen between u.s. Loud
cheers 1 esteem it one of the proud
est acts of my life-to be looked upon
hereafter with more self-complacency
than any other act, political or other
wise, in which was ever engaged
that was one of the joint commits
sion to establish for ratification, with
the satisfaction Of afterward seeing it
ratified by both countries, the late
treaty of Washington. Renewed
I don't mean to say much
about it now. Such treaty is liable
to criticism it has been criticised on
both sides of the line; and 1 under
take to say it is one of its merits that
while it has not satisfied everybody,
is well content to accept it.
But ] am not here to praise work in
which had some small part Why
should talk to you about it? l might
take for my theme the common an
cestry, the common language, the
common literature, and a common
law, out of which have sprung
free institutions in both countries,
Icheers Il butall this has been talked
Of in both countries before. shall
make but this remark: l took -occa-
sion to say on landing in your coun-
try, in response to an andress of wei
come presented to me at Liverpool,
that / thought for these two great
English-speRking nations ever to be
engaged in war which could be
avoided would be a crime against
civilization and humanity. Loud
cheers And yet / was afterward
struck by some friendly comments in
one of your newspapers-I think the
Times-to the effect that the very fact |
Of our being two EDglish-speaking |
nations was one of the reasons why /
we were apt to disagree-that because !
we spoke the same Language each un-
derstood what the other said, and |
eVerp little fling or fiippant remark |
was all the more appreciated by the |
other. The lesson 1 draw from what |
the editor wrote on that occasion was /
this--let us make use of that COM /
munity of language, not for the pur- !
pose of mutual taunt or jeer, but |
rather that we may give vent on all |
occasions to friendly sentiments and /
kind. expressions toward each other. |
[ Cheers If the United States and +
Great Britain would but do this, and /
so act in mutual and friendly spirit, /
It is hard to tell in what degree our
ioint influence, political, commercial,
and social, might not advance among /
the nations of the earth. Renewed
cheers. God forbid that we should
unite for anything else but what is
moral, social, and political; but if it
should come to the physical, under
AXE to say that we should make a
which would be irresis-
.ible. LCheers. And now, not to
letain you longer, will you permit
ne. adopting for the moment the form
If toast which obtains in this hall,
o give you toast: England and |.
America-America and England, root
md. branch, and may they flourish
His excellency resumed
lis seat amid much cheering, and the
oast was drunk with enthusiasm. J.