The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-12-30

ply on the subject of vaccination.
:. Don't" said Mr. Hopwood, impress
lively, addressing himself personally to
the lamentcd Admiral, who happened at
that moment to be the only occupant OF
the Ministerial benches, g don't drive
the steam engine of the law over peo-
pies consciences." This illustrates a
fatal association of ideas which often
leads even practiced speakers into mis-
fortune with metaphor Mr.. Hopwood
on his way down to the House had prob
ably seen steam roller in operation and
had watched the leveling effect upon the
broken granite. Hence the too ready
allusion. In the same session, during a
discussion on the Municipal Officers Su-
peranuation bill, an honorable gentle
man opposed the measure on the ground
thatit twas opening the door for the in
sertion of the thin edge of the wedge, "
preliminary process which should at
least tend to make the work of the
wedge easy. 1t was the same member
who paid a compliment to the chambers
of commerce as 1.-THE intelligent pioneers
who feel the pulse of the commercial
community Here we have wildly
summoned before the mind eye pict-
ure of man-probably in the uniform
of the guides, certainly with pickaxe
on his shouldcr-going about on Change
feeling the pulses of the merchants and
brokers. On the fifth night of the de-
bate on the address in the current session
Sir Patrick O Bren in a luminous speech
declared that the suspension of the ha-
beas corpus act would merely leave the
rotting sword fostering in the wound
Politics, like all engagements that heat
the blood, leads largely to indulgence in
metaphor. During the general election
Sir John Hardy, addressing the East
Stat1ordshire electors, assured them that
if they sent him to Parliament, sit would
be a pledge against the ACKNOWLEDGMENT
of the Empire" This was not nearly so
good as the elaborate and deliberate
metaphor with which Mr.. Thwaites, one
of the Conservative candidates for Black
burn, sought to recommend himself to
the electors. He was speaking of the
condition of the National finances, at that
time in the hands of Sir Stafford North
cote. unfortunately he said, ''thc
Government is on the wrong side of the
book; but, however, you have had pru-
dent Chancellor of the Exchequer, and
he has done his best He has done what
| would like you, my friends, to do.
When you have laid an egg, put it by for
rainy day" Why electors of Black
burn should be expected to lay eggs is a
question that disappears before the
greaterimportance of the query why they
should save them for rainy day?
In different way, but quite in the
same spirit is this sentence from recent
article by the Rev. Mr.. Hawels on an
American poet: Sublime singleness of
purpose! divine simplicity of heart-the
little child is again set in the midst of us
by the dear Lord, and presently he over
comes the mailed Goliath with a sling
and stone" This does not mean any
thing in particular; but surely such mix
ing up of the Old and New Testaments
was never before perpetrated by gem
tleman who must of necessity have read
both. A friend of the late George Eliot,
writing to one OF the daily papers on the
private character of the great novelist,
a'ipped only less grievously in attempt
ing to adorn his text with scriptural
imagery. "She possesses he writes,
''to marvellous degree, the divine Gift
of charity, and of attracting moral out
casts to herself, whose devils she casts
out by shutting her eyes to their exist
ence. BcLgruCja.