PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND. 199 of discipline and order. There were appeals, protests and many cases of insubordina¬ tion. As a pointer to the members now who, to save time, advocate semi-annual meetings of Grand Division instead of quar¬ terly ones, the records show that in the year 1857 and 1858 there were no less than twenty-seven meetings of grand division held and nothing of importance done or un¬ dertaken. The year i 860 found the (Irand Division again in straits. Hard and earn¬ est work was done by grand worthy patri¬ archs, Sanderson and Davis. Rev. Mr. Davis in his annual address on October 30, i 860, put the facts of the case and the true position of the order faithfully before the representatives. The order had reached not only a standstill, but was declining; public opinion was at a low ebb and drunkenness and debauchery abounded. There were only nine divisions alive and some of them were barely existing. A handle is now made of the violations of the prohibition act, but li¬ cense laws meant free rum and free sale everywhere. Even attempts at law enforce¬ ment in some places were dangerous. A notable case is put on the records that oc¬ curred at Dundas , Kings county. "Flower of the Forest" division attempted carrying out the decision of a meeting held there "to prevent the importation and sale of intoxi¬ cating drinks in their midst." Thereupon the record goes, the rum drinkers, led on by a smuggling rum seller, organized against that division a regular system of annoyance. Among other things they assaulted the house of one of the Sons, a magistrate, be¬ fore whom proceedings had been taken against two rum sellers on account of il¬ legal sales of their poison, and committed incredible outrage upon those whom they found there. They dragged about his mother by the hair, striking her with their fists and in horrible terms declaring their readiness to take her life. Two of his chil¬ dren, little girls, they kicked to and fro like footballs, bruising them shockingly, while a third, a little boy, they hurled over a fence six feet high. Her sister, a young woman, in a delicate state of health, they violently pressed behind a door until her blackened tongue hung out of her mouth. Similar and like outrages occurred. The total membership reported at the annual meeting was only one hundred and nineteen, and seventy lady visitors. The Grand Division receipts were four pounds and eighteen shillings. At that meeting the late esteemed John Scott was elected grand scribe and continued in office till 1869. A fresh effort was made to organize new divi¬ sions and enlist new members, with marvel- li u success reaching in 1864 forty-four di¬ visions and one thousand five hundred for¬ ty-one members, and sub-division receipts one hundred seventeen pounds eight shil¬ lings eight and one-half pence. Although there was soon a falling off, yet the posi- ti' ni of the order was well maintained dur¬ ing Brother Scott's occupancy of office. His records and minutes were models of neat¬ ness, fulness and clearness. From 1869 to 1876 the membership fell off yearly till in the latter year there were only seven divi¬ sions and two hundred twenty members re¬ ported to the National Division; from 1877 to 1880 gains were made, bringing the num¬ ber of divisions up to twenty-five and the membership to twelve hundred. At this time the affairs of the Grand Division were again thrown into disorder. The minutes were lost and a debt created. The grand scribe dropped the work in a bad way. David Rogers , who was grand worthy