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VOL. 22.—NO. 136.

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WOTICE.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Charlottetown Gaslight Company will take place at the Gas Works, en TUESDAY, the 8th day of May. 18*8, atthe hour of Eleven o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of electing Directors and the general transacting of business. DENNIS MURPRY, Manager.

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MR. S. XN. EARLE,

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Charlottetown, - - P. E. Island.

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when Mr. Earle will be glad to receive a few pupils in place of some who do not remain in town during the suminer.

Having resigned his position in St. Paul’s Church, Mr. Karle is open to an engagement as Organist or Trainer of a Choir.

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Great Mackenzie District. DR. DAWSON’S EVIDENCE.

The evidence of Dr. Dawson, of the Geo- logical Survey, was taken on the 25th ult., before the Schultz Committee. It waa very elaborate. _Dr. Dawson furnished import- ant information regarding the Arctic sea

t east and west of the mouth of the

Mackenzie river. He gave the number of ‘vessels, principally from San Francisco, which were employed in the whaling and sealing catch of that region, and showed that the amount of whale and seal oil, of ivory and whalebone was very great indeed.

He expressed it as his opinion that suitable

Steamers could always be expected to reach

ee mouth of the Mackenzie through Behr- ing’s straits, and if the estaary of the Mac-

'kenzie possessed a channel deep enough | they could ascend the r.ver 1,200 or 1,300 ‘miles, and have also the additional naviga- tion of the coast line of Great Slave Lake, or about 1,000 miles more. He showed on a map the limits of the northern ice pack, taken from the coast pilot of the northern coast of Alaska, and showed a vonsiderable

\tine of open water between the southern limits of the coast pack and the Arctic coast as far east as Alaska extended, He thought it probable that the ahort distance between that and the mouth of the Mackenzie was equally open. He quoted various Arctic _voyageurs, who gave the temperature of ‘the water off the mouth of the Mackenzie \as being many degrees warmer than the

adjacent waters of the region. He stated

jthe multifarious district of British North

America on the west coast, including the

upper waters of the Liard river and the

Peace river, to be at least 1,300 miles long

and to average about G00 miles broad, and

this area was greater than the multifarious district of the whole of the United. States.

He gave interesting accounts of the naviga-

bility of these parts of the Liard and Peace

‘rivera west of the Rocky Mountains and

‘stated that on the plateau or comparatively level country of the upper waters of the Yukon and the upper waters of the Laird there existed a fine pastoral area of great

extent, upon which the growth of the hardy

cereals could always be depended on. He stated that the district in the valley of the

Dwina river, in Northern Russia, which

empties into the White Sea at Archangel,

latitude 65 degrees, supported a large popu- lation, and that the Mackenzie river dis- trict seemed quite as good in every respect, and if it should be found that shipments could be made through the mouth of the

Mackeuzie, as they are made from the mouth of the Dwina, it would become a most valuable country. He. gaye ipterest- ing records of the grain-growing districts in the extreme northern districts of China,

and stated that the question of the possible raising of grain was determined there more

by the length of daylight during the three growing months of summer than by any question of latitude or temperature.

Good Reading.

fhere is nc matter of such importance to young men as the early acquirement of the taste for good reading. Sir John Hers- chell says: If I were to pray for a taste which should stand me in stead under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would be a taste for reading. Give a man this taste and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail of making @ happy man. You place him in contact with the best society in every period of history, with the wisest, the wittiest, the tenderest, the bravest, and the purest characters wh have adorned human- ity. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages. The world has been created for him.

The unread and unreading man is a poor witless being, whose conversation (if such it may be called) is but feeble small-talk about himself, his business, his ailments, and his neighbors ; and if by chance he finds him- self in the society of men © culture, he is uneasily conscious of his inferiority, and wishes himself back in the congenial circle whose horizon is bounded by chit-chat and gossip. On the other hand, he who has read much, and has well digested what he has read, has within his own mind inexhaustible springs of enjoy- ment, and is moreover a pleasant companion atid a welcome guest among intelligent and thoughtful men.

Desultory habits of study are not to be commended; but it is not advisable to pursue any systematic course of reading, as it is to be looked upon as a recreation rather than as an exercise ; and if it were reduced to a rigid aad regular system, it should become a wearisome task. Read all the good books that you can come across and have time to devote to with neglecting other duties; your life will certainly not last long enough to leave you time for the trumpery ones. But when you read for amusement and relaxation, choose something that interests and diverts you ; it will go hard with you if you do not at the same time reap sterling profit from your reading.

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G. M. Harris received instructions from Mrs. Grey to sell by auction at her resi- dence ‘‘ Inkerman House” all her house- hold furniture. Sale will take place about the middle of May. Catalogue will appear in due time. eod w ap 24

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Hart Flowers, Feathers, etc.; also “eceived Trimmed Hats and Bonnets. English Trim- ‘med Millinery expected daily at Mrs. Young’s. ap 26

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Farmers’ Club at York.

According to notice a meeting of the farmers of Little York and surrounding settlements was held in the York Hall, for the purpose of organizing a Farmers’ Club.

Mr. C. Brown was appointed president, Mr. Wm. Large, vice-president, and the undersigned secretary of an organization to be known as the Little York Farmers’ Club, The Club, although as yet small in member, ship, has transacted an amount of busi=ess. An arrangement has been made with one of the leading seed merchants of Charlotte- town for the delivery at York Station of all ‘‘ field and garden” seeds required by the Ciub. The Club is alive to the need of general improvement, and accordingly have in view a course of lectures. The committee appointed for that purpose have already been successful in making a start in that direction.

On Wednesday, the 18th April, Mr. Charles W. Kielly, the principal of York school, lectured on the subject of ‘* Agri-’ culture.” He treated the subject in an able and practical manner, a clearer proof of which can not be had than the fact that he is to be requested tw deliver it about the second or third week in June next.

By inserting the above in your valuable paper you will ob!ige the Club and yours etc.,

Gro. CROCKETT, Secretary. York, April 28th, 1888.

Resolution on Imperial Trade.

In the House of Commons on Monday Mr. Marshall, of East Middlesex, moved the following resolution of which he had previously given notice:—‘‘That the estab- lishment of mutually favorable trade rela- tions between Great Britain and her colon- ies would benefit the agriculturai, mining, lumbering and other industries of the lat- ter, and would strengthen the empire by building up its dependencies, and that the government should invite the other colonial governments to join in approaching the Imperial Government with a view of ob- taining such an agreement.”’

The Halifax Herald remarks that this re- solution is not a complete endorsation of the Imperial Federation League as such; but it is thoroughly in line with the policy which the Imperial Federation League has inaug- urated, the consolation of the British Em- pire. There cannot be the slightest doubt but that the establishment of mutually favorable ‘rade relations between Great Britain and her colonies would prove bene- ficial “to all of the natural industries of the latter; nor can it.be denied that the con- summation of such a scheme would tend to consolidate and strengthen the globe-en- circling dominions of the empire. It is therefore expedient that; Canada, the most progressive English speaking dominion of the Empire, should take the initiative in this matter by inviting the other colonial governments to join in approaching the Imperial Government with a view of obtain- img such an agreement.

We cannot persuade ourself that this re- solution will meet with any decided op- position in the Canadian Parliament, since it is so thoroughly in accord with the political aspirations of the great body of the Canadian people. Already the leading statesmen of the Australian colonies have declared themselves in favor of this scheme; and the present time is most opportune for the Canadian Parliament to make a similar declaration by unanimously approving of this resolution.

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Monkeys and the Telegraph.

A formidable antagonist to telegraph ex- tension ip Mexico is found in the monkey tribe which inhabits the jungles and chap- parral of Tabasco. Literally, the weods are full of them. Their favorite diversion, when not in quest of fuod, is to betake themselves to the telegraph-line for gym- nastic exercises; and linemen assert that often one hundred ablebodied monkeys may be seen swinging on the wire, festoon- ed, monkey-fashion, by looping their, tails, The continuous vibration eaused. by these forest gymnasts starts the iron nails used on the cross-arms, and these often come down, bringing the wire with them. And it is not a safe matter to undertake to dis- perse these robust monkeys who do such damage to the telegraph lines in the sparse- , ly-inhabited state of Tabasco, Linemen have found that on shooting s monkey swinging on the wire they hve been pur- sued by a whole regiment of monkeys. ‘**It is no joke,” said a lineman recently, ‘*to have a tribe of monkeys pursue one; they are very strong, and can hit with a stone or a stick in a fashion to make a man howl withpain—a thing the monkeys enjoy hugely.”

cL lL AGO

Apvice to MoTHERS.— a: vee? Soothing S shoald always u when children” oe: Featiag teeth. It relieves the little sufferer at once; it produces natural quiet sleep by relieving the child from pain; and the little cherub awakes as “‘bright asa button.” It is very pleasant to taste. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays all pain, relieves wind, regulates the bowels, and s the best known remedy for diarrhea, whether arising from teething or other causes. Twenty-five cents a bottle. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslce’s Soothing

Syrup, and takeno other kind mar 8 eod & wky dcciesueill rabimeaaaitindlian bi Temperance Lecrurr.— Mr. Charles

Weeks, of Keene, New Hampshire, lectur- ed in Souris Courthouse on Monday even- ing last to a large and appreciative audience. Mr. Weeks is a forcible and effective speaker on the subject of temperance. At the close of his address a vote of thanks was unanimously tendered him, to which he made a suitable and felicitious reply.

We are now opening our first arrivals in spring and summer goods, including 5 cases Ladies’ Straw Hats and Bonnets, and 5 cases

Flowers, Feathers and Millinery Trimmings. —Beer Bros. m2 dy wy