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THE UAILY EXAMINER

SEES eye It Fays to Buy at PERKINS |

ee ee THE WAR SITUATION. _

DECEM BER 19, 1899.

DeraiLs of the battle of Colenso bear testimony to the valor of the British soldiery who were sent out to do the impossible. General Buller seems tc have attacked where the Boers were strong €@3t and at @ point where the nature of th ground was scch that it could noi be oc cupied. The report that he aubsequeatly succeeded in e@ecting a crossing remains

eloquent

t» be confirmed, though there seems to be no reason why this might not be dove by tactical co-operation wi h the forces under Generals White and Clery.

In Great Briain and throughou: the Empire the people and the Government Volun

up arms aud experienced

seem to have risen to the occasion.

teers are taking oTicers are ready to lead them.

If anyone ever doubted the fact, it is evident now that the Boers have been for many yeare, secretly preparing to drive the British out of South Afria. They greater in numbers,than the

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difficult to select a| British exp {ora lady if you Visit our | every mo Diane weapon and appliance that tore. and it’s no trouble for | could be obtained in Europe, and led by

are found far

‘ *.% | s nol ed, armed to the teeth with |

When they | were ready they issued their “ultimatam’ and invaded the British territory. Krug-

| tacti es of high ability. us to show our gocds. Look | '*“"'°’*" nigh ab over our list

| ers receni diplomacy seems to have been

: cleverly directed to this end,—while n.ask~ Oy d TN | ing the motive. | The British people have been aroused . by the unexpected difficulties of the si. ua- aid Gloves | tion, and will, it is hoped, soon be ready to | | cope with them. Lawn Aprons | Yiuslin Aprons | | “It cannot but cause the feeling that | Jress Len oths e|| the younger sons of Britain should offer | & their services to be used in whatever way | sik Waic seems best for the preservation of the —_ i ¢ P Oo , ilk \ aists | glorious inberitance of British freedom ' . which has been handed down to us.” ()strich Boas ¥ . ‘7 Orn Yr Fringed Rugs Set of Furs | ° ' Sa S* > c fe } a ' fet i] x I landke1 L h iefs | —Io a leading article. The Mail

and yy Empire, of Tor

ag . . “k nto, reviews the situat on z ancy W OT ere 1D th 1e

ightof the recent Liberal-

Y Sindmaiemiiiig victories, and says; ‘The. cy a Tc paskets Guipuie

Remarking upon the eituation a corres

} pondent asys : i

| These words embody a gooi dra! of the | e

} spirit which is just pow actuating the young men of the Empire, Happily ail

will not be needed.

| verdict ie hard for the provincial Ministers. | Toey must go. But itis equally a blow at Sir Louis Davies and the Ottawa con- tingent. Prince Edward Island is one of | the provinces that listened bopefuily to}

' the story that the Federal Ministers told.

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Covers, ete

iI t expected great things from Ottawa under | .

Sir Lovis. All it has reaped is a decora- | on for the now magnificent Minister, a| 148s Of broken pledg rer

aitempt to use pi iblic

ruptly and

For Men

If \ou visit our men’s fur- sling department you will|

"expenditares cor for election pur

| poses. The island is d.ssatisfied and insulted, and it is @ growing time in the

cercively

which attaches to the opportunists and | | their extraordinary and extravagant tran

have no trouble in suggesting | sactions. (forag sntleman, —The St. John Telegraph remarke tha‘

| ia one respect the disaster of Genera! Bu! | ler has been a benefit, because it has prov- |

en to the mother country and to the world | how etrong is the attachment of the col- "6 Tag onies to the empire, and how firm is their |

. ancy Pes determination ‘that the prestiage of Great Britain sbal! not suffer as long as they |

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sTaces have the power to uphold it. te | ag y ; “CO “9 i d %, Wk - uitlers i Attend a lecture to be del roe iy)

_ James’ this evening by C. James.

Lined Gloves ‘

Umbrellas.

, and a deliberate | «

East as om as in the West for the dislike |”

j Souvenir, a beautiful

THE DAILY ee. CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 19, 1899

WHEN DOES THE CENTURY END? ? SHALL we write Twentieth Century upon the first of January next ? Severel learned professore say that we ought to do so; nod many other learned professors say that we ought not to do so. Small wonder that the igncrant are in a quandary ! Those who say that the Nine- teenth Century will end at the end of the year 1900, base their conclusion upon the alleged fact that there was no cypher point at the ond of the era“ Before Christ”

e and the beginning of the era “‘ After Chriet.”

They say that the date 1 was written a the beginning of the first year of the firs’ century ; that the number of the years has been written at the beginning ever

eioce, and that consequently the full num-

, ber of 100” years would have to be writ.

ten down before the second century began, so that ibe second century did not begin until the first of January 101, and so on throughout all the centuries. Thia con- tsn 19m receives some support from the formula, “Anno Domini” “‘in the year of Our Lord” which suggests that 1899 is the 1889:h year, not the 1900th.

airo, taat the years were count

It appears sd from the beginning, not the end, of the first year

of the wor!d.,

Os the cther hand itis maintained that the exact date of the birth of Our Lord was not marked atall, and that the year 1 was first set down at the end of the first twelve monthe, just as in the case ofa child we never write his ege a+ one year uotil after ailthe fractions of time, the seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks and monaths which make up the year, have passed away. This being so the seeond year

began the instant the firet full year was |

numbered 1 and therefore, the mark or number of each year, indicates the be- ginnicg of each succeeding year,—that is to say the year “99” in the firet centary was the 100th year, and the year 1899 is the 1900th year from the birth of our Lord. This contention is, we find, bourne out by av old chronological table showing the golden numbers in a period of 4000 years after the birth of Our Lord; the first year aod the first century of the Christian Era being, alike, marked by a0.

it appears that the decree of His Holi- ness in respect to this matter has been According to Cardinal Holiness made no reference

miainterprei3i. Gibbons, His to December Slst, 1899, as the close o. thisceotury or of 1900 as the beginning of

the next century ; and “the midnight mass in intended as a celebration ushering in the final year of the present century which begine,as ai] scholars understand It, with 2901.”

We have, heard = several

t arguments upon the question, and

recently,

| should be ee if avyone who has

studied it carefa'ly would write Tae Exam- INER a chort le ter placing the matter be- yond the peradventure of a doubt.

the Transvaal brochure for the : ‘ a ~? " i} x} t t 1}

mes, wuich ought to be popular, The

ines set forth, exactly, the yresent

— We are inv receipt of

situation : “So runs che bleod when danger Jowere, O’er men of British birth. The bugle cal! from Windsor Towers. Is answered round the earth.” The froati iepi ece isa well printed copy of W eet'ake’s photograph of the P. K. land contingent. Tbe Transvaal Sou- venir is offered here by Mr. R. L. Cotton. A more acceptable Chri istmas card cruld

| not be sent or received.

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