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THE EDI i0R’Sl MAIL.”

P. E. I. Railway Rates

Sm,~I sec by the report of Government

‘railways for last year that as usual the P. E. Island road falls behind. The line has been open about a quarter ofa century and the total deficits must be up in the millions. Some have an idea that because the Federal Govemnlent sustains the loss our Island goes free., which must be an en~or as our appropriations are stinted owing to the line being such a bill of ex- peuse.

For various reasons rates on the P.

E. Island railway should be lower than in the neighboring provinces; P¢‘°Pi° here are so well supplied with horses and car- riages that unless the railway tariff is moderate they will use their own teams- Again our road is so excessively crooked that a person travelling seventy or eighty nailea, basto pay for twenty or thirty miles extra Besides the expense, there is the loss of time.

In other countries, reducing the fare in-

creased very materially the income--why not try it here I Should it prove a failure the former rates could be used. Our lowest rates are two cents per mile; other countries find that it pays to carry pas- sengers for one cent per mile, why not here i

The following extract bears on this

point:-- K

The report of thc Hungarian State rail-

roads for 1% shows to what an extent passenger tramc has increased since fares were reduced in 1%; in 1888 ' the total mileage was 2,829 and the number of passengers carried, 5,648,000; in HB the mileage had increased to 4,956 and the number of passengers to 33,146,000. In ten years therefore the mileage has in- creased about 75 per cent and the number

of passengers carried has increased nearly

-SHI percent; the number of passengers per mile of road has increased from 1,7(l) in1888 to nearly 7,111) in 1898. In the same time passenger earnings have increased 215 per cent and the earnings per mile nom 81,00!! in 1888 w 81,775 in 1898. In the cost of operation the increase has been nothing compared to that in the trafilc and the net revenue shows a wonderful expansion.

This subject is worth inquiring into.

Recognizing thatyour space is crowded, lshall for the present desist.

Rltronmzn.

May 24th, 19(1).

_Canadian Patriotic Fund.

Collected in North Pinette school dis-

trict by D. M. Falconer and E. W. Mc- Kay. A

_Murdock Morrison

Neil McDonald Glpt. R. McRae John R. McRae

David McLeod ,

Hector C. Morrison

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THE ECLIPSE

~ unless there is something wrong with the something worth lookin!

_ """""""""""""" " astronomical record There was a total iselearanivvtatwe

That there iq to be a tom, eclipse of the eclipsein1834,on Novernber30th butitwas is When to look

lookto

fourth in 190o; four of them in aperiod of

sun _ the last of the cem_ury__uext Mow onlyasmallpartial eclipse here, the path of and about how much of a s ow

day; that it will be total alonga strip of the eai-th averaging about fifty -miles in breadth, from a point in the Pacific tothe west of Mexico, eastwards across Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico and the Southern States and the Atlantic Ocean and Spain and the Mediterranean and Algeria and Tunis on to a point in the Egyptian de- sert uear the Sed Sea; that observing parties have stationed themselves at num- erous spots along the land portion of this strip from Louisana to Tunis; that these parties are prepared to attack the eclipse with batteries of all the most up~to-date sort of telescopes, visual and spectroscopic and photographic, in the hope on wrest- ling from the few precious seconds of to- talityexfor some further crumbs ofknowled- geconcerning such subjects as the corona, the layers of gases surrounding the sun, the carbon shell which seems to be trying to quench his light and heat, and the exis- tence or non~existence of a planet or group of planets within the orbit of Mercury- these and other features of the coming eclipse have been made public again and again already in newspapers and mag- azines and astronomical journals. It is the main purpose of this article to deal with the subject in so far only as it is of special local interest to those readers who are hoping to observe the phenomenon as it will be visible in the Maritime Prov- inces. ' 'rhem will be no total eclipse .to any

part of these provinces. The fnoon’s shadow, after sweeping across the south- ern states from New Orleans to Norfolk, curves east and north up the Atlantic and passes within 200 miles of the coast of Nova Scotia. That is the nearest we have come to having a total eclipse for nearly a hundred years. The last time the shadow whisked over any part of the Maritime Provinces was on the 16th of June, 1806; and that eclipse, by the way, was twice as long in duration of totality as the pre- sent one. It won’t come anywhere near us again for a. quarter of a century. The total eclipse of 24th January, 1625; will cross the New England States, and may come this way, but it may not.

This looks as if we were being unfairly

treated in the distribution of total eclipse favors. And it looks all the more so when we learn that this is the third time within forty years that such an eclipse has passed over Spain, and that she is going to have a

_“In the year and Winter of 1833 or 1834,

only 45 years But there is an 'average in this as in other things For a single station the expectation of a total eclipse ofthe sun is one in 860years. Of course the actual facts vary in all sorts of ways from the average. There are probably spots on the earth’s surface which have not been visited by the moon's shadow since the time of Adam, and there are others which have had the pleasureof such a visit twice within tcn years. Fo instance, there is Battleford, in the Nm°t’il West. Only live _total eclipses of the sun have passed over any part of the present Dominion of 'Canada during the nine- teenth century. Two of these occured on, the 17th of July, 1&0, and the 7th of August, lim. and on both occasions the total eclipse track passed over Battle ford -two total eclipses ata single station in nine years. But Battleford may have to waits. thousand years for its next one. Spain, after its extroardinary record of four totals in 45 years, will very likely have to wait some 300 years- for its next' one. .

In is hardly likely that the statemeujs?

that there has been on total eclipse of _the sun visible in these provinces since 1906 will beallowed to go 'unchanged. | There wasaquestion on this subject in an astronomical article in this paper inxthe spring of 1893. An answer from Winsor, N. S., appeared in the Halifax Herald of April 13th that year. The writer said:

between one 'and two o’clock p. m., there wasthe only thoroughly total eclipse of the sun that I have ever seen. Not one particle of the sun was visible. The sky was dotted with myriads of stars, and the general appearance was that of a cold starlight night in midwinter. The dark- ness continued nearly half an hour. Then all became gradually light again I remember the circumstance as well as if it happened only yesterday.

About the same time there came a letter

from New Brunswick on the same subject

the shadow lay about a thousand miles to expect to see. In the codon!-l. the south Even if it had been total here, this information iseaslly got. the duration would have beenonly twomin- due to the loss off h `

utes. instead of “nearly half an hour," and gheyare therefore the , the “myriads cfstars" would have been in- iealth. 'visdble visible. After 1834 no other total eclipse self is visable. ' They

touched the continent of North America the same instantof time

until 1%) 1 are everywhere of

nfs a gm: pity um. wo crow have the tent. and everywhere, they Q

,total phase this time. 'Iheawesome on:-:ish . “me tim” *mil ti” .”°°d°d, 5 of theahadow, the chili and shiver in the air 9” the” Wi?" “my b°

,as the last thin ray _of sunlight is shut 911', llllallic. But it is not so-With lil __ _

the sympathetic shudder of all animated _"59 mn- H°"3°au"n9l°'5~°f ,_ nature in presence of the_ preternatural -fm°_°i‘ “my _‘bmi 37' mm’ darkness, the outburst of 'coronal glory a- ‘ Pine” Wh°uY» h'°m°i'h'

round the black disc of the moon-these muy- “nd fm!" °th°“_‘

features of every total eclipse we aredoom- “`h°"°"°" them an “una” 'e

ed to miss once. more. Buthot these only 9" p“m"I' th'

this time. The sun willbeln Taurus, notfar at ‘Mi Pi“°°

:mm Alaebmn. fro me lm will ,be,.,°lf°“'”“-°““‘?°° gf “‘°;‘“°

Orion and Sirius; above, Auriga and _°i"h°" 93°* °“ 2°" 1.! ;":;°d

Gemini; to the right, Perseus. There '“"ki“3 “ °9°°i° 8' °"_°“.

will be an -annual number or m-lglu;-P1°¢° 'F°f W PM” "W3

stars round the sun, and it will be _ inter- --“ne f"°m New 17°

esting tosee how many of them could be “Wk has _b°-en dm” kms v

detected b ther: naked e e. ~ T.hen;th¢rB fthe results-` ‘mb-“_”-hed’

will be Venyus in all the glgry other great- ! the “lip” is '°“‘7` tha” if

est brilliancy; and Mercury, fully illuul- 0-_“ve “°”'Gi'°°“wi°,h‘°f 0xf°'d_ inated and near periheliou, will be only bridge °'Ed”°b»m`3h°? Dublin

been

, . _ _ ‘ haveseenatotal eclipse somewhereorother _But all th`is is a I

' A ' ilu the provinces. A_nd so they may have, 'if fterest inthe present eclipse.

' A _ o theyare over94ye`arsold;butn`ototherwise, _that althéuzh not total is

2 degrees from the sun°s limb. Qt” Ymummnm mr

i the N tical

But as these grapes are not for us, let us ggvsg I1; in “mum

console ourselves by contemplating Whit 0 “lm me n U' gh i

of souruess there is in them. It’s not local _ ‘ve ,much of a total eclipse after all. At it's 1 th l re, , ‘mich l best it lasts forless thantwo and a`quarter;_» !o;?m;dy€f-2;. igthe `

putting us off' witlrthe.

Bl'

5°!

minutes and this ls thrownaway as used mamws_ Bglchefs does ‘_ _ ntue

on the barren wastes of ocean this time

’ h -,this'year. Aftergivinga funny wrong

very nearly eight minutes. But that wiilbe down near the equator. Up here

l qui N°mi Atlantic" when and t' e mm j end-foremost account of the path

dxtlons for the very best kind of total _ eclipse’ he .ws that u.-.beginshem abc” l solar eclipses are fulfilled, it willlast for _,851 “_ m." Ends at ‘bout ‘L28 ‘_ _In

of the patient medicine almanacs do , tar than that-. One of them gives the

it cant well go beyond six minutes. .Even ,3 f u- . d ta., 1 _ __=,_ _ _ so, that ismore than threetimes as long 0 “hug e i so Iimv W8- 1358;/gg'

as any land station will have the present i 13¢g{ns_ End.

one. The last one that came this way,` sydney; ' 9bh_ 12m_M_ 11th55m; n 11 June. 16. 1865»_ Wasil. four and °» llalfvclrrown, 8 58 M. 11 as M. 11

_ minute one. Inthis connection it may bef Halifax, 8 49 M. I1 \ 33 M. 11 3 This writer said: “Somewhere about the mentioned that the total eclipse of May, . F;-ed¢1'g1¢1;gn,8_ 35 M, 11 16 M. I1

year 1850 there was a remarkable eclipse of 1901, will be over six minutes for observers . S¢;_J0hn N_B,8 34 M, 11 15 ' M, 1 11

, the sun visible in St. John. I wasachiid at in Sumatra, then at its next return 'in i_ 11; should be noted that those gim¢g,.¢,n¢_1 ; the time, butthe day was clear and Iwatch- 1919 it will be a little longer; longer still l_ Belcheg/5 wg, are the m¢a,_;{¢{m¢g 'df _'y,1;¢ I ed it from start to finish. I alwaysthougbt at its next in 1037; and at its next in 1955 lplages mem»,i,-med, [ If, is just 53,- .am-tg. I it was total; I so well remember the black _ it will last for seven and a quarter min- d_»,¢d 3 litgle easing, (0 mah; me

as I thought covering lt entirely will have the honor of enjoylngthe long ‘ more convenient fm- the

_ shade in the middle of the sun's disc, and I utes near Manila. And then ,that region __ tim; is standard time, and would l - ° 1 , _ ` ' l _

l _Andthere are probably many others who est totality of any point on the earth’s ' time way, buf; the computer; do 4; are quite sincere _m their belief that they surface for 'upwards of a. thousand years. to be aware of Lhasa _ facts, I I6;

i l

_Richard C. McRae

1'. W. Punting Allan Mclnnis ., Samuel McDonald*

Q.. Vic-kerson

John J. McDonald Jbhn D. McDonald

Andrew Ross

D. F. McDonald

Joseph Shaw _

Hrs. David McLeod William Buchannan 'William H. Munroe William McWilliarn

M. A. McKenzie

Mrs. Charlt s McDonald

John M. McLeod Daniel McDonald

Miss Maggie McDonald

A. F. McDonald

Mrs. Donald McDonald

John Martin Mrs. \Villiam Buchannan

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-25

25 25 25 ‘Z5 10

_Hrs Neil McKinnon ` .10 ‘Bi W. McKay ,

1.(0

` $13.70

King’s

$1.00 1.00

Elijah McKay, Ruskin

County

.Angus Buchannan ~ Joseph Hayley ‘ ,50 Irs John Crane .50 ` James Kane ' .50 Malcolm Finlayson .25 Chester Finlayson .10

$3.85

.10

$3.75

Hugh McPhee, Annadale $ .25 Angus McCormack _ .25 Itmald D. McKinnon .25 .&r¢:h’d D. McCormack .25 Hrs. Allan Mclnnis .10 Irs. Gabriel Mclnnis .25 John D. 'McCormack .25 Mrs. Rod’lt McPhee .15 Mrs. Alex. McPhee .15

.20

_ .05 Adolphus Mclotyre .20 llchael Melntyro . .10 Neil F. McPhee .5 John McAdam ' 1.00 A. J. McA-fiam (Collector) .ill

.Alma school dist.riet,ext.ra, Allan Morrison I S .25

Amount acknowledged to date $4,151 18.

Francis Smith, South Shore $1.00

LcssP. 0. ~

Alex. I McCormack A Friend

Fauble growing ani unhealthy trees,

a rule, are the result of starvation,

_ soil or other unfavemable condi- ‘&a|. .

Qome along. Martin; let’s go to the

never use a hammer to drive

if Qieraiaaiatironhandy.

Almost every woman at-»the»head ofa home meets daily

. with innumerable little worries in her household affairs.

Perhaps they are too small to notice an hour afterwards, but these constant little worries have their effect upon the nervous

system. ~ ~ . _

8 It is these .little worries that make so many women look _prematurely old. V . 0 A _E I

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Then' effect- ma be noticeable in other ' 's, such ~ /

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‘1 sick and nervous headaches, fickle appetite, a fee ng of con-

i stant weariness, pains in the back and ioins, heart palpitation

and a pale or sallow compler;ion_. The blood and ner\°c,`s”

need attention, and for this purpose A . I `

vena

. r='oR PALE PEOPLEO i ' i ,'12 --_:_ 8 i"`

are vvom:ln's best friend.. They are part'ic'ularlly rfdaptecl as a regulator in idfi'scl?i;ls<.~s' pecuiilari Through the blood and nerves the pills _act upon the whole .<ysteln,.l>ri-~~§ _.Y 1; ' I , ‘ h

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_;;lo\v of health to the clleclc. 'I`ho_usand0s"of _\'§=ivcs and mot-_hers li.;-lxfe tclsziijcgl -tg -the

the use of Dr. llfilliams’ Pink Pills . ' 1 . _ fi ` 8 ` I _

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Mrs Napoleon Pouloit, St., Roche, Que., says: " I :lm fort '-two' 'ears of ace. and for 5 v 0- . . _..-.- ,_-

~\vomen.- My blood was poor and watery; 1 sniff red from pains in)lhe liriihs and aibdomcn, and t" $3-mfnonhgo

_ _ -appellle was poor, had frequent. headaches. and ~omelinle.< attacks of dizzim ss. I lrie.-d several. mrdirims buliefound no bl:-.‘nefi§i,oiiielli1ct‘l`1aarx\rdt`illlr0Si

. despaired of regaining _my former heailh._ Airlend- who had been benefited by Ur. Williams’ Pink Pills for l-aippeo It ,mon I 1". ed mé to

_ give them a mal. 'I did so, and _after using a couple oi"box_¢ s llegzm rp leg! iiiiqag _ I' mminmd the use of the :U ' ii Y_ _

- _ _ when-I was as well as ever 1 had been m my life and able to do my work about ; hm; bee __ P* -5' °' mm* “W ~‘__°f‘8¢";

. Pant Pills as a oenffmor to humanity, was-cola slfooglyenfgeelsebls o-Omen-.fo g';.,~,a_j.~-,§~;»‘,’,;;-,»,,._<,_e,-,_.l,_.. ~ '-‘“"’-F'-; . .,‘?,;§l,P*-'j -i_1°°¥ W0" Ui- lllllmmii

c _ There are manl’ "ll.?i3ll0fl5.§10F» S~UlJ.StltUtcs, but these cannot cure

cork._{urrher.il1@.r.n. it .The ,ge 5,1 _Dr

- lf~}'.our dealer dloes have thezzl-l!1fe`y~wili,Vl;` _, t . ` _ _V ' ` #0 * *v f ‘ '." 'r l ‘E ’ ' ' wi 'Q' ° fi i F V ' 0 A '

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