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We are showing a Nice Assort-

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E. W. TAYLOR'S,

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Nearly 14,000 in use and good ac: isaiiioes’ given ot them. Over 40 years of Sa st | 4 E Coy BEG OCB business. CAV By ke 4 4 4 Qe WILLIS PIANO & ORGAN CO., Maceachern's Building, Lower Queen St.

Charlottetown, January 3, 1891. a . —_ serene ; Te

GREAT SALE OF BOOTS |

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ES) sneer, Rid Chan ae tae Bost SPL ER a te Pees ——(x) Port 3 ‘kirk. on oe 's ( . vt hone heya rw . inpto tabi neon tine ies, Child's Long Boots. $1.20, now tenders w wil + ot t one inless made on Sebe.; - Boys’ s Lone Boots. Se o@. now the form supe lied and signed with the actual sig- malt osck ender ts ae nasahletothecrter PUL" 40; ‘Womens Strong Boots, ovo icamanewaer ae vce DHS, now $1.00; Women's Strong pen ove pevtrncied tc tet ol be 7 Hoots, $1.00, now 75c.; 200 pairs ae ceeu coer hasect owt Bows Wong Boots, reduced &0 to ve com, @e Cents a pair, at i , GOFF BROS ote | harlottetown, Dec. 3, 1880—eod & =y AAR ero FDARACA OLUCAD. CHARRG PICTURES FRAMED CHEAP | e 3 j es e& Ry f a3 (x) sap” ee are My For the mext few weeks we will give ss Lees RK, € . alg ~ ig 2 Nae. ‘ a ee Special Buscounts on Picture F ames, to re Oe Cee enable parties receiving the Annual News-

paper Pictures to get them Framed at Special tates. Bring them along soon.

MARK WRIGHT & €0.. Lrv. Moores ‘COLDS. MEN WARTES).

S40 YEARS IN USE. io PRICE 25°PCR BOTTLE x. Two or three Machine Hands and an

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MEDICINES. FANCY ARTICLE %, viz , Perfumes, Spon- gee, Nail and Tooth Brushes, Hair Brushes Loonau’s, Paris), Fancy Soe ps, Castile (white |

ARRIAGE BUILDERS! We intend clearing out our entire stock of Carriage Goods, and give up the trace Kor the coming season we will sell, at Specially Reduced Prices for Cash, HARDWARE and CARRIAGE GOODS. ‘Terms

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and mottled}, Colgate Soaps, Lace Soap, Pear's and Marge rison’s French Soaps.

Call and see our line for the Xmas Trade. Manicure also preparations for same. Walkin» Sticka suitable tor Xmas Presents.

Best line Havana Cigars in the city, and fresh stock, in 25, 50 and 100 boxes suitable for Xmas preseats for emokers. Also, Pipes in and out of cases, Tobacce, Cig adethes: To beeco Pouches, Cigar Lighters, and every requisite for emokere. Try our 5c. Cigar - best in town. dw— decd

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City Hardware Store.

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Seat l46 Strong Drink. Abuse,” _ 2 Ww. ke: MOORE, Barrister-at-Law.

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NEW GOODS

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Holiday Trade

SANDERSON & (O'S.

New Layer Baisins, New Valencia Layer Raisins, hew Cooking Raisins,

New Currants, Nuts and Confectionery.

Price 15 cents, post paid.

New Dates,

New Figs. New Stewing Prunes, New Lemons, New Florida Oranges. ——ALSO—— A large stock of Pink Table Jelly (assorted

flavors), Keiller’s Jams and Jelly, Raspberry

Vinegar, Van Houtan’s Cocoa, ‘Fry's Choco- late and Cocoa, Rowntree’s Chocolates and

Confectiouery, Fine Scotch Oatmeal (in 7 Ib.

tins), English Golden Sy rup (superior quality).

Oar Choice Blended 32 Cent Tea has be- come very popular, and our 24 Cent ‘ea con- tinues to keep away ahead of everything in

the market. SANDERSON & CO.., Newson’s Block, South Side of Qucen Square, Opposite Post Uffice. decli—dy Im eod wky

SHERWOOD FARM,

FOR SALE.

EAUTIFULLY situated on the Royalty Road, fronting on the Malpe ae Road ‘aa running back to Sherwood (Cemetery The Farm, containing about 50 acres, is in a high state of cultivation, Commodious and comfortable buildings, with a first-class orchard, make this a very desirable property. For particulars apply on the premises to SARAH STEWART,

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WINTER CROSSING |

HE WINTER “ROUTE between Cape Traverse and Cape Tormentive is now

Passengers and Luggage at the regu- lar rates. Passengers will find this route very much the cheapest Passengers accom- aahened in the very best manner.

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open.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,

Reply to Mr. DesBrisay.

Sir,—In reply to Mr. DesBrisay’s letter, which appeared in your issue cf Saturday, { may say that I pass by the very mauy compiimentary things he has to say of my- self personally saat of the profession to which | belong, especially as to their adap, tability to deal intelligently with any p lic question. It may have come tol Desisrisay’s knowledge that there is ac of meu whose education has unfitted th : : to take an intelligent part in anything c cerning the public welfare. have not made their acquaintance, and | hope, if they exist, that something may be done to correct their educational disadvan. tages. I do not wish, at this stage, to fill up your columns with figures for the pur- pose of defending the ground | take. Briefly the point at issue is this: Was there more liquor e-nsumed under the license system, with a decreased population, than under the Scott Act, with an increased population? Both of us give figures, and from these we draw very diff-reat conclu- sions. The question, then, becomes one as to the correctness of the conclusions drawn from the figures. Mec. DesBrisay assumes that the large importation was for the purpose of exporting to the ojber pro- vinces. I hold that it was no such thing. He holds that the consumption under the Scott Act is greater than under License. I maintain that it is net. He has nothing to support his argumeuts but assumptions. 1 hoid that I can substantiate mins from documents which form part of our public records. For Mr, DesBrisay’s beacfi: I will put it this way: Does he think that it was Owing to increased consumption that the Local Legislature, at and after thedates mentioned, had to enact and ainend Acts egain aud again up to the time of the Scott Act, all with the intent of regulating the trafic. Was it an increasing «ra decreas- ing traflic that called for these acts and amendments? Was it owing to the de- crease in the consumption and consequent decrease in drunkenness that the Stipen- diary, in 1875, had to ask that the pvlice force be increased to 12, and in 1876 that it be frrther increased to 16; and that in 1877 the number of drunks and disorderlies and assaults appearing before him had reached that year the high figure of 8647 Was it owing to a decrease in the consump- tion of liquor that he was compelled to report that the numberof drunkards was ap- palling? Does Mr. DesBrisay think that it was owing to « decrease in the consumption of liquor that the Lucal Government, in 1889, sfrer having dismissed the inspector, were forced (owing to the large increase of illicit places) to appoint not one but three in- spectors? These are not assumptions, and they tell against Mr. DesBrisay every time. No such thing ever occurred in the history of the world as a decrease of con- sumption of liyuor and at the same time an increase in druvokenness. Everywhere and always the increase of the one and the in- crease of the other goes side by side. I did not rely solely upon the figures, but upon the figures as explained by our official ducumenis.

On the other hand, as to decreased con- sumption under the Scott Act, I may tell him that the answer to that—the best an- swer that can be given—is the earnest and unceasing activity of the trade to repeal the Act. Does he think that the determi- pation on their part is because they sell more liquor to-day than under the license system! Forthe trade to raise the cry of increased consumption, and work in dead earnest to repeal the Act under which their business increases, is to suppose that they are the most stupid class of men under the sun.

Mr. DesBrisay may be very good at figures but his logic is very poor, «8 is shown by what I may call his coal and flour argument. He knows that in the customs returns these articles do not stand on the same basis, and therefore are not useful either for the purpose of contrast or com- parison. Not one birrel of Canadian flour comes tothe Island in bond, but Canadian whiskey does. We have no bonded ware- house for Nova Scotian coal, but we have for beer and spirits. Mr. DesBrisaf knows as well as 1 do what things will bear con- trast and comparison, and when he uses such an argument he is guilty of what he has often said of others, ‘*the grossest absurdity.”

Jas, CaRRUTHERS,

January 6th, 1891.

Linciau “Candor” Speaks.

Sin,— Now that another Canada Temper- ance Act election is just upon us the ques- tiun naturally arises in the mind of every honest and upright man that believes in the majesty of the law being maintained, ‘‘What guarantee have we that the law will be better enforced in the future than in the past?” Such a question at the pre- sent juncture isquite legitimate and proper. We confess that the ardvur of many a! yal ‘*Scott Act” eupporter has very sensibly waned by reason of its non-enforcement. A thousand times better every candid and sensible individual will allow that a law should have never been enacted at all—it matters not how wise its provisions; how good in itself, than it should remain a dead letter on the statute book.

1 am not one of those, Sir, who denounce you in unmeasured terms for your apparent indifference now in the heat of the battle. To my mind, the language used against you as ‘* championing the cause of the rum party ” is nothing short of slander When we refiect on the many times the Act has been “strung up” by reason of legal technicalities, the lack of a public prose- cutor for months other than one in name, but especially the coolness and supinenees of the warmest and most active temper- ance workers, after the din of battle has ceased to reverberate through the low shebeens and groggerics, it is almost sufficient to:ender anyone iscouraged and disheartened | who himself has fully done his duty.

But, at the same time, is this altogether

true of you? Have you altogether fulfilled your duty’ Is it not as obligatory on you to enforce the law as on any o‘her man, yea is it not even more so owing to your more re- eponsible position! Have you done more?’ Have you done as much asmany! Are you not a leader, not one of the led? And is not courege and manliness two eof the chief characteristics of a leader? Why then do

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you now show the white feather

Please, enablduesthere: is yes time—and act manly, and act menly and righteously. Let loose immediately the dogs of wae and hurl a few tremendous broadsides square into the camp of the immorel and insidious enemy. Do “cry alond and spare not and teil the peop’e their sins,” and thus wash your hands in innocence. Yea, roar and thunder with your old time v igor, for the occasion demands it, the high position which you hold in the community a leader of men—r quires it, even claims it by sacred and invicl dle right, claims it mos: imperatively, absolutely and unconditionaliy,

‘*But what guarantee,” ctc. Yes, the guarantee Well, we have a guarantee. The ladies of the W. ©. T, U. have been prosecut- iag this work lately—the work beyond con- troversy of the sterner sex if they would only do it ~with tact, ability and efficiency, and also with energy and perseverance worthy of even their pledged guardians, defenders and supporters, the men. And those god results which have already crowned their efferts, they solemn!y affirm is but an earnest of what they wili yet accomplish in the future if the Act is again sustained on the coming 8th. ihe lessons, experience and mistakes—they simit they are not inf.l.ible—will be utilized and avoided in the time to come if the ocvasion is again presented for more energetic aud faithful action.

Mr. Editor, you are a lady’s man—you have apoken out time and again im their behalf. If for no other reason, ther, arise and assist the ladics. But come *‘to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord sgainst the mighty,” and thua escape the curse of the lukeworm, the seltish and inactive.

CAxvor. Senet eine aie ohnentel

“ Doc.ocs wider.”

Sizn,—“*M., R. C, S.,” in your Saturday's issue, under the above heading, has entirely missed the point of my letter in the Guar- dian. In fact, it looks as if it were done intentionally as an excuse for using Bil- lingsgate against a medical rival. He has so perverted the sense of my letter that it would be beneath contempt and undeserving of reply, if it were not that he has tried to make your readers believe that lL intended to convey the idea that it were only the ladies ot P. E 1. [referred to. This 1 never said, or never in theremotest manner iusinu- ated. The reference to babies of the present generation was that the babies of mothers who used stimulants were never sober until they had been weaned, This statement does not require the endorsation of such a wiseacre as “*M. R. ©. 35.,” a3 itis amply verified by scientific men on both conti- nents.

Then comes the “raison d'etre” for his letter. A whole paragraph of gratuit»us in- suits and falsehoods agsinst his medical rival. lam authorized to state that every line inthe paragraph is untrue, except the poor man’s death, and this Jetter his friends and relations attribute to the treatment he received the last year or more from **M, R. 0. 8.” and others.

I should strongly advise him to follow his own advice as to temperance, but not con- fine it to temperance in liquor: add to it temyerancein language, Also, let him re- fresh his memory (after his two-score years of absence from college) on the fundamental principles of his profession, and he will not make such mistakes as diaguosing consutap- tion to be the on'y form of tuberculosis, and thus assist in depriving six little children and their eo} +r of their natural supporter.

I will no, close by quoting hw owa words :

**Men of this class bring disgrace upon a noble profession, just as ignvrant, intol- erant fanatics whose misguided zeal is greatly in excess of their love of truth, re- flect discredit upon and seriously injure the sacred cause of temperance.”

Prof. Shuttleworth’s lecture at Marsh- field on Munday evening, on “Plant Food and Soil Exhaustioa,” was greatly enjoyed by all present. The plant food furnished by the atmosphere and the soil, the way in which the plant obtains its food, the part which man has in feeding or starving the plant, and what it costs him to do so, were discussed in a most interesting way, and were illustrated by means of charts and chemical experiments. He would be an in- corrigibly dull person who could listen to auch a lecture as this and not learn some- thing of value about the cultivation of the soil and not feel a more intelligent interest in the work of the farm. It wasa move in the right direction when « chair in Agri- cultural Chemistry was added to the Prince of Wales College, and the powers thet be were exceedingly happy in their choice of & man to fill that chair. Prof. Shuttle- worth may always count on a warm welcome from the people of Marshfield and Dunstaff- uage when it is possible for him to psy them a Visit.

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Sovris Rixx.—This rink was opened for the season on Friday evening iast A large number of the beauty and the chivelry of Souris East and Souris West was in attead- ance. The ice was in good condition and so were the skaters, car and all. The bard, however, was not quite upto time, conse- quently there was no music until after nine

o'clock, Notwithstanding this, everyjhing went on pleasantly, and the opening was pronouced # success. We hope the Sourians

may spend many e pleasant ev ening in glidiug

around on the ringing stecl.

Kw. & m Guaranmicecs,

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