ABSOLUTE SECURITY.

Genuine Carter’s Little Liver Pills.

“ust Bear Signature of

Bee Fac-Simile Wrepper Below.

* Very small and as casy

FOR HEADACHE. S| ror pizziness.

IVER

FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION.

PILLS. FOR SALLOW SKIN.

CURE SICK HEADACHE.

a —

Hillsborough |

oo bridge Th (NewBridge is om- ing and soare the dry streets and roada,| {Then

you will need* some—

thing nice in footwear.

We Have a fine Selection Selling Very Low Hi. BELL

The Hargain Boot and Shoe Store.

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A TPA.

WITATION 31S THE SINCEREST FORM OF FLATTERY.”

Oe a ee

The best proof hat ji?)

W)PARD’S LINIMENT

has extraordinary merits, and is in i= good repute with the public, is, that . IT IS EXTENSIVELY IMITAT- ED.= The imitations resemble the enuine article in appearance only. ey lack the generai excellence of Genuine

‘his notice is necessary, as injurious and dangerous imitations, called Wuite LInI- MET, &c., liable to produce chronic.inflam- mation of the skin, are often snbstituted for INARD’ LINIMENT by Dealers, because

they pay a larger profit.

They ali Sell on the Merits and Advertising of MINARD'S.

in particular claiming to be made by a proprietor of MInarp’s LINIMENT, } \ich simply is a lie.

» INSIST UPON HAVING

— INABD’S LINIMENT

MADE BY

C:C. RICHARDS & C0.,

Yarmouth, N.S8..

The Relief

~OR—

‘Lady Smith,

of South Africa, was nothing com prred {to tho ‘relief [that is felt \by bh RS. SMITH, and hundreds of othe: women ot P. E. Island, on wash day

Malitbouy

since they have started using a

GILT XDOR SOAP}

| All first class grocers; SBLD/t.

ET TMcKINNON & MONEVIN’ WHOLESALE AGENT \» nceecallll

:

THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN AUGUST 24, 1900

—_— na

@wi THE CITY LIGHTING

the privilege of your columns, but as there appears to be a determined attempt on the part of certain interested parties to misrepresent the action of the ¢ ouncil on the lighting contract, I fee! that im justice to myself I should explain as clearly as [can my reason for support- ing the resolution moved by Councillor Taylor, and which was adopted by the

Council. The resolution appeared to me to be explicit enough and not to re- quire any explanation. It reads as fol-

lows ;— sa

Whereas the question of municipal ownership of electric lighting 18 receiving universal attention and the number of plants operated by munici- palities is constantly increasing.

And Whereas His Worship the Mayor in his annual address at the comimence- ment of this year strongly advocated the installing and operating of a plant by the City; and at a public meeting of citizens in the Market Hall in February last the Mayor’s position on the question was endorsed by his receiving the unani- mous nomination for a second term and he was subsequently elected without opposition.

And Whereas, the entering into a new contract at the present time may pre- judice our position in the matter of municipal ownership. ; Therefore Resolved, that a special committee be appointed to obtain full and complete data as to the cost of in- stalling and operating an electric light plant by this city, and also what the ex- isting plants can be purchased for, and that the matter be submitted to a vote of the electors in February next, and if ap- proved of, the work be immediately undertaken. And further, that the said committee make arrangements in the meantime for the continuation of the present contract with the Prince Ed- ward Island Electric Company.”’ ' Igave my vote for that resolution bona fide and with the determination that so far asI was concerned every sentence of it should be honestly and fairly carried out, and I believe all the other Councillors who supported the resolution voted and will act likewise. Let us look at the past history of electric lighting in this city. The P. E. I. Electric Co. started business here in the fall of 1885, and obtained from the City a contract at $100 per lamp per an- num. This rate was paid until 1895. In the meantime, Geo. E. Full, Esq., in- stailed a plant which is now operated as the Full Electric Company. In 1895, tenders for lighting the streets were called. The Full Company tendering at $75 per lamp, and the P. E. I. Electric Company, represented by Mr. Waddell, at $73; and the latter Company accord- ingly got the contract for three years; but before this last contract expired, namely, in the Fall of 1897, the term was extended for two years by resolu- tion of tre then Council, without any tenders being called for or without any new conditions, being attached to the contract. No public indignation was then raised on the matter, nor were the Councillors charged with improper mo- tives or high crimes because they gave the contract to Mr. Waddell without asking for a tender. This happened only three years ago. Under this con- tract we pay, as I have stated, $73 per light per annum for 66 lamps, and we have besides six additional lamps, which only cost the city at the rate of $33.33 per lamp, so that the average annual cost to the Citv for each lamp at present, is about $69, which is a most reasonable rate compared with the prices paidin other cities and without considering the many favors given freely by the manager, Mr. Waddell, for ilumination and other public purposes. No one can successfully deny that Mr Waddell has successfully carried out his contracts fairly and squarely with the citiezns, but there is now a desire for an improv- ed light. We have not enough lamps on our streets. No method of lighting would give more light than the present system with the same number of lamps. Experience has shown that the direct current lamp without shade gives 39 per cent more useful light than the alter- nating current lamp with shade. The enclosed arc lamp gives a steadier and probably a prettier light but does not diffuse the light so well as the class of lamp we now haye in use. The enclosed are lamp consumes within fhe inner globe considerable of its own illumin- ation. An addition cf 20 or 25 more lamps would make avast improvement in our street lighting and give general satisfaction, but with our limited te- venues we eannot afford to pay a com- pany for those additional lamps, t here- fore to procure more lights with an up-to date plant and without increasing our yearly expenditure there has grown a strong feeling in favor of the city own- ing and Operating its own plant. The Mayor andevyery citizen is strong in favor of municipal lighting aud I believe I yoice the opinions of a large majority of citizens in saying that they heartily approve offfthe idea. If we only goin for street lighting then we can have $100 lights for $50 per lamp per annum or a less totai than we are now paying for 72 lights, but if the citizens should also decide to install an in- candescent plant and :do com- commercial lighting the cost of the street lighting would be practically

dout. Now, if we are correct in our belief that the citizens want muni- cipal lighting, then I claim that the ac- tion ofthe Council ,has really safe- guarded 'the rights of the taxpayers and has been taken in their best interests. Remember thav the present contract does not expire until Dec. 19th next, we intend to submit the question of muni- cipal lighting to the electors, on Feb.

18th, 1901,,at the time of the Water

Commissioners election, if nen of,

we intend immediately to take steps to 2 0

install tv, T ing of a contract. to the P Bidctrte Pie ' their or ne quencing og

would a 40 $10,000. I appeal to the calm and -jof* your readers if

sober th the giving of such a_ contract at the present time would not

eer,ously prejudice our position i

| obtaining ' would then be justly accused of sacrific-

"Grr, —I regret$the necessity of asking

— NS = ne -

municipal lighting. ~ We ing the citizens’ interests 1n favor of a few local capitalists. I have not the slightest doubt that if such a contract was given and entered into at the pres- ent time wecould not get authority from the Legislature to issue debentures for the purpose of installing our plant with- out 2 provision being inserted in the Act compelling the city to buy out the Full Co. plant. There is a precedent for such legislation in Ontario. The Legislature would rightly say that the City Council eonsented—in fact authorized—the Full Electric Co. to expend their private capital in installing a new plant to light

the city, and it will not be just to now allow the city to put in another plant a nd thus : jeopardise or absolute- ly rin the private onterprise. Before proceeding you must bny ont the existing plant at a fair

valnation.””. If municipal lighting is reqlly desired. IT would not consent to have the electors handicapped in the matter, and that is my reason for sup- norting the resolution adopted by the Conncil. The statement that the P. E. I. Etectric Co's tender at $78 per lamp was accepted, or that that company got any contract at such a figure, is without the slightest foundation, It was never intended or hinted that we should pay more than the present rates, and that only for a few months, and the proba- bilities are, we may arrange for a much cheaper rate. In any event, the present contract would only be continued from month to month, until a decision as to municipal lighting is arrived at. This will entail no serious loss on the City revenue ; and the assertions that we are throwing away $1500, is simply absurd. I firmly believe that, notwith- standing the mean insinuations and malicious misrepresentations and false- hoods of some interested parties, every unprejudiced taxpayer will see that the action of the Council was really in their best interest. = =

~——" JOHN F. WHEAR.".

Aug. 23, 1900

WHERE ;THE MONEY GOES

owe, ade

(Montreal Star )

When the elector consid+r3 the amazing fact that the Laurier Government have increased the total annual expenditure more during their short term of office than the Conservatives did in eighteen years he finds it difficult to understand where «ll the monev has gone, in view of the fect that the Liberal Government have uader- taken no great pational enterprises such as those which characterized the Couserva- tive regime. But when he reflecta upon Libera! methods as exemplified in a num-~ ber of cases to which public attention bas been drawn he no longer wonders that the total expenditure is 80 greut.

For instance, he remembess that the Government paid two dollars per pound for bogus emergency ratioss made up of broken biscuits grourd into powcer and packed into tin cans, whereas the Britieh Government buys genuine emergency rations for the army at from fifty to seventy-five cents per pound. He re~ members that all the members of the Goverament except Mr. Millis justified this as perfectly proper, and he con- clud<a that it is considered quite the thing tor members of the Government to pay

total amount involved in this case was lexs than $5,000, butevery one who hae kept accounts knows fhata large number of smallitems count up toa big total, and if the same principle of paying double prices was adopted in all small transac- tions by the Governmentit would make an enormous difference in the total expen- diture.

But the elestor knows that it is no ovly in smal] trameactions that the Gov- ernment are extravagant. He remembers how the Couservative Minister of Rail- ways and Canale, having arranged to pur- chase oil for the Intercolonial Railway, the Liberals came into power before the con- tract was signed, and Mr. Blair, refusing to carry out the arrangement made by the Conservative Government, made a new contract with the Galena Oil Company. The elector compares the price per gallon which Mr. Blair agreed to pay with the price that the Conservative Government were to pay, and extravagance seems too mild a wordto characterize Mr. Blair’s

method "of doing business. The figures are truly amazing : By Cox. By Lis. Prices Prices per gal. psrgal. Cyliader Oi].....00.0..0- 30 63 Engine oil, summer... .20 39 Engine oil, winter...... 214 39 | Car oil, summer...... 084 27 Car oil, wipter......... 093 35 Coach oil, summer.... .19 45 Signal and lamp oil...... .374 46 1-5.

The elector smiles at Mr. Blair’s expla- nation that the Galena Oil Company guaranteed that if they were allowed to supervise the work of oiling they would prevent waste of oil, and so save more than the extra price of the oil, for he knows that thie part of the contract wae not strictly carried out. As hundreds of thousan’s of dollars are involved in this transaciion the elector reasons that the Laurier Government adopt much the same business methods in big transactions ae they do im little ones This opinon ie strengthened whe he re- members the détails of the Drummond County railway deal, by which the Gov» ernment arranged to pay $2,094,192 for al useless little railway, although ea promi~

of the stock paid only $24,000 for it.

_ Then the eleetor remembers how Mr. Ta ve out dredging contracts at enor~. mou , without tender, to relatives.

and ‘friends

whe» knew, nathing sbont’ dredging, and eee Bie e

work done by ethers, making huge profits emebiss:

high prices for everything they buy. The }

pept Liberal who owned-ebout one-third }

el — - — ——

themeel ves.

These transactions and many others come to mind when the elector thinks the matter over, and he is not at all surprised that the expenditures have increased.

The people of Canada are not parei~ monious; they do not want a stingy policy; they approve of large expenditures when necessary to carry Ont great national projecte; but they will not endorse the reckless extravagance of any government.

TT © A Gru

The Races in Africa

—

Mr Nevineon, a Cape Town corresponds ent of the London Chronicle drawea gloomy picture of the social condition of Cape Colony, which he deseribes as di- vided by 4 race hoatility of the bitterest kiod. The Boer sees inthe Eoglishman “ama whois bent upon thrusting out the quiet Dutchman from bis farm and crowding the lonely land wita a black~ guard crew of Peruvians and other ‘mon - grels.”” The English colonial can see

nothing in the Boer but 4 cunning and deceitful peasant, little higher than the brutes. To

him the Boers in the mass are dirty, ignorant and incapable of progrese. He thinks that on the whole the war has brought about a better feeling between the Boer and the Briton *from England. They have metoo the field, have fought bravely, aod dave learned to respect one another. “But between tne Dutch and th: Englieh colonials the batred seems for ihe present to be only intensified. Here they stand, ae I said, ia parallel lines, and spit lies at each other, imputing vunly all that is baee. In South Africa, the lie, like the swindle, flourishes exceedingly weil I don’t know whether it is due to the blazing sun, a8 in the south of France, or too long association wiih nativee, or to the whiskey which townspeople begin to drink soon after sunrise and continue to drink without baste and with. out rest till nighi has come. Anyhow, there itis. Milner himself speaks of the ‘bacillus of lying’ which infests the country, and itis something of this sort which inspi-ed Sir Evelyn Wood’s famous eaying that ‘You cannot remain three years in South Africa and remain gentleman, ’”

Spain to Change Her Time,

Wasuixetoy, D. C., August 22.— Vice Consul Reed, at Madrid, bas inform: ed the State Department that by a decree time in Spain is hereafter to be counted from | to 24 hours, the order to go into effect January 1, 1901, the day to begin at midnight.

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Water Faminein Yukon

Vayoouver, B. C., August 22.—The steamer Cutch arrived from Skagway yesterday, bringing the news tbat owing to a water famine, mining is serisusly im- peded, and the gold output will be greatly affected. Unless rain comes before win-

er only 50 percent. of the comtemplated r Output will be realized.4 Klondyke is experiencing avotuer series Yof eartbquakes. The earth has been trembling for three days. It is said that &@ mountain sixteen miles north of Dawson bas been split In two, and a mountain streatn is pouring through the revine.

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TO THE DEAF.—A rich lady cured ot her Deatness and Noises in the Head by Dr. Nicholsons Artificial Ear Drums, gave $5,000 to his In- stitute, so that people unable to pro- cure the Ear Drrms may aave them free. Address 222nd, The Nicholson Institute, Lergectt, Gunnersbury London, W. Th, wk.

The Examiner Calendar

«FOR AUGUST...

MOON’S CHANGES. First Quarter, 3rd. Full Moon, 10th. Last Quarter, 17th New Moon, 24th.

D (High Water Sun S poner’ Morn | Aft’n | Rises.| Sets. tim | eines dient nent |) 0! sites aetctee | dimen 1)Wednesday} 142 2 3/451 (7 20 2Thursday {| 216 238 52 | 19 3\Friday 257; 320) 53 | 18 4\Saturday 357, 4211 55 | 16 5|Sunday 5 4 530! 56 | 15 6|Monday 6 32 6 39) 57 13 7\Tuesday 7 47; 815) 58 | 13 8|\Wednes :a;| 8 45, 9 1415 0 12 9\Thursd -, 4 0 9 1 | 10 10\ Friday 10 25 10 53) 2 9 \Satarday | 11 12) 11 35) 3 7 \2'Sunday 1134, 0 | 5 5 13\Monday | 0 3} 030) 6 3 4 Tuesday 0 4.) 1 16} 7 1 15|Wednesday| 1 35, 1 5% 9 (6 59 l6'Thursday, | 224! 25% 10 | 57 i7ie gay 3 25| 355) | 55 18 Saturday 4 54 5 22 12 53 19'/Sunday 6 24) 6 13 | 51 735, 8 15 ; 50 8.52). 8 16 | 48 91} 939 17-| 46 9 25 10 ie | 45 0 2 | 43 10 58 11 21 | 41 11 16 11 22 | 30 11 44 12 23 | 37 0 0 2% | 35 0 0 2 | 34 1 1 27 | 32 1 2 23 63

eee

That during¥the month ‘of August we are selling Men’s and Boy’s clothing at the

Tiniest of Prices

ever seen for our class of goods.

All our Summer Suits for Men.

All our Summer Suits for Boys.

All our Summer Trousers for both.

Must be cleared out during this month: The vrices are “mere remnants” of the marked figures.

alles - allot ~ Si

Are good stock to getclear of this time of*vear and no one knows that tuct better than we do ourselves, Hence the prices are where a ladder is not needed to reach them, all skirts and summer suits at about

Half Price" . s

while they last, Crash Caps, Crash Hats, Crash Skirts, |

and Crash Itself.

Crash Tams, Crash Shirts,

with the prices Crashed all to vieceS -gmm

during August, oo Hot Stuff, ror Hot weather, at HotZPrices, at} a

FPROWSE BROS. |

What trade we have we'll hold, and what we

haven't we're after.

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