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JUNE il, 1878. Mr. Peter Sinctair.

Tus is a subject upon whom we do not

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propose to waste much space. He stands now with one foot on land and one on sea. He would fain venture another political billows to Ottawa ;—and

. ; ? . . } are ‘* private reasons” why he

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o’er the yet their — should stay at home and attend to his fari. While in this state of mind it is hardly worth troubling him much.

Yet it gether the few facts of his career which are

may do some good to group to-

worthy of mentioning, and to try and see what—if anything—/e has good of his country since he entered poli- tical life, and whether or not he has proved ** a failure.”

As a politician, Mr. Sinclair has invari- ably sailed south by north. Professing to bea “Temperance man,” he always sent around the ‘‘ whiskey keg” or the “ rum bottle” just previous to an election —till the law prohibited him from doing so. Pro- fessing to be a rigid economist he develop- ed the ‘‘ Dashaway Policy” as pourtrayed in the celebrated letter to the whilom Summerside Progress.

done for the

editor of the

Protesting against the building of the rail_ way while in Opposition, he ordered tle construction of the Railway Branch as soon as he could after he became a member of the Government. Protesting against the Railway Contractors whom he joined in de- nouncing while im Opposition, he em- ployed the seli-same contractors to build branches—and increased their pay for doing the work. Protesting against Con- federation, he connived with Laird to take the Province for ONE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS LESS than were afterwards obtained

through the instrumentality of Messrs.

Pope, Howlan and Haviland. Believing that the fifteen per cent tariff of the Liberal-Conservatives would yield

more revenue than the seventeen and a half per cent. tariff of the Grits, he voted for the latter, and now pretends to be a Free Trader. Lastly, professing that he ought to stay at home; that “* private reasons’ exist why he should retire from polities just at this particuiar juncture, he has, for the past year, been touching his hat to electors with whom he is unacquainted, and bidding for support in the contest now near at hand, openly.

Having written so much about Mr. Peter Sinclair, we find the subject exhausted.

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A Few Facts and Figures.

Tux following table shows the large in- crease in the cost of Civil Government since Messrs. McKenzie and Cartwright attained

to power :—

In 1872-3 Civil Government cost $750,990 In 1883-4 do do 883,700 In 1874-5 do do 909,300 In 1875-6 do do 842,000 In 1876-7 do do 812,200

This increase from $750,000 to $812,000 is very large even for the * economical Government,” especially when it is remem. bered that in 1870, Mr. McKenzie was rav- ing about the extravagance of the Liberal Conservatives after the following fashion :

“Why, the Ministry were packing the pub- lic buildings from the attic to the cell. r —two or three in every room—till one could hardly tind his way thiough them. ‘The last time he was at Ottawa he found four men at the door waiting for the little man’s behests inside.”’

Mr. McKenzie gave the packed officials more room by building for them a costly addition to the Public Buildings, and by addding to their salaries the aggregate sum of $161,300. And so the anchors of ** Re- form,” ‘‘economy ” and ‘ purity” drag, and the vessel drifts to ruin.

The following list of figures represent the cost of the Immigration Department :— In 1872-3, Immigration cost $227,400 In 1873-4, *¢ 318,600 in 1874-5, “ “302,300 In 1875-6, na *¢ 289,900 In’ 1866-7, ” ‘¢ 210,000 Now let us see how the expense, as shown above, compares with the result. Here are

the fignres :—

Cost per

Immigrants. Cost. jhead. 1872-3 36,907 $277 ,400 $ 7 51 1873-4 33,804 318,600 13 33 1874-5 16,038 302,300 18 90 1875-6 10,901 289,900 26 50 1876-7 7,743 209,000 27 00

In 1872-3, when Liberal-Conservatives were in power, it cost Canada $7.51 for every immigrant who came into the country under Governmental auspices. In 18767 when Reform-Economy,j Prudence and Patriotism—as represented by a Grit Gov- ernment—reigned, each immigrant cost the country $27.000—or an increase per head of $19.49.

Let the following figures tell how the party of ‘‘ Economy” improved upon the economy of the Liberal Conservatives in the matter of collecting the revenue ;-~

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Revenue collected. collecting.

1872-3.........- $13,063, 900 $568, 000 wee. x. a 14,410,600 658, 300 Tae. | 15,387,000 682,700 IOVER . .. Pew des 12,841,800 721,000 iO7e7 i. 1. ake 12,556,800 721,600

The cest of collecting each $100 of Cus-

toms revenue has therefore been as fol-

lows :— ee ee. ee eek ORR $4 35 ES Se ee ee ee 4 56 ah ae eee ens 4 44 te cs SCOTT ea es 5 61 BOTT «cnc cacvawtd a wad eevee. 5 75

in the Excise Department we have the

same story to tell. The figures are as fol-

lows : Cost of Revenue collected, collecting. 1872-3... 2... ++ + G4,527,000 $171,700 SE oak bh nees es 4,974,000 211,000

The cost of collecting each $100 of Ex- cise revenue has therefore been as follows : OT ihe Tn re Ee ee $3 80 OE sé Bi vig tie eee e's ies re es 4 24

Let the electors of P. E. Island con these figures, and learn of them whether or not the Liberal-Conservatives or the Grits are most truly economical, and which party manages most satisfactorily the disburse- ments of the public Exchequer.

itn cetei The Cardigan Election. Mr. Frerauson was, we are pleased to learn, unanimously nominated at a meeting held at Dundas on Monday evening. Our informant says there will probably be a large meeting at Cardigan Bridge this even- ing; and we have little doubt that Mr. Ferguson will their again be unanimously

nominated.

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The Unkindest Cut of All

Mr. Thomas Coffin is a member of Mr. McKenzie’s Government. It is necessary to state the fact distinctly, for there - are some people in Canada so ignorant as not to be aware of it. A week or two ago, be- lieving then that the writs for a General Election would be issued immediately, he, addressed his constituents in a brief letter

—Mr. Coflin is aman of few words—de- claring that he would again be a candidate. Then came a Grit convention in Shelbourne, when, lo and behold ! the ungrateful secamp

actually refused to re-nominate Mr. Mc Kenzie’s colleague, and selected in his stead Mr. Thomas Robertson, who was lately beaten by Mr. White for the Local Legisla- ture. ‘This is, indeed, the unkindest cut of all. It is unparalleled. Nothing like it is known. Has Mr. Cottin suffered vicarious- ly? He has certainly no sins of commis- sion of his own to answer for. We must suppose he was thrown over because he was a member of the Government. ’Tis cruel, tis a hard fate, but ’tis true for all that. — Mail,

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Mr. Blake's Retirement:

(From the Montreal Star.)

It is probable that Mr. Blake never had any great desire for public life in itself, or for itself, and his object in allying himself with a political party was one of a personal nature. We have always believed that he was the great iconoclast, and that he en- tered Parliament to help to destroy the great idol of the Conservative party. For this work he was well cut out by nature and education, and to his ‘“‘burning eloquence,” as an enthusiastic admirer has called it, was due in great measure the downfall of the Tory chieftian. And since the downfall of the chieftian some of Mr. Biake’s greatest efforts at eloguence have been for the pur- pose of damning and bedaubing the reputa- tion of Sir John. ‘The duty has been well dene, but it has been overdone, and the country is coming tothe conclusion that the old chieftain is not so black as the great orator of the Grit party would paint him. The re-action is natural and no more than might have been expected. But the special work which brought Mr. Blake into public life has been finished—there is no more pulling down to be done—and this will probably account in a great part for his re- tirement from Parliamentary life.

It has often been thrown in the teeth of Lord Beaconsfield by the Radical party that he was getting fat en the money of the na- tion. As it happens he is a poor man, and whatever money he possesses came from his wife and a legacy left him some twenty years ago. In this he is not singular. Few Premiers in England have been wealthy men. Like the present Prime Minister, Canning and Gladstone got their money through their wives. Pitt was too poor to be able to afford to marry. Lord Palmer- ston till late in life was not wealthy, and only then through some property he pos- sessed being suddenly found to be rich in minerals. His wife also brought him prop- erty as the sole heiress to the estates of her brother, Lord Melbourne, who was very well off. The late Lord Derby and the late ‘Sir Robert Peel are the only two instances of really rich Premiers.

What a truly beautiful world we live in! Nature gives us grandeur of mountains, glens and oceans, and thousands of means for enjoyment. We can desire no better when in perfect health ; but how often do the majority of people feel like giving it up disheartened, discouraged and worried out with disease, when there is no occasion for this feeling, as every sufferer can easily ob- tain satisfactory proof that Green’s August Flower will make them as free from disease as when born. Dyspepsia and Liver Com- plaint are the direct cause of seventy-five per cent. of such maladies as Biliousness, Indigestion, Sick Headache, Costiveness, Nervous Prostration, Dizziness of the Head, Palpitation of the Heart, and other distress- ing symptoms. Three doses of August Flower will prove its wonderful effect Sample bottles, 10 cents; Try it,

Cost of

ELECTORS, ATTENTION!

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3RE THAT YOUR POLL TAX IS PAID, AND MAINTAIN YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE.

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Any person who fails to pay his I oll Tax

before the Court of Revision is held in

June and July, forfeits his right to vote on

the Franchise. Read the following ex-

tract from the law, and secure, without

delay, your right to vote when the time

comes :—

1. Every man shall be entitled to be regis- tered as a voter, and when registered, to vote for members to serve in the House of Assem- bly of this Province for the Electoral District wherein he resides, who is qualified as follows, that is to say :

(1.) Is a British subject of the full age of twenty-one years, and free from any legal in- capacity ; and

(2.) Has during the twelve months imme- diately preceding the first day of the sitting of the Court for the revision of the Lists of Voters for the House of Assembly, at which he may apply to be registered as a voter, been resi- dent in the Polling Division for which he may claim to vote ; ad

(3.) Has paid his Poll Tax for the year im- mediately preceding such sitting of the said Court of Revision.

Such is now the law. If your name is

not on the Register you cannot vote, and your name cannot be placed upon the Reg- ster UNLESS YOUR POLL TAX IS PAID. It is no use grumbling about hard times. The

Government which lays on the tax knows

how to secure payment. You might as well

pay first as last; and by paying right away you secure your right to vote and a chance to drive from power, when the time comes, the mixers and muddlers who now prosti- tute the Government of this country. As we say to one so we say to all who have not already paid their poll tax, ‘Pay without delay.”

The Courts of Revision wiJl be held in Queen’s County on the dates named below ; and the poll tax must be paid before they are held—-payment may be made at the office of the Provincial Secretary :—

lst. Belle Creek, Lot 62, at or near the Schoolhouse, 18th June. ;

2nd. Eldon, County Court House, Lot 57, 19th June.

3rd. Green Marsh, at Cross of Douse’s Road and Murray Harbor Road, 20th June, 4th. Pownal, at or near the Hall, Lot 49, 2ist June. 5th. Fort Augustus, Lot 36, at or near Schoolhouse, Monaghan Road, 22nd June. 6th. Clifton, County Court House, Lot 21, 25th June.

7th. New Glasgow County Court House, Lot 23, 26th June.

Sth. Brackley Point, Lot 33, at or near the Hall, by Chas. Kennedy’s, 28th June.

9th. St. Peter’s Road County Court House, Lot 35, 29th June.

10th. North Wiltshire, Lot 31, at or near the Schoolhouse, Ist July.

lith. Springton, Lot 66, at or near the Schoolhouse, 2ad July. 12th. Crapaud; at or near the Hall, Lot 29, 3rd July. 13th. Bonshaw County Court House Lot 30, Sth July. l4th. Charlottetown,

Court House, 8th July. .

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GENERAL NEWS.

The United States Houso of Represen- tatives had adopted the bill reducing the tax on tobacco to 16 cents per pound., and fixing the tax upon cigars at $0 per thousand. Messrs. Rhodes, Curry & Co., of Am- herst, have been awarded the contract for the new Acadia College and Academy—the former at $21,000, and the latter at $14,000 —both to be completed in a year.

John B. Vanderheld threw himself to death before a locomotive running ona trial trip at a fearfal speed cn the Coney Island N. Y. ©. railroad; and he nearly threw the locomotive off the track.

In commemoration of the marriage of her son, Mr. W. Astor, to Miss Paul, which was solemnized at Philadelphia the other day, Mrs. John Jacob Astor made to the New York Children’s Aid Society a dona- tion of $1,500 for the purpose of paying the expenses of finding good and permanent homes in the West for 100 of the destitute boys of New York.

The coadjutor Bishop of St. Paul, the Right Rev. Bishop Ireland, has taken a very active part for five years past in estab- lishing colonies for Irish Catholics in Min- nesota. A fourth colony has just been pur- chased in Nobles County, and is called Avoca, after Moore’s beautiful poem of that name. The Irish are taking to to the land all over the country.

A boy only ten years of ago, named Brewer, has committed suicide at Bridge- water, Eng. His mother had threatened him with chastisment, and he ran away. The mother pursued him across two or three fields, until they reached a deep pond of water. The boy Jumped into the deep- est part of it, and the mother being unable to reach him, he was drowned in her sight.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has beea re- viewing the results of disestablishment in Ire- land, and, as might be expected, his general conclusion is, that so far Mr. Gladstone’s measure has by no means realized the anticipa- tions and predictions of its promoters. It = failed, he says, to extinguish sectarian ani- mosities. Not only are the Roman Catholics and the Protestant Episcopalians ‘‘as far off from each other as ever,” but even the Presby- terians, who it was supposed would be eager for brotherly co-operation with the Disestab- lished Church, ‘‘seem quite as much, if not more than before, separated from” the now

emancipated institution.

A Plea for the Ladies.

This troublesome problem, sé How to Make a Living ?” is growing more profound every day. We look at it carefully » we study it ; we turn it over on all sides _ and again, and after all we find ourselves just as far from the solution as when we started. The unknown quantities are 80 numerous, the conditions of the problem so obscure, that we find it impossible so far to make any clear statement. No wonder our braiits become confused and our hearts ae come weary. I do not think that Canada’s daughters are as much agitated on the ques- tion of the so-called woman’s rights as their more restless sisters over the line, some of whom have the mistaken idea that the bal- lot-bex will surely bring thei _ to their de- sired haven. 1 for one—and I am a thor- ough American, too—do not care to risk my fortunes on any such stormy, uncertain sea; but I do hold, and that most persistently, that women have a right to fill any position they are capable of filling—and that covers a wide range. ‘The sisterhood of workers who are dependent upon their own efforts for their daily bread—minus the luxury of butter—cannot help feeling indignant at the slur put upon them by their being shut out merely because they are women. There is no justice in it. Men who hold the narrow theory that woman’s brain isn’t sufticient for these things must forget, I think, that women were their mothers. Why may not women be in the county offices, and in the law offices as assistants, and in the banks as paying tellers and cashiers? Too public a position for a woman? Now, you know just as well as I do that this isa flimsy excuse. I have known women in the States who occupied these very positions, and they always filled them creditably. A gentleman, who had consented to employ a lady in his office, said to me seme time after: ‘I never had my books more neatly and accurately kept, and this is the first year in five years that the returns were made out and sent up to the Stet: Board in time’’ Besides this, he added, ‘I think it would pay me to employ a lady in this oftice if I had nothing for her to do, for there’s never been any loafing or lounging here since Miss R— came, and the room has taken an air, somehow, that it never had before.” He saw the advantage the lady had been to him, and he was willing to acknowledge it. ‘The lady in question had been violently opposed, but she held her own in a quiet and womanly yet deter- mined way, brushing off the unkind slurs and thrustsasshe would brush the dust from her garments, and she conquered. The hot prejudice in time{ cooled down, and even her opposers had to own them- selves mistaken. She proved herself tho- roughly capable of performing the duties the office called for, as assistant to the County Clerk, and that office was never choked with tobacco smoke or made foul with tobacco juice. The presence of a woman there checked the ready oath, and put a stop to all loafing in the office.

You never heard of a woman making off with the funds entrusted to her care, or of her being obliged to absent herself from her post in con- sequence of a night’s spreeing. Comparisons are odious I know, but they are necessary sometimes to strengthen an argument. Oh! how indignant I have been often; to see great strong men at the desk, not unfrequently mak- ing grand confusion of their papers, because their heads were muddled by the whisky and dissipation of the night before. When I have seen such an one, how I have longed to take him up, by no means tenderly, and put him on a Western farm to break prairie, raise wheat or stock, and to take his place myself at the pa- pers—a position to which I had as fair a right as he. [am _ surprised that there should be such a prejudice here in Canada against women occupying such placos, when a woman wields the gracious sceptre over this Kingdom. Some one says, as he draws himself up with a su- perior air, ‘‘Oh, women can’t stand the close confinement of an office.” Can’t, eh? They can stand the close air of the sewing room, bending over their work from seven in the morning until ten or twelve at night, for the pittance of fifty cents a day. How many men would stand the confinement or the wages any better or half so well? When there are so many rich acres lying waiting for the strong muscle of man to turn them into gold, when there are wide-spreading pasture lands waiting to be stocked, it is a burning shame that they should be left to lie | staked while the ought-to-be farmers and stock-raisers fill the offices in the city, and thereby keep women from their right- ful place. You may call these sentiments strong-minded. 1am glad you think so; the term is a broad and noble one. A strong- minded woman is strong-souled, strong-heart- ed, true, and courageous, ready and willing to do with her might what falls to her. What are we going todo? How are we going to do away with this masculine monopoly? Oh, you men! wen’t you go West and give us a chance? Qu1 VIVE.

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Value of Sleep as a Tonic.

Tne best possible thing for a man to do when he feels too weak to carry anything through is to go to bed and sleep as long ashecan. This is the only actual recu- peration of brain force; because, during sleep, the brain is in a state of rest, in a condition to receive and appropriate parti- cles of nutriment from the blood, which takes the place of those which have been consumed by previous labor, since the very act of thinking burns up solid particles as every turn of the wheel or screw or the steamer is the result of censumption by fire of the fuel in the furnace. ‘rhe sup- ply of consumed brain substance can only be had from the nutritive particles in the blood, which were obtained from the food eaten previously, and the brain is so con- stituted that it can best receive and appro- prite to itself those nutritive particles dur- ing the state of rest, of quiet, and stillness of sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing in themselves ; they goad the brain and force it to a greater consumption of its sub- stance, until it is so exhausted that there is not power enough left to take up a fresh supply.

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THURSDAY, the 20th June next,

AT 12 O'CLOCK, NOON, for furnishing a

Steam-Hieating Apparatus,

of the most improved kind, for the New School Building now in course of erection on Westerm Kent Street, in this City.

The Boiler to be either Tubular or Sectional, —Direct Radiators, The Contractor to guarantee 70 degrees of heat in the coldest weather.

Security will be required for the proper per- formance of the contract.

The Board does not bind itself to accept the lowest or any tender. :

Tenders to be marked on the outside ‘* Ten. der for heating new School Building.”

By order of the Board.

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