OUT OF 2,000 CLAIMS
Against an Accident]|Co. for last year, 531 were for accidents caused to pedestri- ans walking on the sidewalk
THE OCEAN ACCIDENT
Insures against all kinds of accidents its premiums are low, and itt issues a good Policy
6.10. row
General Agent Charlottetown
THR DAILY EXAMINER.
MAY 28, 1897.
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THE PROVINCIAL ELECTIONS.
Mr. Perers is now away from the Province attending to .the Behring Sea case. But it is likely that he will return ¢o his Provincia! duties in the course of & week or two; and it is said thet he will, as soon as he bas corrected the blunder joncerning the foundation of the new wing &o the Hospital for the Insane, cause the iasue of the writs for an election. He may, perhaps, be persuaded, while at Ottawa, te attend the Queen’s Jubilee celebration, and in that cave the elections must be gwstponed, or he may find it expedient to Hold on to the utmost limit of his term. Watt is ramored that an sppealto the gseople will be made about the last of June
or during the course of July.
Jv that case—in any case—it is time for the pecple to prepare for the eneounter. Mr. Peters is entitled to judgment on his record. Is that record consistent with his pire election promises - is it consistent with tkat which the people were by him and luis followers led to expect; and is it con- wictent with the circumstances of this agricultural Province? These are the main questions.
Upon these questions it is easy to come to a decision. Indeed, we believe that the eople bave decided already, and that the €edling of the country is,at the present woment, overwhelmningly against Mr. Peicrs, his aiders and abettors. Mr. Peters jsnoi likely torest his case upon his record, for he knows that it is bad. He will, rather, hope for a continuance of the “epidemic of Liberalism,” and he will re- ‘presunt, directly or indirectly,that the Pro- vince &as much to gain from the Dominion Government by keeping him and kis friends in power at this juncture. {pon this latter point{the Toronto Globe— the chief organ of the Government—-con- tains.an eye-opener for all our electors. Zp\ive leading article ot the issue to hand wn Wednesday evening, The Globe repels wrth indignation the aesertion that the Liberal party at Ottawaare committed to: seme scheme for a general increase ef Federal pay menis, and says :
“‘As the views of the Libera] members of Parliament as a body must be sought in their resolutions, so the platform of the Liberal party of Canada is to be found, not ve the resolution of the Quebec Coaference, Tutt in the convention held in Ottawa in R898. There is nothing in the proceedings of that convention about a plan for in- exeasing the provincial subsidies, although some of those who took part in the Quebec Conference were present.”
The Globe points out that “the present isas inopportune a time as could be chosen for any readjustment of the finan- «sel scheme of ccnfederation by which imcregsed subsidies should be paid the Provinces” and says in conclusion :
“Sf the allowances to all the Provinces were increased, the citizens ef those Pro- wieces as Federal tax-payers,would have to gay the bill. It does not follow, however, chai the transaction would be a mere piece «<t wookkeeping. The revenues of the Dominion are obtained by indirect taxation, aed it is one of the evils of this form of taxation that it is difficult to make the taxpayers realize the weight of the burden. The Province that obtained the increase would be disposed to regard it as eo much foend money, and its notions of expendi- tare would grow accordingly. The more the Proviaces are thrown upon their own resources, the Jess they are encouraged to look to the Federal treasury for relief, the more likely are they to practice that econ- omy which the intereste of the country rargently require.”
‘Whis emphatic utterance of the chief wzan of the Government at Ottawa is con- stesive as to the pretence that Mr. Peters, if he should continue to be Premier of Pciece Edward Island, may be able to mfive nce his friends at Ottawa to add to jhe subsidy of the Province and thus cover tp, 1 some extent, the huge debenture amd statutory debt that he has, in the past i years incurred. There is, in the near tatare, no hope, no prospect, of another tncrease to our subsidy; and Mr. Peiers @ught not to claim or obtain a single vote &. chat score. This being the fact, the
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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN MAY 28, 1897.
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electors are throw back upon the record and upon the the stands condemne: already.
The friends of economy and reform have and
record Goveroment
now only to organize prepare for the present patent double-dealing combination Much will, of course, depend upon the position taken by the esteemed leader of
the Opposition, the Hon. Daniel
united action in order to overt hrow
Gordon, The country looks to them fer the sign by which to conquer.
and his supporters.
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ESTEEMED EXCHANGES. Montreal Star: There ought to be, in- deed, no fear of a provincial raid. There are Federal works e1 9 1gh to be accomplish el to tax and over tax the resources of ihe Federal Government.
Montreal Gazette: Liberal papera com- plain of the amount of Parliameut’s time consumed in discussions over the dismie- sals of officials. The Liberal party could put an end to this waste mo-t easily. Let its leaders refrain from unjustly dismissing public servants.
_ Halifax Herald: The proposed tariff oo books has been somewhat amended but motenough. The duty on trash is still too low and on gooi books too high. The changes that have been made are rather in the interest of the bookseliers than of the
public. The best book tariff we ever had Canada was the one the grits have re- pealed.
Montreal Gazette: Mr. James Jeffrey Roche, expresses his sympatby with Can- ada in connection with the the discussion of Kipling’s tariff poem, and moves to modify the snow allusion as follows:
Moisture condensed in crystallized form There sometimes is seen when the weather ain’t warm.
Mr. Roche is a man of real feeling and broad sympathy. For his sake it may be admitted that Boston’s Leautiful weather is only Jess beautiful than it otherwive ia when the east wind blows.
NEWS NOTES,
A committee of the Winnipeg city council, after careful consideration, has reported favorably on a proposed by-law for “the licensing, inspecting and reguiat- ing of dairies and vendors of milk.” The license fee is to be one dollar ; the inspec- tion extends to dairies and stables, and in- cludes the tuberculin test for disease in ca‘tle.
Private letters from Honolulu say that the Dele Government bas decided to give to the British Company the concession for the ocean cable. The Hawaiian Govern- ment has grown weary of tne Inkewarm attitude of the United States over the cable question, and has closed with the British proposals. Recently a British war vessel left Sydney to make a survey to Fanning Isiand, and the Wild Swan re- cently left Honolulu to survey cable routes around that Island, which will be the main landing place for the cable.
The new British Ambassador at Paris, Sir Edmund Monson, recently delivered an address on the Queen’s reign, in which he pointed out that during that time the population of the United Kingdom has gcown from 26,000,000 to 40,000,068 ex- cluding 10,000,000 who have emigrated
beyond the seas. British trade with foreign countries has multiplied in value six fold; the carrying power of the shipping
has increased from a little less than 3,000,- 000 tons toa litt'e more than 27,000,600; while the Beitish share of the carrying trade of the world has risen from 27 per cent. to 52 per cent. When the Qceen aa- cended the throne there were only 110 miles of railway open in the United King- dom; in 1895 there were 18,000. The increase of steam power bas averaged 220,000 horse power per annum, the totals standing at 600,000 in 1840 and at nearly 13,000,000 in 1895; while the manufacture of textile fabrics has been nearly quad- rupled.
—Commenting upon the latest changes in the Fielding Tarift the Montreal Gazette remarks that “it will take some time to fully comprehend the effect of the changes as it took some time to rightly appreciate the meaning of the resolutions the changes amend. It can be said of them, however, that they are geherally of a character to improve a bad gase.” yon DERFUL are the cures by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and yet they are simple and natural. Hood’s Sarsa-
parilla makes PURE BLOOp.
THE DELINEATOR.
The June number of the Delineator is called the early summer pumber and _ its presentation of warm weather modes, fabrics, dress trimings and millinery ia made brillisntiv attractive by the band-- some color plates. The literary features include contributions by a quintette of famous women. Sister Anyelique, a dauitily humorous atory of life in a Louis- iana convent schcol, is by Molly Elliot Seawell, author of “The Sprightly Ro-
mance of Mareac,” The New York Herald’s g4ULU prize story. In the fourth number of the series on social
fe is American Cities, Anne H.
Wharton, author of “Through Oolonial ‘oorwnays, ete, disenases with authority Society in Phi'adelphia. Of allied interest isAnnva ft. Sualier’s account of the Lady Antignarians of Montreal, Jeanie M. Druke’s second study of New York Social I'ypee will be found qnite as pleasantly critical as was her description of the Metropolitan Woman cf Society. In timely recognition of the season for flitting is the paper by Mary Cadwalader Jones, entitled At Home atid Abroad. Mrs. Witherspoon’s Juve Tea Table Chat, Mr, Vick’s sugges- tions for the flower garaen, and the pages devoted to seasonable cookery and the new books are of habitual excellence. The young folks will fiod described some noyel forme of entertainments, and the children are not forgotten. Ladies interested in artistic needle~work skould not miss this number, the regular departments of tatting crocheting, lace making, etc., being #up- plemented by Emma Haywood’s special designs for fancy stitches and embroideries and ecclesiastical embroidery, and Bertha E. J. Blodgett’s directions for making an embroidered box for presentation to a June bride.
Order frony the local agent for the But- terick Patterns, or address the Delineator Publishing Co., Ltd., 33 Richmond 8, Weat, Toronto.
Subseription price of the Delineator, $1.00 per year, or 15 cents per single copy.
A BAD ROAD.
€ir,—I wi-h to cal) the attention of some of our bosses to the fact that a part of the western Earnsclifte road has been in such a disgraceful condition for the past nionth or 60 a8 to compel travellers with teams to go two or three miles out of their way toavoid this dangerous place. The people bave two ways of escape from it, one being the rough, rocky sea shore, and thus afturding another illustration of being between the devil and tne deep sea. It is scandalous that the Government should ermit auch a state of aftairs to continue.
till this is but one instance of the way the Grit Government attends to the wants, of the travelling public. bridges were kept in good repair while the Conservatives were ia power, but since the Grits took the helm our roads have been neglected. I believe there was one year in which the Grits paid considerable attentien to our roads, and that was in 1893, when the Boodle Brigade swept over the country like a whirlwind filling the ruts with pipe-elay, sand, dust, mud or rocks, whatever was handy; cover— ing broken railings of every old tumble down bridge with paint or whitewash in a vain endeavor to hide its rotieness, build~ ing culverts in places where there hasn’t been a stream of water sinee the days of the flood; and making new roads for the simple purpose of distributing the boodle. Briefly summed up, this is the principal part of the Grit’s road aad bridge record, and yet in view of this fact, together with the gross mismanagement of everything in connection with the affairs of the country, our provincial branch of tne organized Lypocrisy have the supreme insolence to expect the electors to line up to the polls at the nextelection and give them a ew lease of life in order that they may con- tinue to neglect the public works, squander our money and thus involve the Island in irretrievable ruin. We venture to assert that the electors of this Island, hay= ing learned what a costly experiment the Peter’s government has been, will when the time comes, putthem in a place where they can do no further harm to the (@untry.
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UWING TU THE RAl
Many of our Customers for that, day.
We will again offer for the benefit of ths many who will no doubt tikes
pairs Gloves for 25c. to-day onl
We will offer a few boxes of Flowers at 5c a sprig, worth dauble.
only for two hours. 95 Ladies’ and Misses’Straw | IIits, your choice for 19¢, | 100 Sailor Hats for 25¢. |
Ladies’ Lislie Thread Under- wear, 25 per cent off.
Ladies’ Wool Unéervests, only 250.
3 leading lines of Corsets, 25 per cent off.
Undervests from $¢ to ide.
Stockings, 3 paurs for 25e.
Best all wool Ribb Hose in town, 25¢.
y.
Boys’ Suits, sizes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, HALF PRICE for 3 hours, 9 till 12. Come early
if you want a genuine bargain.
| Ladies’ Gloves, worth 18c,
for 8e.
| 1,000 yards Flannelette,
worth 10 and 13c, for 6$e. Ladies’ Flannelette Night
Dress, worth 55e, for 35e.
Jubilee Handkeachiefs, 5c 8c, 10c and 20c.
A Jubilee Medal free to.
N LAST SAT
were unable to take advantage of our great spe
every customer buying $1.00 worth of goods. |
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advantage, 8
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Special offer in Millinery— 40 per cent of all Englisy Trimmed Hats.
20 Trimmed Hats, $1.00 to $1.50.
300 yd Crepon Print, [%¢ worth 18c. :
100 Straw Hats at Sweep. ing clearing prices, :
1,000 Spray’s Flowers The flower offer will hold good for one hour, between 1] and 19 o'clock, aleo between 7 and 9 in the evening But come early if you want the snap of the season
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They have Dunlop Tires, large Barrel Hubs, large Balls, and are by far the best value ever shown in this city. Also. in
E. & D, Barnes, Perfect, Garden City, Dominion.
And 1 ladiesand gents Brantford Rep Birv—these I will
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Dawson's Bicycle Depot THH LHADER.
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‘ FOR SALE
The subscriber wish es to dispose of his beautifully situated residence, fronting 84 feeton West Strect, and running © the shore 209 ft, with shore privileges te the channel, now for sale by private con- tract. This fine residence, “Edeahurst,” is situated between the residences ef the Bon. L. H. Davies on one ride, and Benji min Heartz, Erq, on the other side. The house is bherted with hot water. There 1s vacant space on the south side sufficient for the erection of a coach honse and stables.
“Edenhurst” commands “a fine view of the harbor and surrounding country, and one of the best situated residences in thé city.
If not sold by private sale before the Qad day of June, next, it will on that day be soid by auction at 12 o’clock noon.
For full particulars apply to the ownet
on the premises, SIMON DAVIES, Or to A. McNeil! Auctioneer, Ch’tow®s
114—15, 13, 21,26, 29, 31.