THE WEEKLY EXAMINER and | THE WEEKLY EMPIRE. both tone |

Se anne

For neat, clean, tasteful P» /ana prompt attention to or”

. x > in advance md 7 HES > ene a rs uf RES Vem: t i Ni r '

pons to CH bk NER R EXAMINER Job P+

ptions to THE EXAMINER ment is peouliar. |

Cek™M-~ Five Dor ARS a Vx ak 6 gre 5 aera aad Wb ei * This is true Liberty, when Free Born Men, having te advise the Public, may speak free.”—Evniripzs. Suvare (

Pp? . > ~ —_ _ a $s — oe ——— — - ee ee Soest ee = Se —— a&% « , e My,

‘ HARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1892.

VOL. 29.—..

———$— ad

—

Calendar for Feb wary, 1892 1 ieee: dt | é ; MOON'S CHANGES ; } =m & 8 F rst Querter, 4 1 day 5 15 mow Fu | Moos 12th dey 3 M4 after | Jue 20th da 7 5 os " {| New Moon, 27h dey 1) 93 meena Tay alts i z =a ; ae {| ~ v Dy | or wean | Bim Ware JAS. PATON & CO. have placed eT ea a | . eet ee on their counters severel Bales of j = — | 0 2 0 37 t r f: 2 ‘uesday 053} 110 hi ° e e 3 j ejnesda } gs it ~ : Le eee wit comece | “Nglish Prints, in short lengths and 6 | Priday ree? ie i 6 | aturday | 410 | 454 . ; ; ah ee good patterns, suitable for Spring = is 8 16 § 44 os 0 edneada . O6 ), 47 s. 1 prone’: hue ob | fies and Summer wear, at a very low 12 | Friday 10 36 | lw 54 - 13 Saturday | 1! 13 | 11] 34 I . 14 Sunday 1) 46 be i! 15 Mo lav i ¥ 7 YL ‘price. = lie od ou ALSO, A BIG LINE OF 1 17 Wednesday | 2 | 119 Daa el 18 Thu sd.y ) 36 1 53 3 i 7h: Hea tn oe Sat oe oe oe oe oe Se 19 Friday 211} 229 EMB OIDERIES i} 20 | Sarurday | 2 50 3 12 } HI 21° | Sunday 34 | 48 3) = | or x 1 4 46 & 5 s 3 |} i Qesday 51 i 5 Hh jsuinay | $2) 88] VERY CHEAP, 23 | Thu sday | 844 916 : . x : 26 b da , 9 ' l 5 ee es ee ee y % |riiy” | oat | 10 8 _ A big line of Cheap Embroider- 28 =| Sunday 1 5 | 112 20 | Monday 11 40 | 11 587

. Ray “

SOOTHING, CLEANSING, a> A HEALING, “EATS: instant Relief, Permanen aos Cure, Failu-e impossible. Many so-called diseases are

war ed In

cold in head g 1, followed © } a deati

f i by al! , Or sent, > post paid, on 1 t of price Wages (90 cents and $i by iddressing B

FULFORD & CU. Bro kville.Ont,

JMS A. MORPISON \LIFA xX. WARRM i, CAKEBREAD & C0, TEA MERCHANTS, London, «= England,

——AND ALSO——

First-Class West India Firms, ete.

SPECIALTIES:

Tea, Sugar and Molasses.

Careful attention given to consignments of Prince Edward Island Produce.

REFERENCKE—Bank of Nova Scotia

OFFICE Pickford & Biack’s Wharf.

Halifax, August 13. 1891 -dy & wy

Several

TES OF L/ME AND SOQA IS THE BEST EMULSION OV THE MARKET TODAY. NOOMY TASTE LINE OTHERS. /T US SOLD BY ALL ORUCCISTS JN BIG BOT: TILES, FIFTY CENTS HONE DOLLAR,

LA GRIPPE VANQUISHE

LACE one of the OZONATOR DISIN- FECTANTS in your house and La “ripp* will not trouble you.

=——w ;

The most powerful and plzasant Disinfec- tant known to the medical profession.

F. DeC. DAVIES

DPRUGGIST,

is AGENT for them here, and will cheerfully 8b ow ana explain th ix uve to those who desire it Call and see them No trou"

to s 10w them

eod&wy—janl6

A. A. WeLEAN, Atirij-at-Law, Nitiry Public, &e.

Growa's Bi ck. Chariv tetown

Charlottetown, F-bru«ry 16, 13892 —eod & wky

ee ee

elissa Garments for Ladies.

The Melissa Manufacturing Co. have received many letters from all parts of the Dominion, csking if they intend manufacturing Metissa Cioaxs for Lantss, or if Melissa Cloth can be procured for that purpose.

In answer to these inquirics, they desire to say that, although not ready to manufacture

SISEISE

eI Ser

rt

ves Zee

J

a

Gao oO - @

offered to the trade ia January, 1892.

Feeling.

No Danger of Colds.

and shades.

Rain-proof Porous Odorless Durable Nioth-proof.

every piece of Melissa Goods

less, but that it ts Perrrcrity P

THE MELISSA MANUFACTURING J. W. MACKEOIE 4& CO., Ri

ASST SE

— —(1« —___

JUST RECEIVED,

DOZEN OF STIFF HATS,

FROM CELEBRATED LONDON MAKERS,

Ladies’ Garments, they have decided to sell the Melissa Goods by the piece and are now pre- paring a choice range of patterns, which will be

Melissa Cloth is admirably adapted for women's wear, as it can be made in any weight desired, and in an infinite variety of patterns Women will no longer have to put up with the disagreeable odors, discomfort and danger of wearing the old, air-tight, rubber waterproof.

The TRADE MARK which will be stamped upon

not only that the Cloth is Rain-prvof. Porous and Odor-

DELETERIOUS SunssTancts, neither SUGAR of LEAD nor any other poisonous ingredient is used in its manufacture, and ladies can wear garments made of the cloth with a sense of perfect security that both health and comfort'will be assured.

SOLe AGENTS FOr THE DOMINION.

NEW HATS FOR SPRING |

Pat ] & [ ies, ranging in price from 2 cents) | ’ Lt 14 cents per yard.

“MELISSA ” Rain-proof Garments.

x Ladies will now have them as wel!

as the men.

is in absolute guarantee

URE and Free rrom ALL

co., MONTREAL, ONTOFAL,

s

hd

EMULSION

COD LIVER OIL?

Pleasant to take as Mitk. A great flosh jerucecer- Endorsed by Micdit : cal mcm +

& Try it

bs

The Latest Styles for the Comiag Season

em | es

HRISTY & 6), | sephssbye Lesion Makers. J. BENSON & SON, |

When in need of a NOUBBY AND STYLISH HAT, call and see our assort ment. Prices to sait the muititude.

JOHN NcLEOD & CO., MERCHANT TAILORS,

UPPE® QUEEN ST&EET, CHAKLOTTET ‘WN.

ROTdl——dmn vod & wiy

February 16, 1893—wod & wky

Estey’ Emulsion cures Coughs, Colds, Consumption, Throat and all Lung troubles. A great remedy for weak and delicate children, builds them up, strengthens the bones, 1 nakesnew bleed. A}l Gealera sell it, don’t | w inmiluced tv take

} apy substitute—it :asn¥ any. ER. M. Estey Bifa. te., Moncton, N.H.

| |

stronger, patience greater, nights longer, days shorter,

Gieanings.

The following is a selection from some «'

he definitions submitted for a prize for the ** best definition of a baby” :—

The bachelor’s horror, the mother’s treasure, and the most despotic tyrant of the must republican household.

A human flower, untouched by the finger of care.

The morning caller, noonday crawler, midaight brawler.

The magic spell by which the gods trans- form a house into a home.

A strauger with unspeakable cheek, who enters a house without a stitch to his back and is received with open arms by every- one.

A bursting bud on the tree of life.

The latest edition of humanity, of which every father and mother think they possess the finest copy.

A native ot all countries, who speaks the language of none.

The unconscious mediator between father and mother, and the focus of their hearts, A quaint little craft called Innocence, laden with simplicity and love.

A curious bud of uncertain blossom.

A thing we are expeeted to kiss and look as if we enjoyed it.

delightful bay.

will if the cat won’t let him pull her tail.

A little stranger with a free pass to the heart's best affections.

The most extensive employer of female labor.

The pulp from which the leaves of life’s ok are made

A padlock on the chain of love.

A soft bundle of love and trouble which we cannot do without.

The sweetest thing God ever made

and furgot to give wings to.

A pleasure to two, «a nuisance to every

other body, and a necessity of the world

That which makes heme happier, love hands busier, purses lighter,

Maupassant, the celebrated French novel-

ist, has excited a painful interest, for the readers of a successful writer's works al- ways follow his career with attention. The

career of M de Maupassant, who is now

in @ private lunatic asylum, has probably been brought to an end by his own folly— some people would call it crime. But it is not easy to decide whether he tovk to ether, morphia, and hasheesh eating be-

cause his mind was giving way from over-

work, or whether madness was the result

of the intoxicant and narcotics. There is no room for doubt, however, that in his haste to get rich quickly, he sacrificed

what money could never give him back

again. And this at forty-one, when he; might have continued his literary labora for at least another ten years, and then

hoped fur rest !

In con nection with the consumption of hasheesh by De Maupassant, a story is told of a young society man in New

York, who, a week or two ago, gave in his apartments in Thirty-fourth Street, a ‘*hasheesh party."’ About fifteen choice spirits were present, and to six of them,

including the host, a young physician ad- rainistered doses of the Indian hemp. An

hour afterwards, when the hasheesh began

to take effect, their wild antics, the visions they professed to see, and the regular

jimjam performance they gave, are said to have formed a highly edify-

ing entertainment. The scene was afterwards described by one of the participants, and so interested were several of the younger members in the description of the orgie that they expressed their de- termination of giving similarentertainments. They began to compare dates and lay plans at a meeting of the Southern society, generaliy to the end in view, when one of the oldest of the gentlemen present cut short their enthusiasm, and put a damper upen their ardour by telling them the f.liowing story of an experiment made in Kentucky with tha insidious and pernicious Indian drug.

‘During the years immediately following the war,” said he, ‘‘Rosa Vertner, the young poetess of Kentucky, reigned in Lexington a veryqueen. She wasthenin the h-yday of her youth snd beauty, and was famous through- out the whole Svuth-West. Her father’s elegant home in Lexington was the resort of all the cultured and brilliant men of the

‘}South. She became the wife of Claud

Johnston, then Secretary of State. During the festivities following the wedding, there was a grand dinner party, to which thirty guests sat down. The Eastern drug called hasheesh was a comparatively new thing in this country then, and had just began to be talked abvut in the South, and Mrs. Vertner-Johnson conceived the idea of having it served as a cordial after dinner, thinking that its effect, of which she had only the vaguest idea, might entertain and amuse the guests.

‘*Everybody drank of the peculiar greenish looking ‘iquid, and many who found the taste pleasant drank more than they should have

done. Within an hour the laughter and wit was runving high. Then the excitement began to grow. Handsome matrons and

beautiful young girls snatched the floral pieces from the tabie, and pelted with flowers vod fiuit the grave, dignified statesmen end lawyers, who stood upon the chairs grinning avd gesticulating like mountebanks. The host and hostese were themselves as much under the influence of the insidious drug a.

Wanted to Purchase.

|] HE DERATERS of the P. & Assembly fir the year 1858. and for the

| Short Session of 1872. Appl THE EX sMINER | ‘ pply qe %

eT)

Tsland House ef

any of their guests, snd cou d do ae to quell the excitement, which now raged fxs’ and furious. Some of the older ones, who hed partaken but sparingly of the decoction, calle: in a physiciau. He saw at once that the situation was a Very grave one, and summoned several brother doctors to assist him.

the night was over the banquet hall was transformed into a veritable hospital, Men and women were stretched upon the fl wr in a lesth-like stupor, from which the doctors tricd in vain to srouse them, while all through the early morning hours, yells of domonaic laughter broke from the lips of these who had not as yet succumbed te the final powerful influence of the drug.

_ ‘The doctors of Lexington were up all night, and in the morning they telegraphed to Louisviile for medical aid. For a week three if the victims lay at the point of death, and it was a month before some of thein recovered entirely from the effects ef what passed into Lexington history as the hasheesh night. Be- fore Mrs. Vertner Johnston herself came out of the state induced by the Indian drug, she wrote a prem cilled ‘The Visions of a Hasheesh Kater,’ which was afterwards pub-

aoe among her collected and bound LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

>

The Straits of Belle Isie Scheme.

Sim,—I see in a late number of your paper @ communication signed ‘F. B ,” which attempts to show that a branch of the warm Atlantic Gulf Stream rans up

The smartest little craft afloat in home's |'he Gulf ot St. Lawrence and around the | feet thick.

Island; and ingeniously mentious the St.

would think they both ran in the same direction, and never varied in rapidity at

with ice, severe weather in New York and teams crossing the Jakes from Canada to the States on the ice. 1 think it was stat. ed that the like was uaprecedented; and the only places enjoying unusual warmth were those centiguous to the unchilled waters of our Gulf. 1 am well aware that the weather bureau at Torontu furnishes fairly correct probabilities each day of Maritime Province weather, and also that all our cold waves come from that quarter. Althought places on the con- tinent have much colder auaps than ws have, they can sow and plant much earlier in the rp.ing. Their co'd waves act on the vast fields of ice in our Gulf maeh like currents of electricity on the induction coil and storage battery. They intensify the cold at times and store it up, giving it slowly out to us ut the time at which places on the continent that have as cold or colder winters than we have are having warm weather.

It ix well known that still shallow and fresh bodies of water freeza much quicker under the same conditions than agitated deep and salt bodics do. The ice on our rivers is scarcely paesable for teame at the present time; and there are thousands : f square miles of ice in the deep axlt water in the Gulf—numberless pieces 30 and 40 Few persons | think will claim that it was made there. It certainly came

A mite of humanity that will cry no Lawrence current _in such a manner that|from the arctic seas through the Straits of harder if a pin is stuck into him than he|*®youe not acquainted with the matter] Belle Isle,—the place where the ice coms

from that fills our Gulf every winter. Settling the Newfoundland trouble;

Before ever expected frost would reach, choked up

any time or from any cause, and entirely} United States hostility to us, and carrying prevented the arctic current that comes|out the terms of Union with th‘s Island,— through the Straits of Belle Isle from wash-}are questions that should deeply interest ing our shores, or that any ice at all came/+veryone of us. Lam of the opinion that through Belle Isle straits except in the|damming the Belle Isle straits, and running early months of summer, and that the vast | railway ecrosa, could be made the means quantities of ice found every winter are| of settling the first and third of these ques- made there, and characterizes the Belle|tions, besides gre atly assisting the Mother Isle strearn an insignificant stream, twelvye|Ccuntry in carrying out bei policy; and miles wide. thereby making it greatly to ber in ereat to The views I advanced in my former let-|h¢lp usin protecting ourselves. 1 will try ters to your paper were formed from per-|#24 give an outline of it. Surveys, I believe, sonal experience when residing in the win-|h4¥® been made, and a company has for some ter time in several parts of the Island, the time past contemplated the constraction of a

’ . Ww Ne et railway from the present railway system on Gaspe peninsula and North Shore of the the north shore of the St. Lawrence to the

Ever bod f clothes shabbier, the past forgotten, the Sr. Lawrence, and in vessels in the 1c | Straits of Bellrisle, connecting with steamers u furure brighter. in the Straits of Northumberland, _12/ from Europe. This would greatly sho: ten the

i A tiny feather frem the wing of love sit ral wig across the straits in the ice-lsea voyage and travelling time between

« ~ fi e d ints the sacred lap of motherhvod. | 2048, 49d in numerous voyages ia various ( Kurope and ail important poiuts is asking for i or : parts of the Gulf, covering the whole sea-|in Canada and the States, lit, The attempted suicide of M Guy de/8" trom the esrliest opening in spring|1 believe the quantity and an.

until the latest in the fall, and from en-/ certain movements of tue ice in the straits quiries and conversations with experienced |®24 northern coast of Newfoundland, is the aud intelligent men living in the places J | #use of the delay in attempting to carry out have mentioned. I have been away from this prnject. lf the straits were darnmed those places for a while, and fearing that I and the commenced Newfoundland railway

; finished and St. John’s made the t i might have forgotten some things concern-| this ice diflcety weal cies ar oo L é ¥ a « i ) © the matter, or that I had not been suffici-| ariantic would be crossed from there in

enily informed, I have hunted up the re-jabout three days, and the travelling time corded opinions of _Engtish and French | til] further reduced. This with fair terms navigators from the time of Capt. Cook un-| would induce Newfoundland to join the til the present; and although their observa-| Dominion If filling the straita were decided tions were taken at a time (viz, between|on the coast of both the Newfourdiend and June and September) most favorable tor| North Shore Railway would be little moe establishing the theory *F, B.” puts for-|than incicen al expenses, as both would be ward,—they all, directly or in effect, say|‘eqtired to carry materiel for filling, and as that there is no current in any part of the|/*"&® quantities of valucble mioerals are Gulf of St. Lawrence that is not frequently known to exist in Newfoun ti-ud, »he railway changed by causes such as winds buth pre- could be built and maw, tai removed with « ees ee ‘ E view of developing those mines. anid from sent and at @ distance, and by those causes | what is known there can hardly be « doubt made to cease entirely for time, Or TUA| that enough wealth and knowledge strongly in any direction. Writing on the! would be gained to largely ofhet Straits of Belle Isle, Admiral Bayfield|the cost of the whole un ertaking. states : ee railway , - oe shore of — a “In its narrowest part only nine miles wrence, could be made to tun thruy wide, and which may be tull of icebergs at any | V@8t quarries of granite, the best material season of the year (The italics are his.) lo possible for filling the straits and easily Anugast, 1834, 1 counted no less than 200 ice-|Qu4rried, and there are abundant indications begs and large pieces of ice in the Straits | tat vast mineral wealth exists there also. I once found the western entrance to the} 1 think Ihave made it pretty clear tha S raita freeze across in @ calm night on Juoe if Belle Isle Straits were closed our wom 20h. The preva ent current from the north. | 8¢480n would be much lengthened and that ward comes from between Bellisle and the a ob dae ice ad = om of mn, coast of Labrador, it is often at the tempera. | te terms of union cou GatrIES ous ap ture of freezing point. bringing many we no tunnel or dam needed accross the Straite into the strait and frequent y can ying them | °f Northumberland. through it nany miles up the Gull. § have| It is usiessfor ue to shut omr eyes to the observed this current from the northward | fact that the United States people have very and eastward assisted by the northeast wind oe wi een as I ‘A conceded rupping two miles an hour.” that the C. P. Railway can be made & grent Of be St. Lawrence current that ‘F B.’| benefit tothe British Kapire. It is located implies runs constantly at the rate of two]%? °lote to the United Staves boundary that

: . it could not he defended should trouble arive. a an hour, Admiral Bayfield As the capabilities of the great Peace River

: Country are becoming kuown, the possibilities ** The rate of this current has been noted] of a norihern C. P. R. are looming up The eff diff-rent parts of the seuth coast be-| Newfoundland and North Shere railways tween Cape Chatte and Gaspe in the| crossing the dam in the Strai's of Belle Isle months of June, July, August and Septem- would the best possible commencement of ber in diffrent years, and scarcely ever|* ®°F hern ™. P. Reilway, and could be so found it the same. It varied between one | **Sily defended that any attempt on it would and two knots in westerly winds. It was ne thea ae Bon ge a — . . . 0 oscow. am we aware a a tee ml oat ames tan ye damming of Belle Isle Straite is a heavy SNCS, GE'S CRS Tastaaes ount Louis undertaking, but if all interested would take River, in a calm which was followed by a

. hold of the marter it would «von be com. strong breeze from the eastward, it could pleted aud considered # quite comnon p'ace not be perceived.” affair.

‘F. B.’ writes that Belle I<le Straits are

twelve miles wide—Admirai Bayfield writes nine miles. Wishing to make every allow

ance against my theory, and make an esti

mate far inside of ihe reality, 1 will try and give your readers a faint idea of the quantity of ice and water at the freezing point that finds ita way into the Gulf every winter. Through the passage nine miles wide and the current running at the rate of two miles an hour, eighteen square miles of ice will be discharged each hour, 432 miles io 24 hours, and over 3,000 square mules in a week of seven days, From the known depth of Belle Isle Straits I think it a low estimate to state that said ice and cold water is 20 fathoms or 120 feet deep. This is but a few days’ work. Almost every fall early or late we have many weeks of easterly winds. Less than 3.000 square thiles of ice and cold water 120 feet deep on our shores, from December until June, would cause our extreme cold winters and late springs.

“F. B” states that the unusual warmth of the past season was not peculiar to P. E Island, but common to the North Ameri- can coniinent. I have nut the recorded temperatures of other places on the contin- ent by me, but I have a distinct recuilec- tion of seeing in the papers, while we were enjoying continued warm weather, that Texas, Louisiana and the Dakotas were under snow, the thermometer bre- tween 40 end 50 kelow zaro in parts of Missouri, Caicago’s water supply pip: placed below where science and experience

FeuTericis?.

CAUTION.

EACH PLUG OF THE

Myrtle avy

IS MARKED

lh. & BB.

IN BRONZ< LETTERS.

NONE OTHER CENUINE,

jav2—dy & wky

ee HACKNOMORE.

it costs only 25 ¢in.,

and may save you feblb—dy & wiry

: ' t :

a ,

i gh Mange eataapel

Anse: = en oe

i