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| ,rethey troubled with head- b aches? Are the lessons hard for them to learn? Are they

ale, listless and indifferent? A they get thin and all run 2 gown toward spring ¢ If so,

gill do grand things fF f them. It keeps up the vital- ww, enriches the blood, strengthens mind and vody. The buoyancy and activity

of youth return.

soc. and $1.00, all druggists, scOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, Tomate,

White's Caramels and jnowfiake

Checolatcs ~<a | Can be had at any following first class T. J. Morris

Bb. L. Hooper

W. Pickard & Co, W. A. Hutcheson W. F. Carter

Stewart & Gates Sanderson & Co. J.D. McLeod & R. H, Mason,

Plant Line

BOSTON TO BOSTON : Gommencing June 29th, 1900 S.S. Halifax

} Fili leave Charlottetown at NOUN on 5 FR'DAY, and

| §.S. LA GRANDE DUCHESSE

Every WEDNESDAY at 9 a. m. for > Boston via Hawkesbury and Hali‘ax.

Passengers leaving Cheriottefown via Pictou, make clcse connection at Halifax from Boston Tuesdays and Saturdays.

TheS. 8. Hali.ax takes Freight and Passengers for Hawkesbury and Halifax.

Tickets for sale at Stations P. E. I. Railway

For tickets, rates and all information spply to

ate aa ote. co

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W. W. CLARKE, Agent Charlot: etown H. L, CHIPMAN,

Manager.

SUMMER READING

The Prince Edward Island 1 ane for August is out and for sale at fj wsual places, It’s a first rate number ind the contents, which are as foilows ire of a bigh order of merit:

Apl 24¢f.

Maga-

H. M, S. Crescs nt

Frontispiece the Star Hill Survey Katherine Hughes the Brocken Spe tre 1. M. Adversity, a Day Dream 1. Edwar Rendle edeque and its Peoy le—11*

: Henry H. Hooper, Detroit, Mich Newspaper Life and Newspaper Men —IV v IJ. Pletcher Mt. Albion Reminiscences Robert Jenkins y Swamp Land Lawrence W. Watson Land 0’ Nowhe: Bert Marie Cleveland ‘it River Plate and the Argentine Kepvblic 7 Joseph R Vur West mete Take a copy with you tc the ceun- ty. Itwill add pleasure to your out

af Five cents the copy, at all book Xores

hcuisins 9 Pict U

the most pleasant way of Spanding a& hot day.

- Retarn Tickets good for day of ‘Ue, will be sold on steamer

‘PRINCESS”

one dollar and fifty cents ¢: ch,

@re will include Tea on return Yoyage, Steamer leaves half past nine Joca “urns about nine in the eve ring.

¥ order

F. W. HALES,

Mecretary Steam Navig-tion’Co., Ltd, town, July 7th. 1900

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EXAMINEK CHARLOTTETOWN AUGU ST 25, r90c

THE WHITE MAN’S RULE

SINGAPORE,

IN

About neon of a_ beautiful broiling

: day in August, on the wharf of Singa-

pore, I hailed two Chinamen. They were naked, barring a bit of bathing- trunks at’ the middle and a conical bamboe thaich-work by way of shade hat. Their nakedness shocked no one in a place which seems on the map to be stumbling over the equator—where windows and bedsheets are unknown.

The two cooli¢s picked up my little Caribbee and slipped her gently into the waters of the Malay Archipel:

I had reached the wesiern gate to : Mongolian Far East—those mysieri seas where mortality floats with asp. fic gravity vasily different fiom it } in Puritan New England. “Rem->- ber the Sabbath Day” is much more difficult to explain at Singapore than “Remember the Maine.”

Singapore has a most beautiful har- bor. The entrance is between wood- ed blufis, on which are pretty build- ings and several batteries of first-class breech-loading sea-coast defence guns, not accessible to the photographer. It is all splendid canoeing-ground, : there are some seventy little is’; close at hand, with ready shelter {i sudden squalls. Our great steau . slipped intoftheiport with so little room on either side}that it seemed te me as though I could have tossed a biscuit ashore; it reminded me vaguely of some bits in the Inland Sea of Japan.

Let me confess, at the risk of incur- ring the contempt of the geographe:, that [had been brought up tors Singapore as.a Malay place, and in wise Chinese, for ii is 1440 miles. « Hong-kong, and in the midst of tne territory identified with Java, Sumar- tra, Borneo, and the Philippines. But I had not paddled far before I com- menced to feel myself in China. No: the China of Pekin, yet a seaport th was thoroughly Chinese. I passed the “Celestial” sampan, paddled by the same Chinaman that sculls the Yan tse or the Peisho. Occasionally, t. be sure, a Malay fisherman in lh canoe passed me, but he seemed | be merely on a visit. It way a fresh- blowing day, and little white-caps danced about on top ofthe swe! that broke upon the beach in front o the sea-wail. The boatmen, whose long cues were carefully coiled up ou of the wind, tock considerable interest in the doings of my craft,for there is a freemasonry afloat which breaks down the barriers of the most hardened cus- tums prevailing ashore. John Cuina- man is obviously improved by salt waier—like the rest of us.

It is easy to realize the importtn-> of this port after paddling seve along the waterfront of the place @: finding the horizon perpetually blocl. by awall of ocean-going steamship: cariying merchandise from every coi- ner of the world. There were Dutch, French, Austrian, Norwegian, Japan- ese flags displayed. Thejonly flag missed veiy much was my own. 1 looked hard, but noca single Amerti- can flag was to be seen amongst the crowded shipping.

The sampans of the Chinamen weve crowding the roads, keeping up an active intercourse between land and the hundreds of junks and ships an chored in the offing. In these pans the passengers were almest alw. y Chinamen, who locked very mucn pleased with themselyes—asihey usual- ly do when they are welltreated. ‘Ihe whole water-side population seemed Chinese, and if I had not referred to statistical works on the subject, I should have concluded, from what met my eyes, that I was in China and not a British colony. After several miles uf paddling, first in the sheltered inner harbor and then out througn the open roadstead, I turned into the mouth of the Singapore River, wheve the first settlement was made, in 1819. It reminded me strongly of the en- ance tothe Grand Canal of Venice, and, by-the-way, the Chiranen sculls very much like a gondolier. Splendid commercial and governmental build- ings distinguish this part of town; the impression produced on me was one

S2eni-

{ was cured of a severe cold by MIN ARDS LINIMENT. Oxford, N.S. R. F. HEWSON.

I was cured of a terrible sprain by MINARD’S LINIMENT. FRED COULSON, Yarmouth, N.S. VACA,

I was cured of black Erysipelac*by MiNARD’S LINIMENT. Inglesville. J. W. RUGGLES.

of prosperous permanency. Massive stone walls formed the embankment, along which ran a_ broad, smcoth driveway. An iron suspension-bridge spanned the riverhere, and beyond it was a bit of smooth sward, about the size of the West Point Parade, which I found later crowded with perspiring colonists vigorouly playing tennis, and , otherwise’ proclaiming the wholesome Anglo-Saxon gosp:!l of muscular Christianity, “Sweat and be saved.”

In Singapore the wealthy Chinaman dresses in native garb, with the ex- ception of the head-covering, which is European, mainly a soft white felt hat. I had seen nothing like this in San Francisco or Pekin. It opened upa ; wholly new prospective on the subject of the Chinese in America. We have excluded him nominally because he refused to identify himself with the country where he earned his money ; we complained that he made his little pile and then hurried home to spend it. We charged him with miserly habits, of adding nothing to the pros perity of the community in which he settled.

Here in Singapore 1440 miles from Hong-kong, are about 100,000 China_ men, not only spending on their per_ sonal needs "1s much as the average European merchant, but exhibiting a taste for the display uf wealth such as cannot fail te please any retail dea'er. Indeed the rich Chinese of Singapore show much more disposition to spend money on dress and costly living than Europeans.

A white merchant of the place, who was familiar with the Eastern Archi- pelago from Borneo to Manila, told me that the Chinese were steadily spreading themselves and acquiring pewer throughout this part of the world by reason of their thrift and capacity for business, and that their progress was impeded only by hostile legislation, In Java,the Dutch treat the Chinaman as they do the native Malay—as an intericr creature. Con- sequently the Chinaman finds there no temptation to display wealth. In Singapore, on the contrary, the China- | man is treated before the law like any

other British sublect, and consequently he finds this’ colony a congenial place fee him io live in. ‘Traders wao had been accustomed to regard the China- man as an inferior being declared it outrageous that Chinamen should be a'lewed to ride in carriages and give their dust towhite men. I suppose I should feel likewise it I had to take the Chinaman’s dust; but since my | lot is not cast in Singapore I can af- ford to ignore such details, and dwell with more satisfactiot on the great general prosperity which has come in the Chinaman’s wake.

This Chinese question is one we Ameiicams cannot escape, legislate how we may. Though we forbidthem ingress at New York and San Fran- cisco, they land at Vancouver and drip over our northern frontier for the price of a week’s washing They are already a power in the West Indies, and though New Orleans may forbid their landing, it would take more than the froniter police of Russia to prevent tieir slipping across from Mexico. We caanot effectively exclude ihem if we would. and therefore is it the more impertant for us to study this ques- question se‘iously as one that cannot ve disoosed of by an act of Congress.

Ye may find some comfoic in re-

denounce the Chinaman collectively,he is. individually, highly appreciated by ‘oe white man who employs him. He jas many qualities akin to those which make the Jew disliked, if not dreaded, (hroughout the world; but whereas tae

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Israelite shows aversion to manual labor, the Chinaman tabors at handi- craft with an energy ani p2rsistency truly extraordinary.

Taz British flag was hoisted over Singapore by the Eas: India Company in 1819, eighty years ago. At that time Chinamen were unknown in the place save on passing junks as sail- ors. Atatime when colonial govern- ment meant almost universally a mon- opoly to be exploiied, Singapore from the very outset was permiitea to be- come a shining example of what free trade willdo if fairly tried.

The British East India Company

tions of Singapore’s prosperity by tol erating in that port a freedom of trade

East Indies. as of no particular value, though as an

holding and fortifying, Calcutta was 1500 miles away, and this, in those sailing-ship days, meant that the Gov- ernor of Singapore ruled practicully according to his own best judgment, for he was pretty well cut off from that mischievous form of guidance which the disrespectful refer to as officiai meddling.

Thus it came ahout that while Hol- land, Spain, France and Portugal dis- couraged commerce by heavy port dues, and placed disabilities upon immigrants, Singapore, with an_in- difference which might readily pass for political genius, drew to itself a splen- did harvest of population and _ trede. Starting as a mere jungle in 181g, al-

ready in 1824 the town number- ed 12,000. In the next twenty years it more’ than _ trebled ;

and when Captain Semmes visited the port with the Alabama in 1864, he found a population of 91,000 anda trade representing £17,000,000. There were then eighieen American full-rig- ged ships in the harbor, for we must bear in mind that in those days the United States contested with England the carrying-trade of the Fer East. The Chinese have contributed a large share to the growth of this col- ony in more waysthan one. They come as coolies, selling themselves in- to bondage for a period of years, giv- their bodies in mortgage for paynent of their passage from Canton. On landing they are turned over to Chin- contractors who work plantations in the interior, and when their time of service has expired, if they have not been eat:n by a tiger, they are free to seek other employment or go home. They generally drift towards the town of Singapore, and there find abundant field for their industry in

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craft and commerce, Today the Chinamen in Singapore

| ulation of "hey are thus stronger numerically thanthe native Malays re enforced by immigrants from British India. But strong as they are in numbers, these give hut a faint idea of their relatite strength in economic re- spects. Malays and Hindeos might disappear tomorrow, and the Straits Setilemects would still flourish. On the other hand, it would be hard to measure the loss co the community if hat population of pigtails were to dwindle, Legislators may argue to the satisfaction ‘of their racial prejudices, but no arguments can alter the mar- velious facc that Singapore, growing up i. the midst of ancient island colonies under the very noses of Batavia and Manila, welcomed the peop'e and the products of all its riva's, andw: hn the lifetime of one man took rank among the few great seaports of the world More as:onishing still is the fact that this great colonial triumph has been achieved without the firing of a single gus, without the shedding of one drop of blood. Fo: two centuries and more has the history of cyv!onia'Hol- landand Spain been an unsightly re- cord of native insurrection and bloody suppression. The Philippines and Java seemed drenched with biood as we read in their annals abut the white man’s siruggle for supremacy.

It is something for every Anglo- Saxor t> recall with pride, that in the eighty years of Singapore history an English Governor, assisted by an Eng- lish judge, and a tew dozen white policemen, has maintained justice be- tween natives of diverging race and creed, and asserted the law without ever having recourse to military measures.—Poulteney Bigelow in Harpers Monthly Magazine.

ae His babyship

will be wonderfully freshened up, and his whoie little fat body will shine with health and cleanliness afte his tub with the “ Albert”

Baby’s Own Soap.

This soap is made entirely with vegetable fats, has a faint but ex- quisite fragrance, end is unsurpase-

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WANT HOUSEKEEPERS

To come in and look. over ow groceries, Our stock is fine and fresh and guaranteed to be satisfactory. We keep every- thing in our line that is necessary

For Housekeeping

The prices, well, we want yor to see them when you are look- ing at the goods. Their cheap ness will surprise you.

Driscoll & Hornsby

QUEEN STREET.

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PEAKE’S NO. 1 WHAKF

A full stock 0 the best Coal om hand and arriving daily.

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