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‘Tne meeting held in the Y. M. C. A. Hall iast evening, under the auspices of the Womens’ Christian Temperance Union, was well attended. Donald Farquharson, Esq.. M. P. P., was called tothe chair. The audience was first entertained with music by Professor Morgan and his little Fairy daughter. Fairy isa sweet bright eyed

little girl, and remarkably clever. As singer she is a phenomenon, hav- ing a charming voice, well controlled.

Before the programme ended she had many admirers. Her father, blind, has also a good voice, which blended pleasantly with thac of his daughter. Besides singing, Fairy played, in an artistic way, the accom- paniments, and gave a recitation. Each itemon the programme was much enjoyéd . ‘*O'er the Hill, O’er the Dale,” Professor Morgan and Fairy.

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Professor Morgan and Fairy. THE FAILURE OF THE SCOTT ACT.

Rev. Mr. Keefer, in opening his interest- ing aud eloquent address, said that in 1873 the Ontario legislature, thirty-three mem- bers of the Nova Scotia Legislature, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, and individuals aggregating half a million petitioners, prayed the Dominion Parliament to enact total prohibition. In 1874 the Government appointed a commis- sion to investigate the operation of the pro- hibitory law in the prvhibition States. In 1875 the Senate appointed a committee on temperance, who reported back that they found from ythe evidence that the people had petitioned to a degree unprecedented in either Canadian or Imperial history, in favor of prohibition: that prohibitory laws ste more eflicient than license; that the best moral and material interests of the country depend upon the enactment and enforcement of prohibition, and that it is the duty uf Parliament to grant that boon to the couutry at the earliest possible mo- ment. Yet nothing was done till 1878, when the Hon. R. W. Scott, Secretary ot State, in the Senate introduced the Canada Temperance Act, popularly known from its author as the Scott Act. The Act passed the Senate without division on the prin- ciple, and only two minor divisions on de- tail. lt passed the Commons unchallenged, both parties, Grits and Tories, support- ing it.

Though passed in 1878, it was not adopted by any country in Ontario till 1881, when Halton carried it, nor was a general move made tu adopt it till amended by the Mc- Carthy act of 1885. In 1884-5 it was car- ried in twenty-seven counties and cities of the province by 27,000 majority. The tem- perance people themselves did not regard the Scott Act as a satisfactory answer to their prayer for prohibition. They wanted a law to prevent the manufacture, importa- tion and sale of all intoxicating liquors for use asa beverage in the Dominion. The Scott Act does not interfere with the manu- facture: it allows free importation and grants wholesale license ostensibly for ex- port but actually for home use, and is local im application. Prejudice has been excited against the act, it being urged that it drives the trade from the country by driving out the liquor, while the antis urge, at the saine time that more liqucr its being sold in Scott Act counties. Again it is objected that the Act makes that wrong in one country which is right in another. The great value of the Act is that it destroys the entire legal retail sale of liquor for beverage use, where the Act is brought into force. ‘Thank God,” said the speaker, ‘* not a glass of liquor has been legally sold in Charlottetown in recent years.” He admitted the existence of the illicit traffic—it was to be expected, the act provides for it. The act proposed to des- troy the license system of a century; estab- lished in the usages of three generations in Canada; entrenched in the appetites of its victims; fortified by the avarice of the ven- dors, the large profits of the trade and the immense capital invested; and buttressed by the political power it has wielded in the country. To dislodge such a foe, the siege process was necessary. Time was neces- sary to complete triumph. The early set- tler felled five acres of forest in one winter, but it took him twice five summers to stump the same acreage. In one hour the legal traffic is cut down by the Scott Act, but a generation is necessary to extract the roots of bitterness from the life of the nation. The Scott Act has made criminal the liquor traffic in. those counties and placed the illicit vendor and horse thief on alevel. Both are criminals. The speaker appealed to his hearers whether they would not sooner the thief would steal their horse than a liquor seller should sell their boys liquor. The audience were evidently in full sympathy with this view of the case. Then cried he, *' If you will not license a man to steal your horses, why license a man to sell liquor to your sons ?”

Though knowing the Scott Act was a de- fective measure, he urged its adoption as the only present means of breaking up the people’s partnership in the trade and re- sponsibility therefor. Even were as much liquor sold under the Scott Act as under license the condition under the former is better than under the latter. License makes the sale of liquor legal, right ac- cording to law, distributes the responsibil- ity over the people, makes them partners and grants the law’s protection to the traffic. Thee Scott Act makes the sale illegal, wrong according to law, concen- trates the guilt upon the head of the seller, dissolves the partnership anc applies penalty to the wrong of the traffic.

Other reasons for advising the adoption of the Scott Act tentatively were bricfly given :—

1. Taking away the license degrades liquor selling and hastens its destruction. ‘* The most wretched business in Ontario is that of selling whiskey in a Scott Act country,” said the s »ker.

2. The adoptior .nd enforcement of the act fosters an agitat n that promotes the rapid

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education of the sentiment in favor of total prohibition. .

3. The vote for the act registers the senti- ment of the country in favor of prohibition, and, in operation, the defective Scott Act de- monstrates the necessity of a perfect law of total prohibition.

Some objections to theScott Act were an- swered, special attention being devoted to the charge that more liquor is sold under the Act than before. After considering the improbability of such increases,and canvass- ing ina mosc humorous manner the evi-

dence in favor of the charge of increased | L ’ ‘that there is any antagonism between them.

sale, Mr. Keefer quoted the reports of the inspectors of prisons for the Province of Ontario for 1884 and 1887, the last years of licenses and of Scott Act respectively, in a large number of counties. The returns show that taking the group of counties which were wholly under the Act in 1887, and wholly under license in 1884, there were committed to the gaols of those coun- ties in 1884, 708 drunkards, and in 1887 only 194—a reduction of over seventy per cent. in favor of the Scott Act. In the counties remaining under license in 1887, the increase, as compared with 18384 was fully twenty-five per cent. The crime re- cord likewise showed in favor of the Scott Act, those counties showing a decrease of forty per cent., while the license counties reported an increase of ten per cent.

The liquor, according to the inland re- venue returns, taken for consumption in the Dominion, was 1,767,000 gallons of ardent spirits less the first year of the Scott Act—the year ending June 30th, 1886—than in the preceding year.

In conclusion the speaker urged that the Scott Act, affected by judgments of Su- preme Court and Privy Council, impaired by decisions of the judges in Toronto, re- fused amendment by the parliament, made subservient to party exigencies, and as- sailed by the dastardly action of the Senate, is not the law as the people carried it ; and for the act as it staads the temperance peo- ple are not to be held responsible. Not- withstanding, the Act has not failed to make criminal the traftic, to dissolve the partnership therein, to relieve the people of responsibility, to degrade toa very low level the whole business, to agitate and educate the people, t» register a vote for the Act which shows the people to be over- whelmingly in faver of prohibition, and to demonstrate the necessity for a complete law of total prohibition.

The conditions of trial have been so grossly unfair that any snatch verdict on repeal votes does not justify the execution of a sentence upon the principle involved. While the results gained under a defective law, unfairly tried, as reflected in govern- ment returns, show that the consumption of drink, drunkenness and crime are so materially decreased as to justify the sanguine hopes of the prohibitionists. The repeal of the Scott Act does not effect the issue. Total prohibition was the aim. John Brown was hung in 1859, and slavery for which he died, was shot in the American

capital ‘by Lincoln within fifteen years _ thereafter. ** John Brown's body lay mouldering in the grave, but his soul went marching on.” Scott Act may be hanged by the

courts or the parliaments, at the dictation of the trade, but prohibition goes marching on and within fifteen years another Lincoln shall issue his emancipation proclamation, saying, ‘* Let my people go free.”

Mr. Keefer is an eloquent argumenta- tive, and _ effective speaker—decidedly the best who has occupied the lecture platform here since Foster. He has con- sented to deliver another lecture in this city later in thé’season, when it is hoped that men of all sorts and conditions will hear him.

Mrs. Keefer will deliver her celebrated lecture entitled, *‘Taking care of the babies, or, woman in relation to the Tem- perance Reform,” in the Y. M. C. A. Hall, this evening at eight o'clock.

Attend Mrs. Keefer’s lecture this evening.

ow Cricker.—We understand that an effort is being made to organize a cricket club in Sum- merside, Sueer Kittiepv.—The Pioneer learns that Chas. Andrews, of St. Eleanor’s, had eight fine sheep killed by dogs a few nights ago.

To tae West.—All aboard for Cape Tra- verse on Thursday, the 9th of August, with the picnicers from Zion Church Sunday School. Look out for the advertisement.

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Taxeet Practice.—The annual target prac- tice of the Charlottetown Engineers, to have taken place on Thursday next, has been post- poued till Wednesday, the Ist of August.

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KeerinG UP THE Recorp.—Some 407 pass- engers, mostly tourists, exclusive of babies, erossed from the Point to Summerside last week. ‘The previous week there were 403. So says the Pioneer.

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Seorr Act,—Nine Scott Act cases at the Stipendiary Maygistrate’s Court this forenvon. One of the defendants—Jeremiab Murphy— was fined $100 or two months’ imprisonment, three were dismissed, and the remainder were adjourned, chiefly for absent witnesses.

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Fine STRAWBERRIES.—We are indebted to Mr. Phipps for a basket of strawberries from the garden of William, Heard Esq. They were very large luscious, and well flavered. Thirty of them filled a quart measure. Better strawberries could not be imagined.

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Free Devtivery.—The Intercolonial Ex- press Company have, since they first of the present season, institnted a system of free de- livery, which proves quite an advantage. When the steamer arrives in good time, the goods are at once delivered. The business ef the Company has very much increased, and the rates are very low.

I. O. O. F.—The Grand Lodge of the Low- er Provinces, B. N. A. meets on Wednesday, August 8th, at Windsor, N. S. A large de- legation from the Island will be present— leaving on Monday morning, the 6th. The Sovereign Grand Lodge meets at Los Angelos, Catifornia,in September. A representative to that body will probably be selected froin this Province.

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Prize Mepats.—Four silver medals and a gold medal are on exhibition at Haszard’s, and are to be competed for at the coming Gather- ing of the Clans, under the auspices of our Caledonian Club. The silver medals are to be awarded fr ** putting the stone,” *‘ hurdle race,’ ‘‘ throwing the hammer,” ani ‘“ vault- ing.” The gold medal is to be presented by Lieut.-Col. Irving, and is to be awarded to the best all-round athlete.

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Interprovincial Convention.

VIEWS OF A CELEBRATED "WRITER—SOME SENSIBLE REMARKS.

(Special Correspondence of The Examiner.)

When we entered the hall in the afternoon, Dr. Fitch was speaking, so I did not hear the beginning of his paper on ** Hand-work and Head-work.” He believes the two should go together, that it is foolish to suppose

if 1 understood him aright, he does not believe in technical schools, that is, schools which teach boys or girls a{particular trade, but thinks we should give the children 4 good general education, with a knowledge of mechanical drawing, and such an acquaint- ance with the principles of mechanics and the use of tools as will fit them, when they enter the workshop, to undertake intelli- gently whatever special work they are fitted for. He described two schools in Belgium where the experiment of industrial educa- tion has been tried. In these schools men are trained to be captains of industry. They spend a part of every day in the workshops, have access toa good library, and receive such instruction in sciences as will enable them to understand the processes used in the different manufactures. To illustrate the necessity of such teaching in these days, he said that the Belgians came over to England, bought quantities of coal tar and sent it back in the form of the dyes which produced the delicate and beautiful tints, used by the manufacturers of woven materials. Language was not the only method of expression, Thought could be expressed also by delineation, design, moulding, &e. At the same time, mental development was the chief thing aimed at. We must not make a fetish of industrial education. While we trained the eye, the the hand, the senses, and the intellect, which directed them all, we must not for- get to encourage aspiration, and to try to tit our scholars to lead an honorable life. The speaker showed, by the example of the English schools, that to educate the hand alone did very lictle good. The English girls have always learned sewing, but this has not, a3 it ought to have done if proper- ly taught, niade them either more intelli- gent or more capable of undertaking other manual work. ‘There is room for increased instruction in manual training, but the im- provements should be made with caution, and not at the expense of. general intellec- tual cultivation.

The Kindergarten schools had already shown that the two might go hand in hand with little children. Why could not the common school commence where the Kin- dergarten left off?

COL. PARKER’S ADDRESS.

Col. Parker (not Porter as your composi- tor had it the other day) followed by an address on Artists or Artisans, which? If the depth of thought and the finished expression of Dr. Schurman made it hard to make an abstract of his speech, it is just as hard to do justice to Col. Parker for quite another reason. He is an educational revivalist, full of enthusiasm, and a great deal of his power over an audience depends more on how he says things than on «what he says. Some of the more critical among us thought that he indulged his fondness for making a joke somewhat too often, but the repeated calls for Parker the last night showed that most of us wanted togo away with his earnest words ringing in our ears and to enjoy once more a hearty laugh be- fore we leit the Institute. Colonel Parker divides all workers into two classes, Artists and Artisans. The artisan works from a pattern. A good one works carefully, imitating the designs of other men, copying every detail. Their work is necessary. We could not do without carpenters, shoe makers, tailors, and all the other handi- craftsmen who fill the workshops of the world. But there is a higher class of work- ers. Those who conceive their own de- signs, who discover the laws that govern their own particular work and make their pattern accordingly. These are the artists. ‘lo this class belong our inventors, and to this class should belong (so says Col. Parker) our doctors, lawyers, preachers and teachers. Artisans are conservative ; artists are progressive. The artisan is afraid new discoveries will rob him of his work. Theartistis able to go ahead, he wants to find new truths ; better ways of working. Cot. Parker said that he had been accused of inventing methods. He had not done so. He had, he hoped, found some of God’s methods in human growth. Teaching is an art,and art cannot be imitat- ed. Subjects to be taught should be weighed by their usefulness. All training is either moral or® immoral. We should teach children to work froin good motives and by right methods. There is uv such thing asa lazy child naturally. We nayinake children lazy by bad teaching. There/ure teachers who are pedant peddlers of knowledge. Such teachers stick to the old ways, move in the old ruts, work by o'd rules. Col. Parker instanced Galiieo, Fulton and Stevenson as some of those who made great disoveries in spite of the opposition of the learned men of their day. ‘T'eaching is the realizing of the possibilities of human growth. We cannot make the nature, though we may disturt and deform it. Edu- cation is the preparation for life, and death itself the preparation for the life to come. We mast teach the children to be good, and we can not do that by means of prizes.

We might as well give prizes for eating as for’ learning. The _ prizo system makes children selfish. He had

not given a prize for over six years, and he believed his children learned better than they used to do: We should not force chiidren to study either spelling or grammar by itself. Spelling books are an abomin- ation and the grammar not much better. The teacher should strive to make things plain, not envelop them in mystery. Teach- ers should study the sermon on the mount aud try to find out what Christ meant when he said, ‘* Feed my Lambs.” He at least understood that the hope of the world is the children. OTHER VIEWS.

At five o'clock the meeting adjourned to allow the teachers ty visit the Owen Art Gallery. A good many took advantage of the opportunity and spent a pleasant hour in looking at tae pictures and casts which filled the gallery.

In the evening we listened tothe professors of the different colleges speaking on the Influence of the Coileye oa social aad Indus- trial life. Dr. Sawyer, of Acadia, Dr.

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of Mount Allison, Dr. Forrest, of Dalhousie, Dr. Anderson, of Prince of Wales, and Dr. Roberts, of King’s College, were the speak- ers. Your correspondent did not hear either of the two last named gentlemen. Dr. Anderson's short address is well spoken of and was heartily applauded,

Most of the gentlemen disagreed with Dr. Schurman’s belief that Greek and Latin occupied too much of the time of the aver- age student. Dr. Forrest believed if col- leges were to maintain their existence they must afford their students a thorough tech- nical education. If they did not do this they would not obtain the support of men of wealth. He thought a man should be allowed to obtain a college degree, even if he were unable to study mathematics. As a matter of course, all the learned Doctors thought the college exerted a wide and powerful influence on society and on the industries of the country.

We were glad to see the familiar face of Dr. Burwash and much disappointed that we did not hear a word from him from the platform. We were pleased, too, to meet again Mr. and Mrs, Manning, and felt that they were glad to see some of their old Charlottetown friends. The Rey. Dr. Brewer, although busy preparing to leave St. John, had tine to find a boarding house for some of the Island teachers, and to invite them to go through the Centenary Church, in which he has ministered for the last three years. Some of us were able to accept of the invitation, but your corres- pondent had to be content with seeing the outside of that splendid church. Some of the gentlemen on our return were loud in their praise of Dr. Brewer’s kindness, and there were o\hers who would have liked to greet an old friend or schoolmate if we had known he was in the city and where to find him. It was, we think, a pity that no ar- rangements. were made for giving the teachers of the different provinces an op- portunity of becoming acquainted with one another. It is not always the best teachers or those of most experience who undertake to read papers or speak to the whole Con- vention, and often a half-hour’s quiet talk on professional work with one of these modest people does one more good than all the carefully prepared papers he has listen- ed to. Besides, it «does us good to feel that we know one another and that each is only a part of a great body. There was no more pleasant feature of the whole Conven- tion than the reading of the telegram which conveyed across the continent the greetings of the five thousand teachers who formed the American Convention at San Francisco.

PRIMARY EDUCATION.

On Thursday morning the Convention met in sections. Section E, the primary section, met in the Centennial School, on Leinster street. There were very few gen- tlemen present, except the chairman, when your correspendent entered. The primary school work of these Maritime Provinces is evidently done by women; and to judge by the appearance of the assembly, as well as by the papers read, it is well done. The audience was quiet and attentive, and the papers read were thoughtful and carefully prepared. Miss Lewis, of Truro, began with a paper on Kindergarten methods in Primary Schools. Miss Lewis gave a good object lesson in self-control, and many teachers afforded unconscious illustration of the evils of want of punctuality, as they kept coming in till ten o’clock, making it impossible to hear her paper till the noise had ceased. However, quietness at length prevailed, and her excellent paper received the attention it deserved.

The paper on ‘Social Instincts as a Factor im Character Building,” by Miss Sullivan, of Halifax, was a clever one and showed that the young lady reads and thinks, and I should think her work must testify that good results follow from good reading and earnest thinking.

The next paper on ‘‘Character Building,” was by Miss McPhail, of Summerside. The aim ot the paper was to show that at the foundation of all character must be the re- solution to ** Fear God and to keep His Commandments.” Miss McPhail tried to show us how we might make good men and good women and I Ses the lesson was not lost upon us. It would be a good thing if we each realized our responsibility as she does, and strove as earnestly to find out how to deal with the mystery of child nature.

The paper read by Miss Murphy, of Portland, was the result of mature thought and ripe experience; and

Miss Adams, of St. John, showed that she appreciated the ditliculty of the teacher's position in dealing with faults of temper, and had learned some of the best methods of treating them. Dr. Fitch gave a short practical address, in which he claimed that the teaching of reading, writing and arith- metic should go hand in hand with the Kindergarten games and exercises ; and Col. Fitch gave an interesting speech in

methods of teaching reading. It was a little startling to hear not only the A BC method but the phonic method, the method of reading in concert, the method of count- ing at the stops and reading by the teacher for the imitation of the schvlars, con- demned ; to be told that you should not teach a child emphasis, but that if he understood the passage the correct empha- sisand the proper pauses would be given naturally, and that you should teach the children to read writing before print.

We were . given leave to ask questions, but I amafraid, between laughing at the comical way Col. Parker put things and surprise at what he said, our wits were not very active. One gentleman brought out the answer that phonics gere very good in their place, but that place was not the time when the child was beginning to read.

I cannot refrain here from alluding to the one disagreeable feature of this very plea- sant session. A mam whom I could not see, and who sat somewhere in the back of the room, deliberately interrupted a lady twice during the reading of her paper. What authority he had for doing so, or why the chairman allowed it, I can- not conceive. I was told that this person was Principal of the Fredericton Normal School, butas my informant may have misunderstood me, or I may have misun- derstood her, I will give that gentleman the opportunity of denying the charge. I am loth to believe that the man who, in one way, stands at the head of education in the neighboring P rovince, and who, with- out a doubt, has the greatest influence on the rising generation of teachers, should have so little manliness as to interrupt a lady and a stranger in so rude a manner. To show that the paper, although long, was lateresting, it will be suflicient to say that Col. Parker listened to it throughout

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close complimented its author. I am sorry not to be able to tell you anything of the work of the other sections, except that I was assured that the meeting in that of the Inspector's was a very pleasant and friend- ly one. After the morning’s work was over, we went fora drive, and saw some of the handsomest buildings and finest streets in St. John. This was one of the most pleasant, and, I think, not the least profitable hours spent in the city. — We inissed, however, Mrs. Parker's admirable paper on the Delsartian school of expres- sion, but were in time to hear Miss Magee’s paper on ‘Art Education.” Both these ladies are Normal School teachers—Mrs. Parker in Cook County Normal School, Illinois, and Miss Magee in Wisconsin State Normal School. One thing we learn. ed from Miss Magee’s paper, and from the general tone of the Coavention is, that if we P. E. Island teachers are to keep pace with other teachers of our time, we must learn and teach industrial drawing.

After this session a reception was held to give some of the teachers an opportunity of being introduced to Sir Willam Dawson. About two hundred were present and had the honor of shaking hands with that gentle, but truly great old gentleman.

On Thursday evening a meeting was held, presided over by Governor Tilley and ad- dressed by Sir Wm. Dawson, Dr. Allison, Hon. Mr. Foster, Hon. D. Ferguson, Col. Parker and other gentlemen. The Insti- tute was crowded, many having to stand all the evening. Sir Leonard has grown very much older looking since we heard him and Mr. Blake in the drill shed in Charlotte- town, and looks as if the quiet of Govern- ment House was much more congenial to} the evening of his days than the excitement of the House of Commvuns. Many of your readers have heard Mr. Foster, and [ need only say he spoke in the fluent, vigorous manner characteristic of him. He obtained the applause of the teachers by saying that they ought to have larger salaries and longer holidays.

We Islanders were very well pleased with the speech of the Hon. D. Ferguson. He spoke from the standpoint of a farmer. He denied that the Island, even twenty-five years ago, was behind the sister provinces in educational development, and showed that now we were ahead, especially in the proportion of the revenue we spent upon education. Our people in distant lands were not hewers of wood and drawers of water, but active intelligent citizens. He stated that there was but one vacant school n the Province. He wes very sorry, how- ever, to find from the Superintendenc’s re- port, which he quoted, that agricultural chemistry was not being taught im our Province. Everywhere else time and thought was being spent on the best methods of farming, and unless we were to fall hopelessly behind we must learn how to make our land bring forth as much as it was possible. Competition was so keen all over the world, owing to greater facilities for carrying produce, that we must strain every nerve to keep our place.

I would like to be able to tell you what some of the other speakers said, especially Sir William Dawson, but my letter is be- coming tiresome, and I will only refer to the closing sentence of Sir William’s address, in which he besought the teachers to remember the meekness and gentleness of Christ, and to try to be influenced by that in all their dealings with those under their care.

As the following morning was rainy, the greater number of the Island teachers left for home, and after enjoyinga delightful trip arrived in Summerside, where all spent a pleasant evening, becoming better acquainted and better pleased with one another. On Saturday night we united again with our friends who had stayed to attend the excursion, and who gave a glow- ing account of the beauty of the scenery and the kindness of the Fredericton people. We were all glad to get home, and I think all well pleased that we had attended the first Interprovincial Teachers’ Convention of the Maritime Provinces of the Dominion of Canada. TEACHER,

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,

The Waterworks.

Sir,—lI see, from time to time, notices in the papers calling attention to the open places in different parts of the city, made by the men constructing the waterworks. I was led to make inquiriesas to why these places were not filled in as the pipe men went along, and found that the cause of it was the wantof gates, branches, etc., which were delayed on the way here from the United States, and did not arrive until quite recently. I found, also, that the men are now hard at work closing up the holes and opening up the streets which they complete and close as they go along, which they might have done in the first instance, without extra expense, had the gates, etc., been delivered to them in time. Why blame the contractors for leay- ing open the places when it is quite evident they are not to -blame for the gates and hydrants being delayed through unneces- sary causes /

If you can spare me a small space in your valuable paper | will give youa short ac- count of how the waterworks is progress- ing. The pumping station on the Malpeque Road shows that a lot of hard work is being done by the contractor, under the able supervision of a Boston expert at this special work, and will, no doubt, be finished in time for the pump contractors, Messrs. Mc- Intosh' & McDonald, to get their pumps in for carrying the water to the Reservoir by the specified time, which, I believe, is the last of October.

I saw an engine at the Pumping Station which I was informed the contractors were going to use to force the water through a surface pipe from the spring to the Mount Edward Road to damp the puddle clay, concrete, etc., used in making the bottom of the reservoir. I also saw a number of horses and carts hauling the puddled clay from the pumping station to the reservoir.

The inner circle of the reservoir is cover- ed to a depth of two feet with clay well pugged and rolled to make it solid and im-

pervious to water. On top of this they are commencing to iay a ‘‘ core ” wall of Island | stone, built with Portland cement. ‘This wall will be six feet high and two feet | thick, and will be perfectly water-tight and | plastered on the inside with cement. The | earth taken from the reservoir will be de- posited on each side of the core wall and rolled to form slopes of embankment.

A Norwegian vessel, called the Como, |

arrived last week with a cargo of pipes,

which have been distributed along the streets and are now ready for laying.

I was glad to see plenty of hydrants and gates going in, which will be a great benefit to uur fire department, as they will not have to run such an enormous length of hose as is done in some other cities. This shows good judgment on the part of the Engineer in charge. Altogether there will be well un to 100 hydrants placed through- out the city.

I learn that one of the contractors, Mr. J. K. MeDonald, had to go back howe some tine ago, as he was serwusly ill. The latest accounts from him state that he has not improved very much since he ieft. Mr. Melntosh, the other contractor, has taken sole charge of the work and devotes his whole attention to it from early morning till late at night. He seems to be pleased with his men, of whom he speaks very highly, as first-class workmen, industrious and steady; and in support of this he said that not one ceut of their pay had found its way into the police court.

Let me here say that the citizens should not complain too much on account of a little inconvenience, as it is impossible to carry on such a large work without interfering, to a certain degree with the street traffic. But the worst ts nearly over, as_ they have, since the hydrants, &c., arrived, been closing the streets with separate gangs of men at a great loss to themselves in order to accommedate the public. By the ap- pearance of the progress that has been made, it looks as if we would have the work completed in the time contracted for. Thanking you for your valuable space, I

remain, Yours, &c., Crrizen.

FANCY SALE.

THE Ladies of the Congregation of CHRIST CHURCH, CHERRY VALLEY, intend hay- ing a Fancy Sale,

On Thursday, 26th of July,

te be held on the Beautiful Grounds of Theophilus Nelson,

NEAR CHINA POINT WHARF,

For the purpose of raising funds to purchase an Organ for the Church.

In connection withthe Fancy Sale there will be all kinds of Refreshments and Amusements to be had on the grounde.

Itis in the hands of an energetic Committee, who will spare no pains to make it the fi tume of the season,

ST. PETER’S BOYS’ BAND will be in at- tendance.

The Steamer HEATHER BELLE will leave the Steam Navigation Company's Wharf at TEN “clock, to carry passengers to and from the grounds at one half firs'-class fare.

By order of Committee.

CHEAP FLOUR.

A Few Bags Dark Flour FOR SALE CHEAP FOR FEED, Lae

ROLLER MILLS.

Provincial Rifle Association.

THE ANNUAL PRIZE MERTING of this Association will be hed on Kensington Rifle Range, commencing on MONDAY, '3:h August,

at 8.30 a. m, G. L. DOvaESts, : ecretary, jy2i—dy tues & fri wky tl dte

Auction Sale.

BY AUCTION, To-morrow, July 25th, at 11 o'clock :—

20 Boxes BERMUDA ONIONS, 5 Half Chests TEA. Ordered to be sold without any reserve.

A. McoNEILL, Auctioneer,

WEDNESDAY,

“INCH ARRAN HOUSE, “* DaLnousig, N, B., July 18, 1888,

“T have used WOODILL'S GERM POWDER for the past two ae ae a continue to du so, for it has rendered full satis-

faction,

“GEORGE D. FUCHS, jy24 “ Manager.”

Come for a Day’s Pleasure !

ST. JAMES’ SABBATH SCHOOL

WILL HAVE THEIR

ANNUAL PICNIC

Thursday First, 26th Inst.,

SHAW’S WHARF,

THE STEAMER “SOUTHPORT” will leave Ferry Wharf at 10 0’clock in the morning, calling at Rocky Point; and at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, direct for Shaw's Wharf. he Ladies will have Refreshment, Tea and Fancy Tables on the Grounds. Games, Races and other Amusements for the tt e public are invited to take a trip up the West Kiver, which, for beauty of aetna anda pleasant sail, cannot be surpassed. COME ALONG—Tickets only 25 cents. By order of Commitiee. jy20

DAVID SMALL,

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