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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, MAY 4, 1898.

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THE DAILY EXAMINER

MAY 4, 1898.

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THE SPANISH REVOLUTION.

Nemesis hascome upon Spain. Her people plundered the Americans in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and ever since they have, without justice or humanity, used the Spanish colonies in America as means of obtaining wealth, Butthe wealth ie gone, and the colonies areal! but gone. Upon receipt of the news of the first disaster in the present war with the United States the people have gone mad, Instead of steadying themselves and concentrating their effortsas reasonable British men would do under such circum stances, they have murdered their leaders and precipitated a revolution which must paralyze their forces on sea and land and result inthe quick triumph of their adversaries.

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SAGASTA.

Tue fugitive Premier of Spain is an cld man andan experienced statesman. He was born at Torrecilla in 1827. His first appearance as a public man was when he took part in the unsuccessful insurrection of 1856. In 1866 he took part in another insurrection. He entered the Spanish Cabinet and became Minister of the Interior in the Provisional Government of 1868 and | he was President of the Cortes in 1871. In 1872 he became Premier of Spain and he was Premier in 1872, 1874, 1881<83, 1885-90, 1893-95. After the assassina- tion of Canovas last year, Sagasta again

obtained the Premiership. He was a Spanish Libera, sere TELEGRAPHIC RATES.

To correet an inaccurate statement of the Guardian Mr. James bas sent to the editor of that paper a letter in which the reason why the people of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island have to pay higher telegraphic rates than the people of the mainland is explained. We therefore quote:

“ The rate from Newfoundland to New York ia not $1.25 per word but $1.25 for ten words address and signature free, that is practically 15 words by Atlantic Cable count, orarate of 8, cents per

word. Of this amount $1.25, the Anglo- American Co. receive 75c, (5c per

word) the other 50c being paid to the Western Union Company precisely as in P. E. Island. The Anglo-American receive only 25c on a message to Halifax, St John, Toronto, &c., and pay out the rest of the 50c charged tothe othercompany. The service in St. John’s, Newfoundland, is the same as it has been for the pact ten years. The hours are rather shorter than our own, and there is no night service, yet it is wor- thy of notejthat in the discussion of the question in the House no complaint was made. The value of the business in St.

Charlottetown. Regarding press rates it is worth while tonotice that the Western Union rate between St. John and Sackville is day rate \c per word, night rate jc per word. By a special arrangement I secured from the Western Union Company a rate ofc on Island press businsss, day or night. Our rate is je per word from Sackville to Charlottetown, New York, Boston, Portland; press rate to Sackville is day rate le per word, night rate jc per word. Our line, Charlottetown to Sackville, cost more than would build a line trom Sackville to Portland, and, except for through business, it is unproductive, while a Sackville-Portland line taps a large number of very productive places along its route. Yet our rate is very much lower. Where the Anglo.American Com- pany contro] the through rate, asin the case of trans-Atlantic messages, the rates from P. E, Island to Europe are precisely the same as the rates from the other Pro~ vinees.”

How to overcome the conditions pecu- liar to Newfoundland and P. E, Island is the problem. Certainly the solution will not be eolved by railing at the Anglo- American company and its efficient and obliging officers or by propogating false statements. Our Board of Trade and the Government have the matter in hand, The main point, of course, is to obiain a reduction of day rates. Our people gener ally have no particular decire to work in

the dark or do their business at night. ~Drore

“NO EXPLANATION.

No explanation of the extraordinary breach of contract with purchasers of pas- sage tickets has been afforced. Why has the purchaser of a book of passage tickets to pay his fal] fare and ten cents additions al if be should forget or neglect to have the book changed before he goes on board the train? Some good and substantial reason for such an unusual proceeding on the part of our frailway authorities ought to be forthcoming.

Among those to be presented to Her Majesty at the next drawing-room, which is fiaed for May 14th, aretwoin whom Canadians wil! be specially interested. Lady Mountstephen is one and the other is Hon. Mrs. Howard, daughter of Lord

NO LIMITATION. . .

Ir ie stated that a limitation has not been fixed, in the bill now before the Legis- lature, to the changes that may be made for city lighting in case the Light Com» pany should obtain that which they desire. On bebalf of the taxpayers and people o¢ Charlottetown, we call the attention of the Provincial Legislature to this point. If the statement be true, the bill ought to be corrected. A monopoly without restric. a bad thing for Charlotte-

tion would be

town. WOMEN’S WORK.

A lady writer, in Lippincotts, for May, contend t © Matrimony is for woman a ucrative profession, the most lucrative ia fact.” Even from the dollars and cents point o s not, in her opinion, to be despised, while from the higher point of view, W \s her noblest development 1 the married state. But it is, neverthe lese,a fact that marriage no longer satisfies

Women are no longer content to stay at home, but clamor to go into the world and earn money and be independent. Our laiy to show taat women are

writer proceeds

pot physically able to compete upon equal

| terms with men in those employments in

which men have in the past been engaged. She denounces well«to-do women who for the sake cf earning pin money and being independent of fathers, brothers and hus- bands enter into competition with their poorer sisters who are compelled to earn a livelihood and concludes,

“The displacement of labor caueed by the overstockisg of the Jabor market with women help, while it bas not resulted in the financial prosperity of the female wage earner, has acted unfavourably upon the earning capacity of men. Sometimes their wages are cut because of the com- petition of women; sometimes they are displaced altogether by women. The yourg man who should marry ard become the head of a family finds himself displaced at the counter or in the office by a youug woman who wnay be obliged to struggle single- handed with poverty for years becanse the man whois her social mate cannot afford to marry her. You can see what a logs this arrangement is to the life of the nat.on,the

core of which is the family. Youcan also see, when large numbers of women sv.cceed in ousting men from a line of

occupation, how much suffering might be entailed on the displaced men and their families. If the time should ever come when women would compete on terms of perfect equality with man so that wages were equally divided, the labour troubles that must result would assume the pro- portionsof a public calamity. A man would not then continue to earn say fifteen dollars a week, while his’ wife earned alike amount; he would earn seven dollare and fifty cents and she would earn seven dollars and fifty cents. Not only would the family be no richer in Conseqtiéace of the sucecsaful competition of the wife with the husband, but it would be unspeakably poorer, because that com-

Jobn’s is at least ten times as great a3 in ) petition would withdraw from the home

vouree of well~be'ng,—the mother. How detrimental would such an arrangement be upon the charact:r and developement of the children. How would it sap the ideality out of life, not only be- tween the four walls ofeach home, but throughout the community and the nation. The world could spare its money more easily then it could spare its love and romance, iis tender relations, its beauty and the grace and ‘oveliness brought to it by the spiritual influence of good women.” While there is much in this contention to

iia =s great

women thinking, wedo not those who choose to make it will be deterred from an honest effort to

livlikood, Ic is pleasant fer

set young suppose that

earn their own girls to be inependent and to have nice things. ————___-.. 9 + § + ee

—The co-partnership of The Guardiaa and the Charlottetown Club for the pur- pose of obtaining late telegrams has not so far produced anv wonderful results. The news received by the congenial partners has been, for the most part, but a rehash of what appeared in Tae Examiner of the previous day.

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DIED. Ather home, Village Green, on April 26th, 1898, Maria Sentner, wife of Thomas Burhoe, at the advanced age of 75 vears.

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spring rollers all sizes.

Strathoona, the latter then being elevated to the peerage.

1'HOME MAKERS,

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Alleged to Have Been Found ina Washington Mail Bag.

A Washington epecial to the Brooklyn Eagle says: The most important milit- ary seizure effected by the Po-i-office De- partment since tne declaration of war between this country aud Spain was made when a letier addreseed to Senor Sagasta, Madrid, Spain, was taken from the mail by order of the Postmaste-General. The letter was written aud signed by a woman. It came from Santa Cruz, California, at which place it was posted a little over @ week ago. Upon being opened the letter was found to be of a most treasonable ond startling character. Tt was a detailed account of tue condition of the United States western const de- fences, Woere guns and mortar batteries and burbor mines ure Jocated, where it would not be dangerous to land and how these dangers could be avoided. The writer went on tu Say that Spain had many sympathiz rs in this country, particularly in California, who wished for her success in the war and that they would do every- thing in their power to help Spain. Tue writer advised Senor Sayasta not to per« mit an attack on San Francisco but to select Monterey, which was poorly guarid aid where a large

force could easily get ashore. In closing her remarkable c:mmunication the woman informed Premier Sagasta that if the Span~ ish Government would follow her sugges tions and order an attack upon the United States on the Puacitic coast at Monterey, | Spain world fiod plenty of aid from ler, sympathizers in Califoruia, who would lend her material aid. Tue letter was turned Over to an inspector and the writer will at. once be arrested. O:her arrests in Cali- 7 fornia will follow.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

—Uncele Sam ecems to having it all his Ow way,

—Cuommentiag iipca the present dead- lock between our temperance men and Premiec Warburton tke St. John Globe Says :

“Of the good intention and high purpose of those whu seek forthe most arbitrary | iaws On this subject (the liquor trafli 5) there is not any doubt, but it cannot be | conceded that, with human nature as it is constituted at present, success is often at-~ tained in carrying out theories. The tem- perance cause was not pron.oed by the Scott Act io Charlottetown, A member of the staffof the Chatham World re- corded iv his paper a few days ago that when be visited St. John recently he did not see a drunken man; when he returned to Northumberlaud, where the Scott Act is in force, he saw more than one. Of course drunken men con Le seen and are seen in St. Joke, but it is certainly worth thinking over that,as was lately mentions ed in the press, the arrests fer drunkenness ia this city under the license Jaw were not half as owmerons as the arre-ts for simis lar cause in the prohibition cixy of Port~ land, Me. Too sringent Jaws often :ecn'e their own defeat, fur public opinivn will notcompel their thorough enforce- ment.

ee a 6 pounds cooking raisins for 25c at Beer & Gofi’s. 102 2i 2 large cases of untrimmed hats opened yesterday.—Paton & Co,

Op Asyitcum Prorverty — The old asy» lum property at Brighton, auction ty Mr Beairsto to- fay, about ey h acres were dispored of, and they bronght $120 anecre. Mr James Lewis was the purchaser, Mr Levis is a sonef the original owner.

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learn the baking.

Bakery.

Apply to the Eclipee | 101.

Big bargains imall Kinds of | Boots & Shoes daring tlris | monthat J. B&B. Macdonmald’s, | Market Square.

We have the best crockery store in the city. A very aice new lotof dinner sets, tea sets, chamber sets, cheaper than can be bought anywhere on P E Island —W P Colwill. 2 wk dy & wy.

Boy’s Blouse Shirts. price 73 cents, will go now for 45¢e at J B,. Macdonald & Co’s old stand, Market Square.

Our children’s clothing is meeting with grand success this spring. The styles are

nice, the goods are better and the prices lower than you will find Prowse Bros.

elsewhere.— 101 Sin.

Chat is if they are in good condition, but if they are shabby you should pull them dou altogether, ana fit you windows

t a small cost.

We have a very large stock—can seil vou a nice shade mounted on a spring roller, for 15 cents, better ones for 25, 30, 35,45 to 60 cents each—plain shade cloth by the yard—

Mark Wright & Co., Ltd

FRANCE PREPARING, GERMANY READY.

LOOK OUT FOR DEVELOPMENTS.

FRANCE PREPARING OUR FALL FLOWERS; GER- MANY GETTING EEADY OUR FALL AND WINTER JACKETS AND CAPES FOR FA‘L, 1898,

Visit Our Three Great Departments—Clothing, Carpets Clothing, Hats and 6 ps.

Hats, Clotning Caps

Boys’ Caps, 10c, 12 loc, Men’s Caps, 1de, 18c, 20c.

Men’s Golf Caps, like cut,

and

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15¢, 20c, 25 and 35ce.

Alf wool serge Cap, silk lined, like Cut, for 35s, cap in the city for the money. perke, 30", 45c and 75,

Best Americ n C.p', with leather

GOLFER S SWEATERS

JERSEYS

35¢, 55¢, 75c, 95e and $1.25 White and all the leading colors.

Basiness Coats

ani Wests

Made from good Worsted, ;$4.00,}4.50, 5.00 and 6.50.

See our all woo] $5 Suit.

See our all woo! $6 Suit.

See our al] woo! $7 Suit.

All’s well that ends well. But yon must begin well. So start spring by pa'ronizing at P aton’s For your sweli Basiness Suit, Sacks, 3-button Checks, Pliids, Overplaids, in Browns and Bines, sod other new shagler, at $10.00, worth up to $ 4.00

We are Agents for Shoreys Guaranteed Clothing

in Charlottetown

1 Men's Pants

750, $1.00, 1.26

Better orade,$1-60 2-(0 and 2 60, odd poats $2.50 & 3,00

100 pairs of Boys’ Ali Wool Knee Pants—in choice colors and®paticrns—-al! sizes from 3 to 14 years—stylish, smbstantial, thoroughly well make Koce Pants that ore actually worth 75 and 85c. We wil] place ou sale to-day at —not two patrs toanyone person—at a price that will ne the marvel of Charlottetown, 65c.

148 Suits, Youths, all wool, 86 and 88 kind for 83.75 and 85 06.

36 single and double brested suits, Eng-Serge. $4.50 to £8.00. Yours for 83. to $4.50,

over

All odd lots goods at sweeping reductions. All our Readymade C'othing is guaranteed. fvnded it not satisfactory.

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MEN'S HATS Good felt, 25c, 50c, 75e, and $1. The newest styles, best makes and guaranteed not to turn green, 75c, $1, $1.25, $1.35, $1.50, $, $2 50.

Best Hat In the Gity, $3.00

J. PATON & CO.

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DESIRABLEPROPERTY

SIBMOUNT i For Sale By Auctioz

I have received instructions to sell by Auction, at the premises. o0,Wednesday, @ ue 18th day of May next, at 11 o'clock © a.m. a The beautiful residence of the Hon. F. | Peters, “S.dmount.” a Tais property comprises 20 of acres ex=— cellent land, w.ib large and commojioa® dwelling house and out buildings, f The bouse is fitted with modern im7” provements, baving hot and cold bath, heated with hot water, aod lighted with) electric lights. | The grounds are beautifully laid ont and plated with ornamenta’ trees. ; @ Terms easy and made b; V-73 at sale.

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