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GUARDIAN.CHAR.TffY1"l‘E'l‘f»\\'7\T. MARCH 17 |899., » ' _

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THE GUARDIAN

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J-E. B. MCCREADY. |J. P. HOOD.

Editor. Business Manaz er

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FRIDAY. MARCH 17. 1899.

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HR- BOVYER`S LETTER.

We give more space to Mr. F. G. Bovyer’s letter than we can spare in this issue to reply to it. He objects that we cannot abolish tuberculosis in the world by simply preventing its spread among cattle. This line of argument would be the equival- entof saying, in a dry season, when forest fires are prevalent, that it 'would be useless to extinguish, or check the ‘ spread of one if you could atonce extinguish the whole.

Mr. Bovyer admits that tuberculos-

is may spread from beasts to man,and this implies that he knows it may and does’ spread from one beast toanother. As a stock-owner he must admit that it is worth while to prevent its spread, even amongst cattle-they have a money value ! How much more is it important to prevent the spread of this dreadful disease among mankind -a disease which in one form or an- other destroys nearly 25 per cent of our race !

But he tells us,tubercular consump-

tion,the scourge of the race, is usually propagated by inhalation, rather than by eating tuberculousmeat, or drink- ing infected milk. There are these, and possibly other forms of infection. No man knows the proportion in which the infection is conveyed by one of these modes as' compared with another. But vie do know that an infected herd isa source ofdanger in all three forms to the family of its owner, and to all beyond that limited circle who eat the meat or -drink the milk of the dise»sed an-` -imals. Mr. Bovyer has not strength- -ened his argument by laying so much -stress upon the breathing in of diseased germs.

Mr. Bovyer tells ns that the tuber-

-onlin test as_applied to cattle is only ehective on its first application, and that cattle-owners may evade its oper- ation by having their cattle privately tested in advance of the oiiicial veterinary’s visit. In this he lays himself open -to the impeachment that he has studied the question, not alone from the scientific standpoint,or with a desire to promote the good of his fellows, but from the low ground of evasive selfishness. Are not all our good laws violated 'l Why make quarantine regulations for men or for cattle when we know that an infected patient may sometimes escape or an infected animal be stolen away out of quarantine by its selfish Owner l

The tuberculin test is the best

' means known to science by which the

disease of tul ercolosis may be detected in apparently healthy animals. The test may not be in all cases infallible. Nor is the best inspection of foods or drinks infallible. Shall we therefore have no inspection? That is the end toward which all Mr. Bovyer’s argu- ment tends. There are other 'ncans of infection than those which are

gearing at all time-_-. to further the best ini

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supplied by diseased cattle, therefore let the disease alone l The tuberculin test is not infallible and it may be evaded, therefore it ought not to be used at all Y

We have other views than Mr.

Bovyer in regard to the situation. The patriotic citizen will give his best thought and his best effort to pro- moting humanitarian measures, not to thwartinsr and evading them. Mr. Bovyer claims to he in gocrl coxii;:»:: fly, because certain famous stockbreeders -interested parties-are unwilling to have their herds tested. And yet there is a higher company than those -disinterested 'too-made up of the auhorities cited by “A Summerside , Reader” in another column, who think differently. We hope all will read his letter. The Privy Council of I the British Empire, the International Congress of Tuberculosis, the judges on the British Bench, these are of the company which see the danger of infection from tuberculous cattle and are earnestly devising measures to 'suppress it.

We hope that the great majority of

;he herds on Prince Edward Island are free from infection. and if so wh

ll the dread of the tuberculin test? It is,

vie think, ofthe greatest importance t at they shall be kept pure, and that if tuberculosis exists any- where on the Island, as is believed to be the case, it should be promptly eradicated. It is worth while to oo this for the mere money value of our herds alone. It is infinitely more ~ so because the security of thousands 'of human lives is involved.

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The esteemed Examiner now ob-

Jects to provincial prohibition because it would be no better than the Scott " Act. which it says was "never satis- factorily enforced in Charlottetown.” And as for Summerside it says “lf reports are true. Shmmerside with the Scott Act, is in as bad condition from the _temperance point of view as Charlottetown is from free rum.” .These are pretty sure indications that the Examiner is no friend to prohibi tory laws in any form. At least it- appears just now to be catering to the tastes of the free rum party.

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feet, and then his wings and his entire body.

That is the way with the dread enemy of

mankind-consumption. It has a web-the web of trivial disorders neglected. When a man heedlessly stumbles into that web, con- sumption first attacks his stomach, then his blood, then his lungs, then every organ in his body. Many doctors assert that when a man is once in this deadly web there is no escape. That is a mistake. Thousands have testified to their recovery from this disease by the use of the right remedy. Many of their letters, together with their names, addresses and photographs, appear in Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Ad- viser. The remedy that saved them.was Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It l cures 98 per cent. of all cases of consump- tion. It cures the conditions that lead up to it. It is the great blood-maker, lesh- builder and germ-ejector. Druggists sell it.

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Lcmdon March 13.--The newspapers#

here still pay considerable attenliouiito the progress towards recovery n ade by Rudyard Kipling. The Times. on Fri- day. printed prominently a set oi verses alter the stvle of “The Barrack -Room- Ballads,” and supposed to be from Tommy Atkins to Kipling on his illness. The last verse ran : ~

" “We ’eard that you were fighting ’ard,

just as we know you would,

But we ’ardly’oped you’d iurnhis flank;

-_ they say you ’ard1y_could;

But the news *as come this morning, an

I’m writing ’ere to say: '

There’s no British son more. ’appy than

your cld friend Thomas A.”

Modern methods oi ,obtaining gold

from low-grade _ores make available a supply of the metal almost beyond con- ception. An old lake bed of Utah is a mass of limestone eight miles by ten, and twenty to forty' feet thick, and this

Outerbrigge, j., has been es- timated tocontain '$50, 000,000,000 of gold. The clay under Philadelphia was forty years ago calculated to hold more gold than had been obtained' from California and Austmlia, clay hardly richer being now profitably worked in California. '

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The Prince ,Edward Island

`Ma.gazine is for sale at all Bookstores and R. H. Mas- ons news staud. Price 5. cents

will b€ fllll Of Il‘lt¢l’€St at P3f0l1’S DoN’?r buy your spring suit before Carpgt Departmgnt _ seeing our new stock -J. B. Macdon-

(iood Carpets Cost No More , "" ` ` I _

than the common rades if ou know where to

ald & Co. _ ~ 15 -ii

I buy them. We tlIiuk there): s no better place ~

_* » than Paton’s. I 4 , ‘ _

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THE subscriber will sell by Auction ,

AT 2 o=cLocK, P. M. _ .

c C35 Juunsnlr, me iam or mein.

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Four (4) acres of Land with small

I Lobster Factory and other Buildings

u S ' thereon, about two miles north of New

p London Harbor°~convenient_ lace to

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fish and near the best fishing grounds

` 'on the North Side of the Island. Also

V I `2 good Fishing Boats and - 350 good

Tra s with Ro e and Iron Anchors com-

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. _ _ . ~ . PETER M NUTT,

_Qual1ty, Joined with I Heh 17__dts ac,

low price, is the buyer’s Bonanza. '

We keep quality and we u sell at low prices. .

See our splendid stock of '

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S1! EI\giiSh Ve|VetS H¢mPS* p ,_ Depirimenfofriitiic Works. _

Axminster

Charlottetown. 15th March.l899.

O be sold, at Government -Stock

Windsor Brussell T rarm.<m

Best English and Scotch Floorcloth Thursday. 23|-1| Instant.

JAMES PATON & Co,

The following Fat Stock: ‘ ~ 6 Fat Cattle, in Hue condition,

_ HOUSE FURNISHERS_ 1 Sborthorn Bull Calf. registered '

Fla I Nec

Kalsomine, Alabastine, Petrol, Whitning, Glue Colorings. Paints, Oils or Brushes for Spring clean-

ing.

1\'1]_,of WE HAVE THEM. »

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1 Ayrshire Bull Calf, registered

,V p p H Terms Cash day of sale. C _ D uuunumuult

\ ` _ Bv order. Auctioneer.

RICHARD SMITH

` \ Secretary of Piiblic Works,

Mch 17ts

You , To LET-

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Hawthorne Villa. That pleasantly sit

uated cottage at Brighton. heated with hot water, nas abathroom and all other modem improvrmfnts. For further particulars apply

to E. T. Higgs,Charlottetown. ! l3 dl_v lw,

Good SDAP cheap. We find WE have too much

Ho. 1 Family Soap

In cider to reduce stock

we o|=|=En I doz. I lb Bars for 421:.

_ Box lots at a lower price.

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