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certain prio-~ few short weeks castiog all principles to the

18 professing at Ove time wies avd in a their professions and winds, Hon. Mr. Foster addressed the electors o* Toronto Ceatre afer the election. A def-at, or a seeming defeat, wae, he said, oftimesthe Opening of the door to victory. Th-election had been ueeful to the party pot only here but alee throughout the coun- tly ‘Lhere were ivfluences at work on the other side. They all knew that there wes tobe a provincial election soon. The eft. rtsof the two Governments with al! their patrovage was employed to elect Mr. Bertram aud they had some patronage to disposxeof Inthe face of all this the Cu, servative party had only been beaten by a small majority. They had a great canse and #0 & Ltemporsry defeat would not hort them seriouely. Upportunism might have its victories foratime, bot it had eventually to go down before stern true principle, Such as animated the political faih of the Conservative party.

— Ic will be admitted that there is a good deal of foree in the following from the O-vawa Journal: “The reason for the decadence of the morning papers in al] but e:es of the largest size is not that they cost more to produce, but that their rev vues are falling off. The people want evening papers and buy evening papers, and advertisers will pay more to get into the papere which the people buy. The fxi'ure of the Morning Herald in Montreal a iottbe Morning Emp:re iv Toronto, the abandonment of worning papers in Hamilton, the successive withdrawals ¢ron the Citizen here of Mr. C. H. Mack- jiotuwh and Mr. Shannon, and the calls for fre-h capital—thes: are not accidents due to want of brains. The same thing is geeg oo all over the continent. Except in the isrgest cities, the moruiog papers have beeu losing circulation and revenue. The meraing paper is bought in mest cities by a \imiced constituency of businesa men who glance at it at breakfast or in their offi « and drop it. The evening paper goes ine #n ualimited constituency of homes, wire mar aod wife both read it. The advertisements bave not merely a far wil Circalation bat a double value in the tan.e amount of circulation.”

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Sarsaparilla Sense,

Any sarsaparilla is sarsapa- rilla, True.

So any tea is tea. So any flouris flour. But grades differ. You want the best. It's so with sarsaparilla. There are You want the best. If you understood sarsaparilla as well as you do tea and flour it

grades,

would be easy to determine. But you don’t, How should you? When you are going to buy a commodity whose value you don’t know, you pick out an old established house to trade with, and trust their ex- perience and reputation. Do so when buying sarsaparilla. Ayer’s Sarsaparilla has been on the market so years. Your grandfather used Ayer’s, It is ‘* ‘reputable medicine, There are many Sarsaparillas — bat only one Ayer’s, it cures.’ ~

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THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN. DECEMBER 4, 1897.

IN THE LONG AGO.

When the St, Louis Spaniards Marched Against the Michigan English.

A Spanish army came to Chicago in the long ago. The minor details of it and the finer statecraft rea hidden in the bs of the Escu- rial along docu- ments that light again. But that those men of war marched and that they w

dominions of the

sons of it are catacom with tons of other will ne we know the Ilinois prairies, increase the

ever see the

over ere sent to lr sovereigns

By the treaty of Paris, signedin 1763, France ceded to Spain all of that vast territory known as Louisiana, which sil ed 1 1 0 uth of the Missis- sippi to the Canadian line, In 1781 Great Britain was at war with the

| United States, Spain, Holland and Franc Loui sa Spanish town, und £E 1 offi ttacked it at the

i )} Indiaus. They were de- feated with little trouble and retreated.

In revenge the Spanish commander at St. Louis, which his people called **San Luis de Illinois,’’ planned a r: raid against the een post of St. Jose - It was a fort or o itp located at a point two miles from the present ar f Benton Harbor, Mich., and 60 miles

northwest of Chicago, across the luke. The force began its long, difficult and dangerous journey on Jan. 2, 1781. They estimated the distance at 220 leagues, or 660 miles, and subsequent surveys have proved that they were re- markab ly good guesscrs. It was officer-

ed by Captain Eucenio Purre, command- ing, and Lieutenant Carlos Tayon. The interpreter was Luis Chevalier. Chiefs

Electurno and Nequigen led the 60 In- dians of the Fox and Pottawatomie tribes. There were 65 Spanish volun- teers, in all 130 men, selected with special reference to their ability to with- staud the arduous journey.

They marched up the Mississippi riv- er to the mouth of the Illinois and thence along the track of the French explorers and voyagers. The route took them up the Dlinois river past Fort Creve Coeur (Peoria) to old Fort St. Louis (Starved Rock). Here they plant- ed the blood stained banner of Aragon and Castile. A century before from that rocky eminence La Salle had unfurled the fleur-de-lis of France. Subsequently the British flag had waved over it. Now Old Glory waves there in peace and beauty.

Purre’s force toiled in snow and ice to the junction of the Kankakee and Desplaines rivers. They followed the Desplaines to a point west of what is now South Chicago and came to the lake at its southern edge. They found it a desolate region of swamps and sand dunes. Thence they marched to their destination.

The small garrison of St. Joseph fled to Detroit at the news of their approach, and all of the stores fell into the hands of the invaders. They proclaimed the sovereignty of Spain over this section and divided the stores. After resting some days they began their return march over the formerroute. They reached St. Louis in safety after a midwinter march of nearly 1,400 miles through a hostile country. They had few casualties and gathered much plunder. — Chicago Chronicle,

Atlantic Currents,

It is an interesting fact in the records of scientific progress that the United States navy has for a long time past been dropping bottles overboard in the Atlantic ocean at the Azores, in deep water along the coast of Spain and from the Madeira and the Canaries south- ward along the coast of Africa. The fact that all these bottles that have been recovered have been found on the coast of South America, on the Antil- les, and some of them as far west as the mouth of the Rio Grande, suggests the inference that every buoyant object which has been dropped into the ocean during the present geological epoch by prehistoric or historic Spaniards, Por- tuguese or Africans has found its way to America and been stranded some- where between the tenth parallel south and the thirtieth parallel north. In the northern part of the Atlantic ocean the currents run the other way, and the mails have been delivered from Ameri- ca to Europe. In the Pacific ocean the daily mails delivered on the west coast of America from Mount St. Elias south- ward have proceeded from about the twentieth parallel north, in the vicini- ty of the Malay peninsula and archipel- ago, thence have traveled through the China sea and the Japanese sea to pick up matters designed for the western hemisphere.

Eureka Gas.

The name of Eureka gas is given toa new illuminant, expected to rival acety- lene. This gas, as described in Inven- tion and originated by M. Hector de Favi of Montefiascone, Italy, is obtained es follows: Lime as pure as possible is employed as a base, colophony and cal- tium carbide being added—1,000 parts xf the mixture ready for use consisting of 900 of quicklime, 50 of colophony and 50 of calcium carbide—and there is said to be no liability of explosion by mixing with air. No heating of water and no special burner is needed. One thousand parts of the mixture give 60 liters of gas ata pressure of 35 milli- meters of water, and the photometric intensity of the flame is stated to be 92.4 candle hours, while the same

amount of calcium carbide employed singly would give only 18 candle hours, Thus, it is asserted, the new gas is 50 per cent oheaper than acetylene, or that at equal cost it will give half as much more light

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A PIANO FULL OF WASPS.

Kept Quiet Until the Struck the Loud Notes. The piano was an old grand. It had

not been used for months. The compa-

ny had arrived in town but @ short the performance began; hence there had been no time to test the instrument. Nevertheless, the profess or boldly opened wide the lids of the

Professor

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‘long unused grand and then sat down

| to the keys.

The first touch convinced him that the notes were still clear and

strong. and that whatever defects in tune there might be would be very slight, so he began the soul inspiring

selection.

Now, it happened that in all the months in which the piano had remain- ed unused a colony of yellow jacket wasps had industriously built them

selves a home in the shape of a nest as large asa good sized saucer. The soft pianissimo prelude to the selection gen- tly woke the wasps from their sweet dreams. But when the soft pedal was released and the notes grew vigorous and the piano began to reverberate to the heavier passages the disturbed wasps They curled their

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suspected danger. backs and stretched and shook their gauzy wings viciously. The profess-

or, unheedful of the fact that the mu- sic, far from soothing the savage breast of the vicious wasps ambushed within that piano, was rousing their ire, play- ed on. From pianissimo to plano and from piano with one bound to fortissi- mo the composition ran. All the while the wasps fluttered their wings wicked- ly, viciously, and all the while the pro- fessor played. Now came the climax; now he was throwing together vast handfuls of notes in the basso profundo region of the instrument. Just as the grand was belching forth from its inner- most soul the musical thunder of that great Wagnerian opera the vengeance hanting army of yellow jacket wasps swept out of the instrument, with a buzzing war song, down the hallway and upon the audience. Suddenly soul rending shrieks resounded through the hall. Men and women were striking about their heads, benches were upset, und a general stampede for windows and doorsensued. Over the terrible up- roar a shrill, piping voice could be heard shrieking:

‘*Sharlie, come mit! come mit!"’

Long before the outraged burghers of Kerrville were up a little band of men with baggage galore wended their way out of the town and sat down on the railroad track. They were the stereopti- co-miusical aggregation of San Antonio, and their faces, as they recounted the horrors through which they had passed, were the image of that of Napoleon on the night of Waterloo. They flagged the south bound passenger train and took passage for San Antonio. Their wisdom in slipping out of town under cover of night has never been question- ed.—San Antonio Express.

Ach, Sharlie,

WELL KNOWN IN TORONTO

A Bad Condition and How It Was Changed.

TORONTO, ONT. —“ My whole system was run down. I was so weak I could scarcely get around to do my work. I finally began to take Hood’s Sarsaparilla, and after using five bottles I found that my strength had returned and my appe- tite was very much better. In fact, I now feel as strong as ever.””’ MR8. EEL- LEY, 9 Wellington Avenue.

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An Dnahieae-2 Rarometer,

The advertising columns of legitimate newspapers are now regarded by the more intelligent and thrifty portion of the public as an unerring barometer of the character, energy and success of business men, and those who fail to ap- preciate the now universally accepted method of reaching the people must fall behind in the race for business profits. —Philadelphia Times.

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