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GIVIG ELECTIA"

In pursuanceof an Act of the General Assem- |

} bly of this Islind, mede pass | titty-tirst year of the reicgn of Her | Maesty Queen Victoria, Chap. 12. in:: | “The City ef Charlottetown Tuacor; | Act,” antof the Act amending the same, (5 Cap. 10, intituled “ An Act toam: nd the f Cnarlottetown Laco-poration Act ’

I do hereby give Public Notice phat : el tion fora Mavor forthe said City, and foren

}; person to serve asa Common ( ounci! :an in

and ‘din the Pesen

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} the City Council for each of Wa-ds N ers! 2 ands of said City. and of tuo perso. ‘ as Common Councilmen in the said Cor il for | Ward No. i of said O.ty, and ef three ;srse: s to serve as Common Councilmen in the said Coancil for Ward No 5 in said City, being in alla Mayer ard Kizht Common Counci! nen. representing the City as f_llows:

t Ward Number One One Cou _ ” ' lwo...One Councillor, Turee One Counei!l.r, Four. .T ws Coune'l " Five Turee Cuuneillors

WILL BE HELD ON

Wednesday, the [2th day of February, A. D. 1896,

At the several places, that is to say:

In Ward ft, at or near the John Maceachern, Queen S.reet

In Ward 2, at or near the honse of Thom- j as Connolly, opposite Mr. R. Heariz’s Ware- ; House Sydney Street, between Great George and Prinee Streets.

In Ward 3,at or near the Maerket

In Ward 4. ator near the new Ciiy corner of Kent and Queen Streets.

office of

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in Ward at or near the carriage shop of thitip Large & Sop, on Great George Street And «tthe said Eleciion the Poll will be

opened at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and ¢:-n- tinue open until five o’cleck in the afternoon of the same day.

DESCRIPTION OF WARDS.

Number One shall comprise all that

b tt 1ich lies south of Dorchestei 1 of iformerly known

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prise all that part of

sharlottetown which lies south of Richmond

Street and north of Dorchester Street.

Number Three shall com; rise al] that Part of Charlottetown which lies south of Graftor Street and north of Richmond Street.

Number Four shall comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies south of Fitzroy Street and north of Grafton Street.

Number Five shall comprise all that part of ‘harlottetown which lies north of Ftzroy Street including the Common of the said Town.

NOMINATION DAY.

WEDNESDAY, February Sth, A. D 18°6, from the time of Twelve at noon until the hour of Fouro’clock in the afiernoon of the same day.

Fer qualification of Electors. see above Act 51 Victoria, Cap. 12, sections 24 to 29,

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H, M. DAVISON, City Clerk. W. E. DAWSON, Mayor of the City of Charlottetown. City Cierk’s Office, Charlottetown, an. 22, 1895. jen22

Election of a Water Commissioner.

Infpursuance of an Act of the Gener’ Ac- sembly of this Island, made and passe> i he “0th year of the reign of Her present ty

Queen Victeria. intituled: Water Works Act, 1887,” Public Notice that an

Election for a Water Commissioner for the City of Charlottetewn,

in the place of HON. D LAIRD, will be held on

WEDNESDAY,

the 12th day of February, A. D. 1896

* Charlo.: wn I do hereby give

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at the several places, that is to sey:

Iu Ward No.1, ator near the office of Mr John Maceachern. Queen Street.

In Ward No. 2, at ornear the house of Thomas Connolly, opposite Mr. R. Heuartz’s Warebouse. Sidney St, between Great Geo: ge and Prince Streets.

In Ward No. 3, at or near the Market Fronse. In Ward No. 4. at or nearthe new CC.) Halil corner of Kent and Queen Streets.

In Ward No. 5, at or near the carriage -bop of Philip Large & Son, tireat George Street. And at the said Election the Poll will be opened at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and continue open until five o’clock inthe after- noon of the same day.

DESCRIPTION OF WARDS, Number One shali comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies south of Dorches- ter Street, andthe parcel of land formeriy kvown as the Military Barrack Ground. Number Two shall comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies sonth of Richmond Street and north of Dorchester Street. Number Three shall comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies south of Grefton Street and north of Kichmond Street.

Number Four shall comprise all t! of Charlottetown which lies south of Street and north of Grafton Street. Number Five shall comprise all that part of Charlottetown which lies northof Fitzroy “treet, including the Common of the said

t part Fitzroy

Town, NOMINATION DAY. WEDNESDAY, February 5th, A. D. 1895 from the time of Twelve at noon wu. l che

hour of Four o'clock in the afternoon cf the same day.

For qualification of Electors, see Act 50, Vix toria, intituled “* Charlottetown Water Works Act, 1387.” also 51 Victoria, Cap. 12, sec. 24 to 29.

{L. &.] Hi. M. DAVISON, City Clerk.

W. E. DAWSON,

Mayor of the City of Charlottetown.

Mayor’s Office, Charlottetown, Jan 22, 1896

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND,

| HEN LITERATURE, FIGURES EXTENSIVELY IN THE WRITINGS OF AUTHORS,

Charles Dudley Warner in His “My Sume

mer In a Garden” Speaks in Une »mpli-

mentary Terms of the Female Fowl---The Different Ways in Which a Man and #

Woman Chase a Hen,

Benjamin F. Taylor once wrote an in- teresting article on ‘‘Hens,’’ from which I quote some points. He says: ‘‘A hen is a foolish thing—has not a grain of sense, for that isa grain not found in gizzards. Her head is too small for any rain ef sense to lodge therein. Her eyes must be excellent optical instruments, for though they have only the expres- sion of @ brace of brass buttons at a shil-

ling a gross, they can discover Sawk at a great distance off. There ds not much poetry about hens, nor much

remanc? in hendom. Hens are speckled, grizzled and gray; white, copper-colored and blue; there are tho old-fashioned hens and the bantams, the celestial hens, the Shanghais and Cochin Chinas, hens With no tails, short tails, and pretty munch all tails; hens in feathered panta- loons; hens in caniwood colored panta- loons; hens with hussar caps; hens with huge black combs, like our grandmothers ; hens with over delicate side combs, like our sweethearts. Strong minded hens there are Who quarrel and crow and act 43 near as rossible like veritable chanti- cleers; and I showdn’t be surprised any day to see a bantam outin bloomers. Some of them wear spurs already. Hens are like some folk; fussy little bodies who mind everybody’s business but their own. If a tavored sister hen leads off a

brood of chickens, the meddling hen spreads ter tail feathers, puts on an

extra frill and lays claim to half the chickens. The hen is quite a Malte Bran in hee way, for she knows all about the geography of cornfields, cherry trees and melon patches. ’’

The politeness of Sir Chanticleer to the females of his harem is as markel a3 though he were the pupil of Lord Ches- terfiela. When occasion requires he be- comes their defender, dropping the rois

fagreeabdle dangler. ‘he hen has ever been noted for her domestic qualities. She is diligent in laying her eggs, pati- ent in hatebing them, industrious in feeding her chickens, courageous in de- fending them. What various dangers

the hen meets and tries to avoid; whats perils from clubs and stones; what trouble feum hungry hawks; what escapes from fowls and from four-footed beasts like the civet and the fox! What motherliness she displays in brooding

her chickens, in leading them to green pastures, and in inciting them to wallow in the newly upturned soil of the garden ! Warner, in his ‘‘My Summer in a Garden,’’ does not speak encoura ingly

of hens in such an inciosare. He even thinks they are an annoyance, for ‘‘if they do not seratch up the corn, peck

the strawberries, and eat the tomatoes, it is not pleasant to see them straddling abous im their j.rky, high-stepping, speculative manner, picking inquisitively here and there. Your neighbor heeds you not if you tell him that his hens eat your tomatoes They are not his toma- toes. The only thing for you to do is to tell him that his chickens ara well- grown and that you like spring chickens broiled. In the fall it is right pleasant, however, to see your neighbor's chickens roaming over your garden, gossiping in the hot September sun, pieking up any odd trifle that might be left. Hawthorne, in the ‘House of the Seven Gables,’’ tells of a brood of hens whch were an immemorial heir loom in the Pyncheon family. He tells of their turning up their heads and smacking thgir bills in taking a drink of water, with the air of winebibbers round a pro- bationary cask. Then of their brisk, and constantly diversified talk to one another or of one in soliloquy, as they seratched for worms; this taik, which has such a domestic tone that it was almost a wonder why you could not establish a regular interchange of ideas ahout house. hold matters, human and = gallinaceous These hens wera well woth studying for the piquancy and rich variety of their ancestors through an unbroken succes sion of Ciifford had one little chicken, small enough to bea still in the egg, but old, withered and wizened. Its mother evidently regarded it (as most mothers do their favorite child) as the

“« rs eggs.

one chicken of the world necessary, in fact, to the world’s continuance and to the equilibrium of the present

system of affairs, whether in ehurch or state. She watehed over its safety,

clucking nervously when it was out of sight; croaking with satisfaction

when it was under her wing; or utter- ing a note of defiance when she saw a neighbor’s caton the top of a high fence. This wizened chicken was a feathered riddle, a mystery hatched out of an egg. One day the mother hen by her self- important gait, the sideway turn of her head and the cock of her eye made evi- dent to the world that she carried some thing about her person the worth of which was not to be estimated either in gold or precious stones.

Some one has told of the way in which

people drive a hen. ‘“‘A woman when she has a hen to drive into a coop takes hoid of her skirts with both hands,

shakes them quietly at her and says, ‘*Shoo, there!’’ The hen takes one look af the woman and stalks into the coop. A man does not do it that way. He goes outdcors and says: ‘‘It is singular nobody can drive a hen but me,’ and picking up a stick of wood bo hurls it at the biped and says, ‘Get in there, you

thief.’ The hen dashes to the other end of the yard. ‘The man dashes after her. She comes back with her head down,

wings spread, followed by stove wood, tin cans and clinkers, and a very mad ian in the rear, Then she skims under the barn and over a fence or two and around the house, talking as only an ex- cited hen cin talk as the other hens come out to take a hand in the debate and help dodge the missiles, till at last the map, whose coat is on the sawbuck and his hat on the ground, declares that every hen on the place shall be sold in the morning and goes off down street, leaving his wife to keep up the hen fight, But in two minutes she has them all counted and housed without trouble.’’ Josh Billings thinks that ‘‘hens are a suckcess. There is a grate deal of origin- ality about the hen. Sum say Knower bad hens with him in the ark and sum say not.’’ Billings starts the oft-mooted question, Which was born first, the hen or the egg. He thinksa hen is ‘‘a born phooi, for she will set just as long on a nest full of stones as she will on @ nest fuil of eggs. There is one thing about a hen that shows wisdom; she does not cackle much until after she lays an egg.

The Railroad Kidney’”

Railroad employes, bicyclists, teamsters and other men who are subjected to much j -lting, are often troubled with pain across the small of the back. This indicates the “ra lroad kidney,” an insidious precursor of serious illness, On the slightest sym- ptom of ba:kache take one of Chase’s Kid- ney Liver Pill—one is a dose—and thus obtain instant relief. For all kidney troubles they have no equa!. 25c. per

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Some folks, on the contrary, are alwus

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going tew do beforehand ‘There are few things that surpass cooked hen as an artikle of diet if eaten in the days of their innocence, but after they git old and

, Kross, they kontrakt a habit of eating

tuff.’’

The children of hens, commonly called chickens are often meutioned in litera- ture, Shakespeare speaks o pretty chickens and their dam; Butler tells of people “‘who swallow gudgeons — ere they’re catched, and count their chickens ere they’re hatched’’ Cervantes has the same idea when he says: ‘‘Many count their chickens before they are hatched, and where they expect bacon meet with broken bones.’’ Swift tells of a woman ‘“‘who was no chicken, being on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.’’ Lady Wortley Montagu wrote: ‘‘And we meet With champagne and a chicken at last.’? Bulwer Lytton quotes from an Arab proverb: ‘‘Curses are like young chickens and still come home to roost.’’ Lowell in the Biglow Papers speaks of small potatoes and few in the hill being scratched up by the hens:

An’ you may see the taters grow in one poor feller’s patch So small, no self-respectin’ valued me would scratch. Hood’s ‘‘Morning Meditations’’ speaks ot the ‘‘early rising hen.’’ Claudius, a German writer, writes of a famous hen wh ch —was never known to tire Of laying eggs, but then she’d scream So loud o’er every egg ’t would seem The house must be on tire.

The turkey reproved her for making such a noise about the laying of an egg, but the hen replied that he was an un- educated fowl who knew nothing of

The noble privilege and praise

Of authorship in modern days— I'll tell you why Ido it; First, you perceive, I lay the egg, And then—review it.

Every one remembers the household lyric set to ‘‘Auld Lang Syne,’’ and which runs:

Somebody killed old Grimes’s hen; They’d better let her ba,

For every day she laid two eggs, And Sundays she laid three.

And everybody knows Mother Goose’s classic rhymes:

One, two, buckle my shoe, and so on down to Nine, ten, a good fat hen,

to say nothing of the fable of La Fon- taine in which it is told that a hen

Laid golden ezgs, each egg a treasure;

Its owner—stupidest of men—

Was miserly beyond all measure,

He thought a mine of wealth to find Within the hen and so he slew it.

He found a bird of common kind And lost a pretty fortune through it.

We often hear people speak of the foolishness of those that kill the hen or goose that laid the goldenegg. In Weep- ing over Jeruaslem, our Saviour used the beautiful metaphor, ‘‘O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered you as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not.’’ A Greek epigram taken from the Anthologia is said te afford a fine illus- tration of this text. T. Green has givea us a translation of this epigram, which reads:

Beneath her fostering wing the hen de-

fends

Her darling offspring, while the snow descends!

Throughout the winter’s day unmoved defies

The chilling fleeces and inclement skie:,

Till vanquished by the cold and piercing blast,

‘True to her charge, sho perishes at last!

O Fame! to hell this fowl’s affection bear;

Tell it to Progne and Medea there.

To mothers such as those, the tale un- fold!

And let them blush to hear the story told.

hen that

Keeping Tab on Drummers.

In some houses that send cut a great many drummers there are in use certain peculiar little maps pasted on the bottoms of cabinet drawers and constantly stadied by the proprietor and clerks. Th:se maps are usually of one state at a time, and are dotted with pegs ur flags of many colors. The flags are tiny bits of colored cloth, with pins to serve as staffs, Tne pegs are in reality tacks, with the heads covered with colored éloth. ‘Eicss maps show many things to those who study them. The differont colored markers often repre- sent different drummers, who are then out on the road. As each one writes home where he has been and where he is going next his particular peg is stuck upon the map at the places he names. The furthest beg aiways shows where that particular man is st any given time. Or, again, the pegs or flags may show much more than that. They may show what towns have been canvassed, what ones are finished, What ones neea asecond call in the win- ter,and which have not been visited at all. —New York Sun.

Flogging Girls,

The authorized flogging of little girls, or big girls,is a piece of barbarism which, now that the subject has been definitely raised, will receive, we trust, no counten- ance from the Home Secretary. Mr. Riley says that girls in the elementary schools are caned, abit of information which wa commend to the immediate notice of Sir John Gorst. The public of London has out- grown the days of Mother Brownrigg,and Mother Brownrigg, as the Newgate ‘‘Cal- endar’’ informs &s, was not sustained by judge, jury, public opinion or Jack Ketch in her theories and her practice as to the castigation of girls. There were philoso- phers, to be sure, who approved of the whipping of girls, Locke did, for one: and so did Dr. Johnson. Locke approved of a mother who whipped her little daughter nine times in order to compel the child to confess some error; and Johnson com- mended a mother who whipped her child in the interest of future truthfulness be- cause the girl had said she came in through one door, when in fact she had come in through another. But thésa were daye when children were supposed to be born only that they might be birched as far as possible out of their share of origin- al sin. Women were publicly flogged at the cart’s tailin the days of Locke and Johnson—and, of course, in the interest of discipline and order and morals. We can not go back to those days,and any serious and public attempt to get back to them would be an absurdity as well as an ont- rage.—London Daily News.

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Many cities remain up to this time with- oul any system of sewerage, and in smaller towns and villages it is a common, though much to be condemned practice, to store the sewage of the house in cesspoois or discharge them into deep wells, which are not unusualiy located close to the honse— in some cases even underneath the dwell- ing. In most cases cesspools are mere pits dog in the ground and wailed up with loose stones. The liquid contents are left to soak away into the subsoil, while all solids and grease from the kitchen remain in the

cesspool to decompose and generate noxious gases. Should tke pores of the sol stop up anj the liquid cease to leak into the ground, the

vess-yu 118 abandoned, genaally, and a new hole dug close to the first one. In other instances two cesspools are built, tie first one, supposed to be tight, to re- ain the solids and grease frem the huouse- hold; the second ove a leaching cesspool ordcep well connected with the first one by an overflow pipe through, which the filthy iquids run to be disposed of by -oakage into the ground. A continuous wilonon and dangerous saturation of the soil about Lumaa habitations is thus go- ing on, while the air which we breathe is tainted by the foul emanations com- monly known as “sewer gas.” 5

Not less dangerous than the accumula- tion of putrid organic matter is the polla- tion of the ground water by the fiithy liquid soaking into the ground. Chemical inalysis of the water of wells, situated in proximity to cesspools, or receiving sur- face drainage trom stables, cow houses, &c., mo-t always reveals organic matter in the water. Such contamination is all the more serions, as in towns and villages or isola ed country houses people quite often depend upoa the well for the supply of drinking water to men and animals.

Another much to be detested practice, which might almost be called a crime, is the use of an abandoned deep wel’ for a cesspool. And this is true for drains dis— charging water closet waste as well as thore di:charging slopwater only. Practi- cally, there is hardiy any perceptible dif- ference between either kinds of wastes after having been retained for some time ina cesspool,

The question is often asked, “At what distance from a dwelling would it be safe to put a leaching cesspool ?” Sanitary science has but one answer to this query : [t prohibits the use of leaching cesspools altogether.

With this state of things, be it on a large or asmall scale, two chief sorts of danger to life arise: one, that volatile ef-

fiuvia from the surface pollute the sufrounding air and every- thing which it contains; the

other, that the liquid parts of the refuse vass by soakage or leakage into the sur- rounding soil, to mingle there, of course, n whatever water the soil yields, and in certain cases thus to occasion the deadliest pollution of wells.

Toa really immense extent, to an extent indeed which persons unpracticed in sanitary inspection could

carcely find themselves able to imagine, langers of these two sorts are prevailing throughout the length and breadth of this ‘ountry, not only 'n their slighter degrees, but in degrees which are gross and +can- ljalous, and very often, I repeat, truly eek

Of all the filth influences which prevail against human life privies of the accumu- lative sort, whether above ground or in the ieeper strata, operate undoubtedly to far the Jargeat extent —From Drainage and Sewerage of Dwellings, by Wm. Paul Gerhard, C. E.

(To be continued.)

Ladies, Beware of Them’

They Lack All Good and Essential Qualities,

Ladies. beware of the many crude imita- tions of Diamond Dyes that are sold in some places. These imitation dyes lack all the essential qualities that are re- quired to produce good and permanent colors.

If you would dye with ease, pleasure and satisfaction, use only the old reliable Diamond Dyes, noted for strength, bright- ness and never-fading qualitcies. Diamond Dves will cost vou just the same price as the common dyes; eyery package is fully warranted to do the work promised.

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Gravel and Kidney Diseases Quickly Cured

—~Kellief can be Obtained Within Six Hours. Ihave been troubled with gravel and

kidney disease for eight years, during which time I heve tried numerous reme~ dies and different doctors without any per— manent benefit. At times the pain in the left kidaey was so severe that I could not c position any iength of time. Seeing vour advertisement of South American Kidney Cure in The Enterprise [ procured a bottle from A. 8S. Goodeve, . druggist, and taking it according to directions got immediate re- lief and feel botter now than at any time since first noticing the disease. The sorc- left me. J recommend all who are efflicted with this ‘langerous trouble.to give South American Kidaey cure atrial. Signed, Michael Mc- Wallen, Chesiev, Ont.

His Face was a mass of Blotches.

‘But now his skin is clear as a year old babe’s.

Scott’s Sarsaparilia his Salvation.

Nothing blights existence like the knowledge that our appearance is re- pellant to those with whom we comein contact, nor is there any relief like that of feeling thax the disfiguring causes have been removed. Says Mr, William Alger :

} My face on one side was a mass of

blotches, some of which were constantly full of matter. I run a bake shop doing my own work, bet my face got so bad that customers driftegl| away. Then I hired a man and went to a doctor. He said my blood was in a horrible condition. 1 sold my business and moved to the city where Scott's Sarsaparilla was recommended to me. ‘The first bottle did me much good, and after taking five bottles my skin is as clear as possible, and mot a sign of my previous disfigurement. I say Scott’s Sarsaparilla is the best blood medicine going and am speaking from experience,

Pimples, blotches, boils, ulcers and all diseases arising from vitnl exhaustion and impure blood are radically cured by rilla, a concentrated com-

pound of the finest medicines ever

known, Your druggist has it at $1, But Zet Scott’s. The kind that cures, t ‘> * =

1896.

ue e | THE USE OF CESSPOOLS OR BLIND

| across the dun landscape suggest less | of life than of the @apernatural.

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SMOKING HORSES. The Strange Way in Which Indians Obtain Their Mounts,

A curious method of obtaining horses is practised by some of the Indian tribes, It is called on the plains “smoking horses.” If a tribe to send out a war-party, the first thing tobe thought of is whether there are enough horses at hand to mount the warriors. If, as is often the case, the horses of the tribe have been stolen by other Indians, they decide to smoke” and to steal a supply from their enemies at the lirst opportunity.

When this decision is reached a run- } ner is despatched to the nearest friend- | iy tribe with the that ona certain day they will be visited by a number of young men, forming a war-

decides

enough horses for present needs

message

party from his tribe, who require horses. On the appointed day the war- riors appear, stripped to the waist.

They march silently to the village of their themselves in a circle, light their pipes. and begin to smoke, at the same time making their