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n. connection with the coming va- cancy in the ‘countyCcurtJudge- ship, which falls due'oa Feb. i3, a lively three-cornered contest is re- ported to be under way. Messrs. .1. J. Johnston, K. C.. and C. G. Duffy, x. 0., are both in n. and have strong claims upon the Liberal party for recognition. It is rumored, however, that Premier Saunders, weary of tlte political turmoil and of the ill success of some of his best laid schemes to resuscitate the waning enthusiasm of his supporters and re- plenish the depleted treasury, would not be. averse to accepting a County Court judgeship if the opportunity came his way. His followers, it is un- derstood, would not be unduly de- pressed at such a consummation. It will be recalled that on a previous occasion, when a similar opportunity knocked at his door, there wereoth- er and more alluring prospects in the offing. Much waterhas gone un- der the bridge since the Premier stormed Ottawa in the interests of a fourth Supreme Court judgeship. Experience in these matters, as in others, teaches wisdom; and wisdom, proverbialiy, walketh humbly. exalt- ing not itself. There is also the need of making political hay while the federal sun continues to shine. A County Court judgeship, after all, is a very good appointment. We have the assurance of the retir- ing incumbent that there is little to do; and it is better to do little prof- itably and well than some to grief in greater ventures. There may be other contestants for the coming ap- pointment, but so far Messrs. John- ston, Duffy and Saunders seem to hold the strategic positions in the race. May the best man win]

An Unenvloble Record

Prince Edward Island under the Saunders regime has achieved the unenviable reputation of having more of its people in jail in propor- tion to population than any other pi-ovince in"th‘e' Dominion. During the past year especibliy there has yseliiomqbeenna month in which the jails have not been crowded. Indeed, the capacity of these institutions has lo frequently been over-taxed of late that the jailors are unable to state definitely what constitutes e. "full house." At the present time there are sixty-three persons incarcerated in the three jails of the Province. Kingslcounty, for the mome A‘, has only one, but there are nineteen in the Prince County jail and forty- Tho prisoners in- clude nine women. As the summer- sidc Journal points out, the Govern- ment supply dealers, the furnishers of jail rations, are doing a rushing business, but it is the tax-payers, Ind not the incarcerated bootleggers, who are footing the bill. The most discouraging aspect of the situation is that the proportion of unjaiied prohi-

fiiiuon violators has not decreased in

the slightest noticeable degree. the larger centres, where an accurate check can be kept on arrests for drunkenness, the evidence is all the

In

‘y other ‘way.

Commenting on the situation in 1

thequeens County jail the Frederic- ton‘. "nan" recalls that during the lihbiecite campeiglrin Nova Beetle. n filming advertisement in the Halifax flwspapere, published at the instin-

a ardent prohibitioniets. so

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flip o1. New plrunkwick‘ under gov-

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that they held in ell forty-three pris- oners, un avenge of threeprisenerl in each of the fifteen county jails of the province. What a contrast to the situation in this Province under the

‘ a "temperance" administra- tion! Is it any wonder that sincere temperance people throughout this Province are disgusted? is it any won- der that the feeling against the pres- ent system-of law enforcdment is so strong in the Attorney General‘: home town that recently nine prohi- bition eases against Summerside parties had to be removed for trial to Charlottetown? These cases were

eventually withdrawn because of insufficient evidence. Is this the manner in which respect for law and

order is to be inculcated, and the province made the banner temper-

ance province in the Dominion? The question will soon have to be

faced as to the provision to be made when the three county jails overflow. The jailors‘ quarters, like the six condemned cells’ in Queens County Jail, may have to be requisitioned for the accommodation of extra inmates, but at the present rate of increase this would be of little avail in stem- ming the tide. Will there be provis-

ion in the Btimates this year for the construction of additional jails’! Will the later arrivals have to be billeted

upon the citizens of Charlottetown, Summerside arid Georgetown at the public expense? Or will New Bruns- wick, or some other sister province under efficient government control, take compassion on us and allow iis to lodge our surplus bootleggers in their jails, at a nominal weekly costi In any event, the present situation is becoming intolcrable_to our citizens, irrespective of politics, who have hith- erto taken pride in the good name and fame of the Province.

Making of a Piper

How long ‘does it take o. learn the bagpipes? As long as it takes to learn the violin or the piano, said the pipe-major of the Canadian Nation- al Railways to the Governor of Mas- sachusetts the other day. He might have gonefuithcr. Seven generations go to the making of a. piper, and sev- en years "of ‘his own learning" on top of that, according to Neil Munro, a Scottish author, who deserves wider recognition than he has so far re- ceived.

Nor is this cause for surprise. Be- fore the MacCrimmons College of Skye recognized a student's ability to play the pibroch alone he had to study at least six years, and then he ‘usually spent further time on march- es, strathspeys, reels and quicksteps, outside of his regular course. No small instrument. despite its limited compass!

But once mastered, the bagpipes are capable of producing most in- spiriting music-the humorists not- withstanding. Who that has heard them by the side of a loch, on a road through a glen, or from a distant hilltop can forget the st as carried on‘the breeze? Only in their own natural urroundings arcfthe bagpipes heard at their best. As well judge a bass viol on l. mountain crest as the bagpipes in e small chamber. i

Editorial Notes

The proposed embargo on the im- portation of parrots, suggests an ex- change, may affect the cracker iner- ket.

Of - the King Government tari bdicy, as variously expounded by its members in- different parts of the country, lit" 0mm exchange cyni- cally remarks: "You pays youmon- ey and youtobes yeuchoiceryosby lnetl, it-is suggested, used iii-he formed "all the ttlontl." new IP- pernitiythoyformtbeihoflilthc

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" value of the telegraph service to n

telegraph rates were verybigb and the massage! sent ovvi‘ the wires were brief and insignificant in, number cdciparcdyqmh the vast development, that has since taken place. The

dent in Ottawa, and when the first r liement __’, and during lev- eral era thereaftersont many brief outlines of the proceedings to the Saint John nndlialifex papers. The press rate for news from Ottawa. was s. cent per word for all messages from tbecapital city to the Maritime Provinces. v .

Maritime» newspapers were wholly dependent upon the mails for any- thing urea mu and fair report of‘ what was going on in the capital. Iretters from correspondents and the fuller reports printed’ in Quebec and Ontario papers supplied the place of the copious telegraphic despatches of today. There was no Associated Press and no Hansard reports of the sayings and doings in Parliament in those days. At first there was but a single shorthand reporter in the Press Gallery of the House of Com- mons, a Mr. Edwards and the offer of a much higher salary than he had before received soon enticed him away to Washington.

There was no stenographer in the Senate for years after Parliament first opened. What did service as a sort of Hansard, was made up of clippings from the leading newspap- ers pasted in s. scrap book. and this is said to have been destroyed by fire when the Parliament Building was burned a few years ago.

Prince Edward Island had but o very limited and primitive telegraph service when it entered the Dominion in 1873. Long after that date, and down to i896 it was still very limited and unsatisfactory. It cost the sen- der of the brlefest message from Charlottetown to any telegraph of- flee on the Mainland fifty cents and the press rates to or from an Island newspaper were proportionately high. A further handicap to telegraph cor- respondence here was that there was no night service. The telegraph of- flce in this city did not open until 8 o'clock in the morning, and it closed at a o'clock in the evening.

The reader of these lines can read- ily imagine how insignificant was the

morning paper in Charlottetown in those days. The writer vividly re- calls having reported to the Presl- dent ‘of the u Anglo-American Tele- graph Company in England, the con- ditions. of the ‘service inthie City and Province in February, 1896. The entire correspondence on the subject. was printed inthe Guardian at the time. '.

To the late Mr. Horace Haszard, both as a citizenand a member of Parliament, this Province is deeply indebted for his very valuable, per- s‘ ‘ and successful efforts to re- form and extend the telegraph ser-

writer or these notes was thehresi- Y‘

vice between the Island and the out- side world. ' And it should not be for- gotten. I

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From Saskatchewan comes the strange tidings that thousands of horses have been starving to death from lack of fodder and intense cold weather. -Published reports tcgzxihat many farmers have shot num v of their horses to put them out of their suffering. Meanwhile rthe Minister of Agriculture has sent 4,339 carloads of fodder into the districts where the scarcity is great. In other cases val- uable horses are being kept alive by feeding them a compound of finely chopped wheat straw coated with mo- lasses. ~ ‘These are new and strange experiences from fodder shortage in places where it is usually plentiful.

The proposed Royal Commission to study mployment, endorsed by Hon. H. B. Bennett, is objected t/J by theToronto Globe on the ground the‘ it would delay immediate ec- tion which seems to be needed. “it is easy to say that Governments should appropriato funds for relief," says The Globe, a little harder to get public works under way to meet

ergencies, and more diflicult still to get the unemployed absorbed into industry."

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ltuula hamagaiii become an ex- porierbfwheot, and the price of wheat has declined to s new low lev- el. But this decline iatvhut prices nu hilt-little effect in reducing the eostmf flour orbreed in provinces

That on» situation in the Maritime Provinces where a lion consumers mum mmweo,» i do two-third: can their ' a .

when little or no wheat-ingrown,

nsiuovmo cause or‘ rm: ~ summer”

One of the things ‘that does not seem logical is to treat-In, 011m to make it work properly, without try- ing to find out why it is not working 11' nerly- : v_

Nowifthatorganbetbeheartit is certainly wise to treat or protect it immediately so that 1t con- tinue to work. If it stops working there is nothing more can be done.

However? to have a patient t daily because the heart is working too fast due to an infection from the teeth, without doing anything to re- move the ir fection from the teeth. doesn't seem like good sense.

Giving digitalis or other drug t0 steady and ‘slow’ the heart is good immediate treatment, but while that heart is being Readied and the beat strengthened, there shoiilmbdno de- lay about getting rid of any infection that is interfering with its regularity and strength. , V

If the trouble be due to-emotio 1 disturbances thesl shou1d"b'e“treated, as with an infection, by an effort to remove them.

Because after all although the heart has its own ‘reserve’ 0! strength its condition really/depends upon the condition of the whole body.

If no exercise is beingtaken, the heart muscle diminishes in strength Eating food that causes too much gas formation will cause pressure on the heart that interferes with its action.

This ans may accumulate in the Hillier left hand part o! the stomach, or part of large intestine, causing pressure against the floor of chest, and thus against the heart.

Too many stimulants may likewise be causing the heart to beat too often. ~ . '

My thought then is that astlic heart has to do all the pumping 0g the blood to all parts Iof the body, every effort to rest and steady it is of course _right, but if you can re. move from the various parts of the body and mind thé little or big things that are causing it to beat rapidly or lrrcsularly than that would be the common sense thing to do.

Why try to relieve the heart of some of its work by rest. or drugs, when by lessening the work, may“? fection or-other conditions are mag. ins It do. you may not need the drugs, as the heart will regain its own reserve strength, 11 gjvgn the chance.

And this same idea applies to gum- organs of the body.

Why treat the organ itself without trying to remove the cause d: p; trouble.

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THE STARFISH

Triangles are commands of God And independent lie

Outside our brains as wild geese show Travelling down the sky.

And this five-pointed

sucks its slow way as it can Has as sure a hold on God As great Aldeberah.

thin! that

It has as large a power to please Any eye that gazes

Upon its harmony of lines

As ancient Attic vases.

Pentagon for Gawairfs shield, Five point. of chivalry, ‘ In ancient laws" and musical It creeps below the seal.

Its ringers are on God's own hand, i’

Its just name is a star, Through aeons it remains as right As birth and dying are." a —By mom. P. ‘Iristrem denim. in the New adeipiii.“

have to travel over. after the manner

6f a tracts-grout ever so much ees- '

ier, with m: splatter and mo.

Says tbs Mall and Inspire: For 01 miles the new six-wheeled buck,- amled elcnl loaded with m has weight iflfllthed over hills of I

simple .

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enuemld sky-lakes and -crim.s6n_

the dirk dented Dell: of the Rockies fer across the Alberta plain; we were ibtiering about the hero door enjoying the color and the silences of the eveninggiow and testing the sweetness of the air, when we saw s. wagon come over the hump on the south road a mile any. Just a slow 1mm. wagon.

Wfiilldvplfli and yet as they rose. in- to eight out of the hollow they always

1y nearer along the rotted road. and passing undies slowly vanishing a mile or so further north. Horses tugg-

bieachod and buttered by weather and use; and the on hh seat the reins loose in inlfll» “Mhlhlthe endless trail ly flowing in under his horses‘ feet. ‘I'M wlmn, on this special‘ evening, some over the hump and came steadily on and we presen- tly saw it we; Mk‘. Wiiiet‘: turnout. urith Mr. Wlllflillllfildfilrivlng. n: were enlarge coeb-Jlhfhights wcrl rather c001 —- and lb llhtkhan clut‘. esp. He stopped his teem at the gal waved a greeting and got dovm. W did‘not know lvir. Willet very uei ‘ and when he came over we saw h could be doing very nicely with ~. good close shave. But that was no of course. thcmatterin hand. or any .. body's business. ' a The matter in hand turned out ..t,o be potatoes. "I believe you're growing Anderson's potatoes," said he-atlast; after wc- had gone round; the _-usual

"have you more than you willneed "i.

'.‘Oh yes: a lot mo e; good gracious we should hope so." . ._ v

"They're a nice white'variety ain't they?" asked Mr. Willet. And we ag- reed they. were: very nice and whito indeed. “And dry, too."

."So I've been told," said he; "and you might have some to spare." . "Indeed we wiii."\said we. “Lots." , Mr. Willet had a reputatiqnAVe knew but he never used money to buy with. Trade! .Mr. Wlilet did his gxchgnges by barter. Six hens for a pigling; an ‘did grindstone f0!’ a second-hand mic; .a decrepit mower‘ for a. middle-aged icrgam-separator. And so with the ‘potatoes. No coin.‘ ‘ ‘

“blow look," said he. “you've got yoiirtesm, and them cows there, and them calves and you need oats, don't you? Now look, we'll make a trade, dates for’ pots-foes; then we're both suitbd." _ '

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i‘. The Public Forum

this column ls ‘open for the by w- ‘

' of questions of interest. The

bharluttetown Guardian does

-nol necessarily endorse the D opinions of correspondents.

firearms were allowed in such a

place, A few deer, moose, recmflo beaver and several of our Canadian fur ‘ could be bought by our government and placed in such a park, even-an odd bear would molest nobody and create an added interest. r- " ‘Iv all would be needed

A ram: AND SANCTUARY

Sin-I was interested in wading "Nature lovers" comments in The Guardian recently and woiild hasten to add my word. V '

Why. can we not have a Park in P. E. I. as well as our sister, Prov- inces’! 1 understood that it is the in- ‘tention of the powcrs-that-be tQ es- tablish both a sanctuary and Park, but why wait for a time in the far future? There are several areas of yvood-larid and also scrub and bar-

_ He was fight. We did need oats. The animals he mentioned could eat oats with the most heart-breaking persistence. The more they got the more’ they vote: Mr. Wiliet didn't know it-fyet‘ perhaps he did too-but at that moment our need for oats was agg ' y. so we listened t0 his little proposition: more than that, we ag- reed to it. ' What‘ the detail; were we do not-I alrthis happened in the olden, the golden, days before the War-loot: re- member. It was so many bias of eates-immediatd delivery~for .sb" many sacks of our potatoes. when they were ‘dug-whim was a wdek or two distant: Mr. Wiiiet had the Oats in his wagon. And he carried them into the bum there and fhmfllld drove off slowly ma‘: the eplendore of the north-west sky. ' 1 ‘Ame potato harvest duly came The brittle white tubers were dug ‘and gathered and stored. Most of them were sold: some were put away for seedi and so Juany seeks -—es per agreement-warmest aside for Mr. wiiievflmcs ones. too Late autumn and wintor descended on the land. but w. Wiilet didn't come for his 170-‘

“basseenb

rcns that could be purchased and converted‘ into a park or wild life preserve. We scarcely realise the in- terest our people both old and young take in watching wild life in its na- tive haunts, a privilege, however, which few of our people enjoy. If we wish to sec a deer, moose, beer or many of our Canadian fur and game animals we have to spend much mon- ey and travel to some preserve in Ontario or farther west in order to see these animals in their semi-wild state. Consequently only ‘a favored few of our people can enjoy these plyasures. Instead of our people. spending much time and money in order to sec these things many tour- ists would fiock to our Island and leave a surplus here for our people. The policing of such a‘ preserve would not be a grcatlmattee as fer as expenses are concerned as one good forest ranger could keep fair order and also guide tourists through such an enclosure. Onceauch a parki was well established e. small fee~ could be charged and thus could be used w...” for patrolling such en area. No firearms would be allowed in such a piece, but if Beaver were introduced, they would soon make