*_* r" -' . . . _ . .-3, > H - __ -_ _ < \ _ \. ..'.~ 4. .4 " ' ws- ,~ . -- . . ,- _ ' 0llL°°llandFor- -' ' ' ` - , - , . "'-. ~» ,V ell1lNewe. I ~ _ _ _ . . ` _. __ ‘ - -~°e-l'l'#Al':> Al-I- cvlin lrlruuom a:nwAnn is|_AN|:>--- - ' r- frm .g .. '~ .s,.... ......,.,, ri ¥ i...V.?` §o ss nh-1 Ev aousgicniaei -< . ~ _ , . _ 8 . _ _ _ _ _ rms rn.n....} --me uunsn News cHARLo'1"rE'rowN, CANADA. SATURDAY MORNING Jour Frm or iw- 1-M10- H' '-"' ' 1”’-`°i - - i 4 f , - --~ I is ._D itnrinnn THROUGH A I 'li iuiculiuui ‘ Ti, , A s PUNJAB i - uni lnniii --._,?l_.__._, llnnylntercstlng Facts of Portlculnr lnterist to Prince Edward lslon llllSSl0NARY’S EYES ' ` Told by u Well Known- Divine. ' \~ .. , _. (Through the courtesy of both send. er and-receiver, the Guardian is per- mitted to Du-blish_the following per- aonalletter, from the Rev. P. Ire- llllii ~7°D°B. giving his impressions of a` recent visit to the Dominion.) _Prince Edward Island, Canada, September 29th, 1911. My Dear Wlgram, ` I have not sent you 8, line for some weeks, and much has ha/ppened to ns- in the interval. We found our son .from Saskatchewan, not met for over 6 Yee-re, could not come to see us in England, so we resolved to come here to-meet him ere we' turned our faces Eastward again, with all the changes and chances of,life and service there before us. ~You know what such re- ‘lnlolll mean. We sailed from Bristol on Saptclnbsr 6th in the "Royal George,” a line Canadian liner of 18.000 tons. We had over 1000 pas- sengers and more than 500 in the eteerage, including 54 S. A. Emi- grants, under an S. A.'Captain in the Und BIRDS, Bild a "Times" Corres- pondent seeking ‘-‘CoDy" as to the conditions of steerage life on 5,Can- adlan liner for emigrants, and" as 1 heard. well satisfied with his experi- ences. We had too on board the 8 officers and the gunners of the Royal Canadian Artillery who had done so well in competition with the Home batteries of territorials. An Atlantic voyage is too short to enable ane to get to know anybody well. But we made many acquaintances, some friends, and learned much from- well- lnformed persons, ss to Canada, ber politics, economics, commerce, trade, railways, prospects, relations to th: Empire, Church life and Missions. We had on board some distinguished Can adians whose fulness of knowledge greatly impressed me. One in parti- cular from Ottawa, with the help ol his 1909 Government map, of great dimensions, spread -out in the ship- library, gave me information on Can- ada. her achievements, possibilities and prospects, such as I could have .gained in no other way. We had on "'“°b’6a,rd‘f old settlers returning after re- vl_lltiug.1zhe home country. One couple fl‘ot`1i‘Dntario had not been in .Eng- lifid for 52 years. He sailed from Pyinouth in a sailing-vessel and took 37 days for the voyage. The mail boats now take 6 days. We car- ried 500 bags of mails. On Sunday morning, September 10th, we had a full attendance in the lst saloon-sew Vice, which I took, alone, no other clergyman on board. A 2nd service arranged for 8 p.m. in the stecragc, was anticipated by the S. A. Cap- tain, and I joined them before his was over, and cancelled ours. A cornct- playee among the S. A. did yeomnn service throughout our voyage. On Qhmejtormy days on those grey seas his music, with strong voices, singing in parts, came floating over the decklfwlth “Abide with me,” “Lead Kindly Light," “Nearer My God to Thee." On Sunday morning he play- ed for half an hour before breakfast and it was nie church-heirs at see. I thanked him for his help to us all, as he gripped my hand. I had asked B BID llt brother to read the les- sons in our morning service, but he wasoq his back in his bunk when the tlml' dime. We had rather a, tryilng time of wind and sea, with dark logs od Nllloundiand and an iceberg, ghoitllh, drifting past us, in the mist, very near by, and others were not lik off, as the Captain feared, for we steamed only 15 miles in four hours, 'slowed down, testing the tem- perature of the water. 0ur.ty,pe of enllvatits, if n fair a_verage, was re- 'mar ably good. _An American passen- ger ‘la 'd' to me that he had never lesn ,Blish good specimens in Ameri- can and -German liners for the States. The _Qhiiadlan Government exercise a watchful, supervision over all incom- era, and this may insure the exclu- slonqf uudqslrables. U.\B. A. does the earns, but they appear to draw mqreaggntinintal emigrants, and Gan- a a.: itish. lllur-,ship was bound for Montreal, 10.- _hours beyond Quebec, up the gi‘eat,’Bt. Lawrence, 2000 miles long, bfiit,wp_ landed at Quebec, with its wo 'derful beauty of situation on l_.__.l_. downs at their best, esttlc, horses, farm produce, all of a high standard of excellence. The green pastures, with hedges, are very home like, and contrast with the 7 mile fields of the far North West. The red soil re- minds 'us of Somerset or N. Devon, and the snug- homesteads, barns, and houses, all built. of wood are dotted all over the country-side. The people, many of whom have never been on the mainland, live the Simple life, and are strenuous, indus- trious and most loyal to the British throne»and flag. I saw in Charlotte- town, the busy sea~port Capital of P. E. I. (12,000 population), a line bronze statue to Canadian soldiers who fell fighting at Paairdeberg, South Africa, February 1900. ,The in- scription is a brief testir;nony,~ elo- quent of the spirit of the Canadizm people. "To manifest to all the world the ability and willingness of? Canada to share with the Motherland the du- ties and responsibilities of Empire.” Is mot that a true Imperial note? As Mr. A. Fisher, the Australian Pre- mier said lately, "the relation of the Dominions to one another and to the Empire i's as that of the Planets in' their orbits, round the central sun, each with their own functions, and with their centripctal relation." I have been here in this momentous recent general election. I drove in with our host, Mr, F.`W. Haslam, brother of our Kungra fellow-workers, to the polling booth on the 21st. Scores of settlers from the whole country-si-de were there on the same errand, The Dominion has all her el- ections on one day, and the general results are known by mid-night of the same day, and this is in a country so Vilsli 85 this. With a Population of something over 7 millions. You have ‘-0112 ago heard the result. It has as- conishcd the world, and not least the Canadians themselves. After 15 years of odice, Sir W. Laurier and his cab- inet are out of power, and 6 of the ministers, including Mr. Fielding, the most prominent, who negotiated re- ciprocity, ars unsested. Few Canar dinns but recognized the advantages of “Reciprocity/’ and free trade in many products. nnd lowered terms on others, with the U. S. A. But Can- ada. while quite friendly with the States, would forego all these ‘inter- trade advantages, rather than risk her possible independence in too close political relations with U. S. A., cn- dangering as many feared her close union with the Mother Country. Not a few have said to me, “What will- England say?" I believe it is an not of fine, unselfish Patriotism. The in- terest in the election has been re- markable. Thousanrls `of life-long Liberals have voted for the Conser- vatives on this occasion, and the majority of the latter over the Lih- erals in votes has been over 50,000, as compared with the 17,000 major- ity polled by Liberals in 1908. In this Island they have total prohibi- tion oi into icants for sale, by n gen- eral Plebisclle of the people. Tem- perance meetings abound to keep'tho voters up to the mnrk. I attended one such with over 300 present, and had to ascend thc platform, and make a reluctant speech on A. T. A. Work lu India-, of which I should know more. Automobiles are forbidden ton. The roads are na-rrow, and the chauf- fenrs were indifferent to public safe- ty, so that the Island legislature (for there is one) repressed them wholly. Our Church does not hold the front rank numerically in these Maritime Provinces. She has devoted clergy, numerous church members, and n growing work, but the Presbyterians ‘and Methodists outnumber her. A proposal to unite the Presbyterians, Methodists, and; Congregation-als is now a-foot. People respond heartily to the Church services provided for them and I have been present at well- lled church services. In Charlotte- town, we had the privilege of calling on an honored member of St. Paul's Church, of_which the Rev. T.W. Mur- hy, Mrs. Haslam's brother-in-law, is Rector. This church member has been for 75 -years connected with St. Pa.ul’s Sunday School, from 4 years old to 78, as pupil and superintendent, the lying further to the West, and the Pacific Ocean, is beyond. What 5, des- tiny"this vast country with its room for population may have before lt. We hope later to visit Montreal, the great commercial capital with its half million of people, an-d Toronto, a University city, with 300,000. We sail from New York in late October, if all be well. Have you read Miss Montgomery’s "Anne of Green Gables," and "Anne of Avonlea/"I Both give an admir- able idea of life‘in this Island com- munity. To us everything is of great novelty and interest. I think I have wearied you enough with my long letter, but I hope it may be of inter- est to bear more af a lnnd which has given Missionaries to Japan and Chi- na and to us in the Punjab where we have valued fellow workers from these shores, and the Canadian Presbyteri- an ~Mission in Indore has many friends in the Domfnion. . With our affectionate greetings to yourselves and all fellow-workcrs whom we daily remember. Ever yours affectionately, (Sd.) P. IRELAND JONES. RECOLLECTIONS OF 67 YEARS AGO. The following interesting history of this Province sixty-seven years ago was furnished The Guardian by the late James Grigg, of West Devon:- I spent my childhood days at. my father’s home in Trout River, Lot 13, P.E.I. When nearing' my majority I thought oi looking out for a home of my own and acting on the advice of Greely, ":Youug man go West,” I started on my westward journey. The first four miles were very crooked and rough and reached the westward road, newly made, that extended from Miscouche to Tignlsh, a. dis- tance of about forty miles. When 1 had gone about five miles on the road I came to a small tent about large enough to shelter one man. It ap- peared that the man had at the time deserted his improvement: But in f. few years he returned and commenced clearing land for the farm which is` now in the possession of John Smith. Two miles further on I came to, a in-rge barren that had been burnt over by bush-fire. Probably the men who opened the road had started thc -fire. 'l`he place is now covered with n woods. A little further on, about a mile, I came to R lake. It -covered about 3 acres and was 6 feet deep with about the same amount of mud ed about half-way between Portage River on thc west and Percival River on the cast, 3 miles from water to water. Some fifty years ago, when juniper roots were in such great de- mand for shipbuilding purposes, I saw a lumiber yard on the lake ice. The workmen would root the trees out, cut them the proper length and haul them in the rough. Broad-axe men would then dress them for ship- mont. They were taken all sizes and sent to the' United States. Two miles further on a man w-as building a small log-house for the accommoda- tion of travellers: The place was named 'l‘raveller's Rest. This man was an emigrant from England. He landed in Charlottetown and had then gone to Little York where he spent some time working for the farmers. He had been a farm laborer in the Old Country. During the four- teen miles I travelled I don't remem- ber secing one individual on the road. At the end of the next six miles I came to a grist mill. 'It was owned by Peter Carrel, a mill-wright, who came from Charlottetown. His cus- tomers had to travel by water route for there was no roads at that time. lern road. Another six'miles through tracted by a grove of large, tal the shore farms threshing. He spen the shore. There were no threshln mills at that time. -Coming to th end of the road it was a pleasan A m'i1e further .on I came to the Chol- tbe woods and my attention was at ` l d Furnished By Prof. Ross of Ch arlotleiown Proceedings of the sixteenth Ann- es 54. ponds tru the Central Farmers' Asso- ciation of our Province. After the usual addresses of wel- come &c., &c., a lengthy.discussion of the usefullness of the Provincial Exhibition held at Halifax took place. It was resolved to ask. the Exhibition Commission to shorten the time during which live stock must be kept on the grounds; to pro- vide better accornodation for ex- hibitors an_d attendants of live stock &c., &c. The Agricultural College and Agricultural Societies and Horse Breeding Legislation also received some attention. It contains two excellent addresses by J. H. Gris- dale, Director Experimental Farms, and synopses of addresses hy Princi- pal Cumming. G.H. Barr, Chief Dairy Division, Ottawa, W.T. Ritch, Doin- inion Sheep Commissioner, G.E. San- ders, Entomologist, Department, Ottawa and others. A copy of this report can bc had from the Secretary, R. B. Bryan, Durham, N.S. Importance of Entomology in the Developement of Canada being thc evidence of Dr Hewitt before thc Committee on Agriculture and Col- onization 37 pages. - It deals in a general way with the objects of the Division of Entomology and its importance. It then takes up in detail, Plant Lice the Saw Flies, The Warble Fly which annoys cattle to such an extent, San Jose scale, Wire Worms, June Bugs. (lut- worms andiother insects and the beit way to deal with them. Insecticides are then taken up. It is lull of valuable information and should be of great assistance to farmers in dealing with these pests. Copies of it can be had from the Department of Agriculture, Ottawa. ...,...,...-.-~.-~»~»~~»-~»-~»-»~f~*~'~»"~ to work my stake. The agents ap- plauded my cmrraige in facing the woods. The late R. B: Stewart had not yet come to P. FI. I. I then took nn axe and left on return to Lot 10 where I felled the woods until Ihad cleared about two acres of land. I left it until October to dry- In OWU' ber I had a bonfire which gave ni'c plcuty of work piling and burning the wood to make n place for a hounc which I soon began building with hew- cd logs. Twenty-two by twenty WM thc size of my first building. There were fi number of French families set- "“‘l°I` the Water- The wk” is Slumt' tlcd along the rivers who understood house-building. I employed some of thom to assist mc. I caulkcd bc- tween the logs with ilry .moss-. It makes a very w-arm and comfortable hon c. There were no shingle mills so I gathered old pine logs, Clit them to the required length and split them with a frow and tapered them .with a draw-knifc, Whcn my homestead wus Finished I occupied it. My,sDBi‘0 tim-G was taken up enlarging my clcaraiwt so that now I have a clear farm on which all kinds of machinery can be used. I am wellisatisllod with P. ld. I. The late Mr. Robinson came frmu Hudtico Island and settled in Loi. 13, on the Western Road. Wli€i‘° lic made n clearing and built 5 house for the accommodation of tri!-vcllefii lifliil his house to Lot 10. There was _only one other settler about five miics to gho west, a Fred Mcllonald. He clcnr- ed a furm which is now in* the pm- sessiou of John Smith. Mr. Moin- tosh settled next neighbor to Mr. Robinson. ' The late Mr. McKinnon of gangs Cove made a clearing and built n valuable property. Thu inte Robert Stewart made an openiiiif in the woods. It is now owned bi’ hiB son Charles, who evidently has not been idle, for he has increased the value of the property. Many more ' farms were started and now the vici- nit is settled by thriving farmers . y - maple trees in the midst of which in addition to improvements to the was n very rough camp. I did not funds many new ones have_been open- see the occupant of same -as he was at ,,d_ two. to Elie,-5115; to MoNeill‘s t mills, Aldouse, Lafierty’s, Tory road a good _deal of bis time working nt and to Gough Bridge. But there had 8 to be built p. bridge which was done, 0 giving good travelling on that route. t -------' .jing ,gum above gh, river, and gg, generous supporter of all good caupes sight to see the water of the Straits REVENGE IS SWEET. _bl§Mv,‘le..memorfcs.' We had 16 hours tl1`sf;;e`$,;.I,t is a very French city, and 90 "per uni; are Roman Catholics. -We vllitbll tht spot on the Plains ol Abram, fwhoe Wolfe ren in the mo- ngrt ojf victory, September 18th, 1 Di hfoiitcalmhs statue, -his gallant French rival-Yhneral, and the fine obo- l, ii - by Lord Dalhousie, to tll§r’§olnt“?ncmory. _ 'Phe inscription is all good, but I recall only this, " omg Virt/us communein, Famam I-Illlorlt rnoaumentum Poster-itas de- e‘~';i1..i-ic iw- ss' ,, _ lil 0 - W' ' *ytolmrume mum mann. Q- . mcismsnu, wel ,..,.,» .. ‘li _ ny. , . ss, " it rege- ~ ~ . 1 in Canada. As he said to me himself after travelling so many miles he must be one ol the oldest of those through the monotonous woods. It The rivalry at the annual cricket who sill their lives have been mem- was about eight miles, from the West match, Police vs. Puhlicans. wus There can-ybe few others of similar road I had aibetter view of the beau- lineman Robinson, went ln, the police _, , , __ _ long membership, anywhere, in the tfful Straits of Northumberland and required only two runs to win, ,_ _ --j.-ip? ___ Church d-Christ on earth. Eduen- made-aicqualntance gitbtl; number of I-Ie batted with due :tara tulntll a V ._..-,_.__ tion is efhaiently carried on. I have the wi ely scattere se lers, three loose ball came, and hi ing spast be n *ln some of the schools, large, families of Dumvilles, Mattlcks, Mc- id-on, be started for an easy nun. _ =r'1`..§=,‘.-" well-appointed, well-staffed. Edues- Williams, Brooks, Kinieys, Lidstones, ge get home comfortably before his ' - \ tion up to a good standard. is free, Fish, Howards, Griffin and a ship- wicket was thrown down, but to his /` “ qc, - and so ferns distance from-a school wright, Jeremiah Dalton. Mr. Dait- disgust he wasvgiven "out." /»>4NK ouwj’ -l4WR,._No9 will permit compulsory. I was much ron had worked in th; shipyard of! the "Why," exclaimed thed lnditgniznt . ~ v _._ pleased with the bright intelligence inte Messrs. Pope of edaque and ad, eonstnble, "I was a. yer pas he _ , , _ _ ‘ i tLt7,fll dth ." , _ , glial; °l;l:\%°lt§:“£,l;:°;noghzdnglgga €;,l.d°e°lz|n§0B€_bu3dmg‘ oH2w;ut ou; wl?;i°:ym'.. “ld the umpire' ..hm_`1t as her large brown eyes form n. strik-,Edrtli Warren, . lmthcrinc Langford in its most modern phases ls cultivet- some very line craft. too. After tak- nln't»wbat you say. it’s whetl say, 1250 ci‘;';“§’;°; :se h(‘;=s{'§§:L‘;‘;;‘n°‘;}"h‘;“,'I§‘;l<`ourtlanrl Hopkins. J oily Frank Oi li. . mqynuugul wood- ed to produce the best results, by the ing a last look at the Straits and the and I say you'ra out." the only American "mt engaged by|iver, J,|i1. Lawrence and .I_ W, Hare. ____ _'N' if ' ‘ beet methods. Distances are immense. lofty cliffs of Lot 7 I pursued mv "But-" began the irate Robin- mam __ ‘ _ .‘ ~ .-rivotl, Mill, vall0!l- , I mn’ h hu d d t mt lo -I James K. Hackett for his sumptous The Family A problem in ad _ i _.1 Dlllle lnaplel in Au-. W0 'traiwllod by Ill Wm* 50° , .9 l°“‘;’“" l°:l"";°7,““ 1* to t l°_'}k ,, i M production of "The Walls Of Jerico"| The Colonlnls ere now busiurehesr- Marriage-Finding out - an un 1"". Ti '$00. thofilark green' 0i‘l»il'°||! Bl‘||¢0 -to Q“°b°°- 0”’ mn t"`_ °° “mm °' °' 91°, " u°- °w' d°_»7°“ '°'“°mb°" in \"' when he presented that play at his sing for their opening production of quantity.” ‘. ~ »"‘»-‘ ending viltl ofiV°ll°d ll? mud "‘n"5V *mu* tl" im' 3° °“”“v°{-U1. 'athumt \'“Pl*°dh 91° “ml’l|`°__ ";°dlt*t*0v° 7- own theatre in New York. City. the great_ English drama "A Soldier Love-An ' rs :°"°s..:‘~"°.:.':°° ""1" ‘“°.-.:.".‘:.'i ‘;‘::‘;:-.':."‘:... .;':°...t:..:°:.;..cn..z°.:‘:.i°:; :cn :if .‘:.‘.:..i.‘:°°i.."-i..':.§... ...$2 “zur "scsi .:'.:“ °“°' . , 1_ from g n -a ewan o C 0 _ . »' - e par o e mer can un er e auspices o The . R531. 5- '_ ` _ mths across. 'nie vs_ here. You could Put down the At- '::‘ flood tgeir |_toek.t I orleaehed home with the lawl’d WOU. you YM 41113011! and won leur-els of which any actress ment Bend at The opera House Jung F1 ,, og .suing || °v¢¢1o0,- lantlc Ocean between hers and his 0! In Itch o arlottetown that time, an I was run in. . ow., might be proud. _Her next engage- 28th. at whientlme the entire 4th 4 'th ‘nuthin on nm) ma homo And beyond his present hofnelto interview the land agent! hforfet he added, trfumphantly, "I'm the law. ment with the big English Travesty Regiment Band will be used_in the l t w at ar other Provinces and Emory for the reqtilred liberty .and you re run outi , High Jinks which was brought to famous "Drumming out" um., :info country is like the B\\rrey_N\l° ln he ° » ° . ' '- I _ , ual Meeting of the Nova Scotia Far- mers’ Association, 1912. No of pag- This Association receives a Govern- ment Grant ui $2000.00. It corres- D Mana-R01' Uiiblilriu ol the ubovc luv flilrite rirgnililiiiiiiii i`ct\|l'ni‘il from qw ,Y‘"`k ,thc “lit liHi‘t_ ol the wack brmglng with him four new nrtigrg- tm' mg cast- .lf tlic writer' in able, io l“dg°"Mf- Hlflikills. has been rnorc th_an fortunate in his so|n<-,Limp Miss I-'0“|S€ liHMUiiU‘. is u,petitc_hruuctl.|-. Wlth large iculllful li|'u_wu eyes and 1, Winsome smile, that lights up. H most Blpnesslvc fuer. and i-‘hc is both uu- imated and vivncious. _ Nature fins wellhtted her for thc iugi-.mio rules she is called upon to portray. Miss _ -. ,' "A"-' ' _ .~ ' ‘:"§. ‘r :I- .»,.. 'rc ~ . f, _ .-,. e _ . .'.:;-?_-,i.'-ug. Co ~ '_ ’ 9 . 0 ,l "’lA~u t\0‘°"\ I.aMonto cmuos to 'l'hc (‘..,l<,ni;\i eight weeks equally diviileil bctw1‘cu these three centi~r.~;. Miss l.aMuute will prove one of thc nuuat. pleasing iv A. l<}Ill'l’H \V/\-Iilfl‘lN, 'l‘l{l0 (‘ill.(lNl/\| nesscd of one of thc most pina:-ling \ l - 3! . fr ‘ ' \’ he bers of the same Sunday School. Point. Travelling along the shore keen, and when the last batsman. Po- __ _=‘.?,'?€.*». _ gi ~ ' ` , c in ' .~ . of ;, 1 i: ‘ ui . . . : Stock (`-innbuuy t\p-v_-v-lNii l.Ali\’. American Acndrnny (li D|'anu\l.i<-.Ai-I., ilcoruo Nicholson, in-,sirius bc wher she displayed so much ability ini: it clover luztor line headed the that Mr. Flromnu sent llcr at thc end bills with “A Silcul. Act” in some of of the course to Vaughn ' Glaser ut, the lurizcsi. cil.ii-s in the ll. S. and Detroit Mich. for lngcnucs' for his (lnunrln mul cornea to the company Stock Company ln that city. Slicrc-‘direct from 'l`hc l\\ulil,oriuni Thentrc mained there for thrcc years and lhcnlQuebec, \vl\r,|~c lu: 1-Iris-rs his present, accepted the above iucutloncil engage-! vaudeville |~'cuson imxl, \v¢-ok. llis Ac ment. i _is that ni ii i‘o|\i.o|~t.ii>nist which hc Miss (lrucc l’|‘uctiu', is li strlkiugilinu in|:cuioi|s‘.y r-.i|n\,;,,¢.,,i with buck blonde of u willmvv typo, mul is pos- mul wing slsuu-im; mukius; if. it fcnt- urc acl.. personalities inuuzluablc and is \vl‘.ui.. ’l‘ho |-4~,|uul|ulcr of thc Unst which might bc termed ri “Hivniiisli |ilomlv"_.-fill inrlurlr- ilu: old fn\'<»rif,cs Mis I r il t valuable ucquiuitirm to the (loloninls. Une of thc new nretoru is George R"Ch0~ il .lilvonilc m:»iu of nu except- ionnlly striking nppnuranuo, measur- est sclmolingn possible for nn artist to is )w /[//J' _i __ I df ) Written byaYourig Charlot- tetown Boy For Empire Day "lircathes there a man with soul la dead. Who never to himself hath Bald This is my own my native land!" We should be truly thankful forthe .fran ments bestowed on we movie of the Empire. Britaln's motto” il. llight, Justice and Fair-play to all. Although some self-seekers deviatl from this great principle yet thema- iority of the people believe in it and respect it: Thanks should also be offered foe the ruling principles of the Emlllfi. lor the just constitution and lawil by which wo are governed. The laws of tho Empire are not the work of ai!! one mnn or any one age but havl been the development of centuries of ‘law-making. The ultimate object d ull the legislation is the betterment of the people especially the common people. There is no country in the world that _hns better government than the British Empire and there is no country in the world where tha people are better able to govern themselves. ' The latest addition about to be marie to thc British Constitution Gnd llnws is “Home Rule" which is now being pnssed by the British Parlia- ment., Canada is a. self-governing country and there are no more law- nbiding citizens in the Empire; Can- adians are thc most progressive peo- ple in thc world. Immigrants are coming to Canada from all nations nud they are helping to build n new nation; a nation that has a bright and happy future before it. Canada is making great advances and shall soon take her place with the other nations of the world in the great ‘rhannels of trade and commerce. And although the lure of -the West ia proving too strong a temptation for some to rcsist Prince Edward Island- s should rejoice and be glad that or sons are not migrating to any foreign nation. Let us hope then not the exodus of population from he "Garden of the Gulf" shall sool; stopped, _ ----<-- - that a new ern. shall soon dawn on the people of this fair land that they shall see the value of their own land and work for the better- ment of the nation. we should love our country and wish well to it and respect the just ‘uws by which we are governed and honor our King and our Flag under whose folds may Canada prosper for 1::-nr-rritions to come. A. CULLIN, Charlottetown. SOME USES OF SOAP. llistorical Review said:- Dcspitc the large number of clean- ing solutions, and washing powders _with which th? house wife may light- en her labors and achieve the same results as were had with IDOIO strenuous rubbing and cleaning. she finds that soap cannot be crossed ol the list of her household necessities. Aon well she known, too, that the cleansing properties, are not by any means the limit of its use around tbl house. _ For instance, lf the drawer in thl km-,hen cupboard sticks when it il pushed in, and it frequently doel, all the housewife must 'do is to rub the edges with soap, and presto, in goes the drawer, smoothly and eas- ily. Thr-. same can be done to door! limi. stick or shut Yo tightly Bud mnke n sriucaking oisc when oP0\'\' nu, wnus me rule also auniics .to the shutters or any place where two surfaces of wood run together. As n medium to rid the kitchen ol ronchea or ants it cannot be BUFDBIB’ » cd. When cutting cloth, the pattern can he laid on, the outline marked with soap and the cutting be absol~ utcly correct, while it in splendid for _turning heme or placing trimming or buttons. t SLEEP OF FIBHES - < i-io little is known with regard to the hours of repose-if, indeed,they are mnnncr in which fishes pass their ovvr nt rest -that any observation! on the subject are of interest. In a guide book recently issued by the director nf the new marine aquarium at Madras it is stated that the let perches ol the genus Serranue exhibited habitually go to sleep night nt the bottom of their ‘ where they remain motionless the following morning. Certain ‘er species have a similar habit _there are yet others, which n ,remain motionless during the in the water without decendt the bottom, while there are which do not appear to sleep l for they are constantly on the ' in the tnnks throughout the nig R » LIFE' B MATHEMATICS. g imaginary quantity factor.