“s ow a a ee gre oe HOw QUT OF 2,008 CLAIMS ust an Accident }Co.’ for last Yyear, i were for accidents caused to p edestri ans walking on the si lewalk ’ Tnsures a rzinsat all kin is of accidents its premiums are low, “and itt gives a 6. IC. Brow General Agent Charlottetown THE DAILY BXAMINER. AUGUST 2, 1897. : x - = COLD STORAGE AND CIRECT COM- MUNICATION. Tue British Government bas, apparent- lv, determined that the interests of the cultivation of com- Mother Country In case, Prince Edward Island ought to be placed In & position to compete on Empire warrant the merce between the and the Colonies. this equal terms with ber sisters of the Canadian Confeder- ation. There were grounds for the hope that the efforts of the Board of Trade, headed by Mr. Horace Ha-zard, would, ere this, have resulted in regular direct steam cemmuonication between Charlorte- town and Great§Britain, as well as in cold storage. Why this hope, cherished by the been realized, we The enterprising firm of Carvell Brothers and Matheson and Toombs have found it to their advan- tage to charter ocean steamers, and have them loaded atthis port-fer the British Government, bas not cannot Ray. Measrs. markets. But the Government has not yet done anything towards the ful- filment of its promise to cause an ocean steamer to call here regularly once a month; nor has anything practical yet been done towards the erection of a cold storage warehouse. The Miniater of Agricuiture has, it is true, made an indefin- ite offer of a bonus toa cold stor» ge com- pany, sn act of the Legislature has been passed authorizing aid on the part of the Province, and aconsiderable portion of the stock required has, as a result of Mr. Haszard’s exertions, been subscribed. But no movement towards building a cold made— chictly, we believe, because the Minister of storage warehouse has yet been to this matter, come down to business; and for Agriculture bas not,in regard the same reason we have not yet an ocean steamer calling at Charlottetown. The interests of this Province demand that these necessities of a devel»ping commerce with the Mother Country shall be provided | without further delay. _—+ om < ee THE BALLOT. Tue Pioneer is advocating “ the ballot ’ in Provincial elections. We begin to think’ that the Pioneer may be right. If we had had the ballot in the recent contest the employes of the Government and their relatives to the fourth and fifth generation, together with the mortagors ofall the Lib- eral mortagees,might not have considered it absolutely necessary to vote for Mr. Peters’ candidates; and the country would probably have had a decided change of adm inistra- tion. Atany rate,Mr. Peters will, now that he is in by the aid of the Dominion Government, consider it his duty to accommodate the Provincial election law to the D»minion Governoment’s plan of basing the franchise of Canada upon the Provincial lists. Some simpler and expensive plan of registration thaa that selected by the Davies Administra- tion must, however, be adupted. e+ere SITUATION IN INDIA, less THe situat on in India, as described in The old saying, *‘ Troubles come not singly, to have First came the the despatches, is full of anxiety. but in whole battalions,” seems been verified in her cave. disastrous famine, whose etlects are still visible ; then the plague ; next che cholera. and afterwards the earthquakes; then native disaflection and finally war in two different places on av extremely inacces- sible frontier. The bravery, careful leading and success of the British troops in India, will probably have a good effect upon native Opinion. A despatch from Simla states that the insurgents have been repulsed at all points and that reinfore ments of the British troops have arrived. St. John Sun: If all the disappointed liberal office seekers were to start for K'ondike next week what an exodus there woold be from St. John! Gren A TRUTH WELL STATED. COMMENTING upon the result of the re- Province the Montreal Gazette says: . cent election conteat in this ** Under the circumstances, Mr. Gordon and the «toer members of the Opp sition will probaoly feel that they have nothing to be ashamed of. They fought aganst a Government which had jast doctored the franchise law to sult Ile Conveniences, and which had the sanportof the Ottawa ministers, who on the one hand cverced the public railway employes with threats voting for the Peters candidates, and on the other spread pro mises of railway extens ons and of dismissal! into the con- i i a oe ie struction of public works for the bribery of the constituencies. eroment’s triumph was gene) al Tne Gov- purchased by the ‘acrifice of every principle that Conserva- tives as well as Liberals maintain to be e-sential ip securing an unbiased ex>re=- 8100 Of the popular will, a state of attaira, al will recognize, as exactly what was to | be expected in connection witha party that has Sir Wilfrid Laurier as a chief and Mr. Blair av a prophet.” The matter is in this piragraph well and coccisely stated. —_—_—_———"_—— Bee op truth about the NOTES AND COMMENTS —The Russian census gives the Russian empire 130,000,000 people, Tbis nuwb-r iecludes Russia aod Siberia, but not any of the colonies or dependencres, It is a count overone broad stretch of country Speaking roughly the population of the British empire is 345,000,000. Or this number 721,000,000 are natives of British India, and 66,900,000 are in the feudatory states. inthe United Kingdom there are 38,000,000. But there are 36,000,000 more within the sphere of British influence. —The British peop'e were fortunate in getting hold of the Canadian Premier before he game under the influence of the politicians at Washington. Sir Wilfrid seems 10 have beep greatly imp -ssed by what he saw in Great Britain. In the course of one of his Paris interviews be said : “The jubilee fetes were grand, and ncthing could convey an idea of the im- pression which all felt in the presence of the imme cc demonstration of a whole ;eople, and, above all, dominated by the noble Queen Victoria, one of the greatest reonages of modern times, whe is ap- pec ot. even by instinct by all who know he only by reputation, and who is ad- mired beyond measure by all who have met her. What is to be said of the Eng- lish people, who during these men. vrabie days were tbe witnesses of this grand and imoressiye spectacle, but that it is a strong people, having its faulte, but whose qualities cannot be denied.” Sir Wilfrid bas apparently been “ fixed ” by the British and Queen Victoria. The qu.. .ion is ** will he stay fixed ? ” —_ ESTEEMED EXCHANGES. Boston Journal: England apparently does not mean to be reproached this sea- eon for furnishing an ioadequate -patrol of the Behring sealing fisheries. She has sent two vessels already. a third, a crniser of 5,000 tons, is about tortart, and two more are to start later. St. Jobn Sun: Sir Wilfred Laurier wil come back to Canada sporting among his other decorations the ins .gn'a of a yrand officer of the Legion of Honor. Only a few short months ago Ciuzen Laurier was sneering at knighthood and trinkets, and boasting that he was a democrat of the democrats. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has off-red the town of Stirling £6,000 for a public lib- rary building. An exceptional fine crop is promised in Manitoba and the North-West. A onmter of new elevators are being erected west of Winnipeg. The storage capacity of inter- ior points will be increased by fully 1,000,000 bushels, as forty new elevators will be built on different stations. Sever- al pew wheat centres will be created. Dr. Nansen, refering to a letter from Capt. Lehman, of the Dutch steamer Dordrecht, who says thaton June 17 he saw a curious object, resembling a balloon, floating in the White Sea, declares that it would be impossible for Andree’s balloon to have reached the White Seaso soon after the ascent. A satisfactory beverage for outing parties is unquestionably Sovreign Fruit Syrups. Among 1s great variety in flavors all tastes are suited. ~ HOME MAKERS. j ( j } earthquake at noon on Wednesday. trol, embodied in the platform a declara- Mediterranean damage to shipping is report-d. are overdue at Marseilles. HAVANA’S OUTPOSTS ATTACKED, Cuban Kebels FEFavaging the Suburbs of Huvana, New York, July 30. The Herald’s «pecial for Havana says: ““Havana’s out- posts bave again been attacked by a large body of rebel*e, who before the Spanish troops could gathered to resist had suburbs, carrying all before They used, wis believed, rapid- be Swept the them, liring gune and au large quantity of lynamite. The attack was made late lastnight. ‘To-day there is an inclination among the S;ari<h «flicials in Havana to leny the tact that the rebels have evaded | he forts and swe pt into the Havana limites. | The fact®, however, remain, and the path left by the rebels through the suburbs sonthenst of the city may be plainly traced. Several wounded Spanixh soldiera were brought into Havana and removed to Hospitas, after the engagement, and it 1s undersiood that several were killed. The reticence of the Spanish officials prevents anv knowledge of the result of the attack b«om n- general. It isa fact, however, and great damage was done by the insur: gents in their bold raid, andthat a considerable quantity of dynamite was used, There was great exitemeut in Havana during the rebel attack. Hundreds aroused bythe heavy firing, poured into the streets and the word passed along, “The rebels have attacked the city,” eee ting almosta panic in some quarters. Tere is still great excitement here due la-gely to the refusal of the authorities to give out information. Thejinsurgents leaders nesrest Havana now are Brigadier G-neral Castillo, with a large force at Martianao, and Colonel Nester Aranguren, at Buanabcoa, acrosa the Bay. General Alex. Rodriguez, rebel commander of Havana provinces, with a large force, is near Minas, and Colonel Raoul Arango is at Cotorro. C~ ptain-General Weyler has en wr for Matanzas, and the belief is expressed ihatthe kvowledge by the ine rent= of this intention on his part i, pie the attack. impli ‘ 8 During a row at a conference of Mr, wed Baptists in Montgonery, Ala:ythe lees. Mr. Strokes and Mrf@ Paterson, editcy of the Argus, both ¢8fored, came to blows. Patterson was shot and dropped dead. A negro vaned Pritchett has been arrcst- ed charged witb the crime. The islands of Antigua, St. Kitts and Gua‘aloupe, of the Leeward group, in the West Indies, experienced a severe shock of | The Democratic State Competition, of Maryland, with Senator Gorman, in con- tion favoring bi-metalism, leaving the ratio question in abeyance. Auctions —To-morrow at 11 o’elock and l o’clock of general goods. Fnroiture eale at 2 o'clock sharp.—E. H. Norton. A great storm is reported on _ the ccast of France, and Steamers By wood or lake, in the mount ains or by the seaside; should not be undertaken without in- cluding in your kit a bottle of that famous Sovereign Jc... You will find it cooling to the bluod, and a valuable anti- rheumatic. Ask your dealer for “Sovereign” brand. Refin— ed and bottled by Simson Bros. & Co. Manufacturers UR PRICES Mean ncthing until you have seen the goods, then their lowness 's apparent, Good, up-to-date well-made | Furniture at reasonable prices, is our speciult y, and it pays to deal with specialists. Mark Wright & Co. Ltd A CLERGYMAN’S LIFE. Has More Werries than the Public are Aware of—Nervous Exhaustion the Frequent Outcome. There is more worry connected with the routine lite of the average clergyman that most people imagine. 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Under these circumstances I feel it my duty to say a good word for Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills.” Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills cure by going to the root of the disease. They renew and build up the blood, and strengthen the nerves, thus driving disease trom the system. Avoid imitations by insisting that every box you purchase is enclosed io awrapping bearing the full trade mark, Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills for Pale People. Wone as Gcecod as HE. & D. a The Gravitation Theory. In one of his lectures before the Low- ell institute, Boston, recently Professor G. F. Wright combated the supposition that the conclusions of modern physical ecience are free from difficuities and clear of all doubt. Instead of such be- ing the case science, he declares, is lead- ing deeper and deeper into mysteries and substituting instead of single mys- teries »n ever increasing multitude for each oty . He instanced in illustration the New;@nian theory of gravitation as ap gheeeenee to this day unex- plained, a\ jea_that if bodies act up- on each other % a distance without any intervening medium then a thing can act where it is not, which is an absurd- ity, while, on the other hand, if there is a material medium filling all space, and a gravity is transmitted through that by a push rather than by a pull, then the transmission ought to occupy some appreciable time, but this it does not do, and at any rate, if ite action is not absolutely instantaneous, its veloci- ty raust be at least fifty million times greater than that of light. Moreover, every effort to represent gravitation as the result of a push from behind in- volves absurdities of various kinds. In fact, Newton’s final conclusion was that the philosophy of gravitatiou is abso- lutely inconceivabie and its action para- doxical. Carter's for Wall Paver LOCAL NOTICES, —— ee Piano, bedroom suit, parlor furniture and household extras at onr sale at 20’clock to-morrow —E. H. Norton. For your summer hou-e —Camp stools : | and chairs, folding chairs, lounging chair-, Cs Lime camp beds, fo'ding wire cots, cheap teather pillows and cheap mattresses, at prices that will please you.— John Newson. 161, 2w ee _ ad —_— SHIP NEW3. Port of Charlottetown ENTERED. July 31.—J B Fav, Campbell Pictou; Mary D Lawson, Wallace; Sir John A Me- Donald, Pictou; Margares, Hume, do CLEARED July 31—Marv D, Lawson, Wallace; as, Halifax, Pye, Boston; Charming Lave, Stewart, Crapaud; John Siroup, Richard- son, Batburst: Sir John A McDonald, Hyde, Pictou; Halcyon, Fougere, George town; Margaret, Hume, Pictou. Royal makes the food pure, wholesome and delicious, Absolutely Pure ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., NEW YORK. ! FHE VAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN AUGUST 2, 197 TARY ORG ee ramon ete Shirt Waists, 569c, 69e and 95c. Not the flimsev “fadeable” sort that there are already too many of in Cir town, bot substantial, sightly and sty! sh garments that tit well, fell well, and look as well as they fit and feel. They’re this reason’s m: dels, evers | one, ard there’s no “buv’ about them, except that we bought a large quantity apd they must be rold. TRUNKS AND VALISES Canvass Telescop s—with leather bound corners. Jas. Paton & Company RAS ee eee eee ete CAT das, SRS SoaAS aad. ca tad = —$—: COX AND HOWELLS. The Congressman’s Sunset Story Erro- meously Ascribed to the Novelist. The following story was published in a New York paper: *“*When William Dean Howells, our pet- ted novelist, was earning small wages on a Cincinnati paper, he was sent to Colum- bus to report the proceedings of the legis- lature of Ohio, which at that particular time were of a riotous nature. Wandering oif to the Olentangy at noon recess, he be- came enamored of the seenery and re- mained there until nearly sunset, when the splendor of the heavens entranced him. Never before had he seen sucha sunset in Ohio. The legislature and ite doings were forgotten, and in the delirium ef rapture he rhapsodized three or four . colusnns about the glories of the western evening sky. On the following morning, while the rest of the Cincinnati papers had pages about the riots in the halls of legis- lation, Howells’ paper led off with his de- scription of a sunset! If I am not in er- ror, be retired from active journalism that very day.’’ The story i well told and lacks only the one element of truth. In other words, the incident never ovourred. Howells was the Columbus correspondent of the old Cincinnati Gazette in 1856, and in 1859 became news editor of the Ohio State Journal. The story of the sunset is evi- dently grounded on an incident which happened in the career of 8. S. Cox, while he was editor of the old Ohio Statesman, at Columbus, in 1854. Late one afternoon a summer thunder- storm swept over the city, and as the storm clouds broke away from the west a magnificent sunset followed. Cox watched its splendor and dasbed off a brilliant de- scription thereof, which appeared in the next morning's Statesman. It attracted great attention and gave its author his sobriquet of ‘‘ Hunset Cox,’’ which he re- tained through life. Thousands of people have read the witty speeches of his con- gressional career without knowing that his first literary step which attracted popu- lar notice was a third of a column of fine descriptive writing on a Columbus sunset. —Toledo Blade. Where the Pinch Came. It is odd how in misfortune some trivtal and absolutely unimportant detail will cause actual annoyanee! ‘‘When we lost our money,’’ said a plucky woman, whose courage and cheerfulness in her trouble had excited every one’s admiration, ‘‘I re- mem ber that the first thing that actually broke me down and made me lose my tem- per was the want of brown paper and twine to do uj) a package. In the days of our abundance so many packages and boxes came t) the house, and there was yoch an accurnulation of both, for I had the old fashioned way of keeping good pa- per and string, that when one day I want- ed to do up some important parcel and could not find either, it made me realize that the days of plenty were over as noth- ing else had done. It seems absurd to say so, but it was really my first sense of acute deprivation.”’ ‘My first realization of poverty came with hanging on toa strap ina crowded street oar,’’ remarked another woman, who had always kept her carriage. ‘And mine,’’ said another reduced gen- tlewoman, ‘‘was when the tradesmen in- sisted upon having their bills paid. I had always put them in the firewhen I was rich.’—New York Commercial. _ Gents’ and Boys’ Straw Hate at half price for Saturday a at McKay Woolen Co. 177~- 2i oe ™ ? SE meas Valuable Property FOR SALE The subscriber, Owing to ill health, of- fers by private sale, his property, consis*- lng Of a three tenement house and cottage in the rear. r Land 100 ft. running back, and 50 ft frontage. Tenement house, 42 fi. frontage add running back 40 ft. Cottage, 27 ft frontage, and running back 17 tt. Stone wall and frost-yroof cellar. If not disposed of by Aug. 12th, will be sold on that date at 12 o'clock, noon by public auction by ROBERT BEAIRSTO For further varticular apply to ALEXANDER ROBERTSON Euston St West, opp, Kirk, 1:8.—10i. Joho L. Carleton, Be Barri - ,. « q., of 8. Jobo, N. B.. ain deliver a ttlrw under the anepicee of t lecture, in St. Patrck?. Hal. he B. L \ Aug 6h, entiled : “Boyle YR Poet of H ity”? : oy umanity, Admission 1c. iy TH Aug2—td w PRISCOLL, Auction... Tomorrow, Tacsaay tc Will inelude cne niee hand in good order, on» reat Bord benand Plano, (almost rew) with wir BNite yrass, parlor snite rockers Mat. ‘ure. Mrrvhandize sale methen Other furn). noon. Furniture sale at 2 share® S24 pricer. es No resery, rein » yday AUctionce, Acadi hotel guests are having good fishing from : Harbor of Cod and Mackerej, Good boat, bait and fishing tackle supplied. I. 6. HALL July 26. EXCURSION — Nexi Monday evening the members Charlottetown Lodge No. 68, I. 061 will hold a Moonlight Excursion, On the Jacques Cartier. Tickets for sale MeMiilan & Hornsby’, Jenkins & W.N. Tanton’s, G. F. "utcheson’s god from ® few of the members. Only a jin. ied number will be told. 82ad Bat, Bind will furnieh music, an eens SCREEN WIRE ake 3 * } x. in aa ‘hee From 2c per yard ae 5 nung tral at 20 per cent dis. eg sense A splendid chance to g>t a good Pe frizerator for very little money. we Shi ialdiali Nidieccuis sc el a Fdgehill--Church School for Gi Windsor, Nova Scotia INCORPORATED 1891. Rr. Rev. Brsnor Courtxey, D. D., Cs" man Board of Trustees uly Miss Lerroy, of Cheltenham i College, England, Frisciga Resident experienced 4 from England ; Housekeepers and Trained Nurse. Board with Tuition in Engi? Department, $188. Music Art, Paryicar C extras Preparation for the sities Year begins Sept. 15th, For Calendar apply to Dr. Bux?