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MOON 3S CHANGES,

tast Quarter 3rd day, 5h. 43m., p. m. xew Moon 10th day, 10h, 2m., a, m. first Quarter, l7th day, 9b. 34m., a. m,

Pull Moon, 25th day, lh. 13m., p. m.

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Duke of Edinburgh’s birthday on the 6th. Dog days end on the | 1th. @ Landing of Julius Cesar (B.C. 55) on 27th. In this month the mornings decrease 47 minutes ; the afternoons 59 minutes,

Lid HALLWAY Tiiii TABLE,

For the convenience of the travelling public, we have carefully arranged the fol- lowing table of arrival and departure of trains on the P. E. Island Railway, accord- ing to local time :—

Going West. Ah we De ee 647 912 402 Royalty Junction.......... 702 947 42? North Wiltshire........... 737 1039 509 Me MUO... kw ccc ce 747 1055 522 ES $12 18132 657 County Line..............819 1143 607 SS. bcc vécewt 829 1189 622 : PM. ee 842 1222 642 arrive....... 907 1257 712 Suminerside, depart...... 927 237 is 60 ce vaboded 942 300 DR ck cocedccccte 1001 329 | SERRE: 1029 420 ERS: 1122 &42 SELL... to cs 1205 657 SE tess. oc duccce 1242 747 — West. ce io SS cons dadegdéec 207 647 Alberton iMesedésot obés 245 757 Mss sccccccscc ccc Se | OOR ME Ios. ces coeds 420 1029 NT on ccccccccet 449 1116 Miscouche,...............507 11 44 arrive......522 1207 Summerside, A. M, ; depart...... §42 112 687 Kensington .............. 607 149 729 he REP 622 212 749 County Line,.............. 632 227 803 SEE Sok sé woo k eek 638 237 812 Hooter TE. bac ode ented 1@ 316.647 North Wiltshire........... 712 332 901 wyalty gs 5 iia 174 430. 3@ Unativstetown............ 802 462 1007 Going Hast. A.M. P.M. atlottctown............€...... 707 417 fm MN ds Cicccédedescdinl 743 444 SR PRR REE en 804 457 Mount Stewart, } attive..-......837 522 —s ” (QOMRTE. coc cces 857 527 Stas sccccsceccheunautn 942 556 oe 1015 617 Ne 1107 652 a: hiss sys ch she eee 1L57 722 ” unt Stewart...... Ev ea chisnc aun 902 532 BEE ses......-eccevneeelO IS OS EN, 0 600 000b6s cb -dbe de 1037 642 _—_ East, A.M, P.M. SS 06 essere svccocahunie 47 212 ., .......c.c eee ; 17 3 02 it SN iiss... .. eons coke 752 354 ee ENN Wee0bs beck Weséwcowceaee 814 427 lount § QPTIVE, «2000 008 842 517 Bedf prwaet, depart......0 847 537 to SM Gk de si pcoes > de 912 614 BEM sness. .cccsvoves cel 926 635 Gautlottetown Nile<o-cmaneoce uae 952 712 (a betown Scns etc awed .732 337 ose inves; oes ceureameui 749 400 wemeemart.. 8... wecwnns 842 512

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While in the country last winter my little bey, three years old, was taken il} with croup; it seemed as if he would die from strangu- lation. One of the family suggested the use of AYER’S CHERRY PreroRAL, a bottle of which was always kept in the house. This was tried in small and frequent doses, and to our delight in less than half an hour the little patient was breathing easily. The doc- to¥ said that the CHERRY PECTORAL had save my darling’s life. Can you wonder at our gratitude? Sincerely yours,

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THEIR LIVE STOCK AND BUILDINGS

Port Jarvis, Oat., Aug. 12,—The thun- der storms of the past few days in this neighborhood have been accompanied by peculiar electric phenomena. In the town of Fremont, Sullivan County, a heavy shower passed within a short distance of Philip Hack’s farm, but not a drop of rain fell on his land, the sky being clear above ‘it and the sun shining brightly. Great , banks of clouds swept along the storm track, and suddenly, in the blaekest part of the clouds, there was a flash of daz- zling light, and a ball of fire swept from the clouds in the direction of Hack’s farm. The ball struck the chimney and | then separated. The chimney was reduced ‘toa cloud of dust. One section of the fluid

went down a stovepipe, which it separated jin four parts. The fluid then entered a istove with which the pipe connected. Every door on the stove was blown open 'and the lids were thrown to different parts ,of theroom. The electric fluid seemed to | again ssparate in the stove, and a portion of ‘it came out of each of the four legs. No _damage was done to the stove, but after | leovinng it the fluid scattered all about the room tearing the plaster from the walls, | breaking the chairs and tables and eplinter- \ing the wainscoating. A chair round waa thrown to the top of a clock that stood on a The clock stopped at the same instant. The pendulum bob was detached from its rod and thrown across the room. The fluid then passed out at an open window, and spent its force plowing up the ground for several feet. The second portion of the fluid passed along the ridge- pole of the house, tearing off the shingles and splintering the rafters on its way. On

building at the eaves, it jumped back to the house and entered the kitchen, where it tore the steel knife from a cabbage cutter and split the wooden part of the cutter into four pieces. It then dislodged a tin dipper from a nail in one corner of the kitchen and carried it through a siding outside the house, where it was found buried the full length of the handle in the ground several feet from the house. There were several people in a sitting room in the house but not one of them felt the shock.

James Fletcher, of Smithfield, Penn., completed aSlew barn last week. It was the fifth one he had built on the same foundation within three years. Four of the buildings had been destreyed by light- ning, and*one day last week the new one was struck during a storm and entirely con- sumed, with all its contents.

Frank Schetting, a farmer living near Carollton, Munroe County, Penn., was working in his harvest field on Saturday. There were no clouds to be seen anywhere, but suddenly there came a clap of thunder, At the same instant the farmer and his team were prostrated by a shock of elec- tricity. The team regained their feet and ran in a dazed way around the field, when one of them dropped dead. Nine sheep that were in the field and 23 out of a flock in an adjoining field were killed. Schetting was stunned for a short time.

Joseph Creitz and Michael Bailey, of Stonesville, Penn., were found lying vn- conscious near a group of trees near that place on Saturday, just after a violent thunder shower. Creitz sdéén regained consciousness. His skin was blue all over his body. His feet were burned almost to a crisp, and his arms were paralyzed. Bailey was burned black all the way down his spine. His hair was burned close to his head, and his arms and feet were ter- ribly scorched. He died in a short time. Creitz will recover. He says for several seconds before they were prostrated by lightning flash after flash played about them, enveloping them in an almost con- tinuous sheet of flame.

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Plain Words to Certain Women.

Whenever social scandals of a certain grade come to light the man in the case is soundly berated. Generally he deserves all the severe language he gets, nevertheless he is not the only sinner. There are young women whose manners inevitably give the impression that they are not what they afterward profess to be. The easiest way in which we can explain how some injudi- cious acquaintances are formed, and under colors which, if noi false, are certainly not what they should be, is to quote from the Newark (Ohio) American, a suggestion as to a class of young women that is large in every city, and has representatives in most villages :—

Whatever idea the young girls who practice atreet flirting may entertain of their seemingly innocent pastime, it may be set down as acertainty that when a respectable young man desires the acquaintance of one who may some day become his wife, he does not go out on the street and seek her acquaintance through a flirtation. But, on the other hand, the flirt of the street, no matter how innocent and fair her intentions may be, is the last person he would select as his life’s companion. He desires purity without and above suspicion. The young girl who engages in this kind of a pastime should bearin mind that shenot only en- dangers her reputation and leaves a stain on her good name, but that her name isa by- word among those whom she flirts, to be bandied about in the saloons, on the street corners and in the low down unholy places in the city, fastening on her otherwise fair name a stigma or stain that will follow her years after she sees her folly and attempts to mend her ways.

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An interview with a number of the Inter- national Congress Commission confirms the statement recently published that 58 per cent. of European employes in the Congo region have died.

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VOL 17.---NQ. 80.

The Voyageurs on the Nile.

LATE BUT JUST ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF

THEIR WORTH,

(Saturday Review.)

The Canadian voyageurs who piloted the flotilla up the Nile have not received the full credit due to them for the part they took in an expedition which, disastrous and unsuccessful as it was, brought out the fighting qualities of the British army ad- mirably. Not only, indeed, have these men, who served under Lord Wolseley so well, failed to get much praise from the critics for the way in which they did their work, but they have been spoken of as having done it very badly, as having been insubordinate and of little use. The state- ment was officially contradicted, but official contradictions do not go for much in England, and possibly an impression still remains that they might have been dispensed with, and that on the whole their labors were not worth much. It is much to be regretted if this is the case, for nothing could be further from the truth. Speaking with full knowledge of the facts, and without the slightest fear of contradiction from anyone who has such knowledge and who adheres to the truth, we can say that their services were of the greatest value to the expedition; that they worked zealously and strenuously, and showed all the high skill which was ex- pected of them; and that, though it might perhaps be an exaggeration to state that the boats could not have got up the Nile if there had been no voyageurs, it cannot be doubted that the difficulty of doing so would have been far greater without the aid which THESE RESOLUTE AND SKILFUL CANADIANS AND HALF BREEDS

were able to give. To cali them incom- petent was absurd, They were about as incompetent for their work as the Austra- lian Eleven were for cricket; and the charge of insubordination brought against them was exaggerated if not wholly groundless. They always rendered implicit obedience to the officer in command, or, as they would have probably put it, to the head man, to the officer in charge of a station or a boat squadron ; though they may not have thought themselves bound to follow the bidding of any captain or lieutenant who thought fit to give them directions on his ewn account. Of the pluck and zeal with which these ‘‘ insubordinate” men worked, one example will suffice. A boat laden with stores with two voyageurs in it was,owing toa mistake made in hauling the ropes on shore, capsized in the worst part of the Semmneh Cataract. Rescued after being in great peril, the two men piloted the next boat up as through nothing had happened. Other instances of courage and good will could easily be given, and it sbould be observed that some of those Canadians were no! merely good boat- men, but men of cohsiderable intelligence. One, for example, has written an exceflent account of what he saw and did, and an- other showed a fine appreciation of geo- graphical fact, At a station high up the Nile a voyageur was heard to say that, now that he had seen the Soudan councry, he understood Euclid’s definition of a line— length without breadth.

THE PECULIAR WORK

which the voyageurs had to do turned out even more difticult than wae expected, owing partly to the bad state of the river and partly to the absence of expected aid. A preliminary voyage up some of the cata- racts was made bya party of voyageurs under the command of Colonel Alleyde and Captain Louis Jackson, chief of the Cangh- nawaga Indians, of whom it may be briefly said that they are thought to be the best boatmen even in Canada, and that the pro- nounciation of their name is like the spell- ing of Mr. Weller’s-—a matter of taste. The gallant Cavghnawaga captain, who is the author of the work alluded to above, seems to have been convinced by what he saw that preliminary surveys were not of much use, as in bad places the river was totally different one day from what it had Been the day before. After his examination the work of gotting the boats up,in which he took a considerable part, began in earnest, and the voyageurs were thoroughly tired. In every way these brave, zealous and skilful Canadians work- ed admirably, and surely they merit differ- ent treatment from that which they have received. They did, in most thorough fashion, all they were sent to do, and some- thing over and above. As a reward they have been first depreciated and then polite- ly ignored, Now that the campaign, in which so much that was glorious was marr by euch a terrible misfortune, can be looked at calmly and viewed as a whole, the ser- vices of the voyageurs, who had no one to puff them, and did not know and did not care, how to puff themselves, should receive that recognition which is most justly their due. -~—-- - The C. P. Railway.

Monrreat, Aug. 17.—Mr. W. C. Van Horne, vice-president and general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway, received information yesterday that the contractors had reached Shuswap summit from the Pacific end of the road. This point is eighty-two miles east of Savona’s ferry, where the company’s work from the west commenced. Thirty-six miles of road were laid in ten days. This leaves a gap be- tween the end of tho track of about 100 miles, all of which is graded and the bridges will be finished within two weeks, including a bridge over the second crossing of the Columbia river. All the dificult points have now been passed and the com- pletion of the through line is only a matter of putting down the rails and ties.

A despatch from Cairo says the Egyptian war minister ie compiling 4 proclamation to Arabs urging the necessity of the recon-

quest of the Soudan for Egypt.

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