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NOVEMBER 19, (897. WASHINGTON NEGOTIATIONS.

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Sin Witraiw Lavrier has given to the publica statement that is calculated to allay public alarm. The negotiations with the United Statea are, he assures us, to be without prejudice to the preference in our markets that has been accorded the pro- ducts of Great Britain. But there is to be a renewal of the effort to secure a reci- procal abolition of duties on certain raw products. This effort was begun when the National Policy of Canada was framed in 1879. Sir Wilfrid and Sir Louis are, it appears, but following in the footsteps of their predecessors. They are Only striving to obtain that which their predecessors strove for ia vain. Are they likely to be auccessful? The contitions

subsisting between the two countries have lately been somewhat changed. The Canadian differential tariff,—from the benefits of which the States are now shut off—places American exporters at a disad. vantage in our markets as compsred with the exporters of Great Britain and other countries. Moreover, the Government of the United States desire to prevent Cana- dians from exercising their personal right to kill seals on the high sea. The people of the Great Republic may, therefore, be induced to consider more carefully than they have in the past the Canadian move- ment towards a reciprocal abolition of duties on raw materials. But we cannot share Sir Wilfred’s hope that the negotia- tions will have a favorable result. Already we have to vote the protest of the Am- erican fishing interests centered in Glou- ceater. The agricultural interests will, without doubt, protest in the same man-~ ner. It is not likely that these paramount interests will give away'the’moncpoly of the home market which they now enjoy for the sake of preserying the seals in the Pacific and obtaining the Canadien mar- kets for their raw producte;“or even for the sake of “euchering the Britishers” by neutralizing the advartages sfforded by the Canadian tariff. The United States are as strongly protective now ar at any time at which they refused to Canada the boon that is now sought, aad the Dingley tariff is their meaaure of Protection. The Government of Canada will have to give up much more than the rights of the Canadian sealers before we obtain a free market for our coal! and Jumber, our fish and potatoes and eggs, ets.

TOOK HIS WEIGHT.

Sik Witerm Laveier wentto England as a blcoming free trader anda candidate fora Cobden medal. Mr. Chamberlain questioned his siucerity. So the artful Secretary for the Colonies quietly proposed to Sir Wilfrid “that there should be abso- lute free trade between Britain and her colonies, on condition that the former placed a small custom tax on commodities from foreign countries.” What was the result? Sir Wilfrid couldn’t think of accepting such an offer, for (don’t you eee) “the whole fabric of Canadian finance as well as of Canadian industry was founded on customs duties, he could net for a moment consider a proposition to remove them ata blow.” The merry twinkle in Mr. Chamberlain’s eye as the gay deceiver wilted before @ practical test can better be imagined then described. Mr. Laurier is, politically, a humbug, as Mr. Chamber- lain has discovered, and as the people of this country are beginning to find out. All the #ame, Sir Wilfrid obtained the Cobden

medal aad killed preferential trade in Great Britain, to the principle of which Mr. Chamberlain was committed. Political changes are impending in Spain, aid it is generally admited that Gen.

Weyler will play an iraportant part in the struggle for power,

THE

CRIMINAL STATISTICS.

A bluebook the statistics of Canada for the year 1896 has

containing criminal

just been issued. It appears that there were 7,395 charges for indictable offences, in Canada, during the year 1896, a decrease of 335,’ a8 compared with the year pre- vious; out of which number 2,065 were acquitted, 13 detained for lunacy and 113 no sentence for

received -everal causes

such as * Nol/e prosequi,” “jury dis- eg bat] forfeited,” &e. In 1895,

out of 7,730 charges, 2,154 were acquitted,

” agreed,

20 detaiued for junacy and 82 received no

sentence. The pumber of convictions is

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therefore reduced to 5,204 or 10.25 per

1895. that,

or 10.86 per 10,000 inhabitants for

It is very pleasing to note in Prince Edward Island the proportion of convicticns to population continues to be smaller than in any other province of

Canada, the number being 3.11 per 10,000

inbabitante, against 17.86 in British Colum bia,

——— ————_— 0 + 9 + “Commenting on the result of the

Drummond election and its bearing on the schoo! question, which was made a chief istue of the campaign, the Courrier du Canada says it simply proves that a great many electors are heartless apostates and cowards; it does not affect the merits of the school question in the slighiest. As a matiercof abstract speculation, this may be so; but whes the question iz considered as one of practical politics, itis evident that election results like that in Drum- mond and Arthabaska cannot be disregard- ed. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has made an arrangement with Mr. Greenway which be claims to be satisfactory. If the major- ity of the co-religionists of the minority agree with Him (as this result indicates) there is nomore to be said.”

This from the Montreal Gazette ia ~6all) = very well. But what about Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Mr.

Tarteand the other gentlemen who ap- pealed to tae pope—are they not going to abide by the result of their appeal and will they not as honorable men use their influence to unsettle the Manitoba Settle- ment in order that the decision of His Holiness may, be‘earried out, and the pro- visions of the Manitoba Act as to schools respected ?

NOTHING TO CACKLE ABOUT.

ri... ; Some of the g@vernment organs are mak.

mg a great fuse aboat the alleged fact that the Liberal ae y ia Drummond and

Arthabasca bp from four hundred iu 1896 tonearly fourteen hundred in 1897. These organs are laboring under a mistake made by the goverment com pilers of the election returos. The Liberal majority in Athabascaville at the general election was twelve hundred uot foar hundred. The increase of @ hundred or two thi< year, in a bye-election, is insigaificant. It only shows that Liberalism in Quebec 18 not yet oa the wane.

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—The Montreal Witness eays that the only hope of gaining great increase of pop- ulation for Canada from the Klondike dis

coveries would seem to be by opening a road into that country from Edmonton and the developement along that route of the coal and metal deposits which are said to be most promising on both sides of the Rockies. A favorable account of the pos- sibilities of this route is given by Mr. Po- well, of British Columbia, who is the pro- moter of a¢onipany for its exploration, Whatever may the direct fruits of the gold rusb, it is plain from the tone of the press throughout the world that the rush will be great and that Carada will act wisely in preparing for boom and in making ready in every way to put to useful and profitable work the crowds of young wen who are likely to be

tempted into,the country by visions of gold.

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NOTES AND COMMENTS.

that before he resiconed Sir Will am Whiteway wished to fill all the vacancies in the Newfoundland civil service with his defeated supporters and their followers, But Sir Herbert Murray, the governor, refused to sanction any permanent appoivtments aud consented to authorize only acting appointees. The governor wae, 1, impelled to this

— We are told

it 18 ead, determination by the pledge of the incom- ing Winter cabinet to reduce the number of « flise-ho de's.

—Sir Charles Tupper is disp’aying in- domitable activity. Afier the arducus labours of the campaign he went to Eng- land on business, He returned for the busy work of the session, and immediately went back to toom Caradian mining in Kogland, Ov his return he went through

grea!

which he was advi-ing

mibing resources of Canada, in sritinh capitalists co invest, N w he is ea route for Eng'and again. He may be back Ly Christwas, or by the Opening of Parliament at the latest, aod he is in his 77th year!

10,900 inhabitants for 1896, against is fe the Pacific to personally inspect the

—One of the English papers, the Westminister Gazette, says it cavnct noderstand Mr. fFielding’s free trade

policy, But the thing i:,as the Mai} and Hipire remarks, quite explainable. Our firmers grow ludian corn, oats and other Coarse grains, Indian corsa is wade duty free, thus cutting the price apd irjuriog the farmer. This is agriculiural protec- On the other band, a_ Liberal member of Parliament mskes azricaltural -mplements, Tne duty on the material for these implements is reduced, aud the duty on tie finished article 18 kept up. This is the free trade that the farmer was promised.

ion.

ESTEEMED EXCHANGES.

Mail and Empire: Mr. Joseph Cham ber- lain knew what he was about when he placed his remarks to the Co’onial pre- miers in writing and had them printed in blue boo« form for the information of tbe public. Had be not done this he, the great advocate of inter-British union, would have had to carry the blame Sir Wilfrid Laurier and the organs endeavour to attach to him of having killed pre- ferential trade.

Pea SULLIVAN’s “LOST CHORD,”

The first correct copy of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s great song, “The Lost Chord,” ever printed in America, direct from the composer’s own hand, will appear in the Christmas number of The Ladies Home Journal. Over his signature Sir Arthur Sullivan states that of the millioos of copies of “The Lost Chord” sold in Amer- ica, al! are incorrect, and that this is the first accurate copy of the song ever pre- pared by him, or for which he ever receiy~ ed a penny of payment. The complete music and words of Sir Arthur’s ce yy of the song, expressively pr-pared for The Ladies’ Home Jouraal, wili be given.

Sovereign cocoa wine stili leads, us the great nerve tonic and sleep producer. For sale by your druggiet in 50c and $1.00 bottles.

New Asuuals.—Our large stock of new season Annuals has arrived. Boys Own Girls Own, Sunday at bome, Leisure Hour, Quiver,Chatter Box, Our Darling ete. Our holiday goods are daily arriving Big stock, Best value ! —Haszard & Moore, Sunnyside.

It is rumored that negotiations are oa foot between Austria, France, and Germany in regard to the opportuneness of convening an international conterence to sectire a general agreement for the diminution or abolition of the sugar bounties.

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LIFE’S BRIEF SPAN.

A Tortoise In London Zoological Gardens the Oldest Thing Alive.

The statement by a southern Kansas paper that a negro resides in Bourbon county who has attained the age of 127 years recalls a recent ‘statement by the London Spectator that the oldest living creature in the world occnpies a place in the London Zoological garden. It is a giant tortoise weighing more than a ton end has a record going back 159 years. tlow much longer it has lived no one knows. Commenting on the tong life lived by this tortoise and by others, The Spectator gives us the following interest- ing dissertation:

‘“‘The structure of the tortoises contrib- utes a large share to their pre-eminence in length of life. Their bodies are spared the whole of that exhausting process of col- lapse and expansion which we call breath- ing. The cruel wear and tear of this in- vessant motion, involving work of lungs, muscles, ribs and air passages, unnoticed in health, but one of the most distressing facts revealed by illness, does not fall on the happy tortoise. His shell, backplate and breastplate alike, is as rigid as a piece of conerete. He sucks in air by making a vacuum with his tongue and swallows it like water, the reservoir instead of a stom- ach being his capacious lungs. In addi- tion to this enormous saving of energy, the tortoise enjoys two other structural advantages. He has no teeth to decay, out of order and ultimat y starve him to death, like those of an old horse or a broken toothed rabbit. Instead he has sharp horny edges to his mouth, which do not break or get out of order. And, lastly, there is his impenetrable shell. In reference to this, size is of a real advan- tage, for, though the small tortoise may live for eenturies in bishops’ gardens, they bave their enemies in the outer world. Adjutant storks swallow them whole and uigest them, shell and all, and in Califor- nia the golden eagle carries them up toa height and lets them fall on the rocks, thereby sinashing their shells, as the Sicil- ian eagle Was trying to do when he drop- ped the tortoise on the skull ef Aischylus, but when a tortoise grows to the weight of 200 pounds there is no living creature which could injure it in any way. As it can swim it cannot drown. Its limbs are so constructed as to be little liable to frac- ture, and its interior is soarranged that it can fast for long periods, and has an in- ternal reservoir of water, though it is nat- urally rather a thirsty animal. Charles Darwin, when amony the giant tortoiscs of the Galapagos islands, saw the newly hatched young carried off by buzzards, but the full grown animals seemed beyond the chance of any danger. He surmised that their deaths, when such took place, whore only due to accidents, such as fall- ing over precipices, and the inhabitants of the islands corroborated this conclusion.”’

While this description of the tortoise is entertaining the chief interest will revert back to the apparently well founded claim that 150 years is the age of the oldest liv- ing thing on earth. What a brief span the Almighty has allotted to his creatures in a world that rolls on forever!—Kansas City Juurnal.

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Valuable Property For Sale at Orwell

The undersigned offers, by Private Sale his valuable farm of 197 acres of excell land. 120 acres are clearand in hi state of caluvation, about 80 acres be museel mudded. The balance of farm5T acres is covered with a growth of the best hard and soft wood. The pro- perty is we)] watered and suitable for Dairying or stock raising. On the farm is a good dwelling bovse and all the necessary Barns and Outbuildings. It is conveniently situated, being only 2} miles from shipping at Vernon River Bridge ang 3 miles from Orwell Brush Wharf. Churches, Schools, Cheese Factory, stores etc., are all within easy reach, and marsh and mussle mud are close at hand, The farm wil] be sold en bloc, or the rear~— containing about 100 acres—will be sold in lots to suit purchrsers: The greater part of the purchase money, may remain secured on the farm. For further partic ulars apply to

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WE DO NOT SPEAK TOO OFTEN, therefore the public cannot only affonl to lieten, but will profit by doing so when we tell you in our reliable matter of fat & way:— We have this fall the largest stock of first-class goods ever displayed in easten P. E. [..and for spot cash cannot fail to meet the views of any reasonable person; asl even the most money loving individual will be induced to make the exchange with

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