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OPENER IST NOVEMBER, 1883,

on and after which date DEPOSITS OF $5 AND UPWARDS, will be taken and interest at the rate of

Four Per Cent. Per Annum ALLOWED THEREON.

For further particulars apply to : F. H. ARNAUD,

Oct. 30,1883, AGENT. SULLIVAN & MACHEILL, ATTORNEYS - AT- LAW Solicitors in Chancery, NOTARTES PUBLIC, Xe,

OFFICES— O’Halloran’s Building, Great George Street, Charlottetown, $ae Money to Loan,

W. W. Scoruvay, Q. C. | Casstse B. Macweit.

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Implements, Carriages,

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SALES of Furniture, Farm Sleighs, etc.,

A. H. McPHERSON, Agent.

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J. A. ChIPMAN & 60.,

ARE OFFERING AT MILLERS’ PRICES

IN STORE:

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UFFICE AND WAREROOMS:

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DR. BENN . BENNET | ‘{NALLS attention to “THE ELECTRO MAGNETIC CORSET.” exact pattern ag worn by the Princess of Wales, the health- xiving powers of which, especially in female diseases, are vers great. Can be “had at FRASER & REDDIN’S. Te be worn as an ordinary corset and lasting longer and fitting superbly trimmed with Valencienes Jace,

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\ R. P. LEA, in returning thanks to the| 4 1 public for the liberal patronageextended to him while in business in Charlottetown, begs leave to inform his old customers and the public generally, that he, in company with Mr. William Rogers, has appointed |

Messrs. B. Williams & Co,

Lumber and Coal Dealers, Pownal. Wharf, | Charlottetown, our agents, who will keep. constantly on hand a fall supply of Mould- | ngs, Window Sashes, Doors, etc.. at

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BOSTON, MASS.

T the 57th Annual General Meeting of LA. the Standard Life Assurance Company, held at Edinburgh on Tuesday, the 24th of April, 1883, the following results for the year ended 15th November, 1883, were re- ported :— 3,038 new proposals for life as- surance were received the

year for ae $ 9,754,085 38 2,561 proposals were accepted, enntne 7,239,048 13

The total existing assurances in force at 15th November, 1882, amounted to (Of which $7,753,081.15 was reassured with other oflices)

The claims by death which arose during the year amouant- ed, including bonus addi-

$6,936,302 91

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1,062,648 35 JOHN LONGWORTH, Agent for Charlottetown.

date amounted to : Being an increase during the year of

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Cases, for Gentle-

Guava, Orange, Calves’ Foot, Red and Black Currant Jellies; Marmalade, Olives, Pickles and Sauces, Candied Peels, Spices, Baking Powders, English Confectionery, Currants, Baking Soda, Cream of Tartar, Ess Coffee, Capers, Currie Powder, Gelatine, Sago, Tapjoca, Arrow: root, Cocoa, Broma, Chololate, Corn Starcb, Candied Ginger, Flavoring and Coloring Extracts, Macaronii, Vermicelli, etc., etc.

CiIF¥ DRUG STORE, QUEEN STREET.

Ch’town, Dec. 6, 1883,—till 31st

Our Store Closes Every Evening a sir p.m. (Saturday Een)

Carpet “Department:

In this Department we are doing a very large trade, in Axminster, Velvet Pile, Brussels, Tapestry, Scotch Hemp and Twine Carpets, Hearth Rags and Mats. The reason is we buy from the very best British markets, keep the newest designs and styles, and sell at a small advance on cost,

Crand Assortment of

‘Silk Plushes, Velvets and Velveteens, 100 boxes to choose from, at prices lower than ever before offered. oO:

Mantle Department:

They are the best and nowest makes and grand value.

Cloth Department:

The 200 pieces Job, Jacket and Ulster Cloths have been selling wonderfully fast. The prices are very low for the quality. 0 A large lot Seal Cloth from $3.50 to $8.25 per yard, Daily expected, 30 picces Oiicloths (English), from }+yard to 3}-yard,

WHOLRSALE & RETAIL. Ww. & A. BROWN & CO.

Ch’town, Nov. 23, 1883.—dy wkly

FURNITURE, FURNITURE, AT COST.

| These goods are selling rapidly.

Opposite Post Office, Charlottetown.

EDSTEADS, (Lairs, Tables, Washstands, Sofas, Lounges, Parlor, and Drawing Room Bedroow suits, Looking Glasses and Mirrors, Window Furniture, Picture Frames and

XMAS AND NEW YEAR.

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CHAPTER XXV. (Continued. )

| He colored high, and his eyes sparkled with delight ; and she noticed and almost | veer she had kept her gratitude to her- self,

That night, what with her bell-rope and her little bit of a wall, she was somewhat | lest timorous, and went to sleep early.

But even in sleep she was watchful, and she was awakened by a slight sound in the neighborhood of the boat.

She lay watching, but did not stir.

Presently she heard a footstep. | With a svifled ery she bounded up, and her first impulse was to rush out of the tent. _to the south side of her bower, she peered | tl rough the palm-leaves. and the first thing | she caw was the figure of a man standing betweeu her and the beat. | She drew her breath hard. The outline ‘of the man was somewhat indistinct. Bot it was not a savage; the man was clothed; ‘and his stature betrayed him.

He stood still for some time.

‘He islistening to see if 1 am awake,’ | said Helen to herself.

The figure moved toward her bower.

Then all in a moment sie became another woman. She did not rely on her bell rope; she felt that it was fast to nothing that could help her. She looked round for no weapon; she trusted to herself. She drew

Her modesty was alarmed, her blood went up, and life or death were nothing to her. The footsteps came nearer; they stopped at her door; they went north; they came came back south. They kept her in this high-wronght attitude for half an hour. Then they retired softly; and when they were gone she gave- way, and fell on her knees, and began to cry hysterically. Then she got calmer, and then she wondered and puzzled herself; but she slept no more that night. In the morning Helen found that the fire was lighted on a sort of shelf close to the boat. Mr. Hazel had cut the shelf and lighted the fire there for Welch’s sake, who had complained of cold in the night.

Whilst Hazel was gone for the crayfish, Welch asked Helen to go for her prayer- book. She brought it directly, and turned leaves to find the prayers for the sick, But she was soon undeceived as to his inten- tion.

‘Sam had it wrote down how the ‘Proser- pine’ was foundered, and I should like to lie alongside my messmate on that there paper, as well as in t’other place” (meaning the grave.) ‘Begin as Sam did, that this is my last word.’ ‘Oh, I hope Rot. do not leave me!’ ‘Well, well, then, never mind that; but just put down as I heard Sam—and his dying words, that the parson took down, were the truth.’

‘I have written that.’

‘And that the two holes was on her port side, and seven foot from her starn-post; and J say them very augers that is in our cutter madethem holes. Set down that,’ ‘It is down.’

‘Then I'l) put my mark under it; and you are my witness.

Helen, anxious to please him in every- thing, showed him where to put his mark. He did so; and she signed her name as his witness,

‘And now, Mr. Welch,’ said she, ‘do not you fret about the loss of the ship; you should rather think how goad Providence has been to us in gaving us three out of s» many that sailed in that poor ship. That Wylie was a wicked man; but he is drowned, or starved, no doubt, and there is an end of him. Yow are alive, and we are all three to see Old England again. Butte live, you must eat; and so now do pray make a good breakfast to-day. Tell me what you can fancy—a cabbage?

‘What, you own it is a cabbage?’

‘Of covrse, I do,’ said Helen, coaxing. ‘You must exeuse Mr. Hazel; these learned men are crochety in some things, and go by books—but you and I go by our senses, and tous a cabbage is a cabbage, grow where it will. Will you have oue?

“No, miss; not this morning. What I want this morning very bad, indeed, is—I want a drink made of the sweet smelling leaves, hke as you strewed over my mess- mate—may the Lord in Heaven bless you for it.’ '

‘Oh, Mr, Welch, that is a curious fancy; but you shali not ask me twice for any- thing; the jungle is full of them, and Ul fetch you some in five minutes. So you must boil the water.’

She scudded away to the jangle, and soon returned with some aromatic leaves. Whilst they were infusing, Haze] came up, and, on being informed of Welch’s fancy, made no opposition; but. on the contrary, said thatsuch men had sometimes very happy inspirtions. He tasted it, however, and said the smell was the best part of it in his opinion. He then put it aside to cool for the sick man’s vee.

They ate their nsual breakfast, and then Welch sipped his s; iced tea, as he called it. Morning and afternoon he drank copious dranghts of it, and seemed to get suddenly better, and told them not to hang about him any longer, but go to their work —he was all right now, :

To humor him they went off in diff-rent disecticns—Hazel with his axe to level cocoanut trees, and Helen to search for fruits in the jangle.

She came back in about an hour, very proud cf some pods she had found with nutmegs inside them. She ran to Welch. He was notin the boat. She

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she called to Mr. Haze). He came to the side of the river laden with cocoanuts. ‘Is he with you ? said Helen.

‘Who! Welch? No.’

‘Well, then, he is not here. Oh, dear! something is the matter.’

Hazel came across directly, And they

both began to run anxiously to every part whence they could command a view to any distance.

They could not see him anywhere, and met with blank faces at the bower.

Then Helen made a discovery.

Th's very day, while hanging about the

place, Hazel bad torn up from the edge of the river an old trunk, whose roots had been loosened by the water washing away the earth that held them, and this stump he had set up in her bower for a table, after |sawing the roots down into legs. Well, on the smooth part of this table lay a little pile of money, a ring with a large pear! in it, and tw gold earrings, Helen had often noticed in Welch’s ears. She pointed at these and turned pale. hen, suddenly waving her hand to Hazel to follow her, she darted out of the bower, and, in a moment, she was at the boat,

There she found, beside his wiistooat, his knife, anda little pile of meney. placed carefully on the thwart; and, und: i:neath it, his jacket rolled up, and his shoes aud sailor's cap, all pot nestly and in order. Aazel found her locking at them He

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began to have vague misg vings, ‘What does this mean?’ he said, faintly.

‘What does it mean?’ crie€@ Helen in agony. ‘Don’t you see? A legacy! The

peor thing has divided his jittle all Oh, my heart! What has become of him? Then, with one of those ins; irations her sex have, she cried: ‘Ah, Coopers way. !’

Hazel, though not so quick as she w 8, caught her meaning at a word, and fiw down the slope to the sea shore The tide was out—a long, irreyular track of foot- steps indented the sand. He stooped a moment and locked at them They point- ed toward that cleft where the grove was. He followed them all across the send. They entered the cleft, and did not retury, Full of heavy foreboding, he rushed isto the cleft.

Yes; his arms hanging on each side of the grave, and his cheek laid on it, there lay Tom Welch, with a loving smile on his dead face. Only aman; yet faithtul asa dog. Hazel went back slowly, and crying. Of all men living, he ‘could best appreciate fidelity, and mourn its fate.

But as he drew near Helen, he dried his eyes; for it was his duty to comfort her. She had at first endeavored to follow him; but after a few steps her knees smote together, and she was fain to sit down on the grassy slope that overlooked the sea. The sun was setting over that vast and peaceful sea.

She put her hands to her head, and, sick at heart, looked heavily at that glorious and peaceful sight.

Hazel came up to her. Ske looked at his face, and that look, was enough for her. She rocked herself gently to and fro.

‘Yes,’ said he, in a broken voice —‘he was there—quite dead.’

He sa: gently down by her side, and locked at that setting san and illimitable ocean, and his heart relt deadly sad. ‘He is gone—and we are alone—on this Island.’ The mag said this in one sense only— but the woman heard it in more than one Aone !

She glanced timidly round at him, an without rising, edged a little awsy fru him, and wept in silence.

(To be continued.)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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Island Game.

Sin,—I have often heard old sportamen claim to have seen the first woodcock which came wo the Isiand. So after that | in- variably, in opening a conversation with one of these ancient hunters, ask in admir- ing attitude, when he shot his first wood- eeck? This always cpens his mouth, and you are suon aware that he shot the first bird of this species ever seen on the Island, and if heis a bit of a naturalist, he will describe his first impressions of the bird, and its peculiar flight, and the astonishment of the natives when he produced one out of his game bag.

I always had wy deubts about this sud.len manifestation on the part of this bird to colonize this Island. and my doubts have been somewhat increased on pernsing the letters of a French Nationabst, who visited the Island as tar back as 1768, (now

being published in the Herald) whom, in speaking of the country between Cape Traverse apd Port de la Joie

(Charlottetown) he says: ‘‘In the woods you meet with a vast pumber of foxes, martins, and bares, but very few partridzes. How- ever, you are made amends by the Wuod- cocks, which keep tovether in numerous flocks, and sometimes are so tame and fiy so near the ground that you may knock them down with stones.”

It seems to me to be in order for one of these old sportsmen to rise and explain.

Yours truly, SPORTSMAN, ——— eee ee

Sarepta, in the Montreal Herald, says that ‘‘Canada is blessed by not having an idle aristocracy. Our merchant princes and lords of learning are all members of an active community, and titles are too scarce to be remewbered amongst us. After the country has settled down on a basis of assured prosperity, the aristocracy of Canada will be one day formed, and will! represent the best and most active energies at work for the common good of this great colony. Honor is superior to title and achieved success of far more account thet inherited affluence. When a nation >& comes rich and indolent that nation™ doomed, but the country that is wealthy

saw his waiscoat, however, folded and lying on the thwart; so she knew he sould

Picture Mouldings, JOHN NEWSON,

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pnot be far off, and concluded he was in her bower. But he was not there; and

and industrious will never die.”

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