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romance and a joke. That’s the way they

all talk.” , But more excusable would I be in such

deveption than you, O man, who by glow of words and personal magnetism, induced a womanly soul into surroundings which you have taken no care to meke attractive, so that she exchanged her father’s house for the dismal swamp of married experience trecless, flowerless, shelterlesa, comfortlesa and godless. I would not be half so much to blame in cheating you out of 4% farm as you in cheating a women out of the happi- ness of a lifetime.

My brother, do not get mad at what I say, but honestly compare the promises you made and see whether you have kept them. Some of you spent every evening of the week with your betrothed before marriage, and since then you spend every evening away, except y.u have influenza or some sickness, on account of which the doctor says you must not go out. You usec to fill your conversation with interjections of adulation, and now you think it soun ls silly to praise the one who ought to be more attractive to youas the yesrs go by, and life grows in severity of struggle and becomes more sacred by the baptism of tears—tears over losses, tears over graves Compare the way some of you used to come in the house in the evening, when you were attempting the capture of her affec- tions, and the way some of you come into the house in the evening now. Then what politeness, what distillation of smiles, what graciousness, sweet as the peach orchard in slossom week!

Now some of you come in and put your hat on the rack and scow!, and say: ‘‘Lost money to-day !” and you sit down at the table and criticizs the way the food is cooked. You shove back before the others are doue eating, and sna‘ch up the evening paper and read, oblivious of what has been going on in that home allday. The chil- dren arein awe before the domestic auto- crat. Bubbling over with fun, yet they must be quiet, and with healthful curiosity, yet they mustask no questions. The wife has had enongh annoyances in the nursery and parlor and kitchen to fill her nerves with nettles and spikes. As you have pro vided the money for feod aad wardrobe, you feel you hive done all required of you Toward the good cheer andthe intelligent improvement and the moral entertainment of that home, which at the longest can last but a few years, you are doing nothing. You seem to have no realization of tho fact that soon thess children will be grown up, orin their sepulchres, and will be far re- moved from your influence, and that the wife will soon end her earthly mission, and that house will be occupied by others, and you yourself will be gone.

Gentlemen, fulfil your contracts. Chris tian marriage is an affectional bargain. In heathen lands a man wins his wife by achievements. ia some countries wives are bought by the payment of so many dullars, asso many cattle orsheep. In one coantry the man gets ona horse and rides down where a group of women are standing, and seizes one of them by the hair, and lifts her struggling and resisting on his horse, and if her brothers and friends do not overtake her before she gets to the jungle, she is his lawful wife. In another land the masculine candidate for marriage is beaten by the club of the one whom he would make his bride. If he cries out under the pounding, he is reject- ed. If he receives the blows uacompiain ingly, she is his by right. Endurance and bravery and skill decide the marriage in barbarous lands, but Christian marriage is a voluntary bargain in whieh you promi protection, support, companionship and love.

Basiness men have in their fire-proof safes a filo of papers containing their con- tracts, and sometimes they take them out and read them over to see what the party of the first part and the party of the second part really bound themselves todo. Differ- ent ministers of religion have their own peculiar forms of marriage ceremony, but if you have forgotten what you promised at the altar of wedlock, you had better buy or borrow an Episcopal Paayer Book, which contains the subs'ance of ail intelligent marriage ceremonies, when it says: ‘I take thee to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, for beiter or for worse, for richer or for poorer, im sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death us do part, according to God's holy ordinance, and thereto I pledge thee my troth.” Would it not bea good idea to have that printed in tract form and widely distributed ?

The fa®t is that many men are more kind to everybody else’s wives than to their own wives. They will let the wife carry a heavy coal scuttle upstairs, and will at one bound clear the width of a parlor to pick up some other lady’s pocket handkerchief. There is an evil which | have seen under the sun, end it is common among men, namely, husbands in flirtation. The attention they ought to put upon their own wives, they bestow upon others. They smile on them coyly, and askance with a manner that seems to say, ‘I wish I was free from the old dredge at home. What an improvement you would be on my present surroundings !” And boqguets are sent, and accidental meet- ings take place, and late at night the man comes to his prosaic home whistling and hilarious, and wonders that the wife is jealous. There are thousands of men who while not positively immoral, need radical correction of their habits in this direction. It is meanness immeasurable fora man by his behavior to seom to say to his wife: ‘You can’t help yourself, and 1 will go where lL please, and admire whom I please, and I

defy your criticism.”

Why did you not have that put in tbe bond, O domestic Shylock? Why did you not have it understood before you were pronounced husband and wife, that she should have oniy a part of the dividend of your affections, that when, as time rolled on and the cares of life had erased some of the bright lines from her face, and given unwieldliness to her form, you would have the reserved right to pay obeisance to cheeks more rubicuad and figure lither and more agile, and as you demand the last pound of patience and endurance on her part, you could, with the emphasis of an Edwin Forrest or a Macready, have tapped the eccentric marriage document and have said: “It’s in the bond!” “‘It’sin the bond |” If this modern Rebekah had un- derstood beforehand where she was alight- ing, she would have ordered the camel drivers to turn the caravan backward So ee ben Gr astctteree, memes je eith ; ed man who induiges in it

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up in society such a one may be, and how- ever sought after, 1 would not give a three-cent piece, though it had been three times clipped, for the virtue of either the

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The most worthy thing for the thousands of married men to do is to go home and apologize for past neglects, and brighten up their old love. Take up the family Bible and read the record of the marriage day. Open the drawer of relics in the box insite the drawer, containing the trinkets of your dead child Take up the pack of yellow- covered letters that were wrilten before you became one. Rehearse the scenes of joy and sorrow in which you have mingled. Put all these things as fuel on the altar, and by a coal of sacred fire rekindle the ex- tinguished light. It was a blast from hell that blew it out, and a gale from heaven will fan it into a blaze.

Ye who have broken marriage vow®,

epeak out! Take your wife into all your plans, your defeats, your ambitions, Tell her everything. Walk arm in arm with her into places of amusement, and on the piazza of summer watering-places, and up the rugged way of life, and down through dark ravines,and when one trembles on the way let the other he reinforcement. In no caso pass yourself off as a single man practising gallantries. Do not, after you are fifty years of age, in ladies’ society try to look young-mannish. Iuter- fere not with your wife’s religious nature. Put her not in that awful dilemma in which so many Christian wives are placed by their husbands, who ask them to go to places or do things which compel them to decide between loyalty to God and loyalty to the husband. Rather than ask her to com promise her Christinn character, encourage her to be more and morea Christian, for there will be times in your life when you will want the help of all her Christian re- sources; and certainly when you remember how much influence your mother had over you, you do not want the mother of your children to seta less gracious example. It pieases me greatly to hear the unconverted and worldly husband say about his wife, with no idea that it will get to her ears: “There is the most godly woman alive. Her goodness is a perpetual rebuke to my waywardness. Nothing on earth could ever induce her to do a wrong thing. I hope the children will take after her in- stead of after me. If there is any heaven at all, I am sure she will go there,” Aye, my brother, do you not think it would be a wise and a safe thing for you to joia her on the road to heaven? You think you have a happy home now, but what a happy home you would have if you both were religious! What a new sacred- ness it would give to your marital relation, and what a new light it would throw on the forehead of your children. In sickness, what a comfort! In reverses of fortune, what a wealth! la death, what a triumph! God meant you to be the high priest of your household. Go home to-day and take the Bible on your lap, and gather all your family yet living around you, and those not living will hear of it in a flash, and as min- istering spirits will hover—father and mother and children gone, and all your celestial kindred. Thon kneel down, and if you can’t think of a prayer to offer, | will give you a prayer, namely ;: ‘‘Lord God, I surrender to Thee myself and my beloved wife, and these dear children, For Christ’s sake forgive all the past and help us for all the future. We have lived together here, may we live together for- ever. Amen and amen!’ Dear me! what a stir it would make among your best friends on earth and in heaven !

Joseph the Second, the Emperor, was so kind and so philanthropic that he excited the unbounded love of most of his subj cts. He abolished serfdom, established tolera- tion, and lived in the happiness of his peo- ple. Oneday while on his way to Ostend to declare it afree port, and while at the head of a great procession, he saw a woman at the door of her cottage in dejection. The Emperor dismounted and asked the canse of her grief. She said that her hus- band had gone to Ostend to see the Em- and had declined to take her with him, for, as he was an alien, he could not understand her loyal enthusiasm, and that it was the one great desire of her life to see the ruler for whose kindness and goodness and gcreatness she had an unspeakable

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admiration; and her dis appointment in not being able to go and see him was simply unbearable. The Em- peror Joseph tock from his pocket a box decorated with diamonds surrounding a picture of himself, and presented it to her, and when the picture revealed to whom she was talking, she knelt in reverence and clapped her hands in gladness before him, The Emperor took the name of her hus- band and the probable place where he might be found at Ostend, and had him imprisoned for the three days of the Em- peror’s visit, so that the husband returning home found thatthe wife had seen ihe Emperor while he had not seen him.

In many families of this earth the wife, through the converting grace of God, has seen the ‘‘King in His beauty,” and He has conferred upon her the pearl of great price, while the husband is an ‘‘alien from the covenant of promise, without God and without hope in the world,” and impris- oned in worldliness and sin, Oh, that they might arm in arm go this day and see Him who is not only greater and lovelier than any Joseph of earthly dominion, but ‘“‘high over all, in earth and air and sky.” His touch is life. His voica is music. His smile is heaven.

Lord Salisbury is about a century behind the times in his habits and tastes. Dinner at the Hatfield House is a dreadful cere- mony. The gentlemen are in full dress ; the ladies in ball toilettes, with flowers and diamonds ; the servants are in grand livery —blue breeches, silk flesh-colored stockings buckled shoes, blue waistcoat and black coat. The valet de chambre, major domo and sub-major domo are also in fall uni- form. Lord and Lady Salisbury, facing one another, sit at the centre of the table. The guests may take what places they choose, except at the right of Lord and Lady Salisbury, which are reserved for the persons of rank who may chance to be present. Dinner over, which is served a la Francaise, the ladies rise and Jeave the hal] in order of precedence.

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Avex. DeCastRo, a sa'lor on board the Seth Stockbridge, of Gloucester, Mass., was knocked overboard and drowned while com-

ing out of Boston harbor a few nights ago. | He was a native of Tracadie, N.8,, was 23 years of age, and unmarried,

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Roller Rink Carnival. dh oe,

Tur second Carnival on rollers was a decided success. The Rink was brilliantly and tastefully decorated, and elicited many encomiums from the large number of spec- tators present. About eighty persons in costume participated, and we noticed many new and striking characters, which re- flected credit upon the originality of the wearers, The Band of the 82nd Battalion furnished first-class music throughout the evening. Below is a list of those in cos- tume, with the characters assumed :—

LADIES.

Blake, Jane—Gipsy Girl.

Batt, Jane—Old Maid 17th Century, Batt, Maud Vonay

Clary, Maggie—Pillow Shams.

Enman, Maria—Starlight Night. Fraser, Jennie—Ready for the Picnic, Fraser, Annie—Mrs. Dorothy T. Muffins, Galbraith, Myra—Crazy Patchwork. . Uenderson, Nellie—Starlight.

Leigh, Bessie—Good Luck.

Maloney, Lizzie—French Peasant, McKay, Emma—Hope. . McGregor, Mrs. C. V.—French Woman, McGregor, Winnie—May Queen. McGregor, Lillie—Morning.

Pickard, Sarah—Spanish Gipsy.

Reid, M. &.—Normandy Peasant.

Smith, Florrie—Scott Act. : Stewart, Mrs. Bruce—Stars and Stripes. Steole, Florrie—Fairy.

Stanlake, N.—Queen Eleanor. ; Vanlderstine, Florrie—Lawn Tennis. Vanlderstine, Alice—Sun Flowers. Wadman, Lottie—Dolly Varden, Wakefield, Bessie—Flower Girl. Wakefield, Constance—Starlight. Waddell, Minnie—Fair Rosamond.

GENTLEMEN.

Bryenton, A.—Turkish Officer.

Burns, John—Night and Day.

Batt, Wm.—Clown. : Brehaut, R. B.—Stars and Stripes, Cottin, Rk. D,—Blue Beard.

Cox, Giles—The Subway.

Coflin, L. J.—Ist Lieut. Volunteer Co, C., 0.—Spanish Prince.

Carvell, F. P.—Salvage Corps, Costello, Harry—Jockey.

Doull, Walter P.—Mechanic.

Doull, J. $.—Grandfather’s Clock, Farquharson, 'T.—Scout of the Riel Rebellion. Fraser, B.—Capt. Volunteer Co, Fraser, W.—Texan,

Fraser, W. J.—Cowboy.

Galbraith, M.—Clown.

Henderson, G. E.—Lieut. U, S. Navy. Henderson, 8S.—Jack-o'Aar,

Hardy, J. T'.—Diamond Dyes,

Large, H. R.—Kentucky Jockey. Leigh, Abbie—Page 13th Century. Murray, J. P.—Turkish Officer. Mason, Geo, S.—Swiss Jeweller. MeNeill, Joseph H.—Highland Shepherd. McEachern, A. E.—-Goldeu Star. McKie, George—Farmer.

MecCaull, Fred. F.—Gustavus Adolphus, Maedonald, Frank—Japanese Tommy. McGregor, Cy V.--Mandan Chief, McGregor, Hurtfe—Perriot.

McLeod, C.-—Strike-him-on-the-back, McLeod, Edward—Highland Costume. McLeod, Harry—Highland Costume. Newsom, Art,—-Clown.

Newsom, Will—Bicycle.

Newson, J. E.—Negro.

O'Reilly, James W.—An Outlaw. Perry. John—Union Jack,

Reid, James A.—Ofticer, 1815. Saunders, Stephen--Stars and Stripes. Scott, George—tiir Roger.

Smith, F. E.—Lbrommer.

Smaliwood, Gay—Bush Ranger. Steele, H. Wi—Page.

Steele, B.—Artillery Man.

Trainor, M, B.—City Belle.

Thorne, Wallace—Let her-go-Smith. Unsworth, J. A,—Salvage Corps. Wilson, David—Chinese Boy.

Wilson, James—Young Dude.

Worth, Fred.—Clown.

Worth, Charles— ——

W hear, John F’,—Cards,

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LEPTERS TO THE EDITOR,

That Dismissal.

Sir,—lIf your correspondent signing him- self ‘‘A Catholic,” iu THe Examiner of the 10th einat., would take the tronble to en- quire at the proper quarter, he would there find that the charge of bigotry, which he endeavors to trump up against the School Board in connection with the dismissal of a Catholic teacher, is without the shadow of a foundation; and shouldhe be desirous of making further enquiry, he might also learn that teachers in the City Schools, who are not Catholic, sometimes share a similar fate for the same reason. Your correspond- ent may yet find out that there is a Grading Ofiicer for the City Schools, and that on his report to the Board from time to time matters of the kind referred to depend a great deal.

J Usrice,

Ch’town, Feb. 12, 1886.

Waterworks.

Srr,—The extracts from such high and undoubted authority as the President of the Medical Society of New York, given in your issue of yesterday by Mr. Masdonald, of the Customs Depsrtment, in hig timely letter, are of the greatest possible import- ance ai the present juncture to our citizens genoraliy, but especially soto our Mayor and ity Council who are at the present moment negotiating for a water supply for Oharlottetowa, That running streams of pure water flow copiously at mo great distance from the surface, in many places in the vicinity of this town, is apparent; among which the strong stream flowing into the North River, alluded to by Mr. Macdonald, afford a striking evidenco of the fact that pure water abounds around us. Howto carry it into the city, for all practical purposes, in the purest form and at the lowest pos- sible cost. to an already heavily taxed people—is the all-absorbing question of most vital importance.

Yours truly, OrvizEN.

NOTES.

Not the promissory, but faces about WeLcoME Soap, av article that does not con- tain one particle of the adulterations used to reduce the cost of ‘‘ Pure Goods,” but does possess the value of legitimate Washing Qualities, the demand for which proves the advantage gained by the use of the genuine over Soaps of doubtful character, None should be deceived even by Red and Yellow Wrappers, or any of the imitations of the WeLcomge, as a pair of clasped hands is stamped on every bar. Made by Curtis, Davia & Oo

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Tus public are often very unjust but never consciously so, What they see clearly to be justice they always approve. It often takesa long time to bring them to see things as they really are, but in the end their verdict is al- ways right. It was faith in this idea which indyced the manufacturers of the ‘‘Myrtle Navy” tobacco to stand by their superior brand under every discouragement at the out- set. . The public verdict has been rendered at lest, and itis emphatically in their favor,

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Tus meetings of the Gospei Army on Sun- day ‘will be as usual Hallelujah Free Break- fast at 7.30 a.m; All over the House at4p.m.;

and Great Salvation Meeting at 8p. m. The | soldiers will have knee drill and march out be- ' fore the meeting this evening,

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Dissolution of Go-Partnership.

HE co-partnership heretofore existing be

tween the Subscribers, under tho style and firm of GEO. DAVIES & Cv., has this day been dissolved by matua! consent, Mr. Davies retiring from the business, which will be carried on by T. J. Harris and W. HU. Stewart, under the style and firm of HARRIS & STEWART.

All persons indebted to the late firm are requested to pay their respective accounts to MESSRS. HARRIS & STEWART, who will continue the business at the London House and djscharge all debts due by the late firm. GEO. DAVIES,

T. J. HARKIS, W. H. STEWART.

February 1, 1886—feb 13 lwk eod wky 3i

N SCHOOL.

DANCING

NHE Subscriber takes the liberty to inform her friends, patrons and others, that the

second and last term for the season will open on TUESDAY, 16th inst., at ® p. m.

A Juvenile Class will be formed on THURSDAY, 25th inst , from 4 to 6.

Deportment and Dumb-bell Exercises will be taught the children in addition to their Instruction in Dancing.

E. BURRIS. Ch’town, Feb. 18, 1886—2i sat tus

FOR SALE.

OWN LOT No. 75, 5th hundred, belong- ing to the Sneeston estate, situate on Euston Street, opposite the residence of F. L. Haszard, Esq, near St. Peter’s Road, For particulars apply at the office of R. R FITZGERALD. Ch’towp, Feb, 13, ’86—4i

ASTOUNDING! A Remarkable Story of Fraud in Utah.

$20 Suits, in fine S&xony tweed, just imported Ex. Northern Light for early spring trade, now selling at $14, worth $20, to keep our employes in bread during the dull season, at REID BROS.

Nearly all the Public Lands Stolen.

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$30 Best Black Worsted Suits, in new spring designs, reduced to $20, at REID BROS.

Evidence to Fill All the Jails.

$14 Tryon Tweed Suits, reduced to $12, at REID BROS.

Senators and Cougressmen Implicatsd

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ain Scotch Tweed Pants reduced to $4, at REID

Summerside “ Parneli Ciab” Fully Aroused to Its Responsibility.

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Beautiful Black Worsted Suits for Men, only $6.50, at REID BROS. :

Summerside Champion Cutters Make a Grand Strike for the Freedom of Ireland.

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50 Pieces Scotch Tweed, in newspring patterns now selling at the ridiculously low price of 85cts, worth $1.40, at REID BROS.

General Logan .fmazid at the Bisclosures.

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REID BROSC.,

CAMERON BLOOK, Ch’town, Feb. 11, 1886.

REGULAR TRADER.

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SPRING TRIP, 1886

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From Liverpool to Charlotvetown. The well known Clipper Bark

“MOSELLE,”

R. RENDLE, Commander,

now on the berth, will sail from

Liverp*ol fer Charlottetown, On or About Ist APRIL NEXT,

Carrying Freight at through rates to Pictou, Georgetown, Souris, Summerside, aud She- dias.

¥or Freight or Passage apply ic London to John Pitcairn & Sons, 16 Great Winchester Street ; E. C, in Liverpool to Pitcairn Broes., 51 South John Street, or here to the owners,

PEAKE BROS. & C0.,

Ch’town, Jan. 30, 1856.— 6w eod

Canned Salmon.

FEW cases of the “‘CAIRNS’ BKAND” for Sale, in cases, half cases and quarter eases. This brand is far superior to the British Columbia Salmon. HORACE HASZARD,

Queen Square. Ch’town, Feb, 11, 1886.—1 mo eod

Vessel for Sale.

HE Subscriber offers for sale the Schr. MARY B., 43 tons register, is a good sailer and large carrier—will be sold low. For farther particulars apply at Charlotte- i to Messrs, Norton Bros., or at Cardi- gan

H. F. BISSETT. Cardigan Bridge, Jan. 12, 1396. —feb 9 2i 1 aw wky 2i

R. FHBRUARY 18 1586.

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CLEARANCE SALE,

During Stock- Taking.

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B. MACDONALD is now having his Annual Clearing-Out

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Remnants and Short Ends of Goods,

Remnants ani Short Ends of Dress Goods and Cloths, Flannels, Winceys, Sheeting, Cottons, Tweeds.

And all Remnants and Short Ends will be cleared out at the very Smallest Prices.

The balanc2 of Ladies’ Fur Caps, Fur Muffs, Fur-Lined Circulars, Ladiss’ Astracan Jackets, at prjces to clear. J.

B. MACDONALD,

QUEHN STREET.'! Ch’town, Feb. 10, 1886 —dy wy

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J. H. MYRICK & GO,,

Wa E and retail dea'ers in CANNED GOOD®, FLOUR, TEA, GROCERIES, &c,; also PORK, LARD, HAMS and FISH of all kinds, Grafton Street, Charlotte- town, P. E. I. In our Fish Market we offer COP FISH —boneless, dried, pickled; HERRING, MAC- KEREL, SHAD - pickled; DIGBY HERRING, In Canned Fish we offer SALMON, FINNAN HADDIES and LOBSTERS, to direct special atttention to our

Fresh Galmon and Codfish,

which we receive and have on sale every day. — :0: Our GROCERIES will be found fresh and reliabie and our stock jis complete ia all departments. Our prices will compare favorably with those of the best grocers. POKK, BACON, SUGAR-CURED HAMS, LARD, FRESH BYEF, CORNED BEEF and SAUSAGES, Our SAUSAGES are fresh made every morning, from the best material.

By dealing with us house-keepers can obtain everything they require in the house- keeping line without trouble or vnnecessary running around,

Orders by mail or telephone will receive prompt attention.

J. H. MYRICK & CO.,

Fish Market, Grafton Street. JAMES PATON. &

Caarlottetown, Feb. 9, 1886 —1 mo eod Co., SUCCESSORS TO

W. A. WEHEEBS & Co.,~

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PRICES ALWAYS LOW!

We wish

Market House | New Post Office

MARKET SQUARE. "S=uvaes Iacruvr7et

Stamper’s Stop St. Patrick's Corner. Hero Hall

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Buy your Dry Goods from JAMES PATON & CO., the above Plan will stow you where to find them.

'Ch’town, Jan. 19, 1886.

Special Sale.

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Closing-out of the Entire Siock of GENERAL DRY GOODS at the

LONDON HeUBE!

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GEO. DAVIES & CO., intending te make a change in their present busitiess, offer the wholé of their MAGNIFI- CENT STOCK OF MERCHANDEZE at prices that cannot fail to make a clearance.

This isa BONA FIDE SALE, as the stock must bé dis- posed of during the next few months, and will present a Grand Opportunity io all buyers for Cash,

Our Wholesale Customers will be supplied on the usual Terms.

CHO, DAVIES & Co.

Ch’town, Dee, 9, 1885.

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