$2,500,000 Burned up.....

In one night in the town of Windsor, N. 8.

The insurance was only $500, 000, four fifths of all that property is a total less.

not fully insured,

I represent Fire

Companies of known

If you are

insure now.

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General Agent

Charlottetown

THE DAILY EXAMINER.

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DECEMBER

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FARM HOUSES.

todrive through the

Ir is a pleasure better farming settlements of Prince Ed- ward Island and make a note of the neat and comfortable houses ~vhich the farmers have in recent years provided for their wives and families. There is an air of thrift and prosperity about a small or moderate sized house, plain and painied, with an orchard and garden near by and ample barns and outbuildings in the rear, that redounds greatly io the credit of all who are connected with it. When we ree such a homestead we say, “ there lives a sensible and industrious farmer.” But there is a growing tendency, nowadays, to extend the follies of the city iuto country life. We frequently see houses that were built for show rather than use,—houses that are too large for the needs of the family and that add unnecessarily to the labor and care of the housewife and her daugbters,—houses adorned on the out side with costly gimcrackery; avd lack- ing comforts inside. A farmer's house, as a citizen’s house, ought to be of a size proportionate to the size of his family. It ought not to be full of comfortless, empty rooms from which only cold draughts issue to the rooms that are ueed. The firet essential of a good farm-house is a good foundation. This should be of cut stone, forming the cellar wall, built up to the sill, acd rendering the cellar frost- proof. Then thereshould be an ample, well lighted kitchen, with pantries and other closets attached and convenient alike tc itand to the dining room. The other rooms of the house ought to be of moderate size an‘ so arranged as to be convenient for the housekeeper, lighted and well ventilated, aud yet easily kept comfortably warm. As much pace as possible should be given on the ground floor. na this climate, jn which the fall aud winter and early spring winds blow cold and strong, a high house is a folly and an abomination. Let the greater part of the house be close to the ground and all the space that is not needed inside left for the winds to pass over outside—economiz ing fuel as well as the housewife’s labor. A low house may be made to look as beautiful upon the landscape as a high house—iedeed it can be made to look much more so—at much lese expense. But let it be remembered that comfort, ¢on- venience and ecooomwy of space, rather than mere beaut#, are the importan: con- siderations when designing a farm house.

well

ere SCHOOL QUESTION— AGAIN.

MANITOBA

Havixe appealed to the Pope, Messrs. Laurier, Tarte & Company are, of course, im duty bound to enforce the decision of the Pope as to the Manitoba School Question,— that is if it is possible for them to do so. It is not surprising, therefore, to hear that they are intriguing with Lieutenant Governors Patterson and Chapleau for the purpose of obtaining the good <flices of these influential gentlemen in an endeavor to smooth the way to a further concession tothe claims of the Roman Catholics in covformity with the Pope’s demand. We shali see whether these gentlemen can be persuaded to help he Government out of the hole they are nm. Jt need not be pointed our that there ie « atraight constitutional course of procedure in this regard. But Sir Wilfrid, wita Tarte at his back, prefers indirect methods. For ways that are dark, the Leader of the Goveroment and his political director are as peculiar as “ the beathen Chinee.”

* Come this Seturday night and see the big display of Xmas cards,booklets, calev- dars. [he Sunnyside Bookstore is in one blaze of new bright no ijav goods, Every- ove welcomed to view this display of; Fetty novelties.—Haezard & Moore.

THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, DECEMBER 4, 1897

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o*®€arRio’s CROPS.

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Upon? whale the harvest of Ontario,

this yearyis one of the best that the Pro- vince ie had. The following is an

abstract of the official crop report : Yield Per Field Crops. Bushels. Acre. Fall Wheat..... v0 0 29,998.05 1 25.2 Spring wheat............. 4,368,101 151 PTs sbesilestiineeias o0% 12,021,779 26.6 ES .- 86,318,128 835 MNEs 6 Ghdcesecewees . 3,382,005 18 0 Kc iiscscns bbeccecie ce bees 0 1 EE 155 Bec wWheat. .... crc... 5464186 2386 ia cictnet <i ie useveee? | 194 yee 95.1 Mangle Wurzels. 18,163,307 439.7 i 4,433,628 368.7 Turnips .. 68,297,148 4573 Corn (for husking).......24,663,998 73.6 Tons, Tons.

Corn (for silo and fod

NED <n cevene suueniianecses Ee” Baas Hay and clover............ 3,811,518 1.63

The main differences as compared with

last year are that, this year there are

ten million bushels more wheat ata much

better price per bushel, three millon bushels more oats, a million bushels more rye, over half a million bushels more buckwheat, a million tons more of cern and a million and a haif toas more of hay and clover. On the other hand, there were, this year, five million bushels less potatoes than Jast year , and three and a half mil- lion bushels less peas. But taken for all in all, the fiekl crops of Ontario this year are probably worth twenty-five million dollars more than last year, and severa millions more than the average for four- teen years past. In thisfactwe have one of the causes of Canada’s continued proe- perity—in spite of governmental extravag_

ance and ma!l-administration.

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RAILWAY DISMISSALS.

Tar Moncton Times publishes a list of those who have been dismissed from the Intercolonial Railway to make room for patriotic Liberal place-hunters. The list does not include those men who have been guillotined in this Province. But it is, nevertheless, a long one, and includes :

1 chief engineer.

2 district superintendents.

1 sleeping car superintendent.

2 store keepers.

2 track masters.

2 inspectors.

3 mechanical shop superintendents.

2 foreman carpnuoters.

31 section foremen.

60 trackmen.

6 station agente.

3 car inspec‘ors.

6 fuel men.

3 tank men.

1 foreman blacksmith.

13 office clerks.

3 baggage masters,

76 miscellaneous mechanics, shopmen, pipe fitters, bridge and crossing tenders, etc.

The total is over 200, many of whom | had been from 10 to 33 years in the service | of the railway. Some of these men entered |

the service of the railway as boys. They |

know nothing but railway work.

Halifax Herald: Sir L. H. Davies, who is an excellent fellow in a good many ways, has the exceedingly bad habit, when ou bis legs, of letting his mouth ran away with him. His recent speech in Toronto was simply an aggregation of the tallest kind of yarns, poured forth, no deub*, with the utmost velemence. Ou.e of these yarne was tothe effect that the late liberal conservative ministry bad been negotiating for the rental of Greenshields’ tan-bark oat, aod he even went eo far as to name the price that government proposed to »ay tor it, Av evening or two later, Mr. Fuster, speaking in the same city, declared that no such idea had ever entered into the minds of the late ministry. He added: “T do not doubt that somebody wanted to sell the road, ard bas wanted to eel! it for a good many years.” And he might have gone further and stated that only a few months before the change of government

ESTEEMED EXCHANGES

Mail and Empire: Even the Grits will agree that Mr. Howland gave them a good run for their money.

Montreal Gazette: Mr. Bertram’s suc- cess in Centre Toronto is being spoken of in the Liberal press as Mr. Tarte’s victory. With Mr. Bertram, as with other mortals, there is no rose withouta thoro.

Ottawa Journal : Apparently then, Laurier’s visit to Washington is to have no result as regards better trade relations with the States, The moral wili be, as previously intimated, that Canada can get nothing frow the United States except by giving more than value, and our public men of either party should not be blamed by any section of the people for failure to please the United Stated.

Montreal Star: While the rejection of Mr. Howland is, of course, a defeat for the Conservative party, the very candida- ture of Mr. Bertram was a triumph for Protection and the forcesof Conservatism generally. 8 me of his majority, however may have been due to other forces which are more commonly called “devices,’ and which a certain minister may have had in

his mind when he assured us that ‘‘elec- tions are pot made with prayers.” The support ot two Governinsnts is worth @

good deal on this side of the campaign.

“Any further effort Canadian ,Governument to conciliate the United States would certainly time wasted aud a movement decidedly to be reprehended. It is the United States who shonld be sending dele-~ gations to Canada seeking forgiveness and tryigg to conciliaie. Canadians have honestly and straightforward y carried out every agreement made with the Uniced States. We have lived up to the spirit as wellasthe letter of the treaties ; not seeking how we could best deprive our neighbors of avy advantage, but looking to it that they received ali they were led to expect. We have noth'ng to reproach ourselves with, nothing to be blamed for. We have acted the partof good neigh bors, desirous of promoting amicuble relations.

Yarmouth Times: of the present he

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See the handkerchief bargain today.— Moore & McLeod.

HandkercLiefs going like hot cakes to- day. Come early.—Moore & McLeod.

The wife of a Mr. Leblanc, of Levis, Que., has just given birth to her twenty- second child.

Ia the honor list of Cambridge Univer sity just published, Dr. Bamilton Wrigh:, of Montreal, gets a scholarship of the value of fifty pounds,

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James Paton’s “Big Store;’ 4 nse vil dei g2s ; Will knock “hard tines’ clear out of sight.

And so it will. sure, if you only believe it and have » : ee be the wisdom to act on it, for

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are enemies of “hard times,” ways having money in your pockets, balance saved in buying the necessaries and comforts of life, just drop into their big store —the largest in town ~and be

It makes a big difference in the cost of your

NEW FALL SUIT AND OVERCOAT

if you get into the wrong store, it in the cost of your wife and fumily’s outfit, if you would, by mistake, go

Suits, Pants, Suspenders,Hose, Underwear, Shirts, Collars,

Blanket Coats, Ulsters, Reefers, Waterproofs,

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Our Cigantic Purchases

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This suunds big —well, we are

nave made the purchasing power of a dollar in the “Big Store” greater than it bas ever been befure in Charlottetown. ducer and consumer are brought so close together. such a budget of big, bright, bona-fide Barg-ins. Come and see them in all our lines, and save your money. * styles and faultless in colors. Here are some of them.—

Never was there a vlace where the Never was there offered

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SHIP NEWS

Port of Charlottetown

ENTERED. Dec 4—SS Wm Aitken, Batt, Pictou.

CLEARED.

Dec 4—Joseph McGill, Himmelman, Lunenburg; Ernest de Costa, Ganion, St Jobn’=, Nfld; Athlete, Roberts, Pictou; Lucretia Jane, LeBlanc, Sydney; Char- lotte, Walker, Halifax; ss Wm Aitken, Batt, Pictou.

It is stated that negotiations have been . entered into at the instigaticn of Great Britain fora new commercial treaty with Germany.

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wearing Furniture is another matter. market.

that has produced it, Call in and have

THE HOME MAKERS.

Anyone can make Furniture of a sort.

Someone ——S

A FABLE

Applied to Furniture Making

frisking about brcke the tiling. His beat him severely. The ass said: “Why

I saw the monkey do this very same thing yesterday and you all laughed It was Publius Syrus who said:

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New Goods

For your Xmas baking. Choice Cal, Muscate! Raisins, Seeded Raisins, Cleaned Currants, fresh Canded Peels, Pure Es- sences, etc, etc.

A Car Load

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