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Merchants’ Bank of Halifax,

CHARLOTTETOWN AGENCY,

Savings Bank Department, —WILL BE—

OPENED 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 & MACNEILL, ATTORNEYS - AT- LAW

Solicitors in Chancery,

NOTARIES PUBLIC, &c.

OFFICES— O’Halloran’s Building, Great George Street, Charlottetown. Gao” Money to Loan,

W. W. Scuurvay, Q. C, | Carsrsa B. Macnain. Jan. 16, ’83.

LIFE INSURANCE United States Life Tnsmrance C0,

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gen’.

Sept. 96, 18 Sew MONCTON

Sash and Door Factory.

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R. P. LBA, in returning thanks to the M public for the liberal patronageextended

to him while in business in Charlottetown,

begs leave to inform his old customers and the public guuey: that he, in company

with Mr, William Rogers, has appointed

Messrs. B. Williams & Co,

Pownal Wharf,

Lamber and Coal Dealers,

Charlottetown, our agents, who will

constantly on hand o fall supply of Moule.

ngs, Window Sashes, Doors, etc.. 4

LOWEST CASH PRICES,

All orders entrusted to them will receive

prompt attention.

LEA & ROGERS,

Moncton, N, B,

L.ARTHUR & CO., GENERAL

Uommission Merchants, 12] ATLANTIC AVERUE,

(ROSS MARKET) BOSTON, MASS.

Eggs and Produce a Specialty.

April 26, 1883.-—wkly tf

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(NEAR THE MARKET). A UCTION SALES cf Farniture, Farm . Implements, Carriages, Sleighs, etc., promptly attended to on market days at the above central stand for market-day sales.

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Particular attention given to the sale of Fish and Produce of all kinds. June 22, 1883.-—6m

~ STANDARD LIFE ASSURANCE CO

T the 57th Annual General Meeting of 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

2,561 proposals were accepted, assuring

The total existing assurances in force at 15th November, 1882, amounted to

(Of which $7,753,031.15 was reassured with other offices) The claims by death which arose during the year amount- ed, including bonus addi- tions, tu

The annual revenue amounted at 15th November, 1882, to The invested funds at same date amounted to

Being an increase during the year of

DAYS,

$ 9,754,085 38 7,239,048 13

$6,936,302 91

2,462,226 59 4,267,546 00 29,503,416 00

1,062,648 35 JOHN LONGWORTH, Agent for Charlottetown, THOMAS KERR, Inspector of Agencies, Oh’tewn, Angnat 2, 1882.

J. A. CHIPMAN & 6O,,

ARK @FFERING AT MILLERS’ PRICES IN STORE: 250 bris. Choice Superior Ex- tra, 900 * Patent.

OFFICE AND WAREROOMS :

OPPOSITE RANKIN HOUSE.

J. EF. SHAIFORD, AGENT.

Dec.. 10, 1883.

DR. BENNET

YALLS attention to “THE ELECTRO C MAGNETIC CORSET,” exact pattern as worn by the Princess of Wales, the health- giving powers of which, especially in female diseases, are very great., Can be had at FRASER & REDDIN’S. To be worn 43 an ordiniry corset and lasting longer and fitting superbly trimmed with Valencienes lace.

Dec, 3, 1883.

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SPAM TORO UE U aie itil SU ed

~GOLD.MEDAL,PARIS 1578-

p # Island Pottery,

E are Agents for the Pp. E. Island Pottery Orders sent to us will re ceive prompt attention. Jars, Jugs, Boon Pots, Mugs, Flower Pots, Spitoons, Stove Stones, etc., etc., 10 stock.

BEER & GOFF,

Nien’s Men’s Men’s Men’s Men’s Men’s

mabel re c ode a” =

Ch’town,Nov. #8, 1888.

Our

These goods are selling rapidly.

fast.

Oh’town, Nov. 23, 1883.—dy wkly

Cloth Department ;

The 200 pieces Job, Jacket and Ulster Cloths have been selling wonderfully The prices are very low for the quality,

S°LLING VERY CHEAP FOR CASH, AT THE

ONDON HOUSE.

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Men’s Gloves, Mitts & Scarfs. Men’s Bop Coats,

Uisters,

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Ladies’ Cloth Ulsters,

Ladies’ Fur-lined Circulars,

Ladies’ Astracan Jackets, Ladies’ Fur Caps and Muffs. Buffalo Robes,

Japanese Wolf Robes, Blankets,

Horse Rugs, Railway Wrappers,etc

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Store Closes bvery Kvening it Sit p. 0. (Saturday Except)

Carpet Department:

In this Department we are doing a very large trade, in Axminster, Velvet Pile, Brussels, Tapestry, Scotch Hemp and Twine Carpots, Hearth Rugs 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.

aw 50%

Mantle Department:

They are the best and newest makes and grand value.

VU

A large lot Seal Cloth from $3.50 to $8.25 per yard, Daily expected, 30 pieces-Oiicloths (English), from j-yard to 3}-yard,

WHOLESALE & RETAIL. W. & A. BROWN & CO.

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3,000 pounds CURRANTS, 200 boxes prime FIGS, 5 cases choice PRUNES,

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20 kegs GRAPES,

Nov. 14, 1883.—2aw wkly

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Picture Mouldiugs,

Sept, 6, 1883.—2aw wly

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ON HAND:

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200 barrels hard WINTER APPLES, No, 1,

AIND MORE TO ARRIVE.

BEER & GOFF.

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FURNITURE,

AT COST. Opposite Post Office, Charlottetown.

EDSTEADS, “h.irs, Tables, Washstands, Sofas, Lounges, Parlor, and Drawing Room Bedroom Svits, Looking Glasses and Mirrors, Window

JOHN NEWSON,

urniture, Picture Frames and to his clay-pit.

at hoki Move

By Charles Reade.

CHAPTER XXVL (Contin wed, )

That morning be kept his word, and laid their cave bc fore her.

He said ;

‘We sre here on an island that has prob- ab'y been seen ard disregarded by a few whelers, but is not known to navigators, ner down on any chart. There is a wide range of vegetation, proving a delightful climate on the whole, and ove particularly suited to you, whose lungs are delicate. But then. comparing the beds of the rivers with the hanks, a tremenduous fall of rain ‘is indicated. The rainy months (in these latitudes) »re at hand, and if these rains catch usin our present condition, it will be a calamity. You have walls, but no roof to ke-p it out. I tremble when I think of it. This is my main anxiety. My nx! is aio tou: sustenance. We have no s'ores under cover, no fuel, no provisions, but a few socoanuts We use two lucifer matches a day, and what is ‘o become of us at that rate? In theory fire can be got by rubbing two pieces of wood together; Sel- kirk is said to have so pimento wood on Juan Fernandez; but in} fact, | believe the art is confined to savages. I never met a civilized man who could do)

‘it, and I have questioned scores of voyagers. | ‘As for my weapons, they consist of a boat- jhook and an axe; no gun, no harpoon, | no bow, no lance. My tools are a blunt saw, a blunter axe, a woden spade, two great augurs, that I believe had a hand in bringing us here, but have not been of, any use to us since, a center bit, two planes, | a hammer, a pair of pincers, two brad-awls, | three gimlets, two scrapers, a plumb-lead | and line, a large pair of scissors, and you have a small pair, two guages, a screw- driver, five clasp-knives, a few screws, and | nails a various sizes, two small barrels, two \bags, two tin bowls, two wooden bowls, land the shell of this turtle, and that is a very good soup-tureen, only we have no meat to make soup with.’

‘Well, sir,’ said Miss Rolleston, resign- edly, ‘we can but kneel down and die.’

That would be cutting the Gordion knot indeed,’ said Hazel, ‘What, die to shirk a few difticulties? No. I propose an amend- ment to that. After the words ‘kneel down,’ insert the words ‘and get up again, trusting in that merciful Providence which has saved us so far, but expects to exert ourselves, too.’

‘It is good and pions advice,’ said Helen, ‘and let us follow it this moment.’

‘Now,’ said Hazel, ‘I have three pro- positions to lay before you. Ist. That I hereby give up walking and take to running —time is so precious. 2d. That we both work by night as well as day. 3d. That we tell each other our principal wants, so that there may be four eyes on the lookout as we go instead of two.’

‘I consent,’ caid Helen; ‘pray what are your wants?’

‘Iron, oil, salt, tar, a bellows, a pick-axe, planks, threads, nets, light matting for roofs, bricks, chimney-pots, jars, glass, animal food, some variety of vegetable food, and so on. Ill write down the entire list for you.’

‘You wiil be puzzled to do that without link or paper.’ | ‘Notin the least. I shall engrave it in ‘alto-rilievo, make the words with pebbles lon the turf just above high-water mark. | Now, tell me your wante.’

‘Well, I want—impossibilities.’ ‘Enumerate them.’

‘What is the use?’

‘It is the method we have agreed upon.’ ‘Oh, very well, then. I want—a sponge.’ ‘Good. What next?

‘Il have broken my comb,’

‘Good,’

‘I’m glad you think so. I want—oh, Mr. Hazel, what is the use/—well I should like a mattrass to lie on,’

‘Hair or wool?

‘I don’t care which. to ask you for either,’

‘Go on,’

‘T want a looking-glass.’

‘Great Heaven! What for?’

‘Oh, never mind—I want one; and some more towels, and some soap, and a few hair-pins; and. some elastic bands; and some pen, ink and paper, to write my feel- ings down in this island for nobody ever to see.’

When she began Hazel looked bright, but the list was like a wasp, it’s sting lay in its tail. However, he put a good face on it. ‘T’ll try and get you all those things- only give me time. Do you know I am writing a dictionary on the novel method.’

‘That means on the sand.’

‘No; the work is suspended for the pre- sent, Buttwoof the definitions in it are —Dirricvtties—things to be subdued; ImposstB1Lities--things to be trampled on.’

‘Weill, subdue mine. Trample on—a sponge for me.’

‘That is just what I am going to do,’ said he, opening a clasp-knife, and jumping coolly into the river.

Helen screamed faintly, but, after all, the water was only up to his knees.

He soon cut a large sponge off a piece of slimy rock, and held it up to her. ‘There,’ said he, ‘why, there are scores of them at your very door, and you never saw them.’

‘Oh, excuse me, I did see them, and shuddered; I thought they were reptiles, dormant, and biding their time.’

When he was out of the river again, she thought a little, and asked him whether old iron would be of any use to him.

Oh, certainly,’ said he; “what, do you know of any”

‘J think I saw some one day, look for it.’

She took the way of the shore; and he got-his cart and spade and went post-haste

And it is a shame

I'll go and

| He made a quantity of bricks, and | brought them home, and put them ito dry in the sun. He also cut

great pieves of the turtle aud wrapped them

obteined it from |

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in fresh banana leaves, and inclosed them in clay. He then tried to makea large narrow -nccked vessel, and failed utterly; so rude piatter,

he made the clay into a great

like a shallow milk-pan, Then he peeled the sage log, of wiich he hed cut his wheels, and rubbed it with turtle fat, and using it as a form, produced two clay cylinders. These he sat in the sun, with bricks around them to keep them irom falling Leaving all these to dry an set before he biked them, he went off to the marsh for form leaves. The soil being so

damp, the trees were covered with a brown-

ish-red suistance, scarce distingaishable from wool. This he had counted on, sut he also feund it the salle netzhborhus aa

long cyress-haired moss that aeemed to him

very promising. He made several trips and raised qu:te a stack of fern leaves. By this time the sun h d operated on his thinner pottery; 8 he laid down six of his large thick tijes, and lighted a fire of dry

banana leaves, cocoanut, ete., and such light combustibles, until he had heated and hardened the clay ‘then he put the fire on again, and made it hotter and hotter, till the clay began to recden

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LETTERS To THE EDITOR, >

The “Northern Light.”

contin ned. }

Orr Picrou Isuanp, On Boarp tue **NortTHERN Licnar,” Monpay, 3lst Dre., 1883.

Sir,—It is a beautiful morning here at sea, and the steamer is running like a race- horse for Picton, ihe gallant captain and his cfticers all at their respective posts. On the port side is seen the high snow-capped mountains of Arisaig, and to starboard Pictou Island, in her quiet repose, whilst fast receding to our view is our own be- loved P. E. Island.

In Tue Examrver of the 27th, the cap- tain of the ‘‘Northern Light” is taken most severely to task for not having, on the previous day, made the round trip to Picteu and back; and in justice tothe ‘*Northern Light,” on that particular occasion, you will allow me to explain that, on that day, as ordered from the Department of Marine, Capt. Finlayson towed over from George- town the bark ‘‘J. W.,”’ loaded with 40,000 bushels oats, leaving Georgetown at six in the morning, and, after breaking through large fields of ice, arrived at Pictou safely, bringing the bark, at half-past four p. m., up to the landing.

It was, therefore, dangerous and far from safe that the ‘‘Northern Light” could return to Georgetown that same evening, as, although all diligence and despatch was used, it was half past ten o'clock p. m. before her freights and coals were com- pleted being taken in, and at that hour neither you or I, ina dark, pitchy night, in winter, would have liked to venture out from the shore.

You will, therefore, in justice to the commander of the steamer, please give this explanation in Tue Examiner.

On Saturday last, wit! a snowstorm rag- ing all day, the round trip was successfully accomplished, although, on entering Pictou harbor in the height of the tempest, they had a narrow escape; and to-day, if there 1s no ice to impede her enward career, she will be back in good time with her pas- sengers, and with large numbers of letters from our young wen away to their girls and mothers at home,

Let it be for us, therefore, not to be teo ready to find fault where no blame is to be attached, but seated snug curselves from the dangers of the stocm, rather give cheer and encouragement to those sober, trusty, careful, and brave men, who face the hurri- canesand the blast in the discharge of the heavy responsibilities they have under- taken, and who feel cheered, one and all, from the Captain to the boys, when 4 generous and impartial people will rightly discriminate and do justice when it is deserved.

It is now ten o'clock and we are into large cakes or pans of ice, seemingly nine or ten inches thick, and the tiny little ship is plunging away at the rate of four knots, every now and then striking heavily against the hard pans and making her tremb'e and twist. No open water is at all visible, and it seems amazing where the vast sea of ice all came from. Talk of Tom Allan and the Capes—nothing in the world but a strong and powerful steamer could ever go through the almost solid strong pans of thick ice that we are now mastering, but when ice such as this becomes thicker and in larger and more extended fields, then we are glad to see Tom and the Capes. The sight around on every hand is just now majestic and grand, and we have safely passed the light-house and up to the Landing at half-

past ten. Yours, PAasSENGER.

Temperance at Mount Stewart.

Sin,—A synopsis of the manner by which we have acccomplished the duty assigned us, namely enforcing the Canada Temper- ance Act in this place, may be interesting to temperance workers, generally. In assuming our work, we had to contend not only with those engaged in the unlawful traffic, but with a host of their sympathizers who were ever on the alert to assist in preventing the officers of the law from per- forming their duty. Although retarded in the commencement, by circumstances alluded to, we have, by holding weekly meetings and adop’ing such resolutions as were necessary to the fulfilment of the law, succeeded in banishing all illicit vendors from our midst.

In accordance with a resolution agreed to at our last meeting, we hereby notify those wholesale liquor dealers in Charlottetown who, #8 we have sufficient evidence to prove, have been supplying those illie*t retalers with their demoralizing agent, to discontinue, or immediate action will be taken for their appearance before the Stipendiary Magistrate.

TReMrEeRANCe COMMITTEE.

Mount Stewart, Jan. Ist, 1684.

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