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MOON'S CHANGES.

Last Quarter 7th day, 10h., 58.3m., p.m., N.; \V below horizon.) New Moon ]4th day, 3h, 9.0ta., p.m.) West, Fivst Quarter 22nd day, “8i., 4*.7m., a. mi, N Vv. (be ow ho: iZuv.) Full Moon 30th day, 4h., 1.8m., a, m., S.W. Dg ar wes 228 San |Moon' Hig) (Day's yr Se Oe risesisets | rises | water| len’h hm h m altrnimornj, m i thurs Lie} é 2i4 y. 25/10 59 8 4) 2| Friday | 30 G 13/11 36) 39 3 Saturday bly Walt 13} 38 4/Sunday 32} 9) 3 bh 0 52) 37 } Monday 33 9 9 18; 1 36). 36 3 luesday b 3 sihO 25| 2 24) 33 7, Wednesday | 3 $11 33} 3 18) 3} 8 Thursday 35 S,morn; 429) SO 9) Friday } 37) 8 051) 5 45) 29 10| Saturday 38 8|.3 6} 7 fh DB {1 /Sunday 39 8 3 20} ~ 11) 27 12) Monday bi) s| 4 36) 9 3) 24 13) Tuesday 4} 8; 5 S51] 9 53) 26 i4 W ednesday b2 $i 7 20 34) 26 15) Thursday 43 9} 8 Till 19) 25 16) Friday 44 9| 9 Glmorm!| 25 17 | Saturday 44 9). 9 53; O 2 25 {S| sunday 45) 1G) 10 33) 0 43; 24 19| Monday bl Will Filgzai& 20) Tuesday 445 10}11 36) 2 7| 2k 21| Wednesday 4; lbiaft 1) 2,51) 25 22) Thursday 47 i2} 0 26) 3 44; 9d 23) Friday 45, 43) 0 49) 4 44) 25 24| Saturday 48) 13; 2 12) 5 50! 26 25 Sunday 48 i4, 1 32) 6 54) 26 26) Monday 49 15, 2 7) 7 50) 26 27| Tuesday 49 15} 2 40) 8 36) 27! 23| Wednesday 49} 16} 3 19] 9 20] 27; 29;Thursday 49) 16; 4 G10 Fj 28 30| Friday * 17} 5 O10 40) 28 $1'Saturday 7 494 17| 6 1/21 20/8 28 —-EO B-

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WNTERNAT: ORAL S.S. 69,

Leave St. John for Boston, via Kast port and Port land, every Moniay, ani Taureday at 3.00 a. m Fare from Charlottetown to Boston, 96,50, 2nd class ; $0.50, lst ciass, For tickets and othér information apply to G. ASAP, F. W. HALES, : P.-L R'y., P, BE, Ut. Steam Nag. Co, or to your nearest Ticket Agent, Novy. 12, 1#87—eod wky

L. ARTHUR & CO. COMMISSION MERCHANTS,

RECEIVERS OF

Mackerel, Batter, Cheese EGGS Poultry, Potatoes, Fruit & Vegetables.

142, 144 Commercial Street,

BOSTON, MASS. May 18, 1887.

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Buxton, Haliiax and. Prince Edward Island Steamship Line,

The Only Direct Line Without Change. ; | -_—— ‘Nice Overcoat for $4.28 that ought Charlottetown to Boston:

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Tuk starmch and commodious stearnships Car-- roll au: Woreester have been thoroughly refurnishecd ind put into first-class condition in every parti iar. ‘ : During the season of 1887, one of these vesseis ; will leave Pownal Street Wharf, Charlottetown, or Boston, at four o'clock, p.m., on THURSDAY ; of each week, and E = Boston for Charlottctown every SATURDAY, ' at noon. ; Excellent Passenger Accommodation! Low tates |! i FARES :—Cabin, $6.50; Stateroom Berth. $8.59. Lowest Rates for ireight, which is always care-

fully handled, , CARVELL BROTHERS, Agents, Charlottetown. Harxison Lorine, Managing Owner, Lewis Wharf, Poston, July 21,1830.

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MILLINERY, UNDERCLOTHING, MENS OVERCOATS,

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CARPETS. TAPESTRY CURTAINS.

| WOOL SCAEEFS, | GOAT ROBES,

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FAMILY MOURNING |

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GREAT DRY G00]

We intend to make extensive alterations in our ‘premises next spring, and a change in our business, any to do this Goods, Clothing, Carpets, &e., &c

| To dispose of this immense stock within so short a time, it must be sold at a sacrifice, and we shail. there- fore, give discounts varying from Sup ic $0 per cent.

| Whe steck consists of Seasonable and F'ashion- lable Goods, which are all marked in plain figures,

‘and at prices that are well known to be the lowest in the market. This Sale will be for CASH ONLY.

WA RRIS & STHW_A- Ch’town, Nov. 18, 1887.

SUCCESSORS TO. GEO. DAVIES & CO.

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HALIFAX.

Consignments of Island produce will receive prompt attention,

RereRences: Thomas Fyshe, Esq., Cashier Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax; ‘George Macleod, Manager Bank of Nova Scotia Charlottetown.

WARREN & JONES, ‘TEA MERCHANTS,

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. | Represented in Canada by Mornson & SLIN OF LION, QUEEN SPREB Ch’town, Dee. 1, 1887.

| Musgrave, Halifax. Oct. 24, 1887—1mo

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must clear out our entire stock of Drdip

Born Men, having to advise the Public, may speak free.”— vermres.

THE PIRATE.

By Sir Waltor Scott.

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CHAPTER ‘XXL

Both lost to me, for ever los: those joys,

Which reason scatters. and ‘vhich tame destroys, No more the midnight fair train I view,

Allin the merry midnight t'ppling dew,

Even in the last lingering fiction of the brain,

: The churchyard ghost is no%; at Work again.

The Library.

The moral bard, from wiom we borrow the motto of this chapter, /ias touched a theme with which most readers jiave some feelings that vibrate unconsciously. Superstition, when not arrayed. in her full horrors, but laying a gentle uancd only on her suppliant’s Head: ad charms. which we fail not to regret, even in those stages of society from which ‘her in- fluence is well-nigh banished by the light of reason and general education. At least, in more ignorant periods, her system of ideal tecrors had something in them interesting: to minds which had few means of excitement, This is more especially true of those lighter modifications of superstitions feelings and practices which mingle in the amusements of the ruder ages, and are, like the auguries of Haliow-e’en in Scotland, considered partly as matter of merriment, partly as sad and pro- pictic earnest, And, with similar feelings, people of even toleralbe educationfhave, in our times, sought the cell of a fortune-teller, upon a frolic, as it is termed, and yet not always in a disposition absolutely sceptical towards the responses they reeeive.

When the sisters of Burgh-Westra arrived in the apartment destined for a breakfast, as ampie as that which we have described on the preceding morning, and had undergone a jocular rebuke from. the Udaller for their late attendance, they found the company, most of whom hadalready breakfasted, engaged in an ancient Norweigan custom, of the character which we have just described.

It seems to have been borrowed from those poems of the Scalds, in which champions and heroines are so often represented as seeking to know their destiny from some sorceress or prophetess, who, as in the legend cailed by tyray the Descent of Odin, awakens by the force of Ruuic rhyme the unwilling revealer of the doom of, fate, and compels from her answers, often of dubious import, but which were then believed to express some shadow of the events of futurity.

An old sibyl, Euphane Fea, the housekeeper we have already mentioned, was instailed in the recess of a large w'ndow, studiously darkened by bear-skins and other miscellane- ous drapery, so as to give it something the appearance ofa Laplander’s hut, and accom- modated, like a confessional chair, with an aperture, which permitted the- person within to hear with ease. whatever questions should be put, though not to see the querist. Here seated, the voluspa, or sibyl, was to listen to the rhythmical inquiries which should be made to her, and return an extemporane- ous answer, The drapery was su to prevent her from seeing by what individuals she was consulted, and the intended or aceidental reference which the answer given under such circumstances bore to the situation of the person by whom the question was asked, often tnrnished food for laughter, «nd sometimes, as it happened, for more serious reflection. The sybi was usually chosen from her possessing the talent of improvisation in the Norse poetry; no unusual accomplish- minds of many were old verses, and where the

stored with

rules of metrical composition are uncommon.

ly simple.’ The questions were also put in verse ; but as this power of extemporancous composition, -though common, could not be supposed-universal, the medium of an interpreter might be used by any querist, which interpreter, holding the consulter of the oracle by the hand, and standing bv the lace from which the oracles were issued, had the task of rendering into verse the subject of inquiry.

in, the present occasion, Claud Halero was summoned, by the universal voice, to perform the part of interpreter; and, after shaking his head, and muttering some apology for decay of memory and poetical powers, contradicted at once by his own conscions smile of confi- dence and by the general shout of the com- pany, the light-hearted old man came forward to play his partin the proposed entertain- ment.

But just as it ‘vas about te commence, the arrangement of parts was singularly altered. Norna of the Hitfal-head, whom every one excepting the tww sisters believed to be at the distance of many miles, suddenly, and without greeting, entered the apartment, walked inajestically up to the bearskin tabernacle, and signed to the Reside who was there seated to abdicate her sanctuary. The old woman came forth, shaking her head, and looking liké one overwhelmed with fear; nor, indeed, were there many inthe company who saw with absolute composure the sudden appear- ance of a person so well known and so gener- ally dreaded as Norna.

She paused a moment at the entrance of the tent; and, as she raised the skin which formed the entrance, she looked up to the north, asif imploring from that quarter a train of inspiration ; then signing to the sur- prised guests that they might approach in suc- cession the shrine in which she was about to instail herself, she entered the tent, and was shrouded from their sight.

But. this was a diflerent sport from what the company had meditated, and to most of them seemed to present so much more of ear- nest than of game, that there was no alacrity shown to consult the oracle. The character and pretensions of Norna seemed, to almost all present, too serious for the part she had assumed ; the men whispered to each other, and the women, according to Claud Halcro, realized the description of glorious John Dryden, —

“With horror shuddering, on a heap they ran.”

The pause was interrupted by the loud, manly voice of the Udaller. ‘‘ Why does the game stand still, my masters? Are you afraid because my kinswowan is to play our voluspa. It is kindly done in her, todo for us what none in the isles can do so well; and we will not baulk our sport for it, but rather go on the merrier.”

‘To be continued.)

Rcssers! Ruseers !—Wearing withort tearing, light elastic and durable, pure gum, give perfect satisfaction. The Glove Braud and Cossting Rubbers had at Goff Bros.

DAILY EXAMINER.

Sincie Copiszs Two Cents.

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OL. 22.—NO. 13.

Grain Harvesting Now and Years Age,

Within the memory of persons now liv- ing the grain grown in every section of this country was cut with the sickle, one persou being able to cut ready for the binder per- haps a quarter of an acre of grain daily. This was slow work. The wide scythe, with its snaith and five larger fingers of wood attached to the snaith and immediately above it, called a cradle, came into general use a few years later. When ten or fifteen men, each with a swinging cradle in hand, went circling; one after another, around the field of golden grain, each gathered and cut grain and laid it in. a swath, ready for the raker to aake it into bundles ready for the binder.

The sickle and the cradle have been quite generally retired as relics of the “past, and harvesters, binders, reapers and separators have each been made to do the work of a large number of men. The labor saving, especially on all large farms of improved, stumpless, level land, must be very large; bat just how much this saving is there yre not sufficient data to determine.

Although there are many large farms in the west of 3,000 acres or more, most o the farms in this country have a much smaller area, perhaps one-quarter to one- half a section (of 640 acres) in extent, cost of harvesting ou there suialler plo land is proportionally larger than on the very large farms—iike the Dalrymple form in Minnesota and others.

A correspondent of the Los Angeles (California) HLapress recently gave an ac- count of widow Crow’s wheat farm of 5,000 acres, from which she harvested this year an average Of nine sacks of wheat per acre, weighing about 2,000 tous. She owns combined harvester which will cut, thresh and sack thirty acres of wheat per day. When her wheat crop was matured and ready to harvest she started ber own har- vester and hired four more, and the live were driven al out her golden fields with 20 men and 120 horses, cuttingy threshing and sacking 180 actres of wheat each day. This kept five of the men busy sewing up the sacks of grain as they came. from the sepa- rator; five drove each a twenty-five-horse team, five tended each a sickle. and the other tive tended each a separator. In about.a minute the standing grain was in the sack and ready for transportation. The widow sold her wheat at $31 per ton and banked $60,000 for her crop.

The diminished cost of grain harvesting, in connection with the diminished cost of transpertation from what it was twenty

ears ago (the latter being frum Chicago to toate 37¢. per sixty pounds less now) undoubtedly augments largely the power of the American farmer to compete with his rivals in the markets of the world.

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Local Notices.

Terk has been a great mark down in Ladies’ Curl Jackets at Beer Bros. Cali and see them. You can get areal nice Astracan Jacket for $2.25,

Lapigs’ and Gents’ Kid and Astracan Gloves and Mitts, choice lot selling low tt J. B. Macdonald's. dy wy

A tor of choice Mince Meat just —— at Beer & Goff’s. 2, —~dec7

Lapiss' Dress Cloths from 10 cents and up- wards. Excellent value at J. B. Macdonald.

dy wy

Fresu Soda, Milk, Arrowroot, Snow Flake and Faney Biscuits received to-day at Beer & Goff's.

Tue TALK or THE TowN.—The great value in Men's and Boys’ Overeoats, at J. B. Mac donald’s.

OversHors.—Neat, warm and nicely lined ; good rubber soles. Gents’ and Ladies Am- erican and Canadian Overshoes at Goff Bros.

Tue Ready-made Clothing sold at J. B. Macdonald's is equal in every respect to cus: tom made, and half the price. Go there and be suited. dy wy—noy 18

Latest? styles in American Hat and Bonnet Shapes opened to-day at Beer Bros.

nov 16—dy wy

HeartH RvuGs.—Axminster, Reversible, Antiqne, superior value, just received at Beer Bros. dy wy—nov 16

Five HUNDRED pairs Mens’. Long Boots, manufactured by the Amherst Boot Company, every pair warranted to give entire satisfac- tion, selling low at J. B. Macdonald's Boot store. dy wy--novl6

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Summerside Exports.

SumMMERsIDE, Nov. 30th, 1887.

Shipped per steamer Princess of Wales, Cameron, master, for Point dv Cherie :

PN Sone 4s 500s es .-$ 100

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§ 5956

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** Pa,” said little Johnny, “ here’sa piece in the paper about parasites, what are |they!” ‘*Parasites, my boy, are people who jlive in Paris. I think you ought to know ‘that, and you in the third reader.”