CARTER’S

Prince Edward Island Almanac

For 806, Now Ready, c The Vote declared for each Dis

trict on the Island at the last

Deuinion General Eleciion

for each Dis aonwtl® lection

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ruk® LEADING

or P. E. [sLanp, asned every afiernoon, from the office of ge EXAMINER P ISHING COMPANY, in the ad. 1 House Building, Queen Street

RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION.

..N ADVANCE

Owe YEAR oo. $4.00 Sx MontHs 2.1%) Turek MonTHs -+ 1.00 Ons M : . revs OSS Bent post paid to any part of Canada or the

United States

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND,

HW ENSILAGE GUTTERS

In all Sizes, with or without Elevators.

Fan Mills. Turnip Slicers or Pulpers’

Crushers, and

Ploughs of all styles, Wilkinson make.

PLOW REPAIRS.—We jall Plouzhs e ymmon to All of

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the above Implements sold

keep a full line of repairs for

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| I>). W. FEINLAYSON,

ttetown, Dec. 30, 1895.

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LEPAGE’S OLD STAND.

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243 Hollis & 48

K. STAN, Wholesale Wine & Liquor Merchant,

ITALIAN WAREHOUSE,

& O0.,

Upper Water St.,

HALIFAX, N. S.

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gublisher fice it is taade up of matier | which s appeared in the Daily editions, and is a s ss a.y ;Spaper—iateresting ud f stest ews. CALENDAR FOR JANUARY, 1866 past Quar 7th day, iZ 4m. a. m. New M Gtk : p. First Q ~ ay aI I ™m F M : ‘ £5.5m1., &. t } > ' | I ‘ a Sun | Sua ligt Lay < Week. = ’ } rise sets waier | ; nh no a | morn 1} 74914181) NH 4 2) | 9} 19) Tk 47 ; | af 9G 3j - j - i _ - 4) 9 | Be I . 2 5 | | 19 a3 | l 5 . ¥Q aati « ° ‘ ” ' ow § os 7 | Tuesday [ 4ar 2 3 3t * | Wel: | i | #0 | t 40 $j r rsday OD | 27 | 6 3 ‘9 | Friday | te] “ | ‘ 19 "U} Saturday 47 | I o3 12; Sunda; ‘7 [ 2 ae i3 i M 13) : i i 10 + *45 Tuesday | 46 | 4 10 39 5 | Wednesday | 45} si illsZ 16 | Toursday 44] 37! hl? tj Friday 4 39 moro 18 ; Saturday 42 49 02 i$!s AV | $2 14 0 58 a) lay ii 43 a. 21 Tuesday ma) .431 2.4 82| Wednesday {| 39) 44] 2 42 33 Thursday 33] 45 3 30 - ; ~ | - © 24) Friday 37 47 4 34 : ! 25 | Saturday 43] 5 51 96 | Sunday | ee Ser ft 37 ' Monday tit Sl 8 18 23 sday 33] 53{ 9165 23) Wednesday 32 54 10 6 30 | I sday 31 56} 10 49 31 | Friday 17 30 57 ll 30

PE. Island Railway

Onand after THURSDAY, 5th December, 1835, the trains of this Railway will run daily (Sundays exces ted) as follows .—

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T ward, Trains Inward. Read dewn. Read up. uM AM PM AM 310 7 aes 210 10 10 noe: Th... t ti 25 9 50 if & 3... h hir 2(4 905 641 417.. Hunter River 149 «851 36 § ‘ 3raftaibane 115 § 37 $i3 9 ; Emerald ... 1 07 2 OS § 27 y ° Y D 5 7 54 517 sy s 73 on } Ar) 7 Of Sam nu?rsiis PM 1250 Lv) (Arioso AM E Boi nonnh cae, cone cos 10 30 137....... Wellington men 29 of NS BEE sce ee es 9 69 2 Eee a $48... .-Bioomffeld........ 7 34 $34.... Aloerton 6 55 2 .. Ligmish.......... 600 PM AM AM AM 2......Charlottetown 10 30 25)....Royalty Junction. ...10 10 $3 ‘ ee Ee 543 Ar} jiv 96 > Mt Stewart 410 Lv) (Ar 850 | Cardigan 7 35 545 Georgetown.... 7 10 PM AM 405.....¥ount Stewart 855 445 Morell 817 Es sasecca We EEO cocveces 7 45 5 37 Bear River 7 «3 54 Sonris 6 20 PM AM PM AM GS Brcecse- vee oT exeese 7 50 05. -.- Cape Traverse .. 70 PM AM

‘rains are run by Eastern Standard Time

D. POTTINGER, Gen Mar Govt. Rys, Moncton, N B.

Dee 1, 1895.

2

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Railway Office,

DR. H. D. JOHNSON

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EYE AND EAR, NOSE AND THROAT Office -- Bent Street

Aug 15, ’94—ly

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MONTAGUE Carriage Factory

We are showi of Sieighs

The assortment consists of

Single and Double Box Round Back, Square,

a finer line heretofore.

ng this season

than shown by us

leighs, ets,

Prompt attention to Repairs. Painting & Speciaity. Terme reasonable. JOHN McLEAN & SON.

dec6—dy & wk

a “an scat EE

SPEGIAL PRICES

ON ALL GOODS During the Holiday S3isoa

G.H. TAYLOR,

JEWELER.

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Charlottetown Driving Park

——-AND— Provincial Exhibition Association. ANNUAL MEETING.

General Meeting of the ders of the above Association will ve held in the Masonic Tempie in Char- lotteiown, on MONDAY, the 20th day of January, instant, A. D. 1896, at the hour of 8 o’clock, p. m.

The Transfer Books are closed until the 23rd instant.

By order of Directors.

A. B. WARBURTON, Secretary. Charlottetown, Jan, 6, 1897—tl dte

The Annual

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December 11, 1895—135

,AWRENCE SUGAR REFINING CO’S

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99 i 100 with no impurities whatever.”

(Signed)

or wherever he goes. zarrisons have called

“T hereby certify that I have drawn, by my own hand, . EXTRA STANDARD GRANULATED iAR, indiscriminately taken from ten lots of about 150 barrels each. nalyzed same, and find them uniformly to contain:

to 100 p. c. of Pure Cane Sugar

AN ENGLISH

SOLDIER

generally has a favorite whiskey which

For years

The ifilitary Scotch.

Try it yourself and you'll

ask

always

Lawrence A, Wilson &Co., Montrea

THE

St. Lawrence Sugar Refining Co., 1

MONTREAL.

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Laboratory of Inland Revenue, Office of Official Analyst,

Montreal, April 8th, 1895.

ten samples of the ST

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JOHN BAKFR EDWARDS, Ph D., C. L.,

Prof. of Chemistry and Pub. Analyst, Montreal

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Charlotteown, December 16, 1895--25

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JEWEL STOVES

ANGES.

R. B. NORTON & CO.

IN GTLC-_B

To Shoemakers and others, We have now on hand and ty arrive a full stock Leathers and Shoe Findings, comprising Sole Leather,

best grades, French and otter

Kips, Calf, Dongola, French Kid, Pebbie, Neats, Tan, Calf, Lining Skins.

In Findings we have Lasts, al} styles, Crimps,

| Cements, Thread, Wax, Hairs, Shoe Nails and Tacks all kinds, Pegs, Awls and Hafts,

| Sand and Emery Paper, Sve and Welt Knives, Rasps,

picchers, Machine Linens aad

Silks, Hee! Balls, Boot and Gaiter Web, Sole and Heel Plates, Elastic Web, also closed

Uppers, all kinds and grades, &c.

All of which we wil sell at the lowest possible prices.

J. H. BELL,

The Reliable Boot and Shoe Dealer |

Screws, Leather and Rubbet

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Civil Service Gazette JAMES EPPS & CO., Ltd, Homeopathic Chemists, London, England.

St. Peter's Bay Starch Co,

I am instructed to offer at private sale interest in the St. Peter’s Bay

one sixth Starch Co. Full particulars as to dividends, etc., upon application to HORACE HASZARD.

Chitown, Dec 21—3i eod a

Notice to Ship Masters apd Ship Owners.

All vessels are prohibited from lying in the ice outside the ends of wharves, from Steam Navigation Wharf Kast to Pownal Wharf West, or in any other part of the stream or harbor that wil] obstruct or iaterfere with the free passage of the 8.8 Stanley to her berth at Peake’s No. 2 Wharf.

By order of the Marine Department.

: DAVID SMALL,

lecl2 Harbor Master.

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ter that date them aftfer JOHN NEWSON.

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t « Business Guide,” 400 pages practica.

eommon sense information on bus inese. Over one million copies sold. 5,000 copie to give away to persons sen ling us p ame of prospective agents.

Write immediately.

NICHOLS & CO., Publishers, Wesley Buildings, Toronto Nov. 15—dy 8i (6) wky 8)

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That Jarge Shop, part of the “ London House” Building, lately occupied by J T. McKenzie, Tailor, with good room up gtairs for work shop or store room.

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“HANDSHAKES.

PADEREWSKI HAS A POWER- FUL GRIP.

Corbett’s Grasp is Kid-Gloved--Bishop Potter Shakes Hands Benevolently—Train Shakes Hands Only With Himself,

There is more character in handshakes than in palms, p!P:nological bumps or physiognomy. ‘The possession of a‘,glad hand’’ is supposed to be the greatest gift of a politician, and it is a well-known fact that public men have frequently worked their way to success by their signal abili- ties in the extension of the ‘‘glad hand.’’

fiandshaking has been a mania and an affliction to the great ones of the land for many generations. Whereas the South Sea islanders rub noses as a method of salutation, of honor, esteem and most dis- tinguished consideration, the civilized man is averse to wearing the point of his Caucasian nose into a primeyal South African pug,and compromises by shakin z hands. But handshaking has yet to become a fad, and itisa sign of the times that there have risen experts in the occult science of cheirologics who can read a man’s character in his handshake.

Physical contact of the palms and sen- sitive finger-tips, say the psychists, em- bodies in it the theories of the occultists, who claim to be able to put themselves en rapport with their subjects whose person- alities they wish to influence by the hold- ing of hands.

The great and eccentric George Exyancis Train never shakes hands with\his f)1!ow-

citizens. He explained to an audience once that he did not wish to become **charged’’ with the ‘‘magnetism’”’ of all

sorts and conditions of people To avoid the magnetic microbes of other people he shook hands exclusively with himself.

The mest notable handshaker of the present day is Ignace Jan Paderewski, the man of musical finger-tips. He has, long, slender, white hands, with taper fingers thin to attenuation. They are carefully manicured, and his hands are as soft, as velvet.

Those hands played thousands of dollars into the pocket of this man of music on his last visit to America. and they are suc- cessfully repeating the operation.

Those soft, white hands, which can whisper across the keys in minor cadences and woo tha heart out of a matinee girl with a Chopin nocturne, which can say the most subtle and delicate gossamers of sound on the treble of a grand piano, and which can hold the musical public of New York and Boston, yea, even Chicago, in are extended in salutation only to a select and exclusive few. But his handshake isan experience § It isa double-lever hand-press. It brings tears of exquisite emotion to the eyes of strong men.

A Sunday World reporter has had the mingled pleasare of shaking hands with Paderewski. The ceremony was porform- ed after one of Paderewski's most brile liant recitals. A coterie of musicians were enthusiastically shaking hands with them- seves and Pacerewski. In the height of the inspiring moment Paderewski lifted bis right elbow at an angle of forty-five degrees and extended his hand. He seized the reporter’s hand from above in a quick, nervous grasp, like tne shutting of a rat- trap. Then he turned on the pressure while he said a few pleasant and informal remarks with an unmoved countenance and in very creditable English.

The soft, slender fingers were of wrought steel attached to adynamo on the right shoulder, with a force of various amper- meters converging at the finger-tips. The first shock knocked the reporter speechless, and there was no letting go. Paderewski cordially rung the limp and crushed hand and shook it up and down while he talk- ed, turning on the alternating current to emphasize hisremarks. ‘Then he gently and carefully dropped the mangled re- mains and the reporter fled.

Paderewski’s hands are more muscular than a professional pugilist’s. He shakes hauds with the same verve that he plays the ‘‘Eri King.’’ There is nervous force, electrical energy, tenacity and grip in Paderewski, if his hand shake is a criter- ion,

James J. Corbett shakes hands likea kid-gleved aristocrat. He has not the hands of the tpyical pugilist. Instead of short, stumpy fingered belligerent fisti- cutts, he has rather long hands and not badly shaped. The fingers are well-bal- anced and long in proportion to the palm. They are the intelligent hands of a busi- hess man,

When Corbett shakes hands he bends forward with a deferential air and extends his terrible right from the elbow, grasping the hand he shakes lightly and yet firmly enough to express cordiality. He performs the ceremony of salatation as if he were accustomed to it and liked it, and knew he accomplished it with distinction.

Bishop Potter, the prelate of the New York Episcopacy, has the pudgy-cushioned hands and the taper fingers of a man lik- ing the refinements and comfortables of life. He shakes hands benevolently. He shakes hands with his poorest parishioners in the same leisurely, comfortable, bene- volent way that he shakes hauds with the millionaires in his diocese. And he does not mind shaking hands with the ungod- ly Scribes and Pharisees.

The Duke of Marlborough extended the ‘*glad hand’? first and last to various rep- resentatives of the press. He put his hand out from the shoulder and grasped the extended hand squarely, then dropped it. His handshake was decisive and arbit- rary_and to the point, perfectly courteous and not too cordial.

It is the business of a politician to shake hands diplomatically. Chauncey M, De- pew shakes hands as frequently and as diplomatically as any man in New York. So does Edward Lauterbach.—N. Y. Tri- bune.

A correspondent of the Boston Travel- er {describes the queer cemetery of the Mexican city of Guanajuato. There is hardly room in Guanajuato for the living, so it behooves her poeple to exercise rigid economy in the disposition of her dead. The burial place is on the top of a steep hill which over ooks the city and consists of an area enclosed by what appears from the outside to be a high wall, but which discovers itself from within to be a recep- tacle for bodies, which are placed in tiers, much as the confines of their native val- leys compel them to live. Each apart- ment in the wall is large enough to admit one coffin and js rented for $1 per month. The poor people are buried in the ground without the formality of a coffin in which the body is conye,ed to the grave. As there are not graves enough to go around, wheneyer a new one is needed a previous tenant myst be disturbed and this like- wise Happens when a tenant's rent is not promptly paid in advanoe. The body is then removed from its place in the mau- soleum, or exhumed, as the case may be, and the bones are thrown into the base- ment below.

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If a married as a slave she will dom.

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Unprincipled persons are trying to prey upon and dupe people who are led to ask for kidney treatment.

Some of the methods adopted Ly imitat- ors are as fullows: color and

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‘] may add that Pr. Chase’s Oint- ment for piles and skin diseases in just as effective -as Dr. Chase’s Pills for blood troubles. I haye a clerk who suffered terribly from bleeding piles. He tried Chase’s Ointment and in a few days was completely cured.”

Al! dealers and Edmanson, Bates & Co.,

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colds, bronehitis and cousumption. Sure eure, 25 cents.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1896.

NO 162

“DARLING NELLIE GRAY,”

How Ben Hanby Chanced to Write Some Verses That Became Widely Popular, Ben Hanby, the author of ‘‘ Nellie Grar,”’

is buried in Otterbein cemetery, West- erville, and much sentimental interest naturally attaches to the town from the fact. ‘The story of Hanby's tender, pas- sionate little song often has been told, al- though se‘dom, perhaps, truthfully. Like many brilliant and famous compositions of words and music, 16 was the creation o an hour, and its sudden and astonishing success was altogether unexpected by the authos. The inspiration came to Hanby while he was a passenzer on a railway train beween Cincinnatti and Hamilton. He was ssivy reading a newspaper when he found an account of the manner in which a beautiful quadroon girl had been torn from the arms of ber lover and taken to the Southa-n slave markets to be sold on an anction block.

The quadroon’s name was given as Nellie Gray. Tho story filled Hanby with horror, for he was @tura'ly kind, and, being of Northern birth, the in

listie

gentie and

iquities of such features of siaveholéing were appalling. So impressed was he that

with pencil and paper, used as best he cou'd upon te jolting and swaying car seat, he jot.ed down the words of a soug in which the incidents of the story were utilized. This was done simp!y for the re lief of his own mitnd and his cverburdened heart, and at that time there was not the remotest disign of ever brin sing the verses to the light of day.

3y the time Hanby had reachad his des tination he had practicaliy completed the fesy verses of the song. 15 wa?! thrown carelessly with his baggage,and soon after his return to his home in Westervfile it was tossed among some other papers in his desk and there forgottenfor six mouths or more. One day he came the manuscript ard sent itto a well-known firm of music publishers in Chicago, with a note saying that if they saw anything in the song they might publish it. The song sprang at once into popularity, and Hanby like Byron, awoke one morning to find himself famous. But this awakening did not come for many months after the pathetic imelody of his song had poured from thousands of tuneful! throats throughout theland. His publishers never even acknowledged the receipt of the manuscript. They made a fortune from its sale, but of all the thousands of dollars that poured into their bank account Hanby never received a cent When he wrote to them they sent him six printed copies of the song, without the formality of thanks for the manuscript.

While his song was gaining in popular- ity 2nd daily growing dearer to hundreds of thousands of tender hearts, Hanby was living undisturbed his calm and peaceful rural life. fe was yet to learn his fame Several months after the music of his song had become familiar as household words, lianby visited a young Jady of this city,

ACTOSS

and requested her to sing for him. She began, and greatly to his surpriss, Hanby recognized the words and music of his

** Nellie Gray.’ It was the first intima- tion he had that the song had teen gub- lished.

Hanby came of a m@ical, as highly descended and cultured family His father was a bishopin the United Brethren Church, and was the compiler of a hymn book which is still in use. Young Hanby composed a number of songs. sev eral of which were pubtished, none, how- ever, receiving the remarkable reception which was given to ‘‘Nellie Gray.”’ A few years after the war Hanby died as he lived, in obscurity and poverty, and the fact that he was the author of the famous song was known to few save the family

well as

and intimate friends.—Colsmbus Dis patch, The British Museum Reading Room,

Among the Americans who visit Eng- land in increasing crowds year afier year probably only a very nta ce make use of the reading «%0m of the Brit ish Museum. A few specialists do so, no doubs, bat haavy raaling is not the usual end and aim of people wh. travel. Ih may be information, therefore, that this national resort o° the studious is net open

sinall perc

to the puvtic in the same way a; the iree libraries of your great cities For ex nmuple. the veriest loafer can walk inte

that magnificent building which Boston hes just erected and can rend at his ease amid palatial surroundings. but in a city the size of Londo and under the con- ditions of English lifesueh unchecked ad- mission would be ‘wpracticaple. Ths trustees therctore are a‘Sowed to make cer tain rules and regulations for the eicient working of the institution. Any one de serous of reading there has to the dir-ctien his studies will take and has also to procu®™® a recommendation from g householder as a guaranties of rv. spectabil

ity. Heisti.on granted a ticket tor six months, which is renewable from “ime to time a3 it expires How far th? aw hori- ties have t®e powar of rofusing a ticket to any one falfii¢ng the coadit oas they im

pose has hitherto veen a matter of doubt

state

I never myse-f heard of such a refusal! But the other day an elderly man :.-pear ed before one of the magistra.es and com plained that although he has enjoyed the

nse of a ticket for forty years, the privi lege hal sudden’y been stopped and re newal refused. He brought the ca. with in the purview of the ccirt by charging one of the oflicials with a technical assauli in having stopped his entrance by force. The case has been adjourned in order that the library authoriti*s may bring evidence in jus licition 2 their action, the magis trate mash to their astouish men*,expressing his inability to recognize

apparent

any inherent power on their part to re strict or deny admission it ig a wonderful building, this vast

reading room. ‘The first time you go into

it the feefingis alimost overpoeering There isa silence that can be felt. It takes time forthe ev) to become aceu

tomed to thos yee of readers ertrenched | behind piles «! as. You walk slowly about in order ts be-one accust »med to the geovraphy, cur.t 2 the shocisaker who has left tne iail 1 of a squeak in

your left so’e. Freseni y t} iooks of the assistant

e revroachfu s make you begin to

think of si:ting down and reading yous self. Concentrating your theughts with dMeulty. rou decide upor a book. But

then the question is, “oA to get it. A pros ssur of the reyal game of tennis is said to have remarked with a good eye and a firm wri: you might hope to play a little in three months, but then it certain ly would take you three years to le.» to count the score. To understa:vl the cata logue of the British Museum reading room is ano less lengthy and laborious task. The véry look of those shelves, dense with fat volumes, ts cufficicnt te make the bravest heart quy‘l, and your best plan is to accept the inevitable as once and throw yourself on the mercy of one of the staff. Here you will met with kindly sympathy aud if you are only fairly busineszlike in your demands and do gos worry him with an all too commo-: vagueness of design which makes it impossible to know what you really want, your effort will be crown ed with immediat>: suscess.

Tonimion Coal Company, Ltd

The undersigned having been appo inte sole selling Agents in the Province 0 Prince Edward Island for the above Com pany, are now prepared to issue orders for Round, Slack and Run of Mines, and will seep a, Stock of each Mine’s Coal on Land o supply customers at lowest prices.

PEAKE BROS. & CO., Selling Agents. Charlottetown, May 25, 1894 - tf

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unti! yuu are on the last sheet befare ord ring

your DAY BOOKS or LEDGERS Order now What abo. Bill Heads? We work cheap. Save

| by tading with | us,

J. D. TAYLOR.

FURNESS LINE,

> 1 . ae a: ae Regular Fortnizhtly Sailings between

LONDON and HALIFAX

Under spr- Dominion Govern ment.

S. S. HALIFAX CITY, 3,00) Tons. * S.S.ST. JOHN CITY. c S.S. DAMARA, 2.50

3,00) Tons, fone.

The Furness Steamships are the firest on this route. All boats are Clyde built, with saloon and sleeping berths amidships where least motion js felt.

S. 8. St. Jou City and Halifax City are electrically lighted throughout.

Superior accommodation for all of Freight, Dairy Produce, ete.

For information regarding sailing dates etc., apply to g Sailing dates,

FURNESS, WITAY & CO wae.

Pecple’s Kank Building, Halifax, N. 8.

Or W. ¥. Clarke, Passen_er Agent,

Charlottetown, P. E. I. dec2l

kinds

‘A RARE OPPORTUNITY.

I have? just received a nice assortment of:— Ladies’ Rolled Plate Chains. Gents’ Rolled Plate Chains. Ladies Gold Filled Watches. Gents’ Gold Filled Watches. As these goods are a litile late in their arrival, I will offerthem until Xmas at prices that are bound to sell them.

Any person intending to purchase a watch or chain in the near future will do weil to inspect and compare prices ou

those goods before purchasing.

Ww. N. TANTON,

Great George street, near Queen Square

Dec. 20—135 w

Dividend Notice.

Mercuants Bank or P. E.Isianp, Charlottetown, Dec. 2nd, 1895.

Notice is hereby given that a half yearly

dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum cn the capital stock of this Bank, has been declared payable at its

Banking Heuse, cn and after January 2nd 1896. Transfer Book wil] be closed from December 19th inst, to 2nd Jan’y., 1896, both dates inclusive. By order of the

Board. J.M. DAVISON, Cash er Dee. 2nd—2aw’& w.

Painless Dentistry. CRAPAUD.

Dr JE McDonald, Dentist, will bein Cra paud, at Dr Robertson’s, tor TWO DAYS only, Friday and Saturday, isth and 19th inst, wher «,¢will demonstrate his now amcus meth «.«)Painless Extraction of feeth, No bada iciefiects tollow the use of this method, and t i doubter is regu sicd to try it and judge ctnimself

Observe the dates, Friday and Saturday, October sth and 19th inst, at Crapau t.

My Pr nce County patients will please note siy absence from Summersids on the above dates

J E McDONALD, DDS. Summerside, Oct 7, 1895.

ie s 7 2 Executors Rotice. The undersigned Executor of the last will and testament of Mrs. Catherine Trenaman, late of Charlottetown, Queen's County, deceased, hereby notifies all per- to make im mediate payment to him at his office in Charlottetown ; and a'l persons having any are he reby not fied and requested to present the same, duly attested, at his said cffice, within three months from this date.