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THE POPULAR SUN- MER ROUTE

DIRECT - SERVICE

FROM CHVTOWN.

Commencing May 4th. the favorite S. §, * Halifax” will leave Cb’town for Bos- ton every Friday at | p. m.

Returning leaving Boston every Tues- day at noon, Steamer call: at HAWKS: BURY aod Halifax both ways

Via Picton & Halifax

Passengers leaving Charlottetown Tues and Saturday mornings via Pictou make close connection at Halifax with steamers *Qlivette” and “Halifax” for Boston di- rect Wednesdays at 7 a. m and Saturdays lL] p.m.

Tickets for sale at stations P.E.I. Railwa:. Ch’town Nav Co, and Clarke’s ticket office.

H.L. CHIPMAN, Can. Agent, Halifax, N. 8. d&w

VALUABLE PROPERTY

FOR SALE

The subscriber wish es to dispose of his beautifully situated residence, fronting est Street, and running to the shore 209 ft, with shore privileges to the channel, now for sale by private co: - tract. This fine residence, “Edenhurst,” is situated between the residences ef the Bon. L. A. Davies on one side, and Benja- min Heartz, Esq, on the other side. ‘The house is herted with hot water. There is vacant space cn the south side sufficient forthe erection of a coach honse and stables.

“Edenhurst” commands ‘a fine view of the harbor and surrounding country, and one of the best situated residences in the city.

If not sold by private sale before the 2nd day of June, next, it will on that day be sold by auction at 12 o’cloeck noon.

Por full particulars apply to the owner On the premises,

SIMON DAVIES, Or to A. McNeill Auctioneer, Ci’town,

Property for Sale at Geo'town

Any person desirous of obtaining a first tale residence in Georgetown will have an excellent opportunity on Wednesday next, the 19th inst., when the real aud personal

y of the late Charles Moore will be sold at public auction on the premises.

114—2i 15th and 18th.

FOR SALE

(1) THAT farm of SIXTY ACRES at PISQUID, LOT 37, lately occupi- ed by Jas. A. Campbell, * The greater part cleared and in good condition,

ainder with a fine growth of hard wood, ; (2) ALSO, a comfortable and well Situated dwelling house and premises AT CLYDE RIV ER, LOT 31, with shalf acre of ground.

(3) A fine, dry building lot on Ed- Ward St., Charlottetown, {near Graf- ton St. R. R. Crossing), 42 feet front by 120 feet. back. Terms easy.

(4) ALSO, all that fine farm of AW ACRES AT DROMORE, LOT 37, lately owned by John Logan.

(°) TELAT convenient cottage with ' arden, yard and stable on Poplar pyres, East Kent St., now occupied

y A. Bannerman Warburton, M.L.A.

Possession Ist October next.

F. W. L. MOORE Londor. House Corne ces : hr Ys roa " Solicitor

CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND, MONDAY,

ainless BLISITY

What does it mean? It is more than a claim. with us, WE PRACTICE IT.

All the latest modes science has discovered are used h@re,

Famous BERLIN METHOD for painless extraction.

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Painless Dentisiry

Berlin Dental Parlors,

Over store of Prowse Bros. Office Hours:—-8 a. m to 8 p. m.

The Peonleof Town and Country alike

all admit that we are selling Men’s and Boy’s Clothing at the lowest prices they have ever seen on the same quality of Good. jankrupt stock.

250 pairs Men’s Pants from 65c to 75e.

275 Suits from $2.95 to $6.75. 100° Boy’s Suits from 65¢ to $2.75.

Worth today and everyday in the week double that paice elsewhere. Why throw your money away when you can help it. us and you will save enough on your purchase of a suit to buy Boots for the family.

Speaking of Boots & Shoes We Have Them.

A big stock and a lot of Bankrupt Stock we are selling off at a great saerifice. You can save from 40 to 50 per cent. on buying this stock,

A new lot of the latest spring stylesjust opened. At very low prices,

Come to us and be convineed of low prices.

J.B. Mecional Ui StaUl,

Opposite west end Market. Victorias

Diamond

Jubilee

Will be held this year, and those who visit Ch’town this year will not do themselves justice if they fail to get their Lunches a

Victoria Cafe, and d¢nnk the health of Her Majesty the Queen

in a glass of Joy’s famous But- termilk

JOHN P. JOY

Victoria CAFE Gt George St.....

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THE WITCHING SEA,

Ho, for the sea at night,

a Shining in ghostly light! i iy Billowed and foam bedight,

Ho for the seal

Moonlit, all black and white, Wanton is she—

Heaving her bosom bright,

Wicked and fuil of might, Calling for me.

I am no longer free.

Hark how she shouts in glee} Sirens sang so.

Now in 4 sandy lee |

Passionate lovers we, .7 Reckless I grow. 7, =

And for the hour I'll be 1a

Hers, with my soul in fee, While her winds blow.

Tiger love hers, 1 know— Fair friend and subtle foe, Hid out of sight, Deey in her caverns low, Lurks her reward of woe. ' Ooeme love, come spite, Into her waves I go, Daré her undertow! Ho, for the fight!

ROBERT THE DEVIL.

Of course the general’s will was at the bottom of the affair, but the Eve behind these fig leaves was his second wife.

They could not call her a stepmother, for the general’s children were all old- er than she was. The general was well along in years when she married him, but that was her affair.

There hangs his portrait, painted by Copley. Look at it.

You do not believe he was 60 when it was painted?

But they say he was.

He was more handsome and fasci- nating at 60 than his sons were at 30. The second wife was rich—very rich. She brought the greatest quantity of gold and silver plate into the family, all marked with an Arabic cipher, tc

—Lark.

which she added the Chevalier crest—a |

terrapin—and the motto, ‘‘Not to the ewift.’’

No one knew certainly who her peo- ple were. She said they were Spanish,

awnlle, ror thelr English blooa ii

strong, but the girls never did, ana onght to have lived in a land of droughts. Their tears would have fertilized a des- ert.

As it was, there was rain a-plenty and to spare, and the geliAral kept out

| of their way, gave them umbrellas'and

handkerchiefs for birthday gifts, and rejoiced greatly when they cried over him at their weddings for the last time,

_ ashe thought. Butsome of them drown- ed their husbands in tears and came ' home again damper than ever, and no

ope but the secoad wife could have stood them.

She laughed, ordered more fires, brighter lights, opened the windows, and filled the house with flowers and gay company.

She called the eldest Niobe to her face and spoke of them collectively as the weeping willows, for they were tal] and liked to be thought willowy.

They cried so much over their little balf brother that the boy fairly detested them and ran away from the sight of

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and her own appearance supported he2 |

assertion.

There is her portrait, painted at the time of her marriage. Look at it. Tit’ ‘general Went to Paris, a long journey in those days, to buy those diamond: she wears, and the corbeille.

Sometimes, even when theye was nc one to dine at home but the family, Mistress Chevalier would sail into the drawing room, that peafowl’s tail of green embroidered velvet spread behind her, her beautiful black hair turned back—like that—in a tour, her arms as naked as Venus’, her point lace falling from her milk white shoulders, and flashing from hair and ears and fingers and /flaming in a fire circle about hen, delicate neck, the. diamonds—magnifi- eent stones, worth scores of negroes.

Lord! how the daughters would stare at their plates and how the sons would

sneer at each other as the general’

would meet her midway the room, lead her to her seat at table and kiss the dimple on her shonlder before he left her.

They gay she loved him passionately —that often, when she thought they were alone and he would pass her chair, she weuld turn her head upon her lazy cushions and hold out a beautiful hand. And he?

Would kneel beside her and kiss her pomegranate lips and lovely throat un- til you would have sworn him 26, and mayhap not married at all.

They say, too, ’twas a pretty sight to see her with her little son. A maid go- ing to help her dress one morning heard so much langhter and such baby shrieks that she first peeped in at the door.

And, behold, the mistress on her bands and knees, and baby, just from his bath, on her neck!

She was crawling over the velvet car- pet tm her linen shift, looking over her shoulder at the little shouting rascal, who tugged at her hair with one hand while he beat her with the branch of jasmine in the other. The black ‘‘da’’ sat and shook like a fuscoas mold of berry jam, while the young mistress crawled about, crushing the y<iiow flowers under her soft hands and knees,

The door of the inner room sprang open, and in walked the general, his dressing gown with the Persian border wrapped around bim.

There was shrieking then, I warrant you.

Those years were the general’s holi- day time. He had earned it, for his first wife was a Guelph, and everbody in Carolina knows what that means.

She never got down on her knees ex- @pt to pray in her life, and she never prayed for anything except money.

She put on mourning the second year of her marriage and never took it off again. They say she slept in her crape veil.

Her children were all born black in the face and crying, and they cried the

part of their childhood.

The boys got ashamed of it after :

He grew up strong like his father and beautiful like his mother, a veritable enfant de l’amour, but when he was 10 and the general was 70 the fine, hand- some old gentleman died suddenly.

The mistress was but 30, just the age of the youngest stepdaughter, and

he sat in the drawing room when the wit »

was read with such a look on her face that nobody but a Guelph would have

| dared to cry. The boy sat by her, the

very print and copy of his father, with his little aquiline nose, his bright blue eyes, and his father’s own trick of hold- ing up his chin and stiffening his spine when he desired to see clearly.

Now, the general had been good to his children. He had given generously to his sons and had helped them in business. He always gave marriage portions to his daughters.

They all came to hear the reading of his will—the women shrouded in crape, with req eyes and noses. The mistress sat in the gown the general had loved her the most+in, and everybody stared at it and at her beautiful grief stricker

ace.

The will stated that she should hold the old Chevalier place for her son. If she survived him, it should be hers ab- solutely, to leave as she pleased.

There should be no division of prop- erty until the last son was of age. Then came bequests to relatives and servants, and that was all.

The stepchildren were furiously an- gry. One would have thought them or the verge of starvation. ‘‘Wait 11 years!’’ they cried. ‘‘Wait until that precious brat is of age? And his mother, with everything in her hands and re. sponsible to no one? It is not to be en. dured.’’

And so on, worse and worse.

The mistress looked from one to an- other.

“I will not tell you to leave my house,’’ she said in a voice both sweet and frozen, ‘‘or remind you of the home you have always had here. Yor now have homes of your own and must live in them, as I shall live in mine. As long as you are in my house yot must conduct yourselves as your father’s children should. Your quarrels ané cruel speeches insult his memory.’’

They took flight like so many black- birds, but the mistress was so good na- tured they flew back at intervals, and every now and then the boy was per- mitted to visit them. He went witk pockets full of gold and returned a to- tal bankrupt. He gave, and they took, with both hands.

About a year after the general’s death the boy came home from a visit to his eldest brother, Robert, who lived in the city. He had been at home fer a day, perhaps, when he was taken ill. ;

His illness puzzled the country phy. sician, and acity colleague was sent for.

But-the boy died.

His motber, looking at his dead body, spoke out her thought: ‘‘He has been poisoned. His brother has poisoned bim.’’

And she called the eldest son Cain and Robert the Devil to his dying day.

The speech went abroad like a blot of ink in a tumbler of water. Robert nev- er forgave her. There was no proof that the child had been foully dealt with, but the suspicion imbittered his life and followed him to the grave, and sc they hated each other fiercely.

The Chevalier place was very valua- ble. Add to that the mistress’ money and plate and jewels, and ome can se¢ why every bachelor and many a map who could not marry looked longingly into her beautiful face. °

But one could tell by the manner of her walking, the inflections of her voice and the immobility of her attitude when she sat that for her there was neither light nor sweetness, nor hope, nor desire, left in life.

And yet she wernt about as usual,

even after her son’s death, steadily re-

fusiug the shroud of crape and having (Concluded cn eighth page)

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~ Ready-to-Wea Clothing.

THE STAR DEPARTMENT

KIND ON P. E. ISLAND

Children’s Suits, 75c, 1.00, 1.25, 1.7,5 2.00, 2.50, 3,00, 3.50, 4,50, 5.00, 5.50,

Boys’ 3 piece Suits, 2,10, 2,75, 3,00, 3.50, 4.00, 4.50, 5.00, 5,50, 6,00, 6,50, 7,00,

Youths’ Suits, 31 to 35 chest measure- ment—$3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9, 10,

Men's Suits, $3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 10, 11 12, 13, 14, 15. EELS CTR WR ET

HATS & CAPS

Tre leading department for English and American styles in the province.

Cents’ Furnishings

The department where only the best is

Staple Dry Goods

A new edition, but a choice one. ask inspection of this department; g ccds all new; prices away down for a sta iter,

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