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CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1883.

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FOUL PLAY:

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, | By Charles Reade. | 3

CHAPTER XXV.

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he had found struggling in a rock-pool, the tide having turned, and three cea cray-

fish, bigger than any lobster. He chopped

their heads off outside, and threw their tails into the pots; he stuck a piece of

r monthly, : sialiiietition pointed wood through the bream, and a gave it to Welch to toast; but Welch waved

it aside, ‘I sse no cabbage,’ said he, grimly.

| “Ob, Bforget; but that is soon found,’

a Men’s Gloves, Mitts & Scarfs. 04 Msg’ "Here give me the fish, and

you také the saw, and examine the head of this palm-itee, which lice at Miss Rolles-

of last year’s growth, and bring it here.’ Welch got up slowly.

‘T'll go with you, Mr. Welch,’ said Miss’

R: lleston.

‘She will not be alone with me for a moménf, if she can he!p it,’ thought Hazel, and sat moody by the fire. But he shook

Men's W ool Underciothing, < his sadness, and forced on a cheerful

ook the moment they came back. They

brought with them a vegetable very like the heart of a cabbage, only longer and whiter.

‘There,’ said Welch, ‘what d’ye call that.’ | ‘The last year’s growth of the palm,’ said Hazel, calmly.

Thig vegetable was cut in two, and put into the pots. | ‘There, take the toasting fork again,’ | said Hazel to Welch, and drew out from his net threethuge scallop-shells. ‘Soup- plates,’ said he, ard washed them in the running stream; then put them before the fire to dry. | While the fish and vegetable were cook- ing, he went and cut off some of the leafy, pinnated branches of the palm-tree, and fastened them horizontally above the strips of canvas. Each palm-branch traversed a | whole side of the bower. This closed the northern and western sides.

On the southern side, the prostrate palm tree, on striking the ground, had so crushed its boughs and leaves together as to make a thick wall of foliage. | ‘Then he took to making forks; and primi- itive ones they were. He selected a bough the size of a thick walking stick; sawed it | off the tree; sawed a piece six inches long | off it, pealed that, split it in four, and, with his knife gave each piece three points, by |merely tapering off and serrating one end; and so he made afork a minute. Then he bronght all the and things from the boat, and, the ground being now thoroughly dried by the fire, placed them for seats; gave each person a large leaf for a plate, | besides a scallop-shell, and served out ‘supper. It was eaten with rare appetite; be: palm-tree vegetable in particular was / delicious, tasting between a cabbage anda

cocoanut. When they had supped, Hazel removed the plates and went to the boat. He re-

BISCUITS, CRACKERS, CAKE, CONFECTIONERY, &C., wuss chest to

* {which were small, and called Welch ont,

'fhey agreed to rig the mainsail tarpaulin- wise and sleep in the beat. Accordingly ‘they made themselves very busy screening the east side of Miss Rolleston’s new abode | with the foresail, and fastened a loop and drove a nail into the tree, and looped the sail to it, then suddenly ‘bade her good-

A great variety in CONFECTIONERY, comprising Panorama Eggs, Crystal pight in cheerful tones, and were gone in a

moment, leaving her to her repose, as they imagined. Hazel in particular, having used _all his ingenuity to secure her personal com- |fort, was now too bent on showing her the most delicate respect and forbearance to think of anything else. But, justly count-

Thousands and Nonpariels, for Cake decorating; Extract of Lemon, Citron ing on the delicacy, he had forgotten the

timidity of her sex, and her first night on the island was a terribly trying one.

Thrice she opened her mouth to call Welch and Hazel back, but could not. | Yet, when their footsteps were out of hear- jing, she would have given the world to have them between her and the perils with which she felt herself surrounded.

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whaler should stray that way. they might,‘*Well,” he said, “this is the first town I

not be at a loss to attract her attention.

have ever been in that was finished, I was

We'ch was very ill ell day, and Miss down here ten years ago, and there is no

Rolleston nursed him.

He got about to-|change since.” J am afraid that the

ward evening,fand Miss Rolleston asked him, | Pictonians may now pint to Charlotte- rather timidy, if he could put her up a bell-|town aa ‘‘the finiched town;” a sort of

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summer resort for excursionistr, if we could

| ‘Why yes, miss,’ said Welch, ‘that iseasy|}only get up a first-class hotel, and pay

enough; but I don’t see no bell.’

proper attention to the drainage and clean-

‘Oh, she did not want a bell—eshe only) liness of the town. Oar shipbuil Then A: zel produced a fine bream which widened a bell-rope.’ pbuilding hes

pessed away. Confideeaiion and the Rail-

Hazel came up, during this conversation,| way have decentralized the trade from the

and she then gave her reason.

real reason, she stopped short. ‘Or what?’ inquired Hazel, eagerly.

! She replied to Welch:

city, and spread it vver the country, and

‘Because, then, if Mr. Welch is ill in the| now about one-fourth of the houses in town night, and wants me, I can come to him.}are vacant and generally the wharves des- Or——’ finding herself getting nearer the} titute of shipping.

But no use despairing, we have got a grand agricultural country at our back and as it is ‘‘an axiom” that it is the conntry that makes the town. We need

‘When tigers and things come to me, || not despair, things will come round again

can let you know, Mr. Welch, if you|slowly buta‘l right. Now the point I have any curiosity about the result of their; want to make in my gossiping letter is

visit.’

this: ‘‘that practically” citizens have po

‘Tigers,’ said Hazel, in answer to this| right of appeal from the taxes levied u ’ 5: > ” » . . . . 7 pon ton’s deor. Saw away the succulent part’ side slap; ‘there are no tigers here; no| them to an impartial tribunal. The present

large animals of prey in the Pacific.’

‘What makes you think that?

‘It is notorious; naturalists are agreed.’

| ‘Butlam not. I heard noises all night. And little I expected that anything of me world be left this morning, except, perhaps, part of my back har. Mr. Welch, you are clever at rigging things— that is what you call it—and so please rig me a bell-rope; then I shall nut be eaten

| alive without creating some little disturb-

a | ‘PH do it, miss, said Welch, ‘this very night.’

(To be continwed.)

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,

A Master Mariner Speaks Out.

Sir;—-l own some property in both Char- lottetown and Royalty, and believing that I was overtaxed, I was foolish enough to appeal, and desire through your columns to give my experience to the taxpayers. lam sure it will prove more interesting than the advertisements with which you and your contemporary, the Patriot, fill up too large a space of your papers.

1 will begin first with city taxes. My property was over-valued 25 per cent., basing the value on the rental. Unfortun- ately there is no market price for property in the city. As everybody knows property is unsaleable unless at a great sacrifice, and therefore it is difficult ‘to say what the value is. Now the Aet- of Incorporation says that the taxes shall be levied on pro- ‘perty according toa valuation to be put upon it by the appraisers appointed by the

Tight of

may be said to represent the City Ceuneil. An appeal from Cesar unto Cesar! The City Council are desperately poor and must raise the wind somehow. My time is worth something to me, as it must be to every citizen who is not an idler. J must lose a day if I appeal—appellants are ‘‘bluffed off” m this way—about halfa dozen cases are settled in the forenoon of the day appointed, and the Court is adjourned for a fortnight, and so the appellant gives it up, can’t afford to waste another day with the moral certainty that the assessment put upon him by the appraisers will te confirmed. This was my case, you don’t catch me appealing again. No use! I said to the City Coun- cillor who represents my Ward, and whom I supported, that I was over-taxed acvord- ing to the rental I received, and that the Act said that we were only to be taxed according té value. Oh, well, he said, we have to raise a certain amount of money ‘*to run the city,” and if the assessors put a low value upon property, we would nave to raise the percentage of taxation. | replied that is all very fine, but it won't “hold water” if you can manage to get your property assessed at its value, of course you are satisfied, but if mine is overtaxed no use to appeal. | am willing to pay taxes on the value based on rental, but there is no use appealing. There is also fanother consideration for appellants,

would become of her during the long night?

She sat and cowered before the hot embers. She listened to what seemed the angry roar of the sea. What with the still- ness of the night and her sharpened senses

she heard it all rovnd the island. She *' seemed environed with peril, and yet sur * rounded by desolation. No one at hand to

‘save her in time from a wild beast. No one anywhere near except a sick sailor and one she would almost rather die than call singly to her aid, for he had once told her

are doing a very large trade, in Axminster, Velvet | he loved her. Scotch Hemp and Twine Carpots, Hearth Rugs and | rom the very best British markets, keep the you praying for your poor Helen?

‘Oh, papa!’ oh, Arthur |’ she cried, ‘are

Then she wept and prayed; and _ half nerved herself to beat the worst. Finally, her vague fears completely mastered her. Then she had recourse to a stratagem that belongs to her sex—she hid herself from the danger, and the danger from her; she cover-

ets and Velveteens, 190 boxes to choose from, at prices | 04 herself face and all, and so lay trembling,

longing for the day,

At the first streak of dawn she fied from her place of torture, and after plunging her face and hands in the river, which did her a world of good, she went off, and entered

They are the best and newest makes and the jungle, and searched it closely, so far

as she could penetrate it. Soon she heard ‘Miss Rolleston’ called in anxious tones. But she toseed her little head, and revenged herself for her night of agony by not replying. However, Nature took her in hand; imperious hunger drew her back to her late place of torture; and there she found a fire, and Hazel cooking crayfish. She ate a cray- fish heartily, and drank cocoanut milk out of half a cocoanut, which the ingenious Hazel had already sawn, polished, and

> ted for her. &S RESTA TT. nn asias shat, THazcl’s whole day was occu-

pied in stripping a tree that stood cn the high western promontory

‘*the charges.’ The unfortunate appellent not only loses his time, but he has to pay expenses, I keep a horse and carriage. A bill was sent to me for two horses and three carriages. Isent it back for correc- tion. It was corrected and sent back to me, I expected that before taking pro ceedings against me one of the policemen would have been sent down to demand payment, and if I refused to pay them the Mayor's Court would have been justified in taking proceedings. No such thing was done; and the first thing [ knew was a peliceman come into my house with an attachment against my horse and wagon

expenses. The reason is nct far to seek

the expenses go into the pockets of the officials. This odious horse and wagon tax ought to be abolished. It may do very well in rich communities, but itis hard to

horse and wagon to run his business and take his family out for a drive.

and property, as common sense would dic- tate that we cannot run a city without taxes, but I do hate to pay taxes on my horse and wagon.

I would suggest to the ‘‘City Fathers” that the tax should be taken off horses and carriages. and put upon guns, yachts, and other things that may be considered luxuries, I have two or five guns and revolvers in my house to remind me of the days when I was 4 sportsman, 1 would sooner pay a tax upon the guns, or give them away, than on the horse and carriage, which is almost a necessity to me, when m

walk about as I used to do.

bonfire a few yards from it, that, if any

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of the bay, and building the materials of al

and I had to pay one dollar and fifty cents

tax aman who can just afford to keepa

mind paying reasonable taxes on my house

“old timbers” are rheumatic, and 1 can t

Charlottetown may be considered “a finished town.” . about forty years ago being in Picton with my veasel}*] have found it aon Ales and fell in with the Captain of a Yankee? effects, notably in the Devatealion aBiectast brig, and we took a walk round the town. upon alcoholism.’

‘‘so-called” right of eppeal is a delusion and a snare, and it cught to be abolished so that taxpayers may know what they have to expect. I shall in my next have some- thing to say about school districts and taxation, Yours truly, Master Mani ner.

CURRENT NOTES.

A right mind and generous affection has more beauty and charms than all other symmetries in the world besides, and a grain of honesty and native worth is of more value than all the adventitious orna- ments, estates, or preferments; for the sake of which some of the better sort so oft turn knaves,—Shaftsbury.

Seth Green has performed an operation on a speckled trout that is without a paral- lel in history in fish-culture in this country. In one of Rochester's restavrants is an aquarium filled with large brook trout. For some time it was noted that they did not dweli together harmoniously, and investi- gation proved that one of them was ofa pugnacious and brutal disposition, and was constantly attacking the others, biting them reverely and causing wounds that did not heal. Seth Green was called in, and procuring a pair of pincers he took the big trout from the water and deliber- ately extracted its teeth. The offending fish, apparently none the . worse for the dental operetion, has ceased to attack his associates. Mr. Green states that trdut’s teeth are not used for’ the mastication of food, but to maintain its hold of prey.

“Sarah Barnum,” a satirical biography on Sarah Bernhardt, written by a former

City Council, and that taxpayers have a},¢,; : =the while, have ficohheen friend, Marie Colombier, has been the catise

a right of appeal? To Mr. Fitzgerald ! whe

of a duel between tiie friends of the women jand of a scandalous quarre) between the actress and author. Sarah wes incensed {because she was described as a ‘‘she Barnum.” She asked the policé to seize the book. The police replied that she must seek redress at a civil tribnnal. Sarah, with ker son, appeared on Tuesday at Marie Colombier’s resicence and strack the author of the book in the face with a riding whip with full force. Marie fled, pursued by Sarah, who smashed everything in the way.

Meanwhile the friends of the women in-

dulged in a free fight in another part of the

house. It is stated that the affair will lead

to a number of duels.

The strike of engineers on the Canadian Pacific Railway is condemned by the press of Winvipeg as wholly unjustifiable, The Free Press, which is generally hostile to the Company, says on the subject:—‘'In this case, it is only necessary to notice the earn- ings of the disaffectants, and to compare them with those of persons in other occupa- tions, especially in the present state of business, to be convinced that the proposed reduction was by no means unreasonable. Every man has a right to bear a share of the deprivations incident to dull times. Not only do the C. P. R. engineers object to doing this, but they make a demand for an actual im- provement in their position, backed up by the.equivalent of the threat of a strike as the penalty of noncompliance. The pre- posed reduction of six doliars per mouth, every person is aware, is fully compensated for by the difference, in caze of family men, in the item of rent alone, and in that of these unmarried in the price of board, now and even six months ago.”’

The unwritten history of Lord Coleridye’s recent tour in this country would probably be far more interesting than the daily chronicles which were furnished by the press, The following is told in confidence and with bated breath by the inhabitants of a flourishing city in Western New York: The Chief Justice was entertained at dinner one evening by a local magnate. A caterer well known in that part of the State furnished the refreshments and the china on which they were served, which, by the way, was a new and beautiful hand- painted set. During the course of the dinner it is related that Lord Coleridge said to the charming hostess, ‘‘You will excuse

I don’t the comment, but I really must compliment

you on the exquisite beauty of your china.” My lady calmiy appropriated the compli- ment, and gracefully replied, ‘‘Thank you, my Lord. It is used for the first time in your Lordship’s honor.” Then the dinner moved on to asuccessful close. Judge of His Lordship’s surprise when, at a breakfast given next morning by a legal luminary, he was confronted with the same beautiful set of china. But his surprise was augmented when, the following day, the banquit in his honor, given in a rival city ninety miles away, was graced with the handsome china en for the first time in his Lordship’s obor,

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