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DECEMBER 31, 18M.

1894,

To-pay we pass another m

our histor It

1894 came to us, brimful of hope, bring- iiz its glorions possibilities to Jay them at h

‘ : : ca our feet. and now the record is well-nig t teet, a

closed, and the year is vanishing into that

mysterious eternity whither, one by one,

We look hack

chequered course, its lights and

we shal! speedily follow it.

upon its I

and showers, and

its sunshine

help

sedows,

we can hardly echoing the words of the poet ;

You came to us so cheerily,

You lived with us so merrily

Old Year, you

The vear began with a real ol-d-tashion-

ei winter that recalled by-zone memories

of snow blockades, delayed mails and imn-

passable streets, One of the worst storm-«

° the season overtook the Stanley in mid- .

eilf, and for some days the keenest anx

iety was felt for ihe safety of crew ant}

passengers. it safely, and public confidence in the skill of Captain Finlayson and

tis officers, was Hf p yasible, augmented hy :

the record of this stormy seasun. In spite

of the heavy snowfalls, our farmer, for

the most pari, were at work early,

splendid hay crop rew irded their labers.

‘

Grain and potatoe-, ow-ng to several

causes, hardly gave an average return, and as prices ruled low, IS94 w ill hardly be reckoned among onr prosp rous Vears,

And yet, as 6¢ unpared with other }

lands, Prince Edward I-land has little

or no. reason to and

year Ly veai it is

complain,

becoming more evident

that an Island farmer may * go farther and fare worse” than he will do by re- maining quietly at bome anl working steadily around the old homesteal The weather throughout summer and aatumon was simply delightfu', and the tourists who flocked to our shores cé¢ rtainiy saw “verry. thing at its best. ef the dairy industry was the marked fea-

ture of progress during 1S9#. Uurler the

able and energetic supervision of Professor Rebertson and his staff, cheese fact srie- eprang into existence on all sile-, an, at

oe r a aa . tne Clo-e Of tae seasons OpFrations, we

were both astonishel and zratifie] to fiul

that our Island had prolaced an aggregate |

of considerably over three-quarters of a |

million pounds of first-rate cheese.

making is yet only in its infancy, but the

. | past year has at least given it a good start, | and we look forward toa further develop: |

ment of our resources in this staple, for

the production of which our Island is pe- euliarly fitted. Our fermers cannot fail to

appreciate thoroughly the wise action, and

the energetic and libera! measures of

Dominion Government in fostering this department of our industries, which, un- questionably, is largely the solution of the problem of onr Island’s future.

horizon throughout the the year was never very heavily clouded- The COitawa, the

The political

usutl session squabbles at

usual attack = of

the Opposition, the retorts courteous and |

across the honse,

are no new experience, either to the chief

ot Lerwise ban lie}

actors themselves or to the larger aidience |

whom reach

press.

lirection of reducing fiscal burdens, sim-

they through A large revision ofthe tariff in the

the pubiic

plifving rates, aml generally encouraging |

home industries, was undertaken by the Finance Min/ster and carried through with The sneers

the measure was greeted at the

great success. with which outset, gradually deep2ning into growls of anger, and then changing into taunts of abandon- ment best possible proofs to the Government

that the Opposition felt that the tariff

changes were appreciated by the people, |

and that it was necessary, at all hazards,

to minimize their effect. With this object

in view, a3 well as to prepare for an elec- |

tion, Which the Liberals (who, by the way, are always better informed upon Govern- than the

eontident

ment measures

themselves) were was to be eprung upon the country in 189i, Mr. Laurier, with some of his lieutenants, un. dertook atour of the Northwest Provinces. where the downtiolden farmers were be-

lievel to be ‘e

back the

The

‘nxious to bring

golden age ~ of grit rule at Ottawa.

result of the expedition was certainly sat- |

isfactory from point of view—it greatly increased the Liberal leader's repn- tation. It was said of Von Moltke that he knew how to be silent in seven languages— it can now be aaid of Mr. Laurier that he

ean deliver eighty-nine addresses

oue

and

never define his policy upon a single vital

question. The Liberal policy, in spite of the great convention of 1893, the tours of th © Liberal leader, the picnic at and the

is still

Freeown, Maritime Province as hazy as ever. “A revenue ’ itis usually put forward. But no one ventures to define what that means: and if, in the east or in the west, the leader or any of the Cabinet Mini-- rash Richar]

wright promptly repudiates it.

would-be ters makes i

Ontario with Sir Cart- Even our own Liberal champion has, by the admis- sion of b.s own organs, grown strangely moderate in his speeches. From all of which we draw the conclusion that things are going on at the close of the year much as usual; and though Canada has suffered extent from the world-wide de pression prevailing in trade, and though, owing largely to a reduction of tariff, there is a deticit of revenne as compared with

to some

expenditure, the country has too vivid a |

recollection of 1875-1879 to form the slightest idea of entrusting its destinies to men whose policy is like the thimble- rigger’s pea, aiways invisible just wheu

you think you see if.

In spite of its

eems but yesterday that |

must not die. |

But the good ship weathered

and a]

The rapid develop: nt |

Batter |

of the National Policy, were the

Government |

campaign, | tariff for | > seems to be the form in which |

statement, |

—— ae

' } heavy losses, no less than three Premiere

TAB DAILY BKAMINER,

| having fallen in the lifetime of one Par- liament, the Conservative

broken, and, nnder the guidanee of leaders

who grew up around the “Old Chieftai they look forward with quiet conti lence to the struggle which 1895 will bring.

Before passing from

this subject it is

esto |

not out of place to congratulate our Island on the fact that she is now represented in the Dominion Cabinet by one of her own Hon.

his selection for a position whieh he is se

| |

farmers, and

i} well qualified to fill.

In the narrower horizon of our own Is-

j ; Jand, taxation has been the chief topic of

interest, and as it has been a personal

; matter with almost evervone, there is

| little need to refer to it here. If we may

judge by bank returns the age of over | drafts has not ceased anJ the state of pub- vunt

lic act cannot be satisfactorv.

In the citv, a Scott Act election, keenly

fought and resulting in the enactment of | the measure hv a small majority, was the

| leading event of the vear

} ment of the act has given rise toa consid-

erable trace in non-intoxicating table beer.

Perhaps this indicates a growth of tem- perance sentiment. Butit must be con- fessed that it looks alarmingly like a

gro vth of another | means desirable. In the ab-ence of

Citizens again enjoy

famusements our

Seott Actdays at the Magistrate’s Court,

| Council.

The visit of the Governor-General and

Laly Aberdeen to our city

was one of the pleasant features of the

year. Their Excellencies won golden op inions on every hand by their unaffeeted courtesy and deep interest in our people j and province. Their promised return will be eagerly looked for.

In the Militia Department, we chronicle with much pleasure th establishment

of our Island as @ separate district and the

appointment of our esteemed fellow-towns

man Lieut.-Col F. S. Moore in the position of District Adjutant Generai The annual session of the Summer School of Science which met this year in our city ' was a happy combination of dalei,” and the visiting teachers carried

many pleasant memories of and Island friends.

In the larger field of European ailuirs,

wi h them

[-! ind scene

turning first to the Home land we note the

| disturbed state of politics prevailing

throughout the year, The resignation of the veteran Gladstone, followed by the acces-

sion of Earl Rosebery to the premiership,

' came like a wet blanket upon the liopes of |

the Irish Nationalists and the half-hearted aliegiance whici tuey gave to the new

cluded the po The attitude of

} ministry, lars: ly pre sibility | of any cffective legislation

the Hone of Lords to some of the measures

of the Liberal Government, has widened the |

breach between the hereditary legislators

fand the radical element, and, when the | nextappeal is made tothe British electorate,

the mending or ending of the upper house

will be a plaak inthe Liberal platform. Meantime, by-elections, on the whole, have been unfavorable to the Government, and the prospects of a Conservative reaction to the coartry are becoming brighter. Both parties are preparing diligently for the ap- | peal which must be made in the near future. {The birth of a son to the Duke and Duchess of York has furnished a spectacle

| nique, we believe, in British history.—

four living generations in direct succession

tothe crown! The yacht races between

the Britannia and Vigilant enabled British yachtsinen in some

measure to regain

| their lost laurels, while in the college con-

test with Yale, Oxford carried off a large majority of the prizes. Abroad, little has occurred to disturb. and much to encour- The which

honored our own Dominion by meeting at

; age. Colonial Conference.

cannot fail to

| Ottawa,

strongly the

cement) more

bonds of the great British Fast steam communication and trust, soon link

| Greater and Lesser Britain so closely that

Empire.

| a Pacific cable will, we

the heart of the Empire will beat as that | of ene man in all emergencies which affect the nationa! welfare,

Relations with other powers have con tinned to be friendly Africa,

trouble

Complications in which at one time

with France, were averted by skillful diplomacy, and it cannot be de- nied that in its foreign policy Lord Rosx- bery's Government has gained both credit and

respect. The annexation of Matabele ' land, in South Africa, after the overthrow | of Lebengnela, has largely added to the aphere of British occupation, while the hervic death of Captain Wilson and his

party showed the world that the sons of

| Britain have not lost the spirit which | animated the * Charge ot the | Light Brigade,” or the glorious episode so well commemorated in

ithe “Ballad of the Revenge.” The jmarch of the Anglo-Saxon through

Africa

and

is becoming yearly more steady vu-tainad, and whatever the future may have in store, unless all signs fail, | England will have the dominant power in the Dark Continent. As the year drawe to a close Russia and England seem to be

| coming more and more closely together, with the resnlt that Asiatic complications are gradually resolving themselves, and the prospects for continued peace seem brighter far than a year or two ago.

In France the assassination of Presid- ent Carnot and th> peaceful suecession of M. Casimir Perrier show how hold republican institntions seem to have gained in that country, while the reported unconditional submission of Madagascar to French demands has augmented the na tional prestige and saved the expense of a protracted and possibly doubtful, war.

strong a

In Germany the year opened with the somewhat dramatic reconciliation of the young Emperor and the veteran Bis- marek. Beyond the spectacular effect of this little episode, no result was expected or produced. But the later oracular

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and province

‘utile cur |

threatened |

| speeches of Emperor William, combined | with the sudden dismissal of Chancellor | Vou Caprivi somewhat upset the calcula- | tions of Furopean statesinen, and (er- ww regarded as a somewhat un- the world’s

certain element in

Meantime the Socialists gain strength, and

‘are rapidly becoming a factor in the in- |

| ternal politics of that empire. In Austria events of note oc- year. In Italy

disordered

| no changes or curred the old ery ol | finances, coupled with rumors of mal-ad-

during the

ministration, were prevalent, and though | abroad the army gained some important successes over the dery ishes of the Son- dan on the shores of the Red Sea, the in- | ternal affairs of Italy are far from being in la healthy state. In Russia, the death of Czar Alexander and the | Nicholas II were the great events of the The new ruler has already given | evidence that he is to be a ruler in fact as

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j year. | well as in name, ana, 80 far as Cap now | be judzed, he is entering upon a path cf reform which will result, if faithfully car- ried out, in raising Russia to a higher position in al] that really entitles a country ' to be called great than she has hitherto occupied. His marriage with the Princess ' Alix of Hesse, perhap? the most talented of the granddaughters of our own Queen, cannot fail to have a marked influence in | this new departure, and the manifest ten- dency of the new ruler toward friendship | with England, is a hopeful element in the rhe * unspeakable Turk ”

is again attracting the attention of the civ-

workd’s peace.

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ilized world by a series of massacres and outrages among the Christians of Armenia.

If the rnmors reaching us by telegraph are not greatly exaggerated, Russia and England combined, will exact a heavy | reckoning for this violation of treaty obli- gations, as well as for cold-blooded cruel- | ties, hardly parallete! by the Bulgarian | atrocities. It is high time that the Turk | ish Empire were eivilized out of existence.

Asia has furnished the ouly real inter- ruption to the general peace of the world, in a war between Japan and China. | trary to expectation it has proved, so far, a sort of triumphal march for the former, found

and China’s arms and armies were

| to be largely on while her army

paper,

| contractors appear to be “ allee muchee

| game Melican man.” Gigantic frauds in | all departments have come to light, and it | is quite evident that, if the almond-eyed celestials need an infusion of western ideas lit is certainly not in the direction of The with Jap. n lias rapidly

roguery. year closes | (which risen to bea great factor in the future of Asia) | Pekin. and China upon her knees ready to yield almost anything asa condition of

menacing

| peace. Whatever be the final outcome cf | the war, it means the introduction of Eurc- pean civilizatiofi into China. | The power of the ultra-conservative literati has fallen | before the prestige of western civilization, | as represented by Japan; and, whether the | p-esent dynasty retains its hold upon the throne or not, the era of the printing press, | the railway, the telegraph and the steam | engine has dawned.

| On our own continent, the great repul-

i lic, has been wrestling with the problem

| of tariff reform. The Democrats, anxious to re leein their pledges, introduced a tariff measure designed to sweep away the Me- Kinley Bill, and to take large steps in the direction of reduced taxes. After weeks

and months of hard fighting the bill emerged from the Senate, shorn of almost every distinctive feature.

Charges of bribery and corruption were freely made on all hanls, an], accepting the estimate of the people of the United States

country

themselves, legislation in that largely, if mot wholly, a matter cf money. At the fall elections the Republicans swépt the coun-

try, the people indicating, in the moat un,

appears to be

mistakable way, that they are wedded to the policy of Protection. ditions of polities in the United States no

Under the con-

great change is possible until the Presi- dential election of 1896. One of the prom. inent features of the fall elections was the crushing overthrow of Tammany ian New York. This reault was largely brought about by the disclosure of an organized system of corruption, terrorizing, and rol- bery, carried on by that party in the man- The credit of {this moral purification of the Augean | Stable of the municipality of New York is | largely dueto a Presbyterian clergyman, the Rev. Dr. Parkhurst, of Madison Square ! Church. ‘The serions depre:sion in trade | which prevailed in the United States in |} 1893 was aggravated by the strikes and 1894. For a time the iwhole of the Western Railways was blocked by the strikers, ‘and the aggregate of loss and | destruction rose high into the | The semi-comic side of the depression

| found its exponent in the march of Gene-

|agement of civic affairs.

riots of evstem of

millions.

| ral Coxey and Lis army upon the capital, an exhibition possible nowhere lexcept under the political conditions

which prevail in the United States.

As the year closes the outlook is a little brighter, but 1894 will long be remembered among the labouring classes of the Rupub- lic aaa yearof privation and suffering.

The Republics of Central and South America have been fairly quiet for them. Brazil had ite annual civil war, which terminated apparently disastrously for both sides. What the present condition of affairs is, or what the outcome is likely to be, is one of the questions which an out- sider gives up. '

In Ontario, Premier Mowat appealed -to the country, with a somewhat mixed result. The new agriculturai party of the Patrons took a hand, and a three-cornered duel ensued, The Liberals came back, stronger than either Conservatives or Patrons, but against a@ united Opposition practically powerless, The elevation of Mr. Meredith, lealer of the Conservatives to the Chief Justiceship, and the capture

of the vacant seat by the Liberals, opened a way out of the difficulty, and Sir Oliver

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In Nova Scotia, Premier Fielding won his third vietory at the polls, and rumer | hath it that he is now looking forward to | entering the Dominion Parliament, and | possibly to a portfolio, when, in the dis- Psof the Liberal Patriotism, and Purity,

tant future, the three Party, Policy, shall have been forgiven avid forgotten by the electorate of the Dominion.

In Newfoundland, chaos, political and The White

way (iovernment, after carrying the elec-

commercial, has prevailed.

tions by a large majority, were unseaied and disqualified, per practices. The Opposition assumed

the reins of power; but, after some suc-

cesses the tide turned, and the Whiteway- ites carried a large majority of the bye- elections. Just at thiscrisis a wave of commercial disaster swept over the Island earrying with it banks and business houses, great and smal], and completely

The

Government resigned, and the Whiteway

paralyzing trade and commerce.

party have again assumed power. Pend- ing investizations now going on, it 18 im- possible to predict the isene. Bat the credit and trade of “ve ancient colony” have received a blow from which they will take years to recover,

Among the disasters of the year we note

| friend will long be green among us;

secteransonet — aes —

The tender sympathy shown by all clasres in England has stirred the heart of Canada io its utmost depths, and when our Queen’s arms were folded around the orphan girl hands

the Dominion clasped with the

Mother land in the closest of all embraces,

the embrace «cf a common sorrow,—a

national Joss. Our young country is the better for such a life, for the single-hearted and self-sacrificing devotion to duiy which animated Sir John Thompson should be an inspiration to our public men for all ime. As the facts of his career become known, we feel that there is no injustice i» clusing this brief tribute with the words

man by man, for impro- | originally written of another :—

1“ Oh, think how to his latest day, When death, just hovering, cla.ned his prey.

With Palinure’s unaltered mood,

Firm at his dangerous post he stood,

Each call for needful rest repelled.

With dying band the rudder held.’ Within oar Island, 1894

from our midst Lieut.-Governor Cary ell,

own ca led

so long prominent in Civic, commercial Dr. Fitzgeral|l, whose

and political life ; a trusted

memory as a clergyman and Cap- tain Cameron, of the large heart and open hand; John Ball, the efficient Clerk of the Legislature; Judge Hensley, at once the upright jurist, the warm friend and William Weeks,

the earnest Christian;

universally respected as one of our best

the inundations in British Columbia, the

appalling forest fires in the Western |

Statess the unfortunate termination of cao} soldier of the cross;

° e, 1 » ‘ ' Arctic expeditions those of Dre, | 20k and | Wellman, and St. John, tae lesses of life and pro-

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serious fires in

perty in the fall storme, and the fire at Mount Stewart. |

by the ,

Among the harvest reaped scythe of the dread mower we notice in the early days of 1894 the names of Wad> dington, Childs, ! the philanthropic propretor of the Pirila- delphia Ledger; Billroth, the renowned

aurgeon, and Ballantyne, beloved of our |

ex-Premier of France ;

and |

boys for his stirring tales of flood field. Ina Marcia the ter known to our fathers than to the pre-

veteran Kossuth,

gary, laid down his wel!-worn armor.

The two Albert Nyanza fame, and Tanganyika, who escape! the porils* of the Dark Continent to die of an accident in the hunting field ; Sir Gerald ‘Portal,

frican explorer-, Baker, of

Cameron, of

the administrator of Uganda; Dishop , Smythies, who added another name to the long list of Africa’s martyrs; Prof. Rom. ! anes, young in years, but a master of the

lore of science, and DeLessep:, who out-

lived the splendid renown of the Suez | Canal to sully his white locks in the’ un-

fortunate scheme of Panama; Curtis the American

the jurist; Robertson Smith, the gifted

statesman; Hannen

seeker after truth; Brown-Sequard,; the physician, whose Elixir of life failed to David

1 counsel

render its discoverer immorta!, and Dudley Field, once famous as th»

of Fiske and Gould in the Erie Railway squabbles, but later know, as the leader of the New York Bar, one by one j ined the great majority. Then followed Eduvund Yates the novelist; Muley Hassan the Sultan of Moroeco, and Lord , Chief Ju-tice Coleridge; while the knife of

well-known

i:lustrions

Prelp:, Court of statesman,

Cesario the assassin added tine Carnot to. the long procession. once American Minister at the Berlin; Layard, the British

but better known as the explorer of

buried Nineveh; The Comte de Paris once the hope of the French! Bourbons ; Froude the brilliant ,

Wendell genial humorist, the keen observer, the

historian; Oliver Ho'mer, the playful, vet wise, author, and ex-President McCoash, the theologian of Princetown, swell the list.

world gathered around the bedside: in

In Novemher the civilized

Livadia where the Czar Alexander was fighting a losing battle with death, and |} when the struggle ceased, those who had known the decease! best, and who were most competent to estimate the difficulties of his position, felt that a great man had passed away. A few days ago the reached us that the remains of Stevenson, |

fiction had been laid to rest emong the palm groves

news

one of the inasters of modern of Samoa, und as we go to press, the tide of life ebbs low in the veins of the bril- liant, buterratic, Lord Randolph Church- ill, once looked upon a3 the coming man among British Conservatives.

As we glance over our own land we cannot fail to mark that the stroke of death has fallen heavily upon our Dominion and has been specially felt in our Island. Sena'or Botsford of New Brunswick; Dr. McKnight, of Halifax, the eminent Presby- terian Divine; Dr. Douglass, one of the leaders of the Methodist Duncan McIntyre, the Sir Matthew Begbie, to whose firm admin- istration of justice British Colu:nbia owed so much in her early mining days; Arch- bishop Tache of St. Boniface, whose name is enshrined in the history of our Great North West; Sir Narcisse Belleau, ex-gov- ernor of Quebec; Hon Mr. Geoffirion, Mi- nister of Public Works, in the Mackenzie Cabinet; Count Mercier, ex-premicr of Que: bee; Mr. T.m>, of the fiasnse department Hon C F Frazer, of Ontario; Prof. Carp- mael, “Old Probabilities” and Senator Tasse are found amoung the list ofthe de-

Church ; finar cier;

parted.

Amil the lengthening shadows of the dying year a blow fell upon our Dominion which has draped it from Atlantic to Pacific in the sombre trappings of woe. Across the ocean the bells of Westminster Abbey toll) the knell, and the echo is wafted to our own shores, as the remaing of our dead Premier are borne nearer and nearer to their Jast resting place. In the full flush of manhood, in the prime of his intellectual powers, at the zenith of his honors, the veil was lifted, and he passed from eur view.

“Where is he who has mounted fame’s ladder so high ?

' tendent, Joseph Unsworth.

| among us which 1894 has made

toss, the veteran Sheriff Curtis, the

aca nae ° ; brave and conscientious official ; Francis

citizens; Rev. Malcolm

Bain. one of _nature’s noblemen ; and richard Bagnall, so long and favorably

known to the travelling public.

In September, the whole commu-

nity was shocked to learn that a

railway accident had taken from = us

the genial, warm hearted Councillor Rot-

ertson. the man of countless friends and

not a single enemy, and before the tear of

public syinpathy was dry another

i wellknown face and form had passed away

and we gathered to pay the last tribute of respect to our esteemed Railway Superin- Just as the curtain was about to fal! upon the events of 1894, another sudden shock startled the community as the intelligence spread that Theophilus Chappelle had been eut down As to-

day we glance hack over the roll of our

with hardly a moment's warning.

deal, Tur Examiner respectfully tenders

its sympathy to the hearts and homes

} desolate.

Aa 1895 opens before us we look back

‘with pardonable pride upon the progress

which this Canada of ours bas made in

the years which have elapsed since the

ecattered fringe of provinces was cemented into one vast Dominion, embracing within and by no means half of North America. Trade and commerce have ship-

to day

its limits the larger

the least valuable

been fustered, railways, canals and

ping have largely increaved until

Canada takes no unwor-

Her pub-

the Dominion o thy place in the world’s arena. lie men hare more than held theirown in other countries, her resources have been stea lily develope, and to-day her credit in the worki’s financial circles stands higher than ever before. Her peop'e are growing in that self-reliance and confi lence in their own resources which are leading factors in the true prosperity of any country. Withsuch a past behind us we cannot but look hepe- fully forward to the future, and as we say goodbye to 1894 we turn our faces to the incoming year coufilently expecting even better and brighter days. Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,

The flying clond the frosty light, The year is dying in the night, Ring out wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the grief that saps the mind

For those that here we see no more ;

Ring out the feud of rich and poor ; Ring in redress to atl mankind.

Ring in the valiant man and free The larger heart, the kindlier hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land ;

| Ring in the Christ that is to be.

The thanks its numerous

friends for the appreciation whieh it has received during

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the year; and, appe tiling confilently to its past record, promises that no effort will be spared in 1895 to furnish a paper that will be really in lispensable in every well thronghout our

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And during a’ the years tae come Oh, happy may ye be!

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HAT’S PATON & 5’S NEW YEAR'S WISH TO ALL.

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During 1895 Paton & Co. will sell Dress Goods, Mantles, Millinery, Carpets, Readymade Clothing and General Dry Goods at prices that will make

customers happy.

JAMES P

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Money Saving Bistributors of Boots, Shoes & Rubbers,

189 QUEEN STREET, CHARLOTTETOWN

Char.ottetown, December 26, 1894—<dy

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We have decided to sell at a rattling discount the balance of our heavy goods in Mel- tons, Naps and Friezes. We are bound to sell these all this season.

NOTE.-—We have marked those goods dow i:

CARRIAGE STOCK

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est possible cish prices, and) we do a strictly eash business, | as we find it the only sure)

road to trade.

Call at our store when up)

town.

S. A. McDONALD, .

FASHI Successor to A. J. Marphy.

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A. W. WADMAN, of Charlottetown started the Undertaking at Crap ud Jast spring. All kinds of Carkets, large and small, and all small prices. Ladies’ and Gents’ Robes at small prices. A first- class Hearse and Horses. Draped Stools for the Caskets wili be furnished with drapery. tended to by Mr. A.

Funerals will be promptly at- | Wadman, Crapaud, |

Orders for Embalming, if wanted, will be |

attended to at once by A. H. Wadman Charlottetown. dy sat wy ly—oct26

NOTICE—Samples of plain and ornamental! flower, fern, gypsy, bulb and hanging pots, also samples of glaz2t ware, at the residence of 0. Hoansry, Upner Prince Stroet, next door to Williams’ Nursery 3i eod pd—dec5

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RECEIVING TO.-DAY—Spokes, Rims, Hubs, Backs,

Shafts, Sleigh Runners, Dashers,

A splendid lot of Woodwork and American Wickory, Special low prices in wholesale lots,

BR. BB.

Charlottetown, Dec. 21, 1894—1u fri

NORTON & CO.,,

CITY HARDWARE STORE.

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Since some of-our competitors have come down to our old prices, we have decided to keep them chasing us. During the month of December we will cil

Price Cutting

5 pounds New Raisins, 28¢ | 3 pounes Pure Mixed Candy, 29¢ 5. = Valencia Layers, 382110 bars Electric Soap, ? 23c 5 New Currants, 28¢,.10 * Glargow “ : 20s een: Raw Sugar, 35e{ 1 bh.) bar ie 18 Ss ™“ 20 cent Tea, &5e | & pounds 24 cent Tea, $1.00

We invite your personal inspection. Look where you will, but don’t decide unti! you have seen onr goods. We are confilent yon-will be glad you came. If you buy

| anything, and you are not satisfied, return the goods and get your money back,

WILLIAM GRANT & CO.,

Connolly’s Old Stand, Queen St rect.

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Charlottetown, Dec. 18, 1894—eoa & wy 3m

OFFER OPEN UNTIL NEW YEAR'S.

A Lot of Men’s Calf Lace Boots, $2.85; will sell for $1.75, GOFF BROTHERS.