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The Whirl of Life.

Here is what caught ai r’s eye ’ as Wa

of New York on a duwn town corner.

On the sidewalk, three urchins, evil of face, industriously “shooting” craps. ‘rom the doorway of a frowsy saloon, ten yards away, a gray haired woman issuing with a jug of beer, though it was only 10 o'clock in the morning.

A burly iceman and a negro roustabout discussing, loudly and with much pro-

fanity, the advantages of each other's jobs. <A whir and rattle of wheels

and an undertaker’s wagon drives up to the door of a modest red brick tenement. A white coffin, three feet long, is brought out and received by a venerable old man, with a flowing white beard, who comes to the door coatless and in slippers. You then notice for the first time the knot of white ribbon on the door handie. The old man tucks the diminutive casket under his arm and retires within, fol- lowed by the undertaker’s men. He is solemn, but tearless. There is a story there somewhere—the slippered patriarch in the final stage of life per- forming the last dolorous offices for one lost in its beginning.

And over on the dock are the hue and hustle, the scurry and scamper in- cidental to the getting to sea of the great ship. Sharp are the contrasts of a town.—New York Commercial Ad- vertiser.

Carving the Yosemite Valley.

; vag t In a recent article on the origin of

the Yosemite valley, Professor W. P. Blake—a most adequate authority on the subject—remarks that the gorge, so grand and impressive, is, in fact, only a minor feature of the glacial workings above it through hundreds of square miles of the Sierra. Professor Blake thinks that the ice must have filled the and much above it, to a thick- ness of 5,000 feet, and with a pressure upon the floor of the valley of 120,000 pounds to the square foot; the tre- mendous force of such a weight, on the under surface of which was a broken mass of rock, like diamonds in a drill, grinding, planing and cutting, can scarcely be imagined; for untold ages, too, this mighty force was at work, polishing the face of the country through which it passed.

The character of the Yosemite rock being granite, close grained and verti- cal in structure, with points of easy fracture, it would appear that, as the great mass of ice bore down upon this vertical rock, it was broken and knock- ed over by the moving ice, flaking off at the places of easy cleavage. Thus, according to Professor Blake, the prec- ipice was formed, and thus is explain- ed the dome shaped summits of the mountains there.

gorge,

First Rows In Paradise.

A Russian correspondent sends us details of a very interesting and amus- ing tale told by a Russian veterinary surgeon who was sent into the Ural district to buy horses and hay for the peasants of the famine stricken prov- ince: He had to do mostly with the odin (kirghizi), who are half say- age, but who, nevertheless, were found to be extremely honest and absolutely trustworthy in all buying and selling, them even offering to horses for the starving peasants,

Quite a different story bas the sur- geon to tell of the Ural Cossacks, who did their level best to cheat him in the most barefaced manner and on whom no reliance was to be placed. And yet these Cossacks are very re- and so simple in certain re

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A Maiden’s Dream.

Thousands of young women dream day-dreams of the youthful hero ang _. husband that . is to lead them ie to the altar ? of wed-lock — dreams thatare fated never to come true be- cause of the ill-health of the ~ fair dreamer. Young heroes now-a-days are hard - headed rather than hard - hearted. They know from reading and hearsay that a young woman who suffers from weakness and dis- ease in a womanly way cannot well prove a happy, helpful, amiable wife and mother. Physicians tell young men that weakness and disease of the feminine child- begetting organism make women sickly, nervous and despondent in spite of the best of nat- ural dispositions. Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription makes these organs strong, healthy, vigorous and elastic. It fits for wifehood and motherhood. It allays in- flammation, heals ulceration and soothes ain. It tones and steadies the nerves. t does away with the qualms of the period of expectancy and makes easy and almost painless. nity of peril. It insures the newcomer’s health. Dr. Pierce is an eminent and skill- ful physician, who, during his thirty years’ experience as chief consulting physician to the great Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute, at Buffalo, N. Y., has treated thousands of women He will answer letters from women iree. lery many women who have wees happy, he althy wives and mothers throug the use of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescrip- tion have permitted their eepecnaees, natnes, addresses and photographs to be printed in Dr. Pierce’s Common se Medical Adv’ ser. This great work u a cost $1.50. Now it is free. lt contains I pages and over 300 illustrations. Severa chapters are dev oted to the reproductive physiology of women. For a re f.cover ered copy send 31 ome-cent stamps, eee customs and mailing only, to the . : aes Medical Association, Bu

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s several of these tickets,’ which were marked “First rows’ and sold at 25 rubles, back seats bringing consid- erably less.—Commercial Intelligence.

The Mistake of His Life.

Bliffers—What’s wrong today? You look blue.

Bluffers—I’ll never forgive myself. I kicked a caller out of my house last night.

“Huh! I kicked many aone. Young fellow, I suppose?’

“No; past middle age.”

“Well, these old codgers have no business coming round sparking young girls. I kicked out one of that sort last week.”

“Yes, but I’ve found out that this man wasn’t after my daughter; he was after my mother-in-law."—New York Press.

A Proper Question,

“And clothes,” argued the missionary further, “are as cheap as dirt!”

The tropic heathen did not conceal her misgivings.

“Yes; but are they as hygienic?’ fal- tered this simple child of the forest.

Her health was quite perfect now, and there was no telling what might not be the effect of corsets and skirts which do not hang from the shoulders, to say nothing of the veils with dots in them.—Detroit Journal.

His Experience,

“Woman’s work is never done,” quoted the sympathetie citizen. “That’s right,” answered Mr. Meek-

*{ have observed it in Henrietta’s Woman’s work is never done. There is always enough of it left over to keep her husband busy from the time he gets through his dinner till he’s so tired he has to go to bed.’’—Washington Star.

ton earnestly. case.

Progression. “Mary Prim doesn’t distribute tracts any more.” “No. 1 met her the other day, and she smelled dreadfully of peppermint.”

“From tracts or extracts, eli?’— Cleveland Plain Dealer. The driest of all fishes is, perhaps,

the river eel, yet, according to an anal- ysis by a German chemist 60 per cent of its substance is water. Salmon comes next, with 61.4 per cent. Lob- asters and aysters are four-fifths water.

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About Capers.

‘About 8.000 kegs iud barrels of ca- a smmafl, sour berry resembling ip and shape a green pea, are an- uually imperted into the United States from Spain and Vrance,” said a whole- snle dealer in all sorts of foreign con- diments in New York to the writer re- ceutly. “Capers grow on a bush, and are extensively used by all classes of cooks in this country for garnishing sninds and making a sauce which is usually served witb boiled mutton and meats. There are four sizes of capers. The smallest are commercialiy known as nonpareils and tbe three oth- er sizes are called capucines, capotes and surfines. The smallest capers are the most desirable and bring the most nioney. Very few capers are imported in glass. They are shipped to America in kegs and barrels, holding from 15 to 40 gallons of the berries in brine or vinegar. The work of bottling the ca- pers is done by the wholesale dealers.” -- Washington Star.

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The Reward of Labor. “Bill, bave you cut the firewood?” “Vek, sir.” “An fed the mules?” “¥ ea.sir.”’ etd “An milked the cows?” “All milked, sit.” “An ground the corn?” “Test through, sir.” “An banked thie taters?’ “East one, sir.”

“Well, you're a good un. Now call the dogs, an you kin go an tree a pe3 sum fer yer supper!’—Atlania Consti- tution.

4 Considerate Father. The Impecunious Son—It was rith-

er hard for you, father, not to send me any money when 1 was so much in need of it.

The Thoughtful Father—It was my

desire to send you ample means imme- diately, but it was such a pleasure to read your letters asking for remit- tances—so finely worded, you know— that I could not deny myself the satis- faction of having more and more of them.—Boston Transcript.

Fitly Named. Seeker—That’s quite a fine horse you've been buying. What have you

' named him?

Sageman—Great Bargain.

Seeker—Ah! Great- Bargain, eh? Then it was anotier of your shrewd investments?

Sageman—Oh, that had nothing to do with the name. I call him Great Bargain because my wife can drive him.—Boston Courier. ~

Amber is found all along the Prus- sian shores of the Baltic, but princi- pally in the peninsula of Samland. All amber found everywhere is state property, but the state cannot mine amber without the permission of the owner of the ground.

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JANUARY 5, 1900

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Jan, 4, 1900.

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Dy the uuder-iga d ail Bebruary 8 he 190u, for the con: ruction uf a new Romav Cachelie Caurch, ot Soun-. PE. l-land, designed by Mr. VW. © Harrie, Architect, to be bait of sone or brick,

about ove hundred ant egbty feet over ali in length, acd to s-atabdoat nie bundnd and fifty people. The p'a.s and sp-cili« Ca'ion» can be eeen at Sour, from Jan= uaty 8th,to the 15tn 19090, aod con be seen ai the Bishop’s Palac-, ta Charl tte

town, from the Lith January to the Sth ot F-bruarv, 1900. Each tender mu-t be

accompanied by a certified cheque for $100.00, or an approved note :o that amount,

wh'ch will be retaroed if tender ig not accepted, and whice will be forfeit

ed if teaderer fails to undertake the con tract after hie tender ha« been accepted. The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted. undersigned and mark-d “Tenders for Souris Church.”

Tenlers to be sent to the

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T. J. Morris %. L. Hooper

W. Pickard & Co. W. A. Hutcheson W. F. Carter

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R. H, Mason,

Tue? Prince Edward Island Magazine

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CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER. Simpson’s Mills, Bay View, Frontispiece. Christmas—(a sonnet) by Thos. A, wepage Merrie Christmas, by Hon. Senator Ferguson, What the King said to Christ at the Judg-

ment.

At the Dunk—a.poem—Illustrated, by Frofj

John Caven.

_avendish in the Olden Time—lIllustrated, by

Walter Simpson. Memories of the Past

P. Tarton. Christmas Hymn.

Illustrated, by Johar

Nursing at Chickamauga Park—Illustrated, by Florence M. Kelly.

Tenant League Proceedings, by John Ross.

The Phantom Bell Ringers-— Illustrated, by J. E. Rendle.

Retaliation—A Historical by L. W. Watson.

A Query, by Topsy.

Christmas Greetings—a poem, by - rol.

Notes & Queries, &c, 5e a copy—Send tor sample. The P. E. Island Magazine.

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