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ALMANAC FOR FEBRUARY,

MOON'S CHANGES,

Ion.

Full Moon, 4th day, 9h., 1.0m., p. m., S. E.

Last Quarter, 1?th day, 2h., 38.8m, p.m, W,

below horiz yn

Moon, 19th day,

below horizon

First Quarter, 26th day, 9h., 53.9m., a.m., E., below horizon.

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Druggist and Chemist,

AS always on hand Pure Drugs, Chemi- cals, Patent Medicines, Spices, etc. Also, Fancy Articles and Christmas Goods.

PHYSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS

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KOBISON’S’ BLOOD CLEANSER, for Horses and Cattle, has no superior, and is/ highly recommended by horse fanciers and farmers throughout the country.

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Consignments of Island produce will receive |, orapt abicntian.

BevrekeNnces: Thomas Fyshe, Esq., Cashier Bank of Nova Scotia, Halifax; D. C. Chalmers, Manager Bank of Nova Scotia Charlottetown.

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WARREN & JONES, TRA MERCHANTS LONDON, ENGUAND. pepresented in Canada by Morriox *

MuscRave, Halifax.

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1890, |

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND.

Wholesale Trade,

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' 150 barrels Choice American FLOUR, Murdock,

iY GL R 500 $6 se Canadian " Howard,

I 4 Re 150 to és 66 " Chipman’s Patent, \ White Eazle.

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oo. ( ieknaenla Sugar. WOLASSES. TOBACCO,

25 puns. DEMERARA MOLASSES.

50 caddies BRIGHT TOBACCO, 25 butts and caddies TWIST ‘*

50 boxes Choice Tab le CODFISH,

50 half boxes

50 barrels and half barrels LABRADOR HERR IANNED SALMON,

Codfish, &e.

»F- ~ : =v Cases (

500 reams Assorted WRAPPING PAPER, 100 dozen BROOMS. 2,000 GRAIN SACKS, 2,000 cases TALL CANS, 10 bales MANILLA MARLINE,

AT LOWEST PRICES.

HORACE HASZARD,

LOWER QUEEN STREET.

Sundries,

| Charlottetown, Jan 25, 1890.

HAVE BOUGHT FROM C. B. WARREN his entire stock of BOOTS AND SHOKS, and will now clear Tremendous Bargains until the whole istock is sold. SEVEN THOUSAND PAIRS. Come early and |: don’t delay. Plenty of assistance to wait on all customers. We are fully prepared for the rush. | :

| GORE BROS.

Charlottetown, Jan, 24, 1896

AMAS |S OVE

2O IS NEW YEARS.

IN RED WRAPPERS,

Is What is Called For.

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DIAMOND <> POTASH:

IS ALL THE RAGH.

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P. FE. ISLAND SOAP WORKS.

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CLOTH! CLOTH!

ARKED DOWN SALE

GENUINE MARK

one FS OR——

THIRTY DAYS ONLY.

—_—-— ( 3 )»--—- reHE CHARLOTTETOWN WOOLEN MILLS CLOTH

DEPOT, before their Annual Stock-tgking, will, during the month of January, offer their immense stock of "T weeds, Dress Geods, Homespuns, Draggets and Flannels of their own make at cost.

All desirous of purchasing Heavy Winter Goods, for Men and Boys, are invited to examine our stock.

These goods are oflered sig a at room for New Spring Patterns.

so ~Fiye Hundred Pairs of Oustom-Made Pants, from

of own make of Cloth, which will be sold low.

Unartitectown, Jeuuury 4, 1800—dam

them!

at the present low prices to!

SATURDAY,

Varia.

The dead are very often thoughtless!ly

slandered. After the death of the poet Brownin g a report was circulated that he had all his life been an infilel But this

is pottru'. Many evidences of his deep faith in God, aud of his truly Christian charac- jter, are easily to be found. The following striking letter shows the kind heart of the man and speaks eloquently for the dead poet. It was written by Mr. Browning in 1876 to a lady who, believing herseif to be dying, wrote to him to thank him for the help she had derived from his poens :

lt is a great thing—the greatest—that a

jhaman being should have passed the proba. |

| tion of life, and sum up its experience ina | Witness to the power and love of God. 1 dare Sa ae

icongratulate you. All the help I can offer, in jmy poor degree, is the assurance that I ‘see

ever more reason to hold by the same hope,

apd that by no means in iguerance of what has |

been advanced to the contrary; and for your | sake I wonld wish it to be true that I had so |much of ‘‘genus” as to permit the testimony of an espec ially privileged insight to come in aia of the ordinary argument. For I know I myself have been aware of the communication lof something more subtle than a ratiocinative | process, when the convictious of ‘genius’ | jhave thrilied my soul to its depths:' jas when Napoleon, shutting up the New | Ts stament, said of Christ—

that ] am an underssander of men ” was no man!” naisen hommes! Eh, bien, celuria ne fut pas un homme!’). Or, as when Charles Lamb, in a gay fancy with some frieuds as to

Weil, He

how he the dead were to appear suddenly in flesh avd blood opce more, on the final sugyestion, | ** And if Christ entered this room?” changed his;-manner at once, and stuttered ont, as his manner was when moved, ‘‘ You see—if

appeared, we must kneel.” Or, tiply instances, as when Dante wrote what [| will transcribe from my wife's Testament— wherein [I recorded it

receive you! Reciprocate this blessing with yours athectionately,

totems

RoBERT BROWNING, * * *

The Government Censorship of the Press | in Germany, some forty years ago, was the | means of producing one of the most curivus newspapers ever printed. it appeared one morning in one of the Southern German

capit tals“a little before the revolution of | 1848. It consisted of four full-sized pages on which nothing wag printed but the tithe | of the journal, its number, date and price, and the printer’s name and address—abso- | lutely no news, no leading articles, no let- ters to the editor, nothing but blank col- umns. Of course tothe people who re-| ceived the newspapers the empty pages | were full of meaning. In those days, be- fore a newspaper was published a copy had to be shown to the Goverament censor. If a paragraph did nog please him, or if he | thought it should not appear, he marked it | out. One day an idea struck one of the | editors who was fighting for the free- dom of the press. Wherever the censor struck out a paragraph the editor |, took out the passage, and instead of | putting new matter in its place, simply | left a blank inthe column. These empty |. spaces in the daily paper said to all its rgad- ers, *‘Sce what the How do you like thé muzziing of the press?” |

“At last, one a: ay the censors cut out so much that the editor made up his mind that what little they had left was not worth | publishing. He sent out four pages of} blank columns to his subscribers. This protest brought matters to a origis. A Gov- ernment circular warned editors that hence- forta, when the cengors struck anything | out, tke newspaper was not to be issued until the space had been refilled with print- ed matter. But the editors were net to be | beaten. Ina few days one of them came | out with a paragraph that ran something | this:—-** As to the present proceedings « of the Government, we cannot help thinking that— abedefghijklmnopq rstuyWwyy g—abede | f.ghijklmnopy Estavweyg— abedefghijklmnop |

‘estuyw4yz—abedefghi jklmnopgrstuvwxyz,

“and so on for some twenty tines. This |

was another way of saying, ‘* The censors | are at work again,” and pevple could read | their own meanings in this curious kind of | ** printed matter.”

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* * | *

The ‘Fine Arts,” an expression the | meaning of which is by many ‘nop very clearly understood, ig thys beautifully ex-| pPhpined | by Ruskin ;— I~

** Fine art ig that in which the hand, the! head, and the heart of man together. Re- | collect this triple group ; it will help you to solve many difficuit probiems. And remem- } ber that though the hand must be at the bottom at everyt ‘ching, it must alweys go to the tep of everything; for fine art must be | produced by the hand of man in a inuch | greater and clearer sense thgn manytacture is. Mine art must ajways he produced by the | subdtigst of all machines, which is the human | hand. No machine yet contrived, or hereto- | fore contrivable, will ever fine machinery of the human fingers. | Thoroughly perfect art is that which | proceeds from the heart, which involves) all the fnobler emotions; these the head, yet as inferior to the heart; |> and the hand, yet as inferior to the heart an d|

Hence, it follows that since manutacture is! simply the operation of the hand of man in| producing that which is useful to him, it es- sentially separates itself fr:m the emoti yng; | when emotions interfere with machinery, they | spoil ii; machinery mast go evenly without emotion. But the Fine Arts cannot go even: | ly; they always must have emotion ruling | their mechanism, and uatil the pupil begins to | feel, and until all he dves aassciates iteelf with the current of hia feelings, he is not an | artist.”

eee ; My correspondent is wrong about Miss Kilice Hopkins. She is not an American,

Bishop ef Vermont, John Henry Hopkins. She is = English Jady and an garnest

FEBRUARY

-* Do you know |

(‘* Saveg-vous que je me Con- |

and they would feel if the greatest of |

Shakespeare entered, we should ail rise; if He | not to mul-j;

i fourteen yearg ago — 1

| time,

cengorshiyp - is doing. |

equal the | one week, and in Vienna 60,000

associates with id

iwith the heel af 5

iin. Over the instep the ‘drawn as tightly as possible. nor 8o far as | know any relation of the late | your foot back in the shoe, giving the toes

1, 1890.

Purity. I know of only one book of poems which she published, ‘‘Autumn Swallows.” Many of the poems are very attractive for she has at her control good, plain, honest English as a vehicle for thought. Some- times her verse is obviously tinted by her experience as a laborer among the poor, but at times, when recognizing modern doubts and difficulties, she confronts them with a courageous faith which a man might envy. I give an extract from @ poem on Failure” in which Miss Hopkins appears almost, if not wholly, at her best : ** Art thou nigh beaten in the battle dread,

Beaten down on thy knee and sore bestead ?

Then on thy knee Beneath the stars to the great whole up- soar, In dust and ashes worship and adore.

Is thy sword shivered in thy helpless hands,

Suiting the wrong that still thy force with. stands?

Then in thy heart,

Thy fainting heart, the splinters hide, that 80

Thy re may richer for the world’s life flow,

Dost thon weep bitter tears o’er hopes fore- gone, O’er ills unrigited, faith belied, undone ? Arise . praise (ied ! Wha gives thee deep-sea pearls of priceless worth, To diadem the ‘right discrowned on earth,

Are all thine efforts fruitless, vain, iil-sped,

Futile and weak as broken ends of thread? Yea, even so!

Of broken shells He maketh, so He wills,

‘Lhe everlasting marble of His hiils,

‘ Evil is all too strong,’ di ist fainting cry ? * It conquers life and labor, let me die!’ Yet ere thou die, Show thou the stronger ; gaod’that conquers death, Failing, grows ‘atrong, struck down, but w a new breath

‘Thus I believe, thus ] aiijinm, thus I am! Out of the tumbling deeps come thy iast certain it is, and’ that from this life I shall | ery.

pass tg another better, there, where that Lady | ‘There la no God, what good to toil and lives of whom my soul was enamored Dear vee :

friend, I may haye wearied you ia ' spite of | S Go to, faint heart !

your gaad will. God bless you, sustain and trike from the dark the light that proves

the Light, No God? Create Him, right!”

Why Sixty Seconds Make a Minute.

Why is eur hour divided into sixty min- ‘utes, each minute into sixty seconds, etc. /

Simp! y and solely because in Babylon there |

existed by the side of the decimal system of notation anotber system, the sexagesimal, | ‘which counted by sixties. Why that num- ber should have been chosen is clear en-

| ough, and it speaks well for the practical |

‘sense of those ancient Babylonian mer ‘chants. There is no number which has so many divisors as sixty, ‘divided the sun's daily journeys into twenty-four parasangs, or 710 stadia. Each parasang or hour was subdivided into sixty minutes.

A parasang is about a German mile, and Babylonian astronomers compared the pro- gress made by the sun during one hour at the time of the equinox to the progress made by a good walker during the same both accomplishing one pavagang. The whole course of the sun during the ‘twenty-four equinogtial hours was fixed at twenty-four parasangs, or 720 stadia, or

afi degrees. This system was handed on to the Greeks, and Hipparchus, the Greek ‘philosopher, who lived about 150 B. C.,

;tmtroduced the Babylonian hour into Eu-

rope,

Ptolemy, who wrote about 140 A. D., ‘and whose name still hives in that of the Ptolemaic system of astronomy, gave still

wider currency to the Babylonian way of reckoning time. It was carried along on the quiet stream of traditional knowledge through the Middle Ages, and, strange ta say, it sailed down safely over the Niagara of the French Revolution, For the French, ;when revolutionizing weights, measures coins and dates, and “subjecting all to the! degimas system of reckoning, were induced by some uneXphiined motives to respect

our clocks and w: atches, and allowed our lialg to remain sex: sgesimal, that is Baby-

po oniem, each hour consisting of sixty min- ‘

‘utes.

Here you see again the wonderful coher. ence of the world, and how what we call i/knewledge is the resuit of aa unoroken tradition of a teaching descended from | father to gon. Not more than abouta

dying for the’

The Babylonians |

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VOL. 25.—NO. 54

The Preacher Would

"a.

‘** Yes,” said an old sport within the hear- ing of a Kansas City 7imes reporter, “ there is a thrill about a horse-race you cannot get in

any other way. The thrill is intensified just in proportion as your money has gone up on

theevent. When Smuggler beat Goldsmith Maid at Cleveland track thirteen years ago the crowd almost destroyed the grand stand. 7 illustration of the excitement which reign- , [recall the actions of a preacher from Elkhart who was present with a friend. As the hors:s were scoring, the parson’s friend, whose name was Tracy, and who knew about as much of horses as he did of the glacial period, remarked a belief that Smuggler might win over the Maid. This was about as prob- able to the experienced turfite as a republic in Russia, and one of the fr aternity overhear- ing the remark overflowed in a proposition. ** I'll bet you $100 to $20 he don't,” he said. | The preacher was interested, but shock- ed, and silently protested by pinching Tracy's arm. ‘The start was made, and with the word ‘go’ the persistent sport renewed his offer, but it didn’t take. With the horses on the backstretch and bunched he came again, but Tracy wasn’t game. As they turned into the stretch the astute Doble, who was behind the Maid, with the assistance of American Girl, had gotten the staliion in a pocket; but his drive , taking all chances, pulled him com- pietely up, and taking the centre of the track, sent him for the wire like a ghost. No horse for a furlong ever made such speed before or since, and as Smuggler came to the front with the rush of a storm he carried the spectators from their mental feet. Every man was up ,and yelling ; and the Elkhart preacher, who must have had latent sporting blood in his j vein 8, forgetiul of his pulpit and pastorate, | Was ‘iho urishing bis cushion and shrieking in prvi ence to his last proposi'iuon, ‘*‘ Bet him, Tracy; thunder and clams, bet him! T'll (split with you on it !”

| | Morigage Sale.

j : To be sold by Public Auction, at the Law Courts Building in Charlotietown, on FRIDAY, the Twenty-e'ghth day of Feoruary next, at the hoyr or Twelve o'clock, noon :—

LL that tract. piece and parcel of land and premises, situate in Charlottetown afore- said, being the south-eastern quarter or fourth | part of ‘fown Lot Number Eighteen, in the | Second Hundred of Lots in . harlotteiown afore- said, having a front on the north side of Sidney Street of forty-two 42) feet, and extending back by parallel lines eighty (0) feet, being bounded on the east by the western fourth pari of Town , Lot Number Nineteen in the Second Huné@red, owned by the said Patrick Sweeney The above sale is made ander and pursuant to | & power of sale contained in a certain Indenture iof Mortgage bearing date the Twenty-th:rd day ;of September, D. i871, and made between Patrick Tonenaan of Charlottetown, in Prince , Edward Island, Trader, and Joanna Sweeney, his wife, of the one part, and Thomas Hsserys, of | Charlottetown, in the said Island, Carpenter, of | the other part (which said Mortgage was duly assigned to the undersigned by Indenture of Assignment, dated Twenty-first March, A. Dx : 1877), default having been nade in payment of the princips! money and interest therevy secured. For further particulars apply at office of Messrs. Haszard & Rattenbary, Solicitors, &c., Charlottetown. Dated at Charlottetown, January, A. D. 1890.

day of

JOHN INGS, Assignee of Mortgagee.

this th

alle ky ti ste

A RARE GHANCE

J PROCURE A VERY VALUABLE FARM

at North River, Franklin Point, directly

opposite, and only a mile and a-half trom Char- lotieiown.

I have decided to sell my Farm of one hiundred acres—eighty acres clear aud in a very high state gt ounllivation, baiance covered with hard an@ aait wood. Grand situation for geners!] farming aud siock-raising, and comm: nding a be swutiful view of the North River, Harbor’s Mouth and the City.

There is a good, com! fortable Dwelling House, 36x"8. and Kitchen, if

ALSO— Large, conv enient and well-built Barn, Granery and other outbuildings, aod a never- failing Weil of Water.

‘The House and Barnyard are nicely sheltered.

Being near the eity, suv convenient to shipping and the best of nmussei-mud, it has advantages very seidom attainable.

Apply on the premises to

BENJAMIN DOCKENDORFPF.:

Jani? wky li

” pmeneoien

THE UNIVERSITY OF

MOUNT ALLISON COLLEGE,

SACKVILLE, N. B.

| pare

‘James R. Inch, LL.D... President.

’e*HE University of Mount Allison Collegé, é with its associate lustitutions, the Ladies’

hundred arms would reach from us up to, College and the Mount Allisan Ac ade my, con-

the palaces of Babylon, shake hands with the founders of the oldest

pyramids, and to thank them for what they | the Dominion of Canada.

have done for us.—Max | Fortnightly Review. 5 > + News Notes, sak | There ware aleogether about 300 distinct epidamics of influenza in Europe between | 1810, when the disease was first noted at Malta, and 1850. In 1729 the whole of | Europe suffered severely. According >! ‘Statistics published by the? Novoe Vremya, ithe disease caused 908 deaths in London in persons | 17 43, |

Muller ° in the

were affected. In 173% and there were further outbreaks, and the | eaths in one week in London amounted to, 1,000. ajtacked by it. In

in 1775 domestic animals were first | 1782,

Petersburg quinine is | mixed |

four hours. In St. now served out daily to the troops, lwith vodka.

Not one person in a thousand laces | ‘his shoes correctly. About the anybody gets to it isto lace ag tightly as possible. The correct way is

and enable us to stitute ’s one of the most extensive,

who wish

40,000 persons | head; and thus brings out the whole man. fell ill of itin St. Petersburg in twenty- |

nearest |

to put your)

complete and thorough educational establishments. in Students’ may enter either as regular Matriculants or a® Specia

tu follow chosen lines of study. i Women are admitted to College ¢ Courses and | Degrees on the same conditions as studeats of the other sex. The domestic and sacial ar

rangements are pleasant, and the expenses moderate, The first term of the Collegiate Year,

1889-90, begins on the 29th of August uext, and the 2nd term on the 2nd of January, 1890. For further particulars address the Presi- deut tor a Calendar. Sackville, Aug. 1, 1889.

WARTEMD.

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URING Months of Janua y, February and March, Stock suitable for Canning, viz., Beef, Mutton and Poultry, at Robert Bridges’ Meat Store, Charlottetown. jan3—wky 3m

fang 10 w 6m

HECKBERT BROS,

—~DEALERS IN—

foot, when yoy are about to lace your shoe, De y Giese: Greeeries ond Genverai

as uch as possible in the heel of the shoe. | You can do this best in lacing your shoes | our shoe resting in a chair | in teont. of the one you are seated | lacing This will hold

standiug

‘freedom and preveating their being cramp-

ed. Luve ubgut tite watete Yo syit your com

Workr fdr the Soctery for thee Pidwution tH fart.

| COMME

should be |, :

Merchandise,

RCIAL. CROSS, P. KE. i,

% % Y ISH to announce to their patrons and v¥ the public that they have opened a ENERAL STORE of Dev dAivods, (irvoceries, Gree ‘keryware, etc., aud Men's Readymade Cc lothing, Ladies’ and Gents’ boots, Shoes and Rubbers, ete. All our goods are first-class, apd will be sold on the gigst reasonable terma,

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