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DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, DEJEMBER
28, 1897
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s and after MONDAY, 27th Dec., 1897, fezias of this Railway will rua daily, (Sun
days excepted,) as under.
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tT#insare run by Eastern Standard ‘Time.
% A SAARP. D.POTTINGER. ; intendeut, Gen Mer Govt. R “a. Moncton, X's.
Gatway Office, Dec, 27 1897
ICR SALE.
MARE CHANCE
‘The property occupied by J.J, Gav and son @ oaite in the village of Pownai, 7 miles from me ottetown, is offered forsale. The pro- poeetore have carried op a large market var- (em onteery, and seed business for thirty year, andthe purchaser wil! no doubt retain @ sarge share of the tocaltrade. The prem- atecomiprics a large d«e'ling house, s‘ore, “ arebouse, barn, shed, orchard, and about 15 acres Of the mest fertire land on the Isiand ‘This land has been manured year after swear. for so jong that as an wid man said the whwerday: “It isall abed of manure and we@uld be hauled for topdressirg.” ‘This would be an !deal spot for a country merch- aa, or it would be admirabie fora summer weeort, The situation is one of the most eentiful cn the Island. Good bathing, fisiiog. boucing, shooting and within «wm distance; churches, post office school Oéteshone and shops all at the door. fer terme and further particul«rs, apply to Fran Clure Gay, J J Gav # son or to, JOHN T MELLISH Solicitor Char lotte.ov-n ‘C&T oct7
Wants, Lost, Found &e
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ts LOST.—A dog lost by passenger going Siytae SS. Princess a few days ago. Lar wreec and tao, with white about breast and 8g8 abswers tothe name of Sardeau. Any = ou delivering the above descrihed dog to @eecaze Master of'the 3.8. Princess, will be
‘Averally rewdrdecl. dee 22~-3ipd
G0OUND.—There was picked up yesterday @ernoon abvut6 Oelock, in front of Mr, i @m P. Joy’s, a lady’s kid boot, size 4}. ®waer may have same, by applying to Mr, —u: dee 20 li
“tO LET.—Honse on lower Spring Par f@eeti with or without barn) Sonlaiuins
‘St Peter’s New Hall, Ch’town
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SEASON 1897—!1898. ,
Alternate Tuesdays as follows :— Dec. 14th aad 28th. Jany. Llih and 25th. Feb. 8th and 22nd. Particulars of each Entertainment wil] ‘given ip due course in our local colums
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Wharfage storage and yard- age, at reasonable rates.
Arthur @, Peake.
Nov. 4
LEGAL CARD WARBURTON & McKINNON
Barristers, Attorney’s, Notarys Public.
Commissioners for State of Massack usetts, ac., & C, OFFICES —"™z. Cameron Block, Charlottetown
3rennan Building, Summerside 1 Kent Street, Georgetown.
A. B. WARBuRTON, B.A., D, C. L., Q. C. Db. A McKinnon, L. L. Bb. Ch’town Dec, 1, 1897—law & w3m
Italian Ware House
Cor. Grafton and Grt, Geo, ts
North side Queen | Squarre De Kupyers and Herman Jansen Genuine Rotterdam
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Wholesale Wine Merchants.
Cperative and Prosthetic
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December
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ARE YOU READY FOR IT?
Weare ready with a large stock of eleg- ant Fancy and Useful articles, .
G. Tk. TAYLOR
_J.p. MURRAY,
Ctarge and well finished :o0oms, Frost eeest cellar. Possession tst-of Dec. Amply tie Whorne ‘Revere Hotel, ‘nov? ti”
JEWELER.
'LOM)ON OMNIBUS THIEVES. Their Work So Profitable That They Rana Line of Pirate Vehicles,
One of the happiest hunting grounds for a pickpocket isa Londen omnibus! People have been warned of this over and over again; notices are kept contin- ually pasted on the doors and windows of the ‘bus; conductors watch with keen and suspicious eyes doubtful-looking passengers, and yet all this energy seems to make little or no difference to the pickpockets. They seem to thrive almost as well as if “buses were provided for their special edification, and there are quite a large number of thieves in Lon- don who make a living by working al- most entirely in public conveyances.
One gang in particulur was broken up long ago, It consisted of about twenty- three men, and was known-—on account of a practice they had of slinging a hovked stick over their arms—as the ‘‘Crooked Stick Gang.’’ It was started in 1893, and the originator Was an ex- ceedingly clever thief with whom the police desired further acquaintance. He started this brilliant idea by giving an ‘‘at home’’ in the Seven Dials. He hired a room in a public house for the purpose (as be informed the landlord) of holding a ‘‘friendly lead,’’ but as a matter of fact the people who turned up were one and all practiced pickpockets, and the out- come of this meeting was the formation of a sort of Thieves’ Union, the object of which was to prey upon unwary peo- ple who travel in omnibuses and trams and public conveyances generally. The members worked in pairs, the one thiev- ing and the other watching that he did not cheat his fellows.
This system worked remarkably well for atime. Each pair of thieves had a number of ingenious disguises; on differ- ent occasions they exchanged routes; and as they kept a particular record of their proceedings, and were careful not to work too often in the same district, they were for a long time undetected. At the end of each day they met at a public house, previously appointed, for dividing their soils; and a fair idea of the profits of the concern will be gathered from the fact that they have divided as much as $650 on a single day.
After a time the conductors of the *buses (especially in principal thorough- fares like Piccaailly) got to know the gang, and become strangely shortsighted when one of them hailed them from the pavement. They treated them with an indifference that was galling, and their behavior seemed especially brutal when the passengcr with the ‘‘crooked stick’’ happened to be an old, whitehaired gen- tleman with gold eyeglasses.
When at last business became so in- volved that the Directors of the omnibus companies began to employ detectives to watch them, the gang thought it advis- able to run ‘buses of theirown, and they did. They started a number of ‘‘pirate’’ *buses, and as just somewhere about this time the company ’buses raised their fares, they easily got a large number of passengers by retaining the old prices. They were very careful, however, to stop only for well-dressed and respectable- looking people, and it was a strange thing if a passenger did not miss some- thing before he or she reached the end of the journey.
Each person who entered the ’bus was, of course, most carefully watched. The ery ‘‘All fares’’ gave the thieves a clew to the whereabouts of the purses, and a short time after they were replaced they were skillfully removed by the ‘‘ working members.’’ One of the gang who man- ipulated matters inside the ‘bus was a most dexterous pickpocket. It was his boast that he could extract a purse with
a pair of sugar tongs, and he lias been known to steal one, remove all the money, and then quietly replace it in the owner’s pocket without exciting the slightest suspicion.
For awhile these ‘‘pirate’’ ’buses suc- ceeded even better than the others. On
some occasions a sing’e ’bus has yielded over twenty purses a day, some of them containing as much as $75, and it was seldom that a pocket was picxed without something of value being found.
At last, however, complaints at Scot- land Yard became so numerous that the authorities set a special detective on the track of the crooked sticks, with the re- sult that ons of the members was caught red-handed, and this led shortly after- ward to the arrest of sevyoral others After that it was not long before they
Were. Chora: OTS Sa ee Bed be 2 i bewoe ine: pable ce iasud 5S} 24~aal° atically, and they scattered in every direction—mostly to Portland, where
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giany of them are still ‘‘doing time.
For Red Hands.
To cure redness of the hands beat to- gether cne ounce of clear honey, one ounce of almond oil, the juice of a lemon and the yolk of a raw egg. Apply at night to the hands and cover with old gloves slit across the palms.
Penance. ‘You look weary, Tibbets; aren’t you keeping Lent too strictly?’’ ‘Yes, my wife has let the nurse go home tor a rest, 6nd the baby is sleeping with us.’’
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AFTER SORROW.”
‘There is a peace that cometh after sorrow,” Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled;
A peace that looketh not upon tomorrow, But calmly on a tempest that is stilled;
A peace which lives not now in joy’s excesses Nor in the happy life of love secure, Lbutin the unerring strength the heart pos- BeSsSes Of conflicts won while learning to encure,
A peace there is in sacrifice secluded, A life subdued, from will and passion free, "Tis not the peace which over Eden brooded, But that which triumphed in Gethsemane. — Jessie Rose Gates in Century.
CHICAGO TO BE A VENICE.
Five Hundred Years Hence the, Windy City Will Stand In a Great Lake.
Chicago has troubles ahead of-her—none of your ordinary, everyday troubles, but the real thing in mental disquieters. True, it is 500 years off, but posterity must be considered.
Professor G. K. Gilbert of the United States geological survey is responsible for this prediction. For a number of years | the professor has been making notes of the rise and fall of the great lakes from his own observations and from the records of the government surveys. From these he declares the waters at the lower end of Lake Michigan rise six inches in each century and that the lake is preparing to overflow its southern edge to the infinite discomfort of the Chicagoan of the future.
If his figures speak truly, the whole dis- trict covered by the great lakes is under- going a change of level, and he believes it will only be a matter of time before their outlet into the Atlantic is closed and a new one through the basin of the Missis- sippi is opened. As the land in the neigh- borhood of Chicago is the lowest along the lake shore, it is there Professor Gil- bert has located the outlet of the future, But as the waters only rise at the rate of one inch in ten years, it is plainly to be seen there is no immediate danger to the Windy City’s real estate valuation.
In fact, 500 years will have elapsed be- fore the cry of the gondolier will begin to be heard in the waterways of the western Venice and the clang of the cable car is hushed forever. Then the real trouble will begin. And in another such trifling period —for years are as but seconds in the pre- dictions of the professor—the formation of the new outlet from the lakes to the Mississippi will have taken place, and over the site of the Chicago of today a mighty river will be flowing.
After Chicago has been disposed of the professor predicts trouble for the Niagara Falls hack drivers and newly wedded cou- ples. The latter will have to seek new fields to exhibit themselves in, and this will take away the sole support of the for- mer. In 2,500 years from now Niagara will be merely an intermittent stream and after another 500 years there will not be even a rivulet there.
The only consolation remaining for Chi- cago in all this is that, even if New York does exist, she won’t have Niagara at her doors any ‘auver.
Lor New Year's
Nice Juicy Oranges, 20c a doz Northern Spy Apples, from 10 to 24c
New Dates, 10e¢ lb Mince Meat, 16c¢ lb Pure Mixed Candy, 10¢ Ib Cream Mixture, 16c Ib No. 1 Chocolate Drops, 20¢ lb Xmas Mixture (Large) l5c lb | French Cream Mixture, 25e
Nuts, Figs, Layer Raisins, ete., at
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PB ISLAND RAILWAY.
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