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aes. Unele Andrew’s Romance.

Unele Andrew sat leaning his elbows on the table, supporting his head on his hand. ‘Traces of fresh tears were upon his cheeks, and his eye: were fixed on the ivery minature w ich lay before him,depicting, as I saw by the glimpse which [caught of it, a bright girlish fuce of surpassing beauty. ;

I had no thought of intruding ot

Uncle Andrew's private griefs wheu 1}

entered his room without warning. In- deed I never suspected that he had any gricts, he was so ceerful and pleasant, and so free from the crustiness com- monly set down as the distinguishing traits of old bachelors.

[ was about to beat a hasty retreat, when Uncle Andrew stopped me.

‘Don’t go, Charlie,’ he said, ‘I feel ua though it would do me good to talk a bit just now.’

‘Is this the likeness of a relative ?’ I asked pointing to the miniature, which seemed to be the subject of his thought.

‘No,’ he answered, ‘but I will tell you the story, if you care to hear it. { think it would be a relief to tell some one this evening.’

[ drew upa chair in front of Uncle Andrew, who thus proceeded.

‘You may form some conception of how beautiful Aliee Bond was from the picture you see there, though the re- ality was far beyond the power of any artist to reproduce.

‘She was a delicate and tender flower. A hereditary tendency to heart disease —her mother had died suddenly from that cause—gave her friends much anxiety in her earlier years, but the doctors gave encouragement that she would outgrow it in time, and Mr. Bond went on making money as usual, with aneye to leaving his daughter some day the richest heiress in the land.

‘IT was a happy youth thai day when I told Alice that [loved her and had done so ever since [ knew the meaning of the word, and she leaned her darling head on my shoulder and whispered back the precious answer that satisfied my heart’s longings.

‘We beth knew Alice’s father too well to hope for his sanction to our union. This was our plan: I would go to the land of gold, then newly dis- covered, win a fortune, and return and claim the hand of the rich man’s daugh- ter when he would have no right to scorn my suit as that of a merceaary adventurer.

‘For two long years I toiled in that wild, far off country, as a man only can toil when he has some cherished end in view. lL was among the fortunate ones and at the end of the period named had umassei a sum beyond my most san- guine hopes. The time had come when I need wait no longer, The days of servitude were over, and 1 might now claim the prize.’

‘With what impatience 1 made the weary journey homeward. Not a line had passed between Alice and myself. It was « condition our compact that we! should hold no communication till the

time came that we might ask Alice’s father for his approval. The self-im- posed restriction had been faithfully observed. I did not even write to tell Alice of my good success. I wished to be bearer of the good news in person.

‘At iast I set foot in my native town. My first greeting, I resolved, should come from Alice. [rather ran than walked to her house,

‘Tell Miss Bond a gentleman wishes to see her, L said, excitedly, to a ser- vant who answered my hasty ring.

‘«] fear you cannot see her to-day, was the response.

‘*Why not?? LI asked impatiently.

‘Do you not know she is to be mar- ried this morning ?’ returned the ser- vant.

‘ Married?’ I said gasping for breath. ‘ Married !—to whom ?’

‘To Mr. Ellis Wythe.’

‘Ellis Wythe! the villian! He had pretenced to be my friend, and was the only confident of my love for Alice,

‘Not well knowing what I did, 1 staggered past the servant and was soon in the midst of a» gay company to whom Mr. Bond, stiff and stately as usual, was doing the honors with an air ot great satisfaction.

‘The bridegroom and his attendants stood in alittle group by themselves. A clergyman was in readiness to do his office. They seemed to be only waiting for the bride.

[ advanced and controntel Ellis Wythe. Heavens knows what | would have said or done, for I was in no rea- sonable moods But at that instant a piercing sbriek from an upper cham- ber rang through the house. Alarm

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‘It was not till afterwards that I learned the full perfidy of Ellis Wythe. He had pretended to receive intelli- gence, through a correspondent, of my marriage and permanent settlement in California. Stung by my apparent faithfulness, Alice had yielded to her fathers command, and consented to

,marry a man she did not love. But the

‘poor, erushed heart rebelled at last— | broke.’ Poor Uncle Andrew !—and that was the reason he had always remained a bachelor.

England’s War of A Century.

It has been sometimes said of England that her people are more warlike than mili- tarv aud no doubt the statement is accurate

enough. Certainly the English, whether warlike or not, have had a full share of

fighting, especially during the past hun- years. Indeed, during the past century there has been scarcely a year in which England was not engaged in war in some quarter of the world, One hundred years ago she was at war with the thirteen colonies in America and also with France, which, in 1778 had acknowledged their independ- ence. In 1779 Spain also declared war against England and made an alliance with

the revolted American colonies. In 1781, and while the American war was still going on, Holland de-

clared war against England which then had the fleets of three Maritime nations to contend against. In the meantime she was waging war in the East with Hyder Ali and his son Tippo Sahib, who aimed at nothing less than the destruction of British power in India. In 1783 peace was con- cluded with France, Spain and the United States, but the war with the Dutch and with Tippoo Sahib did not end until 1784. In 1790 we find England again at war with Tippoo, and two years later, when another advantageous peace had been concluded with him she was getting ready for another war with France. This war, which broke out in 1793, lasted with one short respite until! 1814. The American war had cost England £1 40,090,090, the war with France cost £700,000,000, much of which was spent in subsidies to other nations. Sometimes England had allies, and some- times she had none, but she fought on ob- stinately for more than twenty years. The war commenced with an alliance between England, Austria, Prussia, Holland and Spain against the young French Republic. Holland was forced to detach herself from this alliance and join France, then Prussia broke away from the Coalition and was shortly followed by Spain, which sent her fleets against England. Austria soon after found it convenient to make peace with France, and in 1797 England was left to fight it out alone with France, Spain and Holland, and with the promise of an Irish Rebellion on her hands. In the following year the war with Tippo Saiib was renew- ed, ending in 1797 in his death and the ab- sorption of his kingdom. The same year England got upa second contention against France, which embraced Austria and Rus- sia, but 1801 saw its collapse by the with- drawal of Austria,and in that same year England added Denmark tu the list of her enemies. Later in the year peace was made with France, which lasted about a year and a half. The war with France was renewed in 1803, and the same yeara war broke out in the East between England and the Mahrattas, who was reduced to submission in the two following years. In’1804 Eng- land was again at war with Spain, and in 1805 she had organized a third coali- tion against France, including Russia, Austria and Sweden. In 1806 we find England declaring war against Prussia, but later in the year she detached her from the French in- terest. In 1807 England at war with Denmark and on bad terms with Rus- sia. Next year commenced the Peninsular war, which engaged the attention of Eng- land until 1814, when Napoleon was de- throned. The return of Napoleon in 1815, his defeat at Waterloo, and his exile, are all events in which England took a con- spicuous part. In 1812 England was at war with the United States, and the con- flict did not end until 1815. Thatwwas a year of genéral pacification, but the peace for England did not last long, for in 1816 she was at war with Algiers. That year she was also at war with the Pindaries, a robber tribe in India, and with the Mah- ratta Chief, Halkar. These wars ended in 1818, and then there was peace until 1824, when a war broke out with Burimah, which lasted until 1826.

In 1827, England’s fleet took part in the battle of Navarino, by which the Turkish fleet was destroyed. The Canadian rebel- lion of 1837-8 was the next wariike opera- tion in which English soldiers were employ- ed, and in 1839 the first Afghan war com- menced. It did not end till the year 1543, in which year England engaged in the con- quest of Scinde. In the meantime England had engaged ina war with China, which ended in 1842. That year also witnessed the submission of the Boers of Natal. Another Marhatta war broke out in 1843, and in 1845 the first Sikh war, which ended in 1846, In 1848 commenced the second Sikh war. In 1849 England was coercing Greece with her fleet. That year Punjaab was annexed to the British crown: In 1852, there was another war with Burinah which resulted in the annexation of a large terri- tory. Between 1847 and 1853 England had also been conducting warlike eperations against the Kaffirs, In 1855 England went

overspread the countenance of the guests. There was a general rush for

‘to war with Russia and peace was not made juntil 1856. That year she annexed Oude.

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the stairway, and I was borne along’ She also went to war with both Persia and |

with the others. Through the open door of an apartment we saw the brides-maid, who had gone te summon the bride, kneeling beside a prostrate form in white. It was that of Alice in her wedding robes, The strain upen

China, and in 1857 had to face that great crisis the Indian mutiny. In 1863 came the war with the Maories in New Zealand; in 1867 the war against King Theodore of Abyssynia ; in 1873 the Ashantee war; in |1877 the war with the Kaflirs; in 1878 the ,Afghan war; andin 1879 the Zulu war.

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the worn, troubled heart had been too; This is a pretty good record of war and | great.

‘She was dead.’

bloodshed for a single century.

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TW VIE Subscriber, sincerely{thankful to his

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Kew Store and Workshop,

and inereased facilities for manufacturing Tinware, Stove Pipes, Bake Pans, Coal Scut- tles, and all goods generally found in a first- class Tin Store, hopes that by strict. attention to his business to merit a fair share of public patronage.

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NOTICE.

FOHN tEcINTYRE, Shoemaker, wishes to inform his customers in town and country that he has REMOVED from his old

grove’s, Grafton Street, where he will be glad to see al! his old customers, and as many new ones as may give him a call. I work cheap for cash.

NO SECOND PRICE. All work warranted. Repairing done with dispatch. Uct. 6, 1879—I1m

OF ENGLAND.

CAPITAL,. . TWO MILLIONS STERLING,

NSURANCE effected on all kinds of Build- ings, Merchandise and Produce. Also, on Vessels on the stocks. Special rates for isolated residences. Losses settled promptly. GEORGE MACLEOD (Union Bank), Agent for Prince Edward Island June, 1877—

wa en emma

73,620 MORE

SINGER SEWING MACHINES

SOLD IN 1878 THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR.

In 1870 we sold 127,833 Sewing Machines. “©1878 “* “ 356,432 = * “

Our sales have increased enormously every year, through the whole period of ‘‘ hard imes.”’

We now Sell Three-Quarters of all the Sewing Machines Sold in

the World.

Waste no Money on ‘cheap’

Counterfeits. gar Send for handsome Illustrated Price List.

ROBERT YOUNG, South Side Queen Square, Sole Agent for P. E. Island. Ch’town, March 18, 1878—2aw tf

MAIL NOTICE.

N AILS for Great Britain will be closed at

10 o'clock, p. m., on THURSDAY in each week, to be forwarded via Rimouski, and also on MONDAY, the 13th and 27th inst., at 4 o’clock, a. m., to be forwarded via Halifax.

Mails to be forwarded via Summerside and Shediac and also for all places on the route to Summerside and in Prince County, will be closed daily at 5.30 o’clock, a. m., also for Summerside direct, at 5 p. m.

Mails to be forwarded via Steamers to Pictou will be closed every MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY and SATUR- DAY, at 5 o'clock, a. m.

_ Mails for Georgetown and Souris East, and all places on those routes, will be closed daily at 6 o'clock, a. m.

Post Office open from 8, a.m., till 9, p. m.

A, A. MACDONALD, Postmaster.

Post Office Charlottetown, } Oct. 8th, 1879. {

CATA. a re Et. Constitutional Catarrh Remedy CURES CATARRKE,

Hear what a Reverend Gentleman says of the Constitutional Renedy,.

T. J. B. Harpine, Esq., Brockville, Ont. :—

Dear Sir—It is now two years since your ‘Constitutional Catarrh Remedy’ was intro- duced tome. Ihave waited this ong to see if the cure would remain permanent before do- ing this, my duty, to you, as at first the happy effects seemed to me to be “too good to be true.”

1 was afflicted in my head for years before I suspected it to be Catarrh. In reading in your Circular 1 saw my case described in many par ticulars. ‘The inward ‘‘drop” from the head had become very disagreeable, and a choking sensation often preventing me from lying long, I would feel like smothering and be compelled to sit up in the bed. My lealth and spirits were seriously affected. When your agent came to Walkertownin August, 1876, I secured three bottles. Before I had used a quarter of the contents of one bottle [ found decided re- lief, and when I had used two bottles and a| third. | quit taking it, feeling quite cured of that ailment, and have not used any since until of late | have taken some for a cold in my heady

A sense of duty to sufferers from that loath- some disease, Catarrh, prompts me to send you this Certificate, unsolicited, with leave to make what use of it yon may see proper Yours truly,

W. TINDALL, Methodist Minister.

Port Elgin, Ont., Aug. 24, 1878.

—SUCCESSORS TO —

JAMES DesBRISAY

838 QUEEN STREET. Ch’town, Oct. 4, 1879.

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Ask for Littlefield’s Constitutional Catarrh | Remedy and take no other. | T. J. B. Harpixe, Dominion Agent, Brock- Ville, Ont. | For sale by all Druggists at only one Dollar | per botile,

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QUEEN INSURANCE G0'Y,|S%":

Prince Edward Island RAILWAY.

TIME TABLE NO. 12. Summer Arrangement.

ON AND AFTER

TUESDAY, HAY 27th, 1879.

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TRAINS GOING WEST.

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Georget’n.. | Dp. 7. 10am} Dp. 3. 45pm| Cardigan. .|Ar. a &¢ Il Ap. 4. mi . sé 8.: ‘sé se 5.40 és}

Mt Stwt Je| py, $40 “é Dp.6.00 oe Royaity Jo|. *.9,38 1 ¢ 7,48.** Chtown ,. (279-55 “jAr.7.40 ** (Dp. 6.20am! Dp10.05am! Dp. 5.25pm Royalty Je! «6.97 «| ArlO.25 | ne oe : Dpi0.30 ‘*; ‘* 5.47 “ NWiltsh’re| “ 7.13 ‘| “11.25 “| “ 6.40 « Hunter R’r| ‘* 7.25 ** | *£11.40am! ** 6.57 “ Breadalb’n| “7.53 “| 12.23pml! “ 7.35 “ | C’éy Line..|** 8.00 * | “12981 '* Tap + Kensingt’n} ‘* 8.28 ‘‘| ** 1.16 “*| * 825 S‘mm’ rside|“" $.55 ** |Ar. 1.50 ‘* |Ar.9.00 “ : SICC!Dp.9.10 ** |Dp.2.25 ** Wellingt’n|Ar.9.48 “! ** 3.20 *!

No. 6, No. 8, Mixed, Mixed.

Tignish....'Dp.5.15am'Dp.6.20am|-

Alberton..}| ** 5.55 **

Nos. 2 & 4

STATIONS, . E x p ress.

O’Leary...} ‘* 6.41 ‘

Port Hill. .; ‘* 7.38 **; ‘£10.20 “

Wellington! ‘* 8.09 **; “11.08 ** Ar. 8.45 ‘ |/Arl2.05pm!/

our pide Dp.5.30 pm! Dp12.40 ** | Dp.9.05 am Kensingt’n| ** 5.52 **| ‘* 1.16 **| ** 9.4F'*

Cty Line..| ** 6.24 **| ** 1.55 **| “1020 “*

Breedal’ne.| ‘* 6.31 ‘*{ ‘* 2.05 ** | £10.31 **

NWaltsh’re} “‘ 7.12 **; “* 301 “| “1.2 ™ . : Fy ss

Royalty Jc| ‘* 7.49 “ Ar. 3.50 **12.18pm

Dp.3.55 **

Ch’town .. jAr. 8.05 ‘* iar. 4.15 “* Arl2.40 * Dp.4.30pm| Dp.6.50 am Royalty Je

ce 4.49 sé ss 7.13 sé M. Stw’t Jc Ar, 5.45 Ar, 5.30 Cardigan. .

BOE os. scons Dp. 6.15 a, m.{Dp. 2.50 p.m Harmony...... “mee “1. eae ™ St. Peter’s es 7.30 ai ce 4,29 “ Morell See 6 Bee

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Sup’t and Engineer. Railway Office, Chtown, May 22, 1879. —pat pres h ane sp sj kea 61

Steam Navigation Co, Steamers MAY, 1879.

NTIL FURTHER NOTICE the Steam ers ** St. Lawrence” and ** Prin- cess of Wales” will leave as under :— NOVA SCOTIA. From Charlottetown to Pictou, every MON- DAY, WEDNESDAY, ‘THURSDAY and SATURDAY mornings, at five o'clock. Returning from Picton every TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY and SATURDAY, on atrival of morning trainirom Halifax.9 GAPE BRETON. Leave Pictou for Hawkesbury every MON- DAY and THURSDAY, on arrival ot mornin train from Halifax, connecting both ways wi stage and Steamer ‘‘ Neptune,” to and from Sydney and Bras d’Or Lake. Returning to Pictou same nights, connectin with 10a. m. Train TUESDAY and FRIDA for Halifax.

FOR CANADA AND UNITED STATES.

Leave Summerside for Point Du Chene EVERY DAY about 9a. m., on arrival ‘of morning train from Charlottetown.

Returning to Summerside EVERY NOON, on arrival of morning train from St. John,

By order, Fr. W. HALES,

Charlottetown, May 6, 1879. GRAYS SPECIFIC MEDICINE TRADE mass The Great TRADE Mark.

Lor enetish Kem- At exty, an unfail- Bee 3

“SSF all diseases that =S<Gh. Before Takingiollow as a se- After Taking, quence of self-abuse; as loss of Memory, Uni- versal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, ' Dimness of Vision, Premature Old Age, and many other Diseases that lead to Insanity or Con- sumption. 8. Full particulars in our pam} phlet, which we desire to send free by mail to ak one. 6%. The Specific Medicine is sold by all druggfsts at $l per package, or six pack- ages for $5, or will be sent free, by mail, on receipt of the money, by addressing

The Gray Medicine Co., ‘oronto, Ont., Canada.

N. B.—The demands of our business have necessitated our removing to Toronto, to which place please address all futare communi- ote tela Charl

= in rlottetown byQall Drugists and by all wholesale and retail “Draggiate in the United States and Canada,

January 24, 1879.

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