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—* fis is true Liberty, when Free born Moen, having to advise the Public, may speak free,.’’—Evxirwes.
CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 4,
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Kantner.
1884.
SincLe Corres Two CxENTs.
VOL. 14.---NO. 63.
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| 1} : 7 : : water and Tpan p ’ + ~» a , ‘ i ake i Pea »f2 1 Hg AN on “4 i he al UH USTBAGS Al I'l 5, | ad 5 fION MAKKED LOW. $2 50 | | i 25 Larges! nd best assortment of PICTURE) oO 50 | M ‘ IN( Ly, 58 Hing by the fcot} jor made up Vv rv cl ip f \ sing a tec rates. i a - ter ; Pres 4 . LO K are - KS. — —_— p- R n from 6 0 2436). New Plates vi rly riy a ervise for ld fram: , 7 i at i | a k AN( ¥ GOODS, in every variety, viz :—¥/| Brackets, Music Stands, Eas: is, and Canter- | ALMANAG FOR FEBRUARY, 1824. | burys, is » Screens and Jables (combined), | ; | Flower Stands and Light Stands, Folding HA) =e and Rocking Chairs, Chess ‘Table and : 5 Ladies’ Work Table (something new), Smok.-| r, 4th day, Ih. 44.jm., a. m, rs’ Stands, Parlor Masels, etc., etc, \ llth day, Oh. 35.4m., a m ‘ re ia sarter ISth day, Ltih. 0.2m. wo verj fil \GETELLE BOARDS, N Voon ®%Gth day, 2h, 22 oim., p m. FRAMED ‘ HROVOS, | | , Sun |Sun loon High | Days MANTLE MIRRORS (new patterns), rises sets | rises ‘water! len’h. | : | hm jhm rnimeorn, hm } on ne lay 7 28/4 59, 9 24, 1 OQ 9 29) | Saturday | 27'5 Ol: 9 54) 142) 31 iH ll toni ni } ; r » » in 2 ; € : } h Simiay” | a5) 30 30 2 20, aa{ UDROLSbrag Department, i, Monday 4 511 10 3 29 a7 : ) Tuesday 23 6 il 56} t 45 40| Under the management ot MR. DREW, al 6 Ved nesday 21) 8 aft 45; Glizi 43 veteran in the trade. 7} Tharsday 19) 9, 1 47° 7 Bi 47 se 8| Frid Ay 18 10! 2 52) 8 89 0 We have jast received our Fall and Winter )' Saturday ow 11} 3 AS} 9 29 52 | Sto k of Go ds, comprising forty-five different 10) Sun lay iG 31 5 6) 10 13 54] P‘eces ot Furniture Coverings, Gimp aud | 11| Monday 14 Idi 6 13 10 57 57| Battons to match, Hessions Tix kings, Hair} tz, Tuesday | 32° 16° 7 16/11 2710 1 Cloth, imitation of Leather, etc,, etc. In} i3 Wednesday li 18S § 22'aft O 4}this department to give satisfaction, as our) '¢ Tharaday | 9} I9 9 24 0 34 7 | stock’ was purchased in the cheapest markets 15 Friday | S$; 2110 18/1 9, 10} and marked accordingly. 16 Saturday ie & le ay : > TR . , : 7 San * j s aa ae : 31 — HAIR MATRASSES, FLOCK do, EX- teat ae ; ie ee Dy "i CKELSIOR 4d STRAW ‘EATHE 13, Monday 3} 25, 023}3 14° 19] REDS a 19 Tuesday Z| 27| 1 20: 418 ee 30 Wednesday { 28) 2 3) § 32 26 Every variety of Spring Beds, Dominion 2} Thursday 6 58; 29.3 5) 6 46 29} Wire Matrasses, best in the market, every 22) Friday 57; 31! 3 51) 7 51! 32 | bed warranted, price $+.00. 23)Saturday | 55; 32) 435) 8 44! 35 W ; 24|Sunday | 54 34) 5 13, 9 28 38 ~ nave Dew em lnad aad ate manuftc- 95’ Monday | 52] 35/5 4910 9 42 turing daily) a large and varied stock of 26 Tuesday | go’ 26° 6 42/10 47! 45 | Household Furniture, comprising many new 27| Wednesday 48s| 27/6 53111 21| 43/*ad beautiful designs. Particular attention 28/Thursday | 47; 39,7 25lmorn| 5) |8've@ to ordered work om Pt a | ~ [= i = » y > w¢ orue > BCUPEe , . 29' Friday 45' 41} 7 57; 0 4! 55 KILN-DRIED STOCK and BEST WORK-
Merchants Bank of Halifax, ters, School and Church Furniture.
CHARLOTTETOWN ACENCY, Bank Department,
—WiLL BE— OPENED IST NOVEMBER, 1883, on and after which date DEPOSITS OF $5 AND UPWARDS, will be taken and
interest at the rate of
four Per Ceat, Per Annum ALLOWED THEREON. For further particulars apply to
F. H. ARNAUD.
Oct, 30, 1883, AGENT.
“ey ings
LIFE INSURANCE, |
United States Life Insuraice Co,
CTY OF NEW YORK.
ORGANIZED 1850.
New Features, Incontestible Policies, Prompt Settlement of Claims Guaranteed.
Apply at residence, Weymouth Street, from 8 to 10 a. m, and 4 to 6 p. m.
A. H. McPHERSON, FAgent. sept. 25. 1883.—Zaw
EDWARD T. RUSSEL & CO.,
GEN BRAL Commission Merchants, XG, 284 STATE STREET, BOSTON.
AILY WXAMINER!
JUST ROLE, ge A. BRUCE
Prices low.
ALL SIZES ENGLISH
MANSHIP, every time.
Venetian Blinds, Inside and Outside Shut-
Machine Jobbing, Wood Turning, etc., etc.
Factory Office and Showrooms, King Square.
Branch Queen Street.
MARK WiGhT & 60.
Ch'town, Now. 1883,—3aw
STANDARD © LIFE ASSUBANGH OO,
T the 57th Annual Genera! Meeting of A the Stardard Life Assurance Company, held at Bdinburgh on Tuesday, the 24th of April, 1883, the following results for the year ended 15th November, 1853, were re- ported :~
3,038 new proposals for life as- surance were received the
year for $ 9,754,085 38 2,561 proposals were accepted, : assuring 7,239,048 13
The total existing assurances in force at 15th November, 1882, amounted to (Of which $7,753,031.15 was reassured with other offices)
The claims by death which arose during the year amount- ed, including bonus addi- tions, to
The avuual revenue amounted at 15th November, 1852, to
The invested funds at same date amounted to
Being an increase during the year of
$6,936,302 91
2,462,226 59 4,267,546 00 29,503,416 00
1,062,648 35
JOHN LONGWORTH, Agent for Charlottetown, THOMAS KERR, Inspector of Agencies, Yh’town, Angnet-3, I8R2
MONCTON
Particular attention given to the sale of Fish aad Produce of all kinds.
June 22, 1883.—6m
GEORGE TWEEDY, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW,
Notary Public, &c.
OF FICE— West Side of Queen Street, Chav- lottetown, next door to Stevenson’s Tin Shop.
SULLIVAN & MACKEILL, ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW
Solicitors In Chancery, NOVARIES PUBLIC, Xe.
OF FICES— O’Halloran’s Building, sentt’ ISKS taken on all classes of insurable
George Street, Charlottetown, Gar Money to Loan,
W. W. Suvurvaw, Q CO. | Cunstan B. Macrae
Jan, 16, 83.
Nash and Door Factory.
\ R. P. LEA, in returning thanks to the | public for the liberal patrc nageextended ito bim while in business in Charlottetown, begs leave to inform his old customers and the public generally, that he, in company with Mr. William Rogers, bas appointed
Messrs. B. Williams & Co,
Lumber and Coal Dealers, Pownal Wharf, Charlottetown, our agents, who will keep constantly on hand a fall supply of Mould- ings, Window Sashes, Doors, etc.. at
LOWEST CASH PRICES.
All orders entrusted to them will receive
| prompt attention. .
| LEA & ROGERS,
Moncton, N. B.
Sept. 5, 1888.—2aw wly
FIRE INSURANCE.
property at reasonable rates.
HORACE HASZARD.
Lower Queen Street,
MERCHANT TAILOR,
. OVER-STOCKED with the tollowing GOODS, and offers
them ata
REDUCTION OF TWENTY PER CENT,
Gents’ Woollen Underwear, Flannel Shirts, Fur Caps, Kid Mits, Sleigh Robes.
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OY KRCOATINGS, WHICH: YOU CAN HAVE MADE TO YOUR MEASURE Cheaper Than Imported Ready Made. D. A. BRUCE,
Nec. 20, 1883.—eod wkly 72 Queen Street, Charlottetown
EEA ladaad let ndlohseed et
By Charles Reade.
CHAPTER XLIV. (Continued. )
Helen’s bosom began to heave at this, but sh» fonght bravely. ‘Love me less, and respect me more,’ said she panting, ‘you affront me, you frighten me. I looked on you as a brother, a dear brother. But now \I am afraid of you—I am afraid—’
He was so injudicious as to interrupt her, |instead of giving her time to contradict her- iself. ‘You have nothing to fear,’ said he,
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| ‘keep this side of the island, and V’ll live on!
ithe other, rather than hear the name of 'Arthar Wardlaw.’
Helen’s courage failed her at that spirited proposal, apd she made no reply at all, but turned her back haughtily, and went away from him, only, when she had got a little way, her proud head drooped, and she went crying.
A coolness sprang up between them, and neither of them knew how toend it. Hazel saw no way to serve her now, except by flying weighted ducks, and he gave his mind so to this that one day he told her he had twenty-seven ducks in the air all charged, and two-thirds of them weighted. He thovght that must please her now. To his surprise and annoyance, she received the intelligence coldly and asked him whether it was not cruel to the birds.
Hazel colored with mortification at his great act of self-denial being so received, He said, ‘I don’t think my worst enemy can say I am wantonly cruel to Gods
ISB4. JANUARY. 1884.
0
Annual Clearance Sale At
d. B. MACDONALD’S.
| AM now having my Annual Clearance Sale, and will CLEAR OUT Wool Goods in
Scarfs, Clouds, Wool Squares,
Heavy Winter Cloths, Winter Dress Stuffs, Ladies’ Fur Caps and Mufis,
Ladies’ Fur Tippets,
Ladies’ Feltand Fur Hats,
Men’s Fur and Cloth Caps,
Menm’s and Boys’ Ulsters, Overcoats and Reefing Jackets, “i Alo Remnants in Cleths, Remnants in Dress Stuffs, Remnants in Prints, and Remnants
in Canton Flannels.
These goods must be cleared out and Bargains Extraordinary
J. B. MACDONALD'S,
Ch*town, Jan. 12, 1884.—2aw wkly, Queen Street.
THE CHARLOTTETOWN
FLOUR, FEED AND PROVISION,
STO R-E,
South Side Queen Square, near Queen Strest,
AVE to announce that they have on hand the following goods, which they are pre- pared to sell at reasonable prices and in quantities to suit purchasers:
Flour (Superior Extra, Strong Bakers’ and Patent)
show Rooms, 83,| will be given.
OATMEAL, CORNMEAL, BRAN, SHORTS, OATS,
CRUSHED FEED, either Oats and Barley or Oats, Barley and Corn. APPLES, which will be sold by the barrel or by the pound, at rates very little over barrel prices.
Ch’tewn, Dec. 18, 1883.
TEA.
BEER & COFF’S.
UR TEA is giving splendid satisfaction. Prices, retail t P4cts., 30cts., and 36cts, Prices, wholesale, very low.
FIVE POUND TINS, (serew top), excludes the air, pre- serving the flavor and strength of the Tea. Just what is wanted.
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Halt chests very cheap to the trade.
BEER & GOFF._
eas er mernee er a SN TA a a aaa a
Wholesale and Retail, Cheap. ON HAND:
230 boxes very choice Valencia and Layer RAISINS, 80 half-boxes choice LAYERS, 3,000 pounds CURRANTS, 200 boxes prime FIGS, 5 cases choice PRUNES, 200 barrels hard WINTER APPLES, No. 1, 20 kegs GRAPES,
LITD MORE TO ARRIVE. BEER & GOFF.
Ch’ town, Jan. 12, 84.-—2w eod.
Noy. 14, 1883.—3aw wkly
creatures.’ Helen threw in, deftly, ‘And I am not your worst enemy.’ ‘But what other way is there to liberate you from thig island, where you have no- body to speak to but me? Well,selfishness is the best course. Think only of others, and you are sure not to please them.’ ‘If you want to please people, you must begin by understanding them,’ said the lady, not ill-naturedly. ‘But if they don’t selves?’ ‘Then pity them; you can, for you are a man.’ ‘What hurts me,’ said Hazel, ‘is that you realiy seem to think I fly these ducks for my pleasure. Why, if I had my wish, you and I should neyer leave this island, nor any other person set foot onit. 1 am frank you see.’ ‘Rather too frank.’ ‘What does it matter, since I do my duty allthe same, and fly the ducks? But sometimes | do yearn fora word of praise for it; and that word never comes.’ ‘It is a praiseworthy act,’ said Helen, but so icily that itis a wonder he ever flew another duck after that. ‘No matter,’ said he, and his hand in- voluntarily sought his heart; ‘you read me asharp but wholesome lesson; that we should do our duty for our duty’s sake. And as I am sure it is my duty ta liberate you and restore you to those you—I’ll fly three ducks to-mgrrow morning instead of two.’ ‘It is not done by my advice,’ said Helen. ‘You will certainly make yourself ill.’ ‘Oh, that is all nrnesence! said Hazel, ‘You are rude to me, said Helen, ‘and I am not aware that I deserve it.’ ‘Rude, am I? Then I'll say no more,’ said Hazel, half humbly, half doggedly. His paychment was exhausted, and he was driven to another expedient. He ob- tained alcohol by distillation from rum, and having found dragon’s blood jn its pure state, little ruby drops, made a deep red varnish that defied water; he got slips of bark, white inside, cut his inscription deep on the inner side, and filled the incised letters with this red varnish. He had forty-eight ducks in the air, and was rising before daybreak to catch another couple, when he was seized with a pain in the right hip and knee, and found he could hardly walk, a> he gave in that morning, and kept about the premises. But he got worse, and had hardly any use of his right side, from the waist downward, and was in great pain.
As the day wore on, the pain and loss of power increased, and resisted all his remedies; there was no fever to speak of; but Nature was grimly revenging her- self for many a gentler warning neglected. When he realized his condition he was terribly cut up, and sat on the sand with his head on his hands for nearly two hours. But after that period of despond ency, he got up, took his boat-hook, and, using it as a staff, hobbled to his arsenal, and set to work.
Among his materials was a young tree he had pulled up; the roots ran at right angles to the stem. He just sawed off the ends of the roots, and then proceeded to shorten the stem.
But meantime Heien, who had alwaysa
understand them-
and has
‘crook under his arm, and turned sullenly ‘away from her,
Four «tevs he took with his erutch.
She caught him with two movem>nts of | her supp'e and vigorous frame.
She just laid her Jeft hand lightly on his | shoulder, and with her right stole the crutch softly away, and let it fall upon the | sand. She took his right hand, and put it | to her lips, like a subject paying homage to her sov reign; and then she put her strong arm under his shoulder, still holding his right hand in hers, and looked in his face. ‘No wooden crutches while I am by,’ said she, in a low voiee, full of devotion.
He stood surprised, and his eyes began to fill,
‘Come,’ said she, in a voice of music. And, thus aided, he went with her to her ‘eavern. As they went, she asked him ten- derly where the pain waa.
‘It was inmy hipand knee,’ he sid; ‘but now it is nowhere ; for joy has come back te my heart.”
‘And to mine, too,’ said for this.’
The quarrel dispersed like a cloud, unter this calamity. There was no formal 1econ- ciliation; no discussion ; and this was the wisest course; for the unhappy situation remained unchanged, and the friendliest discussion could only fan the embeis of discord and misery gently, instead of fiercely.
The pair so strangely thrown together commenced a new chapter of their exist- ence. It was not patient and nurse over again; Hazel, though very lame, had too much spirit to accept that position. But still the sexes became in a measure re- versed— Helen the fisherman and forager, Hazel the cook and domestic.
He was busy as ever, but in a narrow circle; he found pearl-oysters near the sunk galleon, and, ere he had been lame many weeks, he had entirely lined the sides of the cavern with mother-of-pearl, set in cement, and close as Mosiec.
Every day he passed an hour in para- dise; for his living crutch made him take a little walk with her; her hand held his; her arm supported his shoulder; her sweet face was near his, fuil of tender solicitude; they seemed to be one, and spoke in whispers to each other; like thinking aloud. The causes of happiness were ever present; the causes of unhappiness were out of sight, and showed no signs of ap- proach,
And, of the two, Helen was the happiest. Before a creature so pure as this marries children, the great maternal instinct is still there, but feeds upon what it can get—first a doll, and then some helpless creature or other. Too often she wastes her heart’s milk on something grown up, but as selfish as achild, Helen was more fortunate; her child was her hero, now so lame that he must -lean on her to walk. The days p:ssed by, and the island was fast becoming the world to those two, and as bright a world as ever shone on two mortal creatures.
lt was a happy dream.
What a pity that dreanis dissolve 80 soon, This had lasted for nearly two months, and Hazel was getting better, thought still not well enough, or not fool enovgh to dis- miss his live crutch, when one afternoon Helen, who had been up on the heights, observed a dark cloud in the blue sky te- ward the west. There was not another cloud visible and the air marvelously clear; time, about three-quarters of an hour be- fore sunset. She told Hazel about this solitary cloud and asked him, with some anxiety, if it portended anotherstorm. He told herto be under no alarm—there were no tempests in that latitude except at the coming in and going out of the raims—but he should like to go around the Point and look at her cloud.
She lent him her arm, and they went around the Point, and there they saw a cloud entirely different from anything they had ever seen since they were on the island. It was like an enormous dark ribbon stretched along the sky, at some little height above the horizon. Notwith- standing its prodigious length it got larger before their very eyes.
Hazel started.
Helen felt him start, and asked him, with some surprise, what was the matter.
‘Cloud !’ said he; ‘that is no cloud, That is smoke !’
‘Smoke!’ echoed Helen, becoming agitat- ed in her turn,
‘Yes; the breeze is northerly, and carries the smoke nearer to us: it is the smoke of a steamboat.’
Helen; ‘except
(To be continued).
— sosetemensaenegeeannn enna etapa — angen
El Mahdi and the Price of Candy.
The Boston Advertiser says: The world is a little place after al). That the False Prophet should regulate the price of candy in Boston would undoubtedly seem as im- probable as that the Khan of Tartary should
secret eye upon him and his movements, seen there was something wrong, and came timidly and asked what was the matter with him.
‘Nothing,’ said he, doggedly.
‘Then why did you sit so jong on the sand! I never saw you like that?
‘l was ruminating.
‘What upon? Not that I have any right to ask.’
‘On the arrogance and folly of men; they attempt more than they can do, and despise the petty prudence and common sense of women, and smart for it; as I am smarting now for being wiser than
ou.’
‘Oh,’ said Helen; ‘why what is the matter? and what is that you have made? it looks like—oh dear?’
‘It is a crutch,’ said Hazel, with calm- ness,’ ‘and I’m acripple.’
Helen clasped her hands and stood trembling.
Haze} loat his self-control for a moment, and cried out in a voice of agony, ‘a use- less cripple. I wish I was dead and out of the way.’
Then ashamed of having given way
before Aer, he seized his crutch, placed the
bull the stock market, or the Emperor of
\China determine the price of shoes at
such is the fact. This rather curious circumstance happens thus: At the basis of much confec- tionary, notably gum-drops and marsh-mal- low, is gum-arabic. Now the market for gum- arabic is Khartoum, for the world’s gum-arabic |comes from the Soudan. Taken on barges to \Cairo at the fall freshete, in bales of 500 pounds, it is shipped to London, Paris, Mar- ‘geilles and New Yor’, to the aggregate of 18,000 bales, El Mahdi has raised the invoice price from eight to twenty cents per pound, and the price is rising. There is no crop this year. There threatens to be none next. Egypt certainly cannot ‘well send for what little has beer stored. There is, therefore, every reason to suppose that gum will reach fifty cents shortly, and fortunes will doubtless be made by the wary. The possible gain consists in the fact that ‘small purchasers of candy, of limited means, may be discouraged by the large advance in ‘price. If the False Prophet can thus lessen indigestion among our cherubs at this joyous season, a providential reason for his turbulent and bloody career is discovered,
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Lynn. Yet
J. B. Macpona.p has a clearing-out sale of winter goods, giving great bargains. {jan iz