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Savings 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 Cent. Per Annum ALLOWED THEREON.

For further particulars apply to

F. H. ARNAUD,

Oct, 30, 1883. AGENT.

SULLIVAN & MACNEILL, ATTORNEYS - AT-LAW

Solicitors in Chancery, NOTARIES PUBLIC, &c.

OF FICES— O’Halloran’s. Building, Great George Street, Charlottetown, 6ae" Money to Loan,

W. W. Scrurvay, Q. C, | Cusstsr B. Macweitt. Jan. 16, '83.

“L. ARTHUR & CO., GHNERAL Hommission Merchants, 12] ATLANTIC AVENUE,

(ROSS MARKET) BOSTON, MASS.

Eggs and Produce a Specialty.

April 24, 1883.—-w kly tf

GEORGE TWEEDY, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, Notary Public, &c. OF FICE— West Side of Queen Street, Char-

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Lancashire Insurance Company

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Insurance effected on all kinds of property at current rates. Losses settled promptly

and equitably. ac equiea'y* DESBRISAY & ANGUS, General Agents, Otfice—South Side Queen Square. Ch'town, Sept, 15, 1882

CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26,

LIFE INSURANCE. United States Liis Tusnrance Co,

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EDWARD T. RUSSEL & CO.,.

GENERAL

Commission Merchants, KO. 284 STATE STREET, BOSTON.

Particular attention given to the sale of Fish and Produce of all kinds.

June 22, 1883.-—6m

«MONCTON sash ald Door Factory.

NV R. P. LEA, in returning thanks to the

public for the liberal patronageextended to him while in business in Charlottetown, begs leave to inform his old customers and the public generally, that he, in company with Mr. William Rogers, has appointed

Messrs. B. Williams & Co,

Lumber and Coal Dealers, Pownal Wharf, Charlottetown, our agents, who will keep constantly on band a full supply of Moald- ngs, Window Sashes, Doors, etc., at

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— STANDARD LUM ASSURANCE UO.

the 57th Aunual General Meeting of LA the Stardard Life Assurance Company, betd at Kdinburgh on Tuesday, the 24th of April, 1883, the following results for the year ended 15th November, 1883, 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 Lhe 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 annual revenue amounted at 15th November, 1882, to 4,267,546 00 The invested funds at same date amounted to Being an increase during the year of

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2,462,226 59

JOHN LONGWORTH, Agent for Charlottetown, THOMAS KERR, Inspector of Agencies, Ch’town, Angust 3, 1888,

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Ruffalo Robes, Japanese Woif Robes, Blankets.

Horse Rugs,

Railway Wrappers,etc

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XMAS AND NEW YEAR.

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Biscuits from eight cents per lb. up wards, Retail.

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102,683 VWEIOLMSALHM & RETAIL.

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| CHAPTER XXV.

| (Continued. )

, Hazel’s next anxiety, and that a pressing |one, was to provide shelter for the delicate ‘girl and the sick man, whom circumstances had placed under his care.

| He told Miss Rolleston thai Welch and jhe were going tocross the bay again, and | would she be good enough to meet them at |the bend of the river, where she would find \four trees? She nodded her head and took | that road accordingly. Hazel rowed east- ward across the bay, and, it being now high |water, he got the boat into the river itself ‘near the edge of the shore, and, as this iriver had worn a channel, he contrived |to propel the boat up the stream to an jangle in the bank within forty yards of the |palm trees. He could get no farther, the istream being new not only shallow but | blocked here and there with great and jrough fragments of stone.

‘the boat into the angle of the corrent and} | shall give the thing.

moored her fast. He and Welch then got ashore, and Miss Rolleston was standing at the four trees. He went to her, and said, ‘enthusiastically: ‘This fis to be your house. Is it | beautiful site? | ‘Yes, it is a beautiful site, but—forgive me—TI really don’t see the house,’ was her lreply- ‘But you see the frame-work ! Helen looked all about, and ruefully : ‘I suppose !am_ blind, sir, or else are dreaming. for I see nothing at all.’ ‘Why, here’s a roof ready made, and the frame of a wall. We have only to wattle a screen between these four uprights.’

Bat I don’t what wattling a screen is, Who

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‘Only to wattle a screen ! know does ? ‘Why, you get some of the canes that grow a little further up the river, and a certain long, wiry grass I have marked down, and then you fix and weave till you make a screen from tree to tree ; this could be patched with wet clay; I oe where there is plenty of that. Meantime, see what is done to our hands. The crown of this great palm-tree lies at the southern aperture of your house, and blocks it en- tirely up ; that will keep off the only cold wind, the south wind, from you to-night. Then look at these long, spiral leaves inter- laced over your head, (These trees are screw-pines.) There is a roof ready made. Yon musi have another roof underneath that, but it will do for a day or two.’

‘ But you will wattle the screen directly,’ said Helen. ‘Begin at once, please. I am anxious to see a screen wattled,’

‘Well,’ said Welch, who had joined them, ‘landsmen are queer folk, the best of ’em. Why, miss, it would take him a week to screen you with rushes and reeds, and them sort of weeds; and I’d do it in half an hour, if I was the Tom Welch I used to be. Why there’s spare canvass enough in the boat to go between these four trees breast high, and then there’s the foresel besides; the mainsel is all you and me shall want sir.’

‘Oh, excuse me,’ said Miss Rolleston, ‘1 will not be sheltered at the expense of my friends.’

‘Welch, you are a trump,’ said Hazel, and ran off for the spare canvass. He brought it and the carpenter’s basket of tools. They went to work, and Miss Rol- leston insisted in taking partinit. Finding her so disposed, Hazel said that they had better divide their lobors, since the time was short. Accordingly he took the axe and chopped off a great many scales of the palm-tree, and lighted a great fire between the trees, while the other two worked on the canvas.

‘This is to dry the soil as well as cook our provisions,’ said he; ‘and now I must go and find food. Isthere anything you fancy?’ He turned his head from the fire he was lighting and addressed this question both to Welch and Miss Rolieston,

Miss Rolleston stared at this question, then smiled, and, in the true spirit of a lady, said, ‘f think I should like a good large cocoanut, if you can find one.’ She felt sure there was no other eatable thing in the whole island.

‘l wants a cabbage,’ said Welch, in a loud tone.

‘Oh, Mr. Welch, we are not at home,’ said Miss Rolleston, blushing at the pre- posterous demand,

‘No, miss, in Capericorn. Whereby we sha’n’t have to pay nothing for this here cabbage. I'll tell ye, miss; when a sailor comes ashore he always goes in for green vegetables, for why, he has eaten so much junk and biscuit, nature sings out for greens. Me and my shipmates were paid off at Portsmouth last year, and six of us agreed to dine together and each order his dish. Blest if six boiled legs of mutton did not come up smncking hot; three was with cabbage, and three with turmots, Mine was with turmots. But them [ don’t ask, so nigh the Line ; don’t you go to think, becanse I’m sick and the lady and you is so kind to me, and to him that is a waiting outside them there shoals for me, as Lam onreasonable; turmots 1 wish you b th, and plenty of em, when some whaler

uv uu, auu avuvy Vi cml, wel BvlwTv WieaIicr gets driven out of her course and picks you up, and carries you into northern latitudes where turmots grow; but cabbage is my right, cabbage is my due, being paid off in a manner; for the ship is foundered and I’am ashore; cabbage I ask for, as a sea- man that has done his duty, and a man that won’t live to eat many more of them; and’ (losing his temper) ‘if you are the man | take you for, you'll run and fetch me a cabbage fresh from the tree’ (recovering his temper). ‘I know I didn’t ought to ax a parson to shin up a tree for me; but Lord bless you, there ain’t no sgrcy little boys a looking on, and here’s a poor fellow mostly dying for it.’

Miss Rolleston looked at Mr. Hazel with

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‘Cabbage from the tree! ls he wander- ing ?”

Hazel smiled.

‘No,’ said he: ‘he has picked upa fable of these seas, that there is a tree which grows cabbages ’

Welch heard him, and said with warmth:

‘Of course there isa tree on all these islands that grow cabbages; that was known a hundred years before you was born, and shipmates of mine have eaten them.’

‘Excuse me; what those old admirals and buccaneers, that set the legend afloat, were so absurd asto call a cabbage, and your shipmates may have eaten for one, is noth- ing on earth but the last year’s growth of the palm-tree.’

‘Palm-tree be ’ said Welch.

And thereupen ensned a hot argument, which Hellen’s good sense cut short.

‘Mr. Hazel,’ said she, ‘can you by any possibility get our poor friend the thing he wants ?’

‘Oh, that is quite within the bounds of possibility,’ said Hazel dryly.

‘Well, then, suppose you begin by getting

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him the thing. Then I will boil the thing,

Hazel pushed and he will eat the thing, and after a!l that

it will be time to argue about the name we

The good sense of this struck Mr. Hazel forcibly. He started off at onee, armed with. the axe, and net bag Welch had made since he became unfit for hard labor; them as he went to put the pots on.

Welch and Miss Rolleston complied; and then the sailor showed the lady how to sew sailor-wise, driving the large needle with the palm of the hand, guarded by a piece of leather, They had nailed two breadths of canvas to the trees on the vorth and west sides, and run the breadths rapidly together; and the water was builmy and bubbling in the balers, whn Miss Rolleston uttered a scream, for Hazel came running over the prostrate palm-'ree as if it was a proper bridge, and lghted in the midst of them.

‘Lot one,’ said he, cheerfully

He then produced. from his net some limes, two cecoanuts, and a land-tartle ; from this Jast esculent Miss Rollesten withdrew with undisyuised terror, and it was in vain he assured her it was a great delicacy.

No matter; it is a reptile. send it away.’

‘The Queen of the Island reprieves you,’ said he, and put down the terrapin, which went off very leisurely for a reprieved reptile.

Oh, please

(To be continued.)

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Man and Beast in India. A SINGULAR CALCULATION SHOWING MAN I3 NOT GALNING UPON ANIMALS.

Taking the returns for seven years, we find that man has killed about a hundred and forty thousand wild beasts—tigers, bears, leopards, wolves, hyenas, and others —or about twenty thousand annually. During the same period the beasts have destroyed twenty-eight thousand human beings, or about four thousand a year. Taking the respective rates of the reproduction of species, human and feral, it is obvious that there 1s very little to choose between the two lists of casualties, and that the beasts will make good the deficiencies in their numbers as quickly as, if not sooner than, the human beings. On the side of the tigers and their allies has to be added the advantage of having killed during the same seven years an annual average of forty-five thousand head of cattle, or a total of about three hundred and forty thousand; and, in- flicted, further, a monetary expenditure upon Government of about ten thousand poundsayear. The balance, therefore,rough- ly stated, stands thus:— One human being with eleven head of cattle and three pounds in cash, for every five wild beasts. In the great fight with the snakes, the advantage, numerically, is immensely in favor of humanity; for, while the reptiles killed about eighteen th: usand human beings every year, and about three thousand cattle, they lost of their own numbers nearly two hundred thousand annually, Here again, however, the question of reproduction ought to be con- sidered, and it will be seen that the outcome of the conflict is really very evenly balanced, for a given number of snakes will add two hundred thousand to their num- ber in afar shorter time than the same number of buman beings willadd eighteen thousand, Soe that, as the question of ex- termination stands in Inaia to-day, it seems just as probable that men and their domestic cattle will be extinct before the wild beasts and venomous snakes.

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Cure for Rheumatism.

A gentleman from West Newton, Mass., is confident that he has discovered a certain cure for rhenmatesm, A few years ago he was severely afflicted with the disease, which affected his whole system and settled in the sciaticnerve. He suffered intensely, often being deprived cof sleep. He tried many remedies without avail, till finally a physician prescribed gum guiacaum and sulphur in equal parts, to be taken in

i weet peweeeyg bee owe “Semwes ana” small doses three timesaday. He found that one dose was ali that he could bear, and took it at night. At the end of ten days he was entirely relieved of the rheu- matism. He has since had tonches of the complaint, but the above remedy always proves efficacious. He thinks he has re- commended it to at least two hundred suf- fers from rheumatism, and in every case it effected a cure, except one, and in that instance the person continued the use of intoxicating drinks; yet he was benefitted. Plenty of exercise in the open air should accompany the use of the prescription.

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