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If We Would.

If we would but check the speaker When he spoils his neighbor's fame ;

If we would but help the erring, Ere we utter words of blame,

If we would how many might we : Turn from paths of sin and shame!

Ah the wrongs that might be righted lf we would but see the way!

Ah, the pains that might be lightened Every hour and everyday,

If we would but hear the pleadings Of the hearts that go astray !

Let us step outside the stronghold Of our selfishness and pride ;

Let us lift our fainting brothers ; Let us strengthen ere we chide ;

Let us, ere we blame the fallen, Hold a light to cheer and guide.

Ah, how blessed—ah, how blessed Earth would be if we'd but try

Thus to aid and right the weaker, | Thus to check each brother’s sigh ;

Thus to talk of duty’s pathway To our better life on high !

In each life however lowly, There are seeds of mighty good ;

Still we shrink from souls appealing With a timid ‘‘If we could.”

But a God who judgeth alithings Knows the truth is, “if we would.

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A Serpent Among the Books.

A gentleman in India went into his library one day and took a book from the shelves. As hedid so, he felta slight pain in his finger like the prick of a pio. He thought that a pin had beenstruck by some careless person in the cover of the boek. But soon his finger began to swell, and then his arm, and his whole body, and in a few days he died. It was not a pin, but a small and deadly serpent. There are serpents among the books now- adays. They nestle in the foliage of some of our most fascinating literature ; they coil around the flowers whose per- fume intoxicate the senses. We read, we are charmed by the plot of the story, ; and by the skill with which characters are sculptured or grouped, by the gorgeous- ness of the word-painting, we hardly feel the pio-prick of the evil that is insinuated. But it stings and poisons us,

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Winter Unhealthy.

The Scientific American combats as a fallacy the idea that winter is the health- jest season of the year. On the contrary, winter is more to be dreaded than a visitation of pestilenee. The saying, ‘Heat is life—cold is death” has a strik- ing illustration and confirmation in the reports now regularly submitted by Dr. Russell to the Glasgow sanitary commit-

xe. The death rate rises and falls with the regularity of the thermometor. So

many degrees less heat, so many more{from this date, and our Customers, and the

deaths, and vice versa. Whatever weak place we have, whatever constitutional disorder we be subject to, cold will surely discover. We take eolds because our vitality is too low to ward off the effects of the reduced temperature around us. As a matter of first importance, then, to resist cold and various derangements of the system consequent, it is necessary by proper nutrition to maintain our natural animal heat; second, to retain this heat bya sufficient quantity of clothing ; third, to regulate with care the temperature of the air we breathe. Contrary to opinion current among lovers of cold weather, a fire in the bedroom in winter is cheaper and better than a doctor's bill.

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A Black Woman Turning White.

‘A physiological pheaomenon has just been discovered in Cincinnati, by one of the district physicians. It is nothing Jess than a colored woman turning white. Her name is Luella Smith, aged 30 years, who is living at 60 Gano alley. She is nota mullatto. She is black in the faee, but her body is gradually beginning to turn as white as any Caucasian. This changing process began about five years ago, and now her body is fully two-fifths white. Oo her breast there is a white spot about eight inches long and six inches wide. Her limbs too, present the same appear~ ance, and if the change keeps on she will ia a few years be as white as any body. At present she is being treated for consumption. The only white spots about her face are directly behind either ears aud inside theears, The doctors call this transformation an absorption of pig- ment, but whatever it is,it is exrraordinary and will elicit a good deal of attention from the medical profession.

Do you know what the fundamental dfficulty with the world is? It is the universal delusion that » number five boot can be made to fit a:. umber six foot. The bank cashier takes u few thousand dollars from the vault with :'e expecta- tion of becoming rich on Wali street, and returning it; the clerk drivesa fast team und indulges in all coucomitants on a salary of $800; the business man lives on the avenue and accumulates debts with the hope that something favorable will tura up; the young woman marries for money and dreams of a happy home. They are trying to get a nmber five boot on a number six foot.

It was the waim of a St. Paul man to be married in white, and he went to church on a cold day clothed in white

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DRY GOODS,

CLOTHING, BTC.

The Whole Stock in Trade OF THE LATE ROBERT ORR,

—TO BE-

SOLD OFF AT GOST,

—-CONSISTING IN PART OF—

Dress Goods, Shawls, Mantles, Millinery, Silks, Velvets, Hosiery, Gloves, Linens, Winceys, Shirtings, Sheetings,

Prints, Grey and White Cottons, Hats and Bonnets, Furs, Blankets, Flannels, Pilots, Beavers, Coatings, T weeds, etc., etc. ete.

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Readymade Clothing

Hats, Caps, Linders and Drawers, Searfs, &e.

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Cotton Warp, Small Wares, Xe,

The above Stock must be cleared out

public generally, can depend upon getting Bargains.

John McPhee,

Administrator. Charlottetown, Feb. 4, 1879.

Looking Glasses and Mirrors.

N® W STYLES—Cheap. JOHN NEWSON. April 1, 1879-—-3m

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Picture Frames & Moulding.

LL the Modern Patterns — Cheapest— Best Workmanship—Promptly delivered.

JOHN NEWSON. April 1, I879—3m

[RON BEDSTEADS.

—- & DOUBLE--Best kinds—Cheap. hn JOHN NEWSON.

April 1, 1879-—-3m

UPHOLSTERY WORK.

ODERN STYLES—Best Finish—Cheap- est—Promptly delivered.

JOHN NEWSON.

April, 1, 1879—3m

100 PARLOR & DRAWING-ROOM SUITES, in raw Silk Poil, Silk Cota- line, Silk Repp and Hair Cloth—Styles un- rivalled—Stock large—Prices at cost.

] 5 BEDROOM or CHAMBER SUITES : —Every variety of design and price— Never before so cheap. JOHN NEWSON, April 1, 1879—3m

FURNITURE REPAIRED

MAIL NOTICE.

AILS to be forwarded via Cape Traverse N will be closed at this Office daily—Sun- days excepted—at 3 o’clock p. ™. The an for Great Britain, by Canadian Packet sailing from Halifax on Saturdays, will be closed here on Wednesdays at 3 o'clock,

. The mail for Great Britain via New York will be closed on Thursdays at 3 o’clock, p. m. Mails for all places West of Charlottetown receiving Mails by Railway Train or Postal Car, will be closed daily at 70 clock, a. m. Mails for Georgetown and Souris Fast, also for all places on the route to those points, will be closed daily at 2 o’clock, p. m.

from 8, a. m., till 8, p. m. ees A. A. MACDONALD,

Postmaster.

Post Office, Charlottetown, April 2, 1879.

FREEHOLD FARM

FOR SALE.

BE SOLD, by private contract, that valuable FARM of 50 acres of excellent Land, situate at Graham’s Road, Township No. 20, now in possession of Aineas Brenan. This well-known Farm is eligibly situated in the immediate cicinity of Churches, Schools and Mills, and is in a good state of cultivation. For terms and particulars apply at the office of Longworth & Shaw, Solicitors, Ch’town.

F. 8. LONGWORTH.

Ch’town, Dec. 23, 1878-—--

FLOUR!

P() bbls. ‘‘GREENHOLM,”’ 100 bbls. ‘‘ CAMLACHIE,” 100 bbls. ‘‘ NORVAL.”

A consignment for sale at a bargain, for

cash. Wright & MacGowan, Queens Wharf. February, 8, 1878—taw for 2m

ROPH. SIX TONS MANILLA,

different sizes,

Wright & MacGowan,

Manufacturers Agents, Queen’s Wharf

at Factory Prices.

February 18, 878--taw for 2m

BLS £1. 100 Quintals Prime Codfish

CHEAP FOR CASH. Wright & MacGowan,

Queen.s Wharf February 8, 1878 —-tawfor 2m

The Greatest Medical Discovery since the Creation of Man, or since tho Commencement of the Christian Era.

There never has been a time when the heal- ing of so many different diseases has been caused by outward application as the present..: It is an undisputed fact that over half of the entire population of the globe resort to the use of ordinary plasters.

Dr. MELVIN’S CAPSICUM POROUS PLASTERS are acknowledged by all whe have used them, to act quicker than any other plaster they ever before tried, and that one of these plasters will do more real service than a hundred of the ordinary kind. All other plasters are slow of action, and reguire to be worn continually to effect acure; but with these it is entirely dif- ferent: the ‘nstant one is applied the patient will feel its effect,

Physieiansin all ages have thoroughly tested and well know the effect of Capsicum; and it has always been more or less used as a medical agent for an outward application; but it is only of very recent date that its advan- Pe in a porous plaster have been discovered. Being, however, convinced of the wonderful cnres effected by Dk. MELvIN’s CAPSICUM Porous PLASTERS, and their superiority over all other plasters, they now actually prescribe them, in their practice, for such diseases as rheumatism, pain in the side and back, and all such cases as have required the use of plasters orliniment. After you have tried other plas- ters and liniments, and they have failed, and = want a certain cure, ask your druggist for

. MELVIN’s Capsicum Porous PLASTER. You can hardly believe yourown convictions of its wonderful effects. Although powerful and quick in its action, you can rely on its safety for the most delicate person to wear, as it is

ND RE-PAINTED- Chairs Re-Caned— Looking-Glass Frames Refitted, and all kinds of Machine Work done with satisfaction

and promptness, at JOHN NEWSON’S. April 1, 1879—3m

CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES,

“NHEAP, at JOHN NEWSON’s. April 1, 1879—3m

FURNITURE.

ARGEST STOCK—Greatest Variety — Best Quality—Cheapest in every grade. Call and examine.

JOHN NEWSON., April 1, 1879—3m

Bedding, Matrasses & Pillows: EST MATERIAL~ Hair, Flock, Excel-

linen.

sior, Straw. : JOHN NEWSON, April 1, 1879—3m

free from lead and other poisonous material commonly used in the manufacture ef ordin- ary plasters. One trial is a sufficient guarantee of its merits, and one plaster will eel] hundreds to your friends.

Ask your druggist for Dr. MELVIN’s CApst- cuM Porous PLasTER, and take no other; or, on receipt of 25 cents for one, $1 for five, or $2 for a dozen, they will be mailed, post paid, te guy address in the United States or Canadas.

MANUFACTURED BY THE

NOVELTY PLASTER WORKS Lowell, Mass., U.S. A., G. E. MITCHELL, Proprietor, Manufacturers of Plasters and Plaster Compounds

W. R. WATSON, Agent December 7 1877

FOR SALE,

HE HOUSE and Premises occupied by : the Subscriber, at the head of Queen Street. For further particulars apply to the owner on the Premises, or to ALEXANDER

73,620 MORE

SINGER SEWING MACHINES

SOLD EN 1878 THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR.

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Our sales have increased enormously every year, through the whole period of ‘* hard

times.”

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

Waste no Money on ‘cheap’ - Counterfeits.

sar 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

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Executors’ Notice

rQX\HE undersigned Executors of the Estate of Ralph Brecken Peake, late of Char- lottetown, in the Province of Prince Edward Island, merchant, deceased, hereby notify all rsons indebted to the said Estate to make immediate payment to them ; and all persons having any claims against the said Estate are hereby required to render the same to the undersigned, duly attested, within one year from date.

Dated this twenty-first day of January

A. D., 1879. EDWARD J. HODGSON, GEORGE W. DeBLOIS, THOS. HANDRAHAN, Executors.

Jan. 21, 1879. rg 3m CAT ARRE.

CATARRE, Hear what a Reverend Gentleman says of the

Constitutional Rev.edy.

rn

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

DeaR Srxr—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 offects seemed to me to be ‘too good to be true.”

I was afflicted in my head for years before I suspected it to be Catarrh. In reading in your Cireular I 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 health and spirits were seriously affected. When your agent came to Walkertown in August, 1876, I secured three bottles. Before I had used a quarter of the contents of one bottle I found decided re- lief, and when I had used two bottles and a third. I quit taking it, feeling quite cured of that ailment, and have not used any since until of late I have taken some for a cold in my head.

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.

Ask for Littlefield’s Constitutional Catarrh Remedy and take no other.

T. J. B. Haxpine, Dominion Agent, Brock- ville, Ont.

For sale by all Drugyists at only one Dollar per bottle.

BUY IT. e ° . Prince Edward Island.

IN CHANCERY.

HENRY JONES CUNDALL, administrator cum Testamento annexo of the Jast Will and Testament of John Hodges Winsioe, deceased, John Hodges Winsloe, Alfred Winsloe, Allce Hyndman, formerly Alice Winsloe, and Albert Hyndman, ber husband; Amy Winsloe, by llenry Jones Gundail, her guardian; Isabel Winsloe, by Henry Jones Cundall, her guardian; and Ar. thur Winsloe, by Henry Jones Cundall, his guard‘an; Ann Smith, Edward Jarvis Hodgson, and Robert Robinson Hodgson, Trustees, under the marriage settiement of the said Ano Smith and Amelia Evans, and Sydrey Tudcr Evans, her husband, complainants, (a Sb CHARLES GREEN, Defendant. N pursuance of a decree made in this suit by His Honor the Master of the Riols, bearing date the sixth day of Febru- ary, A. D. 1879, there will be sold by Pub- lic Auction, on Wednesday, the twenty - first day of May next ensuing, at the hour of twelve o’clock, noon, in the Supreme Court House, in Charlottetown, in Queen's County, all that tract, piece, or parcel of land situate aud being io Lot or Township Number Twenty-four, in Queen’s County, in the said Island, bounded as follows, that is to say :—By a line commencing ata stake fixed in the southwest side of the New Glasgow Road, in the north angle of land now or lately in the occupation of Donald McDonald, and running thence by the mag- netic meridian of the year 1764 south, fifty-eight degrees west, one hundred chaias; thence northwesterly parallel with the New Giasgow Road aforesaid ten chains; thence north fifty-eight degrees east to the said Road; and thence along the |

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mencement, containing one hondred acres of land, a little more or less, tog:ther with all the rights, easements, avd appur- tenances thereto belonging. Dated this tenth day of February, 1879 J. LONGWORTH,

Master in Chancery. E. J. HODGSON,

Browy, Esq. DONALD McKENZIF, Oh’town, Feb, 3, 1879—2aw

Solicitor for Complainants. Fe, 1879. 3m-law

same southeasterly to the place of com-|

IMORTCACE SALE.

To be sold, by Public Auction, at the Court House in Summerside, in Prince County, on Tuesday, the Eighteenth day of February next, at the hour of oe o'clock, in the afternoon, under a Power of Sale in an Indenture of Mortgage, dated-the fifth day of October, 1878, made between Wiiliam Thomas Mill, of the one part, and John Brecken, Frederick De St. Croix Brecken, and Robert Robinson Hodgson, trustees, of the other part, —

All that tract, piece or parcel of land, situ 1. ate on Lot Kighteen, and bounded and described as follows : Commencing at .a stake fixed on the shore of Indian River; thence by a line running south twenty degrees west until it meets the boundary line dividing Lots or Townships Numbers eighteen and nineteen; thence running due east on said division line for the distance of thirty-two chains; thence by a line running north twenty degrees east until it reaches Indian River, aforesaid; thence following the course of the River to the place of commencement, making and including fifty. six (56) acres of land be the same, a little more er less, in Prince County, aforesaid.

2. Also, all that other tract, piece or parcel of Land, situate on Lot or Township Twenty-

and described as follows, that is to say : Com. mencing at a stake fixed on Wilham Me. Murdy’s eastern boundary line at the south. east corner of Joshua Harding’s Lot; from » thence running south for the distance of forty. four chains; thence east eleven chains and fifty links; thence north forty-four chains; thence west eleven chains and fifty links, to the afore. said stake or place of commencement, making and including fifty (50) acres of land, a little more or less, being the southern moiety of one hundred acres of land; and being bounded on the north by the northern moiety thereof, known as Joshua Harding’s lot; on the east by —Gay’s land, on the south by Keefe's land, and on the west by the said William MacMurdy’s land.

3. Also, all that other tract, piece or parcel of land, situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, bounded and described as _ follows, that is to say : Commencing at a square stake fixed in the south-west angle of land in the oc- curation of Peter Gillis; thence running north six degrees‘and forty-five minutes, east four- teen chains and two links to division line be- tween Lots Nineteen and Eighteen; thence along said line westwardly twenty-six chains and sixty-nine links to the entrance of Barbara Weit River; thence along the course of the said river to the. place of beginning, containing twenty-nine acres and forty perches, be the same, a little more or less.

4. All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Kighteen, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a stake set on the shore of Richmond Bay in the centre of a road on the line of Lots Eighteen or Nineteen; thence northwardly along said shore sucha distance as shall make tifteen chains and sixty five links (15 chains and 65 links) at a right anglefrom said division line; thence north eighty-nine degrees east or parallel with the said division line forty-eight chains and fifteen links (48 chains, 15 links) or to lands the property of the said William Thomas Mill, thence south twenty degrees west to said division line to. the stake at the place of commencement, containing seventy. eight acres of land, a little more or lesa.

5. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Twenty-five (25), in Prince county, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say, commencing at astake set in the north boundary line of land in possession of the widow Keiff or Lawrence Malone, being the southeast angle of fifty acres of land the prop- erty of William T. Mill, from thence by a line running north twelve chains and fifty links, thence east nine chains and fifty-five links or to the east boundary line of- land in possession of William Gay, thence south to the first mentioned land, thence westwardly along said land to the stake at the place of commence- ment, containing eleven and nine-tenths acrer, a little more or less.

6. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, in Prince County, bounded as fol- lows, that is to say, commencing at the southeast angle of land in the possession of Neil McDonald, from thence running west along said land twelve chains and twenty links (12 chains, 20 links) or to the southwest angle of said land, and from thence two points running two parallel lines south thirty-one (31) chains or to the south boundary line of plot G containing thirty-seven and one-half (37%, acres of land, be the same alittle more or less, together with all buildings and improve ments thereon and appurtenances to the same belonging. For farther particulars apply at theoffice of Messrs. Hodgson & McLeod, Solicitors, Char- lottetown. Dated the 13th day of January, A. D 18 9, JOHN BRECKEN, FREDERICK De Sr. C. BRECKEN. R. R. HODGSON, By E. J. HODGSON, their attorney. Jan. 13—law ts prog

The above Sale is hereby postponed till WEDNESDAY, the 2nd day of April next, 1879, then to take place at the hour and place above mentioned.

Dated the 17th day of February, A. D.,

1879. JOHN BRECKEN, FRED’K Dz Sr. C. BRECKEN, R, R. HODGSON, _ By E. J. HODGSON, their Attoruey. Charlottetown, Feb. 18, 1879. i

The above sale is hereby further postponed until FRIDAY, the 2nd day of May, then to take place at the hour and place above men- tioned. Dated the 4th day of April, A. D. 1879. JOHN BRECKEN, FREDERICK De Sr. C, BRECKEN, _ RR. HODGSON, By E. J. HODGSON, their attorney.

WANTED.

PURCHASER for a small but comfort- able Stock of Huusehold Furniture, Care pets, Bedding, Crockery and Glassware, and everything required for house-keeping on moderate scale. |. The house in which the above is contained \is pleasantly situated, and will be let on rea, ‘sonable terms. Address P. O. Box 103, Charlottetown. March 27, ’79.—2w

five, in Prince County, aforesaid, and bounded: