el ‘ * 2 e ” J rag | Udy EXAMNET The Examiner Publishing Company RATES © SERSCRIPTION Bin pe ¥ . ‘ -e a 8 ae a = ' heve my re. ADVANCE) @Qne Ver 4.00 Six Monthe 2.00 Three tionths 1.00 @ae Month 0.35 st paid to any part of Canada or th Ual state 2 ; : THE WEEXLY EXAMINER 48Sur ery Fr iay morning. It s mad of » whi app. e Datly 4na ~ & £ meu newspay Lining all ihe teat news Subscriptio yea THE DAILY EXAMINER \ i yt NOTES AND COMMENTS. er» Weekly declares that there 800 to expect any agreement be- tae » British and the United States G ents in the subjects that were cou ed at Washingten,”’ and adds, ‘“* we wish outly that the divereuce between the tuv countries o ight be so wisely setiled as the Canadian Premier euggests ; but | cress will we fear have 1 one of it. even suaald Mr. McKinley agree.” — Nr. W.Osler expresse i the op nion of agreu: many Canadians, Liberal as well as ory, ~vew he sand afew evenings ago in Ceoire foronto: | think Canada has deen bum:| ated by the visit of the Premier and Other Aiinisters to Washivgten. Courting reciprveity with a country which has repeaiciiy spurned the reasungble offers of Uavada is sot dignified work for our Cabinet ministers, aud it is oot likely to be successtul : ae WHEN GIRLS USE SLANU They Lose the Esteem and RKespect of Refined People. “It i+ uafortuaate that slang phrases are su easily tlipping iuto our every-day conversation, aud taking apparently so fixed w place in our talk,” writes Edward W. Bok in the December Ladies’ Home Jourus!. “And the worst of itis that so many » ople are using slang entirely un- conse.vus of the fact tua. il y are’ domwg so. It hecommon usage ur slung were coofiued Oa particular order of girls, it wouli, perhaps, serve as an iodicator of cher cr,and pass unnoticed. Jt would- at leas’, nut touch the sensibilities of gen:I: folk. Su. it is not 20 confined. Siang is invadirg the yery nicest of circles; it is begin» nz to influeoce the talk of our most earetuliy- reared girls. And this is why tne hatit should receive closer attention. Girl+ ure forgetting that siang phrases and refine ent are ab-olutely foreign to each other. A slang phrase may be more ex- pressive than @ term ef polite usage, but it i never impressive, except to impress unfavurably. Itis high time that our girls ss ald realize that they should speak the Evglish language in their conversa- tion, aud not the dialect cf the race-track, nor ile lingo of the base~ball field. A g-tl wy cause a émile by the apt use of some s'ang phrase. But inwardly, those who apploud ber place her, at the same time, im tue. estimation, No girlever won an ounce .f respect by being slangy. Qn the con’=.:¥, many 4 girl, ucgon lus ef the caus, 388 found herself gradually slipping ont of psople’s respect by the fact that her talk was dotted with slang phrases. “Oh, ehe is clew r,’ said a women cot long ago, ofagrl whocan keep ao compavy con- s:antly amused by her apt fase of slang. ‘She uwiuses me greatly. But I should ne’ car) toinvite her to my home nor Fifty Years Ago. Grandfather’s hat! And within it yousee, Grandfather's favorite cough remedy. Whether ’twas Asthma, Bronchitis or Croup, Or baby at night waked the house with a whoop, With Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Gran’ther was sure That no cold or cough would e’er fail of a cure. In hats the styles change, but the records will show ; Coughs are cured as they were 50 years ago. PALF ATLL Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral has no equal as a remedy for coughs, colds, and lung dis- eases. Where other soothing elixirs palliate, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral heals. It is not a cheap cough syrup, which soothes but does not strength- en; it is a physician’s cough remedy, and it cures. It is put up in large bottles, only, for household use. It was awarded the medal at the World's Fair of ninety -three. It has a record of 50 Years of Cures. ~——— | be Ps a St ae a girls know her.” ft is «, poor pepuiecity for agirl, which has.«s ite a@nly basis the cap and hells of the peeter, The Ji of the jester 1s never long. — od°e@+-o —-———__--— - EMPTY STOCK‘NGS. Oh. mothers in homes that are happy Where Christmas comes laden with eY V\ ) ’ ’ { cntidre ire dreaming already VF es v e vea \s you ge you es aronod you At } : them the ator f | Wy "> ; hemem ber the | sti ata‘e drear: Rar » th »yt ‘ r }1 HemMmemover the iea toat ure i Ar if ; t ve \ “a pwered j W ith th learest and best G Ve fr ‘ y u lan Some ba bhi fe may be biessed! Oh, go where the stockings hang empty, W here Cheistmas is na but a vame, Apnd give—for the love of the Curiat ‘ 7 ; - . i‘vas tO 68@¢°K § 1 as these that He came Ellen Man : Christmas Ladies’ Home J roa Montreal Gazette: Speaking ata ban ret given by the Calgary Board of Trade | Mr. Sifton raid that in giving the ‘ North- west Territories responsible government, he had been ably assisted by his friend, Mr. Davin, of Western Assiniboia. This is a new feature in western politics. Mr. Davin kas generally teen atiacked witht! e utmost virulence by the western Liberals, aod he has generally given as he got. But he is not to bs when compliments are going round, and we may be sure we will have something pretty ready for Mr Sifton by the time they meet at Otiawa. back as good left \ ehind TS ll EO SEWARD’S BIG BARGAIN. Fussia Made the Mistake of the Century When She Sold Alaska. Thirty years ago Commissioner Paulus Hersen persuaded the government of the czar to sell all Russian America for $7, 200,000, or a little less than 2 cents an acre. He had coasted along Kotzebue sound in 1863, and after taking a fare- well peep at St. Michael’s inlet and the mouth of the Yukon did not hesitate to report that the value of that polar dis- trict eonsisted chiefly of its seas and its swamp pines, both of which the Yankee trespassers would be sure to exhaust within the next 20 years. Withina week the folly of the transfer was con- summated. Four-fifths of the territory has neyer yet been surveyed, but the explored portions of the humid coast lands are known to contain larger and more valuable forests than Maine and Michigan taken together. The fur yield of Alaska has slightly increased on terra firma, but the value of the fisheries has doubled thrice since 1867 and has now reached an average of 45,000,000 cans a year for salmon alone, besides thousands of barrels of herring and about 10,000,000 pounds of cod. Every man, woman and child forming the population of this planet every month in the year for the next 100 genevations without affecting the extent of the ycarly arriving shoals to any perceptible degice. Coal in ¢'x vericties, including lig- nii., but also the valuable bitumen known as canncl coal, has béen discoy- ered at balf a hundred cifferent pcints of the great northland and may yct ex- clude ¢--‘ccz impzrte from the Pscific markets as far south as Lus Angeles. And to all that luck has now added a treasure trove of precious metals, though it would be a mistake to suppose that the discovery of placer mines dates from the west Klondike bonanga. The Muscovite monarchy, it is true, is so large, so unrcasonably and uncon- scionably overgrown, that the czars couid sell nine other provinces the size of Alaska and still have a comfortable remnant of real estate, but it might be questioned if that special czar did not almost give away the most valuable tenth of his world empire. For the southernmost 500 miles the climate of Alaska is milder than that of European Russia. Sitka thermometers rarely reg- ister 5 degrees below zero; those of Odessa sink to 15—not to mention Mos- cow and St. Petersburg, where old set- tlers do not begin to grow] till the frost consolidates their beards and their bed- posts. The truth seems to be that Major Hersen did really not suspect the extent of the Alaska forests and judged the value of the mines from his experience in Siberia, where the gold bearing rocks can be worked profitably only with the cheapest kind of convict labor. Secretary Seward, on the other hand, made a shrewd guess at the real value of the coveted peninsula. There is an immortal story about a sportsman wko had abducted the wife of a ‘*Pike,’’ an unkempt squatter of Pike county, Mo., and, being overtaken by the exasperated ruralist;, tried in vain to excuse his es- capade on a plea of intoxication. ‘‘We have to settle this matter with lead, sir,’’ said the Pike, cocking his revolv- er. ‘‘Can’t we settle it with silver?’ asked the kidnaper, exhibiting a good | sized pocketbook. ‘‘Jast name your own terms, sir,’’ he added when he noticed that the avenger had reduced his men- ace toa half cock. ‘‘ Well, stranger,’’ exid the Pike in a voice still husky with -citement, ‘Show would 75 cents strike yar’? Our Yankee commissioners must have remembered that anecdote when they received the fixst reply to their hypo- © ve _could consume a barrei of Alaska salmon a thericai ingniry, “"Mi case Wro'Nave been rivhtly informed that the government of his czarish majesty finds the expense of maintaining that distant possession to « ed the revenue, for What amount in cash wou!d they cohsent ,to dispose | of it altogether?’ ‘There had already | been contercnces about fishery privi- lk ‘Not for less than 10,000,000 or 12.000, OOt bles’’—abont es,a200, 00O0— x thy ; | A itis trne that eastern Afgska also ‘ silver Ll petr lenm, the h ! di that th luncer of « T s] aun negotiator has be i l ‘ i ' } iy > Tre spon t be M { cite 2n-con im y nit } lace m \ i t! VR away a coun t is VW wrth more than is.’’—st. Louis Gdobe- ry The an Jubilee of Telegrapky. It is curious that this present year i the diamond jubilee nd at the same time bring y 1 De? I ce tl OSsil ilities ‘ reless t . On June 10, | ( e and Wheatstone’s first pat- ent for electric telegraphs was signed j by SN mIV. The Pall Mall Gazette that on July 4 of that year the raph wire was laid. The cir- euit avas between Euston and Camden Town yrailftay stations, under the per- manen¢ way of the Lonéon and North- Ww } railway, then named the Lon- don and Birmingham Railway compa- ny. The }ine consisted of five wires, each wire luid in separate grooves cut out of leng blocks of weed. There are miny < Ee Lleck in existence. A your or two ago one was dug up and | actnally formed part of the circuit throvgh which was flashed to all parts of the empire the message from Buck- inghoim palace on jubilee day. fo that a portion of the first telegraph wire is dug up and serves as an aid to the reyal message in the very year in which it is proposed to telegraph without wires.— Paris Edition New York Herald. 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Those goods are claimed to be of the very best quality, and strictly pure, pos- sessing the flavor of the spices and fruit from which they are compounaed to a remark é ¢ ¢ ¢ é é ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ é ¢ ¢ f e ( é ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢ § é ( ¢ ¢ i 6 : 6 ¢ ¢ ¢ é ¢ | 4 able degree. One bottle will | goasf.rand give better re- sults than two bottles of the ordinary extracts offered for sale. Among the Flavorings are the following new kinds: Apricot, Chocolate, Cionamon, Orange Pear, Winter Green, Raspberry, Nutmeg, Banana, Blood Orange. Lime, Peach,Rose Cloves, Strawberry, Cottee, A trical order solicited. Beer & Gokt WANTED | 5,000 men, women and children te to call and inspect my New Goods. Compare prices with othor stores,ahd be convinced by buying from me your watches, clocks, jewelry, silverware, spectacles, eye glasses, etc, you will save woney, and the goods bought from me will be warranted to give satisfaction. Gc. GC. JORY Printing in all its branches at the Exam- INER Office, one cf the best equip- ped Job Printing Establishments on P. E. Island. That is what Everyone says of our Display of SILVERWARE—*" New stock just} received. The latest novelties in artistic designs. QUALITYAL G. H. TAYLOR, Charlottetow n | | | | In new and elegant designs of cases, A}l prices, | CC. P. FLEIGHR 36 Q 2050 Agent at Summerside A GLANCE AT OUR SHOES pots will convince all who want, Women’s Elastic Side Felt style, comfort and durability that our stock comprises the best that shoemaker’s art can produce. | Women’s Felt Laced Boots Buttoned — Felt Felt Slippers. Cloth Slippers. ENSURANCE at shortest notice. 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Our Pumps are winning a name for themselves at red WY oy im | TT. A. WeLMaN Boots, from 85: and upwards W.H Stewart & Co} —— HORACE HASZARD—* 4 ing him the use’ of the Stillson wrench. We will aot insure his easy exit, but will be@ hand with an ambulance and undertaker. att ith our twe P.licies written covering all classes ot insurable property” OP te. eno