7 : 1 a ache ' oe aad : \S 3 . Lé chi it | } A : | x = Caan { OUaY a rr e * VW i ih rnra ; : , “ ie ¥ ; J ed u, ruer (wreat Wreorge and Kent Streets, : Now Open and Ready For, Busines | | Yee A share o! your patron-| age respectfully solicited. | A B MACDONALD. Telephone. hight Bell. ee ee RE ements 2,500 | AY LAR To CHodsSE FRO: Allnew and up-to date. Come before the yure picked over. Qur Dells are pro- nounced to be the best and argest assortment in Ch’town. Come in avd see for your- elf—Prices marked down te the lowest—Toys, Steam En- gines, Magic Lanterns, Plain and Fancy Stationery, Rock- ing Hor.es. something new; Girls’ and Boy’s Sleighs and Coasters all at F. J. HORNSBY Book & Stationery Store, Ch’town | x ones a ae VAS VNele < me GIG MWe FARMS FOR EVERYBODY IN CANADA'S GREAT NORTH-WEST «A Land Illimitable With lllimitable Kesources.” Government Free Grant of 160 Acres of Bona Fide Settlers. For Maps, Descriptive Pamphlets Write te Transportation Rules, etc., 4. J. HEATH, D. P. A’, OC. P. R., st. JOHN N. B Charlottetown Driving Park a —AND- Pa Provincial Exhibition Association. The Annual General Meeting of this Association, will be held in the Masonic Cemple Building, on Thursday evening, the 28th December, in=t, 1899 at the hour of 8 o’clock. The transfer books of the Aseociation will be closed on the 1th inst, By order of the directors. C RSMALLWOOD —_——- — A POST ce celiing, to start i & 1 al wanted, besides \ Ss A Tl i when vd ¢ ick it wo \ Pi : “s “You attached two | ; together, one at the foot of the other so that it would hat iown when the first one was at- lded a | if he I ' ub it, ts head and between it and ther folds of paper under it n, some time when the room was full of people—this might be a hotel or- or perhaps a barroom—you tossed | the bills up, and there was weight enough in the dollar to drive the tack the « ng far enough to hold the weight of the paper itseit and of the doilar would open the bills out, and the coin would drop and you'd t as it fell, and the chances al that not one man in five would see it The bills would be seen, fasten e somehow, most of the peo i ldn’t | ho en » lowe ving 7 c vi was, but | id be a | . «i { NN W Very Curious Weather. > wai fre e year and the ther iv falls to 6. S and 10 deg ro. There are no facilities for heat~—not even a ind people keep themselves warm by uftting on ponchos and other extra At noonday the sun is intensely hot, ecause of the elevation and the rarity osphere, and blisters the flesh are not accustomed to it. is a difference of 20 and some- 30 degrees in the temperature of »and the sunshine. Water will ze in the shade while 20 feet away nn may be working in their shirt f those who r | ~ a sah were Imes . “Ce sleeves natives seem to be entirely red to cold and go about barefooted and barelegged over the ice and the stones indifferently without regard to the temperature; but they have a way of heaping the blankets on their beads und wrapping up their faces to keep the pure air out of their throats and nostri! Jbe women who herd the cs are often out on the mountains for weeks at a time without shelter or anything to eat except parched corn, strins of dried meat and coca leaves, the most powerful! of nerve ihe Fi veel Uy xs ¥-* n} gre ba Stlisk.2uts. —— Board For His Poems. “Yes, | find it extremely difficult to make my living by my pen,” said the poet. “Difficult!” exclaimed his friend. “You mean impossible, 1 presume.” “No, | do not,” replied the poet. “l am in the habit of saying precisely what I mean, and when 1 say difii- cult I mean just that and nothing more.” “You don’t mean to say that you have ever earned anything by your literary work?’ Indeed ! do.” answered the poet. The well known poem, “Curfew Shall Wg Not Ring To- night,’’ in : which a young wo- man by hanging to the curfew bell saves the life ofherlovercondemn- (4 \ ed to be executed at the } ringing of the curfew, is only one of a thousand. strik- ing instances of how a wonian , will dare everything for love. Women are readier to make heroic sacrifices than they are to take the commonplace, everyday precautions which insure their great- est happiness. Most wo- men are careless about their health. They for- get that physical weak- ness and disease will wreck the fairest chance in life and shut them 4j% out completely from ™~ happy womanhood and wifehood. Weak, bilious, dyspeptic women are robbed of their natural attractiveness and capacity. They lose healthy color and energy and ambition. The blood becomes poor and thin and laden with disease-germs. The true antidote for this condition 1s Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It acts directly upon the digestive powers and the liver, creating pure, red, healthy blood free from bilious impurities; it renovates every organ and tissue of the pody, building up hard, elastic flesh and muscular strength and imparting nerve power and permanent vitality, which malt extracts do not give. _ Ella Howell, of Derby, Perry Co., Ind., wtnee re the year of 1804 I was taken-with stomach trouble—nervous dyspepsia. There was a coldness in my stomach, and a weight which seemed like a rock. Everything that I ate gave me great pain; I had a bearing down sensation; was sweiled across my stomach; had a ri around my right side, and ina short time I was bloated. I wes treated by three of our best pay. sicians but got no relief. I was so weak 1 could not walk across the room without assistance. Then Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery was recommended to me and I got it, and commenced the use of it. I began to improve very fast after the use ofa ow ae ne hysicians mae Boe ase was leading into pulmonary co i and gave me = to die. I thank God that 13—pi Secretary. wy cure is permanent.”’ ' We N! ' > ; af ‘ \ ‘344 RLY PR pow N DVCRVUREPR OR 1R99 2 Te etRE PRE | — ~ — —- “F once rot onthe’ anar “ee . " Seg ee ee ee ——- —-——— Ret vr months’ board for made the pecullay little noise that , | horses make when petted, and doggie | ; 7 «> ° lied th throaty little ba : i} mM 8 4) cy OOF a - + ; plainty told what a pleasiun . id of fsa ™ ww tA & a on ‘ter that ee 2 : to his nap on the wag : ‘{ é n Free Press. ; ; ‘¢ ’ } ww It Happened. wt : ‘ ' ' : . *? ih ‘ . . : fellow! I fear he was badly Us | : . 3, too, but | couldn’t sell them.” hi see me hefor | | i ‘ I " Be ea ne ne tore placing your ord r it will be money wed (or ies Grauantcae wecal He was. Jat R. B NORTON & GO’S. Store, on i Edward Street : Tt Well, I suppose he carried some ac- ; celv? prompt attentio : ‘ ) i: } : 4 ie . nt } vrance ¢ j n _ = - a the turf decided 1 » Wall street mort ee es He wanted to take | . _. ns YuUS Vicinnis. to tackle easier game. “On the turf.” out a policy, but In view of his busi- 7 / ‘ rn it : CF Mame. ] ne }* Lueck, oOae tha . ‘ iag elt » ’ ; } “> he eX pla ed, “a man has exactly OT hii as companies cd lined on the PRAC Pit AL PLI MBER ee Os ee ae a ground that he was an extra hazardous |G Stes { f Tater . chanees against him in a field of ten a it it he was an extra hazardous { & 3, sScea 1 and Ho W ute! Ej r. Ch vn, P. E & h iSCS, In otner words | : nas ; , ois : Li one \\ t was his bu nes se 0 es ie } to: hit a winner. Now, iy Toll ; ; 4 : ; CANDY ! ' in Wall C¢ STOCKS vO one of ‘ ' i two ways either up or down-— , RA +4 ] . . " a ee y : | giving a man one chance in two. It 6 id 6 il Hot looks like a dead open and shut. [I’m a ee ee af | ot an + } | going to make it pay. There’s noth-° , et ee ee ee ee ing against you except bad judgment.” ~ Rr j . ml ; ' ; “Oh, yes, there is,” said a New street Be ane or for You operator, nodding his head sagely. ner interingly ry ; ra J rm) ae yee ryePiniie ‘And that is’—we all asked. | Phe doctor was furious. of « | “Your broker and Ok a ii e 4 oof : cried. ww . : 2 XT ; x ; “Your broker and his commission.” |... | If you buy our Wool Fleeced New York Press. wa nas. Sean, Ree 8 : fe . Re ‘anal ah Mn she a Underwear, $1.50 per suit Clothed With Power. pease T wrs He was a little uncouth, but was a A as eats | AUCH | great <raveler. He had just returned | *" " bd Jj from tue wilds of central Africa, where | he bad hobnobbed with all the royal- | ~ — ties of that savage region, and was be- ! o ; Y Tani: ty : 3 ing ionize d in the swagger draw ing | c e weer ey ‘cane | rooms of Belgravia. V/ “— 5; ¥ , tell ~ about the qu Cf w h >. ‘ © ra) S ee eee Fe — = oar soorabooloo, said the Duchess of | Loaumshire ‘Is she clot] 1 wit} at | Mp, f ° : 1} 1OtTDe¢ \ ‘} . os, . ‘ = } pore? weidand = Dr AW. | Ocean, Accident and Guarantee - z : . e * - i a ee : : “Your grace would think so,” Shattered by \ orry ‘ ad ( plied, “if you were to see her six Ch . salle an fe ete or Overwork are aSe $ | ger maids of honor lacing her cor- | Pri , ” sets.” —Pick-Me-Up. Revitalized by Nerve Food : “* Nerves"—what a world of meaning this | s The Advantage iam : ie. : ‘ 3 : e, 1 . dv oe Im ¢ i aes word bas. to scores of thousands of women | CAPITAL 5,000,000 n all gambling games,” said an | who, through the strains of social life and the old time sport, tuere 18 a perecntage worry of home cares, are fast approaching the Covers disablement caused by any sickness or accident. The most Liberal a j in favor of the ‘house.’ Anybody, ex- cept a born feol, knows that a man couldn’t afford to equip an establish- ment, hire help, pay rent and defray all the huncred and one incidental ex-, penses unless he Ccerived a profit that was based on some fixed principle and not dependent on mere luck or chance. Just where the profit comes in, howev- er, is something that very few people understand. Most of them imagine it is derived from some slight advantage ir the arrangement of the game, such as the ‘zero’ numbers in roulette or the ‘splits’ in faro, but they are very much mistaken. It really depends on a prin- ciple that applies to all games alike and might be termed the ‘percentage of capital.’ “Strange as it may seem, I could take a capital of $1,000 and begin pitching nickels, in which the chances are per- fectly even, letting the players guess either way they wanted to, and { would make a steady profit day in and day out. The secret is this: The average player has only a limited amount of money, and a slight run of bad luck wipes him out. He is obliged to quit, and somebody else take: bis piace, while the bouse keeps right on through good luck and bad, continually swell- ing its reserve with the cash of the broken players. That principle of the percentage of capital is at the bottom of the profits of every gaming house in the world from Monaco to Long Branch.’”—New Orleans Times-Dem- ocrat. He Scored on Lincoln. In 1808 Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas bad a joint debate on the college grounds of Knox college, Galesburg. It was a great meeting, and I shall never forget the tremen- dous enthusiasm that was manifested by the respective partisans of each of these great men. Mr. Douglas had the opening and conclusion, and he got in one shot on Mr. Lincoln that was so pat that even the adherents of that gentleman had to join in the laughter. Mr. Lincoln, in the course of his re- marks, twitted his opponent with mak- ing only one speech—a set oration which he delivered to each new audi- ence, the suggestion being that he was incapable of changing his steck ad- dress. In reply Mr. Douglas said that he ad- mitted the charge, and conceded that his rival knew in advance what he was going to say. He wished that he could foretell with the same exactness what Mr. Lincoln was going to say, but alas! that was impossible, since he changed his argument to suit his audiences, making a fierce abolition talk in com- munities where that sentiment was strongly entertained, as at Galesburg, but in southern Illinois ignoring aboli- tion and standing up squarely as an old time Whig. citacsiiiaskialesteinstesienidimiail A Good Natured Dog. A very ordinary looking farm horse harnessed to an old wagon stood by the curb, and on the board that served for a seat lay a small dog of such mixed blood that no guess could be made as to his breed. opposite side of the street a large red apple fell off. Before it stopped roll- ing the dog bounded across the street, picked it up with his teeth and with tail wagging rushed back to the horse, in front of which he stood up on his hind legs while the apple was taken | from his mouth. As the horse munched the apple he ~ As a delivery wagon passed on the grave. Nervous headaches, dyspepsia, irritability by day, restlessness and sleeplessness by night. Pains and aches in the body, derangements of the organs peculiarly feminine, Joss of energy and ambition, despondency and despair. These are some of the symptoms known te the woman of exhausted nerves. These are symptoms which entirely disappear when Dr. A. W. Chase’s Nerve Food is used. By creating new, rich blood and nerve tissue this great food cure of Dr. A. W. Chase re stores and revitalizes the wasted nerve cells, uts new vigor and vitality into the system and s woman of many ills which are due to exhausted nerves. Dr. A. W. Chase’s Nerve Food cures by the building-up process, which makes the body round and plump, and restores the glow health to the pale, sallow cheek. a box atall dealers, or Edmanson, Bates & Co,, Toronto. “THE” Prince Edward Island Magazine «NOW ON SALE... 4t all the Bookstores and at KR. HW Mason’s News Stand. CONTENTS FOR DECEMBER. Simpson’s Mills, Bay View, Frontispiece. Christmas—(a sonnet) by Thos. A. Lepage Merrie Christmas, by Hon. Senator Ferguson. What the King said to Christ at the Judg- ment. At the Dunk—a poem—Illustrated, by Prof John Caven. Cavendish in the Olden Time—Illustrated, by Walter Simpson. Memories of the Past—TIIlustrated, by John P, Tarton. Christmas Hymn. Nursing at Chickamauga Park—TIllustrated, by Florence M. Kelly. Tenant League Proceedings, by John Ross. The Phautom Bell Ringers—Illustrated, by J. E. Rendle. Retaliation—A Historical by L. W. Watson. A Query, by Topsy. Christmas Greetings—a poem, by May Car- rol. Notes & Queries, &c. Sc a copy—Send for sample. The P. E. Island Magazine. P. O. BOX 698, Charlottetown, P. E. I. Fact—Lllust rated 25 p. ¢. Discount ON ALL GOODS Friday aud Saturday hight Come end Save Money. To every person buying fifty cent worth of goods from now till mas. Select your Xmas gifts from a nice assortment of watches, rings, brooches, bracelets, sleeve links and silverware. Also a gocd line of fancy goods and toys, dolls, rocking horses, pianos, etc, etc, You can buy alot of presents tor a small amount of money, at the Modern Jewelry and Fancy Goods Store, JURY & CO'Y. | attractive policy issued by any company. | SICENESS Js no respector of persons, The rich and poor, professiova), business or laboring ; man, suffers alike through illness, as without aby warning their earning power ceases . completely or is materially reduced through disablement caueed by si¢kness or accident. . DISABLEMENT From sickness or accident causes financial loss to all persons, without regard to oc cupation or position. Protection and Compensation Can be obtained by a contract, which will indemaify for any disablement caused throug? ig Sea or accident, and a contract of this nature is sold by the largest corporation in Canada— The Ocean, Accident and Guarantee Corporation | Ltd., The first and only corporation in Canada te issue a contract covering disablement A caused by any siccness or accident. Tbe benefits obtained in a ccniract such as the above will be fully appreciated by all business and professional men, and will doubt - less prove very popular as a protection to their earning power. JAMES J. JOHNSTON, Barrister, Agent,Stamper’s Block, Charlottetown, P EI, Dc 19—deo dif. saa a ee eee i CCC A OLD TM Beautiful warmas Present | for your wife,"mother or sister would be one of our BLU: WILLOW CHINA TEA SETS This is the only store in town that keeps a full line of it. Call ard select one before they are all gone. We have a table of Fancy China from which you may choose a present, after buying 50c worth of crockery at W. P. COLWILL’S eg ~_ —- Ct Ladies’ Felt Hats Walking Hats. Sailor Hats, Dress Hats and Outing Hats All at HALF PRICE this week. T J HARRIS, cy cman TE sl ony A London Fiouse Oe n% AA \N a See Our Carbon Portraiis Just the thing for Xmas presents. The handsomest and most per- manent picture made. New scenery and accessories, and the lates designs fcr photo work. Baby always weleome at the studio ef we GEO. H. COOK, OHARLOTTETOWN Corner Queen and Grafton Streets