PA AE ET pm SEE nek ean eee hen ARP: int Gentine ea Oe ee ee SSN ee Rae Sa RY SF a ee 5 Re oS RNB ee mee 2 ett tee Sc livenicenamneet aa sare Sa e.n ep tn ‘ a IS ea + see a a a I eet eae Sic clap anne etc aaa : a “a Rubensteins’ Piano Playing. Stp> BROWN’S DESCRIPTION THEREOP. ‘Jud, they say you heard Rubenstein lay when you were in New York. Vell, tells us ubout it.’ ‘What, me ? I might’s well tell vou about the creation of thé world.’ ‘Come now; no mock modesty. ahead.’ ‘Well, sir, he had the blamedest, big- yest, cattycorneredst piannes you ever laid eyes on. Somethin’ like a distrac- ted billard table on three legs. The hid was h’isted, and mighty well it was. If it hadn't been, he'd a-torn the entire insides clean out, aud scattered 'em to the four winds of heaven.’ ‘Played well, did he ?’ ‘You bet he did; but don’t interrapt me. We first set down he ‘peared to keer mighty little ’bont play, and wish't he hudn’t come. He tweédle-leedle'd littke on the treble, and twoddle-oodle le-oodle’d some on the bass; just foolin’ and boxin’ the thing’s jaws for bein’ m the way. And I says to 4 man sittin’ next to me,s’I what sort of a fool play- ing is that? And he says ‘Hee'sh But presently his hands commenced chasin’ one ’nother up and down the keys, like a passel of rats scampering through a garrett very swift. Parts of jt was sweet, though, and reminded one of a sugar squirrel turnin’ the wheel of a candy cage. ‘¢ Now,’ Isays to my neighbor, ‘he’s shown’ off. He thinks he’s a doin’ of it, but he ain’t got no idea, no plan of nothin.’ If he’d play me up a tune of some kind er other, I’d—’ But my neighbor says ‘ Hee'sh !' very impertinent. ‘Iwas just about to get up and go home, bein tired of that foolishness, when | heard a little bird waking up way off in the woods, and calling sleepy- like to his mate, and I looked up and see Ruben was beginning to take some interest in his business, and I sat down again. It was the peep o’day. The light came faint from the east. The breeze blowed gentle and fresh, some more birds waked up in the orchard, then some more in the trees near the house, and all begun singin’ together. People begun to stir, and the gal epen- ed the shutters. Just then the first beam of the sun fell upon the blossoms, a little more and it techt the roses on the bushes, and the next thing it was broad day ; the sun fairly blazed, the birds sang like they'd split their little throats, all the leaves was movin’ and flashin’ diamonds of dew, and the whole wide world was bright and happy asa king. Seemed to me like there wasa breakfast in every house in the land, and not a sick child or a woman any- where. It was a fine mornit.’ And I says to my neighbor, ‘that’s music, that is.’ And he glar’d at me like he'd like to cut my throat. ‘Presently the wind turned; it began to thicken up, and a kind of gray mist come over things ; I got low spirited d’rectly. Then a silver rain began to fall. I could see the drops touch the round; some flash- ed up like long pearl ear-rings, and the rest rolled away like round rubies. It was pretty but melancholy. Then tho pearls gathered themselves into Jong. strands and necklaces, and then ‘they meited into thin~ silver streams running between golden gravels, and then the streams joined each other at the bottom, and made a brook that flowed silent except that oe could kindor see the music, ’special- y when the music went along down the valley. Icould smeil the flowers in the meadow. But the sun didn’t shine nor tbe birds sing; it wasa foggy day, but not cold, The most curious thing was tho little white angel boy, like you see in pictures, that ran ahead of the music book, and led it on, away out of the world where no man ever was—I never was, certain; I could that just as pte as Isec you. Then the moon- tight came without any sunset, and shone on the graveyards, where some few ghosts lifted their heads and went over the wall; and between the sharp block-top trees splendid marble houses rose up, with fine ladies in the lit-up windows, and men that loved ‘em but could never geta-nigh'em, and played op guitars under the trees, and made me. feel that miserable I could a cried. Gro beeanse I wanted to love somebody, I! don’t know who, better than the men with the guitars did. Then the sun went down. It got dark. _The wind moaned and wept like a lost child for its dead mother, and I could a-got up then and there and preached a botter sermon than any I ever listened to. There wasn’t a thing in the world left to live for, not a blame thing, and yet I didn’t want the music to stop one bit. I was happier to be miserable than to bé happy, without being miserable. 1 could understand it. I hung my head and pulled out my handkerchief and blowed noe loud to keep from cryin.” My eyes are weak anyway. I didn’t want anybody to be a gazin’ at mea snivlin’, and its nobody's business’ Dec. 14. TED | what Ido with my nose. It’s mine. But several glared at me, mad 4s Tacker. ‘Then all of a sudden, old Rueben changed his tane. He ripped and rar’d, he tipped and tar’rd, he pranced and he charged like a grand entry at a circus. ‘Peered to me that all the gas in the house was turned on at once, things got so bright, and hilt up’my head, ready to look any man in the face, and not afeared of nothin’. It was acircus and a brass band, and a big ball, all goin’ on at the same time. He lit into them keys like « thousand of brick ; he giv’em no rest day or night; he set every liven joint jn me agoin’, and not bein’ able to stand it no longer, I jumped, sprang into my seat, and just hollered, ‘ Go it, my Rube ! (Concluded in our next. ) ene ~ Hxeoutors’ ‘Notice, — rg°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 persons indebted to the said Estate to make mined,ate 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. 2}, 1879. rg 3m SOS CO EY OES ‘Comfort: to Travellers, hike undersigned will drive parties ¢n reule for CAPE TRAVERSE, on suitable terms, regularly, from this’ Station. JW. HUGHES. JOHN HUGHES. County Line Station, Feb. 14, 1879—2m —_-- ———- ae oo ee a ee ce atten cin mee senate al HAVE YOU SEEN It? SEEN WHAT ? BOREHAM’S New Boot & Shoe Store, OPPOSITE THE MARKET HOUSE. 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Subscribe: for the ‘‘ Herald,” Dec, 28, 1878. eee eee eta we eee Remedy CURES CATARRE. Hear what a Revere ad Gentleman says of the Constitutional Ren edy. T. J. B. HaKrviye, ‘En. srockville, Dear Sir--Itis now two years since your “Constitutional Catarrh Remedy was intro- duced to me. I have waited this long to see if the cure would remain permanent before do- ing this, my daty, to you, as at first the happy efiects seemed to me to be ‘‘too good to be ” Unt.i-— i was afflicted in my head for years before } suspected it to be Catarrh. la reading in your Circular J 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 ying long, { would feel like smothering and be Bompelled to sit up in the bed. My health and spirits were seriously affected. ‘When your agent came to Walkertown in Angust, 1876, I secured three bottles. Before I had used a quarter of the contents of one bottle 1 found decided re- lief, and when I had used two bottles and 2 third. I quit taking it, feeling quite cured of that ailment, and have not used any since until of late I have taken some forja 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, 1578. Ask for Littlefield’s Constitaticnal Catarrh Remedy and take no other. T. J. B. Harpine, Dominion Agent, Brock- ville, Ont. For sale by all Drugyists at only per bottle. ene Dollar ot eee ie ee eee TRY IT, a ee nee~ eee The Greatest Medical Discovery sinee the Creation of Man, or since the Commencement of the Christian Era. There never has been a time when the heal- ing of so many. different diseases has Deen eaused by outward application as the present. 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One trial is a sufficient guarantee of its merits, and one plaster will oli hundreds to your friends. ~ sk your druggist for Dr. MeLvix’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, to any 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 SEE THE LIST FARMS FOR SALE IN THE WEEKLY MAIL. Parties Wishing to Sell Advertise there. Parties Wishing to Buy, Read there. DO YOU Advertisements of Farms for sale are inserted in the T0 BUY Weekly Mail, 20 words for 50c. each insertion; each additional word 2c. MIORTCACE 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.one o'clock, in the afcernoon, under a Power of Sale in an Indenture of Mortgage, dated the fifth day of October, 1878,anade between Wiiliain Thomas Mill, of theoone part, and John Brecken, Frederick De St. Croix Brecken, and Rebert Robinson Hodgson, trustees, of the other pa , All that tract, piece or parcel of land situ 1. ate on Lot Kighteen, and bounded ‘and described as follows: Commenemng at a stake tixed on the shore of Indian River; thenee by a line running south twenty degrees west uatil it meets the boundary line dividing Lots» or Townships Numbers eighteen and. ninetgen; thence running «<lue 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 or less, in Prince County, aforesaid. . ug 2. Also, all that other tract, pieee ov parcel of Land, situate on Lot or Township Twenty. five, in Prince County, aforesaid, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Com. mencing at a stake fixed on Wilham+>Me. Murdy’s eastern boundary line at. the sowth. east corner of Joshua Harding’s Lot; frém thence running south for the distance of fo four chains; thence east eleven chains and fif: links; thence north forty-four chains; thence west cleven chains and tifty links, to the afore said stake or place of commencement, maki and including tifty (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 th ‘ 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, sitfiate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, bounded aud described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a square stake fixed in the south-west angle of at in the oc- cupation of Peter Gillis; thence running north six degrees and forty-five minutes, east four- teen chains and two links to division ling be- tween Lots Nineteen and Eighteen; thenee aleng said line westwardly twenty-six i and sixty nine links to ti. entrance of Barbara Weit River; thence along thé course of. the said river to the place of beginning, containing twenty-nine acres and forty perches, be. tite same, a little more or less. otek 4. All that tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Eighteeg, and bounded and described as follows, that w to say : Commencing at a stake set on the shore of Richmond Bay in the centre of a road on the line of Lots Kighteen or Nineteen; thence northward!y along said shore such distance as shall make fifteen chains and sixty five links (15 chains and 65 links) at a right angle from 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 west to said division line to the stake at the place of commencement, containing seventy: eight aoe te ee a little more or less. - . Also all that other tract, piece or parece} of land situate on Lot or Township Number. Twenty-five (25), in Prince county,» and bounded and described as follows, that iste say, commencing ata stake setin 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 erty of William T. Mill, from thence by a ling 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’ tne Fe oe stake at the place of commences: ment, containing eleven and nine-te | a eee more or a oa se . Also all that other tract, pi or ; of land situate on Lot or Taw eehip eens c Nineteen, in Prince County, bounded ‘ascfalét lows, that is to say, commencing gat \thex southeast angle of land in the possession of.” Neil McDonald, from, thence running sweat along said land twelve chains and. tw links (12 chains, 20 links) or to the southwess. angle of said land, and from thence two points. running two parallel lines south thirty-one (3}}:: chains or to the south boundary line of @ nomneei ng. thirty-seven and_.one-half. (37g). acres of land, be the same a little more Jor: less, together with all buildings and improve : - ments thereon and appurtenances to the same. belonging. ‘ ten) For further particulars apply at. theoftice f- - Mersrs. Hodgson & McLeod, Solicitors, Char- wae te ¢ ated the 13th day of January, A. cot JOHN BME: rect ss vices che “REDERICK De Sr. C. BREC : R.-R. HODGSON, aes By E. J. HODGSON, their attorney. Jan. 13—law ts prog t s The above Sale is hereby postponed tite WEDNESDAY, ‘the 2nd eee 1879, then te take place at the hour and place above mentioned, : a the 17th day of February, A, D., JOHN BRECKEN, ‘ FRED'K De Sr. C. BRECKEN,©| = _ _ BR. R. HODGSON, By E. J. HODGSON, their Attorney, Advertisements of Farms additional word I }e. Advertisements of Live Steck, Auction Sales of Stock, Implements, ete. Seeds for sale, Exhibitions, etc., inserted at the same rates. Address Mail, Toronto. October 31, 1878. A FARM for sale are inserted in the Daily Mail, 20 words for | EHOL , 25¢e. each insertion; each ' Charlottetown, Feb, 18, 1879, : 38 FOR SALE. - r 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 eligihly situated tm” the immediate cicinity of mig ba > MPLOYMENT.—In every village and L4 township of P. E. Island not yet ocdu- } pied, ONE ACTIVE, intelligent Lady or Gentle. man can obtain a most -respectable and very profitable. engagement. Address, with full D. DOWNIE & CO., Box 1964, Montreal. particulars, May 25, 1878— UBSCRIBE jor the DAILY AMINER the Cheapest and oleae Paper published in the Province, and Mills, and is in a good state of cultivation. For terms and particulars apply at the offiee of Longworth & Shaw, Solicitors, Ch’town. | F. 8S. LONGWORTH. _ Ch’town, Dec. 23, 1878~- : Th Inventors and Mechanics. | ATENTS and how toobtain them, Pamph. - et of 6 es free u ei , for postage. "ities ere oat aie _ GILMORE, SMITH ©0.,0 00 © Solicitors of Patents, Washington, D.C, 3 —_ > * 7 owe I TT A AA