| THE DAILY EXAMI S ‘On, ex, ths Out the ful i¢h ow, ie - i 7 ’ ey SEPTEMBER 2ist, 22nd, 23rd and 24th. a lve. be aha TT SR be ly ill ve st #5 | a - en, NER _ hen Free Born .—— = = : ——— Ee 7 : } a ia . ; rgRMS Ik our Dolla Ss pe I Ve ar. «6 This 1s True Liberty, w eeepc nenenettin —- ine — —— a Men, have to advise the Public, a may speak free.”—Evnripipgs. Single Copies two cents. HARLOTTETOWN, P: E. ISLAND: FRID AY AUGUST 20, 7387 Skt aU ETS NO 4194 £O PURCHASE YOUR CUTFITS AT THE BARGAIN CORNER SOBA 088804088 =* > O8Ue8 Valises they are perfect. ee est enateshasseyenee ae ~~ PROVINCIAL - EXHIBITION AND—— RACES, 1897, M be held at CHARLOTTETOWN, TUESDAY, WEDMES- DAY, THURSDAY -and FRIDAY, ——— eee Lee All Animals and articles for Exhibition must be entered at the office of the | Metary, Camerou Block, Charlottetown, on orz before Saturday, 18th September. HORSE RACES Hi500 - - - Premiums - -- $1500 FIRST DAY,—22nd SEPTEMBER, 1897, SD I oe i. issacheelnibadewanbisecennstesciesustaiile $150.00 4% IR Milt bedecdies hl deetamih am a pierecetadedadacdda ie .osteamecgs ic: uc AD *°* {@ All, open to Canada and the United States..........00 .csccecscccsscees “'. 2a SECOND DAY—23rd SEPTEMBER, 1897. Thee IN ic Se i a oo cvccecocs de POG O150.00 i Fh caceeu éncenescsodueds « mec oe ck sith eduiues ooo owevecetenuns “ic Ree @_ Entries close 14th September. No horse barred by record made after Ist Aug.» iN}, For further partioulars see Prize List, to be had on application to the Secretary. All communications to be addressed to the Secretary. HENJAMIN ROGERS. A. B. WARBURTON, President. w Secretary. “own Aug 14th—law wky2i all isld prs. ~ a —-—S 9 -- RIGHT IN IT... _ are “right in it” as the saying goes in this thing of selling boots and shoes. See our $1 Ladies’ laced kid boots ; chocolate shoes fat 90c and $1 and nNpwards, Girls’ Button Shoes, 75e, and 90c. W. H. Stewart. & Co. london House Ruilding...... Warning ! f Wish to inform the public that several parties are cravelling the coun Lye my name and pretending to be selling Spectacles for me, Mr. © § ite 18 the only traveller that Temploy. He is competent to test eyes i! t Spectacles properly. Ifany others call and say they are selling for me ask them to show their licence E. W. TAYLOR, Cncron Block, City. OPTICIAN Aa A Aaab ba a 444444444 We have just opened the finest carload of Trunks and V yorth your while to s>2ej our assortment. D» » (lp I)» [}u»- alises ever imported to the Island. It is Something new in the trunk line, and as for our Leather Ali will be sold at very reasonaople rates. AN ANCIENT MEXICAN CITY. A Curious Legend— Some Relics of Emperor Maximilian. Queretzro was a town before the Spanish conquest and was made a city in 1655. <A legend of Queretaro is that an Otomite chief, Fernando de Tapia by name, undertook to convert the city to Christianity in a way that seems novel to us, but was common enough to his day. He came from Tula with a challenge to the people of Queretaro to a fair stand up fight. If he won, the people surviving were to be baptized. The challenge was accepted, but while the fight was in progress a dark cloud Came up and the blessed Santiago was seen in the heavens with a fiery cross, whereupon the people of Queretaro gave up and were baptized. They set up a | stone cross to commemorate the event | on the site of the present church of Santa Cruz. There is scarcely a church in Mexico which has not a legend of this kind attached toit. The town is identified with the history of Mexico. Here the treaty of peace between the United States and Mexico was ratified | in 1848, and here Maximilian made his last stand in 1867, was obliged to sur- render and was shot. Everybody is in- terested in Maximilian mainly on ac- ceunt of poor Carlotta. Maximilian was executed on the Cerro de las Campanas and with him Generals Miramin and Media. The place is murked by three little crosses of stone. The two gen- erals were killed at the first volley, but Maximilian, who had requested that he be shot through the body that his mother might look upon his face, was only wounded, and a second firing was required to kil] him. The emperor had been led to believe that Carlotta was dead. She became in- sane from grief and was kept in an asy- lum for many years, but she still lives and still mourns for her dead husband and the loss of her throne. The United States government protested against the execution of Maximilian, but in vain, Juarez refusing to spare him. There are all kinds of relics of Maxi- milian in Mexico—the Yturbide thea- ter, where he was tried and condemned, the table on which the death warrant was signed, the wooden stools on which the prisoners sat during the trial and | the coffin of Maximilian, whose remains were subsequently sent to Austria and buried at Miramar. I confess I do not share in any sentiment of pity for Max- imilian, who was an adventurer with- out a shadow of right in Mexico and took the chances of war. He was, it is true, a victim of Napoleon and of his own ambition and was very scurvily treated by those who had induced him to set up his throne in Mexico, but to have released him would have been to establish a claimant for the Mexican throne. It was better that this man should die than that thousands shouid be sacrificed in the wars he would sure- ly have fomented if he had been allowed to live. —Philadelphia Ledger _ = - For your summer house.—Camp stools and chairs, folding chairs, lounging chairs camp beds, folding wire cots, cheap feather pillows and cheap mattresses, at prices that will please you—Joho Newson. 161, 2w r J WAGES IN CHINA. In Spite of Their Lowness the Celestials Wax Fat. How a Chinese workman manages to support his family and remain sleek and fat on the wages he receives is an ever- lasting mystery to the European and American. The Chinese are a people of marvelous economy. They will support a family, farnishing food, clothes, shel- ter, from a small garden which they call a farm, but which in America would not more than furnish an Amer- ican family with early vegetables. In cities the laboring men receiye the merest pittance. In Canton, where la- borers are better paid than in other parts of China, skilled workmen live on these wages: Shoemaker, $4 per month; blacksmith, $5 per month; fine ivory carver, $12 per month; tailor, $5 per month; fine embroiderer, $4 per month; designer, $6 per month; silversmith, $8 per month. The Chinese are superstitions, and the workmen support, in addition to their temples and pagodas and priests, which receive more in proportion than the churches of Europe and America, idol makers, geomancers, fortune tell- ers, physiognomists, soothsayers, astrol- ogers and interpreters of dreams, who exist by thousands and coin all the mon- ey they want. Another thing which makes money for a certain class is the Chinese custom of burning great quan- tities of ‘‘spirit money,”’ coins, which are supposed to be legal tender for dead relatives. One city alone employs 100,000 people in making this cash for ghosts. Peculiar superstitions embarrass the workman. For instance, carpenters and builders have to exercise great care in selecting a ridgepole for a house. It must have neither cracks nor knots, and in it a small hole must be made and filled with gold leaf and the whole beam painted red. This insures good luck for the owner of the house. The tea trude employs thousands of persons. The laborers receive from $2 to $10 per month, according to their grade of work.—Chicago News. Fishy. A man who resides on the east side relates an incident which may be true, but it sounds fishy. His boy caught a large sucker a cou- ple of years ago, and since that time he has been experimenting with his finny pet somewhat. The fish has been kept out of the water so much that it gradu- ally became accustomed to it, and fre- quently flopped out of the water itself and followed the boy around. Finally the boy placed it in a pen and gradual- ly reduced its bathing periods until it became acclimatized, abandoning en- tirely its native element. It would fol- low the boy around like a dog, and one day he started over to town across the swinging bridge with the pet fish flop- ping along after him. But alas for boy- ish hopes! The fish made a slight mis- cue and flopped overboard into the creek and drowned before the boy could ree cua him.—Punxsutawney Spirit —§ . EEE = —€—= WANTED.—For Sept. 1, a nurse-maid with good references. Apply at E. H. Beer’s office, near Bank of Nova Scotia. imitation ? Your anxiety is for your delicate child; the child that in spite of all your care- ful over-watching, keeps thin and pale. Exercise seems to weaken her and food fails to nourish. That child needs Scott’s Emulsion with the Hypophosphites— not as a medicine, but as a food containing all the elements of growth. It means rich blood, strong bones, healthy nerves, sound digestion. No child refuses Scotts Emulsion. It is pleasant and palatable. SCOTT & BOWNE, Beeville, Ont. Games and Sports can be entered into with greater enjoyment when Apams ‘CuTTI FRUTT! is used. It allays thirst and gives staying power. Some dealers try to paim off imitations to obtain a big profit, See that the trade mark name Tutti Frutti is on each 5c. package. Save coupons for latest books and prizes. 149 Piling and Piling all kinds of Lumber daily Everything new and good. Shingles in Cedar and Spruce—all classes; Veo Vivant You to see us before you build or repair. New customers come again and bring others. It will mean mon- ey in your pocket if you give us a oall. Lumber of all kinds in stock JAMES BARRETT, | Telephone 181, — a ~~ w- eee Bicycles we will sell them at next year's prices. —ALSO— REFRIGERATORS 20ee8 DODD & ROGERS ‘2 Removal Sale Having to vacate my premises within a few days, I hereby offer to the public regardless of cost, my large stock of clothing, cottons, dress goods, gents’ furnishings, etc. Thisisa genuine sale, Ihave to gowithin 30 days, and my goods have to gobefore then. I am pre pared to give you the best bargains you ever got in your life, Come in and see for yourself Come early or you may miss the chance of a lifetime P. GOODSTEIN. New York Cheap Store, | Conno"ly’s Wharf vohnson & Johnson’s cer, Queen St ga, ee a) ee 7 ue net Se cee ee et ee die ve ee #