: MAAR LARA py DAINTY , JEWELRY very pretty an l attract- lve designs lh Long Guard Chains RRRARRARAR i Chain Bracelets Cuff Links Brooches We've a complete line of them, and will be pleased to show them to you. PRICES LOW W. W. WELLHER Jeweler. vevevwuyv ays AAARAAMAA if pa ¥ Are You | Carrying. |, any Fire Insurance on your prop- erty ? A fire nav happen at anv time—generally A policy one of there good stock Com- Are you carrying enough: ? when you least expect it, psnire, L represent will prot«c! you from all loss, Mv Companies néver contest a claim. HE. R. BROW, Insurance Agent Charlottetown — se sR Ore Scocgeeveceun] if Vou Went— Poor Bread Poor Cakes Poor Kuns Poor Ki euits Poor Rells Poor Pies Poor Covkies Poor Cuihe you « an’ ae PSTHWART'S @ ECLIPSE BAKERY BAKES BEST BREAD Pee Se 2772 Oe “ =———— i li ‘ a vain ‘ Agricultural Addresses. ee -a as © eBeEeGBeeeeesi 422466 as - Ov} g tn the Ul Ring the ‘peakers being delaved in Siraits, the Agriculimral retipg~ poe'tponed, will be held on the lowing de & t= AT CHAKLOTTETOWN b March, at 1 pm 4 in Kindergarieo AT =teew eee caday, Sih March, at 6 30 p.m , AT S&U MMERSIDE, d atm 9th farch. *t lua m. AT TYNE VALLEY) Wednesday, 9h rch, at 6.3) P. m. \ AT ALBERT 10th pa ae 30 5. ‘libureday, L Messra Robertson, Blair and - Pethick, yy, s..) will ad- the meetings. ELEY WN iNveNrEv¥YNYs) ~~ ae eerie ts ss 232 2] © Tuesday, ML 9¢ | |LOCAL AND OTHER ITEMS Av var Caps the Capes toda Ly. —Crossin both wave at, — ~_ Tue Wearner.—Wiods moderately fair, not much change in temperature. ical Pouice Covrt —At the Police drunk was fined $2 Court one or two days. 7 ih ollie Remember the concert in the A. O. H. Hall this evening to commence at 8 o’clock sharp. Tevernone Coyxnxection.—Mr. J. D. Higg:ns residence and store, and the offiee of Mathieson and Bently have been con- nected by telephone. - A.O.H. Concert.—A_ splendid pro- gramme for the entertainment this evening Emmet Anniversary in the A.O.H. Hall, se sure and attend. Tas MARKET There was not -a very g large market today. The travelling on the \ is Very heavy and tne Yroadas are said to be bad. Sriprery Sipewatk.—Mr. Frank Me aa) oa, of Lower Queen, St. slipped last }nighton the sidewalk and was badly |e:aken up, but is better today. Tur Srantey.—The steamer Stanley Pctou this moroing and proceeded direct'_y toCharlottetown. She appeared | ontside the barbour abont eleven o’clock where she bad hard work to make pro- | gress. At fouro’clock «be was about four | miles from the block honse, | _ - | Cur His Arm—A man pnamed John | McLean, who has been employed as a fire- | man at the Hospi’al for the Insane, eu: his right arm very badly late last Tuesday night. Itappears that he was trying to enter a friends, house, but the latter being asleep, McLean tried to getin through the window. In doing this he must have severe, some of the blood vessels in his arm, for when the owner of the house discovered him he had lost a great amount of blood. A doctor was hastely brought and McLean is now reported as getting ' well, Ix¢TALLIALION or Orricers.—At the first regular meeting of Court Dandass, I. O. F. [a Jannarv, the following officers were installed by Deputy. W. E. Leard. |; C,. R.—C. H. Vanlderstine, P. C. R.—A. S. Morson. | V.C. R—D. McLean. R. 8.--D. C. McKav. F. 8.--W. L. Jenkins. Treas.—G. W. Rose. Chap.--W. E. Leard. 8. W.--D. A. McKenzie. L. W.--A. Stewart. 8S. B.—-M. L. Martin. C. Phys.—R. D McLauchlan. P emma A. S. Morson and A. Stew- e = ees Memonrat Service.—The following is the programme of the memorial service to be hell ia i ie lecture room of the First Metnx fi at Church tbix evening. March 4th, at 7.58, for Miss Francia w. Willard: ening hyma—“*How Firm # Foun- 2 “aye der pi ure Lesson—Pesalin 146. Hywa—*Rock of Agea, Cleft for Me.” Chairman’s Address — Rev. G. M. Campbell. Solo—- Miss Snelgrove. Address—R-v. D. Suntherland. Hymu-—“*A Charge to Keep I Have” Addrese—Rev. Mr. C prey, Resolutions from Provincial W.C.T.U. Address —The Temple. Collection and music. Address and R2solutions—Rev. Mr. Kirby. Prayer. Quarteitte—“*God be With You Till We Meet aguin.” Benediction. PERSONAL Mr. W. C. Harris, ered at the Capes today en route fur Hal ifex and Windsor. The janitor of the H:lisborong> Skating Rink tercers his sincere thanks, to the ladies and gentlemen for their kind att nd- — at bis benetit, also to the Citizeu’s | sand Alfred Schurman. Es eq.,of North Car'e‘on formerly of Centrai edi que, and Mrs. Sebhurmen will celebrate their Golden Wedding on Tues lay next. We regret to hear tha’ Mr. Schurman baa pot been well this winter; but we sincerely hope | that bis hea'th will improve in the warm- | er weather of Sprirg, and tbat be. will coon be out again, grea ly impre ved. We feel sure that hoste “of f iends in Bed+ que and elsewhere will unite with “JHE EXAMINER in congratulating ithe worthy CO uple upon their le ength of years aud _ wedded ble-sings,and in hoping that they may live happily. to pass many additional auniversaries of their marriage day. ie ke ee ie. > @-~ DD ®>ea qa wee ante Don’t Hack and Cough Your Life Away---A Cough Medicine That does not contain opiates, That does not contain stimul- aris. That eys'em, That does not induce injurious habits, Taat can be taken by babies, That can be taken by children. That can be taken by every- body. That can be depended on. That does cure coughs. | ‘ ! ! That does cure sore throat. t He | | : 2 does not weaken the That does cur2 sore chest. That does prevent croup. That does preveat whooping cough. S. ohnson’s Cough Syrup 25 cents. Johnson & Johnson THE DRUGGISTS. iilline sthpenipiantiiiibcmainestaaiidsiies cee Po. $ ¢ ’ ¢ ¢ . é 3 ? ? ,@ ¢ ; ‘ é ¢ , > SB 6606S 488 28D Bu ALASKA: Six sleepa in a sleeper from Montreal, And & moon or so from the end of the line, And you rtand at the feot of the great white wal] — That is * with the snows that fall, and fa O’er the cedars dwarfed and the droop. ing pine That grow on the feet of Alaska. Old and wrinkled, and sold and gray, With ber white pall pulled o’er her stony breast ; Frowning and fringed and far away, She has” ever plood, as she stands tc— day, In tke desolate wastes of the North-west— Stands this hoary old Alaska. wide woman — Unmolested for thousands ot years, Isolated, remote, and lone : Her hard face glacier with frozen tears, While o’er her shoulders and in ber ears The winds of the North land wail and moan, To the ears of old Mother Alaska. A party of prospectors passed that way. And they thought.the old face bad for- gotten its frown, And, pausing, they pulied her white robe away And found her treasure: que c’est ?” Said the French-Canadian, kneeling down At the feet of old Mother Alaska. They told their story, and men went wild, And pawned their chattels avd joined the race. The old crone jingled her gold and smiled, And the gold—-mad men of the world be guiled With a promise of fortune in that far place, At the feet of old Mother Alaska. But O, the rivers sre wide and deep, And the porth wind breathes with a killing breath; And over the mountains so rough and “Ah, qu'est steep The old dread reaper shall come and reap; The grim old reaper that men eall Death Shall read the white fields of Alaska. C. WaRMAN, INTERCOLONIAL RAILWAY Its Prospects Under the Management When the Invercolonial was ¢onccived and constructed iis main purposes may be said to have been three-told: 1. To provide a military highway from the sea board to the interior. 2. To bind the provinces together and develop interprovincial trade. 3. To open up the country aud provide cheap Joca] transportation, The old system of special rates between local points will be abolished and unless a system equaily as favorable is rubstitured great hardships will follow to maoy in- dustries, and a great outcry will result. These local rates are of course very much higherthan the through races, in fact, several times bigher, and on the value of local traffic the road must always depend for its profit in operation. Theie is of course a division of opuoa amung railway men and business men a3 to tue avility of the I.C. R mauagement, sith a line 250 miles longer than the C. P.R, wSi. John, and 400 miles longer than the Grand Trunk to Portland, to compeie with these roads for through business tor ovean ship- merts, A gentlemen of long expzrience in these matters dec ared, in faci, that it is absolutely impossible fur the I. C. R. to compete for this class of business under presen. conditions except at a lo-s, which would mean an increasing deficit unless local rates are increased. Asked for his grounds for this conelu- sion, he said : “The question of through traffi: is not a new One, but was threshed cut years ago. Shortly afer Conservative government. came into power in 1878, Sir Charies ‘Tupper as minister o 'always undertook to wrestlewith this que ion of through treffi:. He recommesnted the extensiou of wel. C.R,trom Rver du Loup to Levis, up the opposite side of the river at Quebec by the purcrase of | 25 miles of the Grand Truuk, which was at that time ia such @ contiition that it was unsafe to ruo trains cver t at aay co.sderable speel eS ‘The purchase was madeo. condition that the Geand Trunk should invest the purcha-e movey in exter diog their line to Ch cage, which ex.epsion It Was hoped and expected would yive great impetus to through business from that city to Halifax. Elevators were built at Hal fax, freight aud passenger agencies were ela bhshed at Montre«!, Toronto, and other anportaut ceutres of tratflic, aud tne ¢ xperimeni of at- tempting LO compete wit tue Grand Trunk’s shorter lines to Fortlaud wes fairly lavoched. It was soon discovered, how- == | ever, that business of this cla-s conid only ibe done at alucs aud it was v.rtually abanduned. The C.P.R was then subsidized to pro- v de a shorter line to St.Jobo avd Halitax, but for ten years no Considerabie Oceau businese was developed, and it has only been within the pasttwo or three years that any througs traffi: worth mentioniog | has gone over tne C./’ R. short | ne to St. | Joho. <A mere hope! ul view is that the conditicn: of railway traffic have under- goue cousiderable change aud that the Inter | colonial, with it+ better equipment and its | better track will be able ww wverLome the disadvantage of mileage and by increased profitable traffic warrant the paymens of $200,000 per annum for renal cf the ,; Drummoud county road ‘and fur rupning | over the Grand Trunk into Montreai. Mr. | Blair’s scheme iss:id by a kes news- | paper to “‘have the appearance of bolduess \ Chante to recklessness.” Success will | certainly be a great featber in his cap; failure, it is feared, would result in the r newal of the agitation for handing the } Intercolonial over to @ private company, & contingency that is viewed with alarm by all classes in the maritime provinces. So it. will be seen that a great reeponsibility redts upon the minister and the vew traffic manager. Some cough . medicines, while cu curing & cold, hring on stomach trouble: Dr Har vey's uthern Red Pine-—-The Cough Cure—id good for the system. S! NEW HATS! Hard and Soft Hats, Christy’s London Hats iS CASES. New hard and soft Boys Hard and Soft Hats Remember we lead the style in Hats, line, and we profess io know when a hat will suit you, and we are in a position to give youal! the very newest styles in HARD AND SOtl HATS. Chidren’S Hats and Caps This is our particular PROWSE BROTHERS, The Stylish Hatters RACES —AND— HOCKEY - MATCH IN HILLSBOROUGH RINK TUESDAY - EVENING, March 8th 1898 1-2,1 & 3 Mile Races —ALSO— Final Match for Trophy } ‘ov Dananal Wala USCULSY, FFINCE OL W ae SGU , Without donbt the beet night’s sport of the season. Admission 25c. Reserved seats 35c. Gallery 36¢. S100 EIN PRIZES Entries for races close Saturday, the 5th. |. MeLEAN, QC. “BARRISTER, &c. CHARLOTTETOWN, Brown: 6 LOCK, THOMAS HOWLETY, M. D. Graduate ot College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, Md. Orrice— O’Hattorzan Buitpixs, Gtr Gro. Sr. Office hours until 1? a. my 1—3 p. my 6.30—8.30 Pp. mb. FOR SAUE—<4 new life boat, built in Glas- gow, never been used, 21 foot keel, in first class order, with oars, rudderand mest, #)l copper fastened, and furnished witn .life tanks, will be sold ata bargain, Apply to T. G. TayLor, &. S. Gulnare 538 yO*LET—A cottage on lower Prince 8. possession lat of April. D. Chappell. [ ~ = Clearance BOOTS & SHOES Too Much Stock. Small Store. On taking stock we find we have too much stock on hand. New goods are on the way—we must have voom for them. For ashort time sweeping reductions will be made tor CASH ONLY. Broker lines —all kinds 20 to 50 per cent. Discount. Ladies—bargains for you, Men—this is your chance. We mean business, When we advertise a Sale, it is a Sale. CASH ON DELIVERY Money refunded if goois don’t suit. SALE COMMENCES R K. J OST FRIDAY MORNING Stampers Corner EE eee wane ee coe Ties for weddings and receptions, Ties for street dress, no exceptions, We have them here t all minds, Many styles, and many kinds. AT => D. A. BRUCE'S Hats, New Styles, New Shades, Men’ s NE ee a ~ - ons a ee oo aes