Sib lla ii eR TF RUA RRR RE a h rough Fis} : I n vemaeuts of a s caught are due rather to t losing its liberty than to I can contirm this, and over again ed pike that grs' fish when gnnoy acs any sense \ i Pain, pecause taken onee * the wat Up ' of the ( 27 gall Jones cus was Uli nave over en ui le rs twice caught and put ‘ fore | could throw the fish in again a terrier dog bit it half through. Then I kicked the fish In, and Brown caught #. At last we got so tired of catching this fish that I threw it away in dis- gust. it caught in the fork of a willow tree and staid there for half an hour, when & crow attacked it, dislodging it from the tree, but not before it had re moved one of the eyes. The selfsame isl was caught next day by the keep- .° -_ a = a Pride ot .«« Poor. Mrs. Clarenee Burns, who is so well knewn for ber philanthropic woak, 7s that {p all her experience jn yisit- ig thé teneménts of the poor of the et? She has never been asked for alms. Mrs. Burns bas made a business of vis- jing the poor with the hope of helping them whenever she saw the need, but fnds it almost Impossible to make the really deserving poor acknowledge that they are in need of anything. One day she visited a family who were all huddled together in one bare, eid room, and their faces were so pinched she knew they were starving. But in response to her offer to help them the mother said: “No, thank you. The children have had something today. 1 am sure to get work scon.” After questioning as to just exactly what the children bad had to eat Mrs. Burns found that they had subsisted for three days on a few dried scraps of stale bread. This experience, she says, ls repeated frequently.—New York Tribune. She Hadn't Dropped (Of, “Delia!” “Yis, ma‘am.” “lam very tired, and I am going to tie down for an hour.” “Yis, ma’am.”’ "If I should happen to drop off, call me at 5 o'clock.” “Yis, ma’am.” 8 my lady Nes down, folds her! hands, closes ber eyes and is soon in | the land of dreams. She is awakened by the clock striking 6 and cries indig- | i i nantly: “Delia!” “Yis, ma’am.” “Why didn’t you call me at 5 o’clock, ' (as I told yeu to do?’ “Shure, ma'am, ye tould me to call ye | {ye had dropped off. 1 looked in on ye :at 5, and ye hadn’t dropped off at all! ,Ye was lyin on the bed in the same place, sound asleep!” } Matually Agreeable. One day last summer a sour visaged, middle aged, fussy woman sot on one of the smoking seats tn an open car Inthe subway. Next to her sat a man Who was smoking a cigar. More than that, the woman, sniffing, easily made ut that the man had been eating on- fons. Still more than that, she had tke strongest kind of suspicion that he hed been drinkirg beer. The woman fussed and wriggled and grew angrier fad looked at the man scornfully. Presently she could endure it no lon Ger. She looked squarely at him and Raid: “If you were my husband, sir, I’d five you a dose of poison!” The man looked at her. “If I were Jour husband.” said he, ‘‘I'd take it!” ~Beston Tra ‘ipt. | ie Auditor, Professor Charl: rR. Roberts, the peet. reads the | : languages very easily, but speaks them imperfectly. At held in New York just Ptior to his leaving for Europe Rob- tris was introduced to a distinguished French artist, who was here on a visit. The artist asked in his own tongue, “You speak French?’ { ' “No,” answered the poct. “I am Sorry I do not, but I understand it well ” it is spoken to me.” | am so glad,” replied the French- Man, “You are the audieace I have long wanted. I can talk to you all I Dlease, and you cannot talk back.”— | Colorado Springs Gazette. Found ft & reception Honesty. "Young man,” asked the proprietor of the store, who was inaking the Tounds of the various departments, | how can you afford to dress so elabo- | Tately and expensively on the salary | : we Day you?’ T can't,” gioomily answered the Salesinan. “I ought to have more sal- lar — | : — ncn seen | Kinari’s Liniment for sale bYei "where, : ‘ ig lasbeen | r twi ack into n one Occasion three of us—boys id Drigade—were fishing in a poo! In a narrow, sluggish river. aught a smali pike, and as it 4! lersized, being berely four pounds, he cut the hooks out of its gul- et and threw the fish in again. Inside ef 30 seconds Jones caught the same fsh again. Once more he cut out the hooks, and this time he had to maul tt gery much. Once more it was kicked in Then I caught it, still bleeding. I got the books out with difficulty, and be- THE LAL EX/ MINER, Se CHARLOTTETOWN, JANUARY 31, 1900 see for yourselves. 22 obliging clerks to show goods. WHITE COTTON, °8 inches wide a Sg: * - ve 86 és Te! 86 “ extra fine Sc English Lonsdale Ye English fine heavy 10c Up to best quahty 16¢c PILLOW COTTON. 40 inches wide 10¢ 40 © circular l4e 42 « 66 16¢ 44 inch 16¢e 46 inch 18¢ 48 inch 20c Not cheap goods, but good goods cheap. SHEETING. 14, 16, 18, 20c and up. All bought‘at the old prices. The best value) ever offered by us. Ag widths in bleached an unbleached. Plain and twill. My store For Sheeting COUNTERPANES An endless? variety that must be sold if low prices will do it. EMBROIDERY 3 Cases have just come to hand from the leading manufacturers of the world. lca yd. up LAWNS All prices. ay THE GREATEST Goods PA T.E. $10,000 WORTH. We have been preparing for this sale for nearly a year. We bought all of our Linens, Cottons, Sheetings, Pillow Cottons, etc., etc., before the advance in price, and can give better values than we have ever offered you before. We are positive we can show you the largest assortment of White Wear at the lowest prices ever seen in Charlottetown. We leave you to judge, come and 3.15, 3.56. Come and see the most exquisite Night Robes you’ve ever seen, and all at a bargain. Knickers 23c, 27c, 32c, 38c, 41c, 50c, 53c, 56c, C Re 79a 59c, 63e, 72¢, 1.44, Handsome d prices. Night Dresses 59c, 68e, 77c, 1.08 1.22. Night Dresses 4c | PRICES—1.40, 1-44, 1.58, 1.76, 1.80 1.90, 1.98, 2.03, White OF 19900. | 9 OF Ds ds mt 9.48, 2.93, $10,000 WORTH Skirts : PRICES—36e, 45c, 54¢,77c, 99e, $1.04, 1.08. 1.26, 1.53, 1.80,! 1.90, 3.15, 8.56, 4.28. Vi 290TH CENTURY SKIRTS. All new goods. Sle, 99c, 1.08, 1.26, esigns at the lowest | 86c, 90c, ,99c, 1.04, bait ! the pretty corset covers. 60 designs to choose from. The prices make choosing easy. 00 Different Designs Corset Covers. PRICES—18e, 23¢, 27¢, 35e, 38¢, 41c, 45c, 56¢e, 63c, 68c. 72c, 90c, 99¢, 1.13. There seems to be no end to Over Aprons. ALL PRICES, from 18c up. An endless variety. ~—“a7@ have no hesitation in stating that this is the finest display of Handsome White Wear shown by us, and we trust that the good ladies of Charlottetown will appreciate | our efforts in securing such g in larger oods as can only be obtained cities such as Montreal, Toronto, etc., and we have marked them at very, very low prices. SENTNER, Successors toBeer Bros. tore” a Table Linens PRICES—1ie, 19c, 22¢ 25c, 300, 35¢, 40¢, 45c, 00c, 55c, 60c, 65c, up to 1.65. Ireland, Scotland and Germany are represent- ed in the Linen depart- ment and our mastery of the Linen business was never more clearly shown. Comparing these fresh and worthy fabrics with the best tobe found else- where will be greatest service you can render us. Towels. You’ve never bought them cheaper. Towellings ALL PRICES. Napkins Our napkins are not all®in, and what we have left will be sold at & price. Expected in daily Fancy Linens Such an array of fancy linens to choo-e from has seldom be seen in Charlottetow . Laces. Hundreds of pretty designs at “MY STORE” Prices 1000 pairs of Lace Curtains. from 19¢c up. For White Wear McLEOD & CO. A Doubting Father, One warm midsummer day Steve found himself seated under the ela Baldwin apple tree, with the half hull of a red hearted watermelon in his lap. Old Mr. B., busy with the other half, paused now and then to ask Steve about his new job, how many cigars he smoked in a day, what they cost and what he paid for his fine clethes. Pres- ently he wanted to know what they called his boy on the road—conducton, brakeman or what? “They call me the general freight agent, father,” said Steve. “That’s a mighty big name, Steve.” “Yes, father; it’s rather a big job, too, for me.” “But ye don’t do it all, Steve. Ye must have hands to help you load and unload?” “Oh, yes, I have a lot of help!” “And the company pays them all?” “Ton “How much do they pay you, Steve— $2 a day?’ Steve almost strangled on a piece of core, and the old gentleman saw that he had guessed too low. “Three?” he ventured. “More than that, father.” “Ye don’t mean to say they pay ye as much as fi-y-e?” “Yes, father; more than 25.” The old man let the empty hull fall between his knees, stared at bis boy and whistled. “Say, Steve,” he asked earnestly, “are ye worth it?’—Lippincott’s Maga- rine. . The Inquisitive Damsel, , A girl who took up photography not long ago and endeavored to get some valuable snap shots had bad luck with her first pictures. There were funny streaks of white all through them when there was any picture at all, and she couldn’t imagine how they came there. Neither could an experienced amateur who assisted in developing her first negatives and who took the usual precautions in loading the cam- era and taking thaplates. “I can’t imagine what is the mat- ter,” he said as plate after plate came out either good for nothing or with only a little of the picture visible “Those ought to have been good plates.” “Neither can I,” said the girl. “They looked all nice and smooth and white if that is the way they ought to look.” “Looked all right!” exclaimed ber tn- structor in dismay. “You hadn’t fook- ed at them before we put them in the camera, had you?” “Oh, not enougs to hurt them!” said the girl. “I just lifted up the black paper from each plate just the littlest crack in the world. I just couldn’t re- sist the temptation of seeing how nice they looked and think of the lovely pictures I was going to have on them.” —New York Times. Her Handy Money Stocking. . \ “Yes, you are right,” said the con- ductor of a Main street car, viciously ringing up a fare. “Some people do carry money in queer places, Now, that Chinaman in there kept me wait- ing over two blocks while he untied a gordian knot in his cue, where he had his cash. Some people keep me wait- ing five blocks or more while they Osh around for their money. “Yesterday I was going north on Main street, when, at the corner of Adams, two women got on the car. I waited a minute or so and then went in for the fares. The women looked sort of dashed, and then one of them began to fumble in her purse. Empty! Then her companion made a dive at the bottom of her skirts. “Well, sir, it beat all. That womar deliberately unlaced Ler shoe and took it off and through a hole in her stock- ing fished out a dime.” — Memphis Scimitar. A Big Snowfall. The heaviest fa!l of snow that ever took place in England occurred in 1615. The snow commenced falling on the 16th of January, 1615, and continueg every day until the 12th of March fob lowing. It covered the earth to such a depth that passengers, both horse and foot, passed over gates, hedges ang walls, which had been obliterated by the white sheet. On the 12th of March it began to decrease and so by little and little consumed and wasted away till the 28th of May, for then all the heaps and drifts had disappeared ex- cept one upon Kinder scout, which lay until Whitsun week. A heavy fall occurred in Scotland in 1620, the snow falling 13 days and nights witb little or no intermission. One of the heaviest falls on a single day occurred on the 21st of February, 1762, the snow in some places being from 10 to 12 feet deep. Court and Witness Agree. An amusing incident occurred in one of the common pleas courts the other day. The lawyer for the defense was making a very lengthy cross examina- tion of an old lady when he was inter- rupted by the judge with the remark, “I think you have exhausted this wit- ness.”’ “Yes, judge,” she exclaimed, “I do feel very much exhausted.”—Philadel- phia Call. —— - <a To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxativ: Bromo Qulnine Tablets, 41 he refund the moncy it fails to eure Se, E. W. Grove’s signature is one ch box PE ot set Wt vaem eee i CLELAND LLANE AE ag le fe eee eet Hanis Oat ee ey Pt A I ee 3 a 4 4 = SRS OPS. 2 PE OT eS Pe See ii ea =