“This is :Tr ue Liberty, wrlati Pe Seon Men, pee’ to advise the Public, may speak free.’ '_ Rosipes. Music Among the Negroes. One of t chief features of every negro | f a social character is the sing ng gather!! g _ | F. Hewetson in The - ing, sys \ tauquan. A musical people they undoubt- edly are Not a few have exhibited a high degree of taient in thi exan le, Blind Toin—w bose performances on the piano have delighted so many cul tured audiences he darky fiddler, once so prominent a feature of social gather ings, is still sought after in some munities The popularity of so called ‘jubilee"’ singers and negro minstrels rease With time. Many of the r songs in this country, such Kentucky Home,’’ ‘‘The Fatal Wedding” and “Listen to the Mocking Bird,’ were composed by negroes } For the origin of most of their songs we ! must go back to the days of slavery laboring classes of England during the seventeenth century found expression for their struggles and sufferings in the popular ballads of the time, so the Ameri- can slave gave vent to his afflictions and heartaches in song. He sang of his griefs —and they were many—of hardships and oppression, of loss of home, of separation from friends and relatives. In these songs one can not fail to perceive a certain plain- tive melody that seems to breathe forth centuries of patient suffering. But the songs of the negro were not all dictated by the tragic muse. Kven in slavery there were bright, sun kissed openings in the clouds of sorrow that darkened his life, and there is no better evidence of the nat- ural cheerfulness and gayety of his char- acter than the comic and festive songs with which he was wont tocelebrate these interspaces in his gricf S respect—as, for Col: | seems to ine Tost p* puia as “Old Ju SG } as the Moonstruck, | The moon has been held responsible for many extraordinary intiuences it is sup- posed to have had upon human beings. Some hold it responsibie for lunacy, while others affirm that more people die at the time of the full moon than at any other period. It seems, however, to bave been undoubtedly proved that the moon has a great effect on health and life. Two very extraordinary cases have been put forward in support of this theory. These both refer to people whose fingers have been moonstruck. ‘The first is that of a young man who always felt at the time of the full moon as peculiar sensation in the thumb nail of hia left hand. His finger nail invariably began to bleed at precisely the time when the moon came to ite full The other case is that of an older man, who from his fifty-third to his fifty-fifth rear always suffered from what is described sa ‘*pertodical evacuation of blood from i¢ extremity of the forefinger of his right snd.” A celebrated doctor mentions another rious case of the startling effect the m had on a certain young lady. With increase of the moon she invariably t me plump and exceedingly hand- su ‘and pleasant to look upon. When the moon decreased, however, her face began to undergo a change. haggard and positively ugly; ar. figure She came so: ch so indeed that she made it a cus- ton » exclude herse!f from society for son ays alter the seon had commenced its: ‘ease.—Peuarson’s Weekly. 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NOTIGE TO DEBTORS The debtors of “Mckay Wool-t are hoveby noti- imincdiate pay- re .pective debts at the office of tne Company, in Charlottetown; at which place due acqvitsances can be given. Debtors failing to act e will be sued, without resoect to persons, after the expiration of one week from Cate On The Track Our parlor suits are winning their way into hundreds of homes The Price and Quality does it. Thev are selected from the most up-to-date makers in the Dominion—who give us special cuts. We will make you special. Our large sales show the the public appreciate our effects—to give genuine bargains Solid Walnut suites $24.00, and get a bargain. JOHN NEWSON, The Real Bargain Giver. 26,00, 30.00 and up CC _[__- a good cup of Tea? Try Empire ® please you, For sale by T. J. MOO; iS - SS ST ~ Se u, SRN ZAZA Me st bMeNE Me MeMeMe Sh Me NEMS SUNESENE SES MESS AMEE MESES ESSE OE ORT RU a acne ak aS aS gr Wouldn't sellit for $40 if he couldnt get an- other one. This is what a well known geutleman in the city says about his Highland Range that has been in use for about 20ears We sell them. Geo’town. Ch’town. ian Lie R SALE. An excellent farm, sitnated on the south side of Murcay River. It contains 78 acres of land, about 25 of which are cleared, and four acres of the best alder mod. Also upwards of $100 worth of fence poles and scantling logs. The whole will be soid for the sum of $250.00. For further informaticn apply to JOSEPH DICKS, Charlottetown. TENDERS TENDERS will be received by the andersigned, until Mareh llth, noon, for the buildin. of the foundation ofa new Chureh at Traeadie, P.#. I., 7il the material being up; slied, Tenders for the same wil! aleo be ‘voonived, all the labor except the mecharical being enpplied, as well as the materia!s. Plans and spegifi- cations to be ween the Parochial Hetfee. G. HOGAN, P, P. febl4w —_— Feb 25 d&w ti WATCHES EVERY @GNE TIMED BEFORE SOLD 18 size $7.50 to $99,90 a 8.50 *“ 50.00 io:.|6|6« So5: -* 35.00 . 550 *« 50.00 o>. « 4:00 « 5U GO Screw Bezel end Back, 0. F. 18 size $8.50 to a. ay |.” 14.90 Your initials engraved on back free of charge. EW TAYLOR Cameron Block. City. I SE ESIC SCE TESTE SIRI ICSI TERI IEICE TSS FENNEL & ee janl4d1354w $40.00 | EPPSS COCOA ENGLISH BREAKFAST COCOA Possesses the following Distinctive Merits: DELICACY OF FLAVOR. SUPERIORITY in QUALITY. GRATEFUL and COMFORTING to the NERVOUS or DYSPEPTIC. NUTRITIVE QUALITIES UNRIVALLED In Quartor-Pound Tins only. Prepared by JAMES EPPS & CO., Ltd, Homeopathic Chemists, London, England, ADMINISTZATRIX NOTICE The undersigned, adminietratrix of the estate of the late David May, of Charlot- tetown, P. E I , Master Mariner, hereby notifies all persons indebted to the said estate, to make immediate payment to her ' persons having claims againet and #!! the estate are hereby required to present the same, duly attested to her, at her residence Grafton St., Char'ottetown, within three months from this date. CATHERINE J. MAY. Charlottetown, Feb’y., 16 1898. dy law & wk For Sale. The subscriber offers for sale the fol- lowing properties, formerly owned by the late Richard Pillman, at French River, New London, 1. Afar contain ng 25 acres, all | cleared and in a good stu of cultivation, s'oping to the south. | 2. A plot containing 2 acres, with and a new barn and wagon shed, thereon. There is also ther2on a store, complete with shelving, etc., and a granary, 3. One acre of land, across ibe read, ) cro-s roads, near the store. These properties are well situated in oue of the finest localities in Prince Ed- purposes. The subscriber also offers for eale a dwelliog house and lot at Kensington The house contains 11 rooms, and is ip geod repair. For further particalars apply to Mesers. McLeod, Morson & McQuarrie, Solicitors, Charlottetown, or to the owner, LAVINIA J. PILLMAN. jan 20 s.j.3mo Ayer, Macs good dwelling house containing 11 rooms | ward Island for business or farming’ MO SZ ‘ —_— ~~ . —— | THE STORY WAS SPOILED. And No Wonder the Girl With the The- ater Hat Was Angry. ‘*T¢ was about the neatest skin game, if it was askin game at all. that I've ever been up against.’’ The man in the orchestra seat was talking between the acts to his compat:- ion in tones so clear that they were quite audible to the girl with the thea- ter bat in the row bebind if she leaned forward a little. And she did so lean. ‘*Happened to me last time I was in Washington,’’ continued the man. ‘‘I went into a restaurant there—verv nice looking sort of a place—and ordered a lunch. My table was one of those small ones with a seat on each side of it. Pretty soon in comes a young feiale, puts her shopping bundles on the wine dow sill and takes the seat opposite.’’ ‘*Pretty?’’ inquired his companion. ‘Oh, well, I don't know! Didn’t nos tice particularly, but’’— ‘“‘She wasn’t,’’ observed the other. **Go on.’’ The girl behind smothered a giggie. ‘‘Any way,’’ continued the narrator, ‘she ordered some things to eat and finished ’em before I finished mine, for I was taking things easy. Then she got up and went away, leaving her bundles on the window sill. By and by the waiter comes with a bill for her lunch as well asinine. Ikicked. He insisted; said the lady had lunched with mé& and I must pay. By that tine I was be- ginning to suspect that I was being worked, but rather than have any row I paid both checks and took the satisfac- tion of telling the manager he was run- ning a blackmailing joint. ‘I’ll take these with me anyway,’ I said, gather- ing up the buadles which my mysteri- ous vanishimg companion had left. At first they kicked on that, but I was firm. I put ‘em under my arm and went dowa to my hotel.”’ **What was in ’em?’’ asked his com- panion, **That’s the queer part of it, the part that makes me uncertain if it was a game or noft.’’ The girl behind leared forward so eagerly that a feather of her big hat tickled the ear of the speaker. Hoe paused to brush it away. ‘The girl bob- bed back hastily. ‘“‘No sooner,’’ continued the man, “had I opened the first bundle than there fell’’— Bang! went the orchestra in the tu- multuous opening of the prelude to the last act. ‘‘Darn!’’ said the girl with the thea- ter hat violently and looked daggers at the young man in the adjoining seat be- cause he laughed.—New York Sun, Wouldn’t Think of It, First Tramp-—-I bad a chance wunst ter go into de burglary line, but dat wuz agin me priuciples. Second Tramp—Yer wouldn’t do dat, eb? First Tramp—Naw! T’ink of fellers workin t’ree an four hours tryin ter open a safe.—Town Tonics, Batnos, The art of bathos is tolerably well il- lustrated by the exclamation of a French critic before an English artist’s canvas: **C’est superbe! C’est magnifique! C’est pretty welll’? — London Household Words, Re SURE you get what you wart when you ask for Hood’s Sarsapae+ rilla. Unequalled in Merit, Sales, Curer. There’s no substitute for HOOD’S. ~ Extensive Sale of Dry Goods and General Merchandise The undersigned having taken posees- under a Bill of Sale, from the McKay Woolen Company t them of ell the tweeds, ready made clothing goods and all general merchandise of the said Company contained in its store ou the corner of Queen and Grafton Streets, in Charlotte- town, and in the mill of the said compan on the Malpeque Road, hereby give no- tice that they will receive sealed tenders for the parchase of the whole of the said goods and merchandize, up to Monday, tweoty-eighth dav of February, instant,at the hour of two o’clock, p. m. Lists of stock to be tendered for can be seen on application to Mr. Daniel Gordon, 7 the store of Messrs. Gordon & McLel- lan, Queen Street, The goods can be ex- Cpposite the store, and building Jot at the) amined aoy day on application to Mr. Gordon. Tenders marked “McKay Woolen Co. Tender,” can be addreseed and handed in or mailed to Mr. Daniel Gordon, Char- luttetown. On the acceptance of any tender, cash for the full amount tendered will be required, The undersigned do not bind themeelves te accept the highest or any tender. JAMES A. LEAMAN, ROBERT 8. KDWARDS ! By W.S. Stewart, their Solicitor, Th’town, Feb l4— ameter ERT AE RR CNN ER RNRRNY INE Nt i ie an oa mma ii ap anette 7 A, Re lH TT | MMA ARTS > 4 et a at ne i A EI A A IR: i en ann amet Et ~ en