%°»ue» is-asnfusiiiesssa it Bill / THE GUARDIAN cHAELo'r'rE'rowN NOVEMBE1-i-23 iscs. _Is 4 *lf i‘:.Pruud l * Why shouldn’t we be 'pr0\1 *of our trimmed Hat work Z * Even the lowest priced hat Q, passes under the eye of a mil- *linery artist and must be perfect. before it leaves *the shop. We do HOT. *mean by this, that our $1.50 *hat has so much style as our * sooo Har. * We do mean however, that our $1 50 Hat has $1 50 worth *of style, even as our $5 heb, has '$5 worth of style. You, tggg *Hat work, when you have# *selected yours for the coming# *will be proud of our trimm season. §F. Pikins & tu- * _ THE IILLIIERY lEl|lERS. l ##¥ its #i aauuaasaaiaaaara , __ I iii-iiiiiiiiiis _ is certainly: cured bv the use of EGYPTIAN RHEUMATIC 0lL. For sale by all Dr _ug Price 25:: per bottle. Hay 25 eod lyr I _. ._ ___ _ THE POEM. I stood upon the ocean’s sandy bea And with a reed I wrote upon the Sand these words: ~‘Avnes, I love thee." But the wiiids came and the waves Rolled mountains high, And blotted out the fair impression Cruel waves ! treacherous sand I f reed! No lon ffer will I trust the e But from thre highest mountaiuipeak . _1’ll pluckthe tallest pine. lHl MURNING lillllllllllll. __r lx _.L_ .ii wi-:n.\'EsDAY. Novniiiinii at issr. ` l _,_______*_____ A_.._..,._. _-_'»l THE EASTERN SITUATION. It seems to be a generally accepted belief that the situation in the Far East has improved from the stand- point of British interests. The Mon treal Witness, in a thoughtful article sums up the points in which the con- ditions are relieved. A few months ago Britain alone was striving to de fend the open door for commerce, with Russia, France, Germany and Belgium arrayed against her, while Japan had been conciliated by Russia with concessions in Corea. Britain had been compelled to secure a nava station at Wei-Hai-Wei in order to secure her waning influence at Pekin. back from her policy of the op-in door foi commerce to one of spheres of influence, and received the prom- iso-whatever it may be worth- that the valley of the Yang Tse river should not be alienated by China. The Witness admits that there has been little or no change in the actual designs upon Yunnan and Kwangsi The arrival of the United States upon the scene as a naval power of high sions she has wrested from Spain, h Arthur; Germany still occupies Shan- as taining the open door in China. And n United States interests are largest i boats are now acting with the British tered Pekin side by side with British troops for the protection of foreigners. Germany also now inclines to the open door policy, rather than to the tory, we are told. ,tures of the situation, and they are China is on the eve of a. political col- .. y - g , sentiment alter the fact that Russia. railways, or can march thither over seizure of other portions of China fo themselves. . I sential features. ____.._-_4¢¢~l1-l-- She had SJSO been 00mp€ll6d 90 ffill THE MORNING GUARDIAN will not b Two of the Spanish cruisers sun by Admiral Dewey at Manilla hav been successfully raised and docke at Cavite. These are the Isla d Luzon and the Isla de Cuba. situation. Russia still holds Port From Cape Colony comes the wor that by a compromise as to the redis Tung and France still holds to her 1-,rihul-,ion of goats, Cooil Rhodes " likelyzsoon to be in his former positio of Premier in that country. faukv 110W h0]d1US the eastern P03803- Lord Charles Beresford, who is look I ing after British commercial interest changed the situation somewhat. Next in Norghoru Chino, made a speech i to Britain the United States has the Shanghai 19,31; Saturday evening i 1&l'20SlJ C01IlInercia1 inteiest in main- which he insisted upon the necessit of a “firm policy,” which should i it is of no small interest to learn that oiudo tho organization of a ihoroug ly equipped Chinese army and a co M°~U¢h\1I`i8, Where R\1SSi9- iSf10W in OC- mercial alliance with the United DIED' cupation and Practical Possession- It SWUBS, Germany Mid J 313311, in 0"del` At Victoria on the 12th inst. Maggie iS 9-lS0 SigI1i5C8~I1l> that Al11€l'iC8-H gli I1- to preserve English integrity and Bell French, in the 18th year of age, eldest daughter i- f the late Samuel m' _i maintain the “open door." fleet and that American troops en- -__- Britain and Germany, by which Ger many is to purchase a part of Portu- Russian programme of seizing terri- guoee West Africa., and cede to Bri- lneither few nor without Significance. the chain of British territory from the iBut- alittle reiiection will show that he3,d_wa,wrS of rho Nile to British the indications above noted are mere Sourh Af;-ioa_ Ar, present the Congo, can shut up her ships of war in im- I The Formidable is the name of the' pregnable harbors. Russia will pur- latest British battleship, launched at sue her plans to take and hold both Portsmouth on Saturdav last. The Manchuria and Mongolia, when she monster is of 15,000 tons displace- is ready, and then the only compen- ment ard her engines have 15,000 sation that Britain and the other in-T horse power. Her armament will terested powers can obtain will be the consist of four 12 inch guns, twelve rt 6 inch quick firing guns, eighteen 12 pounders, twelve 3 pounders, and l There can be little advantage inleight Maxim guns. The Formidable _ merely postponing the inevitable par- carries 950 tons of coal, will have a. tition of China. To wait till Russia complement of 750 men and will has completed her Siberian railway steam IS knots. before intervening with armed force, I - -- _ is to give the northern Colossus stilli Mention was made in the columns greater advantages and then admit _ some months ago of the fact that the that it ie too late to check her resist- Russian government had contracted less advance. We cannot therefore in England for the construction of ii. think that the eastern situation is large and powerful ice-breaking vessel materially relieved in anyof its es- to keep open the navigation of the I Baltic. The famous craft has now been launched from the yard f the 3 strong as vessels of that class. e _.__ d 'ficial crop reports, .which are a cided advantage to those who, ig business reasons, desire to know D tions of the province. Here we dependent upon mere guessing. Nova Scotia this year the hay cr 2 quoted at 68, oats 84,'wheat 0 . . A . Th h ' - -b ak ` T<>-morrow Thanksgiving Dat Aééniiiiiiig ...ti §g‘i.I-Zi.i.’.'§ ..‘i'».~`i` e feet and has four propellers, each driven by separate machinery. Her k horse-power is 10,000. The vesssl looks like a battleship, and is as Nova Scotia, like the western pro- , vinces, has the practice of issuing of- de- actual condition of the farming sec- - OP 8 7 per cent over a full crop' other crops are short, potatoes being buckwheat 86, barley 89 and turnips yi 92 per cent. The average of all crops E in Nova Scotia is about 90 per cent. French. She patiently endured The latest juggle in the ag-airs of protracted illn ss of over two years - » . l eucefullv awa leaviiiv a moth- Africa is a re orted deal between passe( P, ~ 5' ‘ 2: P _ ` er, one sister, and three brothers and a llarg ~ circle of friends and acquaint- 'ances to mourn their loss. taid a strip of German territory along l TQQURE TOOTHACHE IN A MINUTE Such are the more favorable fea- the ea.si*sliore of Lake Tanganyika ruse NERVOL_ one appiiontion oureef This piece is necessary to complet back 1 °°d f `N . if your money . Equn. ly g o eurai e . and Headache. 25c, at all Druggists. weather signs. interesting in a fore- Fi-oe, State and German East Africal lCaSl5 Of 8»fH10SPh0FiC Ch3U§@S» but \1S€- together extend clear across the con- . ` less infrespect of an impending earth- tinent., with Lake Tanganyika as the quake. And it is not a storm of wind boundary between them. Britain _ alld T9-ill lbhali iS U0 be fe?-I’0d ill wants a strip broad enough for rail-, T K t 3 China, but a political earthquake. No way purposes along the shore of the 0 B I Chi change of sentiment among two or luke, and report. says will now get three powers can change the fact that from Germany, it . for Charlottetown, that is if 1. ,_ ___,___ _ lapse Nor can an such chan e of, ~ is already encroachinff upon northern N' . ff `_ _ ' o _ __ h ° ° and forthe country also, if ragi1o,China with overwhelming military e they will let us mail one at . every one will purchase one of these Hot .Water Bot- t|e5 we are selling so cheap, force ` Her _tgrmtory ad-lows? the ` llespeeially hte of Hood’s Pills. for no medt- our expense' I lands she is seizing. Her armies can ¢1no¢yor¢onuun,u ,O pu; ,..,._m,,,, power ,I | ne conveyed thither over her own |° Umllllnco. They are a whois medium. Prices from 7 5c upwards. §& We warrant every one we And, dipped in the crater of Vesu with i, 1.1, write wus’ ther own si il. It would tax the trans- Upon the high and burnished heavens lport service of Britain, United States These render wo,-ds, li and Germany combined to con- »‘The standard set by Bruce Stewart & i VQY EU China 3- f0I‘C€ equal 50 thi-U west, ‘hun rn” “_ C0- ‘which Russia has already on the ways emclent, uw;y|’ga.c. P. For their business relations with public is a high one. i'.i=¢'-""`..m.».¢""'u¢..°';;",r,,'{-M'-".,,,`" ,E *.:...1...~vn m...~n..i.=..ae Mfr!-r--if-' sn- naman- »~.¢n.m°;.:n Good examples of this are to be i the ground. Uactory; prevent a cold I S Russia has not chan ed her lans. 'I fever’ cure au "lm" ms- found \ She is tactical, invulguemble apains lick headache, jziunfiice constipation eta. mo. promptly, - Central Drugstore Sunnyside » A.W.Reddin, Phm. B ‘ sell. Mail orders answered ¢d§“¥ -~ l - p. 3;" '_ -7. _ ` - - _ .. ._ _____, A... 7 , 7,, _.._ _ _ `A_____ __ .A,.,,1,,__.;.__ _;'.*lf`_;`“"f‘f5-#“3,i§€»`-'~`-_ - ~--~---~-----~ e ._ <;"~ V i . git Pays to Buy at Perkins, llllll llllll IIIOIOIOIOICIOIO DRESS toons WEE To'-day and every day this week an ati story will be told to your eyesight concerni BEAUTY, NOVELTY and LOWNESS of IN THIS 1 The Largest Stock Dress Goods in Ch to ‘ We want every lady in Charlottetown our Dress Goods 'Department this Week f you are in need of a new Dress, it 1 you to come here this week. If money is any object to you it Wlll to buy your l)ress Goods here this week U F. PERK|NS&|l “THE MILLINERY LEADERS” REST FRDI LDMI New Cloth§ for Fall and We have opened atine line of l\obby , - t . x ‘_ ' , » \` _ _ _ . I.‘I.d‘i‘€.2‘”iii,f;”°'*“*““’ 0-at .....l’..t..i..l'..i. ......i...i..i.... “°°“’»““““‘°"““”°°°'S"“°"‘”~ le>e-eeo-e-e-@@<¢@es3,S111twsS- Ovefcoatinss and Tfvusefine- ii i e to see any doggoned _ _ _ . waves wash that out » of powers might_ direct against her, _ ,_ - - - Call HOW 8.Il(l get first Cll0l0e-a fllll llI16 Of because she has little commerce and ` - - - We are not selling on sentiment but on hard matter of fact business principles. There’s no sentiment can outweigh the dollar, but we have learned this, as Mark Twain puts it, “To ‘fetch’ the public yoii_must serve it well,” Our factory made FURNITURE by its quality and value has entirely “fetched.” ’ the people, its enormous sale proves this. mini wiiigm g gn" Ui .- . .... .. Gl’town,P, » I- Beavers, Meltons, Kerseys, Fur N aps, Whip Cords. Bought for Spot Cash, Sold at a close margin of profit. Hom: MAKERS. c i | ordon 8:. -_McLe ' nishings always on hand. JOHN MGLEOD RUBBER5! You tant Makita Mi_ If you buy your Fall Suit ami (Ivo from us A constantly increasing business proves the success of ~ to dress our patrons to their satisfaction. I I _ -“ A Magnificent Range of Sulti _ Be sf ln English, Scotch, Irish and Canadian Tweeds. Good Value In shapes Serges, Vicunas, Cheviots, Worsteds D ' Men’s Outfitters. ' -°s.»~ ». _ IR ~ ,_ * , . -n al- c-as-,._.»._,_, .-,, . ._ ‘\ ~<--'-r. ».-w ~.»..._.,,._ ,_ __ _ rs ¢~ `*“'Yw *’**'rs- ‘UI iiEil§ if