4 THE serate 7X Room A U WAIL LY EXAMIN TERMS, Four Dollars per Year. “This j is Pins Lihetey, whan'ttiee wiles having ‘mavios the Public, may speak free.” —Evripipes. Single Copies C7» C’4* VOL 37 CHARLOTTE TOW LD, ek ISLAND: PRIDAY JUNE A, OY... - NO 130 If You are Golng To— BOSTON or any part of the (nited States, the cheapest and best route is via the Plant Line, THE POPULAR SUN- MER Bours DIRECT - SERVICE FROM CHVTOWN. » Commencing May 14th, the favorite S. §, ‘ Halifax” will leave Ch’town for Bos- fon every Friday at 1 p. m. Returaing leaving Boston every Tnes day at noon. Steamer calle: at HAWKS: BURY and Halifax both ways Via Pictou & Halifax Passengers leaving Charlottetown Tues and Saturday mornings via Pictou make close connection at Halifax with steamers *Qlivette” and “Halifax” for Boston di- rect Wednesdays at 7 a. m. and Saturdays ll p.m. Tickets for sale at stations P.¥.I. Railwav, Ch’towu Nav Co, and Clarke’s ticket office. H. L. CHIPMAN, Can. Agent, Halifax, N.8 d&w EPPS'S COCOA " ENGLISH BREAKFAST COCOA Possesses the following Distinctive Merits: DELICACY OF FLAVOR. SUPERIORITY in QUALITY. GRATEFUL and COMFORTING to the NERVOUS or DYS™. “2 NUTRITIVE QUA .c3 UNRIVA:LED. In Quarter-Pound { .2s and Packets Te Prepared by JAME: EPPS&CO.,” .+ Homeopathic Ch emists, London. Bog nd. Once ina Lifetime You may plain gold > Wedding Ringe We have a nice assortment ef Wedding Rings and Wedding Presents. G. F. HUTCHESON Jeweler and Optician. Opposite J. D. McLeod's - Viotoria’s © Diamond Jubilee Will be held this year, and those who visit Ch’town this year will not do themselves justice if they fail to get their Lunchee a Victoria Cafe, and ériak the health of Ter Majesty the Queen want to purchase a in a glass of Joy’s famous But- termilk JOUN P. JOY Vicrorra Care| Gt George St..... EXCHANGE EDITORS. ee HOW SOME READABLE NEWSPAPER STORIES TRAVEL. Saved From OPlivion by the Man of Sois Lost Credits Some- times Cause Trouble—Stories That Ap- sors and Paste Pot pear In the Same Papers Twice, A story originating in Boston told of the finding bya fisherman of a malodorous ¢elatinous mass in the bay. He towed it to shore and tried to boil it. He thought it was some kind of glue. The mass weighed 100 pounds, but it smielled so bad he throw most of it away. A portion weighing six pounds he kept ; and took to the village pharmacist. There he learned the stuff was amborgris, worth 63 an ounce. The man whe wrote the story figured { out the fisherman had thrown away $56, - 000, and on this the tale was based and given value. Hundreds of papers copied the story, because of the in-mense amount the fisherman was supposed to have lost, says The Press and Printer. Any one who took the trouble to figure the value of 100 pounds of ambergris at $3 & troy ounce would have seen the ‘‘for- tune’’ thrown away footed up only $8,500. Some one did this finally, and the story ceases to travel. Occasionally an exchange editor forgets what has originated with his own paper. ‘Thus, a New York paper that is generally looked upon as the one nearest perfection in that city printed a good article not long ago that was copied in part by a weekly paper, and the paper that first had the story copied it and gave the weekly credit fox it. Old exchange editors look for certain stories periodically. Poker, snake and ghost stories never die. A good poker story will come out and make the rounds of the country at least oncé in three years. They are filed away until they have been almost forgot, and then brought out, brushed up and put before the public. Most papers are conscientious in giving credit for matter taken from exchanges. Sometimes the credit is actually omitted, and then there are papers that deliberately crib matter. This leads to confusion, both of readers and exchange editors. Once in awhile a story isso good the usually con- scientious exchange editor ‘‘appropriates it just this once.’’ Frequently a story is reprinted without credit by other papers and is finally credit- ed to one of the publications that has ‘‘borrowed’’ it. When this happens, a well meaning exchange editor may be led into error in giving credit. Readers are con- fused when they find the same article printed in two papers in one city the same day, one of the papers presenting it as original and the other crediting it toan exchange. Publication of an article does not always end interest in it in the office in which it originates. When The Post printed an article two years ago about the market for old bottles in Pittsburg and the fortunes some persons were making out of it, it Was not supposed anything more would be beard of it. But people in the territory in which the paper circulates sent in scores of letters asking for further particulars. They wish- ed to share in the rewards of the old bottle industry. The article was copied by news- papers throughout the country, and every week for a year thereafter The Post receiv- ed inquiries from men who ‘‘knew where there were seme old bottles.’’ Some of these letters came from cities and towns 1,500 miles distant. One of the best magazines in this voun- try, one that continues to be sold for 35 cents a copy, regularly prints stories that have been ‘‘mess grown’’ for years. They are good things, short and sharp, in anec- dote form, and they are copied by the hewspapers now as if they had not been printed originally in newspapers years ago. The magazine is given credit for them now. The exchange editor doesn’t expect to go through life without making mistakes, and he will admit printing old stories un- wittingly, but he does feel small when he finds he has clipped one story tw'ce within a few days apd it appears twice in the same issue of his paper. One who reads a great many newspa- pers observes curious things about them. The exchange editor is the man who sees most of this, and he could tell some inter- esting tales. On the pumber of papers he can ‘‘go through’’ depends his value to his ' employers, There is an old pewspaper office joke, one that never fails to raise a laugh when told among newspaper men, about a mer- chant who bought a newspaper property and set about conducting it on economical principles. After he had been in posses- sion a few days he went to his managing editor with the suggestion that Jones be discharged. ‘‘What for? He’sone of the best men on the staff,’’ protested the managing editor. ‘*He’s fooling you,"’ said the newcomer. “‘T’ve been watching him for three days now, and I hayen’t seen him do a thing but read papers."’ The exchange editor has to have a good memory, as wellas good judgment. He must know what is fresh matter and what is likely to interest the great body of read- ers. But sometimes he forgets, and a good story will be printed in one paper more than once. Sometimes very odd stories go all over the country, one paper after another print- ing them without the peculiarity ever be- ing discovered. Stories have been known to travel for ten years. * | Handsome dress goods for your ing. See eur ad,—Moore & McLeod. choos- Price Cutting Means Quick: selling 500 Men’s heavy blue twill snits, regular price $5.00 now for $3 35, 50 Men’s light tweed all wool well lined and trimmed prise tear for $3.75, ) Men’s tweed suits $8 for 9% et oe Cr all wool, D. B., 5 Men’ s fine $3.88 » for $6. Men’s’ Underclothing, and colored Shirts, Ties, lars, at very low prices, In Boots and Shoes we are th: money savers. Women’s Kid Shoes, worth $! for 68c. Men’s Oxford Shoes, 85c. We lead in quality and low price, Jb Maton Nd Stan, Opposite w. st end Market. MANY DAINTY 3 x=. DISHES 1) CAN BE PREPARED WITH Wf» Benson’s \ CANADA aPrepared Corn. RY MANUFACTURED FROM SY Yr CHOICE SELECTED PURE CORN. . NO ADULTERATION THE BEST FOR CHILDREN. white Col RECIPE for Infants’ Food. AS us Ne g@ To one desertspoonful of Benson's i Canada Prepared Corn, mixed with half te 1A a cup of cold water, add half a ye nt of (Sa O boiling water; stir over the fire for YF five minutes; sweeten slightly; for older babies mix with milk instead of water. : i q SEE OTHER RECIPES ON PACKAGE. Y THE EDWARDSBURG STARCH CO. Works: Cardinal, Ont. Offices: Montreal, P.Q. - : = OL, = pea > a Le iB a ee Some ery Superior #.))2115 hae juat been added to our stock. It is j Flooring, and when we say tla ivs the nicest we’ve handied for a long time, it means a great deal. NOW, DONT STAY AWAY because we say it’s very superior stock, for asa matter of faet all our Lumber is of the very best quality, and yeu know our prices sre always right. It pleases us to Lave you call. We don’t mind answering questions by telephone, and if you write you will receive the same atsan- tion as f you were in the city. TeLerwone 181. JAMES BARRETT. CONNOLLY’S WHARF TO LET. The house on Richmond St. west, at resent occupied by Mr. J. M. MeLeod. his house is beautifully situated on th- harbor front, with splendid view, Is fite ted with all the modern improvements. Apply to Mr. Thos Campbell. s, Delicious For the Children. Toasted marshmallows are delicious and make a pretty and odd sweet for a lunch- eon, or the children will welcome them as dinner dessert. Whon held over the coals on the toasting fork, they puff up to twice their former size and turn a lovely brown color, Served as soon as may be, they will be found to keep their heat for so long that there is more danger of burning one’s mouth than that the dainty morsel wiil become cold and fat. This is preferable to plumping them in the chafing dish, as is sometimes done, and incidentally much better for that utensil. To use the blazer ef the chafing dish for dry cooking—that is, where no lubricant is used—is to destroy auickly its finish. Church Feud Ended, St. Patrick's church, Galway, Ireland, a magnificent structure, has not been opened for 35 years, because a plot of ground in front of the building was ewned by a man. who bad a bitter dislike to the form of worship carried on within, and he builta high wall directly in front of the church, preventing access. The man, however, re- cently diad, and, the bishop baving bought the ground, thé chureh will soon be opened, for the first time since 1863. His Ancestry. A certain young man from the north bore a letter of introduction to a business man inthe south. The letter contained this paragraph: ‘*He jis distantly related to the family of the late Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.”’ The business man paused at that para- graph, shook hands heartily, and said: ‘‘I am glad to meet you, sir, but sorry to hear that Longfellow is dead. I remember him in the real estate business in Birmingham. I Enew that he had made an assignment, but not that he had passed away. He was a capital business man in his day.’’—At- a@nta Constitution. Too Much at Stake to Forget. ‘When you are absorbed in your busi- ness cares down town today, Herbert, you will forget your little wife entirely.”’ . ‘‘No, darling. Thatsteak you cooked for me with your own sweet hands this morn- ing for breakfast will keep you in my memory ev gy ininute of the day.’’—Chi- cago Tribu®™.. : ah She Refused the Tip. The story of Matthew Arnold and lag American college president who blacked his boots for him, recently narrated by The Republican, reminds a-co pond- ent of an experience of a well known Unitarian minister’s wife In the Con-, necticut valley of the very same nature, An English clergyman staid over night at their house, and their hired girl had fallen ill and gone to her own home. The minister asked that one of the servants should wake him up in season for break-~ fast. Mrs. —— arose early, started prepara- tions for the meal and rapped at the’ guest’s door. She found his boots there. To use her own language, “I tock the bootsand cleanedthemand carried them back, trembling lest he should appear and give further orders to the ‘servant.’ I prepared the breakfast and got it on the dining table, then went to my room, prinked in honor of our guest,. then to the library and accompanied him to the table. When he was about to depart, it was not so difficult to decline the tip for the servant, for the reason that she was not accustomed to receive such gratui- ties, as it was to keep a serious face. My husband has always complained that I selfishly monopolized all the fun.” ~—Springfield Republican. Oblirins. ‘*‘Madam,”’ said Meand ring Mike, “hey ye got any cold coffeer ’ ‘‘No,”’ replied young Mrs. Torkins in atone of sympathy ‘‘but you wait a few minutes and I’ll pat some in the refrigerator and cvol it for you’’— Washington Star. ~. 7 me. @- ‘ a Without the love of books the richest man is poor, but, endowed with this treasure of treasures, the poorest man is rich.—J. A. Langford. A few of the election orators have re- turned to work, but a good many are out who should be arrested for vagrancy.— Atchison Globe. A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man gtows poor by seeming Fish.——Shenstone, —$—<—$ we erm KOKANIE CREEK SHARES NO FAKE". But legitimate mining. FOUR CLAIMS. Owe being on the famous Molly Gibson vein. Two above Enterprise, which sold $300,600 cash. and another ove half mile from Slocan River. High e ore out eropping on three. Well! defined ledges onall. Capital evly $250,000 in 25 ceat shares, Firet issue for development 3 eents, non assessable. Next issue not less than 10 cents. Reliable management. Nothing leas than 500 shares sold. Order through bank. GEO. D. SCOTT Agent 42 Fort St., Victoria, B..C, \ 4 . \ our New Dress Goods depart- ment is Booming. Our Hat and Cap Depart- ment is booming a ae ee ee OUR GENT FUR- NISHING DEPART- MENT IS BOOMING OUR TWEED AND FLANNEL DEPARTMENT Is BOOMING Our Staple Dry Goods Department is Booming. Our Readymade Clothing Depart- ment is Booming, Our low price pressure makes things boom all along the line, McKay Woolen Company #O9eS8e@ S6OOCSO ee es