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MHRE HOLIDAY HINTS

Half the worry of select-

ing gifts for the holidays is because of the difficulty of getting the right goods and the right people to- gether. If you keep an eye on our ads you find a solution for most of your holiday problems. Our fine line and bargain prices will make buying easy and satisfactory. -

CLOTH AND HAT BRUSH SETS

These make a fine gift

for a near friendor a mem- berof the family. Useful, practical and ornamental, we find ,them very ready sellers. We have a fine line of green and black ebony hair, hat and cloth brushes also. Prices favor you mostly. We invite you to inspect them.

CHRISTMAS CIGARS.

The gift above all that _

suits a smoker. You make ~

sure of cigars he will like ~

by getting them here. \ Boxes of Io cigars at 5oc, , $r.oo,:$~.5o, boxes of 25, . 50 and loo cigars at bed _ rock prices. We have a -' fine display of cigar cases and ho1ders,cigarette cases, _ tobacco pouches, with f silver name plate, tobacco l jars, match safes. meets- chaum and brierwood

pipes in great variety.

PERFHMES. 4.

You will want perfumes

of course and if you desire splendid assortment to pick from and bargain prices we shall expect to supply you. Fancy bottles and boxes from roc to §6_oo. Original half pint bottles for those who wish to make a superb perfume _

present. Prices $r 25 to :_ f 5.00, ’

conrleciloum. _

Those who want fine .

gift boxes of confectionery will do well to call and see our grand assortment of _ Webbs’ famous chocolates .

buying.

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FORuERY AND PAINTINGS

Things are not always what they

geem, especially in the matter Of Dic- tures and drawings, says a London exchange. There is a craze for “old’f' stuff, and thcre is always a~ supply forthcoming to meet the demand. Ex- actly whence it comes nobody seems to know, but as to its destination there is no manner of doubt. It is bought by people who think that they know a good thing when they 'see it, and who frequently suffer for their conceit. They buy for £1 what in their ignorance they are convinced is Worth £50, and tht-.v find that they have made a bad bargain. The article may be a mezzo-tint which, if genu- ‘ine, would be worth £85, but, being a facsimile, it is perhaps dear at a. ` sovereign. The purchaser would not

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*look at it at that price in the shop iwindow, but he will cheerfully pay ,fiva" times that figure for it at auc- ttion, rather than take the advice ol’ 'a picture dealer, whose modest profit he would disdain to pay. The man ,who makes rubbish is naturally in- duced to go on making more when he ,knows that auction rooms are haunt- ed by ill-informed bargain-hunters.

‘There is, needless to say, no reflec- ,tion on the auctioneer, who, even if 'he had the requisite skill, has no time to sit in judgment on every pic- ture or print which is included in his catalogue.

Not Hard to Copy.

Until an artist is dead his works

are not usually the subject of forg- ery. But let him once get beneath the ground, and then, if he was the fashion, a fine field is thrown open. David Teniers predicted that when he died it would require a, gallery a league long to contain all the pic- tures attributed to him. His prophecy was too _modest. Twenty leagues would have been nearer the mark. 'l‘. B. Hardy, the marine painter, is another name which has beenthe sub- ject of a good deal of forgery. I-Ie was a prolific worker. yet as soon as . he was gone there were not enough fof his beautiful water-colors to satis- ,fy mankind, and the imitator set to ‘work energetically. Copies cost little ,to produce, and involve no original- .ity. All that is needed for success ` is to work with an unscrupulous deal- ger, and to receive the co-operation of fa public which is ever ready to pick T up something which, if genuine, would be dirt_ cheap at the price so greedily paid. No doubt the gam-bling spirit has been fostered in the case of pictures by certain little incidents ‘ which, if strung together, would make an exciting volume. But the man who rakes over a dusthin, and finds an “old master" which he sells for £1,- 000, is a very rare person. He has, at least, never been known to do the trick twice over. Yet a good many picture buyers are looking for for- tunes in the same direction.

` Cruz: for Engravings.

, The craze for engravings has, like ,many other things, its ups and

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ldowns. The Landseer craze is noth-

iing like so strong as it was a. few :years ago, and even the great Ho- f garth is comparativelv at a discount ;To-day engravings after Sir Joshua Reynolds command much attention, and so do those after Sir Thomas Lawrence and Gainsborough. Forgery is a strong word to use in connection with engravings, but what is often done is to palm off fourth editions as firsts by removing the margins. But this, of course, would not take in the experienced collector, who knows the points. Sometimes, indeed, the sec- ond and subsequent editions are un- rnistakably, and perhaps intentioiial- ly, different from the first in matters of detail. The man who makes pic- tures or engravings his hobby, may, ‘as a rule, be trusted to know, not only as much about them as dealers do, but very often a great deal more. It would be surprising, indeed, if the devotion of a. lifetime to a particular study did not have this result. It is the collector who is on the fringe of knowledge who frequently makes mis- takes. He has to make bad bargains

. in order to learn wisdom, but even he

would scarcely be found giving £6 for a bogus Morland, worth about 30s., under the impression that it was a genuine engraving of Q, valug of £25.

` "Original" Pictures Ploalo.

mas*--‘ urniture.. ‘W_ ..._ CARTER.

Is it any wonder THIS, the Biggest, and ‘ easiest FURNITURE _STORE is any crowded? That chnstmas use S are being

filled to the very evident delight land satisfaction oflthe thousands throng 5 The advantages are im-tlic< _enormouéiii the large assortinentsythe- superior qualities and?

the wide rangegof extrenielyylow prices-the*

lowest that can be quoted in each instance.

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Yarious circumstances have con-

spired to help the forger and .tho fabricator of recent years. Ono ig ,that the great majority of people do ‘not attempt to obt-.tin large pic- tures. In the first place their purses may not be equal to it. In tliesoc- ond pl-ace, the taste is for something pleasing, which shall, if possible, have some approach to “original- ity.” They have got sick of seeing the ,same engravings everywhere. I1; ,is a little trying when middle-class ipeople, paying a series of afternoon calls, are compelled to gaze on the same kitten and the some ball of string in four out of every uve houses. The number of "pictures" which the stores have worked of! in \various parts of the country is simp- ly amazing. Now we are getting a reaction, and a desire for something better, which may .easily be ming-uid. ed. The ‘untrained judgment so ,readily goes astray. The average man, when he learns that a picture attributed to a. particular artist has =been done up so many times, Ends prima facie evidence that he has got hold of something original. The wil- er man, on the other hand, g,tta,¢"1`1¢g value to pedigree, and. will not take risks such as the less experienced will run. It is not a bad habit to buy your pictures from- a. dealer 'you can trust, for no man of reputation will sell you for £50 a icture that

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Eleventh Annual Meeting

'Phe eleventh annual meeting of the members

of the Central Mutual Insurance Company P. E. Island, S’side, will be held in the Higgins

House opposite Round House, Water Street. icharlcttetowu, ou Thursday, nth lust. at rt

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A cordial invitation is givermo all farmers who

wish to learn of our plan which gives insur- ance at but a' fraction of the colt of that of other

companies.

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Puis, Bows. Four-in-hands, Strings, Knots,

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comfortable looking Hose will

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