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ef 2 fk a it ten 8 awe > ew | ; wee a | . } iad os a “&) } een $y] | i/ a Ss | ee, \ i, \ 245 )) 4 oa, } —~ { a a 2 ae | — Nie 4 |

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TERS, made from your own

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| tor her father to come

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Charlottetuwn, Nov. 26, 1894.

LAST MONTH OF 1894.

I want to make this month the best | mouth of the year, and in orderto do so I am prepared todo work CHEAP. Thi} many new customers who have patronized me since moving to Queen Street ca: tell of the CLASS OF WORK and LOW PRICES they have been getting.

Let me quote you prices on BLANK 300KS which you will require for the first of the year.

We can supply you Bill Heads, Letter and Note Heads, Receipts, etc., lower than any Other firm inthe city, This is beyond |

doubt. My offer for Bill Heads at $2.75 per thousand wiil remain open during |

this month. Look out for your Magazines and have them bound before they get rislaid. GOOD WORK! LOW PRICES! JAMES D. TAYLOR,

Queen Street.

WE SELL COAL.

Prices Right.

nant LOVe

WHAT WE HAVE.—A well assorted stock of LUMBER. WHAT WE WANT.—We are no

. : grasping. We only want enough trade to | keep us working. We would rather sell | our stock eheap than rust for want of something to do.

If you will just give us a call and look over our stock you will be just “tickled to | death” with satisfaction.

WHAT WE CAN’T GET.—As we in |

tend making a change in our business we |

are going to let the Court collect those | old accounts that “we can’t get.” We've |

asked for them often. But the polite in | Vitation to “call again” is monotonous to | our ears. So don’t be surprised, for WE

MUST HAVE MONEY.

Barrett & Champion,

CONNOLLY’S WHARF.

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| larsin it, so Mr. Armstrong thought it

again without his permission.”

| jler compulsion, I assure you

;* one my best } on 1) | irl said,

| ‘ame up. but I got such a momentary | ‘glimpse that I might have been mistak i=

‘you quite a list of things I don’t do.”

But Agnes

is Sure that her letter Has rea 1 “y I

told s

For behold it was gone this m rning, And she knew not how it went. She has told me as a secret What Sa ws is to bring Play-houses and dolls and pie Lure-books, And canay and ¢ very thing, And with the most perfect reliance And taith in the lewend old,

ts without doubting } .

$47

the presente

shall unfold

8,000,

A Christmas Gift That Wona Banker's Daughter,

WY LUKE SHARP,

R. John Armstrong stepped A off the train at the Union Station in Toronto. As he

5 Baten outside, a small boy “Ff axccosted him 4 “Carry your yalise up for you, sir?”

‘No, thank you,” said Mr. Armstrong

“Carry it up for ten cents, sir.”

—

“Take it up for five cents, sir.”

‘Get out of my way, will you.”

The boy got out of the way, and John Armstrong carried up his own valise.

There was nearly half a million dol

best to carry it up himself 7 * * * * *

In the bay window of one of the hand somest residences in Rochester, New York, sat Miss Alma Temple, waiting home from the bank. Mr. Horace Temple was one of the solid men of Rochester and was president of the Temple National Bank. Although still early in December, the winter promised to be one of the hard est for many years, and the snow lay crisp and hard upon the streets, but not enough for sleighing. It was toe cold for snow, the weatherwise said. Sud denly Miss Alma drew back from the window with a quick flush on her face that certainly was not caused by the coming of her father. A dapper young man sprang lightly up the steps and yressed the electric button at the door When the young man entered the room a moment later Miss Alma was sitting demnurely by the open fire. He advanced quickly towards her, and took both her outstretched hands in Then tur tively looking around the room he greet ed her still more affectionately, in a manner that I, the chronicler of these incidents. am not bound to particular ise. I only set down the fact that what ever resistance the young lady offered was of the faintest and most rutile kind, and so it may be understood at the be ginning that these two young persons hada very good understanding with each other.

“Yon seem surprised to see me,’ he began.

“Well, Walter, I understood that you left last time with some energetically expressed resolutions never to darken ous doors again.”

“Well, you see, my dear, lam some j-imes hasty, and, in fact, the weather is so dark now-a-days. anyhow, that a rittlh extra darkness does not amor: ¢ to ‘much,and so I thought I would take the isk of darkening them once more.’

But I also”® understand that my father made you promise, or that you promised voluntarily, nat to see me

his

Un- But I ttidn’t come to see youatall. That's ¢vhere you are mistaken. The seeing *-ou is merely an accident; which I have to Fact! The Won't vou come into the ;arlor,’ and naturally Ididso. Never *»xpecte‘l to find you here. I thought I Sawa young lady at the window as I

‘Not voluntarily. Far from it,

avoid

Then I will leave you and not inter rupt——

‘Not at all. Now I beg you not to ‘eave on my account, Alma. You know * would not put yon to the least trouble

athe world.”

‘You are very kind, I am sure, Mr Brown.”

I am indeed, Miss Temple. All my friends admit that. But now that you are here by the way, J came to see Mr. Temple. Is he home?

I am expecting him every moment

Oh. well, I'm disappointed; but 1 guess 1 will bear up for s& while—until fe comes, you know.”

I thought your last interview with ‘yim: Was not so pleasant that you would 20 svon seek another

The fact is. Alma, we both lost our empers a bit, and no good ever comes fthat. Youcant conduct business in 1 heat, you know

Oh, then the asking of his danghter’s uand was business—a -aere business proposition, was it’

‘Well, I confess he put it that way— very strongly, too. Of course, with me there would have been pleasure mixed with it if he had—but he didn't. See here Alma—tell me frankly—of course he talked with you about i1t—what ob jection he has to me anyhow.”

[ presume you consider yourself such a desirable young man that it as tonishes you greatly that any person should have any possible objection to on?

Oh, come now, Alma; don’t hit a fellow when he's down, you know. 1 don't suppose [ have more conceit that che average young man, but then. on the other hand, Jami not such a fool, despite appearances, as you would say -.0ot to know that J am considered by sone people as quite an eligible indi V bane J am not a pauper exactly, and your father knows that. I don’t think I have many very bad qualities. I don't zet drunk: I don’t—oh, I could give

‘You are certainly frank enough, my eligible young man. Still you must not forget that my papa is considered quite an eligible father-in-law, if it comer to that.”

‘Why, of course, { admit it. How could it be otherwise when he has such a charming daughter’

* You know I don’t mean that, Wal- ter. You were speaking of wealth and «o was 1. Perhaps we had better change

the subject.” ~ By the way, that reminds me of

he Leadng Ready

_ Why are we the Leading Clothing House ? give the best value in the market, and no man can undersell

tions, then

“What do I think of them? I think good resolutions are admirable any day of the year--that is, if they are kept

Why? Were you thinking of making some?

“One. Only one. I was going to swear oi—tbat is--I was thinking of

making «a good resolution to quit the

the bad habit of being a bachelor, next |

New Year's. What do you think of the scheme?

“I fear lam not a competent adviser You had better consult some one who

knows more about the matter than I do.” i

‘That's just why came. Iam going to consult again with your father. By the way, you did not tell me why he is so prejudiced against me. Why did he receive me in such a gruff manner when I spoke to him about it. It is not a criminal act to ask a man for his daugh ter. It is not, I assure you. I looked up the statutes and a young friend of mine who is a lawyer says these is no statute in the case made and provided The law of the State of New York does not recognize my action as against the peace and prosperity of the common wealth. Well, he received me as if I had been caught robbing the bank. Now I propose to know what the objec tion is. lam going to hear—”

‘Hush! Here is papa now.”

Miss Alma quickly left the room and met her father in the hall. Mr. Brown stood with his hands in his pockets and his back to the fire. He heard the gruff voice of Mr. Temple say, apparently in answer to some information given him by his danghter—‘Is he? What does he want?”

There was a moment's pause and then the same voice said

“Very well, J will see him in library in a few minutes

Somehow the courage of young Mr Brown sank as he heard the bankers voice, and the information he had made up his mind to demand with some hau teur he thought he would ask, perhaps, in a milder manner

Mr. Brown brightened up as the door opened, but it was not Miss Alma who came in. The servant said to him

“Mr. Temple is in the library, sir Will you come this way?

He followed and found the banker seated at his library table, on which he had just placed some legal looking papers bound together with a thick rub ber band. It was evident that his work did not stop when he left the bank. Mr Brown noticed that Mr. Temple looked careworn and haggard and that his manner was very different from what it was on the occasion of the last inter view.

“Good evening, Mr. Brown. I am glad you called. I was on the point of writing to you, but the subject of our talk the other night was crowded from my mind by more important matters

Young Mr. Brown thought bitterly that there ought not to be matters more important to a father than his daugh ter's happiness, but he had the good sense not to say so.

“i spoke to you on that occasion with a—in a manner that was—well, hardly excusable, and I wish to say that I am sorry I did so. What I had to state might have been stated with more re gard for your feelings.”

“Then may | hope, Mr. Temple, that you have changed your mind with—”

“No, sir. What I said then—that is, the substance of what I said, not the manner of saying it—I still adhere to.”

“Might I ask what objection you have to meY”

“Certainly. Ihave the same objec tion that Ihave to the majority of the society young men of the present day. If I make inquiries about you, what do I find? That you are a noted ocarsman— that you have no profession—that your honors at college consisted in being captain of the football team and :

‘No, no, the baseball club.

‘Same thing, I suppose.”

“Quite different. I assure Temple.”

“Well, itis the same to me at any rate. Now, in my time young men had a harder row to hoe, and they hoed it Iam what they call a self-made man, and probably I have a harsher opinion of the young men of the present day than I should have. But if I had a son I would endeavor to have him know how to do something and then I would see that he did it.”

“Tam ob}}--d to you for stating your objection, mr. Temple. I have taken my degree in Harvard Law school, but Ihave never practised, because, as the little boy said, I didn’t have to, Per haps if some one had spoken to me as you have done I would have pitched in and gone to work. It is not too late yet. Will you give me achance? The position of cashier in your bank, for is. stance?

The effect of these apparently inno

you, Mr

cent words on Mr. Temple was startling. |

He sprang to his feet and brought down his clenched fist on the table with a

vehemence that made young Mr. Brown |

jump. ‘“‘What do you mean, sir?’ he cried, sternly. ‘‘What do you mean by saving such athingy’ ‘‘Why, I—I—I-— mean——” stammered Brown, could get no further. old man had suddenly gone crazy, He glared across the library table at Brown as if the next instant he would spring at his throat. Then the haggard look came into his face again, he passed his

but he | He thought the

hand across his brow and sank into his |

chair with a groan.

‘My dear sir,” said Brown, approach ing him, ‘‘what is the matter? Is there anything I can '

‘Sit down, sir,” answered the bank er, melancholy. *‘‘ You may excuse me. Iam very much troubled. I did not in tend to speak of it, but some explana tion is due to you. Amonth from now, if you are the kind of man that most of your fellows are, you will not wish to marry my daughter. There is every chance that at that time the doors of my bank will be closed.”

‘* You astonish me sir. I thought-——”

“Yes, and so everyone thinks. I have seldom in my life trusted the wrong man, but this time I have done so, and the one mistake seems likely to obliterate all that I have succeeded in doing in a life of hard work.”

“If I can be of any financial assis tance I will be glad to help you,”

** How much *"

“Well, I don't know—$50,000 per haps, or——”’

‘IT must have $250,000 before the end of the month.”

-_——.

EVER

be full of it. There would be a run on the We would have to + lose down the next day Besides that, he is quite safe, and he knows it. Thanks to an idiotic international arrangement, he is as safe there as you aro here.”

“But I think there is a law against bringing stolen goods into Canada

Perhaps there is. It would not help

us at the present moment. compromise with him if him in time. Of course,

on le bauk

we can find even if

bank closed, we would pay everything |

when there was time to realise. But | that is not the point. It would mean trouble and disaster, and would prob

ably result in other failures, all through one man’s rascality.’

“Then it all resolves itself to this. Staples must be quietly found and ne gotiated with. Mr. Temple let me un dertake the finding of him and the ne gotiating, also, if you will trust m«

‘Do you know him?’

“Never saw him that I know of.’

“Here is his portrait He is easily recognised from that. Yon couldn't mistake him He is probably living at Montreal under an assumed name. He may have sailed for Euro je

“Certainly not. I will leave on toe night's train for Montreal, or on the first train that goes.’

Young Mr. Brown slipped the photo graph into his pocket and shook hands with the banker. Somehow his confi dent, alert bearing inspired the old man With more hope than he would have liked to admit, for as a general thing he despised the average young man

‘How long can you hold out

. | does not become public? te | ;

«Until January Ist

‘Well don’t expect ioo soon. I shall not risk writing. If there is anything to communicate [ will come myself

“It is very good of you to take my trouble on your shoulders like this. I am very much obliged to you.’

“IT am not a philanthropist Temple,” replied young Mr. Brown

* * “ =

Tir

When young Mr the train at the Union sictta in ronto and walked outside, accosted him

“Carry your valise up for you, sir’

“Certainly,” said Mr. Brown, handing it to him.

‘‘How much do I owe you? at the lobby of the hotel

“Twenty-five cents,” said the boy,and he got it.

Brown stepped of ; To

a small b

Vy

he asked

Mr. Brown registered as John A Walker, of Montreal. * * * = . Mr. Walter Brown, of Rochester. was

never more discourayed in his life than

at the moment he wrote ou the register |

the words, “John A, Walker, Mont real.” Fe had searched Montre:1 from one end to the other, but had found no trace of the man hs was looking for. Yet, strange to say, when he raised his eyes trom writing they met the face ot William L. Staples, ex-cashier. It was lucky for Brown that Staples was look ing at the words he had written and not at himself or he would have noticeu Brown’s involuntary start of surprise and flush of pleasure. It was also cur ious that Mr. Brown had had a dozen schemes in his mind for getting ac quainted with Staples when he met him, and yet that the first advance should be mnade by Staples himself

‘You are from Montreal,” Staples.

‘*That’s my town,”

said Mr

“id Mr. Brown

‘‘What sort of a place is it in winter? |

Pretty lively?”

“Oh, yes. Good deal of a winter city, Montreal is. How do you mean, busi ness or sport?”

‘Well, both. Generally where there's lots of business there’s lots of fin.’

‘Yes, that’s so,” assented Brown. He did not wish to prolong the conversa tion. He had some plans to make, so he foilowed his valise up to his room It was evident to him that he would have to act quickly, Staples was getting tireat: Toronto.

wo days after Brown had his plans completed. He met Stapies one even ing in the smoking room of the hotel.

* Think of going to Montreal?” asked Browu

“T aid think of it. though. Are you in business there?’ “Yes. If you go, I could give you some letters of introduction toa lot of fellows that would show you sport, that is if you care for snow-shoe wig, tobogganing and the like of that.’

{never went in much for athletics,’ said Staples.

‘‘T don’t care much fer exertion my- |

self,” answered Brown. ‘‘I come up here every winter for some ice yachting. That's my idea of sport. I own one of the fastest iceboats On the bay. Ever been out?”

‘No, Ihaven’t. Tve seen them ai it a good deal. Pretty cold work weather as we've been having, isn’t it?”

‘‘T don’t think so. Better come with me to-morrow?’

‘ Well, I don’t care if I do.”

The next day and the next they spun around the bay on the iceboat. Even Staples, who seemed to be tired of al

most everything. liked the swiftness and

exhilaration of the iceboat.

A couple of days before Christmas, Brown walked into the bar of the hotel where he found Staples standing.

‘See here, Armstrong.” he cried, slapping that gentleman on the shoul der. ‘‘ Are you in for a bit of sport? It’s a nice moonlight night and I’m going to take a spin down to Hamilton to meet some chaps, and we can come back on the iceboat, or if you think it too late you can stay over and come back on the train.”

it?

“Yes, just a nice run from here.

Come along. I counted on you.”

An hour later they were skimming along the frozen surface of the lake.

‘Make yourself comfortable,” said Brown, ‘That's what the buffalo robes are for. Ihave to steer, o I have to keepin the open. If I were you I'd wrap up in those robes and go to sleep, I'll wake you up when we're there.”

“Allright,” answered Staples. ‘That's

; not a bad idea.”

We received to-day a Case of CHILDRE ‘Cheapest Stock in the Island. ROUND, FLAT AND square. because we buy for cash and

“General George Washington!” said young Mr, Brown to himself, ‘This is too soft a snap altogether, I'm going to run him across the lake like a lamb.

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made Clothing House

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“Hamilton? That's up the lake, isn’t

there, Staples

That unfortunate slip of the tongue almost young Mr. Brown his hfe He had been thinking of the man under his own name andthe name had come out uneconsciousiy. He did not even

notice it himself in time to prepare, and | the next instant the thief flung himself upon him and jammmed his head ag:.inst the iron rod that came from the ruck with sach force that the rudder stayed in its place and the boat flew aloug the

cost

ice without a swerve, You scoundrel!” roared the bank robber. ‘That's your game, isit? Ly

; the Gods Til teach you a lesson in the

lh. tective business!

| Lthlete as young Brown was, the sud

| denness of the attack, and the fact that | Stupics clutched both hands round his (neck and had his knee on his breast, left ’ him as powerless as a child. Even then | he dil not realize what had caused t'y

; sobber to guess his position.

} For God’s sake, let me up!’ gasped

Brow? “We'll bo into an air-hole and drowned in a moment,

‘Vil risk it, you ! till I've choked | the breath out of your body.” Brown wrigyled his head away from the rudder | iron, hoping that the boat would slew | around, but it kept its course. Ie rea ' lized that his mind and life were giving

way. He seemed to feel his tongue swellin his parched mouth. His strength

dog a

| was gone and Kis throat was in an iron | vise. Ho struck ont wildly with his | fet and one fortunate kick sent round | the rudder almost at right angles

| Io tantly the boat flashed aroand iato | the wind. Even if a man is prepared

h athing it takes all his nerve rength to keep him on an iceboat. I as not prepared. He launched head first into space and slid for a long ; distance on the roughice. Brown was | also flung on the ice and lay for a mo-

for su ay, |

a } Stanles | '

j ment gasping for breath Then he gathered himself tagether, and slipping

his hand under his coat, pulled out his | revoly He thought at first that Staples was shaming, but a closer ex

amination of Lim showed that the fall | on the ice had knocked him senseless Thete was only one thing that young {| Mr. Drown was very anxious to know. ' He wanted to know where the money tle had played the part of private | detective well in Toronto, after the very | best French style, and had searched the | room of Staples in his absence, but he | knew the inoney was not there nor in | his valise. He knew equally well that

the funds were in some safe deposit | establishment in the city, but where he could not tind oat. He had intended to work ©. Staples’ fears of imprisonment when once he had him safe on the other side of the line, But now that the man was insensible, he argued that it was a good time to find whether or not he had a record of the place of deposit in his pocketbook. He found no such book in his pockets. In searching, however, he heard the rustling of paper apparently in the lining of his coat. Then he no ticed how thickly it wes padded. The next moment he had it ripped open and a glance showed him that it was lined with bonds. Bot: coat and vest were vadded in this v,-—the vest being filled with bills. “ae trousers, ke satisfied himself, were only provided with the

) Was

i

usual lining. The overcoat he had not time to examine. He flung the thief

over on his face, after having unbut toned coats and vest, doubled back his | arms and pulled off these garments. | His own, Mr, Brown next tiscarded, | end with sone difficulty got them on the | failenm and then put on the clothes ' of mammon.

‘This is what I call rolling in wealth,” said Mr. Brown to himself. He admit ted that he felt decidedly better after | the change ot clothing, cold as it was.”

Buttoning up the boodler he put a flask of liquor to his lips and speedily revived him. Staples sat on the ice in

| adazed manner and passed his hand | across his brow. In the cold gleam of the moonLght he saw the shining barrel of Brown's revolver “covering” hii.

“It’s all up, Mr. Staples. Get on board the iceboat.”

“Where are you going to take me to?”

“Tl let ;ou go when we come to the coast if you tell me where the mone: a | ‘You know you are guilty of the crime of kidnapping,” said Mac. Staples, apparently for the object of gainiag time. “So you are in some danger your self of the law,”

“That is a question. You came yol untarily. Where's the money?”

“It is on deposit in the Bank of Coia

| merce. ‘Well, “ere paper and a stylographic | pen, if the ink isn’t frozen—no, it’s all , right—-write a check quickly for the ' amount, payable to bearer, Hurry up, or the ink will freeze.”

There was a smile of satisfaction on ' the boodler’s face as he wrote the check.

There,” he said, with a counterfeited sigh. ‘‘That is the amount.”

‘he amount was for £480,000.

When they came under the shadow of | the American coast, Brown ordered his passenger off.

“You can easily reach land from here, and the walk will do you good I’m going further up the lake.”

When Staples was almost at the land he shouted back through the clear night air—‘‘ Don't spend the money recklessly when you get it, Walker.” !

“Tl take care of it, Staples,” shouted back young Mr. Brown,

: # * * # *

Young Mr. Brown sprang lightly up the steps of the Temple mansion in Rochester and pressed the electric but ton.

*‘Has Mr. Temple gone to the bank yet?” he asked the servant

‘No, sir, he is in the library,”

‘‘Thank you, Don’t trouble. I know the way.”

Mr. Temple looked around as the young man entered, and, seeing who it was, sprang to his feet with a look of painful expectancy on his face. ‘There's a little Christmas present for you,” said Mr. Brown, placing a pack- age on the table. ‘‘ Four seventy-eight thousand; bills and bonds.” The old man grasped his hand, strove to speak, but said nothing.

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People wondered why the young couple went to Toronto on their wed ding tour in the depth of winter. It was 80 very unusual, don’t you know.

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Because our goods are matchless for durability,

shall receive a surprise at

Prowse Bros’. Great Store, We want everyone to come

it is. No

and see what one

shall be disappointed and

many shall be made happy.

It’s to your interest to come.

PROWSE Bu@s.,

The rFroblem

of the hour is what to buy for Xmas and where to buy it.

Solved by a visit H,

Jewelry Store,

NORTH SIDE OF QUEEN SQUARE.

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Charlottetown, Dec. 19, 1894-—:t ts

Gt.

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WUR MOTTO!

The Golden Rule.

We have tested the above rule with most satisfactory results, and our customers, as far as we know, can vouch for it as well; and, contrary to ordinary rules, the more you use it the brighter it gets; so we use it in dealing out fair, hcnest goods in good. honest Suits,

ete., to che great satisfaction

values in Overcoats,

of our many patrons. Every order, however small, is en- titled toa Golden Rule. We extend to you a cordial invi- tation to give us an early call.

JOHN T. MCKENZIP, STAR TAILOR, LONDON HOUSE.

deed

Very Becomin»

s the invariable comment passed upon

The glasses look

our Spectacles.

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well but much better than they could with- out them. Itis prudent to Jook well to your eyes, and correct at once any defect or peculiarity of vision ly the use of pro- perly fitted glasses that relieve the sight from being overstrained and impaired. The eye often needs the rest that glasses atford, and delay in the matter may entail serious consequences. It pays to save money, but it pays far better to save your sight. Besides Glasses, we also have sume very handsome Opera Glasses that would make a nice present for Xmas.

E.W. TAYLOR,

CAMEROA BLOCK. decl4

In the City.

We

We are now offering the largest stock of

Ulsters, Reofers and Overcoats, both Imported and Homemade, SHOWN IN CHARLOTTETOWN.

N’S CLOTHING, which completes our stock, and it is the Come and see the Bargains we are able to offer, sell quick on a close margin.

McKAY WOOLEN COMPANY.

It pays to do it,

Corner of Queen and Grafton Streets, Charlottetown.

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should ask to see certificate

Thanking all cur shippers fur theiy past support, and

/a quantity of Pennsylvania ANTHRACITE COAL,

SALT! TAYLOR'S:

ing a continuance of same in the future, We remain, yours faithfully,

PITCAIRN BROS.,

51 South John Street, Liverpool, For particnlaes apply to PEAKE BROS. & CO., Charlottetown.

Coai, Salt,

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sheet iron and Cement.

COAL! COAL! COAL!

Now Landing and to arrive, two Cargoes of

SUPERIOR GUN OF MINE COAL,

From Domixicen Coal Co’s. Mine.

We have sold some thousands of tons of this coal this season, which has given great satisfaction.

We sell our customers just the kind of Coal they require, which includes Sydney and all the other Mines beionging to the Deminion Coal Co., Lid. in ©. B

Since we accepted the Agency for the above Company the public have got their Coal much cheaper than heretofore, and we wish to inform the public that we are not misleadiag, nor do we handle “ Joggius,” Kelly Cove or New Campbell- ton Mines Coal.