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THE DEACONS LOVE STORY.

‘I wonder he didn’t take the parson,’ | mused the deacon’s housekeeper as the’

deacon drove off alone to the Annual Conference. ‘He's commonly master- thoughtful about lookin’ out for folks. What a husband he was!’

Yes, Asa Phenix had been a good husband. All the neighbors agreed with Mrs. Dubbs in that particalar. He had waited upon his fussy invalid wife by inches tor thirty years, making her as happy as she would let him; and when her sammons came, he had closed her dying eyes tenderly, saying, even with tears, ‘Poor sufferer she is better off;’ that he was better off he never hinted by word er look. He wore his widower’s weeds with sad decorum; he reared in memory of his departed Lucindaamonument which the most fastidious deceased would have en- vied ; he grieved faithfully for the allot- ted year of mourning. If now, from the ashes of funeral pyre, like his feather- ed namesake of fable, he was springing up with renewed youth and freshness, was it not well?

In truth, though he had not seen fit to confide this fact to Mrs. Dubds, Dea- cen Pheenix had slighted the Minister

deliberately and with malice afore- thought. Nor was it of the Con-

ference he was thinking that fragrant June morning as he moved away, tuck- ing the lap robe well about his glossy new broadcloath. For once in his hither- to blameless life he was essaying to hide the secular underneath the spiritual. He did not mean to go straight to meeting ; it was his wily intention to make a wide circuit, and call on Miss Olive Wayne in the town of Chester. He had a question to ask her, and did not want the parson with him; he hoped he might want him later.

Pretty, cheerful Olive! How fond he had been of her, mere child though shewas. He had never lostsight of her, and he thanked providence that he had been enabled by money and influence to help her family over some hard places. Please God, the dear girl should hence- forth have an easier life. Girl! Why, little Olive must be fifty! The good deacon laughed at the amusing recollec- tions. Well, she would always seem young tohim. And as for himself, at sixty odd he was a hale man yet: he could jump a five-rail fence as well as ever he could—give him time. His thoughts coutinually reverted to Olive, so patiently devoted to her invalid father. She should bring the old gen- tleman to his house if she wished, or he would provide for his maintenance at her brother Rueben’s. He was in- clined to consider that the better plan. The money would be an object to Rue- ben.

In this cogitations the morning

ssed, and noon found Deacon

neenix at the little hotel in Chester. Impatient of delay, after a hasty dinner he sat out almost immediately for the Wayne homestead. Arrived at the gate, he spied Miss Olive at the window, and alighted witha youthful agility not altogether prudent in a man who had twinges of sciatics. And yet— strange inconsistency of human nature! —he dallied at the hitching post, and afterward, with his hand on the very knocker, he paused to scan the distant horizon, as though he had came mainly for a view of the mountains. Miss Olive opened the door, her cheeks flush- ed like late October peeches. She would net have been a woman had she not divined the deacon’s tender mission, proclaimed by every detail of his im- maculate toilet, by the grasp of his hand, by his nervous, expectant air. And, moreover, Miss Olive was an attractive woman, not unversed in lovers’ ways. Happy to see you, Mr. Phenix. Walk in,’ said she, flurriedly, ushering him into the sitting-room, where her aged father dozed in his armchair.

‘ Whatis it, Olive?’ said the old gen- tleoman, walking. with a bewildered stare.

‘Mr. Pheenix, father. You remem. ber Mr. Phenix, I’m sure.’

‘] don’t know as I do,’ said he, queru- lously, fumbling with the guest’s out- streatched hand. ‘ What’s he come tor, Olive?”

The deacon looked as if he was sud- denly feeling the hot weather; Miss Olive was positively feverish, but she deftly evaded the troublesome question by diverting her father’s attention. His

rmiat tea was ready—would he not drink it? As she hovered about the invalid, strengthening his footstool, arranging his pillows, steady.ng the cup while he drank, Mr, Phoenix re- garded her admiringly. How young she seemed still! Notayray thread in her golden hair ; seareely a wrinkle in her face. That was because of her ex- cellent disposition. He waited till she had soothed the old man into slumber, then in a direct, manly way introduced the subject that lay next has heart. Miss Olive interrupted him by an uent glance toward her father. ‘ He is very childish and dependent. He can not do without me.’ ‘Let me help you to care for him,

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| Olive ; my house is large, my are ample.’ | ‘I eouldn’t, Mr, Phoenix—it is like to propose such a thing ; but I couldn’t have him a bur- den on you.’ ‘Why, bless your soul, Olive, do you ) Suppose |yours a burden ?’ | ‘You don’t know how trying poor ‘father would be to any one but his own daughter, and I think he is likely to live to a greatage, as grandfathor did.’ ‘For that very reason, then—’ ‘Besides it would make him wretched to take him from the old homestead.”

(To be Continued. )

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GEORGE W. DeBLOIs,

THOS. HANDRAHAN, Executors.

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Valuable Freehold Farm FOR SALE.

HE Charlottetown Cemetery Company are : prepared to sell, on very favorable terms, all that portion of their well-known Farm, beautifully situated on the north side of the Back Royalty Road, and extending from the Malpeque Road to near the Railway track, containing about FIFTY ACRES OF {XCEL- LENT LAND. Fu

The premises are all under cultivation, and have thereon a good Dwelling House, large Barn, Stables, and a fine Orchard. A fine

Remedy

Spruce Hedge surrounds a great part of the Immediate possession will be given. For further particulars, apply to John Ings By order of the Board, . F. W. HALES, See’y. GRAY’S SPECIFIC MEDICINE Trapve marx. Fhe Great T8ave MARK, :- edy, an unfail- =f ing cure for Sem- “/ Spermatorrahe a, A she ER Impotency, and _, E < : Before Takingfollow as a se- After ing versal Lassitude, Pain in the Back, Dimness of Vision, Premature Old Age, and many sumption. ea. Full particulars in our pam- phlet, which we desire to send free by mail to by all druggfsts at $! per package, or six pack- ages for $5, or will be sent free, by maul, on The Gray Medicine Co., Windsor, Ont., Canada. and by all wholesaleand retail Druggists in the United States and Canada. CATARRE. CURES CATARRHE, Wear what a Reverend Gentleman says of the

property. or H. J. Cundall, Esq’s. Ch’town, Feb. 20, 1879—dly oaw English Rem- ‘ a / inal Weakness,

3 all diseases that ™ en quence of self-abuse; as loss of -Memory, Uni. other Diseases that lead to Insanity or Con- every one. we. The Specific Medicine is sold receipt of the money, by addressing

ag@” Sold in Charlottetown by all Drugists, January 24, 1879. Constitutional Catarrh Constitutional Ren.edy.

T. J. B. Harvie, Esq., Brockville, Ont. :—

Dear Sir—lIt is now two years since your “Constitutional Catarrh Remedy’ was intro- duced to me. I have waited this ong to see if the cure would remain permanent before do- ing this, my duty, to you, as at first the happy effects seemed to me: to be “‘too good to be true.”

I was afflicted in my head for years before I suspected it to be Catarrh. In reading in your Cireular [ saw my case described in many. par The inward ‘‘drop” from the head had become very disagreeable, and a choking sensation often preventing me from lying long, I would feel like smothering and be compelled to sit upin the bed. My health and spirits were seriously affected. When your agent came to Walkertown in August, 1876, I secured three bottles. Before I had mused a quarter of the contents of one bottle I found decided re- lief, and when I had used two bottles and a third. I quit taking it, feeling quite cured of that ailment, and have not used any since until of late I have taken some for a cold in my head.

A sense of duty to sufferers from that loath- some disease, Catarrh, prompts me to send you this Certificate, unsoliated, with leave to make what use of it yon may see proper. Yours truly,

W. TINDALL, Methodist Minister.

Port Elgin, Ont., Aug. 24, 1878.

Ask for Littlefield’s Constitutional Catarrh Remedy and take no other.

T. J. B. Harpine, Dominion Agent, Brock- ville, Ont. s

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VIORTCAGE SALE.

To be sold, by Public Auction, at the Court House in Summerside, in Prince County, on Tuesday, the Eighteenth day of February next, at the hour of one o'clock, in the afternoon, under a Power of Sale in an Indenture of Mortgage, dated the fifth day of October, 1878, made between William Thomas Mill, of the one part, and John Brecken, Frederick De St. Croix Brecken, and Robert Robinson Hodgson, trustees, of the other part, — All that tract, piece or parcel of land, situ

1. ate on Lot Eighteen, and bounded and described as follows: Commencing at a stake tixed on the shore of Indian River; thence by a line running south twenty degrees west until it meets the boundary line dividing Lots or Townships Numbers eighteen and nineteen; thence running due east on said division line for the distance of thirty-two chains; thence by a line running north twenty east until it reaches Indian River, aforesaid; thence following the course of the River to the place of commencement, making and including fifty. six (56) acres of land be the same, a little more er less, in Prince County, aforesaid.

2. Also, all that other tract, piece or parcel of Land, situate on Lot or Township Twenty- five, in Prince County, aforesaid, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Com- mencing at a stake fixed on William Me- Murdy’s eastern boundary line at the south. east corner of Joshua Harding’s Lot; from thence running south for the distance of forty. four chains; thence east eleven chains and fifty links; thence north forty-four chains; thence west eleven chains and fifty links, to the afore- said stake or place of commencement, making and including fifty (50) acres of land, a little more or less, being the southern moiety of one hundred acres of land; and being bounded on the north by the northern motety thereof, known as Joshua Harding’s lot; on the east by ——Gay’s land, on the south by. Keefe’s land, and on the west by the said William MacMurdy’s land.

3. Also, all that other tract, piece or paréel of land, situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing ata square stake fixed in the south-west angle of land in the oc- curation of Peter Gillis; thence running north six degrees and forty-five minutes, east four- teen chains and two links to division line be- tween Lots Nineteen and Eighteen; thence along said line westwardiy twenty-six chaing and sixty-nine lin}.s to the entrance of Barbara Weit River; thence along the course of the said river to the place of beginning, containing twenty-nine acres and forty perches, be the same, a little more or less,

4, All that tract, piece er parcel of land situate on Lot or ‘Township Number Eighteen, and bounded and described as follows, that is to say : Commencing at a stake set on the shore of Richmond Bay in the centre of a road on the line of Lots Eighteen or Nineteen; thence northwardly along said shore such a distance as shall make fifteen chains and si five links (15 chains and 65 links) at a right anglefrom said division line; thence north cighty-nine degrees cast or with the said division line forty-ei chains and fifteen links (48 chains, 15 links), or to lands the property of the said William Thomas Mill, thence south twenty d west to said division line to the stake at the place of commencement, contai seventy - eight acres of land, a little more or less.

5. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Twenty-five (25), in Prince county, and bounded and described as follows, that is te say, commencing at astake set in the north

boundary line of land in ion of the widow Keiff or Lawrence Malone, being the

southeast angle of fifty acres of land the prop- erty of William T. Mill, from thence by a line running north twelve chains and fifty links, thence east nine ehains and fifty-five links or to the east. boundary line of land in i

of William Gay, thence south to the first mentioned land, thence westwardly along said land to the stake at the place of commence- ment, containing eleven and nine-tenths acres, a little more or iess.

6. Also all that other tract, piece or parcel of land situate on Lot or Township Number Nineteen, in Prince County, bounded as fol- lows, that is to say, commencing at the southeast angle of land in the possession of Neil McDonald, from thence running west along said land twelve chains and twenty links (12 chains, 20 links) or to the southwest angle of said land, and from thence two points running two parallel] lines south thirty-one (31) chains or to the south boundary line of plot G containing thirty-seven and one- (37%, acres of land, be the same a little more or less, together with all buildings and improve ments thereon and appurtenances to the same belonging.

For further particulars.apply at theoffice of Messrs. Hodgson & MeLecd, Solicitors, Char- lottetown.

Dated the 13th day of January, A. D 18 9,

JOHN BRECKEN, FREDERICK De St. C. BRECKEN. R. R. HODGSON,

By E. J. HODGSON, their attorney.

Jan. 13—law ts prog

The above Sale is hereby — till - WEDNESDAY, the 2nd day of April : 1879, then to take place at the eal

place above mentioned.

Dated the 17th day of February, A. D.,

1879. JOHN BRECKEN, FRED’K Dr Sr. C. BRECKEN, R. R. HODGSON, By E. J. HODGSON, their Attoruey. Charlottetown, Feb. 18, 1879. a4

FREEHOLD FARM

FOR SALE.

O BE-SOLD, by private contract, that valuable FARM ot 50 acres of excellent Land, situate at Graham’s Road, Township No. 20, now in possession of AZneas Brenan. This well-known Farm is eligibly situated in the immediate cicinity of Churches, Schools

‘of Longworth &

| MPLOYMENT.—In every villag

: j NHE undersigned will drive parties en route for CAPE TRAVERSE, on suitable ianilid

' May 25, 1878—

and Mills, and is in a good state of cultivation. For terms aud particulars apply at the office haw, Solicitors, Ch’town. F. 8. LONGWORTH. Ch’town, Dec. 23, 1878—

} e and township of P. E. Island not yet ocdu-

pied, ONE AcTivE, intelligent Lady or Gentle- ,man can obtain a most respectable and ve profitable engagement. Address, with f

particulars, D. DOWNIE & CO.,

Box 1964, Montreal,