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BUSINESS CARDS. MBDIOAL. Dr- Mallory PHYSICIAN 1 AND SURGEON . Office : Reive Block, Colborne. A. E. Mallory, M.D., CM., L.R.C.P., & *r,R.CS., Ed. T. B. HEWSON, M. D., L. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., EDINBTJRG. PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, &Sc. Colborne, Ont. Ob pice and residence, in the premises formerly occupied by the late Dr. Thorburn. J H PURDY, DDS, LDS, DENTIST, COBOURG. W. G, ROBERTSON, D. D, S., L. D. S. DENTIST. OFFICE, SCOUGALE BLOCK. Castleton every Thursday. George Drewry, B.A. gAKRISTER, SOLICITOR, ETC. Office :--Nesbitt Block, Brigrhtoa, Frank L.Webb, BA, LLB, BARRISTER SOLICITOR, NOTARY, Etc. OFFICE---King St. Colborne, Ontario Company aud private funds to loan on the most favorable terms at per cent. W. L. Payne, M.A., LL.D. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY Publter and Conveyancer. First Door East Registry Office, H. T. HUNTER, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, NOTARY ETC, ETC. BRANCH OFFICE, COLBORNE. First door West Division Court Offic Ground Floor, Yeomen's Block. Attending every Saturday afternoon and Monday until 4 o'clock, p, m, HEAD OFFICE, BOWMAN VILLE. "MONEY TO LOAN at 41-2 Per cent Rejected Mss. in China. China is the only country in the world script. Here is a sample letter sent by ft Pekin editor to a would-be contributor to his journal: 'Illustrious brother of the sun and moon. Look upon thy slave who rolls at) thy feet, who kisses the earth before thee and demands of thy charity permission to speak and live. "We have read thy manuscript with delight. By the bones of ou- ancestors tared such a masl <rpie e.-^jjjfinl we print it his Majesty the Emplfc would order us to take it as a criterfi5ii and never again to print anything which was not equal to it. As that would not be possible before ten thousand years, all trembling we return thy manuscript and beg of thee ten thousand pardons. See-- my hand is at my feet, and 1 am the slave of thy servant.--The Editor. A story is told of the Marquis of Wa-. terford, who was much at the court of George IV., and with whom he had a bet ■ allowed. On the ■r of the water-?arr he dust before the out a cheery "Good s the third time I've GREAT PAINS IN THE CHEST Mr. John Clark, coachman, Port Hope, Ont,, states: "Last winter I was so bad with a cold that I could not speak above a whisper and had great pains in the chest. At last I feared it would develop into consumption. A friend advised me to use Dr. Chase's Syrup of Linseed and Turpentine, and one bottle cured my cold which I believe would have proven very serious if I had not used this medicine." DR. CHASE'S ofrup LINSEEi : TURPENTINE. Bates & Co., Toronto. To protect you against trait and signature ' T iamous receipt br-'- Brintnell & Son, jice & Real Estate Agents. Accident Insurance. eekly newspapers and Laundry, Canadian Ex-nioney orders. Loan. Office Scougale Block, Brinsnell, F. M. Brintnell. Division Court Clerk. rPHILP, Oclxorne. Ont. Pianos & Organs of the best makes iu Ontario. MISCELLANEOUS. Smith Hinman ISSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES, Lot 13, Concession 4, Cramahe, Dundonald P.O. O. S. Moore T ICENSED AUCTIONEER for EAST _XJ Northumberland. terms moderate. Office and Residence, Castleton. G. E. R. Wilson IENERAL INSURANCE AND r Estate Agent, rMoney to Loan at 5 to 6 per 1 Office :--Yeoman's Block. Liverpool, London & Globe Insurance Co. Invested Fund........$30,000,000 Funds Invested in Canada, 900,000 Apply to GEO. SANDERSON, Agent, Colborne. Dr. James E. Aiyea, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentist All Domestic Animals Treated Scientifically. Lameness and Castration a Specialty. falls day or night promptly attended FARMERS ! Do not forget to call on M.J. DOYLE for all kinds of Farm Implements, Wagons, Carriages and Buggies of every description and other ai tides used upon the farm. Money to loan at the lowest possible rate. Also agent for real estate, both farm and village property also first-class hotel property in East Northumberland for sale at a bargain. By placing your order with M. J. Doyle at his office you save the expense tnat other firms incur by sending travel ers to your home. M. J.DOYLE, Colborne - Ont. jver Pills That's what you need; something to cure your biliousness, and regulate your bowels. You need Ayer's Pills. Vegetable; gently laxative._iZifffiSi] An Age of Superlatives. All agree that the times in which we are living shall he called the age of electricity, bur there is nothing to prevent giving thi* <\viit-iri.-vin<r epoch stiil another name. Why not call it the age of superlatives? Nowadavs the average person neveT strikes a "balance. He forces up the scales with one hand or presses them down with the oilier, and promptly announces that the thing weighed is the best or the worst. Nothing is just good or merely bad. It must be given a sr.: perlative. Thus two lovers are always the happiest people in the world, or the unhappiest. Happv and unhappy wouldn't begin to express their feeling*. Tike the phrasing of ordinary letters between women. Cutest, finest, prettiest, ugliest and such words abound on every page. As a whole, the missive is a perfect jungle of superlatives. Letters of friendship between men are little better. They, too, take most of their words off the ton shelf. One hundred per cent, of villainy is generally attributed to enemies, and the same amount of praise to friends. Things seen fare as royally or as meanly, according to the way they affected the writej. Country correspondents of newspapers have an apparently unbreakable habit of sending in stories of the "most disastrous" fires, "the worst storm that ever visited this section," the death of the "most prominent" citizens and "most diabolical" crimes. What these writers would do without the. word "most" arouses a curiosity that will never be satisfied. The "most disastrous" fire may not have caused over a thousand dollars' loss; the "worst" storm may have confined its capers to blowing down a few fence rails and turning over a cowshed; the "most" prominent citizen may have been just a plain storekeeper, ana the "most diabolical crime" may have been an ordinary butchery, but the country correspondent has the superlative habit and thinks it is part of his duty to go the limit on everything. As a rule, the editor who reads the copy carefully removes the superlatives. Often he warns the correspondent, but the offending continues. In the age of superlatives the man who uses them is a slave to environment Shift the scene to the metropolis There even the bootblack puts out a sign reading, "Best shine in the city." Go higher, and nearly every merchant has the "best goods at the eheapesi price." Everywhere one is offered the "greatest bargains." Theatrical poster-tell of the cleverest people, the tunnies plays and the grandest productions. Not long ago a vaudeville performer was ad vertised as "the craziest soubrette 01 the American stage." That certain!] the limit for superlatives. The habit i in full swing. Who shall find a cure? ll,U0il »m uijTDQORS Champagne and Chewing Gum. Gum has lost prestige. Wax, as i' was often called in the elegant vernaeu lar, is no longer furnished in the bes: houses. Does the small boy still stri| the slippery elm and retain the hark fo; a long season's chewing? Are the fea tares of American life pacing from us'; Ice water is slighih relaxing its arhi trary swav, but the'ehan^e is slow, an," the tinkle" of the ice-pitcher is still the poetic feature of the American hotel. Ice cream soda seems to hold its own, and Ice cream soda and chewing gum have been the sentimental meeting-ground of our youths and maidens. Can it be because we are growing old that we no longer see young boys and girls exchanging gum, or chewing in silent sympathy? It is, however, a wide country, and unnecessary mastication may possibly be as frequent as it ever was. In the more conspicuous ruts, however, old vices have given way to new. If fewer leading citizens dislocate their dental fillings by chewing gum, more of them acquire indigestion and gout from elevated standards of diet and drink. Once champagne stood for rare cost and wickedness. It suggested France, chorus girls and gamblers. "A champagne supper" waa a term too exciting for careless use. America has grown rich, and champagne flows like, water in her towns. She has stopped eating "sinkers," pie and leather steak, and keeps her dyspepsia now by more expensive means. Five minutes for refreshments has given place to ample time to eat too muoh. The dentists and the doctors lose little by the change. Imperialism and trade have made us one of the family of nations. We once had our special devices for undermining health; now every year brings us nearer to the proper social methods. We drink tea at five now, and not, as our old maids used to do, with bread, at six. A good many of ua eat and drink so much at night that for breakfast we only wish to nibble at an egg. The trade has increased immensely in coffee, tea and champagne. It will more than atone for any falling off in hot wet bread and chewing gum.-- "Collier's Weekly." Fire Drives Inhabitants of Aale-sund, Norway, From Horrtes. fifty Building But the Hospital Bu-ttrojed--Cfcildr.n Were Homed Temporarily in tko Church of Bergaai-- r-aaioStricken People Had to Desist la Attempt to Save Their Goods tc Save Their Live.. Aalesund, Norway, Jan. 25.--The fire which swept over this town yesterday destroyed every building in it, with the exception of the hospital. The 11,000 inhabitants of Aale-sund were compelled 10 camp in the open. The children were housed temporarily la the church of Borguni. ^The panic among the people was s0 great after the outbreak of the flames that all attempts at leadership or discipline became out of the question; no excesses, however, were committed. The people first endeavored to save some oi their property, but they soon found they had quite enough to do to save their own lives. The destruction of the town was complete within a couple of hours from the time the fire started. Over 20 steam fishing boats and many sailing smacks were su..k in the harbor to save them from thi' flames, but three steamers and many other boats were burned. It is now believed that only three persons lost their lives. Succor has arrived from Molie, liergon and others places, and provisions are beim»- disi libuted. Reel and sUbscriptioi ho,.: ■ of I 1 foi Want your moustache or beard j a beautiful brown or rich Mack? Use BUCKINGHAM'S DYE Wright's Rheumatic Rem •1111 agent for this great C, ny people in this section i 1 it is one ,,f the most \v< !' ace JAMES McGLENNOX, It can be grown so easilv and sue fully in water, that il is belter to adopt this method rather than to plant it :" earth. The very fact of its growing water makes it more interesting, and renders it especially useful for a nature-study lesson on the storage of plant-food In thickened bulbs. Get as lar<!je bulbs as you can, and put one or two iri a good-sized wide bowl--if of a Japanese pattern so much the better--which has been about two-thirds filled with rather large pebblea Set the bulb on top of the pebbles, then nearly fill the bowl with water, and set the jar away in a cool, dark place--the cellar, for example --for four or five weexs, pouring in more water every few days to supply the loss from evaporation. "At the end of this period the roots will be well started, and the green leaves will besin to show. The jar mav now he brought into the light of a room, where it will develop rapidly, and a few weeks later will produce beautiful masses of bloom. People growing these bulbs are sometimes disappointed on account of the failure of the blossoms to develop fully. This is usually because the plant " has been forced too rapidly; be sure to start it slowly as recommended above.--The ■^King^and . Norway have contributed $1,500 to a relief fund, and all the other members of the royal family have also subscribed. A majority of the inhabitants of the town lost everything they possessed. Thousands 01 persons had to spent! 2 1 hours in the Open fields, where they were without food and exposed to a bitterly cold wmd and a driving rainstorm. Victoria, B.C.. Jan. 25.--The S.S. Victoria arrived yesterday from the Orient, bringing news of a fire at Fujiyoda, Japan, in which the Chicago horror was n-arly repented. Fire starting in a store spread to the theatre, which held a thousand spec- orowd surged against each other and Several persons were injured, but no Uvea lost. Over 250 buildings were destroyed, including the police stat- and a bank. Two persons were burned to death and a number of accidents repcrted. DO YOU BELCH GAS? Ifvou have uneasy sensations in tie stomach, a bad taste in tho mouth, headache -10 > ember that ten drops of Poison's Nerviline in sweetened walei is 11 quick and certain cure. Nerviline aids digestion, Hispels the ens, makes von comfortable and free Nei ■. dy. i ught range: ■ut oi kind of fish do you catch II kinds, stranger." is the weight, of the largest fish caught?" 1. stranger, ve don't take w< igh-ii.:es when we goes fishing, and honest man. and wouldn't like how much that last trout I would weigh. But I tell you, , that when 1 pulled that fish he water the lake went down, a' -Birmingham "Post." 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Also agent|for the MIDLAND LOAN COMPANY, PORT HOPE and the NORWICH FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF ENG/ LAND, 100 years old. Money loaned and safe Insurance effected at the lovr possible rates King Edward Wants every loyal Canadian to wear on Xmas A 66 66 66 66 King Edward Tie Cap, 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 Gloves, Suit, Overcoat A suit of Wolsely unshrinkable underwear and be sure to don your feet with a pair of DON BOOTS with elastic non slip heels nothing to equal them and every good dresser wears them. The King is also pleased to know that the ladies of Colborne are so much in favor of the Corn-well tailor made coats and suits. A very special line just rebeived, also pretty blousings. Don't Miss The 15c Ties, At The John Morrow, Agent, - - Colborne. COHNWEtt CLOTHING COMPANY.