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. “WMHH . 1 Diamond Cut Diamond. twelveâ€"yearold girl came forward to n I n I: c T 0 BY. T" ' the machine that had swallowed the coin and turned over a white placard which the two had not noticed. . “I think,” she said, with a judicial emphasis on the pronoun, “ that it served you right. To cheat a machine! Two for a cent 1 " With a Lady Macbeth sort of gesture she pointed to the placard. It read : “ rms xacmss rs our or canes.” SOCIETIES. ’xrcnrs or rsxrso isomer. '8. 8. Diamond Tent 170.208. .\1eets iu the True Blue hall in McArthur's Block on the first and third Tuesday in each month. 11. E. Arsrtx, Com. 0. W. Buncorss, R. K. TWO YOUNG LADIES TRY TO BEAT AN AUTOMATIC “'EIGHING MACHINE, BUT THE MACHINE COMES OUT AHEAD. A RUNAWAY Or an upset may damage your buggy or waggon, ' ‘ d1 ' that on â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"-â€"â€"â€"â€"_._.-_..._..___ Perhaps only Shghtly’ Perhaps so b“ 3 3 APLE LEAF TRUE BLUE LODGE No will want a new one. In either case the best ,2, Regain, “mugs new 0,, me thing to do is to go to S. S. Gainer’s, where 2nd and 401 Wednesday in each month. repairing and repainting are done in 'the best Baum McAr‘hgf;§::::;m Mm“. style, and where the best kind of vehlcles can R.Qmsstx.,1iepnty.\lasten be had at prices to suit the times. Shop' on 30"" “CGMRMWRec-Secretary- Francis Street East, next door to Knox’s black- smith shop. l’robably they would have resented any imputaticns upon their honesry, yet they stood before the helpless penny-in- the-slot weighing machine with gnile, fraud and intent to cheat in their souls. The younger oneâ€"she was a slim, tailor made girlâ€"held a cent between her Well-gloved finger and thumb. Only : one cent lor both of them. Now, no penny-in-theâ€"slot machine proposes to weigh ladies, no matter of what degree of lairness, at the rate of two for a cent, yet the thing can be done, and these two proposed to do it. “ We ought both to get on before we drop the penny in,” said the elder, who looked as if she alone would be a pretty good one-cent contract for anything short of a hay scale. ’ “ Yes, but if you get on there won’t be much room for me,” said her com- panion. “I’ll just be hanging to your outskirts, as it were, and I’ll be haug- ing to you so hard that it will take away part of my weight.” “ What a goose you are, Madeline,” cried the other. " How can it lessen - the weight when all the weight is on ‘ the scales anyway ? " “ Yes, that’s true,” assented the younger one, thoughtfully. “ It’s all - on the scale. of course; but it isn’t my weight, is it, if part of it comes on you ? ” , “ Well. you can let go as soon as you got fairly on. Now, are you all ready ? I’m going to get on." Up she got with much swishing of Some Curious Rivers. THEY NEVER REACH THE SEAâ€"A RIVER OF INKâ€"ONE 0P COPPERâ€"A SOUR RIVER â€"â€"cnma‘s soaaow. One of the most curious rivers that have come to the knowledge of men is Webbe Shebeyli of Eastern Africa, a deep and rapid stream, abounding in strange fish and ferocious crocodiles. Although in flows for hundreds of miles through fertile lands, the immense vol- ume of water never reaches the sea. A short distance north of the equator the river is lost in a desert region, a few miles from the Indian ocean. Some of the more recént explorers of Alaska and British America claim that the Mississippi can no longer be regard- ed as the largest river on the North American continent. This distinction is claimed for the great Yukon river. According to Ivan Petrofi, who spent over two years in Alaska collecting materials for the last census, the Yukon empties into Norton sound about one- third more water than the Mississippi pours into the Gulf of Mexico. The Yukon basin comprises the larger part of Northern Alaska, and 600 miles from its mouth the river is a mile in width. ANADIAN ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS. Trent Valley Lodge No. 71. Meet in the True Blue hall in hchrthur‘s Block on the first and third Mondays in each month. Wu. McKsows. N G. R. M. Masos, V. 8., Sec. O.L. No. 996. MEET IN THE ORANGE . hall on Francis-St. West on the second Tuesday in every month. Lawrs DEYMAN, W. M. J. T. Tuoursos, Jn., Rec-Sec. NDEI’ENDENT ORDER of FORESTERS. Court thnix No.182. Meet on the last Monday of each month, in the True Blue hall in McArthur's Block. T. Ausris, Chief Ranger. Hmtnsnr Sasnronn, R. S. Why Bother Looking Anywhere Else? For Hardware, Stoves and House Furnishings, \Vhite oon .IIOIIOOOOOI. CANADIAN HOME CIRCLES. FE.‘I~I- LON Falls Circle No.127, meets in the True Blue hall in McArthur’s Block the first Wednesday in every month. P. C. lioncsss, Lender. 17.13. SYLVESTER, Secretary. ‘â€" .. ................................................ .. .. RAND A.Mq G. R. C. THE SPRY Lead, Paint, Oils, and the best assortment of Lamps, the . Lodge No. 406. Meets on the first . . . Wednesday ofcnch monlh,ou or before the full of the moon, in the lodge room in Cunningham’s Block. on. o o o o o on o a a - o u o a - u snoooos o a n u o o cocoon-00loocl o o o - o I n o a n . . u a n o .. n u a u u o a g n u o s u u u o u s o a s u a - - biggest combined stock of any one store between Fenelon skirts, and her companion walked Many centuries before it was discovered ................. . ..... ........ .. E_ FITZGERALD, W. M. around her, looking for the side afi'ord- by white men it very likely served as a - an. W. FltllNCOMB, Secretary ing the most room. At length, after water highway into the interior for Fans and much balancing and see-sawing, she was tribes whom we believe to have crossed ' ' CIIUIECIIES. fairly settled, and she raised the penny, but instead of dropping it in, said to the other : ' " Flow stupid of you, Allie. got your parasol in your hand.” " And you've got your satchel,” re- torted Allie. " That weighs more than my pnrascl.” “ Why, of course. I didn’t think of that. Here, give me the parasol, and I'll put them both down.” That being satisfactorily accom- plished, the younger prepared to mount the machine again, but paused as a thought struck her. ' - “ If we both get on how can we tell. what each of us weighs?” she in- quired. “We'll both get weighed to- gather." ” Why, divide it by two, you goose,” cried her friend, triumphantly. “ Come, get up.” “ But I don’t believe that would be right," objected the tailor-made one, “b‘cause that would make it just half for each of us, wouldn’t it? And I don't weigh nearly as much as you.” This was a stickler for a moment, .but the mathematical brain rose super- ior to it after some pondering. ' “ We both get on,” was its decision, “ and it weighs us both. Then I get off and it weighs you, and then we sub- tract.” “Subtract what?" demanded the slender one. suspiciously. “ I don’t be- lieve you know what you're talking about. “ It’s just like those horrid x and y things we used to have in school. Let x equal you and y equals me, and 2 equals the scales; then you mix ’em all up, and at the end you've got the answerâ€"wrong." “ Do stop talking and get on. I'll do the figuring. We both get weighed. Then we subtract my weight from your weight and that gives usâ€"graciousl what would it give us ? " -' lt‘its,” replied her friend.flippantly; ‘~ at least it would me. I'm sure any attempt to solve it would result in epi- lepsy." ” Well, I know my Weight, anyway,” said the bigger one, “so we can tell what your weight is by subtracting that." “Then, if you know your weight, what is the use of your getting weighed at all ‘f " ” Why, it may have changed, mayu't it? Allie, do be sensible." " I'm trying hard, but I haven't much of an exauiplc to spur the on." " If I could only spur you on to this platlorm I'd be Satisfied. Goodness ! Don't push me off! There, are you fixed 1’ All right. Drop in the cent and I'll do the figuring." There was a c‘ick and a rattle from the interior of the machine; then silence. The indicator remained motion- less. In vain did the girls pound its face and jig madly upon the platform. Not a wiggle could they get out of the needle. Then they started in and de- nounced, with the wrath of outraged honesty, the machine, its owner and in- ventor, and the railroad company in whose station it stood. They declared that they would write to the newspapers aul the police. They were very much ‘xcitcd, iudm‘d. Quite a crowd had c :ttlwred around to \va‘ch their man- You’ve (L‘IYNS. and remained to hear their, oratory. . was spent, a prim and severe-looking .g, _ which the water is said to be poisonous, from Asia to the American continent. The Yukon river is over 2000 miles in length. A RIVER or INK. Travellers report that in Algeria there exists a small stream which the chemistry of nature has turned into ink. It is formed by the union of two rivu- lets, one of which is very strongly im- pregnated with iron, while the other, meandering through a peat marsh, im- bibes large quantities of gallic acid, which forms this small, yet wonderful stream. The Rio dc Vinagre, in Col- umbia, is a stream the waters of which by admixture with sulphuric acid be- come so sour that the river has been appropriately named the Rio de Vin- agre, or Vinegar river. The Orange or Garieh river in South- ern Africa rises in the mountains which separate Natal from the Orange Free State. The length of this stream is 1,000 miles. In banks around it are found rich copper ores. In this stream are many varieties of fish which are found until the river passes through a rocky region containing copper, below almost instantly killing the fish that venture near it. CHANGES ITS COURSE. “ China's Sorrows,” is the title he- stowed upon the great Hoang Ho which rises in the mountains of Thibet, and follows a wonderfully circuitous channel for 2,500 miles to the Yellow Sea. The waywardness of this mighty volume of water makes the river a constant source of anxiety and danger to the 170,000,- 000 of people inhabiting the central plain of' Asia. It is known to have suddenly changed its course nine times It has moved its mouth four degrees of latitude each time, emptying its vast floods in different directions, and finding a new channel for itself, where scores of towns and villages have stood. The river has greatly changed the physical character of a wide area, converting fertile regions into a sandy desert or making shallows of them. Whether it is within the power of modern science to save this great plain from disastrous overflow and changes of the river’s bed, is a question which during late years has been widely discussed. especially in the scientific circles of London and Paris. LOST AND IS FOUND. Another remarkable river is the In~ due, a great stream in Hindustan. It rises in Thibet, and its course is a wonderful one. On reaching Snssi, its most northern point, it turns southward. loses itselfin the hills and reappears in Takot in Kohistan. The Indus is 1,- 000 miles in length. After receiving the waters of many tributaries its chan. nel grows narrow, and here it is divided into many channels, some of which never return to the parent stream. It abounds in fish and crocodiles. That classic river, the Ganges, is erratic in its course, like the Boang Ho. It is prominent both in the religion and the geography of India. It varies not only from season to season but from year to year, and frequently exchanges nlcl passages for new ones. It has been said that the Ganges delivers into the Francisco Chronicle. n: in .4 m or t!) in > o in z o For HUN! a 00 Every world. man at: wttwdxmonths. Adan-I. K0 3 I... 861 Broadway. New York cm. JOSEPH HEARD. W F SPRING AND SUMMER READY-MADE CLOTHING JUST RECEIVED AT JOS. McFARLAND’S. R'I'P'A'N'S The modern stand- ard Family Medi- Cures the _ common every-day ills of humanity. cine: " 1’8. TRADE nan: DESIGN PATII‘I’ comments. afar-motion and free Handbook write to 861 Buoaowar. le Yoax. Oldest bureau for securing patents in America. tent taken out by us is brought before the pn tlcbyawttee gtvenkeocrchugem fidtatifir gaunt: tn be w thou: it. Week! , fit? If you haven’t g money to pay what you owe: for the “ Gazette,” almost any sen every year 534,000,000 tons of mud, kind of farm produce wilk be When the first force of Wrath s-md and other solid muttonâ€"San taken at Blarkct Prices. l3 LENDSAY Marble Works. as R. CHAMBER-Si as- is prepared to furnish the people-of Lind- say and surrounding country with MONUMENTS AND HEADSTONES, both Marble and Granite. ’â€" Estimates promptly given on 9.1 1 kinds of cemetery \vork. Marble Table Tops, Wash Tops, Mantel Pieces, etc., a specialty. WORKSâ€"In rear 0 the. market on Cam- bridge strcet,opposite Mutthews’ paJking house. see his designs and compare prices before purchasingelsewhere. ROBT. CHAMBERS. SDMETHING NEW TO THE LADIES 0F FENELON FALLS AND VICINITY. A New and Improved System of Garment Cutting, known as the De La Morton French Per fcctiou Tailor System,aeknow1cdged by all leading tailors and dressmakers who have tried it to be the best in the world. It can be adapted to any style of dress, from a tailor made costume to the dsiutiest even- ing gown. Seamless waists cut by the same system. Ensures a perfect fit. Dress- Ot 5 making done in all its branches. No extra I charge for new system. MRS. J. A. CALDER, McArthar’s Blcck, upstairs. Entrance next door to Mr. Robson's store, nearly opposite the Post-015cc. l Being a practical workman all should! Eldon ' ' ' ' ' ' North of the Town Hall ‘ Fenclon Folls..Jas. Dickson. .. Reeve BAPTIST CHURCHâ€"QUEEN-ST.â€"REY. James Fraser, Pastor. Service every Sunday morning at 10.30. Sunday School every Sunday at 2.30. p. m. BlETHODlST CHURCH â€" COLBORNE Streetâ€"Reverend T. P. Steel, Pastor. Sunday service at 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sabbath School at 2.30 p. m. Epworth engne of Christinn Endeavor, Tuesday evening at 8 o’clock. Prayer meeting on Thursday evening at 7.30. T. ANDREW’S CHURCllâ€"COLBORNR Streetâ€"Reverend M. McKinnon, Pas- tor. Services every Sunday nt 10.30 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday School every Sunday at 2.30 p. m. Christian Endeavor meeting every Tuesday at 8 p. in. Prayer meeting every Thursday at 7.30 p. m. SALVATION ARMY -â€" BARRACKS ON Bond St. Westâ€"Capt. and Mrs. Wynn. Service every Tuesday, Thursday and Sat- urday evenings, and on Sundays at 7 a. m., 10 a. m., 3 p. m. and 8 p. in. ST. ALOYSIUS R. C. CHURCHâ€"LOUISA Streetâ€"Rev. "Father Nolan, Pastor. Services every alternate Sunday at 10.30 a. m. Sunday School every Sunday at ‘2 p. m. T. JAMES’S CHURCHâ€"BOND STREET Eastâ€" Rev. Wm. Furncomb, Pastor. Service every Sunday at 10.30 n. m. and 7 p. in. Sunday School every Sunday at 11.30 a. m. Bible class every Thursday evening at 7 o’clock. 363‘“ Seats free in all churches. Everybody invited to attend. Strangers cordially welcomed. â€"â€"-â€" MISCELLANEOUS . .0...___._â€" V ECHANICS’ INSTITUTEâ€"P. KELLY, l Librarian. Open daily, Sunday except- cd, from 10 o’clock n. m. till 10 p. m. Rooks exchanged on Tuesdays and Saturdays from 12 a.rn. till 3 p. m. and in the evening from 7 to 9. Reading room in connection. , OST OFFICEâ€"1“. J. KERR, POSTMAS- TER. Office hours from 7.40 a. m. to B p. to. Mail going south closes at8 a.m. Mail going north closes at 3 p. m. COUNTY COUNCIL. â€"â€"_ WARDENâ€"JOHN Cnaarnsns, FENELON. Bexlcy. . . . . . . . Geo. E. Laidlnw . Reeve Bobcnygcou . . .J. L. Read . . . . . . Reeve Cnrdcn...... . . A. Jacob . . . . . . Reeve Dalton . . . . .. Jos. Thompson . . . Reeve Dr.J.W.Wood Reeve ” C. McDonald Deputy W. G. Swilzcr Reeve T. McQunde . . Deputy Juo.Chumherth-cvc Wm. Hull Deputy Emily Fenelon . . . . . . Laxton, Dighy and Longford John Bailey. . . . Reeve Richard Kylie Reeve Lindsay . ....'{ Geo. Crnndcll lstDeputy W. M. Rbson . .2nd Deputy W.Lownsbrough Reeve Mnriposn { 1“.Shaver . . . . . lstDcputy Robert Adam 2nd Deputy Omemee . . . . .. T. A. McPherson Reeve Johnston Ellis Reeve {Samuel Fox..Dcputy John Ilowie..Rccve A. Morrison. .l)cputy , Jas. LithgowJKeeve ‘emlam """ John Kelly .. Deputy d Woodville . . . . Arch. Campbell Reeve! Ops...... . Somerville . . .. BATTEN DOORS. IVIRB DOORS J. T. THOMPSON. Jr., CARPEN'I‘ICII. Jobbing attended to. Wall Brackets and Easy Chairs made to order. Workshop on Llndsay Street. Near the 0. I, It, Station, Penelon Falls. «Wuâ€"- -....... .. .