2 Seaugih be lane Spr aEs, THURSDAY MORNING seal Sua Printing otice ee Milverton, Ont RAT! a OL tn pata etiar.Gu cents onthe, ‘advance, Subscril ‘gas {1.50 per year ‘three rine for ae insertion ai e for each subsequent sen lent adver- ht cents etrorhee por io ‘tion will be charged for ell trans hprica Date iacceats atincce specific directions serted un‘il forbid and charged ac- cording Poeies for contract advertisements must be in the office by noon Monday. attention. MALCOLM MacBETH. Pubilsher and Proprietor BusinessCards DR. M. CO INDALE, ED: Successor.to De, Lederman) Noxon Sree spe = at Gases vown aud Bridge specialty. Over Liitropaltean Bank, Milverton Medical. Office : FP. PARKER, M.D. Pp. L, TYB, M.D, DRS. PARKER & TYE OFF-CE : PUBLIC DRUG STORE, AILVERTON Hours—10 to 12 ° Ss, DRA 1, McKENZIE, M.D. 3 ian MONKTON, Ottice hours; and Surgeon ONTARIO and in evenings. Persie PARKER Osteopathic Physician Special ty! Reet esiniidan s reatn Soensinne. including joint troubles, by le by drugless method methods ben 8 Grand Central Hotel, Milcerton, Wednesday Sa.mtol p.ni. Will visit residence’ if preferred So far as possible from 1 to p.m, JERRY'S CHANCE “Your time’s nearly up, Daddy. aoe be leaving us, in another ore man who walked beside Ae sistant-Warder Harker a ced with a queer expression © He was ct eached. the Fighest stage that any" piedaes at nal servitude ive at, wks his sprouting ea Fie was prool e was serving the last three noite of his senter was Jerry, Brant, but among the warders, with whom he w: vorite, he was generally Eaeeh as “Daddy. out again,’” he ai “What ! asked Harker, chafing’ “You know as I de re- pierre eamesitolls. what! 3 can’t make no living. They knows that as well as I do.” “You mean you'd really prefer to stay here in Moorlands for the resp of your life?’ asked Harker, Ses weee “An not, sir?’ Here I pe iene nucle easy) Uve-a rom to myself, books to read, nothing to worry me, and plenty a-looking after the sheep. more than he’s got outside.’ it seems a rum stunt for m: fant to stay in prison,” said Harker, musingly. at: ter all, there's something in what say, Daddy. ERBie they. talked the ond been tramping across the great pri- -|son farm. Presently they reached a big boundary wall between the DR. JR aes ae Eye. Nose and ‘Throat Eng. Knox C nga, Stentor Phone 2 H. B. MORPHY, K.C. {i Barrister, - ede Be tic, for Bank of Hamilto: MILVERTON, Offices pean Milverton Hoan si een ao R BLEWETT, | KG Solicitor for the Bank of Toronto fice: Gordon Block «STRATFORD, ONTARIO ~ Veterinary. A Veterinary Surgeon Milverton, Graduate of Ontario Veterin e ok al hh ‘reatesall 9 plone ‘orotherwise promptly attented to Societies. on i-| in this field. 0 St., opposite r SE ae xrwoon farm and the open meor. A number of sheep w ‘They were > ald Brant’s special charge, and just at present his duty was to change them into another pasture, he warder remained by th gate; Brant walked forward and i ene ere grazing beg: ieeora auely tonarae® thane aes: her Jerry -waited, whistling every now and then, and, as the flock came filing past, counted them, one by one. “There’s two a-missing,”’ he marked presently, with a frown on his wizened fai “That there speckledy-faced ewe and are ~|'Phey’ll have gone out over the wall on the moor, I’m afraid.” aeaened best get. them up, then, erry,”’ answered the warder. ‘‘T’ll ter the rest mals you're Saery walked off. Harker had no misgivings. He knew that the old MIL LODGE, No, A,P, A. M. Noe C., wana r, WM; Zoeger, Secy. » “Silver Star til ¥. 8a}; aes se a Rg Notary Public. w. EIR, Notary Public, Auc- tioneer ioe vibe County “of Per 8, Monkton, Ont., No . ‘al Issuer of Mar- Be ¢ County. of Per, ‘eat Riin’e boa as Ww choice farm for ene rR large. sampli Best brands brands of figstee and cigars, Chas. Ritter, Propri nu. EEN’S anil, Proprietor, ao AMeRToAN HOUSE, Berlin, 78 0 s fen phe liquors served at tl $1.50 per rday. Wa. Wirt, ase "s Block, Visiting breth- ite look over the opposite wall. Jerry turned and waved his arm, signifying that the missing ewe and m | gan ae some big blocks of gra- ‘| nite off the top of the wall to make ap, over which a minute later, he helped the two strays, It was at this moment that Har- ker caught sight of a little ‘al can- tating on a rough pony across was coming down the ia sone towards the brook. As he she gave her shaggy bile teat a cut with her switch, and ~| set. it sharply at the water n at a great pace. ing cave lying motionless among the eas and heather Paige aaick, sir !’’ shout- oa Spe across the fields. But eee was already running ‘ard. ashe could pelt towards the scene “ot the acci e pony Fer ete os towards | ught it cleverly, BOEGE! hand Coat, 8 of Bul rite mber, Lat les, ets d ADIGE ites of t 1 V. Moyer, i 8 made, beg 'Y¥ gave a quick glance, fat iisue ‘white ae vow 80 shoeking! if ‘won’ t never aa 3 that ay, | sr, i he said. ‘Tis a : and she’ your finger on the proner ‘ase and str hard. He let go el eran "8 brie, leay- cord, Coal, Cement and Lime Motar Stain, Ete, Gro, Flour. and Eee vere a Forced | mai n he : ne Par- tapes the a mi ial thi i Si da lar spot, a1 a ou Harker,” he sa: my ton to the Yes, sir; they're ree ot |S Don’t you want to go?” | 4, the use of putting me outside? I} soy an gets saad through it. Beyond was tho |, su d e@ se held the pony straight down ate ed, | the rabidly Sapp move the pore little thing.”’ Harker glanced xp quickly. only just Te was the best while’ he took Sethi, paces and fetched help. She would bleed to death in a very few minutes. - could not. leave Brant wil Such a proceeding would rab Nor could breach ae: the prison y renleseyiee Daddy’s quick old eyes met those tay ae you be, Mr. said. “I reckon this job.” And before Harker coda utter a word of remonstrance, he had seized the reins, scrambled pony’s back’ quickness of a monkey, and as the active little beast nally Ware Hiekated by civil guards, me afoot, some mounted, all armed with carbines. One guard was stationed on top of the wall within thirty or forty yards of the road. Hearing the rat- tle of the horse's feet, his mind Hoe the man was Sais to escape. s bent low over Ene Sadale so that his face was hidd “Stop? a loudly. “Tt be all right,’ answered Dad- dy. ‘‘There’s a little a hurt. Pm going for the doctor Afterwards the man Se that had not heard what shouted the warder any had cording to prison regulations, over his head. crack of the rifle and ed the bit between his ee and re- y took a The pony almost ont of range, Then a ond guard let A tter than that of ihe tee tna Jory tals &. shook which almost stunned him and a stinging pain in his right shoulder. He fell forward on the pony’s. with- hands. seat, and pre jie again and get hold of the e got me on he ay know stat a-doi: mee Se more, and Jerry Bhi the main road which ran past the prison gates, and managed to swing the pony to the left on to pain in his shoulder But the old fellow was grit to t backbone. is teeth, and the middle of the road. Just then the governor’s house loomed up on the left, ‘and beyond it the great gran- ite arch over the entrance. The warder on sentry-go at. the gate stared in dumb astonishment at the amazing apparition which swept towards hi Jerry tried to Pull ap his pony. He had ae strength “Stop him!’ he Saat And the warder eata hi ecident !’” “Little girl hurt. the Stonebrook beyond the boun- Send: the doctor— Jerry came to his senses in. a comfortable bed in the p in He tnadts me bab ene pain was so sharp that. ie could hot repress a slight gi Someone stepped cick ¢ to. the bedside and: bent over Jerry recognized the keen, eee ‘of Mr. Macdonald, the se “Did ’ee get there in eine sir?” he asked. “Thanks. to you, replied the aia “But, you've sot to Ti still and maul talk. u see Y? rT oe Brant pe little mai “Getting on very well indeed. m” “That be all right, sir,’ sai x ith a tired sigh, closed cod oyer him for a Tn the aa he was ee bya man in the regulation uniform ““How’s. poor old Da day, - | Brant, that ae I mean?’ ““Phere’s b sir—| ¢ very shall [ hope said the aa i aH was the who | as foe! ae a Pte xa if he do: i Much to Wilb r did 80; bie ccs the | term. fenible ‘bleeding’ was stopped for th the child | et e | into the w. e | that look here, | system, al But how be the ss he'll pull round, ee Lees ho! oliday than a free man -going out orld. He ate his last pri- son breakfast, he heard his com- panions in misfortune being march- out to ra ae his spirits sank Jower and low < Then the- ace of the cell. oe: and Harker entered » “There’s friends waiting oe you os ene Daddy,”’ he said, i ! “repeated the old man.~ ‘* Te got none Pouteide St thie ‘Come along and see, Daddy,’ answered Harker cheerfully. At the gate was a gig, with mer holding the reins, and oe Elsie Harker sat beside him “Here’s Daddy, John!” said the arder, ‘‘He says he’s got ‘no friends outside.” “Thope he won’t say that in time Bos sevlige the farmer. anting a shepherd up = WHER igean shillings a week and a cottage. e job's yours if you've a mind to accept ite? ASE ghee t ask no better,” swered Jer “Right you are, then! hind !’” And the last that Moorland saw of its shepherd was driving away up the hill at the back of Farmer Harker’s cart.—London Answers. ———t_-____ sf an- Get in be- Scheme to Create Special Revenue is Advocated. ae Snew Beet of Finance, ark, much _atten- ae on ee peed of the Continental ress, inasmuch as the main differ- ence that is expected to distinguish the new from t will consist in its financial policy The Czar has pointed out “Ghat in place of the brandy monopoly Govesatvent revenue should be found that is ‘derived from the in- exhaustible sources of the wealth of the State and from the produc- tive Jape i the people,’ but the disco’ source ri lela 900,000,000 (450,000,000), the amount produced by the brandy monopoly, is no easy tas! ‘A writer in the Vossische Zeitung, Dr. Hans Lossius, who claims to have indirect know side irom confidential source es 8 plans, states that the new iii Minister will. replace the existing br Biiady monopoly by a corn mono- THe maintains That M. Bark has i signalize his asses of office by its scheme is of far agricultural *| country, it has every aspect of plau- es sibility. The. proposed zecuns in bret oe = as follows: A network of § naries — will a est. abtiched TE RoaghOUS the empire and farmers will have to transfer their ese granaries in the au- tumn, so far as they do not need it themselves. The price that will be paid to os farmers will be fixed every ye: e basis es interna- tional oston | in the corn market. The vernment will todereake the eat to foreign countries, as w as the commission business at scheme is suri of Russian the corn dealers who would thus be eliminated are almost entirely Jews. Tt is described as being in the interests of the producers, par- ticularly of the peasants, who ganize the grain trade in Russia it- self and thus win for the exche- x er enormous sums that are at ge swallowed up by middle- =e view of the position Cp ca execution may have serious Stacles. to encounter. Sescanennsy CANTON, TO HAVE CARS. Will Tear Down the Ancient Stone Walls. ‘The city of Canton, China, with million and a half inhabitants, Hagsnd “place lax a cstreehrailtaty Ces is one the wealthi est a is so crowded that many of the so- called. streets are but narrow al- leys, not even wide enough ie two sedan chairs to pass. in! cient spac? for a arrow-gauy ilwa: completely enciycling the city, au the = sites will be used foi CORN MONOPOLY IN RUSSIA. pare 6 %| stantial progres: i most progressive of | ¢ ithe fe ealle -and fortifications | ab. here is no! th room for pore and rae Age we Chinese engineers» are not so easily, pet FROM RANKS AND BRAES. — (hat fs Gotng on In the Highlands 3 and Lowlands of Auld Scotia. orm League at the annual con- ference held in Edinburgh. paring a dense fog field, Cambuslang, with a. lorry. ‘The front of the car was much dam- aged and two persons were serious- ly ues: ss Sarah Kilgour of Eskbank, Dalkeith, has just attained her hun- redth year. A native East Lothian: she was the daughter of Dr. Kilgour, a noted army medical man, By the death of Chief Constable ly, Dumbartonshire loses a born in ‘a native of Braemar, and entered the police force in 1863. e first submarine built in Bees fand has been launched by th Scott's Shipbuilding and Eagitears ing Company at Greenock. The ves- sel, which will be known as 01, is one ee the Laurentic type. As result of the first week of the "Tersite rial recruiting fortnight in Glasgow, it is stated that sub- s has been made to- wards filling up “the shortage in the rious battalions of the city. The Rothesay Town Council have , agreed in connection with pro- posed extension of the Dhu Loch Water Supply, to construct a dam to the north-east and to pump the water thence to the loc! Rumors haye been current Kirkealdy Ao Raith House, Sir Ronald Munro Fergu- son, who tis been ernor-General been let to Prince naught. At a meeting of the Perthshire Quarter Sessions, ex-Provost Scott, Callander, was e! o succeed the late Colonel Williamson of Law- ers, as a member of the County Hicensing Court of Perthshire. e large sawmill at Lochmares, seit valieble plant,#has been com- destroyed by fire. It will Arthur of Con- r time a large number of people will be thrown out of work, large stockyard attached to ~|the farm of Mill of Rathvea, near Buckie, pee es pete Estates, has barley and thirty-~ Mie of oats were consumed and only one stack was saved, From a census recently taken in Aberdeen of the pr roportion of chil- dren attending church, it was found that in the Roman Catholic churches the proportion of children ee ee is 80 per cent., in Episco- pate churches per cent., Church of Scotland, 14 per cent. — FF A LUCKY PALL. ‘Trayeller Falls Thirty Peet Without Serious Injury. m Mr. A. H. Savage Landor's return journey Tapajos River, after a desperate struggle to reach the rubber gatherers who live far in the Brazilian interior, he had, ashe relates in ‘‘Across Unknown South Sree a yery curious ex- perient The Morden oder the Secundury oing Pov ene ok hamerains cult ravines, I had an Sale that ae have been fatal. The ravine, he sides of which were Be ver- hgslawas very narrow—only about on Inetres across. We let ourselves down, holding onto a liana. When we reached the ations we found. a tiny brook winding ay between round tagiders Shae left a ate eB side, and I had got to’ the height of uit thirty feet. In order to go up this steep incline, I had set one a against a ee tree, and I pi elf up by a liana. cabs, semicircle. n head first from: cha eg on the rocks below. SOE On the ined raved y forced go har ae s that T ase ut elf. 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