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ONT- Licentiate of the Royal College of ' ' Edinburgh, Scotland. Of- fice :nd Résidence, opposite Temperance Hall, Holstein. Will be at Primvule: in Office-First door east ham Pharmacy, Calder's Rwuepoe.â€"Figst 0001‘ Post Office. Durham. ARRLSTER. Soiicitor. etc. Office over 0 L. Grann‘u‘atore. Lower Town. Any amount 01 money to loan at 5 per cent. on farm property. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR etc. omce Upper ”.lown Durham. Collection and Agency promptly atten .ed to. Searches made u the Registr) UI’tice. lucas, Wtight PARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, E on 1:] Es, L (m V EYA N C- ERS,ETC. Money to loan at. lowest rates. Easy terms Office hours 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Will be at the Commercial H first and third Wednesdays in UGH IslacKAY, Durham, Land Valn ator and Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Grey. Sales promptly “tended to and noses cashed. _ , . (1 AMES CARSOS, Durham, anonse P Auctioneer for the County of. (.3ny Land Valuabor, Bailiff o: the 2nd Damian Court Sales and all other matters romp ,y Intended coâ€"higheat. refex encea urniuhed I required. OHN QUEEN, ORCHARDVILLE. has resumed his old business, and 18 ptopfl’ ed to loan any amount of money on rail estate. Old mortgages paid 03 on the mostliberal terms. Fire and Lif Inst}! ancesefl‘ectedin the best Stock Commm' It lowest. ”tieâ€"é.â€" - VCbriéspopQOM-O Orchardvill P. O. , or s can 00114::th t. JAM SSOX. Cohiniuionor, «a; M “We! to lend. Mono invented for ”1"“. Farms bongfit. and sold. CONVEYANCIR ITO. A general flnancigl business transacted. We next. door to SmdudlBuhmrh‘m . 1‘ i9 estimated that an! on: at nu:- $1.39: during the fin Wit L“ 7-...L‘. I. B. Ll'CAS, MARKDALE. w. u. w 1m: HT, OWEN SOUND. c. A. m'rsux, DURHAM. Rasmussen uniddaugb House. AMER BROWN, Issuer oi Marri‘ge Licenses, Durham, Ont. DR. BROVJN. L BROWN. -. LEFROY MCCAUL, Legal Dzreczory. ! at. the gfmmnercial Hotel, Priceville, £13m: \\ edncsdays in each month. A HARD DRINKER. Jitsrellaneous . JAOHON ’. TELFORD. .nd upward; Prompt every facility afford- living at a distance. -â€"â€"', ‘_‘-‘ urham. use a. short distant» '3 Hotel, Ltmbton 1. Office hours from {1601' was. EAR, NOSE And st of the '3 Block. Batsnn, of Roughly speaking, I would say that I a Western can never thoroughly un- derstand an Eastern says Miss Ham- ilton, court physician at Cabul, but perhaps that does not seem to he say- ing much. when you think of how very little we Westerns understand each other. What I mean, however, is something quite distinct from the lit- tle family or social misunderstandings which can generally be traced to some trifling jealousy, or vanity, or folly of some kind. The only way I can con- vey to yod any idea of the great gulf that lies between us is by quoting the ' words of the Psalmist, “As far as the ‘ east is from the west." Away and! away, and away toward the rising sun. beyond sound, beyond sight. and be- yond that again far into space. And as though that were not far enough we r are hidden turn our faces to the west 1 and look toward the glorious reds, and golds, and pinks, and greens, and mauves of the setting sun, into them and beyond them, into the great vast- ness beyond; so far beyond our concepâ€" tions, beyond our comprehensions, is the Eastern from the Western. It is more than interesting to hear aWest- err. criticised by an Eastern, who is not i a British subject, and who is therefore '. not afraid to say what he thinks. It is not conducive to pride. bor what he says is pretty true, and hits all the harder for that; and all I can say to him in reply is, “Yes, we do wrong, and you do wrong and I think your wrong-doing is just. a. shade worse than ours." I will give you an example, a poor one perhaps, of the difference between the way we look at things and the way they do. Afghan slaves as a rule have not the position that the Anti-Slavery Society is formed to combat. There is nothing pitiable in their condition. ‘ Afghan ladies are usually very indo- lent and useless except as the mo- thers of children, whom they absolute- ly neglect. It is the slaves who man- age everything. Generally in a rich house there is one chief slave. a sort of housekeeper, rather a grand person whom it is always wise to conciliate if you intend having many dealings with that establishment. In summer she is :always dressed in purest white; in winter, velvets and brocades are not beyond her reach. She is generally an elderly person, with considerable influ- ence and a good deal of authority. Then there is another who is asort of maid to the lady of the house; she is another person that it is not “136 to quarrel with; she is always very much en evidence. She it is who preâ€" pares everything for her mistress’ toilet, as also for her master's. It is the wife's Special duty and privilege. however, when things are prepared, to wait upon her husband, when he is dressing. to pour the water over his hands and feet, during his religious washings. to spread his prayer-carpet, to put his favorite dish before him and such like. A friend of mine in Cabul had all these offices done for him by a favorite slave. She had been with me for many years, and was devoted to him. She was a particularly intelligent girl. and I often used to have long conver- sations with her, and try and find out what she really felt and thought. I quite longed to penetrate behind the veil of an Eastern woman's reserve and get at her real self. One day I __..__ 9L said to her, “What would you do if your Agha married again, Zenobia?” “What would I do," she said; “why, I should do what I do now.” “No, you would not," I said, “his wife would do all that; she would dress him and wait upon him, and look after man to Mohammed's teachings, are little better than mere animals created to minister to the lords of creation. and having but a. poor place. if any, in the future life. No more injurious libel been spread as inst the great ' trines. But by THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, January 13, 1 woman or women are kept and cloth- ed and fed in a harem. just as we keep cm or sheep and are little more thought of. No Mohammedan would; admit this. but you have only ‘90 30° how a boy treats his mother to realize that it is so. She may nurse him When he is sick, tend him when he is young, but let him grow to be 11 or 13, and you will hear him tell her to “chup sho,” shut up, send her to fetch his cap, and she will address him as “agha gul,” or “agha jan." my pre- cious master. master dear, and will hardly dare to remonstrate with him. She is altogether in an awkard position as regards her boys, and can have no influence over them, or but very lit- tle, when once they grow old enough to leave the house. I knew a very nice family in Cabul, fairly intimately. that is tosay, as we can ever know people so far removed from us in thought and mode of life. There were, the par- ents thanked God, no daughters. The family consisted of the father and mo- ther. there was only one wife, and three sons. One of these was a little ; fellow of 2 1-2 when I left; the others I were about 10 and 12. They were dear lboys, and great favorites of the Am: eer’s for they were full of fun and mischief. All the latter part of last summer one or other of those boys were ill. Fever, sore throat, 0011811: cold, aches and pains of all sorts. The cause was easily explained; one had not far to seek. They ran wild all day from the time they finished theu‘ lessons, which, in Cabul. never last more than an hour, and they were nevâ€" er out of mischief, pushing each other into the irrigation canals, rushing about in the sun, letting their clothes dry as they ran,eating over-ripe plums and aDricots. under-ripe pears and ap- Ples, now in my garden, now in. the Ameer’s, now careering the roads on horseback or rushing after my car- r1386. trying to scramble on at the back like veritable little street gam-s ins; perfect will-o’-the-wisps, “shal- tans" their mother used to call them. She was a stout, good-natured soul. and well for her it was that her back was broad enough to bear the burdens laid on it; a \Vestern mother would have been out of her mind. They were never clean or tidy for two minutes together? how could they be? So no one made an effort to make or keep them so. No one would have taken them for the sons of an official. and they might often have been mistaken for gutter boys. .- I T ___‘.1 â€"'- onvv- F I threatened many times that I would have nothing more to do with them when they were ill, if they were not! better looked after when they were well. “What am I to do?" their m0- ther would plead. “Their father is at office all day, and I am shut up in the serai. As soonas they have had their food they go; I may send this one or that after them, no one knows here to find them; and if they do, .0 IS to run into the rivers after th . or cross the plains, or up the hills They are here. there and everywhere." What she said was indisputable. I had no suggestions to offer; so I, like the mo« ther, had to satisfy myself with treat- ing them when they were ill, and leav- ing them unrestrained when they were well. Is it any wonder that all but the most robust die off, and that parents grow used to the distressing spectacle of watching their children grow old endugh to run out into the fierce sun and bitter winds, to come in and die. I have seen many cases of this sort, for somehow Pun-fever seems to at- tack the strong and the stout. Prince Habbibullah nearly died of it the first summer I was in Cahul. and While I was in England a year and a half ago Prince Hafiz-Ullah, in some ways the flower of the flock, actually did die from the same cause, for, as there was 5‘ VJ‘I vuv ‘JVâ€"HV - _ , no one there tegtop them. they bled and physicked and starved him to death. Cabul mothege seldorq seegn @o UUWU o VWV“- _._ me to have much affection for their children or their children for them; they do not nurse them as babies, and their babyhood is a particularly ,long one, for they are very backward. They belong to their nurses more than to their mothers till they .are 2.1-2 years to sew; does not cook. does not look after the children and can neither read nor write as a rule. What can she possibly think of? The husband, no doubt, fondly imagines that she sits waiting for him. If so. and it be true that “hope _ deferred maketh the L ‘lLâ€"Aâ€" L- _--- vuwv .0er .â€" heart sick," hers must often be very sick, indeed. If a man has many wives one particular one may not see him for as much as twenty days at atime. I am not exaggerating; I am think- ing of a special case, and it was a Mo- hammedzai, too; a granddaughter of the great Ameer. who was much ne- glected. Her husband came to court one day with his head all plastered up, so I asked him what had happened to him. “Ah, you women. you are at ‘the bottom of all mischief." he said. “Has one of your wives been smash- ing your head?" I asked. He laughed and turned away to speak to some one else So when we were in with the Ameer I told the chief sec- retary that one of the Sirdar’s wives had been begging..l.lhpfi- A... 1. .1 “a“ M... wvâ€"-___v “What is that?" the Ameer asked. If you want to attract the Ameer's attention, you; have only to whisper '1}: his presenceiwhether he suspects a. story as I hsdndsne. Curwusly en- ----~ :n ‘kn -:nh+ 5W1] as) ‘w- _.-,_, v ougb, the addition was in the right direction, and amid roars of laughter and chaff the poor Sirdar was made to confess that he had neglected to visit one of his wives for twenty days. fled. So. teal- :olboy who has so at. school he trym to ap- ' neglect ormu- . um Built- '7 less of any irritable feeling or sinister dgsigns. Sh; qniet_l_y,__with her tinge}! of course, picked all the meat off the bone and laid the pieces before her hus- band, who was naturally quite satie- fied and graciously accepted the deli- cate little attentions she bestowed up- on him; and thought he was going to escape cheap; but he was mistaken. for. no sooner had he completed the Opera- tion than she raised her weapon of vengeance aloft and struck him with such force as to make a considerable wound, the broken end of the mutton bone being no doubt sharp and jagged. I went and lunched at their house shortly afterward. the husband and wife were still on bad terms. but I insisted on their making up. _ I told the Sirdar what I really thought; namely, that he was alto- gether in the wrong, and I tried to in- sist on his saying that he was sorry. which was perhaps rather too much to expect, and he would not do it to my satisfaction, but would declare that he was only sorry that he had been made the laughing stock of the Durbar. Drew a Knife Across Ills Throat to lung. Irate a Text. The Rev. T. C. Neafl, of the Methodist Church Olf Marion, I'nd., is the Latest convert to the modern; interpretation of the very old doctrine that any kind of means short. of killing a. man may be used by a.“ preacher to awaken sin- niers to a. realization of the fact that the broad path om: which they are trav- eling is slippery and dangerous and heads to destruction: Mr. Neal caused a sensation among his quiet country audience on Sunday last 'by suddenly stoopting down beneath his desk at dne stage of the sermon and drawing forth a. knife, which he placed across his throat, as though sud- den'ly seized with a desire to sever his jugular vein. ‘ To the deacons of the church who re- - monstrated with Mr. Neal for using means that savomd. of sensationalism the preadher made a valiant defence. His text, he explained, was from Pro- ' Verbszâ€""Put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite." “Not timingy texts give room. as did this one," said ’he, “for so vivid an inâ€" lustratiotm. Of course, it would not do for the Rev. Dr. Dryvbones to do as I did. for it would disturb! Brother Gocxlnap, and shock Sister Propriety. and might make Brother Slow feel badly on amount of sensationalis'm in, the pulpit. . “Furthermore,” continued Mr. Neal,‘ “I am so emphatically in favor of using any and all means of preaching a ser- mon in such a manner and with such an accompaniment {that no one who hears can ever forget it, that I should regard it as perfeohly right and pro- per for a preacher to mount the steps of his pulpit dragging after him a Gat- ling gun, if .by pointing this weapon at the faces of the congregation he could make them quail before the glittering gun barrels and be frightened into for- saki'ng their evil ways lest the contents of the deadly tubes be scattered through the place and send them un- prepared to their account." HE SCARED THE SINNERS. 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