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laist and N eck :rr 'ro BANK. .wmz TOWN. d and collgctions made sits received and in- at current rates, In“. An)’ amount of money x mm property. ARRXS'JER. Solicitor, etc . McIntyre: Block. Lower Town. Collection and may prompt;,\' attended to. Searches made “the Registry Office. HUGH MachAY, Durham, Land Vuln- atorand Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Grey. Sales promptly attended :0 and notes cashed. AMES CARSON, Durham, Licensed J Auctioneer for the County of Grey Land Valuator, Bailiff of the 2nd Division Court Sales and all other matters promptly mended toâ€"higheat references {urnlahed if required. 0H5 QUEEN, ()RCHARDVILLE, has p resumed his old business, and is propar odt-o loan any amount: of money on real estate Old mortgages paid ofl’ on the nostliberalterms. Fire and Life Insur- nceuetfectedin the best Stock Companies It lowest rates. Correspondence to Orchardville, P. O. , or a call solicited The “Chronicle” is the only l'l-Page Local Newsparcr in Western untario. lPort Hope Lady Undergoes a h'Hng experience, from which the is at last freed by the use of Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills. Mr. F. J. ARMSTRONG, one of Port Hope's best kno “ .wn citizens, speaks as follows :â€" Mr mfa has had a. terrible time with her hCart for the last fifteen months. ‘ “ Thepains were intense, and she had a nothenng feeling together with’shortness gbtceth, Weakness and general debility. edxcme seemed to do her no good, and '0 bad about iven up trying when she RM to take t Iilbum's Heart and Nerve my They have toned her up wonder- 'AMES BROWN, Issuer ot Marringe Incenses.Durham Ont. but i ‘: l: the labor of pulling up the ‘F‘l ‘3 less on runners than on Wheels. 5' .~ be a” the better if the manure 3mm?“ Over snow. It will to some Item keep it fmm blowing away. : l’ 35 Ihe snow is ~melted it will sink L0 th soil, carrying some of the ”3 With it. We have known '33 OCIOVGI catches secured in the n gravelly knolls that had never Seeded to clover before. fiical Directory . a :me 4-year-old occupied an upper rt in . the sleeping car of a fihrough mafia-naming once in the middle of e nlght his mother asked. him if he mi" Where he was, Tourse I do, ' he piled, I'm in 'Snerever there is a knoll in a‘ field iaigobably. less fertile than the low- anse $11 e}t_ner sxde of it, not only isfll "1111?." has washed down, ficxiit more because 1t has been . kn~11m dr'lW manure to the tap of " 10 feruhze it. The best 19 I , ._ . ‘ . mm? do Lip" 15 When snow 18 on the [,eaal Dzrectory. ;â€"-F1rst door east of the nut. tarmacy._ Calder's Block. >nce.-â€"â€"F1rst door west of the TER, Solicitor. etc. Ofloe over v‘a new Jewellery 5*.01'0, Lower I- A. Mzscellaneo-us . IiEENT'IST. 805'- Durham. s stronger to-day ghan 9he hat-8t nomhs. thanks to Mtlburn s Hea 12 Pills. I am sure there can be ' remedy from their re’l’nafkab‘e Mrs. Armstrong's case. (3.. HOLT, L. Durham. ’. TELFORD. a on Savings 3"“ a°' and up\\'al'.d.3. Prompt 1d every faculty afford- :5 living at a. distance. HE KNEW. Agency. :e a short distance Hotel, Lampton de- A LADIES’ TRAINING HOME IN PROS- PECT 0F ESTABLISHMENT. The “London Times” Gives Prominence to an Interesting Article â€" Dispropor- tion Between Numbers of lien and We. Menâ€"Woman as a Factor of Refine- menu. The London Times of a recent date contains a well-written and interest- ing article on the subject of “ \Vomâ€" en and Colonial Settlement." The ar- ticle, which is given unusual promin- ence in The Times, is from the pen of Mrs. Fitzgibbon, of Toronto, astepâ€" daughter of the late D'Alton McCar- thy. Mrs. Fitzgibbon is herself the or- ;iginator of the novel scheme outlined. iThe article in The Times is as £01- I lows :â€" A letter on the subject of a pros- E pective training home for lady colo- a nists to be established in the Northâ€" V west Territories of Canada which was 5 published in our columns a few days E ago. draws attention to a new and not t unimportant development of the move- 5 ment of Imperial expansion. It has begun to be recognized as an evil in the movement that one result is to de- plete this country of a valuable and en- ergetic section of its manhood, while it leaves women in excessive numbers un- provided for. Each fresh census shows the disproportion between the num- l bers of men and women to be increas- ing. The surplus of a quarter of a million of women over men which used to be talked of with some alarm twenty years ago has risen to amillion and a quarter, and shows no sign of probable diminution. Ingenious calculations are made to'show the percentage of women who, putting'other causes for remain- ing single aside, must remain unmar- ried for want of a sufficient number of men to provide husbands for them all and a demonstration of the large number of women who are forced to work in order to provide themselves with bread is to be readily found in the overcrowded state of all professions which are open to their competition. That the United Kingdom should even- tually become a country in which wo- men largely predominate in the po- pulation is a consequence of Imperial expansion, which the most ardent Im- perialists would shrink from contem-! plating. It is obvious to those who‘ have acquaintance with the facts of colonial settlement that there is no need for such a contingency to arise. The evil of the growing disproportion needs only to .he noted in order to, I yâ€" ‘ 'â€" ‘ v A _ badly wanted in the newly-settled dis- tricts of the empire. The whole ques- tior resolves itself into one of organi- zation by means of which they shall be enabled to take the part that naturally belongs to th'em in a development so important _to their welfare. ‘ODD'_,,_‘.L LA “AI!“fia 0+ uuyur Lau» 9v nuv-- -. -_- - It is perhaps difficult to realize at ‘ home, but it will be clearly in the mind t of every one who has travelled observ- V antly through the outlying portions of t the empire, that one of the most urgent i I needs which deglare themselves after}C industrious, women, prepared to exert them-uh selves in their natural capacity as home-makers. Classes in our sense ofiE the term disappear rapidly in new} c Juntries, but the traditions, tastes and' - habits which tend to form class where‘ populations are numerous enough to supply a sufficient number of indiv- iduals of each kind remain, and the men of all classes who find themselves thrown together in new circumstances. need women of all classes to make their homes. The doubt which presents it- !self is not whether women are want- I 1 1 1 1 i I the enabled to face the conditions which 1 they will find there with a fair chance of success. One of the many classes of Englishmen who migrate to the newer f the empire is the young‘ portions 0 iEnglish- gentlemen. .Sons of clergy-I ‘ men, lawyers, doctors, mili .val officers of good breeding and traâ€" 'ditions. but as poor in worldly posses- sions as the sons of artisans, go in m" creasing numbers every year. These: 3. pOSSibility suggests itself, as one of the tconsequences of the more intimate ssessed of knowledge now generally p0 the conditions of the problem, that tlllne 3 young English i‘ers have been in . t are hardier, more ac . 5 habits, better bre " ' ’ s of the less-favor- -‘ ' some spur of poverty eith‘er present or Where they .may have the courage . to make openings for them; ' to material success other '11 undoubtedly follow, and ,9 UkIva‘w, _._,_, , v of good breeding and tra- as poor 1n worldly posses- sons of artisans, go in in- nbers every year. These BritiSh' flag flies i mate. DELIGHTFUL ' CLIMATE. .It is with a view of putting this pos- sibility to the test of practice that the Lustitution of a training home for lady colonists in the centre of the fruitful Prairie Lands of the Northwest Terri. tones of Canada is now proposed. The mtention is that in such a home young ladies, either from the United Kingdom or from other parts of the empire who have a desire to take part in the work of settlement, should receive the neces: sary training and be prepared for the practical conditions of the life to which they propose to devote their energies. There is much to be said in favor of the execution of such a scheme. The Can-1 adian prairies offer an admirable field for the initiation of an experiment of the kind. The climate is one of the best in the world, the soil is good, land isso cheap that one year's moderately successful crop will repay the capital cost of purchaseas well as the actual cost of production, markets are at _hand for the disposal of produce. the i position is relatively near to England, and the moral surroundings are of the wholesome kind to which parents and guardians could without fear confide the destinies of the young people in whom they take an interest. . To feel that in case of urgent necessrty aper- sonal visit is not impossible would be a consolation to many parents view- ing the departure of a first daughter with natural dismay. To know that there are no physical dangers to be faced is a guarantee of first importance. Nowhere more than upon the Canadian prairies are women needed for the pur- pose of investing the bare log houses known as “shacks" with the comforts and the dignity of homes. But the objeoiton to their presence which has hitherto seemed in a large number of instances insuperable is that they have not the necessary knowledge, and that Ed rain; the life 'Without ii is to sub- ject themselves to too severe a strain. The objegt of a txaigmg 'hogne sifig‘ated in the Northwest Territories will, of course, be to teach on the prairies the life of the prairies. The Canadian Gov- ernment has already greatly helped the intelligent development of prairie settlement by the institution of {EXQEIi- conducted at Government expense, serve to raise the scientific level of loâ€" cal farming. It is suggested that the ladies' training home should be estab- lished in connection with one of the experimental farms Where the best in- struction in practical agriculture and its supplementary sciences can be read- ily obtained. Dairying, gardening, poultry-rearing, bee-keeping, bread- making, cooking, washing and other household arts would form a part of 1the course, and it is unnecessary to ' dwell on the value of such instruction, given within sight of the farm plot up- on which it was to be carried to per- sonal use. It is believed that women so instructed may in some instances purchase and workland for themselves. In the majority of-cases it is supposed that they will in the firstinsta nce work t~â€"-â€"â€"..‘A_ kfin Lmu LHVJ vv -..-... -_- in o-operation withâ€"their farmer bro- thers on a system of mutual profit. ADVANTAGES TO BE DERIVED. The .nstitution’ of such a college, if carri.d to a successful issue, would 301% the first difficulty which pre- sents itself to the minds‘ of many par- ents anxious to give their daughters, with due precautions, the opportunity of learning to make a practical career. Girls could in such an institution fit themselves for a settler's life. But there is a practical objection which has to be taken into consideration. Educa- tion is costly, and in the families from which the majority of these girl set- tlers would presumably be drawn money is usually scarce. At the age of nineteen or twenty, when a college course would possibly begin, the boy who goes to farm in the colonies hires ;himself as an unskilled laborer to a ilocal farmer and gains his experience lwhile he earns his bread. For the girl's education parents who have no ,money to spare would be asked to pay. ‘To make the first working of the ex- periment successful it is essential that the cost of the scheme should be re- duced to the lowest possible figure. If the Canadian Government felt the! value of introducing a good class of: settlement to the Northwest Territor- ies to be worth the expenditure of 'a little money, and showed itself dispos-I ed to subsidize a system of organized institutions in connection with the existing system of experimental farms, private subscription and endowment might then do more to bring a service- able training in the essential require- ments of a settler’s life within the reach of ladies desirous of entering 'upon a colonial career. The ’success- ful inauguration of such a scheme, cop. ied, as it could scarcely. fail to be, in Other colonies, would render a service Along outlast more showy performances amnfaqging to further the same ob- pâ€"rofes asin jects. g to ORIGIN OF LACE-MAKIN G. It was linen embroidery and out work that led the way to the intro- duction of r Hat we call lace. The nuns busied themselves with this in. dustry. The pattern was hewn out of Good Qfieen Anne, wife of Richard II.,'bi1t this to unaccustom- ‘ffers but little from the or- dinary English embroidery on jaconet or linen. co“ n a temperate cli- item in newspaperâ€"It [at in a few thousand an race will have be- destitute pf'mteeth; L- vou want Tommy to 'LE, June 22, 1899 New Story of the mum of Its Tomb and Sever!" 01 '15 lead From the Body. Regarding the disinterment and mu- tilation of the remains of the Mahdi by the English after the battle of Omdurman, the Manchester Guardian has a story from its special correspon' dent. The story was gleaned [mm some of the non-commissione~l officers on the N ile gunboats, who got it from the men who actually engaged. inthis Piece of diplomatic barbarism. The day after the Omdurman battle, where the dervishes died in their thousands, Major Gordon, they say, went on board one of the gunboats, and then took with him a smah‘ party of Royal Marine artillerymen to the land. None of the Egyptians on board were taken. “They chatter too much,” explained a sergeant. “When you have experience of them they are a poor race of beings. A dervish is in all parts altogether more of a man. The Egyptian cannot stand. alone.” The Male party marched directly to file tomb of the Maihdi. The tomb was described as "like a big square barn, built of half-baked bricks and slabs of mud mortar.” It had a round dome on the top, which had been so worked as to [it the square building below. ,The body of the Mahdi lay on what the artillery- men termed "an erection,” perhaps half the height of a man, set up in the middle oi the tomb. It had an encircl- ing rail made with pieces of brass tak- en from English implements or furni- ture, and was decorated with other trinkets, perhaps RELIGIOUS SYMBOLS. The body was wrapped in white and colored cloth, sewn together.‘ “But whether it had been embalmed,” said another of the artillerymen, “I could not say, having no experience of how bodies look after undergoing that pro- Nobody cared to describe what hap- pened inside the tomb. “That is a matter for those in authority,” one was told. However, it was presently saidthat the order was given to take the body from where it Lay and to sever the head from the trunk. “The corporal went to that end. On lifting the head it broke clean away from the body, and he held it in his hands.” The body was then wrapped upw weighed and carried across the three miles that lay between the tomb and the Nile and at once cast into the river. “I never heard that anything was seen of it again,’f_ said one artilâ€" leryman, "and the fact is it must have been washed away along” the bed of the river,” Another added that the dervishes are, of course, essentially superstitious,-- and that they might in the future, no doubt, be imposed on by the production of another dead body, “But,” he added, “whatever may be said of the body, they will never get the head of their Mahdi.” “What became of the head ?” “It is a very short story. The head N. G. J. MCKECHNIE. THE MAHDI’S REMAINS. We beg to inform our customers and the public generally that. we was carried on board the zunboat and put into an empty kerosene canâ€"one of these square cans, you know, that oil is kept in. It ggppped there a few V‘- â€" -"v -â€" days. The other officers used to come aboard and say, ‘Gordon, show us that head.’ and the corporal, under orders, would. then lift it out. None of them would. touch it. It was not nice. I might say that the Mahdi must have “W _A FEARFULLY UGLY MAN. The lower jaw protruded further than in any man I have ever seen. The forehead was not partioularly highâ€"- for an Arab. His hair was jet black, The lower part of one side of the face was goneâ€"decayedâ€"and we took off part of his heard. It is here in East- ney. I how a piece myselfâ€"a fine glossy, black, apparently the hair 0 a man in his prime. “After“the head had remained a few days in the can a wooden box” was made, and it was packed in that. It was sent to Cairo for despatoh to Eng- land, and but for the discussion in Parliament it would, no doubt, have been on view before now in some mu- A--. Grandmama had been explaining to ‘the little girl how our earth is kept ; from flying off into infinite space by gthe attraction of the sun, which is iconstantly trying to draw the earth i toward itself, while the latter always keeps its distance. Grandmama, said the little girl. I ‘should think the sun would get dis- ‘couraged after awhile and let go. vvvâ€" 'â€" seum or 'a_x'1oth;er.v The War Office, I should think, will know where that box is. I must say no more.” After the body of the Mahdi. had been “disinterred” and disposed of his tomb was destroyed. Lyddite wee used, as it is still necessary to note the action of that exylosive owing to the sometimes peculiar conduct of lyddite shell. “So that we had an ex- periment of two kinds,” said one of the artillerymen‘ “We experimented in religion on the ‘poor Mahdi,’ and in gunnery we tried on his tomb. It cer- tainly seems a little above the mark to try conclusions with a dead body.” BAD FOR THE OTHER FELLOW. Bilkins is a man who has absolutely the poorest taste of anybody I ever knew. How’s that? - He gave his divorced wife a book entitled How to Manage a Husband. as a wedding present when she got married the second time. In some countries attempts have been made to prevent sandy soil from blowing about by growing upon it plants which tend to form a sod and hold the sand in place In New South W'ales horses grazed on this kind of orop_ were so seriously injured a-..) “Du“ VAvr Vâ€" v .â€" by eating large quantities. of'sand that they died According to a foreign exchange re- cent. experiments carried out at the ma chine- works of Offenbach, show that with the proper appliances it is pos- sible to stop even n. fly Wheel within a fraction of a second. By means of two brakes affixed to the fly wheel of 150 horse power, m'nking 80 revolu- tions per minute, the “whole of the machinery was brought to a standstill II__. m lggvl‘fiafi"; 'ée'ca‘fid’ after the fly wheel had accomplished one quarter at a revolution.” SAND INJURIOUS TO HORSES. STOPPING A FLY \VHEEL. MIG HT GET TIRED.