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Kip Iversation- me of the eomments. Goods we 8 and in- ml’a ; week ',' Boots r3 WhiCh and can- »ure and ’epcchlty. of goods Vests Lined w has) v“? .mA. 29%.» V70 N71 vs? S4 S! meet 12â€"io '2 Town ARR 15'] ER. Solicitor. Blocx. Lower Town. Agency p: ompciy attended t< an the Redstry Umce. l1 auor and DICE County of Grey. to and notes cashe W05 AM ES. CARSON, Durham, Licensed a} Auczioneer for the County of Grey Land Valuator, Bailiff oi the 2nd DiVision Court Sales and all other matters promptly attended toâ€"‘nighest references furnished if required. 10H) QUEEN, ORCHARDVILLE, has a resume“: hi< old business, and is prepar edto 10an any amount. of money on real estate 01d mortgages paid 05 on the mostliberalterms. Fire and Life Insur~ ancesefl'eozedin the best Stock Companies 3: lowest rates. Correspondence to Orcmrdvilie, P. 0. . or a. call solicited an 9.” h (1 v Westéi'n untario. Anether permanent can by 8.8.3. after two doctors failed. Ask any doctor and he will tell you :,hat next to cancer, scrofula is one of the hardest diseases to cure. Yet Burdock Blood Bitters applied externally to the parts affected and taken internally cured Rev. ‘Wm. Stout, of Kirkton, Ont. , permanently, after many prominent physicians failed: Cured Mrs. W. Bennet, of at“? AMES BROWN, Issuer of Marriage Licenses.Durham Ont. ARRISTER, Solicitor, Gorion’ s new jewell 0mm: 393d P. Toronto. REID. .( A-_A‘ t: m (I) The "Chronicle” is the only rue Local Newsparer in Li G HT HOUSEKEEPING. A “town who lives in one room and ‘dow i'ght housekeeping has hit up- on :1 2.1111 for cooking without leaving odors in her tiny domain. A strong pine FaCking box has been firmly screw- N to the outside of the window. The WP is slanting and is covered With ‘1” liapt‘r. Ihe sides are perforated by bgies an inch in diamter, to carry off Odors and steam. On the lower. shelf 0f the fvindow to be closed during the cookmg. On the upper shelf are the Cooking utensils. d mauve Medical Directory. IGH MachAY, Durham, Land Valu- ator and Licensed Auctioneer ‘for the W of Grey. Sales promptly attended Scrofula. The richest milk is that which comes “W the Close of the milking. A test dlglob‘ed that the first half pint of mm at amilking contained only 1.07 P?” cent. of cream, while the last half pun confiined 1C.36 per cent. Legal Dzrecto'ry. DENTIST. ' ‘9) 'TELFORD. 71 zscell aneous . up 5 LLULGL, u.~__--_ Town Office hours from money to loan at 5 per Solicitvr. etc. McIntyres er Town. Collection and amended to. Searches made HOLT, L . RIC BEST MILK. Bianagel'. A O‘ ency. .icit-or, etc. Office over jewellery more, Lower :e a short distance limel. Lampton of Banada gsiness. transact- oollgctlons mafia received and m- AN ACT OF PROV' DENCE. “Yes,” cried my friend Amory, as he rose to go, “the whole world is run :by chance, and no one can make me thtnk differently." We had been spending an evening at whist, and now that the game: was over, we four had enjoyed 21 80:31:11 cigar before separating. The talk had turned upon serious matters, and Amory, an Agnostic, had advanced his favorite theory that everything was governed by chance alone. Clark, who had studied for the minis- try, but was now in business, had oom- ‘oated with him for a vigorous half- hour, and as the night was old, and we were about to part, it was evident from Amory’s last remark that he had not been convinced. “For myself,” said I, also rising, “I have listened to you hoch, and have said nozhing; but if you will come Lo my rooms to-morrow night, I agree to tell you a story that bears; upon the matter, and then you can bet'tep de- cide which theory is the right one." It was agreed, and the next. nxght, after a. httle supper, my three friends settled themselves about my open fxre and told me to begin. “You will remember my brOther-in- law, Merriam, of the navy“? Well, thirteen years ago he Was in! Paris, on leave. (He had a good-looking, smart valet, 'for he knew but little of the customs of the country, and need- ed some one to assist him, and he thought he had a most desirable ser- vant, until one night he woke to see the fellow at his cash-box, with a {dark lantern at one side. “(Merriam is of good size, and it was evident that he was about overpower- ing the valet when the fellow stab- bed him and slipped from his grasp out of the door and escaped. The I wound was nm a bad one, and as he “Ned did not wait, but springing from his bed be seized the' man, and they had a hand-to-hand struggle in the dark, for the lantern was overturn- ed the first thing. had in turn given the thief. a good? pounding he did not follow. ‘ "Upon examining his cash-box, he found that the man had only taken some two hundred francs and a hand- some meerschaum pipe that he had re- cently bought, and feeling himself a stranger in a strange land, he con- cluded to call the matter square and not go to the police at all, which con- clusion he followed, and never saw his valet in France again. “When he returned home, natural- ly he told of the experience and de- scribed the pipe to me, as. it was .a curious one, and seemed to be the thing that he most regretted losing. ._..3 “It was a Turk’s head, small, and with flowing hair and beard, with the mouth open,- as if laughing, and in the back of the mouth the artist. had in- serted one small, gold tooth that could only be seen if you knew. where to look for it. “It was just the sort of thing a .VV.’ -'â€" “It was just the sort of thing a| naval officer would fancy and spend| his money for, and, as 1 say, it “avas' the one article that Ned most seemed% to miss by the robbery. ‘ ”Five years after the occurrence that i I have related, an old client of mine introduced to me a gentleman one day by the name of Dupray. He was a Frenchman, who had come to England ‘ to engage in business, and in some way had become acquainted with Mr. Leroy. “Leroy was a merchant, rich, queer, and with no family but his daughter. lNow, this daughter, strangely enough was entirely opposite to her father. “He was homely, she was beautiful; he was queer and rough, she was one of the sweetest women that I ever had the good fortune to meet; he wanted ’ ' and she was will- ing to do DIS wm 11.1 mm, ya; not...“ I but one, and in that l upheld her against her father, and to his dis- “Sh-e wanted to marry a young man who was a duetor in a neighboring town, while her father desired that she should make a grand match with some one who should ra 8: her from the level on which she was born. “No amount 01' argument on my part as an old friend, could change Leroy, and the sub Ject had been dropped be- tween us, but I knew that Marcia, for ‘so the daughter was named, seldom saw her lover, and then only in secret, and that the father waited his chance a rich, or at least, a {high- LA-.. canâ€"in-la\v at the first Opporâ€" THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, November 2, 1899 she wxll, of course, .id I, knowmg how :rol over her, and she had given the ‘What does she gs her old daddy. She refuses, unless I can produce what she calls proofs of the high standing of Dupray, and he has_ sent to France for the papers.’ momentfafid then “ ‘W’as the wedding to have been at once, before she made thxs aemand 3’ “ ‘That’s it. I wanted her to. have him, and he wanted her an once, for we were to go to the Contlnent togeth- erâ€"and make the wedding trip a sort of business trip, too. Butâ€"confound itâ€"you know the girl, and she has sim- ply backed out until the papers come. It’s all right, though, and in two weeks the matter w_i_ll be arranged.’ “ ‘Better have the settlement drawn whle you are waiting. J. suppose you intend to give Marcia everything, and you might make the will, and then have Dupray SLgIl the settlement, or at least have it all' drawn up so that it can be signed when the time comes. I am free to tell youl ‘that I ‘want to draw that paper, for while your for- eign son-in-Law may be the best! fel- low in the world, and willing to prom- ise everything HOW. I am going to put British law about his neck, so that he will have to keep his promise by- and-by if he should want to change 1315 mind.’ ’ “The old man laughed. “ ‘1 knew you we‘re always in favor of that young doctor, and he’s a good enough fellow, but now that a better -_ ._.A â€" '._v FCâ€" nmn has come along and wants. my girl, and she is willing, he’s going to have her. But it’s right that every- thing should be done in proper form, and ['11 bring Dupray down in a day or two and we’ll fix the things up.’ VL yvv “Three days later. one afternoon, Le- roy and the Frenchman came into the office. Dupray wass as polite as one could ask, and yielded a quick consent to all the suggestions I made with re- lation to the papers to be executed: but, somehow as I began to write, I felt that he was not friendly with me, and that he laid it at my door that these papers were being brought to a head so certainly before the mar- riwge. .- 1- A. L “-1-..“ a Inni- “I cagjmted a little, .and' then “You may be sure that wnen wan. idea took possession of my mind, I «was stubborn enough to determine that the papers should be drawn and Slgn- _ _A-â€"- -. --l\'\n(‘ U-lv :v‘£-'â€",' ed that day; and when Leroy propos- ed that they should leave mu to my writing, while they went and had a smoke, I said: “ ‘No, smoke here; and then when I want you to sign 1 shall not have to run after you.’ “And they sat down again. “Leroy took out some Cigars, and of- fered one to the Frenchman and one to me. I declined, as 1 do .not like to smoke and work, and the Frenchman ‘declined, saying that he preferred a} pipe, produced from his inside pocket a handsome meerschaum, and proceed- ed to fill and light it. “Remember that this was more than five years since my brother-in-law had told me of his foreign experience, and I doubt if I had thought of it even for half that tlme ”VVell, the two men smoked and I wrote, but all the time with that un- easy Keeling that sometimes comes whmn vou are not 1n accord with your “Well, the two men smoxeu anu .l wrote, but. all the time with that un- easy {eeling that sometimes comes when you are not in accord with your surroundings, and it was with satis- fzaction that after an hour I complet- ed the firm draft of the paper and laid down my pen to read it' to the high contracting parties. “As I turned in my chair with the agreement in my hand, Leroy threw away the stub of his third cigar, while the Frenchman removed his pipe from ,his lips and drew nearer to me to Iiis- 115' to the legal bars that he knew? I was preparing to keep him out of the money, I telt pleased to think that it was so, and perhaps my 1 face showed a trace too much of that , pleasure. H Q U C :5 .1 (b H C: , _- .MnA fkn man rpnian- “As I began [0 ed his PlPe i‘P‘ - pltfiabuuc. “As I began to read, the man replac- ed his pipe in his mouth, and from time to time blew clouds of soft, aro- matic smoke in my face,; but as l was a smoker myself, I determined not to allow this to disconcert me, as I had no doubt he intended it to do, but .read steadily on. \Vhen an agreement had been covered, 1 would pause and look at Leroy for I118 approval, then con- tinue to read “At one of these pauses, for no my eyes turned upon the pipe held loosely in the French- . , L- nnr 1;ann;nf" at mV UBCU UUVCLUu, â€" . at Leroy for hisapprhval, then con- tinue to read “At one of these pauses, for no known reason, my eyes turned upon the pipe held loosely in the French- man’s hand as he sat listening at my 1 side, and my heart leaped into my very ‘ mouth as I saw that it was a :Turk’s head small and With flowing hair and heard, with an open, laughing mouth, wherein gleamed a single small, gold tooth. f‘I’t was the pipe that my brother-in- Law had described to me as having been stolen by his valet. “‘May I see your handsomepipe 2’ udied the face of the French- . ‘It certainly is a beautiful one, and very odd. Where did you find _L LL... :AI‘A‘IY hogifnffidi -V “For an Instant the Ieuow DCSLLaLcu, his mouth twitching, then he handed the pipe to me, replying: based it, in Paris some years rlend who imports them. ”t," ' . , 1 $3.10 IOI'. J. .u'cvcg e like it, and that belonged tenant Mer- naV a1 officer, Lieu to a It w as stolen from him, I think u . , g In PEI-115° . 2.-.... flomot‘ ;n an In- group. I looked up in sur .ould speak, the newcomer said:~ _ . 1-..... nfit' h11+ I do. SaLfli‘ ~ ‘No, Felix, he does net; but I do. This is my pipe, and this is the man And wi . the article in question. you kindly call the police T “It; was unnecessary. With a sin- ed curse, the Frenchman I could rise from my chair, ' m, home unexpectedly on acessary. With a sin- 1rse, the Frenchman uld rise from my chair, home unexpectedly on the fellow hesitated; Lnsz. then he handed flamed in an in- do you accuse me ’ Do you call me leave, turned to grasp my hand, with a laugh, saying :f "‘H‘Bv} I ' trfghtened that rascal! What was he doing here ?’ “ ‘Only some busmess with my (mend, Mr. Leroy, here,’ said I, with 9. meaning look at the old merchant; ‘but I think we are well rid of him, and shall not seek to follow him. )V’as it not strange that you should have happened to come in at the very mo- ment when I had told him' that the pzpe was similar to the one which you lost? A: lucky chance, I call itâ€"’ “‘No, sir, it'was no chance,’ inter- rupted Mr. Leroy, but an act of Pro- vidence direct to prove to me. that I am- an old fool, and to "save my .glrlJ Hamilton, you may tear those papers? up. My Marcia will marry the man of her choice, if she marries at all. Good- day 1, 9D Travelled 280 Yards and 60 Feet When‘t] the Ilachlne Collapsed. “ t< Mr. Percy S. Pilcher, a young Eng-1 8 lish inventor, has just met his death”! like the German, Otto Lilienthal, 2, through the collapse of a flying ma- p chine. 'He was only 30 years of age, d had been an officer in the Royal Navy, 2’ and, for some time, had been Mr. Hir- f am, 8. Maxim’s assistant in his ex- t periments in aerial navigation, Mr. l Pilcher had already" made several ma- ] chines, on the lines worked upon by Lilienthal, before the one that prov- ed fatal to him, and had worked out plans for propelling them by oil en- gines. His experiment was made at Lord Braye‘s country place near Mar- ket Harborough, in the presence of. several persons, and demonstrated, his machine could be started from the ground and would stay up in the air for a time. A description of the apâ€". , ‘paratns and of the accident is given‘ a in Engineering. t “In the soaring experiments the‘ : propulsion of the machine was effect- , ed by a line dragged by a running 3 horse, with a losing purchase to gain velocity. The experimenter at first ran, carrying the soarer, and as the velo- city increased he was elevated along with the soarer. He had command of F; a life rope which he could slip if ne- '0 cessary and then soar down to the .n ground. The sonrer consists of two a [strong windâ€"like concave membranes ‘IIAJ -‘nmnv\‘0nflk‘ 0 ANOTHER FLYING MAN KILLED. H‘vrv wv ing in the vertical plane. There were six cordage guys from the upper edge of the tailpiece to the heads of two masts, which rose from the framed body of the soarer. \Vhen in flight the legs and body of the aeronaut were quite free, and his weight was su-p-g Iported on his elbows only. The proper: lengths of the guys for the tailpiece were determined and fixed unalter- ably before leaving the ground. and any modification of slope required dur- ing flight was effected by the aeron- 'aaut muscularly' altering the position of his centre of gravity in relation to the soarer. The weight of the man and the vertical pressures on the aero- Adapted by plane an a continuously d on the upward tail formed 'balanood, but also com tinnously varying set of forces, and all the time there was the horizontal pull‘ of _t.he gropelling rope. ___- -H-nmnfc f0 start Itering the soil and turning over. The gpoor aeronaut, entangled among the icordage, the framing and the silk,had gboth legs fractured and his skull con- '- tused, so that he never recovered con- isciousness and died on Monday morn- ing. . “What really occurred is supposed to be that, desiring to descend, Mr. Pilcher shifted himself forward to de- press the fore edge of the aerOplanes, and a greater surface of the tail was ithus suddenly exposed more directly to the force of the air. The soarer bein istill under propulsion, the increase ! pressure on‘ the tail broke the tail guy cords, and there being now no force to elevate the fore end, .which sup- ported the weight of the man, it sud- denly pointed earthward and fell feet. There are other hypothesesput ‘ forward to explain the accident in de- - tail: after considering them all, we think what is here stated. is what did _ really occur.” llumuu; n..- ____ in 7,000,000. A singular feature of the year’s mortality, was the number of suicides which were committed on the railway. As many as 126 persons chose this method of quitting life. The reformed prize fighter, who was conducting a Sunday School concert, rose to announce a duet. The next event, he said, will be a little go between Miss Clarissa Bond and Miss Virginia Purdy, entitled, Consider the Lilies. Time! ONE IN SEVEN MILLION ghter, who W88 School concert, Upon [118‘