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"0.? N96 0 WV“? w,» x (J k3 is growing and u naturally your hands. ds and can ’Prices ! cked .ntlv better than any- Ceyloya >me >TS went up. Those the low prices Blankets. his r. only $1 MADE nor is as we are to ’s, \Vomen’s SHOE MAN. and Without “x?” é”, 5"]; ‘V‘ “#1,..an Wm. Sax. .91 ’15? {$3. .8 ac _ (to m\ unrest y mi Residence a. short distance Office 3 e35: of Kinxpps 3.0161 We" 1‘0“" low Office hogging? m [2 to '2 O flock... Officezâ€"Fxrst door east of the Dur- pm Pharmacy: Calder’s Block. Residences-:l‘xf‘st door west of the A general 0d» Drafts Banking b issued and or- 311 Pdnw' Deposits usiness transact- oollections made rescued and in- at current rates. ._.- 90.5; Office. Durham. Any amount. m’m‘m property- ARR 15'] F R. Solicitor, etc . Molntyres Block. Lower Town. Collection and Agency pr ompL. 5' attended to. Seuohes made who Rchiry Uflice. UGH MackAY, Durham, Land Valu- , anorand Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Grey. Sales promptly attended to sad notes cashed. AMES CARSON, Durham, Licensed : Auctioneer for the County of Grey Land Valuator, Bailiff at the 2nd Division Court Sales and all other matters promptly {tended toâ€"highest references furnished if required. 035 QUEEN, ORCHARDVILLE, has Q resumed his old business, and is prepar edtoloan any amount of money on real estate Old mortgages paid ofi on the mostliberalterms. Fire and Life Insur- ancesetfectedin the best Stock Companies At lowest rates. Correspondence to Orchardville, P. 0.. or a. call solicited The "Chronicle? is the only IQ-Page Locati. hewsparer 111 Western mnarlo, Youthful Recklessness. IR. J AMIES DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. ’” Ills These conquerors of hndncy ' healthy making the rising generatzon strong. 0:111. G. Grisman, 505 Adelaide 5?... London. “I“ says; (1 ‘ Ydluthter. now :3 years old, has hi "3k k‘dncys since infancy, 9nd her health as I (inn.-- _- m..- ‘ Conseo gel AI}. ““““““““ ' "'"' â€"" "' Two hex” AL» ..as aiways been poor. err 05 Boat: 5 Kidn yPins have removed he. ,YSF'mf‘Om of kidney trouble,and restored rm; “0 Form. ~ health. I am truly thankful for he 5““ benefit. they have conferred upon high: miles due east, over the monn~ tains from Oatores Station, on the Mexican National Railway, is a city “Orig Whose steep, winding streets 110 “'heleed vehicle has ever been known ‘0 pass, although: it has a population Of 40,000 people. The city takes its name. from once being the stronghold and DI'Opemy of 14 or the most desper- W3 and successful: robbers that ever I . h . _ md tribute on roads in Memco. They discovered and for many years work- e‘.’1 the rich deposits of silver that “Wild there. Strange to say, every me.“ Of .nmcihinery, every pound Of fre‘gbt and every passenger t0 and from Catores is transported to-day, 35 It” c(mtnries past, either on the backs 0‘5 men on mules. The streets are all “Wed. and run up and down hill, many of- ‘hem at. an angle of- 45 degrees. ’AMES BROWN, Issuer ot Marriage Licenses.Durham Ont. ARRISTER, Solicitor. etc. Ofllce over ’ Goriou’s new Jewellery store, Lower DR. T. G. HOLT, L. D. S. {“1 Author The natural exuberance of youth often leads to reckless- ness. Young people don’t take care of themselves, get over-heated, catch cold, and allow it to settle on the kid- . neys. They don't realize the . significance of' backacheâ€"- i think it will soon pass away-â€" but it doesn't. Urinary Trou- bles come, then Diabetes, Bright’s Disease and shattered health. A young life has been sacrificed. Any help for it 9 Yes! . SAVINGS_B_ANK. Medical Directory , v r’ .: flowed on Savings Bank de- jcs of $1 and upwaydos. Prompt enrion and evgry faculty .afford- customers livmg at a dlstance, J. KELLY. Agent. G. LEFROY MCCAUL. Legal Dzrectory. SO ’WHEELED VEHICLE. J. P. TELFORD. )1 ascell aneous . DENTIST. z of money to loan at. 5 per cent. AAA AAA Bank of Banada Agency. RHEUVDHUHHUIBIH however natural or commonplace a thing may be, we have only to sur- round it- with an air of mystery and it is instantly invested with an irre- sistible charm and a force of attrac- tion, that subdues even the most in- different, writes an English lady. Cur- iosity, that merciful characteristic which enables us in our deepest sor- rows to take an interest in the af- fairs of our neighbor, reaches great heights even when means of its gra; tification are at hand. But when there are difficulties in the way, if our crav- ing are satisfied in only slight de- grees, if there is something still left in suspenseâ€"if tradition, taking ad- vantage of the popular credulity, hints at horrors without unveiling themâ€" . this indeed is more than sufficient to iawaken within the larger portion of mankind that master-passion of the world. Life within the closed walls of a harem furnishes a good example of what is mysteriously commonplace, for here no newspapers reveal the domes- tic drama of the’ Seraglio, as at homei they cast publicity on each lengthy; lawsuit or breach of promise case; so that the imagination, unhampered by facts, may range at will over thoughts of women sewn up in sacks and built into walls, children bowstrung and dis- appearing in the Nile, or a husband here and there suffocated among cush- ions by half a.‘ dozen of his jealous wives. All these things may, for aught we know, go on in harems, but the one we visited, presented no tragedy of any kind to the outward eye, although it could hardly fail to afford most abun- dant interest to any human creature of Western nationality, from the single fact that nothing, from eating and walking, to feeling and thinking, is done there as we do it. This harem, in which we spent acou- ple of days, stood a few miles out of Cairo, in the center of a. large, wall- surrounded garden, planted with date palms, olive trees, orange groved, with melon and gourd beds running among them. The owner of. this house, a wealthy! Turk, was so courteous as to meet his? guests at the village of Zâ€"â€", about! a mile from his residence, where he‘: mounted us upon large white asses,i richly trapped in crimson and gold,, 1 horseback, making in all a goodly com- pany' and suggestive of something out‘ of the Old Testament. On arriving atl the harem garden 'we were admitted. into its paradise of shade and rest by}; a heavy doorway, and a venerable old} potentate who had headed our proces- sion, on an ass, and at this juncture our bodyguard abandoned us, remain- ing without the walls, while we were‘ left, to make our way alone toward the group of women whom we saw ap- rproaching by the stone-flagged walk ' that led to the house. They were eviâ€"i dently the wives of our friend, whose in a slight dgree the interest 'we had: These ladies were dressed in loose gowns of figured cotton, red and yel- low shoes, without heels, and scarfs of all colors. Some of the younger ones were handsome, being not much brownâ€" er in the face than those of Spanish ori- gin, while their marvelously erect fig- ures gave them an appearance of great dignity. One of the ladies present, Mirza by name, a niece of the Turk’s, who had been born in Constantinople, was much more highly educated than many large rooms on the ground floor, all of‘ which were empty except’ the in- nermost chamber. Here we found a fat old lady sitting on a low bench, and eating them, mouthful about, a child. At her feet on the floor, sit-: ting in the most perfectly graceful pose; with her baby on her knee, was the beautiful Circassian wife of one of the Pasha’s sons. The old lady told us, through Mirza, that her name was “ Jessamine, the sweetness upon the walls of the home.” This on. the top of sliced onions was a little hard of r, and bracelets d heavier than ountry. DURHAM CHRONICLE, November 23, 1899 ’here we found ms, our friends ntents of abOX Constantinople before. It was full of curiosities to them, because some of the things in it had belonged to one of the wives of Myirza’s father, and she, vâ€" â€"â€"--â€"-â€" w mwva, auu Duo, we are told, had been half a European. It contained worn caps; gauze scarfs, and gold-embroidered dresses. The lady to whom all these treasures had; belonged was a certain Princess A., who must have possessed a very re- markable individuality, as she succeed- ed in escaping from the conventional limits of her husband’s house; the bravery of this step can only be ap- pu‘eciated by those who have seen something of the extraordinary restric- tions among the upper classes in har- em life. ' Although we would like to have known many details of her story, even the simple facts, are sufficiently 211:? teresting to bear repetition here. Prin-3 cess A. was the only child of a Turk and an Austrian lady; she had pass- ed her earliest years in considerable freedom, as her mother had been her father’s only wife they did not live in a harem, but mixed unveiled in Con- stantinople society. Here, after her par- ents died, she met the Turkish officer to whom she betrothed herself, agree- ing to marry him on the understand- ing that she was to be his only wife. ‘Vhen the ceremony was over she < was taken to his house, and very soon : made the distressing discovery that he I had several wives besides herself. Mirâ€" 1 za’s mother being among the number. : 1:1118 piece of deception, considering her : llberal upbringing, naturally put an : end to‘ all respect and affection on her Slde, and she resolved to leave him if , possible, and seek the protection of European friends for herself, "and with their assistance try to recover some of her money, of which she had about £1,500 a year. How Princess A. escap- she remembered only the awed con- sternation and murmured unbelief as the news of the flight was whispered among them. She knew that the es- .cape must have been made during the Inight, and that help must have been given from wi‘Rin as well as from\ without, as she believed it impossible 1for her to make her way unaided $through the dozens of sleepers who would line the path between her and {freedour If the harem in Constanti- ‘nople in which she fled contained any- thing like the amount of human be- ings that we found under the same roof with Mirza, her escape must have been a work of amazing enterprise. For here there were about forty women, at least two dozen men servants, and more children than one could countzl 2 and it must be remembered that they' | don’t sleep in rooms with a shut door, {past which the quiet, collected fug1-1 itive might slip and gain the garden _!without detection, but their Wleel‘ beds are placed everywhereâ€"in doorâ€" ‘tless rooms, blocking the passages, 1n i rows round the courtyard, as sentinels ;;on the flat roof, and outposts in the igarden. She would have to thread her lway through this labyrinth of reclin- 'ging humanity in the hot darkness of ‘!_LL l the house, and outside under the light} r of a moon that would throw a. fearful' [ glare on the sleepers in this gardenl I full of senseless shades. She managed s to escape, however, and nothing isleft e of her except the old camel’s hair box. I the worn dresses. the faded scarfs and‘ c her story, which will doubtless be I handed down from generation to gen-it eratlon as a warning against rebellion,i in women. We were glad to learn from; E Mirza that the Pr’ncess A. recovered. some of her money through English in-- c fluence, and continued to live in unveil-i t ed freedom! until her death, which tooki place a few years ago in Constanti-l: nople. She had felt and suffered more,: 1 we hope, than falls to the lot of most' harem ladies from the unfortunate cir- cumstance that she had been brought up to enjoy and expect too much. Af- ter hearing this tale of rebellion we marveled at the expression of quiet pleasure apparent on the faces of those around us, for they seemed to be profoundly happy in performing the simplest and humblest laws of exist- ence. The very reason of this placid contentment and indifference is one of the saddest features of their case, for their happiness under the circum- stances in which they vegetate at the despotic will of others is in itself a. degradation, and until the news is reâ€" vealed to them that there are things in life beyond those which at present satisfy every desire of their hearts, there is little hope that they“. will have even the wish to aid in any movement for their emancipation that might be started by their fellow-women in VVest- l I 4 ‘ern countries, who enjoy the liberty of body and mind that is withheld from ‘them. They seem to be able alone to .- their own a \V V. VI 0 “I " u 1" make no greater effort toward happi- ness than that which is required by' the feeble exertion necessitated in eatâ€" ing. dressing and sleeping. ‘Ve also in the drowsy warmth might I have arrived at a state of similar but for the mental anxiety that must ever attend uncertainty as spout of running water. . 1engthy business, as, In addition to‘ ‘ blutions, two or three doz- ad to be caught and scrub bed, though this operation after their capture was attended with less diffi culty, than at first would be suppos- en children h a plate during 1 . bein consi 3 not g nter of the table stood ur . In the ce . a gage bowl full of white soup, from which everybody ate, taking as many spoonfuls as they chose from the com-E1 mon tureen with the long-handledYI wooden ladles provided for each guestgt When this was removed a large piecegc of meat boiled to rags, took its place,l« and was speedily diminished under the; * violent treatment it received from usy all, each one pulling a lump of meati: from the joint with the fingers, andi: eating it off her own flat scone. \\’e§« then had a curry of vegetables, fol-i: lowed by the Zagazig pudding, fruit; and rice, called so from a native of that? . village having brought the recipe to! the harem. Our meal was concluded; by coffee, made in a corner of the! room over red-hot charcoal in a copâ€"g per pot, and poured thick into small? glasses fitted in gold filagree cups! The lady who made this rather dis-z agreeable beverage was the same who! had removed the center dishes during. rdinner; she was black as a coal and, bore the delightfully descriptive name, translated to us, of Lily in the Desert. \Vhen we had washed our hands in the basin handed\ rouml for the purpose,‘ everybody went to bed, some to the roof, others to the court. garden or house. It was a very hot night, with a glorious full moon, and we asked to have our beds placed outside at a short! distance from the harem buildings, the stones of which seemed never to cool day or night. There was such alux- uriance of growth around; the very- shadows were weighted with fruit. and looked in their immovable black- ness as if glued to the ground. We stretched ourselves on the wick- er beds, resolved to close our eyes to these fascinating distractions, bul were assailed by a whirl of midges, gnats, mosquitoesâ€"goodness knows whatâ€"that attacked from below, above, in every conceivable direction, and angrily drove us to the house. W'c climbed to the roof of the building to other wicker beds, but the countless millions of ants creeping over the stonework, round the wicker beds, up their legs and ours, without respect] of person, reduced us to a state of mind bordering upon distraction, and forced us to descend to the house and the commonplace expedient of sleeping in a room. The chamber which they kind- ly put at our disposal was a large room, and we slept till Lily in the Des- ert came to rouse us with the words, “ There is no God but one God, and prayer is better than sleep.” We awoke speedily to the plainful consciousness that we were in for a bad ‘day. This means .here, instead of rain and an easterly haar, the excessive heat that is brought by their kamseen wind. The sun blazed fiercely all day, and looked far away through the clouds of stinging hot sand and dust-blown against, under and through every possible hole and crevice in the shel- ters erected to protect man and beast. ‘tv-v VIâ€"vvvv“ " râ€" _____ . Our kind hostesses, doubtless notic- mg the state of liquid stupefaction to Which their kamseen Wind had blown us, proposed that a story-teller should be brought. ”When awaiting his arâ€" rival Mirza asked if we had such peo- ple in England. We told her that the pepulation at home consisted largely of story-tellers, but that they did it gen- erally unconsciously, and never took it up as a regular profession in our their own servants ; he sat cross-legged in a corner of the room and. commenc- ed to gesticulate and roar in an unâ€" known tongue, to the great interest of everybody present, ourselves includ- ed. 'i‘his story, which appeared to take as long in the recital of. events as in their perfqrmanee, reducegl the man to â€"...1 $1.”. LUULL rVALv. a“..- v a state of great exhaustion, and the sight of him made us ten times hot- ter than we had been before. As it came to ‘an end, however, we were re- NJ}. J. MaKechniB. H. G. J. MCKECE We beg to inform our customers and the public generally that we have adopted the Cash System, which means Cash or its Equiv- alent, and that our motto will be “ Large Sales and Small Profits.” We take this Opportunity of that the new system will merit a continuance 01 the same. Adopted by 8 :freshed by the otficially announced Tnews that the Pasha our father had Ecome to drive us back to the regions 30f plates and forks, high collars. tight !dresses and bareâ€"faced women. \Ve iwere about to enter again that society iWhere ceaseless change and progress 3 are the order of the day. It can never girom that reason offer anything very goriginal in the way of a curiosity, so grelentless is the tide that bears us :along. How full of pity then must ;our gratitude be to those who afford '; us the incalculable interest of remain- ing always the same! As we left the ii harem garden we turned in the thick '3 heat to look back on the house shroud- .? ed in flying sand and dust, a somber .§ spot mu of childish human beings, '1 their bodies allowed no liberty. the ex- ”; istence of their souls, a disputed point, I; yet still retaining, because indestruc- l' tible, through generations of coercion .‘and injustice, that most rare of hu- - man virtues, contentment, and that 5. most precious of divine attributes, love. Ile Displayed Both Bravery and “mum: at. Ft. Clarence. Here is the story of.- a Transvaal spy that well illustrates the shrewdness 1nd pertinacity which have made the Boer such a tactful, and able enemy in the present war. It was just! be-\ fore the erection of the Johannesburg torts. The spy was ordered to report on the defenses of Chatham. While employed in collecting materi- als he came upon. a certain secret sub- terranean passage conneciing Ft. Pitt withâ€"somewhere. He tried hard to find out where that “somewhere” might be, but without avail. Rumor said it was Ft. Clarence. But Ft. Clar- ence was thenâ€"and is now, for that matterâ€"used as a provost prison, and access to its Interior was strictly proâ€" hibited. “L IJ-VV\.-. One way of getting within the walls there was, and the spy took it: He com- mitted a somewhai serious offense against military discipline, for which he was reduced to the ranks and imâ€" prisoned, - As he had foreseen, hewas consigned to F}. Clarence. 1 ,I,__.1_ v'_â€"_ The Provost Sergeant in charge kept rabbits, which were shut up at night in a sort of underground pzsssage that opened into the moatâ€"at least, so the Other prisoners affirmed. The spy in- gratiated himself with the warders, and after a week or two he was taken off sihot drill and promoted to the post of rabbit keeper in ordinary to the Provost Sergeant aforesaid. He looked carefully and conscientiously after his four-footed charges. In fact, he spent the greater part of his timecleaning out and whitewashing their under- ground apartment, with the result that, on his release, he was able to for. ward full plans and details to Pretoria, That. little boy: of BlL‘nx’s is 8. won. derfully bright chap. The one who recited? Yes. . Dime of the brightest children 1 ever meet. I’ll bet; that when he' gets to ‘be as old as his father he'll be too smart to make his children get up and speak What did she say when that man asked her to take her _big hat_9ff§ pieces. Wnnv xâ€" She remarked that she would have liked to take his big head off for him AIN APPRECIATIVE COMMENT. AFTER THE PLAY. A BOER SPY. and (tumult