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Collection and 7y p'OzxzDE ,v attended to. Searches made mini:- 1')” office. SAVINGS BANK. 9-38 conquerors of Kidney 1115 are g tl.-e rising generation healthy and ETER THE HUNTING SEASON. Durham Agency. ice and Residence a. short distance of Knapp 5 H0161, Laughton :. Lower 'l’own. Office hours from 0 o'clock. AN’S KIDNEY PILLS. G. LEFROY MCCAUL. s: allowed on Savings Bank do- 5133 of $1 and upwards. Prompt enzion and every facility afford- cuszomers living at, a. distance. J. KELLY. Agent. Medical Directory . Legal Dzreczory J. P. TELFORD. Grisman, 505 Adelaide St, London, DENTIST. 11 wall anemz \- Banking businessfiransact- i.~sued and colltfcuons made s. Deposus received and in- ad a: current rates. of money to loan at. 5 per cent. SECURE. , Toronto. R El D. Manager. Master Fox, aren’t BIG NAMES [1F HISTORY. THEY ARE ENROLLED IN QUEEN VICTORIA’S AU IOGRAPH BOOK. Signatures of Sovereigns Who llave Vlslt- ] ed Windsor Castleâ€"The QIOOI'S Grand- , chlldnn [lave a Queer name for the : Vol-me. Among the most valued treasures of a personal character belonging to f Queen Victoria is an autograph book, 1 on the pages of which are signed the ' names of all those distinguished perâ€" - sonages who have been her guests at Balmoral, Osborne, Buckingham pal- ace, and more particularly at ”Windsor, during the sixtyâ€"three years that she has occupied the throne of Great Bri- tain. To those who are aware of the existence of this volume of autographs the visit paid recently by Emperor \Villiam to his venerable grandmothâ€" er, appeals perhaps the more Strong- ly, because they know that he as well as his escort will not have been per- mitted to leave the historic castle on i the banks of the Thames without hav- iing once more inscribed their names land the date of their sojourn in that book, which, more perhaps than any lother thing comprised in so small a I compass, shows the march of time and ‘the progress of history. For a perusal of this volume serves to demonstrate above everything else the extent tot ‘twhich England’s sovereign has cut- tlived her contemporaries. It callss i forth memories of dynasties that havei ibeen overthrown and kingdoms thatl lhave disappeared, and seems to evoke; ‘the specters of a great throng of rut-I ers and of celebrated statesmen, allf 5 now in their graves, not a few of whom i ihave met with terrible deaths at the? 5 . l thands of assassms. l The visits paid by foreign rulers and by foreign statesmen to her majesty possess, thanks to her absolute and supreme control of England’s foreign POIicy far more importance than one might be disposed to accord to them at first 5; ght. For the stay at VVind- ‘sor of nearly every continental mon- arch has been follow ed b 3 political con- sequences. The course of history, in- l deed, may be said to have been largely [influenced by these visits Which the queen receives from her brother and ‘sister soviere gns. And it is this that trenders her book 01 autographs so ex- }ceptionaliy interesting. MILESTONES OF HISTORY. | The autographs may be regarded as {bearing a certain analogy to mile- ;stones, since they mark so many dif- iferen't epochs. ‘What more remark- :able, for instance, than the changes which have fallen to the share of t he reign.ng house of Prussia during the Znear sixty years intervening between Ethe visit of. King Frederic; \Viliiam l ‘ IV. to attend the baptism of the prince of Wales, and the stay of Emperor \Villiam ai‘t \Vindsor? At the time when this King was a guest of Queen Victoria, Prussia was in every sense , of the word a second rate power. Fred- erica William, in fact, was almost ab- ject in h-s subserviency to the Ger- man emperor at Vienna, and to his ibrotherâ€"in-law, Czar Nicholas I. As E far as the Imperial house of Hapsburg éwas concerned, he seemed to be un- able to forget that his ancestors had tuntil within a little more than ahun- gdred years held the position of cup- ; bearer to the Emperors at Vienna, and {been compelled to stand at state ban- quets behind the imperial chair, doing duty, if not as a menial, at any rate gas a mere vassal. 1A3 for his attitude :toward Russia he permitted himself Tto be bullied and browbeaten to such I l l 3 l I l l i i l : v â€"-â€"â€"- .â€" an extent by the czar that he did not venture to take any step, even in his own dominions. without the sanction of his imperious brother-in~law. So great was the contempt in which Prus- sia was held at the time of the con- gress of great powers held in Paris at the conclusion of the Crimean war, King Frederick \Villiam’s plenipoten- tiaries were not admitted to the meet- ing, on the ground that Prussia was not a power of sufficient importance to‘warrant her receiving any such privilege. _ A - ---.‘\n I .‘ Six years later he was a prisoner in the hands of the people of his capital and forced to pay homage to the dead bodies of the men, women and chil- dren who had been shot down by his troops. And during that time his brother. William, who eventually suc- ceeded him on the throne, was obliged to flee for his life, to England, where he in his turn, enjoyed for a time the hospitality of Queen Victoria and wrote his name in her autograph book. The closing years of the reign of King Frederick William IV. were darkened tâ€"KifiguFrederick William was at the outset of his reign when he visited Queen Victoria _at \Vindsor_ in 184.2. -‘â€"v~_-_, by insanity of the most violent des- cription. William became first King of Prussia, and then, after 1870, Ger- man emperor, appropriating at Ver- sailles a dignity which had been for centuries the most highly-prized pos- session of the house of Hapsburg. “ UNSER FRITZ.” Emperor VVilliam’s successor was that “Unser Fritz,” who was of all Queen Victoria’s sons-in-law, the one she loved best, and many were the visits which he paid to her at Balmor- al and at Windsor, one sojourn at the latter place being, however, sudden- denly interrupted by aviolent tiff be- tween his wife, the now widowed Em- press Frederlck ,and her august moth- er, on the subject of the latter’s cro- THE DURHAM CHRONICLE, December 28, 1899 chety, cranky. and terribly surly High- lagd gillie, john Brown. Emperor William II. who now vis-I its his grandmother at Windsor for the second time since his accession to the throne is, therefore, the fourth rul- er of Prussia whom she welcomes be- neath her roof tree, and she greets him no longer as the sovereign of a second or even third-rate state, but as the head of the greatest military power on the face of the globe, u hose friendship England is glad to secure at the present juflncture and who holds to a great extent at the present mo. ment the balance of power in the 01d ‘.Vorld, his understanding with Great Britain resulting in a combination so mighty as to put an end‘ to all the projects which had been entertained of a continental union against Eng- land. Truly, Prussia, has undergone many and amazing vicissitudes dur- ing the period that has intervened be- tween King Frederick ‘Villiam’s vis- it to \Vindsor in 1842, and the stay there last 'week by his grand nephew. “ope. Napoleon had until that time lbeen regarded as a mere successful conspirator who prior to his seizure of the French throne had been a dis- reputable chevalier d’industrie; while the empress was looked upon as an adventuress, concerning whose ante- lcedents the most scandalous stories 1 were current. Indeed the wars of 1855 ‘and of 1859, which resulted so disas- .trously to both Russia and Austria, Iwere largely brought about by the [contemptuous manner in which the loour‘ts of St. Petersburg and of Vien- ! na rejected all advances made to them gby Napoleon and Empress Eugenie. ;Queen Victoria was then, as now, re- fnowned for her strictness on the iscore of the character of all the wo- lmen whom she consented to admit to {her presence, and her action there- Zfore in inviting not merely Napoleon, ibut likewise, his consort, to \Yindsor, iwhere she treated them with the ut- :most distinction and regard, went so far. to improve the status and prestige : of the imperial couple both in the con- itinental courts and even in France, ,that neither of them ever forgot the ikindness of Victoria in the matter. §Indeed, as long as he remained on the ?throne, the emperor continued the . warm and ‘loyal friend of the English people. NAPOLEON’S MEMORABLE. VISIT. A. very important state visit and certainly one pregnant with great political consequences was that of Em- peror Napoleon III. and Empress Eu- genie to Queen Victoria, at \Vindsor Castle at the time of the Crimean \Var. It may be said to have constituted the first actual recognition of the emper- or, and, above all, of the empress, by any of the reigning families. of E_ur- Napoleon was not the only French monarch whom the Queen had the op portunity of welcoming at Windsor. In her visitor‘s books is likewise to be found the name of King Louis Philâ€" ippe, who stayed with her once while still ruler of France, and then sev- eral times after he had been dethronm ed and was in exile. A: POPE AND FOUR CZARS. The name of the present pope, while. still papal nuncio to the Brussels court, as well as of no less than four czars of Russia are to be found in Victoria’s autograph book. The first is that of Emperor Nicholas 1., who sud- denly arrived without warning in Eng- land to visit the queen in 1844. To this day the object of his trip remains more or less of a state secret. But it is generally believed that he came for the purpose of discovering how the ground lay 'in connection with his de- signs upon Constantinople, and that he quitted \Vindsor more or less disap- pointed by the failure of his mission. The impression that he created upon (the queen ’does not seem to have been altogether agreeable. At any rate, her published diary leads to that infer- ence. His son and successor came to \Vindsor thirty years later, shortly af- ter the marriage of his only daugh- ter to Queen Victoria's’ second son. Al- exander III. was a frequent visitor to W'indsor and likewise to Osborne be- fore he ascended the throne, while the present autocrat of Russia, agrand- son by marriage of the queen, has visited her once at Balmoral since he became emperor, but spent whole months at Windsor while he was courting the lovely princess, now h2s wife. It is to the affectionate rela- tions then established between young Nicholas and the venerable queen that is largely due the maintenance of peace between Russia and Great Bri- tainâ€"two countries which find them- selves in rivalry and oppOSItion in nearly every quarter‘of the globe. MEMORIES OF TRAGEDIES EVOK- One of the most dramatic things about this book of the queen’s is the fact that so many cf the personages who have signed their names therein have met their death through violence. Indeed, many are the grim tragedies that are called to mind when one peruses its pages. Taking them at hapâ€" hazard, there is that, to the queen, least welcome of all the guests whom she ever entertained at \V’indsor, namely. Nasr-Eddeen-b‘hah, the ruler of Persia, who was shot ‘down only a few years ago by a religious fanatic. Then there was the late Sultan, Abdul Aziz, who stayed at the castle in 1867, who who was done to death nine years later in his palace at Constantinople with a pair of long, sharp, concave- bladed Oriental scissors. Czar Alexanâ€" der II. had the entire lower portion of his body blown to pieces by Nihilist bombs in 1881, while Empress Elizabeth of Austria was stabbed to the heart at Geneva, but a little more than a year ago. She had often visited the queen, and in spite of everything, as- serted to the contrary, was on terms of warm friendship and continuous by the Zulus, in South Africa while wearing the queen’s livery as one of the officers of her army. He was one of her special favorites and might have If..-) bercome her son-in-I UL “VA urvv-w- â€"‘~ - -__ bercome her son-in-‘lâ€"éw had He lived. KING PEDRO 0F PORTUGAL succumbed to ‘poison shortly. after returning to Lisbon from a visit to Windsor castle; King Louis of Bav- aria, whose death by drowning has never been satisfactorily explained tol this day, figures in the book, and so} does his cousin, the ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria, w ho blew out his brains at Mayerling on dis- covering that Baroness Marie Vet- sera had poisoned herself. He had vis- ited Windsor only two years previous- ly, at the time of the queen’s jubilee. His uncle, Archduke Maximilian, who suffered death by shooting at Quereâ€" taro, after reigning as emperor of Mexico, spent a week in “'indsor in 1857, and in her diary the queen speaks most highly of him, saying: “We have become great friends.” His consort, who is the queen’s first cousin, has for thirty years been under restraint as a lunatic. The Duchess of Alen- con, of whom the queen was particu- laly fond, and who. when staying at Bush Park, loaned to her father-in- law, the Duke of Nem'ours, by her ma- jesty, used often to go over to Wind- sor, was burnt to death in the terrible Charity Bazaar oonflagration at Par- is. Prince Baldwin of Beigium, another near kinsman of her majesty and a signer of the book lost his life by a revolver bullet in an adventure of a questionable character in a mansion of the Avenue Louise at Brussels, while a3: least two of the queen’s former guests at Windsor, namely, Archduke John of Austria, and the late Land- grave of Hesse, have vanished at sea without leaving any clue as to their fate. LITTLE CIVILITIES. If, as the old saying has it, civility costs nothing, it certainly gains much, both in the way of liking and of: kind- ness; therefore, it seems a great pity that so many people dispense with it in small matters of daily life. There are. no doubt, very few people who are actually and actively rude and uncivil, but there are, on the other hand, many who are, if we may use the term, pass- ively impolite. They do not, that is, commit a downright rudeness but they omit a vast number of little civi- lities. Many more names could be cited that call forth equally tragic memor- ies, but these will suffice to explain why the queen’s grandchildren should have nicknamed this so unique volume as “ Grandmamma’s Cemetery." If it is manners that “maketn man.” it is most certainly woman who both makes and mars men’s manners, for there is no man, however rough and uncouth in manner, who is not in- fluenced, and to some degree soften- ed, by contact with a courteous and gracious mannered woman. George Gibson, the dwarf of the city of Dunfermline, dropped down in Maygate, in that city, and suddenly expired. Gibson was upwards of 60 years of age, and for the past forty- five years had been known as “W'ee Geordie.” He was only three feet three inches in height. In his youth- ful days he was engaged at pirn wind- ing, in connection with the hand-loom weaving, but for many years past had been a vender of matches and small wares. By stress of weather and for- tune he was frequently driven to the poor-house. He always protested, how- ever, against the idea of being “an inmate,” and he very soon got out- side the gates and on to the Dunferm- line streets. The Queen has allowed her Balmoral tenantry a rebate of 15 per cent., owing to the deficiency of straw on last year’s crop. l NJ}. J. McKeehnie. N, a. J. mm. 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 0? thanking our customers for past. patronage, and we are convinced that the new system will merit a continuance OI the same. Adopted by The Dangers of Oven-Stroll Pointed Outâ€" lncmsc or lyoph. Of all the ready methods of measur- ing the health standard of a people, there are few on which reliance can be more safely placed than on the number of those whose vision is im- paired. Judged by this rule, the aver- age health of school children is far below wnat it should be. The use of glasses is not in itself objectionable, on the contrary, it is to be commend- ed; but the increasing demand for glasses among those who have hardly passed their first youth is a matter which calls for serious consideration. Much of this mischief is caused by the conditions of school life. Imperfect llight, bad print on unsuitable paper, limpure atmosphere, faulty ventila- tion, overheated and crowded school rooms, unwholesome water supply, lack of suitable recreation halls and ground, ill-fitting school furniture and too long continuous study hours are among the most fertile causes of the impairment of the muscular toni- Icity so indispensable for acute visual efficiency. School children. to be . cheerful and healthy, must have plen- ty of light and good ventilation in which to study; and it is owing to the frequent absence of these that the general health of the children is far below what it should be, and conse- quently that myopia, or near-sighted- ness, increases with the attendance of schools. The desks should be arranged so that the light from the windows falls upon them from behind, and a little from the left. There should be plenty of light, and the windows should be so large that it can not: be materially diminished or obstructed by the walls of tall buildings immediate- ly adjoining. The paper of text books should be of pure white or cream white and without glaze. They should be clearly printed in plain type, with very black ink. A shiny blackboard is an abhorrence. It is often allowed to become so smooth as to reflect light almost like a mirror, when viewed at certain angles. This glaze should be subdued by rubbing the surface with coarse sandpaper. Only white cray- ons should be used. There is nothing likely to bring on serious injury to the sight of the child more quickly than too long study hours. Children under 14 should never be allowed to study, in school and out, more than five or six hours. The eyes can be rested by lifting them from the book and looking at distant objects, or clos- ing them for a few minutes. The School work should be also broken up at frequent intervals in order to prac- tice breathing or exercises. This pre- i vents the strain of study being too 1 continuous, besides relieving the eyes, I I l r ) 2 Finally, all school children should be examined as to their eyes, and any de- : fects of vision should be remedied by 1 means of glasses, which adopted thus - early, may save much trouble in after - years. Most people imagine that those who do not require glasses with ad- vancing age have very strong eyes. 1 This, on the contrary, is proof positive of the existence of myopia, although 1 as a rule in such cases, it. is hard to convince the patient 01 the fact. CHILDREN’S EYES.