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Mrs. Merle, of Walkerton. w was visiting the Edge family recur ed home last week. She was acco: . prnied by Miss Edge and her nie Miss Sarah. "- v-.. " h and will spend the summer with ‘ is grandparents. Mrs. D. Greenwood and Miss Nell, the Misses McFayden and Messrs. Fred Staples and J. McCracken took in the Guelph Excursion and report a good time. \Ir.J. \\.Fi1tl1,ofthe 0. S. C. 1., is on a Show visit. to home friends. Messrs. A. Davis, H. and G. Wil- liams. J, Firth and C. Ifi-iffat repre. sent Edge Hill at the Niagara. Camp. Master Petrie Mofiat accompanied Miss Sadie Ector _home from Green- Mrs. Robt. Ector is on an extended vzsxc to her daughter, Mrs. John Moffat, of Greenoch. Edge Hi’l beef ring will commence Operations this week. As Mr. Thos. Turubuu occupies the position of butcher again this year, satisfaction is guaranteed. Messers. W. McFayden and W. J. Firth spent the beginning of last week very pleasantly with Normanby friends, Mr. Wm. Ritchie and Miss Maria took advantage of the excursion to Guelph on the 12th. Mr. Thos. Greenwood and Master John are visxting friends in Hamil- ton. «a UCLUK l BALANCE of Rose of North Potatoes ' Miller is to ’0. per bushel, regular price $1.25â€" 3 the Mildma ‘. Parker, Uruggist. r cation feel time, Dan. Mr. Angus McDougal is busy for- warding the building of their brick house. Mr. D. Ferguson gave the Corner acall this week. Dan is always on the move with an eye to business. Dr. Burd, M. C. P. 8. S. 0.,10 Crops 1001-: well in this part, and the weather is all that could be desired. ---_.. "I’V' tennis to suit burrowéfi. A General Financial Business Transacted OFFICEâ€"l door North of S. Scott’s Store. LO. OFFICEâ€"McIntyre Block, (Over the Bank) 1) VEYANCER, Btu. c. Money to Luau at reasonable rates and on terms m sun burruwer. 1. College Toronto: Member of the Q01- lege 0f Physicians and Surgeom. Oritanoz Number of the Detroit Medical and Library Association. Six years hospital experience. RESIDENCEâ€"UM Bank Building. opposite C. McKizmon'a Imp't Shop, 'L'pper Town. DURHAI. ‘N. I... MacX-{ENZIEZ only' MILL STREET, â€"- 0. LV AND INSURANCE LAGEN'P : C().\'\EYA.VCER. A R RIST ER VEYANCER SAKE I‘T’S CORN ERS. ONOR GRADUATE 0F TRINITY E. JI FREEL M. D., C. M. w. s. DAVIDSON, OFFICEâ€"In Calder Block. over Durham Pharmacy. June 21, EDGE HILL. M '0. >9 NOTARY, cox. PUBLIC NOTICE n! \Vho re turn ' aCCOln‘ ;appropriate piece while the offering 5 was being made, The death of Mr. ’otatoes Miller is to all intents the death of $1.25â€" f the )Jildmay pastor, and the congre- :gation feel it is such and extend the DURHAM. niece wui oe an unfortunate thing, indeed. if the young man loses his sight and much sympathy is heard on all sides for his parents.â€"Harriston Standard. The Rev. B. A. Miller, who was put down for Mildmay at the Con- ference has since died leaving this charge at present vacant. Just who will be appointed is not known at this writing. The Rev. Keefer touched very feelingly upon the sad occurrence just before the morning service. The two gentlemen were l-‘nl'npnn A‘- -- â€" l i Mr. Perry Eli, of Walkerton, is the ' inventor and patentee of a bedstead 'for which he has refused $10,000 in ; hard cash. A model of this invention . may at present be seen at this oflice. , The device for putting the frame to- ; gether is so simple that a mere child ,3 can do the trick. and a feature of the‘ iinvention upon which Mr. Eli lays ; special stress is that it is proof ; against bedbugs. It has also been {patented in the United States.â€" ; Walkerton Telesc0pe. Mr. and Mrs. James Stinson ar- rived home on Tuesday after visiting their son Richard who is confied in the general hosmtal. The young man was severely injured last week and as a resnlt may lose his sight. It appears he was on the street in Toronto watching a fireworks display in honer of Lord Rnhnrfq’ on“... a..- u - w -__- “"1’“"J in honer of Lord Roberts’ entry into Pretoria when a large firecracker ex- ploded in his face. He was taken to the hospital where the surgeons say one eye is destroyed and they are not sure about saving the other. It will be an unfortunate thing, indeed, 2 speckled trout. one whieh‘n'e‘ipghed two pounds cleaned and the other, one pound six ounces. This was surely a. present fit for a king. â€"Flesherton Advance. Mr. George Mitchell had a. nice present. sent him on Monday by Mr. John Bell of Gleuelg in the shape of n ,___ _ .1 9 1 . ‘ _ ‘ Durham , Ont And day by day the sun's warm beams, (Like touch of fairy prince of old). Release the rivers. lakes and streams, From winter's clasp so icy cold. Like precious pearls spring‘s raindrops fall Upon the frozen breast or earth; And then responding to her call. We feel the throb of nature's birth. And soon beneath our feet is spread A carpet bright of verdant hue, And all around and overhead Trees Wear the self-same color, too. And from the branches overohung With nature's leafy wimpy, We hear the notes ot gladsome son From choirs of teathered minstrefisy. Young hearts are beating joyously. The trees and flowers. the bird on wing, \Vith all mankind unitedly. Rejoice to welcome gentle spring. late Mr. James Bott had a fancy for expressing.' his ideas in verse. His ,danghter, Airs. W. H. Benton, has a ’poetical mind of no mean order, and [some good productions from her pen {have appeared more than once in the .columns of this paper during the three and a half years it has been under our management. But the end is not yet. On Monday last, Mrs. Benton’s son, Frossard. a little fellow just turned ten years of age 3 appeared in our sanctum with a fine c0py of Whittier’s poems received as a prize from the Family Herald and Weekly Star of Montreal, for the _he5t poem furnished by a child an. ‘der ten years. From the data be- fore us it is safe to answer our question in the afl‘irxnative and con- . clude that poetry like many other ‘ qualities is a transmitted inherit- 4 ance and runs in families. Here is ‘ the poem as it appeared in the Family Herald and Weekly Star from which it is clipped :- I Does poetry run in families? The l I .â€"â€"..... King Sun is amiliué gaily o'er Frost pictures on the. window pane A “J _._'_A ._ A__,_,, EXCHANGE ECHOES. Shorey 6: 60.. Montreal. - ‘60 O» SPRING-TIDE. ED. F. Bxxrox, (9 years). GENERATION. _____________ up: LULO§ with .both her strength and voice. . She was rescued from the scoundrel 5 by the lady snake charmer who took 1 her to Mr. Lemen, one of the prOpri- ' etors. Before parting with her, how- , ever, the lady proved her genuine . charming disposition by giving the unfortunate girl $2.00. Mr. Lemen gave her a like amount and took her to Mr. Dan. Hays, G. T. R. agent, who gave the poor'girl some good ad- vice and explained matters to Mrs. Hughes of the Dominion Hotel. who' took charge of her over Sunday. On Monday Mrs. Hughes gave her the address of the Misses Hughes in To- ronto, where the girl will find a com- fortable home until she finds a suit- able position in the Queen City. In Justice to Mr. Dick we wish to say She said Mr. Dick had schooled and clothed her for five years having taken her from the Orphan’s Home in Stratford. Mrs. Hughes informs us that she was comfortably and neatly dressed.â€"-â€"Fergus Canadian. Fifty Years in Durham. _____â€"---a v; “OIJ 'of the evening duties essennial an a farm, and upon examining her room found that the bird had taken flight. Lizzie had evidently fallen in love with circus life and decided to join ' the show, and would have done so if the proprietors had not proved them- selves diflereut from what some peo- ple consider them, bad! She returned to the circus grounds with her little bundle after dark and accosted the first employee of the big show she met for employment. The one so-‘ licited for work proved to be a gentle-ll man highly colored in conplexion but: not so highly colorod in moral char l acter. His conversation and advances l were not what they should be and she resented the villain’s familiaritiesl ___2A‘ | Last Saturday afternoon. Mr. Jas. Dick, who lives on the Orangeville Road, visnted the circus in Fergus, accompanied by his wife and Lizzie Turrell, a girl about seventeen years of age, who Mr. Dick got some five years ago from the Orphan’s Home at Stratford. After the perfcrmance Lizzie was sent home with a neigh- bor, Mr. and Mrs. Dick following later. To their surprise they found the girl had done no milking or any] A: Ai‘A _ 7â€" â€"â€"â€" u--v““° qulL heart-felt sympathy.-Mildmay cor- ”respondent to Walkerton Telescope. One of the labor employees of Le- ‘ men Bros. circus broke his leg three . times through the miserable affair . which is an excuse for a sidewalk on lMaple street, just at the corner oi" St. George Street. It appears that the unfortunate man while walking ialong there in the morning wen' man stepped into a hole in the walk and again broke his leg a little below the first brake. Again at night this same unfortunate went through an- other rotten plank and broke his leg again clean ofi just below the knee. Each time it was the same leg that‘ .was broken. The man himself hasl 'pluck to be admired. as he, with the assistance of Mr. '1‘. Hughes et the ' broken limb each time. Most ortun- ate for the corporation it was a wood- en leg or there would be a heavy action {or damages.-â€"Fergus Canad-l ian. Sold by MACFARLANE CO bereavei wxdow and friends their â€"-â€"-va V ‘VU. 'U L‘UUQ 1'8 Dallas alizes the nerve cells waeted overwork and worry. It is be the world’ s greatest restorativ mended by your famil phy druggists recommend an sell it he very life of man and every organ of the human body is depend- euf. upon It. Just as soon as the blood gets . , {nervous prostration. aralysxs. efillepsy. msamty and death. erve Food rebuilds and revit- rve cells wasted by disease overwork and worry. It is um. . n. mug, repairing road opposite lot 23, con. 4. $1.75; . Adair, filling washout opposxte lot 20. con. 5 and 6, $3; Wm Reh- kopf, cleaning ditch sideline between lots 5 and 6,. con. 16, 31; C. Birr, tiliinp' washout oppos:telot28, cons, 15 and 16, $250; '1‘. Girodat. re airing pile driver, (woodwork), $4.50; N. .Clemens, do iron work, $58.25: E..Witter, bolts, washers and reap for pile driver, 811.45; Mary WileK, charit , $6: Widow Krohn. four weeks’ eep'of idow Wexgle. $8; Wm. Harveir, charity, $5; G. 8mm, land to widen road at 15 con. 17, 840; C. Miller 365 4-inch tiles for culvert sideline Heipel, building new small bridge near his , sawmill, 825; G. Herpel, rebuilding culvert I sideline between lots 5 and 6, con. 7, $1.50; I ’I‘hos. Ball, timber for culvert opposite lot 19 ‘ cons. 15 and 16, $10; Thos. Crow, repairing . culvert sideline between lots 56 and 57, con. l 2, $1 : G. Glebe, building boom across Ayton . mill dam for protection of bridge. $43 30. ' (half cost); M. Murray, towards salary as assessor, 815: Commissioner Drier, $2, 0’Rn‘flvr Q4. D ------ E“ n ‘° AA Do You . eductions were made. the assessor sustained it) all the ap- § peals. The following names were placed on the roll: John Adair and Jas. McGillivray as farmers’ sons, A. Seip, G. Baker, 0. Bruer, Wm. Zimmermaker and R. With~ erow as manhood franchise. Court rose and council resumed. Assessment roll as revised was confirmed, subject to correction of palpable errors” The reeve and Commissioner Gardiner to! inspect proposed sideline between lots 63 an 64. con. 2, and report at next meeting. 1 The following orders were issued on Treas-I urer . H. Kluz, repairing road opposite lot 23, con. 4. $1.75; . Adair. filling: washout I ‘opposit‘e lot 20. con, 5 and 6, $3: Wm Reh- . pnâ€" Rokco Cereal Cofieefi yourighing. Rokco The Leading Grocer. , . -----,,.M..w unaua§es or these or- gans which were formerly xncurable. Dr. A. W. Chase’s Kidney-Liver Pills are the world’s greatest cure for kidney, liver and gtomach troubles, and has an enormous sale in all parts of Canada and the United States. One pill a dose. 25¢. a box. A BRIGHT IDEA. Was that of Dr. Chase when ed a pombined treqtment for the kidneys and Inverfind so cure for comnhcamd Amman Orillia, June 1.: able discovery was Oakley’s Falls. '1 named Oakley and bathing at the botto and were amusing th Dr. Chaée's Oizitment. at all dealers. m- Edmanson. Bates Co.. Toronto. vâ€" w w J \- Hu‘» â€" ed with a bad form or Eczema. or the scalp. which was very unsightly and resisted all kinds of remedies and doc- tnr's treatment. His head was in a terrible state. We had to keep him from school, and at times his head would ‘bleed. and the child would scream with agony. For two and a half years we battled with it in vain, but at last round a cure in Dr. Chase's Ointment. Alout five boxes were used. The original sores dried up. leaving the skin in its normal condition. To say it b 2-. pluasure to testify to the wonderful merits or Dr. Chase's Ointment is put- ti' : itAvery mildly." would Itch and Burn until the Child Screamed with Agonyâ€"A Handel-ml Cure Effeoted by Dr. Chase's Ointment. The case recorded here Is one of the more: eVer brought to the attention of Toronto’s best physicians. and when doctors gave up all hope or recovery. Dr. Chase's Ointment was successful in producing a. perfect cure. Mr. James Scott, 136 Wright avenue, 'l‘uronto, states:â€"“ My boy. Tom, aged ten, was {qr neerly three years afflict- Eczema on “the Scalp N ORMANBY COUNCIL Read THE CHRONICLE ? _ -7 vv VJ vuu greatest reStoratiqu Rec ‘VAII- - °". 9.. fiâ€"o Preparation Alex. G. HOPF, Clerk. -'VVVIlI‘ pll‘lyAsviéian. All for service at Lot No. HE UN DERSIGNED WILL keep 5, Con. 2, Nor- manby, an Ayrshire Bull. “Bungerie,” 11160. J.G. 'QRAY. _ when hp discover‘ .t for dxsord_ers of md so pyovxded a ngost remark- CHRONICLE. May 3l.â€"2m. pd. AWShiIB Bull Pm Sewice. April 16â€"21:). .1. Bull. " Normanby Diamond,”â€"number 28667. will be kept for service at Lot 46, Con. 3, W. G. R. Terms. $1.(X). Bull for Service. â€"-~ HE THOROUGHBRED DURHAM . Bull. " Normanbv Diamond” nnmhnr i". tered Pedigree No. 36141-25]; be kept for service at Lot 9, Gen. ‘2. W. G. R. Bentinck. Termsâ€"$1.00 payable on or be: fore the first of February. Persons dis- posing of cows will be chargel whether in calf or not. HENRY ALEXANDER. June 6, 1900. 2111 Dornoch P. O. â€"_-~ cl. LU ’ k) ises of the undersigned, Lot 9, Con. 2, W. G. R., Bentinck, on or about Friday, May. 11th, three ’Fearling heifersâ€"two red and one gray. he red one had a sligtly dark ring round the eyes. Also a roan steer which strayed last fall. Any person giving information leadin to their recov- ery will be suitably rewar ed. HENRY ALEXANDER, June 6, 1900. tf Dornoch P. O. RAYED FROM THE PREM- ises 0f the undersionnd Ln!» a Fin“ 0 ‘_v_ Lu“ J.) Melligan Property on George Street. one acre of good land in good location, a desirable residenoe, will be sold on easy terms. Apply to En. MILLIGAN, Palmerston, or to \V. CALDER, Durham. Jan. 17, 1900. if May 8th, 1900. PARK LO'I‘ NUMBFB TWO NORTH of Chester Street in the Town of Dur- ham, containing four 4) acres more or less. There is on the 'said ot a brick dwelling houso, containing 6 rooms and a kitchen also stable and driving shed and hard and soft water. This is a very desirable pro- perty and will be sold reasonably. For terms apply to Shorthom Bull For Service. THE UNDERSIGNED OFFERS for sale lots 8 on con. ‘21, Egremont, and 3 on con. 4, S. D. R., Glenelg. Lot8 consists of mo acres, 90cleared, well watered and fenced. 70 acres fit to run machinery over. Good large brick house with wood shed 20x30 and driving shed same size and bank barn, small orchard, 1% miles from school. Lot 3 consists of 54 acres, 25 cleared. balance hardwood bush. Clear title. Will be sold on easy terms. For further partic-i ulars apply to JOHN WHITMORE. March 27th, 1900. Durham P. O. ARKDALE DF WEY For Sale. R‘I'CK HoySE A311) LOTâ€"THE II. WM. SCARF, Proprietor, ABERDEEN. .LEFROY MCCAI .,’L Barrister etc. Durham Vatney P. 0. REGIS- 'ugt' ’11:. o. i? fififi? 2%}? At This Store all Goods Must be Sold in Season of stylish and up-to-date Ha We are reducing them tn n mung time has come for many lines h and up-toodate Hats and Bonnets. reducing them to prices which will soon clear them out.