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E Undertaking and Embalming A SPECIA I." ;Furnace Kettles, Power Straw Cut- iters, Hot Air Furnaces, Shingle :Machinery, Band Saws, Emery Machines, hand or power ; Cresting, Farmers Kettles, Columns, Church Seat Ends, Bed Fasteners, Fencing. Pump-Makers’ Supplies, School Desks, Fanning Mill Castings, Light Castings and Builders? Sup- .plies, Sole Plates and points for the different ploughs in use. Casting1 kepairs for Flour and Saw Milis. K g. - -- we REPAIR-- The flypnicle is the 3931: wide D _A- t ‘ UGH MachAY, Durham, Land Valu- k Mar and Licensed Auctioneer for the ; County of Grey. Sales promptly attended to and nose: cashed. ‘ DURHAM FOUNDR YMAN -__v-' -w -uv unvov "Luv read newspaper pnblishea in a, County of Grey. A FIRST CLASS -_---v. ; a~v uuu Ull- [LIEUF' moeaetfectedin the best. Stock Companies it. ‘ lowest. rates. Correspondence to Orchardvilie, P. 0.. or a. can solicited OHN QUEEN, ORCHARDVJ LLE, has Q resumed hii old business, and is prepar ed to loan any amoun't. of money on real Mate Old mortgages paid otf on the mostliberalterms. Fire and' Lifo Insur- --.\-AA‘1.â€" - A d __ - __v vuAVKJVQ‘ , ”Ul‘uflm, Licensed Land Valuator, Bailid' ot the Court. Sales and all other matters promptly “tended toâ€"higheat refexencel furnishefi if required. A RR 15'} ER. , tom-it: 1-. etc . Mt-Inryros Block, Lower Town. - Collection ~ and qunclprgmptlyAatcended 50. Searches Inndn v-_"u-v tfitlu Agent: promptly attended ‘50. EeJruhegmade it. the Astry Umce. ' med, Filed and Set. am prepared to fill orders for ,shingks gamma 3mm, ‘ fiARRISTER. Solicitor. etc. Office ,ovor Gordon’s new jeweiiery yore. Lower own. Any amount of money to loan at 5 per cent. on ta rm property. . SHEV‘VELL DURHAM, - "N 1‘ Office:-First door east 6f the in: Pharmacy, Calder'a Block. - 'dence.â€"First door west 01 Post Office. Durha'un. _ Furniture AMES CARSON 'AMES BROWN, Issuer of Licenses.Durham Oat. (stereo; allowed on Savings Bank de- poatspt $1 and upwarc’s. Prompt stten’uon and every facility afford- sd customers 'living at. as distance. ta! Authorized. . . $2,000.i100 g; d Up. . . ‘ . I mama â€" â€"-â€"v--â€"v‘ Edd 'Up . . Reserve Fund : Wye: In all principal pointajn 0n- , -uno, Quebec, Manitoba, Umted States and England. JACOB KRESS. Engines, Horse Po we r ; rs, Mowers, Reapers. tr and Cross-Cut San“: Dealer In all kinds of G. LEFROY MCCAUL, Embahning a specialty. JAMIESON. Durham. léii SAVINGS, BANK. Durham Agency. éndard Medical Directoxy Bead (mice, Toronto. G. P. 31-310, ricea Miscellaneous. BRICK FOUNDR HEARSE IN CONNECTION D u rham, Licensed ’. Agent. M arriage , __ “' ~“O‘o. Chemists and physicians, all the world over, tell us that salt is a ne- cessity of life. And so with the grace of God; you must have it or \llt‘. I know agreat many people speak of it as a mere adornment, a sort of shoulder-strap adorning a soldier, or a light, frothing dessert brought in after the greatest part of the banquet of life is over; or a medicine to be taken after calomel and mustard-plasters have failed to do their work; but ordinarily a mere superfluityâ€"a string of. bells around draw it. So far from that, I declare the grace of God to be the first and the last necessity. It is food we must take, or starve into an' eternity of famine. It is clothing without which we «freeze to the mast of in- Ԥ finite terror. It is the plank. and the only plank, on .which we can float shoreward. It is the ladéer, and the only ladder, on Which we can. climb away from eternal burnings. It is a positive necessith for the soul. -_ '1‘“. all through the deep mine-pasmges of ’Wielitzwka and amid the under- ground kungdoms of salt in Hallstadt, and show me anything so exquisite. so transcendentally beautiful as this grace of God fashion (1 and. hung in eternal crystals. Again. grace is like salt, in the fact that it is a necessity of life. Man and beast perish without salt. But; the chief beauty of grace is in the soul. It takes that which was hard, and cold, and repulsive, and makes it all over :again‘. It pours upon one‘s nature what David calls “the beauty of holiness.” It extirpates everything that is hateful and un- clean. If jealousy, and pride, and worldliness. lurk about, they are chained, and have a very small sweep, Jesus throws upon the soul. the fra- grance of a summer garden, as He comes. in, saying: “I am the rose of Sharon ;” and He submerges it with the glory of aspring morning as He says: "I am the light.” Ah! you may search all the earth I over for anything so beautiful or 9 beautifying as the grace of God. G0 l law‘nitectural skill in one of these , l'Ci,stazls of. salt than human ingenuity 'lhas e1er demonstrated in an Al ham- l11:1 or St. Peter s. It would take all ime, with an infringement upon ‘ .~:1'11ity for an angel of God to tell; i ne-ltalf the glories in salt-crystal. So ,' i with the grace of God; it is pe1fectly beautiful. I. have seen it smooth out; . wrinkies of care from the brow; I? ’ have seen it make an aged man feel: almost young again; I have seen it' lift the st00ping shoulders, and put ,sparkle into the d 11l eye. Solomon dis-g co1eredl its anatomical qualities when he said, It ismarro'n' to the bones.” It helps to digest the food. and to purify the blood, and to calm the pulses, and quiet the spleen; and instead of put-1. ing a man in a phiiosophical hospit- 1’; al to be experimented upon by pray,er l 1 “11.1 keeps him so 11ell that he does not 1' 11121 1 to be 111 ayed for as an invalid. I ' am Speaking mm of a healthy religion lâ€"not of that morbid religion that waits for three hours on a gravestone . -a religion that prospers best in a ban state of the li1or! I speak of the; religion! th 1t Christ preached. I sup-11 Pose when that religion has con-l ‘ quered the 11 orld that disease will be. ' 1 banished; and that a man ahundred 1ears 01 age will come in from busi- ; ness, and say, “I feel tired. I think _ it must be time for me to go,”and. : 1‘1 without one physical pang, heaven; 1 e 11i1l ha1e him. ‘ i 11 t ofi’ O '1 1 l a ; 1 I5 f V In my te:.t, which is the peroratxon of one 01: His sermons, He picks up a crystal, and holds it before His con-gre- gation as an illustration of Divine grace in the heart, when He says, what we all know by experiment: “Salt is good)’ The Bible is a dictionary of the [in- est' similes. It employs, among living creatures, storks and eagles, and doves and unicorns, and sheep, and cattle; among trees, sycamores and tere- binths, and pomegranates, and al- mond, and apples; among jewels, pearls, amethysts, and jacinths, and‘ chrysoprases. Christ uses no stale illustrations. It A despatch, from Washington, says: -â€"Dr. Tal-mage chose as his text Luke xiv. 34. “Salt is good.” Rev. Dr. Talmage Tells How the Grace »of ' Preserves Through Temptations and Sorrows. shoulder-strap adorning a or alight, froLhin-g dessert in after the greatest part and worldliness float off, and there is chiefly left beneath, pure, white holi- ness of heart Then, as in the case of the salt. the furnace is added. 8132- ing troubles, stirred by smutted strokers of darkness. quickene the evaporation of worldliness and the crystallization of grace. . But, I remark again ,that the grace of God is like the salt in its preserva- tive quality. You know that salt ab- 'sorbs the moisture of articles of food, and infuses them With brine which preserves them for along while. Salt is the great anti-putrefactive of the world. ' But for the grace of God the earth would have become a stale car- cass long before this. That grace 'is the'Only preservative of laws, and constitutions, and literatures. Just as soon as agovernment loses this salt of Divine grace, it parishes. The . § Again, the grace of God is like salt [in the way we come at it. The salt |ion the surface is almost always im- lpureâ€"that which incrusts the Rocky Mountains and the South American pampas and,in India; but the mine1s go down through the shafts and through the dark labyrinths, and along by galleries of rock, and \1 1111 torches and pickaxes find their way under the very foundations of the earth, to wheie the salt. lies that makes up the nation’s wealth. So iwith the grace of God. It is to bel profoundlyb sought after. With all the concentred energies of bod3, mind, and soul, we must dig for it. No man stumbles accidentally on it. We need to go down to the very low- est strata of earnestness and faith to find it. Superficial exploration will not turn it up. We must strive, and implore. and dig until we strike the spiing foaming with living wa- 3' Though your sin may be deep and "raginghiet me tell you that God’s grace is a bridge not built on earthly ‘ piers, but suspended and spanning the awful :chasm of thy guilt, one end jresting upon the rock of eternal 5promises, and the other on the ,foundations of heaven. Demetrius :wore a robe so incrusted With jewels ”that no one .after him ever dared to iwear it; but our King, Jesus, takes 'off the robe of His righteousness, a ;’r0be. blood-dyed and heaven-inmearl-i ed, and reaches it out to the worst wvretch in all the earth, and says; “Put that .on! wear it now! wear it i for ever!” xsumds or the sea, went down in it to-day, they would have room enough bo'wash and to come up clean. ‘ and Russia and Italy have ine: {hau'sti- ble resources in this respect. Nor- :way and Sweden, white with snow ,‘above, white with salt beneath. Aus- ’ tria yielding nine hundred thousand 'Itons annually.~ Nearly all the na- tions are rich in itâ€"rock-salt, spring- ' i salt, sea-salt. Christ, the creator of the world, when. he uttered our text, knew it would become more and more significant as the shafts were sunk, and the springs were bored, and the} ‘pumps were worked, and the crystals 1 : were gathered. ‘30 the grace of God .is abundant. It is {or all lands, fon ,iall ages. It seems to undergird ieverythinqg Pardon for the worst s.1n, comfort for the sharpest suffer- ing, brightest light for the thickest darkness. Around about the salt 1 l 1 l and men toiling day and night, and yet the y never exhaust the saline. treasures. And if the twelve thous- and millions of our race should now cry out to God for His mercy, there' would be enough for all, for those farthest gone in sin, for the murder- er standing on the drop of the gal- lows. I't is an ocean of mercy; and if Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, and all the islands of the sea, went down in it i , i « 1 ing on _in many a one because they take not the salt of Divine grace. -. J The soul becomes weaker and weaker, ‘ and after a ‘while the pulses of life 'will stop entirely. “He that be- jlievetzh and is baptized shall be sav- ied, and he that believeth -not shall ,be damned.” Salt, a necessity for I the life of {the bodyâ€"the grace of God ga necessity for the life of the soul. Again, I remark, that grace is like 1 {salt in abundance. God has strewn fsa-lt m vast profusion all over the ‘ continents. Russia seems built on a I f saltâ€"cellar. There is one region of rthat country that turns out ninety; thousand tons in a year. England] D You can tell very easily what the effect would be if a. person refused to take salt into the body. The; ener- gies would fail, the lungs would struggle with the air, fevers wolud crawl through the brain, the heart would flutter, and the life would be gone. That process of death-is 80" When you see a young woman making a fuss ovgr a widowed-’3 chil- dren, it’s a sign that if she doesn’t soon acquire a right to correct them it won’t be her fault. good Irish servant. She which is wholly given trees, the never degen-a mere machine, and she 1: ed to cling even closer trouble, sickness or p4 when all goes smoothly. It is, however, more astonishing that girls from these poor little homes should know anyfiing at all about ser- vice than that they- should be, as some of course are, bad servants, Their own homes having mud floors, win- dows that do not open, no stairs, hardly any kitchen utensils, no range the cooking scarcely extending be- beyond boiling potatoes and cooking griddle cake, how can they know even the names, still less the uses of the thousand and one things in our houses? How learn to scrub, or sweep, or dust? Yet given a short training, not too late in life, and a good example, there is not aservant the world over to compare with a good Irish servant. She has aheart WANTED IN CANADA. In Donegal there is a custom of en- gaging both farm hands and servants for six months at hiring fairs, the girls receiving board and only alow wage because their ignorance hither- to has made them only fit for the roughest work, {We cannot stop for loss or bereave- ment, or anything else. \Vith one ar- dent embrace, and one loving kiss we utter our farewells. and then cry, "‘Come on, boys! The-re are other heights. to be captured, there are oth- er crowns to be won.” Yet, as one of the Lord’s surgeons, I must bind up two or three wounds. Just lift them now, whatever they be. I have been told there is noth-l ing like salt to stop the bleeding of1 a wound, and so I take. this salt of Christ’s Gospel. and put it on the lac- erated soul. It smarts a little at first, but see! the bleeding stops, and lo! the flesh comes again as the flesh of a little child. "Salt is good!” in the battle; so I just got down on my knees, and I threw my arms around him, and I gave him one good kiss, and said, “ Good bye, dear,’ and sprang up and shouted, ‘Come on, boys!’ ” .So it is in the Christian con- flict. It is a fierce fight. Eternal ages Seem depending on the strife. Heaven is waiting for the bulletins to announce the tremendous issue. Hail of shot, gash; of sabre, fall of battle-axe, groaning on every side.‘ my son! I saw at the first glance he was dead, and yet I didn’t dare to stop a minute, for the crisis had come r1 didn’t feel like myself that day. I Ehad prayed to God for strength for that particular battle, and I went into it feeling that I'had in my right arm the strength of ten giants.” arm the strength of ten giants. Well,” he said, “ the battle was desperate, but after a while we gained a little, and we marched on a little. I turn- ed. “Come on, boys l’ and I stepped across a dead soldier, and 10! it was? I thought everything of him. You know how a father will feel towards his son, who is coming up manly, and brave, and good. oVVell, the battle opened and concentred, and it was awful! Horses and riders bent and twisted and piled up together; it was _‘ awful, sir! \Ve quit firing and took; to the point of the bayonet. \Vell, sir, Governor Geary, recited to me the scenes through which he had passed in the Civil war. He said that the-re came one battle upon which every- thing seemed to pivot. Telegrams from W'as‘hington said that the life of the nation depended upon that struggle. He said to me: “ I went into that bat- tle, sir, with my son. His mother and I ought to say I know He will? “ Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation.” My subject is one of great congrat- culation to those who have within their {souls this Gospel antiseptic. This salt ' will preserve them through the temp- tations and sorrows of life, and through the ages of eternity. I do not mean to say that you will have a smooth time because you are a Christian. On the contrary, if you do your whole duty, I will promisei you a very rough time. But; I think that God Omnipotent will‘ see you through. I think He will. But ; why do I talk like an atheist when; philosophy of this day, so far as it; is antagonistic to this religion, putreâ€" fies and stinks. The great want of our schools of learning and our in- stitutions of science, toâ€"day, is not more Leyden jars, and galvanic bat- teries, and spectroscopes, and philo- sophical apparatus, but more of that grace that will teach our men of ’science that the God of the universe is the God of the Bible. We want more of the. salt of God’s grace in ‘our homes, in our schools, in our col- leges, in our social life, in our Chris- tianity. And that which has it will liveâ€"that which has it not will die. I proclaim the tendency of. everything earthly to putre-faction and deathâ€" the religion of Christ is the only pre- iservative. never degen-arates into she may be trust- closer in times of 01‘ poverty than 3 has aheart to her mis- a desolate and empty neat. But it goes hard with the hunter if the keen eyes of the old birds discover him he'- fore he has made his safe descent with his booty. Darting at him with ter- rific fury they try their utmost to throw him from the ’cliff ; and unless he be well armed. and use his weapons with skill and rapidity, his positionl is one of the utmost peril. its neat, where the hungry little one: are eagerly waiting the parent’s re- turn. .Here, standing on the ledge of rock, the eagle tears the food into ! morsels, which the eaglets eagerly de- ‘vour. It is a curious fact that near an eagle’s neat there is usually a ' storehouse or larderâ€"some convenient ledge or rock-where the parent birds lay up hoards of provisions. Hunters ' have found remains of lamb, young pigs, rabbits, partridge: and other game heaped up ready tor the morn- a ers, who, with skill and daring, scale the rocky heights during the absence of the parents, which return to find Eagles are very affectionate and faithful to their little ones as long as they need care, but once the young eaglets are able to take care of them- selves the parent bird drives them from the nest. and even from the hunting ground. The young birds are often taken from the nest by h-unt- per cent turns the compound quite white. The air has no influence whatever upon palladium, nor does it tarnish in sulphuric gases. F01 these reasons it is used, in alloy with gold, for L-he finely graduated scales of valuable astronomical instruments. If, instead of a silver currency, we employed any of these almost in- would undergo a sudden change. a pound, but at that it 12 lighter than gold when ta for bulk. Ihave been fired from a trial gun without the vent showing the slight- est sign of wear. For pure osmium there is not a ' great deal of Use, except in chemistry iyet the rarity of it drives up the Eprice to $50 an mime, $600 a troy {pound At a temperature of 100 .degrees centigrade this singular me- te] vaporizes and gives off a gas which stains the experimenter’s skin a permanent black and which may blind him by depositing a film of 'the metal on the eyeball. Rhodium is another of the precious metals belonging to what is known as the “platinum group.” It is one of the hardest metals to melt, and will only yield to the electric arc or the oxyhydrogen furnace. It can be used like iridium, for pointing gold pens. Its cost figures out to 8425 g and another rare metal, osmium. This e! blend is found in the form of scales ‘1 ‘ â€"som~e flattened, some of a pinâ€"head elshapeâ€"in localities where placer is obtained 3; by washing loose dirt and not by gorushing. Of these “iridosmjne” . ounce, and are worth about 3950. Pure _mak-e the closing faces of breech 3 blocks for modern artillery, this com- ; :pound being the only thing that will istand the corrosion of the gases and lube enormom. heatâ€"about 4,000 de- ' Egrees centigra-d-e. Over 1 000 rounds intensely hand, noncorrodible silvery points. Pure iridium is priced at $300 per pound and is so heavy re- latively that this weight of it would be in bulk rather larger than half the size of a pound of gold. Yet the (so-called "iridium” points ofagold nibare not of pure iridium but of a natural blend of iridium __~_1 wâ€"V-u If, though, you were the fortunate possessor of a lump of platinum equal in bulk to a pound of gold the silvery-looking lump would be worth not $100 but $175 for platinum, if not the dearest, is the heaviest thing on earth. This, huwever, is not so, even allow- ing that, bulk for bulk, platinum is hardly less than twice as heavy as gold. At the standard rate of $4.50 per troy ounce gold is worthnearly .335 a pound, platinum only $100. Are Worth Calumet-ably More Than Gold, Pound for Pound. Some people are under the impres- sion that the now fairly familiar whitish metal platinum is one of the few substances more expensive than that fascinating yellow material we spend so great a portion of our lives in hunting. YOUNG EAGLES. DSt figures out to $425 at that it is a trifle gold when taken bulk loose dirt and not by Of these “iridosmine” >in-head type alone are pen points, and do not b of the entire yearly may average three and neid, some of a pinâ€"head calities where placer found, placer gold sort that is obtained SOME METALS as costly and practi- vy is that wonderful known to the users of >ens as furnishing the , noncorrodible silvery iridium is priced at lese almost in- xâ€"supposing we " them, which 7 ideas of value l i ! 1 Here is a little anecdote regarding the bereaved Queen 'Marguerite of Italy. Her Majesty, whose kindly thoughtfulness is porverbial, became interested in the condition of apoor ‘ girl who had, in simple kindness, knit- ted a pair of stockings, and sent them to her on her birthday. Her Majesty often resorts to ingenious ways of showing her generosity, and: on this occasion she Sent the little girl. a pair of stockings in return for those she had received. One of these stockings was filled with coin and the other with candies. With the gift the kindly Queen sent a letter, written with her own hand, which contained the following words: “ Write and tell me, my child, which Joh’n knew it was all over then, and took away his rope ladder to look for another girl. The young girl buried her face in her hands. ”I am sorry, John,” she moaned, “but pa has just left a note in my desk saying that; I may have that new hat after all.” "What!” he criad boars you falter at the last Speak, Miriam. \Vhat i keeps you back ‘{” inn MLUBJSMENT \VAS OFF. He had adjusted the rope ladder and stood waiting in breathless silence. Suddenly her face appeared at the window. ”Darling,” she murmured, “you will have to go without me." l " The work itself is light. and would 5' be pleasant if it was only possible to 3 keep the rooms cool. The gilder holds " the leaf on a small board, about three Tside-s of which stiff paper has been fixed. A thin, broad camel’s hair brush and a steel knife are used in applying the gold, the knife cutting it to a convenient size and the brush laying it on. A solution of alcohol; and water is used to make it stick.1 " Each time the gilder gathers a bit of the gold upon his brush he rubs the camel‘s hair off the brush along impart some of the natural electricity 01" the hair into the hair of the brush, and the gold is more readily picked up. Gold dust, of.course, clings to the gild- er’s hair, but he carefully washes it out every evening.” ‘ ‘In my gilding room,” said the man- Lager of a large picture frame factory [the other day, “ the work is done in the evening, and often, in the hottest weather, far into the night. Bui. when we have a ruSh of orders, and the men have to work overtime, the heat be- hest men have been down with heat apoplexy this year, and barely pulled round, and few can stand the unheal-y thy conditions for long. Many deathsE result every year from the terrible con- ditions under which the pom~ fellows Are Compelled Tm Work In Almost In tolerably Hot Booms. Picture-frame gilding is not an en- viable occupation when the thermo- meter stands at 90 degrees in the shade. The men must work in intol- erably hot rooms, and any one open- ing a window would be instantly dis- missed, for the slightest breath of wind sends the gold leaf flying in all directions. THE ELOPEMENT ROYAL ALTRUISM. We take this opportunity of thanking our customers for past, patronage, and we are convinced that the new system will merit a continuance or the same. We beg to inform our customers and the public generally that. we have adopted the Cash System, which meahs Cash or‘ its Equiv. alent, and that our motto will be “ Large Sales and Small Profits” FRAME GILDERS :n stiff paper has been in, broad camels hair steel knife are used in gold, the knife cutting criad hoarsely. “Do last moment 8 is it that they are clear, brighf and red we are in good health, while it our blood in thin and wanting in the mysterious red oorpuscles that make us healthy the gums will be pale pink, or if we are in a very bad way indeed, and If you put two drops of camphor on your tooth brush it will give your mouth the freshest, cleanest feeling imaginable, and will make your gums rosy and absolutely prevent any- thing like cold sores or affections of your tongue. The gum, by the way, are barometer: of our condition. If Quite recently the Bishop of Lagos escorted Mrs. Randle, an African lady, and her two little children, by royal command, to Windsor castle. where her Majesty received the rvisitors with the utmost cordiality, and gave presents to the negro child- ren, whom she kissed. The Queen has long taken the warmest interest in this West African family. Many years ago the then King of Dahomey gave alittie slave girl, who was of royal blood, but captured in aslave raid, to the late Capt. Forbes.'co-mâ€" mending a British cruiser. The Cap. tain brought the child to England and introduced her to the°Queen, who be- came godmother to the little African girl and had her well educated. Ulti- mately she married a negro merchant in Lagos. She had adaughter, who likewise became the Queen’s godchild and was educated at the Queen’s ex- pense. It was this daughter, now Mrs. Randle, who visited the Queen with her children. “Dear Madame Queenâ€"About the stockings I have had just sorrow.and nothing more, for my father took the one with the money, and my brother the one with the hon-bong."- Next day Queen Marguerite received this disappointing reply: you like the better of these two stock- ingsâ€"which one gives you the more pleasure ?” lfc-a-nge Local. “Newsparer in Western ontarlo. As Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Straw- berry is being widely and shamelessly imitated, your safety lies in seeing tint the full name is on every bottle you buy. Always take with you a bottle of Dr. Fowler’fixtnct of Wild straw- When Travelling ' The “Qhroniclq’f is the CARE OF THE MOUTH. OUR GRACIOUS QUEEN. bed at acourse of dializod will be almost white. cation of Cramps, Colic, Diarrhea or Dysentery, a few doses will prompt? check the further a - vance of then dil- and water'to which those who {travel an cubjrct, 0 ca' duces an attack“; diarrhaa, which is ll unpleasant and dis- comfortingu it may be dnngerous. A bottle of Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry in your p 13 a aren- teg‘ofngety: gt! On the 'first indi- The change of food