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7. ‘ general Banking business transact- gd. Butts; Issued and collections mgde u :11 points. Deposits received and In- [great allowed at current tutu. §ta£dani Bank 'uf Eanada Officeâ€"First door east of the hm Pharmacy. Calder's Block. Bgsxdence.-Eirsc door west of ARRISTER. Solicitor. etc. Otflce over Gordon’s new jewellery «more, Lowe? 0 1m. Any amount. of money to loan at. 5 per cent. citam property. BARRISWER SoliciV-r. etc. McIntyrei-t Block Lower Town. Collection and ,genmfigrompmo \ attended to. Searches made ut 11) 313.117 Omce. Ottice and Residence at short distance at. of Knapp s Hmei. Lambton treat, Lower Town. Office hours from I to 2 o'clock.» M Ital Authorized . . . $2,000,000 I UP . - . o‘ 'g I 1M0!” arvoFund. . . . . if required. OHN QUEEN, URUHAR‘DVILLE, has resumed his old business, and is prepar odto loan may amount of money on real estate 01d mortgages paic‘. 011’ on the mostlibeml terms. Fire and Life Insur- mcesofl'ectedin the best. Stock Companies ‘ t. lowest. rates. Correspondence to ,Orchardville, P. O. . or a call solicited was; allowed on Savings Bank deâ€" u of $1 and upwarda, Prompt “London and every facility atfordâ€" ed customers livin st 3 distsnoo. J. Y. “but. A F] RST DR. T. G. HOLT, L. Durham Agency- [AMES CARSON, Durham, Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Grey and Valuabor, Bailixf oi the 2nd Division our: Sales and all other matters rompfly .tended t_oâ€"-higheat reiexenooa urnished SAVINGS BANK. AMES BROWN, Issuer 0: Marriage Licenaea.Dnrham Ont. and. notes c551; ed. JAMIESON. Durham. Undertaking. and Embalming A SPECIALTY BIRIMM, - 0N'l‘ Farmers, Thrashers, ‘. and Millmen UGH MachAY, Durham, Lsnd Vuln- “or and Licensed Auctioneer for the ntfy of Grey.‘ §ales promptly “tended Furnace Kettles, Power Straw Cut-t ters, Hot Air Furnaces, Shingle. Machinery, Band Saws, Emery 'Machines, hand or power ; Cresting, Farmers Kettles, Columns, Churchl Seat Ends, Bed Fasteners, Fencing, Pump-Makers’ Supplies, School Desks, Fanning Mill Castings, Light Castings and Builders’ Sup~ lies, Sole Plates and points for the ffl'erent‘ploughs in use. Casting ‘ airs for Flour and Saw Mills. -- WE REPAIR -- F U'fiNITU RE INDERTAKING Medical Directory. G. LEFROY MCCAUIh The flhronicle is the most wide :1 road n9w§gaper published in "-..A‘I [legal Dzreczory. Furniture ice. Durham. The DURHAM FOUNDRY-MAN DENTIST. Mascellaneuus . '. P. TELFORD. n Engines, Horse Powers, rators, Mowers, Reapers. rcular and Cross-Cut Saws med, Filed and Sec. am prepared to fill orders for shingdwe maria 8mm, Prices 013*» better In all klmlt or CLASS HEABSE IN CONNECTION Embalming a specialty. co: xst line of the Chinese empire , a 2,000 miles and the land from a -- WE MAKE -- CHINA’S FRONTIERS. BRICK FOUNDB deaf man, for he i of (h; ear. No We the withered arm, bone and strung flung out of nath terial out. of whit asgau.m.v..- .5 The same hand that put up this; univm‘a'e will pull it dqwn. 1 think 3 t‘ the time will come when the worldslc will have done their work, and. must E ‘ butt two worlds; the one a. vast desert: of l immen- § the 0111- i I ¢ will remain; ‘ suffering, swinging through 2 shyâ€"the abode of the bad; ,er a blooming paradise for all the " good. nor eternal ages will tho two." swing around in their orbits of. light 3 arm darkness. We know not :by what process any of tho “orlda will be} taken down, save one; that will .go ‘, by tire. All the universe will .know who set on fire the one world, and who shattered the others, for Cnt‘isc,; my Lord, will stand amid the room? and crackle, and thunder, and crash? of that final undoing, proclaiming. I am tho Omega . . I 1 I l l l l ”. lane 11: r ”x . . . . . end! There is " went except as a g 'y us» tt-p to the Gospel DisPensutlon. All the statements, parables, orations, and mtracles 011 the. Old 'lleswmcnt wens merely preparatory, and \t'hcn all was ready, in the time of Christ" there - pours forth the Oratorio of the Mes- slabâ€"all nations joining in the Halle- lujah; chorus. Moses, in his account of the creation, Show: the platform on which Christ ‘ A . ”.1- BUJwâ€"l -_ Moses, in his account of Lhe creation, ‘ Show: the piadorm ml which Christ was Lo 36L. Prophets and uposties Look subordinate pans in the Lragedy. The first act was a manger and ‘a babe: the last a. cross and its vic- ,t'un. 'Ihe Buthiehem star in the first scenery shuted 1101' the crimson up- holstery of a crucifixion. Earth, and heaven, and hell the spectators. Angels applauding in the gaileries; devils hia- siug in the pit. ‘ g‘ ‘_ J Christ is the of the Bible. 11) Genesis, who was Isaac, bound amid the iaggow? Type of Christ, the Alpha. In Revelation, what was the water of life! Christ, the Omega. in Genesis, what; was the ladder over Jacob‘s 'plliow? Christ, the Alpha. In ERevelation, who was the conqueror on the white horse? Christ. the Omega. In Exodus, what was the smitten rock-1 Christ, the Alpha. 1n Revelation. who was the Lamb before the throne? Christ, the Omega. Take Christ out of this book, and thefiere other books I won‘td- rather have than the Bible. Take Him out, and man is a failure. tend; the world acai-cass, and eternity ‘3 vasx horror. - ‘ 1L. Christ is the Aand the Z of the Christian ministry. Asermon that has no Christ in it is a dead failure. The minister who devotes his pulpit to ‘I-Dwvv-__ U cuss, Christ musr. be the beginning and Christ the end. From His hand we get) our commission at first, and to that same hand we at last surrender it. A: sermon devoted to metaphysics in a stock of dry corn-stalks after the icorn: has been ripped out with the I ‘huskingdpeg- A sermon given up to sentimental and flowery speech” is. as a nosegay- flung toadrowning sailor. 5A; sermon: devoted to moral «say 139. {basket (if chips to heip on the great iburning. What the world wants énow' is to be told at Jesus Christnvho (ha L) ginning and the end and preach ten the: men' tempted? Iel the shield. 01' troubled? Tell them of 51;: Christ! the Comfort. ' Or guilty? Tell sows them of Christ the Pardon. 0r dying? eces; ' Tell them of Christ the Life. pui scores of ministers, yielding to‘ the keep demands of the age tor elegant rhe- alVe. toric. and soft speech, and flattering] apostrophe have surrendered their ulpits to the devil, “horse, foot, and walk dragoon.” if these city exquisites _ won’t take the old-fashioned :3 by Gospel, than let them go on the down- Inting ward road where they want to go. and we‘- will giv'e our time to the great eachâ€" » . ibc's masses who want to hear the plain . Gospel. and who are dying by the torts the Worla to Seek of Salvation. 86‘ Christ the burden of our talk; Christ the inspjration of our prayers; Christ the theme of our songs; Christ now, and Christ for ever. Oh for more consecration! Christ is the A and the Z in the world‘s rescue. When the world broke loose, the only hand swung out Lo caLch it wan that of Jesus. Jesus, swift as a roe on the 1noun111ins,comes down over the hills. The ehining ones sland back as he says, “ Lo! I come.” Amid Lhe wrathfui «surges He beats His. way out to the dying world; and while, out in the deep waters, with bloody agony He wrestled with it.and it seemed for a little while uncertain. \L hether it would take him down or He would lift it up those on the heav- enly shore L1embled and “hen at 1:151, 1 in his gleaL eLrenth He lifted iL in Ills light hand and brought iL back, inhere “em up 21 hosanna from allthe ; 1cloud of 11111113511113.1111 began the 3 work, and He shall complete it, Ring lall the bells of earth and heaven to- lday in honour of Christ the Alpha 'gand Christ the Omega! '. Christ is the A and. Lhee Z in heavâ€" O‘ en. He is Lhe most honou1 ed personage “in all that land He is known as a \Vorld-Libeiator The {hot one that a soul EnLeiing heaven looks for is Jesus. 'lhe g1 exit populations of heav- .’ l en seek Him out, follow Him over the . l hills, a’nd about at His chariot wheel. 7 1 1} Passing along Lhoee streets, spints 3 blessed cry out tooneanother, “Look! that is Jesus” Methinks that if the ghosts of heaven go forth in some iother main: to fight, then battle-cry is “’qu8.’ Jesus on the bannwexs §Jesus in the song. At His feet break -. -' o (â€"- the so hat-:1 the when th . +n w. w- circle the chief glories. Where the M white Lamb of heaven goes, there go hc all the flocks. The first tree in the t1, heavenly paradise Jesus planted. The first fountain He struck from the at rock. The first pillar of. light. He lift- T1 ed. At heaven’s beginning~ Christ, 51 the Alpha. Then travel far on down le the years of etermity, and stop at i it thrummed on the harps, and. pour~ ied from the trumpets. and shouted in Vi inniVersal acclaim, Christ, the Omega! d ”Now, what is this glorious One to 'you, my bearer 1.’ Have you seen Him? Have you heard His voice '3 Have you walked this earth and never seen in the bent grass where His feet had sins, have you ever made the camels kneel '! Is this one. the First and the Last of heaven nothing to thee? Poor wanderer. without Christ, what of thy death hour? what of the judgment day '5 what of eternity? If it shall be I. found at the last that thou hast re- 1 jacted this thy only hope, in what dark hole of the universe wilt thou lay thy- ) self down to suffer and smash thy .. teeth and hlowl for ever? You must ‘3 have Christ or die. But one ladder out t of the pit! But one life-boat from the .3 wreck! Get in it. Lay hold of the 3- oars with both hands, and pull, it 3. need be, until the blood starts. The y world is after you. The devil is after you. The ayenger of blood is after- 16 you. But, more than all, Christ is af- l3 ter you, and His cry 18, “0 Israel ! thou 3" hast destroyed thyself, but in me inf t0 thy help‘l” r- "M 5- wean THE REAL WORK BEGINS. ad of course as women became more are independent it was more difficult to to Win her- " . , _ er In these days, and the yough, a“ i man has to work for a bride. “’3 True, rte-plied the benedict, but not be so hard as he has to wank? for a wife :ha When the preliminary task is finish- u“- to save men from um um Christ the Light, Christ the ce, Christ the Rock, Christ the fih’rist the Balm, Christ the Before Christianity 'was introduced into India, lepers were inhumanly treated. Food and medical} treatment were denied. them, and in many cases they were buried alive. .LEPERS IN THE FAR EAST. from eternal dam- ‘~ ' ‘ ‘5 :17; . J V . x. ,3: One day when Charles I. of England and his Queen were being entertained at a dinner byijthe Dukes of Bucking" ham, 0. big pie was put upon the table. When the pie was carved their ma.- jesiies were astonished to see a dwarf step out and bow profoundly. At ythen and there presented him to- the 1Queen. who kept him as her dwarf. After this he began to grow. till at the age of 30 he was just three feet . . . Ln an Hnat was as If I make a face at Billy. He will make a face at m.- That makes two ugly faces. And a quarrel, don't you a For then I double up my fist And hit him, and he’ll pay Me back ‘by giving me a kick, Unless I run away. the age of 30 he was just Cnrea ; nine inches tall. But that was high as he ever grew. ‘-L L In those days people did not have much to read nor did they have one quarter the amusements that we do toâ€"day. So the dwarf because of his grotesqme body and impish ways was considered a. great source of en‘- teartainma-nt, and people made much of him. After awhile Jeffrey Hud- son. that was the little man's name, “‘0‘: .- .â€" _._V_ "1‘15 sure to make him laugh; You’d say if you could see him 'l‘was jollier by half ' Than. kicks and ugly faces, I tell you all tha while. It's pleasanter for any boy (Or girl) to laugh and smile. kirk, which is ”19 in Francs, he was br'igamds who tOOk money. From this This by no means ended Jenreysi adventures. He was captured by a" Turkish pirate. who sold him into slu very in Barbary. He was soon re- leased, however, and made a Captain in the English army. Afterward he attended the Queen into France when Ommwall asizud the throne. He re- turh‘ed to England at the time of the restoration. but unfortunately for him, he was suspected of being :mlxed up in some political plot, and iwa“ thrown into prison, where he [died at the end of his 63rd year. In our country ponds and smaller lakes the cat and dog fishes meet upon about *tho same footing that their namesakes do on shore. The catfish loves to dig around in the mud of a lily bed, and there the dog- fish is very likely to be found. The two species fight shy of each other unless the dogfish is much largerthan the catfish. In that case the catfish must run for its life, just like the Ual- vuv v At the breeding time these natural enemies also come into conflict with each other. for both at them have large families, and each low to feed upon the other‘s children. In the summer it is no uncommon thing to see a. big mother catfish swimming about near the surface'of the water and surrounded by hun- dreds of little black baby "bullheadsfifi At about the some time you will be ;likely to see a great ‘dogfish swim- miné in the centre of a school of hundreds of her babies, each one of them looking very much like a ten- der little sunfish. It you 313011141 toss a stick at eith- er of thege families, the mother not a baby fish in sight and the moth- er fish might known. swimming alone in another part of the pond. Now. evidently, when the mother fish noâ€" ticed the approach of a human. enemy for the fish have been taught by cruel exfierience to Codeider all humans ene- webs sand to her little ones: THE BEST \VAY. A Bub‘Y DWARF. -oâ€"oâ€"oâ€"H-b-c DOGFISH. means ended Jeffrey's He was captured by a. tillaignal youtocomsato me. 0' This is prémd by the tact that the little fishes always bury themselves in the mud until the mother gathers them together again after they have been frightened. ' How ehedoee this, is a secret; but it you keep quiet for a. few moments after having‘disturbed her you ‘will suddenly discover. her swimmmg near the top ofthe water with a frolieeome crowd of her young ; ones about her. It is said that when the babies are. very young and small they take refuge in their moth- er’s month. This is also true of cer- tain kinds of snakes. More than once a hungry looking (10ng}: has been seen following a school of infant catfish, and evidently waiting for a chance to rush up and get a mouthful‘of juicy young "bull- heads" while the mozher was not look- ing,,~fo~r the mother eat is :1 dan- Whén the young of the catfish have reached a length of two inches the mother begins to wean them from following her, teaching them to shift for themselves. But she keeps a close eye on them long after and is ready to come to their rescue in time of danger. Will Transform llmmm Wimp Into Mous- E E Imus Sh open. a The Chinese aufhorities from time E to time, by official proclamation, warn E . the people of the country against child thieves. Monsters are otten 5 made of stolen children, and so proâ€" E fitable is the trade that vigilance! 'has to be used to thwart those enâ€" E gnged in it. I To transform a man into albeast 2 would at first seem impossible; It E is accomplished, however, by the Chinâ€" E ese, to whom nothing seems to be un- known. The skin is removed in small 3 particles from the entire surface ofE the body, and to the bleeding parts Ebits. of the hide of living animals. (bears amt dogs, are usually applied. E EThe opeu'ation requires years for its 3 full accomplishment. After the per- E son has had his skin completely changed and becomes a man-bear or 1 a man-dog. he is made mute to com: plete the illusion, and also to de- prive him of the means of informing the public be is intended to amuse of his long torture. . A Chinese journal, the Hupao, print: a description of one of these hu- man animals exhibited in the Kieng’si. His entire body was covered With dog- skfun. He stood erect, although some- times the feet are so mutilated that the beast is forced to walk on all fours, could utter articulate sounds, rise and sit down; in short, mnke the gestures of any human being. l 5 I E 3 e 3. A! 4.1.2.. HORRIBLE CHINESE EXPERTS. mbnstxosity had him brought to 'his palace, where his hairy skin and bes- tial appearance caused qui'm as much terror as surprise. _ Upon being askâ€" ed if he was .a man the creature re- '7 buv uvwvâ€"w _. _ Darkness alone, it seems, is suffi- cient to make a curious specimen of. a child, especially if a certain kind of food is given to it, and .‘its vocaLcords are made useless. A living Bnddha the bonzes to their congregations. This child, after years yassed in ab- sblute darkness, had become as white as wax. He had, been obliged- to re- émaim motionless in the posture of Buddha until his muscles had become rigid. No one had ever spoken to him, and h'ehad grown in his cellar as a fungus would have done. Brought out to the light, this mute, blinking, IBVingstatue was eagerly worship- that of a‘person of 30, while the body was as small as that of ghhild o! 2. This marvelous result had been ob; tained by placing the victim, when a child, in a. jar, from which the head alone protruded. This grew abnorm- ally large, while the body remained! statizmary in its narrow prison homo.- Iifio Mous- _The stay-et-home girl. whose par- ents are numbered among the wellâ€" to-do, has far more opportunities, 0t meeting possible suitors and marry» ing well than the girl whose time is almost entirelj! taken up in the strug~ gle for self-maintenance'The former has little eISe to do but attend I0 her dress, help in the domestic at“. rangements, and make herself attrac-T tive and agreeable; the latter spends 2111 her time in traveling, working hard ’ all day, returning home tired in the evening. Her complexion is not so fresh as her butterfly sister’s, her dresses are plainer and quieter; yet, whren it comes to the question of uiairiage, one has only to look rou-id to see which at the two would make the best wife. He “The stay-dt-home girl is the air) tcr me.” says the unthinking youth. “She is prettier, more girlish, and more domesticated.” This may be. She would be a pretty little housekeeper. no doubt; keep the plaice neat and spotless. an-l cook the daintiest little dinners in the world. But would the average man be content 3 with that I Does ae marry because he wants acook or akind of superior housekeeper! Let us have a better opinion of him than that. He marries because he wan-ts a. wife and a oom- panion, and as long as things are fair- ly comfortable, he is not particular as to the, condition of his homeâ€"inj fact, he objects to fiuesiness, and; grumbles at having tu change his‘ boots or clear up his papers. A pret- ty wife does not satisfy a man now- adays. He wants to be entertained and amused. To be happy, he must have a smart wife, a lively wiie,and a wife with plenty of tun as wellas commonsense. For that he has to seek further than the girls who have lived a butterfly existence at home. ‘ ‘When I marry,” said. a young man the other day, “it will be a girl who has never been further than the vil- lge in which she livesâ€"a sweet, coun- try girl, unhardened by contact with the world!” “ Then you would make the biggest mistake you ever made in your life 2” saxd. a practical friend. “ You would get tired. of her in a month. Take my advice, and when you do marry, choose a wife, whose charm lies in her sell-helpfulness and her deveIOped mind. Select a wife for everything but. her ignorance. and you will not go far wrong.” - And there is a great deal of truth l in this. A man takes a fancy to a girl he has seen but three or four timesâ€"perhaps on the tennis-court, or at a friend’s house. She is pretty *~ and glrlish, and wellâ€"dressed, and_ by‘ i, and by the two become engaged. If' he is fortunate, he finds out his mia~ ‘ take before it in too late. Even then , he sometimes sacrifice: his future Z'happiness by honourably carrying out 'his contract. The girl he has mar-i ; ried is vain, simple. and narrow-mind? : ed. She has but few ideas in her head, and those he know: by heart. He canc inot imagine how he could possibly Qhave been attracted by such a very iuninteresting woman. Yet she in as . pretty and as well-dressed as when he Hirst saw her. I Thus the girl who spends the best» 3 ‘part of her li‘fe in a city office has liar better prospects of married. hap- { piness. The strain of daily travelling i and close work may have stolen the 11,3, J. mommy We beg to inform our customers and the public generally that. We have adopted the Cash System, “ Large Sales and Small Profits.” 'We take , this Opportunity of thanking our customers for past. patronage, and W6 are convinced that 12119 new system will merit a, .M..+.h~»1m.née or the same. thanking our c patronage, and that $316 new a continuanée 01' w I: the oldest, simplest, safest god best remedy for the relief and our. of Diarrhea, Dysentery, Cramps. Colic, Cholera. Cholera Hort)!!!» Cholera lnfantum. Summer Com- lsalaint. Canker of the Mouth or tomach, and all fluxes of the bowels of infants or adults. Refuse imitations, many of whisk are highly dangerous. 7, __â€"_~â€"-â€"D The “Chronicle" is thv only I ’ rage Luca: Newspal or Western tmtario, bloom frrom her cheek; she may make hideous failures in her first at- tempt: at cookery; but she has ev- ery advantage of keeping a man’s at.- [ectiom She can hold her own with hxm,for she has had almost as much worldly experience and she knows just how far money will go. Pettiness and spiteâ€"woman: greatest pitta!” _ .â€"no longer sway her. Her life has improved her mind if not her ap- pearance. ' “ There is no reasoning with my wife!” said a much worried man to his {fathervin-law, as be overlooked his housekeepi 03 bills. “She knows ex- aetly what my income is and yet she is for ever pestering me to buy things I can’t afiordl” “You took her from a luxurious home to apoor one 1" said the father calmly. “ You must remember that value of ‘money It you had been a wise young man, you nouid have chos- en a wife who needed no instruction. Romance is nothing but a blind, and scarcely lasts the wedding-clothes out l” I...“ UUU 6 There is no happiness in a home. rich or poor, which is governed by an extravagant wde; and there are few women in the world who can be taught to know the worth of money. except by suffering from the lack of it. “ I used to keep myself entirely on twenty-five -billings a week,” said a happy bride, who had given up 1607- ernment appomtment to become the wife of a. struggling young artist. “ Now I shall think myself rich indeed to keep use on the same money. and E without arming it." l‘r-V" Had the daughter of a. wealthy man left her‘ father’s luxurious home for the artist’s modest little studio, she would have wept bitter tears over that paltry twenty-two shillings a week. Why, 1t would be nothing for her to spend that and more on the purchaso of a. single hat! How, then, could :5. keep house for a whole week on tho price of a hat 8‘ .-‘ kâ€"- knl‘ P1 lVU ‘1‘ D only-- 1 Again, the business-girl has had the corners knocked off her. She doesn’t expect to be made much of and fussed after. In Met, she would think this rather boring than other- wise. She would rather be treated with ordinary deference and as ara- tional being than be called all the most endearing names in the world. lThus, unlike the spoilt home-bird. in- stead of fretting for the lover‘s caress- esin the husband she is perfectly con- tent with a steady aifection.