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Houses tn Let. Garafraxa Stree‘ Lots for Sale. . L. FLARITY Ul’ W (or :bout For Sale. We have t Inge SCOTCH 'rwmzns STEDS and SERGES at I guunnteo ntishction M Mllcnu'r Tm hill hto ale. ‘ or Sale. DAVIS AR SALE CONSIST- he town of DU!!!“ .d nmoertv ml] be MS. YOUNG I stono Sub” se. well watered liars apply to : DUNN. LE Durham Inca stock W ILDEB’S .\l ll alt 0. 'l 10:: ms 08!) ale. MT am BI and Flare wool blankets 64x84 ...... $3.50 3 pair ” 66x84 ........ $431) " ” ” " 68384 ........ $4.75 “ White and grey flannolette blankets'large 11-4 size ............................ $1 20 The Big4 Bod comforters well filled with all pun - white filling. in 54x72 ........................ 31.25 am . “ 60x72 ...... . ................. 8|. 409a: '° 66x XI- .................. .....'50u( “ 72x72. extra heavy .......... $3 (I) am} The Sherlock Organs. o. CAMPBELL, Agem‘. IMPLEMENTS Frost 8: Wood \Vatchumkar. Jeweller Opticia Reliable Watches FOR THE COLD WEATHER. â€"o-<>-o‘ DURHAM, of all kinds. . They’re alwa 3 fresh. Teas a SDCCIAHY here. ry them. TRY US FOR GROCERIES CALDER BLOCK. IIe Sells Cheap. We also carry thb best Blankets that money can buy. and Woollen Yarn’ in all grades and colors. The cold weather is corni on end we ere prep. pared to sell e right kind of clothing to meet the con- ditions. We heve an extra line of Hegvy Tweeds for suitings, e full line of Ready-made suits alar gees- sortment of Heavy Woollen Socks end Mitts etc. etc. lyst the things you want outside in the cold. CLOTHING This Season’s Pure Honey. Cash or Produce taken In Bx‘clungofl! . -\ A. GORDON .. H. BEAN Thn very best \Vatchos manufactured are shown in our assortment Thie doe-I not signify high priced. To Watch {my- «ah-users wn pets vnaH. mmrantee satisfacnou in the fullest sans-a of tn» {arm Cali in. of all kinds for the Farm, the Home and the Dairy. DURHA \f. ONT Call and see us. DURHAM,ONT. â€" THE GROCER â€" BLANKETS AGENCY. ONTARIO. i Her Opinion of Boys. A little girl wrote the following essay on boyzs ‘ Boys are men that hme not got as big as their papas, and girls are women that will be ladies by and by. When God looked at Adam he said to himself, ‘Well, I think I can do better if I try again,’ and he made Eve. Boys are a trouble. They wear out every- thing but soap. If I had my way the i world would be girls and the rest dolls. 5My papa is so nice that I think he i must have been a little girl when he : was a little boy. Man was made, and 3 on the seventh day he rested. Wom- l l ‘ an was then made, and he has never rested since.” Nothing to Show. Young Kallowâ€"You guaranteed that elixir you sold me to raise a beard and mustache in six weeks’ time. Drug- gistâ€"Yes? Young Kallowâ€"Yes, and I want to say it’s a baretaced lie-Ex- change. Let us: believe we can and hope fur tlm rest. Rusty. A little threeyear-old miss. while her mother was trying to get her to sleep, became interested in a peculiar noise and asked What it “"as. “A cricket. dear.” replied the mother. “Well.” remarked the little lady, “he ought to get himself oiled.” Striped Suit: Lively Walk. Once in my callow days I accepted a wager that I could wear a prison suit and walk from Buffalo to Cleveland without serious molestation. It took me over four days to get thirty miles. I was arrested nine times, and at Dun- kirk I came near being mobbed by a Sunday school picnic and was com- pelled to discard my uniform for citi- zen’s clothes. Yet I was a free man and innocent of crime, and there was no law defining what I should wear so long as it was male attireâ€"Elbert Hubbard in Philistlne. Inn Trap. and Spring Guns Once In Use In England. ‘ We were reminded the other day of some of the incidents of country life lot former years by the offering for gsale at a London auction mart of a icouple of man traps. These engines {were once upon a time part or the ; chattels of well nigh every considera- 5 ble landowner and every energetic E gamekeeper. Another implement was pthe spring gun, which turned on a ; swivel and discharged itself as soon as . one 01‘ the connecting wires was stum- ;bled against, the muzzle of the gun iturning in the direction of the tres- ipasser as indicated by the wire, the ' guilty party generally receiving a coat- ing of pitch if of nothing worse. The .man traps sold the other day were probably the first some of the attendâ€" ants at the sale ever saw and were of ’the old formidable patternâ€"that is to say, they resembled a glorified gin. They measured seventy-four inches long and were just about three feet in height, so that they would catch a poacher well above the knee, and once nipped there he would remain till his cries or the ordinary round of the keepers led at once to his release and capture. The spring gun gave its alarm, and watchers were speedily in attendance. 'There was something very barbarous about the use of these en- gines, which were not so very long ago quite common. In fact, people need not be very old to have seen boards bearing the legend, “Beware of man traps and spring guns.”â€"London Field. Romance of a Statue. The statue of Charles I. which now stands in London was sold to a brazier during the commonwealth with the un- derstanding that it should be broken up. The buyer. however. saw a chance to make money and buried it instead. To cover his action he made a large number of bronze knives and forks, which were eagerly bought by both royaiists and l’uritans as souvenirs. When the monarchy was restored to power the statue was dug up again and bought by the government to be [lint e. in its I’m-went position. where it has remained since 1674. “The whole of this performance,” Writes Sir Herbert Maxwell in “Memo- ries of the Mouths,” “is so unexpected that even Dr. I’eckham’s high reputa- tion as a scrupulous observer might fail to convince skeptics that he had not been deceived. but similar behavior on the part of a wasp of the same spe- cies has been recorded independently by Dr. Williston of Kansas univer- sity." When at last the filling was level with the ground she brought a quan- tity of fine grains of dirt to the spot. picked up a small pebble in her mandi- bles and used it as a hammer in pound- ing them down with rapid strokes, thus making this spot as hard and firm as the surrounding surface. Before we could recover from our astonishment at this performance she had dropped her stone and was bringing more earth. In a moment we saw her pick up the pebble and again pound the earth into place with it. Once more the whole process was repeated, and then the lit- tle creatures flew away. exchange. A well known naturalist, Dr. Peckham, watched a wasp dig a hole in the earth and deposit therein an egg, together with a spider which she had stung into paralysis to feed the grub which should be hatched in due course. Then she filled up the hole with sand or earth and jammed it down with her head. The deliberate use of a tool by a lit- tle sand wasp might well be supposed to Indicate seasoalng power, says an BAR-BAROUS ENGINES. THE SAND WASP- 1. Before her departure from town for the summer Eloise’s carved ch‘est con- tained many treasures of masculine wearing apparel. Among other things six shirtsâ€"it had taken her a forenoon to select them,, and it had almost been her undoingâ€"had joined the pink bath- It was really the “swagger” mono- gram on the sleeve that had convinced her that she could not be happy until she added them to his transseau, an When at last the little flutter of the meeting had subsided she remarked to herself demurely a certain coincidence â€"namely, that Philip Hamilton was six feet tall, very broad shouldered, and that black hair and gray eyes go well with pale pink. was the cousin of her dearest friend, and she ha] heard more or less about “Philip” for years. She had met him but twiceâ€"once at a dinner at Mrs. Lorimer’s and after- ward at the Rancher cotillonâ€"but he Her meditations were cut short by the salutation of a man who was pass- ing and whose glance carried some- thing that arrested her attention. It was something indescribable, elusiveâ€" : quick, keen lighting up of his face at the sight of her, as instantly vanish- ing in the calm, passive glance at a well bred acquaintance. But she had seen itâ€"that strange, telltale look-â€" and her heart beat more quickly be cause of it. No one but the man, Whoever and wherever he was, should ever know about this escapade of hers. She won- dered. after all, if men really wore bathrobes like that-pink. all softest wool. lined with thin silk and shock- ingly expensive. Then she absolutely chuckled aloud. What if the man should happen to have red hair? In this world you never know who carries the key to your heart until he arrives on the scene some fine day andâ€" Eloise meanwhile emerged into the street aglow with the eagerness of a rather bored young woman who has found a new and interesting occupa- tion. Her grandmother Castle’s carved chest would be the very place to keep the things. and fortunately it stood in her room and had a good strong lock. The clerk thought they might, though they couldn’t guarantee the fit under those circumstances, and when his customer announced airily that that wouldn’t make any difference he looked a trifle mystified. “Do theyâ€"would my husband have to be measured for these shirts?” she demanded. The clerk nodded. “You see, that wouldn’t do. He isn‘t hereâ€"yet! But couldn’t I give you his collar measure and couldn’t you just make them proportionately '2” “But we’ll send a man up any time,” he explained, with a polite desire to be accommodating. The lady shook her head. “I don’t think he needs anything in that line just now,” she remarked, with well assumed doubtfulness, as she languldly viewed the stock. “Six feet,” she answered, with a non- chalant, you-shonld-haveâ€"taken-that-for- granted air. And then, remembering her preference in the matter, she add- ed, “And broadâ€"very broad shoul- dered, you know,” in a manner so de- liberate and composed that without further question the clerk made out the check for “Mrs.” E. Van Orden and solicitonsly begged her to look at their spring shirtings and the newest cravats. is he?” he went on, judging from her look that she failed to understand. Then she recovered herself. At the question she stared at him in blank amazement. “That is, how tall She entered the store rather timidly, but the sight of a portly dowager at one of the counters reassured her, and she was soon examining bathrobes with an ease and assurance that might have been acquired by years of shop- ping for masculine relatives. “What size?” asked the clerk when, after much hesitation between a pink and a blue one, she had finally decided on the former. By the time she again reached Berg Co.’s she had an idea that made her giggle, though her eyes were bright and her cheeks went pink. Some girls, she reflected, hoarded china and silver, others linen and still others old ma- hogany against the day When “time and chance” should bring the man Whom they all confidently expected. She would depart from such main traveled ways and do something equal- ly practical, though more unusual. With a silent laugh, she caught her lip between her teeth and moved down the street toward the dry goods shops. But the windows appeared cheap, over- loaded and tawdry. Berg’s store, with its display of masculine attire whose severity sometimes verged just near enough to softness and beauty to be fascinating, kept rising before her eyes, and almost automatically she retraced her steps in that direction. “Talk about women’s clothes,” ran her thoughts as she reluctantly pre- pared to move onward. “Why, there isn’t a Window in town that compares with this for charm. Dressesâ€"ugh! Ruflies, tucks, plaits, French knots and fussiness! But thisâ€"it’s a poem! Just imagine some big creature in that pink bathrobe or”â€" Miss Van Orden halted and regarded the display in the windows of Berg Co. with kindling eyes. There really was no excuse for her to linger at that particular window, for Berg Co., as everybody knows, are haberdashers, and Miss Van Orden was fatherless, brotherless and unmarried. THE POSSIBLE MAN Copyright. 1904. by Keith Gordon By KEITH GORDON The clergyman stopped and, with beaming eyes, ejaculated: “Oh, thank you, thank you. I could not think of the word ‘amen’ to save my [ilkâ€"Bal- timore Sun. The reverend gentleman complied. but once started on his flow of invoca- tion there seemed no indication that he ever intended to stop. On and on swept the stream of eloquence while the soup turned stone cold and the hostess looked appealingly at her hus- band. Suddenly the host broke into blessing with u fervent and u A men!” A Timely Prompt. A Baltimore man tells of a dinner he attended upon one occasion when a clerical guest was requested to ask a blessing. A great light broke over Philip’s face, and as a penalty for the momentary clouding of his faith he wore the silk lined bathrobe like a martyr. “I am waiting for you to explain," he said coldly. Eloise made a little rush at him and hid her face on his shoulder. “Don’t you see?” she murmured. “Why. you silly boy, ‘T. P. M.’ stands for ‘The Possible Man,’ and so. you see, it’s your monogram !” “T. P. 31.,” he said slowly. The words sounded like water dropping on a hot stove and eyes took on a steely light. Then his face sobered, and he stared at the monogram on a shirt sleeve fixedly for a second and then looked up at her with puzzled eyes, while she watched him furtively, wishing that she could get that ridiculous, eflfemb hate bathrobe out of sight without his catching a glimpse of it. “Oh, my; oh, my!" he groaned as she held up the articles one after another. “You certainly have good taste, though, little girl," he added approvingly, “and I hope they’ll fit!” It was one rainy evening soon after the return from their wedding trip that Eloise told her husband the story of the trousseau it had amused her to provideâ€"a tale that he listened to with a gust of laughter. He looked down at her for one mo- ment with eyes before whose mastery her own wavered and fell. Then, with a low, contented laugh, he drew her to him, whispering, "There are some things, my darling, that one does not need to ask.” She rose as Philip Hamilton sprang Up the steps and came toward her in the soft moonlight. the tumultuous joy that she supposed hidden in her heart shining in her eyes and dancing on her lips. It was on one of these occasions that she found herself alone on the porch one evening, when a brisk step sounded on the gravel. But in the weeks that followed, when riding, golf and moonlit evenings on the broad piazzas brought them con- stantly together, her feelings under- went a change, and she was appalled at the desolation she felt when he ran Up to town for a few days, as he did now and then. More than once she had surprised a strange, tense question in his eyesâ€"~31 speculative look that made her happy, yet afraid. She half wished that he was not going to his cousin’s for the summer, since that would place them in the same little colony for the next three months. She sometimes tried to picture him, but his face eluded her. Yet the face of her dream often bore a startling resemblance to Philip Hamilton, and that gentleman himself was becoming a more and more prominent fact in her life. Eloise sighed at the thought of leav- ing the things, for they had come to have a sort of personality of their own. They were beautiful in themselves, and, besides, the one who was to wear them, should they ever be worn. would be for her the king of the world. The time for leaving town had ar- rived, and the contents of the carved chest were carefully arranged for the last time and then locked up with the sweet scented bags of lavender. Neckties and scarfpins were added to her collection without difficulty, but when it came to the purchase of a waistcoat that lured her with its dash and style the question of size again cropped up: By this time, however, the clerk had learned to think of her as the “eccentric Mrs. Van Orden” and was prepared for the vagueness of her orders. Not even when she dreamily selected a pair of gray socks with dark red clocks, to match the gray shirt. and demanded them of a size to match a No. 16 collar did he make any de- mur. “T. P. M.,” the ole ing her reproachfully. “011, T. P. M.,” she flung out with hysterical relief as a thought occurred to her. “Rightâ€"erâ€"they’re not for Mr. Van Orden,” she observed firmly, giving him look for look. The floor showed no disposition to open and swallow her up, and the clerk sat watching her as if he might tap his forehead significantly to his fellow clerks once her back was turned and shake his head sadly. What should she say? The possible manâ€"- Eloise gasped. Never once had it occurred to her that in order to have that fascinating monogram on the left sleeve some initials would be required. she called it. She had (I ever, detailâ€"that on the pale ,.one the monogram should be in dark red, on the tan in dark brown, etc.â€"when the clerk. who had learned to know her and whom she guiltily permitted to address her as “Mrs. Van Orden," paused. pencil suspended above his or- der book. as if waiting for some fur-- ther instructions. She regarded him in surprise. "That’s all.” she said at last. “But Mr. Van Orden’s initialsâ€"for the monogram. you know.” he prompt- ed smilingly. the clerk repeated, ey- HANOVER. MONEY TO LOAN at low rates DEBTS COLLECTEDâ€" “'RITINGS DRAWN. All kinds of “ Square Deals ” negot- iated; everything confidential. Basi- ness established 1884. 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