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Ha ppy Thoughts” Iada. OUNDRY HAM, ONT- first ranges adian mar- timation of [)8 )rt 110D r 14th, '7‘ mm now to Local Option towns. this connection it is only fair 0 take those places that have "->*."‘e.1 at least a couple of years i“? from the deadening influence 0f the bar. It takes any town that length of time to shake off the moral and material lethargy into Whic'h they have sunk as a result 0f the sale of intoxicating liquors as a beverage. We have only three in 01‘; immediate neighborâ€" ‘ i 7‘] *d; ’ 1"" l .'.‘::'<::;: many more licensed if?“ iri'rht be taken which WOUld 5‘. (I similar decline in popula- TI‘“. 7:2: space forbids. W'hile ‘3 ‘ «f? » not state or claim all licens- ' ‘ rs to be similarly declining, :19 rs and there we find one that an: increased. but these are exâ€" b i was which in no wise disprove V“ r1 .nls but rather tend to show flaw their increase has been in 5332-.“ of the paralyzing effect of t..- iiquor traffic, rather tha n due "7 Du it this statement is not true, fact the very opposite to :h is amply shown by com- tho census reports of mder license and those un- al (mtion. te .‘vit'fl? wool fleece-lined under- wear. 1'( gular 75C., for.-..-....--. 48 Men‘s Penman’s and St. George‘s. .ui-myol unshrinkable underwear. Pvt-31113.? selhng prlce $1.25 for 79 Men‘s wool unshrinkable under- Wear. regular 9%., for...... 59 Boys‘ fleece-lined underwear, all 53.7.03. Sale pr1ce..-... 29 Men's flannels, all-Wool top shirts. regular $1.25 and $1.50 79 )I‘ example some towns -‘ been under license for lurely if liquor selling: town prosperous these mld be at the height of y. but What do we find? decrease in population it they were ten vears re the. fact that one and me same story to relate: population. Prosperous Under Lo- ca] Option the stock-in-trade arguâ€" .>d by those who are op~ Local Option is that the aar is essential to a asperity. We have heard .Erment reiterate-d times umber. until, by its very . some might be led to 191‘9 was some truth in 3190‘: working Shirts. durable mark in full sizes, £013.39 and 49 Pop‘n 10 Present De- TVI‘S. ago. Pop’n crease. the list. Men’s Underwear, E R. n‘s fleece lined underwéar DI’iCt‘...... ...... -..... ..-... 39 14th. 1911. CENSUS SHOWS .L 63 N 1850 .-< we are leaving town, in order to clear our big general stock We have? to you that it is: no put-up affair. We have a. full range still on hand gone." Be Wise and make fifty per cent. of your buying here, instw‘m} (L w here for you. but 0:211 and see for yourself. Highest Prices Paid for all Kinds; of Farm Produce. and Raw Furs. sweater coats mmed with orsted coa 315 veaters dc uff-....... 1837 2601 1491 1956 1665 coats ate-2* Coats )ats. nicely trimâ€" and na VF “if 98 is; 59 ..... 1.49 146 121 K111 grey, trim- ‘Witih red. ‘hood Which have been under local option for that length of time. It Eis a striking fact, and one Well éworth noting, that the longer {these towns have been “dry” the ilarg‘er the increase in population. 1 l E Town POD’n 10 Present In- ? yrs. ago. Pop’n crease. The fine Oatmeal Mill owned by the McGowans 1 and \1 hich bv ithe w ay, was erected since Local jOption was introduced. is acredit Eto the town, and a means of ibringing trade from a great dis- ‘tance to Durham. The same with war other industries. Well might the Mount Forest Confederate of \m ember 23rd last. 1eferrin9; to the splendid new Library which is 'Ibeing erected here, state that ;“Durham has got ahead of this town in one or two particulars” ‘Four years ago Mount F01 est deâ€" , teated Local Option. 11 hile Dur- (ham carried it. To-dav there are gpractically no vacant houses in gDurham, While we have been in- Stormed there are plent} in Mount ‘Forest. A disinterested party had :occasmn to spend a recent Sat- *urda} in that town. coming up on lthe night train to Durham. He gstated that he had seen more peo- ’ple on the streets of Durham after !nine o clock at night. than he had i seen in Mount Forest all day. Does O i are prosperous. The Furniture Factory more than doubled its ca- ,pacity and expects to employ 100 i-mnre hands. The Cement Mill has also had a prosperous year. In :fact one of the best since it P started. Owen Sound 87 716 12555 Durham 1424 1579 155 Chesley 173.4 1736 2 Does the above look as if Local Option hurts a town? .Does it look as if the grass was beginning to grow on the streets? Far from it. The census reports clearly prove that Local Option is a town builder. Durham is forging ahead under Local Option. Our popula- tion is increasing. Our industries rim JVU‘J an- ”Av -â€"â€"â€"â€"~â€" that look as if the farmers would not trade in a Local Option town. No one now believes the fairy tale “that farmers will not trade in a local option town” Facts have abundantly disproved that have a theory. Shortly after local option was introduced one of the business men of the town approached a pros- perous farmer and shaking 'him by the hand said, “Well, Iguess Men s fancy tweed suits $10. 00 for. Bovs’ :2-piece suits in navy and dark patterns. pleated coats; with belt. Some bloomer and some Boys’ 3-piece suits, tw worsted. Sale price ......... plain pants. Sale price Men‘s heavy tweed suits Sale price ............ up-to-date, good value at Boys’ 3-piece Scotch all-wool suits. Regular prices -up $5. to clear at” 1 98 Men".q fine top shirts. ex‘”a spec-2:11 values, from ......... 29c up , Men’s red and blue handkerchiefs Sale price ...... 5 Men’s linen collars. all sizes, to clear at..-... ...... 5 Big inducements in Men’s and Bops’ Suits Men‘s collars. sale price 5:32;:"éaignsfise..- 1,98 we will DJOt see you in town so of- .ten now that Local Option has ibeen introduced.” “Well, no," was 'the answer, “I may not be in quite ’as often myself, for since the -temptation of the bar has been re- imoved, I’ll not be afraid to send fithe boys in.” ‘ Electors of Durham. Vote for :Local Option and a prosperous toWn. Birds and Fishes and Glass. A correspondent recently reported what he described as the “curious freak" of a blackhird flying against a parlor window many times at the same spot continuously. Such an inci- dent is not uncommon. Birds have gheen known to fight for hours at a “time. day after day, with their own zimage reflected in a pane of glass, pecking and fluttering against the pane and quite exhausting themselves in 1 their fury to demolish the supposed rival. It is another instance of how 3the arts of our civilization corrupt I and confuse the birds. It is the same with fishes. Darwin tells a story of a pike in an aquarium separated by ' plate glass from fish which were its 3 l g proper food. In trying to get at the --‘â€"--â€".~-.â€"â€"-_ , ,~ g»... fish the pike would often dash with . such Violence against the glass asto Wasn‘t that” a funny political dialogue the Mt. Forest Confederâ€" ate handed out in its last.issue? The Confed. can, Without any exception, grind out more dyspep- tic political trash than any other local paper that comes to our sanctum. The Review comes in as a good second. 'I'RAYIVORrâ€"In Durham. on ThurS- day December 7th, to Mr. and Mrs. H Trayn-or, a daughter. 15 EWES BRED TO LAMB AFTER April 15th. In good shape. Time if require-d.-â€"W.E. McAlister. be completely stunned. It did this for more than three months before it learned caution. Then when the glass was removed the pike would not at- tack those particular fish. but would devour others freshly introduced. It did not at all understand the situa- tion, but associated the punishment it had received not 'With the glass, but with a particular kind of fish. Boiled Down. When Samuel G. Blythe. the writer. was editing a newspaper in New York eed and new and 5.93 Sheep for Sale BORN. THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. Men’s beaver shell coats. with German otter collar. lined with imitation Persian lamb. interljned with rubber. well tailored and trimmed. .Sale price 13.98 Men’s natural Canadian dark coon coats, full size skins, regular $65, for... 39.98 Men’s black China dog coats. with Persian lamb col- lar, regular $30, for ...... 19.98 Sateen. ~B1ack. re~,d pink. and “bite. Sale price..- 12 Men’s fancy tweed overcoats, some college collars, and some Prussian collars to button up to the neck, or to throw open, tailor made and nicely finished. Regular $15, for ............... 7.§8 Men’s tweed coats, well tailored with velvet collar, up-to-tdate patterns. Sale price ......... 5 98 'i""--..--....--"'".".'..-'.'--0*..’ . Slaughter prices in . sted and tweed pants. Men’s tailor-made fancv worsted and tweed suits, regular price $15.00, for...-.. -. 7. 98 Linen towellings. reg 90 for 5 Linen twoellings. reg. 1255c for 6 11 Prints and rginghams regular 00.. Prints and mg'inrghams. regular 13?. - .4 ‘ £017."... . for...... . Stapies (.3 unashwl the. prices 911 our in everything Inel'ltimws! f elsmvhere. It nwmm a, bi 'state‘ a" green repo.’ter one night turn- ed in a long and thrilling story re- garding the rough treatment handed out to John Smith. a visitor to the town. The story related that Mr. Smith, wearing a high silk hat, had ventured down to the docks after nightfall and a silk hat being unusual and provocative of antagonisms in that section Mr. Smith had emerged from among the dock hands Without the hat. Nevertheless he carried out of the melee so many wounds. cuts and bruises that he had to be sent to the hospital. The article in its orig- inal form was too long and not in Keeping with the style of the paper. Accordingly Blythe started to rewrite it. This is the form in which it ap- peared in the paper the next morning: “John Smith. wearing a high silk hat. went down to the docks last nightâ€"â€" Emergency hospital.”â€"-Iâ€"’opular Maga- zine. Wagner’s Last Words. There have been so many and con- flicting stories published as to the last hours of Richard Wagner that the chapter devoted to this point in Gla fenapp‘s biography of the composer wil: be read with interest. The master was not really sick at the time. but tired out from the work and worry over the “Parsifal” rehearsals. On the morning of Feb. 13 he said to his valet. “I may be careful today.“ After breakfast he went to his study as usual and worked on an essay on “The Feminine In the Human." He asked to be excused at the noon meal. and the family and an intimate friend were enjoying it wber a woman servant rushed in and said that the great man was ill. He was placed on a cot in his study. and whim removing some of his clothes awutch which his Wife had given to him fe‘d to the floor. He gasped. “My watch!‘ And these were the last words be m: tered. Generally speakaig, raves living at high altitudes have. weaker and more highly pitched voi:.-es than those living in regions Where the supply of oxygen is more plentiful. Thus. in South America. among the lndians living on the plateaus between the ranges of the Andes. at an elevation of from 10.00:; to 14.000 feet. the men have voices like women and the women like children their singing being a shrill monotone The Australian native has a weal; voice, but a knack of sending it a long distance. and the lowest tribes 01 African bushmen would come into the same category; but. it is said. of all human beings the pygmies or Centra Africa have. in point of volume and compass, the weakest of human voices ~Harper’s Weekly. Wellington an Simplicity. When Sir Edwin Landseer was paint mg the duke’s norttait. hoping to save men’s wor- m m .. . ‘ ‘ . 4" JAM. rmm vW Race 01‘ TenorS- sm- Men’s tweed suitings and over- coatings, suitable for men’s and boys’ sults and overcoats. Regular $2, sale price ...... - 19 All-Wool flannel. sale price Ladies7 wrappere'ttes. wrappers. colors blue and red. 1110er made and well trimmed. I-‘iegular up to $1.50, for....-. .................. 98 Ladies” skirts. black and blue. panamas and serges. finest maâ€" terial and latest make. .3 Regular up to $7 for ......... 9.43 Ladies’ and girls’ cloth colors. latest make, to clear at half write. Ladies’ fur and fur lined coats also ruffs and muffs at a big reâ€" duction. Vin-9t ians and selges. all colors, reg. up to $1, £0149 58 Diagonal and plain dre in dark shades and patte Regular 500. and 600., for Checked and goods, reg. up urn-a..- ”'32.“! Flannelettes, heavy striped, light and dark, regular 12%., for ...... 8 Flannelette blankets. White Sufi grey, sale price..." ............ 98 Table linen, regular 46¢. for 25 Table linen, regular 55.3., for 39 Best Irish linen, reg. 900., for 59 mm.mu. «a ()(H Not the Cook’s Fauit. Mistress-Really. Marie. Whenever I come into the kitchen I see yqu doing nothing. Cookâ€"You’re right. mum; you never have any luck, do yamâ€"- Fliegende Blatter. Wilma a: dim»... -- ' m ' mu. ' an...“ ..__ him the trdublé of"m11ch sitting, he wrote and asked if he could let him have the trousers belonging to the uni- form. The duke wrote back in all solemnity: “Field Marshal the Duke of Welling- ton presents his compliments to Sir Edwin Landseer and regrets that he cannot send him the trousers as he has but one pair.”-London Nation. Wanted an Even Start. “Pa, you know you told me to count twenty before I punched another boy '2” “Yes.” “Well, in order to make it work out right you have got to go around the neighborhood and make the other boys promise to count twenty before they take a punch at me.”-â€"Houston Post. “Yes.” “He’s 1n enthusiastic fisherman and always has a story to tell about some gigantic monster of the deep that he almost caught.” . Force of Habit. ”It‘s curious how habits fasten them- selves on people. You know Wapps- lay?” “I’ve heard him tell a lot of lies of that kind.” “Well, it seems that burglars broke into his house the other night and he got up and captured one of themâ€"a little fellowâ€"but you ought to hear him tell about the size or the one that! got away.”â€",Chicago Record-Herald. Dana’s Ten Books. Charles A. Dana once made a list of ten “indispensable books.” They are the Bible, Shakespeare, the Dec. laration of Independence, the Con- stitution of the United States, Ban- croft’s “History of the United States,” Irving’s “Life of Washington,” Frank- lin’s “Autobiography,” Channing’s “Es- say on Napoleon Bonaparte,” Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Em. pire” and Tarbell’s “Early Life of Repudiatcd the Spelling. Once while in Pittsburg Andrew Car- negie had a telegram sent and stood waiting until it reached the operator. He listened attentively to the clicking of the key, then immediately wrote a new telegram, as follows: “The other message mine; spelling the operator’s." Lincoln." Her Secret. Bessieâ€"Did you tell the girls at the tea that great secret I confided to you and Elsie? Evaâ€"No; isn’t it a shame! That horrid Elsie got there first and told them before I arrived! plain dress goo and patterns. a CNV’ ““m .“fi' mmwm?mam.wm. SW m?“ WW7, m me VOUI‘ Sn 517.95 Ladies medium “eight Reliable shoes, legular $1. 50 and $15. .l.19 Ladies patent buttoned and 111c- 1911s.,hoes McPherson make 1e9, ular u}:- to $4, for" .8: H58 Ladies fine kid and (1011on a 2111ar 5%-. 50, for ...... 2.48 Big reductions in Children’s Full supplv of fresbh groceries shoes. 'x‘231d1‘21 underwear, natum) wool. regular $1.25 for... ...... 79 Union's, heavy Weight, worsted underwear, regular 75c., for..- 49 Ladie-s' long sleeved winter weight underwear. sale price 229 Ladies’ sweater coats. black, blue and red. buttoned up to the neck. Sale price ......... . Ladies’ all-wool worsted stockâ€" ings. Sale price ............ l9 Men’s overshoes. first quail}; storm and plain, sale price..- 6-7 Men’ 8 one buckle heavy rubbers. Sale price..- . .. 1.39 Big reduction in men‘s heavy and fine shoes. Boys’ heaVy rubbers, sale .price from 90c. to..-. ... ...361. 15 Girle’ shoes BOYS ioys‘ shoes )es, regular Shaw and Rubbers Mrs. E. D. McClocklin. 51x. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Nichâ€" olls, in Toronto. v4. iv vv ILL K, uLLCLIL- 04321., 211": SPESHU’ ins: a few weeks With the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rowbt. Web- ber, and other relatives and frien-dS. Mr. Langf-ord, formerly :1 clerk with Alex. Russell here, was in town last week to buy a load of turkeys to ship to the west. Mr. Langford is now engaged in Orangeville. Mr. Thovs. Fluker, of Palmerston spent Sunday with his uncle. Mr T. Fluker here. Mr. and Mrs: W'eb‘b'er 'and child. 9f :SWif} «Curregt. Sa_8_k., are spend- Mr. Will Lavelle was up from St Marys over Sunday and Mondz'x3 Mrs J. Kress spent a few da3s in Toronto this 33 eek. -3Irs. Fred Buckingham Visited friends in Mt. Forest. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Connor are visiting friends in Guelph, and attending the Winter Fair. Mr. Colgan, of the Dundalk Herald, gave us a brief call on Tuesday. Mr. Samuel Wright, of Kine-arâ€" dine, and his son, Sam, of Czhesley. wgge in town last week. ies' Underwear After illness or loss of weight from any cause, it brings strength and flesh quicker than anything else. It creates an appetite, aids digestion, fills the veins with rich red blood. has helped countless thousands of thin, weak, delicate childrenâ€"made them strong, plump and robust. ehsm i< ms before menmme I. ALL DRUGGIOTS PERSONAL. HUTO‘ a]! the Dela w U1 FIVE 11-16