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MM+++ McGrath’s Shoe Announcement 3. L4. «.4. 20 pair of ladies’ celebrated Mik-Mak Hockey Shoes in black calf $2.50 for $1 .75. 24 pair of meg‘e gilt-Mal: Hockey Shoes in black and tan calf. +++++¢¢++++++++++++++++++4o++o+++++++++++++++++++++3 You wash dishes about two hours every day. That’s one hour wasted! Dishes get dirty, greasy and sticky, and soap Will not clean them. Soa y dish water merely cleans the surface; it doesn t dig out the corners and drive out the decayed food particles. More- over, soap leaves your dishes with a soapy, animal fatsmell that is far from inyiting:_ __ _ _ _ ,____-_ ___A ,GOLD DUST is thesanitary dish washer; I: not only cleans the surface, but digs deep after hidden particles of dirt and kills the germs of de- caved food which ordinary dish-water overlooks. GOLD DUST sterilizes, as well as cleanses. Beei des doing the work better than soap or other cleanserc can . _\ 1.1 , Made by THE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPANY Makers of FAIRY SC‘ AP, the oval cake. February 15%, 1912. If you want honest footwear here’s the place to get it at then: 25 per cent. lower than any other dealer in town. \ for 1 .50. 2 pair misses’ Black Hockey Shoes $200 for 1 .25. Ladies’ Fur-trimmed Felt Slippers $125 for 75¢. Ladies’ All-Felt Slippers 75c, for 356 Ladies’ Carpet Slippers 65c. for 350. Ladies’ Leather-fox Felt Shoes $2.25 for 1 .35. Ladies’ Patent Button Shoes, high heel, short vamp, regular $4.00 for 3.40. Ladies’ Gun Metal Calf Button Shoes, high heel, Goodyear welt. short vamp, $4.00 for 3.50. Ladies’ K id in button and blucher style. $3.50 for 2.75. Men’s Felt Blucher $3.00. for 2.15. “ Leather-fox Felt Blucher $3.75. for 2.75. " Leather-fox Felt Blucher $2.75, for 2.00. “ Patent Colt Blucher in laced and button, $5.00, for 4.15. “ Box Calf Blucher $4.50, for 3.75. " Gun Metal Calf Blucher $5.00. for 4.00. RUBBER FOOTWEAR.â€"- We have a. full stock of all kinds of Rubbers on hand for Ladies, Men, Boys, Misses and Children at the lowest prices in town. v Mr. Reader. it will pay you to read every item in this advertisement. WONDER HOW WE DO IT Well, we have a $3,000 stock of all kinds of footwear that we must have cleared out in the next two weeks, and in order to do so we will almost have to give it away. ‘ $3.50 for $2375- 12 pair of boys’ MibMak Hockey Shoes $22.50. for $1 .75. _ 12 pair: boys’_I-_Iockey Shoes. black and tan tr‘mmings, regular $2.25 Here’s a. chance worth taking advantage of. Never in the history of Durham has there been such a. shoe offer as we are giv- ing in the next. two weeks. Come to the Big Shoe Store Great Mid-Winter Clean Up Buy now, as you will never get such an offer again. LADIES’ AND GENT’S HOCKEY SHOES Sensation Tomato t. best; fingered “5 E; hagâ€"World. THOS. MCGRATH TWO WEEKS SALE TERMSâ€"CASH. What’s coming? Why Seedtime, then the Harvest but the Harvest depends very largely on the quality of the Seeds you sow. Our Catalogue for 1912 is bigger and better than ever. Tells you all about over 1,500 kinds of Field Roots, Grains, Veget- ables, and Flower Seeds, Small Fruits, Flowering Shrubs, Plants, Implements, etc. If you cut this out sending it to us with your name and Post Ofiice Aeresg our Cgtalogue will be sent you and a present thh It. Do 1t to-day, ADDRESS, Darch Hunter Seed Co., Limited, Dept. 32 London, Ont. n ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IT’S COMING lent the Bridge “It I‘ see another shooting 'star be- fore Felix returns I’ll take it as a good omen, and tell him now to-night with- out troubling to think the matter out first. If not I’ll keep it to myâ€"" Felix touched him before he was aware of his approach. The phenoâ€" mena had not had time to repeat itself, and the few spare stars in the dark heavens twinkled palely as if assuring him the yhad no intention of falling from their high estate. “You’ ve been quick,” he said. “I meant to be,” Felix rejoined briskly. “Get up, that vapory mois-. ture hovering above the marshlanc‘ will wet you to the skin in no time.” He said it j'estingly, with no other design or motive than to rally his de- sponding friend. but Paul, watching him over the grass, knew that the gist of his innocent remark was the es- shce of truth, soon to be an embodied tact, and he groaned aloud in his im- potence to (To aught save wait on events. He looked up at the firmament, and as he did so a star shot across. it and appeared to drop into the misty swamp of the marshes. Presently an- other followed suit, and then another in quick succession. He sat watching the sky and musing, when suddenly the phenomena presented a simple soothing suggestion, a way to settle a point that had teased him for the last ten minutes. “I don’t think there’s much amiss with you beyond a touch of vertigo,” Felix said in a casual way, helping with his coat. “but, I say, my dear fellow, if ever you are in any trouble, if ever you should need any sort of help i don’t care whether it is pe- cuniary or otherwiseâ€"or any advice, where an older man can trot out his experience for the benefit of the younger, you know where to look for a staunch friend who’ll be proud and gratified to do his level best fpr you.” The other, whose skulk-ing author was hitting in the daTk, and for the nonce hitting harmlessly, he smoothed out, put carefully and deliberately into its flimsy envelope, slipped it into his breast pocket, and went on with his breakfast, resuming his perusal of the leading article from where he left off at the last break. He rose somewhat stiffly, and swayed as if he were not quite sober. â€"â€" ‘wâ€"-â€"~v vw-V-v- “You're a sensible girl, Akgie, and generally able to bring. things into their prOper focus. Read that, and tell me your Opinion of it,” he said, toss- ing Dr. Hunter’s letter into her lap. “Hum!” he remarked, sotto voce, for no one's special benefit, “these daily records of casualties and series of mishaps, the lack of foresight and inability on our side, present the un- comfortable suggestion that the Bri- tish army is degenerating into merely a. home. profession fc: our wealthier CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED. with local applications, as they cannot reach the seat of the dis- ease. Oaxtarnh is a blood, or constitutional disease, and in, order THE SECRET ~ of PAUL FARLEY The first was rather a humble, but withal a manly, honest, Straightfor- ward istle from Dr. Hunter, asking permi ion to pay his addresses to Agnes. The second was an anony- mous one, ill-spelt and curiously worded. It informed him that young Mr. Farley, up at the Hall, was court- ing a certain gent’s sister, that they did their billing and cooing under the eaves of a disused mouldy summer- house, reeking with dry and damp rot, and moreover, it was possible, nighly probable, the little e-birds would chirrup there on the pxt evening but one. “A drOn idea that!” he mutterec‘ the door opened to admit Agnes. He smiled to himself, and threw a fine glance of trustful affection to- wards her as she seated herself at the breakfast table. to cure it, you must take internal remedies. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for many years, and is a regular prescription. It is composed of the best tonics knoW‘ combined with the best blood purifiers. acting directly on the mucous surfaces. ' The perfect combination of the two ingredients is what produces such wonderful 'results in curing Catarnh. Sent for testimonials free. F. J. CHENEY CQ., Props” Tifijagk‘ W "136' said 'Lagihg'i'q know you would,” he groped about a moment, found and Wrung his hand. “Would you like me to walk back with you?” Felix asked. “No. thanks; I would rather be alone,” he said, withdrawing his hand a trifle forcibly from the Squire’s de- taining clasp and turning on his heel. "Good-night, and thank you.” “Better so,” he said hiinself, twist- mg a silk wrapper round his throat, “Ntter tell Agnefl first, a Woman's Witsâ€"I’ll thinK 1t out careruiiy, sleep on it, and see What sort of an aspect the wretched business wears to-mor- row. The mischief take the crazy jade!” C'IA T-L’R XII The Paragtaph in the Papers It was eigj‘it o'clock, the brealzfcst hour at the Manor House. Felix sat in his accustomed place at the foot of the table, the Morning Post propped against the silver dish cover in front of him. Four hours back they were dancing at The Larches. and now. the October sunlight strtatned into the parlor, putting the Squire's cheerful fire to the blush. Agnes was not yet at her post behind the cosy, so Felix had poured out a cup of cof- fee, helped himself to a couple of rashers of bacon and one or two fine mushrooms. ’l‘wo letters lay beside hns plate, which he turned over with some curiosity, opened, and read while he ate. Sold by druggists, pricey 75c. Take Halls Family Pills for con- ‘stipation. Continuad {mom page 6. FEE DURHAM CHRONICLE. woman, 0. he muttered, as “I simply know What he has told me himself in the ordinary conversational way," she answered, instantly seeing that a temperate middle course was the only safe and practicable one to pursue. “Mrs. Wycherly may have inveigled him into something like an apology for a proposal and taken ad- vantage of it.” “You are very positive, Agnes,” he said, lifting his eyebrOws; “as imagi- native and resourceful as we know our charming widowed neighbor to be, still, I don’t think she would dare to insert that announcement without some foundation to go upon.” He ‘1eaned back, looking at her thoughtfully, tilting his chair to a dan- gerous degree. “I expect you’ve about hit it, Ag- gie," he said, admiringly, “and I can tell you the exact time it occurred. It was fifteen minutes past twelve when I saw him come careeringâ€"great Scott! if my surmise is correct, this notice must have been sent to the paper before Farley proposed. It must either have been posted early yesterday morning, or overnight." “But how could she be sure he would ask her?” she demanded, with round wondering eyes; “how foolish she might have made herself look.” “She is a good deal more likely to make other folk look foolish, my dear,” he returned quickly. “I won- der why he refused to confide in me? I felt sure the trouble came from that quarter, and that he was in an un- holy dilemma.” “Did you ask him to confide in you?” “Not in so many words, but his not doing so amounted to a refusal after the way in which I opened up the in- vitation.” 61a§§es.” He took a piece of toast from the rack, buttered it, turned the paper, and leaned it back again in its former position upon the cover. He beat for- ward, crunching the crisp, dry crust, running a keen, quick eye over the fresh page, Lntil a paragraph contain- ing several familiar names caught his attention and arrested further pro- gress . “Caught Farley’s complaint, no doubt,” he said, with an uneasy laugh. "He was a bit bowled over last night, or rather this morninng By the way, Agnes, I don"t think I’ve heard you express an opinion one way or the other a out that young man. How do you like him? What do you think of 9 “Yes, I did. and I thinx so now,’ she said, smiling. “Never. He has told me more than once he disliked her. If there had been I’m certain you would have known of it.” “I’m not so sure, he is very reserved, a young man evidently who can keep his own counsel, as to-day‘s paper can certify.” “ls there anything about him in the “Exceedingly clever! Listen to this: ‘A marriage has been arranged, and will shortly take place between Paul Farley, Esq., of New York, U.S.A., at present in England visiting Sir Thomas Hargrave, M.P., of Weyberne Hall, and Rowena Matilda, widow of Guy Wycherly, Esq, late of The Larches, Weyberne.’ ” She sat bolt upright in astonish- ment. A sharp, short exclamation and a low peculiar whistle, indicative of dismay or astonishment, caused Agnes to lift a flushed face and eyelashes fringed with suspicious moisture. "1 like him very much,” she said, heartily and naturally. “I took to him the first time I saw him.” .“You thought him a well-behaved, clever fellou, cultivated manners, and all that sort of thing; no humbug, eh? paper?” she asked with interest; "1 expect he‘s done something hcrribly, gloriously clever.” “It’s untrue, absolutely untrue,” she said very earnestly, “there’s not a shade of a shadow of truth in it.” "why, Felix,” she said, surprised, “how iunnny you look! I mean you look flabby, liverish, out of sorts.” him '3 “Did it anything \Vycherly “How did you knovq there was any- thing wrong?” she asked, leaving her place to fetch his cnp. r-“vv â€"v v v.â€"â€" “Why, â€"I 593v hirh come leaping downstairsy three steps at a _t_ime, with a ra'ééiiké 2i_hui1ted -stag. He rushed outside, across to the outskirts of the lawn, and I found hixu huddled up on L-.1 "7' 54., In“- â€" v .___.._ a seat, looking as ifâ€"Babylon had fallen. He said he was ill, sick, bili- ous, or something, with dancing, and he decided there and then to go home. I did what I could. but, of course, I was not going to force his confidence, andâ€"wellâ€"l daresay he knows his own business best.” He turned again to the paper with the air of one who had done with a‘ matter, at least so far as he was con cerned. But his face was set and unusually grave; he looked vexed, dis- appointed, and hurt. Agnes was silent, she scarcely knew what to say, _â€" -_--At\n+ Dtawuh, LII-Av 0.;va VV’J _â€"__- it was all so mysterious and unexpect- ed . She was quite certain that it was Paul’s intention to keep clear of Mrs. Wycherly, to treat her with all due respect and politeness, but to give her a wide berth, not to go one hair’s- breadth from the cool, calm, civil role he had adOpted since his terrible mis- take in the shrubbery. “Did I tell you,” he asked. aiter and suffering. Dr.R.V. Pierce,the fa a prescription in his early pracrice t hoodâ€"oiled thempehinery, as it were holodâ€"oiled the machinery,“ it were, of the human systemâ€"and helped the woman to pass those painful periods that scar-lined and aged her face. This remedy became the well-known Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, that has . ~ of women and saved them from misery and sufl‘ermg at different periods in life. , â€"â€"â€"- “6' . Pierce benefited thousandq of wom and sufl'ering at different pen “ MRS. HARRELY E. PIERCE, of I am now 8 Well woman :'.=. ter 5 with several different (loctvrs, ea. ent, and the last one, after puttin , said I was suffering from 8. gr ' cancer, and said 1 w ‘ ated upon right away. - consent to the operation as I wa last, through the advice of a fi'ie after using two bottles of the ' felt a change. I also uscrl two eight boxes of ‘Lotion Tabletn.’ '1 Pierce's medicines 00 311 “ho 5”? medioi‘nnu (Iv-o an a. __- 9H 5)!) Mas. Pamela. ever strike you there was between him and Mn». 7 - -â€" uvhlvl Pierce's medicines to medicmes are all they they have helped me. u m. BARKELY E. PIERCE, of 244 Bright Street, Sarnia, Ont... writes : I am now a We , . ll woman :‘.i ter suu'ering for three years and doctoring With several (in 'erent doctors, each one saying it was something axfl'er- _ e advuse of a fnond, I tried Dr. Pierce’s medicines, and after usxng two bottles of 111m ' vorwe Prescription . 1 immeuiateb xes of ‘Healing Suppositories ' and ' ' ° and can safely praise the name of Dr. Pleace..s mwlclncs 00 all “'hn enanv- ‘nh... -__- 1- . .. eret about the eyes or the blue circles underneath. sue}: women suEer little, or not at all. from womanlv um. um gammy pause me name of Dr. all who su‘tIer from any female disease. for these Ere maxmea to be, and I hope will help others as “Because he is your friend and you are fond of him; we are both fond of him, and should be sorry enough if .harm came to him, if we stood aloof and let him walk deliberately into that lioness’s den without a word to i hinder him.” I “By Jove! he’d get nicely mauled if he wanted to retreat now,” he laughed; I “but perhaps he has no desire to figure as an apostate lover.” “Felix,” she said, slipping over the echair’s arm into his lap, “Mr. Farley i had no more intention of committing 5himself with Rowena Wycherly than you had, I am certain of it, as sure as I shall one day lie in my grave.” awiffié, laying aside the pe'lier', What Sir Thomas wants us to dine to-night. to meet Grahamâ€"see?” “Oh, we’ll go,” she ssid, brightening; “perhaps we shall hear something comprehensible, have some light thrown upon this mysterious engage- ment." “Yes,” she said, sitting on the arm of his chair and slipping a hand around his neck, “I dare say that‘s {true enough, but Felix, dear, it does not apply in this case. By some 'means which I can’t understand or conceive, Mr. Farley has been drawn into a silly, stupid admission which a woman like Mrs. Wycherly would know exactly how to twist into a genu- ine prOposal without a 100phool for escape.” “Now, Felix,” she said coaxingly, go- ing {ound behind his chair and laying a soft, eager hand on his blond head, “after all the protestations of regard and liking I’ve listened to, you’re sure- ly not going to desert that poor boy ‘In his trouble? It’s his first false step; you will help him to recover it, 'won’t you, dear?” “Then, if he’s been such ~an unmiti- gated young l‘ool he must shake him- self free as best he can. Besides, Ag- nes, if the fellow won’t tell me of his own accord, I’m not going to take upon myself to ferret out his private affairs, why should I?” . “Is it a false step? Does he need assistance? You must not lose sight of the temptation, Agnes. Wealth and beauty are too powerful, all suffi- cient factors to enlist against poverty and hard work. However clean a man’s mental and moral slate may be. the daily knowledge that he has mere- ly to raise his little finger to possess that and much more can only serve to besmirch his whitest impressions, 'to steep his senses in an unwholesome fascination, and feed his lustful pas- pions. It‘s not an easy matter to lift a man once he is on his knees before Mammon.” Felix remembered his warnings on that head. and impatiently flung the paper on the table. He looked at her long and closely. He had never known her to be so tena- ciously positive about anything in her life, and as he gazed at her sweet, win- some face a great light burst in upon him. “If he or anyone else were in real, unmistakable trouble I think I should be the last man to hang back or re- fuse help." “He is in trouble,” she exclaimed, jumping up and clasping her hands. “on, Felix, don’t be bbstinate; I am convinced that the situation is quite too serious to be trifled mm." “Nothing,” she said, with a straight open honest glance; “we are only friends â€"-â€" real good comfortable friends, nothing more. Felix, if you could strip both our hearts bare and look in and through the , you would find nothing there but w t you could approve and sanction. Why, I would rather wed Jack Hunter than Paul Farley, and that’s saying a good deal." “It’s because I’m a woman," she said, leaning towards him with a caressing smile, “and endowed with a woman’s unerring instinct. I don’t be- lieve I’ve ever yet asked you a real, a huge favor, Felix, but I’m going to ask one now. Will you, just (or this once, trust a Woman’s quick wit in reading between the lines. her unfail- ing ability to solve a riddle set by another woman, and put :side all pre- judice in order to help a friend in trouble?" “I’ll promise you this, Agnes,” he said, rising and brushing the crumbs from his waistcoat, “if Farley appeals to me for advice or help in any way, I’ll give it him ungrudgingly. I can't say more than that, can I?” “Agnes,” he said, taking her by the arms and sitting her straight up on his knee, facing him, “there is a rea- son why Farley should not of his own free will have sought Mrs. Wycherly, and you know it. Will you tell me the reason? Agnes, is there anything, however snght,‘ between you and “Then what is the cause of your im- plicit faith in Farley? How is it you are so sure of his motives, so sure that his tone of mind is 1310er set in a moral, orthodox direction?” Paul ?” “Ind i? T721 saw him in any danger; I supnose you wouldn’t put out a fin- ger to nap him unless he implored you on his bended knees?” she said, half 1a:g,212--g, half irritated. “If I saw him tumble in the river, I daresay I should jump in and' pull him out without waiting for a very pressing invitation from him,” he re- turned. auizzingly. and with something “Perhaps,” he remarked, indifferent- Continued on page 8. 533 ACRES near Proton’ Staflon and Sangeen Junction. flue brick residence’ splendid} barnfl. splendid soil. gonad vnter orchard 831:. Will Gtell less 1113:1325 an :cre. Absrgain surely 325 ACRES close to Proton Station brick dwellingfine large out-buildings windmill c.: hay, 2 tons to acre, only $5,500. 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