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Store JANUARY STOCK=TAKING SALE I‘CO.‘ 1400004000 v0 9?. ON. CV! ’09”. 000000 ”009.009.. JOOVO I I... . O a+++¢++++++++++++++++é++++ MHS. A. BEGBS SUN Goods delivered.£to all parts of the town on short notice. WINDSOR SALT BRAN and SHORTS always kept in stock. McGowan’s Eclipse and Sovereign Five Roses Chesley Good Luck Milverton Three We handle the well known brands of Flour such as TAKE NOTIICE RIGHT. FARMERS 5:5" MOO Jewel . T‘"‘Hons We Import Then World and A An item that se test or a steame Japanese and Ch in the list of her Fifty-five cases 0 As a matter 01 the hair thereof 1 of. importation in China and from other country on 4 market gets largl from China, but and horse tails ar every other Eu! from South Ama from all round th‘ er hand, there are can horse tails em From various c horse tails, like t1 may In one count from year to yea] years when the w. and years when -'. corresponding cha: “What do you want, my good man?”. asked the gentleman. “I have already given you 2 sons.” One day a group of gentlemen halted near'him. chatting, and he heard the name by which they cal-led the one who lingered longest. Reaching flor- ward as he. too, was about to go. he caught him by the coat. “Yes, monsieur, and I have thanked you." replied the veteran. “It is some- thing else ‘that I want.” ‘fWhat is it?” “Verses.” “You shallhave them,” said the gen- Victor Hugo’s Response to the Old Blind Soldier’s Appeal. A Frenchman, writing recently upon “The Mendlcants of Paris,” recalls a pretty anecdote of Victor Hugo and i blind beggar. The beggar was an oid soldier, very feeble and quite sight- less, who was led every day by his little granddaughter to a certain street corner, where he waited patiently for such scanty arms as the hurrying pub- lic might drop into a small box that hung from his neck. the manufacture of haircloth. -New York Sun. Horsetail hairs are sorted for length and colors, and they are used either alone or mixed with other fibers in the manufacture or various sorts of brush- es and mixed with other materials in from year to year, and there may be years when the world’s supply is short and years when it is plentiful, with corresponding changes in the range of prices. Horse tails have sold as low. as 20 cents a pound, and they have sold for as much as $2. It stocks are scarce and high in London and ample at low- er prices here New York importers ship horse tails to London. In the contrary circumstances London importers might ship horse tails here. A VERSE FOR THE BEGGABJ From various causes the supply of horse tails, like that or anything elsq. may in one country and another vary, from China, but more from Russia,- and horse tails are imported here from every other European country and from South America, from Australia, from all round the world. On the oth- er hand, there are more or less Ameri- can horse tails exported. As a matter of fact, horse tails on the hair thereof are a common articld of. importation into this country from China and from pretty much every, other country on earth. The American market gets large quantities or them WI Import Them From All Over the World and Also Expert Them. An item that seemed odd 1n the man!- lest or a steamer lately arrived tron Japanese and Chinese ports was this in the list 01' her cargo from (Plantain: Fifty-five cases or horse tails. TW‘Honse TAlLs.‘ Home “is the grandest of all 1mm dormâ€"Spurzeon. The Real Puzzle. The puzzle is not whether Bacon or Shakespeare wrote the plays, but that one person could get them all accepted. ~Buflalo Express. “You do more than thatJIVreplied the saflmst; “you bury 1t.”-Exchange. Thoroughness. “When I take up an idea,” said the egoist. “I cover it completely." Epithet and Epitaph. Tommyâ€"Pop. what is the differ- ence between an epithet and an epi- taph? Tommy’s Pop-One is applied to a man before he is dead and the other afterwardâ€"Philadelphia Record. Hal Made a H it With Her. ”Don’t you think my husband looks distinguished since he has begun to weer glasses?’ “Ya, rather.” “Rather? Why, every time I look at him smce he put them on I can’t help almgst‘thinking of him with respect.” â€"-Chicago Record-E erald. Watch for the announcement of The Chronicle’s new Serial Story next week. Mr. Arthur Smith left Tuesday for Muskoka, Where he has secured a position ‘to run a gasoline launch for the benefit of patients in the Sanitarium for Consump- tiVeS. ; {FOURTL LIN Kate Fletcher is able to be around ’lgflin, after her serious illness, but still under the doctor’s care. Mr. and Mr's: T. Irwin visite former’s father the first of week. Mr. R .W’. Lyness of Vancouver is on a three-months’ ViSlt to his brother, Mr. aJmes Lyness, and other relatives. Mr and Mrs. OH. Hooper I were visitors on this esday. -~_ _ “VVVAUULJ 'af-Ju U‘aug’n- ter Willa visited Chatsworth friend: last week. Mrs. Fred Sproat and little Nora left on Monday to visit with To- ronto relatives before going West. Mr. James Lyness purchased a N'.) 2 Cloverleaf manure spreader from H. Knott recently. Mi. 8 McKinnon. of East back line passed through our burg last Sunday evening; tne rainy season, We the farmers are not eding yet. A number . small acreage .to sow. '. Patterson and daugh- ":â€":L_ -1 "“ _._Irwin Visited the per of Eben- this line last DURHAM CHRONICLE. the Watch the beginnings. Great floods have come through little leaks. Our Language. “Now you know you’re all wrong about that." "Oh. yes: if you say so. I reckon I’m all wrong. all right.”â€"Ch1cago Tribune. Her Resentment. Aliceâ€"It’s mean of you to tell people that when Jack kissed me I didn't reâ€" sent it. Maud-LI didn’t. dear. ()n the contrary, I said that when he kissed you on the cheek you held it up against him for quite awhile-Boston Tran- script. “Limelight and the center of the stage was a passion of Sam Clemens’ boyhood, a love of the spectacular that never wholly died. It seems almost a pity that in those old tarofi’, barefoot days he could not have looked down the years to a time when. with the world at his feet. venerable Oxford should clothe him in a scarlet gown.” “Then suddenlyâ€"they could hardly believe their eyesâ€"the bowlder struck a projection a distance above the ,road and, with a mighty bound, sailed clear over the negro and his mule and land- ed in the soft dirt beyond, only a frag- ment striking the shop, damaging but not wrecking it. Half buried in the ground, that bowlder lay there for nearly forty years. Then it was blast- ed for milling purposes. It was the last rock the boys ever rolled down. They began to suspect that the sport was not altogether safe. “The boys watched it with growing interest. It made longer leaps with every bound, and whenever it struck the fragments and dust would fly. They were certain it'would demolish the negro and destroy the cooper shop. The shop was empty, it being Sunday, but the rest of the catastrophe would invte close investigation and results. It was making mighty leaps now, and the negro had managed to get directly in its path. They stood holding their breath, their mouths open. the air. About halfway down the hill it struck a tree several inches thick and cut it clean off. This turned its course a little, and the negro in the cart, who heard the noise. saw it come crashing in his direction and made a wild effort to whip up his horse. It was also headed toward a cooper shop across the road. “ ‘Look out, boys; she’s coming!’ “She came. The huge stone kept to the ground at first, then, gathering a wild momentum, it went bounding into ed, however. They had planned for a thrilling result, and there was thrill enough while it lasted. In the first place, the stone nearly caught Will Bowen when it started. John Briggs had just that moment quit digging and handed Will the pick. Will was about to step into the excavation when Sam Clemens, who was already there, leaped out with a yell: “Finally one Sunday while they were digging it suddenly got loose and start- ed down. They were not quite ready for it. Nobody was coming but an old colored man in a cart. so it was going to be wasted. It was not quite wast- ed on, but they worked faithfully Sun- day after Sunday. If their parents had wanted them to work like that they would have thought they were be- ing killed. " “A rock about the size of an omnibus was lying up there in a good position to go downhill, once started. They deo cided it would be a glorious thing to see that great bowlder go smashing down a hundred yards or so in front of some unsuspecting and peaceful minded churchgoer. Quarrymen were getting out rock not far away and left their picks and shovels over Sundays. The boys borrowed these and went to work to undermine the big stone. It was a heavier job than they had count- “This was Homeric sport. but they carried it too far Stones that had a habit of getting loose so numerously on Sundays and so rarely on, other daysinvited suspicion. and the ‘pat- terollers’-â€"river patrol. a kind of police of those daysâ€"were put on the watch. So the boys found other diversions un- til the patterollers did not watch any more. Then they planned a grand coup that should eclipse anything beâ€" fore attempted in the stone rolling line. “One of their Sunday pastimes was to climb Holliday’s hill and roll down big stones to frighten the people who Were drixing to church Holliday’s hill above the road was steep A stone, once started. would go plunging and leaping down and bound ac1oss the road with the deidly swiftness of a twelve inch shell. The boys would get a stone poised. then wait until they saw a team approaching and. calcu- lating the distance. would give it a start. Dropping down behind the bush- es, they would watch the dramatic ef- fect' upon the c-huu- hgoers as the great missile shot acmss the road a few yards before them The Final Prank on Holliday’s Hill Was In a Fair- Way of Ending In a Tragedy When the Danger Was. by a Bit of Good Luck, Narrowly Averted. Writing on “Mark Twain" in Bar- per’s Magazine. Albert Bigulow Paine recounts some of the scrapes of the youthful Sam Clemens. Sam was a recognized ringleader among his play- mates. and one of the pranks they played nearly had a fatal termination. A BAD SCARE ENDED THE FUN Rock Rolling Feats of Mark Twain In His Boyhood Days. wig! gnnvrm Just Cause For Anger. “Mrs. Tinmore is so angry with her ydentist she vows she never will pay l his bill,” says the neighbor. “Why in the world ?” asks the caller. “Well, she got him to put in a bridge for her, and she complained to him that it did not feel right, but he said it was all right and would not be no- ticed when she got used to it. and so she kept it. of course, although it seemed to make it hard for her to talk â€"-kind of made her voice thick, you know. And yesterday she called up Mr. Tinmore and asked him to bring home some shoes and shirts for their little boys, and Mr. Tinmore kept her repeating it over and over to him the longest time until he thought he knew what she wanted. And what do you suppose he brought home? A bottle of soothing sirupl"â€"Judge’s Library. It’s finer being a small hunk o lhine than a big bank of to:.--. Setting Him Right. Heâ€"My income is small. and per» haps it is cruel of me to take you from your father’s root. Sheâ€"I don’t live on the root. ous during the rice planting season, when the people are working in the fields. for the season is coincident with the nesting time or the cobra, which will then attack human beings without hesitation if they happen near the nest. The cobra will also bite unâ€" der water. There are fifty-two varie- ties or snakes in Siam, the majority of them being venomous. In size they range from the thirty toot python to the deadly little earth snake six inches in length. The following is a Siamese prescription for snake bites, on the theory that like cures like, it is to be presumed: Bone 01 goose, tail of a fish, 1 hence of domestic pig. bones of Wild 3 boar, bones of a peacock, the head of a venomous snake. Pound to a powâ€" § der, mix, dilute with plenty of water and take in quantitiesâ€"Good Health. ' Snake Bites In Siam. Great numbers 01' Siamese die every year of snake bites. On being bitten the victim simply lies down and suc- cumbs. The deaths are most numer- Jeking Friends In Old Days. In a romantic and picturesque old hall in Derbyshire, in England. is one of those curious relics of bygone times which carry the mind back to the hab- its and customs of our great-great. grandfathers. A handout looks a strange thing to be fixed to the screen of the banqueting hall or a baronial mansion, but one is there. When the banquet had advanced toward its ze- nith. it any gentleman among the guests refused to drink the full quan- tity that was deemed the proper thing at that time he was merrily carried to the oak screen and placed with his arm upraised and secured and locked in that position by the iron ring. 318 sleeve. then wide open. offered a tempt- ing receptacle for the wine which he had refused to drink, and the contents or the goblet, with as much more as the roisterers thought fit, were poured down the unlucky victim’s arm, and woe be to him it he did not take the joke in the spirit in which it was giv- en. Color Sensations. Color is very commonly looked upon as a definite quality. This, however, is Only partly true. The more correct and scientific concept of color is that it is simply the name or a certain group of sensations by which we are affected. Thus we say “the rose is red.” it is more correct to say “the rose produces in us the sensation we call redness." A man who is color blind will declare that it is green, showing that the color is not in the thing, but in the perception of it. So far, therefore, from retaining their color in the dark. objects cannot prop- erly be said to possess it even In the -_.-~s -1- A A light. “The rose is red” really means '- that the size and arrangement of its I surface molecules are such as to re- flect that particular part of the spec- trum which we have agreed to call red. In the dark it is simply black or col- orless, though it retains its capacity ,3 for again exciting in us the sensation l or redness on being restored to the light. just as an empty glass retains its capacity for being refilled. Ask the Chmnicle about tho \x edding invitations. Our large stock of Summer Millinl that is new and s*ylish in trimmed hats. city on Monday and made another 1 shapes, etc. We are now prepared to c: mer bride. The rush for summer hat dainty braids, tulles. nets, etc., is now 0: We are adding new hats to our already 1 also have. a large assortment of black ha' hats, large black chip. Mohair pressed s fitting hats for matinns. Our stock w plete at this season of the year. ' (fall display. “g ‘ . ---- ofsun- Poultry, and all kinds of Fa:râ€"m Pro duce taken as Cash. Be sure and give us a call. You wil save money by dealing Here. Our prices are the lowest in town, and we ask you to call and be convin- ced. ‘ Ladies’ Suits, Skit-Ls Our Stock of New Spring Goods has arrived and at; now on our shelves for your inspection. Our stock comprises Mens’ Tailored Suits, extr- Men’s Pants all sizes. Butter and Eggs. \Vool . June 6th, 1912. , Hides, Live Well made. wag