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FURNITURE ' UNDER?AKIN‘G - Furnace Kettles, Power Straw Cut- ters, Hot Air Furnaces, Shingle Machinery, Band Saws, Emery Machines, hand or power ; Cresting, Farmers Kettles, Columns, Church Seat. Ends, Bed Fasteners, Fencing, Pump-Makers’ Supplies, School Desks, Fanning Mill Castings, Light Castings and Builders’ Sup- plies, Sole Plates and points for the different ploughs in use. Casting ‘epairs for Flour and Saw Mills. a“ REPAIR-- sm- Engines, Horse Powers, Mowers, Reapers. m and Cross-Out Saws . Farmers, Thrashers. and Millmen I "RS? CLASS BEARS! IX CONNICTION AMES CARSON, Durham, Liconui Auctioneer for the County of Grey Lend Voluntor, Bailifl oi the 2nd Divieion Court. Sole. end all other mature promptly “tended toâ€"higheet refer encee turniehed UGH MochAY, barium, Land Volu- oOor and housed Auctions" {or the County of Grey. Solon promptly “tended to ad notooouhed. u reunited. BA BRIS‘IER. Solicitor. etc. McIntyrca Block. Lower Town. Collection and Anne prqmptly “tended to. starches mad. nub. usury Umco. ARRISTEB. Solicitor etc. Ollie: ovo Goriou'a new junction o’oro. have: on. Any amount of money to loan or. 5 per cent. to farm property. Otfhzm-Flut door not of the DM- hm Pharmacy. Calder. Block. R03idenco.-b‘irst door west of the Post Office. Datum. Office end Residence 5 short dieteoce out of Knapps Hotel. Lambton Street. Lower Town. Office hours from B to 2 o'clock. A poets! Banking business tnnsact- II. Du".- lsaucd and collections and. en ell points. Deposits received and in- 'ereet ellowed et current nus. Interest cllowed on Suing: Bunk do- podts of .1 and upwards. Prompt. sttcntion and ovary beility “ford- od customers living It 3 distance. Agencies In .11 princlptl potnts in On- tuio, Quebec. Manitoba, United States and Enchnd. hid Up . . Boon. Fund DEPARTI'IENT (at each suhoqieaflnQeriibX' --_-_---_, "' w" All advenim entered by «range!» must be paid b in advanco. -' Ali «innit: new: ‘, to ensure insatioa in cunem week. should b0 hour ,h: in not lacs: than Tout»: Com: 9;. [VERY YHUISDA' MORNING I! "It 63*!” mum: '0'“. W m DURHAM, ONT. m Tn: Cunoszcm will be sent to my flare“, free of postage, for $0.00 per “"8 . . . . year, payable in advanceâ€"o’l. may h charged 1! not sq pazJ. The: date to whic every wbcripdon is paid is dencfied by thc number on tho “dress Iab-el. N 3 p:- pcr d: «SIIUH'JSd arm! all arrest: ya. paid, except at the option of the proprietor. thm For "an fien'. :dvettkemem; 8 can a W line fur the first insertion; 3 cent? pct “"3 . . . lme each so ucmmsemon-mxmon nelson. Madam»! can!» not exceeding one imh, 00 pt! mum. Mvcrlkements without specific 'ncliom will be pumishcd tifl forbid and chzrged ac- Min Iy Transient notices-“ Last." “ P'ound.‘ “ for .L 142‘" etc. - 39 um for flu; inxnion. 15 c:m~ I 7 Contact mus for randy advertisements furnished on "23!?!" {o my 00cc. _ _ HIE HUBER?“ BHRIINIBLI: 9.3188 BEOWN, liquor o! “snug. Deanna. Durhnm’ Ont. Standard Bank of Canada DR. '1‘. G. HOLT, L. D. S. 'rru‘" "3“. all NEW TYPE. thus a! finding facilities for tuning out Pint-class ‘1‘ m B‘IOI 700803 n_ta_l_ Authorized . JA M13803. Durham. SAVINGS BANK. Durham Agency. G. “TROY McOAUL. JACOB KRESS. [load (mice. Toronto. Medical Directory. Legal Dzrectory. -- WE MAKE hbdming 3 specialty. libnou Axo'l ROPRIITOB- J. P. TELFORD. Miscellaneous. DEN TIST. m1- I: completely stocked with 13 P'JDLXSIIIO Again: that man is in ‘the crisis of the text who has home troubles and outside persecution at the some time. The “odd treats a man well just as long as it pays best to treat him well. As long as it can manufacture success out of his bone and brain and muscle, it favours him. The world fattens the horse it wants to drive. But let a man see it is his duty to cross’ the track of the world. then every bush is full of horns and tasks thrust at him. They will belittle him; they will cari- cature him; they will call his genero- sity eel! aggrs'ndisement; and his piety sanctlmoniousness. The very worst persecution will sometimes come upon him from those who pro- fess to be Christians on the principle that religious wars are the most hitter wars. Now the world some- times takes after him. the newspapers take after him. public opinion takes after him. and he is lied about. until all the dictionary of Billincsgste is exhausted on him. A certain amount ul‘peuecution is s ";,',1'Ox.lo AND Ax INSPIRATION: ‘ x fluent: of it. and too long . p \Jcoomes the rock Bosez.‘ jut that!” overs man’s ' _,‘ "bxhto do then? Go ”$349M“ that. I suppose that these overhanging rocln only made Jonathan scrab- ble the harder and the faster to get ’up and out into the sunlight: and this combined shadow of invalidism and financial embarrassment has ofv ten lifted a man up the quicker into the sunlight of God’s favor. and the noonday of his glorious promise. It is a difficult thing for a man to feel his dependence upon God when he has ten thousand dollars in the bank and fifty thousand dollars in govern- ment securities. and a block of stores and three ships. “Well." the man says to himself. “it is silly for me to pray, 'Give me this day my daily bread,’ when my pantry is full, and the canals from the west are crowd- ed with bread-stufts destined (or my storehouses.” Oh, my triends. if the combined misfor- tunes and disasters 0! life have made you climb up into the arms of a sym- pathetic and compassionate God. through all eternity you will bless him. that in this world “There was a sharp rock on one side and a sharp rock on the other side." ous View of everything. It seems as if he never could rise. But a lit- tle time passes and he says: “Why. I am not so badty off after all: I have my family left.” Before the Lord turned Adam out of Paradise, he gave him Eve; so that when. he lost Paradise he could stand it! Permit one who his never read but three or four novels in all his life and. who his not a great deal of romance in his compOsition. to say that if, when a man’s fortunes fail. he has a good wife. a good, Christian wife, he ought not to be despondent. “Oh." you Say, “that only increases the embar- rassment, since you have her also to take care of." You are an ingrate; for a woman as often supports a man. as the man supports the woman. The man may bring all the dollars, but the woman generally brings the courage and the faith in God. \Vell this man of whom I am speaking. looks around and he finds his family is left, and he rallies, and the light comes to his eyes, an! the smile toj his face. and the courage to his heart.1 In two years he is all over it. He makes his financial calamity the first chapter in a NEW ERA 0F PROSPERITY. He met thl onr‘ troubleâ€"conquered it. 11v at dawn for a little while under thv Igrim Bhudow of the rock Bozcz. yet. he soon rose and began likv Jonathan to climb. before he learns the unportance of always keeping fully Insured. It. Seems as if every man must be wreck- ed in a financial tempest before he learns to keep things snug in case of a sudden euroclydon. \\'hen the calamity does come, it is awful. The man gm"; home in despair and he tells his family: “ Ve'll have to go to the poor house.” He takes a dolor- In this crisis of the text is that man whose fortune and health fail at the same time. Ninetcnths of all our merchants capsize in business be- fore they come to lortyolive years of age. There is some collision in com- mercial circles and they stop pay- ment. It seems as if every man must put his name on the back. of a note before he learns what a tool a man is who risks all his own property on the prospect that some man will tell the truth. It seems as it aman must have a large amount of unsale- able goods on his own shell before he learns how much easier it is to buy than to sell. it seems as it every man must be completely burned out, all his energies. concentrate; them upon one point, and in the strength inution. goes through it. But the man who has trouble to the right of him and trouble to the left of him. is to be pitied. Did either trouble come alone. he might endure it, but two troubles, two disasters, two over. shadowing misfortunes are B029: and Scneh. God pity him! "There is a sharp rock on the one side, and a Uirirp rock on the other side.” A desmtch from Washington says â€"Rev. Dr. Talmage preached from the following text: "There was a tharp rock on the one side, and there was a sharp rock on the other side." -â€"1 Sam. xiv. 4. My friends. you have been or are now, some of you, in thisIcrisis of the text. It a man meet one trouble. he can go through it. He gathers Persecution Stirs the Blood for Magnificent Battle. CLIMBING UP THE ROCKS A cook and o nousemid had a lit. no difficult: In the kilchm tho oth- or day, and presently matters become .0 quid. tho: you could but o roll- ht-vlu dwa- . . Shop-assistants in Australia work only titty hour: per week. In Ballar- at every lhop, except those of tobac- ooniata, tishmongere and hairdressers, oloeea at 6 pm. for the first four days of the week, on Friday at lp.m.. and on Saturday at 10 pm. The ma- jority open at 8 an” to be swept and dusted by errand-boys. the aa- aiatanta arriving at 8.30 am. An hour is allowed for dinner and on Saturday an hour for tea. the total being about fifty boure’ labour per week. There are also eight or ten whole holidays in the year. ’ see what it has been, and take one look to the future, and see what it threatens to be. You can afford to lose your health, you can afford to lose your property, you can afford to lose your reputation; but you can not afford to lose your soul. That bright, gleaming, glorious, precious. eternal possession you must carry aloft in the day when the earth rocks down and the heavens burst. O God, help that man to save his soul. Like Jona- than,than, climb with all your might. instead of sitting down to wring your hands in the shadow and in the dark- ness, a sharp rock on this side, and a sharp rock on the other side. [ ‘Again: that man is in the crisis . of the text who has a wasted life ‘on the one aide and an unillumined eternity on the other. Though a man 3 may all his life have cultivated delib- i oration and Ielf-poise, if he gets in_ that position, all his self-possession' is gone. There are all the wrong: thoughts of his existence, all the wrong deeds, all the wrong wordsâ€"’ strata above strata, granatic, ponder- ' Jus, overshadowing. The rock I call Bozez. On the ther side are all the ; retributions o the future, the : thrones of judgment, the eternal ages .’ angry with his long defiance; piled; up, concentrated, accumulated wrath. f That rock I will call Seneh. Climb; up by the way of the cross. Have; your wasted life forgiven. Have your A eternal life secured. This morning just take one look to the past and, O â€"- ~-' -- Sid e; I WEEPING AND WATCHING. I she. goes forthâ€"a grave, a hearse, a. coffin behind herâ€"to contend for her .’ lexistence and the existence of her‘ .childrein. When I see such a battle; ias that open, I shut my eyes at the} ghastliness of the spectacle. Men; sit with embroidered slippers and‘ write heartless essays about wom- an's wages, but that question is made up of tears and blood, and there is more blood than tears. 0h, give wo- i man free access to all the realms; where she can get a livelihood, from g the telegraph office to the pulpit. Let g man’s wages be cut down before hers , are cut down. Men have iron in their g souls and can stand it. Make the way ; free to her of the broken heart. 0.; ye sewing women on starving wages; â€"0 ye widows turned out from the' once bountiful homeâ€"0 ye female a teachers, kept on niggardly stipendâ€"3 0 ye women of weak nerves and ach- ; ing side, and short breath, and broken -. heart, you need something more than i human sympathy, you need the sym- ' pathy of God. Climb up into hisl arms. He knows it all and he lovesf you more than father or mother or‘ husband, ever could or ever did. and , instead of sitting down wringing your .i hands in despair, you had better be-9 gin to climb. There are heights of- consolation for you, though now i " There is a sharp rock on the one' side, and a sharp rock on the other , chin " ‘ 'when the world abuses him. Go' home. Bldsed be God for our quiej and‘ sympathetic homes. But ther isl many a man who has the reputation of having a home when he has none. Through unthinkingness or precipita- tion there are many matches made that ought never to have been made. An officiating priest cannot alone unite a couple. The Lord Almighty must Proclaim banns. There is many a home in which there is no sympathy and no helpfulness and no good cheer. The clangor of the bat- tle may not have been heard outside. but God knows notwithstanding all the playing of the “wedding march," and all the odor of the orangd blos- soms. and the benediction of the offi- relating pastor, there has been no 'marriage. Sometimes men have' awakened to find on one side of them l the rock of persecution, and on the. other side the rock of domestic infe- licity. What shall such an one do? Do as Jonathan. did. Climb! Get up - . into the heights of God’s consolation !‘ from which you may look down in’ triumph upon outside persecutionl and home trouble. While good and 4 great John Wesley was being silenc- :1 ed of the magistrates and having,l hi'i nam: written; en the board fences: of London in doggerel, at that very.1 time his wife was making him as ‘ miserable as she could. acting as’: though she were possessed with the devil. as I suppose she was; never do- 1‘ ing him a kindness until the day she ;‘ ran away, so that he wrote in his -1 diary these words; “I did not forsake l! her; I have not dismissed her; I will' not recall her." l Again: that woman stands in the, A crisis of the text, who has bereave-{ ment and a struggle for a livelihood! at the name time. Without calling names, Ispeak from observation. Oh'l , it is a hard thing for a woman to‘ make an honest living even when her . heart is not troubled and she has a-’ fair cheek and the magnetism of an exquisite presence. But now the hus- band or the father is dead. The ex-E penses of the obsequies absorbed all; that was left in the savings bankflmd ' wan and wasted with -.~- HOURS IN AUSTRALIA. light, and were sitting in the dark making. It was three o’clock in the naming. Mr. Hobbes had been sum- moned to town the previous day, and. uceptiag those two old gentlemen, like two respectable old politicians, Lou-d Whitatahle and Sir Richard Bux- ton. two of the guests, ant up 303- siping in the hilliatrd-room. ML-â€"_ lâ€" ‘ 5 " There never was a woman as love- ' ly as she is,” he continued. “Look, at 5 the shading of the eyes, and the sweet {trembling little mouth, almost ready to speak, or perhaps to pray. Then see the hands. Did you ever see a i woman of the nineteenth century told ,her hands in that restful way 8’" But further conversation was pre- .vented by the arrival of Mn. Hobbes. ” Why, Rivers, my boy,” he began, lin his dry, energetic way, “enjoying :the ‘Madonna?’ You are. the identi- ,cal man I want to talk to. Maggie, 'go downstairs, my honey, and look ,aftea' the duchess. That's the worst of having a real live duchess on the premises, you must always be trot- ting about after her.” ‘ Margaret left them, and for half an hour: the two men walked up and jdown the picture-gallery, talking g earnestly, sometimes stopping in front ;of the “ Madonna,” only to renew the Iconversation more energetically still. :‘But nobody was told the,result of itheilr deliberations. .. oâ€"-- ht...- side to talk to. Thanks to her thought- fulness a dressing-room and a bed- room had been allotted to him, which led out of the pictwre-gallery, and it was éurtently reported that be com- :11wa working at six o’clock every morning. At any rate, his room was littered with studies, and the servants had strict orders to touch nothing. 3 She smiled demu-rcly, and perhaps fwisbcd he had finished the sentence {with the ward “lover," as he had evi- :dcnt;ly intended. But every dâ€"ay Margaret became more attached to him. He was a dif- ferent type of man from any she had met. He had the breeding and in- dependence of an English aristocrat, without his vices. and insolence, and he had the quick, impulsive sympathy of the artist, without the artist’s waywardness and indolencc. Indeed.his emelrgy was the joke of the house. In every spare moment he was making studies of the “Madonna." and his ideal of_ happiness seemed to be work- on merrily, though to be sure. not a. ward of love was spoken on either side; for, if a young man whose in- come is about £200 a year, has any decent feeling, he must find it em- barrassing to make love to a girl whose father’s income is nearly a bun- dred times as great. The‘next week Slipped away pleas- antly anough. The love-making went kunse he couldn’t buy it; and I fitm- gly believe it will he ltolen some day.” “Imagine an art-collector organis- fins a burglary expedition to rob gBtramley Castle of its ‘Madunna.’ {What fun it would he!" continued .‘she. “ You could scarcely give unice- looking, whiteâ€"haired old gentleman ,-â€"they all have white hair, you know- ,im charge to the police. “'1: should ?have to ask the burglar to dinner, and ‘then drive him down to the police- ;station in the brourgham." ! “I really don’t know,” said Miss 'Hobbes. laughing, “ but I almost wish ihe had Iold it. Every day brings a {letter from some one mplormg him to name a price. One old gentleman {faifrly wept, he was so overcome, be- “Yea. it's a very pretty picture," said the Duchess of Sussex, looking :at the wrong on-e through her lorg- {nette-s. She possessed a picture gal- ‘leiry of (her own, which was crowded with the duke'a ugly ancestors, and 'she had no intention of waxing enthu- Isiastic over anything Mr. Hobbes pos- ‘aessed. “I believe Mr. Hobbes refused :fifty thousand for it, did he not 2" 'she inquired of Margaret. ”Reilly, Crawfurd, you are too candid for anything.” “ I beg you patdflon ” he answered 1n confusion, delighted at being call- ed ”Crawturd, ” anvd annoy ed w ith him- self foa' having blundered. “I spoke as an artist, ”not as aâ€" 18â€"218 anything else. ” Later in the day Margaret happen- eid to be in the picture-gallery alone, and by one of those. remarkable coin- cidencea which occasionally happen when people are in love, Crawturd found her there. “Do you know,” he uaid, "that the ‘Madonna,’ in very like you ?" ”Is it really '5” she answered. “But I’m sure I'm not half so good-look- ing.” “ No, of course not,” he said absent- ly, for he was studying the picture “1‘99“” "It's a poem," he muttered, in his enthusiasmâ€"“a poem without words or musicâ€"a poem in colour.” way, to be wildly in love with garet Hobbes, the picture was exhaustible subject of study. About a dozen of the guests at Bramley Castle were in the picture- gallery admiring it. To Crawfurd Rivers, the rising young artist, who was said, by the After all. anybody. might be amil- iionaire. it he had the chance; but to scour; an undoubted Raphael,paint- ed in that prince of artists' best man- ner, is a distinction indeed. Somebody discovered it in a m!!- dewy picture-gallery in Germany,and Mr. Hezekiah Hobbes, the multiâ€"mil- lionaire, who had amassed his fortune out of the proceeds of tinned fish. PM" chased it (or a mere song. It made him famous mild gave him a. 91803 in society which even his mil- lions could not buy. “ Well now,” continued Mr. Hobbes. “I have been found out in my little band, so I hope you won’t 'be offend- ed. Now. the aham 'Madonna.’ was out out of its frame last night. by ono of my Servants. He was commiso 8100641 to do it by a very wealthy, but halt-cracked London collector, whose name I won’t mention. After he had removed the picture. he step :1 into Mr. Rivera's dressing-room, t a door of which Itood op'on and took his """J . ” I think I owe you an explanation," he went on. “Of course, an old man of business like me, wasn't sucha tool as to buy a valuable picture and not take care of it. A few days ago I asked Mr. Rivers if he could make a copy of this picture. Hemade one for me privately; and when it was done I can assume you that, if it had- n't been for the frame I couldn’t tell the difference between them, until Mr. Rivers made me study them through a glass. The real ‘Madomna’ was then put in this frame. and locked up in my late. and for the laqt few days. ladies and gentlemen, I am my aor- ry to say, you have been admiring the wggng one.” Herâ€"e Mr. Hobbes grinned. and the Duchess of Sum: showed signs of fainting, and aal volatile was sent for. He held the pictu e up. It was in a. gcmmon little oak frame. Everyoneolooked punkâ€"Hi. and Mr. Hobbes smiled sarcastically. IIYAIAO I v “Ladies and gentlemen," he said, speaking even more energetically than usual, “ you will be glad to know that (he, “Madonna” is quite safe. Hare she is.” 'Mr. Hobbes enterc'd the room. {0!- lawed clmsely by Margaret and Craw- fug‘q. ye Carried a picture. At last, the dinner bell rang, and. to everybody's surprise, Crawfurd ap- peared in his usual place, though his face was pale and set. , . Margaret looked unmistakably an- FY- “ He has made a fool qt that poor girl,” said the duchess .to Sir Rich- ard, "and ahe can't forgive him." No alluslion to the lost “Madonna" was made... during dinner, but ahint was passed round that Mr. Hobbes would like everybody to assemble in the drawing-room afterwards. It was nvcurious Scéhevvfifgi'ch fol« lowed, and one not to be forgotten by__thoso who took part in it. Everybody tried to behave with well-brad indifference, but curioaity mm high, and great astonishment wal expressed when somebody announced that Crawfurd had gone to Mr. Hobbos’s study accompanied by Max- garet. Half an hour later news was brought that the butler had been sent privately for a constable. \Vhen Mr. Hobbes arrived. he went straight up-stairs, and ordered one of the servants, to ask Mr. Rivers to coma to his private study. vâ€"v -v-v“ There was a little hum of approval all round the table, and Crawford’s lips went together tightly. Margaret was as white as the tablecloth, and trembling from head to foot. but she soon recovered her self-control. “Oh, please don’t let us worry about the wretched picture," she said. trying to speak naturally. “I’m not going to. 1 shall play tennis. Mr. Rivers, will you let me try to beat you this afternoon i" At five o'clock Mr. Hobbes arrived at Bramley Station, and Lord Whit- atable and Sir Richard Buxton dw'e over to meet him, and tell him what had happehed. In the meantime, Orawfurd and Margaret had been having a long conversation. hap3â€"" But Lard Whitstable interrupted him. stexnly. “ I think, air." he said. “ that under the circumstances, nobody, not even a guest, ought to leave the house." " This is no ordinary robbery," said Lord Whitstable, " The picture is so well known that no dealer would give a thief halt a crown for it. I don't believe it has been stolen for its pe- cuniary value. It has been taken by someone who has an interest in the picture itselfâ€"a collector, orâ€"orâ€"-â€"" [its was going to say “an artist." awfurd looked across at the speaker. with flashing eye. and turn- ed pale; then he said, in an odd. con- strained voice: “I have half a mind to go up to town and meet Mr. Hobbes. Per- At luncheon, when the whoie par- ty met together for the first time, the “Madonna," was, of course. the subject of conversation. Somehow it leaked out that Lord \Vhitatablo and Sir Richard Buxtun had seen Crawfurd in the grounds at three o’clock in the morning, but no one had the courage to spLTa'k to him about it. Next morning the whole house was thrown into consternation by tho new: that the "Madonna" had been stolen. The picture had been cut Lrom the frame with apenknife. Everybody was horror stricken, and at Lord Whitstablo’s suggestion. a telegram was sent to Mr. [{obbos,call- ing him to the castle at once. “\Vell, I’ll be hanged. it it isn't young Rivera'!’ Enid Sir Richard. “I remember that queer macintosh of his. He wore it the other day at tho picqig.” Halt aâ€"n hon}: Viaâ€"Ear they saw the mgp in the mack'mtosh return. “ It’s vér'y Queer," said Lord Whit- stglile gravely, “I sipposé he has as much right to go for a walk at night, as we have to__aif._ up and smoke." one walking about. There I Can't you see him? He’s creeping along the path between the lawn and that third but- tress. Wait a. minute. He’ll have to moss that patch of moonlight direct- ly, then we shall be able to see him better." A moment later the figure of a man dressed in a long coat crossed the end of the lawn. as it he were going to the stables " Going for a walk, I suppose. Per- haps he can’t sleep. Been thinking todmucb about that confounded ‘Ma- donna.’ All these artists are more or less mad, you know.” “ What ever is he doing at this time of qight t" . V “ Why, bless 'my soul 1" said Lord Whitatgbp sufidenlyL " Thexje’s amne- everybody in the house was asleep. or at any rate, should have been. Sir Richard was in the middle of an anec- dote about an extraordinary adven- ture of his at Eton, in which he per- formed rodigies of velour; and Lord Whitata le, who had heard the tale at least twenty times, was thinking about something else. A terrible “sell." which ruined a great many rash people who thought they could get ahead of the Govern- ment. was brought about by arum- our. not long ago. that the sale of Spanish brandy and various popular liqueurs was about to be forbidden. altogether. , These products. it waa‘ said. were dangerously adulterated,. ! and injurious. and co the Government lwould ban them. There was. truth in it. for the Chancellor gave a hint of come such proceeding. and a num. ber of apeculatore, who got the new; early. Itarted selling these commo- dities at a terrific rate. They of. tered quantities ot the goode at low price. knowing that when the run- our was confirmed the price would drop to almoet nothing. and they would be able to obtain the liquor which they had coldâ€"o. up"... at half the price they were booked to obtain for it from tint: purehaaen Thus. by the usual City cutout. they Iold hundreds ot thou-and: of pounde' which delayed the French consign meats. The British and Fuench merchants raced both each other and the Gov- ernment when the tax on tea» was in- creased a few years ago. It was a most exciting struggle. for the British unloaded their warehouses. and tried to hurry up the consign- ments of tea that’ were coming along; while the French. seeing a chance, swept up all the tea to be had in France. and whisked'it down to Cala- is and Dunkirk, ready to come over at a'moment's notice. They waited for more assuring news before ship- ping over, and they had the advant- age, because tea is not much sought after in France. and was cheap there. The French agents over here tried to get hold of the news. and the Ifing- lish speculators combined to prevent their obtaining it. At last the! hews was practically confirmed. ,‘ The British merchants poured their tee in. and within a few hours a perfect navy of French ships came with; their. cargoes. too. The race was about even; but the Frenchmen, wishing to make sure that there would be no hitch. had actually brought their own gangs of dock laborers with them. As might be expected. the English “dockies” fell foul of these. and there was NEARLY 810,000,011) worth of tobacco had duty paid on it during office hours that day. and large special staffs had to be organ- ised to deal with the work. Shouting mobs of them surged be- fore the doors. kept in order by lines of policemen. Thouannds of pounds were made by those who were in time and many thousands were 105‘. t y 1113- comere Dignit’ied merchants who were 8 cessful cze1p red with joy out- side the warehouses. and rushed off to realise; whi la the struggling. do.- spairing mass who could not get tbt 11 applications attended to before clos- ing time. bee 11133 of the crush. almost went mad. When the doors were closed many wept tears of disappoint- These are controlled by Government and a great army of staid business- men, wildly excited. besieged the warehouses in the race to get their goods out: before the extra duty! came due. to some of the most exiraordinary sights ever seen in the business world. Small as the duty was. it made a Vast difference to the trade, and a great rush was made upon the bonded ware- usesâ€"places where imported goods can be stored. and Ihe duty paid when they are taken out. The coal was emptied out of colliors. and sugar took its placeâ€"anything to get it over in time; for. if it came even a few hours after the tax{ was a sealed matter all profit was lost. Again. it the tax did not “come off" at all. two-thirds of the sugar-gam- blers were ruined. having tons bf sugar they could not pay {or with- out extra pronfit; and sugar would fall to almost nothing in price, so that the nation at large benefited. It was Not long ago there was a slight cx- tra duty laid on tobacco which led SUGAR AND OTHER GAIBLES TRAT MADE FORTUNES- A lost Int-urinary light â€"Ixoltln¢ Struggle Dom» British and much thcn the rumour first spread that 3“Bar was going to be taxed. a few weeks ago. a great army of business'- men started to race the Chancellor for a fortuneâ€"or ruin. They began the big gamble on an enormous scale. buying up all the sugar that Europe had to sell. and struggling to get it over to England BEFORE THE TAX BEGAN. France. Austria, Germany. and Hol- land were ransacked for sugar to such an extent that the Continent became uhort of it. and nearly all Weetern Europe had to pay another tarthing a pount (or its sugar in con- sequence. All the quays and wharvea 0d the great foreign cities were blocked with augar-bags. throwing all other business into confusion: and over 10,000,000 hundred-weight bags of sugar, worth about 822,500,000. were “cornered" by the British law-rac- ers. To get it over. scores of steam- ers. sailing-vessels. and craft of all kinda, were chartered; and the mesh was so great that speculators who had sunk their all in sugar. which was spoiling on the Continental wharvea. went nearly frantic. TRYING TO BEAT THE LAW. macintoeh.1 mention this.” he edd- ed grimly. “ because my tricodI. Lord Whitatable end Sir Richard Button. eat up rather late last nzcht. and formed wrong imnznagion. “ And now." said the bluff Mr. Hobbes. continuing his speech. "I have only one more thing to any. Thu' tell me artists make uncommonly good sons-imlaw, and I made up my mind coming down in the train to day to try the expetimcnt." 309 lemmaâ€"Tho Death Duty In A MAGNIFICENT GAMBLE. A FREE FIGHT. In Sumtrm. M a woman in kl! I widow. immediately after her In- bond'n «lath. the plan-t! u flaunt! nt her door, upon which a “1‘ II n . So 1008 it! “I. ml “min! u by an m the etiquth d mun forbid! hot to Ilfl‘l". ht It tbs that not. however tiny. ch. a. lay ail. he: mod: n! moot tho The best arrangement for owin- dow garden in a large. wide shelf. which will accommodate two or three pots in depth. to thin e large gel- vanx’zed tray ehould be fitted. This cu: he covered with enunel to match the wood of the room or with moss crew. which will harmonize with ev- erything. Two or three brackets. holding two or three plants each. can be fastened et diner-eat height: on either eide. Dainty .white euh curâ€" tains behind the plants will not only protect from chill dram the clue. but will add much to the effect u epl‘et: ty background. Prior to that time the great thor- oughfares were obstructed in all ‘pu‘ts of town by toll-gnu. Six lyoars later amnibuses Ingan tr. run. ’In 1888 the first railway train from ‘London to Birmingham‘smamed out '0! Euston station. Four years later ithc Thameu tunnel was completed. The old house-s of parliament owvre burned down in 1881. and the present .magnificeat pile was not completed auntil 1857. The. notorious Fleet pri- son was standing until 1815. Only in 1862 parliament passed an act [or the farmltion of the Thames Embank- . meat. PRISON GARDENS. 'A modified system of agriculture has been introduced into the penal establishments of New South “'alcs. with the best results. At the Go'ul- burn. Bathurat. and Parramatta 3.801! the. prisoners have been successful in the cultivation of vegetablon, and at the Grafton Gaol grain has been grown. The prisoners hail the eye- tem with joy. as they find the open- air work more congenial than the confinement in the wot-kahOps. The effect on the discipline has been Many who have for years known “London Jack," the clever dog colloc- tor. on the London and South-West- ern Railway. tor the Bulluyy Orphan- age Fund will regret to\hcar that he in dead. But "Jack" 13 not yet dune with. He has passed into the possession of Mr. Rowland Ward, the famous naturalist. in Piccadilly. and when he has been duly preserved he will reâ€"uppear on the platform at Wa- terloo Station. to be a mute porpet- ual appeal to all who would: help the railway men. LONDON’S PROGRESS. It is curious to look back and re- call the (act that it was not until 1828 that cab: began to ply (or hire in the London streets. says a corros- pendent. in New York than any other (My in the world. The Pope is said to own lace to the vain: of £175,000. Queen Victoria had £751!” worth. while those belonging to the Princess of “rules, are valued at £50,000. The dress worn by our late Queen at her wedding was trimmed with a magni- ficent piece of Honiton lace, which must have cost quite £11130. A “race" with both Death and the Government was started in Britain when the famous death duties came into force. by which all legaciei were taxed. People who had money to leave at once made “deeds of tilt” at their property to their heirs to oe- cape the hcevy dues. Small people did not feel the weight: at the new. order. but the wealthy did. and the Duke of Westminster was one of the first in the race. He made the greet- er part of his $21,000,000 over to hit eon, and thousands of other people did likewise. But there was a hole through which the law could creep in. and it did. All the tax-racers found themselves forced to pay the full duties. as well as heavy coats in law and “enforcement"; and they dis- covered. too late. that the Govern- A good deal has been said about the precious collections of laces owned by some of the royal ladies of Europe, but it is now. well known that there are. several ladle: in America who have lace: more valuable than those owned by any European potentato. The laces of the Astor family are val- ued at £00,000 and those of Vander- bilt‘g at €ltl)_.000_. More lace is bought They could not pay {or what they had bought on credit. and a crop of over thirty bankruptcies wu tho result. worth of coodt which they had not got. and could not have paid for it they had. They stood to win or long in all. about 010,000,000; and when it wan given out that prohibition had bean abandoned. the price wont In; an COSTLY COLLECTIONS OI" LACES. meat was too swift to be beaten the “Death Duty Handicap." A FAMOUS COLLECTING DOG FOR. THE \VINDO\V GARDEN. ; hr: fourmoutho. CL 8014b: all now-don!“ llllflN Co. "Mfg-3; New York Utroch 0mm. (‘5 I“ 9‘ . w J u (‘ “on ltd-ta! oonldonuol. “book 0. PM cont tree. Idea 01 for ”amino (can. Fauna token ugh Inna”) «race!» W 330““. Without Aâ€"A‘ L {handsomely Illustrated teeny. but.» ott- huon of uuv menace oum’l. Terms. .8 a four month. CL God by alpaca!!!” yAA.--_- THEY \VERE RUINED. “'IDOWS‘ FLAGS.