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DRAPER. Luz-Non Strut, â€" Durhun,0nt. The uncle reigned having beenrentored to health by simple means. after nnflering for several years with a severe lnng aflection, and that dread disease Com-”Ion. is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. To those who desire it. he will cheerfully send (free at charge) a copy of the perscription used. which they wili find a sure cure for Consumption. Asthma, Chat-"h. Bronchitis and all throat and lung nannies. He hopes all sufferers will try his remedy. as it is invaluable. 'l‘hoae desiring the peru'ricltion, which will NH! them nothing. and may prove a blessing, will please address, Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON BrunUyn New York Fouled May 12th. 1897. The pro rty of Julm Staples, (fun. 3, E. U. R.. ‘lenelg. This hurse is a cum] one to breed from. I can keep he (-arried away the red ticket last fall at . '11 it 0‘ the .‘iullll' [*1th Nurse Show. he also took 3 we g ‘ 6 first prizm at different shuws when one? Jake 1101 vear nhl. \Vithnut doubt he is the horse to i good plan. h reed fl" :m. ' A {for th: Pure-Bred Clydesdale Stallion LORD WALTER (2652.) Color. light bay, ran-ll, one fare fetlm'k and both lnml legs white. aner, .lnllll Staples. Durham 1’. U. Sire Sir Walter (imp.) (ll31)6478, l (8272': Dam, Juliet 15-236): sire of «lam. St. (latiun q'imp.) (812) (3988); 2nd (lam. Flora nf Salem (4.39), by llraverv (imp.) (383); 3rd ' clam. Snlwav Lass (49). by Lord Glasgow limp.) (5m; 4th n'am, S‘nlway (58), by Young Snlway Iimp.) (3259: Jill dam, Kate 3rd. bv , (Illampiuu (imn.) (40) 03th dam, Kate 2nd,: by Senttish Chieflimp.) (199.) ' Don't forget where to go for a first-class Suit or 'l‘rousers. I have the finest stock in town (just arrived). Come and see for yourself. A large assortment to choose from. As to fit and style the same as any first-class a“ ‘3, .city firm. Author and Teacher of the Nonparoil System of Cutting. J. A. GLASS ul 3111 VLU JV". .5 w“â€" his mules there was a look of beatiflc Ijoy upon his face, which remained there until he opened the cabin door and saw the expectant face 0! Jake. Then he whitened and staggered to the ‘ nearest chair. DESCRIPTION AND PEDIGREE. “Lord Walter,” T0 CONSUMPTIVES. HIGH-CLASS ’ailoring. GENTLEMEN | 2652‘] JOHN STAPLES, Prop. an’ hitch ’em to Ben Coyner’s hay waggln. That’ll take the other half. a Ike’s boy Sam can drive abind me, so I can keep an eye on to him. Oh, yes; We’ll git on fust rate.” Jake nodded approvingly. It was a “Heered anything 'bout wheat to- day?” grumbled old Jake as his hired man entered. “Goin’ down, of course?” “No; goin’ up,” Bill answered ptompt. 1y. “A man hollered to me from the aige of the hill this mornln’ an’ said ’twas 70.” "‘I’ll take it down all right," he said confidently. “I’ve sold wheat to Staun- 236th tFLAT’S {I} 3 FINANCIER “Seventy!” Jake grabbed his crutches and rose totteringly to his feet. but sank back with a snarl of mingled pain and rage. “Seventy cents, an’ I’ve got ninety bushels! Durn the old hack! Time [’11) bver the rheumatic: it’ll be down to 50. like ’twas last year. in’ there’ll be a clgan loss of $18. Blame it all!" The face darkened, then grew light- er. Evidently the idea, at first scout’ ed, was being tolerated. That meant the hired man had moved forward. “Iâ€"dunno,” doubtfully. Bill saw his opportunity and rose to It like a man. “DID YE arr THE SEVENTY CENTS ?” DE- HANDED JAKE moEBLY. ton at‘ore.” He was thinking of two bushels he had onCe taken to market ‘ for his father. the proceeds of which 2 he had lost on the way home. 3 Copyright. 190:, by the 3 . MMMnammw ‘. O OOOOOOOOOOOOOCOOO. “That’s Bill, pap," suggested his daughter. “He’s mighty strong an’ Willin’. ” Jake snorted. “That’s more fallin's than raisin’s in wheat.” be snapped, “so I reckon ye'd better go. An’, mind, I want ye to git it all in tomorrcr.” 9.0000909090000030. Bill’s head was whirling, but there was Laurel looking at him confidently. “All right,” he said as steadily as he could. “The mules can draw half on the long waggln, an’ l’ll borry Tom‘ Stuart's mule an’ Ike Brown’s old boss - Aftér the wheat was loaded the next morning Bill contrived to draw Laurel into the kitchen for a moment. “Say, Laurel.” he hogan eagerly, “1-â€" lâ€"say. would ye mind me gittin’ a ring to Stzumton, a gold ring, for ye an’ stamlingly. her fave flushing. "Why. no, I wouldn’t mind, Bill.” she said simply. “I’ll be real glad.” "Airâ€"«Hr “Inna ye ufind speak“? a) yerxxui'hontit‘“dfihylhn gone.IauL rel? It might he a good time now I’m a-totin' his wheat." “N-no; I don’t mind.” She watched him from the doorway until the heavy wagons rumbled out of sight; then she went in to her ta- ther. "Pap.” she announced abruptly. “Bill's ast me to marry him.” “An' you?" “I’ve said yes.” composedly. Jake controlled himself wlth a mighty effort. With Laurel he must be diplomatic. ““‘ell. mebbe ye know best.” he grlmaced .affably. “but ye know how it is with Bill. Ye’ll have to wait till he's able to keep ye. I don’t reckon he's saved enough to buy a rant pig yet.” But Laurel smiled contentedly. Peo- ple were easily mistaken. she thought. Had Bill not promised her a gold ring out of the plenltude of his riches? So she said softly, “We’ll wait till ye say yerse'f that Bill's able to keep me.” Curiously enough. at that very mo- ment Bill was wondering dismally how he would be able to contrive the pur- chase of a gold- ring. Twenty-five cents represented the accumulation of his twenty-five years. They expected him back by the end of the third day. It was the afternoon of the sixth when he returned. As be dismissed young Sam and attended to “Ye pore boy!” cried Laurel tender- ly. ‘err plumb beat out?“ She looked at him‘quickly, under- «ma ye'gu tho 70 cents!” demanded (’09 By Frank H. Sweet Bill gasped and tried to collect his thoughts. What was he here tor? It was about the wheat, wasn’t it? He had almost forgotten that unimportant matter after the gold ring took posses- sion of his mind. He remembered the wheat had been taken to the store- room of a big flouting mill and that he had told a clerk he would be back later and attend to its sale. Then he had hur- ried away in search of a Job of hauling with the mules and had carted sand two days for $6 and had bought the gold ring. And he had given Sam the 25 cents to pay his fare to a cousin’- to get him out of the way for the two days. That was all, only he had for- gotten to go back and sell the wheat. “Did ye git the 70 cents?” demanded “Ye see, it’s this a-way,” he said. “Signs are for risin’, an’ I ain’t sold yet. But I’ll go down”â€" He was about to say “to oncet,” but restrained himself, for that might betray him. He added instead, “But I’ll go down in a few days an’ see how the risin’ is comin’ on.” “Did ye git the 70 cents?” demanded Jake for the second time. Bill felt that it was a crisis with him, and he drew a long, hard breath. Environment and Genius. It appears that a child born where he could first wittingly open his eyes upon a noble square, framed in by palaces whose frescoed and sculptured fronts should face in gardened spaces a lovely fountain with groups of beautiful stat uary glimpsed through the leaves and waters, ought to feel the impulse to creative art far more than a child that first looks out on a barn and a hen- house, with a pump in the foreground and a woodshed straggling along in the middle distance and some cattle emerg- ing from the background. or on an empty village street, athwart a door- yard with the Monday’s wash hanging out in it. Yet the chances immensely are that the farm born or village horn boy will feel the divine influence which will not visit the soul of the city born child, or if city birth is not wholly alien to the creative will that it shall stir in the spirit of some boy born in a mean house on a back street or over a shop and not in the heart of a boy horn in a palace on a noble square. As yet no one can say why this should be, though no one can deny that it is so. and we venture with much modest mis giving a theory which will not perhaps hold halfway, if so far as that.â€"W. D. Howeils in Harper's Magazine. Under ordinary circumstances the invalid would not have controlled his astonishment and wrath, but this was an extraordinary opportunity, and Jake was nothing it not diplomatic, so he forced himself into a semblance of composure. “Waal, it’s yer lookout, Bill,” be said significantly. “I ordered ye to sell, an’ of course I’ll bold ye responsible for all fallin's from the 70 cents." It was a very miserable Bill who went out to attend to the evening chores. He imagined all sorts of fall- ings-trom a life of toil spent in aton- ing for the carelessness to the proba- ble loss of Laurel. He stuck it out. however, until the third morning. Then he left the cabin with steady, con- fident strides, which, however, changed to frantic haste as soon as he was be- yond view of Laurel in the doorway. But the mills or the gods sometimes turn out unaccountable grist. When Bill returned at the end of one short twenty-four hours, his face was again expressive of beatific joy. Going straight to Jake, he handed him a roll of bills. “The. risin’ was even better than I ’lowed on,” he said nonchalantly. “I sold for a dollar. Ye see, that was signs of breakln’, an’ I ’lowed I better not hold on any longer.” Jake gazed at the money; at the strong, handsome figure before him; at Laurel, smiling a few feet away, and bowed his head in surrender. “I reckon I might ’a’ been mistook, Laurel,” he said submissively. “,‘Bill will be able to keep ye, sure ’uough.” How to Tell a Oyster'n Age. The oyster at the commencement of its career is so small that 2,000,000 would only occupy a square inch. In six months each individual oyster is large enough to cover a silver halt dol- lar. The oyster is its own architect, and the shell grows as the fish inside grows, being never too small. It also hears its age upon its back. and it is as easy to tell the age of an oyster by looking at its shell as it is that of horses by looking at their teeth. Every one who has handled an oyster shell must have noticed the successive layers overlapping each other. These are technically named shots, and each one marks a year’s growth, so that by counting them the age of the oyster can be determined. Up to the time of its maturity-that is, when four years of ageâ€"the shots are regular and suc- cessive, but after that time they be- come irregular and are piled one upon another, so that the shell becomes bulky and thickened. When Women Were Captured. In Deuteronomy xx, 14, women are classed as spoils, and in Deuteronomy xxi, 11, 14, are the regulations to be observed in taking to wife a woman captured in war. In. the song of praise attributed to Deborah and Barak when exulting over the defeat and death of Sisera we find (Judges 7, 30): “Have they not speed? Have they not divided the preyâ€"to every man a damsel or two?” Fossil oysters have been seen of which each shell was nine inches thick, whence they may be guessed to be more than 900 years old. These are all cases of capture de facto, and they show conclusively that the Israelites captured women and took them to wife. That it was also a common practice among the neighbor- ing nations we infer from 1. Samuel xxx. 5, where David’s two wives are carried 01! by a raiding party at Ama- Scott’s Emulsion is flesh and blood, bone and muscle. It feeds the nerves, strengthens the digestive organs and they feed the whole body. For nearly thirty years Scott’s Emulsion has been the great giver of human flesh. Shylocl: was the man who wanted a pound of human flesh. There are many Shylocks now, the convales- cent, the consumptive, the sickly child, the pale young woman, all want human flesh and they can get itâ€"take Scott’s Emulsion. We will send you a couple of ounces free. SCOTT a BOWNE. Chomlats. Toronto. Ontario. HI: Original Suggestion For En- larging O’Sulllvan Cascade. In his “Recolloctiuus” Auhrvy dc Vere tells of an Irishman he met in Switzerland With whom patriotism t'as so truly a mania that eva word in praise of the scenery about him 89911100 11 distinct aspm‘sion on the land of his birth. "What can you compare here.” he demanded. "with the mountains of Wicklow'f’ "Uh." he replied scornt‘ully. “they’re out of all reason! I am after walking along the Chamouni 'allvy for three days and I saw only four of those mountains. Sure, in Wicklow I'd have counted as many as eight of them in three hours.” “Perhaps,” said a traveler, “one might name the mountains of the Mont Blanc range.” “I have not seen it, and 1 am not go. 1 ing to see it. Didn't I see the O‘Sulli- ‘ van cascade at liillarney? Down it comes from such a height that you don’t know where it comes from. Down it plunges, thundering and bellowing. sometimes black as ink and sometimes White as milk, dashing itself against the right hand rocks and smashing it- self against the left hand ones. What - is your Handeek fall compared to j? “Have you seen this wonderful wa- terfall within half a mile of us?" “Ah, then,” said he, with an added note of scorn, “then the O’Sullivan cas- cade is not big enough for you? And tell me this now: Couldn’t you take a magnifying glass to it?" that?" “Some persons would say," was the reply, “that the waterfall here is about ten times as high and six times as broad.” if used as directed will check the progress of this fatal disease and restore the afflict- ed to perfect health. Do not go to Florida, Madeira, California, Mexico or the Rocky Mountains. Remain at home with friends, and home comforts around you and use Pal-Mo, which is the achievement of the century in medical science. Pul-mo is an absolute cure for Consumption, Throat Ind Lung Troubles, Coughs, Colds and all .sther consumptive symptoms. A cure is now within the reach of every sufferer: PUL-MO Wit on the Stun). It must have been rather disconcert- ing to the declamatory speaker who. despising all technicalities, tried to storm his hearers by sheer force of el- oquence, but who on uttering the words “in the book of nature it is written" was interrupted by a quiet looking gentleman with a mild request that he would “name the page.” Some- times. however. the interrupter re- ceives a “retort courteous" he hardly bargained for. and a capital story illus- trative of this is told of Lord Palmers- ton. His lordship. who was an invet- erate joker, possessed a readiness of repartec and a quaint sense 01' humor that often stood him in good stead. Once when canvassing Hampshire in conjunction with Sir George Staunton he held a meeting at a hotel which was but dimly lighted at each end by two small windows. During the noble lord’s speech he was frequently interrupted by criel of “No! No!” proceeding from a little fat man in one of the windows, who was butler to an old admiral in the neighborhood. There were loud calls to bring him forward, but Lord Pal- merston promptly said: “Pray don’t interfere with the gentleman. Let him remain in the window. Providence has denied him any intellectual light. It would be hard indeed to deprive him of the light of heaven!"â€"London Standard. A BIASED SON OF ERIN. WEAR " LEAD TO. LUNGS Consumption. THOUSANDS OF PERSONS ARE HASTENINO TOWARDS THEIR GRAVES AS A RESULT OF THIS OREAO DISEASE 56c. tad $1.00 ; 111 drunk“. DR. HARTE’S GELERY- 3 IRON PILLS. I Pal-Mo is inexpensive, being sold by druggists at $1.00 per large bottle, or you may procure a. sample bottle for I 5 cents. If your druggist has not got Pol-Mo in stock, a sample bottle will be delivered to any address FRI! OF ALL CHARGE. PHI-Mo stands aloneâ€"the use of any other medicine as an assistant is not necessary. Eat good, plain, nourishing food, get plenty of fresh air and out-door exercise, and use Pal-Mo as directed. that is allâ€"Nature will do the rest. JOHN A. DARLING CHEMIST â€" AND _ DRUGGIST DURHAM, ON T. The royal psalniist sets up honey and the honeycomb as the highest standard of material sweetness. A land flowing with milk and honey was the picture drawn by the most ancient poets to de- scribe an earthly paradise. Romans of the last days of the republic. and sub- sequently of the time of the empire, who were at the same time the most luxurious epicures and the grosscst feeders the world ever knew and spared neither money nor exertion to secure every delicacy possible for their tables, had no knowledge of sugar, but robbed the bees to obtain sweets for their famous honey cakes and other confectionery. Sugar was made in India and Arabia in the earliest times, but it was not brought into Europe until the inva- sions of the Mohamnimlans into the countries around the Mediterranean sea, in the seventeenth eentury. The Moors cultivated the cane in the eoun- tries of north Africa. and they intro- duced it into Spain. The Spaniards. about 1510, planted sugar eanes in their West Indian possessions, whence it spread through Spanish America and into the French province of Louisiana. It \\':IM I-.. . . nun-9'9. lualllflol During LL.- ' .;.«-.lc-nn|v “'nru. Sugar am an --;n."i;- of food was not known to Ilu- um; ants. Mankind has always exhihilml 11w grvntost fondness for sweets, and {mm the (-nrliest times the demand was supplied by honey. The Remedy we Positively Guarantee will Cure You orYour Money Refunded. There has never been a remedy ofl'ered to the public with such an honest guaran- tee of cure behind it as Dr. Iiarte’s Cel- ery-Iron l’ills. This remedy is the best treatment in the world for such troubles as Anaemia, Chlorosis or Green Sickness, Pale and Sallow Complexion, Nervous- ness, Sleeplessness, Brain Fag, Impaired Memory, Loss offlAppetite, Dyspepsia, Nerve Exhaustion, Nervous Headaches, Hysteria, St. Vitus Dance, Female Weak- ness, Pimples and Eruptions, Heart Pal~ pitation, Shortness of Breath, Dizziness and Faintness, General Weakness and Debility. The °ano was the original source of sugar, and so rmnainod up to the time of the Napoleonic wars in Europe. The ports of France wore so closely lllOt‘k- aded by the British tioots that it was impossible to smtno sugar from any tropical oonntrivs, and Napoleon as- sembled tlu- vlwinists in Frame and (‘0)lllllllSSlullt'tl thvm to dist-owr some means of in: thin: snz. ar out ot ill: ttvri: ll found in tho..- mainly, at tho sanw tiino offering a large reward. This prom-ml- lng rosultod in the production of sugar from the boot. Frnm a Remedy to 3 Deadly Pol-en. A mild demotion of peach leaves. qua-lily infmed. is a sovereign remedy among old countrywomcn for mum and sensicl‘uvss. If the leaves are brewed too long. a killing solution of prussic acid is evolved. ff 'yBâ€"unhrdanxious to try Dr.vIIarte’s Celery-Iron Pills, we will sell you 6 boxes for $2.50 with the undgrstandjng Ruskln'n Mother. The mother of John Ruskin was in every sense a rvnmrkable woman. Her son. in summing up her character. speaks of [nor as “having great power with not :1 little pride," and adds that Hm was “entirvly t-«mm'ientioul and t runazuuzumte huuso-kmpor." It is'a great boon to weak, worn-out run-down men and women, giving them that vigorous health that makes life worth liVjing. H v'i‘héré is gaming better for pale, list- less, hollow-eyed girls to make them tog-checked and f_ull o‘f b‘ounding health. , ,.L_!_ and with the guarantee that if you feel you are not deriving benefit from the use of the Pills, after taking three boxes according to directions, you may return the 3 empty boxes, together with the 3 unopened ones, and have your money. refunded. By the single box the Pills are 501:. Wesley's Chapel. Wesley's chapel, London. still mtalns the narrow pulplt. with its steep and winding ascent. just as John Wesley loft it. Add". all lath“ to The MM. 6... TM. 0‘. UHAR. 5 W. J. ELLIOTT, PRINCIPAL. o~s~s~ssssssa The Hygeine Cushioned Frame dong with the new style Morrow Canter Brake makes wheeling n pleasure. We have them on Our 2 positic trainil first-cl want 1 time t (Imam rec y Wt W. J. Massey-Hams Showmoms. second-hand wheels for sale Hero. The New Era Gas Lamp is a dandy. Shows 100 feet ahead All kinds of repairing promptly attended to. The Agent. 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