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Moore McFadden, May 26, tf. Pumas ALBERT, SASK. flow to Get a Homestead in Pumps. ALL Wonx GUARAMEED at “Live and let live” PRICES. NEW Pumps AND REPAIRS. DRILL CURB, Riel-CURB, PRESSCURB “WILLS, Allonlars taken at the old stan- m-ar McGowan’s Mm will be promptly at tended to. Farmers of South Grey I Have 100 acres just now that is a. particularly good snap. It. has fine barn, dwelling and other im- provements and one of the best pieces 6! bush in Bentinck. Price about. $2,000. I lend money at lowest rates, smallest cost. shortest notice and on your own terms. All kinds of debts and claims col- lected. No charge if no money made. Any and every kind of business transaction attented to carefully and with strictest privacy. MOTTO: “Always prompt. never negligent.” Four years in David Jackson’s office ir\ Durham ; ‘20 years in the same business 'at Hanover. That experience should count’for something, shouldn’t it. H. H. MILLER HANOVER, â€"â€" â€" om mgegumsmsmmaeamsummg v â€"â€"â€"_',._ am prepared to furnish BEG LEAVE TU INFORM MY CUS- l‘UMERS am} thej gnblic in genuml that I Do any of you want to sell your farms? Have you got rich and now want to retire? Do you want to sell out and go West? Do you. for any reason. wish to sell? Then let me place your property on my list. No charge if no sale. I have sold a great deal of land lately and have just now but little left thought I al- ways have inquiries from per- sons wishing to buy. It will pay you to deal through me. Con. Knapp advertised his farm a long time in several papers but couldn't sell it. He placed it with me and I sold it at once. 1 have had many similar ex- p0! iences. So mny poOpIQ no uttling in this country tho: in 3 short time it will be diflonlt to ob- ”'u' I. "ID- V tein lend elong the line of reilwny. Anyone wishing to hnve n homeetend here will do well to have on select. end enter it for him es eoon as it is surveyed. We con locate you in my part of Seekntche- wen. For full particulars write at once to GEORGE WHITHORB. ONTARIO. “Alice Armstrong is running away. Alice Armstrong is running away.” To the slender figure in rusty brown the whlr of the car wheels seemed to repeat it unceaslngly, and every jar of the Pullman trucks gave the words cruel emphasis. Surely every one must know her secret. She looked about her gulltlly, but the car was almost empty and the few passengers were absorbed in themselves or asleep. Aboaemthe back of a seat farther up the aisle she saw the nodding head or a sleeping woman and the restless curls or a golden haired cnild. With a start she turned to the win- dow again to hide the tears that sprang to her eyes. Edith had hair like that, the little flve-year-old sister .whom she was leaving perhaps for- ever. No, not forever, she corrected herself ; only till she could earn a home for both. But another glance at those shining curls might steal away her courage. Resolutely she closed her eyes and tried to review her past and plan for the t4uture. I 74---- ritâ€" had all begun the year before, when Mrs. Armstrong second had de- cided to take in summer boarders. One of the earliest applicants was a suave and oily person whose and read “Algernon Stauntonâ€"Leads and Heavies,” and who needed no such advertisement to proclaim him as an actor of the cheapest sort. But to Alice all actors were on a plane far above the humdrum 01' ev- eryday existence. When he assured her that she was destined to become an ornament to the dramatic profes- sion, she listened reverently. 'At the end of his four weeks' mention he had hurried off to join a summer stock company. There he regaled his asso- ciates with tales of the shrewdness by which he had "jnliieil" a girl imu giv- ing him the position of star lmartier. Ho nvitlwr km-w nnr vm'ml that. he had lm". Hw pfirl with law hum} full of drvnms “ml lwr lwart mum and that’- ing: against vxisting munitions. The old wuuud on :u-vount of tlw hasty re- maining“ of MT fathm‘ so sown after her mutlwr's (it-nth broke out :Ifrvsh. Stu- was «trim-nu. Stu-0!}: she vats “MAMMA NEVER HA8 run 10 DO man 303 um." competent to manage the house with- out the supervision of this cold hlnmled woman who had usurped her mutlu-r’s plate. 1101' jealousy had found roflvction in her stepmothers resentment of all questioning of authority. And now she was speeding away to the city. In the slmhby purse clasped tightly in 1101' but fingers were $30 of tho mmwy 8110 had so carefully saved and Stuun~ ton's card, which bore the penciled lino “Per address care of Clipper.” He would help her, she knew, for bad he not tom her that she was des- tined to succeed? And there was; Joe. who had gone away to the city the year before, but who of late had writ- ten at longer and longer intervals. No; one would not tell Joe until firmly es- W in ‘her new work. A sudden tug at her dress awakened her from her day dream. It was the golden haired child. A thrill of pity swept over her, for the little girl was a cripple! . "Please,” she asked plaintively, “may i come and talk to you and show you my doll? Nanna has been asleep for ever so long, and I am dreadfully lone- some.” smile of welcome. “0: course“ 309 may,” she declared heartily. “And where ls thin wonderful doll of yours?" . The child held up a rag doll much the worse for wear, dreued in faded Alice paled. She had once had a doll like 'that. Her mother had mde- it. Would the second Mrs. Armatrong make dolls for Edith? Her voice trem- bled u she asked gently, “Who made it for youâ€"your mother ‘P” And oh. glanced at the sweeping woman. The child caught her glance and In- swered quickly: “That's not my 'mamo ma; only Nam. my nurse. My man- m is a pretty lady. Her hair play-humane: than mineâ€"u “mmâ€"mommy, ouo'bOtOéOéOOO: ,jng them. won’t let me flu but for ten of hurt- '5.” 'w' “Perhaps you know her," eagerly. “Her name ls Clarice Morton. and she Is a great actress and slugs and dances beautifully; only I can never dance because my back ls crooked. you see. It was all the fault of a wlcked nurse. She dropped me, and I hurt my spine, the doctors say. No; lt was not Nan- v -v'-â€"â€"â€"_ na. Nanna is ever so good and kind. She came Just after that. when I had to lie in bed for a long time. She made me the doll then. Mamma never has time to do things for me.” with a little sigh. “In the morning she sleeps, and in the afternoon she goes driving. and lots of fine gentlemen come to see her, and in the evening she is at the thea- ter. But this is made from one of her prettiest dresses.” And she smoothed the green silk proudly. Alice had listened in horrified si- lence. The unconscious pathos of the child’s story cut her to the heart. This. then, was the fate of the child of a great actress, unloved and neglected or left to the doubtful care of serv- ants. How blind she had been to tell herself that she was taking this step for Edith’s sake! It had all been for self, self. This little crutch was caused by the roughness of a nurse. Once she had seen Mrs. Armstrong strike Edith. Suppose she should do so again and the careless blow bring her to the pass of this poor little one! The thought was torture. Abruptly she leaned over and rang the bell for the porter. “What is the next stop?” she asxea breathlessly. “Next stop Ballston,” he said; “due there in ten minutes.” “When can I get a train bacx?” “There's one due in a half hour.” “Please come and get my things,” she said more quietly. “I will leave the train there.” Then she turned and took the little strange-1' in her arms. “I want to thank you,” she whispered as she kissed her tenderly. “You have shown me my dut’y.” Twenty minutes later Joe Watson gave a whistle of surprise as he came face to face with her on the Bailston platform. “Well,” he cried jovially. “here I was going up to Keesport to see you, and here you are part way to meet me.” But questions died on his lips at (-loser View of her face. She had drawn away from him with almost a look of fear. Then she lifted her head bravely and gazed straight into his eyes. “I had started to run away, but I've. changed my mind. Edith needs - u ‘ me; so I‘m going back to make the old place seem like home to her.” As Joe saw the unselfish purpose that shone in her eyes and the woman- ly sweetness of her firm, set lips he realized that his Childhood’s friend and precious. Deep in his heart he registeredjhe vow to some day make a home for both her and Edith. And his dream came true. Why Carlyle Wu lot . Ion-o. Carlylo took a friend. a much youn- ger man, out walking with him and in his usual way indulged in a monologue in which. nevertheless. his companion ‘ was much interested. Once or twice. however, the friend ventured to put in i a word or two of objection in regard ‘ to something said by Carlyle. This an- noyed Carlyle intensely, and when they reached home he turned upon his come ‘ panion and addressed to him the fol- lowing warning: “Young man, I’d have ye to know that ye’ve the capacity for ; being the greatest bore in Europe.” The poor man had hardly spoken a doz- en words: but. since these had been critical, they had made him seem to Carlyle a potential bore of colossal pro- portions. Carlyle a potential bore of colossal pro- portions. Many men in this way get unjustly called bores. They venture to doubt some statement made in conversation and are at once branded with the most terrifying, of names. These unfortu- mite persons are in truth not bores at all. but merely the innocent detectors or the latent capacity of boring in oth- ers. Carlyle showed by his speech what . was indeed the fact, that he, not his friend, possessed the potentiality of boring. agination generally saved him, but he Had he not been the man of genius he was he would assuredly have been the greatest bore in Europe.-London Spec- It is true that his great imo. Digging For Kuul Gull. The ordinary method of searching for knuri gum in New Zealand is by 11:24 feeling for it a little below the surface with a steel pointed piece of firm: called a “gum spear" and then dig- ging it out with a spade. A skillful and industrious digger can earn as much as £1: to £4 per week at the work, and even children can earn a few shillings a day; but, as the gumfields otter a ret- uge for all sorts and conditions of men, many Who are old and infirm resort to them, and so the average earnings are Often went perilously near the line.) reduced to £1 15s. or £2 a week. The gum is used principally in the manu- 5 tacture of varnish, but it is also found useful for many other purposes, such as dressing “glazed" ealicoes. etaâ€"Lon. was he would assuredly have been the m'mtest bore in Europaâ€"London Spec- tutor. Ott Quoted Phrases. Many of our most usually quoted phrases are from the Bible, among them being, “No rest for the sole of the foot," “Darkness which may be felt," “Bring down my gray hairs with nor- row to the grave,” “The wife of his bosom," “I am going the way of all the earth, " “A still, small voice,” “All that a man hath will he give for his life,” “There the wicked cease from tron- bllng and the weary he at rest.” “Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly up- ward,” “Oh, that my adversary had written a book,” “The lines are alien to me in pleasant places," “His eno- miel shall lick the dust.” “Happy ll the man that hath his quiver full," “The heart knoweth its own hitter- nese,” “Heap coals of fire on his head," “Open rebuke is better than secret love,” “There is no new thing under the sun," “A living dog is better than a dead lion,” “The race is not to the swift, nor fie battle to the strong," “Wine in his own conceit,” “Grind the faces of the poor,” “Weighed in the balance and found wanting," “Who touch” pitch will be denied,” “Laugh- lng to scorn,” “He that run: my real .” “Do not art pearls before twine. ” and a great many other ex- pression: that have served the turn of thousands of years and help us to real. in how little human nature change! in the generation: that go by, since what united the men or so long ago 2' m our mug-an 00 well. m the “on Hotel. The kitchen arrangements of the modern hotel ere on the first basement floor. There to e chet, but IO far no I could see he does not cook. He ts eun- ply e. captain of the seventy-five other cooks. who work 'in three relays of twenty-five each. There is no range. but a colld bank of brofleroâ€"immense gridirons, beneath which are the flrec that never die. _ As for the 400 loaves 0: bread and 8,000 rolls required daily, the chet does not worry his mind over the patent cutters and mixers and Mon-Iv. Kitchen ;vené and stat of bakers needed to Iupply the slmpleltegn of bread or con- '“tt'v ' cern himself irlth the quality of the 1,100 pounds of butter that are each day required to go Wit!) it: I must not forget the item of eggs. Eighteen thousand are required every twenty-four hours. Boiled eggs do not get overdone. They are boiled by clock- work. A perforated dipper containing the eggs drops down into the Water. The dipper’s clockwork is set to the second, and when that final second has expired the little dipper jumps up out of the water, and the eggs are ready for delivery. There are men who do nothing else but fill and watch and empty these dancing dippers. and it seemed to me great fun. 4 “His trick was perfect simplicity combined with ingenious boldness. His hair was scanty. and at the top of his head he had a most delightful little bald spot. 0‘1!th officers as they came and went all knew him. and as !' they knew him he had a most pro- nounced wen Where his other acquaint- ances saw a bald spot. That wen was a work of art, made of wax and gum. and it contained two or three big stones that would have been .u find for the men on the pier. On another part of this floor is the dishwashlng. where great galvanized baskets lower the pleces into various solutions of potash and clean rinsing water, all so burning hot that the dishes dry instantly without Wiping. Sixty-five thousand pieces of china- ware are cleansed in a day and an al- most equal quantity of silver. All told, there are 300 employees in the kitchen departments of this huge liv- ing machineâ€"Albert Bigelow Paine in World’s Work. The Schemen lie Worked to Decelva the Customs Ollie-lulu. “There is money in smuggling." said the retired dealer in precious stones as he leaned back, "but it is dangerous to carry on the business. as possible sus- pects are carefully wntvlied and. if nec- essary, traced till they are finally caught. However. I knew one man who pursued the trade of diamond smuggling for fifteen years and was able to retire to respm'tnhility. lie was buyer for one of the large business houses in New York. and his bnsiness sent him to Europe two. three and sometimes four times a year. livery time he returned he had with him from $10000 to $20,000 worth of gems which he did not declare. “The good cigar that he had, just lit and allowed to go out held a few more. and sewed in the handle of the grip that he carelessly turned over to the inspection of the emcers were the rest of them. He never varied the trick. and he never lost. Each trip was worth a couple of hundred dollars to him and a great many hundred more to those who employed him. Now, that man (-mmidored himself strictly honest. He Wullltl not steal a cent from an indi- \‘iduzll. yet he schemed and plotted to rub the government." don Times. The Suburban Child. They were suburbanites, and they sat at breakfast. when a letter was hand- ed to the mother. which she read with rapidly increasing consternation. “How nnspeakably dreadful!" she exclaimed. “Cecilia Rodney’s entire family has been practically wiped out. Her moth- er has died, and her father. her broth- er and her cousin. all in the same month!” vâ€"-â€"' “Ethel (four years old. who in her brief career has experienced all the joys and'woes of the ouburbs)â€"Dld the cook die, too. mamma?â€"Harper’o Mag- SUCCESSFUL SM UGGLER. A Convenient Con-clone. “I don’t believe he ha: any con- science st all." “Oh, yes. he has." “Not much of a one.” “No; not much of a one, of course. In feet. We at such trifling importance that when he beat: some one out or 81,000 he can square thing! with it by contributing $1.50 to charity. Still it’e a conscience."- Ina! Trout-Ont o! a '11.. Husband-Don’t you think that you are rather unreasonable to expect me muteyoutoabalL-tuanko until 4-o'clockudthencetnp atsto go a my work? fiWltoâ€"l may be a llttle aura-outdo. but lt’l perfectly brutal of you to m flan lt-ch York Weekly, ..,_._.,.A-. ”.4 ’. ovw It. .1 g 5 wall at brick built the side of the room. On drst it seems absolutely in- tor an Annie-Saxon. but s man in interior of China must either! sleep on a ton: or not sleep at all. I determined that it the bricks would not yield to me I must yield to them. and. as a means of yielding gracefully. I studied the sleeping methods of my Chinese companions. I found that their practice was to climb inside of quilted sacks. called pooltns. which they tied and folded around themselves until a row of men on a kong looked not unlike sealed envelopes. Whenever they rolled or turned over in their sleep their pookas rolled with them. In whatever position they happened to lie on the brick pile they could not escape the ameliorating «sheet of their pookas. Obviously I, too, must have a pooka. From a dealer in leather in a town through which we passed I bought two goatskins. I had them sewed together, with the hair side in. I devised a sys- tem of strings by which I could tie my- self in my appliance, and in this way I succeeded in sleeping in China. 555. E E cl Rapid Work For Men. The deal! and dumb. as every one knows. “speak” by means of their fin- gers. How many words. then, can a good hand speaker form in a minute? The average number of letters per word in the English language is five. Now, a ready hand speaker can make the English alphabet ten times in a minuteâ€"that: is to say. 204) letters. It is usual for him to pane.- for the space of one letter after eat-h word to show that the word is enliiplmu. If, there- fore, we subtract t'rmn liw tutnl just given about: one-sixth t'm these stop- pages. the total will be minted to 215 letters. Let this be divided by liw. the aver- age number of lotm-s 1w word, and we shall find that a fairly oxpvrt deaf and dumb person will spcuk forty-three words pvr minulv. A yu‘l'sun in pos- session of speech will probably speak 150 words in the same space of time. Substitutes For Tobacco. Dried holly leaves, the bark of the willow and leaves of the stag's horn sumac are among the substitutes for tobacco used by the American Indians. ' In Switzerland a weed called mountain ' tobacco is smoked in great quantities. ' It is powdered before using and causes the smoker to become a mental and physical wreck. The natives of South ‘ Africa are peculiarly atfected by smok- . ing the dried leaves of the camphm plant. The smoker trembles with . fright at nothing. weeps bitterly andf uses all sorts of words which do not in I the least express his meaning.’ The; wild dagga. another South African . plant, poisons slowly any one using it. Belling Elephant. by Meanure. The Moors. who drive a trade in ele- phants through the Indies. have a fixed price for the ordinary type according to their size. To ascertain their true mime they measure from the nail of the fore foot to the tap of the shoul- der, and for each euhit high they charge 8500. An African elephant of the largest size int’~a:<tii'es about nine cubits. or thirteen and one~half feet. in height and is worth about $4,500. For huge Ceylon elephants 320.0001: some. times paid. Reply of a “Be-flue” Boy." When Keppel, a commodore at twen- tyotour, was sent to demand an apoloo gy from the dey of Algiers for an in- sult to the British flag, he took so high a tone that the day exclaimed against the insolence of the British king for charging a “beardless boy" with such a message to him. Replied the beard- less boy. “Were my master wont to take length or heard for a test of Ms- domAe'd have sent your deyshlp a he The Word “Umbrelln.” The English word umbrella is very like the Latin. coming through the Italian “ombbrella.” or “little shade." The French. German. Spanish and oth- ers give it e distinctive name. such as “parapluie.” “regenschirm” and “para- guas." “Umbrella” and “parasol” are etymologically precisely the same thing. but custom has given them the distinc- tions that we understand today. “Why don’t you try to carve your name high on the tablets of tame?" asked the poetic enthusiast “My friend,” answered Senator Bor- ghum. a little severely. “there is no use in my dodging around with a hammer and chisel when I can do such eflecflvo work with a fountain pen and n check- Borrowing Troublo. “I have heard a good deal that“: peo- ple who borrow trouble. but I think my, wife is a champion In that line.” “Why. I thought she was “my! cheerful and contented with he: let." “She was until our baby [was born six weeks ago. Now she ll worrying because he may marry some girl that we shall not llke." 1'0- Ymu to not It. Towneâ€"Why. he told me he wu get- ting along uplendldly; fine salary Ind all that. , Bmwneâ€"Indeed? Towneâ€"Yes, he told me be was (at. tlng $10,000. Browneâ€"So be Is, at the mm of 81.- 000 per year. Dusty Rhodesâ€"Will yer plea. ‘1'. me a dime to get somethln’ to out with? Bunker Elmo-My good mu. you an- notpurchuouletottuuuuthtorlo dfi!‘ 4P} 'n Enter Work. Massey-Hams Showmams. [Bicycie Repairing Fire and Life Insurance in ‘best Companies. Binder Twine! Massey-llarris .1 Binders, Mowers, Rakes. Etc. Snaps The Agent. W. D. CONNOR Pumps of all Kinds. Galvanized and Iron Pip- ing; Brass, Brass Lined and Iron Cylinders. SHOP open every afternoon. All REPAIRING promptly und prop. erly attended to. The Big 4 2} yde long, 30" wide. taped edge, 40c pair. 3 yde long, 36" wide, teped edge, 65¢ per peir. 3} yde long, 42" wide. roped edge. 900 per pair. 3} yde long, 48" wide, knitted edge. Lace Curtains. "31.00. 3} yd. long, 54" wide, knitted edge, Roller Window Shula, 35c emh. chle Linen 54" wide, 25c yd. " 64" wide. 50c yd. White Bod Sprudl. 85c and 61.20 Floor Oil Cloth. l yd wide, 250 yd. ” 2 yd wide, 50c e yd. Colored weeh Silk weiet lengths in white, block end colon. ‘2 up to 83.60 each. Bleak memorized Seteen Underskirtl et 81.40. 01.50. 81.75 and 32 eecho Don’t. forget no when you wont a good poir of Shoes :0 we carry u (all line of Sterling Bros’. Shou. Best Grannies at m Mons. “ Ile Sells Cheap." Now Print- and Buoy Gingham» (WEST OF MIDDAUGH H0085.) Just leceix ed a calload of “Plvmouth ’ Binder Twine. ()1 dc: 0211 IV and get the benefit of pres- ent prices. . BOOTS and SHOES. a S in new :1an second P hand Bicycles and Buggies to clear out stock. JDHN LIVINGSTON Pumps from $2 upward. Call and See US- Manuftcturer of And Dealer in â€"- â€"- Durham. Ont. .W. 0. COMM- done promptly.