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1 Ed tR CIRUEIENE PR nleisiei t wEerEiniinSiet c PnPanPdoSNAT SA ERSE ; betuninacnt~â€"_1___1 _ _1 80 ze t â€"â€"R 1. S_Lit 1_* |_a 1 o & o | o) e"i%e"fe" ' EARLY DAYS. y ao0 Te : C s eee," is ‘A Racy Narrative by Robt. Cochrane. # & , Continued from last week. ” _ The REyiIREW says that Mr Brown and {(1 left Walkerton in a snow storm : E that‘s correct. _ The raft was made and H s E loaded three miles this side Waikerton, the man, who belped to build it, went E down to the dam with us. It was uâ€" M loaded at the head of the mill race, 1 ; was given charge of the stuff, got a % , canoe and run it down to the mill while l" BUSlneSS Or easure i the others were running the raft over | the dam. _ We then carried the stuff E h | fronrthe mill to the raft below the bridge ns s o have | and struck out, _ I dont think cither of M The w Ise.man 18 equa“y careful t , | us had an overcoat. / I know up to that % his Clothmg correct â€"absolutely. Come | time I never had owned one. The storm ; j got worse with a heavy head wind, the to us and buy a prosperous IOOkIDg Slllt, snow was falling in large fiakes. Burns suumee ost very much,â€" in some poem says : It won‘t c y 1 h;I‘h .am.i we ; p y ) 4 «+ p ; f : ¢ rou‘ll come again. 1S 1s an Like the snow flike in the river g know J & g ’ A moment Wwirite than nualrs g12l.. . i CM EQQEEEEEEEEE wxfl EEEEE; E="Shop early and ayoid the RAISINSâ€"Seeded, Seedless, Layer, &c. NUTSâ€"Almond, Waln«t, Hazel, Peanuts China Gifis. LOOK AT OUR NORTH winpow JUST THINK OF iT at once and have them C its for Men Suspenders put up in boxes 5oc pr Kerchiefs, satin lined at 75¢, $1, $1.25 Neck Ties in Puffs, Ascots, Derby‘s, I‘ry Goods, Boots and Shoes, Groceries. ) Farmers‘ Produce taken as Cash. (@f@ We invite inspection of our goodsâ€"bought carefully, to sell correctly, to please constantly. All the Year Round Alex Rush in Your Fowl as Store â€" The same chandise for all Strings, &c., from 10c to Gloves,. silk lined for....... Fur Caps, Fur Coats, Silk Handkerchiefs, Initial. * The wise man is equally careful to have his Clothing correctâ€"absolutely. Come to us and buy a prosperous looking Suit, â€"It won‘t cost very much,â€"and we know you‘ll come again. This is an ARAlex RRussell RoBTt. BURNET s |THE BIQ STORE| 1« and ayord the rush that naturally comes the GOODS DELIVERED ‘TO ALL PARTS OF CV VM NV | 7M VVINDOUO VW â€"â€"For some suggestions in Fancy The largest, best selected and cheapest Stock of China in town. GROCERIES FOR XMAS good dependable merâ€" people and purses. P 1J â€"â€"Only eight more days to Krismas. â€" Select your gifts useful as well as ornamental. sUCCESSOR TO J. A, HUNTER. soon as possible and get the big Prices «25 Cifts for Ladies PEELSâ€"of ail Kinds â€" CANDIESâ€"Fancy or Mixed. S Mepnepmn Pnd ceb daily 4 CBaige d Eut i ol TL h 1 4 1+ | the only one upon the Saugeen river between Walkerton and Paisley, disâ€" , | tance by water about 80 miles, (at least i that is what it was supposed to be in ) | those days) and the first upon the 3rqa Con, the line I am told that part of | the town of Chesley is built upon. Also for having sheltered, what I am sure Inevw‘ since or before came down the | | river on a raft, a bride and groom. The| ‘ mether was along and when we helped them ashore, the first salute from the old lady was that she heard the soun4 | of our axes a long way back and it was | | the sweetest music she had ever listened ‘ | to. My, but Henry and I were hard up in those days. When we escorted thein | | to our house we had no seat of any kind J «to offer them, and when bedtime came / the two were together on the floor in | the corner, Henry was on the fHoor m | the opposite corner fast ualw*p with one ' eye partly open. _ The old lady and 1| got positions in the center but didn‘s i amount to anything. _ In the morning ( the bride got a comb and commenced | | fixing chim up a bit, the old lady called § the two loving doyes to erder; Henry‘s |« other eye opened "Mts." he says, * why ’ ¢ didn‘t you let them alone and ani.~ ) . | _ ike the snow flike in the river fil A moment white then melts forever," E | Those words explain thesituation exactâ€" | Iv, it was snowing heavy and there was M{ no snow on us, the result was when EI night came we were souaked to the hide [ and chilled to the bone, Nothing 1 E think escaped the sonking but the wee E wooden box of matches and had they got wet I fear the grass in the Paisley cemetery never would have covered the grave of imy old ouimpanion. _ When morning came thanks to the maiches 3 we were a gnood deal like Paddy‘s plough. He bougbt it from my daughâ€" 5'51 ter, got down to Middaugh‘s corner and g comes back ; * Begorrah," he says to Kate, "the folks down at the corner ; tells me that yer plough is that dbry | it will never work," so he got somerhing to wet it, uand the ftirst news he got in the morning was that the plough and waggon had been in the river all night, w | 80, likfi Thike pibrusuawbe. usn Nenk o & 1 the centerp /2 ; CCTV "®P‘d and a rock in |? the center of it, and we scarcely knew | what bad happened us until she swung } broad side to the rock and nothing to he [seen of ber above the water but two |logs. Well Sir, there was some laughâ€" iug in the mud bole but I tell you there was none there. _ We were in a dense wilderness, covered with snow and as for auy prospects of help we might as well have been on the Arctic ocean. The water was . both rapid and deep and it was either get out or die so we slid down, . found bottom, kept our feet by hanging on to the logs, pushed and got ber stapâ€" ted. I seemed to stand the ducking the better of the two. _ How the poor man did shake and his teeth rattle .. long time after be came out of the water, We landed near dark in front of our little hut, the only house of any kind we had seen with the exception of one or two near Walkerton. _ The little hut I <hink was burned the fullowinq sumâ€" mer and it was deserving of a bef ter fiute LTOF InOKé reswerme sp ol 10e D4 i , o h,{l/“ .1: y ~ us e tee wye scarcely had got stu struck a yery heayy rapid tbe center of it, and we s Wik .c apou c CC C099 CHC PPÂ¥ 80, like the plough, we were the morning and if we were river all night we were t a‘;:,sure you pretty early in t "y; j, _ _ ~Feption of one or | w Walkerton. _ The little hut | d ras burned the following sumâ€" | ec it was deserving of a better | w more reasons then one ; it was | 8: one upon the Saugeen river | bi Walkerton and Paisley, digâ€" | b water about 80 miles. (at least | | i 7\ CHC TOF rudhite â€" week before Christmasâ€" TOWN. them alone and Peo se wâ€" 720 on the floor in | mud chimney into ‘y was on the floor y | it ous doois, put 1 r fast asleep with one | stove, fired hber up, The old lady and [ | brde to her new i the ?(:IHH' but didn‘s ‘ ALLPD We G VA mire a " 7 + WE Wwere not in the t we were there I can tty early in the morning, '}‘md got started when we Sigs pooice esmerter yer plough is that dbry ‘ork," so he got somer hing the first news he got in was that the plough and een in the river all night, »ugh; we were dry in the â€"ne soiking but the woee _ matches and had they the grass in the Paisley r would have covered the old ooumpanion, When Lhu'nki to the maiches THE DURHAM REVIRW enju'jr Russell 2 DT OE CCR THEER, u there The ceremony over. we adjourned ta a dense | the cellar to partuke of the wedding and as | feast, and a capital one it was. Puetse light as | were ladies there at the head of it, such n. The| as Mrs Dr Gun‘s (sr.) mother, who, ) and it | knew how to get up a feast. _ In those 1down, | days the Hunter‘s were famed for iwo anging | Lhings, the one was that they were fona T starâ€" | of the baubees, they are dilferent now, ing the | and the ocher one they were clean, u8 or man | the saying is, to the bone, aud had you »long | seen the cellar that night you wouid water, | haye thorght so. _ I have not seen it of our | since, but some day when you and I are ind we | passing, with the owner‘s permisg:on, me or | we will take a step down and see the sla . le hut | dining tuon, Bupper over we adjour nâ€"| sumâ€" | ed to the upper flat, where ihe liadh p better | was sitting tn state waiting for us, and / it was | Sandy Ramage, (not Charkie Ramage, river | but Sandy), the man who afterwards ‘, dis. | becains a resident ot Chesley, and u ho | least | 1 understand for many years was one of be in | its most enterprising | business men, e 3rd | opened the ball by singing " An, O‘of irt of | guid wife had Puddins ta mak‘, an sne | Also | boiled them in the Pan, 0‘." The young sure ’ Keuple nowâ€"aâ€"days get the Parson out of | n the | his bed before daylight, and they gei | The | away on their honeymoon Lrip before |â€" elped | breakfast. _ I did‘nt get started till the | :; i the.| fourth day and then had to take the | i oun.d / steers along, the bride following the | ; . was | nexi, behind a =p n«ing team of hoses, | i ened ‘ W uat uo you think of that MrRamage 9 | i d up | 1 was there to receive ber | introduced 1 hein | hber to oue of the neighbors, who kept us 1 kind l all might. In the morning Heary and [ I ame ‘ went into the shanty. kuocked the old â€" b ie bns . PA DLNY â€"anfe P cn ea clu on n ce m s CE ’ 1Med Hen danced ; e elders _ of Church. alter we gave our the giests arriveC thein in the hor ONTARIO ARCHIVES f TORONTO J _ Makes countless thousands mourn., The incident Sir is scarcely worth takâ€" ng notice of, but still I never forgot it and thought it a beautiful illustration of the correctness of Burns‘ words, _ I drew the hound from near W alkerton and at hbis journeys end, yes, he called tne boy backâ€"as much as to say turn your own steers and a devil ta ye. I didn‘t know the name of the cad, but from the looks of him he seemed to live in the Bulltown neighborhood and may. be prawling around there yet 1 crawiâ€" ed out in some way and gou them turnâ€" ed and again got theim headed for Du:â€" ham. But the biggest trouble was wh. n | 1 reached Durham. instead of striking | south for home. they took the opposiâ€" e | road, landing me quilt and all upon thait fine tarm adjoining the town, known in those da‘ys by the name of the Sandy Hunter farm, and a short time after there landed upon the sime farm that good old pioneer of Grey, the Rev Mr Beewart and before leaving it by some means or another made t wo young folks happy by converlting them into tuan and wite. The man was lame, Why was he lume? Because he could not |â€" wait until the lamneness wore off nim, The ceremony over. we adjourned to ‘ the cellar to partake of che wedding | Fenst. un u‘raminut suiuubi 9e i w n Ait nc itcfi i Bs icca sc An c i 2 i mcre, ®" A| Now Lbave giyen you a little history ‘ of the first house upon the con., I might | give a small sketch ot the first crop. It S [ ; consisted of one bushel‘s sowing of | wheat and twelve of petatoes, the good ' od cup. _ The wheat J got in Lockerby, some 3 or 4 miles distant and cattied it | through the bush. _ The potatues I bought from a man near Vurney. and pard for thein in work. _ In the latier end of February I footed it om from Elderslie for my potatoes. Started with the oxen, not old buck, and pitted them three miles he uther side of Walkerion, and I and another rafted them down the river in the spring. Counting the travelling both ways I footed it over 70 miles, drove a poke of oxen oyer 40. and l and another were a day on the rivyer, ; 1 planted. them whole, why 1 should have done so, I dont know, for they would haye gone much farther had they been cut, but suppose 1 had no time Lo cut them. _ Toâ€"day 1 bhave more Lime than 1 know what to do with and at that time the want of it was a great trouble. _ Often I could have £0t a shot at a duck, but had no time to go to the , «hauty for a gun _ Many, many a time 1 have followed the ox bell in the Egreâ€" mont bush and never saw a deer ; in Elâ€" derslie 1 have done the same thing, seen lots of theimm, and never got but oneâ€" bad no time to follow theimm, Were I a young man and had these days to go over again 1 think I should take time. 1 remember one breathing spell 1 had, but instend of taking the gun and fol lowing the wild deer as any other senâ€" | | sible young mman would have done, 1 | . took the axe and auger and started to | « make another jumper. not a single one | this time. s _ Now., Ramage, I am going to teil you > what this jumper was for, but 1 don‘t x want you to speak of it to anybody. J | was Lo bring the wife: home in. _ Wheart | < dn you think of that? And I need not | E tell you, Sir, that all the mechanical | < powers I was possessed of, _ was | C brought into play to make it nice, but, | 5 when about finished as I took the axe to | < put the finishing touches upon it, a blow | < glanced and the axe went into my knee, | 3 a yery foolish place to put it. Henry appeared upou the scene with a darning needle and sewed up the wound. â€" There, Sir, was a pretty kettle of fish ! a fellow upon the eve of his martiage all alone a in a hut, in the wilds of Eidershe, wih| * a lot of stitches in his knee!! Well the ' result of that foolish trick was that I r hnd to get a housekeeper, a litile boy, cousin of our townsinan. Mr George | . Meikie. _ He kept the kettle boiling and the steers from starving and as soon as 1 was able to hirple, with the aid of the â€"housekeeper, _ put the steers which were not vyery well broke in, on to the uungue of the new Jjumper, tbrew an old gqult aboard and started for» Darham. As I have said it was quite a jot keepâ€" ing the steers out of gaps and sideroads. Un the way I picked up a man and his boy, being very lame, the boy at times ‘I was very useful, heading the steers out of sideroads, when we reached Livingâ€" S( ston‘s sideroad near Bu:] town, the felâ€" S low got out, took to left, and ny steers to the right, the boy went to turn them, be calted hm back, c Many and sharp the numerous ills j Invwoven with our frame More pointed still we make ourselves Regret, remorse a nd shame, And man whose Heaven erected face The smiles of tloye adorn, ‘ Mau‘s inhumanity to man 373 PS uP In its stead a new red ber up, then introduced the her new home, A short time give our wedding party when s arrived there was no rooun for the house so we awljourned to w here o we recited, siang and eyerybody danced, even to the f£ the Paisley Presbyterian themselyes, likely it wont he loog till she is combing him down with a three footed stool. He was a man by the name of Cunningbam, going to Stark‘s corners, We saw them disappenrround the bend of th« river ana saw them no « put up in ber up, then *‘ new home, wE‘ d ;:,64_ °77 "hRaesttrouble was wh n | ~ urham. instead of strikin« | ime. they took the opposiâ€" e | I g me quilt and ail upon that joining the town, known in | 1 by the name of the Sandy | J n, and a short time after 1 i upon the sime farm that oneer of Grey, the Rev Mr | ] 1 before leaving it by some F other made t wo young folks onverting them into tmmuan | S [he man was Iame, Why | y 2 Because he could not p e lameness wore off nim. | DV OVer. we anininmasdg .. } _ tfroin starving and as soon as to hirple, with the aid of the ‘, _ put the steers which vyery well broke in, on to the We onidio nds . 4 (-c.wk.ed hat.»l&ékfig he town, known in | Handkerchiefs, plain and fancy name of the Sandy | Lineg and Far trimmed Gloves ie sunenig mhit! us ho oo en Sooet o o oo numerous ills frame e make ourselve id shame. iven erected fs, LPuete such Al stgr MoAliste: ns | ine and curn upGit une toprif a bhoomasch in and to get at Sir, 1 ( Paisiey for Too a d [ cradied upon bâ€"fore, but got n board and a d«nc It o was. the fHd. Now Mr Editor [ intended giving you the yield of my first crop but forgor the wneat I threshed over a barrel in the shamy and got 22 bush, the pora. toes I sold, as I dug them at 50c per bus and realized from the sale $150. _ I had to buy a pocket bock, the first time in my dife I ever had any use for =>~ and ‘o get it Sir, I cradled on the s rge s of Paisley for Toc a day. The sam. and [ cradied upon I helped to log the year beâ€"fore, but got nothing for ‘hat, but. my. hoard and a d=nce at night, a merry one [ was,. the Hddler became a sort of Adsigr Mc Alister and could hardly stan ns | ane aund urn. The gil"b‘ pla‘('vd him van 22 4e w 1 2o F | Raisins, etc. [Art Calenders. PC ons w ced | Yonr are invited to c | pressed to buy and our your service _ 0 °C hi u l'flOfld. : Cosy down Comforters. . White and Colored Comforters and Quilrs, Reversible Wool Roage, Table Linen and Table Napkins, Table Cloths and dozâ€"ns of other things which Ro to make the home bright a&nd comfurtable. For Your Mother D X00 C T7C * Cnvy HUKEB, Kid Gloves, Lined and Far trimmed Gloves and Mitts, New Fancey Silk Stocks in Persian and Military effects, Neck Ribbons, Silk Cambric and Bolting Cloth Collar Tabs, Fancy Garters in dainty hoxes, Silk Belts and Corsets Sitk and Crepe de Chine Muffers, and White Woo! Moffiers, f Umbrelia Shawls and Opera Wra Beautifal Finette Patent Leather Shoes and Hnsieryl:" Laine Blouse Lengths | for the Gift â€"B:ye'n ] mas Goods and su: Gloves, Pyjamas, Cuaff Links, Shi: ts, For the Ladies : Fop THE SOLUTION : Something useful Sceason will be ve;\ Our Christmas Coods * 6. A Differ from the ordi THE PROBLEM : The Seagon‘s Problem V ift Buver. all of whisy, _ OE are a few suggestions Gift Buyer, all of which, are what can be called Christâ€" ods and suitable for Gifts. Your Gentlemen Friends : We We will spare no 1 intended giving you first crop bu forgor ; eshed over a barrel in ue 00 uic uh 2 more of the nature of nov same class, carried at other put up in tasteful boxes SIGNS " Chrictm af‘uxas have a fuil Stock of Come early and wet Cravats, Suspenders, Fancy Socks, Silk Garters, Siik Squars, eftul and at the same very acceptable. to come â€"â€"â€"â€"ANDâ€" , Subrtaisiarts io 4 ~ \ 4 me and look at things, you suggestions and experience + AIXU0 @gL OLHCF Seasons, They are 1 tasteful boxes wiih HOLIDAY DE. Christm 5s Greetings," etc. you ; ied ; el in Miss A Jone Ml;,u':s.. x’“'ledy"lnf?r a few \iss Mary Brow: D40 | friends in pour @od e in Mr John Kennedy WnJ | Co. a week ago after « of | Owhll{ato the lf;)n‘z‘ 3 2w lid not make \ln?' dt:“"i. mfln‘. very :::ly h nlie, ir John Stewart pt me ‘mm Mr John CMC of A Elelghlud of the Adi !‘o‘fll. drove nie a..49c â€" and in Fancy boxes or Married Friends : Th 14010000000 in ced & »tock of Candies and get one of . effort to «_ _Following are ordina1y lines in Muffiers, Undcrwear, Pins, Collars, Pavent Shoes, What shall I give this Xmas ? Its Solution a1y lines in that, they are novelties than goods of the § o c mis DECEMBER 24. 1903 please our BUNESSAN time suggestive of the es, Nuts, T of our Bmons _ UUT Customers, , you will not be ience will be at Ke% ltsv Table Beautiful { ta | J: SA ~AO â€" 3 8 Tralns ncelecele eleca d VoOL. ce lat‘s Raevrir® Revir®@ Rerirw Revics Review Reviecw Raeview Review Review BRuxerwkw ivening told col Cardina Wool For Chi The be Fine lof to 8 Ibs, with an Iv soile« and W ing. r $11.00 Of t] M ) »( ) )J ()