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2* U E 1 8 ° !1 3Â¥ CX zs 55 inpasmmemmmanfasamamsmmnnme & ITHE PEOPLES STORE ‘! THE THE STAR GROCERY STOR_E_] eeaeeeectty omammmmmmmmmmmmntenmenetennmennmmnntntentim, Antrrmmmnmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmemmmem,. ROBT. BURNET Rush in Your BUTTER & EGGS, Vighest prices paid Since the tracks were cleared, we have been receiving large shipments of Dry Goods, Readyâ€"Made Clothing, Hats and Caps, Boots aud Shoes, For Spring Wear _ Come early while there is a wide selection to choose from. So are we, and in our fine nex Store, south of the Middaugh House, where we have lots of room for display. No trouble to show goods, Come in and see them anyway whetâ€" her you buy or not. WE‘RE READY FOR YOU We expect a carload of Spring Groceries just as soon as the Grand Trunk can get through. We are buying highâ€"class goods and do not hesitate to say we shall have the best stock of Groceries and Confectionery in Durham. «#% EASTER IS HERE N. P. McINTYRE. Prove this statement and Buy your Groceries from Ereshest Groceries in abundance Goods delivered to any part of town, 16 John Nelson had to walk the for hbalf a mwile to make a call Lake one eyening last week. Hig John. NOMEW AVARMAm: â€""7"°° ACSoCt nas his summer cut of logs out and is busy cutting â€" lath. Shingles is next on the program. Master Reggie Moon is engaged with Thos Potter for the summer. Thos Potter hbas Ius logs out and is busy Shingles is next on the Hugh Ridde!ll kas moved into residence, Stewart‘s old home. John Rae is engaged w:th Duzcan MceArthur for the summer. Jas Welch has sold his Dan horse to Mack Stewart for the sum of $11o0 and is looking for another horse. « One of our young men started out last Sunday night to make a call and judging by the hole in the ice Monday morning he went home to dry more than his socks. The river Styx is swoolen about two feet higher than the original highâ€"water mark. Some of our citizens are using their fences for sidewalks, it is altight it they keep on top. On Monday of last week Messrs Willie and Godfrey Scheurman ieft home with a load of logs for Potter‘s mill with a yoke of steers when midway in the big swamp there bhappeued to be more water than suow aud lots of both, so they deâ€" cided to run tho logs down the river or let the logs run themselves, so they dumped the logs and some way â€" or rather Wiliie got dumped to and took in a spring bath, Godfrey however kept on top and piloted the oxen to the muil} »nd home again through the fields mak ing complete circle in something less than 24 hours. Intended for last week Well: Mr Editor,. if our boys have not rafted out their sammer‘s wood there is time enough yet. The 2nd con. roads ara very bad. making it impossible for the mail carrier to get through sometimes for its neither sleighing or buggying. We are pleased te hear that old Mrs McDonald, un the Watson farm, is reâ€" covering under the careful treatment of Dr Gun. She is a sister to Mrs Jno Weir. Miss Annie Aljoe, daughter of George, who hbas been in Toronto for some time, returned home last week, looking hale and hearty. Alex Jopp, who has been residing with his gravdfather, Mr Jas Edge,. this winâ€" ter, left Morday for Owen Sound to resume his summer‘s work on boats Joe Staples was yisiting friends in Egremont last week. We regret to hear of the death of Mrs Harper, of Arthur. a sister of Jas Edge, of Edge Hill, agea 8o, last Monâ€" day. Messrs Dan, Robt and Wm Edge, nephews of the deceased attended the funeral last Wednesday. : _Mr Jolhn Morrnson, Jr.. has left our burgh «and is an employee in one of the hotels in your town. Sécding will be late this year, no mattor how ‘soon it starts, and chances ure there will be a hot time for a while. First blood â€" Willie Weir started ploughing Saturday for the first. Mir Jro _ McMillan (union) is the cracked barber of our town. _ He finallv attacked his own head last week, and an A 1 job was the result. Mies Mabel Beaton was the guest of Miss Georgie Heartwell over Easter Sunâ€" day. Mr and Mrs John McPherson, ot Pomona, who have spent the winter with their sonâ€"inâ€"law, Donald MceMillan. inâ€" tends movinzg to their Pomona home as soun as the roads are fit for tavel. _ Mr McPherson is about 86 years of age and offers to challenge; any one of his aze in the South riding for boxing, etc. Mr Dan McMitlan had a narrow escupe on Saturday wlule sawing in the bush. He was struck by a dead eailor on the head, was knocked out but regained consciousness in a few minutes. Dan says ** watch them for ye know not when they come." Mrs Dan Mceleod has been in poor health this winter. Hope she will soon be in her usaal health again. Exâ€"Warden Murchison will rewain on the farm for another vear providing he signs documenis agréeing to pay reut to the sum of $150 to the complainant. Mr Ranald Martin, of the 6th, spent his holidays at Batchelor‘s Coruners. A B McLellan is engaged with Mr J»s Doherty as couchman. at a salary of $900 a yoar. Alse Augus Black is hired a« foreman to ran the farm at a handsome figure. Miss Aunie MeMilien is at the old homestead at presenut and the intended Taveru keeper of Bachelors Cornets is in the best of spirits. Mr Jim O‘Briev, froo near Varney, Is in the employ of Jolhn J Black,. of this burg, for a term of three months, Jimmy‘s pleasant ways is likely to win him mwany friends. The roads are sulil impassible, iu most places snow banks The ice on out beautiful Saugeen has taken its departure. It went as usual, | down the stream. We thousht after such l a seyere winter that probably it would go ap stream. l Mis John A McMillen has been quite ill for some time. _ We are pleased to learn that she is improying under Ur Dixou‘s treatment. Priceviile. Dan McGinuis commenced plougbing on Saturday. _ We predict that more will tollow suit this week. Mr Alex McMillan arrived home last week looking hale and hearty aftter spendâ€" 102 the past lo mouths in Duluth avnd Dakota. Sunday was indeed squally. SCOTCH TOWN. Aljoe, daughter of George, A. Brooker, in Toronto for some time, | _ The following leaflet is issued to the » last week, looking hale | Public.by a few people who are pained [ and alarmed at the ravages of the *White Mun‘s Plague,"* who believe ased toe hear that old Mrs especially of Consumption that "Preâ€" the Watson farm, is reâ€" | vencion is better than cute," and that a r the careful treatment of | very large number, if not all, cases of e is a sister to Mrs Jno | Consumption are preventible. The positions taken in it have the warrant on. roads ara very bad. of ulll!n;- best and most recent medical ossible for the mail carrier authorities, â€" and moreover _ the full | sometimes for i l sanction of our own Medical Health ir °s for its neither | Officer, whose last Report to the City usgying. Council we urge all citizens to read and â€" Willie Weir started | digest. urday for the first. The Seriousness and Exient of the en io ce atne t We me nponies e Disease. 3405 persons died of it in Ontari0 WELBECK. alone in the year 1809( the last published $ record.) _ But to hfind the total number suffering from the disease in various "‘d, tor M week stages, this must be multiphed by 5 or ditor. if our boys have not | 6. _ That will give between 17,000 and ir sammer‘s wood there is | 20,000 as the number of consumptive et. patients in the Province, and the numâ€" of last week Messrs Willie | ber is rapidly increasing. _ In 1894 there cheurman ieft home with | were 2.379 deaths frow Consumption in ;s for Potter‘s mill with a | Ovutario; in 1899 there were 3,405â€"an when midway in the big | |NDCrease of 1,026 in five years, Svon at ‘a i to b4 this rate every household will become f ]%[::u:; bol.bo moxl'o water infected, and what will be the end? to lops dowa sl(]; they deâ€" | Moreover, in Stratford, while the death io ‘ogs down the river of | rate on the whole is the lowest, that run themselves, so they | from Consumption in proportion to the logs and some way or | total deaths is the highes. of any city in t dumped to and took in | the Provinceâ€"being 18 out of a total of Godfrey however kept on | 107 deaths for 1899 (the last published d the oxen to the mull record), or one out of every six! Every n through the fields mak | sixth funeral in this city is caused by circle in something jess | Consuimption! The Nature of the Disease. 3 young men started out| Consumptuon is caused by a little ght to make a call and | animalâ€"so small that you can see it e hbole in the ice Monday | °Y Wlthl the Imcrosco;t).e; and heforiz / | you can have consumption you mus fent home: to ‘dey more t):il ber take in with pthe gvleulh or o aor [ swallow that animal. Once in the citizens are using their | system. it may fix upon almost uny spot valks, it is altight it they | for its homeâ€"the brain the spine. the bone, the ll‘)ludder.flthe bowels, the byx is swo t lungs, ets. The two first are most comâ€" ; the ori"izl:ln ha,-:fi?:,a::g mon in children, the last in adults. _ It id multiplies very rapidly, and produces a | sore. and in the end destroys the subâ€" ‘as sold his Dan hborse to | stance where it has fixed its home. 2’;‘{:” i‘]“m of $110 and | . .Consumption a Preventible Disease. f 101CE $ It follows from what has just been s engaged with Duscan | said that you do not inherit Consumpâ€" he summer. tion from your parents. Y‘(;II may s a inberit a constitution susceptible to it, I l::;s moved into his new but you do not inherit the disease. You j art‘s old home. catch the discase as you would smullenx has or any other infectious disease. urâ€" 18 bg:’, '::::::r ('lll:“of ther. tyhe animal which causes it can be t on the progra A ‘* | killed. _ Therefore, the disease can be gratnâ€" stamped out. _ Therefore, also, if every e Moon is engaged with | year in the ()mmt&)uf Perth and the the summer. City of Stratford, 90 or more men and women, mostly in the prime of life die bad to walk the fence | from Consumption, it is because we : to make a call at the ‘allow it, For, if individually we did ng last week. High tide what we could to kill the disease germs, BoxEwarornoraze. a nd especially if we had places for the Edge Hill THE NURHAM REVIEW TORONTO The enclosed "Leaflet" ou *"Consumption" was written about two years ago and 20,000 copies were distributed in Stratford _ and Perth County by members of The Order of "The Kings‘ Daughters and Sons" of Straiford, who tor several years past have been deeply interested in this subâ€" ject. Beveral sad and needy cases aroused their sympathy, and a desire to do something, to help stem the awful tide of sorrow, suffermg and death caused by this terrible disease, â€" The matier has been brought before the city and county Hospital authoritiee and steps at the present time, are being taken to see if the public will not erect a County Sanitarium for consumptives. Thanking you for giving space for the publication of this leaflet by Thanking you for giving space the publication of this leaflet Archdeacon Williams, of Stratford, Yours respectfully, [The following letter and leaflet was banded to us for publication some time ago. _ The subjectâ€"matter is of prime uuportance in every community and we think the example of the Perth people should be widely followed.â€"Ed, To The Editor of ReviEw, Dear Sir, Consumption. and How to Prevent it. Quintin Pettigrew, who has been seriâ€" onâ€"ly ill for the past two imos.. is, weo are sorry to report no better and yery grave hopes ut preseut are entertained for his recoyery. K. R. > â€" Wages for farm hbelp this seamson is almost‘ outrageous. We were told of one farmer ocffering $28 and board per month for 8 mos, ouly to learn by n hint that the sought for employee eould do better at the cement mill. _ Is it any wonder thit the managers of that Co. ran so deep iu the hole last year. Mrs Ww Curson is very unwell at present and hope is exprersed everyâ€" where for her speedy recoyery. vViureh in ample time to proceed with his sermon, the forepart of the service being conducted by Mr Wm Allan, who bad by his excellent power ia prayer properly prepared the hearts of the Kuoxites for the reception of the truth. Jus Peters has engaged the service of one of the Bauer boys of Bentiuck for the summer. Notmithstanding the state of the roads on Sunday, our pastor, Rev Mr Campâ€" bell, didi not exeuse himself, out after driving over part of the way stabled bis horse at a Jarmer‘s place and walked the remainder of the way, reached Kuoox The weather is tapering down more towards the approach ot spring, but with the snow from 6 to loft deep in vlaces an early spring can scarcely be lu,lk.d :0'. The roads are at present in a yery 1mpaesable stato which renders teaming, which has aiways more or less to be dore at tois sexson of the year. quite an undertaking. Wm Bazkus, of Bentinck, has engaged his services . with Robt Morics for the sumimer months and if size counts for anything he wil no doubt prove to be a very efticient belper * Tne Cornish family avd also Robt Marshsll are baving rather a wearisome bangâ€"on cwing to the state of the railâ€" roads in the West and also by the iliâ€" provision of tue Railway to send along their stock cars. _ This latter trouble is one which the foreign rate commusâ€" wissioners could pry into with advanâ€" ltage to shippers in particulars and to the public m general. Arrived too late tor last week. BLYTHE‘S CORNERS. the surface of the body, but more parâ€" Can the Dise Jured ? ticularly by what is coughed up hyl Yes,â€"but as ::’uselbe‘(..med:‘ x those who have tuberculosis of the 4 yet only in the earliest a stages. . At the slightest suspicron of it lungs, The matter is expectorated on go to the doctor d i PC 1 floors, on the sidewalks and the streets. LOriut , and if f’o'fi"'hl"‘ to & It 1s dried up and becomes dust, and is ‘Mmlt [Do»,, fven in the houses of the carried. about by the wind, sw’ept by l‘:;llu-l:-a:)' it tl_rl almost impossible to skirts, raised into clouds by sweeping |fection, while in amont* 1C, *Y9, i9 and dusting in the house, and infects | hopeless "ehm smaller houses it is the water we drink, the food w Noi C "pe S y URRent does not infect + e e, | others, be will t i i and the air we breath." Milk and meat | sclf. _ The only nAd to reâ€"infect himâ€" from tuberculous cattle are believed t0 | jre;y ‘y place for the proper convey the disease very frequently, L)lifn-luuent, of (,o'nsum‘puon is in a hosâ€" and the breath of tuberculous patients, ’[n :h(():.rt T:::.a:,(:fim': or that purpose, at least in advanced cases, 18 Said als0 | ravages of this fearrul of arresting the to be very infectious. The germs are| muy Fcipu.lities : C PeiL "Sognrite is for most numerous in the immediate neighâ€" ) both for th M oor o Initable piaces borhood of the patient, and suanlight| O U W eitment of such cases as soon destroys them. * HR ::‘:;ncl-nmhle and Lf:)r thg isolation of s f opeless ones, t us hope th What to do to Stop t!xe Spread of it |City and County Cuun('llsp:ill :.i(“ll:; wltotent"ot ht antelnt. Or fararltate | Shov,earmenatoner us emedt m on the P p ulous | 1 1e 8 wh erect * p;tifints. This is the most impomm;’mstmuuon for this fdiNricl, "s::.(,.hc‘:'f of all precautions. , not at once get a fully i e 2. Avoid dry sweeping*and dusting | torium, we could surely :.'-’C'.'.pmu::":r of the patient,l’s room. Ilt' ylnudswee(i) op | & tent 0? the present hospital grounds dust, use a broom or cloth dipped in | at very little expense and with y some strong d'isinfecting fuidâ€"creoline | Gelay. _lfl the meantime let,“::: :i:)u::; or carbolic acid. f we can in the way indicated aboye, or 8. Isolate the patient as far as pos. ; in auy other way that is better, to limit sible. Kissing orsleeping witha patient| the ravages of this t.mly’ fearful is a certain way of catching the trineue plague. 'propel treatmert and isolation of the disease, cheaply and immediately accesâ€" _sible, some present sufferers might possibly be cured, and certainly very few new cases could arise. _ But as we have nothing of the kind, we are morally responsible for the fearful death list, How the Disease is Spread. The disease is spread mainly by matter discharged from tuberculous _ sores, whether these sores are internal or on the surface of the body, but more parâ€" ticularly by what is coughed up by those who have tuberculosis of the lungs, â€" The matter is expectorated on floors, on the sidewalks and the streets. It 1s dried up and becomes dust, and is carried about by the wind, swept by skirts, raised into clouds by sweeping and dusting in the house, and inasc(n the water we drink, the food we eat, and the air we breath.© Milk and meat from tuberculous cattle are believed to convey the disease very frequently, and the breath of tuberculous patients, at least in advanced cases, 1s said also to be very infectious. The germs are most numerous in the immediate neighâ€" borhood of the patient, and sunlight soon destroys them. k What to do to Stop the Spread of it. 1. Destroy by burning or chemicals all matter expectorated by tuberculous patients. â€" This is the most important of all precautions. , _ _ _ Druggist and Seedsman, POULTRY SPICES® & FOOD STOCK FOOD The Big Store The Big Store A Penny S»AVe0U !S,A PENNY EARNED, likewise a Dollar. Saturday we purpose giv ing you some bargains whereby you can save money, And Remember, #@~ These prices quoted below are for Saturday only. "@@@% _ Before or after Saturday you can not have them at Bargain Prices. We bought.the last of a line and we give you one chance to secure a good Umâ€" brella, with steel rod and fancy handle for less than half the regular price. This is a real Snap. IMPORT 2SEEDS NAS A DECIDED SUCCESS.. Every place you go now you hear ladies say * The Big Store has such a lot of pretty Dress Lengths this Season *‘ ! And it‘s a fact ; We can not attempt to describe them to you. _ Call and see for yourself. Since our opening we received some NEW EOLIENNES in cream, sky, new blue and champagne. Gentlemen should call and take a look at our PREMIER HATS. â€"â€"The newest thing in the market. A Penny Saved Big Attractions I Ladies Umbrellas, ®s«.s2» i $1.00 | H. PARKHR, Oyster Shell, Red Albumen Egg Producer, Poultry Tonicâ€"A sure cure of Cholera, Roup, Canker, &c. Our Dress Goods Opening 4 lbs Best Cleared Currants for 9 lbs Best Rice for...........: .:. Bibby‘s Cream Equivalent for Calves and Young Pigs. Oil Cake and Linseed. Clover and Timotby Seed. Salt in Barrels and Bags. Land Plaster in Bags, Scottish Chief Oal.s, very productive, medium early and good quality, 60c bush.; 5 bushels and upwards, 50c bus. SATURDAY ONLY fl. Russel] | The Big Store A. Russell SOME GROCERY SNAPS : FOR tants. 6. Have plenty of fresh air and sun* light in the patient‘s room. BHunlight is the best and cheapest of all disinfec. The best in the market. M Invoice of Seeds is to hand, shipped per S. 8. Loyalist, and will arâ€" rive in a short time. APRIL 14, 1904 Ky The Big Store Durham 1A Pri3B 36 B a% Sndure‘a‘s i Dre: Fric VOL. Rea Review Raeview Review Review Review Review. Review Revieew . Review. NE w W Fa Ch Ju