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at very lowest rates on good land security. FIRE, Life and Accident lnsurance. Claims of all kinds collectedâ€"Old notes bougnt. H. H. MILLER, _The Hanover Conveyencer, Lots 241, 212, 213, con.3, S.W.T. and 8. Road, Township Melancthonâ€"174 acres timbered. Lots 1 242, con. 4, S.W.T. and S. lRoad. Melancthonâ€"100 acres a bush ot. Lot 219, con. 4, S.W.T. and S. Road, Melancthonâ€"50 acres good bush. Lot 29, con. 5, Melancthonâ€"83 acres well timbered. Lot 16, cou. 5, Bentinck, 100 acres known as the Jas. Bamford farmâ€"well imâ€" Emm EP Oy Lot1, Durham Street, North Priceville, Lnt 3, Kinross Street, North Priceville. With other splendid Farms in Ontario and the Northâ€"West, Toronto and Hanover properties for sale or exâ€" change. MONEY TO LOAN â€" Brick Dwelling, and many eligible building lots, will be sold in one or more lots. Also lot No. 60, con. 2, W. G. KR., Township of Bentinck, 100 cres adjomâ€" ing Town plot Durham. FOR SALE The EDGK PROPRBRTY. In the Town of Durham, County of Grey, including valuable Water Power Mortgage taken for part purchase money. â€"IN THEâ€" Following Properties at Prices Asked There‘s Big Money ! For Impure, Weak and Impoverished Llood, Dyspepsia, Sleeplessuess, Palpata tion of the Heart, Liver Coraplaint, Nenâ€" ralgis, Loss of Memory, Brenchitis, Conâ€" sumption, Gall Stones, Jaundice, Kidney and Urinary Discases, St. Vitus‘ Dance Female Irregalarities and General Debility, Laboratory â€" Goderich, Ont J. M. McLEOD, TESTED REMEDIES SPECIFIC and ANTIDOTE 250 ACRES belonging to the Estate of the late James Burnett, 125 weres under cultiyation, rest hardwood push, being Lots 28, 24, 25, 26, 27, Old D. B. in the Township of Artemesia, County of Grey, two miles from Flesherton Staâ€" #ion, three miles from Priceville. For turther particulars apply to _ _ _ s proved close to Lamlash. Pricoville A Farm for Sale. CC NeReo beloncing fotho l LICENSED AUCTIONEER for Co. of Grey. All communications adâ€" dressed to Laxtrasz P. 0. will be promptl mitended to. Residence Lot19, Con. é{ Township of Bentinck. _ _ McLEOD‘S System Renovator DAN. aud Id by H. PARKER, Druggist, Durham. Imioted without prin by the use of nitrous oxide g.. or vitalized air. rarticular l?finllbll puid to e filling of the natural teoth. Office und Resiâ€" dence next door West of Post Office, y.614 D B N FPIS‘F R YÂ¥. H Licansod Auctioneer, for the County ef Groi: harges uoderate and satisfuction guarantee rrangoments for seles can be made at the wview Office, Durkam, or «t bis residence Loane arranged without delay. _ Collections promptly made, Ingurance effected. MANKY TO LOAN stlowost ratos of Iuterost o "In® ons door uorth of M. Mot‘s Store Durbaru Loan and Insurance Agent, Cc veyancer, Commissioner &c. NOTARY PUBLIC, Commissioner,cic., MONEY TO LOAN. [3am®sTs® SoLCITOR .IN SUEREME COURT BUSINESS DIRECTORY. NEXT Door TO PARKER‘S MISS GUN‘S. OFFICE Fancy Goods, TOYS and Stationary, wWOooOLsS, EMBROIDERIES and SILKS, in all COLORS Â¥RS. BURNET, Durham T. G. HOLT, L. D. S. J. P. TELFORD, HUCH McKAY. MISCELLANEOUS. Apply to JAMES EDGE, Edge Hill, Ont, NOR Graduate of the Royal College f Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Teeth exâ€" at «reatly reduced rates Wall Papers . L. McKENZIE, NSED AUCTIONEER, for th y of Grey. Sales attended to promp wsoumble rates. AUCTIUNGER â€"â€"â€"â€" AXD OTHER â€"~â€" DURHAM. MEDICAL. A. H, BURNET, Hopeville DURHAM Prop. and Manufacturer LEGAL McLEAN. Fire Insurance secured. Grant‘s Store. Lowen Town, Residence Durhsm Ont â€"ATâ€" DAN. MeLEAN,. D. MeCORMICK, --mmofl;cuodfimp:câ€"h relioving pain in the bladder, h.:.'! and every part of the urinary passages male or female, It relioves retention of} 'u.u’ in is uinest immeâ€", . 1s you wast relief and oure Raurer in Sx Homâ€"DMrm'hfiaanoy and Bladder discases relief in six hours the "Great Scuth American Kidney Cure" This mew remedy is a great surprise and delight English Spavin Liniment completely removed a curb from my horse. 1 take pleasure in recommending the remedy, asit acts with mysterious promptness i. the removal from horses of hard, soft or calloused lumps, blood spayin, splints, curbs, sweeny, stifles and spraims â€" Gzoror RoBs, Farmer, Mark ham, On# Sold by McFariane 4 Co, Ignorance is less removed from the truth than prejudice: â€"Diderot. Pliaying the old game, I see, said the Disagreeable Father to the Charming Youth who was making love to his daughâ€" Yes, sir, and hearts are trumps, glibly responded the C. Y. e iokr Electricity Falls to Kill It. A house snake four feet and two inches in length was captured at Rochester. Inâ€" stead of killing the reptile at once it was decided to try the effect of electricity on it. It was taken to the electric light powerâ€"house where a wire was attached to his mouth and one to his tail. . How many thousand volts were used is not stated, but the electrician said it was suflicient to instantly kill a dozen men. _ The snake twisted and turned and then stretched out stif. _ The chief electrician said he was dead and ordered the current turned off. The apparently dead body of the reptile was then placed in the sun and soon began to crawl off, Agmin it was caught and the current applied, but with no better results and finally it was killed with a club, â€" 1 make it clubs, retorted the D. F., and closed the game, The high degree of civilization attained by the inhabitants of the city is shown by the fact that they built in several stories, by the symmetry of the streets and squares, and by the beauty of the baked clay and metal utensils, and of the ornaments and coins which have been found. (It is supâ€" posed that long centuries ago this city, so carefully conctnled in tb:&gveh ofy the earth, provided an eutire population with a refuge from the incursions of nomadic savages and robbers. The Russians have made a singulat disâ€" covery in Central Asia. In Turkestan, on the right bank of the Amon Daria, is a chain of rocky hill# near the Bokharan town of Karki,and a number of large caves which, upon examination, were found to lead to an underground city, built apparâ€" ently long before the Christian era. Acâ€" cording toeffigies, inscriptions and designs upon the gold and silver money unearthed from among the ruing, the existence of the town dates back to some two centuries before the birth of Christ. The underâ€" ground Bokharan city is about two versts long, and is composed of an enormous labyrinth of corridors, streets and . aquares, surrounded by houses and other buildings two or three stories high. The edifices contain all kinds of domer.ic utensils, pots, urns, vases and so forth. In some of the sireets falls of earth and rock have obstructed the passages, but, generally, the visitor can walk about freely without so much as lowering his head. _ Imferesting Discovery Made by Russian Explorers in Asia. Office Durhan David JACKSON, JP.» cierk Div. Court.| AItRIP H. JACKSON) Notary pubtic. | Land Valuators, | Insurance Agents, | Commissioners. | Money to lend. Money invested for | Parties. Farms bought and sold. | FIRE and LIFE Assurance Policies issued spe 24 The only fArstâ€"class Hearse in town, Tok PARK & CO. Mone FOR TWENTYâ€"FIVE YEARS him Would insimate that he will continue the Furniture and lfndormkini Business® estabâ€" lished by his father in Durham in 1858 and will endeavor to give all old and new customâ€" ers the same entire satisfaction. Furniture of the Best Make CONVEYANCERS. RURMITURE AND UNDERTAKING E J. SHEWELL Middaugh House Block, Durham THECOOK‘SBEST FRIEND _DUNNSâ€" BAKING POWDER â€" NSA Rem neral financial business transacted ffice next door to Standard Bank, onable tern ial deposits PICTURE FRAMING A SPECIALTY LARGEST SALE iN CANADA. AN UNDERGROUND CITY BANEEERS The Old Man Won JACKSONS. to Homszx_x.â€"One bottle of VOL. ber the standâ€"opp Market, Durham. ALWAYS ON HAND eneral Bankin d to farmers an Trai banking business. ) farmers and others on s. Interest allowed on it current rates. â€" Also E. J, SHEWELL The _ OreD ,â€"NO. 84. 3}*’ “'A'-‘ 'A{?‘Z.»:'J w# uie » w,'»‘-" Tellbes Mc oi beineut t Pip e o se the Well, all this was no affair of mine, and I could not imagine what the meaning of: it might be. Rosse! wus still far off, but I determined to ride on for a few hours and take my chance of some wayside barn in which I could find shelter for Rataplan and myself, I had mounted my horse, therefore, after tossing off a cup of wine, when younfi Duroc came running out of| the door and laid his hand upon my knee. «"Well it‘s the name it bears upon the country side," said the farmer, _ ‘"By all accounts there have been some black doings up yonder. It‘s not for nothing that the wickedest man in Poland has been living there these fourteen years past." "A Polish nobleman ?" I asked. «Nay we breed no such men in Poland," he answered. *A Frenchman, then ?" cried Duroc. "They say that he came from France." «And with red hair ?" ""As red as a fox." «Yes, it is my man," cried my companâ€" ion, quivering all over in his excitement. "It is the hand of Providence which has led me here. Who can say there is not justice in this world? Come, Monsieur Gerard, for I must see the men safely quartered before I can attend to his private matter." | _ For my own part I was endeavouring, as | an officer of light cavairy should, to form | an idea of the lay of the country, to note , the course of the streams, and to mark the | places where there should be fords, . Every | step was taking us farther from the camp | round the flanks of which we were travelâ€" | ing. Far to the south a few plumes of | grey smoke in the frosty air marked the | position of some of our outposts. To the north, however, there was nothing between ourselves and the Russian winter quarters. f Twice on the extreme horizon I caught a | glimpse of the glitter of steel, and pointed |it out to my companion..It was too distant | for us to tell whence it came, but we had \little doubt that it was from the lanceâ€" i heads of marauding Cossacks. . R He spurred on his horse, and ten minutes later we were ut the door of the inn of Arertsdorf, where his men were to find their quarters for the night, _ _ Duroc gave a shout like the sporteman whosees his game rising in front of him. The lad seemed to have gone off his headâ€" his eyes shining,his face deathly white,and such a grim set about his mouth as made the farmer shrink away from him. I can see him now, leaning forward on his browa horse, with his eager gaze fixed upon the great black tower. _ ce ys “Why do you call it the Castle of Gloom ?" I asked. ""Then here I am to stay the night," said my young companion. _ Then, turning to the farmer, he asked his eternal question, «‘Can you tell me where the Baron Strauâ€" benthal lives *" "Why, it is he who owns the Castle ot (éloom," said the farmer pointing to the dark turrents over the distant fir forest. The sun was just setting when we rode over a low hill and saw a small village upon our right, and on our left a high black castle, which jutted ous from amongst the pineâ€"woods. A farmer with his cart was approaching usâ€"a mattedâ€"hair, downâ€" cast fellow, in a sheepskin jacket. ‘"What village is this*" asked Duroc, "‘It is Arensdorf," he answered, in his barbarous German dialect. Well, this was not satisfactory,but there was something in my companion‘s manner which told me that any further questioning would be distasteful to him. I said nothing more, therefore, but Duroc would still ask every peasant whom we met whether he give him any news of the Baron called Straubenthal. "He is a man," said Duroc, with a sudden flush upon his boyish face, *‘to whom I have a very important message to convey." . to see the master, **Can you tell me," said he,‘"whether the man who calls himself the Baron Straubenâ€" thal lives in these parts*" The postmaster shook his head, and we rode upon our way. 1 took no notice to this, but when, at the next village,my comrade repeated the same question, with the same result, I could not help asking him who this Baron Straubenâ€" thal might be. s camp,. _ It pleased me to hear him prattle away abcut bis sister Marie and wbout kis mother in Amiens. | Presently we found ourselves at the village of Hayenau. Duroc rode up to the postâ€"house and asked So it prov.ed. for this road led away from the army into a country which was given over to Cossacks and marauders,and it was as bare as the other was crowded. . Duroc and I rode in front, with our six troopers clattering in the rear, He was a good boy, this Duroc, with his head full of the nonâ€" sense that they teach at St. Cyr, knowing more about Alexander and Pompey than how to mix a horse‘s fodder or care for a horse‘s feet. Still, he was, as I have said, w good boy, unspoiled as yet by the ""Then I will, with your permission, ride so far with you," said I. "It is very clear that the longer way will be the faster." *‘*May I ask, monsieur, whether you are going by this northern road * I asked. | _"*I am Sub Lieutenant Duroc, of the Third," said he. **Newly joined *" I asked. _ ** Last week." I had thought as much, from his white face and from the way in which he let his men ©lounge upon | their horses. It was not so long, however, since I had learned myself what it was like when ® schoolboy has to give orders to veteran troopers. _ It made me blush, I remember,| to shout abrupt commands to men who bad seen more battles than I had years, and it would have come more natural for me to say, *‘With your permission, we shall now wheel into line," or, ‘‘If you think it best, we shall trot."" I did not think the leas of the lad, therefore, when I observed that his men were sometimes out of hand, but I gave them a glance which stiffened them | in their saddles. l _ *‘My orders are to patrol it as far as Arensdort," said he. X ’ **Good day, sir," said he, seeing that I pulled up my horse. * Goodâ€"day," 1 answered. _ "I am Lieuâ€" tenant Etienne Gerard, of the Tenth." I could see by his face that he heard. of me, Everybody had heard of me since my duel with the six fencingâ€"masters. My manner, however, seemed to put hin, at his ease with me. j By midday I had got as far asthe village of Smalfeldt, but as I was on the direct road for Osterode, where the Emperor was wintering, and also for the main camp of seven divisions of infantry, the highway was choked with carriages and carts, What with artillery caissons and waggons and ’conricu and the everâ€"thickening stream of recruits and stragglers, it seemed to me that it would be a very long time before I should join my comrades. The plains,how ever, were five feet deep in snow, so there was nothing for it but to plod upon our way. â€" It was with joy, therefore, that J found a second road which branched away from the other, trending through a firâ€"wood towards the north. There was a small auberge at the crossâ€"roads, and a patrol of the Third Hussars of Conflansâ€"the very . regiment of which I was afterwards colonel } â€"were mounting their horses at the door. | On the steps stood their officer, a slight, pale young man, who looked. more like a young priest from m seminary than leader of the devilâ€"mayâ€"care rascals before STORIES OF ADVENTURE postâ€"h He wemiee ces ce eetiep ceo t o 3 Presently we of Hayenau, e and asked The track which led to the Castle wound through a pitchâ€"black firâ€"wood, where we could see nothing save the ragged patch of atarsa above our head. . Presently,however, itopened up, and there was the Castle right in front of us,about as far as a carbine would carry. It was a huge, uncouth place, and bore every mark of being oxcee(fllgly old, with turrets at every corner, and a square keep on the side which was nearest to us. In all its great shadow there was no sign of light save for a single window, and no soung came from it. To me there was somethingawful in its size and its silence, which corresponded so well with its sinister name. My com%nnion passed on‘ eagerly, and I‘followed him along the illâ€" kept path which led to the gate, ’Bhera was no bell or knocker upon the reat, ironâ€"studded door, and it was only fiy pounding with the hilts of our sabres that we could attract attention. A thin hawkâ€"fraced man, with a beard up to his temples, opened it at last.. He carried a lantern in one hand and in the other a chain which held an enormous black hound. His manner at the first moment was threatening, but the sight of our uniâ€" DURHAM, CO. GREY, THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1895. We left our troopers in snug quarters, and, as it was but a mile to the Castle, we did not disturb our horses. _ To tell the truth, I hate to see a cavairy man walk, wnd I hoid that just as he is the most gallant thing upon earth when he has his saddleâ€"flaps between his knees, so he is the most clumsy when he has to loop up his sabre and his sabreâ€"tasche in one hand turn in his toes for fear of catching the rowels of his spurs. _ Still, Duroc and I were of the age when one can carry things off, and I dare ewear that no woman at least would have quarreled with the appearaâ€"ce of the two young hussars, one in blue and one in grey, whoset out that night from the Arensdor{ postâ€"house. _ We both carried our swords, and for my own part l slipped. & pistol from my holster into the inlige of my pelisse, for it seemed to me that there might be some wild work before us. "‘I must be on my way for Rossel toâ€" morrow morning, but toâ€"night I am yours," said T. Well, it was never in my nature to refuse an adventure, and, besides, I had every sympathy with the lad‘s feelings. It is very well to forgive one‘s enemies, but one wishes to give them something to forgive also. I held out my hand to him, thereâ€" fore. ""At once." ‘‘But what do you intend to do?" "I shall know what to do. But I wish you to be with me, all the same." *‘How can I be of service to you? asked. * *‘By coming up with me." To the Castle?" ‘*Precisely," "When *" This was all very well, and 1 listened to it with the great>st interest, but I was none the clearer as to what young Duroc wished me to do. * My brother joined the army, and passed with it through all Southern Euvrope, askâ€" ing eve ywherefcr the Baron Straubenthal. Last October he was killed at Jena, with his mission atill unfulfilled. Then it became my turn, and I have the good fortune to hear of the very man of whom I am in search at one of the first Polish villages which I have to visit, and within a fortâ€" night of joining my regiment. And then, to make the matter even better, I find myâ€" self in the company of one whose name is never mentioned throughout the army save in connection with some daring and generâ€" ous deed." "You will think,doubtless, that it would be easy for us to find him, rince we had his name and his title. You must remember however, that the Revolution left us withâ€" out money, and that without money such a search isvery difficult, Thencame theEmpire and it became more difficult still, for, as you are aware, the Emperor considered that the 18thBrumaire broughta!laccounts toasettleâ€" ment, and that on that day a veil had been drawn across the past, None the less, we kept our own family story and our own family plans. _ **Well, when the days of order came back again,my clder brother began to make inâ€" quiries about this man, I was only a child then, but it was afamily matter, and it was discussed in my presence. The fellow‘s name was Carabin. He was one of Sanâ€" sterre‘s Guard, and a noted duellist. A foreign lady named the Baroness Straubenâ€" thal having been dragged before the Jacoâ€" bins, he had gained her liberty for her on the promise that she with her money and estates should be his, He had married her, taken her name and title, and escaped out of France at the time of the fall of Robesâ€" pierre. What had become of him we had no means of learning. _ the third,a young Jacobin, whose huge body and brutal mlmf had made him a leader among these wretches, dragged him, with his own hands, from the litter, kicked him again and again with his heary boots, and hurled him out of the door, where in an instant he was torn limb from limb under circumstances which are too horrible for me to describe. This, as you perceive, was murder, even under their own unlawful laws, for two of their own judges had proâ€" nounced in my father‘s favour. | _ ** You must know, then, that my father was the wellâ€"known banker, Christophe Duroc, who was murdered by the people during the September massacres, As you are aware the mob took possession of the prisons, chose three soâ€"called judges to pass sentence upon the unhappy aristocrats, and then tore them to pieces when they were passed out into the street, My father had been a benefactor of the poor all his life. _ There were many to plead for him. He had the fever, too, and was carried in, halfâ€"dead, upon a blanket. _ Two of the judges were in favour of acquitting him ; ""T can explain it all in a few words," said he. _ ** If I have not already satisfied your very natural curiosity, it is because the subject is so painful a one to me that I can hardly bring myself to allude to it. I cannot, however, ask for your assistance without explaining to you exactly how the matter lies. | | _ He led the way into a sittingâ€"room, m fastened the door lest we should be int rupted. _ He was a wellâ€"grown lad, and be stood in the glare of the lamp, with t light beaming upon his earnest face ai upon his uniform of silver gray, which su ed him to a marvel, I felt my heart wat towards him. Withoat going so far as say that he carried himself as 1 had do at his age, there was at least similari enough to make me feel in sympathy wi him \ _ *‘You cannot, in any case, reach it night. Toâ€"morrow will bring you to Rost (By staying with me you will confer I very greatest kindness upon me, and y l will aid me in a matter which concerns ! own honour and the honour of my fami [ I am compelied, however, to confess to y that some personal danger may possibly , involved." ;nwwm haes fimm « (:.-.,% 5‘{;‘ *‘‘Come into the inn," said I, ‘"and let know exactly what it is that you wish to do." It was a crafty thinfior him to say. course, I sprang from Rataplan‘s back ordered the groom to lead him back i the stables. «*You forget that I am riding to join regiment." Ks «* You can be of the very groatest," . ctied. _ ‘‘Indeed,from all that I have hea of you, Monsteur Gerard, you are the One man whom I should wish to have by my side toâ€"night." : ‘‘Monsieur Gerard," he panted, “Ifig of you not to abandon 'n!e'llkg't:hil 19 ,%., ‘J‘My good â€" sir," said J, ‘"if you would tell me what is the matter and what you wou!d wish me to do, I should be be able to tell you if I could be of any tance to you." C Hardships After a Wreck. Port Townsexp, Wash., Aug. 6.â€" The steamship Topeka, which arrived at Por Townsend recently, bad on board the remains of the crew of he zealing schooner C, G, White, which was wrecked on Wood Island, Alaska, early in the spring. The party consists of seven men, all that are left of m crew of twentyâ€"seven, Among the survivors is W,. E. Bail, a marine engineer, who thought a trip to Alaska would do him good. He comes back with both feet fone. F. A. Sweeny, a sailor, was one of the few who had the fortitude to tramp thirtyâ€"seven miles through deep snow to the nearest settlement to get relief for his half frozen comrades, and he is the only one of them who .comes home whole. August Wiekstrom, second mate, was the only officer who escaped. . He lost three toes of the right foot, together with oue of the large bones. . M. hflt.hielon, a sailor, lost one toe of his right foot. E. J. Voisionet, & French youth, who shipped as cabin boy, is the worst sufferer. His injuries include the loss of two toes and the heel bone from the left foot, the first and second toes from the right foot, together with the ball of the foot three and a half fingers from the left hand, two from the right, and the l.ip: of Jhi’- cars. F. A. Young Spriggins (gleefull: ly)â€"Congratuâ€" late me, old boy ! M gratu f rbg wallol. ... other and child are â€" Voung Spriggins ( a .::ng priggins (blankly)â€"Iâ€"I forgot Ll;r-r-:y.n seaman, suffered injuries which will make him a cripple for life. â€" old Boyâ€"Eh ? So you are a father, ch ? What is it, boy or girl ? «_ Open the door of the heart, let in Sympathy «weet for stranger and kin ; 1t will make the hall« of the heart so fair That angels may enter unaware. Open the door. sin ; They will grow and bloom with a grace divine, And l.);‘olr fruit shall be «weeter than that of the vine. . es Open the door of the soul, let in Strong, pure thoughts, which shall banisn gems, He may change our tears to liadems Open the door. Open the door, let in the sun. He hath a smile for every one ; ie hath made of the raindrops gold and Open the door, let in the air, The winds are sweet and the flowers are fair ; Joy is abroad in the world to day, If our door is wide open he may come this way. e ME o ’ "Untrodden round his baby feet The whole fair real m of childhood lay; Nor stones nor thorns to make them bleed My band had smoothed them all away. No wind of heaven had buffeted His sunny head with cruel breathâ€" My arms had safely sheltered i.im. Give him to me, O Death!" Now, standing by that little grave Where in and out the passing years Weaved tapestries of green and gold, I smile remembering m;; tears. I lay my gray head on the mound That drank m]y tears, and ‘neath my breath 1 whisp er: | "It is better so! Keep him, O gentle Death!" Lo se e o e "Here is the place, upon my breast; Not there, in cold and darkness hid. Why, he had just bqiun to liveâ€" To know my face, to laugh, to reach His hand to meet my lips, and make Sweet essays at some unknown speech *‘Give back my child!" I plead that day My face against the coffinâ€"lid. Lullaby, dearie ! Mother is near thee. Bright may the dreams of my little one be Au‘felu defend thee ; God his love send thee, And carefully guard both my baby and me Hushâ€"aâ€"byo, baby ! Mother will sing to thee. Soft is the moan of the wind in the tree, Angels re listening, Bright stars are gllutenin% Like sentinels watching my baby and me, Hushâ€"aâ€"bye, baby 1 What shall I sing to thee? Sinketh the bird to her nest on the lea; Shadows are creeping, Moonbeams are peeping, Twilight is deepening o‘er moorland and sea. _ We followed him dowL"the hall, which was stoneâ€"flagged and very spacious, with tkins scattered upon the floor, and the heads of wild beasts upon the walls, At the farther end he threw open & door, and we entered. Nothing has life but illusionâ€" Nothing abides but the dream Afar from all change and confu Lies the region where things c Sacred from time‘s intrusion, In Light e\'orhutin.i they glea. Nothing has life but illusionâ€" Nothing abides but the dream Here are the joys that vanishâ€" Here are the sweets that pall ! Rife in the hour» we banish, Thick in the sands that fall ; And we fly to our towers that are & Castles that rise at our fallâ€" Where are joys that cannot vanish And delights that never pall. Wishing for toâ€"morrow Sighing for yu\wrdufio! Vague the delight we borrow Vain the regret we payt Sick of an unseen sorrow, Still in the night we stayâ€" Wishing for toâ€"morrow, Sighing for yesterday. _** You can inform Baron Straubenthal that I have come eight hundred loagues to see him, and that I will not leave untrl I have done so," said m companion. 1 could not myself have snu{it with a better voice and manner. ‘*The Baron Straubenthal does not reâ€" ceive visitors at so late an hour," said he, speaking in very excellent French . forms and our faces turned it into one of sulky reserve. 9 Poets‘ Corne:s. Mother‘s Lullaby. Open the Door. Open the door, Open the door (TO BE CONTINUED.) His First. d After Years The Abiding confusion ings only seem B wre Spanish Review Ibsen was seen recently at a court ball in Norway, and his small figure fairly blazed with stars, crosses, collars, pendants and otherâ€"decorations of all kinds from all sources, time. What became of it ? He blew it in. How?! Invested it in a pneumatic railway scheme. Because I really like the job, said the new farm hand. Got a real likin‘ fer work ? Sure. You‘d orter take treatment. Why, asked Dismal Dawson,leaning over the fence, why do you keep on diggin‘ when the boss ain‘t around ? Elderly Gentlemanâ€"This is aremarkably good photo of my son ! Very like him, indeed ! Has he paid you for it yet * Photognpherâ€"-%eo. air. Elderly Gentlemanâ€"Ah, very like him, indeed. ’ A Frenchman proposes a tax on corsets. He maintains that the corset is a luxury and ite use a harmful deference to an antiâ€" quated dictum of fashion. As in France wlone about nine million corsets are worn out annually, even a very lighe tax would, appreciably benefit the everâ€"yawning exâ€" chequer. The Frenchman‘s idea is on par with the Italian‘s who lnt{en proposed to levy a tax on beards. Taxing vanity, you knaw. Recent statistics show that the total * banking power," ms it is called, of the world is £4,000,000,000, or $20,000,000,â€" 000. Of this North America, controls £1,200,000,000, while in Europe, including Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, all the great ** capitâ€" alist" nations control but £2,300,000,000, Since the earthquake in Florence there is hardly a street in the ancient town that does not contain one or more lighted shrines holding figures of the Madonna and saints. In some streets there are as many as four or five of there shrines, with garlands of evergreens and flowers around them and rows of burning candles before the images. Ceeil Rhodes‘ estate near Cape Town South Africa, is laid out on an ambitious scale. _ Among its features nre a preserve for big game containing lions and antelopes, several miles of fine avenues, a glen carpetâ€" ed with violets and hydranges, and a museum of Cape Dutch curios and Mataâ€" bele relics. There was an element of ruperstition in, the betting of the exâ€"King of Servia at the Paris Grand Prix, when he won $140,000. A mare had won every eighth Grand Prix race previously run, and his idea that a mare would win the 1895 race proved correct. j On the omnibus tickets in London are found a variety of patent medicines. The Dublin tramcar tickets tell the virtues of the whiekey manufactured in that city. Glasgow, which owns its tramcars, prints Seripture texts on the cheap tickets for workingmen, Long as she has resided in England, the Princess of Wales has never mastered the English accent. * Channel," for instance she pronounces *‘ shannel," and there are many other difficulties of speech which betray that she is a foreigner born and bred. W. S. Gilbert, who once said that he would not write any more comedies, hae reconsidered his decision. A new play from his pen may be produced by Mr. Willard at the Garrickâ€"a London theatre n which Mr. Gilbers has a proprietary nterest. Woggles had a lot of money at one Mr. Herbert Spencer is irritated by the use which bas been made of his name and views in support of socialism, and he goes so far as to say : **I believe the advent of socialism to be the greatest disuster the world has ever known." Nonsuit in England is a renunciation by the plaintiff of his suit, generally upon the discovery of some error or defect when the matter is so far advanced that the jury is ready at the bar to deliver a verdict. The plaintiff is to pay all costs. Thomas Butler, an Englishman, does not believe * Chinese" Gordon was killed at Khartoum, He thinks the bero is a captive in the wilds of the Soudan. Butler was a companion of Gordon in many of bis stirring adventures. A lady died the other day in England and in her will it was found that she had left the whole of her fortune, amounting to $50,000, to the local newspaper, the perusual of which had given her many happy hours. Lady Henry Somerset has set out to abolish the British barmaid by legislative enactment. . The chief opposition is said to come from the barmaids themselves, who number 50,000 in the United Kingdom. Gladstone looks forward to the future without fear of death. In declining to do sorue literary work recently on account of press of other businers, he agreed to begin the task in the latter part of 1896. In France it is written, under severe penalties, for anyone to giva infants under one year any form of solid food unless such be ordered by written prescription, signed by a legally qualified medical man. Sir John Pender says that £41,000,000, upwards of $200,000,000, has been sunk in ocean cables. At presentthere are 11 cable linee mcross the Atlantic, and these alone have cost $70,000,000. Sir Frederick Leighton, who has been seriously ill in Algiers, has excelled in other ways than with the brush. He is a musician of fine taste, a soldier, orator and a man of fashion. O1d and New World Events of Interest Chrontcled Brieflyâ€"Interestinz Mapâ€" penings of Kecent Date, WHAT 1S GOING ON IN THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. ROUXD THE WHOLE WORLD| Serious Symptoms. Very Like Him. Blew It In. Ayer‘s 4AYER‘A PLLLS Requiate the Bowels: Decided Improvement. Eat into the Flesh, AYERS @®: The Pusbio Indians are a moral race. They have resisted all attempts of traders to introduce whiskey and playing cards in their midst, **Cannot we become as one * he pleaded earnestly. **That depends," replied the new girl. _ **Which one?" It would be a difficult task to enumerate here all the bigoux which have been taken from the ancient coffins. They are nearly 6,000 of them. Vultures chiseled of pure gold, hawks‘ heads and tiger claws, all beautifully enamelled and inlaid, and hunâ€" dreds of clasps surmounted with lions, tigers, snakes and other wild animals. MONTHS TO DECIPHER THEM. It will take the French Egyptologists several months to decipher the small hieroâ€" glyphics on all these ornaments, heavy earrings and finger rings, which are generously inscribed. Some of them will perhaps only furnish names which will never be identified with the history of ancient HEgypt. _ They will tel‘ the domestic tales of births, loveand marringes, but other inscriptions, especially those of the queen‘s and king‘s rings, will elucidate much that our historians have been unable to harmonize. They have grappled for years with the Egyptian chronology, and it is a question whether, after all, we will suceced in ever obtaining an accurate chromology of the Phareonic dynasties. Almost Mr. Jas. E. Nicholson, Florenceville, N. B., Struggles for Seven Long Years with CANCER ON THE LIP, More intricate, but cruder, and, perhaps, less artistic, is the crown of Queen Khno muit, It is made of solid gold, the motives being miniature lyres, also inlaid with emâ€" erald, cornaline and lapis lazuli. All these motives, all these flowers also, which link these lyres together, are finished with such scrupulous precision and display such inâ€" genuity of wrtisanship that they compare favorably with the beet works of the modern goldsmiths and lapidaries. is a brouzeâ€"bladed poniard which was taken from the sarcophagus of Princess It«, who lived many centuries ago, Considering the date of this weapon, it is a marvelous piece of workmanship. The handle is m-dpe of solid gold, inlaid with cornelian stone, lapis lazuli and Egyptian emeraid. The pommel is formed of one large lapis lazuli, The treasures which have been unearth ed by M. de Morgan in Dashur, are now on exhibition in the Gizeh Museum of Egypt. Best preserved of the necropolitan trophies Marvellous Workmanshiv in the Jewel Which Have Been Found. Encouraged by this result, I perseâ€" vered, until in a month or so0 the sore under my chin began to heal. _ In three months my lip began to heal, and, after %Ehe s;.ru&:.rllh for six months, the last trace of the cancer disappeared. A _ GUEST A NUNDRED YRARS YOUXGER THaX HERSELF®, Once a week Mrs. Neve has a luncheon party, and one of her favorite guests is her greatâ€"nephew, not quite three years old, and rather more than 100 years younger than herself, She walke about the house and grounds ontirely by herself, and not long ago went up & stepâ€"ladder into a loft to look for something she wanted and to see what was there, She frequently goes out to the meadow to see the cows,and calls them all by their names and feeds them out of her hand. Quite recently a photo of this interesting old lady was sent to be shown to the Queen, who asked if she might keep the likeness, as that of one of her oldest subjects. agony for seven long years. Finally, I 1be taking Ayer‘s Sarsaparilla, in a ve?in or twogl n’;uced & JUl 0 Only JGlo@pdili Admitted at the World‘s Fair. Mr. Nicholson says: "I consulted docâ€" tors who prescribed for me, but to no purpose; the cancer began to spread to my chin, and I suffered in _ When ?ud recently Mrs. Neve was found im the gxrden weeding ard polling up bu*S=92p8,% (ack at whic~ whe continued for an hour and a half. After gardening she gmou indcore and reads for an hour and , bistory as a rule, often in French or Italian, Foth of which languages she knows as well as English. Milton and mfivyytn. and still are, her favorite ‘ s Sometimes she enjoys a little Germar or Spanish, and she reads her Grock : test t ~frequently, After her ”. :’L ock, ‘r:}?en uhe)utu much the same as others do, she has a nap till 4 o‘clock ; and then whe talks and knits and has her tes. About 10 o‘clock she retires o west, Bhe reads family prayers every more “E:‘;" o Bing‘: and when the light good im Ahe morning she reads without was ninetyâ€"two, She then went to Cracow, in Pom» see Kosciusko‘s monument, and also to Russis, On the long journey to Poland her only companion was her sister, whowras then cightyâ€"nine years of age. °_ [i wow rqrzzum.\x SPEXDS ER pay. Hale and Hearty at 103â€"Reads French and HMalian Classes Daily. Who the Queen‘s oldest subject is it womId be difficult to say. One of the oldest is Margaret Auna Neve, wno lives in the Inland of Guernsey, and who has attained the age of 103. A relative who contributes an account of the veteran to the Leisure Hour telle that she was born on May 18, 1792, anl every day goes through more‘ than many _only half her age. She has travelled mgood deal in her time, and her last loq_jqneywu undertaken when she WHOLE NO. 884 Passes Belief AND IS CURED BX FROM EGYPTIAN TOMBS QUEEN‘S OLDEST SUBJECT James E. Nicholson. THE QUKEEN‘S CROWN Sarsaparilla Sarsa Handâ€"made Waggons ~ In the old stand. All handâ€" made shoes. Also Horse Shocing Shop, ALLAN â€" McFARLANE BOULDIN & CO‘S PRIME Has opened out a firstâ€"class Ho M To Of the Best Quality Cheaper THAX EVER. Firstâ€"Class Hearse. UNDERTAKING Promptly attended to JAKE ERESS. Jobting of all kinds prompily SEE QUR HARNESS. UPPER TOWX. rha $ stil pterest allowed on ravin tyd upwards. Prompt a anafforded curtomers }i; &A genersl Banking business asued and collections made o ts receiveC und intorest a é}'m, Quebec, Manitoba United Stater _ DURHAM AGENCY. Handr W.F. 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