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bwn Mortgages the borrower. bray‘s CMS, *S%%4¢% e 1OWwn ‘son to buy y of Wood Syrup f Red prUCE Cum Sewinz Masbh Machines and stuwck of Bel} UX‘RIH A MÂ¥ . Prornicrons. * %%% D in price. soon as thae ty im ez n Ny 68 a € C e â€" New Prints from 5 cts. up. Naw Dress Goods from 8 cts. up iTew Lace Curtains from 25 cts a pr up. WAREHOUSSE, Upper Town, Durham. And Sold at Lowest Possiple Prices. Call and inspoct and be Convinced. â€"BEALES INâ€" All kinds of Farm Machinery, Vehicles, Organs & Pignos, Sewing Machines, Etc. Vie take this opportunity of thunking our customers for past patronage, and we are couvinced that the new system will meris a continuarce of the samoe. Big Line of WHIPS from 10 cts. un to 80 cts. for a GOOD RAWHIDE. csey White Granite & Tin Ware. "Large Saies & Small Profits." EYVZRYTHING 2O0U0GUT FOR CASH | N. C. & J. McKechnie Durhi«m. Aug. %¢(1h,°8G. has. McAiinnon New Table Oil Cloth, 45 inches wide, white or colâ€" ored, 25 cts. a yd. New Sprinz Shoesâ€"a delightâ€"call and see them. We beg to inform our Customâ€" ers and the Public generally that we have adopted the Cash System, which means Cash or its equivalent, and that ourf Motto will be J VOLu. XIX.â€"NO 11. $ UPPER § To Ww N € CHAS. McKINNON. The CASH BEAN & CGO. W., 8. & J. McKECHNIE. ADOPTED BY <s & & YTNH She _ Orep Review. If a man with a torch had started at the Don bridge and burned down every thir d building he came to on Queen street until he reach»d High Park. he would not thereby have destroyed as much property as departmental stores have alâ€" re addy done in this city. A necessary building if burned down will be built aâ€" gain, but a building that is rendered urâ€" necessary is worse than ashes. ® gid No say abusiye on A denartmental store by losing maney "°" .0 m"’: m::’ i Y 7 * ohe in one line ang making money in fifty uvkind words MA er every on other lines, can ruin all opposition in Llhau who reads the «tory g1ys at once that thoy one line. In furs let us say, it can lose A jou ng, sinned five or ten thousand by selling for less d« this es ‘_’":'f" § T‘:m S'd ': b than cost for a time, and thus crush all most sorely against k 1ey did it by fur dealers, and then, with t.hlt: mmu;ply not renjering to bim love‘s, offices, by of the business purchased at this outlay, t 5 . and leaving him unhbelped can raise prices and win back ten times P** .m“‘l""' by.â€"an Th nR p; what it lost. The scheme is to ruin all in his bitter ueed.. They came not to the retailers in rotation and own the trade belp of the Lord in this sufferer‘s behalf It would be a very strange thing, inâ€" deed, if nothing could be done. Here are some facts that may form the basis of action,. We shall not suggest in this is: sue the remedies that iman be applied, but will be content to convince the pubâ€" lic that somthing can and must be done. Let the public take hold the matter, spread knowledge, and the remmedy will come very soor, Here are a few points that members of the Legislature and the City Council should carefully consider : "Many say that nothing can be done. "Real estate values in Toronto have been depressed to the extent of $25,000.000, and at least $10,000,000, of this is due to the influence of departmental stores, but â€"there is no remedy, nothing can be done." So people talk. F *Mack," a vigorous writer in Toronto Saturday Night" is at tne head of crusade against the big Departmental Stores which are injuriously effecting the trade of many towns. In a recent issue he writes this :â€" A Resolution on temperance was passed. A telegram was receivyed from the Clerk of the Ottawa Presbytery stating that the call to Rev. D. M. {lamsuy, B. D, was sustained. Mr. Munroe was appointed to cite the Mt. Forest congregation to appear for their inâ€" terests at a special meeting on the 23rd inst., at 10 a. m. / _ Germany agreed to all but No. 7. | Austria accepts all but wants time to consult his Majesty. _ Italy accepts all J but must submit it to the cabinet Counâ€" jceil. Russia and France want to try ! the effect of another collective note. | Britain wants a gendarmerie organizâ€" {ed with the Greek troops there, but ‘not to bs under the Grecian flag or (Crccnan officers. _ A long way from |agreement yet. . Perhaps if Greece |ghoul4 further hurt their dear Turkey, ,it may produce agreement. A warm resolution of regret at partâ€" ing with Rev. L. W. Thom was introduced by Mr. Ramsey. Mr. Thom was thirteen years in Arthur and Gordort Much faithfulness markâ€" ed his pastoral and Presbyterial duties. He is now stationed in Flesherton in Orangeville Presbytery. Messra. Merrison, Stewart, McKellar and Munro, Ministers; and Messrs. Burns, Covil, Malcolmson and Hamâ€" ilton, elders, were appointed commisâ€" sioners to (ieneral Assembly in Winâ€" uipeg next June. Met in Palmerston Tuesday of last week, Rev. D. McVicar, Moderator. Mr. Dobson was appointed Moderator for the next six months. â€" The thanks of the Presbytery were tendered to Mr. McViesr for the efficient manner in which he had discharged Iis duty during the past year, Mr. Jansen intimated by postal card that he would not be present. â€"The admirals of the powers in Cretâ€" an waters drew up a blochade proâ€" gramme and submitted it to their respectiye governiments, they want to blockade Crete. 2 Blockade the Piraeus and other Greek Ports. 3 Seize the Syria Telegraph office 4 (Gireek warships taken to be kept at the island of Milo. 5 any Greek ship firing on any oft the foreign warships, to be sunk. 6 Any Greek torpedo boat approaching a foreign warship to be fired at. 7 A battalion of infantry, 600 strong to be sent by each of the powers to Crete. â€"10000 cushions, made in the Neâ€" yada State penitentiary are being used today, Wednesday, for seats and mementes of the *‘ fight of the Century," in Carson, Nevada, Seven or eight ladies had arrived afew days ago. An army of tramps and ercoks are on bhand, a few inillionaire dandies, and the whole of the State Legislature Box seats at $4U each is a common price, and all to see two men maul each other. (Glorious civizilation. ‘ _ _ â€"President Kruger, of the Transval kepublic, wants a union with the Orange Free State. He says the Queen is a troublesome woman but he will find her complacency itself to the trouble her troops will give him, if he persists in antagonizing British interâ€" EDITORIAL NOTE AND COMMENT. SAUGEEN PRESBYTERY. DEPARTMENTAL STORES. DURHAM, THURSDAY, MARCH 18. 1897 ! "The story is old but lesson is always timely. Every good cause is the cause of God. Christ‘s Kingdom comes not only in the personal sanctification of his followenrs as they yield hbeart and life | to his sway. _ Itâ€" comes alâ€"o in eveiy struggle between right and wroug. beâ€" tween purity and corruption, in every movrement for reform, in every hely sentiâ€" memt, ‘The battle is going on forcver in this world, and the trumpet is eyeimore sounding. cailing men to the help of the Lord against the mighty. _ It is not enough not to be against the right and good : God wants us to come to his help in every contest. Not to act for God is to act against Him. ‘He that is not with Mo,‘ said the Master, ‘is against Mo.‘ ‘‘Many of the gravest and most serious sins of mebh are sins of not doing, No wickedness is charged against Meroz. The people were cursed becaue they did rothing. It was a sin of omission. There are other illnstrations. The priest and the Levite did not do any injory to the wounded man. Thevy did not rob him, did not â€"»mite him, did not say abusiye or unkind words to him. Yet every one who reads the «tory g1ys at once that thoy did this man grevious wrong, sinned most sorely against bim. They did it by not renjering to bim love‘s, offices, by pasâ€"ing bi» by, and leaving him unhelped in his bitter need. They came not to the *Meu search now in yam for the site of Meroz. It is not marked on auy map, The very memory of the place has perâ€" ished. This single vindiciivye strain in the old song of yictory in the single menâ€" tion of it in any book. The word stands enly as the symbol of a curse for not doing ones duty. It represents the mwan, who, when other men are loyal, remains neutral ; when others are in the midst cf the batile, braving danger, recoiving wounds, is found hiding at home, taking no part in the struggle. Merosg stanks for the man who shirks his duty, who abides at ease when he ought to be in the forefront of the field. "What was the reason for this curse ? What had the inhabitants of Meroz done ? They had not jcired with the enemies of the country, They had not harbored the foe within their gates, They had ouly not come to tie baitle when the call rang iu their ears. ‘"There is an old time curse that has a lsuggebti\o lesson for all times. _ There had been a great battle, _A country‘s very life was in the iss ue. When the call for wen wenut forth, and patriots from all over the land heeded the call, one hamlet did |not respond. Then in the song of victory that was sung after the battle, when the valiant deeds of this and that clan had been reconnted, there came this fierce etrain, ‘Curse ye Meroz,‘ said the angel of the Lord, ‘curse ye bitterly the inbabitants therof ; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty,‘ We earnestly invyite a care{ul reading of the following article, copied from the Sunday School Times, which through not written in the cause of Temperance, seems specially suited to the coming Plebiscite as a warning note to ull God‘s people to arm themselyes against our country‘s most gigantic foe, Intemperance, aud wipe the evil foreyer from our land : And now, before closing this chapter, I wish to warn the cities of London, Hamilton, Guelph, Brantford, Peterboro, and others, that it is easier to keep out departmental stores: than to get them out once they are in. Some of these cities are at the present moment being reconnoitered by enemies who propose to rush in and sap their vitality. ONTARIO ARCHIVEs TORONTO The Legislature of Minnesota is conâ€" ducting an investigation which is publicâ€" ly laying bare the whole iniquity of deâ€" partmental storesâ€"their depressing influâ€" ence on real estate, on the wages of labâ€" oring people, on the quality of merchâ€" andise and the unfair, if not criminal, ruwor enjoyed of crushing to death one ine of trade after another. _A remedy will be devised. Towns are now permittd to impose a license upon a transient trader who wishes to rush off a stock of goods and then flit to another town. _ In some places the license is almost prohibitory. In what way is the departmental store of Toronto less of an injury to a town in which it does business f’)y mail and exâ€" press, than the man who rushes in and slaughters a stock ? Newspapers are carried free through the mails at the public expense, yet wherever they go Lgey are the canvassâ€" ing agents of these ruin working instituâ€" tions. Parcelâ€"post and hookâ€"post regulâ€" ations made to suit a previous condition of affairs, assist these monopolies to the damage of all the towns in Canada, of the city and province. Should any man or set of men, howeyver great theitr capital, be free to operate thus ? CONTRIBUTED BY W. C. T. U. he | ‘;*The ot ? w ns | The cur ite u)t.ilt b to | selves H and bad not sold his wheat at all. Morar.â€"*"The next day the man went to the publisuer of his bhome paper and said : "Here, gir, is the pay for your paper and when the next year‘s subâ€" seription is due you can depend on me to pay prompt‘y, I stood in the posâ€" ition of the editor last night and I know bhow it feels to have one‘s hard earned dollars scattered all over the !oountry in small accounts. And the : editor swiled and said ; "How strange, you are the first man who ever seemed to look at the matter from my stundpoint." Is your subscription due ? Ounce a man had 1000 bushels of wheat which he sold not to a single merchant but to 1000 different dealers, _ A certain paper expluins that a few of them paid bim cash, but far the greater number said it was not convenient tlen, but they would pay later. A few months passed and the man‘s bank account ran low. "How is this," he suid, "my 1000 bushels of wheat should have kept me in affluence nutil anuother crop is raised, but, Jo ! I haye parted with the grain and have in its stead only a large aâ€" ‘mounb of small accounts, so amall and numerous and scattering that I canrot get around and collect fast enough to pay exponses," So he posted a public notice and asked all who owed him to. come and pay quickly, But oaly a few came. The rest said; "Mine is only a little and I will go and pay one of these days," forgetting |that though each account was very emalil, when ali were put together they meant a large asum to the man. _ Things went thus until the man got to feeling so badly and rolled and tossed about so in his efforts to collect that he feil out of bed and awoke, and quickly running to the gravary found his 1000 tushels of grain still safe, â€" He had only been dreaming ;;:': Patent‘, 'rfi::x'râ€"ofl-t;â€"bi to invent."and ‘Prizeson Patents‘. Advice free. Feermoderate MARION & MARION, EXxXPERTS, Temple Building, Â¥5 St Jan:es B%., S‘ODLPUCR® The only firm of Eradnate Rrginers in the Domiâ€" milon trapsacting patout business @C:usively "We should gather close about our Master with holy devotion, and cleave to Him with unalterable fidelity. This is no time for secret discipleâ€"ship, Cowardice is treason to the King, To shirk our duty now is to miss the crown at the end." What will you do ! ~e*The application of the lesson must R#@#t with eanch one‘s own conscience. _ Phe curse is not against the enewics of : but against those who c«ll themâ€" d!u His friends, and who come not to His help against the mighty. It is the curse, not of opposition, but of inactivity, the curse of hiding away at ease when the Lord‘s cause needs all one‘s energy, the curse, not of fighting against the Lord, but of hot fighting with him. â€" The impulse of the lesson should bring us out of our Lidingâ€"place to deciare ourselves 1 urequivocally on the Lord‘s mde, and to stand forth beldly among his friends. Iw.ord'a picture of the last judgment, ao'ho are set on the left hand are Bdemned, not for evil wrought by them, hot for wicked deeds they had done, but because they came not to the help of the '~%rd in feeding tho hungry, giving drink i&ue thirsty. proyiding for the needy, visiting the sick. They are condemmed for not doing. PROF. CHAMSERLA:: T. |JBFE SPECIALIST _ : @7 King 8t. East, TORoXT0, ont. oye. ~This way you will have comfort, and save what money can‘t buy. «Lhetre is such a thing as wearing Bpectacles when you shouldn‘s and rot wearing them when you should. When you first notice your eyes failing, or it seems m strain on them to M or do near work, consult an eye specialistâ€"one that is permanently located and makes a specialty of the Den‘t trifle with this precious gift by not heeding the dictates of nature. TAKE THE HINTâ€" HIS VISION. GOD‘S t Cift to Man * <pâ€" + + **"Monsoon" Teais put up by the Indian Tem rwcunn sample of the bust quaities of Indian eas. Therclore they use the greatest cure in the selection of the Tea and its blend, that is why they put it up themseives and s«ll it only in the origimal packages, thoreby securing its purity and .U‘dbm The undersigned offers for sale or rent that desirable park lot, in the village of Priceville, formerly owned by the late James Cameron. Lot conâ€" tains 13 acres all under cultivation, On the lot is a good house, and barn, also a good bearing Orchard For terms of sale or rent apply to JOHN MeINNIS, E;EHE.T{IB?;I} ib. packages, and never ALL QOOD QROCENS KEEP IT. If your grocer does aot keen it, to!! him to write ta STELE., MHAYTIEA &£ CO. â€" & and 18 Front 2*:â€"ast Easi Toronte, Tnc § g AS q FinCeT Tra $ in TtHc Worlp Ets a FROM THC TEA ®P.4GWT To TY TeA ourP ‘1’ 8’ "!(.\‘ : t#A oA riAe i3 O «i nsS 4 Niz l * Nurserymen and Fruit Growâ€" ers. Toronto Can. \ Over 700 Acres under Cultivation | _ 101â€"3 m If you want Bargains, come this month to. Fruits & Confections of all kinds. The old Stock bought from Mr. T. Moffat will be rushed off at low prices to make room for New Goods arriyed and arriving. We are the only Canadian Nursery paying salary and expenses from the start. Liberal commission to part time men. Large list of specialties, all having been tested at our trial orchâ€" ards. If you want a sure thing tor the Winter, write us. a STONE & WBLLINGTON MclLachlan All Supplies F«unished Free. Men to Engage with us as Salesmen. New season just opening ; new sl‘fle of plate bock ; more attractâ€" iye and yet lighter than ever, We do the trade in Raw Furs. Highest C _ Price Paig. WANTED Wt ns ts un ns Heavy & Light Harness TO SUIT YOU. Workmanship Unsurpassed Fize Choice in Valises, Grips, Horse SBlankets, &c., &e. OPENING!! 1 With New Groceries, New Canned Goods, New Crockery, and Glassware. CALL & SEE OUR We Handle everything in the Harnes *# line, at right prices. WHOLE NO 972. IN ITS NATIVE PuU®TY, Harness !! PARK LOT For Sale or to Rent. C. LEAVENS, Jr. A PENAFECT TEA A. MeLACHLAN 8, FURS. n 1\(@ fem TA Ne 3 as P P rs= goa ts & (Moff at‘s Old 3 ta Collars, Pads, Bites, Whips, &c., &c. Priceville. 1