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Loan and Insurance Agent, Conâ€" veyancer, Commissioner &c. Loaps arranged without delay. _ Collections promptly made, Insurance effocted. MANEY PO 1LOAN stlowost rates of Interest ®â€"~7® ons door north of W. Seot‘s Store Durhara FOR SALE The EDGE PROPRRTY. 1. If any person orders hispaper discor #inued, he must pay all mrreages, or the publisher may continue to send it until pay â€" mentis made, and collectthe whole ax cun! whethor it be taken from the office or not There can be no lega! discontinuance unti paymentismade. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. NOTARY PUBLIC, Commissioner,etc., **"County of Grey. Sales attended to promp mad at reasonable ntt-‘. Residence Durham Ont VWa 1Â¥ 20# lLsinl W EL RZ g3ammsnsR, SobiCITOR .IN SUEREME CJUBT. In the Town of Durham, County ol Groy, including valeable Water Power Brick Dwelling, and many eligible building lots, will be sold in one or more We cal! the specia‘ attention ef Pos masters and subsoribers to the following sy mnopsis of the newcpaperlaws : 2. Aay person who takes a paper iron the post ortice, whether directed to hi mame or another, or whetherhe has sub soribed or not is respounsible for the pay. Jots. Also lot No. 60, con. 2%, W. G. R., Township of Bentinck, 100 acres adjoinâ€" Ing Town plot Durharm. 8. If a subscriber orders bhis paper to be stopped at a certaintime, and the published eoentinues to send,the subscriberis boun( o pay for it if he takes it out of the post effice. This proceeds upon ke groun( bat a man must pay for what he uses. Of the Best Quality Cheaper THAN EVER. Firstâ€"Class Hearse. Handâ€"made Waggons for sale cheap. Jobbing of all kind]; promptly In the old stand. All handâ€" made shoes. Also Horse Shoeing Shop, UNDERTAKJING Promptly attended to. JAKE KRES8S8. W. L. McKENZIE, MONEY TO LOAN. Residenceâ€"King 8t., Hanover, Fire Ingurance secured. OFFIOE, oven Grant‘s Srom«. Lower Town, JAMES LOCKIE, Mortgage taken for yurt purchase BSUSER of Marriage Licenses. Auoâ€" tioneer for Counties of Bruce and Grey. Has opened out a firstâ€"class J. P. TELFORD ICENSED AUCTIONEER, for th ALLAN MoFARLANE, > HVUVCH McKAY. Furniture MISCELLANEOUS. atill to be found in his Old Stand opposite the Durham Bakery. WOODWORK Newspaper Laws. Apply to JAMES EDGE, Edge Hill, Ont, in connection. A firstâ€"class lot of DU RHA M LEGAL McFARLANE KRESS don, and who has followed the recent cablegrams from England on the genâ€" eral theme discussed on that occasion, to arrive at erroneous conclusions. He is apt to think that an offensive and defensive alliance between the United States and England is either in course of negotiation or is close at hand. The Washington correspondent of the Lonâ€" don Telegraph wires his paper that an alliance is actually being arranged, and this information is cabled back to the United States. Broadly stated, the terms of the alleged alliance, as given by the Telegraph‘s correspondent, are these: 1 Recognition of the American interpretation of the Monroe doctrine by Great Britain; 2, the construction of the Nicaragua Canal by the United States, and its use by England and no other foreign country in time of war ; 8, Great Britain to protect the United States in the possession of all the terâ€" ritory it takes from Spain in the presâ€" ent war if possession should be threatâ€" ened by any other European nation ; 4, the United States to back Great Briâ€" tain in her policy in Asia. British ports on that continent to be open to the United States under the most favorâ€" ed nation clause; 5, all controversies between England and the United States to be referred to an nonâ€"partisan comâ€" mission. An understanding will be establishâ€" ed between the two countries, but not a league. There will be an entente, but not a formal alliance. The cablegram tells us that the Angloâ€"American banâ€" quet in London was " most unique and significant." This characterization is not extravagant. It was participated in by many Englishmen eminent in evâ€" ery sphere of endeavorâ€"politics, law, journalism, science and commerceâ€"and all the most distinguished Americans at present in England took part in it. It was unique in the fervor with which illustrious Englishmen like Lord Coleâ€" ridge, in the words of the cablegram, " prayed that victory might perch on the American banner, in the interest of America, in the interest of Spain and in the interest of humanity." About two weeks ago Premier Salisâ€" bury, by plain implication, in a speech published all over the world, put the United States in the leading place in the growing and progressive nations and placed Spain in the list of dying peoples. A few days later Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, next in promâ€" inence to Premier Salisbury of all livâ€" ing Englishmen, in a speech which had an equally wide circulation, enthusiâ€" astically favored an American alliance. Still more recently Sir Garnet Wolseâ€" ley, the Commanderâ€"inâ€"Chief, of the British army, declared he hoped and beâ€" lieved that the Americans would win. Such fervid expressions of friendship as these from men high in the governâ€" ment of a great nation for one of the combatants in a war in which that naâ€" tion is neutral are without precedent in the world‘s history. This spirit, and the service which it has rendered in defeating the continental powers efâ€" forts at intervention against the Unitâ€" ed States, is warmly appreciated in that country. Nevertheless there will be no offensive and defensive alliance between the two countries. Such a league would involve the United States in quarrels in which it has no interest, and make a departure from the traâ€" ditions and practices of the past hunâ€" dred years. But there will be a cordial understanding between them, and as this is based on community of interâ€" ests and hiarmony of aspirations and poses, it will have most of the benefiâ€" cent influences of an alliance withâ€" out any of its embarrassments. It is easy for the average person who reads the speeches at the Angloâ€"Amâ€" erican banquet recently held in Lonâ€" It Ocenrred in Egypt, and Was About the Food Supply. The earliest strike occurred about 1450 B.C., or upwards of 33 centuries ago. Pharaoh was building a new Temple of Thebes. The masons reâ€" ceived very little cash, but a quantity of provisions which the contractor thought sufficient was handed to them on the first of each month. _ Suffiâ€" cient or not, they mostly ate it before the time had elapsed. _ On one occasion many of them had nothing left quite early in the month, so they marched to the contractor‘s house, before which they squatted and refused to budge until justice was done. _ The contracâ€" tor persuaded them to lay their disâ€" tress before Pharaoh, who was about to visit the works, and he gave them| a handsome supply of corn, and so all went on well for that month. â€" But the same state of things recurred by the middle of the next, and for some days the men struck work. _ Various conferences took place, but the men declined to do a stroke until they were given another supply of food. _ They declared the clerks cheated them, used false weights, and so forth, familiar enough complaints in this country unâ€" der the truck system. The contractor not compl{ing with their demands, they marched to the Governor of the city to lay their grievances before him, and he tried to get them to return to work by smooth words, but that was no use, and they insisted on baving food. At last, to get rid of them, he drew up an order for corn on the pubâ€" lic granary, andthe strike was at an TORONTO THE EARLIEST STRIKE. NOTES. A good foundation is essential to a good, stack. On many farms it is posâ€" sible to use log sleepers, across which rails or poles are placed. This keeps all the grain off the ground and gives a firm base. However, most grain stacks have no specially _ prepared foundation and keep very well. _ Beâ€" gin; by setting up bundles in the form of a shock at a point where the cenâ€" tre of the stack is to be. Continue placing bundles around this nucleus until t he base is of the desired size. As the outside of the stack is approached gradually increase the slopes of the bundles but at no time allow the heads to touch the ground. If round stacks are to be made, put four in a place, two on either side of a space seven feet wide, for each setâ€" ting of the machine. When ricks are built it is the common practice to stack two in a place, or four, two on either side of the space left for the threshing machine, with the long diâ€" mension of the stack at right angles to this space. This latter form makes it more difficult to get the bundles to the machine, but where a large amâ€" ount of straw is wanted in one place the plan is the best that can be adâ€" opted. When the foundation is completed, begin by laying a course of bundles about the outer diameter. When the fir®t is completed, lay a second, allowâ€" ing the butts of the second row to justy cover the bands of the first. Put on a third row in the same manner and continue until the entire surface of the stack is covered. At this point,; see that the center of the stack is high and solid. Place the bundles of the inner rows close together, and step upon them, so that the center will be solid while the outer rows remain loose. In this lies the whole secret of building a stack that will keep. The outer bundles must slope downward and outward. Now as the center of the stack has to bear the weight of the top, it naturally settles most and unless it is high and much more solid than the outer layers the depression will be suificient to cause the outer bundles to slope inward, and instead of camsing the water to run out will direct it toward the interior. This keeping the center of the stack full and solid should begin with the first layers and be continued until the stack is twoâ€"thirds the contemplated height. The top can then be finished with the bundles almost level. It is not absolutely necessary to have a bulge on a grain stack, but it looks well and protects the lower bundles from the water coming from above. The buige is secured by permitting evâ€" ery| outer layer of bundles to slightly project beyond the layer beneath it. Do not muke the stack very wide so that the roof will have a very marked, slope. Other things being eqâ€" ual the steeper the top of the stack the more readily will it turn water. One problem in stacking the small grain is to keep the stack from slipâ€" ping during process of construction. This® may be done by carefully raking off all loose straw before the +wo outâ€" er layers of bundles are put down. By bolding the bundle almost perpendiâ€" cwlar and pressing the butlts into the outer end of the bundle below, then laying down, this tendency will vbe largely overcome. It is well also to have the driver pitch one load from one side of the stack and the next from the opposite side. Each side will then be packed alike and there will be little danger of slipping or settling to one side, after the stack is comâ€" pleted. Topping is important, and while a number of methods are in vogu» the common one is to insert a long stake in the top of the stack Spread out the butts of a large bundle and slip over the top, then break down the top, and unless there are excepâ€" tional weather conditions, the water will not enter. Where it is practical a foot or two of grass on the top of the stack will make an almost imâ€" pervious cover, but most farmers do not have time or opportunity to secure this. K + wWORKâ€"HORSES IN HAYING TIME. It is a common experience on the farm that the borses lose flesh rapidly when used for any length of time in the hay field. [The haying season gives on many farms. from four to six weeks of this work. Mowing and rakâ€" ing hay is, of course, hard work on horsesâ€"especially if the fields are somewhat hilly, but I do not consider it so much th» hard work that takes the flesh from hborses in haying time as it is the want of proper care and the in judicious care that is given them at this season. Many farmers work their horses during the day, feed on corn nnd hay, then at night turn them out to pasture, "because the horse enâ€" joys it so much." The grass loosens the bowels, weakening the animals, disarranging their digestion, and makâ€" ing hard work tell heavily upon them. Again, horses come in from _ work covered with perspiration, which dries upon them. Very few farm horses get the grooming that they need to keep their skins in a healthy condition. Few realize how â€"much proper grooming tends to keep a horse in good flesh, and grooming is specially important during the hard work of summer, beâ€" cause of the great amount of perspiraâ€" tion. Keep the horses on haf and good sound grain; keep them well groomed, with a comfortable bed at night, and if they are not fretted needlessly by their drivers during work hours, they will do a vast amount of hard work without losing flesh, While thinning all fruits is advisâ€" able, it is especially so with orchard THINNING ORCHARD FRUITS. STACKING SMALL GRAIN. On the Farm. When sowing cauliflower for a summer or autumn crop, do not overâ€" look the fact that it is far more valwâ€" able as a winter than as a summer vegetable, and as a rule, in many seoâ€" tions of the country a most certain one. As a summer crop, away from the sea. oast, cauliflower is a very doubtful one, which is due to the fact that it will not thrive in a hot dry atmosphere. But sow the seeds in June and transplant when the plants are of suitable size, and with favorâ€" able conditions of growth fine heads will be formed and ready for the table by the last of October, and as the plants rarely all head at the same time, the season will last until the plants are ruined by excessive cold. When the season is nearly over, there will always be found many plants that just begin to form heads, If these are lifted and put in a cool cellar and the roots covered . with earth the heads will develop nearly as rapidly as in the field, and freâ€" quently get to be from four to five inches in diameter, and they are far more delicate than when grown in the field or garden. fruits, We bear much talk in these days, of overâ€"production of fruit, but it is safe to say that the over-pl:odut‘/- tion is confined wholly to inferior or ordinary specimens and not to tlfe best or extra grades. As all fruit growers well know it is impossible to get a full crop of strictly firstâ€"class fruit. Quality and quantity must.be sacrificed, and when the competition is confined almost wholly to medium and inferior grades it is surely good business to grow and market only the best specimens. Aside from the {fiâ€" nancial advantage in growing and marketing only the best, there is a deâ€" cided increase in the ravages of fungâ€" ous diseases on trees from which the fruit has been thinned. If in thinâ€" ning care is taken to remove the poorest specimens, those remaining, will, by reason of the increased food for growth, be stronger and better able to withstand attacks of disease and insects. On thinned trees the quantity of windfalls is less and many of the delicate flavored varieties may ba wholly ripened on the tree, a decidâ€" ed advantage when the fruit is inâ€" tended for a nearky market. He is Not Worried About a Change For a State Occaslion, The Kaiser is a military man. from crown to foot. His numerous wardrobes contain only five suits of mufti, mostâ€" ly made in Vienna. Like most German officers, he never looks well in them. He has a particular Abneigung against the swallowtail, which reminds him of the somber surroundings of a funeral. This unconquerable objection is acâ€" countable for an imperial regulation ordaining that wherever possible courâ€" tiers and guests shall wear the frock coat a l‘Anglaise, otherwise the newly introduced court dress is de riguer. The Kaiser‘s wardrobes occupy a suite of five rooms in the old castla at Berâ€" lin. They are massive and of oak. In the middle of one of the rooms is a large table for spreading out the uniforms. There is a sixth room, in which small repairs, are undertaken, Here a tailor is permanently employed, for Kaiser Wilhelm does not throw away clothes until they are well worn. He keeps about 18 pairs of white military gloves in use. These are cleaned and repairâ€" ed from time to time. The glover reâ€" ceives a small yearly sum for his serâ€" vices. Each pair is supposed to have a certain "life." Should the leather show any defect it is returned to the unlucky glover, with a peremptory deâ€" mand for an explanation. The black swallowtail is thus fast beâ€" ing forced out of German court circles. Umbrellas are his pet aversionâ€"he never possessed one in his life, and, as to sticks, they are usually the cheapâ€" est he can buy. His rifles are under the special care of the Leibjager, and are kept in a special cupboard. A reâ€" markable feature of this collection is the bunting sticks, which His Majesty has cut with his own hand while out hunting or received as presents durâ€" ing his expeditions, from gentry and peasaniry alike. _ _ R When a suit is ordered, woe to the tailor should it not fit like a glove, though a "try on" is never permitâ€" ted. Directly a suit has been taken off, it is returned to the wardrobe, ard there subjected to the closest scrutiny. The orders and decorations are kept in an iron safe, and represent in value about 1,500,000 marks. NO LONGER FASHIONABLE. Fashion‘s new fiat is that there shall be no more gold in teeth. Gold in the midst of a "row of pearls," the leaders say, is horribly conspicuous, and it is very bad form. None of the yellow metal should show when one laughs, and sucha thing as bhalfa front tooth of gold must no more be seen. It is still allowable to use gold where there is no possibility of its showing, but in any othercase the new rule of fashion is exceedingly positive. It is not proposed that where gold is already in place it shall be taken out, but the "orders" are to use the other materials from now on, especialâ€" ly in the case of the upcoming generaâ€" In the place of gold the fashionablae dentists are now using a white metal that bhardens very quickly and when hard looks precisely like the tooth itâ€" tion. HOURS ON SHIPBOARD. For the purpose of convenience and discipline the day on shipboard begins at noon, and is divided thus: Afterâ€" noonu watch, 12 noon to 4 p.m.; first dog watch, 4 pm. to 6 p.m.; second dog watch, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; first watch, 8 pm.. to 12 midnight; middle watch, 12 midnight to 4 am.; morning watch, 4 am. to 8 a.m: forencon watch, 8 a.m. CAULIFLOWER IN WINTER. KAISER‘S TOGS. mtX Earth is out in her new Bprin? dress, Aâ€"wooing the hearts of men Ardent lovers their loves confess Over and over again! Birds are singing, Dewdrops clinging, Flowers are laughing at May ; Hope fills again The hearts of men, As they plough the fields toâ€"day ! Earth is out in her summer dress, With the rainbow tints anew, The children‘s bearts and lives to bless, And the skies are azure blued A new love song The whole day long Is sung by the milkingâ€"maid, The lambs at play Are wild toâ€"day, As they romp in the flowery glade ! Earth is out in her Autumn dress, The color of ruby wine, f Her heart is full of tenderness In response to heart of mine ‘ Bhe knows it well I need not tell * The vows of the happy year ; In wedded bliss No joys we miss Though the Wintry blasts be near | Earth is robed in her Winter dress, All spotlessly white and pure; No flowers hath she no warm caress, Yet her heart is mine, I‘m sure: Love‘s heat or cold, Makes love more bold, And the bracing Winter‘s blastâ€" Tho‘ seeming rudeâ€" Is fraught with good, When the die of the year is cast! Nature and I are the lovers dear, I love her in every mood, A perfect love that knows not fear, A love that is pure and good ! At last I‘ll rest Upon her breast _ > Like a seed well sown away, Freed from earth‘s pain To bloom again In a land of endless day! Authorities say that crinoline is again coming into favor. This asserâ€" tion is made so frequently that those who dislike the idea of the fashion beâ€" coming really established feel that it is only a call of "wolf," and do not fear the establishment of so ugly a mode. THE EYES OF THE WORLD The eyes of the world are literally fixed on South American Nervine. They are not viewing it as a nineâ€"days‘ wonâ€" der, but oritical and experienced men have been studying this medicine for vears, with the one resultâ€"they have found that its claim of perfect ouraâ€" {ive qualities cannot be gainsaid. In the matter of good health temporâ€" Izing measures, while porsibly succersâ€" ful for the moment, can never be lastâ€" ing. Those in poor health soon know whether the remedy they are using is aimply a passing incident in their exâ€" perience, bracing them up for the day, or sometlun! that is getting at the seat of the disease and is surely and permanently restoring. The great dirooverer of this medicine so desperate was possessed of the knowledge that the the most em seat of all disease is the nerve centres, Bouth Ameri situated at the base of the brain. In beadquarters this belief he had the best scientists | ‘The eyes oi and medical men of the world disappointed mpy!n' exactly the same preâ€" cess of South misos. ndeed, the ordinary layâ€" ple ma;rvel, j man recognisedi this prinoiple medical qua! long age. Pveryone knows that yond all qu« let disease or injury affest this part of thing that is the human system and doath is almost alone as the certain. 1njure the epinal cord. which remedy of th is the medium of there nerve conâ€" should anyos tres, and w‘m is sure to follow. ness while t Here io t prireizle ‘The trowuâ€" at their han T Wor eale ty McFarane & Pn ~ Are Fixed Upon South Ameriâ€" can Nervine. f wHEN EVERYT QOTEER HELPER HAS FAILED If CORE A Discovery, Based on Scientific Principles. that Renders Failure Impossible. mises. Indeed, the ordinary layâ€" ple ma; man reoognised this prinoiple medical long age. Pveryone knows that yond al let disease or injury affest this part of thing th the human system and doath is almost alone a certain. 1njure the epinel cord. which remedy is the medium o% these nerve conâ€" should : Jeyond Doubt the Greatest Medical Discovery of the Age. & J 2. 3. 7 "_".t‘ + ' 2 A~_<"â€"3‘-â€"i§\\} ? ‘ / +3 â€"% i ./; NPR :: ::‘.;'.. *$~\‘- 6 \ \ . w /.':/ J > + o,’«;'. ,.\\ \ ! 0, ® n '/‘ ‘V ‘.u\.' . ‘ N L I '; , ’/,‘,',',,'”’,7"\«“\“\‘\' /\\"; , $ 2zA e $ /! if / ,_(.,,\\ i *A K ty es o"\ *â€"_. ) -\~"\ 8 & (dS 'i wb "’\"‘ Gat ' :;:'{ uJ ,’:'Q IS CRINOLINE COMING? #zas _ SOoUTH _ \% §\ flMEmcfl)( %Q ‘A*%> NERVINE &N EARTH‘S WOOING. JOHN IMRIE, Toronto. P #, °* 9e , 8 #2, i, * ira ;'l.u7||\ |ble with medical treatment UFIe " L CBP CY E* Mpepact e L2 * IST 0 ERTDCTTE EWeE \ally, and with nearly all medicines, is | that they aim simply to treat the organ that may be dissased. Bouth American , Nervine passes by the organs, and imâ€" mediately applies its ourative powers to the nerve centres, from which the | organs of the body receive their supply of nerve fiuid. The nerve centres ‘healed, and of necessity the organ | which has shown the outward evidence only of derangement is healed. _ Indiâ€" gertion, â€" nervousness, impoverishe@ ‘blood, liver complaint an ... "°°° wantiam _ . _ _CCMenl is healed. Indi. gestion, nervousnees, impoverished blood, liver complaint, all owe their origin to a derangement of the nerve centres. _ Thousands bear testimony that they have been cured of these troubles, even when they have become so desperate ms to baffie the skill o8 the most eminent physiciane, because Bouth American Nervine has gone to bheadquarters and eured there. ‘l‘heeyuo(thomahunnnb«. dizappointed in the luo:lry into the sugoâ€" cess of South Ameri N’r"vm Peo. ple marvel, it is true, At wonderful medical qualities, but they hknow beâ€" yond all question that it does every. thing that is claimed for it. It stands alone as the one great cortain anrina -é! :;:E%: queres, mt aaiiee Shsigs DURHAM AGENCY. Ageneral Banking business transacted Drafts ssued and collections made on all points. Doposâ€" ts received and interest allowed at curreni TAE GRE! REVEYV | Cep, m O 20e ®ne sreat cortain curing remedy of the rineteenth eentury. 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