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(a snap) we. a yard 60. a yard to to $2 57 to (momâ€"Furs door east. 01 um m Pharmacy. Calder's Block. Reamâ€"First aoor mt Post Office. Durham. wm be at the Commercial Fragile. first Wednesday in out Lucas. Wright 8: Batsnn, BARRISTER. Solicitor. etc” Molntyrea Rim-k. lower Town. Collection and Agency promptly attended to. Searches ma do st :he Renal-y Ufllce. d all other matters fprouilyhto‘l’g ' urn ----., vnvvunl‘L’V Auun, II.- . old humans. and is propcr “m may amount of money on red e 01d mortgages paid 06' on the In0::11beraltmms. Fire 80d Li! Inlnr mfiectedxn the beat Stock Companio- “ lowest . rues, Correspondell“ to Orchardull P. 0. . or u call solicited Standard Bank of Canada 1233' QUEEN: gucHARDngLE, bu enl‘m--J L ' m8!) ' 18118, ‘Lalnu d Randence. mflomino ' ARRBTER. Solicitor. etc. Office over 0. 1.. Grams- yore. Lower Town. Any amount of money to loan at. 5 percent. a (mu property. ll ator and Licens'ed Agata-60;; for the lolnty of Grey. Sales promptly attended Hamish! I. B. LUCAS, mum DALE. W. uwmum, OWEN SOUND. C. A. BATSUN, DURHAM. RESIDEXCEâ€"Middaugb House. Qgfige‘ hoursâ€"«93.111. to 6 p._m_._ Will be to'l BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, NUTARIES, CONVEYANC- ms, ETC. In AMES BROWN, Issuer 0! Marriage Uceuaes, Durham, Ont. {MES CARSON DR. T. G. HOLT, L. H be at the Commercial Hotel. Pricoville. and thirtl Wednesday-I in each month. \Iedical .1)irect01'y. â€"â€"V "”1 financiaâ€"l V-.. -lv. business Maggot“! “M BfinLDm-m G. LEFROY McCAUL. (Olehd. Monoyinfeatéd for M“. Finns bought and sold. CONVIYANOBR ITO. V BROWN. J. P. TELFORD. DENTIST. ‘vitsrP/laneoux . at the Cmmnerc'mol Hotel. first Wednesday 11) each of the RoyalCollego of Edinburgh“ Sorgtlfand. 0f. __-_._ .- lowest rates. Easy terms Epioéite Temperance , Durham, Land Vflu Toronto. In tho' ¢ Newspaper short distanca ot the Dur- I was called " It." Try as Iwould, I could find no patron saint in the calen- dar who answered to that name. and there was really no excuse for "it ” but the negligence of the Johnson family to christian its children. They bestir- red themselves early only in the case of my elder sister. who was named Maggie. Even I, the youngest of a batch of five, never knew the second child, a boy, by any other name than “ Brother." Then came “ Sis,” the third, and “Babe,” annother boy, and tin- ally I, the last of the Johnson brood. “ It " rang in my baby ears long be- fore I knew what was meant. I sup- pose that being the real baby it would have caused confusion in the house- hold, where there was already a “Babe,” and so they substituted “ It,” for that was my ti-‘tle by right of succession. I never knew my mother. She died soon after I opened my blue eyes to the world. Perhaps if she had lived my nomenclature would not have been so slightingly treated. Maggie, the eldest. a quiet, faithful girl, took charge of us at mother’s death. Father was a team- ster and away all day from the little family, for whom he provided generous- ly out of his slender earnings. He. too, called me “ It " when he took me up in his lap and rubbed his harsh, stubble beard over my baby cheeks or pinched my little fists with his big, horny fin- gers. Maggie gave me amother’s care. as she did the other children, and I had really no trouble about my in- complete name until I went to school for the first time. “ Your name is what?" asked the teacher when my turn came in along line stretching from the foot of her desk to the last bench in the room. “ ‘It’ Johnson,” I answered prompt- 1y. I trundled off. perplexed, to find “ Brother." Up to the t0p floor I climb- ed and soon espied him in a front seat of Room No. 3, the door of which stood wide Open. He answered the summons of myvigorously beckoning finger and I confided to him the dilemma. I was in about my name. “ ‘ It ’ Johnson ‘1” she repeated with a doubting shake of the head. “Lit- tle girl. you must have forgotten your "No.” I gasped for alump in my throat almost choked me. To be the first in the whole room who had any difficulty about her name was morti- tying even to a little 6-year-old. “ Have you any brothers or sisters in this school l” “ Yes, my big brother is in No. 3." “Go tip-stairs and bring him down “ Well: ‘ It,’ " be 331... “you are in a. bad fix. You never had any other name." “ But isn’t your name ' Brother ’ and nothing else 2” “ No. I’ve been christened James be- sides." “ James 7” I queried. “ I thought that was father’s name: “ And it’s my name, tooâ€"James J ohn- Wu. Then for the first time I learned that “Brother’s” name was James, that “Sis” had been christened Cordelia, and that “Babe. the infringer," was Andrew in the Baptismal record. Only poor, little slighted me, was “It” and nothing more. ‘Ull “W33 Vb vuv â€"-_._ I passed through my school days as “ It." Then. tired of book learning. I went to work in a shoe factory. “Bro- ther ” was a teamster now, like father. "Sis" was married and lived in the country. “ Babe " had run away to en- list in the army, and there was no- body at home but father. and Mag- gie, and me, for James was boarding in another part of the city most of his hauling had to be done. I hadn’t been in the factory long when that old phrase “ you’re it "was revived on the vaudeville stage. and of course the young men about the place teased me by applying it to me. a real “It," an “It” from her birth He called each girl by na celed out the work and tol ° kay! to do. “ Mollie l Rosina! Gertie Annie! You i” he said when my turn “ Brother ” made man teacher, and she laugh the name of " It. ” Johns roll book of the sohool. ’0 showed me no favoritism. I paid my fine when late. the same as the rest. and if I made a blunder I paid for the damage. Withal. I felt sure that Mr. Joe Parkinson liked me the best of all, and my little heart. craving affec- tion and only too ready to give it. went out to him in the first flush of awaken- ing womanhood. He must have read it in my eyeS. for Pis glancesgmw‘wargn When he spoke to me, and his hands often lingered around mine as he placed the work in my outstretched arms. The girls at my table were all friendly but one. Some- how a silent antagonism had sprung up from the first between Rosina. Freoli and me. Rosina. was of Italian descent, a buxom, crimson-checked girl, with a well-poised, vain little head. She was of a quarrelsome and jealous disposi- tion. feared by the girls and relentless- ly pursued by the young men with admiring glances, impudent innuen- does in compliment to her beauty, and invitations to all the parties in the cheap dancing halls of the town. To all of these Rosina went, and often more than once a week was she fined for being tardy the morning after. She stood her punishment with a saucy smile for she knew her beau o the evening wduld make good her inan- cial loss. Aware of Mr. Parkinson’s hobby for promptness, I had been invariably on time. One night Maggie was taken ill. I nursed her till daybreak. Then I fell into a sound sleep at the foot of the bed and was awakened only by my sister’s anxious cry that it was long past rising time. I hurried away with- out a morsel of breakfast and reached the factory just three minutes late. Mr. Parkinson stood at the desk. noting my time.” “ My sister was ill all night,” I stam- mered, blushing to the roots of my hair. He must have read in my eyes the penitence expressed for having crossed him in his efforts to promote promptnem. A _ _ .i . 7‘ â€"'"m ' ° ” 'd with “ All r1 ht, httle glrl, tome Sal , a, kindly gglance from .1113 handsorhge brown eyes, “I’ll forglve you t 18 time." As I turned to go to my place Isaw Rosina at my elbow. She had heard the foreman’s remark. An evil expres- sion Spread over her darkly beautiful countenance. All dagy she pursued me with her jealous grudging eyes. ’At noon she held a oonfab with three of her stanchest admirers, and their sneering faces, bent upon me, boded “ You‘d better go home earlier,” ad- vised Becky, my particular chum. “Tell him that your sister is too sick to get supper, and hurry away from here be- fore closing time. They mean mischief. sure !" I dared not offend a second time by losing a quarter of an hour at the busiest season of the year, so I staid until the gong announced the close of day. Becky and Iwere not more than half a block from the shop when Rosina and her noisy escorts came toward us from the middle of the street. “ There goes ‘It!’ Joe Parkinson’s ‘It!’ I’ll pa.)r de fine! There it goes l” And the rudest of the quartet picked up a handful of mud and plastered my back with it. I turned: to run back to the factory. when out of the darkness the arm of a man shot squarely into my assailant's face. “ The foreman knocked him down l" whiSpered the excited Becky. “I’m glad of it!" And we took to our heels and made good time in Setling .130“??- . . . As I crept into my bed that night the sweet thought that he had defend- ed me kept me awake many hours. \Vhen I slipped into dreamland at last it was with his face bending over me. his lips whispering that he loved me. meâ€"poor. nameless, insignificant “It." Next morning I hurried to the fac- tory long before the opening hour to thank him for his gallant defense. To v--w“-- "â€"â€"__ â€" my utter dismay a stranger was at his desk. I nge him my number and passed on. Soon the other girls ar- rived in groups of two and three. Their faces were grave, and they seemed to discuss with subdued voices a calam- ity. “\Vhat has happened 1" I gasped, filled with anxious foreboding. “ Mr. Parkinson has been arrested," said Becky. “ The blow he dealt the scapegrace who insulted me was more effective than he had meant. The fel- low was lying unconscious at his home. would result in death. His two com- panions had sworn out a warrant against the foreman. Neither they nor Rosina made their appearance at the shOp that day. Even now I cannot hear to dwell on the miserable days that followed. Joe 1. as nLuQVu "'"o ._____-, the victim of his gallantry slowly re- covered. I went to him with abreak- ing heart. He stretched out his hands through the bars and drew me toward him until he kimed my forehead. I was a woman at last. and my cup of love and suffering was £3111. “I can bear it all. little one I" he said. manfully. “ It was all for you l" ' ' '.1. On the start. and I soon joined him in the cozy little home he had prepared for me. “ You I" he cried. as in the days of old. Only now he clasped me in his . “.Little wife I” he I: ” no longer. MN“ («0 Wu} vuwâ€" â€"w to mother out of thy fullness of one's ’ ed With an utter lack of gympathy. Snob a situation is por- biogrspher at the Rev. Hr. Thou. Portoous, the well known blacksmith of Goderich, Ont , tolls how licknoss and weakness gave way to heath and strength. “ For the past four you-I my Tho Anvil one. nor. I'II': with a» stroke: of II: tanner. nerves have been very weak, my sleep fitful and disturbed by dreams. consequently I arose in the morning nnrested. I was frequently very dizzy and was much troubled with a mist that came before an eyes, my memory was often defective and had fluttering of the heart. together with a sharp pain through it at times. In thil condition I was easily worried and felt enervated and exhausted. Two months ago I began taking Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills, since that time I have been gaining in health and strength daily. They have restored my nerves to a healthy condition, removed all dizziness and heart trouble, and now I sleep well and derive comfort and rest from it. That Milburn’s Heart and Nerve Pills are a good remedy for Nervous- ness, Weakness, Heart Trouble and similar complaints goes without saying." Price 50 ots. a box at all druggiets or T. Milburn A. ll. IIIINJINH Send» Back a “'mul 01‘ Ml “or to Prospective 160ch Hunter» A. H. Hutchins, of Rochester, N. Y.. who is now on his way to the Klondike. has written a letter from Juneau. In the course of his letter he says: 00., Toronto, Ont. “If I were to start our again I should not buy a single article before reaching here. If any of your readers think of going to the gold fields, my advice is, first of all. don't go; but if you don't take that advice, just pack your grip with. enough 01d clothes to last you for about three weeks. Buy. your ticket for Juneau. and go to the American Express Co. and buy their. signature checks to the amount of $600. Then.when you get here you will have achance to change your mind and you will have had a run well worth your money. N. G}, J. McKechnie. wvâ€" ' cases spent it for. goods not suited for the work in hand. This isasplendid place to catch your breathâ€"the last chance I am toldâ€"and calmly view the situation. â€"‘_‘E‘Kére are many who would turn" back about this time if they had not already spegt gheir mopey. apd it} rpa‘ny “While I write there are in the rooms with me. three men who have STRENGTH CAKE BACK. Lnxa-leer Pills cure Dyspepsia. ON THE WAY TO KLONDIKE. We take this Opportunity of thanking our customers for past patronage, and we are convinced that the new system will merit a continuance of the same. We beg to inform our customers and the public generally that We have adopted the Cash System, which means Cash or its Equiv alent, and that our motto will be “ Large Sales and Small Profits. ” Adopted by THE “WEI“ WWW W‘IY YHURSDAY HORIINO ll’ m WWII-E PIIITIIG HOUSE, mm m DURHAM, ONT. SUSSGRWTIM T“ C"*"‘-‘"’“""- “'5" 1* *6"! to my a‘ns addf¢>\', 1': cc of postage, for Shoo peg . A. _ ._ 0 year, pa}'.'_abl§_§'u ad|v.moe-$l.5o may wmrl “fl £dd:::s,fx eé afgosmge, for $1 .00 pa} BATES . ... . year,pa>~able in advance-3hr may be charged :f not. sq paid. The date to whit: every subscription is pznd IS denoted by the numberon tho address label. No paper .1: .c .I.!:Imcd until all mean aw paid, except at the 0-," .‘n. « ~l LllC proprietor. I“. III U" v "-v'v Contract rates for yearly advertisements furnished on lpplicatinn to the office. I? All ads-32mg: ncnga, go ensure Insertion m current week. should be'lirbughi in not later than 'l‘ucsoav morning. *-_.-â€"_â€" THE JOB : : I: completely stocked with DEPARTHENT all NEW TYPE. thus 1(- {ording‘ facilities (or turning out First-duo I work. The Chronicle Contains . . Each week an epitome of th world’s news, articles on the household and farm, and serials by the most popular authors. Its Local News Is Complete. and market reports accurate. just come out. There are plenty of them about town, but I have never _yet met one who has made even a moder- ately rioh strike, and that too after several years of constant prospecting. They have all made a living; but how many otthe thousands who are (look- ing to Alaska can keep up their cour- age on a have living in this God-torâ€" saken country for ‘a year or two. in HwVVhopea 6t ultimitely making a strike, which, after a11,may not pay for the ammunition. Willie Boyâ€"If I promise to learn my lesson papa, will you give me a quart»- er? Papaâ€"Yes, my son. Willie Boyâ€" And what will you give me if I do learn it? “There seems to be no doubt that the claims in the vicinity of Dawson City have panned out rich. and that there are many more such places when discovered. The ordinary finds, how- ever, will not enable a man to save much more. it any. than he could out of an ordinary salary in the cast. it the stories of those coming out are EDITOR Axn' Paormmnu. 15 PC 81.188810