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Durham Chronicle (1867), 27 Dec 1900, p. 2

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AT ml: um: roman “WE MAKE-- Furnace Kettles, Power Straw Cut- ters, Hot Air Furnaces, Shingle Machinery, Band Saws, Emery Machines, hand or power ; Cresting, Farmers Kettles, Columns, Church Seat Ends, I'lecl Fasteners, Fencing, Pump-Makers’ Supplies, School Desks, Fanning Mill Castings, Light Castings and Builders’ Sup- plies, Sole Plates and points for the different ploughs in use. Casting repairs for Flour and Saw Mills. The Chronicle is the non: wide I: re“ newspaper published In the county of Grey. BURDENS CARRIED BY BEASTB. An ox can carry 200 pounds weight on . :hy's journey. a camel 400 (3an Filed and Set. -- WE REPAIR-- Stem) Engines, Horse Powers, rotors, Mowers, Reapers. _ ircuhr and Cross-Cut Sun I am prepared to fill orders for good shingle: mm 8mm. Farmers, Thrashers. and Millmen 0H8 QUEEN, ORCHARDVILLE, hes resumed hi~ old business, end in prepay ed to loen eny emounc 0! money on real acute Old mortgagee paid at! on the moetlibenlserme. Elre end Lnfe Insur- mcelofl'ectedin the but Stock Catapult :0 It lowest, rues. Correspondence to Orchudvifle, P. 0. . or 3 cell eohoited FURNITURE UNDERTAKING ‘ nm CLASS BEARS! IN CONNECTION AMES CARSON, Durham, Licensed Q Awtioneer for the County of Grey Lend Velnuer, Beililf or the 2nd Division Court Selee end 311 other mattersrromptly attended toâ€"higheet. reler enoee urnimed it required. Undertaking and Emhalming A SPECIA l1" l UGH )lwhAY, Durham, land Vuln- stor and Licensed Auctioneer for the County of Grey. 81» promptly “tended to nnd not“ cashed. BA BB 18" IR. éoli: w r. etc . McIntyres blush. Lower Town. Collection and Agency prompt.) attended to. Sou-ones made at tho “Oahu-y unico. ABRISTIR. Solicitor. etc. Offloo over Gorioo’s new juwouory a'oro. Lowot 0 tr». Any amount 0! money no Icon at. 5 per cent. on 1- run propony. “fleaâ€"Ftnt door out of the Durâ€" hgl _l’_hrmac.y_,_ Caldgr’l Block. _ J. SHEW ELL Ruidonco.â€"F'irst 7 door {vestâ€"o! the Pod Office. Durban. DR. JAMIESON. Dorm. Oflioe end Residence e abort dietence out of Knapps Hotel. Lamhton Sweet Lower Town. Office hour: (tom 12 to 5 o‘clock.- A your“ Banking bmino. tun-oct- od. Duns blood nod collections nude 9!! III pginta. Dem-it. rag-any! und in- In M Authorized. P. d UP_ . o bra-t illowod 3i current at... [lure-L showed on Savings Bank do- pmtu of .1 und upward; Prompt alumina and every (mm, “(ord- od cum“: liv'm u 3 dinunco. J. Y. Ascot. “eagle. In all pflnclpnl poln‘ujn Un- uno. Quebec. Manitobo, Umcod Bum and England. DURHAM FOUNDRYMAN AMES BROWN , [sonar 0! Matting. Lwonumlhu'bom 0n. Standatd Bank of Eanada lil’RllMl, - 0ST Furniture DR. T. G. HOLT, L. D. 8. JACOB KRESS. G. LEFROY McGAUL. SAVINGS BANK. Durham Agency. [lead (Mice, Toronto. Dealer In all kinds of Medical Directory . Legal Dtrectory. “burning a apocidty. J. P. TELFOBD. M ”cell a llama . DENTIST. sun. Joseph, the prime minister, gets in his chariot and drives down to meet the old man, J'Oseph's chariot- eer holds up the horses on one side, the dust-covered waggons of the emi- grants stop on the other. Joseph. instead of waiting for his father to come, leaps out of the chariot, leaps into the emigrants’ Waggon, throws his arms around the old man, and weeps alouad for past memories and preamt joy. ment. “’6 are apt to think of the fields and the Orchards as feeding us; but who makes the flax grow for the linen, and the wheat for the bread, and the wool on the sheep's back? Oh, I wish we could see thrmxgh every grain-field, by every sheep-fold, under the trees of every orchard. the King's waggons drive up three times a day, morning, noon. and night. They bring furs from the arctic, they bring fruits from the tropic, they bring bread from the temperate zone. the world's famine. None but a King could tell Inw many waggons talend, nnd how heavily to load them, and when they are to start. They are coming over the frozen ground in constant communication with us. his waggona coming and going per- petually; and in the rest of my dis- course I will show what the waggons bring and what they take back. In the first place, like those that came from the Egyptian palace. the King's waggons now bring us corn and meat, and many changes of rai- NONE BUT A GOD could clothe and feed the world. None but at King's corn-crib could appease My friends. we are in a world by sin famine-struck, but the King is to-da). Do you not hear their rumb- on a document he could do so. \Vug- gon after waggon rolled down from the palace, laden with corn, and meat, and changes of raimcnt. and every- thing that can“ help a famine-struck people. Yonder they go, Jacob and his sons, and their wives, and their children, eighty-two in all, follow- ed by herds and flocks, which the herdsmen drive along. They are 30- ing out from famine to luxuriance, they are going from a plain country home to the finest palace under the This “as the place where Joseph, the shepherd boy, was called to stand next to Pharaoh in honor. What a contrast between this scene and his humble ataudlng, and the pit into which his brothers threw him! Yet he Wu not forgetful of his early homeâ€" ho “as not ashamed of where he came from. When they came up from the (amine-struck land to get corn from 1‘H‘E KING ’8 CORN-CR1 B, Josi'ph, instead ot chiding them {or the way they had maltreated and aqua-:d him, Bent them back with \snrgona, which Pharaoh furnished, lnlcn with corn; and old Jacob, the father, in the may same waggon, was brought back that Joseph, the son, might see him, and give him a home all tha rest of his days. Well, I hear the waggonsâ€" the king's waggonsâ€"mmbling down in front of the pilacc. On the outside of the pilacc, to see the Waggons go off, stands Pharaoh in royal rob-vs, and beside him prime minister Jos-- ph, with a chain of gold around his neck. and on his hand a ring, given by Pharaoh to him, so that any time he wanted to stamp the royal seal up- The Egyptian capital was the focus of the world s* wealth, in ships and barges there had been brought to it from India trankincense, and cin- namon, and ivory, and diamonds; from the north marble and iron; from Syria purple and sillr; from Greece some of tho finest horses of the world, and some or the most brilliant chariots; and from all the earth that which could btst please the eye, and charm the ear, and gratify the taste. There were temples aflame with red sand- stone, entered by gateways that were 'guai'ded by pillars bewildering with hieroglyphics, and wound with brazen scrpents, and adorned with winged ciustures, their eyes and beaks, and onions glittering w ith precious stones. lhere were marble columns bloom- ing into white flower-buds; there were stone pillars, the top bursting into the shape of the lotus when in full bloom, along- the avenues lined with sphinx, sud fane, and obelisk; there" were princes who came in gor- geously. upholstered palauquins, car- ried by senants in scarlet, or else were driven in vehicles, the snow- white horses golden bitted, six breast, ‘ dashing at full-run; there were toun-i tans from stone-wreathed vases climbing the laJder’ of the sun. You would hear a bolt drawn and a door of brass open like a flash of the sun. A despstch from Washington says :â€" Rev. Dr. Tslmage preached from the following. text:â€"â€"“And when he ssw the wsggons which Joseph had sent to rsrry him, the spirit of Jacob, their tuber, revived,”â€"~Genesis xiv. 27. THE GLORIES 0F PHARAOH. Rev. Dr. Talmage Tells of the Honors Paid Joseph. . HIGH NOON IN HEAVEN. Does not the subject at the morn-- ing take the gloom out of the thoughts that would otherwise be struck through with midnight. We used to think that whenlg we died we would have to go afoot, sagging down in the mire. and the bounds of terror might get after n.3, and that if we gut through into heaven at all, we would come in. torn and wounded and bleeding. I remember when my teeth shattered and my knees kneclb ed together when Iheard anybody talk about death; but I have come to think that the grave .will be the softest bed .auve ever slept in, end that tbv uattom of mycteet will not be wet with! the; passage of the Jordan. “Then that sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him.” I was readinc a day or two ago Robert Southey, who said he could due hr sway tron his triadsâ€"11h n (log. iln‘g out of the, woods, wad. over the brook, and through the lane, and up in the front of the old farmhouse; and then we would rush out, leaving the doors wide open, with many things to tell them. asking them many questions. Well, my dear brethren, 1 think we are many/(xi us in the King's waggons, and we are on the way home. The road as very bad, and we get. on slowly; but after awhile We come winding out of the woods, and through the brook of death, and up in Jron‘tg of the old heavenly homestead; and our depart- ed kindred who have been waiting for us will rush out thz'uugln the doors, and over the lawn, crying; "The waggon-s are coming! the King’s waggcms are coming!” Hark! the bell of the city hall strikes twelve. Twelve o’clock on earth; and likewise it is In my boyhood, for some time, we Lived three miles from church, and on stormy days the oh'tldren stayed at home, but [other and mother always went to ohurch. That was a habit they had. Oh those stormy Sabbaths when we stayed at home, the absence of our parents seemed very much pro- tracted, for the roads were very bud, and they could not get on, very fast, So we would go to the window at twelve o’clock to see 'u' they were coming; ‘ztnd then we would go- at halt-past 1welve to see if. they, were coming; and at a quarter to one; and then at 'one o‘clock. After awhile, Mary, or Daniel. or; De Witt would shoot; “The waggon’s com- ing” and then we would see it wind- THE KING 5 “AGGONS took Jacob up to see his lost boy; and so 1 ready think the King’s wag- guns will take us up to see our lost kindred. How long 18 it since Joseph went out at your household? How many years It it, now, last Christ- mas, or the fourteenth of next month? It was a dark night when he died, and a stormy day it was at the burial; and the clouds wept with you, and the Winds sxghed tor the dead. Oh, the joy of meeting our brother Joseph Jesus. Aiter we have talk- ed about Him {or ten, or fifty -or seventy years, to talk with Him! and to clasp hand: with. the Hero of the ages, not crouching as underlin‘gs in His presence, buc as Jacob and Joac-ph hug each other.” We wiii want some new term by'which to udd.ess 11.111. 011 earth we cail Him Sakur, or Be- deemer, or Friend; but when we throw our arms around Him in ever- lasting embrace we will want some new term 01' endeai'mcut. I think that the King’s waggons will take us up to see our lost friends. Jacob's chief anticipation was not of seeing the Nile, or of seeing the’long colonnade of architectural beauty, or of seeing the throne-room. There was a focus to all his journeyingsâ€"to all his antimpationsâ€"and that was Joseph. lf Jesus were not in heaven there would he no music there; there would be very, few people there; they would be off looking for the lost Christ, crying through the universe: “Where is Jesus? Where .is Jesus l” I remark, again, that, like those that came from the Egyptian palace. the King’s waggons bring us good news. Jacob had not heard from his boy for a great many years. He never thought of him but with a heart-ache. There was in°Jacob’s heart a room where laid the corpse of his unburied Joseph; and when the waggons cameâ€"the king's waggons -and told him that Joseph was yet alive, he faints dead away. Good news for Jacob! Good news (or us! The Bethlehem shepherds were awak- ened at midnight by the rattling of the waggons thdt brought the tid- ings.~ Our Josephâ€"Jesusâ€"Sends us a message of pardon, of life, of hea- ven; corn for our hunger, raiment for our nakedness. Josephâ€"Jesus-is yet alive. ling! They will stop at noon at Your table. Oh! thank God (or breadâ€"for bread! THE LATEST 1N VIENNA. University chsperons are the latest Viennese novelty. In consequence of the riotous Ind imulting behavior of the 'mnle students when the women tried to avail themselves of the newly- grsnted permission to attend lectures, msny mothers of women students have registered for the university lectures in order to accompany and protect their dsughters. HORS E PO\VER. When one speaks of a one horse power steam engine it is meant that the engine will raise 10 tonsper min- ute through a height of 12 inches. This in twelve time. as much an e man could do. - All occupations, except agriculture and military servire, are distasteful to him. Yet there are two other characteristics even more important than these. The first is his sense of discipline. It is this which keeps to- gether the apparently tottering fab- ric ot’ the Turkish empire. It makes the half-fed, halt-clothed soldier ready to endure chry privation, and prevents the corruption and incapa- city of the officers from producing the anarchy which would be inevitable in any other country. Sedition is unknown; even complaints are raw, and were a holy war proclaimed Ih to is not a man who would not be pre- pared to die in defense of the system of extortion which grinds him down. His second characteristic is his laxi- nogss, in spte of the laborioul indul- try of the Turkish peasant. The fact is that the ’l‘urk is too proud‘ to do many things, too stupid to do others. His religion inculcates a fatalism which tends to a conviction that of- fort is useless. A Turk thinks it the most natural thing in the world to lose a province, and, having lost it. to quit and live elsewhere. He talks quite compla- cently of leaving Constantinople some day ; he wul go over to Asia and round another capital. He originates n01h~ ing; he takes what he finds without assimilating it and remains profound- ly Turkiéh. He leaves no trace of his occupation except ruins. Practically there is nothing at Belgrade, Sofia, and Athens to show that for con- turies they were ‘i'uzkish cities. I regard this as one of the most con- spicuous instances of wooden-headed stupidity with which our army is gov- erned. Another which deserves to be bracketed With it is the exclusion of men from the army because they hap- pen to have false teeth. If there is to be a new regime worth anything in Pall Mall, these are among the many absurdities which will at once he got rid of. The correspondent _I have just quot- ed states on the authority of Mr. Con- an Doyie’s book that the redoubtable De Wet actually goes about in blue spectacles, owing to some eye trou- ble. If this is true. it is indeed one of the object lessons of the war. How many of the British officers whose sight was scientifically tested before; they received their commissions cani see as far as the blue-spectacled De Wet! lie Sum“ All Imam-1..- Ihu .Vllllucry Service and Agrlvunurv. A few years ago at some foreign maneuvers I spent an afternoon on the outpost line with an officer of a crack British regiment. Pointing to some fields about 1,000 yards away. he said: " There are some cavalry among the trees. I wonder whether they are scouts from the other side." Ipoint- ed out to him that the ‘supposed cav- alry' were really cattle. Although shortnsighted, I have good sight even for long distances, thanks to a pro- perly-selected pair of pince-nex spec- itacles. My officer friend used his field-glass and admitted his mistake. adding, “I am short-sighted. It is a great nuisance. One cannot always be using field glasses.” I suggested that he might use spectacles as I did. “I would gladly,” he replied, “ but there is such a prejudice against them in the service." Just imagine this cav- alry officer sent out scouting, and go- ing about his work half blind because of the prejudice against speetacled of- ficers! I could name men on active service in Africa at the present mo- ment who are very short-sighted, but; dare not wear glasses. Some oi" them wear single eyeglasses, to the great damage of what eight they stillhave. Yet last year in Germany at the im- perial maneuvers I saw plenty of of- ficers in spectacles, and a good many privates as well. crawling into noorner and dying an- observed. those were his words. Be it ours to die on e couch, surrounded by loved ones, so that they, with us may hear the sled. sweet. jubilant announcement; “The ng’e wag- goms are coming." Hark! I hear them now! Are they coming tor; me or you? halal“! Forbid: I’m-u. and Food“ 0... not ‘I‘rll Cu'flll” fru- (Laue. The following interesting anecdote on spectacles in the army is told by a correspondent of London Truth: SPECTACLES FOR SOLDIERS. THE UNSI’EAKABLE TURK. ADVAN TAG-EB OF TOBACCO. The lancet is outspoken upon the subject of tobacco’s advantages in campaigning. "The war in South Af- rica,” it says, “has taught many things of grtater and of less importance. Perhaps nothing that it has demon- strated has been more marked than the important part .which tobacco plays in the soldier's existence. Wheth- en this is to be reckoned as a great fact or a small one, there can be no doubt about the truth of it. Yet the Duke of Wellington‘s armies had no tobaccd worth speaking of. If they did not forbid its use. at any rate. the Iron Duke’s officers were directed to advise their men strongly against it. |What a curious contrast with the campaigning in South Africa, where marches and privations as long and as sure as any suffered by our great- grandfathers were borne by the volun- teers and soldiers of to-day with a grumble only when their 'smokes’ fail- ed them. We have it from many who took part in the forced marches lead- ing to Psurdeberg, to Bloemfontein, toPretoria and beyond, that when , rations Were but two or three biscuits 2a day the only real physical content of each twenty-four hours came with the pipe smoked by the smouldering iembers of a campfire. This pipe eased lthe way to sleep that might other- gwise have lingered, delayed by the :sheer. bodily fatigue and mental rest- ilessness caused by prolonged and imonotonous exertion. SI‘IDATIVE QUA LITIES. _ "it is difficult then to believe that ltobsoco is anything but a real help to :men who ere sufferi' long labors and riceiving little food. . . I probably the wey in which it helps ie by quieting cerebrstionâ€"tor no one doubt: its emislive qualitiesâ€"and thus allowing more essily sleep, which is so all-im- l l l porlnnt when semi-starvation to he endured. The ceeee of acute vntal dorengement in the course can)- pelgne such an tie present uu' many. There heve indeed been many in South Africe. It would be most profitable end interesting could medical officerg hevc taken special note of the capacity for sleep previously evidenced by those who broke down and also of their in- dulgence or non-indulgence in tobecco. We ere inclined to believe that. used with due moderstion, tobacco is of vslue second only to food itself when long privetione and exertions are to be endured. Two feetures are to he noted with regsrd to the smoking practised on sctive service. It is al- most entirely in the open sir and it; is largely an en em--‘ -- stomach. The tormenti- ntwaye advantage: the letter. we general... reckon s “I But this one hardly suggests the answer the medical profession would glvc to the sweeping question, “Should women smoke I” "I do sleep better, she added, “but I detest tobacco in every form and I am no more reconciled to it now than .t tint.” "I hate it,” she replied frankly. and then she explained that her doctor had oommsnded her to smoke a cigarette titer dinner and at bedtime. She had tried everything for insomnis and finslly her physician prescribed tobacco. saying that he had found it efficacious in a number of cases. But would the doctor. approve of cigarette smoking by women gener- Llyl The question was suggested the other day by my noticing the evident repugnnnce with which a conservative young English mntron consumed an afterodinner cigarette. 1 asked her if she really enjoyed tobacco. stated that Is Plays an Imps-Isms M II a Inldler‘a ll 0. 'An interesting change has taken place within a few years in the pre- vailing opinion among English medical gmen with regard to the use of tobacco. 'Th: th.-.ory tha- moderate smoking is a vice and always deleterious long.ago disappeared from the medical profes- sion in England. There followed a period when the prevailing view of. English physic.ans was that the phy- sical and mental satisfaction which smokers derive from pipe, cigar or cigarette practically offset the dangers of nicotine. This Opinion has in turn been modified until now the arerage English doctor thoroughly approves the use of tobacco as not only harmless, but wholesome in counteracting some of the tendencies of high-pressure modern life. This attitude at the medical proteasion may have something to do with enormous imrtase in the per capita consumption iof tobacco in bngland during recent ytars, but the true eXplanation will be tound in the amazing spread of the cigarette habit among Women. BU ttNlNG QUESTION. This is one of the burning questions of the hour in England. Social argu- ments enter into the discussion as much as physical ones, andI do not intend to enumerate them writes a London correspondent. in fact, the subject has reached the controversial stage in America also, if one can be- lieve the confessions of American visi- tors of the past two or three seasons, and it would be superfluous for me to state the case pro and con. l l ENGLISH nocroas consmga "to. BACCU wuousona. OF THE WEED. unfavorable; condition. 8h! ' the nmr future patient. i ImblyOpia or anoker‘l he: - while the trusting friend thought thnt he wu enjoyi ed the well-ennui Iolaoe *' dny’c march! We believe I ‘ the )pen uir will have I might hare been the untm a of smoking when tinted." The Shah of I cious stones tha world. In his pa keeps 010,000,000 glass jar, and 10‘ priceless gem! fingers. His crowns and vels or Oriental Kanjanlan crawl flower-pot. with and the other 01 top an uncut. fl as a hen. egg. l‘hey Are Item .‘I 'I‘Iu'uugl “I just set a tremblisn'. till tho. into the caboou. the book Again; 1 the road. Neva either." I “I tell you 1' novel and put (1 I got it, too. But throwed if over t; o! the. engine on a mighty close 0 “Well. what book!” “At. that mind of the switch wag me, and l 1:me allowed. and it": crashau into an be trouble. "All of a M whistle of Lhe ex] was, a-com'm‘ roll like-well, she W an hour, maybe. 3 "It was 3100 and I was sent I! switch for the I was late. and I \I switch, readin’ as you believe it! I switch at all. I )1 bank, under a m onto a sidi-n’ to press to pass us. “No." said the 4 and read. it you lib.- A gentleman who u in the West says that railway car he can. III on 3 mm: story of 91 He had been into tho! when he returned to to find the seat one Brlkrmu‘g [13‘ a Reading. HIS FRIGHTFUL PRICE than path that ale and hem

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