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E1 91 \'b()d\ is think- i110 and file 111mg) f01 And the best of all is that our Xmas goons are an new auu and we are ready for a bigger rush than ever this year. Having extended our store back another 40 feet, which makes the largest store of its kind in this part of the country, as everybody knows that we had the rush last year which cleaned our Xmas stock out. This year we have thousands of dollar’s worth of brand new goods. I And will give you the greatest stock to choose from. No old goods here but everything- bright and new. We will lay any article or articles away for you ant them without one cent of deposit. We do not insult our until you w asking them for a deposit on chosen goods. customers by Come with the Crowd and have what you want laid away fopyou. No trouble to show goods Gold Watches Clocks Jewelry Silverware Spectacles Eve Glasses Fountain Pens J apan China Bibles A‘.‘. m1“ FANCY BOXES and in BULK " ‘-.. "f" - ~1“ a..- Choice Perfumery 1n Fancy Cases at Money Savmg Prlces ,. .~ great Xmas is now on at r’ s Store. All goods bougt at Keeler’s will be Engraved free of charge. ON YOUR CHRISTMAS PURCHASES See our great display of Burnt Leather Goods WATCH UUH WINDBWS They are certainly swell. Tlie Busy Jewellers We have the larg- est and best Xmas Stock to be found in Durham Hymn Books Prayer Books Books of l’oems Miscellaneous Books Picture Books Gold Mounted Umbrellas Cased Pipes Tobacco Pouches Cigar Cases :' Xma For Xmas Suggestions S GIFT SUGGESTIONS goods are all new and we ‘have prepared ‘C‘afl" Fancy Boxed Cigars Musical Instruments Toilet Cases Dressing Cases Shaving Sets Xmas Cards Sleighs .. Dolls Toys and Games ZSW ' (w Pmces are gomg to be the magnet that. will draw shappers here for their Xmas gifts. THE DURHAM CEREMNICLE 3 How Galveston Is Still Raising Itself : Above Flood Line. 3 Each day the solid wall crept farther i along the gulf front until at length it ‘ ’. tretched four and a half miles. guard- l 1 ing the whole corporate length to its ‘ outer limits, and on top of this the l 1 city has undertaken a task unknown in l history, but which is now one-third O lcompletedâ€"to lift itself bodily above : the flood line. A district as large as all i that part of Manhattan below Houston | street is being raised to a height in places fifteen feet above its present . level. It was not an open country or a tract of waste land which was to be lifted. It was the major part of an active, vigorous town. the most impor- tant business center of the southwest. Street car lines, gas pipes, water 1 l mains, houses, churches, all the com- plex mechanism of a metropolis, had to be elevated an average of seven feet above the old grade. No less than 11.- 000.000 cubiciards are needed to com- plete this worm. â€"â€"â€"nn_c rm“. I' """ Eleven million cubic yards! The quantity conveys no definite idea to most. What it really meant for the gulf city to undertake this work may be realized from comparisons. Galves- ton is the second export city of the United States. During the last fiscal year, 1905, there gleared here for both United States and foreign ports vessels of a total of 1,762,478 net registered tons. This tonnage is an equivalent of 1,828,000 cubic yards. f It every vessel clearing from the port of Galveston last year had been loaded with sand to her full net tonnage ca- pacity the amount carried away would be less than one-sixth of what is being used in raising the grade. The material required would make five pyramids as large as that of Cheops. If every vessel flying the American flag were required to bring one full cargo of sand it would take three trips of this great fleet to meet Galveston’s need. This is the magnitude of the public work that the city of less than 40,000 souls has undertaken with no outside aid save the retention of its own state taxes for seventeen years. The men of Galveston have built a solid concrete sea wall four and a half miles long at a cost of $1,500,000 and have paid for it in cash. They have backed the wall up with a hundred feet of solid filling and are now raising the greater portion of the city to an average height of fourteen and a half feet above sea level at a cost of $2.- 200,000 further. CITY THAT HAD “SAND.” The solution of the problem of rais- ing Galveston was an engineering feat. No tool in America could accomplish the work within the city's resources, and hauling material by rail cost $500,- 000 more than the municipal tax limit would allow. Suction dredges could not pump sand three miles into the heart of the town. The solution lay in the radical proposal of driving a canal into the heart of the city and using self propelled dredges, but Recently intro- duced in Europe, which could take their loads from the ship channel, steam up this canal and discharge the material tinder the houses and through the streets. The operation of these engineering Titans possesses a certain interest. They steam over or alongside a sand bank. The main engines actuate a large centrifugal pump, whose function it is to take up material and discharge it into the hoppers. “Kreisel pompe," or whirlpool pump, was the name given it by the old Prussian pioneer who first applied this principle to hydraulic dredging. The pump forms a small maelstrom, sucking up into the interior or the dredge sand, mud, etc., with 80 to 90 per cent of sea water. Then with a full load of hundreds of tons the dredge steams across the navigable channel, up the temporary canal and pipes the mixture on to the lots and appointed streets. Two years more will see the accom- plishment of this great undertaking. The sea wall will Withstand the fury of the wildest storms. The raising of its grade will lift the city above the danger point of the highest flood. The incubus which has for so long over- shadowed this entrepot of the south- west will vanish. Galveston’s legiti- mate future Will have to its realization no vital Damien-Scientific American. Its Distinguished Company. Bordentown, N. J ., once kept distin- guished company. The exâ€"king of. Spain and Naples, Joseph Bonaparte, lived there for sixteen years upon a magnificent plantation called Pointe Breeze, now vanished from the world of real estate. Lake Villa is still stand- ing, where Bonaparte’s daughter dwelt with her husband, Prince Charles of Canino and Muslgnamo, and Linden Hall is in good preservation, where an- other prince lived, Charles Lucian Mu- townâ€"Argonaut. The Motor Eye. The motor eye is the latest develop- ment that the medical profession has to deal with. It appears that those who are continually rushing through the country on a motor car cause the eye to take a too rapid impression ot the things it encounters and that this affects the mechanism of the eye. Na- ture did not prepare us for the, condi- tions or modern times, and while it is adapting itself to them many unfore- seen circumstances must occur.-Lon- don Graphic. - Was the Automt my! ‘ Among the relics of famous men in the possession of Dre John. Dixwell of St. Loutsnls Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes’ Shoe hem 'It' is an' ’ordmiary steel about tOnr teet long. Armed ‘with this, the doctor could pugon ms shoal without» steeping or m cum. E‘yarylhingatYour Ssrvice We aim at doing better by you than any other Jeweller. p ercy (i. A. Webster, Ve are never undersold by any business rival. 'xrmmrra. (t WINS: (,.‘ “b. 'H, WhitP and szlcfidMXE m; Machines. (31mm 5 Qt‘fi'h. Hm 1m», BIC ,Etc. °,~ " t. ‘ llluhilu “'1 ‘95 {13%} I Christmas is Near Time to Get Busy JUHN MUHUUEH Make a. highly appreciative gift. We have a new lot just in, bought at reduced prices ' Fur Buffs, Throw Overs, Caperines. etc. $3.50 to $15.00. Fur Jackets. plain and Sa‘b‘le Trimmed. $30 to $50. Fur Mufis, Fur Caps, Fur drauntlets. â€"â€"Dress goods â€"Umbrellas -â€"Boys’ Girls’ Tuques â€"Mcns’ Gloves â€"-LadieS' Gloves â€"-Linen Table Cloths â€"Tab1e Napkins ~S1deboard Scarfs â€"White Bead Spreads SEE SIY SYOCK. OF There uever was such a showing in Durham before It's simply elegant. Choose yours now. We wish we could describe the beautiful creations. We can’tâ€"but We want you to see them. This is headquarters for the freshest and purest 01 Christmas Groceriesâ€"Nuts, Peels, Fruits, ete.,â€"prices reasonable. Splces So much to buy sq man)7 things to think about. Avoid all the worry and disap- pointment possible by shopping now C3932] Sepax‘zxt01"s, This Store will be Open every night till Xmas. Middaugh House Block . “‘DIAJVIOUY‘D HALL.” Christmas Grocerles For the Housewife Ladies’ Neckwear Mens’ Neckwear Christmas and New Years Display of Jew= ellery Diamonds and Silverware JEWELLER AN D OPTITIAN FURS See our Magnificent DECEMBER 20, 1906 AYTON MILLS WENGER MILLING CO. Who by using only best wheat and careful grinding are producing flour of superior quality, second to none mode in Canada. Made of best. Manitoba wheat obzain- able is in every respecc afiour of Give these flours a trial you will be delighted and will want no other. MATTHEWS 5’ LATIMER A blend of besn Ontario Fall and No. l Mauifoha wheat is a. StriCtly '9 Block. Superiar Family Flour Are now being operated by Floor Mats Chenille Table Covers Tapestry Table Covers PURE MANITOBA Superior Quality â€"FOR SALE BYâ€" Men’s Mufflers Men’s Caps {Fancy Sweaters Lovely Ribbons ENCORE Our preparz ings of tast in long des Ladies’ Fa Silk Colla Our 1m} er 2n ChristniaS St DECEMBE R 20, 1 Fine embroidered Beautiful new Fine importei Large st stock of Beautiful Dresden silk Men’s: line pair .. Fine silk belts in all sh Men’ 71 Men’s extr lined . Tartan belts very new M en’ a silk Special black silk belt Crush leather belts in 10 doxen beautifu 4O dozen finer goo 2O dozen plain 1m 15 dozen fancy b0 10 dozen large col 5 dozen beautiful Bétter and more elabor: the best we have sh No thing will please headgearthan on _ fancy ............ The latest black elast neat .............. 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