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Galvanised and Iron Piping, Bram Brass Lined and Iran Cylindeu m OPEN EVERY AFTERNOON Pumps From $2 Upward ALL REPAIRING promptly and properly attended to. launch": of And Dodo: in PUMPS OF ALL KINDS W. D. Connor )V.D.CONNOR ++++é++éééé++¢++++++%++%++ ++§WWWPM++++++§+M+ ifiéwk ~I--r ~Z‘ Offers you advantages not offered in any other school in the provin c This school is affiliated with Central Business College, Stratford, and Elliott Business College, Toronto. The courses are practically the same in the three schools. The proprietors of this school are receiving seven times as many applications as they have students graduating. We can do more for you than any other similar schaol in Canada. Take a course with us and see how quickly you will secure a. position. Your success will mean our success. Students are entering each week” Commence yOur course at once. February 8th, 1912. Macfarlane C0. D. A. McLachlan, FEBRUARY SALE [\LHVUJIVIULI“ THAT OUR TINSHOP IS AT YOUR DISPOSAL. Anything in the line of Furnaces, Ranges, Stoves, Tim and Graniteware can be had. Plumbing and Tinsmithing in all its lines neatly and pfomptly executed. wN. H. STERNALL REMEMBER 215% Wall Paper C. P. R. Town Ticket om Buy Your Tickets Here DEBILITATED MEN Ticket Office right through the whole stock. If ckets Here you cannot. use it now. buy it and put it away until ready. A dollar saved is a dollar made. PRESIDENT, MOUNT FOREST ofi'r. We must have the room for New Spring Stock of Wall Paper. Our racks oely hold so much. so out goes the balance on hand at regular QUICK SALE PRICES. We lose but you gain. During February every roll price cut in two. the victims of early indiscretions and later ex. cesses. who are failures in lifeâ€"you are the ones we can restore to manhood and revive the spark of energy and vitality. Don‘t give up in despair bcczmr-zo you have treated with other doctms. .Uslthl electric belts and tried various drug store nostrums. Sold by Mada-lane Co., Durham. When mothers feel very much con- cerned over the frequent colds contracted by their children, and have abundant reason for it. as ev-' ery oolld weakens the lungs. lowers the vitality, and paves the way for the more serious diseases that so often follow. Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy is famous for its cures, and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all dealers. DR vamsrs AND STATIONERS 10c. DC. Papers F. W. Kahle, PRINCIPAL ¢ 0 a??? .mu LT?” .J;J;.w...$... at“. 21w. ++éé++A++e A â€".¢ _a A capi M. , business wI playwrig .E: priced t .4. E told me. -~ ‘I’ll tell ‘ 5: is a list .I seilles, ] ‘E‘ each ot 1 ,3: and senc only. '. 3: keep the .3. A few 4. .1. [3‘ w :2. . W ("D 'U “Yes, I ::’ murmured Thomas. “Well. it you were,” retorted the teacher, pointing again to the black- board, “perhaps you’ll tell the class why the hyphen is placed between bird and cage?” For a thrilling second Thomas racked his brain for light. Then he exclaimed: She pauscd dramatically, While her pupils bent 1.111111 ard in their seats and read the 1:21 1. White letters in pro- found sile 11 g. “In command words,” she resumed, as though she were reading fro ma bookâ€"111111211 is exactly What she had done just bc.::1e the class assembledâ€"â€" “a. hyphen is employed to show rela- tion between the two terms that form it. Ahem! For instanceâ€"â€"Thomas£' she broke 0:”: suddenly, “you’re not at- tending!” . . “Yes, I 11:2.”s murmur‘ed Thomas. “I’m in the lickens of a hole!” said the habitual borrower to a 'brotherâ€" merchant. “I’ve promised to oblige a customerâ€"see? And now, bless me. if I can let him have the goods!” “Ah!” replied his friend thought' 111111 “Seems to me I’ve heard that sort; of thing before!” “Here,” sa d the teacher, pointing with her cano to the blackboard. “we have an em nple of a compound Word -â€"‘Birdcage “Don’t cuE up rough, old chap!" Whined we borrower. “I relied on you!” - - “Did you? Well, I’ll not thank you for the compliment!” snapped the other. “See here. You can have the goods as soon as you pay me for the lag? I gave you.” “Greth Scoitvman,” cried the bor- rower despairingly. “I can’t possibly wait as long as thak!” A man went into a draper’s the otggr day for some lady’s gioves. “Doctor, I believe there is some- thing the matter with my brain.” Doctorâ€"Did you bring it with you? â€"â€"â€"-\ I“ w Dâ€"W “Are they for your :vif? , cr shall I Show you anything bet er?” asked the shepman. A capital story, illustrating a keen business deal, is told by a wellâ€"known playwright. He says:â€"â€" - “I met a friend of mine who had bought up a stock of cast-off clothing, and was burdened with 49 overcoats, of which he could not dispose. ‘I have priced them down 50 per cent.,’ he told me. ‘and nobody will take them.’ ‘I’ll tell you What to do,’ I said. ‘Here is a list of seven gentlemen in Mar- seilles, Lyons. and elsewhere. Send each of them seven of your overcoats. and send each one an invoice for six only. They will be pretty sure to keep them.‘ '- '- The Kidâ€"It’s a cinch for that pup itto walk on four feet, but when I try to walk on our eetf, but when I try a bargain counter rush. A few days afterwards I met my friend again. He was very rude to me. Each one of the seven gentlemen had kept an overceat, and returned him the six mentioned in the invoice!” “But she did. sir,” said the man in alow voice. “ ‘Sam,’ she says, “you re no good at book work, and you don’t like the Army, and ain’t got the tem- perament for an actor, you should go for a. policeman.’ ” youn ing a A NEW USE FOR THE HYPHEN. “I know! TAKENG MOTHER’S ADVICE. strong and rather brutal- looking 2 man was charged with assault- policeman ASKING TOO MUCH. GOOD BUSINESS. AR FOR THE WIFE. NOT SO EASY. ' ENT-MINDED. ' S J .J It’s for the bird to perch THE DURHAM CHRONICLE. Wm" “There is nothing so health-giving as a singing-class,” says a doctor. It is the neighbors who have the com. plants. ’9 the taps have been removed. The tops are then screwed down again. To make the connection even firmer, the side plate has slots in it and the thumb levers pass through these slots and clamp the plate fast. There are also movable caps at the tOp of the shakers so that one can be closed it the user wants either the salt or the pepper wltWer. A device for transforming a salt and a pepper shakcr into a combination utensil, so the t both may be used sim ultaneously, has been invented by a Kansas man. The boxes themselves are of the ordinary cylindrical type, but each has a thumb lever on the side. A set of plates consists of one that fits across the top and another that runs down the side of the shakers when they are placed together. The top plate has two circular holes that fit over the neck of the boxes after Accompanied only by a Cingalee ser- vant and two of the most civilized natives of Papua, he spent nearly five months in the country. “Mafulu-s bury their dead under the ground, except the chiefs. who are-put into boxes above the ground or placed in the branches of the fig tree.” Shaker of Each Kind Joined Together by Set of Plates. Mr. R. W. Williamson, fellow of the British Anthropological Institute, who tion through hitherto unexplored parts of Brittish New Guinea, has gi1 en an account of his journey to the institu- tion which, by reason of the thrilling personal experiences of the narrator, and the remarkable conditions pre1 ail ing among the Mafulu people, the most retrograde tribe on the island, surpas- ses in interest most trips of the kind undertaken in these modern day s, most of the 11orld’ 5 race secrets have been revealed. After a long and perilous tramp through almost impassable bush and undergrowth, infested by most veno~ mous reptiles and wild beasts, the parâ€" ty who had been attacked by leopards and other dsnizcns of the forest, reach- ed the Mafulu Mountains. “Strangely enough he was taken very ill the next day and had to be removed to the coast. And the natives were only strengthened in their super- stitious fears. “Marrige is a very simple process A boy sees a girl he wants and goes to her house. A price is arranged for her, some pigs or a tomahawk, and the girl’s parents accompany the boy back to his home. “Then they all sit outside the hon and the wedding is over. “A Jesuit priest who wanted to build a but was warned by the Mafulus not to cut through one of these trailEn-r plants. He laughed at their fears and cut it through. “By this time,” says Mr. Williamson. “my legs were covered with sores from bites of animals and tears of the scrub. There is, I am sure, subtle poison in the atmosphere, and every step hurt me. “The‘re1igion’ of the Mafulus is simply primitive fear of ghosts and spirits. They have not reached the stage of idolatry. “They believe, for instance, that the fig tree and certain trailing plants are spirit haunted. “Their skin is a dark, sooty brown color, hair a grizzly, frizzy brown, and across their’ faces are weird splashes of color, chiefly bright red. “Here in these wild out of the World regions I found two French Jesuit priests. I cannot express my im- mense admiraiion for these two men who lived there. quite alone and unpro- tected. “The Mafulus. I discovered, though they are cannibals, are not actually head hunters. They only eat human fiesli when the victim is killed in bat- tle or private vendetta; but then the actual slayer is not permitted to as- sist at the feast. “At the big feasts pig flesh is largely eaten. One village of about 100 hous- es killed 120 pigs for their meal. “It was between 4,000 and 5,00 feet up the mountains that we cam upon the Mafulus, a small people er tirely naked save for a stlip of bar'. worn' around the loins and under tli legs. R. W. Williamson Tells of His Obser- vatlons of the People in British New Guinea HEMABKABLE TWP 5? “A SCIENT BOTH USED SIMULTAN’EOUSLY SALT AND PEPPER BOX 4-. 5,000 came ST Cats In Ancient Wales. An ancient statute ascribed to Howe! the Good. 3 Welsh prince, who ruled in 948. regulated the price of cats. A penny was the price of a kitten before its eyes were open. twopence until it had caught its first mouse and four- pence when it was old enough for com. bat. He who stole a cat from the royal granaries forfeited either a milk ewe, with its fleece and lamb. or as much wheat as would cover the body of the cat suspended by its tall, with its nose touching the ground. A penny was a coin or great purchasing power in the tenth century. 'A Scotch Marriage. By the an of 1856 the parties sign in the presence of two witnesses a declaration that they take each other as husband and wife. They then pre sent a petition to the sherifi asking him to certify that they have been married and that one or both of them had their usual residence in Scotland before the marriage or had resided there for twenty-one days . preceding it. This petition may be presented within three months of the declara- tion constituting the marriage. but is usually presented within three hours. The parties and witnesses attend be. fore the sheriff, and the witnesses con- firm on oath the statements of fact. The sheriff thereupon grants warrant to the registrar to register the mar- riage. The registration can then be completed at once. The whole pro- cedure takes only an hour or two, and the cost is only a few shillings. On the eve of the new year and summer holidays there is a constant procession of newly married couples and their witnesses before the sheriff in Glas- gow. The suitors are principally- drawn from the artisan classes and the classes below them, but there is usually a sprinkling of a better class. -â€"London Spectator. Queensland Pearl Divers. The Queensland diver gets into his dress at daybreak, steps on to the lad- der over the side and fastens the life line round him. The tender screws on the face glass, the pumps are started. and down goes the diver to look for shell. If he is on ground where shell is plentiful he fills his bag. then allows his dress to fill with air, which brings him to the surface. when he is hauled to the boat by the life line. He emp- ties his bag on to the deck and goes down for another bagful. Some of the divers occasionally work in twen- ty-five fathoms. The greatest danger With which the diver has to contend is paralysis, and, knowing the danger he runs. he sometimes demands £200 in advance. and this amount is some times lost to the pcarler through the zeal and daring of the diver.â€"â€"London Globe. Making His Mark. “One funny thing I have learned about human nature,” said a drug store cashier. “is the habit many peo- ple have of marking their name in the city directory. They do that because the directory is the only place where their name ever gets into print. and it has such a fascination for them that they can’t resist calling attention to it. A funny little old man who likes to talk tells me that he has made special trips to difierent parts of the city just to mark his name in the directories of the neighborhood. He puts a little cross in red ink before it. I asked him What good it did. He said none, poso sibly, although he is a teacher of lan- guages and may get a few calls on account of that queer advertisement. When Ono Drills With Diamonds. A diamond bit for rock drilling is quite an expensive article. says Cas- sier’s Magaine. Its value. however. will undergo fluctuations. dependent upon the price of the diamonds. Per. haps $800 is a fair value for a bit. The diamond used is exceedingly hard â€"harder than those usually used as jewelry. Their carat price is consid- erable, averaging. say. $60 per carat. The diamonds used will weigh from one to two carats, so that eight have a value ranging from $480 to $960 on the average. The loss of a bit means many diamonds gone and may lead to difliculty with the hole. The diamond is not tough, but brittle. It will withstand heavy pressure it applied evenly and without shock. It can readily be seen that drilling through seamy rock may become quite unfavorable. If there is much quartz present the abrasion may become ex- cessive. Under ordinary conditions. however. the wear on the diamonds, while considerable. is by no means pro- hibitive. Meteoric Matter. In the early days of its history the earth is believed to have grown rapid- ly by the addition of meteoric matter. It is still growing in the same manner. though scarcely to an appreciable ex- tent, for the mass of meteoric matter added yearly is reckoned to be only 20,000 tons. “But his is an exceptional-case. Not many persons spend time and money hunting up city directories, but every time they happen to see a new one they can’t help looking up their name and putting some kind of a mark around it.”â€"Phile.delphia Ledger. Evolution of Clothes. Centuries ago. as Sir Walter Scott says in ‘nhoe? men wore one thick- ness of do es, whether of wool, leath- er or velvet. The shirt was invented. but for a long time was worn only by the nobility and gentry. Then follow- ed the waistcoat. breeches and later on trousers. The overcoat. Which succeed- ed the medieval cloak. was rare until the seventeenth century. -â€" Pittsburg Dispatch. GU wryrrk 53%;:8 " O .2 .41 f h ‘ Glen §1\l?‘l~]~1'~1 “ Durham 51 9 McWilliams“ 11.11 9. 9 8 .10 1 ) 31 “ Priceville “ 11.31 .50 " SaugeenJ. “ 11.18 8.43 1.50 “ Toronto . MACFA-RLANE. “ 11.” “ 11.41 “ 11.15 7.55 - Town Agent Trains will arrive and depart as fol- lows. untfl f archer notice:â€" P. M A. M. P. M. P. H. 3.15 625 Lv. Walkerton Ar. 12. 40 10.05 3.28 6. 38 “ Maple Hill‘ 12...“) " 9.50 New Grocery Store Fresh Groceries Always in Stock Butter and Eggs Taken in Exchange Mrs. A. SULLIVAN CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY TIME TABLE O09§§§§§§¢§§§OOQOQOQQOOQ+Q Upper Town - Durham H. G EUiO‘ '90o.o¢¢§§§*§¢§§§§§§§§§§§‘ Dams m fitrmam $2 '1' We at Durham 50 pm. 8.50 pm. mm DAY mam J. TOWNER Depot Agent JAMES R. GUN. Town Agent To be cleared out cheap. 2 only Men’s «Beaver Overcoats, Persian Lamb collar. I Ladies’ Beaver, Imi- tation Lamb lining, German Otter col- lar. for a thorough course in Busi- ness, Shorthand, Telegraphy or English in one of SHAW’S SCHOOLS TORONTO WINTER TERM NOW OPEN. \Vrito for catalogue. Address W. H. SHAW, President, Head Offices Central Business College, Yonge Gerrard Sts., Toronto. DURHAM Grand Trunk Railway TIME-TABLE ENTER ANY DAY C. L. GRANT Also a. limited amount; of iron work and machine Pe- pairs. A call solicited. Ask for quotations on your nextjob. The undersigned begs to announce to residents of Durham and surrounding country. that; he has his Planning Mill and Factory completed and is prepared to take orders for ’ Agent. What! Custom Sawing Promptly At- tended To SASH,DOORS House Fittings va Walkerton “ Maple Hill “ H anover “ Allan Park and all kinds of ~â€" THREE. ONTAKO 12.25 12. 17 12.08 gem. foronto. 2 99. and