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.. m WWW W8 EMBER COLLEGE PHYSIC- ians and Surgeons. Ontario. Oflice hours 9 to 12 a. m.. 2 to 4 p. m. Residence and ofiice, Old Bank buildings. Upper Town. Durham. Telephone No. 10. I fice over McLachlan’s store. Oflice hours, 8 to 10 a. m., 2 to 4 p. m. and 7 to 9 p. m. Special attention given to diseases of women and children. Residence op- posite Presbyterian Church. FFICE AND RESIDENCE A short distance east of Knapp’s Hotel, Lambton Street, Lower Town, Durham. Ofice hours from 12 to 2 o’clock. Arthur Gun, M. D. HYSICIAN AND SURGEON, OF- fice over McLachlan’s store._(_)£ficg “.00 mum. Adveni M! be pgblished 15 um Transient notic “Pct ”anâ€"so cents {0 “ml! subsequent insertion. All Wu ordered 1 U the Durham Pharmacy, Calder’s Block. Residenceâ€"Lambton Street, near the Station. die-optima of the proprietor. Ifor transient advertisements 8 cems per km for the first insertion; 3 cents pct “M o o 0 line ach subsequent insertionâ€"mimon m Wards, not exceeding one inch. “-09 pt! manta. Mvmisements without specific W'albe pnbhshed till forbid and charged ac- um. Transient noticesâ€"“Lost," “ Found.‘ “For _ _"Oc.-â€"59 cents for fits: insertion. 35 cents THE JOB - - ° ’ I completely stocked with banana? 5, NEW TYPE, m. .f. Mn; facilities for turning out First-clan W. C. Fickering, D.D.S., L.D.S. Drs. Jamieson 8:. Macdonald. D Uflice over Gordons new Jewellery Store, Low‘,er'1cmn Durham. Anvamount of money to loan at 5 per cent. on farm property. ONOR GRADUATE OF TORON- to University; Graduate of Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. Rooms-Calder Block, over Post Office. D McIntyre’s Block, Loxxer Town Dur- ham. Collection and Agency promptly attended to. Searches made at the Regis- srv Ofiice. ARRISTER. NOTARY, CONVEY- ancer,Etc.. Etc. Money to Loan at reasonable rates, and on terms to suit borrower. Office. McIntyre Block Over the Bank. D wevancers Etc. Money to. Loan. Oflices: Hunter’s New Block, opposite the Chronicle Office. A. G. MACKAY. K. C. W. F. DUNN. Towii, Durham, Ont. er, Conveyancer, etc. Private money to loan. Old accounts and debts of all kinds collected on commission. Farms bought and sold. Insurance Agent, etc. Oficeâ€"MacKenzie’s Old Stand, Lower [1 Land Valuator and Licensed Auction- eer for the Countv or Grey Sales promptly attended to and notes cashed. [\a Auctioneer for the County of Grey. Sales promptly attended to. Call at my residence or wnte to Allan Park P. 0. Orders may be left at the Chronicle ofice. ensed Auctioneer for the County of Grey. Land Valuator, Bailiff of the 2nd Dimiop. Cour} S_a_les agd 3.11 otherpatters DOPTED BY ALL LEADING Schools in Toronto. This deservedly popular system by means of chart. drills. blackboard. diagrams and other interesting devices brings the following topics within the child’s immediate comprehension: Musical Notation, Rh th 3.! Technique Key-board $132); £33221 History. Piano Work. promptly attended to. Hughest refereencs Furnished if required. l. G. Hutton, M. D., C. M. FFICEâ€"FIRST DOOR EAST OF J. P. Telford. ARRISTER, _ SOLICITORJ mo. ARRISTER, SOLICITQR, ETC” MacKay Dunn. ARRISTERS. SOLICITORS, GON- AMES BROWN, ISSUER OF Marriage Licenses, Durham. Ont. sv- W'â€"- wrrâ€"' ~ MISS MARGARET GUN. 'ob’y 5,â€"3m. Teacher LL11. M. A. H. Jackson. 'OTARY PUBLIC, CQMMISSION- AMES CARSON, DURHAM, . LIC- OBERT BRIGHAM. LICENSED Dr. T. G. Holt, L. D. S. ’UGH MACKAY. DURHAM, um vacuum woman 3 rm mm mm, m m g - "flu“. .0“- .uvuuc Wu ordend by strangers must be paid Emma AND PROPRIETOB. Medical Directory. G. Lefroy McCaul. Myers Music Method. Denial Direciorv. w. 8. Davidson. Lagal Dz'ma‘OI-‘V. Miscellaneous. to ensure inaction in current. Pennant“ at the Timepiece In the British Home of Leninâ€"The Blad- nm of nechlln’l Clock -- “When i Clock- Go Cray, Things Go but.” It has over and over again been no- ticed that clocks, especially those sit- uated in the turrets of high buildings having unusually deep foundations, are liable to go wrong in sympathy with seismic disturbances happening in dis- tricts sometimes very far away. On Nov. 1, 1755, for instance, fully half the timepieces in Edinburgh were affected. Many stopped altogether. Others went slow or fast or started striking wrongly. In. this the supersti- tious saw some calamity impending. and it was not until news arrived of the great Lisbon earthquake that the alarm was allayed. It was then discov- ered, by comparing times and dates, that the first shock must have traveled from Fez in Morocco to Cape Wrath in less than eight seconds. In the house or lords is a certain his- torical timepiece which is said to in- variably suffer from temporary aber- ration whenever a member of the royal family of Britain passes away. The peculiarity was first noticed when Wil- liam IV. died. Very early in the morn- ing the clock began to emit a series of peculiar gurgling noises, as though gasping for breath, went suddenly slow and finally stopped altogether. All efforts to start it failed, and on the evening of the day of the funeral it restarted of its own accord, nor did it give any further trouble Whatever for many years afterward: A curious coincident was then recall- ed. On the evening of April 7, exactly five years previously, several thou- sands of persons, particularly those of rank and fortune, had camped out in Hyde park and had thus passed the hours from dusk till daylight. The political atmosphere of Europe at that time was indicative of pro- found peace. Nothing of danger or dis- grace could by any possibility be con- ceived of as threatening Strassburg or its inhabitants. Yet less than a year afterward the German armies had en- circled the city with a ring of steel and fire. The German shells were falling thickly in her streets and squares and exploding even within the precincts of the stately cathedral itself. And precisely at 2 a. m. Sept. 27, 1870, Gen- eral Uhrich signed the capitulation which was to deliver Strassburg into the hands of the invaders. This was to avoid an earthquake shock which had been predicted for the early morning of the 8th by an al« legcd “madman.” The threatened quake, however, failed to materialize, and the scared ones got heartily laugh- ed at for their pains. Nevertheless, it was noted at the time that several of the public and private clocks of the metropolis stopped at precisely the same moment on the morning in ques- tion. and this fact at once took on a new and sinister significance. “Was it possible,” people began to ask, “that the so called ‘madman’ was not so very ‘mad’ after all and that London had providentially escaped what might possibly have been a bidâ€" eous and unparalleled catastrophe?” dral at Strassburg commenced to chime without rhyme or reason. It sounded 1,870 peals, then stapped. and after an interval slowly began to toll as it for a great one dead. There is an old saw which declares that “when clocks go crazy, things go The so called “madness” of Mech- lin’s clock constitutes one of the most mysterious incidents of the Napoleonic wars. It happened in 1806. Two years previously the Corsican usurper had razed a portion of the city to the ground, and the place had also suffered severely in other ways. But the mag- nificent cathedral had been spared, and then, as now, its massive tower rising four square to a height of more than 300 feet and bearing four dials, each forty-eight feet in diameter, was one of the most striking landmarks for miles and miles around. (HE STRANGE WARNING CHIMED FROM STRASSBURG CATHEDRAL Inside the tower was the gigantic clock, the biggest in the world. It had boomed the hours for longer than the oldest burgher could remember and had never gone wrong. When. there- fore, in the early dawn of one summer day the great bell began clanging furi- ously small wonder that not only the city, but the whole countryside, was roused. Mechlin itself was like a dis- turbed hive, men rushing from their houses half dressed, but all armed; while from every town and village within a radius of twenty miles angry peasants poured cityward. It was a false alarm, howeVer. after all. No assault followed. No column of dust on the horizon heralded the ad- vance of the enemy; although anxious eyes watched all day. But when to- ward evening one more curious than his fellows bethought him to examine the interior or the clock tow-er in order to discover if. possible the reason for the clock’s strange behavior a grew- some sight met his view. - Entangled in the massive works or the huge timepiece, torn, gashed, every bone broken, was the body of a French oficer. He had evidently climbed into the tower unobserved and had been caught by the machinery while en- gaged in tampering with it. What his object was in so doing none ever knew. That it was something sinister there could be no doubt. Probably he had intended to so arrange the interior mechanism of the clock as to cause it to sound a signal later in the day. At all events, whatever his plan- it mis- carried. m he himself fell a victim to his own'temerity and want'nf knowl. OF CLOCKS. But the subtleties of the additional titular address in writing even excel the verbal form. That persons of the first rank are “excellencies” is only natural, but gentlemen of the second class have on documents addressed to them a “high well born” prefixed .to their title and name, and those of the third class a ‘fhigh and well born." I much regret that I cannot explain why the addition of this “and” should somewhat detract from the value or the same words. Gentlemen of the ninth class are ad- dressed as “well honorable and well bred,” which is, I think, almost more than they could expect for their $3.33. Ladies do not attend funerals. Children kiss the hands of their parents. Then there are ladies, who generally have “inde” (the English “ess”) added to their husbands’ title or office. A colonel’s wife, for instance, is called oberstinde, and the wife of the cham- berlain to. the king kammerherreinde. and so forth. The hostess is served first at a Mex- ican table. ”that. ans-Imus». of M “at Rules In Den-ark. The Danish classification of rank is a very elaborate one, built up at of- nces, orders, birth and titles, writes J. Brochner in “Danish Life In Town and These titles are always used in con- versation, as, for example, “Will not the Chamberlain have a cigar?” or “Mr. Chamberlain, will you not have a cigar?” And it requires a fairly clear head and a good memory to give everybody his due in a large party, especially as some or them are deco- rously long, as, for instance, geheime- conferentsraad. The bridegroom purchases his bride’s trousseau. which are divided into as many as a dozen subsections, each 01 which may again comprise a score or two of dif- terent titles and omces, yet there was a complaint in one of the Danish papers the other day that it was anything but complete. Holders of titles have to pay an an- nual tax ranging from $44.50 in the first class to a miserly $3.33 in the ninth. There are about a score of dif- ferent titles, several of which arenagain divided into “real” and “others,” the “real” being several shades better than the “others.” When friends pass each other on the street without stopping they say adios goodby). Cards are sent to friends upon the anniversary of their saints’ day and upon New Year’s day. Even the youngest children of the family are dressed in mourning upon the death of a relative. The pronoun tu (thou) is used only among very intimate friends and rela- tives or when addressing children or servants. Never allow a caller to carry a pack- age of any size from your house; :11- ways send it to his home. Mexicans do not carry parcels. A Matter of Time. “The Ienson why I quit shaving,” said Rix ers, “was that I figuied up one day the amount of time that it took. I used to spend a little over fifteen min- utes ex 01) day of my life shaving my- self. I found that this used up ten or twelve working days every year. and I decided I simply couldn’t afford the time.” If you change your residence you must notify your Mexican friends by card; otherwise they will not feel at liberty to enter your new home. “Well,” responded Brooks, “you spend at least half an hour three times a day eating your meals. That makes ten and a half hours a week. There are fifty-two weeks in a year. Ten and a half times fifty-twoulet me seeâ€"is 54G. Allowing eight hours to a working day you spend sixty-eight days. or over two months, every year at your meals, Why don’t you quit eating?” University. “A university,” said John Henry Newman. “is in its essence a place for L‘ C " Lu‘lu' Lg «In a. ‘w -aâ€"-v v..- v the communication and circulation of thought by means of personal inter- course.” That was some years ago. Now a university is in its essence a group of buildings costing $15,000,000, containing apparatus costing $10,000,- 000 and in the custody of a faculty whose salaries foot up $5,000,000, Where young persons, regardless of religious beliefs, provided only they have the dollars, I: slang.â€"-Li nominiteh candidate, “I am opposed to holding public meetings am} rallies. house canvass.” “That might be all right to‘r you,” objected another candidate, “but how about us? We are not used to it, While you are an awning maker.” Satisfied. Aunt Sophiaâ€"Before engaging your- self to Henry I would advise you to take him to a palmist and learn some- thing ot his life and character. Gnnceâ€"I saw the lines in one or his hands last evening when we were out driving, and I was perfectly satisfied. “Yet.” “Are you married yet, old chap '2” “Yet? 01 course I am. Did you think I had been getting a divorce?”â€" - M EXICAN ETIQU ETTE. A RIOT IN TITLEB. Eaâ€"y learn to' use tobacco and wwbuld be to have a His Business. .tlemen,” said the newly ~ ' ' % RUSSIAN PILGRIMS. They Travel Fur Amy to Pray it Distant Shrines uni Houston-tel. The Holy Places They Visit and at Which They Are Fed and Lodged. When the snows of winter melt in Russia and the woods are fragrant with violets and the ice in great masses 3 floats down the rivers to the sea the 'peasant who is on the threshold of old 3 age, tired of long inaction, comes forth from his izba and looks abroad. Strange thoughts have been stirring in . him for several months, recollections of i a vow that he once made that. if heav- ! en willed, he would one day worship in a certain monastery and there venerate ' the relics of its saints. For many a ; long year it seemed as if this vow would never be fulwfilled for there was ! work to do in the village of which he 1 could in no way rid himself, and still . more pressing was the burden of a I numerous family that could not be left. ’ But now the children have grown up i i -Aâ€"--â€"â€"o-- - - 0‘.â€" and can fend for themselves, and the father and mother are no longer of the same value to the community as labor- ers. Indeed were they to quit the vil- lage they would not be much missed. 3 One way, however, remains for them . to redeem their lost position and to en- title themselves for the rest of their : lives to the respect of all their height . bors. It is to go on a far distant pilv grimage. Q Innumerable are the sacred places in , Russia and out of Russia which the . pilgrims visit. 0n the sterile tundras , that end in the lonely strand where the i waves of the White sea fling their foam , upon the walls of the Solovetsky mon- . astery; on the quays of Odessa, await~ ; ing the steamer that will carry them to ‘ Jaffa, or on the monotonous straight ‘ roads that for verst upon verst lead by forests of white stemmed birch or som- iber pine to the resting place of St. I Serge, near Moscow, or of the saints ;who sleep in the catacombs of Pet- 3 chersk at Kiev, there may be seen 5 bands of pilgrims, staff in hand, jour- l neying on foot, through poverty or in l . . ; accordance With a vow, to their far- off goal. The men often wear clumsy ; but comfortable shoes of plaited bark, 5 stockings fastened round the leg with ‘ string, breeches reaching to the knees and wide, baggy, flowing coats attach- ed to the waist with a colored belt. The women have a colored underskirt, a short dress and bodice all in one and 1a bright hued handkerchief wrapped lround the head, a knapsack on the ' back and a gourd or kettle fastened to a girdle. But the costumes are very various, and it would be impossi- ' ble to describe them all. HOW AGED PEASANTS ATTAIN CASTE IN THEIR VILLAGES. These pilgrims beg for money com- paratively rarely. They have the self respect and independence which befit people presumably so pious. Perhaps they have saved for this pilgrimage for many years; they are hardy up to the last degree. At night they sleep where they can, in a monastery or perhaps in sheds that have been erected for them by the road, and when they wish to drink they stop and ask for water at a peasant’s hut, where they are respect- fully received. If they are short of bread the poor moujik will give them some, if he has any, for the charitable instinct of the people in Russia is inex- tinguishable. And perhaps, too, they will render some service to the homes that they visit. Tolstoi has described a pilgrim to the Holy Land who found a whole family dying of starvation and set them up again. And when Satur- day arrives, and all good people are bound by their religion to take a bath, then men and women will plunge into the river regardless of the want of bathing machines and careless of all bathing regulations. Glad, after this interminable march of many weeks, is the Russian pilgrim when he sees far off, flashing against the azure sky, the domes of the church- es of the holy places where he is to worship, and especially is he glad it it be a town, like Kiev, that stands on a range of wooded hills, breaking the monotony of the endless plain. Sing- ing a more joyous hymn, he approach- es eagerly, for he knows that there are food and lodging assured him at his destination. 'At Jerusalem there is an immense convent built, supported by the Russian government, which is well aware of what the pilgrims do to in- crease Russian influence and her repu- tation in the Holy Land. At Solovet- sky there is a hotel with sloping coun- ters that serve as a resting place. At the lavra of Petchersk. the oldest of the Russian monasteries, there has been a house for the poor since the eleventh century. Some of the pilgrims are ac- commodated in rooms that resemble well kept haylofts, and each one has a locker, where he may sit during the day and sleep at night. There is a hos- pital there, too, with eighty beds, and a special wing for those whose ail- ments are not of a serious description. And for three days pilgrims are lodged and boarded free. and many are allow- ed to come and go just as they will. Lanx’s Literary Output. Andrew Lang held at one time what must have been very nearly a world’s record in literary output, His regular weekly work was six leaders for a morning newspaper, two humorous sketches for an evening journal. two long articles. two book reviews and a contribution to a weekly illustrated pa- ‘vâ€"‘â€"â€"â€" ‘â€" -â€" per. In addition to this he devoted four hours every day to what may be called pure literature. He turned out books at the rate of three a year or even more. In 1890, for instance. there appeared from his pen the “Red Fairy Tale Book,” “Life, Letters and Diaries of Sir Stafford Northbote,” “How to Fail In Literature” and “Old Friends." For Weeks together his work would averaca 25,000 words a week. WESTERN. = FAIR, - LONDON An exhibition of merit. Bigger and better than ever. A splendid me! of attractionsâ€"Tony Ryder’s celebrated troupe of performing Monkey’eâ€" Balloon necensions, a parachute drop from a. parachute. and the belt Gymnasta, Aeriul Artiats and Acrobats to be had. Fireworks each even- ing concluding with " The Bombardment of Alexandria,” a. great triumph of modern pyrotechny. Extra trains and Special rates over all lines. Prize lists and pro. gramme on applicgtion. -wvvâ€"â€"'v' .v.". by simple means after suifering for several years with a severe lung aflection, and that dread disease Consumption, 18 anxious to make known to his fellow suflerers the means of cure. To those who desire it. he will cheerfully send (free at charge) a. copy of the perscription used. which they will find a sure cure for Consumption. Asthma. Chatarrh. Bronchitis and all throat and lung Maladies. He. hopes all sufierers will try his remedy. as it is invaluable. Those desiring the perscndtion, which will cost them nothing, and may prove a blessing, will please address, Rev. EDWARD A. WILSON Brooklyn New York. Lt.-Col. W. M. Gartshore, PRESIDENT. Shewel] Menahan FURNITURE The undersigned havingnbegn rqstored to_health __-._._I- __-___ -t4-_ A__ UNDERTAKING PROMPT ATPENTION TO T0 CONSUMPTIVES. of the best makes TRY For all kinds of DEPARTMENT. ntrles Close September 10th. Sept. llth to I9th, 1903. 36th Annual I Intending students ShOlud. enter at beginning 01 \ term. or as soon after as possible. Fees, $1.00 per month. WM. J OH‘SSTON , C. RAMAGE, Chairman. Secretary: The undersigned has now on hand at his mill at- Lot ‘23 and 24. Con. 21, Egremont. a large quantity of lum- ber. Don’t forget; the place when in need of first-class material July 28ch.â€"3m.pd. DURHAM MARBLE .1 GRANITE? Direct importers from European.»- American and Canadian quark... Latest Design In Markers. "Maui and Monuments. All work warranted. Orders taken by Messrs. Barclay Bell. PROPRIETORS. DURHAM - AND - MT. FOREST. The school is equipped for full Junior Leaving and Matriculation work. under the following atafi of competent teachers for that department: DURHAM SCHOOL. Thos. Allan. Principal. Miss Lick. M. A., Classics and Modems. LUMBER FOR SALE. ROBINSON CORBETT. STAFF AND EQUIPMENT. J. A. N elles. SECRETARY. J. G. ORCHARD,