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Durham Chronicle (1867), 24 Sep 1914, p. 3

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If you have ANY MONEY from $300 Up to any large sum, B. H. MILLER will in- vest it for you on good mortgage gecurity and charge you nothing. \vVhy Invest your} money with Sharks in Western town or city lots? Or why have it lying: at 3 per Cent. when it might as well earn you twice as much on first rate land mortgage seem-ity 2’ Have some sense. Let Mr. Muller in- est your money on a good mortgage. Farm and Town properties exehnng- ed. If you wish to B'JY or SELL. BOR- ROW or' LEN!) it will PAY YOU WELL to write or phone 1!. fl. MILLER, or better still hitch up and go and see him. Mens’ livings come from FARMS. Beef sells up to $9.“) per cwt. Pork to $10.00. A Market authorities believe these prices will r-ontinue. ' This must mean HIGH PRICES fm- ARM LANDS. Take a hint. BUY NOW. H. H. MILLER, the Hannver Con. veyancer, offers some GREAT BARGAINS n Farm Lands in Beutinck.Eg!-eumnt Normanby. Caz-rick. Brant and “fest- em Provinces. Send for Lit t. fl.fl. MILLER, Hanover WAR 0R PEACE MEN MUST LIVE [BRITISH AMERICAN'COLLEGEI Yonge 8:. McGill Streets, Toronto for a Businea-s or Shorthand Course Fall Term is now open. “'e ask you to write for particulars. '1‘. W. WauchOpe. Principal. You cannot do heuter than a' tend “K ILD68. P31N¢E8 $78!“. t.¢. 0 Having 370 Branches throughout Canada and the c LLECTIONS West India, this Bank posswses unrivalled facilities for handling collections with economy and despatch. LONDON, ENG" OFFICE. NEW YORK AGENCY, ml nun-3.. name:- x'rnzrr- 1:.c. COR. WILL“. 5 cross swam THE ROYAL BANK OF CANADA M+++++H‘ In Conclusion I say to every Man, Woman and“ Child, Headaches Cured In ‘MOSt Cases Rm Funds Total Assets INCORPORATE? 1 869 Glpital Pgd pp 0 o 1 DURHAM BRANCH: S. HUGHES, Manager. HE LOOKS INTO! THE E Y E .Mr. Mayor does busir. ess at our stpre ONLY, so beware of canvéssing impersdhitors. ' Consultation Free The fall millinery openings at F.H.W. ‘Hickling’s, W.L. Wright’s and F.G. Karstedt’s took place last week and the fine display of beautiful new goods in each place was much admired by the ladies. and numerous sales were made. A fish pedlar from one of the lake towns lost one of his horses here last week, the animal dying on the street. Th; owner should have been punished for driving the poor brute in the condition it There are now 76 students in attendance at the High school. A literary society and glee club haxe been organized. The officers in the former are: H. Shunk. pres- ident: R. Cargo. vice president; G. Davis. secretary -treasurer: re- porter, F. Thurston: editor. E. Wright; committee. M. Legate L. Muir. F. Bunt, G. Davis. The Glee Club: Presiden-t,‘ Miss Oldham: musical director. pianist, Miss M. Boyd. A public meeting presided over bv 'Reeve McTavish was held in the town hall on Wednesday even- ing last when a good turnout of ratepayers was present to hear Hydro-Electric discussed. 312-. James. the Hydro Commission‘s head engineer at Eugenia. gave an address explaining fully the wav in which hydro light and power is supplied to municipalities. The estimated cost for full equip- ment for this village is about $5,500. The council Will doubtless take the matter up at once and submit a debenture by-law to the peeple. ‘ :A horse fair was held here On Wednesday of Past week. when buyers were present to purchase horses for the war. About sixty animals were brought out. but only about a dozen met the re- quirements and were purchased at fairly good prices. $1 1 ,560,000 13,575,000 180,000,000 Mr. Edwin Hicks 6f St. Cathar- ines has taken a position Wlth Mr. R. H. Goldhawk here. Mr. Fred McTaVish was at Port Elgin over Spnday. Mr. John Fisher of this village who has been ill for some time, is at present in a very critical condition. His brother William. 4th line, has been Very ill 21150., but is now imprqving; Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Sheppard and daughter, Evelyn, of Toronto, were on a motoring holiday last week and visited Dr. and Mrs. Ottewell and other friends here. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Munshaw and Mr. J. Bowler motored to the city on Friday and ’visited over the week-end with friends there. Rev. A. McVicar, Geo. Stewart and obt. Chard attended ameet- intg Presbytery at Orangeville on Friday and heard impresfive addresses by Rev. Dr. Grant of Yukon fame, and Rev. Dr. Her- ridge, moderator of the General A§sembly. ‘Mrs. (RevJ W. Ayers, who spen-tl the past three months with her. daughter, Mrs. .103. Blackburn,. leaves on Wednesday to spend the winter with her daughter at Syracuse,_ NY. _ _7 7 l Mr. Elywin Jamie-son is home from Porcuplne, holidaying for a week. Mr. Geo. Richardson, recently from Toronto, has taken 3‘ p051,- tion in W. L. Wright‘s store, and Mr. J. Lawrence of Milton has taken a position in R. J. Sproule’s office. ' Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Robins of Tor-f onto, on a motoring tour, "paid Mrs. Van‘Dusen a visit'on Mon- day. Mrs. T. J. Fisher returned Toronto on Monday, and. is provingP satisfactorily after recent Operation. Dr. Jamieson, M.P.P., of Dur- ham, was in town Saturday’. Miss Jennie Blaékburn Jf'Mount ”Miss Ethel Triihble visited” at Owen Sound last Week. Fire from an overheated pulley broke out in John Nuhn’s woollen mill on Friday afternoon last, int! was fortunately subdued before: many doilars’ ydamage was doneg Upon the alarm being given. the, chemical engine was hurried to; the scene, but was not required. ! Mrs. J. W. Armstrong is visiting her daughter at Thornbury. MI. and Ms Samuel Blackh'um. and sons James and Albert, \isited relatives here on Monday, motor- in-g from Mt. Forest to their home at Creemore. Rex. R. Pritchard and fami y of \\ 1nn1peg visited his sistex, Mis. Robt. Richardson, last \veck. - was in. from her I ‘ ’An Italian was arrested in New -;X.o;‘k for attempting to marry :1 “war! of twelve. Hone of curing; infantile paraly- sis, a disease that has baffled doctors for years, is held out by Dr. Simon Flexner, a director of the Rockefeller Institute for Med- ical Research. A An attempt to kill Chas. H. W11- son, manager of Alfred G. Van- derbilt’s show horses, caused much excitement at White Plains, N.Y. Five shots were fired at him. Clay alternoon next .' Alth‘ou h Wireless communica’. Mr. H. C LeGrard had the misâ€"" ' g " a fortune to lose a valuable young- ti 1011 has done wonders an th cow last Week present war, revo'luhomzing par- Born. â€"At Brampton, on the 5th t-icularlv battles at sea, forces on inst to M“ ‘and Mrs. Emerson land have had to depend on cour- Adams, 3 daughter. I Married -At Winnipeg, on Aug,__1iers and messengers and spies ust 12 Mr Robt M. Henderson . much the same as military com- son of Mr. W. J. Henderson, of manders have done from time im-' this place. to. Miss Janie B. Craw- memorial. ford, daughter of the late James S f th d . . . 3 Crawford “of Osprey The young ome o e mo ern \\ a1 sme couple will reside at Moose Jaw. have been equipped With wings where the groom holds a good but they have been none the less pomtion. The High school students were sbies. The point is that all the entertained by the League in the Wireless devices in the u orld do Methodist church on. Monday e\-‘ not remOve the necessit} for shaip- eningx Four boys took possession of a locomotive at Sidalia. Mo. They were pursued by detectives in an- other for 35 miles before being captured. ' Chas. Golndorf, the king of- the wire-tappers,‘ was yesterday con- victed of .grand larceny, and sent- enced to 10 years in prison. The largest caisson ever built in the United States began its trip to Panama on Friday. It will be used in making repairs on the canal locks. “I :» elve miners were buried by cave- -in in Salt Lake Citv. One million dollars is to be spent on a club-house in New York for the Colony Club, a club composed of women. Twelve people were killed and scores injured in Memphis. Tenn.. when a freight train crashed into a street car. The Standard Oil Co. has agreed to supplv cash for foreign mis- sions with no reimbursement other than for the actual cost of ex" change. The'. Public and High schools Will ~ioin in Field Day sports on; Fri- day‘ afternoon next. NEWS FROM THE USA. .535 -- 4" 2 One Boy Scout in Belgium has been decorated by the King for his lreadv work and resourcefulness in *ten times getting through the. Ger- ‘man line and obtaining valued in- ;formation. and besides taking éGermai) prisoners. Some of the modern war spies have been equipped with \x 1m: but they have been none the les.é spies. The point is that all the WireleSS devices. in the world do not remOve the necessity for sharp eyes and alert brains and réadv Wits on the part of those who gather .information about the enemy. That the war courier bf to-day is as daring and resourceful as his long-gone predecessors. many a story prov-es. In the South 'Afri- can. war the Kaffir runner was in- valuable as a despatch carrier. eluding the Boers by his invisibil- itv on :dark nights and by his as- sumption 'of childish ignorance. if he was intercepted. the guileless child of mature would lisp. “Me no speak English: me farmer‘s boy. Me hate English.” And with such consummate art would he play his In the old days, When war mox- ed on leaden feet. says Tit-Bits,a - favorite method of conveying a message through the enemv’s lines was to write the despatch on the‘shaven head of a slave allow the hair to grow again. and then send the courier with his message. which a second shaving of the head revealed. A messenger, dis- guised.” a pilgrim, would carryr a "parchment roll concealed in the hollow interior of his staff, and an arrow shot over the enemv’s heads has carried man~v a miss i\e into a besieged fortress in the middle ages. In all wars the spy and fearless courier have been important ad- juncts to successful generals. Thra-v are a shifty, resourceful lot. these military scouts. “The military dispatch bearer,” the late Archi- bald Forbes, used to say, “mus-t combine the artfulness of the Chinee. the skill in disguise of the actor and the scorn of danger of "~ a V..C hero's if he is to carrv his life through the thousand risks of his calling.” ml: SHIP-TY WAR SPY F ! role of innocence that he was al- most. invariably allowed to pass. One 'of 'these Wily creatures was ‘caught between Mafeking and gKuruman, and for once his as-' ssumption of guilelessness failed to convince. He was stripped-by the ‘Boers. but the most thorough search failed to reveal a scrap of incriminating paper. and he was dismissed with a parting kick. No - wonder he chuckled as he sped away. for he carried in one of his nostrils a quill containing an important despatch. a ‘ _--_... A c~nlinfl It was during the same war that a decrepit old man hobbling past a sentry with two baskets full of produce, was stopped for an ex- amination of his wares. The bas- kets were explored. and the sentry flung out four bars of yellow soap which he considered the insurg- ents had no use for. A few days later three United States bands- men passing that way caught sight of the jettisoned bars and carried them off as treasure trove Theix surprise man be pictured \\ hen on cutting up the soap for distribution among his fellows each bar was found to contain sheets of foolscap full of valuable information for Aguinaldo’s eyes. ‘Lu‘v. V'---’ Admiral Dewey owed the 'success of his attack on ‘M‘anila. in the war between the United States and Spain. to- the resource and pluck of W. Doherty, an ' ornithologist. When . Mr. Doughty _ was__s‘pe.ndi.pg IIIIVULÂ¥LLAJU â€"‘-â€"â€" _ Equally successful was a young Scotsman who fooled the Boers with his charming amiability. “Despatches‘? No,” he laughed. “Catch me carrying despatches.” “What have you got there?” asst- ed the Boer commandant, pointing to a parcel the canny Scot. was carrying. “Only a few sandâ€"t wiches. 'Will ye no tak’ one?" was the smiling: answer as the North Briton unrolled his napkin and offered the burghers some of his fare. The Boers declined the hos- pitable offer. and the Scot got away with priceless papers con- cealed in his sandwiches and in a hard-boiled egg. " JLV‘J' ‘I‘A. UV“‘nâ€"vv a few days in the Philippine Islands on his way round the world. he was guest of the United States consul general, who was sorelv puzzled to know how he could send certain plans of the Manila fortifications to Admiral Dewey in {Bong Kong. “Oh.” said Mr. ’Doherty, “I can manage that easily enough.” Producing a clean shirt, he unfolded it, tuclked the plans into it, folded and pinned its sleeves and replaced it in his portmanteau. The innocent-look- ing shirt, fresh from the laundry. eluded the Custom house scrutiny. and a few weeks later the plans were safe in the admiral’s hands.

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