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Thisisdislinctl an ltB0 Winter. The shirts no lulu-r than we have seen them for yen-s and nanrly all are ttimmed with will". They we now made shorter in the hack and longer in front. indeed. pmticnlly round. They rest fully four inches on the floor in front and hang only three inches longer than this in hack. They fit cleanly about. the: hips. descend in full sweepinq lines and have all the trimmings manned around the bottom. The trimming on the full skirt is ','ttst. always put on in "run.. ning-about" invx hat the vertitat line may tly, be followed. JVomen have Raisins, etc. Art Cnlendors. Cosy down Cotniortem. White and Colored Coettrortere and Quinn. vaenible Wool Rugs, Table Linen and Ta ble Napkins. Tuble Clothe end downs ot other things which go to make the home bright and comfortable. C We will spare no effort to please our customers. You are invited to come and look at things, you will not be pressed to. buy and nut suggestions and experience will be at Your service. Handkerchiele, plain and fancy, and in Fancy boxes, Kid Glove, Lined and Fur trimmed Gloves and was, New Fancy Silk Stocklin Persian and Military effects, Neck Ribbon. Silk Cambric and Bolting Cloth Collar Taba. Fancy Gal-ten in dainty hoxea. Silk Belts and Coma. Silk and Grape do Chine Home", and White Wool Ionian. Umbrella Shawls and Opera Wraps Beautiful Finette Laine Blouse Lengths Patent Leather Shoes and Hosiery. For Your Mother or Married Friends I' u """ "_-"""""" for the Gift Buyer, all of which, are what can be called Christ. mas Goods and suitable for Gifts. ' For Your Gentlemen Friends , . . Tin. Grants. Manors. Chest Protectors, Gloves, Suspender; Underwear, Silk Handkerchiefs, Pyjamas. Favor Sockl, Pins, White'Wwiat Coats, Cut! Links. Silk Gang". Collars, Woollen Gloves, Shim, Silk Squaw, Patent Shoes. Hate & Caps, etc. For the Ladies I' THE SOLUTION : 1;an ruunumn I What shall -I give this Xmas? Something useful and at the same time suggestive of the season will be very acceptable. Our Christmas Goods THE FASHIONS IN NEW YORK THE PROBLEM : The Season’s Problem $Rush in Your Fowl EShop early and avoid the rush that naturhlly 'comes the week before Christmas. GOODS DELIVERED io ALL PARTS OF TOWN. RA1SIN8--Seeded, Seedless, Layer, &c. NUTS-Almond, Walnut, Hazel, Peanuts appreciate G ttGaiiriiiiiti . ll. MOCKLER LUUK AT OUR NORTH WIN DOW-r-tar some suggestions in Fancy China Gifts. The largest, best selected and cheapest Stock of China in town. LOOK AT OUR NORTH WINDOW JUST THINK OF rr-------- eight at once and have them useful as well Gina for Men Alex Russell Strings, &c., from we to Gloves, silk lined for. . . . . .. Fur Caps, Fur Coats, Silk Handkerchiefs, Initial. We have a full Stock of Candles, Nuts, Table f. Come early and get one of our Beautiful Suspenders put up in boxes 50c pr Kerchiefs, satin lined at 75c, " $1.25 Neck Ties in Puffs, Ascots, Derby's, Alex Russell Differ from the ordinary lines in that, they are more of the nature of novelties than goods of the same class, carried at other seasons. They are put up in tasteful boxes with. HOLIDAY" DE. SIGNS " Christmas (h'eetingi,"ett; 3 GROCERIES FOR XMAS AND 1'"jltClll'(rt"""rt""l'fr"l'G"iii". - . -"eee _ _ - .u..v out: II‘I‘IT. The continued popularity of the flat mom and long lines from the shoulder downward unable: the straight. front corset. to more than hold its own. - - - --.. -m.'9e_ ”In." pvt". will! its full sleeve and hack made in one piece, and the loose short. coat that reaches just below the waist. line An- other feature that is ttttur': this season is the high girdle, a at sewn inches deep absolutely round acme: the act and fut-egally !it.ted. into ytetthttt_re. 1 comfort of the short skirt that it is being universally adopted. Possibly the puss- ing of the long coat may he traced to a nil-nil" desire for comfort. However this ma tte. it is certain that the long coat and, alt light effeetn will presentl dim pour before the 1tB0 Eton coat, wait ity tll', slang ngd hack made in one SUCCESSOR TO J. A. HUNTER; Following are a few suggestions i, are what can be called Christ- Its Solution to as possible and' get the big Priced .25 y eight more days to Krismas. Select your gifts as ornamental. " Gifts for Ladies Kid Gloves in any shade or color for $1.10 and............$x.35 Silk Handkerchiefs, Initial Sable Ruffs at. . Aho, $15, 20, $22 Sable Muffs . . . . . $6, $8 and ths. Fancy Collars Fancy Belts at 25c, 59. 75, tl, $c.40 Fancy Handkerchiefs from 5c to 75c PEELFl--ot all Kinds CAND1Es---Fattcy or Mixed. _ V-V-.--“- our - VN'IKF. III the one was the tlou, and shorts wnh " bit of a. string around It to separate the one from the other and a wee hue bran in the other. That. matt. Sir, was Archi- bald Hunter, the founder of our town, the builder of the old Britmh. the owner of the flue farm it. stands upon. and the man who passed awn? Worth a large amount. of money. on are not to think that we wart- entiwly dependent upon the Rocky mill, we had one in Fergus. Father and brother attended, the me a _._.-- ..., "nu-r. turnt'y Brown. in one of your last Renews. My that extreridnee of hush life. Mr Edilm, was in the Peel hush betWeeu Arthur and Fergus. on the wey to the township of Egremont, I and my mute came through it in the dead of night. Up to that time I was a. townsboy and attuned I suppose in lownshozo usually are. and my biggest. tumble. t at night was keeping my clippers upon my eel and digging them out o the mud. When I reached home I was treated In some of the blackout bread I ever law in my life. The following day my fitlhr'l and youn ”other were going to Dunn. uiool'u no?! at the Rocky,' with a wrist. Curious. I suppose. to see the mill that I had turneo out such beautiful bread. I decided to go with their. the oxen were hitched to the sleigh and we star- ted. As it was about the harvest time the sleuthing was poor. but the grist watt light. Five bushels. in those dnym ems considered " pretty fair grist and , the getting of that amount. more espec- T inlly if the wheat was routed incurred a good deitlof both time and labor. It ad to be battered out, with the ttall. then shovelled into huge. the. most of which had to be lmrrowed. then taken ”my to some fanning mill to et clean- ed, and when the tiuirr urriyedgtoo often there would he but little of it left, when all the horiowed thing was paid back. " ell Sir. we arrived at the millnnd I have no recollection what it was like. I never saw it again. but I well recollect when leaving of a man comingto the door and asking father if he would take his grist and he was told to throw it on, in it few minutes he returned carrying l the whole of 1utipyyntd in 2 bags. in [ha nun In..- 0|... .---~ _ . . _ r. u.“ "1...“ nay. out“ it might he it little interesting to your readers of both Grey and Bruce. The people of Bruce have their old pioneer; gutherings every year. and we often come across reminiscences from the pen of some of the old set. lets. who like to talk of those old days, hut how seldom have you seen anything of the kind written by any of the old pioneers of Grey. although they had much better material to work upon. Although I have "pent many years in the County still I um not one of its pioneers, but l certainly claim to be one of the pioneers of Bruce. and although it is many years [ since I left it. I still have it warm hen-t. towards the old spot. and having lived in both places, what I have seen and l, what. I have gathered flout many of the old, old settler-z. who have long tsince passed “my. convince the that the pioneers of Grey had umny mote. hard. shios to encounter in the settling of this country than had the settlers of Bruce, and sti l I never “Wu line written upon the subject, by any of them and now almost. at the eleventh hour I am going to try my hand at H. the Idea of 940 do- ing originating from the name. Henry Brown. in one of vour but RIVIIIHI’D tl A Racy Narrative by Robt. Cochrane Mk. Sir. has brought very my mind the inmdems at ad nmny others of a. sinulm my depyrted. friend and l EARLY DAYS. THE DURHAM REVIEW ONTARIO ARCHIV TORONTO Russell L Auothee pioneer has joined the great. ; majority, Mrs Jar. Young, who died at. . the home of her daughter. Mrs Gillan , Boyd on Nov. 24m. 1&3, aged tio years. '. Mr: Young was hm n in Glasgow in I 185. was married in 1846. and With her I huumuu. minim-Med to this coon ry in . 1858, wt ling for a when. tune to um. I In new they moved to the hush and net- , Med on the lot on which now enum- the Lawn: uchoolhouw. 'lhey lived there about three years when Mr Young tout up 2nd aw. of tot lo, con. I, W. U. M.. Hemlock. Mr '2,yi//,'g,cjiiriii her _ 12 years ago. Mrs Dung leave,, Io mourn her loss six sous t i9aiui, Joseph Jumw. Avctutsald, John and Rom-r1. and one uuugnwr. Meat Boyd. With whom she has hved for 8 years. Deer-Med waa an honored hummer of the Preenyu-raan Church. of a luud unusuumiug disposi- uon. had a good word for every one WILN Whom ahe came no contact and was ready and waning to meet her God. Among those who fullowed the re- , [mums to them hut resting place were; I two sons and three granuuonu flour w. I Superior. U. B. . The funeral took place SuLuldny. akt, Nuy.. to Luann cemetery and was tut. lowest ttseery large number of friends. , true died as we um: llved a good and , fauhful Uhrlslmu. the was cut- of the ( pmneem of Bannock and More her trua. l Mes and um: wunout, a murmur. The sympathy of this community is cum-l l aed to we bereaved 'eiativeC--iJdE I . -- .... m... -. puny-2" "ver and didn't rise again that night. War-med across the nvrr and reached Orchard.. Mrs ththtuat was baking mu maul tnske. We made an grams: it. the ttrsst hue of nnylbing we had got since leaving t'ottthtuiiptott. it. COCHRANE. voiced when too late, from the way the hill was tint-med up.'thut it did not be- long to either of them. That. 810 hill, that morning. Would have been more value to me at tltatrtime than all the money I Lave ot invested in she Dur. ham Cement [gm-tow, in the Durham anitm-e Factory and in the Durham Oil Well put together. who will give me a hid for the lot ? Wolt I no getting ‘awny from the suhj 1,4. I numbing to tell you that WP l- ft Southum Hot) in good time in the nun-mug. intending to mouth home idiom l'umn distant. 15 miles but instead it WM near noon the follow- mg day, the snow got so heavy that we had to take it. Indian fashion,' one after the other. time about. V We struck a shanty long after dark, there was it chain and padlock upon the door, we host, It, the first ease rt' house lu-eukmz I ever win mixed up in and when we Rot in there was nothing to steal. but u not and no old fashioned iron teaketlle. Some of them had a pound ot tms, no we tilled up theold kettle with snow and when near the boil ll Doomed num- .m-I THE LATE Mitts. JAMES YOUNG, .tgwnt. ”only nud [went Mung with the-tn. the mum-y was nth-red and refun- vd. We returned in the mot-mug. and pictted up n $10 hill and ram-hm] it, to the "grin. who thanked me volt-y kindly Orchard went out and returned clnirir mg this bill. which was handed to him. Don't think Mr Editor I mention this to runway the ilnpt-hsinn that I was an honest young man. It was not hnneqty but downnght stupidity for I was con- vineed when too late, frmn the way the hill Watt tttttttttod um 11.... to A.A ..-._ c, -et - >“II‘.‘ INIFI . " and thehard, were squatter properly before it was rm (awn. They had puqspusi course wanted to Rep it., a‘lvmed to Ro to Souvhounpa det the price of it to the: "gent. Henry mud [we-m Ihc-m. the mum-v wan “Had-rail u.“ "nun-nu musn lmze and accumula- ted upon them till the load became enormous and I never saw him make the first effort to kick it " the feet Mid the serious expression on the face was a comical sight, one Lnever dare look at when I had a loud on my back. The other day his son-in-Iuw. Gran-we Wart. was telling me he never fortrot it, and (turn than. -. Vt_. -. _ u..u. ”any uwu’ " O' mineis neurfuuched not." He had a, pain-of Old ()ounlry "shown," on the soles of which were covered with iron, the mudmnd slush froze and accumula- ted upon them till the load became enormousnnd I never saw him .....I... ,_---....V.. .m-m. aunn was a very serious looking Seatehman new trom the old country and it bud been his first experience of " Canndiun mud hole, He" just bud the two renmrks. the nne was .. Bob. I widnn tuk'u' thoususn'ncres o' your lan' for nag-thing and leeve on't," the other was "Bob, that near or o' 1mm name. When about, to slant the an ranger pointed away ahead, .. Yonder" he says is lhe " Devil’s Parrldm- Put.’ how will We get. tthgh it They took [be lead. not through. and left. it in a a line shape. for Join and! to wallow in. and it was nine o'clock at night before we rout-had gt... -L - -- __ aunllu un- we nrst. time. The rig was u get up of my own. I never had mu unythmg him: t e.t,her before or since and t am sure neitheriu the Heavens above. our in the earth beneath. nor in tthe water under the earth, t-Ould you [ have found its equal. Had the Kelsev Brothers been «round the-morning '1 passed through Durham they would have taken a snap shot. of me sure. The second day we Were joined hy at fourth team. one I think Mr Brown had hired to take a part of his load. We fed by the slide of the road. some 7 or 8 mile, from home. When about, to stunt the st ranger pointed away ahead, .. Yonder" he says is the " Devil’s Porrtdge Put.’ how will We get, throLgh it They took ue:letu.ioorrrGiGi2 and left. it in " l have-already told yuu where t got my ttrst. 1arte of mud. My second taste upon " much larger soul» was gut some seven or right " Jr this side of Paislvy ,My old frivud Henry Was nhnnt hiding farewell to Egreutont', or m: bur Vania“. tot. had he heen there to day he wnul-I have been a near Ileaghhur of frle'nl Crawford. He ten wnth two mums. hi uwu and annlhm he had hired. I joined them with hulfu mm. Old Buck was left behind and Bright m. into the shafts for the first. lime. he rig mn- " mu, me Peal gm ttme "tticle. 1 can’t think wherel dumped them. I think I threw 1hr”: mu mmhmlly as I moved along. to the milling Intuition and took lathe Fergus trips, hm later on I mu sen: no Arthur with a load of one that I think was the titst, “min I had own taken to market and the first I think we ever sold. My Leann was very u... .y matched. Blight was-a. splendid annual. Buck u humor. I got, along with them very well as lrng is they had somelhing to draw. but when relieved of the load old Buck Commenced to crowd and crowd until he came to a deadlm-k and to get ham Menu-d l hast to loud lnm "L: with “one, (not curling ulUllPs. Mr Editor). but, the real Met unm- uni-Ju- 1...”... To be Continued. ey mu! puqsvssiun and of ted to ke, p it, and so Yert Ro to Souvhapxpmh and Len- we nuumer of trGiii." um: lived a good and I. she was cut- of the .1": “”4 ., . who will glvv um "ll I nu gutting 9. I an wring to 80"],th mm in mg. inn-ugh"; to P this side of Paislvy Bury Was Mumt hiding am. or rtttttet. Vania“. there to day he wnul-I w Ileaghhur of frle'nl I WIN] two lemme. hi thi, crown land iii' It is Truethat In Business or Pleasure DECEMBER 17. 1903 I * VOL. <7 "P9lh?19hl\r, (I.' I " 'f'xy,'a',','rDt'x ':iiiiiiiiiit The giantess D arham. j 'sysT'l"yl/yl"y,Q Never td Goods sol a ppmcincec Make a ver good range Rmnw an REVIEW an Rcvuw cum Runuw Att, REVIEW u... 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