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i f l | i a y= ae | Bruce's Regal Flowering Bulbs |knee and bis faint mumblings could be heard outside, Just before his retiring time one night the clerk carried one of the figure models into his room and placed it n his bed. With him were two or three of the boarders who were in on the joke. They patiently waited inf the room opposite until the hostler entered his room, Then = with cautious step they advanced to the t door and listened. Having disrobed and finishedadevotions, the hostler reached for- ward (0 turn down the covers, when he 'became conscious of the fact that the bed wus occupied. Thinking that Possibly one of the patrons of the bar had imbibed too freely and had wandered from the ram pasture, as the "'drung room" was called, into the wrong room, he asked nd what are you doing here?" Re. pg no reply, in louder tone be repeated [the question, with the same result. By |this time he was getting exasperated and shouted "If you're flesh and blood spake ep. spake up I xsy. or forever hold your |pace."" There was s moment's silence and 'then the hostler struck a match. "'Ob! 'ou're & Woman, are You; come out of (thet," and grasping the inanimate form with his brawny hands dashed it on the |floor with euch force that the Dominion Houxe was shy one model at next stock aking. pa | Murderous Assault On Tuesday. evening, Sept. 23. at about HAMILTON, ONT. Established 1850 217 8.20 o'clock, Victor E. Thornton. who rv. sides in one of James Somerville's houses, fon the west wide of the "Second Line' in ke jsounds en a Sa fottawasuga township, about 5 miles south of Stayner. was sitting at a table in the |for almost Hving-room exumining a map, when a large jHe and Mrs. Thornton hi THE BARRIE EXAMINER is the simple > way. You can fill Paying by Cheque way--thé easy way--the safe ll in a cheque in a few minutes, send it safely by messenger or through the mail, ad have no further care in the matter. It is not cheque is - Paying by system to perso. You will be accorded checking privileges on a personal this Bank. Capital $5,000,000 Pleasing Hubby The bride for « fact, patience and after a while he K°FTO cooking had not been good, Rotten soup," be exclaimed, and, take necessary to obtain a receipt, the the receipt. cheque lends a dignity and transactions, account with any Branch of Reserve $6,625,623 therein letters for that are known to _--__ Jost his RONTO d that particular «hip, snd places seamen on board shipe be headed for the strait, Put your money into Wr Sav- Ietruck Tenet trough the window, and rence being only now recalled, 'tie house fing his plate, he opened the winderr wi >) jstruck the wall on the opposite aide with roadway, the, "iOUp tad phate oak me minfow snd] ings Stamps and let ib work. Thegent thud. | But for the fret that Mr. [and ix rather lonesomely otueed, An or-| "Sorry. dear,"" wax the bride's emment = 7. 7 Thornton at the hiJchard not far dltant, would doubtleas Th, taking the two ends of the table. (Continued from page 2.) Jn AN70 Burne became town and bad 'pect heer io! Mecipher 'some small print /aford s convenient nti oe ct A 'cl she pulled all the fee cy eee -- The Emily May was a side wheeler and [10 tte first Mayor Robert Simpson, whose on the map. the missile would have struck 'night, for such an assailant the table, went to the window and threw . after the extension of she onlway to Or: jivewery wan situated at the foot of Mary him fairly on the head with no doubt Mr Thornton sold his fine farm not far the mens out, i ili ae eteaed chiefly in the eReurion [* a A a pane io By this time the fatal results. 'Thin wan epidently the in-fdistant from his prevent lace of abode Why---why. what is that for?" asked} y WHEN. USING \ tale Cou hiching is ; me bh 4 tent of the reen. who bad ibe Hone el fal. with, the imneation of many Noithe young husband as he sat before the ©. only summer resort amd was ra hone uf the Wey Plainly an attempt on Mr. !Britwh Columbia, But he as since been hare tabl / |. 1 with * Brive pilot u rie age in life, the window-blinds being detained 19 this province, through litiga: "'y/ lene calmly said the bride, "I] WILSON s kept flow There wae large pay | lames Cheesman merior of 'the room thus|tion arising from the extensive falc thoiight ferred tod the gar- ithon there for dancing and alo 2 howling the writer's hair wax Alex, MeDe ae gto the ouuide. The lof Wi'A. Dover: late manage of Weary dens 2°) Preferred to dine in the g alley With the jasing af the pusiness, whoee shop wise then i : ls. and wae | Toronto. at Stayner. he being the inost de- | rs ae Cuuchiching Beach then went of the Somersert House at the Five mi the out-rtermined of all Mr. Doner's creditors in} , d Strawberry Island j Pointe tee itide, 'with such violence that it shattered | proceeding against him criminally. Mr | Simple Post Office _ READ DIRECTIONS eummer | the 'whole sash and ewused the upper stsh {Thornton is feesrled cy ot intelligent and} The world's simplest post office is in CAREFULLY A Lay cand Langford {rots the ol days Queen's Birthday, ar Vie- \t0 drop down. besities cutting 4 clean hole [progmaave, yorag farmer, and a man of /South Ameries, From a high, rocky cliff ~ FOLLOW THEM eis }toria Day, was celebrated right royally. eh |fbrowgh the lace window-curtain, Nobody |apirit and: determiner. joverlooking the Strait of Magellan is sus- ~ XACTLY Lave Siu , heuuty Was injured, though Mr. 'Thornton. wa, a |Penulerl, by a long chain, a barrel which re. ayy EXACTLY, al erate ated for ite beauty Guin' file to the window at the time, but | Like People Who Don't Take a Paper {ceives mail. It has no' postmaster, nor ie SN Ps or 1 bevat f various 4 hich fa i \ Fe acl bodies srw 'sites, whieh | pending mon: jwith buck tuned to aume. During the| We ahink of this ax an advanced age. 'there any regular letter carrier or eolleca® af, Sue tn mund ihe story of a Batre tuan fey' wus nec Joseph Pullan was the man feonfusion which ensued, ihe misereant e* |But China has some provinees that have Every ahip 'that gon through the strait S . tev, He incertad vr unrkeener, many yearn! ty etn the hone ee Mr. Pullan was a leaped. not us yet heurd of the recent wotld war. stops and sends a boat to this eurioes lene Far more effective than Sticky Fly ae: dia seiluctive er ucment Hinstuith, locksmith, gunsmith and junk. | 'phe reason for the attack is a mystery. ----_--__--__ ost office, looks over the letters that are Catchers. Clean to handle, Sold by iin. ete aera ean tats few re SRE Higenlace of "business was where jaa Mr. Thornton has no violent enemi linard's Liniment fe Neuralgia, jin it to see if there are any for the men| Druggieta and Greeor everywhers eke re ae wbst appeared to him to! MeNubh's Srocery: is now situated on Eliz- pe the moat gullible anpheunt, he engaged | ators street. In the spring of the yeur the her at once at the salary asked. The ap "were cleaned up and the sablig way wanted further parca pin bie deelunany seine fone Rinne nner TTT TM amd business standing and ula as ron and other metal serups ° s to her bution. She wae satisfied on opp en by the youthful vendors > 1 ~) All- Sta 7 B Il tram oe areas eee a xclusive r Bill on 8 gentleruan of lei hat he bad no ts Juseph sold marbles. tirecrackers Hartienlir business nc ch houks the coin reverted lo hin cash Mine in summer toy ' tean yeehts Men with beautiful fe On her accents: i vl her te wire and he w ' ui the depot on arrival, 7 bimself as wearing a black cour Meht colored fancy vest nd straw het rather a goud looking gentle The lady bad a chill of ahout five nd on arrival sewnned the f; tetants who tightly gathered to m vine, and from the deseription of clothmg picked out her new employer. One tlacce a' his villainous face though told her that he had lied, Leading her to the pany him 10 his palatial residence in a huckboard drawn by a boneyard. His ex: cuse for the non-appesrance of stepnery wus that they had been loaned to some friends who were out joy-riding. Re luctiatly ence good vehicle and was driven to a hovel in the West end, Upon entering the house 'he found it consisted of three rooms, En. ng ne she laid her weary child down, bolted the door and stood guard. The rather gout looking gentleman light- td a fire and cooked a meal but the house keeper refused to partake tworning she crawled through the small win dow with her child, enquired for w lawyer shd ut "clock, with the assistance of W. Lount, the rather Rood looking an wax in the police court where eal nnd he was ordered pay his intended vietim a month's aa travelling expenses from Bothwell urn, court costs and legal fees. It Was quite an item for this gentleman of 1 re and. strange to suy, he was for une ofterward kept on the roll uinty police, < =, M. ae True peace-time economy--use Sunlight Geo gentle Tt ia impossible to boy « purer seap thea Sunlight. Therefore it is really the cheapest soap you can buy. The purer and better the soap--the less you meed for the wash and the better the work done. Ansist om getting the Seap you ash for--SUNLIGHT SOAP. LEVER BROTHERS LIMITED TORONTO tite Hiborn und reared te a of the depot she was usked to accom. | he high. \PURH! them dowa at Pullen's." she entered the remnants of alwheat in Barrie was Early in the jbeen introduced and you carried your delf of 'and, ham seventy, [I have and I weighed it,"" dal if un wasapent for demon and vamily ce Memory, next door. The then did not cover the en day war about | any uceasion there w cream on hand, ts evidence that Wille e conelusive | en weer nu | a0 Paya Johnson hud po. { ank slaying Lucronee body to turn the freezer How well-known wie the house of Pullan | the Youth of the day is exemplified in| Case of a three-year-old tot who. was stalwart in ward Tour. educated in the publie school nd Collegiate Institute and is now one of the most eminent Cunudian surgeons, Intern. Fated ax to where he got his Inrge brown eyes. he quickly replied: "My mother the At the time of the American Civil War, sold at 50c per bushel and outs wt 12% to 1c. A laboring mian's wage was then 50c per day. Tn the seventies wheat sold at about 60c and cor. poration Iuborem were paid 81.00 per day. Butter in the seventies sold for from eight to twelve cents 4 pound. It wax mostly tub butter, Wooden butter plates had not me Yee or Limoges plate to the grocer. who weigh: ed it and then built up a pyramid of bat ter with a wooden slicer and sent you home happy. Eggs were from «ix to ten cents 8 dozen and chickens twenty-five to fifty cents js pair. Hogn were lest than five cents "dressed und beef by the carcass ex to eight And in a few short years about forty--note the advance in prices. Eggs sixty to seventy, beef forty-five to seventy cents per Ib.. bacon eighty> cents with live hogs. selling around fifteen dollars per ewt. Butter ie 'ixty, cbickens fifty cents per Ib.. oate a dollar and hay thirty-five to fifty-five per ton These are some of to-day's western Forty years: ago a beefiteuk sufficient to feed a hungry family of eight persons could be purchssed for a quarter." Once about that time, upon entering a Barrie butcher shop to make such a purchase a lady entered I ordered four pounds and this weighs: three und a quar- "Indeed. madam," replied this suave and august personage "and how did you find it ut; have you got scales?" "Indeed Was the answe {Capital ides, madam, capital idea; every body should have scales," spoke the but- cher. ax he weighed the rosst and assured . her-that her weight wna correct. One of Barrie's largest stores of. the early days was that of the Inte Bernard Hinds, the sign of the "Wild-Cat. It was Known as the Dominion House. the present premises of Sutcliffe & Sons. The Wild- Cat was perched on' a platform between two verandah poste in front of the door and was the subject of many" crude joke. Among other fixtures the st@e con- tained some wax-faced figures a models, which were then an expensive ar. ticle. Two doors west stood the Somer. sett hotel, with large and commodious stables in the rear and an attentive host. ler. 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