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Ba Y5 Yon). DR. E. C. McDOWELL, SUCCESSOR TO DR. HAMILL, M D., Master of Surgery, Victoria Uni- of Physians, London, : oe . versity: Licentiate of Royal Cuilege Eag., Member of Col- of Physicians & Surgeons, Ontario. Late attendant of Soho Hospital for Diseases of women, and of Great Hospital for Diseases of Children, London, Eng. Physician, Surgeon, &c., Office hours--8 to 10a. m., 1 to 4 p. m., and evenings. 3 sik (See and residence, Dr. Hainiil's old Queen St, - Port Perry. Bsn a OHN BILLINGS, Solicitor, Notary Public, Conveyancer, &c. Solicitor or the Ontario Bank. && Office over the Ontario Bank, Port Perry. Jan. 29, 1887. E. FAREWELL, L L B, Qounty *J , Crown Attorney, Barrister, Coanty A citor, &c., Notary Public Conveyancer, Slice--South wing Court hy Whithy, it. YOUNG SMITH, L L. B,, Barrister, « Attorney-at-Law, Solicitor inChancery ind Insolvency, Ni Public; &¢ Office --McMian's Block, Brock Street, J. A. MURRAY, DENTIST, mow putti ig in Upper and Lower Sets of Teeth at from $4 T0 $75 EACH SET. Having just purchased the largest stock of teeth ever brought into North Ontario Iam satisfied I can suit you both as to quality and price. Come and see. Rooms in the Bloang Block, over Messrs, Forman & Son's Store. Port Perry, Oct. 28, 1891, Veterinary Surgeon. hh underriened having completed his full Course at the Provincial Veterinary College and obtained a Diploma as Veterin- ary Surgeon, would announce that he has opened an office for the practice of his pro fessionat Port Perry, whereall calls personal by letter or telegram, by day or by migh will be ptly attended to. All di of animals treated in the "latest and best known system && Telephone connection--free of charge. ORR GRAHAM. Port Perry, April 8, 1884. & L ROBSON V.8S. RADUATE Ontario Veterinary Col- Torouto. Office and residence Evercreex Corrack, two miles south of Manohester. 14 years practice. 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DAVID J.ADAMS, PORT PERRY. BANKER AND BROKER. Good Note Discounted. current credited to Has any amount of Money to Loan At 55 per cent. on good Mortgages. INSURANCE effected at the Lowest Rates in Good English Companies. EZ Agent Allan Line of Steam- ships. Port Perty, Oct. 1889. HE Subscriber § red to LEND T ANY AMOUNT bn Farm Security AT 5 PER CENT. #ar Also on Village Property. AF MORTGAGES BOUGHT. WY HUBERT L. EBBELS, Barrister, Office next to Ontario Benk. Pott Perry, May 10, 1885, W. M. WILLCOX., Licensed Auctioneer BOR THE COUNT © ONT: AND | WPWNSHIP CARTWRIGHT. a VALUATOR, &c., REAL ESTATE A SPECIALTY. TAKE this opportunity of returning thanks for the very liberal patronage which I have received in the past. The increased experience and extensive practice which I hate had will be turued to the ad- vuntage of pati6id; and parties favoring me with their sales may rely on their interests being fully protected. - No effort will be spared to make it to the advantage of par- ties to place their Sales in my hands. Sale Bills made out and Blank Notes farnished free of charge. Satisfaction guar- antee or po pay. Terms liberal. Prt Perry, July 13; 1608. GEO. JACKSON, Liense d Auctioneer Wishes to inform the public that he is pre- pared to attend with the utmost care all sales entrusted to his charge in the Town- ships of Reach, Scugog and Mariposa. A register of dates of sales will be kept at the office of Mr. Orr Graham, V.S., with whotn arrangements may be made for sales. All correspondence addressed to me at Scugog P.O.. will receive prompt attention. & Sdle Bills made outand Blank Notes furnished free of charge. 5 3 I would also inform those interested in Poultry that I hate oh hand and for sale upwards of 100 fine, puré-bred Plymouth Rock Chicks. Tf you want uty thing in that line please write me for prices or come atid see stock. GEORGE JACKSQN. Sengog, July 18, 15893. T. SWAIN, Licensed Auctioneer R THE COUNTY OF DURHAM. = Satisfaction guaranteed and terms Office and residence af Cesarea. Orders left with Messrs. Moore Bros., Blackstock, will receive prompt attention. o P.S. No charge Licensed Auctioneer, Yaluator &¢. and Eldon their intrests. WM. GORDON, Sunderland. H. McCAW, PATENTS, lion ica. F%& the Townships of Breck, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, Mara, Rama, Mariposa it Purtiesentrusting their Sales to me may and Bo) rely on the utmsot attention being given to SI Ses FOE Baer by Hoe Pots before the ; and carefully prosecuted. Upon of or sketeh of invention, I make and advise as to patenta- oY Dv. H. F. Morrill. Results Astonish ™ Sarsa- WITHOUT AN EQUAL Statement of a Well Known Dector « Ayer's Sarsaparilla is without an equal freatméit was of no avail, and have beew sstonished at the results. No other blood ifiedicine that I have ever used, and I have tried them all, is so thorough in its action, and effects so macy permanent cures as Ayer's Sarsaparilla."--Dr. H. F. MERRILL; Augusta, Me, 2 Sa eee ee dyer's Pills for liver and bowels. His Definition, Jimmy -- What is this moral courage that the Sunday school tdather was tellin' #ts about ? Tommy--As near as I kin guess it; it's the kind of courage that kids has that's afraid to fight. 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Few warriors could boat th ever to be the light of his home and ting Tceth send at once and get a bottle of Syrup" for Children Teething. It will relieve the poor little sufferer immediately. Depend upon there is po mistake about it. 'Six yeors ago today! Wh long timeT sighed Maud M sinking into a low seat by the windo the sweet odor of the pinks, and the drowsy murmur of the bees, and there was the woodbine arbor, beneath which she and Harry had sat so often to gether. How well she remembered one evening above all others--an even- ing in royal June, The air was heavy with spicy odors and a full moon pour- ing down its glorifying light upon the snowy billows of orchard bloom, and the long hedges of crimson roses, weighed down by their own intense perfume. On that evening she had listened to the story that has been so often repeated, but which never grows old. Will you be my wife I' 'Maud, my darling, I love you, She recalled the very words, she seemed to hear his dear voice and see his tender eyes. The betrothal fing #ids still upon her there that night, and beside it another; even yet finger, just as he pat it more sacred, her wedding ring. And this stormy, desolate night was the anniversaty. Six years ago and the old homestead had rung with music and revelry, Every window blazed with light, and every hearth- For on that night, robed in spotless as and sweet as her virgin heart, Maud sole daughter of house nd heart, and beauty and belle wherever she went vecame a bride. Bidding fare®éll to the '61d home and the old friends, Maud went forth with her husband, therefore and for- stone glowed with flaming logs. year that went by like some hap cord to break its devine perfection, and then the trouble The bare remembrance of it blanched the wife's cheeks and made her breath cowe in quick, painfil gasp At the close of that short 'happy year of her wedded life her husband received information concerning the illnesss of came. =n only brother residing in California, He wasdying of a slow disease and wished to see his brother's face once more. Harry Marlin did fict hesitate an instant. The path of duty was plain--he fost go. Mand cotreated to be permitted to sccompany him, but he was inexorable. The risks and hardships were too great. 3 Left alone, Maud was not the woman to give way to despondency.--| It was her nature to keep her face to the sun. She kept herself busy with) and at the dieaty days went by, and tid from Harry came. He was safe the journey's end but his brother dead, leaving Hurry, however, inheritor of a considerable fortun Just #8 soon as his business matte: could be arranged, Harry wrote, would start for home. second mail came, bringing intelli that Harry, iz company' with quite party of brother travefets, had set taking the overland route. Maud counted the days with th hing impatience. The parting been so long. She pined to see dear face and hear his voice once more, duties of her household, Mn ing the root with little ornaments and getting up little surprises against his return. She cultivated the flowers be loved and sang the ballads he admired. Never did woman count the passing] moments with such loving expectation. At last the day came. She had re ceived no further intelligence, but she felt sure he would come. | The evening was in spring, genial | L melody, without a single note of dis- th Phin. "land she sprang forward and grasped i Mr. Rdatherford, you bring #e suspense.' =| with my feelings. Do you knowanything he jaud broken: She worked from morn (Al night, 6iL-| - ) xm than Right Our Mistakes" 0, THURSDAY, OCT. 18, 18%. > EE of Ayer's Hair Vigor m eased falling out." A ing out. An Occasional application has since kept pair good condition." --Mrs, H. F. FExwick, Digb G : Ys No 8. rth of Hair. * fight years ago, I had the vaio loid, and Br hair, which previ. unite abutsdant, I tried reparations, but with- bub ia result, till I began to fea? I should be permanently hald: About six months ago; my husband home a bottle of Ayers Hair r, and I an at once to use it In a short time, new hair began to appear, dug. there is no every of as thick.a growth of Bale cay befor my ilps. == Mrs. A. WEBER, Polymnuia St., New leans, La. o was a variety ol Ori AYER'S HAIR VIGOR 4 PREPARED BY BR.1C.AYER & CO., LOWELL, MASS. U.S.A. Ayer's Pills cure Sick Headache. 'Oh, Maud, you are so beautiful | Always wear this dress, darling, when you wish to please me |' The May lower and at last went down, leaving the earth wrapped in the dusky mists of twilight. patient. lor and then went out to the porch to wait. He surely would come; he id not disappoint her { The golden sun wheeled lower and Maud legan to grow im- She lit the lamps in the par fhe hazy luster of the sky, and the moon arose, coming up grandly ibove the purple steeps. Still he had Bot come, and the poor 'wife's heart Began to grow sick with hope deferred. Another hour, and then, above the murmurous music of the night, she heard a sharp step upon the gravel and ted to her feet, flushed and breath- less, but the next instant she fell back, pale with disappointment, for the step was not his--she knew that long before the person came in sight. He had ad [vanced toward the porch where she sat | 'with a slow, uncertain step, observing which, and recognizing him as one of her neighbors, she advanced to meet * 'Mr. Rutherford, ix it you! I am looking What do you think can detain him ¥ The man stood still, his face full of lent, unspeakable pity. for my husband. y Something in bis expression caught her quick eyes is arm. idings. Speak ; don't keep me in Still the man was silent. 'Oh, sir," she entreated, 'don't trifle concerning my hushand! If you do, for mercy sake speak out !' Biadam, [ have heard-- hat is, there is bad news," he began, his voice husky Her face grew as white as death, her eyes were clear and calm and her hand strong as she grasped his arm. *8ir, if you pity me, tell me the worst at once. I can bear iv' * 'Well, madam, your husband and his party have been waylaid and murdered by the Indians. 5 'All? Did none escape I' 'Not one! She turned sharply, leaving him with- out a word, and he sxw her enter the house and close the doo after her, and that was the end. He would never and balmy, their little home a wider heliotrope and sweet veo veying herself in the mirror, she » iF | out ut the low, leader sky and the wind come back any more, no matter how patiently she might wait and watch. | He would never know that he had a . som, never look upon the little chubby face, with its bold, blue eyes and sunny | carls, so like his own. From hence: forth her heart end home were desolate, wédding day. Bix years age, and she &| was a happy bride. Five years she y | had Leen a heartbroken widow. of | boy slept in Fis little bed, and she sat { there, thinking, thinking, and gazing step on the gravel, but she did not hear Pein catobii * And this was the anniversary of her |' Her |: qvery sheets, and the wild, wailing winds rushed round the gables and went shrieking over the hills like human souls in agony. Her heart ached with a desolation that seemed almost insup- portable. Life was so bard, yet for the boy's sake she hist endlit ind live on. She looked down at her sable gar- meuts with hot, blinding tears. Six 5 bolt foil) fancied that his spirit mast be néar No matter how high above her, how happy, she knew that he loved her stil; dud Lis glorified spirit may have left its home of bliss to keep with her that sacred anniversary. The fancy con- soled her beyond She glonced over at the sleeping boy, with a dim hope that his father loved and watched over him, Then a sudden im- pulse shot across her mind, She would not keep the anniversary of her wedd- expression. ing day in the garments of widowhood ; she would put on the folie he loved, If he knew aught of her poor, sad life, he would see how sacredly she remem- bered and observed his simplest wishes. Stealing up to her chamber, she took out the mauve silk and the dainty laces, growing yellow dad timeworn, and a pretty jet and gold ornament and ar- rayed herself as in days gone by, and the old bloowi came back to her cheeks and the bitighcness to her eyes, and she séemed to dfop her years and her widow- hood and 6 spring out afrech into the rare beauty of her early maidenhood Thus arrayed, she went down softly and seated herself before the blazing fire; her face tearful snd &xpectant. If his soul were near, and she clung to the hope that it was as she clung t& life he should see how tenderly she remem- bered him. The anniversary night wore on, wild and dark with storm, and still the poor wife, half dazed by her terrible sorrow, sat by her lonely hearthstone, robed in At last there came a step without, a sharp, impatient her festive garments. by exposure ahd pale with long en- dured grief; came up to the front en- trance and pause beneath the low win- Through the parted cuortains shone the ruddy firelight, revealing the dow. warm, attractive room--the old familiar room, with his hat upon the wall and his bo ks and meerschaum on the man- left them. Revealed the kitten purring on the rug, and the little curtained bed in the dis tance, tel, unmoved, as he had and the dear, sweet face, wet with tears, and the dress he loved in happy days, that seemed too far back to the poor wanderer to be real. Was it all a dream! Was that the wife froin whom he had so long been parted, whose face had been prseent with him through all his lonely hours of peril and imprisonment! Was she waiting and watching and keeping his home bright for his return f He left the window, stole softly to the porch and approached the side door. He raised the latch. It opened, and he stood upon the threshold. Intent upon her musings, her own gweet memories and sad reflections, Maud heard no sound. Her heart was far back with the husband she loved so | | Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bot ter than others and enjoy life more, with Tess 4 laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Ita excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptab's and pleas- ant to the taste, the refreshing and truly beneficial The rain came down in great smoking | well: - The GT had rbtived old fashionable as well as economical hair dressing ple he market. its__use, the poorest mathet By ls. 55 (WHOLE NO. 2026 associations, sud very presence seem- ed around and. t her. She looked up, with clasped bauds and streaming oy es. : 'Oh, H Oh, my husband I she murmured, knew how Flove you, how I moumeni your loss, surely your soul might speak to wine and tell me that you are nelir me ! 'Maud, m) a , my Juling I She rlest, witha wo wan he had been, but the wife re cognized him in an instant. Fora ihoment a solemn awe filled her eyes, and her love hesitated and trembled in the presence of a spirit frow tlie other world, bat the next instant she held hidi In her arms with a wild cry. 'Oh, Harry, my husband ! not dead ; you have come back to me! You are | His passionate kisses on her face, his strong arms and throbbing heart an swered her as no words could have He had come back to her from imprisonment amid done, the wild western mountains, from perils and dangers and death itself. For awhile, after she had heard his story and fully assured herself that he was really flesh and blood, and not a as she bad first believed him, she lay quietly weeping on his bosom. Then she arose, with a solemn tender- spirit, ness in her eyes, and leading him to the little couch drew aside the curtains, revealing dimpled, in slomber, and the chubby fists fast clinched together. the little face, flushed and small Harry Merline looked on without a word ; then, bending down, he kissed the little sleeper with a joy and thank- fulness in bis sotfl too deep for utter: ance. And on thid stéithy night, after weary years of imprisonment amid bar barous hordes, after having endured trinl€ and hardships and almost death itself--this was how Harrycame home ---- Ayer's Hair Vigor; which has ou!- lived and superseded hundreds of similar preparations, is undoubtedly the most luxurant and beautiful. --_-- Sea Serpetifs. 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Tie lozal practitioner (I was at that time living at Scotland, Brant Co, Unt, ), said it was only a matter of days when I would be laid away in the chorch yard, and as | was such a sufferer TL cared not whether I lived or died ; iit, | fact, think I would have preferred the latter. "I could not walk, and regular- ly every night my father used to cairy, me up stairs to my room. I remember, my telling him that hie wouldn't have to carry me about much longer, and how he said with tears in his eyes, that he wold be willing to do it always; if he coilld only hate me with him: It was evidently foreordained that I should not die at that particular time, as a miraculous transformation in my condition was the talk of the neighhor- hood. I read, of the wonderful cures that were being wrought by Dr. Wil lime' Pink Pills for Pale People, and my father went to Brantford, #hen he purchased a couple of Loxes from Jus. A. Wallace. I commenced taking, them, and I thought for & time that they did me no good, as they mnde ma sick at first, Lut very shortly I noticed « great change. They began to act on my trouble, and in the short six months I was able to walk. space of I con- tinued taking the pills, and in six months 1 was in the condition you see me now. 1 fully believe that they alone saved me from the grave, and you will always find myself and balance of our family ready to talk about the s00d Dr. Williams' Pink Pills did for me, Sworn and subseribed to before me this 15th day of December, 1893. D. A. DeLaxgy, Notary Public. Wayne Co., Michigan. Sold by al! dealers or sent, by mail, postpaid, at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for £2.50, by addressing the Dr. Wil- linms' Medicine Comyany, Brockville, Ont., or Schenectady; N.¥i - ~ imitations and subsrirgtes be "just as good." .- 4 Cholly--I'm going to cast my first, vote for Blanky. Are you astonished ¥ Blanche-- Very much. 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It has stood the test Yor 40 years, and | hundreds of lives have been saved by its prompt use, No other remedy always Cures summer complaints so , quiets y, ys irrite-,