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88 mide re does the Auditors of does Empire. Sone ¢ Gi; Parlioment com- t the thing is too long. =: _ wonder, under these cir- that the Auditor-Gener- members of Parliawent ? to be slighted this way? true that Mr. Macdoug- 'does net produce the same re- Its as a Zola, a Hardy, a Tolstol, 'a Kipling, but he combines all pir 'habits of working. Wey the Anditer Workd. For instance, sometimes for weeks | 4 strétch he will emulate Zola, oing a regular stunt of about five pages a day. Again he will imitate Kipling, writing fiercely when the "inspiraticn scizes him, or when the matcrial is at hand, and turning out stacks of copy that make the Print- | ing Bureau shiver fiom cellar to Yidge-pole. At another time he takes Dumas pere fof a model, and tes Fapidly to six secretuvies; giv- 3 them the sheleton and allowing to fill in Fin) Si Ale. he | from his master, 'woes out; 'brings in a report, a beautiful co cinnate report, : which the Auditér- General boldly Incorporates in his great serial rowance. thing like this the great Raphael wSed to do when he was pressed for time, writes H. "F. G. in Tofonto Star. The maestro would férmulate the grand conception, tlg" ensemble, so «to speak, and leavs his best pupils to paint in the figures. Pre 106 avd Varied. It will be seen, therefore, that the Auditor-Gefieral pursues all the best methods ®f literary work, and conse- quently he turns out a chef d'oeuvre every twelve months. In it will be foulld styles to suit every whim CFitics have taken objection that his language is too figurative, but they # speak without a proper knowledge of other parts of his book where the marrative runs more smoothly. The Auditor-General is a ready letter writer, and the epistolary interrup- tions in his story are quite equal to anything that Wilkie Collins could invent. As a matter of fact, the Auditor-General has to be figur- ¥ ative to hold down his job. If the ray matter of his brain were ana- gray it would be shown as full of figures as a ripe Stilton is full of tnites. Some authors run to words, " ofhers to dashes and brackets. The Auditor-General, like the artificial school poetry, relies mainly on fig- ures. Left to follow his #atural bent, the Auditor-General would of rojenty be a happy blending urke and Gibbon, but public taste demands that the Auditor-General shall be figurative or nothing; and so this great mind has to defer to! : false standards. However, he has this advantage: If truth is beauty --and the philosophers say it is--the Auditor-General is truth personified Figures cannot lie A Much Sought For Book. 'The Auditor-General is a proper candidate for membership in the g Canadian Society of Authors. He re- : alizes all the qualifications. He publishes every year, not fugitive pieces jn the feuilleton corner of a or a i but some- A thing ponderous and enduring. This annual effort is bound, paper, afterwards in boards, and be- comes a valuable work of reference It is a veritable store-house of good | things, and members are always rummaging its pages for plots. Hall confessed--in the Bible; other writers | of fiction find them in the classical dictionary, the Encyclopedia Britan- nica, and human nature. Very few + of these have hit upon the Auditor- General's report, because that is a repository which a literary Opposi- tion is keeping jealously to itself Some writers are suggestive. One edjective of Carlyle's may induce a whole train of thought with a buf- fet car and a sleeper on the end. But there is not a writer in America as pregnant as the Auditor-General. Fe © carries suggestiveness to such limits "that the Opposition suspects a plot under every statement of account. 1f the Auditor-General had lived prior to the French Revolution he would have been an encyclopedist like Di- vp. derot. - i He fo Inquisitive. ° Like all the great authors, the * Auditor-General's work discovers an undercurrent of sadness, a sort of Omar cynicism, developed by the contact of a sensitive 1nind il the sordid affairs of politics. his- name, Auditor-General, i rt niturally imagine that functions are entirely passive. Ile "48 to be, 80 to speak, a national Dhispering gallery, an omnipresant re- cating all the secrets and simply 1ooking, to it that the vouchers are at at. gt that oll his soni what 3 calls irregular prac- , which means that he will wy 'punctilio BY frietgedcy. hes sometimes poerizses fofugpd dic- | first in blue | Caine gets his best plots--so he has | aht terrible, not to be h the naked eye. Dut oned by the Public There, once jin .a ey, atid the eral, covered to be a flor- id h a white mous- tache, gold-bowed spectacles, an alert mind, and tone of voice that grandma mi Fh Tit Willie. There is a protest in it. Ile seems to say : ientlemen, Why am I subjected to these foolish Questions?" FARMER DELEGATES. The Consdians Whe Are Delag Work for the Dominion in Englund. | A London torrespondent, writing tropolis on the 3rd 'é have fifty live Ca- nadians nore 8 week in England than we had last week. All the farmer delegates from Manitoba and the Northwest have ariived, and have distributed themselves through- | out the length and breadth of the land. to talk amd perhaps sing the | praises of the great Dominion of | OConnda. There is very little doubt but that thuir work of the next few weels will from the { March, says | ment in the n there are there to eet Ah~ top ef the treeg The farwcer delegates have been distributed as follaws:--London, cluding south and west of England, ireland, 2, 0 Coat of an Aere of Wh at. terest to many ing an aore of try is; harrowing, water farrowing 1s, striking up, 18; harrowing 1s; spring, 1s; rolling, 18: hoeing over, by tbe hum of human voices and by do bore? Are ann contempla- 28 6d; harvesting, 158; thatching, the unfamiliar sights that he forgot RL will Ene =s; thieshing, 7s; carting out, 5s; to rear and kick. He could only prance: py ud liad trea TREY rent, 12s; taxes, 25 6d. otal ex- and snort. He went forward because ca Monitor (iii sonia: be. 3004S penses, '£5 19» 5d | the rider of the outside horse dragged Hae tte eonsint. { bim along by the bridle rein. Around Mr. J. G. Colmer, C.M.G. | and around he circled until bie lost all Mr. Joseph Grose Colmer, C.M.G., ' sense of dipection, and when 'he was hose resignation 'of the post of finally shunted out thromgh the dress- Secretary to the office of the High | yng tant flaps he was so dizzy be could Commissioner for Canada, was re- 'cently announced, was born fn Lon. | SCarcely stand, don, England, in 1856, and educat- | Ihe Candle ! / ed at the City of London School. | The Candie Flex, | Some time alter leaving school he One of the piscatorial curiosities of {came to Canada, | sition in the Merchants' | treal Subsequently, he was appointed to the Hon. (afterwards Sir) | Abbott, and in 1881 to the position he has just resigned. Ile also actei® | as Secretary of the Imperial | Commission on Colonization Bank, Mon- says Morgan, and Honorary Secretary to the Commit- | tee of Canadian Governors at the Twperial Institute, He has read pa- | rers on Canadian subjects before the | Royal Canadian | Institute and many | other organizatiors, besides contri- | reason large numbers of them are | buting articles dealing with this | dried and smoked to be used as a warm- country to the magazines and the ing food during the long rigorous win- | press. In 1896 he shared with an-| other competitor the prize of 1,000 | guineag offered by THe Statist news- | paper, London, for the best essay on the subject, "A Commercial Un- | ion of the Empire." | tion 'was opened to the world. He | Whales biubber Is used by the Eskk | Co ila was appointed a CM.G. in 1888. | mos. This "candle fish" gets ifs com- 3 | Mr. Colmer leaves the Canadian ser- | mon name' from the fact that when : | vice to become a partner in the dried it burns 'with a bright white banking firm of Co&ts, Son & Co flame until entirely consumed. It is AS much used by the "coasters" both of Doukhobors and the King. It will be recollected, don correspondent, that the Doukho- | bors, the interesting body of Russian refugees of Lhe Quaker type settled in Canada, were recently a state of grave unrest owing to their being unable readily to accom- modate themselves to the economic | conditions of civilization. However, | 1 now learn that these quaint people fare afraid that their action may which, in its simplicity and gravity, greatly touched that venerable lady. veyed to the Queen by a nephew of Count Tolstol. - j When 'beds sumim Accounts Committee he must put in : e his particular bets wo scowl at each other i whom most to known only by 1se in arguipg with vesjit in great good for Canada, gnd now the announce papers that these in= 18; Iimincham distri t, 11; Liver- pool dittiict, 10; @lasgow district, 5; Cardift (for Walch), 4; Belfast, While on the subject of emigration the following perhaps may be of in- wheat raisc.s in Can- ada, as it shows the cost of produc- wheat in this counm- The cost is us follows. -- Twelve carts of manure at Is per cart, £3; ploughing, 10s; rolling, 1s; harrow- ing twice, 2s; seed, 7s 6d; drilling, in and 'occupied a po- private secretary John Royal | The competi- says a Lon- | who in | be atrributed to ingratitude, or to dis- loyalty to King Edward Hence, they meditate sending a letter to The letter in that instance was con- | norse races." Dr. Jelinek ¥ome years ago published an ancient booklet of the Final _era, wherein a full account of "Solomon's raves" is given, oa Bi- | 'ble say King Solomon 'owner. of 40,000. stables, ay ry was divided intd bweive milit provinces correspon settle: ment of the twelve tibes. 'each gov- erned by a nazib (governor), who had to provide for the king's wants and" ueeds a month in the year, so it may be probable thdt the faces were also arranged; that each month a race took. place in the province under the patron- age of that governor whose monthly service was on the list, while the Der- 'by once a year was run under the con: | trol of King Solomon himself.. v | DOING THE GRAND ENTRY. How a Circus H ai mat of the Performance. The experiences of a farm horse nt unexpectedly joins a wagon show circus is described by Sewell Ford in "Horses Nine." Calico is the name of thé horse. At night be has a hard time pulling the band wagon over the country roads, but Le thoroughly enjoys Lis part in the performance under the main tent. The author describes Calico's feelings as follows: * Ah, that grand: entry! That was something to live for. No matter how { bad the roads or how hard the hills i' had been, CaVicp forgot it all during | those ten i minutes when, with fis heart Jha the it s felp and FE a table, It all rn in the dressing tent a period of confusion in which horses were crowded together as thick as they could stand, while the riders dressed and mounted in frantic haste, for to be late meant to be fined. At last the ring- master clapped his hands as a sign that all was In readiness. There was a mo- | mentary hush. Then a bugle sounded, | the flaps were thrown back, and to the crashing accompaniment of the band the seemingly chaotic mass unfolded into a double line as the horses broke into a sharp gallop arotind the freshly dug ring. The first time Calico did the grand |, entry he felt as though he had been sucked into a whirlpool and was being edrried. around by some ivresistible force. So dazed was he by the music, TR d W ONT Bt AN ASS. ) : Figs or the honesty bd is of a ii by ] Ss ing for mothing, fact rude det 2 these Hed ical sharks you beresh, ales ne, Why 1 Arad dems Jom them of their honesty Posing ap t 25 years din ua roof "best rn the north Pacific coast, especially plen/ tiful along the shores of British Coluys- bia, is the fish known to Indians, whites and half breeds as the "candle fish." To the scientists he is the eulachoft (Thaleichthys pacificus), and is highly esteemed for two reasons. The fish it- self is about fourteen inches long, re- sembles the smelt in general appear ances and {8 caught in large quantities by west coast fishermen during the months of February, March and April It is the fattest of all fishes, for which ters 80 common in that region. Large numbers of them are also run through crude presses, which extract | | the oll. This is preserved in skin bags | and used much in the same manner as Columbia and Alaska, efther with or 5 without a wick passed through fits fr body. 1 An Ancient Colt. One of Mrs. Grant's favorite stories was of an experience in camp some- where in the Adirondacks, when her " | husband, then president for the first term, wanted to get away from Wash- ington officialdom. Mrs. Grant was = bothered about the washing. A guide recommended a woman who had seen | better days, who lived a little way | down the lake. Mrs. Grant engaged | | | also the robber teals from many ness man the unity to become But one day he jes' got colic or some- thin' and rolled over on the grass and | died. My, how we miss that colt! We'd had lm for twenty years." I. fhe Cat and the Doughnuts, Ce tral Live many years ment in Port Perry, Ihave much pleasure in which I am about to largely extend crease facilities #0 that the public may be better accommodated with safe and desir- Port Perry, June 21, EVE] ADYERTISRN ENTS measured by Nonparie', a; eo } PORT PERRY. H SRY thanking the public for the atronage received during the have kept a Livery Establish liberal f announcing that I have removed MY LIVERY | to my former pluce of Lusiness Water Street in- able RIGS AT MODERATE CHARGES R. VANSICKLER. 1900. North Ontario Observer 4 Weekly Political, Agricultural and Fanily, Newspaper 1S PUBLISHED AT| # FORT FERRY, ONT: ny: PRURSPAL OPN IYG H. PARSONS TERMS. - 5 per annua, WE inadvarice : if oe 5 will be charged. No subscription tuken an six tis and uo paper discontinued unti. prreaws are paid uj. ETTERS containing money. when addressed to thit U.soe, prepuid and re it tered wil. be at our risk. and ged according tw the space they occujy. ADVERTISEMENTS recelvad for plication, with ont specific in: tructions, wil be uni forbid and Fh 'nevordingly. ror ment will be tuken oul until paid for. A LEER al. Soma it allowed loderchanty and other 'erbisc by the year or half year. THESE terms will in cll cases bo strictly adhered to JOB DEPARTMENT. King Bdwatd, in which they will as- | } { an sure him that 'they are animated by | her. Two days afterward she saw a mphist Hand Bills, Buaiprey a sense of loyalty towards his per- | scene that, as she expressed it, re- Programs, Dodgers, Bill Heads, Check son pad, of admiration of the catho- | minded ber of "Elaine." I was her Lettor Heads, Wedding Invitations, licy of his rule. Of course, this is washerwoman paddling in & dugout be sh 2 not the first occasfon on which the | hing a heap of Soowyinen. Yi lags Koszte, L Bp Bo = redo Cox C : ] 3 B 5 Cards, Doukhobors have addressed the reign- | "Less.'n a yeur ago, ' said the woman ¥ ooks, real mbly ing monarch. In the last months poloEé "1! syouldn't had to a' Visiting Cards, &a. of the reign of Queen Victoria) they a! 1 brung it by the' colt. | ofeery lie mig olor © r despatched to Her Majesty a letter | U E It by the'c ni dy and A Eee other went. vn Partior: finn», Giatance gettin wt oh ro printed car have thom is tet to take howe with x PARSONS. This is a true story, says a writer, rg that my grandmother told me about her cat and dog. She used to find the cover oft her doughnut jar, and also io { eat ber dougimpts -- the cat was on rd shelf kis doughnuts were kept. Then it 'put its [ paw in the jar and drew out a dough- nut and pushed it.off the shelf, and the dog, a WAS Jooing up at. ut, the 4 caught the dough hut in hi th apd inh 4 ate it. When they found ' 1 A they | acted 1 very to plan; for someihing good in advertising for + -fall-and winter business. fi 18 sud | cellar u ps DESIRABLE. PROPERTY IN PORT PERRY FOR BALE! HE undersigned offers for sale at a ig ~on=Lorne we property - Street, Port Perry, cousisting of a _cumivo- dious Deliv ouse, six rooms, {cp t rates, &c. Li tensed Auctioneers dV; for the Township of Redch, von public that ary above head intiusted to.t 8 receive their best attention in every 1 With Sule Lists Blank Forms together with for sales they ask for a fair trial seid mile furnimed Free of C publie putrounge. Patties wishing to engage their a there, or app! either JUH JAS. MCKITRICK, Grevnbank, "Abbott & "oitrick of Port Foran and Towashipt £0 TO INTIMATE to the Jovgrild. business under very © Moderate Charygex fator 1o satisy all that they dit wartby cf are directed for sale dates to' the OBskrvex fice, Lore furry, and make arrangements reonully or by letter to ABBOTT, Port Perry or nators lage' Pp the caput to securc the greatest possible sucess -- out and hurge, | wid ne ervices OF CALTWRIGHT, ISHES anotuer Anction Sale Scason turn thinks to his pumerods pa past favors. and continued patrunnge he state that no effort or pains avill Le him succeases. on application. Parties wirhing to engnge lis » ma neult hia the Obsciver or Sraudard Perry, for dates claimed Offi zel CHARGES LR] Nov. 1, 190k. ot Perr 'GEO. JACKSON, Licens.d Anctioneer, Valuator, &c. FOR THE COUSTY OF ONTARIO AND TOWNSHII® at this the commencement o Iu requesting their exteented desires tc on his part to make all sales entrusted to Hin very extensive practice in the puft ehodldl be "a sufbeient 1econr mendation as to his ability. All Sale given into his charge will be attended 30 with promptuces and dispatch. Sale list made out aod blank notes supplied free SALE ReaisTi® either at for Sales, anc muke arrangements, or write todis address SRSON, to ve. nn fou spared ervices Poy y ILO PAINTI T= wadersivned would take this the business of PAINTING in Port Perry, and would state tim 'orders {or rely on having cuted, My churges are moderate. when coutracting. cited, Port Porry, Mar. 23, 1608. Kalsomining, &c tunity of thanking hid numerous pat rons for their liberal and still increasing patronage during tire time he has cartied ou Painting, Kalsomining and Paper Hanging Parties ontrasting their work to me may it noatly and promptly exe- 1 am also prepared to supply Paivts, &e,; A coutinusnce of public patronage soli WM. TREMEER." oppor t he ir better prepared tham ever to execute all NOT, UNDERTAKER, "JOHN rector, apd Funeral ° RT _P. Y. Bal QL Fxg ISHES toinform; Perty and su after four ycars exp. he. pnblic. ol tutes, he is betic branches of Jia, Jude iilone Bricklaying its branches ; Or p ball and three ol ; there is Sg stone main ut A nadation ht a I XXY a 'o iret of next A GEO, GEO. GARDNER nding : county, thay fener in prosecuting, his business in some of the anpen ph of than ever to executor any of th Sti of Pote = =. lakonry. lain and SUNDERLAND r HE wiareiguedt hoop keeps on handaud for sales the following Agricultural Mach ines und Inplemen ts munufactured ; by the [0 BAMILTOR Wri. "OF PET KRIGHD 41 Bioders, Reapers. Crown Mond ity Secder, Tiger Ha Rake, Two Furrow Plow, Thre+ Fur ww Gang, Coi iE tion Plows, Cha pion Plows, §. Cultivator, = T. I a * Relter, Stoel Frame 8 ving Tooth Cultivator, Binder Trucks, &v &c. ook xlso the following, 1 the munufdethre of JOHEN ABEL, Tordiito. High class Threshing ontfits] Thaction 'Eogives and Machines, Victol Gover Hullef, Portable Taivwph Evyise. T an prepatdd to supply cverythivg the © armer requires in way of Machines, Tiple: wents, Repairs, ha - £2 A call solicited, McDonald's Hotel, = " Ono dongs of RK. BRYENT. Sauderland, Apiil 8, 1693. EALED TENDERS 'will bs received by the undersigned for the purchase of all or any of the Parcels-- Farm Properties---belong ng to Mr. John Adams, advertised o be sold 'by auction on theé'23rd Novpuber/ 4nd withdrawn af the sale. . A. McGILLLVRAY, Tem, Te Building, Toronto, Nov. 30, 1899. 3 MONEY TO LOAN. We tive funds from private parties for lavestient 6f mortyage 4 PER CENT, and those wha with to renew old moriguges, Luy more Jand or build. may obtain mote Tom wr Vilgae. sey deiny, Jad vay quietly) 3 © have custonmre .whé w ved farms: also thie who wonld Ee fo bu for the same. If ypu have hey rd perties for sale, umm porn, mishanleal, ind, please send us nd descri) BREE Ran Fi 5 LUND &C6l, $8 Victorin Street; ONTO, The Portraits of our Presidents With Biographical Sketches, 7 B = rh i fd She freatest work uttniihat « hey Pisvidedt Ww it he bo br Hl i B00 Coples in a tl teriitary di. Fen ran: ve ZA miltion-gopies will be roid ck. {unes willbe, mado, this Li rs wan 8 woman of gi etic fortune i Chi osu Manager 16 100k after o : ence and a Address om Hn an