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and Richmond Streets, Toronto. HEAD OFFICE, - - TORONTO, ONT, Tepital (Paid uw - = - $8,700,000 Res = 8,000,000 ESTABLISHED 1867. A General Banking Business Transacted BUSINESS WITH FARMERS Loans made to farmers for periods ex tending from ove to nine months for feed- cattle and other farm purposes Farmers' Sales Notes discounted or col ®oted at the most favorable rates. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits of One Dollar and upwards received and interest allowed at current rates Interest is added to the deposit Twice in each year, at the end of May and November The Depositor is subject to no delay whatever in the withdrawal of the whole or any portion of the deposit No Charge is made withdrawing or depositing money Port Perry Branch W. H. DUNSFORD, Manager on R. D. ARCHE M.D.C.M. Victoria [ University ; M.B. Toronto University, Member or the College of Physicians and | Out.; Licentiate of the Royal Edinburg ; Licentiate Physicians, Edin Surgeons Uollege of Surgeons of the Royal © bitrg ; Member of the slog of Faculty of Physiciahs | SENERAL Sn Business trans: Lok Ak pels es tls x est current credited to sosite receivod at the h rates. Interest calculated ah each depositor semi-annually. H. G. HUTOHESON, MANAGER: Port Perry, June 26, 1897. £100,000 STERLING (British Capital) To lend at 4 4 and B§ per cent on good Mortgage security. Apply to DAVID J. ADAMS Banker and Broker, Port Perry, Ont. J. A. MURRAY, DENTIST, Mice over the Post Office, PORT PERRY. All branches of Dentistry, including Crown and Bridge Work successfully practiced. | Artifical Tecth on Gold, Silver, | or Rubber Plates Fillings of Gold, Silver or Cement | Painless extraction when required: Aluminum Gre Tou ; Jw TORONTO, ONT. Gives INSTRUCTION IN :-- 'Shorthand - Typewriting Bookkeepi J. W. WESTERVELT, Chartered Acconntant, Principal | pei ne crim The undersigned sind for her propesty Sp imeo " RT PERRY, Ta 2 'Fine Resides | taining nine rooms ; spring; water ; good cellar ; one-half land, t othe with orname fruit tre ' Also for sale Furnitu ing Piano and Prgan in dition. IN PRINCE ALBERT. HE aundersigued offers for sale at a I Bargain her beautitnl residontal pro-| y in the Village of Prince Albert. This! fine property is situated on Simcoe Street and coutains fifteen acres, nwre or less, | 1. WHITBY Clerk, afer 4 an ary 7, February July 6, Se nia, ember PORT PERRY January 9, , November 11, - 4 UXBRIDGE Clerk, January 16, Mare 5 CANNINGTON §. BEAVERTON ember March 17, May ISHES to V Rooms in the OSHAWA Clerk, D o ember 5, Jan. 7, 1904. Clerk, J. W. Burnham, arch 9, May 13, Jun. 11, 1904 ch 20, 25, November 20, Juu. 14, 1904. Clerk Jwnuary 15, March 19, 24, November 19, Jun. 13, 1904 Clerk, Geo. F. January 14, Murch 18 8, Juii. 19, 1904 ly UPTERGROVE--Olerk, Thos. P. Hart By order, Sittings of the Division Courts OOUNTY OF ONTARIO. 19203. D. 0. Macdonell, Whithy --Janu- ary 8, February i, Ma Septombor & October b, 1904. 2. BROUGHAM Clerk, M. Gleeson, Greenwood --Janv- | ary 8, March 7, May §, July 7, September 9, Nov. 7, Jan. 9, 1904 Jos. E Muy 29 Gould, Uxbridge July 15, Beptembe, Geo. Smith, Cannington Dated'st Whilhy; Not. 3th, 0g' MISS HARRISON | Dress and Mantle Maker | of Arrow inform the Port Perry July §, September | ladies | that she has moved to her fine Allison Block where | choice bearing fruit trees ; There 18 erected thereon a fineand commo- dious Brick Dwelling House, constructed | | and finished in the moet approved und | | modern style ; a lurge hip-roofed Barn with stond basement for stabling: a convenient Driving House snd a splendid, young bear ing Orchard of Plum Trees which were expeclally selecied for the desirable qual: reh 4, April 2, May 6, June 3, | ities of their fruit ; Pear, Cherry and Oina- Novewber 4, Ree | mented trees. Splendid water. The pro arty is well fonced, in fact, the whe le | Macdonell, Whithy--Janu- | Pathe for desirability, location, and edt arch 6 April 3 May7, June 4, bY, October 7, November b, Dec. | pleteness isjone rarely to be met with. Im mediata possession given. Also for Sale a Farm, heing composed of | the East-half of lot 20 and North-half of lot 21, in the 1st con. of Cartwright, contain | ug 200 Acres, more or less, on the property | there is erected a first class Barn, Driving + | Barn and Stables. and Dwelling House, The | [land in a good state of cultivation, well | fenced, there isa grand spring of good May 3, July If, September | water thereon. There are about 40 acres of | good pasture land | Geo. F. Bruce, Bewrerion-- | = or further particulars, spply to J. W | Mkgarry, Port Purry, or to the propri Uptergrove | 247088 ore =~ 25, Séptember 23, November 17 MRS. M. LANG, | Prince Albert. J. EB. FAREWELL, | June 24, 1003 lerk of the Peace. Bouse aad ok or Sul or bo Rant offers for Sale or to FEE tiuderslgned | Rent his House and Lot on the cerner and Lorne Streets, Port Perry [ The Dwholling is comfortable, in good repair | 14 story. The lot contaius class land on whi:h there are a number o there are also a and Surgeons . Glasgow; Late Resident | 3 £3 Prices to suit the times® ___ |she is prepared to execute all orders yood well and new pump, For particulars Pupilof the Rolunda Hospital, Dublin, | D IM ¥ apply at Tue Owservik office, or to the for' Women. Office and Residence, second GEO. JACKSON in Dress and Mantle Making in_a| proprictor, door west of D Furniture Emporiam, 3 i 3 manner unsurpassed for | JOSEPH BRYANT Queen S Ofee hours--9 to 11 a. Licensad Anctioneer, Valuator, &ec. A Manchester and 2 to 5 p.m, and' evenings. Fall THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO AND Toman. COPTECiness of Style | May 14, 1003 I lave taken as partner, my brother, Dr OF CARTWRIGHT and Charming F fe ar vi Ljject R. Archer, M. D.C. M., Member of Gol] YT ISHES at this the commencement. o 4 'To Rent or for Sal e of Physicians and Surgeons, Out. another Auction Sule Season to re.| Our charges are consistent with | . ey y I y | Port Perey. Tote 9.1807. turn thanks to his numerois patrons for | the value given. | ' i _ | past favors. Tn requesting their esteemed | Pog Perey, March 27, 1902 | i STA FATE - and continued patronage he desires to i bhi | Mrs. Jane Wheeler's beautiful INCORPO. state that no effort or pains will be spared | | Brick Residence on Nonquon on his part to make all sales entrusted to | ®) "3 | R ort P - PR. J. H. SANCGSTER, Physician, Sur {him successes. His very extensive practice JOS. BAIRD Road, south of Port Pury. There |) gon and Accoucheur, and Dr. W. A. [in the past should be a sufficient recom oo : s a splendid Front Garden attached, Sangster, Dentist, may on and after vo-day, | mendation as to his ability. All Sale ICEN 'ED AUCTIONEER for the| jth Outbuildings, etc. A large be found ii their new Surgical and Dental | given into his charge will be attended to | ad County of Ontario. Sale Register at | ranching or pasture land Offices over the Post Office, where they will | with prompucss and dispatch. Sale lisg | 8 OBs¥SER Office Patronage solicited rented or purchised ih Eo be found as heretofore, prepured to attend | made out and blauk notes supplied free, | MAihester, Jan. 1, 1899 nied oF burchnsed 1h oi to their respective professions in all their | on application with or separately from the branches | Parties wizhing to engage hi i ve Apply to | g RAR! his services . Pl Port Perry Dec, 8, 1807 fstay cohsult his Sark REGISTER either at L W. H. HARRIS = the Observer or Standard Offizes, Port Sei S | Barri 3 ers DR. 8. J. MELLOW Perry, for dates claimed for Sales, auf A Q arrister, Port Perig 3 make arrangements, or write to his address ug. 1 i, Puoysician, SURGEON, &e. : | , , CHARGES MODERATE. | chi i S 1 Office and Residence, Queen St., Port Peery | oo GEO. JACKSON, 1Vér | Threshing Machine for di, Office hours--8to 10 amy 1to3 p m., | Ae Port Perry I'. 0. | and Evenings 2s . re pit ] | The undersigned offers for sale fw whit hha agi wielt] AUCTIONEER. [= andersigl takes this his Challenge Threshing Machine tad dug over the lines south, connected [yp uhdersigned tukes this opportiinity inhabitants of Port Perry and {at a Bargan Although the machine in oe ye, 1504 80% of returning thanks for the very liberal | sorrounding country for the { has been in use about three years it ory erry, Noy, 1 f pare nuge he hax received as Auctioneer in | liberal and still increasing pat {is none the worse for that. Parties the past. The increased exper 1] ronage bestowed upon | p xperience and g F him equi ya good © arat tir LABDIO extensive practice which 1 have had will be since commencing Carting and reljaing & good Separator shodld WM H H RIS, B ALL tarved to advantage of patrons, and parties Livery in Port Perry and now see | againe «Ha Oy B.A, | favoring me with their sales may rely on intimates that he is better than | Apply to the owner BARRISTER, &o., fiber : tere being Tully protected, Ro ever prepared to supply all JOHN COLLINS, Jr, | elfort will be spared i t ti oC ts iis line | x Buccessor to and occvpant of the) | for parties plac y Shot me i 27 Bind . TE : Jha 2, 1903 Scugog. a A att g y hands. Huving extensively added to 0 . a Iy Salo Register will be found at the $6 Stock Uf irece ton weil ty Port Paty. Ont. Leland House, ( msarea, 2 conveyances of the latest type 'Western Bank of Canada 2 THOS. SWAIN, of construction for comfort aud Ror To LAR. Cranren, Aug. 26, 1896. pleasure, Tam in « position to ASE H. McCAW, meet the requirements of the ort Private Funds at 4 per cent. Sop most fastidious as te style «nd Dividend No. 42. Feb. 7 1901 eg NO. w. 0 ROZI ER J ARRISTER. SoL1CiTOR, CONVEYANCER, ) &c. Office at residence, 6th Con. Rench (one mile west of Port Perryg,)-- Moxky To LoAN. N. 7 PATERSON, xX. C, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Nos. 310 311, Temple Building, Cor. Bay Toronto, March 81, 1805. W. A GANGSTER, DENTAL SURGEON. Office Hours--8 to 12a.m., 2 to 6 p,m. Also open Saturday eveninge. #2 Gold Fillings, Bridge and Crown Work a Specialty, Vitalised Air. Dr I" D. McGrattan (DENTIST) .D.S. of Bagal College of Dental Surgeons, also D.D.8. of Toronto University. Cflice in the Allison Block over Allison's Drug Store. _ Office hanrs --8 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. Port Perry, April 9, 1902. MONEY TO LOAN. HE Subscriber is prepared. to LEND ANY AMOUNT on Farm Security AT 6 PER OENT. #&F Algo on Village Property. © 87 MORTGAGES BOUGHT. TA MARRIAGE LICENSES, Port Perry Ont, Port Perry, Dec. 19, 1883, WM. SPENCE, Township Olerk, Commissioner, &c. s prepared to Loan any quantity of Money on improved Farm Security at 6 and 7 per cent (Trust funds) All kinds of Conveyancing executed with neatness and dispatch. Office--One door west of Town Hall, Manchester. Manchester April 11, 1588, ly tical, Family Newspaper IS PUBLISHED AT FORT PERRY, ONT, EVERY THURSDAY MORNING H. PARSONS TERMS. --$1 Find annum, if wide, in advance ; if not §1.50 will be charged. No scription taken for less tha ne 'ana no paper discontinned until arrears are paid up. LETTERS containing money, when addressed to thi Ottice, prepaid and registered wili be at our risk. ADYERTISEMUNTS measured by Nonparie!, and charged according to the space they occupy. ADVERTISEMENTS roceived for prblicaton, wih: BT a ry No ud -- wl Sssried 3 ment will be taken out until petd for. © A LIBERAL -Jisgonrs 8 plowed to Merchants and other rertise by th half year. THESE torma will in all cases bo strictly adhered to JOB DEPARTMENT. Pamphlet Hand Bills, Posters, Programs, Dodgers, Bill Heads, Checks Letter Heads, Wedding Inyitations, Blank Forms, Receip Books, Business Cards Books, Circulars, Assembly Cards, respect--in funer dings, have their will, at all given notice. WM. Port Perry, July 30, 1903. desirable equippage iu every i avery able for private driving, wed- way suit ls, &e Parties wishing an afternoon drive can choice double or siugle rigs and care- ful drivers will also be suppli- ed when required. of suitable I possess a number of good Spring and Dray Wagons and times, Carting with the utmost care and promptness. I wish further to state that in future suitable conveyances will be at the Railway Depot 10 conv PEI also convey p baggage to the for departing traius, on being attend to i rs and epot id time JAMIESON. San Jose Scale. WANTED A man to represent "CaNADA's GREATEST NURSERIES" PORT PERRY and surrounding country, and take orders for OUR HARDY SPECIALTIES in Fruit Trees, Small Praits, Ornamentals, Shrubs, Roses, Vines, Seed Potatoes, &c. Stock true to name and free from in the townof A permanent pos ition for the right man on either salary or commission. STONE & WELLINGTON TOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Dividend of Three and One hall per cent, has been declar- ed upon the Paid-up Capital Stock of the bank, being at the rate of Seven per cent per annum, and the same will be due and payable on and after THURSDAY OCT, 1, 1903, At the offices of the Bank. The transfer Books will be closed from the 15th to the 31st of Sept. By order of the Board. T. H. McMILLAN, Cashier. 'Oshawa August 29th, 1903. WANTED An experienced House KEEPER, must be a competent cook and one in every way capable of taking charge of the duties pertaining to botel hfe. Liberal wages will be paid. W. H. PARK, Commercial Hotel Manilla. Aug. 12, 1903. H. GRAHAM Has just taken possession of the FOY SHOE SHOP one door South of the St. Charles Hotel, where he intends to make all kinds of Boots and Shoes, and do all kinds of repairing. All comers strictly attended to. He wants to to please all who come his way, 1f possible. Port Perry, June 10, 1903. 1} acres first | | § ok or 40 n the Babel Adrift for TheLungs Ang ts Tor oU ye! have : the doctors. Te he ba Rosi ihe 4 Taw. for all throat and lung iin. pi K. NORCROSS, Watts, 3 biigory fax Sr sary. ally action of the bowels Is neces Ald nature with Ayer's Pllls. ANIMAL FURNITURE. ¢o, when he gave the fight to Shar: key on an alleged foul. For some years before that he had been quite ah orderly citizen for one of his reputation as a gun (lighter. From the stories that have drifted down from the Klondike in the last few weeks it appears that Earp has resumed a favorite trick of his, known in the west as shooting up the town. He was much addicted to it in the old lawless days of Ari- zona and California Earp was never a man who could easily be tamed, consequently a story | told of his suppression a few weeks ago by a diminutive Cockney [ber of the Canada Mounted mem- Police fig Game Mtinters Always Like te Mave Will be found interesting Evidonoes of Their Gun's Frowess | Many houses About Them at Meme. have their walls | adgrned with the hunting trophies of their occupiers. But it is much more inwresung, and very much more un- counon, to find these trophies made inte articles of furniture and serv ingla double purpose of usc and or nament The hunter who has been gored hy a rhinoceros and carries the marks of his wounds about with him, must find a strange fascination in usin | the very horn with which his injur ies were inflicted to hang his hat or | Ohd of the best-known big=gaing hunters possesses a superb tiger, set up as a dumb-waiter This same | nea once almost tore to pieces the man he now stiffty supplies with whigkies and soda His Majesty the King possesses a | somewhat similar trophy in the | shape of a ferocious looking bear which he himself shot many years age in Russia. It now stands in the smoking room at Buckingham Pal- ace, gravely holding a tray in its frolt paws. In the hall of Baroness Eckhard stein's beautiful mansion in Grosve nor square there is to be seen an even larger bear, one of the largest in fact, that has ever been shot, that fills the useful office of light-holder In its left paw is clasped an clectric Onl bincs With tric stret war them of ct ty o ple I at M from mot! of th fore from nw XC eo Torta 5 Ma been Band t Office Li to OQutario Bunk, is his master's guests River, t birds and monkeys bor case, the most usual arrangement "for the monkey to hold in its a lamp or fruit dish. Birds are mewhat difficult specimens to flower stand, the centre of which 8inco been moved to Buckingham ¥ and away the most artistic of | troph font Sorte: swan, which was set. iv few years ago for a wealthy itihg upon water, urned. ite Workmanship. que and beautiful tablecentre. is not curable, but doctors say that ninety per cent of imparied hearing is due inflamation of the Eustachian ubes, 'ani can be treated with toreh, which can be switched on from behind, when it floods the hall with + g-boft red light. killed in Alaska. This specimen was New Idea im Seats. y one trophy exists which coms the offices of the last two, and, jaws agape, brandishes an elec amp in its right paw while he hes the other invitingly to- and offers up a silver tray, a selection woice cigars. This is the f Mr. Ratclifie Pope + position of honor akenham proper= and oecli tt his house a i ng the subject of bears, we find cqually useful and interesting trophies made from other animals Picture a baby-elephant squatting upon its haunches, with its trunk €urled inwards to its chest and "with a comfortable seat placed be- two front legs! This unusual piece rniture was modelled, mar rs A ZC by a well-known firm of naturalists in London from ayo Cey elephant, and for soln occupied a prominent po sitic the hall of a large estab Ush here it served as a hall port It has recently, how ever ler the hammer, and is to b in one of the country res iden Mr. Vanderbilt Pr 1 the most original chair in tI 1 is to be found in the { Mr. J. Gardiner Muir, the well-known hunter and traveler, arket Harborough. It is made a baby giraffe, which, with its er, was shot near the Kidboko British East Africa. The scat eo chair is arranged between the legs and the head looks down on high with a glassy stare up- hoever happens to occupy this dingly unusual but very com- ble nook. Artistic Conceptions. ny trophies exist which have made from the skins of various In the lat- t attractively. Majesty the Queen has a fruit noveable screen, composed of a oe parrot. This was in con- use at Sandringham while her y was Princess of Wales, but , however, is a magni- rests upon a large | , 80 as to give the effect of and in its up heak holds a lamp of exquis- It makes a uni- ian. It 'You Deaf ? All deafness of success by Catarrho vhich gives instant relief to in any part of the system hozone is extremely pleasant ple to use and sufferers from of deafness are advised to Thousands of cases are on has Tired of Civilization. "Earp drifted inte Dawson several months ago full of a determination to get action said a man in Daw- son to some of Earp's old western friends the other night "Clviliza- tion, policemen and progress gener- ally knocked out Earp's gun fighting game in the States soe vears ago and he had been quite orderly and well behaved for some years But when he got to Dawson he found a settlement like the places in which he had made his reputation as a bad mal many years ago He found men carrying guns around in their belts and getting drunk and shooting people who happened to dis please them, and it gave him the fever to get back into the game in which he was an adept in the days gone by So Earp discarded his store clothes, got himself a flannel shirt, a pair of leather trousers and a son brero, stuck a gun in his belt, load ed up on bad whiskey and went around the saloons and faro banks ballyragging everybody who would stand for his game, and taking a few shots at some en who resented it There were a r ber of bad men in Dawson who Ww Mciently awed by Earp's put t and for him, and f he had things pretty much } C we Mounted Police Figure Well, the fact that Earp was hit ting it up got to she ears of a little five-foot Cockney member of the Ca- nadian Mounted Police, one of whose duties it was to see that Dawson be haved itself. Now, Earp didn't know much about the Mounted Police and the manner of men who compose it Canada I'herefore, when he was interrupt ed in the gentle amusement of cleaning out a faro bank in Dawson one night by this little chap coming up to him with a request that he give him his gun, he opened his mouth and his eyes very wide, swora a mighty round of oaths, and asked the little fellow in riding boots and cap if he wanted to visit hades at once or wait a few hours Earp was somewhat surprised when the little fellow simply smiled politely and said You must give me the gun or bury ft sir," and extended his hand for the weapon Earp swore some mor but not quite so eloquently, for all the time the little man was sr ng calmly ir his face Finally Fe a flus tered by the situat 1 his gur from his belt and 1 it t times into the ceiling, wk his 1 tle man, still smiling. said Now, you'll have to bury it or I'll have to take it from u, s I'ske my gun away from m roared Earp |" 'Exactly,' said the little an "Maybe you doubt I'll do it, sir? Earp Cowed. | "However, a crisis was averted by Farp's putting the gun back into his belt' and starting to leave the place Just as he got to the door the po liceman walked over and tapped him on the shoulder I beg your pardon, sir,' he said 'but if you comie out with a gun in sight to-morrow I shall have to take it away from you.' "Barp turned purple with rage, but | he had no merve left when he con- fronted that politely smiling face. He roared a few oaths back at the amused crowd in the gambling house, and then went to the Golden Lion saloon, where he took a few drinks and proceeded to tell what he would do the next day when the Cockney tried to take his gun. '" 'Why, I'll blow him full of holes,' be said. Hole fa Empire. "Yes," said the listener, 'but when you put a hole in him you put a hole in the British Empire, which it will fill with two men If you kill them four will take their places. In the end, Earp, vou will have the whole British army here if necessary just to put you out. "The next day Earp, very sober and very thoughtful, appeared on the strects of Dawson in the store clothes he came to town with. Al- most the first person he struck was the Cockney, who had evidently been waiting for him, prepared to take his gun away from him if he showed it. As soon as he saw Earp he stepped up very politely and said: " "Thank you, sir," and then turned on his heel. 'Earp hasn't been deuce high as a bad man in Dawson since that inci- dent. Incidentally, I might sav, if he had elected to mix it up with the Cockney he'd be sleeping under an epitaph to-night; for of all the real tough men 1 ever saw, cither for or against law and order, those Canada Mounted Police are the Mmi BE -- EZ" The Regal Packing Co, Port Perry, require all the apples Yiatiog Genin, bs FONTHILL NURSERIES reco where Catarrhozone ora 0 ACRES WANTED SEVERAL INDUSTRIOUS PERSONS | Pe stored lost hearing, and iol ior Swuse wsinlished loves | whi done for others it will do - ToroNTO, - = ONTARIO rian Seam with large capital, to call upon m : \ anta and agents for Saco 'tnd prot ah oe fory ocure Catarrhozone from eekly cath salary of : : ; mn i Parties fm a distence getting hand ao W, BURNHAM, Clerk of the Third ad all traveling expenses and hotel bills advanced in | YOUI st. Price $1, sma HUBERT L. 1 printed car have them printed to take ae "Division Conrt, * Office Ie Poet Office cash each wook. k [Experience not essential. Hontion I size mail from N. C. Pol- H, PARSONS. Block, Port Perry. | NATIONAL, 384 Dearborn Bt, Chicago, | son » Kingston, Ont. » i + oi Ty oe, P - -* : ~ for evaporating purposes. Cash on delivery. 1 | # 'tine of puberty or cartier the 1 zenana prairie vs the caste, and are war, closes upon the Hindu wife? That her life thenceforward js a trivial round~--tithdrawn, apart; and that if her husband should die it were better a thousand times that she had never been born? That, or something like it, is the common version. Dut it.is not the version you will get {rom Mrs, Besant; still less is it the one you will get from the militant apostles of the Ilindu revival, in whose eyos there is nothing so vener- able as the religious idea and tra dition lying behind the social life of India, nothing so exquisite as the sentiment and ritual of the Hindu household, says a writer in The Lon- don Leader For afireerient oti thesé things, however, you will seek in vain. They are matters of feeling, habit, creed longitude there are climate and of the subject matters of Other aspects which belong comparatively to the region of social facts, and, as it hap pens, there is one such aspect being canvassed with a good deal of vigor in India at the moment The Parents' Wall. At int als you may see In the Indiar r Anglo-Indian newspapers a ery of distress from a Hindu fatheg He has five, seven, ten daughters himself is a poor clerk in Govern ment or private employ Ile cannot endow } many daughters It is an unspeakable disgrace that they should grow up to womanhood utimarried The "'d and the marriage expenses of one, or at most two, would re duce him to beggary. What is he to do? It is all very well for the beneve it outsider to reply that he should disregard the custom of his creed and caste, should giv his daughters something of an etiucation, and teach them that there is such a thing as honorable spinsterhood. In dealing with India one thing must always be borne in mind, namely that notw anding th spread of educatic western ideas, and the al i br f the caste syst th e of Ilinduism res mains substantially unimpaired. The Bengali, for example, may eat chick- en and read HerbertoSpencer nav embellish his house with German ole- ographs and unspeakable imitations of Tottenham Court toad: but in his private circle he keeps to the ways of his forboars, departing not at all from the scrupulous observances of his class He secludes his women and marries his child-daughter, with dowry and ma ge ceremonies up to the limit of his mcans, or beyond it Price of a Husband, India, it Is often said, is one--in spite of its bewildering diversity of race and speech; the unifying influ= ence is Ilinduism itself That, hows ever, is only partially true as fe gards social custom. In the south for example, ti loistral zenana is far less prevalent than in the north Infant marriages in Madras are practically confined to the Brahmins they are aln versal among the Hindus of Denga 1 if anything are most conu A ng the lower castes. The curious thing is that among these 5s nctually sold~N{n marriag Evert Sudra girl is a valuable asset wl in the three highest R s she is counted a suj 3 nsibility A husband tb nd for her and husbands Ber are dear. For a tolerable good 1 a father must be prepared to pay anything between Rs 8,000 ($900) and Rs 8,000 ($2 400), and in order to secure such a match he will denude } self of, all his resources, and st likely mort gage himself up to the eyes Here, indeed, is one of ti strangest and most baffling products of English education in India. The price of a youth in the marriage market is re- gulated by his record of examina- tions--not necessarily passed, but en tered for. It would be fair to say that at the present time in Bengal this is the only test that has any validity. Eligibility in the old days may have been a matter of family of breeding, of =ociul position it ts now a matter of university degrees, the reason being, of course, that the people of India have learnt to osti- mate a man's chances of success in life, especially as regards Government employment, according to his place In the examination lists. Reforming Society. The effects of a system of this kind will be clear enough in the educa- tional world as in the home. The marriage market becomes a huge commercial department of society, and the marriage agent or profes- sional matchmaker a highly import ant functionary--especially the fe malg of the species, whose powers, mostly for mischief, are multiplied indefinitely by her freedom of access to the zensnas, Year by year, espe- cially in Bengal, 'the problem be- comes more acute, and it is not sur- prising that among the more enlight- ened section of the Hindu community a definite movement should have been set on foot for the liberation of so- ciety from a yoke that has become unendurable. Perhaps the most in- fluential section of reformers is that composing the Kayashta Sava, an or- ganization which has lately been tak- ing steps to make its purposes more widely known. The enormous diffi- culty of the task lying before any Hindu reforming agency may be rea- lized in part by considering the sali- ent facts of the situation as it pre- | sents itself to this society. The Ka- | yasthas of Bengal are split up into four classes, which do not intermar- ry. There is, further, a lateral di- grown in this entire district suitable | vigion--as among the Brahmins--sepa- fons the members of all four class- es info "kuling" and "mauliks," the' ing war upon the extortion of marri- age portions from parents who have not the means to furnish their Hangh. ters with dowries bn the current scale The society's members, in fact, are pledged to discountenance) the practice, and to assist in the complete ostracism of any erring fellow member Merry, Happy Babiés " # There is no greater treasure off, earth than a healthy, happy, mary baby. Anyt! erefore that will keep the little one in this condition is pri eless b to mother Mis: | Win. Bull, Maple. Cree NW. T., tells how she ac i ed this end; gle ea "T am happv 1 ay that Baby's Own Tublets have doue my baby girl a world of good She was badly troubled t onstpa- tion and very cross d peevishg but since [ e els he 1s all right I give her the Tablelse . : el i che Sig now h a me I e thing that ther Puliy's wn 1 ¢ ¢ t the g lot H r th ers who want € I curtain IL ne for th ailments from whic tle ¢ r from { me tg m I hese ITE + def a guarantee to cont no opiate Ot I miu he ar d lor Il cildrin Go he new bor be to the we grows 1 Sold at 25 cents a bex or sent by mail by writing ect to the Dr. Williams Medicine ( 1 kville, Ont EXPLORER LA SALLE. Justice Glroward's New Work en Celobri= ties of Jacques Cartier County, Ar. Justice Girpuard in the preface. to his "Supplement to bake Stu Louis' observes that the new docu- ments from the "correspondence gens: erale in the national archives at Paris which have furnsshed him with the material for the new work that has just been published are in the way of contrast of what he wrote in his carlier volumg Lake. ' St Louis but confirni the impressions, therein conveyed to the public as to several more or btful poiats, Like the learned first work the supplement is t valuable contribution to Canadian historical research I'he writer sure of the ins terest in his subject and inspired by the desire to present the truth un- varnished makes no attempt whatev- er at artistic presentation of embel- lishment of the documents but leaves them to tell their own story The work as a whole has distinct literary merits and the translator from the French into English has performed his task in a manner Wofs thy of appreciation I'he author bas added nu additions and he tells that the me will form the last touch of a work embodying the re search of years, pleasant it is true but all same and laborious No it has been well said; has cither inherited or acquired a better right to eak of Jacques Cartier County than its former mem- ber It {8 many long years since Mr Girouard gave his lecture on the La- chine massacre of 1689 that formed the starting point of his rescarches. It was clearly a labor of love, this studying of ancient documents and archives connected with a scene of which his own summer residence makes a pmt today and which yields to no spot in North Americed in historical interest. The idea grew upon him that while the nations of the old world and the new ware cel cbrating the discovery of Alnerica a resident of Lachine would be justifi- ed in paying his tribute to the mem- ory Qf those who founded and foster- ed the early settlements and espe cially Ia Salle, who was not only- the founder of Lachine but the. pionecr of the States of Ohio, - : igan and lllinois. We "What changes along Lake St. Louis' exclaims the author, "since the early days of the Boyer cottages, buflt about forty years ago, on the western shores of the little "Hag of Lachine! The entire distance from | the place to the northern limit of St. Anne de Bout de Visle, some twenty-two miles, i§ covered With beautifully laid out lawns, gardens and parks, pretty cottages and ele- gant residences, crected in many in- stances at a large expenditure, from five to ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty thousand dollars and even nore. Without speaking of the accommoda~ - | tion given by the C.P.R. and elecs tric railway, the G.T.R. has daily, from twenty to {(wenty-five trains running to and from St. Annc's at almost every hour. What an ha- + provement on the 'mixed' and the - 'Mocassin' of twenty years ago, al ways late, so much so that; ene ex= ceptional morning, Bob, the popula¥ conductor of the 'Moccasin, reaching old Bonaventure Depot the was, ceremoniously presen with a leather medal by the gra summer residents. to wait for a train, he is comfortab- ly seated in a pretty station, instear of the misorable open little shed at first by the interested tra et ---------- EZ The Regal iacking iy Perry, require all the apples g n this entire district for which will pay prices unlieard of