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True To 11s Trapitions.--The MACGREGOR - FAX CON-|That Dramatic Puy CERT 0©O. Globe 4n the maoner it has treated the School Clauses in the Autonomy Bilt " has' . done much to | maintain and immortalize: it§ recofd: "as a. staunch and un- 'compromising supporter of Iree and untrammaled educational institu tions. The people of Canada have every reason to be proud of that great journal and the stand ithas always taken on so vital a question, and it redounds to its glory and in- dependence and adds laurels to its prowess' asia. supporter of princi- ples that are the bulwarks ol our country's greatuess. AN IMPORTANT ACQUISITION ON tHE FarM.--Itis now almost uni versally admitted that every farmer shculd possess.a Cream Separator and the best i8 obtainable at prices within the the reach of all in Port Perry, and Mr. Marshall Stone- house has the Rigency forghe Tub- be without a peer 61 the continent, requisite; that go to make a perfect Separator. «Mr. Steuebouse's Fif- teen unimpeachable [FACTS con tained in his advertisement in another column should be sufficient evidence to convince the most skep ler, if he d THRE OBSERVER Has A GooD OrRCULATION. xnd fx con stantly growing in favor. It ls the BEST Advertising Medium in the County champion of the Agrioulturists and conservative and practical class of people is not a favorite of schemers, boomers and eliques ; it is the Oldest And Best Established --founded fn 1857--the most original and best news department is the more in its local and general and is printed entirely in the piace of pub. lieation--Port Perry ~~ Trrxs--§l per annum in advance, if nol paid in adxaac ce, $1.50 will be charged JOB PRINTING THE MOST MODERN RTVLES AND AT LOW PRICES number of | loes | Ernest Maltravers ahd, Alice 4 two ,|cne, should ain at the earli- | he was recalled four and five tun esl yolumes written by that elegdntand | est opportu See the Tubular |and was ever ready, Mr. Chas. E | classcal writer, the late Lord Litton. | before buy Core Separat Bodley, piano virtuoso, played the| But the lesson which Caste, teaches | before buying a ream SEparalor accompaniments and two piano|ahove all others is that love, pure and you will readily acquiesce in |solos, his technique being much|and Jegitimate lpve, is the most | all favorable tion of it I'be | admired.-- Bowmanville Statesman | powerful thing in'the universe, and | supply is inexhaustable so there | The above famous talent ap- | that, as the vld song says, "Ohy'tis . no disappe Bara; love, tis love, that makes the world | will be no disapy intment regarding | near in the Town Hall, Port | uo round!" ts early delivery at your residence . " 3 1 y , 3 Pot] Perry, this (Thursday) evening | But the play is' not without its { The price atewhich the* Tubular is | faults, f t presents but few reall | , under the auspices of our |'aults, lor it presents but Jew 4 fat present selling may beof short . p striking situations, and flagranfly hors p juration, a word to the "wise is| Choral Club and ae a Beneflt to | violates at least two of the Drama: | suffic jent our Public Library |e Bniies, which blemishes made EZ Some one belated the other - 3 | it difficult for our amateur pertorm- 1 7 . | ers to do themselves justice, 50 that fevening strayed into the poultry | Alum in Bread | they deserve all the-more credit for enclosure of Mr. C. Pearn of this -- y [having made the entertainment the place and remained there sufficently Ottawa, April 25.--The Inlanc | pronounced success which all who Revenue Department will in a|}eard it declare it to have been | long to allow a chocest fowls of the flock to stick to his garments, and making no at tempt to shake them off they re North Ontario Observer FOUNDED IN 1857. and Published In @nly Paper Printed Fort Porry PORT PERRY, APRIL 27, 190s Progress of the Campaign. two places. Four of Rojestvensky's fleet have been seen of the Cochin- | It will be seén by is advertisement | enougli in the duty of exterminati China cast near Saigon, and simul taneously with this comes a rumor that two ships, loaded with rice for Japan, were seized by these crus. ers. A Hong kong despatch, corrob orating reports that the Russian fleet were coaling at the Island of Hainan, states tnat Admiral Rojest vensky hasseized that island and will use it as a base. Such an act upon the Russian Admiral's however, would immediately bring his Government into conflict with on part, China, Hainan being ihe property of that country. Itis about 360 miles north of Kamranh Bay, be tween the China Sea and the Gulf and is a very likely of Tongking, BY the despatches of Just fll mained intact to his person until he crived at his domicile, which is to the Old Couiitry by law, on the | paraphernalia, and had not the . | arrived at his domicile, w 1 i5t00 | grennd th ; . | } : 3k O01 ground that it is injurious to the sys-| performers, with the instinct of the far away to permit their voluntarily | tem | born histrion, and with the skill . of | - _ returning owing to their slight m the fessional act ade t ] g tigh | To Slaughter the Jews he professional a or, a je the knowledge . of travek Mr. P., we] mostofthe fewsomewhat sensational p -~ | t 58 GES. Je understand, possesses sufficient]! Odessa, April 24 There is evi- | Situations which it possesses. Indeed knowledge of the whereabouts o the missing b owing to the peculiar ring ofthe voice of a Buf Orpington, t0 make it more thar {interesting {or the defaulieras | B= SrLenpip FarM FOr SALE. in another column, that Mr. Alex McGre for Sale, situated near Epsom. | #&F Coming :<=F. E. Luke, Opt D., 11 King St. West, at W. H Port Perry, Thursday, April 27th with a full line; of Spectacles and Eye Glasses. Consultation free wo Mra. 8. Wzllis thas decided to sell her house and lot on Lilla Strect, as this is a very desirable resicence, and in a first olase state of repair, any ome wishing tc Loy a house will do well to see it. For particulars apply to Mes, Wallis or to Mr Geo. Stove AvcTioN SALE oF REAL | ular; acknowledged by 'experts to it having been demonstrated at tests and it distanced all other makes so completely as to piithem enlirely out of the race for all the desirable ucal that the Tubular is a long|in introducing Mr James Fax.|ihat such marriages may vow and distance in the lead of all its rivals Well, if he lias a Superior Net mot |then be followed by the happiest I the Ser tot that every far { known to the boys who held down | results-- something which is tanght Separator very fz They we : ane Sepa every farm- | (he front seats. They went wild} pmyuch more fully and elaborately in t already possess |over the humorous numbers given the gor is offering his fine farm Toronto's leading Refracting Optician, will be McCaw's Jewelry Store, Y = To the Editor of Th Under auspices of Willing Work-| = ix,- Whilst ers' of Disciples Church the Mac-|yind and appreciative Gregor-Fax Concert Co. of Toronto | manner in which Caste appeared in the Opera House onled by the Port Pi ednesday night before a splen-| Dramatic Club on Fri did audience of Bowmanville's best| many of your readers citizens. It is a high compliment] sinted at its brevity, for to the artists that on every appear | jooking for something' of ance they were encored enthusias-| (ended character, which tically, Donald C. MacGregor is| een hoping would old favorite here and received a your occasional corre! hearty greeting as he appeared 0] However, having since I sing "The Old Veteran" (Adams), | he (or should it be she?) wa which is anmirahly suited to his|{; be present at the per fine baritone voice. He sang it|geveral of them have asl well. {Of Soiree he was ignorant | gent writer to_send THE of the fact that this song better| a, account of it written known as "The Passing of the; erfenso; and this, with yi King" has been sung here frequent | nission, I shall now try to' d ly.) Miss Emma de Koven had| From a moral point ; never been heard here but a warm | play is entirely unobjectiol welcome is assured should she ever |i; i5 meant to teach some come back, She certainly won the | lessons. Thus, ag., it 8 good will of every auditor Added [one who is an aristocral to an easy and natural stage pre-and breeding, by procii sence she possesses two premier | prejudices, and who lives qualities--a sweet voice of good|generally supposed to b compas and a captivating expressi- | apiificial state of societ: on. The audience® could not get| man of not only splgndi enough of her singing She must|on (he battlefield, but come back again soon. The duets! ogsess that higher Miss de Koven aad Mr. Mac-|a0e 'which iol 4 gar were beautifully rendered be 2% before his own ex 7 merited the enthusiastic recalls. | payrician world his i Meader's "Past Twelve O'clock" ftiong with people very was capitally sung and acted by 2 them and Mr. Fax performed the policeman's role to perfection. (Chief Jarvis would, we think, have made them "move on" before three | o'cloc k, tho.) "Canada's Leading Entertainer" was the language used he | pder- + sap- | were | re €X- | eno. | that ni nce, | pre- Bs vi: | Hewat pet y he! the RY very p be a furage iy) also i kour how: Biely a rele: ! $ and to constitute himself the pion of their many virtues. More over, though'it does not encourage matrimonial relations between peo- ple who, socially, "are at almost op- posite poles, the play does shew | | | short time issue a bulletin in which | The truth is that Caste in itself, is attention will be drawn to the pre- | rather tame, and the probability ;is sence of alum in bread that is offer- [that it would have fallen flit enough |ed forsale in many places. Thelpad it not been. put on on the use of alum in flour is prevented in| hoards with a wealth of suitable nye. | sentation of his stud tic scene where he fridg his friend's | R wife and child in poverty, and was gute evident even in his reply to man raising his wife to his own : teur | rank--Yes, he raises her, her--but in | her connexions, her relatives! How. EIDE: | bout them ? 7 able | appealed to D* T in the social scale than fie | a 'Airoy"s remark about a gentle- |i The cynical side of} his character, too, was made to peep out verygeftectively in his re- mark, "The morals is a disease, like the measies, that attacks the young and innocent." » As for Esther, it would be difficult to ggest auy improvement in the way she Iroy that they should Lid each other farewell for ever ; and her wil- lingness 80 @acrifice her own happiness sooner than that the man she loved should lace himself under a cloud by descending rom his social heights to marry her was done in such a 'manner as to im- press us all with the sublime spirit of sclf- sacrifice which seeins to be an essential part of every true woman. When, though in poverty aud believing herself to be a widow, she refused to pive her infant son to the care of her titled and wealthy mother-in-law we saw her before us, and our hearts vibrated to the indignant tones in which she exelaimed,. * You, forget that I'ma mother | Db you dure to offer to buy my child * * * = with money? There's the Foon, Go!" But per- haps the most highly wrought scene of uny was that in which the husband --belisved to have been slain in battle--returns to his wife and child j anil the young 'lady who took the part must have thrown thar whole soul into the hetor cou su] o to mo, for I know George, love, hus me I": 5 % g In their way, the minor chiracters were! jost as well dove as the others, and (though | with a wholesome fear of the editorial rod pencil) we must say a word or two about them, The way Polly stood up for her drunken old father was altogether admir able ; and it was worth the price of admis sion to hear her say to the exquisite Haw- | tree, when they foand themselves in the | same room with D'Alroy and Esther, "They're spooning. Ugly word, spoon, isn't it? * * * Do youwever spoon Stil better perhaps was hor answer to Hawtree's | offer of n new frock to take the place of one | upon which he had let some water fall ; for | with an indescribable expression of roguish- | ness in every feature of her fair face, she | demurely replied, *' No: I won't unless you | promise not to call to see how it fits when | it's or." But Polly has a swestheart, a typical Eoglish artizan ; and the character | was well sustained throughout, particularly in those little acenes where Polly (woman- | like) makes him a bit jealous, or tautalizes | hit, or pretends not tb care fof him, whilst | loving him very dearly all the time. As one listened that evening to the | A. D. C. of Port Perry and called to mind thut histrionic talent is first cousin to de batiog talent, one could but wonder why | the town hus nothing in the shape of a| literary society, especially as we have an | excellent public library and a commodo 1s | reading room. Verb. sap | Ob ! we had almost forgotten the band. A year or 80 ago it would have been given a prominent place in such an account as this ; but, like other blessings of a common charaéter, sach as our daily food, we have beconie so accustomed to hear it discourse sweet music that we are liable to forget how highly we are favored, The only fault we had to find with it on Friday evening was that the sevlections were not more wumerovs. However, there was hardly time for a larger number ; and the few we were favored with were selected with great care, for they were quite in harmony with those parts of the play which they followed To those who know the indefatigable work of Mr. Goldring, the accomplished instrnct as we sat there, and looked, and listened, we could not but ask our selves hew it was that members of {an amateur club in a little country town, who so seldom appeared on thé could randar f| dence at hand that another slaught . ler of Jews is planned for the Russian | Easter festival, beginning May 6. 1 Circulars are being openly distri- 1 | buted, signed by the Nationalist LC mn then cm bed i iv 4 i : i Iinefl and a dozen other places. ively and artistically ; and we said "We have been negligent long |! ourselves mote, than 'once, that they wust have had an uncommon ly clever instractor; and we ke; hoping within ourselves that tl would soon give us an opportuni of hearing them again, .| on," says the circ ular ; "let it "be| remembered in the approaching] holy season. Russians, make an end of the Jews. The fall of Poland »| was due to the Jews, and the Jews | It wonld, of course, be nothing | are now plotting to make an end of] else than fulsome adulation=go r Russia. But that day shall never | pulsive to people of real merit . | say that $s play could n: t v8 id onc | better ; and so we may be pe tted Water, in Your Blood ? to remark that some of theo rm Lots of people have thin watery |ers seemed not to have quiterpver come - blood--they eat enough but don't|come their 'self-consciousnels, a digest. When digestion is poor, confessedly difficult: task ; and4hat food 1s'nt converted into nourish-| the parts taken by others were) ment--in consequence the body |a little overdone, especially in rapidly iooses strength. To posi-| scenes which represented: glove tively renew health, nothing equals | making. However, it must b& pex to impossible for a yqung ar this interesting Ferrozone. It excites sharp appe- | { } R Ad | TATE |tite,--makes the stomach digest, | couple to enact place for the Russian Admiral to} x MANCHESTER.-- It will be seen (forms life sustaining blood. Abun employment on a stage, and before make for if he is not yet ready to meet Togo. Without the jsland he could repeat the tacticts that were so/successful in Kamranh Bay, that is use it as a base until the argument which will proceed between China and Japan as to whether there has been a breach o neutrality or not has been settled If Hainan has been seized by the Russians it is with the evident in tention of forcing Admiral Togo to come out from his base and fight Rojestvensky, and this apparently is just what Togo does not want to do. The latter is in this position, that he has a dangerously small * pumber of firstclass battleships which he cannot "afford to see over whelmned, and, on the other hand, sa very much larger number of . cruisers and light craft of all kinds ... which be can afford to lose without endangering the situation of -his country, His problem is to utilize + the superiority in secondary ships forthe benefit of his primary ele- . en nd for the re- B bhahet : ? of the epemy.' Tasnot this be achieved by risking hix vessels sven to ponjhilation in ; a blow and restore the balance of » more peeded type? It wanld , such a decision reached, that hurl his cruisers and torpedo seiziog the Russiuu ships that when on the morrow with vessels victory would be assured. 'all benefit frm such an enter- 'action must follow close uj of the eruiecers and idle take advantage of broken the damage which would the charge 'craft, so as tn" Sun :-- When constitu- iple and public right 'with the exigan. thei. fate 1s pretty well] tis a he : nal blow y| for the farmers. oughly curs, try "Catarrhozone" your by the posters that Mr. Baird has been instructed wo sell by that house and lot in Mane the property of the estate of Lilly McCulloch." The take place on the premises urday; April 2g; at two o'clock auction lester, e late will Sat sale on A country correspondent of the | Picton Times writes © "A man pass- led along here taking orders for wall papers and also selling preventers for smallpox. The latter was made on the wrist. A gentleman bought ove and found it all right fora few days, until he found out the proper use for it was to fasten up horses' tails in muddy weather." A celebrated Torogto doctor con- Jdemns in unmeasured ierms, the long trains on ladies' dresses, saying they are a fruitful cause of disease. Dut the dear creatures, will go on wearingthem just thekame. They'd rather flirt with the undertaker than tke Fence. 4 seen by the advertise ment that Mr. J. H.:Brown, Sea- grave, has beenappoinfedsole agent- for this district for the wonderful Dillon Hinge-Stay Fence--univers- ally admitted to be the coming fence It "possesses all the requsites necessary in order to meet the requirements of a fect wire fence: Already the and for it in this locality are such as to tax the supply. It is only to be seen to be admired and desired. - BP af' Proved in Mount Forest. "Every doctor in this town tried his best to relieve Mrs. J. Withom of Asthma; none succeeded. "For years, she states, "I was a «di sufferer; nothing gave rel times 1 found it necessary to have am perfectly SE dain e so absolutely certaip in the form of a brass band to wear | fly in the face of Die Fashion. | dant strength is sure to follow. If an audience, in nearly so natural you more vitality, extra |and absorbing a manner as that in energy, better nerves, then use | whicli the same couple would make Ferrozone the medical triumph of | lowe in reality if they were alone in need [the age. Fifty cents buys a box of |a drawing-room. But a truce to | fifty chocolate coated Ferrozone| unfavorable criticism, and let, vs | tablets. close by noticing a few scenes which EERE ru ary seemed to our poor judgment te: be Prince Albert. particularly well done. 1 ; D'Alroy, the son of a noble house On Friday evening. April 28, at| the idol Y fashionable society, was 8 o'clock, in the Methodist Church, | admirably pourtrayed as he defend- Mr. H. R. HL. Kenner, B.A, of the ed his conduct in courting "and Peterboro Collegiate Institute. will | MATTYI0g the lowly born but ther- : a {oughly good and virtuous Esther. deliver his popular lecture On| Nothing could be better than the Rome," accompanied by Lime-Light | way in which he exclaimed, ®No Views, which with wonderful realis-| gentleman can be ashamed ofthe [tic effect bring the efernal city of| woman he loves, no matter what ber Seven Hills in admiration before original 'stati on--- once 'his vile y oq | FAISES her to his own rank; a our eyes. An excellent musical repetition of the quotation, "Ki program will be rendered during hearts are more than coronets, he evening by home talent and aplayg so efisct | vititors to leave, and there was a or, and the couscien ious efforts of his dd it is needless to say that the num rs were charmingly 1eudered As we sat entranced by the sweet and harmonious {straing we, slightly changing the poet's | meaning, called to mind the words of the Bard of Avon, "Here will wo sit, and let the sounds of ras1o : Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harm P. 8S. --Ttis only fair to say that the t of Kecles, one of the most difficolt in in the whole play, though only a minor purt, was represcated at least as well as | a f the others ; and this is all the more emarkable as the characteristics of the | tlemman by whom it was taken are diametrically opposite to those of him whom be represented so effectively. | le London, April 24.--The Times | at St. Petersburg | les :-- Both the Admirality and | Foreign Office declare they] have no news of Admiral Rojest-| vensky The message from' the | Foreign Office asking the Admiral | to strictly observe the rules of neu- trality was communicated to squad- ron through the Admirality's private channels, but no response has come to say whether the squadron has] left Kamrah Bay. The Foreign | Office distinctly denies having re- ceived or intimated the wish that | Rojestvenskskyshould leave French | waters. The note handed by Count Lamsdroff did hot even give the | contents of the Japanese communi- | cation. France merely asked for linformation regarding the squad- | rou's presence in French waters. correspondent cal the | A possible explanation of the dis- crepency between the French offi- | cial intimation of Rojestvensky' de- parture and the ignorance of the Russian Government on the sub- ject is that the Fiench authoritice took the initiative in inviting their slight delay in bringing the fact to the knowledge of Russia. dent of The izes simple faith than Norman b Mrs. D. Archer and Miss Nellie was decidedly impressive. Ross, Port Perry; -Miss Carrie E H noth 3 wre ad fl i ise, to vhom nothing . wi L. Jewell, y. ; whey ht wili also be delivered by Mr. D Mc: Bride, B.A., and the Rev. Mr Greatrix. Wm. Ross. Esq. will o¢- cupy the chair. Admission 15c; children toc. By order of Com- mittee. er praige. The way in which she pressed her disgust when she first her son's worthlessfather-in-law wa almost inimitable: "Eccles]" sh exclaimed, "Eccles! There never was an Eccles! He doesn't exist 1? If anything could be better don than this was we bad it in the] languid expression. ol her half The Root of Neuralgic Head ache. > J veiled contempt of a very 'wortlg: man, her'sow's faithful friend: «Mr Hawtree's grandfathér wasn trac --Bomething in tlie city--soap | think, perhapspickles. He's a ver nice person, but parvenu--as an one may see by his langour and ts swagger." > Is an irritable condition of the nerves caused by cold. Kelief comes quickly from Nerviline, the great pain reliever of to-day. 'I consider Nerviliné a magical rem- edy+or neuralgia," writes Mrs, E. G, Harris of Baltimore. But 1 never worry if Nerviline is in the honse. A few applications never yet failed to kill the pain. I can Ts aD | hit with much good sense; hed also recommend Nerviline for stiff- a ch g attac ing no undue importance. to cond ness, rheumatism and muscplar | yontionalism, but rocognising how pains." In use Dearly fifty years; necessary jt s for the protection of try Nerviline yoursel society ; whose money was mad Pe AE in trade, but who bas a very delicate] sense of honour, must have difficult character to represent; an the gentleman who enacted the part must have given it much time ¥=" Mr, Lacell bas instituted a pew departure in connection with his tailoring business, he bas pur chased a button manufacturing machine and is now prepared to himself with it as he did." This was; manufacture buttons for his patrons. plainly seen in his admirable repre. || ; it's guaranteed. Hawtree himself, a bit of a dude, or afl and attention to be able to identify {44 me time great regret d for the tatdiness of the action, since Rojestvesky was enabled to derive all sary advautages of French ity, and since the delay of has shocked the sertiment sh'p is Japan sincerely de- entertaining towards 'The presence of a power- sssian squadron in the far na is considered largely the assistance rendered by disregard of neutrality. Hi VBA le Skin Was Yellow. only to try Dr. Hamilton's to appreciate their merit" Miss Annie S. Bryce, of k. "My system was out My blood was weak and hud a nasty, murky com- My skin was hard an e first box of Dr. Hami 'made a complete change. itter at once. Healthy col- 'into my face, In about 1 was cured." Pills effect an easy cure good pills, 5c. per » for $1.00, at all the pathe-, Wi work was not to be had, the youth cried Gimme 'Roaring Ralph of the Rialto' cx 'The Gory Galoot of such books here," replied the librar- Lcoming as common. as.trolley-roads, | may be true also that people of neglecting books lor "On | these they must have ' "London, April 24.--The Mornjng Standard, in giviug details of the enlistroent in the Canadian ar describes'it as a tempting service.| 'The demand forrecruits, consequent on the taking up of 'the defence of | {ers an' exceptional. epportanit ' Thealthy young Englishmen: w {spice of adventure ip their pal ism om any- "in the Here Libry Far? of paper the New York , has the follow- ling per- ingi--= ; \ a t 'colony "The Adventures of Mike Mulli- with non sual risk of dark gan, ie Masher," was once, accord- | of hard tif lack of- suitable ing to Oscar Fay Adams, applied | occupatio newcomer. for by a "lad of the people" at a je t--s public library. When told that the| He Trains Jack Rabbits. Crookston, Minn., April 24.-- Norwood Davies, managing editor of The Crookston Times, while %®e train lagt summer saw a jack rabbit running even with the train, and he the Gaultees,'" "We don's keep ian frosty. "Wo folie, here Ji 'ry fur? [ know whatit's fur, Ido; it's for the rich, and the poor work: in' boy don't get no vhanct at all." Now that public libraries are be- racing purposes. Since then he has been gathering likely and large specimens and has been devoting much of bis time to training the animals. Now he'says he has two jack rabbits rained so that they obey his commands fairly well, and every nice day 'when he has time he takes them out and Taces them against incoming trains, He says the rab- bits can do a mile a minute, He plans to race the jacks against horses, bicycles and motor cars. there is great searching of heart among librarians to answer the per-[' tinent question of the admiger of! «Mike Mulligan." Imthe "Library Journal the subject is taken up at length by William E. Poster, whose brifliant administration of the Pro- vidence, Rhode Islard, Etbrary en- titles him to the highest rank of an authority. He says a nsumber of things which are of interest to' every lover of popular education a od ! - reading.; i + ; : The first $ pay ey Bext have a first-cla bli est size should purchase for circu lation at least ane volun of every work of current fiction that would interest or entertain the average man or woman of good education and good taste--and smaller libra-| ries in proportion. Mr, Foster points out that just judgment is next to impossible till alter some time has elapsed, and that the em-| phasis on newness is "wholly ab poral' because it réserves the in- junction. 'Prove all things; hold fast to that which is good." The question, however, practically re-| boiling water, when they will ex- lates to new fiction; and this in plode if any air fs still shut in. Those Mr. Foster's view, isdess important {a4 stand this test are packed in wood- than "the standard fiction of all en cases for exportatien. ages," with which but few libraries are adequately supplied. It is true that current fiction represents, in a sense, the "spirit of the age," but «0 do sociologic discussions. It will read the books anyway bat Mr Foster 1s against "too hastily sur rendering to an apparent finality." He gladly admits that the library should contain books for relaxation and recreation; but he denies that i in are put to dry im the open on wire racks till they begin to shrivel, when they are taken to the tanks of bolling oil. Into one of these each rack Is plunged for a moment or two and then pet aside to drip, after which the fish are selected and laid carefully in tin boxes, which are filled up with oil. The box now passes to the hands of the solderer to be sealed, and when this is completed a hole is punched In the id to let out any imprisoned air and closed at ence with solder. As a fim] stage the tins are placed: in a huge iron crate and lowered into tanks Papyrus Books, Early writers made use of linen or cotton fabrics, of skins and even of scales of fishes for writing. For a long period papyrus was used, the books being made in rolls, being about one and one-half feet wide and sometimes fifty feet long. Papyrus was a flag or bulrush, growing eight or ten feet high, found in the marshes of Egypt; from its inner pith the form of paper called papyrus was made, Papyrus 'coarse baskets under a pump and got the idea of training the jacks hel A Few "Separato Fac No 118. t Fact No. 2 1s, No 11s, that there is a bi difference in Separators, a farmers are beginning to realize that fact. 7 5 that it is the TusuLar which is different' and bewer than others, © Fact No 3 1s, that other agents are saying to farmers 'we will sell you a Separator just like the Tub- ular but we don't recommend it" Fact No. 4 1s, that said separator is a poorly made imitation of the Tubular and who wants an "im- itation" when they can get a gen- uine Tubular for less money. . Fact No. 5 1s, that other agents are proclaiming it broadcast that the harples Co are unloading a lot of inferior "machines and then they are going to quit Canada, Fact No 6 1s, that said agents are forced into a corner by the super- ior selling qualities of the Tubular and they have to invent some excuse, regardless of the truth, to help them out. a Fact No. 7 1s, that, according. to the daily papers of last week, the Sharples Co. are negotiating for large factory in, Brantford and they now have headquart Wess for the Past 2 the dldest Separato ers on this continent. Fact No. g 1s, that some agents are proclaiming the durability of their machines by pointing to a separator on Scngog which they say has been running for the past 18 years withont a cent for re- pairs. Fact No. 10 15, that said separator was purchased in 1893 by the undersigned, and in 1896 it had £25 worth of repaits put on it and was never used that sea<on, it has had a full set of bearings pnt in since that time and is now almost useless and needs another $20 worth of repairs'to be in any way satisfactory. Fact No. 111s, that since taking the agency for the Tubular have been repeatedly importuned to throw up the Tubular and take the agency for other so called leading machines including the Alpha de Laval and Melotte, Fact No. 12 1s, that the Sharples Co. now have the lowest supply can, easiest cleaned, easiest run- ning and cleanest skimming sep- v " sheets were neatly joined, attached to a stick and rolled upon it (whence we have our word "volume," from the Latin volvere, to roll). The titles the argument for relaxation is an argument "for some form of reading matter which requires no thought whatever." Judging from the men tal power of the rank and fle who use his librray, he is sure there sticks or inscribed on the outside of are some souls not jaded and some the rolls. The rolls. were Eept 1 > b : round wooden boxes resembling the brains not fagged. Indeed "read- 13 foglioned bandboxes and could ers occasionally resent the low eggily be carried about. estimate of their intellectual cap-| JE acity which the flood of contem-| Shoe Superstitions. The Chinese value a pair of boots which have been worn by an upright magistrate, and the custom of wishing a friend a "happy foot" Is still ob- served all through Europe. The putting of the left shoe on the right foot, put- ting it on uneven or crosswise, burst- ing the latch or tle, lacing it wrong or losing a button, are all bad signs. A Yorkshire man will spit In his right shoe before putting It on when going out on important business to bring luck, and many an English girl has been known to hang her boots out of the window on St. Valentine's night for love luck, porary fiction seem to imply." Even a bookseller of Mr. Foster's acqu- aintance turned like 'a trodden worm, and asked, "How long am I going to pe obliged to handle this rot?' Oa the then, Mr. Foster concludes there is no danger whole, relaxation. the contrary, the tendency to emphasize the reactional rather than the sducational features, not merely of the library but of various other institutions, seems to be hav ing its innings just now." Io brief, Mr. Foster urges the managers of a public art museum | would 'be rightly censured if they | filled the museum with "freak paintings and cromos, on the plea that tha public wanted these, and | The funds, | in order to meet the needs of the community, must be so expendrd as | to yield solid and permanent results | = The librarian also should take | counsel 'his judgment, should re- | member the motto of the American DIED CorriN.--In Port Perry on Thu-s- day, April 20, 1905 Nancy Jane Foster, relict of the late Wm. Corin, aged 73 years, 11 months ind 20 davs. PORT PERRY MARKETS. (Quotations by A. Ross & Son. were written on tags attached to the | April, 27, 1905. | Library Assogiation : * The best reading, for the greatest number, at | Fall Wheat ........ Jogo@$% 95 the lowest cost." If he follow the | Spring Wheat... . 0go@ o9u| plan of catering to every passing | Goose Wheat... o83@ o 8; taste, if he always have hisear fo| Barley ....... 040@ oO the ground; if he become nothing | Rye .. 065@ o but an agent '"'for registering read- { Qals Jvvits ts vbanias 0o38@ o ers preferences in: current fiction | Pcas--Blackeye ... 0 70@ o 75 and 'similar fields," he allows his| Peas--Small.. .. 065@ o 70 library to abddicate its "intellectual | Buckwheat. . 052@ 0 52 influence. {| Beans. . 1o0@® 1 10 We have made this summary of | Grass eels. sives ss 1 00@ 1 25 Mr. Foster's paper becanse his the- | Alsike Clover......~.3 00 @ 5 50 ory has a far wider application than | Red Clover... 5 00@ 7 25 he specifically gives it. The vir-| Turkeys . . oJds@ © 15 tue which he preaches may run to| Geese ... x o10@ o 10 excess --"the smug, tactless, bump-| Ducks ......ooeevn © 10@ o 10 tidus librarian, proffering his assis-- | Chickens. ..... oo8@ o 10 tance 10 a tactless manner'--Lbut | Butter .. . 028@ o 2% that is not our immediate danger. | Eggs... . o15@ 018 Farm for Sale. TORTH-WEST PART OF LOT CON'S8, TOWNSHIP OF REACH, contuining 73 acres more or less. Part of it being suitable for grazing, the balance low the baseball players around the | wing standing timber. A vever-failing country by all means let them go.jstrea of water crosses the placa. Poss- dgrgradiiates «xo .r- t ouce. For further p y In college, sclovl and church, as well as in the library, the present cry is to take what a mujority vote and give the people what they want. If the boys wish a few days from their studies, in order to fol iole class pel "to omit examinations, do not think of deny- ing them. Your own judgment as a member of the faculty is aginst such a step, but the majority is against a ep ---- " % HE © BOOKS OF ABRAHAM F. CARNEGIE have been left with the undersigned, with. whom all aceounts yor must be settled or arranged at once. : J § TH ER "Most of our newspapers long ago N, Lali ry. By ine ) . frankly announced as their: mission the task of giving the people exactly April 15, 1905. what they want. If the majority crave filth, they shall have it in Por Sale. abundant measure, pressed down IRST-CLASS SKWING MACHINE and running over. The fallacy that (RAY MOND). va { Apply the way to reach the masses and uplift them is to pander steadily to their lusts has never been more generally held. Littie wonder that the managers of our public and semi-public institutions have some- times mistaken the voice of the oo ! WAL MOTHERAL. Port Perry, April 17, 1004. Creamery Notice THE PORT PERRY CREAM- people for the voice of God. | ERY will open on MAY 1st and the Routes will run the same J. STONEHOUSE. 0 - hy, last year. Halitax and Esquimalt, it says, ec ; dventure ip: their, and'sawme desire for the! bro open the entire year, ar tor made and the Company has had a $100 challenge ous for the past two years that they will cut the skimming record of any other machine two with the Tubular . Fact No. 13 1s, that 3 of the lead- ing ? machines viz: --the Alpha, th- U.S. and the Empire, took up this challenge on Dec 16, 1go3z and they were beaten to a standstill and lost their. $roo. The Alpha left over 3 times as much {atin the skim milk as the Tubular, the U~ S,, 24 times as much, and the Empire g times a8 much as the Tubular. Fact No. 14 1s,that this confest was carried on at the Minnesota State D.irymen's meeting of 1903 and in the presence of hundreds of leading dairymen and experts from different states of the Union, Fact No. 15 1s, that now is the time to buy a Tubular and save $20 to $30 over the prices of other separators. M. STONEHOUSE, AGENT, April 25, 1905. Port Perry. i J oo + UNL Re, E 73 Important to Farmers of Reach, Brock and Mariposa. I wish to intimate to the farmers of this district that I have becm ap- pointed Sore AGENT for the Sale 'of the Famous Dillon Hinge-Stay Fence Manufactured by the Owen Sound Wire Fence Co. Ltd., and am prepaied to supply - this whole community with the very BEST WIRE FENCE produced onthis Continent and at prices that cans not fail to satisfy purchasers. The DirLoNn FENCE is withont a peer. It is the BEST because iti flexible ; it is a equare mesh jest hinge sta 5,.\ DEALER IN AGRICULTURAL ImELE- MENTS AND MACHINERY. April 6, 1905. SrAGRAVE. TL LT STA LAT SWF Wi ELLIOTT C TORONTO, ONT. "Truth" is Strong Argu- ment! vo Not ONE graduate of the popular Cor. Yonge and Alexander Streets. is out of a position to day. Itis the truth when we - state that, * students are uniformly esuc- cesstul in getting good positions after graduati SERS is a High-Class one and the da. Enter pow. Qur_ ur School