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'slophone connection over Bell and fadependout lines, WIL HARRIS, BA. LLB. BR a6 "a geist of Ln HONEY TO LOAN. Private Fonds at 4 per cont, 1008, ~ + Jno. W. Oromier oiaTER, SoL10iToR, CONVEYAROER, Office 'ab redijénco, Oth Com. th (one wile west of Port Perry) "Money 70 Loan, "Issuer of Marriage Licnsos. B. FARRWELL, K.Cl, LL. B.r County Be vil + Crown rnay, Biirister, County tot, &e., Notary Public and Conveyanoer. oo--South wing Court House, Whitby, t. J. A.M UR RAY - DENTIST } Rooms over Rose & Co.; "The Far." Hourg 9a. th to 6 Weekly Political, Agrievllural and Family Newspaper 18 PUBLISHED AT Ye LAVERY THURSDAY MORNING 'H. PARSONS Aas re BR then mix moan'; wnt ob paper until arrears sre pufil ap. "STTERS wotsinkiz Mony, vhion addiéamed to this EE Abd Sd roiistored will be 86 oar tisk. RTISEMENTS ntesstired by Noupariel, and ApvERTISE socording to the space ocOuPY. received for publioat ADVERTISEMENTS for wi sod wooordingly. No advertise: 'ment will be taken ont unl pu for, 4 BERAL discount allpwod to Merohabts and eth TBE A co a oar oF halt your. " FUBSE torma whil Jn'sll cases be strictly adhered to J0B DEPARTMENT, 'Hand BHls, Poitérs 3 -- MAGNIFICENT STEAMERS -- 3 Great Ship "SBEANDBEE"--CITY oF ERIE"--*CITY OF BUFFALO" BET WEE RR meets 1st to Nov. 15th CLEVELAND Easrenn Loave OLEVELAND « 9 raxpaRD Tras | Arrive Burra int, Pu-inBay, T ading betw 'our steamers, k Touriet Aut Br tok ee 5940, sire of Gal- "Rysdyk 2.078; tol «The route-- ohier columns. wang by Nelsen will ronte this + 'Tncaday, John far noon then to jursday. Thursday, 3 night at Canning- m. English's, noon 3 stable till Taesday. (16171) -- Purebred property of W. J. Port Perry, will make at the Brock House, [14136] -- Pure-hred property of W. J. , Port Perry, will re- asop, except Monday ill be at George Jack. d Tuesday fore. n at 'a\ flq will also be at the Hotel ou Market Day and rudyn, 4 ARY NIELD [7760] (13051 it, Empotged (1§desdale, the t Binith & Richardson, Col- rill make the Season of 1017 i Monddy moon. at Thos. ght at J, WW. Suddler's. Tues ut Geq, Lancs; night at hi MoTaggart's. Wednesday, dk ight at Ji Gifford's Thure- "gt Geo. Bool; night at i J Calle i ay mornifig, : 0° [12005] (15681) Pure-bred, ted Uiydesdale, owned by W. J. rs & Son, will make the Season 17 as follows : stand at owners' bik, Union Avenue, during Season, it on Market Days and Saturday ose when he will be at the St. Hotel, He will also be avall- any time, a short distance from »_stable, hy notifying the own- ly phone 74r4, CRAWFORD (9562] (14936)-- & hred, 1mported, Clydesdale, th y of Smith & Richardson, Col- ill make the season of 1017 Mow'ss. Monday leave his own 'at C. Blanchard's, aud Proceed Myrtle, for noon; then e's for night. Tuesdey at Temperance House, Ashburn ; at A. Gilroy's. Wednesday at John Thompeon'd 5 night at R. rs. Thursday voob at Alex. then:to Mr. Cragg's, Greenbank, i "stay $i} Friday aftersioon. Frl- k wight 'at Fred: Mark's: Saturday 0 Kilput : thes te O, N's. BUCHLYVIE [14360] -- Clydesdale, the 'property of Platten, Sougog, will take the 011917 as follows r will feave own stable, Arphur Tamblya's, biay, arid proceed to Jobs A. Mo Marios, for Aight: Tiseday arance House, Woodville, for eiday, to Jos Griffin's, woop ; to Temperance House, gion, night, Thursday, to Berf : Mariposa, noon 3 to John ht. 'Friday noon/st Jes. ariposa Station ; to Temp- Oaksebed, for night. Sat. 'Anderson's noon ; then 6, Cambray, #i1l Mon: might be taken Gent, detained in prison and possibly executed. o When we stopped at a station Jong enough to énnble médo get something fo eat 1 went to' a lunch gountér and while eating saw my watcher sitting at the other end of the counter. He Ipoked aside at me at the very moment 1 locke at him. After finishing my luncheon I went back to my compartment, expecting the man to return and resume his seat. But the guard shut the door, and the train started on without his haying entered. Looking up «into the rack where T had seen him piace a satchel, bis only hand baggage, I-saw that 1t Was not in its place, | 1 wondered what he was up to by this move. Had he left the tzain or only the compartment? Why had he ceased fo keep me under his eye? I could not suswer these questions. But 1 bélicved the move meant something to his advuntage and to my Alsadvan- tage. 1 shuddered lest he bad relin- quished his watchfulness over me to turn it over to the soldiers. As we approached the border my anxiety increased. '1 did not believe the man would permit me to got but of Germany. Why he had lt me go 80 tar 1 could not imagine. Bug I knew that the German police bave thelr own way of doing things, and 1 supposed there was method in their madness. Just before we reached the border, the train stopped, an officer of g army put his head Into the com It was about 2 o'clock fn the marming.- SR pu Re ET dE I'one. 1 was in a condition of mind to ery out, "I am the man you're looking for; take me and shoot me and Have i over with." After what secmed {0 mo minutes--it was only seconds--he drew, and | heaved § long drawn sigh RE et en the train stopped at the bor der we were all compelled to pass an examination that took a long while, tifough the government had not et that time instituted the rigorous examina- tiogs of a later date. While thus de- taided during a transit from one room to another I saw my watcher talking with an official, He was pointing to seme one or something, and I was sure he was pointing at me. But in another taotnent I kuew he had not seen me, for ofr catching sight of me I saw him suddenly make an effort to appear um- concerned, There has been no moment in my life when I have felt such exquisite bapm- ness and relief as when I found my- self beyond German territory and roll- 18g along on the fails in France in. the direction of Paris. I was convineed that if my watcher wes employed by the German government to arrest me be would have done 80 before I got out of Germany. My theory was that I e 3 but proof against me not Deen adduced. Likely the man directed to keep me in sight on my part that would treason: to the government. discogered amy such act, obliged to allow me to untry. fely to' Parla, where I commotion than in same hotel where 1 American family, Mrs. two daughters. She me soon after my arrival me of the situation in Ger- anxions about her bus- there. I gave her what oh ¥ had, but it was not such her. I became acquaint das EEZESEER fied; s2Ed : Vv EEE Hi git if Ww) ZE snd 1 stared at each other; family gaped frst at om then af the other of us. ? "All 1 have to say man," sald Mr. Twnles, Vis that you caused ie the fright of Joy lite. 1 ex- pected every minute that Jou on about to turn me. over to the ce. | Can it possibly be that you are mot a Gemman spy 7" a" "Such I supposed you to be. 1 mever 'dreamed that you were gn American and the father of the loveliest gir} in the world." . RN By this I broke jn upon the antag { 6hlsm Mr. Turnlee and I felt for each other; Lilllan pushed me toward her father; he put out his hand; and we began a hasty (Halogue on the inci- } dents of out mutual nfistake. I am happy to say that 1 soel secured -his good will and his approval as a son- in-law. BY | We all safled together for America, apd Lillian and I are'fiow mam nd wife. DRAMATIC INCIDENTS. How Sothern Learned of the Deathe of Booth and McCullough. It has been my fortune to encounter two. rather startling colucidents in con- nection with the death,of Mr. Booth anit, John MeCullough. The night that Edwin Booth dled I was taking supper in He oes rou of the Players' club Aili three friends. There were né othét'men in the' cub. was {1I, ba A tmmediately. While we were talking aver our men) iifidenty ovéry Deht in {hg cab yrén MN, gan to call for the wi protest loudly. From ¢be darkness right a8 our elbows a voice, that of Mr. Mo Gonegal, the manager.of the club, said: ~Hush! Mr. Booth is dead" The day Mr. McCullough Ged I hap pened to be studying the play of "Cym- beline." I was ing the song fa act 4-- Fear no more the heat o' the sun the furious winter's rages thy worldly task hast done, 6 art gone and ta'en thy wages Golden lada and girls all must As chimney sweepers come to dust. when a friend of foine opened the door 6t my room fn the Sturtevant House and said, "McCillough's dead."--From #My Remcmbrances," by II. H. Both- ern in Scribner's Magazive, OLDEST LIVING THING. 'Amclent Forest Giant That Towers la Sequoia National Perk. Towering 8 gant among giants, the oest living thing that connects the present with fhe dint past, majestic tn its mien, fiw dignity and ita world old experience, the General Sherman tree 18 the patriarch of the Sequels National park of California. This wonderful 'tree was already 2,000 years old, when Christ was horn. In the sige when thé known world was rocking in the throes of the Trojan wars apd the. time tbat history teDs us marked the exodus of the Hebrews i HAD ROUBLE dran es ala us Tom MEYDT TnI8 greatest of - Seg gigantea was a floukishing sapling. o #dme twenty or thirty feet in height and truly under the especial 'care of >. the Creator, who held It safe from the lghtnings of his wrath as he did from the attacks of earthly enemies. qr The General Sherman was AlsCow ered in 1879 by James Wolverton, & * | hunter, and named by him in bonor of General William T. Sherman, : It to | ers 270.9 feet tuto the sky, its base ele! | cumterenco 1s 1028 feet, ifs grentest Qlameter 36.5 feet, and it bas developed' la dlametér of 177 feet at a point 100F | feet above the ground.--National Geos . | grapbic Magazine, i 5 From a City's Mountain Tops.' s Upon the top of ono, of- New York's' man made mountaing there is the same peaceful quiet as on guy mounfain top! No sourf from tho street below comes} up this distance. Men on the sidewalks' are infinitesimal dots, darting hither! and yon. Looking down upon them, one Is inclined to reflect what ra] beings humans are and from this lofty point of view almost forgets his sym pathy for their personal Iinteresti' ' Then comes the realization that tis} mountain was bullt by these puny be~ (ngs 'from materials dug out of the in a crude state, purified, shaped. apd fastened together in a manner fhat will make it stand practically for all time, and then na feeling of revere ence for the human brain--that God boon which, bas made these possible.~National Geographie i "The Star Spangled Banner? Beott Key wrote "The Star! nottned the the British ship during the night, and] in the morning, seeing the stars and #Don't you get awfully tired of rou. olng to catch that 7:50 train every, | morning?' asked the city man. "No," replied the commuter. "I don'd mind that so much. What gets me sora ls when I bolt my breaitast in about 10 seconds flat and break all records. running to the trafn, only to find ou that the 7:59 is half an hour lat St. Louls Post-Dispatch. Modern Forts. x No existing fort of whatever mates en} It may be constructed is able to} stand up against the great guns now in | ase. Forts are now merely points on lhe battle iines and no longer forts i the old sense of the word.--New York American. A Bulgarian Superstition. 1 Among the superstitious uatives of | Rulgaria the prophet Blijub is believed | to control the elements. During heavy ! thunderstorms the women fall on thele faces and pray, "Dear Lord Elijah: do not drive so fast with your flery' horses." ~ : > } Perilous Practicing. ha fhe--Tt wust have taken a lot of pers! sistence. on your part to learn to play the cornet so well He--It did. I bad; to go constantly armed for three months.-- Pennsylvania Punch Bowl The best of prophets for the' rib b 8 the past--Byroa,