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© DR. B. C. McDOWELL, BUCCESSOR TO DR. AAMILL, D., Master of Surgery, Victoria Uni- , versity; Licentiate of "Royal College of Physians, London, Eng., Member of Col- lege of Physicians & Surgeons, Ontario.-- Late attendant of Soho Hospital for Diseases of women, and of Great Ormond Hospital for Diseases of Children, London, Eng. Physician, Surgeon, &e., Office hours--8 to 10a, m., 1 to 4 p. m,, and evenings, fice and residence, Dr, stand, Queen St., - - OHN BILLINGS, Public, Conveyancer, or the Ontario Bank, Hamill's old Port Pe Solicitor, &e, ar Office over the Ontario Bank, Port Perry. Notary Solicitor _ Jan, 29, 1887. XE. FAREW ELL, L. L. B., County Crown Attorney, Barrister, County Sol- her, &c., Notary Public and Conveyancer, Jffice--South wing Court House, Whitby, Ont. YOUNG SMITH, TH, 1. L B., ry Attorney-at-Law, Soleitor in Chancery and Insolvency, Notary Public, &o Offico--McMian's Block, Brock Street, Whitby, "TT J. A. MURRAY, DENTIST, now putting in Upper and Lows Sets of Teeth at from $4 T0 $75 EACH SET. Having just purchased the largest stock of teeth ever brought inte North Ontario Lam satisfied I can snit you both as to quality and price. Come and see, Rooms in the Blong Block, over Messrs, Forman & Son's Store. Port Perry, Oct. 28, 1801. Ee ARE Veterinary Surgeon. PEE undersimed havir having comple oted his full Course at the Provincial Veterinary College and obtained a Diploma as Veterin- ary Surgeon, would announce that he has opened an office for the practice of his pro- fessionat Port Perry, whereall calls personal by letter or telegram, by day or by nigh will be promptly attended to, All diseases of animals treated in the latest and best known system. aa L'elephone connection--free of charge. ORR GRAHAM. Port Perry, April 8, 1864, € L ROBSON. V.§. RADUATE Ontario Veterinary Col lege, Toronto, Office and residence EvercreeN Corrace, two miles south 'of Manohester., 14 years practice. Tele: phone in the housg--free communication with Port Perry, Munchiester, and elevator. Telegraph calls to Manchester will be for warded by 'telephone. All inary Medicines in stock. Evergreen Qostags, | Jan. 2, 1888. North Ontario Observer. A Weekly Political, Agricultural and Family Newspaper, 18 PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT. RY THURSDAY MORNING, A # By ¥ § Maoremsed asi | oanbe. 'Deposits received gt the highest carrent rates. Interest caloulated and credited to each depositor semi-annually. W. McG: MANAGER. Port t Perry, April 4, 1888. DAVID J.ADAMS, PORT PERRY. - BANKER AND BROKER. Good Notes Disounted. Has any amount of Money to Loan At 85 per cent. on' good Mortgages. INS TRANCE effected at the Lowest Rates th Good English Companies. EF Agent «Allan Line of Steam- ships, Port Perry, Oct. 17, 1889, MONEY TO LOAN ITYE Subse {ber is is propared to LEND ANY AMOUNT on Farm Security AT 6 PER OENT. #4 Also on Village Property. £4 MORTGAGES BOUGHT. © HUBERT L. EBBELS, Barrister ® Office next to Ontario Bunk. Port Perry, May 10, 1885. WM. EDMETT, Insurance and General Agent, Port Perry, Ont. Representing the follwing First Class Companies : Fir, Lire AND ACCIDENT, Nonruery Assurasce Co'v, Praoxix Assurance -Co'y, Creizens' Issvrascr Co'y. Grascow & LonvoN Insurance Co'y Port Perry, April 26, 1889. WILLCOX & HOLT Licensed Auotioneers FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO AND TOWNSHIP OF CARTWRIGHT, Valuators, &c., &ec. REAL ESTATE A SPECIALTY. Sale Bills made ont and Blank Notes furnished free of charge. Satisfaction guar- antee or no pay. - Terms liberal. W. M. WirLoox, Port Perry, Aug. 22, 1857. WM, GORDON, Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator &c. n OR the pi mships of Brock, Uxbridge, Scott, Thorah, Mara, Rama, Mariposa and Eldon Parties entrusting * their Sales to me Tay rely on the ntmsot attention being given to their intrests, Perer Hour, Manchester. WM, GORDON, Sunderland, Livery Removal I TEARTILY thanking the public for the liberal patronage received during the many years r have kept a Livery Establigh- ment in Port Perry, Ihave much pleasure in announcing that I have removed 'MY LIVERY TO MY NRW PREMISES Opposite the Railway Static |3 where from largely. extanded premises' and es the public le and ds Saray Wi advertise by © the. year or ear, TA arma will al sate bo iritly ad Merchants = treated me without giving relief, ing that I took scuined io do any othe Rvars ood unt) i I Digaty the use of yeor's Barsapariila, whi has pro- da onderful results. Soon nites a] a to ee the Sarsaparilla I could see an Improvement in my condition, my appetite began to | return and with it came the abi ity to digest all the food taken, my strength improved each day, aud after a few months of faifliful attention to your directions, I found mysclf a well woman, able to attend to all household duties. The mwedicing has given me a new lease of lite, and I cannot theuk you too much." "We, the undersigned, citizens of Brockway Centre, Mich., hereby certify that the above "Stateme nt, made by Mrs. Lake, is true in every Daruisular and entitled to full eredence."-- 0. P, Chamberlain, W. Waring, C. Hh Wells, Druggist. "My brother, in England, was, for a long time, unable to attend to his ocen- Jation, by reason of sores on his foot, sent him Ayer's Almanac and tha tes- timonials it contained induced him to ny Ayer's Sarsapaxilla. After using it ittfe while, he was cured, and is now a woll man, working in a sugar mill at Brisbane, Que ensland, Australia." -- A. Attewell, Sharbot Lake, Ontario, Ayer's Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co,, Lowell, sn Price $1; six bottles, $6.. Worth $5 & bottle. , Way CoueH, HEN afew doses of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral will relieve you? Try it. Keep it in the house. You are liable to, have a cough at any time, and no other remedy is so effective as this world- renowned prepara tion. No household, with Joe children, should be without it. Bootes of ives sie | Amand B. Jenner, Re ictot, writes: * Common gratitude im- at bene- og me to acknowledge the pl I have derived for my children from the use of 41e er's most excellent Cherry, Pectoral. ad lost two dear children from a and consumption, and h: the greatest fear of losing my only re- maining daughter and son, as they were delicate. Happily, I find that by givin them Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, on the firs symptoms of throat or lung trouble, they are relieved from danger, and are be coming robust, healthy children." "In the winter of 1885 I took a bad cold which, in spite of every known remedy, grew worse, 8o that the family physician considered me incurable, sup- osing me to be in consumption. Asa Es t resort I tried Ayer's Cherry Pecto- ral, and, in a short time, the cure was complete. Since then I have never been oF pou this medicine. Iam fifty years wpigh over 180 pouuds, and at- bit y good health to 'the ude of Ayer' agheny Pectoral."--G.W.Xouker, Salem, N. J. "Last winter I contracted a severe cold, which by repeated exposure, be- came quite obstinate. was much troubled with hoarseness and bronchial irritation, After trying various medis cines, without relief, I at last purchased a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. On taking this medicine, - cough ceased almost immediately, I have been wellaver since," hos. B. Lussell, Secretary Holston a and P. BE. of the Greenville District, M. BE. C., Jonesboro, Tenn. Ryer's Cherry Pectoral, PREPARED BY Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Bold by all Druggists. Price $1; six bottles,§5. THOUSANDS IN REWARDS Great Weekly Competition of The Ladies Home Magazine. Which word in this adeertisemenitgholl the Same Backward ag Forward? This isa rare for every Madam and iss Bon to secure a splendid Pri ERY Fuians Hl very k throu tition previ) li be distin very out ble | ed heres 'months ied R ng ome Mugasines bn or We want half a million subsoribers, wi a Yopio the reverse, & pro rata di By tower ais fo to carr ry id ee mise Ton atir. cially RD re So le Home Magasine, P h (C: aise) ines, AE Soe asset | x8 regulation Ing Wri ue if a car Was ever met officer with one more the horses would be at once stopped, and the intruder didn't get off again a ii | of passengers in a hurry to get | always organized to chuck him out Strat Car Conductor in Globe-Democrat. A Queer Freak of Nature. One of the queer freaks of nature is shown by Mr, I. OC. Bassett in the shape of a couple of seeds, each about the size of a Rio coffee | bean, and exceedingly brown and hard. They | look as if naturally broken, in an | way, or at least as if they were not whole. They are called "the Mexican jumping bean," | and if placed on a table or plate, or even the | human hand, they will turn over and Jump about. It is a kind of quivering motion, and | the "jump" is not great; but it is enough to | turn them over, and sometimes to send them a little way out, of their places. They were brought from Mexico to Florida, from which Sugion Mr. Bassett received them.--Hartford TC -------------- Fortunate Escape of Two Hearts. Bome people were talking about a young married couple who recently solved the prob. lem of unhappiness by a divorce. "How for- tunate that they married," remarked an old club cynic. "How sof" replied a lady. "Why, if they had not and had married separately they might have made four peo- plo unhappy instead of two."--Philadelphia Press. The Thedtre Hat. The season dramatic returns to engage Our minds with its joys and all that, And likewise 18 with us, to shut out the stage, Tha girl with the four story hat. SE ~Boston Budget, An Unusual Occasion. Omaha Wife--W hat under the sun are yoa doing? Husband--Trying to tio this string around | my finger. "Why, I did not ask you to do any errand." "No; This string is to remind me that 1 have nothing to remember today".--Omahs World, Ul as new size of a silver half dollar. the article in boiling water before washing it. Once the suds have touched them the stains are set and cannot be afterward re- moved. In case of a cut, smoke the wound with burned red flannel on which has been placed a small quantity of sugar, then tie up, after sprinkling with sulphur, and it will heal fm- mediately, To clean bottles, put into them some ker- nels of corn and a tablespoonful of ashes, half fill them with water, and after a vigorous shaking and rinsing you will find the bottles as good as new. Professor Brinton says that the very best thing for a ¥prain is to put the limb into a add boiling water as it can be borne. Keep the part immersed for twenty minutes, or until the pain subsides; then apply a tight | bandage and order rest. Sometimes the joint can be | use a silicate of sodium dressing, sed in twelve hours, * If necessary, DAUGHTERS OF EVE. Eighty years ago society in Turkey forbade women to learn'to read. The sultah has now started schools for women, See what Chris- wanity is doing! It has been estimated that the number of young ladies who find regular and profitable alone reaches beyond 2,000, Story and Moral. Man, ass, i Fi Smells gas, HR ap: Strikes match, rns Happy dispatch. Tio Ba ae ones, of white muslin with large yound dots he Peach stains may be removed by putting | vessol of very hot water immediately, then employment as typewriters in New York | heard the Hopkinses was goin' ace Davis beau to-morrow,' said ' "returned Sophia, indiffer- looked 'down with a hard old stringy black feather the top of Mra. Packer's {every-da net. Mus, er. stood so much lower that she /iad to wrinkle her forehead {up to hes straight line of gray bair {when she. ked at Sophia, * Yes," \said she, they ba. Mrs | Green they'd got two chickens « turkey. gaze at which [ hesida She sce Henry em home. 1 | Hopkins? rryin' of ' s'pose they're goin' to have chicken pie too. | Sophia froused to interest in spite {of the iey wind in her face. * Terrible fine, nin'tthey I' said she, with a scorn ful lift of ther nose. 'Well, 1 guess they ain't got so much wore to do with than other folks. I guessithey ain't neither. 1 heard Sam Brightman's folks was pretty bad off, I guess they won't have much Thanksgivin'.' Sophia (jerked furiously when the wind st her and put her hand to her crimpg, which blew back, and quite bared her high, flat forehead. 'I dun know in' about it,' said she harsh ly. *T can't keep track of all the poor folks in' town, an' dun know as I'm called on to. There was rich and poor ever sence the world was ade, and 1 guess -- always will be ; there ain't uo way ta help it that I can ree, ex cept by bi tin' the money to the other ke the eights in balances, one if, to go down, it rs can oh rally speakin', folks have because the Lord has given 'em feculty to git it, and keep it. If folks ain't born with faculty I don't see as it's anybody's look-out but the Lord's. Them Brightmans never had any, faculty. Mrs. Brightman, she can't out out & calico dress to save her life, An' Ella she was just like her, an' got magried to a man a good deal more so. It was lucky he died, I guess. There's them three white-livered children, an' they dou't look as if they had . faculty ¢ mud pies, an' teeter, an' as for I dun but he does his work well enough ain't never had none. \2 he can git it, an' he's willin', but low as old lly, an' he ain't never bad no business faculty. Some fo. have got work whether or no. "He come to me one day last week n wanted to cut up my wood, but] pretty 'quick. Ther's . Thomas will out it cheaper, be -- im no, r yorking faster, I guess. I ain't have Sam Brightman if I know | which side my bread's buttered on.' I dun know,' said Mrs Her dull, placid face took on she was thinking ext to say, Sophia pulled her ard scowled against the ull, a reflective cast ; closer, fou said you wern't goin' to have aSompany Thanksgivin I said Mrs. 1 ain't,' returned Sophia, ine decisive tone. New topics were pod ble, and tulations ening in the face of this ; 2 Mrs. Packer, 'I'm Oyrus an' the children, 's folks, as 1 said be considerable to do, 'most think you'd feel as p be home seein' to things,' 'Sophia, with a blue glare ent eyes ; she was quite r looked up at her with edulity ; she could not 1 should most think, as the day before Thanks- 'd got all that mess of 'that you'd have to go B home; ? said Mrs. Packer, not yet fully taken in . Her own aggravat- >. such purely pegative Tox the kiteHen. east n woutiegsie Took At herself. '1 look dreadful pinched up she muttered. { The kitchen was full of warm, savory and spicy odors, A plum pudding and a chicken pie were baking ; a row of an' blue," new pies, and some cake stood cooling On the kitchen table was a great turkey and | under the pantry window. another chicken pie; oven. all ready for the Sophia looked into the stove oven to see how the pudding and pie were The hot, fragrant steam She turned the progressing. rushed in her face. pie around. The faced southwest, and the afternoon sunlight, if itself A great two kitchen windows shifting and HAuctuating as blown by the wind, came in. green parrot in a wire cage, hung in ouc of the windows. He stood on his perch, and watched Sophia with one yellow eye. Finally, when she arose, he ealled out in his dissonant voice--the greet- ing of a merry comrade: 'Hallo, Sophi; how's your health? Want a cracker 1' Sophia went into the pantry and She had had the his conversational paid no attention. parrot for years; powers were limited to those: three clauses of friendly salution and enquiry, aud one other 'Clear out? Sophia cleared a spaca on the pantry shelf, then she carried the turkey in with a staggering rush, *I declare, I guess I've lamed my side this time,' she groaned when she had set it down. £1 hadut ought to have lifted h eB in . a good fifteen pound ; I wonder what Mrs, Packer would ha' said. dyin' to get out here, I guegs she heard I bought a big one, an old Mr. Thomas told how I got him to kill them two chickens. Well, it ain't nobody's business : if I ain't got folks to come to Thanksgivin', She was mebbe I guess 1 can have as good a dinner as them that has.' * As long as I ain't got a cat or a dog, it's lucky that I've got a parrot that can pick the bones, instead of a canary bird,' said Sophia. It's goin' to be considerable for me to eat up all that great turkey,an' them two chicken | pies.' | When | the pudding and chicken pie where | She mixed up another cake, done, she filled up the oven again, It) was eight o'clock that evening when | her Thanksgiving cook was all finish- | Then she went to bed, ed, the dishes washed, and the kitchen | put in order, { | | She was a lonely woman; her own | kindred were all dead and gone years | ago ; she had no husband nor children, | and nobody to come home to Thanks givin. But nobody in the village had a better Sle a certain filled larder than she, was one of those who tind joy independent of all associations in possessions ; her to-night from complacent reflec tions upon those loaded pantry shelves. There was more than she needed, but she had it. And after all it was not merely a question of material need &nd supply, bat of all the natural craving of a lonely and self-centered soul ; it would necessanly take much of this grosser food to satisfy that, but satisfy that it did to a certain extent, and always had, After Sophia's mother died, and left ber solitary in the house and in the world, the beautiful black cashmere dress," which she bought and wore to church the Sunday after, and also the fine black straw bonnet, with its tuft of bLlagk satin roses, had brought her a certain solace. Sophias mother had been niggardly even with herself. When Sophia held the purse she was not niggardly with berself; the neighbors said she was extravagant. But Sophia was shrewd enough. She rocked easily in her new stuffed chair, ' over her new ggrpet, and she slept comfortably on her new spring bed, with the carved headboard of the new bedstead overshadowing her, She thought honestly, in her inmost soul, that she.was happier than many wowen she knew who had large families; and Jittle money, snd were worried and no loneliness could keep | looking glass on er Way to los®, wag a girl the young men were all afraid of her. ness of manner, been daintily appointed ; seam but that had served only to in | the clock air in her' whol tito ; when I She hind always had 4 ready incisi and never any pretti soften it. She had always there had ness to never been an untidy logk, not a gaping tensify apparently the severity, When she had been a young girl, very young, still going to.the noadmey, crossed at two tid) back of her head, her plain chalico dress, rustling stifly at her with her hair braids at the heels, and her youth giving its one fleeting charm to her c¢'ean, sharp blonde face, Sam Brightman had gone home with her once from the singing school, had kissed her at the gate, and she had viciously slapped his face in return. That one kiss of Loyish ad miration had been her last, and it was strange, Lut she had never forgotten it. She had thought of it when poor Sam Brightman, bent and haggard with his long toil in' Li8 fruitless vine yard of life, had stood by har woodpile it and so earn a his half She was consci asking leave to cut few cents for himself and starved dependants. ous of no sentiment regarding it; it was simply as theone rhyme in the prose of her life, and kept singing itself That night before Thanksgiving, when she in her ears, foolish asit was. lay drowsily in her chamber, she thought it again, and a vague and halfreluctant fancy came into her wind" of. what her life might have been had she not repulsed that first to hersali lifted oven, and he'd spilt the gravy, likely the tu y An out of the as not ;; men folks are dreadful un handy. I guess he'd been better ofl though to what he is now," Sophia pressed her lips contemptuously mn the dark, as thought of Sam Brightman's Jt was a dark night, the wind still blew, the sky was gentle, passive wife, overcast, and moon would not rise till midnight, Sophia fell asleep and slept eo soundly that when she awoke with a great start she thought she had not slept at all. She sat upin bed and listened ; she had a confused idea that she had heacd a window opened some there came a sharp clatter from below ; it where in the house. Presently sounded as if somebody had let a dish fall. Sophia got out of bed, slipped on her shoes and stockings, put on her dress skirt and a shaw), then she went out boldly to the head of the back | stairs, She listened ; some one walking about below, there was certainly She clutched the stairpost, * Who's there I she called out in a Lold voice, There was no reply; the noise ces ed Sophia listened, She sat there until strock two, and she heard | nothing more, She was trying to per suade herself that she had imagined the dreadful sounds, and might safely return to bed, when there came a sud- den chocking cough from below She arose and leaned far over the stair rail. 'Sam tman,' she called 'you are down theré; you can't cheat me, I know your cough. Now you jest tell me what you are prowlin' 'round my house inthe middle of the night for. 1 should call it pretty work.' There was no answer. 'Sam Brightman,' she said again and ber tone was quite fierce ; 'you speak this minute. What are you doing dg wn there? You oan't cheat me: 1 Ruve heard you cough in meetin' for ten years. What are you after down there! You speak or I shall get dress ed and come down. There was silence still. 'jest as sure as you don't speak, and tell me what you aréufter,I'll have the Sheriff come in the mornin' and take you to the lock-up.' There was another cough and it sounded unexpectedly from just below children,' suswered a man's vaio with to have Vem whether or no. h e 'I'm after something to eat for |{ my wife and daughter and grand-|discoant nan fiercely. ay weed fom [1 can't have my share, and (hen | thity belongs to we can't have their | winrdof the things in this world hynny [air means, if folks won't let us I mean 1 "have made up ty mind. I heard how you lind got a big turkey and chicken pies for nobody but yourself to eat, an' we ain't gat a mouthful in the house, and you wouldn't give me no work. I made up my wind I'd steal a little Thanksgiving, seeing"as the Lord had not given me none. Now you test do what you have a mind to do with me. Get me sent to jail; it won't make no difference to "em,' «You can have one of 'em chicken pies, if you are in such dreadful straits as all that comes to," said Sophia inn «1 should think you church sarcastic voice. talked member, Sam Brightmsn, of them pies and go home, and mind real pretty for a Take one you shut the pantry door.' «1 do not want your pie,' said Sam Brightman and he coughed again. ¢ Well, you ean go without it, then, if you 3 not want it after all thin rumpus," retarned Sophia. * There is one thing I want to know--What was it you tipped over and broke in the pantry ¥' I guess it was a dish,' replied Sam Brightman, feelingly, ¢ A dish, what kind of a dish ¥ TO BE CONTINUED. a He Quit the Doctor. GENTLEMEN, -- I was troubled with dyspepsia for about four years and tried ties bot found them of little several ue ticed an advertisement of Burdock rs, #0 I quit the ie outer, an Stast fi thi : Reo, Wingham, Ont, The Fear of Death. The fear of death is excited by any severe attack of disease, especially colds or coughs, This need not he where Dr, Wood's Norway ¢ Syrup is kept on hand for family use. This unrivalled remedy cures coughs, colds, roarseness, asthma, bronchitis and all throut and lung diseases, Price 25c, and 50c. Sold by druggists. GREAT AUCTION SALE The undersigned h has 'instruction from MR. J. GAMBLE To Sell by Auction, on lot 7, eon. 11, SCUGOG, On Friday, Nov. 11,1892, The following first-class Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Swine," Farm Implements, Machines, &e,, &eo.: HORSES, Grey Mare, 6 years old, Black Horse, 6 years old, Bay Mare, 5 years old, Bay Horse, 4 years old, Light Driving Mare, 6 years old, Bay Horse, 3 years 'old, Bay Mare Colt, 2 years 'old, y, (heavy) three crosses, Brown Horse, 8 years old, Bay Mare, 8 yrs old, in foal to Ambition, Grey Mare, aged, in Ba y Mare, aged, in foal to Treasure, Colts, 3 a: CATTLE. Mileh Cows, 5 of them in salf-=a0me doe due to calve in Qecembe: Heilers, 2 rs old--one in call, Yearling Heifers, Yearling Steers, Winter Calves, "RLew o Three: Furrow Gang ay t Iron Harows, oney Fanning Mill, orse Rake, Roller, Ht F 9] ZpEE tH con pl * You, Sam Brightman,' said Sophia, 1 Gund of 2,000 bus, Turnips, in Tota to suit 87 The so all the al sold without seldom felt at liberty overworked. Sitting early in church when they did she on a Sunday, with her nice biack skirt eymeant. How-|falling daintily over ber knees, her rl : 5 Vagon nearly new, box and spring seat ¢