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(PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY) 457 YEAR, NO. 2) ~ { ABPIRATION, WHOLE But the other crews were pulling Western Bank A MUTUAL SURPRISE. 5 the sun his avis light; thelr hardest, and between strokes HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO, ONT. Oapital (Paid Up) Rest . $8,000,000 2,000,000 ESTABLISHED 1867. DUSINESS WITH FARMERS In addition to handling Commercial Paper; this Bank makes a si ein] business of Loans to Farmers, and the discount ing of Farmers Sales Notes at reasonable | 1 rates of iuterest. Careful and prompt attention is also given to the collecting of Notes, ete. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Special Attention Is Directed to ithe Following Advantages oered by our Savings Bank: Deposits of One Dollar and upwards received aud interest allowed at cwrrent rates. Interest is added to the deposit TWioR in each year, at the end of May and November, The Deposgitor is subject to no delay whatever iu the withdrawal of the whole or any portion of the deposit. No Charge is made on withdrawing or depositing mouey. Port Perry Branch (. M. GIBBS, Manager. R. D. ARCHER, M.D.C.M. Victoria Uaiversity ; M.B, Toronto University, Memb-r or the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ount.; Licentiate of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburg; Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edin: ~ burg ; Member of the Faculty of Physicians Yu al Tate: Resid an B . 3 Pupilof the Rolunda Hospital, Dublin for Women. Office and Residence, second door west of Davis' Furniture Emporium, Queen Street. Office hours--9 to 11 a. and 2 to 5 p.m,, and evenings. I baye taken as partner, my brother, Dr R. Archer, M. D., C. M., Member of Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont. Port Perry, June 9, 1897. "5 DR. E-L. PROCTER {SUCCESSOR TO DR, CLEMENS ) M.D CM. of Trinity College University, Toronto, with Honor Certificate, Fellow of Trinity Medical College, Toronto. Mem. of Col. of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont, Licentiate of University of State of New York. 'OMos and residence on Dr. Clemens' old site. Opposite Town all. PORT PERRY. NOTICH. R. J. H. SANGSTER, Physician, Sur geon and Accoucheur, and Dr. A Sangster, Dentist, may on and after 10-day, be found in their new Surgical and Dental Offices over the Post Office, where they will he Tound as heretofore, propared to attend to their respective professions in all their foranches. Port Perry Dec, 8, 1807. DR. 8. J. MELLOW, Prysiolas, SURGEON, &0. Office and Residence, Queen St., Port Perry Office hours--8 to 10 a.m.; 1to3 p.m. and Evonings. Telephone in office and house; open night | and day over the lines south, connected with the residence of . L. Robson, V.8. Port Perry, Nov, 15, 1894. DR. JONES Pan SoraroN, &o., CoRoNER foc the.County of Ontario. Surgery and Office over Mr. Carncgie's Store, Queen ~ Street, Port Perry. + A. MURRA DENTIST, [Rooms over Allieon's Drug Store] PORT PERRY. 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HE d having leted his full Course at the Provincial Veterinary College and obtained a Dipioma as Veterin- ary Surgeon, would announce that he has opened an office for the practice of his pro- fessionat Port Perry, whereall callspersonal by letter or telegram, by day or by might will bo promptly attended to. All discases of animals treated in the latest and best known system && Telephone connection--free of charge ORR GRAHAM. devs} Port Perry, April 8, 1884, JOS. BATRD ICENSED AUCTIONEER for the _4 County of Ontario. Sale Register at the OpsrrvER Office Patronage solicited Manchester, Jan, 18, 1899. AUCTIONEER. HE undersigned takes this opportunity of returning thanks for the very liberal patrcoage he has received as Auctioneer in the past, The increased experience and extensive practice which I have had will be turned to advantage of pitrons, and parties favoring me with their sales may rely on their interests being fully protected. No effort will be spared to make it profitable for parties placing their sales in my hands My Sale Register will be found at the Leland House, Cssarea, 5 THOS. SWAIN Cmanrea, Aug. 26, 1896. WM. GORDON, Licensed: Auctioneer, Valuator &c. OR the Townships of Brock, Uxbridge, | Soott, Thorah, Mara, Rama, Mariposa | and Eldon Partiesentrusting their Sales to me may rely on the utmsot attention being given to their intrests. WM. GORDON, Sunderland, N. F. PATERSON, QO. C., Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Publi ec, &c., emple Building, Cor, Bay to. a Street Turon y County seapRwiny J. ; +) . Crown Attorney, Barrister, County Sol- citor, &e., Notary Public and Conveyancer ce-Tiouth wing Court House, Whitby, nt. 2 Dr F. D. McGrattan (DENTIST) 'L.D.S. of Royal College nf Dental Surgeons, also D.D.8. of Toronto University. Office over McCaw's Jewelry Store, Office hours--8 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. Ly. HEADACHE Pain back of your {¥% | eyes? Heavy pressure in your head? 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DO COWS CRY? fhe Grief of an Animal Whose Calf Had Deen Killed, A correspondent writing to Dumb Animals says: Dumb animals are said "to Lave a "sign" language of thelr own ty which they make known the emo- tions of pleasure or pain and a Hmited catalogue of wants and sorrows. Re: cently 1 had occasion to dispose of a G-months-old calf which was taken away about noon and butchered a ghort distance from my residence. When the cow came home at night, ghe missed her calf, and although an orphan calf was permitted to suck she continued to call it by affectionate mooing and looking. The cow, how- ever, only gave about one quart of milk nstead of a gallon or more, as former During the night she lowed fre. quently for her calf, and the next morning when it did not appear she ex. hibited unmistakable signs of grief. The orphan calf was no solace to her. Khe was driven to the woods with ber mate, but came back and continued lowing until noon, the inclosure, but would not eat grass, Just after dinner a great commotion was heard In the direction of where the erlf was butchered, made by a number of cattle lowing, having scented the beseechingly toward me, as much as to say, "Please open the gate," which being done she started on a run to where the other cattle were lowing. In a short time she came slowly walking back to the house and was sgain permitted to come inside the in- a position at the kitchen door, wistful iy looking in mute despair at each member of the family as they bappen- ed to pass her. The tears flowed copi- gusly from her eyes, and there she stood the balance of the afternoon, weeping incessantly, with the same ap- parent grief that a mother would for her dead child. It really caused me to phed tears of sympathy for the poor animal TOLD BY THE GROCER. onversation With a D sat Wome a: Him a. ¢ me ok "771 tell you bow 1 lost a good cus: tomer the other day," sald the grocery: man. "I have one customer who is ex. fremely deaf, aud to make ber hear 1 Lave to just yell at her. It takes about half an hour to get her order, and by that time my voice is pitched so high that 1 can't get it down to earth again. "The other day it happened that aft er she left in came Mr. Oldboy, who It a perfect crank. Was in the army once and a great stickler for bowing and scraping and all that sort of thing. Wants a fellow he trades with to sa H. MoCAW, ISSUER OF LICENSES, Port 1883, MARRIAGE Perry Ont. PROF. 8. J. COHN ar Spars 70 to & "Eye and £5 ve, Toronto, r.D. J Adam try lute and p t arms and do all kinds of things. He came in and said, 'Good morning' 1 wish you had heard me yell at him. My voice made the win: dows rattle. He looked surprised, but went on talking to me, and I kept up answering him in a voice that could be beard a block away. He got madder and madder, but I never knew what was up until finally he got red In the face and safd, 'Mr. Black, sir, I am nol deaf, sir, and I resent your yelling at me as If 1 couldn't hear a cannon fired | in my ear.' With that out be went. | "You see, 1 had been talking to the deaf lady and couldn't get my voice 'down again. You try It some time and see If you don't yell at every one you meet. Funny, too, but I always yell al blind people and foreigners, and 1 al ways whisper when 1 go jn whers any TREE. cee | Mibrium? | simply enormous iu the deeper parts, | She came Inside | downward course of a ginking ship or fresh blood. The grief stricken mother | cow ran to the closed gate and looked | closure, when she deliberately took up | Thée Meeting Between an Ambltie Hunter and His First Grissly, In "Sketches of Life In the Gold State" Colonel Albert 8. Evans tells amusing dote of an 1th hunter who met his first grizzly bea in procession. The incident occu | jn the woods near the site of the press ent town of Monterey. The hunter sat down to rest ie 4 4 nolse from a clump of chaparral 100 yards away attracted his attention. | Out walked a grizzly bear, a monarch of his kind. He yawned, licked bis ! jaws and then advanced toward the {ree where our hunter sat. but evident: ly was unconscious of hig presence. His grizzly majesty fad proceeded about 20 paces-when a female bear fol lowed him, and an instant later a third grizzly followed her at a slow, sham- bling pace. The hunter sat spellbound with ter- ror as the procession came toward him until the forward grizzly was within | 30 yards. Then, gearcely realizing what he did, be sprang to his feet and uttered a frenzied yell--yell upon yell! The effect was magical. The fore. | most bear sprang into the air, turned | sharply abont, knocked the female down, rolled over her, gathered himself ap and bolted "like 40 cartloads of | rock going down a shoot," straight for | the chaparral again, the other | two | bears close at his heels and never turn- | Ing to see what had frighténed them. The bunter, seeing the enemy re- treating. sprang to his feet rw! fled at | top speed for the hotel, leaving bat and | gun behind. The truth of his wild and startling tale was proved the next day by the numerous bear tracks of differ- | ent sizes fouud In the marshy ground | pear by. But the three bears had gone off beyond pursuit. SINKING SHIPS. They Don't Linger In Midocean, but | Go to the Bottom. | What becomes of the ships that sink at gen? Do they go all the way to the bottom or do they meet somewhere un der the surface a certain pressure that buoys them up and bolds them in equi- Somebody, we forget who it | is. has given rein to his grewsowe fan- ey and pictured all the ships that have been lost in midocean as wandering about lke so many ghosts half way be- tween the surface and the bottom. - There is no foundation wbat such a notion, though many persons: have It. Any object that will sink be. peath the surface of the sea will go all the way to the bottom. The pressure encountered on the way down, which is has nothing to do with the object's sinking. for it is exerted on the object as well as on the water, thus equalizing the conditions. The reason wliy the object sinks to the bottom 1s that water Is not compressi: ble: at least it 18 so little so that its den sity at the bottom of the sea Is only a tf: fle greater than it is at the surface. Set entlsts tell us that the water at the hots tom Is just about as much denser than the water at the surface as sea water is denser than fresh water. This slight difference in density. therefore, does not and cannot stop the any object that Is heavy enough to sink rapidly beneath the surface. Pres sare, as we have sald, is uot a factor in the case at all. | ean 1 A Bome "Library" There 1s a lending library of human « the one pale orb of night, «1 alone communing with mine ownl Bruce could hear the voices of their cockswains as they, too, counted tens. At the end the three were still even, west, €h ] breath of spring in the soft southern brecza seemed all to foretell some good fortune ed up the lake the first year men had { | pull | the v8 hill and plain; But, dh, the small 4 \¢ Tain that freshens all # p now to be, my noonday flower, for "4/ohn B: Tabb in Harper's Magazine, el jutiful May afternoon they felt themselves that thelr time had t last. The warmth of the set- in ne It slowly approached the 8 which guard Cayuga on the deep blue of the lake and the "Then, too, as the crews row- ed together beautifully, thelr oars had ik the water in perfect unison, with gever a break from bow to stroke. It was coming, and they knew It, for | they, 'had struck their stride, as the runners say. A Blast from the whistle of the conch's launch drew their attention to Arsity and the sophomore crews which had proceeded a mile farther up the lake. From this point the two sen- for crews were to race for three miles, picking up the freshmen at the mile marke As the freshmen watched them the distant shells turned slowly and took, thelr positions. A moment they lay motionless; then, as a jet of white steam shot up from the launch, 16 broad oar blades flashed In the sun, | and the race was on. It looked to the eager freshmen as If the sophomore crew had leaped to the front with the first stroke, the heavier varsity being unable to catch the water ns quickly as had their nimble rivals, and a8 the two shells came racing over the glamsy surface of the lake it was evident that the second year men were Increasing thelr advantage. "Look at 'em gain! Look at 'em gainl™ erfed Crowell up in bow seat. Crowell always became excited when ever he watched others racing. but as soon @8 he got In a race himself he was the steatigst man in the boat. "That's all right," sald Bruce, the sturdy 8troké; "the sopbs may Jump 'em at the start, but you wait until that varsity gets down to work." And almost before he bad uttered | 8 were, proved true. for. . "Yo galn on thelr" i For a time the two shells pull: | 'gt almost equal speed, the white | h speeding along close behind the | nd. the coach up In the bow direct. | fhe oarsmen through his great alo- mininm megaphone. Though the fresb- men could not hear him they knew that he was upbraiding the varsity for al- lowing a class crew to get ahead of then. And soon his reproaches had | thelr effect, for the sophomores were | geen to be slowly losing their lead as the older men began to put their hearts | nto the work. Slowly but surely the | Second crew crawled up until the length and a half of open water that bad separated It from its feelng rival 'was reduced to less than a foot, and | "then the coach's voice came ringing oVer the water: "WGet ready there, freshmen The little cockswain ceased craning | Bis neck over his shoulder and. grasp | | | | | | " 10g the rudder lines firmly, shouted: "Ready al-I-1!" n response the eight sunbrowned | "boys before him settled themselves Into | 'their seats and, leaning far forward, | bones in London. It is intended for the use of medical students, and the bones | are lent out In exactly the same man ner as books from a circulating library The entire collection is valued at £5,000 | and contains besides human bones the: skeletons of horses, dogs, cats, oxen and sheep--all animals that the veter inary surgeon is likely to be called up on to treat. The present market pri 4 of a human skeleton is from £6 to £20, according to its condition. A skull ma pe worth anything from Os. to £1. For a payment of 6d. a student can borro any part of the skeleton that he dex to study and may retain it for week. A complete skeleton can be rowed from the library for the sum of ps. down and a deposit of £5.-- London Answers. 4 eu Her Proposals, Talking of the Daroness Burdett Coutts Lord Houghton sald: "Mi Coutts likes me because | uever propos: ed to ber. Almost all the young men of good family did. Those who did their duty by their family always did. Mrs. Browne (Miss Coutts' companion) used to see It coming and took berself out of the way for ten minutes, but she only went into the next room and left the door open, and then the proposal took place, and immediately it was dove Miss Coutts coughed. and Mrs. Browue came In again." --Augustus J. C. Hare's Recollections. or " The Mystery of Gout. It Is better to confess ignorance than to assume false knowledge. the careful study that has been given to the subject of gout It must be admits ted that we are as vet aninformed as to its exact nature. ex eS med amped An Inventive Genius, Mr. Small--Do you know her? Mrs. Small--Only by reputation. Fi husband 1s the Inventor of the cas register for married men's trousers pockets. x ! urse"s Good Words.--'1 am rofessional nuise,' writes Mrs. Eisner, {alifax, N.S. +1 was a great sufferer i EE Dect physiciana 1 had every cumace Sore vers in thle power bat hey al In spite of | dipped their oar blades into the water. tyes In the boat" cautioned the lock: wain, and they waited while their Bpnonents came fying toward them. Flicy beard the panting of the launch's | wine and then the sound of the rush- © shells cleaving the still water and | iho "schiub" of the oars in the rowlocks ' as 16 pairs of arms shot out on the re v Then tbe "old man's" voice ain: | "Are you ready, freshmen? Then l ol" And with one glant beave they were | Bruce kept his eye steadily fixed on ne water just beyond the port gun- ale as It slipped past. still swirling nd dimpling from the blows of the tout blades behind bim Quickly and et with the utmost care he pulled froke after stroke; a sharp catch and ox erful heave, then out shot his finnd nd bis shoulders followed on er. but as his seat neared the #lide he slowed it down that ght be no checking of the boat. seven men behind him were ng likewise, for once as he caught water he felt the frail shell rise be- bim and quiver like a living A thrill of exultation passed | every man In the crew. They 'then that the victory was theirs. : first time they bad felt the live, and that spelled victory. 'now the little cockswain found steady!" he cried. the stroke--catch y, boys: p your eyes on wh!" with a note of triumph in his shouted: gaining, boys; we're gaining. r up." this time Bruce's breath was "fast, and the great drops of red off his face. For an In- » ventured to glance away. from h of water, and out of the cor eye he saw the otber boats along on even terms and "length ahead. He was re- the volce of the cockawain: ing to give you ten. fellows, 1 get through you've got to } with them. Ready pow -one. o--good work, bova--four, Bve and the question seemed to be one of 1 endurance. launch behind was shouting ¢ncourage- ment to the freshmen, for their burst of specd surprised and delighted him. The "old man" In the | "Go It, freshmen!" he called. | ! er crews and saw the varsity stroke la- boring desperately to make up what bad been lest, and farther back he saw the sophomore crew now permanently in third place. A great sob of joy ghook him; then his eyes went back to that bright patch of water, and his oar blade bit more fiercely as it struck the surface of the lake. The little cock- swain was fairly beside himself, He shouted aloud in his joy. "It's half over, boys," he cried as they flashed by the old windmill on the shore. "Just keep it up, and we've got 'em dead. Stroke--stroke--stroke!" Yes, but could they keep it up? Al- ready Bruce's wrists were beginning to grow numb, and bis legs shook on the slow recover. And still a mile to go! His heart thumped and pounded, and the hot breath came gasping through his open lips. He could hear No. 7 groan at every stroke, but there was no thought of quitting. Death rather than that. "But will we never reach the half mile?' he wondered. Even as the thought entered his head the cockswain called: "Only half a mile more, and we're & length ahead." Oh, luckless boat! Scarcely bad the words left his lips when No. 3 caught a crab. The starboard side of the shell sank almost to the water's edge as the unfortunate oarsman tried to drag his blade out by main force. At once the speed was checked, and the other boats drew up rapidly. But Bruce kept his head and never let the stroke vary a fraction of a second. The cockswain, too, remained cool. His calm voice in this moment of consternation- reas- sured the rowers, who quickly re sponded to his monotonous "Stroke-- | stroke--stroke" as Bruce's blade caught the water. In a moment all were row- Ing again as evenly as before the acci- dent, but the varsity was almost abreast of them. The danger of defeat after victory bad seemed so sure made the freshmen alposy mad. They tug- ged at 'the sweeps as if they would break them In twain. Men animated by such a spirit could not be beaten, and soon they were forging to the front again. As they entered on the last quarter mile they were more than half a length to the good and still gain ing slowly. But the strain was begin- ning to tell. Bruce's arms were dumb to the elbows, his breath came In quick pants and a baze seemed to have set- tied over him which dulled the pain in his aching muscles, but made bis work only mechanical Forward and back- ward, forward and backward, his body swayed, while the shrill voice of the cockswain sounded faint and far away "If 1 could only stop for an instant." be thought: "only a stroke." And then he fell to thinking of what he would give if be could rest for one stroke-- $5, yes. $10, even a week from his sum- mer vacation, and be dreamed of how he would lie on the cool grass under the trees during that vacation, too blissfully lazy to move--and all the while his weary body swayed back- ward and forward, backward and for ward, without ceasing. He was arous- ed by that strident volce, now grown strangely hoarse. How be hated it! It | was shouting: i "Only a hundred yards more, fellows! ow give ber ten--one, two, three" -- And as the tired crew responded to the appeal their light boat again leaped forward. When the ten was over. there Ni was open water between them and the | varsity, while the sophomores bad dropped four lengths behind. Still that little torment in the stern was not sat Isfled. "I'm going to count till we cross the line" he announced, and then began those terrible numbers once more: "One. two, three, four"-- But with "3" he stopped and then called: "Let her run!" Thank God, It was over! Eight p of weary bands dropped the oars at which they had been tugging over those two long miles, and eight weary bodies slouched down Into their seats, too tired to sit erect. Bruce leaned over the gunwale and plunged bis arms Into the cold, clear water. Perfectly content was he as, filled with the joy of triumph, be gazed over the fast darkening bosom of the lake and up the hill:to where, here and there, a light already twinkled on the campus. And as be gazed softly, sweetly, from the tower the chimes pealed forth "The Evening Song.'-- New York Sun. em -- They Got Through. Abraham Lincoln was a captain of Illinois volunteers In the Black Hawk war. Mr. Norman Hapgood In his "Life of Lincoln" relates that during this campaign Lincoln once had his company marching in a column 20 men wide when be was suddenly confront- ed with a high fence with an open gate, through which only one man _could pass at a time. He bad no idea of the proper way to get his men Into single file, so be balted the company and said: "This company is dismissed, but it will come together immediately after alrs | THE WIRE NAIL INDUSTRY. | A German Oatholic Priest Founded It In America, : ft was in Covington, Ky., that the first wire nails were made in America. In 1875 Father Goebel was pastor in charge | 5¢ §t. Augustine's Catholic church in| that city. Before he ¢ame to this country from Germany he had seen Frenchmen and Germans hammering nails out of wire, When he hag established himself in the ministry at i old na first by I ly fmprovement after another came to hie mind and was carried out until the nails made were more useful and could be made more cheaply. Soon after he begin he improved upon the old nail by ciitting barbs in its sides, and by this they were made to hold more firmly. Then to ac celerate his work he made a die, nto | which he slipped the wire, that had beer | cut to proper lengths, and 'while resting on these dies the head was pounded on the nail. On an anvil he hammered on the point, and the barbs were cut in the sides by band. It was the nail that is made today, but the production was so expensive that it was impracticable for ordinary use. It was about this time that the French introduced a machine that would do what Goebel was doing by band, and as soon as the latter heard of it he imported one of these machines. The introduction of | this machine was the real beginning of { the wire nail industry in this country on | a large scale. It was a queer machine when it was received, but the principle was right, and the great machines that today turn out hundreds of thousands of nails a day are constructed on identically | the same plan. If was operated by hand. and the speed was G0 nails a minute. Goebel attached a flywheel, geared it to steam and by other improvements in- creased the machine's speed to double | this capacity, which was as many as 20 or 80 men working by hand could pro- duce. This was the "single header" ma- chine, making one nail at each stroke, and this machine produces with its pres- ent improvements as high as 415 nails a minute, while the double headers, produe- ing two nails at a stroke, turb out from B50 to 600 a p*'nnie, o= A total of 30,000 an hour. | BILL WAS TOO SMART. Farmer's Son Who Thought He'd Have Fun With an Elephant, "My son Bill" said the old farmer, "was just too smart fur anything. I ba a big red bull who used to git loose once in awhile and lick everything in the state, and Bill was réady to bet his last cent on that critter, . One day when a circus procession was comin up the road Bill come runnin from the barnyard and says: "Dad, I'm goin to let that bull out." "Far why? says L "Pur to see him bev fun with the ele- (phantly » " "Don't you do nuthin of the kind. The elephant would brewk his back in a holy minit," "Never, dad--never! Our bull will roar one roar, dive one dive, and he'll tumble that behemoth into the ditch and then upset the band wagon. Dad, it's the chance of our life to see a heap of fun.' "Waal, now," drawled the old man, "Bill said so much that I told him to go ahead. Mebbe that bull smelt them three elephants a mile away, fur when he was let out he was ready fur a row. He paw- ed and bellered and worked his mad up, and when the elephants finally come along he selected the biggest of the three sud made fur him. Oue of the circus men ealled out fur us to take our critter away, but we was lettin him take keer of hisself jest then. With a beller and a rush he was upon the elephant, but things didn't happen as Bill had planned 'em. Say, mow, but that big beast met our bull head on and knocked him flat, and then he got his trunk under him and flung him into a swamp and never even looked back at him. We went down to see our bull, and he had tears in his eyes, & broken leg and one horn gone. 1 looks at Bill, and Bill looks at me, and bimeby I says: " 'Bill, this critter cost me $40 in cash.' * Don't say a word, dad,' he says as he sits down, with a big sigh. 'I thought I was the smartest feller in this county, but I was foolin myself. I'll work three months fur $15 a month and pay fur the bull, and if I'm ever fool 'nuff to buck up ag'in another elephant may somebody kill me with a crowbarl'™ Tit Fer Tat. A wearied Clevelander stepped from 8 train at Pittsburg one morning at an early hour and rushed into the depot lunchroom to get breakfast. He was extremely tired from a long ride and consequently not in the best of moods, "What do you want?" snarled one of the waiter girls. She bad a get up toe soon expression on ber face and spoke savagely. "A little courteous treatment," sponded the traveler, "We don't keep it here," rejoined the | | | re rl. "1 thought so," was the laconic reply of the Clevelander. "Give me some reg: ular eggs." "We only keep fresh eggs," replied the girl. "Everything fresh around here?" que ried the Clevelander. "Yes," she hissed through her teeth. "1 thought so," the traveler replied. As the traveler ate his breakfast in gllence be wondered who had the best of the skirmish. From the look on the girl's face she, too, waa vondering over the same question. Made Over. "Great Scott!" he esclaimed when he saw the bill. "Why, this is outrageous! "Oh, no, dear; it is very reasonable," she returned. "But you told me," he said, "that you gown." HW made over $1,000 in your last wheat deal, SIR, And what could the poor man do? A Realist. "So you let your leading man go?" Barnes. ideas." stage 7" "No, not on the stage. B ou Make Mistake If you have Pale, or Sallow Complexion, Hands A Mistake When you do not use Dr. Ward"é Blood and Nerve Pills to counterd act these conditions, Why? Be- cause they contain all the natural elements necessary to build up the human system. Thé way td a Curé lies along the road from the stomach to the blood and nerves. All food is acted on by the stomach aud pres pared for absorption into the systems Dr, Ward's Pills give just the pro- per help to & tired system, and dif. fuse @ plow OE health through thé whole human frafné You feel yourself getting weil when you take Dr. Ward's Blood and Nerve Pilis. five Loxes for $2.00, All drag $0 ote. per box. Williams & Oo., Terouto, Unk gists, or Bam Sold by A. ]. Davis. Character Counts. "Let a man tell you a stoty evety. 1g and evehing," said 4 fame yus Englishman in characterizilig the newspaper, 'and at the end of « twelvemonth he will have becoms our master." Whatsdf the man is vazen-faced, a chronic liar, one vho rejoices iniquity, and is utterly ckless in principle, who is thus elcomed daily to the homme circle ? ught not a newspaper that is in: flerent to truth, is self-seeking and ; no regard for individual rights or for public morals, to be treated ; you would deal with # scoundrel vho seeks admission te yout nil company ? "Let an 4 I journal tell Tyou its" d and by an inexorable moral will in due time have an *'evil or your master. of In this sz connection we are eminded of an interesting lecture by an cll journalist and nember of Parliament. Mr, R. L, Richardson. oi Winnipeg. 'Charac: rer," said he, "is just as essentail franewspapirasit is for a nan who is dependent upon the publie therefore of as for support. It is p me importance that an editor sould guard the reputation and haracter of his newspapef #8. it, 18 \at an individual should guard hig wn reputation and character. H onesly is the best policy for an ndividual, it is, in an accentuated egree, the best policy for news- papere In a peculiar sense a newspaper belonged to the publie being in reality a creation of thé public. In the lecturer's mind the best example of the value - of pre serving character in a newspaper i. the history of the Montreal Witnes§ which the speaker regarded as per- haps as the most influen ail journal in Canada. This, he considered, was due to the sound, consistent, would be content with a made over ell," she answered, "you said vou i | bought the gown on that made over "1 had to." answered Mr. Stormington "He was too realistic in kis "luterfered with your work on the In the box of- See He wanted real money."-- Washing moral policy that had been followed «nd the high ideas always held up Uy the Witness. It has invariably been found advocating sound prin= ciples, and it has adhered with such )ertinacity to its policy that it has orced the respect of the public and though an ultra Prostenant paper published in the Catholic Province of Quebec, Mr. Richardson ventur- d the asertion that it was respected vy its religious opponents. Inas- nuch as the newspaper is the his torian of the day, it is desirable that is should be varacious and '= faithful recorder of events." ii 5 We are informed that Mr. A. G. Gilbert, the manager of the great poultry department of the Govern- ment Agricultural Farm at Ottawa has been engaged for the comin vear to continue his departrieny - Practical Poultry," in that hand- some magazine the Canadian Poul try Review. Other departments in the paper are, "Turkeys. Ducks and Geese," *Bantancs," "Poultry Ails ments," "Incubators and Brooders." and "With Uncle Sam" The Editor saysit will be bigger and better than ever, and as it is now in. its 22nd year, we beleive him. This journal is well illustrated, full of practical knowledye written by [> 8 perts and at the yearly subscription of soc. is rediculously cheap, Low as it is however, readers of this paper can get it at a special rate of three years for 81.00. A sample will be sent free by addressing Can- adian Poultry Review, Tor Ont ; but the shortest and best way for three years. Powder to "liveup tothe claims. Bishop Sweatman, Rev {Es ian); Rev. Dr Wit . Chambers (Methodist)