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"Merling" drawled Cap'n Eph Biggs as he gave his back tilted chair aiother hitch toward «the wall, "jes' Lg yerself an' fetch yer dotin' deft on the counter." There was no reply. wenr: ejaculated the cap'n. "Thet lazy gal's snoozin' like sixty an' let- ~tounty. M-e-r-linda!" Sti Melinda did not respond in per- Boni or by voice. The cap'n looked around in a helpless way. Over to the east he could see a murky stretch of | the Suwannee river bending through the trees. There was a dusty, lifbless road in front of the shore. The cap'n reclined and reflected. It was hot, and he hated to move, but he want- ed his tobacco, and, being a wid- ower with but one child, his comfort certainly was dependent largely upon her. If she were too lazy to wait on her poor old dad, he thought, it only served to prove that he had wasted money when he bought ber a melo deon. 'While pondering on her ingratitude and sbiftlessness he pearly lapsed is into slumber, but an awful th t. intervened. It made him sit upright, bringing his chair down wpon its four legs with a bang. "Sam Womper!" exclaimed the cap'n. "I'll bet thet dodgasted razerback crit- ter hez hed the effront'ry ter cum gal- livantin' round hyar ag'inl"' He went through the store and into the house that formed the rear of it. 'Asleep. In the little 'porch which framed the kitchen door was a small negro boy. Cap'n Eph kicked him. "Rouse up, Mose, p said the cap'n, "gn' tell me whar's Merlinda." "I dunno, boss," said Mose, edging to get out of range. "I hain't seen her fer more'n er hour." "Look hyar, leetle nigger brat, ¥e goin' ter tell whar my darter i "Don't yo' stomp, cap'n! Fer de Lawd's sake, don't stomp!" shrieked Mose, drawing his knees up to his ab- domen in the agony of "I'ze gwine ter tell all I knows." "Jes' ye tell!" was the cap'n's grim admonition am "I seed Mis' Merlinda eum outer de doah an' wave her han'. Den I looked over yander," and Mose pointed to the north, "an' I seed S Womper up dar at de edge uv de cl'arin'. Den she done went inter de house an' got her bunnit. I seed her go over ter whar 8am wuz loafin' round, an' bimeby I peed 'em git inter er dugout an' done go Tong." "Maybe--maybe," soliloquized the feap'n, "I kin head 'em off at the bend The river's mighty low, an' much current Sides, thet good fer nothin' clay eater-am too lazy ter hit the water hard with er paddle." The cap'n ran through the house and the store, seizing his shotgun on the way, and made over the country to ward the woods which bordered the bend. When he poked his head throug the underbrush upon the bank, he saw the dugout with Sam and Melinda aboard and less than fifty yards away. The stream was very narrow there, and Sam kept the boat near the shore to enjoy the coolness of the shade. "] wisht I hed er gun. Did ye hear thet deer a-tearin' through the brush?" he heard Sam ask. "I got the gun!" shouted the cap'n drawing a bead on the young man as he spoke. "Ye jes' pint thet boat r in hyar or I'll fill yer hide with buck shot!" Sam paused with uplifted long enough to conclude quickly that it was wise to obey, and when It struck the water again it sent the dug- out flying toward the bank. "Whar be ye goin,' Mis' Big cap'n inquired ® Melinda irony. "I wuz goin' ter git merried, an' I'll do it yit," she replied so deflantly that the cap'n gasped. "So ye will, so ye will," he respond- ed--"1 see ye gittin' too headstrong fer me--but not merried ter him, gal I'll pick out the man fer ter be my son-in-lor, an' doan ye nevah fergit thet." The cap'n climbed Into the boat and pointed up stream. He sat down at that end of the craft, with his gun across his knees, and grimly sup- pressed his wrath. They had not gone far before the dugout glided by a big water oak: whose branches extended far over the bank and were intwined by a huge grapevine. The fruit was ripe and hung in luscious clusters. "Hol on er minit," said the capn. . "Lemme git er bunch." Sam backed the boat under the tree, and "the eap"n carefully placed his gun ¥ hete he thought he could" get it quickest and reached aloft among the tendrils, Sam let hin get a good, firm hold and then drove the paddle into stream for one long, strong stroke. The dugout shot from under the cap'n's feet in an ant, leaving him dan- gling above sfregm thirty feet from shore. "Bloody blazes! What on airth am ye apout? Hey, cum back!" shouted the eap'n, but Sam began to beat the water avith his paddle and to yelp like a dos A a big alligator shoved his paddle 7" the in fine Sam. qui yew fooll' an' Back " suid Le. Ie was stout, and of despeation was not -- Sam golemiily. linda, an' hyar's es It. Ye am jestice uv the Mode tim tom = ein "ye won't do it, tin! trade 'Bit over inter the nest | expectation. | thar ain't | h | i : Mying?--Puck. wuss? "Yes, paw," said Melinda. she'll be like her. ma!" "You bet" pt Now will ye back up? 1 river to the landing. he remarked: "Say, dad, yer eyesight mus' be fail Cr. | ole gator didn't bev no teeth?' Machinery Can Do No Wrong. The machine by which railway tick- ets are printed gives a very amusing | little show of intelligence, or what looks to be very like it. ets are not, as might in large s ts and afterward | print | cut The cardboard is cut into tickets first li lan one by one afterward. The be supposed, | litfe blank cards are put in a pile in a kifid of perpendicular spout, and the machine slips a bit of metal under- peath the bottom of the spout and pushes out the lowest ticket in the pile to be printed and cousccutively num- | bered. "It is np use trying to print a bad | ticket," says the attendant. "The ma: chine nds out an imperfect blank jo an instant and flatly refuses to have anything to do with it. Look here." bits of card and puts it into the spout » others, and you watch to sce ens. one the blank cards are part of the One pushed out to the printing by | mechar 1 with swiftness and preci- sion until the mutilated ticket gets to the bottom and tries to smuggle through | On the instant the machine stops | dead and refuses to budge again until | somebody comes and removes the im- postor Pull out the damaged ticket, and the mechanism will set briskly to work nbers' Journal. | again.--( Some say that Archimedes made the | - | First Wheel Clock. | first wheel clock as early as 200 B. C., says the London Electrical Age. Oth- grs give credit to Wallingford, who lived so late as the beginning of the fourteenth century. But the most per fect water clocks were, long before the latter per furnished w wheels, so that the improvement was the ubstitutio a solid body to act as ing weight instead of water. It e wondered at that the ap of a weight to clocks as a n of plication | moving power should attract so little | | attention er and sand were un doubtedly thought more convenient by | contempore writers. The oldest com- plete clock moved by weights is prob | ably that sent by the sultan of Turkey a8 wie to Frederick II. in 12. In the thir teenth century many of the church | ste 5 y tvere furn d with clocks m 1 by weight hich struck the hours. Hele of Nuremberg is sup | posed to have constructed the first watch in 1509, and to him must also be | given the credit of the sp clock I'he fos probably invented in { England about the end of the sixteenth | century. But it was not until the mid | dle of the seventeenth century that the pendulum was first applied to clocks by Huyghens. The Fever of Unrest. The expressman ran his pencil down the list of names on the last page of his book, then he looked at the calen- dar. "It will soon be time for that Miss Hughes to move again. She has been at No. 138 for six n 3." "Is Miss Hughes in the habit of mov- ing every six mouth asked the itor. "Well," said he, six months/to the day any one place is ney but her stay in prolonged much years ago, and since then I have moved her regularly twice a year. And she is not the only person who gives me them again."--New York Times. From the Father's Side. Senator Graphter--Well, did Sterling say he'd vote for our bill? Senator Mainchantz--No; be said he couldn't imagine a bill of a more crook- ed and odious character, Senator Graphter Did you tell him I was fathering the weasure? Senator Mainebuntz -- Yes, and he said he fancied the bill's characteris tics had been inherited. Ll Hyphen Succeeds Hymen., The Professor--They have traveled safely along the happy journey until now their hopes are about to be re alized. - Mrs. Alpi ths) Cupid, the god of love, wust now give way to Hyphen, tie god of matrimony Humility Is the virtue all preach, none practices, and yet everybody is content to hear.--Selden. ~Alind is that whieh perceives, feels, renielbers. acts and Is conscious of coutizucd e istonea | A Lenton Ber amon. i A poor umbrella sulely, Fh I'm not for preaching meant, | Yet I have gotten hol 2 By always keeping I 50 Ls og Chany onl esimot exist with- Alfred--Well, what's the matter wi Predestined. "121 were but a child er And had my life to go again, 1 reckon Ia go And hoe th ' Thar couldn't be no wuss." "An' ye, ye dod blasted, yaller faced munk, d'ye take my darter ter be yer lawtul wedded wife? An' 1 hope sald Sam, playfully ghing a little water at the alli- "Then I pronounce ye man an' wife. Cap'n Eph sank exhausted into the bodt, and Sam slowly paddled up the Of the day Just before he daddy thet air plug uv terbacker he tua 1p, dugout in toward the shore Didn't ye obsarve thet thet sick Railway tick- | He tears off the corner of one of the | "I wouldn't put it at | beyond that period. She is a pretty good customer. I first moved her from a house in Thirty-fourth street seven | af steady job by any me: I have a} number of people on my t who move at regular Intervals. Some of them make a change every month or two, others only once a y , but no 1tter how long or how short their dence in a certain house, the fever of unrest is bound to seize them at stated times and along comes my order to move CLEAR THE WAY! Men of thought! be up and starring, Night and day; Bow the isin the curtain-- Clear th Men of action, wd apd cheer them As ye umy, "Phere"s a fount about to stream, 'Ihere's a light about to beam, * I vere's a warmth about to glow, 'I'nere"s a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing nto greys Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way! Once the welcome ight has broken, Who shall say 'What the unlmagined glories What the evil frat shall perish In its ray? Afd the dawning, tongue and pen, Ald it, hopes of honest men; Aoty it, paper-aid It, type-- Ald It, for the bour Is ripe, And our earnest must not stacken | Into play, | Men of thought andl men of action, | Clear the way! Lo! a cloud's nhout to vanlsh From the day i And a brazen wrong to crumble 1 nto clay. | Lo! the Hght's about to conquer, "lear the way. | With the Right, shall many more g Enter, smiling. at the door With "the glant Many others, That for age For the Men of thou: Clear the and small, have held us in prey, t hd men of action, wi ~(harles Mackay. ON FIRE. Theme for the Descriptive Writer Swamp- ed Because of Dollars. | When the Dominion | pany's mines in Cape Breton ca | fire the other day the n \ respondents had no "time 1 into picturesque details. that the people who were terested were the They k to Dominion Coal keeping the the telephone men who were wires'hot with rok hail tall yl most in- | investing publie, | the men who had put good money in- | Coal Com- ght enquiries to the newspaper offices. A million tons of coal on fire, or pos- sibly on fire miles under the sea, | was something for the descriptive writer to handle, hut the descriptive writer is at a discount when millions of dollars are concerned, says Day by Day in The News, Toronto ? The Later Thought. And yet there was that in the tele- ch that graphed desp brought some men back fancy to those great | | supmaring workings, wnere the gal- | leries stretsh = for miles and miles, | wide, spacious, in many places, and always well lighted The betler the | light, the more coal the ers are able to blast out in a I'here | would be no saving in keeping = the galleries gloomy or the air bad, for | no man can work well in the dark, and no man can work at all, for any protracted time, in vitiated air And go the big pumps fresh air through all the workings and the on, with the exceptic the pal that comes to any } n who is | denied th sunlig to enc the sea, too, | Ss h ed and fifty of | which spend, perhaps, six | it a time in the mine. They have the trolley loads of coal, and | they never leave the lower levels un- | til the ve ed by the | company ey need a | to g n fields in rance as i ntel er But t ach of | th e time wi the vet sa, he 1 g I ar the ele- vator I t loft to the holiday that he has earped | Horses Go Blind in Mines X 1 1S or so of semi- | 1 the horse is almost blind. | I'he nerve is nearly atrophied and he is led unsecing and staggei-| | ing to the meadow where he is to recuperate. When the halter is cast off and the animal is left to himself he is like a nyctalops suddenly drag- | ged from hig lair and thrown into | the sunl He stands trembling and swaying from side to side "until the eyes :come accustom ed to t then the holi day »d. When the hor : mine they 1 healthy as the man ergone successful treat sanitarium, but the gloom and the heard work ultimately pull them down again there were | horses in the Sydney line! which | had at work for years They | | are well fed, have an eve tempera ture to wor € ve face no | chilling ra pi nds like their fellows on the Their | stables are cut out of the solid coal, | and they h » the best of food and | care It was proposed some time 0 to adept - the electric trolley system for the coal cars, and, when It nine shall have been pt S erhaps the horses will 1 replaced EXPERTS IN WOOD. The 01d Violin Makers and the Mate- rial They Used. The great violin makers all within the compass of 150 years. They bers felled In the south Tyrol | floated down in rafts--pine and maple, | sycamore, pear and ash. They ex- amined these to find streaks and veins and freckles, valuable superficially avhen brought out by varnishing. They learned to tell the dynasty of the pleces of wood by touching them: They weighed them, they struck them and lstenéd to judge how fast or how sfow or bow resonantly they would vibrate in answer to strings. Some portions of the wood must be porous and soft, some close of fiber. Just the right beam was hard to find. When found, It can be traced all through the violins of some great master and after his death in some of Lis pupils. The piece of wood was taken home and seasoned, dried 1 tha hot Brescia a great Tater i al scribed as having been as hot as an oven. The wood was there soaked through and through with sunshine, In this great heat the oils thinned .and simmered slowly and penetrated far into the wood until the varnish became art of the wood itself. he old violin makers used to save every bit of the wood when they found what they liked to wend and patch and inlay with it. So vibrant and so reso- nant fs the wood of good old violins that they murmur and echo and sing in answer to any sound where a number of them hang together on the wall, as if rebearsing the old music that they once knew. Hard on the Ladies, Very few remember 'the existence ot a certain remarkable statute which was passed in the early. days of George I1L if 'indeed they ever heard of it. It runs chose their wood [rom a few great tim- | and | lived | Write for our inte or's Sips oid] . Send us a rou; 1 of your in- vention or improve! and we will'tell you, {free our Shion as air it is probably, tenants, ns have often, actor Prossented by us. We ily sahipped 5 if Montreal 'ashingtan ; t qudifies is to ns to dispatch work 'and qui 4a bromd us asthe invention, LA ad, urn 3 Patents procured th ional Marion & > Fecal mote with rion receive aver foo new Geiibuted tarongbon out. ly The sndlersigned having business in the pened {Shop ally ocuged by Ms, B. Ral Just west of Drs. Archer & Archer's Office, is prepared to do all kinds of of General Blacksmithing at Regs onable Charges. HORSE - SHOEING will be allowed on ali Sales. from Jan. lst next. All work ining €F MADE BY HAND dr and ne factory work afin in Socks thi super ority of my goods w a Su Hl purchase find. i 4 4 Speclalty and Satisfaction. 5 Port Perry, itly aud arta y attended to. BLOOD POISON on account of ite terrlh , blood disease is called tho Iiug of all diseases. F Of coutracted while it may ot bn crima to have u la the systent. It may manifest atic paias, stiff or swollen joints, ons of blotches, uicors in as mouth or ou tae tongue iy 'sordeced stomack, and a general depression o 38 &ymptoms don' tneglec yourself You favs fogy" Talent _bewan re of mineral Rk IK METHOD TRBA Bank Bonds will any way, but x reaches the very root of the disease p ho Avstem. symptoms of disease gradually 188 pure a- 1d tice the wholo system is cleansed vid frepaiad anew or the duties and the pleasures HA Y a. PAY. 3 Years in Cousaliztion Free. Question Blank for Home Yreatment and Books Free. rs {ENNEDY & KERGAN Cor. Ifichigan Ave. and Shelby 8t., Dctrott, Mich. ro'ect you. Detroit. it is also the robber "that steals from many a bus man the opportunity to become seawealthy : ITT00 EARLY to plan for something good in advertising for fall and winter business. ] = REGEN y 4 Central Livery PORT PLRRY. I EARTILY thanking the public for the liberal patronage received during the many years I have kept a Livery Establish ment in Port Perry, Ihave much pleasure in announcing that I have removed MY LIVERY to my former place of business . Water Street | which Tam about to largely extend in rease facilities so that the public may be etter accommodated with safe and desi able RIGS AT MODERATE CEARGES R. VANSICKLER. noe 21, 1900. North uta ito Observer Py icultural ano Newspaper { Port Perry, J } IS PUBLISHED AT] ont PERKY, OAT. Visity THURSDAY MORNING H. PARSONS ¢; if not 3. 5 ou for d to th oy, whon addresse t Jur risk itored wil be at ADVERTISEMENTS measired by Non un charged according to the space they © ADVERTISEMENTS received, for publication, witl ill 1 io tuken out until iccount ntlowed t6 Mert sis and oth tise by the year or haf ye: THESE terms will in all cases be striotly adhered to JOB DEP SRIMENT. mphist Hand Bills, Programs, Dodgers, Bill Heads, Lettor Heads, Wedding Inyit Blank Form Recalp Books, Business Card I Cireu 8, Asso Cards, Visiting one &o. of every xi yle al color exdeuted promptly wid at as Jow rates nny other establishmept ia the County... | Partier from as distance getting hand bills, &c printed cat have thom printed to take home with them H, EP ARSONS. DESIRABLE PROPERTY IN PORT PERRY FOR SATH THE undersigned offers for sale at a bargain his tine property on Lorne Street, Port Perry, cousisting of a eommo- dious Dwelling House, containing six rooms, hall and three closets ; there is a good stone cellar under the main part and fouodation under the kitchen, all in a good state of repair. There are three lots which have been converted into a splendid Garden, in which are a large number of choice, thriv- ing fruit trees -- Apple, Cherry aud Plom-- Grupe Vines, Berry bushes and other small fruit in abundance. There 'are also on the premises a good bricked Well and Cistern and conyenient | Stable: © For par ticulars Sots to to GEO. G ARDNER. Port Perry, Jan 22, 1896. GEO. JACKSON, Licensed Anctioneer, Valuator, &c. FOR THE COUSTY OF ONTARIO AND TOWNSHII OF CARTWRIGIT, { \ TISHES at this the commencement o another Auction Sale Season to ve: turn thanks to his numerous pa'rons fe past favors. In requesting their esteemed and continued patronage he désives to state that no effort or paink will be spared | on lis part to make ull sales entrusted to him successes. His very extensive practice in the past should be a sufficient recom mendation as to his ability. All Sale gi into his charge will be attended to with promptocss and dispatch, Sale list made out and blank notes supplied free. on application. Parties wishing to engage his services muy consult his SALE RkGISTER either at the Observer or Standard Offices, Port Perry, for dates claimed for Sales ane muke arrangements, or write to his address CHARGES MODERATE. GEO. JAZKSON, Port Peny I. 0 1901. Nov. 1 Apples Wanted. The wel ktiowr lah! , reliable house Edward Jacobs & Sons of Londor Eng., and Hamburg, want Consignments of Apples. Highest prices tamed assured. Rea le vance against B/L. ail Ce municate with E. P. Brackroxr Nurseryman, Toronto, Jt will pa ou to ship to the iim of Edwar Jacobs & Sons. PAINTING Kalsomining, &c YHE undersigned would take this oppor tonity of thanking bis nunierous pat ons for their liberal and still increasing patronage during the time he has carried ot the business of PAINTING u Port Perry, and would state that be i better prepared than ever to execute al orders for Painting, Kelsomining and Paper Hangine Partics outrasting their work to me may ely on having it neatly and promptly exe sited, My charges are moderate. 1 am also prepared to supply Paints, &e,, when coutracting. A continuance of public patronage sol sited, WM. 3, 1503, TREMEER Pp Port Perry, Mar. 2 JOEN NOIT, UNDERTAKER, and Funeral Director, PORT PERRY. GEO. GARDNER V ISHES to inform the public of Porc Perry and surrounding countiy, that after four ycars experience in prosecuting his business in some of the largest cities of the United States, he is better prepared than ever to execute any of the wie branches of his trade :--Stone Masonry, Bricklaying in all its branches; Plain and Ornamental Plastering. Also Artificial Stone Walks, that will remain permanent and will endure any weather. Concrete Cisterns without any wood in their con struction to decay or give out. If you are in need of any of the above, come to me and obtain prices, All material required in my line will be kept constantly on hand, and for sl alter v ofr of 0 t April TANTED -- TRUSTWORT J active gentlomen or ladics to tarvel for reapounsble, established house in Ontario Monthly $85.00 and expenses. Position teady. Reference, *Encloseself-addr tam ped envelope. The Dominion p ny, Dept. Y Chicago. JOHN Rois Port Perry, Dec. 1, 1892. ~----AND ---- IMPLEMENTS ---- AT -- SUNDERLAND pus undersigned keeps on hand and fod sales the following Agricaltural Mach' ines and Inplements manufactiied by thé MR. BALI MTG 0 Rake, Two Furrow Seeder, Tiger He Plow, Three Fur ow Gang, Combifa- tion Plows, Cha pion Plows, S. T Cultivator, >. T. Harrow, Land Roller, Steel Frame Spring Tooth Cultivator, Binder Trucks, &e. the following, the munufacture of JOHN ABEL, Toronto. High class Threshing outfits, Traction Ingines and Machines, Victor Clovér Huller, Portable Tiivmph Engine. Tum prepared to supply everything the farmer requires in way of Machines, Iniple ments, Repairs, &e. gar A call solicited. McDonald's Hotel, ilso One door West of R. K. BRYANT. Sunderland, April 8, 1883. J Sealed Ten (I'S EALED TENT ERS will he! = received by the undersigned fof he purchase of all of any of the Parcels-- Farm Properties -- Lelong ng to Mr. John Adams, advertised: o be cold by auction on the 23rd November, and withdrawn at the ale. J. A. McGILLIVRAY, Tem, le Building, Toronto. v. 39, 1399 MONEY TO LOAN. We have funds from pis e_purties for investnint orf nortgage a 43 FEM , 'enew Old moriguges, 4 ore lad Uta money {row te wivou wy mieliy). We have customers who wa. {to buy fm roved oie th i woah exchange Lusk esses for the swe. If you hnve fama or other pros pertics {or sale, conn cinl, 1 chanical. or busines of ND & 28 Victoria het, Yocoxra, Lhe Portnaits of cur Presicénts With Biographical Sketches BY General Charles H. Grosvenor, MEMBER oF CONGRESS FOR NEALLY 20 YEARA® Contains twenty four largo Photo-gravure Etchings fiom the paintings indorecd Ly the families und nent' relatives of the Presidents. Printed on heavy plate" paper embossed. A very large book ; title page de' shen ed by Tidany- Biographical sketchos i inted " farge, open type'in two culors The greatest of the 20th Century. 80 beautifulthat when ens HeRinies re moana inimediately went selling 600 copies in a sual territory in Pen- nsylva A million copies will be so'd gnick, For- tunes will be jade this Inaugural Iligh class wan or woinan of good social tiny can nake a little for tune in this territory. Territory fs Join agi) ly. Presses running day and night to [i o Wanted --State Manager to Jook after correspond" ence and agents. Address to-day THE CONTINENTAL PRESS, CoRCORAN BUILDING Washingtén, D, C. -- Agricultural Hachmes 'a large space ind Giver. or soll and itis always $ it's a strong Statement but a straight fact, when we say that and general Siorkssyer in Canada tie greatest help to the live grocer, Bf YEA RLY Cn man or woman or we ing bushes in thisand adjoin ot FOEPO) ot wath. BAM ERMA, Genera i ran rs Treasury, Washi basi 2.