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"he suggested. . Bebee's Corners! i melghborhood, Deacon Deion. Ho was ty looking man drove up to her if a fancy rig and wanted nge with her to cover the front er 'barn with circus pictures. 4 ; hy, bless your heart, I never went 0 a circus in all my life!" she ex thaimed in reply. ~ "But you are not too old to begin," tures up, and 1'll leave you ten tickets of admission. You can go and take all your friends." "Land o' massy, but you dou't kyow Every und here is a Methodist or Baptist or Pres- + byterian--everybody but me---and they won't even attend camp meeting if Jemonade is to be sold on the grounds. 3 don't exactly kmow what my religion fs, but if I went to a cirtus nobody omonld ever apeak to me again." The circus man wanted his bills on 'that barn, and he argued and reasoned for al? en bopr. He saw tbat Aunt was an Independent character and that if he could get her started she'd be ready to defy public opinion. "The result was that she finally said: "Well, go ahead with your pictyres. 1 never saw an elephant or lion or tiger in my life, and I'll go and see the menagerie part anyhow. There 'Il be an awful row around here, and folks will think that Satan has got hold of Ime, but I'll have to stand it." The pictures were hardly up when Deacon Danforth happened along'the highway and saw them. He turned pale and trembled. Not in twenty years before had a barn on the Red Mill road been thus defiled. When he had recov- ered a little from the shock, he walked to the house and confronted the wid- ow. For the first fifteen minutes the 'conversation was devoted to Satan, 'hades, Lot's wife, Judas Iscariot and other interesting subjects. But it grad- ually tapered off to hyenas, boa con- strictors and alligators, and the deacon was almost smiling when he left the house. Next day Deacon Bidwell saw those pictures as he sat In hls buggy behind his old white horse. The horse saw them before he did and stopped so sud- denly that the deacon was pitched against the dashboard. For a long minute the good old man thought his eyes deceived him, but the true state of affairs finally dawned upon him, and he groaned and sighed and drove up to the widow's gate. "Widder Bebee, have you sold your Nvin' soul to Satan?" was his greeting, and then the fur flew. It was nearly an hour before he left the house, but the wasn't sighing and groaning as he ment. On the contrary, er cheerful, and he called back from the gate: "Yes; 1 s'pose there 'll be camels there with two humps, mebbe with three, and they'll be wuth lookin' at." There was one more deacon in the br po sr. Bo posters sudd 'Bim. There were short skirted, long Yegged damsels poised on barebacked horses or jumping through paper cov- ered hoops. He stood and ed and felt cold chills go up his ck. He drove on to the farmhouse, balf ex- pecting to find the Widow Bebee try- ing to turn handsprings over a kitchen chair. "I wouldn't 'a' believed it, widder--I twwouldn't 'a' believed it!" he began as he entered the House. "It's the awfulest thing I ever heard of, and you know T've bin in Chicago twice and scem some awful things." 'The widow had a reply ready. It be- gan with hyenas and worked up to ele- phants, taking in lions, tigers, grizzly bears and sea lions as it rose upward. 8he talked so carnestly and well that svhen Deacon Burton was ready to go he reluctantly admitted: "No, I don't 'spose it's any more harm to look at a lion than to look at a wvoodchuek if you don't git mad and rip and swear over it." There were others besides the dea- cons. There was old Mrs. Gaynor, for instance. She wasn't exactly a zealot, but she never took a dozen eggs to market without asking Heaven to bless them and make the price 14 cents a dozen. She wasn't a bigot, but she contended her own brand of re ligion was Bl oni one to be saved by. She t narrow minded, but ahen she heard of those circus posters she went down to see Aunt Sarah and fo say: % "I've stepped in a minit to say that if You go to that eireus I ean't mever let you enter my doors ag'in.", ~ Aunt Barah started in to argue, but old Mrs, Gaynor was on ber guard ~. mgainst the wiles of Batan and wouldn't wait for further talk. The day of the circus arrived, and the widow drove into Medina to at- tend it. For some reason not to be ex- a dozen farmers around her old Mrs. Gaynor 10 bring her to book, ho ba ho Tare ted.qines he looked rath- | She went oe J neighborhood an attack of morbus, often be- be procured or ne or remedy for these di kept at hand lor anyone Chamberlain's Colic, } Hrrhoea Remedy | lias donb saved the lives of more people an relieved more pain and suffering 'than any other med icine in use. It can always be de- pended upon; XBox sale by A. J.! Davis. RL asked if she bad anything to say she very cally replied: "1 @idn't intend € see nuthin' but the anififils, but when I got in there Satan beckoned me nto the circus tent, and I "Let me put the pie-« Went. The jokes of the clown tickled me almost to death. That's all I've got to say." "Deacon Danforth, what do you think | of such conduet?' asked Mrs. Gaynor as she folded her arms and rolled up ber eyes. "Nuthin', 'egpt that I sat jest behind Aunt Sarah and was tickled, tool" he replied. "And you, Deacon Bidwell?" "Waal, the hosses was wonderfully trained--woaderfully, I San skarse- 1y make out how they "And yoa, Deacon Ati You dln't goin' to tell me you was there tool" i § got kind of tired Jookin® at the two hump camels, and as ticket ade mitted te all T went the circus part," admitted the deacon. "And where did you all git tickets?" demanded the accuser as a sudden thought flashed across her mind. "Aunt Sarah gave us deadheads!" answered the three deacons in chorus. "And left me out, when she knew I was jest dyin' to see the whole thing! Well, now, you can all go home with- out any supper, and if I ever speak to one of you ag'in I hope to fall dead on my own doorstep!" Higher Education, Those who plead the cause of Latin and Greek in our higher education should remember that colleges were first founded in the early middle ages to teach the classics to Pi ve priests, for use in reading rituals, Greek in the east and Latin in the west, at a time when these languages were obsolescent in speech and yet contain- ed all the literature, philosophy, poetry and such science as the world of Eu- rope knew, and the modern tongues, just coming into use in Europe, north and south, had in them neither litera- | ture nor other elements of learning. Colleges so begun became the fashion. Every college man was a classical man, | and naturally then, as now, a man would feel that his own college culture was the right one. It soon beeame a common saying that the only educa- tion worthy of the name was Greek and Latin. But now modern languages are very rich in every form of litera- ture and learning, everything from the classics has been often emptied into them by better masters than the aver- | age student can fairly hope to be, los- | ing some and also gaining some in the translation from languages which few scholars even ever learn to read and | tg enjoy, while a wealth of scientific knowledge of the boundless world, which to know is the real learning, has sprung up in many modern tongues.-- 'Worcester Gazette. Surprising the Dostor. Bcottish shrewdness is occasionally overmatched by Irish wit. The hand- ful of people who inhabit a certain little island in the Atlantic, off the coast of Donegal, enjoy so much health and so little wealth that there is no doctor on the spot. In rare cases of emergency a physician is brought in a boat from the nearest village on the mainland. On one occasion some islanders who were obliged to summon the doctor found that he had gone to Dublin on business. As the case was urgent, they invoked the services of another prac- titioner. This gentleman was a Scots- man, with the proverbial canniness of his race, and he declined to undertake the voyage unless he received his fee, a golden sovereign, in advance. There was no help for it, and the money was paid. The physician went to the island and attended to the case. But when he inquired for a boat to take him away he found that not a boatman on the island would ferry him back again for any less considera- tion than £2, paid in advance. The doctor had to part with the mon- ey and to admit that he had been beat en at his own game. "Diogenes the Wise." With all his faults, the old philoso- pher of Athens was often called Diog enes the Wise. Whether his wisdom was really sg great as to deserve that title may wi but his worst faults seem to been good quali- ties carried to excess. In opposing too much luxury he cut himself off from the comforts of ; in his eagerness to make life 'simple he Jost sight of its gentilities; he was savingémt the ex- pense of neatness, truthful at the cost of courtesy and plain spoken even to rudeness. One would say that he was coarse grained by. nature, but be show: ed signs-of- tenderness and cven refiner ment, which proved that the grain not entirely coarse and which makes wonder at an age that could produce two men so wise EA FEL00 cin Diogenes. tha rude, ed. A reliable i " | except _-- TT we FIGUAES ABOUT LONDON, {* ateresting Biatistice of the Housel and People a the World's Largest City, r-Mealthy Withal Marehy 1903: | 'i the adininistrative County Fondih contained thea 871, n= habited houses. in which there dwelt 4,536,541 men, women, and chil- | dren. Of greatest moment in these | | figures is the population per house, | aid fu this respe t- the return is dis- | appointing. 1801 the number | was 7.74 per Pose: in 1901 it was 7.98. Apparently the people are in- creasing more rapidly than habita- tions are provided. The industrial workers of London and of large towns generally form about one fourth of the whole. In London they aggregate 1,018,077, eof whom rather less than three-fourths--746,- S63--were males, Despite its huge population, Lon- dop is healthicr than any othe of tH cleyen large towns in England, est Ham, Bristol and Drad- ford. It had a greater mortality in the past ten years than Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Stockholm, And Berlin, but healthier than Paris, St. Petersburg, Vienna, and New York. Akin to these fucts are those fulating to the housing eof the work- g - classes. A contin lodisituce {ty of the pb tion | extension of Ways ti biti works, and with this process the ac- commodation provided barely keeps pace. The County Council has spent £3,148,315 in clearing unwholesome areas and erecting d Schemes carried out by the Council and the late Board of Works have provided dwellings for 41,644 per- | sons. Intimatdly associated with these matters is the subject of locomotion, | in which a state of transition pre- | vails, owing to the extension of tramway lines and the adoption of electric power. The present report anticipates that before 1904 'the Council will own, in addition to any new tramways or light railways that it may coustruct itself, a total oh 1084 miles." During 1901 a gross profit was earned on the wmetropoli- tan tramways of £348,797. During 1001 passengers by tramcats num- bered 887,780,626; by the General Omnibus: Company," 302,024,233, aud by the Road Car Company, 67,909,- 537. AN kinds of locomotion show an increase, In some respects the least satisfac- tory of these returns are those re- lating to crime. On the whole, of- fenses against the law "havé con- siderably diminished during the last ten years, but drunkenness is a not- able exception, the figures showing an almost continuous incréase since 1890." Prosecutions have risen from 537 per 100,000 population to 846 --over 60 per cent, 'Crime in tho metropolis is somewhat higher than in the country generally, but much less than in some of the other large towns--Manchester and Liverpool, for example." TPR Silently and almost unobserved, the wealth of London, as shown by its rateable value, is always grow- ing. It has almost exactly doubled in the last twenty years. In 1871 the value for rating purposes was £19,963,285; in 1891 {t¥was £389 - 760,069. Of this amazing increment nearly £12,000,000 was due to mew buildings and over £8,000,000, to increased values. The gross rateable values at this t must be about 450,000,000, which a hic £11,000 ROSH Foe Telegraph: A Versutile Bishop. The Bishop of Norwich has reveal- ed his abilities in quite a new light. "If any lady here wants a lesson in simple cookery, how to make flap- jacks or cook bacon, lst them come to me and I will teach them," was the offer made amid applause by his lordship at a parochial gathering on Tuesday "It has been said of a certain King that he was fit to he a King because he had blacked his own boots,'"' continued the Bishop, '"'and, taking that reasoning, I am more fit to be a Bishop than anyone e. I will tell you why. Because IT have cobbled my ewn boots and mended my own breeches.'" His Lordship made these confes- sions in the course of a vigorous speech, in which he maintained that happiness was an internal joy de- pending on internal feeling Some- one in the hall suggested that in- come might, have something fo do with the matter. Then the Bishop declared, in reply, that he bad lived a poorer life than any of his hearers. He had known, when a missionary, what it. "was to sleep upon the ground for months at a stretch with- out even a blanket to lie upon. "I honestly believe,' said tho Ilishop, "that none of you e lod a life of greater hardship.' Genesis of a Cus Word. 'What the dickens!" has nothing to do with the novelist. old as. Shak are, who in the Merry Wives of Windsor makes Mrs. Page "sny to Ford, I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.' And sg the word--a palpable diminutive' of Dick--like : Wilkins and Hodgkins and Watkins--cama into use as substitute for another and portant BD, As to Moore could white: Like. Goths. ho. 1 the Tho played © "Tt is as |' | bs x hn ho n 100 EARLY pit @ to plan for something good in advertising for fall and winter business. 491 AR Circular, or something d and it is alwaysibetter; to) vee | Central Livery PORT PZRRY. EARTILY thanking the pubtic for he 1 iiberal patrons received during the years | have kept a Livery Estab | ment in Port Perry, Iliave much pleasure i in announcing that I have removed MY LIVERY ! to my former place of business Water Street which [am about to largely extend in: crease facilities go that the piiblic may be better accommodated with safe aid desir- able RIGS AT MODERATE CHARGES R. VANSICKLER. Port Perry, June 21; 1900. North Ontario Observer A Weekly Political, "Agricultural and Family Newspaper 18 PUBLISHED AT] FORT FERRY, ONT. KVERY THURSDAY MORNING - i» H. Sige id i ance ; if nov $1.5 TERMS. 2 "tg a token for les paper dssoniinned wil hes than J itn I Bette LETTERS containing 2 money, when addressed to thit Ouice, prepaid and reitiered wil. be at our rigk. ADVERTISEMENTS Toavyrod by Nowparie's and charged according to tho space they occupy. ADVERTISEMENTS received for pr ation, with nctruptions, wl} will u foro Sp, ha Hd vertise tent will be tuken on until paid for, A LIBERAL discount allowed haunts and other who a teeta sone ors Mother THESE terms will in all'6abeu be strictly adhered to JOB DEPARTMENT. . mphlet Hand Bills, Poslers, Programs, Dodgers, Bill Heads, Check | tara thanks to his numei Licensed Anstiopass, Va aluat : FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO ax row | . OF GARTWRIGHT, ISHES at this the ehnmitorsent ° another Auction' Sale' Season' to ah teoms for esteemed favors. In requesting tl and continued patron; very extensive We shilig given nto. hia oh ha pid be attended ¢ . Is re Refer vaplivd foe] TRE. 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' It will pay you to ship-to the fe: of - Bdward Janets & Sovs. ; vid PAINTING Kalsomining, &c rHE uddersiyncd wonld tuke this tunity of thanking bis vumerdis pat tons for their liberal and still fncreasing prtronage: during the time he Las carried ou. the busitess of PAINTING in Port Perry, and would state that he i» better prepared thah ever fo exceuts all Lede : rely on hai cuted, My charges are moderate. I am also prepared to hey Paints, &c,, when coutructing, A A ¢ of patblic p WM. rs Port Perry, Mar. 23, 1583, mol cited. i Lotter Heads, , Wedding J Blaok Forni, | Receip Books, ". Busitiess Card Books, Clredass, Assembly Cards; - Visiting Cards, &o. of every wiyle and color + executed pr wptly and cde, a) ate we Furrow i" te go row G&bg, Combina- 5 od "Blows, 7 Clin picn a ST. Hatrow, Land Rotor, 1 Frame Spting Tooth. Cultivator, Binder 1rtitks, &c. also the folowing, tI the muntifacture of *JOBN AEE, Toronto. High class on ding 3 Bugis and isch Clover H A iler, iol od el WA 4 "1 any prepa iv pi to ml ay pint # farm ives in inwey of . ments, Repairs, &c. » er A call solicited, gen To Went Ji 2 Molonald's Hotel. a + ~ Sealed Yaders" EALED TENDERS will be received by the undersigned the purchase of all of any of the. Parcels-- Farm Properties-- belong ' ing to Mr. John Adiins, advertised. to be sold 'by anttion on the 3rd. = November, aod withdrawn at the 1: A. McGILLIVRA Tem; le Hguding Toi Nov. 30, 1899. ; iH ET HE '