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". fice and house oben ght @ lines south, sith tite residence of G. L. Robson, oa 8. Port Parry, Nov: 16, 1884. samarsTE. &e., ices of he ie P. FH Yrtud™ Port Perry, --t MONEY TO LOAN. Private Funds at § per cent. b» OL " entrain tig Aes pm Jno. W. Crozier, SOLICITOR, CON VEYANQER, on. a oie at residence, Cs {ome wile west of Port Perry,)-- 6th Money To Loan. . J. Ont. W. A. SANCSTER, DENTAL SUR SURGEON. Office Honre--9 to 12 a.m., 2 to 8 p,m Also open Satarday © evenings. a Gold * Fiflings, 3 Work a Specialty. DR. Crown Attorney, , &e., Notary Public and Conv th io Court House, V Vitalised Air. R. RAVELT K.C., LL.B, Count: x TAR Barrister, Cotnty 8ol- uncer. Whitby, Bridge and Crown L. GRAHAM BSucorssor 10 Dr. F. D. MCGRATTAN REV.G, A Q. XR Lu To Ree Prayer Bunday each month eho Ean Jets th. Weskly rotons, Wet SEE ub R. 0. OHUBOH. BEV --. RIGHARDRON, i Third Sanday at 29: Bam J J os. BATRD ICENSED. AUCTIONEER for the County of Outario. Sale tor at the Opsxnver Office Patrousge' i Manchester, Jan, 19, 1899. Tare HE Dillon Hinge-Stay Fence Manufactured by the Owen Sound Wire Fence Uo. Ltd., and am prepared to supply this "whole community with the very BEST WIRE FENCE produced on this Continent and at prices that can not fail to satisfy purchases. The Ditton Fencr is without a "| peer 1t is the BEST because it is exible; it is a square meth j itis a perfect hiuge-stay fence, therefore it is impossible to bend the stays y in fact it is the best fence made in this or any other country. Before purchasing a \Vire Fence don't fail to inspect the Rushes DENTIST Fence. PORT PERRY, --' -- ONT. J. H. Brown 0a in Dracer IN AcricULTURAL § frre: MENTS AND MACHINER! d J. A. Murray, " DENS, wer the Post Office; PORT PERRY. AN ULranohes of Dentistry, including practiced. Artifical Toot on Gold, Silver, Aluminum Rubber Plates. Fillings of Gold, Silver or Cement Painless extraction when required: #4 Prices to suit the times® North Ontario Observer A Weekly Political, Agricultura} and kamily Newspaper 18 PUBLISHED AT FORT FERRY, ONT. : Se PARSONS enw emeg rn | Large & Assorted Stock ars ars poid op. ETTERS FERS contaluing Heim hea a otwel 0 Shir which Tam determined to rel} very CHEAT Ax an inducement to Casn purchasers apvegmssums measured Sonparlal and 1 a -4 Doound of 10 por soko ADVERTISEMENTS recstved for poblicaton, with wit , a ' ostructions, inserted unt 4 a By accord x verti. | will bo allowed on all Sales from now until ondl sed steed seine Pm Jan, lst next, All work being . A Behe sdvorie Sisioant allowed fo Mephanis aud other wr MADE BY HAN D&E} SRAR terms will in all adhered to | #1 10 factory work kept in stock, th: : 708. DEPARTMENT " Auper iy of my goods will at once become > apparent, Pouphisis . Head Bits, Poste 3; ntonding purchasers will find that by Programs, Dodgers Bll Heads, Checks | giving Jo a oall before loqking elsewhere 15 Tatter Fends, Wedding Invitations, shey ean he saited In qoallty and price, my Books Oiroulers, Assembly Carla, Visiting Cards, &o, ot avery s hi and wy ad - as or Crown and Bridge Work successfully EVERY TIDRIIAY MORNING lank Porms Receipt Books Business Cards I= retorning thanks to the public for th patronage extended tome for over years, I wouid respectfully intimate that um, as napal, sow greatly ft bave 8 will be ven by any article purcha Everthing in m live of promptly attended to. - JOHN ROLPH. Port Perey, Dee. 1 Branches alec at Blackstock (R. H. Coul ', H. " ton Station, ( PORT PERKY BRANCH. H. G. HU TCHESDN, Manager. anager), Bowmanville, Branklin, Claremont p Oshawa, Stouffville, or busincss, and OF DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARNESS long experience in the trade being an indis putaole guarantee. that perfact satisfaction business "kept coustantly on hand and repairs neatly and EUROPEAN ont, DAVID J. & DOUGLAS ADAMS, Bankers and Brokers. =F Agents C- P. R., &e. MONEY TO LOAN (4 per ent upwards--Britigh Capital.) INSURANGE REAL ESTATE | VARICOSE VEINS CURED) #@~ NO NAMES USED WITHOUT WRITTEN Confined to His Home for naa Spd evil natite In yout Tong: on on "Heavy work, severe strain! * Varicose Veins. W. and I was oftes me an BLOOD POISONS are the most oy i voc of a lous rood Soon oye OR MIDDLE AGED your system. LE ER Are oh ad eon Have hig) EADER you it has ER FOR TOME TREATMENT. NOTIC see us cite for gus giivate adie, HAS ,YOUR . BLOOD BEEN ; DISEASED? of Mercury. ry mapprets to Ey NEW LE AGED MEN.Imprudent acts of later, excesses hate, Hoan 'ou feel ym | ms Bf over yo ent y rT Win ELLE Jost hope! ?! Have you any weal done for others it will do for you. No matter or who Has treated write for an honest Bout Free - RR RT (llustrated) on ENT. PRIVATE. N TATE Yr Lr Content. Cont lo names om Drs. KENNEDY & KENNEDY Cor. Michigan Ave. and Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. All letters from Canada my to our Catadian Corres; sssmmsmsmeemms ment in Wi nally call at our Medical Institute in Detroit as we see and treat mo patients in our Windsor offices which are ndence and for Canadian business only. DRS. KENNEDY & KENNEDY, Windear, Dict hn | Y | Wi for a wook 888 up om 1 drfuled sori "and most ous dizenses. They mp the ? Are you ou intending to mar opinion Fre Yrea of C of Charge. Question List and Cost of be addressed indsor, Ont. Tf you desire to for Correspo: ee all letters as follows: PORT PERRY. RARTILY thanking the public for the | Hs liberal patronage received during the many years r have kept a Livery Establish mention Port Perry, Ihave much pleasure in announcing that [ have removea MY LIVE to my former place of Drwinaes Water Street and | Which Tam about to largely extend in- crease facilities so that the public may he better accommodated orl With safe and desir "LICENSES Parr PERRY, On. i |wesiain isept@ ace 35, Abchursh Lan BR the value given. A R. VANSICKLER. art Perry, June 21, 1900, Miss Harrison, Dress and Mantle Maker ISHES to inform the, ladies that gle has moved to the rooms formerly. occupied by her over Mr, Flint's, Drug Store where she is prepared to execute all or. ders Tor Dress and Mantle iin for in a manner uns ; Correctness of Pdnaie' iF ; and C harming Eft. ue charges are consistent with entral Livery .m. | with Promptates fst dispateh and blank notes aupplieg free, Aonors at LIBS. as yous son's cia) sad: a, bi er Why, he almost got nto the Gibber and Squeak soclety!™ "Indeed! How was that?" "Why, you know théy always lit them on the back as a sign they have been selected, and George was hit on the back with such force that it knoclk- €d him down." "Mercy I" "Yes, indeed. He thought of course he bad been chosen, but be found out afterward it was the class bully who | hit him because be didn't like the set: of his collar; But even that's a great honor."~Claveland Plain Dealer. Lave p 4 jbt, Chilco! yoursel| te waiting Bye and broughf the blood to den hagpy rush. There bad been no need tol precipitate its coming; it had been ordained from the first. Whethpr she desired it or no, whether she strofe to draw | to word Jt off, its coming had been fn- ovitable. |Bbe opened her eyes sudden- ly and logied out Into the darkpess, the darkness throbbing with multitudes of | lives, all walting, all desiring fulfil Marr fag e Licns CH. longer aloof. She was kin with all thls mont. 'She was no pitiful,y admirable, s! | matty. Again tears of pride and hap- her eyes. e had waited for came to | ptuess fill | the thing pass. | Loder leaned close to her. She was | conscious of his nearer presence, of his strong, masterful pe thrill that caugl' ber breath she felt his arm about ber shofider and heard | the soynd of his voice. | "Eva be said, "I | understand? 1 love you," and, drawing | her close to him, he bent and kissed ker, With * When when WOIDaN--a8 Speither spoke tra nily in that henson, He the ness in displaying it. fo sho stood Ww: the gallery. Mails Olose. The mails are despatchied from the Pos Otiice Fort Perry as follows : Going North-- 9.00 a. m. Going South--11.20 a. m. Going North-- 5.15 p. m, Going Sonth--10 p.m: GI he ir ep Smaps . GBO. JAUKSON, Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator, &c. FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO AND TOWNSHIY OF CARTWRIGHT, : {SHES at this the commencement, of Sauer Auction uotion Sale. Season to re- in the past shoul 3 mendation as to his itty. All Sale given into 'his will be he aptonded list adilly ning close to the car bis hand through the h In silence be took Eve's D€ld thew In a long, affeo- then he released thens 's band. Fle turned quickly and d the horses had wheeled ay back in ber seat, with and parted lips. It seemed e to her now for the first in the glad, proud, entisfy- things accomplished. This was Leg:Bour, and the recognition of it a yast or future, That they loved re alone was all he knew or ned. Rhe was as much Bve-- r In the primeval garden, and in Irit be claimed her. mpleteness of purpose that he gave to everything. pacity within hlnself, and he meer enough to dread no weak- ding her close to him, he repeated | slaration again and again, as repetition ratified it. He found to question her feeling for him d divined It in a flash of inspira- wns a different matter. dhe carriage passed around the cor- | pf Whitehall and dipped into the 8 eaid, "7 Love you." you know that I uve! Iways--from paid It he bent srl! her Ups, ber forehead, "What are they, and women?' he ed in dis toro. te," he said. "You f worthy of her. friends. Io en Loder were ear- into the darkness. | fraorayt darkness. jwupeiied by her face In a sud- go1d. trae?' manner. t nearer or strove ,f power, desires. longer lonely, no funing, loving hu- | (on Then suddenly |; qonbtedly exists, rsonallty. With a I a pallid, nnshaven face | his forehead. Do you | love you. Aa be dropped luto 7 You look iil." though they were Strain of tonight" por behaved ex- great moment of acted quietly, with | | a #d his own. He had found a action." PE aren (Oraa Lacs (0 ETE. aftér all, but men sald. "They'd under = off stund--every one of them. Nevtrtheless he with | drew his nrm. Her femiine thought for counventionalities mppealed to him. | It was an acknowledgment of depend ency. For awhile thoy sat silent, the light of the streot lamp flickering through | the glass of the window, the hum of | voices and troffic coming to them io @ continuous rise and fall of sound. At frst the position was interesting, but us tbe seconda followed each other It became irksome. Loder, varylug expressions of Eve's face, grew Impatient of the delay, grew sud- | denly eager to be alone agath in the tue desire, forward and opened the window. "Let's flud the meaning of fhis," he #18 there nobody to regulate the As he spoke he balf rose and | leaned out of the window. There was a touch of Jmperious anpoyance in his Fresh from the realtzation ' there was something Irk- some in this commonplace check to his "Yes," he said slowly. the excitement of tonight--and the re- | » Tie laugh | watching the he leaned "Isn't It poasible to get out of this?" Bye beard Lim call to the coachmnan. Tben she heard no more. He bad leaned out of the carriage with the tutention of looking onward the cause of the stead, by that magnetic attraction that he looked directly fn front of him at the group of people | wafting on the little island--at one | man who leaned against the lamp post | in an attitude of apathy--a man with delay. In- and lusterless eyes, who wore a cap drawn low over | He looked at this man, and the wan saw and returned his glance, For a space that seemed interminable they | held cach other's eyes; then very slow- ly Loder drew back into the carriage. his seat Eve | glanced at bim anxi.asly. "John," she said, "has anything bhap- pe hing," he sald. "Nothing to worry about" He spoke quickly, but bis voice bad suddenly become flat. | All the cominand, all the domination, had dropped away from it. Eve bent close to him, ing up with anxious tenderness. was the excitement," she sald, "the her face light- *1t He looked at ber, but he made no ttempt to press the fingers that clasp- | "Yes. It was CHAPTER XXVI. 1 Clifford's inn. aiting In the door- but his own sur adopt. marked with { | ments crowded with already alive to the night's political crisis. by Mr. Chlicotel need of a key. he bent down again d him afresh. bemently, "do you 'Who's there?" "What do you want? tered the room. d NE Bve : she 'sald softly. ny spirit stove, Snder 'the Nght of 'or less commonplace. 's 'whe, lke mark as them. Sclet HE next morning at 8 o'clock, and again without breakfast, Loder covered the distance be- | tween Grosvenor square and He loft Chlicote's house hastily--with a haste that only an ur gent motive could bave driven him to ! His steps were quick and un- even ns be traversed the Intervening streets; his shoulders Incked their de- cislve pose, and his pale face was shadows | eyes--shadows that bore witness to the sleepless night spent in pacing Chil cote's vast and lonely room. By the | !curfoun effect of clreumstances the | likoness between the two men had never been more significantly marked than on that momming of April when Loder walked along the pave- early workers and brisk with insistent news venders | Inst | beneath the 19, value of The irony of this last element in the | day's concerns came to him fully when ono newshoy, more energetic than bis fellows, thrust & paper in front of him. "Sensation in the 'ouse, sir! Government defeat!" For a moment Loder stopped and his | | face reddened. The tide of emotions | still ran strong. His hand went In- stinctively to his pocket; set. He shook his head and walked on. With the same hard expression about his mouth, he turned into Clifford's lun, passed through his own doorway and mounted the stairs. This time there was no milk can on the threshold of his rooms and the door ylelded to his pressure without the With a strange sensa- tion of reluctance he walked Into the narrow passage and paused, uncertain r bushed bis face, and which room to enter first. As he stood ssonal contnct, the slight, hesitating a volce from the sitting | Pa go suggestive of room settled the question. Bt it called (rritably. Without further ceremony the In: the very truder pushed tbe deor open and en- As he did so be drew a quick breath--whether of disappoint "ment or rellef it was impossible to say. _ moment the horses , Whether he bad hoped for or dreaded it, Chilcote was conscious. As Loder entered he was sitting by the cheerless grate, the ashes of yes- 3 ' terday's fire showing charred and d by bis own feel- | "dreary where the sun touched them. 'His back was to the light, aud about 'his shoulders was an old plaid rug. Behind him on the table stood a cup, 'a teapot and the can of milk; farther beside one Delf & Letiiel wisest B 50k WBE. 4 In all strong situations we are more "Loder's first re- he glanced round the digors iting. '& passage. dered room shied rangely inef- Speech then his lips od 'over bis owl £7 about, with an abrupt poled pre his coat and threw I on a chair; then, crossing Celiberately to the fire place, he began to fake the ashes from the grate. Within a few minutes he had a fire | cracking where the bed of dead cin- {gers had been, and, having finished the | task, be rose slowly from his knees, | wiped his Lands and crossed to the to- | . ble. On the small spirit stove the ket- _ tle bad boiled, and the cover was Mft- ing and fulliog with a tinkling sound. Blowing out the flame, Loder picked up the teapot and, with hands that wero evidently accustomed to the task, get about waking the tea. During the whole operation he never ' spoke, though all the while he was fully consctous of Chilcote's puzeled gaze. The tea ready, he poured it into the cup and curried it across the room. "Drink this he sald lagonically. "The fire will be up presently." Chllcote extended a cold and shaky | hand. "You see'-- he began { Put Loder checked him almost sav- | ggely. "I do--as well as though I had followed you from Piccadilly last night. You've been hanging about, Ged knows where, till the siall bours of the morn- ing: then you've come back--slunk back, starving for your infernal polson and shivering with cold. You've set- | tled the first part of the business, but the cold has atlll to be reckoned with. | Drink the tea. I've eoinething to say to yon." He mastered his vehemencs | and, walking to the window, stood looking down into the court. His eyes | were blank, Lis face hard; his ears | heard nothing but the faint sound of Chllcote's swallowing, the click of the For a time that seemed interminable be stood motionless; then, when he judged the tea finished, he turned | slowly. Chilcote bad drawn closer to | the fire. He was obviously braced by the wermth, and the apathy that rung | about him was to some extent dispel- lad. 881 moving slowly, Loder went toward him and, relleving him of the stood looking down at him. " he Eid very quietly, "T've rey 4 N ~thething must end." | After be spoke thero was a prolonged pause; them, es if shaken wAth sudden | | consciousness, Chilcote pose. The rug | dropped from one shoulfer and hung down ludicrously; bis hand caught the back of the chatr for support; his un- | ghaven face looked absurd and repul- sive In its sudden expression of seared | inquiry. Loder involuntarily turned | away. | "1 mean it," he sald aawly. "It's over; we've come to the end." "But why?" Chilecote articulated blankly. "Why? Why?" In his confu- | glon he could think of po better word. | | "Because I throw ft up. My side of the bargains off I" | Again Chilcote's lips parted stammer- | ingly. The apathy caused by physical | exhaustion and lis recently administer. | | | ed drug was passing from him; the | hopelessly shattered condition of mind | and body was showing through it Ike a skeleton through a thin covering of | flesh. "But why?' he said again. "Why?" Still Loder avolded the frightened surprise of his eyes. 'Because I with- | draw," he answered doggedly. | Then suddenly Chilcote's tongue was { loosened.' "Loder," he cried excitedly, | "you can't do it!- Great heavens, man, vou can't do it!" To reassure himself | he laughed--a painfully thin echo of hig old sarcastic laugh. "If irs a matter | | of greater opportuntty," ho began, "ot | more money"-- But Loder turned upon him. "Be quiet!" be sald ro menaciugly that the other stopped. Then by an ef- | fort be conquered himself. "It's not a matter of money, Chflcote," be sald quietly. "It's a matter of necessity." He brought the word out with diffi- | culty. Chllcote glapced up. "Necessity 7" be repeated. "How? Why?" The reiteration roused Loder. "Be- cause there was & great scene in the house last night," he began hurriedly. "Because when you go back you'll find that Sefborough has smasbed up over the assassination of Sir William Brice- Fleld at Meshed and that you bave made your mark In a big speech, and because'-- Abruptly he stopped. The thing Lie had come to say--the thing be had meant to say--would not be said. Either his tongue or his resohition fall- ed him, and for the lustant he stood. as silent and almost as lll at ease as his companion. Then all at once !n- spiration came to him, In the sugges- tfon of a wellnigh forgotten argument by which he might influence Chilcote and save bis own self respect. "It's all over, Chilcote," he said more quietly. "It has run itself out." And in a dozen sentences he sletched the story of Lil Nan Astrupp, her past relations with himself, her present guspicions, It was pot what he had mesnt to say; it was not what he bad come to say, but it served the purpose--it saved him hu- miliation. , Chilcote listened to the last word. nervously back into his chair. "Good heavens, man," be sald, "why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you warn me, instead of filling my mind swith your political position? Your political po- sition" He laughed unsteadily. The long spells of indulgence that had weakened his alrcady maimed faculties ghowed in the laugh, In the sudden breaking of his volce. "You must do! someting. Loder!" he adding nervousts. moved in both Tie aster time ha repeated Mo njuse | tion, reasoning, espostulating, insleb: Ing. It almost seemad that he fo some strenuous lawisibie foree rH | than the shattered man betere Mm. It was the first real clash of personal ties. He felt it--recognized it by ins i stinot. The sense of domi | fallen on Bim; he knew potent In the other's hands. ever he might attempt fn moments solitude he possessed me voice in pron. | ence of this | For awhile be struggled--he ald Bght, he struggled to resist--then, Hip ing his eyes, be met Loder's. what will you do?' he sald weakly. bat | aslde. London." sliting 7 room, by a cloud of smoke; a pipe was be- tween his lips and the morning's newspapers lay in a heap beside hig elbow. To the student of htmanity bis attitude | It was the meled strength. ing nothingness, and toward this blank foe. cup against his teeth. | ture one portion of his consciousness a struggliug and ns yet scarcely sem | tient portlon--pushed him Inevitablyy while another--a vigorous, persistent; human portion--cried to him to pal So actual, 80 clamorous, was this si | past had been brought each ine | | stinctlively he turned aside. | as though he saw the action he Then, as the other finished, he dropped |. i. Chileote moved nervously in his seal, had tovinetble sstond "And Loder returned his questioning ganéy almost |mmediately be { "17' he sald. "Ob, I shall leavs { roll CHAPTER XXVIL 1 UT Loder did not leave London | and the hour of 2 on the day, off! Chllcote found him again fm B following his dismissal He sat at the center table Sorreiings was Intensely interesting. attitude of a man tram- the knowledge of hie Before iim as he sat smole strotchod a future of absolute by unceas mental combat that had raged ingly since the moment of gia voir] ciation that at last in physical | to It he pushed back his chatr. "It's too late," he said aloud. "Tw fool. It's too late." Then abruptly, though In direct response to his thought, the door opened and Chllcots; walked [oto the room. Slowly Lodor rose and stated ft hint The feeling he acknowledged to hime pel! was anger, but below the anger very different sensation ran riotously) strong. And It was in time to this sees, oud feeling, this sudden, lawless that his pulses bent as he turned & face on the intruder. "Well "* he sa!' sternly. But Chilcote was lmpervious to ness. He was mentally shaken and dis tressed, though outwardly irreproache-! ble, even to the violets In the lapel his coat--the violets that for 4 wi pr. to the door of Loder's rooms by Eve'd] mald. For one second, as Loders eyed] rested on the flowers, a sting of ungowels ernable jealousy shot through himg then as suddenly It died away, i seded by another feeling--a feeling of} new, spontaneous jay. Worn by Chil cote or by himself, the flowers were sl symbol! "Well? he said again in a gentied volce. k Ohilcote had walked to the table and} afd down his hat. His face was Ww ! and the muscles cof his lips tw! nervously ans he drew off his gloves. "Thank heaven, you're here!" he shortly. "Give me somefhing to ry In silences Loder brought out whisky and set it on the table; then 1o| As gd) tally figured Culicote's furtive glance," the furtive movement of his fingers to his waletcoat pocket, the hasty drop plog of the tabloids loto the gl is For an Instant the sense of his connivance came to him sharply; he next, he flung It from him. The bw" man, inner voice was whispering 1%®* old watchword. The strong man has no time to waste over his weahef brother! Ww When he heard Chilcote ny down MW tumbler he looked back again. "Well? what is It? he sald. "What have yas * come for? [He strove resolutely Pe keep his voice severe but, try as might, he could not quite subdue the eager force that lay behind his words) Once again, as on the night of thet second Interchange, life had become phoenix, rising to fresh existence while he sifted tts edhes. "Well? be sald once again. 2 Chlicote had set down his glass. He was nervously passing his handkes- chief across his lips. There was some=- thing in the gesture that attracted Le. der. Looking at him more attentively, - he saw what his own feelings and thy? other's conventional dress had bl him to--the almost piteous panie excliement In his visitor's eves sein, [70 BR --_-- she "Hated esere "1 hate flattery." she sald. "Qf course you do." he replied. | permitted him to press assist le owai==Chicago Parson--Do you take this' woman better or for worse? Well, T can't exactly say. think it's for better, but --Life \