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4 D0ws 'and Residenoe, Queon 8t., Tort Perry foe hours--S te 10 ami Ttad pm, aed Ryvenings, shone in office and house, open night and "day over the lines south, connected - the residence of G. L. Robsom; V.8. Part Perry, Nov. 15, 1894. Ws BALL BARRISTE ho of te ih : i ns 81 fo Port Perry, - Ont. MONEY TO ToAN. Private Funds at 4 per cent. bh won "Jno. A Crozier, ARRISTER, Sortcitor, CONVEYANCER, i" Office at residence, 6th Con. : bh (ome mile west of Port Perty,)-- © Moxey To LoAN. fssuer of Marriage Licnzes. , BE. FAREWELL, K.C,, LL.B, County" Crown Attoraoy, Jarstgr, County Sol- 3 ., Notary Publie and Conveyaucer. shor ke, SH Court House, Whitby, Ont. WA SANGSTER, DENTAL 8URGEON. Toy Office Houra--9 to 12 a.m, 2 to 6 p,m .Also open Saturday evenings. . ear Qold Fillings, Bridge and Crown , Work a Specialty, Vitalised Air. DR. R. L. GRAHAM * | Bijcosssor 0 Di. F. D. 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IT retarning thanks to the public for t patronage extended tome for over years, I wonid respectfully intimate tha um, as usual, pow ready for busincss, a have a OF DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARNESS which I am deterwined to sell very CHEAP Ar an inducement to Cann pnrchasers <§ Daoounk of 1 gor ouk- will be allowed on-all Snles from now until Jan, let noxt, All work being EF MADE BY HAND®3- and no factory work ken? in stock, tha '| saper "rity of my goode will at ence hecome reut. tending' purchasers will find that by fe a aiid repairs neatly'and + JOHN ROLPH. Corretrss of po gAD OFFicy TORONTO Branches also at Rlackstock (R. H. Coul Nestleton Station, R Fri is of ae collect: ing drafts, etc . 153 PORT PERRY BRANCH H. G. 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FIRE we INSUR Real his ADAMS & HUTCHESON SUCCESSORS & DOUCL Steamship Tickets MTice No. 4 Beil Phe ne 5 No. } Residence, TCHESOX, TO sLAS ADAMS MARINE ACCIDENT ANGE Ilortgage Loans 2 7 | | "Mails Close. The mails are deapatolivd from the Poa, Office Port Perry as follows 3 Going North-- 9.00 a. m. Guing South--11.20 a. mn. Going North-- B.15 p. m. Going South--10 p.m Gaga, PORT PERRY. RTILY thonking the pubic for the ie atronage received during the yy have kept.a Livery Establish prec fb 'Port Perry, 1 have much pleasure in -sunoqucing, that I haye remoyca 5 Yan i to" larg "ext creas facilities so that the bilo may be better isouidaped with safe gud deair- RIGS AT sopERATE OMARGES XR sod ANSIGRLER. Smid E] ct Our, i) are consistent. with whould be. given oS Hedge i San. a word » | BSE A pled | A maiden well advancea 1b years | used to wait every morning for the . postman, & bachelor of about her age. | and ask him if there was not a letter ! for her. Several weeks passed thus, but the anxiously expected letter did not arrive. Finally one morning the postman gald to her, "Well, tomorrow | '| you shall get your letter, if 1 have to" | write it myself." y "That's right; do It," replied the old 4 , maid. "I shall be delighted to ac. cept it." "Well," sald the postman, smiling, "what do you want me to Wwrite--a business letter or a love letter?" "If you mean business please a love letter," was her blushing ~London Apswers, 'Gatohing Redhot Rlyete. This would pot seem to be a pl thers are men who catch: rivets: witha pair of tongs--just reach out for them and nip a redbot rivet out of the air with the nipper part of the tongs in pil the same wag that a bird nips a ng feather' out of thé ale"with its i The feat ia commonly seen by Jems ao) watch workmen on high ~Harper's Weekly. dh 'ba spared $0 iniopast toa sales Senate ¢ to him snccesees:- His very extensive practice in fn shor pak Sault, ropom ind wise Hospi he Er | "1903, 1904. by Harper & Brothers ) | 1d io a low voice and | tation, "I want you to ' all this--from the moment from. the moment 1 under- had you In my thoughts-- ne else." her, eyes to his face. realtze"-- he began afresh. w "what this--this thing 1 | moans Stil mained silent. "It Te : that after" tonight there will "he in# such person in London as John Tomorrow the man who was kpgwh by-that name will be found In his a% ; bis body will be removed, and at the post mortem examination it will bes! ed that he died of an over dose of mprphia. His charwoman will Identify as a solitary man who lv- od respéctably for years and then sud- denly wen down hill with remarkable speed. It, Fill be quite n common case. Nothing of Interest will be found In his rooms. Nojrelation will claim his body. After dhe ysual time he will be given the usual birial of his class. talls Are horrible, but there are times when we must look at the horrible slde of life, Doce lite ls Incomplete with- out ft, . "Thesé things 1 speak of nre the things tha§ will meet the casual eye, but intour sight they will have a very ls 2 rl "Eve," lie sald, more vehemently, "a $ UuL again suv awer. These de- | whole chapter in my life has been clos- | od tonight; shut the book and throw it away. I'm thinkipg of you. Remember, thinking, of you, whatever: the difficulty, no harm shall and my first Instinct is to | But | I'm | Whatever the trial, | ¢ome to you. You have my word for that, "Im venar sq I'll remain there till a reasonable © {excuse can be given for Chilcgte's going abroad. I will avold Irie 111 cut politics--whatever | ~ wie Than: ,at-the first. reasonable | moment 'will do what I would do | now, tonlght, if it were possible. I ie go away,Ustart afresh; do in another country what I have done In this." ment before had left ber face. other country ?* she repeated. otber country ?* "Yes, a fresh career In a fresh coun- try, something clean to offer you. I'm not too old to do what other men have Aone Ile paused, and for a moment Dve fooked ahead at the gleaming chaln of lamps. Then very slowly she brought her glance beck again. "No," she sald very slowly. "You are not too old. But there are times when age--and things "In an- It scems to me that your own incllna- tion, your own individual sense of right and wrong, has nothing to do wiih the present moment. The ques- steadily upon his--"whether you are free to go away end make a new life, ® phantom light when--when there's a lantern waiting to be carried." Her breath eaught. She drew away from him, frightened Bnd elated by her own words. Loder turned to ber sharply. "Evel" "You don't know what you're saying," «he added quickly. "You don't under- stand what you're saying." Eve leaned forward again. "Yes" ge sald slowly. "I do understand." Her voice was controlled, her manner | conquered by strength greater than her "pluess, : "1 understand it all," she repeated. I understand every point. It was pot ntity, tbat made you care for me, brought about--his death. 1 don't 5 involuntarily, she exclaimed. "No; don't You: are going to see fality, rushed back futo ber claim--a. n't you know what It the country. You de, but duty is differ pledged yourself. You aw back." again. "Don't say 'all that is In your n with you now to Gros | There was a long silence; then Eve | turned to him. The apathy of a mo- | "In an- | Meggendorter Mintter, - Agnin Loder made : = eu nr, - "Wait!" she exclnimed. "Walt! You belleve you have acted wrongly, and you are desperately afrald of acting wrongly again, But Is it really truer, more loyal for us to work out a long i probation In grooves that are already oyerfilled than to marry quietly abroad | nnd fill the places that huve need of us? That is the question 1 want you to an- Is it really truer and nobler? Oh, 1 se the doubt that Is I yous mind! You think it finer to go away and make a new fife than to live the life that ts waiting you--because one is independent and the ether means the use of another man's name and another man's money--that is the thought In your mind. But what Is it that prompts that thought?' Again her voice caught, but her eyes did not falter, "I will tell you. It is not self racrifice, but pride." She said the word fearlessly. A flush crossed Loder's face. "A man requires pride," he sald in a low volce. "Yes, at the right time. the right time? Is it ever right to throw away the substance for the shad- | You ray that I don't understand-- 1 realize more tonight I ow? don't realize. than I have realized in all my life. "My consent or refusal les with--mgy wife." know that you bave an opportunity that can never come again and that it's terribly possible to let it slip"-- She paused. Loder, his hands rest ing on the closed doors of the cab, sal very- silent, with averted eyes and bent lke nge--are not the real consideration. head. "Ounly tonight," she went on, "you told we that everything was crying to you to take the easy, pleasant way. Then It was strong to turn aside, bul tion is whether you are justified jn go- now It Is not strong. It Is far nobler tc fog away"--she paused, her eyes fixed {ill an cmpty nlche than to carve one | for yourself. John"--she suddenly leaned forward, laying her hands oves svhether it 18 ever justifiable to follow bis--' Mr. Fraide told me tonight thai fn his new nicistry my--my husband was to be undersecretary for foreign | affalrs." The words fell softly, so softly that to ears less comprebending than Lo der's thelr significance might have he cxclalmed; then his tone changed. been lost, as his rigid attitude and un- responsive manner might have con- veyed lack of understanding to gny eyes less observant than Eve's. For a long space there was no word spoken. At Tast, with a very gentle pressure, her fingers tightened over hid [conv taced. She was no longer the girl ands, "John," she began gently, but the . She was the woman strenuously word dled away. She drew back Inte 'demanding her right to Individual bap- her seat as the cab stopped before Chil: cote's house. Simultaneously as they descended the hall door was opened and a flood of me fa, made you cbange your of warm light poured out reassuringly into the darkness. "1 thought It was your cab, sir" on igh I believe it was Crapbam exclaimed deferentially as Terr at iy the 3 a Sano Eu remembrance of how dimly filled with the be- = gravely dignified surroundings that bad hier self possession lay marked his first entry into this bazard: | depth--uncommon fn wo ous second existence, Eve turned te studied ber now the In- Loder for the verdict upon which the flamed Into conyiction. future hung. Into the ball. , "Mr. Fraide It! to sce you this half him into the study." in the warm light, amid the As she turned his face was still bid gesture she raised her den from her, and his attitude be trayed nothing. "John," she sald slowly, "you know jo them--you mast do 80-- why he is here. You know that he has to personally receive your shone--the color, the consent." Bhe ceased to speak, there was a mo | ment of suspense, then Loder turned: sat softly, "I love you, His face was still pale and grave with, 3, but there is something the gravity of a man who bas but re: greater need cently been close to death, bit beneath the gravity was mnother look, the old: expression of strength and self rell- He 'made no ges- , ance, tempered, raised and dignified by a new humility. J Moving forward, he held st hie hands. "My consent or refusal," he sald very quietly, "lies with--my wife." THE END. Ths Retort Courteous, Miss Oldwun-1I've. refused many, (absentwindedly) -- Very thougbdtful aud considerate of you, I'm sure.~ But is this | many offers of marriage. = Gayboy A TOTAL "Mt le'a a ang Most Won- One of e sist eo and Interv 'etingd » 0 be seein an eclipse | oe om I: 4oquite s remarkably | iro ma: el te time or the total epee! | druws near the darkbess Increases. | About ten mivutes before totality the * | dnrkness cin almost be 'felt. Men's | tacos show a copper color, which makes them look ghastly. Birds cease their songs and go to roost. Flowers { close, rud au awhd stillness rests upou all the face of Nature. The tem- | perature falls and dew appears. Then away to the west we sce the shadow ['of the noob coming with almost terri- | fying swiftness, It comes at the rate of 1,000 mies au hour and pounces i upon us so suddenly that we are star tled. Looking at the son, we see it wholly coyered by tte moom. but surrounded by a brilllant light that flashes out all around ft. This Is the corona and is veen only during total eclipses. The eclipse lasts only for four-or five min- ates, nnd then the shadow of the moon purses us, and we can see the sun again. £ If we should ever be .so fortunate as to get a chance to see a total solar eclipse we should count ourselves Incky indeed. It would be worth go- lng many mlles to see. OLD ROMAN BATHS. ! ing Halls and Libracies. The ancient Romans were cxtrava- gantly found of bathing. They got thelr | potions about the bath as a luxury from the Greeks, and at one time there were vearly 900 public bathing estab- Hshwents in Rone, some of which | were the most beautiful und elaborate structures {on the world. The baths of the Emperor Diocletian covered more thau balf a square mile and contained, besides fimense basins and thousands of marble recesses, rhe aters, temples, halls for feasting, prom- enades planted with trees, libraries, schools for youth and academies for | tho discussions of the lenrned. | batbers sat on marble benches below | the surface of the wuter, around the | edge af the basins, scruping themselves | with the dull kolves of metal aud | | ivory and taking occasional plunges | into the water. | .Dissipated 'Romans woaold+ spend | whole days in the bath, secking rellef | from overindalgence in enrting and | drinking the night before [iverybody, | even the emperor, used these baths, which were open to every one who | chose to pay the price of admission It was not usual for the old Romans | to have baths In thelr houses, though | at a date 1,000 years before that, or 8,500 years ago, the noblemen of an- cient Greece had thelr dwellings sup- | plied with baths of terra cotta. He Hadn't Heard of Bocrates. A big pollceman who walks n beat near the Greek settlement in the north side always gets nngry when he hears this told at hls expense, but there are those who will vouch for its truth: About a month ago & young man, very much excited, rushed up to this policeman and exclalmed: | "Say, Jim, did you Greek by the uame of Socrates taking poison P* "1 did not," Jim replled lunocently. Then he added, thoughtfully stroking his chin: "Bure, that's the Grst time I ever heard of a Greek golng up against anything stromger than what he sells fo his own coffee houses. | guess I'd better look this np and bulletin all the detalls to the department. It's an un- usual case."--Kansaa City Journal Paul Jones' Promise. After the great 8ght io which John Paul Jones fn the Bonhomme Richard made splinters and shreds of the Brit- Ish vessel SBerapis the kogllsh govern ment generously decided that, though vanquished beyond a question, the cap- tain of the lost vessel had behaved with becoming bravery and deserved promotion to the rank of commodore. John Panl Jones beard of this promo- tion and its cause and sald, "Well, by George! If 1 ever meet that chap again I'll make him an admiral" Mpzart's Work. Mozart aR years. His frst mass was composed when be was less than ten years of age, and the enormous quantity of his compositions was the work of the succeeding twea- ty-seveu years. Mozart wrote forty-one symphonies, fifteen masses, over thir ty operas and dramatic compositions, | forty-one sonatas, together with an im. menre number of vocal and concerted pleces In almost every Jine of art. | The Missing Word. A prospective woman tenant through the typewriter's omission of one al tinportant litle word of two letters re ceived the following startling state ment: "Dear Madam~You ean have the flat provided 08; "Fula and re decorate yourselfl" GHOSTS OF OF THE LIVING, A Case That Throws Light on the | Problem of Apparitions. 1t Is not at all the knpernuatural as the only sutfictent : explauntion of sppatitians, . lu truth, | there Is one loxurmg obstacle to regarding them. Ba, supernstural alag circumstance that I.clothed. It is quite there really may be of persons, 'ond thought would contend for a. tuo. ment that there can be ghosts of ' clothes. Nevertheless: apparitions are always clothed awd, someliies in gar SOLAR, ECLIPSE. | 3 cn They Held Theaters, Temples, Feast. | The | hear aboat 4 | to résort to manifestations, and. that 1, the simple bat nobody who gave the matter a sec seen as wn ent Aired 0D earth. Aside from (his, there is the esting and hy vo mena uh cfreomstniice that holies times hangted. by appa the dend. but -of the of one cane ln which a b n me. | room, oue seated sofa. and the visitor was 'find that they did not offer fo Intre~ duce him to the young lady--aid siot! 18 fact, seer to see her, Latera guess at a week end party saw. the sam paritivn In the same house, and it wrRS sech a third time by one of the sert- ants. No light was thrown on the strange' affalr until, a year afterward, the wife of the son of the family arrived from Australia to pny a first visit to hem husband's relatives and was immed)" ately identified by the servant as the/ | figure she had seen. The two visttors who also bnd seen the apparition subs sequently wade the same identifica- tion. Bince It 1s Incredible to suppose thay a person can be in two places at the' same tiime--so that a lmdy can be both in Australia and in a beuse thousands of miles from Australla--it is a legit mate inference that phantasms, whethe er of the living or of the dead, are de' vold of objective reality, are, that ts to say, always and obly 'hallucinations, --Metropolitan Magazine. 4 NERVE WON HIM LIBERTY. { Quick Wit and Daring Ruse of a Rusa sian Revolutionist. | Nowhere outside of the pages of fic. | tion would we expect such an iegideng as the following from the pe! | story of the Russian revolutiomist Na rodny: Narodsy had just jumped from a window to escape the police. "When 1 scrambled to my feet I discovered | myself in the yurd and among half & | dozen soldiers. 1 was without overs' | cont and bat--a very suspicious Sguré | --and, having neither, 1 could not es | cape even could 1 get by the soldiers who surrounded me," he said "1 jerked a card from my pocket-- | to this day I do uot khaw what It wag | ~and handed it to one of the soldlersy' 'Here is my card,' 1 said rapidly, ® am a member of the secret police. Onl of these revolutionists is trying to es-' | cape. 1 am after him. Quick! Give, {-me your coat and bat! "Ile automutieally obeyed. 1 stored. on his coat and hat aud to all appear' unces wns a soldier of the czar, K walked past the guarded gate "of fhe yard out into the street. Eefore me were thousands of soldiers. 1 saw my fricuds being brought doww from the ball and put luto the black vans, abou which stood guards of Cossacks. BE marched through my friends (all eff that group are in prison today savé ouly myself and the friend who es= caped with me) with the air of a sole! dier on a very important message and' pressed on through the mass of otbeR soldiers that filled the street." | | | | The Change of a Wérd. "Spavking" did not suggest chastise ment originally. It was unknown ta, Johnson in thls sense. To bim a! | "spanker" roeaut "a person who takes' long steps with agility." Rapid 'aro-f tion seems to be the root idea of the, word "spank." which is pot merely representutive of the sound of the act, as "slap" and "smack® are. The low German "pakkern." or "spenkern," ta: run and spring about quickly, is close! to the original meaning: bence & "spanking pace," a "spanking breeze™' and a "spanker," in the sense of am active and sturdy persom, § 3p { No Immediate Dangeh The Parson (about to improve thé golden bour)--When & man reacBes your age, Mr. Dodd, he cannot. in the nature of things, expect te lve vers, much longer, and I-- The Nonagenariap--1 dunno, parAOB. 1 be stronger on my legs than 1 were when | started!--London Opinion. * ' Mistaken idea. "It may be laid down as a hroad proposition," said the professor of po-. litical economy, "that you cannot ge something for vothing.™ ATT "1 once gut the measles for nothing, professor," interrupted -the young uifn with the wicked eye.--Chicago Tribune. N Hh Baten, "Of course 1 don't want te ¢ but 1 don't think it was altogethee." right for David (0 say 'all mes ay Bars. "Well, at any rate, it was rafer a to pick out one man and say if te him --~Philadelphia Ledger. Willing te Obfige. Nervous Visttor-- Will. your dog hits mae, ttle boy? Eager Little Roy--I¢ you want to see | can sick bid on you Baltimore American, x 3d TE Bending Woods Wood may beimade seft and. by steeping it in a concentrated sgig-' tio of common. table salt to which somé acetate of iron has been added. A better method is to immerse 'wood in a bath made by dissviving twenty-five parts: of / calcium