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; ge honea--8 dbo 'Evenings: - WL H_ HARRIS, BALLS. Dftice--South wing Conrt House, ' EVERY THURSDAY MORNING 5 en measured charged according "Programs, oe, Quen St., Port Pecry to foam; 1to3 pm, a Rest Telephone In office and hawse, open oight and 'day over the lines south, ith the residence of G. TL. Rebeon, V.8. fo Perry, Rov: 15, 1804. BAREISTER, &¢., Buccessor to and occupant of the offices of the late F. arnold. Port Perry, ont. arses MONEY To LOAN. Private Funds at & pet cent." 1907, fe b Ww. no. W. Crozier, ARRISTER. SOLICITOR, CONVEYANCER, &e. Office at residence, 6th Con. each (one mile west of Port Perry,)-- Monky To LOAN. Issuar of Marriage Licnses. E. FAREWELL, K.C, LL.B,, County . Crown Attorney, Barrister, County So Sol- ator, &c., Notary Public and Conveyanocer. Whitby, Ont, DENTAL SUF SURGEON. Office Hours--9 to 12 a.m., 2 to 6 p,m Also open Saturday evenings. &r Gold Fillings, Bridge and Crown Work a Specialty. Vitalised Air. DR. R. L.. GRAHAM Sucuessor to De. F. D. MoGRATTAN DENTIST PORT PERRY, ONT. "73. A. Murray, DENTIST, Office over the Post Office. PORT PERRY. All branches of Dentistry, including Crown and Bridge Work successully practiced. Artifical Teeth on Gold, Silver, Aluminum or Rubber Plates. Fillings of Gold, Silver or Cement Painless extraction when required: &ar Prices to suit the times®3 North Ontario Observer A Weekly Political, Agricultural ana bamily Newspaper 18 PUBLISHED AT FORT PERKY, ONE, BY H. PARSONS TERMS, --81 per anoum, if paid in advance ; 1.50 a eo br ir oy th discontinued mon! aad no paper ip. until arrears sre LETTERS containing money, when addressed to thir Woe, prepaid and registered will be at our risk. Nopmriet, and to the space ADVERTISEMENTS rocalse received 38 posite luatrustions y, wil] BB" rad Sati nu] ment will be taken ont until Wh tor. A LIBER, toM: ge Berghe THESE terms will in all cases be strictly adhered to JOB DEPARTMENT. Pamphlets Hand Bills, Posters Dodgers Bill Honds, Checks "Lester Heads, Wedding Invitations, ank Forme Repeipt Books Business Cards and other your. REV.10. §t G. TYNER, L. Th, Rou. Mort "EET Ru of each Month. ~Weeky Kveusong, Wi is oC 8pm. RB. 0. CHURCH, REV =, RICHARDRON Third Sunday at 10.30 . m, + JOS. BAIRD ICENSED AUCTIONEER for Couaty of Ontaria. the OBaxrvir Office Manchester, Jan, 19, Sale Register at v { et Dillon Hinge-Stay Fence Manufactured by the Owen Sound Wire Fence Uo. Ltd., and am prepaied to supply this whole community with the very BEST WIRE FENCE produced on this Continent and at prices that can not fail to satisfy purchasers. . The DiLLoN Fence is without a peer lt is the BEST because it is Heriiie i itis a square mesh ; itis a fj hinge-stay fence, therefore it is impossible to bend the stays, in fact it is the best fence made in this or any other country. Before purchasing a Wire Fence don't fail to inspect the DiLron FENCE. 3 J. H. Brown, EALER IN AGRICULTURAL Inpre- MENTS AND MACHINERY. April 6, 1905. HARNESS returning thanks to the WY for t patronage extended to me for over years, I wouid reepectfull am, as usual, now ready have a Large & Assorted Stock OF DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARNESS which I am determined to sell very CHEAP As an inducement to CasH purchasers <b Down of 10pm enh will be allowed on all Sales from now until Jan, lst next. All werk being && MADE BY HAND&3 and no factory work kept In stock, the super arity of my goods will at once become apparent. ntending purchasers will find that by giving me a: call: before looking elsewhere they can be suited in quality and price, my long experience ib the trade being an indis putacle guarantee that perfect satisfaction ven by any article purchased. Everthing in my line of business kept constantly on hand and repairs neatly and promptly attended to. JOHN ROLPH. Port Perry, Deo. 1. intimate tha or business, a the Patranage soligited: 899. Suacwass| he Most extraordinary cliibs "ever kmown, says (ke Branches og at Blackstock (R. H. son ation, (R, H, Gouls PORT PERRY BRANGH H. G. HUTCHESON, Manager. Manager), Bowmanville, Trin, Claremont Couleoh, En » Oshaway Sto! © was the Sighing club, the members of which were supposed to be waoly #bsorbed fo thinking of thelr weetheafts. Each would hold ¢n his vr a bit 'of ribbon, a lock of hair, a purse oF to the obfeet of his affections, and from time to he would address this ar- ticle In terms of endearment, no other or an face full an nr ene) s are invigorated; a1 draing b you of your Peter E. BEFORE TREATMENT doctors. Like a drowning man' You saved my life. The imp: the nerves, Iwas and continue to do so. We treat V. RG Cotir eure AR BRAS to Me: ou feel Jooreeit aman and know arr and fakirs rol hard ee | spenking belong allowed. On initiation on ieacs: Br TA ne oa eo Re and dsportioncy Pe he moral, oa a i an ea Sh Loreal al o eABnoh a faire. Pont lot quacks £9 NO NAMES USED WITHOUT WRITTEN CONSENT THREATENED wie PARALYSIS "] was troubled with AR, Debtlity rd fusrerie tion consul , though 1 had lost, all "En in ol TH TAtATHCAY rovement was like ured mentally and physio Fagot could fools the hi i Eoin wo 3» e vigor going throu Tove A CURES GUARANTEED OR NO PAY E VEINS, NERVOUS DERILITY, BLOOD AND ER DISEASES and ell Diseases wr. CONSULTATION F a BOOKS FREE. If unable to call write for a Question Drs. KENNEDY & KENNEDY Cor. Michigan Ave. and Griswold St., Detroit, Mich. All letters from Canada must be addressed to our Canadian Correspondence Depart- | the member tind to compose and recite a poem ip honor of hig lady, and ut the neetings & tine was fmposed upon the member "vho did not sigh five times within a guarter of nn hour. Agnin; there wns thé Abduction club, orgunized In 1766 by some well cou- pected IpfSh youths, who banded them. selves together to abduct helresses and good looking young women of gentle birth. As there was a large member: ship, many [forced marriages took place In consequenee of their exploits. Tle evil Lecajp eventually so serious that a special abt of parliament was passed making abnetion a capital offense. The ib: assisted ench other by providing Felays of horses and car- riages whebever necessary. The wealth of the twolsisters Kennedy, daughters of lich: Kennedy of Rathmeuaden manor, Waterford, caused the attention of the members to he drawn to them. Gerald Byme, grandson of Sir Gregory Byrne, and{James Strange Villard were drawn in {he lottery, and the abduc- tion took pice on April 14, 1779. The principals were arrested, tried and condemued and they were execut- ed In the following May, notwithstand- Ing the fm¢t that minlsters of the conrt of Viehna, grandees of Spain and I'rench noWles implored their pardon. The club was Introduced foto England tn 1770, b§t disbanded fn 1802, when (wenty-pinp members remained. The No Kose clnbh was founded by a rentlemnngswho was an unwilling fol- lower af Rem on. i BE fe Club of Caly lig was on "founded by a gentleman who boasted an. enortwously large nose. 'Another member had a chin of the size and shape of a shoe born, another a buge mouth and a fourth very large, pro- truding eves. membership who had not some facial malformation, and all members on {ui RB. A. ADAMS, H. G Bell Phone No. 41 DAVID J. FIRE bee INSUR Real Bstate .HUTCHESON, Bell Phone Office No. 6 Residence, No. 4 ADAMS & HUTCHESON SUCCESSORS TO & DOUGLAS ADAMS MARINE A N G E ACCIDENT Mortgage Loans Steamship Tickets tiation Lad to make a speech in pralse of Aesop, whose portrait hung over the mantelpiece of the clubroom. The Surly club had its meeting place neur Billingsgate fish market, and the membership was limited to eabmen, carmen and watermen, who used to meet once n week to exercrre the art of abusive language in order that they wmizht not lose the reputation they had gained. Any ember found gullty of courtesy or politeness was promptly fined. The Fplit Farthing club was limited In 'membership to men who agreed to Btint themselves to the utmost in order to increase their possessions. One 'Mails Close. The mails are despatched from the Pos Cthice Port Perry as follows : Going North-- 9.00 a. Going South--11.20 a. Going North-- b. 15 p. Going South--10 p.m Central Livery PORT PERRY. EARTILY thanking the public for the liberal patronage reoeived during the many years I have kept a Livery Establish ment in Port Perry, Ihave much pleasure in announcing that I have removea | MY LIVERY to my former place of business Water Street m. m. m. R. VANSICKLER. Supe, J A 1900. Dress al | Wantle Maker ISHES 'to inform the ladies that she has moved to the rooms formerly occupied by her over Mr. Flint's Drug Store where 'ghe "is prepared to execute all or. ders for Dress and . rip in 'a manner ; unsurpassed. | Correctmess of Sty ond: Charm ape. RIGS AT MODERATE ORAROES Fakirs. in India. Some of them will make posture and adhere to it strictly. ers never He down, but remain in dued every passion of mortality. Hard Luck, "Well, how about £7" 3 to me." "Hard lock." "Hard luck for fale Louisville Courfer-Journak A Telephone Tip. | wankee WE, The Flirt. a hydrant--ev .| drink from it, carry, it away--N. P. Willian GB oguimencement EE Fakirs is the name given to a cele brated class of fanatics found in many parts of the east. but more particularly vow to continue all their lives in one Oth- etanding positfon all thelr lives, up. held only by sticks or ropes under the armpits. They pretend to have sub- "Her father and mother both object it's the first thing they have agreed on in years. = 5 ok Operator--Number, please. Subscrib- A flirt is like a dipper attached to 'one is at liberty to no one desires to Licensed Auctionser, Valuator, &c. FOR THE GQUATY OF ONTABIO AND TOWNSHIY to re- member Is reported to bave had his garments ro darned that there was pot enough of the original material left to slow the texture. The memn- berg presented go starved an appears ance that it was sald there was uot an ounce of fat among the lot. The Krerlasting club was limited tn mewbership to a hundred, and the members divided the day among them- selves In such a way that there were always rome present upou the prem- (ses, The great fire of London put an end to this Institution, as the premises were burned down, and the only mem | ber on the premises was nearly burned to death because he refused to leave 1 be had emptied all the bottles on the 'table. ° | members' pipes wus pever allowed to frog ap old woman being kept solely he purpose of attending to it. Dur Ing the fifty years of its existence the members smoked fifty tons of tobacco, 80,000 butts of ale, 1,000 pipes of 200 barrels of brandy in addi- other liquors. Killing club was Hmited in to 'who bad . X killed op- "The conversation at war confined to bullets, slaughter. Tbe president bave killed half a dozeo combat, and the seats at rranged according to the members had slain. At gide table was provided for had only drawn blood d not a lengthy existence, 'the wembers were exe s bave been long In ex- one existed recently in of club bad a its motto along with only ove collar, 50," aid the dealer. So the slight 8 That wan wont away leading the dog by bis | me other article belonging What for? sald the man. ei got only one neck, so 1 guess he can get "Maybe new collar and chain. +n Tess than a w week bo brought the (1 can't' keep Hm" he too obstropulous. 1 put His neck two. ald ie Renter: wt both" and fasten the Chain to the back collar, sud he can tug all night without getting loose. [Ie may com» mit suicide, but he won't get looses New York Times. . Cay Where the Fish Bite. A travellng salesman white ib Chi- cago was Invited to a party given by a friend. During supper stories were called for, and he told the following? | Two Irishmen were fishing one day in | a lake. After nearly all day one of | them threw his line far out and, pull | Ing in, he got a strike. After fishing awhile he finally Innded a fine fish. "Oh," sald he. "Mike, this Is tie only plnce In the luke to fish; we will just mark It." And he cut a notch in hie side of the boat. They all laughed, and the story rele | ing was resumed. There wns one Englishman who kept Inughing all the time during the rest of the evening until time to po homey when he came up to the traveling sales man and safd: "1 was just thinking of | the story you told. It was such a funny story. 1 don't believe I ever heard such a funny story before. Just think, if they had got the wrong boat they would have never known where to fish."--Machinlsts' Monthly. Resigned to Take Effect Yesterday. A Kansas City man said he always preferred red beaded office boys to any other kind, ns he bad found them to bo unusually sagacious and alert, but he discovered recently that some of them are too much so. One day, re- turning from a short out of town trip he went to his office and mentioned In. terrogatively that Ulysses, his promis. | ing assistant, was nowhere In sight, | and the stenographer replied that he | | had not shown up Lifting up the last mail on his desk | be found a note addressed to him in a the Kgyptian fashion of flat | | yesterday. No one was eligible for | very familiar, broad, vertical hand- writing. "Dear Mr. Cross," he read, "plerse accept my resignation to take effect 1 got a better place with work and more pay. Respectively, ysses 8. GQ. Parker." city Star. dia | Two Jokes From italy. A lady testifying In court, when asked her age, replied, "Oh, between | thirty-five and fifty." «There's some difference," said the president tronically. "Don't you know | | your own age?" | "Lxcellency," replied tha witness, *]1 count exactly my money, my wash | list and my clothes because some one | might rob me of them. But as no one | day 1 do not bother to reckon them." can stenl from me a year or even 2 A doctor, amazed to find a patient in a cold bath, began to scold him. "What's this?' he sald. "Did 1 op. der you to take a bath?" "Sure! You told me to take these | pills In water."--Condensed From Milan | Domenica del Corrlere. Artificial Halos or "Sun Dogs." An experiment which Illustrates ina very curious manner the actual philos- ophy of the formation of halos or #sun | dogs" 1s performed as follows: Take a | gotution of alum and spread a few drops of it over a pane of glass. it | will readily crystallize in small, fiat octohedrons, scarcely visible to the eye. | When this pane of prepared glass is held between the observer and the sun | | or even a candle (with eyes very close | | to the smooth side of the glass) there will be seen three different but distinct and beautiful halos, each at a different | | distance from the luminous body. | size of the Chesapeake bay. The fire for lighting the ! t Chesapeake Bay. Few people fully appreciate the great | It 1s the | largest indentation on the Atlantic coast, and it has often been called the Mediterranean of America. On its bos- om the navies of the world could easily float. It is 200 miles long, and in some places it is forty miles broad. It has an area of over 2,000 square miles, and it shoots off into great rivers with an aggregate length of thousands of miles, --Baltimore American. "© Just Like Chess, * frubby--it becomes very trylng, my dear. You're always saying check, check, check! I feel as if life were a long game of chess. Wifey--Well, Ed- ward, If you don't give me something 1 shall bave to pawn, pawn, pawn, and It would still seem like a game of chess, wouldn't it? FLOWERS OF THE NIGHT. They Are Usually Pure White With a Peculiar Glow. As we all know, there are both day blooming and night blooming flowers. The former are generally decked in red, blue, yellow or purple and have ines, spots or markings on their petals which often act as guides to the nec- taries which are visited by the bees and butterflies, The night blooming Bowers. on the other hand, invite the visits of moths or other night dying insects and there fore have recourse to something lke the tasks of the fireflies and the glow- worms. They are nrually pure white and have such a peculiar texture that Fo-- .| they scem to glow with uternal light in the dim shades of evening. § At times ' you might almost fancy that they were stained by nature with | | promise you that for every dollar you | will between this und the Brst of next | the most stupld and flliterate work | some forerunner of lamlvons paint, so sleatly do ther reflect evere, wialble tay 1 ste of the moths, a3 a fynuler book than that myselt," which, of ¢ can't he?® | clelly. for atimults 0 [he 0 "ore Ind blorgoming planta, nre ed to attrac( the senses of winged noe- _turnal fusects.~ St. Louis" Globe-Demo- erat, HELP THAT HELPS. --e Lincoln's Response to His Brother's Request For a Loan. Abraham Lincoln's good sense is | witnessed by almost every act of his life. His sound vicws oft indiscrimi- nate charity and the best means ot oncouraglug thrift amd indostry are | shown by the following letter to oue | | of his brothers: "Dear Johnson.--Your request for | $80 | do not think ft best to comply | with pow. At the various times when 1 have helped you a little you | buve sald to me, 'We can get along | very well now, but fo a very short | | time 1 tind you in the 'same ditficulty again. Now, this cap only bappen by some defect In yowe conduct--what that defect is 1 t¥ink F know; you are not lazy, and still you gre an idler. * * * | "You are now In peed of some ready money, and what | propose is that you should go to work, tooth and nail, for sowebody who will give you movney for it * * and them to secure you a falr reward for your labor 1 now | May get for your labor 1 will then give you one other dollar. * * * You have always been kind to me and I do not mean to be unkind to you. On the contrary, if you will follow my advice you will flnd it worth more than eight times $S0 to you. Affec tionately your brother, | "A. LINCOLN." | --Youth's Companion. Animal Thermometers. Crickets bave a tendency to chirp | synchronously or in time with one an- other. It is claimed that they cbirp more rapidly in warm than in cold weather. The Increase has even been rated at four chirps a minute for each | degree the tewperature increases. Certain saimals pr to act as ba- roneters: © Hw Awhile frogs remain yellow nothing but fine weath- er may be expected, but that should | their coats begin to assume a brown hue bad weather is approaching. A spider seen spinning its web In the morning heralds a fine dny. If seen fn the evening then at least the whole | of the nixht and the following morning | will be fine. If it is raining and the | owl screeches better weather will en | sue.--Harper's. A Slight Mistake. She was a little woman, and she had | entered a department store In a sub- | urban town. She walked up to a big, important looking man neur the dvor and sald: "I want to see some of your hang- | | ga" | "Sorry, ma'am." sald the big fellow, with a smile, "hut we are not gulng to have any today." "None today?! hy, mean? Aren't you the floorwalker?" "No, ma'am: I'm the sheri@. and | I'm glad to say there's nobody to be | hanged today."--Yonkers Statesman. what do you | Tennyson Embarrassed. Great crises affect people differently With some the hair turns white, with others emotion expresses itself in In- consequent apvech. Tennyson when he | first met Frederick Robertson, whom | be much ndmired abd who he knew | admired his poems, Was so Dervons that be could talk to the "much beloved priest" of nothing buat beer. Maternal Pride. First Young Wife--The photographer sald my baby was tbe prettiest baby he'd ever seen. Second Young Wife-- That's strange! Tle suid the same thing about mine. [iret Young Wife-- Well, 1 suppose he saw your baby be fore he saw mine, The Way to Win. About the only way to get things coming your way ts « long battle against their golug the other wuy.-- Atchison Globe. To tre Jong it 18 Gecosury 12 Sey slowly. ~Cicero. _ SWEET REV REVENGE. Mark Twain Proved caved Thet Mis Old Time Chum Was a Liar. When the great man "arrives" the associates of his boyhood days who used to laugh at tbe idea of his ever | "amounting to anything" retire unob- | trusively to the background. But | when the opportunity arises to make an example of some guch skeptical old | friend surely no one could rise to the ! ooccasion more effectively than did Mark Twain on the occasion describ: ed by Albert Bigelow Paine in Har per's Magazine | Ie came to Keokuk fo visit and was | offered §5 a week and board to remain. He accepted. In the-same building ' was a book store in which a young | man bamed Edward Brownell clerked. He and Bam Clemens became great | chums. Sam read at odd moments, at night, in bed, voluminously--uotl] very late 'sometimes. - One night: Bd Rrownell, passing upstairs to 'his 'room on the fans floor, 'poked big died » at the | =) | asked. | the work of Elers. | reply. said Rhodes mildly. "That paper cama | some great Batter and of OF. 'noting Hoch--a 80 'book: Que of thase days ROMANGES OF PORCELAIN. | : Tha Climax to Palisey's Sixteen Years of Misery. The maker of porcelain and pottery. ! bas decidedly the most exciting and | romantic trade fn the world. The great factories of Sevres and | Dresden were founded by Bernard Pal-| | tasy. This man invented white enamel, but it took him sixteen wears to make the iuventlon--sirteen years of hun! ger, misery and persecution, which cul- tiihated io the episode, used in H. A. Jones' play of "The Middlenan,". wherein Pallssy maintained his furnace" fire by burning all the furniture in his house and finally opened the furndce door to find within the glaze which hd had sought throughout the best years of his life. Botigher invented hard potetfata. He was an alchemist, and one day, chaneing to discover that lis powdered wig was unusually heavy. he inguired the cnuse and found that the weight, was due to the kaolin with which the wig was powdered. This knolln was the substance for lack of which Bott! gher's Investigations had for years$ failed. ! When Llers opened a porcelain fac- tory at Burslem, England, be employed men, so that his secret processes might pot become known. But Sammel Ast bury resolved to learn the Flers methe od, and, affecting ignorance and stu- pldity, he got a place in the factory, | mastered nll of Blers' secrets and even-! tually opened a plant of his own, wherein he duplicated in every detail . Terms of Venery- There are terms of yenery which &' good spottsman will still observe fn' bis speech. Thus ke finds a "pack" or; a "covey" of grouse and likewise a | "covey" of partridges, but a "nid" ot pheasants, a "bevy" of quail, a "wisp or a "walk" of snipe and a "fall" of. woodeock. Having found them, ba! vgprings" the grouse and the pheass! ants, but "flushes" the 'woodcock, snipe' and partridges. Further, be will tell] | you that grouse are "challenged" and! | pheasants *"chuckered," that partridges: "Jug," qualls "pipe," woodcocks are "fallers" and snipe are "at walk." Bo the bishop was strictly correct who spoke of "some who jug themselves. | 1ike partridges iuto small coveys."-- London Chronicle. High Priced Copy. During the siege of Kimberley the, editor of the only dally paper there was often hard put to find enough! news. One day fn a clubroom he found Cecil Rhodes reading a fairly new' pa« | per from Cape Town. He borrowed i, and rushed to his own office, where 18 soon reappeared As a special edition, | melling like hot cakes. That same even- ing he met Rhodes, who inqulred, "{Vhere's my Cape Town paper?" "Ob, 1 cut it op for the printers," was tha "Please don't do that again," through by native runners and Lid oie $1,000." ay Ignored the Hint. The midnight stillness of the darks' ened parlor was punctuated by a crash | just overhead. "1 ha-wha-wbat was that, dud-duod- darling? exclaimed the young man. "Merely father dropping a bint." she replied as she snugafed a little cloger-- Philadelphia Record Too Much Seasoning. "What is this thing?" asked the man at the lunch counter. ,"A sandwich, of course. What aia you think it was?' sald the girl be- hind the counter. "1 thought it was a mustard plaster. --New York Mall A. man should never be ashamed to awp he has been in the wrong. It ls but saying in other words thut be 13 wiser today then yesterday. BC BATTING IN BASEBALL. or t LT td RUE The Style gf Sucks | Used by the Slugs gers Varies Grattine, Heavy hitters of the past and ent have always been of widely differ. ent opinions regarding their bats. Dan Brouthers, the veteran slugger, pressed the feelings of most players when he sald the bat makes little att. ference to a batsman as long as ft feels, | comfortable and the owner looks upow. ! his favorite wk with something like affection. It can be well added that the 19. | of the batter sometimes Has little fo do with his hitting, whether ft be the choke effect fnvented by Wille Keeler, or the crouch that was Sam Crawford's stock in trade. Young players maka. the mistake of copying. the style of using 8 club that is as nearly a replien af the wrest that he could ue ot ball a # tothe I, iy Bie --