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TING -- "Tur Mosr MODERN SIVLES... § © ../. AND AT Low PRICES. INEY. fo emi «S300 s : 5 with me for mediate in- yestment at lowest rate. + HUBERT L. EBBELS, Barrister, Port Perry. + PORT- PERRY, JAN. 1, 1913. The Emergency Contribution. i "The orgument urged against an © Emergency Contribution is that - payment of cash would be equiva- "" Jest to the payment of tribute + and therefore derogatery to Cana- "* dian dignity. At the same time it . is conceded that Canada ought to have ships which she could lend in UL tie of need to the Imperial Navy; or, put in another way, that Caneda but for her connection with the >, British Empire would new be obliged to possess ships of her own To obtain such ships the expendi- fure of cash would be necessary. Contractors would receive the cash and Canada the ships, Nothing derogatory about that, Yet the only difference in the "proposed contribution will be that the Ad- "mirality will receive the cash in trust to turn it without delay into * up to-date ships. These ships will "be pone the less Canadian because they are of the character really re- quired. Built with*Canadian mon- ey, and christened with Canadian names they will ultimately form part of the Canadian wing of the Imperial Navy. The cashis but " the chrysalis. The result will be ships of which Canada can be proud It 1s proposed to substitute Dollars Mor Daring, but to meet a situation with present action rather than vient regrets. A or, has been in receipt of thany letters of congratulation in regard to his order in removing the immigration restrictions on New- foundlanders coming into Canada. Former residents of the Ancient Colony have particularly appreci- "ated the move of the minister and fave written him thanking him for the courtesy he has extended to Newfoundland and also expressing the hope that the Borden govern- . dent may be successful.in bringing {He island into confederation. They also hope that the move will result in more Newfoundlanders coming fo Canada instead of going to the Woited States. * Brighten Your Home for 1913. What will brighten Jor hotié beiter 'than a beautiful, pleasing _ _pictare on the wall. "Mother's er is is just the picture you want. Itis fit for any home in « ~ Canada and can be bad free by ibscribing to The Family Herald and Weekly Star of Montreal, the greatest and best family newspaper sprinted. It costs only one dollar a and no home can afford to be without it. Every present sub- 'geriber to that: paper should send pictute to muke is renewal now and get a copy of = \ oi your fight "His interesting letter will by our readers with much satisfaction: -- [ y.--It will be seen by advertisement elsewhere in this issue that Messrs. J. W. Collins and G, Schell are prepared to execute Taxidermy in a manner that cannot fail to give satisfaction. "They aré liso prepared to pay the highest prices for the skins of wild animals, Parties wishing Taxi- [Qernly pe as it should be will find it toftheir advantage to. pat- renize these expert taxidermists. EF The High School will re. open aftéf the Christmas vacation , January 6th, 1913, at - ol tten on e- verse &id b Card, on which is a highly embellished picture of a magnificent residence backed with green foliage and beautiful flowers, is from the fluent, penchant and somewhat sharp pen of a [ormer citizen of Port Perry, who now, however, is an estimable resident of a prosperous town in Southern California and doubtless are his sentiments, i confidence, of the climate of a region pronounced the garden of this continent : -- DEAR PARSONS : "Homes like this 'are to be seen right around here now, the week before Christmas. Geran- iums, violets and roses are blooming ; but, say, whisper, we who come here from Canada sometimes fairly long for a good old-fashioned Canadian rain or snow storm, In fancy I some- times hear the sleigh bells, and see the snow drifts, and cuddle down under the buffalo robes." A Obristmas Acrostic. Comes again the joyous festal morning! How the golden sunlight down from heaven Raciaat rushes (this dull earth adorning) In joy and gladness that Messiah's given! Sing, angelic choristers of glory : Toll a falien world, exposed to danger, Mary, Virgin of prophetic story, At rest iu lowly Bethlem's Holy Manger, Soothes a her Breast immaculate the Ch Divine, the Babe foretold by Gabriel; And though Ilo come a little Infant mild, Yet shall He vanquish Satan, Death, and Hell, VIATOR. Southern California, Second Sunday in Advent, 1912. om man, Geo. } Wm. Je Jeliey Thos. Grauan, Clerk. # REACH There is contest for the Reeve- ship between Messts. R. McIntyre and Wm."M. Real The contest for Councilor is be- tween Messrs. N. S. Baird, D. M. Johnson, Wm. Bowles, J. Stone. 3 CARTWRIGHS. Council lected by acclamation. PORT PERRY the: stimulants. Trunk Rail 'between Toronto and Montreal, and if its growth is not inter- rupted by adverse legislation, willin the near future be. in a position tode-| mand a city charter. : Its eligibility, however, as an attrac debarred from counecting. with the Sunday passenger trains, and the only conveyance available for visitors on which would not be tolerated by the most remote backwoods village in the country. . Strangers baturally ask why an in- telligenty community does not remedy and on who the responsibility for its origin and eontinuance rests, This serious drawback tothe advance: ment of the town I may fuform them the work of & bigoted majorit Sunday. * One might reasonably suppbse that this morti(ying specimen of puritanical legislation, resulting as it bas in the permanent injury of the town would have warned the municipal representa- tives from any further attempts to éur- tail tho liberties and legal enjoyments of its citizens. It would appear, however, that our cup is no yet full, the sword of Domoc- les s0 long suspended over our nufor- tunate heads is about to fall, and if it is certain to strike a deadly blow to onr most cherished hopes and aspirations. As an example of what may be ex- pected here if Local Option is adopted I '| beg to cite the neighboring town of of Bowmanville many years ago adopt- ed the 'Scott Act," théreby closing up all its hotels, but itscon realized its folly, and after a short season of gloom it rppentod figuratively in sackcloth and ashes and embraced the first oppor- tunity to repeal the tyranieal edict. But history is ever repeating itself, and a new goneration has arisen there which under the leadership of impracticable demagogues has imposed the Local Of - tion upon the little town which had pever fully recovered the blow struck at its welfare Ly the passage of the 'Scott Act." Again, bowever, the fatal mistake bas besn realized, and the hoads of the great manpfacturing enterprise which is lifting up the dead town on its should- ors are demanding relief from the dis- abilities it imposes upon the liberties of their great army of intelligent em- ployees. Ina simple letter of this nature it argument covering the use of alecholic It bas been a bone of con- to be fought over until the advent of to 'the millennium in the dim and distant i ? ; ho "town it is going to effect us. now inadequate for the the trayeling public and many individual residents find it difficult to obtain rooms at certain seasons or partial board aside from lodgings. What we really want is a large sub- stantial increase in our hotel accommo- dations, of which there is practically no hope owing to the baleful shadow thrown upon all hotel property by the threateu- ed Local Option Act- In order to squarely realize our position in this matter let us suppose what course the inhabitants of this town {would pur- sue if say the C P. Railway would offer to build a fine hotel, similar in class, but r hotels are Reeve--Mr. Geo. Gerow (accla- mation.) For Councilor--Messrs. J. L. Forman, H. Carmichael, James Lucas, 'H. G. Hutcheson, James Waddell, 8. Graham, J. Jefirey, J. C. Stewart, W. J. Henders. Far Trustee--Jas. as Ww. €. Short, Dr. Berry, A. J. Carnegie, N, Ingram. --_-------- Does More Than Tell Time Ottawa, Dec. 20.--George H. Brad- of Selkirk, is back at Ot- new gold wateh, the same p thing. It tells the time of day, ordinary watches, but it also ger as indicator of public senti- toba on fiseal matters. In not in size of course, to those it has con- structed in Quebec, Montreal, Winnipeg, Vancouver aud Victoria. Would not every impartial man warmly welcome the proposal and decide to consign to per- petual oblivion the Local. Option Act with all its confiscations and remorseless attacks on the private property of law abiding citizens. Rely upon it if this unjust act should be carried it will reduce the value of all real estate in this municipality to an extent far below the figures now ruling, jt will. be found indeed a fotmidable check to our future prosperity. Local Optioti in my opinion is respon- sible for the developing of more drunk- ards than the open bar, becamse the pocket flask is of easier access than the remote bafrel in the public house, pretty much in the same ratio that far more suicides come with the ever present - | handy. revolver than with the long range | rifle. Stood og HE nin tive rogtdental contro is' seriously mar. red By the fact that_the street cars are |® 'that day 1s a dilapidated old vehicle; be. of] juice," revealed, upon anglysis, would be idle to enter into any abstract | PRPHC Which, decoived by] corsumes them pon the they are non-alcoholie, tention for centuries and will continue | 5008 evidince that much for these disgni } [INTOXIOA! _ANOE © In Mr. Rowell of Oxford an | Factory 18 It is singular, 18 that while Mr, N.¥ gaged in a loud but abolish the bar ai such an aggrevating traffic condition, thie favors their alo.' innocent of knowle a : > th the star county to turn o ciders eontsining from fo por cent. of alcohol? These are the facts as Bulletin No. 239, just issu Laboratory pf the Domin Revenue Department. T deals exclusively with a ch alysis of ciders. On page Bulletin it will be seen that of cider produced in the cider question in Oxford County ca per cent. of a'cohol, and s sample 6.94 per cent. of al the Jaw allows only 1} pe alcohol by volume in cider. § Although these ciders contains greater amount of alcohol beer, they are frecly. sold ag ance drinks' in local option gad pro ition places. But they arenot the only # perance drinks." A receut | the Chief Analyst's Buresm minion Inland Revenue Ik shows that certain so-calife mented grape-juice" cont: much alcohol a3 many br; key. One brand was found braud 18.81 per cent. offalcolibl brand £4.69 per cent. of ald fourth brand labelled * wa; from any alcohol' was found n grape the presence of 25.01 per cent. 3 The sale of tlicse a under the guite of 'tempt is a gross frand upon th by laws for the : ~¢ | licanses for beer w terjainment of on BD slight préportion of ralizing perance [8 such as whiskey. Women and childs get a taste for bard lig these alleged "tempe also rertain alleged * containing a high pere of alcohol. It is high time that ¢ on should be settled upon rational s. Fan- atacism, stead of it, only makes the situation y adv. $ ? imbibing frinks" and THE BOOM ] Per Capita Qon Whiskey in Ci Greater Th In "Last Revenue Report for March 31st, 1912, ma revelation that the | tion of whiskey lo -C present than in any In that year the; spirits was 1,128. beer increased, whiskey decreased. great heip to the ment, for beer cou fifty per cent. and' Intelligent people | instead of whiskey. "lan.average. of 126 ceses, holding 1,600 bottlos of whiskey, have og Ret OW & ek. Tl adv. alto "Jax" After securing comfortable | large airy rooms at the Everett hotel at one dollar a day we went to a very Tape ; cracking hice meal for very: little | about twent five 'yard 'and there arc rose bushes dnd other this country that is different (0 re ; k, each case cor or 180 atti op For ihe. Sound 'Tta'1s'also « fact "that nto th .Y Cn'ario, particularly Cobalt acd s, In brief, is the explas oh the per capita consumption of whititey has gone up to such a startling figure, and why the number. of commitments for intoxication has increased -in On- tario, Quebec, Nova Scotla Maine and all other places where: prohibition or . | tocal option preyaile. - If the more sen- sible and rational plan of graoting "| separate' beer licenses 'was adopted, there would he a sudden and great drop in the use of whiskey. -- ne em Letter from Jas) \'Carnegie, Esq. Kissimmee, Florida, Dec. 23rd 'rz {Dear Editor,-- 1'told you when I was leaving Port Perry to come down here that I might drop you a line telling about {anything that is diflerent to things in Ontario. In first place 1 might tell you of the route we came by. We left Tor- onto on the 4.40 G. T. R. to Detroit where we were transferred to Fort [1 Street Depot which we left that night a | for Cinncnnatti. 4 { hour stop. over next morning and then 3 | started on an all day tripe on a fine We had about an train through Kentucky and Tennes- see to" Chattanooga. We travelled through most of Georga at night but in the morning could see that we were getting south pretty well. Along about noon we pulled into Jacksonville which everybody down hear shortens good restaurant next door and had a money. Then we set out to See, the maples, oaks. and magnolias| did. inds of shrubs and plants in bloom everywhere. T icould "stell "the 'sea, which is twenty odd miles out from "Jax" and it made me feel so good I wanted to see it, so we. arranged to go to St. Auguutine, which is thirty- seven miles south-east of "Jax", "the next morning. A Lfelt dike aikid right away..: In about off and my trousesq pulled up as high onde I could a "little snd: said 1 sire, bu Sooty ehéli'and the ladies. got. busy . i ay picking them up and then ing them The big hotels at St. Augustine were not open when we were there, but they will be by the time this reaches you. 1 understand that as big and expensive as they are, they pay, big profits to the owpers in just the two or three months they "are open dufing the winterseason. They certainly are beautiful, and the parks and grounds surrounding them 'are fine." Kven at St. Augustine were not right on the sea, so we took a street car over a long bridge to Anastasia island and went seven miles to south beach. Here we were right at the sea, two minutes-L iad my boots and sox wife scolded a would catch cold it Wasn't long until she and and all terest diss dpery It was 'great. The beach 1s hard fine sand is. not-a rock to be seen But + there are lots of way when they came there were lots nicer, and then throw b i where "We bi ly Dé or. t! ei nt, whiskey, increases. or| Queerest and quai going td, climb sowe of the trees straight on ahead. But, he missed everything and we had only to get out pce when we came to a jump. there is 'the same Arriving back at St. Augustine we brick paved about wide enough for a 0 pase we found an old that had 'been: built in 1545. It was still intact and is used by some Spanish grandee' y this part of the worl til i mercial ose. St. comm | Reins Coo gntially a show place. h 20 beautiful and too staid to be nuch else, The pri for and ies ar - smi d refreshing to-one who has been browbeaten and bul ed at such places as Niagara® Falls and 'other points: of <interest+up th. 'St. 'Augustine is orie 'of those places thal are restful. There is no hurry, no confusion. Everything 'sees to be pleasing to the eye. Even the darkies who drive the two seated; cov- ered, sight seeing rigs, finished in natural wood, are nice featured, cleanly dressed, smooth' voiced and umorously clamorous for business. On the front of a very old church is a sun dial with a printed card showing the variations at different -seaSons. When one realizes that but twa days before he was in Toronto, the feeling comes that so complete a ehang8 in everything is unbelievable, an: at" it must all be a dream. 2 The air here is fine. I'am feel ing fine and everybody you meet on the street looks in am Dave ing lots of fun too. . Some go fishing and some days [ go away off in the country in an automoble, A party of us went off down into the country the other day to look at some timber and we bad a great time. The man who ranthe car was certainly an expert. The way he ran us across prairie, through sloughs, and manoevered around in pive timber where there was 00 sign of a road was a caution, and he went so fast 1 didn't see, neatly as much as'[ wanted to see because I was expecting all the. time he was lace on a road near Alligator test streets to y {found anywhere this side of the old bold Civil War- veterans --as-a- curio] 7 hake out the ; 'on the interior where "we' are. some of the groves around this Jake that 1 beautiful and that it." Now I am b stand how there is so much money in fruit and vegetables when I see the trees loaded the way they are here and see the fields so chuck full of all kinds of stuff that northern peoplé pay big prices ito get when the weather is freezing and every shovel full of coal means the price of a good meal down here. For a cauple of dollars one can get all the wool he will need to see him thrgagh the odd cool days we may get. f To-day the thermometer is at 76 apd that is about the 'way it has beef all along. The sky is as clear andjps blue as a day in June up thege and the. clouds are almost statjonary. I am (rying to gel acctstomed tothe sulphur smell in artefian water we all drink, . They sayjft is pure and I guess it is but it smdls awful. One thing I am sure of, that is, we are all feeling splen. didand everybody else seems to be the same. all there is to Yours truly, Jas. CarngGiz. ne dls Oard of Thanks re. Panrse and Mre. Ward desire to covey their sincere thanks to ail who by kindly thoughtfulness expressed thr aympathv during the recent illness A death of Mr. C.J Pearse. do wl 'messaged and telegrams were pived that it would net be possible iinswer then all, so that this method ls'yacd to voice appreciation. EE There is funn about Ontario, The toads look. dry and sandy, but'we can sail along as fast as the motor will take us and when we look behind there is no dust. Some of the main county roads are covered with marl, big deposits of which are found here in lots of places. Marl roads are alright when they are looked after but 1 would rather nde fast over a good sand road as itis not neatly so jolty. When we were down in the coun- try looking at the timber we came into a clearing alongside a shrub oak where there was a small shack. We had a big basket of lunch with us and decidedtoleatit there as there wds a well. No one seemed to be at home but presently we heard a gun shot and 1 hound started to yelp like thunder. Of course re. marks were madebut we went on eat- ing. Soon a big lubber of a boy came along followed by a badly lamed dog. Enquiry developed the fact that the boy bad seen a wild turkey at different times when hadn't a gun and had madé an effort to get it that day. The dog chased the turkey out of a palmetto alright but received the re himself. We discovered in a few minutes that the ad a good deal more sense and gumption in: him than the boy had. That boy's mother, a widow, had muved down here from Michigan on account of her health and ba brought her.family with ber. Now she is teaching schoolin a little set. tlement out in the bush in order to provide food, for her pe'r-do-well of ' Right where they have their five acres of land is as beauti= EE oriaat 858 HN jes" Leith Byers bumbers and success both in of the table was m he setting have inspected, beat anything I] ever ay Calla. EE seginning to under- | '| contract. when called u 5 T0Y8 RE . AT BARGAINS DON'T FAIL TO SEE THEM. INGRAMS' Pastry. Bread . Gondectonary {aaED TENDERS addressed to the undersigned, and endorsed *' Tender for Addition and alteration to Public Building, Oshawa, Ont.," will be receiv- ed at. this office until 4.00" P.M., on 'Monday, January 13, 1913, for the wor mentioned. ~ Plans, specification and form of con- tract can be seen and forms of tender obtained at the office of Mr, Thos. Hast- ings, Clerk of Works, Postal Station F. Yonge St., Toronto, at the Post Office, Oshawa, Ont., and at this Department. Persons tendering are notified that tenders will not be considered unless made on the printed forms supplied, and signed with their actual signatures, stat- ing their occupations and places of idence. In caseof firms, actual signature, the nature of the occapation. and Dlnecof residence of each niember of the firth niust be given. Each tender must be accompanied by an accepted cheque on a chartered bank, payable to the order of the Honourable the Minister of Public Works, equal to tén per cent. (10 p.c.) of the amourit of the tender, which will be forfeited if the person tendering decline to enter into a to do' 80, or fail to complete the work contracted for. If the tender be not accepted the cheque will be returned. The Department does not By order, i R. C. DESROCHERS, Ye Woods of Lucknow, = Whw.dMiss .pteviously taken a Course in bil mastic Science at the School, it was most daintil ed. Mrs. Darcy's repok Convention was most' siveyand the..paper on Colds 'was opportune. The next meeting 0 be at Mrs. Fied, Gibson's on Jap. 8th, all members and friends should be: there Hear Mrs. \ ger, of Prnge Albert, gave talk on Purity i touching the White | of the executive 3 meeting will "begin twg o'clock, ~~ § + -- DIED TER---In Port Pergy, on Tudesday, cember 81, 1912, Thomas Coulter, dearly beloved husband of Eliza Donnelly, aged 85 Jo , (Thurrday)at 2 o'clock , Union Av- Funeralfto-day {rom the family res U LO Fist Crore. Caetery. To the Electors of Reach ~-- Lapies AnD. GENTLEMEN, Your vole'and influence are respectfully soligited for Ralph McIntyre or the office of Reeve for. for 1918 7 : T TIF x vote. Normal] Department of Public Works, ' Ottawa, December 21. 1972. ewspapers will not be paid for this ° ent if they iusert it without The undersigned Bargainthat well est Busiagss on Waier Sheet, t with the Livery Barn\gnd and the entire outfit Horses, étc.; also the house on the premises. Th business has Jong been es and the property is central and conveniently located in- proximity to the railway depot, a the situation such as to comma an extensive patvonage, and the premises ideal in every respect for which they are calculated. This property would also 'make a first- reason for Selling: KE="For further information as price andterms, ai 10 5 pipni E. G: VANSICKLER, _ on the 8 bind itselfto 'accept the lowest or auy tefider, Se class stand for Sales Stable, . Good . Po PTR SE"