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x figs at resid enue, 8th C '{ohe "mile west of Port Party. (MoNEY. 70 Loan. : Grown A arn Canty LEE Fm, Sr CDR. RE. GRAHAM. WéGrarad , | Dillon Hinge- Stay fence | Manufactured by tlie Owen Sound Wire Fence Titd.,, and am ' comintimity wit] a oe B ron i ver S1 WIRE FENCE ied on tliis day prices that. can not. isfy purchases, * "TheDiiaow Finos i ig without a At is the: BEST because it is is & square mesh ; it is a DR . hiyge-stay fence, therefore, ft is. imposgible to beud the stays, in fact it is the best fence wade in this or auy other.country. Before purchasing a" Wire Fence don't "faite inspect he DivLrox Free ¥ Sn thanks to the public for ¢ tronage extended tc me for over waonid "respectfully intimate tha | wii as usual, now endl for business, a have a ey Assorted Stock| oF DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARNESS whi ch T.am determined to sell very CHEAP y indacenient to Casy purchasers <A Dak of 10 per om until will boalloed on all Sales HM now until re Jan, 1st next, All work being a MADE BY HANDE3 super Srity ay, goods will at once 0 Shasess will find that by they' Sam be siiond Eta ae Nn qual an Tong ex thio trade h hei pis | that 'perfect sntisfaction | by any article purchased, ing im) lige vo oF bale kept gene wn Nantel | igery: PORT PERRY. EARTILY thanking the public for the tronage received durin, y yea have kept a Livery Estab ment in Port Perty, I have much pleas t sutounsing that I have removea MY LIVERY | to my. former place of business « eet ; ane ~~ Mails Close. The mails are despot Tished from the Pos | proved for | --I never told a lis Office Port. pony as followi Proved Pa a South--11.20 a. m. Going North-- 5.15 p. m, Going South--10 0p, iu m. H. G. HUTCHESON, Bell Phone Office N Residence, No. 4 ADAMS & HUTCHESON SUCCESSORS TO DAVID J. & DOUGLAS ADAMS INSURANGE Joie: | Real Bstate Steamship Tickets Mortgage Loans * 'A Later Development? Father (to bls son whom be has rd when I was small Hans--Well, haw old were you, fas | ther, when you began?--Fliegendq Batten Worn Out. The "Welcome™ on thelr doormat was in letters woven stout, But people Sax Sama. ad Seat 8 so much they Follow Feeling. - "The childreh need something new every week. You have no childreni h hence you can't understand." "1 understand, old chap: I have an | automobile -- Louisville: CourlerJoure "pal. Net What He Expected. ppose you and I were. ; bythe very tmple- meut that makes -the wound. : Only _ surgeons use sterilized Instruments vp minutes and then he ot of No. 8 nnd wants le gone to sleep. When, 'a ive cent stamp he says, ght 1 was a penny one you instructs you to try at 7 hie probably discovers of five cent stamps and ot go to 'windows No. 8 and "8 get two two cent ones and Hime you are getting qnite when you ask him where h office 1s he will probably .guidebool¢ and hunt the r you. He may even offer y there himself, as be's the grap erk as well nnd has got to get: thors thow dn order to attend to ans themselves when they stamp muke a day of it "lunch with them. Itiis | quite # prety sight to sce the mother of children sitting on the their bread and sausage whether father will re- when he comes back t enough, although that iy cal world, fluorin, raises py generally speaking, it exists in company with calcium In also in a few other com- hough fluorin was known a good rs ago, it long resisted tbe chemists to isolate it--that is, -it-in' a pure state unmixed h other substances--for e ii nd Somatuing rt the free fuorin at: | ssl contain rin 1s a rabid gns that pothing Ist. It combines with all met- plosively with some, or, if they ready combined with some other @tnllic element, it mercilessly them away from it and takes to itself. uniting with sodium, potassium, I , magnesium and aluminium the become heated, even to redness, e fervor of fluorin's embrace. i fillngs slightly warm burst Into t scintillations when exposed to Munganese does the same. the noble metals, which at melt- | int proudly resist the fascina- of oxygen. succumb to this chemi: ry at moderate temperatures, is devored at ounce and water to be water by contact with this 'which, combined with its hydro- ' at the same moment forms the | glass dissolving bydrofluoric acld rates ozone.--Harper's Weekly. 3 His Kind Heart. trish," sald the man with the bnl- nose and the baggy trousers, "I 'all the money I've wasted on liq- nd tobacco." hat would you do with it?" asked entleman with the long halr and elned features, 1 g'pose I'd spend. most of It for | some kind of stuff agaln, but I'd side at least $10 of it to buy a chair for my poor old mother. ys she's got so sbe fairly hap- | igor a rockin' chair after she's done d day's washin'." -- Cleveland A Distinction. p you give my daughter all the iJuxuries to which she is accus- a7" asked Mr. Elithers, as Skin- od for his dnughter's hand. 1" replied Skindint. 1 wige As much ai you are. i sald Mr. A knife or a palr of scissors or a plece. of glass or crockery is almost certain 'to phint germs in-the furrow. it plows. Germs may also enter from the cloth- fog, from the hands of whoever rushes to belp. from the first plece 'of cloth or 'bandkerchief used. to stanch the. Sow of blood or from the water nsed-for the fArst washing, Since the avenues of danger sre 80 gumerous, it*is safest to'assume that ! ability, When the kids have y Stiatoed a cen tain age at which the skins are tn the best condition for the use of the glover they are killed and the: hides ate sold to dealers. The superior quality of these kid skins, dite somewhat to climade con- ditions, Is what bas given France the supremacy io the manufacture of the . Bnest grades of real kid gloves, a su- jnfection has occurred. It follows that | every family should understand some | of the simplest methods of sterlliza- tion. Heat is the simplest of all The mother of a family should keep a supply of soft linen rags that have been thoroughly boiled. She should keep them not on an open shelf with towels or other cloths, but done up io .a carefully closed olled paper bag or protected from the air in some other equally effective way. For washing the wound she ghould use only water that has been holled. When the doc- proved once more that a clenn cut can do nothing but heal.--Youth's Com- panion. CHANGEABLE CHICAGO. Has Eight Counties and Many Varled Spellings to Its Credit. "Few people know that Chicago bas beeu in eight different countles of I} linoig," said am etd Chicago man. hig + was first placed within the limits of Madison county, fllivols then being a tervitory, Sept. 14. 1812. "Subsequently it was Included in the following counties seriatim: Edwards In | 1814; Crawford, 1818; Clark, after the territory was admitted as a state, 1819; Pike. 1821; Fulton, 1828; Peoria, 18285, under the jurisdiction of" which it re Jaitihes until the creation of the eounty spelled more thin a dozen ways. Fa ther Hennépin called it Che-cau-gou; La Salle, Shecagou; on an old French map of 1682, Chekagou; on anotber old map (1678) In tbe Historical society library at Madison, Wis, it is Chi caugna; Father Gravier (1600) wrote it Chicagoua, and in 1700 St. Sosme wrote it variously Chikagu, Chicagou, Chlcaqu and Chicago, he being the first to give the letters the arrangement which flmally was settled upon as the authorized spelling. Charlevoix gave the samé spelling in 1721. In the Greenville treaty (as revised) it is Chi- kagu. "In ao old deed filled away among the archives of the Chicngo Historical society, as applied to the river or creek (1774), it is plainly written Chbi- cugou. The word was the Indian word for garlic or wild onion and signified to the red men strong, mighty, power: ful, courageous. "In 1725 a chief bore the name Chi- | cago (under some one of its many spellings), who went to Paris and was | made much of by kings and princes." + watches" on Board Ship. On board all ships a series of "watches" are established, so that | work 1s sbared equally amoung tbe sail ors. To aid this object also the crews | are divided into two divisions, star board and port. A ship's duy com- | meices at noon, and there are seven watches. The watch which is on duty {Tn the forenoon.one day has the after noon next day, and the men who have four hours' rest one night have eight hours the next. This is the reason for baying "dog watches," which are made by dividing the hours between 4 p.m. and 8 p. w. into two watches. ' + Living on Rubber * x The rubber slug is one of the many pests of rubber plantations. It attacks the young trees and feeds on the juice oozing from the cuts. Doubt having premacy that will doubtless long be majotained, nnsmuch ds foreign man- ufacturers must rest egotent vith see oud rate skivs.--turpers. Weekiy."® "THE LOST 'CHORD. PR SE Sullivan Wrote the Music .at His Dy- ing Brother's Bedside. Perbaps the wost siecessful song of | modern thoes 1s ~The Lost Chord," whose sale in Great Britain bas ex- ceeded 200,000 coples, The story of its composition, as told by Mr. Willeby in bis "Masters of Ruglish Music," l- lustrutes that in act, as in statesman | ship, success caine to those-- tor comes he will add some kind of | chemical antlsepsfs, -and ft will be | Who knew the seasons wher to take Occasion by the hand. For uearly three weeks Arthur Sey- | mour Bullivan had watebed by the bed- side of a dylug brother. One night | when the end wns not far off and his | brother was sleeptng_ be chanced to come acruss some verse of Adelaide Procter's which five years before he | had tried in vain to set to music, | | | | ferences "the words. In the silence of that right watch he read them over again, and almost in- stantly thelr musical expression was concelved. A stray shect of music pa- per was at bund, and he began to write, The music grew, and he worked on, delighted to be helped while away the hotirs of watching. As he progressed ve felt sure the music was what he had sought for and falled to find on the occasion of his first attempt to set Iu a short time it was cowplete and not long after in. the publisher's hands A AA eat A Book and a Wan Copyright questions are grave enough nowadays, batithey no longer threaten to end In war, as in the case of 8t. Co lnmba, the Irishman who settled in Jona, converted north Britain and is commemorated on June 8. He bad a | passion for fine manuscripts and coples of them and amoung others copled a certain Latin psalter belonging to an | irish abbot, whereupon King Diarmaid condemned Columba at Tara, ruling that "to every book belongs its copy. as to every cow its calf." Colombe appealed against the verdict in the practical form of inciting hls kinsmen | to reyolt, and they defeated Diarmaid in the battle of the 'salter. The book fs clujmed to be the one which in a silver cover was curried into battle by the O"Donpells during more than a thousand years Cats as Food In China, One often sams up the value of cheap tur by describing it as having been ob- tained frooi the domestic cat, but in China garments -of catskin rack as bigh and are as precious as garments of sa- ble in this country. In the Klowery Land cat's flesh 1s also much eaten and is especially recommended as a cure for consumption and all lung dis- eases. It Is vastly superior to cod liver ofl, and therefore cats are cvusidered extremely valuable possessions. Black cats provide the best meat, and io a great many parts of China this food is 80 bighly esteemed that cats are reared tor sale like fowls or sheep. Satisfaction For Him. "Well," said the milllonatre's bri) ilant syn, who has achieved success by nis own efforts, "1 have one great sat istaction." a "What is that?" asked bis admiriag friends "At least one of you can say that you knew me when | didu't bave a sickel."--Detruit Free 'ress. Friendship. on 5a Soifion ohdirvation that dif standing and dis * tion are ha ship and tbat the closext intimacies often exist belween minds each of which supplies what 18 wanting in the vther,-- Lord Macaulay. pr . Trying to Beat the Game. "Every note that peima dopoa sings 'costs ine at least a dollar," sald one | musical mannger i "Well," rephed the other, "get a man to write her a mong with only whole ootes: and rests lo it." ---Wasbington Stas, | With the Soalpers. #Oh mother. why men in tne front | Idheaded ed ae poe ly of ; pM Impossible for its: prey to: disentan, . Jtself, In Addition to ttiese suékers 'thir oetds pus has n powerful patr of jaws, sin ed lke the beak of a pagrot, be which bs a formidable Armor pited tongue used as a raspiig orgnu i octopus will attack and kill cra lobsters of cousiderable size "i open the body by means of its power ful jaws and devouring the tontemts, In spite of being a creature of spch awe inspiring looky the octopus bag several enemies in varibus specied of. whales, sharks aod conger celg. 3 Im | fact, the. latter are particularly ond of devouring the smaller octopusé ; Conger ecls hunt for the octopus and when found proceed to browse on its | Hlmbs. The ottopus tries to hug the ! glippery, sllmy conger tight but In valn, and, finding its Ilmbs growing | less, discharges its ink in the fuce of the foe and under cover of the furbid water beats a hasty retreat. It is to escnpe the too pressing attention of its foes that the octopus possesses the power of changing its color tu corres spond with that of Its surroundings. A BULL RING BEGGAR. 1 The Intruder Wanted Bread, but He | Got "Thumbs Dowa." Sometimes the bulifight in Spain 18 psed to compel the attention of the | nuthorities to grievances that wr 'ul ! otherwise go unnoticed, as Is sevi iB the following incident described bg | Harry A. Franck. in "Four Mouths | Afoot In Spain "The newcomer will long remethbed | bis first buil--certainly If, as iu my own case, the first banderillerv slips i at the moment of thrusting his bar darts and {8 booted ike a socver foot | ball half around the ring by the syort~ Ing animal. Still less shall J forges the chill that shot through me when, | with the fifth bull at the height of his fury, a gaunt and awkward boy of fif. teen sprang suddenly over the barriefs and shook his ragged blouse a dozen times in the animal's face. As pup, Hmeb hi. § tn x.aariag.by. the clow "The toreros did not for a motmeny lose their heads. Calmly and dex- terously they mabeuvered untll vane of them drew the bull off, when nuother caught the fotruder by the ara and | marched him across the ring io the shade of the mayor's box. There the youth, who had taken this means of gaining an aodlence, lifted gp & mournful volce and asked (or food, asserting that he was starviog --8a statement that seemed by no means Improbable. The respunse umbs down. But he gained his polit, in & way, for he was given a forinight in prison. "Incidents of the sort had wo 50 | frequent of late in Seville as make | necessary a new law, promu ated In large letters on that day's program. | Printed words in all probability meant nothing to this neglected son of Be ville." ay The UnSertain Apple Tree. An apple tree is the result of a grafy from the tree that is known to be & producer of a eertaln kind and flavor | of apples. If the seed were planted® and one relied on It to produce a select | grade of fruit the result would be dis- sppointing, for the reason that from the seed the most remarkable varieties will be shown, [Perbaps they will be' miserable little crabapples or misshap- en, bitter fruit or a useless conglomera. tion. Tbe seed somehow or o' her harks' back to its origin, potwithstanding years of cultivation. The v-rieties of apples known today are ou result of careful selection and co a grafting of the better kind from year to year until the present developinsnt has been attained. --Harper's. Handsome Gorthe. Goethe was pronounced somest man of Europe." tle over six feet in heigh proportioned that be did His features were of the ifouvmo type, his hair rather light tux: durk, bis whole appearance commnodin holy apea E Ere the hands earlier In wis ha" mEce 1 Ts tractive. The Unexpected. Prizefighter (entering schoal with oe' son)--You give this buy o' mine thrashing yesterday, didn' { yar? Sel master (very = nervous)-- \Vell-l<--er= perhaps-- Prizefighter-- Well, give od' your 'and. You're a champion. 1 can't' do nothin' with "im Wywit~Loodon Punch ¥ "