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Port Perry, Nov. 16, 1804. lc com wer 'MONRY RY. TO LOAY. Private Funds a6 4 per coht.' bo 190% J no. Ww. Crozier, W Yariad &e. Office at residence, 6th Con. Biss 'SoLIorIon, CONVEYAROER, | each (one mile west of Port Perty, Y= MOREY, TO Loan. Issuor of Marriage Lionses, £. FAREWELL, K.C., LLB. County « Crown oy. "Barrister, , County Sok sitor, &e,, Na ph tered nve: Syancte tice--Sou g Court House, hithy, Ont. DR. R. L. GRAHAM Buoorssor 70 Dz. F. D.. MCGRATTAN DENTIST PORT PERRY, J. A. Murray, . DENTIST, Office over the Post Office. EORY PERRY. nt Dent ¥, includ idge Work. sucecssfuil, racticed. y ONT. 'Noxth Ontario Observer "4 Weeldy Political, Agricultural and Family Nospapor 15 or AT PORT FERRY, ONT, EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY H. PARSONS ERMS.__81 per snaum, it paid in adranon; pie Spd" months o tubwriptos Naton | iscontiut EE re wre oti ap. VETTELS containing money, when tddresd Oiicn, prepaid ead rogiatored will Ua a out ite. apt of the me mp PORT PERRY BRANGH H. G. HUTCHESON, Manager. AEE Bounjani] tir A ig i 23. SAE County of Ontwric, Bile the Osmenyrr Office re ; Manchster, Jan, 19, 1899. Manufactured by the Owen Wire Fenge Uo. Litd., a community with the ver: WIRE FENCE produced not fail to satisfy putchaséfs. The DirLon Frnce is" "without peer It is the BEST because it in fact it is the best fencer made this or any other country, Before purchasing a Wire Fen dop't fail to inspe ct the Fence, 4 ; Phu Avy charged according 60 Ws ial, nd ADVERTISEMENTS receiv : out EE Hg forbi. woop oriagh hy ons il oti 10 So aul A LIBERAL Svont allowod Sr Marinas haat and other THESE terms will in ail cases be striotly adhered to . JOB DEPARTMENT. Panphlets Hand Bitls, Posters Dodgers Bill Heads, Checks | Xator Honda, Wedding Tavitations, Visiting Cards, &o, £ of every style and color BEER the Qounty..... Parties fr Pied ou have thom pried ° ing Ports, Bo: Fpl : H. PARSONS. H. MoOAW, nARRIAGE LICKNAR Port aid Deg, 19; 1 Programs, or ? Port. Perry Ont. bo Third giving me a call hefore they can be anite putavle Everthiog in ° coustautly 5% had ad rep promptly. aitended = | Port Pony, es 8 tome for over am, as usual, now oy have a Large & Assorted Stoo or business, a t to Casn purch: 4 Tu Juu, lat next. All work being arity of my goods will be given by any article purchased JOHN ROLPH. - Dillon Hinge-Stay Rorce und am prepaied to. supply this whole EST o this Continent and at prices thiaj can flexible; it is a square mesh ; it is a perfect 'hinge-stay fence, therefore 1t is impossible to bend the stays, N seroising ane: to the public for years, I would respectfully intimate tha OF DOUBLE AND SINGLE HARNESS LE T am determined oF sell very CHEAP of 10 ole will be allowed on all Sales from now antil #&F MADE BY HAND®3 and no wo factory work kept in stock super while : a " pt, purotiasers cord by | ing elsewhere | d in eh and" long experietice in the trade hei arsutee that perfect Saag) Eo wi H Boi Foutont a is in ce ON NERVOUS DEBILITY OVR NEW hing En HE and make & man of © Bruen out hy ihe more a Feng Tom let quacks lost al faith 1 AFTER TREATMENT Navin Taurens and 14 ur Te dtia SE ine woh CURES GUARANTEED OR NO PAY | URINARY Re SAS EERE VoD BLADER DISEASES wad Si Discssce an FREE. BOOKS FREE. If unable to call write for a Question re KENNEDY &KENERY and Griswold. St., Reiroll, Miche E. A. ADAMS, Bell Phone No. 41 FIRE LIEE Real Estate H.G. HUTCHESON, Bell Phone Office No.6 | ADAMS & HUTCHESON SUCCESSORS TO DAVID J. & DOUGLAS ADAMS INSURANGE Steamship T Tickets Residence, No. 4 MARINE ACCIDENT Mortgage Loans k RY Mails Close. Office Port Perry as follows : Going North-- 9.00 a. m. Going South--11.20 a. m. Going North-- 5.15 p. m, Going South--10 p.m. ; = | | The mails are despatchel from the Poa PORT PERRY. ey received durin menzia For Port Perry, I * sunouucing that I have romovea MY LIVERY ! to my former place of | Oentral Livery Bammy thanking the public for ihe have kept u Livery Estab! y ave much pleasure in CANADIAN | 2FV-N od} of { of HOMESEEKERS' 2 XCURSION MANITOBA, ALBERTA SASKATCHEWAN Fach Tuesday until October 28th, inclusive, Winnipeg and Return» Edmonton and Return = Other points in ts Return Limit two months. GRO. J AUKSON | Avictioneer, Valuator; § FOR me COUNTY OF ONTARIO AND "moWNsHl ." OF CARTWRIGHT, SHES at this the an of o Aashos Sale. Season to 3 turn thao) namerony patrons for Bi a ei Too re uasting aos ge he: desives. to he atrsor. alos will d ana soribs | southg | messepger foformed Willams, | has sthuck the Crees on Wollaston lake, | God only knows what it is doing to the | bay Indians, but we Lear that It is wip. | lng ont the Chippewnyans between the | Albafly, and' the Churchill." of oloth- hb dp from th nor. grew into rumor. From the i@soutli aid the west they mul , goth on all sides the Paul Ré if the wilderness carried news ed Terror was at their heels, pliill of a great fear swept like ng wind from the edge of civ. 0 the bay. years before these same ru- come up from the south, and 'error had followed. The bor ror of util remained with the forest peoples for a thousand unmarked nnefl Uke a pestilence and from tlie lower waters of bay to the lake country of thé 'gave evidence of the toll 18 »DoBrochet, on Reindeer lake word first came to [ad rly In the winter. Henderson or there, and he passed up the that had come to him trom Nelsod- House and the country to the ast. "Iligre's smallpox on the Nelson," hig "and if He left the same day with his winded dogs. "I'm off for the Frenchmen to the west | withthe compliments of our company," | be explained. Three days later word came from Churehiil that all of the company's servapts and her wanjesty's subjectd west 'of the bay should prepare theme selveg for the coming of the Red Terror, Willlams' thick face went as white ag the paper he held as he read the words i of the Churellll factor. "It. means dig graves" he maid | "That's the only preparation we can p "read the paper aloud to the men Bain, and every available man ritory.. south there' Copyright. 1011, by the Bobbs- Merrill Co. o Oo < be would go 10 Lae #hitns on, | Jin left bit besidé a ghd fire and 'turned toto the sogthwest to burn Banglols and his enbin. Then he cotie tiuned westward. At the head of the Porcupine he found. the remains ot | of them he dug outicharred bones. Crotsset reached the post forty-sligt hours after lie hud encountered Jan. monek ne 4 §ICK dog apn hour before | Ousk. There'll be ao red Bag over Luc | Rain In the morning." Jan stifled the sbarp cry on his lips. "Ah, there's a Hgbt!" cried Cum- | mins. front of bis door!" fle gripped Jan's' arm in a sudden epusm of horror. "The fag is op | pow! he whispered huskily, "Go back to Melissa. 'There is food In tbe | house for a month and yon can bring the wood ip tonight. Buf the door. Open only the back window for alr. Stay Instde--with bee--unfll it is all over. Gol" *"I'o the red flags, that is where 1 will gol" cried Jan fiercely, wrenching | bia arm free "lt 18 your place to | ptay with Mellsse!" "My place is with the men." 1 to spread the warnin; PY There | Ai wine?" Jan drew bimself up then swung southward along the | jabnla, where the country was gcrossed with trap lines of tbe fbreeds and the French. First he i k the cabin of Crolsret and bis dud left part of his cloth. Then urned westward, while Crolsset essed his dogs and hurried with a fter of the roll to the south. Be- | den the Hasabala and Klokol lake found three other cablos, and at he left a bit of the red cotton. y miles to the south, somewhere | bot i the Porcupine, be found the cabin | enry Langlols, the post's greatest bunter. er it, hanging imply to a sapling was the red signal of horror. | th a terrified cry to the dogs, Jao back, and the team turned ahout followed him in a tangled mass. hep he stopped. There was DO e rising from the clay chimuey {Bho little cabin Its one window white with frost. Again and | be shouted, but no sign of lifa onded to his cries. He fired his | 8 twice and waited with bls mit | fed hand over his mouth and nos There was no 'reply. Then, doning hope, be turned back lato @. north and gave his dogs no rest | l he had reached lac Bain. Bis team came in_half dead Both pmins avd Willams rnsbhed out to | blm as be drove up before tbe @lipany's store. Fhe red tag in! be cried. fred my rifie and shouted There life! Langlois is dead!" Mireat (Jod!" groaned Wiliams. red face changed to a sickly | br, and he stood with his thick | clinched while Cummins took e of the dogs and Jan went into store for something to eat. kee apd Peree returned to the the next day. Young Willlams ed close after them, filled with He had found the plague Crees of the Waterfound. atled 1. the gloom at Lac leaped from cabin to orness to the west: dle 'of the month Lac §s over Langlois' | t's trap Hues had been short- they were abandoned en- grent fight began, Wil- d his men and told them battle had been fought In learning whether life n these places lay tbe | | the other's broad back he leaped quick. | Williams balf an hour later. | that the plague has come to Lac Bain, face wleamed white bn "You came--that night «because Mellsse was here. Bome- thing sent you--something--don't you understand? And sioce then she has never been near to death until now. You must stay with Mellsse--with your violin!" "Mellsse herself shall choose," re- plied Jan. "We will go nto the cabin, and the one to wbow she comes first goes among the red flags. The other ehuts himself ln the cabin undl the plague is gone." He turned swiftly back to the door. As he opened It he stepped aside to let Cummins enter first, and behind ly to one side, his eyes glowing, his white teeth gleaming In a smile. Un- seen by Cnmimins, be stretched out his arms to Melisse, who was playivg with | | the strings of his violin oo the table. | He had done this a thousand times, and Melisse knew whit it meant--a kiss | and a joyous toss halfway to the ceil. tng. She jumped from her stool and ran to bim. "1 am going down among the sick Orees In Cummins' place," sald Jan to "Now he must stay with Melisse." CHAPTER VIL Almost a Woman. HE pest morning Jan struck out over his old trail to the Dasa. | called Cummins to the door. "It's a pitch torch burhing tf | Jan Burned Langlois and His Cabin. Mukee's cabin. "It fs to tbe east and west of the Hasabala as thick as jays in spriogtime!" i ! three burned wigwums, and from one "I'he red fing ia evetywhere!" he | } ried, catching sight of tbe signal over in tratl and found his' wife ready greet bim with open arms." Afton th tie Jotned the north, in snotber search for Jam; They found peither trace nor word © him after passing the Gray Ottet, Cummins gave up hope. It was not fer loug that their tears' could be kept fram Mellsse. This first bitter grief that' had come into he: | Ife fell upon ber with a foreb #hich, alarmed Cummins and cast him inf deep gloom. With growing des Cumming saw his own efforts fafl, As the days passed MeNsse mi more and more with the [ndidh an balf breed children and spent much of | ber time at the company's store, pA ing to the talk of the men, silédt, tentive, unresponsive to any efforts | they might make to engage her smiles, | From her own heart she looked oul upen a world that had become d vol for her. Jan had been mother, broth and everything that was tender a | sweet to her, and he wus gone. Mukee; | whom she had loved, was gone. Wil- | Hams was gone. The world waé changed, terribly and suddenly, and fi added years to her perspective things. Eaclr day, as the weeks went on a | the spring sun began to softeti th snow, she became a little mora ke the wild children nt Lac Bain and in the forest. They wert Sarg Qlnoct one day in the early spring, wii | sunshine flooding in upon Ee when a quick, low footfall caused Melisse to lift her eyes tn the direction of thd open door. A strange figure there, with bloodless face, staring eyed and garments hanging in tatters, buf | its arms were stretched ont, as t | same arms had been beld out to ber § A Cree from the Gray Otter dfove | tu op bis way north. "Six wigwams with dead in them, ** he reported in his og ke Wiliams. "A com- 'sl one 'dyed leader And four trailers, left the Gfdy Qtter to burn them." Williams took down hf birch bark moose horn and bellowed a weird signal to Cummins, who opened a crack of his door to Usten, with Me lisse close beside him. "Thoreau is In tho thick of It to the south," be called. "There's too much with the dogs. Crolsset will stay In the store for a few days." The days brought quick changes pow. One morulng the moose born It was the fifth day after Willams bad gone south, "There was no smoke this morning, and I looked throngh the window," shouted Croisset "Mukee and the old man are both dead. I'm golng to burn the cabin." A stified groan of anguish fell from Cummins' lps fs he went like a dazed map to his cot and flung himself face downward upon it. Mellsse could see his strong frame shaking as if he were crying Uke a child, and, twining ber arms tightly about his peck, she sob- bed out her passionate grief agalnst his rough cheek. The next morping when Cummins went to awaken her his face went as white as death 'Melisse was not asleep. Her eyes were wide open and staring at him, and ber soft cheeks burned with the bot glow of fire. "You are sick, Melissc," he whisper ed hoarsely. "Yen are sick!" bala. The Crees were gone. He spent a day swloging east | and west and found old trails leading | | into tbe worth. "They have gone up among the Eskl | mos," be sald to hhnself. "Ah, Kazan, | what in the pame of the saints is that?" "The tending dog dropped upon his h with a ing growl as a Jone gure staggered across Lbe snow toward them. It was Croisset. With a groan, he dropped apon the sledge. "1 am sick and starving," he walled. "Phe flend himself bas got foto my cabin, and for three days I've had _pothing but soow and & raw whisky re "Bick!™ cried Jan, drawing a step away from bim. "Yes, sick from an empty belly, and this, and thisi" He showed a fore arm done up in a bloody rag and point. ed to his neck, trom which the skin was peeling. "1 was gone ten days with that red cloth you gave me, and when | came back, it there wasu't the horror fteelf grinning at me. from the top of oiy own shanty! 1 tried to get or but my wife barred: the door and sald that she wonid shoot me If didn't get back 'Inte the woods. | tried to stead fo at night through & window, and she drenched me tn bot 'water. | built a wigwam at the edge of the forest, AG) stayed there for five Hoogree! Blessed saints, 1 had Do matches, Do grub: and when | got 'slose enough to: yell 'these things to} hee she Wepl. ber. woru and: plinked | that 1 ost & plat of blond. trom tie | arm." : "wi giva yon something to eat" "How He fell npon his knees beside her and lifted her face In his bands. The touch of It sent a chill to his heart such as he had not felt since years ago, In that otbef room a few steps away. "1 want Jan," she pleaded. Jan to come back to wel" "{ will send fo bim, dear, He will come back socom. | will go out and send Orolsset™ Ile bid bis fnee trom her as he drag ged bimself away. Crolsset saw him coming and came out of the store to meet bim. A hundred, yards away Cummins stop! "Croisset, forthe} ihe a tenm and po after calted. "Tell tim tbat Mellsse Is dying of the plague. Hurry, hurry?" "Night aod day!" shouted Croisset Twenty minutes later trom the cab In window Comios saw him start. "Jan will be here very soon, Me- Hesse," he =uld, tmoping bis fingers gently through Dee: nale 'Toward Frenne there cng & chooge. The levy left tue child's cheeks Her eyed closed and she fell asleep. Through the vight Cumsins sat neat the door, but Io the dawn, over cane by his long. vig, his bead drop- ped upon lls Lreast: und he slum bered. When he awoke the oablp was filled with Ngbt. Le startled. sprung wus at the stove bal "Tm better thus Why dtdpt yop sleep wis ready?" _ Qumoiine stared. Teo b gave: a and, eateh: "1 want of God, take Thotean,™ he thousnbd tttnes before. and, with the, old glad cry, Mellsse darted with the swiftness of n sun shadow beyond Cominins, crying: "Jun, Jan; my Jan!" Words choked fo Cuommlos' throaf when hte saw the white tae¢d figurd clutching Melisse to its breast. At last he gasped "Jan!" and threw. out his arms, so that both were canghf_ in thelr embrace. r [To me coxTINUED } } | FIGHT THE SAN JOSE SCALE, | Lime-Sulphur Sor ving Recommended of it for bim, and I'm golng dewn | | apple trees, the leaf blister mite. | about half as big as the 1 | raised spot surrounc | merous the twig | a scurfy, to Kill the Insect: y From Novewber to April 13 the seas, son for spraying to control the Sad Jose scale aud at the snule time put & stop to a pest attacking the foliage of The best time is nt the close of winter, ust' as the buds are beginuing to swell The insect is rather bard to detect! until it becomes so abundant that até tention is called to Its work by thd dying of twigs or branches or of the whole tree. It Is exceedingly small bead of a pin, and is covered with a flat, round, dar! or grayish scale in the center of whichd is usually to be d ned a small d by a shallow As it becomes more nue or branch takes ashy appearance. Affect trees or shrubs will be likely to die um= depression. | less proper treatinent Is given. | | | | The method of control is a thorough' spraying with a lime-sulphur evolution This material is now put up iit cons | centruted form by several mapufé& urers and is on sale In stores, or it may) be made at home. Any stite experi! ment station will give directions fou! making and using. It is best apphed by means of a spray pump giving a' fine, mist spray. The same material is used in more diluted form in som mer as a substitute for bordeaux mixe ture, but it should never be applied in the stronger 'winter strength" to trees that are in leaf.-- New Huwpshire Es periment Station. Here's a Temporary Ferice. It 1s often A great counvemfence [4 have a fence which may be readily moved from place to place and yet be strong" enough to act as a agninst stock, more expecially agaipsg sheep und swine. The style iltustrated herewith will prove suggestive to Uf "tarnier handy with tools, as