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iF ORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF inn, Surgeo and Residence | Port Perry. NE Town phone in Office nt D. ARCHE eraity ; M.B. university iT DR.B. C. 3 | SUCCESSOR TO DR. HAMILL, . AD, Master of Surger; , Victoria Uni- . versity; Licentiate o Royal College of Physians, London, Bog. lege of Physicians & Surgeons, Ontario. -- Late attendant of Soho Hospital for. Diseases of women, and of Great Ormond Hospital for Diseases of Children, London, Eng. Physician, Surgeon, &e.y Offlce hours--8 10-10 a. m-, 1 $0 4p. m., Hamill's old Qt bor | BANKER AND BROKER. Office and residence, Dr. stand. Queen St., - - Port Perry. rahe Sn JB BILLINGS, Solicitor, Notary Public, Convey y Solicit or the Ontario Bank. #4 Ontario Bank, Port Perry. Jan, 29, 1887. E, FAREWELL, L. L. B,, Count ») , Crown Attorney, Barrister, County Sol- cltor, &e., Notary Public and Conyeyatioer. Jffice--South wing Court House, Whithy, Ont. YOUNG SMITH, L L. B., Barrister, Cc. Office over the . Attorney-at-Law, Solicitor in Chancery Lihips. Port Perry, Oct. 17, 1889. and Insolvency, Notary Public, &¢ Office--McMian's Block, Brock Street, McDOWELL, | ater' Tntorent Member of Col- | Port Perry, April 4, 1888. DAVID J.ADAMS, Good Note Discounted. Has any amount of Money to Loan At 65 per cent. on good Mortgages. INSURANCH effected at the Lowest Rates in Good at the highest current "oredited to ta received 'calculated ani h depositor semi-annually. W. McGILL, MANAGER. PORT PERRY. Of a Church of England minister cured of a distressing rash, by Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Mr, RICHARD Birks, the well-known Druggist, 207 McGill st., Montreal, P. Q., says: for 40 years, and have heard nothing but good said of them. I know of many ge The Great Teetotal C IntempGrate Advocates A oy Little Daughter » I have sold Ayer's Family Medicines Wonderful Cures English Companies. 2 Agent Allan Line of Steam- Whitby. J. A. MURRAY, DENTIST, now putting in Upper and Lower Sets of Teeth at from $4 T0 $75 EACH SET. Having just purchased the largest stock of teeth ever brought into North Ontario Tam satistied I can suit you both as to quality andl price. Come and see. Rooms in the Blong Block, over Messrs, Forman & Son's Store. Port Perry, Oct. 28, 1801. ~ Veterinary Surgeon. HE undersioned having completed his full Coursesat the Provincial Veterinary College and obtained a Diploma as Veterin- 'ary Surgeon, would announce that he has opened an office for the practice of his pro- fessionat Port Perry, whereall calls personal by letter or telegram, by day or by nigh will be promptly attended to. All a of animals treated in the latest and best known system #2 Telephone connection--free of charge. ORR GRAHAM. Port Perry, April 8, 1884. i € L. RUBSON V.8. RADUATE Ontario Veteriftary Col- lege, Toronto. Office and residence ByErGrEES CorrAak, two miles south of Manohester, 14 years practice. Tele. phone in the house--free communication with Port Perry, Manchester, and elevator. Telegraph calls to Manchester will be for- Aavarded. by telephone. ~~ All Veterinary Medicines in stock. : MONEY TO LOAN d Wk Subscriber is prepared to LEND Licensed Auctioneer REAL ESTATE A SPECIALTY. increased experience and extensive practice in particular being that of a little daughter of a Church of England minis- te from head to foot with a red and ex. ceedingly troublesome rash, from which she had suffered for two or three years, in spite of the best medical treatment available. distress about the case, and, at my recommendation, at last began to ad minister Ayer's Sarsaparilla, two bot~ tles of which effected a complete cure, much to her relief and her father's delight. I am sure, were he here to-day, he would testify in the strongest terms as to the merits of Ayer"s Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr.J.0. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Massa Cures others, willcureyou d by Ayer's rilla, one and the quite possible (and indeed too | largely the result of the narrowing] frequent) ignoring of ull other forms |down ad prostration of the term of intemperance. Thus, & man may | 'Lemperahee'. The masses have virta- r. The child was literally covered Her father was in great ANY AMOUNT on Farm Seenrity AT 6 PER OENT. #ar Also on Village Property. 24° MORTGAGES BOUGHT, ®3 HUBERT L. EBBELS, Barrister. Office next to Ontario Bunk. Port Perry, May 10, 1885. W. M. WILLCOX, (FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO AND 'TOWNSHIP OF CARTWRIGHT: VALUATOR, &o., TAKE this opportunity of returning thauks for the very liberal patronage which I have received iu the past. The which I have had will be ttrued to the ad- vuntage of patrons, and parties favoring me with their sales may rely on their interests being fully projected, No eflort will be spared to make it to the advantage of par: ties to place their Sales iv my hands. Sale Bills made out and Bleuk Notes furnished free of chirge. Satisfaction guar- antee or no pay. Terms liberal, Port Perry, July 13, 1893, GEO. JACKSON, Licensed Auctioneer Wishes to inform the public that he is pre- pared to attend with the utmost care all sales entrusted to his charge in the Town- ships of Reach, Scugog and Mariposa. ~ A register of dates of sales will be kept at the office of Mr. Orr Graham, V.8., with whom | arrangements may be made for sales. All 1 Evergreen Cottage, Jan, 2, 1888. North Ontario Observer. A Weekly Political, Agricultural and Fanmaly Newspaper, 1S PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT. EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, * 4 BY H. PARSONS, Tus. --$1 per annum, if paid in advance; £ not $1.50 will be charged. No subscrip-+ ttontaken for Jess than six months ; and no paper discontinued until arrears are paid up. Rates of Advertising: Porch line. first insertion ........ ubsequent insertions, perline .. Cards. und 6 lines, | COTTeEp addressed to me at Scugog P.0., will receive prompt attention. #ar Sale Bills made out aud Blank Notes furnished free of charge. I would also inform those interested in Poultry that I have on hand and for sale upwards of 100 fine, pure-bred Plymonth Rock Chicks, If you want anything in that line please write me for prices or come and see stock. ; GEORGE JACKSON. Sengog, July 18, 1893. TT. SWAIN, Licensed Auctioneer Down With High Prices For Fo THE COUNTY OF DURHAM.-- Satisfaction' guaranteed and terms liberal. Office and residence at Ceesaren. Orders Jeft with Messrs. Moore Bros., Blackstock, actions. will be inserte d charged accordingly. Ne "will be taken out wal pid F \iberal discount allowed to Merchants others who advertise by the year will receive prompt attention. P,S. No charge made for selling for other County 2 OR the Townships of Brock, Uxbrid and Eldon Partiesentrusting their Sales to me may rely on the utmsot attention being given to their intrests. J WM. GORDON, Sunderland. | Sitings of the Division Court _ COUNTY OF ONTARIO. TE ieom. Scott, Thorah, Mara, Rams, Mariposa |- = = A Racking Cough Cured by Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. Mrs. P. D. Harz, 217 Genessee St., Lockport, N. Y., says: "Qver thirty years ago, I remember hearing my father describe the wonder- ful curative effects of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral ® During a recent attack of La Grippe, which assumed the form of a eatarrh, soreness of the lungs, accom- panied by" an aggravating eough,®1 used various remedies and prescriptions. While some of these medicines partially alleviated the coughing during the day, none of them afforded me any relief from that spasmodic action of the lungs which would seize me the moment I attempted to lie down at night. After ten or twelve such nights, I was Nearly in Despair, and had about decided to sit up all night in my easy chair, and procure what sleep I could in that way. It then oc- curred to me that I had a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. I took a spoonful of this preparation in a little water, and was able to lie down without coughing. In a few moments, I fell asleep, and awoke in the morning greatly refreshed and feeling much better, I took a teaspoonful of the Pec- toral évery night for a week, then grad- ually decreased the dose, and in two weeks my cough was cured." Ayer's Cherry Pectoral Prepared by Dr. J.C. Ayer & Co, Lowell, Mass. Promptto act, suretocure Electric Belts. $1.55, $2.65, $3.70 ; former prices $5, 10. Qualty remains the same--16 ferent styles; dry the price of any other compan; Hin EL moLialS than all the rest to gether. Full list free. found it unequalled. Mars. SAraR HAMILTON, one little girl raised her hand. 'Well Instant Relief, Permanent Failure Impossible. no-called Cure, on everybodys lips--t be a glutton, a sluggard, a slave of gain, A gross exaggerntor, & votary of| true te pleasure, a vietim of overwork, even in all tifings, and not in abstaining | an habitual liar and adulterer--in a | from ond (so-called) evil habit and giv- word, guilty of the grossest inten.per-| ing the gin to every other form of ance in regard to everything under the | mental find physical self-indulgence. | sun, and yet, in the popular accepta-| In fact, powadays in Onnada modera- tion of the term, be & sound temper d ance man. cerned as to the lawfulness or health fulness or otherwise of the use of alco | yar, #7, dif: battery and acid belts -- mild or strong current. Less than half andmore Mention this CO, Windsor, Ont di and 1fi _ "An a dyspepsia cure I have | (gra Montreal, Que. "A teacher asked her class to name five different members of the 'cat' family. Nobody answered till at last the teacher encourngingly.-- r Oat, Mother Oat, and three alled 'Temperance. Vi60R0DS PROTEST FROM | oN CLERGYMAN WIIO. 18 NOT To Express mis OPINION oWi OwN S168ATURR--PROUIBITI T We ore 3 p ord which ut the present mol devo ally 1 am not just at this moment con: self. holic liquors ; that*for the moment i8| which wé have no craving whatever, not the question. What I wish toe make plain now is the fact that the |g; word temperance, as now employed by, I suppose, at least 90 per cent. of the | people, is an absurd aud misleading misnomer, and so, a8 a protest.ngainst the prostitution and abuse of this noble word, 1 have headed this com- munication "the "great teetotal (not temperance) craze." Even granting momentarily, for the sake of argument; the utter sinfulness of the moderate usa of alcoholic liquors and the conse- quent Louaden necessity for. al stenance therefrom, the word woul still be incorrect and misleading. It is the duty of all men to totally ab: stain from profane swearing, yet we don't cal! the man who observes this This is nota ton ove rule a temperance wan. mere question of words or names, or mere pedantio strickling for verbal ae-{ curacy, but, as will be shown further on, it involves several vital principles whose violation, however unconsciously or well meaningly pursued, must sooner or later inevitably bring its own |} Truth is too sacred sa thing it cannot be sagri- nemesis. to be trifled with: ficed in ove essential iota with impan= ity to the best and noblest cause, and and it will assert itself though smoth-} ered under mountain piled on moun: twin, All the enthusiasm for human ity, all the ptirust love for our fallen follow-men, - all the high-souled deter mination to do battle unto the death i with the wrong--in a word, all that is admirable and lovely in many in dividual teetotal advocates, will Do condone their habitual, if unconscious, misuse of terms and the consequen confusing of the real pointa at issue] with its sure and certain ultimatel disastrous results, I now proceed to specify some. the evils consequent upon the grow of what is commonly called the * perance" movement, but which 1 thi [ have with wanifestly more corre ess termed 'the great teetotal cra: 1. The use of word "temperance" if al ul 8! that the moderate use of liquo merit the name of intemperance'). and noisily denounce those who do not b V'| numbers of people 'the whole duty of man,' and as such covers a multitude of far grossey and less excusable form of intemperance. Whoever dreams of' denying the term 'temperance ad | cate' to a man, for instance, who hab itually 'eats, as many do, about th times more than is necessary, not U mention those who are continu J making the most disgusting exhibi of gluttony, or (to use a homely expressive Oanadianism) 'hoggishn ve in my wnind's eye to-day & v prominent temperance advocate wil whose eloquence many an On rch and hall has rung, who, i he word temper: | their: 1 ance. Temperance, we are 'assured, { aluse and from very high authority, is! from t « moderation in all things," and this is| those guilt ite standard or established meaning: 'secing > But temperance, according to the modern popular and all Lut universally received Onnadinn meaning, is abstin- |i ence from one (presumably) evil habit, tion and} true temperance is like con- tentmen$--practically a 'lost art'--)| Those viftues which involve the least appetite for food ; put a rein upor the | moderafe that 'covetousness which is idolatr! keep within bounds the all absorbing passion for dress and jewelry and social ; 'soft. drinks' tonly intemperate in venting unmeasured 'all who honestly differ b, imparting vile motives to of the mortal sin of not to eye with them, utterly at charity which thinketh ud in their own turn crim- erate in their dress, work | Bal ¢! This, I maintain, is very | pla id forgotten or lost sight of the fact of erance consists in moderation | | Pe ly .sacrifice are always the most pop- To abastain from liquor, for rather a strong repulsion, is in- tely. jensier than to control one's gue,l restrain haints of slothfuliess, ' which manifests itself in rwotk, or, in the case of women, As was well and wittily g 3. Another evil that a certain number of persons, equal to half the entire death rate, die from | cessive liquors, As a clergyman of come ex-| common religion 1 whose work has main- | ip its effects would be the laid among those classes said to be | such an individual publicly intoxicated | all the selfssacrificing zeal that g | been lavished uptin the perance,' all the nobility and purity of motive that in many cases aniwates its. advocates, cannot excuse or justify the sacrifice of one particle of the tir K Truth outraged will, though it tarry long, take its revenge ; and unless the cause is rock-built pon its changeless | am not afraid to say that t have been counted upon the fingers. 1 could at this moment give the names from memory. others in which I have lived, are any criterion, not more at the outside than one per cent of the general population are using intoxicating liquors to an in- | jurious extent, or at least to the extent of interfering with the discharge of the every day duties of life. rom the stock statements of teetotal advocates, al least 50 per cent of the drunkards, habitually using liquot to tform. We are told, for instance, | like t is it possible for anyone in his | bat senses to accept euch a statement as | contempt. that? Is it possible for anyone who has of thing have upon the youug, exce| had experience of life in Canada te)to make them distrus? and despise all believe that more than say, 5 per cent| those who are professionally engaged [oft to ex- | in teaching and enforcing by their lives| | candle. the entire death rate is due jiudulgence in intoxiciting| the rience, and one | most addicted to excessive drinking, I| than that of a man fiercely denouncin he percent- | the most moderate or occasional indul | age of habitual drunkards in Outario | gence in the 'accursed thing. is exceeding low. Ina town of several | privately and surreptitiously habitual- | thousand inhabitants where I once re-| ly indulging himself in its use. The sided g!l the habitual drunkards could | tendency of prohibition to destroy re- spect for the majesty of the law, to make otherwise law-abiding, law-re- specting citizens lawless and law-de spising, was during the late reign of the Scott act made ¢ bundantly and de- And if this town, and But, to judge it of be eneral population are, if not actual sf i wi feature of the tee-| class, and even total craze is the reckless exaggeration | zeal and 'sound indulged in by its advocates in the | (eetotalism, cannot see their way to of press, and in the pulpit, aud on the | personal total alstinence. | tances are almost weekly being blazon-| ed forth in the newspapers, are calculat. the effects of immoderate drinking. | ed to bring nol only the teetotal cause plorably plain. simply puts a premium vpon lawless: ness ; taking away a man's inalienable birthright and making its exercise a crime, it invites contempt for the law, ness, a perpetual challenge to his sense gain A reputation for Practices | whi the foregoing, of which glaring in an t: 2 the whole name of religion into] full great fundamental truths of our |] * while an Such an enactment is a standing provocation to lawless personal freedom. Thus the law comes an odious and contemptible pess' in the cause of head of the 95 temperate their natural course, drunkenness, as own proper natural death What effect éan this sort | minister of Christ and a priest of the pt | church of God, and in the interests of what I believe to be the sacretl caf of truth ; the game is never worth the Far less disastrous | to save pectacle of | the eloquence that has been expended, Any cause, therefore, whose motive power is the depriving me of my liberty - because someone slse has prov ed hit' self its unworthy possessor ; : built upon the 'two blacks make a white' prineiple § which degrades and virtually deprives me of my manhood tially bad and worthless one, and te serves that universal repudintion which the England of our forefathers accord: the 5 intemperate. In the mean: le, if events are allowed to take appreciably felt evil; will die itd have written the foregoing with & + sense of my responsibilities as & ruth. - Nothing justifis the sncrifice Tt is not worth telling one li, ten thousand drunkards. - Ai] has case of 'tein d eternal principles; it will not stand: which is is, however virtually fair, an essen convenient cloak to a large number of people for giving full and unrestrained swing to their appetites in other re- spects. As a clggs the most intemper- ate men are so-called temperance men. 9 Bat is the moderate use of in- toxieants injurious! There has of late been far too general a disposition on the purt of those who have not bowed the knee to the Baal of teetotalism to lenged, and tacitly accepted as a excess---Uanadian in.aglass 0 'whiskey.' the matter is, that the pro- { of temperance (so-called) isa he question go by defdult-und to |in ma deniable truism, the figment that 1 abstinence (even if not morally religiously binding on men), is the cause." +Jesuitism' nowadays, society a sort of pandemonium of riot and drunkenness, and every other man you meet more or Jess of n sot. Any cause that requires to be bolstered up with such wild, reck- Jess misstatements can possess little in- trinsic worth or strength. this sort of exaggeration, indulged in as it is by public guides and teachers, And all transparently absurd as it nevertheless is, and bearing its own refutation on its face, is bound to have a demoraliz- ing effect upon the general public, and especially the young and unreflecting, king it lawful or excusable to to go forth to the world iinchal- | sacrifice Truth to make a point, and n | condoning any kind of safe falsification for the purpose of helping on a "good We hear a great deal about but what of thing, to break which were something less than blameworthy, if not a positive duty; or atall events, if not a duty, |! something devoid ef the faintest sus picion of blame. Under such circum- stances people, especially the young, become rapidly inoculated with a con- tempt for all law. 1f it be right, or at least blameworthy, to break one law, it cannot be a deadly sin to break another. With the daily spectacle before their eyes of decent, respectable people deliberately and openly violat- ing the law, what can we expect but that in their eyes the law in general will lose all its sacredness, as some- thing that for its owp sake is un- worthy of the smallest personal sacri- fice, and only to be obeyed under com- pulsion or for some purely personal ad- ed to that attempt during the Crone wellian regime on the part of the Puri men of to-dny are, to impose by tegal ! enactment upon thie nation the yoke of a pharisaical observance of certain n= tolerably burdensoitie outward rules of conduct. that the right to do right involves the power to do wrong, and that the cur- tailment, beyoud a certain point, of our liverty to do wrong must have one of two eril effects--either to rob a mar of responsibility, and thus his manhood, reduce him tp.a mere automaton, or ans, whose degenerate successors these Be it remembered, in conclusion- else to drive him into a state of relel- lion against all forms of moral author- ity or restraint--to make him a slave or a rebel. Virtue without the pri: vilege of free choice is impossible, usensus of medical hus practically become with large | so pe excellent way, the safe side, the urse that at all events must bring best results. at is this strictly true 1 Is teetotal- conducive to the best physical in- sts of mankind? Ts it conducive instance, to that thing which is pularly supposed to be the crowning deratum of human existence, lou- ty? What says the following le, recently issued by the 'Investi- ion committee of the British Med: association ¥ Average years. Habitually Temperate 62.13 Careless drinkers 0.67 Free drinkers .. E | Decidedly intemperate S202 lL Total abstainers..... «.e.e 1.22 t 1s urged often nowadays that the opinion 18 in rof teetotalism. But this is far too readily assumed and accepted. Ten velve years ago there was no a di ion on the part of the i eepingly con- > use under all circumstances jcants, Doctors, like all other sg of professional men, are affected ic opinion to an extent little even by themselves. They 'are governed by fashions and as other scientific men are, 'a loose their heads. edical wen of the highs a of stimulants. It is that 'Jesuitism' aggeration, distortion and downright refore they are liable to period- and reactions and so occA- It is g every day more unmistakably hat the medical profession is p to the fact that under the public opinion, and in the d from their old course of indis- prescribing of intoxicants, d to the opposite and equally a extreme of denouncing their all circumstances as a bever- riters, are advocating the that has reduced ex- falsification to a science 4. Prohibition is essentially unjust, and opposed to all principles of British justice, It is punishing one man for the sin of another, the sober man for the drunkard. Because my neighbor ges drunk, I, must be deprived of my in- who can 'use without abusing,' alienable rights as a freeborn Briton! Because one man does not know how to exercise his rights, I must be forcibly robbed of mine! Because my neighbor is an lunatic, therefore I must be put under restraint | Because someone buys a razor and cuts his own or somebody else's throat, I musn't be allowed to shave | Because shops are occasionally robbed, therefore every shop window must be covered up with an iron grat- ing and the use of glass made illegal ! | Even were drunkards in an euor- mous majority, say 87 per cent of the population, prohibition would be gross- ly anjust, for the state bas no right to rob & man of his rights because others abuse, them: It would be doing evil that good might come ; it would be violating an eternal principle of justice to meet an exceptional and accidental state of things. But it in all the other way. The temperate users of liquor are enormously in the majority ; they are at least ten to one of immoderate drinkers ; and yet we wre asked to de- prive them of sacred rights to benefit an insignificant minority. By an exact reversal of the principle of the old and well-known proverb, we are asked to (venture a whale to catch a sprat,' to do great wrong to bring about an in- finitesimal benefit, to oppress the many to advantage the few. A clumsier or t vantage 1 been favorably distinguished for their law-abiding disposition general reverence for lawfully consti- € more childish method of securing a de- sired resalt could not be well imagined. It ould be like ordaining that no man .|shouid walk the streets unless gagged Hitherto Canadians have and their tated authority. How long this would continue under the demoralizing effects of such an act is, to judge from past ex- perience, very doubtful. Proliibition, therefore, in whatever form it may pre- Temptation is the touchistond of all character. R. F. Dixox. WUE Mrs. Meadow--I -henrd these city people say something about taking rides in traps. What kind of wagons be they 1 v : Mr. Mendow--Huh ! Anyhody sent itself, violating as it does a man's sacred personal rights, suggests and in; vites its own violation, and isa stand- ing hcentive to a lawlessness that must ultimately spread and undermine and overthrow all reverence for the law in general. If, by interfering with and curtailing the reasonable liberty of my son, I make my lawful authority odious or if by subjecting him to absurd and childish restrictions I invite and render ble his disobedience, I lay the axe with my own hand to the root of my authority. So it is with the state. year ofsgrace and enlightetment,' a large number of intelligent people can be found to advocate the re-enactment of sumptuary laws, such laws as no doubt are necessary in an imperfect state of civilization, such laws, for in- stance, as have been found needful for the partially civilized Indian, who is supposed to be in a state of childhood, and who, therefore, is Bl and cannot parchase liquor. Which reminds me of a good story told me him by an Indian of the Moravian re- serve at the passing of the Scott act. Quoth the dusky sou of the forest, with a solemn chuckle, 'Scott act passed; white man same as Indian now." Daring my residence of over twenty now aud is not one Drunk is An ex ceptional thing, Fd b 1 Land hande y boyhood, whose name [age o 10 be) 'household word | and profanity. asmall percent. £ the people were addicted to theft may be attributed, might know you'd never been to York. It's a black covered carriage el ye git I & into expectin' to pry ten cents fore and ye git charged five dollars. -- years in this coantry there has been a great improvement in regard to the general sobriety of the community: quarter as prevalent ae | rememlier em! e it. This B he method 18 aaa eehing t by a friend of an observation made to aly {to the great increase he-use of ale