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R. D. ARCHER, 'M.D.C.M. Victoria Guivervity ; MB. Toronto University, . x f icinns and Ar Mow Fue the Calle Giflage ® si 7h 8 1a gar Phoutinse ent ate . a of Sarge of f Physicians, Edi a ember ois f Ph dln: J rgeont, or Ate nt % Pupil of the Solan Hospital, Din Es yo of heed Fuaitare Emporiam, Office hours--9 to py ueer Btreet. d 2to 5 p.m,, and evenings. 1 have taken as partner, my brother, Dr. R. Archer, M. D., C. M., Member of Col#] lege of Physica and Surgeons, Out. Port Perry, June 9, 1807. DR. 8 J. MELLOW, PuYSIOIAN, SURGEON, &C. Office and Residence, Queen 8t., Port Peiry _ flise hours--8 $0 {0 a.m ; 1to3 pm, and Rrenipgs: "Telephone tn office And Toren dapennight * and day over the lines sonth, connected with the residence of G. L. Robson, V.8. Bact Ferry: Nov, 15, 184. WM. H. HARRIS; B.A. LLB. BABSISTER. &c,, i cCcessor ant of the 8 offices of fe Tate P. FM Yarnold. Port Perry, - Omt. HONEY TO LOAN. Private Funds at 4 per cent, ? - ke. Office ab ren hy oach (obe 1wile West a Pert pa Money 10 Loan. = N. F. PATERSON, % c Eatzistals Solisjson: Notary Publi " Nes. 310 i Temple " Biifiding, Cor, Bay: and Richmond Streets, Toronto. ' Morontq, March 31, 1608. E. FAREWELL, K.C,, LL.B., Count; Crown Attorney Barrister, County Sol- oto, &o., Notary Public aud Conve: oh 2on-gouth wing Court "House, We A SANCSTER, DENTAL SURGEON. Office Houra--9 to42 a m., 2 tof pn Also open Natnpday evevinge. \ Fi'lings, Bridge and Crown e5 Gold Vitalised Air. Work a Specialty. Dr. F D. MecGrattan (DENTIST) LD.S. of Royal College nf Dental Bongo. also 0.10.5, of Taranto Universit, Offfion in the Allison Blovk over Allison's Diag! Store, | w, 108.30 p.m. 1902 Office houra--8 : J. A. Murray, s : "DENTIST, "= Oftes oyer the Tost Office. ., PORT PERRY. Dentixtry, . inclu Foravelua o Tg Work. wus p Joao Tue . 3) to oa Bion Port pepRY BRANCH. : rs at any ti mn at il id Blank f North Ontario Observer A Weekly Political, Agricultural and Family Negspaper IR PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT. EVERY THURSDAY MORNING BY H. PARSONS TERMS, 41 anowm, if paid-in advenve ; if now 81.5 eT No sabactiption a thaw six months; "ad no tinned til arrears wre paid up. : 1 PITY cont: ring money. Ole, rrepaid i wil beat red by Sonparis por and petfication, with No "advertise- ADVEN a ADVELTIEMENTS received for in. tractions, will pei in El med eitrend sore', M A LIBERAL dicount sewed tn psa ier | THESE terms will in all cases be strictly adhered to JOB DEPARTMENT. Puwphlet | Hand Bis, Posters Programs, Dodger BillHeMs, "hecks Luar Meads, Wedding Invitations, | Blagk Fy ma Recelp Books, Business Ca Bods | Ciroulam, Amombly Cala Visiting Cards, &o of every style and oolor executed promptly and 5 low isl a toy the County..... - wit 2 fli eon Prono Loin iin : H, PARSONS, | Tater rmers, Cattle and Hog Dealers, and otes drsconnted.. Sale Notes Cashed or forms free on application. A. G. VERCHERE, Manager, : Soo (British Capital) Fo lend at 4, 43 and 5 per cent. on good Mortgage Security. Apply to : DAVID J. ADAMS Banker and Broker, Port ny Ont, ris ae undersignod tukes th opportunity of thanking the Tair of Port Pei ery and surrounding county for the liberal and still fuereasing pat- ronage hestowed upon i sinca commencing Carting and Livery in Port Perry and now conseq ate F, ' FOR THE COUNTY OF ONTARIO AND TOWNSHII R OF CARTWRIGIT, V ISHES at this the commencenynt of 'another Auction Sale Season tg re- turn thanks to his nomerons parony for: pust favors, In requesting their esteemed and contivued patronage he desires te state that no effort or paius will be spare | on his part to make a sules him sucvesses. His very exte in the past should be a sufficient rechm mendution an to®his ability. 0) Sule given into hix charge will be attended with promptoces wd dispatch. Sule list made out and blank notes supplied free, on npplication. ! Purties wivhing to engage his services may consult hig Saux RaaIntenr either ut the Obsciver or Standard Offices, Port Percy, for dates claimed for Sales nnd - [nuke areangemonts, or write to his address 47 Phone at Residence, No. 31. #a, €HARGES MODERATE. GEO. JACKSON, Port Perry P, '0 Nov. 1, JOS. BAIRD ICKN-ED AUCTIONEER for the 4 County of Ontario, Sale Regist the Ops¥rver Office Patronage ae Manchester, Jan. 19, 1899. 1901. H. McCAW, - INSUER OF MARRIAGE LICENSES, Port Perry Out. Port Perry, Dec, 19, 1883, mi Ee WM SPENCE, Township Clerk, Commissioner, ke. b) prepared to Loan any nantity of { ou improved Farm Seon ty at 6 and | por ent (Trasifands). ANK ohssyanctiig exvird bid | fwith deaths ati Hai that he ds better than TH ny ste hese sas well as kal of the Latest type of construction for comfort and pleasure, Lum in a position to meet the requirements of the most fastidious us to style aud desirable equippuge in every respect--in every way suit- Mable for private driving, wed- dings, funerils, &c. Puities wishing av afternoon drive can have their -choior of suitable Aone or siuglevigs and cure- ful drivers will *also be suppli ed when reguired. * 1 possess a number of good Spring and vay \ agons and will, at ull times, attend to Cin ting with the atmost cure and promptncss. I wish further to state that in future sujtable Conyeyuanocs will ba nt the Railway Depot - to convey passengers and Lag. Kage to private residences, and il ulso convey passen, ers find hagyuge to the Depot in time for departing trains, ou being given notice, WAL JAMIESON. Port Peery July 30, 1903. Canada's Greatest Nurseries want a Local Salesman for PORT PERRY to sell High-Class, Nursery Stock (in Fruits and Ornamentals. Larg est list of NEW SPECIALTIES "ever offered. Start NOW at. the Best Selling Seasor Big: Inhdueements, Liberal Pay. Handsome Fige Outfit, Tertitor, "Reserved. Write for Terms au! Catalogue and sebd 2 ¢ for our imintm } Pocket ficroscopd fee 4d 'times) and. 50¢ loi ir aw, just the | thing « ONTARIO Jhantitics of New at Tigh { Sommer" - " Jost jeitived at, eri J weak nerves, general deb 4 But > bv ¥ Dimte. overt e bast poe Se a ye. 'We have ng secrets! We publish the formes of all our medicines. ry br w 2g ju K be k i Some Theories ; i b $ And a Bear Trap § ma ih . k res * to 3 8 C: B. LEWIS 3 me E Copyright, 190, by M. M. Cusniogham 3 SOU ercoooeononeoneonned aig, Uncle Peter Bcott, farmer on the out- skirts of the village of Hiliside, had *® lost his good wife, and his daughter I Jennie kept house for him. He had got to be fifty years old and finicky, while she had got to be twenty and was called one of the nicest girls in Adams county. | Tom Barlow, the youngest of the vil lage merchants, agreed with all others. He had driven out to see Jennle on half a dozen occasions on Sunday after- noons, and it was whispered around that a marriage would come of it. The father had scratched his head and said 'bu nothing, but In his own mind he had , regarded ft as a good mateh. | All was going well when an interrup- tion suddenly occurred. Mr. Barlow dealt In hoes, rakes and shovels as well i os in dry goods and groceries. Uncle ' Peter bought 2 Joo Cri started into the cornfield one iu th the dist gy. hoe pleased filn; the. be long before he would lose Jenile be pulled over a sod with his hoe caughiiisight of a big fat mole under neath. The life or death of that mole had little to do with the future prospe a of Adams county, but Uncle Pe Jumped in with intent to slaughter, made three or four blows with the hes' and finally one tremendous blow. mole was tmmolated, but-at the sa time the handle of the hoe was bro) and the old man fell forward plowed his nose into the ground. He got up mad. He was mad at the mole, the hoe and himself, and be jumped and down and used cuss words. 8 One does not remain mad at himself very long. He finds some one else to blame for the whole thing. In thi se Uncle Peter put the calamity le shoulders of Mr. Barlow. He h sold him a hoe handle that was we in the back--sold It with intent to de fraud and decelve. Uncle Peter ha sold short tons of hay more than A but when any one cheated him be looks ed upon it as a wrong to all humanity, He was near the roadside fence wi be massacred the mole, and he Just got the dirt out of his mi the fall when a man he kn driving along iu his buggy. 3 He naturally asked what was matter, and the old man cut loose. called the merchant a cheat, fraud ds swindler and. vowed by the whiske! of his ancestors that he would never buy aught more of him. wanted his words repeated, and were. 3 When the father went up to house after another hoe and the da ter asked wint was the matter he hy more to say about the merchant @ something particular to say to her, made more fuss about that broke handle than the county commigsio hed In bullding a bridge over Gog foe and he ho off with: a to sme. it pa iy Jennie "argned and protested and tried to soothe, but the father was ob- auraté" He told her of the he had' on the porch kB, and the girl the ho to go to ¢ his chance. He jump- \e 'grass and ran for his | Bet it just inside the gate fater was winding up an Innocent expression ed Jennie of herself as she and, poking her head window, she saw him that she Investi- * minutes later and 8ide on the lawn. had been detalned. He | en that farmers re | ir beds when the hens went It was 10 o'clock when he out. Jennie heard him walked down the road to i Knowing her futher as she 'w that a present of a hoes that night would fob e his Injured feeling y to notify Mr. Taney d turn him back and say : the up out of a dose | 'theory. It was to the ef- .some lightning rod men mentioned above arouse the house for lodgings | into that walting bear trap. about to get up when he re id that a man of lightning had im out of $10 five years be- i¢" he therefore decided not to ® had just come to this de- old Mrs. Davis sald: jrew, I'm goly' to get up and go | 0g." ¢ fur?' he dremmily asked. 'Ot a theory that Uncle Peter thitnsel! in the wood shed," f 'nonsense' to me, I never ase didn't turn out has Ta partly dressed and left the house. | and Mr. Barlow and the horse buggy were not gg far away that ld not have made them out had n less occupied with her theory, it wag they escaped her notice. ood shed to every well regulated is In the rear. It was so jn the of the Scott home. To reach it rs, Davis had to leave the straight 'and she hadn't made above ten when there was a scream and a wn yell to freeze the blood of rs. Uncle Peter heard {t a8 he inning to dream of broken hoe es and fat moles, and he jumped bed. Mr. Davis heard it as be dozed ondered about theories, and out he came with his hair trying to on end. Jennie and Mr. Barlow | it and started forward with ex- tions of alarm, and thus it Hap- that the four reached old Mrs. at about the same time. Bhe n caught in the bear trap, of In leaving the path she had fairly into it, and as the jaws together she felt, as she said ard, that the last day had come was ready to sail away. was an exciting time for the minutes. The poor old woman tened half to death, and Aa ] bruised by the teeth of the nd while she was being carried the rond her busbsnd was an- ig his determination to have sat- n under the law. Uncle Peter that his theory had failed, and and Mr. Barlow had been dis- conspiring, as it were, It 3 the victim had been put hurts attended to by a doc-' | ber husband calmed down by that the right thing should t Uncle Peter turned on the and demanded: i. you got to say about aj ~ "answered Jenne, "added the me ast have, either," ob- ole killer, as he jogged into ind left the others at the over. gL the. Fan ie. editor that takes In ews?" inguired the caller, man, with a timid, ap- n bis face. , the young man at a take in any kind of you?" "sald Iter, £5 ce: "My wife gave a ight, and I'm willing ot he's od caicutated to deceve | did fafher linger be same nefarious business on | some" along in the might and "LOAN | Our long acquaintance with this district enables ws to make as liberal loans to our customers wg sound financing will per- mit, Undoubted Seenrity to Depositors. No Delay in Drawing Your Money i Interest Paid or Compounded Twice a Year Don't Wait till you have a large #1 will Open an { Small Savings form the sum (0 deposit. { Begin with wx Now ! Base of Large Fortunes. {econnt, WE CASH ALE NOTES. BANK MONEY ORDERS. 1 Best way to send small amounts | Upton$s. ou. «ov id 3 cts. Over $5 up to £10... 6 cts, Over 10 upto 30..100t8 ( Over 3o0upto 50..15 ) PORT"PERRY AGENCY. For sums over 50 use Bank DrarTs. { Best and cheapest way to send Lager | theirs, Caslied free at any Baok. i AMounTs., Special Rates. | uted to the ordinary snail 1s distributed H. 6. HUTCHESON, Manager. | NEW STORE IN PORT PERRY rg. etm | The undersigned having purchased that brick building on the corner o Queen and John Streets, in the Western port:on of the business centre of the town, has opened out a fine Stock of General & Fancy Dry Goods ~ TINWARE, GRANITEWARE, NOTIONS, &.0. J ' .which he will sell Cheap for Cash. | | TUESDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY BARGAINS. M. SHAPIRO. K="Butter, Eggs, and all kinds of Farm Produce taken as Cash. cap Skins, \Wool, Horse and Cow Hades, a 'Horse Hair, &c. sn exclusive" characteristic 'Gf "this member of the Stock Exchange. But this man was a favorite with his moth- er and generally called on her to belp him out of his scrapes, and she usually responded freely, even lavishly. On one occasion, however, when his de- mands had been especlally frequent and extravagant, {t was with consider- able trepidation that, on discovering himself "the morning after" in a dis- tant city and picked as clean as a new fledged sparrow, he penned the follow- ing heart moving appeal, to be sent C. 0 D.: "Send $50 and save disgrace." His worst fears were realized when, an hour later, he received the reply from his mother, "Too late."--New York Tribune. Hard to Catch Up. Two Silesians, seated In a music hall, began to argue about the music of Wagner. The argument as it pro- gressed grew heated. The upshot was that the younger challenged the Bilesian to a duel. older But the older Silesian « ad to fight. "No, no," he sald. "I rafuse to mect you. The risks are not equal. You, you see, are a bachelor, whereas I am a married man with three children. I'll tell you what to do. Go get mar- ried and wait till you've a family as large as mine. Then, when our risks are alike, come und challenge me again." The younger man complied. He mar- ried. Three years passed and one day three years later he went, accompanied by a -norsemaid, to hia opponent's "Hera I am," he sald fiercely. "My wilé is at home. In this coach are my three "children. Now for the duel" 'But the older man shook bead. Net yet: awhiio, Io pil "1 have five To Li ! The average ¢ity. business man with- out. sce) impediments to ght get along Cr on ie ap plows schedule as the following: + First--Five minutes each day of purely muscular exercise, such as can be taken perfectly well in one's room 'without any special apparatus. Second.--Short intervals during the day of fresh air, brisk walking, deep breathing. This can all be secured in the regular order of the day's business. A man can éapily spend as much as half: an adur' walking out of doors every day. 'This is for heart, lungs . and' digestion. Third.--~Theé reservation of at least ne day a week for rest and recreation, for -belug out of doors, for' playing ie ete. This is essential, This is {for 'both body and mind." X man who "thinks He can get along without at least otie v. acation time a 'week simply proves his ignorance, |. The Bite of u Girl pis ola et aiay of polsonous germs as be "foods; according to e raed i Sipe niyersity) of In house by the firing of a g t the government proof butts on "Pulm- "ptead mevehes.? io lw Rs | Also 5 vo ago hie experimented on a beautiful girl In Germany and found that an arrow dipped In saliva from her mouth would send Its vietim in death throes more terrible than one dipped In the venom _ of the most deadly snake. i | i) Twins Born In Different Years. | "I have often been present at the birth of twins," sald an old nurse. "Only once was I present, though, when the twins were born in different years. '"T'wins born in different years? You are crazy," said the young bride. "Not a bit of It," sald the old nurse. "The thing happened in Pittsburg in 1809. The first twin was born at 11:30 o'clock on the ntght of Dec. 31, 1899, and the second was born at 1 o'clock in the morning of Jan. 1, 1900. There are, ma'am, a number of other cases recorded of twins born in different years." The Cat Had Chickens. The old housekeeper met the master at the door on hls arrival home, "If you please, sir," she said, "the cat has had chickens." "Nonsense, Mary," laughed he. "You mean kittens. Cats don't Lave chick- ens." | "Was them chickens or kittens as you brought home last night?' asked the old woman. "Why, they were chickens, of course." "Just so, sir," replied Mary, with a twinkle, "Well, the cat's had 'em!" | A Comprehensive Verdlet. A child In an English town was | killed by a steam atomizing apparatus falling on It. The coroner's jury brought in the following curious ver- dict: "Death resulted from shock lowing bronchitis and whooping caused through the shaking of the The Under Side ot Fish. Experiments have been made Wim 8 in order to determine whether the whiteness of thé under sides of those fish is due to the exclusion of Nght, and the presence of color on their upper sides to exposure to light. The fish experimented upgn were kept Hv- ing in a glass tank, having a mirror placed beneath, so as to light upon the under sides of the One of 'these prisoners survived for three years under conditions so strangely dif- ferent from its ordinary habits of life, and all of them exhibited the develop- ment of spots of pigment on their lower surfaces. The experimeénters conchi: ed that it is exposure to light that causes the coloration of the upper parts of the bodies, only of fonn- ders, but of other 'and, couversely, that it is to the absence of, light that the 'sides of fish is due, its hitstom o% ul same principle to the colorless condition of 1 the sking of 'animals that pass all their lives in aves. crown a | under the "ancient regime" was that | In 1744, when 12,000 men went on | wrote to his brother that he had "la | tete cassee 'par 'cette vile canaille" . The | til} the supreme strike of 1789. | mulberry tree is the hardest worked | plece of timber in the world. | told me be kept a bucket shop." Youth Is not the age of pleasure. | We then expect too much, and v | therefore, exposed to dally dis ments and mortifications. When we are a Mttle older and have brought down our wishes to our experience, A ad | striker and"& blacklegs were a lessly boycotted. But thd biggest strike { of the sik factory hands at Lyons striko and eo alarmed the mayor that he conceded everything they asked and "vile canajille," however, had had their moment, and it was no longer: Two months later the king gent down 20,000 soldlers "pour re- mettre l'ordre dans la bohneville da Lyon," and we hear no more of strikes A A Snail's Sense of Smell. | Professor E. Yung of Geneva dlgcovs ered that the keen sense of smell attrib- over the entire body not covered by tha shell, the two pairs of tentacles, the lips and the edges of the feet being particularly sensitive. In the experi- ments made a brush dipped in various odorous substances in turn was brought 33 near the different parts of the body, and ref Cass were noted at distances of twenty-fifth of an Inch to several Eo ibn in exceptional cases was odor perceived as much as fifteen or twenty inches awny, showing that smell cannot guide these creatures to food far removed. The Mulberry Tree. Silk 1s the great industry of northern Italy, and the plains of the gquadrilater- al are dark with mulberry trees. The First its leaves are skinned off for the worms to feed on, then the little branches are clipped for the worms to nest in, then the large limbs are cropped for. char- coal, and the trunk has not only to produce a new crop of leaves and limbs for next year, but must act as | trellis for a grapevine. in - X is Bucolic Basivess "That was a perfectly lovely gentles man I met last night," declared the pretty milliner. "Ie has a good, refi- able business too." "What is it?" asked her friend. "Why, he sells farm Implewments,™ continued the pretty girl. "What kind of farm Lnplements?' "Buckets--nothing but buckets. Ha [] Ptomninen. - Ptomaines, according to Quain, ard alkaloids produced by the decomposi- WE tion of animal substances. The word® 4 ptomaine was at first restricted to al= kaloids produced Ly cadaveric decom- position, but it is now also employed to designate alkaloids of animal origin formed during life as a result of ical changes induced by some agency or other acting within the organism, Youth and Plensure. then we become calm and begin to en- joy ourselves ' i Fortune, Fortune Is like the market, where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall, and a n it is some- times like a sibyl's offer, which at first offereth the commedity at fall, then consuwmeth part and part and still hold- eth up the price.--Bacon. | A proper secrecy is the only mystery of able men. Mystery 18 the only, secrecy of weak aud cunniog ones. | me ar * George Ham's Versatility. Wherever George Ham, the veteran newspaper man, and representative of the Canadian Pacific Railway, goes there ts sure to be a trail of LAS a. eo of; "When George Ham, the well-known C. P. R. offfelal. was in Nelson last week; a deputation waited upon him" and urged in eloque zuage that tha C. P. R. should build an heist in that elty to accommodate the touris da, George listened pa'fently to the har > gue and at its close remarked: "Well; b ys, 1 don't think the C. P. R. can af ford to put up an hotel here, but,' and he put his hand in his pocket and pull= ed out an imitation $1 00 bill given ,t¢ him as an ad for Saskatoon and "Randed it t> the leader of the deputa~ tion, 'I am glad. ta contrib orm ly this anount towards the seh Nothing more was sald about tel." The Vancouver Proviice the other yarn "President Roosevelt, the statement of Mr. Geo make a'ous of Canada. present termi. has exp! Vancouver. No doubt' anvid. sure of his other duties he has h to read oun lterat e and hh self «f the advantages t place for' settjementt =