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Al 3 OORONER FOR ONTARIO CO. ESIDRECR Quesx 8r., Telos eile over Bell and WM. H. HARRIS, BALLLB. BARRISTER, &e., seWRY TO LOAN. #otvase Punds at 4 por eont, Jno. W. Orozier Soriciven, Cenvevavoss, {one mile west of Port Perry,)-- Zosuer of Marriage Licensem an FARA LLB, , County . Lundy, L.D.8,D.D.8 BENTAL BURGEON ecessor to Dr R. L. Graham] PORT PERRY. Ont A. MURRAY Rooms over Rase & Co., J.D: McMaster, V. S. Office fn Cawker Brothers Livery PORT PERRY, ONT. MORTON M. GIBSON, ONTARIO & DOMINION LAND BURVEYOR| AND CIVIL. ENGINEER (Buccessor to the late WRB Ontario Land Surveyor, © of SMITH & SMITH LAND SURVEYORS AND BIviL ENGINEERS PHNONBS DAY B48, LINDSAY, ONT. North Viigo Observer PORT PERRY, ONT. KRY THURSDAY MORNING st REV, C. F.8THENT, BA, L. Th. Sabiieas at 4m. onl sth session Ny Thursday at Jae i BEY RrATHAR Kuaxd R. 0. OHUROH. Thidd Bandar 04 1020 ara, 1 | } Dillon Hinge-Staykence| Manufactured by the Owen Sound Wire Fence Uo. Ltd. and am preparsd to supply this whole community with the very BEST WIRE FENCE produced on this Continent and at prices that can not fail to satisfy purchasers. The DiLroN Farce is without a peer. It ia the BEST because if is | flexible; it is a square mesh ; it 1s a perfect hiuge:stay fence, therefore it is impossible to bend the stays in fact it is the best fence made in this or any other country, Before purchasing a Wire Fence | don't fail to inspect the DiLtex x Frnca. J. H. Brown, DEAcER IN AGRICULTURAL [MPLE MENTS AND MACHINERY. Seagrave Aptil 8, 190s. © Dass and Mantls Maker ISHES to inform the ladies that she has moved to the rooms (ormerly occupied by her over Mr. Byers Diug Store where she is prepared to execute all or ders for Dress and Mantle Making in a manner unsurpassed lor Correctness of Style afd Charting E fect. Our charges are consistent with the value given, Port Party, April 1, 1dog. LOGAL AGENT WANTED H. G. HUTCHERSON, Bell Phos Office Me. 6 Rr ADAMS & HUTCHESON SUCCESSORS TO . & JOUGLAS ADAMS INSURANGE Mortgage Loans| Steamship Tickets | Real Estate OARABAS RANK AS A MOF PRODUCER RS RAR RR 0" MIMBO A ROREAM Aa Raanan 9 MOR m RH HRmETaR an 13 COMPARED WITH OTHER NATIONS ON THE BASIS OF THE NUMBER OF ANIMALS TO THE anaaaaen § annenan 7 anaaan 6 _ i our home t or udotatututadatatatadadatsiph vonuun, FY OFT 7 I 7 OF OF OT IY 67 ET FY OY FTI TPT NERTRT TPT PY CRRMANY. FF YT FT EE EE STP SHAT. or OT OF OF 7 POT (SFO OF 7 OT 07 7 07 OF PLS ruc, (57 FOF BF OF fF NT 0F 07 BF BY OF P_e CTATPTRTET FYRT TIT . {sraais BT OF FF BF FY RY RF OF Lo HIT ~ ATT TAT ATRTITAT sists von HUNDRED cash BTRTRTPTRPAT FOR THE OLD RELIABLE Ponthill Nursorios | Thoi sands' of Orchard Tress necd replacing. WAR GARDENS all for small fruits, edly bearing fruit trees, Asparagus, Rhubarb Wa plants efe- a coe The demand for Ornamental Stock in towns and villages is laige. Secure a paying Agency with liberal commissions, Exp rience not hecessary, STONE & WELLINGTON, Established ToroNTo, Er a be pores 1 sales entrusted to on Lr Partine wishing to engage may consult his SaLz Rraifrxr either at * |the Observer or Standard Offices, Port ling) for Sales, and ta, or write to bho ress, at Residence, No. 31. ma CANADAS RARK AS A SHEEP PRODUCER EEE RERERRRRRE RARE MEERENTREREERRE ER RERER nEREREREERRREARE_ 5S i HHRMA ARR 52 nl vas AHR ERH HERR RER REA RRA, WHERE REERRERR RES ERRERERRE RARE REREERE ERR? Hu. --". ¢ \dibababababal COMPARED WITH: rags RATIONS ON THE BASIS OF THE NUMBER OF HUNDRED ACRES of have met a onset a the past four years; never has thi of home and country called for sueh a a Patriotism does not begin nor ead with war. serve on thie battiefield--but we can' rule fs a sty for the Spread of much contagion. Take for those In the early, unsug es of consumption--a sin unguarded cough may releass ons of deadly tubercle baetlli; 1h ts be 'breathad fa by others around. &f hom reeent years eonsumption Th | was 'considered incurable, but we now. ere is an enemy in our midst-- 'consumption. Lurking in unsuspeot- ed places, it seeks but a foothold to drag its vietima i it is a true test of lo . country to devote our Tagine towards ka o8pi ye ue Fihon 2 doubt, for 'a foe. 2 e have just Tearned of a fam agite comfortable, now 42 KL erty and ay RIGHT oun MISTAKES. % ie finenns? JER ANYUM IN ADVANCE = : Ta PIRIT OF FRANCE "Girl, With n i rs, Doing All -- work In rer i Gus gare tedions and you Hniighton back and Ip you fa finish your to wintl a story told by Afrs. Mary King ar ours, enys the au- thirteen ts running the nning of gle ¥ar it frit with A man and ons and one daughter, fell, and all the men mobilized; the father t boys went off at after the decree of 8 técslved dn the vil- er had no time to put order, but left the form of his wife snd the two tit boys, gd fifteen and sixteen, The man spd B8 two eldest sons ara now dead, {he two. next are in {he army, and the mother, 'a wreck ph feally and mentally, crics ll day. T girl and the two little bovs do the whole Nope the farm. The young- est, is only . ten old, Sanaot rn wych, but he does manege to watch. the cows and fo earry caus of ill or barkets of but ter, 1 see the | simetimes; she Is per- fectly well, never complains and never asks for apything--except occasional- ly for a warm petticoat, or a hood to keep her and neck warm and dry | when sHe i8 working in the flelds, | There are reds of girls doing that {work all over France~Youth's Com- { panfon. As HAVE OTHER HUN THINGS | Man Complains That That His German. Made Clogk Has Complétély Gone to the Bad, i mbit «My; old: flafm clock has gone to | | Bmash, | por It may it may not be n news item interest you, but up at fact that the alarm clock more was an event of 8 ticking iway on tha wouldn't gol Interest. 16; shaking, putting the clock tg esr and flaal determination that it Was done for. thought to look It @¥er before depositing it In the ash eam. On the back was seratehed the month snd day of the purchase in wos looking on the fate for the last time sud studying It closely, Then down at the bottom I saw in smoall letters "Made In Germany." There dt had been ticking away on' the, shelf year nfter year, sounding Its alarm regularly, and yet never before had I noticed that detested joscription. Probably if I had it would have gone into the ash can long before. Just Hike a lot of other "Made In things that we didn't know und until wé found them out. But the old German clock 1s busted, the have gone to smash, it had sounded its Tast alaroy, sof as 1 fied; ft 1 thought how trod, of else "Made in Germany," the juggernaut war machine, dn the bullding, with which was to ride untrammeled the rest of the world, The busted."--H E. K., in Syra- §t-Standard, S ma rd Gas Invented Here, ort that am American Iin< d before an agent of the bu- nes 15 months ago a form-~ stard gas, which the Ger pow supposed to be using, is enn up by the American In- 'asspciations ,, The allegation the attentigh of the asso its meeting thé other day e effect that Benjamin P. chemist of the Commer- ot company of Flushing, Li formula to the government d heard nothing more from - months ago it was found ad bit upen®the gas, accord- Hemen, president of the panese 8itks. ad learned to value Jap d crepes and so on, es- tutes in these times many materials, we ships engaged in the d that brought us and charmin: ma- , loaned to tho ime and tbat hus cre- transportation fa- gttes, crepe de added to the list and advancing _ this, little silk is ch and Itallan m Dairying. peration. Rounn, good feature y won't be any of thew » production and id. Breeding fur- nomical way to ing cows. The generations of | tors back of breeding, snd from the best to be the aches every day. I tried everything I could think of and was under a phy- sician's care for two Jout, A girl friend 1 used Lydia E. 4 Pinkham's Vege- table Compound and she told me about it. - From the first day 1 took itl began to feel better and now I am well and "able to do most an NM kind of work. have been recom- mending the Com- pound ever since and give you my per- mission to publish this letter.' --Miss 3 2 KELLY] 476 So, 14th St., Newark, N. J. Tha reason this famotis root and-herh remedy, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable C Com aund, was §o successful in Miss Lelly's case wad bécause it went to the root of her trouble, restored her to a normal healthy condition and as a result her nervousness disappeared. SRIRAM A Metamorphosis By Lillian Hell Crowley RE | (Copyright, 1918, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) James 'Morgan was thinking! "I wouder why thie giths never seem glad fo sce me? They never get just plain glad when I 'cote along. The fellows, too---they're all right, only-+ I'm not really intimate with any | wore it to the hank after it had be walked along the "and overcoat oper' a pockets. Nome of these men did that, | PR I; Ba Z \WVHOLE No, 7624 "Why, that's part of it," he wnsignt. "You're responsible in a way." ., Then he noticed clothes, fle had | Hever given his tollet much thought ex- cept to be clean, to buy a suit when necessary--which was seldom pressed | ~--and a pale blue tie for Sundays. He | son: soiled, with suft "Yes," he thought, "that's the way | to look. It isn't because they're movie | men | lots of other men dress thutiway.' | He noticed, too, the bright, interested | and alert expressions on their faces' © At hod he looked in the mirror. His hair neefled trimming. It hadn't | been cut right in the first place, Hd had parted it so near one ear that it was Inches too high on the other sider He brushed It straight bak: He was surprised at the good hes of his fore | head, something he had not noticed before. Next day a successful young man from one of the large cities of the state sme, jute the bdtik James looked | m 'over. First of all he saw thit the man was neatly dressed and was uns! conscious of his clothes. James was always uncomfortable when "dressed uf," a8 be called it I'll ask him to select me d tie from his place." i "Certainly" replied the young még graciously. "Do you like a black or & mixture?" "I like pale blue," James answered hesitat I say--please get the kind you'd get for yourself." "I'll send one tor Wear with that dark suit you have on.' When the: tle cane James was sunazed to find a dark one with hits} of dull color in it. He had the utmost faith in the youfig wats taste, and he could not recall cver having seen him with a pale bl tie Before the 8s that night he tried it on and realized that his chin was bf the way of his collar. Should he pull | his chin inside or stretch It gtit over the collar. i Somehow he didn't look a8 well'as he | bad expetfed. What was the trouble? His collar was too large! He rushed out and purchased shirt and collar two Sizes smaller, and they fitted perfectly. He tied the tie, brushed back his hair, | { his hands In his | TT 3 ah ---- wit oF AFRICA Plenty of Excitement in Wotdseas Trip Recently A by Lover of A To travel 1,800 miles motorcar through Africa withoa roads in this country are moto bad, which makes the feat p by the car the more » kin; Asher; il # The founey took him throfigh Gra. hamstown, Clty of the Suints, Fort Deaufort and through Bedford, a typi cal inland city, and many of the larger settlenients, In spite of ralnaforms and almost impassable roads no, Aicnlty was Cd perfenced throughnut' 'the 'whole trip aside from 'fire trouble. Some portions of the journey were made nt the ratq of 87 miles per imperial gallon of | gasoline, Parts of thé journey through Mon- tugu pnse and Kyshna hile had to be aegotiated In second speed, yet through' rll of this mountainous travel the res markable feature was the coolness of the motor. Mr, Asher reported that ao water was put In the radiator from | Oudtshoorn to Port Elizabeth, which are at opposite sides of this hilly coun- try. Describing parts of the trip and com' menting upon the appalling road' cons | ditions In places, Mr. Asher says that | after plugging and struggling through | almost impassable roadk, & river was" gncbontered which had to be forded. it was necessary to take the plumge with the car into a swift torrent, deep that he could 'not open the car' ibor, ~The radiator wads purtly subs merged, but the car plowed through successfully SEEMS 600 'BUSINESS (DEA Propesed Commercial Register for Hole land Has Powerful Support in Industrial Circles. A law to establish a ¢ommercial Fog ister in Holland has been introduced in the states general, according to a dis patch from P. IL. Edwards, commer cial attache of The Hague. ' It is red ported to have the support of mem- bers of the government, of high legal and siniled at himself, Jt was got the | otitics and of important business EERO woo Te IEEE town where his family had been as confortably off as most of the families of 'their set. He hat je Fred through iid «tute university just as unthinking ly us he had spent the preceding years He drifted into a clerkship in the bank and mentally wandered through his duties as colorlessly as he did every thing else, He went to the parties, never think ing whether he could dance well or not | It had 'not' occurred to' him to think | anything: &bout it The night before he had heard tid | following conversation between two of Haviland's: most charming girls "I wish James Morgan would stay | from the parties. Ile Is the awky est creature I ever saw, and the home lest I" | "Every time he asks me to dance I WIi(( J. had stayed at home." | # "The trouble is, Margery, we've been | fairly polite'to hifif; jtist becanse We've | ktiown "him always, and' he dob#n't | realize he's horrid find uninteresting" | "Let's drop him He has no right | to make us miserable--tramping all | over our feef fit the dohees." "And: such clothes! . We don't exe | pect mel in a little place like Havi | land] Gut he's a positive fright" The two: girls, Margery Raymond Land Allee' Wrightman, had fallen into | this conversation one night at a party | James had come around a corner intent | on asking Margery to dance. He would not have listened Intentionally, but the knowledge had staggered him. He tiptoed away from his Waterloo and went out on the veranda to collect his scattered wits, "1 never dreamed of such a thing!" i be told himself. At last he went in | and bade his hostess good-night. This brings us to the day in the! { bank when for the first time If fis life | he was puzzled, After dinner he went alone to a moving picture play. It was a westgrn.play. The hero was a big fadow wearlhgz the rough clothes of a | miner--nevertheless he was very, (po lite. He raised his hat to tlie women he knew and jumped to pick up a plate dropped on the floor by the boarding house keeper. "That's the kind of man a woman is proud to have for a son," he heard | la voice behind him. "What a magni: | ficent figure!" the voice went on. "One | feels that a strong chest ngt only in- | dicates physical stremgth, but strength of character as well," Instantly James straightened his dragping shoulders. king at the hero, James thought: @ 18 a fine-looking fellow----gives one real pleasure just to look at him. I wonder f I'd play tennis and things if I ¢ould develop my chest." He noticed the man's manner of tak- ing off his hat to the women he met; sometimes James only touched his hat, laxily, with one finger. He knew the gi~ls so well--why bother? James re- membered, too, that he didn't jump quickly to the wolite assistunce of peo- ple. True, he was glad te help anys Lome in trouble, but this was different. "Maybe that's what. Margery and Alice meant. I don't do those nice things." He was puzzled, but went on with his self-aualysis. 1Te went again to the movies. This time he saw a society play. There was in ugly piles j dancing. James opened his eyes wide cannon balls te for. oun~ Alice to see how the other fellows danced. Ile saw the men, cleverly and grace- you can't | fully' guiding thelr partners through oun yout-- iy crush. Ps had suid he tramped on her feet. | cee | Sip that glass for so many satisfied. years, | the calminatfoh of a movement | thirted "I'll show those girls yet! I'll make | them sit up and take notice" { [Te had declined all" ¥iations to parties and Kept going to the movies to get more "pointers." How to dance correctly was the next problem He suddenly remembered Inez Jaynes, who had been in New | York studying music. She was help- | ing out a small income by giving mu- sic lessons, Inez was a beautiful dane er. . Perhaps she would feach him. He swore her to secrecy and worked diligently. When the time came for the "olub party, James escorted Ines there. You may bé'sure he did not lack partners, for, besides being well dress. ed and good looking, he was the best dancer among the men He danced y 8 i Inez and with quiet self-possession guided her Ahrcugh the crush Inez: looked happy James danced with Margery and Alice. The wall flowers and the fat ladles were not forgotten either. Mar gery sald to Alice "I must have been mistakes 'about James. I'm going to.#sk him to dine | ner when my New York cousin cymes.™ "I've asked him, for Sunday night supper," said. Alive. On the way house from the dance Jnuiey looked dowd ast the sweetly | brave little woman at his side and sald "Inez, Mr, Witmer has made me as | sistant cashier of the bank." Inez looked up alarmingly | "You have been so good to me, dear] he went on, "and I love you so-could®| could you possibly marry such a lout as 17" IYoue a great, big, splendid prince, | and I love you!" Later, when James was leaving, he'| said: "TN come for you tomorrow night and we'll go to the movies!" | "Jonah" Worde. | Nearly everyone has some special word which he mispronounces. Have: you? The writer always tries to avold: the word "plebeian," through an abe | 4urd desire to put the accent on the: lest syllable, as in "plebiscite." A"! laugh went round a roomi once when | a young man referred fo a ship's "bo," | and a woman debating came to grief over the word "epitome," to which sha' gaye but three syllables Instead of 'tid rightful four, But bow about the gov- erness whe told her little pupils all ! about the "aborijeens" of Australia? The writer was one of the little pu- pills, and It made an indelible impre¥= sion. "Jejune" Is always tricky. "As pirant™ {s worrying, too, until you learn ! that the accent may be on the first or second syllable. Of course, you kdow how to pronounce Macpherson, Mac' kenzié and machinery. Perhaps the last word caught you napping, though ----unless you are too old a bird !---Ane swers, London, ? | REL ld Her Record Still Still. A certain family has a colored serv- ant who, while very atténtive to her duties, has never been known to give anybody a civil answer. Purely as an | experiment, the lady of the Rote 20 years ago for the passage of such a law. Ong of 'the most Important features of the proposed THW 1s that it-Corbldi the use of precisely the same name by more than one concern within given districts, it also provides ths in each given district there shall mafntzined a public register in whieh would be given the name, age and domicile of each member of a firm, as well as the extent to which each one might 'be 'held legally liable for ita: Obligations: It also would make {legal the use of & deceptive title, Including such words, for instance, as "broth ers," Mand company," 'or "sndi"wbous™ wherh the owner 1s only one 'person. Fron fhe proposed commercial regs ister a 'stranger would 'be able 16 apd certain the name and residence of holders of not fully pald up shares, and the full particulars as te the na | tonality; residence," obi: OF mane gam directors and other officers of corporis ations and associations, ~ There would" @lso be particulars ns to former basis tipteies of persons or concerns in | question. The present law siready pro- vides for publication of many of these | details, but they are only to be: found: in such scattered places that, ln roads tieé'théy are not available to the gens eral public Jonah Vark. Well Al one of the burgs along | the line is where Jonah Vark was born when she was alive. If 'seems | like France was mixed up lg #oothers war along abodt one prtdred: Sear ago and 'they was gettfng licked snd" Jonah was just a young gal but she dressed up in men's coat and pants | and went up to the front and led the charges with a horse and she carried a white flag and the Dutchmens or whoever they was fighting againet must of thought it was a flag of tru ants and anyway they didi't fire he them and the French captured Ne Orleans and win the war. The Ger mans is trylag to, pull thi sams stuff on pur boyd pow aad lots of Hey: they run up and holler Conrad they was going to give up and-=when your back is turned they Whiing away at you, but they won't pull hone of that stuff on me and when one of them trys to Conrad me 1 will percu- late them with a bayonet/"Rjag W.. Lardner in the Saturday Eve Post. The Dream and the Businéss. "The Germans thought war was ro- mantic and glorious," said' Whitlock in a Toledo addtess. finding it a very sordid and 'disappoint: ing business. EL "The Germans 4ie In the position ofr ' the young lady who was asked if her seaside love affair had Dees very. ro- mantic. =... ¢ "'Rominntic? she repiien. No! Reald: istic; rather. Hubert and I thought the other was an immensely rich swell, and it turns out that hay collects the monthly installments em our near-sllk parlor curtains." The ignorant Lady, "Military ignorance is | Se, rE 4 brought her a new calico dress, and | oe German offensive. *, gave it tu her, saying: Matildy, of giving you this dress." "Yer mout hab had dat pleasure long ago ef yer had any regard fo! my faclings," was the gracious rer News, potion AER I re | shows itself; for that matters' "I am glad to have the pleasure, |