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Newmarket Era , August 19, 1898, p. 1

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The Era gives more home news every week than any two other papers in North York combined and will be sent to till January 1899 or cents cash NORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER PAG liberty to know to u and to according to conscience abovo all other liberty York fldvapcer Terms per annum if paid in advance Vol No Single Copies 8 Cents Each J Friday August PRESERVING SEASON Calls for Good J If you want the best made ask for DIAMOND WARE It satisfies- It will not chip off with using Burned in THE flWFUli Wflli You will find 0 Prices in the Best Goods as cheap as on Common Granite Ware See Assortment in our North Show Window Give it a Trial HARDWARE Paints Oils Glass Etc A Repairing Promptly Done NEWMARKET IN OA FR The City Sank into the Sea and Buried Persons TO EVERY FAMILY IN NEWMARKET AND SURROUNDING COUNTRY When purchasing goods from any off the following merchants ask for CASH COUPONS and when your Coupon Book with collected from them take to K LEHMAN Druggist get in and another book You do not need to take to the store with you when making purchases just ask for the CASH COUPONS Pry Goods W LEHMAN It A A Hardware J Furniture 3d ATKINSON CO Jewelers Tailor NEWMARKET LAUNDRY GRAHAM Photographer If you did not get one of the COUPON you can get one FREE from any of the above merchants So is at Noted Cheap Store i ILL v si if- We can safely say we have the latest in PRINTS everything new Our BOOTS and SHOES are of best manufactures in the country Then we have a full line of CROCKERY in fact we have everything that is to be found in a firstclass general store PRINTS to suit the most fastidious Our TWEEDS for summer are very nobby Our GENTS FURNISHINGS are the very latest We are showing great value in and SHIRTINGS Special sales every Saturday SEEDS and PARIS Green constantly on hand We are after your trade Give us a trial Otu are Fresh Goods coming In All kinds of Farm Produce taken as Cash and Cash paid for Eggs J 8UFFEL I All kinds Seed Onions Main St Newmarket Cement kept In that better will be at tended to with more promptueBjj you keep a of cry on hand you Note Letter Heads and Envelopes printed to suit your fancy at price that sur prise you Call at the Era and see samples r If you are ill you need a doctor in whom you have confidence If you need a remedy you that has been tested for years not an obscure un tried thing that is urged upon you or on which you save a few cents thatisnoconsid- eration as against healths For wasting in children or adults Scotts Emulsion of Codliver Oil with Hypo- phosphites has been the recognized remedy for twen tyfive years joe nd U SCOTT TotcsU The harbor of Kington buried its blue watcroni city was once Heat of and profligacy and nil their attendant trail of evils In one awful moment earth gaped sea opened to re ceivo the palaces of licentiousness and closed tlicm and luckless mortals- Today when waters of the bay are still and shinning in the tiopicnl sun the sailors may lean over sides of their and down through the azure depths see swimming in and out of the arches of the old cathedral the sharks moving lazily among the great palaces the sea moss twining around the windows through which the music and song of the revelers were drifting when fearful visitation came and wiped tho city from face of the earth More thorn years have passed since that June day when Port disappeared into the sea Three other cities built upon its site have been by lire and hurricane and earthquake The evening power which descended upon the stricken city seemed to pursue it even after its thousands had found watery graves in the bay which now shimmers so placid ly except when tho fearful tpyhoons sweep over it and lash its waters to mud revels It was Juno Port lay sweltering under the heat of a tropica summer Building upon a land extended into the ocean it was swept by breezes which brought with them little relief from the direct rays of sun The harbor was fill ed with shipping from every part of the world for Port Royal was a place of wealth and luxury Great menofwar lay in the oiling with their sails furled and their men reveled ashore in the city Spanish buccan eers laden to the guards with stolen wealth silks jewels and gold the spoils of Mexico and Central America swung at anchor and their darkbrow ed slept or lounged lazily about the docks while their masters joined the festivities ashore In the houses and palaces of the city there wore reveliy and feasting and drinking for the pirates of the Spanish main spent freely what they secured so easily Gold was as common as copper is to day The toddlers in the streets when they held our baby hands for alms to the passersby were rewarded with a gold piece or two Women attired in silks and laces which cost human blood in the making and the stealing lounged on luxurious divans close to tho open windows of the houses and drank deep with their paramours License ran riot- There was no virtue For years every one in tho place had been grow ing richer and with the wealth came the desire for esse and pleasure which saps a peoples strength No one worked for money was brought to everyone on the pirate ships which roamed the seas only to capture a cargo to purchase a few weeks of pleasure and feasting and drunkenness at Port Royal From Peru and Mexico came boatloads of gold silken stuffs and other treasure and with tho arrival of every pirate the revels redoubled in license and depravity The people lounged to church but it was only a mockery of worship They vt re drunk with their prosperity and in sane with their longing for the pleasure of the table and the wine cup On that fated day when the ven- which overtook Sodom and Go morrah descended upon Port Royal tho revelry was at its height when there came a sound like the great crack of doom the earth trembled and halfdrunken revelers rushed from the houses in dismay The great cathed ral rocked and its tower trembled a moment and while the people were asking one another white lipped and terrified what manner of thing was happening the earth gasped open like a mighty jaw and closed with thousands in its maw catching many half way in the frightful opening and if holding crushed and broken with their arms extended toward the heaven they had so long forgotten had this occurred when with a mighty roar the whole city began to slide into the ocean In vain affrighted people began to flee to the high land beyond tho city They were caught and engulfed before they had taken a score of steps Hundreds were overtaken by the ris ing flood as they sat at the tables with their wine half drunk their food half eaten their thoughts half spoken Praying screaming and blaspheming the power which had visited its wrath upon them the people were hurled in to the ocean in the very houses in which they sat The ships in the har bor careened and sunk one by one as the great disturbance contin ued drawing down in their wake the tenorstricken sailors and buccaneers who sprang overbroad and in less than five minutes all the wickedness and all tho sin of the city were forever beneath waves Not long after this frightful disaster came another upon the city which took the place of the winch slip ped into the sea Port Royal was not with its old splendor and magnificence not with its former glory and luxuriousness but a sea port city and In 1 a few years after it had assumed the proportions of a city it was entirely destroyed by fire Again it was built up but the a venlng jxwcr was not yet sated for a hurricane swept the portion of the town into the ocean in Almost years later when the city had once more risen up its old site it was laid in ashes once more in 1815 Repeated destructions have left noth ing of the city as it once was but in 1880 a hurricane destructive to life and property swept over the city and once more partially destroyed it Kingston now stands close to where Port Royal the old town of revelry and vice once stood The ships in the harbor float over the houses which slipped into sea and far far below their keels lie the imprisoned people who were swept away with vain pray ers for mercy upon their lips The spire of the cathedral is the most prominent of the ruins in the clear water as it had raised its taper finger toward heaven high above the other buildings Close to it lie the fleets of Spain and England sunk in the fear ful hurricane which swept these placid waters with the coral fast forming on their masts and hulls In their sha dow lurk tho sea monsters of these waters playing about the doorways and casements of the houses and shops where vice once held sway No man has ever penetrated to the depths where the phantom city now lies to explore its secrets two centuries old and all that can be learned of the sunken town is gleaned by peering in to the transparent waters on ft bright day when the wind does ruffle the surface of the harbor REV One of the Most Prominent Temperance Workers in Canada The above gentleman is now completing his third year as pastor of the Methodist Church in Newmarket and there is reason to believe it will be his best year The Aid have ordered a new Pipe Organ which is to ready for deliver tin coming Fall and hugely increased congregations are anticipated Rev Matthews is the seventh sou of the late Robert and Abigail Matthews He was bom at in the County of York Ontario on the of March and was educated principally at the public school under the famous Duncan His education in the classics under the late Rev Cooper A rector of Mills In November IfcGO he entered the ministry of the Primitive Methodist Church but feeling that there ought to be a union of the different branches of the Methodist Church in Canada withdrew from that in and united with the Methodist Church The church honored him by electing him member of the General Conferences of 1886 and 1898 He ban been chairman of a district for years and at the pres ent time has charge of tho large and influential Bradford District From to was a member of the the Missionary Society and from to 1890 was a member of the Superannuation In he was elected Secretary of the Conference and in elevated to the presidency Council Met at Hills Hail Aug Members all present Communication from Stewart Walk or collector re his security Bills were presented by Harper yds gravel 3 Chas Starr do 10 87 Smith do P do 79 do A Snider do J Most rand estate ft plank Win Bennett gravel Roach man road machine repairs to road machine Wm claimed damage for one lamb killed by dogs The Treasurer was instructed to pay the bills presented and two- thirds he claim for lamb killed The parties offered by the Collector as security were accepted Deputy Powell was instructed to open water course on Con line at lot Councillor Case was instructed to have road machine repaired and to cause the removal of underbrush on sideline between lots and Con By Laws were passed ordering the following rates to be levied for the current year For Co General purpose For Industrial Home do For General do For School rate Also the School Section rates asked for by the trustees of the several school sections Council adjourned to meet at Hills Hall on the of October N Aug Fire de stroyed the best portion of the City of last evening licking up hun dreds of thousands of dollars worth of property A Udora farmer experimented with binder twine last week with the following result a ball of Canadian twine bound sheaves while a ball of Plymouth American goods bound a difference of 405 sheaves in favor of the Plymouth Farmers should note this for Mr of Middle- ton suffered a severe loss by fire on Friday evening last when bis stable with its contents were destroyed His loss included a set of harness a cutter a valuable pony The pony got out but was so severely burned as to necessitate its being shot The fire which began about nine oclock was caused by the explosion of a lantern which Mrs had taken into the stable while she tied the pony Mr being from home at the time Children Cry for Methodist While a faithful disciplinarian Mr Matthews is a man of tenderest sym pathy and widest liberty and as a result is always on the best of terms with the members of other churches In politics his whole surroundings were Conservatives but in he unite with Canadas new party and did a great deal of work for it At the present time he is member of the Advanced Prohibitionist party He is a member of the Sons of Temperance and in was elected Grand Worthy Associate He is also an active member of the Royal Templars of Temperance and at the Grand Council in was elected Grand Chaplain and also a representative to the Dominion Council the Supreme Court of the Order At tho last Grand Council held at Brant- ford he was elected a member of the Executive Board During the last Plebiscite campaign in Ontario Mr Matthews took a very prominent part filling the position of President of the York County Association with great ability and through his energy together with other noble workers this county rolled up a majority of two thousand in favor of prohibition Mr Matthews also takes considerable interest in Masonic matters and at the Grand Lodge held in Toronto recently he was elected Grand Chaplain He devoted a good deal of his time to the public platform but temperance is subject in which he is most deeply interested He has collected much useful data on the temperance question and his contributions to the press on this subject are read with much interest Mr Matthews life has been a busy one but he gives promise of a good many years of usefulness yet to come The of Wales A few- years ago as the story is told in the English papers the Princess of Wales went to the Holy Communion accompanied for the first time by her oldest son She gave him that morn ing a little manuscript book contain ing texts and verses of hymns which she had copied for him hoping as she said afterward that they might help him to keep closer to the Cross After his death as she was stooping over him lo lay some dowers on his breast she saw upon a little table close to his bedside the book tearing of long and constant use The princess told this fact to Canon Fleming adding with the tears stream ing from her eyes I could not but feel that Eddy had clung to the Cross The woman who in her grief told the story of her dead boy because she knew that all other mothers would be glad with her is the daughter the wife the mother of kings and princes Yet the little worn book which gave a hope that Eddy had turned to the Cross is of more value to hor now that that proudest of earthly crowns which he lost in dying The boy who is a prince in a foreign court or the boy who is in a school or shop or in any town may believe that power money prizes of one sort or another are the only things to think of and work for and his mother may- spend her life in try ing to gain these things for mm but when the boy in the midst of his fun suddenly feels deaths hand upon him it only his soul and his fate that he of And his mother be she or slave when she stands over the dead body of her boy would give all rank or wealth or success which she had hoped to see his for one word to tell her that he had clung to Cross Youth Companion have been Miss Nellie Ross who has been A cow belonging to Mr John visiting her sister Mrs Charles Boyn- Hutchinson of the con Whit- ton at Aurora has gone to Phihv church was struck by the oclock Vigorous measures delnhia where she intends training for train on Monday night at the 1 0th taken to place the sea forts of Copen- ft crossing arid instantly killed in a state of military efficiency It is supposed measures are While a gang of ih Um Crows Nest workmen were repairing found an in- a bridge at bottom of the loop the sea story by James Barnes upper timbers gave way resulting in entitled The It is an the instant death of two men and l serious injuries to several others blockaderunner tab which was captured by the Federal navy off Charleston while that port was being blockaded by the Yankee The story is not so much an account of battles and sea fight as it is a plain An attempt was made to wreck the construction train on the new Ot tawa Montreal A plank was placed across the track and stones were piled upon it train straightforward narrative of the deeds ran into the obstruction but only a performed by this one vessel which few cars eft the rails hod many adventures during its brief Pitchers career due to fears of a conflict between Great Britain and Russia It was the late Frances mother who said during her last ill ness that if she had her life to live over again she would praise her child ren more and blame them less Many homes have been wrecked simply be cause censure was the rule and praise ah unknown quality Karli Clover Root Te for fa Beet after you dont wry so re la la the your Sold by

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