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wtf TW7 week tkiB- Any two North combined and is acknowledged to be the Leading County Paper NORTH YORK Gift pie liberty to know to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all other liberty AND PAGES No paper sent outside of North York unless paid in advance No Single Copies 3 Each Out Friday Pec 1900 TERMS per annum if paid in advance P yron a to Prince Albert By a former pupil of Newmarket School They will burn coal if desired LARGE STOCK OF PARLOR HEATERS In Wood or Coal No 9 New for 1300 Horse Blankets Cow Chains X Cut Saws Axes Halters etc See our assortment of Drums A Try our Coal Oils NEWMARKET ONT Read This Announcement A And then if you require any of the following lints it will be to your best interest to consult us at once as we are in a position to offer you the Beat on the Market at the Best Possible Prices Flannelettes in stripes and cheeky at from to Flannelettes in dark shirtin patterns from to Blankets in grey and white from to Tweed from to extra value Men ft Fleeced Underwear from to per suit Ladies Vests from to We cannot be beat in these goods MITTS Wool Milte for Boys arid Girls cheaper than you can knit them Saskatchewan Driving Milts Great Value ROBES Special for the next two weeks Ladles Wool Lined Rubbers Ladle Sole Rubbers None but the best- makes Mens Rubbers Kinds Stub Proof We stand behind these Goods None better Little Bobs King Stub Proof We keep Kings in Ladle Fine wear- Mens Boots Felt Lined Buckle Boot at from to Kelt Lined Boots at from to Women and Girls Fleece Lined at to goods are of Famous QUALITY OF WHICH CANNOT BE XMAS GROCERIES JtaHins Figs Peels Kk tracts Flavorings Nuts Candies and Fruits the quality of which ve are not of and at prices that defy competition McFAEAPS FREE as fa AIR RIFLE o ov on the left will now continue our journey through Lake As leave the locks can be seen the fort up side and we realize how disastrous- would be the result should war break out between Canada and the United States since these two countries are so closely connected On this immense inland sea waves are larger ad longer than on Huron At short intervals all there have showers with thunder seems teems to pass from the clouds right tween them reach about ten oclock at night and as we leave the train we discover that the rain is pouring down We find our way over the of slippery streets to an hotel Never saw mud like this before It is just like chewing gum It piles upon your bonis and you cant get It stains everything it touches It is so slippery that you are in danger of landing on your head every minute j The Ipss said about the hotel j oration the better for the hotel at- Atom mm we arrive in the ra lit tie of this 01 because we half an turn is who we are again be hi we had pictured and the real Re- The We are passing through on looks strand to Ontario It is to wear an as- w pelt while the country we left s hat ll wouW te daysago is enjoying the hot test of summer weather Some times the ground is covered wish scrubby tier and lightning The trees and again a clear space shows to Hash ail around the boat and arm houses with many wide aires he- importance were it not for the fact that it is the and seat of government for the Territories As our destination is Prince Albert an on Monday morning we take the seven oclock train north- much different oh it does on land the water to It seems to into the lake The thunder sound I trains this is piine is a the slowest The monotony of a country for some miles long tiresome day is somewhat around is very level but does not cor- ijeved noticing our fellow with any rumbling rrepond wiUi w Sst of one car warning of its approach previously formed of what a prairie is Dohoho All day long we have been meeting is SCVeral boats laden with iron ore and various verv other metals from the mines on the present Part J north shore and some times toe with gran is cut or being cut and what is wheat from the West This country is short indeed full of men and one of ours has such splendid waterways that a boat ran and has come from Liverpool and gone right to Fort Wil liam been loaded with wheat and re turned to Liverpool- Surety his is a trade route to boast of Towards we are out of of land and will be until morning Here we are with nothing to seen hut a dull leaden sky above and the hey are fine big intelligent looking I men hut their dress is odd The hat is an ordinary soft felt Then comes a sack coat Next a large cotton shirt is holt oil in the waist and worn outside the trousers and some times it peeps from beneath the coal e trousers are the part of j dress They look as though a fnt short full black sateen skirt had been put on then divided into two parts land gathered into a band below the This train only stops at the i Aliejflri pajr wrinkled boots pal towns except for water Sidney reaching to Hie knees complete the landing One thing that strikes very forci bly is the number of small villages along the tine of the railway- Some are composed merely of tin station and a few houses others are larger but there are so many of them we bo- gin to winder if they will be towns in the future or will they always a main as are now There is one or more grain elevators at most of deep dark seemingly boundless waters them below What an insignificant speck this powerful boat seems A thick fog is settling down over the lake and i j places and hid- outfit is rvidenlh- we are on the broad waters of I mis ares in a in a foe standing the Canadian and superior a farewell we left the Iran and pro- Some girls are singing sweet hc we are filial The dull throb of the engine is heard and felt and the gong every few minutes These j scarcer and finally disappear aiiogci tend to put us in a Vl when wc corned the Prairie of road asked all sorts of lonesome and intense mood And yet Ontario imagination lacking one thing ve are satisfied and happy and enjoy- and is the long it all thoroughly And such a strange road it For this is- an immense unfertile night of peaceful rest pass- up hill and plain- It stretches away and we awake to find boat and a away away before behind around still enveloped in a thick fog I would call them but level sometimes hilly with scarcely a ripple on the water rolling but seemingly Towards noon the fog lifts and s bound Its When on the lake there enter the harbor at Port lake is now like iu ftrwrft- tal1 l s and j sky and prairie and he train Port Arthur a along slxel trail And bill owing to of with all I and And why dont more of them take advantage of it The pleasure and knowledge gained of the country much move than compensates for the time and money spent on a trip like this Those who have never been have not the faintest idea of the vastness and the many re sources of this Canada of ours For awhile houses are to seen iniiti ill IT turn 1 uiKino is heard comparatively close together but as friends live five miles out of town n 11 J go north A hospitable neighbor happens These scarcer and finally disappear a tfiur te Kootl I to be only sky and water and place to lose ones self This is call- the in the universe and now on- a slope towards the lake a disagreement between the town and the Company is not now the of that rail road and steamboat connection j So we soon move on to the mouth of a river where we find Fort Wil liam a small town built on such low ground that most of the building have pile foundation A Irain is waiting lo take us from the boat to Kail way Station thus we find our most enjoyable trip by liat at an end and the more weari some pari of our journey by train soon to commence After a wait of five hours the train which in to take us on our way this what an in- wild flowersv togethir with short significant thing docs the train and j occupants seem This scene helps Arrived the gate of our friends to realize home we an- warmly welcomed meaning of that beautiful poem called though our arrival is as much a is of a surprise as if we had from ihe sky The crop here this year is a Mid fail ure flnly part of the need up at first ami then when the rain came tin of the seed up lip are two crops and one is ripe ahead of Ihe oilier making both One man and Home people they would have Jive i ihe acre hut he would have acres bushel J Jut flic people seem to hurrying and be prosperous healthy nil ihecifnl In spite of poor year One very annoying to a new comer fa the fact that there arc Upas everywhere in wind and hey to enjoy fresh pasture very much to the discomfort of the pasture the cows pasture on prairie and sometimes wander four or five miles away so It is to after ihem hut that is no i rouble here because there are no fences to hinder and a burnt and carl can go ilrct any where People generally only enough for their own pork Pigs would won run wild here if Jo oh there is keep them with in bound Very few are to I there are plenty of horsc and cattle le seen arrive and such currying to get on board There are more passengers than the cars will ac commodate so more ears have to le coupled And soon are hurry ing on past roektf and banks past a valleys past a river filled with whirling rapids pat the same river again seething and over its bed- Through one rfiort- tunnel but alas there was no one bold my hand at this momentous time Finally darkness settles dowii and we come back from the outside and take a view of our fellow passengers of the people in this car came off the boat pit we feel fjulte at home again All rttni happy and merry Some arc preparing for lunch some of the witty ortcj are furnishing fun for othern gifted in a The prairie wolves ate to bug and the newnboy8 wares often running around in and they even venture into vide amusement in another corner- Later on a walk through the tralfi reveals the fact that there are many more cars such as tills one and a number of cars where tired travellers are preparing for a sleep on the she Mike beds And up next Ore baggage car Is a car full of dirty foreigners but the air here Is not very agreeable so we soon retrace our steps and make ourselves comfort able as possible for the In our car The lourist cars are far more comfortable for sleeping than the cars Hut there Is very little to be had 1Mb fann ers and carry off thickens but the people seem to pay very little to them A sixteen mile drive across try sliowod a well wooded hilly country with slum between the and Koine very beautiful Ncenery too Most of the trees are poplar On Saturday at noon wc again start westward on our journey this lime the Moose Jaw The not prove particularly but the people on the tiain are any one cares for tudy of human nature The Prairies and is best described in suddenly drop- the words of the poem behold them for the first And my heart swells while the Hi sight Takes in the encircling they stretch in airy undulations far away Ah if the ocean in his gentlest swell Stood still with til in rounded l lows lived And motionless forever Motionless No they are all unchained again The clouds Sweep over with shadows and beneath The surface rolls and lo the eye Dark hollows to glide along and chaw The sunny ridges He come now to a small lake where thousands of disport fearlessly They have not yd learned the fear of man Surely thin Is a spur I mans jiaradbe indeed At a town we stop for some time while the engine is shunting freight cars Near thin town get our first view of the mighty Saskatchewan About dusk we reach Duck Lake famous cbelJImi And here our friends leave us There Is a large settlement of these people here see no more of the country now on account of night coming on and about hint oclock wc find ourselves In Prime Albert- WIN endeavor give a description of Prince Albert next time This is one of the most delightful trips that can be taken and although not to ajl the luxuries of trav el a excursion ticket the inconveniences are not to deter anyone from taking this kind of a ticket So that a trip to the far West Is within the reach of almost every farm British rid to KILLED WOUNDKD London Nov The most proof that the war in South Af rica is sl ill full of vigour is contained in Gen despatches announcing that British I conns with two guns have surrendered lo the Poers 1111 wes if tein is poor consolation that the British have rcoccunid the Icavh after had vithdrawn is striking success cannot fail to encour age in the Cape a is now a most imminent danger- The truth is according to the li able information that the situation in Cape Colony is now more perilous than at any time since the outbreak of the war It is not- likely that Boers will attempt to hold the prison ers taken at as this is no longer their policy bin the moral ef fect of the blow to Prill prestige will be none the less serious Roberts full despatch follows It is reported from that the garrison consisting of two guns of ihe Ji Field and of the the Highland and Irish Rides a total of about Km men surrendered at p Our losses were and wounded The latter included Ma Anson f the Highlanders Captain of the Gloucestershire and of the Irish Rifles The enemy are said to lie strong A column of I text men was despatched from to relieve but did not succeed in reaching there in lime to effect the relief Knox joined this force on Nov and entered which was found to have been evacuated sick and wounded being left in the town Knox pursued the enemy and Pitcher reports from that Knox glil a successful engagement yester day near Vaalbank with and Be Wet who retired west and south west Knoxs messenger failed to get through so I am without details as yet also reports a skirmish on Nov at Three hundred were and pur sued losing several men Druce Ham ilton has cleared the country between Ihe and rivers capturing 11 liners and a very large number of cattle and sheep tr London Nov Unofficial reports give details of en Knoxs and Col Pitchers operations after the gCiipalion of According to these fen Knox succeeded in inter cepting south of dorp and compelled him to go west Col Pilchcr and Col Barker came to close quarters- with the Doers and captured two wagonloads of stores and horses The Doers shelled the one their captured guns Genuine Patriotism Ladies of Canada While statesmen and politicals ar gue the and differential trade within the which they Will do while jaw displaces common this matter for Vour brother colonists of Ceylon and India are growers of pure teas Black and Canadian and United importers supply you with pounds annually of Japan teas yet they know Japans are arti ficially colored and adulterated Let the knowledge of these fael and the sentiment of patriotic sisterhood move you to help the planter Britishgrown Black Teas hold Canadian market of Japan tea should try the now coming on market and your dainty pal ates will approve them Yes we hear your grocers excuses but in Ladles can always get what want Remember how you ran your husband to well do they still think It Paradise They certainly will if you give them Ceylon and India tea Blue Ribbon packets are now Mr Crcelman of Farmers Institutes has lust com pleted arrangements- for the holding of over meetings during the coming months of December January and February AH the delegates who have been appointed the various Institute meetings are men who have studied closely the subjects they are advertised to discuss the regular ionics are three secia subjecls will reteve attention this winter and the follow ing instructions have laen to the delegates by Last winter at the of the Pro of Allien I hire the Bacon Hog was at ail of our meetings The wisdom this is already manifesting itself A better class of hogs are for sale iliis fall than everbefore The Registrar of Live Sunk the Province slates thai for the first time the baton breeds lead in the numbers of thoroughbred animals and we are receiving enquiries all parts of the Province in refrrcrce to the breeding feeding and of class of animals it is likely therefore that this subject will up for discussion again at many of our this winter Our duty does not lie along line of advising to lake up hog raising as business hut rather assist hose who are already pork producers to raise and put the market a liefer than they have done heretofore We have hot a home marset now lor thick and we cannot success fully compete with the Americans in their market so long as they have cheap corn with which to feed lings Bacon therefore Ik our principal pork product and the kindly reception which our Canadian Wilt shire sides have been accorded on the market is sufficient to justify us in recommending the farmers to breed to the bacon type Much has already been done by our progressive swine breeders improve the classes and it was a noticeable fea ture at our fait fairs his year that in all classes of hogs were longer individual animals and the judges gave the highest premiums to those animal that showed the least indication of carrying fat The of Cold Storage for farm will tie discussed this win our You be discuss this question New lavs been passed in Ontario relating and should familiarize yourself with I have already sent you the latest pub lished information ml the subject and you will please study principles in volve and the method and cost of construction such a plant as would be practicable for the average Cana dian farmer When we assemble in at the time of the ment al Union and the Provincial Winter Fair it is expected that an expert will be there to address yon on this topic and we hope also to have a cold storage plant there at that lime for practical demonstration Another industry that is deserving of more attention than it receives and which the Hon Minister of Agricul ture is anxious to promote is that of Poultry Raising and Fattening for the Home and Foreign Markels I am arranging for a series of special poul try meetings in connection wilh our Regular and Supplementary Meetings hut Hie number Of farmers who will attend these district meetings must of necessity he and I request that you acquaint yourself with what has been done and is being done in this country to promote his industry Special instruction on poultry matters will also be furnished at the Winter Fair you will there obtain hints and information that should be useful to you in your winter meetings A party of three huntsmen killed twentylive caribou In New Veterans of May be given band The Hon ft Davis Commissioner of Crown Lands stated this morning that the Government was seriously considering the question of following up the grant of acres of land each of the Ontario volunteers who went to South Africa with a similar grant to the veterans AG The Government said disposed to deal very generously with ill who had fought in the of their country Ah regards the question of including the nurses who went to South Africa among those to whom land will be granted Mr Davis said that no de finite action had yet been taken It is very probable however that they too will each receive of acres It to to Era j