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Era give sews CTtrjwraktfcu ilk I I A cvZ v fc J ADVERT PAGE T Give me the liberty to know to utter and to freely according to above all other liberty single cop Friday April paper sent outside of North York unless paid in advance TERMS per annum If paid in advance NEEDS at Binns Hardware BROOMS Good Quality better the Queen BRUSHES in Paint Stove scrub and whitewash Carpet Whips Whiting best lbs for Clothes Lines each Frame Clamps each Carpet Stretchers and Wash Tubs All sizes Wash Boards 20 and Clothes Pins Selected lux Rubber Blinds 30c up Cornice Poles 30o complete PAINTS St Ready mixed every can guar- Get Color Card per can TACKS HAMMERS All Styles and Prices A ALABASTfflES W finhh A NEWMARKET GENERAL The Staff of Life is Bread The Best of it is made at If you dont believe it ask your Neighbors she uses it Naval Seedless Oranges J from to 50c per Choice Bananas I ttr OXV CAMERA I Trio sa TUB CO re lB J The Office Specialty Mfg Co Limited WE SELL Parlor Suites Board Room Tables Parlor Tables Library Tables Couches and Sofas Roman Chairs Reception Chairs Hall Chairs and Settees Bedroom Chairs Arm Chairs Fancy Office Tilting and Arm Chairs Umbrella Stand Card Re- Dining Chairs Morris Chairs Office Desks and Filing De vices i I The Office Specialty Mfg Co BAY STREET TORONTO Factory NEWMARKET Bag Weaving L the to Mr Houieon Co all JmproremQU to date and that be Hag Carpet Call and ace your Id LADIES WANTED Wix4 to reliable in flnancfai 3P abotutey om0i Saturday and each week Bonn frr Chicago fl Spttirigi Poem The cellar floor is flooded And the lambs do mildly bleat And the dickybird is whistling And you cannot cross the street The tender grass is raising Its spires of vernal green And the backyards really sopping And the lane cannot be seen And the merry little children With their bosoms Cull of hope Are challenging bronchitis A With the busy With carpets rags and rubbers We greet the budding year And well forget our troubles When spring is really here FREat 1 Oar Toronto better Workmen are taking down the old Golden Lion store building in which the Walkers did business for so many years to make room for the new pal ace hotel- The old Hon which has looked down on passersby for 30 years was lowered to the sidewalk on Saturday It is of solid stone and weighs nearly three The closing meeting of the Canadian Temperance League on Sunday at Hall was a gath ering Every seat was occupied An excellent program was rendered Peter Wheeler while in the act robbing St- Simons church after the morning service on Easter Sunday was arrested and taken to the Police Station He was armed with a chis el and bunch keys Upon search ing his room a large quantity of stol en articles were was a typewriting machine taken from Cookes Church also a clarion et stolen from church The watch of Rev Mr was found on Wheelers person The police think they have got the man who has been doiug a churchrobbing business ever siuce While arranging for the Communion Service at the Church of the Messiah on Easter morning Geo Kings bury the sexton dropped dead Heart failure is the assigned cause The terrible incident was a great shock to those who discovered the body The Easter holiday business was unusually large this season consider ably in excess of last year On Saturday morning a burglar knocked a hole in the plate glass win dow of Walter jewellery store with a brick and stole five watches A policeman heard the breaking glass and on getting near he place yaw a man running After calling to him to stop he fired his revolver but the burglar got away It will cost 30 to repair the window At the Interim Sessions last week George was convicted before Judge on a charge pi keep a common gamblinghouse kept a cigar store on King St West and ran a gambling joint up stairs was fined Miss Chambers daughter of Rev Dr Chambers was At Home to a number of personal friends on Satur day evening previous to her depart ure from the city Judge has quashed the convictions made by the Police Magis trate against certain druggists the city charged with Illegally practicing medicine All the same city drug gists will not be quite so ready to prescribe patent medicines alter this The Steamer Island Queen opened the season of travel between the city and the island last Friday During the week a number of persons owning cottages on the island have been look ing after so as to be ready for occupancy when the weather grows milder Toronto will have a rate to the Pan at Buffalo good for one day twice a week in May and June The single fare of 5315 with a twoday limit excluding Sunday will be good all season Boat fares not yet decided but they will be possible per cent below the rail fare Proceedings have been taken on be- hall of Isabella Douglass of East against John String er executor of the estate of the late Jennie Stringer and Isabella Stringer all of Chatham The plain tiff seeks to recover possession r a ring known as the ring An interim injunction has been grants her restraining the defendants from parting with Hie possession of the ring The lobby never presented so hold a frontage nor exercised bo patent Forcing Plants to Branch There is only one way in which a plant can be forced to branch and that is by cutting oft the stalk The plant thus interfered with will make an effort to either a new shoot will be senKup to take the place of the lost top or several shoot will be sent out stalk It but one starts cut it back Keep up this cuttingback until you obliged as many as you think are needed Persistency and patience will oblige the plantyto do as you would like to have April Ladies Home Journal feailding The Municipal World gives the following advice the building of gravel roads is pretty plentiful in many parts of Ontario and where It can be obtained of a good quality within reasonable hauling distance makes a cheap but good road surface It should however be clean containing little sand or clay since it is the stone not the earthly minerals which is needed on the road Nor should large stones and boulders be mixed with it as they will work up and roll loosely under the feet the horses and the wheels of the vehicles In the preparation of gravel it is I frequently advisable to place a stone Plans for the opening day of the twill be requested to touch an electric the arrangements for these special ex- crusher with screen attachment in button in their office which will thus seises intend to make them more the pit By passing all the gravel Birdseye of the Exposition Imposition May 1st are now well advanced The cises inaugurating this splendid in sert a piece of machinery of the inspiring than any through the the ones connected with the exposition and they will at the same removed and the large stones lion broken by the one operation If the festival of occidental ha- time transmit a message of reeling The electrical department of the gravel is fit to be placed on the road tions will benefit the importance of at the opening to be read in the position is rushing its work The without such treatment in nearly the event At oclock in the after noon in the beautiful Temple of sic it is proposed to start the ma- Temple force has been largely increased every case it will be necessary to President from a special Wire connections are being made on send a man over the road and rake telegraphic apparatus in his car on the the great tower Lighting tests of off large stones and break them by of the Exposition The spec- special train surrounded by n is cabin- the two large restaurant buildings on hand train carrying the President of the jet will then start the great fountain the Plaza will be made next week I Much carelessness is exercised United States and his cabinet from pumps- and will transmit over the The machinery for the ISlectric gravel out of the pit In in the Washington to the Pacific coast will j wires a message of greeting to the tain in the North Bay Ihe Park pit we may find tor example the connected by telegraph with I people assembled on the occasion of Lake which is to be one of the face layer four or five feet of good apparatus in the Music Temple and this apparatus will be connected with the great electric generator in the electricity building Direct features of the Exposition is l- ing installed Machinery to be used in the lighting and service the opening The dedicatory ceremonies the Ex position which will be very imposing plave about the middle of plant has arrived and is being put graphic communications will be made May possibly on the when it is in position at the same moment between the ex- expected that VicePresident The Exposition Police force is offices of the Presidents of Governor and a large body drilled every day Governor of the Republics of the hemisphere of national and diplomatic ell has signed the bill authorizing the and the GovernorGeneral Canada and this electrical apparatus in the Music Temple At oclock Buffalo time by arrangement with the cable companies leading to South America together with those of the Army and City of Buffalo to issue in bonds to secure funds to defray the expenses of police protection of the Navy will be present and participate Presidents Day will be between June and The date will grounds fixed definitely within a few days The coloring of the Exposition with the telegraphic companies President and his Cabinet Buildings is progressing favorably and with the Atlantic cable companies wilt come to the Exposition from An extra force of pamterdecorators the presidents and rulers of all of the luth is employed in pushing the work to countries of the Western hemisphere The committee having in charge completion to consult Premier Ross and Attorn eyGeneral Gibson regarding the Man itoba Railway bill now before the Do minion House As the bill purports regulating that section of the line which passes into Ontario from Man itoba there is a question of Provin cial rights arising out of it The Committee of the Industrial Association on Horses met on Tues day and revised the list of prizes al so named judges for the respective classes Mr A Lewis of the City Assess ment Department was married last week to Miss daughter of the City Inspector The wedding took place at the residence of the brides parents on Spruce St Rev Mr Hill Parliament St Methodist Church performing the marriage cere mony By the failure of a brokerage firm in Buffalo with offices in Toronto about will the loss of speculators in this city doing business with them The Canadian Royal Academy will be open to the public on Saturday From the exhibits selections will be made lor the Pan Exposition at Buffalo A beautiful Easter gift was present ed to St Matthias Church this year consisting of sanctuary lamps in brass with rich colored globes No less than bicycles are in the possession of the police awaiting own ers A sale of Ontario limits is announc ed to take place at the Board of Trade buildings Friday afternoon is reported very 111 coloring his moustache and great nerve he tried to make her believe that she was talking to the wrong man but the woman soon took away Durban Natal April Details his nerve by her positive declaration which are arriving here of General Smith then denied marrying her and Frenchs successful operations in the will put her to the proof JAPS Cose Eastern Transvaal show that in one engagement the Canadians charged a Boer position in Buffalo style firing as they galloped along The Boers were in a position where they could not have been flanked and where it was almost impossible to dislodge Montreal March 30Justicc Arch- lhe charff this morning gave judgment in WCIC l0 the famous marriage case dis- yields missing the action of the plaintiff and declaring that the Pretoria April to the court of Rome has no Jurisdiction in marriages between two Roman no Catholics when performed by a duly that- any single movement successful engagement will bring the war to an end Individual command may surrender but there wilNbe a number of bands of Boers who must be incessantly pursued and until they give in or until none re main Take as an example Gen Frenchs operations In the Eastern Transvaal authorized minister was married to Miss Cote in 1893 by the Rev Barnes a Uni tarian minister of Montreal and about a year ago sought to have the mar riage declared void by the ecclesiastical authorities at Quebec because the ceremony was performed by a Protestant minister whom the Roman Catholic authorities did on which great expectations were as a proper authority to led The movement resulted not only perform such marriage when the con in large captures of stock and prlson- parties were both Roman ers but also in the dispersion of a Catholics The Quebec authorities de- body of the enemy five or six the marriage null and void and and strong whose presence constitute referred the matter to Rome where a menace to Johannesburg and thelr decision was upheld j The country however thus then sought to have the cleared was hot permanently freed Roman decision upheld by the civil from the presence of the enemy and courts and took action In the Superior attacks on railway lines still occur Court The defendant pleaded that secure permanent results the same she was a protestant at the time ot operations may have to be repeated an the marriage and that even if she several times The Boers will not at bis home on Spadina Road caus- had been a Roman Catholic the law risk pitched battles Being determin ing much anxiety not only to his of Quebec recognized any duly quail- not to surrender they continue to more immediate relatives but to a circle of friends An attempt was mada to hold up OLD FOR SALE AT THE ERA OFFICE fled mipister as a proper person to retire before our troops perform marriage ceremonies and themselves of their intimate know- specified nothing as to what religion ledge of the country to snipe the driver of a bread wagon contracting parties professed and forces and attack the weak on Saturday night by footpads The therefore the marriage was binding spots In the thousands of mites of incident took place on Street j that the ecclesiastical authorities railway communications Instances delivered himself of several had no right to declare the same null occur in which a column on the march influence since Confederation as 1 yells which appears void is under fire for twenty the present session of the Legist have so alarmed the highwaymen Cays without once patching sight of gravel them a stratum of coarse sand one- or two feet thick and underlying this another stream of fairly good gravel The common practice fol lowed by teamsters to scrape down the face of the pit causing the soil clean gravel and sand to mix together at the bottom This is put in tne waggons and taken to the road Very few gravel pits provide ma terial in its natural state fit tor use on the road Screening and crushing are often necessary particu larly the former to remove the sand and clay from among the stones It is the stone which is wanted on the road not the clay and sand There is enough clay and sand already on the without drawing it several miles from the gravel pit Dirty grav el while it unites readily and forms a good roadway in dry weather dis solves turns slushy and ruts with equal readiness in wet weather where as with clean materials the stones assume a mechanical clasp the one to the other that will not yield to the same extent in wet weather Earth and sand attract moisture and after a few hours rain the road becomes softened In this slight ruts are formed which hold water the whole structure becomes saturated weakening the bond and permitting each successive vehicle to churn the ruts deeper until the gravel is cut through Many people have doubtless heard the expression jumping the to indicate marriage but perhaps know the origin of it Wil liam aged seventy and Catherine aged fiftyseveni jumped oyer a broomstick at hear recently and thereupon became according to Romany custom man and wife That marriage will stand as legal in the English Courts Corporations seem to dom inate the whole caboose in the rail way and private bills committees they Med in haste to avoid the police A man named J H Smith was God loves to see bright faces in the enemy rested for bigamy last week When the world it their brightness be the eLieutovemor of Manitoba confronted with his first wife with outshining of innocent happiness jJb l rived here at the close last week the aid of hairdye clipping There is no virtue misery children In the- Sunday Schools That Whoop Have you had it in your house Its cough and cough and cough and then that terrible whoop I upset the stomach by giving nauseous Just let the child breatheIn soothing vapor of It goes right to the spot thats dis eased Relief is immediate in a very few days the cure is complete You cant say the same of any other For asthma catarrh and colds equally good told by Amp which aboard f t pad mooUla of Co Recommended and sold by Lehman druggist Newmarket by The w4 Labi uppU of CraoUaa it