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Give me the liberty to know to utter to argue i v J County A t j r INTELL to above all other liberty AND ADVERTISER PAGES I No la Single Copies Cents Each -R- No paper sent outside of Noiii paid In advance 1901 if paid in advance- NEEDS at IMWware 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 AH sizes Wash Boards and Clothes Pins Selected Rubber Blinds up Cornice Poles complete PAINTS Ready mixed every can guar anteed Color Card Ific per can TACKS HAMMERS All Styles y Prices Nellies Mistake I for the Bra or A in a Home By Win Hamsun of Richmond Hill The Cities of the Dead as well as the Cities of the Living have their fashionable quarters In all our cemeteries may be seen eligible sites where the prosperous citizen and the laughed a harvest Sow in as on the tide of prosperity He cleared the land enriched by the fallen foliage of centuries cultivated virgin soil tickled the earth and it fini Get Color Card A BINNS GENERAL ARKET I I I The Staff of Lifelisjl The Best of it is made it I JACKS BAKERY she If you dont believe it ask your J Choice Bananas uses it i Naval Seedle Oranges from to 5o per The Oice Specialty Co Limited family of wealth have adorned their portions of the mausoleum of the dead the elaborately carved slab the stately obelisk or the massive granite column in for their departed loved ones Many of these names chiselled in marble have also been inscribed on the page of history Many yards situated in the centres of popu lation contain the remains of leading citizens who hen in life have been important factors in the rise the meridian splendor and perhaps the fall of the home of their nativity or the town of their choice and others are names whom to re- member is to mourn We would take a stroll in our ceme terythe cemetery familiar to us from boyhood not among the graves of wealth and fashion but rather among mosscovered mounds almost level with the sward Here lies a lonely grave The modest stone that marks the spot where lies the re mains of its humble occupant after half a centurys neglect is tottering to its fall and will soon be among a multitude forgotten memorials- How few of all who pass that grave following the plumed hearse in solemn procession or in their evenings med itations among the tombs know the sad history of the one consigned so many years ago to this now unfre quented spot Poor Nellie In this incident in our local history the principle and other characters re ferred to were well known to the writer For other information he is indebted to the kindness of a lady more conversant with the details of this tragedy in a Canadian home For obvious reasons we shall avail ourselves of fictitious names which need not detract value of the story or lessen its interest to the readers of the Era A short distance to the south end of our village there still stands an old log building how used as- an out house on a wellcultivated farm This primitive building has been succeeded York now Toronto was then be coming a rising town Emigrants in the shape of military and business men speculators and tourists were flocking in from all quarters farm products were at a premium and the markets were at their best his new location success seemed to being a pleasant and agreeable man he became morose and would wander over the farm and through the house as though in search of something lost and signs of childishness His savings had all been deposited a reliable bank- A whim took possession of him that the bank was on the verge of failure the money was withdrawn and bidden where he could see it each and know it to be safe As each load of grain was sold the money received was deposited with the rest- One day in the month of October the hired man returned from the with the proceeds of the days sale and handed them to Mr nigh who as usual retired to deposit the amount with his accumulating hoard- Suddenly a fearful cry was beard pass on- Among the hundreds of dead and dying we recognize none that we know Out stay A faint whisper attracts pur attention Fol lowing the sound we find a Northern soldier done to death by wars dread missiles We look into his face His hair is grey and the pallor of death is on his brow but the features are those of Frank Wilson whom we have known in Canada pause and we hear him asking a companion to listen to his story of a misspent life He desires to explain his share a tragedy in his Canadian home With the first act of the of the wealthy farmer he had nothing to do Oh looking over Nellies desk he found a letter addressed to himself An action in which she told him that it was she who had stolen her fathers money and returned home last week On Tijfcpday of last week Dr H WatsJin known physician while on and attempting to cross theVjpR track at St the became unmanageable at the sight of engine and backed right into the between the mov ing cars Both and horse were killed At the Educational Convention last week in city a made a strong plea for increase in the number of male in On tario Since female teachers had increased from tfa 6120 It has yet be shown that women do not compare favorably with men as pedagogues from the room he had enter- thinking that if her husband continu ed The old man was found his evil course they would soon be knees screaming like a madman I homeless as her brothers and sisters am robbed robbed were insisting on her father turning It was thought that someone had them from the house With the money obtained the unhappy thought to secure means of getting a home in some new land where Leigh became a prosperous entered the window and taken the old man and in his domestic affairs he was j mans treasure highly favored Sons and daughters Diligent search was made and the grew up around him his comforts in- closest investigation followed hut he could begin a new life creased and blessings multiplied as a suspicion rested on any one Frank She placed the gold in a jar and result of his industry and frugality Wilson was the only one thought of buried it on the hillside where her But death that clouds the brightness but he had been visiting friends in the body was Her of many a home looked in upon them states for weeks and that placed his remorse however was so great when and broke the family circle by taking innocence beyond the reach of doubt she saw her poor old fathers the muchloved wife and mother short time after the event Wilsori that it became unbearable and she re fer a short illness she was taken from returned to Canada He seemed solved to replace the money in A and Sir Oliver her sorrowing family but left- sons and much kinder to Nellie and sympathize trunk from which she had taken it daughters old enough to take with Mr Leigh The talk over Before an opportunity of doing so lhe National Club took place at place Her youngest child a beau tij the robbery subsided somewhat but a presented itself an early winter set in Annual Banquet last week Principal girl grew to be the idol of her farmers loss of several thousand with a severe frost which rendered lne ceremony bereaved husbands heart j was not an incident easily for- her intentions impossible Her stale A gay and clever deceiver is the Years rolled on The sons and gotten of mind grew desperate she deter- alleged bigamist now held for trial at was brought against t Economist on a of libel calling the Royal Templars Insurance a fake organization Damages were laid away up in the thousands but the jury awarded only Si to which the Judge the costs of the suit- There are no new developments re garding the Buffalo bucket shop case which suspended a short time ago but something may grow out of it in a few days as local traders are be ing urged to take action to recover losses- Toronto losses are some where between and The unveiling of the portraits of The neighbors in that quiet locality mined to take her own life add did Toledo Ohio on a charge of forgery were soon to he startled with the so- j by the name of A- Fair barn alias news of a far more dreadful event it In Nellies letter she told her sad i and A H Watson and A was the death of poor Nellie by her story to her husband in the most Winters is also a hand pathetic terms told the place where He has a wife in this city who One night in January Wilson re- bc snowcovered earth concealed the trusted him simplicity and who is grown to womanhood and the light turning from a carousal at a bar- jar and most begged him I wellknown as Miss Gertrude Hill his declining years some distance from his home as opened to get secretary of Grace Hospital Nellie was of a lively found bis wife absent An alarm I money and restore it to her father most estimable young lady Anoth- upon hoping that he would forgive his err- woman Miss Carrie Smith daughters married and went to homes of their own With these we have nothing to do we pass on to the time when all had left the homestead except Nellie her fathers pride his youngest his beautiful child now position and as she advanced toward was made and a search entered upon WE SELL I womanhood she grew in loveliness in feature and in form Like the ma jority of her sex Nellie was partial to dress and other adornments that would set oft her natural personal at tractiveness In this respect her fond father indulged her every wish Of dancing she was passionately fond and there being no restraint placed on her gaiety it is not to be wondered at if the tendency of her inclinations should be toward the gay and frivol ous rather than to the homeliness and industry of farm life Nellie had many admirers and more than one re spectable farmer would have been proud to have called her his wife but the monotony of a Canadian farm was not for her Tracks in the snow led them to a hillside not far from the door Lying in the drift with a horrible gash in her throat from which the lifeblood child Her appeals to her husband were in vain Wilson remained as we have I seen until the spring searched for the A new sect has started up in had ceased to flow was all that relfar found it and with its contents city Its members say they intend of the once gay and happy started for the States With the to abide by the golden rule There Newport Mich to be te wife of this deceiver and appeared in court with a six months baby in her arms this Nellie Died by her own hand was the verdict of the coroners jury but death by illusage and despair was the verdict of sorrowing friends and neighbors The accumulating troubles coming down on the old man completely pro strated him sons and daugh ters who came to the funeral urged him to turn Wilson from his home as the cause of all his troubles His poor Nellie loved the man and for tor I sake he should share his home as At one of these social gatherings long as he wanted to do so by a handsome residence but it once that Nellie so loved to attend she was Wilson continued to live at the was home of a farmer in com- to a young Parlor Suites Chairs Chairs Hall and Settees in Chairs Board Room Tables Parlor Tables Library Tables Tabourettes Couches and Sofas Fancy Office Tilting and Arm Chairs Umbrella and Card Re- Dining Chairs Morris Office Arm ire f Desks and Filing Do- The Office Specialty Ml BAY STREET TORONTO NEWMARKET Raj Weviafr to Inform the be baa moved to Mr Balls Home on and that Loom with all to and do Work in Call and Send your rasa In The Duke of Yorks trip including refurnishing the will cost the British Government what is this Mr Jaggs- Whew why didnt you have it em- balmed before you sent it up Judge Tor and Children The iraey by Telephone ill you ft of pad Transit roe And money Your Valuable to spend in writ- id replies The live com- the Distance name of the individual will loose no time Co of Canada AUAT THE ERA fortablc circumstances To get somewhat acquainted with this pioneer and his antecedents we shall have to go back some distance in the history of roughing it in the bush in Canada Among the thousands of Loyalists who remained faithful to the British Government in the war of the colon ists in were many who by their industry and thrift as men of educa tion talent and ability had placed themselves in comfortable and in some instances afflucrit circumstances in the home of their adoption As the ex citement increased and the conflict widened sides had to be who declared for the Motherland soon found in the minority Their opponents made their circum stances as uncomfortable as possible they were exposed to suspicion their property confiscated their families tfacized and their lives threatened By such a land of refuge was eagerly sought The vote of by the British Government for the as sistance of the Loyalists and the of fer to every man a farm were induce ments sufficient to many a patriot to make the change Among these pioneer advetnures was a Loyalist whom we shall Introduce t read ers of the Era as Mr Ambrose History informs us that what is now the populous province of Ontatio at the close of the Revolutionary War was a wilderness covered by immense forests Its whole population of inhabitants would not make a town like Newmarket It was how ever a wide and welcome area to the annoyed and persecuted Loyalist Mr Leigh was one the first to avail himself of the offer of the gov ernment settled the forestcleared his farmraised his family and pros pered Hia eldest sqn in course of time became ambitious a home of his own married the daugh ter of a United Empire Loyalist and settled in the County of York near a forest crowned elevation subse quently known as Richmond Hill In man whom we homestead until spring opened when shall call Wilson a name quite suddenly disappeared and was no romantic as the original It was seen on Canadian soil The rumored that Wilson had come old man brokenhearted with grief to the neighborhood in search of a died a few months after the farm location for a business venture of passed into other hands not one of which he was the capitalist He was the family wishing to dwell where so really a handsome young fellow dress- sad events had occurred money he continued his evil course As the years rolled on his illgotten gold melted away and he became reckless The civil war broke out and he enlisted in the Northern Army We leave him where we found him dying friendless and alone except his listening comrade who gathers his last confession to send to his distant home As the grey light of morning breaks over the bloody scene the spirit leaves the bruised and mangled body and if there is room tor such as he it went to Heaven in the gathering shades of eventide as the writer sometimes stands at the side of Nellies grave the mind goes back on the history of the past and there looms up on memorys tablet the record of a ruined home a sad sad death and a misspent life each a terrible protest against our fair is nothing original about this belief but while they do not intend to lay up treasures here they will find lots of fellows ready to allow them to be the hewers of wood and haulers of water while they hang around street corners and live upon them Mr Geo through Aid Lamb has presented the Rlverdale Park Zoo with a pair of ocelots Am erican tigers a pair of Canadian lynx and four golden eagles in superior style danced beauti fully and as an escort was unexcelled To Nellie he was perfection Time passed on More recent events with their surrounding circum stances crowd in upon the Frank remained mary weeks incidents are almost in the neighborhood unsuccessful in forgotten But subsequent develop- hfc speculation but assiduous in perhaps in some far away attentions to Nellie j SC will sometimes clear the mem- It was suspected that he intended of the mists gathered in the to secure her for his wife and so fall course of years and the incidents of in for a goodly share of Mr Leighs earlier days will rise with vivid dis- Rumors were also afloat before our mental vision that he loved the social glass too During the years of oblivion which much for his own good and that the formed ah interregnum in our story money he spent freely was not always J history records the bloody details of honestly obtained Gambling and the Crimean War the Indian Mutiny horsetrading were among his favor ite pastimes But whatever his and a score of other decisive strug gles for national supremacy but not faults were he effectually concealed until the civil strife between the them He resolved to win Nellie and North and the South of the American did so to the sorrow of her father and her mahy friends They were married For a long Union do we find the sequel of the in cident we have endeavored to relate r Will my reader in imagination go time the old mans anger barred the with me on a visit v to one of the door against thorn But his love for fields of battle in that dreadful child overcame his resentment and he sent for them to come and make a home under the paternal roof AH went well for a season when Wilson began to show his true colors The barroom the were strife The day has been ter ribly disastrous to the armies both North arid South The blue and the grey dead and dying can be counted by hundreds all having giv en their lifeblood for the cause they frequently visited home and Its In- loved and each when dying claiming Odf Toronto Letter terests entirely neglected and poor Nellie awoke to the terrible fact that she was the wife of a gambler and a drunkard Nellies heart and life seemed com pletely crushed by the knowledge her unfortunate condition a gay and happy girl with no thought of care or sorrow she changed into a miserable heartbroken woman with no energy to fight lifes battle or a care to live in a world devoid of hap piness to her a patriots reward It is night The cannons roar is no longer heard The deadly click of the rifle has ceas ed The bayonet is at rest Above the ghastly field of carnage and blood the white flag Is floating We will avail ourselves of the protection that It gives to any who may wish to ad minister the word of salvation to the departing soul or offer the cup of cool water to the parched lips The pale moonbeams seem to shrink In affright from the upturned faces of the Her father saw his- petted darling dead the stars to hide themselves be- pining and fretting flay after day hind the fleeting clouds the wind without being able to he to shiver as the moans of the dying too changed for the From fill the air Two rare specimens of seals have been presented to the city and placed in Park They came from Dr John of Halifax who captured them on a recent sealing ex pedition A 13yearold son of Mr J Mor rison Ave along with his chum while hunting for last years baseball outfit came across an old revolver in a drawer The lads did not think It was loaded and one snap ped the trigger An explosion follow ed and the bullet entered the cheek of one of the lads fracturing the cheek hone The wound is serious but not necessarily dangerous Mr Justice Robertson has given judgment dismissing the action of W East against Richard and Mary Hamilton of King Township for the foreclosure of a- mortgage on property near Holland Landing One of the South Ontario election bribers named Thomas had bis fine reduced from to by Mr Justice Osier and Mr Justice son last week This is a good time to get that poultry manure where it will do the most good Surely you wont waste it Start cabbage plants in rich soil boxes in the house Keep soil moist but not wet- They may be started thickly but when about two inches high transplant to other boxes set ting plants an inch or two apart Every farm should in reality be a factory and the chief end and aim of every farmer should be to work the produce of the farm into perfectly finished products before seeking a market Butter eggs wool and meat are finished products Farms run- upon this schedule will never run down or grow weaker in fertility The best use that can be made manure of any kind is to feed it to young clover The clover will feed all other crops and they will feed you Youve tried almost every thing for it havent you f And we presume you about discouraged Now what do you think of our idea of the medicine bringing it right Fergu- up to the diseased part It looks reasonable And His Excellency tbe successful too has notified the Chairman of the When you inhale Vaporesolene Canadian Horse Show that he will be becomes easy the present on Friday and Saturday It Wheezing ceases you drop toy is reported that several society ladies s and whooping ft something like bloomer costumes on the occasion had cough a blaze recently Damage to Williams Box Factory Front St by lamp tad stock and machinery is reported at u cruoUa I lr upon I A party of Torontonians including Sheriff who have been sold spending several weeks in California druggist