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The f gig Jlterty No Copies 3 Each No sent outside of North York unless advance arket Ont FridayjJune iqq j i TERMS per annum if paid in advance fM j fa grow old before time Save f your ama paint more and brush less Paint is made for all kinds of painting It dries with a good gloss is easily applied can be cleaned with soap Use it this year and housecleaning wont be so hard next cards for the asking at 1 gaqadiar i Bound for South Africa LETTER BY OP WEEK IN LONDON GENERAL Plumbing and NEWMARKET ONT Only the Freshest and Best AT- BROUGHTOMS few of our prices on Patent Medicines with the regular price Willie Pink Kidney Pitta Oar Price Price CO CO 25c Nerve food Liver Oil Wood Bitters 5 fc Our Price Price Celery Com pound- Pierces Favorite Pre scription Pierces Golden Medical Discovery I The Druggist NEWMARKET OrjTAftiO for Parkers Dye Works We pay express charges one way on all goods to cleaned or dyed a Carpet Having an Loom am now prepared very to ill in workmaMp A loom for tale cheap liewmark Mrs Baylys School From lie date of the arrival at Halifax to the departure from South ampton oftfae first contingent of Can adian teachers for South Africa with their week of is here ably described by one of them Cheerful and tearful goodbyes at the home stations a rainy Sunday in through the dark ness with awakenings and as to where we were a long day on a crowded train spent chiefly in making each others ac quaintancea vision of twinging lights we were told was Hali faxa salt smell in the air and the first Canadian contingent of teachers for South Africa found themselves stumbling on the deck of the Corin thian at midnight on the fourteenth of April The voyage was a one We bad blue skies and cloudy skies for two of three days and then a fresh bracing wind that swept the big waves over the decks and set everything in the cabin danc ing and sliding There was a glorious moon ail the way and one night we saw a lunar rainbow At the afternoon of the we landed at Liverpool and were met at very gateway by some ladies the British Womens Em igration society whose members from that moment until our ship weighed anchor at ercised the kindest care over us Relieved from all responsibilities looking after our slightest needs and providing for our entertainment al most hour of the time we spent in that most hospitable of countries England special train brought us into London about eight and again we were met at station by a number of ladies who is to find our us what to pay porters arid cabbies and in every way made us feel that it was as easy to dispose of ourselves in London as it would be in Toronto The- next morning Saw us all at the Crown Agents office protesting against the fiat which had gone forth that we were to sail next day- from South ampton It was simply impossible declared and so it Was Mr Martin the Crown agent had cards for us from the Princess Louise asking us to take tea at Kensington Palace Of course we were obliged to say that un less bur time was extended- we could hot possibly obey the royal however much we desired to do so A IN LONDON There was a perceptible brighten ing lip of very faces when alter waiting what seemed to us an unconscionable time for the Colonial to get down to work Mr tin came to us with the pews that we were to have a week in Lon don Who felt fatigue or dissatisfac tion then Never was there a more joyous troop of girls than that which boarded the next bus going piccadil- That afternoon saw us at Kensing ton where we were at the gates by Frances bister of tiie Duke of Argyle arid some ladies whose names afterwards became quite to us The Honorable Mrs Al fred was one of them and every body in Toronto will remember Mrs Herbert Chamberlain whom as the daughter of Colonel Williams of Port Hope The Princess received us in the sirrrplest manner chatting to each of us for a time Shu looked scarcely older than when she was in Canada and hair has not a touch of grey The Duke was dtlihU- hand ed round bread and butter and tea and cake He told stories and to us about work as if he took a real interest in ft Wc began tofetl that we were and I was glad remember that I bought a sized hat before I left home for I felt the swelling process corning on His Grace took us to his private den which of and looked on the loveliest WILL BELL feet to tt Manilla feet to the ft Beautiful will you or your to of the gardens He told us that United States was in the room above where were that Queen Victoria received the messengers who came In the middle of tlc tell her that she had become greatest soveriign on earth I have not time to tell of our In good running order fences in London our visit to the Coat cash Will be told a Houses of Parliament and St at the Era church under Mrs guidance the delightful afternoon at her beautiful old house overlooking Westminster school where we met dozens of the and sweetest girls whose bad a charm for us because of the histor ic interest connected with item and whose hats and gowns were as grace ful as their faces and iney wore their hair low and just waved loosely back from their fresh dainty faces and their hats were somewhat crumpled brims that teem ed to fit over their hair in a perfectly easy na tural way vi No grotesque outlines no ungrace ful protuberances no jarring of overtrimmed St Pauls on Sunday morning where through the kindness of Mrs Herbert Chamberlain we were proj vided with seats in the choir A choral service and a good practical sermon The chimes tang musically in our unaccustomed ears as we arrived In hansoms a quar ter of an hour too Then the Zoo in the afternoon which left us all too tired to do anything more that day Monday we had to and wc bought our school supplies and shop ped On Tuesday we went to Oxford IL3 trip being entirely arranged for us by 1 Mrs Mulock was Miss Sarah daughter of tlie late Mr f of Toronto She was married to Mr in and Miss of the Education that time has resided principally in Toronto where her home on Jar- partmentpf the Emigration Society ft houses in that city Mis Mulock We were entertained at Oxford by l fouc children Her sons are Mr William jr of Toronto and Mulock who when he comes of age will be one of Canadas millionaires Both her daughters are married is Mrs Thomson and the other Mrs Arthur Kirkpatrick Doth reside in Toronto Last session the PostmasterGeneral engaged a furnished house at the Vedrd seven colleges actually and Capital and the dinners and receptions given therein were among the I felt like a Cook s Person- phasing functions of session Mrs Mulock is of Mr Secretary of War I shall not attempt to tell about it because it would be simply useless not only a charm- ally Conducted except that X hostess herself but being fond of young peoples society she has al refused to open mouth My young girls staying with her who assist hen in stock of adjectives was exhausted and fciitu Buggy For Sale I it better to maintain i rapt silence Not so some of the Others and I heard some questions and re marks that must have made the donSot a bit grave and but as jolly as sand boys arid very good looking feel that an Oxford Un iversity extension course in Canada would not be amis THROUGH VILLAGES Would you like to hear about the dear little villages saw with thatched cottages and gardens that made me keel as if I must stop l he train at and es tablish myself for a year yes a of 1165 peaceful sleepy restful corners where surely the n life can never intrude They look charm ing said one of our practical ones but they are the hideously un comfortable places to In You would take the first lot Lon don in the morning And perhaps I Would but it was hard to believe any thing that seemed so utterly intyedU hie had luncheon at College and the tabic was the yellow bloom of the Mrs Scott the wife of the warden who sat next to me spoke of Sara and when I told her that Mrs Cotes was an old schoolmate of mine she said she knew her very well and that Mr Mrs Cotes the elder were at present resi dents of Oxford It was so delight ful to bear in that of my old girl friend Although I should to linger forever at Oxford and tell of her stately beauty and the sweetness her and violetbordered paths and the courtesy and of welcome that made us loath to tear ourselves away must We had just time to catch the train and get out stives settled in the special saloon carriage which was provided for us and we each and everyone declared that such a para dise as Oxford did not exist anywhere else in the world The serpent would have had no chance if the Garden of had been located in the old uni versity town of inland IN LONDON The next day tte Tower was em the program At least It wan for most of the party Merit day in bed They were entertained at tea by Sir the Governor and Lady and they were ad mitted to the Innermost sanctuaries of that most ancient and of institutions In the even ing they went the Working Girls receiving But tho Jlrs shirks none of the social duties incumb ent upon a Cabinet does not strike one as really car ing for Vanity Fair I chief Intel are centered in her home and her tastes lie rather in ire direction of the quieter life from so many other women are s to escape She has a sweet gentle man ner which endears her to those who her lest She shares her bus- bands love for agriculture and pays freucnt visis to his model farm in the County of York A year ago Mrs Mulock accompanied her husband to Australia Early morning last the Pa vilion in the was destroyed by fire The delegates to the Board of Trade conference were in thehall even ing previous After the caterer Mo- Conchy and his assistants had clear ed up the place caretaker Wat son retired He bad not long been asleep when hetfeard the alarm of fire The flames made quick work and many costly palms and carefully treasured shrubs and trees tro pical countries were destroyed To- loss is set down at The Jingoes and antiJingoes had a lively discussion over Imperial de fence and militarism generally loud talkers lose their heads over soapbubble loyalty Alexander of Street an engineer who was injured by grasp- hotpipe and- falling from his locomotive in the Grand Trunk Raft- way yard last week died on Friday in the general hospital J During the closing days of last week no less than fifteen were arrest charged with the theft of money or tickets from the Toronto Railway Co Most of the men are conductors and have If current report be true the Op position employed some new bands to operate the political machine election The fellows are said tobe clamoring for their wages Had they been oldstagers they would have demanded pay in advance Ask Bir mingham or Robinson J The annua meetirg of the To- various Ontario public institutidna are from to SI a ton higher this year were last and the ad ditional cost Ho trie Province on up wards of tons of hard and soft coal and screenings which are used an nually will be between and The increase is due to the miners strike The nineteenth annual session of Toronto Methodist Conference was opened Thursday of last week in Metropolitan Church with about 300 delegates in attendance The most important business of the first days session was the president Rev James Alien A of Marie arid formerly pastor of street Method ist Church this city votes while the next was Rev J A Rankin who obtained votes 19 others polled one vote each while pot two votes each- Club which is conducted by the address from Mr Sadler who Maude Stanley j is connected with educational matters Lord Stanley of The girls me it was ivfcMiii and I was sorry to misled some thing so the charitable work which the Of the are in some way and then Mr Chamber lain himself spoke to us Before he finished we were all ready to die for the No wonder ho stands where he does the Hon Joseph really think he could make trying to do for the me believe anything who a in need of and j That night we went to hear Henry guidance If ever felt to Irving and Loflus in Kaust fun of the women who spend and afterwards to the House of- time in work of such nature I Where we leard part of a have learned better since I came to bate Then out again into the England and have seen sweet sin- night air to he put tenderly and care and genuincss of tie into our hansoms by iho police- people That is what has struck men who unlike our American police- more than my inert were always to be found when brief in this little The were wanted good nature of all from the belted In the morning wc went reluctantly extraordinary politeness and genuine to the Waterloo station under Karl down to the first rain wc had seen in London On we were in- where Mansfield saw us safely on vited by Mfss sister of the board the secondclass carriages that Honorable Arthur of Parliamentary had been provided for us by the Hon renown Mrs Joyce of Winchester who is the President of the British Womens LORD Society At the door I were accompanied to LyUlcton who said Come aid on board the Gaul by along and let me Introduce you to the Winchester ladies Lord I nearly fell And now here we arc in ail of a heap for IfAcd I never the very best cabins every dreamt of exceeding good for tone well and and of lour- as to hands with Little Bobs age whatever may await in And my face showed my feelings for unknown land to which are a stately lady standing beside mo bound smiled benignly me and Mrs own people follow our Lyttleton said This is Lady Rob- time with such genuine interest as And then in a moment 1 waso friends in England we looking down upon the hero of Can- feel repaid for all that wc ma himself and wondering at to pass through and in any case brilliant hue of his nose which has mus always have tge glorious re taken on a most wonderful color from collection of this charming week in tropical suns that have England where we learned that down on him so fiercely while he Canadians are looked upon with the blood between us and the terrors of admiration and affection and Eastern warfare The Duchess of the links of empire have been Marlborough who looked very lovely forced no strongly that in out par- in a grey gown of those cases they can never be English hats the Kan and Countess of Jersey Bishops deans celebrities of all kinds were present After tea we adjourned to one- the other rooms en The population of Cuba is about a million and a quarter of which a and with over thirty per cent Is negro Gwendolyn Cecil curled up on and rain followed the at fees two other Indies tlat over many of the of high degree perched the arms of mountain In Colorado on chair we listened to a most at- day Cohcii The June sittings of the York County Council began in the Council chamber at the old court house On Monday afternoonT Warden- Norman was in tfic chair and there was a full attendance of councillors After Clerk had read the minutes a number of communications were read and referred to the proper committees No import- so far is in sight At the last meeting steps of a dras tic nature were taken to the- Metropolitan Railway to put in better condition for the travelling public President will report that hew cars have been ordered and will be in use very soon It is not likely that Council will take any further steps until it be seen if the cars are here when ordered From what has been learned Council will express gratification that the grand jury at the last court of General Sessions has Indicted tho city for bad condition street and from Daven port road north The interest of the the court rooms of the city hall has been insured for 10000 premium for three fare judicious work and faithful care of the Council are seen in the fact that is in the county treasury today 1150808 so that there necessity for a loan No meeting on Tuesday on account the Wardens excursion to Niagara Falls Communications received from John Millar Deputy Minister of Education giving the amounts of grants to High Schools to be Markbam Aurora Weston Newmarket Richmond Hill Toronto Junction It was decided to build a bridge over the Maskinonge River between the Townships of Bast and North Tho contract for the building of this bridge was awarded to Dick Son of Alton Northern Aluminum Company been Incorporated at Ottawa with a capital of 1