The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Y home every week than nay other and is acknowledged to ha the Leading County Paper YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER a me the to know to utter and to freely according to conscience above all other liberty copies ceata each bowing why you should use Sweeper Newmarket Friday Aug 1 No paper outside of North York unless paid In advance TERMS per annum if paid in advance Oar Toronto Letter One of the genial conductors on the Northern Division in the person of Edward ported away on the to the deep regret of a large circle not of personal friends but of the travelling public He left an estate valued at of which 3000 is insurance Governor of the and his family are spending a holiday camping near Half- a century hence the political historian of these days will doubtless record the fact that on August the Conservatives Ontario held a general at PointsToronto Judged by the man ner in which the event was heralded by the advance agents it was rather a severe frost but taken on its mer its was a successful picnic continuously from three plat forms was announced but two of than were empty and deserted For the Era The Advantages of Many reasons may be easily adduc ed to show that farm lands will in nearly all cases be improved by draining Nature has herself thor oughly drained a considerable por tion of the soil but it is probable that in the course of time as land becomes more valuable it will be found advisable to artificially drain the greater part of our level or mod erately sloping lands that are worthy of cultivation The question whether it will pay to drain a given area de pends on the value of the land before drainage the cost of the operations and the value of the land when drain ed This is a question which every facte may be of interest to some of landowner must decide lor himself Itbe many readers of the Era I have At the outset it may be pointed of days in trying to that drainage deepens the soil and so sure that the count is correct affords greater room for the roots of have gone over the New Testament comparative freedom of fall wheat and clover from freezing out or win ter killing the absence of open drains which are a decided nuisance in the cultivation of the land and the har vesting of the crop and last of all the removal from the soil of those salts formed by decay of rock and organic matter which cannot be used by plants and the presence of which in the soil causes the condition known as alkali land Yours very truly W A CLEMENS of Agriculture Some Scriptural Perhaps the following- scriptural plants Unless its roots have an A BISSELLS WILL FOLLOW THE BROOM AND RE MOVE MORE DIRT THAN THE BROOM DID The wlic robbed the law pasturage as It were no of Messrs resources rift and his employers was the soil to best advantage sent to the Reformatory for welldrained soils the roots of most two years His name was Sydney cultivated crops spread themselves White widely and to a great depth from Prof Smith the four times and have done this with the sole object might say of helping somebody my idea being that perhaps some persons not overly fond of reading the scriptures may doubt the accuracy of my count For the Era oi the Snows m BY A BANKER r Those for the first time have explored amongst the higher mountain ranges of the earth in the season of early summer have doubtless been perplexed at the apparant firing at various points amidst those snow- covered mountain peaks and pyramids a great volume of whiter smoke being observed to issue from a lofty emin ence soon followed by a loud report as of heavy artillery It is soon re alized that these explosions are vast avalanches of snow which having partly lost cohesion by the increasing heat of summer are dislodged by the inherent weight- and fall from preci pice to precipice with thundering verbation the apparent- smoke being volumes of powdery snow discharged high in the air each time the ponder ous mass is shattered against some rocky obstruction To the spectator at a distance the phenomenon is sufficiently grand and startling especially if observed thru a powerful telescope but if by any means whether from a or otherwise an avalanche could be wit- arid in so doing their eyes must sure- two to four feet Is quite usual and ou lb through Canadian plcisiZeulso have nent citizen of this it v passed known to send their roots a fat headlines or Chapters and appalUng birthday month on Lire of this as thirty feet No roots acquatic plants will grow in simply the scriptures The word and occurs in the New The Chorus Committee of the Can ton Choir are completing to their normal depth and furnishes conditions favorable to the greatest the Acts of the Apostles the word At first a mass of snow perhaps a few acres in extent and weighing of thousands of tons from the steep slope on deposited and with a terrific roar the mighty mass hounds over a precipice a thousand PRICES 300 AT A Hardware Stow etc Newmarket Fft I Up -to- merits for the coming season The growth and chorus singers will be to The drain 100- voices Already have teen water that accepted Creation will soil allows be taken up as one of the ctrof mi- soil lections this year I through the A magnificent collection of specimens tii insects plants reptiles up and and shells has recently pressure of the atmosphere been added to the Government muse- the soil is comparatively dry there is a good deal of air in its pores Ontario will be better represented Then when a rain comes it fills the at the Industrial Exhibition than ev- upper end of these pores and if before in her history There will there be no outlet for the air below bo a larger display and a better one it is imprisoned and exerting a will be better arranged and ward pressure on the water above the visitor from a distance will have prevents it from entering the soil a good idea of the products and re more than an inch or two It amy sources of the Province Rev Dr has so far recover ed a brief visit with friends a change The Grand Lodge of the Independent the Old man Says People quit growing old at forty half a century ago They quit it when they ceased thinking themselves old at forty and ceased actually bet ing old at forty not to speak of drinking themselves old at forty What has become of the widows caps and the solemn and stiff suits our grandfathers wore at forty Gone to perdition and the old clo junk shop where they ought to have gone The young man of fifty or sixty now wears the natty sack tweeds or serges that his son or grandson wears tipped of with a jaunty hat He goes to baseball the races he keeps up with the pro cession and is all in for a good lime in moderation healthfully The young woman with him in white or colors with the gay hat who has the manners of a youthful hut self- respecting girl of twenty in the last century is his wife perhaps a grand mother but none tlie less young and happy yet They feel young they they dress young by the Great Horn ed Spoon they are young What You Ask For Yon Get Drugs are always Fresh and the Best Our Patent Remedies the same And say about our i happen therefore that in an soil a heavy summer shower is as to be able to leave the city on forced to run off the surface while at jtbe land below the first inch is as dry as ever This is one illustration of the truth of the apparently con- Order of Oddfellows has selcetod this statement that under- city as the place oi next years meet- draining is a safeguard against ing drought Dr of the Central I All sloping unless laid down Presbyterian Church who is spending j to grass is liable to great loss by his vacation at Norway Point Lake this surface washing during the heavy of Bays mot with a somewhat severe rains in spring and fall If the accident on the golf links there He land has not sufficient drainage the was taking part in a game with cannot pass directly downward other golfers from Toronto when as explained above but runs away on he was struck on the head by a ball the surface carrying with it much of times and Revelation the occurs times also in Luke times The largest verse in the Bible is the verse of the chapter of Esther and the shortest is the verse of the chapter of St John The middle verse in the is the verse of the Psalm Hie 10th chapter of augmenting in hulk and with more and more accelerated velocity the great colossal avalanche now plunges downwards in its headlong career destruction with a wild mo mentum which nothing can withstand It has left the snow line has cut a great avenue thru a pine forest break down trees- like matchwood and in Kings and the Chapter of Isaiah ft niomentS grinding crash are alike Caused heat an entire hamlet or village beneath is wholly submerged splintered in Hash on Babys Skin that Alarms Careful Mothers Often There we Dispense Everything and was severely wounded No serious results are anticipated Mr C James Deputy Minister of Agriculture is spending a few days with his family who are summering at Another gambling place was raided the soil and washing the fertility out of much which remain Hut with proper drainage the rain is at once absorbed anfl passed downwards saturating the soil in its decent and carrying the fertilizing elements bo the roots of plants while tho during the past week and eight surplus moisture runs through rests made This time ft was a ci gar store on King Street from all points in York Co drains Again drainage is absolutely thousand fragments and utterly obliterated from the face of the earth he warning roar may proba bly have premonished the inhabitants to flee for their lives This however is not always the summer months a rash ticable and it is related that on one often appears on the face neck and occasion it is related no less than body of babies and small children our hundred Austrian soldiers were which is liable to alarm the careful suddenly overwhelmed by a It is due to the excessive avalanche which entombed the heat and while not dangerous is entire battalion in a snowy sepulchre the cause much suffering Immcdii But as with advent of the fol ate relief is given by dusting the lowing summer that niveous tomb eruption liberally with Own gave up its dead so will the time Powder which may be had at any come when the earth and the sea will druggists but to cute the trouble a their dead And then must be given thai will cool shall all stand before the great the blood of the little Ha- white throne to be judged for the Own Tablets will be found a deeds done in our earth life Happy blessing in such cases and will they who having lived the life of the soon restore the clearness and beauty righteous and having babys skin Mrs Clifton made of Kincardine Out says My by the Redeemer That Good New Tasty Very To the UpToDate Fastidious Customer Drop In 0 BO SB ftiTBWH Dye Works Agent Co Cartage and baggage hand led despatch No How ly a We inquii6M prompt r ft rutty The Era Indicate that with ttie possible ex- of soils It Is manifest that ccption of clover soil can never be pulverized be a bountiful one Barley In water Is held by a pulverized instances shows a yield of bushels soil by a compact and close one per acre while an average of Water is held in the soil between the bushels is well within the range Kail minute particles of earth and wheat is likewise an excellent crop these particles be pressed together and wherever threshed shows a yield compactly there is no space left bushels per acre being recorded tween them for water This com- Thru the length and breadth of York exists more or less In most the oat crop has seldom if subsoils certainly in all those thru ever been surpassed which water Hoes not readily pass eight years old Hence all those subsoils arc rendered died on Monday as the result it is more by of overindulgence in bathing at the of which they are Kew Beach composed separated from one another The American yacht won the a word by pulverization This da Cup last Thursday by only one increased capacity to contain mols- Great excitement prevailed lure by attraction Is the 11 Cup was formally presented against drought The plants the evening at Island Club House in a send throughout the and flourish the cross for them find that the record and all over her body I gave her been wholly expunged Among e editorial troubles the Not long since we received a hasty medicine but the eruption never left her until I gave her Babys Own Tab lets and alter using them a short time the rash entirely disappeared I have also given her the Tablets for constipation with the best of results information Is painful act gently but promptly and we ways make baby and restful I asking think the tablets a splendid medicine haf ft information Tablets may be had from all knowledge but gists at 25 cents per box and Baby as well Own Powder at the same price have little doubt of his annoyance you prefer to order direct they will disgust but we could be sent post paid on receipt of price the way to reach the by the Dr Williams Medicine Com- d Ont Ideal fARION MARION Unl and I County Weekly It Covers yopth York NKRVILINiB TAIN This is testimony of sufferers in every part of the Dominion Mr Benjamin Billon the moisture thus stored up their of need that ire always so that large water from their surfaces has Witty Comments The New York Herald prints a col lection of sayings more or less wit ty provoked by the of tiresome speakers a fault which loo often provokes something worse than a humorous complaint A gentleman and a lady came out of a Madison Ave church at an hour later than usual That was a finish sermon she said Yes at last he said John Corning when superintendent the Central Pacific Railway on the occasion of a visit to his brother in Albany was to and a sermon remarkable for its length What do you think of our preach er asked as they left the church He is very line but has poor ter minal facilities answered the prac tical railroad man Henry Ward was once the subject of a cane presentation and stood while the spokesman went into an elaborate oration He didnt want to have tho cane until really needed it said the preacher to an intimate friend who commented on of the speech Paul a chessplayer once attended in Now Orleans when the bishop of a foreign diocese was present The young rector had pre pared a sermon in honor of his distin guished visitor in dcliveiv of which he tried every one but the bish op who paid close attention Part of the congregation left the churn Well said the chessplayer that preacher was the first man I ever met who hadnt the sense to stop when he had nothing left but a Dr Klisha Kane on returning from his great exploration was invited to a banquet in New York where afterdinner speaker talked or hour Doctor what did you think of the speaker asked a friend It was like an arctic sunset an swered the explorer What do you mean by that Bright and interesting but long in operation replied the doctor to him as to us Spike Brady who was a well- No doubt he with the known baseball player in the Valley a few years ago once at tended church in Dubuque Iowa with his club which went on special op an the was states 1 am not In the of warm The sub has great power to puffing up proprietory medicines but warm dry solid permit I feel It my duty to add to the tee- of a circulation of the air but timony as to the marvellous value of has little effect on a saturated- soil ft remedy tor pain No- Warmth is essential to the ermtoa- tliiqg I think guars it a rti of seeds and the proper sal remedy and householders ought to of plants who are feel it as touch a necessity bread what is known as a cold soil Itself by dealers in mcdiefne be ie first to concede the Uils fact J Other advantages of underdraining Five men were drowned by the may be mentioned such as the foundering of the steamer Mersey of crop growth the St Lawrence oft Point on seeding of drained land I together Paper gloves and musings unfortunate now being in furore Papa said he is Jupiter in- Rather than climb the habited stairs to heaven some people And I dont know my son was it easier to slide down Ihe banister to truthful answer Presently he the other place interrupted again a prize to there any seaserpent the boy who could writ the best mlnu6 on How M lo third all right to overcome Habit Is what an icewagon in getting home was written by the the ballplayer answered won the prUe Well sir habit look like But alas again the George Wash- The preacher thinking he might not again get a hearing from the boys made a special and consumed much time was what he tnougo of the preacher j ti is to overcome you takeoff first letter It doesnt change It If you take oft another you still have a bit left If take oft still another the whole of it re mains If you take of another it is no answer I dont know At last In desperation he said with how did how tlat if you want to get rid you get to a habit vou must throw oft at- b6eot The freight shops and about twenty freight cars were burned at Winnipeg on Saturday night The loss was A terrific hailstorm in many parts of Manitoba and Territories en Wednesday killed a number of cattle and sheep and caused much damage