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be Era iTra ever two to to freely according to conscience above all other liberty ir MIL No Copies So each- Newmarket Friday For the Era The Year WE All Patron op AND dispensations In faith and hope a cheerful welcome With trust in all his live Good to derive Nor doublet he Guide though some times dark the way The silver lining will reveal the And scatter clouds as sun spray Our souls revive raj disperses NEWMARKET TO Perfumes Hymn Bibles Poems Fountain Pens Purses Brushes A land and Bags -ALBO- w A tut lrVk you art jd In reft rexAt I Iw PUnt J Hew ft Scientific BALK AT Our lives will be make them here So much depends On how we daily live from year to How each life ends If we neglect our own immortal soul Our fallen nature having full control How can we hope to reach the v In bliss with friends J And he loaves to visit other spheres His work complete From earthly vision softly pears In still retreat May we remember all the lessons learned The good accomplished and the evil spurned Our frequent failures and the con quests earned Hut jiot defeat P GRANT Richmond Hill Dec 30 For the SottrToui of the Sea BY A Aye though the great ocean be so sublime and so grand though her ma jestic rolling surge and drifting wind- borne surf her sparkling wavelets glittering in the sunlight like dia monds or at night the of the placid moon in a fiood of molten silver are all so supremely beautiful causing a thrill almost of testacy to course ihroutj the veins of those who love her and enkindle a throbbing passion such as no other inanimate object could arouse yet there ever been ever will lie sor row on the sea That plaintive which so oft presages an out break of her wrath is perhaps but the of sonic gallant en- gulled in her depths bill the sad harbinger of a flood of corroding grief the augury of many a lacerat ed many a broken heart those stately foamcrested billows with such fury against the rock- bound coast perhaps have over whelmed some bark and sunk to a watery grave those who made her their I Hut not always do these surging hVids of sorrow and of bead- ache arise from displays of her great might when In angry not al ways are those too of the seas caused by ifi storms and tempests Aih time to furiously her surface for that heaving expanse has too often oiler dread and awoiruspirinj A fine vessel of graceful build is observed her way across the great Atlantic sail is set and the ray of the light up the white sails and the foam scatters from her bows she Is a very thing of beauty a lovely fairy of the seas Hut she is a house a floating sepulchre of which and cumber her decks and her cab ins and even in her saloons For since she left the port short weeks before the angel of death bad been hovering over her with healing with spear claiming as bis own with but one exception each one of all her passengers and crew Hut a passing ship has observed the signal of distress of this one surviv or who lies helpless by the lashed tiller amidst the contorted corpses of his late comrades awl on board ing the doomed vessel they find that khz- is but a floating chamber of death a derelict And what heart scannings must there have been amongst that as semblage of doomed creatures as saw their one after the Other struck down at their knew that their turn Hon would probably come that per haps In a Jew short hours their spir its would cither be In the gloryland or in the realms of And how would those rejoice who had their God and whoe forgiven through faith in Him who had for them and by virtue of Whose atonement were irdter- jitrs of a mansion In the TERMS per annum if paid in advance i 54 for Days All tie Ships in the Harbor Set on Fire Jan The Russian who arrived here today from Port Arthur on the torpedoboat stroyere from that Russia has fought her way place have a single word for what thy Manchuria is- still a dream the city Russias means must never again- fall into hands See what that The icefree port for which cross or tress has been for the past five gcea railway built to reach the days during which the Japanese open sea can never have a more sou- bombarded andassauhed it ceaseless- terminus as a Russian road ly night and day They use than Vladivostok which is blocked word unprofanely and convincingly ice for several months every win- declaring that the horrors witnessed ter If we till consider what beyond any description There da would be with outlet to the was not a single spot in the town Atlantic the Lawrence that was safe from shrapnel Many of the hospitals were hit and the wounded refused to stay in them Sonic lay in the streets on heaps of debris exposed to the bitterly cold weather and some staggered back to Mr Toronto better A ilia The Conservative in South and West Divisions of Toronto decidedly quiet gatherings Mr J J was again chosen as the party nominee for the South and Mr Crawford for the West Up in the North Division there was time Dr Heat lie Bristol and Dr were but on the vote being taken Dr was choice and will again face the electors at the aji- elections Mrs Anne Grant was another shop lifter arrested at last week She had a weakness for handkerchiefs and gloves Hon A Blair has accepted the i of managing director ami chief concise of the Toronto Roller Bearing Company lie will probably make Ottawa his headquarters The customs receipts at Toronto for the year show AT BOSTON FOR s I get some idea of what Siberia must be if all her products are to pass to the ocean by Vladivostok It is a national necessity that con fronts Russia She cannot give up hope of reaching the sea through Man- the front hurling stones and defying without relinquishing her Japanese till taken prisoners or Hon as a great Asiatic power Talk death came mercifully to end their of peace is absurd Not until Kuro- There were five days and tries conclusions with the Jap- nights of this state of affairs in a campaign around Mukden stock of ammunition whieh had been summer can Russia ever begin carefully husbanded for months was to think of defeat almost and it was all too if she were to win next sum- dent that Japan was about to grasp and drive the Japanese back prize which had cost- her an army to and the- Peninsula of men and countless treasure Tin the further task before her seems to capture of 203Metre Hill by the Jap- be an impossibility Port Arthur was the garrisons first vital with a small garrison cut from re wound Then came the capture of lacking fond Rihlung and Faulting besieged by land and blockaded tains Gen had announced by sea has stood siege for seven that he would fight till the last months How long could the city There was no stopping the Japan- hold out with Japan commanding the esc who died in droves with sea and pouring men and material last instinctive twitch of the to the harbor at her pleasure The nerves with eyes fixed on question carries its own answer Mountain pen had killed port Arthur never can be by a a Japanese a my and exhausted his land attack only- If the Baltic fleet Boston Dec submarine tunnel connecting Boston and East Boston was opened for public travel at oclock this morning The dedication of the tunnel to public use was carried out without any formal ity or ceremony An electric car left the terminal of tunnel at Boston at the mentioned and made the run to the mainland terminal underneath Square Despite the early hour a large crowd of people was present and there was a friendly rivalry to obtain places upon the first car to pass through tunnel The tunnel is one of the longest tunnels in the world total length is miles although only feet is under water It was constructed cost of by the city of Boston which has GOO e year show the immense in- crease over the previous year of The total receipts for L Bosto mounted up to Company which will use the first time in the history of l exclusively for the passage this city street sweepers were out on electric cars between Boston the last day of the year cleaning up About four and a the streets lcn consumed in its Saturday was sentence dav iir tu Sessions when Judge Morgan ordered It has a committal of Win Bell colored I mum inches and to years in the penitentiary John average height under the harbor of and James also lowest point 5 years Jeremiah Long for three is about flu feel below years and the eoun- moan de- terfeiter seven years to the peniten- l experts to he absolutely liary also John the Poetically safe Park burglar to four years leakage The system of ventilation The total of patients treat- ft at the General Hospital the past year was Oil there were patients in the wards which is said to be excellent includes the employment of a duet running thru the upper part of lU tunnel with an air exhaust by use of electric fans The actual beginning of the tunnel on the Boston side is at ammunition But said Karlow the attacks became more furious ferocious and fateful than ever until the white flag went- up Tokio Jan is wild with joy The news of the fall of Port Arthur circulated rapidly and a holiday was alslr declared The crowds are shouting over the news Surveyor Douglas has retired from the Toronto Customs after from this point the average time of a trip through the tunnel to the ter minal at Maverick Square Bos- is expected to Ik- about four Jid fifty years service He is succeeded by Mr Bertram who has been acting- surveyor since August last Mr Douglas colleagues presented him with an upholstered leather chair Thc first meeting of Canadian Temperance League for was held may besiege Port Arthur on New Years Day Captain returns to Russia and Japan remains mistress of the Yellow Sea Knropat- throw half a million men into ami his troops may perform prodigies of valour all to no purpose What then is the end to be Rus sia must either continue the war she can build a fleet strong enough or loo a half minutes was largely attended Mr Trios IP YOU DONT SLEEP WELL Its because your nerves are in newsboys are running through the to destroy of Japan or she streets selling extra editions of the rnust make peace practically on aerial bombs and day- pans terms the restoration of Man- light fireworks are being set oft and processions are being formed in the surging streets Jan Advices reaching say that the Russian battle ships and tva and the protected cruiser Pa Monday morning and and that in the a caught Are are still burn- afternoon the her to the Utter demo lition of all fortifications at Port Ar thur If the latter course is decided upon as we fancy it murt lie Japan be comes the paramount power in Asia Kvery nation of the brown races will up to as- a protector The people of Crawford and candidate condition lor reelection for West Toronto pro strong and correct thc trouble causing your I fell into a state of nervous ex the sided as chairman Alfred Hi Id red an employe of Rossin House was taken to thei all writes Mrs J Hospital Sunday suffering Stroud of I was rundown from severe wounds about the back couldnt sleep and felt perfectly amt shoulder blades through being tried was struck by elevator He was work- quickly benefitted I can recommend when it fell on him to anyone suffering from The annual show of the Toronto overwrought nerves and sleeplessness Canary and Cage Bird Society which No tonic is better Try was concluded on Saturday night at Price at druggists Russians blew up the China of of Java and vastopol The Russians also blew up of the our own two forts near the railway before far distant of India surrendering must in her victory feci f he stirring Japan has declared absolutely that of new blood Handy to Have About the House To Ills Of All Family By Using a pin many needs In time is a wonderfully good thing and saves a fitof sickness Every person young or old a little help often to put their systems rifcht If theres Biliousness Constipation or Indigestion a dose of PILLS will generally set things right Sick Headaches are cured as If by charm and you will SAVE EXPENSE and be enabled to enjoy many a pleasure heretofore made impossible PILLS make life worth living by putting your system in condition to enjoy it Any trouble arising from of the organs of digestion and secretion is quickly set right If you use Prepared only by the Proprietor Thomas St Helens England Everywhere in Canada and In boxes cents they knew that to them the gates of death were but entrance to the- glory Nine convicts day last week made a break for liberty from the Prison at Seven were riddled with bullets three of are dead and three arc in a critical condition Tho scholars No The British Government will equip army immediately with bat teries of now at a cost of I want ft distinctly King their teacher Mr Jno no man can drink Intoxicating liquors Harper a very pleasant In public and remain a member of my by presenting him with a beautiful stall Coventor of Con- cabinet accompanied by an address For the King Hotel was the most successful the club has yet held Thc new management the Metro politan Railway has already given ev idence of endeavoring to cater nearer to the wants of the travelling public than its predecessors Public opin ion is impressed by the in itial innovations The electors of School Section No Township York known as Thy Plains School arc up in arms against thc methods said to have been used against candidature of Harry for trusteeship on Wed nesday last at annual election Everybody was allowed to vote whe ther their names were on the voters list or not and whether they resided in thc school section or not The poll was kepi open for an long er titan allowed by the statute A public meeting is to be called by Mr friends to protest the election St Andrews Presbyterian Church will hold anniversary services Jan aixl On Sunday Rev McMillan of Toronto will preach morning and evening On Monday evening tea will be served in of the church followed by a lecture His Honor the held a reception at Government House on New Years Day Thc vis itors were numerous Recent investigation has convinced the the Provincial Secre tarys Department that illegal mar riages are becoming common among poorer class of Jews In Toronto and steps arc being taken to amend law with a view to trying to stop these practices Tho of Ontario formally new Elliott Home Daniel Thompson a painter stricken with heart failure early Thursday morning An effort was made to him to the General Hos pital In thc ambulance but he died on vay Within a few yards of his home at street on Monday night Foreman James Fulton of the water works department was attacked by highwayman and brutally beaten thieves got his gold watch a small sum of money Gong of House Thieves Mounted Police in Alberta Made Good Haul a T Dec months past settlers in southern Al berta have been by thieves to such an extent that NorthWest Mounted Police have sta tioned patrols along boun dary in thc North- West Territories and in Manitoba a detachment of pro vincial mounted police has been form ed for the sole purpose of guarding against these invasions Sergt Pipher has just rounded up a gang of horse- thelves consisting of seven Indians and three white men TMs gang has been stealing horses and selling them to three Frenchmen at per fowl These Frenchmen re cently arrived from the United Stated and settled In Pincher Creek and dis posed of stolen horses In tho United States and British Columbia whole have been arrested and with them was found a band of which had been stolen from Canadian farmers Thc men are being held to their trial on one of most serious charges that can be laid against them In NorthWest BO R Family Wheres Shes up In her studio hand snow shovel Wheres Gladys In the library Wheres Clarice in parlor playing planner Wheres Up in her boudoir curlln hair And ma Maw kitchen bunch Ob maws down In gcHtln dinner for her the the J