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The ERA gives Give us liberty to know to to argve freely fcocoxiHog above liberty No paper outside of North York unless paid in advance Copies each Friday Aug per annum If paid In advance ST I that would do for dessert Guest has come unexpectedly In some cases very but not o v when you can make any kind o ice cream three minutes in a J Peerless Iceland Freezer one Motion Patented dasher construction does away with all motions except one- the can revolves around the stationary dasher Motion is necessary in the cream i not in the machine i The cream has more motion in the Peerless Iceland than in any other freezer TheiresuH smooth icecrem During our four days stay at House our lime was fully occu pied visiting various places of inter est and feasting our eyes on the de lightful and varied mountain scenery For at least a hundred years a stone mill has been run by on homestead and we were greatly interested in the process of beating linen ready for Che market It will great ly surprise our peoplewhen we tell them that it requires a whole week with the mill running night and day to properly beat dye into black linen and put the proper gloss on the web This mill runs from C00 to yardsa week operated entirely by one man but he is an ex pert and docs the work of two with the aid of mechanical devices Saturday being market day at availed ourselves of AND HEAVY HARDWARE I V I Furnace Work Plumbing Eavetroughing and General NEWMARKET PHONE fa r a AND IS BETTER IF POSSIBLE THAN A 1 EVER V BRQUSHTON AGENTS FOR Parkers Dye Works and Canadian to Handled with Despatch office it will be delivered special messenger of charge Outside of that range there Is a small extra charge In the north of Ireland the weather rarely goes below If it should chance to- get below and put a coating of ice on the shallow ditches used to prepare the flax for market the young people think it is a great treat to get on a pair of skates We left on Monday af ternoon and our greatest surprise on arriving at Belfast the second city of Ireland with a population of was to find doubledeck street cars drawn by horses THE CITY OF GLASGOW Glasgow has long been noted for its ownership of municipal franchises The streetcar service has always ov en a good return and since was substituted for horseflesh four years ago the service has been dou bled and a corresponding In Glasgow as in all cities that we have visited tiey give the opportunity to visit he transfers but each and were surprised to crowd according to the distance ravelled and the methods of doing business j radius from the centre of The town is well laid out- with fine Glasgow is only one cent and after broad streets at right angles The the districts are one penny each main street is feet wide between nearly three miles from the sidewalks in the business centre business centre of the city for a and feet wide in other parts There are miles of double The sidewalks are of large flat track belonging to the corporation stones and the streets are of flie building devoted entirely to well rolled with a -roll- tramway has just been com er The town has a population of the chief- industries being two Glasgow as in Birkenhead and linen mills that employ from Well as the cities of hands The stores and private Ireland there are no lire hydrants to residences are very inferior to those be seen on the streets The Newmarket but the Saturday s just below a plate in the side- market brings to town between four walk and the location is designated and five thousand people and crowds a largesized cast in iron and of them remain till five oclock at fastened directly opposite whether night The principal mode of con- a building wall or fence is the heavy twowheeled I It is not true that the municipal red cart used on every farm and car- franchises pay all the taxes but they rying from two to six people Pro- relieve a great deal of burden of of these arc lined up on taxation The municipal Housing the street in front of the hotels scheme is a great thing for the Thc butter eggs and grain go to the fort of the working people There market lot at the rear of there are large blocks of stone and brick is an elevator The Market Clerk buildings four stories high all over weighs everything sold for Which he the city They contain two received a penny from each purchaser and a kitchen on each flat They and gives a check of the weight rent from a year up a tatoes cabbage and other vegetables month according to location of the are sold direct from the on ihe flats which arc reached by stairways Main Street There arc also The Municipal Building is convent- dors of all kinds of wares occupying located in a pretty square small booths on the Main Street ornamented with monuments to the One was filled with tinware another late Queen Victoria Sir Walter with ropes and halters others with Scott and statues of noted states- meat cakes and candies crocks and men and soldiers The exterior of the various other wares Each of these building is not as striking in in booths pay a license for lecture as similar buildings in other the day Our readers will no- doubt places hut it is nevertheless an interested in prices at posing structure of polished brown market which were as follows hut- stone ornamented with handsome tcr to Bid per eggs carvings about pieces of one shilling a peck beef sized statuary The interior is roasts lb- and beef steak 8d to in marble and alabaster and all the main ceilings arc arched The main staircases of Italian marble are very fine and the centre one ex tends to the fourth storey The cost of the building was There arc offices in addition to the Banqueting Hall feet and tin handsome reception rooms The floors arc Mosaic marble except the Banqueting Mall which is laid in design with pieces of wood inches long and wide The paintings on the wall this room are by the best artists of the and ltlth centuries respectfully Take it on the whole the building does not equal a Toronto City Hall which have great reason be proud J G JACKSON If people would cat plenty of rice they would not need drugs to sleep said a drug clerk A OUR our parlor crowded to at night Be cause our Cream Is of THE BEST- It la made from the purest Cream adulterated in any form Our IceCream Bricks Are like our the BEST Come and Try Them SIMPSON FARMERS SOFT GOAL FOIV per ton i I Ho Binder Twine e0 feet feet feet Portland Cement The is the beat lor rk AT lr J Huron lb On enquiry we found that most of those who owned farms had from to acres There arc a great many on rented farms of acres each of vihich has a small stone house and probably cow house attached to one end For this on an average they pay a year or less than a month One can work this farm himself nicely and can often spare a few lays to neighbors for Which he received tvo shillings a day and his food If he has a finily they all can find employment either at home or among the neighbors when not at school as there good demand for labor tenant does not have such a hard time as we are sometimes led to believe There arc National Schools all over Ireland and attend- ante Is compulsory up to a certain age The crops are looking the north Ireland Considerable is grown and is said to pay those well to take proper care with il A new experience awaiteil on Sabbath when we visited the Presbyterian Church and an oldfashioned primitive service Plain pears milky It should then be box seats no organ only psalms and soaked a few hours salted and sung led by a precentor rapidly about thirty minutes but two very flue sermons Dr When cooked In this way It can be Watson of Philadelphia a young eaten each day with and the Irishman home on a visit Person who eats it sleeps and dreams shall never forget the drive to not at all pausing for a moment in putting up a sleeping potion for a woman There is much said Just now about rice as a strengthening food but few Americans know that it has soporific powers If properly cooked it has Rice should be washed many times until the water no longer Abbie course I was an old maid anybody of Maple could have told you that and a good many would have said I was several years older than the old family bible affirmed I felt all my three and thirty years and knew that the dark little face that looked back at me so soberly from the cracked mirror them beyond question But what of that I had other things to think of than thai was an old maid- many others There was poor Susie our pet the youngest handsome reckless Noll Dasher who after a wild life of only a few years ended it in a gis and left poor Susie and her two babies lo me Nor was that all for Fred our eldest pride of out old fathers and mothers heart must marry too which was well enough only alter one brief year in his city he too grew sick and died but oh so peacefully so nobly Youll care for my wife baby Mary he said looking at me so pleadingly and I answered Yes Fred always So it isnt much wonder I looked old since only my little shop stood between us all and star vation Father and mother had become so feeble that they could only sit on either side of the chimney and talk of their trials and sorrows Susie took upon herself the care of the large household and Ive shed many a secret night thinking how wan and white she was growing our beautiful little Susie What did Freds wife do thats a sore subject no one ever said anything but Ive seen Susie shut her lips in a strange way when the lady swept in to our simple meals and never offered to soil her white hands even to Wash her own dishes or clothes Shes never been taught to work I suppose I thought poor thing Then I bent a little lower over my sewing and sat up a little later Things had gone on in this way for nearly a year until night when it was growing very late Susie came in and shut the door of my shop carefully What is it my dear I said cheerfully or there was a look on her face that troubled me Mary she said sinking down at my side and laying her pretty golden head on my knee my poor Mary and then she began to sob so pitiful ly I bad but little time to spare for knew Mrs must have her new dress by the next evening but I dropped my needle and took her in my arms and whispered What is it my darling tell me wont you Oh Mary so good so unselfish I cant bear it You arc working yourself to death for me and mine I thought and thought and planned and theres only one way I dont understand now hot your cheeks arc Youre going lo he sick I am not going to die Dont look so startled Im very wicked and foolish but I cant sec you kill yourself nor my precious children starve Im only only going to get married desperately Then I felt her whole body Yes darling but who Im going to marry Mr Caleb Susie You are mad iNo ho proposed tonight as I left the store and I accepted him thats all Why dont you congratu late me Because my darling love him Love I the views from the and tl He exceeding kindness of Mr and bis estimable family during our stay at House The mail delivery which has been In vogue for two years Is great ly appreciated in Ireland The mail is delivered in country three times a week every railway point having special carriers who travel mostly on bicycles telegraph system Is also- a great convenience For sixponce you can sen a mesiage for a trial bottle valuable of words the address being count- i I KbwStreetfc W Canada All any place In the Drltlsh Isles and resides within three miles the telegraph your Mends or relative St Vitps or Falling cant for I know oh J know you dont I loved once and got a sweet reward Yes Im in love With the old misers money thats hon est Hush Never mind sleep on it pet I must finish this dress now Mary do stop and rest you un selfish housekeeper Your burden shall be lightened Im not half as miserable as you Hut J knew what site suffered and I sighed for things had come to ft had state What with poor father down with the rheumatism and children suffering for I shoes and none of too warmly clad unless it was he lady that what Susie had called Freds wife to me more than once but I could only sigh ami remember that they were her old gowns Nevertheless it did sewn hard thai she and her baby should have the one spare room and a fire and coal so dear But la me I had promised Such a rose bud as that little cooing baby was If Id had time have cuddled it by the and strange to say the mother had called it Mary She never said it was for mo and I often wondered but never asked her for somehow all us simple folks were a bit afraid of the lady It was one dull rainy evening in February when poor Susie came to me with her pitiful story of the sac rifice she had resolved to make remember very particularly because Mrs was to have a party on the the nest night and I was hurried with her gown She came in quite early for it but the rich silk was alt finished I trembled a mite as she scanned it so closely but she found no fault what ever and paid me the five dollars for it promptly Her last words were You are looking Mary Tom would hardly recognize his old sweetheart if he could see you now You need rest my dear Do take some Then she passed out advice excellent said Su- in a hard voice and I was glad she had not noticed what Mrs Great- house said about brother I wish you had charged her fifteen instead of five Mary The dress was worth it Yes know I answered wearily but even that would not have paid all the bills and for the first time in Susies presence I broke down and cried Even as I wept softly and Susie tried to comfort me somebody en tered the little shop and bending above Susie and me dropped a letter in my great big funnylooking afrair A letter Oh Mary who would send you a letter said Susie The lady paused a moment in the shadows of room and I tore off the envelope and there fell in my lap a great lot of haul Money cried Susie money Who what docs it mean Oh heres a note Listen Dear Mary Accept a little pres ent from a loving Friend That was all We looked at each other stupidly Who could have sent it Oh Susie its a mistake I gasped No is riot The letter is sent to you and is for you I find it just one hundred dollars Im so glad I kept the money I needed it so sorely and they all said It really was mine hut I felt uneasy all the time and wondered and wondered for wc hadnt a rich relation in the world Hut even that hundred dol lars would not last forever and by and by I saw Susie looking over her old things and trying to make up her mind that the time had come when she could tell her betrothed husband that she Was ready poor little Susie Ive set the day at last she said Its to he next Tuesday Then she to sob Once more the lady entered and dropped into my lap another letter and a book What who I began vaguely as before when the lady bent over Susie and me and winding her white arms around our necks fell Into a violent lit of weeping Oh my sisters she sobbed when she could speak Do you think me blind as well as heartless i Do you think you arc to do all the work and I none Dear patient fingers and to our astonishment she kissed first my needlepicked hand and Susies chapped and toil- marked Theres the book she continued Head it when you get time I began when my husband was first taken ill I fancied I could get It done in time to help him hut I couldnt Yes he knows he must know how- glad am to be able to help those so dear to him Florence I said in wonder what are you talking about Why my hook Is there in your lap as well as money for it a portion of It I always scrib bled more or less but In a careless way until I saw the great need and then I found I could write even bet ter than I dared hope I never told because I wanted to surprise you Susie little sister dont dream of that distasteful marriage I was so afraid that it wouldnt come In time to save you And Mary tic one Ive something for you bet ter than gold found out oil about your sad love story or the quarrel I long ago and the lover In the West and I sent a little bird a mes sage- of your faithfulness your noble life and the answer came oh West Ih not very far away Im coming I wondered Susie with such a face of peace and joy as I had not seen her wear in years should startled and step back while the lady oh such a lady stood between me and tho door Suddenly she bent and kissed my hot cheek and deftly snatching the comb that held my curls so very primly as I deemed most becoming a staid old maid she fled with into the nest room and closed the door- I knew then why she had held her self so persistently before me for standing in the threshold of the out side door stood a tall man tanned and bearded I could not move would have fled loo hut I could not move The tall man smiled and approach ed me took me in his arms and whispered Is it my own little Mary And somehow in his sheltering arms I found my tongue and an swered boldly Yes Tom We call her the lady still some times for she is famous now and rich and Susie and her children live with her The old folks have a bet ter home with Fred and I cannot think they told him how we love his wife and ail the happiness she brought us So- Ad Inspector The great good of reading history or biography is to get a glimpse of men and nations doing their duty the great gain to be got from it is a deeper worship and reverence as the king and parent all human life While it is good to walk among the it is good als with the wise great good keeps out of life the dreadl of extemporaneousness wit and despair It makes us that God made other men before ho made us It furnishes a constant background our living It pro vides us with perpetual humility and inspiration Phillips Brooks An Oriental A Turkish officer of high degree some years ago visited England He did not take to England He told the English calmly and frankly that he did not like neither their ways nor themselves He was out spoken and blunt The- Prince of Wales one day sent him an invitation to the Derby What is the Derby said Pacha A horse race your excellency re plied the young nobleman who had brought the Princes invitation A race Then Ill not go said Oalib Pacha Why I All men who are not fools know that some horses are faster than others STOMACH From To Florida Has Spread Gottfried Bays following In regard to for catarrh of stomach Mr Gottfried My trouble was catarrh of and your medicine performed ft In my cso doctor consulted said I could not If in Florida Ho to read me It I had I would surely hat died I took and now again have life and energy and new flwh and blood has replaced what I loot Hon J- CongresamanH from Kanuaaj says A your medicine have given ftlrooot complete from catarrh of with which I afflicted or leas for ft century Addreaa Dr lumbal Ohio for book I till New Years for