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v Save Your Eyes The of the land do not protect you from quack spectacle pedlars Protect yourself by deal ing with resident and qualified opticians We can fit you properly No fancy prices WATSONS Store The Era gives more home news every week than any two other papers in North York combined and is acknowledged to be the Leading County Paper twite TERMS per annum n00 if paid in ad J150 to the United States sent York unless No Paper sent outside of North York unless paid la advance plenty of good ones to choose from THEY AJXGUAR- I ANTEED See our Windows Matchmaker and Graduate Optician W3JS5 r JACKSON Editor and Proprietor JACKSON AssistaatEditor Jan 27 1 I I I No Single Copies each Toronto better A Day of Good Tidings Say Automobile to a real uptodate skater and hell tell you that the name stands for the best in the Canadian skating world for topnotch quality for the lightest and most serviceable skate insuring great strength and durability Model Aluminum top up other skates fiom A new tariff scale is being prepared governing taxicabs motor cars and horse cabs In quite a number of in stances the rates have been lowered A deputation waited upon the pro vincial Secretary last week and urged the need- of amendments to the liquor evening license act in order to make more its enforcement in local option municipalities Heavier penalties and increased power to search for li quor also the placing of j lity on owners for the sale of liquors by tenants and an amendment to force a person found intoxicated in a local option municipality to disclose where the liquor was obtained were among the changes sought The new organ just placed on the Metropolitan Methodist Church is said to be the finest and most com plete church musical instrument in the world Her Excellency Countess Grey ami Lady Sybil Grey were entertained at Government House in this city for a couple of flays last week This day is a day of good tid ings and we hold our peace if we tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us 1 Following is a synopsis of Rev J Simpsons sermon last Sunday came to pass in the days of the prophet that d ad made war against Israel and went up and Sa maria And in consequence there was dire distress and suf fering in the city many having to resort to cannibalism in order to sustain their lives Under the stress of such extreme suffering appeal was made to the prophet who predicted that with in twentyfour hours there should be Canada In due time they reached Canada crossed the continent pass ing through Winnipeg and still West ward till they reached Edmonton They were still miles from their destination How to get there was the problem They inquired for the railroad There was they were told how about the river route There was none Then how about the stage route That too was lacking Finally in carts and wag gons they started out in that tedious journey across the virgin prairie and after weeks of- hardship and toil reached their mecca merely a post driven into the ground They built their shacks pitched their tents and started in to reclaim the soil Thus was a town born in a single day Hut Messrs Mackenzie and Mann had watched that immigration with keenest Interesting Letter from Alberta To the Editor the Era Our of Alberta central is a wonderful country for farming or ranching as it is well supplied with numerous lakes and ponds and there are nice frequent showers Last sum mer being unusually dry the grass did not advance fast and still abun dance of it was to be had for hay It is settling up fast Four years ago practically- none settled around our burg but today all homesteads are taken and very few but have- com fortable houses and outbuildings and getting themselves in shape for pros perity The most of these arrived in Alberta with little means like my self but are getting along fine- Last spring was early No snow on the 25 YEARS AGO a From Era Jan 23 plenty of provisions for every man plans were being laid for a rail- woman and child the doomed city J to reach that new North conn- That same night God caused the try By and by the line was finish- army to hear a great poise Jed miles from Winnipeg stretching NorthWest into the rich est and almost that little band first of March and seeding commenc- settlers bad reached their destina- e shortly after The prospects were good until the middle of growth of Every skate tested before it leaves the factory and is guaranteed breakage for one year Automobile Hockey Sticks will stand the test PHONE HARDWARE NEWMARKET ONT I A valuable horse was burned to death in a Street fire some nights ago Members of the Ontario Legislature before taking their seats in the I House this week had to take the oath of allegiance to King George It may be near Easter before Toronto celebrates the inauguration of the HydroElectric system Rather a singular coincidence that during the week of the greatest in terest in the ChapmanAlexander re vival here came particulars of the as of an approaching multitude and taking hold of them they arose est farming you pick up and fled in the night leaving all their tents arms and provisions Now it so happened that dwelling outside the city of Samaria were four leprous men suffering in common with their fellowcitizens the awful pangs of unsatisfied appetite And the lep- one to another Why sit we here until we die If we go into THE Assets 50000000 This Hank makes a specialty of col lecting Farmers Sale Notes or if will advance the money to them at lowest rales NEWMARKET BRANCH F FIELD MANAGER i- grain and it turned rather dry Some grain did not do as well as others but the people that rolled their land came out all right We country in Canada if had a fine fall Most of the- fall the time table of the plowing was done in this locality and It tod3y you will find j wc summer A great on that line from Winnipeg to many shipped from here to Toronto The P almost other eastern markets Prices paralleled the with another ranged from to live and miles of track and another some reaching with such a stations Lastly came the good demand that they are miles of track and an- so to a reduced rate Cattle other stations Now some of ranching out until city yonder we shall die of fa- these stations are merely stations j and we had very little mine if we go over yonder to in most cases they are villages inch or a trifle more till the Syrians we shall probably he put J and towns and some of them will be f to a cruel death but they will at cities in a year or two Hut my a was found he- least give us food let us go to the point is simply new feed hay Syrians towns settled by people from over j j no thistles went They the seas started Into being without potato bugs or turnip lies At cold going below zero for a I their arms with Christian church The Government as the airMs dry and s Going in- will supply the former but we the suffering did likewise Christian people of older Canada has of coal handy so they arose and Farmers Bank wreckage few days In the police court he the public school and the as was assessed or three months in the Syrians Central Prison to Travers of the Farmers has made an assignment of his personal property to the Hank liquidator Al ready had been received from his estate and it is expected more would be realized A man named Daniel Harrington was found dead on the P track near Gore Street crossing holding a lighted lantern in his hand He had Then one more thoughtful than the as he looked at the city of Sa maria and thought of all the suffering and distress there said Brethren we do not well This day Is a day of good tidings for us and we hold our peace if we tarry till the morning light some mischief must at least help in supplying the can to mine and the latter cost does not exceed four or six dol- having nothing to fear from a coa Alberta The the people who come from the Brit- Alberta are given Isles but from the and ffheat oats to barley feed seed a Asiatic Immigrants we have much to fear Their social customs are not ours their commercial standards are will come upon us Come and let I different their moral standards an us tell the kings household I different and the real vital question I There are two parties concerned in today is Shall we elevate them were incident I A starving suffer- shall they drag us down Shall fall wheat 125 potatoes a bushel butter to eggs Hie dozen turnips heels t f t onions lb cows each at a 01 j There are two parties concerned in today is Shall we elevate them pork members he amly were other- lncl starving suffer- or shall they drag us down Shall 5d live wise engaged he slipped out of tie M A I chrislia them or shall they Pi renewal of my taking a lighted The us This world of tlie Bra spot where the was found a from many yards from his home He believed lh l11 people annually pouring l editor and his have dropped dead from llu illUl Canada The question is Can a Wy prosper- of provisions left by the Syrians we assimilate them These rejoicing in all Samaria people in due lime become citizens COCIIMAN P W PEARSON Try a Ton of Pea Coal In your Range and gave It starts quicker and lasts longer than larger OK SASH MOULDINGS TRIM ALWAYS ON HAND South End Lumber Yard Phone or give ordure to J Bowman J Murphy to Toronto is surrounded by the worlds fresh water supply crystal fluid clear and beautiful has been strurk at a depth of 170 feet between Richmond and Queen- Word has been received here by the Secretary of the Laymens Mission ary Movement of an interesting ban quet held at Port Simpson BC at which about 100 Indian men I I LABOR IS dians to the foreigners coming our shore 1 For us as a Canadian people this is indeed a day of good tiding the tables being spread and waited epcr8 of treasures fet us look at ours Territorially Cod has been good to us map of whfel two cars on last Friday night young man residing on Wellington si was nearly killed tmftna iui country is In miles from Sidney to and about there was rejoicing in all Samaria I people in due lime become citizens and the gaunt specter of famine as a natural consequence they appeared j will send their own representatives l Using this Old Testament story Parliament The balance of a setting the preacher went on will soon lie west of the Great point out our responsibility as Lakes and then IIicm men today to I Immigrants tomorrow citizens will make laws for us The world stands today watching a nation being cast in the moulds The teaching of the language is fundamental but we must never forget that papa say is sweet You Need a Good Overcoat Every Man Does ft for protection from the cold an1 appear- would to show you we are you We them for their beauty their durability and their warmth We expect you to cbopce for the same that you will he proud Sir vote given purchase WILLIS PHONE MAIN on by Indian women Surely the millenfunr IS appro flCllIng As a result of being lammed Im Street no ft by side with the map Canada and you discover that in area Canada is large enough for a dozen from a fracture of the skull and a f deep gash on the right cheek and is not expected to recover that partially destroyed the home of Mr Indian ltd at an early hour Saturday morning was responsible lor death to the South of us has a population of over we have only about and no lest than per cent of the area of I the In the Dominion of da a legal firm here were in New on Saturday advising with does unless the foundations of nationhood papa hire a man to miles from boundary to the Arctic Ocean have- a country as large as the led States plus Alaska hut while are laid in righteousness ami Codli- hv mj stability It is bow or never This is the stra tegic moment- In every loWH village hamlet and rural there should DC provisionH made Christian preaching and teaching If I heard day that labor We Mamma So it is Reggie Then mamma why papa looks on Hie oth- on the veranda and only and her three child ren ihe started from a gas jet or defective furnace Mr Brooks away in Chicago A city paper says two member of And best United States tarry about this business some mischief come Unit- Twenty years the these boys tie men It will too late for weal and for woe the national character and national ideas will have been lived Come then and let us Jell them the glad tidings of salvation through Jesus Christ LOOKING SVMIATIlV Greenhouses 8t Carnations Srnilax i I A dentist may not be a society man but he In right at home a drawing room Montreal fan the Chief of Montreal seized a of canned eggs from China a time ago Valued at id the Board of Control ordered that rot a taxi can sold In the city 1h were to remove the rott en the cold storage but if there J delay the cans be An experiment was to how the vere to health A guinea pig was with a of the mixture with and died two Children TOR FLETCHERS A jWishart the broker with re gard to possible return to ana- da give himself Up face charge of conspiring with ir to steal from the Hank in a fit of Jealousy an Italian nam ed was seriously if not fatal by another Italian named act age A pretty Italian maiden only years age caused the stab bing A man on the Union building corner of King and Streets on Saturday last fell a of twelve feel and was picked up unconscious The Officers New York recently discovered that pure sharks with aniline being Bold In that smoked salmon In Toronto at one wholesale grocery a lot of guar anteed fresh eggs were found to he over months old resulted In finding out that the eggs were sold to a country huckster as packed who in turn sold them to a market dealer a strictly fresh eggs A lawsuit may follow Mrs of Tape Ave on night went shopping having a lamp on the table burning An hour later a young man passing saw In tbe front room The lamp had exploded and be young man the out before the firemen arriv ed The body Henry Walter Bel by drowned In Athabasca on August last reached Toronto on Monday and buried in Mount Cemetery had liCen engaged In survey the past ten yean In the On his return journey on his last expe dition he Mr Walter ion of the Observatory staff shortly before the accident- r of all most of- ibis great country Is and rich na tural resources Our rive with fish our rocks are iron and Cop per our mountains- are full of coal our northern forests are almost exhaustible while our wheat fields I are the greatest in he world The great problem confronting our legis lators today Is not how to feed the people nor how to find employ men I for them but how shall our products he transported to the markets of the world Foreign countries have to realize our strategic ages and today the eyes of the whole world are turned towards Can ada I It Is a day good tidings lor us in a sense The people of this Dominion have In Savings Banks at present over marketed last year I Wood worth Will worth worth Minerals worth 76000eoO Crops worth 250000000 fiie dangerand It Is a very real one In connection with our Immi gration probTcm It Is not to be sup posed with all our advantages of cli mate and Situation and natural re sources arid form of government with our immense country and compara tively small population that we should not attract the attention of the people In densely crowded Coun tries of the Kant many of them ground under the heel of an autocra tic government It Is not at all Wonderful that the IWe Immigra tion should commence to flow to wards our shores This fs us it should bo want Immigrants but we also want to be able to them as fast as they come The problem van actually thrust upon us a few years ago when that band of souls embarked at Liverpool for the Promised Land AM The lawyer was drawing up old Fur rows will upon hereby bequeath all my property from todaywhen to dirt a ted the to my wife dictated the son soil Jot that Yes answered the lawyer On condition that she marries again within a year The legal light sat back But why he asked wan I The annual meeting of North York Agricultural Society elected the fol lowing officers for the current year President J 1st Vice-Pres- James Rogers 2nd Vice Jackson Directors John Rogers J A Reynolds John Randall Andrews James Way ling and E Jackson Auditors J Collins and J A King Society elected Perry President and Irwin Secretary Mr and Mrs Clark Playter of Pine Orchard leave on Monday to visit relatives in Kansas The following gentlemen came up from Toronto on Saturday to attend the funeral of Frank Rev P Rose Esq and Messrs Roche Walt Crone Fred and also Mark Esq of Bradford The winter term of the Newmarket High School commences with While on his way home from market the other day along the Ha- Road Henry found a note and very honorably brought it to this office to find the real owner Eggs went up to cts per dozen this week and butter to per lb Happy days years ago Quite a flutter of excitement at St Pauls Church Newmarket last Wed nesday morning when the matrimo nialknot was tied between Miss Ag nes Sharpe and Mr Townlcy At the annual Bible Society meet ing the following officers were elect ed President I I Wismer Vice- President Joseph Millard Secretary J A Sangster Treasurer J C Robertson Committee Prettic ft Lehman J Millard Richardson J J Pearson J P Belfry R J Davi son Charles Webb and Lewis 50 YEARS AGO From Era Kyle Feb The annual meeting of the North York Agricultural Society last Sat urday elected the following officers President Alfred Stevens 1st Vice Eves 2nd Pearson Jackson Treasurer Directors Evans John Nixon P Francis Smith Robert Norman ami Reuben Powell A public reception and dinner to Hon Adam Wilson MP for North York is announced to take place on the of Feb A paragraph says Our young townsman A Ramsay has pnS3Cd the final examination before the the Law Society in a manner which reflects credit on him self and also oil our excellent School teacher Mr S A Mar ling J W Collins clerk of Whitchurch and J Stokes Clerk of give notice tlbt per sons desiring tavern or shop licenses in these municipalities must make application to the respective Councils on the huh fast ttmSf I The story goes that In the recent Presentlnl election campaign in the States a Republican orator concluded his speech with the an nouncement that he would Ik- glad to answer any argument put forward by the other side An old IrishAmerican el 1 en ac cepted the challenge Eight years ago he Said they told us to vote for Bryan an wed be prosperous did vote for Bryan and been so pros perous in all me an now to vole for him again Because was lu reply homebody In be A A A died AN UNPPRTUNATK VACANCY just six had been going to kindergarten and enjoyed very the little motfonsongs tanght there She was very enthusiastic at learning all the words but one day she realized that try as might she Could make her voice with hose of the other child ren Thoroughly disheartened she ran home to her mother and with a sigh said Oh mamma I dont know what I do Im so full of words but so empty of I Edna I- Allen In Womans Home Companion THAN MONEY Does wealth houses lands hank stocks 1 1 road bonds etc alone Ve think not The young wan starting In with no money but With good good sleep good health and ability to work in son profitable employment has the aged capitalist would no willing to ex change all his millions for What compensation is money lor sleepless nights and painful A hair dressing that will make It luxurious and fascinating Guaran teed by J Today every woman has radiant hair why Because she is ever on the alert to chase the Dand ruff gerrn Broughlons Hair Tonic carries sure and certain death to the germ and is the one reliable remedy thaf will eradicate it There Is no reason why any person should fall to take advantage of this I offer as we have such confidence in I this Hair Dressing that we arc will tell ihnii when SomuUmis church services etc an Interrupted by the people cough ing and siieeIng A doctor suggests that you can prevent a cough or ftnecze when you feel it coming by your upper lip firmly under your To stop hiccoughs press your cheek Just In front of your car The explanation that the pressure on the nerves at these points stops the spasmodic action of the muscles which causes the cough sneeze or hiccoughs as the ease may be misconduct of dissipate children Which brings the greater happiness lint glitter show Jealousies and falsity of fashionable life or I be heartfelt friendship which prevail largely In homes tin in dustrious poor in how many of the palaces of cur millionaires will you And greater In the parlor than In the kitchen How many mllllOnaln they are happier they started In life without a of mountains we find rock and ice and snow It down in valley that find vino- yards no man envy those richer than until taking all thing Into account age home friends- he Is sure he would be willing to ex change To clean mother of pearl wash it with whiting and cold water Avoid soap which discolors it and desjroy the brilliancy the shall- I pared to refund cost same ffViSfciTStOP throat and fifty cents to any one not satisfied with It A large bottle for cents at Broughlon Drug Store and your money back if It does not give satis faction i A Woman Ottawa Jan 22 a fire broke out this evening at the corner of and and raged for three hours before being got under control doing dam age Niagara Kails Jan About midnight the Wylles boarding house at St Da vids which formerly a hotel were awakened by the light glare without The fire quickly spread tho occupants escaping In night attire Soma leaped the windows but none were Injured The village has no waterworks system and assistance was summoned from here The old hotel- building and adjoining barn were totally destroyed In tho barn which was afire when the occupants of the house awoke were our horses and a cow burned to death- The rest of the live stock was rescued cause of the lire unknown m