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Newmarket Era , December 23, 1898, p. 1

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re home every week than any two other pa t combined and will be sent to new subscribers till January for i f c NORTH YORK INTELL mo liberty to know to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all other liberty AND ADVERTISER 8 PAGES No paper Bent outside of North York paid in advance Vol XLVll No IB Single Copies agents Each Newmarket Friday 2 Terms 126 per annum if paid in advance for HOCKEY Spring Skates pair Hockey Skates pair Hockey Sticks BODY STRINGS SHAFT GONGS TEAM BELLS ETC AW Maple Leaf Premier Toledo Blade Celebrated Axes warranted GENERAL TlNSMITHING A Repairing Promptly Done NEWMARKET Many thanks to our customers far and near for the generous support of the past year We look forward with bright hope and trust the fu ture to be full of prosperity for us all Compliment of the and Happy Returns J McFarland DENTAL ft I Dentist Post Blocks opposite the Church Air for fiatifiac RogePB Resident Dentin Aurora 8uccoor to late residence A Dr P Dentist will he at of Dr Porter Brad- ford every Mon of Voice and Violin Tuner of Pianos all String What is Scotts Emul sion It is the best codliver oil partly digested and com bined with the hypophos- and glycerine What will it do It will make the poor blood of the anaemic rich and red It will give nervous energy to the overworked brain and nerves It will add flesh to the thin form of a child wasted from It is everywhere acknowl edged as The Standard of the World and ft all p T1 si Ml Jffi to What do you want the continued throng Icrow sin- heard cry ami turn- aw a child standing as if con futed by lite wd sobbing bitterly was without fiat or shiver ing with cold her long fair hair streaming in the wind and except occasional licntleumii on his way from holiness looked at her and lost child seemed unnoticed by the careless w m fi At length a tall grim looking lady stopfwd and asked the of her fi i m tinning to Jack Jack stammered out his request How can you be so cross Maggie said little May Dont yon see Ibei Mydv ran out sob- jioor little boy is perhaps j to And she went toward he went and ow J cant find my way always have a fancy for a replied the nurse What tmh would in the In J SB And where home the child was too frighten and confused to any idea only knew she in a home by park ami nothing definite could 1 drawn from he mi I do you supose your mamma Come its time to go house May stood for a moment looking at Jack turned hastily away and was walking very fast down the street I Then she broke suddenly from t her nurses detaining hand Humph said the My some after him given over to the care I dont believe voud steal at all j tor it but she said breathlessly as she overtook l1ie of the nearest him you look like a good and policeman 1 like you I am sorry Maggie scold- seemed to strike the little girl but never mind she dont mean fmli and she broke out faaif she says Til have to go back into wild cries of Tarn not now for shes calling but if youll I will not no with a police- What a cant think of it now I have- come some day when mamma is home and darting out into the street any shovel and it would cost half shell give you work And here put- j would certainly have been trampled Brought any as much as the shawl is worth to get one ting hand into her coat pocket and down by the horses if Polly had not bringing out a silw piece l papa caught her nothing gave it to me last and I want Polly St ft figures- a boy But pursued Polly nothing gave it to me last and I want Polly took oft her shawl and wrap- ami a girl stood daunted couldnt you borrow one you to take and buy yourself it around the shivering child looking wistfully in- these great mmses and do the shovel She was toothed for Polly ton shop window work for half price know you Such a vision of childish loveliness i made up her mind to her as a stormy day could Oh Jack Im sure well the Utile face the big brown mother advice as to what was the ami th were the shawl eyes beaming with sympathy looking heat to do She lifted her in her arms clothed the boy Thats an idea said the more out from a framework of golden curls and staggered across the street but without an over- liberate Jack I never once dazed for a moment and the burden was heavy ami the walk the girl thought of it Suppose Polly you took mechanically the cents she with only a thin shawl pinned me your broom it will look as out to him around her shoulders They seemed however so absorbed by the contents of the window as to be quite ttneon- had something and I dont like to take your money take my pins and sell as many as you said yon will want to use can it yourself No more of the weather and were talk- The arrangement was sen made Ma shook her curly head ring eagerly j Polly was duly instructed us to the j I wont papa will give me There was indeed everything there price of the pins nd having appoint- night and to delight a childs fancy and make jed the shop window for a Here tin Mis May Miss i it seem unlikely Santa Clans pa- meeting the children separated May grew nearer and neater and could more won- i Polly going in the direction of a I derfni great woolly horses and roughfare Jack to begin his labors in a I tin express wagons Iressed like side street babies which net only and Somewhat shamefaced be felt as led her before the sentence was finished the nurse had reached them seized the little girl angrily by the hand and tf ii shut eyes but if you Id them in the right position said Papa and Mamma on one side a great kitchen with a doll at the making other a grocery store Christmas Bells Oh Christmas mei Christmas Is it really come With its memories ana greetings With its jov and with its pain Theres a minor in the carol And shadow in the light And a spray of cypress twining With the holly wreath tonight And the hush is never broken By laughter light and low And we listen in the starlight To the bells across the snow Victoria BC Dec The steamer Danube brings news from that fifteen or twenty people have lost their lives on the White Pass road since winter set in chiefly by ava- Dec A serious ac cident occurred in the Com panys stave factory this afternoon A young lad named Claude Brown aged son of Albert Brown who was kill ed on the new railway bridge here re cently accidently got his left arm caught in one of the heading machines and it was so badly mangled that it had to bo amputated between the wrist and the elbow The young fellow is the of a widowed mother and several small children Era with any other weekly for home news selecting the least imposing house he Jack- watched he until they filter- ascended the doorstep and rang the house and then turned bell An untidy Irish girl the attention to the silver piece It door I wouldnt buy the coveted shovel but And have you brought me all the somehow it seemed to put new full of customer- and a grocer just way tipstairs to ask that and into him and that was worth more about to sell a Christinas turkey snow falling fat she answered than moncv But the gaze of little ones indignantly Its likes of yerselfj some deliberation he decided past them and lighted on bad better be to the base- try his fortune once more and j what do you think a great heavy way and went the door street Presently black shawl which you might have supposed had been put there as a back ground for all the if it had not had a pricemark twelve shillings Its no boy we money as that There are three whole weeks said the girl that will make just half a dollar a week twentyfive cents I apiece Oh Jack dont give it up Just think how surprised and pleased Smother will be I know it said Jack and thats into poor Jacks fact- ltsachef wooden house and This was sad discouragement with a plump took Jack several to recover aJ and at be felt very much inclined j vui n She never does anything but sew sew at that machine all day long She said it used to be such a comfort to her to go to church If only didnt just the reason I dont want to get have to ask them for a shovel I my hopes raised for nothing wouldnt care a bit what they said to But said Polly eagerly it is me I guess Ill go in here and he Christmastime now and there will be lots of people out to buy and every body feels kind and Oh dear I think you might try Jack dont see that Christmas makes people much kinder to poor folks said Jack rather bitterly its just same with us alt tho time and Im sure nobody wants to buy black pins for presents- All the I want that shawl for mother just as much as you do Polly but I like to see the way clear If I had a shovel now I could clear away snow The very thing cried Polly And here wo have a snowstorm in front of a large brick house A tiny fair haired girl was on the sidewalk playing with her nurse and a little shaggy dog The would throw a snowball and the child and dog ran after it shouting and barking I so much in one day Very small her turn a bright silver dime Success brings success the neigh luring sidewalk was ready for him at the same price but it was pitchlark and long after the time appointed to meet Polly before he finished He was almost afraid she had not waited for him but yea there she was close to the window looking for him eager ly in the crowd of passers by Polly had to take the money in her own hands and count it over several times before could realize ho earned with Jack watched the for a mo ment and then profiting by his form er rebuff stepped down into the area the dog followed and began to smell suspiciously at his heels earnings seemed five cents to lay beside such a mine of wealth but she too had had a days adventure and this is what she told Jack as they walked along Scarcely any one had heeded the I little girls voice She had become Come hero Flossy cried the child imperatitely what a bad doggy so discouraged as the afternoon wore rigit had to Rive JacMowdid it happen wo never anything wrong up go home While she was thought of that before Perhaps Flossie is a judge waiting on for a break Jack laughed For the very rca- than you Miss May said mail in steady stream of vehicles to I to the tenementhouse long so it was quite dark before she reached there Sirs Carr the childrens mother a English woman who had once filled a far different station in life and she received the little girl tender v and bade Polly out find Jack chat he might notice the different policestations at once J had better see her myself ftrst said Jack as they climbed stairs for it had taken Polly some time tell the story There am always so many lost children and they will want to know how slijb looks Did she tell you her name She says it is Fleming answered Polly and site is so pretty with curry hair and such nice clothes alt white from head to foot My I guess her mother must be rich Jack opened door Their moth er met them a caution to be quiet the little guest had fallen asleep they passed into the adjoining room and there repoaiog on an old ragged sofa Jack saw his little friend of the morning Sirs Carr and Polly were at a loss to understand his cry of pleasure much less Mays look of re cognition as she slowly opened her eyes It is the snow boy 1 she cried with delight You know where I live and oh you will take me back again to my own papa arid mamma Jack was very tired and hungry but he did not wait for the bowl of bread and milk which his mother had put on the table for him Making the necessary explanations as speedily as possible he rushed downstair and in the direction of Mr Flemings house With very different feelings from those of the morning ho ascended this the broad steps which led to the door way and sent word that he had news of the missing child The household was in great confusion servants run ning here and there in excitement for Mr Fleming had just come in from a fruitless search Are vow sure it is my little i teiF he asked anxiously when bad met Jack I can scarcely a fresh disappointment But Jacks story was verjo- Continued on

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