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Newmarket Era , November 17, 1899, p. 1

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F V gives week Sk cdinjijfc Leading Paper 1 si INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER PAG to Una to utter and freely according to all lihorty No paper sent outside of paid in advance XfcVIIL No Copies Cents Newmarket Ont Friday Nov 1899 Tshmb annum I if paid in advance The The perfect Stove for Wood or Deal An Ornament to any Kitchen The tot J of 1 Bakers and easily managed A few of our many customers who have purchased above range and will to its excellent Saving A Mr King Mr Beamish Newmarket Brown Pine Orchard J Newmarket J Morning Newmarket Mrs McLaughlin Newmarket Mrs Miller Newmarket C Wright Newmarket Courtney K Mr Albert Starr Albert Traviss Newmarket G A Newmarket Mr Richardson Newmarket J Hoag Newmarket Silas Glubine Newmarket J Matthew Brown Newmarket Mr J Newmarket Mr Mutt Sharon Thompson Holland Landing Mrs Forsyth Newmarket Mrs Shanks Newmarket Reid Dunham Henry Newmarket C Oliver Newmarket John Newmarket A Newmarket Ed Willis Newmarket Mr Newmarket C C Webb Newmarket Miss Hill E Jackson Newmarket Andrew Ego Newmarket John Newmarket Geo Newmarket Newmarket lira Canada bo England liotfe VY J POLLOCK Not by command wo Our sons in Englands cause Nor do our- valiant soldiers Now- seek worlds applause Hut tis wo Old England soa Our Who makes her children No selfish aims of glory Amid fray Our loyal sons are seeking On Africas shores today But tin because wo lov- her Our Englands Queen noblest Queenly mother world has ever seen No foe the tie shall Hover binds our- hearts as And each strong endeavor Our deeds for her are done And tie because wo love her famous Queen Queenly mother world has ever seen Our bravo Canadian heroes Will moot English foe And Englands honor In of weal or woe And wo dove Old England Our good old English mother Who makes her children man lulled by the A Metropolitan Railway Company trolley struok a waggon in which John Charlton wasdriving across at Bedford Park last Friday night and Charlton was killed The car caroo down grade above Hogs Hollow at a high rate Motorrnan An drew Webster did not Charlton until ho had on to the track The latter had just loft Walter Pal mers hotel and was prevented from seeing the car by the darkness He was thrown a dis tance along the road waggon was smashed and the horses ran away he picked up and carried in to ike hotel it was found that he had sustained a fracture of skull a broken- leg and numerous other inju ries Dr A Paul of New York who was passenger on toe car and Dr Bond of York Mills both examin ed the dying man but they could do nothing to save hie life Mr Charlton was an unmarried man and leaves a mother and two brothers His farm on the town line be tween York and He at tended Episcopalian Church at and Was well known through out the county He was about fifty years of age When Baby hod Head- When hod Salt Rheum hod Piles -xox- to Front London Nov The first of the army corps transports the Castle Arrived at Capo Town yester day andwas immediately ordered to Durban lEho bombardment of was on Tuesday but no dam- ago was done Duller that nearly hundred officers and men wound the fight sent into under flag of nice Lord speaking at Mayers banquet last night announo that an order had been for the mobilization of an army division strong to proceed to Africa Lord Salisbury in his speech at tho Nov The two latest despatches from publish ed by War this morning show that tho center of interest has been transferred from Natal to border of the Orange State It would seem from these despatches that the Boers arc moving towards the Orange River bridge key of the British campaign now held by Col Kincaid one of Kitcheners vet- and bristling with artillery Gen message indicates that the were advancing towards the bridge and that Col KeithFalconer who was unfortunately killed yester day headed a to ascer tain their strength The fact that Northumberland Fusiliers and the fl Punning Doubtless the female punster a guest at a dinner party where a bishop was present recalled to tho prelate Dr Holmes remark People that puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks By the way said the do you know that there are times when it is dangerous to enter an Epis copal Church What is that madam said the bishop with great dignity straighten ing himself up in his chair I say there ire times when it is positively dangerous to enter the church she replied That cannot said the bishop Piay explain madam Why said she it is when there is a canon in the readingdesk a big gun in the pulpit when the bish op in his clergy the choir is murdering the anthem and the organ ist is trying to drown the choir Baltimore Hun Rock of Ages HOW THE FAMOUS HYMN CAME WRITTEN TO BE That farcoug hymn Rock of Ages was by Rev Augustus Top- lady an Englishman born in 1740 and curate for a number of years of subsequently vicafrcf Broad Devonshire ana for some time editor of the Gospel Magazine of ho- Tnplady came to write the hymn is as follows H Wills a member of parlia ment in a letter to the London Times writes that was time walking through when he was a thunder storm There no shelter near he took refuge two immense stone which were part of a range of hills the neighborhood and while awaiting the end of the storm be wrote nearly the entire hymn has made his famous is a deep inden ture in a forbidding hill which has long been known under the title of the Black Down and stretches its rooky height 1000 feet or more toward the azure of heaven A winding road leads along the precipitous sides the hill and here and there the rocky formation- of the height shows clearly through the undergrowth At one point a upward of 100 feet in height stands out conspicuously and in the center of this is a fissure in which Toplady sought protection from the storm This fissure is the cleft which suggested the first line of the hymn It was this hymn which was translated into Latin by Mr Glad stone died in and years afterward a tablet to his mem ory was placed upon that rock which the hymn made immortal Discovery of the Telescope DURBAN THE CHIEF PORT OF NATAL England Is landing most of her troops at Durban from which a railroad runs north to cap ital Natal Newcastle and latter being near the Transvaal border Sole Agents the Celebrated Grand Jewel Cook Stoves The Farmers Favorite HARDWARE PAINTS GLASS Price is not everything Quality and Price go hand in hand with us AND If you will dt oaite in Bank each month what we save you in price you will cover bo Broke See our Fall and Winter Dry Goods See our Fresh Family Groceries Seeour Boots and Shoes Which wo make a specialty of f BUY BE SATISFIED COME AGAIN HI WILL J Ointment gave quickest relief and surest cure These are of truth picked from testi mony which is given every day to this greatest of healers It has never been matched in curative qualities in any and every kind of skin disease eczema tetter skin eruptions blind bleeding itching or ulcerating piles scalds burns old sores etc etc and its cents a box Sold by Lehman Pharmacy Newmarket Detroit Nov George A of Chicago a nephew of Presi dent Kruger of the Transvaal Repub lic and Miss Bertha Buck of Chicago were married at Sandwich yes terday The grooms age was record ed as and the brides as That he should travel several hundred miles to be married on British soil at a time when Great Britian is endeavouring to put Uncle Paul out of business young Kruger explained by savin that he was anxious to avoid the that would be given to his marriage by the Chicago papers which would get their tip from the publication of their license The Health Worldh Magazine written plainly for the homo showing how to prevent and cure diseases of the human frame No post free has on how to be beauti ful how to cure rheumatism lumbago corpulence consumption gout diseases of men and women deafness and head noises the hair St London same banquet ridiculed the idea of European intervention adding that Britain would not tolerate it The transport Persia with a squad- of the Dragoons and munitions of war reached St Vincent Cape Verde Islands yesterday in a dis abled condition In a brilliant action around Coleneo on Sunday last two companies of the Dublin Fusiliers beat off the enemy entered the town and succeeded in seizing and taking to four waggons of ammunition and provisions The Basutos are reported to have risen against the Orange Free State A Transvaal emissary visited the paramount chief of tho to ask what he intended doing Lerothodi took visitor to him a large por trait of the Queen saying That is our mother Whan the mother fights all the sons fight too The War Office mobilizing a siege train composed of howit zers eight and eight 4inch guns with travelling carriages and rounds of lyddite and cordite shells The 6inch guns will have a range of yards Eleven hun dred and thirtysix officers and men supplied with rounds of small- arm ammunition will accompany tho train The armament is now being issued from Woolwich and part of it has al ready forwarded to for shipment to South Africa This will be the first employment of a siege train by an Euro pean army and the progress of the re duction of forts by lyddite shell fire a preliminary to storming by infantry North Lancashire Regiment ventured more than over the bridge reaching a point near Belmont close to the Free State border and on the railway running towards is proof that the Boers are in great strength near the bridge Cape Town Nov The message has been received from PL to Physicians From the Cleveland Plain Dealer A case which is causing much in terest among the local men of medi cal profession is that of Smith Can- field of No Wabash street who was injured by falling down the Col Kimberley Nov mi corner of Wood and St Clair wounded are progressing sat qd Two unarmed natives e CIeveland EJectric have been shot by the at Alex- lUamin Co at the time of the The conservancy post cident fe to the south of reservoirs He has been missing since Nov It is taken to Charity hospital where supposed to have by the he is confined and the changes Boers Browne of Beaconsfield taken place in his case is ridden beyond the barriers remarkable day is missing It- is supposed he For four days after Canfield was captured The situation other wise is unchanged London Nov Tho latest news from Kimberley and shows that the Boers recently made desper ate but unsuccessful attacks on both places At Mafeking the enemy lost killed A number of transports arrived at Capo Town on Saturday and were or dered to Durban where a strong na val brigade has been landed Hugh Knell was killed at Berlin Ont by an elevator falling Already six applications for di vorce have been filed at Ottawa for the next session of Parliament About tons of exhibits for Paris will Montreal on Saturday mm next A further consignment will be will be watched with interest and shipped from Portland on December osity by all professional soldiers Nov 11 General White makes the grave that the Boer artillery deliberately fired upon a number of refugees and a small escort coming into under a flag of truce The Boors investing have been reinforced by men and have succeeded in corralling about 25000 of stock belonging to was in tended for the sustenance of the 1st It is reported at Ottawa that paper mill is to be located on the Gati- to bo the largest in the world and emplpy workmen British capital is behind the enterprise The Department has again found it necessary to call the attention of postmasters to the im portance of effectually cancelling post age stamps on letters posted at their respective offices was taken to the hospital he uttered not a word nor in fact did he even make a sound After that he began in an in coherent way to make utterings but no words were audiable For over a week he took no food nor drink the of the throat being paralyzed Gradually the patient began to improve and with his gain in strength he became able to eat and drink and to speak but his words were unintelligible At first he did not know his wife nor any of his friends but his wife see ing him frequently he began to recog nize her As a test he was asked where he lived and in a sort of a stupor he answered that he did not know To the question as to what his name was he replied after a mo ments hesitation and when asked as to whether or not he was married he said he was recognized his wife but could not tell where nor when married It is said that had he been told to do anything even bo ridiculous as to stand on his head he would have acted on the suggestion and without any consideration have followed it The patient however ia now much improved and his faculties are com ing back to him He talks well and at times can think and remember Dr who is the for the company for which Can- field was employed when asked about the case would not at In the year says the New York two children were play ing in the garden of the queer old town of Zealand They were the children of Janeen the spec taclemaker of town and had tak en while their fathers back was turn ed some little pieces of crystal from bis table to play with in the garden Tired of playing they sat under one of the tree3 to rest One of the little ones placed a piece of the spectacle- makers glass before his eye and then held another piece some distance from him looking through both at the same time Suddenly he called to his brother Come look here I have brought the mountains nearer Sure enough as his brother looked through the glasses the mountains seemed to be much larger than without He could even see the trees on the other side Quickly running to his father the old he call ed him to come and see the magic they had found that had made thing3 bigger The father the import ance of the discovery and began to ex periment with them He found that if the glasses were covered with a tube and then arranged so that they could be slid together and opened to same distance apart he could plainly dis tinguish objeots a great distance off He immediately set to work to make an instrument He teles cope twelve inches long and sent it to Prince Maurice and also another to Duke Albert both great warriors of that Duke Albert however fear ed that it would not be well tor the world if such things came into it and commanded him to make no more tele scopes He did however and the great in strument which today shows us the movements of the stars and is of the greatest benefit to sailors and in fact to all men was steadily improved Sir Isaac Newton invented many years after the reflecting telescope which makes it po3dible to look at the sun through the instrument and many great scientists have brought the in strument to its present almost perfect But the first telescope was discover ed and all the great discoveries that have come from it were made possible by two little children playing in a gar den with pieces of glass The Napanee carriage factory was destroyed by fire on Sunday morning Lady Aberdeen was a passenger on the Campania sailed from York Saturday- Queen contributed 000 and Prince of Wales to the Transvaal war fund

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