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The ErA gives more home news every ft NORTH YORK AND ADVERTISER mo liberty to kno to and toarg froolycoording to oonsolonco all other liberty I XLVIIINo Newmarket Ont Friday Dec 10 PAGES No Bent outride of North York lining paid in advance FOB per annum if paid in advance AND lU UPPLiE PUCK STICKS Copied for the The Faded Coot of Blue My bravo lad ho sleeps in his faded coat of blue In a lonely unknown lies the heart that boat so true Ho sank faint and hungry among the brave And they laid him sad and lonely within his nameless grave I Rest noblo rest in grave known 1 Ill find you and know you among good and true When a white is given for the faded coat of blue He cried give mo water and just a litilo crumb And my Mother she will bless yon in all years to come Oh tell my sister gentle good and true That Ill meet her up in heaven in my faded coat of blue He said my dear comrades you can not me home But you It mark my grave for Mother I Shell find me if she comes I I fear shell not know me among the good and true When I meet her up in heaver in my faded coat of blue No dear one was nigh him to close his sweet blue eyes And no gentle ono by him to give him sweet replies No stone marks the sod oer my lad so bravo and In his lonely grave he sleeps in his faded coat of blue I PAINT SI oV New Cook Stoves Guaranteed www www A NEWMARKET Price is not everything Quality and Price go hand in hand with us I AND If you will in the Bank each month what we save you in price you will never be Broke See our Pall and Winter Dry Goods See our Fresh Family See our Boots and Shoes Which we make a specialty of SASKATCHEWAN AND INDIAN BUFFALO BUY BE SATISFIED COME AGAIN Kentucky Louisville Dec 99 To the Editor of the Era I enclose your one dollar for sub scription for the year We re ceive no paper that is more welcome each week than the I find that the older gets the more they de sire to refresh old associations and to know of events occurring in childhoods home Though away for many years yet it is always like news from home to read weekly record We are now having our first taste of winter- for this year Yesterday we had the first snow and ice but prospects are for still open weather In your reference to the settlement of a matter of controversy which arose in the course of the business of the Edwin Hunter Estate you gave the total value of the estate as about This is beyond the highest made by the Executors and their estimate was found to be very much beyond its true total value through reductions in land values Tho estate will probably not reach over including the value of the property reserved for Mrs Hun ter It was hardly correct to say also that Dr Hunter was managing Executor as others took an equal in terest and part in the business He did have special charge of the matter to which reference was specially made Very Respectfully Edwin Hunter powerful Id with fc JdlnCtfrMiOrt Johnston A Box Toronto llAf I If you are not a subscriber to the Ira Send for a trial trip of months Suffering in Camp From Dread Dr Catarrhal Powder Kills the Din- ease Germs and Cures the tressed Parts Believes in Ten Leblaoo of St Jerome Quebec says he used Dr Catarrhal Powder for an acute case of catarrh in the head and it cured him lie has men working under him in lumbering camps and tellawhat it has done for many of them He buys it for camp use and pins his faith to it the quickest reliever for colds in the head and surest cure for Sold by Lehman Pharmacy Newmarket- A Grand Trunk freight train was derailed by an open switch while cross ing diamond at Friday morning and an ougine and four cars went into the ditch The the at this point and tlje accident caused a blockade of both lines express from the west was three hours Tho damage entailed by the wreck will bo slight is miles to the west of Toronto DEFENSES OF AND COL KEKEWICH The Kimberley diamond mines which are the largest holes ever sunk Id the earth by man and which the richest In the world now yield carats annually representing a of of which twofifths is dear profit In years they have added to the worlds wealth ten tons of diamonds worth X These mines employ J 500 Europeans and about Kamn the utmoBt precautions are taken against theft and yet despite all preventive measures company reckons on a 103s of to per of its product from this cause The Pan mine has an opening acres In extent and the Beers mine la a aero hole In earth When the mines were discovered the territory was owned by tho Orange Free State Great Britain promptly compelled the Boers to sell her the territory for When the Boers began attacking Lieutenant Colonel was in command of the British troops there Aotler gritisfy K Men Killed -oxo- Canadians ark two miles from River Saturday Dec bhey must have walked into an am Half the men of the Canadian for they were suddenly ex- gent have gone forward Like the to a terrific fire from the front Australian contingent they have been ftnd fla the Royal put to stiff work their arrival Rifles who were in the van to aud have been building sidings erect- immediately seek cover behind platforms and rendering the usual routine service They are in excellent condition and very zealous ANOTHER BRITISH REVERSE London Dec am The British forces in South Africa have met with auother signal reverse This sensational news was officially an nounced from the War Office shortly J andMajorGen after midnight eral GMacro accordingly ordered his admitting that he met with a a neighboring kopje They were quickly followed by the remainder of the brigade and were settling down in a new position when they were again obliged to move to the Boers heavy guns into action It was by this time evident that the Boers not only out numbered the British but occupied an serious reverse in his attack yesterday morning on in Northern Capo Colony The British General says he was misled by the guides as to the Boer position and found him self on impracticable ground Ap parently he was caught in ambush as his casualties as at present known are not alarming The numbers of killed and wounded cannot be consid ered excessive in the circumstances but the enormous numbers ported missing suggest that the engagement must have been not unlike Nicholsons Nek when General White so heavily The full list of casualties is not yet announced but so far as known at present eight British officers were men to retreat Throughout the long march of thirteen miles to the British were harassed by a con tinual fire and the Boer gunners should have inflicted considerable damage Several shells were direct at the British ambulance but they fell short The result of this engagement may be extremely serious as insurrection among the Cape Dutch which success on part of must have tended to stop cannot but receive a stimulus from this defeat and the spread of the rising may danger General Methuens communi cations The next batch of reinforce ments from Great Britian will bo wanted to cope with the insurrection wounded and nine missing two men nl were killed wounded and and bring on missing Presumably all the equality with tho Been opposing him missing men are prisoners Major- 1 General confirms the report Gature does not state wheth er he has lost any ammunition or guns and further intelligence on this point will be anxiously awaited According to the reports brought into the British camp at Kraal by spies the 8tormberg numbered men and the position and circumstances appeared to favor fl surprise and a night attaok Moving smartly but cautiously the British troops in safety a point a successful sortie from in early morning hours of Friday last One part of tho British force took Lombards blew up with gun cotton two of the enemys big guns including the famous long Tom and brought a Maxim back to Lady- smith while a squadron of Hussars sallying in auother direction burned a number of Boer kraals and cut the telegraph wires Tho British casual ties were one killed and wounded my A Pretoria report under date of Kays that the British force on western border of the Orange State attacked Commandant position but this hay not been confirmed The Globes special despatches from hi London Time that the Kimberley garrison repulsed a recent heavy attack in Friday that Mafc king stilt that smart long- range lighting en Gen force and the Boers is almost a daily occurrence odder River Dee Native runners report Boer- are in the and that are strongly near Nek The railway between here and is seriously damaged There was great activity at the- station here all night With EIGHT TO THE EAST Mr Montague White the Boer agent here has returned to home in England While he has no official connection with the Transvaal Mi White keep in touch with who sympathize with the Boers He intends to return to Johannesburg where he has much property when the war is But he doubts if his holdings there are worth much believing the will wreck the town and mines before sur- rendering We no longer said Mr White have cable connection with President Kruger so I am unable to speak defi nitely Boer opinion of the progress of the war President will not surrender until the last ditch and that will rot he reached before battles are fought far harder than have yet marked the campaign Even if President Kruger wished to make terms he could not do 0 The women alone would prevent it for the Boer women though usually made and taking little part in the of men when roused to the pres- pitch are perhaps a more factor than the Boer commandos The British public is only just beginning to realize the extent of the disaffection in Cape Colony When tho fighting is all over nothing will have been ac complished for the Dutch though obedient will take no part and no interest in internal matters harbouring with racial tenacity the memory of their and instilling the English into their numer ous offspring thus laying the seeds of continual unrest To Do You Belong SAM JONES IN BOSTON This incident I give to you A Christian gentleman was riding through a certain State of this Union in the cars for home At one of the stations two men boarded the train and sat down in the ladies car It wasnt more than five minutes before one of them pulled out a bottle They both tipped it up and drank and soon commenced swearing and cursing and talking loud in their profanity in the car to the disgust of everybody in it The christian gentleman looked on and said to himself Well those fellows didnt sit in the car more than five minutes before they let us know who they were End who they belonged to but nobody in the whole train who I belong to Just see how the devils crowd proclaims who they belong to They say We belong to the devil and were not ashamed of it either and the good man got trulv ashamed of himself and exclaim ed Lord Lord Forgive us Thou art the best Master a man ever had and yet I am ashamed to let anybody know that I belong to thee As soon as the train rolled into a station and stopped the christian man began to sing from bottom of his soul and at the top of his voice the child of a king The whole car turned their eyes and ears toward him and nobody when he had finished had any doubt that he was the Lords servant One of the drunken fellows walked back to him and said Hush that singing You hush that cursing was the reply Cars no place to be The ladies car is no place to be cursing and drinking in Want you to dry up 1 want that curging to be dried up Well we dont want any more o that d hear And they Eat down took another drink and be gan cursing again When the train stopped again the christian gentlemen struck up happy day when Jesus washed it drunken couple stopped their cursing Wo told to quit singing told you to quit your cursing You let these people know that you be long to the devil why shouldnfc I let them know that I belong to God train roiled on and at the next station the two drunken men were put off the car Look at what men aro perfectly willing to do for the devil They will submit to- being thrown ignomiously off trie train doomed and dammed for privilege of serving him Who ever heard of a christian being put off a train for serving God Here are old sinners in this town by the thousand who to publish who they belong to and you folk have been here for ten years and not one in twenty knows who you belong to I would be heartily ashamed of it You are a type of Christian so called an honorary member of the church in ay be The Railway The following letter explains tho cause of delay in the construction of the above railway We understand that many people are anxious for the road to connect with Newmarket and if the delay opens up the route to the Hub of where the traffic actually concentrates being the centre of municipal political and commercial life it will- indeed be providential Newmarket has not made any special effort to bring the line here but it be gins to look as if in the natural course of events it was coming our way Let it come The people of King Township will find that when North York becomes a separate County with Newmarket for its County Town that they have made no mistake in obtain ing connection at this point Following is a copy of PRESIDENT WARRENS LETTER Toronto Dec 1st LEMON Reeve Township of King Ont Dear Sir Re Aurora is due to Municipality that an ex planation should be given why the construction of the Companys Rail way has not been proceeded with Sufficient construction has been done to preserve the Companys rights to construct its chartered line and a subsidy agreement has been entered into and executed by the Crown but great delay been caused owing to the inability of the Companys engin eers to find a line which would be ac cepted by the Department of Rail ways The line projected by the Com pany and believed by its engineers to be the most available was submitted to the Department of Railways some months ago but the Company was in formed that the Department was not prepared to accept this line Every effort was thereupon made to rind a better line on which the grades were less steep than upon line first pro jected but these efforts did notresult in success The matter was then represented to the Department of Railways and the Deputy Minister of Railways was re quested to sendian engineer of his De partment to go oyer the different lines the Company being only too willing to accept a line upon which the grades were less steep than upon line proposed The Engineer of the of Rail ways has lately gone over the lines and is we believe now preparing his report which we are most anxious to receive and which alone prevents our proceeding with the construction We beg that you will lay this mat ter before the Council at its next meeting Youra Truly The Aurora D President i ii the foolish man wants to buy or sell anything he ridea over country in the hot sun looking for the party of the part Tho wise man puts a few lines into news paper and lets thorn go all oxer for him any man has a horse or cow to sell is some other man somewhere who waiting to buy the thing but these two men might travel a week without finding each other Advertising brings them together