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7 any two in North York bounty INTELI it me tie liberty to know to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all other liberty No paper sent outside of North York unless paid In advance No Stogie Copies Cents Newmarket Ont Friday Oct 1900 TERMS per annum if paid in advance WHEN The following lines of Goods it will pay you to inspect the stock and prices at G A Hardwar e Plumbing Paints and Oils Glass Stoves Furnaces Graniteware Wooden ware Lamp Goods Galvanized Ware Sheet Metals Sewer Pipe roughing Coal Oils Sporting Goods Bicycles Elastic Carbon Paint General Tinsmithing in all its branches O A WELCOME PEARL RAN in use in his town and vi cinity see sample on our floor BINNS Oar Toronto better 1 1 The last trip of the season on the Niagara Line between Toronto and Lewiston is announced to be made on Saturday next The defalcations of J Henderson the official assignee who left the coun try some two months ago it is now thought will reach The Em ployees Association Co of London are held good for All estate liabilities will therefore be met A right royal reception was accorded eight more Toronto volunteers from South Africa on the on their return to this city A great crowd assembled at the Union Depot and was most enthusiastic in its dem onstrations A young man named Fred Barnes was found dead on a vacant lot in Manning Ave about the middle of last week life was probably short ened by dissipation A pair of young beavers from Al gonquin Park secured thru Hon Mr Davis Commissioner of Crown Lands have lately been added to the River- dale Park Zoo f Aid Lambs collec tion for the Zoo now numbers fifty birds and fifty animals I is past Present Future IT BY HARRISON RICHMOND Written specially for the v Era caching that the railroad and locomo- tary electricity along Street the Now by have become agreeable facts and that through the enterprise of Mr President of the Metropolitan Railway Co and the energetic and efforts of the Companys able manager Mr J Moves Bonds Lake with all its beautiful surroundings is becoming what it was always destined to be a summer re sort for the pleasureseeking citizens of Toronto and elsewhere a chatty re ference to its past history its present road by Governor was origin of what is now called Mr of the Ontario conditions and its future prospects ies Department savs that this has been uninteresting to readers of the finest fishing season for the past the Era who are fond of local two decades This Thursday evening I Jail will be the centre of attraction for Yonge Street Along this trail came the officers of the North West trading companies the fur trader and their Indian freightcarriers on their way to Fort Rbuille now Toronto to ex change purchase and return The lake with its rich supply of fish and fowl would be a tempting halting place and a place where some would make a longer stay In Dr Toronto of Old we are told that the first owner of the lake was Mr Win Bond and that original gigantic pines some feet into the air stood like a regiment- of grenadiers guarding the silence the depths at feet casting their long shadows lakes glassy surface and imparting lo the breeze delicious coolness in the hot test summer day J But the primeval the progenitors of sturdy undergrowth that now ornament the banks of the lake have long ago bow ed their lofty heads to the utilitarian spirit of the times For years a weedy front and piles of sawdust have marred the view of the tourist in search of the picturesque Natures handiwork is at a discount when mans business intervenes In its topography Bonds Lake is without a margin and for many years supposed to be without a bottom- Subsequent soundings have reached a depth of 127 feet It has no visible inlet or outlet yet- its waters are al ways cool clear and calm It con tains nearly acres and its above the level of Lake Ontario is feet Should its waters allowed to flow they would be sufficient for a morning bath for the groat unwash ed of the city of Toronto ronto and elsewhere Every effort to popularize Bonds Lake and its beauti ful surroundings to some extent has proved a failure A whole day spent in getting there left no time for enjoyment and noc turnal returns were far from pleasant But a change has come oer the spirit of its dream Bonds Lake is within an hour of Toronto Electrn city has annihilated distance The old boneracking stagecoach with its six inside and four outside tourists and the ramshackle daily bus and its driver with his tin horn tooting up pas sengers are relegated to the pages of past history The railroad promised sixty years ago has become a solid fact and electricity now shnois Us hundreds of passengers to their destin ations in palace cars fitted lip with all that ingenuity can invent secure comfort speed and safety Since its inauguration in the Metropolitan Railway has carried thousands of passengers and fro in safety perhaps a greater of people than have travelled Street in the previous half Many hundreds of have picnicked and ruralized on i banks of has been many unwelcome dips in its and canoed and sported waters by the careless angler and the venturesome canoeist and it has caus ed many an amateur swhmuer lo he drew his patent from the- Govern- tremble at its unknown depths but in By this we see that within the memory of the oldest glass- surface The improvements in beautifying the lark great are but initial steps of what is contemplated The clear ing and of the batiks lias topics To many of us in later years there is some degree of curiosity in looking people in musical circles and Torontos back upon the past The young bask fashionable society where Miss Hope in the sunshine of glorious daughter of his Honor Judge- tion Those in later life endeavor to Morgan and neice of the Alton extract gold from sunbeams that have McCarthy will make her first vanished The young revel the public appearance since her return- of the present The more the records of the lake cover more habitant in that locality only one relieved them of their ragged than a century of our local history Some years ago the writer had the privilege of looking over the business r South End Bakery from the music conservatories of Eu rope Numbers from Hamilton St Catharines and Newmarket arc in the city to be pre sent on the occasion toniht Hon Mr represented the Ontario Government at the state fun eral given to the deceased Premier of Quebec on Saturday last uary can be written of its casualties A number of years ago several men were standing on the bank the The somewhat precipitous path around the edge of the Jake we pre sume will in time he ailed and de veloped into a Lovers Walk A large and handsome pavilion has been Daybooks of Mr Miles These looking over the lake when one books then in the possession of Mr the number suddenly exclaimed David Boyle have since been presented Heres for a swim Goodbye to be supplemented by booths to the Toronto Public Library Miles was one of Torontos earliest advanced in years recall the episodes of hotel keepers Moving to Richmond the lone gone by and live over again Hill he died here in I found long gone by the days of their youth Were it not that in Bond was a boarder at for the historian the past would soon Miles Hotel York and his account be forgotten the present drift Into charged in the boohs The receipt on oblivion and the future develop with- j settlement ran as follows out the experiences from which we I Settled in full with Mr Bond clear gather lessons of wisdom As Shakes- J of all demands from the foundation of boys and plunging Into the water disappeared On his not com ing to the surface his companions tie- alarmed Lookingont upon the somewhere says Instructed by The Trades and Labor Council has the ant Time Man must he is but Try Our Homemade Bread It Lb both wholesome and sweet We please two- thirds of people of Newmarket with our you Fruits of a Our Aim Is not How Cheap but SHARON We are prepared to please you in New Suitings style workmanship and price is the time to order your New rail decided to endorse Independent can didates in Centre and West at the coming elections This means another factor in the split up of parties In a Civil Assize Court Case the jury in the action of Robinson vs Gould tried on Wednesday Thurs day of last week before the Hon Mr Justice Meredith at the New Court House in which the sought damages for the of his daughter while as a domestic in tlie house of defendants father in brought in a verdict in favor Of the plaintiff for dam ages and an order was granted by the Court for the costs of the action in addition This is said to be the larg est verdict ever awarded by jury in Toronto in such an action Miss Maud who resided on Beverley St was sent to the Mercer for six months for stealing a hat at a departmental store James Smith a mi the Toronto Street accidentally himself at the Friday morning and died in the Emergency Hospital a few hours later Smith went out duckshooting tie rowed up the and when near the stteet bridge he readied for his gun which vas in front of him The filled magazines is a doublebarrelled weapon and was must have been loaded with duck In pulling the weapon towards him Smith grasped theguu by muzzle iud It was dis charged the contents of both barrels the world up to this day Signed Miles the distance It was never known whether it was an accident a sui cidal act Tragedies are not charac teristic of its deep dark- waters In this- respect the lake bears an excellent reputation Perhaps few places on Street has entertained more of the aristocracy and the elite of Toronto than hotel and no more popular pro prietor ever catered the comfort of arid rain protectors in other puns of the grounds Boats available Co convey their patrons to any point de sired and a handsome little steamer water they saw his body floating in Lady of the Lake that would the ancient looking or waterstretches in the hollows to remind us that it once held suprem acy over this territory with the in timation that should it return to its former level the lofty spire of St James Cathedral would be feci under water and the citizens of To ronto submerged under billows would roll more above their heads We will not stop to argue the case but if correct one 1 of these reminders of ancient Hut property legists inform us that during the glacial period of our countrys n Thomas Steele Mr Steele name is hill the highest point on Street between the lakes was it than the norther boundary of Lake Ontario On the recession of that immense W of water to its present more modes n proportions it may have left behind it W St Slde Street containing acres of land A deed in fee simple will be given to any one inclined to purchase I The above lots in clude the whole of the pond commonly called Bonds Lake and the house and clearing around the same It is a a sea whose and affords a great than feet flsl York I hose days was- in may Pool as it was sometimes as difficult to get rid of as originally called now dignified as a i more recent times Thirty years lake a lake hot without a history after the property was again advertiz- the roamed over in the same periodical the vast region untrammelled by thezctte which seems to have stood the ever encroaching limits of civilization I vicissitudes of newspaper life with and Steeles hotel wheii its millions of acres of unbroken some degree of tenacity In we forest was to them an inexhaustible j Hud the following inducements to and its waters delightful situation on tain Henry m his Let ters on Canada and the Canadians published many years ago compliments him as an ideal host Mr Steeles tastes and air of welcome the old country appearance of house the accommodations lourisis its excellent fare and cosy parlors looking out upon the lake made Bonds Lute hotel the favorite stopping for sportsmen and rural pleasureseekers far and near Street for more than half a century was the great highway from York the centre of wealth fa shion to the naval and military depot early days Un til the Northern Railway was un known Officials of the Government and military officers in their went by Street passing Bonds Luke sink with jealousy now plies its waters from shore to shore Tables for those who picnic cold or hot and an obliging attendant to jhance the pleasure of excursionists are all generously provide by Com pany As the of the patrons of the Park come to the front other attractions no doubt will be add ed so that the swing round and the Ferris wheel will soon be bidding for patronage such as are bound to have a splendid time Rome could not be built in dat can a Park be furnished with all its essentials in a single summer When the projected new hotel with all its appliances for the comfort of its guests who purpose a longer stay shall become an Institution with the Metropolitan as the connecting link Bonds Lake will continue to work out its manifest destiny as a holiday resort for the citizens of Toronto and the pleasureseekers of adjacent and villages LADIHS Our stock of Dry Goods is equal to anything you can buy elsewhere and just as cheap our new Dress Gfojjs Groceries Always R belrig emptied into Smiths alxlomen and leg two fingers also being torn from his right hand Mayor action for libel against the Mail Printing Co has fail ed Judge Meredith held that the of nutriment there some place that even the untutored Indian called home where the wigwams circled the pa poose played and the warrior sal in Ms tepee door and smoked his pipe in peace But the aborigines of our County left no records The Regis trars office was to him an institution unknown He got possession of his homestead by squatting secured his title by limitation of time and when story of the photographed check or compelled to emigrate to told was true and that the Mall I other huntinggrounds he his lot to his successors In days a lawyers office was a sinecure and his clients dwelt safety Evidences however are not wanting to show that Bonds Lake in all pro- characterizing plaintiffs conduct as blackmailing was also true Sir Wilfrid and probably Hon Mr Kidding will speak at Mas- Hall on Oct It will not be Street commonly called Bonds farm containing acres beautifully situ ated on Bonds Lake on Street miles from the City of Toronto price 350 The advertisement goes on to say The picturesque beauty of the lot and its to flourishing capital of Upper Canada make It a desirable- situation for a gentleman of taste The stage coaches between To ronto Holland Landing and Newmar ket pass the place dally and there ap pears every prospect of Yonge Street being very shortly and of Its having a railroad Prophesies are mil always limited to necessary unveil the plaster bust of was a restingplace for travel- any dead man to arouse enthusiasm perhaps a settlement in early Best Gold fill Cold fill LOO We perfect GLOBE OPTICAL Yongo Toronto- Kit KM MRS PRIVATE SCHOOL English French itnt PAID IN lion among Liberals on the occasion The early closing bylaw passed by the City Council has been upheld by the courts A workman named Hugh Johnson a 30 feet to times Fifty years ago about a quarter of a mile south of the lake close to the street evidences now ob literated by the plough were clearly of an Indian grave yard of gin Carlisle and Kllesmerr Sir Lyle Sir Henry Sir Fran cis Head and many other repre sentatives of aristocracy with a score of minor lights whose names are re corded on historic roll have nil passed this way and in the exigence of travel would call on this popular wayside inn for rest and cuter Once upon a time as the story books say there was a gala da at Bunds Lake The hotel was at its best A grand dinner had been To ronto city was well represented and the surrounding villages contributed to the gathering Hundreds stood upon the banks of the lake to witness the christening of the by Miss Mary Steele the belle of Oak The time Twenty years after the launched for the use of tourists pari of the prophecy was fulfilled and a gailypainted paddlewheeled vessel sixty years later the railroad made propelled by a crank at which four men appearance just in time to be within could stand and exercise their and a compound fracture of the thigh LIME LOOK OUT THE OTTLf BEAM KAMI DAVIS fell from a to the extent A similar memento may ground while working on a wall being our vllldge The flrsl erected for the Eaton Co on settler in Richmond Hill was Si last Friday He was badly Indian His remains are lying in what Is now the village cemetery His cedar monument rotten with age Is still remembered by on a Winnipeg to have a new palace cultivated on the banks of a hotel satisfactory arrangements stream that once must have been been made between the city and river each year the grain a the P circle of deeper green and stronger The lighthouse which was growth where the ashes had been last year by the Government between pattered In the- rear of the wigwam Four Mile and Nine Mile Points has of an Indian vijlage been destroyed by thf action of the The Indian from the far waves the present century The farm was for many years owned by Mr Justice Robinson we may presume the gen tleman of taste adycrtlicd for Those who remember Luke and its environments as they were fifty for the gratification of the passengers comfortably seated around them The little craft was easily managed and circumnavigated the lake for many years In the galaxy of young life that often tested the little vessel to years ago can endorse all that has Its utmost capacity who shot their sal- been said of its beauty Familiar lies of wit and humor from stem to with the lake and Its surroundings The market for potatoes is rather dull but cucumbers are still quite live ly Harry was killed by a fall at biscuit works at Lon don Lome Carney a 4yearold boy was run over by a Grand Trunk train at and had an arm taken of Lakefield Oct A boy nam ed Samuel Cmapbell of Toronto a at the Grove private school here was accidentally shot in the head and instantly killed this evening by an other boy named Harold Stratford of The school had been on an excursion to Stony Lake and were on board the steamer Majestic starting for home when the sad accident hap pened Young Campbell was about years of age An exchange says If It were not for the dead beat many a newspaper could afford a trip to Paris this year If those of us who have been publish ing newspapers for ten years and over look over our old accounts we find thousands of dollars charged up against parties from whom we will never get a cent This money is due us from a class people generally called beats Dead beats can be divid ed into two classes professionals and those- who while they are perfectly willing to pay arc unable to do so A professional beat is a person who earns part of his or her livelihood by beating merchants and others out of their wares This class is the most dangerous as those who belong to it make dead beating a study and up in the art of stealing were under the very eyes and with the con- stern and made the woods reecho boyhood days the writers memory ie- their peals of laughter and hilarity calls Its scenery before the hand of were ladies and gentlemen who of the person who own the had marred its pristine I became Important factors The second class of dead beats The dense forest skirted the lake down building up of Torontos greatness in consists of those to the waters edge without an educational commercial and of intersecting Street with aanthVopic enterprises some of whom with hut space just opposite the hotel- now adorn the platform pulpit The dark green shrubbery climbed the the bar and the bench for which they lack both ability and terraces until it I the This Is but a single illustration of capital Both of the latter a ma many to make Bonds Lake still beats because of their Inability to matce West before it was an artists pencil At that the attractive to the cititens Tor both ends- i