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THE ERA 1908 Not a drop of Alcohol Doctors prescribe very little if alcohol these days They prefer strong tonics and altera tives This is all in keeping with modern medical science It explains why Sar- is now made entirely free from alcohol Ask your doctor Follow his advice prison Inspection Report The annua report of tie Prisons has just heen sued by the Provincial Government Fortyfire jails and 12 lockups are upon The total expenditure tor and in it was an increase of From this report we learn the average cost for each prisoner per day in ihe County Jails was in 1906 and in The total incarcerated numbered 10- in 1906 and 11804 in a in- pit T to I a SgJ I that the increase of persons J numbered in and was I due to the larger numherof minor Unlew here daily action of the bow- fences such as drunkenness and arc absorbed ra There was no lea than causing biliousness nausea We wish ask your persons committed for drunkenness a- lone These figures will tarnish ad ditional arguments for the friends ol local option The average cost per given above also furnish dat County Council in its des with Toronto for keep of County prisoners This average cos stated to be per day When city jail was built as an tor York County Council the old jail at the Don and al low the city to run the jail Toronto agreed to keep County rers at cost Up to this time the paid the county per day keeping Toronto prisoners but the by tiling of Ayeri Pills is good salary for young person under to re ceive Several of Shorthand graduates of year are now enjoying thti salary Perhaps we can help you to receive this amount Our new catalogue explains Clip out this card sign it and send to H Shaw Central Busi ness College Toronto Address lOBESEEKERS MANITOBA SASKATCHEWAN GOING DATES April 14 VEHY tourist us Atkinson Agent Newmarket WANTED A Agent for Newmar ket and surrounding country to our FAMOUS PEERLESS APPLE TREES A BIG HAR DY WINTER APPLE that sell en sight also a general Una of Fruit Ornamental In- eluding other modi- Good pay weekly outfit free exclusive territory Write now to NURSERY CO Groweta grate TORONTO B Special terms to unit working part time the they represent York Toronto for Court purposes louse keep of prisoners etc in- id thousands of if If the it would be in the interests the North Ridings to do so and go and judicial housekeep dollars saved in the taxi the County A do Ontario with no more and Unable wealth than n existence whose la the ite of this II imputation i Simple fldmeiteiZeipt MIX RECIPE AT HOME Get from any prescript the following Fluid Extract Compound one Compound Syrup Sarsaparllla three bottle and take a teaspoonful dose after each meal and at bedtime The above is considered by an authority who writes in a New York daily paper as the lines pre- ever written to relievo Backache Kidney Trouble Weak Bladder and all forms of difficulties This mixture acts quickly tissues of the Kidneys enabling them to filter and strain the uric acid and other waste matter from the blood which causes Rheumatism Some who suBer with the amotions may not feel to place much confidence in this imple mixture yet those who have tried it say the results are surprising be relief being without the lightest injury to the slonacli organs Mix some and give it certainly comes high It is the prescription authority whose entire The Toronto Star puts the question thusly Hon A may have some difficulty in ascertaining how many dollars the University Toronto takes in but he may be sure that they hear some proportion to the number of graduates it turns Higher education is cheap to except to those who dont j Bad for Business He had no hat the hat trade was suffer ing His coat was full of holes the tailoring trade was suffering He had holes in his boots the shoe trade offering He had wonder by they should have to pay for it The Strenuous Life ting The Ontario Governments redistri bution hill as it passed the House describes the Electoral District o North York as follows To of the Township of King Whitchurch East and The stress and strain of the stren uous life in both city and country makes stomach troubles Five people suffer today where one did ten years had dittoes fla- the linen trade was suffer- distress alter eating specks the soap trade eyeS trended it asked stated that he could ply the ingredients or mix the for our readers also commends it as harmless Handing Them a Lemon The editor sat in his office whence all but him had ltd and he wished that every last deadbeat was In his grave stone dead His mind then roam the fields of paradise and il oer Jasper seas and all things would combine his nse to please He thought how look across the great gulf dark happy soul and here and when call and in ag shout to them hose who swindled water they Would theyd caper hed lust quench your mum WANTED Someone to take job of wood lengths Good Apply at once WHITE Hickory park Keswick Boarders Wanted Apply to Mrs J cor r Pearaon Court High The Recent Gerrymander the light of history since Con federation it is to he regretted that our did not provide for the arrangement of constituencies to be entrusted to a Judicial Commis sion with fixed limitations Repre sentation by population being a con stitutional condition makes a period ical an absolute ne cessityand this too is a part ol the charter rights of toe Province that this rearrangement must follow each decennial census Hitherto any change along this line has been under taken after a ceaus enunciation Former Administrations have been most careful to observe period of re arrangement hut it has been left for thtWhitney Government to cut and the constituencies a couple of years i advance of the decennial cen sus period I thirst with the due thats We offer One Hundred Dollars lor case of Catarrh that he cured by Halls J CHENEY Co Toledo O We the undersigned have J Cheney for the past 15 yean believe him honorable all business transactions and fi ancially able to carry out any made by his firm KINNAN MARVIN Wholesale Druggists Toledo Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally acting directly upon the blood mucous surfaces of the system hold and hold rat the Count It to be to be fias red Huron Middlesex Peel etc making some thou sands in population larger than other swinging the circle but failing to touch the small ties of and Lennox A Is placed peculiar It will for city houses in order to stand by its own hut a Bolftatoi for a city OTtang office will come along and very Id I the although the hi re a magnifying to To- Permanent I hid for with to my little girl to any drug without obtaining in we were growing I two the urderl four additional Why did not the Premier dis play hit boasted quality by dividing the city in riant and providing lor the return a member by each no this might in the return of a Liberal or two for a part Tory Toronto and hence he wan bold enough to Jr a by to each elector the power to We Tor two representative to the Legislature the vote I that we representative in the Council of On tario My this move in Toronto by the cutting and carving In the em part the Province and by re it I Q A Ottawa warti atAlzl nihility of let Hid to v ho i I le safe Conservative bold and honest Premier rated a much more in end a- the To trWitA a i ifiering I could hardly mention useful industry in the country that What Mark Twain Says About Birds and the many symptoms of indigestion All who are suffering with stomach troubles and that means at least two out of three in Newmarket and other towns should tablets Nothing else is as yet effective nothing thoroughly relied up Leicester Ewes with Lambs J Cedar Valley Lots for Sale In Newmarket 54 feet frontage on Timothy St Enquire at Era office Brick House rooms domestic water and cistern New stable lot Apply to Box 146 Newmarket For Sale will count for the Lib- birds I judged he all right Evidently Premier Whitney thinks the chief functions of a is to the weak places Governments legislative pro gram by bedaubing with the breaks forced of trouble apology of His Honor for the redistribution bill by attempting to galvanize its iniquity into an itonest manifestation equity and justice affords a notable example Some slick salesmen are going thru some of the farming districts of Western Ontario selling American built steel ranges at from to higher than local dealers are asking for Canandian ranges that are every bit as good This is very unfair to local dealers who not only pay tax es but keep up churches subscribe to Agricultural Societies and in many other ways support the locality Panders should consider these things and make some about prices before being gulled by strangers he had killed hundreds and hun dreds of them and thats the way to about birds Thats the way that people does that writes books about birds and loves them so that theyll go hungry and tired and take amount trouble to find a new bird and kill it Their name is orni- thologers and I could been an thploger myself because I always birds and creatures and I Started out to learn how to be one sitting on a dead limb a tree singing with hi head back and his mouth open and before I thought I fired and his song stopped and he fell straight from the limb all limp like rag and I run and picked him up and he was dead and his body was warm in my hand and his head rolled about this way and that I Richard letter to President of the Reform Monk County stating that he will not be a candidate proaPhlng provincial elect passes irom Ont table and active elected for Monk Thus politics member the He first has held the Government as Provincial Treasurer in and posi tion until he succeeded G as Minister of Education which office he continued to hold until defeat of the Ross Government in will be missed in the next House by both of politics Word comes Ottawa that the per bottle Take Halls Storm in Texas rain storm that has raged oyer Tex as in many years With two excep tions every railroad out of this city was forced to annul trains owing to washouts and loss ol bridges and at midnight the telephone companies re ported all wires out of Port Worth A circus tents were pitched In the western portion of the city was- completely wrecked and two li ons escaped and prowled about town lor an hour throwing the people into THAT DEPRESSION Which hot the that tell of their bom Von Pineapple Tab- la the proved Dr Von only touch the poe and could the pr fllity tablets aid by 1 quicker Urn thto It may publish a I fit- Toronto Whitby ENGLISH SPAVIN LINIMENT removes all hard soft or calloused lumps and biemishas from blood spavin curbs splints ring bone stifles sore and throat coughs etc Save 50 by of one bottle War- In North Yorks ranted the moat wonderful- Blemish had reason to revise their Cure ever known Bold by J been pardoned by the Federal aulho the Central will rejoice at this the institution Although a la hearted sympathy hrst prompted action which brought these to Canada in the light of sequent events It is a great pity nough to he honest He declai the Legislative lobby down in the practise solid with both feet private members lor listen- ng to lobby then the lows to be interviewed and brings down a measure pledging the credit of the Province to the extent 12500000 for benefit of the Mac- Kenie and Mann systems rail ways These magnet notes dont cart a fig for lobbying private mem bers when they can find ready access to the members of Government Oh yes honest enough to be bold to say the least can airly be said Ontarios Premier The Conservative organ at Toronto when telling the story the thin red line last Monday enough to mislead Its readers and the real The organ knows that tic boundaries ol the con stituencies lor Provincial and ion elections in the West are not the same but the Provincial voters lists are the used In both in stances Hence in order to prevent electors resident in one division from having hie opportunity of voting second lime a Dominion contest it necessary to strike out the names of in overlapping Constituencies by drawing a red lin through their names And was done without regard as to vJheth parties Liberals or Con servatives It was also done by the Provincial authorities at last Provincial elections for the very samo reason but the latter thin black line Instead of thin red line Hut the organ dont tell part the story does not fault the action hut can brand the act political crime in Liberal although Send the Era to broken lite little dn Getting the Newcomers work among the newh grants from the old League began operations on Ma last and since then has platform meetings each Sunday ing their premises Front St Up to dak- have signed the pledge Last Sunday the audience room President Chamberlain was in the chair short addresses were delivered by Alderman J J Graham Messrs Cocking Jeff and Miss contri buted several solas On every Wed night a popular lecture is en and on every Saturday night concert held Since commencing operations thi League has provided beds has given a great- number new rivals their first meal In Toronto has procured work for over and has paid month rent paid Secretary a trained nurse and watchman and Is out of debt Too many ot our yoring people I in showing considerable and too often do not fully appreciate the self sacrificing love benign presence of mother Like the at and the sunlight she and her ministries arc received and looked up on as matter of fact When she I Lent Is being more and more served each year by a season of selfdenial and other sons society woman the occasion for surcease of social which have began to pall and both men and women are begin ning to devote the forty days to ton ing up ami building up bodily health the by cutting down the cus tomary number of cigars or swearing off from intoxicants the latter by limiting the hours devoted to roundB of pleasure and by some kind diet Aside its religious significant the Lenten season is com ing to play very Important part in regiment of life all troubles from indigestion papers the large cities gat if you want them but it own home paper that advertise your your numerous sympathizes with you in you Miction and rejoices with you your prosperity local paper tba sand and one items in which you ijted during the year and not find in papers of large cities Good Colts rising 1 year 1 fresh relieve Cow with Caff by side Mare second team a farm and I Heifer for beef ring that J 3wl3 EDGAR DENNIS cent of For Sale A Beautiful High Class Piano Price very low on time Apply to A lights Furnace and Bathroom with all modern conveniences Includ ing hot and cold water also water For particulars apply to BLIZZARD Newmarket Acres in Nursery Stock OH THE or CM was a Great Sufferer from the Bane of bo many rime a great but- Agents wanted I experienced Fall 1908 and Spring 1909 delivery hoi or part time liberal term outfit free permanent benefit I was strongly re- Thos Bowman Son Co commended to try South American Nervine After only two I am pleased to testify that I am Ontario restored to hearth and I never Gw10 had the slightest mdje o a re- old NEWSPAPERS by J Y For Sale at this Office all the mi doctors For the Era A Retarded Spring What are our prospects here in this our Such strange climatic feats we will disown Has Dame lost her power got out of place I Slipped from her orbit into space Her force centripetal gone quite astray While the centrifugal holds feudal sway She may be taking rest late to awake Strength to recuperate great strides tn made Refreshed from her sleep will surely stare At havoc made by demagogues of air King Frost with his will shortly skulk Off to the frigid zone for months to sulk Are the old Northern gods wreaking their wrath For mans trespassing crossing their path Tearing their mighty hills along stronghold Grinding them into dust for gold Where they had reigned so long none to dispute Kings on their thrones oer bird and brute Old Boreas of late vented his spleen Blowing his northern gales wind sleet and With his distended cheeks puffing in rage Hurling his icy breiuhs reaping his wage I death of young Spreading land wrecks manifold King Sol himself loth to shed his rays Perchance he too will strike lor shorter days Weary of giving light to such a scene Sees all the varied hues though none oT green a rift then hides behind the clouds That wrap the earth in gloom and all enshrouds Instead of April showers thrilling with life Trees fields and vine clad bowers with growing All arc one sheeted maw of glistening ice Hanging from vine and boughs with strange device Wirdows and walls glazed as with plated glass Panes with lumps that hide all who may pass Anon the streets are draped in purest snow Soon to be melted and in streams to flow Flooding the pathways cellars and the yards Perplexing homes ullage wards The strange did not hesitate To visit neighbors there accumulate The public streets pedestrians despair Coated with Ice falls they must beware A to the busy ones who go Their daily 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