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I I Alt J I si- J I i i- i i r I ME PEST in You can afford la too cheapest in the end We cell only reliable makes every one GUARANTEED Jowcky a 5hft ERA mwb every i INTELLIGENCER awe tin liberty fo to to fthofe all otter liberty I Copy eta Each V cat Newmarket Orit Friday of York paid in advance toUaitci St Ma See our Assortment Over One Hundred to choose from iPrlces from toB000 Aim ANTED I and Optician- find on our many Heating and have to them out at tie Allowing Prices All goods First Guaranteed to give Satisfaction Prime Coal Heater I Grate Coal aad Wood No Oakdale Huron Coal and Wood l No 14 Winner Oak Coal and Wood No Grand Oak I No Cheerful Oak Coal and Wood 1650 I I 1800 for i i Fairy Oak with Oven Coal and Wood 1750 No Huron Coal and Wood Walker Oak Oven Coal and Wood No Aladdin Parlor Cook No 13 Brilliant Favorite Oven No Brilliant Favorite Oven No 35 Art Garland Oven Jewel Oven i 1300 3500 WE WILD HAVE 3 BIG LONG MONTHS OF WINTER YET STOVES PUTTY PAINTS OILS AND FURNACES PLUMBING AND TINSMITHING NEWMARKET ONT NEWMARKET FECIAL AVING FIELD MANAGER I per UOb If Vhat Arbitration is In Sessions last week after a lengthy jury were to agree upon the or innocence of Wesley Benson who Was charged with the theft of two sets of harness ft set of lines and robes Bensons ease was traversed to the next Sessions The annual convention of the Forestry Association to be in Thursday Mid and f Feb Toronto has been for the pressure due to hospital accommodation Markhatu Agricultural ap plied to the Minister of Agriculture last week to allow he Society to elect twelve rectors instead of the usual number Act the Minister can grant is privilege Statistics show that- about were married last Day throughout Ontario The Municipal Marathon race finding a lot of candidates In the alsoran class Christinas tree entertainments last- week for the children of the Royal Grenadiers and 18th Highlanders were heartily enjoyed- Mr J Mam a wellknown pro vincial civil service official passed away last week in city The new tunnel the Hay was Med will water without any special on of last t is ti Dr II is Hie eace ftArbit ration Manitoba Letter PRIZE AT HIGH SCHOOL WRIT TEN BY BEATRICE sible tnruoutthe province the will be lowered as the showing- With character- ready made by the telephone Winnipeg and the sioners In the first year of West at large showed with true west- ownership demonstrated the spirit that the system can be made sell-sup- Winnipeg i then the international disputes What Arbitration is crly with the sword No Matters to be Settled According tion would be obliged to submit her quarrel to this court but it would be to Arbitration The Adoption International Ar bitration Strikes and Arbitration in Ancient History 6 in Present History Horrors War Advantages of Peace Conclusion Looking backward over the history of the- world we help notic ing toat life has been held compara tively cheap It has been practically thrown away When road of bat tles in which many lives have been lost do we ever consider how the or the dispute which 1 it could have been settled a high moral obligation i Sparta and Athens could have set tled their difficulties by arbitration and then they would have prevented the Peloponnesian war Hut at this time very little arbitrating was done because it was the age of heroes and the nations were continually at war Although Philip of Macedonia settled the dispute between the and the he be hardly called an arbitrator because he was acting in his own interest The great Pitts policy was peace Ho held back from the French Revo lution when the rest of the Cabinet were very much in favor of war human kindness throughout the past week The continuous and unprece dented rush of one of the greatest trade weeks In the of the city is over No Christmas sea son in Winnipeg ever witnessed the volume of business which the past Western Canada week has experienced The Christmas mail and its aria land offices in Winnipeg who nave dimensions indicated the close- agencies scattered throughout of th relations through a multi- west everyone spoken to expressed of toes between the Canadian the fullest confidence in the West and the- people- of the East the prospects for business expansion and South and the British Isles So to a greater improvement at the be- by this rcduction The advertisement which the Wat has secured through the magnificent crops has had the effect of the eyes of the world towards the three grain growing provinces of Western Canada In conversation jvlth many of leading flnanclil arid land offices in oUier way It used to be thecuspH when Franco disobeyed tom when two men quarrelled for meddled with thern to fight a duel to prove which was the better man but it would re- Christmas greetings straincd every nerve to make good Bid a sixty- record was made over the CPH which won tee suit in the death of one of the con testants This has been outlawed in most of our countries instead ol was forced to fight to of thousands who received their prevent England from trampled token ol Christmas love which so Terrible Earthquake Rome Dec Press Despatch The three provinces ami choir leader of the High Park Avenue Methodist Church West Toronto- His salary is to be per annum Or is years old It is stated that ttie incoming pro prietor of the House who in land to fight and the cause could not awaited anxiously for a glimpse lhf hoot was devastated been settled arbitration of the overland coming j day by an earthquake the far-reach- south bearing the effects of which were felt almost which quarrels may be settled The proceeding is calico submission Many times civil wars would in from the to arbitration and is usually con- Re- j mail of a century a ducted according forms usedini Passed thus paxlialwas but a scattered law courts The parties appointed to decide are termed arbitrators and their adjudication is called an award this not a much better way than takes possession on the 1st ol May will change the name ot that hostelry a to Prince George With other a stands per- bathrooms will be between the dis- to tCic premises and any one person possess About a dozen nun joined in a this one quality may act as lie at a throw for a goose one day last week but while in the policeman entered upon the go when Winnipeg throughout the enti garrisoned set town of Messina in re country The Sicily was par- was making peace with the pop- made up a few world destroyed and Catania was The Catholics labored under iderers and exiles from the homes In Messina hundreds of houses have fallen and many people have been killed Owing however to act a scene and the sports had apiece for gambling In police circles it is stated that Alex Rose one of the worst of the seven prisoners who escaped from Rev Chambers chateau across the Don several months ago has been caught He is now in quad at West Virginia and in due time will be and tried here for his of fences Hose brutally assaulted Miss in Well woods store St and also an old man in St He was awaiting sentence he escaped mode of settling a quarrel grad ually increases in favor An old act declares that it hath been found by experience that submissions to arbi tration made by rule of court have contributed much to the ease subject in the determining of contro versies because the have been hereby obliged to submit to award of the arbitrators The matters which he deter mined by an arbitrator or by judge u I J The Best in the Market many disabilities previous to Canada reign of George IV In the Many hundreds of foreigners in cos- anl officers bill Winnipeg celebrated their to the fact that telegraphic and tele- inoved the test for the army and the Christmas in the manner and custom phonic communications were almost navy but the political disabilities ie- of the people of their home laid The completely destroyed it is impossible In 1825 the House of Com- Icelanders the Swedes and the obtain even an approximate idea passed a Catholic mans held large congregations in of the vast damage done tion but the House of Lords thier churches on Friday last The threw it out When Dan Scandinavians hold their festivities a Roman Catholic was elected as a for a whole week The Germans eel- member of the House of Commons for two or three days during and was not allowed to take his which the Santa Clans buffoonery is of was a furious agitation unknown and Ireland seemed ready- to The foreigners do not spend large Then in Parliament parsed the sums of money in the giving of Emancipation Bill making The Russian Christmas falls all political offices except that of on fan and most of these people Lord Chancellor and Lord will not depart From their ancient of Ireland open to any In oitlnilox Russian Catholic Thus the parliament church they worship in a standing or with Ireland by arbitral kneeling posture and no lire is onge and jury are all personal dispute differences which might other- Ineace subject of contro- tfi and in the courts of civil wereibout to of contracts breaches th dispute of the boundary ileculed to wise be made the subject John wlKn lio of promises of marriage trespass the lowed in the church Winnipeg has take many scattered families of Greeks Alas- Syrians Hungarians Hollanders Ho- settle Poles Italians all who find TERRIBLE DESTRUCTION fate of the entire regions with in the zone of the earthquake is un known but reports received here up to a late hour tonight indicate that the havoc has Urn great and the destruction to life and property more terrible than Italy has experi enced in many years The uncer tainty of the situation has filled all Italians with the deepest distress for they still have fear that the day may- come when that part of the country which seems to have been almost blessed by nature will be destroyed by the blind forces that same na tives to the relief charges of slander differences respect- sufferers by earthquake in partnership transaction or pur- message of sympathy was chase price of property and Kihg of Italy by the cor- dealing with tolls or r Corner Church and Order by Phone or from- Carters JOS WESLEY PHONE or J NELSON SON 1 it- It A Tweed Suits will be popular next Spring We arc giving Bargains in them now Examine Goods and Prices before IooId elsewhere tmOX ST 1 I Hi One of the most dangerous rogues Tho school at Dauphin Man who Is so busy regulating others burned but the five hundred children i f 1 Urge amount of money will bo in Improvements to the plant of Superior corporation at Marie according to Mr the right him- got out without mishap Loss Insurance George Cook was sentenced at London to a year too Cen tra Prison lor assaulting his sister Two of the crew of the schooner Atlanta now at were drowned off the fishing Toronto fund of the Italy A sent to the potation authorities the be settled by arbitration Also ia Consul at this City actions at law suits in equity- tliis City can furnish lots of wills differences between teu- girls who worship novel heroes ant and property owners may a vast majority of them prefer to an arbitrator There are men who can provide thorn with three certain matters which are referred to square meals a day arbitration by statute to Toronto apes to he British in sen- the expenses of prisoners laws Its three leading hotels are prisons disputes between hereafter known as the King Edward masters and working men also the Queens and the Prince George relating to savings banks to two of its theatres are named the the management of estates in Alexandra and the Princess and to the Metropolitan sewers yes Toronto has the jingo all The class of cases have been greatly right enough enlarged The Sydenham Club is the name of strike creates much fear in the the new Liberal organization ii this minds of the employer and the Already members have A custom which originated in been secured and it is said 500 more France has been followed by many are in sight The initiation fee is constitutions which is that the ture which nearly nineteen centuries it by arbitration Each country was attractions here in the general make- overwhelmed Pompeii and Hereun to be satisfied with the decree of the up of what is an interesting i This is common term business city I the region around Mon- of all arbitration laws Great The local executive committee was most affected The was appointed arbitrator and the British Association for the Ad- a the decided favor of the United States vancement of Science who will hold number was practically What would our destiny have been if their convention in Winnipeg next five were it ha1 not been by summer expect a highly successful tion meeting there being already so many Oh the horrors of war The last enquiries received in connection wifti agonies of the dving on the battle- transportation and accommodation field are awful Tfcn craving for a matters that the honorary sicreta- today He rushed into places cup of water of loved have appointed Mr S- Tyrell the rum was the greatest and ones whom they shall never see permanently in offices at the brought aid and encouragement to all again in this life We see around of Manitoba to give his whole bereft homes broken circles homeless time to the work of preparation orphans and widows bewailing the The Canadian Pacific Railway have Joss of their supporters fathers and created an Industrial Department Killed but many were injured Mon- the Bishop of to who distinguished himself in the earthquake of did valiant work mi Though a terrific rainstorm pre- vailed thousands of people abandon their homes and filled the air with lamentations and prayers In some husbands But why all this pain Gods creatures were kill Christs mission on I connection with their extensive offices and strife at Winnipeg for the purpose of not made development of cities earth towns and villages along its lines in herald the west and this end they will placed at and the annual fee is plover scares a portion of the profits about the same amount With this with the employees In such con- money and private contributions stitutions where arbitration is used handsome quarters will be purchased peace reigns A disposition to re- the club started If it dont place violent measures by peaceful prove the kind of a which the nitration is growing Tories say was brought into In year a prominent by the Albany Club whose Russia presented proposition cers tried to run the whole party ma- to the representatives of foreign veterans But along personal lines it maylernments at St Petersburg I disabled soldiers ami veterans be of use in this Conservative City suggested that a real durable peace was peaceful and did not the angles sing Glory to God in the have the cooperation of the and on earth peace goodwill of all bonds of trade who will toward men Why can we not have keep touch with W Peters who peace all the time A country is has been appointed to follow up all prosperous in places such as Brizzo San ta and the people had the courage to enter the churches almost while they were falling and carry out the pictures of the saints They bore these in procession thru the open country invoking the mercy of God In the moimtaneous regions inland the population has taken re- peaceful times debts enquiries of an industrial nature grottoes and caves where are not contracted trade flourishes place before them the advantages and and the people are happy War opportunities that exist along the makes great inroads in the public companys lines fund because war results in pensions to the widows and orphans to the use in The Italians of this City are lak- should exist and which all nations steps to raise a fund to aid their should try to preserve arid that all suffering countrymen in Italy and countries should stop arming and Sicily creasing their fleets The result was Four men who pride themselves on not what Russia wished because they their bowling abilities mot on the were suspicious of her But how- sidewalk one day last week when one ever all the countries sent couplo challenged the other to a j to a Conference at the Hague den death match toe losers to donate in the following year They decided to adopt a scheme of international arbitration which is in full promise for the future It will bo im portant step in the direction of set tling international disputes in the high courts of nations instead of on the Woody field of war Thus the a bag of flour to some City charity challenge was accepted and the losing couple at once sent a of flour to the House of Providence The winners won out by points Among the themes discussed on tho closing day of the Archaeological In stitute held in this City last week nations would adopt principle were St Johns Gospel in the paint- which has long since been in vogue of the Catacombs A Group of in regard to their people that of the Sculpture from Corinth The Hoof- legal in place of the violent redress ol the Propylaea at Athens and Excavations of in the Roman Forum and Near the Arch of Titus Toronto reelected Mayor for the civic chair- for of wrongs and settlements of dis putes A permanent court of arbi tration would bo established com posed men competent to deal with the questions likely to come before peasants and priests soldiers and persons of gentle birth are living in common Their bed is the ground The Christmas message to the and fires burn to keep off the wild an- from Premier of In alone there are set forth that the year just imals In alone there people homeless With peace this expense would not be closing as been a most bountiful one necessary and the money could ho the Province now being in a most- spent in building up and Improving successful and promising condition the country were just 0 verge for jCannitello and So if everything was settled development and the fi nan- arbitration we would find the whole world united as one country and peace would be universal 0 The Era Did It To the Editor of Era Dear Sir world was being attracted to- a The Monte Leone region has been devastated and Seminara San Giovanni Scille Lazzaro atvi all other communes and villages bordering on the straits are in ruins wardythat Province There was a It is feared that many foreigners spirit union among the people and have been killed as number oD tb they could expect to bring forth at Messina and doubtless much in the way of new industry other places were population and capital The cities of province bad every reasop to make merry this Christmas for the crowded with tag tor of Era regarding my Fountain Pen it the affairs of the system of telephones th the government of Manitoba Dunham of who Telephone business seeing your returned it tourists Tfee dead in Calabria and Sicily are v estimated at The Strait season had been one of the best in Messina have been altered and the position of the whirlpool hit has shifted- diately i am very grateful to you and to Mr Dunham Tho pea was a gift seven years ago Yours gratefully tor Send the Bra to Two brothers William and Louis were burned to death a is in evidence by the fact that a logging camp in stantfal reduction in rates will take plaeo In of the new year Residential phones under tho Bell con trol costing per year will be re duced to Business phones form er will see a reduction of from to per year Wherever Male a good article and tho people of its goodness and pie will buy it and continue buy it The truth statement proved by the success of a heavy was the westbound Christmas ginning of the new year mail this year that head officials of The final summing up of the recent our transcontinental roads wired or- voting on local option shows that the throughout the eastern half of veto carried in out of continent for passenger and freight palities and out ten where vote trains to be sidetracked in order that for repeal was taken only one mail trains- would make time En- successful that was in and firemen in whose charge where Winnipeg vote defeated were the trains that carried these temperance I J fi i