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J MANY PEOPLE Have Eye Troubles who never suspect It They take medicine or and pains when the proper cure IS- We Test Your Eyes Carefully Watchmaker ang Graduate Optician i The EfiA gives more home very week than any two other in North York combined and is acknowledged to be the Leading County Paper i YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER No paper cent outside North York unless paid in advance to United State Give liberty to know to and to argno freely according to conscience above all other liberty Buy in the City or from peddlers We keep a good assort ment Our Prices are as low as any and we are RIGHT HERB to make good our Guarantee j Jewelry Store Copy eta Each I Newmarket Friday Jan TERMS per annua if paid in advance We And on our floors too many Heating Stoves and decided to Clear them out at the following Reduced Prices AH goods First Class and Guaranteed to give Satisfaction Prime Coal Heater for 600 625 860 1050 1300 1400 3000 3000 Open Grate Coal and Wood No Huron Coal and- Wood No Winner Oak Coal and Wood No Grand Jewel Oak 1400 No Cheerful Oak Coal and Wood Fairy Oak with Oven Coal and Wood 1750 No Oakdalo Huron Coal and Wood Walker Oak Oven Coal and Wood No Aladdin Parlor Cook No Brilliant Favorite Oven No Brilliant Favorite Oven 4200 No- Art Garland Oven Jewel Oven WE WILL HAVE 3 BIG LONG MONTHS OF WINTER YET if C ms Toronto Rev A Sutherland who has been 111 for some time past was so far recovered as to be able to attend an official meeting of the Missionary Board days ago A nervy till tapper obtained at butcher and store 206 Patrick street last week The entered tlic store with an oil can and ordered coal oil is kept in an outhouse While Mr Alexander was out the can the customer slipped be hind the counter and abstracted the contents of the cash drawer The Club will be the name of the new social organisation to be established by the Liberals of A MORRILL SON OF ELD ENTERTAININGLY yk the prairie gold in the setting son rolled away to the east till lost in our hearts that God had given us its day which to work for Him and Exciting Horseback Ride Zero Weather in South Fifteen Mile Ride to Hold Religious Services The Mexican Sheep-Herd- Some Interesting Sights the deepening blue of he Cave Hilts glad at last that it was over Far out- on the plain a solitary Cot ton wood marked spot where at certain times in the year a few cups of bitter alkali water might be found to disappoint the thirsty traveller Away to the left seemed to be merely a black spot on the face of the- prairie proved to be the low building of the Lazy ranch and there in the deepening twilight could be seen little bands of horses or cattle quietly eating their fill of rich M that at its close we had a place to which we could go where could rest our weary bodies MORRILL Manitoba Letter We finally reached the log school Iff gated at f the and found it wclifdlcd All around f2 MMA rp rf Worses slowly began the building there were drawn up conveyances of all descriptions from the province in Toronto is the price membership and will seek to boss the whole Province for the Liberals of Ontario and thats just where it will overreach itself List Thursday was the Chinamens New Years Day One of the first requisites for a Celestial to cele brate the day properly is to be out of The custom would be help to the Canadians were they to adopt it also The loss to the citizens of this City last year by fire totalled j descent still held in the magic spell conventional buggy to wK ranch wagons with boards across the boxes for seats from the back of which the horses were were sitting before the stove in the low dining room ranch house when The Boss came in and suggested that we ride into town two miles distant for the mail horses were soon saddled and a few minutes later their hoofs were merrily ringing on the hard frozen their grain while ground The thermometer stood at at some distance beyond a number of zero and the horses which had been saddle horses tethered by stake or in the stable all day wanted to go hobbled with a bit of string were Faster and faster they moved until quietly grazing from a trot they went into a lope I From the school house came the and as we turned from the road sound of voices in conversation and a across the fiat they broke into a rim laughter which was quickly now turning sharply to avoid a clump as we entered the building the sage brush which would seem to pie packing into the seats as the new suddenly rise out of the ground now Sky pilot was introduced to them leaping a gully which would unex- Winnipeg Jan The coming building season in Winnipeg accord ing to every Indication will be a very good one The most important real estate transaction of the winter in the city was concluded last week in the purchase by the Great West Life Assurance Co of feet frontage on Lombard St for SI the pro perty was purchased as a Site for a large reinforced concrete office build- Oi Camp Cook Putting our horses up at the livery stable we made our way to the hotel for supper to say the meal did not de mand a great deal of our time so was soon disposed of Borrowing a lamp at the hotel we started for the where we found a far different reception from that of the The company will build a sub- morning The building was dark and station for the convenience of was no fire- Pushing open the who have located alongside door we entered and lighted our lamp We soon found other lamps which we cleaned and lighted Kind- other large industrial concerns locat ing which the company proposes to erect in the early spring The Canadian Pacific Railway have purchased a large strip of property feet wide and nearly two miles in length in the western portion of the of the property and it is rumored that there are negotiations on for PAINTS I j PHONE STOVES PUTTY OILS AND FURNACES PLUMBING AND TIN SMITHING NEWMARKET ONT NEWMARKET I ATTENTION DEPOSIT L FIELD MANAGER The walls of the low log room were 7 e cleaned This was over appear in the fitful of covered with grey building paper the less than the previous vear the full moon Down a draw up a monotony broken at intervals by th Marion Archer who was last week hillock and our horses were on the groups of pictures selected and ar- bell swung charged with forgery was sent to road again for a straightaway ranged by the school inarm the Childrens Shelter As they reached the road both horses Across the front of the room stretch- were running neck and neck at the a dilapidated blackboard still bear- top of their speed testimony with its plus minus A cry from The Boss and we equal to the weekday struggles saw that the wire gate at the end of the rising generations A huge stove The International Game and Fish Protection Association a con vention in this City last week A Provincial welcome was extended by LieutGovernor Gibson two three the pasture which was usually down members of the Ontario Government had- been put up by someone Mayor Oliver They made we threw our weight against important amendments to the the hit to drag tihe horses to their laws looking to the more severe pun- haunches but it was too late Even offenders Hon Dr we saw it there was a crash as Reaumc entertained the delegates a a j both horses hit the gate together dinner in the Speakers Chambers at j For a moment their was a whir of above the level of the floor a bench the Parliament Buildings during the tangled wire flying splinters and had been placed and from this van- convention struggling horses it was all point we reviewed the crowd Dr John Noble is making a strong before we had time to think but we effort to secure Dr Richardsons found that we were in the saddle place as jail surgeon but Dr R though somewhat shaken up A hasty who has Dr Richard- examination showed no damage done sons assistant for some time and beyond a slight cut in the shoulder of who lives near tne jail is also a for- one of the animals candidate Dr aged gate The glowed in the middle of the room its ravenous appetite being appeased from time to time by a small boy who car ried in surprising large chunks of pitch pine which roared and crackled in blazing protest at the confinement On a platform raised a few inches we came upon the school bell swung within the city a few inches from the ground on a VicePresident William I weatherworn support This seemed of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway fortunate and we set to work to Co who is in the West made public summon the people of the town to important statements in connection service The first stroke of the bell J with- the extension of feeding lines to sent the cold chills racing down our their system this week A branch backs We stopped and looked atjfrom Melville across the each other The bell was cracked Valley to is contemplated An I Again and again it sent forth its airline from Brandon to will anchor peal until we almost expect- be rushed to completion in the early to see the fantastic creations of spring A line will be constructed Poe Twain or Bangs stalk solemnly south from Winnipeg as well as a branch line from to Prince Albert A line to connect Battle- ford with the main line will connect at In Alberta another which filled the benches crowded the doorway and even sought places on the edge of the platform itself What a crowd that was Here was a flannelshirted cow puncher and a badly dam- who had been hunting stray cattle and accident however had dropped in to sec what was go by After a short interval we again sounded the bell and then waited for Our audience We did not have long to wait Except for the occasional services conducted by an elderly starting from preacher grown in the running southwest to Calgary The rapid railway development in western Canada is attracting piece of construction is pro- jected starting from and CALL ON US WHEN YOU NEED if correspondent recollects right- did not dampen the spirits of the on on his finger a ring bearing a son of trie late Rev Richard- horses any and a quit trip was made seal of a wellknown college town and back to the ranch University of Virginia The next day was Sunday and a replied late when guest as to busy one so we all turned in early his Alma Mater Behind him sat a Hardly had the lights been put out young dentist also an Eastern col- it seemed when the voice of The lege man whose clothes gave evidence Boss was heard announcing break- of the latest cut while through the fast The fires had not started doorway peered the dark face of a so the room was cold for the win- Mexican sheepherder whose relation with the law in his own Lumber Shingles DOOR RIGHT I QUALITY AND PRICE son with one arm and who for many years was travelling agent of the Upper Canada Bible Society an old M Bishop before the union With her distracted pacing the floor of her meagre dwelling wringing her hands and calling her child sobs and the police de partment of Toronto looking for her as a lost child tenyearold walked the slushy streets of this city from 330 Wednesday after noon till am on Thursday morn ing and it all was the outcome of her playing truant from school For tunately the weather was mild being brought home the child rushed into her mothers arms and both cried together The child wont play vice of his Lord there hud been lit tle pica in the town Mis was a welcome diversion Soon the schoolhouse was filed benches and chairs being brought in to accommodate th- crowd Among the first to v re two men both partially under ilk influence of liquor- wide attention at present United States ConsulateGeneral Dr at Winnipeg in reporting the situation to his government in the daily consul report of Jan 5tn says The two with fairly tt- Why Not Use COAL AND HAVE THE BEST THATS MINED ft W E3 A SJ Corner Church and ORDER PHONE 5G OR CARTERS JOS WESLEY AND FRED HOOVER had been left open all night for ventilation but a sponge bath in good cold water which had frozen in the pitcher during the night and which still had the tinkling ice needles in it followed by a brisk rub down soon had the warm blood driving thru our bodies If were any traces of sleep left in our eyes after the effects of the cold water they were It soon developed that one of them facilities and another partially had come somewhat under the com- j constructed are taxed to the limit to pulsion of the other and becoming market the product from tired of waiting for the service to of land now devoted to cereals start was about to make his escape in the Canadian middle west when he was detected by his cording to reliable statistics there are ion recapiured and seated on the ISOnooOOO acres suitable for cultiva- fi disobedient school- lion As the commercial and man- strained a mariner A metropolis of the West of he attempt to leave met the same this estimate of possibilities means si 1 I i -ON- Tweed Suits will be popular next Spring We are giving Bargains in tfcem now Examine Goods and Prices before looking elsewhere MAIN ST I MERCHANT TAILOR truant any more one nights dispelled by the rush oi cold air that was enough greeted us as we went out to the Dr James If Richardson jail stir- stable to feed our horses This done has tendered his resignation we returned to the house where we to the condition of his health did justice to a good breakfast of was honorably con and sourdough pancakes become come to this land where no questions are asked The women the congregation were no less interesting for by the side of the toilworn pioneer woman who by the side of her husband had endured the hardships of the danger ous Indian days when the country was still young sat the- daintily- dressed girl who had been away to school and in this great land of fate as the first and- resulted in his to Winnipeg Whatever other having his fur coat and cap taken or districts may grow friend which removed all in the Canadian West none of his escape Surety this can detract from the strategic was a revelation in the method of so- position of the- Gateway City and curing holding an audience jail must pay tribute to great- On the front seat of another row From ail directions it- is the sat a burly bearded giant who rolled natural centre for supply for govern- a big chew of tobacco in his mouth There being no provision made in the wav of cuspidors he was forced to equality no one seemed to note the difference supply the deficiency by frequent trios In one corner of the room was proi- the door throughout the service a battered which noisy stamping of his hob- acquitted of the charge of perjury be- Breakfast over we saddled up and under the coaxing of a puncher who boots not seeming to lowed he could rope a few chords him in the least made a spasmodic effort to keep with j The singing was a decided improve- the congregation as they sang The that at the former service singing was not what might be called being better accustomed to a success it had a tendency to sing the organist better musician bring to ones memory the close 0 a larger instrument Western harmony of the college campus at though even it had few notes which on rider the close of exam week The insisted on playing continuously ond verse was somewhat of an However when these would first and by the the chords being played they the chorus the would swell the volume and when fore Mr Justice Riddel in the started for Midland a little settle- jury assizes last week ment some miles north of Camp Old Mrs Agnes Mcpherson aged the Montana line years was up before the police court t where we were to hold services last week for drunkenness and as this The sun was shining brightly as we was not the first time she got six swung out across the prairie at a months at the Mercer foxtrot the gait of tie Claiming to he years old a tot- horse which is easy alike toning old negro bowed down with and animal and can be kept up for age and almost blind stood up in the hours covering a surprisingly long over dock at the Police Court to answer distance To the east the prairie time we reached a charge of nonsupport of his wife rolled away till it was lost in the vi- last verse the organ had secured a they refused to harmonize no one aged After both had had their of the Cave Hills To the left fair lead while leader and congrega- to care say and the Colonel had a heart to the Long Pine Hills marking the tion were making a gallant struggle the service an oner- heart talk he let the old tana line rose a few miles to the for second place though somewhat taken an offering which man who with his wife promised west Fifteen miles ahead a solitary than a line behind compared with the size of the not to give any more trouble from the level plains The service ended score of men audience would put to shame for commerce and administra tion and the one place from which all industries can be controlled and di rected The future of the West is therefore a part of the development of Winnipeg destined one day to be come a commercial capital Town Recovers Part of Bonus Three people had a narrow escape por a from fatally poisoned on of we rode through the went out to the wagons and brought offerings taken in the old organized time the pasture a pas- in great baskets of eatables which the of the East One poor Rome Jan The gravest prob- J O was burned to tern which Italy now faces is that ot deaib at Quebec in a fire that tor the refugees the building dado homeless by the recent earth- think you are being served as well as you can be put have you tasted day evening of last week They had ture enclosed by miles of fence women opened spreading the contents fellow came forward and eaten some canned tomatoes The Leaving this we started northwest on the desks and soon everyone was throwing two silver dollars on the elder of the three had to be taken to across the prairie passing along the busily engaged satisfying their appe- front desk said There Mr Preach- the Hospital edge of a large irrigating ditch and tites for this was special occasion er I havent been to church tci About oclock last Friday morn- jwerc soon at the foot of the Long and there was to be two services years You can have all got J A either by accident pine Hills just beyond where lav the Dinner oyer the people again the saloon has the And little school house toward which we their places in the seats which that same audience sat two of the or design fell from a window in storey of the King Edward Ho- were making our way eloquent evidence of the latent skill arid crashed on the sidewalk a Just before leaving the flat our a of countless embryo wood carvers A lifeless mas6 Deceased was a dry was attracted by a number announced but the organist The magi pies air above a over to see but was soon controlled Jay the com- if were circling l the not oe a services Imperial Oil Works at llttie hollow Riding in search of him located him The last hymn finally the whoU towa A fi what had drawn these with another cowboy outside busily benediction pronounced and plains our at the door Sicily Their support is costing proximately a day an which neither charity nor goods merchant at Windsor fall was about flO feet Toronto is badly overcrowded It has accommodation for but I scavengers of the plains our ears engaged swappin horses the number of prisoners last greeted by the whirr of wings as- Tho second service passed was Over 60 of these prisoners grown eagle rose to view from what more smoothly than have been sentenced to the Central the shelter of the hollow and soared the people being remarkably hut that institution is so full that away to the east Even as we and we were soon in they cannot bo removed watched this huge bird another and again on our way homy from the hollow saloon men of the town for surpris ing as It may seem they are the most regular attendants the London Ont Jan A rather unusual case was settled at the Win ter Assizes this morning when the Town of Wiarton secured from the Canada Furniture Company which it was claimed had not car ried out an agreement which it had entered with the town When the company to ton they had guaranteed to fulfill tain stipulations and on this account received a bonus from the city The agreement it was claim ed had not been carried out to the letter by the company and there fore the town entered action for dam ages against the company By the decision of the court the town was given damages while the company must bear all ex- pens of the action The explosion of a tank at the I f a i the VSalada Tea Its the purest and last the one had gone Without a word books were packed up blown on Sunday morning totally it with the content In- another th hollow As again came to the top one tt fourteen bead stock The REPEAT four of these great birds were divide we popped our to he closing horses were which neither charity nor in the world AH Cure will always cure my sailing the last one carrying a appreciate the view us we resources of the can bear toHCtoua jack rabbit in his talons which stretched before us For slowly rode back to toe any length or time r iiMHl i sought our horses and on the ranch in stents amounted to J ARCHIVES OF ONTARlS TORONTO