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TheERA rives more home news ever week than any two acknowledged be tending County Paper Mi NORTH INTELLIGENCER AND mo liborty to know to and according to above all ADVERTISER 10 outside of North York unites paid in advance Copioa fiaoh Newmarket Ont Friday Dec 22 A few suggestions on the many useful to at G A Plated Tea Pots Fancy Granite Tea and Coffee Pots 50c to 150 Skates Spring 45c 50c Hockey 50c to 350 Shin Pads all leather 50c 75c Hockey Sticks 25c Childs Sets Knife Fork Spoon set White Handle Knives best makes 250 to 500 dox Forks and Spoons 40c to Scissors in every style at all prices Razors straps and shaving brushes very cheap Pocket Knives from to 150 assortment Bread Boards 20c 75c each Bread Knives Quick Cut each Bread Trays newest shape Plated each Wringers the Royal Canadian inch rolls Carpet Sweepers Cyco Bearing 3 each Carving Sets a beautiful assortment 75c to 5 Granite Sets a fancy plate cup and saucer and Bread Boxes 4 sizes 75c Rifles Guns Revolvers c Toy Stoves 40c Iron Banks And endless other useful articles J Terms per annum I if paid in advance The high up on crest pin- drink air of tin rut tod And bit ltd In the Hit root down to rock below top to start Da knew tut a longing to grow and grow Till all of the wood admired ilia Iravea of the forest round Were scattered and trcea And the pine on the heart ground The tribute fall men a Thai bit at the item And when hey retraced carried the pine thecal to wind and the friendly to the dew and rsfn would I had lived til my work was dona Hut Ive grown and hoped In vain Tat the end was not for they set And In a comer tight And In timed Ms branches to decent With candles and tinsel bright Till at the eve of a Chrhtmaa day Wat given last last touch And lad and a lit- with facta gay wondering much Bo the heart of the pine ere life was sped Thrilled deep with a Joyous thought Messed an hour of a child he old nor died for NEWMARKET Joy to th Consumer of our FR The Best the Markets afford in Raisins Currants Peels Nuts c c Our Sugar lbs for is a Beauty Our Mix Candy lbs for is the Acme of Perfection In fO Feet shod for snow and ice If not cajand flu We can suit you in goods and price Saskatchewan Robes 8 50 Saskatchewan Mitts 175 Our aim is not only a fair price but the best quality at that price J Tin centra iM la wit fix tow extra and sorb Johnston Sox ft Toronto If you are not a subscriber to the Era Send for a trial trip of months Oar Toronto tetter The woman who marries a to reform him seldom lives long enough to finish the job A drunken wretch appeared in the police court a short time ago on a charge of assaulting his wife and during the examination of the bruised and almost heartbroken woman she told the court that the man was given to taking an occasion al glass before she married him but she then had hopes that he would give it up for her sake after their marriage She had since been made to realize that her fond hopes and his fair promises were all a delusion This is not an isolated the lesson goes on unheeded Upwards of entries were made to the poultry caged birds pigeons rabbits and cat show now be ing hold in this city It will close Friday evening The Prisoners Aid Association is now looking to a paternal govern ment for money to cany on its Most people think prisoners are too fondled for the safety of the state On the 14th while jumping from his waggon Fred Phillips a driver for the Ontario Brewing Malting Co slipped and broke his leg in two places He was taken to the hospital The Toronto Junction Tribune thus records a case of Wife Elopement During the absence of Mr Thomas Johnston of Jane street his wife eloped with a man named Hall of North Toronto taking with them a little child and a waggon Joad of household furniture Mr Johnston followed the couple to their new home entered the house found the child in the hallway grasped it in his and returned home with it He is now anxious to get his furniture back 111 getting ready for removal from the old court house to the new some curious relics of the past are being un earthed From a document recently brought to light it is learned that the Surrogate Court of York County has been in existence since the th of August 1800 The first application put in was that of James Nash of York County Since the establish ment of the there have been 1961 applications granted Of these 1236 were wills the vest being ad ministrations guardianships and ad ministrations with wills annexed The Good Roads Convention has come and gone Government aid in the maintenance of leading provincial roods and county control of main roads were the two principles adopt ed The abolition of statute labor is evidently a coming change in road making W Dunn a elerk at the Par liament buildings who haa been in custody days on a charge of steal ing two very valuable diamond rings from Mrs Harry Nolan was this morning sentenced by Police Magis trate to 60 days in the jail A sad accident occurred in the Do minion Paper Bo factory Friday afternoon Ethel a 16-year- old girl was feeding a press when her loft hand got caught between the plates and was crushed and lacerated before the machinery could be stopped The girl was to Emergency hos pital where is was found necessary to amputate tire hand at the wrist Written specially for the Br Our King- SARD ye earth the song the angels sang As they descended from the courts on high In dazzling splendor came the seraph throng Down the broad of the vaulted sky To bring glad tidings of good will and peace The harbringer to man of his release Yn hills of Bethlehem did not thrill From summit unto base as neer before To hear the loud acclaims of peace good will And glory unto God for evermore While shepherds heard and saw the wondrous sight Fell prostrate to the eartn with sore affright No song more potent to the human race full of promise to the stricken earth Foretold by prophets should een there take place While angels loud proclaimed Messiahs birth That Christ earths King had come the Word made flesh That man might be restored to God afresh Since first the morning stars together sang Of all the wonders and creative skill Of God the Architect who praises rang Throughout the Universe and echo still And will continue down the centuries Trll time shall be no more as God decrees Wise men unknown to each with one accord Journeyed with haste fiom regions distant far Expected too a Saviour long deferred Felt certain of his advent by the star Rejoice when they the infant Christ behold Pour out to him their precious gifts and gold The glory of that midnight scene surpassed The brightness of the brightest noonday sun Neer seen again till Christ returns at lastj With angel cohort all earths battles won To meet Him in the air His saints shall rise And dwell with Him forever in the skies Awake O earth break forth in joyous song I Crown Christ your King this closing century Let warfare cease and righteousness prolong The nations peace in Gospel liberty When all shall know Him and their trophies bring And own Him Lord of all their rightful King P Richmond Hill Dec 15th Babbie Deo 16 After Thsc hat night an axle of a mult and it looks as though it Conductor go out in a tumult It is a a k nor of instantly fourteen civilization that during the last year of the nineteenth century wars and rumors of wars are rife throughout cars at mid train were piled in a heap and much of the torn up No out of Joint There is still abundant evidences that the world had progress heavy Ont Deo The since the dark ages The moral j fine residence of Magistrate the race is indeed was burned to the but it is none the less euro We hope ground at last evening Nothing the twentieth century will start in all J was saved Fire supposed to have right been caused by the furnace Insured South Dutch A list been drawn upas follow of Dutch words in common use in South Africa and which are now with more or less frequency in Avar dcapKtchos ground Alrang slope Held Baal bay path toad Baas master brook bee Berg mountain Burg city town blue flower Boom tree spring Brock marsh poor bridge Bosch wood forest Dal valley thorn briar Dorp village Fontein fountain spring district yellow green corner edge Hout wood timber Huis house Keel clay Kloof crevice Kop head hill Kopje- hillock Kraalcrow local governor Loop course channel Luipaard leopard mud pretty Lords Supper Pan hollow Spruit offshoot tributary south The word Transvaal is literally the yellow or yellowishbrown river Rand short for is pronounced as if spelt rant Kopje a hillock or a piece of rising ground is not but Dr patronymic is pronounced The Boer Parliament House is called the and the Parlia ment the Volksraad the being sounded like P Berg is mountain the plural being formed by the addition of en after the drift is a ford means town and pro nounced vinkle a store where almost everything is sold Fontein as the name implies means spring and a cliff or precipice pronounced is an open plain covered with To trek is to travel voortrekkers meaning pioneers A flay is a pool of water mostly in the rainy season is the term of contempt applied to Britishers and means redneck it is not infrequently prefixed by the adjec tive verdombe baatjec is Cape Dutch for Tommy Atkins or redcoats A steep pro nounced stoop is a raised platform in front of a house something like a verandah on which the Boer like to take his weed Slim often applied to General Joubert is cunning or artful or slangly speaking fly Baas pronounced so is master and baas op up Mr name pronounced Placenames in Natal bear evidence that at various times the land bis been occupied by natives and at least three European races the English the Portuguese and the Dutch Natal itself Portuguese word for Christ mas gives proof as to the nationality of the discoverers and the day of the discovery Dutch connexion is shown in the names of the capital called after and Gert two of the early pioneers and its chief streets Berg Loop and Boom street or the place of weeping and or Murder Spruit tell of the dark days when slaughter ed the Dutch in cold blood Dundee and Glencoe evidence the Scottish com position of these settlements It may be mentioned as an interesting fact that a largo number of the leading Natal officials are Scots The Colon ial Treasurer the Colonial Secretary the General Manager of railways the AuditorGeneral the Superintendent of education and the SurveyorGener al all hail from the Land Cakes and Fort Na pier the citadel of the capital named after Cape Governors are a reminder that Natal was for a short period part of the older colony of the Cape of Good Hope Weekly- Supplement to the Leeds GO 25 Council Council met pursuant to on Friday last Mayor in the chair Present Messrs Robertson Road- Hughes Smith and Following bills parsed P J Anderson rubber coats and boots A reit pound 00 J 5 David Millard teaming 3 Hunter do do on watering Noble labor Mr King cleaning market chimneys OBrien labor service at power A merchandize Bailey carting J Caldwell glazing at market I M lumber account P J Andcison Stick wood B material J Fierheller J A Allan Co merchandize Telegraph Co The following accounts were refer red to Fire and Light Committee and to be paid if found correct viz Canada Gen Electric Co Era printing etc 88 The offer of Davis to supply five toise of stone at per toise was accepted The communication from the Legis lative Com of the Ontario Assembly re amendments to Municipal Law was referred to Finance Committee The report of the Board of Health was accepted as satisfactory Moved by Mr Robertson seconded by Mr That the accounts of Royal Co dated Nov for cents be paid that the account of the Canadian Gen Electric Co dated Nov for 3000 Nov for and Nov for be paid and that the Mayor do issue his war rant on the Treasurer therefor Carried and motion of the same persons the accounts of The Wrn Cane Mfg Co amounting in to were also ordered to be paid The Treasurers annual statement of receipts and disbursements to Dec were presented and referred to Finance Committee with instruc tions for the same tone printed ac cording to law The Council then adjourned Elbow is the essficntial oil of industry flofc So Bad A subscriber to the Era in the seat us the following and thinks would be a good item to print Uvea poor oil remind w toil dont stand a More we work we behind patches on On our once new glossy now patched up different hue All becAQte linger and won at what is Then let all be op and doing tend mite however email Or when enow of winter we J have no pants at all After a longways after Wash Dec Hong Kong mail advice state that another FrancoChinese war is imminent over the delimitation of French leased territory at Bay on the Tonkin border Marshal Chinas most famous general and the victor of the battle of Liang Shan in the Franco- Chinese war was sent Bay with 30000 well drilled troops He bore special orders from the Empress dowager to uphold the Chinese cause and fight if necessary without further A skirmish between Chinese and Frnch troops followed his refusal longer temporize over boundary negotiations a dozen Frenchmen were wound- and sixty Chinese Marshal is preparing for a big fight A man named wanted on charges of horsestealing and burglary was caught at Mono Road by Con stable his son after an ex citing chase during which Perdue shot fugitive In the log a