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The Eugrves more home every NORTH INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER Give rao liberty to know to utter and according to conscience all liberty AST No paper sent outside of North York unless paid in advance Single Each Newmarket Ont Friday Jan 1900 I Terms per annum i if paid in m YOUR flJl MO TO 11 A- Our whole Stock of Heaters of every description of Coal or Wood must be cleared out at for Gash Try our Coal Oils -o- CORN bushels Old American Yellow Corn direct from Chicago This consignment was bought on the recent break in prices and and The Horseless It doesnt ahy at Ah blow along the It no capers On danhboard with foot It doesnt paw tho bod up all around the hitching poat It doesnt tcaro at ay a man would at a ghost It doesnt gnaw manner It doesnt Ilia hay Nor put you into danger brass bandy play It makes lift wilt endeavor To switch away flics It abeds no hair that Gets in your mouth and eyes It speech along the never around For tiling that it may scare at spill you on ground mind the circus Its not at all afraid And it doesnt overwork the elephants parade It doesnt iear and quiver When train goes rushing by It doesnt stand and shiver When tho littlo fly It doesnt mind the thunder nor lightnings blinding flash It doesnt keep you chirping and con necting with the lash j It minds this banners Thoy display on holidays Its a thing of proper manners Which it in many ways When you chance to pass its stable You do not have to cam Or cluck for all To keep from stopping there will work all through the daytime and still bo fresh at night There is no to arrest you if you do not treat it right Its neer distress you Aa it moves along the way Farewell old Dobbins bless you You were all in your day Louisville our Journal GENERAL SIR Bullet Brit ah commander chief in the war with la a veteran soldier and has had In many wars He Is a big gruff fighter who more renowned as a military haltering ram than as a strategist Ho Is CO of age and because of his severe discipline Id heartily hated by officers seven years in Kingston peni tential Henry Parry found guilty of stealing a number of bicycles months in the Central George who was found guilty of highway on J Thome manager of Metallic Hoofing Company and King found guilty of the residence on street and resi dence on Huxley avenue will sentenced iti January Moore the 13yearold lad guilty of committing an inde cent assault on a girl under the age of was remanded until upon for his father going bail for 100 a petition signed by a large number of citizens who live in the locality as Moore and by the members of the jury recommending the boy to mercy The Tpansvaal A Victory SHORTS Pounds all fresh ground SALT Bbls Rices Pure Salt bought before the ad vance and will be sold at regular price 115 per All above must be sold within next two weeks to make room for further purchases Dec Parties K but the trick south of Lord position A large number of the Boers appeared on Christmas nain near the railway about twentynine south of A force of the Duke of Edinburghs own volunteers prepared to engage but the body of enemy at by the rising of tho River and are in trenched on the south side of the river not far from the British camp at Scientific The coming abundance ASSURANCE CO The Company has now enter ed upon its 74th year The following figures testify to its Stability Liber ality Popularity agin the New Year Accumulated Funds about Annual Revenue over Bonuses Already Claims Paid By The Central Tailor Shop And you it will be cheaper for long run We you perfectly as we Stock in Town besides the most experienced bands Mint can bo bod Compare our your and judge for yourselves Wishing you all A Happy Hew Year He Dr Cure for the Heart one Dose Helped In MinutesTwo Bottles Mrs K Pacific Ave Toronto was troubled with heart disease for years could not stand on a chair without growing dizzy going up stairs or suddenly startled brought on palpitation suffocation and intonse pains under the shoulder blades She tried many remedies was treated by heart specialists with out permanent relief She procured and used Dr Cure for the Heart She got relief within min utes after the first dose and before she bad taken two every symp tom of heart trouble had left her Sold by Lehman Bent- leys Pharmacy Newmarket The in the retired Another party fatofChwvdey The British patrols are in a British patrol camp during the night this isolated force of Wednesday Dec This was presumption is that an Victoria road An attempt was tempi will bo made to cut them off made cot far team that to dam- position age railway One man caught in the act and shot A Boor despatch says that on Dec part of Col BadenPowells force attacked a Boer fort at near preparing and changed His troops are for a gymkhana on a large scale for which there are 1380 entries A later despatch regarding the British victory at states During year 1898 Polices wore issued for The STANDARD baa investments in Canada amounting to over Four- teen Millions of Dollars Jas McLaughlin- BONUS Assure now and secure a share of the profits GEO HUNT District In lector J A in MY J Pollock Art Graduate of Ontario School art fcic flj The We roue a backlog which bid ma a yeu fend la CE and per DAVIS CO Main IS you want a Nicer than anybody a Cutler or the country call on Of any bind of a I small tsotiio very ones mid are all The lar3st tree in tho world is to he seen at near of Mount Etna and is called The Chestnut Tree of a Hundred Horses Its name rose from the report that Queen Jane of with her principle nobility took refuge from a violent storm under its branches trunk is two hundred and four feet in circumference The largest tree in the United it is said stands near Bear Crock North fork of River in California It measures one hundred forty in circumference The giant redwood tree in Nevada is hundred and nineteen feet in circumference Ladled Home Journal Dee Henry and Joe aged and years respectively pleaded guilty in the Po lice Court on afternoon to breaking into Flemings bookstore on Sunday and stealing money postage stamps school bags and toys were sentenced to two years in the Industrial School Tho Mag istrate would not allow boys to go homo Awaiting their departure to and then followed a pathetic senile The mother clasped the little fellows in her arms and sobbed for several minutes older sister took her other brother and treated him likewise while the father stood weep ing and police author ities have had much with follows for some time and this the ending of it were repulsed with a fight lasted two hour A loss of 169 killed and wounded and was from the prisoners enemy whose casualties were heavy London Jan follow- firU telegraphic message hag been re- The weeks sorties skirmishes re ceived by way of from Lady- and bombardments at smith dated Wednesday Dec various points where the British and Boers are actively bombard- confront each other so far as the town One shell struck the can be judged have had no effect upon Devonshire tent killing Captain the general situation at the seat of and wounding seven war ants Jan MajorGeneral French operating in the northeast section of Cape Colony won a brilliant victory over the at early yesterday morning driving them from town and occupying it town is of great strategic importance and had been strongly fortified by the and are in full communication While the signalling was in progress the Boers attempted to muddle the messages with flash lights from each extremity of their entrenched line naval bri gade took advantage of the posi tions which were plainly revealed by their own lights The naval batter resumed the shelling of the Boer who had been in possession for A British force part of a patrol from Dordrecht cut off their lire foiled to elicit any sign by the enemy on Saturday J e They held their own all night and on A debate from Cape dated Sunday were rescued by another force Wednesday Dee announces that an armored tram had restored The Boers retired hastily before the reinforcements los ing eight killed and twentytwo wounded The British los was only I three wounded The Boers attempted with Dordrecht where the Free State flag had been hauled down and that the Boers had been driven 1 ft the adjacent hills to The Best On South On Saturday morning in From net Daily lit raid Dec j Criminal Sessions Judge Macdougal The war in South Africa has caused the following sentences several publishers to advertise forth- j found guilty mo coming histories of that country We lnt l It at the Queens have several of the prospectus books before us One is from the pen of a who was in South limr- ago but is not t alt now Another is a fchah of Livingstones and Stanleys with a few od pages added newspaper reports and and scissors are re lied on to make up nearly all forthcoming books on South Africa But we are glad to know that South Africa with the added interest of the war is going to be the a object of one first book by the ben known authors of the present day and that same is not being run through with lighting speed but has been in preparation for several John Clarke author of Cyclopaedia of Universal History Life and Time of Gladstone His tory of the World etc id undoubt edly American historian living and the equal of any historian of any land He assisted Edward El lis ft A author of the Standard His tory of the United States a work that has made Mr Ellis a world wide repu tation A considerable part had al ready been written when hostilities commenced and a great number of photographs and drawings obtained while official sources wese of ac cess As war became a certainty arrange ments were made for direct correspon dence to the progress of events The work will all others as a record of the war and be incomparable in other respects It will he profusely and handsomely illustrated There will be about full page half tone executed in a style super ior to that of the largest American magazines and certainly in striking and beautiful to the illustra tions in the other prospectuses that we have seen These will comprise scenes in South Africa and sketches of the great battles many of which have been sent from South Africa direct to the publishers life like portraits of Lord Roberts Kitchener Col Otter Gen Joubert Paul Kroger and other prominent comuanders of the British Boer forces Of special in terest will the section devoted to the Canadian contingent which will be from the pen of Mr J A Cooper managing editor of the Canadian Meg and one of the ablest writers in the Dominion There will be twenty full page illustrations of the first Can adian contingent and equal justice will be done the second contingent now in course of organization A compari son of the prospectus of this book by the side of several others before us shows at a glance its great superiority in paper printing engraving and bind ing and yet the is no higher than the others Tne work is being published jointly by two of the largest wealthiest- publishing firms in the United States and a Canadian edition is being issued by the World Publish ing Company of Canada a firm that publishes only the best books a firm that has exported millions of books to foreign countries that has sent five hundred men to Australia and that has had a branch house in South Africa for the last nineteen years which it an immense ad vantage over any rival se curing photographs and material article from its representative being a special feature The contained in the work are the best we have yet seen- id South Africa Surely a fortune awaits the publishing firm and a rich harvest for the agents on a book and at such a time The call for agents by The World Publishing Company of for this great work will be found id another column century will offer an of work in engineering fields Sir Douglas Fox points out to British engineers the following of the problems of surpassing importance that are now opening up Trunk railways through China Persia Africa irrigation works to supply the wants of growing popula tions harbors large enough for the vessels of the future central to furnish lighting power trac tion and heating to whole counties the extension of telephonic communi cation with and without wires the abolition of the smoke and smell of cities the replacement of horse by mechanical power in the streets increase of the speed of trains to miles an hour the erection of tall buildings where land is valuable the utilization of waste products especial ly the refute of cities the improve ment of the watersupply recla mation of land the profitable deep seams of coal TRANSVAAL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE til of of or Couth lean Republic in meet 13 toils- coital or Mr Joseph Miller a highly farmer was struck by a train and killed at a crowing in Cardinal Paris Out Jan A bylaw to raise for the erection of a new Central School was defeated at the polls today by ft majority of Jan 1 With only hour notice 18 men of battery contingent from Winnipeg left today for Kingston en route to Trans vaal Thousands of citizens were at the depot and cheered And cheered again as train- left for east The men are a finelooking lot and will do credit to Canada Stick of I doubt if any boy or girl in the United is not familiar with tho appearance and taste of stick licorice Most of the black licorice comes from Spain where it is made from the juice- of the licoriceplant mixed with starch to prevent it from melting in hot weather The grows for most part on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers which flow through immense treeless of uncultivated land The climate of these great plains- is variable Half this year it mild and pleasant hue for three months it is very cold and for three months in summer hot winds sweep across the country raising temperature to degrees for weeks at a time The licoriceplant shrub about three feet high and grows without cul tivation in situations where its roots can reach the water The usual time of collecting the winter but are dug all the year ground At first root is full of water and must bo allowed to dry a process which takes nearly a year is cut into from six inches to a foot long The good and sound pieces are kept and the rotten ones are for firewood The licorice is taken then in native river boats to whence it is shipped in pressed to London and again from then to America where is used in largo quantities in manufacture of to- the valley of the Euphrates con tained of civilizations in the world it is probable that licor ice is about the oldest in world and that taste nearly all children like today was familiar to the brown of Babylon aad Nineveh three thousand years ago The express with a freight at Grafton Monday afternoon Engineer Brown had a leg broken Three locomotives smashed The hot water pipes attached to stove at Rev A Mao Williams residence Hamilton exploded on Sun day morning mashing the And damaging furniture in room A