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V I I l I The Era gives more home news every week than any two other papers in North York combined arid is ackaowlcdgedtb he the Leading County Paper mo the to know to uttor NORTH YORK INTELLIGENCER AND ADVERTISER to freely according to conscience other libe N paper cent outside of North paid in advance No Copies Gents Kaoh J Newmarket Friday Feb YOUR 1 TO A- Our whole Stock of Heaters of every description of Coal or Wood must be cleared out at for A Try our Coal Oils Wheat anted Bushels White Wheat Wanted Bushels Oats Wanted 20000 Bushels REMEMBER WE DO CHOPPING EVERY DAY The By request wo publish this song written by Kipling and first published in the London Daily Mail It has been playing a prominent part II ft great many patriotic When youve shouted Rule When sung God save the Queen When youve finished killing Kruger with your mouth Will you kindly drop a shilling in ray For a gentleman in khaki ordered south lies an absentminded beggar and his weaknesses are great But wo and Paul must take him as we find him Ho is out on service wiping something off a slate And bos loft a lot of things behind Dukes son cooks son son of a hundred kings- Fifty thousand horse and foot going to Table Bay Each of doing countrys work and whos to look after their things Pom the hat for your credits sake and pay pay pay There are girls he married secret asking no permission to For ho knew he wouldnt get it if he did There is gas and coals and and the house rent falling duo And more than likely thoros a kid There are girls he walked with theyll be sorry now hes gone For an beggar they find But it the time for sormotiSi with the winter 00 Wo must help the girl that Tommys left behind him Cooks son Dukes son son of a belted Earl Son of a Lambeth publican its all the same today of em doing his countrys work and whos to look after the girl Pass the hat for your credits sake and pay pay pay There are families by thousands far to proud to beg or speak And theyll put their sticks and up spout And theyll live on half nothing paid em punctual once a week the man that earned the wage is ordered out an absentminded beggar but he heard his countrys call And his regiment didnt need to send to find He chucked the job and joined it job before us all Is to help the home that Tommy left behind him Dukes job cooks job baronet groom News or palace or paper shop theres some one gone away Each of em doing his countrys work and whos to look after the room Pass the hat credits sake and pay pay pay Lot manage so as later we can look in the face And tell him what hed very much prefer That white he saved the Empire hie employer saved his place And hie mates thats you and me looked out for her an absent minded beggar ho may forget it all But wo do not want his kiddies to remind him That we sent them to workhouse while their daddy hammered Paul well help the home our Tommys left behind him Cooks home Dukes homo home of a millionaire Fifty horse and foot going to Table Bay of em doing his countrys work and what have you to spare Pass the hat for your credits sake and pay pay pay 111 ASSURANCE CO The Company has now enter upon its 74th year The following figures testify to its Stability Liber ality Popularity Written for he Era The Man With the Jug Funds about 15000000 Annual Revenue over Bonuses Already declared Claims Paid A Careful Fitter During year Polices wore issued for STANDARD lias investments in Canada amounting to over Four teen Millions of Dollars BONUS makes a fityllflh garment The cutting and ore quite Important the material Get your clothes liere and three Hems will bo all right Our prices arc not too high for you but theyre to Insure you tho best workman ship and material my Assure now and a share of the profits GEO HUNT District Inspector J A Agent Lemons in Painting BY J Pollock Art Graduate of Ontario tiohool Cor Timothy Main Sis market PIASTER guarantee that will relieve quicker than any other Put op only In yard The latter allows you to cut any Every family should quo ready for emer gency I SiHiraof I We bear of by made For diverse occupations high and low Who wield the sword the pen plow the spade And last of all the man who vields the hoe All these are useful in a thousand way a And render to race of man Are laudable pursuits deserving praise Preserving order in mundane plan But who hag yet produced for poets pec The man who with his jug from day to day Repairs to get it filled at any den Where rum is sold if he has ought to pay Behold him as he walks the public street His garments fluttering in the wind With hat and almost shoeless feet Ho staggers on with dull mind Protruding from his pocket may bo seen The fatal jug that lays its victims low He drinks alas I some comfort there to glean But with each draught he to deeper woe blood shot eyes with idiotic stare Betray faot that mental poise is gone They roll from side to side with hungry glare A fearful spectacle to look upon bloated features caused by much excess Betoken little of the face divine The ways sin have kept their dire impress Besotted bleared with haste his steps decline His fiery thirst he cannot satiate The fiendish draught increases the desire Till maddened by the he meets hie fate Iosb for aye where ail his hopes expire Oh ye whose gifted pens the world receives Wield them wipe the evil from the earth And you will many blessed sheaves While nations bless the day that gave you birth Richmond Hill 1900 P Grant The Fop West Ontario MAKES A tiRKS310N OTTAWA Toronto World Everybody applauded when Isaac J Gould of West Ontario arose to move the address He has a David cast of countenance an and a He knew speech well and it was given with good Ho glowingly described the prosperity of the country and said that it was all due to the Government A new Can ada has arisen he declared and the Ministerial cheered To press home his point ho quoted figures and prophesied that greater things yet were m store for the country THE WAR More attention was paid to his words concerning the Transvaal war Though the British Empire had met with some reverses yet the ultimate end would be a triumph for British arms It would all result in a together of all parts of the Em The speaker was heard in ab solute silence as he declared that principle that Parliament should con all moneys was a grand one as it was always a liberal one Yet there were times when quick action was needed and when the spirit and not the letter of the law had to be con sidered GOVERNMENT HAD LONE In the matter of the contingent he believed the Government had done right The Imperial Government had strengthened hand of the Govern ment though some persons claimed Government had not gone far enough and had not paid as much as it should Yet the Imperial Govern ment was satisfied What the Cana dian Government proposed to do was to pay cot of recruiting and transporting the soldiers to South Africa but as soon as they reached soil they came under Imperial control and received Imper ial pay Yet the Government intend ed to deposit in Canadian banks the difference between the Canadian and the British rate of pay for the benefit of the soldiers dependents Mi Gould quoted figures to show that our foreign trade increased in the three years since by 110 less than He showed from the trade navigation returns that this increase was greater by than in the IS years from to But great as had been the in crease in the past three years the present fiscal year bade fair to sur pass it by many millions The fowl foreign trade for the six mouths end ing Dec was 203000000 which was within a million of the full trade of the year and within 000000 of the full trade for the year exports for the six months were greater by than for the full year and within of the full trade for If the present rate of increase contin ued to the end of this year we would touch the mark Our highest foreign trade under the late Administration was and if expectations were realized our foreign trade for would exceed that of the best year under the late Government by over Co Peat in Canada INTERESTING UTILIZE IT TO We publish below an article from the Buffalo on peat fuel in dustry in Canada There is every reason to believe I that peat fit for feul could bo produc ed from the marshes of the Holland River and it is to bo hoped that the day is not far distant when such an industry will be flourishing in our midst Wood as fuel is not as expensive in this neighborhood as is indicated in the subjoined article but it is qui to likely to become so in course of time Besides the supply would of course be not only desired for the place of production but also for ex port to all parts of the country If the scheme of lowering the waters of Lake should be succeisfulj the peat fuel industry may be a much nearer accomplished fact than some of our readers would fain believe The most serious problem that confronts the Canadian people of the future is material for The gi gantic lumber industries and the great annual forest fires have denuded tho timber area of Ontario that the people are beginning to think about the future fuel supply Hardwood for fuel is now worth from to a cord and soft from to while coal which is all imported from the United States costs a Urn The Terms per annum I if paid in advance superior to coal in absolute freedom from the absence of smoke dust and clinkers during In a great nitasure this solves the problem of furnishing a cheap clean uniform and reliable fuel for all domestic purposes as it equally serviceable for grates stoves cooking ranges and furnaces giving a long bright flame and infense best almost from the moment of It has been teflted in locomotives with excellent results showing that the thermal value of pounds of peat equal to pounds of It wag tried at the powerhouse of Street Railway To ronto gave great satisfaction The heat produced was much greater than that of coal but it was per cent denctent in lasting power It requires but Jittle draft and burns beat in a shallow tire box The machinery in manufactur ing of fuel and requires but little attention when in operation The Company claims that when these works are fairly started it can produce compressed peat fuel foe CO cents a ton If these claims can be fulfilled it will only be a few years until artificial heat will become cheap that the struggling thousands of poor will be immensely benefitted at the same time it will also reduce the item of fuel for transpor tation and manufacturing companies to a minimum It you Nicer tiny body dee baa a Cutter or best Rob twin country or I l1 email come cripples tome very ones they ere for When young people are skating it fiwyeard son of Mr Samuel is easy to form acquaintances A fall was found drowned in the mill- will often break tho ice and render Catharines conversation an absolute necessity Cubed Hales r do away with the need On Tuesday evening Mr Alex Pills whioh are bo dam- Dunn a young man of years to the walls of the to The annual meeting of the York County Orange Lodge was held at Aurora on Tuesday of last week There was a large number of delegates present from the various lodges in the county After routine business had been transacted the following were ele2ted for the ensuing year County Master Proctor Aurora Ellkcn Chaplain Rev J Hand RocSec P Bond Aurora FinancialSec Moore Mfc Albert Treasurer Reid Mb Albert of Wellington Dove Lecturer George Aurora It was decided to hold the of July celebration at this yearl working near the edging machine in the shingle mill at In some unaccountable manner his arm was caught by the belt and thrown over saw and instantly cut oft Try Era for 25c say nothing of the griping pains by Splendid for the child ren Is a box from I Chemists Great St London The Health World No de scribing these Cones sent free by us THE EMPHATIC STATEMENT that Menthol Plaster Is doing a great deal to alleviate neuralgia and rheumatism is based upon The Plaster never falls to soothe and quickly euro Manufactured by the Davie Lawrence item of fuel therefore one of the heaviest expenses to every housekeep er in this latitude of long and severe winters An ordinary residence will consuine not than worth of fuel in year It has Wen well known for years that there are extensive beds of peat bogs in Canada and particu larly in the Province of Ontario An effort has been made during the last six to utilize this product of Nature In Ireland Wales Holland and Bavaria peat has long been the chief fuel used by the poor The re invention of machinery by means of which vast areas of hitherto unused boas can lie converted into marketable peat ha opened up a new Canadian industry The origin of bogs is un derstood They occur in low situa tions where some natural or artificial obstacles impede the drainage favors the growth of a low order of plants such as the sphagnum moss This plant is noted for its absorption of water Its structure is that of reservoirs in suc cessive layers which are kept filled by capillary attraction even when the plant is above water level The same properties the moss tend also to its decay It requires a constant supply of moisture yet- it is continu ally pumping up to the surface of its tufts the water in which it stands thus promoting vaporization while at the same time by regularly decay ing at the roots it deposits the which adds to the solid contents of the bog This process goes on un til the bog is raised above the level of the surface waters when vegetation ceases The authorities there are 100000 of this undeveloped peat bog in Ontario principally in the counties of Perth and Essex The largest area lies in the county of Perth eight miles north of the city of Stratford on the Grand Trunk Rail way that extends from Port to Owen Here is a swamp of with a depth of peat bog that varies from a foot to feet About a year ago the Canadian Peat Fuel Company was organized and early in the summer active operations to pot the fuel on the market began The process of manufacture as follows The peat is cut and dried after which it is pulverized by being passed through a picker aud autom atically deposited into a hopper which feeds a steel tube about two inches in and fifteen inches long The pulverized peat is forced through this tube by pressure and formed into cylindrical blocks three inches in in length and almost equal in density to anthracite coal The fuel is non- friable and by reason of its solidity and the extreme glaze im parted to it by factorial contact forming dies The moisture of the peat is reduced to per cent of moss In weight it compares with coil as follows pounds cubic foot of peat to pounds of or pounds of anthra cite It is for peat that it is Wan Belmont Feb The Canadians who left here a few days ago under orders to proceed to the front have been unexpectedly detained at Gran Pan London Feb Gen Duller is once more of the and Gen is back at the River Yet todays news by no means cause the acute disappoint ment attendant on the failure to re lieve This can he attrib uted to threw causes First there is a strong that Gen fullers last attempt was only a demonstration on a large scale second the wiper critics had warned the public not to expect the immediate relief of White third the nation has settled down to the realization that the war will last a long time and they are not swayed at first by minor and victo ries London Feb The casualties re ported from the Upper Tugela bring the total British losses to killed wounded and captured Belmont Capo Colony Feb The Canadians have been brigaded with the 2nd puke Cornwalls Light Infantry 2nd Shropshire and the 1st Gordon Highlander to form the nine teenth brigade and with a second brigade to constitute the division It is understood that MajorGen will command the bri gade to which the Canadians are at tached Durban Feb A despatch is published here stating that are marching to outflank General A despatch from dated February says She Boers have occupied farm- south of the which is under an hours ride from and have turned thenomestead into a hospital You Will For living a white life For doibg your level beat For looking before leaping For hearing before judging For being kind to the poor For being candid and frank For your faith in humanity For thinking before speaking For harboring clean thoughts For being courteous as a duke For discounting tho For being loyal to the preacher For standing by your principles For stopping your ears to gossip For asking pardon when in error For bridling a slanderous tongue For being square deals the influence of high motives For being generous with an enemy For sympathizing with the For living an a lift For being patient with cranky neigh bors For promptness in keeping your pro mises For money you have given to missions For putting hist con upon the