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J A gi mo the liberty to to arg freely adding to conscience abov ail other liberty Lin No copies No paper sent outside of North York unless paid in advance i -r- Newmarket Out Friday Pec 1904 per J 100 it paid in advance The Schoolmaster Up a Tree AGENCY FOR two feet or wore class they had reached simple had no doubt withstood ihe si I interest that week of a century Now this is an important rule I favorite tree is the hem- I secured a comfortable scat on a said one thai you ought to lock because of a good- turn branch and waited I sat thoroughly You will need one did me when I was a long time Indeed I was on- stand interest all through life Let f to me at point of coming down home us try to make it practical Sup- school- agent will in the north of New when at last I heard boots creak on pose you held my note for a hundred Indeed I was only the frozen snow up the road seventyfive dollars dated hack teen at the time too young to three dark figures which I had twelve master to be teaching school as the reader of this story will probably think Sha- and Wheeloeks brother Webster were the three trials that I had to contend with daily for ten weeks Sham us was a year and two years older than I and each was half a head taller Little Web he made sure were my pupils drew near the school house and stopped at the door They hart Louis could make out an axe a saw and an auger They went inside for ine was never locked rekjiriHed fire in the stove and remained for some time moving things about I could years to What would it amount to at the present time They were all three sitting in the front seat and could not reach the rope so I stepped to the hoard and a note in the usual form so wrote such names dates and rate est While writing I saw stealing back to bis own seat and looked were j round as if in surprise I only wanted to get my arithmc- out and tic said he and returned to the going around to the rear went under I recitation thc house There they remained for j I knew better for he had his book hear them talking in low tones but too as he yes called wis little could not guess what in size not in guile or years doing I was be was twentythree After a while they He looked old indeed hut was not taller than a hoy of twelve or thirteen being people of at least half an hour I could see Ararat inelegantly termed the runt the gleam of a light ami heard them of the family- sawing Whatever had checked hi physical Afterward they came back indoors growth may also have dwarfed his again and were going hack ami and held bach lie forth for at least an hour longer so of manly traits for the little rascal that altogether had a long was a veritable monkey in On the first day he his the back row between his in his hand when he came out to re cite took no notice of the false hood however finished writing the note Now find what that note will amount to at six per cent years six I They questioned the other pupils particularly Mary Ann whose ac count of the matter fully established the guilt of the three culprits You may dismiss school one of at last The to repair this hole in the Moor But begin again tomorrow morning and see if you can get along with less fire works They did take and Little Web aside however and give them a severe reprimand I looked for a pitched battle the next day but strange to say mat ters quieted down at once and we went through the remaining three weeks of the term rather amicably than otherwise On the last day school and Little Web came to shake hands with me at parting ami even blundered forth some thing 10 the effect that if I would come back the next winter they would behave better Rut I never A POPULAR Becomes a Gallant Soldier 1 Goes to tile J 1 National and Shamus pie interest school time of it up in the hemlock But months and twentyseven days in I had determined to remain quiet said And you tell us and examine for myself what they what I would have to pay you in ten had done after they brother Thus pan on Dealers in Counterfeit A M A H A if and years Webster you find what it will amount to in twelve years There is room for all three of at the board I will look on you and sheltered this aged rogue At last they went away chuckling began his career of On and when the sound of their hoots the second afternoon I caught him in the snow had died away I descend- under the desks sticking in from my old perch first went help you if you need help boys leg three rows beyond bis own inside to the stove and warmed my- They hesitated a little but could seat Thereupon I gave him a birch- self then proceeded to investigate not refuse It was our usual mod- That flogging was the beginning of my troubles with Little After a week I sent for the come and turn the little with lighted splinters of work They felt sure that I the schoolroom nothing wrong pee tod nothing and they knew the could be seen hut on going down floor was safe unless some on pulled a week I sent for the committee to the house I finally discovered the rope So all three went to the scamp out what they had done but not till I board and began work on their of the school representing to looked carefully I walked up and down the truthfully enough that I could do no- From time to time as the house aisle pointing out their mistakes for thing with him By this incurred grew old the schoolroom floor had they were great blockheads bitter enmity of the been strengthened and stiffened by props set up irregularly beneath it What those rogues had done was to jf GO TO Br Perfumes Calendars and two other families relatives of theirs and gained nothing for the committee declined to act After that things went rapidly from had to worse Losen gave me to ender- a time I could sec that little Web was watching me out of corner of his eye but I went on ex- saw of three of the wide floor boards plaining interest to them and the directly under where the pupils and others- where I stood in the I were accustomed to stand when had become working at the blackboard They computations Then Mortimer Mr Mortimer who organized the company which went to Ararat Com- In a letter to roan in regard to I especially appreciate at this season when I am liable to colds coughs and other catarrhal affections such admirable for complaint that I shall not fall to make free of It whenever the slightest symptom cold me All people of my pro fee Ion have a of a cold it generally entirely disables them from their duties The actor depends go mnco the clearness of vote that a cough or cold Is an unmitigated calamity m told by members of my tbt la a reliable remedy grippe Mr address West street New York City A book of lectures on Winter Ca tarrh will sent free by The Medicine Co Ohio As the result of a general roundup of green goods men in New York and its vicinity it transpired that within a few weeks fully has taken from victims who suc cumbed to this very old and very transparent game It is impossible to feel sympathy for the sub jects of this ancient method of swind ling From the first the victim is lie hopes by tle expenditure of a lew hundreds of dollars in currency to ob tain thousands in profits by dispens ing counterfeit bank notes or nation al currency Usually curren cy is ostensibly sold to the customer and packages of sawdust or waste paper substituted Probably no oth- that he had approached men to use the bogus boxes and him not have dome so The swindling been so often land so explicitly exposed in the news- meantime as this traffic in alleged I committed to for Christmas Stationery Books Bibles Poems Fountain Pens Brushes and Hand Bags -JtLSO- WEBBS CHOCOLATES AND Many Other Select Christmas Presents AT BROUGHM mi Hew York The Era IB Ideal 1 County others Hut he liked little Web he- Web made laugh and thus divert his mind from the miseries of lessons for which he had little Three or four weeks passed little Web made mischief every day hut took to keep I dared his two large allies and abettors should put me out of I lie when according to the unwritten code of backwoods school districts I have to resign my place One evening about the middle of the term when sat down to the table at my boardingplace I found the following curium note under my plate Dear Sur I am not one as tels tails out of but them three boys up in the hack is a for you up at the to So you better look out And no more rum your frond M A I guessed instantly that A was none other than my largest girl pupil and she large iudcod Mary Ann The spelling and composition certainly left much to be desired but the purport of the warning was not to be mistaken Mary Aun was disfigured by a startling birthmark nearly covered the right side of face moreover weighed at least two pounds but nhe an hon est soul and I had been dimly aware for some time that the was on my side While eating my supper took thought Web and were fitting a trap I decided that I had better It The was dark Slipping out I hastened back to the but took the precaution to approach it through a pasture on the tide of the road I stand that should not lav on ttebagam and the small had also sawed oft the ends of three turning suddenly I reached for currency It would seem that and whose entered upon an unchecked sleepers on which the boards rest- with could is his father a former campaign of buffoonery the two end ones however re- I have avoided knowledge of the game of has been was merely a supported by two short props away Irish boy not bad unless incited by and at first did not sec how the ten of floor the black- floor could fall not till I had looked- fell with a crash and the more carefully with it They went out of Then J discovered that they had magic and left the set the foot of each prop on around school staring terriiiHl at stone about as large as mans two lne fists Some dry had forward and could seo the near and been thrown against props not iU faces of all three of them not log him lest only concealing the- round stones but that deep hole out I sprang to the old door that led but found it fast He and then leaped ip and catching with hands on the edge of the floor but I pushed their hands oil with no great gentleness l are going to stay right there I told them I also a loop of bedcard rope at tached to each prop This rope extended back into the dark space behind the wood ami up among the cobwebs to a point back scat where and Little Web sat Hero a hole had been bored and the end of i blackboard and the rope passed through and secured throwing it over the hole piled the by a knot upon it The nature of the trap was now tjK battering the door fully apparent Those scamps s wood and fearing meant to wait for me to go the stave it down I ran board then jerk away the props he- on the outside with leaving the schoolmaster to Ave of Yet scarcely a day passes without its M Mr successful repetition In many cases the victim lacks the courage to when there be It formal until Friday on pose the to motive which actuateI it the transaction it was formerly appear Another warrant said that a fool was born each is understood been issued for The success of the green goods direst Bench warrants operators would indicate that the birth rate of this class has been greatly underestimated the younger Bogus Ballot Boxes have been issued for a couple of re calcitrant witnesses boys to take a sudden drop of seven and disappear heels over head into the gulf It would then be a com- home to tell easy matter to hold the father what had happened and door and I should be out the Mm to the village of school and out of a job for the Hire When I fust perceived the full in- the school committee tent of the contrivance indignation mounted guard over fired my soul Then I began to with a stick I kept smile inwardly forewarned house but it was forearmed needless to say that lessons were a Youth is never charitable At lhat forenoon The three present I certainly should think twice the school lioard and sc- many times before precipitating of the neighbors and par a human being down such a hole as at about half past Nov Another link was forged in the chain of evidence in bogus ballot box ease this morn ing incriminating a person whoso name has not heretofore bed men tioned in connection with the case John editor of The eiolt Reporter to whom a case of the lKgus ballot boxes were shipped pile a rick of ntoiics that the boxes were con signed to him lor Mr Samuel Police Magistrate at Bancroft and to whom they were handed over and who afterwards the expos- Bogus Ballot Boxes Found Kingston Nov Nine of tho ten bogus ballot boxes drowned in Lake near Sydenham were recovered this afternoon Detec tive James Parkinson came from Belleville on Sunday and drove to this morning Edward Button volunteered to show tho de tective where tho boxes were drop- pod As Lite lake was frozen over it was easy to locate the boxes by means of long poles The boxes had all Ken dropped inside of a hun dred feet from Mares Point in wa ter four to twelve feet deep They could he seen by breaking holes in the Ice Detective Parkinson ship ped the boxes to Belleville Mr will continue the search for the missing box being anxious to wero used lire came requested him to assist in I concealing the evidence which the them boxes Mr election pressed the opinion that the bogus boxes were not used at the election were made by Mr and others to induce W him to conceal his knowledge of on in an employee matter but witness to To avoid the war criminate himself to protect them lists continue to escape in large At no such The end the affair how- in reply to questions he denied tion troubled mc I was convinced that they thought was good ever was rather tame and not all him three Minis- 1 Mr James Berry of was what I thought it should be Hat- Ontario had down by a horse and fatally though for me was good enough for promised them protection and that the injured on would to so denied was iu- v Weekly It Jloth The house stood on tower side where the ground fell off rapidly The door was on a level with road hut the rear of tbe house was elevated on rough pinning seven feet high in which however there was an opening closed by a rude door leading to a dark space beneath the schoolroom floor where stove wood was kept At first I thought concealing in this hole under the but reflecting that the boys might come there with a lantern and corner me or find if I hid in the school room I determined to climb a large hemlock tree that stood beside the row a few yards of the school room door- was a tree of na tures own planting the only one within a quarter of a mile of the and had been left there when the land was cleared It was their ymaihy I went borne chuckling and over- all three them falm concluded that I could prove on their morning procured some screws a and screwdriver a tool- tJlt tain transpired I box at my board with the load was more solicitous for l that Mr or had firC- own in the hole than for inc communication with Mr j tor let them but they said organizer hen will talk it tliat Mr Kelly an official Mrs John Lark in of was fatally burned by her clothing man was killed and twenty in a collision In Arkansas eight for Sffi the room to in Web were assisted to iff Mr Itein- mm at owmauvlUe were climb up into the of day the truth An effort Loss over O0U The senior member the lra the I Ccumihans carried oft the prizes boxes in tin nearly every class at the Live them at length and to show that one By I went at to build and the Ad After building a pre I up what I thought might old village lawyer quire for the day and then lhfr They owned and up the old door that led to the base- under the house so that any shut in there would 1 aW dryly have found it next to impossible rne do think wan break out The pupils UP to the trap and he contemplated ylt Ardooh Philip A the depth and darkness of hole ftJ and related came by nine and the school to order I ha1 read tben from the Testament according to custom I noticed that and were watching me cov ertly fiut I proceeded exactly as usual sending first class arith metic to the board In turn quite as if I supposed everything there all results of his recent investigations at Watertown New York oultothe proper to pitchhole statements from the maker of three of your pupils down In that for years as that boxes operated by a spring have Well sir I it was their mate at OgdeitsKg and went or mine I It should where they were drown- Bay vs SrrEssrLfr his story as told at his prcviof filing Water He may recover Stock Show Chicago The British has 0 scheme for the concentration of na val and forces Two feet of snow fell at forth on Sunday and all parts of western Ontario report heavy falls Ten fishing vessels the Curlew for illegal regarded groat must some young schoolmasters I W one of them remarked if I supposed tnerowaM them remarked examination in spite right then called out the clots dispas- Sim Ashley and to which Losen and Utile attitude of the committee ituttan also stated that his Web Ixlonged It was not an ad- TCr disappointing brother displayed annoyance on learn- house Two of Mr James Bow- en of Brandon were burned to death during Mrs Bowcus absence from