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Newmarket Largest The leading County Paper well as tho No paper sent out of North York unices paid in advanoo brings in friendly those who THOSE WHO JACKSON Editor a It It 0 I D A DEC U DISCUSSES OLD AGE PENSIONS Liquor Control and Home Brew Scored They Want Fixed Dale fop Dominion Erections Also Promotion for And Children Against Men who Will their Wealth Away A discussion on old age pensions featured a session of the convention of United of Ontario at Toronto week The questions of temperance immigration and hydro ralesfl also led lo lengthy discussions which oulmin- in the passage of a number of resolutions it J McMillan strongly condemned the old ape pension on the ground that it imposed burden upon the already loaded payer and that tho counties had looked after poor for the past years and in Huron county jit least they could have no to find but Miss Agnes took up tho cause of the pension plan Many the proudest and best of our people would die they would go to the House of Refuge she aid Indeed many of them did die she added and it was until they had gone that it was learned close they bad been to the borderline of starvation Miss emphasized the moral effect which the legislation would have in removing the fear of want in old age from young and middle- aged pconle who should be tackling with all courage llie game of life Capitalists Opposed When the pension legislation had passed the House of Commons it had been the capitalists who had opposed The entire Farmer and Labor groups together with the more human members of the two old parties had been united iti its support she declared Following Miss Macphails approval of the act a motion to table resolution for year was passed by a vote of to A resolution was passed reaffirming condemnation of the Control Act and declaring for the prohibition of the importation and sale of liquor throughout Canada A further hesolution demanded that the Dominion Government shall forthwith lo grant clearance papers to vessels carrying liquor for export to the United States and this was also carried The licensing of home brewing was also the DlCURY SCORES LIQUOR CONTROL ACT Hon DIRECT FROM THE MISSION FIELD Special Correspondence to the Era China Inland Mission Yunnan Nov 1st It is now nearly ton months since wo were permission to leave the gunboat protco- Shanghai and proceed inland Although we have been China over two years yet Saturday afternoon dec real experience among the people dales back only to last January If you a map of China you will see that Shanghai and are at opposite ties of the country Just as the two cities are from each other so people are in may customs as wolf as in dialect The first task that faced us on arriving was the changing tones In Shanghai they use five tones here they use four Every different from the coastal tones For ple In Shanghai a word spoken in a high tone is given in a low tone here Consequently ia not understood or misunder stood- Of the latter there is a ready example The word for Lord and the word for pig is the only distinction being a din emit The Shanghai tone for Lord means a pig in this provinoo This will servo to show the iced of complete change Therefore on here we lost no time in a teacher whom we went over and over and over our vocabulary until the old tones sounded incorrect to our ears I may say the task was lot as difficult as might have been since the liange was generally uniform Tliat is high tons become low tones here so that had the change of one word all ds of the same tone followed the same date or reelection to the United Farmers C and expressing his The world lias ninny peo ple and Newmarket has some of them as was seen in the parade and great credit is due to the parlies who got It up mid those assisted n mak ing it complete success as it was wit nessed by hundreds who lined both sides of Main street and were en- Newmarkets Brass Band with shining beautiful Instruments render ed music equal to any City Band took the lead and was greatly were followed closely by two bears one of them black and the other a bear They threw each other about like footballs Then followed people in fan tastic dress too complicated for des- was greatly appreciated to an echo while d sticks were flying like streaks all A resolution decli resent 4000 indemnity members of the House of Commons to be unjustified was pass ed without discussion The fixing of a statu lory dale for the holding of elections dominion or provincial after the practice o United Stales was strongly urged by Miss who was of the opinion that a Fed eral election would occur next year if the information she had gathered recently was of any value She said I he stories in the west were to the effect that this would bo regarded as a good time lo go to the people She intimated that memhi in Yannanfu from January lo May ent lo an on a small plain abount mites south We were there through ijntil Oclober 1st then we came to the capital again to complete another section of our course of language study and write off an examination About December first we ex pect lo return to the same plain then after Christmas hold a preaching tour of all the villages of the plain Of this I will write May fihst May I add this I our preaching lour will depend largely upon local conditions At present the plain is free from robbers and people are willing to hear the gospel To those who believe in the power of prayer I would appreciate intersessioi on behalf of these people that the way may be kept open and the Word blest to the salvation of many As for he people of this province their con dition is terrible plentiful this province only more deadly Ihf lowly I House of Commons always convenience and salvation fate of elections by statute but a democratic question carried- egarded tin The fixing of as not a polit The resolu- There is no famine food speak concerning this But there is a curse famine in that while it works and works also it Mans Wealth The resolution that sought to protect tho wives and children against the husbands and lathers who will their wealth away from the family developed a discussion in which Miss pointed out that in this country a had no interest in her husbands personal pro perty and only a limited dower In his real late existing conditions a man will his property as lie sees fit I know so many really good husbands she declared that I to say that the men in the country ace much better than our laws A recommendation will be sent on to the Provincial Legislature asking that legislation be at the next session making some provision for the protection of a wife and child ren against poverty on account of the husbands disposition his possession under will Miss mentioned a of in- glances where wives had been responsible for much of be accumulations of their husbands yet Mr- Mm til Mi- of Mil and no rights All the United Farmer Women of Ontario desired was that something like rights regarding property be given lo the Other resolutions passed favored giving sheriffs power to excuse from dulv urging the Government to move towards dis armaments as per the- Kellogg antiwar teraty in the mailer of reduced appropriations expenditure Falling Markets J speaking to a resolution to secure live stock under contract for sale stress the point of the falling markets and the sea sons Cooperative methods hud invariably resulted in the improvement of the agricultural products Hydro Investigation The Executive of the F held a at the conclusion of Uie convention and decided to appoint a special committee to conduct a investigation of he Hydro situation in the of Ontario during the coming year The committee will also seek to devise means whereby concessions will be granted to rural power users and the advantages of Hydro tended to them on a wider scale The only other action was the decision to replace usual provincial debuting contest with a speaking contest moral destruction I speak of the opium of its worst results is like that alcohol in making its subject completely indif rent to spiritual things However nothing loo hard for Cod Some of them do get cou rted and become completely changed through the dynamic working of the old gospel About ourselves James Paul now a week old is doing nicely He is a great joy lo us Mrs and myself are enjoying the finest of health and are quite happy in our mis sion for the King of Kings and only Saviour Our permanent address is Yun nan If we leave here all mail will be safely forwarded to us since conditions are fairly good here and the mails regular With kind regards to old friends who read Era sincerely I J David Harrison Editors Note Mr Harrison is a native ol Albert of call and get COUNTY POLICE COURT A track of the Hardy Cartage Co upset on the Holland Landing road required the efforts of Bra the tlelpnUon general session of the held in Toronto Inst week the possibilities of imollng prosperity that its ltMlli1 In this convents there to help with the The condition In which selves Is deplorable In both the provincial field we an to realize what was or been apparent from the be ginning that socalled he i the other and the is the practice of he THE VOTE By Constance Nicolsoo Lea The little old lady sat quietly knit In the livingroom of her house There had been a of callers that afternoon Sarah ed In a central part of the village voting day many of her friends had dropped their way home from the polls Usu ally the little old lady enjoyed visitors She loved to hear the neighborhood gossip and the pleasant interchange of news She was bright alert and the best of company Today however she was strangely silent She was getting rather tired of the constant question Have you been out to vote yet and the subsequent explana tion sometimes made hesitatingly by herself but more often by Sarah with an apologetic little laugh Ma voting this tl quite six weeks since she to live here and the place to go is out near the old at Clarksons Corner a happen to be on diffe the fence and they just as no use taking a Ml each others vote Sanation always seemed 1 The little old lady understand what peoph that was funny rather sad and Shan fifty y her For had pulled togi had had their dlfferen They did not always angle but tl Of the only good sturdy up trial being let on Another Hardy t uck Toronto the initio fo and deli a refill add t In big bus hardly Rhodes j red in witnesses and for the his Worship whether Rhodes and would give him dismissed the had beer ditch I so I locked him up he tioned by Mr the id he placed Rhodes NORTH YORK FARMERS ENTERTAINED BY HUNTSMEN with bunting and flags he Me chanics Hall al Aurora was the scene of a large gathering of prominent citizens of Toronto Aurora and North York township when the an nual banquet was given on Friday night by the Master of lite Hounds Geo W and of the Toronto Hunt Club to the whose lands they have been Owing lo the illness of the his greetings were conveyed to guests by Mayor Walton of Aurora and W Leacock responded on behalf of he Club Following the banquet which was served by ihe ladies of Trinity Anglican Church dancing in The hosts were attired jn hunting clothes and the guests wore carnivtl rations with which they had been bedecked by their hosts when they first arrived The reception committee was composed of John McCaul Frank Proctor Col S M Smith Roy Shaw Johnston Allan Case McCarthy and Sir Clifford and Wrong does cease jck jjiwer to punish it hi and it never loses it 14 PERISH WHEN PLANE DROPS Rio De Janeiro Deo Brazils day of cele bration for its homecoming pioneer of the air was plunged abruptly into sorrow by a disaster which claimed fifteen lives Fourteen persons including jive leaders of the Democratic party died when hydro airplane plunged into the harbor this morning The name of a diver was added to the count when bis air lines fouled while he was attempting to recover the bodies A good charade Those who loved yot you Ihered Leave j is the best tombslon and were helped by amen forgetmenots terrupte his Worship Co Due Drink Buck although in formed outh shut you would sted him asked Mr I do not remember Bradford jail left in a corridor to look after a fire I asked for legal but could not get it I did not know why I was arrested until some time after my arrest he said Did not have Drink Thos Sharland helper on Rhodes truck said defendant did not have a drink that day- Both he and Rhodes said their clothes smelt of stale beer of heavy infestation the borer and till produce good of corn Experiments have demonstrated Hat other things being equal small plants ore the the attacks i the borer while us plants with good continue to stand and produce even though the Good seed result I In a good stand is essential for heed results in a poor plants mis sing hills and missing from le hills Add to his the corn borer tut the farmers a crop f corn are ex- of her vote had 50 Ago From Era Dec Princess Alice second daughter of Victoria died last Tuesday Rev of Toronto delivered a lecture In the Presbyterian Church Tuesday evening on British Liberty which was exceedingly Interesting and On Tuesday evening Mrs J f East fell down and received Injuries death a few minutes The brick dwelling the cellar the of Whitchurch was destroyed by fire one evening last week The Altar At the Forsyth Hotel Newmarket Dec by Rev Peer Miss Ellen Hopper of Whitchurch to Ellis Harmon of Aurora At the residence of brides mo ther Kcttleby by Rev Thos Campbell assisted by Rev Potter Dec Miss Susan Lloyd to Jos ebb of Springdate In King Dec Lewis The bet wife At Mount Albert Dec Cha Fox aged about years At Dec Ed Kennott formerly of aged years He was one of th earliest settlers of this country Years Ago From Era Dec 1st Miss Ada here for the Christmas Gibson of banter Pa never fail le a certain timehonored pun christian names for the scrutineers and when she What fun it had all bet THE PLACE PREPARED Through which they go into the shade Of the homeplace the Lord has made Perhaps it is not far away Nor is the lonely journey long Swiftly the night yields to the day So close the doi Ah well It aid he Brad question found Rhode the nigh Whitby Dec Three Osha the car In which they were dr skidded on the Kingston Highway Dumbarton and broke through the guardrail rolling over a I through of their journey they hat she noticed how her ball She would some more to finish the Interrupting the rah and her neighbor she wool I The little old he saw her husband had horn ian Tea Meeting v the door Dr ring for Call- behalf of the and En- There are now on the he Office Specialty The Friends Tea on was well attended Cornell gave an address of the Sunday School t Church In I Smith in his the farmers highest and the of reading of hood and Bill mfrdafwf Did I hi He and Bill the engine of holding up the looking anxiously viUi a wrench The depression forgotten for make a playful remark men who had nothing to By ARCHIVES OF TORONTO