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HURON NEWS
Recently when "taking: _the wheel;..
OH .a binder in the barn during sat
thunder stormy, 10, .0:"W Booth• re
eeived a severe shot*. The liglitnin.g
, evidently' ,struck the inaohilicry, and
it scorched his ,Rand and side. Whew
he oame-to hie -len see.h,a-.Waa-„outer
WO, t4ellarn No other daniai;
done. . • ..
A. correepondeplt' at Belgrave 'says;
The citizens of Betg'rave are., witness-
eveiy 13a.turday. of a number of Ur.diens returning from, *Ingham- in
g
the last sta 'es: of intoxication. Some
tinier they are staggering along on
toot, but more often they are, being
driven by; .in a W ingham, livery ring,
It .is a shameful siglit and leads peo-
ple to wonder where the, of
. officers
the lav' are.
RUSKIN- IN.. HIS HOME
MISS GRACE ALLAN TELLS OF
OR. • IC'S EARLY DAYS,,
England's Only. Woman• -Publisher
Saye-Her,Father,, the Engraver, and
e' wad--Evary-Mem�i8�701-1 :er-Parntl
Engaged In the Work. of. Bringing
Sut: Ruskin's Book --.Author .Had a
trange System 'or Book. keeping;
LMA \' ,
Ladies'
COLLEGE
-St Ir Tronas On
Mies; Maud Allan; the onlywotnan
publisher in England and a daughter
of George Allen, who was first the en-
graver for John Ruskin,' and later the
publisher'ef..his works, recently, re-
turned to London after a leeture tour
in this country. She is a goddaughter
of Mrs.- Margaret Ruskin, the mother
of• the • author, .and She knew .john,.
• Ruskin: from.•her earliest bh'ildhood.
"I •reineeiber distineetly*tl a day''mtoy •
lather .returned •from a, visit . to .Den-'•
mark Hill, the Ruskin "home, and told
my mother ,that .it had• been, decided
tshe 'should _ publish• Tors' Clavi-.
,gena';" Miss Allen said to a reporter.
The name of the firm- was, George
Allen 4. Co. All the publishing. work
was done for year, in, our home. •Each
and every member .of the family took
partin it, so. you see I became a pub-
iieher'a, assistant 'while 1 was; still in
Aidualores.
"Fortunatelv.my father wasa nrac-
iiaal man. Had he not • been I don't •
eally know where the . venture would
ve led, because Mr.. Ruskin had,sueh •
ideas about publishing. In
e first place he never ceased to re-'
aoh :qty father for taking the trou-
to keep accounts.
"He wanted father 'to have tihree
oxes; one box "in which to 'keep the
hies sent -to cover .the postage on •
Ls books, another box for Jhe six-
pences, and a third .box for theseven-•
ppeenoes.' That was to do' away with
keeping' accounts'. '
insisted'that there should be;,
ttao free copies ler • reviewers, no inter -
,views or information. given .• to the'
`tnewspapers,' and no...ediscount. allowed
-Store closes at 6 p. In. .except Saturdays.
to. booksellers. He said, purchasers
shouldpay the bookseller the amount
they considered his services worth and
not brave it added to the price of the
hook. ..It was''.uphill work.:publish'ing
for Ruskin -
' "John ''Raskin was adored by . bOth
i fR MllthPr�". A'li[71 .�$t11Pr--�a11•Ai7�h�•1�
latter .did not always ,agree with his
apolitical views..: • I have three chairs
which formerly • were ..used' 'in, the,.
library of Denmark Hill.. While writ=
ai 'Modern' Painters.' Ruskin sat' in
one •of. thein, •while his parents *eel-
. the two otthers: They • sat in the lib-.
=teary while he was -wonting, arid- when
he finished a chapter'he would read it
to 'them for: their criticism: '
"He. :Was their. ''onlay ' child, • and.`
neither bf :.them was young whets. he
,was T born Mr...' Ruskin, sr., ;Twas :en=
:gaged to the lady who . afterward -be
came his wife trine years,•before• they
'were married .He was `working to pay
Offhis. father's .:debts. He .w:as in of-•
•fluent, circumstances when his •son
was ,born, and this wealth increased as
time.. went on.
I •"It was • because he• was_]l•_eaied•in
effluent ' circumstances. that-soHnany •
people .contend, that. John Ruskin was;,
arrogant' and, dictatorial:,. In • reality
•be •wasquite the : 'reverse. ' He -.was••
hot • only • ;charming: to grown,• peo .
pie but: he ' was beloved by,• • all the
children who . ever.• knew .him, ••His
having,'. had everything that •money -
could. buy all his life: made him a ht-
tle.dif�cult for 'some' persons to under=
ptand. I never heard 'of hiss riding in
la bus' • but once in ,his. -life , If' he • did
;n't have 'his own • carriage he hired
one. ' , • •
• "He 'didn't get the •.love of his life',.'
owever;: • He was in love with two
omen, ,but never with his wife In•
874 he told my; father that 'while at
oollege,',when he was. less than 18, he
-;lbecame-desperately i-n'lovewith-Adele -
.`Olothlide.Domecn, the daughter of his
father's Spanish partner. in ,the wine
'business. He said she had. led - him'
en, and when he finally proposed she
laughed at. him•. and treated his love;
which to him was .most serious, a Mat-
ter for jest. • •• " • • t
"NI.: father told Ale- that even at
that :la,m
tate' date; '1t3�4, • Buskin spoke of
her :with' bitterness, saying her flip-
pant treatment -of hum had• affected his
•wdtole fife. She was a beautiful, viva.'
Ideas .girl, and nobody w ondered that
'he. • lost his heart to her :though.' it
would have • been remarkable had she
ifenoied su'ohi";ai sertsi ts•: xrg:<ii1nre."
fres-teas at: the -'time. " -
"'There .was. nothing romantic about-
his:marriage except its -tragic ,ending.
'He had not recovered from his•.attack
of calf love • when he met Euphemia
• Chalmers Gray, 'a beautiful Scotch girl
and' the daughter of old friends of his
parents. 'Beth .his fatherand.his ino., .
Cher and mother were anxious.for h.itu
t' marry ;her; so much• so that .his•
i;ether pied her .father's debts to the •;
amount' of X70,000. Their, marriage, was
a itiarigiage in name only. .
"Mrs. John Ruskin's love affair with .
Millais began while the two Millais
brothers' were in Scotland _one summer
with the_ 'Ruskin's ' M'illais•'used Mrs,,
Ruskin as his': model for the wife in
his' painting 'The Order 'for Releasee'
It was during, this. time that theyfellil
in: love with each other. ' •
"Ros.e_'.La Totiche,_th.e.girl_itho'was.
really the lope of -John•Ruskin's ,life,
was' born • just one year after Ruskin
was married, :though he never, saw her
until 1841. She was the .daughter of
an Irish banker, and I have heard
that her inother and father' were t1'
strikingly 'hanelscvme couple. Ruskin,
proposed to her,, or rather spoke to her
parents, wlicn ;she was 'about 17. 13e -
Cause of her youth her •parents refused
their consent, but Rose prornist�d to
wait for lint. Re' wore lies promise
between two gttld platesover his•heart,
and. alwayskept the date; Feb: 2, as
alles,trival.' .
`.`His best. work was inspired. bit her,
Some of the most beautiful tuid.:tottch
ing letters I have ever read were 'writ
ten to him by her. 'When she reached,
her tweiity-first.'birthd:iy, which Was
the date named by her •parents' as tire'
end of Ruskin'sprabatiern, her health
was 'too poor for her to marry. Instead
et getting: stronger she wet into a:
decline; and she died In 1875.Ruskin
never recovered from the shock."
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......Magnitude of Stars.,
The brighter a Niter is the smaller.'
the number representing its. Magni
tude, and; conseeiuently a. star pt. Ills,
tint magnitude Is brighter than one of •
the second. and one of• the .second
magnitude' is two tuagnitudes b'ri$bter
than one' of the fourth. in the same •
way stars. •brighter, than the first mag
nitud'e can; .be represented; by numbers..
iu,als-or even --
by negative" numbers. Sirius is of the
1,4 magnitude, Vega of 0.2magnitude
Our sun • is a star of the 26.5 'Magni- r
tulle, and % it gives us 10,000,000,000'
times as, .:much light, as Sirius. it the
faun 'Were twice as tar away from us
as t.:is it would give only one-quarter
as , Much. • 'If it "were 100,000
times :farther of( thanit its .its iigbt,
would b , the same intensity as. that
of Sirius. But even at 'this enormous_ ,;
distance •the•• sun• would be only, about
••.one-sixth• as, far away •• as Sirius etc
actiy lies. - In, • other, , Words, Sirfue '
Shiflett. with, a luster' fully thirty. times
that of, our sun .-New .pork World,
Fes amade e i
'tiovy Feat of R ►!, B 9.ns•
S1nee the Moiammedan year is. cbm-
posed''oflunar " months,"'the beginning
,of the fast, is dependent upon the; ap-
pearance,of the new moon :tie word
of•the'almanac• is not taken as true
evidence, and • before the mufti, . the
!},tghest;111osiein.;.,o,fficiaL.to the...nation.-.
declares . the fast to ba ve,. begun • two
• Mohammedans , must appear•, . before
him and 'swear..that they have . seen
• the 'new moon. ,•?' In precisely the sane:.
manner •the fact comesi to a close. The.. mufti • proclaims: a three.- .days' feast•
whenever the next .new mootl....is_. seen
by 'two of the faithfuls One year the..
;moon was visible in. upper Egypt the
night before it was" observed inCairo, .
Two Mohammedians up. the Nile tele-
graphed the fact "to. the 'mufti,: asking.
• him to announce' the feast. This -he
refused •to do' on•the ground that a
telegramcould not take the .,place of .
two Moslem .witnesses. -Christian' Her••
aid.
Old Daddy Longlegs.
'1.7verybody Is .well acquainted • with
the insect called''daddy ;longlegs,":but
not` everybody knows that•there.is evi,
•dente , to .show :that this strange. little
•:'creature, towering Ugh upon its thread-:
lke �t�iEs,=s=prat3aail-3��
Inhabitant.of\America than any, repre-
sentative of''the .bumau species, . Far
back 'in tertiary time, .at the• very daWn
of: -the modern. '. --world;: :its ancestors,
.`lived,.• we are told, • In great numbers
• that part of.• the continent whlch we
calf Colorado. -The--fossil--•remains•-ot-
these' insects •show. the •characterlstiey
features that. •mark ,them' today, . al--•
.thon'gh..•new• species. have..taken •the.
place of the old. for even "daddy long
`legs" •k iows-wiiat• evolution :is'and`t as:"
attained to something that in his• .view
is fierhaps.a •kind, of civilized existence'
• suitable, to the exigencies 'of, life in .the
• twentieth, century.=Harper'a Weekly'.
E ENTUAL,LY
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It will be Havelock and Sepoy: Flour
for this .Community:., ^.
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The Wheat. is carefully selected,
The Milling .Machlnety is perfect,.
The Miller competent
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long Pex crienee.
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Ewe ba of our output is willed ' o quality. and. toy.
�' g • .�P .l t Q V
purit —needs: no bleaching, i p`
p y ach . g,. no'. adulteration ; : .•
Lir •
GustomezS now• say.. Not only as "good .af the
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bag and prove it. •
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The Hunting of the Tahr.
-Of 'nil. the ways sot -hunting surely
that of the hiIlmen- of Garhwal is the
strangest. This, according to •Major'',
the Hon. C. G. Bruce, /in "Twenty
Years In the Himalayas," Is'their,meth-:
'ed of •killing the tahr,, a local.species
of; goat "Having, driven the tater into:
deep nuIlahs with most precipitous.
sides, out of which there are certain
l.n
well-ozvii;tahr runs, they proceed'•
to cover these runs where.. the ground
is most di1h ult with mats made of,.
• split' bamboo -which have been pre-
viously well. drenched In '•water . The
" result Is the mats_ freeze and become..
as slippery aa glass. • Then they fright-
en the herd: and drive them over these
.mats, with 'the result that'they, are
-precipitated-'from -the •e ' d ^that`
the Garhthe rattans--
perhaps�wali pick up rattans--
perhaps twelve. basketfuls." '
LUCIi.NOW 8'RAN:C:H,
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dEO H' SMITH,aGlana er
IJ0QL: ALAI
Mostly, Hali.
A . New '•' orker, bought one of :those
fine old. colonial places down ii Vir-
ginia; principally on account of the
'glowing description of the real estate
agent and on information front friends:.
When he:' went down to see. his ;man-.
siop he was much Impressed by the
great pillars the . spficiousporchand.
particularlj*, the neat -
•balf"-iunntrr-
-`frets' ~t e- front to the back;' of the
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house: -..
L1 Inspected the place and came'.
back: to 'New York.
"What shall roti ' name 1t?' he was
Asked.
"I think," bu replied, " r Shall call ft
Mostly Hall:'! -Saturday Evening Post.
'Philadelphia Is Wet So :Slow.
"Mother," 'sald a thoughtful Boston
.child, "Is 'Philadelphia older than Bos-
ton?" ' t
"Of course' not, my.• sen. The''8rst
••
settlement , was Made 'in'. Charlestown
In1630, 1631:V*6.11e William Penn did..net:
arrive on thesite of Philadelphia until.
' fifty-two years later."
"That was always my impression;
{' tpother, Hoye is it, then, that Philadel•
phta 1s,mentloned In the.Bibl'e,. while
-Boston-is not 2"-Boston:Star. :
Discovered.
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Little Motet was one dry. examining.
•a beehive, which ivies uevv tb herr B�
ins disturbed,, the .bees cattle, out 43t.
• their hives and etle,of them stung her.
Tears came 'into her eyes, but she
quickly •dnced 'them and. cried trfiina•
pliantly:
"Now I know who .talres out nthe needips:
" . ator oP mmiva s cushion.-Dellne
Couldn't Bother With Trifles: .
"tins your father ever gft'en you`'any
idea vhttt be•tltlaka•of me?" •
realty draft believe tathet
�tbfglts at you of all., He has so Malik
iiiipOrt'nt 'things to rill bis
.Strhy Stories.. • .! • •
If yeti: be poor do not seem Poet* 'if
you would avoid insult as Well as istif�
tering. -Goldsmith. . •
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