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Lucknow Sentinel, 1911-09-07, Page 5• • • • • • 111 . '010111'JBENTMEL'„ • • THE GREAT . EXHIBITION OF 1.911. of, $ t -ember - 28,000.00„. . IN PRIZES AND ATTRACTIONS 11 n Exhibition of live Stock. The best ever seen. . in:, Canada: 'Many Unique Special Attractions including; i ITARY HYDRO,. ELECTRIC FEATURES: AERIAL, DIL H ... 0 .., ... ., • SUMPING , AND $PE. DING ,O')NTESTS; -BIG, DOG ANI) CAT SHOWS, FOUR. BELENDID BANDS 4 MOST ATTRAOTtVE'°Mj<DWAY.—'Best ever seen ; in London NIGHT :..NIGH :FIREWORKS :DISPLAY -EVERY' educed' Rateson all Railways.` R Prise Lists, Ent''y Forms and all Yether Information from• ,, W3.J.. REiD, Pres_ Ae•Me HUNT; Sec'ys', • 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." 1r •,.....w -.....• -.•••••..:saga. ......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 • It will be Havelock and Sepoy: Flour for this .Community:., ^. 4• 1.. E'CA.U.SE. The Wheat. is carefully selected, The Milling .Machlnety is perfect,. The Miller competent ...... h .. .. _ .... andof l long Pex crienee. ANL) 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 best, but 'better, . that,• the_ best''': Try .a' bag and prove it. • IEE.'HAV:ENIROS.'LLJCL44OW • MOLSONS BA --"� INCORPORATED 185a . $4,000,000 $4,400,000 $441 x,000 Branches fn 'Canada,: and Agents and Correspondent s ss,in all.;•the Principal C ities in the World.•. A. GENERAL B.ANKING BUSINESS TRANS_AC'1 p' SAVII1GsS BANK • DE.PAR;? E,NT at all Branches. Interest allowed at highest currentrate Capital,, Paid Up Reserve Fund Assets -. 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, • 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 - 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." 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