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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton New Era, 1908-01-03, Page 8s1ETEI T D l:nted: big !� ' i�0pr mot d F ji! ai a 1M.r h#ntk is aye )lttte instrument 11. WOMEN TORTURED e interest pt 11;u cleats of thhc coullwAgyor.diminlsheal; liuxmo 41 t1 changing iseiteolei of the the Snit day ol` Janina"' ter Qt Deeeiliber. tt'regulate,{ pulse of the nation and Is e to 'Whidi men of ail•occupe- Fa. Anttli'd-littii instrnmei t:- eometer, which bears the elirenheit he seventeenth century. nee 'judge of the awount .of heat g at any place by their per. Wises and could only speak Weather in a very, indefinite hot or very hot, cold or very that century wy several attempts de by scientific experimenters of tubes containing oil, spir- e and other substances to es - satisfactory means of meas - at. but none of them proved 1. Elven Sir Isaac Newton, ted his great mind to this also the noted astronomer, ed in their attempts to pro - measure. ed to, Gabriel Daniel an obscurand poor man, tzig+ to give to the meta( which htys proved seeable to mankind. He business as a merchant taste for mechanics and gan a series of expert - production of thermome- t he made these lnstre- 1L•ohol, but soon became t the semisolid mereury unable article to use In L d removed from Dant - dam, and there about the made the mercury ther- cb has ever since been ch like the original. of his plan was to mark the two points respectively water is congealed and boiled graduate the space between. an with an arbitrarymarking, ing with 32 degrees, because he ound that the mercury descended 32 degrees more before coming to what thought the extreme cold resulting m a mixture of ice, water and sal tnonlac. In 1724 be published a dis- t treatise on the, subject of his ea- ts and the conclusions that had therefrom. SIT! . of._,$tockholm-soon_&fter_sug--. ted the more rational graduation of hundred degrees between freezing boiling point. This was the centi- grade thermometer. R.eaumur propos- - ed another graduation which has been ' accepted by the French, but by far the largest part of the cjvilized world Fahrenheit's scale has been accepted and used, with 32 degrees as freezing, b5 degrees as temperate, 96 degrees as blood beat and 212 degrees as boiling point. It is true that the zero of Fahren- heit's scale Is a solecism since it does o mark the extreme to which heat can be abstracted. This little blemish, however, does not seem to have been of any practical consequence. Arctic explorers have persisted in de- scribing temperatures below the zero . r `'nheenhnit. and scientists have nrn- LMenand Women of Ontario APPEAL is for. You Great Provincial Charity, The Hospital for Sick Children, Cats Oin Toa For Aid. Remember that this Hospital is not a institution, but Provincial. It cares for every sick child in the Province of Ont- ario whose parents cannot afford to pay for treatment. Busy dollars are better than idle tears. The sytn. pathy that Weeps is good, but the Hospital hastohave the sympathy that Works. Last year there were 1093 patients ad- mitted. Of these 3711 came from 254 places outside of Toronto -all were children of poor people who could not afford to pay for treatment of their little ones. Each child was in the Hospital 477; days cost of 1 each day, or 22 f o. r 473 days If yo. • r/ could ailthten feet of lfttde boy girl *1tjr club feet, you would gladly ve ii, and your dollar will do that. ere Wein 79 cases of club fent treated "I LIRE TIOTUR14.e'• HASSAOE BEFORE. AFTER. ear. Ont of the 79, about 50 were the country. tip is sick o ofou know has club ild in ycounty b eet,and whose iiente inn not afford to y, send the nain.to the pital Secretary. 'The stack books aro Won'boyou let tee Hospital write your parte down for a few shares in Heaven's own rkork of healing little etildren creme mine of Mercy ho mining stock that k jra pays dividends--- dughbwith the money tb:. helpa The Hospital for Sick Children to ex• UV `r 1110 Gold of Life biro i Lill;. • Qtriarts of :..,.. Cl.. h. Who Could, Be Well, Land ateppy# 414d' ee q Pte, 4e04aehes aim ply n?44di 1?oi+w d bdigod, • The human; .body 1e conatautly Ytng and being .renewed, ppad mater "`is absdrhed. by the. blood. and should be talken front the.. blgod by the kldneys, -bowels anti ak1>s and passed out of the system. It one o; these organa. does not ant properly,, the blood becomes impure -,if two tail, death is certain, When there are constant headaches, it is always' found that the bowe)a aro irregular, the kidneya Weak. or the skin sluggish;- pale or Ballow. Tho tissue waste is ieft in the .blood -care ries to the brain --and irritates the nerves. To 'headaches with 00-, caine, morphine, phe cltine and the host of "headache powders" is useless. They •relieve for, the moment,' but they clog the system and, do harts. They never reach the seat• of the trouble, they cannot purify the , blood. "Fruit-a-tives" completely. cure Headaches. They stimulate the liver and make the bowels move regularly. They regulate the kidneys, They .1n - duce healthy skin action. Thfrs, all thc, waste matter -body poisons -•are taken out of the blood and there le nothing to cause headaches: "Fruit., a-tives" are " the only remedy that really cure. "Fruit-a.-tives" are fresh fruit juices -in which the medicinal action - is greatly increased by the special way in which they are combined. 50e a box; 6 for $2.50. At all druggists' or sent on receipt of price. ]Print-a-tives Limited, - Ottawa, Ont. auceci-artitciai"iy temperarurei' tar uc- law any ever dreamed of by the ther inometer maker of Amsterdam.. There is doubt as to the year -of the. death of Fahrenheit, but dt is generally placed in 1740. Sun Power. .There is one source to which •all minds revert"when this question is . mentioned, a scute most promising and yet one wbchh has so far eluded the investigator? The sun on a• clear' day delivers upon each square yard of the earth's surface the equivalent of nppriisimrrtely- two- horsepower -o chanical energy working continuously. If even a fraction of this power could be transformed into . mechanical_or .. electrical energy and stored it would do the world's work.. Here is power delivered _ at our very doors without eost How to store the energy so gen- erously furnished and keep it o*i tap for future use Is the problem. That the next half century will see some solution thereof, either chemical or otherwise. seems Iikeiy. H -S Pinch eft in Atlantic. To check a cold quickly get from your druggist some little :Dandy ".Oold Tablets celled Preventics. • Druggists everywhere are now dispensing pre ventics, for they are riot only safe' but decidedly certain and prompt. Pre-. ventics contain no Quinine, no laxativ e, nothing harsh or sickening. Taken. -at;. the "sneeze stage" Preventics will pre- vent Pneumonia, Bronchitis, LaGrippe etc. Hence the name, Preventies. Good for feverish children. 48Preven- tics 25c. --Trial boxes 5c. Sold by W. S. R. Holmes, and W. A. McConnell. ue purest tweeze or, gra uornets are the Kochlant whose genealogy. has been preserved for 2,000 years, Theg are said to. be derived from King Solo- mon's stables. • Chinese Methods. . _- One primitive method of getting wa- ter for irrigating vegetable gardens En China is to dig a hele in a shallow river bed and carry the water to fields in American coal oil tins. The well of course Xs lost the next time the river Butter gators. The Englishman elle mor-e-fititter than any man of any other nationality. His yearly average is thirteen pounds. Game In 'East Africa. All kinds of game are. plentiful in British East Africa. Thanks to ener- getic administration of the protective laws, the indiscriminate slaughter of antelopes and other species hae . been checked, and travelers on the Ukanda railway may' see from the carriage windows zebras ia thousands, harte- beest, wildebeest and gazeles and even. on occasion the lion. giraffe and rhe Yon have heard ofbiscuits-and read of biscuits -and eatenhiseultree but you don't know biscuits -until you try Mooney's rerrection Cream • Sodas. They are everything ,that the ideal biscuits should be. The air -tight, moisture -troof package brings them to you fresh, crisp, inviting. Practically every grocer in Canada ass MOONEY'S. Yours will get via O'U TQ NEW ERA COWAOYS IN THE WEST ARE NOW PASSING AWAY AND BECOMING ONLY A MEMORY, • Cattle No tenger Rom the Plains as in Former Days Cowboy and Broncho, Find: Their • Occupation I Gmna, - Ranching Quito Different Navy -.-Hero of the Prairies Excite; No interest. The hero of the" wee tern plains for Many a decade has Been the cowboy. From time imrer:aerial •wom..an hoe loved the sword; but not' any •Qlore. than the ., broad -brimmed hat of the sturdy rider of the prairies. Militar- ism to -day is a passing pageant, and. the halo of glory that has surrounded thestrenuous life of the cowboy iso fang away and becoming a memory,' . A little over a• quartet of u century ago and the west .was t e .unbroken stretch el -country, over whose limit- • less. plains thousands of buffaloes roam- ed at will.. The stolid Indian had leis • borne where'er . he pitched his camp. The: ranchman came in with his im. mense herds of cattle, and the_laulfdlo. fell a • prey to the white manes thirst for gory sport. Thousands were 'slaughtered eveiy year, and their car- easses left to rotupon the plaine while their heads were carried off as the spoils of the day. Buffalo Had Dwindfed�' When Canada awoke and, 'came, to realize the destruction that had been; going on, the buffalo had d, indled down to a few hundreds and even these had forsaken the flag that had neg- lected to give- them protection.. -* In an effort to save the race from becoming extinct, the Ct': na.dian Gov= ,ernment has already spent half a mil- lion dollars, It has provided a na- tional park where some 590 buffaloes brdught from Montana are placed; but the.. buffalo will .pass• to the.frontier. les the Indian has "done, and then to the great; zone of the unfergotten. It is thia trail that the cowboy to ;day ; indeed, his prancing Steed may overtake them all; and disappear-. as a lone traveler in the dim silence. At one time " Western Canada was one of the greatest stock -raising coun- triesin the world; it is so to -day, but under greatly changed circumstances. It was then we found the cowboy, at the height of 'his fame. Not long ago a ranch was visited where 4.e00 head of cattle' were . in stock. The ranch was divided into section's and fenced in with barbed wire. In the early, days there were =nn 1enrna;__.t e tittle roamed the plains guarded --an W ca, oy an. the •broncho.. • a _Thea life of.theaeowboy=was art-ardu= ous'one. Some .ranchmen•had as !ferny as 10,000 and 15,000 heads, the aver- age provably being about 5,000, but immaterial as to numbers, they. had to be very • closely 'watched ands pro- tected: A mountain wolf or a coyote felling upon a calf or young steer might cause d.. panic: that would fin- ally 'end in. a general stampede: The ec.•w•l eye finding -hob.. . effoi is to. check- th't headlong rush unavailing would call the reserves, and the Animals pacified by scattering them in differ- ent directions..As` long as they ched-the position of the cowboy_ was a perilous : one: ` The slightest stumble of, his pony might prove fatal. A, a mile they rode alongside near the leaders; whom they endeavored" to oonfuee. With"this=the-cattle-broke ire. .and the stampede became dis- organized. . Effect of a Storm. Another life-long enemy of .the 'cow- boy. was" the 'Storm. No Sooner, were the skies overcast, and the winds be- gan;' to, sweep.' the . plains than the cattle ;flanked .iri 'their movements, reeled before the storm and fell tele fell retreat. Then, it was that the cowboy. was called upon to strain every. nerve; to keep the. herd intact; and lead it into a ravine or coulee. The'" moment the storm came up, the 1 shift off 'duty hastened"to. the assist,- ance of the "others. If there. was no stampede, ae was almost" invariably the case, ultimately, the •'cattle ' could be directed without very great diffi- eulty to a place of shelter. The men• had to do mostly with the leaders, the rest following.. " - 'The -cowboy ].ivied, at bast; iri --a thatched shack; and -not invariably in. a but du into the"side of a hill. ae -live far from the haunts of com- merce, and his diet was' such as the country .provided: No truer, sterner. and more gallant man ever lived•than the cowboy of the western . prairies. 1118 true he lived a rough and ready life, but he watt the very essence of a.square deal, and he measured every man according to his own standard of ethics," . . ' Mires of Wire Fences.'' LYA IRISH PEOPLE THRIFTY cocaina()n o S� NESS BLIGHTS COUNTRY. RUT IT BECOMES A. SERIOUS NATTER t IlEOLECTED, PNEUMONIA: BBONCREVIS, ASTIDIA, QATARItR or CON-, SUI iQN IS 'pial youvr. Gist"£id of it st once by ing Dr; Norway Pine Syrup Obstinate coughs yield to its grateful soothing acition, and in the racking, per.' sistent cough, often present in Consumptive cases, it give? 'prompt and sure relief, In Asthma and J3ronohitie it is a successful remedy, rendering lbreathing easy and natural, enabling the euflerer to enjoy r`e- freshitig sleep, and often effeoting a per- manent .o�tre. .. We do not claim that it will 'pure Coe- sumption in the advanced stages, but• if taken in time it will prevent it reaehibg that stage, and will give the greatest relief to the poor sufferer from this terrible males *.; • . . Be careful when purchasing to see that you get the genuine Dr. -Wand's. Norway Pine Syrup. Put up in a yellow wrapper,' three pine trees the trademark. Mr. Wm. '0. Jenkins, Spring Lake, .Alta,, Writes: "I had a very bad cold settled un ray lungs. I bought'two bottles of Dr. Wood's ti irivay Pine Syrupbut it only" required one to euro me. I have - never mottwith any other mediojpe as good." Price ''"'•Fs.. at all dealers. KI ATS * ON MARRIAGE. Barrier ,>:1gat.tlst r a rmWi ony th 'i'cii the Poet Rejoiced. . Notwithstanding your happiness and .. your reeoiutnendation, 1 hops I shall never .marry. Though the most .beau- tiful creature were waiting for: ice at the end of,a journey of a walk, though the carpet were.of silk; the curtains of the morning clouds, the chairs• and sofa stuffed cygnets' down, the food manna, the wine beyond 'claret, the. window opening on Winander mere, 1 • .should not feel; or,, rather, my happi- . nese would not be so fine, as my soli- tude , is sublime. Then, instead. of d- • what 1 have described ' -re le Aaiun, im ty to welcome me home_ The roar. the Inereasenr-TrbOble Anti -10)04d 1 Through Winter ',,- Landlordo Are Selling Thiele Property and IZIeleg Abroad -Hundreds out of Work, Tillage Abandoned, .; One reservoir of stored -up -gold ' seems to have been overlooked in the receut crisis. Tide is Ireland, Ace. cording ter a return just issued by the Irish -Department of Agriaulture, not only are the eavings of the peoPle re- presented by' the hauking and Gni- . ernment statistics.. higher then wher before, but more money wee Put away ,, in 1906 thall in any previous year, • The bank deposits on ,Iune 30 •Of this year anaounted to 1240,335,000, an increase cempared, with1906 of $11, 125,000. The postoffice savings banks deposits ameunted to $53,185,000, an increase , of - $e0,000„ • Government fends amounted to $195,955,090, an inerease of $11,195,000, Under the above four heads hie' Veda -lents increased in. twenty years from $324,750,000 ta $501,955,000,. Irish railway receipts in 1907 areolso store for Ireland. The machinery of standstill and the police chiefs UM"' '"'"'"."'"' that things will be worse before they • are better. Cattle *driving ha4 spread throughout the entry, and the wife urging the .peopl not to- take part iti c jr ohief dime is so g eat.that priests are preaching again t lewlebsness and Arrests of the effendere are futilea hatches of cattle drivers to Dublin, ropolitan • jury, but theugh the cases were proved and ne defence was of- fered the juries always. disagreed and the defendants wereareleased on their . own rcognizanees. . ,. Hitherto the rancli-clearing cam-. paign has induced about a score of graziers • to surrender their farms, and. on the 'other hand it has inflict- • ed heavy .expenees.. on the counties concerned -in the shape ef extra police taxes,aerhile. the compensation to be ' paid to the owners of cattle will run into thousands of pounds.. -lug. Landlords who,, selL Him es- , tetes_are-alinost invariably_going to England and the Continent; and thia . throws many laborers and othora out . Of employment. Fine_mansions ,ane1 houses in the country parts have been given over to small farmers who Onr). . °Ply occupy a room Or two. This has already been made plain to many' who . have purchased farms outright, and they have abandoned tillage as ouprafitolde.,_yet. have not stocked their farms for Want of capital. In- dustrial -progress has been set back, as capitalists are .afraid to invest in ' LK. dust 18 fine white, but it *hit0Aour is ail ri lacks nil 'don Royal Household BO is not only the 4nest purest Cf. ft; nrs !Aix the-. most nutritions t __ gives you all c. nutl yftwootmer a tu3 rt .4n Ogiiirie flour Mills Co., L The coieboy of to -day, is merely an imitation. There is riot the Bathe chiv- alry in him; he rides into town. flaunts his ,broael-brimmed . hat and displays cheap bravade in the corner saloon. Rut this is only an evideeae of his degeneracy, of his livine on a reputation ..neade_by_othgeit,,,T,Ike.r hat_ that helped to peer the Ineas,ureiess distanees of the plains the. kerchief that 'Was a fortress- aeainst the stieg- ing bites of the prairie mosquito, the breeches with their ffinged edgee to mit the winds„are now Mementoes tpr display before the' awe-stricken and illiterate' foreigner. The sPirit Of conlmercialisni has so' permeated otir weitern land,, that no more does the " het° of the prairies awaken other than a. passing look ae he rides through the town. Thousands of miles of wire fences nre placed every year, end ranches that knew -only the • horizon for their bounds ate now earcelIed off into' quarter -sections, aed into theae the eetele ere benched. The coleboy 40, known in olden dayii is' no longer i•equired-he has become one of %the heir), and thus has his, glery faded), 'With the onward progrese' el deve troment of the country, afid its at+ dent bests ot eager, anxious so ee. leer their way into, every of the ea -entry, there is being upon the pages of our eurceritt tory, the epitaph of one of th teresti ng telemeters that h and fibutished in the ennals sceptered fedi eoujnea, sweeping by," -A.cesiding to My sta-re-of Mind am -with Achilles shooting in the trenches or with•The'ocritus in the vales of Meta Troilus, find, repeating those lines, '"I 'wander like a lost soul u on the Sty - :Man banks, stayieg toe wattage," I so delicate that L am content tee be Women, who aPpear to me machffdren to* whom I weiild. rather give sugar pluni than my 'time, form a barrier , -"Poems' cif John Keats," by Walter curects moot r. HAD MYTHICAL MILLIONS. Victims to Plausible Tales of Youth- ful Criminal. A romantic story of anythicar Mil - 'ions, and several other fortunes in estates in America and England, with ,large house properties, was told ' t Middlesboro', when Charles 'Edition sen Xenia, 2T years of age, was se t .to prison .fOr twelve months on fou Charges. of false .pretences. ' e.'-' _•"hhehee.. -re or IMO Mit systems whIch.ada,caimot Ilford 'ta Walt must be done accurately' raust be the best 'and q easy.to read after It Our catalogue w is free for the mkt Soho& term: Chief Constable Riches said that 1 , fee a considerable time, and had ob- tained a large sum of money Item them .on the pretense_ that a Liver- ! 1. pool aunt had left hien $70.;000.ai He I had "drawn up numerous documents, 1- • purporting to be wills, by Which he said he inherited a fortune of $50,- ri Raleigh. o00,000 in Ame ca, an estate at South- When thestonittehe--Heart-or-Kide- ney nerves get weak,then these Organs always fail. Don't drug the Stomach This is simply a makeshift. Get a pre- scription known to Druggists every- where as Dr Shoop's restorative, 4' The 'Restorative is prepared expressly for these welik inside nerves. 'Starlingthen. these nerves, build them up with 1)i. --and'see how quickly help will come. Free sample teet sent on request by Dr. Shoop, Racine, Wis. Your' health is - surely worth, this simple test.: W 5 R Holmes . arapton, and house properties in / Leeds. AnIong other inheritances he spoke of were• S4 blood . horses, 24 milking ducks, and numerous suites of fermi- • Nellis, and lettere are allead to have been siened 'by Lord CeTharvon, Lord -Allendale, the Kinea:secretaries, and other impel-to:et personages. Nellis had also beee courting a Miss to an alleged 5125 special marriage lia Lavinia Rayner, to whom, according cense, he was "half married.," the.i be- 'he -defined it Leeds. Only.' that day. at 2.30, he willed. her huge. sines of. moneY, and the •parents of the young woman": had consented to the: , y marriage, 8old b J In passing sentenee; the chairman of the bench desorihed genie as an COmparatfvelY Mine man whose • Mustache remained je black while the hair. on lila head hiened white eiplain- because hia lipil enjoyed all the good thhigs of life arta his head had .to ,all the tronbleat, The Strange Parte • "Isn't it Strange that So few men discover the secret of success in life'?" "Yes, telt Ws- stranger still that the the, men Who discovered it Must. halm told it to their,, wives."- ough Caution ays heal' soothe., and ensu tile Irritated brata • 1 D tat MI 11 611 146 It with A lying nelson, It's Strange hoirtiorne Chino cOinenbout. For twenty yeakiffic Shiva sanely warned aoople not to take cough or arestrIptions containing Opium. A1101101'13011400,1 And ttow-it are in eour Cough Mixture." Should lasistoa having Dr. abotaail al'a nelson marks Oh Dr. shame( ,zre lathe Inedleine. 018e it MITA bi abet. and it's not oii14;aare, but ie send oentrilnitions to S..Rose Douglas eitld, Hospital isil' Melfi r MONEY &CANDY, C.0 That Inanieration to elosely epproach; the MO. IOW wag the statenterit W. I) Scott, head ef.the Departnient at Ottawa. Mr T Perry', the well 4fliPertert of Henget', lute impottent. 'sale 'of th stook borne, Southport, ,sr those that Itifolk.14 1 with your Insia nu having ft he !ado side by dematallan ../mLa R. GREGG, Founder Gregg Syste FOLK ally anal 14iture's Ilemetly(141. 014'011 olr iololn need it to beep their Stomach. Lbw& cam need It fee the eireardt sod virtail.gOWL ' • Let "NATURE'S REMEDY" Eti . dhows canna take bold. ettry box Is gentieuesi 'sew 114R -TABLET(--- tkp unmitigated scoundrel. _ Lord Darnieh's Romance. Lord Darnley Waa at one time oh the"Stock txchange, and for several years was dormected with a big firm of port: wine shippere, He has like- 1 wise been president of the Moyle - bone Cripket Club, but in receet years has .descerided from cricket to .got, He Won his wife, out in. ,,,Australie, when in 1883 he took a ericketing team to the Antipodes. It seems thet at .one of the matches. he lost his handkerchief, and the day beine ex- tremely hot, inquieed of his friends el lef that' he might borrow, Iterellief of delieate fabric was handed • te him. ' It was a most acceptable,. Offering on that, hot day, and eft& the match he e4fressed a deisife to thank the donor. Ail letrodiretion to was the daughter of -a Victoria mares. trnte. and i,..egOrtIOSil' to the younger children r William I. Clark, der the, kimily chaperonage of mly ChM, nn engagement following iornael fin cintrtr(1 0., rul bore her off in triunple ' 41 CONNELL lqi sit Air& • Bank of Englend's Suspentions. The Think of Regland has suapended . payment twide lie' hietory. .The, first , time was in IPS and the butt in 1797, Tee in Indite. ' One tea company in India bas under cultivation 1,450 flares. while another hiss 1;803 acree. It coas to prodnpe.- the tea and plate it in the mar erat lit Calcutta front I' to 9 ceete a pan '0 Bricks Poladeaefatosi Dust. Russia has inanY Street; pdved wit „Oorcls Mild to make 'a 1,ety pne pave - The •discoverer of the Conneetieut waft's') to, Sel If you need in prites-from RUbbors, Otte you tp_buy fro Pri 11108 General Mer rivet Was the Duteh tiatzigater Adrian Whoee name survives in Mock .ieland. In .1,614 Meek 'i.thilettieeted the rivet tool 'aziti.cal' up its +IMMO 501110 'Stitt Miles, very nearly to the. present northern boundary of the ritate. The *brd "Connecticut" la Of Indian of4 gin, meaning the ."Long Tidal river." An fee Cave. eunneer• Attraction In Colebrook, N. II.. Is the lee cave in Dixville notch. This eave formed. by it fissure in Abe ledge oe the tentilitain that fille With' 011.0W winter and is piezteeted I Veither Horseshoes. ther SIM