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The Clinton News-Record, 1909-11-11, Page 3• Novetriber 1101: 1909 Asemose.1111111111111111111, Clinton News -Record • The Split -Log Drag Does Good Work at Little Expense s WW1 the seasoe of fall rains Cant- ing on, the split -log drag will be one° mere in requisition. Whenever the surface of the road is softened and cut up, destruction flattening Of The mown and soakingot the subsoil. A little work wita the drag at this season will keep an. ea.rth road shap- ed of and smooth, facilitate the flow of water to the flitches, and. prevent, er, at any rate, reduce 'the seepage! ot water into the subsoil, there to be frozen in winter heaving the roadand preparing for that impassable condi- tion of the highway tommonlyeepect- ed on clay roads when the frost is corning out. In this connection, a pithy observation by D. Ward King may be reealled with profit. "The !roads," he said, will be all right, in Ispring if we don't put a lot of mud into cold storage in the fall. Anoth- er benefit of autumn dragging is that it keeps the road smooth, making an. excellent bottom for sleighing. Those who have been fortunate to catch op- portunity at the right moment, and drag their beats just before a freeze- up, ha:Voted the satisfaotion during the winter of driving either with wheels or sleighs over clay roa,ds as good as the best turnpikes. ••••••1100[0.1,17.,•,141,4 The Last Word in Ocean Loutxurg Despite the measures taken to in- sure secrecy it is impossible to give some partic,ulars of the two mam- moth liners, the Olympic and Titanic, which are being built at Belfast by Harland & Wolff tor the White Star company. In the matter of size they will eclipse the Mauretania and Lusts tania by not less than 12,000 tons, their tonnage being 45,000, against the .33,000 of the two Cunarders. The new steamers, which are dese tined for the Southampton -New York service, will be the finest on the v '.t- er in the matter of equip eat and. des Oration. One of the uprier decks is to be completely enclosed to serve as a ballroom or skating rink. The boats will offer not only extended suites of roofs but complete fiats, which will make it posaible to cross the Atlantic while enjoying ll the • France Has Built Good Roads Priva" of borne: The Olympic and. Titanic will be the first steamers to Meer cabins with private shower baths attached. in addition there will be e great swim- ming bath abroad both vessels large enough to permit of diving. A gym- nasium will be found on each of the new boats. A veranda cafe will be built on one of the upper decks far astern, loov- ing out over the sea and about fifty feet above the water. It will have exposed rafters' ,entwined with vine' at Enormous Expense and it Has Paid Her. There is a widespread hope that the Province of Ontario is on the eve of a 'great movement for the improve-, tont of country roads. The French Roads. What most people do not know is the influence good roads have upon economic and social conditions in the country that is courageous enough to bend them. A special letter on the subject of French roads, written by Sterling Heilig in the Pittsburg Dis- patch, throws light on this point. The American farmer,. .he says, pays $25 for hauling where the French farmer pays $7. He gives as an example the ease of a farmer who is cutting pine, which sells for $3.60 a cubic yard, standing, Cut,. it is wort') $4.40, and the big paper mills pay from $6.80 to a7.40 delivered at the works. At a time when competing outsiders would deliver the wood at the Fate of $1 a cubic yard, this farmer does the hauling himself, and makes monev on it. Wheat in this same district is worth $4.72 for 220 lbs. Farmers will haul it twelve miles and deliver it to any address within that radius fpr $4.e5. 'Generally speaking, it is cheap er in France to haul all kinds of mers ehandise by horse than to use trolley or railway, up to twenty miles. UP to thirty miles one is about as cheap as the other; and only for greater distances can the railroad compete successfully with the carter. The Uriage Transformation. It is a mistake to imagine that the good roads in France were made either by the ancient Romans or by • Napoleon, though both were notable road -builders. The best of the- roads lave been made in the past seventy years ca. so. Take the Uriage dis- trict, which in 1830 was penetrated by a wild, torrent -swept ravine, in which prowled bears and wolves, Then the people began to build their new road, and as a direct consequence they have built up a fine town,and a fashionable watering place. The good road made possible the establishment of a paper mill, acteylene works, two cement works, and an artificial tele- graph pole factery. It opened civil- ization to remote farmers, and gave them a market. The good road even • permitted a trolley to be laid, and indirectly brought light and power to isolated farmers at -24 the hectowatt. A Transportation Problem. The farmers and market.gardeners of France had their transportation problem solved by good roads before the trolley came. The stage coach was never permitted to die out, and today is an important factor in trans- portation. It is now a huge automo- bile, of slow speed, but great carry- ing capacity, and travels on solid tires, threading hundreds of small towns that woula not pay a• trolley. The Fiench roads are seventeen feet wide,' inacadamiced, not counting their dirt sides or bridle paths, shad- ed by fruit trees •and noble hardwood. In the past 'forty. years France has sunk $2000;000,009 ..in communal roads -"the greatest French work et half' a century " aS a Minister of Pub- lic Wreaks recently declared. "No one out of France," he said, "realizes the profound sacrifices male' by our people to produce thera.' Nevertheleas, their cost is the most productive of any Rena in our peace budget," mew the Roads Pay. It has been estimaeed that teurists annually scatter $600,000,009 over France, of which scores of millions are accounted fof lsy tae automobile tourists. The good roads, which' at' tract wealthy Motorists freer all !parts' of the world, must be..credited with earning a great part of this sum. The pod roads help largely to make extortion on the part Of elec- tric pr steam railways : imPoasible. Equally impeedble are artificially in- creased prices of commodities, when la farmer will haul a ton of produce ten miles for • 30cents, Good Toads tend to keep rentals of city houses down to a reasonable basis, by attracting thousands to suburban life. There are no backwoods districts in France, no places remotei 'from eivilieetiore • The good roads are' the very basis of the nation's prosperity, and the French •reason that soh a •aesult was worth making sacrifiees for. In. Can- ada ,we admit the value of pea roads; but. yet we shrink from mak- ing any sacrificee for them, shown thit typhoid Outbreaks er ere, concurrent with the presence of de- caying vegetables and sewage. M A destroying insect on the larch trees onOntario which, promised to • and the sides will be latticed effects, to make the illusion of a cafe at the seaside es complete as possible. M- other novelty be a grill room suggesting an ad. Engllsb. chop /house,' with high backed stalls a ancieut oak and broad, low tables. A garderi will be on the sun deck and en the winter will be protected by a glass roof, • The new vessels • will have a dis- placement of 60,000 tons. They are to be about 840 feet long, with. a bearn ot 90 feet, and the boat deck will be more than 60 feet above the water. ..• , Neither the Olympic nor the Titan -r, ic will be a high power boat, nor are their lines designed for great speed, twenty-one knots being the average aimed at. Their carrying capacity will exceed that of any vessel afloat to -day by at least one-third. Each stearaer will, carry under normal con- ditions more than 5,000 persons. A leature of the design is that the( will each have four funnels and only one mast, The funnels will be so large that two double decked street care could easily pass through each side by side.. A combination of tur- bine and reciprocating engines will - propel the vessels. The total cost ofr the two will be something like • no octo,00. .It is expected that they will be ready for their maiden eoyages in the spring of 1911. • kill the growth in a fele years, us it had done fifteen years ago in. the west was also reported by Dr. Hewitt, and Mr. A. Gibson. of Ottawa spoke of the spruce bud. worm, avhich was playing havoc in Quebee and northern Ontario in the spruce forests. Many other papers were read on subjects of interest to entomologists. Mr. T. D. Jarvis of the Onta.rio Agricultdral College was elected Pre- sident ; D. Walker of Toronto Vice - President; J, Eaton Hewitt, Ontario Agricultural College, Secretary and Messrs. Gibson, Ottawa; Williams and Nash, Toronto; Morris of Port Hope, and Trehernee Grimsby, directors. Jasper Park the New Nation- al Playground Set Aside by the Federal Government. The scenic beauties ot a vast moun- tainous region stretching from North ot the Yellow. Pass to the Watershed of the Saskatchewan, and from the foothills of the Rockies to their sum- mit are to be preserved in perpetuity for the pleasure and delight ot the people Of Canada by the Federal Gov- ernment. This great national playground and pleasure and healtir resort is situata ed on the line of the Grand Trunal Pacific Railway and will be known as Jasper Park, comprising nearly 5,000 square miles. From the data that has been received at the offices er• the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, it is learned that the scenic krandeur of the mountains in the Vicinity of the Yellowhead Pass are sublimely beauti- year 835 Gregory IV. induced the ful surpassing anything on tile Amer- ! Emperor Louts, "le Debannaire," to ion' continent. The Engineers report order theinstitution of a festival, an that it ts impossible to picture or , honor of All Saints, to be observed portary the grandeur and stupendous • on the first of November. This • fes- magnificence of the natural wonders tival had been Observed in Rome since( there. All is on a greater and a the conversion of the Pantheon into more 'beautiful scale than any other a Caurch of "the 'Holy 'Mother of God' portion- ot the Rockies, Large rivers and All the Martyrs of Christ," in A. and beautiful lakelets are everywhere D. 608. But. previously to the year in evidence to refresh and charm the 835' the date of the festival was, May I eyo of the traveller from the time 13. In ' • Romeo then, the other el the Athabasca is encountered in the God and the martyys were specially pass. Historic spots such as tlie conunemoiated on a day which' in the ruins of Henry House and 3aseer pagan calendar was the last day of House will be carefully safe guarded • All Hallows' and All Souls: The Celts of antiquity appear to have counted a month corresponding to November as the beginning 01 the year. Thereby hangs a tale. The night intervening between •ihe last day of the old year and the first of the ghosts of the dead, ,so it was be- lieved, returned to visit the abodes of the 'living, who, before they retired to rest, make up the fire on the hearth for, their visitors, whom is still observed in western on the night' between the second of November ...be - Saint's Day anti All Souls', Day. !the Lemuria, a solemnity observed for as soon as arrangements can be work - the propitation of the departed When ed out which will include elaborate There is to be a Grand Survey and Re - Valuation of all the Land in the 'United Kingdom. One. of the provisions of the new English budget is that there shall be a grand survey and re -valuation of all the land in the kingdom. The last great survey of the kind was made by William the Conqueror, shortly after the Battle of Leastings„ so that it has stood for 859 years. And Willia.m's famous survey was all incorporated in the celebrated "Dom- esday Book," which now lies in the record office, in Chancery Lane, Lon- don, England. Ot Very Great Value. Tne immense value of the "Domes- day BOok,." has always been recogniz- ed by the state, and it has ever been jealously guarded. There are two , volumes of it; the first has 382 pag- es,and the second 450. All these are double pages, written on vellum, in small handwriting, which is never- theless, fairly plain, even after all, this lapse of years. Most Carefully Preserved. No other 'country poss6sses anythit .1 eedefful, Domesnay Book' as a record of its siza, estates, re- sources, etc., of nearly 1,000 years ago. The book is unique met price- less ; and George III. so well saw this that he ordered reprints to • be made of it, that if it ever became' destroyed by accident its contents might not be lost. Queen Victoria went even further. She ordained that every two pages of it separately shonfd be reproduced, just as they steed, by photozincography, that the country might have exact 2opies of ,every bit of it in the event of any unfortunate accident to the original, The Last Word. . „ The survey of the land has been England's guide and standard of right and wrong with .regard to own- ership for over 800 years. In dis- putes concerning these questions tbe authority of the "Doniesday 13ocar" has been taken, and accepted by, the judges and law officials as ,the last, word. The famous reeord gives , the name of the owner of each manor at the time the survey was taken also, who held it before him, in the Con- fessor's reign ; how many hides Ix ere • on the land e how many ploughs Were in the demensne ;, how maiiy villeins, or servants of the lord; how many, farmers as tenants ;ehow many house- hold retainers:; bow much woodland and pasturage; the .number . of .itttlls and streams; and the than estimated. value of the estate. • Changes* inaaralife,s: • Incomes have:•fluctueted. in a mans ner never areamt of for a moment by the bequegthers of land which pro- duces the 'income; nets, the etalue'of, the benefice of Stanhope -a Very small ill ' Dii ham-haS risen to some- thing like 22000, owing to the rise of great cOalfields upon the land which provides the money ; whilse a fine can- onry at Peterborough, which ought now to be worth $1,000; has fallen to about 2400, owing to the decline of the value of pastureland, etc. and drink solemnity Brittany, first and tween All ' The obseratance of All Souls' Day is not, of course, confined to. Brittany. It is found everywhere :in Catholic Christendom.. . But just as in Brit- tany, soeverywhereelse; its origin is Pagan. It is the Christianized form of a Soleiriraty which, among the Celts and Teutons of antiquity, and. the Tongeinese, the Siamese, and the Konhaus of California in the world of today, marks the beginning of a new year. In generals the solemnities • of the deed include the lighting of lamps or candles for the guidance of the spirits to the borne§ of their kine - folk ,who are. yet in. the land of the living, and the getting out of a sup- per for the refreshment of the visite ors. after their long journey. • In western Europe' the•ecelesiaStical authorities made two attempts desiges 'eti either to end or to Mend. thisepraca tice of •eating • I"the offerings ofi tae dead," and carrying on the immeinors iai ancestor -worship. Fiest, M. the • • • ' • .. • • In the same way, it is eertain that vast estates are much ander-assessed nowadays with regard to their true value and, indeed, many of them re- corded in the "Domesday Book," • oi 800 years ago l. But it is only fair to state that money then was Inc more valuable in actual worth 1 han now, since one of our pennies . to -day re- presentsbut about a seventh of whet a penny did then. Will Take Many 'Years. However, we. are probably now to . have a brand new survey of all the land. What this means may he better I understood when you learn that it is etpected to cost over 4:21,000,000 to Icarry out, and that it will take sev- eral years from its start ere it can possibly be completed, . despite the large number .of men who Will be en- gaged in it, and their great ability, For the most exact measurings and details must be taken of every estate., There must be no question .iftetwarhs about the accuracy, exactness or de- tail. of . this new "Domesday' Book," any more than there has been eAout the old one, it will undoubtedly stand for centuries in future as, the absolute authority on the athject of 'British land, and all dispates will be settied by It, without demur. Money' Leas Valuable. , • Gregory IV. obtained the institittion preparations for thedeveloping of the of the festival of All Saints' in Gaul, the date of the observance in Rome. Park where nature has 'Steen so lavish'. was changed from May .13 t� Novem- Within a comparatively short dis- The. substitution of All Saints' tance frons the Grand Trunk Pacific ber 1, for the sake of eniforraity. ever for the spirits of vinsfoli hew_ in this locality are found the great and sulphur springs which will be utilized • anceators was not a success. Along and developed according to the plans with the Christian . ceremonies the of the engineers.. (There are three sees pagan pratiees were stilt maintained. 01 springs, Another ,effort was Made to extinguieh one: of which has a good them. In 998 the Abbot of alhigny or- 1•19, flow of water with a tarperature ot and those with stronger flow dered that in all mofiasteriessubject have a temperatdre of over 125, to his rule and authority .• a•SOlemn Mass should be celebrated. on the . -- • second 'day of November, in eounnerreioEs l . woVIENIP Il . • Oration of the dead • who sleep in • Christ. Frein • this beginning the Clinton 'Women nre Finding Relief. at Feast of All. Souls spread throughout •Last, • ... . quite evident from deacriutiopt, of itiss• w..It does seem that women have merle 'Catholic Christendom -but; as observance in France, • Belgium, tie . an a fair share- of the aches • and Tyrol, arid other countries, it is still. ipntsnts lthi...akteteapup," must, attend to filiet -humanity ; they .the old pagan . „ solemnity, survivingduties in spite of constantly aching • two essays of reformation. . backs,or headaches, dieaY spells, bearing -down pains; they, must stoop . . over .when to stoop means. torture. They ';must walk and bend and work with racking pains and many 'aches The Flging Machine of To -Dag . •• from , kidney i11s Kidneys cause More suffering than any. other organ of the body. • Keep the kidneys well In all, probability the aeroplane will riurn of the aPparatus. . , and .health is easily maineained. Read Ultimately lead the automobile as a! As for the type of flying machine of a remedy. for kidneys only that& vehicle of sport, while for the pleasure this is generally classified under three. helps and cures the kidneys andis trips of two or three people about heads, as follows : (1) Aonoplanes, endorsed by people you kaow, level and open country or -sear. rivers (2) biplanes, ,(3) triplanes, or multi- Mrs J. pook of Joseph St., Olin - or lakes it will be decided- la vogue. sae -surface machines a the that class ton, Ont.; says : ."After suffering; twit& This article aims to give a clear idea generally consist of a single plane, or A 'severe attack. ,of la grippe, my back of the different kinds of heavier -than pair of wings, attached te the front was so tender an d wek that 1 o scare I • et around A • con - air flying machines of the aeroplane end of a long body which term na es class that are now being built and at the rear in some kind of a, tail, tinual dull, bearing down pain had successfully operated. ' comhined with horizontal and verticaa settled in the region of the kidneys I Besides aeroplanes the two other other meltiple-eurface machines, amine haenadd.exvtoetnoded around my sides. tyres ti- ache constantly. and there rudders. Biplanes, triplancei, classes of flying machines that do not addition to a horizontal rudd,qx in was, often a dizzy feeling and spots copters or lifting -screw flyers, and upon sticks or bamboo poles extend- languidpoorly appearing before my eyes. I felt depend upper. gas for support are hell- front, generally have a tail mounted orithopters, or flapping -wing machin- ing back rrom the Main planes; general es. • -No machine of • either of these though the latest Voisin biplane bas 'nese al- health and although I knew ley sick- ' types has ever made a flight, els a body of sePare cross had weakened and disordered the I a. • though several helicopters have risen, tar to that of a Monoplane, upon` , section simfeikidneys, I found nothing to benefit me. I learnedof Booth's, Kidney from the ground and shown excellent which the box tail is so pivoted that 1 Pills through an advertisement and . ? lifting power. • The best of thesa. ma -lit can be inclined upward and down- procuring a box at Mr. aloline's I er,--about 20 feet, -the blades of ' tal rudder. The vertical rudder for a horizon_ Pharmaey, commenced treatment. It !chines have propellers' of large diaradO, ward and raade to act as , was short, time when which are praetically small aeroplan- steering right and left is generally a comparatively, 1 ha es. The question of the lifting of placed in the center of the box tail. been re ic e . headaches man and maehine in this manner has 1 -From "How an Aeroplane Is Built" and dizziness." My eyes ocgari to been solved, so that there only re- by Stanley Yale Beach, in the Amer- clear and were soon strong i.nd well. mains for solution those or dirigihil- lean Review of Reviews for Novein- I The pain gradually left my back and sides arid I strengthened. I am very, i y an e. main fleece o equi i -bor. • • . • ry The House Fly is One of the Worst Disease Carriers Known. Guelph; Nov. 5. -The common house fly was painted in its tree colors as one of the worst medinins'of oarrying disease that has to ' be contended against, by Dr, Gordon C. Hewitt, Dominion faitomologist, of Ottawa, before the annual meeting of the En - teleological Society of Ontario, whic'a to -day concluded its sessioes at the Ontario Agricultural College. "While thousands- of (tonere have blecri expended in the south to prevent the spread of fever, through the ex- termination of mosquitoes, there has been littic done to prevent the house fly from doing just 'as ektensive a work in sprea,dingdisease in the nor- thern countries,." said Dr. Hewitt. "Exterminate the house 'fly and you cut down the death rate," raid, the speaker, and he referred particularly to the infantile death rate caused by intestinal diseases and diarrhoea, which were readily spread by the fly. Tie believed that the so-called harm- less fly was yearly causiiilg the death of hundres, �r even thousands, of infants, as well as spreading the germs of typhoid fever. I People were getting away trona the idea. Dr. Hewitt said, that thei statei‘ ment .that the fly is a carrier of dis- ease was made by cranks or faddists, and the theory that the fly was made clea by "washing itself" was utter ik fool. ness. As one who has made a stu y of the history of the fly, its habits and !breeding places, ia England and in Canada' he described every' fly I as being laden With bacteria, perhaps harmless, but likely to be the bacteria of dangerous diseases. . 1 The doctor then described how the ,fly,, coming into the house, l'ghted in Ithe sugar bowl and in the milk ves- se,s, and the latter had been shown to be a perfect mediumfor disease in which bacteria was found to de. velop very rapidly, when flies wt,re about the milk was not protaesel. i Instances were given where the death rate In United States cities had been , reduced by against opportunities for the fly To get in its disease -spreading, work. On the New Yak waterfront it was grateful to Booth's Kidney Pills for the speedy relief given me and will gladly recommend there." Sold by dealers, Price 50 cents: The R. T. Moth Co., Ltd., Port Erie, Ont., Sole Canadian Agents. OLD PEOPLE SUFFER TORTURES with their BACKS Here is a Case in Point. Of course you know a dull ache or sharp pains hi the back come from sick Kidneys. Old age exacts its penalty. The kidneys become weak or strained through the hard work of a lifetime. Plasters, ointments and liniments only ease the pain -they can't reach the Kid- neys. As soon as the effects of such remedies wear off the pain returns worse than ever because the Kidneys are worse. West Fort William, Nov. 7th, 1908. "X liave been troubled with a Lame Back for the past twenty:,years and have used plasters and einenent without effete At last X tried Gin. Pias, which proved just the thing, and X would highly recommend them to anyone who has Strained or Lame tack." IL HARKNESS. Girt Pills, you see, act directly on the Kidneys --relieving the pain- giving them new strength -and neutralizing Uric Acid, 'which is pnerally formed when there Is Kidney Try Gin Pill, yourself, before buying the regular Bee boxes. Write the Na- tional Drug & Chemical Co. (De t. A), Throat°, Ont., and they will send you a free sample of Ohi Pills by return mail. einey.-saving. •Sale .0.r .040 ,11010. It Commenced Nov.. 1st and will Continue Right Through this Month. RANGES REDUCTION FOR CASH FOR MONTH OF NOVEMBER • Happy Thought Range square - $3.00 t, with reservoir - ' 3.00 " with reservoir and high shelf 3.00 916 Pandora and reservoir 3.00 a ' reservoir and high shelf 2.00 - and reservoir 2.00 reservoir and high shelf . '3.00 „ ‘; . 2.00 •'. 2.00 918 Model Huron Kitchen Range and Reservoir COAL HEATERS No. 5 Radiant Dome 2.00 " with oven 2.00 No. 113 McClary's Famous 3.00 No. 114 " 3.00 Fairy with oven 2.00 and 5 per cent. discount off all small Coal Heaters . . HARDWARE • . Bell faced Steel Hammers reg. 75c for 40c Wrenches '50c for 38c, Fire Shovels .. 5c and 10c 3 -ft English Rules • 30c HandledI Axes ' _ - 750 ' A fine quality Shaving Brush- 25c . Razor Strops, .good • . 25c . Special prices on Razors • • e• --- Glass Cutters - .. * 10c. See the new Self -wringing Mops only 753 ' • I Lanterns, large burners . 60c. . A good Storm Door complete with fittings $1.5? 1. s GRANITIEWARE Just received a large assortment one-third off the regular price. $1.25 Double Cookers for 1.00 30c Wash Bowls for 80c Water Pails tor 300 Tea Si,eepers for 35c Chambers for • 40c 50c " 1; ''•• $1.50 Preserving•Kettles for 1.25. " 1.00 :75 " .60 " .30 Dippers for . . • :• . 7 .84c 66c . 20c Oc • 20c • 27c 33c , 84c • 66c 50e . 40c 20c DUSTI3ANE Why'You 'Should Use Dust bane It saves labor in 'sweeping. It saves one half your dusting. It saves your carpets and rugs. It saves yonr health. It is sanitary as it contains an antessptic fluid which kills gerin4. The evaporation of this flpid while sweeping thoroughly di8infects the room. Try it once and you will continually use it. '.List of Second -Hand Heaters in Good Repair Acme Coal Heater $10 1 Expel t Coal.Heater $8 1 Radiant Home with oven $18 1 Princess Acorn $14 1. Imperial Jewell $15 1 Vesta Pearl $7 1 McClary Belle $4 1 Parlor Cook for wood $4 2 Box Stoves for wood $2 1 Honor Bright wood cook $15 Try Wyandotte Cleaner and Cleanser-- a full 5' 113. 'Bag for 25c. The Cheapest and Best ,Cleansing Compound in Use. Harland Bros.'. STOVES AND HARDWARE CLINTON