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14foillindy What you toOtt it—
Wees pinok —hut not a thorn.
If you look for joy and gladeess,
'FbeY will Callite at your Cauunand ;
If yoe peek for woe end sorrow,
They will he oa either hand.
Many a thorn, or blooming flower.
Will annoy yon, or adorn;
Life is truly what you make it—
Rosea pluck—but not a thorn.
Crabbed, c rose, despondent, gloomy.
Heavy-hearted, you complain;
Joyoue, cheery, gleesome, smiliag,
You feel nought of gr:ef or pain.
Glowing sunlight, midnight darkness.
Cheer, or leaves yor sad and torn ;
Life is truly what you make a-
1it:4E18 pLick—but not a thorn.
Whatsoe'er you choose to gather,
Care or comfort, peace or strife,
Such Will be the good or evil
You will natter through your life.
Seek to find the gc cd and pleasant,
Of the slighest evil shorn;
Life is truly what you make it—
Roses pluck—but not a thorn.
GO SLOW.
I planted trees at twenty,
Aud gave them flute to grow;
And now good fruit is plenty
I pluok from every row.
Enouglajor you, boys,
Enough for ma, boys,
There'll always be, boys,
If we let it have the time to grow. _
There's neighbor, Hale, the 'rich man's
Bon,
He could not wait till fall,
He ate his apples green, poor chap,
And now has none at all.
Ha, he, my boys, ho, ho 1
I tell you what I know, '
'Tin fortune's waste when fools make
haste ;
You'd be ter go it slow.
I got my wealth by saving;
I always worked my way;
And I never cared a shaving
For ' intrade or play.
I never drank, boys,
Nor lived too high, boys,
And that's just why, boys,
I'm a hearty old man to -day,
There's Rapid Ned, who sowed wild oats
(As molt young fellows can)
Now tramps, a beggar on the street,
Where once he dro've a span, a span.
Aa. ha, my boys, ho, ho I
I' tell you what I know;
'T s fortune's waste when fools make
haste;
You'd better go it slow.
BRITISH AND AMERICAN
WHEAT GROWING.
The English economists are puz-
zled by the problem presented by
wheat cultivation in India. To that
they ascribe many of their WINS and
many of the uncertainties of the fu-
ture. The first export of wheat
from India was in 1868, and the
quantity was 559,000 bushels.
There was a slow increase for a few
years until 1876, when the amount
was 4,087,000 bushels. In 1881
the amount was 13,896,167 bushels.
For the six years 1882 87, the aver-
age export has been 35,530,000
bushels. In the earlier years most
of this wheat went to Great Britain,
at least four-fifths of it; but latterly,
say 1882 to 1887, the proportion
• haa been less than one-half. The
price of India wheat at the place of
export has been a few cents less than
that of our wheat, but the ocean
freights have been about as ranch in
favor of the American product, and
on arrival the latter is found to be
cleaner and better, and is, not pre-
judiced for best uses by the India
• grain. Much has been said and
• 'written con-cerning—the posSigre
rivalry between the wheat product
of' India and that of the United
States, and the possible expulsion
of the latter from the markets of
Europe. This possibility may be
regarded as very remote for various
reasons ; such as the imperfect
methods of culture and harvesting
in India, the cost of interior trans-
portation, the inferior quality of
grain, the necessity of irrigation, etc.
India raises one bushel to a head
• of the population, the United States
- seven. India has one toile of rail-
road to 20,000 people, the United
1 States one to 435. The people of
India require by far the largest pro-
portions of their wheat product for
food and seed (and their home appe-
tite increases every year),, while the
people of the United States, after
appropriating five bushels per capi-
ta, have a surplus for export equal
to ohe-half the entire crop of the
British Empire in tha
can Agriculturist for February.
A victory for Gladstone and British
Liberalism was scored in Dundee on
Thursday, the candidate endorsing
the Gladstonian policy being elected
by a majority of 3,639 over the nomi-
neeeof the Tories.
Two hundred Icelnnders_ , brought
• out to Manitoba early In the winter,
• are in a half-starved condition at
'Winnipeg. The immigration agents
who promote such immigration, and
the Government which permits it to
be continued, ,cannot be too strongly
condemned.
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groin elerater eear hi. '5A0 youVold kr,tilcar
A SRPOIil 844 the ant elierofollYs,
cg' you you werk for yourliviag as ; do mitei4
ef ettialtug What you eat"Poor drudge,'
ardd the mouse. in a pitying tone, "you are
only fit for a life of labor ,t you have
fareeeinggenilla that krap N peliTZoronina,
tient? anti, useurea eaormous profite. Hut lomat
this—that myself and two or three other
anise have formed a eyncheate and bored a
bole through the batten of the grain bin. We
have established a corner in corn, and are
Making More in a day than you can in your
nattwat life. I.)o got complain of tha, for it is
perfectly legal—the corn, following the laws
of gravitation, must fall inCo our :Pockets."
The zuouee stalked away with the air of one
OWilitilf the earth, and the poor ant woudered
why the laws of gravitation were so arranged
that he never could find an easy way of
making his living. This is respectfully dedi-
cated to the sages who are wrestling with the
labor problem.
Curious Signs In London.
Fr OM Chambers' Journal.
AS a market town in Rutlandshire the fol-
lowing placard is affixed to the shutters of a
watchmaker, who had decamped, leaving his
creditors minus: "Wound up and the main-
spring broke."- AS pithy and curious was the
notice lately stuck upon the window of a
London coffee-house. "This coffee -room re-
moved up -stairs till repaired." There are
many curious signs and business announce-
ments to 'se found in London, of which a few
are. "Sick dugs medically attended by the
week or utouth. Birds to board. Ladies' and
gentlemen's feet and hands professionally
treated by the job or season. Round-shoul-
dered persona made straight. Babies or
children hired or exchanged. Pelee noses as
good as new, and warranted to fit. Black eyes
painted very neatly." In the extreme west we
hear of a shanty which bears the sign :
"Here's where you get a' meal like your mother
used to give you."
A Rosanne° of Chinese Love.
From the San Franck%) _examiner.
Some time ago a Chinaman named- Lim
Hop died and left his widow $600, on condi,.
tion that he go back to China and remain
there. If she did not do so then the money
was to go to the cousins of the deceased. The
wife did not appear to like China any too well,
so ehe married Hop Moy. The cousins then
appeared before Judge Coffey and had the fair
one summoned to show mule why she did not
give up the money when she got married. Moy
said she did not understand English, and
through an interpreter stated that her hus-
band did not leave 8600; that he died three
months after they were married, and that the
night he died she was alone with him, and she
did not see him sign any paper.
The two cousins, Foy Hop and Lang Sing,
testified that their couein told them of his in-
tentions in regard to his wife, and also that
they saw hint make a will the night lie died.
A 1•1:1C0 of Rest. '
Iluntette, in Brooklyn Emilie.
"Mere shall we go this summer, dear ?"
asked Mrs. Flyaway. "Well, let's see." re-
plies her husband, "last vinter we got malaria
in Florida ?" "Yes, and the alligator gob
your pointer dog." "And the preceding
summer- we got rhemnatione in the moun-
tains." "We did, and the bears got my little
Skye terrier." " And the summer before that
we went to the seashore and got hied by the
mosquitoes and the landlord ?" " Yee
"And the summer before that we went into
the country and the children were laid up all
summer with ivy poison?" "I remember."
"Well, if I felt as strong as I used to I'd like
first-rate to take a vacation this summer ; but
I'm feeling kind of weak and listless, and I'm
afraid I couldn't stancl it. Let's starhome
and rest this year."
To lier.
Thy trembling arm I pressed
Fondly; our thoughts confessed
Love's conquest tender,
God filled the vast sweet night;
Love filled our hearts—the light
• Of stars made splendor. '
Even as we walked and dreamed,
'Twixt earth and heaven it seemed
Our souls were speaking.
The stars looked on thy face;
Thine eyes through violet space
The stets were seeking.
And from the astral height
Feeling the sweet soft light
Thrill to thy soul,
Thou saidst '0 God of Bliss!
Lord God of Blue Abyss,
Thou madest the Whole."
And the stars were whispering low
To the God of Space: "We know,
Lord God of }eternity!
—Dear God, all love Is Thine— '
Even by love's light we shine;
Thou madest beauty!"
—Translated front Vidor Mgt).
They Sot it Through.
From The Boon Pot,
Brown (to Jones, who has prodeced the
great American drama): "Well, old man, how
did your piece go?" Jones: "First-class. The
play is all right I know several men who
were present every night and who sat through.
the whole slimy." Brown: "Is that so? Who
were they?" -Jones: "The musicians." Brown
treats.
TITE A It T oPs,'J'Ix7f4NDLI.qoJ
The City Over -run Will, Americas& Tramps
—Working the Streets at Night.
"Say, young fella, can't you give a poor boy
a nickle to get a bowl osoil],? I have just
come from the State., can't get work and am
hungry !"
Such is the salutation or greeting that ls
Mules] at young men who fr. qiient, the down-
town streets of Toronto tl lege warm evenings.
The city is actually overrun with t ramps, niftily
of whom proclaim ti eni.sel vas A.n eri cans, They
work King-sirei,t, Lower Sititeia.-street, Bay -
street, gnoematreet w”,t, Adelaide -street from
York to Yon go, ingtomstreet from Bay
west, LOIN'Or York -street, and nre even to be
encountered in the lobbies (11 ths principal
hotels.
"Pandiandling," ie tramps' parlance, is
nothing more nor less than a system of beg-
ging tor money. It is a favorite pastime
with these gentlemen to accost a
young man %vb.() is walking with
a lady: he piteously appeals for enough to get
something to eat, relymg of course on his be -
Mg able to compromise the young man because
be is in the company of his sweetheart or a lady
acrmaintanoe. The ingenious tramp who
works this racket very often succeeds in forc-
ing the young man to produce.
The attention of a 'World reporter having
been called last evening to a sturdy young
tramp who was working Simcoe-street, from
Queen to King, made it his businees to
watch Min closely. In just exactiy 35 minutes
the tramp stopped no lees than six young men
who were walkingwith ladies. He was handed
a coin of some denomination or other by four
out of the six. At 5 cents each, he would
have made 20 cents in the half hour.
Of couree the tramp, when he is in the city,
has to have his mole jot as regularly
As the banker, the broker or the
bueiness man. He does not invest:
all he can "pan -handle" for whisky or
beer. At meal times he will patronize your
cheap restaurant and. eat everything thee
comes in his road for the price. He generally
manages to have three good tneals every day.
At nicht he works the etreets named, and if
he is in treed luck he will go the extent of a
15 cent bed and half a dozen drinks How-
ever, he is nob particular. about a bed these
warm nights, a drygeods box or a freight car
18 as comfortable to him as the front parlor in
the Model Lodcring House:.
Over half the sneak -thieving that is being
done in the city at present is the work of
tramps. They parade the streete at night in
the residential parts of the city looking for
open windows. Meeting such an ingress to a
house they evill take the most, Jesperate
chances to got inside awl nab something; cold
victuals if nothing else can be found.
Truly the present-dey tramp is ao ingenioue
individuel, and he abounds with uncommon
prevalence in Toronto. Look out for him 1
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these deethe were owed by stakes
of 1M2.3lu4ocs, oxen, alelePallitti: de-
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040.0 of elieep, goats, phrefitid, monkeys, the
deatructical of whieli le very J,rge. The hyena
le oredited With the deistruetion of 773 head of
oettle, 1» Ilhagalpero the jaw= lyolyta
killed foil to tempi the year before,
and the ieapoia nits that a allikari bad been
PlintSbed for an attempt te pass off jackal,'
neade for the beads of wolves. Passing over
the most forundable wild animals, it appears
that 048 persona were killed byjackals, 221 by
crocodiles or alligators, 84 by pigs and 22 by
elephants—whether wild or domestic is not
stated -12 by buffalos and oxen, 1 by a horse,
1 by a' deer and 2 by muskrats. the bite of the
latter having brought on mortification or
tetanue. Only 18 deaths were put down' to
mad dogs, which" is regarded as a ruanifeet
understatement Not a single death wee
caused by wild animals in the town and suburbs
of Calcutta. but 13 peraons died from snake
bite. The total amount of 29,884 rupees was
paid for the destruction of wild animals and
venomous snakes, as canpared with 42,374
rupees the year before.
"1 Ilave Failed."
From the San Franclaco llerald of Trade.
One morning many years ago a well-known
dry goods' merchant, in a city not a thousand
miles distant front New York, failed. He
called on a friend as he was going to his
place ef business. He wore a dilapidated look,
and appeared to be thoroughly demoralized.
His friends expressed astonishment at his ap-
pearance. The explanation was: "I have
failed; I've got to come to this, lied I may as
well begin to -day." "I would not be a fool
if I had failed," said the friend. "Go down
town as you are, and you are ruined sure
enough.- Go home; dress yourself in your
beat; Wear diamonds, if you have got any ;
bring out your horses ; dash Into the :streets
with your head up." The bankrupt merchant
had sense enough te see the value of this ad-
vice. As he drove past the windows where
the men sat who held his fate in their hands
they exclaimed: "Hello ! there goes Smith.
I don't think things are as bed with him as
men said. I guess lie will come out all right."
And he did.
America's Westminster Abbey.
Tho proposed 86,000,000 cathedral in New
York, open to everybody, and to be the burial
place of distinguished Americene, may'prove
useful, but the general complaint of the Eng-
lish cathedrals is that there is more room than
there is worshippers. Then, it is not easy to
make a "Westminster Abbey" beforehand.
The builderof ehat edifice didn't know they
were making a great historic show place.
To say, as the Babel builders did, "Go to,
now,. let us build a cathedral which
shall reach up high into history," is very
much like a inan'e saying, "I will plant an
apple tree under which a general shall sur-
render his army, as Lee did," or "an elm that
shall be a 'Washington elm " or "an acorn
that shall grow into a 'royal oak,' where a
fugitive prince shall abide from his pursuers,
like Charles IL" The poets toile us that the
cathedrals, abbeys, pyratnids, "grew as grows
the grass," and that the hand which "rounded
Peter's dome and groined the aisles of ancient
Rome" "builded better than it knew." A
contract for a great historic building is too big
a contract to be let to architects, masons and
carpenters..
' Always Ready for a Bargain.
Prom the Dakota Bell.
While a minister was preaching last Sunday
in a Dakota town which is having a boom, a
man in the congregation who was sitting near
a window arose and said : "1 bog your pardon,
Elder, but just one word." "-Go on, Deacon."
"There are a couple of big, fat men, who look
as if they might be capitalists, outside here
looking lit the churchyard," • "What's that?"
" Couple o' fat -looking capitalists hanging
over the fence and acting 'siff they wanted to
buy the lots the church is on." "Is that so?"
replied the minister, beginning to get excited
and stepping up on' the altar rail to see out;
"you go right out and talk to them, brother;
go right out and 'teiel to the matter. Give
theme an option on it, and if they've gob the
money to 'buy this real estate we'll snake this
church off into the street so quick it will make
their heads swim."
Only n Formal Acqualislanee.
Pl.(174 The Not Fork San.
Swell Young Lady (at the Polo Grounds:
"With Johnny on third, Roger on second, Gill
on first and Danny at tl:e but, it's kid gloves
to bone miler -buttons we make two runs."
Her Escort (with surprise): "Do you know
Messrs. Ward, O'Connor, Gillespie and Rich-
ardson personally, Mies Twiliingha, ?" Swell
Young Lady (with hauteur): "Certainly not."
• A Yarrot preens off '8 Match.
Front the London Telegraph.
Parrots have been lcsiown for ages as being
birds who may be counted upon to ,say exact-
ly the wrong thing at the wrong time; but it
is doubtful if they have ever ,succeeded in
making, themselves more utterly obnoxioue
than in a recent episode occurring at Dublin,
in which °lie specimen of the family played a
prominent mica The story is that a gentle-
man engaged, to a pretty young- lady who had
not yet seen the further side of twenty years,
went one morning to pay a„ call at the lams° �f
the father of his beloved. He stayed a short
time with the head of the family, as in duty
bound, probably making rather inappropriate
remarks, owing to his anxiety to end the in-
terview and see the yoong lady to Whom his
'affections were plighted.
At length he took the sensible course of
going to look for her, and, rapping at the door of
the study, the household parrot at once called
out in -a loud voice, "Come in, ceilielifl" The
gentleman accepted the invitation, and en-
tered. Naturally he was rather surprised, and
not very much pleased, to diacover .that his
fiance had been all the time engaged in a
sprightly conversation with another visitor of
the male sex.
To make matters still worse, the heartless
bird at once began to imitate the sound of
kiseieg in a truly lifelike way, and concluded
with mocking laughter, • This in itself was
enough to render anybody somewhat suspici-
ons. The jealems lover does not seem to have
done what some lovers would have been
tempted to do—inake an onslaught on the
parrot and wring its neck on the spot
accepted the bird as a useful informer, and
either then or at a subsequent interview broke
off his engagement. He 'even went further,
for he has instituted an action for breach of
promise.
Two Plucky California Girls.
Front The Orocille Register.
Misses Fannie and Alice Orton, of Butte
Creek, are doing whet many a young man
might be proud to do in the way of securing
themselvei homes. They each secured 160
acres, of Government land and are now fut.:
fillingthe law requiring them to live upon the
land and make the necessary improve -
merits. Each has a residence upon her
quarter section, fences have been built and
trees planted to test the land. It is found
that plums, apples and prunes do splendidly,
while 'all the small fruits reach perfection.
There are many fine springs on the land and
some appear to be medicinal in their nature.
There le no prettier or more iileasant summer
retreat,while the winters are mild and agree-
able. Fine winter apples can be grown and
transported at a good profit, and in a few
years their lands will beemne very valuable.
The Girl of the 1'01.1041 111111 Marti/line.
Prom The Sol JoRe 'Plwr•
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period is vain, given up to nit, dr...00110d to
pules home duties, bet this isn't -is She is
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OP:a 3114101,0411Y selected retnance. 'W.ke TO,
mance% most 'cormaea AN too Wok, anct
theix wit Sink* too near te the line of
•nees, to offer much repose to * person famil-
li
iar with the best writers, and the effect of ns Stich productions' is to deprave the taste or
to excite irritation. A restful book to a tired
orbrain must produce in the mind of the reader
ll,a seuse of aatiafaction with moderate stimu-
,lus. A. tame morel essay, a story in. whieh
4" all behave well, go to sleep every night at 9
to and rise every morning at 5 to listen to the
W birds sing, will not snilice; and, on the other
sd band, a narrative that requires the closest
re analyeis, and which appears to be constructed
upon the principle of leaving the readers in
is doubt es to the character of the heroes, is
of but a piece of intellectual dissection in dis-
guise, and would better be read for work
than for rest.
Everything that relatee to history, science,
ir philosophy and the deeper studies of human
to nature should be handled as work. Yet
ir nature rewards the worker by making in the
W end what at first was difficult, a charm to
d him. So that the specialist must be upon his
d. guard lest he neglect the work of reading
, what. he knows he needs for the more con -
Y genial occupation of reading what to others
d- would be work, but to him has become
st pleasure. The life of Charles Darwin, just
n, published, shows that he brought on a pine-
ir tieal "atrophy of the brain " utterly changed
0to1 sa:17°
g his tastes, and became the slave of lines of
awhich he had surrendered him-
htoi onryi to
e- What is work for one person may be rest
11- for another; and it is equally important to
as consider that what may be work for a per -
et son at one time may be rest at another.
e- Newspapers require no work, and he who
Y reads them exelusively will in a few yearti
y -be uneble to do intellectual work. Many
books of a literary character require little or
no work. Books made to sell belong gener-
ally to the class that can be read as fast as
the eye can discern the letters. Every per-
son should select his standard authors with-
out regard to their. popularity. It is rare
that a really good book, to be mastered by
work, has a large sale. Restful books, from
their very nature, may becoine populer,
except among those who make utility their
god and restrict the definition of utility to
what can be turnetato practical use, or has a
techuical or commercial value, and those
whose intellects are so small and sensibilities
so abnormally large that they need exhaust-
ing excitement to hallucinate them into the
belief that they are happy.—Rev. J. M.
Buckley in The Chautauquan.
Ashatio 'reifies Whoa, X..and Is Almeat
Sealed Hookto the WhAte
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smolt AllOnlea--, The 'l'o
It is likely that within the next twenty
thirty years all the areas that are still who
tutknown, except perhaps within the po
circles, will have yielded their secrete
daring explorers. Inhospitable tribes no
rear more barriers than nature does to retat
the progress of discovery. While geographe
have for years disputed over the conundrum
whether the great Sanoo river of Thibet
the headquarters of the Brahnutputra or
the Irrawadi rivers, the tierce little Mishmi
tribe has guarded the secret, killed the a
venturers who dared to intrude among the
mountains and left the geographers
wrangle. It was only last year that the
country was crossed at last, and it is no
evident that the Brahmaputra is a thousan
tulles longer than some authorities admitte
A little northeast of India is Haftristan
whose lovely valleys are densely peopled b
tribes that are physically among the ban
soisiest of Asiatics. Their country is almo
a sealed book to us, for only one white ma
Mr. McNair, has succeeded in crossing the
threshold. About four years ago, stelinin
his skin with walnut juice and in the guise
an Indian doctor, he pushed some way in
the country until the .auspicious nativee' b
came so inquisitive that he thought it pr
dent to retreat. No scientific traveler h
ever reached Lhasa, the capital of Thib
and the Rome of the Buddhists, or pen
trated far into southern Thibet, though man
notable attempts have been made. Recent]
Prejevalsky has tried twice in vain to reac
Lhasa, and last year Mr. McCauley, afte
elaborate preparations and after he ha
spent a year in getting the permission of th
Chinese and Thibetan authorities to vis
Lhasa, was finally turned back before he ha
crossed the frontier. The only reason tha
the southern half of Thibet and a large par
of Napaid and the Himalayas are not a whit
space or a mere jumble on our maps, is tha
native Indians have been trained to th
work of exploration by the Indian surve
and sent north to teavel as mendicants o
merchants. They can rarely carry wit
them scientific instruments larger than
compass, and their work, though very visit
able, is far from being thorough and sati
factory. So fearful is the Indian surve
that the real business of its native explorer
will be discovered that their own friends d
not know where they are sent, and thei
names are not connected with their explore
tions until after they have retired from ac
tive service.
Similar impediments embarrass the tray.
eler'in all parts of Mohanunedan Africa.
Grandly as Barth, Rohlfs, Nachtigal, Lenz
and a half dozen others have served the
cause of geography in the Sahara desert, our
knowledge of that mountainous and elevated
region is anything but thorough and ade-
quate. Ho truly takes his life in his hand
who ventures among the Tuaregs and other
fierce nomads of the Sahara. Unless he can
talk Arabic like a native, and can skillfully
assume the guise of a Mohammedan, he is al-
most certain to meet the fate of Mlle. Time
and Lieut. Palat. Dr. Krause, wishing to
enroll his name among the half dozen white
men who have reached Timbuctoo, attempted
to attain the town from the south. When
-within 100 miles of his goal he was stopped
and bluntly informed that he might go on
to the holy city if he would become a Mo-
hammedan. More scrupulous than somo
other explorers he declined to become a dis-
ciple of the Prophet, and was therefOre com-
pelled to turn back.
The great basin of the. Congo has been
more prolific of geographical surprises with-
in the past five years than any other part of
the world in this century. And yet the work
there has only begun. In this vast area
there has been very little exploration except
along the water courses, and even the river
banks have for the most part received only
a cursory and preliminary survey. Wiss-
mann is now crossing the contineut from
sea to sea, across the southern -part of the
Congo basin; Kund and Tappenbeck have
anade a short journey Overland from river
to river, but generally speaking the vast
regions between the rivers are still ahnost
wholly unknown.
It is not difficult to see one good reason
why South America has been comparatively
neglected by travelers, while, on the other
hand, Africa has bet running over with
them. Neither commroe, science, nor mis-
sionary ardor have seen in South America
the same promise Of rich ewards that have
allured them to the uplands of inner Africa.
Still such journeys as Dr.. Von Steinen and
his comrades recently made on the great
Xingu tributary of the Amazon, when they
discovered curious and wholly unknown
tribes and other things of much interest,
show that these regions exe a fine field for the
explorer.
The Brazilians know less of a large part of
their empire than they might easily learn of
Nova Zembla, and in Ecuador and- some
other states WhYmper and other travelers
say that the government maps are hopelessly
inaccurate. The best and most interesting
explorations in South America are now car-
ried on by the Argentine Republic.. Among
their pampas and cordilleras, in the valleys
of Patagonia and on the grassy plains of
Term del Fuego, these researches, now in
full progress, have been prolific of geographi-
cal sensation. Good, honest exploration upe
sots hundreds of theories and fanciful stories
that have come to be accepted facts,
It is in thelofty regions of inner Asia that
the greatest works of discovery still remain
to be achieved. The Russian explorers are
among the best trained and most competent
travelers in the world, and their government
is today doing far more than any other na-
tion to promote geographical discoveries.
The Antarctic regions will probably be the
next field of polar inquiry, and some steps
to this end have been taken both in Great
Britain and Australia. As the south polar
region is not, like the Arctic zone, crowded
with islands and archipelagoes, it is of much
more importance in the study of ocean cur-
rents.
Strange as it may seem, the Pacific ocean
is still far from well known. When Wilfred
Powell expressed the beiiet that many_Pacifie
islands had never yet been seen by white
men some incredulity was manifested. Since
that time Capt. Bruce has discovered a little
group of islands off the northeast coast of
New Guinea, Mr. Romilly found a new island
in 1e81, and the Germans have recently added
two islands to the Bismarck archipelago.—
C. C. Adams in New York Mail and Express.
Loyal to the Core.
Miss Stuyvesant (of New York)—What do
you think of Donnelly's claim that Bacon
wrote Shakespeare?
Miss Lakeside (of Chioago)—Mr. Donnelly
is a resident o Chicago, isn't he?
'"Well; then, you can bet anything he says
goes."—New York Sun.
1151115111099 19 Rosine4s.
"I want to piece' a column ad, in your
paper," said he to the editor, "(I:11Illg st,ten-
ttnn to my s;,.'eial lirawi of Ire] Reese'
whielcy."
"All right, sir," 1 -ipuniloil tho editor
briskly, "1 m 111 I.(( 01 your 77 a, In a
moment."
Then he weld 1 - t!. 1,e, :is., And
wliiiiperNi to it. f•.
th„t ,• I
Ati.a
As Bad as a Man.
Did you ever encounter a demonstratively
drunken woman in a street conveyance, where
you could not relieve yourself of her presence
within a certain time without inconvenience?
I did, the other day—or rather the ether
night, for I was on my way to a down town
theatre. She was a young woman—perhaps
25. Her dress was neat enough, but tawdry,
and she carried a pretty babe ih her arms,
which could not have bon more than 6 months
old. The car was well filled, but not so well
as she was. Suddenly she removed 4 stony
stare from a fat inan in the corner, and en-
deavored to look out of the window behind
her, maintain the upright and hold the baby
simultaneously.
"Won'er where we are?" she said aloud.
"Guess we'll be late home, baby. Do you
hear, mamma's pet Who cares! Hoop la.
Everything goes—don't it, baby, hey?"
Three or four Whisky laden kisses here at-
tested the mother's affection. The. ladies
present shuddered, the gentlemen scowled,
and the young man who was smtiking a bad
cigar on the rear platform grinned, while a
newsboy engaged in stealing a ride peered
through the glass and tried to flirt with the
infant For a few moments the exhilarated
female seemed lost in thought, during which
time the little one was only saved from a
descent to the floor by a kindly disposed
neighbor. Then she made a sudden dive for
her pocket.
"Hullo—ain't got my night key. I say,
baby, what you think o' that? We've lost
the key. Well, everything goes, and I sup-
pose we've got to make a racket to get in.
Whoop! It's all right anyhow—ain't it, baby?
Say, conductor"—
Here she glared at the man with a bad
cigar, and he stopped grinning and looked
another way.
"Hullo, this is a bobtail. No conductor on
bobtail. Forgot all 'bout that—ha! ha I Well,
that's funny, too, ain't it, baby? But every-
thing goes, so's all right. Whoop! Say,
mister, where's Houston street—I wanter get
off at Houston street. This is—that's all
right. Come along, baby. Won'er where that
key's gone, anyhow? 'Souse me."
Here she nearly sat down on the fat man.
The ladies present drew back as she passed
them, and the men looked the other way..
The man with the bad cigar said: "Where
yer gettin' to—brace up," when she staggered
against him and nearly dropped the baby.
The newsboy got off the step, seized her arra,
piloted her to the cur b, whistled at the baby
and waited for the next car.—"Clara Belle"
in New Orleans Times -Democrat
The Guide and the Grizzlies.
While I believe that a grizzly bear will, in
a majority of cases, wait for a fight with a
man, and take pains to get in the way of one,
there are times when it will seem to think
better of it and back out A remarkable in-
stance of this kind I heard of once, where a
famous Manitoba. guide courageously ad-
vanced upon three grizzlies, an old she one
arid two half grown young bears, and by a
series of ridiculous monkey shines and acro-
batic maneuvers on the ground within a
rod or two of the bears filled them with such
astonishment and apparent fear that the
three retreated into the woods with all rapid-
ity. The guide's gun had snapped in both
barrels, he having drawn on the old bear be-
fore the young ones appeared. He afterward
said that it was a fit of desperation that he
tried the turning of a handspring, iind jubnp-
ing up and down, flopping his hands, and re-
sorting to other unhunterlike measures. He
had been told once that a hunter had fright-
ened a mountain lion away by similar ab-
surd movements, and he found that it worked
to perfection in the case of the bears, al-
though he did not encourage any one to go
hunting grizzlies armed with nothing rnore
thence, capacity to turn somersaults.—New
York Sun.
Queer Souvenirs in es Ring.
Talk of originality. It was original and
pretty, and an astonishing idea for an unsen-
timental man to conceive of. A lady up town
was showing to her friends a very handsome
ring her husband had given her. It was in
oval of diamonds, with three pretty little
opaque bluish white stones in the center.
Nobody could tell what those stones were,
and everybody got curious to know. She did
not know herself. Her husband had not told
her They insisted on his telling.
"Well, my dear, those are the first little
teeth out by our tree children. I saved them
one by one, and—there they are."—San Fran-
cisco Chronicle.
.c.tanurnastic American : say they
treated you pretty ' rough in Gann& ?"
O'Brien : "Yes, sir 1 WaS treated6tery dis-
courteously. r "Boinieed stoned. on yeti, did
they 1' "Yeq Ws.'a ruck several times by
in ise ilea. '' n ea: you some with clubs
"Yes, I received n's,' ',cwt.() hiows from
bludgeons." "1/id they tiny load language
toward you ?” "Yee, the .l' 9t epithets were
applied to me," "Shake, s ;Inger, sI eke: I've
been there myself, sever 171':, ! You
have lectured .0 s'en...l.; •e. 1Slid: (1 ne9-
t ion "No, la,t 1 in t have
dime ..so. I Imp:. nt .1 I 11;03. 1,811 it)
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etiPet, '
callege prereSeer p Male; telk
through tlie Lewiston Journal, how
he coevinced a friend who did not
belibve thatheavers could build dame.
He bought a baby beaver of a hunter
and sent it to his special friend.
The creature became a great pet in
the house, but showed no signs of
wanting to build a dam, until oue
Monday morning a leaky pail full of
water was put on thefloor of the back
kitchen. Thedheaver was there.
He was only a baby, to be sure;
but the moment he saw the water toe-
ing out of the crack in the pail, he
scampered into the yard, brought in
a chip, and btgan building his dam.
His owner was called and watched
the little fellow,very much aatoniehed
at what he saw. He gave orders to
have the pail left where it was, and
the industrious beaver kept at his
work four weeks, when he had built
a soiid dam all around the pail.
A. vote oa tbe repeal of the Scott
Act iu Westmoreland, N. B., Thurs-
day, resulted in a large majority
against the antis. Whatever may be
its real media, it is evident the people
in the above-named county are in no
way inclined to go back to a license
law in preference to the Scott Act.
This result will be taken, to some ex-
tent at least, as indicative of public
sentiment on this important matter,
The majority against repeal was be-
tween 700 and 800.
The first Symptoms
Of all Lung diseases are much the same :
feveriehnese, lose of appetite,* sore
throat, pains In the chest and back,
headache, etc. In a few days you may
be well, or, on the other hand, you may
be down with Pneumonia or "galloping
Consumption." Run norisks, but begin
immediately to take Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral. .
Several years ago, James Birchard, of
Darien, Conn., was severely ill. The
doctors said be was in Consumption,
and that they isould do nothing for him,
but advised him, as a last resort, to try
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. After taking
this medicine, two or three months, he
was pronounced a well man. His health
remains good to the present day.
J. S. Bradley, Malden, Mass., writes:
"Three winters ago I took a severe cold,
which rapidly developed into Bronchitis
and Consumption. I was so weak that
I could not sit up, was much emaciated,
and coughed incessantly. I consulted
several doctors, but they were power-
less, and all agreed that I was in Con-
sumption. At last, a friend brought me
a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
From the first dose, I found relief.
Two bottles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect."
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
PRBPARED DT
Dr, J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Soli by all Druggists. Price $2 ; six bottles, $51
FARMS FOR SALE.
_ .
rRM FOR SALE.—THE NORTH HALF'
f lots 51 and 52, 1st con., Turnberry, con-
taining 100 acres; over 70 cleared, good frame
house, barn and stable; situated four miles
from Wroxeter, and three miles from Blue -
vale. Will be sold ebeapsand on reasonable
terms. Appply to 11. MeTAGGART, Clinton
U OUSE AND LOT FORSALE—THATVALU
AIME and conveniently situated property
owned by Mr John Callender. being lot 188, on
the north side of Huron St. The house has
able accommodation for large family, with all
conveniences, such as hard and soft water, etc.
Good stable on the lot. Further particulars on
applieation to MANNING dc SCOTT, Clinton.
FNEAR CLINTON Pon SALE—THAT
choice farm of 70 awes, part of lot she, in the
Huron Road Con., Godench Township. Within
two miles Of Clinton station. Frame house of
seven rooms. Good frame barn 60 x 45. Two
good wells. Farrn in tirstieless condition: Also a
large and choice young bearing orchard. TERMS
VERY EASY. ThiS is a chance seldom offered.
Apply to IL Hats, Clinton, oi to the under's.
signed on the premises, W.FENTON, Clinton P.O
-WARM FOR SALE.—SUBSCRIBER OF
.-12 FERE for sale his farm of 103 acres, being
lot 47. Maitland con., Goderich township.
About 125 acres cleared, and in good state
of culnyation, balaase good hardwood
bush, well fenced, good orchard, plenty of
water. Frame house and ban k barn,stable,
cte. Situate about 131x utiles from town of
Clinton, and convenient to -church and
school. Will be sold on reasonable terms.
ull partieulare on application. D. BA&
EERVILLE, on the premises or Clinton P.0
'LAM TO RENT. -- THAT SPLENDID
-u Farm of 100 acres, being Lot 37, con. 2,
L. R. S., of Tnekersmith, ts offered to rent
on reasonable terms, with good buildings,
frame barn, 407[00, stable 2Jx36. sheep and
carriage hones...10(46, good l'a story, e4ic36
frame house and eitcheri. so acres tinder
iffiltivation, 20 acres cleared hut not brok-
en; 10 acres good hardwood bush, Well.
'watered, having three of the best wells in
Huron county. Good bearing orchard.
situated 214 miles. from the Village of
Brucefield, and 6 from the Towns of Clin-
ton and Seaforth respectivelythere is a
splendid gravef road paet the front of the
promises. Particulars and temus given on
application to, APPLETON ELCOAT,
Brucefield P.0.. or SA INIUEL CRICH, Clin-
ton, P. 0„ or NEW ERA ()elate. DAVID
ELCOAT, Ontario P. 0:, California.
INVENTION
Ilas revolutionized the
world during the last half
century, Not least among the wonders of in-
ventive progress is a tnethod and system of work
that can be performed all over the country with.
mit separating the workers bum their homes.
Pay libel ; any one earl elo:the work ; either sex,
young or old ;no special ability' required. Capi
tal not needed ; you are started free. CA this
out and return to 04 a id we willl send you free,
something, of great value told importance to you,
that will start you in business, which will bring
you. In more money right away, than anything
else in the world, Grand outfit free. Address
True 8c Co., Augusta, Maine.
ROBERT DOWNS,
CLINTON,
Manufacturer and Proprietor for the best Saw
It Dog In use. Agent for the sato and
application of the ggrFISIIHR PATEET AUTOMATIC
Boman CLEAN/la. STEAM FITTINGS furnished
and applied on short notice
Rollers. Engines, and all kinds of
Daehisserg repaired esspeditionsly
and in a satisfactory manner.
Farm implements manufaetnred and repaired.
Steam and Water Pipes furnished and put in
position. Dry Kilns fitted tip on application.
Charges moderate,
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