HomeMy WebLinkAboutWingham Times, 1890-02-21, Page 3TEMPERANCE CO?:.UMN,Abriivasleo 0,04ID M 7fouow scree,
The old oat; at Mature in Syria, ar, as y halt nlflee east
,About two and one et
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Cn*InCJOTIEp ST vin+ikSAit T, W. 0. T. 17. it 1 known everywhere, ••.Abraham's ;this brit is et large redwood tree twenty-
mom._ p .�.
gale," isO mer the moot famous and veil• four feet in . largeter, which is hello,,
Crtppengs, enable tress's in the world. It is revere the inside having .been burned out many
'?'ire average life of the temperate enced alike by Jew, Christian and Ma. ears ago. The tree is in ae lone place,
+lo is+ is 63 eara.atid 2 months while hlometan, for it fs supposed to•mark the And isseldom visited by any one save an
p N y + spot where tits Patriarch pitched his tent oee:asiona1 hunter who tray stop there
the leverage rife of iutemperate people
is 35 years and 6 months, Thus the
average life of a drinker is but little
"More then half of a nonedrinker ; and
yet we are malted to believe brandy,
;lu, whiskey and beer are ,wonderful
promoters of health.
Miss Phinney, Of the It tngoon W
;;i'f u, has begun the publication, in
the Burmese Iauguage, of a temper-
ance leaflet for the use of native Bands
of Hope. The leaflets are isslit;d
monthly, eaeh number ooutaining a
cateohism ou the of erts of alcohol,
tobacco and upium ou the human
system, and a temperance song trans -
feted and set to some familiar tune.
About 500 copies are now used each
month in 16 different schools.
in the desert. There is a superatttton in
Jerusalem, and in all the country about,
that whoever ehall cut or injure this tree
will lose his first born son. So for cen-
turies it has been allowed to toss its
gn'trled and contorted limbs in the gales.
which sweep from the Mediterranean
over the Syrian plains,
This tree was visited by Sir Joseph
Hooker in the autumn of 1860, and in his
paper upon Syrian oaks. react the follow-
ing year before the Linnaeun society
(Transactions, xxiii), he gave a descrip-
tion of it and a portrait drawn by his
own hand.
Abraham's Oak was• found tp belong
to Quercus pseudo-coccifera, which, to
quote from Sir Joseph's paper, "is by far
the most abundant tree throughout Sy-
ria, covering the rocky hills, of Palestine
especially, with a dense brushwood of
trees eight to twelve feet high, branch-
ing from the base, thickly covered with
small evergreen rigid leaves, and bear-
ing acornscopiously. On Mount Carmel
it forms nine -tenths of the shrubbery
vegetation, and it is almost equally
abundant mil the west flanks of the An-
tilebanon and• many slopes and valleys of
Lebanon, Owing to the indiscriminate
destruction of the forests in Syria; this
oak rarely attains its full size." Thecir-
cumference of the trunk of "Abraham's
Oak" is given as 23 feet, and the diameter
of the spread of the branches as 90 feet.
Quercus pseudo-coccifera is an ever-
green species, with the general appear-
ance of the Ilex, of southern Europe, and
closely related, botanically, to Quercus
coccifera, a common and widely distrib-
uted scrub oak of southern Europe and
pf Algeria; indeed, Honker was of the
opinion that the two plants were merely
geographical varieties of the same spe-
cies.—Garden and Forest.
Who makes the Money?
It is good to come down from
generalities oecosioitally, and see ex•
astiy how the liquor traffic operates
tip our homes. The editor of the
;,motional Ameriuiti, of St Louie, recent-
ty advertised the laboring men to
make public statement of the ac -I
a
counts at the saloons, f .r the infor-
mation of the people. One of them
accordingly sent in the following
statement for the week ending Jan-
uary 5, 1884 :
Monday moruing, 1 whiskey. $
" noon, 2 glasses beer.
" evening, 3 " ''
.
2 treats for 3
TResdey (holiday.) for self
and friends, l5 glasses beer.
Tuesday, 6 glasses wile:key
Wednesday, same as Monday
for sale
Thursday, 2 whiskeys. 3
beers
Friday, 4 beers
Saturday evening, a drunk..
15
10
15:
30
75
75
40
45
20
2 50
for shelter from the storm, A few days'
ago a irunter was attracted to the epot
by the sound of voices. What was his
surprise to find snugly ensconced in this
novel place a family consisting of a man.
and his wife and three children. To close
the opening its the tree a rude door had
been constructed of deerskins. Inside
the tree benches and tables had.been con-
structed of redwood bark fastened to-
gether by wooden pins,
The head of thefamily stated that he
carne from Oregon last fall, andnot being
able to,pay rent for a house had" moved
his family into this living home. He,
had thus far made a living by odd jobs:
en farms near by, being careful to never
state where his home was. One of his
children, a lad about 15 years of age,
ststed that he had caught about seventy-
five coons and forty foxes in a steel trap,
$ 5 75
Raid a stcnding hill for eoi:l. 2 .00
$ 7 75
Received for 5 days' work7 50
Owe to saloon•lceeper
Uwe for groceries.... ..
Owe for {nett
'Owe f..r rent...:.. .
25
2 00
i25
00
__ recede
Mort. . 1
The fart that „the ducks fly high and
.;., . » .. �5 50
This.. stateieteut was• made out ou
Suutley• in the presence of his wife
se,. four oliildren, while trying to
i!:. p waren before au empty „rate,
ith the thermometer 15 degrees he-
4ow zero. There was no coal in the
/0 house, nothing to eat, no money, uo
credit outside.
Who foots the bills for this busi
ness? The landlord who loses. hie
rent, the butcher, and the grocer; the
• charitable persons who pity the child•
ren and keep thein from starving, and
the taxpayers who support the jails,
the prisons, the hospitals, and the
almshouses where such folks fetch up
• at last.
Who makes the money? The
' • saloon -keeper, who is privileged to
fill the land with poverty, wretched
nese, madness, crime, disease, death,
and destruction; being authorized and,
licensed so do' by the sovereign
people. Are you one of the sovereign
people?
pRDURE1? CLtJTHING,
WEBSTER'S
HATS, CAPS, SxEIIRTS,
COLLARS, CUFF 3, &C.
Cheap for KASH.
Ail'
YV E .L3' 1 J' E R " S•
ONTARIO MUTUAL LIFE.
and had, disposed of the skins for enough Caeca ?Income for 1888 $ 3c93+074. 00
to clothe the family. The boy himself New Assurances written in 1888 2,518,(3:,0 00 .'
was dressed in a suit of appeacoonsrance
of a Assets, as at Deo. 81st, 18811 5,313,8 3 PO
The mother bore the l 2,31 , r, 8 !10
once beautiful woman. and her speech 1 Assurances in force, Jan. let, 1889 41,3137 02
showed she had' been well cultured, Surplus, Dec, 31st, 1888.,...,
They were all 'very reticent about their SPECIAL—FEATURES:
former life and how they had been re-
duced to such straits. They expect to Prompt Payment of Claims, Annual Distribution of Profits, Guaranteed',
spend the remainder of the winter in Surrender Values, and Liberal Policy Conditions.
this sylvan- home.—Healdsburg (Cal.) ALEDAWSON,
Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Gessess, , AGENT,r
Wingham Oat"I
TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS•
Shooting Canvasback.
"The only proper way to kill canvas-
back ducks is to shoot them on the wing
as they fly over you. If you are a muff
you will have tots of sport, and will not
hurt the ducks. You will blaze away at
them as they fly toward you, which is
precisely what I, ma lover of the species,
would best like you to do, unless you are
generous and are disposed to divide your
bag. So long as you shoot them in this
way only a rare accident will enable you
to do any harm to the beautiful crea-
turds. They wear a breastplate of feath-
ers which is practically impervious to
shot. If you are a sportsman you will
i let then ,you
over, and shoot them as they
The SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT which
appeared in our columns some time
since, announcing a special arrange-.
ment with Dr. B. J, KENDALL Oo , of
Enoeburgle Falls, Vt., publishers of
"A Treatise on the Horse and his Die,
eases," whereby our subscribers were
enable;to obtain a copy of the valu f'' ltche5, Clocks, esvelr '
able work FREE by sending their ad•
•" are vervewift of. wing renders it' diff
cult to kill them on the wing at all, and
as very few men aro really good shots,
resort is had by the majority to such
'blind'. shooting as is permitted. Bat-
teries .are, of course, forbidden, and so
are sneak boxes and the like. But it is
permitted' to the half skilled sportsmen
to build blinds of reeds along the shore
and to shoot from behind them when the
ducks approach within range. In thin
sort of shooting very little harm would
be done but for the fact that the canvass -
back is beset with a curiosity surpassing~
that of women.
"If he sees anything in motion on the
shore which he does not understand, no.
consideration or prudence will restrain,
him from paddling at once towards it,
regardless of all danger, and the duck,
shooters take advantage of this by train-
ing little dogs to run about in a frisky,
absurd fashion in front of- the 'blinds'
when ducks are in sight. As soon. as
the ducks see what is going on the whole
flock makes for the shore, and the sports-
men can shoot at what range they will..
—Philadelphia Record.
M. INLLT' iVJLL?'t ZEIBLISIIMEIT.
Has a most complete assortment of the LATEST, CHOICESr„ snot
MOST CHARMING} ARTICLES in
drPsa to' B. J. KENDALL & CO., i and. Silver Goods.
(and enclosing, a two -cent stamp
for mailing sane) is renewed for a.
limited period. We trust all will,
avail themselves of the opportunity of
obtaining this valuable work. To
every lover of the Horse it is indis
pensat.le as it treats in a simple
manner all the diseases which fifliict
the nub's: animal. Its phenoininal
sale throughout the United Sates
and Canada, make it standard author-
ity Mention this Taper when sending
fur "Treatise."
Hallow cast-iron bricks, if we may
so term them, says the Engineering
and Building Record, form the subject
of a great German patent granted to
August Bocicle, of Erfurt, As the
tame implies, they are made of regular
genet and size, the walls being 0.12
inches thick. No mortar or other
building material is to enter into their
nee, the fastening being effected as
followe: The upl•er or lower sides of
the bricks are provided with grooves
end projecting ribs eveieh fit into an-
other. There are, further, two large
circular openings in the upper Bide of
each brick, arranged to receive proper-
ly formed projections on the lower side
of the brick above. One 'of . these pro-
jections is hook-sheped, so Ila to give a
more secure hold. A fluid i.s applied
to the surfaeie of the bricks with a
brush, to make the joints sir and
water tight. The nonconducting air
spaces in the bricks, and the ease with
which they may be nut together and
° ialceh apart without injuring theta
are cited as special advantages, The
alueation of cost ie not considered.
C. P. B: TIME TABLE.
Trains arrive and depart as follows:
LEAVING
5:35 a. in .... ......For Toronto.... -
2:15 p. m
2:16 p. rn For.Teoswater..
10:30 p.m
ARRIVING
5:35 a. m
:10 pin
2:15 "
10:30 "
TO1 CA
tre CLOSE ATTENTION GIVEN TO IJ EPAIRINO,.. ANA WORK. ALL
WARRANTED.:
GRA. lap TRUNK R'3
A. C. STRATI-IDEE, AGENT, WINGRAM.
Through tickets to all points in America—North-
West, Pacific Coast,' etc:, via the shortest and all
popular routes. Bagege checked through to
destination. Lowest freight rates to all points.
=TIME TABLE.
LEAVE WINGRAM. ARRIVE AT RINenAll..
0:30 a.m.Torontb.Guelph,Pahnerston, &c. 3:30 p.m.
10:10 "
11:10 " „
3:40 p.m. " •` Clinton,
7:26 " Palmerston, Mixed......10:15 a.m.
6:45 a.m .... London, &o..........11:00
8:40 p.m. 44 7:45 p.m.
11:10 a.m.. Kincardine, &o 6:30 a.m.
3:30 p.m
10:111
11:10 "
6:50 p.m
rialnialims*N"trellfeW
• Iilatory of the Rat.
No, not the slang phrase, but the.
bothersome little rodent. Eats are na-
tives of Asia and their raids westward
belong to comparatively modern times.
The little animal was unknown in an-
cient Europe. The black rat first came
to Europe from Asia in the Sixteenth
century, and about the beginning of the
Seventeenth or the ending of the Six-
teenth century he arrived in America.
This black rat was the common house
rat until dile brown or gray rat made his
appearance in 1775. The gray rat came
to Europe from India by way of Russia,
and is now knowfl as the Norway rat
from a mistaken tradition that it came
from Norway to England, and from the
latter country to America. --St. Louis
Republic.
A Young King.
The ldilg of the Warramangas, an
Australian tribe, died Last month in the
Adelaide hospital. He was a boy of 19,
siX feet six inches in height, and diad for
several years been a guide to an ex-
plorer named Lindsay, to whom he was
much attached. When he became: king
last year he refused to take kis royal
rank. --San rraneisco Argonaut,
Chronic Coughs and Colds
And all Iliseaece of the Throat and Lunge clsa tib
suited lrya.the tied of Scott's lhnulslon,'as it conialne
the lidding vIr'tnes of Cod Liver till and Ilypopitot•
phties in Weir fullest form. See wliyt `W R Muer, M
1S. L ILC P, ott, Trine, 14 8, save : Atter three year's'
experience t consider Seottb Emulsion one of the very
bee..7n the market. very excellent in'Threat WO
0!'y. fiiny ell lirugglat0,,60k. anti ,t,
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S. GRACEY
TJ321-E ,T,A.K:EiRe
Supplies all necessaries for funk
eral furuishiug ?laving a Delivery
Wagon specially for this branch of
business, All orders attended
personally, and delivered any:
where within 10 miles of Wing:
ham.
Remember the place, first door
south of the big brick hotel on the
inaiu street, Wingham.
GO RIGHT TO C*REEN'S BLOCK FOR YOUR JEWELLERY'
CITY GR S .ERY
CHANOED1 H , NDS,:
C. J.
Having purchased
chasses in
GENERAL GRO IES.. and. PROVISI+ONE
Fruits, Co.j.fe loner?, &adorn..
• Sffiwar a &C.,
He has
F 21NT F R E S GF;0.Q..3 F
Ai1.RI.VING• DA :LiY,,
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grocery and made heavy I is
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Copse and s.:
BARBER SHOP.
MR. MALCOLM McDONALD,.
(LATI or RIPLEr,)
Having purchased the barbering bueinose of Messrs.
Sebastian Oros., is prepared to give all old customers
in
and as of Pew the ones as patronize him, Satisfaction
i
SHAVING AND HAIRCUTTING
aro nry specialties.
tili3Oiro mea call at the old stand, Opposite O5rdon
and Mrfntyro's Store.
M, MI ONALU4
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0 THE EDIT't?'Iti —ass� itnent cured. i shall
Please inform your readers that I havea positive remedy for the above named
!serif. By its timely use tlloatands ampoules easesohav of ►o ertt, erten i cur have ton.
I glad to send two bottles of my tented? FRS 7h
tin tion If they wilt send nut #ettltilr gree anduPo Merit s ddteet RetpeOtfull ,
• "x il1iiQUL.M,tiq 1$.ti
and offers
D BARGAINS PO CASH'o
Try goods
A. WHO E STOCK OF GARDEN SEEDS & .HOP SE
cl ascertain ?trio
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1. We claim to have he lar est and. best assorted stock of ,"ate
Clocks and Jewellery in 1 ink' am. Our stock • consists of Auto.'
and English Gold Plated an r oiled plated Jewellery of all deseril tit
American and Swiss Watches, . anadian and American Gold and Sil
Watch Cases, Spectacles an , Op a Glasses.
?. We btty all our b. tis in bi., ots, and pay spot cash for eve
thing we buy,. thexofore ,ur customer may he ,sure that we, are at
disadvantage as compel'• d with others;;
1t will pay youn�i' call and insfltii t fi goaxls before lhu� ii s: i
where. We will sell ou-WA) per ,cent lower han any;. other lee•, * t
W ingban.
In order to lee room -for DUE large Xmas, tock, nom • .5t"IIErei;i
will sell at •cost, s r 30 days.
WA r OH.:r, R,P+.ePAIRIDTG''•At'a• SPE ' ; i Y-
•
For qua ty of ntttteriai used and :class of , wot'kiii Ias.hip we
knowledge t5superiority .at the: people's Jewellers, ,.
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