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The Exeter Advocate, 1894-11-15, Page 4THE (41.15XCACOt.at '''''''''SANDERS cic DYER, Prop, THURSDAY, NOV. 15th, 1894, THE .MAL ITI N"E PROVINCES, According to latest reports the visit of Cabinet, 1Vliuisters to the Maritime Provinces has been reciprocated by the 'people down by the sea, with a hearty enthusiasts. The political outlook for be government of Sir John Thompson was never better; and in Cape Breton, as well as in Nova Scotia proper, the leading men of that part of the Domin fon give the assurance that not a single seat will be lost at the next general eloctiou. The Premier's po:itiou down east is considered impregnable; and the +,present tour of the popular Minister of Maiine in his Native Province, not to speak of other members of Cabinet, will go far towards remoying prejudices on elle part of those who have hitherto leen opposed to Liberal -Conservative :administration, From Quebec Provin- ce, also, there comes tidings of the pros- pect of a greater victory than was gained at the previous eleetioa, when the present government had to contend against the Bay Chaleur boodle; indeed, we have it on the authority of Sir Ad- olphe Caron, Post Master General, that East of Montreal such are the represen- tations made by leading influential gentlemen from the various constitu- encies that never before in the history esf the Dominion was there such a de- termination to uphold the present ad- ministration. AMERICAN POLITICS. The result of last week's elections + the U. S. gives a death blow to the Cleveland administration. Much to the surprise of both parties, the Repub. deans have carried the day by over- whelming majorities all over the States New York has gone solid against Tam- many corruption and free trade; while amongst the defeated congress -men is Mr. Wilson, the framer of the present American tariff. So far as Canada is concerned., the one lesson which the ro- stilt of the U. S. elections teaches is that the people of this continent are not disposed to give up the principal of moderate protection. We in this coun- t -aro beginning r� to see (, that b ?+ :eei p rocit is quiteout the y q of t o question as a matter of practical politics. Both Democrats and Republicans have de- clined to meet our government on a fair basis of mutual reciprocity in trade. Although the federal govern- ment at Ottawa previous the introduc- tion of the Wilson Bill offered fair terms of. reciprocity in certain articles, of ts'auadian growth or production, no re- sponce was made by the framers of the Wilson tariff, It just comes to this - that we in Canada, being a young .country and numerically small as coin pared with the American Republic lave to protect our own interests as lbest we can, and to prosecute the even eenor of our way in the conviction that we are independent to a large extent of the U. S. market; and further that congress will yield to Canadian trade, only so far as will prove aclranta. eons fee their own national interests. British Grain Trade. London, Nov. 5 -The Mark Lane Express, in its weekly review of the British Grain Trade says: -English and foreign wheats have been firm dur- ing the week, at an advance of 6d. Cal- ifornia cargoes have sold at 42s 9c1per tuarter, and Manitoba at 23s 6d.. Corn beans and barleys have risen 6d To- day English and foreign wheats record. ed an additional advance of 6r1, Corn,. 'barleys, oats and beats were 8d higher Flour also rose 6d and linseed 8d, and everything, closed strong. :ethocllst Church ninth . The report of Educational Society of the Methodist church and else that of the Missionary Society for the years 1893.4 have been issued. The follow- ing statistics, showing contributions from the different circuits, will be of interest: -- Place Mission Education Funds Funds t oderieh, North St ..$801.07 $18.70 Goderich, Victoria St. 35 56 12.36 Ckintou,Rattenbury St 467,26 .39.44 Clinton, Ontario St.. .173.14 17.78 e'eaforth. , . , 230,25 29.29 glohnesville . , . 187.71 10.66 Tetyfleld . •... , . ..57.412 4.03 ''arna• •,.,,;,.,,..1.05.13 20.74 Mensal] • .., ,'190.83 23,60 Eippen ...77.81. 16.12 Dungannon .... , ...168.10 18.78 31e .. • ... 106.44 8.08 :61e.nmiller ....... , 86.46 4.75 ..,.22,018 51.82 `f irex eter 62.11 19.18 "Srussets. •...... ,126.67 11 00 Walton ...70.05 7.35 f>ondesboro,... 179.10 14 57 :MytlY.... •• ,...., ,....187.30 25.50 ,d+M,btnn , . • • . , 75.15 18.76 lhfrgrda,ve...• .. . b •.68.36 7.00 liticvala • .. • ....... 90,04 8.71 kxeter, Main St., .....265.66 25.20 Fr titer JAMBS' St , • • • .274.32 25.18' Mitohell: The many friends of Mr.. J. A. Watson will be sorry to hear of his being infinancial trouble. A writ for a small amount was served upon hien on Saturday and rather than oue creditor should get his money in full at the expense of others he called a meeting of his creditors. It is hoped that a settlement of son'ae kind that will permit the business to continue will be effected, Clinton: While numerous concerts and entertainments are being slimly attended in the town hall the Ontario and Rattenbury street churches were not nearly large enough to .aeeonlmo- date those who desired to hear Rev. J. Hector, the 'Black Knight." On Sun- day morning he preached i,. the Ontar- io. Monday evening; he lectured to a very large audience on his own life, and last night in the Rattenbury street church on "The Devil in White." Parkhill: St. James' (Church of England) had a narrow escape' from being destroyed by fire on Thursday last. The sexton in turtling on the electric light, in readiness for the choir praetiee, found something wrong; with the lever, the "switch," which would only work half way. Fierce flames 'of electric fire shot our, instantly in , close contiguity to the ceiling, which would undoubtedly have been ignited, had it not been for the three or four pailfuls of water vigorously thrown upon the burning spot. By the prompt assist- ance of willing helpers, and by turn- ing off the electric current at the foun- dry; °destructive catasrophe was aver ted. Loudon Township: At 10.30 on Sunday morning John Bowers, of the 5th con. attempted suicide by hanging. Bowers and his wife had repaired to the barn to do the chores. He asked her to go. down to the creek to break the ice so that the cows might drink, while he cleaned out the stables. She complied. Evidently he had had the thing planned, for, as Mrs. Bowers had been previously warned,by the doctor to keep a sharp lookout for suicide, she hurried back quickly and found him dangling by a plow line to a har- ness stake behind the horses, She screamed for help, and quickly loosen- ed oosened the rope and pulled him to the door, breathing having been suspended, Dr. McNeil. of Arva, was quickly sum- moned, and succeded in resuscitating him, Mr. Bowers has been suffering for over twenty years with epileptic fits, which has terminated in epileptic insanity. Usborne: Mr. Thos Cudtnore, con. 5, has just returned from a six weeks visit to friends in Southern Manitoba. This was his first visit to that Province and he was much pleased with the ap pearaace of the country He has two brothers located on farms near Crystal City. He says they are doing well; have splendid farms and would not re- turn to Huron ' to farmthey if were given farms for nothing, and Mr Cud - more says that if he were twenty years younger he would, himself, cast in his lot with the Manitobans. The crops in Southern Manitoba are good this year. and although prices are low. farming is so much easier there and the capital invested so mueh less than here, that farmers will get a good return for their labor. The best and most prosperous farmers are going into mixed farming and stock raising and feeding and do. not depend exclusively upon grain growing. Many of the farmers have good, comfortable buildings and seem to enjoy life as well as do the best and most comfortable in this country. He says he did not meet with a single sett- ler there who would admit that he was well satisfied with the Province, or that he would be willing to return to Onta- rio if he could. Goderich: Complaint having been made to the P. M. of the house kept by "Miss Hamilton" on the South bound- ary, warrents were issued for her ar- rest on Wednesday last and she and her two associates appeared in court Thursday, two charges being laid, one for keeping a disorderly house and one for selling liquor without a license. Three young men were subpoenaed as witnesses, and the court room was filled to overflowing with young men and some not so young, who find cases of this class peculiarly interesting. E. ifor Campion appeared thedefence,and E. N. .Lewis for the prosecution. At first the women pleaded not guiity,and the crown asked and obtained a post- ponement of the case till Friday, to al- low of procuring more witnesses. Af ter a consultation, however; a plea of guilty was entered in each case, and as the women promised to leave town they were released on suspended sett tense, a fine of $20 and costs being im- posed for the charge of illegal liquor selling. The girls were to leave in 24 hours. but Miss Hamiltou was given 10 days, owing to the illness of another inmate of the house. The P. M. prom- ised that if they returned he would im- pose the full sentence in his power --a term in the Mercer Reformatory, THE MISSES. Miss Margaret Eleanor Tupper, a (laugh. ghter of the poet Tupper, has just died in London. The only daughter of Sig. Crispi, the premier of Italy, has become engaged to Prince di Linguaglossa, a Sicilian, Beatrice Harradrei, after the ships have passed in the night, hart a habit of running barefoot on the grass of the lawn to bathe her feet in the morning dew, 1\'Xiss Frances Willard lives on the time- lock principle of division of the clay -eight hours for work, eight hours for sleep and eight hours for rest and recreation, Ora Hess and Mollie Kees, two young girls, have started a paper at Grayson, Hy. Itis called the Eastern'Kentueky Republi- can and, as its name implies, is republieaia to the core. The statement that Miss Philippa :6'aw- cett, the "lady senior wrangler," is about to begin abusiness career as a civil engin- eer is said to be unfounded. She has no present intention of. leaving Newnham college. • FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL, As eleven years, is said to be "the life of tate average steel rail, the 10,000,000 tons now in use in the 'United. Statesntust some er or later make way for others; These renewals involve an annual replacement of not less than 1,707,275 tons. The Carrara marble gitarrios are practi- cally inexhaustible. The entire mass of Moate Sagro, 5,600 feet high, which dorsi inates Carrara, is solid marble. About 160,000 tons of marble are annually ex- ported, most of which comes to America. All the car -building companies in St. Louis --the Laclede, the St, Louis, the American, the Brownell and the. St. Charles -have combined. There will be $5,000,000 of bonds and $15,000,000 of stock issued to represent the combined proper- ties. Mr. Samuel E. Morse, the consul general at Paris, has seat to the state department an abstract of the official report on the wheat crop in France for 1894. It is esti- mated by the french statisticians, says Mr. Morse, that the crops of 1894 through- out the world will be 35 per cent. in excess of the world's demands for consumption and seed. The celebrated Baring estate is approach - Mg final liquidation. At pue time the li- abilities were largely over $100,000,000; now they all; but $12,500,000. With the im- provement in all assets the world over, the bank' of England will not need long time to close out the collateral they hold, A large surplus is expected. In history this will stand as the greatest financial ex- ploit xploit ever accomplished in. business. - Banker's Monthly. TO INTEREST AND ENTERTAIN. The highest masts of sailing vessels are from 160 to 150 feet high, and spread from 60,000 to 100,000 square feet of (sanvas. h In New Mexico have been discovered ruins of magnificent buildings. The wall surrounding one of them is 4 feet high, and 935 long. The rains are of Pueblo Indian origin. The average whale is from 50 to 65 feet in length and 85 feet iu circumference. Tlie jawbones are 20 to 25 feet long, and a tongue has been known to yield almost a ton of oil. An Antarctic iceberg has beon seen that was 20 miles wide, 40 miles in length and 400 feet in height; a square township or two could break off from this and hardly affect it. There are only one or two places in To- ronto and Montreal where foreign postage stamps can be bought to inclose in letters sent.abroad for return postage, and even at these places a price nearly double•the. face value of the stamp is asked. BAYONET POINTS. Anew Italian rifle will send a bullet through five inches of solid oak at a dis- tance of 4,000 feet. Aluminum drums are proving most suc- cessful in the Prussian military bands: Not only are they lighter than the ordin- ary kind, but they give out a much fuller and richer sound. Chateaudun, where the French maneu- vers have justbeenheld,has the distinction of having received as a municipality the cross of the Legion of Honor for its heroic defense against the Germans in 1870. Experiments are being conducted at the g armor in Springfield, ld ti - theuse'f y Sp u bfie ,Mass., in o aluminum for the bayonet scabbards for the new rifie. While the metal works well in bending and is about fifty per cent. lighter than the steel scabbard, no satis- factory method has been devised for sold- ering oldering the edges together. POINTS FOR SCIENTISTS. The 132,856 craters which have been discovered on la a moon are supposed to have been caused by a bombardment of acrolites. Sea bathing causes many diseases of the ear. Cotton should be put in the ear when it is the intention to submerge the head. All known chemical elements are re- presented in sea water.. They are not al- ways capable of being detected by chemical analysis. The theory that the to mains of animals form the raw material from which petro- leum is formed by nature .is still held by some prominent scientists. The Medical News says That even sewage water can be converted into pure drinking water by sand filtrations infilter basins at the rate of two million gallons per acre per clay. STUDYING NATURE. In a month a caterpillar devours six thousand times its own weight in food, Darwin asserted that there is insanity among animals just as .there is among People. No worm or insect is ever found upon. the eucalyptus- tree or in the earth pene- trated by its roots. SolLtary confinement is calculated, doc- tors state, to produce melancholia, suicidal mania and loss of reason. Nine months of absolutely solitary confinement are almost certain to result in the mental ruin of the convict. The reason given why birds do not fall off their perch is because they cannot open the foot when the leg is bent. Look at a hen walking aai you will see it close its toes as it raises the foot and. oven it as it touches the ground. THE WHEEL. France derived 950,000 francs last year from the tax on cycles, the number of mar chines being 132,276. The bicycle of the khedive of Egypt is a gorgeous machine, almost entirely covered with silver plating. A young French officer lately, on a wager, mace his way on a bicycle to the top of the Pic du Midi in the Pyrenees, 9,540 feet high, and then down again, The Bell Telephone company, of Cin- cinnati, 0., have mounted thirty in- spectors on. bicycles. Thirty horses and as many buggies • have beta displaced thereby, Wheels propelled by petroleum are being introduced in Paris to take the place of the cycle. They aro veer costly, one thous- and dollars being the price for one.-Tlard- ware. 001) NAMES IN QUEER PLACES. The Philadelphia College of Pharmacy has a student named Pellets. Col. Cash Surplus was proprietor of a Texas newspaper that suspended a ,few days age. Despite the suggestion contained in its name, Vermillion is one of the banner 'Woman's Christian Temperance union towns in South T)akota. Mr. White, of Greenwood eotinty, Kan., Iris n, daughter named "Snow," This is as bad as Mr. lz>.itton, of Peart .%cott, who has a daughter named "Peart." GENIUS AND MADNItS°.1. Moliere was subject to eonvulPions. Schopenhauer was always gioorny arN1 pessimistic,. Ben Jonson and Nat , Lee were almost slaves to alcohol, Paganini, the violinist, often fell intoe a. cataleptic state, Schiller was a victim of fainting lite and convulsions, George Eliot lead frequent attacks of nervous prostration. Chatterton was undoubtedly insane when he took his own lite.. Shelley is saki to have had visions in which lie devoutly believed. Both Kepler and Ouvier died of different forms of brain disease. Johanna Southcote was a cataleptic of the same variety as Joan of Aro. Ignatius Loyola had visions whichhe seems to have regarded as inspired. The brilliant Southey finally sank into a state .of mental stupor, in which he died. Lord Olive's melancholy finally ended in madness, and he died by his own hand. Socrates imagined that he had a familiar spirit or guardian angel that conversed with him. WELL-KNOWN FOREIGNERS.. Alexander Dumas has been fined twice for keeping a vicious dog at his home in Paris, M. Durnof, the aeronaut, who first open- ed communication between Paris and the outside world in 1870, is dying in a Paris hospital. Mnitafa Bey, formerly private physician to the sultan of Morocco, is said to derive an income of $100,000 a year from his pro- fession. Countess Alesio, of Turin, Italy, who celebrated her one hundredth birthday re• cently, accompanied her husband through all the hardships of the Moscow campaign while she was a bride of eighteen. The Archduke Rainer, of Austria, has a collection of 10,000 Egyptian papyrus docu- ments dating back from B.C. 1200. The collection contains commercial letters, contracts, tax records, wills, tailors' bills, novels and even love letters. Bismarck said to a correspondent who visited him at Varzin a couple of weeks ago : "I shall never enter public life of any kind again. I am out of the harness forever." As be is verging upon the age of fourscore this is not particularly sur- prising. GOVERNMENT RAILROADS. South Austria owns her own railway system. . The little country of Hesse owns two hundred and twenty-six miles of rail- road. The government of Portugal owns about half the railroads in the country. The Netherlands own nearly one thou- sand miles of railroads, all in the best of condition. There are six hundred and three miles of railway belonging to the Japanese govern- ment. A large per cent of the railways of Italy are owned by the government and leased to corporations. Victoria, Australia, owns all She rail- roads in the colony, two thousand three hundred and forty-one miles. New South Wales owns two thousand one hundred and eighty-two miles of rail - Way, and New Zealand in 1892 owned six hundred and seventy-two miles. THE ORIENT. According to the examination just made by order of the Greek patriarch, the Byzan- tine edifices of Constantinople have not suffered severely by the earthquake. As fasters the sect of joins, in India, is far ahead of all rivals. Fasts of from thirty to forty days are very common, and once a year they are said to abstain from food for seventy-five days. Nearly every Japanese paper has a "prison editor," For infraction of the publication laws somebody mast go to jail, and so the prison editor's chief duty is to expiate the newspaper's offense by lan- guishing in a cell. On a territory about the area of Montana Japan supports forty million people, in comparative comfort. Reckoning our own area at twenty-four times that of Japan, this country at that rate would support nine hundred and sixty million people. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.I Europe has only about eight per cent. of the Sunday school attendance of the world. The Sunday school membership of Ger- many has increased over eighty per cent. in the last twenty years. There are 22,000,000 persons, teachers and scholars, enrolled in the Protestant Sunday schools of the world. There are 2,s 0A Sauday schools, 81,950 teachers, and 1,685 scholars in the different continental nations of Europe. In 1374 there were in Germany 1,218 Protestant Sunday schools, with 86,418 teachers and scholars, in 1803 there were 5,900 schools and 784,769 teachers and scholars. IN AND AROUND ENGLAND. The announcement was lately made by the paymaster genera] of the supreme court of England that the total amount of dormant funds lying in ehancery is $6,- 000,000. The Fastnet lighthouse, the spot on the Irish coast best known to Canadians, is said to be in a dangerous condition, as the iron fastenings of the tower have become corroded, "Window gazing" is a profession in Lon- don, A. couple of stylishly dressed ladies pause before the window of a merchant, remain about five minutes and audibly praise the goods displayed inside. Then. they pass on to another store on their long list of patrons. , PAINTING AND ARTISTS. Rosa Bonheur is over seventy years of age, and not finding her easel stitlficient to enoupy her time acid consume her energy, she has taken up with photography as an additional work. Miss I)hanbai Fardonjer Banajee, aged eighteen years, of Bombay, is the first Wo- man to go front India to Paris for art study. She has succeeded in having one of her pictures hung in the Paris. salon, After many repaintings and alterations Alma Tadema has finished his magnum opus, a picture of ancient Rome in festiv- al, which has already been bought by a dealer be Berlin tot etiehiinclred thousand marks. It is called "Spring," and eon - tains more than one hundred figures of celebrants and spectators, a procession le honor of the gods of flowers and fertility moving along toward the temple, DIAMOND DMFS ARE THE BRIGHTEST, STRONGEST AND BEST. AID.: SPRING! SPRING! GENTLE SPRING Dyes! Dyes! Diamond Dyes! At all seasons of the year, Every wife and mother wise Greet thee with the kindest cheer. Autumn withits varied shades - Russets dark, and brown and gold, Reeds and greens of summer glades - All these colorings ye unfold., Yet, while nature's colors fly, Ye still bloom 'noath changing sky, Dyes! Dyes! Diamond Dyes! Choicest colors in the land, Onward! Forward! as time flies There will live no other brand. None so brilliant, pure and fast, Pleasing daughters, mothers wives; 'Tis wellkuown that in the past Ye hay a added to our lives Comfort wealth and great increase, Constant streams of joy and peace. ODEN 4-V• CHILLS& ?\ COLDS. AT THE COMMENCEMENT ,.e' OFANATTACK TAKER' s\ TEASPOONFUL OF 'P RP's" DAVM £' A h .a .ateee At;D'nil: CUE sI9ORE SUDDEN rm THE CHILL MURRAY&COI IVlanufacturers and Dealers in Grain Crushers, Straw Cutters Root Pulper-6-Knife spot cash 54 10.5 0. Also general Eoun- • dry work. Castings in, iron and brass to order, . 1000 cords ofhard and soft wood for sale. JAS. MURRAY & CO. Wcs1er flGvertisor 16 -Page Weekly -96 Columns $1.00 Now to Dec. 31, 1895. Balance of Tear Free ONLY Illookill ot!fs We$i NONE BETTER. FEW AS GOOD. Large Prize List. Handsome Premium. 609D INDUCEMENTS TO AGENTS For Agents' Terms, etc., address- aus'ifiiISER PBfNTiNu CO. C. LITTZ. PROP Fanson s Block Exeter. ?�S Family Receipts and Prescriptions, Carefully prepared. A complete stock of drugs patent medicines, Drug- gists' supplies, perfumes, toilet soaps; hair brushes, tooth brushes, combs and all articles to be found ui a first-class Drug Store. DR. 0. Druggist. ist y gg .,l EN, V 1V"g1tYa3L'Lnivi, aro a new ars. cover.), that once the wot cases of N� *� Nervous Debility Lost Vigor and �1EA19.. Sailhig. rtanhocd; fostered the weakise5s of body or mind caused by over' -work, or the errors or oz- eet808 of youth, This Remedy ab., solutely cum the most obstinate cases wizen all other t0,�TMa:NTs have failed events) relieve. olelpydnigg. kcal, at $z per paeka�ge, o�., sus far 55 or sent by mall 08 receipt of price by acadMssng Tfli7.iAMES MI,DX0Itln. ;b., 'Toronto, Out. tints: fur yamphlet, Bold In-- Vor Side in Exeter bi W. J. firowaalug Loadman's,iiar COMMERCIAL LIVERY. First-class Rigs and Horses Orders left atwksh w - a. . a 's H . Hotel, or at the Livery Stable,(Christe's o1dStand). will receive prompt at- tention. • • , • rir erns ho Reasonable .1olehCo.nnneoetion w. G.i BSS�t e s Livery First Class Horses and Rigs. SPECIAL RATES WITH COMMERIAL MEN. Orders left at Bissett 13ros,'Hardware Store, will receive prompt attention. TERMS - REASONABLE A TRIAL SOLICITED. W. G. BISSETT CLOTHING J. SijelI Main. at_ EXETER - ONTARIO Has now in stock rAIL and WIEN a-0=Se IN THE ForaLowncG LINES: West of England Suitings and Trou erings, Scotch Tweed Suitings and Trouser ings. French and English Worsted Cloth All made up in the Latest Style, at best Rates. A. J SNELL Furniture! Furniture: I Furniture I I I We have moved back to our old store again and have the finest stock of Parlor, Bedroom and Din - ingrown Furniture in the town, at prices that can- not annot be beaten. Elegant new bamboo goods just coming in. See our beautiful new acv a r e r o o m s, We are bound to sell if good goods nicely displayed at very low prices will do it. • •, • G. GIDLEY & SON, ODD FELLOW'S Block Exeter LllMber The undersigned wishes to inform the general public that he keeps constantly in stock all kinds of building material, dressed and un- dressed lumber B. C.'Red, Ontario, High Land and Pine Shingles. . . ' S p ecial notice is dran to B wC. Red Cedar which is acknowledged to be the most durable timber that grows; especially for shrug les. 36 to 40 years. It is said by those who know, that they will hast from 36 to 40 y years in an... climate. • James. a 1 .. am Willis, s s Lumber ,Merchant