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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-1-23, Page 4THE Ozeter Aibroorute, Chas. H. Sanders, Editor and Prop T HUBiJDA -L January 28rd 189 EDITORIAL, NOTES, In bis advocacy of Free Trade Mr, Lauder reminds eta of the young gen- tlemaia gutting• measured for pa eta - leans when a tight tit was the fashion. "Make 'em tight," said he, to the tailor l'ery tight, if I can get into them I don't want them." He wants Free Trade, at yibieg else is stupid every. btdy.• is a fool or a knave who is not in favor of it, and thea ho admits that Free 1 rade is a sheer impossibilit•. It is announced that daring the last fit,ata:tat year the Iutercoiouial earned enough to pay all eeptersrs of opera th,;. 'I his is the third year under Mr. Baggart's management that the goy eminent, railway has ,teen conducted practically without a deficit—a thing never done before by any other minis- ter of railways, either Grit or Conserv- ative. Put alt the same the Grit pa- pers will°continue to call Mr. IIaggart and the ether members of the govern- ment thj'rd, fifth or tenth rate men? The,tft'licit is no argument against the4loeservative Governmeut at Otte- e*Oa, says an exchange •A deficit may be caused either by under taxation or over expenditure. If the difference be. tweet) income and outlay is due to the Government's taking too little from the people, not :o its spending too much, then the Grits ought to give praise rather than blame to the administra- tion at Ottawa. A deficit may be a vir- tue rather than a faun in a Govern- ment, An unwillingness to burden the people with taxes is at least an amiable weakness. An inability to economize is a crime which must be proved before a government can be condemned be- cause of a deficit. Unless the Grits can convict the Dominion Government of extravagance a deficit caused by a re- duction in duties will be of no political service to the Opposition. a4MBRICAiV PORK IN CANADA. "Our farmers who complain of low prices will be surprised to hear that Chicago pork can be landed in Moncton New Brunswick. freight and duty paid at a lower price than the domestic ar- ticle. At the present price, the United States farmer does not get more than three cents per pound for his pork, But for the duty impo ed by the Dominion Government for the protection of, the farmers, United States beef, as well as perk, would virtually control this mar ket. This is a fact that cannot be questioned."—Moncton Times. Yet it is protective duties such as those referred to which the Grits make a ground for howling about "enormous taxation on the necessaries of life." But it is just as necessary that our farmers should be given every chance this country can afford for prosperous business as that other people should eat. 'I he Grit spite against our farm* ers as evinced by their give-away pol- icy. is a most vicious one, without a re. deeming feature. The Latest News in Brief A farmer sold two cows recently to an Ingersoll butcher for $5. 'l he election e.f john Mullen as mayor of Amherstburg will be contested on the ground of qualification. Mr Fred Beck, an employe in the Elora organ factory, had several fin- gers cut off while at work on Wednes- da:. There is a rink on Dochiel street, Sarnia, where skaters are charged one cels, the proceeds to go to the Salvation Arm. St, Mart s: 'i'he. Delaney farm which was recently offered for sale by auction in Stratford has heeti purchased by Mr, Jos Richardson, St. Marys Road. ,•hell: Mr. fi. J. Huriburt who was`parali sed from a fall from a pile •of lumi,or is uitw able to sit up in bed, prttpI up with a fixture arranged for the purpose, but is as helpless as Osborne: We are. sorry to hear that Silas N Shier, got his arm broken in some rnarhivery on the 3rd inst.,'but under the care of Dr. Ferguson is doing weil Friday morning Engineer Turner, of Sat,.irt, had been :superintending the jot,,,, ere gi+,gthe. broken gas pipes at the Western hotel corner, and think- ing' the job was completed, lighted a 7: a'cit 'a see if any gag was escaping. The result was an explosion, that kt,:,ct,••tl the engineer sprawling. For- tunately he was not hurt. ha: was near being g a fatal acci- dlei; 'a lit -red in Brad ie+'st x onllen mills, Iiia eb'r Tuesday, whet Miss Maggie 1 > 1 i7lss Jolrns'r,ri, crit' of the weavers, had her dr=•seg c ontrrh't it the belt connected with her : loom ` and was violently thrown against the machine, cutting her head hadle and oihie-wise seriously bruising 'het. ;-.h4 was unconseinus for some titne,'Ihut revived, It is not thought i r that her lntI l e ,s are as serious as at b^•st. apprehended. There were 1,049 chattel mortgages filed with the county court clerk of Bruce during 1395 as against 1,052 in the year 1594. A vete has been .taken in the county of Simcoe on the question of erecting at House of iltifug;e, and the Majority in favor was 1,298, Wm. Williams, the -vagrant who was taken tcr the Essexcounty. jail with his hands fro2,en last Saturday, may have to have them cue off. Micheel O'Leary, aged 90, G. T, R. freight agent at Brantford, and father of Mrs. John O'Donoghue, Stratford, I died. Finlay morning at hie home. J. B. Gauthier has poen fined $1, I costs and damages—$11 in all—for breaking down the fence on the Cook. farm, near Windsor, and taking two trees. AtElora.Mr,and lira. McLeau wet injured through the falling of a large pieces of plaster off this ceiling on them while in bed the other night. J'or;un ably the results are not fatal, though severe. Jim Steeves, of Brantford, aged 12 years, has run away from homy', taking with him little Tom Maloney, a.;ed 9, son of Mr. P. Maloney, of that city. The pair have been traced as far as Stratford, Monday night a threshing engine owned by Mr, Alvin Smith, of Yar- mouth Centre, stewed Qin 'turning at Kelly's Corners and toppled over in the ditch. The engine was badly dam- aged S. H. Scott, a Brantford plasterer,was doing some plastering Wed nesda', When on the scaffold he suddenly be- came very ill, descended to the floor, laid down, and in a few minutes was dead. Heart disease. S. Allen has decided to rebuild at' Norwich his vinegar works, which were recently burned down The village ,council have exempted him from. taxa- tion for ten years, and the Norwich people are well pleased. Charles Cheeseborough. G. T. R., en. gineer, St. Thomas, fell off his engine on the frozen ground in the yard on Wednesday and sustained severe in juries to his hip and leg. He was tak- en home on a stretcher. David Cole, of Brantford, has eloped with his wife's pretty boarder, who gave' her name as Mrs. Watson. Cole mortgaged the furniture for $30, and left a letter to his wife in which he said that he.had ceased to love her. Miss Margaret Thomas and Miss Kate E. McDonald, the two young lad ies whose evidence was mainly in strumental in securing the conviction of Herbet Babcock (Woodstock's "Jack the Hugger") on rho charge of using insulting languagewill receive $25 each from the council as their reward. Josiah MacDougall, of Wallaceburg, who was arrested in Detroit Monday on a charge of abducting a married wo- man named Mrs. Larch, of the same village, was up for examination in Chatham on Tuesday, and remanded for a few days in order that the prose- cution ,might secure additional eyi- dence, Miss Flo McKeand, daughter of Smith McKeand, Ingersoll, has just fallen hair to $30,000, tke bequest being made by a cousin, Miss Mary Ann Fuller, who ^died at Detroit recently, leaving an immense estate, out of which she do. hated some $21,000 to religious institu- tions. Miss Fuller was a sister of the late Rey Dr. Fuller, of St. Marys, Dub. lin. John Seaton has elected trial by judge on the charge of conspiring to burn down several buildings which he owns on 'Front Street. Strathrot-. He was bailed in $1,200 bonds to appear before Judge Edward Elliott on Jan. 29. Donald Stuart, of London, and Geo. Macbeth. of Strathrov, furnishing bonds for $300 each and Seaton ,giving surieties for $600. While a crowd of skaters on Sarnia Bay were amusing themselves by play ing "crack the whin," the chain of skaters broke on the swing, and Miss Smith of Euphemia street, who was at the end of the chain, was thrown on the ice with such force that she was se.verely%13ruised and badly cut about the face. She fainted from the shock, but soon recovered sufficiently to be assisted hamo. A bad accident which may prove fat- al, occurred at Paris Friday night, in which a six year-old boy, son of Thos Cavan, of Paris Station, was nearly killed by his £ether. Mr. Cavan was splitting wood in the yard, and the lad, while picking up chips, slipped and fell under the descending axe, which dealt him a tremendous blow on the crown of his head, cutting through the skull and injuring the membrane 'of the brain. Mr. Josiah Burton, farmer, Union road, Southwold, bruised his leg. His wife intended to put a flax meal pout - rice on ix. and by mistake got a powder used for spraying fruit trees. Mr. Bur- ton suspected it was not the articles re- quired, and tasted it. A few moments afterwards he became delirious, and• Dr, Smith of Fingal, was sent for, who soon restored him to consciousness. The doctor said if it had been used as a poultice it probably would have proved fatal. At the annual meeting of the South Perth Agricultural Society, held in St. Marys, the following were elected offi- cers for 1896: Wm. Porter, president (re-elected); Thomas H. Evans, vice- president ; ice -president; Thomas Steele, second vice president: directors, J. D', Moore, Jas Hedley. William Pearn, P. S. Armstrong Robert McCullough, William Taylor, James Henderson; Wiliam Whetstone; auditors, T. 0. Robson, D. VCcBeth; re- presentatives to Western Fair, James Hendson, Thomas : Evans. At a sub seguent meeting of the board, W. K. McLeod was re-elected secretary, and William Box, treasurer. FOREIGN FACTS AND FANCIES:, During the past : year Japanese corn memo amounted TO $:M0, 000,000. The Government of Portugal owns about half the railroads in the country. Europe has only obont eight per cent, of the Sunday School attendance of the world. The industrial census in Elermay gives the city of Berlin a population of 1,616,- 381. Russia has five female astronomers who have submitted papers to the Academy of Science. There aro 22,000,000 persons, teachers and scholars, enrolled in the Protestant Sunday schools of the world. Golfers is the latest name applied, to the impressioeist school of art, because they try to do 'their work with the'fowest number of strokes. .Norway was visited by 27,.1.30 tourists last sum rear, 10 ,80.0 of thein British and 1,876 American; 1,69e foreigners visited the North Cape. According to the examination just made by order of the Greek patriarch, the Byzantine edifices of Constantinople have nut suffered severely by the earth- quake. Cecil Rhodes has ordered large numbers of English song birds—linnets, thrushes, blackbirds, larks and nightingales—to be sent to Capetown, where they will be ac- climatized and set free. As fasters, the sect of Jains, in India, is far ahead of its rivals. Fasts of from thirty to forty days aro very common, and once a year they are said to abstain front food for seventy-five days. It is not generally known that the late Sir Charles Halle was of Jewish descent. He changed his name from Karl to Charles and added an accent to his last name while studying in Paris. Countess Alesio, of Turin, Italy, who celebrated her one hundredth birthday re- cently, accompainied her husband through all the hardships of the Moscow campaign while she was a bride of eighteen. The pretty Armenian Princess Geglar- ion has begun to achieve fame in the east as a physician. She is only 211 years of age, and at present is in Vienna,, buying the furnishings for a hospital she intends to erect on her father's estate. The Empress of Austria, who boasted the smallest waist in Europe without a corset, twenty inches in circumference, has been obliged to give up a great many of her outdoor exercises to 'which she has attributed her health and strength. Russia is said to be trying to buy the Island of Pule Way, off the north-west end of Sumatra, from the Dutch for a coaling station for her Pacific fleet. It would bo dangerously near the entrance to the Straits of Malacca, and thus would threaten British commerce between India and China and Australia. Mr. Robert Barr, who, as "Luke Sharp," is a popular author in the old world and the new, has, the London American tells us, just become a landed proprietor in England, having bought a large piece of ground on the top of the Surrey Hills, and is building a handsome residene for himself, He is quite a cos- mopolitan as far as land -holding goes, having a winter place in Florida and a large grape farm and residence on the Canadian bank of the Detroit river. MULTUM IN PARVO. Chiefly, the mold of a man's toixt"unti le in his own hands.—Bacon. We always have time enough,. • if we will but use it aright.—Goethe.,, • A tyrant never tasteth of true friend- ship, nor of perfect liberty,—Diogenes. This is the course of every evil deed that, propagating, still it brings forth evil,=Coleridge, Superstitions are, for the most part, but the shadows of great truths.—Tryon Edwards. How calmly we may' submit ourselves to the .hands of him who bears up the world.—Richter. Theologies are well in their place, but repentance and love must come before all other experiences. Beecher. The great men of the earth are • but marking stones of the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion.—Maz- zini. Of all our infirmities, vanity is the dearest to us; a man will starve his other vices to keep that alive.--Frankiin. The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.—E. P Whip plc. That extremes beget extremes is an apotshegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.—Colton; It is wonderful what strength and boldness of purpose and energy will come from the feeling that we are in the way of duty,—John Foster. The classic literature is always modern. New books revive and redecorate old Ideas; old books suggest and invigorate new ideas.—Bulwer. Before wepassionately desire anything which another enjoys, we should examine as to the happiness of its .possessor.— Rochefoucauld. The present, the present, is all thou bast for thy sure possessing; like the patriarch's angel, hold it fast till it gives its blessing—.Whittier. Style is the mantle of greatness; and say that the greatness is beyond our. /each, we may at least pray to havethe mantle.—George Meredith. ''When suffering has broken up the soil, and made the furrows soft, then can be implanted the hardy virtues which out - brave the storm,—Punshon, Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible tomen, he would choose light for hisbody and truth for his soul.—Pythagoras, Ideas are the factors that lift civiliza- tion. They create revolutions. Thereis more dynamite in au idea than in many bombs.—Bishop Vincent. No man can, for any considerable time, wear one face to himself and another ` to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which is the true one.— Hawthorne. Decency of behavior in our livesob- tains the approbation of all with whom we converse, from the order, consistency and moderation of our words and actions.. Steele. Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may completely miserable, let his -outward circumstances be ever so fortunate. Shaftesbury. Few things are more important to a community- than +thehealth of its women,;. Xi• strong is,the frame of the mother, sa s= y a proverb. the son will give laws to the people. -.-T. W. 1 i pinion, FOR THE NEW; WOMAN. Don't chew cloves. Don't bet on horses. Don't stay out late, Don't be effeniinate. • Don't tease the baby. Don't .kiss the butler. Don't sit oross-legged. Don't mix your drinks. Don't insult young nen. Don't boat your husband, Don't dress like a woman. Don't deride the weaker sex. Don't neglect your husband. Don't crease your bloomerss. Don't discuss private affairs. won't drink before breakfast. Don't grumble about your meals. Don't' sit while men are standing. Don't scold when dinner is late. Don't wear .reatly-made neckties. Don't swear at the polite salesman, Don't pull your husband's whiskers. Don't use a cigarette for a door key. Don't think it is manly to be dissi pared Don't wear a high hat with a saes: coat, Don't spend all your evenings at the club. Don't smoke on the front seats on open cars. Don't forget that the new woman must grow old. Don't carry the morning paper down town with you. Don't smoke in a room where there are lace curtains. Don't object to your husband attend- ing the matinees. Don't swear when you find a button. off your bloomers. Don't make things disagreeable for your husband's mother. Don't leave stale cigar and cigarette butts about your rooms. Don't neglect to tip the waiter. It is womanly n ' o do so. Don't tell', lin about "the biscuits your father used to bake." Don't get up at daylight and kindle the fire. That is man's work. Don't work off a lot of stale jokes when heakes his first cake, Don't laugh at your husband because he can never find his pocket. Don't expect him to surrender all the friends of his courtship days. Don't speak to young men on the street. They might be respectable. Don't grow impatient when your hus- band gives you a curtain lecture. Don't be forever harping on the length of your husband's millinery bill. Don't try to deceive your husband with that old story about "the lodge." Don't get into quarrels in public places when in the company of gentlemen Don't expect him to buy 1120 worth of household supplies on an $8 allowance. Don't be swindled out of your change at a church fair by a charming young man. Don't tell the gentleman with you that every ballet -boy on the ,stage is an old chrome, Don't be above dropping into the but- cher shop to order the meat on your way down town. Don't permit your husband to ride a diamond -frame bicycle. That is' a wom- an's privilege. Don't make the acquaintance of flash- ily -dressed men. They often prove to be adventurers. Don't fail to trent courteously the gen- tleman who chaperons your young man to the theater. Don't insist that ho go to church, while you stay at home to read the Sun- day newspaper. Don't become impatient if your hus- band asks you to stay at home to occa- sionally trundle the baby carriage. Don't forgot that empty bottles lend neither a refined nor a hospitable air to your apartments. Dont' tell him that he might have been happier with "that other woman." He may agree with you. Don't forget that your husband's life in the nursery is monotonous and that the- aters please men. Don't, when courting your young man, stay so late that his mother is obliged to eject you forcibly. Don't insist nn having the last word. Remember that is the traditional prerog- ative of the husband. Don't imagine your husband will be pleased to -hear of the days when you wore sowing your wild `oats. • PAPER PULP FOR LEAKS. Paper pulp is one of the most useful articles within the reach of mankind. Mixed 'with glue and plaster of paris or Portland cement, it is the best thing to stop cracks and breaks in wood. Pulp paper and plaster alone should be kept within the reach of every house- keeper. The pulp must be kept in a close•stop pared bottle, in order that the moisture may not evaporate. When required for use, making it of the consistency of thin gruel with hot water, add plaster of paris to make it slightly pasty, and use at once. Used with care It will stop leaks in iron pipes, provided the water can be shut off long enough to allow it to set. Around the empty pipe wrap a single thi kness or two of cheese cloth just wide enough to cover the break, then apply the com- pound, pressing it in place and making: an oval of it somewhat after the fashion of lead pipe j`.ining, only larger. The strength of this paste when once it is thoroughly hardened is almost beyond belief. . The bit of cheese cloth prevents any clogging of the pipe by the paste working through the cracks. An iren pipe that supplies the house- hold with water that bad a piece broken out ' by freezing. The piece, was put in pla„o, bound by a strap of muslin, then thoroughly packed with paper pulp and Portland Dement, and was to all appear- ance as good as new. Paper pulp and fine sawdust boiled:to-' gather for hours, and mixed with glue,,. dissolved in linseed, oil, make a perfect fillingfir cracks in floors. It may be put on and left until partly dry, then covered with parafiine and stnoothed with a hot 1ton.—Rural Mechanic., TO THINK ABOUT. Try;.to admire your neighbor's good pointe i°you will never forgot his bad. ones. The man who really disbelieves a thing quits worrying about it.. Stoe A • S ci,al Discount �.sC®ut Of 10 per. cent. Off STOVES HEATING .O COOKING. During the : �next twoT ce -s �. Any person who has seen the large aasortitent of stoves on our floor will recognize the fact that we are giving splendid bargains, A Stock. Beautiful - �e Hanging' lamps from $1.00 up. Also a full line of stand lamps. H. ISH P & SON. Takin A LITTLE TLE KNOWLEDGE. It is not a dangerous thing when it directs your attention to the fact that the 4 ,� n c:r. . d, r -..fin ,«„ ie%t7r�iay—:�` 7 _—= = %s.z. isx: