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The Clinton New Era, 1919-12-11, Page 3SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN CANADA Tbreenloittils ,•,,,.e,•.r•,r.a+• $ 40 ttalfyea' .,.,.,. ,A,e,,,e=, $ .7$ Year • ,,. ..•,.••.• 1.50 –If not paid in advance, $2.00 per annum– Office Phone 30. Tylia CLINTON NEW ERA. BURGLAR•PROOF GLASS Withstand Blow of Ten -Pound Disk Thrown From Twenty Feet. A new glass has been produced by a firm of Frenchglassntakers which is intended to be proof against the ordin- ary attacks of burglars. So many cases of burglary have been committed by a the breaking of show windows and snatching of valuables on exhibition g that a special effort has been made to end this particular form of depredation. The glass is made by a secret process, but the makers admit that thickness and care in its manufacture are the n A GOOD TIME COMING The following verses may be ap- propriately quoted at this time front .0 song by Charles Mackay, which Henry Russell set to music, and was very popular. about 1345: There's a good time corning, boys, a good time coning: We may not live to see the day, But earth shall glisten in the ray Of the good time conning, Cannon balls may aid the truth, But thought's a1 weapon stronger; We'll win its battle by its aid: Wait a little longer, There's a good time corning, boys, a good time coming: War in all men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity, Inthe good time coming, Natipns shall not quarrel then To prove who is the stronger, Nor slaughter men for glory's sake: Wait a little longer. There's a good time coming, boys, a good time coming: The peope shall be temperate, And shall love instead of hate, In the good time coming, They shall use and not abuse, And snake all virtue stronger; The reformation has begun: Wait a little longer, THE GRAND TRUNK DEAL Ey John S. Ewart, K. C. Canada has in the past most stupidly and wantonly mismanaged her railway ffairs, but she has done nothing which approaches the insanity of the new a- reement with the Grand Trunk Rail- way. I beg attention to the following: Stocks—The Company has two kinds f stocks; one upon which it pays in- terest—we may call it the interest -bear - ng stock; the other is of the usual ort—we may call it the dividend-shar- ig stock, Interest bearing stock—The interest- earing stocks amount altogether to 220,000,000. The annual interest- ayable upon them is $9,500,000. (The igures are approximate.) By the pro- osed agreement these stocks are to re - principle essentials. It is made about three-quarters of an latch thick, and on test has resisted the blow of a ten - pound iron disc thrown against it from a' distance ranging from ten to twenty feet. A hole four -tenths of an inch in diameter at the outer surface was made by the impact from the greater distance. The same blow would have shattered b $ p ordinary plate -glass completely. p Children in the hands of the present hold- , Childre11 Cry, ers. And the Government agrees `to pay �t-� he interest in full— partly at the rate CAS T O R I eta 0 FOR FLETCHER'S THE GiANT ANACONDA _ The largest possible size of the 0 great water snake or Anaconda, of tl South America. has been much dis- a cussed. Travellers' accounts of specs- n mens forty, fifty or even seventy feet i • long have been generally discredited by naturalists. Mr. Paul Fountain, In his journey through the Amazonian forests paid special attention to the size of these great snakes, and confirmed his former conviction that such accounts are exaggerated. Anacondas of thirty feet long, he admits, have been found, but forty feet he thinks is the extreme limit, In a paper read before the Geo- , graphical society, however, Major haw- e cett described one which he estimates t to have been siecty-five feet long. The o hugs Anaconda was met with eon the T Abuma river, partly coiled round the trunk of a tree and partly in the water. 0 The part coiled round the tree was forty-eight feet long, and the remain- ing' part was estimated at seventeen feet. And Major Fawcett was told of another met with by the Brazil Bound- , ary Commission in Corumba, which measured eighty-five feet in length. f 4 and the rest at 5 per cent. per an - um. Dividend -sharing stocks,— The em - lint of this class of stocks is $185,000- 00. The Government proposes that lege stocks are to be transferred to it nd.that in substitution therefor there hall be issued to the present holders evestocks upon which the Governments to pay 4 per cent. per annum. in other words, stock -certificates that are worth absolutely nothing are to be replaced by other certificates containing Canada's guarantee to pay. When the exchange has been made, the old stocks will be automatically cancelled, for there cannot, of course, be two sets of stocks representing the same issue, Substition of old for new does not Wean the existence of both. The pres- et' stock -holders, therefore,, will con- inue to hold all the shares of the Com - any. The Government will have none. he amount however, of, the new stocks i11 not necessarily be equal to that f the old stocks. The quantity is to be fixed by arbitration, Value,— According to the Drayton Ackworth report, interest upon the.in- terest-bearinng stocks has been pretty regularly paid; and the average amount available; during the ten years prior to the war, for payment of dividends upon the other stocks was $3,600,000. This amount was available only because of deliberate neglect to keep the road in repair; and the report showed that more than $2,000,000 per annum had been applied upon dividents which ought to have been applied to the up- eep of tine road. There was, therefore, ess than $1,600,000 available for divid- nds. But that is not the whole story or the Grand Trunk has to face a loss, n connection with the Grand Trunk Pacific, estimated by the Minister of ailways at more than $3,000,000 per $num. And it is clear, therefore, that of only will there be no money to pay dividends. but that there will not be enough by at least $3,000.000 to pay the interest on the interesting -bearing stock, Interesting -bearing stocks.- As above stated, the annual interest on the inter- est -bearing stocks is over $9,500,000 and the earnings of he road will fall short of that by more than $3,000,000. And yet lithe face of that situation, the Government proposes that it shall guar- antee the payment of the whole $9.500, 000 every year to the stockholders,' The Government does not even propose that there shall he an arbitration as to what amount ought to be paid. It knows that, beyond dispute, the stock- holders ought not to receive, their in- terest in full, fm• the earnings will not pav it, Nevertheless, the Government guarantees to make full payment The only reason offered by Mr. Meighen for the assumption of such an absurd'labil- ity is that the Company insisted upon it, Dividend -sharing. stocks,— Such a reason would, of course, be just as valid with reference to the dividend -sharing stocks as to the interest-bearing; But inasmuch as these dividend -sharing stocks are too paipably worth nothing et all and In as much as a demand by the Company for payment of specified divi- deeids would be ridiculously grotesque, the Government agrees to submit to arbitration the -fixation of Value of the shares, and to pay 4% on flint value, The only reason offered for that, as far es 1 can see, i5 ars stated by the Minister of RallweySi "The arbitrators will, do doubt, fake into c0nsideratioli the fact of the Grand Trunk being the pioneer railway of 'Canada; and believing es I tlo that tine people of Canada with to deal generously with (he drand ''rank Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Ashes from Luzon's nncasinnally ac- k live volcanoees fertilize the soil and en- 1 able the Philippines to produce the e world's finest hemp. 'leaks R Biirdd• a STOP HEADACHES }EFrI REMAND never had a head- ae.:: whoa you were -rt, keep well is to keep dean, inside.. To relieve headache, and f: r prevent it, keep the liver aoiive and industrious and the bowls as regular as c:hack. 1."tr s•generations ofhealthy, v gtsrotxn people have done. 6,i.,11:)37 talking one pill at ha.: time, regularly—a larg. et "Noss when nature gives the warning. p CeRFER'S paa:'s 1 Etonetre rbizT,-a 'Slsnefrii Solos'°gees faces often chow the tw•, 1 t seeriee of Iron to . �n the 1. , . Ji �brr. , .. i.. cA1 17 niebrilnu. ' will, (help this condition. i, The Minister is disposed to be very generously 10 the Bngiish stockholders, Ile completely disregards the duty of doing Justice to Canadian taxpayers. The Situation,—We thus have the most extraordinary situation. The Gov- ernment agrees to pay interest in full upon the amount to be derived from the earnings of the road for the pay- ment of that interest will fall short by about $3,000,000 per annum. An, the Government agrees to arbitrate as to the value of the dividend -sharing stocks, although they have 50 value whatever, Arbitration Offer.—in view of all this it can hardly be believed:that the Gov- ernment, when proposing arbitration as to the value of the divident-sharing stocks, actually accompanied the pro- posal with an offer to pay $2,500,000 per annum for the first three years, $3,000,000 for the succeeding five years, and $3,600,000 thereafter. The proposal and the offer nevertheless are contained in Mr, Meighen's letter to Mr. Smithers of July 18th, 1918..The Government, therefore, is going into an arbitration as to the value of stocks which they know to be of no. value; and has agreed in advance that the value to be placed upon them shall not be less than the number of millions per annum just mentioned. When ar- ranging for arbitration with the Cana- dian Northern, the Government fixed a minimum limit and the arbitrators went, of course, to the limit—indeed a little beyond it, Now the Govern- ment makes.a stilt greater mistake. It ICJ 1 ('RIP'I'IQNS OUTSIDg QF CANADA Cheat Dritai , • •••.•1.110.•: %o0 , ,,.,., ,era eIR„,.':0 2.09 (Advance Only) Limited States , , , , , "' �1 o0 France Thursday, December 1 ith, 1919, NERVES ALL Government Ownership.—Il will be seer from the above statement, that: the • present .proposal is not one for the ac - 1 quisilion of the road, The Company retains the road; tale stockholders are G TNEgAp,• I talCompany;theinteresting-bearing ONE p 0 W.H 'niacinremainpreciselyusbefore;andV6 (.tbe dividend -bearing stocks undergo an . exchange of docuInellts, All the nicks id fl ,,, q being thus accounted for, the Govern. Fruitr-a-iivesrn Cop �tltt�t d meat holds nothing, ' Nervous Prostration agreementrisithereforehe asl�foliows:Thature f the 5. The Government is not purchas- R. R. No.9, Grr.n>clrrnaune,If.tx, ing the road or any part of the capital "In the year 1910, T had Nervous stock of the road. It is not disbursing Prostration in its worst form, a dollar for that purpose. 8roppingfrom 170 to 110 pomade. 2. The Government, so far from acquiring the road or the stock, is talc - The doctors had nn. hope of any trig en option to purchase the stock at recovery, and every medicine I tried the end of thirty years, and is thus de- peovod useless until a friend induced ferring the possibility of government me to take "Frnit•a•tives". ownership until the expiry of that period. The option is a right to pur- I began to mond almost at once, chase at a tremendously exaggerated and neve' had 'such good health as I price—at an amount not less titan have enjoyed tho past eight years. $150,000,000 in excess of values, lam never ivilhoul "Prima -a -dives" 3. Meanwhile, the Government a - in The house", JAS, S. DJiiLGATY, grecs to pay interest in full to the hold - 50o. abox, 6for $2.50, nisi size•25c. ers of the interest-bearing stocks, thus At all dealers or sentnot less than $3,000,000 per annum. est old by making a present to those gentlemen of P p Fruit-a-tives Limited, Ottawa. •13y so doing, the Government raises the market value of those stocks between fixes a hint below which the arbitrators '30 and 40%; and makes a present to will. not go, but leaves the maximum to those gentlemen, if they wish to sell, a discretion, biassed by Dr. Reid's re- of not less than $50,000,000. 4. The Government, knowing that commendation of generosity towards the dividend -sharing stocks have no in - the English shareholders, trinsic values, agrees to arbitrate as to their value; and as a preliminary fixes a minimum value of „$+2,500,000, rising to $3,000,000, and then to $3,600,000 per annum. 5. Th- Government, knowing that the Grand Trunk is unable to pay its liabilities, that it is overwhelmingly bankrupt, agrees to pay all the liabili- ties, and thus relieve the Company from its difficulties. 6. When a Government is expro- priating property—that is taking pri- vate property which the owner does r1p"•,' d` `tt' '*�i sh greed oto, is setttledtby he arbitriceration. In not wt J6J if not a - the present case, there is no necessity for expropriation. The Company be- ing bankrupt, and having made default in meeting its obligations, the course which the Government ought to have taken (if it desired to get possession of the road) was to make its offer, and if the offer was refused, to wait until the -Company was willing to accept it. 11 the delay was longer than the Govern- ment liked, it could force the Com- pany into receivership and purchase under judicial sale. In conclusion, 1 confidently assert that no sane government ever contem- plated the staking of such a ridiculously absurd contract as the one now under discussion. 1 exclude, of course, con- tracts originating in pure graft. —JOHN S. EWART, think that because 'yolir stomach ' can " digest food you are proof against indigestion. The most important digestive work is done by the bowels, liver and kidneys. Unless these are active and work in harmony, you are in danger . of self-poisoning. Sold cs'ery- where 1.1 Ctincc n, art bons, 21e, i'0c. help nese ho Jnr:., s to 'ftractionate properly, ana u. '?"I:>S:.ers.ce. the )liver and kidneys to ac: v. -cry efficiently. a .,. a. , :. . FROM CITY TO FARM (I) Gold loin Potatoes grown tram hand -selected tubers, u_:d Marauis Wheat plot growing from hind -selected heads, on Rose:Surst Farm, Cayley, Alberta. (2) J. W, Lucas, an Eastern Cansdian city boy, now owner of this Western Farm. (3) Some of his Porkers:. (4) Grade Fercheron Ilorsos, used by 114;•, ',liens on his Itosehurst Farm. We are continually bearine about the farm boy who goos to the city, but we hear little about the city boy who goes to the farm, rat. Just as many farm boys have beeaime suc- cessful 'business men in our cities, 50 Wel e are Uudoubted,y many city boys who have become suc0eeeful farmers, Tits Is more especially true in Le eotuartes taut are being new- ly opened up sueb as Western Can- ada, rtwoug the whiners at the In- ternational Soli -Products Exposition heiu at liensiuy,a City recently at least o,lir. It not albao, of the successlu, exatbitore Was burn and bred In a cite and only became a farmer after he bad reached manhood, John W. Lucas who won prizes for white oats, brume grass sand, barley and rye, load fierier been a'furrper until he ue„tied on lila ' homestead In Caytey, Alberta, sixteen years ago, klowuvsr, liehae net to work to learn ail he could` about this noble profesalnu and nobody qua • say 0,a.t be has made a b -.d Job' of it. Mr l.u'"u was born in one o the Laos f s eitios of iasist7l CanadaLike many ntaei boys whose parents are in mooerltte eircunstences he earn• eti mostly 'after 'tu iscol • hours de- livering newspapers ,,and in vari- ntas other odd Jobe. Leay.u4 ecitool, be' says, he got a real job •ai six dollars a week and later came Wears and worked In WInn.pog for a yen., 111» had always felt a &sire to blirunsltr ai t1141:00, ,ttgwaver,'end it 15 aOd enrorieeng that lbs call. cif ,the s lareholders, they will not he tar•, Canadian Government ter settlers for Severe. when making their• award," - -1 Free bomeetsedd pt•orieq •¢appos14l 10 (Hansard,' 1064,) tlkn, •I$vk"t pU{ita 41 At.i)Bi't4'in 1002 and .ocated on Inc namestead in Carley, the quality and trtr a= well. Tlsteel as til, southern part or nue pru,.nue,' 01 fields ul rats, hariey and other ,ue sam0 year. e11....331 mita :ratans ul all stats he bas He. Is now the owner of eight inn -i now field„ 111 IJtl:ee graina with heads diad acres co laud In a block. and ae'e:'ly all •u.t,..<. by band selection is interested. bes.dee. 113 0,51 anti a of potatoes. saving oozy the prolific half suetiuus of land. --4,160. Oa Ists1 nulls trite to type, be has been able arm ne has produced as muco illi to produce as high as thirty-seven 18J bushels of maw to nue acre and 556 marketable potatoes from one hilt. bushels at wheal to the acre. The l and frena one potato planted a yield quality of his oats may ba Judged or seventy-three pnuncis of potatoes. from the fact that for rive years net This is a ,•ecoid difflcislt to beat a. y - won the prenne honors fon' this crop at aha A,uerta Protozoa, bated 1"alr, rle has also been a rcguiar exlaib.tor and prize winner at the tuteraatio.al Soil Products l:xpos,i OA and 'Other exhibitions held in the United States, where, These are some of the tlt'.n,eis a r'ty Eloy has been able to do on a fa.m. Not only bas he heroine the owns, of a large' area of land but on t11 s land 5.0 is producing «reps Of the hip.sent It leas been 1Ir, l.u:;as' ntmbltron to quality and a n".atximuin gmto t Isp. became a good faints' and h,r hasPractically the whole of Ihe spared no efforts to leern all ho _otitd'about his proteat:tton, ,ie spent be whiten of 1012 and 1013 in Iowa .is part or his egrlcultueal education, dere he visited some of the beat, farms fan rho Sante, asked lots of sitestiona, saw a good dcial and `«ante away with us unn0lt 1 wtrdge'aer be eott311 gather, Sie'cuns c]nperc, tisane twoe Cattle, harts and horses ore rete- manv the whirlers event in 'Iowa a t1Me 1 iia tarts nand the sa:n • "t s- ien Y spa t beet finvetmin.ents he ever made, 14e taring earn in the aelec ion of tali"s lumina nwch about bors,-s, cattle end laoga, and al't'o leow•glrzrl tatsners stdeit the vire of noes, anewfn this e'ay —gory tent: reaSe the yield. , produp- 115 00I't true fo type and uniferin !u size. Fief gn.re•d that iif corn'eeuld 1'0. se 'lunch 'tem-arm/et! 5y seleetio'n ;he seine thins ctnsld be dorsa Witt kne ,headla, of wheat, nits,-bxrley and h11ts tst' p,lttMtoc.s. 'rte tarjafWe Wit to .h.'he•fa'lIav,l Mia [tn •te Wier this Wows- rdf g, Not owly,kgM tae t t•�1ssii° ' bhe yield of lJiesti Si's* b>lt lok fafst► V.41 groivb by him be sells as seed it: a higher 'price than that ob:aimed by the "average tartnter,'.and the deemed for wlictt he produces 13 greater t:_to,:t be sari supply, Ile is also a greet believer in I've - stank, A Iran who has stuck^0 fa ---.- Ing as Inc hn.s done naturally wr r'd incl breadtng'1s' pairs to livrntxk as he palm to the selection or ciente, with reMulte' emial!y as ey'iata.rtttry. The 811001001 or •John W. Lycos saltotild be inetair!ng to many a city hist', "Asst boy can do what i have dome tit this country," he says, 'A11 tf ne':ds, le persistence," To 'PSIS lawn In,e added, patience a.n¢1 a tleeI2•e to eregql,, Alusl ties sxessed by hi'iott stie01 fel s , wliethe..ila'WO. 099414 'ut' House Phone .95. _awn"l!t'FA/'2 ChEldren Cry for Fktcher's h 71:1?i tii9 ,C aY Fletcher's Castcria is strictly a remedy for Infants and Children. Foods are specially prepared for babies. A baby's medicine Is even more essential fcr Baby. Remedies primarily prepared for grown-ups are not interchangeable. It was the need of a remedy for the common ailments of Infants and Children that brought Castoria before the public after years of research, and no claim has been made for it that its use for over 30 years has not proven. N hat. t. CASTORI -v • Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea ; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by re;;ulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Comfort—The Mother's Friend. GE UEINE CASTORHL '1 ALWAYS Bears the Signature of rr nsantxYawsv3t16 In Use For Over 30 Years THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY ARC ` t'i Dlutl toCelik.:5 "`W p i; .F . r� ic-l`1t4• 15s r '' Two gyroscopes are used by an town inventor to keep a single wheel motor- cycle steady, the rider and motor bal- ancing one another. Utilizing a galvanometer, a French scientist has invented apparatus for measuring vibrations of human bones and tissues with which, among other things he reads, a person's pulse more accurately than by hand. A guitar with two sets of strings on which one person can play duets has been invented by an Illinois man. Electrical apparatus for analyzing and registering the quality of furnace gases has been invented in France. Four days after hatching ostriches depend upon their own exertion for food and 'the parent birds give them no more care. In search for a new sources of fuel in Norway a deposit of peat was dis- covered that is estimated to contain 8,000,000 tons, When Your Liver B©Oes Sluggish 'Vow Bowels ESecome Constipated. Constipation is, without a doubt, the commonest of all the ills that mankind is afflicted with, and one if neglected, will cause no end of trouble and sickness. The way to keep yourself in good health is to keep the liver act''ee and working properly by the use of Ma. burn's Laxe-Liver Pills. Mrs. L. Weinman, Orillia, Ont., writes:—"From a child I was always very badly constipated, and 1 can well remember, when quite young, my mother giving me senne. tea nearly every morn• tag, and I got to dread it. "After taking Milburn's Lexa-Liver Pills for a while I am not troubled with constipation any more." Millittrn's Laxa-Liver Pills are 25e. a vial at all druggists or dealers, of mailed direct on receipt of price by The T. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Onto No collar buttons are needed with a recently patented collar for men, which has projectlug tabs that engage shirt buttonholes. ltxpe•imetlters in New Zealand have GENUINE ASPIRIN li► HAS "BAYER CROSS' Tablets without "Bayer Cross” are not Aspirin at all get genuine "Bayer'i'nblets of Aspirin" to n "Beyer" package, plainly marked with the safety "Bayes Cross," ' The Bayer Cross" Is y011t• only way of'khowing that you are gutting gcmlfnc Aspirin, prescribed by physicians for nineteen yeats'and proved safe by mil - liens for 1L <0iaelte, Neuralgia, Colds, dJtebmtltatin, humisego,'Nenritis, and for Pilin generally, "!fade m • Canntlu, ,!Sandy • lain boxes of le tablets—also ialger sized ' 13iydr, lianknges. Aspirin is the *tide mark (registered in Canada), of Bayer lifanufaeture of Monoaeettcacitletstur of Salleylicaaid, It is Well kp'olvn that Aspirin niotinn,l3ayef,0a,ipnfactpre, to'iasttiht the nubile sngninst itaitsttons, ihe'"k'ablble of Mayer Company, Ltd., will be atatived IviIli ti t•ir' general • trade mark, the Lkdytr Cro'ss,' Succeeded in producing pig iron on a commercial scale from iron sands found in that country. For signalling a pocket flashlight has been invented with interchangeable lenses mounted on one end of a move - arm. Experiments are being carried on in Cuba with the fiber of a native plant that is said to make excellent fabric for sugar bags. 15'W7004r9 l'31.0s321.0di liy The Great Enrelish49Remain. Tease and invigorates Lite whole nervous system, mama new Blood in old Veins, ( urea Net Gana Debility, Mental and Brain Worn). Aespon- denuy, Lana of .neral. Palpitation of the Heart, neat-LP/Jenne Meznoiii,• Price SI per bar, aiz for55 • ^,. • • "' • Bold by as dregga"ts malfnrl in plata pas. on receipt of price. Neer.aru tett). "ed free THE WOOD MSEOSCIIlrnCO0'.'0110h CO. ONT. LF.rmerhaya.dm LIVE POULTRY WANTED 4000 CHICKENS —0- 2000 HENS —0- 1000 DUCKS —0— Each week from now until the , of December, we pay for all Poultry 011 a quality basis delivered with empty crops. We pay special prices for properly milk -fed poultry, and ave' would strong- ly advise all producers to finish their poultry as it will pay you to do so. i1111-Llo 1Jls & Co., Liatii° i The up-to-date Firm flinton Branch Phone 190 W. Trao••rtha, Manager or Holmesville 4 on 142. PIANOS Before purchasing your new piano or organ let us shote you the newest de- signs in several well- known and old establish- ed makes. INSTRUMENTS RENT- ED AT MODERATE PRICES PHONOGRAPHS See our stylihh cabinet designs in the best, makes. t C. Hoare �