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The Clinton New Era, 1913-07-31, Page 6Br rxpeultiori • :.Vela' ... GtoaE r6` :Sew, Ra1-ge of New Gt.rinen.• After eisemintering great liaiclships, acid to in' tl roe of their members,'. ' the.`evpechtion led by Dlir, A. 1.^. R.: Wollaston lidspenct'lsated to the G1'eat Snow 'Sang , of New 0Crufne t fes the. the•'first time, and made a -successful ascent of ••14lount C?iu•steusz,annest to.. the -shunt -lit, `. valuable,collectfen of birc1s and plants was obtained during the; jorrrneyiugs. Perth:niersi which hove .just come to hand show that: while it is unly sixty, miles' frog the spot where the expedition lauded to. the highest point reached, almost incessant rain, Swollen rivers, and the . difficnit ,country made the work so hard that to coverthis apparently short dis- ,.tanoe oeeupied four and a half months• At the end the expedition nearly came to grief through the capsizing of Dr. Wollaston's canoe. The, explorer was rescued with diffi- culty, but lost diaries covering three months and a large quantity' of bit. Three members . of the expedition died. Dr. Wollaston left England a year ago- to ascend Mount Carstensz, the highest peak of the Nassau Range in Dutch New Guinea, which was the objective of an important expedi- tion, which did not succeed in its attempt. After conferring with the Dutch authorities at Batavia the doctor went to Borneo, and spent eight weeks collecting Dyaks before re- 'turning to Batavia. Here he was joined by Mr. C. B. Bloss, curator of the Kuala Lumpur Museum, and the two, with five native collectors and seventy-four Dyaks, proceeded in a Dutch Government ship to the south coast of Dutch New Guinea. They were escorted by forty Dutch soldiers and eighty convicts from Batavia under a Dutch officer. The party disembarked at the mouth of the Utakwa River, which had been ascer•ded by Dutch travel- ers two years previously, and appear- ed to be: the best route into the un- known interior. From the deck of the ship could be seen the snow-capped peaks of the mighty Carstensz. A motor -boat, built in England, and all the stores ar..l equipment were land- ed, and a base camp was made .twen- ty miles up the river. All this region was quite uninhabit- ed, and the expedition had to carry every bit of its own food. Canoes were made by the Dyals, and the riv- er was ascended for two clays beyond the base, but after that the expedi- tion traveled by land. Depots were established three days' travel apart, the first being three days' march up the foot hills of the Snow Range. From the fourth depot the ascent was made to the snow line. Progress was -very slow, the ridges being ap- pallingly steep and the track rough. In the high mountains the sun was never visible except for an hour in the morning, and the travel- ers were always in the clouds. At about 5,000 feet the expedition met some curious, but friendly folk, small of stature, but not pigmies, who showed the travelers their track and helped them. The highest' point (15,000 feet) was reached after five days' march from the last base. The rain descended in a continuous torrent, and although Mount Car- stensz is almost exactly on the equa- tor the fog -laden air was freezingiy cold. During the ascent a fine panorama was observed, but the mist again closed in, and when the party were within a very short distance of the top the steep ice and dense fog neces- sitated a retreat, Two attempts to reach the actual summit were made, but eventually food gave out. It was as the last load was being taken to the base camp that the ca- noe containing Dr. Wollaston and six Dyaks struck a snag in the swirling torrent, and capsized. Dr. Wollaston was carried a long way down the stream, and was almost exhausted. Parliamentary Friendships. It is generally agreed that the most ylteresting passages in the speeches of Mr. Asquith and Sir Edward Grey in the recent Suffrage debate were those in which reference was made to their long and intimate friendship; and many, reading the protestations of both speakers that their differences on this important question would in no way impair that friendship, must have been reminded of the historic House of Commons scene which end- ed so differently, when Burke cast from him Fox's impassioned appeal not to let their divergence on the question of the French Revolution dis- sever a friendship which had been proved again and again. One may recall, too, Burke driving home from the House with a friend, and declaiming against the French. The other ventured a word or two in the contrary sense; "What!" cried Burke, grasping the check string, "are you one of these people? Set me down." Neither the friendship of their boy- hood nor their relationship by mar- riage availed to prevent a breach be- tween Chatham and George Grenville. i(j1• .,1. tN Itlr ! yij �CY:Ofip R THE PERFECT SHOE FOR. SUMMER SPORTS ASK YOUR DEALER. th's DayBoasting In Elizabeth's g Was a Great Accornpl"ist:..ent. In the clays of Good Queen Bess few kinds of entertainment were more popular than the game, of "brag," in which the victory went to the competi- tor who was l:ljudged by the audi- ence to have emulated most success- fully the example 'of Ananias of du- bious memory. It may, perhaps, be surmised not unreasonably that the popularity of this form of amusement was due to the fact that the art of novel -writing' was unknown in those days. Writing in 1580, an old' author says, "Lying with us is so loved and allowed that there are many tymes gamings and prizes therefor, purpose- ly to encourage one to outlye anoth- er." The custom persisted until more recent times, and as late as the eigh- teenth century "liars' clubs" were a common feature of London life. One of the best-known of these clubs met for many years at an old hostelry, now vanished, known as the Bell Tav- ern, Westminster, and, the most im- portant of the rules of this confratern- ity of liars ran as follows: "Whoever shall persume to speak a word of truth between the established hours of six and ten, within this wor- shipful society, without first saying "By your leave, Mr. President," shall for every such offence forfeit one gal- lon of such wine as the chairman shall think fit." In Elizabethan times "'lying for the whetstone" was a regular part of the amusement at village festivals. Why the whetstone should have been se- lected for the somewhat unenviable distinction of being the prize in these orgies of mendacity is not quite clear, but it has been suggested that the ex- planation is 'to he found in the apo- cryphal (very!) story of King Pris- cnc'e whetstone 'raving been cut in two with ,a razor. Another theory is that the whetstone was chosen as the most appropriate trophy because of the "wheting" of the wits which was necessary for the telling of "whoppers" of due enormity. Apropos of this, a good story was told et the expense of Sir Kenelm Digby. Digby had been traveling on the continent, and on his return boasted of having sten the philosopher's stone. "Perhaps`"' said Lord Bacon, on hearing the story, "it was a whetstone," No less a person than a bishop was onee discomfited in amusing fashion at one of these village lying competi- tions. Porteus, Bishop of London, was traveling in Essex, and stopped at the little town of Coggleshall to change horses. There was a great crowd in the market place, and, on the bishop asking what was the mat- ter, he was told that it was the day on which the whetstone was awarded to the biggest liar. Righteously in- dignant at the prevalence of so de- moralizing a custom, the worthy pre- late upbraided the crowd with pious fervor, concluding his discourse with the emphatic declaration, "I never told a lie in my life•" Whereupon the chief umpire, after brief consultation with his fellow -umpires, stepped for- ward, and, proffering the whetstone, said, "My lord, we unanimously award you the prize." For a moment the bishop was speechless with in- dignation and offended dignity, but finally he saw the humor of the sit- uation, and he often narrated the story to visitors to Fulham Palace, where, for many years, the whetstone occupied the post of honor over his dining -room mantle -piece. DIARRHcEA, Story of Thistle. The Order of the Thistle, of which Lord Haldane, lord High Chancellor 'of Great Britain, is to be 'made a knight, dates only from the last day of ,1703. Centuries earlier, however, the thistle was the national badge of Scot- land, and the origin of its emblematic use is ascribed by tradition to the Danish invasion of Scotland. The in- vaders planned a night attack, and marching barefoot, had contrived to creep close up to the Scottish forces iunabserved, when one of then stepped on a thistle, and uttered a cry of pain. The alarm was given, arid the attack failed. Out of gratitude the thistle fives adopted as the insignia of Scotland: Famous Hair. Locks' of hair from the heads of three men famous in English Mere- -titre were sold at Sotheby's r'eeently• That of Milton realized no higher than 855,. and lout tress of Dr. John- son wrsq knocked_ down for 30s C„STOt➢ fi For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of 1.4444. I411170` N1 inky more tlulu id, t :� ltlil stats ootnul there was ttticll an i iicn, cliiCl trouble; et ihe,pi, u tonic t.itat i,be:,candidatu.eotllcl not hells laue"hrpla.; ',Old Judges, - 'Lord'l er t Ao9: °te nilly made a vert• intern ti t settee to a cur ions fact that ler li q cio their beat work Ill 'What, ' } 1 t rt7� r nr3n,- treble'Odd iii'1h in lztr many in- stances nf.`t?r Whv levo' Ugh t;; t titin t ar st'r'ut+ Lord Inn r 111 .the 0!O j,• of,i,gds, ah' i^,'hh fit 111'11. ht ,rr,-ttQItllri; fac+lnh . were Rid in lit 11 till tlrn very bndi,. l.,im hnm'bee ono, nr;±silent of dint So vial c ienec 'Issociefirm et sc+venty- 1310, tnil del leered, h is nmtn.11,atann Icli ,, at ilt ei.Irty-trove, ; l.i�rtiht'rat;'ill Moto+than' errhty, trot DYSENTERY, SUMMER COMPLAINT AND ALL BOWEL TROUBLES ARE CURABLE BY THE USE OF Dr. Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry. n is 1? t bei' j i .t down t friars Failing. 0,1 r+t I etlte•ei* delivered an "'extraordinary s;,tet'clt"- in tha 11( it-., of 1,(14.(4. 11, (011' MI 11 tale 'thio:! L?. 11al but,y. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTO '.tea' '. RIPENING AND CHURNING R 1NG C REAM The . best time to separate milk is when it is warm from the cow, and at this time any of the standard ma- chines will do good work and remove the butter fat so closely that we need not worry, writes a correspondent of the Iowa Homestead.: Another impor- tant point in separating is to have the machine adjusted so that the cream will be thick and rich, coutaining from 80 to 40 per cent fat. Cream separated in this manner vvill churn more rapid- ly, and less fat will remain in the but- termilk; besides the work can be done at a lower temperature. The great se- cret is to have the cream cooled as soon as possible after it is separated to at least 50 degrees and holding it there until a few hours before it is warmed up to ripen. Now comes the question of ripening, for as a general rule it is best not to churn the cream iu an unripened con- dition. You will get good butter, but MR. Wm. R. GRCEN, St. John, N.B., writes:—"As I have had the pleasure of testing DR. POWLRR'S EXTRACT oP WILD STRAWBERRY, I might say it is the only remedy I would recommend. Last summer, I had a very severe attack of Diarrhoea and Vomiting. My doctor treated me without result, and friends advised me to try the above remedy - After a few doses I was completely cured, and ever since I have never been with- out it in the house. I have used it with the children, and find the same result. I have recommended it to several of my friends who also join with me in saying that DR. I'+oWLER'S. EXTRACT OF WILD STRAWBERRY is the greatest remedy on earth for all summer complaints.” "Dn. roman's" has been on the mar- ket for over 65 years, and so popular has it become that many dealers try to sub- stitute other and cheaper preparations. Be sure and get what you ask for. Price: 35 cents. Manufactured only by 'Phe T. Mil- burn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. Dutch Belted cattle are a compar- atively young breed in this coun- try, although they are growing rap- idly in public favor. The cows give a good supply of milk of very good quality and are very hardy, easy to keep and of good size. Their dis- tinctive mark, a broad belt of white about a body of black, makes a herd of this breed a very attractive sight The bulls are gentle and rarely are. wild or vicious. The head of the Dutch Belted bull shown herewith indicates to the observing eye dairy quality. �`YJusIN'�E/� $"A A�ND SIIO�R .l. HAl:\ D Subjects taught by expert instrluctors:. at the KC, A. ELEC., LO1?I»,ON, ONT. Students assisted to positions. College in session froin Sept, 2nd. Catalogue' free. Enter any time. J.W. Westervelt J. W. Westervelt, Jr. Principal 170hnVIoe-Priuclpaltant isn't the vaeus;kinds of bacteria have time to develop lactic acid, which aids in churning and gives the character- istic flavor • to the best butter. Keep the cream until there is enough to make a churning, raise temperature to about 65 or 70 degrees and keep near this temperature until about ripe and then cool before churning. Well ripen- ed cream should thicken and run like oil and have a gloss on a fresh surface. If the ripening process has gone too far it is impossible to make finely fla- voredNever mix see butter from it. sweet and sour cream. Half ripened cream, neither sweet nor sour, will churn very hard and make very poor butter. If sweet cream is churned use it when perfectly fresh. The churning of well ripened cream is one of the simple arts of buttermak- ing. Churn at such' a temperature that the butter will come in from forty to sixty minutes when the churn is not more than one-third full of cream. This gives better butter than when it comes more rapidly. Use water at a temperature of 40 to 45 degrees in cold weather, allowing for the season, solidity of the butter, etc. Put salt in the churn and stir thoroughly with a wooden spoon. There is nothing more difficult in mak- ing good, even quality butter than to get a uniform amount of salt in differ- ent churnings. If the salt is well mixed with the butter it wit need but little working. Press it just hard enough on any good worker to wort, out the surplus water and give it a compact texture. As a general rule, it • 1s preferable to move from the churn to the worker and then pack at once and avoid streaked butter, The but- termalcer should always judge for him- self when it worked enough. Fly Net For Baby's Crib. A fly net made of bobbinet or brus- sels net is useful. Buy two yards of net a yard and a half wide and either bind the edges with blue or pink wash , ribbon, machine stitched or feather stitched on or else turn a hem and run it with blue or pink mercerized cotton threads. At each corner fasten a weighted ball of silk to match the binding or thread. A small piece of silk gathered about a wad of cotton makes a weight that is heavy enough to keep the net from blowing away. 'It is to be thrown over carriage or crib to keep away flies or mosquitoes. there are difficulties in churning that make it very intricate work and unde- sirable for any but an expert to under- take. In ripening the cream it is nec- essary that we take great care to avoid as much as possible all bad odors and flavors. Ripening cream means hold- ing it at a temperature that is uroner rhe family remedy for Coughs and Colds. "Shiloh costs so litth and docs so much!" PREVENTION AND CURE OF MILK FEVER' If a cow is in good physical condi. tion and flesh it is well not to feed very much if any grain, but give a lih eral amount of succulent feed, such as silage and alfalfa and all the good hay, preferably of the legume class, that she will consume without waste. If there are no succulent feeds we be- lieve it well to feed about one pound of oilmeal daily together with some other feed like bran or ground oats. We suggest the oilmeal because of its tendency to keep the bowels of the ani- mal in good condition, but the succu- lent feed will do that if it is obtainable, says Hoard's Dairyman. The time has come when we need pay but little attention to the feeding of the cow so far as milk fever is con- at, Photo py Delaware .Agricultural cell ge. King Reda, the pure bred Guern- sey bullwhich heads theGuernssy herd of the Delaware Agricultural college, has attracted a great deal of attention. He' is .a halt brother of one of the most -noted :'bulls of the breed in the United States. As his portrait shows, he is anexcel- lent individual. This bull has but two daughters in milk, andthese have been officially tested for a year, beginning at two and a half. years old. They haveaveraged 11,- 000 pounds of .milk and oyer 1.130 pounds of butter each. cerned. We believe in feeding her'in. such a manner that It will put her in proper shape for cabling. If Milk fe- ver follows the simple cure, the air treatment, may be applied. Every good dairyman should provide Himself with the necessary instruments for 'in- flating the udder with air. These in- struments are easily procured, but a bicycle pump, milking tube and a short piece of rubber hose will serve the purpose. Great care should be taken to have the tube that is inserted into the teat thoroughly sterilized. Boiling is one of the best ways. Care should be not to touch it with the fingers or have it come in contact with anything be- fore inserting. Furthermore, the teat itself and the end should be thoroughly washed with a disinfectant, using one part of corrosive sublimate to a thou- sand parts of water, which is a very effective antiseptic. Great care should be used in handling the corrosive sub- limate because it is' a deadly poison. An 8 to 10 per cent solution of carbolic acid is also a good antiseptic. If the operator is careful in thoroughly ster- ilizing the instruments and the end of the teat before inserting the instru- ments there is no danger of infecting the udder, and, furthermore the air treatment is practically an absolute cure for milk fever. War Veteran Has Trained Great Dane To Be Useful. Quite an interesting and familiar canine character in the centre of Bir- mingham, Eng., is a great Dane, a magnificent animal belonging to the quartermaster a the army recruiting office in Newton street. He has taught the animal man,• useful achievements. "Mac," ad he is known by the recruit- ing sergeants, with whom he is popu- lar, is most obedient and intelligent. He will, on the word of command, take a letter to the hoose of one of the non-commissioned officers and bring back an answer; and so well is he dis- ciplined that Ite will, on request, fetch the "strap" with which he is some- times corrected. As soon as the 6.30. o'clock. edition of the paper comes out "Mae" seems instinctively to know that he ought to be on his evening errand along Corporation street to a little girl news -vendor. He fidgets and prances about until a half -penny is placed in his mouth, and then he leaves the office at a bound and dashes through the street, running all , the way. The news girl takes the i copper coin from the great hound's mouth and gives him a copy of the paper. "Mae" is back again at the 'recruiting station within a couple of minutes. The dog sometimes aecom. ,panies his owner to the bank, carry- ing in his mouth a precious brief bag. Woe betide anyone who dared to mo- lest him; and not until "Mac" re- ceives his direction inside the bank does he release his grip of the bag. Although only a couple of years of age "Mac" weighs 100 pounds. His ap' Children Cry FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Terror of Reporters. When Mr. Justice Bucknfll was an M.P. in the .B'ritish Ilouse he used to be the terror of reporters by rea- son of the speed of his electioneering: speeches. On one occasion, when he was contesting Exeter, the local re- porters went to bin in a body and asked him to go slow, "1 can't do that," said the then MT. Bucknill, "for I shall lose the thread of my argument; but if any ,of the press gentlemen should get behind, let him .cough discreetly, and, I will makea pause." ?$ �eec had snot h e w l! ,Atk, ; .. ([, If you are not already reading The Clinton New Era, it will be to your advantage to do so. Not only on front page, but everypagecontains newsy items each week. Regular subscription price 1 00 a year, and 50c for six months. We will send it from now to the erid of 1913 to address in Canada,for 35c-5 months'°for any months: for cents-55 cents will send the paper to the United States. e v C � }r S t . � 7' vt ', gas t � � t,� c J i e ''in e :Sunshine. Furnace e automatic damper releases It 7110 the smoke 4R pipe. When pressure is relieved tl the damper closes autonaticalry, , "Sunshine' z. T If install ayou yous. will never be` troubled i �a: A Sunshine Ftrrn�lca pn.. Sasses manly other egelnsive 't furnacegas In • ;•., Vdl .lJl advantages. Pay cur .is,•.nt a visitor v rite for 'booklet to' your house. nearest branch. London Furnace Toronto Montreal Winnipeg Vancouver St. John, N.B. Hamilton Calgary Saskatoon Edmonton " 338 Sold by BYAMli ee, SUTTER ,n., V..+:4>n 1t n .. '• t/i Vat: e f;,,, -g+. pearance seems iormfdabie, but is cre- cility itself, except when defending his master's interests. His owner, Quartermaster -Sergeant:' Thompson joined the army in 1873,: and came to Birmingham twenty years' ago, after nineteen years' service withi the colors. He saw service in the' Afghan campaign, accompanying Lord Roberts on the famous march to Kandahar, and went through the! Egyptian war of 1882. Here he dict special duty as engineer on the rail- ways, and drove the first train null across Egypt from Ismailia to Cairo, shortly after the battle of Tel El Ke -1 although he was not rated nor brought up to the calling of an en-� gine driver. Quartermaster -Sergeant Thompson wears the following service' medals: Afghanistan, Kandahar,) Egypt, long service and good conduct,' Khedive's star. 1 Thieves In Bank of England. Although always a liberal employ- er, the Bank of England — as The Chronicle points out—has not always been fortunate in its officials. Little more than twenty years ago the chief cashier was summarily dismissed ow- ing to defalcations, and narrowly es- caped prosecution. In 1863 several of the bank employes were' found to be implicated in a scheme for circulating notes forged on genuine paper stolen from the mills at Laverstoke. A still more serious fraud was perpetrated on the bank in 1803 by Robert Astlett, one of the `cashiers, who managed to extract exchequer bills to the value of nearly 51,000,000. His theft was discovered before he had succeeded' in cashing many of the bills. Ast- lett's offence was in those days a capital one, but he escaped with a term of imprisonment. ••ommesssse•••seeee••••••• I� • The Right Kind Oi • m iEDUCATION • Electric Restorer for Men Phosphocol restores every nerve in the body to its proper tension; restores vim and vitality. Premature decay and all sexual weakness averted at once. Phosphonol will 55 kEStai e1d to n y add Price The box, two Co.. AtstsslAriner. Ont. 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