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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1913-10-09, Page 7.21 MADE GOOD AS Ai COOK. Lumberman ° Got 8u "The OldSupper Without the;. Least Effort. "Nowadays a cook is provided foe -each camp," said the old lumberman who has worked on the St. Croix, the Penobscot and the St. John, "but la my days of lumbering -we took turns, at ween at a .time, or one >man would make all the bread, another the :tea' :and coffee, and so ou through the bill of fare. Once In awhile -generally be- fore they'd got licked into their reg' - lar winter mold -some fellow would kick against the routine; 'he's been hired to do something else,' or 'he'd be hanged if he'd cook, anyhow.' Then there were ructions, "I remember one little rebelllonthat ng began hot and roars and died down Into a laugh all round, thanks to an quiet old soul, all good nature we and fat -Uncle Ned, called him. camp "We got back to p one night to find. the (Inc nearly tt and nothing .ready for supper. ere all hungry -and gronty, as sot Hies bappens In the best regulated ct s. Each iu turu declared he wouldn' a cook, and it les looked like a supper s night till Un. rte Ned spoke up in quiet way, 'Dear me,' he says , 'what a time about cooking! Wh it's the easiest thing in nature to supper Now, wait boys, if you'll all on me I'll be cook.' "They all agreed. tled, Uncle Ned sat down on a spruce chair and let his ass "'Now, Dick,' said for you to do is to and start up the fire "'Isaac, just step and fetch a pail of "'You, Mac, whit t under way, wash a get 'em ready to pu boils. Ol We w veti 'ew t b his y, get This being set- on bare it, he, 'the (irSL lhiug get a little wand down to the brook water. e the tIre's getting few potatoes anti t on whets the pot -*mow, you cut a rew slices or pork and put it on over the fire to fry.' "'But, Uncle Ned,' we all shouted to- gether, 'you was to get supper(' "'Yes,' said he, calm and easy as ever, 'I was to get supper. but you were to wait upon me. Torn; said he, 'you'd better get the dishes ready,' "We kicked some, but 'twas no use; -we'd agreed to wait on him if he'd be -cook. "When everything was ready for 'supper, there the old mau stili sat in leis spruce chair-badn't stirred an , "'Dear me, dear me,' said be, 'here vakee•••••••••••••••••••••• s SHAW'S SiCIIOOLS • Give Courses' in all business subjects leading to positions •4 as Bookkeepers or Stemogra- g phere, and for Civil Service and Commercial Specialists' ' eaeamiirtations. These Schools eli ness • College oclude the Toronto, f Toento, w tntral hfour 'City Branch Schools. Stu - se, go dents may enter any time for • these courses. No vacation. s Waite for catalogue. • W.H. SHAW, President, 393 • it 395. Yonge St., Toronto. s •••••11••s••••••••••••••••• • • • • • •• • • ••••• • • • • • • s nave got supper, anti 'twits 011e o' the easiest things in tile world.' "We were 'caught, " smiled the old lumberman, "and we sat down to sup- per in good temper, and ever afterward we had Uncle Ned's proposition for a byword; we'd agree to do any living thing provided we could be 'waited upon.' "-Youth's Companion.' Was Subject to Hot Flushes PALPITATION OF THE HEART, SHORTNESS OF BREATH., • t Mits. J. CArsor, Mount View, Ont., writes: --"I ata an elderly woman now, sndabout two years ago I became faint, was subject to hot flushes, palpitation of the heart end shortness of breath. Iwent to a. doctor butseemed to remain the same, until one of my neighbors re- commended` ibisu tueet's Hen= AND NERvs Pmts. I gladly followed the advice, and 'am to -day a -strong, robust woman, and I thank Mummer's HSArer ADM Nnavr Rums for my present state of health, and have recommended them to all who I have learned of suffering from heart trouble. ' Price 50 -cents per box or 3 boxes for $1.25 at alld ealers, or 'mailed direct on receipt of price by The '1'. Milburn Co., Limited, Toronto, Ont. - A Giant Linden Tree. The village of Remboru, in the mountainous region of Taunus, in Ger- many, possesses a linden tree which is said to have reached the age of 1,200 years. In summer the tree is said to be magnificent, and its foliage offers shade to 200 persons at one time, The trunk 3s twelve meters in circumfer- ence -that is, thirty-nine feet. It has been hollowed by time, and a dozen persons can stand in the cavity. The Taunus club bas taken the giant un- der its protection in the hope that with care and attention its life may be spared for many years. Strenuous Hockey. Girls play a strenuous game of hockey in Australia. In a recent game between the Waratah and Thistle clubs the casualties were one finger broken and another severely crushed, an eye blackened and face irretrievably, dam- aged, a knee bruised and shin cut so badly that the blood saturated a boot, several months cut about and a num• ber of shins sliced through shin pads. STRAIGHT WALLS OF ICE. Mighty Mount McKinley Cannot Bo Climbed From the South. Describing their expedition to Mount McKinley last summer, Professor Parker and Belmore Browne say in the Metropolitan that, although it *as prob• ably the best equipped expedition from a mountaineering standpoint that has ever been organized in America, the net result of its explorations is a map of a hitherto unknown stretch of mountain wilderness and the know!• edge that Mount McKinley is uuclimb• shift from the mirth. "We attached Pie lmo14t44t from• no' fewer ,thanfide different points and hY ,each epee were stopped by instirmount. able 'difficulties. We were on tho Ice' fifty days. Mountaineering -technical ties bad nothing to do with our failure 'to reach the summit. At each attempt vie encountered straight walls of ice and snow that could not be bridged of avoided, The problem of climbing the mount' thin from; its southern side is an no usual one-ifa combined water, atretic and Alpine; proposition, To reach the southern base of the mountain the ex- plorer must navigate' for 150 Mlles a stretch of swift,giaclal water. "The second part of the trip. le ;through alternate stretches -'of - forest Wand swamp land which layat the base of the Alaskan range. The last stage is over forty miles of glacier .tbal stretches from the lowlands teethe base of Mount McKinley itself." How 1 Became an Archaeologist By ARNOLD L TINKAM • Copyright by American Press Asso-. elation; 1911. When I was a boy and studied Latin read storles about ancient Rome that gave foe au unconquerable desire to sec the l.ternal City. I wished to visit the chasm, or at least the place where it \vas, into which Quintus Curtius leaped on borsebncic, the remaining pil- hu> of the temple erected to the two beautiful strangers, Castor' and Pol- lux, who watered their horses In the forum after the battle of Lake Regilius, and the bridge that Horatius defended so valiantly. There was no prospect of my ever 'visiting Italy, for 1 bad not the Means even to take me to col- lege. But I was a good deal of a dreamer, and, my fancy getting fixed .on my ob- ject, 1 couldn't turn it upon anything else. The only practical result was a resolve to "save up," as children put it, with a view to getting enough mon- ey to take me to Rome; keep me there long enough to get a hurried view of what 1 wished to see and bring me back to America. By the tine I was eighteen years old I had acquired this amount. I sup- pose 1 shonlit have spent it in starting me upon a college education, but I did not. I bought a second class ticket on a ship crossing the Atlantic and pro- ceeding'through the Mediterranean to Naples. I remained at Naples long enough to visit Pompeii, then went by rail to Rome. At first I was disappointed in getting into a modern commercial city, but when 1 struck some of the landmarks of ancient home -the Pantheon, the arches of Cou:ttnntiue and Titus, the Coliseum -1 wife not long in forgetting the modern in my rapture over the nn dent. When 1 had exhausted Ronne Itself I was seized with a desire to visit its environs. I had read of the Campagna as It was when coswrtt with farms and villas. But by the Buie 1 had seen home h self my money was all gone. 1 1mile" enough even to buy a return trip tit•kr to America. 1 ryas stra ailed in a fie Ginn rnuntrv. 51-11”1- could 1 di Matchless helps to women's comfort, physical well-being, and beauty -sure to pro- mote healthy, natural action of the organs of digestion and elimination -the tonic, safe and, ever reliable BEECHAM'S PILLS The Largest Sate of Any Medicine in the World Sold everywhere. In boxes, 25 eentr, Asmimammasseessamemswaw ? ? ? ? ? (T, 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 every page contains newsy items each week. Regular subscription price $1,00 a year, and 50c for six months. We will send it from now to the ericd of 1914 to any address in Canada, for 25c-5 months for 25 cents -55 cents will Fend the paper to the United States. The C101on New LP YO Suffered 10 Moziths ,With Kidney Conl,plaint,` Gin ,Pills Cured. 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Reading a notice in a eewspapert that an excavating party was to make, a search for the ruins of a certain villa' some fifty miles from the city, I bleed :myself as a digger to the archaeologist' in charge, went with him and dug with, the rest. In bis reading he had hit' upon a description of the site, but could only confirm his views by bur rowing in the ground. In other words, he must hunt for that for which he; was looking. We dug three days, at the end of; which time my employer gave up the search, During this me I put in mss ti spade here and there on my own ac count, with no result. When the par ty went back to Rome I asked for my pay, a few lira, and they returned without me, I had seen a stone pro jecting from the soil at some distance, from where we were diggiug that seem- ed to me to have been artificially shap- ed, and I wished to investigate it. As soon as the party were gone I began to dig about this stone. I found that it rested on another; to which it' was fixed try mortar. This in turn rested on another. Then I came to a wall. I followed the wall for a dozen feet and came to an angle. The top of the wall was flee or six feet from the surface, and I was not likely to' find anything of value at a less depth. I dug all day, and as the evening was coming on, some ten feet below the surface, my spade shuck something hard. T shuddered, for by this time I knew telt 1 was liable to ruin a treas- ure. Ie villas were ornamented with u -some of them very beau tiful-•aiel every year they are Sound. I had with me a scoop and, ttrrowing down my spade, began to dig about' the bard substance with the smaller implement.. It was round. In a few minutes I uncovered a marble head. Had I discovered a mine of inex- haustible gold I could not have been? more delighted. I scooped away enough earth to tell me that I had found a statue. But it was by this time too late to look any further. I threw back the loose earth, marked the spot with a stake and hurried away from the fever stricken Cam- pagna that I might not be caught there after nightfall The next morning I went to the ar- chaeologist who had conducted the Search. and told him of my find. It would have been- illegal for me to re-' move the statue myself, and I pre- ferred to proceed under his superin- tendence. He was as much deligbted at my luck as I was myself. We start-' ed at once for the hole I had dug, removed the loose earth and exposed the marble. We could tell nothing about it escept that the face was very beautiful. We dug about the statue till we could see that It was the figure of a woman, the drapery being ancient Rom man. The archaeologist before leaving Rome had left word for workmen to follow, nud when they arrived the statue was removed. It proved to be of great value. 1 had struck the site • of the villa for which we had searched, and other articles were found in 1t,' though none in as good condition as this. I received aremuneration for MY find, but what I valued more was being taken as a student by theman who had employed me to dig for him. I spent a number of years under Itis 'Witton and by - my own efforts have contrlbnted to the contents of the mu- ms m leeuin no small degree. A Modest Poet. There is a story told of a French poet who Inquired of a friend and flatterer what be thought of his last work. "I have arrived at the fifteenth canto,' he replied with enthusiasm, "and think there is nothing more beau- tiful and harmonious in the language." "Pardon me, there is one thing," said the poet. "Ah, perhaps you mean Chateau- brland's 'Atala?" "Certainly not! I mean my six- teenth canto." Testing Her. "How would you feel, Clarisse, if you and I were sailing down the stream of life together far away from he"reHo?" w far, George?" ; G lata;f j+' "Oh, far, far away!". e "I'd be so tirribly' homesick .for mother t" And from that night this young man ceased his visits. -Judge's Library. FOXES NUMEROUS Several reports from (different parts of the cotunty,.rbtate thattpara triages are fairly plentiful, and fox- es have been( seen in places from which they have been absent for yeats. At' the same time this is the rooms hunting season, but Cleve suave plot been any reports in re- g erd to, this animal .and its bun - MINOR LOCALS. The fall fairs aro :over, The leaves, oire the trees are fast' taking on their autumn colors;': #•' FEW REQ HAIRED MEMBERS The red-haired men In the British. Hpuse of Ci ramous can be counted on the fingers Of one hand.` Captain Gin' mom, the: Scottish 'Whip,, is included among them. Mr. Cecil .Beelt and the Hon. John' Lyttelton are regarded by their fellow -members as . being the same way inclined. 'People with red- dish hair," says Mr. William Llewel- lyn, 'I.R.A.,'the Painter who did the State portrait of the Queen; "usually have very' fine flesh color, though 1 think, as' a rule, they are not as good- looking ns darker people. The fea- tures of the latterare of..better fo'ni, In Wales- and Cornwall people are either red orlack end often ' both b a o 0 In one family," It may be pointed out that Charles 'Dickens seems to have had a prejudice against' red- haired people. He gave Uriah Beep hair of that color. A BACKWARD RACE One of England's Oriental Colonies Far Behind Times "Papua is .a country of excellent possibilities," says Judge''Murray, the Lieutenant -Governor. "The only dis- advantage Is the scanty population, which probably will not increase for some time. The natives are savages of the stone age, or what we were some thousands of years ago, and to suddenly come and Miff' them into the twentieth century throws them out of gear, as it were, but we have clone away with head hunting, cannibalism, etc, Labor . troubles are less severe than formerly. I am against the in- troduction of other black labor to take the place of the Papuan, although I gave my approval to the introduction. of a number of Japanese for instruc- tional purposes in the rubber industry, but the Commonwealth Government would not allow it, There are eight thousand natives working for alto planters, miners, and Government. This is four times the number em- ployed six years ago. Enormous profits have been made out of rub- ber." LAMP -POST LORE Technical Education Owes its Start to the Street Lamps Everybody knows what a lamp -post is, but nobody seems to realize its curiosities. For example, technical education in London came to be developed just be- cause of the lamp -post, It happened In this manner. Years ago the old vestry of Shoreditch planned to utilize its lamp -posts for advertising pur- poses, and it was arranged that the, revenue so derived should be devoted to technical purposes. So it came about that the old Shoreditch Techni cal Institute came into being. Then. the County Council undertook respon- sibility for technical education, since when the lamp -post institute has grown into one of London's most famous educational organizations. A driver may knock down a lamp- post almost with impunity. Usually he has no money to pay for the darn• age, and the authorities cannot make his employer pay. About one hundred lamp -posts get knocked out of the per- pendicular every week in London. In the Mall are yet to be seen some of the original gas -lamps, bearing the arms of George III., and there are ninety thousand gas -lamps in the metropolis and about ten thousand electric lights. The cost of lighting the streets of London is about $1,260,- 000 per year. NOTES AND NOVELTIES Included with recently patented sun goggles is a shade to save a wearer's nose from being sunburned. Australia's new nickel coins will have scalloped, edges to prevent them being mistaken for silver money. Irrigation and a railroad for a large section of the Sahara Desert are plan- ned by French colonial authorities. With,, apparatus of his own Inven- tion an English scientist successfully photographed sound waves. Madrid proposes to, utilize the water brought to the city by an old canal to produce about 3,000 electrical horse- power. A sheet of oil catches, the dust par- ticles as they are brought through a new air cleaner for buildings or machinery requiring pure air. , India annually exports about L000,- 000 pounds of fish maws, and shark fins for edible purpose$, mainly to other oriental lands. Spare automobile tire inner tubes will be safeguarded against harden- ing. if immersedin hot 'water every month or six weeks. • invisible Air Ship A. patent has been granted in Eng- land to a man who claims he has invented an airship' that will be in- visible 1,000 feet in the air, his idea, being to -coat it with a metal that will reflect the atmosphere surround- ing it. Artificial Marble Artificial marble invented by a Bohemian is said to 'closely imitate the rarest . marbles and to be stron- ger, more substantial and less liable to ..mage than the aenntne, A HOUSEWIFE'iS JUDGED :;y HER • FOR A BRIGHT STOVE AND A ;t3rnGHT REPU`TATIO$. USE ®LACK ��919IT. A PASTE THE F F. erALLEY Ca.LTD.(NODUST Wi NosrE HAM I't:-TON,OI-rr. I NO Nilsi FORTUNE IN U STAMPS French Millionaire Has•Wonderful Col- lection Which Few Have Seen The distinction of having the most valuable collection of postage stamps belongs to a FMnchsian, M, Philip La Rdnotiere, who started collecting stamps 'in the middle of the `sixties, and who probably spent nearly $1,500,- 000 upon his ooilection of 120,000 stamps, An ardent philatelist, and possessed of ample means, this gen- tleman amassed a collection of entraps which le as near the collector's !deal of completeness ae it is possible for any individual to form, ` But few col- lectors have been privileged to see 112. Rdnotiere's collection, for, having spent a fortune upon it; it la not sur- prising that he does not risk sending it to public exhibits, The value of the collection is en - :lanced by the fact that M. R.dnotiere acquired other collections in the oariy days of philately. Indeed, he pur- chased outright the collections of two presidents of the Royal Philatelic Society -Sir Samuel Cooper, Bart., whose collectiou, in 1878, he bought for $15,000, incl Judge Phiibriek, for whose collection, in 1882, he paid $40,000. To -day these two collections would probably fetch $100,000 and $250,000 respectively. In addition this famous French col- lector has had the first pick of the stamp markets of the world for over forty years and to him was sold, for a comparatively small figure in the 'seventies, the rarest stamp in the world, the one cent stamp of British Guiana, issued in 1856, no other ex- ample of which has been found, al- though dealers and collectors have searched the world for another spec!" men. POPULAR SOVEREIGNS No one would guess, says Tit -]lits, which coin is turned 'out from the British Mint in the greatest quantity. It is not the 'penny, nor the shilling, but the sovereign. The figures for last year are interesting: Sovereigns 30,044,105 Pence 23,079,168 Shi[Iings 20,065,901 Halfpence 12,570,830 Sixpences .•.. 9,155,310 Half -sovereigns 6,104,106. Florins 5,951,214 Threepeuces 5,843,075 Farthings 5,196,800 Half-crowns .. , . 2,014,673 CURE AT HOLYWELL Blindness Cured After Nineteen Years in the Dark A remarkable case of faith -healing attracted the attention of medical men in Burnley, Lancashire. A young Ro- man ('at>,.,r:., namod T1,,nmaa Hanev, after being alrrioed totally -blind fOr-TO years -the blindness following an at, tack of :measles when he was in in fnacy-had the sight r of his eyes resto r - ed after bathing in the famous Sti. Wlnefrede Well at Holywell, Flint- shire:, Before his 'visit to HolyweII, where the waters are supposed to have miraculous properties, Haney could only discern a faint glimmer of light, Now he can see people across the street, read small print, and make out the time on a clock face from 'a moderate distance. Ile states that shortly after conn mencing to bathe in the well he felt the sight of his right eye returning. Gradually the sight gained in, strength, and before he loft Holywell he was able to play a game 01 billiards on a full-sized table. - According to legend St. Winefredo was beheaded because she refused tea wed one of the petty tyrants of her timen where d wh e her head fell there sprang forth a great flow of water possessing miraculous properties. A shrine was in after years established at the well The next Doherty Course Con- cert will be held ere Thurlclay October 16th and will,be given b Everett Kemp. She street lights( are much mis- sed these dark nights, Centrt9Basin iulQtte e Stratford, Ont. Our registratiopi again ex- ceeds that of any previous year;. The boy or girl who has not (received our free catalogue does not know the great opportunities of Com- mercial Life. 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Those women, I watched' keenly, read every line of the advertise- ments, and then turned to the woman's page, '1 his ride was a distance of eighty miles, yet at the journey's end the women' had nor yet had time to turn to, the actual news of the day. The women want advertisements to read, and you must present your business in a readable shape to be in the fight these days." Is your Stock Moving? If not. Then we can Help You, New Era Ads pay—They get right at the people. I THE NEW EA, CIT'S TELEPHONE 3o. I 16111////Mar111.1.11MMENNINCUMMENIMIIMENISIMMIWEI