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CABINET SALARIES
Britain Pays Her Minis€ers Well and
Provides Pensions
In Great Britain most of the Cabinet
Ministers got twenty-five thousand'
dollars' a year each, The Lord Chani,'
cellor' gets- fifty thousand. And the
Attorney -General, with his salary and
the fees incident to his office, gets
nearer a hundred thcusand than the
” the hast -named figure. Most of them
have ` good --and some oe them very
large -means. Lord Haldane is very
,- rich, as are Lords Crewe and - Beau
champ, and Mr. Harcourt, . who, in:
oadd'itiou, married an immensely rich
Wife, as did Mr. Asquith. Sir 'Edward
Grey, Mr. Riancimah, Mr. Hobhouse,
and Mr. Pease are, all rich men. Mr.
Burns draws a salary of twentsefive
thousand dollars a year, and fpopu:
larly supposed to live on less than
a tenth of it. Recent investigations
showed that Mr. Lloyd -George's private
income, derived from his savings, was
about four thousand dollars a year.
Mr. Churchill's private means are
small. He made a lot of money by his
writings—his "Life" of his father
brought him in fifty thousand dollars.
—but he is a free spender.
Not only are British Cabinet Minis-
ters paid large salaries, but, when out
-of office, if they can conscientiously
make a declaration that their private
means do not admit of their living,
.as befits a Cabinet Minister, they can
draw a pension equal to half the
salary which they received in office.
It should be added that the unavoid-
able official expenses of the senior
British Cabinet Ministers are heavy.
'They have to do a lot of expensive
political entertaining. For instance,
-on the King's birthday, and at the
beginning of each session, they have
to banquet their principal supporters
in Parliament, and these banquets
run into a lot of money.
PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT.';
Rest.
Bodily rest can'only be achiev-
ed
chieved by having the muscles com-
pletely relaxed. The ordinary
sitting position in a chair is notIf.
sufficient, as the. lower extremi-
ties are still" more or less rigid, .,
t The chair should be an easy one,
with an 'extension or a footstool
to support the lower✓iimbs just
a trifle .below the level of the
body. ";A better rest can be had,
however, by lying full length on
a couch or bed with the arms
and legs ;sprawling in the man-
ner adopted by the tramp when
he takes a sleep by the wayside,`
This attitude' assures ease, If not
ielegance. And it does more than
relax the limbs, for it glves re-
pose to the heart as well. When
the body is -in this position .the
heart beats more slowly than
when we are standing, walking
or even sitting.
KEEP BAN HEALTHY.
To keep the baby healthy his little
stomach should be kept sweer and
his bowels working regularly. D ine
tenths of the maladies which affect
little ones are caused by some de-
rangement of the stomach or bowels,
break up . colds; make teething easy:
dispel worms and cure constipation
and digestion. Uoncerning them Mrs.
S. Shannon, Urney, N. B. says: " L Mrs. Pankhurst released from Ellis Island"United States, with a party of suffragettes
have used Baby's Own Tablets for my after President Wilson had ordered her release. , The arrow indicates Mrs. Pankhurst.
two little ones and think they are just
'riumphant Moment For
Mrs._ Pankhurst and Followers.
what children need. I would not be
without them, Sold by all medicine
dealers or by mail at 25e a box from
The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brock
vitle, Ont.
Daily
Christmas Hint
Present For the Woman
Who Does the Mending
"Button, button—who's got a button?'
will not be the cry. if :t bug like the one
Illustrated is given to the member of
the family who dues -the household
mend lug. Nothing more important in
the way of nl eevi:tls is needed than a
quarter of u yard of denim and some
bright colored cretonne. The denim e
used for the outside of the oblong strip,
and on the inside are c'nmitu•tiurnts
for scissors and spools of thread. In
the center is a bag of the cretonne for
JUAN VICENTE GOMEZ
the Venezuelan leader whose chief
enemy is Castro.
BADLY DELAYED MAIL
Sent to Destination After Third of
Century in Seine ,
During the siege of Paris by the
Germans in 1870 the post office ad-
ministration"hit upon the expedient—
in trddition to the balloons—of enclos-
ing letters in small zinc globes, water-
tight and hermetically sealed, and
dropping them into the Seine. There
they floated, if they were not cap-
tured by the Germans, down the river
to the French lines, where a net
stretched across the river gathered
them in, and they were sent on their
way. Unfortunately for the French
the Germans discovered the character
of these zinc floats, and as they could
not hope to see and flsh out by or-
dinary means all the letters that went
down thus, they stretched across the
river, at Villeneuve Saint' Georges, a
net of their own and effectually stop-
ped this system of postal communi•
cation. The zinc balls and their use
were pretty nearly forgotten, when
about ten years ago, a fisherman found
in the Seine, near Villeneuve, a queer
looking globe of zinc, He opened it,
and found three hundred letters, still
legible, and all dated December, 1870.
They were delivered to the postal
authorities, and bier this, long • wait
in the river went on their way,
To Destroy Destroyers
At Pembroke Dockyard the first heel
plate of a, new light' armored cruiser,
officially described as a destroyer of
destroyers, was laid by Mrs. Grant,
wife of the captain superintendent.
The new ship will burn oil fuel.
A Resentful Horse
While two horses were standing.
outside a public house in Trim, Ireland,
the owner of one, a farmer named
Mulvey, stooped to take away some
grass front the other, and the animal
bit away a large piece of his lip.
F!-
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HOMEMADE 'Hrre.; BAs.
progress as ill:: wo z.en or oilier Eu-
ropean countries.''rhe University of
Tomsk has petit oned the Minister of
Education to enable women of Siber-
ian birth to graduate in medicine and.
an important congress In St. Peters-
burg, presided over by the ex -Minis-
ter of Education, and comprising
1,000 delegates, has suggested many
reforms that will render the path of
women's education less thorny.
It is a psychological effect of the
recognition of woman's advance that
they have spontaneously developed
amazing ability, courage and or-
ganizing power. The fact that there
are now about a thouasnd Russian
women practicing as doctors is sufft
tient justification for their advent in-
to tbat profession.
The question of admitting women
to the bar was recently raised by the
appearance of a lady, whom the St.
Petersburg Bar Association had ac-
cepted as a member, as attorney in a
;riminal case. The prosecuting attor-
ney refused to proceed with the case,
" fling that woven .under Russian
law were not authorized to practice
and he' was supported by the Imperial
Senate. Over 100 women have quali-
fied as lawyers and they are making
great efforts to obtain a footing in
the legal profession. There is urgent
need for their services in wide areas
where the population of the country
districts 1s entirely without legal ad-
vice. The agitation to obtain that re-
form is powerfully 'supported and a
targe and influentially attended meet-
ing has been held in St. Petersburg
to protest against the continued ex -
elusion of women,
holding the buttons. The entire hag
is bound with ribbon, aud the handles
are of heavy cord wrapped with the
ribbon.
A yard of lawn or dimity magas a
pretty remnant bag, Cut a strip eight-
een itches wide and sew into shape.
Sew lace about the edges and Work
's buttonhole at Park side fore.tlie rib
bon to run through, make a casing and
run Inch wide satin ribbon in, leaving
enough to lmake tt bow -at each side.
'Phis bag Is espeeinlly 11110101 to a
young Mother for holding scraps of
white -trimming she accumulates for
baby's use.
Needles of all sizes used In sewing
on buttons should accompany the beg.
einny of the ordinary needles are too
thick to slip con renleo 1l,y through the
tiny eyes of smelt buttons. A paper.
of needles tested to 'ntnlce sure they ere.
the proper sizes will be appreciated.
So, too, will threads especially stout,
but not too coarse for the needles. As
a rule, linen thread Is the best for Bile
propose.
THEY INSIST ON . FAIR PLAY.
Russian 'Women Deniatid Educational
Freedom and Are Winning Ont.
If ever Alexan ler'II. of Russia met
on his walks a girl student in spec-
tacles and Garibalr'tan' cap he began
to tremble, thinking that shemust be'
a Nihilist, bent on killing him. His
hatred of women who endeavored to
obtain higher education to fit them
selvces for the service, of the masses
would have been ludicrous if it had
hot been such a serious thing forthe.
women themselves.
And yet even the prejudice of ,kings.
could do no more than temporarily
shock the feminine march to educa-
tional freedom. Recent events:: show
that woman's part in public life has
grown to the proportions of a mass
Movement witie the awakening of hu-
man conscience, and that Russian
aromA*eern a,rtaally mailing as much
'Sleeping Between Graves
The Roscommon, Ireland, police diee.
covered a man named John Higgins
sleeping between two graves in the
local burial -ground with a :frying pan
£Q>1' Pillow.
The Boy Scouts' Mascot,
The -members cif a troop of Roy
scouts under Bernie Regale, in heel•
non mvor', \Cls., find n lot or sl.ort re•
oently. when they captured ti lire rac-
coon. They found [lt' lilac anhual
asleep In tt tree neer n Ink,. They
I ut off a limb or the tree and lessued
the raccoon. They are going to [hake
him their mascot,
SANTA CLAUS
HAS G0
T ITIS
Have You Bought Your
Christmas Presents ?
If not, buy them now. Every
clay you delay means just that much
more hurry when you go to make
your selections. -
BUY YOUR PRESENTS
TODAY.
The Sun From a Balloon.
At the height of two miles the sun
shines with a fierce intensity un-
known below, where the dust and the
denser air scatters the rays, which,
thus diffused, lose their intensity
while illumining every nook and cor-
ner of our houses. At heights exceed-
ing five miles this diffused light is
mostly gone, and the sun shines a
glowing ball, sharply outlined in a
sky of which the blue is so dark as
to approach blackness. At the outer
limits of the atmosphere the sun
would appear a brilliant star of mas-
sive size among other stars, and if
one stepped from its burning rays
into shadow he would enter Egyptian
darkness.
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LINCOLN NO. 2
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The Case of Prue and the
Gawk of a Bean Pole
Lawyer.
By GRANT LESTER.
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For
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1c'or a good ninny year's people bad
said that Fa enter Johnson's wife was
Bead of his „house and thou he was a
great encumbrance to her. They had a
faint jest outside tl thrtv.iug town, :1nd
had it been left to the, wife there were
many promising speouintionsshe would
have entered into. She was allowed to
boss things around the farm, but when
it came to outside matters the hus-
band would take no risks, ` When his
death finally took place people looked
to see Aunt Betty, as she was called,
though only forty years old, carry out
some' of ideas' and make things
hum. They were not disappointed.
She went into strawberries 'aid_ made
money; she went into the dairy busi-
ness and inede money; she went into
poultry and imade Money. it was said
that there were not half a dozen men
' in the county who had her business
. sense.
Aunt Betty' had e daughter nineteen
years old. by' name Prue. Prue did not
run to business. She was simply a
sweet tempered and lovable girl, who
attended'school in town in the winter
and helped about the housework in
summer. Up to the time of the fa-
ther's death the mother had not "suf-
fered aspirations". regarding Prue's fu-
ture. It was tacitly understood that
she would marry some young farmer
and settle down to the' humdrum life.
But after the mother bad become a
business woman there were other plans
for the girl. She was to be educated
in music and other arts and made a
lady of.
Just how Prue Johnson and Darius
Livingstone first met is of no great
consequence. He was twenty-two and
had graduated as a lawyer and "settled
in the town. He was a slab sided
young man, tali and angular and un-
gainly. There were a few people who
said that he rnigbt know more than he
showed, but the majority were of the
opinion that he didn't know whether
potatoes grew in the ground or on
trees. If Prue held with the majority
it was rather singular that the young
lawyer should have come driving out
to the farm one June day to inquire
for her. She was upstairs at the
time, and it was her mother who re-
ceived
eceived him. At the first glance she
thought him the homeliest young man
she had ever seen, After the second
she took him for some peddler of mu-
sic and went upstairs and said to Prue:
"There's a bean pole downstairs ask-
ing for you. I never saw such a gawk.
He says his name is Livingstone. He's
enough to scare a setting hen off the
nest. Did you ever hear, of any such
teller?
"Why, ma, he's a lawyer in town,
and we have met three or four times,"
replied Prue as her face flushed scar•
r let.
"A lawyer—humphl If you was to
put a club in his band he wouldn't
know enough to pound sand. What's
he here for?"
"Why -why, he said he might call
some day. I don't 'see why you call
him homely. I've heard lots of folks
say that he reminded them of A.bra-
ham Lincoln."
The mother sniffed her contempt and
turned away. Prue went down and re-
ceived her caller, and, though Mrs.
Johnson was rather busy around the
house and yard, she saw and 'heard
enough to satisfy her that the young
man was "interested He remained
for an hour or so and then left, and
while his back was yet in sight Prue
was properly warned,
"I shall have to have a son-in-law
some day," added the mother, "but I
lvant one whose looks won't sour all
the milk and who knows a cabbage
head from an old gander. Lawyer!
Lawyer! Why, the poorest lawyer
we've got in town would make your
young man look like a bobtailed wood-
chuck if they had a casein court."
• Prue ran away without talking back,
and things quieted down for a week.
Then the mother came home from
town one afternoon to blurt out:
"Do you know what I heard this aft-
ernoon? At least half a dozen people.
told me that you and that scarecrow
young lawyer were in love,"
"Oh, mamma!"
"You needn't 'Oh, mamma!' me. If
you've, fallen inlove with -any such
man I'm, ashamed of you., Why, that
red headed, cross eyed Sue Williams
wouldn't look at hint.
"We are not in love," stoutly pro-
tested Prue,
"Then what are you looking so red
for?
"Because—because we nre simply
friends, That is, he's awfully smart
when you come to talk with him. I've
been reading the life of Lincoln, and
it's wonderful how much alike they
Watering the Garden.
If the garden needs water badly
(few regularly cultivated ones do) do
not sprinkle the surface, as this gen-
erally does more harm than good.
Take a hoe and open a trench along-
side each row or around each hill of
plants, pour water therein, and when
it has soaked away fill up the trench-
es with dry soil. An ordinary sprink-
ling of the surface does not reach'
the roots, and the sun soon evapor-
ates the water, bakes a crust on the
soil, and the garden consequently is
in worse condition than before. If you
must sprinkle, do it thoroughly in the
evening and cultivate the soil the
next morning.
Steer For a Goal, ,
Are you just drifting along, or
have you a real ambition? The man
who works because he must, with no
higher purpose than to live from day
to day, is little better than a ma-
chine. Work for .something beyond
your work, if it's only to build a
chicken coop or own your own home,
and you have become a human be-
ing. The world has plenty of ma-
chines. They all go to the scrap
bean.
The Marjory Brown Sinking.
engagement taking up .her attentlott 14;
she would have, bad much to say to N
Prue. Four days later she came into
the house to say:
"Well, when I dreamed of blaek bogs
one night last week I knew that trou-
ble would come. I've got a lawsuit on
stand. ' It seems that "those three cows
I bought over in Delevan last week
bad a chattel mortgage on them. The
holder of it wants $00 "from me: I'
must either, pay or be sued. I told
him to sue as soon as he pleased, and
he'll probably summon me tomorrow'
"And you'll have to have a lawyer?"
"Of course. I'm going to drive into
town to see Lawyer Parsons,"
"But why not give Mr. Livingstone
the case?"
"Prim Johnson, do you take me fon,
an idiot?" exclaimed the mother 1a
astonishment. "Do you think I want
to lose $00 and costs, besides $10 more
for a lawyer! Folks around here•think
I'm a pretty smart woman, and I don't
want to be made a laughingstock of.
That bean pole of a young man would
not know enough to cross examine an
old cow."
Lawyer Parsons, who was the lead -
Ing member of the bar in the town;
was retained, and the expected sum-
mons was served next day. A week
later the suit came on. During the in-
terval young Livingstone drove out to'
the Johnson farm. Miss Prue had
gone to town to do some shopping, and
the mother was blunt and brusque.
The budding attorney almost offered
his services in the coming suit, and the
look he received in reply lingered with
him for many hours. When Prue got
home she was told that there had got
'to be a stop to this sort of thing, but
when she burst into tears and said
she could not help it her mother was
reasonable enough to reply that maybe
she could not.
The girt went to town with the moth-
er on the day of the suit. In the court-
room a shock of surprise awaited her.
Darius Livingstone appeared as counsel
for the complainant. Yes, he was there
in all his dignity, and he didn't seem
a bit frightened that it was his first
case and that he was matched against
one of the oldest and smartest lawyers
in the county. He nodded to Prue and
would have done the same to her moth-
er had she not just then been engaged
in whispering to her daughter.
"Prue Johnson, look over there! As
true as you live your bean pole of a
young man is going to take the case
against me! That's another specimen
of his cheek. You wait, however,
When Parsons gets through with him
there'll be only n grease spot left."
Surprise after surprise was the order
of the day. The plaintiff really bad a
• chattel mortgage on the cows. '!'fury
had been driven away and sold, In
buying them Mrs. ,lobnson had taken
the seller's word. Her lawyer argued
that this was customary, but "bean
pole" brought in six witnesses to prove
to the contrary. Mrs. Johnson was
made to admit that she was a business
woman and that she had never bought
even a chicken without being guaran-
teed. A dozen errors were made in
her case, and before it was concluded
Mr. Parsons was made to look extreme-
ly foolish. The Jury gave a verdict for
the plaintiff, and Prue shed tears be-
neath her veil and realized that age
would see no more of Lincoln No. 2.
She was in despair when her mother
walked up to the young attorney and
field out her hand, saying:
"Sir, I am a blunt and plain spoken
woman. You are lop shouldered and
slabsided, you are as homely as a
hedgehog in March, but y0li nitre a taik-
er and are certain to make a good law-
yer. if I ever have a son-in-law I hope
he'll be one of the profession. No,
don't crake any excuses. You had a
right to take the other side. and i hold
no grudge against yon. If you want
to know how good cheese is made reale
out to the farm."
Mr. Livingstone did want to !ninw,
He find always been curious about it.
Ile took early advantage of her offer,
and at last reports he and Miss Trite
had decided to go south on their wed
ding tour,
are,"
"Wonderful bosh! : Abe Lincoln was
smarter'n a whip as a lawyer."
"But Darius is going to be if he ever
gets "
etsa caro.
"Ever gets a case! X'd dike to know
who'd trust him with a case!"
The young, man called again in about
a week, ostensibly to make inquiries
concerning the strawberry pest, and,
while Mrs. Johnson, didn't order him
alker, camefarm,she gave him what she
yby pJames T. W , .off the.
In the sterna last week the four masted Schooner Marjory Brawn commanded Captain ,
Orth (Icemen Lloyd which arrived in quarantine from called .n chlllin reception. The fact
togrief 200 miles oft Sandy Hook. The steamer Berlin of the N y q E
rescued all hands from the Ma or Brownjust before the schooner sank near the Nantucker Shoals
the MediterraneanJ ,,, , l that he didn't seem at all put out ag•
O 't Walker of the schooner and Rte five men sat in a yawl made fast to the sinking craft as the Berlin opportunely grave
a> ted her, and but for a bueinees
steamed into view. It Was all they could do. to pull from the wreck to the steamer's side, The accompanying photo-
graph shows the schooner diving toward ocean o to s
A Severe
Cord
Settled On Her
Lungs.
Mrs.' Geo. Murphy, Spence, Out.,
writes:—"I have had occasion to use
Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup, and.
can say it most certainly is a wonderful;
medicine, Last winter my little girl,
just a year old, took a severe cold which•
settled on her lungs. I tried everything,,]
and was almost in despair, when by',
chance I read of Dr, Wood's' Norway
Pine Syrup, and decided to try it. I
got two bottles, and as soon as I started,
to use it I could see itwas taking effect.;'
I:gave her three bottles in all, and theyl,
completely cured her."
Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup is al
universal remedy for sufferers from all.
bronchial troubles. Coughs and Colds,
of all kinds, Bronchitis, Sore Throat,
Hoarseness, Croup, Asthma, Whooping
Cough, and Throat and .bung Troubles,.
disappear quickly after a few doses have
been taken.
It will stop that 'distressing, tickling
sensation in the throat which causes;
coughing and keeps you awake at night.,
Price, 25c; largefamily size, fi0c,'i
Put up in a yellow wrapper; three pine
trees the trade mark; manufactured
otsly by The T. Milburn Co Limited,
Toronto, Ont.
Refuse substitutes,