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BANKER
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'Notes Diecoueted, .13thets Issit
JntOrest - Allowed on Deposits. Gale
klotes Purehasal
IL T. RANCE
Notary PUblie, Conveyaneer.
ncial„. Real , ESt3te And ittlrei
.Agent, Reerese11tiege1e Fire
ranee campanitie.
,.Division Court Office. Cllnton.
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MESSAGE FROM A GREAT
You have heard quotations from
the livee and hooks of other great
writerSt like Charleie, Dickens end Sir
I Waiter •Scott, .who were"gentle as well
I as great, and. this is about "Oujda "
, ,
ivitiettie not her real name- butone
she-evas always known by. in neatly
.411 her storiesthere aro nice 'things
about animals, and we know of a let-
er she once wrote to a little bay
VV.-BRYDONE , vim by this time must, be a big man
a in.er, Soilcitor, Notary public. etc.
LOAN BLOCK CLINTON
DR. J. C. GANDIER ,
°flee liours:---1.30 to 3.30 pm., 7.30
to 9.00 p.m. Sundays, 12.30 to 1.30 pan;
Othor hours by appointment only.
"Office and Reeiderice - Victoria St.
DR. WOODS
16 resuming practise ist ails residence,
Office to 10 ern. and 1 to 2
Pan. Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m.. for non'
saltation.
DR.kI. S. BROWN,
Mice, Hoitrs -
.1.30 to 3.30 pail. 7.30 to,9,00.
Sundays 1.00 to 2.00 P•lit
Other houre by appointment.
Phezes
Oilice, 212W Resideeee, 2181
DR. PERCIVAL HEARN
Office turd Residence: "
Duren Street Clinton, Out.
Phone 60
,(Fortnerly occupied by the late Dr.
C. W. Thompson).
Exes Examined and Glasses Pitted.
4
Dr. A. Newton Brady Bayfield
Graduate Dublin University, Ireland.
Late Extern Assistant Ideate; Ro-
tunda. Hospital for Women and Chil-
dren,
Office at residence lately occupied
by Mrs. Parsons.
Roma 0 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 P.m.
Sundays 1 to 2 Pm -
G. S. AlICINSON
D.D.S„ X.D.S.
,Graduate Royal College ot Dents'. Our-
geona and Toronto University
DENTAL SURGEON
allti office hours at Bayfield in old
Poet Office Building, Monday, Wed -
heed, aY, Friday arid Saturday from 1
tot39 p.m. •
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, 1)R. W. R. NIMMO
CHIROPRACTOR
GUNTON-
Tuesday, ThundaY and SatufdaT
10 to 12 am., 2 to 5 p.m., 7 to 0 pan.
SEAFORTH-
Monday, Wedneetlay end 1711tlay.
10 to flltjTh 2,to 5 -pan., 7 tee:9-0.m.
Phone 68 - Clinton, Ont.
CHARLES B. HALE
Conveyancer, Notary Public, Goinrras-
Monet-, eta
REAL ESTATE AND INSTIRANCE
HURON STREET . CLINTON
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• M. T. CORLESS
CLINTON, .ONT.
DiStrict Agent
The Ontario and Equitable Life .
and Accident Insurance Co,
GEORGE Fr.LIOTT
Licensed Auctioneer for tho County
of Htirort.
Correepondence Promptly ansvered.
intmedlate arrangements can be mado
for Sates Date at The NewaiRecord,
Clinton, or by palling Pitons 203.
Chargea Moderate and Sattsracttou
Quarahteed,
B. R. HIGGINS
Clinton, On.
General Fire and•Life Thematic°. Agout
for' Dartford Windstorm, Live Stook,
Autornebile and Sieltnese and Accident
insurance. Huron and Erie and Cana-
da Trust Sonde. Appointmentmmaire
to' meet parties at Brneefield, 'Varna
and Bayfield. 'Phone O. *
The Meitillop Mutual
Fire insurance Conn:tally
...Head Office; Seaforth, Ont.
pi RECTORY:
"'resident. Jamed Conaolly, Geaeneb:
Vice.. Jairles EVall$, Bead:77001i; Seco
Treasurer, Thos. 06. flays, Seaforth,
Directors:. George McCartney, gee,
forth: D. P. IlcGregor,'Seaferlh: J. G.
I611,1el, Walton; Wm. Ring, seattorth;
IldEwen, Clinton; ,Itabert Perries,
Ifarlock; Zahn Benneweir, Brodhagen;
„jos. Connolly, Goderich,
Agents: Alex, Leitch, cfinton; J. VY.
Teo, Goderich; ga. DincliraY, Sea.
forth; W. Chesney, Egniendville; IL
G. Jarmuth, Brodhagea
'Any meney to be paid In tnay be
paid to Moorish Clothing Co., Clinton,
or at Cutts Grocery, Goderleb.
Parties desiring to affect Insurance
or transact other bustneFs will be
promptly attended to on applfaatioa to
eny of the above officers addressed to
their respective post office. Lessee
Inimeeted hy the Director wins Lives
earest
the econee
• .
TIME TABLE!
rains will arrive at and depart from
Clinton as follows; ,
Bei-talc:and Goder'..-h Div,
Voing East, deriart, 6.25 ttra,
2.62 p.m,
Golng 'West ar. 11,10 Am.
6.013 d. 6.01pna
▪ fo al% 10.04 n.ad
London, Hueon Bruce Div.
Oomg South, ise, 7.66 dp 7.56 aan.
" 4.15 p.m.
eirrg.Ner1h, depart 6.50 pre.
" 3.105 11
C of
AT D r °
I "Don't thing I do not like you ite-
cause I want to see you gentle -1. to
animals.
"You are a bright an& clever bey,
and ought- to understand tat eniveals
beieg so entirely in our power, all
unkind use of our strength over them
is both mean and unworthy. Try and
remonber that real manliness is al-
ways indulgent arid never tyrannical.,
Perhaps long after L. am dead, you
will show this to vour children teind
say: This -is -what ,I was told by
"Ouida."
• ,
TOIVIIIY, THE SCII001... CAT.
• Ternmy had every right to be
called OThe School ,pat," for no one
took a greater interest than he in
everything belongitig ' to the school
where he made hie ,
He knew just the right time to be
at the gate every morning to nieee his
particular friends; he knew what the
play bell meatt, and was always
ready, when school was dismissed, to
coax soinebody to stay and play a lit-
tle while. _-
The chief things that seelned. •to
puzzle Tontmer were.: Why the pencils
were moved about up on the desks
where he could not reach; why tile
children at so 'still while the teacher
was talking; and 4hy, when at -last
someone' would fietitte' hint,
'quefit'edtto tvAit otitside
o was
11 8(
Wiit8 over. •„-' • .
The favorite lesson of all tiaras' t
the , end 'of. PrIdaY morning, for then
if all the week's work, 'had ".been
donee' the children tai,gk,i-seheese
soInetimbs it VaiptaItF,Olugak
rirottlattas, Pr -tkieqitkot64
but nearly -a wuys,,tue
tory; /dr ',everyone loved anim
One day, the chosen subject,t,'Ade
"The Cat "Tedbe," and what could be
Meer titan to invite Tommy to show
off lb. -special characteristics of hiS
family?
To his great joy, Tommy se,ernecl to
be the 'most important Person in. the
roorit, for even tile' teacher was 'talk.
thimnhoagaw.tc,.,..a..tiblhis:enn nonewas
niat fa: spilled,
ti"ihosi ;CI;
I in lade with -the tongue, so
,
sharp claws, and hold ti oft bali
firmly that no one could take it away,
jumpanc land with every' joint...re-
hexed run without 'Making the slight-
est imiee, and 'then lie so still that no
ono could tell there was anything
there Without aeeing.
- . •
-This was the ot lessor 'that
pleased TorninY, and everyone else,
too, so at the' same hour the next
week-, and for several weeks; Tommy'
was eager to hell). Jle.1ooked inside
the fender, but there was no milk this
time; he was'estady to catch anything,
if someone would •throw it, but they
Were talkiug ' about kangaroos. At
last he heard 'a familiar word, it win
"jump." Up in the air went Tommy.
to the delight of all the class! .
Every day at .play -time, someone
'would make ,a fence with clasped
hands, saying "Jump, Tommy," and
he knew what that meant. For a fe*
moments, Tommy was the centre of
interest, and ever afterward Class
IV. was known as "Tommy's Class!'
SHALL 1 LEilVE'THE FARM?
Let's First Match the City's Lure Against the Things the
Land Offers.
BY Pl. DAVENPORT
Shall I stay with the land 'or shall I
cast my tat iVith' the great centres ot
p•opulation Where things are deluge
where ell the factivities Itnown to man
rub eibthrs: every day; where every
kind of talent. may expeeeti itsolt;
_where the great awards are to be had,
and where -fame and fortune eetitre?
We are not inuele coneented. about
'what may be called the normal ,arift
from the tenntry to the town in satis-
faction of natural proclivities or even'
In eeOlacement, recognizing, the fact.
that ,in general znen, like hoinee, are
produeett mi the' lend and weri,out hr
the oitY, -But we erticieerelYs'eaarearnad
it anybody goes to. tome inemirsiaelY
Or under inisooneepthon, Jus.t as we are
coneern.ed about the charaeter of the
&raft and whither only the dregs are
bIt be!Ind, Obviouely people not a
few, and eepeefally, the young who by
the Way have never eeen nomnal
world, need some hell) to think these
probgeme. through to the end, net only
in theft' own interest but also from eon-
sidersatiori of publie welfare.
Four Clases Hear the Call.
This question of leaving the farm
seems. to prose with. peenliar, entlnlasia
upon at least 'Salm distiriet chissee of
eountry peoale: •
The man ot .lifty_ or thereabouts
whose how have left hine and who can-
n ot hire help to Operate the farm, -
The middle-aged man in debt or
tons•eious of his marked inferiority in
earning Power as ocenpared with that
of City friends' Or relatives...
The young nrarrled man without
land or with prospects! for inheritance
Oo distaet as to be negligible, .
The bay not yet established for him -
telt but beginiting think about his
eel:spent preepeete,
To every ,man limeade of these num-
erous elasees there oomes 'with vary-
ing degreee of emphasis that age-old
quettion: "Wbet shall I do with mo
lite?" and each must seek his own
answer. -
There is no more native -tie 'figure in
all Canadian country Bte thanthe gray-
haired tether, bent with the labor of a
generation in deeeloping . home' amt
busineee Meow which his been 'have
turned their backs as fa .Stt. afi, tbeY havo
grown in to .eurnIng 'power, tind, for.
which it it. impoesible te, Wee eafficient
label. to plant and herveist, to soy noth-
ing -of keeping theleettermente in full
repair.
. This le no modern' edition of -the
ateeetiin e and much -maligned retired
farmer who went- to town to educate
hia ehildren, or to give the wife a met.
or ea give the boy a chance. It is,a
new moduct born el coalitions that
make a day's work In the eity, even et
connuen Ia,bor, worth a -bout three
ternies, as much es a deeee work on the
farm, and it has brought a vast paraly-
de upon hundreds. othitherth proePer-
Nobody can n.dvise these ?nee whet
to do -or even make euggestiansheyend
expreseing the conyietion that they
and their goeil wives, who halite Merit-
ed so tong for ethere, should now live
out their years either ,cn the land or in
the town as they fool inallaed, Thoy
have earned the right even 11 11 t.akes
the last driller, . ' •
,
Where the Hardest Pressure Falls.
• Theperienett shows, however, that
w hile eutli a inau may take klit borlr
U.Way from the farm which he has, de -
Teton ed, yet his soul remains behind
for the very good reason that be -bas
Put ,most of himself, into LIIIS () :ICC
choseu spot. The Creature 'alwayS st13-
ttocha au 3 oftecf.' tne outalot , at ts
even so with the Great Artificer.
'Ibis le the real reason why the rest
majority of these man tnanage to stick
with Oro land until tho und e r taker
cones some daY and fluffs down the.
curtain on a great. bureau drama turn-
ed into a tragedy in •the last act.
The hardest pressure of -present con-
ditions comee upo'n the farmer who la
in debt, whether on the original pur-
chase, for part inheritance a the
homestead or for betterments �t,
have not yet pal& out. Ile has been
hit below the belt, ao to speak, by IOW
peices as he labom under'the istresee of
interest demands and the awful load
of .taxes the last decade lute laid up-
on the land. •
-Boys the Chief Problem. .
„put for these.who are, only =soder-
ately Ni debt, burilenSoinfe is that maY
be, it is often helpful to consider the.
interest as ' rent, and then determine
12 In the long ruti the business is pot
web able. to stand the charge as' a
leasing preposition. Of eourse, taxes,
figure in all such calculations, but 'eci
does the fact that the farmer is not
compelled to find a stated sum each
inenth, busy or unemployed for house
rent.
This Man's 'Chief Problem le with his
boys-. He needs them oa the ferm and
yet he knoesn that at:present any ope
of them. Able' to work the land can go
to {Own and eerie more in wages than
ke hlarivelf can eara on the teem in-
veetmente thrown M.
It may' be the part of 'wisdom in
some inetaaces that this should be
done for a eeation &vette means of get-
ting back some of the money that is
flowing In Buell golden streams trom
the country to the town.. But in gen-
oral our wisest femillee ere,gefing on,
with the eeitool plane, warking like
boavere 'th meet ittereet-eent-and
to get eeady:for real living by and bYt
If the young Married ntan.wants• the
emploYment, the living condltione,, the
risies efe well mi. the rewantisi that go
with cit' life; then by all means let
him pack. up and go. ,But he Will do
well 'to -remember that' lit going he
will malteett new acquaintance with
bills; that, imtit will be.'due in advance
for every 'Inonth and that thirty :days
never relied itround'Uoarepidly ore the
farm If he wants. enueli eat a cab-
bage ho Will have to pay:Igor:Mt meney
Lor it. )
By all Means. this yOung titan anit his
wifo should go to tho-town if they hove
-geed_ reatrana of at poe4ti5e ,eliareetere
hut let them "not be. frightened 'off the
land Under the iropitesston that agrietth
time hae gone hopelessly tied 'Perman-
ently to the dUgttl. The farm 110111 0 la
kill the Most, ecenomidai place .in
vollieh , The farm is still and
altvays will be a good place fee .0011 -
Ong boys and girls.
An Anchor to windward,
Tleire'corirstry be full of wise yearig
rtt?',OpIC thieking herd Dad eteeir.on all
these thinge. Some will go who ought
I= 'Stay, and sanau •stoy who Gnat,
to go, but whether they go or whether
they stay, let them do tt, intelBgently.
,It takes' vastly more oven to serene
Sony iu town than -to live comfortabiy
oilk the farm, • - •
All the farm boy's information of the,
city ' is on the. favorable
busIne'set; its wealthy mon, lite sueoeeti-
ftti
. tow men the oily aro highly
paid, hot their 00)111)00 tipit als- keen,
and for Inc 'same .reasen tincdt 'nuitt
work cheap, in Um city, for that is
whore Mon herd, In teny ease living
expenseS are high enough bd- 1S1.3,833 the
hair off the hued era eountry boa', And
50 1t "tbat evea w soani' high
.Tfoges 'melt 83W1 y 331 arvel:iusl,T,.
at -4400 ( aceal',aal 2131233 4333 both
city and 1150 531 .3-!:,(3381 8(3 11103'3 6,11188
C (3CF, (I fol' ,1 , ,13 333 331C 3,- Mk] , 3331,33
aneu failtin the city to gain either
tad a,,;z":1(2'oac,,,: Of 3 138 feemee CV 3'd
coMpettoace thati snot's. comfOrt,
• l tel. tile lauy clInuett, init lea him II (3 3,
LP' 13.08'11 tfy
931,.vhp 're
,
1,11 eceni
reait'2;e that
sate
aol jo:b1:tteehiti::
f6Tilgoareriot
ey.•,aue ,seudlag
the Yell, Dania to affitedlidd college
115 b of ere, oven ,undee "eansiderab I e
financial diffictilty, and tiler `1.1.--ro -motto
or ;.tt,St3 CO ria,C1()8303y gOLLITtg ( rt. rly to
s
Inies the lands and a 'C5'115111' Ct. Lilo
homes -which e. metro elatfit' Pe of oll-
portunlets are letting Slip froM their.
fingers ttor a little temporary gain: A
patriotic citizen may well talo off, his
hat ed these 'typical Canadian fairmens't
of vehont there are more tifan. we
poele.
Picture.s of Silver..
•I have leve,d Joke,' Mid: all the, Little
, Laughters1 •
Itiding th argenetU " Of the
, room; '
And quiet looks' of friends, and breath
- Of violets!, ,
And goklentlights shat Star thomaist=
, blue glee=
. ye-
lieve loved song,-ancl sound ot
tive music:
beoles, that tell of dint 'enchant-
, ed
The starling's' ca -11: bare trees against
.the sunset:"
ale kindly eyes, ttiati gentle toll -worn
_
Lceely 'the 7etais, and vast the silent
-spaces.;
Into the dark ---0.. Christ,. be Thou
our Light'., -
anti gave in mercy, s„ fires!. and little
candles '
,
And, fer -a promise, 'holly, esealet
bright.
Near -Neighbors.
Many quarrels arise among those
who I've and worlt-sid-e by wide inerely
becauee they are close together and
are too woll awareof peculiarities and-
ehortoominges which each descries
the otlier.
It is 50 in feMilies. It the real test
came, , it enieht be found , that love
abidee. But in tiee ordinary' contiots
which each day beinge 1111800 1* friction
that is f11.10 firet 'of all tei'the mere,
simple' fact ef proximity, . -
Men in a (meet: et the North Pelt(
leave been enraged at eaeli other for
120 reason except that silence anti iso-
lation preyed on the nerves.. Fights
were born. Of the Ion, lonely darkness,
which the meagre: Miracle of the far-
flung voice& of the radio do much
to dispele Pr.esently each man knew
all there,was to know, abeut the rest,
There, were no 'euepriees. left, Monet.,
ony bred diseerd. s",„ ,
Neighbdrlineseonglet to mean
kin.dnese, IL Should be the synonyin
for sympathy., When a new reeitient
moves into the aneighborhood" those
'who' live there • alveady Wonder whet
sort of Leseighbor die will be. His pre-
stmee wall 'raise 'Or lower the' tone of
the euvirennient. Itis.eleildrett are
111 to -play, with, they wil be weleosned
by the other aldron. The fathom anti
mothlire are relieved -and delighted
when6the houssehold, eat down eide by
sid.e Witli their, esen. heats; he found
to be constituted of generous,. kindly
solsis who take :thought tor others.
The neerest to u*are those who can
do us the most mischief Dr the olost
good. More pitiful,thati any other se-
clal phentneenon it, that ,of husband
and wits' who use the elosenesoof
their relation to mai= eaeh other mis-
erable instead of happy. • They should
not have ceme tog:ethemuniess they in-
tended to be everything that is. helpful
Ip eaeli other. .
ledonle they be .physleelly liear eitele"
e.thee' and spiritually worlds apart.,The
1110*11 tting- next ,you Orl the train 'o,r
trolley mey--be rilstant as if be livea
on the banks' of (t canal in Main.. If
you:wish to he a neighbor %more than
the Mere, tact of prostni.itY -you- Lutist
g1.4aI.. and take We geialal2Spirit of
friendliness and Sympathy,
. .
Baby Withont- -a :'.'airthdayt
'It is poseible tO hitye no' birthday ae
at all if one happens to lecemen itt the
right time in tee right Boot!
, This, happened to a baby bornolure
Ing a veYage fr611;etoltatrantuato Sun
Fe:and:See, ep 1,501. • '
'It -IS ;well known that .in order to
Make the 'acttial ettnrIOUs
,antirstimeats eitperioifeed daring a' Tay-
• a,ge •roundthe World• coeresponcl with
th•o calendar, an extra day Relief, be in-
troduced, or got rid of, ahem:ding to 110
2112001101)
direction travelled.
This adjustment is made at the time
ot °tossing the meridian, ivItleh.:
rtuts ta the evest etf the midway point
between, 'Japan end California, and
bableS •born there on FUbraurY dOth
nuttst. do without larthditysl , .
Already' Fired. •
.13csse-t"f say -It's • toof roavn tint le-
ing 'moat; them powder huge:just...now.
lire 'hint) Send him in, lterel"
..-vcfo'f-kioalf-••-•",fetst i,(?„ l3osat an'
1 will. They got au nral lea 'to
find yilt"
ELI/.
, alailyie thee*/
l't eakipe (31a,
1h..raj medicine' effeet 'eat ni
highly - concefiffisted
OTH 1( -.ETHEL: 'WALSH- extract of seeneal valtutitle medicinal
ingredients, pure and wholeporne.
ar4Orttst4i,t40.4.1tiAtOlfg= "ThOdese is ottiall,'ority a teaspoonful ,
13 fr limerceeremeeeis
Elizabethan F tuniktii 6.
In malting a study of period fur-
.- „
nish"ings ono Is impressed by the in -
flume° the life and etistoms of an
• "
era had upon the designs. executed
at the time, • ,
I Neeeseity ,svae ever a gufalfu,s hand
attil .COTtliOrt the aim. ,Therefore,
ttben nocesuity,, demondee sturdy,
,
massive ertleies arid heart- urpeati105
to Ifcep warro the cold tomtits -1
triCy we( 47. produced.- Chair hacks
srgre nat.Ule high. do keel', tile dreftg-
, • , ,
f their occanalytei The w.Ing
ckair Itaddie origin -in spoil d ryes-
-As we view carlY Engli.sh articiers
we reall;:e. tlrat the cOinfort of the
largo 11:111 used then wav not of the
kind Wa would enjoy ,do. -any. And '
-wo also are...made cognli4ant. of the' ,
faet there sfery-eturdiansuS,0110,
alueriesii but reflect the dement -le • of
their era.
You are. 0b03012 an Iffifzunethan
ehair ta o -day's filt.itrAtion, Closely
allied with ',the Jacobean' 'period
,1,1,11/d1 followed aad . was really a de-
volopir.ent :of Elizabethan, we)
find many Similar' points ln Cho two.
The wooden Seat of the „chair plc-
Itired charaeterfdtle of. the' type,
Strap Work was inSerallY applied.
or Pl.entish origin ;Zan:fond-shapes frx
nin:Idingsa'are' often frarad:.-Straight '
lined Mad dIgnined -the chair Ptc-'
tared 'does not interpret the modern•
idea. Contrasted with- the lounging
. •
chairs- We -are wont:to use -in our
homes it Is -ungainly rind. austere.
Ghee careful canstderu.tion, ilONV.4"
ever, it vFIII be found to have rnuch
of beauty •try its shonle- design, and
as an answer to. the demand of its
time combined -utility ,with - its
'Wit -DOES 1924
"LEAP"?
Why this. breseet year ehould "leap
a do.y at the end a FebruarY, and Pon
seep 366 diva, is e. qaestion tha.teprob
ably deems te many of our readers.
The 'year is exactly determined by
the earth's circuit rOund th*1 eltn. ; its
revolution on itsown axis being a day.
The coarse about the gun does not,
however, coincide With- the -days. It
needs 865 dayi and a fraction, with
whine it la imposeible tie terminate a
year. The comnien. year atoordinglY
_consists of 365.rlaye, the neglected
fraction going to make a day as the
years pass •ott,
-Natural Divisions
Nettie° divides time byethe yeee, the
earthli Orbit about the sun; an alman-
ac, by- the =linen, :the :circuit of the
moon; a calendar, bY the dal', th•e
earth's revolution on its axis, a diary.
The calendar Is tritoed, to Romulus,
who, observing the seasons, divided
the year into ten inchrths, calculating
that the sun ran his course in 804 -days,
altered by Name Pompillus to, 858
daya. • Both ivere wrong, -and the
length: of the year net being definitely
esoertained, great dleendere ensued,
the College of Pontiffs, charged 'with
the calonda.e lengthening or shertening
the'year ter political pm -poet& et their,
Pleasure, , •
On Caesar's retern after his vietere
at Thames; master of -the Roman
world, to Rome, 46 B. C., he found the
Year three motitlia behind the real
time, Pontitex ISTaximus this con-
cerned him. With. the advice awl. as
-
Wahine of Sosigenes, ealebrated
mathematician and peripatetic Wailes-
opher of Alexandria, he reformed the
calendar, Conferring a real 13elleill; um.
on Monteath:in. °
To correct the error, Caesar inath
tuted:one year of.. fifteen menthe or
445 dayseasnown as, 'the year of Can-
tusien," to be followed by' years- adapt-
ed to the minal course, supposed ta be
865%, days; three eumeesefve years of
365 dare !ma, and every fourth year
Of 366, to, comPrehend the odd -SIX
titan. ttie sixth day before the Calends
of Murch to be in that year counted
twice over, whence the name "BisseX-
.ttle"; or 'With az, tram the year leap -
Ing forward -a day --"Leap year."
Gregorian Calendar.
But, an ,eeror•remained. 'Flee real
Broom FaCtories'for Blind
Men.
Not long ago a visltor, tateltigtietd. 151
WO,Yld for the Mind called a.t the broom
factary for blind, men established b3'
the Iestitete. in: 'Termite. " As lie ,en-
t,ereil the factory on a bright Marais.
morning,. the whole Place was per-
vaded with. ane air of cheery bustle.
the sue, streatttieg enough the smith
windows iitthe big, opeti factorY sPano
lighted 'the fades at the slightlees work-
men whistling cheerily or liumming
snatches of ,song as they plied t.heir
trade with dell tiandse Iiere a winder,
or tier, as they are known in the trade,
atancling at his winding machine- and
with piles of sorted corn ready to hand,
deftly attached the end of -a viirre, to a
broom beadle held' 'finely in the ma-
chine 41111,ek and then, seizing 'handful
atter letedeue at cern epee& it out iti
piece es1 the handle wee revolved, re7
eponeive to the touch of his feet ,on
the clutch. As the eorn was Spread
evenly --and bound tightly, by the wire
winding, the embryo. broom 1ooked,111-
tle like the .flaishedeartiole known to
u•a. However, as portion after portion
of eorn wits added, shoulderS built 14;
and the winding operation finally cow-
Tleted, behold tit-brocini This 1112BI all
done in about .the.eatue tithe as it
takes to deseribe the operation. The
broom So far oompLebed was passed -
on to. the next sightleas man,. who,
placing it. in the vice . of hie. aiewIng
ntachlne, 'threaded iiis•needle, pressed
,the risrease, and Istimigi eliokl-a line
at stitching was -completed nand the
broom shifted for the next line.
Our:Welter villa then shown all the
prooesses whielt are required: in the
,Manufacture et high grade brooms.
Firstpe examined the big .three hum
dr.ed pound bales of eorn, beat he was
shown the sorting operatione :where
the hales brolten up, husks. re -
reeved, Obi% sorbed Into' various gradaii
according to vasiety, length, file.; 'the
eeeding seraping Machines" where
all the veede are embed fronv the
stems by a high speed, ispiked.,, power
drum, to the ingenious machine whieh
stilts and sizes the various 'grades of
hurlt; the power saw for squaring MI
bundles of core to even length; the
Winding of the brooms.; .the etitehlng;
the topping eir equating( of wide; the
labelling, bunching and finally, MAP,
ping. '
131ind 'nen only +are enuployed on
-winding and !sewing and do a large por-
tion of the 00111 eorting. Sighted eno
ployees assiet in the color sorting of
thiamin and in checkleg the various
fraotion was.met'ai.elionre, but5 hours', other Operatione and giving a hand
48 minutes., 40.7 isecorids. StliflO 130 'whorevor necieleserY,
yeere, the Sullen -exceeded the solar The Institute itsefforts provide
year by a day. ' -self sumorthig -employment for blind
. This. ',WAS net rectified, until 158e, mee,,, organized brooin footoriee at
when Pope •Gregory 'ateo ninth Halifax, Torebto, Winnipeg arid Vaio
fex Maximna, took the ten days gained couver and took over the 1)1,00111 gllOp
.by that timertrorn:Octeber of the cue- foe the blind which had:been formerly
„rent 'year, and ordained that- of the 'operated in Ottawa. Thom five broom
,faurth,ye.arS, those terminating a een- reesee now eraeloy nearly ninety blind
triry "eif whleh the numbers denotiug rime. The lowest wage, $0.00 per week,
10e..aeeeeeee ars. oot. odsibio by 'four, pa paid an.epprentle.e while learning.
shetad Mot be leap -,Ponra t tor exaMPle,
1.906weu not, 0000 :Will" be, thUs
Jzg ,t11,0 ibtror 'ono da y po yeare.
,.. A Sintilartbut mono complidatediistys-
,
tem had beett 'aeready devised la :Per-
sia Ity' the poot-astuonontor, Omar
It'huyyalt. •
.The Story of Spices.
In °lean times spices were wcirth
moat their weightin,gole to.E3iyopeatts
owing to the immense, difficulty ln ob-
taining them.
In the fifth ceatimy AD,, when Biome
was .conett,e-red by Ailaric Goth, Ise
asked ass. ratisoin 4,000 poundo of pep.,
per,..then worth a fabulous price. The
"fraternity 'of peppers" was Es..ia to be
the first cagauf&tiOn of “lealera, and
In fouteenth ceetery -thissbecaine:
'
the "guild of grocers',"
Ventete traded in spices to the extent;
of many thotlelaratte, of pounds annually,
anti (hero was considerable rivalry
P0111501 as to who should seouro
the luest cargoes from the ifatehlattern
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It is said that Christopher Columbus
WO searching for the prolitahltt- spice
*11 8,13 o reached Amerleat and Vasco
de- Game, the, Tomous explorer, ruati,e
one of his 71TOTt. iMpertant voyages to
4ro'' cerise ef pepper etre-amen lit'
ginger frond India.
The Portagnesc wore (meted by the
I:Mich in the supremacy of trade an
fela.Iliati s It an a' the I:tern-tans.
,)01,7olti,s1:,71:01111310010,:iith e taut, ly; 11 )2)
T.40• C3'4, bergOn eXile, W110 (i
hilnseif t1) 111S coulitrYi
First NoTispaper "Gaztette." '
i ha filet 111, to PA 0,11
typo was called "Tito GatteLto" tind wits
pub 1 i sit; od 115. Bavaria la 1457.
_ '
, Sorne turte.S Mcnteeics exceed tile
dint:Se, '
1,4
three tirnes a day.
Hood's Sarsaparilla 10 (1 woridoxful
tonic medicine for the blood, stouts
itch, liver and kidneys, prompt in.
giving relief. „It is pleasant, to tale,
agreeable to the stomach, gives a
thrill of ric,c0 life. Why riot try it ,
After lam ages, hoe dircet 1510
;Bon te his eartiingecepacIty; being,tin
CAI caies, eMbliiilize:d to relieve 'handl-
cep dole to blindness.. 01.11dOs' are pro-
videa for men going to and from work
t wherever necessary and in short,
every assistanCe is given to relieve -the
men of worrytand inconvenience, .,
Hope Brand broom, a's, Made lier those
men, are now to be seen in mane' a
household threughout the country, In
order to 'insure permanent work for
these blind znen, the las•titate, guaram
tees every broom and will 'replace
without expense to the purchaser, if
any defect appears within a reason-
able len.gth, of time. 'rills wo'rle blind
mon can do exceptionally well. The
excellence' of L119 ))13Q0U7S, LT sufficient
intact --Ou'r two .'gu t'a ntiees ehoultr he
of Interest to you. We guarantee
every article made, while you. gelatin -
tee employment for the
Ts your chair. vacint'at 'car cuatalit-'
ere table? 21 210, astit your dealer am-
mediatety- for HOPE Bane Brooms
and .you will not only help, us. to fur,
nIsh.enifileyruent re 'a blind citizen,
but you will "help hbm. to help him-
eelf."-The Canadian, Natienut Inset -
tuts for the, Blind, Toronto, Ont,
An Easement.
am ii015, own a river,
A. beautiful, ehinimering thing
Brown. waters, -agleam in, the sunlight,
Released Trim a deep hidden spring!
•
'Tin mine, though my claim's but an
easement-, , -
'The right of the eyeand the heart,
Foy in lands that the prone' river
... !borders ,„
have, neither portion nor part.
15
I care not a whit that another
Holds deeds and the title in fee -
The.beauty and Joy of the river
Are vested' forevee in me!
-Blanche A. Sawyer.
Expressierna We Never Hear.
No, my car Ien't very feet, Almoot
everything passes it.
'nliese eggs aren't strictly fresh; but
they look fresh; so they sell all right.
My boy isn't exceptional In any W0.3';
just an averege youngster.
One tish got. away; but it was IterY
email one.
probably I don't get a big salary,
but I'm being paid all I'm worth.
CLINTON
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Proprietor., Slate,
%Vest Wawallosh Miami Fire
Intiranee
Established 1878
President, Yohn.A. Miiltenele, Itinetaa
dine; ViciA'retaident, 1.s.
Gederich; Secretary, Theo,' G. Alleu,
.Dungannon, Total ainount, -.of Maur -
once nearly $12,000,000: In teti years
number of policies have increased
nom 2,700 te 4,500, , Flateretes: of 02
pet $1000.. Gine 011 hand 521,000.
Phone o,r write
Satkeld Otlt,
you feel bilious,' "headachy" and irritable -
for that's a sign your liver is out of order. Your
food is not digesting -it stays in the stomach a sour,
fermented mese, poisoeing the eystere. Just take a
(lose of Chamberlain's Stemaeh and Liver Tablets -
they make the liver do its work-they,eleanse and
meow. the donna and term the whole digestive system. You'll
feot Ato tha,raorrting. AL clruggiuts, as,. or by mail from
, Chaznberkin IVIedkine Compiiny, Torobto 14
lloo4 'doi.f6 Pitgge40'1"
nuus 45,1
I el ,nor, Ye:tro4 1:42,
recess 11
What these Men have (lone, you caudal In your ammo time
al 1,0,50 5011 can tardb, Motor thbotecrets of selling that malto
Star gator:Oa Whatever your experience lies bood-W1MteY0•13
5011 may be doiug nmi•-•whother orldt you think ytat ean sell- `
304 answer this questitlytt Are you ambitious to earn $1.0,000 a
v1000 Then get hi teeth with am at once! wilt 54000 10 yoh
wIthoat 404 or obliguti40 (het you ten osib, become a Star
SciecmaU. I will ahoW you bow the galelmiaushlp Trxining Sol
Etch Employment garish of the 50,171. A. will help you to gulch.
10
10..000 A Year se.bing Secrets
Tha 0ke4a10 ca( Star &tom:moue taught 11 07. tr. 5. hr.
.41.11t1 1000000341, 140044, ON4:11144t, to lams tolord tor aver tLa 0,00,01.5rgaly
:0 avail paj," of 65,3401ey thst sadalsra. Y{a auutot Nillut you ,
0"soa tIalng, 101 (L3131 al ad1331$ alfera yeS 0 414 Oltsam CeL the facto,
?.\16,0011a1 Salczn-ur..-ez Trainkkg ASLO6ati,X;
175, 1331-3 102 'ragout°, Ont.
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