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The Huron Expositor, 1870-06-24, Page 6r THE HURON EXPOSITOR, JUNE 24, 1870. Qanadian Pacific Railway, Mr. George Laidlaw, who is now in Eng- land, has sketched the basis of a scheme for the construction of a Dominion Pacific Rail way, the principal details of which are re- ported in a late number of the LondonTi7nes, The scheme, which was read by Mr. Thomas White, the Emigration Commissioner from Ontario, before the Executive Committee o the British Colonial Emigration Fund, is a feasible one, and met with favorable recep tion from that influential body.. Mr. White expressed his own concurrence in the pro ject and stated that it had the approval o leading public Hien in Canada. The propo sition of Mr. Laidlaw is to the following of feet "That the Dominion and its Provinces with British Columbia, had, void of all po pulation, a practically illimitable amount o wild land, involving arrangements for ma terial improvement as well as the duties o political government. The . increase of ins porting and exporting power of the Domi nion was primarilly in proportion to the in crease- of population; and as it was mani festly necessary and advisable to maintain an advance of civilization in British terri tories proportionate to that of the neighbor ing States, means should be devised, not be ing onerous to the people of the United king dom or the Dominion, by which the duties of ownership might be most judiciously ful filled The chief things to be -desired were facilities of communication and transport. Mr. Laidlaw expressed the belief that the construction of general and local works in the new lands could be made the basis of financing_' for a general and self-suppor- ing system of emigration, and for the settle- ment ettlement of ,:a loyal and industrious people. The Dominion Pacific Railway Company had initiated,- and intend to carry out, the construction of a railway from Lake Supe- rior to New Westminster, provided legisla- tive effect can be given to their views. The whole capital required, probably $70,000,- 000, could not be obtained from the Douai- nion or any other Government, nor could it be raised in England of elsewhere in the or- dinary way of shares,' The railway could not be built unless some other method of fi- nance proved successful. The cost of the line would most likely be limited to $25,000 per mile. The Governments would guar- antee in proportion to their interests the bonds of the company to the extent of $15,- 000 per mile. The local Government would give a bonus of 20,000 acres per mile in al- ternate sections along the ; route, against which and the railway company would is- sue second preference bonds to the extent of $15,000 per mile, enough to make up for the discounts on all the issues, and to net $25,000 per mile. The company would take 10,000 or 20.000 able-bodied laborers an- nually from the emigration societies, or pri- vate sources, subject to approval, and on the following terms : To work for the company 200 consecutive days at 2s.. per day and bush fare ; and then to receive 100 acres of the company's land and a free grant of 100 acres from. the Government, on condi- tion of having faithfully f u lfillecl their contract -- The cost of the emigrants' . passage at a low fixed rate—say $12—would be deducted out of the amount paid during his 200 days la- bor. Legislation in Canada would be to enforce the terms of contract made in Eng- land for .labour. There would be no dan- ger of desertion, as it would be practically impossible, neither could the emigrants make so good a bargain elsewhere. The end sought for was to find the labour in the United Kingdom to build the railway, the product of that labour supplemented by the guarantee and the lands to be the basis of a satisfactory security upon which 'to 'finance ' the Dominion Pacific Railway, and vastly to improve the emigrants' posi- tion, while adding to the general resources of the Empire. The labour of 20,000 men for 42,000 a day was a better fray of 'fi- nancing' than selling £4,000 in bonds for 42,000 in cash. The skilful arrangement of the laborer would be as important to the laborer as to the individual members of the company." .•► The Pulse. The pulse of a healthy grown person beats seventy times in a minute ; there may be good health down to sixty ; but if the pulse always exceeds seventy, there is a disease—. the machine is working too fast ; it is wear- ing itself out ; there is fever or inflama tion somewhere, and the body is feeding on itself, as in consumption, where the pulse is always quick, that is, over seventy, gradu-,. ally increasing with decreased chances of cure, until it reaches one hundred and ten or one hundred and twenty, when death comes before many days. When the pulse is,over seventy for months, and if there is a slight cough, the lungs are affected. Every intelligent pers n owes it to : himself to learn from his family physician how to ascertain the pulse in health ; then, by com. paring it with what it is when ailing, ° he may have some idea of the urgency of his. case, and it will be an important guide to the physician. Parents ought to know the health pulse of each child as, now and then a person is born with a peculiarly slow or fast pulse, and the very case in hand may be that peculiarity. An infant's pulse is one hundred and forty ; a child of seven years about eighty ; from twenty to sixty years it is seventy beats a minute, declining to sixty at four -score. There are pulses all over the body, but where there are only skin and bone, as at the temples, it is most easilyfelt, The wrist is the most convenient point. The feebleness or strength of the beats, is not material, being modified by !rhe finger's pressure, Comparatively, rapidity is the great point ; near death it is one hundred and forty and over. A heal- thy pulse imparts to the finger a feeling as of -a woolen string ; in fever it feels harder, like silk thread ; if there is inflammation, which is always dangerous, it beats fast, spiteful and hard, as if a'',fine wire was throbbing against the finger. When the pulse peats irregularly, as if it lost a beat, then hurried to make it up, there is some- thing the matter with the heart. But, however unnatural you may think the pulse is, do not worry about it ; take nothing, do nothing, except by the advice of an intelli- gent physician. England a Republic. Jf The London Times calls -England a repub- lic, and thus defines what is meant by that word: A republic, we hold, is that state iu which the people's will—the whole people's will -is irresistible ; and we only know of one community—our own—which may real- ly be said to be based on such conditions. Clearly a republic tis compatible with anar- chy. It cannot be attained under the influ- ences of chronic revolution ; for without or- der it is not the sense, but the strength of _the majority that carries the day, and vio-. fence and freedom cannot by any possibili- ty popular will ty co -exist. The p p needs organ- ization and utterance. Liberty must be constituted, and the constitution which best insures the enactment and enforcement of the popular will --whatever delays and re- straints it may impose upon it, so only they be not eventually insurmountable, and so they interfere not with its peaceful mani- festation -is essentially, a republican con- stitution. It is said that no man, and con- sequenly, no aggregate of men, ,can be wise at a-'1 hours. It is well, therefore, even for the most enlightened community, to have leisure to consider its deliberations. It is well, therefore, 'that its representatives, should be revised by a body independent of their caprice. It is well that even in cases of need they should be vetoed by a power placed securely above the clamor -provided only, that, if persevered in, the people's vote be supreme. The world has had too much reason to believe in the wisdom of slow and sure legislation. Allow the majority an undue ascendency—let mere numbers carry every -thing with a high hand, and the mi- nority will be sure to seek its revenge in violence. It is_thus that in France in a hundred crisis we have seen a mere faction victorious by force for a day, only to be overpowered by a greater force on the mor- row, It is thus that discussion in the Swiss and American Confederacies has been again and again adjourned from the council hall to the battle field. There are few in- stances, out of -England of a minority steadi- ly and patiently working its way. to a ma- jority. An Irish Definition of Drunkeness. At the hearing of a case of damages -against a railway company -in the court of Queen's Bench, Dublin, recently, John M'- Cluskey, a railway guai d, was examined by Mr. Carleton, Q. C. He deposed that on the morning on which Mr. Sloane, the plaintiff, sustained the accident, he saw him at Enfield, and called to him to take his seat or he would be left behind; the train was delayed a few_ moments while he was trying to take his seat ; the station -master also called to him. Had you an opportuni- ty of judging of the position of Mr. Sloane as to his.,being capable of taking care of himself ? Witness—I suppose I must an- swer the question? Mr. Carleton, Q. C.— Indeed you must. Chief-Justice—There is nothing confidential here—everything is above board. (Laughter.) Witness—Well, he was not sufficiently sober to know that he was drunk. (Laughter). Mr. Heron, Q. C.—In your opinion, then, if he knew he was drunk he would be more sober? (Renewed laughter). Witness— I can ex- plain all the phases of . it. –I know every stage of it if you don't deem it personal. (Great laughter), Mr. Heron, Q. 0.—Not a bit ; go on. What is the first stage 1 To drink. What is the second? To feel that you have taken drink. What's the third? To feel it a •little stronger. (Laugh- ter.) What's the fourth ? Shaky. (Laugh- ter.) The fifth ? Drunk. (Renewed laugh- ter.) The sixth ? You are unconscious, and don't know' you are drunk, (Laughter.) And in your opinion was the plaintiff un- conscious nconscious enough not to kno-v he was drunk? I believe he was not sober enough to know it. What's the seventh `stage of all that ends this eventful history? Detirium tre- mens.: (Great laughter.) A Theory for Cooking Grain. Careful experiments have- shown that all grain enveloped in a husk which is wholly indigestible, and that unbroken grain will pass through the digestive organs of animals without change. A inose minute examina- tion shows that the body of the grain is in like manner composed of still smaller par- ticles all more or less indigestible. These latter are so minute that ordinary grinding does not break them, and it is computed that fifty per cent. remains unbroken and undigested in the case of common corn -meal.` Heat is the only effective agent for break- ing these shells, and steam is the most con- venient form in which to apply it. Boiling is effectual, but involves much care and watching to- prevent burning. Portable `steam apparatus is now prepared 'by which steam at a high temperature may, be intro- duced at the bottom of a barrel or vessel Containing the grain or meal. The only care required is to keep the fire from going out, as the steam agitates' the entire mass of grain, and thus cooks it evenly throughout. There is a general impression that this pro- cess pays only where a large, number of an- imals is kept, but a late writer in the Prac- tical Farmer assures - his readers that he pays for his machine every two years, and keeps.but five pigs. Leaving Home There are but few ordinary incidents in the history of a family more affecting than that in which the 8011 leaves the parental roof to seek his' fortune in the wide world. When your daughter is married, you feel that she is provided for. She leaves your protection for another protector. She leaves the home of her parents to enter a home of her own. She does not enter into scenes of temptation, but is rather with- drawn from them, as she feels the pressure of domestic care. With your son it is different_; ardent in feeling, perhaps impetuous in passion, you have felt constant solicitude for his future welfare. The'period of his childhood has passed; and the time has arrived when he must leave his quiet home. He goes to some other place to engage in study or in the act- ive employments of life. Withdrawn from the restraints and the salutary influence of home, he must meet temptationand bear hardship. You look around you upon the wrecks of other families. You see the chil- dren of other perents ruined. You sit down and endeavour to sum asp the number of fal- len victims of intemperance, and are de- graded with crime. And your heart sinks' within you to see how appaling is the re- cord. It is, however, in vain to think of keeping your son at home, He must go out into the world. ThL morning for -his departure has arrived, the well -packed trunk is ready, and the family is waiting for the arrival of the vehicle • which is to bear him from your roof. No heart can be so un- feeling as not to be crowded with conflicting emotions in such an hour as this. As your son enters the vehicle, and rumbling wheels carry him from your sight, is it not a relief to be able to reflect that you have reared him in virtuous aud religious principles? Especially does it prove a solace to . the maternal parent. More than one of the great men of this nation have, in their ripe age, . carefully put on record that they owedlthe self control, and the steadfastprinciples by which they rose to honour, directly to a mother's influence, in the critical days of their youth. If any of us were asked what one thing chiefly saved him from waywardness and evil -companionship, and has kept him to this day from vice, I believe he would an- swer : , 'The reverence of the memory of a mother.' Her appeal had power when all other'lnfluence failed. Her unspoken wish restrained us. Her purity and love made all that was base abhorent. Her devotion was felt as a safe -guard all along the walks of temptation. We could not wound or dishonor her. Numerous instances could be mentioned ofthe influence of such mo- thers. Bloomfield, the author of the "Farm- er's Boy," . knew no other instructress than his poor, widowed mother. Alone with her boy she travelled from Ixworth to Lon- don, to place him under his uncle, as hoe - maker, whom she charged to watch over him, while her son was told never to forget that he had lost his father. The mere rememberance of such a moth- er, though dead, has been many a man's life-long protection. And never, till she dies, do we know how powerfully her life has invested ours, to shelter and purify it. It is a day of heart-searching to any man, when he buries a true mother out of sight. Then he sums up the bleissngs which he received in her. And though he may be conscious that he discovers her worth only in part, he finds cause enough to wonder at the faithfulness which have been spent on him. It would be strange, indeed, if some contrite tears should not - flow, as he recalls the haste, the ignorance, the wildness, possibly the disrespect, with which that unwavering love has sometimes had is bear. There's many a man of us who would gladly redeem one hour of that lost past, that he might speak some words of tender sorrow for a loving sacrifice, never realized till it was taken from us forever. List of Follies Let me give you a list of ten follies.— They are these :—To think that the•more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will be- come. To believe that the more hours chil- dren study the faster they learn. To con- clude that if exercise is good for the healthy the more violent and exhausting it is the more good is done. To imagine that every hour taken from sleep is an hour gained. To act on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in. . To argue that whatever remedy causes one to feel immediately better. is good for the system,without regard to ulterior effects. To commit an act which is felt in itself to be prejudicial, hoping that somehow or oth- er it may be done in your case with impu- nity. To advise another to take a remedy which you have tried yourself, without mak- ing special enquiry as to whether all the conditions are alike. To eat a hearty sup- per for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and a weary waking in the morning. —The Moralist. tee► The white of an egg has proven of late the mast efficacious remedyfor burns. Seven or eight successive applications of this sub- stance soothes pain, and effectually excludes the burn from the air. This simple remedy seems preferable to colladion, or even cot- ton. Extraordinary stories are told of the healing properties of a new oil, which is easily made from the yoke of hens' eggs. The eggs are first boiled hard, and the yokes are then removed, crushed, and placed over a fire, where they are carefully stirred until het whole substance is just on the point of catching fire; when the oil seperates and may be poured `off. One yoke will yield nearly two tea -spoonfuls of oil. It is in general use among the colonists of South Russia as a means of curing cuts, bruises, and scratches. WATCHES. WATOHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS WATCHES CLOCKS One of the Largest and Best Assorted Stock in this line, s to befound at M. R. COUNTER'S, OPPOSITE CARMICHAEL'S HOTEL.. SEAFORTH., March 31, 1870. 52— SPRING GOODS • WM. CAMPBELL Merchant Tailor, HAS JUST RECEIVED A COMPLETE STOCK 4 —0 F— SPR1\ G GOODS EMBRACING EVERY STYLE THAT WILL BE WORN FOR • SPRINC&SUMMER ALL GARMENTS GOT UP BY THE BEST WORKMEN, AND AT MODERATE CHARGES. WM. CAMPBELL, NEW YORK HOUSE. SEAFORTH, March 31, .1870, 58— FARMERS GO TO M'NAUGHT AND TEEPLE, Fon, WAGGONS, BUGGIES, AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS, and in fact, anything drawn by the horse. A large assortment always kept on hand. and for first- class HORSE SHOEING & JOBBINGthatis the place. • A Iarge stock of Dry Oak, and other Lumber, also Dry Waggon Spokes, for Sale. Seaforth, Feb. 4th, 1870. - 11-1y. DYSPEPSIA ' .YSPEPSIA can be effectually cur- -ed by using DR. CALDWELL'S DYSPEPS1A REMEDY.- See circul- 714 ar and certificates accompanying each bottle. g Sold by R. LUMSDEN and E. A HICKSON & CO., Seaforth, and medicine dealers generally. WOODRUFF, BENTLY & CU, 117-25ins. Brougham, Ont. VAS FGMOND,S WOOLEN FACTORY, SEAFORTH, STILL AHEAD! MAY, 187W This is the Season for WOOL CARDING, and VanEgmond's is the place to get it done CHEAP AND WELL t 4 Carding Machines,. IN SPLENDID ORDER,. Enables the above Mill to give all parties their Wool home with them the same day as that up on which it is taken All other kinds of Woolen Work, such as Spin- ning, Weaving, Colouring, Fulling, and Cloth Dressing, done in the best possible manner. TERMS„ -CASH OR WOOL. A Large Stock of Tweeds,'Full Cloth, Flannels, Blankets, &c., to exchange for Wool. CASH ALSO PAID FOR WOOL. A. G. V AI EGMON D, Proprietor. 128-tf— Carriage Factory. MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH, AND IC -EARLY OPPOSITE, SHARP'S HOTEL THE undersigned would intimate to the in- habitants of Seaforth and surrounding country, that they have on hand a large stock of first-class HICKORY BUGGY STUFF. They are now ready to receive orders for all- kinds of Buggies, Carriages &c., made up by experienced Workmen, in the very latest styles. Old Work repainted by a first-class Carriage Painter. REPAIRING PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. CHARGES MODERATE. GIVE THEM A - CALL. McINTOSH & MORRISON. Seaforth, Jan'y, 21st, 1870. 131-tf. CASH FOR ECCS! THE subscriber begs leave to tender his thanks to his numerous for their liberal patronage during the last three years, and also to state that hems still prepared to pay the Highest Cash Price For any quantity of ood Fresh Eggs 'Delivered at his shop, Main Street, Seaforth: D. D. WILSON SEAFORTH, Feb.28,1870. 125-tf. _lIIL1GI11+;RY, DRESS MAYTI,F MAi i i ra MISS MoINTOSH, T AKES this opportunity of returning thanks for the liberal patronage extended tohersince coming to Seaforth, and would respectfully inti- mate to customers and others, that she is still to be found OVER MR, CORBY'S STORE. M1 orders will receive the UTMOST ATTENTION. With regard to TASTE, NEATNESS and the LATEST STYLES, cannot be EXCELLED 1N SEAFORTH. STRAW and H .AIR -WOR K CLEANED ON THE SHORTEST NOTICE. SEAFORTH, March 31, 1870. 121— JOHN LOGAN'S SPRLG GOODS FOR 1870, POSSESS ALL THOSE GOOD QUALITIES - WHICH HAVE ESTABLISHED THE MANCHESTER HOUSE AS ONE OF THE BEST PLACES FOR DO- ING BUSINESS IN CANADA: SEAFORTH, April 28; 1870 ` 152-tf. MORDEN'S PATENT PEA HARVESTER, - raise the peas from thegroundno matWILL ter how they may be laying. The priceof- the Pea Harvester is $26. It can be attached to any machine. In ordering, state the name of your machine, the distance the teeth are apart,, and length of cutting bar, and you can have on- to suit. 124-4ins. GEO. MINCE, Brucefield P. O. Agent for Karoo. The Wilmi May last, says, One of the i the history of (now, alas, "s) n occurred in' th yesterday. T the mine of Mr. John L. of our bar, ap fendant, when groe, and who alderman of tl and wanted to counsel, : who f but as 'Anth! record of the ss; edtheeoin Howe,byJ sq,. tify to the chat Holmes, e,;un dressed Mr. H'' Hess said he di but objected t which he was g that the - vitas'. he should be al and with respe whereupon the erred by the c matter, and it be entered age. of court for re take his seat vI 'Mr. Holme to obey the cir treatment of tl and insisted o without conspl court -to addre't. first name Ai and sustained i paof iwit been exande whicish itstvasre n d gainst Mr, Jol of court. 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(ability of mrd nancial matte inet ofikers A our apllrobat safety from a this ycAine "yore bet.' it and ble for of Aehilies -t 11 "But wiw vantages of ' ba Dan!,' whe meet with o low, ass is bb base orator; g„ t with ippliTete t ' found. \Vh lows, l ))3{ money, and lE to print then his well tlige. true Bash=ori his tale ring i eon ten t. 1h' mous i e strr�, bring us to t should be as r: the funny 4Shro Fly' less hymn t thick. hide at ridge itself ii fear ofthe li and sing in t . earn."—Hari