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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1887-08-05, Page 39 4- linten cw tha. FRIDAY, AUG. 6, 1887. Foots Concerntug neciproctty Our readers will be interested in the fol- lowing particulars congerning the old Reci- procity Treaty, and its influence upon Ca- nadian prosperity. The treaty expired on March 18th, 1866. During the term of the aim treaty, the trade between the two countries increased from 1117,000,000 to 568,000,000. That was certainly evidence of prosperity, and it is not surprising that the people have not forgotten the benefits of reciprocal trade with the United States. Between 185.E and 1866 Canada made substantial progress in every branch of industry. Tines were neyer as good in this country before or since, Mr Ward, a reliable statistican, shows that in . t,w the ten years b_t\, cen 1.850 and 1860, the population of Canada increased by 40.87 per cent., while the increase in the United States Was only 35.58 per cent. Canada in 1860, in proportion to her population,owned more horses and cows, made more butter, kept more sheep and had made a'greater yield of wool than the United 'States. ,In the same year Canada had 150 acres of land ' under cultivation for every 100 acres under cultivation in 1851, while -the United States had only added fourteen acres to every 100 cultivated in the year mentioned. The average value of cultivated land in Canada was 820.87 per acre; in the United States 816.31 per acre. The average value of agri- cultural implements used on a farm having 100 cultivated acres was $182 in Canada and 8150 in the United States. In proportion to population Canada in 1860 raised twice as much wheat as the United States; Canada ' in that yea,raised 11.2 bushels for each in- habitant, and the United States 5.5 per in- habitant. Bulking together wheat,corn,rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, peas, beans apd potatoes, Canada between 1851 and 1860 in- creased her production of those articles from 5.7 millions to 126 millions of bushels, an in- crease of 114 per cent.; while the United States from 1850 to 1860, increased its pro- duction of the same articles only 45 per cent. In 1860 Canad'a raised 49.12 bushels of those 'articles per inhabitant, the United States 43.42 bushels per inhabitant. Leaving out Indian corn, for the production of which Canada ha poor facilities, Canada raised of the ren in articles 48.07 bushels per in - d States .onl3 ' 16.74 the Unite habitan bushels per inhabitant. All these figures go to show beyond cavil that what is required to develops our coun- try's resources and make the Dominion prosperous, is an enlarged free market for -*our products, and it is a gross libel upon in- telligent Canadians to believe that they can be induced to sacrifieetlieir material interest by hollow and hypocritical cries about dis- loyalty and annexation. JOHN WHITE'S OPINION. This is what Mr John White, ex-M.P. for East Hastings, the high-up Orangeman and stiff Conservative, told the Ottawa corres- pondent of the Mail the other day:— Really, ay:Really, I don't see how in the world we, as Conservatives, oan go back on reciprocity.— Why, that is what our party wanted when they were in Opposition, and when the tariff of 1879 was passed, a clause, was put in, au- thorizing the Government, without consult- ing parliament, to take the duties off every- thing that the Americans admit free. That being done I claim that the next proposition , should conte from the Americans, but if they conte forward and offer us complete commer- cial reciprocity, such as is proposed by Mr Butterworth's bill, how oan we refuse it.— If the Americans take down the bars alto- gether, we ought to do the same; that is the simplest way out of the difficulty. Of course I would like that Canada should be able to regulate her own tariff as againe i the rest of the world, but I suppose arrangements in re- gard to that matter can be easily made. I ain not afraid of the disloyalty cry. If nay loyalty is so poor that it can't stand trading with the Yankees, it is mighty per stuff. I have been selling grain and horses to Ameri- cans for years, and it has not made a Yan- kee of me. I am surprised that there should be any talk about disloyalty to England in connection with this matter. It is purely a commercial question. A. few days ago a friend of mine, a leading man of Hastings county, said to me, "Why, Commercial Un. ion would make Yankees of us." I said to him, "Did you not marry an American lady twenty years ago; are not all your wife's re- latives in the States, and are you any more of a Yankee because of that?" I had hint there. If marrying an American wife will not make a man a Yankee, I ant sure that selling horses and barley won't. 1 think that complete reciprocity would be a good tiling in the country." -_- — HAS THE GIFT OF HEALING. AN OLD OHIO FARMED WHO BANISIIES PAIN DY A M1;REToUCI1, Do you ate that white-haired countri• fied•looking chap sitting in front of the Red Lion Hotel ? asked s business man of a friend he met on the opposite side of the street. - Voll, what of him? answered the other one. He is one of the m' tt pt culiar old chaps I ever tnet. He claims to be possessed of healing power." LLod his touch is some- thing wonderful. It makes your nerves fairly tingle. For my hart I don't under- stand it. This conversation was soon 1, d to dis- patch a reporter tolook tt[i the$man with the healing in .his hands. He found him sitting outside the door smoking a regale- ing tobie and quietly watching the passing throng. His hair and beard are snowy white and worn short after the country style, Mille his dress is -more substantial and comfortable thau rich and fashionable Taking a seat beside him, the reporter asked : Are you a doctor. No, sir ; be answered rather inns• cently. Ain't you the faith cure doctor that is stopping here. No, sir ; I ain't no faith doctor, but I knock a pain out of you in a jiffy 11'1 set my hands on you, he replied with a good deal of animation, The interviewer was at a loss to know how to take the old mar,'inswer-•whether he meant that he would knock life out of him for his imperitence, or that he would kiudly relieve his physical sufferings. As EDITORIAL NOTES . he'did not take the threatening hold of the ig The statement -of deposits in and With. ter(vlewerl proceeded to explaine, the in - fl THE LATEST YET. I was' in the dentist's office the other day, says a round town man of the New Tribune, where a titan was 'seated in a chair,when I noticed a flashing light from her front teeth which struck me as be- ing the reflected rays from a diamond. I said as much to the dentist when he came to speak to me, and he astonished me by replying:—"That is just what it is. It is I silently the case that we have ladies come Lire whgse front teeth are so badly injured that filling them with gold pro- duces a disagreeable appearance. By put- ting in a small diamond with a gold set- ting the disfigurement is less noticeable. I had a remarkable case not long since. A wealthy California gentleman brought to me his daughter to have her teeth ex- amined. One of her upper front teeth had the peculiar formation of a pearl. The pearl was not complete but was sufficient- ly defined and distinct so that there could be no mistake about it. The companion tooth was badly decayed and her father desired to have a diamond set in it. The young lady is in New York at the present time, but is soon going abroad to finish her education." ' A Wonderful Organ. The largest organ, and one that plays a con- trolling part on the health of the; body is the liver. If torpid or inactive the whole system becomes diseased. Dr. Chase's Liver Cure is made specially for Liver' and Kidney diseases and is guarranteed to cure, Receipe book and me(ticine $1, Sold by all druggists.a AN ARMLESS MAN. Recently there died at Potsdam, New 1s1rk, a wonderful man. An,acetdeut de- privedhini of both arms, whfell were aet- putated at the shoulder. He earned a living by using his feet and his mouth instead of his arms. We are told that he owned a horse, of which he took the en- tire care, harnessed it; unfastened the buckles with his teeth, and drove with the reins tie(] around hi, shoulders Being in need of a waggon, lie 'bought wheels and axles and built a boe buggy complete and painted it Ile went to the barn one winter day 0,11 built a cow stable, sawing the timber with his feet., and with the hammer in one font, and holding the nail with the other, he nailed the boards on as well as most men could do with their hands. He dug a well 12 feet deep and stoned it himself. Ile could move away hay by holding the fork n'nder his chin and letting it rest against his shoulder. Ile could pick up potatoes in the field as fast as a man could dig them. He would dress himself, get his meals, write his letters, and, in fact, do almost anything that any man with two hands could do. Many a man with all his physical faculties unimpaired mourns because he cannot get along, and yet this armless brother made himself indepen- dent without arms Or hands. He was like the Crimean hero, who, when his lower limbs were shot off, wrote to the woman he was engaged to marry, wrote to her releasing her. She answered, "I'll marry you if you I:nve enough body re- maining to contain your r 0310 50111.'' "3Ioi•e 'Trouble may be Expected:* If you do not heed the warnings of nature 511(1 at mace pay attention to the maIntulnanee of your health. How often we see ii person ptir off from day to day the, purchase of a medicine which It procured at the outstart of a disease would have remedied it almost immedhttly. Now if Juhatson'S Tonic Liver fills had been taken when the first uneasiness Towle its al, pcnrante the RIilese would have hien" nipped in the bud." Johnson's 'Penh.. Litter. and Liver Isms aro decidedly the best medicine on the temptation to hundreds of our American cousins to come and pay us au annual visit. Twenty years ago we had next to no cattle fit for shipping ; now we export 600,000 annually to Great Britain, and 40,000 annually to our brethern south of Lake On.ario, in the face of a restrictive duty of 20 per cent." HORRIBLE RECKLESSNESS. The recklessness displayed by some workmen putting up a large bridge in one of the American cities, recalls the follow- ing daring incident. Said General Field: When we were building the cantilever over the whirlpool rapids of Niagara 240 feet above the rushing waters, they were just as daringas they aro here. I remem- ber when we had a job about completed I wan up there one day. Tho cantilever arms were then within fifty feet of each other, and it was decided to connect them temporarily with a plank. This plank was fifty five feet in length, about two and a half feet of each' end resting on the can- tilever arms. The foreman had issped a strict order prohibiting any one of the men from crossing the plank until it was firmly fastened at each end, the penalty beieg immediate dismissal. There had been a great deal of' talk among the men as to who would'be the first one to cross. I was standing on the American side looking at the structure when I saw one of the neon walk out on the plank, look at it a min• ute, then look down into the whirlpool below, I felt that he was going to cross the plank, but I was too far from him to make hint hear. He waited a second or two, and then deliberately walked out on the plank, and when he reached the mid- dle of it he stooped over,seizing the edges of the plank with both hands and throw- ing his hrowinghis feet up he stood on his head and kicked his heels'and shouted to the ter- rified lookers-on. He must have been a minute doing it. but I felt as though it was half an hemsAfter satisfying 'him• self that lie had kicked enough he regained equilibrium and then trotted along to the opposite side frotn where he started,seized hold of one of the iron braces of the can- tilever and went down it head first, hand over hand, to the bottom. I never saw anything like it before: Of course, the foreman discharged him and he was Laid off two or three days. When I sent for him. He wits one of the hest men on the job, and I talkesLto. h�xn lil e._a_.Atlt.clt uncle and put him to work again. These men have no fear ; they are brought up to the business and feel just as safe 150 feet in the air as they do on the ground. Of course, I Crltl see how the people wonder at such things, but we have got used to it. The best time to see them travel is at din- ner hour, or when the day's work is com- Dieted. Rev Eli Woodcock says : I have been severely troubled with catarrh for 15 years. Ou the recommendation of a friend I tried Nasal Balm. I have. used part of a small bottle, which have given me greet relief. Tuesday otileers Graham and M tsor,of Lon• don,were scut to Springfield to arrest a hotel keeper at that place natned Geor,le Davidson, ., who is want...l 1(1r several Scutt ,ant. offences, Attempts had Lc u previously made to arrest Binh,. 1,11 e;:,;h time the officers have leen 1O1St(..t. Oa one o.:casion he not only drove Ceuetahle .lames from his presence, but rap - trued his club also, On the present occasion. when Graham and Mason appeared,1)avidsee ,• brought out .James' glut, and pitched into Grabarn with it, while Airs Davidson pro- deced a revolver uud covered Mason. The officer, thinking (iiseretion the butter part of valor, then retrentcd, \when U viilson escape to a n•,i;;hlioriug swan .. SECOND VISIT 40F PROF. J. D. KAY, THE OCC:LIST, TO ROB W COATS'. Jewelery Store On AUGUST 1S, 19 and 20. Where he will examine the eye and fit spectacles on a scientific pprinciple. Any person troubled with any defect of the sight should not fail to c.t11. CI: ONSUJ. TATu ToN TE,EE ROB. W. COATS.:-: CLINTON. rr 1 1 JP C) Harness and Grocery Depot, Lanaesborp GYoceY•les5 My stock of UI OCER1E4 ii; now eolntll0te in ail itis branches. f have a large stock of C:1N'Nl•;D l+ 15, whia4 I am lalling at 13 cents per can, two cans for 25 cents. tall soil ti^o niy Hstock of COLORED OLASSWARE before purchasing eleewhore, 11011 convince yourself that the prices are away flown. t ..CI3INE OIL—I have a large stock: of Machine' Oil of different brands, which will bo sold at a small advance on cost. My Harness stock is complete as usual with .ill seasonable Harness { goods, such as FLY SHEETS and NETS, LAP • .RUG$1., DUSTERS, RUBBER HORSE COVERS and :BINDER WHIPS. I have a few TRUNKS and VALISES left. WHIPS, ,JURRYCOMBS, BRUSHES, and all goods usually kept in this line also on hand. Alen all kinds of TIN- WAI1E on hand. Produce taken in exchange. 'Thanking my Customers for past favors and soliciting :r continuance of the so.mt', i;moll feet Off 11 .'T A..it5.. tt141 t.lil.t -\ceFP 1-t N-tlt.-{itl.t:6t... Market for{'e.nerit1 fol u,'. and invigorating press_.\Set's Smarivirilla operates rad' cplles.npou rtt\vrtls- €ren•'—tltc-t; }•-' 3•�+ I per tt c t t and tli 1u.,ll tli and absolute ewe or rho various diseases: coil plaints, and disorders, due to debility, or to any constitutional 1•iint or infection. potties. 1,In'�ue , rbottle. ni era o'm•nts an( s n.,. . is ri safeand savings banks for the Veli ending 30th June or pow' -witty doctor. esl per bottle sell by wurthtrgtons, uruggist. 1887 shows s that the mounts at the credit `I inn nothing of the kind. My name i.t Josiah Stonebakcr, and I live down in of depositors continue to accumulate. Der- l Jo int county, Heb; )., near Demos Dos. Ing 188 9 gn c , t c I BENEI"'II,S FROM FAIRS. (t- --- 6-. 7 ti agreeogate deposits reached nfli'P. : nd Ti. lnn't have to mw -wow for a low' 1; I1tBLT14N8 HAVE IiI:LPT 1 THE )t9212,041. while tile. withrlrawal"umotuitea Iivi0a. Iain a farmer, and I do most of ONTARIO YARN to 56,626,067,leaving a • net increase of- the undertakingbusiness in that section. -- ' r• fh • fall, nt atandine to I used to make my own coffins, but I don't Mr Thomas Shaw, of Hamilton, editor .• $1,01 171 F e '"'do it any store. lou fellows up here the credit of depositors iu the lost Office make them cheaper than I can. No, I'm savings banks on the 30111 of Diane was not eupt here after coffins ; I just touts up <R' 5r19,497,750. This large stun Is some .was .to see some old friouda and look around spoken of as being in the hands of -the gov- ernment. in trust, for • depositors, but as a matter of fact the stoney is not in the hands of the goverivnent at all. It has all been spent long ago,andlthe amount added to the savings hanks deposits every year is simply so much money added to the public debt of the country. If a depositor ,wants to withdraw his funds the government.have to borrow the money to pay hint. Where has all the savings bank money. gone ? will pro- bably be asked. Well, a good deal of it has gone to meet the deficits of the past two or throe years. At all events it has all disap- peared. If the depos'ft-4 of the Savings banks were really invested in'such away as • to yield sufficient return to pay not only the' interest to depositors but the charges of managenent,it might be fairly said that the money was well in trust, blit under the pres- ent sysitent the public savings banks are simply machines by means of which the government are enable." to borrow money from- the people. - •- A wntt•I:a in the Montreal Witness, who had gone carefully through the Navigation and Trade Retures for 1886,in order to make ewe of his figures, claims that the value of spirits consumed in Canada annually reaches, the enormous sum of 532,475,364. This amount appears so large that one is disposed to doubt it, but the writer gives the items in detail, with the revenue collected, so that there can be iio mistake about it. This re- presents an anna5l outlay of about 810 each for every men, woman end child in the Dominion. A convention of youngConservativpe is to bo held in Toronto on the 13th and 14th of September. The Ottawa Free Press says "that this gathering has been summoned for the purpose of booming Mr. Dalton Mc- Carthy for the leadership, ttnd an effort will be made to induce the convention to adopt the anti -French platform laid down by Mr. McCarthy (dining the campaign in Haldi. mend.'' So long as Sir john lives we believe 4'1/4 that no other man will be boomed for the 1ea1ersh;p; f(r the young Cens:rvatives will stand by him with ,just 5a mneh fldelty ss the older miss. of the Live Stock Journal, read a paper on " The influence of Fairs on the im- provement of live stuck," at a recent con• vention of Bair managers In Tnrontn. He i was here about twelve years ago, but it I rapidly reviewed the history of exhibitions didn't look like the same place. Then it "and the great progress made in stock was so smoky end dark that I thought I would- have to get a lantern to see my way along the street. Yes, there has been a great change. ' 1 would like to know something about this pair, cure. Well, young man,all that I know is that when a person comes to me and says, 'Si, I've a pain, so and so,' and I put my hands on the place, the pain goes,ttway,or if I rub a wart or corn they go away, and - I've known cancers to disappear after I've rubbed them that way You needn't laugh, young faller, says lie solemnly as he laid his hand on thednubting-Tholnas' 'thigh. - . It may have been imagination, but, his hand seemed as hot_ :IS fire Ansi sent thrills to the ends of the toes. No, never laugh at such things, for you don't know what might happen. I have saved life, and while I do not travel on it, still I feel that wheneser I can relieve sufferings I ought to do so. As I said be- fore, I don t have to, and am up here,juet to look around. Do I. believe in faith cures? Of course I do. Every Christian must believe in them. In the early days of the Church all cures were effected by menus of the laying on of hands, anoiting with oil ,and offering up` prayer. \Vhy may it not be just as good now. I don't know anything about magnetism, galvan- ism nor none of your isms. I only know that if you have a rheumatism pain there in your knee, a tightness in your chest,or pain in your head,ali'can drive it out. Now, you can call it whatever ism you please. Do you believe in the power of God, or is it your own. - Every good and perfect gift is from God; besides we have no power of our own. In olden times the people possessed diver gifts; some the gift of prophecy, some the gift of healing and others the gift of teaching. I reckon mine is the gift of healing. Did you always have the power. Yes; but I didn't know it until a gifted healer told me. He said that I had a great deal of power, and he showed me how to use it. My wife,who had been an invalid for twenty years, and had been in bed four years, and weighed only about 50 pounds, now weighs 150, and'is able to do her'otvn work. Why, sir, the blamed doctor bills just kept me poor, and she got worse right straight ahead until T struck` this. Then she quit taking mcdicine,and hasn't taken a drop sinco,nnd is now well and hearty. through theta, and laid down the propo- sition that exhibitions have had a wonder- ful effect in the improvenlent•oflice stock, finding irrefutable demonstration in the facts :—(1) Nearly all the substantial pro- gress made in the improvement of live stock in lands where exhibitions prevail has been made since their introduction. (2) That in countries without live stock exhibitions no substantial progress has been made in their improven't. (3) That the progress has been most marked in those countries which have given the most prominence to live stock at their ex tri-bit''irrasg"eI'i1• etrmeo1•t o f stress--• l.rropolie tions these interesting facts were mention. ed:—Tho average weight of a dressed bullol1UIt b years, in the London market in 1719, is given at 370 lbs., an average which is attained by many of our modern breeds sold in the shambles at little more than one year, and there is reason to be- lieve that this advance is equalled in other live stock lines. A letter to Lord Sunier- ville by lir Pitt, of Penderford, in 1799, in respect to Shropshire sheep,said:—"lt requires eight fleeces ,and a half to the stone of fourteen pounds," and the weight per quarter of the wether is given at from twelve'to eighteen pounds, a weight that is attained by well-fecl'lanibs of this breed now at 9 months, while the average un- washed fleece of good Shropshire sheep is ten pounds. The first Provincial Exhi- bition in this Province was held in To- ronto -forty-two years ago. Then there were not a score of men who were posses- sors of improved cattle. Now there are 443 members in the Dominion Shorthorn Breeders' Association, most of whom are in the Proyince of Ontario,. while there are as many Shorthorn beeders who are not inembers,making about 800 Shorthorn breeders in Ontario. The first Shorthorn cow on recctd in Ontario was imported in 1832. The progress is large due to the exhibitions, of which there are over 500 in this Province. He continued :—" Our own Province has given much attention to the live stock departments of our ex- hibitions,and what are the results? Why, in one of our counties,Ontario, more than 20) pure-bred Clydes, are to bo found at the present moment, some of them of the first order: In another of them, Brant, from 200 to -300 pure-bred Shorthorns are to bo found in one herd ; and in another of them, Wentworth, is kept the most -famous herd of Jerseys in the world,while we have many breeds of cattle, swine and %beep and other classes of live stock of so high an order that they form n stunning (: 1: A N D •. D0101i11011 8114,, I11 "1> tl' at Exhibition GEO. NEWTON, LONDESBORO so a— es gagresseas— TIES, TIES, TIES!._: Big Bargains PRICES Fi3p r 1.00, �..� 1'WA ILLS, Before you Lily your SUMDIEI HOSflEIT'�V ,SEF WIIA'r 1o1J CAN 1 T AT CL,A3(IOWS FOR 15e, & 25e.. There is no better value hown.§• ;' • t..SU(%%r, Smiths' Mock, Clinton. MIMMIMMOM • ' NEW GOODS, EVERY WEEK 1 4.''- . TORONTO, SEPT. pit:il to Van • $30,000 1N 1'J11ZIl;>•+. - 3:NTitTFr CLJ:?L•' AUUG:T This, britlg the Dominion and industrial Exhi 0itiony combined, will 00 too• greatest exhibi twin or the agricultural and ludustriul products of thio country ever held. A Gu\>n I'nonn.DE or I'Am11tt.Arru:\rrl0N - '+ 'EVERYTHING AT CLOSEST PIUCF.S. -(-.'AI;F, ANI) EXr1LI1NE. I9 DEM Phi iii',\`tKll.- Petltrn tickets at single tare and cheap eyctu'• w "� t7 I ' 1 i fi 1'>C—If TT.TC�! mr '1- J' Clinton- s:ons on an railways during the full lime, or the Exhibition. THE GREATEST EVENT of the JUBILEE YEAR For Prize T.ists and full informati�1{1n a(ldress , J 1 WITIIRROW. 11 J LIihL, President. Mgr. nail See, Toronto. SPEC'.A1. ATTENTION PAID TO t,.FTT1NG NEWEST FANCY All'f'1Cl,E`•. -WT: MAK)- A:`-PECIA.T.TY IN , Wail Paper, Ceiling i)ectll'a1;idlil^\, choicest patterns, BOOK'. & STATIONERY. great variety. N `s k-INO POWDER. THE COOK'S BEST FRIEND HURON 'AND BRUCE Loll.al hull Investment Co'y Thi, Company is Loaning Money on Farm S..cr'rily at Lowest Raps of interest. BUY YOUR GROCERIES FROM Thomas Cooper & Son. \VE Hr1sv l f'H.1r,,__LA IAG S1 STOCKL- OF ;\ N1) 1 li:f4T A S`l( )41.1,510 or TR, 0 EmR,- . E S In town. Our prices tu'c 01 low as the lowest., anti we warrant everything first-class. hole tgentn for Vic celebrated "COOPER'S I1A1t,U t1 POWDER." Best brand .of CTOARS by the Box or 'Thousand at lTannfactnrers Prions, - TEA ft cpeeiitlt.v. (live 1(5 a 1:•1511, MORTGAGES __•• PCI.CIiASI.D cooper � ®� ,SAVINUS BANK BRANCH, Thos• 3, 4 and 5 per Cent. Interest Allowed on Deposits, according to amount and time left. OFFICE. -Corse of Marko OSquar an TON, Sire° MANAGER Oodoric August 11.11 1885 —r Londesborough Roller Mills Nft.or beingand reAtted with ew MACHINERY off y the mostoverbhied approved kinds, these mills are now In splendid running otter, and will not be surpassed In the quality of cohetry work done, by any mill Special Attention given to GRiSTING, ()LINTON'. 9 GOOD PRUNES SHE .AP AT CIIOFPiNO DONE ON SHORT NO'PICF.. & cO. Safi-fmtion aun9 lintel. Prties wanting helrinterevtitoS� E..j.4:I1ISEI W11111 ,r•r 10 tt,;s linerwwill sfind nil, to t I CLINTON. E. I1rPEll, Pr erietot.