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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1889-04-19, Page 7r SRM 4?q' TEE Pf IEEE Pbero as, one thing bayoud rnia!g:.zonteol, auk the grandeur oft ratri,eetorta, can only be ' lla� agin by those who have not. seen It or witnessed a storm at sea. Such a store} Owep, t over the prau'ies on 4.ugust WI, The mornung was ward and bright, but shortly after noon there came ark indefinable ohmage. •The sun stilt shone, bat its rays threw an • altered light, and brought • the prarl e, liowor.s into brighter relief, while it cast darker shadow Where shadows full. Away to- wards il}lt horizon the wavering ;gllulnlel,; ,sit curtained the meet- ing place, ofsky and -plane became more tangible, and a thin black • hue framed the landscape. Gra- - dually itigrew broader and high- er, as it overlapped the bright blue sky, the birds flew h(u•riedly from before it, and -such cattle as were in sight drew closer for pro- tectiQn. Gusts of wind that shook; the •train followed each other at inter- vals that grew shorter and short- er, and the frame of black was, once in a while illuminated by flashes of summer lightning which as they came nearer, threw heavy flanks of sulphurous -looking clouds into bold relief. Stilllthere _Alms no rain, and the thunder of lire train was all that broke the- stillness. Forjnearly'two hour? the clouds maintained the same slow approach, 'and left the spec- tator to run fancy free and im- • agine the outstretched finger of some great ghoul to be slowly closing into crush him. So strong did the fooling become that the more nervous passengers drew back and shuddered at each suc- ceeding gust,while others cluster- ed around windows and ''''gazed, fascinated, at the coining. storm. At last it came. One huge cloud shot out from the approaching, bank and for a moment poised in •mid air. • Fleecy clouds that looked ga,t-: lv by contrast, bung round it like fringe on a funeral pall, till with a crash that outweighed the• roar of the train, it seemed to be rent in twain with One streak of fire that turned the • entire cloud into gold. From that on and for near- ly an hour it was one continuous rumbler„ broken occasionally by a 1°04'0118h, and accompanied by the Dattel }of the raia that fell. in torrents. 'Both sheet and fork- ed lightning played continuously, and while the formor turned the clouds from blackness into light the latter seemed to rend them in fragments and stand out. in , lines of fire for seconds at a time. • •O At last it passed away,- and the ,flickering flames that illuminated the southern horizon seemed like the volley firipg of a retreating army, but ,so great was the ex- panse of prairie that they were •nearly lost sight of, but again grew more and more. vivid, until eighty miles further west the storm again crossed the .track, moving northward;with diminish- ing force. Slowly as it appeared to mote, it had in five short hours traver•sed•the half of a circle not Jess than...one hundred miles in diameter, which would give it a rate of thirty miles an hour. AN .EXPERIENCE OF' MISS 5 ALCOTT. r= Louise eI Alcott, the popular authoress, elated the following incident of her hospital experience during the American civil war: The two beds were side by side in the long ward, and on them lay two men, each with a gun -shot wound through the right arm be- low the elbow. They were about the same age, each had -a wife and children at home, and both hoped to save these useful right arms; for on ,their strength and skill their families depended. Clarke was a farmer, a pleasant, happy tempered follow, bound to look on the bright side of things, and to get well as soon as possible, though his wound was the worst of the two. Morse had been a blacksmith, and was• proud cf his strength, but said little, and seemed -to have s;oinething on his mind, being moody as well as to ..iturn. The two were soon friendly, for neighbors in a hospital can hardly help being so, but Clarke did: most 7f the talking, and Morse seemed ontonted to listen to his lively gossip without making any return. Therefore I _knew very little about him, , and when the surgeon one day asked mo if Morse had boon a drinking man, I could not answer. ' Why do you want to know, Doctor ?' He is not doing so well as Clarke, though his wound is a safer sort, and ought to bo nearly well by this time. It is in a bad way, and I'm afraid ho will have to lose that arm of his,' answered the surgeon, shaking his head over a particularly bad smelling dose he was preparing for some unhappy patient. .a ' I hope not; I thought he was doing well, and that Clarke, who suffers much more, was the one who might have to lose an arm,' I said, rolling bandages for both as I talked. Not hel his blood is as healthy as a child's;; ho will be all right in a mmlth; you may tell him so.' I am very glad, for he is al. ways talking about the hrppy time when be can go home to his wife and babies. Morse says fdthiP, bi b is ae ;siaxious`.to get well, thioh, though, when. 8pea-k' 4f hit fatally' at does pi} 6ee41Ito cheer him ug.' wish. you,'d hod out whether lbs has been a drinker. I can't make barn talk, and it is import- ant to know, for if it is so ,the soon the arm is off the better,' and the doctor: corked his bottle with a decisive rap. When I saw the glen again my feeling toward them was quite changed, for now anxiety about Clarke was all gone, and I pitied Morse so much I could not bear to ask that hard question. I soon learned the fact, however•,without asking, and in this way : As I went through my ward with a, glass of wine -whey for another patient, I stopped to wet Morse's arm, for I saw a look of pain on his face and knew the comfort of cold water. He did not speak, and I went to refill the basin, leaving the glass on the little table near his bed. When I came back it was empty. 'Why, Morse, that wasn't for you! Stimulants of all kinds are bad for you just now,' thinking how impatient Martin would be at having to wait for a second supply. ' I know it—I couldn't help tak- ing it—the smell was too much for me,' muttered'.Mol'se, looking red and ashamed,though the fierce, hungry expression of his eye be- trayed that he longed for more. ' I am afraid you' like that sort of thing too much• for 'your own good,' I ventured to say. It -has been the ruin of me; put, 1 fight against if, indeed 1 do he; said so earnestly that I believed it, and longed to prepare him for what was to come, feeling that I. could tell him more gently than the surgeon, who had a somewhat startling way of .saying to a pa- tient, ' Now, then, my man, I shall want that leg of'yours in about an hour.' ' Perhaps the pain you have suffered here may help you in your fight. Times like --these do much to strengthen good resolu- tions; if one is sincere,' I said, pleased at having won him to talk of himself. I know it, and I've made many since I've been lying here. But you see I couldn't resist even a small temptation like that. 1 wish I'd .a bullet through both my arms before.l did it!' he answered under his breath, with a remorse- ful look at the empty glass. 'Perhaps the loss of ono arm will 'help you to resist,' I began, finding it hard to soften the hard truth after all. 'You don't mean that?' and he looked Yip at me, with It scared face; for the loss of a right arm was more dreaded than the loss of any other limb. I am afraid 1 do. Dr Otman thinks it may be necessary, for it is not doing well.' But it is not so laud as'Clarke's. They've saved his arm, why can't they mine ?' he whispered, glanc- ing at the great., brawny hand below the bandages, the hand that would never swing a sledge ham - mor again. 'Ah, that's the pity of it, Morse. They saved his, though worse wounded than yours, because ho was a temperate man. You must lose yours because you have poi- soned your blood with bad liquor, and now you must suffer for it.' DESTITUTION IN DAKOTA. 'Minneapolis, April 11.--Ald. Smith 1 eturned this morning from Sully County, D. T., where he went to investigate the extent 'of damages by the recent prairie fires. "It was a terrible sight," he said. "I did not suppose before I left hero that the fires were so bad. There are at least one hundred families in Sully County who lost most of the wheat they had. Some of them saved a few things, but in most of the cases nothing was saved. I saw where 400 sheep bad been burned in a heap. The citizens of that county are about the best class I ever saw on the frontier. Seed wheat is what they want particularly, ,now that the spring season is at hand. They also want lumber to build houses; in fact, everything that can be given in the shape of relief ought to bo turned in at once. I met ono poor man who had lost everything but his tin pail and a razor, and ho was not in the least disturbed. He said he was all right, as be could take caro of'himself, but that the peo- ple with families wei'o the ones to bo pitied." Twenty-five people were killed by an explosion in a• New South Wales mine Wednesday. . Lewis Patterson, a wealthy farmer living near Centerville, Pa., was robbed Tuesday night by throe masked men. They drag- ged him barefooted to the barn, threatened to hang him it ,he re- fused to tell whore ho kept his gold, burned his fent and twee in the fire; searched the house, and after securing.$43 and Patterson's gold watch departed. Thomas Berge), a farmer of Union township, near Findlay, Ohio, was awakened on Tuesday morning by piteous cries for help and sounds of a straggle coning from the front porch. He found his dog, a huge mastiff, tearing at the throat of a tramp who had sought the porch as a place to sleep. The farmer, it is said, 'as- sisted in killing the tramp, who was buried in a secluded field. Orders respectfully solicited E. E. HAYWARD Pullman Vestibuled Train It is universally conceded that, not- withstanding the advent of old and new lines. into the field of competition for passenger traffic between Chicago, Mil- waukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway maintains its pre-eminent position as the leading line, and' carries the greater portion of the business between these points. It is not bard to account for this, when we consider that it was the first in the field, and gained its popular- ity by long yeara of first-olass service. Itthas kept' up to the times by adopting all modern improvements in equipment and methods, the latest being oomplete PullmanVestibuledtrains running daily between Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis, and its route being along the banks of the Mississippi, through the finestfarming country, the most populous and prosperous towns and villages, it offers to its patrons the very best service their mcney can buy. Its dining cars are celebrated through- out the length and breadth of the land as being the finest in the world. Its sleeping cars are the best,belonging to the Pullman company, being marvels pf elegance, ooinfort and luxury; its day coaches are the best made, and its em- ployees, by long -continued seF'vice in their respective capacities, are experts, courteous and accommodating to all. It is not at all strange, therefore, that an intelligent and discriminating tra- velling public should almost exclusively patronize this great railway, with its separate through lines running between Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Min- neapoli4; Chicago, Council Bluffs and Omaha; Chicago, Kansas City, and St. Joseph, Mo. A. V. H. CARPENTER, G. P. & T. A., Milwaukee, Wis. A. J. TAYLOR, T.P.A., No. 4, Palmer House Block, Toronto. THE WHITE IS KING. I have been appointed agent for the salt of the celebrated White Sewing Machine, the only sewing machine that was awarded first -prize at the Cincinatti Centennial Expo- sition in 1888, for simplicity of construction, durability of parts, adaptability for light and heavy work, light and quiet running. With 600,000 White Sewing Machines in Ilse, its intrisic merits are widely known. Manufactured upon priuciples of durability; constructed of the best known material. Its wearing qualities cannot be questioned, will last a lifetime; automatic bobin winder; vi- brator; stitch regulator, self -setting needle, simple shuttle; perfect tension; belt shifting devise and adjustable parts are elements of perfection. All machines warranted for five years. I am in a position to offer these ma- chines as cheap as the cheapest. Be sure and examine the Improved White before buying. They may be examined'at my resi. dence, Rattenbury St, JOHN WOR,ELL, Tinsmith, Clinton. MEDICAT± D Diamond Tea • Th a ureat surprise of modern times as a BLOOD PORI]IRR and LIVER end KIDNEY INVIGORATOR, Diseases which have been' surely and quickly cured by its use:-Iiheumatism, dropsy, scrofula, dyspepsia, constipat ir n, sick head- ache, salt rheum, dizziness, erupti.ms of the skin and many others, for which 1 am pre- pared to 'furnish testimonials of ro:,pousible persons in Ontario. Pushing Lady Atouts c•sntod, to whom liberal inducements- will. lie offered, Write for terms at once to DIAMOND TEA Co., 67 Dumas St„ LoNuc,::, ONT. • For sr.10 by Druggists and authorized ager: ts. Bring on your logs both great and sma'l For we can quickly cut them all at the Hflimesvilie Saw & Shigeo 1E11 The above mill is in first-class runnin r' der and under the management of William Dodds, of Clinton, I am prepared to furnish ail kinds of Lumber, Lath and Shingles On short notice, 13111 Lumber a Specialty. Custom sawing done to order. Highest price paid for Bass and Hemlock. W. B. FORSTER, Holmosville. F�'Y'«u°tea°'gc«0,9 �...„�a au,q A iaflij �o OlB.�t{a etia,� �o s2; 3,dpp�4 i� aacqq� ag� •g i9 �a;n �� t'sc°.V'na°o$¢io n i'-bidlieiald g° ° 4d. agr 9 gieeaz,r a.so e 3 &oa A� e . ':•vma °�0°gBo•oE�6l• C1. dr4.11:,-2/ . ai::. 5 or. \te I' *'' ' \ 1461:: cto \Irl qr �, i1c \ .,0 Zap S IJIllUii0' f5p � kb 89`,12i gl •.JS 4711.41-10,011 Asd -oJa,l �'��orl E. rzagig ,dincoovgsr4.:1:0,•4 t#1.1 •0721 0,Tgrl 03 -II "°ng °�vp o¢:5veroq � P� ca°vp i3 p�pgS! og,e�,aA o7eo�p r0 caw Oq 7 Use Rarkwcll's sure Corn and \Vru•tCnre THANK um! In thanking you for past custom and soliciting a continuance of the same, I beg to intimate to the public that I have a full stook of D.M. FERRY'S and STEELE BROS GARDEN, FLOWER, FIELD and GRASS SEEDS. Also a large quantity of POTATOES. FULL STOCK OF FARM AND GARDEN TOOLS A lull case of BIRD CAGES, cheap. My stook of GROCERIES, GLASS, GLASSWARE, HARDWAB,,E, HARNESS, &c., is full and complete. Large' stook of CROCKERY just arrived direct from the old country. A good • • Tea Set for $1.75, and a better for $2.60 LARD, HAMS and BACON in stock. All kinds of Produce taken for goods GEn. NEWTON, 016 LONDESBORO • LONDE8Bpgp FINE SPRING G000S HANDSOME PRINTS, NICE DRESS GOODS, STYLISH' PARASOLS, FINE MILLINERY, NOBBY TWEEDS, BOOT & SHOES, FINE SLIPPERS, &c CLOVER AND TIMOTHY SEED, FODDER CORN HUNGARIAN SEED, FINE GROUND • OIL CAKE, &c., &c. April 5th, 1889. ' -R• _ADAMS.. FOSTER &RITER • WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS CLINTON, TO THE PITHLJIO. We announce that we have fought out the Liquor Business recently started by J. Sheppard, and have removed the same to the Store ADE Door vest of C. C. Rance & Co's Tailoring Establishment We will keep in stock the productions of the beat Canadian, Scotch and Irish Distilleries. We will keep in stock the productions of the best Canadian and English Breweries. We will keep in stock the best FRENCII, SPANISH and CANADIAN WINES, for medicinal purposes. OUR PRICES will be as low for first-class goods as Montreal, Ldn- don or Toronto. HOTELS SUPPLIED at wholesale prices. Goods delivered to all parts of the town free of charge. DON'T ASK FOR CREDIT, AS OUR TERMS ARE STRICTLY, CASH. FOSTER (SA 1%ITBR,,. eras CROSS -CUT SAWS We have the ,'sole agency for the "President Cross Cut Saw" universally admitted to be the BEST IN THE WORLD. AXES We are also Sole. Agents for THE REXFOItD AXE, the choice of woodsmen and the . best in the market. Full stock of foal and \lit STOVES, HARDWARE, CUTLERY, LAMPS, OILS5 • PAINTS, &c. S. DAVIS Mammoth Move I101130, CLINTON. LON ESI30Ro THE NEW SPRING Are very attractive. Be sure `and see them before plac- ing your order for your spring suit. We are showing full lines of Ready Made Suits In TWEED and WORSTED. We show very nobby things in ChildsSuits from. *2 ° Just received a large shipment of • HARD. and SOFT HATS NEW SHAPES and STYLES. Our Prints & Dress Goods Are Choice Patt3rns and Colorings. We show - good value in Cottonades, Sheetings, Tickings,ITowelings, Hollands, Grey and White Cottons. W. L. 'OUIMETTE, LON DESBORO New : Furniture ; stock • Opened out in, FLLIOTT 3 BLOC, NEXT DOOR TO THE 'OITY BOOK STORE, CLINTON. BEDROOM SETS, PARLOR SETS,LOUNGES SIDEBOARDS, CHAIRS, &c., AND, A GENEP.AL ASSORTMENT OP THE VERY BEST MADE. FURNI• TITRE AT REASONABLE PRIci•,'S. •J()S. Cil il]DLL'S�. 1•1-3ErViriI E , fir Ss ' '=R•M Johnson &Arinour PRACTICAL HARNESS and DOLLAR MAKERS a. Having bought the business and stock of GEO. A. SHARMAN, we are prepared to fill all orders in our line at the lowest living prices. We are both practical workmen, well known tc the people of Clinton and vicinity, and can guarantee 'a superior class of work at moderate rates. The material will always ba found of the best, and by strict attention to business and honest dealing, we hope to be favored with as liberal patronage as our predecessor. We have a splendid line of SINGLE HARNESS, which, for material, workmanship and price, cannot be surpassed. Full stock in all lines. REPAIRING promptly attended to. JOHNSON & ARMOUR, OPPOSITE MARKET, CLINTON fo-FOR THE HEATED' TERM - JUST RECEIVED PureWest India LimeJuice THE FAVORITE SUMMER DRINK. Eno's FRUIT SLAT! EFFERVESCENT CITRATE of MAGNESIA. J.A. 1FS H. - DO1V113E,, CHEMIST AND DRUGGIST, CLINTON, ONT Positive Cure. * A Painless Cure. i:1, 1 ji4 FACTS FOR ME: OF ALL AGES DISEASES Or MAN. LC. V. MTT1SOIT'S SPZCIPIC E TRE GRE4T EIRA GT11 IIE.Id'EWER, Marvel Of Healing, sad Kabinet of Medicines �Z�r8111'��i the terriblep congeaaeneos ofindiberetiono E tposwre and Overwork. • 2.O INTIat sir Who are broken down from the effects of abuse will find in No. 8 a kadtoal cure !or nerves debility, organio wdaknese, involuntary vital losses, eta ilvtiIPT6Me P05 wHro= Na 8 SHOULD 1401 UBED,—Want of energy, vertigo, want of pIIrpOe dimness of sight, aversion to society, want of confidence, avoidance of conversed°, desire for solitude, listlessness and inabijity to fix the attention on a portioalar snbjet cowardice, depression of spirits, giddiness, loss of memory; excitability of temper sp. matorrhma, or loss of the seminal fluid—the result of solf•abuse or marital ez0ese—imp tonoy, inn trit on, emncfatidh barrenness, palpitation of the heart, hysteric feelings females tremblin, melancholy, disturbing creamsetc., aro all symptomeofthin terribfl habit, oftentimes Innocently acquired, in short, the spring of vital force baying lost it tension, every function wanes in consequence. Scion WIC '.71Itcrsaud'theeuperintenden., of insane asylums unite in asotib,eg to the ofirlets of Illi-ei,uso the peat majority �• wasted lives•wbich conte under thci'. notice, If you s,r4 iucempetentfor the ardnot, duties of business, incapavitate'l f t (11t, oIu ynwuti 06 btu. No, 8afore an escape fror: the effects of early vice. If you aro e; ;v,tm;od in years, No. 6 \ill give yon tall vigor an; strength. It you aro brotten clung, _ rc}E•'.at,lly and. •:: 1)1 any, f.,05 early indiscretion, th. result of ignorance and folly, send y;ru ar7.7veq'4 an,110 0+1,,45 In stamps for M. V. Lunoi-' Treatise in Book Bonn on ,Disecme aoi MonuiLieple :+ nd &toes from •�o stirva n Address all colpmunlcalions to H. :Af<4'7 A Man without wlfdomlives In ltcofs par•,diae. (IEg C'iAlirEEC. HEAL UM SICK. e G' rP°ier'7►illr,colt 'el •,, il+