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man, the tt•avl1ing
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es the executigp of a
prisoners at Canton,
is so horrible that we
realize (that it occurs
century:=
ly the gates were thrown
op ; in, and, welcomed by a
delight from the crowd, a
and ghastly procession
imbling in. .First, a few
r'agab.;``fiia soldiers, making a fi
ppre.t-'e'ee of clearing the w
The,wa file of coolies carrying t
viotjms in small shallow bask
slut Rg to bamboo poles. As .so
its Oach pair reach the middle
the space they stoop and pit
their living burden out and r
off. Tho prisoners aro chain
hand and loot acid are 'perfect
helpless. The executioner stun
by and points out where ea
load is to be dumped. He
dressed exactly like any oth
coolie present, without any bad
of office whatever. The condom
,ed mon rhavo a long folded pie
of paper in a split bamboo stu
into their pig tails; upon which
written their crime and the ,wa
rant of execution. One after a
other they arrive and are slu
oat- Will the procession- tiov
end? How many can there b
This is more than we bargain
for. At last over the heads
the crowd we see the hats of t
petty mandarin-, and behi
• there the gates are shut. T
number of men is fifteen, .and t
executioner l/aS arranged them
two rows, about two yards apar
and all facing one way. All e
cept one seem perfectly callow
and ho bad probably been drugg
with opium, a last privilege whit
the prisoner's friends can alwa
"obtain by bribery. They e
change remarks, some of the
• evidently chaff' with the spectator
and one man was carried in sin
ing and kept up his- strain almost
to the last. The excutioners—
there were now two of them
step forward. The younger tuck
up bis trowsers and sleeves an
deliberately selects a sword frost
several lying close by, while th
other, a older man, collects th
strips of paper into a sheaf an
lays them on one side. Then h
places himself. behind the frog
man of the nearest row and take
him •by the shoulders. The young
er man walks forward and stand
at the left of the kneeling man
The fatal moment has come
There is an instant's hush an
every ono f the two rows of eon
detn.ned bind, twists his head
round and .cyfines his. neck to see
I will not attempt to deseribe th
emotions of such a moment—the
horror, the awful repulsion; th
wish that you had never come
the sickening fear that you wil
be splashed with blood, and 'ye
the klpless fascination that keep
your eyes glued to every. detail.
The knife is raised. It is a short
broad bladed, two -handled swort.l.,
weighted at the back and evident-
ly as sharp as a razor. -
For a second it is poi, -ed -in the
air, as the executioner takes uirn.
Then it falls. There isno great
apparent effort. it simply falls,
and moreover seems to fall slowly
But when it comes to the ncau''s
neck it does not stop; it keeps
falling. With ghastly- slowness
t passes•rightthrough the flesh
and you are only recalled from
your momentary stupor when the
head springs fi5rward and rolls
over and ever,while for a fraction
f a second ,two dazzling jets of
scarlet blood burst out and fall in
a gra seful curve to the ground.
Then the great tush 'of blood
comes and floods the spot. As
oon as the blow has fallen the
second executioner pitches the
body forward with a 'Hough,' it
ambles in a shapeless heap, and
from every,tbroat goes up a 'laud
Ho!' expressive of pleasure and
pproval of the stroke.
But there is no pause; the exe•
utioner step; over the corpse to
be front manin the second rank,
he knife rises again, it falls, an-
ther head rolls away, another
ouble burst of blood follows it,
he headless,body is shoved for.
vard,tho assistant shouts'Iloughl'
nd the crowd shouts 'Ho:' T,p
en are dead. Then the heads•
an steps back to the second man
f the front row and the operation
a repeated.
then bent e his own neck tedehe fitslifacts for FrMr$.ac
knife. The place is ankle deep in blood, the s >ectators aro ell-
ioU with deli �t �
bg and frenzy, the
heads are like cowls on a green,
the borrible headless bodies aro
lying all about in ,ghastly gro-
tesque attitudes, the executionei
is scarlet to the knees and his
hands are dripping. Take my
word for it that by this time you
are feeling -very sick.
Fortunately you are not detain-
ed long. The morneut the last
head is off the crowd is gone with
a rush, except a score of urchins,
who begin skylarking with the
ne bodies and pushing each other in -
ay. to the blood. The bodies are
he thrown into a pond and the heads
ets are plastered up in bier earthen -
on ware jars and stacked up with
of those already round the wall of
ell this• potter's field. I had a few
un minutes' conversation with the
ed executioner afterwards. Decap-
IY ds itation, he told me was not the oc-
cupation of his family; it was only
ch a perquisite. But the business is
is not what it was. Formerly he
81' used to got $2 a head for all he
go cut off; now lie only gets 50 cents,
n- It is hardly worth while chopping
ce men's heads ofl'at that rate. But
ck it doesn't take very Long. Would
is I buy a sword ? Certainly. Nine
r• dollars.
ng, A GPI,T ..CRY -(FOR MORE
Cr WOMEN
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ed has been going up 'from the far
of west for a good many years. But
wo the try is not for, pale, haggard,
nd debilitated women. The pushing
he western men are not anxious for
he beauty, but they need healthy
in wives. A great cry for health is
t, continually going up from thou
x- sands of women, young and old,all
s, over the earth. A few have sue -
ed ceeded, and none hold a higher
h place than Dr Pierce's Favorite
y -s Prescription, a sure cure for all
x- those peculiar "weaknesses" and
m distressing ailments peculiar to
s the sex.
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Useful Information for Tillers
. of the Soil.
• POINTERS ON AQRICUL-
TURE WORTH
KNOWING.
FOR THE CREDIT OF £IIE
FAMILY.
s A young man was passing a
d little girl on Seventh street, who
n was sitting ou the doorsteps and
e making the air meindious hum -
o ming over a tune. IIe was inter.
d ested by the sweet and intelligent
e appearance of the child, and ac-
t costing het• the following dialogue
s took place:'Sissy,wh.a,t's your pa's
- name?' This was politely answer-
s ed by the little girl. 'How many
, brothers have you?"Four. or
five.' How many sisters have
d you?' ' 'Four or five.' The young
. man`s curiosity being satisfied he
passed on. The mother of the
, little four-year•old (who had
e` neither brother or aster) over-
• heard the conversation, and Cal-
e ling her` in • naked her why she
, had storied to the man, and re -
1 ceived the following cute reply:—
t 'Well, mamma, I didn't want the
s gentleman to think we were so
poor as to have no children,'—
Columl:nus Statesman.
—....—
HORRIBLE.
In the House' of Commons the
other day the attention of the
Governmennt was asked to a re-
port that in the gold fields of
West Australia gangs of native
convicts are fastened . to wheel-
barrows with bullock chains;mak-
ing roads, and that chains are
rolled around the necks mid naked
bodie of .others, inflicting great
`sufering upon them in a climate
where the stones .get too hot to
handle. It may be that this -story
is exaggerated, bat evidence is
l5lent•it'ul that there is room for
improvement in the treatment of
savages under white control; MI'
Lumboltz, who travelled among
the cannibals of' Queensland a
while ago, says the Government
black police have shot them down
innocent and guilty alike,'for of-
fences that were almost trivial,
It will not soon be forgotten that
it was the cruelty of white miners
that hastened Inc extinction of
the Tasmanians, not a few of
whore were victims offotil crimes
like the followingr—One. day a
miner told his comrades he was
going to n .a. 'is little fun for
them. Ste tTing out where the
natives could see him, he pointed
an empty revolver at kis own
head and snapped it several times.
Titen he called a native to him
and told him to repeat the opera-
tion,giving him a loaded revolver.
The poor wretch compliod,�and of
course blow his own brains.ut,to
the great amusement of the crowd
Not half the stories' of the wrongs
of the Tasmanians were known to
the world until the larger part of
then bad perished.
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Two things strike you:•the bru-
tal mattes sof factness of the whole
performance, and the extraordin-
" ors" ease with which a human
head can he chopped off. As a
whole it is precisely like a drove
of pigs driven into the shambles
and stuck; and in detail it is—or
seems—no more difficult than
splitting a turnip with a carving
knife or lopping off a thistle with
a cane.
Chop, chop, chop,ththcads roll
off one after another in as many
seconds. When the seventh man
is reached, either because the
knife is blunted or the execution.
er misses his hlow,t; e neck is on-
ly half cut through. Bit still he
does not stop. He comes quickly
back, takes another knife, passes
on to the next man, and onl3•
comes back to the wretched
seventh when all the other heads
the lying in bloods- pool, in front
of the shoiililci's which carried
them a few moments ego. And
..crept than has wnichetl the death
of all tho-,c in front of hint with a
horrid animal like rnrittsit,)-1 nut
BOLD ROBBERY
The •Union Ticket- Office,'
corner of Woodward and Jotter•
son avenue, Detroit, the' most
public,poin in the city,' -under the
full glare of the electric and gas
lights, was 'tapped' last Thursday
night, the safe drilled and robbed
of nearly $2,000 in cash. Tile
Michigan Central, Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern,and Flint and
Pero Marquette are the roads re-
presented at this ofllee. The Po.
Tice, who knew nothing about it
till the janitor untitled them next
morning, are severely criticised.
35 cents cash will gets the
N E\v ERA, to tlfW x'11115( r111-
ei s. f(st' 1110 l,ill<ance of 1 s' i)
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Dakota reports an enormous
shortage in wheat crop.
The root of a history sapling
makes a very tough maul -head.
Prof, Henry says a calf born in
the autumn is worth for profit
two born in the spring.
Make a shade over the pump.
Then apparently the cattle will
not drink nearly so much.
Try a little super -phosphate on
the grass stubble and see how it
hells next year's crop of hay.
Prof. Sanborn, late of the Mis-
souri Agriculture College i5
writing down—or trying tc—the
silo, but he won't succeed.
A spray of kerosene emulsion
will kill the cabbage lick, says the
Farm Journal. A Dorchester
-farmer uses lime with a very
good effect.
A great deal of butter is spoiled
by packing it in old tubs or poor
ones; they should be clean and
sweet. No old tub will answer
the purpose.
The latest report. of the Burean
of Animal Industry says of hog
cholora, that inoculation has been
tested in almost every form as a
proveutative without any satis-
factory'results.
Sponging the horses legs and
flanks with a strong decoction of
'smartweed,' or with water that
smells strongly of carbolic acid,
two or .three bines a day will help
them in fighting flies.
Will dairying play out? Yes,
when strawberries smothered in
cream apd sugar cease to be pal-
atable, and good bread, butter and
cheese are no longer 'hankered
for' by the human family.
•Hoard's Dairyman, of Wiscon-
sin, styles Prof, J. W. Robertson,
of .the Ontario Agricultural Col•
lege dairy department, 'the ac-
knowleged cheese making export
in America,' with the emphasis
on the 'The.'
There is probably less waste of
grain in harvesting than was com-
mon under old methods. The
new reapers and self binders make
cleaner work than was possible
by band. If any were 'dropped
we havo horse hay rakes that wit
clear up" every head of grain that'
has a stock attached to it,
-,A little tar on aheep.'s noses in
Summer is very necessary to pro-
tect them from the fly , that•.lays
the egg which produces grub in
the head. Unless this is- doge
sheep will •did; holes in the ground
into which they will thrust their
noses to protect. them'fi'otn tihese
persecuting atterltiolls. We have
often seen sheep on summer fob
lows Tying in plutved furrows with
their noses to the ground i;i hot
weather. This soils the wool.
Tar on the nose, with a clean pas-
ture and shade, is much better.
Sccrelary Rusk, of the United
States Cabinet, has established a'
11ew division in his department
and Placed dt in charge of an ex-
perienced agricultural editor, Mr
G. W. Hill, of Minnesota. It will
be his duty to receive advance
sheets of all the reports and bul-
letins issued by the other divisions..
condense .them, and put the facts,
results of investigations and con
elusions in simple, plain language
for the benefit of the general pub-
lic, and more especially for busy
farmers who have little time to
study scientific! treatises.
Grain farmers who grow pota-
toes need to keep a sharp lookout
against the potatoe beetle during
harvest time. One or two days'
neglect will easily destroy all the
results of previous labor. Some
of the work in destroying bugs
may be done early in the morn-
ing, while dew is on, so that the
grain that cannot be cut or pro-
fitably handled. The grain farm-
er is apt to have at this season an
extra force, and two or three
hours' work by all hands in the
potatoe field is perhaps the most
profitable work the help can be
put to.
:35 cents cash will get the
NEW ERA, to new subscrib-
ers, for the balance of 1889
Get well and stay well. But how shall
we do it?
Listen my friend, and the secret I'll
tell,
,Though, for that matter, there's no
secret to it,
As many a man understands very
well.
If you're low•spirited,gloomy,depressed,
If nothing tastes good and your nights
bring no rest,
If your stomach is foul and your month
seems much fouler,
And so cross you become that they call
you a "growler,"
Be sure that the trouble is due to your
liver.
And the blood is as sluggish as some.
times a river
Becomes when it's tilled with rill ruin•
ger of stuff,
Clear it ont and the current runs
smoothly enough.
Go to the drug store anti get 'a
11t;ttle. of Dr Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery, the great blood.
purifier and liver invigorator. • It
isa sure cure Cur 1110 Iow spirits
and gr ncrnl ticpronsion tt man feels
when his liver is inactive and his
blond impure. TIAs r.'rnctly
makes a min will.
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.4 Aft W Df'.P.4 RTuRj- IN MEd 1 CiNE.
The
four greatest medical centres of the world are London, Parts. Berlin and Vienna. These cities have immense
hospitals teeming with suffering humanity. Crowds of students throng the wards studying under the Professors in
Charge. The most renowned phefaicians of the world teach and practice here, and the institutions are storehou' es of
medical knowledge and experience. With a .view of making this experience auailab/e to the public the Hospital
Remedy Co. at great expense secured the prescriptions of these hospitals, prepared the specifics, and although it
would cost from $26 to $100 toseeure the attention of their distinguished originators, yet in this way their pre-
pared specifies are offered at the price of the quack patent medicines thatood the market and absurdly claim to cure
every ill from a single bottle. • The want always felt for a reliable class of �domestio rfinedies is now filled wither-
fect satisfaction, The Hospital Remedies make no unreasonable claims. The specific for CATARRH cures that and
nothing else ; so with the specific for BRONCHITIS, CONSUMPTION and LUNG TROUBLES; RHEUMATISM is cured
by No. 3, while troubles of OIGEOT/ON, STOMACH, LIVER and KIDNEYS have their own cure. To these is added a
specific for FEVER and AGUE, one for FEMALE WEAKNESS—a GENERAL TONIC and BLOOD -MAKER that makes blood
and GIVES FORM AND FULNEi% sad a incomparable remedy for NERVOUS DEBILITY.
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.� NO.I—LURES
CATARRH,
FEVER,ROSEHAY
CATARRHAL DEAFNESS,—The v
only authentic cure emanating from
scientific sources now before the public, l I
This is nota snuff or ointment—both are dis-
carded as injurious. $7.0 ,
NO. 2-0000118, COLDS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, CON-
SUMPTION—,4n Incomparable remedy ; does not merely stop
a cough, but eradicates the disease and strengthens the lungs and
restores wasted t/esues $1.00.
NO.
AND 0011T—A
!mown
specialisIn this dlseaee in Par s,dwhonintreats nothing else,
built his reputation on this remedy. $1,00.
O. q—L/yER,A.ND.. MONEYS, _DYSPEPS/A AND INDII:'TE'STION,
for CDNST1quaPATIQN who has ruled moet mgclire sathanealcohol use
slaughter -field
remedy sanction 4 to hlga places. $1.00.
110.5—FEVER AND AGUE; DUMB AQUE M, g�q�7/A NEURALGIA
—Few know what graue damage this doe system; it is treat-
ed to break It for a time Use a remedy t at eradicates it. $1.
womenMALE aredownNbecause theynegle IRREGULARITIES, t eseEdiseases
until chronic and seated. Uee No. 6 and regain health and
strength. $1,00.
L
lotsof it. if weak!}nod 1 pooM AND r, If scrESS awny, use this perfect
strength.
tonic. $1.00.
NO. 8—NERVOUS DEBILITY, LOSS OF POWER—A quack cure -
ridden public will /rail a genuine remedy for an unfortunate con-
dition. No. Bis golden, which one trial will prove. Beware of
Ignorant quacks who charge high prices for cheap and worthless
drugs and pills, the properties of which they are utterly ignor-
ant, and who expose you by 3elling your confident/al letters
to others in tna same nefarious business. Use No. 8 and -,
flue again. 51,00,
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�• TO BE HAD OF ALL DRUGGISTS,
<li11 St ur Dov docs not kooth.rer hese,
rettlit ua a 1ckcuny wewitlship to you
,..,u i.ts., .ail thlelse tygu•Ch:uv nosptwt Rr=cries wlucu cttt its from aL medicines and
u:..l thus. pruI..ud your Ott, sCientilic cottrteg
Send Stamo for
Descriptive
Circular to
TCRGNTO tier/' ErAC 1#i;,;r A. HUTTON DIXON,,Prop.
Canada and United States.
New : Ftirniture : � 4 �
�ANKRUPT
Opened out in ELLIOTTS BLOOM, 1 - • -.
NEXT DOOR TO THE CITY BOOK STORE, CLINTON.110C mn ofikillardWare.
BEDROOM SETS, PARLOR SETS,LOUNGES
SIDEBOARDS, CHAIRS, &c.,
ANS. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF THF VERY 'BEST MADE
TITRE AT REASONABLE PRICES.
at 10S.
c o
F°R ' S-Deciai Prices for One Month
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In thanking you for past custom and soliciting a continuance of Vie
same, I beg to intimate to the public, that i have a fullistock of DA.
FERRY'S and STEELE BRITS GARDEN, FLOWER, FIELD an l
GRASS SEEDS. Alsr, r large quantity of POTATOES.
FULL STOOK OF FARM AND.GARDEN TOOLS.
Siam thr Hardware Stock of R. ' r. 'Racesr
I„ Cutlery-, Spoons, Spades and Shovels, /lakes and Hoes, Harvest Tools,
\ails and HIinges, Paints, Oils and Glass.
We •have also REDUCED OUR PRICES ON STOVES. and our pricee
on Tinware are' now about 25 per cent less than ordinary prices,
PZ ItE MANILLA •aud'd'LAX BINDING TWINE, ortlel
early so as to s+' re it.
Full stock OILr:D'a0'-ANNT ALE WCIRE, RIBBON WIRE, BARBED
WIRE, &c.
Call early and s
oar
before all is cleared out.
&full case of BIRD CAGES, cheap. illy stock of GROCERIES, GLASS, ��� ,�NJD :B -
GLASSWARE, HARDWARE, HARNESS', &c„ is full and complete. Large • �-•r �•°� 7
stock of CROCKERY just arrived direct from the old country. .A good
Tea Set f'or $1.75, and a better for $2.50
LARD, HAMS and BACON in stool,. 'All kinds of Produce taken for goods
'GEO. • NEWTON, - - LOND.ESBORo
NEW PUMP FACTORY
Itoivell's old Blacksmith situp,
Huron Street.., Clinton
The undersigned has his new factory thoroughly equipped and fitted'jjup for
the manufacture of
First. Class. Well And Cistern Pumps.
There being nothing doing in the building -moving business in the winter time,
I have improved the opportunity by getting out pumps, and am, therefore, pre•
pared to supply them at the lowest possible rate. Those wanting anything in
this line will find it to their advantage to see me. This will be carried on Inde•
pendent of the moving of buildings, which business is still attended to as hereto.
• fore, bylthe uudersigned.
Cistern Tanks and I'tnnps supplied at LowestRates
JOHN STEPHENSON, CLINTON.
DON DES OP'..O
FINE SPRING GOODS
HANDSOME PRINTS, NICE DRESS GOOD). ;'
STYLISH PARASOLS, FINE mILLIN ER', ' '
NOBBY TWEEDS, BOOT & SRO
`
' FINE SLIPPERS, &(o::,*
CLOVER AND TIMOTIIY S,.I FODDER CORN
HUNGARIAN SEEf', FINE'GHOUND
OIL,RAKE, tCc., &c.
April 5th
R. ADAMS
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Eron and Hardware Merchants, Stoves and Tillvinrs, iv:inton
NEW GOODS THIS MONTH
P NGES.. SPONGES.
Five cusr.•sof Sponges, which will be offered very cheap. Also a gross of
ENGLISH TOO Ti BRUSHES. C'olgate's FINE SOAP, and pure white
CASTILE SO.) -.P. Full stock of the celebrated English-Franeo-Ameri-
can FLORAL PERFUMES.
131. tit l►I LJ3I , .
Y(EMIST AND DRUGGIST. CLINTON, ONT
N'3W FIR,Adr
Johnson &Arrnottr
PRACTICAL -
HARNESS. and COLLAR MAKERS
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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 practiva
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 be found of
the best, and by strict attention to business and honest dealing, we hope to.,b
favored with as liberal patronage as our predecessor. Wehave a splendid iiia if
SINGLE HARNESS, which, for material, workmanship and price,,, alitilit be
• surpassed. Tull stock in all lines. REPAIRING promptly atteri'd6i1 to.
JOHNSON & ARMOUR, OPPOSITE MAR,KCLINTO N
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OCR HATS 'YoLIf
We are allotting she ktiest line of
Sprig g8tammer Hats
M.
1%„wd brou;iht to this town. All New
.•' Styles, Best (finality, and
Prices Low.
Fitt' I'S ONCE.
'WE CAN PLEASE YOt',
We have everything theta gentleman requires, at prices
to 'suit all pockets. Our extensive line of JIOSii RI-
cornprises goods of all weights, in a variety of colot•a
and qualities, from an expensive Sock to the cheapest
evades. SUSPENDERS will also be found in great
variety, at all hinds of prices,
stook of Sli rts, ('nilnrs,Cliffs and Neckwear
1. larger ti,a , ..rr before, nnrl thr fnrot in the place
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