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The Huron News-Record, 1889-01-09, Page 3BUSINESS ANNO.U.NCEMENT, C.URRE.SPONBENCE. We will at all times be pleased to receive items of new from our sub- scribers. We want a good corres- pondent in every locality, not already represented, to send us RELIABLE news. SiJBSCRIBERS. Patrons who do not receive their paper regularly from the carrier or thr Nigh their local post offices will confer a favor by reporting at this office at once. Subscriptions may commence at any time. ADVERTiStRS. Advertisers will please bear in Blind that all "changes" of advertisements, to ensure insertion, should be handed in net later than MONDAY NOON of each week. CIRCULATION. TUE NEWS -RECORD has a larger circulation than any other paper in this section, and as an advertising medium has few equals in Ontario. Our boolrs are open to those who mean business. JOB PRIN'T'ING. Job..Depadment. 91...t11434a nal is one of the best equipped in Western Ontario, and a superior Blass of work is guaranteed at very .lom prices. The Huron News -Record $1.50 a Yoar—$1.25 In Advance. Wednesday. Jan. 9f,h 1889 CURRENT TOPICS . JONATHAN WON'T TACKLE A FELLOW OF HIS OWN SIZE. It was an iuterestiug coiucidenca that the news of Admiral. Luce's success in bulldozing the small re• public of Hayti arrived at the same as the news from Samoa announcing Germany's continued interference on behalf of Tamasese, despite the long and solemn protests of Mr. Bayard. There is some difference in the tone and manner of our secretary of state when he talke with the gentleman named Legitime and the gentleman named Bismarck. • —New York Tribune. SOUR GRAPES. Butter worth's•.proposition for poli- tical union with Canada arouses a deal of adverse criticism. \Vhy not try a commercial union first, and let political union follow if advisable? It is certain that we cannot afford to add to our ignorant vote, by the annexation of a country in which so large a proportion -is illiterate. There will soon be need of restric• tion of the ballot in this country un- -less some means are found to cut off the increase of the ignorant and vicious vote. Let us by all means make this curtailment before we enlarge the need of it by annexing - any ignorant people.—Elkhart,. Indiana, Review. NO PLACE AS GOOD AS CANADA. A deapatcb from- Leamington to The Empire says :—Thanks to the Dominion Government, Lewis Wigle, ex•M. P., and J. C. Patter- son, M. P., the county of Essex is booming on account of railway facil- ities. Railways are all around us; everybody is happy and doing well. Many who left for the States are returning. One James Ainslie left for Dakota a few years ago with a beautiful team of horses, a new wagon, nicely covered, and started with his little family to make his fortune on the vast prairie of the far West. After living there a few years he came back with the same team and wagon looking like the breaking up of a hard winter, poor and worn out.'• The whole fancily, from the old scan down to the yel- low dog, were delighted when they arrived in good old Essex once more. George Beacom laft the township of Mersea, in Essex, about eight years ago, and wan the Dakota correspor'dent for the Leam- ington Post for years and gave glowing accounts of the far West ; but he quietly came back to live and die on the old sod' of his native home. Sylvester Reeves left about three years ago for the sante State, and returned two weeks ago. When asked by your correspondent why he left there he said he did not pros pose to iive in a country where the blizzards blew ani froze the horns off cattle, and where every man had to have a hole in the ground like a groundhog in this country. w1IEN WAS JESUS DORN 1 "Why, on Christmas day, Dec- ember 25th." Are you sure 1 There are many think he was horn on that day. Some think he was horn in January, some on April 16th, others the 17th of September. A variety of days have been observed as the birthday of our Lord Jesus. Tho first account we have of the observa- tion of the day was in the second century. The day is called Christ- mas, because a special WAS, )'The mass of Christ," is then celebrated. in the year 350 Pope Julius J. select - December 25 as the date of Christ's birth, Kt as to diupiace the heathen festivel celebrated on that day; as the day was honored as the. 'birth- day of the unconquerable Sun, which was belived to have been born anew on that day. It is a singular fact that the power referred to in the prophetic utterances of Revelation as "Mystery; Babylon,' whom most Bible students regard as Papal Rome, with the Pope as the bead, should set apart the very day as the birthday of our Lord, that was observed by the ancient Babylonians as the birthday of one whom they worshipped. Semiramis, the queen of Babylon, in the worship which she instituted for her people, used 'holy water' to sprinkle the people. and a cake, or ntola as it was called. It is referred to in Jer. 7: 1$, where we read about making 'cakes to the queen of heaven.' This was the name the queen gave herself, and' she was also worshipped under the name of Ashtoreth. Her son Ninyas was horn on the 25th of December, nod she claimed that he was divine. CANADA WANTS NO BASTARD POSITION The Century Maganize for Decem• ber, has the following :—In spite of the evidences of a century's history, Mr. Goldwin Smith still argues that trade. interest will ultit.'tatply,..draw, Canada into political connection with the United States, and ap. pareritly does not understand why his opinion is rejected with indigna- tion by the vast majority of Cana. dialer, yet it seems impossible to con- ceive how without a debasement of public sentiment quite uuparalelled in history, a people whose history Megan in loyalty to British institu. Hone, who through a hundred years have been sheltered by British (,ower, who under that rule have attained and enjoyed the most com- plete political and religious liberty, who have constantly professed the most devoted• regard for . a mother land with which they are connected by a thousand ties of affectionate sympathy, should deliberately itt cold blood,' for.• chimerical commer. cial reasons only, break that connect tion and join themselves to a state in whose history and traditions they have no part. They would incur and unquestionably would deserve alike the contempt of the people they abandon and the people they join. In annexation to the United States she could have nothing but a bastard nationality, the offspring of mean. nese, selfish, or fear. FUGITIVE SLAVES IN CAN.. ADA. The Toronto News the other day bad a description of several old time negro slaves now residing and doing well in this. Canada of ours where practical acknowledgement is made of the American anachronism in the United States Constitution, that "all men metre created free and equal."_.. Among those referred to is "Box Brown" who intinerates in the County of Huron and was in Clinton a short time ago as a one- horse sho_wmau __ One of the most remarkable of these negro slaves was a fugitive named Henry Brown who was ship- ped per Adams' express frorn Vir- ginia to Philadelphia in a box 2 feet 8 inches deep, 2 feet wide and 3 feet long. The story of his escape, as told by a relativeof his who resides on a farm in Hamilton, is to the effect that, becoming tired of being knock• ed down to the highest bidder at at public anctions, Brown resolved to escape, but how to do it puzzled hint. Finally, he resolved to have himself boxed and shipped to some- body in a free State, where, upon the box being opened, he could find friends to aid hint further. He drew the plan of of his box and got a kind-hearted white than in Virgin- ia to make a box, nail him- up in it, and address it to Philadelphia. Before entering the box Brown pro- vided himself with a gimlet, a bled- m'er filled with water and a few crackers. After being nailed up the hex was addressed Wm. JOHNSON, Arch street, Philadelphia. This side up with care. and sunt by Adams' Express. While en route the box was handled, ap parently with a vengeance, several times by the baggage smashers, who, disregarding the injunction "Timis side up with care," so shifted the position of the box as to have Brown standing 011 his bead most of the way. In due time the box ar. rived •at ite destination, but, by pre, concerted plan, it was delivered to the Vigilance Committee of the "underground railroad," where it was duly opened. Everybody had supposed that Brown was dead, but when the lid of the •box was raised Brown leaped out like a "jack'.in•the• box," and no doubt would have made a desperate break for farther liberty, btit finding himself in the hands ",f his friend's lie gave vent to his fek"tings in a song. He was christened "Box Brown," and sent to Canada. Tti1;RR IS NO BETTER remedy for worms of any kind in children or adults than Dr. Low's Worm Syrup, "BROKEN HIS WORD AS USUAL" The Winnipeg Free Presz, ,Re. form, which probably was the staunchest opponent Premier Nor. quay had iu Manitoba, thus refers to the railway position of the Pro- vince under Premier Greenway "Mr. Greenway and Mr. Martin have retrieved the fortunes ofprovin- cial Conservatism in a wanner to en- title them to theeverlaating gratitude of the members of that party. They have degraded Manitoba Liberalism to a level far lower than that reaeh• ed at any time by even the 'yellow dog' section of the. Conservative party, and the pity of it is that there does not scent independence or honesty enough left in the House to raise it from its degradation." Again : � p'Chey (tlfe Government) persist in sacrificing their principles of free trade in railways ; they defied the public sentiment, and they carried through a contract which gave to the Northern Pacific Company all that they asked on their own terms. There was evidence on its face that it was a corrupt bargain, and eyery one could see' for himself that it was an extravagant one." • ReWring to the Premier, Green- way, )Tie Free Pre'ss `i+nys "He promised very solemnly and very frequently to give the aid (to a local railway), but, broke his word as usual. He would not be Greenway if he bad not broken his word. Perhaps the exigeneies of the North. ern Pacific contract, which was then being batched, required that the resources of the Provinces kbould be carefully husbanded in order to give the greater scope for the Ministers' own boodliug." "Perhaps our consolation is to he found years hence ilk the knowledge that the chastising influence of our present experience is worth the heavy price our leaders are forcing us to pay for it." EXCLUDED BOOKS. One of the crimes which caused an educational revolution in Boston was the crime committed by the Catholic trustees in driving from the public schools every book which stated facts of history in a manner which did not please the dominant faction. •Among the books time excluded were Swinton's 'Outlines of the 'World's History, Cornell's and Mitchell's geographies, Hallam's Middle Ages, Cleveland's English Literature, \Vhateley.'s Elements of Logic, Hayden's Psychology, Dra. per's Chemiatry and Natural Phi. losophy, Dickens's Child's History of England, Macaulay's History of England, Green's History of the English people, Hume's History of England, Gibbon's Declitie`and Fall of the Roman Empire, Frou.de's History of England, and Knight's History of Route. Anderson's General History -was driven out ; but a new edition was admitted from which all passages referring to the persecutions of -the Isolla•rds, the Albigenses, the Husaites, to the massacre of St. Bartholomew, to tete Marian persecutions in England and similar events had been cares fully excluded. is it any wonder that at last the people of - Boston awoke to the danger their » tools were in and re- solved that he time had come to resume control of pr,intary educa- tion 1 The power which (Trove stand- ard educational works from the Boston schools because those hooks did not pervert the facts of history, exercises a veto power upon the books used in the schools of Ontario. A SERMON FOR MASONS. At Hamilton, a week last Sunday, in honor of the day of St. John the Evangelist, an eloquent and interest. iug sermon was preached by Rev. Hartley Carmichael, from the text : John to the seven churches which are in Asia : Grace he unto you and and peace front Him which is and which was and which. is to come.: and from the seven spirits which were before His throne.—Revelas tions i., 4. The following is a condensation of the address : As you are aware the two great patron saints of our order are St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist. We are gathered to• gether here to celebrate the day of St. John the Evangelist, a season which wo are all railed upon to observe : therefore let us ask ours selves the question, Why is it we observe this day 1 what reason have we for paying such a homage of veneration to the name of one who in the Christian church is distin• guished as the disciple whom his Lord loved 1 I think a e may fairly put down as one reason the book from which I•read the words of my text, commonly called the Apoc- alypse, or the Revelation of St. John the -Divine. The early Christian church was a persecuted body of men and consequently the church bad to worship with closed doors and observe certain secrecy anti car,• amongst all its members, It bad no reason to offer itself up stupidly to martyrdom. To it was submitted the goapel and it was its supreme duty to transmit that gospel to tite ages. Therefore it preserved itself by worshiping secretly and veiling parts of its teaching in symbolic'''. When that book of Revelations was written it was Intended to be read by somebody who had the key to it and would understand it. In the preaeut day we have not the key .and it has become a fruitful subject of dispute as to the meaning which should attach to various passage):. But the Christians of that time had the key—the book• was, so to speak, a Masonic book, We find among the peculiarities of the book that it is veiled in symbols and illustrated by allegory, and requires earnest and patient study to unlock its mysteries. But. that is not all. Symbolism is worth nothing except as regards the value of the object which it symbolizes. It is the -out- ward sign of the truth and clothes it as the shell encloses the kernel of a nut. The kernel is the truth we seek and the symbolism conveys it to the mind so that it can grasp it. Truth is a word highly prized among Masons, and St. John is the great.apostle of truth. In his gos- pel the word occurs so often that it seems to be a characteristic word of that book. Brotherly love is rec0ntnteudetl to tlie'peopl"e-to whom het is writing, anti relief also. Titus you see there are good, Solid reasons why the great apostle is the patron of our ordoa. What do we learn from all this 1 •To follow his ex. ample in our love of truth, observe the ancient landmark&—through them you have the truth. Otte of the great charges impressed 011 lnf 111 the words of the apostle is that wu should cling to that which has been handed down to us, pieservin'g it in all its integrity, so that through neither fear, favor nor affection, nor through the wonderful changes that come over public opinion, nor through the climate or country in which we may be, no alteration shall be made in that great brotherhood by teaching which, if allowed, would destroy us as a Masonic body. We should also show our love of the truth by trying to live the Masonic life. You know yourselves the ideal put before every member of the Masonic body. Observe the truth by seeking as far as iu you lies to make that ideal your own. Remem- ber that the true 1\[ason must riot only be true in bis lodge but also outside in the.worlil, so that the good name may not be spoken ill of Brotherly love, I need not dwell on. It is well seen `that that charge' is not unheeded by time amity, friend- ship and harmony that prevails amongst us. Our purposes are carried out without bickerings or petty strifes such as sometimes characterize large corporate bodies. Lastly, St. John teaches us the solemn duty of relief. If there is a characteristic quality in the true Mason it is the observance of this solemn lesson. One has not to speak to you or impress upon you the duty of giving to the poor. That duty has been Itnpressed upon you already, and every Mason looks upon that as the most solemn duty incumbent on Lim. * * * If we walk in the pattern of this great than (St. John) then our order will grow as the years grow. May the rays of heaven shed their benign influence on us and light us in the paths of virtue and sincerity, and may God continue to preserve this order by cementing and adorning it .with every moral end social virtue. AS YOU LIKE IT. 'I am going to visit the heathen,' announced the preacher in his put. pit one Sunday. After the service the flock all gathered around, aston• hated at the turn affairs had taken, and querying when he would depart and to what part of the benighted world he would go. 'Oh, don't be disturbed, brethern, and sisters; I'tn not a -going to leave town.' BROKEN DOWN BY TOOTHACHE. Patrick Durkin, who died on Tuesday, had been for many years a resident of Stony Hill, . near 'Dan- bury, Conn., where he owned a small farm and raised an interest- ing family. lie was the Hercules of all that region for years, and bii name was thesyuouyme for strength and endurance. To such an extent were his powers noised about that the school children looked upon him as a perfect Samson, The story is told that on a wager he bit a wrought -iron nail. in two. About two years ago Durkin suffered frorn a toothache. The pain grew insuf- ferable, and the strong man gave way under its intensity. From the drawing of the tooth until Tuesday last, when lie died, he had been an invalid confined to the house. The cause of his death was necrosis of the jawbone. It is the opinion of the physicians that a pus cavity was formed which poisoned the bone, causing decay, and blood poisoning caused his death. He was 60 years of age. TUE 'IEA PLANT. Tier plant from which, the Chinese and .Japanese obtain the tea is called by botanists Thea bol ea. It is a small evergreen tree or shrub, closely allied to the Camelia —indeed Having contracted for SEVERAL HUNDRED DOLLARS WORTH of Stoves at a Bargain I we are in u p within to sell Stoves CHEAPER THAN EVER. The Stov.•a ere lemght and the Stoves MUST BE SOLD, so call and get Prices before purchasing. If you waft to have COM FORT in your house and to SAVE MONEY in FUEL, get nue of our NEW GEM FURNACES. CROSSCUT SA WS, AXES, COW CHAINS, away down in prices Or See our NEW EMBOSSED STOVE PIPES. Try our PARLOR - -LIGHT GOA L O1.•L, -h is a ATo: • 1• 'an.l-same::price as 'coin met Dirt. llarta Bros., flthert-St., &ItnYon. one of the latter, called wart well, ii also said to furt:i;h a certain class of tea. The bush of the genuine tea plant grows from threr to six feet high, bushy, branches limner CUM, leafy. The young shoots, finely• silky, are evergreen. The flowers are white and not unlike the myrtle, but longer and u,ually two together; the anthers and stigma art+ yellow in flower in August and Sopteuther in its native country. It was first introduced into Ilriti-h Larders in 1768, The lack nod green teas, an we obtain thorn, depend for their color upon the process of drying. Very young• lstaves ar.td shoots give the finest tea. BILL HEADS, NOTE Heads, Letter heads, 'rags, Statements, Circulars, Business Cards, Envelopes, Programmes. etc., late., printei in a workman like manner and at low rates, a THE NEWS -RECORD Office. T ES Tei l+:'S CARRIAGE AND WAGON FACTORY, Corner Muton and Orange Streets, Clinton. FIRST - CLASS MATERIAL and UNSURPASSED IRON WORK. Repairing and Repainting. rjr ALL WORK WARRANTED.Tt 521•y FOR SALE OR TO LET HOUSE AND TWO LOTS for sale or to let, situate on Albert street. For particulars apply at T. COOPER & SON'S Grocery, Clinton May 13th, 1883. 400—tf J. C. STEVENSON,' Furniture Dealer, &c. TNE-LEADL1 W__UNDERTAKER AND.-. FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Opposite Town Hall, - Clinton, Ont SALE BILLS.—The News -Record has Int �z un- surpassed - assed facilities for t turning out first-class work at low rates. A free advertisement in The News•itecord with every set of sale bins. TO THE FARMERS ! Study your own interest and go where you can get Reliable tltif -ss Harness. I manufacture none but the BEST OF STOCK. Beware of Mops that sell cheap, as they have got to live VT Call and get prices. Orders by mail promply attended to 3.01-17 T. CARTER, HARNESS EMPORIUM, BL VTiI. ONT. The Huron News -Record Iias ,just placed in stook another lot of Extra Ilaril Metal ' Scotch Type If SOUND ADVICE.- Those having sales of any kind should consider that It is just as important to have their posters properly displayed and ap• pear neat and attractive, as it is to have a good auctioneer. THE News -Rexene makes a specialty of this cheviot work, they have the material and experionee to give yon what you want at very reasonable prices. rri-xs-cie STRAY STOCK ADVER- i! xF !J TiSEMMENTS Inserted in Tux NEWS RECORD at low rates. The law makes It compulsory to advertdse stray a leek. If yon want any kind of advertising, yon mot o hatter than call on 'ewe'teem.' p.q•,. TW9wiz Wall n•• -'.o. .o`} 0 k,'✓ wi'wa ..,• Aro plecraat tot, ea. Cuntr?a tsar own Purzstivo. Is r. n:..t effectual deeeroyer of worms in C,:ildren or Addis DR. WASHINGTON s• Throat and Lung Surgeon; 01 Toronto. Will be at the Rattenbury [louse CLINTON. JANUARYI7TN' All. Day. . A few of the hundreds cured by DR, WASH IAG'*'ON'S New method of Inhalation W. II. Storey. of Storey & Son, prominent glove manufacturers of Acton, Ont., cured by Dr. Washington of catarrh of the throat, bad form, anti prolouneed incurable by-.entinens specialists in Canada and England. write him for particulars. Chronic BroucLitIs and Asthma Cured An English Church Clergyman speaks, Rectory, Cornwall. Ont. DR. WASHINGTON.— DEAR SIR, —I sen glad to be able to inform you that our daughter is quite well again. As this is the second time she has been cured of grave bronchial troubles under your treatment, when the usual reinediee failed, 1 write to express my gratitude. Please accept my sincere thanks. Yours truly, O.B. PETTIT. Mrs Jno McKelyy, Kingston, Ont., Catarrh and Consumption. John McKelry, Kingston, Ont, Catarrh. Mr A Hopping, Kingston, Ont, Broncho Consump• Hon. Mr. E. Scott, Kingston, Ont, Catarrh, head and throat. Ura Jno Bertram, Harrowsmith, Ont, near King. stop, Catarrh, throat. Mies Mary A Ronibourg, Centreville, Ont, ..atarrh head and throat. James Mathews, P. Master, Acton, Ont. A E►Fleh, Gents Furnishing, Belleville, Catarrh throat. John Phlppen, P. 0. Sandhurst, Ont, (nearNepa• nee), Cater& head and throat• Bad case ICUAE FITS! When I say Conn/ do not mean merely to !top them for a time, and then have them re' again. MEAN disease AoCUR�Ihamade f FITS, EPILEPSY or FALLING SICKNESS, &lifelong study. i wentur Trtiyremedyto Crum the worst cases. Because others hav6 tailed' snoreason tor not now receiving acne Bend at once for a treatise and aFREE BOTTLI Df m INFALLIBLE REMEDY. Give Express tnd Post Office. It costs you/nothing for a r rial, and it will cure you. Address Dr H. G. RQ8? Tango St., Toronto,Ran Ont.