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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-01-30, Page 3U USIHESS..A IiNQUNcEMLNT., volowspopiploc4. We will at all • times be pleated to receive 'items of nelasl frri'tit our sub- scribers. We want a good corres- pondent in every locality, not already represented, to send us RELIABLE news. SUBSCRIBERS. Patrons who do• not receive their paper regularly front the carrier or thr)ugh their local post offices will confer a favor by reporting at this office at once. Subscriptions may commence at any time. ADVER'I'ISE1{S. Advertisers will please bear in mind that all "changes" of advertisements, to ensure insertion, should be handed in not later than MONDAY NOON of each week. • • CIRCULATION. THE NEws-11.EcoRn has a larger - circulation than any oflrr'i• jasper in this section, and as an advertising medium has few equals in Ontario. Our books are open to those who mean business. JOB PRINTING. The Job Department of this jour- nal is one of the best equipped in Western Ontario, and a superior class of work is.guuranteed at very lom prices. The Huron News -Record $1.50 a Year—$1.25 In Advance. Wednesday, Jan. 30th, 1889 TRIFLING EVIDENCE. The following is the most serious part of the evidence agsinst Rev. Mr. Jeffery, of Toronto, whose case is still pending before the Church Court, and it has its ridiculous side. The evidence of Rev. Mr. Medcalf, of Port Carling, Muskoka, in refer, ence to the charge of drunkenness there last summer was taken Thurs• day afternoou. It was proven very satisfactorily that the reverend gentleman had not based his supposi- tions on actual facts. The collapse of his testimony in the cross -exam iva- ,tion baa not been unexpected by the defence. He •detailed the circum- stances of Mr. Jeffery's visit to his House last summer, and his painful discovery of the fact that Mr. Jef, fery was moat certainly using in- toxicating drink to excess. He had noticed Mr. Jeffery under the influ- ence of liquor on separate occasions. He did not go to -him and tell or ex- postulate with or advise him, he only told a friend. The first occasion was on a Saturday, and the other on the following Monday. The cross, examination wa`s very interesting, and the following is a sample show- ing how baseless were the stories circulated : "How did you know Mr. Jeffery was drunk 7" asked Mr. St. John. "Well, I surmised the fact from his appearance," replied the witness. "What was there in his appears once to indicate what you thought?" "His face was red and he was a little cross." "Who was he cross towards ? was it you ?" "No." - "Was he cross to your son ? "No," "Was he ill-tempered to ward any of your family ?" "I could not say that he was." "Well, why did you say he was cross 7" "Well I judged so from his de-, meanor.' "You said his face was red," con tinued Mr. St. John. "Yes, it was, Very, it was flush- ed.r, "Was it a warns day ?" "Yes." "Was lir. Jeffery perspiring 7" ".He was." "So it was a very warm day, Mr. Jeffery had a red face, he was per.. spiring. and therefore he was drunk." . "What day was that?" "It was on Saturday." "Did you ever see Mr. Jeffery with a red face before, or perspir- ing 7" Witness—"I did." "Was he drunk then ?" Witness—"No." "Well, what is the difference be- tween Mr. Jeffery perspiring with a red face when sober and perspiring with a red face when drunk?" The witness could not explain , he was merely giving evidence in things supposed. Mr. St. John—You let your son go out with Mr. Jeffery in a sail boat on the Saturday you thought he was drunk. Witness—I did, Mr. St. John—Were Sou not afraid of your son. getting drowned out o the water with a man under o un le the influence of liquor ? Wi to eas—No. Mr. St, John—Why ? Witness–I hash good deal of faith in Mr. Jeffery. "Mr. Jeffery pf•eaelted powerful serwotra oil' thti Sends y follpwiug Saturday, didn't he 1" "Yea," replied Mr. Medcalf. 'tI t wee a remarkable case of sobering -up quickly, wasn't it," s..id Mr. St. John. CHARACTER tN FEET. A young man with a pair of new, squeaking shoes Ott tramped into a down town shoe store in search of (aces, says the Chicago Tribune. "Why don't yuu stop that squeak ?" the clerk asked. "Ilow can 1 7" "Easily enough. Let the soles rest for three or four hours iu a pan of water just deep enough to coyer them. Dry them thoroughly after. wards in a cool place, and you will find the squeak, gone. The water •swell$ the leather and contracts the soles, which rut, aginst each other and caused the horrible noise.,' IIs chatted about the trade. "Books are written," he contiuued, "on the character which is expressed in the hands, features, hair, and so forth, but nobody that I can learn has ever tackled the subject of character as indicated by the feet. A shoe dealer learns to read a person by his_orher feet. For in- stance, those with small feet are apt to be quick tempered, whimsical, rather selfish. The smaller the feet the more these characteristics are developed. Light headed persons have a medium size, rather thiek foot. The generous but volatile have long, slender and extremely nervous feet. The toes are flexible, long, but Net well together. A man or a woman with along, slender foot and a high arch under the sole be - tweet) the heel and the ball is cer- tain to have considerable craft and ability to deceive. Their feelings .are --strung, but not lasting. The best kind of a foot in a Ivan or woman is one of medium length and width, with not too high an instep and one that rests solidly on the ground without much arch iu front of the heel. These people are the firm ones'of their race—strong in their feelings, self controlled, but implacable in their designs. Where you see such.a foot with long toes, especially the third and fourth, that rests naturally' half raised, make up your mind you are looking et a natural leader. The honest and open have well-developed heels. - The sly and insinuating have abnor, wally long, large toes, soft but strong; just the saltie as nature gives the animals of the' cat family." A PRACTICAL BOY. 'Tommy,' observed a Nelson street mother to her son, a youth of thir- teen years, 'you must cut some wood for the front stove. Mr. Crawford comes to.night.' Mr. Crawford is a young man who is 'keeping company' with Fanny, Tommy's sister. The time was a Wednesday evening. Tommy had been skating since school and was now anxiously awaiting his supper. The announcement came upon him with diagreeable force. 'Is that old rooster covin' around to -night?' he impetuously inquired. 'Thomas !' cried his mother in a voice of horror. Thomas having eased his mind somewhat of the burden, proceeded to the woodpile without further re- tnar k. 1 -Ie was not in good humor as he looked around for the,,axe, and arti- cles foreign to the search were moved with graceless haste. 'This is a ,reg'lar dog's life,' he moodily ejaculated. 'First it's Sun- day night, an' then it's Friday night; an' every little while an extra night thrown in. I don't see what's the use of a girl about the house. If I've got to cut wood every time that fellow comes, I'll know the reason why. I won't be put on like thia.. I ain't going to ,be. made a hack male of, no, sir ! for all the Craw- fords and Fannies on earth. It's all nice enough for them to be toast- ing their Khios an' actin' sickish, but I notice that I have got to do all the work. It's played out, by Jinks ! I ain't that kind of a hair- pin. I'd ,gust like to have somebody tell rne,' he added, looking around for the person in question, 'how slush of candy an' oranges an' other stuff Fanny gets that I get. Not one whiff, by gracious ! not one sin- gle, solitary whiff. An' here I chop wood for her an' if it wasn't for me they'd shake all the teeth outen their heads. Oh, they're a sweet pair, they are.' Closing his remarks with this gloomy observation on his sister and companion, he worked away at the wood until the amount necessary was prepared. About seven o'clock Mr. Crawford's knock sounded at the door. 'Fanny's',mother was to have let him in, but Tommy volun. Leered his service. He escorted the gentleman into the front room, and then, backing himself against the door, lie pointed to the stove which was throwing out a most wel- come haat, and sternly inquired : •Ia that what you call a good tire? - 'Yes indeed ;"said Mr. Crawford, rubbing Ms hands gratefully. . 'Ah 1' observed Tomnly, in a tone of relief, although his face scarcely relaxed the severity of his express. ion. 'You couldn't very well get along in here without a fire, could you 7' 'Hardly., 'I s'pose not. Now, who do you s'pose made that fire 7' 'Wily—I—I—suppose—why I don't know,' said Mr. Crawford, apparently ewbarasaed by the quos - tion. 'No 7 Well, I can tell you I made that lire. 1 cut the wood for it. I cut the wood and make every fire you have here. I've been doing it all the while you've come here, and you and Fau have set by it and toasted yourselves, and ate candy and sucked oranges. , You an' Fan have had all the comfort of it, an' I've done all the work, every bit of it. An' not one smell of the candies an' oranges have I had—not a liv- ing ieing smell.' The* unhappy boy knit his eye. brows and instinctively clenched his hand. Scarcely less disturbed appeared Fanny's young man. I -Ie. glanced uneasily from the fireman to the stove; but he made no reply. He waited approbensivly for what was•to follow. bet you've got a pound of assorted candies in your clothes this minute for Fan.' This carne so directly iu form of au interrogation that Mr. Crawford unhesitaingly nodded, `So I thought,' pursued Fanny's brother. 'Now I want to tell you that if this fire business is to he carried on by we, there has got to be a differnt arrangement of awards. If not you can come here and cut your own wood. Will you divide on- them candies?' - ' - � � - 'Why—why-I—I hardly like to do that, Tommy. I got these for Fanny you know.' 'Yes, I know,' said Tommy, grimly. 'When I see you come up here again.I shall expect to see you lug• ging an axe over your shoulder. Mr. Crawford looked aghast. 'But Tommy,' he expostulated.. 'you won't go back on me like that. I'll pay you for doing it.' 'Oh!' What will you pay?'' I'll give you fifty cents a week. 'Hope to diel' 'Yes,' said Mr. Crawford eagerly. 'Then I'm just yoru cheese,' said the youth, the hard lines melting en- tirely out of his face. 'There's nothing mean about me, but I don't want to go along in the dark. This thing had to be .settled Some way or another,for it was eating the life out of me. but now that is fixed you'll find me up to the mark every time. and if I don't make that stove rear right up on its hind legs, my name's not Tom. Anil with a flourish expressive of the deepest earnestness, he stalk• ed out of the room.' DETERIORATION OF SOILS. Michigan Farmer. The whole matter hinges upon the question as to whether lands under proper rotation and cultivation can be made to sustain their fertility, or even to increase it. Opinions sus- taining the affirmative of this ques- tion will be counted as heresy by those who estimate the loss to the soil by the amount of those elements which au analysis of a grain crop shows it to contain. This opinion is held by theorists, and those who farm it by proxy. The position is doubtless true on lands kept in con- stant cultivation without that rest which a rotation gives.' The fag•m, wer's garden and such lands near large markets as are devoted to the growth of vegetables, are illustra• tions of this.. In either case the ground fails to respond to large yields after a 'few years of cultiva- tion, although it may have a yearly application of manure. In such cases doubtless commercial fertilizers prove beneficial. But on farms where a judicious? systetn of rotation is kept up, and fields frequently lie in meadows or pasture undisturbed by the plow, I believe that chemical manures are entirely unnecessary and valueless. The fortuation of Boil was an effort of nature, which always tends to finish and furnish its articles round and complete; and a Roil that is capable of being improved under proper cultivation, is capable of en- dowing itself with all the elements suitable for the purpose for which it was created at the first. 'Che farmer who is and has been cogniz• ant of an actual improvement in his soil since the first clearing, need have no fears for 'the future of his fertility, even though the art of mat Mg "phosphates" were lost, and the bone grinding mills had shut down for good. All the weabout H Nt01'Istories hear a IOUt declining productions at the west, have came from repeated collection of the same crop, with no rest for the land, to give it time end oppor• unity to recuperator. A rotation having grass and clover as its start. ing and ending point, will attend to its own chemical supplies and ask no aid from the manufaturer to assist it in the work of growing a crop. A decline in fertility in not a nat ural process, but comes through a misuse and abuse of the gifts of nature.. My neighber expressed the opinion the other morning that we had no moral right to abuse the soil and to leave it poorer than we found it. It wan a talent that we should improve, and if possible, hand over ten talents to our successor. SAYINGS AND WHO SAID THEM. Many of our common sayings, so trite and pithy, aro used without the least idea from whose mouth or pen' they first originated. Prob,ibly the works of Shakespeare furnish us with more of these familiar maxims than any other writer, for to his, we owe—'All is not gold that glit- ters,' 'Make a virtue of necessity,' 'Screw your courage to the sticking place' (not point), ''They laud, that win,' 'This is the short and long of it,' 'Comparisons are odious,' 'Asmerry as the day is long,' 'A Daniel conte to judgment,' 'Frailty, they name is woman,' 'Make assur- ance double sure,' and, a host of others. Washington Irving gives, 'The almighty dollar.' Thomas Mor ton .queried long agog 'What will' Mrs. Grundy say 7' W bile Gold. smith answers, 'Ask me 110 questions acid I'll tell ,you no fibs.' Charles Pinckney giyes, 'Milliuus for de- fense, but not one cent for tribute.' `First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow. citizens' (not countrymen), appeared in the resolutions presented to the house of representatives in Dec• ember, 1790, prepared by Gen. Henry Lee. From the same we cull 'Christmas conies but once a year.' `Count their chickens ere they are batched,' and ' Look before your leap.' 'Thomas 'lesser, a writer of the sixteenth century, gives us, •It's an ill wind turns no good," 'Better late than never,' 'Look ere thou leap„ and 'The stone that is rolling can gather no Moss.' 'All cry and no wool,' is found in Butler's Hudihres. Dryden says : 'None but the brave deserve the fair,"Men are but children of a larger growth,' and 'Through thick and thin.' 'When Greeks join Greeka then was the tug of war,' Nathaniel Lee, 1692. 'Of two evils I have chosen the least,' and'!Phe end must justify the means,' are from Matthew Prior. We are indebted to Colley Cibber for the agreeable intelligence that 'Richard is himself again.' Johnson tells ua of 'A. good hater,' said Macintosh in 1791, the phrase often attributed to John Randolph. 'Wise and masterly inactivity,' 'Variety's the very spice of life,' and 'Notmuch the worse for wear,' Cowper. 'Men•proposes, hut God disposes.' Thos. A. Kempis. Christopher Marlowe gave forth the invitation so often repeated by his brothers in a less public way, 'Love me little, love me long.' Edward Cooke was of the opinion that 'A man's house is his castle.' To Milton we owe 'The paradise of fools,' 'A wilderness of sweets,' and 'Moping melancholy, and moon- struck madness.' Edward Young tells us 'Death loves a shining mark,' 'A fool of 40 is a fool indeed.' From Bacon comes, ' Knowledge is powerland 7'hos. Southerne reminds us that 'Pity's akin to love.' Dean Swift thought that 'Bread is the staff of life.' Catnpbell, found that 'Coming events cast their shadow before,' and "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.' 'A thing of beauty is joy forever,' is from Keats. Franklin said 'God helps those who help • themselves,' and Lawrence Sterne comforts us with the thought, `God tempera the wind to the shorn lamb;' — Lady principal—What are you screaming for? Pupils—There's a mouse in the room. Lady principal —For goodness' sake, ladies, do not let us lose our heads in this ter- rible errible emergency. Jane, run for a policeman ! — A boy fourteen years old, res cently imported front Kentucky, banded in the following as a com- position on "Breathing." The instruction was: "Tell all you can about the breathing." He said: Breath is made of air. We breath with our lungs, our lights, our liver and kidneys. If it wasn't for our breath we would die when we are asleep Boys that stay in a room all ,day should not breath. They Rbeuld wait till they get out of doors. Boys in a room make car. bonicide. Carbonicide is poisoner than mad dogs. A heap of soldiers was in a black hole in India, and a carlonicide got into that there holo and killed every ode afore morning. (girls kill the breath with corosits that squeezes the diagram. Girls can't holler or run like boys because their diagram is squeezed too much. 1f 1 was a girl I'd ruttier be a boy so I can holler.and run an' have a great big cliagratn."., . THE YEAR 1900 Although the year 1900 will be divisible by folly without a remaind- er, it will not be leap year. Twelve years must elapse before the inter- esting event will take place, but it was just the same iu 1800 and 1700, but not in 1000, fur that was a leap year, and the year 2000 will be a lea'' year also. Why this should be is a problem. To explaiu would be a tiresome task, but it rests on the principle that a difference of 11 minutes per day exists between actual time and cal- endar time. Thus a year is comput• ed at 365f days, three years being 365 days lung and the fourth 366 days. In fact the year is 365 days, 5 hours and 45 months, or 11 minutes short of 364 days. The leap year every four is said to have been in- vented by Julius Caesar. To allow for the difference of eleven minutes per year, one was dropped every hundred years. But this was found not to be exact, and Pope Gregory XIII in 1582 made au improve• ment and decreed that ceuturial year divisible by four should be a leap year. Thus by omitting the leap year fur three ceuturial years and letting it remain as usual on the fourth ceuturial year, a system is obtained so close that it would take thousauds of years to make up an- other day's differeuee in time. The calendar time is still nut exact mathematically, but as in, change • will be necessary for four thousand years, it will not fall to the shire of the present generation: to correct the discrepancy. —a.11M11.— PATE SUNG AND SLEPT BE FORE THE QUEEN. A farmer retuh ing from a North- ern tryst, accompanied by his ser- vant, Pate, not many y'ear's since, halted for refreshment at the tun of Glamis, where sleeting with a num- ber of friends, a jolly party was soon formed. Under the cheering hospitality of the gudewifo of the inn they cracked their jokes and told their - tales, till at lenght the farmer proposed that his attendaut Pate, should• enliven the meeting with a soug. One of the party, who professed to have an estitnate of the shepher'd's vocal abilities, sneering ly replied, `\\rhaur can Pate sing?' 'What d'ye say?' answered the farm- er. 'Can Pate no • sing? 'I'm thiukin' he's sung to as gude fouls an' better than you, in his time. I'll tell ye o' a'e place w•haur he has been kent to sing wi' mai' honour to himsel' than ye can brag o', an' that's before the Queen. Ay, 'an' if it will heighten him ony in your estimation, I'll prove to you that he even slcepit, an' that no sa lang ,syne, in the saltie hoose she was in.' Thinking the latter assertion outstretched the limits of all probability, a wager was immed- iately taken by the party, when, to the satisfaction of all the others pro• sent, the worthy farmer proved the truth of his allegations by telling how, accompanied by Pate, lie had been to the Kirk of Crathie on the Sunday previous, and that during the service, and in the presence of Her Royal Majesty, Pate had both sung and slept. The farmer won the wager amid continued outbursts of stentorian laughter. —Mrs. Jason -LI believe every loan wants his first born to be a son Father often said he was sorry I wasn't born a boy. Mr. Jason—So ate I. —About seventy wagon loads of cheese representing nearly $10,000 worth of thatstaple commodity were delivered in . towel here a fews days ago.—Ingersoll Sun. —"Why is a hen—no, I weal, 'a rooster, like a cent? No that isn't it. Why is a cent like a fence on a rooster on a penny. No like a cent on a rooster. Hold on a minute, that's not right either. Why is a rooster like a fence on a cent? I mean like a cent on a—like a rooster on a fence? Well, anyhow, the an- swer is, because its head is one side and tail on the other. SATE BILLS.—The Ncws•Record has un- surpassed facilities for turning out first-class work at low rites. A free advertlsemrnl in The News Record with every set of sale hills. The Huron News -Record Has just placed in stook another lot of Extra Hard Metal <NEWS SootohType TQ THE;* FARMgRS Study your e.wu interest al.0 go where ) OU can get Reliable-' Rarnessl 1 manufacture none lint tie BM or STOCK. Beware of shops that sett cheap, ai they haus got to live CT Call and get priced. Orders br mall promply attended to JOHN T. Cx& 3.TER, HARNESS EMPORIUM, BLY'i'l1, OMT. F,b : cc,'.j c, ,,,,,ti. -ea, -4 ...i r. '4tar3AWo:c,+'1<r+ ;., DE6TRC15 AND n1:.r-10vES WORMS or ALL itttiDS : t t.HIL.DREN OR D.7UI'"'.t:-.._.'".. 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