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The Huron News-Record, 1889-04-03, Page 3SUNONESS •ANNONN CEMENT. CORRESI ONDENCEE. We will at all times be pleased to receive items of news from 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 from the carrier or through their local post offices will confer a favor by reporting at this; office at once. Subscriptions may oommence at any time. ADVERTISERS. Advertisers will please bear in mind that all "changes" of advertisements, to ensure insertion, should be handed in not later than MONDAYNOON Of each week. • CIRCULATION. THE NEWS -RECORD has a larger circulation than any 'other paper 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 guaranteed at very lom prices. The Huron News -Record 51.80 a Year -$1.25 In Advance. Wednesday. April 3rd, 18S9 AN OLD CHAPTER RARELY READ: the land and throne. Had, that monarch been lees of a Solomon in hie own edema, and endowed with- comwon•senee inateed of learning, it is probable that the whole course Sof eveate would have been different. The development of Englaud's liber, ties might have been accompliehed without the violence of revolution, and the king's cbildren'e children seated on the throne securely .But for want of savoir'.jaire, the sues shine of Hie Majesty's early years was speedily overclouded : ' the sup- posed and surmised mists' were dispelled only for a space ; thunder was in the air,, and presently a storm broke forth which wrecked both the altar and the throne. It is touching to read the allusion to Hie Majesty's ' hopeful Seed,' when we recollect their misfortunes, They were now only two boys and a girl. The eldest, Prince Henry, died the very next year after the issue of this version of the scriptures; the other boy became Charles I. ; and the girl, Elizabeth, afterwards wedded to a German prince,, unfor• Lunate in war, speedily became a widow, and in her sons a very Niobe of tears. It makes such a difference whish end of the telescope of time you look through l' Who could have foreseen that errors of judg- went and want of statecraft could so soon have ruined these sanguine hopes of His Majesty's scholars ! They appeared to have reason on their side, for in their sovereign had they not, in place of a capricious woman' ' the confidence and reso- lution of a Man 4' Was he not a sanctified person,' whose ' very name is precious ' to his people 1 Yet how.soon was their forecast of events overthrown ! The royal hoose of Stuart is now practically extinct. Who is the first king mentioned in the Bible 2' is a question fre- quently asked by some ingenious ,youth ' seeking occasion ' against This elders. OF course the elderly persons so entrapped think of every one but Jaynes I of England. They are indeed pretty sure to betray a lamentable ignorance of a chapter which for two hundred and seventy - years has been printed at the beginning of everybody's English Bible -namely, the solemn dedica- tion of the authorized version of the Scriptures to the' most dread sover- eign' who bad set the translators to work. , But nobody ever looks at it nowadays, which is a pity, as it well repays the trouble of persual. HORSE BREEDING. A letter in the .empire the 4.tber day suggested deairable legislation in order to protect breeders of horses from being imposed upon by enters prizing owners of entire horses. He says: "I believe that a Govern. 'tient Inspector of all horses and mares, used for breeding purposes would be a great good, and I look forward to its establielnuent at no dietaut I time, as the only probable means of insuring greater souuduess in our breeds of horses. I would not have the liberty of the subject interferred with. Let every man breed what he likes, but I would not let hint foist that produoe on the public as sound, when they are al- most sure to go amiss as soon as they are worked. All horses as well as mares should he registered in the saute way, according to the opinion which the Government Inspector may form se to their health,and the provability of getting or producieg sound and useful foals. The breeders would cull for the regise tration mark when he asked for the, pedigree of the horse he was about to use, and if it was not a favprable one he would, of course, be placed upon his guard. If this plan could be carried out iu practice as well as its looks on paper, much good might be done, I am assured." Here is a copy of a good Michigan law which protects both parties: Section 1. -The People of the State of Michigan enact, That the owner or keeper of a stallion shall, after demand upon the owner of the mare for the price agreed upon for Nervier), have a lien upon the get of such stallion for the period of six menthe after the birth of the foal for the payment of the services of such stallion. Section 2, -No benefit *shall be had from the provisions of this Act where the owner or the keeper has fraudulently misrepresented to' the owner of the dam as to the breeding of the stallion. Section 3. -The owndi't or keeper of a stallion, in order to obtain and perfect stick a lien, shall, at any time after such' demand and within the period included between the rendition of such services by any stallion and when a colt is foaled, file with the township clerk in the township wherein such dam is own- ed, the agreement, or a tree copy of the agreement, entered into by the owner Of the dam for such service, together with such description of the dem as to age, color, or other marks, ae the person tiling such agreement is able to give. Section 4.-Upen the tiling of such agreement with the description of the dam, the same shall operate in all respects as a chattel mortgage during the time provided iu section one, with power of sale on the foal of such dam, and may be collected, enforced and discharged as provided by law for the collecting, enforcing and discharging of chattel mortgages upon payment of the fee,. to the clerk as provided by law for similar services in regard to chattel mort- gages. CURRENTS TOPICS •THE PROGRESS OF CANADA. crease over 1878 of 7b per cent. in But we way easily forgive the scholars of King James for building their hopes on 'so learned and judicious a Prince.' Relying on such a patron of their important task, they securely bid defiance to 'self --conceited brethren.' It was the fashion in those days to ascribe a difference of opinion to some moral defect ; and the criticisms of opponents are discounted before- hand,by our translators as'calumnia- tions and hard interpretations.' They quite expect to receive ' the censures of ill -meaning and discon• tented parsons, who are sure to like nothing which is not hammered on the anvil.' But the translators are not afraid, though they may be ' traduced and maligtied,' being 'supported within by the truth and innocence of a good conscience,' and sustained ' without by the powerful protection of His Majesty's grace and favour.' Nobody in these days would dream of giving either of -these reasons in supporting the goodness of a translation ! . They had, however, sounder ' reasons, which they are to modest too men, than, for their self -confider. e ; for their scholarship and mastery of ' their mother -tongue have made their work ' the wonder of the' world.' '!.'Itis they hope and pray the king himself to he, by reason of his being, `eine:liuI with singular and extraordinary graves.' The re- sult destroys any .claim they may have had to prophesy, but has es- tablished the excellence of their translation. It has laid hold on the affections of Englishmen through the generations of three centuries : it has enriched and settled the langu- ago, as Luthi•r's Bible did for Ger- many; and with all its faults, it still holds its ground, and can give long odds to all the revised and re - revised versions of the present day. The dedication itself is written in graceful and telling English ; and there is not a word in it which has become obsolete or even antiquated. It is a good specimen of the version itself, which is indeed ' a well of English undefiled.' We may smile at its stilted panegyric of a Prince whom later historians have describs ed as ' a learned fool,' and may wonder at the spirit of bondage in its expressions of loyalty. But still these sidelights on a former age are full of interest and instruction, and the dedtcatiou may be profitably read as a telling chapter in the his- tory of England, and a striking sketch of men and manners in that critical period of the British nation. -Chambers' Journal. The first thought of any casual reader of the old, and . in a sense, forgotten chapter, written in 1611, , would be a feeling of surprise that such a delightful bit of 'the antique' Should be in .everybody's hands and yet almost entirely unknown. It comes from a period not so yery re- mote from our own ; but its contents read like a story from the depths of the middle ages. Events have mew.. ed so fast, and the whole character of English society has been so cow• pletely changed, that we hold our breath in amazement at the cringing subservience and fulsome adulation of this address. It seems scarcely credible that within three hundred years of our own day such a spirit and posture should be found in. sturdy Englishmen, still less in the ripest scholars of the time.' But so it was ; and though the compliments were probably intended to be taken cum gran sails, their laboured af- fetation of sincerity manifests a tem, per entirely alien to the spirit of in- dependence we like to ascribe to our ancestors. But this dedication is worthy of attention for other reasons. It is said to have been written by the Bishop of Gloucester, and is :lies tinguished by great picturesqueness of style and much elegance and force sof language. It begins with a graphic sketch of the Reformed Church of England as ' our Zion,' encompassed by evil•wishere whose expectation it was that ' thick and palpable clouds of darkness' would over -shallow it, et the critical nto- tnent which they describe as ' thA setting of that bright Occidental Star, Queen Elizabeth.' ' Occidental Star' is good ! It sounds well, and it gives the' wise men ' of the West a luminary of their own to follow. Bnt a star after all is not the bright- est object in the firmament, how- 'eyer beautiful it may be in evening's twilight. And our good translators bit a weakness of ' the Most High and Mighty Prince' when they re- served a bolder figure for himself, and hailed ' the appearance of his majesty as of the Sun in his strength 1' The king could not tom• plain of the inevitable compliment to good Queen Bess, whom the peo• ple had taken to their hearts ; but it may be doubted whether lie held her altogether in ' happy memory,' Time had doubtless brought round its revenge ; but he scarcely could have forgiven or forgotten the tragedy at Fotheriagay. Cleverly, therefore, is the flattery turned which overpowers the radisnce of the ' Occidental Star ' with the ris- ing glory of the ' Sun in his strength.' And there was something in it, For rnost certainly the accession of James raised legitimate hopes of a long period of stable prosperity to J. O. Hgpkine it, Toronto Week. Canada has of hate years, iu addle tion to its positive progrees, made very great comparative headway, and in fact ranks favorably with any country iU the world,not exclud- ing the United States, in agricultur- al, industrial and 'general develops stent. Some passing allusion has already been made to the subject of our agricultural progress, more es- pecially concerning the rapidly growing districts of Manitoba, the North-West, British Columbia, and the "Great Lone Land" of a brief period past, the Mackenzie Basin. It is hardly necessary to dwell upon the recent eeortnoua productions of wheat in the Territories and Mani. toba, its superior quality to that of any grown elsewhere upon the Con- tinent, or to refer to the immense posaibitities of future production, but I would turn for a moment to Ontario, the greatest Province of the Confederation, the educational, intellectual, and inost progressive, portion of our fair Dominion, According to the Annual Report of the Ontario Bureau of Industries the total- value of farm lauds, build- ings, implements, and-liye stock iu this Province rose from $882,000,- 000 in 1882 to $989,000,000 in 1886, or an increase of $107,C00,000 in four years. 'In this connection the words of Hon. David A. Wells, the American author, are well worthy of repetition as giving a for- iegn estimate of our Province, when he says: •'Nearly as great in area as New York, Peunsylualtia, and Ohio co.ubiued, and equal, if not superior, it raises and grazes the finest of cattle, and its climatic conditions created by an aln)ost• encirclement of the Great Lakes especially lit it to grow men. Such a country is one of the greatest gifts of Provi• deuce to the human race, better than bonanzas of silver or rivers whose sands contain gold." -In the attain court, Ottawa, the long -looked -for cause celebre, in which Mies Pauline Smith sued to recover $5,000 damages from Wm. C. Jamieson for breach of promise, the jury returned a verdict of $1,000 and $3 per week for all the time elle lost since giving up her situation in order to get married. --At Ottawa great surprise was caused by the issue of President Harrison's proclamation declaring Behring sea a closed sea. The ace' tion of the American government proved a complete surprise to the members of the government, who decline to bo interviewed. It is rens dered all the more surprising be, cause the Cleveland administration and the 13ritish government have been in negotiation for two years past in regard to a claim for compen- sation for the seizure of three British scaling vessels in Behring sea. A GRIT AUTHORITY SAYS WE ARi. PROSPERING The dairying interests of Canada are growing more important every year, and in no part of Canada is the progress more marked than in Ontario. Cheese factories have multiplied in this province during the last few years till now there are 770 in operation, and there are also 40 creameries doing a profitable business. In the annual report of the professor of dairying in Ontario Agricultural • College, there is a statement of some significance : "The dairy industry is now recog• nized as the msst important of all branches of Canadian agriculture." AMERICAN RELIGIOUS INEQUALITY A surprise to Canadians is the fact made prominent by the 'voting last week in New Hampshire that New England has not got rid yet of some of the old laws restraining relig- ious liberty, which have given her an' unenviable notoriety. New Hamp- shire still maintains the religious test oath, the proposal to amend the constitution in this respect, though having 9,000 majority, failed to sncure the two• -third vote neces- sary to effect a change in the consti- tution. The law in New Kamp - shire forbids Roman Catholics to hold any public office. the number 'of bands employed, of 75 per cent. in the amount of wages paid, of 93 per cent. in the value of products, and uf.75 per cent in the amount of capital invested. It would theu appear that we have as a people Made a marked progress in the great work of build - jug up a country coutainiog those varied occupations which are eo essential to the tree developmeut of a position of agricultural and manu- facturing power, and that we are now directing our energies, under the beneficgut action of our policy of protection, towaads a future well described by Mr. J. S. Jeans, an etnlueut English writer, when he asserted that "iu a general way, it may be safely predicted that the nation which has the most varied industry is likely, all other things being equal, to be the most prosper• ous, powerful and contented." Mr. J. R. Lamed,. of the U. S. Treasury Department, said in 1871, in a report to his Government: "Ontario possesses a fertility with which no part of New England can at all compare, and that particular section of it around which the circle of the Great Lakes is swept forces Itself upon our notice as one of the Most favoured spots upon the whole Continent." When we turn to the Dominion as a whole we find that the census of 1871 shows the total value of farm products to have been $280,- 000,000, while that of ten years later reveals a total of $371,000,000; or au increase of $90,000,000. It is,however,asserted that our fanners are . crippled by heavy mortgages, but the facts would seem to b` very different. The returns of the mort- gages on real estate throughout the entire. Dotniuiou as made to the Government by Loan Companies amounted in 1866 to the 'sum of $81,000,040, or little more than 10 per cent. of the value of fartn proper- ty in Ontario alone. A comparison in this respect with the condition of the American farmers will throw some light upou our position. The • American Commissioner of Agricule ture in his Report for 1886 shows thet in New York States, the richest portion of the American) Union 30 per cent. of the farms are inert• gaged to within 66 per cent. of their estimated value, acd ,one in twenty of the farm proprietors is hopelessly in debt, and so It goes on. In Illi• noir 33 per cent.; in .,Kansas 50 per sent:; in Alabamae45 per cent.; in Louisiana and in Arkansas 75 per cen ,. of the farms are mortgaged. We thus see the great progress Canada has made in the past in the development of her agricultural resources, and what may not be said of the future? With our 375,000,• 000 acres of good agricultural land still unoccupied; with our 1,300,000 square miles of surface on which we can grow the beet wheat in the • world; with soil which produces the best barley upon:the American Con- tinent; with the adoption of some policy which would bring the capital and the farmers of the mother -coun- try to develop our vacant territory, it is not difficult to come to the conclusion that our progress in the future will be much greater than it has been even in our prosperous past. TO THE FARMERS Study your own interest and go where you can get • Reliable Harness. I manufacture none but the BZBT OF STOOK. • Beware of shops that sell cheap, as they have got to live. far Call and get prices. Orders by mail prompty attended to eTOBEN T. CARTER, HARNESS EMPORIUM, BLYTIt, 43 N'1'. THE JOYS OF ILLINOIS The fallowing is a verbatim quer ation taken from a letter received by a ratepayer of Osborne, county of Huronfrom a relative of his, who lives in Illinois, U. S. speaking of the crops of the past harvest. He says: -"Crops are pretty good here. Grain is not worth quite so much here as it is there with you. Wheat is 80c to 85c; Oats 20e to 22c Corn, 25c; Potatoes, 25c; Apples 30c; Peas not much of a crop. Other things are in proportion. So there is SOME DIFFRENCE in THIS COUNTRY and THAT iu regard to the the market. For if we turn to the local markets ofOntariofor the corres- ponding date we find as follows. - Wheat, $1.05; Oath, 32; Barley, 56; Peas 57; Corn, 450; Potatoes, 25; Apples, 30. It must also be borne in mind that the writer ie.quoting their winter prices or best prices about Christmas, time, as his friend in Usborne tells us he quoted to him Christmas prices, and if that be taken into account wheat here was then $1.18 to $1.20. Supposing we make a simple calculation just to show the fallacy of the Opposition cry that farmers do better there than here. We never farmed but will suppose that a farm is capable of producing the following, here, which is only a moderate estimate: -400 hush. of wheat, 1000 bush. oats, 500 bush. barley, 200 bush. peas, 200 bush. potatoes, 200 bush. apples, and in the U. S. the same with the exception of peas and barley, and we will substitute corn, and this is the result:- -The Michigan?, A dvocete says: "A sad thing- ocoured in Detroit this week. A sneak -thief broke ins to the house of a well-known clergy- man, and stole a feather bed and a barrel of sermons." -O'Rooney (entering hardware store) -'The boss sint me down after a pane av glass, tin lbe foor- teen.' Waggish Clerk -'Well, Pat, I don't think 1 can give you a ten by fourteen, but I can let you have a fourteen by ten, if youlhink you can make that do.' Pat (struck with a bright itloa)-'Be !livens! jilt give inc wan av thio, and Oi'll jist turn th' sideways avit upside down, an' Oi don't helave the boss himself ud ever know th' difference,' Intimately' bound up with the welfare of the agriculturist is that of the\ manufacturer. A large artisan and industrial population requires a proportionate supply of food and hence affords an increased Market for the products of the farm. Man,: ufacturers,of Canada are yet in their infancy, but even in that condition show a steady and increasing prog- ress. The census returns reveal the following figures of continuous increase in the industries of the country: 1871 1881 Capital invested ..877,324,030 ,165,402;013 Value of raw material124,901,846 179,918,641 Total value of articles produceil 221,617,778 309,076,008 and there seems little reason to doubt a recent estini"ate to the effect that since 1881 the' increase has has been at least thirty per cent. A partial investigation made in 1RR4 and 188. in the five older Provinces of the Dominion, affords the premises from which to calculate that here had been in 1884 an in - AMERICAN FARMER. 400 bus. wheat at 85c 1000 " oats @ 22c 700 " corn @ 25c 200 " potatoes @ 25c 100 " apples @ 30c 400 1000 500 200 200 100 11 rl 11 " /1 1, $340.00 220.00 175.00 50.50 30.00 815.00 CANADIAN FARMER Wheat $1.05 420.00 'oats .32 320.00 barley .66 280.00 peas •J7 114.00 potatoes .25.. 50.00 apples '30... 30.00 tt.• f!'n1r7WZa ''?=!y„1, 11 Aro p:caa -u: to t 3. Ccut.• to that. own Pmr,;uti•r0. 13 a a flee tuts! destroyer of worm in Ci ldi un or Adults $1214.00 Showing a difference in favor of the Canadian farmer of $399.00 in one year's work -enough, if a tenant, to pay the rent of a first class farm, his taxes and the wages, of a young wan during the greater part of the year. Or if the owner of the farm who could' put it in the bank at 4 per cent, would in ten years enable him to buy a first class farm, or retire with a handsome little sum. Yet in spite of all this we are told that the farmer here is down -trodden and an object of pity, while his neighbors across the line are rolling in wealth, and an endless lot of bosh, all to excite discontent and create a feeling of unrest, thereby hoping to cause a feeling of distrust in the Conser- vative Government at Ottawa, but neither the farmers nor any other class of people in this country are fool-sthe Globe saying the contrary notwithstanding -and know when they have an honest government. Conservatives, stand shoulder to shoulder and ever withstand that wily band of office seekers led by the musketeer, Laurier. BILL HEADS, NOTE Heads, Letter Ileads, 'lags •Statements, Circulars, Business Cards, Envelopes, Programmes. etc., etc., printe1 in a workman like manner and at low rates, a THE NEWS -RECORD Office. LESLIE'S CARRIAGE AND WAGON FACTORY, Corner Iluron and Orange Streets, Clinton. FIRST - CLASS MATERIAL and UNSURPASSED IRON WORK. Repairing and Repr°ntiug. ire ALL WORK WARRANTED.Til 5211 DR. WASHINCTON Throat and'Lunt; Surgeon, of Toronto. THIS A.ND THAT. -A piano -tuner says that pianos frequently deteriorate because they are allowed to become too dry. Tse counteract this he advises keeping a growing plant in the room. An- other way is to keep a large vase or urn with a.sopping wet sponge in it under or near the piano. -The Signal Service reports that during a hurricane off the Bahamas eleven vessels were saved by pouring oil on the waters. -Mrs. Harrison believes in peo- ple going to bed early. The White House, it is said, will be closed promptly at 10 o'clock p. m. -There is one thing which ie very fashionable, and which we heartly approve, and we are glad to approve fashionable thing. whenever we can •do iio. The style of having "receptions" at which only ladies are present is good. The ladies appear "in fnll dress," to be sure, but no then are there, and 50 It ie all right. We hope the fashion will continue.- WIII be at the Rattenbury House CLINTON. APRIL 11TH All Day. A few of the 'hundreds eared by DR, WASHINGTON'S New Method Inhalatior W. H. Storey, of of Storey k Son, prominent glove manufacturers of Acton, Ont., cured by .Dr.'Washington of catarrh of the throat, bad form, and pronounced incurable by eiuinen specialists hw'Canada and England. Write hum for particulars. Chronic ,BronehitIs and Asthnea Cored An English Church Clergyman speaks, Ree�rya, Corrtweil.Ont DR. WAeaINOTON.• - Deea Sac, -I am glad to be able to inform you that our daughter hi quite well again. As talo is the second time she hat been cured of grave bronchial troubles under your treatment, when the usual remedies failed, 1 write to express my gratitude. Please accept my sincere thous. Yours truly, C. B. PIiTIIT. Mrs Jno 111cKelvy, Kingston, Ont,, Catarrh and Consumption. John McKelvy, Kingston, Ont, Catarrh. Mr A (lopping, Kingston, Out, Bruncho'Coneump- tion. Mr. E. Scott, Kingston, (.)ht, Catarrh, head and throat, Mrs Jno Bertram, Harrowsmith, Ont, near King- etun, Catarrh, throat. Miss glary A Rombourg, Centreville, Ont,,..larrh head and throat. James Mathews, 1'. Master, Acton, Ont. A Wish, Gents Fuonishing, Bellevllle,Catarrb throat. John Phippen, P. 0. Sandhurst, Ont, (near Napa - nee), Catarrh head and throat. Bad case SOUND ADVICE. -Those having sales of any kind should consider that itis just as Important to have their posters properly displayed and ap. pear neat and attractive, as itis to hats o good auctioneer. Tux News-Recoit0 makes a specialty of this class of work, they have the malerlat and experience to give you what you want at 1'er.0 reasonable prices QTRAY STOCK ADVER- TISEMENTS Inserted in Tntt News Recoup at low rates. The law makes it compulsory to advertise stray Yock. 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