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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton New Era, 1891-04-17, Page 7THE LOOM OV JZFE. y end all night; I can he,arihe jar t 41.4 1dbm of life, and near and far thr[,lls with its deep](andj muffled and As the tireless wheels go always round. Duey, ceaselessly goes the loom. la the light of day and the' midnight's gloom; The wheels are turning earlyfand late, And the woof is wound in a warp of fate. _ Clio1F 1 click ! there's a thread off love wove in; eaglet, Click! Cliak! anotherlof wrongjland sin— What a chequered thing will this 'life be 'When we see it unrolled inseNeernity ! When shall this wonderful web be done. In athousand years perhaps, or one— Or to -morrow ; who knoweth? Not you nor I. And the wheels turn on and the shuttles fiy. Ah, sad -eyed weaver, the slow, But each one is nearer the end w And some day the last thread shal be woven in, God grant it be love, instead of sin.; j Then are we spinners of wool for this life web—say? Do we furnish the ''weaver a web each day? It were better then, 0 kind friend, to spin. A beautiful thread --not a thread of sin Jt INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS. Jobbing Departraent is not TALMAGIAN IlYPl`i O ISM free ,agericyl? Tho old Book says, "If thou ho wide, thou shalt be wise for thy4elf; but if tliou,ieornest, thou alone NE DENCUNCES IT AS A DASTARDLY . shalt bear it." No one can shirkrespon- AND'VILLAINOUS HUMBUG. "The Evil Eye" Superstition of Last Ven. tory Revived in title 19th Century Method of Shifting One's Burden of Wrong Upon the Shoulders of Another. At a recent Friday evening lecture, Dr. Tannage said: "Through the Asso- ciated Press, a few days ago, went a story of a case of hypnotism which was reported as coming under my own ob- servation. It is time that all moral and religious teachers should express them- selves on the subject of hypnotism. It is a word older than Noah Webster's Dictionary; but the ancient definition, which says that it is a somnambulism produced by means of animal magnet- ism, is as much out of time as the coal scuttle bonnets of your greatgrand- mothers are different from the dainty head -covering of a modern lady. Hypnotism, as now believed in, is a spell that one person holds over another, compelling him or her to surrend- er all power,",,of will and self-control, do as the operator pleases. eed a celebrated case recently ame into the courts of Paris where an offender of the law was adjudged iusane and set free beeause he could not help doing the crime he having been hypno- tized. The only case that has conte under my own observation is the one to which I referred, as recently seen in the news- papers. A few months ago a lady called at my house and desired to see nue on important business. She appeared re- fined, intelligent and pleasant. There was nothing in herappearance to indica`e any- thing unusual. She began by saying that she was from Indianapolis, Indiana, and that she had conie to secure nig in- terference in her behalf. She said her hills bad diediiiIndianapolis.- 11 -6 -had been slain through a spell put upon him by his wife. The uncle had suffered from a long and distressing disease; that his wife had, through hypnotic in- fluence, compelled him to decline taking food. That's physician had been called, and the aforesaid wife had also hypno- tized hini so that he gave the wrong kiud of medicine or no medicine at all. That this baleful influence was contin- ued until the invalid went down under it and finally expired. That she, the lady talking with me, had complained of the treatment given iter uncle, and had pronounced it a case of murder, and that, as a result, the woman who had slain her husband had, in revengeful-- spirit, cast the same spell von her,—my informer. That to escape it, she had gone clear out to Oregon; but distance had no relaxing influence; and that she could endure this malign pursuit no long- er; and that she had come to Brooklyn to request inc to employ attorneys in her be- half, and have her wrongs, and those of her dLceased uncle, ventilated in the Courts of law. Although the recital Uf the incident may to you, who did not ' confront' the case, seen bordering on the facetious, to sue the conversation wasi, fearful tragedy. I could see no sign in her face'l of mental aberration. There was nothing like an enlargement of the pupil of the eye, that generally' indicates intellectual shipwreck. After she had done speaking, I said, BE SURE YOUR'E RIGHT, o then go ahead! If you have the catarrh every preparation thatdoes not cure you only irritates and increases your suffering. Begin right by using the simplest and only remedy that is guar- anteed—Clark's Catarrh Cure. The soothing, healing influence is felt at once, and a gratifying cure always fol: lows its use. Price 50 cents. If the druggist tries to sell you something else, send the price to Clark's Chemical, Co., Toronto, New York, and the re- medy will be sent to you by mail, All first-class druggists keep Clark's Ca- tarrh Cure. ABOUT THOSE GIRLS. There was never a girl iso home- ly -that she could live happy with- out a looking glass. - Girls are but weak creatures, but the most ethereal of thorn can throw a man over with the greatest of ease. regie—How do you like m}' new engagement ring? Emma—1 never liked i1; it was too large for hue when I used to wear it. A'nd Eugie and Emma walk on differ- ent sides of the street now. She— How do you expect me to pay much attention to you when sibilityr by throwing it off on others. What is the meaning of the "Thou shalt note" of the ten commandments if we have no power to resist evil? If some one with a bad eye can make us morally collapse, if some overpowering influence can first kill our uncles and then chase ue. from Indianapolis to Oregon and from Oregon ta'Brooklyul If you, my hear- er, or you, my reader, feel that there is such a spell on you, you are in a state of incipient insanity, and you need a doc- tor, and a doctor right away. Your difficulty is cerebral and nervous. There are only two forces that can overwhelm- ingly effect you—and the one is Divine, and the other is Satanic. The Divine influence is healthful, is gracious; is elevating, is saving, is heavenly; while the Satanic is depraved and damnatory. ptit even the Satanic enthrallment will imp, if you apPeal for Divine release. -My: friends; we need all to resign the habit of ascribing to others our own de- ficits. E ve thought that the serpent had hypnotized her, but all three got pun- istted,—the serpent by being pursued by the clubs of all the ages, and our first parents by being ejected from their homestead, leaving us, their descend- ants, to scramble for a living. If things go wrong, the husband is apt to blame the wife and tie wife, the husband, and the brother the sister, and the sister the brother, and the associate his associate. The besotting doctrine of hypnotism has gone farther than you imagine, if you havn't investigated this subject. The besotting doctrine of hypnotism, becom- ing more and more prevalent, always puts the blame on others. The Chris- tian religion teaches us to put the blame .. on ourselves. We are apt to go out in the world, trying to get all the people right with references to ourselves. The simple fact is, that our hard- est job is to manage ourselves. The, wgple who __control themselves have no great difficulty with others. Stand up in a manly Christian independence! If we do wrong, con- fess it to God, and try again. There is not a being in the universe. except God, who could hinder vyu from being honest and good and useful, and God never yet stopped a man or woman travelling in the right direction, but always helps the struggling soul, seeking for something higher and better. And here let me advise you tnstop pot- tering with those strange and queer and destructive systems, sometimes called by one thing, sometimes by another. Ever and anon some philosophic or religious crank starts a now theory about (god or the soul or humanity, and no system is so absurd that it does not have disciples., If some one should propose building a railroad from the top of Trinity Church 'to the moon, there are those who would rush down and take the stock. Stick to your Bible, and try everything by that standard. That is the book which will stand with its system of morals and reli- gion triumphant five hundred years after all the volumes of hypnotism and polytheism and agnosticism, and all the other volumes of diabolism, shall have been so long forgotten in the world's libraries that the book worms which de- vour them will starve on the shelves be- cause there is nothing more for them to eat. you pay so much attention - to "Madam, I am very sorry for you, but other girls? He — Because if I why do you not try to have your wrongs did not pay so much attention to righted in Indianapolis, where there other girls you would not pay so r areas clever lawyers and as good judges much attention to me, of Courts as we have in Brooklyn?" 14lisa Prima—I fear there is "Oh!" she replied, "they say in Indiana - Did amand Icoisthat I insane, amnot 10sponscould • getha nothing in Miss Mumsley. no you see her yawn while you were justice done me there, and I saying such bright things to her? have came all this distance, confident Mr. S'ecundus—Yes; and f kept on, hoping she would nod next. Mise Prima—Why? Mr. Secundus` —I thought it possible she might talk some in her sleep you know. It was said that the McKinley bill would send dress goods 'up, but opera and ballroom dresses do not seem to go up any higher. Sanso•=There is one thing that every woman likes to have a finger in. Rodd—What's.that? Saneo—An engagement ring. Ile—Are you going to the East - ter ball, Celeste? She—llow can I?' I've nothing to wear, Hu — well, isn't that enough? that you would help me out from under this awful influence, which haunts me day and night." I said, "Madam, I am very clear as to what is the best thing for you to do. Will you take nay ad- vice, if I frankly give i1?' She said, "I think I will." Then 1 said, "My advice is for you to take the first train for home. Your uncle is dead. No amount of fuse in the courts will restore him to life. There is only one person that you have to look after,—that is yourself. I do not say the people of Indianap.,lis are right when they declare you insane, but I tell you plainly that unless you get off this track you are now on. you will be insane. Now go straight horse and seek not a good family physician who will gi t i yoU some medicine to toile up. your ,,arsenal system and quiet your ;.rain. There is no spell upon you. You are Under a terrible hallucination. If y.•u will accept a doctor, I will get one; Lot not a lawyer. (in right home." \Vith the close of that. conversation end- ed my acquaintance with the case until the nenvspaIxirs intorrned us, a few days ago, that that unfortunate lady had been arrested in Indianapolis; deadly wea- pons were taken from her, and she went to the insane asylum. There have. 110 doubt,' "ases of more or less malignancy come under you observa- tion. I think it is a new phase of the old superstition, called in the las", con - tory, "the evil eye," a capacity, by glance of the eye, totttllict with Sickuoss "r strike with' death any, o n' who male under its power. \Vhttt do i think of hypnotises? 1 I1,tnk it n dastardly and villainous hunt - hug That we may influence each .•tle•1 Inward right or wrong is most Lila, but it is a power of persuasion s, :" power mf example or a power of Asa +elation. Hence we naturally be- ntr georl if we go with the- gond; in- telligent, if WO go with the intelligent; retitled, if we go with the relined; ;,r bad, if we go with the ball; vulgar, 1f we go with tiro vulgar; boorish, if we go with the boorish. lint that you can ernnpel me to do right or compel one to do wrong, i deny with an emphasis, red hot with indignation. The Bible, which is our only guide, notices it plain that every roan and' every woman is a free agent. If you have the power of what is called, "animal magnetises," or what 1 shall call, "infernal magnetirim," to t;ompel nie to do wrong, where is my A DISCOVERY IMPORTANS TO LADIES. The political battle is over, but the battle with disease must be constantly and unceasably waged else the grim reaper will come out victorious, and ito their n ill gather to heg loved ossa w g home. On all sides may be seen pale and listless girls who should be enjoy- ing the health and glow of rosy youth. Everywhere are met with women young in years, yet prematurely old, who suffer in silence almost untold agonies, the result of those ailments peculiar to the female system. To all such, Dr Williams' I'ink Pills comes as a blessing. They restore wasted vital- ity, build up the nervous system, en- rich the blood, and transform pale and sallow complexions into glowing, rosy cheeks that alone follow perfect health. In a word they are a certain cure for. all these distressing complaints to which women and girls are peculiarly liable. A trial of these pills will con- vince the most scepticttlof their wonder- ful merit. For suffering men Dr Williams' Pink Pills are equally effica- cious. For over -work, mental strain, loss of sleep, nervous debility and all those diseases that lead to broken-down manhood, they are a certain specific, stimulating the brain, reinforcing the exnausted system anti restoring shat- tered vitality. Dr Williams' fink Pills are nature's restorative and ahnnld be used by every weak and de- bilitated person. For sale by all dealers er sent post paid on receipt of price (1 0 cents a box) by addressing the, Dr William 4' Medicine Co.,I Brockville Ont. SUT assed in t: .11.net IAccordingto a Paris journal, the Count de Paris, wearied of inaction, is about to cast bis lot with the Portuguese, and take under his control their possessions in East Africa. Yvette Gilbert is the uaule of the most popular singer in Paris at present. She sings at the Nouveau Cirque, and society ladies throng to hear her retail the ballads of the gay Paris world. Count Herbert Bismarck has bad a famous present. The ancestral estate, where the Iron Chancellor was born, Schonhausen, Magdeburg, Prussian Saxony, has been given him by his father. M. Chauchard, of the Louvre dry goods store in Paris. has issued a copper medal, which he gives tet' every one of his customers iu commemoration of his purchase of "The Angelus" for the huge sum of $140,000. The czar is credited erlth these words when the closer alliance with. France was pressed upon bila recently: "1,f they could only have one of my brothers for emperor, the alliance would be concluded speedily." The sultan is said to be studying German with avidity--sonlethiug new for the grand Turk. He says that when Emperor Wilhelm visits the Bosphorus again he will be able to welcome him in the German language. In the stronghold for isolated prisoners of St. Pe.ersburg a printing office, the first of its kind iu Russia, has been established, where the prisoners will have to do the government's printing, under the direct supervision of their nultchaluik and his as- sistants. e. The chat'uliug Swedish prima donna, Sig- rid ierid Arnoldsou, is now visiting the principal cities of southern Europe. When she ap- peared in the title role of "dinorah," at the Liceo theatre in Barcelona recently, the whole audience of 5.0)0 persons rose and ac- claimed her. Apropos of the creru(ttiou of the Duke of Bedford, it is pretty generally known that Sir Charles Dilke's first wife was cremated. But it is not known to more than Sir Charles' intimates that the ashes of the late Lady Dilke, inclosed in a beautiful urn or vase, .are placed ou the overmantle in his own room. . - The new archbishop .,f York is an amateur photographer. The bishop of Ripon is de- voted to football. Bishop Ellicott is renown- ed for good skating. The bishop of Chester, as is well known, has expressed a desire to keep a public house. The old, staid notions of ecclesiastical dignity are evidently de- caying. Tho Comtesse de Paris did not, when pass- ing last through Paris, put up as usual at the Due de Chartres's little palace in the Rue Francois I. No member of the De Chartres family came to meet her at the railway. The breach between the fatuities, caused by the breaking of the engagement of their children, is evidently wideniug. A South American lady, now the wife of a French judge, has created a sensation 111 Paris by appearing at Mme. Carnot's re- ception wearing the most wonderful pearls ever seen in Europe, .except, perhaps, those of the queen of Italy. The same lady has a set of Brazilian diamonds valued at six or seven millions of francs—about $1,400,000. The Russian law permits only manufac- turers paying the taxes of a guild to use steam power in their factories; small es- tablishments paying a simple license tax must do their work by hand power. The technical and trade societies of the two capitals have now petitioned the govern- ment to allow small manufacturers to use steam engines to the extent of tive-horse power. The petition is viewed favorably by the authorities, and probably will be granted. The municipal council of Kiev hasenacted a plan for the administrative vigilance over servants and laborers. The latter will be supplied with "day -laborers' lists," in which their employers will have to inscribe their testimony as to the behavior and diligence of each man for the time he was in their em- ploy. Servants will be supplied with books in which their masters will have to write down every instance df bad conduct, terms of engagement, reason for discharge, etc. Drop by Drop. A' great many people have an errone- ous idea as to the great force of water. At a recent entertainment in Leaven- worth a wager was made that the strong- est roan present could not stand a quart of water dropped into his open hand, drop by_ drop, from a 'right of . three feet. A strong, manly fellow eagerly accepted the bet, thinking that, to stand the force of such a ofnall quantity of water, was mere child's play. Before 500 drops had fallen into his hand he almost cried with pain and said he had enough. After a little water had fallen each drop seemed to crush hie hand, and a blister in the centre of it was the re- sult. This is a very practical illustra-. tion of the old adage that constant dropping wears away stones.—Leaven- worth Titles. The Rote of Harmony. A careful study of the rule of har- mony costs nothing and will help the ani ateur decorator and furnisher trot a little. Not 'only does this relate to color, but to form as well. Wall decor- ations, furniture hangings and carpets must all combine to form a concordant whole, awl each must help the others to appear better. The wall decoration must help the vases and *pictures, the carpet must impro ve. the furniture,and so on, while on the other hand, the vases and pictures must reflect some of the beauty to the wall, and the furniture un et. he on equally good terms with the carpet. The tones may be light or dark, n eool or warm, rich or soft, strong or sombre, bat harmony of color and tone there must be if there is beauty. A (%rent Financier. :Waled : "Well, I've considered to marry Mr. Tightfist." Mildred: "Why, I thought you hated him." Mabel: "Oh, I du. but he is bound to be very rich some day. I le hat such a grasp of fin- ance." 1lildretl: "What gives you that, impression?" Mabel: "Why, he invited me to church' last night. and conning hoose we took a car, though he wanted to walk,, oth ways. Well, when the condnt•t.er came around he said: Huw n0forhntate! i find I have nothing Have clonal. hill. I l,t you smaller than ,t 1 V anv change' !in 1 (Said the fares." The Office Didn't Find the Dian. A woman was in charge of a saloon on Russell street the other day when a man en- tered, looked around for the husband, and, fording the coact clear, he tenderly ob- served: "Madam, I have been appointed a commit- tee to wait upon your husband." "Yes." "To see it he would accept a nomination." "We have decided to run him for Alder- man of this ward." "Yes." "And I believe it is usual on occasions of this sort to greet the committee—receive them with liberality—in fact, set up the beer." "Yes," she replied, as she went on with her knitting, "but you'd better see my hus- band." "Oh, certainly. Where eau he be found!" "About six miles out on the Centre Lint road." "Coming in soon!" "Hardly; he's out there in a burying ground. He's been out there seven yews." "Ab! I see. And in that case he probab- ly won't acceptl" , ' • Prol.ably not." "And the best thing for the commit tee to dc is to retire as gracefully as possible and ars dry as a bone. The committee retires."— Detroit Free Press. ('rushed, The tall youth spoke with a sharp ring in his voice. •'I will not be treated as a boy AM' longer. 51aud Vertigo!" he said. •'I onn- sider myself a man. I am old Ono,.;it, at all events, to raise a beard!" The yetntg lady looked searchingly at the shaded upper lip of her ienpetiious admirer. '•Then why don'ts you do it., Harry!" site naked with a plaintive sigh. c7d Z1 • •-cs O1-= „71, • 1-zi 1.1 y~ et;;L4 • o (it m ce cfl "The Iron fort of the World." Escanaba is the county seat of Delta rouu- tyy, Michigan. It lies at the foot of the great Pi noforests, and overlooksrinnks Little Bay de No- s the headwaters of Green Bay. Five years since it was practically a village in the wilderness. To -clay finds it tt city with a population of 8,000, lighted by electricity, having a well-equipped fire brigade, water- works with a capacity of 4.00,00o galloon per nap. n high school and three otherset:mots, six elm rches, three newspapers, a railway station where 210 trains arrive and depart daily, and itwill shortly have an electric strc;1t railway in full worlc. its annual retail trade is estimated et $3,)101,000, and its wholesale trade, including iron ore, pig- h9)n, hnker, and coal, at about t'.:',0111,001. Arco -riling to 4►r. Nursey's carefully writ- ten report, vapahle of the fullest verification, Escanaba is the greatest it nn -putt of the world. lie tells us that during the naviga- tion season of 1890 it shipped :1,;00,00)tons of iron ore, or nearly double that of ell the ore ports of Mirhighn, Wiscruein. and Minne- sota ennihhled. Its lumber o1 (111) AIM milted to about 12,000,001 feet, while the freight capacity of the vessels entering and clearing from its port exeneded 8,000,010 tons. This compares with the tonnages of the greatest seaports of the world, which are: 111 London, 10,000,01): t21 Liverpool, 14,001,000; (3) New York, 11 ,000.000, and next come; Escanaba with 9,001,001 tons.—Iron. • Women with big hands should never wear white gloves, or any other glnvee with short fingers; and tho big-solori woman can only hope to reduce her tinderetanding by wear- ing blank shoes or slippery. 0 1 THOUSANDS or LIVES LUST, Poets and, novelists go into ecstasies ver what ' they romantically eall "beautiful spring," and "gentle sping." and while, no beubt, every one is glad to see winter release its lov grasp, "beatiful spring" is, after all, one of the most deadly seasons of the year. Sudden transitions from warmth to extreme cold, with piercing chilling winds; from dry to sloppy, "muggy" weather, all combine to make the sea- son a most trying one, even to the hardest conatitution, while to those with weak constitutions the season is one of positive dlinger. Undoubtedly the greatest danger at this season of the year is from cold in the head,whieh very few escape, and which if not promptly and thoroughly treated, de- velopes into catarrh, with all its dis- agreeable and lothsome effects. Ca- tarrh, zeglected, almost as cert. n y developer into consumption, Gnnuttily destroying thoneands of lives. At this trying season no household should be without a bottle of Nasal Balm. In cases of cold in the head it gives almost instant relief and effects a speedy core that; preventing the development of catarrh. 'Where the latter disease has already secured a hold it is equally i efficacious, and with presistent use will care the worst case. From the outset it sweetens the breath, stops the nause- ous droppings into the throat and lungs, dispels those dull headaches that afflict the sufferer from catarrh. Nasal Balm is not advertised ae a cure-all—it is an honest remedy which never fails to cure cold in the head or catarrh when 1 the directions are faithfully followed, and thousands throughout the country have reason to bless its discovery. Nasal Balm may be had from all dealers (50 cents, small, or $1 large size bottle) by addressing Fulford & Co., Brockville, Ont. lm LIVERY. The undersigned have bought out the Liv ery hastiness lately owned by B. Beattie and desire to moria the publio that they will carry ou the same lathe old premises, Next COMIERCIA.L Hotel. Several new and geed driving horses, and tis most stylish cermet: have been added to the business, and will be hired at reasonable prices. Satisfaction guaranteed: R. 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