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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1891-02-11, Page 2The Huron News -Record $' 50 a Y wu- 31. n Advance. ri: rhe urge loos nut do justice to hie business who spends tees rn advertising than he does in rent. —h. T. Srewea•r, the millionaire me,rchant J New York. Wednesday. Feb. l lth. 1891. THE GREAT AMERICAN YAWP. "WE CAN TAKE CANADA AS COM- PENSATIUN." SOME LOUD TALK IN UNCLE SAM'S SENATE—A IANC HEADED SENA TOR CALLS DOWN A SPREAD- EAGLE ORATOR, AND TELLS HiM A FEW COLD FACTS—ABLE JOHN BULL. The fortification bill was before the American senate last week. Discussing an amendment to reduce the sum asked, 1Ir. Cock r..11 said he regarded a system of coast defences which would cost $125,000,000 as utterly worthless, and an absolute waste of ruoney Isolated as the United States is, it could resist the combined powers of the whole earth. We have no risk to run. Mexico is our friend. Tho Cana diens are our friends. Suppore they aro our enemies, what do they amount to? Mr. Frye—Not a row of pine. Mr. Cockrell—That is so ; but we can take Canada as a full compensation for any possible injury Great Britain may at any time hereafter du us. Mr. Hawley ridiculed the pre- tension that the United States could whip any other people on the face of the earth. There was a population of 6.4,000,000 in the United States, capable of supply- ing the finest troops that the world had ever seen, bht in case of an immediate and unexpected declara- tion of war they would be what Wellington called carrion for powder. What would the British nation care for a square mile of such troops armed with rifles that would not shoot over 1,200 yards 2 He did not want to show the naked - nese of his country, but it so happened the whole world knew already that the United States was absolutely helpless. The govern- ment could not negotiate today with advantage. That was the Bible truth. Great Britain had a magnificent harbor at Halifax pro- tected by noble batteries, and the best fleet iu the world. She had another naval statiou at Bermuda= and another on the southt?,,r coast so close to the. njt +esters ed uWilStates ....4.1i4..QQ.1..iteeri7that harbor could throw shots across the line. Ware exploded witho'tt notice. It was said Groat Britain would not fight etc., but John Bull got mad and made an ase of himself like other people. He fought against r'obb'dry au,l sometimes he fought for the sake of robbery. In twelve or fourteen hours Great Britain could assemble a fleet at Portland, in eighteen or twenty hours at Boston, and in twenty-four hours, perhaps, at New York. British war vessels in the harbor of New York could levy a tribute of 500 or 1,000 million dollars on the city of New York, and New York would be compelled to pay it. In the meantime those "gallant sons of liberty" by the 100,000, or the 500,000, might be arming, but they would not be worth a single last year's bird's nest. The harbors of Boston, Portland, New York, Charleston, New Orleans and San Francisco could not be defended, as they had no modern guns. CANADIAN OPINION.' THE GRIT POLICY REPUDIATED. HON. WILLIAM MCDOUGALL WRITES A FORCIBLE LETTER TO ERASTL'S W1MAN. OTTAWA, Feb. 4.—Another mem- ber of the Reform party is out with a repudiation of Unrestricted Reci- procity and direct taxation. Iron. William McDougall, in an inter— view which the Citizen will publish to morrow, strongly endorses the stand taken by the Government. He believes reciprocity on the lines of the Treaty of 1854 the only practical method. A LETTER TO ERASTUS. Leat month Mr, McDougall wrote his nephew, Mr. Erastus Wiman, as follows : "I' regard annexation as unattainable in our day except by force, which means war between England and Canada on the one side and the United States on the other. I do not expect to witness that catastrophe, nor will you, younger and more vigorous though you be. If annexa• tion, therefore, is out of the ques- tion in our time, why should we permit it to obscure the true issue 2 Why abandon the reasonable, bone, 6eial and probably only feasible scheme, to wit, the free exchange 'of enumerated home productions on both sides? Even this adjustment, as you know, will not give us free trade. There will be still a wire fence. Foreign goods cannot cross the lice from either aide without payment of duly. Custom housen, therefore, roust still be ntaintaieed. In ray humble opinion a reciprocity treaty on the basis of that of 1854, but including a greater range of articles, is the only practical method of dealing with our neighbors while Canada remains a British colony. I throw out these hints as an old - tuner, who has had practical experi- ence in political affairs. Burdened with nearly $300,000,000 of debt and a yearly expenditure greater than the income, I don't see how we uau meet our obligations and maintain our general Bovet nnient without a productive tariff, Direct taxation is practically out of the question. The provinces are pretty heavily burdened already in that line, and any Government prupoaing to rais•:+ say $40,000,000 a year by direct taxation might as well secure tickets for Honolulu or 8011144 other remote but hospitable island beyond the reach of our tel.tgraph system. I3rlieving that a sufficient revenue by direct tax, ton will not he achiev ed in our day, I am in favor of reasonable import duties for federal revenue. Moreover, it )mist not be forgotten that free imports from a foreign country will have to be free to the mother country. Tarr' die• crimination against her in favor of foreign countries would soon sever the British connection. ' -Mr. McDougall said in couclu sum, "-I'he proposals of the Domin- ion Government, through the Secretary of State for the Colonies, do cot seen) to conflict with my views, as expressed in my letter of the 28th January, and I uta there- fore well pleased to find myself so strongly endorsed. An1E1t1CAN OPINION, COMMERCIAL UNION OR NOTHING. The Washington Post says: Americans are earnestly cautioned against the plan of reciprocity which the present Government of the Northern DJInlnion may propose. It is understood that that Govern- ment will offer a free exchange of raw materials and agritultural pro- ducts. 'rhe offer is not enough. We want an additional market Jor our manufacturers. Macdonald sneers at the proposal to surround his country with the 31'cliinley tariff: That or nothing is what Commercial Union with this count°) 'en,es. Our trade must sass free to the Arctic zotl, ue terred by a single Ousr.`�11 house along the border line, ol- we cannot trade at all, except under such restrictions as each Government way believe to be advantageous to itself, and as both countries may ultimately find to be injurious to each. It is not credited anywhere that Sir John's programme of limited reciprocity or Sir Charles' mission here in its behalf will have any practical results. But their at - temps have the apperrance of favor- ing reciprocity of some sort. It should be understood, however, once for all, that the only reciprocity which would be deemed desirable or satisfactory on this side is a full Commercial Union belwepn the two countries, which would inevitably pave the way for a political union, and that until that comes the only alternative is the exclusion of our northern neigh, ors from our vutr• leets, except as they can climb over our tariff wall. In Mr. Blaine's letter, publisl•ed yesterday, he says "that no scheme for reciprocity with the Dominion confined to natural products Will be entertained by this government." In his recent address the Canadian Premier, while favoring a limited scheme of reciprocity, declared against any plan of Commercial Union because that would lend to annexation, and to contemplate that was treason. So far as we are concerned, it will be a Commercial Union or nothing. A STRANGE CASE. A case unique in the annals of litigation was decided in Ireland last week. A lady who was among the survivors of the disastrous Ar- magh railway accident, and received £800 damaged for injuries site sus- tained,brought further action against the railway company in respect to her infant, which was born prema- turely after the accident, and was so malformed that it will probably be an incumbrance far life. The judges held that the company had entered into no contract to car- ry the unbarn babe. They had issu- no ticket for it, and had no know- ledge of its being on the train. In the eye of the law the mother was the carrier of the babe, and not the rail- way company, and she must bear the responsibility. The mother was nun-auited accordingly. Gunny Rudd of Sarniawhowae theown- er of a bear which had been teained to perform many amusing tricks, had a sparring match with bruin the other night in Ellison's hotel, when he struck the bear with his fiat under the ear, whioh had the effect of killing the vela. able animal instantly. BATTLING WITH SNOW- BALLS. AN EXCITING STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE GIRL SOPHS AND FRESHIES Or' SMITH COLLEGE. Northampton (Mass.) dispatch to the New York Sun : Smith Cul lege girls have just had a uovel experience. It was a snowball battle between the "sophs" 011.1 "freshies," and the former welt after a spirited fight. The sopha were led by Captain Wilcox and the freahies by Captain Gaiu. The young ladies were dressed in their "gym" suits, and were prepared for a regular rough and tumble racket. The signal for the commencement of hostilities was given by the gyro- nasiutn instructor, Miss Adams, and the fun began. Captain Wilcox's shot hit a daring freshman in the front rank directly on the right ear. A cheer went up from the fort and the old -gold haulier was waved aloft. But oue shot does not win a battle. The freshmen had marched upon the campus with a determina- tion to win the fort, and the flag if they could, in the half hour allotted to the battle. The most reckless sallied up to the very walls. Here they met a perfect volley of grape- shot, from which all but one tall, handsome brunette flinched. She throw three balls inside the fort at three of the largest sopho- mores with unerring aim. Ono hit a set of dazzling white teeth, suothur would have pierced the heart had it been a bullet,but be- fore the third had taken effect there was a sophomore cheer. A bold sortie had been made, and soplto mores were mauling the daring be- sieger. But for a moment only. The freshmen rushed back like a drove of prairie ponies wildly charging. Then began a hand to hand encounter which muddled tF.e amateurs with kodaks awfully. It was muscle and nothing else. "Why, thoee horrid things actu ally threw me down and walked on ole," said one of the sophomore lieutenants indignantly. The cascades of hair came tumbl- ing down like Humpty Dumpty, and one warrior's eye had a dismal hue. There was solne "tacking" that would have done credit to foot- ball at Jarvis field. The Chic o_ and Pennsylvania recruits distin- guished themg81XAa.0y"Bpecini acts of bi•ayI F , ' '±again and again did the crimson iiashmen enter the fort until it looked as though they would rout the gold utterly, but the plucky sophs succeeded iu driv- ing back the invaders at every on• slaught. When ties bugle blew at the end the sophomores held the Pert with their golden banner still floating. STARTLED BY A GHOST. The community of Carthage, Ill., is shocked beyond measure over an occurrence that exceeds any thing of the kind in the history of the oldest inhabitant. On Thauks- giving Day, Louis C. Boston, ah exemplary young man died and on his death -bed made a most startling profession of faith, and declared that he yet hoped to see a number of young mon of the neighborhood turn into bettor paths. Last \Ved nesday night as August Wright was feeding his horses at the barn an apparition stood before him which looked like a man. Wright helloed at the object and it disap- peared. Sunday night yot'ng Wright was returning from church and while passing a lonely strip of road a form dressed in long white robes stepped out of the hedge fence in front of the horses. The animals reared and plunged with fright but the spook caught each ono by the bridle rein saying "whoa, Charlie, whoa Frank." The animals seem- ed to recognize their names for they sank down on their haunches and trembled with fear. The ghost then climbed up on the buggy tongue and walked along it until the dashboard was reached : then it said : "Why, Aug, don't you know Louis Boston'? shako hands with me." Wright, though terribly frightened, took the proffered hand and said it was as cold and clammy as a corpse. Wright then attempt- ed to drive his toam along but the spook said : "Wait, I want to talk to you, and if you will only listen to mo a moment I will never bother you again." Young Wright says he sat along side of the horrible apparition which he swears was the wraith body of Louis Boston, while the spook delivered messages to loved ones and friends mostly of a religi- ous nature. Wright has so far re- fused to repeat what Boston's spook told him. Finally the spook said :—"But I must go back ; I am called ; oh, I must go back ; don't you hear the angels calling ; good-bye," and the spirit vanished. Another night while young Wright was doing chores around the barn the same apparition ap- peared. "Go away," cried Wright. "I don't want to see you ; go away I tell you." "I want to say ,just one more word," said Boston. "I don't want to see you," cried Wright, and in desperation threw a siugletree at the object, which paseed through it as though the. body were mist. The long, white - robed thing moved away weeping bitterly, and saying, "I want to say ono more word." It is now revealed that Mrs. Andrew Wright, mother of Aug Wright, who has beeu quite, ill for some weeks, was. the first victim of the apparition. She was in the barnyard one evening about three weeks ago, w hen she was heard to utter piercing screams. She was found prostrate in au insensible conditiou and removed to the house. Delirium followed, in which she muttered the name of "Louis, Louis Boston" repeatedly. The lady is still quite sick." The appearance of the specter has Paused intense excitement through all the eastern portion of the country. Reuben Boston, father of the dead boy, was seen by a reporter the other day. Ile is a well-to-do and iutelligent farmer. "Do you believe Ithie to he year boy, Mr. Boston 1" "I believe it is Louis ; he was a gond boy and he had the welfare of his young friends at heart. I wish Aug Wright would tell you what Louis told him, so you can print it. I believe he has wonderful things to tell." "H.rve you ever seen the appari- tion 2" "No ; but I believe it must be Louis." The strange affair is the topic of couverealiou iii Carthage, and future visitations from the spook are awaited with great interest. FELT A GHOSTLY HAND. A KANSAS CITY MAN AWAKENED EACH NIGHT BY A CLAMMY TOUCH. Kansas City boasts of a genuine story iu which the disembodied spirit is felt but not seen. On January 18 a German named George Friedrichs was found dead in his roan at 103 West Thirteenth street, with every evidence that his life had been taken EN4 his own hand. __,.r .stotntng room slept Ietch- at'd Mayer, a reporter. On the night following the death Mayer went home at ono o'clock and says he at once went to sleep. not thinking of the suicide. 'l'.vo hours after ho was suddenly awaken ed by a cold hand being placed on his brow and then gently drawn down over his face. He jumped from his bed and lighted the gas, hut he was alone in the room. He convinced himself that he had been dreaming, and went to sleep again. On the next night he went to bed at 12.30, after a long days work, and almost immediately fell asleep. Again he was awakened just as the city clock tolled the hour of three, and the same cold hand passed down his face. IIe lay perfectly still, but net a sound could he hear. Another examination of the room was made, but ha was the sole occupant and the door was locked. On the third night he dreaded the experience, but determined to see if the ghostly visitor would come when he was awake. He went home at 2.30, and when the clock struck 3 he was in bed, but wide awake. On the stroke of the hour the cold hand passed over his face and when he grabbed at it his fingers felt nothing. Mayer, at his own request, is now working until after 3 a. nr., and says he will con- tinue to do so until he can find a room of which he is the only tenant. DICKENS AND THE PROHIBI- TIONISTS. Kato Field. Dickens is denounced because he represents many of his characters drinking. Well, do not such characters drink in real life'? "I claim consideration for the comfort, convenience, and refreshment of the sober," says the Rev. Septimus Crisparkle, in Edwiu I)rood, "and you presently make platform pro- clamations that 1"—meaning no other than himself, Dickens—"have a depraved desire to turn heaven's creatures into swine and wild beasts." He has conscientiously disbelieved in the efficacy of total abstinence as its orators believe in it, "If," he says elsewhere, 'if temperance societies would suggest an antidote against hunger, filth, and foul air, or could establish dispensaries for the gratuitous dis- tribution of bottles of Lethe water, gin -palaces would bo numbered among the things that were." Never was Dickens the advocate of intemperance. On the contrary he has drawn appalling pictures of its results. IIe believed temperance to mean the moderate use of wine as of every other good thing. "Do you drink 2" asked the Baron of Grogwig, in Nicholas Niokleby, of the genius of despair and sui- cide. "Nine times out of ten, and then very hard," rejoined the figure, drily. "Never in moderation 2" asked the baron. NORTHROP & LYMAN' vEDETABLEA :• G� ood -. PurifierreatBl - A •:Sure •: Cure •: for Disamny -•- Dyspepsia. - A Medical Triumph ! HOW THE HEALTH OF ONE OF BELLEVILLE'S CITIZENS WAS RESTORED. Remarkable Cure of' Dropsy and Dyspepsia. MR. SAMUEL T. CASEY, Belleville, writes: "In the spring of 1884 I began to be troubled with Dyspepsia, which gradually became more and more distressing. I used various domestic remedies, and applied to my phy- sician, but received no benefit. By this time my trouble assumed the form of Dropsy. I was unable to use any food whatever, except boiled milk and bread ; my limbs were swol- len to twice their natural size ; all hopes of my recovery were given up, and I quite ex- pected death within a few weeks. NORTHROP AND LYMAN'S VEGETABLE DISCOVERY having been recommended to me, I tried a bottle with but little hope of relief ; and now, after using eight bottles, my Dyspepsia and Dropsy ate cured. Although now seventy-nine years of age, I can enjoy my meals as well as ever, and my general health is good. I am well known in this section of Canada, having lived here fifty-seven years ; and you have liberty to use my name in recommendation of your VEGETABLE DISCOVERY, which has done suoh wonders in my case." A Very Bad Case I DYSPEPSIA VANQUISHED. MR. JAMES JOHNSTON, 4th con., 7th lot, Amaranth, writes : "Two bottles of NOR- THROP & LYMAN'S VEGETABLE DISCOVERY cured me of Dyspepsia. Mine was a bad case and I had tried a number of other prepara- tions without gettingany benefit from them." Dyspepsia Had to Go. MIt. W. J. DEYELL, Wingham, carpenter and builder, writes : "Three years ago I was greatly troubled with Dyspepsia ; a pain be-' tween my shoulders was so bad that I thought I would have to quit work altogether. No medicine gave me ease until I got a bottle of NORTHROP & LYMAN'S VEGETABLE DISCOV- ERY, which gave me relief. I continued using the medicine until I had taken three bottles, when I was perfectly well. I consider it in- valuable as a cure for Dyspepsia. I know of several persons who have used it with tha same benefit." NORTHROP & LYMAN CO. TORONTO, PROPRIETORS. "Never !" replied the figure with a shudder. "That breeds cheerful - nese." This short dialogue embodies Dickens' faith ; and those who re• present him as the apostle of vice wilfully pervert the lessons of his books. Nothing was more repulsive to Dickens than drunkenness, and more . than�tnee. he doh ;n n;;' power to reclaim brilliant but in- temperate friends. "May I tell you," says Milly in The Haunted Man, "why it scents to tele a good thing for us to remem- ber wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it." ENDING. A LETTER. Examining three hundred letters in order to test the popularity of the various phrases used in ending them, nearly half the number wore found to conclude with "Yours truly." Trite, commonplace and devoid of meaning as two words can be, yet they hold the lead in favor to an extent not to be wondered at in business letters. "Very Respect- fully" and "Yours Respectfully," are suitable terms, when the person to receive the letter is much older than the sender, or by reason of his position deserves soma marked ex- " -...a •"2- !S K.77: ;,tr-,n: rt{ts;rn merit -x="larking :' i'lthw t l.% SriFF, 1411 : 'd .D.'.. wum,.'a '. u:• rl'. �.nd i,l.,.. A. I.. ANDERSON & CO, general agents for Canada, 138 King St. W.. Toronto, Ont. A?, Coughs CASE'S SYRUP pt'eesioll of deference, but the phrases aro too often used without - i. ;;;.I rn lva c G u m regard to their significance. "Yours,.L,1 etc," and the abbreviated from Cures an affections of the Throat, "Iiesf.." for Respectfully, Seem Lungs and Chest—such as Bronchitis, \1'!moping Cough, Croup, Hoarse - half -hearted lazy sort of signatures ; nets, Influenza, spitting Blood, La a zigzag line would mean as much Grippo, Pain in the Chest, Coughs, and be easier to make. They haveColds, etc. not even the slight merit of "In 1 alis Valuable Preparation Haste" or "Hastily," which at least Excites expectoration, allays and serve as an apology forpoor writ i heals all irritation oP the throat and P �Ylungs, giving instant relief to any ing. As far as simplicity goes, ' pain, and imparts strength to the "Yours" is preferable by far, and, affected part.. Cures every time. some- Price 25 and 50 Cents Per Bottle. indeed, is the best way to say thing without meaning anything-- Refuse all Substitutes. best because the shorter the meaning—PREPARED ONLY BY less formula tiro better. Some ; I3• .43's=ZbirC'LT1,i cAtiSi=• Chemist and Druggist. 50 King Street West, polite ending to a letter is better no Hamilton,. Ont. no doubt than the abrupt signature Sold by .T. 13. COJIBI. alone, and each person may select for himself, but for all ordinary purposes there is no better form than "Yours truly." A FARMER WHO DIDN'T WANT ANY SOAP. "You can either beat a farmer at slick as grease or can't beat him as all," said the patent hay fork man as we were talking about his adven- tures in the rural regions. "That is, ire is either gullible or over•supic- ious. Some will refuse a good thing and some will snap at a swindle. I think I.can illustrate my declara- tions right here, or at least one of then!. The man in the seat over there is a farmer." " I should say so." "And he is one of the sort who suspects every stranger. WatcPf`me try him." He took a cake of toilet soap from his satchel and ging over to the farmer saluted him in a pleasant )Wanner, and added: "I have a new make of soap here which I am introducing to tho pub. lie. It is worth 15 cents a cake, but I make the price only five." "Don't want it," was the gruff re- ply. "With every cake goes a $5 green• back, a gold bracelet, the deed of a town lot in Kansas, a pocket knife, a pair of eye -glasses and a solid gold ring." "Don't want 'em, sir!" "As I want your opinion of the soap I will give it to you." "I won't take it!" "But, sit', in order to introduce it into your neighborhood I will give you 100 cakes free, and at the same time leave five watches and five deeds to town lots." "Look -a -here 1" shouted the farm- er, as he jumped up and spat on his hands. "You go away from me or I'll emash you! I'm on to your tricks, old man, and if you think you have picked up a hayseed, you are bark- ing up the wroung tree." And the hay -fork man had to move lively to escape the blow level- ed at his nose. —On Monday as t wo brothers namdd Corborean, of Cacouna, were out in the wood some 20 miles from Riviore du Loup, Que., doer hunting, one of them shot and wounded a deer, ran to it to kill it with a knife, and as he was doing so his brother perceived the deer, and not seeing his brother he fired itis shot, which unfortunately shot the brother in the abdomen, the ball entering one side and going through the body and came out on the opposite side. The young man, who is a powerful man of about 21 years managed to walk, with his brother's assistance, four miles in the woods and four miles on the road before they could reach the first house, where they got a horse and sleigh to bring them to town, where they arrived about nine o'clock. Tho poor victim died next morning.