HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1898-04-15, Page 3April 15, 1898
BUSINESS CHANGE
We wish to announce to the publio that we have purchased the Grocery but;i;
nese and etook of James Steep, and have thoroughly overhauled the same,
and added to it over $600 worth of the freshest and beet goods in the trade. We.
are now prepared to welcome onr old ouetomers and as many new ones as will
honor us with a pall. We are offering some real snaps. See our 1 lb. tin Bak-
ing Powder and Scissors for 25o. Oar reduced price on Teas is giving great state
isfactron. Pickles do. per bottle. Crystal Gloss Starch 5o per 1 lb package.
dMushrooelivered.m Catsup 10o, three for 25o. Try our line of Teas at 20o. Goethe
Cash paid for
Butter & Eggs
J. McMURRAY, Combe's Block
Window Shades,Windaw Poles, & Corvelettes
Lace Fringe, Plain and Decorated Shades, great variety of patterns and prices
Corrugated Oak and Fancy -Colored Poles. COVELETTES in three patterns;.
ask to see them.
Furniture.—Large stook of Fancy and Cheap Furniture always on hand.
Picture Framing and Repairing promptly attended to.
J. H. CHELLEV``"J. BLYTH
HUB GROCERY
NEW FRUITS NOW IN STOCK
ARGUIMBAUSS Select Layers, Vostizza's, Filia-
ItA'SIN S Fine off Stalk CURRANTS tras, Patrao a -is
Off Stalk Recleaned.
California Prunes, best Eleme Figs in mats and layers, in ten pound boxes
Lemon, Citron and Orange peels. Having bought at the lowest prioes this sea-
son we will give you close prices.
(-LO SW--31.1_41LAOw,
Clinton
FURNITURE
BROADFOOT, BOX & CO.
The steady increase in our trade is good proof of the fast that our goods are right and
our prices lower than those of other dealers in the trade.
We manufacture furniture on a large scale and can afford to sell cheap. If you buy
from us, we save for you the profit, whioh, in other cases, has to be added in for
the retail dealer.
This week we have passed into stock some of our -noire designs. Space will not permit
us to quote prices, but come and see for yourself what snaps we have to offer.
Remember; we are determined that onr prioes shall be the lowest in the trade.
iJNIDERTAKING,
Iu this department our stock ie, complete, and we have undoubtedly the best fancral
outfit in the county. Our prices are as low as the lowest.
BROADFOOT,J3OX & CO. J. w• Ch6dley
Manager
P S—Night end Sunday calls attended to by calling at J. W. Chidley's, (Funeral
Direotor) residence.
A Talk to Gentlemen
DEAR FRIENDS,—When you are in need of any of the following articles, please
call on us. You will find the quality the best and the price the lowest. Wo have Hats
in Stiff and Soft Felt and Straw. Cape in many qualities, Combs, Scissors, Brnrhes,
Razors, Straps and Soaps; Collars in Paper, Celluloid and Linen; Collar and Cuff But
tons and Links. Underclothes in great variety. Shirts in White, Black and Colored
Shirting's and Sweaters, Braces and Neckties that are beauties. Coats in Fur Cloth and
Waterproof. Shits ready made and made to order. • Tweeds and Linings, Smocks and
Overalls, Cottonades and Denims, Gloves and Handkeichiefs, Knives, Watchchains and
Charms; Violin Strings, both steel and gut. Tweed Pants, Sox in wool and ootton,
Boots, Shoos, Laces, Rubbers, Polish and Waterproof Blacking. Trunks and Valises,
Pips and Pipe mounts. Tobacco and Perfumes,,xlso many other articles for household
use -and outside uses. Then if you are contemplating leaving a state of single blessedness
we can supply you with the •Marriage License.
ADAMS' EMPORIUM,
EONDESBOiO
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THE BEST -
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HOACE FOSTER
"THE SITTING HEN.
PIP YOU EVER THINK WHAT A MY8-
Y „OF .MYSTERIES 8HE 187
When She Will She Will. find When She
Won't That 'Settles It — The Impatient
Minorca and Other Nonsltters—A Peace-
ful Man's Broilers.
The chicken that is born on or before the
lst day of Marsh is worth dozens born in
May or June, when all the bens want to
sit. The trouble is to find the hen who is
inclined to incubation in the month of
February. Generally speaking, she must
be a Marsh chicken herself. Therefore to
ha e March chickens you must first have
Marsh chickens. It is like the great eco-
nomic proposition: To make money you
must have money to make it with. How-
ever, it fy not neoessary to inherit Marsh
puUete They can be acquired at reason-
able rates, and every practical hen keeper
—aside from those wholesale gentlemen
who can devote all their time and atten-
tion to the monumental task of making
Incubators incubate, and who are oonse-
quently independent of the natural means
of incubation—will tell you that the early
born pullet, who is under a Bort of natural
compulsion to lay early herself, is, even
when of no breed at all, of more value
than the high bred fowl who declines to
lay any eggs until the balmy springtime
bas come and eggs can be bought for 15
cents a dozen.
The eccentricities of the sitting hen are
beyond all account. No power on earth or
heaven can prevent certain hens from' sit-
ting half their lives, They will sit on good
eggs, on' bad eggs, on china eggs, on
stones, on sticks, on nothing at all. Turned
out of ono plane, they will sit in any oth-
er. By actual experiment a certain Plym-
outh Rook (of whose breed one of the
may noble qualities is broodiness) per-
sisted
ersisted in sitting for six weeks running,
though she was given no eggs at all and
was treated with tho greatest contumely,
being moved from pillar to post and affiliat-
ed with sharp cornered cobblestones and
„ daily driven away with violence from her
pathetic atteihpt to convert these igno-
minous rooks into the noble ones of Plym-
outh. At the end of the six weeks she
did give up further sitting, but she ap-
peared to entertain no grudge on account
of her treatment and would on occasion
-.come and eat out of the hands of her hate
tormentors. It was in the autumn when
she made this quixotio attempt, and she
bad already in this same year brought off
two fine broods of chickens—ono in early
March and the other in June.
Other hens will never sit at all. The
White Minorcas—those hens with great
Combs, which look exactly like roosters
i1>ud are called "Catalans" by the Spanish
t;,= will lay perhaps rnore eggs; in a year
gin any other sort of hon, but they will
Ot lay them 1n cold weather, and it is un-
lely that any ono of them was ever
1{own to batch a brood of chickens. The
inorcas will, indeed, sometimes begin to
'E• but they seem to be under the impres-
ttlpn that throe days ought to be, in all
h feci uo, long
enough time in which
q' outegg, and at the expiration
iit.a11.out that time they will abandon the
itetterapticith a groat flutter and mush de-
•ni1noiatory oratory. If they aro fastened
*owe( on the nest with a board placed
bogie their backs, they will stand up as
gh as they oan under the board and lot
ail 1 .zad'd,3o their eggs �It is doubt-
,: ever any h man being, male or fe-
male;
-
male; winked or pious, Christian or pagan,
evert through without profanity an at-
tempt to make a Minorca hen sit. There
are other breeds of. nonsitters, which are
not merely too numerous but also too con-
temptible to mention. The Plymouth
Rock will not lay so many eggs in a year
as the Minorca, but she will lay what she
does lay when you want them, and she
will perpetuate her kind..
Strange to Say, another kind of ben that
rmakes,a good mother is the gaine hen.
She seems to be engaged in an attempt to
prove that a pertain amount of amazo-
nianisin is not inconsistent with a proper
regard' for the duties of motherhood. A
very peaceful gentleman, not unconnected
with the work of the Humane society,
• moved into the country throe or four years
ago. Having ocoasion to purchase two or
three settings of eggs, he bought one of a
good working woman, who lived on the
outskirts of the town, and who happened
°to have male relatives of sporting proclivi-
ties, though the gentleman did not know
that; and would hardly have cared if he
had known. The sporting proclivities of
those persona could hardly affect the hens'
eggs raised on the place. The setting of
eggs turned out beautifully, and in due
time some esqulsito little red chickens
were running about with the old gray hen
who bad been their faster mother. The
'Chickens were so pretty that they wero ad-
ired above all others on the place. They
row apace, and before long their owner
iseegvored that they were engaged in war -
are most orthe time, either with one an-
other or with other little -chickens. Re -
.doubtable fighters they were, too, and
while any one of them would easily whip
any chicken of any other brood, when they
.fought with one another it seemed to be a
,fight to the death. Tho peaceable gentle -
an deprecated these contests very mush,
ut he was powerless to prevent them.
hat could make them fight so?
;$y and by a village tradesman who hap -
lied to be at the place one day noticed
chickens, looked at the gentleman who
ed them, winked broadly and remark -
'Raisin games, eh?" "Raising what?"
d the hurfrane gentleman. "Why,
e fowls," returned the other. "Game
P What can you be talking about?"
the gentleman, getting a little net -
"Why, t never thought of such a
1" "Well, them's game chickens,
he same," said the tradesman. A
Wned on the humane gentleman's
Tho proclivities of the men of the
id from whioh he bad purchased
ing of eggs had indeed led them to a
lity for game fowls, and by inno-
y'huying a balter'e dozen of eggs from
;'man of the house and putting them
a hen he had unconsoiously
td 1 the business of keeping flghtilfg'
aoriflood tho chickens OS sopii as
f nough to broil and Lound
Tient eating, ^l``tlt ite.j$
ever bo able to get t'
town as a prevents of
Els.--Boston Transcript.
Fit Maxim For Him.
said the kindly old gentle-
kes to make acquaintances
fag, "you should follow my
etlrive tolearnsomething new
pthe answer ofthequietyoung
jab' rosy do in your line of busi-
b xi you were doing a vaudeville
incl yott'd realize that aii4 1,10-e
kialated if be+iir iallgi to 'they
it ieo0i"'' Wadi
IF YOU WISH TO BE WELL
You must fortify your system against the
attacks of disease. Your blood must be
kept pure, your stomach and digestive or-
gana in order, your appetite good. Hood's
Sarsaparilla is the medicine to build you
up, purify and enrich your blood and give
you strength. It creates an appetite and
gives digestive power.
Bonds Pills are the favorite family
cathartic, easy to take, easy to operate.
A DIFFERENCE IN PRICE.
The Member of the Legislature Rises to
Express His Surprise.
Four or five Washington correspondents
were tolling stories of their experiences
with statesmen, local and national, when
one of thein from a state in the southwest
swung into line with something a little
out of the ordinary.
"I was doing the legislature," he be-
gan, "for a syndicate of newspapers, with
some free lanae work on the side, and was
making a potful of money out of it. Dur-
ing the course of my ministrations I dis-
covered a case of vote eelling by a rural
representative that was astonishing for its
smallness. I couldn't find out what the
member got, but it couldn't have been
much, for the whole matter at issue wasn't
worth more than $4.50 or thereaIout.
After exhausting all my sournes of infor-
mation I thought I would try the member
himself and see how guileless he was on a
little thing like that. I didn't dare ask
him his price, but I did dare to talk about
it, and I went at hire directly.
"'Say, young feller,' he said after I
bad talked awhile, 'how iuuoh do you git
Per a news item like that?'
" 'It's a pretty big thing for me,' I re-
plied persuasively, 'and I'll get $25 for the
story if I can got it complete.'
"'How muohP' be asked, with an eager
air.
" `Twenty-five dollars,' I repeated.
" `Gee whiz! I'd liko to have your job.'
"'Why? It isn't an easy one. Not so
easy as yours anyway.'
" `P'r'aps it ain't,' he. said slowly, 'but
it pays butter.'
" `How do you mOan?'
" 'Why, you git $25 fer jisttelling about
what I dons fer $5.'
"The syntax mightn't have been perfect
perhaps," concluded the speaker, "but the
fact was, and that was what I wanted."—
Washington Star.
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WORKERS OF ANTIQUITY.
The Use of the Inclined Plane In the
Building of the Pyramids.
At a meeting of the Philosophical so-
ciety of Washington J. E. Watkins pre-
sented a paper on "The Transportation
and Lifting of Heavy Bodies by the An-
cient Engineers." The purpose of the pa-
per was to show how many of the struc-
tures regarded as remarkable by expert
engineers of the present day, and which
some arohreologists declare must have re-
quired in their ercotlon the use of im-
mense machines, could have been con-
structed by primitive tools and simple
methods.
By means of diagrams the speaker ex-
plained how inclined planes of earth oould
be used in placing In position stone blocks
or slabs of enormous weight, levels and
pry bars being employed in setting them
up. He then demonstrated how easily,
comparatively speaking, the pyre inids
could have been constructed by these sine -
pie methods, and when completed the
earth around then whioh had been used
for the inclined planes filled into the pits
from which it was taken, leaving the
ground as level as before.
As an illustration the pyramid of Gizob
was sited, some of the stones of which
were transported a distance of 500 miles.
In this case the highest embankment nec-
essary when the workmen reached the top
course, assuming that a 20 per cont grade
was adopted, would have been 750 yards
long, containing, as it did, soine 7,500,000
oubio yards, provided the sides of the em-
bankment would stand at an angle of 80
degrees, whioh is not at all Improbable. A
force of 10,000 men could have built such
an embankment in a single twelvemonth,
a very small part of the total labor, which
it is stated called for the services of 100,-
000 men for 20 years.
In the solution of the problem of put.
ting in place huge monoliths it was sug-
gested that the modern engineer could
well consider the utilization of inclined
planes before adopting a more complex
method.—Science.
KEATS ON MARRIAGE.
A Barrier Against Matrimony Which the
Poet Could Not Overcome.
Notwithstanding your Happiness and
your recommendation, I hops I shall never
marry. Though the most beautiful Crea-
ture were waiting for me at the end of a
Journey or a Walk, though the Carpet
were of Silk, the Curtains of the morning
clouds, the chairs and sofa stuffed with
Cygnets' down, the food Manna, the Wine
beyond Claret, the Window opening on
Winander mere, I should not fuel, or rather
my Happinele would not be so fine, as my
Solitude is sublime. Then, instead of what
I have described, there Is a sublimity to
welcome ane home, The roaring of the
wind is my wife and the Stars through the
window pane aro my Children. The
mighty abstract Idea I have of Beauty in
all things stifles the more divided and
minute domestic happiness—an amiable
wife and sweat Children I contemplate as
a part of that Beauty, but I must have a
thousand of those beautiful particles to fill
up my heart.
I fuel more and more every day as my
imagination strengthens that I do not live
In this world alone, but in a thousand
worlds. No sooner am I alone than shapes
of epic greatness are stationed around me
and serve my Spirit the office which is
equivalent to a King's bodyguard—than
"Tragedy with sceptered pall comes sweep-
ing by." 'According to my state of mind I
am with Achilles shouting in the Trenches,
gr with Theooritus in the Vales of Sicily.
Or I throw my whole being' into Troilus,
and repeating those lines, "I wander like
a lost Soul upon the Stygian Banks stay-
ing for waftago," I melt into the air with
a voluptuousness so delicate that I am
content to be along. Those things, com-
bined with the opinion I have of the gen-
erality of women, who appear to me as
children to whom I would rather give a
sugar Plum than'irfly time, form a barrier
against Matrimony which I rejoice in.—
._ .. �_ _,.—ea
'THE' CLINTON NEW ERA.
Centuries ago, people used to fear what
they called thejpestilenoe. "amok Death"
I was the most terrible thing in the world to
them. They feared it as the people now
fear the Cholera and Yellow Fever. And
yet there is a thing that causes more mis•
cry and more deaths than any of these. It
is so common that uine-tenthe of all the
sickness iu the world is traceable to it. It
is 'merely that simple, common thing oon-
efinatiou. It makes people lied •sa, causes
dizziness, headaches, loss of appetite, lo.s
of aletp, foul breath and distress after eat
ing. The little help needed is furnished by
Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. Oue pill is a
gentle laxative and two a mild cathartic.
Ouse used, always in favor. If you are
careless enough to let au uusorupuloue
drugeist sell you something on which he
makes more money, it is your own fault if
you do not get well. Be sire and get Dr.
Pi ne'e Pleasant Pellets. Send 31 cents in
one cent stamps to World's Dispensary
Mcdical Association, Buffllo, N. Y., and
receihe D.. Pierce's 1008 page "Common
Sense Medical 'Adviser," l.rofusely illus-
trated.
Arab Weapons.
Here in Muscat I saw the pure bred
Arab man,siuewy, but not tall,a domineer-
' ing, swaggering nobleness in bis glance
and a brace of daggers in his waist. When
I recognized a beautiful haft or noticed a
slender inlaid native gun or singular
shield, I offered to buy. But nothing
would induce thein to sell. "Sahib,"said
one man, "I killed my deadliest foe with
this blade, right through his black heart.
You see this dint in my shield? Ab, that
dint was caused by a spear! The shield
saved my life. Shall I, then, sell it for
money? My gun? No, sahib. I am an
Arab, and my gun is my other self. How
could I be an Arab if I had no gun? This
sword—it belonged to my grandfather. It
bas killed 40 Hien. Hy Mohammed, it is
truol These marks, sahib, you see these
marks? Only ono of these marks is put
there when a man is killed." I offered
throe times the value. The answer al-
ways was: "No, sahib, I will not. I can-
not."
Everybody, from the frolicsome boy of
8 to the tottering Imbecile of 80, carried
a weapon. Tho old hien had rusty swords
that reminded iuo of the unwieldly double
bladed monsters that Richard Cceur de _
Lion and his knights swung in the•faoo of
the Saracens. These Muscat swords are
4 feet 6 inches long, the blades 3 inches
wide, and the handles provide room for
both fists to grasp. Law is an unknown
quantity in eastern Arabia.—Chambers'
Journal.
Deserved No Sympathy.
"I wants yo'," said a rural darky to
another, "ter put yo' name ter dis per'ti-
tion. "
"What fer?"
"One er our race is gwine up fer hog
steal in, " •
"He stole de hog, did he?"
"Dat's what."
"En he let 'em ketch him?"
"yes."
"Well, let him go 'long ter de chain
gang. A man what ain't got edclieation
enough to kivvor up his tracks no bettor
dan dat is better out de way dan in itl"--
Atlanta Constitution.
The Cheerful Idiot.
"What do you think of tho beet sugar
business?" asked the shoe clerk boarder.
"Think it will supersede the other kind?"
"Cane sugar," replied the cheerful
idiot, "will riever be beat."—Indianapolis
Journal.
Bullets, partially hollow, whioh expand
in the wound, aro sometimes used for
shooting deor, while hollow handed explo-
sive bullets aro in request for dispatching
tigers, elephants and other big game.
The largest creamery in the world is lo-
cated near St. Albans, Vt., converting the
milk of 12,000 cows into 10,000 pounds of
butter daily.
WEAK AND NERVOUS
Too many women that way. They need
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pille. Mrs J.
Hawke, Hagereville, Ont., says:—"Mill-
burn'e Heart and Nerve fills mares weak-
nees and nervousness with which I had
bead afflicted for a long time."
WASN'T WORTH MORE.
Chicago Boy Told Marshall Field So and
Oot a Raise.
It is said that nerve and Chicago aro
synonymous terms. Here is a story which
proves the truth of the idea, and which
goes tp show that a Chicagoan develops
bis nerve early:
Everybody knows Marshall Field, tho
multimillionaire—the man who gave $1,-
000,000 to a library. Everybody has hoard
of his big store. In this store there is a
oast boy who is making more money than
his confreres, and the story tells how he
earned the raise. The regular salary of a
cashboy is $8 a week. The youngster in
question thought he was worth more and
hunted up the manager to tell him so.
"I would like to get a raise," said the
boy. "I think I ought to have it."
-"My boy," said the manager, "you are
making just what is given all tho cash -
boys, and I don't see how I can a000mmo-
day"
It el boyou.'s assurance amused the man-
ager, who jokingly advised him to sea Mr.
Field. Now, Mr. Field's visits to his store
are few and far between. He is rich
enough to be above tho details of business,
and when he entered the storm an hour or
so after the conversation between manager
and cashboy his Doming was in the na-
ture of an event. The boy hoard of bis
arrival and at once headed for the million-
aire proprietor. Watching his chance, he
slipped upon the magnate and said:
"Are you Mr. Field?"
"I am, my son. What can I do for you?"
"You can raise my salary, please. I
can't work any longer for $3 a week."
"I don't attend to these matters. You
will have to see tho manager."
"I have already seen the manager, sir,
and he referred Hie to you."
The boy's manner impressed the mil-
lionaire, and he said: "My boy, you are
making $3 a weak. That is pretty good
salary for a youngster. It is more than I
was making when I was your age."
"Well," said the boy, quick as a flash,
"maybe you weren't worth any mora."
Mr. Field laughed. Than he saw the
manager. "That boy," ho declared, "has
too much plunk and wit to work for $8."
The next week tho juvenile hero of this
tale draw $9, and promotion isn't far off.
—Kansas City Journal.
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three bottles of B.B.B. my appetite
has returned, en.4 d ant I>lsteer ths
I have been for years. I would not
be without Burdock Blood Bitters.
It is such a safe and good remedy
that i am giving it to my children."
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