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THE MOLSON'S BANK
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FARMERS.
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IL _ C. BREWER, Manager, Clinton.
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G. D. MCTAG GA RT,
Banker,
ALBERT STREET, - CLINTON
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CONVEYANCING.
John Ridout,
Conveyancer, Commissioner, Etc,
Fire Insurance. - - Real Estate.
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MEDICAL
Dr. W. Gunn,
R, C. P. and L. R. C. S., Edinburgh.
Office—Ontario Street, Clinton, Night
calls at frcnt door of residence on Ratten-
bury Street, opp. Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Turnbull,
J. L. Turnbull, M.B., Toronto Univ. ;
M.D. ; C.M., Victoria Univ. M.C.P. & S.
Ont, ; Fellow of the obstetrical •society of
Edinburgh. Late of London, Eng, and
Edinburgh hospitals. Office ---Dr. Dows•
ley's stand, Rattenbury St. Night calls
answered at Office.
Dr. Shaw,
Office—Ontario Street, opposite English
church„ formerly occupied by Dr. Apple -
on.
DENTISTRY.
Dr, BRUCE,
Surgeon Dentist.
OFFICE—Over Taylor's Shoe Store,
Clinton, Ont. Special attention to preser-
vation of natural teeth.
N.13 \Vitt visit Blyth every Mon('ay and
Hayfield every Thursday afternoon during
he summer.
DR. AGNEroiW, DENTIST.
Office Hours, - 9 to 5.
At Zurich the second Thursday of each
month.
VETERINARY.
J. E. Blackall,
VETERINARY SURGEON AND
VETERINARY INSPECTOR.
Office on Isaac Street next New Era office
Residence, Albert St., Clinton.
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OFFICE :
EA VER BLO( K, - CLINTON
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For first-class Hair -Cutting
and Shaving.
Smith's block, opposite Post Office, Clinton,
J. EMERTON, Proprietor.
CENTRAL BUTCHER SHOP.
FORD & MURPHY,
(Successors to .1. W. Langford.)
Having bought out the above business, we
intend to conduct it on the cash principle, and
will supply our customers with the best meats
at the lowest paying prices.
Ford & Murphy.
Live Hogs Wanted,
--moi
Highest Market Price Paid.
D. CANTELON. Clinton.
Removal of Night -Soil.
The undersigned wi,l undertake the rmnova]
of Night Soil and thorough clearing ot closets
on short notice and at yea/enable rates. A11
refuse removed out of town.
8013T. MENNEL,
GEO. TR,o'VIIIGL,
Horseshoer and General Blacksmith
Albert Street, North, Clinton.
JOBBING A SPECIALTY.
Woodwork ironed and first-class material
and work guaranteed. Farm implements and
machines rebuilt and repaired.
TO THE FARMERS)
Study your own interest and go where
you can get
RELIABLE - HARNESS
I manufacture none but the beat of stock.
Beware of shops that sell cheap, as they
have got to live. Gill and get prices.
Orders by mail promptly attended to
John Bell,
Harness Emporium, Blytb, Ont
IDENTIFIED HIS MISTRESS.
Dogs Decide 1he Case of an Eloping Wife.
A recent French judgment, says the
Tunis correspondent of the London
Morning Post, may be cited as ap il-
lustration of Arab manners and Gal-
lic astuteness. An Aral) was travel-
ing through the interior with his wife;
he was on donkeyl>ack and she was
afoot, By came a rich Arab on horse-
back and offered her a lift behind him.
She accepted, end presently in ibe
course of the journey, confided that
she. 'was unhappily married. Her com-
panion proposed a plan by which she
might: elope with him, and she agreed
to it readily.
Accordingly, when they came to a
branch road they increased their pace
and, paid no heed to the protestations
of, the husband, who was soon left be-
hind. He succeeded in tracking them
to the horsemen's village, only to Lind
that precautions btud been taken again-
st his arrival, for everybody asserted
1 bat t hey had [known the runaway
pair for many years its man and wife,
and that the real husband must be an
imposter. The unfortunate mall had
recourse 10 the French, who were at
firstpuzzled how to act in the face
of a village's testimony.
At. last, a thought occurred to the
judge. He placed live real husband's
dogs in one ream, those of the other
man in another, and confronted the
woman wit h both. Arab dogs are very
faithful to their own households and
very fierce toward all strangers; so,
thought .she did her atmgst, to irritate
her own dogs, I hey could not be re -
:strained from fawning on her, and
t hough she lavished every blandish-
ment toward the dogs of her new
home they banked and harked and
showed their teeth with ever increas-
ingi fury. The ,judge 1 hereupon order-
ed her to he given hack to her husband,
and he placarded the village with the
following notice:—
"The testimony of one dog 'is here
more to be believed than that of ten
Arabs."
As, "dog" is one of the Arabs' worst
terms of opprobrium, this notice was
deemed a weirs() punishment. than fines
or Imprisonment.
A SLIGHT JTlS11NT)1?115'I'ANtIN(1,
Air. Guyer -1 suppose you ride a
wheel, Jlias Antiquate?
Miss Antiquate—Yes, indeed; (com-
pleted my fir's( century yesterday.
Mr. Guyer—Really? You don't. look
it, I'm sure.
'N. 11. --Friends they were, hut,
si rangers now.
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and whtto,-27.
NOTES AND COMMENTS
Finality in the settlement of interwar
tional difficulties in Africa seems hard
to attain. The reported success of
the Gentil mission, which left France
in 1895 for the exploration of those
parts of central North Africa lying
to, the south and east of Lake Tchad
and eastward of that water on either
side of the tenth parallel of latitude,
raises a very delicate question of
international right in territories about
which diplomatio (agreements have
been concluded, but of which there has
been no occupation or even effective
exploration.
'rhe country which has been the field
of the researelles of the Gentil Mis-
sion on behalf of the French Govern-
ment, was, in 1893, the subject of an
agreement between England and Ger-
many. England abandoned to Ger-
many "all the political rights it was
able to exercise eastward of a line
starting from Rio del Rey, in the Gulf
of Guinea, and ending at the southern
shore of Lake Tchad, skirting the
town of Yola on the southeast." Ger-
many, however, has not, it appears,
chosen to exercise her rights over the
territory, which, acco)'ding to this
convention, would have carried her
suzerainty right up to the Nile basin,
On the contrary, she made a conven-
tion with France, which was conclud-
ed .and signed at Berlin in 1894. by
which Germany reserved to herself
only Adamana and a triangle of ter-
ritory bounded by the British Niger
possessions on the west, the Shari
River, on the east, and the tents' par-
allel of latitude nn the south. All to
the east and south of that were giv-
en up to the French sphere of influ-
ence.
The question now arises whether
England is bound to recognize the
abandonment of rights abe ceded to
Germany without, so far as is known,
ulterior conditions. Assuming that she
does so, the next question that pre-
st•nts itself is where are the eastern
limits of the territory relinquished by
Germany 2 ,liy a convention made in
1890 between England and Germany,
the latter recognized the political
rights of the former in the basin of
the, Upper Nile; so that for whatever it
is worth,England should have the sup-
port of Germany in the event of any
dispute with France over the terri-
torial limits of the re.:ognized political
rights. The feet, however, that the
British Government, while always pro-
testing against the extension of French
occupation and exploration toward the
Nile from the westward, has refused,
although invited by successive French
Foreign Ministers, to lay down the
limit of British political rights in the
Nile valley, somewhat complicates the
situation. It will not be made clear-
er if it is true, as reported fr'ony Par-
rs, that one of the. Abyssinian gener-
als, Ras Mltkonnen, accompanied by
the French explorers, the Marquis de
Bon Champs, and party, and with a
body of troops, has arrived on the Nile
and planted the Abyssinian banner
on its eastern bank.
The movements going on from both
sides of the Nile toward that river
would seem to render the British ad-
vance to Khartoum imperative at an
early perioett as soon •as the naviga-
tion permits. Whether the settlement
of the new difficulty in centralNorth
Africa will be arrived at in the same
way as that on the Niger, the activi-
ty of England and b'ranoe, in their col-
onizing and exploring in tbose hit her -
to imperfectly known regions, will
soon deprive Africa of its title of the
Dark Continent, except in as far as
the term applies to the color of its'
native inhabitants.
MOVING A CHURCH.
L0114[e11 Edifice Io be 'Taken Down
'Stone by !Moue.
An extraordinary feat in church re-
moval will soon be witnessed in Lon-
don. IIidden away in the quiet recess
of Great Ormond street.. Bloomsbury, is
an unpretentious building externally,
which in reality is one of the most bea-
utiful Roman Ca.l.holie elnlrebes in the
metropolis. it was built by the late
Sir George Bowyer, once it well-known
member of parliament and a cbambera-
lin of the pope. as a temple for the Or-
der of Malta Knights of the Ilospi(al-
lers of 5t. John, of ,Jerusalem, whom
the baronet; was the naetinS of re.intre-
ducing into England;. but it wast also
associated with the Hospital of St.
Elizabeth of Hungary, next door, found-
ed by Cardinal Wiseman in 185(1,
The extension of the Hospital for
Sick Children, close by, hampered the
authorities of the smaller instit.ution
in ascheme of enlargement. they had
devised, and they accordingly agreed to
sell their whole property to the other
hospitel and erect a new Indicting for
themselves in St. John's wood. This
invelvecl the demolition or removal of
the Church of St. ,John of Jerusalem,
and the quest inn after careful consider-
ation by Cardinal Vaughn, was referr-
ed for final decision to I he pope. tvhn
has now authorized the church to ee
taken clown stone by stone and re-er-
ecl.rd beside the new hospit.a.l in the
dist riot mentioned. The. beautiful alt-
ar and magnificent carving which the
Church contains will In. transferred,
1)0cliiy, so that on its new site the
building, externally a.nrl internally,
will have exnstly 1 be s'ime api'ealanre
as it has at present,
8111FTEI) 'THE AD)VAN'l'At;i..
woman, he hissed, between you and
me it shall he a duel to the death!
The lady smiled.
As the challenged part y, ,said she.
I have the choicp of weapons. Let, it
be hatpins.
Baffled, the villain threw his cloak
around 'him and fled into the gather-
ing darkness.
VIR'I'i?O1tS INDIGNATION.
First Burglar, indignantly, --\\'ell, if
here ain't anudder one 0' dem rnscnlly
bookkeepers short in his accounts--dis
cash book says $500 rash on hand, end
dere ain't. het $200 in de safe. Wet in
thunder is society n -doming to, any-
way ? 1 shnil see to it dat his employ-
er pits net Wed o' dist harmers men
should protect one anudder1
avtli
HINTS FOR
THE FARMER.
CATTLE BLOATING ON REI) CLOVER
As most farmers know, cattle are lia-
ble to bloat, if allowed, or compelled,
to feed exclusively or even largely on
rank -,growing, fresh red clover, eith-
er, fust or second erop, writes C. P.
Goodrich. Farmers frequently suffer
serious losses by cattle dying from this
cause. This trouble can be prevented
if proper means are taken. 1 have had
lw cases of elover bloat for more than
twenty years, although for most of
that time my cows have been pastured
each summer on clover. Many years
ago, before l learned bow to prevent it.
I ha.d frequent cases of bloat. The plan
I adopted was this: "In the morning
before my cows were turned out, for
the first time in the spring on the
clover which had attained a rank
growth, they were given their regular
feed of dry fodder and grain. Then
when they were turned out, they had
their stomachs full and were not hun-
gry. They ate a little clover, then
roamed around the field for a while
and laid down. In the afternoon they
got up, ate some more clover and were
taken to the stable' toward night and
given some nice hay which, to my as-
tonishment, they ate greedily. They
did not bloat. Ever since then L have
always had some good bay in the man-
gers when my yews are put in to he
milked twice a day, and they always
eat some. 1f the pasture is rank clov-
er, then They always eat the hay very
greedily, nature seeming to prompt
theta to eat that which w ill prevent,
bloating. With cattle, other than cows,
that are left in the pasture all the time
I have found that a stack of good hay
in the pasture where they can have
free access to it, will prevent bloat.
A pen of rails should be put around
the stack so as to prevent t he cattle
trampling over and wasting it. 1 re-
member of a friend 01 mine turning
SOme sixty head of cal tit' into a field
of rank clover for the first tinge, about
the filet of June. His neighbors pro-
phesied that. h8 would suffer great loss
from bloat. But the owner knew what,
he was about. Ile had two or three
stacks of good clover hay in the field.
It was noticed every day that, after the
cattle had pastured on the clover for
an hour or so they would all make a
rursh for the stacks and would eat hay
for n few minutes as ravenously as
-though half starved. .There was no
bleat. in that herd. In all my experi-
ence I have never known of cattle to
bloat from patina, green clover where
they could have good. palatable rtry
feed at the same time. Where there is
nothing better 1 have seer) cattle leave
the rank clover and eat frequently
from an old straw stack which happen-
ed to he in the: pasture, and act. as
Ih)u;h they had found something de-
licious. 1 firmly believe that a straw
stack has saved tunny an animal from
clover -bloat, though to make them safe
it is better to provide good hay. Al-
though prevention is much better than
a cure, yet if through mismanagement
carelessness, accident of ignorance, cat-
tle do suffer from clever bloat, it is
well to know how to best treat theist.
There are a number of different reme-
dies, recommended, but in urgent cases
they must lie tapped or death will soon
follow. The proper instrument for this
is 8 trocar which is a sharp, pointed
instrument having a sheath. By cut-
ting, with a knife, a hole through the
skin, the trocar can he pushed in, and
when drawn out. the sheath is left in,
out through which the gas escapes. As
a regular trocar is not always at
band, and such a ease will not, admit
of delay, a substitute can be quickly
made with a goose quill for a sheath'
and a plunger made of hard wood well
sharpened. To u;te such a' one it is ne-
cessary to' cut. a holo through with a
knife. 'Phe place to tap an animal is
on the left side at a point.'" equally
distant; from the last rib, the hip hone
and the transverse peeresses of the
lumber vertehrea." r will give some
remedies for hloat which are said by
good authorities to he good, though 1
have never tried any of them and can-
not speak from experience. Give tur-
pentine in rinses of one to five tahle-
snoonfult, ac"ord1ng to size of animal.
Here is another: "Make a hit of ast.ick
two inehes through, put it in the mouth
and 1101(1 it there by a rope passing
over the head like n bridle. It is said
the animal will hold its bad np, the
mouth of course open, and keep work-
ing the tongue in an endeavor to get
the bit out and in this way the gas
escapes. ft is also said that n dose of
soda, is good. But one great trouble
with all these remedies is that the
bleating is nos', always discovered un-
til
too late and the animals die, there-
fore, 1 strongly urge all farmers to ad-
opt the i'reventive measures i have re-
commended rend be safe from bloat.
/SOME DAiRY QI'ESTEONS ANS-
WERED.
The fo]lowind questions and nnswers
regarding bacteria and other dairy
matters shen Id be suggestive to any
one engaged in the production of milk:
\\by should 1 be udder, Ste., of the
crows: and the hands of the milker he
made as clean am passible before milk-
ing ?
To keep hncleria from getting into
milk.
Why should milk be removed from
stable as soon as possible after millc-
i n,g ?
To 'treyent absorption of n.ny odors
of the slahle.
W'hy sh,t,ld milk riot be put. at once
after milking into closely envered
cans?
Because hy so doing odors are re-
tained in the milk.
\V13y should milk Ihol is to he set
for cream 111 severed sans o1' put into
outs for immrdial.e deliver'}', he. aer-
ated ?
1'o remove animal and other odors
from the milk.
Why should mills be set as soon an
posiiihle a (ter milking?
To stop the (01,100 of bacteria.
\V]ty should i.he temperature of the
mills be reduced as quickly as possible
after creaming,
To prevent the formation of fibrine
and the growth of bacteria.
Why should milk that is to he set
for cream be agitated no more than is
necessary before setting?
Because Agit al kin favors the. forma-
tinn of fibrine.
\Vhy should milk pails, pans, cans,
churns, and every utensil used in the
dairy be kept most, carefully cleaned.
Solely 10 keep out. bacteria.
Why is cream ripened before churn-
ing?
'i'o develop flavor and render churn-
ing easier.
\Vhy should the ripening pl'nre55 of
cream not be allowed to he continued
too long?
To prevent development of bacteria
•
that produce offensive products, snob
as bitterness, and destroy aroma.
ing
Whybutter should2 a thermometer be used
at every step in the process of mak-
To be sure that the temperature is
the one desired in each stage or divi-
slon of the' work.
\Vhy does cooling milk prevent or
retard souring 2
Retards o.rowth of bacteria.
Why do milk and cream sour less
readily in winter than in summer?
There are fewer bacteria in the air
and the temperature is lower.
\Vhy does the ripening of cream make
i1 churn more easily t
The albuminous matter of cream is
(hue rendered less tenacious,
\Vhy does Milk become sour?
Bacteria changes sugar into lactic
acid.
Why should the room, in which milk
in set he made perfect in its sanitary
conditions, such as good ventilation,
cleanliness of floors, walks, etc., free-
dom from bad odor without, etc.?
To keep out undesirable bacteria, and
to keep products free from bad odors,
etc.
\Vhy is butter worked ?
CaseinT,oi lessen the peri cent. of water and
' \Vhy does the presence of ('1156in in
butter injure it ?
iL affords nourishment to bacteria,
which i'auees Nutter to decompose.
BEES ANL) HIVES.
There seems to be abundant testi-
mony from experienced bee keepers
that a deep and wide entrance to the
hive is better for large colonies than
a smaller entrance. It gives room for
the bees to puss in and out more rap-
idly, and it gives more ventilation.
(lees often quit work and loaf around
hanging on the [Tont of the hive a$
if about to swarm, when the hives are
so warm and so illy ventilated that
they cannot exist. and be comfortable
inside. We do not blame them for strik-
ing work under such conditions. They
usually oecur with the largest colon-
ies, and those with fraines well filled,
I as the greater the number the greater
the heat inside, and the greater the
necessity for ventilation. tf the coi-
1 ony is small and weak, the entrance
could be narrowed up, which may help
' as a safeguard against robbing. But we
usually think that a colony se weak
that others rob iL is not worth trying
to save. A wide alighting hoard in
front of the hive is an advantage, as
' it prevents: the bees from the necessity
of alighting on the earth, or falling
from the narrow board et the earth'
and soiling the combs with muddy or
dusty feet. If this were provided for,
there would be less said about "trav-
el -stained" comes, for there would not.
1)8 se much strain upon the comb if
the hoes bad toot hi ng to carry in ex-
cepting what they had gathered from
the flowers. Of course, with the hives
on a stand broader thin the length of
the hive (he bees can alight on the
stand and crawl into the hives. It is
in this way many use hives which have
na) alighting hoard,
GARDEN OF EDEN NEAR THE POLE.
For a long I role iL has been contend-
ed hy 1110113' Ihut the Garden of Eden
was locale;( on one of the table lands
of Hindustan or 'I'hil:et, hitt now :11.
Louie \Vilzer, a distinguished anthrop-
ologist, comes forward and pia inisthat
it must have been sit uated very near
the North Pole. His study of 1 he cran-
ial formation, of the various races of
mankind has led him to this conclu-
sion. According to him, mankind may
le broadly divided into two great.
races—the whites of Europe and the
colored ;10d yellow populations of Asia
and Africa. Among the Europeans, be
claims, the 6'candite:teems are the pur-
est., and for this reason he maintains
that the parents of mankind must have
lived near the North Pole.
SWEDISH STEEr,.
Biome fern riesairle emeeinterts of Swed-
ish steel have been shown in the Stock-
holm exhibition. One was a ribbon of
steel, extremely thin, and over 4,000
feet. long. It was so thin as to weigh
only 43 pounds. The maniple was pro-
duced tit Sandvik works. where a very
large proportion of the paragon um-
brella riles of the world are produced.
The steel is so valuable. (bat., in order
to maintain its standard. every piece
is examined, and workmen cut out any
parts that are hurried, and remove tee
last particle of scale.
I WANT AN EASY JOB.
I kick, but my kick is a failure;
1 want 0 job 0118y, you know;
I'd like to get. paid in the summer
For watching the first fall of snow;
As 1 would he satisfied nicely
'1'o have nothing else just. to do—
nut to sib in Lbl1l bourse in the winter
And wait for the eioleta blue.
crag education.
After a woman teaches the age of
30 it is impossible to convince her that
the good all die. young.
Uhe wealth
oMeceir
Is indicated by ifs condition. When
Me natural secretions decrease; when
the hair becomes dry, splits at Ike
ends and comes out in combing; when
the gloss disappears and the hair be-
comes gray or faded, the ill health of
the hair is indicated. The success of
AYER'S HAIR 'VIGOR is due to
the fact that it restores the hair -pro-
ducing organs to their natural coigor.
It encourages and promotes the secre-
tions of the hair follicles, and thus
gray or faded hair regains its original
color, new growth
begins, and lost lus-
tre is restored.
"1 have used
*ars
Azir
249for
for fifteen years. Itemises
the hair tokeep'It8 natural
enter and is a positive cure
for hal<lness."— T. B.
WEYANT, Weyant, Pa.
•
A HELMET QUANDARY.
Why So *luny British Officers Are Killed
lel Action,
Capt. Norton, M.Y., is to ask a ques-
tion in the House respecting the largo
proportion of British officers serving
with native regiments who were kill-
ed or wounded during the recent cam-
paigns on the Indian frontier, says the
London Mail.
Capt. Norton holds that the chief
cause for these 181nen1ah1e casualties
which, owing to the unufficered con-
dition of the native regiments, might
have become a serious Menace to the
efficiency of the Indian army, is the
fact that (British officers wear a dif-
ferent head .tress fr.lul that of the na-
tive officers and troops under 1 hem ;
end are so rendered especially distin-
guishable by the, enemy's marksmen.
This danger in modern warfare has
long been recognized in Europe, and
in the home army the adoption of the
universal pattern field service corp for
all ranks has been satisfaoturily shown
My reduce to u minimum the distinc-
tion which formerly existed between of-
ficers and men. With British regiments
in India the white pith or khaki helmet
nets in a similar way ; but in native
regiments, where all but the English
officers wear an Eastern headdress, the
tvhit.0 helmet is a fatal distinction.
Capt. Norton holds that the chief
Se('retary of War to make the dress
of all ranks when on active duty as
uniform as possible; but it is difficult
to see how this ran be done, as far as
headgear is coneerned. With !be sub-
ject races of which our Indian army
is composed the wearing of a partic-
ular kind of headdress is an integral
pari: of their religion, while the pro-
posal to make British officers adopt
the turban umuld he equally unpopu-
lar.
Caps. Norton's question, therefore,
seems calculated to bring the *Indian
army ant hoo'ities to en impasse ; but
dcntbllees, if they appeal to Pall Mall
the strong force of experts which bas
been applying tt limiters amount of
brain power to the invent ion of a ser-
ies of More or less obnoxious" improve-
ments:" in military headgear during
along period of years, will be able
to help them out of Capt. Norton's
diffieulty.
Encouraged hy t he success of the, in-
elegant and useless convertible fatigue
cap, 1 he experts should find it a mat-
ter of snub! moment to produce a spe-
cies of universe] pattern topical head-
dress which should so combine the ap-
pearance of the turban with that of
the solar ton):, and so amalgamate the.
discomforts and advantages of both,
that, while the British wing officer will
look like a native and the havildar and
the naiek fancy themselves almost
white men. the wily Afridi will be
able to pick off either with equal fac-
ility and disinterestedness.
HiGH CASTE \\'II)OWS,
There are in -India alone 3,000,000 high
caste widows under 15 years old. In
that country is a girl is not married
at 10 or 12 years of age her parents
are looked down upon. They are con-
sequently, given away in marriage as
early as possible to men of any age.
On the death of the hitisbanct the widow
cannot marry again, and she gets little
support from her own relatives. Her
future life is one of misery and desti-
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