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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1897-11-19, Page 7,1r�;1ct'a ie„ti�> z. A't,ti:e.•r.r ',,, . r.`�^"•2y.*---ie" 1 - - , t� 1 . - "+�, °;`".�-:' `'r.�w:aa._ sr .ir:tJMirICE�n.�Yttr�'S�sriib f.X,rr'tiw-:1, °.- , rr.:-� - — = -'+ttw , • . � ... , . _ mow, . -. 4117TOUBR, SAWS, ,t. HOGS WANTED Any quantity of fat hogs wanted for shipping. rposea, for which the high, ' est market prices will be paid. Parties having hogs to sell will oblige by leav- ng word at the shop. R. Fitzsimons, Clinton. ENTRAL BUTCHER SHOP s.; FOLD lit H RPHY I1, We' are doing business on the cash print. ple,j and will supply our customers with e best meats at the lowest paying prwes FORD & MURPHY. CLINTON Business Change.' The undersigned desires to intimate to i the people of Clinton that he has bought out the butchering business lately conduct- ed by Reid Bros., and will continue the came in the old stand, Huron St., Clinton, where by strict attention to the wants of his customers, he hopes to merit and receive a fair share of patronage. He will sell for cash only, and at the lowest prioes. Chas.J, Wallis, Clinton. FLOUR AND FEED STORES. Pro dub e ' �Ychang e Headquarters for all kinds of FIELD & GARDEN SEEDS We' have a choice stook of FEED CCRN OATS, BARLEY, PEAS, &o Highest market price paid for coarse grain, r taken in exchange. Cash paid for Eggs HILL & JOYNER HURONi ST., CLINTON. C 0 0 -1 R_.._11 Flour & reed More BRAN & SHORTS In large or small quantities. OIL C SKE and MEAL OF_ -ALL KINDS. pounds Choice Oatmeal for 1 bushed of Oats. D. COOK, CLINTON. BANKS. A, MODERN SLAV. E Who is more a slave than the woman who worries and perspires over a red- hot stove to do the family baking, Nineteenth century women des A better fate. Genuine old fashion Family Bread at Jaynes McClacherty1% Pere, light and flyy, cheap aetbah. ing at home, too. We still lead in Ice Cream and Ice Cream Coda. As we have now a new and ap-ilir`date fountain with patent syrup jars. Call and see our new first prize Chicago Lunch eakea Come early as they sell gakkly. Wedding Cakes a Specialty For Twenty-seven Years DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THECOOI'S BEST FRIEND LARGE6T 6A LE IM GA#4%pA. NeLIDOD'S System RENOVAIVR AND OTHER TESTED REMEDIES SPECIFIC AND ANTIDOTE For Impure, Weak and Impoverished Blood, Dyspapals, Sleeplessness, Pal ta- lion of the Heart, Liver Complain*, Teu- relgia, Loss of Memory, Btontlhtods, Con- sumption, Gall Stones, Jaundice, KWney and Urinary Diseases, St. Vitus' Dwzee Female irregularities and General Debitity Laboratory, Goderi kh O J, 11[. II[ol,octtl, Prop, and Manulaciurse gold in Clinton by J. H. COMBE, and ALLAN & WILSON J. C. MYRON"No —T$19 LEADING— UNDERTA1KER A LAiYD OF SME1 CIL What land of silence More pale stars shine On apple blossoms And dew drenched vine Is yours and minal? The silent valley That we will find Where all the values Of human4nd - Are loft behind. There, all forgetting, llbrgotten quite, We will repose us, With our delight Had out of sight. The world forsaken Aird oat of mind Honor and labor, We shall not find The, stars unkind. And men shall travail And laugh and weep, But we have vistas Of ods asleep, With dreams as deep. A land of silonee Where pale stars shine On apple blossoms And dgw drenched vine, Be yours and mine —New York Tribune, A NEAT TRAP. The First National bank of Parkville was the flnancW tnstitution of Park coun- ty. Its stoclrholders included all the best business men of the town and a number of leading farmers, and the standing of the institution was all that nould be de- sired. There is always av odd sheep in every town, and in Parkville the odd sheep was Uncle Billy Edwards. Not once in a yeau• did anyone mention his lust -name. It was always "uncle Billy, " and he was everybody's friend and nobody's enemy, At the time the bank was organized he was a man 60 years old. He was simple minded, lived with a relative and picked up a quarter now and then by doing an odd Pb. Some one told lincle Billy about the bank, and he straightway sought an interview with the man who was to be president. In a spirit of fun the latter ap- pointed him the First National bank ex- traordinary burglar catcher and promised htmr a salary of $10 per year. The old man was delighted, and the bank had not yet opened for businees when be armed him- self with a olub and paraded the streets for several hours each night. Every one laughed at him, and yet he was so good natured and so zealous that no one hurt his feelings. After awhile he ceased to act as a night hawk, but he was "on deck" , aifl day long and became a sort of fixture at the bank - They bad lots of fun over Uncle Billy's sbordes.of the sneoicious characters he had seen sneaking about and of the bank bur- glars who bad tried to bluff him or run him off, and no one was jealous of him e meept the regular night watchman. About forlr nights a week Uncle Billy would slip otrt of his bed at midnight and. walk half a mile to kmook on the front door of the bank and satisfy himself that the watchmsln was awake. Fee was chased away time after Rime, with missiles following him as he fled, but he reappeared after a night or two and was not to he got rid of. One day vrhen the bank had been open about eight months two strangers drove up in a bug - at noon- Only the paying taller and the bookkeeper were in their places. The biller was called out to talk to the man In the, white the second one engaged the bookkeeper In conversation. Then a third man eneel%d in to rob the open safe, and he would surely have made a big haul date the rg"M riloo e4 vueie Billy, stuck close to his elbow and gave him no no chance. It was not known for a year that the thing was a put up job and that but for the old man the $16,000 lying in the We would hmve been deftly abstracted. Vincle Billy had a dim suspicion that a plot had been hatched, but as nothing bad been taken his talk of how he watched the stranger was put down with the rest of his vaporing. As is'the case with most country banks, idle banding was two stories high, with the second story finished off for offices. There were six or seven rooms, and for the first year those were rented out to local lawyers. At the end of the year the party Laving the rooms over the vaults moved >ut, and, after they had stood idle for two months, they were rented to White & 3ragg, insurance and real estate agents, who came to Puxkvillo from Philadelphia well r•ecommendod. Both claimed to be ararried men, but neither brought his 'amity. They were going to try it first for r few months. Their first move was to lopoeit $8,000 in the bank and a box of ponds and valuable papers. Their next roan to invest in 20, vacant city lots and to lake $1,000 worth of stock Ina woolen nill, then building. In these and other nays they made themselves solid with the tnsiness meg of "the town, and the public It largo looked upon them as valuable ac- luisitions to the community. Uncle Bill in add'ta to bei th fry to rob the 001M, Tiley have got au t tools tbeyneed, and today I found a satohe to ltut the money in." ' So you think they aro bank robboref' was asked. "I Am surd of it. Last night they we In the back room till 11 o'clock, and they would not let me go in there today. guess QiAey'have out a hole in the floor, "' For three months after the bank opens a watchman had been kept inside. The some one growled at the expense, and h was changed to the outside and given th whole block to patrol. For a minute two, as Uncle Billy looked so con'hden the president wondered if there was no something in It. Then he felt amused a the idea and said: "Well, Uncle Billy, you are our burglar catcher, you know, Perhaps you'd be sleep in the bank here for a few nights." "I'll do it, and I'll catch burglars, tool" exelatmed the delighted old man. It was arrangod that he should be 1 In the bank at night, and he was given a unloaded double barreled shotgan for Weapon and received many eau ions, Tb give you a fair idea of what the rob were after I must explain that the eafe, which stood outside the vault, was only for day use. At the close of business each day everything was deposited in the vault, which was of brick, with a heavy iron door, and supposed to be burglar proof. As Uncle Billy couldn't get into the vault and no burglar inside could got out, the bank people laughed as they asked each other how he was going to work it to cap- ture anybody. Further, he was to be locked in the bank, with no way of get- ting out. On the second night of Uncle Billy's guardianship something happened which Parkville Is talking about yet That day the firm of White & Gregg drew out `their deposit, claiming they were going to buy a farm. That night at 10 o'clock, while Uncle Billywas taking a smoke on his cot near the vault before going to sleep, be heard suspicious Bounds in the vault. He listened and listened again and after a few minutes was satisfied that robbers were within. They could have got ttrere only through a hole cut through the floor of the office above. The old man was not a bit rattled. He had been appointed bur- glar ur glar catcher to the bank, and here were the burglars. His Idea was to catch them instead of driving these off. It was a lucky thing for the First National that one of the officials with a key to the front door had left It lying on a table. Und® Billy saw it as he wondered how be would get out on the street. He saw the night watchman down at the end of the block, but had no use for him. The way to oag- ture the burgldrs was to get into sm rooms above, and the old man opt sod'lly up stairs and tried the floor of White &s Grogg's ofHee to find it looked 'He lifted the cash of the hall window, crept along on the cornice, and one of the office win. dows was found unfastened- He crept In, tiptoed across two rooms and into the rear one, and he was not at all surprised o$ what he saw. A square hole had been cut in the center of the floor, an opening made through the brick vault, and the men had descended by a rope. Uncle Billy could see a ligbt down there and hear men at work Hie first move was to draw up the rope. It was not missed for several minutes by those below When it was missed, a man was boosted up to find the muzzle of a shotgun thrust into his face and to hear Uncle Billy say: "You try that again and I'll, blow your head off." The man dropped back, and nest min- ute Undle Billy was hailed by White from the bottom of the vault- He explained that he had discovered the hole in the Boor, made during his absence from the office, and had descended to investigate. Mb. Gregg was there with him, he said, and •iso a friend. He talked glibly and coag, ingly, and asked the old man to lower them the rope. When he refused, they offered him $10, $20, $50. Then they turned to threats, and, finding him still firm and de- termined, several shots were fired at him from revolvers, He was on his gums against them and suffered no Injury. 11aif a dozen times before daylight came one of the trio was boosted up, but always to fled himself so menaced that he was glad to drop back. They could not got out of the vault by the door, and Uncle B - Sts unloaded shotgun prevented es pe above No burglars were ever caug in a neater trap, and this was of the* own making, and they had planned it from the day they rented the o81oe. They were held in the vault until morning and help came, and Parkvflle will never have andther such sensation. -Gregg and White turned out to be two bad men, wanted by the. police of throe or four different cities, and the third man was still more prominent. They had everything arranged to the smallest do - tail, lint were brought to grief by a man who didn't know a bank burglar from the man in the moon. The fellows got long sentences in prison, and Uncle Billy got a pension for life and died less than five years ago, C. B. LEwis. y, r on ca a The action to turn ex -Mayor hlemibg extraordinary huelan burglar detectorO carried of Toronto, out of his position aA chief rp the furl and swept out the ofPiPor ( assessment commissioner, was dietniss- ho lawyers and when White & GreggGa, d by Chief Justice Mer dish. oak possossinn be did not lose his'job. � they soon came to understand him, and A dispatch from Washington says w was allowed to come and go at will, O'rat the United States have made pro - hough he was never in the way when not pos tis to the Canulian Govornment vanted. He was enthusiastic In their looking towards reciprocityy. It is said ),also for the first tluee months, as they that a good feeling prnvails, and that iatd him liberally, but one day, in whis- mutual profit may grow out of the pre- rered tones and with an air of mystery out friendliness. bout bim, ho asked for a private Inter - low with the presldent of the bank. When his had been laughingly grante4 he saide "Mr. Davis, I am not sero about those atm, Rite & Gregg. I shouldn't wonder f t'bey Intend to rob our bank. " "13ow will they do It9" asked tho amused " y cutting through the floor and the 'seep. „ " 13ut the roof of the vault W of brick nd two feet thick." I I Well, I think they are going to try It. `they have a saw, a crowbar, a sledge ham- aer and other tools in a alowt sip statm 'm going to keep an eye on 'ern." Ae was encouraged to do so, but so trd- lslg diff the president consider the imd- ant that he did not speak of it *Kany ono, nd far hail an hour had fargr wym ail I bottt it. Not so with Unelo Bibi, bow- wiL On two occasions be was neat to iter a glrpm 60M t7y umbo & Oman and o btlsopa a mnill becancy ps*ols, t tiroo Law to slaw. a a $lit>lr tlillgo�Be looks ho -did � I1 rid -' ghao;n' Ito ttbt 'dbw . bribe omspbmtcr. it kir artit tvlo m two man, n >t boiwiled art the Lote4, never rotm•ned I > their ofl3oe after'supper. Aii*ertha* they rete frNuentdy there for an bozu• or two, nd as Mane passed on they sbatd layer, Tnde Billy vmtched all these things, but axil his own counsel for many woolrs. Ine day he agniih askod for 4 private in- )rview, and when tho president began w�thing at him he said: "It won't bo long now before they will j BACKACHE makes the young feel till, and $&4d feel that life is not worth fi ger signal of 1Qdney� trnai ring evidence of weals inacfiy�and+sor0�idneys, Any person cured of Kidney wealmms will tell you that when the baste to ache, all troubles ended, NFeither Unineirts, nor piasters, nor electricity can cure it. The seat of the trouble ' in the •skin, flesh or muscles. i fThi the Ndrrq& It can be C UWE D had terrible pains in my back and my water was thick and muddy, 1 was all broken up nd in poor hoalth generally. Two boxes of Dr Hobbs sparagu9 ILidney Pills cured mo omplotoly. P sh the artlo of them bard, bore ie nothin Ster. A. N. VAN ALmN M Toledo St., Adrian, Mich. had sulTored with a lame back and was ¢on - nod to my bed for'noarlyy two weeks. I took of quite all of a box of Dr Hobbs' Sparagus Kidney Pills and wag entire l ourod, Is MAnIt, Sri S, Elevonth 1, saginaw,Mich ® Dr. Lobb.' r 1 ARANu Sidney Pills (L� FOR BALD n* L1EN & WILSON, Ortigglate, CLINTONt 014T Schoolgirls aritiolse a. Madonna. It is lntora .ting to watch the attitude: and the expressions on the fgees of tht muititlidcs of people who go to see the re Sistine Madonna of Raphrcl at the great art gallery in Dresden. It is perhaps tht highest examplo of human art. It repre sorts the lioly Virgin with the Child ii; d her arms appearing to St. Sixths and St. Then Barbara, with two cherubs looking over e the balcony beneath, says a foreign corre• e sl)ondont of the Chicago Record, it bring; or hundreds of thvub-ands of dollars tel the city every year. It occupies a room in a dis. t taut corner t7f the ro}•a1 gallery without t anything also to (tNt rrkct the attention, and setts have been • '::sed around the wellls for the bviv' - tl:o„c who desire to stc'1 iter it. Soule stand ri*t, Others li,ncol to prop as if the Mother of Christ were a liv- ing being. Somo kneol and cross thcm- solves, while others coolly inspect the can. �y vas with the air of critics and connoisseurs. n Ons day a bevy of schoolgirls cahno to a see the painting.. They stopped suddenly before it, and Ono of thele, more impres- sionable sionable than the reat, exclaimed, "Mercy, Isn't it beautdfull" "Yes," replied another, with a drawl, "but don't you th.tnk it would loot: better if the Virgin were u little taller?" Gamy Mackerel, It is not genoraliy known to amateur fishermen that the common mackerel of commerce is a game fish and when at all hungry wil l't4he the fly and fight aspluck - ily as the brook ta,out. They have to be Played skillfully, as their mouths are very tender, but the hooking and successful landing of a No. 1 mackerel, which often weighs two or three pounds, with a rod and roel, is worthy of the most skillful flshwsnan.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The World's Tunnel. The tunnels of the world are estimated to number about 1,14$ a-itb a total length Of 514 miles: There are about 1,000 rail- rond tunnels, 10 subaqueous tunnels, 00 canal tunnoie'and 40 conduit tunnels, vara ireonme ioon't Wrana, "I toe it has beon decided that love is a diseneo. " "Then there must be a cure," "Unquestionably. But It isn't known end probably never will be., "Wby nob!" "There's ao 1"Omtive for any investiga- Mon in tLat line. You eouldn't sell a pint of it ire tea roars. People don't want it. Instead of trying to and a cure they are lying awaleo nigbta trying to Batch the disease. If Yon shoWd get a reomfnl of the germs, roost of the population would be fighting to gee who could get In first. —Chicago Post. Ro ftoas and Gentlemen. 6 Qieorgla paper somewhat infelicitously remarked of the late 60neral Avery of At- lanta that, although he was a great jour- naltst, he was era Ideal gentleman. This enrggeete to the Montgomery Advertiser the old storg• of the edfWr and the barber on a steaanboa& When the editor offered to pay for his shaco, the barber drew him- self up and remarked, "'We don't never ullarge editors notbin, salt." "But you can't tarry on your business unless you charge for It, " peralstod the editor. "Dat's all right, sah," replied th© drlrky. "We tnnkes it up off n gentlemen. "—New York Tribune. ITCAHING aE E P I wN ' 62 AWLMC7 S,_M, sun 1 N• 1 N G SKIN DISEASES RMLIEVED BY ONfi AP- PLICATION OF Dr. Agnew's Ointment, 36 CENTS. Mr. James Gaston, merchant,Wilkesbarre, Pa., writes :—For nlne years I have been disfigured with tetter on hands and face. Et at last I have fougd a cure in Dr. Agnew's Ointment. My Skin le now smooth and soft and free from every blem- ish. The first appilcatlon gave relief. -30. SOLD BY WATTS & CO., CLINTON Prize Only one month more to guess on the mammoth bar of soap. COME AND GUESS J.A.-S. STEEP, Clinton An experienced canvasser to WiLlited— travol and appoint agents, No canvassing. fialary aur] expenses paid. THE I,RADLINg42RItETSON CO., Ltd-, Toronto. A'*9etabkTreparditonfor.As- Mmilating(fieT6od&gdRqu1a- 14t hestlauallis aildlowelsd Promote s Tli gestion;Cheerful- uessand'>;eseontai nsneither O,plum`,Ndorphine mor Mineral. Wow %i AMC,09r-iC. irmci'rBa- .,I'civta •. ' alfd.�'an-•- Seed`+ - unt Wna6!�ttpmw c m 7¢Tvz ApqrfecfReinedy-lbs-CaWs pa - lion; 5ciri� �oinaeh,Diarl3laea, Worms "nvttisions,I'eueidsh- aesss un Zos&z�rSLE, m �etil6tsnric•aSi�nature of NEW 'i'XMD74MXZV VT WRAPPM. I~l"C-SIMILE SIGMA —OF— `­7:7:1 --OF---- w:1 is ®N .a WRAPPJ[:�k,'i or EVERY IBoTTI. rU QV i `�,fi '�,� i ';,fir.. :' r t ` �,� •Y; Castoria is put up in ono -size bottles ouiy, to not sold in bclk. Don't allow anyoneis you anything else on the plea or promise, til is "just as good" and "will answer every pose," R�U- See that you get 0 -A -6-T-0,$ Tho foo- almilo ►!/��% �,�._,� aigaotaro��� mrd of Our very large sales this fall in Loves, langes & Furna, ` .. Is explained in the following: We keep the largest assortment in the cottntyf' and buy only from the leading manufacturers of the Dominion, and sell suds, world famed stoves as the Happy Thought, Radiant Home, Honor Bright, Famous Model, Welcome Pearl, &e. Over 80,000 families now in the Dominion enjoy the comforts of the a ` Thought Range. The Radiant Home, 1807 pattern is not only beanti W-13 design but is a powerful heater•and a fuel saver. The Honor Bright is ekeln sively a farmer's stove and sells at eight. Edery stove warranted. Our stook qk"j Hardware, Tinware, House Furnishings, A Small Wares, &c. is complete, and prices riigbj We have a quantity of second-hand stoves chee r, a AMERICAN and CANADIAN COAL OIL HARLAND BROS, Stoves, Hardware, aLr Clinton Acme Gr'oki n ®le. The combination three g%me boards, more exciting, more laughing &;tip more fun than anv other game offered for sale, Usualiy sold atwh.` our price, N. We have a large stock of general furniture, windo shades and poles, picture frames, mirrors, children's sleighs, &c., wh*t. we are offering at pricey which will surprise you. A Dcuble SAVING F By Using the MlAsm, Donmm Asti SIrrTER, pat en$ed Canada, The only satisfactory sifter on the mar]tet. tors in one, of different size mesbers. Separates email:'irtl large cinders. No labor, no dust, no waste. On receipt of 52;50 we will deliver 1 double ash sifter to any pl1 of Canada and pay express charges ourselves. _ r Write for descriptive circular and references. Wholesale r6'rail, Agents wantedevery where. County, township and 00 rights for sale. Apply to P. R. ILItbASEL Patonteo and fJannfactnrer, t 2.521) St. Catherino St. Montreal, P Q i ry ' Tho CLEVE" Is unexcelled for easy running qualities, and umpproa,ched for all round satisfac t, to its riders. The '98 models are bound to create the greatest enthusiaglni The grandest line (4) of Iyicycles ever offered. H. A. EOZIER & CO., W. C"n 0 P El R & CO., AGT84' * ,. TORONTO. CLMT� � e AW'3� dle.+e�lka.tt�.ar ;. s , ,. ..: 9 .• Yn.,...,�: iaa,r,�,. The Molsons Batik —AND— EMBALMER. ;Incorporated by Act of Parliament 1886 CAPITAL - $2,000,000 REST FUND - $1,600,000 A•FIIGL LING O13 � HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. WAL MOLSON MACPEMRSON, President F. WoLFERsTAN Tnox&s. Gen Manager Notes discounted, Collections made, Drafts issued, Sterling and American exchange bought and sold. Interest allowed on de- Best Embalming Fluid used. posits. SAv1Nes BAxs—Interest allowed on a sums of $1 and up. Money advanced to farmers on their own note, with one or ttr�yy Splendid Hearse more endorsers. No mortgage required H. C. BREWER, Manager, Clinton *Residence over store ��11 G. D WIA.I(t!-1fAIM OPPOSITF TOWN HALL 1; BANKER", ALBERT ST., - CL NTOIV, CLINTON MARBLE WORKS. A general Banking Business COOPEIt's OLD STAND, transacted. Nox to Commercial Dotel. NOTES DISCOUNTED This establionment is in full o• oration and a order filled in tho most satisfacto.y way Came ., Drafts asued. Interest allowed on tory and granite work a specialty. Prices a reasonable as tboso of any ostablishn:eut deposits. 6,1JAE.Ni& IiOOVEB,Cllnton. m se FARRAN & TISDALL. r MAT STAMPING BANKERS, The underei nod is g prapnred to do all kinds of stompmg for Mate, Persian Rugs x ; CLINTON, ONT. and artl- aloe or like nature. Work done promptly and at reasonable rates, MRS A. WORTHINGTON :Advances made to farmers on their own Huron street. ! fv notes at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transacted. Interest deposits. Cooks Cotton Root Compound allowed on Sale Notes bought Is the only safe, reliable monthly medicine on which ' J. P. TISDALL, Manager,ladies can depend in the Vl hour and fame of wee& rMcKILLOP Is prepared intwo degrees MUTUAL FIRE Of1 INSURANCE CO. N0.n 1for orr34nary caec® is by far the best dollar medicine i-nawn y .. -- FARM & i9COLNLLY INSU ED PROPERTY ---sold —sold druggists, one Dollar per box- for spedtli cased—io degreee stronger --sold by druggists. One boa, OFFICERS, Goo. WattHarlocic P. o.; James Three Dollars; two boxes, Five Dollara. l:. , Broadfoot, oe-Pres., Seaforth P. O.; W. J. No. No. Nmailed on of I a or a =+Pt . • Shannon, Socy.Trcas., seaforth P.O.; M. M rdie priDC and two Scent stamp. } r : Inspector of losses, seaforth P. O. DMECTORS Jas. Broadfoot,Seafoxth; M• Mmdle, sea- The Cook COlit1 Winds", oaoaftcs% dd forth; (leo. Dale, seatorth; Goo. Watt, liar dock; T. E, Have, seatorth• Alm (ialdiDer, *road- r Chas. Garbutt, Clinton; John MaLoatt, Sol dtin Clinton and everywbtaro is Can. � a pen. AaE:vTe. oda bylall reaponsibio druggists. v i T -os. Nellaus, Harlock• Robb. McMillan, sea Orth, and J. Cumings, li,gnrondvlllo. r 1 fret- cesalt Parties destrous m otbo , ' InputInsura n soot other bneiness will bo promptly atWndod fp on application to any of the above offioers �RA � him adressed to their rospoetive offices. ORKSHOP ON WHEELS 7MC% PIU"i, WAWO& ' a E. TAYLOR, the celebrated Cutler Thin old•eebabllshod and reliable bnonow 14 being continued ad usual, and *haw who want f and Grinder, of Sheffield, England, is back aff ytlliinenegto our line can rely on tdrt vory beet to town for a short time, and is located on g Dinsiey's Corner. He will do 'Repairs ChoiooWlants for Spring mdaing, / - d "oral Dosilrnser Wedding; Grinding & Rofall hinds or Onnea•�lg ' on short notice and at reasonable rates. prnit an teff rn Pcoket Knives rebladed and made equal to ke fielder uto pizw M P new. Razors, Scissors, and all binds .of pr oos of entire stock very low. -•, • -knives sh4rllened.. Umbrellas and Parasols . Ail,orders promptly filled. 1 neatly rg•,patretl and old ones bought. Cross --tit Sates gamlued and sharpened. Stew Jelin art Estate, A LAiYD OF SME1 CIL What land of silence More pale stars shine On apple blossoms And dew drenched vine Is yours and minal? The silent valley That we will find Where all the values Of human4nd - Are loft behind. There, all forgetting, llbrgotten quite, We will repose us, With our delight Had out of sight. The world forsaken Aird oat of mind Honor and labor, We shall not find The, stars unkind. And men shall travail And laugh and weep, But we have vistas Of ods asleep, With dreams as deep. A land of silonee Where pale stars shine On apple blossoms And dgw drenched vine, Be yours and mine —New York Tribune, A NEAT TRAP. The First National bank of Parkville was the flnancW tnstitution of Park coun- ty. Its stoclrholders included all the best business men of the town and a number of leading farmers, and the standing of the institution was all that nould be de- sired. There is always av odd sheep in every town, and in Parkville the odd sheep was Uncle Billy Edwards. Not once in a yeau• did anyone mention his lust -name. It was always "uncle Billy, " and he was everybody's friend and nobody's enemy, At the time the bank was organized he was a man 60 years old. He was simple minded, lived with a relative and picked up a quarter now and then by doing an odd Pb. Some one told lincle Billy about the bank, and he straightway sought an interview with the man who was to be president. In a spirit of fun the latter ap- pointed him the First National bank ex- traordinary burglar catcher and promised htmr a salary of $10 per year. The old man was delighted, and the bank had not yet opened for businees when be armed him- self with a olub and paraded the streets for several hours each night. Every one laughed at him, and yet he was so good natured and so zealous that no one hurt his feelings. After awhile he ceased to act as a night hawk, but he was "on deck" , aifl day long and became a sort of fixture at the bank - They bad lots of fun over Uncle Billy's sbordes.of the sneoicious characters he had seen sneaking about and of the bank bur- glars who bad tried to bluff him or run him off, and no one was jealous of him e meept the regular night watchman. About forlr nights a week Uncle Billy would slip otrt of his bed at midnight and. walk half a mile to kmook on the front door of the bank and satisfy himself that the watchmsln was awake. Fee was chased away time after Rime, with missiles following him as he fled, but he reappeared after a night or two and was not to he got rid of. One day vrhen the bank had been open about eight months two strangers drove up in a bug - at noon- Only the paying taller and the bookkeeper were in their places. The biller was called out to talk to the man In the, white the second one engaged the bookkeeper In conversation. Then a third man eneel%d in to rob the open safe, and he would surely have made a big haul date the rg"M riloo e4 vueie Billy, stuck close to his elbow and gave him no no chance. It was not known for a year that the thing was a put up job and that but for the old man the $16,000 lying in the We would hmve been deftly abstracted. Vincle Billy had a dim suspicion that a plot had been hatched, but as nothing bad been taken his talk of how he watched the stranger was put down with the rest of his vaporing. As is'the case with most country banks, idle banding was two stories high, with the second story finished off for offices. There were six or seven rooms, and for the first year those were rented out to local lawyers. At the end of the year the party Laving the rooms over the vaults moved >ut, and, after they had stood idle for two months, they were rented to White & 3ragg, insurance and real estate agents, who came to Puxkvillo from Philadelphia well r•ecommendod. Both claimed to be ararried men, but neither brought his 'amity. They were going to try it first for r few months. Their first move was to lopoeit $8,000 in the bank and a box of ponds and valuable papers. Their next roan to invest in 20, vacant city lots and to lake $1,000 worth of stock Ina woolen nill, then building. In these and other nays they made themselves solid with the tnsiness meg of "the town, and the public It largo looked upon them as valuable ac- luisitions to the community. Uncle Bill in add'ta to bei th fry to rob the 001M, Tiley have got au t tools tbeyneed, and today I found a satohe to ltut the money in." ' So you think they aro bank robboref' was asked. "I Am surd of it. Last night they we In the back room till 11 o'clock, and they would not let me go in there today. guess QiAey'have out a hole in the floor, "' For three months after the bank opens a watchman had been kept inside. The some one growled at the expense, and h was changed to the outside and given th whole block to patrol. For a minute two, as Uncle Billy looked so con'hden the president wondered if there was no something in It. Then he felt amused a the idea and said: "Well, Uncle Billy, you are our burglar catcher, you know, Perhaps you'd be sleep in the bank here for a few nights." "I'll do it, and I'll catch burglars, tool" exelatmed the delighted old man. It was arrangod that he should be 1 In the bank at night, and he was given a unloaded double barreled shotgan for Weapon and received many eau ions, Tb give you a fair idea of what the rob were after I must explain that the eafe, which stood outside the vault, was only for day use. At the close of business each day everything was deposited in the vault, which was of brick, with a heavy iron door, and supposed to be burglar proof. As Uncle Billy couldn't get into the vault and no burglar inside could got out, the bank people laughed as they asked each other how he was going to work it to cap- ture anybody. Further, he was to be locked in the bank, with no way of get- ting out. On the second night of Uncle Billy's guardianship something happened which Parkville Is talking about yet That day the firm of White & Gregg drew out `their deposit, claiming they were going to buy a farm. That night at 10 o'clock, while Uncle Billywas taking a smoke on his cot near the vault before going to sleep, be heard suspicious Bounds in the vault. He listened and listened again and after a few minutes was satisfied that robbers were within. They could have got ttrere only through a hole cut through the floor of the office above. The old man was not a bit rattled. He had been appointed bur- glar ur glar catcher to the bank, and here were the burglars. His Idea was to catch them instead of driving these off. It was a lucky thing for the First National that one of the officials with a key to the front door had left It lying on a table. Und® Billy saw it as he wondered how be would get out on the street. He saw the night watchman down at the end of the block, but had no use for him. The way to oag- ture the burgldrs was to get into sm rooms above, and the old man opt sod'lly up stairs and tried the floor of White &s Grogg's ofHee to find it looked 'He lifted the cash of the hall window, crept along on the cornice, and one of the office win. dows was found unfastened- He crept In, tiptoed across two rooms and into the rear one, and he was not at all surprised o$ what he saw. A square hole had been cut in the center of the floor, an opening made through the brick vault, and the men had descended by a rope. Uncle Billy could see a ligbt down there and hear men at work Hie first move was to draw up the rope. It was not missed for several minutes by those below When it was missed, a man was boosted up to find the muzzle of a shotgun thrust into his face and to hear Uncle Billy say: "You try that again and I'll, blow your head off." The man dropped back, and nest min- ute Undle Billy was hailed by White from the bottom of the vault- He explained that he had discovered the hole in the Boor, made during his absence from the office, and had descended to investigate. Mb. Gregg was there with him, he said, and •iso a friend. He talked glibly and coag, ingly, and asked the old man to lower them the rope. When he refused, they offered him $10, $20, $50. Then they turned to threats, and, finding him still firm and de- termined, several shots were fired at him from revolvers, He was on his gums against them and suffered no Injury. 11aif a dozen times before daylight came one of the trio was boosted up, but always to fled himself so menaced that he was glad to drop back. They could not got out of the vault by the door, and Uncle B - Sts unloaded shotgun prevented es pe above No burglars were ever caug in a neater trap, and this was of the* own making, and they had planned it from the day they rented the o81oe. They were held in the vault until morning and help came, and Parkvflle will never have andther such sensation. -Gregg and White turned out to be two bad men, wanted by the. police of throe or four different cities, and the third man was still more prominent. They had everything arranged to the smallest do - tail, lint were brought to grief by a man who didn't know a bank burglar from the man in the moon. The fellows got long sentences in prison, and Uncle Billy got a pension for life and died less than five years ago, C. B. LEwis. y, r on ca a The action to turn ex -Mayor hlemibg extraordinary huelan burglar detectorO carried of Toronto, out of his position aA chief rp the furl and swept out the ofPiPor ( assessment commissioner, was dietniss- ho lawyers and when White & GreggGa, d by Chief Justice Mer dish. oak possossinn be did not lose his'job. � they soon came to understand him, and A dispatch from Washington says w was allowed to come and go at will, O'rat the United States have made pro - hough he was never in the way when not pos tis to the Canulian Govornment vanted. He was enthusiastic In their looking towards reciprocityy. It is said ),also for the first tluee months, as they that a good feeling prnvails, and that iatd him liberally, but one day, in whis- mutual profit may grow out of the pre- rered tones and with an air of mystery out friendliness. bout bim, ho asked for a private Inter - low with the presldent of the bank. When his had been laughingly grante4 he saide "Mr. Davis, I am not sero about those atm, Rite & Gregg. I shouldn't wonder f t'bey Intend to rob our bank. " "13ow will they do It9" asked tho amused " y cutting through the floor and the 'seep. „ " 13ut the roof of the vault W of brick nd two feet thick." I I Well, I think they are going to try It. `they have a saw, a crowbar, a sledge ham- aer and other tools in a alowt sip statm 'm going to keep an eye on 'ern." Ae was encouraged to do so, but so trd- lslg diff the president consider the imd- ant that he did not speak of it *Kany ono, nd far hail an hour had fargr wym ail I bottt it. Not so with Unelo Bibi, bow- wiL On two occasions be was neat to iter a glrpm 60M t7y umbo & Oman and o btlsopa a mnill becancy ps*ols, t tiroo Law to slaw. a a $lit>lr tlillgo�Be looks ho -did � I1 rid -' ghao;n' Ito ttbt 'dbw . bribe omspbmtcr. it kir artit tvlo m two man, n >t boiwiled art the Lote4, never rotm•ned I > their ofl3oe after'supper. Aii*ertha* they rete frNuentdy there for an bozu• or two, nd as Mane passed on they sbatd layer, Tnde Billy vmtched all these things, but axil his own counsel for many woolrs. Ine day he agniih askod for 4 private in- )rview, and when tho president began w�thing at him he said: "It won't bo long now before they will j BACKACHE makes the young feel till, and $&4d feel that life is not worth fi ger signal of 1Qdney� trnai ring evidence of weals inacfiy�and+sor0�idneys, Any person cured of Kidney wealmms will tell you that when the baste to ache, all troubles ended, NFeither Unineirts, nor piasters, nor electricity can cure it. The seat of the trouble ' in the •skin, flesh or muscles. i fThi the Ndrrq& It can be C UWE D had terrible pains in my back and my water was thick and muddy, 1 was all broken up nd in poor hoalth generally. Two boxes of Dr Hobbs sparagu9 ILidney Pills cured mo omplotoly. P sh the artlo of them bard, bore ie nothin Ster. A. N. VAN ALmN M Toledo St., Adrian, Mich. had sulTored with a lame back and was ¢on - nod to my bed for'noarlyy two weeks. I took of quite all of a box of Dr Hobbs' Sparagus Kidney Pills and wag entire l ourod, Is MAnIt, Sri S, Elevonth 1, saginaw,Mich ® Dr. Lobb.' r 1 ARANu Sidney Pills (L� FOR BALD n* L1EN & WILSON, Ortigglate, CLINTONt 014T Schoolgirls aritiolse a. Madonna. It is lntora .ting to watch the attitude: and the expressions on the fgees of tht muititlidcs of people who go to see the re Sistine Madonna of Raphrcl at the great art gallery in Dresden. It is perhaps tht highest examplo of human art. It repre sorts the lioly Virgin with the Child ii; d her arms appearing to St. Sixths and St. Then Barbara, with two cherubs looking over e the balcony beneath, says a foreign corre• e sl)ondont of the Chicago Record, it bring; or hundreds of thvub-ands of dollars tel the city every year. It occupies a room in a dis. t taut corner t7f the ro}•a1 gallery without t anything also to (tNt rrkct the attention, and setts have been • '::sed around the wellls for the bviv' - tl:o„c who desire to stc'1 iter it. Soule stand ri*t, Others li,ncol to prop as if the Mother of Christ were a liv- ing being. Somo kneol and cross thcm- solves, while others coolly inspect the can. �y vas with the air of critics and connoisseurs. n Ons day a bevy of schoolgirls cahno to a see the painting.. They stopped suddenly before it, and Ono of thele, more impres- sionable sionable than the reat, exclaimed, "Mercy, Isn't it beautdfull" "Yes," replied another, with a drawl, "but don't you th.tnk it would loot: better if the Virgin were u little taller?" Gamy Mackerel, It is not genoraliy known to amateur fishermen that the common mackerel of commerce is a game fish and when at all hungry wil l't4he the fly and fight aspluck - ily as the brook ta,out. They have to be Played skillfully, as their mouths are very tender, but the hooking and successful landing of a No. 1 mackerel, which often weighs two or three pounds, with a rod and roel, is worthy of the most skillful flshwsnan.—Pittsburg Dispatch. The World's Tunnel. The tunnels of the world are estimated to number about 1,14$ a-itb a total length Of 514 miles: There are about 1,000 rail- rond tunnels, 10 subaqueous tunnels, 00 canal tunnoie'and 40 conduit tunnels, vara ireonme ioon't Wrana, "I toe it has beon decided that love is a diseneo. " "Then there must be a cure," "Unquestionably. But It isn't known end probably never will be., "Wby nob!" "There's ao 1"Omtive for any investiga- Mon in tLat line. You eouldn't sell a pint of it ire tea roars. People don't want it. Instead of trying to and a cure they are lying awaleo nigbta trying to Batch the disease. If Yon shoWd get a reomfnl of the germs, roost of the population would be fighting to gee who could get In first. —Chicago Post. Ro ftoas and Gentlemen. 6 Qieorgla paper somewhat infelicitously remarked of the late 60neral Avery of At- lanta that, although he was a great jour- naltst, he was era Ideal gentleman. This enrggeete to the Montgomery Advertiser the old storg• of the edfWr and the barber on a steaanboa& When the editor offered to pay for his shaco, the barber drew him- self up and remarked, "'We don't never ullarge editors notbin, salt." "But you can't tarry on your business unless you charge for It, " peralstod the editor. "Dat's all right, sah," replied th© drlrky. "We tnnkes it up off n gentlemen. "—New York Tribune. ITCAHING aE E P I wN ' 62 AWLMC7 S,_M, sun 1 N• 1 N G SKIN DISEASES RMLIEVED BY ONfi AP- PLICATION OF Dr. Agnew's Ointment, 36 CENTS. Mr. James Gaston, merchant,Wilkesbarre, Pa., writes :—For nlne years I have been disfigured with tetter on hands and face. Et at last I have fougd a cure in Dr. Agnew's Ointment. My Skin le now smooth and soft and free from every blem- ish. The first appilcatlon gave relief. -30. SOLD BY WATTS & CO., CLINTON Prize Only one month more to guess on the mammoth bar of soap. COME AND GUESS J.A.-S. 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