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The Huron News-Record, 1889-10-02, Page 2r* • asswommemmelnelarallaiiii.ila • Slit *OOP 4ottO4loor 181ULI8fl1R sElle11170 .41101340,Y Adoil,P,the AT Timm POWER PRESS, PIT.111:1111C1100sEA Ontario §treit, $1 59 a Year—V.25 in Advance. The proprietoreof Tan GODERICH Nam, having purchased the business and plant of Tim Moms' ftEcoan, will lin future nblish the amalgamated papers in Clinton, nder the title of "Tim Honors NEWS- ItHCOnD." Clinton is the moat prosperous town iu Western Ontario, is the seat of considerable manufacturing, and the centre of the finest gricultural section in Ontario. The combined circulation of Tun NEWS- ttECORD exceeds that of any paper pub- lished in the County of Huron. It is, therefore, unsurpassed as an advertising medium. rtqrRates of advertising liberal, and furnished on application. t3PParties making contracts for a speci- fied time, who discontinue their advertise- ment, before the expiry of the earn% will be charged full rates. Advertisements, without instructions as to space and time, will be lelf to the judg- ment "of:the compositor in the pisplay, in- serted until forbidden, measured by a scale of solid nonpareil (12 lines to the inch), and charged 10 cents a lino for first insertion and 8 cents a lino for each sub- sequent insertion. Orders to discontinue advertisements must be in writisur. or Notices set as BEADING MATTER. Imeasured by a scale of solid Noupariel, 12 !Ines to the inch) charged at the rate of 10 cents a line for each insertion. JOB WORK. We have one of the beat appointed Job Offices west of Toronto. Our facilities in this department enable us to do, all kinds of work—from a calling card to a mammoth poster, 'in the best style known • to the craft, and at the lowest possible rates Orders by mail promptly attended to. Address The News-Reeord, Clinton. Out The Huron News -Record E.50 a Year—$1.25 to Advance. tar r,te. man does not do Justice to his business Ao ;made less en advertioin 7 than he does in ent. A. T. STSWART, the millionaire rnerchan of New York. Ire Inesdav, Oct. 2ud. 1889 REUNITED AFTER FORTY . YEARS. A SORT OF ENOCH ARDEN WITH A HAPPY ENDING. A. remarkable case of separation of-busbaud and wife, and their corn- ing together again after fully forty years, came to light yesterday in the city of St. Louis. The couple are now in the city alive and Well, tal- hough each believed the other dead for many years. The history of the case runs as follow : In 1847 Theodore Flotow and his wife left Bavaria to seek their fortune iu this country. They were then a youog couple and felt coufideut of achieving suaceeta in the United States. ' They landed at New Orleans, and Flotow being a black- stuith by trade, opened a shop at once and went to work with energy to support his wife and young daughter. After two years Flotow found himself penniless with no prospect of improving his condition. The'. California gold fever was rag- ing about this time, and, in a fit of .desperation he couchided to leave his family and start across the plains to the land of promise in search of better luck and prosperity. He did not tell his wife, expecting, it is said, to call them out there as soon as he found himself well situated. Ho experienced some hard licks, and it was a long time before he could make more than a hare living for himself. In the meantime his wife, who had waited for months and menthe, concluded that he was dead, and left New Orleans. She went to several places, working for the sup- port of herself and child, and in a few years met and married a Ger- man named Lohenhofer. They came to this city in 1853 and lived happily together uutil a few years ago, when Lohenhofer died, leaving ' his wife and family In moderate eh:- cnnistances. Since then the widow Lohenhofer has been in St. Louis. Her daughter by the first husband also married, and she, too, is a widow, residing in St. Louis. A short time ago Mrs. Lohenho• fer learned through a German min- ister living at Murphyaboro, that Flotow, her first husband, was still alive aud in very good circum- stances, so far as the world's goods were concerned, ;Are. Lohenhofer was greatly surprised at the informa- tion, but concluded to meet her husband without delay. A corres- pondence was beguu, and a few days ago Flotow came hero from California. He is seventy-two years of age, and Mrs: Lohenhofer sixty- nine, and to lay that the meeting between the old couple was touch- ing would be drawing it mild. It svas extremely pathetic. Flotow had a strange story to re late. He, too, had been married again, thiukiug that his first wife was deed. He said that when ho 01, tp cdlifornia, after nanny trials Pk'ti he tio00 fild'bere but pt vall11.2Afir Wilting a kw? y ea raij luttf* ijiiiking qtatt"- she was dead,11 fitaqieti again,, but hie"wife, ijveil on.Iy ti•,few 'years and ha ern.; baked no inure in the matrimonial businees. He is well situated, and is uow etopping with his daughter by his first tnarriage on Linn street. THE RACES OF MANKIND. THERE ARE SEVENTY-TWO OF THEM EXISTING NOW—ALI, CAME FROM ASIA. M. de Quatrefeges1 the leading French ethuolog.st, in presenting the second part of his Introduction to the Study of 'theHuman Races tf) the academy of sciences, has given an interesting summary of his general conclusions with regard to the origin and distribution of mankind. Neglecting the minor d ire ren he estimates that there are no fewer than sevuty-two distinct races in the human spezies. All these descend or breech off from three f u nda men tal types—the black, the yellow, and the white—which had their origin in the great central mass of northern Aida, which is thus the cradle of mankind Rep- res4ntatives of these different types and races which sprang from them are still to be found there. The whites according to M. de Quatrefages, appear to have origi- nated on the west of the central mass, the yellows on the north, and the blacks .on the south. The whites' extended westward and northward, giving birth to three • sewn lary types, the Finnish. the Semitic, and the Aryan, if we except the Allophyles, which form a separate group. Their area of distribution is continuous, tads that of the yellows, because of the extensive land ;surface .of the Euras fan cottinent. The yellows spread eastward and crossed into America. The whites and yellows chucked or blended with eaoh other, producing many varieties of man. ,The blacks, or negro type, which originated on the south of the central mass, was forced by. the nature of the conti- nent, and probably by the attacks of the whites and yellows, to go south into Africa and east into the Indian archipelago, or Melanesia. The prolo-Semites arrested their distribution in the north of Africa, and the mixture of the two races gave rise to the negroid populations. In the center and South: ,pf Africa the blacks continued in their ethnic purity until the infiltration of other races frotn Europe aud'the north of Africa in modern times. Thoeo whiCh remained in their original home became blended with the whites and yellows, giving rise to the dravidian populatione which pass by shades into three fundamen- . tat types. • As for the Allophyles, represent- ed by the race of Cro-Magnou, they occupied parts of Europe and north Africa, from which they extended to theCanaries. The three funda. nientail types also found themselves itt Oceania ; the Allophylian whites occupying Polynesia, the blacks Melanesia, the yellows Malasia. The latter were, according to M. de Quatrefages, tho last to come into the maritime world. The peopling of America dates from the quaternary period, and is due to • migrations of different types—Allophylic white and yellow, blendina the local quarternary races, whichialso belouged to the yellow type. Europe, since the tertiasy' ages, has received only Allophyliau whites, Finns, and - Aryans. The number of races now existing in a pure state is -exceed- ingly, restricted, if, indeed, there;is a single one which can be accepted as such. Perhaps some little groups, protected by their isolation, such es the Mincopies, may show an identi- ty of characters arresting their ethnic homogeneity. A BOOK AGENT'S GREAT SCHEME. Said a book agent recently :—"I was a book fiend ten years or more before the idea dawned upou me, and now I make more in a week than I ever did before in a month. I take out religioua books only, and never ono that costs less than $5 or $6. On striking a town I get from the directory a list of the parsons— not for the purpose of working them, for T don't go nigh them. Thou I ea it. down the address of the trustees, in case the directory happens to give thorn ; but if it does not, I make a round of the janitors, to get from them the Dairies of the richest men in the cougrega- tion. I spend time enough in this preliminary labor to get a route coinprehonsively laid out. "Next, I toll to one and another the same story—that his minister is dying for the book, but can't afford to buy it. The wives and daugh• tere of the church pillars. are easier to capture than the brethren: It's the biggest thing in the whole history of book canvassing ; and the beauty of it is that the trick seldom gots exposed. When the pastor receives the book he's tickled, and the donor is tickled, and it's all right." ppily buii YON. • 7it "•! X01.1)411(4 ANgtorfAND Iztokumx... - "Talking of life --preservers," said the truthful mariner, as be knocked the ashes out of his. pipe, to aNew York Dispatch man, "you remember the olli steamer Roustabout that used - to run from lEtnfralo to‘Chicago? I was mate on her the year before she was lost. We were about sixty miles out from Chicago when Mike Lannigan,w.ho was doing something upon the raaSt, fell, *truck on his head on the roof of the cabin, and bounced clean out into the „lake. Well, the captain he see hint fall, and he stopped and backed that old Roustabout quicker'u you could say 'scat.' Mike went down like a plummet, for he was knocked in- sensible, and 1 knoweci there was no use to heave a life preserver for him ao I just hurried up the boys in getting the boat down, although I didn't expect it 'ud do much good. We had Jim King on board. Passenger from Chicago. You re- member Jirn King,don't your "Can't say that I do," remarked a bystander, • "Welt, Jim was the champion quoit thrower in them days. He's dead now, poor fellow, but Jim was a hose on throwing quoits. I tell you quoits were a great game them days. Every village had a club, and the boys on the farms used to throw hose shoes. It was somethiug like baseball in these titues, although I never could see as muck fuu in baseball as I could see iu a good game of quoits." "Oh, came off." cried the impat- ient listeners. "What did Jim do or did he do anything ? Did the man drown ?" "Now, dou't be too fly. Who's Lenin' this yarn ?" "Well, you dOn't seem to be." "Go on Go on !" said the crowd. "Well, you know, in quoits a 'ringer' was when you put the quoit around the stake. It counted double. Well, Jim he picked up the ronnd life-preserver—it's like a great, big quoit, you know—and as the cap'n came running aft, Jim he sings out: 'Cap'n, I'll bot you $5 I'll make a ringer ou that man if he comes up within the length of this line.' " 'But you $20 you can't,'" said the cap'n. "'Take you,' said Jim, and just at that minit up bobs Mike's head about sixty feet astern. Jim threw it, and 1'11 bo darned if that life - preserver didn't go plump over on Mike's head clear down on his shoulders and there it stuck. We got down a boat,, and when we got to Mike he hadn't come to yet, and didn't for sotne time after. He'd been a goner if it hadn't bin fur that ringer, although it took the skin offen his nose." "Did tho captain pay the $20 1" "Pay it? You jist bet he did. And Jim he handed it over to Mike, and Mike he blew it all in when we got to Detroit. P wish Bowe of it was here pow, fur I'm tuighty dry. Thanks. Don't mind I if do." 3tktillinninta T151 X04 CULTIVATING COLT COUR- AGE. A horse that is naturally courage- ous way be made cowardly by abuse. If he then recivos blows the fear of them is upperuiost, and any un- known noise is imagined to be a coming hurt, to escape from which is an uncontrollable impulse. The man who abuses his horse is often rewarded by the destruction of his property and injury to himself, the reeult of runaways. But when the courage of the colt is developed, it is not nearly so likely to run away, though he be hampered with blinds or abused by a cruel master, and it is hardly too meth to assert. that if properly treated he will never ruu away. -Too often the training of the colt has an effect contrary to thecultivation of its courage. For- getting that temper is the most valuable quality of the horse—its owner tries to 'break" its temper to cow the 'anima). The horse should be trained, not broken ; the trainingrequires firmness mixed with much kindness. The man who has no control over hie own temper and whose judgment is warped by anger is not 'fit to train a colt. As abuse will make it cow- ardly, so kindness will make it courageous. The basisof courage is confidence, and the first point is to secure the confidunce;of the colt. The next is to make the colt sure of his surroundings, watch closely, and whenever he shows fear of anything let Attu moll it. If he has confid- ence in his trainer, this will not be difficult. If he shies at a stump or rock, ride or drive him up to it. drive him nearer end nearer the cars, until ho is tio longer afraid of thorn. Have the whistle sounded when his head is turned towards it, and repeat this till he ceases to start at 'the 'sound. Handle his limbs and touch them with a strap till he no longer shrinks. The courageous horse, the one with the spirit trained, not btolien, is the horse that does the most work. It does not lag; to drive it is a pleas e. It does not give up and leave you mired in a inud hole; it has the epirit, the pourer tot tut* IOW lie 'ututoet'e -Among borsch', it is the OLIO withtrl$01nd /Pak fine temper, that does ',the post Not*, the least lOrtn, andAn danger acts quiekly and intelligently. What bores has more coutiige than the Arabian, and what horse is more docile, more enduring or admirable? _Csalinan's Rural World. THE HERO AND THE HEN. A. little more than three hundred years ago there were terrible time+) in France. A religious war wise going ou, and all over the country • there were battles and sieges and many cruel things being done, and a great many good people,lost their, lives. Nu oue kuoWs all the misery. it cost, for often a family would be divided, part being Catholic, who believed iu the Pope, and a portion Protestajot, whq did not believe in the Pope at all. After a while hostilities ceaeed, and a hollow pence was patched up betweeu the contending parties. Hollow enough and false it was, indeed, on one side. The Hugue- nots, as the Protestants were called for many years, uow numbered some of the bravest and noblest men in France among their chiefs Two or three of the royal family were iuclined in their principles, but their most devoted adherent was the Grand Admiral, Gaspard de' Coligni. He was now about sixty years old, a gray-haired, grave, benevolent nobleman, who, you would think,coirldnave no enemies. But u good 'matt is always hated by the ',evil disposed, and the pious Coligui,. who at one time had saved France in a great battle, had two, bitter and deadly enetnies. One of these was the Duke of Guise, a teakless young nobletnau of twent.y- twu ; the other w48 the Queen's mother, Catherine de Medici, a selfish and ambitious woman of fifty five. These two persons, with several other leaders, devised a .horrible plot, by whichAhey hoped to get rid of Colegni. This was nothihg loss than toorganize a band of soldiery, and, ,at • a stated time, when everybody was unsus- picious and asleep, let thein loose upon the populace with. orders to 8laughter all the Huguenots they found. Everything was favorable for carrying this horrible scheme into execution, and one ,summer night, 25th, August, 1472, the massacre of St. Bartholomew began. It was a fearful, fearful time. Men, women, and little children were butchered. Almost the first person killed was Coligni. He had been shot at and wounded two days beforeby some one who evidently meant to kill hitP, and the admiral was ill with 'a sort of fever consequent from the wound. When the first alert» 'was heard, his chaplain, M. Merlin, was .with him reading the Scrip- tures. A number of persons rushed into the chatuber, announcing that the court was full of soldiery. "Say rue a prayer M. Merlin," said Coligui. "I commit my soul to the Saviour." In a few moments the mob was heard coming up • the stairway. "Save yourselves my friends!" cried the aged admiral. "You will have time. As for me they can only shorten my life a few days." The good clergyman and the others ran up stairs aud gut out of the house through the :tiling of the roof. Each fled a different way. Merlin, with his Bible under his arm clambered over the roofs of the houses in a direction from the Louvre. In attempting to jump from one to another in the dark- ness, hie foot slipped, and ho fell several feet, lodging in a hay loft. He was not hurt by the fall, and when he saw where he was he con- cluded that it was a fortunate acci- dent, and was thankful at having stumbled upon this place of safety. No one would think of looking for him there : the Lord had guided his footsteps. But it was a long while before he ceased to tremble. On every side ho could hear the cries of the brutal soldiers, "Kill, kill the Huguenots I" and every- where were the screams and groans of the mbrdered and dying Protes- tants. It made his blood run cold to think of the wicked work that was being done. M. Merlin had kept his Bible with him as he fled, and, as he lay there in the hay -loft, wo can imagine him turning over the pages and comforting himself with the precious promises in the sacre.I word. The hours passed slowly, and he began to grow hungry, but did not dare to leave his retreat for fear of discovery, which, of course, meant death. Starvation etared him in the face if lie remained there ; however, he proferred to trust in God's mercy rather than man's. As he lay there, exhausted and almost helpless, M. Merlin heard a slight rustling upon the hay like that of some object stepping care- fully over the loft. Had his enemies tracked him thither, and were they going to capture him Ile glanced out foarfnlly from beneaththe hay, with which he hail covered himself. Ile felt geoally relieved to seo only a hen • r s, too hunting for it' nfet. Soot, ev0.$thing was quiet' again. Thtc;see,retive fowl retired after cwhillins 44altbuy as it 114 appeared, *to Oen making a; cacti*, triton 10tho fugitive's "Surely," thought M. Merlin, "the Lord is feeding me, for he hath sent his fowls to provide. for his servant." And he crawled -very carefully guy of the hay, and .crept, to the nest, which was near by. In it were three shining white eggs. Ho broke the shells of two and ate them, leaving one for a nest egg; hoping that Biddy would come again. And Biddy did come the next day sure enough, and laid another egg, much to Merlin's great joy and need, for he was very hungry. Three days he remained concealed in the hay -loft, and each day his friendly visitor laid au egg for his dinuer. • This was all the food he had, but it saved, hint front starva- tion. On the night of the third day he managed to get safely away, and found a sure haven tu the house of a friend, He lived many years after this, but I do not think tie ever forgot how a hen was once, the ntesseuger of heaven to bring comfort and relief itt a tittle Of. great tribulation.—Congregationa- list. BUSINESS INJUNCTIONS A QUEER LEGACY LEFT BY A KEN- TUCKY FATHER TO HIS SONS. Among the rubbish in the store- room of the late William I. Hilton, a little old faded noto. book, con- taining souie odd -suggestions to his boys as to bow they should pro- ceed in life after he had passed to his reward, was piciced up by a Franklin ((y) Favorite reporter a few days since, and is pow for the first time given to the public. Search the Bible to find the bottom of the deceitful human heart and say your prayers at night. ' Never tnarry until you are thirty years old. Think three times before you speak once. Never court any girl unless you intend to marry her. There is danger in fooling young Never, give them any ail. vantage in a letter. Never buy a small place with a fine building on it. Never buy white, spronty, craw - fishy land at any price expecting to make money by cultivating it. Never 0011 the product .of the farm you work to any man on time at any price. 'Them is nothing in this world but death that hi certain. • Never lend money to your neigh - bora, for if you ever have ,to ane themthey *would be 'lb 'longer a u eighboe. Never let any man know any thing about your business; except when you have some difference and need to advise with a lawyer. Never keep all your money in oue channel. Watch all men, as there aro few who are honest; in fact, there is none honest from the heart in every thing.' Never let any person ou earth kuow your business, and more es- pecially how much money you have —not even your family. . Never buy land of any person without first having a good lawyer investigate and pronounce the title clear. Ascertain if the land has parsed through the hands of any insane person, to prevent his heirs from sting on the title. Never pay any more than one-half ,down on the land unless you know your are dealing with responsible parties. Be sure to go and ask all the parties that juin the laud that you are buy- ing to ehow you the corners of the land they Own. If you ever soli goods or groceries be sure and 'get a house ou the square, and on the Weide coruer if you can, and live on the same lot and in 'the sainebuilding that you do business iu. Be certain ao never sleep away from store -house. It is best to have yourself and family live upstairs, with kitchen below. Never employ a clerk at any price' be content with what business you can do yourself. Trust no man farther than you are compelled to. Smart thieves always steal about the hours of ten, eleven, twelve and one o'clock. The common law decides that the individual debts shall be paid first, but the abukrupt law decides that ,there shall be an equal distribution. Above all things on earth never vote for any tax on any thing ex- cept for a railroad,in case you have no way of getting your country product , off. The difference itt getting your product to market will pay your, taxes. If you ever loan money to any person take security if you can get it. If you loan money to a firm be sure to take each of the firm names to the note, then no one of the firm can stip out and.say that the money never oatne into the firm. You may sell to irresponsible men any thing that you have, but never buy claims, notes, etc., from men that are not responsible, unless you Investigate and find 'hat the parties have no offts against them. 41'4 gleAtt you tekit,,`e reoeipt for i. 4' Under -the proscnti law, wliou you , loaWcwoofl to jt,ny OMR, toke, xnorlgagoboth RIAD AilirWitO, Tell a lie rather then the truths .w.hen. it ..)1111 auto a Aigt01414i Aktit.A InusI he a... I/0. that no 9104 kirictWO. except yourself. It is better to tell a lie thkta Aiwa's diftionity. ; gPeei palnt9kuokr "B"ed le the p Four pur cot when ;wain ia cbeertitaeirli. than eight per cent Whn eUU- Novet boyinferior articles of any kind to make money un. If you live in- town never invite any company, and yuu will altiayn• have plenty of money. Buy goods on time only in stnalf quautitiea whether whet -sale ur tetan. If you have land fur sale have 11 fenced to the cardinal. points, 80 it will take the fewest rails possible to fence the ground; that keeps your land in a square .shspa. Never work in wells or any Other work that endangers your life, it matters not how much yuu can make. Neve' endauger yoer life for money, Never stay in a house coutiued to hueinees' close, except you, work in the morning Lod eveuieg. Never bay land aajuitiiitg either a church or school house if you can avoid it. Be certain to give your children an English education et any cost if you eau., Never be persuaded beyond your own judgment. THE GREATEST BRIDGE IN THE. WORLD. The . bridge across the Firth of Forth at Queen's Ferry, Scotland, now approaching completion, is a work of much magnitude, and pre- sents so many points of novelty,. that it bus attracted the atteuliou of of the whole engineering world. As regards size and weight no - existing bridge at all approaches - the Forth bridge. There are two spans, each 1,700 feet long; the width of the bridge at the piers is. 120 feet ; there is a clear !Medway. for navigation at high water of 150' feet; the highest, part of the bridge above high water is 360 feet andt the depth of the water in the mot-- tre of tho channel is 210 feet.. With this depth the bridge could never have been built had •it not been for iio island in the- middle. of the Forth. • • The train weight that will be pile upon the bridge will be small com- pared withAhe wind pressure -need- ed to be overcome,and to resist wind the lofty columns oyer the piers are 120 feet apart at the baso and thirty three at the top. As fornicating an iidea' of the enormous. force which the cantilevers are capable of resisting it may be said. that a pull of 5,000 'tons would be' needed to tear assunder the top ties,. Tho greatest pull from passing trains can be only 2,000 tons. The bridge is looked upon as a railway necessity. Indeed it will furniEfh the miming link in a great chain of communication throughout the United Kingdom. When we read of such structures and know that trains reach.a speed of sixty nines an hour, we cannot but • smile at what the staid old Quarterly Review said in 1825 'We trust that Parliament will, in all railways it may sanction,' limit the speed to eight or nine mile an hour, which is as great as can be ventured on with safety.' WHY THE MOLE IS BLIND: Absurd stories accounting for the mole having no eyes are frequently told children. They have their origin in an Indian' legend. Thiss states that a Dog -Rib Indian once chased a squirrel up such a very high tree that the little animal escaped in the sky. Not to be daunted, he set a Spar° for the squirrel and descended the tree. Next day the sou was caught, in the trap anti darkness was the inimedi- ate result. Suspecting the cause, but not daring to liberate the sun himself, the crafty Indian sent up several animals to release the strange captive. One by one these were burned up, until at last a mole was commissioned. This cute little creature burrowed out throngh the sky, and, gnawing the cords in the share, liberated the source of light,, and the darkness ceased. But as the sun was making its escape the mole thrust its bead through the holo, and the sight of the gun so close caused it to go blind aud be- queath its deformity to its descend- ants. -.....- • al. A French woinau invented one of the most original inethodsaof deal- ing with a refractory child ever re- vealed to the public. She fastened - on the hat of her eight-year-old daughter, who had been naughty, a placard'inscribed with the words : "Mademoiselle is a thief and a liar," and walked her through theastreets. It took a police man to reign° the lady from the mobbing of an indig- nant, crowd. 1 1