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Wednesday. Nov. 13th 1889
WARNING TO THRESHERS
AND FARMERS.
Francis Shutter was charged be-
fore the Hamilton police magistrate
.with having, on October 23rd, used
a steam threshing engine not having
a legal spark arrester in proper
working order. He pleaded guilty
and was fined $5 and $2 eosts•or 20
days in jail. Chapter 45, Ontario
Statutes, under which the prosecu-
tion was brought, reads as follows :
"Every manufacturer who Bellew.
disposes of any steam threshing
machine without an efficient spark
arrester shall, ou summary convic-
tion before a justice of peace hav-
ing jurisdiction in the municipality
where the offence was committed,
be subject to a fine of not-Jbss than
$5 nor more than $20, together
with costs of prosecution, for each
each engine so old or disposed of as
aforesaid; and any person using or
running -any steam threshing engiue
not provided with such spark arrest•
er or wilfully using or running any
steam threshing machine not having
such spark arrester in proper work-
ing order shall, on conviction, as
aforesaid, be subject to a like fine
for every day ho so uses such steam
threshing machine, which fine and
coats may in each case he recovered
by distress ; and in defatdt of pa3-
ment of such fine and costa of suffb
cleat distress, the offender may ho
imprisoned in the common jail for
a period not exceeding 30 days."
Shutter, the defendant, is a man
who goes about the country thresh-
ing l'or far niers. He was prosecut-
ed by an inspector of insurance.
Recently a very serious fire, duo to
the lack- of a spark arrester on a
threshing machine, took place, and
the insurance inspectors are de-
termined to put a stop to this i•• -
fringemont of the law, which is too
common. For their ow safety
fanners cannot bo too careful to
make sura that every engine run
upou their ferule is properly egnip-
ned. d
A LOBO 'LOPEMENT.
Tstac Gray, a yot ng farmer, of
Lobo, aged about 35 years, married
to a daughter of Mrs. Alway, lived
and worked on his mother-in-law's
farm, lot 9 in the third concession
of Lobo, a short distance from Ko-
mol{e. Gray and his wife lived
happily together. They had two
children, were prosperous, and the
farm was well looked after. Tho
man was something of a musician,
and his voice was in request in the
Baptist Church choir. Another
mer l
u serf
o the choir was bright,
debonair and pretty Minnie Smith,
the 20 -year-old daughter of H.
Smith, who lived on the next farm
to the Grays. There was a friend•
ly feeling always between the two
families, and Minnie used to spend
much of her spare time visiting Mrs,
Gray, and frequently the two
women would be escorted to places
of amusement, parties or outertain-
ments by Mr. Gray. They attend-
ed Baraunl's,Jast show in London
together. There was never any
suspicion to Mrs. Gray's miod of a
clandestine understanding between
her husband and blies Smith until
a couple of weeks ago. Ou October
22nd, to be exact, ]bliss Smith die
appeared from home. Gray drove
to London the same day, and it is
supposed they had arranged a
meeting on the road, fur the girl
had not gone far from her father's
house when Gray overtook her.
She got into the buggy, was driven
to London and the fugitive and
guilty pall put up at the Western
Hotel. The next day they left the
city by train, and since that date
nothing has been heard of them.
Gray wrote a letter to his wife be-
fore leaving the city telling her to
come in and get the hutse and
buggy, and that was the last she
heard of him, so it is stated.
THE DAY COLUMBUS
LANDED.
CONFLICT BETWEEN OLD AND NEW
STYLE CHRONOLOGY.
•W. H, Thompson of New Jersey
writes the editor of the New York
Tribune :—In the Tribune of the
14th inst, you speak of October 12,
1892, as the 400th anniversary of
the discovery of the new world,.
and likely to he the most important
day in connection with the Colum-
bus fair. An evening paper, ou the
12th inst.: calla attention in great
head -lines to "Columbus Day,". and
refers to the discovery of America as
occurring "397 years ago to day."
But Oct. 12th is not the true anni-
versary, as will appear if we take
into account the difference between
the old style of computing time
under the Julian calendar and the
new style of reckoning by the
Georgian calendar. And why not
consider this difference? We do
so with other events. The Pilgritns
landed on ;Dec. 11, 1620, by the
"old style," or as,given in the "new
style" Dec. 21. Washington was
born on Feb. 11, 1728 (old style),
but we celebrate the 22nd as his
birthday. Franklin was born on
Jon: 6, 1706, but rnodern biograph-
ers give:the date as Jan. 17. So
the old style date of the landing of
Columbus, Oct. 12, should be ren-
dered into the new style, Oct. 21.
The old style of Julian calendar,
arranged by Julius Caesar, in the'
year 46 B. C., was nearly perfect ;
but in making every fourth year a
leap -year, thus adding 25 days to
every century, it caused the mean
Julian year to exceed the solar year
in length by nearly 11f minutes, a
variation, though slight, sufficient to
snake a difference of about three-
fourths of a day in a ce ntury, and
amounting at length, in 1582, to
ten full days. In that year, just
ninety year after America was
discovered, Pope Gregory XIII,
undertook to reform the 'calendar
To rectify the long•accurnulated
errors, he ordered that ton days be
suppressed. This was done by
calling Oct. 5th of that year Oct.
15th. Thou to guard against a re-
currence of irregularities, he provi-
ded that three of
EVERY FOUR CENTESIMAL YEARS,
as 1700, 1800, 1900, all, leap yearn
under the Julian calendar, should
be common years, and that only
every fourth centesimal year, as
1600, 2000—every year divisible by
400—should be leap -years. Under
this arrangement the difference is
so slight that it wilt not amount to
one day in several thousand years.
In the sixteenth century, when
the calendar was reformed, the
difference between the old and the
new was, as we have seen ten days.
A century earlier it might .have
been corrected by suppressing niue
days, as before 1500 received the.
intercalary day allowed under the
Julian scheme, the difference was
only nine days. The year 1600
passed as a leap year under both
calendars, so the difference remain-
ed the same, ten days, through the
seventeenth century. The year
1700 was a leap year in the old
style but not in the new, and then
the difference between the two Was
eleven -dais. The year 1800, in
like manner, read° it ono day more,
so now the old style is twelve days
behind. The Greeks and the
Russians have refused to adopt the
Georgian calendar and still cling to
the old style, and it is necessary to
deduct twelve days from our time
to make it agree with theirs. Oct.
19 is with ns Oct 7 to the 'Russians,
and when it is Oct. 12 hero it is
Sept. 30 there.
The Roman Catholic nations
generally adopted the new style at
once ; the Protestant countries not
until some time after, at various
dates. England was one of the last
to adopt in, and it was not until
1752 that English law -makers saw
the wisdom of making 'the change,
and by act of Parliament eleven
days in that year were suppressed,
as the old style was then eleven
days behind.
Now, if we observe Oct. 12,
1892, as the 400t11 anniversary of
Columbus, discovery, it must scorn
to Russia that wo ace twelve days
ahead of time, as it will then be
only Sept, 30 with her. If we take
the true anniversary, the 21st, it
will then seem to the Russians that
we are three days ahead, for that
will be by their reckoning Oct. 9,
but that is due 10 their baying lust
throe days since 1492.
NOT AFRAID OF DEATH,
Sir Lyou Playfair, in a letter to
Juniue Hoare Brown°, author of a
paper with the above title, says :—
"Having represented a large eonsti-
tuenuy (the uuiveraity of Edin-
burgh) lowl7 years as a member of
parliament, 1 naturally came in
cuntact with the moot eminent
medical men in Euglaud. I have
put the question to most of then,,
'Did you, iu your extensive practice,
ever kuow a patient who was afraid
to die?' With two exceptions they
answered
"One of these exceptions Was Sir
Benjamin Brodie, who said he had
seen ono case. The other was Sir
Robert Christian, who had seeu nue
case, that of a girl of bad character
who had a sudden aucideut. I
have known three friends who
were partially devovred by wild
beasts under apparently hopelese
eircuurstauces to escape. The first
was Livingstone, the great African
traveller, who was knocked on his
back by a lion, which began to
muuoh Lis arm-. He assured are
that ho felt no fear or paiu and that
his only fooling was one of intense
curiosity as to which part of the
body the. lion would take next.
The next was Rustem Pasha, now
Turkish embassador at London. A
bear attacked him and tore off part
of hie arm and' shoulder. He also
assured me that he had Deither
pain nor tear, but that he felt ex-
cessively angry because the bear
grunted with so much satisfaction
in munching liirn.
"The third case was that of Sir
Edward Bradford, au Indian officer
now occupying, a high position in
the Indian ofee. He was seized
in a solitary place by a tiger, which
held him firmly behind the shout -
dere with one paw and deliberately
devoured the whole of his arm be-
ginning at the baud and ending at
the shoulder. He was positive that
he had felt a little pain when the
fangs went through his hand, but is
certniu that he felt none duriug the
munching of his arm."
NO BIGOTRY IN THE TAB-
ERNACLE RUINS.
f'Dr. Talmage felt under the pain-
ful necessity to reaffirm once more
that he and his congregation wore
no bigots. •
The Sunday after the church was
burned he declared that all the fire-
men and insurance men in Brooklyn,
if they searched the charred remains
of the Tabernacle, could not find a
splinter on which was the word
bigotry.
But the doctor is not accused of
being a bigot by anybody, who
knows the breadth of his forams and
future platform.
Dr. Canfield recently spoke of
the Tabernacle church as a mob,
and said that a million such con-
gregations would not make the
church of Jesus Christ.• The people
of Clinton avenue, kind of believe
I)r. Canfield and so they fear pro-
perty will depreciate because of the
presence of the snob.
We want to say that we exoner
ate Mr. Talmage froth the charge of
bigotry, for the doctor is not made
of the staff that made the
original bigot, who according to
Webster, got this nickname• because
ho refused to kiss the foot of a king,
in return for a' province which
Charles had ceded to Rollo, the first
duke of Normandy, and thus Rollo
and his descendants were dubbed
bigots or bigothi, for when he was
told he must kiss King Charles'
foot in return for . the province of
Neustrio, the ind.iguaut nobleman
exclaimed, 'ne se bigot.' not so by
God
But then it might be well for
Dr. Talmage to know that, churches
which are more bigoted bring forth
much grander fruit. More than
four thousand member's gave in 1888
to the home and - Foreign Mission
causes less than $300. We would
suggest less liberality in word and
more in deed to the Tabernacle
light_LPn1MIT1v,n CATHOLIC.
ACTUALLY STARVING.
ONE IIUNDR2D THOUSAND PEOPLE iN
NORTH DAKOTA ON THE VERGE
OF DESTITUTION.
An American dispatch from St.
Paul, Minnesota says the greater
the amount of information received
concerning the deetitutiou in North
Dakota the move difficult does it
appear to form au adognate idea of
distress actually prevailing (hero.
Not that there is soy tendency to
exaggerate oro the part of the
sufferers, but decidedly the avers
In fact it is the extreme eiueitive)-
uess shown in this respect that is
reepousiblo for the apparent its•
difference with which the matter
has hitherto been treated. In the
first place, the area over which the
disi,ess prevails is cot•teiuly much
greater than has been so far sup --
posed. Yesterday it was intimated
that felly 30,000 people were bor-
dering on the last stage of distitu-
tion. 'I'o-day Mr. Marvin, chair-
man of the relief committee, stated
that he felt convinced from iuforma•
tion received that it was nearer,
20,000 families, representing a total
of upwatda to 100,000 people.
Such widespread disaster, and the
problem with which it confronts
the Twin Cities, appalling. How
to meet the needs of ouch a boat
is a question beyond the power of
ally small committee to cope with,
and much will depend on the
spontaneous generosity of citizens
of both Si, Paul and Minneapolis.
Cummittee are making the most
strenuous efforts to obtain and for-
ward aid to the sufferers as prompt-
ly as possible. All citizens charit-
ably inclined will endeavor not
only to contribute liberally, but to
assist fire ootnarittee in every way.
To day John C. Reno, representing
the Minneapolis hoard of trade,
called on Secretary Talmadge, of
the St. Paul chamber of commerce,
and intimated that the body he
represented was desirous of co-
operating with the Si.. Paul relief
committee for the relief of the die -
tressed. It was decided that a meet-
ing should be held in Minneapolis
to -morrow, at which as many St.
Paul men as could be induced to go
should attend and meet the 'numbers
of the bo,rd of trade of that city
and decide on some joint action.
There is no doubt that the com-
bined generosity of the two cities
will be most effectual ill affording
substantial relief.
JUST FOR FUN.
EGGS NOT ALWAYS EGGS.
Paddy Doolan went into a ehol,
one day to buy eggs. "What are
eggs to -day?" „Eggs are eggs to-
day, Paddy," replied the shopmau,
looking quite triumphantly at two
or three young lady customers who
happened to be in the shop. "Faith,
I'm glad to hear yez soy so," re-
plied Paddy, "for the last ones I
got here were chickens."
EASIEST TRANSPORT.
Rounder --"What are you going
to do with the jug, Pat ?" Pat—
"Shure an' oime gotn' ter git it
filled wid beer." hounder—"But
wouldn't you be saving work if yon
got filled with the beer yourself in
the first place, without bothering to
put it in the jug I" Pat—'No be-
gorra 1 It's asier lsh take the jug
home full tree it would be to take
mieelf." •
'That's a blunderbuss,' as the
Clioton young man_explainedwhen
he had kissed the wrong girl in the
dark,
HAD His DADDY'S NOSE.
' Yee,' admitted the visitor, when
the proud mother exhibited her
baby, 'he has his father's nose ; but
don't worry, it may not always be
so red as it is now.'
THE GOOD DIE YOUNG.
Only a little an6el,
Gone to h.ir heavenly rest,
Our dear Iii,tle darling
Sleeping ou her Saviour's breast.
UNMdNNED.
`I feel quite uoit'anued,' as the
Chicago lady murmured when she
obtained a decree nisiin the Divorce
Coe rt.
THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
The Pekin Gazette asserts that
1,909 of its editors have been be-
headed. The ,journal ill question
claims to heve been in existence for
a thousand years.
SHILL POTATOES.
'How dare you treat me thus1' he
wrote
' You saucy little shrew !
To cell me small potatoes just
Because I'm mashed on you.'
She seized the pen in wilful mood,
And thee° lines off she dashed,
.The smaller the potatoes aro
The easier they're mashed.'
THE iVHOLE T1tUTH.
Judge—Miss, what is your age 1
Witness—I am past twenty. Judge
—You -must be more explicit.
Witness—Well, I am between
twenty and thirty. Judge—No
more trifling. State your exact age..
Witness—I'll be thi.ty day after to-
morrow.
—At the quiet little village of
Niaga.a Falls South, Out., on Hal-
lowe'eu a shoemaker of that place
named Craw ley became excited over
a disturbance created by some boys
and shot one of the number, a son
of Henry Ditt. Crawley was arrest-
ed at Niagara Falls, N. Y., ou Sun-
day 'limiting, and subsequently
arraigned be.t'ur.1 Justice hill, who
held hint to await the actiou of the
grand jury at the coating court in
Welland. He is charged with mur-
der. The ball passed through the
skull immediately back of the right
ear, but did not interfere with the
tendons of the brain. Deittli, .how-
ever, resulted.
—Some few days since a fiend in
human form committed an act that
might have ended most seriously.
Wm. Robinson, an old man living
alone on the eighth concession of
Colchester, has two ladders leading
to a loft iu his barn, where he keeps
c.rra. While he was at church the
rta,mgs of one of the ladders were
crit ill the centre from top to bot-
tom, and left to presout the appear-
ance of a solid ladder. He ascend-
ed the on3 that was not cut, but
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and had he not by chance caught a
beam would no doubt have been
seriously, if not fatally injured. He
had purchased a new seat for his
wagon, and this was also cut ill two
and left in the sante inanner.
—Mr. Robert Patton, foreman of
the engineering department of the
Grand Trunk shops, Stratford, com-
mitted suicide by hanging Monday
morning about seven o'clock. The
deceased, who came from Montreal
some seventeen years ago to aesume
his present position, had always
been a very hard worker, and hav-
ing over -exerted nimeelf so as to
bring on insomnia, became subject
to deep fits of depression as a result.
No other cause can be given for his
action. He was a Presbyterian in
religion, and the previous daRat-
tended both morning and evening
services. Hie age was about 60.
—Scandal has divided one of the
oldest, richest and most respectable
congregations of the Protestant
Episcopal church in New York.
The Rev. Dr. Joseph H. Rylance
has been openly charged by some
of the most prominent members of
St. Mark's church, in the Bowery,
with immorality, and he has faced
his accusers and demanded a trial.
Failing to secure this from them he
has appealed to the courts for re•
dress, and has sued tho men who
were most active in spreading tho
defamatory rumors.
—A statute in memory of the
landing of Prince William of
Orange was unveiled at Brixham,
in Devon, Novr 5. Commander
McCall, Lieuts. Osterhaus and
White and Ensign Klein, of the
United States steamer Enterprise,
attended the ceremony in uniforto.
Their presence is the subject of con
aiderable colnment, the affair being
really an Orange display.
—The Appeal Court has confirm-
ed the sentences of Father O'Dwyer
and seven others convicted at
Fermoy of offences under th , Crimes
Act.
—The Presbytery of New York
has decided by 67 to 15 in :aver of
a°revision of the Presbyterian Con-
fession of Faith.
ESTRAY CALVES
Come into the enclosure of the sub-
scriber, Lots 13 and 14, con. 6, Goderich
township, on..or about Oetr 20, 1889. five
CALVES, one bull and tour heifers, chiefly
red ill color. The owner is requested to
prove property, pay expenses and take
the animals away.
576 3t WILLIAM CLARE
Goderich Township, Novr 5, 1889.
TO THE FARMERS.
Study your own interest and go where
you can get
Reliable
Harness.:
i manufacture none but,tue BEST OF STOCK.
Beware of shops that sell cheap, as they twee
got to live. VI Call and get prices. Orders
by mail promply attended to -
r71'O3C-T17 'T'. C.13:.RIPER.
HARNESS EMPORIUM, BLYTII, ONT.
HOUSE FOR SALE OR TO RENT,
Situated on the West side of Victoria street,
comprising seven rooms and kitchen w»h
appurteiuwces thereto belonging
Coal for sale. .INO. Mc•GA11VA.
PROPERTYFOR SALE OR TO RENT.
A cMt•.re on Albert St., lately occupied
Mr. Jamas Moore. Fire bed rooms, 'Jou
parlor, dining room, kitchen, summer kitchen
and pantry. Hard and soft water. Stable and
fruit trees. There arc three lots on Maple Street
besides the one on which the cottage stands,
making an acre of ground in all. The Cottage
and one lot will be sold separately if desired and
on re.csonable terms. Possession given at once.
Apply to MiRS. THOM kS C"OPER.
Clinton, Sept. 2nd, 1899. 567•tf.
A NICE HOME
4 T A BARO4IN.—Eight acres of land with a
so'ect orchard of choice apple trees ;
comfortable house and stables ; adjoining Code•
rich township. Apply to 8, L. DOYLE, Gode-
rich. 526•tf
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