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The Huron News-Record, 1891-09-23, Page 6Nina enionsimerstosollannw E hTG due to the presence of uric 140 acid intim blood,.is wont effectually eared by the use of ,flyer's Sarsapa- rilla. Be sure you get Ayer's and no other„ and take it till the poisonous acid is thoroughly expelled from the system. We challenge attention to this testimony : -- "About two yearn ago, after suffering for nearly two years from rheumatic gout, being able to walk only with great discomfort, and having tried various, remedies, including mineral waters, without relief, I saw by an advertise- ment in a Chicago paper that a man had been relieved of this distressing com- plaint, omplaint, after long suffering, by taking flyer's Sarsaparilla, I then decided to make a trial of this medicine, and took it regularly for eight months, and am pleased to state that it has effected a complete cure. I have since bad no re- turn of the disease."—Mrs. R. Irving Dodge,110 West 125th et., New York. "One year ago I was taken ill with inflammatory rheumatism, being con- fined to my house six months. I came out oft the sickness very much debili- tated, with no appetite, and my system disordered in every way. I commenced using Ayer's Sarsaparilla and began to Improve at once, gaining in strength and soon recovering my usual health. I cannot say too much in praise of this well-known medicine"—Mrs. L. A. Stark, Nashua, N. H. Ayers Sarsaparilla, PREPARED BY Commenting on the above an ex - Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. change says. That when morality Price$I,; adz bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bolt?). is referred to the member for West Huron has but a very brittle glass The Huron News-Reeorat shield to ward off the force of charges made against himself. It 1.505 Year—$1.25 in Advance is often found to be the case that -- - mon guilty of certain pecadilloes Wednesday. Sept. laird. 1891 are the most apt to charge others with the like. As Mr. Cameron did in his infamous charge agaiust the CAMERON AND HAGGAU'I'. Indian Administration in the political eapilal against the Post- reaater-General of this country 1 I defy the man who snake these vile charges. I am able to take my own part in this House or anysvher•e else, but it is a satisfaction to .those men that poor, innocent, guiltless ladies throughout the country should have charges hurled against them, in which there is sot a word of truth 1 Talk about honor ; if these slander- ers have no honor, at least humanity should be in the breast of some of them. Now Mr. Speaker, I wish to say nothing more upon that ques- tion further than to again give it a moat indignant denial, and to all the etatemente which these men have made to that effect, here from my place in this House of Commons I state that they are utterly false and incapable of proof. I have made no personal or private attack on the hon. geutleman who is op- posed to me, I have known him from his boyhood upwards, IF I KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIS CHARACTER PRIVATELY, I AM ABOVE MAKING ANY ACCUSATION AGAINST HIM. I shall not take advantage of any- thing against him, nor shall I de- scend to any such tactics here." Northwest when he falsely stated : "Dees everybody not know that "A young Englishman uufit to do the departmeut of the Postmaster- anything in his native country was General is notorious from one end shipped off to Canada, consigned to of Canada to the other, so notorious the care of the First Minister of that it has been the subject of die- this Dominion. He was provided cussion in the public press ; so for in the Indian service of the notorious has it become that it hoe Northwest territories, and he has been the object of denunciation been living there for three or four from almost every pulpit in the years, revelling in the sensual en- landi' The Postmaster -General, a joyment of a western harem plenti- Minister of the Crown, charged fully supplied with select cullings with these crirnos, remains silent from the western prairie flowers." and dumb." Extract from a speech by M. C. Camerou in the House. CURRENTTOPICS. Speaking in reply to Mr. Cameron Hon John Haggsrt said :—Who is my accuser in a case of this kind 1 TILE SIZE OF 1T. Who is the gentleman who rises on Hamilton Spectator : When it the floor of this House and accuses is stated that the witnesses before mel I almost feel like Claudius the scandal committee at Ottawa before his peers in home. Ile was swear that they were accustomed to a man guilty of all the crimes in the draw extra pay in Mackenzie's calendar, and who yet brought reign, and and under the very nose Cicero before his peers. This same of good Mr. Mills, the grit apolo- gentleman with whom 1 have been gists explains that was all right be - in the House for a number of years cause "there was no rule against it must remember the celebrated then." That is just so. What the Tuckorsmith Bill. Did ha not, Tories have ruled against as being after the decennial census, when a wrong and dishonest the Grits were measure was introduced gerrymau- accustomed to look upon as quite dering the constituencies, come into right and proper. this House and because he had a Liberal majority at his back—when IS silt HECTOR GUILTY 1 his election was protested ou his re- The sub -committee of the Privi• turn for the riding he represented leges and Elections Committee has by a majority of only 81, when the not yet reported. 'From what can he riding was -nearly equally divided learned, it appeare there is no pros- es to population, there being very pect of it agreeing upon a report. little difference between the divis- The Conservative members, Sir ions—seek to get Tuckersmitle added John Thompson, Hon. Mr. Adams with its liberal majority of 206 1 and Mr. Glrouard favor the exonera- Is that the gentleman who in the . tion of Sir Hector Langevin, while courts of this country had personal Hon. Mesers Mills and Davies pro - charges of bribery and corruption pose to bring in a minority report and debauching his constituency condemning him. The reports will brought against him, and who had he debated, or pre haps a corn -prom - to admit that he spent from $14,000 ise third report may be adopted by to $16,000 in the elections; is that the House. ' the gentleman of whom the Court of Appeal of the country said that TIIE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER. if the Judge in the first instance Religio-Philosophical Journal :— had only reported him for personal There are now hundreds of country bribery, there was enough evidence weeklies which in -editorial ability, to disqualify him 1 That is the mechanical appearance, and all that gentleman who gets up in this contributes to inspire respect and House and accuses me of crimes of command attention are fully abreast which I will say something here of their metropolitan contemporaries. after, and on which I will say some- In moral tone, and often in eui- thing now, in so far that they affect torials, t•iley surpass most of the this question. That is the party great dailies. In time past the who gets up in this House of Com- country editor was quite generally mons of Canada, and accuses me of regarded with a half -pitying con - the atrocious crimes which have tempt as a good natured but chicken • been heralded from one end of the hearted chronicler of inconsequene country to the other. This is the tial locals. All this has,ohanged. same gentleman who speaks of the Country papers as a class wield the Liberal party of this country as the miihtiest influence in the nation. pure party of the country, who have The editors are men of character an immense following in this House and enterpriae, doing more for the of nearly. 90 members, and in their community, and for less money, name he tenders to the moral loader than any other body of workers. of the Oppositson the support of the moral and well -behaving people of 'Canada. The idea of the mom- MOTHER AND CHILD ARE DOING ber for West Huron (Mr. Cameron) WELL. . getting up in this House and ten- Mrs. Brown was sick. Her friends g g P said she would never get well. "What's dering lir. Laurier the moral sup- the trouble?" "Oh, some kind of fernals port of the country is something weakness. The doctors have given up astonishing. What crime have I her case as hopelese 'She may live for been u!ltp of 1 Of ❑o crime that I some time,' they say, 'but as for a ours, g that is quite out of the question.'" know of have I ever been guilty. "I doe's believe it,' I, id a woman, I know the innuendoes and the in- who hns' I the sal news. "I don't be einuateons which have been spread lieve ,he was any worse off than I woe, broadcast from ono end of the coup- five years ago, from the same trouble, try to theother, and from mylace and I don't look mush like a dead y rr p woman, do I 7"She certainly did nit, in Parliament now I deny them. with her red plump cheeks, bright eyes, They are as false as the parties who and 150 ponmde of good healthy bone, make them ; they are as false as the blood and flesh. "I'm going to see her parties them circulation. and tell her how she can get well." P ea whogive She did so. She adyieed Mrs. Brown to Is there any manliness or honor left take Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription. in the slanderers ? Is there any Mrs. Brown .took the advice, also the manliness or sense of decency left medicine which cures all kinds of deli - in the individual who will charge a cote diseases so common among women, and—got well. That was two years ago. number of innocent ladies, many of Leet month she presented Mr. Brown them supporting, perhaps, a sister with a ten plund son, and "mother and or mother, who have no other child are doing well." means of support than working in my department 1 I do not know —John Hannah, tho Seaforth most of them 1 never had may eon erelim .ry man, elii•pped"last "week venation with them, and with none two carloads of butter which weigh - of them have I ever passed an un- ed 48,000 lbs. which brought nearly chaste word. Are they to be $10,000. It goes to the old coun• libeled for the purpose of making try. A CASTLE IN BRUCE. Toront9 Globo, There died at Philadelphia a week or so ago a wealthy stone merchant, William Gray, who was at one time well known in Bruce and Huron. In 1871 be came to Canada and settled near Inverhuron, in Bruce township. There he was known as Boss Gray, and there he carried on extensive operations. - On the second concess- ion of this township he bought a farm of two hundred acres, and built a great stone castle. A fine avenue, bordered by spreading trees upon either side, led up to the magnificent residence. The house was richly and elaborately furnished. In each room mirrors ran from floor to ceiling. There were grand stair- ways. There were broad and epaoi• oue halls. Therewere wide,openfire planes. In every room the gener- osity and the luxury of wealth was artistior.11y exhibited. But it was - occupied for only two years, and ever since the rats have run riot through its splendid cbambera. When the family left the house the rich furnishings, were left behind. Nothing was disturbed, nothing re- moved. The house has seemed to stand through all these years waiting for the family to come home. But lately the bedding and the curtains dropped to piecesdn one's hand, and decay was upon all within the mansion. Grass and weeds possess- ed the wide avenue, the trees were ragged with neglect, the gate sagged upon its hinges. Mr. Gray also bought up the greater part of the town site of ln. verhuron, set up grist and saw mills, and spent many thousands of dollars in boring for salt, without success. He had, however, for many years an interest in a salt block at Kincar• dine. But he realized nothing from his investments at Inverhuron. The mills are tumbling ruins and have stood idle for years. The grain stonehouses, for here was once a busy grain buying centre, were burn• ed years ago. The hotels are closed. The village store has gone. 'I'he wharves are rotting away. It is blit seldom that a vessel enters the har- bors on the lakes. 'Phis• place once throbbing with life and full of energy, is as silent and deserted as Gray's castle on the hill. Mr. bray had a fine family of sons and daughters who added much to the social life of the comwunity while they remained, and they are still well and kindly remembered in the neighborhood. The motiye which led this prosper- ous, energetic man to move from Philadelphia with his young and fashionable family and make all these unfruitful investments and build that magnificent house on the shore of the lake, one cannot guess except he found his inspiration in the salt boom of that period. Ile re- turned to Philadelphia and died a short time ago, possessed of large wealth. SOLOMON'S MIN S. TRACES OF A PREHISTORIC •RACE IN AFRICA. This building was 150 yards in diame- ter and tad but one or two entgans ces. \Valle running in different di- rections stand inside, but the thick bush which has grown up within makes it impossible as yet to learn anything definite of the sizes and shapes of the inolosures made by these inner walls. The most curi- ous part of the whole building is that of the tower, which stands near the outside wall. it is constructed of the same material as the build- ing. The tower is cylindrical in shape up to the height of ten feet, but after that height tapers, and as it stands is. a truncated cone. Its diameter at the base is fifteen feet. There is NO ENTRANCE TO THE TOWER, and it appears to be solid through- out. Huge treee and dense bush have grown up in the interior of these ruins, so that it would require considerable time to clear them away in order to get an accurate plot of the building. It is very likely that if excavations were made in and about these ruins articles would be found. which might throw light upon the mystery surrounding the history of them. I regret that it was not possible for me to spend more than a single day in making a return journey of thirty miles to visit these ruins. The old gold workings and the ruins found in Mashonaland led many to believe that Ophir, the kingdom of the Queen of Sheba, whence Solomon is said to have obs tained hie gold, was in Mashonaland. Sofala, a very old town on the east coast of Africa, is mentioned by many writers as being in the land of Ophir. The Arabs have a very ancient tradition to this effect, and those at Sofala to -day are said to hold to this tradition. The ruins are west of the district of Sofala, and they aro thought to have been the palace of the Queen of Sheha. I am at a lose to understand bow any one who has ever seen these ruins can incline to such belief. Though they seem to be very old indeed, they do not by any means have the appear ance of having been built hundreds of centuries ago. Very few white men have ever visited the ruins, but as Mashonaland is thrown open to the civilized world archaeologists will perhaps examine the ruins, and may be able to tell us to what age they belong. C. A. Orr in New York Sun: The history of Mashonaland is wrapped in the deepest mystery. 'Phut the country has had a history worthy of being known to the world of to -day may be seen by the abundant evi- dences that a very large area was extensively worked for gold by an unknown people who have lett no traces by which they may be identi- fied. The ancient workings, as they are to -day, consist both of shafts and cuttings of various kinds. The shafts are sometimes forty or more feet deep, with tunnels of unknown lengths. The walls of some of these have fallen in an ere have large trees growing 1 them which show that they were made a very long time ago. On the surface of the ground above the openings of many shafts lie tons of broken quartz which carries a good amount of gold; again at the openings of others no loose quartz is to be seen, yet the work done below the surface shows that immense quantities have been excavated and conveyed to some distant spot, presumably for crush- ing. Another mystery in the history of Mashonatand is indicated by the ruins of buildings. There are a num- ber of these in various parts of the country, but the most perfect and interesting are those called the Zim- babi or Zimbase ruins, to be seen about south latitude 20 degrees 15 minutes and east longitude 31 degrees 30 minutes. A very con• siderable area is covered by the ruins, but those of two buildings are in a better state of preservation than the others. ()ne of these is on a high and BOLD GRANITE HILL, and is built of granite hewn into blocks somewhat larger than bricks, put together without mortar. The walls as they now stand are 30 feet high, over ten feet thich at the base, and several less at the top. This building, as well as the other, was circular in form, and seems from its position and construction, to be a fort. There are slabs of granite pro- truding from the walls in places con- taining rough zig-zag ornaments. The other and larger building stands several hundred feet below on rising ground. The walls of this building are also of -granite .of .the same height and thickness as those Tust described. For about a third of its circumference there is ono row of plain ornamental figures at the top. TRUE. WORSHIP ; NOT SYDiliOLISM.- Dr. Lovimer referred to the doc- trine that God is only the' father of IJBGtI1G }jail Rtt1iflhr a few million souts,ahaving im- mediate fellowship with Him and r:cst,r.� rr v Flair to Ito Qo'gtltalM nut of the world, and exclaimed : t:uu:er, beauty and Sottn+e$$ "I do not, ono not, and will not Keeps o � �c� believe such a slander on the Al l; `u' ►► u;erG}d Clean ,, mighty !'t God, in his view, was Cow and free from Dandrrtft., the universal father—the father of the eicus cions babe and of the un - "elect." Lrri' aLiOn and Ital."- oonocicus man as well as of the ing Os isle SCatp 1 "elect." All men, all places, all perf tuQ.te filo times were sacred to the neat Gives a e...4On....,;iOn nt.d Bleat hair, pruduens tt is w sits, th, and will stop spiritual Ged. The priest is now the 'fill oi.t i•, •a r,••a• eft Vg. lh'iilrtotSOLI, no gouger a mediator, he is a teacher. the ship er the u.o••t delicate head-dress.. His 111aglOal sanctity is BOLO, and - !•LLL 1'LREi:TIUNS WITH EACII BOTTLTP.. every man may worship without 9 ry it en,1 be convinced. Price Fifty. Lt..td per intoe. hefusu all Substitutes,. bOL1: A..ENT BOE CANADA RELIGIOUS RIPPLES. AMERICAN CATHOLICISM. The recent returns of Roman Catholic population in the United Slates confirm the opinion that the increase of membership in that church depends very largely upon foreign immigration. It is said that ie seventeen Southern and Western States, which contain thirty per cent. of the population of the country and very few foreigners, the Roman church has only a small per tentage of the whole number of communicants. On the other hand, in the States of Now York, Massa- chusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsyl- vania, Minnesota, New Jersey and Wisconsin, which have about forty per cent of the white population and an immense foreign element, there is sixty-two per cent. of the Roman Catholics of the country. No more striking proof could be furnished that the Roman Catholic is a foreign religion, finding its strength among classes not school- ed to republican principles, and making successful appeals only to !minds that aro essentially non - American. him. Touching the subject of Sun- day observance the speaker avowed himself one with Martin Luther in the belief that the first 'day of the week ought to be observed to corn• memorate the resurrection of Christ —as a day of rest and rejoicing, as a day of cessation of toil. But it ought not to be accounted sacred time. Men should du as they liked ou that day, but they should not forget its significance. When Christ said that God should be worshipped in truth he meant to dethrone symbolism. Sham piety. sham grief, sham repentance, sham adulation, sham prayers and ceremonials were thence- forward to have no part in worship. Dr. Lorimer took Kant's view that "the ordinances of God's house are ethical, not cereo.onial." He did nut believe that the sacraments were'meaps of grace or of remission. He believed they were means of instruction. Only so far as one kuows God and understands His nature is it possible to worship Him in truth. I believe that more men have gone into heresy through emotionalism and fanaticism in worship than through rationalism," ho declared. People who hate to think say that God wants `heart worship,' and I have known .men who substituted their own senti- ment for the words of God. But I say that God made the reason as well as the heart, and God demands both heart and mind worship." ST. PAUL A THEATRE GOER, Bishop Coxe's criticisms of bicyc- ling by women reminds the Wash- ington Post of the time when ex - Chief Justice Drake, of the Court of Claims, addressed a meeting of the Washington city Presbytery against theatre -going, and, being asked whore the Bible condemned it, answered that, of course, theatres were not•mentioned in the I3ible— a remark which brought up the Rev. Dr. Sutherland, of the First Church like a shot, but in his suavest manner, with : "I beg the Judge's pardon, but we read in the book of the Acts of the Apostles that St. Paul went to the theatre at Ephesus." The Judge was floored. COULD STAND IT IF SAM COULD. They are telling this story on Sam Jones. Recently he was ad- dressing rt crowded audience and said : "I want everybody in this congregation who wants to go to Heaven to stand up." Of course almost everybody arose. Then he said :—"Now I want everybody who wants to go to the other place to stand up." At first no one stood up, but finally, a long, lank and skinny individual in the back Beate. about as fat as an umbrella, arose and said : "I don't exactly want to go to the other place, but I ani willing to stand up rather than let the preacher stand all alone." THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION AND COMMON LAW. 1. The English constitution is unwritten, to a large extent. More correctly speaking, it is written, but A PLEA FOR RITUALISM. not in constitutional form. Its rules The Salvation Army feels the can bo found in no single written Deed of ritual—banners, bands, red document., but depend upon prece- coats, etc —and although it is a dent modified by repeated interpre- tations. Many rubes of the consti• ritual of a queer or vulgar cbarac- tution have a legal history ; that is, ter, yet it implies the love of colour they have been developed by the and warmth in religion. Why law courts as part of the general should the churchabe compelled to body of the common law. Others abstain from all appeal to the have, in a similar way been devel- senses 1 The state has her gor- oped by the procedure adopted in geous ritual, and we do not grudge parliament. Both houses of parlia- it her, but why should not the went have been as scrupulous in church be allowed her ritual also 1 holding to precedent as the judges There is no lack of ritualism at the of law courts have been, and have, entry into London, or at the presen- like lawyers, learned how to modify tation at the Gnidhall, or nt the precedents to suit altered circum - Review. The State carriages of the stances. When any constitutional English• Sovereign are grand enough difficulty arises the House of Com- as grand almost as anything of mons sets a committee to work the kind in Europe ; the Guards searching its journals for precedents, are a pageant in themselves ; the just as one of the courts would look full uniforms of the high officers of through its own decisione when a the British Army are gay enough, knotty point came up. "And just even when compared with those of as the law, while professing to re - the first military nation of Europe. main the same, is in process of con - If her Majesty and the Royal stant change, so, too, the unwritten Family and the British Govern- constitution is, without any acknow- ment go in so much for State ritual- ledgment of the fact, constantly ism, is there not a something to be taking up new ground. One exam - said for the church doing the same? pie of this is the great increase in "Imitation is the the sincerest form the power of the popular house, the of flattery," but we do not want to Commons, during the past century. imitate. Our ritual is older far The House of Common° in England than that of the oldest monarchy in is a much more powerful branch of Europe. We only say that ritual- the government than the House of ism in both Church and State, well Representatives is in the United -c r deretetilsand -well ordered; isde-•Stateer- Iii thi-e proteges of --change eirable, and that it suits the order the English constitution has taken of nature, and accords to the pr'inci- in a great number of legal fictions, plea of the Divine government of that is, phrases used in other senses the world.—Church Rerietn. H. SPENCER CASE Lheluiat, ,.u. 51) King Street West. i n'nilt"n. 411111111n Sold by J. 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The de- cisions of judges on various points of usage are preserved and put on record, and serve as precedents to. guide the actiou of judges in later years. One of the striking features of the common law has al ways been its rigid adherence to precedents, but at the sumo time it is not a rigid system, being as •flexible as the constitution itself. Old usages have been modified to meet the changed circumstances of modern life, and new principles have been, evolved to meet new conditions to •an extent which dues credit to the - ingenuity nu less than the sounty sense of the judges. AN OLD CANADIAN LADY'S= LIFE. To -day firs. John Winer enters: upon the ninety-first year of her life. She was born on a farm near Niagara Falls, on the Canapian side of the river, Aug. 27th, 1801. Most of her life has been spent in Hamil, ton, for in the bloom of young womanhood she married her hus- band, the late John Winer, of this city, who died only four years ago. Mrs. Winer is physically feeble, but her mental faculties are still keen and vigorous, and he is quite• aisle to transact, the defails of busi-• nese. In honor of the anniversary she came down stairs to -day for the first time in six weeks. Allthrough her long life Mrs. Winer has been remarkable for energy and courage. In her girl- hood Sarah Ryan (Mr. Winer's maiden name) was famed through- out the whole couutryside for her fearlessness and during. One ex- ploit of hers, when she was only twelve years of age, deserves to be recorded in' history. The war of 1512-15 had been in progress for a year, and as her father's farm was near the frontier the child had be- come familiar with the sounds of: battle and the sight of soldiers,. She was intensely patriotic, and longed to do something to help the Canadian cause. Her opportunity came. A. large American force had landed on the Canadian side, and cut off communication between at small Canadian force and the mafrr British army. The Canadian officer in command wished to communicate with bis superior officer without de- lay, elay, but the difficulty was how to get the dispatches through the enemy's lines: In his dilemma he thought of little Sarah Ryan, whose fearlesa. character and daring horsemanship' he bad often heard of. He asked. the child whether she would carry' the dispatches. She eagerly under- took the task and the papers were entrusted to her. The child accom- plished her mission successfur riding straight through the enemy's lines and never pausing in her long ride until she bad placed the preo-• ious papers in the hands of the British commander. It was a deed scarcely less daring and heroic than the famous walk of Laura Secord. Mrs. Winer enjoys the quiet everr- ing of her life at ber luxurious home: on Main street east with her daugh- ters Mrs. Masson and Mrs. Brega.— Hamilton Spectator. —Yesterday forenoon Mrs. Riche. ardson, an aged woman living at. Long Prairie, Minn., apparently died of apoplexy and was laid out for burial, Early next morning the-,• „r supposed corpse began to show signs - of life, and in a short time revived' ao that she could epeak and knew than that originally intended. 2. the friends who gathered about her,.