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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1901-12-5, Page 4Nntootl$ not, T,HU1 SDAY , 1) 1.C, 5, 1901. The market has an upward tendeaey. $,776;866 ie stet down as the population of the Australian,00mmonwealth, Great Hritafu has good reason to be proud of this Ntirring celeny. IT ie edd the Manitoba Government will refer the question of Probibition to a direct vete of the people. If it were an open vote good would be a000mpliahed too we believe, Iris surprising the number of railway aoaidente that have 000urred of late and it looks very much as if double trekking were a stern neoeeaity. what aabiefao- tion ie it to a family who has lost father or mother, or perhape both, to be told that somebody blundered, Human life ie too enema to permit this sort of a thing to continue. SzvzaAr of our Conservative ooteme. are reproducing what Tern Poex said about the harbor at St, Josephs and giv. ing us due credit but if they called 'down their own party 000aeionally when they zig zagib would ehow that they were con- eiatent and anxious bo see both partite do right. It makes quite a difference as to whose ox is gored. Gzxznn Bonen% who has been getting it where the ohioken got the ase, had a change of program by being feted and feasted at a big dinner held in .London. It was a royal reception bub some think the guest failed to clear up very satisfao. torily several of the charges of mieman- agement in connection with hie South African campaign. Tnz third Canadian Contingent for South Africa is being recruited and ae they will all be mounted the necessary horses will bepurohaeed in this country and will accompany our soldier boys on the boat. Persons who have seen service in Africa will be given the preference and the men chosen will be representativea of all the Provinoee. Comm is a hustling live stock market and ie one of the sights of that great City that no visitor should miss. One day re- cently 32,472 herd of cattle were received. which will give aomeidea of the enormous business done. Of coarse the mammoth packing bouses and the consumption of the city and suburbs requiring large quantiee but the general trade is big. Tnz inareaee in revenue from Canadian Customs for the five mouths of this fiscal year is nearly a million dollars. Tbie Dominion is getting to be a great country without any doubt and with capable management in public affairs very rapid. strides of progress should be on the pro- gram for the years to come. There is a duty incumbent on every citizen in this onward march that ehonld not be lost eight of. THE Poetoffice Department receipts have increased in the first four months of this financial year by e75,000 which is ample proof of the wisdom of reducing the postage rate from 3 to 2 conte. There is little doubt if railway rates, telegraph, telephone and express rates took a drop the finances would not suffer as the in- cr eased volume of travel and trade would be very noticeable. A move along these lines is a direct benefit to almost every resident of the Dominion. DolfzeTra Science is receiving so muth. attention in connection with this country that a bad batch of bread, a poorly cook- ed steak or an indigestiblepie w ill be a 0ori ei.Y• It's a wonder bow this old world wagged along at all before these new edemas began to get in their work. An old addage said "The Lord sent the viatuals but the de'il sent the cooks," and under the 20th century rules and regale, - tune we would not be mach surprised if the situation did not improve very meter• fatly. the ball wcnld bave entered her oselt. Ao ':effort bas been made to leoeta the reetileea sportsman, bat eo far svitheet enema PALMFRSTON PAVEMENTS, The Harriston 'i'ribupe says t-•-b'aim- Breton is noted far nanny things, Amopg theme ere ite fighting baseball team and e "Wapping" Towle Connell. All Summer several 01 the Palmerston Oouneilmen havewaged war age's* Contractor Lloyd, of Harriston, who bad the oontreat to lay the Palmerston granolithia walks, and they seem bound to keep up the fight to the end, The Palmerston papers leet week reported a lively time at the meet. ing of the Oounoit, They bad submitted a dooument to Mr, Lloyd which he refus, ed to idol. The Mayer atabed that Me. Lloyd had refused to sign the agreemeut prepared by the town Solicitor and retuned to con aider any eetblement exoept payment of 90 per Dent on hie whole account. A brisk .discussion followed, during wbioh Mr. Nahrgang spoke up 'strongly in fever of Mr. Lloyd. He thought that Mr. Lloyd was entitled to full payment, that the 10 per cent retained aacordiog to contract was sufficient to cover all defeats in the work. If the money was not all paid there would be a lawsuit and be would oppose anything involving each an expense. He understood that it was in- tended to charge nothing for the gravel taken from the town's pit, that the Mayor and Clerk bad both promised that no charge for gravel would be made. As to the blocks whlch held water, he tbqughb that was the fault of the Engineer or In-. epeator rather than that of the Contrac- tor, Mr. Westgate repudiated responsibility on that head, and the Mayor explained that the levelling of the walk was wholly a matter for the oontraotor. The Mayor stated that no promise had been made of free gravel for the walks. He had mentioned 6 Dents a yard as a reasonable price, Mr. Skelton oorrobor• abed his statement. The Clerk stated in reply to Mr. Naltr• gang's allegation that be had told the Contractor no charge would be made, that he had made no such promise and had no authority to make such a promise. The agreement elated that the contractor was to provide all his own material, and as a matter of fact the town had supplied him with lumber and now he wanted the town to supply him wrbb gravel. At this Mr. Nahrgang rose in great wrath and said "If you're going to run the Council I'm out of it. You've been running the Counoil all Sommer, now keep on running it, but you'll do it with- out me." Mr. Nahrgang then put on his overcoat and left the room. Some of the Palmerston Councillors want Mr. Lloyd to accept measurements made by Mr. Caswell, the Palmerston Town Clerk, of the amount of pavement laid, which ie one of the difficulties, and they also want to make himpay for gravel which the Mayor said he ought to have without charge. Contractor Lloyd got D. Forsythe, the Palmerston Public School Principal, and Hugh McEwing to measure the walks for him, and there is a difference of 39 feet between their measurement and that made by Mr. Cas. well. Mr. Caswell was assisted by a ten- year•old boy, Mr. Lloyd says. The following measurements were made by D. Forsythe, Principal of the Palmerston Public School, and Hugh Mo- Ewiug, for Mr. Lloyd :— Wo have been asked to give the law under wbioh Mayor Morris, of Ottawa, was unseated and disqualified. The clause is as follows :—"If a member of any municipal council is convicted of having knowingly committed any offence under this act (Liquor License Aot) he shall, in addition to soy other penalty in which he might be liable ander this act, thereby forfeit and vacate his neat, and than be ineligible to be elected or sib or vote in any municipal oounoil for two years thereafter ; audit any person after the forfeiture aforesaid, site or voted in any municipal council he 13ha11 incur a penalty of 340 for every day he sits and votes." TH It..ti t•,h1!1. Otti'T .91,10100111411 Square Ft. S. Main et., G. T. R. to Jennings' 6,842 East William Street 5,421 Crossings on Maio et., G. T. R., w 2,309 North Main street, Presbyterian Church to Harriston road,13,695 James Street West 3,660 William Street West 7,920 Crossings on William Street. - , , , 660 M sin Street South, G. T. R. round to H. Hyndman's , 9,892 Crossings in same.. 988 Total number of square feet 50,887 Cost of 50,887 square feet at 10i cents per square foot equals 35,343.18x. Mr. Lloyd's opinion of the Counoil is not one to be coveted. Mr. Lloyd says "they do not require any Counoil in Palmerston. The people should just elect Caswell. He is the drat one-man Conn. oil I ever struck." Being naked what steps he intended to take, Mr. Lloyd said he would consult a solioitor, and demand a settlement. "If I cannot get a nettle, mens any other way I will the for a settlement," said he. Palmerston Councillors were basing a f h most of their growling onfree o the g gp sidewalk laid in front of Ward's plaoe, where it bas seamed to wear away. En- gineer Hatching, of Guelph, and an architect from Listowel examined this piece of walk, and said that it was per- fectly good, only that it bad been brought into has too quickly. It had been swept repeatedly with a hard stable broom be• fore it was properly. set. As an example, of it6 hardness it ls,only necessary to state that to break a small piece off the edge required 23 strong blows from a heavy hammer in the hands of the Lis- towel architect. .As soon as this piece has broken off, Eogineer Hutchings examin ed 11 oloeely. Then be ssid : "Gentle• men, that walk is all right.' "Take any stone walk," said Mr. Lloyd "before it is a month old, and it can be swept away with continual rubbing with a hard broom. Free stone could even be swept away." Mt. Lloyd is very much troubled about the way the Palmerston people bave used bim. He says it was always a relief to, him to get away from Palmerston and come home to Harriston. "I would be many hundred dollars into my pocket if I had never seen the Palmerston work," Mr, Lloyd regretfully remarked. Several Harristoniane who have bean to Palmeteion and hetet seen the walks there say that they are even better than the walks in Harriston, so far as they can judge, and that is saying a good deal, for the Harriston walks are excellent. Some corporations recognize the fact that Mr. Lloyd is a first•olase contractor. He did good work in Brussels the past Sum- mer. Following is an extraab.from a let ter wbioh Mr, Lloyd received from the Reeve of Brussels, and which ;peaks for heel/ Brussels, Oat. 14, 1901. J, L. Lloyd, Palmerston, Ont. Dear Sir, -You will find enaloaed your aanonlaed account. I am very mach pleased to say that no repaire are required on the walks you put down for us, The Palmerston people wiil get as 9,001 a lob if they leave it to J. L. Lloyd, Sleety Thomas Sills, of Millsboro', North of Wolseley, was aooideutally shot by hie 16 year old sod. The boy was cleaning a gun, when the hammer fell. The dis- charge blew off all the upper part of the father's head and fade, killing bim instantly. Mrs. S. Crowe, of Huntsville, narrowly eeoaped being the victim of a stray bullet from a rids carelessly handled, She, heard a that neat her home and etepped to the window to ate from whenaeit carne. She had cm y stepped a page aside when a wooed iamb was fired and lbs ball passed through the pane of gloat through which eke had boon looking. Had the pot stopped aside at the moment the did, YOU CAN ALWAYS DEPEND I �' Upon getting the best goods in the market .at Reasonable Prices, at the Old Reliable GROCERY AND BAKERY A full Assortment of the Choicest NEW SEASON'S FRUITS. Special Values in— Plain and Fangy China & Glassware. Also a Full Line of General Groceries.• cx GEO. THOMSON. 1/4S -e •perury;,y�ubtleu e,zitee•,p,glu u person here thinks that you have filled yonr.contract and more. Yours truly, JAS. T. Ross, Reeve of Brussels. Mr. Lloyd did a little work in Harris. ton for private parties this Fall, and his walk aompares more than favorably with the walks alongside. With reference to the statement brought up in the Palmer• sten Counoil to the effect that Mr, Lloyd had bean told by the Mayor and Mr, Cam well that he would not be charged any- thing for the gravel taken out of the town pit; Mr. Lloyd says that what he took was from the bottom of the pit. Stones that had been discarded by men when gravelling the roads. He said to Mr. Caswell that it would make good filling, and asked both him and the Mayor if they thought he ought to be charged for taking it away and malting use of it as filling. They told him that they thought the person who owned • it, they should think, would be glad to be rid of it. The Palmerston Spectator says that Mr. Nabrgaug declares that he will not sit at the Council board again, and goes on to state that the question et issue be- tween the Counoil and Mr. Lloyd is whether he shall be paid 90 per cent on THE CHARITY OF ALL CHARITIES. THE CARS OF THE SICK CHILDREN. What The Hospital for Sick Children on College Street, Toronto, Has Done and Is Doing for the Little Sufferers of the Province of Ontario. An institution that requires about 334,000 a year for in- stitution that dep ndsnfor asupport on the goodness of the generous people of the Province of Ontario, must needs have considerable faith in the love, affection and generosity of the people. While the institution is located in Toronto its work is essentially pro- vincial. It admits not only children from the city of Toronto but from every city, town, village and hamlet, Province spot i nthePr ea from every yes, t of Ontario. So when you give—be your giving large or small—it goes for the benefit of every child of the province that is admitted and treated. This statement Is made because occasional reference is made to the Hospital as a Toronto institution for Toronto patients, whereas every sick child in Ontario has the same rights and privileges as those who live within the sbadow of the great red pile on College street. It costs about $34,000 per year, or a dollar per patient, per day, to main- tain the Hospital, The Government of the province gives about $7,000 a year, or nearly eighteen cents per head, in other words, per patient per day. This amount is all expended in maintenance. The corporation of the City of Toronto does even more, It gives $7,500 per year or eighteen cents per bead per day, and this too goes towards the maintenance,' not only of Toronto patients, but for every patient In the Hospital, no matter from what part of the province the little one may come frons. Yes, and this contribu- tion of the corporation is increased by from 34,000 to $6,000 donated by citi- zens of Toronto for the maintenance of all patients, to say nothing of the $4,000 contributed yearly by Toronto people, the founders of maintained and named cots in the building. During Its lifetime the Hospital has handled 8,000 indoor patients and of these 4,000 were cured, and 2,700 were Improved, Of these—and please nota thle-1,757 came from 1,205 places in Ontario and outside the city of Toronto. Ten years ago the Hospital carried a heavy burden of debt, The building and its furnishings, cost $1.50,000 and of this $20,000 was paid by the corpora- tion of Toronto and $60,000 by its clti- zone, Year by year the debt has been reduced and it is now down to $13,000. To clear the Indebtedness this aft peal is made. HOepltal uoilc cannot be carried on without money. Interest on mortgages has to be paid. An army of workers has to live. Nurses, domes- tics, officiate are all human. They earn their wages whether they live to or out of the Hospital. A hundred and twenty children per day—yes, In some months a hundred and forty—once it was a hundred and fifty -all these to look after and care for. Thirty nurses continually at woilc, A half-dozen maids with hre,o ' a and table ms and dusters, COOlr maids to prepare the food and serve It, clerics in the office who work like beavers, typewriter's who tap the keys of their machines for hours a day, an- swering sheaves of letters, preparing accounts, watching every doing In the linmense building on College street, that never closes night or day—all the year round—a hive of two hundred people, small and large, a little town doing what It can for God's suffering little ones, True, it is, that some have to pay— yes, all who can afford it aro expected to pay—but those who cannot pay and can produce the certificate of a clergy- man or known ratepayer of the pro, 'duce to the effect that they are too poor to pay, can have maintenance and treatment free of charge. If all could pay there would be no need to appeal for money, but eighty per cent. of the work as free work for the children of those who cannot af- ford to pay. Fancy•a great family Of nearly one hundred and flfty sick children, You who have had perhaps one or two sick little ones at your own home, therefore ltnow something of the work, but when you visit Toronto drop in and sea what they are doing to win back little ones from the grave. It would only weary the reader to go on with more story. This year a giant effort is being mate to clear away tete debt. livery dollar of this debt handl. cape the Trustees. Every dollar sent in helps to lighten the load that is being carried. It every reader would send but a dollar what a grand fund would be raised in a few weeks of time.,Let every one who can spare a dollar, end it to Douglas Davidson, the Seeretat'y Treasurer cf the Hospital, or to .7 110ss Robertson, tiro Cheirraon of tit Trust. And rloanc r r1 ' ;n nine for even the bell 0 t e forget our beet la :.., .: a 1901 all wool; dope or 0 per o tn all wool; wept that oandemud by the engineer. (In any Daae 710 per pent, ie returned for Pm, acaordipg bo contract,) 11U. Lloyd insists that be io entitled to payment of 90 per cent. in toll on tate oonttaot, and gave Mayor Word notice that w spit would be entered unless he was paid within seven days, If Mr, Lloyd means what be Saye the . next number on the program is a laweuit, Their is a general Reellug, enys Ilio Spectator, that tho Counoil should deal with the <ineetiau in a liberal spirit and not demand the last fraobioe that the law allows, The Coun- oil rsnognizes this . element in public opinion, and is loth to , pools what the Spectator le pleased to call its rights to the limit. Foroast /'or December. By Rev, Irl. R Hicks, December begins' In the midet -of a regular storm period, near the eentera of the Mercury and Verna disturbances. A low barometer, with generally threaten.. ing weather and active. sterna will spread over much of the country from Weet to East, by the let and 2nd, and will have burned to snow and sleet in the Weet and North, with a high barometer, blizzard and cold wave doming into view from the North-west. Some of the benviest and most general sleet storms of the Winter will most- likely transpire inside the Mercury braes, ebown by the storm dia. gram to be esutral on the 6th, extending to nearly the middle of the month, The moon being on the celestial equator on the 3rd heavy storms, with eleotrioal phenorpena Southward, are likely to oon- tfnne until after that date, Threatening and unsettled weather may be generally expected, with renewed storm of sleet and snow about the 6th and 6th, These are reaotionary etotm days, calling for falling barometer, change to warmer and rain, turning to blizzards of sleet, snow and cold wave just behind the area of low barometer and higher temperature. Look for some boreal weather over moat parts of the country between the 611 and 911*. On and about the 9th, another low barometer will stint Eastward from Wes- tern extremes, it will grow rapidly war. mer, and by the 11th marked storm die- tnrbances will be organized end starting on their Eastward journey. From about Wednesday, the 11th, to Saturday, the loth, there storms Of Cain, sleet, snow and gales will pass over the country to the Atlantic coast. We caution our readers against the possible blockades of sleet and snow at this storm period, end against the sweeping oold wave ahnost sore to follow the storms. The North Atlantic sea and ornate will be visited severely by Winter solstice storms about this time. See the December aoleti0e brace in the storm diagram. From about the lOtit'lo 20th of Deeene• bar each year there is marked tendency to boreal, North-westerly gales, with low barometric areae Southward: Peculiar magneotio and electrical disturbances often attend these storms, the, cold bliz zardoua winds even from the North-west frequently charging all aorta of exposed objects with electricity. Voloanie and seismio'dieturbanees are also very Dom- moo during ibis Winter aolatioe'perrod. From about the 16th to 18tb is another reaotionary period. On and touching the 17th it will turn mach warmer, the bar- ometer will again fall to storm readings, and more rain and snow will visit many sections in their 'Eastward transition across the country. Look for more cold and high Northwesterly winds on the heels of these storms, lotting to about the 21st. The position of emu and planets for December, as explained on the drat page, will no doubt play an important part in the general phenomena for the mouth, aside from the regular perturb atioos of the planetary equinoxes. The oalmination of the Wistar' sol. sties storms will tall about the Vulcan storm period, central on the 23rd and reaching from the 21st to the 2815, On the 28rd,.24th and 25th, tbe moon passes its perigee, greatest deolination North and full, with eartb just at her turning point inber orbit. This will in all prob. ability be one of the, most aotive storm periods in December. If snow for Christmas should not already have fallen it may reaaonably be expected in many. parts of the 000utry from Monday, the 23rd, to Thursday, the 26th. Christmas Day will be a thew/ day in many sections. Wetcb and see. If you dgn't have it yourself, read lbs telegrapbio reports. from your own and other countries. About Christmas Day the front of a oold i un heading up from the wave will be found i Northwest, and during g th Cee or four days following it will spread East and South over most of the country. Ships on the North Atlantic will bave rougb and dangerous Bailing at this time. A reaotionary storm period is due the last three days of December, daring; which time the cold will tlelay the barometer fall progressively from Weer to East, and storms of rain and snow will result in many localities ae the storm oonditioue march Eastward across the country. The year will oome to its close with rising barometer, ()tearing ekiee and ebange to much oolder generally. Of course, intelligent readers and observers of weather phenomena will andantaad that storm areas and weather obungee are things to be studied in transit—bbey move from Weet to nest like the crest of a flood or overflow, with very different kinds of weather prevailing in the ex- tremes of the 8Onntry at the same tient— calmer low barometer and fair to East, actual stoma and precipitation in the centre, with rising barometer and change to fair and colder ooming down from the Northwest. But all these conditione deme and run their Douses in periods clearly laid down in out storm diagrams and explained in our foreaasbs.. We ban appeal to reeaon and intelligence, but never to ignorance and prejudice. The ten year-old on of W. W. Pitot, of 'Virden, Man., died after an op ration to remove a citron, sear) tvhioh stook in hie throat. The 8 ysar•old child of Charles Neville, a Montreal Iaerosae player, found some bread spread with rat poison the other day, and after eating it flied in the Gen. oral Hospital. Hon. Wm. Sarbry elates that Ile has definitely deoided not to seek re e'estion to the Provieeial Legislature, the non. dnot of Locomotive works ab Kingston re- eatiobl • BOO >. 4.gairing nil hie attention. The liiogeton works have areas for anginas up to Dee. „' 20, 1902, and, ate, evidently enjoying a large share of the prevailing prosperity. liave Them Boots 8c Sloes, r All Sizes Rubbers & Overshoes,. ' AlAges Alll Prices Suits Sc Overcoats, .LADIES' FUR JACKETS, GENTS' FUR COATS. Newest SVARY �Te Styles. in Ca�pernes, OSEAP. December Fashion Sheets and. Patterns to hand. ALEX. Everything Cheap. STRAOHAN. No Fancy Prices. Turnbull ll Wilton & u HAVE NOW TO HAND THEIR SUPPLY OF—""mir X Cut Saws and Axes. ,f1LL Saws Fitted up Ready for Use. Prices Right and Quality Good. CALL AND SEE US BEFORE BUYING. Wilton & Turnbull "LI THE N" BRAND O F'0"1 Boys' s' Selioni Clolhing Once a Customer, Always s a Customer. KESS the boys so, they can go out " and enjoy the glorious air. Dress them so they will not be afraid and tumble. all over the' ground. We have clothes to roll made on purpose for these busters—won't show dirt, won't look ay habb in a week's wear, and will always strand the tumble wear of the lively rough andboy. Pants have double knees and double seats, ` lined with heavy white thread cotton, sewed with linen, seams double sewn and put on tostopon • all this you get when taped, buttons p , Y You ask for the "Lion" Brand of Boys' Clothing. The cut thing and make of these sults arenot equalled anything y ,, on famous make. the market, We are sole agents i'pr this f .. D. C. ROSS, CLOTHIER AND FURNISHER, DS.