The Brussels Post, 1898-9-16, Page 4FRIDAY, SEPT, 2, 1898.
Ove,, 4,000 Amerieau soldiers are down
With fever, largely typhoid, in Georgia
where they have been Damped, People
sometimes complain in tide Northern
clime oe the severe cold of winter but we
would nob trade it for the South with its
yellow fever scourge and heat.
THE Iodependeut Order of Foresters
have admitted women into membership
and now the lodges of this body will be
mixed, as they call it, very badly
"mixed" we fear when both lord and
lady of the house deoire bo attend lodge
on the same evening. It may be, how.
ever, that this double barrelled arrauge-
ment may have a stimulating effect on
getting many a house -wile home early as
she will have no need of an excuse saying
she was at lodge up to 13 o'clock when
her hubby will know it is over at 10.
There's a silver lining to the cloud.
TEE Toronto Industrial Lxhibition is a
mammoth 0000ern and is really a World's
Fair in miniature. Every building is
packed with exhibits and the crowd of
sightseers is beyond compare with any-
thing we know of. Of course the pro-
gram of attractions is a big drawing card
but outside of this it is a well managed
affair with an educative influence that is
far reaching in its character. Jest think
of 80,000 to 100,000 people congregating
there in a day and many of them taking
in the latest and best in stook, machin-
ery, art, etc., and this immense crowd
returning to their reepeotive homes to
carry out into practical life the new
thoughts and information gained. Many
will go and come like a door on Re hinges
but this is not the fault of the Fair. Ib
is doubtful if the Industrial was ever
more popular than it was in 1898.
IT is a pleaeing thing to Oanadiens, ir•
respective of political proclivities, to
know that substantial growth and pro.
geese is manifested in the business of this
grest Dominion. At a meeting of the
Board of Trade in Toronto the other day,
both Liberals and Conservatives, expres-
sed their satisfaction ab the condition of
affairs and also over the favorable out-
look. The total trade for the Dominion
for this year is announced at the unprece-
dented figure of $304,091,720, es against
$957,168,862, or an increase of nearly
$47,000,000 in the year. Of this grand
total the imports were $140,805,950, and
the exports $159,485,770, giving a balance
on the right side of nearly 990,000,000.
The balance is growing, for while the im-
ports of 1898 exceeded those of 1897 by
991,000,000, the exports have grown to
nearly $25,500,000. 'Upon this vast in•
crease the duty collected inoreeeed 92,.
061,668, in spite of the considerable re.
dnations in the tariff.
WONDERS will never cease. Russia, Dns
of the most grasping, tyrannical and
belligerent nations, is playing the role of
peacemaker and suggests, by note to the
other powers, that a peace conference be
beld of the leading nations of the earth so
as to come to some better understanding
as to the rights and privileges of one
another. This is a move in the right
direction and if Russia is sincere there
should not be much difficulty aD arriving
at an amicable settlement Unease
incalculable sum that:is,a a„ U 7.
ed in arnament wouldngo a'i
toward relieving distress and making life
more enjoyable if disbursed in philan.
thropic ways and means. It is high time
that civilized nations should awake to the
great sinfuluese of war and try by dip-
lomacy and the practice of self deniel to
give some reality to the enlightenment of
the closing hours of the nineteenth cen-
tury. We are glad to see Russia taking
the lead in the movement and hope to see
it eventuate in good.
THREE weeks from Thursday of this
week will be polling day on the Dominion
Plebiscite on the Prohibition question.
The campaign is a quiet one up to bhie
date end for the few weeks intervening
before the ballots are cast there will have
to be a lot of vigorous work done if the
ground usually oovered by an election is
reaohed. This ie not an ordinary test
but one on which well defined action
should be taken. The Government will
not enaot Prohibitory legielation with a
small majority in its favor that is ter.
twin, nor should they be expected to as
the proper and successful enforcement
would depend very largely upon the
moral teaching of the people. There is a
very apparent indifference on the part of
many over this Plebieoite, some for
business reasons, and others for fear of
politloal entanglement bold afoot. Not
a few of those are so walled prohibition.
isbs but in declining to oast in their lot
with those working for the cause do
themselves and the temperance question
-inoaloulable injury. Some soy they will
be neutral and dooline to vote but it
ebould not be forgotten that those who take
this stand vete straight againot Prohibf-
MED. Our belief on this matter is thee
no man sbould vote Yea on Sept. 29th
unless he will honestly lend his ihf1uenoe
afterward to aid in the enforcement of
Prohibitory legielation if enacted. This
vote in to be taken by the Government as
iedicebiee of the feeling of the el001018 of
tiro Dominion on Bale question and eon•
sequently this expression should be
trustworthy and praotioal rather than a
sentimental expression, If you are a
P1tonnueroarsr get out and hustle.
Tette is a year of valorous Asada and on
the various battle fields of Celle, itiauilia
or Khartoum ample proof hue been given
that Amerioan and British soldiery bave
lost none of the bravery and daring that
was attached to Washington or Welling.
ton in the bisborla days of the past. Ib is
Bald In the battle last week, near Khur-
tonm, English soldiers deplioated the im-
mortal Charge of the Light Brigade, with
the exception, perhaps, that it was not ea
destructive to life on the part of the at -
looking party. Iu times of peace it is
not a very difTieult matter to outlinewhat
might be considered eonrageous but to
carry out all these in the Moe of n deadly
hail of shot and shell is another thing and
yet these brave lads marched forward with
the steadiness of veterans. The ushering
in of the reign of universal cessation of
war would be a glad day to the world at
large and the so called Christian Nations
should actively interest themselves in
hastening the time when the spear and
sword will be utilized in agriculture and
husbandry.
NExv Monday the Liberals of West
Huron were to have met in Convention
at Dungannon to select a candidate as
successor to Od. 0. Cameron, now Line -
Governor
Governor of the Northwest, but owing to
the wish of the Premier the Convention
is postponed. Several names will be
presented as candidates for the honor but
to our mind Mayor Holmes, of Clinton,
ie the most representative gentleman.
He is well acquainted with the riding
and ite_nee& ; has worked hard for the
party in past oontests ; is not a bide.
bound partisan but a man well read in
Cha political queatious of the day, with
an independence of thought acd act most
desirable in a public man. He has made
a firat.class Mayor and if he secures the
nomination should poll a vote snffioiently
large to secure his election. West Heron
ie not a bed of roses for either party oan•
didate, bib with a long pull, a atrong pull
and a pull all together it should continue
to support the Liberal Administration.
There is not much doubt but that Robert
IVIaLean, Co. Councillor, will carry the
Conservative banner and with his past
experience as a candidate and his intim•
ate acquaintance in the various munici.
palities be will make a lively race. The
election will probably come off about
December, and there will be a hot time
for a few weeks.
VE!i'I'El) INTEREST AND SPURIOUS
LIBER'T'Y.
BY TUE VERY nEV. DEAN FA911011,
One of the idols which have to be des.
troyed is the idol of vested interest in
national wrongs. Let it be understood,
once for all, that there oan be no vested
interest in that which is the source of a
nation's ruin and a nation's wrong, other
selfishness of monopolists claiming a
vested interest in public infamy.
And the other is the idol of spurious
liberty, which thinks thee freedom con•
sista in unlimited lioeuse to do wrong,
and that we ought to be allowed to do
what they will, though the result may be
the injury of our neighbors. The liberty
to do wrong is the mother of bondage.
No man is free and no nation is free
wbioh is free from righteousness and a
slave to vice. The impulse of appetite is
slavery, and the obedience to salutary
restraint is the only true liberty. So
long as England's liberty is the spurious
idol of selfish individual license, her glory
is built upon the sand,
THE DAN00115 05' LEIDEN AND SELF IN-
DDL0EN0E.
The demagogue and the sooioliste rail at
the luxury of the rich. All luxury 10 an
evil. The days are coming, yea, have
DOW come, when the duty of perfect Am.
plioity and stern self.denial will be in•
enmbent on every class of the community.
But I, who have often spoken plainly
enough of the faults of the rich, dealer°
thee their luxury is in no respect so
deadly and so outrageous as that of the
drunken poor. There is many a working
man in these streets, many a cabman,
many a laborer, who spends every day of
his life on drink a sum which I could not
afford, and which I should think it orim•
Malty luxurious and disgracefully extra.
vagant in myself to spend. And when
these drinkers and drunkards thus poison
their very lives and their very souls by
wallowing in the depths of self-indulgence
they will have to be helped by charity,
and we, out of the sweat of our brow,
shall have to pay for the poisons which
punish these atrocities, and the work.
houses in which they end their worthless
and wasted days.
Hers is a specimen -one of hundreds,
At the police court a married woman (and
the case is not at all uncommon) makes
her sixty.seoond appearance for drunken.
tees and wilful damage ; she is the
daughter of a man now in the workhouse,
who has undergone more than one hut -
deed terms of imprisonment for drunken.
noes, and whose single family of shame
and worthlessness has oosb the ratepayers
of his parish over ;£1,000. We pay this
money thus miserably wasted.
Who profits by the manufacture of
these wretched drunkarde? Some, I sup-
pose, roust profit by it, some must gain
their wealth from a system which to
many means childhood without innocence,
youth without shame, manhood without
honor. , The prosperity of the
drink trade, in short, means the misery of
the people by whin].) it thrives,
LICENSE TIM MN, NOT LIIERTY.
Row aro half the efforts at social amu.
lioration, whether in the Legislature or by
true Christians who think that Christian-,
ity moans a good deal more than churoh-
manship-how are they mob? Men talk
of vested intonate -yes, vested intereets
la mews ruinous temptations, vested ine
teeest5 in the destruction of flesh and
blood, and tattle and bodies, They Ole
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the proud salsa of Liberty, and declare
that sho ;lemmds the liberty of every
Inman being to destroy himself, and to
be a curse to hie neighbor and to his land,
deriding all fegislatiou whish aims at the
restriobion of evil wealeuoss, They olaim
the policy of "Do nothing, and let nosh.
ing be done,"
'1)o nothing" simply means leavisgthe
upright to the mercy of the minutes'
leaving the ignorant bo the moray of the
designing, leaving the weak to the snares
of every tempter who would tempt him,
and being very compassionate if the temp.
ter's millions are for a otomeub touched,.
leaving the gambler to lure to early ruin
ten thousand Poole, leave everyone to
matte a profit out of human weakness,
and then give him a title to reward lifer
for his 5000ess in heaping up riches l
That is regarded as statesmanship ;
while the oreoping bide of lumina misery
rises, rises, rises, Only so slowly as scarce
to stir the weeds which rot on its shore ;
rises until it shell have submerged our
own land and all our all'ilizaaion under its
waves, and selfish luxury and pitiless
greed shall have been swept away in the
flood of misery.
0101101.005 00, 111•-71011010,
The taxpayers to draw fn the Revenue
of 97,000,000, mints expenses are risking
our boys.
A father of five daughters and Duo sou
will risk his only son for fear of having to
pay in direct taxation his share of that
revenue, say $1.50 each -$19 per annum.
Yea, a father of five sons will endanger
the whole of them for $10 per annum.
Prohibition would save both the boys and
the $10, and put money in his pocket.
The saloon keepers, in order to draw
their grand total in Canada of from 940,-
000,000 to $50,000,000, aro going to use
our boys all the time, This is how a
liquor dealer put it at a convention of
Liquor Dealers in Ohio :-
"The success of our business is depen-
dent largely upon the creation of appetite
for drink. Men who drink liquor, like
others, will die, and if there is no mete
appetite created, our counters will be
our coffins. Our children will go hungry,
or we must ohangs our business to that of
some other more remunerative."
"The open field for the creation of this
appetite is among the boys. After men
have grown and their habits are formed,
they rarely ever change in this regard.
It will be needful, therefore, that mis-
sionary work be done among the boys,
and I make the suggestion, gentleman,
that nickels expended in treats to the
boys note will return in dollars to your
tills after the appetite has been formed.
Above all things create appetite."
TEE LIBERTY TO DRIER.
A man will risk his own sons and the
sons of his fellowmen to have liberty for
himself to imbibe intoxicating liquor as
he may wish.
This is how Doan Ferrer has stated the
0808 :-
"At one and the same time we are Ole•
liberately sacrificing hundreds and thous-
ands of our sons and other races in every
quarter of the globe to the hideous two -
headed Moloch, of which one head is the
head of spurious individual liberty, and
the other is the head of vested interest m
human ruin."
WUl' I SHOULD ,NOT DRINK,
1. -Because I don't want to be deceived
by it. -(Prov. xs., f. ; Isaiah %seiii.,
7.)
2. -Because I don't want to set others a
bad example. -(1. Cor. vile, 9.13 ;
Rom, xi v., 21 ; Matt, xviii., G.)
3, -Because I don't want to abuse the
gifts of the good God. -(Eccles. t'.,
18 19 ; I. Cor. x,, 31.
4 -Because I don't want my obildren to
be drunkards. -(Ex, ex., 6; Ecru, v,,
12; Ie. xis., 21.22,
5 -Beoauee it is butter to be my own
master than the devil's slave -Oahe
viii., 34 ; I, Pet. ii,, 16 ; John xii.,
20.)
G. -Because I want to have a happy
home. -(I. Tim. iii., 3 4 )
7. -Because I want to be a good citizen.
(hath. xsii., 21 ; Rom, stili., 7.14 )
8.-Beoauss I want to please Jesus.
(Yate, eve, 24 ; I. John ii., G ; Eph.
v., 18 )
0. -Because I want to save my soul. -(I.
Cor, vi., 10 ; Luke xei., 84 ; Gal. v„
21.)
BUT
1.-"I can't do without," Can't do with
it, you mean I The strongest man
(Judges sill.) that ever lived did
without it, and so can yon.
2. -"It's no good trying." Not by your-
self; but God helps those who help
themselves. You can de' it with His
help. -(Phil, iv., 18 )
8,-"I shall have to give up my friends."
So meth the better if they are bad
ones, and you find true friends in-
stead of false. (5. Oar. v„ II )
4.-"I shall be laughed at." ,Better bear
the laughter of fools now than the
laughter of the devils in hell here-
after. -(Eccles. vii,, 6 6.)
WIlAT CAN 1 UA.ly BY 1'r
1,-Healbb, strength and respect,
2. -The love and trust of my family.
3, -Good friends everywhere.
4. -Something pub by for old age,
5.-A quiet conscience.
6. -The praise of God.
7. -My own soul.
The by-law to extend the Hamilton
Street Railway franchise for fifteen
years was adopted by the City Council.
Robt. Mackie, one of the Napanee bank
robbery impede, was released on bail
and returned to his boom in Belleville,
The Toronto Board of Control has
voted $1,000 to the relief of those thrown
into destitution by the New Westminister
fire.
The first consignment of 0 ntario fruit,
paoked according to California methods,
wee reosived in Winnipeg in excellent
condition.
The Remittent Oity Council has voted
$500 to the relief of the New Westminise
ter fire sufferers, Winnipeg City Coun•
oil voted $500 for the same purpose.
iltCook's Cotton Root Compound
Is snsoe0sinlly used monthly by over
10,000Ladies. Safe, effectual, Ladles ask
Quad. Take n0 011OOCS,tas n Cook's
pills a d
bnitations am dangerous. Pried No. I, $1 er
boxINO.2,10degreesStronger,$1lper box. No.
1 or 2, maned on receipt et piles and two 8•ecnt
stomps, The Cook 4otnpany .Windsor Ont.
rbTos.1 and 2 sold and tecomntonded ty all
responelblo Druggists is 050546.
Nos. 1 and 2 gold i )3russels by
Druggist,�ls30b1iso1l6Y 4t Optl6lan,
SEPT. 1(i. 15,98
We ere now bray preparing
for the, ,..,,..,•.,,,,,..
PALL
1111iLLJNEF2Y
OPENING,
the date of which will be
announced later
Mies Armstrong has been engaged as
milliner and oomes with high testimon•
ials as to her oaJnabiliby in the art of
presenting atbraotive and fashionable
beedwear.
Thanking the public for poet patronage
I solicit a ooiitinuauco of their f:voes.
SSSS oaths.
GRAIIAM BLOCK., BRUSSELS.
EVERY
GOOD
THING
Costa an effort and reading my
ads is the price you pay for the Purch-
asing advantage you possess over your
less enlightened neighbors.
NO GUFF
GOES WITH Us.
Murat trading needs no taffy. I do
not talk customers into baying, I do nob
bave to, the goods talk and customers
take the goods on their own sound judg-
ment.
All Siuimier floods
At and Below Cost. Moet be
cleared out. Fall goods arriving. A full
line of the beet Groceries in the market.
Nothing but the finest goods kept.
Agent for Parker's Dye Works.
J. G. Skene.
FORW
Our block as a whole has never been in such a wonderfully forward con-
dition at such an early season of the year -We mean, of course, as regards Fall Goods.
A simple enumeration of receipts include the following ;-
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es "5
,
i
60- 4.24q 34•" ¥r 'rsT e
41. Aek
"Chic" Gowns tl t,.
are
easily modeled from Priestley's Black Wool Figured Fabrics
because the firmness of the texture and exquisite weave
yield ideal dr ping qualities.
Combined with this is the originality of the designs
in Black Wool Figures -in Matelasse effects, Armures,
Pebble Cloths and Wool Canvass Clothe.
For the street, for calling or for
the house, Fashion dictates from
across the water as eminently cor-
rect this season
"Priestley" stamped
on the selvedge.
Priestley's
Black Wool
Figured Fabrics
Sold hy Leading Dry Goods Houses everywhere.
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8, -44
PRIES TLE Y'S DRESS GOODS,
(We aro Solo Agents in Brussels.)
-Priestley's Silk and Wool Endora Cloth,
'--Priestley's Iienriettas and Cashmeres,
-Priestley's Wool Figured,
-Priestley's Serves,
-Priestley's Solid Cloth,
-Priestley's Royalette.
A'^"""" -ALSO A FULL LINE OF --fir
Flannels, Flannelettes, Cottons, Szirtings, Towels, Toweling, Table
Linens, Gloves, Hosiery and Corsets.
Boots 8z ShoesWo have received our Fall lines in Boots, Shoes and Rubbers.
All sizes for Men, Women and Children,
Highest Price for Produce.
aren.
GENUTE CLEARIAG SALE
-Goo r^f+'re
For Ninety Days®
Colne and test the'truth of the above statement.
STAPLE DEPARTMENT.
Best Indigo Prints, full width, regular 12 a for 9 c ; best Eng-
lish Prints, in light grounds, regular 10c for 7ic ; Heaviest Cotton -
ado made, regular 28c for 22c ; best Indigo Shirting, regular 12ie
for 10c ; Union Table Linen fine finish, regular SOc for 22zc ; 18
inch Pure Linen Towelling, regular 12'o for 8ze.
DRESS GOODS,
Wo aro selling many lines in a great variety of designs and
color's at half their real value.
RIBBONS
In all colors, quarter off in silk and satin.
100 MEN'S SUITS
Beguiar x+7.00 for $4.50. Men's Linen Collars, 8 for 25c.
Silk Ties, assorted colors, 2 for 25c.
Come with the Crowds to •
Pure
N The Corner
t , .
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n�.•..C�,PVJLL.LH. a
We will be ready to Buy any Quantity of Apples on or
after the
6TH SEP T BER,
-AT THE --
EL
'BRIT SELS
APORATIIG FACTORY.
Apples ,may be shaken off Trees, Windfalls and all
kinds of Apples, except very soft and
small, will be taken.
Parties having Winter Apples to sell will do well to give
us a call before disposing of them to Ship-
pers, for which an extra price
will be paid.
Hands Wanted
Boys and Girls to work in the Fac-
tory. Cali at ONCE.
Highest Price Paid for Four Foot Wood,
Beech and Maple preferred,