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The Brussels Post, 1898-9-23, Page 44 PRLDAF, SEPT, 28, 1898. UV, OR. CARMAN'S whish every ATethndiet Is to he known, that he is always and everywhere op• posed to the liquor traffic, And iu the great public test now before the oountry we ebould have but one vaiee throughout all our borders, that we, each of es, end all of aa, are dsoidedly in favor of a Dominion law prohibiting the import. mien, manufnotare and sale of intoxicat- ing drinks for beverage purposes. This • ie one of the polities! rights and duties of Addhess to the Methodist Coiifoi'eneC DEAF BeaTunuN :—As wolf RS members of the aboroh of God, enjoying its whit - Ms, sharing its honors and rewards, bearing its burdens and guarding its interests, we are also 0(1izena of the Stets, for the most part of the goodly estate of the Dominion of Canada, bolding our ea. Wiens to the other omtizene and the civil government, ut mto r1 entitled the ' lh his im- K mt nit's t sand Gra shies s u sof good citizen. ship, end under obligation to the best of our knowledge and ability to defend and support the State and keep it from harm, and the citizens from iujus1ice, loss, hart, damages and pnbilo or private violence, treepaes, oppression, enaron0hmen1 and wrong. WE ARE EOM TO 8009800 011e FA119LY. Espeoially are we bound as citizens and under government to protect t and nurture the family, the home a the creative and indispensable unit of the State, without which no State can proper• ly exist, abolishing what ware against the family life of the country, and pro. mating what invigorates and establishes the home ; not the home of the thief or counterfeiter, or pimp, or saloon keeper or distiller alone, hut the home of the merchant, the fisherman, the lumberman, the teacher, and the preacher as well. TO GUARD AND STRENGTHEN THE MOMS, we must defend and ennoble the individa. al, the free moral person. Civil govern• meet is an inetitotion of God, as also the State of which the civil government is the agency. So also is the church an inetitotion of God. So also is the family, the home, an institution of God. There- fore family, State and church have their respective spheres and need by no means come or be thrown into collision, Kept in their proper relation in their unbiased, untrammelled exercise, they are mutual- ly helpful and grandly comparative for the common good. Head, heart and stomach are organs in that perfeot and harmonious unity, the human body, each having its indiepens• able place, offioe and functions. The head cannot do the work of the heart ; no more can the stomach do the work of the head. But each doing its own work in Ha own way, time and relations, you have the strong, active symmetrical man. No more is it to be appointed to the church to do the work of the State, or to the State to do the work of the family. THE ILLS OF EARTH and even the mutilate of centuries are in no small measure attributable to the perversions, failures, diegressions and interferences of these high eppointmeMe of the most high God through the, self will and consequent blindness of man. The human person, God the Creator, the church, the family, the State, society and the human race encompase man's eexthly being. And because of the fundamental relations of God and the human person, vital religion must ran through all political, economic and ethical systems. Hare ie why the broad. minded, far-seeing, religions, patriotio and phiionthropioal man cannot give over his fight againeb the liquor traffic. CRANES THEY 8.0, Cranks I they say ; but cranks with a sweep as broad as the human race through the coming ages of time 1 Cranks that turn the wheels wbioh roll back the doors from the dungeons of darknese, misery and death, and let forth wretched, degraded men and women into freedom and light 1 The liquor traffic is the foe of every interest of humanity and of every claim of the righteous God. It is the despoiler of reason and intelligence, of virtue and piety, of social order, domestic comfort end civil prosperity and peace. It ie the utterly conscienceless plunderer of the wealth of the family and the nation. THE DEYENUE IT EATS. And yet it boasts it pays $7,000,000 in. to the Canadian revenue. Is the Govern. meut guiltless ? Are the people guiltless ? Are we human 1 Are we honorable ? Are we brotherly ? Certainly we are not Christian when we raise our revenue out of murder and arson and robbery, out of ignorance and insanity ; seeking poverty and disease ; a revenue out of fallen men and women, desolated homes and the tears of the wives and mothers, and the wail of the orphan. There is nothing setae abort this ; there !a nothing manly, nothing noble. Our statesmen ahonld ebow them8elve0 worthy of the name in this matter, MEI did a Gladstone, a Tilley, a Galt, or should leave the Government to men who can oarry it on without debauohing the people into drunkards and sots. Alas 1 alae I for us as a people, if we force our Government into partnership with distillers and saloon keepers to secure public funds. How, then, about tha hallot•box ? Canada, body and soul, soleoole, ohurahes and homes, agrloulture, commerce, manufactures and art, Bold to Baoohus and hie minions for 07,000,• 000 grog money 1 In that day it will be a proud thing to be a Canadian. God and true religion are at war with the liquor traffic. The free moral and reeponeiblo personality he at war with the liquor traffic. The genuine churoh of Ohriet le at war with the liquor tra(io. THE 11011E I8 AT WAR WITH TEE LIQUOa TRAFFIC, Pore government and the State in every essential politioal interest is at war with the liquor traffio. Incorrupt and incorruptible eoci86y is at war with the liquor traffic. The brotherhood of uni. venial humanity on all continente and seas is at wee with the liquor traffio. Why, then, ebould it be perpetuated Whyproteeted by Government? Why fostered by the people at large ? To fatten distillers and dealers, to pander to the lusts of victims, to leave an open 810166way to deluge the land with vine and prime and eweep many of one nobleet eons and daughters into the whirl of an awful ruin, and to raise 6even minima of revenue. TIM METRODr831 ODuao0 MOST CONTINUE THE FI:OnT, The Methodist church, as a Mural, with all rte agenoiee, host continue to fight the liquor traffic, Our home lona. 8(108 and our family discipline and de. v0tion mint array themeelvee against the liquor treble, It should be a mark by morel reform. This ie the tugboat exor. else of oivil and pelitioal freedom, to DEFEND THE FAMILY AND TRE STATE, and even in many oases personal health, diameter and property against eo organ• Med, heartless and rapaoione an enemy, social, private anti public, to the aggres. sive tralll0 of the men who donee Is lu the bowl, the still and the mash tub, olotbe themselves s ae i npiip a tit, them; r la and for ' L rm selves in palaces, no matter who goes to the hovel sad to ignorance, starvation and rage. It is time that the morel sense of the people asserted itself, and that public law, 111e high behest of poblio opinion, made this great wrong arlmimll and meted out to it due punishment. It would be a majestic step onward in our Christian civilization. A DIRECT 0088 OF 040,000,000, T in direct Tbink of a dh eo annual lose to the oountry of over 040,000,000 ; and an mn• direct loss through idleness, failure of labor, shortened lives, coat of prieone, septum, o ar•t' h 1 lee oto, f o pearl 0100,- 000,000, 000,000, nd then talk of $7,000,000 or 08,000,000 revenue. What nonsense to talk about the statesmanship of immi- gration agency while we maintain so propulsive an emigration agency to hell by the expensive route of the gallows, the prisons and the asylums, and by the dark and desolate way of disease and crime. A FIRM GROUND 1 The braciug air of the prairies in our Northwest domain, in a reoent noble sermon, gave us these solid positions, so firm a ground for faithful men :—(1) That eivil government is an ordinance of God ; (2) that the civil Magistrate is the servant of God, administering righteous haw under a sense of lila re- sponsibility to our supreme Soverign ; (8) that the proper object and aim of moil governmeut is the good of the people; (4) that the governing power must miuls- ter not evil, but to material good and moral good ; (0) that the ligner traffic is not for the good of the people either materially or morally, because it eervee no desirable end, meets no notated need, does not conduce to any advantage to the individual, the family or the State, but 18 all evil and evil continually, and there- fore the Government should have no re. lation to it. A Klondike Missionary On The Trail. Letter Front Rey. John Pringle. The following letter has just been re- ceived by the convener of the home Mis- sion Committee frmn the Rev. John Pringle, Glenora. It will doubtless be read with interest as well as sympathy for missionaries who have to undergo such privations And hardships in the Yukon region : GLENORA, B. 0., 171n AUGUST, 1808. Dean Du. 000lh008E, — On Thursday, August 12th, I returned to Glenora after a missionary journey of nearly 400 miles, and of a month's duration. I left Glenora on Monday evening, July Ilth, with a paok of seventy pounds on my back, and reached Telegraph at 12.80 the some night. The walk of twelve milee over a trail which is in its whole length an ascent was quite trying. I had not carried a pack for years, and the Buffo. outing sensation which again and again on mountain sides came upon me, as the straps drew my shoulders beck and pressed upon my chest, almost overcame my determination to go on. By the time I had reached the most difficult part of the trail, about four miles from Tele. graph, I had, "got my wind," but was not through with my tribulations. The art of doing up a peak is learned only after long experience, and that I was without. The result was that whoa on the most dangerous part of the trail, on a jagged rook on a steep mountain side, my pack slipped out of the straps, and went one way, giving me, stooped as I wee, a de- oided impulse, on my hands and knees, towards the river 200 or 800 feet below, A few scratches on my hands and thins and some hurt to my dignity were all the harm that resulted, and after a perspir- ing rest I journeyed on and reached the tent of one of my old Stikine -trail friends after midnight. Next day I "shed" thirty pounds of my load, and got an old. timer to put it into my pack -straps in proper shape. It was not a "plc -nit," as our Ameri. can friends say, getting over the first summit, twelve miles from Telegraph, from which, as from Glenora, there is a steady ascent, sometimes very abrupt, 1 overcame it and reached the "divide," where, within a few pude, are two streams, one flowing North to the Tab!. tan, the other, Telegraph Oreek, to the Stikine. From this summit one gets a fine view of the great mountains bound. ing the Stikine valley, many of their summits8now•eapped, and the rents and the marks of the wear and tear of ten. tnries clearly visible as the setting sun strikes hie rays into canon and gully and forest, and intensifies the whiteness of the snows, which his rays seem to have little power to dissolve. North, as one Tooke from the highest point of the trail, is a quieter scene, a broad valley in whioh lie two very beautiful lakes, and fu the adjoining meadows feed many horses, mules and oxen. Here and there you see a tent, and rieing beside it the smoke which tells of sapper being prepared, and that man and boast have oast off their burdens and in food and rest are fitting themselves for the wearing toil of another day. For it is wearing toil. Were I ask- ed to say what I think hi the hardest worts which man oau do, my answer would be, to oarry a pack day after day as they do horn for hundreds of miles. After that, following a pack train is the hardest. hunting the animals for hours in the early morning, loading hp, follow. ing animals hour after hour, then en. paoldeg at night—that followed day after day is hard enough to try the strength and staying power of the strongest, 1 reach the Tahltan that ('Tuesday) night about ten o'clock, and have a cup of coffee with Captain Bennett, of the Yukon force, like inyeemf a herring. batik," and then in his tent sleep the elsep of the exhausted, Wednesday even. ing I reach the old E. I3, Port, sixty txr BE BRUSSELS POST rifles from tllenurn, meet the "boys" of the Interior laep1arttnout, one of them a sou of Daniel Hamilton, one of my old Kildouau folk, They find a comfortable place for me, and be the morning wine over and we have "family worship Here 1 photograph them all, and start on m wt t h D t t i.1 II 1 a Summit. tt1it. It the Y Ynq is i summit wt summits on the trail—an a cent of over 2,000 feet in three and a ha mites, The air becomes rarer as you a Band by a long series of ewi6ehbaolsa, ye logs feel numb, the perspiration aro from the end of your nose, rens into yo eyes, drips from the sleeves of your le Bey, Lips and tongue are 96901181, bu strange to say, there is 110 water betwee r base andenremit, Iatlhereeoend of6h 41pj8� spiral, w111011 is external, and yet seen �d.r, to bo wearing heart and lunge out of yon ? The switchbacks cease and then 1 a t1e a straight, etoop ascent, and you are on the edge of a small stream, mopping your brow and drinking as if you could ex- haust the fountain, I had only forty pounds on my beck, but scores have olunbed the summit with 100 and 160 pounds, and then had courage enough left to go on with their loads over 140 , miles which still lay between them and Teeth', Beyond this enmmit, just such another scene is before yon, looking North from Telegraph mmf su t. It ie on ala• larger g scale. A broad valley running for fifty miles, in which are embosomed a score of beautiful lakes and innumerable rivers an smaller streams, d all swarmingwith fish. The largest iver is the oty. douly (phonetic). It is a beautiful stream, seen from the mountainside which skirts it on the North, along which the trail rheas until the beautiful river, with its broad valley and many lakes, lies like a picture beneath your eyes. 1 withhold my judgment as to the valve of this great and beautiful valley for grazing purposes until I know what the Winter is like as to severity end snowfall. Bub if the temperature is moderato and the snowfall not great, I think all the cattle needed to supply the mining population of this country might be raised and fed here. Here and there, as I journey on, I sec a tent, or a group of them, by the roadside, and at seven o'oloolc I take off my pack and camp with the son of au English Congregational minister and his companion, an old rancher from Texas, „Abel, The next morning I awake to learn that the Jupiter Pluvius is on the throne. But I thought that duty demauded that I should press on. I ane wiser now. All day Friday, with one stop between 0 a. m. and 8 p. m., I trudge on through mod and mire. The ramp is of the pereisteub kind, which gives you no hope for au hour's stop. You know it will keep on longer than you can. That night I left the trail, walked right up over a bluff, where I saw a small "A" tent with a great fire burning in front of it. I said, May I boil some water on your fire ?" The owners said "Certainly." I believe I did not say ten words, until I had a cup of cocoa made and had "got o0 the outside" of two or three slices of bread and two of cold fried ham. Then I found that two of my companions were from Winnipeg and the third from New Jersey. I got a corner for the night iu the tent of a Brandon mail not far away, and, lying beside two Winnipeg way. fames like myself, I was lulled to sleep by the musical mosquito. One result of my day's march was that my boots col- lapsed, and they were my 0n1y 0n0s, Next morniug I found that when I lifted my foot the heel dropped away from the upper a couple of inches. A. Minnesota outfit gave me a pair of heavy rubber packs when I told them of my predict!, ment. 31 was afraid to put them on, for they weighed about six pounds. I put them in my pack and slopped along in my dilapidated boots for ten miles, when I reached the camp of john Brooke, of Brandon. I took dinner, tools off my boots, put on the packs, hung the old boots on a tree, with the hobnails out, and took a photograph of them and the camp. It was no joke. I was 120 miles from Teelin. I had only the heavy rub. ber shoes, and the outside of my feet be. low the ankle.joint was skinned, I got to the Tahltin river early Saturday afternoon, fell in with the Cochran outfit from Kingston, New Bruns- wick, and was invited to stay with them, Sunday it rained. Monday it rained. On Tuesday I started for Long Lake, twenty miles North, where more than sixty men were camped, building boats with which to descend the river to Teslio. I found there a large number of our own people, James Hogg, from Piaton, U. S., Howard Fraser, Harvey Torey, from Trenton, N. S., McAdam, from Los Angeles, bat of Id of Lancaster, and half•a•dozen, the urgle in whose throats proclaimed them etyma of the "Land of brown heath and 'leggy wood." There I spent eight days, eld live regular services, and had a 'sing" every night until 10.00 or 11 'clock. Then the "Colonel" from his unk would say "Give us Old Hundred, arson." Then from fifty throats would ell out "All people that on earth do well," closing with the Doxology, and a eilentTy stole away to our tante and leap. No one can measure the value of work ke this, by whomsoever done. The expel message parries to the end of the arth. It is not often that men coma to he minister on Sunday morning and say Can't we have a prayer•meeting this afternoon?'' But on Sunday, 24611 Jaly, t Long Lalco there was held an ideal rayer•meeting. No long address by the inister, no crowding into back seats, no ng waiting as if the people were afraid speak to the Father. But quiet rayer and witness bearing for a full our, without the necessity of putting in hymn to fill an awkward pause, 01 give hs people in the back seats an manor. nity to owns forward. To n1e there aa always seemed an element of profen- y in these uses of a hymn. I laid that e Gospel preached hem would emery to e ends of the earth. Here are address- whioli I copied from a blare on one ee, twelve miles from Teelin. Pfotou, . S. Vancouver, St. Paul, Neenah, ie„ Los Angeles, Victoria, San Fran. see, Manchester, N. 1L, Denver, redericton, N. B.,Auebralia, Cheboygan, iota, Minneapolis, New York, Sty John, B. Aud the Gospel Celle, There is thinglto distract, and men are conscious, I have seen them only on the North lore and here, of soul•lunger, and are ,ing aftor God. The distresses of the ail, and the long hours of thought give tali to longings whioh have striven for pression until now. Or convoutional nver81one I have seen noun here, but of sire for God, and bettor things, I have ver seen more. Men with tears in Bir oyes listening to an old message is t ewrnmon with you, ht is bore, Not s. If 8- ur arm, __.., _.___,_t_..._ bemuse the minister fa eloquent, but be. cause the adventitions is Ionising and be talks direotly to men whose hearts have come to realize their need and are eenem• rim to the totirh cif truth, ('I'' be continued next wadi.) „ Conn unit f Aletdeon will be tendered a farewell soelal by Me Otfawe Connell of Women. David Maxwell, en, the well.known implement manufacturer of the firm of David Maxwell ,C Sons, died et St, Mary's. 0 g n a la 0 b P 1 w a li G a r m to h t lin it th th OS 6r W om F N' no as Si of tr bf ex co de ne th uo AMU NN �SR� N S W EXDVR IDMS) Sept. 29, 30 & Oct. 1. Toronto to Port Huron or Detroit, Mich., and return $ 4 00 Cleveland, Ohio 0 60 Saginaw or Bay City, Mioh 7 00 Grand Rapids, Mioh 8 00 Chicago, 111., or Cincinnati, Ohio10 00 Paul SG. l l o • 1 Minneapolis, n ones ol's Minn. es return all rail, via Chicago ., 33 00 Or bake to Sault Ste, Marie, thence rail' 84 50 Good going Sept, Mb, 10111 and 001. let, 1898, valid to return from deetinatlen on or before mon day, Gat, 17t9,1008. !rickets, Pullman berths and all Informa- tion from • J, N. KENDALL, Ageu6, Bhltssele. GEO. HEYD, " Ethel, EVERY GOOD THING Ousts an effort and reading my ads ie the price you pay for the Purch• aging advantage you possess over your less enlightened neighbors. NO GUFF GOES WiTH US. Honest trading needs no taffy. I do nob talk ouetomere into buying, I do not leave to, the goods talk and 008tomer8 take the geode on their own sound ludg• meet. All Summer Goods At and Below Cost. Meet 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. SEPT, 28. 1898 Our flock as a whole has Never been in such a wonderfully forward con - clition at:such an early season of the year ---We mean, of course, as regards Fail Goods, A simple enumeration of receipts include the following :— NYY.wi..1N W....1. Off•Xq. . f 9 I H fa le, 4$t 14=10101f. NOW 7°An "Chic" Gowns are easily Modeleddated from Priestly s Black Wool Figured Fabrics because the firmness of the texture and exquisite weave yield ideal draping qualities. Combined with this is the originality of the designs F: in Black wool Figures—in Matalasse effects, Armures, 4 - Pebble Cloths and coot Canvass Cloths, For the street, for calling or for the (rause, Fashion dictates from across the water as eminently cor- rect this season "Priestley" stamped 1e on the selvedge. Sold by Lending Dry Goods Houses everywhere, Pries tley's Bleck Wool Figured Fi,hrres la PRIESTLEY'S DRESS GOODS, —Priestley's —Priestley's —Priestley's Flan7Zels, Boots (We are Sole Agents in Brussels.) Silk and Wool Endora Cloth, —Priestley's Serges, Plenriettas and Cashmeres, —Priestley's Solid Cloth, Wool Figured, —Priestley's Royalette. A FULL LINE OFA^ms's Flannelettes, Cottons, Shirtings, Towels, Toweling, Table &Li72ens, Gloves, Hosiery and Corsets. Sheets We have received our Fall Iines in Boots, Shoes and Rubbers. All sizes for Men, Women and Children. Highest Price for Produce. Smit linery :h cLarenu The undersigned has leased the store in the Stratton Block, formerly occupied by time Standard Bank, and has opened a choice stock of the Latest and most Fashionable Millinery. Formal Opening Announcement will be made later. A call solicited. 0 O SSS MANTLE SAKI! C In addition to Millinery a Dress and Mantle Making Depart- ment will be carried on in connection with the same premises. Latest Fashion and Satisfaction Guaranteed. The Iadies of Brussels and locality are respectfully invited to give ns a share of their patronage. Misses Stretton Block, ®sail Brussels. GREAT Au OF •,hy+ �1 m IM At Cost for 30 Days at the WR ETER OOLEN ILLS Leaving an overstock of Wool and Woolen Goode on hand I have decided to offer for Sale at Cost for 30 Daya my entire stook of Roods, oomprieing Tweeds, Worsteds, Serges, Fine Soitings, Pantinge, Blankets, Flannels, Shirtings, Underolothing, Yarns, eto. The above will be sold al actual Coat of Manufacturing es I em bound to reduce my stock. Here area few sample eases of roduotione :- 131a01f8ts that were 03 75 now $8 00 Shirting that was 35a now 280, Flannels " 86 " 28 Tweede " GOe " 450. And all other goods will be toduoed accordingly. 0_ TERMS STRICTLY OASH, Or Wool, Rides and Skins at Current Prices. �jSale Commenced Tuesday, Sept. 20. T MoKEL v7T't . PBOPET (TOB, . ' • WROX.I' T]i11 . GENUINE CLEANNG SALE OF Q Q D For Ninety Days. v Come and test the truth of the above statement. STAPLE DEPARTMENT. Best Indigo Prints, full width, regular 12ic for D,lAo ; best Eng- lish Prints, in Light grounds, regular 10c for 7e; Heaviest Cotton- ade made, regular 28o for 22c ; best Indigo Shirting, regular 12ic for 10c ; 'Union Table Linen fine finish, regular 80e for 22io ; 18 inch Pure Linen Towelling, regular 12ic for 8ie, DRESS GOODS. We are selling many lines in a great variety of designs and colors at half their real value. RIBBONS In all colors, quarter off in silk and satin. 100 MEN'SSUITS SUITS Regular $17.00 for $4.50, Men's Linen 8 for 2�Collars,r Sills Ties, assorted colors, 2 for 25e. rc. Pure Cotte with the Crowds to The Corner ��11t m 5 Store,