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Instructions to chnugo or 1isoontinno an advertisement must bo loft at the °minting room of TIM PosT not later than Tuesday Of each week. Th15 15 imperative. j1BY'w11, Editor and Proprietor. "A MAN'S A MAN FOR A' THAT." lir. Campbell, of Seaforth, Gives the History of Borns' Song of True Boo. hood and Pays a Tribute t0 the Ory or the Great seotlish root. We have been requested by a large number of the Sons of Scotland to publish the address given by Dr. Campbell, of Seaforth, author of "The Land of Burne," at the concert in Woodstock, on the 24th ult., from the Chair. It will he road with interest by our Scotch readers: Ladies and Gentlemen,—I was request- ed by my brethren of the Sons of Soot - lend to preside on this occasion ; and though I have not appeared at any public gathering for nearly a year, I could not resist the temptation to aid in the cele- bration of the 185th anniversary of the birth of my favorite poet. A friend of mine in town said lately that he would be ashamed to meet Shakespeare in the next world because he knew so little of his writings. I said that I would not be ashamed to meet Robert Burns at any rate, for I had made his works a life lithely and kept the name of the great Scottish poet almost constantly before the minds of the people among whom my lot was cast. I have always claimed that the writings of Burns made for good. He has instilled into the minds of his country- men a love of liberty, an affection for their country, a sturdy independence, a sterling honesty, which makes Scotch. men not only revere the old land, but constitutes them the bulwark of human freedom, the unswerving advocates of the rights of mac, wherever they have made their homes. It is mainly owing to writings of Burne that Scotland can pees the grand stand with gallant stride and waving plumes and proudly answer to her name nt the general roll call of the nations, In his poem "A Alan's a Mao for a' That," Burns has given the world the grandest declaration of independence that ever emanated from the brain of man. This poem made tyrants tremble in the capitula. Many years ago, when des- potism had its home on the European continent, it was declared illegal in several countries to either publish or oir- nulate that immortal poem. What a high compliment to Robert Burns 1 He declared that :— The honest Mau, the' e'er emir poor, Is Bing o' mon for a' that. The tyrants of Europe declared that titles, rank and blood made the man. Tbe tyrants and their tyranny have pas. sed away, and "A Man's a man for a That," has become the universal anthem of mankind. It may interest you to know the eircumataucee under which that re. markable poem was composed. I will give you the story, and would say in the language of Sir Walter Scott I cannot ten how the truth maybe I say the tale as 'twos said to me. Burns was invited by acertain Scotch nobleman to a grand banquet. He went, but instead of being shown into the hall where the gentry were dining, he was sent into the kitchen to have his repast with the servents. The poet, as any man of genius would do, resented the slight. He knew, however, that they would send for him later on—as the Philistines sent for Sampson of old to make them sport --and he prescribed the medicine their disease required. When the amuse- ment was getting somewhat tame they remembered that Burns was in the kit• Oben. He was sent for and requested to recite a poem of his own composition. He rose and gave "A Man's a Mian for a' That," and when he reached the third verse he pointed to his lordship and said :— Ye son you birkio ea'd a lord 1,1, ha' struts and stares and a' that; Tho' hundreds worship at his word, He's but a goof for a' that, For a' that and N that, His ribbou star and a' that, The man of independent mind llo looks and laughs at a' that, And then in the last verse, like the seers and prophets of old,wbo foretold that period of millennial glory, when the nattone should beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into prun- ing books and learn the art of war no more—Burne gazed through the vista of the future and saw the mists and clouds of tyranny and oppression clearing away— the mountain peaks of human freedom shining bright and beautiful in the ever. lasting sun of universe' brotherhood. Yes 1 he saw all that, and he sent the im• mortal sentiment ringing down through the corridors of time :— Then Iet us pray that anme it may As own o it will for a' that, That sense and worth e'er a' the earth, May bear the gree ,tad a' that. For a' that and a' that It's coining yet for a' that That man's to man the world o'er, Shall brithers be for a' that. At the conclusion of this recitation Burns bade his audience farewell and left the lordly mansion. The greatest man of the eighteenth century was in their midst and they knew it not. He alone of all that assembled had the title of bis nobility from the Great Author of his existence. It has been gold that he who mattes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, ie a benefactor of his rage, Borne bas made a thousand joys spring up in the field of pceay, where only one existed before he entered it, His songs are sung the world over, and his poems are the delight of ail nations. P,speoially dear are both songs and poems to the weary -footed, home siolt Soot in a foreign land, "Auld laug Syne," "Afton 'Water," "John Anderson my Joe," "Highland Mary," "Bonnie Joan," "Bonnie eon," and kindred songs are dear to him as the apple of hie eye, pure as the flow of the morning and sweet as the breather spring. Yes 1 and they will continue to be so while the human bosom swells at the thoughts of fatherland ; the sympathetic ohord vibrates that links man to the worm below and the angel above Min—while lade and lasses love one another—while flows the bonnie Doan, or grows the gow- an on the brae, the heather on the moor, and the Birks of Aborfeldie. Let the memory of Robert Burns be honored the wide world over, Let hie name be loved soul revered while the sun and moon endure. Let hie follies with tearful eye bo hid in the darkness of night, and his sins be buried in a grave as silent and unknown as the one on Nebo's lonely mountain. But let his virtues, bisgenius his patriotism be held in everlasting re• membranoe--his sweet lyrics sung while birds make melody by the banks of the Doon, the Ayr or the Firth. Let us thank the great Architect of the nniverse for the man who has contributed so much to the lasting pleasures of hum• anity that has inspired so much hops in the bosom of despair, and exalted honest toil in the floe of the haughty idlers and the aristooratin drones of society, Mourn over the fates that decreed ih i miseries of bis brief and checkered career. Stormy, indeed, was tbo sea on which he had to sail his trembling bark from first to last, but let us hope that when, with riven sails and broken spars and shattered beam, be dropped anchor at last along the silent, sternness shores of the vast ocean of eternity, his great, sad, heroic soul was arcorded some quiet nook in the brightsummer•land of song. IN THE SUNNY SOUTH, 0. H. Sanders, editor of the Exeter Ad. vooate, about a month ago was favored with an invitation to join a party of edi- tors from the Northern and Western States, going to explore the great South land. The party were the guests of the Railway Company known as the Queen and Crescent Route. The party consist- ed of a number of editors from different parts of the North and West States, as well as two from Ontario, George Wrig- ley, of the Canadian Farmers San, Lon- don, and the writer. Mr. Sando,s gives the following account of hie trip :— The invitation was accepted on the condition stated in the invitation, viz. : that I was bound to nothing. That if I so wished I could tell my honest opinion about the country—no matter what that opinion might be. Let it be understood, therefore, that the party was not bought to blow up the country. I do not pro- pose to do it myself, but to tell a plain unvarnished tale. As to the railway. The Q. & 0. poo• pie are certainly magnifioent entertainers. We had every comfort, every attention and every facility that travellers could have. The Q. ak 0. runs from Cincinnati to New Orleans, also a branch from Mer- idian to Shreveport. It is run with the same punctuality, Dare and speed as any of the Northern roads. It is quite -a strange experience for en Ontario person, leaving hie province be• fore winter well ends and going rapidly south as far as New Orleans. You pass from winter to midsummer in a few days. Down in Kentucky it was nicely advanc- ed spring ; Tennessee it was early sum- mer ; Mississippi and Louisiana it was midsummer. Luxuriant foliage, blooming flowers, ripening fruit, growing crops, long grass and heat equal to our July. Far South the older cities are all liter- ally strewn with trees that are now in their best foliage, You get to realize what a vast country the United States is. You can readily imagine the blizzardy Dakota of the last of March and here in ten days you stand in the perpetual summer of Louisiana. I left Exeter April erd and Cincinnati on the evening of the 4011. Next day we stopped at Glen Mary, Tenn., and from there we were driven to Allardb, a email hamlet situated on the famous Cumber- land plateau, which is a large square area of hand about 127,000 acres, at a high ele- vation, and containing coal and other valuable minerals. It is really a moun- tain of several hundred feet in height, with a olimate and pure water that can- not be surpassed in any country. Also some of the grandest scenery that eyes were ever fixed upon. Whilehere,Ieame across some Onbnrio people, S. Lake, formerly of Parkhill, now postmaster at Allardb, and a Mr. Adams, formerly of McGillivray. They seem greatly pleased at their situation and appear to be doing well. While on oar way to Allardt my attention was repeatedly attracted by the popping ons of something similiar to 0 Jack rabbit. On inquiry I was informed that they were pigs owned by the natives and called razor book hogs. I bhought they were well deserving of the name, It appears rho natives turn them out when young and make them root for a living. Some of thein are very swift on foot, while others are so thin that they have to lean against a tree to grunt, From here to Chattanooga, Tenn., ie grand scenery, rolling and hilly lands, mountains on either side of the railway, passing over many large bridges and long atretuhee of trestle work and through numerous tunnels (21.) Chattanooga is an old town where at leant one famous battle was fought due• ing the civil war. It contains many beautiful and interesting eights and many niggers. On Sunday the got to Delhi, lilies., and drove around the adjacent country on Monday. Wo drove 10 miles South through a beautiful country, well rim• bared, luxuriant graes, ehrube, etc. Here 'we had the pleasure of meeting some more Ontario people, Smith Brothers and families, formerly of Mobiillivray, who had recently moved to that location. They have a large farm, I think about 520 acres, and appear delighted with their changes. S. Londesborough, also of Mc- Gillivray, was there looking for land and I understood that he was so well pleased that he purohaeed something over 500 sores at once. While driving back to Delhi a rain storm came up and fairly deluged the country. It is somobimes quite moist den .in Mieplssippi, Xn feat the land Spath stems always wet. In ordiparytimes they plow a deep furrow and it will till with water and there re. main till it evaporates, We had apielx. did povored rigs to ride in—just as Rood as we have here in Ontario—therefore we °soaped a drenching, At Monroe we visited a large establish• Ment where they manufacture ootton oil or in other words oottolene, gem wo are right in n.sotten country, ']Next to Vicksburg. This is It very large and handsome town. Their Deme. tory, the Ratloaal, is a thing of beauty, The beauty of the grass, flowers, plants, shrubs, tiers, drivse cannot be told in words, Vegitation is Fie maple ranker and varied down there that an Ontario parson can hardly imagine it. Ile cannot tell ib. They have beautiful public buildings, parks, eoboole, ohurehes, blocks, and it is a live progressive town. A vast deal of cotton is bandied Isere. Hero the party was entertained royal- ly for a dlty with drives, dinners, speech- es and eights, by the Young Men's Bug. nem Longue and the Board of Trade. Ws aleo visited Meridian, Moes,, and were entertained profusely. Then to New Orleans. A large, weal- thy, (furious city. Here oranges, bananas figs and all southern fruits could be seen in abundance in all stages of growth. New Orleans has a groat deal of the old Spanish element, here negroes are in the vast majority. They do the work aucl the loafing both. New Orleans is about hob enough to be the real ideal home of the lazy, thoughtless, good nat- ured, unambitious negro. Every South- ern town or city has one peculiarity. Right in the central, business portion of town live the whites who rho all the bus'- nese. Surrounding this central white point on all sides, live the negro, who do the work. Yon see about six niggers to one white person all over Mississippi and Louisiana. They aro ideal servants if not over•worlt- ed. In hotels every servant is black— and guests are always sure of the beet treatment in tbeir hands. The African bred instincts of the race still stiok to the negro. He has no am- bition beyond providing one meal ahead, and probably never will. His Lace and his ancestry have been too much for him. The negro for many generations to 00me will not become a hustler, They fall in- to the sphere, they now occupy in the South very naturally. They are hgwere of wood and °drawers of water for jthe aristoorats, the writes, and the majority of them are genial, kind and even blithe. some. If their lot is not enviable, yet withal, they probably enjoy life more than we do. They enjoy the supreme content that ever goes with lack of am- bition. The Southern white is quite a study too. Lazy, hot-tempered, passionately generous, arrogant (to the blacks) they partake of the apathy borne ofiall South- ern warm climes. The Southern white will not do mach work. He was born that way. And there is really very little neceesity for manual work, con- sidering the emcees of blacke who will do nothing else. The white is master, the black the slave, just as much practically today as before the emancipation. The white does the thinking and the business for the black and lives on the profit. The black does the work. The races are as distinct as in slavery days. They don't go to the same churches, the same thea- tres (or the same parts of it) and they cannot ride in the same railway car- riages, The law compels different tom• partments. The white although in a great minority makes the laws. The Southern white has never acknowledged the black as his equal, and never will. A man with a business or money can have a royal life in the South, because he can get cheap and goad service from the blanks and there are many chances of making business or money in the South, by men of the right stamp. If the clim- ate would allow some of our Ontario hustlers to give the same prolonged ener• gy to business and speculation dos'n South that they display here, fortune would await them. If their energy would debridrste with! climatic change, then in a short time, they would simply be South- ern whites, nothing more. Money in• veered would apparently give large inter. est. Laud can be bought in many places in the Southern States at 44 to $10 an acre. It is leased to negroes at 48 per acre per year. I cannot account for the low prioe and large rental, but that ie the universal tale that is told you. There are immense tracts of apparently fine land for sale. It grows grass in pr'ofu• sion. It should be cheap and good graz• ing land. Cotton is the staple of the far South and corn of the upper South. Market gardeners near cities apparent- ly do remarkably well. There mush be many opportunitiee for manufacturing concerns. Such concerns are mostly run by Northern people and capital. I was surprised at the vast quantity of magniffcaob timber. Some. day to be valuable property, whether there would bo millions in developing it now, I do not know, but its value must always inorease as the timber supply on the continent les- see. Altogether I was pleased and often sur- prised during the trip. It was very en- joyable. It was novel, entertaining and educating. When people get too thick in North climes and must move, they will Lill that south country yet. And there is plenty of room for white people, with youth, good constitutions, energy, brains learning and money. We arrived home after two weeks most pleasantly spent, sound and well, to find Spring blooming in Ontario, MODERN PROVERBS. Character is oapital. Real faith is fire -proof. Sins never travel alone. Small evils hatch gaisk. God employe no hired help. A half-truth is a whole lie. dations are ideas in motion. Every man is some boy's hero. Small eine cause great sorrows. An oath ie a prayer to the devil. Little bibles are read the most. Darkness is the star's best friend. There aro no turn•tablea In eternity. Every lie has a truth on its track. The eye of faith can see in the dark. Bad babite are thistles in the heart. If men had to be judged by one another nobody would reach heaven. Some ministers spoil the bread of life with batter of their own make. The diamond bas more sparkle but win- dow glass doss the most good. A gook stove in the basement seldom gives spiritual warmth to a ohutch. Or La Grippe, though occasionally epi•' demi°, is always more or lase prevalent. The hest remedy for this complaint is Ayer's Cherry Pectoral. "J,itst Spring, I was taken down with La Grippe. At times 1 was oompletolypros- Crated, and so difficult was my breathing that my breast seemed as 1f confined in an iron sage, I procured a bottle of Ayer's Cherry Pectoral, and no sooner had I began taking it than relief followed.. I could nothe llev0 that the effect would be so rapid and the cure so complete. It is truly a wonderful mod. icino!' y9. Ii. WILLIAMS, Crook 01ty, S. D. Cherry Peet o °a PrrompttOact, sure tocure 1894— FLAX -1894 CAMERON BltOS, Have a limited number of bushels of the IIEST DUTCH STEED — For Farmers is the vicinity of Craubrook who intend raising Flax during the coming easou,wbich they are prepared to deliver n quantities to suit fax growers. Gan be got at no OnANmhonx FLAx HILL. Seed given out on the usual terms. Order Early and ensure a supply. For flax grown from this seed 41111 per Ton will be paid, If of good growth, harvested in proper Beason, and delivered at the Flax Hill as soon as fit for threshing. We will rout a number of good sod fields for the purpose of grewiug flax, CAMERON BR08„ Proprietors Craitbroolc Flax 31111. 0 -rand Trunk m rt I" 9 llfl®i I t°(1� Ire t —THE— Great Tourist Route —T0 TILE — Pacific Coast Via the St. Clair Tunnel. Pullman Tourist Sleeping Cara every .FRIDAY. For the Pacific Coast without Change. Full information onapplication to J. N ICiNPl.LJ, G. T. R. Agent, Brussels. 11017EY TO LOAN Any Amount of Money to Loan on Farm or Village Pro- perty at 6 & 61 Per Cent., Yearly. Straight Loans with privilege of repaying when required. Apply to A. Hunter, Division Court Clerk, Brussels. ARE YOU GOING TO 'sial Tow liouse OR DO ANY Papering this Spring'' If so, now' is the timo'to consult us. The LARGEST, CHEAPEST and BEST as- sorted stock in the County, to hand comprising the following t- 8II?GE c? SONS CELEBRATED PROCESS, GILTS BRONZES, SINTILARE, AND IN- GRAINS, with gorgeous froisos and ceil- ings to snatch. Also the Handsomest stook of window shades ever shown in the County. Nothing but the purest Leads and Oils thab can bo found m rho market need in all our work. Farmers and others hav- ing old rigs to paint Done and sec us at once. Satisfaction guaranteed. RODD1CK GE WAKE, House, Sign, Carriage and Decorative Painters. P. S,—Thanking•all old eustomore for their favors during the past twenty years I have been in business I solicit a non, tinuanco of the same anti the patronage of the people generally for the new firm. W. RODDIC.T*` Po1 oo1itoro. Fine Stook of New IENess °Wag ons, Carts and Croquet Sets JusrT `TO I—IA..1,TID• —SPECIAL DRIVES IN— WRITING PADS, LEAD PENCILS, - PHOTO ALBUMS, Good Values in Brush and Comb Cases in Plush and Cloth, Work Boxes in Plush and Cloth, Shaving Sets, Travelling Companions, Fancy Ink Stands, &c. Suitable for Presents. School Supplies_ Always in Stock. Post Bookstore. THEWHOLE READs FAMA ., THE POST. o77,t3�Co Father Mother Grandfather Grandmother Childr'en And All. They read the Locals, the Stories, the Advertisements—every line in the paper. Then they send it to distant relatives interested in the town, as numerous .post- masters will certify. The Local Weekly is the best -read publication in existence. It has the home news which no other paper gives. Advertisers take notice—THE POST is read by several thousands of people every week. An Advertisement in this paper is, therefore, of some account. Subscribe for THE POST. .Advertise. in THE POST. EMU'S=. 41� FURNITURE DEALER, Is Showing in his New Premises, ,Opposite An.lerioart oast, A Fell Stook of FOB All Kinds of Parlor, Dinhig Room, Bed B,00ln or Ititcheil. :Picture T+r°ctininj attended to on short notice. Undertaking Department, A Full Supply of Funeral Requisites Al ways in Stock, Special Attention given to Repairing. ,.A CALL SOLI'C1TED. D. G. HOGG, Brussels.