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The Brussels Post, 1894-8-10, Page 6BRUSSELS POST gip 1 hes is got •-wla'PP11I+ 01111D••—• EVERY FRIDAY MORNING Iia time for the early mails) at taTho N:'ost" SLQnln nibljslling 001180s Tultxnllnsz ST., 13ouseeIs, ON's'. TnaNS Or! Sv0sen7P'1oox.—One dollar and a half a yyear, is advance. The date bowhiob ever candle ja:WWon ieluaid is denoted by the AnTS A'rellte ILAT118.—The foilowibl rates bo charged to those who advor iso by the year:-- asAoe. I 1 51b7 -0 -ono, a me Ono Column BOOM . $a5.00 120.00 25.00 29.00 12.00 Quarter " 20.00 1200 2.00 I.i l}by " 1200 200 5.00 'Dight cants nor line for first insertion, and three Oents per lino for each subsequent in- sertion. All advertisements measured as Nonpareil—L lines to the moll. Business Carus, eight lines and under, £rs nor annum, Advertisements without s ac, iflo (Urea.o. tions, ill be inserted until forbid, and charged aoocrtlingly. iustruetions to change or eisoontinue au advertisement must be left at the counting room e'en t Pose.' not later than Tuesday of each week. This is imperative. NV. YS. $-Klima ., Editor and Proprietor. ORIENTAL SCENES, On Friday, March Bud, we started out about nine in the morning and rode over the level plains of Jericho, and then through very bad mud for about two hours before Doming to the Dead Sea. From the hotel the sea does not look more than two mites off, het it is really seven. There is very little vegetation on the way as the soil is impregnated with salt. A bath in the sea was very enjoy- able. Though a little difffouJt to swim in, it is impossible for one to sink, and there is none of the unpleasantsensatione after the bath that we road so much about. After this we rode to the ford of the Jordan. At the poiut where we stop- ped the Jordan ie not more than sixty feet wide, and the waters run very swift. It was, moreover, very muddy. The banks are lined with bushes and small trees. Coming bask we saw the site of ancient Gilgal, and after a pleasant ride of an hour and a half, returned to the hotel. The following day we lea Jericho for Jerusalem, and rode up the road in what was in some planes almost a hurricane. It was a wonder some of us were not blown off oar horses. The road all the way is up -hill, and one does not realize bow far below Jerusalem the Dead Sea is till he is coming back. We had lunch in a but at the Apostles' Fountain. The place was not of the cleanest, but it was the best we could get. From there we encountered frequent showers of very cold. rain, which was anything but agreeable, arriving about three o'clook, just in time to escope a tremendous shower of hail and rain. We spent the rest of the day in "doing the stores," but did not buy very much. The following day was so stormy that we decided not to start for Jaffa until the Monday following. We left on board the French boat Garonne, about 5 p. March 5th. The sea was very smooth and we had a nice passage. We arrived at Beyrout about half -past six the follow- ing morning, and landed, starting in car- riages for Shtora. For about live hours we were ascending the Lebanon moun- tains, from which we had aeplendid view of the city of Beyrout, built on very red soil, and of the very blue waters of the Mediterranean, which lay like a mirror in the distance. The road goes winding among very rough hills, all of which were terraced from top to bottom, to prevent the little soil there is from being washed away. There was the usual number of boulders covering the. hillsides. About four hours after leaving Beyrout we got into the snow on the top of the moun- tains and were in it for about two hours. There had been a heavy fall and in some planes where drifts had been shovelled out, the banks were fully twelve feet deep ; betas a usual thing it was not more than two feet deep. The greatest height we reached was about 5,000 feet. We arrived at Shtora, which is in an op• parently fertile valley, about six o'clock, having been seven hours on the road. We left Shtora on Wednesday, March 7th, at half-past-seven,for Baalbec. The road ie only fairly good, and rune along the valley between the Lebanon and the Anti•Lebanon Mountains. The soil seems to be very fertile and well tilted. The number of streams running down the little valleys was remarkable, and the water was beautifully clear. There was snow on the mountains down to the level of the valley, but there was no snow on the road. The effect of ,the sur on the dazzling snow was very beautiful. We passed a number of villages which are composed of buildings much better than those we have seen elsewhere. The in- habitants are almost all very good•look- iog, some of the women and men being almost handsome, with their sharp, alas - sin features. The children, too, were very pretty end as cute as they could be. The women were all dressed in bright colors, a goad many of them wearing brilliant yellow dresses. We reached Baalbec about 12:80, and after lunch started for the temple. The biggest part of the old temple is in reins but even in that state it is very impress- ive, tho' lacking the grandeur of Karnalk and other Egyptian temples. The temple proper has been built in two stages,—the first erected by the Phos• nioiane, &imposed of very large stones, and then above it the superetruoture' built by the Romans. There is a great deal of very fine varying here, and the oolumne are all Corinthians with highly ornamented capitols. Thera were form• erly a great many of these columna but now very few are standing. Most of them are about 60 feet high, and with the ex- ception of one, which is composed of two pieces, all oonsist of three, built of stone held together by iron stays. Moet of the columns are about seven and a half feet in diameter. Some of the doorways are very highly ornamented both on the sides and the tope. When in its entirety the temple must have been very beautiful l bat now only the remnants of its former greatness are visible. Some of the stones need by the Phosnicians are very large. There is a row of nine about forty feet ; long by twelve feet square, but these aro. ' Pedestrian tours are proper among the small compared with three in the wall l young men of New England. nineteen feet from the ground, sixty-two to live feet long respoutiveiy and sack fourteen feet square. Dwell of bheee is 0010 as large as two freight oars but they again are nolipsed by 000 in the quarries which is not separated from the reek. This stone is about seventy -ono feet long and fourteen feet square. A t small temple called the Temple of Venus is au octagonal building highly ornament, ed, and is very beautiful, There le ass an old mosque now named, built to great extent from materials taken from the great temple. The following morning, March 83h, we spent in wandering through the plum), and went to the source of the wetors tba run through the town. The water. was delightfully clear and .very beautiful Wa left Baalbec at 12 o'clock and arrived at Shtora at five. We were greatly pleased with the people, who are very pretty and apparently not looking for bwoksheeeb. We lett Shiers at seven in the morning for Damascus, The road for about tw hours aecondo gradually up the moon tains. There is nothing partioular abou the conntr till a loo rook gorge 1 Y g Y reached, where recite of the wildest dos oriptlon tower above and on both sides o the road. . Coming into Damasons the road follows the course of the river Abs na, which also flows through part of th city. All along this river the banks ar lined with trees and everything look fertile. The road all the way is. of the best deseriiption, quite equal to, if no better than, English roads. We were it the bazaars a little while, as we arrived at 2 p. m„ but we did not see enough of then to say much about diem. Th drive from Sbtora is said to be seven hours, but we did it in lees. Saturday, March 10113, we spent in the bazaars. These are muob more erten sive than those in Cairo and, as a rule are far better built as well as having wider streets. The narrowest street on which the bazaars are, is perhaps twelve feet wide while a good anauy of them are fully forty. When we were in the bazaars on Fri- day afternoon they were so crowded that it was very difficult to get along. The people are altogether different from those in Cairo and far more oriental in their appearance. It is very seldom that one sees a native in "frank" dress. They are very fanatical and impulsive. The women seemed to be very partial to an outer garment made of yellow and blue striped cloth which they foldaround them in the manner of a wrap. All the Mos• sem women wear a veil of muslin that completely covers the face, and through whiob not even their features canoe seen. The goods in the bazaars are for the most part European, and therefore not very interesting when seen here, however nice they might seem in Europe. We were greatly disappointed in the number of places that kept silk goods. There are only five places where embroideries and the like can be obtained, but the stuff they show is very nice, though no doubt, to a large extent, of European manufac- ture. The store -keepers have no idea of showing goods the, way they have in Cairo. It seems to be a great source of amusement to the natives to see "franks" buying anything ; for whenever we stop- ped to look at anything, a crowd would speedily gather around us in the most curious fashion. We went to see the great Mosque but did not go inside—in fact there is nothing to be seen there sines the fire of last autumn. Only the walls and two of the minarets are stand- ing now. For the first time we have naught glimpses of the Eastern dog. These animals lie around the streets by the snore all the day in the sun, never mov• ing except they are absolutely compelled to, and spending the nights in exercising their lungs to the fullest extent. So far we have only seen one building that gives the idea of eolidity, and that is the castle or citadel, which is a massive stone build- ing. The river called Albans in the Bible flows past the front of the hotel, and then goes underground through the rest of the city. The following afternoon we drove over the badly paved streets to the starting place of the pilgrisee for Mecca, then bank through alley ways where i,Paul was let down in a basket (7), thence to the house of Ananias, which consists of no- thing but a few orumbled•down walla, and thence to the site of the house of Neaman the Syrian. We visited a num- ber of the finest houses in the city, and although they have fine courts and high ceilings, they must be very cheerless. In one of the houses there was some very fine marble work. From ane of the hills we got a magni- ficent view of Damasoas which looked very white and clean, surrounded on all sides by the most verdant valley, render- ed more green and beautiful in contrast with the bare mountains. We returned to Shtora about 5 p. m. the following day, and left for Beyrout, the view coming down the mountain be= ing inexpressibly charming. We spent the following morning making purchases. Beyrout is the nicest town we have Been in the East, with the exception of Cairo. It ie beautifully situated on a point run- ning out into the sea and is surrounded on the land side by mountains, some of which are the snow-oapped mountains of Lebanon. We went on board the Rus- sian boot Odessa about 6 o'olook, on a six days' trip to Athens. After dinner we had a lovely evening. There was a beau. tiful sunset which tinged the enow•cap- ped mountains with color. The lamps which dotted the town at intervals, with the brilliant moon overhead almost as bright as day,, was especially lovely and made us sorry to leave so enchanting a spectacle. Wo arrived at Tripoli early iu the morning of March lith, in an unearthly din, three large steam winches all going at once, hoisting oranges from the small bottle. The sea was as calm as a mill pond and we spent a lovely evening on deck. The following morning we passed Cyprus, but did not land, Then we sail. ed through the Greek Archipelago, ar- riving at Smyrna about 2 o'elook in the afternoon of Sunday, March 18th. Smyr- na is situated at the Head of a lovely bay, and looped very pretty as we approached ; but its beauty vanished as soon as we landed, the town being wretchedly dirty and dilapidated.. There were live Eng. fish and four French men-of-war at anoh- or off Smyrna se we came in. Stopping at Chios for a couple of hours the following night, we continued on to Piraeus, arriving there about four o'clock the following afternoon, and then drove to Athens. X,41.1,01‘410"9v, P. A. Maioomson, soliottor, bits re- moved his law office to AMR'S new block, in the eocond fiat, John Armstrong, jeweller, has passed hie final eXamination at the Oplioal Iu' stitute of Canada, in Toronto. 10, D. Cameron, of thelfirm of Omer, on, Murdoch 1D Co., general msrshaute of this village, vette married on Wednesday 0 of last ween to Mise Jardine, of Galt, a A little boy Frank Scott McKenzie, son of John N. McKenzie, S. S. No. 15, Ashfield, and who 10 only ten years of age, snooeoded in passing at the I1igh b Sohool Entrance examination, The cold water euro was freely applied to a man why lives about three noises • from Lcoknow and wlio, ib is said, is in the habit of IIl•breating and beating his wife. He has, so it is rumored, been in the habit 0f sending her out bo do scrub- bing at hotels end other places and after seourrng the money she earned would go ou a spree, spend her hard earned silver O and returned to beat hoe bemuse she - could not give shim more. The other night he was 10 Jlnoknow, and some of the boys a b I of him Int him in a hotel trough eked a g .l and s sn ed water ou him until he oried E o 11 p for mercy, and promised .never again to molest bis wife. Goderich. e Capt. Babb is doing a rushing business e with his bathing hones jnet now. '.Che G. T. R. employees of London will ran an excursion to this plane on Friday, 17th. Capt. Baxter bas fitted his boats with e rndders and some of them with cushions. Re has also added some new heats to his establishment. - This season has been pretty dull here ; the Craftsman has not been out of the harbor and the SepIio and Tadman have ' only made two or three tripe each. There area number of young men and boys who have made it their habit to go down to the fiats near Platt's old salt block and play baseball every Sunday af- ternoon. Dredge Arnoldi, which has been work- ing for the contractors of the piers, finiah• ed bee job about two weeks ago and has been idle since. She got a job at Kincar- dine and left last week for that place. On Monday night of last week a num. ber of youths were out sailing in Fred. Nevin's yacht, when, the wind falling, they were left a couple of miles from land, and unable to got ashore, having taken no oars with them. Next morning, however, the wind rose, enabling them to resell land, sadly in need of both food and sleep. S. P. Halls, of Goderich, has been en. gaged ae Principal of Goderich Model School ; he is a gentleman thoroughly qualified for the position, and is well known as long a resident of the county town. By his appointment he vaoatee the position of secretary to the board of county examiners, an oftioe that will like. ly go to Mr. Lane, County clerk, Mr. Adamson having formerly filled it. dliza to11. Sid. Jackeon,son of John Jackson, bas purchased a drug business at Preston. H. Freeman sold to Mrs. Whitehead a fine team of blood horses, for a good figure. On the oivio holiday Messrs. Coats and Wbeatly killed over three hundred frons, and have now run their total up to 1,200. A. McRae has a d -year-old ;Jersey sow, April 19 from the milk of whiob 18 lbs. and 7i'y 5y HI ounces of butter were made in seven days, 10 and this without any special feeding. , 17 Medical men say that never in their " 21 experience was there as little sickness in " 51 Clinton as there ie just now; this is good Juue for the town, though it may be hard for ' 21 the doctors. " 20 One day last week a lady in town heard Only the Scars Ocmai55 e Among the many tostimonlals which I pee In regard 30 oertltlu nlodlelnoe perform- ing paras, oleanoing the bleed, etc," wakes jlgxltx 1fu51000, of the Janos Smith Wooled Mauhlucry 00., Philadelphia, 1'a., "none inlpross'mo more than my awn case. Twenty y0ar5 ago, at the age of 10 years, I had swellings conic on my legs, winch broke and ! Moanle running sores. Otn•tau111yphysician could do mo no good, and It was feared that the belles would be affected. At last, my good old mother urged 3T10 to try Ayer's Sarsaparilla, I took three bottles, the sores healed, and I have not been troubled. since. Only the sears remain, and the memory of rho post, to r min mo of the good u d e d s Ayer's Sarsaparilla has done me. I nolo weigh two 11 mired and twenty pounds, and ant 1n then best of health. I have been on the road for the past twelve years, have noticed Ayer's Sarsaparilla advertised In: all parts of the United States, and always take pleas- ure in telling what good It did for me." For the cure of all diseases originating In impure blood, the best remedy is YRR'S Sarsaparilla Prepared byDr. J.Q. Ayer Sr Qo„ Lowell, Mass. Cures others, will cure you ALLAN LINE. Summer Sailings, 18.94. MONTREAL AND LIVERPOOL SERVICE. From From From Llverpo'l Sreebtsnine. Montreal. Quebec,. Daylight. 531.01. a tremendous crash in her oellar, and on going down to investigate she discovered and was horrified to see that a shelf con- taining 25 jars of fruit, had dropped to the floor, every jar being smashed to pieces. As the town is now deriving tt benefit from Fair's pond, it being a source of supply in case of fire, it is proposed to expends tittle money in deepening and otherwise improving it, so that it will be of still greater benefit in case itis needed. The grassboppere are very plentiful in some sections, destroying the pastures and making sad havoc with the oats and some of the root crop, ; on the beach, in Goderich township, they are lying dead in large numbers on the sand, so numer- ous that they could be shovelled up. Benjamin Rumball, who has been a respeoted citizen of this town for a great many years, and who has been ailing for a long time, died an Monday morning of last week. Deceased emigrated to this country, with his father, 02 years ago. Es has always been known as a hard- working and honest man, and leaves a wife, three sons and one daughter, bis sons all being in business in London, The remains were interred in the Clinton cemetery. He was n member of the Methodist church and a stanneh Liberal. Deaths from sunstroke and excessive heat are reported from New England cities. i t it .7;. MOST SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR MAN OR BEAST. Certain In its oRo0ts and never blisters. Read proofs below: REF1UPILL'S SPAVIN SURE. Box t2 barman Heoderoon 00., 111., eb.al,'lL DI, n. J.11)000ALL 60. Dear Silk -Please send me ono of your Hors° svgs and oblige. Ib,wetyma' ousod a groat doalo ye Kendall's Bsdv,n a,u•a with good a„e50ss- in Is a wonderful msdlnlao. T once bad t, mato that at gad an Oswalt Spa vin and five kett108 oared ber. 1 loop a bottle on band all the timo. Yours truly, Unca. POWSLr KENDALL'S SPAY I OUSE. Dr. D. J. Kxanitt. 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Any Amount of Money to Loan on Farm or Village Pro- perty at 6 & 6ii Per Cent., Yearly. Straight Loans with privilege of repaying when required. Apply to A. Hunter, Division Court Clerlc, Brussels. ARE YOU GOING TO Paint Tour I -Eo ,se OR DO ANY Papering this Spring ? If so, now is the time to consult us. The LARGEST, CHEAPEST and BEST as- sorted stook in the County, to hand comprising the following EDIRGE c SONS CELEBRATED PROCESS, GILTS, BRONZES, SINTILARE, AND IN- GRAINS, with gorgeous freizos and cell - Inge to snatch. Also the Handsomest stock of window shades ever shown in the County. Nothing but the purest Loads and Oils that can be found m the market used in all our work. Farmers and others hav- ing okl rigs to paint come and see us at once. Satisfaction guaranteed. RODD!CK ck WAKE, House, Sign, Carriage and Decorative Painters. P. 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