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BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1888.
Number 40.
COMMUNICATIONS.
liM rater° tt tuttrararar Detrilatitte ?
to antitor of Tula PosT.
EAUilicepara and their
nds Mira often complained about the
•oug and harsh things that havo boon
'd about them by the temperance pan
hut their own friends are saying
rs,. thinge at the prosant timo about
n hotelkoupor$ than o r the temper.
auce people have done, You are probab.
ly /mare that hotelkeenere and their
frienas are saying that there is moro
shiakey eold in Scott Act counties than
when they were under Hoene°, yot the
Government rsturns show a reduction of
over a million and a quarter gallons, mid
when you consider that the consump-
tion in oountiect still under liconso hits in,
creased the reiluction 1 Scott Act noun
Mee is oven larger than the Government
figures would indicate. But Hay 00
friends of the hotelkeopers, the reduction
(y Melt they admit) ie not that thoro is
less whiskey sold, but that tho hotellteep.
ors sell very little revenue (good) whiskuy
that what they mostly sell in multi from
poisonous drugs. Now, I do not bellove
this statement. I beliove that to a great
extent the frionds of the hutclkeepers are
deliberately fouling their own nest to
gain a point in the coal:est. But what a
point they gain I The very thought that
a class of man, for the sake of gain, will
deliberniely poison their fallow men by
inches is two horrible to oven oontem-
plate. Yet wo find so cated Christian
men working in the interests of this class.
But say they a high license will euro
them of their thirst for gain. I would
advise these good people to go to the
imuirinee" with this statemont. If hotel -
keepers poison under Scmt Aot for the
sake of gain they will poison under li-
mns and the higher the licenso the
greator the inducement will be to poisou.
A traffic that has such a demoralizing ef-
fect on those engaged in it should re-
coive uo =cuter. These good people
further justify their Allmon with tho
liquor dealers by sating •hitt tho hotel-
lc- alms in Scott Act counties violate the
Sabbath dos. I honors this statement
as far as it goes but it does not go far
etio glt• Hotelkeepers violate .ho Sal).
bath day everywhere. Dom it not •oern
strung. , Mr. Editor, that all bronchus of
trade was° from Saturday night till
Monday morning it:tit the excoption of
Inc liquor trade. That it wi.l not cease
• the Sabbath day, that those e11.
gaged in tha; trade will not regal the
laws of either Clod or man whore they
effect the traffic, so these wish to repeal
tbo Scott Act hon.:leo it is broken on
the Sabbath de, Thcso excellent No.
phi in their interest for the Scott Act
forgot that there are far older laws on
the 80cituto book providing pins and pen.
alties for those who persistently violate
Sunday by trading and whou the hotel -
keeper breaks the Scott Act on Sunday
they break at the same time our excellent
Sunday laws. Now, why do those pea
pie 0mane choir tears and sympathy t.
the Scott Act, why not extend a better
attention to other laws bearing on Sun•
day trading.? If breaking the Scott Aot
on Sunday is a good reason for repealing
it why not repeal the other lases also and
why not repeal tho whole ten cominitud-
, t e ,
see But say under the (kooks Aobthby, the hotelkeopera
kepthSabbath
• sflint I reply from aotual experience that
'they cild no suoli thing.
Yours Truly, Poontrnetos.
Brussels, April 11, 1888.
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To that Editor 0ITO11 POST.
In your last jostle "A Voter" speaks
trul when ho says "True Christianity
consists in it good, truo life, nut iu crys.
talizod forms of thought and speech
whiehonay be only ,dogmas." It is this
kind at Christianity that wo want, not
in mere pretence, wo want truo men to
bo Christians who aro true on Sunday
and every other day of the week, who
wilt pray on Sunday and voto 00 ahoy
pray. Not only do they pray on Sunday
but ovary day of Cm week, and ono of the
prayersttt euro to bo, "Deliver us from
evil." What g,eater evil can wo itn-
agino than the liquor traffic ? What has
cursed and mine(' SO molly 1101110S ? Trno,
"Voter" says hole a temperance man and
will isupport: the Act if sustained. Any
honest, right thinking man will clo that,
so will even tho low breaker, perhaps ho
may however have to foci its power and
penalties. "Voter" saps the law is wrong
in principle. lie is a Christian and.yot
flies in tho f WO of the Bibi o toaohum,
whioh says "Thou shalt not" ovor and
over again, 1 refer to God's ten torn.
mandmonts. Is not this prohibition?
Perhaps Ito may say it is not prohibition
against strong drink and bad whiskey,
"Woo unto him that giveth his noighbor
drink," Ilab, 2o, 15v, The Scott Aot has
for 3 years taken the bottlo from the sailor
and mays, Woo unto you if yew( sell, for
the first offence we find you, kc. On the
Nth of April, if you vote tor Mao petition,
do vott not say aganist the plainost of
Goa's command's limo Mr, Taverkeep.
or sell away, curse tho young men ruin
homes, got rich, give us your liconso
money. Who is the most to blame, the are important fads, and no 010 000 stand
in doubt as to tho conclusion to which
they pont. Then wo havo living at.
amplOe. Look, Mr instance, at tho groat
men and distinguished communities of
the Bible They wore abstsinere mid
enootiragod in this by Garth; approbation
and blossing. Look at fermi during
forty scars journoy it the wildorness,
God could as easy have 5100 111010 wine
00 Ile rained down manna on them from
heaven and mused Water to flow to them
out of the rook, but Ile did not do so,
and wo are told that through ell thoso
yoars thoy "drank neither wino nor
etrotig drink." Tho Lord was very kind
to them, He fed them with angels fobil
and charished them with divans Oruro,
yob they were a nation of total abstain..
ore, and trained to be so by God himeolf.•
Again, look at the strongest men that
evor lived, Salmon, 1110 mother when
promitied 1 eon was than Commanded
"Now, therefore, boWare, 1 pray thee,
fowl drink not wine unr i4hong drink, and
Imre with pogo 18, of 1801. In
any eight yot wish to take, wo will take
eight near home, •Dotuat and disorderly,'
1884, 104, in 1887, 31. Deerciame al. 13y
same books the fourteen countios that
have adopted the Aro the increase is 480.
If this is true, and it its 1 defy contrite
dlotion, if you aro a true Chriatian and
living it "good trots lifo," not orystalized,
usetorr (Audition influence for the
l•ocut Aot and the benefit of humanity.
Not only loss drink 0.13(11 se ••••• 1,k -no's
but also leas crime of all kinde. Look
at pogo 14 and 10, O.P.R. Abort a mil,
1i.tt people under Scott Ant in Ontario
committed 2,314 crimes, the million peo-
ple in tho oast not under tbo Soott AM,
7,923, Difference, 6,083. Will you not
rise your intloonce in your "good true
life" (not crystalized) to benoth mankind,
reduce think, drunkenness and crime.
Ono ceuro point. If wo repeat the Scott
Act what w1.1 wo get 7 Tho Crookie Aot
and a god law yon say. Correct. Nsme
too good points (1) "It prohibits sell-
ing to minors." 110 1000 the Scott Aot,
(2) "It prohibits selling alter (tort tin
hours." So does the Scott A.M. (3) "It
prohibits selling on certain days; •So
dos the S. A. You aro astonished at
my assertions. What then is the differ
once between the Scott Act and Crooks
Aot ? Why, the (hooks Aot says on
can sell on emboli) days and between
certain hours, while the Soott Aot says
YOU cannot sell on any clay, under any
ifiroutnstanoes or at any time. Surely
you will say I havo mistaken the law al-
together. Why, it is a good law, but it
is not enforced. My dear friend pardon
mo for contradicting you. See Returns
for the quarter encting Jan. 31st, 1888.
There wore 822 convietione itt Ontario
and $40,045 fines, Mention a single in-
stance of license law doing such a Mang?
I do not wish 10 0100 appear harati but I
cannot see how in the name of common
sena, 0 Chrietian can say the Soott
Act is u fizzle. It is a grand fiancees for
the chance it has had and I hope every
Christian, "good and true" will east fom
him all (dogmatical orystilizations and
vote against tho Repeal.
Yours '1 ruly, PENTON Huivt,'i.
Bluevale, April 10111, 1888.
51EVENi11 YS. EiltEISTIANITT,
ro the Editor of Tun PosT.
Damn 34u. -7 SOO commuoicationitt
yourissue 01 1181 wa: signod "A V 'tor,"
whioh I think was imended as a reply to
my letter of tho previous wook. . I would
scarcely have recognizod it as such but
he not referral to tho heading Of
Uy (3ommunication. It would puzzle 11
Philadelphit . lawyer to understand what
he is driving at, as ono might travel oinc
the harm desert of a thousand lines to
got one ideas But, oft.. Edito 1 must
not say too 'mush iu this direction. I
may not have been so highly fa.Ored as
m.) learned frioud with a suporio °doom -
tion, and only Wing gif.ed with 1 modem
oto sham of natural perception, his
pbilosophio effusion may bo above In,
comprehension, yet 1 must confess that I
cannot Bee what comparison exists be-
tween the burning of heretics nod the
temperance quostion of the present day.
To try to make a comparison, to My
mind, is the quintessence of absurdity.
Tho points in my communication aro
briefly as follows ;.-Ist, "God'a curse is
pronounced against those who enrich
themselves by a traffic Mutt entails dis.
gr'
ace ruin and misery to others. 2nd,
The traffio iu intoxicating liquors is the
production of muoh evil and should not
be licensed. ard, It is wrong to build up
our village front revenue derived there.
from. 4131, The Villago Council that
grants license and all who vote fo,
liconso, against the Soott Act, are
partners in tho liminess and responsible
for the evils resutting therefrom." I
will leave 11 10 thu intolligent reader to
decide if "Voter" has replied to any of
these, and if too) are facts that oannot
be denied, anti 1 think they aro, then the
conclusion must be that no Christian
man can vote Mc license. I need not
occupy your opium answering the reasons
given by the anti -Scott Aot party for
repeal, that has been well do= through
TTIE POST and Various altar Wass lately.
Rowover, thero ie ground tnkeu by some
of the liquor party which has not been
as fully awn:fond as I would liko, that Is
that the Bible supporta the use of intox.
Mating drinks. Please allow me a
few thoughts on this subject, The in.
spired writers of too Biblo, in tho origin-
al, use different tams to denoto various
kinds of drink. These torms coeur in
Scripture 223 Mutes and are uniformity
rendered wino in our version. Tho drink
denoted by ono of these terms is always
disapproved of by God, and its use ns a
common bovorngo dononnoocl in terms of
warning and wuo, Too articles denoted
by the other words aro spoken of with
diversity of expression, according to the
prosenoe or absence from them of the in-
toxioatiug prinoiple. There are about
180 warnings and admonitions in Suitt.
tui'e against intoxicating 'drinks, while
thorn aro not more than 20 Montane of
distinct approval of wine, under all its
motets in tho whole Bible, and thew
passages, as far as their evidenco is
.explioit, show tho wino recommondorl to
bo of an =intoxicating quality. Those
Christian or the tavornkoopor ? "Votor"
holds that tho Scott Act is not more fit
accordance with Christianity than a
good liconso mystom. Too long havo tho
people thought so. Too long have we
boon bound by its chains. Too long have
We imagined that when we restricted it
tvo worn doing woll. For two hundred
years wo tried it and it has failed and it
is thins to try something olso. But 'Vot.
or' may say the Scott Aot has (lona noth.
ing Ta,ko Inland Bayonne ,Itoports 01
1888 and 1987 and compare and yon will
find 4liio: Malt liquor oonsumod in On-
tario in 1883, 76,154,160 1110,, 111 1887, 85,-
708,288. Deereaso, 41,047,882. Whiskey.
1,842,080 gallons loss in 1886 than emu-
-age 1 or tho proViOtto foto years, Nov I
am attain any Christian friend will
Hay, "I will sea tho Bine bOoks tlde,"
and if truo 1 work and vote for the
Scott. Act. Bill not only do wo eay loss
higher is drank but lege drunkenness. Co -
1 5190 Prism roporte, I587, page 17, sm.
eat not any =lean thing," Ito was 00.1.
fleorated a Nazarito to God from his
birth, God had a groat work for him to
do, and ita forbade hint, by the law of
a Nazarito, to drink any intoxloating
clrinks Samuel was also a, Nazarito all
the cloys or his life. God chose him
sally in life as a prophet. Ho judged
his nation through a long period of its
history, He descondoci to the grave
a1to tmoeofnt life, in a good old age, loved
and lamented by his weeping country.
Daniel and his companions in the oourt
of Babylon would not defile thomselves
drinking wino, even though commanded
to do so by tho king. What was the
result of drinking water instead? We
e told "that at the end of ten days
their countenenees were fairer WI fatter
in flesh then the others who drank tho
wino," 71 was said by the angel of Jam
the Baptist that, "We shall neither drink
wine nor strong drink," and note what
1ollows, "Ile shall bo filled with the
Holy Ghost from hie mothor's womb,"
and jam; said of him, "Among those
bo i n of woman tboro bus nob arisen a
greater than John." The Rechabitos
waren temporance society espeoially 1.
voted to God. They bound themselves
by a pledge not to drink wine, which
they adhered to with intelligont
and for doing so they wore commended
by God. So We might go on and speak
about the society of the Nazarites , and of
the priests, who were strictly forbidden
to drink wino or strong drink, under
penalty of death, when they went into
the tabornacle of the congregation to
officiate, and Pant says, "It is good
neither to eat flesh, nor drink wine, nor
anything whereby thy brother stumbleth,
or is offended, or is mal s weak." I will
conclude this already too long article by
roferring you to the true use of the grape
as given by Dr. Duff, whose experience is
unquestionable and veraoity undoubted:
'In theso countries tnantled with vine.
yards,.one oannot help learning the. truo
intent and use of the vine in the scheme
of providence. In oto land wine bas be-
come so exelusively a mem luxury, or
what is worse -by a species of mann-
! aotore -an intoxicating beverage, so that
WO may have wondered how the Bible
speaks of wine In conjunotion with corn,
and other suoh ATI.° comforts of animal
lifo. Now, in passing through the region
of vineyards, in tho east of Franco, wo
must at once re ceive that the vine
Limn:isles- on sIopes and hoights, where
tint ad], 14 too poor and gravelly to main.
11,0. 11.11)00 earn or pastnge for cattle.
Bat what is the providential dosign in
rendering this soil, favored by a genial
atmosphero, so produotive of the vine, if
its fruit become solsly either an article
of luxury or an instrument of vioe? The
'Immo]: is, That Providence has no such
design. Look at the peasant DA his meal
in vine-boaring distriots ; Instead of milk
he has before bitn a basin of the pure
unadulterated blood of the grape. In
this, its native original state, it is a plain,
simple and wholesome licsoicl, which, at
every repast, becomes to the husband.
man ‚011111 1111111 is to the shepherd -not a
luxury, but a, necessary -nob an intoxi-
cating, but a nutritive beverage. Hence
to thu vine -dressing peasant of Auxerre,
for example, an' abundant vintage, WI
oonueoted with his own immediate sus-
tenance, is as important as an overflow-
ing dairy to the pastoral present of Syr -
shire ; and hence, by suoh a view of tho
the subject, are the laugoago and sense
of Scripture, vindioated front the very
appearance of favorin g what is merely
luxurious, or positively noxious, when it
constantly manifests a well -replenished
wine -press, in 11 rooky mountainous
country like Mutt of Palestine, as one of
the richest bounties of Et generous
P rovidenoe."
April 0, 1888, ;loam Burnes,
The Dominion lkovornment and 13.1'.11.
The following is au official 'statement
of tho terms of the oonapromiso batman
the Canadian Pacific Railroad and tho
Government. on tho monopoly question :
A. Government guarantee of 515,000,000
of lend grant bonds, beating interest at
three or throe and ono.half po cont., and
involving an annual .enarge of 5500,000.
The Government is to havo as a protec-
tion of the guarantoo the whole of the tun
Bold proportion 1 the 1 ind grant of the
Canadian Paoifin Clompany, originally 25,
000,000 acres, and since rodnood to about
18,000,0001101100 by sales to settlers and
to the North-west Land Company, and
tho paymont of 56,000,000 odd acros to
the Government at $1,50 per acre in ox-
tinguishmont of an indebtedness of $10,-
therefore, bo theso
000,000. There will,
113,000,000 mums as the basis of security,
the land to bo administered by a trust,
and rho of the salo to go toward
the ligniclation of the bonds issued, ht
addition 11 1.8 reported that tho company
will be rosponsible for the interest on the
bonds, which will become a °barge on its
surplus =flings, in tho event of the re.
ooipts from land sales liroving inad-
equate ; but no mortgago wIll bo put on
the railway 'vapor. The postal receipts
of tho aompany and raceipts for tho than.
sportation of stores, die., for the Militia
Dopartment aro also to be plodged, so
rumor saye, to the Govornmont as soour.
ity for interest 00 tho bonds issued and
proteotion of the guarantee.
White and Cross, tho Raloigh Bank
forgors, loft Toronto direct for llaloigh
in ohorge of Chief of Pollee Heart by the
12.20 train on Saturday.
Tho Curtin Bros., of Parkhill, tt000pt
the thellengo of th0 Crothor Bros., of
Bohnont, to saw a madilo log from 18
inches to 80 inches in animator for
stako of 5250, all have deposited $20
with Charlos Audrews, of Parkhill, as a
gnaranteo of good faith,
Tho London corps of tho Salvation
Army promise to erect a barracks and
training school 0)1 1130)0 King Arad prop.
orty which will in a ormolu allito to 1110
Army and the city, 2.113 estimated cost
of tho tdractino niaeoci botwoen 512,-
0(10 and $13,000, lii addition to tho soils
hie meeting hall, which will bo 111 tho
shape of an ftinphitheatim, proviaion has
boon ins& for maiontmodating 100 cadets
who will be trained in army imagers
Washington Letter. .
(Fin Br 0)111 111,10171ellt cononsSoNDENTJ
Washlogtou, April 1, 1,18,
Inauguration day 14 mit to be changed
at pniaeiib 1,1 tho capital mourns.
Ifewover, no Waehingtonlan will be wal-
ed upon to contract pneumonia by riding
hare:head down the avenue on the 4111 of
March in tlio presidential chariot or
haolt, and surely no one so little amen.
arlo to roaeon alt Wm opposers of tho
obaugo in the lloueo is at all likely to be
soloeted by the nation to run tins risk.
So that some who favor and all who op•
pose the latter' date for Manguration an
reasonably safe from the consormences of
refugia to maim the phone°. Tito re.
milt of a congressional voto is n1000 un-
owtairt than woman. In the last Con-
gress tho proposition in regard to in-
auguratim. day would have passed with-
out dilliculty, and was provontri by a
more tritlo. In this Congress, whilst the
Senate approves the measure tumultuous-
ly, tho flown defeat, it, though present.
ea in two different shamos to adapt it to
its pleasure, tho second defeat being moro
docilely° than the first. Porhaps the
next Congress will, on the oyole theory,
swing bask to an enthusiastic ondorso.
ment of tho proposed Change.
The salaries paid to the officials of the
Departments are ricliculonsIs small in
comparison with those paid by other
governments.,The fignres now paid
were fixed forty or more years ago, when
the cost of living was much less than
now, and what the duties were of the
simplest chttraoter. Before the late war
a second class (1,400) clerk could live well
here and save money. Many clerks of
that guide in those days kept their ear.
riaees 0:111 indulged in other luxuries.
This the, oould afford to do with house
rent from 510 to 515 per month, butter
at 12 emits choice beef from 8 to (0 smote
per pound, and ovory other household
necessity at correspondingly low prices.
First-olass rooms and board coold oe had
for $18 or 520 po • month. During the
war prices and wages were advanood, but
the salaries of employees of tho goverm
meat remained as originally fixed, not-
withstanding the fact that the duties re-
quired became moro anon more responsi-
ble and prawns.
In nearly ovor)' department of the gov-
ornment thero a•tt mon whose SerVIOOS
aro Invaluable and whose salaries are
shamefully small. Tho present uhief
clerk of tho Pension Office, who is a
walkins encyolopedia, and who probably
answers moro questions in a day thou
any other otlicere in the governtnont ser-
vioe, is a fair sample; the chief of the
Custom Division of the Treasury Do-
partmont, who practically makes thous-
ands of decisions annually, upon which
depend tilt receipt or disbursement of
many hundred of thousands of dollars, is
another. Other examples such as ox.
winners in the Patent Moe, ohiof clerks
of carotin bureaus of tho Navy Depart-
ment, who receive $1,800 per annum and
W .0 have, to all intents and purposes,
the letting of enormous oontraots, and
chiefs of branches of the State Depart-
ment, who aro oonstantly oonsulted on
questions of international law, might be
cited to sustain the point that our gov-
ernment is niggardly in Ds compensation
to its employees. In some oases, where
moro integrity is required, as, for in.
stance, whero employees handle muoh
money, larger salaries are paid than in
oaoos whore the very first order of in.
tollect io demandod to protect the inter-
est. of the entire people.
A. letter was received Mao other day by
the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing
a 25-oent silver piece, to be placed to the
credit of tho conscience fund. The letter
says ;-"To whom it may concern : Once
upon a time, some thirty years ago, in
spirit of evil mindedness or perhaps be-
oause I could, though evon at the time I
knew better, I took it no= me to obliter.
ata the cancelling marks on a 5-oent
poetago stamp and iso it again. And
though no mortal may min have boon
ammo of it, I havo known ii all the while.
Under the Mosaic dispensation a roten.
Con of one-fifth 1000 doomed requisite to
satisfy the olaims of justiee in tho Quo
of 1 espass. So hero: one- fifth of five Is
one, and ono to five makes six. At six
per cont. a emn is 1 cabled in abont six -
t000 years, and this then amounted to
twelve coots, an,1 doubled agaia amounts
to twonty-four cents. Now, to give the
Government Mtn bonallt of the fraution, I
miaow tivontplive Gouts.
(Signed) Isms CITSZ1M"
Scott Act Oarnpaign Notes.
The Swag Act is by no means a perfect
=insure. For oursolvos, 100 regard it as
nothing moro than ft stopping -stone to
Total Prohibition. Bub the Soott Act,
in spit° of all its Nolte, is au immenso
advamos upon all the Tomporanoo 10518.
lotion we have had in the past. Every
inch of ground won under it should bo
defended to tho dona. Wo trust that
tho roeult 1 tho voto on Thursday will
be suoli as to inspirit tho friends of Toon
peru,noo throughout Oa eountry.-Globo.
LEGAL AND Moms lisostox.-Tho critics
of the Seat Act aro constantly repoating
tho soli.evident troth that you cannot
make mon tomporato by etittute. Wo
nevor hoard any prohibitionist argue that
law 001111 be substituted for the gospel.
The law against stealing is not a subeti.
tato for moral suasion ; but the statute
emphasizect the oftensivenose of the
offence and is a valuable aid in tho pre-
vention of the oriole, It is jost so with
tho prohibitory law. 7018 a valuable co.
operator. Drinking men oonfoss it;
whiskey sellers own it. Ho who thinks
the tomporanoe millonittnl will isonto the
moment yon onforeo prohibition, is as
much in error as bo tylio thinks that
moral evasion (Mee not requiro the pro.
hibitory lash for thoso who are delibors
(Moly dismanclea. To undorvalno mold.
bition IS 11, grave 0110(11 to undervaluo
tnoritl snasion ie a fatal errov. lint wo
happen to havo,observed that tho giwat
champions 07 100101 suasion an1 almost
nevem those who aro the groat oho mpions,
(if lioemse, We often he/tr winchtirinitera,
and boar•drinkere and sellers of strong
drink titillating for moral SSR1401) ; hitt
wo clo not romeruher tit .t 1111) of th•tn
are leaders in moral persuasion. Thu
men who rely on moral suasion, wholly,
110 0 rulo, aro not theinee,ves pereuaded
by moral Reardon. In faith, ito subtle is
the connection between principle and
conduct that the re-elations through it
nbo distorted,-.130eton
"1119% which 0 man omat against pro.
hiition, are opt to
World.
1314C1tY'S ADVICE.
Jeclinh, put your slippers on,
And comae yo n: needless clatter,
want to have 1 word with you
About a little matter
I hoard you, on your knees last night.
Ask help to koep from strayloi.
And no v 1 w tut t • lotow if you
Will vote ati you've bean prayini ?
dectiali, look Inc in tho facie
You lc.0) ltd 4 VVU1.1,1'S condition.
Yet you have 1)W.' 01101 8, VOtn
Right out for Prohibition.
You've prayed 14I4 loud Many man,
While with the tido adloatin•
Jedials you mum. stop snob work,
And do some better votin't
Wo women pray for better times,
And work right hard to make 'era 1
You men vote whiskey with ita (crimes,
And wo jist have to take 'ens.
How long, Jediah, must this be ?
We work and pray igainst 0011,
Yon pray all right, for what I see,
But Yoto plumb for the devil.
There now, I've said my say and you
Just save your ammunition,
And vote the way you've always prayed
For total Prohibition.
-Union Signal.
itThinralstrsiebs. Sotto col Board.
The regular meeting of the Brussels
School Board was held on 1' siday even-
ing last.
ti rnbers present -Rev. 3, Ross (ohair-
man), 5', S. Scott, Thos, Fletcher, jno.
Hargreaves, 11, Dennis and A. Gunton
Minutes of last regular meeting read
and adopted.
Moved by H. Dennis, seconded by F.
S. Scott that the exam of Roht. Carr be
acoepteci, on condition that he sends his
children to school the number of days re-
quired by law for the year 1888.-
f:tarried.
novo.ttov 1 by A. Hunter, seconded by H.
Dennis that Miss Amnio Stephenson's
resignation bo accepted, the same to take
effect three months hence. -Carried.
Moved, seconded and carried that the
following accounts bo paid:
Robb. Armstrong $ 2 00
Jas, Oliver 13 00
Principal Shaw presented his report
for school attendance for the month of
March, 1883, as follows:
Dep•ts. 1 2 3 4 5 Total
No. on Roll... .42 42 52 53 88-257
Average 35 33 38 34 40-180
Moved by JHargreaves, seconded by
A. Hunter that the Seoretary be instruot-
ed to communicate with the Publio
School Inspeotor, D. M. Malin*, stating
that this Board would be pleased to re-
ceive an official report of each visit re-
garding the standing of each Department.
-Carried.
Moved by A. Hunter, seconded by T.
Fletolaer that the auditors' report for
year 1887 be aocepted.-Carried.
Board then adjourned.
Spring Shows.
DinISSELS.
Tho annual Spring Show of entire
stook %vas ueld in Brussels last Tuesday
anti Was very successful when it is re.
•membered that there was an almost
steady downpour of ram all day. Owing
to this the animals wero exhibited at the
Town Hall squaro instead of on tho agri-
cultural grounds. The show of imported
heavy d aught horses was goodand shows
quite clearly that this• is the kind of
stook most likely to suit the wishes of
bteeders. No doubta ranch larger nam.
bar of oxhibitors would have been present
had the weather been more favorable.
David Milne, the well known stockman,
of Ethel, had it all his ouot way. with his
excellent Durharns. Tho following is
the prize list :-
Importea heavy draught, aged -7 en.
tries-lst "Toon Clerk," Meisel 6: 1110 -
Donald. (!irey township ; Sncl, "Rankin
Boy," Peter MoDwan, bloKillop town-
ship ; 3rd, ••Warriot O'Cree, Calder
McMillan, Groy and Hullott townshipe,
Imported heavy draught unclor 8 years
-5 entries-Ist, "Sir Patriok," 1. L.
Turnbull, Illma township; 2nd, "Dazzle,"
L. McNeil, Grey township ; 3rd, "Gal.
vain," T. O'Neil, 13russole,
Canadian draught =dor 8 years -'Gallo.
way Lad," Thos, Voadon, Grey township.
Carriage horse -lot, "Frankio B," J'no,
Leggett.
Butaa.-Durhaine, over 2 yeare-1s1,
"Red Knight," David Milne, Ethel.
Durhams, under 2 years-lat, "Defi-
ance," David Milne, Ethel,
Tho Jorsoy ball, "Primo of Maple
Lano," owned by G. A. Madman, lirus.
NWLEI 3100 exhibited but to there was
no Jorsoy ohm no prizo was awarded.
Thero wove no Ayrshiree shown.
Tho judges were Jas, Lowrie and 11.
Bath, of Listowel.
mittrutovit,
no farmers in this vicinity turned out
largely but the exhibit 01 1100808 and eat-
tle Waa not np to that of former years at
the spring show hold hero on Wodnosday.
The judges award of prises was as fol.
lows
Itossias.--Heavy draught—Calder di
lifollaillanie "Warrior O'Cree," Grey,
tloavy draught, undur 11 years -ltd, W.
Wolltvoocl's "'Edward," )Vest Witavanosh.
2n1, Thos. Taylor's "Sottish 'Knight,"
W. Wavvanosh. 13r1, 110bt, Currie's, (no
namo g
Roadetor and Carriage 1st, D. Irwin's
“Royid lievenge," Blyth 14. layingston'e .
••141ectrio Myth t 301in Loggat's
"Vt'ank 13,'' Whiteolturch.
Diploma, for best horse of nuy Gass, 1
('811111 ,0 810 'lhlhtn.
Bests. Aga( let, 11, Meflowart'a
"Captain Jim," East We.wanosh. Ind,
T. Wilkineon's "Belgrave Chief," Aforris.
3,d, W. Ishister's "King of the West,"
Morris.
Under 3 years R. S tonehouse's "Prince
of Wake," East Wawanosh,
Any age- R. IlleGowatihi "Captain
Jim."
The bail condition of the roads no
doubt materially lessened the number of
animals present.
The judges were as follows : 11, Cole.
Londesboro'• W. Nichol, Auburn ; W.
J. Johnston, 'Blue, ale.
Reciprocity oat on.
At last, but only after 17 laye of talk.
ing in which over sixty inenib.•vi of the
Mom expre teel themselves, the debate
011 lir Richard flartwriglit'a Unrestrict-
ed Reel rrooity resolution is at t.1. and.
I The House acijonrned at 8:30 Friday
afternoon, when the deficit° was rosulned.
morning oc,,i•ralclocl at 3:1 Friday
Sir John had several times endavored
to haVe 0 dividum, , but the °position
would not conaeut until oVery member
who wanted to speak did so.
Nearlya dozen members aconpied the
floor during tho aftornoon and night, re-
hashine the same old arguments for and
against. At five o'clock Saturday morn-
ing the division took place. This was
Sir Riohard's resolution :-
That it is highly desirable that the
largest possible freedom of commercial
intercourse should obtain between the
Dominion of Canada and tho United
States, and that It is expedient that all
articles manufactured in, or the natural
products of either of the said countries
should bo admitted free of duty into the
ports of the other (articles subject to
duties of excise or of internal revenue
alone excepted.)
That it is further expedient that the
Government of the Dominion should take
steps at an early dale to ascertain on
what terms and conditions arrangements
can bo effected with the -United States
for the pnrrose of seeming full and unre-
stricted reciprocity of trade therewith.
The division resalted in a notary for
the Government by it majority of 57, the
vote being 67 for and 124 against :-
Ynss-Ainyot, Armstrong, llain,(Went.
worth), Barron, Bechard, Bernier, Bor.
clan, liourassa, Bowman, Brien, Burdett,
Cartwright (Sir 11.), Casey, Casgrain,
Charlton, Chouinard, Davies, Dr. St.
Georges. Dessaint, Doyon, Edgar, Eisen -
hatter, Ellis, Fiset, Fisher, Geoffrion,
Godbout, Guay, Hale, Polton,
Tunes, Jones (HOB, Kirk, Landerkin,
Lang, Langlier Langlier (Que.),
Lamer, Lister, Livingston, Lovett, Mac•
.10Dold (Har.) McIntyre, McMillan (Ilur.)
McMullen, Mills (Bothwell), Mitchell,
Mulook, Pateroon (Brant), Perry, Platt,
Prefontaine, Itinfret„ Robertson, Row.
villa, Sutherland, Trow, Tnroot, Watson,
Weldon, (St. John), Welsh, Wilson (111g..Se7tMario, Soriver, ;Semplo, Somer.
.e.
Nrays-Andet, Bain (Soul), Baker, Bell,
Bergeron, Bowell, Boyle, Brown, Burns,
Cameron, Cargill, Carling, Carpenter,
Caron (Sir A.) Chaplean, Chiehohn, Cim-
on, Cochrane, Cockburn, Colby, Corby,
Costigan, Coughlin, Coolome, Couture,
Curran, Daly, Danst, Davin, Davis, Daw-
son, Denison, Desaulniers, Desjardins,
Dickinson, Dupont, Ferguson, (L. and G.)
Ferguson (Ben.), Ferguson (Wind.), Fos-
ter, Poomon, Gauch•t, Gigault, Gironard,
Gordon, Gre.ncibois, Guilbault,
Baggart, Hall, Henderson, Beason, Hick-
ey, Hudspeth, Ives, Jamieson, Jonotts,
Jones, (Dig.), Kirkpatrick, Labelle, La•
mosso, Landry, Langevin (Sir II.), Lou.
rie, Macdonald. (Sir J.), Macdowall, Mc-
Carthy, MoCulla, McDonald (Victoria),
MaeDougald (Picton), McDougall (C. B.),
McGreevy, McKay, McKeon, McLelan,
MeMillan (Vau.), McNeill, Madill, Mara,
Marshall, Masson, Mills (Ant,.), Montag-
ue, Moffat, Montplaisir, O'Brien, P tter•
Son (Box.), Perlo (Assin I, Parley, ()tt.),
Porter, Prior, Putnam, Reid, 111npel,
liobillard, Roomo. Iloas, Royal, Rykert,
Searth, Shanley, Smal), Smith (Cut.)
Stroule, Stevenson, Taylor, Tc.inpla,
Thorien, Thompson, Tisdale, Tooper,
(Picton), Tyrwhitt, VSAILSSO, Wallace,
Ward, Weldon (Al.), Witita (Card.),
White (Ban.), Wilmot, Wilson (Argots),
13 ilson (Den.), Wood (Brook.), Wood
(West.) Wright -124.
Perth County Notes.
Mayor Butler, orStratford, is seriously
The early closing movemont luso struck
Str\‘tt,..t.floor.ci.
K
err, barrister, of Stratford,
loft that city to ontor hie tather'e firm
int ta 001 tot, ibal ;Biel r oaog
assignment to Thos. MC.
wagonmaker, of Mitchell,
Donald. The liabilities wi 1100011 shoat
82,000, with scarcely a quarter of that in
"eltsiras.
Stratford Salvationists had a "hallo.
lujah" wedding in Choir barracks on Wort.
nesility, Joseph Satchell and Mary E. Co-
gan, both of that city, being the parties
particularly inforestea-
Fred Burrows, a Stratford lad, was
lined $15 and 51 emu aix months in
jrail, and Tas. Finnigan 132 and roto or 30
days for throwing vitrol an tho necks of
•
three littlo boys on the street.
Mr. O'Hagan, M.A.., has resigned his,
position in the Mitchell High Sohool and"
will letwo about tho first of May to study
law. Tito rolations betwoon him and the
mboaynoadvo unaeretooa to be eornowhat
ir
Stratford is to linvo a sired railway.
Thos. Holliday, bl. Macfarlane, lohn
Corrie, Dr. D. 21. Fraser, George G. Mc•
Pherson and A, 1. Bailey being the di-
rectors of th tompnly that has applied
for a °barter.
James Montoith, youngeet son of Att.
drew Monteith, Perth County Tromairer,
01101 with a serious accident Saturday
aftontoon last 'EON cutting timber in
his father's avoodsncar Stratford, While
in the act of relieving a, tree that had bo.
conic 110)101, it gave away =Wow than
Was antiOipated, and attack hilt left log,
mating 0 compound fracture about half
way lictweeo 111.' knee and tho ankle,
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