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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-4-27, Page 2THE BRUSSELS POST nirootory of Ch rohos and Societies, efefvibl,It cupticu.---Sabbath Services at 11 a.tn. and 6:30p,nl. Sunday School at 2;30 p. m. Rev, John Ross, B. A., pastor. Knox Ci,unail; Sabbath Services itt 11 rt. in. and 0:10 p, ut. ;A.:uday• School at 2130 p, ni. ST.:inn\'n t ur a, --Sabbath Services at 11 a.m, and 7 p.m. Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Rel 11, 'F. Chuff, incumbent. METIIOPiwT CEVECT. yabbatll SeTvicee at 10:30 a. in. and 1:30 p. in. Sunday School at 2;30 p. m. Rev. M. Swann, pastor. Ramini Caruorrc Cnm,tou.--Sabbath Service third Sunday in every month, at 11 a.m. Rev. P. .1. Shea, priest. ODD Fermows' Lenox•, every Thursday evening, in Graham's block. Mason:: Loam Tuesday at or before full moon, in Garfield block. A. O, U. W. LODGE on lst and Brd Mon- day evenings of each month. FonssTnlrr' Loins 2nd and last Monday evenings of each month, in Smale's hall. L. 1). L. Ist Monday 111 every month, in Orange Hall. Peel' OI•ricr,—Ofiice hours from 8 a.m. 7:30 p.m. Mscuosicc' INSTITUTE. heading Room and Library. in Holmes' block, will be open from 0 to 8 o'clock p.m. Wednesdays and 'Saturdays. 111:., l'[_i:nie Shaw, Lib- rarian. BRUSSELS W. C. T. U. hold monthly meetings on the 3rd Saturday in each month, at 3 o'clock pan. Mrs. Swami, Pres. Mrs. A. Straehnu, Sec. SA1.vATION AIME services at 11 a. m., 3 and 8 o'clock p.m. on Sunday and every evening in the week at 8 o'clock, at the barracks. Capt. Bates in command. e hi.tbien'% Canter. BENNIE'S FAITH. Little Bennie Brayton, who was only six years old, was standing on the porch one warm summer morn- ing. In his impatience he kept Licking the great armchair, by which he was standing, until the toes of his new shoes began to look quite shabby. Bennie was going with his mam- ma to visit relatives, who resided in a village twenty five miles distant, and be was in such a hurry to start that it was almost impoesible for him to keep quiet. The horses and carriage wore waiting at the gate, and if Mrs. Brayton had not ap- • peered soon, I think perhaps Ben- nie's toes might have peeped through his shoos. For a long distance the road pass. ed through a forest, and Bennie thought this delightful. Tho birde sang merrily, tLo squirrels skipped from ono place >o a: other tad the summorbrreze made fairy like music as it av;ept through the forest trees. They heal left home early in the morniDg and arrived at lever destina- tion before noon ; sc, Belli ie bad a merry time playing with itis nous:ns until, tired and sleepy, he hits oaken to bed. He slept smutty all night and in the morning he awoke early. As scan as he was dre:sed lie went to it window and look- d out The sun hncl just c inibecl above the eastern hilltops. As Bennie looked 'award them 1:e naw a cloud of smoke, This !Lade Linn thlulc Unit afire wee nearby. His mamma told thin that she thought it was in a forest several stilts distant, and that it would nun reach the place where they were etayln f. Thus re. assured, Bennie want to play with the other children ; but all day long the fire continued burning, and the dun of smoke seemed to be coming nearer end nearer, though the fire was still eeveral miles away. When he went to bed that night he kept thinking about the fire, and it was a long time before he fell ee'oep. In the morning when he a'.,oho his first question was about the fire. Tbero was now a clones cloud of sn1ote hangiug over the village, which made it seem like twilight, altht ugh it was broad day. nee fire rppeare.d fo be rapidly approach. 11 p, and Bennie el as terribly fright. said. Ms mamma endeavored to 11:01 hie fears, but she was not very successful, for the teen and women were alarmed, au well as the child- ren. A strong wind was blowing direct- ly toward the village, which was a largo and flourishing place, and and every gust of wind carried with it pieces of burning wood and leaves and cinders. Tbeee were °antinn- ally falling on the roofs of the houses, and the men and boys who were able to assist were kept busy trying to save their own homes from sharing the same fate that had al- ready overtaken many othere. Then, to add to the terror and confusion of the stens, people were hurrying into the place from a mint ing village several miles distant, which had beon completely destroy- ed by the conflagration. These people formed a etrange looking procession, whish was enongh to frighten the children if thorn had been no other cause. Some were in wagons, sitting on the top of whatever Ilouseliold goods they had been able to save from the flames before they were driven away from tteeir bomes. Sonne wore leading cows, with ropes tied around their horns, while others were driving their pigs ; for emelt one was carry- ] ing whatever he had saved from the I destroying clement, The people in this strange prooeseiou numbered • marry hundreds. Dien, women and children, horses drawing wagons, sows, pigs and dogs were all hurry. lug into the value in a state of the ttattest excitement. Finally Bennie went to his grand- ma and asked her if elle believed that Ceoei would do what a little boy only six year,' old asked Him to, if he should pray to Him. His grandma answered : "Yes, I believe God will answer a little boy's prayer as willingly as a man's prayer." "Then," said Bennie, "I shall pray for lain to put out the fire," and forthwith he proceeded to offer a petition for the desired blessing. After dinner firs. Brayton and Bennie started for home, and sever- al limes ou the homeward journey he knelt in the carriage and offered the same petition.. Once they came to a piece of woods where the fire had caught in several places and ft emelt of flame swept across the road but a short distance in front of the poises and frightened them so that they became nearly unmauage able. The day bad been a terrible one to Bennie, and I don't think there etas ever a little boy who felt more thankful than l3ennie did when he leached hom6; and the first thing he did after entering the houso was to kneel by his heel and again pray tor rain to put out that awful fire. When he went to his room that night there were still no signs of rain, but Bennie did not forget to pray ter it the last thing before jumping into bed. The tired boy was soon celeep, but a short time after midnight he awoke and said, 'Mamma, do you hear the rain yet ?' When his mamma answered, 'No,' be crept out of bed and again prayed earnestly for rain, evou though there should be a thunderstorm, of which Bennie had a great dread. Bennie Boon fell asleep again. When the clock struck the hour of five the next morning Mrs. Brayton awoke and heard the sound of rain pattering softly on the roof; but Bennie slept soundly until the hands of the clock pointed to the hour of eight. When he awoke and heard the sound of the falling rain, he tumbled out of bed in haste, and shouted for joy. Then he said to his mamma, who had just entered the room, "I know God would send the rain if I only kept praying for it." In a few days Mrs. Brayton re- ceived a letter from one of the tolatives whom they were visiting when the terrible conflagration was raging, and learned that a heavy rainstorm had quenched the fire. The rain had commenced falling a few hours after Bennie and his mamma had left for home, and Bennie firmly believes that God sent the rain at that especial time solely iu answer to hie prayers. V aar3aet;ie oe. A man never values himself at so small a figure as when sued for breach of promise, and on no other occasion is he rated. as high by the 1 other sex. A. way to it.— Seedy Guest : Landlord what can you give me for breakfast 2 Landlord : Nothing ; but if you pay, you can have eggs and steak. Mrs. Mary Gallagher, of South Bethlehem, Penn., recently cele. brated her 100th birthday by danc- ing a jig. Mary must be the orig- inal 'Let rig-inal'Let her go, Gallagher 1' Mrs. Derrick (admiringly to ar- tist) : "The likeness is just splen- did 1 It's Aunt Susan as alp lives! You piobnro-painters will aeon knock the photographing business in the shade if you keep on 1' "PNOTORIA"for colds. "PECTORIA„ for coughs. "PEOTORIA"for the longs. "PECTORIA"for the Bronchial tubes. "PEOTOB-IA." the best, the safest, tho cheapest. •'PEOTORIA" the great 20 cent Cough Remedy. Joy 1—It was very Tato and Brown was steering Robertson homeward. 'What will you say to your wife ?' Brown welted., 'Nota Tic)—a word,' said Robertson. 'hy not 2' '1 eha'nt have a (bin) chance.' Soles Gentleman : 'Stockings 2 Yea, ma'am ; what number do you wear 2' Constance : 'What num- ber 2 Why too, of course I Do you take me for a centerpede or a one legged veteran of the war 2 'This thing is gutting oontage- ous 1` said a boy who had been told eeveral times to go to bed. 'What' do yen mean ?' asked his father. 'I mean that I shall catch it if I don't move on,' Gentleman (by repeat of lady) : 'Conductor put this lady off at the next corner,' Polito new conduct- or : ''XCtiee me, sir ; SCAMS as how she's a bebavin' herself ; don't seem no oceaa100 for proceedin' to ,1ctsomss,' Mr, Bentley (stn amateur carver, to young lady at hie right)—Will yon have some of the dna c Mss Smith 2 Knife clips, Miss Smith (bending duck from her lap)— lhitalcc, Der. Dumloy, but I don't want the entire bird. Guest (to Florida landlord, who has presented bill) llone this in. clude the good will and fixtures 2 Florida landlord ---Codd wilt and fixturce 2 Guest --Yoe ; I don't want the hotel manse, the good will and fixtures go with it. Aro you not going to use a blood purifier this Spring? If so, remember that Dr. Carson's Stomnch 13ittors is one of the best known. Largo bottles Go cents. A. young lady, vititiug Ibe the finer time in the connlrv, was al- armed at the approach of n cow, Sbe was too fiightoned to ruu, and shaking her parasol at the animal, she said in n very store voice, 'Lin down ! lie down l' A gentleman who recently retir ed from buelness, has succeeded in winding up all his affairs enno ss. fully, with the exception of his Wat- erbury catch. Ile is at work on that now, taking only twenty men lase for meals. Spring! Spring! Springs Boils! Boils! Boils ! Tho best Blood Purifier and Tonle is Dr. Carson's Stomach Bitters. The People's Remedy. Largs bottles GO cents. 'Will you be kind enough pe,' saki Bobby, in a low, well meduhtt e t tone of voice, 'to give me tomtit er piece of pie 2' 'No, sir,' replied the old man, 'you've bad enough.' 'Ma,' said Bobby, with a dubious air, 'you told inc that politenes al- ways pays.' Husband : 'I can't stand this any longer. You melte nee desperate.' Wife : 'So you have said before.' Husband : I'm going into the next room to kill myself,' Wife : 'The spars room I Oh, dear no 1 if you want to kill yourself, the yard is plenty good enough ' A LESSON. A lesson Is to Unlearned from the sight of a bald head. Falling out and promoture grayness of the hair can be stopped if 'taken in time. Do not let it run on without mak- ing an effort to sage it. Get it bottle of Dr. Doranwand'e German Bair Magic ; it etimu- iates the growth, gives fresh vitality. and keeps int natural color, besides being a su- perb dressing. All druggists sell it. Pedagogue -- ' William Henry Betts, if you deposited $100 in the bank at 6 per cent, Interest, and John Parker deposited the same amount at 10 per cent., lots 4 per cent., who would have the most money at the end of the year 2 W. H. Betts—'Please, sir, the cashier.' 'What' exclaimed the accomplish- ed and fashionable Fitzwiggie to the sxqutsitively lovely Miss do la Sparrowgrass : What euuh, you be Clearest, if I should press the stamp of love upon those sealing was lips ? '(,'responded the fairy like creature, 'should be—stationary 1' While arrangements wore being made for is party a feet evcuinge, ago a lady present innocently iucyuirad : 'Is the invitation to embrace the young unties ?"0h, no,' replied a young man ; 'the gentlemen will attend to that.' And the young lady wonders what the young man meant. 'When do you think the moon is at its loveliest, George dear ?' she added. George, dear, stole his arm and a cautious glance, around the immediate vicinity, and whispered : 'When it is behind a cloud, love,' and they were as happy as if they had sack taken a hypodermic injec- tion of morphine. Busy father : 'illy daueebter, I must take en early train to -morrow; the alarm clock is out of order, and some one will have to sit up so as to wake me.' Dutiful daughter : 'I'll do it pa.' 'My dear, you are a daily and hourly blessing to me. Are you sure you can keep awake ?' 'Oh, yes ; George will be here to- night.' They were sleigh riding. 'Oen you drive with one hand, Mr, Sampson 2' she asked, and oho ask. ed it very sweetly. 'Oh, yes,' he replied, 'but I think it looks better to drive with both.' 'Perhaps it does,' she said, in a mold convinced tone of voice, and than added : 'We musn't be gone too long, Mr. Samp. eon, mamma will be anxious.' Husband (to wife) : •I've been out half the day trying to collect money, and. I'm mad enough to break the furniture. It beats all how some men put off and put off, A. man who owes money and won't pay it isn't fit to associate'--- Serv- ant (opening the door): 'The butch - or, sore, is down stairs with his bill.' Husband : 'Tell flim to call again.' �— Varela 101 otos'. The vegetable crops in most of the Southern States will be large. The total area of wheat land in Kansas is 1,515,828 acres, an ex- cess of 729 acme over the acreage of last year. •The now wheat crop of Australia is estimated at ten bushels per acre, which is a higher average then any attained in thu colony since 1875-. It is stated that in thirby counties in Illinets the winter whoat crop will fall oft' about 80 per out. ; and that in eighteen counting in Missouri the reduction will be 20 per net. A piuoh of sulpbate of alnmouut placed in the water in a hyanointh glees just when the fioworspiko is rising will dissolve instantly, and cattle the flowers to ovule larger and finer than ales. The creamery syetom for mauag Lug milk and malting butter is the only one, says an exchange, that does not tu,tlto clavus of farmers' wives. 1t is the grout emenoipator of the honeowifo, besides tanking morn butter of a higher average quality. It is estimated that to collect on pound of honey from clover 04,000 beetle of clover meet bo depriyed of unbar and 6,750,1)00 vi,ite froth boa roust he made, For p•tinang wall or other objects exposed to damp, to c-nnpoaloe i3 said to be mach nail in Germa:iy farmed of very fine iron filings and linseed oil varnish ; and, when the objeot to be painted is to undergo frequent changes of temperature, linseed oil atm aMhar varnish tiro added to the firs: two contd. It has been estimated that the 'Oohed States consumes every tiny 25,000 cored of timber "That is," says a setietieal exchange, "each night wo retire with 25,000 acres less of forest than the sten gilded with its morning gold." A cow that has been made to mise a calf is its good as if it was previous to being allowed to lceep the calf, an it becomes addicted to vices, among them being that of "bolding up" the milk. The calf should be re moved from the clam as early as possible, and taught to drink from a pail or some artificial contrivance. Experiments made on the grounds of the Dakota Experimental College show that the white birch makes a very rapid growth and that they are well suited to the climate. Tho hardy catalpa, however, is not hardy enough for Dakota winters. Ash leaved maples and white poplars do well. No report was made on the silver maple. eeemit: ofThought . The mystery is God's ; the prom• iso is yours. The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. Advice is like snow : the softer it falls, the longer It dwells upon, and the deeper it sinite into, the mind. Without a belief in personal im mortality religion is enroly like en arch resting o0 one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss. Life, as it runs out, is daily lett. iug us down into Christ's bosom, and thus each deer and hour ie a step homeward, n danger over, 0 good enured. We are hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs ; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. The resurrection of Oh:'iet is no isolated fact. It is only ananswer to the craving of the human heart ; it is the key to all history, the inter predation of the growing purpose of life. There is no such detective as prayer, for no one can hide away from it. It puts its hand an tht shoulder of a man 10,000 milds off. It alights on a ship in hunt -Atlan- tic. - Do to -day's duty, fight to -day's temptation, and do not weaken and dictraot yourself by looking forward to things that you cannot see, and could not understand if you saw them. The children of God "shall mount up with wings as au eagle," not with bhp wings of a carrion crow, which can scarcely mount above the dangbill of earth. No 1 they shall have eagle's wings, and an eagle's eye, too. "I will b° merciful to their un. r ighteousnese, and their iniquities will I remember no more. " What a ripple of divine music l Let i0 flow on, carrying joy and hope and peace to drooping flowers by the edge of life's stream. Write aix cyphers in a line and they amount to nothing. put the figure one before them and they amount to 1,000,000. All human talents and possessions are but cy- phers until you put rho name of Jesus at the head of them. Then they snake their owner a millionaire for !leaven. I find this world, .now that I have looked upon it at both sides, is but the fool's idol. 0 Lord, let it not be the nest my eoul buildeth in, This world, in its gain and glory, is but the great and notable deceiver by which the sons of moa have been beguiled those 5,000 years. 3fIROM Tltf. 5011001, IUJO3%. • itoro aro some Musters actually Given to qusatione in the examine. Minn papers at a certnnin school in the 'United States. Every ono of them contains an absurdity ; start Arm 27, 1888. every one of our readers detect it in each one ? "The natural featnroe of the United States are in the western part of the continent." "The countries of North America are British Amortoa, Deumarlc, tin''cmrla, Niceragen, See Salvia odor, Alaelta and the United States," 'Pito principal rims ala Hudson, Youlcom, and Columbus. The St, Lawrence ritia9 in the liar of Foully and flews to the great lakes," "San Francisco is the capital and sonport of Mexico." Q "What one try in 'North Ant. ulna to bile illest impel -bull in pow- er and inhabitants ?" A. "Tho most imprrt int power iu the inhabitants ere the law and Cougress." '"1'he climate of Geo.telitud and Icobtnd is wham ; the products tiro orae set, figs end bananit.." "South eemerict fs :,iteatod to the S etitharn part of Brazil. From South America ivo .ilould sail novae to Europe " "The Blame River II, no through Italy, Spain, and t> vete,.,t,.t_d, and empties into the North Sea." "Liverpool is the second city in the world in tithe, and it traversed by the United States." "London is the centre of the world, situated ou both sides of the Thames River, aud is expended by mauy beautiful bridges." "The British Iden consist of Aus trade, New Zealand, India, North America and Southern Africa. The government is a king or queen." "1lioltiplioatiou is the process of numbers," Q. "In our'. half how many teethe ?" A. "In one-half there are ton multiplied by one•hnlf which is five whole ones." "The feminine of bridegroom ie bridesmaid ; of shepherd, shepherd girl ; of Jew, Jew lady ; of lion, female lion ; of actor, actoriet." "'The Parliament is a body of men with whom the king or queen has to agree. It consists of Cou- grese and Rouse of Representatives. "The social classes of England are three : the ability, the middle and the low." "Tho greatest African explorer was living Stone. He discovered lake Albert, Victory, and many oth- ers. When he died Ito was buried fn the groat monameut that cover- ed thirteen noes of greyed." The moat Act defeat I Wheu the people of Gal in the old tunes were bumbled before their enemies, the uuivorsal and accepted conclusion was that the fault was their own, stud that they had some- thing to repent of before they would bo again victorious. Now -a -clays defeats are everybody's fault bub ours. In the matter of :he Scott Act it is the fault of the wicked Gov eminent—au if we did not make the Government It is the defeats of the Act itself, which does not pro- vide for its own euforcemeut,—as if any act ,would, that had not the people people behind it. If the poo - pie would gaietly test while burg- lars were going through their hous- es, and would nob interfere so long as the police did not, the burglars would have their own way. Wo may bo sure this great defeat is our own fault in some way. Wo cannot very well tell what faith and prayer there may have been; or not boon, or not been. The best gauge of those is the results in action. In some quarters there has perhaps been clads of the sense of responsi- bility with regard to the use of the instrument which Providence had prat into our hands. Powers which aro not faith, fully used are taken away. What was wanted and what is wanted now in every county is a Law and Order league or a Scott Ant league which will fight for the defence of the county with the same kind of solf•sacrifioe that is drought to bear when the country is invaded by a less hateful and less harmful foe. It le, or at least was, generally easy to raise funds for a hopeful Scott Act contest ; but when money has been asked for to secure prose- cutions, it hes, in many conkers, been next to impossible to get it, People do not like to fight which they cannot see the end of, and they hate to take part in a personal con. filet tbat will make them enemies, perhabs dangerous ones, Tho dam ger element would nein to be ten- fold as great when ib is only the pos• lability of getting a barn burned, or seeing somebody's custom go across the street, than when it is a question of ending one's eon to the moral and physical danger of a .campaign, More consecration to the service is what is now demanded of temper. atm men and women throughoub the country, Those willing to en- list in this service will find magnifi- cent models of public spirited de- votion hero and there in. all parts of the country- men whose ztamoe should be classed with diose of the saints and martyrs who have given their lives for their (cllow•men. The (rouble is the meat of modern Obrie- tfane are not good martyr timber,- 11Ion trail 1'V i Ines s, C7lLLLit(`1',17L11 News. A large meaTe—auulag factory 18 to be erected in kIatnilton, The new coinage boating slate of 1888 is now in oirottlatien. - Gillnnre's band will be in Ham. Ilton Jnno 0, and London Juno 7. A Norwich firm have au order front Brantford for 480,000 brick. Thursday, DIny 17t1i, thee been proclaimed Arbor day at Winnipeg. (salt will vote on it bylaw to raise $8,000 for a hospital on flay 11411. Cies Presbyterian church at Val- leyfield tae been lighted by elec. triolty. 'Phare are thirty-five lawyers ea Belleville, and as many more law etgdents. Western Fair people contemplate spending $1,000 in ring attractions Um year. Ono Million white fish fry were depoeited in the lake at Port Stan- ley Friday. The dietroselrg pal,a,saeo often observed In young girls nod w'omait Is duo in a great-„ measure to a leak of the rod aorpueolei in tbo blood. To remed • this requires a mod, lclne which produces theme neoessary 111110 blood constituents, and the best )et discov- ered ie Johnson's Tonic titters. 1'rieo 50005. and SIM per bottle at G. A. lluadrunn's I)ntg Store, Brussels. IH'iram, Walker, of Walkerville, is building a $15,000 summer resi- dence ou Peche island. The grandmother of the Cauglt- nawaga Indian, White orgle, is still alive, and in her 1141h year. Robert Turnbull, retired farmer, of Galt, has offered to give $5000 towards the erection of a hospital. It cost the country $248,852 to experiment with the McCarthy Act. This was a high price for a small article. On his OOth birthday, Jas. White, lst eon. of Nassogawoya, chopped, split and piled one cord of cordwood in four hours. Nota single individual from the 80th side line in Eldsrslte to the town line of Sullivan, a distance of a mile and a quarter, either chews or smokes tobacco or drinks any kind oilntoxteatinglignor. 'Next 1 A horrible accident natured in Maxwell te Smith's saw mill on the llth con. of Sullivan. A young man iu their employ, named Henry Gilchrist, while handling slabs, came into contact with 0 saw and was c impiotoly savored in two. "Mert Trouble May be Expected," If you do not hoed the warnins of natus, and stance pay attention to the mainteu- mule of your health. How often we sae 0 puremt put off front day to day tho numbest, Di amodtelno which, if procured at the nut• start of the disease, would have remedied it almost immediately, liow, rf Johnson's Tonic Liver Pills had boon taken when rho fast uneasiness made its anpearnnce rho illness would hove been '•n! sped In the ends." Johnson's 'Tonic Bitters and Liver Pills aro docidoly the best Medicines on the market for general tonic rind invigorating proper- Drtious.ggist, Pill)n00015. russols, p05 bottle. Bitters 55 cents and Sl per bottle, Sold by G. A, Deadman, In the Manitoba Legislature Thursday the whole session was taken up with a discussion ou the amended Election Act, which pro- vides for manhood saffraue. Nearly all the members spoke in -favor of !t, Mr. Norquay and lir. LitItivier'e alone speaking and voting against it, The bill passed its second read. ing by 20 to 2. MONEY TO LOAN! Any Amount of Money to' Loan 011 Farm or Village Pro- perty, at • 6 ce 6Per Gent. Yearly. Straight Loans with privilege of repaying when required. Apply to A. Hunter, Division court Clerk, Brussels. FTtiRON AND BRUCE Loan &Investment Co. This Company is Loaning Money on Farm Security at LOWBST RATES OF INTEIU ST. Mortgages Purchased.. SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 8, 4:, and 5 per cont. Interest allowed on Deposits, according to amount and time lot. OFFICE.—Corner of Market Sgttaro and North Street, Godo rich. Horace Horton), M0,s.aIIR.;