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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1888-9-28, Page 3SEPT, 287 1886. ` lOEefr 1, T1111 LI'1SSON Of TIIE CORN, '0h, I learnod the oddest loeson you over heard last night, I was popping corn by the lire ; the film - ea leaped high and bright, And the tiny little Icornole, no smooth and hard, you know, Turned inside out in a moment; as white as flakes Of snow. Mut some woro burned and deadened, and those I laid aside, And from them learned a lesson 'twill bo a warning guide. Papa had just been reading of the mis- sions far away, And, with mamma, had deckled to givo ten cents a day. iIa said it was but little, and yet 10 a year 'twould be :Full six -and -thirty dollars ; it seemed so much to ate, And than I said, "papa, what makes you give so much away, Does everybody everywhere for missions have to pay ?" IIo said, "Look here, my Willie, I will show yon how wo stand, In that one matter of oxponso, in this, our native land. With corn we'll make a record --each grain shall a million be, A million dollars, think of that : now lay them down and see For what we spend our money. Here, bite this ono 10 two. Five and a half for missions, home and foreign ; that will do, Noxt lino make twioe as long—elovon millions, what wo pay To all the ministers who preach and labor day by day, All the funds for public sohools, eighty- Ave ightyAvo we'll have to take ; Lay them on tho tablo—long the row thoso kernels make, For sw:-at'ning used in oaks, and pia and candy this will he Ono hundred and fifty-five the millions— you're out of corn, I see. Shell some more for boots and shoes, one hundred and ninety-six, Lay tho grains straight and close, my boy, or your lines will mix. Two hundred and ten for cotton goods, or clothing thie will be, For meat put down another line—throe hundred, now, and throe, For bread, tho great and vital need, live hundred and five you take." I said, "Uwill be the longoet line, Pm sure, I'll have to make, For everyone must have their bread and eat throe times a day, There is no other need so great for which we have to pay." "Six hundred millions make the line," again my father said, "And. this is all for poison, for tobacco, not for bread, And for all these wasted millions we've no return to show • Bub shattered nerves, disease and death ; smoke and filth, you know. Nine hundred millions ; I will help you count and lay the line, Aud this is all for liquor, brandy, rum, and beer and wino, A deadly poison to destroy soul and body, heart and head, And costs us nearly twice as much as does our daily bread. Was this vast aum divided, and each ono made to bear Ilia part of tho exponeo, fifteen dollars is the rightful share Of every woman, loan and child, each year the same, while they Would need in that time eleven cants their mission sharp to pay. Nine out of ten of all the crimes to alco- hol are laid, Ono hundred thousand pauper men by drunkenness are made, And this, rum's standing army, we all are taxed to keep In vicious, worthless idleness, they toil not, sow, not reap, But we will put the corn aside ; numbers oan not compute The awful loco when man is sunk far lower than the brute, Tho loss of strength and manly pride, of will and power to do Aught that i8 good and noble ; be kind, and pure and true." Than father laid, so tenderly, his hand upon my head, "God spare thea from the bitter curse." "Amen," my mother said. Ages of tiro Leading Living Public sten of Canada. Sir Naraies° Belleau, ex -Premier of Canada 79 .Hon. Samuel Creelman, Legislative Council, Nova Sootia 79 Sir. A. G. Arohibald,ex-Privy Conn - oilier 74 Sir John A. Maodonald, Premier of Canada 78 Sir A. A, Dorion, ex -Minister of Justice 70 Sir S. L. Tilley, ex -finance Minis- ter 70 Hon. 0. Mowat, Premier Ontario08 Sir Oharlee Tupper, High Commis- sioner .. 67 Sir A. Campbell, Lieutenant -Gover- nor of Ontario 67 lion. A. Mackenzie, ex -Premier of Canada 66 1lon. M. Bowel', ffiinieter Customs64 Hon. A.. G. Jones, ex -Privy Coun- cillor 64 Hon, J. H. Pope, Minister Railways, 64 Hon. A, W. MaLolan, Lioutenaut- Govornor o1 Neva Scotia ,. 68 Sir H. L. Langevin, Minister of Public Works 69 M. H. Itiohsy, Esq., ox-Lioutentant- Governor alloys. Scotia60 ion. John Carling, Minister of Agri- culture 60 IIon. Jas. Shohyn, Treasurer of Quebec 59 Ilon. Wm. Maodougall, ex•Privy Councillor 67 Hon. David Mills, ex -Privy doun• oillor d7 Hon. Edward Bioko, ox Privy Coun- cillor.. . . .... ouncillor95 T. E. Manny, Esq., M. P., Nova Sootia , 85 lion, John Costignn, Minister Inland Revenue 68 lion. Edgar Dowdney, Minister In - Wier 58 Hon. D. L. Hannington, ex-Protnior New Brunswick 58 Sir. R. J. Cartwright, ox•Privy Councillor, 52 IIon, Thos. Greenway, Premier of Manitoba 60 lion. 11. Mercier, Premier Quebec,48 Mon, L, 'Taillon, ex -Premier Wuehoo 48 Iron, John Norgnay, ex -Premier of Manitoba. 47 Icon, L. 0. Powers, Senator, Nova Scotia 47 Mom a. Chaldean, Hooretary of State 47 J. I) Edgar, M. 3'., Ontario 47 Hon. Geo, W. Moss, Minister Educa- tion, Ontario 47 IIon, Wilfrid Laurier, Leader Liber- al party 46 Sir Adolphe Caron, Minister Militia 49 Ilan, W. Snllivau, Premier P.11. I44 IIon. A. 0. Blair, Premier of New Brunewiok 44 IIon, 3, S. I), Thompson, Minister of Justice 48 IIon, L. Davies, ex -Premier P.E.L. 43 Hon, George E, Foster, Minister of Finance 41 lion, E. 3. Flynn, ex•Commiosioner of Crown Lands, Queboa 40 Mon. W. S. fielding, Premier Nova Scotia 89 lion. W, T, Piros, ex.Premier Nova Sootia . , , 88 Hon. 0. Ii. Tupper, Minister of Ma- rine and fisheries 88 A Journey Across Lebanon. BY REV. 0. B. IIOWIE, M. A., PASTOR OF I{N0%OntlaOII, BRUSSELS. About a day's journey north of ancient Sidoso and about eighty milds southwest of Damascus lies the city of Byrout. Hare I was lo- cated as a manager of an institution between the years 1877 and 1880. On the 14111 of September, 1879, be- fore daybreak, I was oalled by my servant and asked to get ready as the mule and the driver were all ready waiting al the gate. Before I had finished aroesing myeelf my travelling trunk and bed were made to balance each other on the back of the mule, and soon I was coni• fortably wonted between the two packages on the centre part of the back of the animal. Deeb, the driver, led the way between the mulberry gardens and the tvell•butlt and beautiful houass of modern Byrout The people who were al- ready astir were either the devout Mohammedans hastening to the mos- ques for their morning prayers or the scone or ea]te sellers already rending the air and disturbing the morning with their shouts coni mending their articles. These cake - man are very important in their way for they furnish breakfast for hundreds of people, Byrout is said to have a population of ono hundred thousand, while not many more than a hundred fires are kindled there for the sake of breakfast -mak- ing, and hence the usefulness of the cake -man, who meets you in the morning, both himself and hie cakes equally hot, or, at least, new, from the public oven. Soon wo passed the cemeteries and reaehod tho vary outskirts of the city. Before enter- ing the wood of pino we had tho privilege (unless you choose to say the pain) of a few words with the publioan (a custom house officer.) Ho sat Dross -legged under a tree smoking his cigar. He is ill paid and therefore ill clad, ill fad and sometimes not very well behaved. This is a fair professional descend- ant of Levi, or Matthew, who sat at the place of customs, and, no doubt, corresponds with some of Zaoohou's subordinates. Probably much of the unfairness and faithlessness to duty which is reported of Turkish officials may be explained by a reference to the smallness of their pay and unoertainity of their term of employment. This remark con only mean that in straitened cir• cumstancee temptation is more suc- cessful and moral principles are Less likely to stand. However, we Boon Bottled with this officer, Deeb shak- ing hands with him and transfering a small piece of metal to his hand, for ho has it in his power to detain you for hours whether you have anything subject to custom or not. Early in the forenoon a silk spin- ning factory rose to view, where much of the Lebanon silk cocoon is spun. Tho silk epinning business appears to be the only ono in whioll women may find comparatively oda stoat employment. The general eons° of the community is rather against encouraging female labor, and Mohammedans would probably prevent it in any oroumetance were it in their power. But, es ib hap- pens, the Mohammedan population of Lebanon is confined to the South- ern parts and, even then, it is but a minimum. There aro about five French houses represented in Leba• non engaged in buying up and spin• ing the racoon. In addition to these there aro many factories own• ed by natives. The grower, bow. ever, may not sell all the cocoons, but retains so08o, which vary soon burst open and out comes the meg- got, or what was once a maggot, but. now a winged fey of considerable Size. Several of these are planed on a skied* and, under the superin- tendency of the owner, go together in pairs and Soon tho sheet or vessel is covered with seeds, or egge, which aro retained for hatching and roar. Mg the following spring, This re• markabin insect, in its origin and progress, le a most eloquent die- ouzo, showing forth the wisdom, power and, oonsogttsntly, tho glory THE BRUSSELS POST 3 of ifim who originated and oonteu- ually directs and governs all Iliat le, Between the egg and worm elate and batmen those and the ohrysal- lis and afterwards the fly state there aro differenoee and changes (before experiences) quite as much, or as little inoredible, as those between human life now and the life after the grave. The maggot in the co- coon is, for some time, in a state of apparent dead note, oold and motion- less, but net long after, not only domes life and motion, but the power of multiplying and propo• gating the species, Why thou, with you, should it be thought a thing incredible that God should raise the dead i' Tho silk worm farmers will, no doubt, appreciate the 1st chap, of 'The Analogy,' should it ever find its way into their haude, but hap- ily they may bo staid not to need it, for with them if any reality is more real than another then the reality of the life to come is by far the sternest and most undoubted, Tho providence of God and the immor- tality of the soul appear to be facts intuitively known by those people, and if they are enslaved to a thous- and superstitions it is solely in con- sequence of this grand and im- movable faith that "there is no difference," but that all have sin• sed, that the whole world stands guilty before God and that there is a day appointed in which the world shall be judged in righteousness, hence the cry, "What moat I do to be saved 9" and the thousand er- roneous answers given to the ques• tion. [To be Continued.] Successful Poultry Raising. Charles Lyman, a successful rais- er of poultry, writes as follows :— "In raising poultry or stock of any kind, it should be the aim of every one to keep it healthy and improve it. You can do it very easily by adopting some systematic rule." These may be eummed up 10 brief, as follows :- 1. Construct your house good and warm, so as to avoid clamp floors, and afford a floor of sunlight. San• shine is bettor than medicine. 2. Provide a dusting and scratch- ing place whore yon can bury salient and corn and thus induce the fowls to take the needful oxeroiee. 3. Provide yourself with some good, healthy ohiolcons, none to be over 8 or 4 years old, giving one cook to overt' twelve bars. 4. Give plenty of fresh air at all timee, eepeeially in summer. .5. Give plenty of fresh tvater daily, and never allow the fowls to go thirsty. G. Feed them systematically two or three times a day ; scatter the food so they can't oat too fast, or withoutproper exercise. Do not feed them more than they will eat up clean, or they will get tired of that kind of feed. 7. Give them a variety of both dry and cookod feed ; a mixture of cooked moat and. vegetables is an excellent thing for their morning meal. 8. Give soft feed in the morning, and the whole grain at night, except a little wheat or oracked corn placed in the scratching places ,to give them exercleo during the day. 9. Above all things keep the lien house clean and well ventilated. 10. Do not crowd too many in one house. If you do look out for disease. 11. 'Use carbolic powder cocas. Tonally in the dusting bins to destroy lion. 12. Wash your roosts and bottom of laying nests, and whitewash once a week in summer, and onoo a month in winter. 18. Lot the old and young have as largo a range as possible•—the larger the hotter. 14. Don't breed boo many kinds of fowl at the same time, unless you are going into business. Three or four will give you your hands full. 16. Introduce new blood into your stock every year or so, by either buying a cockerel or setting of eggs from some reliable breeder. 16. In buying birds or eggs, go to some reliable breeder who has his reputation at stake. You may liavo to pay a little more for birds, but you oan depend on what you got. Celle are not cheap at any price. 17. Save the best birds for next yoar's breeding, and send the others to market. In shipping fancy poul- try to market Gond it dressed. Household Hints Gum camphor scattered about mice habeas web drive them away. To take ink out of linen, dip the ink spot in puro molted tallow ; then Waal' out the tallow, and the ink will come out with it. This is un- failing. To clean pio plates that have long been used for belting, put them in a largo kettle of cold water and throw 0n them a few hot ashen or cinder8 ancl lot them boil for au hour, Blood stains on fur can berem ,v• ad by rubbing them well wibh dry plaster of Paris. Broken limbs should bo placed in & natural position and the patient kept quiet till help arrives. You can make clout waterproof by varnishing it with linseed oil, coating with solution of rnbbor to naphtha. To remove ink stains from boards use strong muriatio acid or spirits of salt, Apply with a piece of °loth and thoa wash lborongbly with watt.. To protect cluldmon's clothing from fire add ono ounce of alum to the laet water used iu rinsing cloth- es. This renders them manakin. mablo, To ma1c0 apple water, out the apples in small pieces and pour over them boiling water. Strain in throe hours and sweeten. This makes a refreshing drink for an invalid. To revive old Bilk : When silk has lost Be gloss and bocomee limply it may bo restored by sponging with a solution of half an ounce of gum tragacanth in a pint of bot water. Starch polish : A piece of door - line, candle spermaceti or white wax as large as a robin's egg will give n nioo gloss. A teaspoonful of salt to each pint of starch prevents stick. ing. For chapped lips, beeswax dis- solved in a small quantity of swept oil, by heating carefully. Apply the salve Iwo or three times a day, and avoid welting the lips as much as possible. For cleaning mahogany, lake one pint of furniture oil, mix with it one half pint of spirits of turpentine and ono half pint of vinegar ; wet a woolen rag with the liquid, and rub the wood tho way of the grain, then polish with a piece of Sennet and soft cloth. To cleanse porcelain saucepans fill them half full of hot water and put in the water a tablespoonful of powdered borax and lei it boil. If Ibis does not remove all the stains, scour atoll with a cloth rubbed with soap and borax. To remove mildew : Bub the spots well with soft soap, and then follow with e mixture of soap mud whiting (or powdered chalk) and lay upon the grass, wetting it ea' oasionally with warm soap suds un- til the spots disappear. To clean decanters take some soft brown or blotting paper, wet and soap it and roll it up in small pieces and put it into the decanter with some warm water. Shako well and thea rinse with clear cold water ; wipe the outside with a dry cloth and let the decanter (Train, Stains of fruit on good table linen can ho removed without injury by using the following with care : Pour boiling water on chloride of lime, in the proportion of one gallon to a quarter of a pound, bottle ib, cork it web, and iu using be careful not to stir it. Lay the stain in this for a moment, then apply white vinogar and boil the table linou. Canadian dolcwra. There are 50 os GO Mormon fain - thee at Lethbridge, N.W.T Tho Y. M. 0. A. of Ottawa are about to eruct a $22,000 building. Mr. Cochrane is at Winnipeg ar- ranging for the sale of 6,000 sheep off his rancho in the Northwest. J. Hamilton liaoey, who was the workingman's candidate at the local elections in Hamilton last Deccan'. bar, hies decided to go to Inland China, as a missionary. W. McCredis, Lyoue, has a Spring pullet about two months old who has adopted six motherless chickens, and clucks too and feeds them just like an old bon. While diggiug in West street, Goderioh, last weak some cedar logs were found as eouud as on the day they were put in tlto ground sup. posed to be 80me fifty years since. In the fishing grounds of Now Brunswick the catch of sardines has boon very large, so largo in fact, that the supply is greater than the demand and the flab aro spoiling. Tho price offered is from $2 to $8 per hogshead. Jacob Cumming, of tho 4th con., West Flambo'o', has the produo. Lions of one grain of oats: 24 stooke with heads averaging 18 to 20 iuoh- as long. One head produced 164 grains, which makes in all 8,986 grains from one. In nob this a won- derful yield, on-derfulyield, Tho Manitoba exbit at tho Tor- onto fair attracted oonsidorablo at. tuition and surprieo. Sheaves of wheat and oats 7 feet high ; prairie grass 12 feet high ; wild hops larger than cultivated ones ; honey from Selkirk ; a 104 lb. pumpkin ; to- Inatoos the equal of any in Ontario; an asparagus plant 6 ft. high. A alleaf of wheat was shown from a farm at Iiildonan, •:i: milds from NVbnnipog, which had been cultivat, ed for 60 years without mono being 1 meowed, A euntlowor 2 ft. 1101058, and Wee. adore 6 tnchee tior0se, arearmaansameataunaceasemearritaerorreanaetalgraraMereallei Walter Ross, of Youngeville, Woet Gorra, reeontly dng up a hill of potatose on his farm, out of which ha counted 2i06 potatoes, Hire. Gilmour, whose husband keeps a butcher shop its Toronto was serving a cue omer when she aoeidentally cut off liar thumb with A elonver. A rather raro occurrence took place near Oihana, one day lately. In ono family, a birth, marriage and death occurred within three or four hours. The town of Meafard finds itself short ,$2,612.22 through the dotal - cation of the late treaenror, A, Watt, and will endeavor to collect it from the sureties, Tire, /Limes, of Princeton, exbib Red at the Guelph fair, 220 variet- ies of grains, clovers and grasses. Mr, Elmos NM awarded the highest honors for the attraebicu. John (arabam, Blandford, hoe the champion industrious turkey hon. She line laid an egg every day since she started in the Spring, notice- ing bo do so while hatching. The first shipment of salmon from the Skeena river was sent forward over the Q.P,R. the other day. It comprised 840,000 cans and regnir od a special of fifteen oars. • 11ir, Took, of Waterdown, Went- worth county for .seven consecutive years has taken the Canada Com- pany's prize of $100 given at the Provincial fair for the best 25 bush. ole of Fall wheat. Dr. Collins, of Peterboro, who left for Cobourg on Sunday, where he was to have been married Tues- day, was buried at Hastings .Tues- day moraing where his parents live. Blood poisoning unexpectedly fol. lowed a small boil on his neck, and he died Monday on the eve of los wedding day. Ho was 28 years old. The Undertakers' Association met in Toronto. Io the evening a din- ner was given to the delegates in Millard's undertaking establishment, everything being of a funeral des- cription, the plates oofdia shaped, the napkin rings of coffin handles, the handles of knives and forks the 818080, the jellies in the shape of urns, weeping willows, ata., all im- ported from Boston. The Uudertalcor's Association of Ontario }rite a unewbership of 460, Strawberries aro 91010 10 bloom for the nomad time this season at Banff, N.W.T. The Doeerouto oar woike have orders for 20(1 flat cars from the Canada Atltttltle. A Chinaman sentenced t t death at Cariboo, B.O., assizes c.m.trtuttc'l sufcid,i in 148 cell. A Iiingotoniau has given $128 to meet ttau expeueos of a Salvation Army officer to India, Tt10 Durham Chronicle elan soya tho editor of the Peview goes fi-Bing and shooting on Sunday. W. Rain°, of Toronto, 1118,1 on view at the fair 8,000 egg, repre• smiting 600 specter o£ bird:,*. Alfred Wales, of Itockton, has a splendid crop of pea:'; from about 14 acres ho got 030 bualials, Two saw midis at Vancouver, B. C., annually ehip 60,090,000 feet to Australia, New Zealaael and China. Tho Windsor hotel, Montreal, bas subeoribetl $8,800 towards defray- ing efraying the expanses of the winter car. nivel, American capitalists aro beoom• ing largely intorested iu phosphato and iron mines in the vicinity of IlIiugeton. On Sunday the Kingston police stopped the sale of fruit, which takes place on the wharf every Sun- day morning. The total number of salmon dis tributed from Canadian hatcheries ties spring is nearly foartoea mill- ion. The Fraser river is the larg• est, 6,807,000. An unique tollgate is met on the Davenport road, near Toronto. In. stead of the usual humble one storey building planted iu the middle of the road, a cord tied across the street is made to do duty in this case. The traveller Wad in front of the obstruction and waits until the small boy in charge unties the string and collects his fee. Wo never know through what divine mysteries of compeosation the great Father of the :mimeo may be carrying out His sublime plan ; but the worlds, "God is lore," ought to contain to every doubting soul the solution of all things. 011 ETH L The undersigned having completed the change from the stone to the celebrated Hungarian System of Grinding, has now the Mill in First -Class Running Order and will be glad to see all his old customers and as many new ones as possible. Flour and. reed lwayg liancl. Highest Price paid for any quantity of Good Grain. WM. MILNE. 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