The Brussels Post, 1890-9-12, Page 1Volume 18.
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THE FARMERS OF SIAM.
8Y FRANK O. CARPENTER.
Tho biggest farmer in the world is the
King of Siam, His plantation is five
times the size of the State of Now York,
and his field hands number rix millions.
The other kings of the far East have only
a nominal right to their lands and their
subjects; the Siam'eee King owns his,
body and soul. Every foot of territory
in hie realm belonge to him, and hie
people are his elaveo. Siam is naturally
one of the richest agricultural countries
of the far East. Its soil, poorly tilled,
ie so rioh that it prodaoee orop after Drop
without the aid of manure; end, though
not one -twentieth of the land ie culti-
vated, it brings the King an annual har-
vest of $10,000,000, and he has a surplus
of $50,000,000 piled np in his treasury.
DESCRIPTION Or SIAM.
Siam ie a great wedge at the lower and
of the vast peninsula of Indo-China. It
is bounded on the aides and at the top by
the French posseesi0ne of Tonquin and
the English principality of Burmah.
These two nations aro casting their
covetous eyes upon it. It is a land of
some mountains and many valleys. The
mighty Menem river flows from north to
south through it, and the valley of this
ie one of the richest agricultural regions
of the world. Forty miles from its mouth
lies Bangkok, a town of about 700,000
people, 600,000 of whom live in floating
houeee fastened to piles along the batiks
of the rivers. These floating houses are
found all along the valley of the Menem,
and they line the rivers of the interior.
During the rainy Beason a vast part of
the country ie flooded, and the farmers
go from one part of it to another in boats.
Many farmers live in floating houses, and
when their estates lie along the banks of
the river they can float from one end of
their little plantations to the other by
simply loosing the bands which bind their
houses to the piles. The country has a
system of land laws, and, though the
Xing really owns every foot of it, and
ooutd confiaoate estates if he would, the
farmers have a certain right of tenure
to their lands, and as long as they pay
their taxes they can buy and eon them
and will them to their children just as
they do in other countries. The taxes
constitute the King's rents, and these are
very high. All land is taxed ab ten per
Dent. of its value. The crops are taxed,
and on everything that the farmer owns
they must pay a high rate of taxation.
There are taxes on imports and exports.
All oultivated lands pay about sixty
conte an are. Fruit trees pay a tax,
Houses, whether floating or stationary,
are taxed, and all sorts of boats have each
their fixed tax per year. Floatinghoases
whioh have goods for sale pay about $1.50
yearly for can room in the house, and
those used as gambling shops and lottery
station( pay an additional percentage.
Wooden poste pay a tax of ten per Dent.
Firewood pays ten per Dent., and vege-
tablesand obiokens, ducks and hogs must
give a certain percentage to the govern-
ment, uocording to their weight. In ad-
dition to this there are taxes on all kinds
of fishing implements, on farm tools,
and, in short, on everything that the
Siamese wears, sate or drinks. The
biggest tax, however, is that of labor.
This big Farmer King has the right to
call upon every one of his tenants for
three months of hard labor during the
year. He delegates this right to the
governors of bib provinces and the heads
of villages, and the result is that often
when the farmers should be harvesting
their own grope they have to turn in and
harvest those of the King. The women,
consequently, have to do the greater part
of the work, and the men are little better
than slaves. This three menthe may be
increased, as the necessities of the King
demand.
THE WAY RICE IS enLTIVATEn.
BRUSSELS, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1890. Number 9.
and be now levies no tax for five years on
new fields, and the man who oloare s
piooe of land has a property right to it.
The Chinese in this way are fast eating
up Siam. Thoy do the main part of the
business of Bangkok, and their numbers
are so largo and Immigration is so groat
that the Siamese race will eventually be
swallowed up by them.
IRRIGATION Or THE LAND.
These Chinese havo introduoed their
methods of irrigation, and there are
others whioh have been in use from time
immemorial. The ordinary methods are
much the same as those of other Eastern
countries. Two women or girls dip up
water in a basket, pitched within and
without to prevent its leaking. They
stand on the higher bank above the canal
and give the basket a swing by four
strings which they have attached to it.
They pull these Orme as it dips into the
water and lift from six to eight gallons
to the higher level, where it rune off into
the fields. The system of having small
buckets around a great wheel, whioh is
turned by a man or woman walking up
it like the dog on the churn, is also in
nee, and in some places the old-fashioned
well -sweep is need. Labor is Tory cheap.
Farm hands get from one dollar to a
dollar an d a half a week and board
themeely es, and there is a great deal of
debt labor.
MUM MOERY.
Money brings high rates of interest in
Siam. The prevailing rate on mortgage
paper is fifteen per cont., but the interest
is allowed to run only until it equals the
principal, and after that it stops. In
case, however, that the debtor can not
pay his creditor the latter can enslave
him and he bas to work out the debt.
He oan put him in chains and force him
to work by whipping. Aearule he keeps
lending him more during the servitude,
and the result is that such slavery some.
times lasts for many years. I saw near
Bangkok men in chains engaged in fell-
ing and hauling timber, and I was told
they were debt slaves. They bad steel
anklets with great iron bars connecting
them on their bare lags, and in one or
two cases several men ,were chained to-
gether. Tho mortgaged farmer of Siam
has a much worse prospect than he of
our Western States, for if his land will
not sell to pay the debt he himself has to
go into the service of hie creditor. Mort-
gages are entered into here just as they
are in America, with the hope of paying
off the debt at harvest time.
in racemes, like currants, from a climb.
ing vine trained like a hop vine upon
trees or tree stamps whioh have been out
off high up from the ground, and good
bearing vines will yield two good loropps s
year. Very little cultivation is needed.
Cuttings of the vines about eighteen
inuhee long are buried at the root of a
tree, and as they grow the vines are train.
ed toward the trunk. In Ootober and
November the plants are mattered with
a mixture of leaves and cow dung, and in
soros oases with heaps of leaves. On
dry soil it is necessary to water the
plants every other day during the dry
seasons, for the first three years, and at
the age of four or five years the plants
begin to bear. They continue to bear
from seven to fourteen years, and I am
told that the crop is a most profitable
one. The principal crop is harvested in
December and January, and the other
becomes rips about July or August. The
harvest commencer as soon as the berries
begin to turn red and they are collected
at this time and dried for the market. A
good average yield for a plant is two
pounds of pepper per annum.
waniEN DO THE MARRETINO.
The marketing of Siam and the selling
are largely done by the women. I visit-
ed one of the markets in Bangkok. It
was on the main land and coneieted of a
great low shed filled with platforms about
twenty feet square and a foot high.
These platforms are covered with great
palm leaves upon whioh were spread the
wares of the market women. In the cen-
tre of each platform was a pillar whioh
helped to support the roof of the shed,
and against the four sides of this pillar
four women leaned their backs. Half
naked and with her legs crossed, each
had a number of little piles of onions,
pieces of cabbages and other vegetables
before her, and I looked in vain for either
scales or measures. In this market the
only measure was the eye and everything
was sold at so mach per pile. There was
no paper or string used in wrapping np
the vegetables and everything was put
into a palm -leaf and fastened there with
a little wooden toothpick -like pis. Each
woman had a betel box and some cigar.
ettes beside her and all chatted and
smoked as the market went on. The
whole looked very barbarous in oompari-
son with the markets of our western civ-
ilization,
ivilization, but Siam is now at the begin-
ning of a change.
The present king is the most enter.
prising ruler the country has ever had.
He has established an Agrioultural Do.
partment and is doing all he can, re-
stricted as he ie by the ignorance and
superstition which prevail, to advance
the interests of his people both as to civ-
ilization and wealth.
THE 110E fORVEO'T.
This is the great time of the year, and
the barvoating of Siam is worthy of men-
tion. When the rice ie ready for nutting
it looks very much like an American oats
or wheat field. If the land is dry it is.
out with sickles, and steadied similar to
American wheat. When the waters are
slow in going down the farmers some-
times move through the fields in Mate
and out off the heads of the rice and pat
them into baskets. The thrashing is
done by buffaloes or oxen. A dry place
is first pioked out for s thrashing floor.
The grass is out off and the ground is
made smooth and level, a coat of plaster
of cow manure and water being spread
over it to make it solid. After this is
thoroughly dried a pole ie planted in the
centre and the grain is ,then thrown all
("boat this for a ratline of fifteen feet or
more. To the pole six or eight buffaloes
or oxen are then tied aide by side and
they are driven around and around over
the straw until the rice is tramped out
and separated. The Siamese leave never
heard of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals, and they do not
hesitate to push these oxen to the ut-
most. One of the favorite ways of ac-
celerating their speed during the thresh.
ing is by twisting the tails of the beasts,
and with the goad in one hand and ox's
tail in the other a naked Siamese boy
oan get a raoing speed out of a very poor
beast.
The Siamese farmers, like those of all
other Eastern countries, huddle together
in little villages, and they go out from
these to work their fields, whioh surround
the towns. The fields are unfenced, and
cattle are herded all the year round.
Cattle thieves and crop thieves are num-
erous, and it is only by eternal vigilance
that the farmers are able to nye their
orops. The principal Siamese crop is
rice, and rice constitutes the food of the
people. There ie no better country in
the world for raising it than Siam. The
lowlands are easily irrigated and the
rainy season !nets from May till October.
The climate is tropioal and the winters
are like our summers. Ilverytbing grows
almostspontaneonely, and two grope a
year are not uncommon. The rise fields
are laid off in lots of about one•tbird of
an acre, each eurronnded by an embank-
ment of earth about a foot and a half
high for the purpose of holding water
when the land is prepared for planting.
The rice is first sprouted in little patches,
and when it is a foot high it is pulled itti ,
tied into bunabee and taken to these little
fields, whioh are then covered with about
six inches of water. It is there trans-
planted, the men, women and children
bending over and thrusting the strike
deep into the soft nand under the water.
A good workman Dau sot oat about a
third of an hare a day, and the planting
season is any time between June and
October. The harvest time comes along
about Christmas, and in many parte of
the country these rine Holds are arti-
ficially irrigated.
HCLLINO RICE.
After the rine is wall thrashed it is
winnowed in the wind and then packed
away for nee or for sale. That whioh
is used by the family is bulled by the
women, who pound 11 out with mortar
and pestle. Of late years some steam
rice mills have been established in Bang.
kolk, and the first was put up by an
American firm, but they did not succeed
and they sold their plant. Of late years,
however, the product of Siamese rine has
eo Wormed that there are now fifteen
Anne rice milts in Bangkok, and these
mills are in charge of foreign engineers.
RUDE IMFLEMENT5.
TILE INDOLENT SIAMESE.
The irrigation of Siam inoreaaes every
year, and it is obiefly the work of the
Chinese eettlero. The Siamese them.
selves, owing largely to their servitude
under the King, aro lazy and do not ac-
oumulete. 'Many of them gointo the
Buddhiat priesthood, and the balk of the
work of the poor families is dons by the
women. The Chinese settlers are the
harp worker(' of Farther India. They
have to pay a poll tax, but they are not
subject to forced labor. They aro fndee-
triaus and economical, and they come by
the tbousands into Sian. They marry
r
$iatn000 girt' and in tittle r
e acquire p
party. The King is very anxione to in-
crease the cultivable arta Of bis territory,
Meesre. Johnston & Cochrane, marble
cutters, offer a handsome polished marble
table top, 3 Leet square, valued at $18,
for the beet 50 poende tub butter, the
butter to become property of donors,
For the beet oaks (no fruit) mads with
Deadman'e Baking Powder, lot 750„
2nd Soo.
Smith, Maloolm & Gibson, furniture
manufacturers, offer a centre table worth
$8.50 for the beet oolleotion of the follow.
ing cakes (halt dozen of sash):—Ginger
nape, cookies, tea biscuits, tarts, short
cakes mei ono sponge cake.
The farming implements of Siam are
of the rudest description. The culti-
vation of the whole country is done with
a plow that an American farmer would
not nee. It consists of a crooked stick
with one handle, and it has a plowshare
of oust iron about a( big as a mans hand.
This plowshare has a little bele in one
end of it in whioh one end of the crooked
stink is put and the whole outfit costa
about $1,26. It oats a furrow about two
intense deep and five Mabee wide and it is
drawn by an ox or buffalo whioh is at.
twilled to it by a yoke and rope barnese.
When two oxen are used the plow hes a
sort of tongue whioh is fastened to the
yoke on the neoke of the team and in
both oasea the (minutia are driven not by
lines but by a sort of rope halter fastened
to a hole in the nose of the ox. The her.
row is equally rads. It consists of a long
rake with wooden teeth attached to a
bamboo Magee whioh is fastened to the
ox's yoke. It has an oval handle whioh
the woman or men holds and upon which
she Metre down in ordor to break the
elods and drive the troth in the deeper.
Siam raises plenty of vegetables and
fruits, Pineapples are a drug in the mar-
ket ; and lemons, citrons, and potnegran•
¢tee are abundant. Moet delicious or.
angor oust half a cont apiece in Bangkok
and you oan get bananas for two cents it
dozen, The Meg are always green and
the roses end other' Amore bloom all the
year totted.
TIIE PEMMR INDUSTRY.
East Huron Fall Fair.
)i'rom the beginning they were raised A. number of yonag ladies from Detroit,
from seed almost without exponee. Of Kalamazoo and Saginaw City, Mioh„ are
course it is in Lafayette Park that one to attend Aima Ladies College, St.
finds the most beautiful assembiagejof Thomas.
trees in Washington ; in feat, that perk Spencer, the young son of Mr, Earn.
contains one of the finest collection of shaw, Port Stanley, took an old not gun
trees in the world, brought from all parts to the barn to shoot a hawk, and while
of the earth to contribute to the loveliness sitting on the fence with his hand on the
of one of the little sylvan rectangles with gen, waiting for the bird, the gun went
whioh the Capitol abounds. off, the charge passed through bis hand
Congress has reaobed the beginning of and chattered the thumb iu a frightful
the end. The popular favor with whioh manner.
Blsine's reciprocity suggestion was re- John Melville and John Brown, two
oeived has compelled theRepublioan lead- farmers, went bear -hunting in Cumber.
ars in both houses to yield ; but in ao land township. Russell. In the night
doing they are discrediting the plan as Melville heard a noise, and observing a
much as possible and giving it as little dark objeot fired. The report was fol.
mope. In the Hones men who had to lowed by a human shriek. The shot had
abandon the idea of reading Blaine from taken fatal effect in Brown, killing him
the party will relieve their feelings by instantly.
slurring at his plan and then adopting a Peter Small mounted a chair in front
little of it. Having decided upon this of hie Viotoria street office, Toronto,
course they are oounting on an adjourn- Monday afternoon and auotioneered off
merrb between the 21st and 25th of this Lawyer John Creighton's wedding suit,
month, and it is safe to sesame that Con- made by Archibald Macdonald, 365 Yonge
greys will now be in shape to adjourn be- street. As stated some weeks ago the
fore the let of Oat. suit, whioh cost nearly 3100, was paid
Firer Assistant Postmaster General for and ready to leave the tailor shop
Clarkson was an ideal official of the Jack- when seized to satisfy an old Division
soaian school. He was .honest about it, court judgment obtained against the bar -
too, and honesty is not always necessary rister a couple of years ago by Mies
to political ealvabion. He was for sprite Barton, of 95 Bloor street west, who bad
first, last and all the time, and was pop- loaned or entreated money to him which
War because he carried hie banner on the she had trouble in colleoting. The sale
outer wall. His manner rather then his was delayed, as it was expected that an
opinion made him friends, even among effort would be made to redeem the
those who differed widely with him. clothes by satisfying the execution, bat
Congressman Smyzer has been frozen Mr. Creighton went away up to Lake
out of the Raum investigation by his own Simcoo on bis holidays soon afterwards
refrigerator stock, and iceman Turner and nobody else interested themselves
remains the only man wbo has yet scored more than to speculate how the matter
a
emcees in the amalgamation of frigid- would end. Peter's eloquence in des-
ity and polities. oription of the dress snit was loot on the
Brother Wanamaker says be doesu'I unsentimental crowd. The highest hid
want to be President. or Senator, but, of he obtained was 316.50 from the tailor
comae, any man may be coaxed. who made it, and it was knocked down
to him. This sum does not yet liquidate
Canadian Newt+• Miss Barton's claim completely, whish
was over 340. Meanwhile Lawyer
A dancing club bas been formed as Creighton has not been married.
Sarnia. During the past two weeks Guelph has
Heavy rains have interfered with the has harbored an American boodler, who
harvest in Manitoba. was run down on Thursday. George
W. H. Panton, registrar of the County Bosenbaek was employed by Baken Bros.,
of Hastings, died on Saturday. book pnbliahers of Detroit, and succeeded
At Portage la Prairie, Man., the wheat in defrauding the firm out of some $500.
market bas opened at 85 cents. His mode of operation was to (moors the
Hagereville is to have a high school first payment on a book, whioh was sold
building, at an estimated Dost of $6,000. on the instalment plan, and pocket it -
A Sarnia man olaims to have made as When be heard that his employers were
=oh as 35 and 36 a day by oetcbing "camped on his trial," he skipped out,
and selling frogs. coming to Guelph. Mr. Baken arrived
A Hamilton workman named Bradley in the oity on Thursday, end prooured a
was killed by the saving in of a drama in warrant from Judge Drew for the young
whioh he was working. man's apprehension. This was handed
Photographer Dixon, of Toronto, sus. to Chief Randall, who, from the des -
woefully crossed the Niagara !bluer on a oription given him of the man wanted,
wire cable on Saturday, soon located his game, When Bossnbaok
The contract for building the Walker. was accosted he stated that bis name was
ton postoffioe has been let to Tighe Bros., Laing, and that he was employed by a
of Toronto, at 314,560. firm of book publishers doing business in
Editor Watson offers bis paper, the the Arcade at Toronto, but on Mr. Bakes
Dundas Standard for sale. He intends recognizing him he was taken prisoner
retiring from the newspaper business. and arraigned before Honor Judge Drew.
The hall given by the Lieutenant Gov- The court offered him an opportunity of
ernor of Quebec in honor of Prince returning to Detroit with hre former em -
George of Wales was a most brilliant ploy train cis s the accepted
eoStraiten on the
event. first'
The contract for the new City Hall •
and civic buildings at Brandon bas been People We Know.
awarded to Major Stewart, of Ottawa,
the figure being $38,869. Mrs, Jno. Semi is in Lucknow.
Rev. G. R. Turk, of the Dublin street John Rivers, of Woolatock, is home
church, Guelph, has been invited to the on a visit.
Pastorate of the Galt Methodist church J. Creighton, of Palmerston, was home
to commence next June. on Sunday.
Dr. Cassidy has been appointed chair- Mrs. Deadman and children Sandaled
mac of the Provincial Board of Health, in Goderich.
and R. A. Lyon, ex -M. P. P., bas been W. H. Willis, of Mitchell, was in town
appointed registrar of Fast Algoma. last Sunday.
White amber has been discovered oe a Mies Olara Creighton is visiting reli-
100•aore farm in Bedford, and the owner tives in Granton.
of the property has deolinod an offer of W. Farrow end H. Brendle spent Sun•
310,000 for it. He demands double that day in Belgravia
sum. D. Armstrong and wife were in Wal.
The Mayor of Bowmanville has re- kerion last week.
signed his position as chief magistrate of Mies Stark, of Seaforth, is visiting
that town on account of ill health, and Mrs. Watson Ainley.
his resignation has been accepted by the Miss Luaus, of Belmore, spent a few
Council. days in town last week.
Rudolph Bentley, of Port Lambton, D. Robb, Inspector of public schools,
Ont., has been oommitted for trial at was iu town on Wednesday.
Sarnia, charged with setting fire to the Mies W. Babb, of Sydney, Man., is
butcher shop of Wm. Davis at Port visiting relatives in Brussels.
Lambton. Mrs. Grant and. children, of Dakota,
Mrs. Hector McFarlane, of Ekfrid, was are visiting at W. R. Wilson's.
badly injured a day or two ago by a sow, Leslie O'Connor is at Mitchell this
whioh ran at her and knocked her down week relieving a brother operator.
when she opened the door of the stable Richard Williams was away at Hays -
in whioh the animal was confined. ville, Wilmot township„last week.
A orioket match between an eleven of Wm. and Walter Burgess enjoyed a
ladies and an equal number of gentlemen, few days visit at Belmore this week.
handicapped with broomstioks for bats, Mrs. J. H. Brownlee, of Ottawa, ie
is talked of, and will probably take place visiting her father, Postmaster Farrow.
on Teoumeeh Paris in about two weeks. Mrs. Rankin, of Oalgary, N. W. T., is
The rear oars of a freight train broke the guest of 'Ara, J. T. Pepper this week.
loose on a grade near Owen Sound on D. McDonald was at Lnoknow on Wed.
the C. P. R. and the afternoon express nesday attending the Caledonian games.
name in coutaot with them, making a A little daughter of Rev, Jno. Rose'
pretty bad smash. No one was serious. bas been very poorly for some time
list.
►yMrs.rpast.
Hamilton, of Bayham,fover S. Fear and wife are away this week
60 years of age, was killed near Port enjoying a visit with their sons in To.
Burwell last week. She was returning ronto.
with a small load of bay, when the Hugh Williams paid a hurried visit to
horse took fright and ran sway, throw- Peel township to see his brother. who fa
ing her out. - She died in about three very sick.
hours after the accident, Rev. W. E. Kerr has gone to Montreal
A gang is operating in a new way on where he will attend college. He went
farmers atoned Galt. They watch until via Oakville.
they see a farmer leave a farm im. Mies Kate Wilson and Miss Mabel
pigment in a distant field of some portion Smith spent s few days visiting friends
of his farm, and then they come dawn on in Wingham.
it, break it np and it is presumed carry Rev, John Mulholland is home on a
11 off to be sold as old iron to the junk short visit to his parents. He is now
shop keeper. ionated in Montana.
A youth named Robinson has been Stanley Anacreon{ loaves Brussels on
committed by P, Pa. Chadwick, of Inger. Saturday for Toronto, where ba purposes
soli, to four years in bks reformatory. staying for .tbout two months.
Be was arrested by Chief Northgraves on Rev. John Ross, B. A., and Rev. fe,
a oherge of hitting an old lady named Jones were at Wingham on Tuesday at -
Smith on the head with a stone, and es tending the Maitland Presbytery,
the father admitted that the lad was be. Rev, A. A. Bowers, a fernier resident
yond his control. His Worship gent him of Brussels, passed through on the train
down to Kinegton for the time mentioned. last Saturday on hie way to Kincardine.
The lad is only 11 years of ago, Bo o0oupies a position in "Truth” office,
A ohild of Daniel Cummings, of Toronto.
Guelph, eighteen months old, was asvore- Wee. Barb, who has bean catcher for
ly burned by carbolic acid Met Thursday the Brussels bale ball olab for Some
night. The mother had been tieing it, time, lett total this week for his Home
and left it where an older child got hold at Dresden. We believe ho pnrposse
of it. The younger child male a grab going to the S'tetee shortly.
for the bottle, and an the struggle for it The editor of Tee POST left on Monday
the cork came otib and the liquid ran for Montreal where he attend( the
down inside the obild's clothing front ite Geuoral Conferehoe of the Methodist
throat to its feet. The chest le badly ohuroh ae a delegate. 'lute. Karr and
buruod, tea serious regatta aro amici. Leslie are Visiting 1010115es in Deeds('
and 1latnilton.
Death Of Rev. J. Broley.
The citizens of Palmerston were
ehooked on Tuesday morning of last
week when the rumor spread over the
town that the Rev. Jamas Broley had
died suddenly on the previous night at
the reeidence of E. S. Robbins. Al-
though the death of the rev. gentleman
was sudden in one sense of the word, it
was not so in the way in whioh that term
is generally need, as he bas been under
medical .treatment for sometime. Mr.
and Mre. Broley had received invitations
to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs.
Robbins, and as Mr. Robbins knew that
Mrs. Broley was not in the best of
health, he provided a carriage to convey
her from the station to bis house, and
on the arrival of the train he was sur-
prised to find Mr. Broley was more in
need of the conveyance than was his
wife. On arriving at the house, Dr.
Stewart was Bent for, and attended the
rave gentleman in his professional capa-
city. On Monday afternoon the doctor
reported the patient in a very bad way,
as he was suffering internally from
violent neuralgic affection, but so sudden
a termination of the illness was not at
that time anticipated. The rev. gentle.
man passed away about 6:40 next morn-
ing.
The deceased gentleman was appoint-
ed pastor of the Methodist ohuroh here
in 1881, and at the end of three years
was removed to Seaforth, and from there
he went to Elora and at the time of his
decease was pastor 9E the Methodist
ohuroh in Fergus.
As a preaober the rev. gentleman was
possessed of talents of a very high order,
his sermons always dvidonoing great
study of the subject treated of whilst the
language was choice, elegant and ap•
propriate, delighting the fastidious in
such matters, yet easily understood by
the unlettered.
On Wednesday morning the remains
of the rev. gentleman were removed
from the house in which he died to the
railway station for oonveyan0e to Fele
gas, where the interment took place on
Thursday. The membereof the Masonic
Lodge, together with the members of the
craft from Harriston and Listowel, ac-
companied the mortal remains of their
deceased brother to the station.
By this sudden visitation of the grim
messenger a widow and three children
are left to mourn the loss of their earth-
ly protector, and to them we offer our
heartiest sympathy.—Palmerston Tele-
graph.
Washington Letter.
(From our Regular Oorraepoadent.l
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, '00.
The arraignment of the Senate of the
United States by Mr. Kennedy, of Ohio,
and his rantankerous attack upon a pro-
minent member of that body, who is also
high in the councils of the Republioan
party, render it imperative upon the
House to purge itself of the contempt at-
taching to such a fragrant violation of
parliamentary privilege. If not, the act
of one of its members becomes virtually
its own act, and the House is put in the
position of having made want on anima-
tion of war upon the Senate and accepted
Mr. Kennedy's leadership in the assault.
The gentleman from Ohio should have
been called to order when it woos seen
what direction his extraordinary pbilip-
pie was taking. But the House may
Mill relieve itself by expunging from the
reoord the remarks that he has "with-
held for revision." Otherwise the Sen-
ate must, perforce, take notice of pro-
ceedings that are entered upon the offs.
Dial minutes in suoh truoulent derogation
of its honor and dignity. It cannot af-
ford to be °barged with wearing a "cloak
of courtesy that has become a stench in
the nostrils and a byword in the mouths
of all the honest citizens of the land,"
and behind which "petty party bickerers
may barter away a party's principles and
play the demagogue in the face of the
people.' Said Mr. ,Kennedy: "If the
Roman toga had been bedraggled in the
filth and mire of centuries, surely the
cloak of Senatorial courtesy has bean
used to bide the infamy and corruption
whioh has diehonored and disgraced a
body whioh was Duce the proudest in the
land. Again, referring to Senator Quay,
Mr. Kennedy stamps him as a leader who
by his course upon the force bill has be-
trayed his party, and to whom Judas
Iscariot left all exempla worthy of imita-
tion, in that he weht out and hanged
himself. The,$enate is accused of har-
boring this "branded criminal." Clan it
remain silent under such an imputation
upon itself and upon one of its moat in-
fluential end oonsliioaous members 7
Washington might appropriately be
called the City of Trees. To them it
owes a large share of its beauty for
tvhinh it is famed, and assuredly thin
beauty will be greatly enhanced when a
few more years have passed by and every
street and avenue has become, through
the natural growth of Plante now only
half developed, au aroned aisle of luxur-
iant foliage. Before very many summers
have same and gond the'lindone of Moa-
saobusetts avenue will aurpase beyond
comparison those which have given fame
to the celebrated promenade in Dalin.
It has boon estimated thee the trees of
Washington have increased the value of
real estate 20 par dont, The perking
ooimniseion Dever waits for it street•to be
graded end built upon before planting it.
No sooner is a now one laid out than, as
gttioltly as the line it will take is known,
trees are sot out along it. Considering
What trees have done for Washington the
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS.
The Direotors of the East Huron Fall
Exhibition have arranged the following
attractive program for the coming Fair,
to be held in Brneaels on Thursday and
Friday, October 2nd and 8rd:
T00115DA1 EVENING.
Selections by Brussels band. Duette,
violin and organ. Club swinging. Se.
Motions by orchestra.
FRIDAY'S PROGRAM.
A wood sawing contact will take place
on the Show grounds at 1 o'clock sharp.
let prize, $2 ; and, 31.
Indian club swinging—Boys over 16
(or men), 1st, 75o., 2nd, 50o., 8rd, 250.
Boys under 16, 1st, 750., 2nd, 800., 3rd,
25o. Girls over 16, 1st, 75o., 2nd, 50o.,'
3rd, 25o. Girls under 16, let, 75o., 2nd,
50o., 3rd, 25o.
Highland dancing—Highland Fling and
sword danoe (open to men or boys)let,
$4 ; 2nd, 32. Highland Fling and heen
Trees (girls or women), let, 34 ; 2nd, $2.
Old man's rape, 100 yards, 60 years or
over ((trrmers only), lst, 38 ; 2nd, $2.
Boys' race, under 16,100 yards (farmers'
sons), lab, $2 , ''205, 31.
150 yard race (open to farmers), 1st,
$3
2nd 2
Molting football, 1st, 50o., 2nd, 25o.
Bagpipe competition—March, Strath-
spey and Reel, let, 34 ; 2nd, 32.
Tug of war, between Morris and Grey
townships, ten residents of each ou s
side, Prize 310.00.
ar80000 runes.
Thos. MaLauohlin, Jos. Webster, Peter
Molewan, L. MoNeil and Robt. MoMillan,
the well-known importers of thoro'•bred
horses, beve made up the following
prizes :—Beat stallion with three spring
foals of his stook, led by halter, 1st, 312 ;
2nd, 38 ; 3rd, 35. Exhibition at one
o'clook sharp.
Conrad Miohml will give prizes for the
two beet Dolts sired by his imported
Clydesdale stallion "Toon Clerk," let,
$8 ; 2nd, 32.
A. F. Embnryoffers the following prizes
for spring foals aired by his imported
horse "Young Tastesall":—Horse colt,
let $3, 2nd 32 ; mare foal, let 33, 2nd 32.
idesers. Ewan & Walker offer for the
best walking farm team one neokyoke
complete and wood work of whiffietrees.
Messrs. Plum & Roberta, blacksmiths,
will shoe, all round, gratis, the best
buggy horse.
Bost fatted [steer or heifer, 32.00, by
Joseph Clegg.
G. A. Deadman offers for the best
heifer (age considered) sired by his Jersey
bull, let 31, 2nd 75o.
Beat two beebels Carter's Prize Prolific
2 -rowed English malbini barley, from
seed imported by Dominion Government
last spring, 1st (by Robt. Graham, grain
dealer), 38 ; 2nd (by Thos, Farrow, post-
master), 32.
W. H. hloCraoken offers, to purchasers
of seed from hire, asfollows:--Six Stvsde
turnips, 151 60c., 2nd 26a. ; Mx long red
mongols( let 60o., 2nd 26o. ;• six yellow
globe mangels, 1st 60o., 2nd 250.
W. 13. Kerr offers Tho Brueaele POST
for one year for alio two largest pump.
kins, they to b000mo his property.
Pare, Wm. Ballantyne offere for the
Iargelt loon ire+h hon eggs, prolleced on
the premien of exhibitor, let 75o., Ind 5000,
T. Fleisher, jeweler, offers a silver
cruet, be an eight day oiook, valued at
$0.60, for the beat 50 pound tub of batter,
the butter 10 become his property.
One of the most profitable crops is the
pepper oeop, and Slain exports about
3200,000 worth of bleak pepper every
year, The pepper plantations ata largely
taanailad b Chinese. The berries grow
city's ilivoetmenb bits been very mall, paled.