The Brussels Post, 1885-6-12, Page 3Juan 12. 1>3g6,
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tv1IA'1' IS AN EDITO1t, PA:"
A loan who gathers lino neve, my boy,
And dons 11 1111 in luno o, my boy,
A than o! wit,
And taut and erit-
,A Munn they a)1 abase, my boy.
The mon the printers deride, my boy,
'Tho's truul,b o on every side, lay buy,
A laud of earn,
That's herd to bear,
Weighs oh til naiad beside, my boy,
His purse is always light, my boy,
Never n coin in sight, my buy.
Early and lute,
Driven by fate,
Ile woks for the roue of right, my buy.
In spite of all that's said, my boy,
In 1110 end Lo'il be ahead, my boy,
b'or up nbavc,
Where all is 1011',
110'11 go when he is dead, my boy,
MND TOL'It LEVEL,
You run be a fishing shallop it you cannot
bo a ship,
If you cannot bo a lighthouse be at least a
tallow dip;
Yen sen Le a valiant soldier though you
may not bo n host,
Ton can watch a single headland it you can-
not guard a coast ;
'Moreie everything that's noble in the whi-
tlow and the grace,
Of Inliilling every duty, whatsoever bo your
place.
If you Aland the day in pitting and in staring
at the sun.
You will find that you aro blinded long bo.
fore am day is dune.
Better be the humbly limpet that is safe
where'er it oliogs,
Than attempt au eagle's soaring when you
lack the eagle's wings.
The10 (110 11(0110 as swift ue awnllows, there
are others who must creep,
And you never sawn turtle try to take a
tiger's leap.
If y0(1 cannot be a flatting with its thunder-
ous report,
Bo content to enrry powder fn a cornet' of
t1(0 fort;
If you cannot tale all (11 Illy will] n great
commander's skill,
'Moil ea11 fire a 310111113011 musket in obedience
to Lia will ;
Throe is, LutaSi1tle ctugass in the ship
however great,
But each HIM and sail -fibro holds n portion
of its fate.
deter try to 111,1(1 n bushel if designed to
bold n peri',
Or cumuli the tonnes and camels with
your hall nn fuel) of 00011;
Never try to Ince with dolphins if you can-
not Oven swim,
Or to chalk up hawks for vision if your eyes
be old and dim ;
Never spread n grain of butler over fifty
yards of brood,
Or attempt with a penny trumpet to awaken
up the dead.
Not every stick of timber that is fit to make
a mast,
Not 00003 structure buikled is a pyramid to
]est,
Not every piece of music is nu anthem or a
psalm,
Not every growing sapling that is pine or
lofty palm ;
YE I, every mossy atom has its own peanliar
grace,
And 00011 its perfect usefulness or beauty
111 its place.
Theso truths are old end hoary, yet we need
them Every tiny,
To reco10110 050 longings to aha limits of
our way;
The only trso philosopher is he who learns
content,
Though quartered in n palace or but shelter-
ed in his tont ;
Whose cheerful soul is ready to oneompase
what he can,
Nor vex itself in criticising God'e eternal
plan.
1ho secret of the journey is to know and
bear its length;
The key of every effort is to rightly gauge
your strength ;
Accepting »'11th is given you w'lth the pa.
Bence that but asks
Tho knowledge for its purpose and the our.
oge for its tasks;
Content to struggle bravely and with honor
in the strife,
Whether palled to lend or follow ou the bet.
tie -fields of life.
We need no higher 1111 slots than successful.
ly to tench
The vanity of grasping for tho things be-
yond our natal;
Of wasting 1130(1000 talent in ambition's use-
less fret,
7.'o reap bat bittor failure and the ashes of
rogret.
Co, study what is in thee, and ha a noble
plan ;
Know first ; then do 1117 duty in the Groat
1lernol'n plan.
So sbnit thou know contentment and eon.
tonlment's rich increase,
A life endowed with blessings and a spirit
filled with peace ;'
A dearth of disappointments and of hours
with pride perplexed,
Of jealousies ,hear1burniugs that so many
livor have Vexed.
when dead, though Prince or peasant, 'tie
enough [Let they should toll,
"Ho know his place and purpose, and per-
formed °nob duty well."
Tbero won't be Huy white elephant
in the circus5es this year. The price
of whitewash has advanced until the
business won't pay.
"Ela," said a twelve'year-old
daughter, "I :wish I had been Eve."
"Willy, child, %that nor?" "013,
'cause." "Dwaine what ?" She
didn't have to dreg through so many
tttary years before she had a beau."
Natural Illstery Notes.
Camels sometimes live to the ago
or 100 years,
A professor of natural history says
anllnals fregnontly cry,
The total number of reo0gnizo(
sp001on of Australian 11 81)05 now roach.
ea 1,291;
Two adveulnrers am through Ne-
vada exhibiting a flying shake. The
reptile is four feet long and has two
wings attached to its body, about four
inebee baolc of its lend.
A etraugo fish has been dieovered
off tho lt1ereceo waist. It is t1 foot
rind a half lone, (1ud of deep black
color, and has an enerniens mouth
with eloctrie membranes, resembling
a pelioaus.
Lobstoro, eays Prof. ]3acheloro, are
DOW taken almost entirely from sleep
water, and at the present roto of de.
ereae0 will shortly become curiosities,
to be fouled only in the museums.
EARLY SUMNfEIR WORK.
A steel rake, anti a sharp light hoe
aro the two implements in common
use which may be chiefly depended on
for garden use. The steel rake on -
Miles the operator to go rat idly over
a bare surface -an operation of much
value, even when there are no ger-
minating seeds of woode. A hoe kept
constantly pinup by meanie of a touch
onoe or twice a day on the grindstone
will perform twice no much worn( ns
a dull 0130, and do the work much
batter. A sharp tool may sefoly pees
almost within a hair's breadth of a
row of plants ; a dull one meet be
worked ata dioteuee or do harm.
Theon who have so much trouble
with keeping clown the weeds among
their strawborries, and garden crepe
generally, will be surprised to final
how easy the worst is, when it is done
once a week in the way pointed out.
Between horse culture Siad frequent
dressieg, destroying weeds before
they come up, and preventing the for-
mation of a crust, to great reformation
in garden culture is et hand to all
who will accept it. Rubbing off and
pinching back shoots constitute an
important part of early summer work.
The sprouts which spring up below
inserted grafts or starting buds should
bo carefully rubbed off before they
have crowded and injured the now
shoot. Tho needless shoots just
starling on grapevines, and which
if allowed to grow, will make too thick
11 112888, shouik bo similarly treated.
Raspberries and blackberries are to
be pinched back when two or three
feet high ; they grow very rapidly,
and are often overlooked till too late.
Finger pruning of young fruit trees
bring them easily into symmetry, and
saves heavy work with the saw in sub
sequont years. Currants aro greatly
improved by summer pruning, by
preventing the dense mrss of shoots
so often seen when the bush98 are
neglected. The work ehould be done
early, or when the noe(llees shoots aro
green and eon. To melte newly set
fruit trees to grow well, steep, the soil
mellow and ()lean about them, and
prevent the formation of a hnrcl crust.
As the warm weather approaches,
dostruulive inaoots, In some form or
other, will be sure to be on hand, aura
sometimes by counting! myriads.
There is but one way to treat then),
and that is to destroy them. Prompt.
nen and clean work are cheapoot.
Many insects are kept in checic by
other species which are para8ities,
and some of floe birds aid in the work
but the successful gardener and fruit
grower will depend on his hand, and
1h0 machinery and appliances which
he can now, call into service wilt
work more rapidly than all other aisle.
Caterpillars aro swept off in their
nests by hundreds; aphides are killed
with soap or tobacco by the thousands;
Paris green, from a spraying pump,
is still more rapid in its work with the
codling moth, and with the wiser
worm it is equally sun0eseful; and
the annuli() Is rnp]dly destroyed by
using the j'arriug apparatus of improv-
ed construction. White hellebore is
en effectual remedy for the gooseberry
and currant worm when thinly dusted
over the lean ; a better way, how-
everisto mix It with 1/0103' at the rate
di tablespoonful to two or three gal-
lons of tenter, and tlpply with a fine
rose or a spraying syringo.
THE 1Wss.E1113 .E'O T
So that throe of the wounded beva
died. Those killed at Milli Creek
were; Joeoph \rortnette, HI, Pierre
Parontoau, Joseph 13oyur, and rn roan
named ])eejarloia, ns well ao two' In.
11'1118, The wounded were :-Joseph
Delorme (wbo Js since reported
(hrta(1), .Ambrose Job]n, (who died
a (ow (lays ago Itt H1o4b11-
1001), 1189 //au Ile111)1o0, 1"./01 11D0
Charles L,m, lloe, ]heir] (laden',
Itomttld Gariepy,Mai11'ice henry,
William Strain, and E. Pierre.
The Patine journal also gives the
following as the mines of the rebels
who surrendered themselves to lion,
ltllddleton et the eaten time 118 I11e1
- 31«011110 Lopiue, EDI 110111 lad Oho(I).
pnfp, I3aptietc Ituebelenu, Joseph
Pilon, Alexia Sabornbarde, Pierr1°0110
Parrenteau, Delphic° Nohn, Andre
Sauvage, ]Maximi Dubois, Baptiste
VanDelo, Pierre VanDale, Itloiso (Jul-
iette, Phillippo Garnet, Patrice Tour.
00, Francis Touren, Alex. Fisher, Al.
Bert 1\Ionkmnu, Wm. Jackson, Pierre
Henry, .Ignace Poitrns and one of his
sone, Joeoph Amend, and a Sioux In.
cline. Charles Nolle, Thos. Scott,
James Iebister, au(1 henry tioulcmnu
have been released.
Word line been received hero by
1ua11 giving details of great suffering
and privation among tho lialf•breede,
also etori+'s of 111(1)18)99 by the troops.
Idol Las sent word to his brother
Joeoph at St. Vital to go out west
and look after his wife and two chil-
dren, as they are in great poverty.
In response to thio Joseph Biel send
10.(r. Nault loft yesterday for Batoche.
WILBERFORCE ON THE POTATO.
"Did you never hoar the story of
Vilborforoe's 090001) on 111e virtues 0f
he Irish potato ?" asked Henry
eorge of a Journal reporter. "No?
n the days of Wilberforce 901110men-
ary reporting was In 11 primitive
tato, and there was not the 8(91110
ystem practiced in making. the re-
orts that is now in vogue. The ro-
osters 'stood in with' and helped
ech other by comparing notes at the
d of a speech or debate, and it not
frequently happened that one re-
rter would be left to take notes
lile all the others repaired in a body
some neighboring publio-house, as
Miseries aro styled iu England, and
eyed their time iu some more eon.
oral way than in listening to dreary
caches. This at least was the case
one econslon whoa Wilberforce
as fu parliament, One reporter
d been loft to take notes for all,
Ila the others enjoyed their "alf-
d 'elf' at an adjacent bar. The
low was of a waggish turn of mind,
d conceived the idea of perpetrating
ell on his colleagues. When they
urned, after an hour's absenoe,
0. books and pencils were pro.
ood, and the other nuked to pro.
d, 'Pias anything happened in
absence ?' queried the spokesman.
appenacl1 cried the wag, 'Rap-
ed I I should think so. Wilber.
o has just made the mast eloquent
ech of his life -ono that will st-
et the meet wide -spread attention.
has boon comparing the English
Irish nun try folk, and advancing
or'os to account for the physical
oriority of the Irish.' Then lie
coedecl to repeat an imaginary
ech, which the others took down
isely: 1Vhy le it that the Irish
endowed with brawn and mu501e,
a the English are weakly and of
rior physic -lee ?' asked Wilberforce
he course of the alleged Spoeoh.
e bonen of the superior virtues
10 Irish potato. Yes, gentlemen,
10 the potato that our people
t look for elevation from their
out semi•iuvalld eoecliti0n.' The
others tools down all the speooh
great accuracy, and rho next
fling 11 appeared in all the news.
rs, with one exoeptiou, and that
the one ropreeented by the wag.
reporter, Wilburfurce was aunt
dad on seeing the speech in the
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occurred to a single one of the report.
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eel.'
'1'119 11EBEL LOSSES.
liowl'Auin, Man., June 5, --Le
Manitoba publishes an exact list of
the rebel lulled in the four days'
fighting at 13atoebe 8. They weld :-
Elzear'Touren, Calixto Touren, Da -
mese Carrier, Donald Ross, Joseph
Ouellette, file; jack Swain, Joseph
Dolormo, Joseph 'VanDale, Miohol
Trottior, Andre Lelondrt,
There were five killed at Fish
Creek and four at Duck bake, mak.
Ing twenty Meti8 stilled since the
commencement of the iroublee; but
a letter dated Batoche's, bray 24,
gives the total number of killed as 2£1.
A mum who went to n slotting rink
it few days ago fell and vette pinked up
"seneelees," nye an exoilaugo, Well,
What of it? You didn't expect the
fall Would knock 1110 sense into frim,
did you ?
"An Iudiaua young laady has in.
vented a piano stool that rants the
back, Now let her invent a con-
trivance that will .rest her auditors
tvllile elle is playing, aud another
long.(alt want will be filled,
"And them's what folks calls hand.
scam, are they ?" said a farmer as he
watehod a couple of hansom cabs
rolling down Olio street. "Well, t
wonder what they'd think if they
could 800 a low wagon with red
Wheals ?"
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100,000 POUNDS
Wool Wanted
FOR THE SEASON OF 18186,
C-.C]..SiZ p..c9_ITJ_
I awl prepared to pay the highest
cash price for good fleece wool d01]y-
erod tit its
LISTOWEL W_O_OLEN MILLS.
Having boas ten years in business
hero, it has always been lay endeavor
to pay higher than the market allows
and in the poet yours have paid city
market prices. Wool being so low iw
price, it will afford ole pleasure to .
pay the highest pr700 golnf;. In ex-
changing wool for goods will allow (
few cents more. Will also parented
to sell my goods at 011.511 prices. I
don't have two prices --each and
trade -my rule is one price only.
Hue/ling the year round enables ole
to carry t1 largo stock. This year
having a larger etoek than usual, will
offer you the Beat Steck of Tweed in
the Dominion to choose from.
Dolrble & 7'wisted Full Cloths,
Flannels, Blankets.
All Woods of Ike Noq'awt t'alferms and
I,etext rleeignA.
Carding and spieniug done on
short notice Stud guarantee to make
best of yarns. I use only the best of
lard oil on all my work.
Come early with your wool and
you will find us ready and willing to
give you our best attention. We will
be happy for you to
Inspect Goods and Prices
Before disposing of your wool.
I remain, yours respectfully,
Tho Mont Dn1,phtrul
SUMMER TOUR
Poises eteamore, Low Rata.
Sour Tripe por Wok Hetweon
DETROIT AND MACKINAC
And 7/vary Work Loy Hotwoen
DETROIT AND CLEVELAND
Wr!(o for our
°Picturesque Mackinac," Illustrated.
Oontaiva Pull Partioulare. 3ranod Proc.
Detroit & Cleveland Steam Nov. Co.
C. D. WHITCOMB, Ocrr. ppae, AOT„
DETROIT. M1CH.
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INVESTMENT CUMi01NT,
This O,mg,nny was csgauizad on the 18511
of April last, cod is now in active,.poration,
and is prepared to receive app i4atious for
loans on good farm security.
1'1110 Company being a bees} institution.,
can offer to borrowers greater facilities .for
t,rotting their ]Haus exeoated with dispatch,
han can be had front outside or foreign
Companies, 101,11 whom days 101,1 weeks aro
often roquired to close up a loan.
When 'Title rind Security arc satisfactory
borrowers luny obtain their money from
this Company on day of application.
Duo attention has been paid to confining
Solicitors' charges to the lowest rates.
Mortgages purchased if security and tit-
les are approved of.
A Savings 3301111 Branch will be shortly"
opened by the Compa113'. Depositors will
be paid the Highest Current 113(10, on their
deposits.
The 's Offif.10S on he corner
of Market Square andNorithSt., (rodurich,
in the Building adjoining Lb,: Dry Goods
Store of J. C. Dotlor 433 ('o.
DI.RL1CTORS ;
Jomen WIr,onoos, President,
1V. J. It. Homing, \'ice.l'1•esident,
Stu R. J. C.utrwar0u',
Sunnier. 011(1(31x0,
Wal. 141. 011.11, Baaforth,
J. 1I. Roamers, Dungannon; '
Tnux Acnmso;, Ooderioh
Jounax,
J, II. 001050RNE, '•
Soaiorrrnts-C'.(u80ox,HOLT,t CAMERON.
110111033 123(1. ro0, .Manager.
Goclericll, May 7111, 1301. 14.1
UTftN !
A (baler in Brussels is advertising 1111(1 offering f01' sale a AftSP)ItAt3Lti
IMITATION of the
GEXUIX.E LU CA' .TTIUla' 2? XCT WIRE,
of which 1 ate til° SOLE AGENT ill BRUSSELS, 1111(3 the Public. Str0 Carl-
timed against purchasing the spurious article. The pal'tioo in Canada
who are placing this w18L'rC1Il;n ISIIT.1'riox on the lllarket are 11 OW being
sited for ton thousand dollars damages. The Genuine Buck Thorn
Fence, the 131330 and CI217APEoT fence in the world, call ONLY, be pur-
chased at the "GOLDEN PADLOCK,"
1 awl also Agent for. the Ontario Barb Feneo Company, who make
the best Barb 'Wire in Canada.
English three ply plain twisted fence, a remarkably cheap and dur-
able fence for Gardens.
Several tons of Land Plaster in 200 lb. sacks for sale,
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THORN FE'S'" OiING.
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This fencing is made of a Solid Flat Slip of Steel neatly twisted ma
well galvanized, presenting the largest possible surface, to (:lie view.
Although 110 part of it is made of wire it is no heavier ier and as cheap as
Barb -'Wire Fencing, 1)11t is prefos're(1 by some principally all a top
strand, being more easily soon. The "Lyman" Is the ONLY ribbon
Fencing made 111 Commie; And is lunch superior to the. imparted fencing
of the same description.
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Window Shades, and Haytshoj•rl Springs,
A Lot of Fancy Window Shades, in Cloth of Different Patterns.
Also I3artsllorll Springs, Call and see them before putting tap the old
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