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The Brussels Post, 1885-6-12, Page 3Juan 12. 1>3g6, ilortrp 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 G 1 s s p 011 in po 301 to dr pa go sp on WI ha wh an fel au a8 rot not du roe our ,H pen fore ape Ora He and the sup pro Ape pre() are whin info i11 t 'It 1 o(tl It la mus 1)x89 Tho with (001' page w11e gist fours ul0rniug, and oxplauatioue of great length followed without unuecesaary delay. Tho ridiculousness of each utterances by 90011 n man had not occurred to a single one of the report. ars 011 [whom the joke was perpotrOt- 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 ?" 3 100,000 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. ,(-CENTRAL HOUsE1:Rt USSELS.-Arrr n 8� t11001 at of 1A1y,1�11,111 Ynyu LrY IInueo l 30]11 he m] 11,11 31' Aman,^ l'IV00lplas, auua,ranuu (1,1 13,its, 1...' 1"ttul' 0r Laical 3lunnfaotu?1,H rr1lea; ra,,) (01 lm. 10130,1 ,'iflurn 301113,,, 1,ou hr".,111‘,„1,, 1, of kluda ,t tepu.raa Solicted,YY,3,ratrdru,roueublco•r. o'i;l•:IL. u itON ANI) 11It1TE LOAN AND 1 - 47.3m .B..1+, BROOK. OAUTIO=`' l' 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, r THORN FE'S'" OiING. --ill-- 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. .vUgrr ( 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 01105. B. .F2P?-v.