HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1887-9-9, Page 3SEPT, 9, 1887.
THE BANANA P111114.
Like a bar of the beaten gold
1 gleam in tate enamor sun ;
I atu little I know, but I think 1
throw
A man that will weigh a ton.
I send out no challenges bold,
I blow me no vaunting boric,
But foolish is ho who tremleth upon nae,
He'll wish he had uo'er been born.
Like the Bower of tho .field, vain man
Goeth forth at the break of day ;
But when he shall feel my grip on his
heel
Like the stubble he fadeth away ;
For I lift him high up in the air,
With his heels where hie head ought
to be,
With a down coming crash he maketh
hie mash,
And I know he's Mean gone upon me,
I am adorned by the man who buys me,
I am modeat and quint and meek ;
Though my talents are few, yet the work
that z do
Has aft made the cellar doors creak.
I'm a canary -colored republican born,
And a Nihilist fearless I be ;
Though the head wears a crown, I will
bring its pride down,
If it seta its proud heels upon me.
THE ERUSELS POST
The feat thus won so notably, after so
many drops,
Homed all his latest energies, and raised
hie highest hopes,
And as lie read the omen of his future
feats and fame.
Heroin, patriotic fire buret 'forth in for.
yid flame,
can So that aim and effort after, aye took
such a proper= turn,
Till therefrom sprang the fame of Bruce
and fight of Bannockburn.
PROHIBITION.
A wily spider's not was spread
With the remains of hapless flies ;
No valiant arm avenged the dead, [eyes.
Where duty watched with sleepless
The matron, chancing there ono clay,
Beheld the tyrant in her room,
Darting upon his struggling prey ;
She swept him with her legal broom 1
A guant and hungry wolf, whose lair
Was littered o'er with whitened bones,
Grew fat upon his dainty fare ;
He heeded not the victims' Moana.
What's death to lambs, to wolves is fun
High living made the wild beast bold ;
But Justice shot him with his gun
To oavo from death the harmless fold..
A vulture, flying from its nest [height
Upon the mountain's cloud -Dapped
Wont forth a -foraging in quest
Of doves that ventured in their flight
From the protection of their cote.
A marksman with unerring aim
Fired with a prohibition. shot [game.
And brought to terms the fluttering
A. dog was foaming at the mouth,
Dragging along a broken chain ;
He hated water, though a draught
Scorched his hot, open jaws with pain.
He was a dangerous beaat ; would bite
With fatal fangs mankind or brute;
But he fall in his tracks despite
His barking at the men who shoot.
THE PASSING CROWD.
Did yon ever stand in the orowded street
wipe,; In the light of a city Iamp,
And list to the tread of the million feet,
In their quaintly musioal tramp ?
As the surging crowds goes to and fro
'Tie a pleasant sight between,
To mark the figures that oomo and go
In the ever-changing scene,
Here the Publican walks with the Sin.
ner proud,
And the Priest ir his gloomy cowl,
And Dives stalks in the motley crowd,
With Lazarus, check by jowl ;
And the daughter of toil, with her fresh
young heart
As pure as her spotless fame,
Keeps step with the woman who makes
her mark
In the haunts of sin and shame.
When Time shall have beaten the day's
tattoo,
And. in dusky armor night
Is treading with eoholessfootstep through
Tho gloom of the silent night,
Some few of these shall be daintily fed
And sink to slumbers sweet,
While many will go to a sleepless bed
With never 0 crumb to eat 1
Ah, me 1 when the hours go joyfully by,
How little we stopped to heed
Our brothers' and sisters' despairing cry
In their woe and bitter need.
Yet such a world ea the angels sought
This world of ones we'd call,
It the brotherly love our father taught
Was felt by each for all.
KING ROBERT AND THL SPIDdIB.
Wearied, worn out and suet irind , the hero
warrior lonely lay
On rude and rustic couch, from home'
comforts far away,
No sleep did close the ayelids, mind nor
body found no rest,
For sad cares and erusliing sorrows, held
high revel in ltia breast,
Tho past was go disastrous, and the fu-
ture all so drear
That dire and dread despondency, was
hastening on despair.
Upon his humble heather bed, all night
ho turned and toee'd
Por six sueoeseive battles, he had fierce-
ly fought, but lost,
While name and fame and kingdon wore
fast fading from his sight
And all hie fondly fostered hopes, seem-
ed set hi darkest night,
Thus did be ile and languish, all for-
gotten and forlorn,
Impatient and unrested still, to hail the
Doming morn.
Thug low in glumly gloom he. lay, Illi
with the dawning light
A. certain moving mystery, above him
caught hie eiglib,
With glowing light, intent he saw, a
spider vainly try
Six times to throw and iix its thread on
to a beam near by..
Once more it tried its strength and skill,
the seventh time and the last,.
When to 1 the flimsy floatingthread flew
forward and Omsk feet,
While $cotobuteu boast exultantly of
what was then aohieved,
Sueh grand haart.glowing issues could
not then have boon conceived ;
For mid such odds and armaments the
fight was fought and won,
That Sootland's indepeudonos was most
gloriously begun,
Of omen and of issue then, aye make
the noblest 1220,
As a living, loving monument to Groat
King Robert Bruce.
What Salt Is Good For.
When you give your cellar its
spring °leaning add a little copperas
water and salt to the whitewash.
Sprinkling salt on the tops and
et the bottoms of garden walls ie
said to keep snails from climbing
up or down.
For relief from heartburn or dys-
pepsia, drink a Iittle cold water,
in which has been dissolved a tea-
spoonful of salt.
Ink stains on linen can be taken
out if the stain is first washed in
strong salt and water and then
sponged with lemon juice.
For weeds iu the grass, nut a
pinch or two of salt in the middle of
each, and, unless a shower washes
11 off, it will kill the weeds.
In a basin of water salt, of course,
falls to the bottom ; so never soak
salt fish with the skin side down,
as the salt will fall to the akin and
remain there.
Salt and mustard, a teaspoonful
of each, followed with sweet oil,
melted butter, or milk, is the anti-
dote for Fowler's solution, white
precipitate of arsenics.
For etaine on the hands, nothing
is better than a little salt, with
enough lemon juice to moieten it,
rubbed on the spots and 'then wash-
ed off in clear water.
For weeds in pavements or gravel
walks, make a strong brine of
coarse Balt and boiling water; put
the brine in a sprinkling can and
water the wends thoroughly, being
careful not to let any of the brine
get on the grass, or it will kill it
too,
If a chimney or flue catch on fire,
close all windows and doors first,
then hang a blanket in front of the
grate to exclude all air. Water
should never be poured down the
chimney, se it spoils the carpets.
Coarse Bait thrown down the fine is
much better.
SIMPLE REMEDIES,
The beet treatment for alight
burns le to apply cotton batting
soaked with liniment made of equal
parts of linseed oil and lime water.
13e careful not to break the blisters,
should any form.
To cure a Dough, roast a lemon
very carefully without burning it ;
when it is thoroughly hot, cut and
squeeze into a cup upon three
ounoes of sugar finely powdered.
Take a teaspoonful whenever your
cough troubles you.
To prevent the akin discoloring
after a bruise, take a little dry starch
or arrowroot, merely moisten it with
oold water, and plane it on the in-
jured part. This is best done im.
mediately, so as to prevent the ac-
tion of the air upon the skin.
When a chill comes on, drink a
pint of scalding milk, in which has
boon stirred a epoonful of ginger.
Sweeten, if desired, and drink as
hot as possible, These directions
were given to a lad, who was shak-
ing by the stove, and it broke the
chill at once, and m half an Hour he
was out skating.
Clothing whirl requires disinfect-
ing should be submitted for about
throe hours to a temperature of 260
degrees'in a °hautboy charged with
sulphuric fumes from a large quant-
ity of sulphur. The chamber should.
be so constructed as to :prevent the
fumes from paining off. No germs
can stand this.
A ease of poisoning by nutmeg is
recorded in the British Medical
Journal, in whioh'one nutmeg had
been eaten by a patient as a oure
for diarrhoea, 11 caused him b be-
come giddy, stupid, and very drowsy
all next day. The narcotic proper-
ties of these gods, and of others of
the same natural order, do not op,
pear to be generally known, and
seem worthy of investigation.
The Parry Sound North Star es-
timates that there are 1,000 portions
camping on the islands of the south
channel, between Parry Sound and
Penetangnisheno.
Sam Jones at Grimsby,
Sam Jones said :—"Now, I wish
you would all put your parasola
down. I think all of you would
rather be a little uncomfortable than
to bo unjust, and if you keep your
par/keels up you aro treating those
behiudyou unjustly, (Applause.)
Then the preacher began ono of
hie characteristic discourses, taking
Re his text : "And they elan be
my people," etc., from the prophecy
by Zeobariah. These are the words
of God, our Father, to us, die
children, full of love and fatherly
sympathy. My life largely shall
be reproduced in my children, and
yours will be the same, When I
go to your place and little Willie
rune to meet me I see in his featur-
es those of hie parents, As in his
physical life, so there is a resemb•
lanes in the moral life. 'Train up
a child in the way he should nob go
and when he is old Ile will not de-
part from it. Train him as you
should and it wilt be the same.
"1 am glad our theology has im.
proved, so that now we are on the
eide of a progressive theology,
which makes it possible for us to
receive exoeedin g abundantly above
all that we can ask or think.
A rich man had a son, to whom
he was goiug to leave $500,000,
The son woe dissipated for a num-
ber of years, and the father kept
the money in the bank ; and after a
while the boy cams home and said,
'Father, I have drunk my last drop
and played my last game of oards.
From this out I am going to lead a
new and upright life.' Then the
father joyfully handed him a °book
for his: inheritance. Now, brother,
you don't know what God has laid
up for you. Some of you, if you
bad eternal ]ifs given you, would
squander it. There ie in life the
divine,and the human part of the
work. Every farmer in Canada
knows that the divine part is to
send the rain and the sunshine,
and man's part is to do the plowing
and hoeing. Some of you want to
change places with !God, and do the
shining while He does the plowing.
I tell you of the shining was left to
you there wouldn't be any parasola
needed for a long time. (Laughter.)
Let us do our part as obedient
children, and God will do the rest.
"If wo want our children to grow
up righteous we must train them iu
the home. Don't leave it to evan-
gelietie services about a week each
year, and to the Sunday school, but
let each father and mother do their
duty and our children will grow to
be the right kind of Christians., We
have too many whitewashed Chris
tiaus and not enough of washed
white Christiane. There is a great
difference. A whitewashed Chris-
tian, wants a new coat of ,whitewash
every spring and fall and then he
looke dirty, But a washed white
Christian is a, good man through
and through.
"No wonder so many go to hell,
for we have not sympathy enough
for our fellow men to go to work
to save them. The Salvation Army
shows its sympathy because they go
in their bare feet, some of them,
after fallen humanity, and whenever
you see a man with a red jacket on
that is a standing rebuke to the
church of bo -day. If the Methodist
church had done its duty there
wouldn't have been any necessity
for the Salvation Army. A woman
in Minnesota said 'WslI, the Sal-
vation Army may do some people
good, bat they could never do me
any good.' That woman's father
was a drunken politician, and yet
she was too proud to receive good
from the Salvation Army. Why,
my friends, lots of people who get
money are very proud, and if you
trace back a generation or two you
find perhaps that their father was a
eoapmaker. That is nothing against
their father- but it shows to their
disadvantage.
"Don't you know that woman's
inhumanity to woman makes count-
less millions mourn. A man may.
be debauched and licentious and yet
you, mothers, will allow your daugh-
ters to associate with them and
dance with him at balls: If you
would ostracise that man from so-
ciety and never speak to him you
would be doing the proper thing and
benefitting moiety. Let a young
woman fall from virtue and elle is
shunned and cut off from society.
Why should that be so in the case
of the woman more than the man ?
I want sympathy of the right sort.
Christ had eympathy with tho fall-
en women who 04131G to Him.
paupers? When a woman loses her
character she is the poorest, most
forlorn creature in the world. If
you want a field for charity there is
a good one.
"A, preacher has no time to work
among sinners. It bakoe him about
eight days in the wook to look after
his church. If he stops to spit on
his hands his church will get away
from him. (Laughter.)
"I speak to 2,000 Christians,
probably, this afternoon, who, if
they were to die to -night, would
have to wear a starless crown, be-
cause they have done nothing to
win souls. Now, let as get out of
this lethargy and go to work.
"I like that word brother. If
my brother or sister had anything
too good for me I wouldn't call
them brother and sister. We Chris -
Ilan people are brothers; but we are
step- brothers. In our country when
ono Methodist meets another he
shakes his hand warmly and says,
'How are you, Brother Jones ?' In
this country you are - colder ; you
say 'Mister.' There is no religion
in that word mister—you don't find
it in the Bible—and it is the coldest
word I know of. I was travelling
once in company with a friend ; we
were 600 miles from home and we
were robbed. My friend happened
to be a Mason se' well as a !Metho-
dist. Where did he go to look for
help ? Why, he wens out and hunt-
ed up some Masons, and was soon
helped out of his trouble. How
long would it have taken to get help
from the Methodists ?
"A. man who won't pay his debts'
when he can is a mean man ; but
the meanest man God ever made is
the man who will loan money at a
high percentage on a 'mortgage, and
then catch a fellow, and wipe out
all he's got. I'd as soon go up to
the judgment seat with a stolen
sheep on my back as to go with a
record like' that.
"The subject of dancing—now,
if dancing is right let us all go into
it, If dancing is right let us have
our churches fitted up with mov
able seats, and after prayer meeting
on Wednesday night let us clear the
floor and out the pigeon wing and
dance witlrall our might. (Laugh-
ter.) If card playing is right let us
supply ourselves with a deck of
Dards each and have a room fitted
up in the church, so that if a man
don't like prayer meeting he can go
and have a game of progressive
euchre or draw poker.
"What we want nowadays is dad-
dies, and if a young man, who is
known to drink, ever comae home
with your girl let the daddie meet
him at the door and kick him Olean
over the front gate with the first
kick, (Laughter.)
"See that old fellow over there
hunch his wife. (Great merriment.)
I tell you when you preach so it
comes close up to them, you will
see them hunch each other.
"This dancing is based on the
mingling of the sexes. Let'a go
and advertise a stag dance—and alt
the dancers men—and no one will
go. Tho same if you advertise a
doo dance—all girls—no one will
go. 11011 you, if there was no
mingling of the sexes at dances
there would be few balls. Now, no
gentleman should do with another
man's wife what he wouldn't like
another fellow to do with his wife
That's the way I mix it.
"Drinking, dancing, card playing
—God help me to make these things
ridiculous. Let alt those consecrat-
ed to Christ get into the one way of
the gospel. When a fellow gets his
eyes open why I deolere, honey, you
don't have to show him the right
thing to do.
'"To all you who don't see the
harm in these things I say : 'Once
I was blind, but now I see.' I used
to do alt these things, but, thank
God, when I got my eyes open I
didn't want to do them any more,
If I was a fair specimen of a danc-
ing buck—and I think 1 was—I
know there are few pure girls who
go to a ball -room, If some of you
could hear the way young men,
after the dance, speak of your
daughters, you would, have your
eyes openeand your senses attacked.
"My greatest aspiration is to see
my children grow up in the right
way, and this should be the prayer
of all of us. 1 feel like a cousin or
an uncle, or something to all of you
.'peopl'e of Toronto and Hamilton
and the country all round. I am
glad to see you all 1 feel near to
you. May God bless and prosper
everybody in the grand old Do-
minion,"
The rev, gentleman spoke about
an hour and was, as usual, listened
to with breathless interest. He re
"Some of you say charity begins marked that he got about as much
at home. flow can charity begin rest ati a Street oar mule, and didn't
at home unless, your family are feel very frisky.
EAST HU RON
Carriage Works
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OABBIAGES, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS WAGONS,
13TJGGIES, WAGONS, ETC., LTC„ ETC.
All made of the Jot Material and finished in 0 Workmanlike
manner.
Repairing and Pcaimtimg promptly attended to.
Parties intending to buy should Call before
purchasing.
Rannanxons.—Marsden Smith, B. Laing, Tas. Outt and Wm. Mc-
Kelvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brewar and D.
Breckenridge, Morris Township ; T. Town and W. Blashill, Brus-
sels ; Rev E. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turnborry.
REMEMBER THE STAND.—SOUTH OF BRIDGE.
JAMES BUYERS.
CASH FOR EGOS !
HAVING OPENED OUT AN
Egg Emporium, in Grant's Block, Brussels,
Next Door lo the Post Office,
I am prepared to Pay OAsn for any quantity ofaggs.
BRING ALONG ALL YOU HAVE
and Remember the Stand. ,tea
Grist and Flour Mills
The undersigned having completed the change froin 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. Chopping done.
Flour and Feed Z.lwa ys ®i. and.
Highest Prise paid for any quantity of Good. Grain.
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