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The Brussels Post, 1904-8-4, Page 4THURSDAY, AUG. 4, 1904. The Streets of a Chinese City. The following iutereeting letter le from the pen of Rev, J. L. Stewart, 13. A., formerly on Ethel i cuit now a Mission.cion- aY r in China i Passing through the streets of a oapitel oily 1 Immediately mob a phase calla to ne, if they be residential etreete, memories of broad, paved roadways, greatly boule• with ebad maples, yards well eat wt y m p , side. walks broad and olean, nest iron or trim hedge fences, broad, green lawns laid out in tennis courts, flower beds, driveway}, fountains, terraces leading up to Kane massive atone reeidenoe. Or, if they be business streets, then we think of the rattle and clang of the oars, oarriages, carte, troche, aatomobilee, threaded by eourrying bioyclee, or sidewalks thronged with smartly dressed people hurrying up and down or in and out of many atoned stores, tbrongh whose great windows are displayed temptingly merchandise from many lands. When one speaks of Oriental street eoenee the image called up meet be widely different. Here parelyresidential streets are rare or not stall. The oity is roughly tar from regularly, divided into blocks. Inside the equates are the straggling, one. storied residences of officials and gentry, while on ell sides lining the streets are rows of shops iu which the trades -people live, move and have their being. THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS IN CHENTII. When ooaasionally you do dieoover a semi residential street it is to find what we would aoneider at home s blind alley of possibly eight feet width. This may have a single file of flagstones end to end up the senors, bob more frequently is macadamized (minus the Scotch prefix) end is strained into a delioiousiy sloppy slime by squirting between the thousands of bootless toes during the long rainy season. Ou either side you have open ditches full of festering filth. Aorosa this is a grey brink wall from fifteen to twenty-five feet, exolnding both pilfering and public gaze. Even the gates, with their glaring, grinning genie, are further prbteobed by walls frescoed with dozen tailed dragons to ward cff men and monsters. Oe the other aide is possibly a mad wall, wbioh, broken down in emote by frequent rains, gives yon a glimpse of some luxuriant, well tended vegetable garden until a whiff of wind ants your oarioeity short. A 005000055 STREET. The bneineee streets have at least molt more of variety, Here the eingle row of flags is bordered by stone} laid sideways and frequently the whole street is flagged or has been. The ditches being covered the passage way Beams wide, though they venally average from six to twelve feet, while oar Great East Street seems spaoiooe at twenty. Sash conveniences ee sidewalks are nnthoagbt of. The ahopa extend to the roadside and fre• quently overflow, fox space ie at a premium. To call the mase of business stands stone would be to give it false impression. The term ebop is more true, for usually the stook in trade ie made and sold in the same room. They are one•eboried, tile. covered struotnree with usually but two rooms. In the bank the women exist, while in front the men work, trade, eat, sleep, smoke, gamble. Tbese shops have neither doors nor windows. In the morn- ing a long row of up right shutters is removed, leaving the whole front room open to the street. You simply step up. on the curbstone anywhere and ate inside some ebop. THE SHOPS OP METE. To describe the varieties of these would be eodleee. There are tea shops where, as you pass, scores of men with chop• sticks are shovelling their months fall of rine, vegetables, red peppers and pork, or having tided that stage are sipping tee from covered bowls while they retail to eaob other the events of the hour. Next door be a millinery establishment where are made and marketed the little flowered bands which form a woman's head dress. Such creations as ladies' bonnets are, of ooarae, unknown to Chinese women, who moat content themselves with a change of caber, a napkin, or go bareheaded, A• oroes the street ie, with no ssggeetion of reason, a ooffin shop, the big shiny ends are arranged temptingly, for the paroboe er may leave hie order, for many s China. man oonid name have more satisfying thoughts for the future than to have the aoneoioaeoess that his coffin was securely in bis house for years before hie demise. Then comae It rice shop, its bins brim- ming fail of the white, wholesome food of the land. And now a medioioe shop where you may purchase ground orange peels, roots, snake ekine, deer bores or tigers' whiskers. Besidse this, high up on blocks, men are punching millione of money on paper wbioh you may parobase for a few oasb and by burning remit fabulous fortunes to your once poverty strfken anoeetore,or if you wish to pro. vide them with a few servants, a house, a boat or wives, you can paroha5e these around the corner at some image ebop and forward them also by fire. Near by, if you are oonaerned more about appetites tban anceetore, ie a grocery ebop where reaeotly we counted some sixty different varieties of nuts, fruits end vegetables telling us what s wonderfully fertile land we live in. Prominently, next door le a boba000 shop, for nearly every Chinaman emokoe, though none °hew the weed. FORNITIME AND 006. Close beside is a furniture shop, in which great onmbroua square °heirs, heavy, almost immovable, round tables, native efdeboarde and couehea with time of drawers below are all jumbled together, painted a shiny blank. Nowhere dose one find attempt at the dainty cosy pieoee wbioh make oar habitations bombe in Canada. Near here is a fur sb0pe with shine from Thibet, the far North or the Peteiflo, 'fug the people appreciate are, only they, in their otndenees,turn the fare ineide oat td get the warmth, while we in our oivilizet on tore it oat that others may bee how very pleasant it mast be to wear. In China, like many other tbinge that go contrary, men have math More variety in head•drese tbsn the women. Individual chops are found Nattered about and whole blooke are given over to the oap industry, The Moataommon kind made are little round brimless gape math like a smoking sap, KM that they are stiff and have a red knob on top. Others are grey and brown atementetenewarenw2assie Moth, much worn by the oaoliee in Winter, and remind you of the crown of eine old wall battered eoft felt or au inverted bowl. Still another variety they name wind naps resemble hoods, or rather sunbonnets, since they have a cape over the ehouldera and extend In the front, while the (COMA' nap is a Tort of inverted soup plate with it spike and tassel upon obs top. But we might ramble on and on with- out mush hope of exhausting the variety, r r shops, bisok• t brawl ha paeasea a eh P,pewe P, smiths' rhon e, weevers, carvers, bauksre, meat (hope, oasb shops, enroll shops, pawn shops, shops selling boxes, imagee, old ooine, aurins, books, shoes, clothing, olooke, eaddlse, dyes, sedan ohaire and so ou and on to protueiou. THE WINE 500ra. Two °lassee of shops you will not fail to nobioe. One ie the wine shop, to be found in any degree from a big arook with a bowl to a room where the gentry invite their friende to dine and drink their eour, smelling exoitant. Alas, here too oar curses have outrun our aborabee, eo that you may find French wines and Beibieb liquors for sale on almost any busy street. The other is the opium den, in all degrees from a mud floored hat, with straw in the corner, up to big shops with couches, large ligbte and even Coufuaian garolie to grace the wall. In tbie city alone it is said there are several thousand dens and it is wen known that the mejority of all °lasses, both men and women, use the drag in some form. On the street, meantime, has been passing a motley mase of mea, women, children, doge, horses, pigs. Some coolie women sit sewing and gossiping In their doorways. Boys are flying kites, while girle kink up feather blocks (battledore and shattleonok) with the eidee of their little, bound feet, or others circle about a travelling Dandy stand with a primitive wheel of fortune. Along the street, pass. ing,repassiug, jostliug along, go carriers with poles opou their sbouldere, the burden dangling from either end. Thane include bundles of wood, buckets of water, croaks of alcohol, baskets of vege tables or broad trsye of peanuts and sweets. .Some loads are more convenient- ly carried upon the back, eo we meet bags of rine, great sideboards and beds, large plaake, long poles, and even at times a bleating goat. If the burden is vary heavy then it is carried upon a pole be - tweed two or more, as are the big baskets of coal, long beams of timber or blocks of building atone. There is but one wheeled vebiele known to this part, that is Pate ooe•wheeled phaeton. Rios and pigs, the latter on their books and protesting powerfully, are eomebimes permitted Ibis kind of passage. Hucksters, too, are here Drying their wares er with a bell, gong or °linking combination peculiar to their trade, tell of peddled fruits, sweets, cloth, or saissora grinders, dish madders, blaok at home shops. Little sqn spatter along, anaouooing their naming by etrioge of belle about their necks and send the people eaurrying to either aide. More fr.quent are sedan chairs, borne by two, three, four or eight men, palling out lustily AS they clear the way. THE BEGGARS. No street acme is ever without beggars, To Canode snob simply signify some in- raz reed and nneoaped wanders wanting food. Here it means whitehaired, middle- aged, mare infante, blind iepere, palsied, lame, deformed, covered with gaping sores, covered with vermin, filtby, naked often save for a pima of matting made from the bark of the panel tree, their lean limbo almost audibly rattling as they shiver from store to store. You fled them lying in the gateways, equatbing by the walls for warmth, or dodging along, dismally drawling oat their plea for pity end prosperity on those who will give bat tip burnt rioa from the pan. From all this one turns in home to the vieon afar off when the oold, damp, mud floored, jomuled Shope will be well. ordered stores, the crowded hovels at the rear beoome comfortable cottages and happy homes, the steachy ditches °banged to sewer system, the narrow alleys broadened, paved andflanked with boulevards and sidewalks, the hn,Idrede of human besets of burden be replaced by trucks,traio9, oars and oerringes, when the touch of the Great Pbyeioiao shall have passed by, healing all manner of diseases and the Light of the World shall shine from these faces dispelling their pallor and pain. And we have °oufidenoe that the message of the Mao of Nsz.reth will far more abundantly fu bit all these things, Uhentn, China, Hioks' Foreoasts for August. Oe and touching the first five days of August general storm' munitions will develop and pass from West to East ammo) the country. Sections which have been visited by many eleotrioal, rain and bail storms during much of July, will most likely have the same oharaoter of Moreno during this period. Seotione which bane bad little rain for weeks prior, we fear, will get more threatening storm. aloulds and blaster than rain during these dietarbanoee. Following this book for rising barometer, Westerly winds, and cooler. On and touching the 8th and 9;b, ander the influeuoe of reaatio0ary storm forces the temperature will rise to some of the highest readings of the Summer, the barometer will fall, and severe etarme and bluster will visit tunny luoalities in their sweep from West to East. This heated spell will not break down until after the new moon ou the Iltb, with strong probabilities that it will lent into the regular storm period extending from the lath to the 17th. The 14th will be the central day of a regular etorm period. This period is also embraced in the on coming Veoue die. tarbanoee, wbioh is central on the 24th. The dieturbanees of this period, whether or not Weet India Norma come op frOm the South, may be expected over moat Interior pane of the omuntry from the 18th to 18sh the culmination felling likely on the 14th and 15th. Vioione thunder sborms and high galea will centre about Sunday, the 14t11, Reactionary storm oonditions will re. torn on and next to the 19th and 20th. There is almost a saientiflo certainty of eguhrootial etprme le snob Southern parts of the earth before the end of Aug. net, making it wise for the vitally con. darned to watch the drat indioations of every storm period. It it well to remember that deetruotive hail Norma are almoat sore to attend the storms, espeolelly in the great North. Wasters grain regions, during the last half of August, - Tbs last regular storm period la oeubral on the 20 b, extending from the 25th to the 29'b. We may oonfldently antioipate some very merked storm dielurbanoes at this time. The indiosbions are Ibat the renal el distnrbsnoe of this period will be followed by a general high barometer with fierce, high winds and unseasonably cold weather out of the North west, If (mete wake their appsaranoe over the Northern to middle regions of the country during a f Anglo, r re de e the laat few day» o u ou a r >s Y , need not be wholly talteu by surprise, Tile dates ipoo wbioh vol auitd earthquake dieturbennes are most likely to reauh a maximum, grueraliy over the globe, will be the 9411 to the 13•h end the 24th to the 2851.1 of August. We web mune Thursday, the lltb, and the 25th as central days of these probable seismic periods of disturbance, Bridges of Concrete. _— what lite Onhuio Colum l -donor of lllgte- ways has to say la this Regard. The report of the Ontario Commission- er of Highways for 1903 ooutants a out of a oonorete bridge built in South .Perth, and iu view of the fast that this is an important question looally at the present time, and ie bound to become more prominent bele -a long, the report as given in full below will be interesting : Concrete bridges beve been commonly built with spans of thirty or forty fret. Last year an arch of thirty feet epan and fourteen foot roadway was erected on the town line between Townships of Downie and S,.uth Eaethops at a cont of 9035. The thickness of the floor is only four teen inches, and the abutments at each end are three and a half feet think at the base and two and a ba'f feet at the top. This bridge is almost wholly of soaorete but the flooring is reiuforoed to e0tne extent with metal. The method of con stroobion was to first oonstruot a wooden subatruoture between the abutments, On bbie was placed four inohee of oonarets, in which was embedded steel rods of one end three quarter inches diameter run. Ping lengthways, and ten inches apart. Ou this a coating of oonorete was laid, then a layer of woven wire was etretobed end E end of the bride. On this from o g a coating of oonorete was laid then !moth er layer of wire, and so on, making a total thickness of fourteen inches at the eenbre of the bridge. A concrete parapet wall takes the plane of a railing. This is also strengthened with wire, and beavy bolts are run downward and fastened in the floor eo that the walla add to the strength of the bridge. Highway bridges of longer span are now being commonly oonstruated with areal superebtactaree, and oonorete or stone masonry abutments. When timber of the best quality was more plentiful and cheaper than now, wooden bridges were no doubt most economical, but with the growing soaroity at lumber iocrsaeed price, and poorer quality obtainable, the more durable it more expensive materiale, will after a term of years, be found the obeapesb. Wooden bridges supported on piles do not lest for more than eight or ten years, during which period a ooneidersbls amount has to be spent for repairs. Con orate piers and abutments, if web built, should last a century or more, while the steel superstructure, with proper atben tion, ehoaid last at least halt as long. So that, although the initial cost of a wooden bridge may be only one halt or one third that of steel and oonorete structure, the latter will in the end be the ebeapest. In addition, ib will be safer, leas liable to oollapee, and will be more convenient for traffe, Well made oonorete is cheaper and fully es durable ae atone masonry. Jost as the coat of stone .masonry varies in different localities, in a000rdauce with the poet of atone, labor, ebo., so the wet of oonorete will vary according to the relative cost of gravel, broken stone, Portland Cement, and labor. For piers and abutments, the oust of oonorete usually ranges from $4 to $6 per cubit) yard, ae compared with stone masonry at from 910 to $14 per onbio yard. 'Under almost any otroometances oonorete ie cheaper than stone masonry. BRIDGE FLOORS. Bridge floors of plank usually wear out in from two to four years, and are a oon- etaot matter of expense. Where bridges ere built with inaaoory abutments and steel superstructure, the floors eh aid be made Of oonorete. °onorate floors are exoeediogly durable, and although coating mush more than plank, when first laid, their greater durability will enable them to outwear half a dozes plank floors. Their Deet in Elgin when first adopted was 47 cents a equate foot, but this bas been reduced, and floors are now being laid for 28 oents a square foot. ()operate adds a ooueiderable load to the dead weight of the bridge, but tbie is more than compensated for by the extent to wbioh it distributee the live load. With a plank floor, the weight of every Mich) peening over it is transmitted to the individual members of the bridge, °ageing a oonetent jarring and dieter. Ilion that is very destructive to steel. With oonorete, on the other band, the weight of a pluming vehicle is epread over a much greeter area of the bridge steno. tare, the floor being a monolith and distributing the live load over a muoh greater bearing than can each plank. In this way the injury to the bridges is omen less with a oonorete than with a plank floor. So mach is ibis the Dose that with a °operate floor, it is not nesse eery to restrict the speed of vtbiolee travelling over it, With a plank floor it is always expected that horses will not be driven over the bridge faster than a walk. Bat witb oonorete floors, trove I, is not interfered with, and horses may be driven over at the ordinary pane. Mitobell'e oivitt holiday will be on Wedneeday, Aug, 10, when a anion Sun- day sehool exenreion will be run to Gods - rich. He Pinder, of Hibbert, will shortly retire from farming and moos tol4Iitebell, having purchased the Mahan oottage West of Thames Stoneman'}• Word was received at Dablin of the aooidental death of John Tully, who was killed by the falling of a tree on his property in California, John, having spent the earlier portion of his life in the Smith, robnrnsd to bie old home in Md Hiltop a tow years ago and took np a farm in that township, where he was Onivrreally reepeoted, and oorteidered a genial, whole•soaled favorite, Some two , a11$$,Lk Olean Ai1G 4, 1904 or throe years ago he sold hie farm and again went South, tide time never to re• torn, ('venstfiinet rst vqni. J, '1', Scott died of typhoid fever at Winnipeg, Rev, Prof. John Oampbell died Budden• ly fu afnelroko, A fire at Sumeraet Village, Man , did 940,000 dnuutga, Kph Geo W. Rose bas ret ureed muoh improved Provedo health, t n ' t, t Prince Edward County Old Boys were warmly weloomrd et Photon. Thomas Mussel woe foetid dead in a betel stable at Merriokville. Puteiok Marlah, aged 23, was drown. ed while bathing at Ironsides, John Millar was Mooted President of the Dominion Ednoational Aeesoiation, Mrs. Harry Gorman, wife of bbe proprietor of The Sarnia Observer is dead. Robert Lee was fatally injured while firing a chub iu Michel Mine near Fernie. Dr. Sheard, Medical Health OOiuer, advieed chime to boil the Toronto city water. Wilmer Neil, a seven-year-old boy, fell into the mill rase at Carleton Pines and was drowned, Privates Fletcher and Wallbridge, of Stanley Bsrraoks, Toronto, rescued three men from drownig. The Ogilvie alining Company have announced an advance of 20 Dents a barrel on all grades of flour. An investigation hos been ordered into the aoudad of the fire brigurie at the Eby, Blain Oompany's lire, Toronto. The five year old eon of Harold May fell from a water oart at Stratholair, n.ndwsfaa tall r shed. t1 a a Y ou Arnold E. Stonehooee, of Dresden, G. T. R. fireman, was struck by a train at Burlington and received fatal ivjnries. The Temiskaming and Northern Railway Oommiesdon appointed A. W. Oampbell its repreeentabive on the oommiesion to eel, at the land grant. The appeal of Wallaoebvrg manare°- turere against disarimivabury freight rates has resulted in an order by the Railway Commission materially reducing the rates. The report oomse from Samiltou that the wholesale druggists of Canada are negotiating an agreement with. Iles re• tailere to prevent nutting prime, and to handle only the goods authorized by the aseooiation. While plotting cheerier at her borne on the 8rd tlonoeseton of Ellice recently. Mrs. Michael Xiehna bad the reietortnne to mies her footing and fall to the ground, a distanoe of ten or fifteen feet, She lighted on iter side and eustained a into. tore of the right arm. At Stratford the MaLagan factory war amok by lightning during the storm on Wednesday evening of last week but Mere was ua damage. The bolt struck the galvanized iron pipe which carries Me dust from the factory to the boiler, and glanced off to the ground, Word Nae been received from Rev. A. Y. Heist, pastor of the Centeouiel abnroh, Stretford, who bas been holidaying at Banff, Alta., for the benefit of his health, that he is now in North Dakota visiting friends. His health ie greatly improved and he expects to leave for Stratford about Angast 1. As bite 9 p. m. train from Palmerston was passing the Ontario street crossing, Stratford, during the storm on Wednee day evening of last week, a passenger, who was standing on the platform be- came dazed at a vivid flash of lightning and tell off the train. The train stopped and be was taken on again. He sustain. ad no ir'jnry. During the peer we, k a large number of contractors passed through Milverton looking u er the ari•nud of the propnaed• Guslb' .Gads,.o•, ia„w.1, J, W, Barr whir 10 Guelph mat Mayor Hamilton, who is one of the directors of the road, and be expected that over one hundred benders would be !aid on the table. The old saying that a oat oannol easily be killed by s tall was proven outs again Thursday afternoon, when one made a high dive from one of the third storey windows of the Royal hotel, Stratford. Ai it was falling it could be aeon to set itself in a rigid position, with its feet out straight below. It alighted on its bet ma the puvemeut and scampered off as if nothing bad happened. Walter Peart left St. Marys Friday morning for the Northwest to attend the fnueral of his brother Ernest, who was drowned at Long Lake, Aeea., on Thars• day of lees week. Five young men of Regina were in the canoe with him when it upset, and only three were saved. Robert Pell was the other unfortunate men that was drowned with him at the same time and place. Chas. Fauna, whose barn was burnt on Wednesday night, had insurance to the amount of 92,000, in the Downie Farmers' Mutual Fire Insaranoe 0o., $1,000 each on building and stook. His claim against the oompany is $1,750 a meeting of the direotore of the compeoy was held in Sebringville to eetbls it. As the company Meurer} for only $ of the value of property, Mr. Faum'e ultimate lose will be in the neighborhood "o( $800 or $900: David Chinon, a veteran of the Crimes, dieappeared on Saturday, Silly 28rd from Palmerston and no trace had been found of him. Thursday William Lawrence was looping for his oow in a swamp a balf•mile North of the town, when he discovered the body in a partly decom• posed condition. Nothing of any value was found on the remains. Mr. Gibson was 72 years of age, He was said to be an Irishman and to have a brother nam ed John resident in Toronto. The Milverton Tart Association have made final arrangements for the Bolding of their rase meet ou Wednesday, Aug. 31st, and Thnreday, Sept, let, 91200 will be hung up in purses, divided at followe :—Nam' d moo 9100 ; 2.50 pace or 2.40 trot, $200 ; 2 30 Noe or 2 25 trot, $200 ; 2 24 pace or 2 20 trot, 9200 ; 2 19 pans or 2.18 trot, $250 ; free tonsil, 0250. The meet will be oondeated under the rules and regulations of bbe Amerioan 'Pretties Association, T. H. Race writes, from St. Louie, to the Mitchell Recorder :—''On Monday, July 11, 1 changed my quarters from the paler% of horticulture to the Canadian pavilion. How the Ontario fruit growere may look bpon this obange I do not know. Thongh still in name Canadian Fruit Commissioner to the World's Voir, RID no longer in °barg(e of the fruit exhibit here. When with the trait I telt myself master of the situation ; here I tic not know what I may have to run up againet. Newspaper representatives. and other visitors that the chief cannot attend to himeeik are turned over to met and I am to show theta Canada and load them up the right way, If they are true to their loading they will never any Or write a bad word for Canedit, Whether I will be able to rise to my new respunsi• bilitiee and to do the soon, literary and oratorical honors expected of me, time will tell, In the meenbime my eddrese will be the Canada Building," The Beattie Oompany have pur°haeed the afore and bakery of Joseph Reoltin, uu Ootaba ,-treat, Stretford and have taken Posee atmr Mr, Rankin retiring to loot after his farm, The Mishnah}ule well eetabliebed andwill , wi I be uonduatad as formerly by the porobasers, In the Autumn it is the intention of the Beattie Company to remove their grocery stook to the Rankin store and utilize the second story, now used as a refreshment room for the Maeonio fraternity, which has its lodge room ou the third first, as a luncheon room. • Notice to Creditors. In the Surrogate Court of the County of Huron, in the matter of the estate of Henry Taylor, late of the Township of Stanley, in the County of Enron, farmer, deceased. Notice is hereby given, Pursuant to Revis- ed Statutes of Ontario, 181,7, Ohap, 120, Bee. a8, that all ereditore and others having any claims against the estate of Henry Taylor, late Of the Township of Stanley, in the County of Huron, termer, deaeaead, who (lied on or ab E out the 18th dayof Jane A. D, 1004, at the said Township of Stanley, oto hereby required to send by poat, prepaid, or to deliver to Proudfoot,Heys & Blair, of the Town of Goderien, in the County of Huron, Solicitors for William Taylor and Joseph Taylor, the Executors of the last Will and Tesbsment of Henry Taylor, deaeaead, on or before the 5th day of August, A, D., 1004, Choir Intl names, addresses and descriptions and full particulars of their claims and the nature of their securities (if any) held by Mem, And notice ishereby given that after the said last mentioned date, the;slid Executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the deceased amongst the persons entitled thereto, baying regard only to the claims of which notice shall have been given as above required, and the said Executors will not be responsible for he assets, or any part there- of, so distribu ect to any person of whose claim notion shall not have been received at the time of snob distribution. PROIIDPOOT, HAYS & BLAIR, of the Town of Goderloh, in the County of Huron, Solicitors for the Executors. Dated at , JulGodert hy 1 tb 100 2.8 0 4. July 0 IMPORTANT NOTICES 3 HORSE POWER STEAM EN- GINE and upright boiler for sale o heap as a gasoline engine is being substituted. For further particulars enquire at Trot POST Publishing House. THORO'–BRED YORKSHIRE CJ SOMA, 4 months old• for sale. Will be sold reasonable to quick buyers. JAMES SBIIRRIE, Maple Grove Farm, Lot 26, 4th Line, Morris, Brussels P.0.1 48 0 QHEEP STRAYED FROM THE premises of the undersigned, Lot 27, Con. 16, Grey, on or about the last week of June. The lot consists of two ewes and 8 lambs, dark faces. No marks. Any inform- ation leading to their recovery will be thankfully received. WM• BRAT, 2.4 Monorieff P.D. NOTICE ! Tenders will be received on August Otb, 1004, for drain ei miles long, estimated at $4988.00. All team work or nearly. Ten- ders opened at Montan meeting at Lend - bury at 2 o'clock fu the afternoon, By-law, laol plans may be seen at my resi- dence,JNO. 0. MORRISON, Clerk, V(7 ANTED.— SPECIAL REP– RESENTATIVE 1n thin Bounty and ad• Joining territories, to represent and adver- tied an old eetubliehed bueiness house of solid finnnoial standing, Salary 821 weekly, with expenses' advaused each Monday by cheek direct tion headquarters. *torso and buggy furnished when necessary; cosi- tion permanent. Address Blew Brae, & Co., Room 010 Monett Bldg., Obioago, 111. Prize 'Winning Short Horns for Sale. Isight young Huila from Imported and home bred sows got by Imported Sire Also Cows and Heifers of different ages. A few pure bred Berkshire Pigs, 10 weeks old, for sale. Have a quantity of Seed Peas the Early Jane variety, to dispose of. It is a medium sized white pea mud were grown from seed from near North Bal• and yielded over 87 bushels to the acre, Imo of bugs. Will also eon a goad aged working and driving horse. Sett D. MILNE & SON, Ethel, STOCK FOR SERVICE ROAR FOR SERVIOE.—TILE undersigned will keep for eervlee, on Lot 2, Oou, 10, Grey, a thoro' bred Yorkshire hoar, Terms, 75o, to be paid at time of ser- vice with privilege of returning if times- eery.. 101110 SMITH, 47.0 Proprietor. WILL FOR SERVICE.— THE IIudersiguett will keep for aerviee a thoro' bred Durham bull, on hie farm ad- joining Brussels. Terme, 3100 withprlvi- logo of returning it neoeseary. GEO. ROBB, Proprietor. REAL ESTATE. •CARM FOR SALE.— GOOD homestead -100 ¢arse—lu the Town- ship of Morris, Huron county, For partio- ulnre apply to J. BENNETT. 8 tf 000 Bathurst 8t, Toronto, O TO .L' 'fj•'bs SALE afore. e tiRENTera farm, being LQ4t 20, (tan, 7, Grey, for sale or to rent. Comfortable' house, bank barn, or - shard,: welly &s. There are 80 Roma in grans, 10 acres ot1;411 Wheat will be put in and 20 aeras of Pall plowing dose. farm ie only mile from the thriving village of Ethel. For further partioutars as Ito orlon, forms, &a., apply to 110188 S PENCE, Ethel 2,0, .3.. aasree first -S class land nrthe Townshipp of Grey—Lot le, 00n, 14, 100 cores ; Lot 17, Con 14,100 acres ; and Wt Lot 18, Con. 14, 50 aoree-250 aorta. All in excellent 00051• tion with first•sluse buildings; brick House bank barn,, root and ontraiwebooee,t etablea, &a, Well watered, Front 00 to 40 twee of good hardwood bvoh. Lot is,000,10,eon- Mining 190 &ores 01 Rrst-fleet land, good frame house and large babk barn nearly new. Tbo property atm be sold in two or three panels to Suit urobaeora. Terme liberalpi , Aioo a commodiouu dwoliing loueo and lot 1n Btueeols, Por !umbar particu- lars imply to the owner on the proteins, LAYIOII'LIN MoNlttL, or to nut. Duman, Brussels, 2141 r a ca Elgill0 MIMEN HAVING purchased the Fur- niture Business carried on by JOHN WALKER we desire to call the attention of the public to the same and ask for a share of public Patronage. MOORE Bfl FURNITURE DEALL+' P Undertaking 0 Night Calls for Undertaking will be promptly attended to by calling at the residence of George Cardiff, or Moore Bros.' boarding house, MRS. A, HUNTER'S resi- dence, Thomas street Cardiff& Moore UNDERTAKERS. ALLAN LINE LIVERPOOL and LONDONDERRY Royal Mail Steamers From Montreal From Quebec Ionian Aug. 0, 8 n m• Aug. 0. 7 p.m Bavarian Aug. 12, 4 a.m. Ang, 12, 2 p Parisian Aug. 19, 8 Aug. 10, 7 ' Tunisian Aug. 20, 4 a m. Aug. 20, 2 p.m RATES OP PASSAGE First cabin -005 and upwards, a0aording to steamer and a ctommodablou, Second oabin—Liverpool & Londonderry —287.00 and 040 London 52.00 extra. Third•oiase—Superior acoommodabiou, 910 to Liverpool, Derry, Beltaeb, Glasgow and Loudon. Through tickets to South Africa. Montreal to Glasgow Direct Sicilian . vtod, Aug.8 (Daylight) New York to Glasgow Numidian Thursday, Aug. 01, 10 a.m Low rates by above Glasgow steamers ou appliaatlon to W. H. HERR, Agent, Btuseels, 4 =0a i• STILL. IN TH OLD STAND While we are not given much to puffing up our business in the public print we desire to thank our numerous customers for the hearty support accorded us in 1908, and to state that we are still in the old stand ready to attend to their wants. Wood work repairs promptly attended to and all departments of blacksmithing, with a specialty made of Horse -shoeing and Job- bing. As we have spent 18 years in Brussels we thick we are com- petent to understand the wishes of the public to a good extent. Call and see us. S. T. PLUM Thomas street, Brussels. WAGONS WHEELBARROWS GO CARTS ROCKING HORSES TOY CARTS DOLLS CARRIAGES BASE BALLS RUBBER BALLS POST BOOKSTORE. Stoat of Wire Wheels for Wagone to supply Onstrmere on hand,