The Brussels Post, 1898-8-5, Page 1Vol.27. No.4
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BRUSSELS, QNTARIO, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1898 W. H. KE RR, Prop.
New Advertisements,
Cider mill—Geo. Mamie.
Hardware --N. at N. Gerry.
Harvest excursion -0. P. R.
Remedies—G. A. Deadman.
Special out—Powe Bookstore,
Low prises—John Ferguson & Co,
Fall Term—Central Business College.
CstrI.Ct BeiD5,
W O1:A to et.
Mies Hannah Hewitt, of Brussels,
Sundayed with Mies Letty McArthur.
Mise Flossie Watson, of Listowel, is
visiting her cocain, Miss Alice Holland.
Rev. 1). Forrest, Mrs. Forrest and
Miss Dawaie are holidaying at .Bayfield.
Morris -
Oats are badly rusted.
Mrs. P. Cantelon fa ill.
Council meeting Iaet Monday.
The pea orop will bo a light one this
year.
A good number have threshed their
Pall wheat.
Jas. Gook took in a lawn snoial at
B Iyth last week,
Mise Maisie, of Cranbrook, was visit.
ing on the Gth a few days ago.
Mrs. J. Bone, of Chicago, ie visiting
relatives on the Sod oon, st present.
Reuben Jewitt has been spending hie
vacation with bis brother on tbeaend.
Wm. Miohfo is somewhat better this
week, although the fingers are painful
yet.
The storm on i!'riday morningsof last
week was a bad one, R. Miller, near
Sunshine lost his barn by lightning to.
gather with all the bay and Fall wheel,
18 pigs, s.oall and a lot of fowl. Tho
house of John Bell, near Belgrave, was
etre* and damaged, but was not set on
fire.
In Manitoba and
the Oaandian
Is The
Northwest,
Farm
Laborers
Farts Wanted.
Harvest
Laborers'
Excursions Will be run to
\viii eg and all stento North, Weet dc South
p_
To illoonseJitw AT
levan $10.00
Winnipegosis
innipegosis ON
AUGUST I6TH
(Fronk Stations in Ontario, Toronto & West.)
AUGUST ISTH
(From Stations 'Cast of Toronto to and in-
cluding Sherbet Lake.)
Upon surrender of certificate, whiob will
be given each purchaser of an i.lx0ureiof
Tiokot, at destination, Properly filled out
and signed on or before November 10111,1808,
tickets will be issued to original starting
point on payment of 1818,00,
Tito Canadian Paoifio olflciala at Winnipeg
will receive daily telegraphic reports from
all over Manitoba and the Canadian North-
West where meu are wanted, and they will
render every aeeistaaou in their power to
holders of Canadian PaoiO0 tioicnta,in secur-
ingdesirable situations.
1 or further partionlare and pamphlets ap•
Ply to Any Canadian Pacific Agent,
THOS. FARROW, Agent, Brussels.
CIDER MILL
Brussels Cider Mill and
Apple Butter Factory, Mill
street, has been overhauled
and is now ready for oper-
ation.
Fetch on your Apples,
Tonins Reasonable.
Satisfaction Guaranteed.
Geo. Edwards • Pro
W. Forrest rides n wheel now. He le
fairly in it,
T. Klllingewprth and wife, of Grey,
spent Sunday on the 2nd,
James MoKe0zio will attend the rhea -
many College at Toronto next Mull.
Farmers are beginning to wonder how
they will got along without pointed Me
Doming Winter,
R. Young, je, ie able to be nut at work
again, after being laid up a long time
with 5oree on both arms.
Mrs. J. Pepper, of Orillia, is visiting
her son, L. Popper, 2nd con. Mies Pep.
per, of Toronto, also spent a week visiting
her brother.
Those who have corn are feeding it to
the oowe ae pasture is dons now. A good
many oowe have aimed gone dry on no.
count of the scarcity of good feed.
1'LEnr801TE.—Next Tuesday afternoon,
at 2 o'olock, a meeting of Temperance
people in Morris township will be held in
the Township Hall for the purpose of or.
ganizing the forces for the vote on the
coming Plebiscite on September 29th.
All are welcome.
Erma—The barn of Robert Miller, 5th
line, was destroyed by lightning on Fri.
day morning last. In addition to hay and
Fall wheat, there were 12 pigs and a
calf consumed. It will be a melees loss
to Mr, Miller as the barn was a good
one. It wag insured in the Howlett
Mutual Insurance Company.
W ill Zit alr,.
7. Kling has sold his hotel to Jas.
O'Leary, formerly of Brussels, who takes
possession Oat. lat.
Mr. Hanson is recovering, though not
able to be ont, and John Carr is able
once more to sit out on the verandah.
The Council struck the tax rate for
1898 on Monday evening at 20a mills on
the dollar. This is alightly lower than
that of last year, Probably no ratepayer
will onmplein of the slight roduotion.
Rev. 13. E. Meson, pastor of Wing -
ham Congregational ohurah, will supply
the pulpit of Rev. J. W. Pedley, of
London for the first three Sundays of
August. Rev. Mr. Gone, of Gerrie, will
take Mr. Mason's work next Sabbath.
For the other Sabbaths the deacons will
arrange.
On Monday next, 8th insb., the River.
sides, champions oh Torouto City League,
will play a foot ball match with the
Wingham team, ohampions of the Mait•
land distriot, in the park here, This
match has been arranged at great ex.
pense and the boys should have tiptop
gate receipts. As both these teams
played the Carberry team to a tio, a
lively game is certain from start to
finish. Seale reserved for ladies.
Button & Trevett, furniture menu.
lecturers of Teeewater, have purchased
the Luo
Isnow factory and will remove
' there at once, We are informed that
they have made a good bargain, by
getting a plant and property which is
easily worth $8.000 for 58,500, with very
favorable oonditione of payment, exemp.
tion from taxes for 12 years, and a loan
of 58,000 at 5% interest. Mr. Button is
a brother of Wm. Button, of Wingham.
The 500 feet of new hose recently
purchased by the Fire, Water et Light
Committee has been tested, and we be.
Have, found satisfactory. The hydraolio
machine purchased by order of the
Council, did its work well, and we
understand, succeeded in even bursting
the brass nozzle. The base was gueran•
teed to atand 400 pcunda ; this is more
than double the pressure to which it ie
eubjeated in case of fire, hence the teat is
regarded as satisfactory.
PEaeowALs.—P. Johnston, of Hensel',
was in town over Sunday.—Wm. Double -
dee hell on Saturday for Clinton, where
he has secured a sit. in Dougherty's
organ faotory.—Jock. Pattison left on
Monday for Hepworth, where he has
wooed a sit.—Glare Vanetone,of Hamil-
ton, visited at his home here for a few
days.—Robb. McAlpine, of Toronto,
spent a few days in town this week.—
J. R. Reynolds, of London, spent Sunday
in town.—Mise Bessie Reynolds spent a
few days at "Ripley Lodge" this week.—
Wilma Helm, of Fergus, is visiting her
grandmother, Mrs. Helm, of town.—
Arthur Helm bas scoured a gib. in Tees.
water.—J. Shier, of Port Elgin, is in
town this week filling orders for books.—
Fred. Gorman, of Guelph, was in town on
business this week.—Mr. Day, of Inger-
soll, arrived last week to take a position
in the upholstery Works.—alias Lizzie
Drew visited in Ripley last week.—Mies
OUR GREAT
BUIL), G SALE
Is Now in Full Swing.
One salee have osoeeded one most sanguine expootations. Last Saturday wag a
record-breaker—this store was crowded with customers till hall past ten
o'olook at night—but is it any wonder when we are
'soiling at prices like these s—
Factory Cotton worth 50 08,1" sale price 50 02
5
Hemp Stale Carpet
Ladies' Shirt Walsts. 50 25
Ladies' Shirt Waists 3. 00 50
Boys' Suits 2 25 1 65
Boys' Suits 1 75 •1 25
Boys' Tweed Pante 65 50
Ladles' Colored Lisle Gloves 18 5
Ladies' Fast Black Homo 27 15
Ladies' Heavy Ribbed s0 25
81bs. Green Coffee
8 Onus Salmon 25
20 lbs. 200. Japan Toa 25
Our stook mueb'be 1051,600 to the Lowest Possible Point before the 15111 of Aug.,
as we 0011111101100 malsing.altsrations in our store then, and we would rather, swathe
our epode than have thein destroyed with lime and duet. You. one be bettor served
n the forenoon ae we are always orowded in the afternoon and evening.
M'KNNON & CO, BLYTH.
Lottie Wetnher ie visiting in Clinton.—
Aire. John Harrison end Mrs. Wm. Dean
and am, of Torouto Junotion, are vislt•
ing their parents, Mr. and Airs. Thomas
bloom. --Jae, McAlpine left on Monday
far Wiarton, where he has secured a
situation. Ifis family will follow later.
—Mr. Paulin wont to Henson on Friday,
returning on Monday with Mre. Paulin,
who has been Welting there, Renhen
Snell, of Goderioh, is spending a few
days in town.
Sort <lbb ter ae.
Young Mr. Swallow dose nob improve
in health as itis many friends would wish
to goo shim.
Wednesday of this week( the home of
Wm. Kneuhtel was gladdened by the
arrival of a son. Air, 15. will have to
purohaso another 100 wee nolo.
The Klondike has had a big run bub it
is reported that this section of MaK)llop
ie to become noteworthy too a5 it is said
gold has been disoovered here in a gravel
pit. It will be nine and handy to have it
go close to home with no freezing, starva-
tion nor toilsome journeys.
1100 3tcol.
Flarveetiug le being pushed), rapidly
forward.
Public school will reopen on Monday,
15th inst.
Township Council will bo bold hareem
Saturday of nexb weals.
airs. Win. Elliott and daughter, Mrs.
P. McKay, are visiting at Stratford.
Our weigh scales are being repaired
this week. Contractor Lang is doing
the work.
Next Sabbath morning the regular
quarterly meeting will be hold in the
Methodist ohuroh in this plane.
Claude Walker, the only pupil from
our school who wrote at the examin.
ation this year took 707 marks on
Entrance. The pass mark was 550.
The Highlander Foot ball team visit-
ed Ethel Hist Saturday evening and
played a friendly game with the team of
this place. Some good playing was done
and at the end of time the more was 2 to
0 in favor of the home team. Goo. Dob-
son refereed the game.
Gre>v.
R. Bielby talks of a trip to Manitoba.
This week will see the barvesb fairly
well through in many places.
Mise Annie Strachan wheeled to Blyth
and visited her contain at the maned last
wool;.
Dr. G. L. Ball, of Toronto, is enjoying
a boliday under the parental roof for a
few weeks.
Arch. Hislop, M. P. left this week
o P.,
for Toronto where he will attend the see -
stone of the Local Legislature.
Grey township 000noil will he held on
Saturday of next week, 18th inst., at
Ethel, oommeuoing at 10 o'olook.
Raab Sunday afternoon, at 2,80 o'clock,
the funeral sermon of the late Joseph
Frain will be preached in Roe's ohuroh.
Postmaster Dickson, of Seaforth, is
putting in a lot of tile (training on his
East 100 aoree on the 121h oon. He has
a fine farm.
Crawford Strachan has purchased a
fine Yorkshire boar from J. E. Brethour,
of Burford, Oxford county. The animal
ties a registered pedigree and is of fine
stook.
Charlie, son of Peter Bishop, is ex.
peoted borne from the Northwest this
week. His health is not good, but it is to
be hoped the change of air will have the
desired offset of making an improve.
meSonsnn.
iao DBMS of Joonon FRAm.—Last
Friday night Joseph Frain, an old and
highly esteemed resident of con. 8,pass-
ed away to the unseen. He retied to
bed about 9,80 O'olook and at 11 p. m.,
when other members of the family were
going to rest, he was sleeping quite
naturally. Saturday morning when Mr.
Frain did nob rise his wife went to as.
certain the muse and to her terrible
grief found that the vital spark had fled
and deceased, with his hand under his
head, had evidently passed away without
a struggle. Heart failure was the cause.
Mr. Frain had always been a hearty,
vigorous man, never hardly knowing a
day's illness until last March when he
wag dangerously ill but he appeared to
rally and was able to get about and work
around as was hie wont as usual, The
day previous to his deaeaae was no ex•
oeptiou to this rule and he appeared as
well as usual. The subjeotjof this notice
wee born in the township of Elizabeth.
town, Co. of Leeds, on Nov. 22ud, 1817,
and was consequently in his 810 year.
When a boy he removed with his parents
to Kitley townsbip where he resided un.
til moving Westward he 1855 when he
Dame to Grey township, taking up lot 10,
oon. 8, then a forest and which by in-
dustry and good management was soon
converted in arable fields. On the let of
May 1889 demand was united in mar-
riage to Miss Rachel Taylor, of Brook -
villa, and in whom he found a worbhy
helpmeet along the journey of life. Mr,
Frain wag a straightforward, oen5oien-
tioue man, who not only owned his oils.
gismo tohisMaker, but proved himself
worthy of the high regard in which he
was held. He was nob inclined to public
life but would have worthily filled many
of the public positions had he been will.
ing to do so. In addition to the widow,
who is 76 years of age, there are 10
children, 5 song and 5 daughters, viz •—
William, of Detroit ; Saunders, of Mani.
total Joseph, of Nebraska • Lorenzo, on
the homestead ; JatnOS, of Manitoba ;
Mee. Rfohead Roe, of Grey ; Mrs. James
Sharp; of Morrie ; Mrs. Herberteon, of
Denver, Col.; Mete Toombs, of Toronto •,
and Mee. Day, of Gerrie, The funeral
took place on Monday afternoon and was
largely attended. Rev, Mr. Yelland oon-
ducted an appropriate service and a
memorialoervioe will be held in Roe's
church, where deeeased worshipped, next
Sabbath aftornoo q at 2,80 O'olock. The
s all baarerg w ere 2song of Mr. Frain
sonein law and 2 nephews. Interment
2
t
was made at Brueeels 0emeteey. Thus
has passed away from time another of
the sturdy pioneers who aid so meth to,
ward dovoleping thio oonntry, a man
whose memory will stand for industry,
uprightness and good will to all who
acme in his way, To Airs. Frain and the
members of the family the sympathy of
the community will be extended in their
sudden and unlooked for bereavement.
Among the relatives present from a die-
tauoe were ;-.-Saunders Frain, brother of
deceased, from Lombardy ; Mr. and
Mire. Toombs, of Toronto ; W. T.
Frain, of Detroit ; Mrs, Day, of Gorrie,
and Mrs. I. Kingswood, of 131, Thome.
"Mon we all gather home la the morning,
At the sound of the great Imbibe ;
We'll moot all the friends gone More us,
What a gathering that will bo,"
Prince Bismarck Dead.
Prince Biemarok died at his home at
Friedricherube ab 11 o'clock Saturday
eight. The passing of the great states-
man was marked by tragic oonditione of
the weather. At the time of bis death a
fierce storm raged along the North Sea
and the weather wan of almost autumnal
cold.
The immediate cause of Prince Bits.
ma101c's death was congestion of the
lunge.
On Thursday evening an improvement
oocgrred in the Prince's condition, and
ho was able bo appear at the dinner table,
drinking champagne and smoking half a
dozen pipes of tobacco. His physician,
De. Sobweningsr, was so satisfied with
his condition that he left' for Berlin, with
the intention of returning Saturday.
Prince Bismarck's condition continued
satisfactory throughout Friday and Sat-
urday morning, when ho road the papers,
talked on politics, and made a character -
labia grumble about the small proportion
0f spirits in his drinking water. Satur•
day afternoon grave symptoms appeared.
Pulmonary oedema sob in, and ho fre-
gvatenond.tly become unconeolons. On Satur-
day the symptoms were aggra-
Death came easily and painlessly. Dr,
Sehwoninger wag able to some extent to
lighbon the last momenta.
The whole family were assembled at
the bedside at the time of his death, Dr.
Sehwoninger, Dr. Chrysander, and Baron
and Baroness Marek were also present.
As no breathing movement or pulse was
perceptible for three minutes, Dr.
Schweninger declared quietly and Simply
Mutt the Prince was dead.
Dr. Schweninger telegraphed the news
to theEmperor William at Norway. The
Prince hes as be used to sleep, in an easy
position, with his head slightly inclined
to bhe left. The expression on his face is
mild and peaceful.
Hie last words were : "I thank you,
my child," addressed to Countess Von
Ran zau who wiped ed the perspirationiratiou off
his forehead.
AIAMEE Benne OF T110 AGE.
The master spirit of European polities
since 1862, the most successful statesman
of the oenteuy, judged by the magnitude
of the work he accomplished and the firm,
oonsolidatod condidion in whiah lie leaves
all he so forcefully welded together, de.
parts from the scene in the death of
Prince Otto von Bismarck Sohonbausen,
ex Chancellor of the German Empire.
When Biemarok came decisively upon
the broad stage of European politics
there was but one towering figure upon it
—the Man of Destiny, the Man of De-
cember, the Fronds ruler, styled His Im.
perial Majesty Napoleon III. There was
a Kaiser iu Vienna, a Czar in Sb. Peters-
burg, Prussia was a respectable kingdom,
whose sovereign was an imbecile. She
was strong with gathered, carefully pre.
served strength. She was moderately
prosperous. She had splendid military
tradition. But she made no figure be.
rt'
fore the world, was overborne among the
Germans by Austria, and had apparently
no mission in the world but to keep down
unruly democrats and socialists, who had
caught flame from the French revolution
of 1848, and to intrigue for this or that
small advantage in the German Dieb. In
twenty years, ab the end of three enemas -
fel wars, bhe German Empire had arisen.
Ito builder or fashioner for good or ill was
Biemarok.
The man's stature, like his mind, was
large. Force was expressed in every
lineament, but he wore his bluffness of
manner and his grim frankness of speech
as the screen of the defter arta which
made him in society a delightful com-
panion and in statecraft a master of the
art of deception. He could Eaten in his
early days with patience to the prosingo
of Prince Metternich, charming the old
man with his politeness, while over.
reselling Mettermob and his master. He
could catch the imagination of the
dreamy plotter of the Tuillerise, in 1866,
while weaving the web which kept Flounce
quiet while he settled with Austria. He
was German to the scorn, bob Jus life.
long motto wag Prussia first, Germany
afterwerde. When his 51061 work was
a000repliohed those writers who like to
make their heroes creatures of a long, -
shaped destiny affected to. discover in his
final achievement the perfection of all
unswerving plan pursued fora life -time.
He was audacious. He fought his way
onward in the public service of Prussia,
and when ho became responsible for
Prussia, his sole dream wag her mg.
grandizomont. He wag determined per-
sonally to go onward and upward. As he
rose now vistas of role spread before him,
Up ho clambered, and at every step saw
something beyond. What he saw he
grasped at ; what ho clutched he hold.
11I8 maw= wan TRE 11I0ER.
The ohlef inoidenb in the later years of
Bismarclr wag his quarrel with the
younger Emperor William. His resigns•
tion was made public. March 17, 1800.
He depilated from Burlin on March 20.
Immediately upon William's assent of
the thorns he proceeded to put into prat.
Mee as far as 110 could the designs which
'be had brooded over while Grown Prince.
His theory of government wag a ouriouu
mixture of belief in the divine right of
Minos and paternal administration, Ile
oould brook no opposition to hie plans.
This was made clear by one of his after.
dinneeapeeoh00, fh whlohluo said; ."My
cones° is the rigid ono, and it shall be
steered," and "I will ern0h every one Who
Opptes00 1110in my wont,"
The Emperor could not bear to have
any one about him who was not entirely
subservient to his will. Bismarell had 130
sympathy wall the theory of government
implied in the mete of the Emperor. 1'0
him it seemed a departure from the form
lb had taken under Emperor William I.,
and unconstitutional, and he firmly op.
posed any encroachment on the oonatitu.
tional rights of the people, and the Em-
peror with equal firmness insisted on the
new course. Bismarck had to go.
From Ottawa.
Polities is about the last subject that
any sone man will voluntarily tackle
daring the dog days, and the dog days at
the Capital this year at any rate, are
living well np to their traditional
cbaraoter. Everybody, that is anybody
is out of town, and those that are left to
swelter in the city find life suffioiently
wearisome without any unnecessary
exertion, mental or physical, While
the majority of the Ministers are still on
their holidays and news around the
Departments fa soaroe, the great reading
public keeps np its demand for interest.
ing items, and the newspaper correspond.
ant has to reeoguize and respond to the
demand.
AN Er0001 MEMO' EVENT.
There is one item nt any rate of greatest
importance that will occupy all attention
daring the next few weeks, viz :—the
International Conference, whiob will
meet in Quebec within the coming month,
At that meeting it is hoped some settle.
meat will be arrived at upon a number of
very vital questions including trade tela.
tiong between the British Empire and
the United Statee ; tbe Bonding Privi•
lege •, the Alien Labor Law ; defining of
the Boundaries in the West ; the Allan•
do fisheries regulation ; the Behring Sea
dispute ; the preservation of the fisheries
and eo on. If only one of these ques-
tions is settled to the satisfaction of all
oonoerned, the meeting will not have
been oonvened in vain, but with such
men as Lord Hersobell, Sir Wilfrid
Laurier, Sir Richard Cartwright, Sir
Louis Davies, Sir James Winter, and the
five American statesmen, General Foster,
Senators Gray and Fairbanks, Nelson
Dingley and John A. Radon there is the
best reason to look for at least a better
understanding, if not a oomplete settle-
ment of every one of these matters.
CREDIT TO TILE 0OVERNA(ENT.
Every lover of bis kind will rejoice in
the improved feeling that has sprung 0p
between the British Empire and the
States, and which hag simplified the
situation so greatly, but at the same
time much credit mayjuste be claimed
for the persistent efforts
orts which the
Liberals out of office, and the Liberal
Government in office have always put
forward to bring about a better state of
feeling between the nations inhabiting
the two halves of this Continent. Ir-
respeative of party, all true Canadians,
yee, and all true Bribisbers,—nay, all
true Anglo•Saxone,—will hope and pray
for the fullest success of the deliber•
atione of this Augnst gathering.
Y01ON TRANSPORTATION.
The last of the difficulties arising out
of the Yukon traneportation problem has
not yet been heard, in fact the reoent re.
ports of the large sums of money coming
out of the country as a resat of this
Spring's clean-up will in all probability
cause a repetition of last Winter's nn•
precedented rush and oreate the same
necessities for energetic Governmenb
notion. With the satisfaction which will
result from learning of the suooeee of
many who went luta look
for theprecious
metal, comes the more serious, in foot
alarming announcement that the food
enpplies are running short. The popnla•
tion has tremendously increased emu
last Winter, and there are now at least
50,000 people scattered throughout the
country: These took in a pertain amount
of supplies but it will be soon exhausted
and though there may be plenty of gold
dust to purchase more, the goods are not
there, and cannot be had for love or
money.
TEM SENATE'S RE510NamILITr.
Railway facilities that were oon6dently
expeoted have been blooked,tbe well eon•
oidered efforts of the Government, poo -
sassed ae they were of authentic infor-
mation of the probable outlook, bane
been rendered nugatory by the reckless
antagonism of the blindly partisan Sen-
ate, and the only channel through which
any quantity of supplies lean now be got
into the country is in the Elk River
steamers plying up the Yukon. While
there is a big fleet of boats leaving port, the
majority seem to be doming to grief en
route and from the last reports it looks
as if there is scarcely any possibility of
getting in a sufficiency of food before the
Winter 0105Se in.
Much more hag been learnt of the Tea.
lin Lake route since the session closed,
and everything goes to prove the oorreot•
nese of the information in possession of
the Government and the fairness of the
arrangements that it was proposed to
make with the 000traotore. Without ex.
00pt10n those who have been up there
epeakfavorably of the route and of the
incalculable benefltthe proposed railway
would have been. It will be interesting
to notioe what Mr. Foster and Sir H113 -
beet Tupper have to say during their
Weetern trip about the Senate's aotion in
throwing out the Yukon Railway Bill.
TRADE 601011 ENGLAND.
The eWorbg at present being made by
the department of Agridultnre to improve
the facilities and simplify the routine in
connection with the British market
for Canadian produce cannot bet be bone.
ficial to our farmere and fruit growers.
Not only in whsat, cheese, and the
hardier fruit, but in poultry, butter, eggs,
meats, and the perishable fruits moll as
grapes, pears, peacbeg and tomatoes,
there is an enormous demand, if only the
goodsoan be planed upon the London
market in good condition. The great ad.
vantage already provided in the cold•
storage faoilitios and the renewed efforts
for improved Atlanbia transportation
have Sono much, hub the personal investa
gation now being made by the Hon. Sid.
0ty Fisher, !Minister of Agriculture, and
Prof. Robertson, of the Experimental
Farm, will undoubtedly improve the situ-
ation still further.
This is the practical side of it, but as
in every other movement undertaken by
our Government for the improvement of
the inter.Imperial relations the senti-
mental feature le of no slight importance,
and the better feeling that will result
from closely and more frequent buelnees
intercourse will not be without its effects
in the relation of Canada to the Mother-
land.
A FRUIT 0011 0105I0NEIt.
Further evidence that the Government
appreciate/1 the importance of keeping
Canada well to the front in the competi-
tion for fruit supplies for tbe Mother
country is shown by the appointment of
A. MoD. Allan, of Goderioh, to the posi-
tion of Canadian Fruit ;Commissioner at
the Poria Exposition in 1900. There is
no one in Canada better qualified both by
inclination, information and experience,
and no one bas done more in the past in
the interests of the Fruit Growers of
Canada both at home and abroad. Can-
ada's rank as a fruit producer ie adven.
oing yearly and the value of placing her
claims properly before the world cannot
be over estimated.
This energetic policy abroad le the
natural outcome of the activity displayed
at home in giving the beet possible ae.
sistance to all sections of the agricultural
oommunity, both by the Federal and
Provincial authorities. Every year sees
new developmente in the policy of
eoienti6o education which has its out-
come in Experimental Farms, illustra-
tion stations, courses of lectures by ex-
pert agriculturists, deo. It is doubtful if
any country has better facilities for mak-
ing the most of nature's bounties than
this Canada of ours.
Brussels Council.
The regular meeting of the Village
Council was bald last Monday evening,
present the Reeve and Councillors Backer
and Leatherdale.
Minutes of last regular and special
meeting read and passed.
Amounts were presented as follows :—
A. MaLauohlin, salary $ 25 00
Globe, for debenture advt 1 82
R. Denbow, 170 yards gravel..,61 20
Robt. Borne, spreading gravel 1 00
Brown Bros., Treasurer'a Book,8 50
Moved by R. Leatherdale, seconded by
Geo. Beaker that the above amounts be
passed. Carried.
A delegation was present having refer.
ce from Flora street Wm.
en a to drainage
Martin, Rev. R. Paul and W. Jewitt, the
two latter are members of the Board of
Health, addressed the Connell. Connell
agreed to go and see it Tuesday morning.
The water tank at Maple street was
reported to be pumped out on Monday
afternoon and Watson Ainley was in-
dented to make it water tight by
cement. It took 1} boars' steady pump.
fag to empty it.
Retort was made of progress in the
question of the proposed new tamers.
It was moved by Geo. Beaker, amended
by R. Leatherdale that the Council bor-
row the sem of 52,289.86 from the Stand-
ard Bank, for one month, to be repaid
out of sale of debentures issued under
By-law No. 6, 1898.
Council then adjourned.
From Huron to Essex.
To the Editor of TUE PoeF:
No bettor way of seeing the country
than that offered by the bicycle. The
railroad brain passes through wooded
lands and swampy planes. The steamer
only skirts the frontier and usually as
far from it an possible. The bicycle
selects the Queen's highway which passes
through the heart of the oounbry. The
fine road, for instance, from Brussels to
London, via Seaforth and Exeter ; from
London to Blenheim, via Wardeville and
Ridgetown ; from Blenheim to Amherst -
burg, via Leamington and Kingsville.
The traveller over thie route sees the
richest and most inviting portions of four
of the finest counties in the province,
Huron, Middlesex, Kent and Essex.
What matchless wheat fields and splendid
homes in Huron ; what incomparable
cattle and pasture lands in Middlesex ;
what magnificent crops of beans in Kent;
and what abundant crops of fruits and
corn in Essex.
"All nature =neg—
./end owns the Great Creator's band."
Tarrying for a few days here on the
shore of the Detroit river, we watch with
oonsiderable interest the vast crowds that
pass to and fro on pleasure bent. Just
now the chief point of resort is the old
historio Bois Blanc Island. It and the
part of the mainland once known as 'Fort
Malden are linked with the stirring scenes
of 1819, and with the name of boat fain -
one old warrior, Chief Tecumseh. The
middle part of the island hag been recent-
ly transformed into a beautiful park, and
is, indeed, an ideal spot for exoursiouista.
Every day and twine in the day the large
steamers of the Windsor & Detroit Ferry
Co. carry hundreds to this island park.
Between the island, which is in Canadian
watere, and the town of Amheratburg,
pass all the vossele—sometimes 90 ;in an
hour—that ply to and from the upper
lakes.
The learners and gardeners of this
seobion are this year experimenting with
the tobacco plant. Legs corn and more
tobacco i5 just now the motto. It is said
to return a profit of one hundred dollars
per core. Consoientieus omega seem to
have prevented a few people from trying
their luck, but in most ingenue people
have resolved to grow the weed if it pays,
whether right or wrong. No orop seems
to be go carefully watched. No other
weed mast grow where tobacco grows.
And yet many who watch Over their
patch of this rank plant with almost
omelette oars, allow their hearts to re,
main as the form of the slugggard, Strango
to say even the tobacco plant ie being
vigorously attacked by a worm that gime
the grower as much e0noorn as the potato
hug,
One of the ineoots not known in Huron
yet is the San Tose Seale. It ie ravaging
all kinds of fruit trees here. We were
shown a specimen of the Moot and its
work by Mr, Woodbridge, the Govern-
ment inspector. The lomat is ahnosb
invisible to the eye, but its work is most
destructive and palls for prompt and
radical treatment. Peaches are now
being gathered and are very abandant.
Apples are not plentiful but buyers are
only offering 50 canto a barrel. Harvest
is nearly over. Much desired rains have
fallen this week.
J. S. A.
Amhersbburg, July 29th, 1898.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
General Shatter has over 6,000 sink
soldiers on his hands in Cuba between
American, Spanish and Cuban soldiers.
That be bas a big contract none will
gainsay.
The ohegne of the United States for
5478,000, the amount of damages ad-
judged by the Behring Sea claims tom-
minion, bas been received by the depart•
ment of marine and fisheries.
The government will submit the name
of J. Henri N. Bonrasea, M. P., Labelle,
as British secretary of the Quebec con-
ference. Lord Herschell, it is under-
stood, has approved of the nomination.
Dominion Government received a oable
stating that Lieut. -Col. Hutton had been
selected as the heed of the Canadian
militia in plaoe of Major.General Gas•
coigne. He will doubtless be acceptable
to the cabinet.
Following telegram was received Tues•
day at the agricultural department from
Prof. Saunders, dated at Indian Head,
Aug. 1st 1 Crops on the experimental
farm, Indian Head, and all throngh 11Mo
district are remarkably promising.
Wherever the land has been well prepar-
ed the yield of grain will be heavy. With
favorable weather there will be an
ebandant heaved.
«
An important and successful experi.
meet in wireless telegraphy has been
made at Dublin. Wireless messages,
containing description of the yacht
races there, were sent from dietaneea
varying from five to ten miles, and were
published in the Evening Mail at Lon-
don. The yachting expert of the news-
paper stood on the bridge of one of the
vessels and diotated hie account of the
ranee, which was taken to Signor Mar-
coni, the inventor of the system, seated
in the cabin, who operated the transmit-
ter, The messages were sent without
wire to the land, and thence transmitted
by telephone to the newspaper offices.
A despatch to the World from Madrid
says :— The Spanish reply to President
MoKinley'e note was positively forward-
ed to Washington
lata Tuesday
night.
Spain's only objeotione are confined to
minor matters, like the coaling stations
in the Phillipinee; the settlement of
Amerioan citizens claims in the West
Indies and the Cuban debt. The Under
Secretary of State firmly believes that
peace is fast approaching. The Govern-
ment dose not expect a final reply from
Washington math late Wednesday.
Public opinion having nothing bat the
press telegrams upon whiob to form an
estimate of the significance of the peace
oonditions, is much perplexed, end is
willingly inclined to believe in pessimis-
tio reports. The Government deolines
to raise the veil from the negotiations.
The Provincial Legislature 1005 form.
ally opened Wednesday afternoon by
Sir Oliver Mowat, Lieutenant -Governor,
The attendance was very large. The ad-
dress was read from the Thome.
Messrs. Charlton, of Norfolk, and McKee,
of Essex, were eleoted Liberal whips, and
Messrs. Russell, of Hastings, and Doug.
las, of Northumberland, were chosen as
assistants. The Coneervativewbfps were
elected ; Mr. Wardell, of North Went.
worth, and Mr. Lanes, of Center Grey,
were abeam. The two ministers who
were defeated at the polls, Messrs. Gib-
son and Dryden, Premier Hardy said
that it had been deoided that they should
remain in office foe the present, but that
after the anjounment of the House the
matter would be considered in all its
bearings, and final decision reached.
Gue Krenger wag fined$10.70 at Berlin
last weals for kicking his mother;
Mite Bleie Thornton, of Peterboro'
1000 shot in the nook by a boy practicing
with a rifle iu the next yard, and died
the next day.
The condition of Mr. Craig, M. P. P,
for Boot Wellington, has materially
improved. He ie able to sit up a few
minutes, but is unable to leave his room.
The petition against De. Barr, of
Dufferin, from which the original
petitioner has withdrawn, will be pro,
oeaded with, another petitioner baying
substituted his mine for the one retiring,