The Brussels Post, 1893-12-8, Page 3D. 8, 1893
THE BRUSSELS POST
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It is gratifying to us to know that our efforts to excell have been appreciated by a Shrewd and Dis-
cerning public. The large patronage we have received is the best proof. Oar success is by selling the best goods 1n the market, making up our Clothing in the best style, using
the best Trimmings. making the best Fits, and selling Cheaper than you can get your Clothing elsewhere.
For Fine Artistic Clothing, made up to order, D. C. Ross cannot be beaten in the Dominion. Come
and see us. Money will do wonders.
The Bargains you will get from us in Gents' Furnishings will astonish you, always taking into account
that we sell only the best goods. We do not handle the cheap, trashy stuff, dear to the purchaser at any price, and only money wasted. Colne and see us.
In Cloths we carry a large stock, in the Newest of Patterns and the Finest of Goods. You will have
always fresh goods to choose from. All Cloths purchased from us are Cut Free of Charge.
FRIEZE ULSTERS.---Our new Ulsterings are going rapidly. They have caught the public taste and
they deserve popularity. Even if we say it ourselves, they're beauties. They're genuine Friezes—Irish and Canadian—not Etoffes. The ]atter have been sold in this
town as Friezes, but the fraud cannot be repeated, When you see the goods together you'll wonder how such an imposition could be worked at all. A Frieze is a Frieze
the world over. It is rough goods but the quality is there and it makes a most durable and stylish top coat.
In Hats, Caps, Rubber and Melissa Waterproof Coats, and Fur Coats we have a Tip-top Stock which
we are Bound to sell.
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OUT OF THE FIRE.
Year of '71, children, middle of the Fall,
On one fearful night, ohildren, we well-
nigh lost our all,
True, it wasn't no groat sum we had to
' lose that night,
But when a little's all you've got, it
comes to a blessed sight.
I was a mighty worker, it them 'ere diffi-
cult days,
For work is a good investment and al-
most always pays ;'
But when ton years' bard labor went
emokin' into the air,
I doubted all o' the maxims an' felt that
ib wasn't fair.
Up from the Hast we had travelled with
all of our household wares,
Where we had long been workin' a piece
of land on shares ;
But how a fellow's to prosper without the
rise of the land,
Forjusttwo-thirds of nothin', I never
could understand.
Up from theliilast we had travelled, me
and my folks atone,
And quick we went to workin' a piece of
land of our own ;
Small was our backwoods quarters and
things looked mighty cheap ;
But everything we put in there, we put
in there to keep.
So, with workin' and Savin', we managed
to get along ;
Managed to make a livin' and feel con-
siderable strong ;
And things went smooth and happy and
fair as the average run,
Till everything wont back on me Lin the
• Fall of 71.
First Eking bothered and worried nee Was
'long omy daughter Tinto
Rather a han'eome oro'tur', attf; folks alt.
liked h0r gait,
Not so 0les as them sham ones in yeller-
oovered books;
Bub still there warn'tmuch discount on
Katherine's ways and looks.
And Katherine's smile was pleasant, and
Katherine's temper good,
And how she mane to like Tom Smith I
never nnderatood ;
For she wee a mornin'-glory as fair as
you ever see,
And Tom was a shag -bark hickory, as
green as green could be.
"Like takes to like," is a proverb that's
nothin' more than trash,
And many a time I've seen it all pulver-
ised to smash,
For folks in no way sim'lar, I've notioed
again and again,
Will often take to each other and stink
together like sin.
Next thing bothered and worried me was
'long of a terrible drouth,
And me and all of my neighbors was
some'at down in the mouth,
And week after week the ram held off
and things all pined and dried,
And we drove the cattle miles to drink
and many of them died.
And day after day went by us so han'•
some and so bright,
And never a drop of water came near as
day or night ;
And what with the neighbor's grumblin'
and what with my daily loss,
I must own that somehow or other I was
gettin' mighty cross.
And on one Sunday avenin' I was oomin'
down thelene,
From meetin', whore our preacher hod
stack thud hung for rain,
And various sleets on heaven kept work.
in' in my mind,
And the smoke from Sanders' fallow was
makin' me almost blind.
I opened the door Mind of sadden, and
there my Katherine sat,
As cosy as any kitten along with a friend-
ly oat ;
And Tom was dreadful near her—his
aria on the back of hex chair--
And lookin' as happy and cheerful as if.
there was rain to spare.
"Get out of this hones in a minute 1" I
cried with all my might :
"Get out, while I'm a-talkin' 1"—Tom's
eyes showed a bit of fight;
Bot be rose up stiff and surly and made
me a civil bow,
And mogged along to the doorway with
never a word of row.
And I snapped up my wife quite surly
when she asked me what I'd said,
And I soolded• Kate for oryin' and sent
her upstairs to boa;
And then I laid down for the purpose of
gettin' a little eleop,
And the wind outside was a-howlin' and
puttin' it in to keep.
'Twee haif.past three next morning, at
maybe 'lovas nearer four—
The neighbors they name a-yellin' and
poundin' at my door ;
"Get up I get up 1" they shontod : "Got
up there's danger near 1
The woods are all e-bttrnin' 1 the wiled la
Moeda' it here 1"
Out of the dear old cabin we tumbled
fast as we could--
Smashed two• -thirds of our dishes and
saved some four -foot wood ;i
Empo
of Fashiin
With smoke a-settlin' round ns and get.
tin' into our eyes,
And lire a-roarin' and roarin' and drown -
din' all of our cries.
And j usb as the roof was emokin' and we
hadn't long t0 wait,
I says to my wife, "Now get out and
hustle, you and Kate I"
And just as the roof was faIlin' my wife
she came to me,
With a face as white 8e a corpse's faoe,
and "Where is Kate ?" says she.
And the neighbors 03010 rennin' to me
with faces black as the ground,
And shouted, "Where is Katherine ?
she's no where to be found 1"
And this is all I remember till I found
myself next day
A-lyin'in Sanders' cabin, a mile and a
half away.
If ever you wake up, children, with
something into your head
Oonoernin' a handsome daughter that's
lyln' still and dead,
All scorched into coal -black oinders—poi-
haps you may not weep,
But I rather think it'll happen you'll
wish you'd a -kept asleep.
And all I could say was "Kath'rine, 0
Kath'rine, come to me l"
And all I could bbink wast "Kath'rine 1"
and all that I could see
Was Sanders a-standin' near to 020, his
fingers into hie eye,
And my wife a-bendin' over me and
tellin' me not to cry.
When, lo 1 Tom Smith he entered --his
face lit up with grins—
And Kate a-htengin' on hie arm as neat
as a row of pins 1
And Tom looked glad, but sheepish ; and
said "Demise me, Squire,
But 'loped with Kate and married her
an hoar before the fire."
Well, children, I was shattered ; 'twee
more than I could bear—
And Lup and went for Kate and Toni
and hugged them then and there 1
And since bhat time the times has chang-
ed and now they ain't e0 bad ;
And—Katherine she's your mother now,
and—Thomas Smith's your dad.
Saved By A (lair.
At the end of a long causeway crossing
a swamp I came upon a squatter's oabin,
wide the squatter himself seated crossed -
legged on a log and smoking his pipe.
After the usual salutations he said t
"Stranger, I burned my almanac up by
mietak0 two or three weeks ago and hey
got sorter confused about dates. This is
112onday, hain't it ?"
No, this is Tuesday.
And hain't it the 7111 of Auguet ?
No, it's the 8t11,
Stranger, are you pop sub 'bout this
he exolaimed as he sprang up.
I am. here's a pocket almanac, and
you can see for yonreelf—Tuesday, the
8111.
It's Tueeday, the 8th, and just about
noon. I'm jest it day behind in ney fig.
goring. Stranger, would yo' do a critter
like me a powerful favor—sunthin I kin
never forgit if I live to be a thousand
y'ars old ?
I guess eo. What le it ?
Lemm0 take that hoes to ride theta
seven miles And sit that by 1 o'clock.
11`1181'o the hour sot for 'me to marry a
wfdder who's got 200 abyss of the beet
land in the state.
But won'b they wait till you get there ?
Not this time, stranger. This is the
third date Pve sot to marry that widder,
and it's got to be a go this time or I'll
want winks to fly out of the kentry.
She's a widder with a father, four broth.
ere, two sons, half a dozen uncles and
seven or eight nephews,and every blamed
one of them is on the shoot.
You can have him and I'll 001ne on
afoot. Arent you going to wait to dross ?
Can't wait a minute—seven miles
straight up the road—you'll lend a jug
behind the door—goodbye I"
At 2 o'olook in the afternoon I reaohed
the house where the festivities were
taking plane. When opportunity Dame,
the bridegroom wrung my hand and said :
Stranger, yo' saved me by a hair, It
was jest two munito to one when I rode
up and seven of the widder's relashnno
Wariest gwine into ambush alongside the
fence, while the widder herself had load-
ed a double bar'l'd shotgun with book -
shot and was lookin' up the road.
•
Women Voters and the Plebiscite.
An appeal from the Plebiscite Cam-
paign Executive has been issued to the
women of Ontario, who are entitled to
vote at the Doming Municipal eleotions.
The following extract will be of interest :
The ballots to be need by women will
be printed on blue paper to distinguish
them from the ballots used by men.
They will be separately counted and in
the return made after the voting there
will be shown the number of votes given
"Yes" by women voters, the number of
votes given "No" by women voters, and
the total number of women voters ap•
pearing by the list to be entitled to vote.
The plebiscite will thus convey to the
legielabure information as to (1) the at.
titude of a section of the women of On-
tario towards the llgnor traffic, (2) the
extent to whioh women in poseessio0 of
the ftenohiso ere willing to exeroiee that
right.
Never before in the history of the
country was there a situation fraught
with so meth importance to the cause of
temperance, the cause of tome, the clause
of women, It imposes upon our women
voters and all other women who can in-
fluence them, a tremendous responsibility.
It ie very much better for our women
that the vote should be counted separate-
ly. If included simply in the total vote
along with the men's, it would have no
special value beyond the small extent to
whioh it would 8we11 the aggregate
majority for prohibition, Counted by
itself, it will be taken ne representation
of what the vote of the province would be.
Fon example, if 40,000 women vote and
85,000 of those mark their ballots "Yes"
it will be fair for tie to say to the Legis-
lative Assembly, "Throe fourths of the
women of Ontario went prohibition."
Had you allowed them to vote you would,
probably, have had 850,000 oe them say.
ing "Yes," or a majority of 800,000 in
favor of prohibition.
The extant to whioh women vote in
Ellis contest will probably be taken as a
measure of the willingness of the women
of Ontario to enrolee the right of voting
on well questions. Ii the returns made
show that only a small porcentege of
women voters, go to polls, this fent will
be used by those opposed to allowing such
an expression of Women's opinion, as an
argument in favor of thele position. It
Will thus be seen that praotically every
woman on the voters' 1806 will bo voting
•
for ten women who not enfrenobised.
A women's vote in the contest as an
expression of public opinion will thus
count for far more than a man's.
In view of these manifest facts, in view
of the fearful extent of the liquor evil in
our province ; for the sake of the many
Ontario homes shat suffer sorely from
the crashing curse of Ontario—in the
name of all that is pure and good and
which they now bare a matchless oppor.
tunity to promote—nn earnest appeal is
made to the women voters of Ontario, to
rise to the necessities of this crises and
respond unhesitatingly to the ohallenge
thus made to their Christian patriotism
and womanhood.
U1IUSII IT OUT.
"Play no more at soldiers," said Aroli.
bishop Hughes, of New York, to Abraham
Lincoln when the conflict between free-
dom and slavery was raging, and pros-
pects were far from bright for the Feder-
al forces, "but place one million men in
the held at once and crash out this un.
holy war."
President Linooln recognized the forge
of the appeal, and immediately issued his
famous call for troops and supplies,
whereupon the great voice of the friends
of Freedom promptly responded with the
portentious assurance, "We are coming
Father Abraham, with ten hundred
thousand more." There was the issue,
the need, the oa)1, the response, and then
followed the triumphant victory.
Here our nation is enslaved by the in.
iquitoue liquor teatime and the abolition
of the drink puree is the supreme issue.
We need the voters to orush le out, and
we need a premier who will proolaim the
oal1. The people will assuredly rise and
sweep the liquor traffic out of Canada
quioker than the shackles were broken
that set so many thousands of nogroes
free in the South.
Linooln slid not wait for a Royal Com.
mission or to take a plebiscite or to teat
the constitutionality of slavery. Be was
a humane Statesman, nob a trembling,
truokling politioian ; he r000gnized the
justice of the pause and he had the moral
courage to parry out hie convictions.
Dare we ever hope that our political
leaders will recognize the necessity nue
wisdom to abolish the liquor trade ?
r
The eteamor Poe Milton has returned
to Port Stanley from her two weeks'
cruise among the islaande and along the
Detroit river, where alle has been guard-
ing our fisheries. She made a capture
of boo American tug and amine nets.
dames Anderson, who has been am
pointed superintendent of the Canadian
exhibit at the San Pra00ie00 mid -winter,.
exhibition, has left for Winnipeg. At
Toronto he will be joined by Stephen
Robertson, an experienced officer, and
the two gentlemen will then proceed to
British Columbia to enlist the oo.opera.
tion of the people of the Paolfld Proviuoe
in the proposed Canadian exhibit at
'1('13800.
The total building permits issued at
Toronto the past season amounted to
51,209,000, as against 52,000,000 last
year. Of this amount 5188,800 is for
now factories and additions to factories;
$185,000 for new warohousoe, and 0185,-
000 for the new Union station, A. large
proportion of the remainder represents
a number of largo down town buildings
in ooureo of construction. The figures
show that speculative building in the city
is pretty well suspended at presort.
H. DENNIS
Invites your attention to a
full range of
Rugs,
Robes,
Horse Blankets,
Sleigh Bells,
Harness,
Collars,
Trunks,
Valises, &c.
At Very Low Prices.
H. DENNIS,
Harness Maker, Brussels.
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