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The Brussels Post, 1893-12-29, Page 6N 'I o> Ett ntssels Vast —Ig PenLISnPD— EVERY FIIDAY MORNING (in time for tho early mails) at 41110 Post" Stetuu Publishing Honso, 'u0;inznns ST„ Manama, ONT. Tama oP 0V C1lIPT10Nr-ane dollar and a half a-yyear, in advance. The date be 1,701011 every attbsortptiou is Paid is denoted by the address 101)01. the date on AUVn1T19ING Stt'1ns.-1310 following talcs tvlil bo charged to those 12110 tulvortlse by the year 1 0 xn:I U mo. 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From the way be looked when I dun that I dont bleeve n anymore ou risod end a bap t kn nal op he r if 1 had j000 ben a buyin sumthin without bryin to jaw him down in pprine, I then pioked out a bill ov pervislluns amcuntin to about ten dollars more, paid fur nm on the spot, and giv orders to hay um sent to the widdero house, and I after- wards mut to another place and bawl her to big warm shawl and a hood and a pair ov shoes and ingun rubbers, and I haint se sure but what mebbo there was a few more things, far when I got started Semanthy, it peered 0z tho I cep a golu it without a grain ov seine. e. Ez I got to the door to lease Kernel Brasses, who shod I meet a kumin 111 but Bruther Skybuster, who in my dream was still the preooher on the sirkut. Ib tmmejutly kum into my mind that chain all ov the last year I hadent giv him nuthin but truck and dicker fur my quartoridge, and ov how it had bon al. together thee wy vote that his wages had hen cut down a hundred dollars. It seemed to me sumbow that nab doing was sutnthin that I ort to be ashamed ov. tho I cant understand why, now that Imo awake, and without stopple to think ov how twitch stewin and frettin and Savin it bakes to make a dollar, I shake hands with Bruther Sicybuster ez'tho I meant it, and told him that dune the kumin year my quarteridge cud bo sot down at a dollar a week, and all to be paid in oold knob whenever it was wanted, inotid ov the sixteen dollars in chips and whet - stoned that I had ben ruttier onwilliugly winks to giv him heretofore. Aod I also told him that he cud count on my bein at prayer meetin hereafter, rain or shine, and that I wild pray or speak, or do any. thing else that I cud to help. You never saw anybody look so stumped ez the preacher did when I told him that. Fur n minit he peered to be so overkem that it seemed ez the he wad hav to drop, and when I put all the change in his hand that Kernel Braes had jest giv me frum the ten dollar bill, and told him he need- ent say a word about it in his book or let any ov the stewards kno hedo got it, it jest looked ez tho ho oudent make out whether he was awoke or not. I found out frum thepreeoher tho afore I left him, that there wag a goin to be a Krisme,s tree that night at the meetin house, and 1 made up my mind that I wud see if I oudent kum within won ov breakin down at least two or three lime on it. So away I went Pram won store to another on the hunt fur Krismas gifts, and the way I did make sum ov the clerks open their eyes at the way I spent munny was a kawshun. I got yon the silver butter dish youve ben a wiehin fur so long, and a work box to put your thimbles and buttons in. I got Hiram a pair ov skates, and each won ov the gals presents wuth over three dollars, and I even got the hired hand sum seoh thing 811 a bankerahuff or a pocketbook. I then got a nice little keepsake fur eao11 won ov the skaters in your Sunday skule klnss, but to cap the klimax I got Broth- er Skybuster n new overkote and his wife a new kloke, and the most singler thing about the whole bizniss was that I dident peer to keer a pent what anything cost. I jest went right on ez reckless BS a boy a stonin a dog, without keerin a button where I was a goin to kum out, and it did beat all how I did seen to injoy it. I never wane found myself a etoppin to fig. per to sae whether I cad stand the ex• pence, but about all I peered to think ov was how amaziti glad I was a goin to make the fakes fur which I was a buyin the presents. I thought I had cards with names on um put on eveything I bawl, even to the shawl and tbinge I got far the Widder Good, and then I had the things sent to the meetin house to be put on the Kris - mos tree, so that nobody wud kno that it was me that bad sent the stuff. Wen this wag dun, I thought I got into my slay agin, ani tellin all the boys in sight to jump on, I drove um ]clear up the top ov Boxwoods hill, and then down to the canter ov town agin, before I sot out fur home. When I got home I found out that sum ov $ranotetterofokee had ben over and told you that there was a goin to be a Iirismas tree, and you and the gals was wild to go. I let on ez tho it was all non- sense at fust, jest to hav you coax the harder, and then I sed I was willin, per. aided nun ov the chores was slighted. (210011 TIM RAM'S 100RN Dean S1n1ANTnr,—After wawkin around at the fare greeds today outil I got so tired it hurt me to look up, I happened to find myself out on the bank ov the lake, so I sot down to rest, and went to watobin the boats nod folies. Afore I knowed it I was sound asleep, and I shedent wonder if I dident snore ez hard ez you say I do when Ime at borne in bed. While I was asleep I had a dream that was az real to me as a bowl Dv milk with a spoon in it, and it was sech an onkommou singler dream that it peers to me I jest must tell you all about it. The feet 0v the dream was that me and Isum Klover and Unkel Peeleg Wilkins and Jim Teester and lialup Chiller and wan or two others, had all happened to meet in Lem Haokleberrys blacksmith shop, where sem ov LIB was a waitin to git our bosses shod. We tawked about evey thing from the prioe ov pork to how many beans ort to be planted in a hill, when suwthin put ICalup Chiller in mind ov a peece he bad ben a readin in the Ciderville Skorpion, about a yang gal who had gone to sleep and woke up and found herself sumbody else. That put 010 to tawkin about ever so many queer things, and eumbody lowed it wud be dredful funny if there oud bench a thing ez two fakes a swoppin sperrete, like me a bein Isom Slover fur awhile and him me, or Jim Teester a bein Grsndaddy Nooks and the old man Jim. Ov gorse we had kuneiderable ov a laff over it, and hraoked a few jokes about what odd thjngs migh happen if seoh was the case, and than got to tawkin about suwthin else. While this was a goin on I noticed that a dried up, queer lookin little ped- dler, who had stopped a spell before to git sumtbin about his waggin fixed, had got down frum the by bench where he had ben a satin by hisself, and had kum oven to line us. Wad you like to see snit a thing as that dun ?" sez he to me. "I wudent mind," 1 sed. "Then take this, and you may," oez he, a reaohie out what I take to be a five dollar bill, which he take out ov his vest pocket. I reached out my hand to take it, but jest ez I dun so it dropped frum the little mans hand and fell akrost cum ov Isum glovers feet. I stooped down to pick it up, when sumthin seemed to happen that made ez mutoh noise ez a steam mill a blowin up, and fur a spell the wits was. knocked out 08 7310 ez kumplete as they was when the gray colt kicked me in the breast. How long I was in that fix I dont kno, but when I kum to it was the day before Edemas, and there was snow on the ground most a foot deep. I thought I was in the slay, with bells on the hooses, a drivin up Main street in Ciderville ez hard as the team cud go it, and that a whole passel ov boys was a hangin on the sides, and on sleds which they had hitcb- ed_on behind, and yit I thought I wog. zent a keerin a snap ner doin nuthin tords whippin um off. It peered to me that the sun was a shinin ez bright as it dna in August, and yit it supprized me to see that the snow dident melt. It also peered to me to be dredful singler that party ny eveybody I saw on the street was on the broad grin, and waved their hands to me ez I passed in a way that I never saw um do afore in my life. Ez I was a hitcbin my team in front ov the kourbhouso, I thought the Widder Good kum along with a big basket ov 12aghin which she was a takin to Namuu Brulyo hones. I noticed that she had a thin shawl around her shoulders and sum111in like a big kullered hankerohuff tied over her bead, and jest ez she got within speakin distance ov me she was tuke with a holler raapin lcolf. She look- ed pinched and thin, and yit it eumhow peered to me that I hadent never seen 0, brighter lookin time. We passed the time ov day together, and I told her t hoped shede hav a dredful good Iirismas. She lolled and sed she felt sure she wud, and hoped I wud hav the beet wen I ever had in all my life. While tyin the hosseo I watched her ez she purooeded on her way, and in a minit I found myself a gittin awful moiler in my hart. It peered to kum before me in a way I hadent never thought ov till then how poor she was, and how dredful hard she had to work in spite ov her poor health, end how she has to grieve and worry and fret 111)0110 that ekapo grape oV a boy ov 'tern. Sumhow 1 tulle a noebun ez I stood there in the snow and watched the widder ontil she turned the corner, that it wudent bo my fault if she dident hav a Kristine that she oudent never furgit. The fust thing I dun was to go and draw my pay fur a nice bunch ov hogs I had take to town a day or so before, and then 1 wont to Kernel Brasses grocery and asked him how the Widder stood on her rent, Lookin 02 the he had the toothake, Bruther iOraoe sed she was bock moot three menthe, and it was a begin. nin to look dredful mutoh ez tho he shed hav to put her out. I asked what he charged her, and he sed two dollars a month, tie I laid down a ten dollar bill and told him to take his pay out ov that THE BRUSSELS POST fur me to undertake to wawk, but I dont Weave 1 08100 ever so glad to and myself wide awake 1 nmY life. I cant begin to tell you ]tow tickled I woo to find out that f hadont giv away eveything and got into the poorhoes0 afore I woke up, oz I might a dun if that steamboat indent. a Mowed jest when she did, Ile never be able to tell you tho, how blue I felt when I found slit after a bit, that while I tvas asleep 0umb0dy had stole n1y watch and chain, Ive got it down it, my book, the, aginst the 1Caff Raison klub oz a part ov my expense. If they want me to learn tbinge Cur two they must gaped to foot the bill. Idik na 1 e ie r' slim Its funny what o a u (ekes kin hav in their sleep. I kin see that I carried on exzaokly like Teem Innovar du sumthnes, but it puzzles me that he wuzzont a bit like ma. If I thought tho, that I oud gib ez mach in. joyment out uv lgivin away things ez I did in my sleep, Ide most be willin 00 take a dollar to town with me sumtime and try it. I wont say another word, but will stop right here and quit. Yourn till we meet, SILAS CtANDllm!OOT. 'lEk WOIILID OF LABOR. Paper ie made of sugar cane. A Krupp gun oast $232,000, Col -glass table bells are new. London has 15,000 Dab drivers. London has the biggest pumps. London has 11.morningpapers. Gibraltar is the greatest fortress. New Orleans has it rice elevator. Whalebone is about $2 a pound. There are 80 varieties of bamboo. Mr. Thrasher is an Indian teacher. An inclined elevator is annonnoed. Black diamonds cannot be polished. London is to have a 1300 -foot tower. Polluted ice i0 terrorizing St. Louie. Egyptians had the loom 2500 B. 0. Troy has made a (1500 -pound valve. Kentucky leads in hemp production. Sandpaper grows on trees in Guiana. America bonets 28,000 newspapers: Bicycling is reviving the wayoide inn. Great Britain has 80 miles of tunnels. Compressed air is to propel Paris oars. America has 200,000 newspaper men. A. mine in Bohemia is 8280 feet deep. Tobacco culture occupies 1,500,000 aoreo. Chicago's postoftice has 2548 employ- ees. British wheels contain American spokes. Kerosene is 50 cents a gallon in Mexico. California's Exposition opens January 10th. Europe's first oarpet factory began in 1804. Russia has no foreign iusuranoe com- panies. Fish are disappearing from the British coast. A third of England's telegraph opera- tors are women. Smokeless combustion of coal has been a000mplished. The cost of runniug a l000motivo a year is estimated to be about $8000. A sponge has been found on the coast of Florida with a circumference of 5 feet 0 inches. And seoh a time ez eveybody had whin the presents was divided, and so many fokes got nice Iirismae gifts who wuzzont a lookin fur a thiug. When Jim Teester ]landed the preacher his overkote he oud. ent say a word to save his life, and when his wife got her kloke she jest got right down and Dried. When the Widder Good got her things she stood up and clapped her hands and give a shout, and I never saw seoh excitement ez there was amunget them yungsters in your Sunday ekule Mass, and you never seen a boy jump ez Hiram dun when he got them skates, and you and the gals --well, I never saw either wen ov you so Molded about any. thing in my life. Your faoe warmed up in a way that made you look so young it dident seem possible that you cud be my wife. I dehlare if I dident fall down. rite in lav with you on the spot, but it was only a dream ; you mussent furgit that. Sum ov the snpprizinest things (ho that there was in my dream was lcunsern- in old Istun Mover. It peered to me that fur a month I was ahearin evey day ov gum ov the queerest kind ov things that he had ben a doin. That • i0, they wag queer fur him bekoz they were so different frum what it has alwae hen his way to do. Wun day I wucl hear that he had out down his gaarteridgo frum fifty dollars a year to twelve, and mebbo the next I wud be told that he had ben n takin a ham to the passunidge and cbarg• in two dollars fur it, that the preechor had ben obleeged to immejutly take out bite his garden and berry. Another time I wud hear that he had otopped goin to prayer meetin, and bad giv the preacher notice that he oud make out his letter if he ever agin called on him to pray in church. The next I heerd was that be had traded hooses with Bruther Solly- mun Gimps, and had moat beat the old man out ov his eye teeth. At another time he only take a pound ov dried ap, pies to the preeohere donashon party, and made a kupple ov his yunguns stop goin to shun bellaw0 he dident feel oz tho he oud afford to buy um books. The last I hoard was that hie wife was about to sue fur a divorgo bekaws he wudent let her hav milk and sugar both in het tea at mutat, and jest then a steamboat bloomed its whissol and waked me up, or there haint no tellin what might a hap. penal next. My roomytfz was akin go bad that it was jest like breakin bongs Disc. 29, 1;893 aiNIMITIOMBSIMEMMMOMEEKVCBENNEMMIIVZISISMIBASS The Efooeao Tunnel], Massaohusette, le the )wlgoeb in the United States ; length, 4,1 1 miles • coat, 16 1.4,000,000. Excavations in lalestioe go to show that the 11ot.aiir blast 110011a0e, credited as the invention of Nelson in 1828, was used 1400 years B. 0. Germany has decided that cinnamon yellow is the beat Dolor for warships. The French atiolr to the gray lint, some - ling like a wet sail cloth. A new method of coloring iron has been discovered in England, 0811)011 eu. tirely prevente rust, even though the metal bo brought to a rod heat, Excluding about 02,000 small Drafts On iscarried 101 neroe of 61 world oo t the m by 45,000 vessels of 20,500,000 registered tons, with a carrying capacity of 48,000,- 000. Tho early Italian name for the tomato was pont odl Mori, "apple of the Moors," but the Freueh, phonetically misuudcr standing it, called thin vegetable Domino d'amour, or "love apple." The total mileage of railways now open to traffio in Japan 10 1,717. From 10,000,000,000 to 17,000,000,000 feet of timber, board measure, are at present acted in railroad ties in this oonntry. The Windsor anll Annapolis Railway company is oonsidoring a proposal to purchase the Nnva Sootia Central rail. way and add it to their system. An authority is credited with. saying that the Pennsylvania Railroad company Mans over 12,000 tons of coal a day bo. tween Pittsburg and Jersey City for the making of steam only. Every wheel on a Tallman oar is made of paper. You do not see the paper, bo - cause it is covered with iron and steel. The body of the wheel is a block of paper about four bushes thick. Around this a rim of steel measuring from 1120 to three inohes. It is this steal rim of course which comes in contact with the rails. The sides are covered with circular iron plates, bolted on. Wiarton has been made a town. The influenza is spreading fent in Montreal. C. Downing, of Derebam, killed a 000 lb. pig last week. Nicholas Oonolly, in jail at Ottawa, is suffering front look of sleep and no apps. tite for food. Lady Aberdeen held her first "at home" at Rideau Hall, Wednesday. There were about 250 guests. George Bruce, of Waterloo, has lost a valuable horse. The animal ran away and broke its legs and had to bo shot. E. Snider, manager of the Berlin Pub• Robing Company, had afinger crushed off his left hand in the wheels of a printing press recently. The Tavistock flour mill was corn. pletely destroyed by fire Wednesday night, along with 8,000 bushels of wheat. The loss amounts to about 03,000. Western Ontario salt manufacturers met in London Wednesday to consider the question of prices. The matter will be further considered at an adjourned meeting, to be held in Clinton. Bremen, the half-breed who killed Snake Child, an Indian, at Calgary, 013 Saturday night, was Wednesday oonvrot. ed of manslaughter, and sentenced to 10 years in Stony Mountain Penitentiary. Ez,c)e. Wishes to thank his customers for their liberal patronage during the past year and also to intimate to the public gener- ally that he has recently had his roller hill put in thor- ough repair and it is now in better position than ever to tarn out FIRST CLASS FLOUR. In the Chopping Line We are prepared to do work promptly and in the Very Best Style as we have recently started a new run of stones for that purpose. Full Return Guaranteed. Best Flour and Mill Feed at Reasonable Prices Dollars S�u�!I ire Dollars Gaide� And delivered any place in town without Extra Charge. A Limited Quantity of good Milling Wheat purchased at the Mill. WM. ROSS, Brusels. Nov. 21st, 1898. The way to Sarre Money is to mai. on c And see their -prime stock of Hard- ware, &c , c&c., before purchasing elsewhere, Not simply hide bare walls. As discordant strains of music are to the ear, so is the eye tortured by out -of -harmony paper on the walls. If you look to cheapness alone you might as well cover your plaster with penny -a -dozen newspapers. But if you appreciate real beauty you should consider many things in purchasing papers—the location, light and woodwork of the room, eta. Our stock includes something especially adapted to every room —more colors and patterns than any other wall paper store in the town. Our Goocl Papers cost you no more than the poor ones others sell. Call and see our thousand -and -one styles. Persons thoroughly versed in Wall Paper will wait upon you and aid you in making selections. We hang paper in a first-class manner and are prepared to ex- ecute the best kind of decorations. WINDOW BLINDS.—I have an elegant stock of Window Blinds, well assorted, that will only need to be seen to bo appreci- ated. They may be had either trimmed or plain by the yard. W. RODDICK House, .Sign, Carriage and Ornamental Painter. Cross Gut Saws. We handle the Celebrated "Leader," the Galt "Lance," and the Toronto "Blade," Satisfaction • guaranteed lu saws , We clo a large; trade in thls'line. n SG A large and well assorted stock of beautiful Hanging, Par- lor and Table Lamps that cannot fail to please purchasers.. CUTLERY. Splendid stock of Table Cutlery, Pocket Knives and all other goods in this line. New, good and cheap. SILVERWARE. We have a very superior display of silverware suitable for holiday or birthday gifts. Our stock is well as- sorted and sold at Close Prices. Tip-top Line in JV'ew . caT12n2•er's. Sleigh Bells, Whips, Chopping Axes and everything else usually found in a First-class Hardware Store. Strict attention to business, selling on close margins andigiv- ing satisfaction to our patrons are the lines on whicli we aim to gain and retain trade. A• M. M'KA'Y & 00. IMIMIMarnue SANTA CLAUS t° the FRONT Now is the time when Christmas gift making comes up for consideration and it is no easy matter to decide what to purchase. T8E ?OST DooIutorc Has put in a large stock of Tas t,y New Goods comprising Photo. Albums, Toilet Cases containing comb brush and Mirror, Shaving Cases, Work Boxes, Fancy Ink Stands. BEAUTIFUL DOLLS Ranging in price from 5c to $1.25. Toys of All Kinds Such. as Trumpets, Balls, Tops, Dishes, Horses, Trains, Whips, Brooms, Whistles, Drums, Animals, Tools, Magic Lanterns, Guns, Pails, Washboards, Drawing Slates, Paint Boxes, Stoves, Rattles, Harmonicas, Pis- tols, Watches, Jack Knives, &c.,,&c. t� Splendid Amigo of Picture Books. New Stock of Bibles and Hymn Books. See our Mechanical Banks. They're Fine.. Buy early and thereby get a good selection. Goods Iiliay be left in our Dare until Xmas if so desired. Solid Bargains in All Holi- day Goods. POST ook to re BRUSSELS.