The Brussels Post, 1888-11-9, Page 3NOV. 9, 1888.
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A CHILD'S QUESTIONS.
A1anina, is
tho slay a certain
hiding heaven from our
sight; are the moon and sun
but windows, made to give tho
angels light? Aro tho stats bright
flushing diamonds shining from God's
band afar, and the cloudsbut voila of vo.
por, dropped from heaven floating there ?
If the sun's a window, mamma, don't
the angels through it poop, or it
kisses earth at ovouing ; watching o'or
us while wo sloop? is tho rai'bow lust
to ribbou gir. dling heaven and earth
about, •or a railingmadoofrosossotho
angels won't fall out? Is tho sighing in
tho tree tops songs ofpr'isosomeaugol
sings and tho snowy flakes of
winter feathers falling
from their wings? Aro
the dow drops brightly
shining in early worn.
ing hours kiss spots
left by elves and
fairies whore they
slept among the
flowers ? Is
the lightning
ruokots dy-
ing, where the
Prince of Glory
comes,
anti
the thun-
der but the
rattle of the
baby angels'
drums
A Journey Across
Lebanon.
lir REv. 0. n. HowiL•f, L A., 'PASTOR or
irNOX OHrifROII, n1OSSEL$.
Shortly after leaving Leoutes we
crossed another important river,
Uarzynon. At this place Doob
seemed to be all aglow for he said
"I mu very near my own country."
-He was taken aback when I told
him it would bo fully six boars be-
fore be is in Luk Waddy 13srada
(the native diatriet proper). Evi•
debtiy he thought I had colo 'for
tho first time, but I assured him I
had crossed the river between 100
and 150 times before, that I had
played on its banks and often made
e. moss of my clothes before I was
10 years of ago. I told him a few
tbinge about the district, which
thoroughly satisfied him that I had
lived iu the place. At tide early
hour we frequently toot or pease -el
flocks and herds leaving the villages
and making for the open country
for' pasturage. In ovary village
there is la kaey(euepherd) appoint
ed. This man, early in the morn
ing, proceeds from his but to hie
wonted spot, a little way out of the
vilbogo, and at the pitch of his voice
utters a few words or sounds, after
which asses, oxen, oowe and buffaloes
begin to gather around him, being
loosed and sent away by their
owners. The headsman is paid by
the villagers, hence they commit to
his care their animals. During the
day he takes them to places of
posture at distances some milds
from the city and there they graze.
He returns with hid flock toward
evening and as soon as he approach•
es the village, remarkably ouough,
the animals, who kept behind and
round him all day, now desert him,
one by one, back to their respective
owners and mangore from whence
they had been sent in the morning,
This leaving and returning of tee
shepherd with his flock is repeated
daily throughout the year and those
animals come and go with a punct
uality nod regularity which would
compare favorably with the wadi -tot
of some human beings. This or
some other similar behavior of the
inferior animals must have been in
the mind of the author of the first
verses of the Book of Isaiah, "Tho
ox knoweth his owner and the nae
his master's crib, but• Israel doth
not know, my people doth not con -
eider." It is to be feared that if
that fiery preacher, whoever he was,
wore to appear and live in our day
he would fiud little reason to with.
draw his statement, but rather find
abundant cause to say of many other
privileged nations and individuate
what he had said of Israel.
CHAPTER IV.
THC TWO VtLLCYB•
As soon as wo left the plain we
entered Waddy El Hareer (Valley of
Silk), thou Waddy E1 Rare (Valley
of Idorn), both of which aro familiar
by name at least to all Syrians,
These valleys are, from early time,
proverbial for done of robbers. If
I were writing for Palestinians it
would be sufficient to have told
them that these Waddy are liko the
road which leads from Jerusalem to
Jericho. This to them would cent-
very
e t -vary a good idea of the horrors and
dangers connected with those ravines
Previous. to 1860 there need to bo
n family of nobles, Enira Al. Har-
fooeh. These nobleman frequently,
if nob always, traversed the heights
and caves on both sides of the road
and from favorable positions opicd
travollors. When they saw that the
company wits too insignificant to
offer effectual reeistaneo they
tacked them. 'rho primary objo
TZ'Z BRUSSELS POST
wommerdim'la➢tl®6ie • v ,.
at. uufregteutleewitnossedla the camps,
ot, In the retain, it is true that tho
of course, Was robbery, but many n
Limo it led to bluodobod. To the
nobility (Harfuooh) other dieting-
uished robbers were added from
time to time, who helped to make
the public road to Damascus is
perilous nn possible, Those mon
and such no they do aflorll an in-
teresting but diiffioult matter for en.
query. Did they really tbink that
their penctione were right or in
uooent ? There eau be no difficulty
in answering this and similar quos
tions in the negative, Robbery and
bloodshed in themselves they con•
eiderod wrong awl unlawful, but in.
asmuob as these crimoe were in.
variably aecompaaiod with what
they would cell valor nor] courage,
they lost mere than half of their
heinouenees, and if theeo circum
stances be not suffeeiout to recencilo
their moral eenso to their deeds
there are other eircumstancee which
render perfectly exonsablc the evi-
dent wrong. let, These Emra were
without sufficient resources to main
twin themselves and their dignity,
hence robbery became it necessity.
2nd, Those gentlemou robbers were
generous in the extreme and wonld
often bestow great gifts upon the
needy and frequently became the
champions of justice and truth, when
the oppressors and evil doers Wert
not themselves. It is easy to
see, however, tibat theeo enpposed
juatiflcatrone, which seemed valid to
Harf000h, would only evoke a laugh
or scorn from any jury, young or
old, literate or illiterate. But it is,
equally easy to see that a consider-
able proportion of the immorality of
our day is excused and defended on
grounds hardly better than those
which pacified the oonecicoco of the
Waddy El (wart robber. Ib would
appear that some conscientious men
are not aware that no amount of
generosity lavished upon one man
eau ever atone for a wrong done to
another man ; that no amount of
good done at one time can excuse
or justify evil dono at other times.
Here perhaps the have an explana-
tion of the opinion that repentance
and good works may suffice to secure
pardon of sin and acceptance with
God, irrespective of atonement for
sin.
Arriving in Sahlat•el•Godydit I
dismounted near the khau and sat
on the bare but cool earth in the
shado of a wall, while the mule en-
joyed the luxury of picking up the
few green herbs which grew around,
Within hearing distance Deob
stood speaking to one of the own.
pony officials, and thus I was left
alone. All of a sudden and without
any preliminaries an elderly gentle.
man stood close in front of me,
stooped, then threw both his arms
round me, kissing me repeatedly and
wetting my cheeks with his tears.
At first 1 wan both surprised and
confused, but soon felt sure that
there must bo sufficient reason and
an explanation would be • forth•
aouhiog. Ho then stood back and
said, "Are you 2" "Yes,'
I replied, "I am lie." "You da not
know me," he rejoined. By this
Lime, especially when ho spoke, I
woe sufficiently recovered to recug-
nine him label indicate that I knew
Lim perfectly well. Wo hardly had
time for any further remarke when
a younger man took hold of lee and
kissed me on the face, though with
much less demonstration than the
elder relative, as they proved to be
blood relations whom I bad not seen
for over a dozen years, but longed
so to do. Aero they were oertaiuly
far from home and in a place where
I might least have expected them.
11 was Meath to tell whether the
pleasure or pain preponderated in
consequence of the unexpected moot-
ing, for immediately afterwards I
pursued my journey to Damasous,
while they remained engaged at
some alterations on trio roads.
Now, whim we were near the end
of our third days' journey, wo loft
the main road and branched off to
the left, making for Deeb's v/llage-
seelt, whore My third night was
to be spout, At this point the mule
hurt its fool and had to bo led,
while I walked behind for about ono
and a half hours. Both on the
right and loft of us stood huntdrode
of Bedoun houses (tents). They
had tomporarily encamped hero with
their large number of cattle and
camels. Those obildron of the
desert have no fixed abode, iu et
general sense, they may be ,said, to
be Mohammedans in religiifn, ' but
wbou they (Lush against the pilprnm
to Mem, and play havoc amongst
their caravans all confidence in thole
Mohammedanism is shaken, bcsicloe
it ie not at all certain whether they
observe the feast of Barnndon, and
upon the whole 1 should bo inclined
to draw a clear line of distinction
between Bedouins (Arabs) and llfo-
hammodans properly to called. One
thing is absolutely certain, that the
13odawie firmly believe in the ox-
fstenoo, unity and sovereignty of
God. Ho has a deep sense of sin
and guilt, nevertheless crime is not
13edawle wanders shoat ; is not
eddeatod, and bas hardly tiny maane
of educating hie children. ills mode
of living, if viewed *QM a western
etatdpoint, is extremely rough and
grotesque, and we nzaY preemie' tack,
"Oen those b+,los live ?" Can any
thing be done to civilise and Chris.
tiauize the Arab 2 If some people's
slut -tone of civilization be correct thou
We can hardly look for a bright day
for 8000 time to 0atne atnong the
Amba.
Nut long ago a friend Recused me
that in some parts of France the
people aro little else tame barbarians,
because they speak not n word of
English, Now, ie it true that the
Euglish langnage, or oven Euglieli
eeciitl ctretom8, are necessary either
to civilization or christfauity. Nay,
oven is it true that city life lc es•
eeutial to the embracing uf the
gospel 2 To inc it does appear that
the Christian inissionary need not
outwore himself as to whether the
13odawie live in "a hone° of hair,"
or of any other materiel ; stationary
iu a town, or wandering itbout,
The gospel can vary well be preach-
ed anti the children schooled even
under the present system of nomadic
life. Of course the cbristiau teacher
who attaches himself to a wander-
ing tribe must undergo comparative
iocouveuienoe, and even hardships.
to some oases those hardships aro
very great, yea almost insufferable
in the cast of all :European or Amerl•
eau missionary, but in the case of
a Native (001 ne0eeearily an Arab)
these are reduced to a minimum,
lienee it must needs appear that
Lord Polwartth and those wile, with
Lim, are interested in that most
Christ like mission, the educating
and Christianizing of the Beduaine,
will find that their benevolent and
Christian object is attained, in pro.
portion to the number of native
ragouts employed under the direction
and superintendence of an Europoau
head, such ae is already on the
field. If the life of a sailor or
soldier is consistent with a new
heart or Christian disposition there
is hardly any reason to eupposa that
.be Bedawie canna become °heistean
ou account of his wandering life.
(To be Continued.)
Character as taalented by the Features:
Mernory of Events.—This is
shown by a wide, full fothead in the'
oentre.
Reasoning Power.—A higtt, long
and woll•defiaed nose and a broad
face oxl>ibita this amity.
Moral Courage.--Tuis faculty
Manifests itself by wide nostrils,
short neck and eyes set directly it
front.
Language.—This faculty is ex•
bibited in many parts of tate face,
particularly by a large mouth and
large, full eyes, opened wide.
Self Esloem.—This faculty shows
itself in a long or deep upper lib.
Large eelf esteem gives one dignity,
self-control and perfect independ•
sate.
Fineness. -The presence of this
faoalter, when very largo, is indient-
od by a long, broad chin, Firm.
nods is synonymous with willfulness,
pereeverauoe and stability.
Perception of Charaotor.—This ie
indicated by a long, high nose at
the lower and or tip. This faculty
is very useful, if not indispensable,
to a judge in the exercise of the
Neaten of his officio.
Pbwer of Observation.—Tile situ-
ation of this faculty lain the Bice
just above the top of the nose, filling
out the forheaa to a level with the
parts on each chic Of the nose. It
s a faculty which ouable.i one is
coneentrato the mind upon the sub•
joet being discussed. •
Consoientiousness,.- This is shown
lu the face by a square jaw, it bouy
chin, prominent oheok bones, and a
general squareness of the features
of the entire floe. 'To'be oonsoien•
tions means that one has tt sense of
justioo, boneety of purpose, rectitude
of rharaoter and mord coihraga.
r:,f<rt4,V 0011toLENer,
It ie not a generally known bus-
torical fact that from 1774 to 1784
the territory now known as Tonnos-
soe formed a part of North Carolina,
anti that in 178d tho Tennesseans,
becoming diesatisfiod with their
govornment, organized a state gov-
ernment under the name of "Frame•
lin," which was maintained for
some years. 'Tho state afterward
organised disbanded and territorial
Tennessee was again and nixed to
North Carolina, The following is
among the laws passed by the legis•
laturo of the State of Franklin. We
copy it as found in 0 aposoli by
Daniel Webetortae the coyrreney of
1888 :
Be it enacted by the general
assombly ortho State of Franklin,
and it is thereby onacted by the
authority of the same i That from
the let day of January, `1780, the
eateries of the offtoors of this
common Wealth be as follows
His oxeellenoy the governor, per
annum 10,0110 deer chins,
His 1hnnor tbo chief justiac, per
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An int:heed railway will be built
up the mountain at Hamilton next
spring,
annum, 500 deer alone. Tilos 'Tenn, of Iona, gathered
'Mlle secretary to hie excellency 17 barrels of apples off a Northern
the governor, per annum, 1100 Spy tree,
racoon skins. W. A. Carleton & Co., of Lyno-
Th° treasurer to the utato, 150
moon, tilting.
Eachcounty clerk, 800 beaver
shrine.
Clerk of honer of commons, 200
racoon skins;
lfutnbere of tlho assembly, per
diem, three racoon eking.
Justices' fees for signing warrant,
nue muskrat skin.
`.Cu constables for serving a
warrant, one mink skin.
Enacted into tbo law the hath
day of 0otnbor, 1780, under the
great seat of the state.
bort I111SIIAND5.
I'arihape 000:3 wives would Iibcs
to cut out tho following and paste
it iu their lhuubands' hats.
i. Always corm home good-tem-
pered, leaving business cares befhiucl,
and d,> not vent annoyances feet
with at office on your wife and
family.
2. Make yourself agreeable to
your wife ani Mamie, and d0 not
sit glutn all the eveniug, looking
utterly bored,
8. Ile lonicut eeyour wife's Naha,
awl do not expect perfection unfit
you have first booame perfect yogi: -
eel(.
4. 13e punctual at meals. Re
member n cook can not keop dinner
waiting witbont lie being spoiled.
Do not °spot each servant ti lrtve
two pair of hands,
5. Do not expeot your wife to
keep aocouuts, unless you take the
trouble to keep your owe correctly.
6. Dress as well as and es neatly
as your means will allow, and bo
careful not to get your best trousers
wet, as baggy knees ate a thing no
Woman 000 reepeet,
7. 13e as kind and attentive to
your wife as before you were mar-
ried and remember she Ihas no pipe
to go to for oomfort.
8. When your liver is out of order
remember food cannot be palatable ,-
thereforo do not grumble and tura
over on your plate what your wife cleaning her own chimney one clay
has provided for yon as if it were lately. One of the bricks giving
not Jit for ]t clog to eat. away she lose her hold and fell back-
wards over the end of the house and
was seriously injured.
The Brantford Board of Trade
has passed a resolution emphasizing
the urgent need for an efficient
Council during the forthcoming
year, and pledging tbo members to
support good men, irrespective of
class or party prejudices. It is
expected that the Board will nomin-
ate a ticket of its own.
From lettere in the trunk of the
hese found dead On the beach at
Owen Sound last• week it appears
that big proper name was J. A. Tur-
cotto. Ile had been in the employ
of the Manitoba Government in con
neetion with thePublio Works Ile•
pertinent up to August.
The mean depth of Lake Soper-
ior is 475 feet ; of Leko Michigan
800 feet : of Lake Huron 250 feet ;
of Lake Ontario 70 feet,. A. writer
in the Engiueeriag News says that
when the great Palle break away a
little more Lake Erie will he so far
drained that it will shrink- to the
dimouaaous of a river, leaving the
towns now on its shores far inland.
T. P. Walsh. of Syracuse, N. Y.,
whose relations live in Guelph and
Arthur, has been figuring in a emus -
what romantic role. He was en-
gaged to be married to Mise Ready,
a singer of some twat, in that city,
the banns of marriage Ihas bleu
called, the furniture bought, and
the wedding breakfast ordered.
But two days before tbt intended
wedding day, owing to 1301310 rimer,
the unceremoniously left for Canada.
Hie fiance traced him to Guelph,
whore he had engaged as a moulder
in Crowe'° foundry and waited. till
his return from Arthur, to whioh
place be had gone on. Oounty Con-
stable Elliott brought the two face
to face, and after au honr'e consul-
tation, bo agrood to go back, and
deb bygones be bygones.
sods shipped nearly a tun of chest•
nutg tie Hamilton.
Saturday was the 82nd anniver.
sary of tho opening of the G.T'.lt
between Montreal and Toronto.
Andrew Shaw, of North Embre,
bias sold about 275 busbole of onfoe.
to ono may ill logorsolt, at OUe per
bushel -
M. Ilawtmau, Scotland, Burford,
says that he raised 578 Mishear of
Oni0n8 On lees than an acre uf
grouud.
A. T. Cutler, of Galt, lies a white
horn, which has atbained the re•
markable ago of 48 years end is
NO. frisky.
Mayor Seldou, of Ingersoll, has
horn a big buyer cf appleo this fall.
I3
o has already sent to Engion
23,000 barrels, and will send 18,
more,
W. Y. Emery, of Port Burwell
has just placed a mammoth water
wheel in his flour mill. It weighs
5500 pounds, uud was made in
Ptelon, Ont.
James Matheson, of Acton, lies a
roadster team which won at the Fell
faire One year, eight fleet prizes,
one second, a eiiver medal and dip
tome and $207 in oast].
Montreal detectives are watching
the steamships for a sham priest,
who is supposed to have sailed for
Canada, and who defrauded a broker
of Liverpool, Eng., of several thous-
and pounds.
A few days ago Geo. Buchan, of
Bright, while out in the woods with
tiffs gun, bad the good fortune to
shoot a black fox, which is now a
very rare animal in Ontario. The
akin is said to be worth $100.
The bean crop in Kent county is
phonominally largo, and much of it
has been marketed at Chatbam et
$1 50 per bushel. It is estimated
that not less than 500,000 bushels
will be shipped from Kent this sea-
son,
ltlrs. E. hall, an old lady, 74
years of age, of Granton, under.
took the rather difficult task of
2
9. If you have a wife who does
keep her house in order, ie not coo •
stantly at war with her servants, is
nut extravagant, has meals regular•
ly and well served, and does her
beet to please, let her see you ap-
preciate her, otherwise she will
cease to try and melte your home
comfortable and in due course your
troubles at home will be infinitely
worse than you may have at your
office, '
Cauudla,ia. News.
s.
Several conductors have been die•
missed -from the Grand Trunk.
Milton has waterworks and now
it waute a $100 fire alarm system.
H. Cl. Wilson, member for Edmon•
too, has been elected Speaker of the
Northwest Legislature.
It is sail the Bank of Commerce
Lae decided upon erecting a hand-
some new banking house at Wood
stock.
Tho Uxbridge papore aro at log.
godheads, and are fighting over
their poverty, which appears to be
mutual,
It is probable the plans and epeo-
ifioatioas for the sheat -piling of
ItIoGregor's Creek, Kent County,
will bo on view at Chatham within
a few clays.
Commissioner Iierohtuer, of the
Mounted Police, has left Fort aro-
Leod to investigate the recent
Iudiau trouble near High River,
N. W. T.
The editor of the Markdale Stan-
dard is apparently getting along
welt with his neve wife. He says :
"All other goods by fortune's band
is given, it wife is a peculiar gift of
Heaven."
This is worthy of emulatiou I A
Wallaoeburg girl, who refused an
offer or•marriege from it young man
recently, soot bim a cheque for the
amount slue supposed he had spent
while ho was courting bor.
Several years agoa wealthy I+ing-
hsh captain visited Oape Vincent,
Out., and took MI Oh a fanny to a
young bartender that he tools him
to England and, by his death re-
cently, the young man ealne into
possession of $70,000.
On ?Iouday evening, alba, .Fisher,
of the 18th con. of East Luther,
was smoking herself with the flames
of burning sulphur, whoa her cloth-
iog naught fire and teas burned off
her body, burning the flesh in to
terriblo manner from nook to feet,
Her sister who wee up stairs itt the
time, hearing the noise ram down
quickly and found the woman in
/lames. She tried to put diem out
and got her bands badly soorobed.
It took a doctor about four hours to
dross and bind tip the wounds, kt
last a000unte the nnfortuneto worn 1
an lay in a orifice' condition.
A sen 0f A. Simpson and a cam-
panion named Burch, of Beamoville,
were bunting for black squirrels in
Lir. liarcourt's bust,' about five
miles week of the village on Satire -
day, who young Simpson tripped,
as he thought, over a steno, On
turning to look at it he was horri-
fied to find it was a bleached situp,
and ab the same moment young
Buell discovered a clothed body
sitting up by a maple tree. Tho
trunk was without a head, and pre-
sented a inost ghastly spectacle with
evident marks of being there for
several years, Tho skull was eov-
eral foot from tbo body. Tho body,
arms stied thighs were thoroughly'
shrunken into a parchment oovcring
the bones, but the skull had a short
pipe between tho teeth as if death
dame suddenly. Those was nothing.
in the octants to give inform Ikon
regarding tho body.
Returned to Brussels.
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