The Brussels Post, 1888-11-16, Page 3Nov. 16, 1888.
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BOBBY'S TIIAN$SGIVING,
A table
ro l
fail qoaning under everything
that'That you or 1 could think of In the data•
logue of food ;
There sat a happy tinnily, as jolly off
could be,
To celebrate Thanksgiving day with due
feetivity.
111a Utheir eyes upon lthe with inouthe tde pen, kept
tray,
As if tho turkey on it would spread wings
and fly away ;
The while the girls sat up quite straight,
their dignity in hand,
And by their prim example gave tho
boys a reprimand,
But snob a ebining gobbler, with its
drumetioka in the air,
Would make a Chesterfield unquiet, for-
got himself and stare.
How can we blame the
othungry boys if
they perchance
Conspicuously tho foot that they had
stomachs to be staid ?
Above the steaming turkey rose the mast•
or, six feet tall,
And silence, deep, impressive, fell alike
on ono and all.
Ho bowed his bead and reverently, in
language full and clear,
IIs thanked
the year.
ator for the
blessings of
And when the simple prayer was done,
time the good father spoke :
"My children, it b000mee each ono hie
blessing to invoke ;
Therefore let each ono here thank him
for this Thanksgiving treat.
For all the favors he these good things to eat.'te and
With trembling voice and reverend air
each pious ono bowed low
And thanked bad blessed them Father groat
them no
For all thathe good things, and their home,
to them a hallowed spot,
Until it came to little Bob, the smallest
of the lot.
And thus he spoke, his head boweddown,
while round he glanced en oyo :
funk thee for tho turkey and the
gweet big chicken pie ;
I Tank thea for the other finge"—et this
prospect of bliss
He paused, and then—"say, mamma,
please, w'ata admin' after this
A Journey Across
Lebanon.
to punish Lintel for their indiffer
once and want of respect to hie
dignity.
Anyone rending the paseago lit
find Rings must see that the cause
of all this marl:Mention was simply
tho unlikonoos of the moque by
which God purposed to heal him to
the rneans he had conceived himself.
The premier of Syria, even Neaman,
is evidently represented by a great
number of men in all ages, The
euecossord of Naamau aro in a rage
spinet or disregard the Ethane of
the gospel for the salvation of sin
nere, beoause the doctrines of tho
New Teatement are unlike what
might be, or, et any rate, what they
expected. Bishop Butler, in his
famous "Analogy," allows pretty
oonolusively that the wisdom of man
on this particular quoetiou is little
else than foolishneee, Wo, however,
choose to forego Butler's philosophi-
cal and intricate moao of poreuasion r
However sound it may be, and adopt
Newnan's man servant entreaties iu
2Kinge, u : 18, "My father, if the
prophet had bid thee do some great
thing, wouldst thou not have done
it ? How much rather then when
he eaith to thea, Wtteh and bedew?"
Wo entrant the multitudes to come,
see and taste how good is the Lord ;
to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and they oliall be saved ; to try God's
appointed way, since all other ways
have manifestly failed. If you had
been asked to give costly sacrificee,
tremendous pilgrimages, faetinge
and humiliations would you not
have done it ? How mush more
then should you be willing to do
this one thing, "Come unto Chriet
all ye that labor, ,kc."
Now, having oronsed and re cross-
ed Ibis crooked river, we reached
Suk (Deeb's village), which le situ-
ated un the right bank of the Barada,
about 5 miles from its source and
18 from the city. As we entered
tho village we came upon n crowd
of people, oongrogaled round a man
selling melons and cucumbers. He
receives eggs broad wheat or money
in! BEV. G. B. 1.10WOL", 0. A., PASTOR OF
macs 000nc1, BRO0SELS.
About half an hour before reach
ing Suit Waddy Barada we, for the
first time, crossed the winding river
which is identified with the Abana
of Neaman. It Tinos near the vii•
lege of Zabadanie, on the eastern
slope of Aoti• 'Lebanon, at a distance
of 23 miles from the city and 5 miles
from Abilab. The source of the
river is said to be upwardu of 1,100
feet above Damascus ; but in the
Beat it is difficult to determine
which is the source of a river, for
some regard the tributary, or that
which bringe the largest body of
water into the stream, as the source
of it, rather than the highest or first
point whioh makes the beginning of
the river.
Modern es well as ancient travel.
Tors have frequently owned their
inability to fully describe the beauty
and grandeur of the gardens which
surround Damascus. For a distance
of some miles all around the city
is planted, if not the grandest, at
least one of the grandest Edens in
the world. For quantity, quality
and variety eho fruits of these gar-
dens aro simply amazing, and if we
add to this the hundreds of thous-
ands, both of men and boasts, who
daily, either residing in or enter
into and departing from Damascus,
then it will be true to say that
Barada (Abana) is the support of
all, or nearly all, this life.
•Were 1t not for the stream pro.
bably Damascus would be no Des
memat all but one of the many
hamlets soattered in the district.
Barada fertilizes the soil and makes
it bring forth and bud ; it also fur-
nishes the pooling and indispensable
draughts for the enormous multi-
tude of living beings, nevertheless it
is difficult fully to sympathize with
Nauman iu his exaltation iu and
pride of his river,
"Aro not Abana and Parpharrivers of Damascus better than all
tho watere of Israel." Parphar is
identified with Nahor•el•Owego, a
stream, at the nearest, about 8 miles
from tho city, and in all respects
inferior to Barada, Probably &a-
men could never have satisfactorily
proved that Jordan was inferior to
Barada, but whethor or not, the
Syrian captain was to be cleansed
from bis leprosy by mere washing
in Jordan. Wo can many agree
with Nauman that the waters of
Jordan and the waters of Damascus
are alike impotent to heal, yet with
this qualification : That God chose
to make the one a means for heal-
ing, and finis tlistinguiehed it above
the other. At anyrato Naaman was
bitterly disappointed, for Ito wont
away in a rage, probably with the
intention, ou his arrival in tho city,
of 'ito torture and death the
voting maiden who had been the
direct moans of his pain and con.
Nein-,and also of sendingen artny
for his produce. It must be ex-
tremely tiresome, es well as a great
waste of time, to buy from him or
for him to sell, as ho has no de-
finite or uniform standard by which
to regulate his prior, and your
making a good bargain with him
seems to depend upon the length of
time you aro able to stand and argue,
and his 'fortune upon his capacity of
standing out and firm in his argu-
ment.
Reaching Deeb's house the untilo
was nnloaded. Mrs. Deeb (or, as
they would say in the East, Deeb'a
woman) cams quietly and almost
without a word led the mule away
and stabled it, while Deeb himself
showed me in, or rather do'vn, to
his house, for although one storey
room yet we descended several steps
from the street to the floor. Ex•
oept the door by whtob I bad enter.
el I failed to find any inlet for
either light or air. The woman of
Deeb merle a great files over me
and wondered what she could do to
make me comfortable, whereupon I
expressed a sincere desire to be
shorn to the top of the house. A
ladder was at once procured, which
I mounted, and then requested that
my mat and mattress should be
hoisted also. It was perfectly agree-
able to inhabit the top of the house,
within sight and hearing of the
waters of Abana. Before the even-
ing was far spent I went down and
had a bathe in the stream. That
evening happened to bo an excep•
atonal one iu the village, in conee•
pence of a commemoration of some
religious event with the people.
It was interesting and curious to
notice the people stretching them-
selves and partly climbing up the
walls to have a look at mo and see
what I was about on the top of the
house. Sinop the days of my child.
hood I remember an opinion pre-
valent in the country to tho effect
that Protestants, who had no priest
to confess to, make their confession
to the oylinderioal stone, or roller,
already referred to, on the top et
the house, hence some of the people
at least expected to neo and hear me
make oonfeseiou of my sine in the
ear of the house -top roller, This is
not unlike the oalueanies which worn
oiroulated speedily and widely con•
earning the Christians of the first
centuries. They were said to wor-
ship a calf, an ass's bead and eat
children. We need not ascribe
this, however, to malice and hatred,
but it may bo that seine part of it
is due to ignorance, and if this bo
so then itis attar that Christianity
needs to be expounded oven in
Abilene, This place is well idonti•
fled as the Abilene of St. Luko,
which wag governed by Lysanias,
whilePontiae Pilate governed Judea,
in the fifteenth year of Tiberias
Omar. In the neighborhood are
many ancient mine and inscriptions,
sufficiently eligible to bo road and
tranelatod by scholars. Koro there
seems to bo no school, except that
which in kept by the Ohateob (Inc.
turoe) or master of the Mosque.
What is generally known of tine
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dignitary is that ho distinguishes
himself most in exarting foes from
the parents and whipping the ohild•
ren, nevertl101ese he does impart
eome instruction in reading and
writing. The korau is the ohiof
book and porhape one of the most
difficult to read or understand, Not-
withstanding this both Ohatoeb and
papil wade through it, with amaz
fug perseverance. Every boy learns
SOMA) part of it by heart, whilst
eome learn the whole book, a prac-
tice not altogether unworthy of imi-
tation. After the howling and ex-
oito,nent cooled down and the people
had dispersed from the streets and
lanae 1 toyed me down and slept till
suuriee next morning,
('Po be Continued.)
A 01111 IlLA(`1f;3111T11.
FINS (11008 horseshoes Wet by l'illtcn•
V ei r.01d Ar"tc Bole.
Among the exhibits at the Me-
chanics' institute Fair, mew have
more ioterost than the dozen horso-
ehoes to the right of the main en-
trance, Thoeo horseshoes, perfeot-
ly shaped, handsomely polished and
withal eel:math:ally correct, are the
work of i4lies Annie Bole, aged fif-
teen years.
Miss Bole is the daughter of a
teamster and lives in the rear of a
blacksmith atop at 911 Battery
etree t, kept by a man named Walsh,
It was in this shop that an Exatni-
ner reporter found her. Walsh said
that the young laity had been
taught by him and be was very
proud of his pupil.
"I've seeu duzene that have tried
it," tie eaid, "but none of 'em had
the natural talent for making horse
elutes that the youug teddy's got.
Mis' Huntington, that's worth her
forty millions, made a good offer at
it, but couldn't quite do it. There
ain't a man this side of Lannon
that can make horseshoes like that
young teddy•" At the blacksmith's
request, Miss Bole made a horseshoe
then and there. A piece of round
iron was cot off by Mr. Walsh and
Miss Bolo rolled up her sleeves,
thereby revealing a rather small
arm, tied on a leather apron and
plugged tbo iron into the fire. The
young lady is about five feet three
itches high and rather fragile than
strong. She brushed her hair back
from a laughing face and soon the
hammer was ringing on the rod iron
with a truo sound. She made the
crease in the shoe, turned it into
shape hks a veterau, regardless of
the firing sparks, drove the nail
holes, and finally turned out as fine
a shoe as ever graced the foot of a
race -horse, for Mies Bole will have
nothing to do with shoos for ordin-
ary drayhorses, but confinee her-
self exclueively to the finer shoes of
composition or polished irou.
Miss Bole said that she first bo
came animated with the idea of
making horseshoes by watching the
blacksmith. Finally eho asked him
to lel her try it and he was so muoh
pleased with her first effort that he
showed her all that he knew and
the result was the exhibit at the
Mechanics' Institute.
She says that she will not make
any practical use of her accomplish.
monk, though she seemed anxious
about her exhibit and several times
asked : "Will I have to go out to
the fair and make a shoe there. be-
fore I get anything ?" Her in.
grader confidently expecte she will
take a premium.
The horseshoes were filed, polish-
ed and finished in her owu little
vice, whioh she keeps an her own
room. Mr. Walsh declares that he
is going to send one of the horse-
shoes to the Queen of Eugland.
'TAMAN PROVERBS.
Hasty climbers have midden falls.
At a round table there is no .lie.
puts about place.
Beware of him who has naught
to lose.
The devil tempts every man, but
the lazy man tempts the devil.
Save a thief from the gallows,
and he'll be the first to out your
throat.
When gold epealce, every tongue
is silent.
It is bettor to have au egg to -day
than a lion to morrow,
Better to be the head of a sprat
than the tail of a sturgeon.
The rioh have never to seek for
relations.
4.71.0110 rat I'ol e wKr.
ens) in 1873 Was 1,500,000 1 of
Upper Bunnell in 1880 3,000,000,
and of the Burmese Shan Stator 2,-
000,000. The yearly iucreasenient
of the population is at least 1, per
omit. With these additions, and
with atlowauco for annual increase -
manta slue the cmneue of February,
1881, the populatiou of India in
March, 1887, would be, British
territory 208,764.578, the native
Staten 80,332,406, giving a total
population for all India of 208,137,-
044. Both iu British territory and
the nattvo States the number of
widen is much larger than that of
females, In 1881 in British terri-
tory there were 181.2 males to 97.4
females, and in Liao native States
28,7 males to 20.4 females, and 10
all India there were in that year
jest 0.013.419 more males than
females.
A Massachusetts candidate for
Oougroas fell aiileop while the chair-
man of one of his meetings was in.
troduoing him to the audience. This
seems to bo carrying Congressional
habits to exams.
The Statistical Abstract of India
which lane just been issued contains
an estimate of the present popti.
lotion of India. According to sue
census of 1881 the population of
tiritfsh territory was 198,790,858,
and of the native Slates 55,191,742,
giving a total of 253,082,595. The
obtitnated population of Cashmere
(tahioh was not included in the eon
The Oubourg car work" have
just pub its 280 electric lights.
Mr, Eoberte of Aimonte, ie claim-
ed to be the be,t :vbietler 1n On-
t8rt0.
A man dropped dead in Sarnia
ou Seturd,ty while receiving his
week's %twee.
W, E. Meredito, Q. C , leader of
the tlaterio Opposition, is going to
live in Toronto.
In the shooting match the other
day at Cobourg, the editor of the
World 11011 kilo position to which
was assigned ae a prize a year's sub
sortptioa to hie own paper.
Mr. Platt, of 'Paeureseli, theeght
ho was accepting an agoucy for he
sale of churns, but it turus out to
be an order for $600 worth of the
article, and the cash ie wanted.
It is estimated that 10,000 per•
sons are employed in the leather 111•
dustry in Quebec city. There are
28 boot and shoe factories, and 28
18000 fes. The trade has doubled
in the last three years,
The contract hoe been lot for the
new postoffics building in Brampton
for $10,850. The building will
have basement, throe stories and
mansard, will be 41x47 feet and is
to be completed by let of December,
1889.
Tho Srnithville coal mine gives
promise of doing something after
all. A four inch vent has been
ebruok at a depth of 70 feet and in-
dications are so favorable that a
company hes been formed to com-
mence operations at once.
The pet buffalo brought to Quebec
by B battery from the Northwest in
1885, and ainoe kept In captivity,
got loose the other day and knocked
down several peapie in the Orate,
A Lieut, was severely wounded in
attempting to capture it.
Mr. Harty, of St. Thomas, baa a
curiosity in the shape of a ehryan•
themum.boaring two different col-
ored flowers on the stalk, The
parent flower is a vivid orange,
while a little shoot, whioh grove
out from the stalls, sports a pink
and white flower.
Two iron oro prospectors explor-
ed a subterranean passage about
'fifty foot below Ptizzle Lake, Ad•
dingiest county. They were about
an hour and a belt in the passage,
which was 100 yards long, running
through pristine limestone and in
habiled by hundreds of bate.
Matt Small seared the skin of a
largo silver gray wolf shot by him
on his farm ul the township of
Alioe. Tho wolf has been living on
mutton for some time past at the
expense of the farmers in the neigh-
borhood, no less than eleven sheep
and one self having been killed by
it.
Farmers in the Muskoka terri-
tory report a terrible ooslaughter on
deer by wolves each winter Once
the snow comes these beaatc play
havoc with the game, 80010 in-
habitants iu that neighborhood have
on more titan one 0ccaeion found
from thirty to forty good-sized deer
yearly killed by titoeo ferocious
boasts- The government's grant
of $6 per head for each w11E elaugh•
tered does not seem to have the of
fact of inducing many to undertake
the capture of taose animals.
A. ranter novel wedding took
place at liezubazua, Que., Wednes
day. The participants being Jamas
Stinson and wife. 'Tie couple were
married fifteen years ago by a Meth-
odist minister. A few days ago
Mrs. Stinson was taken violently
sick and it was thought that her
life woe in danger, and she thought
that they should get the marriage
oeremony solemnized over again.
So Rev. Father Gray again united
the happy couple wording to Ibe
ritual of the Boman Oabltolle church,
The bride is rapidly r000vering hor
health again.
Canadian News'.
Gilmorate baud will visit Ontario
egad n next Juno.
A. popular style of eilvor belt
apart' in baeket pattern.
A. sauerkraut soiree is the latest
Matohedash diostpatiou.
The Uxbridge Tunes boasts of a
doctor who was able to visit 00 pat -
unite In one day,
Wheat was cut on the farm of id,
D. Paul near Way's Mills, Qne , me
late as October 27.
Mr. Scarboraegb, apple packer,
of Not trial, has shipped over 12,-
000 barrels this fall.
There died in Owen Sound jail
recently two prisoners aged respeo•
lively 92 and 80 years.
The Oobourg car works have just
completed an elegant dieing car for
the 0. P. 11,, at a cost of $18,000.
In the neighborhood of Owen
Sound farmers are feedipg their
apples to the pigs, there being no
sale for them,
Cairngorm, Ont., can boast of a
man over 70 yeare of age who
climbed a tree over 80 fent high af-
ter two coons.
A horse belonging to A. Robert
son, of Cornwall, was so etertled by
the sound of the steam whistle at a
mill that it died.
Tho North Amoricau Beekeeper's
Association, whioh met last year in
Oolumbue, Ohio, will mesh next
year in Brantford.
Collingwood helots will pay $270
license next year and must have six
bedrooms in addition to those re-
quired for domestic rise.
The Moravian Indiana recently
held a fair on their reserve in Elgin
county, which was a great success,
$700 being taken at the gate.
J. Malone, of Uxbridge, has ship•
ped 850 bags of Early Bose and
Beauty of Hebron potatoes to Jno.
Hercher, of Frellburg, Baden, Ger-
many.
Tho,uumber of bears killed to the
northern po-tion of Hosting county
this year has been great beyond pre
cadent. Two storekeepers have 84
bearskins.
Arthur Hopwood, of Bookton,'
shot one of the largest black squir•
role ever seen. It had a very fine
bushy tail which measured 21 inch-
es in length.
An old man in Erin, Ont., 92
. years ofage, recently sought in mar•
riage a maiden of that township who
had seem 40 summers or there-
abouts, but was refused,
A Globo reporter who visited the
Model Lodging House, Toronto,
heard the inmates, 10 discussing the
different jails, say that they would
as soon put in a winter in Halton jail
as in many a boarding house.
James Stone, of Bills township,
Algoma, planted a of an acro with
potatoes, from which ho bas dug
over 200 bushels, cisme of the pota-
toes weighing 4 lbs. One hill yield-
ed 108 potatoes, 65 of whioh were
fit for table.
Rev. J. Cooper Robinson, an
Episcopal clergyman, who lately
went to Japan as missionary, has
lost no time in adopting some Jap•
anon customs. Ha has written to
a friend In Ontario a letter on a
eheet of native paper 131,- feet long,
so that it is interesting to look at as
well as to read.
At Prescott, Ont., a stallion vela•
od at $15,000, belonging to Dr,
lioMonagle, recently broke a leg,
Tuatead of shooting the animal the
doctor had the leg amputated and
hat ordered a wooden log to be
made. The horse is doing well,
and Dr. MoMonagto hopes to be able
to continuo using him for stock pur-
poses.
It aeetns that crime is increasing
in Toronto in oven greater ratio than
the incense of its population, Police
Magistrate Denison, in melting the
Council to use its influence With the
Government to appoint au assistant
magistrate, gives the following fig -
111e9 of Elio cases brought beton him :
In 1877, when he was appointed,
the population of Toronto was 05,•
000, and tbo number of cases lienrd
per annum 6,548, Lase year the
number of cases heard before hint
Ras 10,507, and this year he he -
jump lhtl recona win n) l l u 1 > to ttrioultural paper in Canada'.
Arid THE RURAL QANADIAN, the best a
11ienee,000t. Flotire from noW to end of 1889 only
Returned to Brussels.
ROBERT ABMSTt3ONS
desires to state that he Inas again booms
a tesidoni of Brussels and is prepared to
take Contracts for all kinds of Carpenter
Work, such as liouuo Building, Barn
Framing, Mill Wrighting, ego,
He will also make a Specialty of blot
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