The Brussels Post, 1887-7-8, Page 3JUULT 8, ,1887.
TI -IE BRUSS8LS
POST
A FIRST OF JULY RECORD.
1 was a wide-awake little boy,
1 Who rose at the break of day ;
Wheen the wmaisnoufeanbd atowoakyt,o dress,
3 • wero his leaps whon he cleared tho
stairs,
Although they wore steep and high ;
4 was iho number which caused bis
basso,
Because it was First of July 1
1'•' were his pennies which went to buy
c./ A package of crackers red ;
6 woreff the matches that touohed them
o
And then—he was bank in bed.
r big plasters he had to wear
% To aura hie fraoturee euro
towere the visits the doctor made
Before be was whole once more.
9 wore the dolorous days he spent
ey In sorrow and pain ; but then
re are the seconds he'll eiop to think
V Before he does it again.
CANE CANEM.
A tramp went up to a cottage door
To beg for a coupled' dimes or more.
The cottage door was opened wide,
So ho took a cautious look inside.
Then over hiefeaturre there spread a grin
As he saw a lonely maid within.
A lonely maid within the gloom
Of the shadiest part of a shady room.
Into the room the tramper went ;
Overa dog that maiden bent.
His eyes were set and full of fire,
And she viewed the tramp with evident
ire.
" Run for your life," the maiden cried ;
" I clean forgot to have him tied."
"Run for your life through yonder door—
I cannot hold him a minute more I"
Without a word he tnrned his face
And leaped the fence with careless grace.
Then lightly along the road he ran—
A very mnoh put-out 'young man.
The maiden loosed her bull -dog's neck,
And gazed at the tramp—a vanishing
speck.
And peal after peal of laughuer rent
The air with the maiden's merriment.
The clog was of terra cotta ware—
She won him that week at a lottery fair,
THE FARMER.
Once on a time he used to plough
And rise at don to milkthe nough.
And drive with merry song and laugh
To pasture Brindle and her caugh.
Then for the pige,he'd fill the trough
And for the market he would be ough ;
Sometimes his mare would bruise her
hough
Against a fence post or a rough.
And then he'd switch her with a bough
To leech her bettor anyhough ;
Be planted wheat to make the dough,
Which, in a drought, was hard to grougb.
In winter, when his work was through,
A little sporting he would deough ;
He'd wander with his gun and slough
And aim at crows he couldn't knough.
Sometimes he'd bunt along the °lough
For birds that do not live there nough
And shoot a sea -gull or slough
Which he with joy would promptly stough
From swampland, waterecl by lough,
He'd make good pasture for hie stough,
By laying here and there a sough
While perspiration wet his brougb.
Sometimes a snake that shed its slough
Would 'care him so he'd' run and plough
Till tuck knee-deep within a slough
He'd }'ell until he'd raise a rough.
But nough work makes the farmer Dough
And, careless hough much people seough,
He lives on boarders rough and tough
Whough vough neigh dough not eat
enough,
TEE "DEAD•BLAT,"
Lot's beware of " tbemaee (?)"who scorns
to work,
Yet dares not refrain from eating I
In the corn of his heart doth meanness
lurk,
In spite of his bland, fair greeting I
He may talk and look like a "gentleman,"
And dress in the height of fashion ;
He'll run "on credit " wherever he can,
If " dunned" gots into a passion.
He will ofttimes talk religion, too,
And pray with seeming devotion ;
He will go to church, yet pay for a pew—
Of that he near bad a notion I
He carries his head like an English lord,
Though he sometimes tastes of hunger!
Be will eat at thowidow'sfrugal board,
And "ship" when she "trusts'> no
longerI
Ills heart is devoid of affection deer—
Tie'd live off his poor old mother 1
And will "sponge" on his friends bell'
far and near,' '
Claiming each ono for brother 1
Oh I out on the pian with the heart of
stone,
Who knows not the pleasure of giving ;
Who will whimper and whine, and beg
and groan—
" That
roan—"'.Chat the world owes him a living 17
Ile who" will not work "should not dare
to eat
The bread of auother's Darning.
For rather a thousand times sweep the
street,
Thereby indepondouoe learning 1
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SAM JONES ON 111E 11 ARMED STATE,
There ie many an old mother -in.
law that bas kiokod up the devil
right along on that line. There is
enauy a good mothor•in•law. 1
have got a good one, But when
you get hold of a bad one, my, my,
my. An old meddlesome creature,
she won't go to her eon -in-law, but
she sots his wife on Lim c "He
don't do right in this and that." I
tell you, my sister, as God is my
judge—listen—the most snored re-
lationship of life ought never to be
interfered with by a third party.
Brother Small said divorce courts
and lawa had their origin in hell,
and I believe it. Sutter' if you have
a bad bargain you stink to the title
and die by the bargain. Sister, be
careful how you marry. Be not
unevenly yoked together. But if
once the bargain is made stick to it
and die by it. Tbat'a my doctrine.
There is many a pure, good, noble
woman that has a very brute for
her husband. Thera is many a
eweet•spirited, good, clever, honest
fellow that le trying to drown hie
troubles at home in liquor from day
to day. Law, my sister, if your
home is not more charming than a
gambling hell, or a bar room, you
are on a bad fix. When you make
home what it ought to be, your hue -
band will stay there or be is 0 dog.
You can take either horn of the di.
lemma. There is many a woman
that lives NO that her husband Dan•
not love her and then quarrels with
him because he does not. And you
sit out there and look just as inno-
cent as if all that you lacked was
wings, and I expect some of you had
a big quarrel with your husband be-
fore brenkfaet this morning. Sister,
it is the wife's place, first and al-
ways and forever, to make her home
the most sacred, the most lovable
and most pleasay,,t place this eidQ of
heaven. Oh, how I do pity a man
that has got a disagreeable woman
for a wife, and instead of getting
better she gets worse—an old, mop.
ing, end, disagreeable woman. Well,
you say (whining), "If your health
was as bad as mine." Good Lord
have mercy on you. God knows, if
you feel as bad as you look some-
times he ought to remember you.
Sisters, I sympathize with you to
the very'depth of 'my heart, in all
your suffering* and cares ; bat' let's
carry the spirit and pleasantness,
because there is too much- at stake.
II take. a true hero' to carry a
pleasant face and cheerful heart
through suffering.
CHRISTIANITY AND INFIDELITY
COMPARED.
T. neewxTT TALMAan.
There stands Christianity. There
stands Infidelity. Compare what
they have done. Compare their re-
sources. There is Christianity, a
prayer on her lips, a benediction on
her brow, both hands full of help
for all who want help ; the mother
of thousands of colleges ; the moth•
er of thousands of asylums for the
oppreesed ; the mother of missions
for the bringing book of the outcast ;
the mother of thousands' of -reform•
story institutions for the saving of
the lout ; the mother of innumer-
able Sabbath schools bringing mil -
hone' of children under a drill to
prepare them for respectability and
usefulness, to say nothing of the
great future. That is Christianity.
Here is Infidelity : No prayer on
her lips, no benediction on her
brow, both hands clenched—what
for 2 To fight Christianity. That
ie the entire business. Tho nom•
piste mission of Infidelity is to fight
Christianity. Where are her schools
her colleges, her asylums of mercy ?
Let.me throw you down a whole
ream of foolscap paper that you
may fill all of it with the names of
her beneficent institutions, the col•
leges and the'aaylume, the iustitu-
tions of mercy and of learning,
founded by Infidelity, and support,
ed alone by Infidelity, pronounced
against God and the Ohrietian re-
ligion; and yet in favor of making'
the world butter. "Oh," you say,
"a ream of paper is too . much for
the name of those institutions."
Well, than, I throw you a quito of
paper, Fill it all up now. I will
wait until you get all the names
down. "Oh," you say, "that is too
muoh." Well, then, I will just
hand you a sliest of paper. Just
fill up the four aides while we are
talking of this matter with the.
names of merciful inatitutione and
the educational institutions founded
by Infidelity and eupportod alt alone
by Infidelity, pronounced .against
God and the Chriatiau religion, yet
in favor of humanity. "Ob," you
Day, "that is too much room ; we
don't want n whole sheet of paper to
write down the names." Perhape I
had better tear out one leaf of my
memorandum book and eels you to
fill up both sides of it with the
names 0f such inetitutione, "Ole,"
you any, "that wpuld be too muoh
room ; you wouldn't want eo much
room as that." Well, then, suppose
you count them on your ten fingers.
"Ole," you say, "not quite so muoh
as that." Well, then, count them
on the figers of one hand. "Ob,"
you say, "we don't want quite so
muoh room as that." Suppose,
then, you halt and count on any
one finger the name of any institu-
tion founded by Infidelity, support•
ed entirely by Infidelity, pronoun°•
ed against God and the Christian
religion, yet toiling to make the
world better. Not one 1 Not one 1
ONE OF DURDET'FE'S SERHONS.
My boy, when you meet a good•
hearted, gonial fellow, open-handed
and generous, who spends money
freely when he has it, wko "doesn't
]snow the value of money," who
only esteems it for the good it Dan
do, who believes in the lively shil-
ling, and always does hie best to
make it lovely, who can't board up
money for the life of him, who gets
it and spends it and then gets more
to spend, so that atl of us may
get a little of it, who does not put
down every.oent he lets a friend
have as though he was a money-
lender, who, if ho hag only one dol.
lar iu the world, will let you have
ninety conte of it if you ask for it ;
a good, whole•aouled, generous fel-
low, who knows no more and cures
no more about money than a pig
does about Greek, and he is a little
hard -up and wants to borrow $10
of you for ,a few days—don't lend
him a sent; don't lend him a cent.
Eh ? Do 1 want you to be mean,
close fisted, stingy, weighing all
friendship and good fellowship on
the scales of the moneylender 2
Oh, no, my boy, I didn't say any-
thing of the kind. I said, and I re.
peat it, "don't lend him a cent." I
don't want you to be mean, I only
want you to be business -like. Give
him ten dollars, if you have it to
subscribe and feel like it ; give him
what money you can spare, and
your heart and head justify you in
giving, but never lend that kind of
a man a dollar. Only lend money
where there os at least a remota
possibility of its being paid back.
That's all. You may go, now, By
the way, I took care of that note of
Jack Merrihart'e that you' didn't
tell me anything about.; it's all
right now, only don't lend Jack any
more than you can afford to give
him. A man who has no idea of
the value of his own money has just
as little comprehension of the value
of yours.
DIDN'T ASA HER BRUIT.
Mr. Burnette insists that he over-
heard a woman lecturing her hus-
band as follows on board -a train
"Now I'll tell you why I wouldn't
go into the restaurant and have a
cup of coffee with you while we were
waiting for the train. I didn't like
the way you aakod'me. Keep quiet,
I have the floor. Not half an' hour
before you Said to ' Mr: Puffer,
'Como, let's get a cigar,' and away
yon went, holding his arm and not
giving him a chance to decline.
When we met John O'Howdy on
our way to luncheon you said, 'Just
in time, John; Some take lunch.
with us 1' And then to -night, whon
we found the train an hour'late, you
looked at your watch, turned to me,
and said in a questioning way,
'Would,you like a cup of coffee ?'
And I did want it ; I was tired and
°.little hungry, but I would have
fainted before 1 would have accept.i
ed mob' an. invitation, And you.
went away n little bit vexed with me
and had your coffee and broad and,
butter by'youreelf and didn't enjoy,
it very muoh. In effect you said tot
me : 'If you want a cup of coffee, if;
you really want it, I will buy it for,
yon.' You are the; best longhand in
the world, but do its nearly all the
beet husbands do. Why do you
men seem to dole things out to their
wives when you fgirty throw them
to the men you know ? Why don't
yoga invite me me heartily as you in•
vita ecu ? Why didn't you say,
'Come, lot's get a ,little coffee and
something,' and take me right along
with you ? You wouldn't may to a
Man,''Wculd you like me to go and
buy you a cigar?' Than why do
.you always issue your little invita-
tions to treats in that way to me
Indeed, indeed, my clear husband, if
men would only eat toward their
wives as heartily, cordially, frankly
3
tie they do toward the men whom
they meet, they would find cheerier
companions at home titan they could
at the club."
tetoneertal News.
Ctovernor Marmadulte, of Missouri,
has appointed a number of women
as notaries public.
The drought has praatically de-
stroyed all the trope in the vicinity
of Burlington, Wis.
There is scarcity of water at Bel-
fast in consequences of the drought
and work in the mills is being part-
ly stopped,'
Queen Victoria's favorite dish is
tapioca puddiug. She is a eturdy
eater and a fair drinker of claret
and rod wines.
The crops in Germany are in
finer condition than in any season
during the past decade, and promiee
a splendid harvest.
The Queen' in commemoration of
her jubilee, gave gold medals to her
royal visitors and silver medals to
their attendants.
The American Missionary Society
Bent 5,000 pairs of trousers to Bur-
mah last year. That is charity that
oovereth a multitude of shine.
An Albany barber says there's
not half the danger in being shaved
from the public cups in a ba'ber
shop as being brushed with a public
hair brush.
Mozart's piano has been given to
the city of Vienna, and will be pre-
served in the municipal mueeum by
the side of Sohubort'e piano. It
was formerly owned by Liszt.
In several dry goods houses in
Cleveland the saleswomen are fined
1 cent every time they use a word of
slang. Thus the proprietora get
the services of their saleswomen for
nothing.
President Cleveland has pardoned
Thos. Ballard, the notorious conn•
terfeiter, who was sentenced Jan.
81, 1875, to 80 years' imprisonment
in the Albany penitentiary for noun.
barrelling.
At last the celebrated Dr. Virchow,
of Berlin; has given the Crown
Prince's Malady 'a• name. It ie
pachydurnla 'ariooaa. As every-
body knows what this means, it is
needless to explain it.
A writing telephone appears to
be the latest electrical novelty. It
hails from Munich, and its invent-
ors claim that the words of the
speaker aro dilly written down by
the apparatus- as,i eey are spoken.
One of the moot remarkable thefts
on record is reported from What•
comb, Washington territory, where
a thief stole an entire orchard just
planted, hiding his work for a time
by'eticking willow twigs in the holes
where the fruit trees had been.
There is great enthusiasm at Fort
Scott; Kansas, over the (Recovery of
gas in a well in quantities far in ex-
oess of any well opened here. This
makes the twelfth well now fiowin3
within a anile and a -half, complete-
ly settling the question as to the
quantity of gas:
A Frenchman recently rode into
Waterville, Me., driving a big new-
foundland dog hitobed to email
Iwd-weeled-cart, which the animal
had hauled inside of three days
from a town in Canada, a distance
of about 150 miles. The owner
said the dog could'outatrip in a day's
journey the boat of horses.
Mrs. Langtry, the English ant.
rase, has taken a house at San
Francisco, with the intention of
making it her legal residence. In
en interview with her Attorney, the
latter is reported as saying that
Mrs. Langtry will begin suit for di-
vorce after the lapse of six months,
the period n000ssary to acquire legal
residence.
In chronicling the death of . a
prominent (Aileen, ' a New Mexico
paper says.—"His' tired spirit was
released from the pain•raokod body,
and soared aloft at 4:30 Denver
time," And the Arizona Howler,
in noticing the death of a prom-
inent citizen the other day, ended
with these words :—"Death loves a
.shining mark, and she hit a dandy
when she turned loose on Jim."
The managers of Bellevue Park,
at Pittsburg, recently bought seven
fine deer in Michigan and had them
shipped to the park, where a nice
big yard with a seven foot fence.
was awaiting them. The boxes
were carefully placed in the yard
and opened and the animals carie
out one by one. Thenthe biggest
doer tanned her large, dreamy oyea.
toward' the seven foot fence, and ;n'
a moment made for it, followed by
the other six. Those who were
present deohcre that that dreamy -
eyed animal leaped 25 feet high
over the fon if she cleared it at all
and abs certainly cleared i6 as did
the other sin.
IMPLEMENTS!
Having been appointed as
Agent for the Massey Indenturing Company
in the place of Mr. Thomas Watson, I will at all times have the
Machinery made by the Company on hand, such as
SULKY RAKES, MOWERS, REAPERS,
BINDERS, WILKINSON'S PLOWS, ETC
Office and Storeroom in connection with the East Huron Car-
riage Works, where all Repairs can be had.
YOURS TRULY,
CSD Ar.
EAST HURON
Carriage Works
JAM H1S BUY H11R,s,
--MANUFACTURER OF—
CARRIAGES, DEMOCRATS, EXPRESS WAGONS,
BUGGIES, WAGONS, IETC., ETO., ETC.
All made of the Best Material and finished in a Workmanlike
manner.
Repair°in, and Painting proinptzy attended to.
Parties intending to buy should Call before
purchasing.
REFERUNCEs.—Marsden Smith, B. Laing, Jas. Cutt and Wm. Mc-
Kelvey, Grey Township ; W. Cameron, W. Little, G. Brewar and D.
Breckenridge, Morris Township ; T. Town and W. Blashill, Brus-
sels ; Rev M. A. Fear, Woodham, and T. Wright, Turnberry.
REMEMBER THE STAND—SOUTH OF BRIDGE.
JAMES BUYERS.
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Grist and Flour Mills !
The undersigned having completed the change from the stone to the
Celebrated Hungarian system of Grinding, has now the Mill in
First Class Running Order
and will be glad to see all his old customers an as many now ones
as possible. Chopping done.
Flour and Feed Always on Iland
Highest Price paid for any quantity of Guod Grain.
WM. MILNE.
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