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HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1899-3-2, Page 7LIFE'S SPRINGTIME. Rev. DrTalmage's Sermon Recalls the Hal- cyon Days of Youth. He Draws a Vivid Picture of Two Contrasting Homes --A True Character COMPS Out at the Fireside.,, Parents Are Writing History. Washington, Feb. 26, ---Many tender recoliectzoue are etirrrd by Dr. Talmage' discourse, and scenes of boybood and girlhood days will be lived over again text, I. Timothy v, 4, ""Let them Imre Brat to ,hew piety at home.". During the summer months the tend envy is to the Neils,. to visitation, to foreign travel and the watering places and the ocean steamers are thronged, bu 1n the winter it is rather to gather i domestic oiroles, and during toes months we gime many of tbe bout within doors, and the apostle mance to Re and says that we ought to exercise Christian tehavlor amid all such circum- stances. "Lot them learn first to show piety at home," Thera are a great Mane people longing far some grand sphere in which to ser' clod, Tboy adtniro Luther ages the Dibe o Worms and only wisb that they had $011101 Inch green opportttnitr lar which to dis- play their Cbristian prowess, Tbey ad- mira Paul making Felix tremble, and they only with ts;at they bad some such grand occasion in wbiab to preach rightee camera, temperance and judarlient to #orate, .All they want Is an appar,talsity to exhibit their Christian heroitim, New, the apostle practietrily nays: ""I will show yen a. place where you can exhibit rill that is grand and beautiful and. glari- oue In Cbristian character, and that is the domestic circle. Let thew learn first to thaw piety at home." If one is not faithful in an insignificant aphere. he Rill Not be faithful in a resounding sphere, If Peter will not help the cripple At the gate of tho tempie, be will never be ahlo to preach li,l1U0 into the. kinetic= at the Pentecost. If Peel will not take paths to instruct in the way ot salvation the jailer of the Phillppian dungeon, he Will never make Felix tremble. He who la not faithful in a skirmish would not be faithful in an Armageddon. The fact le, we are all placer) in just the position In which wo can most grandly serve than and we ought not to be chiefly thought- ful about some Sphere of usefulness which We may after awhile gain, but the all absorbing gnoation wltb you and with maou lists by "Lord,what hat wilt thou have me now and herto do?" Man's up his gun and iiis pencil ane visit s again all the great forests of Abileri and reproduced bis immortal wort;.. An yet there are people with the t@ iamb's frisk and quail's ain'tle and! /emulous streswlet, whioh. from tb. rook at the mountain top clear down to! the meadow ferns under the shadow of the steep comes looking to see where it• can find the steepest place to. leap off at; and Walking jest to hear itself talk? If1 all the skies hurtled with tempest and" everlasting storm,, 'wandered over the sea, ! and every mountain stream were raving mad, frothing at the month with mad• foam, and there were nothing Ant; simoone blowing among the. hills and; there were neither lark's carol nor hum- ming bird's trill, nor waterfall's dash, ! but only bear's bark and panther's sercarn and wo)t'a howl, then you mighty well gather into your homes Duly the` shadows. But when God has atrown the earth and the boavens with beauty and" ed with gladness, let us take into our home. ea, nirtiee all innocent hilarity, all bright-' d nets and all good cheer, A dark house n- reales bad boys and bad girls in prepare -1 thousandth par', of that lose who ar Utterly irreconcilable; who at the loss a pencil or an article of raiment wi blow as. long and loud and sharp ea a northeast storm. Now, that man who is I affable in public and wbo is irritable in e issue private is Pakipe afraudulent and over= . and a ba as a d bank n s that might bare e4QO,O00 or $500,000 of bills in circulation with no specie in the' vault, Let us learn to show piety at home. It we have it not tbere, we have le, not anywhere. If we have teat genuine • grace in the family eirele, all our out, i wart; and pablio plaaaibility nieroly i e ap:Ings from the fear of the World or. f from the Slimy, putrid pool of our own, stanshnosa. I tell you the home is a tniehte teat of character. Mat you are t at borne you aro everywhere, wbotbor you danronstrete 14 or not. A Inetevir harbor. r Again, home is a refuge. Lift) is the United Statas army on the national road to 4!03100—a long marsh, with ever and anon a skirmish and a battle. At even tide we pitch, oIu' tent and intent the 1 arms; we hang up the war eap, and, our head on the knapsaelt, wo sleep until the Morning bugle calls ue to marsh to the action. How pleasant it is to rehearse the elotorioe and the surprises and the at- tacks of the day, seated by the still campfire of the home circle! Yea, life is a stormy $0a. With shivered masts and tern eaila and hulk aleak, we put in at lie harbor at home. lilesso,i harbor! "l here we go for repairs in the dryd,tak.. d"iso candle in the window le to the toll - ink wall the Ughthouee guiding him into port. Children go forth to meet their fathers as pilots at the Narrows take the banal of ships. Tho doorsill o p or..Ul f the home a wberf where heavy life is unladen. Thera is the place where we may talk of what 'we have done without being charged With self adulation. Thorn is the place ,wbero we nay lounee without tieing thought ungraceful. L1iero Is tbe place whorew a may vxpruts affection without being thougbt nilly. There is the place where we may forget oar annoyances and exasperations and troubles. Forlorn earth pilgrim, no home:' Then die, That is better. The grave is brighter and vender and mare glorious than this world with 14 nota t ttont from marching, with g, t noharborf from the storm, n with no , ]dao A to rest from this scene of greed and gouge aha lose and gain. Cots pity tho man or the woman an tubo. ns , b r o home! Further, n or home is political trot , it safe nnr , P g d Tbo safetyof the t r :nate must built on the safety or the home. Why cannot France come to a ]•]acid ropubiloF Mae - Mahon appoints his Ministry, and all Prance is *wake Jost the republic bo smothered. C3ambetta dies, and there aro hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen who aro fearing the return of a mon- arohy.. Tho Dreyfus case is at this mo- ment a slumbering earthquake under Paris. France, as a nation, has not the right kind of a Cbristian home. The Christian bearthstuno is the only hearth- stone for a republic. The virtues cultured in rho family circle are an absolute necessity for the state. If there be not enough moral principle to make the fam- ily adhere, there will not be enough political prinolple to make the state athero. No bome means the Goths and Vandals, means the Nomads of Asin, means the Numidiaus of Africa, changing from place to place according as the pasture happens to change. Con- founded be all those babels of inquity welch would oveprower and destroy tbe home! Tne'same storm that upsets the ship In which tbo family sail will sink the frigate of the constitution. Jails and penitentiaries and armies and navies are not our hest defense. The door of the bone is the best fortress. Household utensils aro our bett artillery, and the cbhtneys of our dwelling houses are the grandest monuments to safety and tri- amph. No bome, no republic! a tion for bad mon and bad women, of ltesponsibility of Parents.. Above all, my friends, take into you lsosnps Christian principle, 'au it i that comfortable a in any of ilea canl_ortable horn whose inmates I confront Oa voice prayer is never llfted? What! No suppl c. ? r atla C i n a n bt far o f; protection? SShatl thankagtying In the morning for car How, my trotter, my sister, will yo answer Gad in the day ot judgment wit reference to your android, It is a plai oue;tion, and therefore. I ask it. In tb tenth cheater of Jeremiah GO says h will pour out bis fury upon the familt 11 An l:xprw„slvc word. There la ono word in St, Paul's adjura- tion around whioh the most of our thoughts will revolve. That word is ""tome."' Ask ton different men the meaning n lI ofthatw r arid word, ani h@ will g G v ! Ivo 7 t3 you ten different definitions. To ono it 'means love at the hearth, plenty at the. table i u led sGt at the a work5t nd ya Intelli- gence once atthe col: devotion , 'books, d v tion At the altar. ata. In that hon o s old discord h never v r sounds its war whoop and deception never tricks with its false face. To him it means a grunting at the door and a smile at the nbair, pence hovering like wings, joy clapping its hands with laughter. Life is a tranquil lake, Pillowed on the rlpplea sleep the shadows. Ask another man what home in, and be will tell you it is want looking out of a cheeriest' lire grate, kneading hunger in an empty bread tray, Tho damp air shivering with curses. No Bible on the shelf. Children robbers and murderers in embryo. 'Obscene songs their lullaby. Every Lace a picture of .ruin. Want in the background and sin staring from the front. No Sab- bath wave rolling over that doorsill. Vestibule of the pit. Shadow of infernal wails.. Furnace for forging everlaating chains. Fagots for an unending funeral pile. Awful word. It is spelled with curses, it weeps with ruin, itcbokes with woe, it swears with the death agony of despair. The word "home" in the one case means everything bright. The word "home" in the other case means every- thing terrific, I shall speak now of home as a test ot character, home as a refuge, home as a political safeguard, home as a school and home as a type"of heaven. And in the first place hoite is a powerful test of character. The disposition in public may be in gay costume, while in private it is dishabille. As play actors may appear in one way on the stage and may appear in another way behind the scenes, so pri- vate character may be very different a from public detractor. Private character Is ofton•publio character turned wrong side out. A. man may receive you into bis parlor as though he were a distilla- tton'of smiles, and yet bis heart may be &swamp of nettles. There are business men wbo all day long are mild and courteous and genial and good natared 111 eommeroial life, damming bank their Irritability and their petulance and their discontent, but at nightfall the dam breaks and scolding pours forth in floods and freshets. Reputation is only the show of charac- ter, and a very small house sometimes will oast a very long shadow. The lips may seem to drop with myrrh and cassia and the. disposition to bo as bright and warm as a sheath of sunbeams, and yet they may only be a magnificent show window for a wretched stock of goods. There is many a man who is affable in public life and amid commercial spheres who in a cowardly way takes his anger and his petulance 11ome and drops them In the domestic olralo, Tho reason men do not display their bad temper in pubic Is because they do'not want to be knock- ed down. There are men wbo bide their petulance and their irritability just for the same reason that they do not let their notes go to protest—it does not pay—or for the dame reason that they de not Want a man In their stock company to sail bis stook below par lest it depreciate the value. Show Piety at Homo. As at sunset sometimes the wind rises, so after a sunshiny day there may be a tempestuous. eight. There are people who In public act the philanthropist who at ,come act the Nero with respeot to their Slippers and their gown. Audubon, the great ornithologist, with gun and pencil went tbrough the forests of America to bring down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and atter years of toil and expos- ure completed his manusoript and put It in a trunk ib Philadelphia and went off for a few days of recreation and rest and came' back and found that the rats had utterly destroyed the manuscript, .but Qith,ont` , y discomfiture and without >jtg lint-. bad temper be again ploks4 Surds of Character. Further, home is a sebool. Old ground must bo turned up with subsoil plow, and it must be harrowed and reharrow- ed, and then the crop will not be as large as that of the new ground with less culture. Now, youth and childhood are now ground, and all the influences thrown over their heart and life will come up in after life luxuriantly. Every time you bave given a smile of approba- tion all the good cheer of your life will come up again in the geniality of your children. And every ebullition of anger and every uncontrollable display of in- dignation will be fuel to their disposition 20 or 30 or 40 years from noW—fuel for a bad fire a quarter of century from this. You praise the intelligence of your child too :iamb sometimes when you think he is not aware of it, and you will see the result of It before teu years of arm in his annoying nitectations. Fon'praise his beauty -u:•posing he is not large enough to uniarstanct what' you say, and you will find him standing on a high ohair before a flattering mirror. Words and deeds and examples are the seed of char- acter, and children are very apt to be the second edition of their parents. Abra• bam begat Isaac, so virtue is apt to go down in the ancestral line, but Herod begat Archelaus, so iniquity is transmit- ted. What vasa responsibility comes upon parents in view of this subject! Ob, snake your home the brightest place on earth if you would charm your children to the high path of virtue and rectitude and religion! Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light, which puts gold on the gentian and spots the pansy, pour into your dwellings. Do not expect the little feet to keep step to a dead march. Do not cover up your walls with such pictures as West's ""Death on a Pale Horse" or Tintoretto's "`Massacre of the Inno- cents." Rather cover them 1f you have pictures with "'The Hawking Party," and ""The Mill by the Mountain Stream," and ""The Fox Hunt," and the "Children Amid Flowers." and the "Harvest Scene," and The Saturday ''fight Marketing." Get you no bine of ebeertulaeu treat grasshopper's leap lead ri lei Q A Toun4 Napoleon. Ile was en odd looking little figure as and whence comes ell this sooner" And, then out from among the leaves and up she bowery paths and across Lie broads stream there came a beautiful group thronging all about me, and as I saw them come I thought I knew their step. and as they shouted T thought I knew their voices, but then they were so giori- onsly arrayed in apparel such as I bad never before witnessed that I bowed as stranger to stranger. But when again they clapped their hands and shouted, "Welcome. weleomei" the mystery all vanished, and I found that time .bad. gorse and eternity had come and we were all together again in our Pew ]tome, in heaven, and 1 looked annual, and I said. ""Are we all here?" and the voices of many generations responded, ""All bore!" And while teats of gladness were eldnping .dawn our eheaks, acrd she branches of the Lebanon cedars were ciaPpins their hands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their wel- come we all together began to leap and shout and sing: "",Hamer Hommel Hoxnol" v' he eatno merrily whistling, down the e2. street he rcorn)nt; after the big snow. Ills nosy was red, his bands were bare, h, his feet were in shoes several sizes too large, and his hat was held In place by he a rob of paper under tba sweatband, Diut n be pipa:l away Bee a atearei whistle end carried the big straw shovel Mash as eI L Ulan:thing wheeler carries his ride. He's a, d brave little lad with hie clear bind 0708 t rind Iris detertn!netion t0 earn what be can at "iiow melt?" front an imposing Wak- e ing man who w s asked if he waisted hi; he walks cleaned, ""Tan ;ants:" echoing the lad's reply. "A nickel's enough." fll "It would he if 1 couldn't do better. -" 11tat I"ve got to 10 the bast 1 eau, olid it business is Melling Quad martin ," o" and that merry whistle filled the air as o the boy started .away. ""4?o ahead and clean 'am," enoutsd the man, whose admiration and better nature haat beau aroused, ""Just see that little rascal make the snow Uy," he laughed to hie wife, who stood at the windew with hien, "Why, he's a regular snow plow. And he does 14 well, too." "What a little torte, and how comical, his weeder it be's hungry.," She called him in a'isoots as be had flnlabed, but he would not take time for more than a cup et coffee. "Too busy," ""What ora you going to do with the t money?" asked the mate as be Insisted rattling at a (matter. "I'm going to get mother a shawl for CbrIstusas. She's weerin' ono you can Me through, alai It -ain't right," Qn bo went with his glowing aboake and his dreary whistle. But they had ads name and a i tiddrea4. It was. the wife who took a •shawl to the mother, and it `vas. tbo bu5hand who metalled the sturdy Uttlu snow shoveller as a113co bey in e, bright nay Willett") line with uormiesion to whistle when he feels Deo it. that call not upon his norm. Ob, par tints, when you are dead and gone, an the moss is covering rhe inscription 0 the torelistcne, will your eblklrea loo back and thirJ> of father and mother family prayer? Will they take the al family Bible and open it and see t.. marl: of tears of contrition anti rears c eonz;aling promise wept by eyes long be fare geno out into earliness? Qb, if yo do not inculcate Cite -inlet) principle 1 the. hearts of your children, and. Tau. d not warn them against nab, and you d not invite them to halinese anti to (lad and they wander off into dissipation an intltlelity and at last make ahipwree of their immortal soul, on their dea tbbe 000 in the day of judgment they evil curse you! Seated by the register or the stove what if, on the wall, abould cavo as the binary of your dell iron? What a torr --the inertia and immortal lira a your loved °nest Every parent 1s writ Ina it, composing it into a sang, ar polite ing it with a groan, My mind runs beet; to one of tbe hes ot early homes—Prayer like a roof ore it Peace like an etrneephero in it. Par- ents peraoniflcatione of faith in trial an comfort in darkness. Tho two vinare o that earthly home long crumbled to dust t But shall I over forget that early brine Yes, when the flower forgoes the eei thatwarmed !t. Yui, when the marine forgets the star that guided hits. }'o wbon love bas gone out on the bortaltar, and memory bas emptied its ur into fcrgatfuinets. 'then the borne of ru childhood I will forgot thee! Tho faint) altar of a father's importunity and tb moe 1 "'s ton dcnlea c , affection .. the voices of actio a the funeral of our bead the t father an another with Interlocked arms like into twinging branches of trees running d k ' li f ar t, x fuel arborn ar P1 ve and e'r i, t.o and It kin ne -- d ss than Twill forgot et thoe- -than, and only theta! You know, my beethor, that a hundred tunes you .have boon. kept ant of sin by the memory of such a scene as 1 have been describing. You have often had raging temptations, buy you know r.rhat bas hold you with super. natural grasp. I tell you a man who bas had such a good bome as that never gots over it, and a man who has bad a bad early home never gats over it. Type ur Heaven. Again, home 1 ,. typo of heaven. At our boot estate we are only pilgrims and strangers here. "Heaven is our home," Death will never knock at the door of that mansion, andin ail that country there is not a single grave. How glad parents are in the holidays to gather their children home again! But I have noticed that there is ahnost always a son or a daughter absent—absent from home, perhaps absent from the country, perhap absent from the world. Oh, bow glad our heavenly Father will bo when he get all his children home with him iu bea ven! And how delightful it will be fo brothers and sisters to meet after ion separation! Once they parted at the door of the tomb. Now they meet at the door of immortality. Once they saw only "tbrough a glass iarkly." Now it is Inc to face, corruption, inoorrnption; mortal Ity, immortality. Where ale now all tllei sins and sorrows and troubles? Over wheln,ed in the Red Sea of death, while they pass through dry shod. Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst, thrones of dominion do not stir my soul so much as the thought of home. Once there, let earthly sorrows bowl like storms and roll like seas. Homes Let thrones rot and empires wither. .Home! Let the world die In earthquake struggle and be buried amid procession of planets and dirge of spheres. Hemel Let everlasting ages roll in irresistible sweep. Hornet No sorrow. No crying. No tears. No death. But home, sweet home, beautiful home, ever- lasting home, home with each other, home with angels, home with Gid! A. Dream of Rome. One night, lying on my lounge when very tired, my children all around about me in full romp and hilarity and laugh- ter—on the lounge half awake and half asleep—I dreamed this dream: I was in a far country. It was not Persia, al- though more than oriental luxuriance crowned the cities. It was not tho tropias, although more than tropical fruitfulness fillet] the gardens. It was not Italy, although more than Italian soft- ness filled the air. .And I wandered around looking for thorns and nettles, but I found that none of them grew there, and I saw the sun rise, and I watched to see it set, but it sank not, And I saw the people in holiday attire, and I said, "When will they put off this and put on workmen's garb tend again delve in the mine and swelter at the forge?" Bub they never put off the holi- day attire. And I •wandered in the suburbs of the city to find the place whore the dead sloe?, and I looked all along the line of the beautiful bills, the place whore the dead might most peacefully sieep,,and I saw towers and castiee, but not a mauso- leum or a monument or a white slob could I see. And I went into the chapel of the groat town, and I said "Where do the poor worship and where are the hard benches on which theYe sit?", And the answer was made nee, "We have no poor in this country," And then I wandered out to find the hovels of the destitute, and 1 Poulin mansions of amber and ivory and gold, brit not a tear could I see, not s sigh could I hear. And I was bewild- ered, and T sat down under the branches of a great tree, and I said. "Where am 1 '138JRANGE CfMPNNY ANNUAL MEETING. The aixty-filtth 011.1111.21 meeting o1 the sniuohu!ders Of this et•au;cany was beta et Its ulfie :, Toronto, at noon Tiiuibday, Vet). 10. Tile President, Horn Ge. a. Vox, oa. eupted the (liter; rind Mr. I'. H. Slane, who fwolloas apwsing,pointed to act as Secretary, reads Vie ANNUAL REPORT. 'rthe D1reetors beg to slsbmit the 05tte annual report of tee Company, embracing the transactions for the year ending De- cember 31st lust, and a, statement of As- sets unci Liabilities at the elose et the year, In the Fire Branca, while there has been a slight reduxiflon in the preameum income, the results as a whole have been s fairly satisfactory, showing a moderate margin of profit, natwithetansiing the fact s ant there were some sei-ix,u.4 cauilagrations daring tltr year, In wtieh the Company r was involved for eonsbderable amounts— ' the almost total destruction of the g (silty of New Westminster In Snpteniber last, The closing months of the year were mnrl:ed by a succession, of exceptionally disastrous stories both on the ocean and o on the great lakes, which resulted in an - unprecedented loss of life said property. As r a consequence all companies engaged In the business of Marine lase:rannee show a heavy loss on the trausact.ions of •the year, and in its comparatively limited aipen,tions in this branch this Company has shared in, the generally ung avorisble eeperience. It is encouraging, however, in considering the future, prospects of this :busin•ess, to observe that the heavy losses incurred dur- ing the .past year, coupled with the un- profitable results of some preceding yeaa•s, have led to a .general movement among marine underwriters for materially advanc- ing rates a.nd: bringing about other reforms which the Directors feel assured will piece the business on a much more satisfactory footing than for several years past. The Directors feel tbrit there is cause for conrgratui•a.tiont in the fact tlh;it the Company has passed through a year wince, in mazy respects. ams been, a tn'ydngg one to those engaged in. Fire and Marine Ivens- once business, and paid Yes usual dividend to shareholders without making any .matter. Gal reduction in• its Reserve Fund. Summary of financial statement: Total cash income $1,472,307 30 Total,expenditure, Including appropriation for losses um. 4sr adjustment .... 1,142,412 84 Baianee .. ..,. ..... $20,81.54 i2 Dividends declared , . , . , . 02,000.'00 Total assets , , ..., $1,7,10,104 15 Total liabddflhtes 105,152 20 Surplus ,to •policyihloiders . ,$1,321,011 88 The following gentlemen were esieeted •to serve ns Directors for the ensuing year: Hon. George A. Cox, J. J. Kenny, limb, it. C. Wood, S. IS. McKinnon John Hoskin, Q.C., LL.D., H. M. Peilatt, R. Jaffrey, I', A. Myers. At •i meetdng of the board held: subse- quently, Hou., -George A. Ckrx was elected •Preslrlent and Mr, r. J. Kenny Vice -Pre- sident. When t.ha 25' i'1a Will Tnd. Sir Robert Ball says the world will come to an end when the waters of the sea break through a thin spot, which must exist somewhere, and come in contact with the raging fires within the globe. This seems rational enough when one r; calls the ex- plosion which occurred in the Indian ocean some years ago, which sent a tidal wave around the globe and absolutely en- p"llfed an island or two. Zahas Fear 'eutl,ers-in-tale. Among the mysterious customs of the Zulus is the dread which the married man has for Lis motherdn-law. ile is afraid .to meet her and always bolds up bis shield to screen him from her glance ',ben be passes her dwelling. ylag,t& /614.11. Uel10101. NAEIOMA NATuChALNAT(CRAL RATIONAL FARMERS FARMERS. FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS CPNY COMPANY MEM COMPANY COMPANY NATIONAL Nt FARMERS CONFARMERSAIICNH PANY AL i CCMSPANY1 N I :NA tl 1 J. A _ FARMERS. 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S(DLID GOLD RING set with genuine Garnet and COMPANY Ord gent,;—: -tamped and warranted --with masters NATIONAL 'Prada Mark and guarantee. FA'.;'Pities Silver and COMPANYRMERStilt--a handcs,me ornament and neeurate timepiece. MUSICAL CLOCK, glass sides, NFARMERS;ATIONAL': A never ending pleasure in the home, T f'f ■ The National Farmers Co. COMPANY NOW I 1 IS DONE: sells direct to raetieal hallo NAiIIONAL fide Farmers ; employs no middle men or agents. does COMPANY business only for cash. makes no los es-- vc"r + dollar S P HATI NAL docs' its full duty. We have a lot of NATIONAL COMPANY Binder Twine on hand—so much that the hank r c to of mtGrest until after harvest. on the money locked up, will amount to many thousand dollars. We want to :save NATIONAL that interest and live it to the farmer in return for cash. COMP NY That is where the premium comes in., **********r*:4***********W******k**t****•k7k•k*•k*riii*•k•k*tt*st* Beninn p advancescxsb yre so °litho Philippine !n 'war or other er suet z i, liI.ui i tr 14eThio (omeany reserves the right to refund yonrmoney trills price, or e Hempcomes from. the iiPtittiuisi:ilsOiti .Ei 4i1 \'•andk Z. certain of your se•u+on'satt'min before Herrin :re yellers. Remit money bOus only by Postal Note, Post Office Order, Ex rens Order )4 or Itegistere Letter. Write to aur name elainly, ~Ii0 yonr poet al eu , dross and t oleo the ran e tin Way 9tiitip to xvh o f y arethe `vine. Yon y n i o to ship t is Twine. 71 it freight t n t i i P o the Twine ne f Stn Rt premium 1 r '1' ■ r ., U ,,, O we aunt you alio c 3 P renuid by nrllexpressof from Toronto. Ubseri • above " , Observe to lticrtlonscntol'iitl}• so zvo cannotmrdkoanD+ntln mistake in •g f0, war.11uq your goals, Sity whether 3 on want it (lonttouzan I oro Lad •'s v, * 1',1tc h,35o tjc, t' ecdlaels or a Ring—if the latter, send a ;hese of string or p It *x******rr*Vr•r44•r• *rti=t411rI'r* ******************a t101181 Bled r E ' NATICNAt FAIIMERS CtiPAhh hAl id NA1 C fAFAN . NA 'li°tl l FJ,,EctIi'i i . t Ol;;°,1PA!Il NA711+NAL u FARfttERS t OC PA1if • Niali41. F ,RMER a CCMPAN't 5ATII'F;r 1. FARME!S COMPAN NATitift. fARMEIiS COM?AN1 NATIONAL . -Address all letters and make all re- mittances payable to NATIONAL FARMERS COMPANY, TORONTO. £ZfEnqwirers are referred to any Mercantile Agency and to the Editor of this paper as to one responsibility. FARMERS COMPANY NAT ONAL COMPANY NAT ONAL FARMERS COMPANY NAT ONAL NATiONAL NATIONAL NAT IUNALNAT IONAL NAi IUNAL NATIONAL NATIONAL NAT IONAt a FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS FARMERS COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY COMPANY NArw'1,}t FARMEFS 1;f rAzAI;P HAMRA]. FARMERS COMPANY NATIONAL FARMERS COMPAN! Tile Cana"Iw Life. t1Vothing succeeds like success, l.e shill true Of the business find sound Ilnandal position of the Canada life Aseuhance Company. Tlhis company Is now over half a cend.ury old, and has become a great natilenal ins'J- tntdon, and it Tenet therefore be managed an national business principles and not es o mere local company. Hence Tho- si•,arehoid- ers, by a majority of about 4110 shareS, de- cJded at its recent annual meeting to re, move its Head Oftlee to a large financial centre, Toronto. This decision Is meeting with the approval of the flnanavlal press. and of financiers generally. and is a;.p sed chiefly by Hamilton sent anrmt and a f,+w of the local's men who are endeavoring to gain sympathy from others on ail son s f statements and insinuations. Policyholders will do well to let such agitation severely alone and allow President Ramsay (who has for forty years meneg,•d the company) and bis alble co-adjutors to continue the sue cessfud managermenit Lee this specadid coan- pOUy, Pres./dent Raansay and the hoard of DI - rectors are respected and influential busi- ness mea., and they knew beat what Is In the future interests at tai's great ccanpany, Side issues and agitators should be let' severely alone. A Woman. The Girl—H-b-he's a le -brute. The Friend—Why, what's the matter, dear? The Girl—It-told him never to speak to mo again, and ho I -lest without e -even s -saying g-goodby.—New York Journal. Not a Nauseating, Pill.—The excipient of a pill is the substance which enfolds the ingredients and makes up the pill mass. That of Pirrsnelee's Vegetable P1l,+ is so compounded as to preserve their moisture, and they can be carried into any latitude without impairing their strength Many pills, in order 00 keep them from ad. heriug, are rolled in powders, which prove nauseating to the taste. Parmelee's Vege- table Pills are so prepared that they are agreeable to the most delicate. Mexicana Funerals. The Mexicans have a queer way of bury- ing the dead., Tho corpse is tightly wrap - peel in century plant matting and placed in a coffin hired for about a shilling. One or two natives, as the case may be, place the coffin on their beads and go at a trot to the grave, where the body is interred and the coffin is then returned. Miller's Worm Powders cure fever In children. Carle .Ln,,*d 10. Brown—What e. beautiful complexion your wife has. Jones Yes; she buys the best. Keep Minard's Liniment In the flousi". A new back for 50 cents. Miller's Kidney Pills and Plaster. , Takes Teo Many Himself. "Do you endeavor to profit by the mire takes of otlfers?" asked the curious one. "I haven't time," replied the modest one. "I have to crowd things pretty hard to profit by all the mistakes I make my- self," I used to bo contain Illy tired, now I am i strong and well—Miller's Compound Iron Pills did it. Pine People In 1789. My lady was as reckless as my Iord and rattled the dicehox and shuffled the cards from dusk till morning, going home with ruined fortunes in her sedan chair when workmen were going home from lathe and loom to breakfast. Family diamonds and jewels and plate were staked when the guineas were exhausted, and when these possessions had gone farms and estates were sacrificed. The amusements, too, of wealthy people were of a coarse and cruel description. Rat worrying, cockfighting and badger baiting were favorite diver- sions. Prizefighting was regarded as es- sential to keep up the courage of English- men.—Chambers' Journal. A FISHERMAN'S TRIALS. Exposure While at Sea Brought os w1 Attack of Sciatica Which Caused the Most Excruciating Agony. Mr. Geo. W. Shaw, of Sandford, N.S., follows the occupation of a fisherman, and like:all who pursue this arduous calling is exposed frequently to inclement wea- ther. Seine years ago, as the result of ex- posure, Mr. Shaw was attacked by sciatica, and for months suffered intensely, He says the pain he endured was something work for some months. His hip was agonizing, and he was not able to do any drawn out of shape by the trouble, and the doctor who attended him said that it hadalso affected the spine. After being under the care of a doctor for several months without getting relief. Mr, Shaw discontinued medical tre atment and re- sorted to the use of plasters and liniments, but with no better results. He was ad- vised to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and finally decided to d 0 so. After using them for a couple of weeks he found a'decided 1 relief, and in about two months' time every trace of the trouble had disappeared, and he has not since been troubled with any illness. Mr. Shaw says he occasion- ally takes a box of pills to ward off any possible recurrence of the trouble. Those attacked with sciatica, rheums- ", tism, and kindred troubles, will avoid . much suffering and save money by taking Dr. Williams Pink Pills at the outset ,ef the trouble. Sold by all dealers or sent -t postpaid at 600. a box or six boxes for $2.50,' by addressing the Dr, Williams Medicine is Co., Brockville, Ont.