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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-05-06, Page 2THE HURON EX OSIT014. TABERNACLE SERMON. DR. TALMAGE AVOIDS ABSTRUSE THEOLOGICAL SUBJECTS. Good Gana° Wasted Forms the Subject of His Discourse on Sunday - Common Sense Lessons- of Inestimable Value, Es- pe;cially to 'Yount People. BitooseeeN, N.Y., April 24, 1892.—Dr. Talmage preached a sermon this morning frora Prow. 12 : 27, "The slothful man roasteth not that which he took ,in hunt- ing.".. David, and Jeremiah, and Ezekiel, and Micah, and Solomon of the text showed that some time they had been out on a hunting expedition. Spears, lances, swords and nets were employed in this service. A deep pitfall would be digged. In the center of itthere was some raised ground with a pole on which a lamb would be fastened, and the wild beast, not seeing the pitfall, but only seeing the lamb, would plunge for its prey and dash down, itself captured. Birds -were caught in gins, or pierced with arrowa. The hunter in olden times had two missions, one to clear the land of fericious beasts and the other to obtain meat for themselves and their families. The occupation and habit of bunters are a favorite Bible simile. David said be was hunted by his enemy like a partridge upon the mountain. Itify text is a hunting scene. A sportsrnan arrayed in a garb appro- priate to the wild chase leis slip the blood- thirstyhounds from their kennels, and mounting his fleet horse with a hallo and the yell of the greyhound pack, they are off and away, througWbrake and dell, over marsh and moor; across chasms where a misstep would hurl horse and rider to death, plunging into mire up to, the haunches or into swift streams up to the bit, till the game is tracked by dripping foam and blood„ and the antlers crack on tht rocks, andtihe hunter has just time to be in at the death. Yet, after all the haste and peril of the chase, my text represents this sportsman as being too indolent to dress the game and prepare it tor food. He lets it lie on the dooryard of his home and become a portion for vermin and beaks of prey. Thus by one master -stroke, Solomon gives a picture of laziness, when he says: "The slothful man roasteth not that which he toek in hunting." The most of hunters have the game they shot or entrappecl cooked the same evening or the next day, but not so with this laggard of the text. Too lazy to rip off the hide. Too lazy to kindle the fire, and put the gridiron on the coals_ The first picture I ever bought was an engraving of Thorwaldsen's "Autumn." The clusters of grapes are ripe on the vine of the homestead, and the returned bounds, panting from the chase, are lying on the door sill, and the hunter is un - shouldering the game, while the bousewite is about to take a portion of it and prepare it for the evening meal. Unlike the person of the text, she was industrious enough to roan that which had been taken in hunt- ing. But the world has had many a speci- men since Solomon's time of those whose lassitude and improvidence and. absurdity were depicted in my text. The most of those who have made a dead failure of life can look back and see a time when a great opportunity opened, but they did not know it. They were not as wise as George Stephenson, "the father of railways," who, when at sixteen years of age he received an appointment to work at a pumping engine for twelve shillings a week, cried out: "Now, I am a made man for life." God gives to most men at, least one good. opportunity. A great Grecian general was met by a. group of beggars, and he said to them: "If you want beasts to plow your land, I will lend you some. If you want land, I will give you some. If want seed to sow your land, I will see that you get it. But I will encourage none in idleness." So, God gives to most people an opportunity of extrication from depressed circumstances. As if to create in us a hatred of indolence, God has made those animals which are sluggish to appear loathsome in our eyes, while those which are fleet and active, He has clothed with attractiveness. The tor- toise, the sloth, the snail, the crocodile re- pel us, while the deer and the gazelle are as pleasing as they are fleet, and from the swift wings ' of innumerable birds God has spared no purple or gold or jet or crimson or snowy whiteness. Besides all this, the Bible is constantly assaulting the vice of - laziness. Solomon seems to order the idler out of his sight as being beyond all human instruction when he says: "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise." And Paul seems to drive him up from his dining table before hegets through with the first course of food with the asser- tion: "-If any will not wore, neither shell be eat." Now, what are the causes of laziness and what are its evil results? I knew a Irina who was never up to time. It seem- ed impossible for him to meet an engage- ment. _ AVhen be was to be married he missed the train. His watch seemed to take on the habits of its owner, and was always too slow. He had a constitutional lethargy, for which he did not seem re- sponsible. So indolence often arises from the natural temperament. I do not know but that there is a constisutional tendency to tido vice in evely man. However active you may generally be, have you not, on some warm spring day felt a touch of this feeling on you, although you may have shaken it off as you would a reptile? But some are so powerfully tempted to this their bodily constitution that all the wo of their life has been accomplished with this lethargy }lunging on their back or treading on thdir heels. You sometimes, behold it in childhood. The child moping' and lounging within doors wl his brothers and sisters are at play, or if he join them, he is behind in every race and beaten in every game. His nerves, his muse/es'his bones are smitten with this palsy. He vegetates rather than lives, creeps rather than walk, yawns rather than breathes. The animal in his nature is strauger than the intellectual. He is generally a great eater and active only when he cannot digest that which he has eaten. It requires 8.s much effort for him to walk as for others to run. Languor and drowsiness are his natural inheritance. He is built for a slow -sailing vessel, a heavy hulk and an insufficient cut -water. Piece an active man in such a bodily structure and the latter would be shaken to pieces in one day. Every law of physiology demands that he be supine. Such a one is not responsible for this powerful tendency of nature. His great duty is resistance. When I see a man fighting an unfortunate temperament, all my sympathies are aroused, and I think of Victor Hugo's account of a scene on a war -ship, where, in the midst of a storm at sea, a great cannon got loose, and it was crashing this way and that and would have destroyed the ship; and the chief gunner, at the almost certain destruction of his own life, rushed at it with a handspike to thrust between the spoked of the wheel of the rolling can- non, and by a fortunate leverage arrested the gun till it could be lashed fast. But that struggle did not Seem so dishearteni as that man enters upon who attempts to fight his natural temperament, whether it be too fast or too slow, too nervous or too lymphatic. God help him, for Gail only can. Furthermore, indolence is often a result of easy circumstances. Rou.gli experienee in earlier life seems to be necessary in order to make a maw active and enterprising. Mountaineers are nearly always swarthy, and those who have toiled amona moun- tains oi trouble get Me moat nerve and muscle and brain. Those who have be - Come the deliverers of nations once had not where to lay their heads. Locusts and wild honey have been the fare of many A John the Baptist, while those who have been fondledof fortune and Fatted ,and praised have often grownup lethergic. They Wive on. of that heroism tWhich comes from fighting one's own battiii. Another mule of indolence is severe dis- couragement. There are those around us who started life. with the most sanguine expectation. Their enterprise excited the remark of all compeers. But some sudden and overwhelming misfortune met them, and henceforth they have been inactive. Trouble, instead of making them more de- termined, has overthrown them. They have lost all self-reliance. They imagine that all men and .all occurrences are against them. They hang_their heads where once they walked upright. They never look you in the eyes. They become misan- thropic, and pronounce all men bars and seoundrels. They go melancholic an4 threadbare to their graves. You cannot rouse them to action by the most glittering offer. In most cases these' persons have been honorable and upright all their lives, for rogues never get discouraged, as there is always some other plotthey have not laid and some other trap they have not apruna. There are but few sadder sights than a man of talent and tact and undoubt- ed capacity giving up life as a failure, like a line of magnificent steamendrottihg against wharves, from which they ought to have been carrying -the exportations of a nation. Every great financial panic produces a large crop of such men.. In the great establish- ments where they were partners in business, they are now weighers or ciraymen or clerks on small salary. Reverie is also a cause of indolence. There are -multitudes of men who expeat to achieve great success in kfe, who are en- tirely, unwilling to put forth any physical, moral or intellectual effort. They have a great many eloquent theories ot life. They .are all the while expecting something to turn up. They pass their life in dreaming. They have read in light literature how men suddenly and unexpectedly came to large estates, or found a pot of buried gold at the feet of the rainbow of Good Luck, or had some great offer made them. They have passed their lives in reverie. Not- withstanding he is pinched with poverty and any other man would be downcast at the forlorn prospect, he is always sanguine and jovial, for he does not know but that he may be within a day or two of as- tounding success. You cannot help be en- tertained with his cheerfulness of temper. All the world wishes him well, for he never did anybody any harm. At last•he dies in just the same condition in which he lived, sorrowful only because he must leave the world just at the time when his long - thought -of plans were about to be success- ful. Leta° young man begin life with re- verie. There is nothing accomplished with- out hard work. Again, bad habits are a fruitful source of indolence. Sinful indulgences shut a man's shop and dull his tools and steal his profits. Dissolutenees is generally the end of industry. There are those who have the rare faculty of devoting occasion- ally a day or a week to loose indulgences, and, at the expiration of that time, go back with bleared eyes and tremulous hands and bloated cheeks to the faithful and successful performance of their duties. Indeed their employers and neighbors expect this amusement or occasional season of frolic and wassail. Some of the best workmen and most skil- ful artisans have this mode of con- ducting themselves, but, as the time rolls on, the season of dissipation be- corhes more protracted and the season of , steadiness and sobriety more limited, until the employers become disgusted and the man is given up to a "continual and ruin.o-u s idleness. When that point has arrived he rushes to destruction with astonishing velocity. When a man with wrong proclivities of appetite has nothing to do, no former selt-respect or moral re- straint or the beseechings of kindred can save him. The only safety for a man who feels himself under the fascination of any form of temptation is an employment which affords neither recreation nor holiday. Nothing -.an be more unfortunate for a man of evil inclination than an occupation which keeps him exceedingly busy during a part of the year and then leaves him tor weeks and months entirely unemployed. There are many men who cannot endure protracted leisure. They are like fractious steeds that must constantly be kept to the load, for a week's quiet, 'nukes them in- tractable aud uncontrollable. Bad habits produce idleness and idleness produces bad habits. Now, what are the results of indolence? A marked consequence of this vice is physical disease. The healthiness of the whole natural world depends upon activ- ity. The winds, tossed and driven in end- less circuits, scattering the mists from the mountains and scooping out death damps from the caves and blasting the miasma of swamps and hurling back the fetid atmos- phere of great cities, are healthy, just be- cause of -their swiftness and uncontrollable- ness of sweep. But, after a while, the wind falls and the hot sun pours through it, and when the leaves are still and the grain fields bend not once all day long, then pestilence smites its victims a,nd digs trenches for the dead. The • fountain, born far up in the wild_wood of the mountain, comes down brighter for every obstacle against which it is riven and singing a new song on erery shelf of rock over which it bounds, till it rolls over the water wheels in the valley, not ashamed to grind corn,_ and runs through the long grass of the meadow, where theiwillows reach down to dip their branches and the unyoked oxen come at eventide to cool.- Healthy water! Bright water! Ileppy water! While some stream, too lazy any more to run, gathers itself into a wayside pool, where the swine wallow and filthy insects hop over the sur- face and reptiles crawl among the ooze, and frogs utter their hideous croak, and by d,ay and night there rises from the foul mire and green scum fever and plague and death. There is an endless activity under foot and overhead. Not one four-o'clock in the flower bed, not one fly- on the window pane, not one squirrel gathering food from the cones of the white pine, not one rabbit feeding on clover tops, Lot one drop falling in a shower, not one minnow glanc- ing in the sea, not one quail whistling from the grass, not, one hawk cawing In the sky, but is busy now and is busy always, fulfill- ing its mission as certainly as aey monarch on earth or any angel in heaven. You hear the shout of the plow -boys, busy in the fields, and the rattle of the whiffietress on the harrow, but you do not know that there is more industry in the earth upturned and in the dumb vegetation under foot than in all that, you see. If you put your ear to a lump of riven -sod you may hear nothing in the roots and apiculie of grass, but there are at work spades and cleavers and pile drivers and battering rams and internecine wars. I do not wonder that the lively fancy of the ancients saw in the inanimate creation around Floras and Potnonas and Graces and Fauns and Fairies and Satyrs and Nymphs. Everything is busy. Nothing is inanimate, except the man who cannot see the life and hear the music. Furthermore, notice that indolence en- dangers the soul. Satan makes his chief conquests over men who either have h nothing to do, or, if they have, refuse to do it. There is a legend that St. Thomas, years after Christ's resurrection, began again to doubt, and he went to the Apos- tles and told them about his doubts. Each Apostle looked at him with surprise and then said he must be excused, for he had no time to liaten any longer. Then St. Thomas went to the devout women of his tune, and expressed his doubts. Tney side they were sorry, but they had no time to listen. Then St. Thomas concluded that it was because they were so busy that the Apostles and the devout women had no doubts. Iilkness not only leads a man into associations which harm his morals, but often thrusts upon him the worst kind of scepticism. But my text is descriptive also of those who hunt for opportunities, and, when they get them, do not use them. The rabbit they overcome by an early morning tramp lies for weeks uncooked in the door - yard. The deer that they brought down after long and exheusting pursuit n the Adirondacks lies on their door -sill undress- ed, and the savory venison becomes a mal- odorous carcass. They roast not that which they took in hunting. Opportuni- ties laboriously captured, yet useless, and. that which came in invitingly, like a string of plover and quail and wild duck hung over a hunter's shoulder, turns to some- thing worse than nothing. So with Agrippa when almost persuaded to be a Christian. So with the lovely young man who went away from Christ very sorrowful. So with tens of thousands who have whole hands full, whole skies full of winged opportunities which profit them nothing at all, because they roast not that which they took in hunting. Oh, make out; of this captured moment a banquet for eternity. The great- est prize in the universe to be won is the love and pardon of Christ. Win that and you can Say: Now I have found a friend Whose love shall never end, Jesus is mine! INSIDE A PIPE ORGAN. A Woman's Unique Experience While Gratifying Her Curiosity. Often I have sat in that beautiful church where the Methodists meet in Parkdale, and soothed eye and ear. The church as a building is second to none in the City of Toronto, and the organ is unique. Last Sunday curiosity, the bane of woman's life, whispered, "What is behind all that dis- play of pipes, keys and stops ?" ThA was enough. Finding the sexton, he conducted me right into the magnificent organ. Leav- ing rife alone he closed the door. I was in music's heart. It was slightly dark, and I must admit feeling a sensation °Mar. Had Mozart or Chopin appeared to me and in wrathful indignation driven me hence, I would not have been surprised; to tell the truth I expected to see the spirits of some of the great composers hovering there, may - hap St. Cecilia herself. They must have known my passion for music, for they let me alone. I was brought from my spirit seeking by a thundering peal from one of those deep bass pipes just at my ear. An ejaculatory "Oh 1" was all the vent I gave to my ac- cumulating fears. Then the sexton's Warn- ing, "Seep quiet and don't touch aught," quieted me, and the complicated mechenism interested me. Sounds fought for supremacy discordant- ly, the big bass being victorous. The mov- ing of the stops, the pressing of the keys even made a noise. In there it was all'noise and no music. A constant creaking, chaotic turmoil. I left the organ and went to the gallery. Nothing but melody there. The organist's fingers ran cunningly over the keys, sending the thoughts of those grand old composers up through the pipes and out to the congregation. How like the organ is all humanity! What inward groanings ! What a throb- bing, noisy combat rages within, while to the world but few, if any, of the discordant sounds are audible.—Nancy Nugent, in Saturday Nigh t. The Russet Orange. The russet orange is made so by a min- ute insect, which comes at certain times during the summer months in such vast numbers as to give a grove the appearance of being covered with brown dust. A magnifying glass shows this insect- to pos- sess a bill -like proboscis, with which it punctures- the oil cells of the orange skin and causes the oil to exude, which becomes oxidized on the surface and discolors it. It acts much upon the rind of the orange as tanning upon leather, making it thinner and tougher. "It is a mistake to :say they select only the "sweet fruit," for they cover an entire grove, both fruit and foliage. Some hold the theory th.at as they de- stroy the oil cells of the rind the forniation of oil ceases and the food is made richerand sweeter in consequence. Sometimes orange growers spray their trees with a mixture that destroys the insects, but it was found that the russet orange shipped so much bet- ter and was so much finer in 'quality , that they have abandoned it. The hammock and Indian River fruit is seldom attacked by the rust mite, hence it is not so odurable for shippidg, the skin being very tender. — New York Evening Post. A Remarkalple Coincidence. Among the stories of extraordinary coin- cidences, writes the London correspendent of the Deeds Mercury, not the least curious is the history of a letter, for the accuracy of which he can vouch. A short time ago a lady in London wished to write to a friend in Ameriea, whose address she did not know. The only means she had of pro- curing the address was to write to a mu- tual friend, who also lived in Anierica. This she accordingly did, and the letter was duty despatched. The ship whieh car- ried the letter was wrecked and the mails for a time loat. They were eventually re- tcovered and brought back to England, the letters, now much damaged by sea Water, being returned through the dead letter of- fice to the senders. The letter in question was sent back to the lady, who naturally examined in min- utely. To her surprise she found that an- other lettlr had become closely stuck to it. Holding up the twofold missive to the light, she deciphered the address on the one which was stuck to her own. it wee a letter addressed to the friend to whore she had wished to write, and to discover whose whereabouts her own letter had beer despatched. Her letter thus • literally brought back ite own answer. Spots on the Moon. The smallest spots that we can see -on the •moon with the unaided eve occupy about one -twenty-fourth of.its • visible area, i.e., soma 150,000 square milds. Getting Rid of Canadian Thistles. A farmer wbo tried for ten years to ex- terminate the Canada thistles on hie farm by cutting them with a scythe in August found that they increased steadily all the time. He then concluded to try salting stock on them, especially sheep. In one ,patch of half an acre, where the thistles were very thick, he sowed the salt thinly; on others dropped a pinch, beginning as soon in May as the plants appeared. They were eaten readily, the sheep gnawing into the ground. As fast as fresh roots sprang up they were salted, and so on through the summer. In one year enough could not be 1 found in 100 acres to salt the sheep on. —Mr. John Vanslyke, concession 7, Elderslie, is still a suppre old gentleman. lie was quite an athlete in his younger days, and for jumping and wrestling he took a back seat for no one. One day a couple of weeks ago, while in conversation with some friends in Chesley, Mr. Vandyke as- serted that he could lock his two hands to- gether and leap through them. Mr. George Pauline jokingly said he would bet a quarter Mr. V. could not do the act, but in this be was deceived for the agile old gentleman, about 60 years of age. locked his hands to- gether and easily performed the feat. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. MIAMI FOR SALE OR TO BENT IN THE TOWN - .1.! SHIP OF TURNBERRY.-A pod 100 acre fann, 60 acres cleared, good frame house. Rent can be paid in improvement* on the place. AlsO, wanted to let, the contract for the cutting and drawing of saw logs and cord wood off 60 to 76 aeres of lend in above towingism. nship. Apply to GEO. THOMpSON, Box 126, , 1260 ti. EARS FOR SALE.—For sale tat splendid and conveniently situated farm a joining the Vil- e of Brucefield, and owned and loccuplad by the lot which nearl undersigned. There are 116 acres, y all is cleared and In a high state of clultIvation and all but about 20 acres in grass. Good buildings and plenty of water. It adjoins the Brucefield Station GI the Grand Trunk Railway. Will ba hold chest and id on nasYterrds. ApVy on the pie:mines or to r Held P. 0. P. McG EGOR. 1%8 tf. MIAMI IN STANLEY FOR SALE. -For sale .12 cheap, the Eaet half of Lot 20, Hayfield Road, Stanley, oontaining 64 acres, of which 62 acres are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The bal- ance Is well timbered with hardwood. There are good buildings, a bearing orchard and plentyof water. It is within MU a mile Of the Village of Varna and three miles from Brefield .station. Possession at any ham This is rare chanoe to buy a first class farm pleasantly 'situated. Apply to ARTHLR FORBES, Selforth. 1144t1 VARM FOR SALE CHEAP.-Tbe farm of 100 .1_ acres on the 9th concession ; of hic-Iiillop, be- longing to Thompson Morrison, !who is residing In Dakota and does not intend ;to return, is of- fered for sale very cheap. Eighty acres are cleared and the balance good hardwood, maple and rock elm, within 5i miles 61 Seaforth and within / of a mile of school house, Methodist and Preilbyterian Churches, stores, rah, black- ernithing and wagon making shop post office, etc., good buildings and water for cattle and good gravel roodsto any part of the township,, taxes the lowest of any of the bordering townships. ; A mortgage will be taken for 83,000 at 6 per cent.Apply to JOHN C. MORRISON, Winthrop P. 0., Ont. 1176t4 MIARMS FOR SALE. -For sale, ;parts of Lots 46 and 47, on the lat Conceesion of Turnberry, containing 100 acres, about 98 acrecleared and the balance unctilled hardwood bush. Large bank barn and shed, and stone stabling, and good frame house with kitchen and woodshed attaehed. There is a good orchard and a branch of the River Maitland running shrough one corner. It is pearly all seeded to grams, and is one of the best stock farms in the county. Also the 50 acre farm occupied by the un- dersigned, adjoining the Village! of Bluevale, all cleared, good buildings, and in firet-clase state of cultivation. It is a _neat and Onatortabie place. at a reasonable rate of interest. Apply to HUGH Most of the purchase money can refilain on mortgage ROSS, Bluevale. 126241 • PROPERTY FOR SALE. -The Undersigned offers for sale cheap, his valuable Village Property, known as Lots number 63 and 64, on north side of Queen street, Petty's survey, Village of Hensel', and east side of Railway track, on which lote there is a fine frame dwelling 24x32 in first-oilass repair, and a frame stable 20x26. There is a splendid well on the premises and the lots are nicely filmed with a fine net wire fence in front, the lots ere also nicely plant- ed out with ornamental trews and 'shrubs, also with all kinds of small fruit. This valuable property will be mold cheap as the owner has left the 'Village. For full particulars apply to JAMES R. BERRY, Seaforth, P. O. or G. J. SUTHERLAND, Conveyancer and Notary Public, HensaH. 12711 tf $4300 FARM FOR SALE. -Being north half ky of Lot 22, in the Sth Concession of Morns. The farm contains 100 acres of choice land, 90 oleared, and balance good hardwood. The farm is in a good state of cultivation, well fenced, a never failing stream rune through the farm, a first-class orchard, brick house and good frame barn and other outbuildings. The farm is within three miles of the Village of Brussels. Title perfect and no encum- brance on farm. For further partieulars apply to II. P. 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A first-class farm for sale in the garden of Manito. ba, Turtle Mountain, being the North Half, Section 18, Township 2, Range 21, West, 316 acres in all ; 45 acres summerfallow ; 46 new land, all ,ready for the drill. Also 50 sores stubble; 100 acres fenoed with wire, balance prairie, except five acrcs3sorub. Frame house 16x22, kitchen 12x22, stone Milk house 12x14, two miles from school, five miles frdm a good market. A never -failing stream of first-class water. Price, 83,500; 81,000 down, balance to suit purchaser at 8 per cent. Farm worth $4,000. Stabling for 50 head. For further particulars apply to ISAAC WINTER,Js., Whitewater Manitoba. 1262-12 1 PUBLIC NOTICE. The undersigned while thanking their numerous customers for their liberal patronage in the put, would say that they are in a position to supply any- thing In the BUILDING LINE, —SUCH AS— Shingles, Laths, Doors and Sashes, ALSO Mouldings of all Kinds Always on hand. ; make to order. N. 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I calling your attention to our NEW SPRING STOCK w4 invite you to be fair with yourself and see it. It pre- seits an opportunity for economical buying that nobody can a ord to miss. The RIGHT PLACE to get the RIGHT G ODS at the RIGHT PRICES. Large varieties, popu- la styles, standard grades and newest attractions are all fond in abundance in every department of our elegant line of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ordered and a.dymade Clothing, Hats, Caps, Carpets, Millinery, etc. DPEND UPON US FOR PEREECT SATISFACTION AND VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY. We desire yeur trs,de because we give the fairest opportunity for buying ho est goodslat bed ; rock prices. Come to us for your S rino- GoodS, and you will come out ahead. Our Millinery D parti,ment Will be found unusually attractive. M. PICKARD, ilhe Bargain Dry GooIs and Clothing House, Seaforth. 'FACTS WORTH KNOWING. Everybody's Dollar worth 100 cents at the Post Office Grocery. Indian Teas are the best value in the market. Price 40, 50 and 60 :cents per lb. for the " MonSoon " Brand. Try a package. Extra choice Japan Tea for 25 cents per lb. or 5 lbs. for $1. Sugars are lower ;in price than ever before, now is your time to buy. The dash buyer gets the lowest cut eVery time. The new Patent Foot Brush is just the thing, far superior to a door mat. The Bissel CarpeSweepers are superior to all others. Come and get one on trial. J. FAIRLEY, Seaforth. GOLDEN LION, SEAFORTH. SPRING OF 1892. We have received ex steamships Mongolian, Alcides and Corean, a large p or tion of our Spring Importations,which we hope to have complete with goods, exl Canada and Montevidean, in a few days. Goods—newest Styles and good value. 1 R. JAMIESON. APPLICATIONS THOROUGHLY REMOVES /ANDRUFF 1\17ri°113 Toronto, Travelling Passenger Agent, C. P. R.. ' Says: Auti•pandruff is s perfect remover of Dan- druff -Its action is marvellous -in ray own case a few applieStions not only thoroughly removed exeessive dandruff accumulation but stopped LIARANTED f.:;'(')iiigtzltq,'itti4grrirreiiit. soft and pliable and DiauFF I D. L. CAVSN. Restores Fading hair to its ortginal color. Stops falling of hair. Keeps the Scalp clean. Makes hair soft and Pliable Promotes Growth. ANOTHER BYE -ELECTION The PeOple',§ Candidates Lead. When you see Crowds of i people rushing along the street, you would /naturally suppose there was another Bye -Election or a fire, but no I our bar- fhains are the magnet.Painstaking and Careful judgment have so marked our assortment of Groceries, &c., that we feel proud and confident that with inompt attention and ground itOor prices, we guarantee to satisfy all. OUREDL MEATS, A SPECIALTY. E. BEATTIE & O., SEAFORTH. • MAY 5, 1892' Hemlock Bar WANTED. About FIFTY CORDS, de. livered at the Egmondville Tannery, for which the %high.. est price will be paid. G. & R. JACKSON. 127243 W. 1.4.. GLENN - Wishes to express his thanks to hj numerous customers for their kindly patronage during the time he has been in Seaforth, and now begs to inform the public that he has lately received a large consignment of New Goods, consisting of new Maple Sugar and Syrup, Oranges, Lemons, Tobaccos, Cigars, Cigarettes, Pipes, Pouches, Cigar and Cigarette Holders, Pocket Books Pocket 'Amps, Confectionery, Canned Goods, Pickles in bulk or bottles, Figs, Dates, &c. We keep the following brands of Cigars in stock. Petits, Bouquets -- imported ; Oscar, Amanda, Violets, Alvino, Invincible, Peg Top, Stone- wall Jackson, She, Banker's Daughter, La Dele,coisa, Hero, Tom Sawyer Nattie, Fresh, Good TasW, G. 0: Pureza Nectarine, 'Aristocrat, Ocean Coil, Excelsior and Silver Rose. I have disposed of almost the entire stock purchased from Mr. Burgess, and my customers can rely on getting a good article at a reasonable price. Our Oysters are very fine, extra value and always fresh. Give us a earl. Satis- faction guaranteed. , Remember the place—Burgess' old stand, one door south of John Ward's Harness Shop, Main Street, Seaforth. "1O®1 add DO YOU KNOW That the best placeto have your wateh repaired so that you can always depend on having the correct time; the best place to buy a first-class Watch for the least money, and the cheapest place to buy your Clocks, Wedding Presents, Jew- elry, Siectacles, And where one trial convinces the most sceptical that only the best gods at the lowest prices are kept, is at R. MERCER'S, Opposite Commercial Hotel, Seaforth DUNN'S BAKINC POWDER THECOOKSBEST FRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA. a INTM.A.1:ZI a Mutual - Live - Stock INSURANCE CO. Head Office: - Seaforth. THE ONLY Live Stock Insurance Compan in Ontsrio having a Government Deposit and being duly licensed by the same. .Ate now carming on the business "of Live Stock Insurance and solicitthe patronage of the importers and breedere el the Provinoe. For further particulars address JOHN AVERY, Sec.-Treas. 116( MAY 6, 18 MARCH BY GEORGE Pi March and Apn Wandered throt Cnriouely enough ' tember. Old Moja heve been named G tired on half pay, in April, and was n that month was, of est to him in its with military preci first child should name given to the f -ender. It was exc first child proved to had been a boy, the line would not have tion of the order w the boy would have life, the title whic upon. 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April wee of eight years— dow-seats' readin to disturbyou, Lowe and I are g The child rose; was; but the cor her disappointme " What 1 no cried Lowe, care door. 46 What a ry? Why, you your age. "But I like it, " SO do I,' he I like you; and won't it 1" So the small f in the cloud Of L cloud was withd away to the door Maynadier SOTE1 taking advauteg And yet, wasn customary? He it. " Here is the down at the te whole thing. an old landmarks. ful measuremen that the road nip' rights exten inclosures. Th running fences. "Ob, come, steep? Excuse mustn't get r amicably. Yo yourself, you k that you haven' you bought th claim which I wanted you for be oourteoua." " Certainly, about to sey th give up my elai speaking of. road." "But the forward with chest, and look much mine ae of it the old I but, vir tually The" Maynadier emile. "The actly mine." Lowe laugh " I wasn't p mean that." But I did, " Well,' re how you mak put his finger scarred by li cient deeds ? it left, How The Major I've got e "All right, I were to sho fetuses, Yon gate? " Yes, yes.