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ing Sermonto Christians to Do Good and
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BROOKINS, N. Y., May 15, 1892.—In his
sermon to-dey, Rev. Dr. Talmage .tolented
r Mark-
9-y-515-; -"Thins dumb
and deaf spirit, I charge thee, 0O1uo out of
Ma.*
Here waft a caseof great domestic an-
guish. The son of the -household was pos-
sessed of an evil stirit whiela among other
things, pasalyzed is tongue and made hint
speechless. When the ieflue.nce was on the
patient, he could not say. word--articala-
tion was impossible. The spirit that cap-
tured this member of household was a
dumb spirit—so-calied by Christ—a spirit
abroad today and u lively and potent u
in New Testament times. Yet in all the
realms of eermonology, I cannot find a
discourse 4:oncorning thie dumb devil which
Christ charged upon in my text, saying,
'come out of him.' .
There has been much destructive super-
stition abroad in the world concerning
possession by evil spirits. Under the form
of belief in witchcraft, this delusion swept,
the continents. Persons were siipposed to
be possssi.d with some evil spirit, which
made them able to destroy -others. In the
16th century, in Geneva,1,500 persons were
burned to death u witches. Under one
judge, in Lorraine, 900 poisons were burn-
ed to death as witches. In one neighbor-
hood of France 1,000 persons were burned.
In two centuries 200,000 persons were slain
as witches. So mighty was the delusion
that it included among its victims some of
the greatest intellects of all time, such as
Chief Justice Matthew Hale and Sir Edward
Coke, and such renowned ministen of
riartion as Cotton Mather, one of whose
booke, Benjamin Franklin maid, shaped his
life—and Richard Baxter, and Archbishop
Creamery and Martin Luther, and among
writers and philosophers, Lord Bacon.
That belief, which has become the leash-
ing stock of all sensible people, counted
its disciples among the wisest and best
people of Sweden, Germany, England,
Fringe, Spain and New England. But,
while we reject witchcraft, any man
who believes the Bible must believe that
there are diabolical agencies abroad in the
world. Wbile there are minietering
spirits to bless there are infernal spirits to
hinder, to poisiin and to destroy. Christ
e woe speskint to a spiritual existence, when,
standingbe ore the afflicted one of the text,
,
he said, 'Thou dumb and deat epirit, come
out of him."
Against this dumb devil ot the text, I
pat you on your guard. Do not think
that this agent of evil has put his blight
on those who by omission ot the yocal
organs, have badthe golden gates of speech
bolted and barred. Among those who have
never spoken a word are the most gracious
and lovely and talented souls that were ever
incarnated. The chaplains of the asylums
for the dumb can tell you enchanting stories
of those, who never called the name of
father or mother or child, and many of the
most devoted, and prayerful souls will never,
in this world, speak the name of God or
Christ Many a deaf , mute have I seen
with the angel of intelligence, seated at the
window of the eye, who never came forth
trom the door of the mouth. What a mira-
cle of loveliness and knowledge was Laura
Bridgman, of New Hampshire, not only
without faculty of gpaech, but without
hearing and without sight, all these fahulties
removed by sickness when two years of age,
yet, becoming a wonder at needle work, at
the piano, at the sewing machine, and an
intelligent student of the Scriptures, and
confounding philosophers, who came from
all parts of the world to study the phenome-
non, Thanks, to Christanity for what it
has done for the amelioration of the condi-
tion of the deaf and the dumb. Back in
the ages, they were put to death as hav-
ing no right, with such paucity of equip-
ment, to live, and for centuries they were
classed among the idiotic and, unsafe.
But in the 16th century came Pedro
Police, the Spanish monk; and in the 17th
century came Juan Pablo Bonet, another
Spanish monk, with dactylology or the fin-
ger alphabet, and in our own century we
havehad JohriBraidwooci and Drs. Mitchell
and Ackerly and Peet and Gallaudet, who
have given to uncounted, thousands of those
whose tongues were forever silent the
power to irpell out on the air by a ms.nual
alphabet their thoughts about this 'world
and their hopes for the next We rejoice
in the brilliant inventions in, behalf of those
who were born dumb. One of the most
impressive audiences I ever addressed was
in the far West two or three years ago—
an audience of about 600 persons, who had
never heard a sound or spoken a word, an
interpreter standing beside me while I ad-
dressed them. 1 congratulated that audi-
ence on two advantages they had over the
most of us—the one that they escaped
hearing a great many disagreeable things
and, on the other fact, that they escape:1
saying things that they were sorry for after-
wards. Yet, . after all the alleviations, a
shackled tongue is an appalling liniitation.
But we are not this morning speaking of
congenial mutes. We mean those who are
born with all the faculties of Vocalization,
and yet have been struck by the evil one
mentioned in the text—the dumb devil to
whom Christ caIled vrhera Ile said, "Thou
dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, cothe
out a him."
There has been apotheosization of silence.
Some one has said silence is golden, and
sometimes the greatest triumph is to keep
your niouth shut. But sometimes silence
is a, crime and the direct result of the bale-
ful influence of the dumb devil of our text.
There is hardly a Mau. or woman in this
house to -day who has not been present on
some occassion when the Christian religion -
became a target for raillery. Perhaps it
was over in the store some day when there
was not much going qn and the clerks were
ia a„ group; or it was in the factory at a
noon spell'or it was out on the farm under
the trees while you were resting; or it was
in the club -room; or it was in a. social ,
circle'or it was in the street on the way
home from businees ; or it was on some
occasion which you remember without my
describing it. Some one got the laugh on
the Bible and caricatured the profession of
religion as liypocrisy, or made a pun out of
something that Christ said. The laugh
started and you joined in, and not one word
of protest did yon utter. What kept you
silent? Modesty ? No. Incapacity to
answer? No. Lack of opportunity? No.
It Was a blow on both your lips by the
wing of the dumb devil. If some one
should malign your father, or mother, or
wife, or husband, or child, you would flush
up quick, and either with an indignant
word, or doubled fist, make response. And
yet here is our Christian religion, which
has done so much for you and so much for
the world that it will take all eternity to
celebrate it, and yet, when it was attacked,
you did not so much as say, "I differ, I
object. I am sorry to hear r that.
There is another side to this ris-
tian people ought in such ti e to
go, armed, not with earthly weapons, but
with the sword of the Spirit. You ought
to have four or five questions with which
you could confound any man who at-
tacks Christianity. A man ninety
years old waa telling me a few days
ago how he pet to flight a scoffer. My
aged friend said to the sceptic, "Did you
ever read the history of Joseph in the
Bible ?'"'Yes," add the man, "it is a- fine-
starv, and 51 interesting & story as 1 ever
matt -Won itowyt said my old friend,
"suppose that account of Joseph stopped
half way sr ‘10111"_ paid the netnn, "then -
It would not bottnatet-didninO? "Well
now" mat my. illitenditliWe We in this
worianinly half of :lane 'Sid do you
tar
not that whist w• itIntiaefalielf,
thingenisay be condi tend that *or We
may find that God was right ?" Oh, Min
better load up with & few into on
points. You cannot afford to be silent
when God and the Bible and the things of
eternity are assailed. Your silence gives
consent to the bomitardment of your fath-
er's house. You allow a slur to be cast on
your mother's dying pillow. In behalf of
the'Christ, who for you went through the
agonies of assassination on the rocky bluff
back of Jerusalem`, you dared not face a
sickly joke. Better load up with a few
questions so that next time you will be
ready. Say to the .coffer: "My dear sir,
will you tell me what makes the difference
between the condition of women in China
and the United States? What do you think
of the sermon on the Mount? How do you
like the golden rule laid down in the Scrip-
tures ? Are you in favor of the ten com-
mandments? In your large and extensive
reading have you come across a lovelier
character than Jesus Christ?
But than there are occasions when this
particular spirit that Christ exercised when
He said: "I charge thee to dome out of
him," takes peoplb by the wholesale. In
the most responsive religious audience
have you noticed how many people never
sing at all? They have a book and they
have a voice and they know heir to read.
They know many of the tunes, and yet
are silent while the. great raptures of
music pus by. Among those who sing not
one out Of a hundred sings loud enough
to hear hie own voice. They hum it. They
give a- sort of religious grunt. They make
the lips go but it is inaudible. With a
Ojos strong enough to stop a street car
one block away, all they can afford in the
praise of God is about half a whisper.
With enough sopranos, enough altos,enough
bassos to make a small hestree between the
four walls they let the opportunity go by
unimproved. The volume of voice that as-
cends from the largest audience that ever
assembled ought to be multiplied about two
thousand -fold. But the minister rises and
gives out the hymn; the organ begins;
the choir or precentor heads; the anckenee
are standing so that the lungs may have
full expansion, and a mighty -harmony is
about to ascend, When the evil spiritspoken
of in my text—the dumb devil—spreads
his two wings, one over the lips of one-
half the audience and the other wing over
the lips of the other half of tbe audience,
and the voices roll back into the throats
from which they started, and only here and
there anything is heard, and nine -tenths of
the holy power is destroyed ; and the dumb
devil, as he flies away, says: "I oould not
keep Isaac Watts from writing that hymn,
and I could not keep Lowell Mason from
composing the tune to which it is set, but I
smote into silence or halt silence the lips
from which it would have spread abroad to
bless neighborhoods and cities, and then
mount the wide-open heavens." Give the
long -metre doxology the full support of
Christendom, and those four lines would
take the whole earth for God.
During the cotton famine in Lancashire,
England, when the suffering was some-
thing terrific, as the first wagon -load of
cotton rolled in, the starving people un-
hooked the horses and drew the load them-
selves, singing, until all Lancashire joined
in with triumphant voices, their cheeks
sopping with tears: "Praise God from
whom all blessings flow." When Commo-
dore Perry, with his war -ship the Mississip-
pi'lay off the coast of Japan, he bombarded
thee shores with "Old Hundred" played by
the marine band. Glorious "Old Hun-
dred," composed by William Franc, of Ger-
many. In a war prison, at ten o'clock, at,
night, the poor fellowfar from home, and
wounded and sick and dying, one prisoner
started the "Old Hundred Doxology," and
then a score of voices joined, then all the
prisone13 on all the floors took up the acclaim
until the building, from foundation to top
stone, fairly quaked with the melodious
ascription. A British raan-ot-war, lying off
a foreign coast, heard a voice singing that
doxology, and immediately guessed, and
guessed aright, that there was an English-
man in captivity to the Mohamedans ; and
in the small boats the sailors rowed to shore
and burst into a guardt-house and set the
captive free.
Do not, however, let us lose ourselves in
generalities. Not one of us but has had
our livesometimes touched by the evil
spirit of the text—this awful dumb devil.
We had just one opportunity of saying a
Christian word that might have led a man
or woman into a Christian life. The
oppoatunity was fairly put beiore us. The
word of invitation or consolation or warn-
ing came to' the inside gate of the mouth,
but there it halted. Some hindering
power locked the jaws together so that
they did not open. The tongue lay flat
and still in the bottom of the mouth, as
though struck with paralysis. We
were mute. Though God had given
us the physiological apparatus for
speech, and our lungs were filled
with air which, by the command of
our will, could have made the laryngeal
muscles move and the ocat organs vi-
brate, we were wickedly and fatally silent.
For all time and eternity we missed our
chance. Or it was a prayer -meeting, and
the service was thrown open for prayer
and remarks, and there was a dead halt
—everything silent as a grave -yard at mid-
night. indeed it was a grave -yard and
midnight. An embarrassing pause took
place that put a wet blanket on all the
meeting. Men, bold enough on busi-
ness exchange or in worldly circles, shut
their eyes as though they were prating
in silence, but they were not praying at
all. They were busy hoping some-
body else would do his duty. The women
flushed under the awful pause and made
their fans more rapidly flutter. Some
brother, with no cold, coughed, by the
sound trying to fill up the time, and the
meeting was slain. But what killed it ?—the
dumb devil. This is the way I account
for the fact that thestupidest places on
earth are some prayer meetings. I do not
see how a man keeps any grace if he regu-
larly attends them. They are spiritual re-
frigerators. Religion kept on ice. How
many of us have lost occasions of useful-
ness? In a sculptor's studio stood a figure
of the god Opportunity. The sculptor had
made the hair fall down over the face of
the statue so as to completely cover it, and
there were wings to the feet. When asked
why he so represented Opportunity, the
sculptor answered: "The face of the statue
Os thus covered up because we do not recog-
nize Opportunity when it comes, and the
wings to the feet show that Opportunity is
swiftly gone."
Be out and out, up and down tor right- -
eousness. If your , ship is afloat on the
yacific Ocean of God's mercy, hang mit
minor notioned cap and said, •Uaptiain 1
Clod hears prayer, e,nd we would be badly
'off -if your with were answered." Captain
*Mane was Utivioted by the sailor's re-
` k and convreatied, /0 became the means
oftt)s salvation Of 'his *ether Robert, who
been an infidel, aad then Robert be-
,
cute 'a' minister of the • Gospel, and under
his ministry the godlestuFelix Neff becatne
the world-renowned missionary of the
Cross, and the worldly Merle D'Aubigne
became the author of the History of the
Reformation, and will be the glory of the
Church for all ages. Perhaps you may
do as much as the Scotch sailor -Who just tip -
'pod his cap, and used one broken sentence
by Which the earth and the heavens are atill
resounding withpotent influences. Do
something for God, and; do it right
or you will never do it at all.
your colorsfrom mast -head. Show your
passport if you. have one. Do not smuggle
your soul into the harbor of Heaven.
Speak out for God! This morning close
up the chapter of lost opportunities, and
pitch it into the East River, and open a
new chapter. Betore you get to the door
on your way out this morning shake hands
with some one, and ask them to join you
on the road to Heaven. .Do not drive up
to Heaven in a two wheeled "sulky" with
room only for one, and that yourself, but
get the biggest Gospel wagon you can find,
and shout till they hear you all up and
down the skies, "Come with us and we will
do you good, for the Lord hath promised
good concerning Israel." The opportunity
for good which you may. consider insigni-
ficant may be tremendous for results, as
when on the sea, Captifin Haldane swore
at the ship's crew with an oath that wish-
ed them all in perdition. and a Scotch
Time flies away fast
The while we Donor remember;
Now soon our life bare
Grows old with the par
That diet with the next December.
MR. FINNEY'S TURNIP.
Longfellow's First Poem and the Results
Which Flowed From ft
The following has long been accepted as
a true se -count of how Longfellow's pieco-
dons poetic ability was discovered. When
the great poet was 9 years old and attend-
ing school, his teacher one day asked him
to write a composition. Little Henry, like
most all school boys, shrank from the un-
dertaking.
His teacher said: "You can write words,
can you not ?"
"Yes," w'as the reply.
"Then you can put words together ?"
deyut,
"Then " said the master, "you may take
your ate and go out of doors and there
you can find something to write about, and
then you can tell what -it is, what it is for,
and what is to be done witk it, and that
will be a composition.
Henry took his slate and went Out. He
went behind Mr. Finney's barn, which
chanced to stood near, and 'seeing a fine
turnip growing up he thought he knew
what it was, what It was for, and what
would be done with it. -
A halt -hour ha been allowed Henry for
his firstsundertaking in writing a composi-
tion. In a half-hdue he carried in his work,
all accomplished wily, and his teacher is
said to have been &fretted almost to tears
when he saw what the boy had- done in so
short a time. The composition had been
written in a poetic form and was as fol-
lows:
• Mr. Finney had a turnip,
And it grew and it grew,
And it grew' behind the barn,
And the turnip did no harm.
And it grew, and it grew,
Till it could grow no taller ;
Then MrtFinney took it up
And put ft in the cellar.
There it lay, there it lay,
Till it began to rot ;
When his daughter Susie washed it
And put it in the pot.
Then she boiled it and boiled it,
As long as she was able;
Then Ms daughter Lizzie took it
And put it on the table.
Mr. Fiuna and his wife
Both Sat Mown to sup;
And they ate, and they ate,
TJntil they ate the turnip up.
The Battle of Life.
The ancients used to say that Vulcan
struck Jupiter on the head and the goddess
of wisdom jumped out, illustrating the truth
that wisdom comes by head knocks, writes
Rev. Dr. Talmage in the May Ladies' Home
Journal. There was a river of difficulty
between Shakespeare, the boy holding the
horses at the door of the London theatre,
and the Shakespeare, the great dramatist,
winning the applause of all audiences by his
tragedies. There was a river between
Benjamin Franklin, with a loaf of bread
under his arm, walking the streets of Phila-
delphia, and that same Benjamin Franklin,
the philosopher, just outside of Boston,
flying a kite in the thunder -storm. An idler
was cured of his bad habit by looking
through his window, night after night, at a
man who seemed sitting at his desk,
turning off one sheet of writing • after
another, until almost the dawn of
the morning. The man eating there
writing until morning was industrious
Walter Scott; the men who looked at him
through the window was Lockhart, his il-
lustrious biographer atterward. Lord
Mansfield, pursued by the press and by the
populace, because of a certain line of duty,
went on to discharge the duty; and while
the mob were around hint, demanding the
taking of his life, he shook his fist in the
face of the mob, and said, "Sirs,when one's
last end comes, it cannot come too soon if
he falls in defence of law and the liberty of
his country." And so there is, my friends,
a tug, a tussle, a trial, a push, an anxiety,
through which every man must go before
be comes to worldly success and Worldly
aciiievement. You admit it. Now be wise
enough to apply it in religion. Eminent
Christian character is only gained by the
Jordanic passage; no man just happened to
get geed.
For a Token.
Good bye 1 God love you, sham no sweeter
trust ,
My heart can give you, or my lips can say,
Or grief can utter, since but He alone
Shall stand within the place I yield to -day.
Good bye, for now and eve i- through the
years,
Till we meet out before the golden gate,
You have to fight to win the narrow way,
I will serve with you, while I stand and
wait.
—C. Brooke.
Remedy for Ivy Folooninff.
Dr. James J. Levick, of Philadelphia,
writes to the Medical News: "In a case of
poisoning of the hands from Rhus toxico-
dendron—poison oak—recently under my
,care, which had reached the vesicular stage
and was attended with much swelling and
burning, the happiest results promptly fol-
lowed the free dusting of the powder of
mistral on the affected parts. The change
was almost magical, so sudden and so
prompt was the relief afforded. Might not
this powder, applied in the early stages of
the disease, do much toward preventing the
ulceration and nittiageof_ variola ?"
Rest.
How differently men and women indulge
themselves in what is called a resting spell!
"1 guess I'll sit down and mend these stock-
ings, and rest awhile," says the wife, but
her husband throws himself upon the easy
lounge, or sits back in his arm chair, with
hands at rest and feet placed horizontally
upon another chair. The result is that his
whole body gains full benefit of the half
hour he allows himself from work, and the
wife only receives that indirect help ' which
comes from change of occupation.
A physician would tell her that taking
even ten minutes rest.in a horizontal posi-
tion, as a change from sitting or standing at
work, would prove more beneficial to her
than any of her makeshifts at resting. Busy
women have a habit of keeping on their feet
just as long as they can, in spite of back-
aches and warning pains. As they grow
older they see the folly of permitting such
drafts upon their strength, and learn to take
things easier, let what will happen. They
say, "1 used to think I must do thus and so,
but I've groan wiser, and learned to slight
thines." The first years of housekeeping
are truly the hardest, for untried and un-
familiar cares are almost daily thrust upon
the mother and home-maker.—Domestic
Monthly.
REAL' MAT; VORIS-44..4E.
tARM FOR OEM Ott TO flifer
12 Win OF TURNMItNa-A gc
10 aorMeoliered, goad We house.
In im te oh -this &Am Mac
the for the (Jutting and dri
tWood off '60 t• 7f sores
Apply to ORO. THOM
•
114 THE TOWN.
od 100 sore farm,
Rent can be paid
,wanted to let,
wing of saw logs
f land In above
ON, Boit 126,
1260 U.
IIARM FOR SALE—For sale that splendid and
conveniently situated farm adjoining the Vil-
e of Brumfield, and owned and �ooupiod by the
undersigned. There are 110 scree, of which nearly
all As cleared and in a high State of cultivation and all
but about 20 sores in grim. Good buildings and
linty of *atm. It adjoins.tbe Brueefleld SteWn of
e Grand Trunk Railway. Will bet sold cheap and
on easy terms. Apply on the prembee or to Bruce
-
held P. 0. P. MOGRWOR. 1261I11.
VARY IN STANLEY POR SALE—For sale
12 cheap, the East halt of Let 20 hayfield Rood,
Stanley, containing 64 sores, of wbioh 62 sores are
cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The bal-
anoe is well timbered with hardwood. There are
good buildings, a bearing orchord and plenty of
water. It is within half a mile Of the Village of
Varna and three miles from Brumfield station.
Poseession at any time. (his Is a rare chance to
buy a first class fern pleasantly situated. Apply
to ARTHUR FORBES, -Seaforth. 114411
)b -iARM FOR SALE OBEAP.—The farm of 100
acres on the Oth (*mouton of Mo-hillop, be.
onging to ',Thompson Morrison, who is residing
in Dakota and does not intend ito return, is of-
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cleared and the. balance good wood, maple
and •rock elm, within si mulesofSeaforth and
within of a mile of school use, Methodist
and Presbyterian Cburohee, sto Iiwan, black-
smithing and wagon making shop ped office,
good buildings and water for cattle and good grovel
roadsto any part of the township, taxes the lowest
of any of the bordering townehlps. A morkage will
be tehen for 0,000 at 6 per cent. Apply to JOHN
O. MORRISON, Winthrop P. 0., 0nt. 117014
*MURALS FOR SALE.—For sale, !parte of Lots 46
and 47, on theilat Oonoestn of Turnberry,
containing 100 acres, about 98 sore cleared and the
batmen unoulled hardwood bush. 'Lem bank barn
and shed, and stone stabling, and good frame house
with kitehen and woodshed attached. There is a
good orchard and a branch of the River Maitland
running through one comer. It is pearly all seeded
to grass, and is one of the beet stook firms in the
county. Also the 60 acre farm occupied by the un-
dersigned, adjoining the Village of Bluevale, all
cleared, good buildings, and in ret-elaie state of
cultivation.. It, fs a neat and confortable place.
Most of the purchase money can remain on mortgage
ata tvaseeable rate of iuterest. Apply to HUOH
ROSS, Bluevale. 1262-11
f4,000 FOIRLItiegi,‘ giAthigeltilign:ersilloinhtft
orris. The farm contains 100 acres of choice land,
90 cleated, and balance good hardwood. The form
le In a good 'tate of cultivation, well fenced, a never
failing stream runs through the larm, a firstechies
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 particulars apply to II.
P. WRIGHT, on the premises, or Brueeels P. 0.120 tf.
'DARR FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot. 27, Concession
JO 1, Stanley, ciontaining 100 acres about 90 sores
cleared, 70 of which *re free 'from stumps,
under-dratned, well fenced and In a good state of out-
tivation ; the uncleared part is well timbered. - A
good brick house, large barn with stone stabling un-
derneath and all other necessery out -buildings.
There is a good orohard and plenty of good water.
It is on the London Robe, about 8 miles from Clinton
and about the same from Brumfield and 8 milealrom
Seaforth. Also 60 acres opposite, ell cleared but no
buildings. The tseo properties *III be veld together
or separately. Apply on the premises or address
Clinton 8.0. CHARLES AVERY. 1273 tf.
MURK FOR SALE.—For sale, thet desirable and
E conveniently situated farm,ad oining the village
of Redgerville, being Lot 14, 1 Concession, Hay,
i mile from Rodgerville poet-olflee, and one and a
half miles south of Hensell on the liondon Road.
There are 97 and a quarter sores, of which nearly all
is cleared and in a high state of cultivation. Good
frame house li storeys, 8 rooms, a large kitchen also
attached with bedroom's and pantrk tee. Good cellar
under main part of house, stable Irsolds over a car-
load of horse's, besides exercising sthies, two barns
two drive houses, one long wood -shed, good oow-
stable also pig and hen houses, three good wells with
pumps. Farm well fenced and underdrained.
Veranda attached to house. Good bearing orchard.
The farm will be sold cheap and oti easy terms, as
the undersigned has retired from terming. For par-
ticular; apply to JAMES WHITE A Proprietor, Hen-
eall. 1275-tf
Fetching the Doctor
At night is always a trouble, and it is
often an entirely unuecessary
• trouble if
F'erry Davis'
PAIN
K1LI-gR
is Kept in the house. A L'Av drops
of this old remedy in a little sweet-
ened water or milk, brings prompt
relief. Sold everywhere.
Have you seen the New
BIG BOTTLE
Old Price 25 Cents.
W. SOMERVILLE
Agent G. N. W. Telegraph and Can-
adian Express Cornpanies,
SEAFORTH,
•
ONT.
Telegraphic conneotione everywhere. Low rates
on money packagee! and rewitters guaranteedagalnut
loss. The convenience and saf
order service is attracting the at Zof our money
en of and pleas-
ing many patrons. Special rat4s on produce and
poultry. Toronto train service ()illy 41- hours, Mon -
real hours. 1228
CONSUMPTION
1
I have & positive remedy for the 'above disease; by its
use thousands of oases of the worst kind and of long
standing have been cured. Indeed so strong is my faith
in its eSeacy, that I will send TtiTO BOTTLES FREE,
with • verities:ten TIMATISZ on this disease to any
sufferer who will send me their EXPRESS and P.O. addres•
T. A. Sa0Oure, M. C. 186 ADELAIDE
ST., WEST, TORONTO, 'ONT.
FOR SALF,
Carriage, Horse shoeing, and Machine shop, in a
young and growing town in Niorthern Michigan.
Fine shops and well equiped, with a first class busi-
ness in all branches of blacksmithing and machine
work, good office in connection. Water works in
shop. Very small opposition. County seat of fine
farming country. Prices good in ell branches. Will
also sell residence, five blocks from shops. This is a
golden opportunity for the right man. Reasons for
selling, ill health. For particular" addresa,
- J. M. BRODIE,
Gaylord, Michigan.
1274-3 -
•
_ NOTICE.
The highest cash price paid for Eggs
at Dill's Egg Emporium, opposite the
Town Clock, Main Stree-,, Seaforth.
WM. DILL.
A
MAY 27, 1892.
Arrived at laCHARDSON& McINNIS' a complete stock of Spring
loods.
Ladies', Misses' and Children's Fine Footwear
ongolas, French Kid, ,Polished Calf and Cloth Tops,
Also in MIEN'S AND BOYS'
1?)ongo1as, - Kangaroos, - 'oaf - and - Cordovans.
—A FINg ASSORTMENT OF
RiJrsrKs.46.1\TD
To choose from, which will be sod cheap. We have everything in our line
and prices to suit everyone. Special inducement given to cash customers.
RICHARDSON" & McINNISI
SEA.FORTH.
SPRING, 18W.
As we ire entering upon the spring season we beg to
return thanks to our numerous customers for the immense
patronage be*itowed upon. us during the year 1891, which
has proven to be the largest year's business iu our history.
a calling your attention to our NEW SPRING STOCK
we invite you to be fair with yourself and see it, It pre
sent an opportunity for economical buying that nobody can
affold to mis4. The RIGHT PLACE to get the RIGHT
GOODS at the RIGHT PRICES. Large. varieties, popu-
lar styles, standard grades and newest 'attractions are all
found in abundance in every department Of our elegant line
of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ordered and
Readymade Olothibg, Hats, Caps, Carpets, Millinery, etc.
DEPEND UPON US FOR PEREEOT SATISFAOTION
AND VALVE FOR YOUR MONEY. We desire your
trade because we give the fairest opportunity for buying
honest goods at bed rock prices. Gime to us for your
Spring Good El and you will come out ahead. Our Millinery
Department will be found ianusually attractive,
WM. PICKARD,
The Bargain Dry Goods and Clothing House, Seaforth.
1FACT8
MN MI
WORTH
I '
' III
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
cash buyer gets the lowest cut every time.
The new Patent Foot Brush is just the thing, far superior to a door mat.
The Bissel Carpet Sweepers are superior to all others. Come and get one
on• trial.
3. FAIRLEY Seaforth.
Important Announcement.
BRIGHT BROTHERS,
The Leading Clothiers of Huron,
liteg to inform the people of Seaforth and surrounding ',wintry, that they have
added to their large ordered clothing trade one of the
Most Complete and best selected stocks of Boys', Youths'
and Men's Readymade Clothing
Prices
Remember the
Seaforth.
----IN THE COUNTY.
Unequalled. We lead the Trade.
Old Stand, Campbell's Block, *opposite the Royal Hotel,
BRIGHT BROTHERS.
3 •APPLICATIONS THOROUGHLY REMOVES
4NDRuFF
DANDRUFF
ANT I WI
Toronto, Travel ing Passenger Agent. C. P. R..
Saye: Ani -Dandruff is aperfectremover of Dan-
druff—its &die. is mervelious—in my own ease
a few applicatio s not only thoroughly removed
exeessive dandruff accumulation but stopped
falling of the hair, made it soft and pliable and
promoted a visiblegrowth.
10
D. L. CAVMN.
UARANTEED
Restores Fading hair to Its
original color.
Stops falling of hair.
Keeps the Scalp clean.
Makes hair soft and Pliable
Promotes Growth.
ANOTHER BYE -ELECTION
The People's Candidates Lead,
When you see crowds of people rushing along the street, you would
naturally suppose there was another Bye -Election or a fire, but noyl our bar-
gains are the magnet. Painstaking 'ancl careful judgment have so marked our
assortment of Groceries, 4kc., hat we feel proud and confident that with
prompt attention and ground fi
or prices, we guarantee to satisfy all.
CUREp MEATS A SPECIALTY.
ill. BEATTIE
BITGG IBS
—AND—
WAGONS.,
The .,-reatest number and largest as-
sortmelit of Buggies, Wagons and
Road Carts to be found in any one
house outside of the cities, is at
0. C. WILLSON'S,
sia.A.voitaimr.
They are from the following celebrated
makers : Gananoque Carriage 00m..
pomp Brantford Carriage Company,
and W. 3. Thompson's, of London,
These buggies are guaranteed first,
class in all parts, and we make good
any -breakages for one year from date
of purchase that comes from fault of
material or workmanship. We do no
patching, but furnish new parts. I
mean what I advertise, and back up
what I say. Wagons from Chatham,
Woodstock and Paris, which is enough
about them. Five styles of Road
Carts. All kinds of Agricultural Im-
plements.
O. C. WILLSON, Seaforth,
Hemlock Bark
WANTED.
About FIFTY CORDS, de-
livered at the Egmondville
Tannery, for which the high-
est price will be paid.
G. & H. JACKSON.
1272-13
In the Surrogate Court of the County of
Huron.
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN
TRAQUAIR, DECEASED.
All persons having any Clain' against the Estate
of John Traquair, late of the township -of Tuokee
smith, deceased, who died on or about the 6th da
of. March, 1842, are required on or before the
day of June 1892, to 'send to the undersigned, Solici-
tor for the Administrator of the Estate, full particu.
fare of their claims and the securities (if any) held by
them, duly verified by affidavit After the said date
the Administrator will proceed to distribute the
Estate among the parties entitled, having reference
only to the claims of which he shall have received
notice, and after such distribution he will riot be re
sponsible for any part of the estate to any creditor,
of whose claim he shall not have .reeelved notice et
the time of Snell distribution. This notice is given
pursuant to the Statute in that behalf. Dated et
Seaforth this 17th day of May, 1892. F. Holmested -
Hefter for the Administrator. 1276.4
in the Surrogate Court of the County
of Huron,
IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALONZO
STRONG, DECEASED.
All persons having any claim againet the estate of
Alonzo Strong late of the Town of Seafortle deceased,
who died on or about the 23rd day of February, 1892,
are required on or before the 7th day of June, 1892,
to send th the undersigned, Solicitor for the Ex-
ecutrix of the estate, full particulars of their claims
and the securities (if any) held by them, duly verified
by affidavit. After the said date the Executrbc will
proceed to distribute the Estate among the parties
entitled, having reference only to the claims of
whioh she shall have reeeived notice, and after such
distribution she will notbe responsible for any part
of the estate to any ereditor, of whose claim she
shall not have received notice at the timeof suchen&
tribution. This notice is given purau.ant to the
Statute in that behalf. Dated at Seaforth this 71h
day of May, 1892. F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor for the
Exeentrix,of the will of Alonzo Strong. 1274-41
THE SUN LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY
OF CANADA.
The attention of our Policy -Holders is directed to
the following summary of the leading items of the
present report, which speak for themselves as to pro-
gress arid prosperity of the Company :—
Lite Assurance in force, Jan. 1st, 1892_819,426,961 84
Increase over previous year 2,677,605 92
New Life Applications received during
1891.. —
. . . .. . .... 5,901,621 00
Increase over 1.890 . , 1,866,515 81
Cash income for year ending Dec. SIst,
1891. , 920,17457
Increase over 1890 140,388 76
Assets at 31st, December, 1891 2,885,571 44
Increase over 1890, . . — 412,067 25
Reserve for Seeurity of Palidy-holders2.480,842*
Increase over 1890 .........371,620 30
Surplus over all Liabilities, except
Capital... . _ 847,619 18
Surplus over all Liabilities and Capital
Stook........ .. . 286,119 18
Increase (wee 1890 52,948 46
Death Claims fallen in during 1891...... 168,064 06
(The increases mentioned above are exclusive of the
business reassured frain the Citizens Insurance Co.)
JOHN FAIRLEY, Agent, Seaforth.
A. S. McGREGOR, General Agent, London. 1278-4
DUNN'S
BAKINC
POWDER
THECOOICSBEST FRIEND
LARGEST SALE IN CANADA.
FARMS FOR SALE.
TOWNSHIP OF MORRIS.
South half 21 on 5th concession, 100 acres.
TOWN$HIP OF GREY.
Lott, 1 and 12 Of 13th conceselon, ZOO acre
TOWNSHIP OF TUCKERSMITH.
Lot 38 on 3rd concession L. It. 13., 100 acres.
For terms are., apply to the undersigned.
F. HOLMESTED,
1197 tf Banister lee, Seaforth.
DO YOU KNOW
That the best place to have yonr watch
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
bay your
Clocks, Wedding Presents; Jew-
elry, Siectacles, &c.,
And where one trial convinces the
most sceptical that only the best goodie
at the lowest prices are kept, is at
R. MERCER'S,
Opposite Commercial Hotel, Seaforth
alsTMA.RICD
Mutual - Live - Stock
INSURANCE co.
Head Office: - Seaforth.
THE ONLY Live Stock Insurance Company in
Ontario having a Government Deposit and being
duly licensed by the same. Are now carrying- 08•
the business of Live Stock Insurance and solicit the
patronage of the importere and breeders of the
Province.
For further particulars addrese;
& GO. SEAFORTH 1„„
JOHN AVERY, ec..-Treaa
c
MA 27,
When I Was
1.9111:t7r, and aWvried
Sosodusthe.xte
ottrhfy43711arlrnd we bad
sailing packet frc
and private convie
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stage coach. Mi
the water, and so
riagee.
jolting
For
narrow conoeyen
jeci
through all aorta
We traversed t
ed two mountain
rivers, and were
addition to all th
of sucha journei
in wthee ycoonronpagssitty,
re
novelty wore off.
home and the de
welcomed chang
my new father
for theisaYbynadb,w11 tf{4
wish for.
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ling -carriage, a
buggy, and a bag
and wagon tad n
the buggy hitns
our step -father's 1
etant rivaly betw
the back part of
onWr journey, hada
ourney,ec:nuldi
was
swsinpk.nowna
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settimmteeelidescores
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tight overtook u
penWeterawbelree thiniekt
execrable cordu
where the logs
with deep ruts
wran:chgroiwiftethed
by decaying log
ti
draped with in
moss.
An Occasional
topleafesrmaratlay escugenge
as could well
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who had been a
so Much worse
that mother be
all glad to see
the trees, and
some resting-pla
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burning had no
approached it,
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tbe road. Th
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the whole pi
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sallow,blotched
eraily squalid,
squatters. Th
and unfriendly.
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turn 'bout five
man. "They
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