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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-05-27, Page 2-THE HURON 'EXPOSITOR. 1118 -1701 -to -111D POWER TO MAKE THE BUMBAND-PEAF SOIRI COME FORTH. Rea. Die Talmage's Potent and Con-ehte- ing Sermonto Christians to Do Good and Mahe afield Acknowledgment of Their PrineipIes 'Wore Nem 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- fered for dale very cheep. Eighty acres are 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 Our party wi stage coach. 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