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THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
JuNE 10, 1892.
THE PLACE OF THUNDER.
REV. DR. TALMAGE ON ANOTHER
CURIOUS BIBLE TEXT.
A Vivid Doseiription of an Eastern Thula-
dor Storm-s-Thsuider aSymbol of Power
With a liuggisstion of Wistory About It—
The Lemon of It An.
Bitoosurst, N.Y., May 29, 1892.—Dr.
Talmage gave a fresh illustration this morn-
ing of the power he possesses of extracting
valuable lessons trona a text which preach-
ers have generally neglected as barren
ground. Hie sermon was based on the text,
Psalms 81: 7: "I answered thee in the se-
cret place of thunder."
It is past midnight, and two o'clock in
the morning, far enough from sunset and
sunrise to make the darkness very thick,
and the Egyptian army in pursuit of the
escaping Israelites are on the bottom of the
Red Sea, its waters having been set up on
either side in masonry of sapphire, for God
can make a wall as solid out of water as
out of granite, and the trowels with which
these two walls were built were none the
less powerful because invisible. Such walls
had never before been lifted. When I saw
the waters of the Red Sea rolling through
the Suez Canal, they were blue and beauti-
ful and flowing like other waters, but to-
night, as the Egyptians look up to them
built into walls, now on one side and now
on the other, they must have been frown-
ing waters, for it was probable that the
same power that lifted them up might sud-
denly fling them prostrate. A great lantern
of cloud. hung over this chasm between the
two walls. The door of that lantern was
opened toward the Israelites ahead, giving
them light, and the back of the lantern
. was toward the Egyptians, and it growled
and rumbled and jarred with thunder; not
thunder like that which cheers the earth
after a drought, promising the refreshing
shower, but charged and surcharged with
threats of doom. The Egyptian captains
!lost their presence of mind, and t e horses
reared and snorted and would no answer
to their bits, and the chariot whce s got in-
terlocked and torn off, and the charioteers
were hurled headlong, and the Red Sea fell
on all the host. The confusing and con-
founding thunder was in answer to the
prayer of the Israelites. With their backs
cut by the lash and their feet bleeding and
their bodies decrepit with the sufferings of
whole generations, they had asked Al-
mighty God to ensepulehre their Egyptian
pursuers in one great sarcophagus, and the
splash and the roar of the Red Sea as it
dropped to its natural bed were only the
shutting of the sarcophagus on a dead host.
That. is the meaning of the text when God
says: "I answered thee in the secret place
of thunder."
Now, thunder, all up and down the Bible,
is the symbol of power. Small wits depre-
ciate the thunder and say, "It is the light-
ning that strikes." But God evidently thinks
the thunder of some importance or he would
not make so much of it. That man must
be without imagination, and without sensi-
tiveness, and without religion who can
without, emotion see the convention of sum-
mer clouds called to order by the falling
gavel of the thunderbolt. There is nothing
in the natural world that so awes and sol-
emnizes me as the thunder. The Egyptian
plague of hail was accompanied by this full
diapason of the heavens. While Samuel
and his men were making a burnt offering
of a lamb, and the Philistines were about to
attack them, it was by terrorizing thunder
they were discomfited. ,Tob, who was a
combination of the Dantesque and the Mil -
tonic, was solemnized by this reverberation
of the heavens, and cried, "The thunder of
His power, who can understand ?" and he
challenges the universe by saying, "Ca,n'st
thou thunder with a voice like Him ?" and
he throws Rosa Bonheur's "Horse Fair"
into the shade by the Bible photograph of
a war horse when he describes his neck
as "clothed with thunder." Because of
the power of James and John they were
called "the sons of thunder." The law
given on the basaltic crags of Mount Sinai
was emphasized with this cloudy ebulli-
tion. The skies all around about St. John
at Patmos were full of the thunder of war. -
and the thunder of Christly triumph, and
the thunder of resurrection, and the thun-
der of eternity.
But, when my text says, "I answered
thee in the secret place of thunder," it sug-
gests there is some mystery about the
thunder. To the ancients the cause of this
.bombarding the earth with loud sound
must have been more of a mystery than it
is to us. The lightenings, which were to
them wild monsters ranging through the
skies, in our time have been domesticated.
We harness electricity to vehicles, and we
cage it in lamps, and every schoolboy
knows something about the fact that it ie
the passage of electriciay from cloud to
cloud that makes the heavehly racket
which we call thunder. But, after all that
chemistry has taught the world, there are
mysteries about this skyey rPsonance, and
iny text, true in the time of the Pealmist,
is true now and always will be true, that
there is some secret about the place of
thunder.
To one thing known about the thunder
there are a hundred things not known.
After all the scientific batteries have been
doing their work for a thousand years; to
come and learned men have discoursed to
the utmost about atmospheric electricity,
and magnetic electricity, and galvanic elec-
tricity, and thermotic electricity, and fric-
tional electricity, and positive electricity,
and negative electricity, my text, will be as
suggestive as it is to -day, when it speaks of
the secret place of thunder.
Now, right along by a natural law, there
is always a spiritual law. As there is a
secret place of natural thunder, there is a
secret place of moral thunder. In other
words, the religious power that you see
abroad in the church and in the world has
a hiding -place, and in many cases it is
never discovered at all. I will use a simili-
tude. I can give only the dim outline of a
particular case, for many of the remarkable
circumstances I have forgotten. Many
years ago there was a lerge church. It was
characterized by strange and unaccounteble
conversions. There were no great revivals,
but individual cases of spiritual arrest and
transformation. A young man sat in one
of the front pews. He was a graduate of
Yale, brilliant as the North Star and
notoriously dissolute. Everybody knew
him and hked;him for his genialitv, but de-
_ plored his moral errantry. To please his
parents he was every Sabbath morning in
iehurch... One day tnere was a ringing of
the door bell of the pastor of that church,
and the young man, whelmed with repent-
ance, implored prayer and advice, and pass-
ed into complete reformation af heart and
life. All the neighborhood was astonished,
and asked : ''Why was this ? His fattier
and mother had said nothing to him abOut
his soul's welfare. On zinother aisle of the
same church sat an old miser. He paid his
:pew rent, but was hard on the poor and
had no interest ill any philanthropy.
Piles of inoney ! And people said : "What,
ia struggle he will have when he quits this
life, to part with his bonds and mortgages."
One day he wrote to his minister : •'Please
to call immediately. I !lava a matter of
great importance about which I want to
see you." When the pastor Caine in, the
man could not speak for emotion, but after
a while he gathered self-control enough to
say: "I have lived for this world too long.
I want to know if you think I can bs sav-
ed, and, if so, I wish you would te:A me
how." Upon his soul the light, soon
dawned, and the old miser, not only revolu-
tionized in heart, but in life, began to
scatter benefactions, and toward all the
creat charities of the day he became a /
moment ante bountifut almoner. Wines
was the came of this change? everybody
asked ; and no one was capable of giving an
intelligent answer. In anotherpart of the
church sat, Sabbath by Sabbath,a beautiful
and talented woman, who wasagreatsociety
leadereg She went Ui church because that
was reapectable: thing to do, and in the
neighborhood where slue lived, it wets hard-
ly. r
to
wor
eetable not to to. Worldly!' lve*. she
he last degree, and all her ,faisily
ly. She had at her house the finest
geri4aus that were ever danced, and the
cestliest favors that were ever given, and
theu h she attended church, she never
like to hear any story of pathos, and, as
to freligious emotion of any kind, she
tho ght it, positively vulgar. Wines, cards,
theaters, rounds of costly gaiety were to
her the highest satisfaction. One day a
neighbor sentain a visiting card, and this
lady came down the stairs in tears, and
tola the whole story of how she had not
slept for several nights, and She feared she
was going to lose her soul, and she wonder-
ed if someone 'Would not come around and
pray with her. From that time her entire
demeanor was changed, and though she
was not called upon to sacrifice any of her
amenities of life, she consecrated her
beauty, her social position, her fam-
ily, her all to God and the church
and usefulness. Everybody said in
regard to her: "Have you noticed
the change, and what in the world caused
it ?"- and no one could make satisfaetory
explanation. In the course of two years,
though there was no general awakening in
that church, many such isolated cases of
such unexpected and unaccountable conver-.
signs took place. The very people whom
no one thought would be affected by such
considerations were converted. The pastor
and the officers of the church where on the
lookout for the solution of this religious
phenomenon. "Where is it?" they said,
"and who isit, and what is it?" At last
the discovery was made and all was explain-
ed. A poor old Christian woman standing
in the vestibule of the church one Sunday
morning, trying to get her breath again be-
fore she went upstairs to the gallery,
heard the enquiry and told the secret. For
years she had been in the habit of concen-
trating all her prayers for particular per-
sons in that church. She would see some
man or some woman present, and, though
she might not know the person's name,
she would pray for that person until he
or she was converted to God. All her
prayers were for that one person—just that
one. She waited and waited for 'com-
munion days to see when the candidates
for membership stood up whether her
prayers had been effectual. It turned out
that these marvellous instances of conver-
sion were the result of that old woman's
prayers as she sat in the gallery Sabbath
by Sa.bbath, bent and wizened and poor and
unnoticed. A little cloud of consecrated
humanity hovering in the galleries—that
was the secret place of the thunder. There
is some hidden, unknown, mysterious
source of almost all the moral and religi-
ous power demonstrated. Not one out of
a million—not one out of ten million
prayers ever strikes a human ear. On
public occasions a minister of . religicn
voices the supplications of the assemblage,
but the prayers of all the congreption are
in silence. There is not a seconn in a cen-
tury when prayers are not ascending, but,
myriads of them are not even as loud as a
whisper, for God hears a thought as plainly
as a vocalization. That, silence of supplica-
tion—hemispheric and nerpetnale---is the se-
cret place of thunder.
The day will come—God hasten it --
when people will find out the velocity, the
majesty, the multipotence of prayer. We
brag about our limited express trains
which put us down a thousand miles away
in twenty-four hours, but here is some-
thing by which in a moment we May con-
front people five thousand miles away.
We brag about our telephones but,here is
something that beats the telephone in utter-
ance and reply, for God says, "Before they
call I will hear." We brag about the
phonograph, in which a man can speak
and his words and the tone of his voice
can be kept for ages, and by the turning of
a crank the words may come forth upon
the ears of another century, but prayer
-allows us to speak word's into the ears of
_everlasting remembrance, and on the - other
side of all the eternities they will be heard.
Oh ! ye who are wasting your breath and
wasting your brains and wasting your
nerves and wasting your lungs wishing for
this good and that good for the church and
world, why do you not go into the seeret
place of thunder ?
"But," says some one, "that is a beauti-
ful theory, yet it does not work in my
case, for I am in a cloud of trouble, or a
cloud of -sickness', or a cloud of persecution,
or a cloud of poverty, or a cloud of be-
reavement, or a cloud of perplexity." How
glad I am that you told me that. That is
exactly the Place to which my text refers.
It was from= a cloud that God. answered
Israel—the cloud over the chasm cut
through the Red Sea—the cloud that was
light to the Israelites and darkness to the
Egyptians. It was from a cloud, a tre-
mendous cloud, that God made reply. It
was a cloud that was the secret place of
thunder. So you cannot get - away from
the consolation of my text by talking that
way. Let all the people under a cloud
hear it. "I answered thee in the secret
place of thunder."
This subject helps me to explain some
things you have not understood about cer-
tain useful men'aud woznen. Many of them
have not a superabundance of education.
If you had their brain in a. post-mortem ex.
=illation, and. you could weigh it, it would
not .weigh any heavier than the average.
They have not anything especially impres-
sive in personal appearance. They are not
very fluent of tongue. They pretend to
nothing unusual in mental faculty or social
influence, but you feel their power; you
are elevated in their presence; you are a
better man or a better woman, having con-
fronted thein. You know that in intellec-
tual endowment you are their superior,
while in the matter of moral and religious
influence they are vastly your superior.
Why is this? To find the revelation of thiz
secret, you must go back thirty or forty or,
perha-ps, sixty years to the homestead
where this man was brought up. it is a
winter morning, and the tallow candle is
lighted, and the fires are kindled, some-
times the shavings hardly enough to start
the wood. The mother is preparing the
breakfast, the blue -edged dishes are on the
table,. and the lid of the kettle on the hearth
begins to rattle with the steam, and the
shadow of the industrious woman by the
flickering flame on the hearth. is moved up
and down the wall. The faller is at the
barn feeding the stock—the oats thrown
into the horses' bin and the cattle cranch-
ink; the COM. The children, earlier' than
they would like and after being called twice,
are gathered at the table. The blessina
of God is asked on the food, and, the meal
over, the Family Bible is put %Peon the
white table -cloth and a chapter is read and
a prayer made, which includes all the inter-
eets for this world and the next. The chil-
dren pay not much attention to the prayer,
for it is about the same thing day after day,
but it puts upon them an impression that
ten thousand years' will only make more
vivid and tremendous. As long as the old.
folks live, their prayer is for their children
and their children's children. Day in and
day out, month in and month out, rear in
and year out, decade in and decade oat, the
sons and daughters of that family are re-
membered in earnest prayer, and they know
it, and they feel it., and they cannot get
away from it. Two funerals after awhile
—not more than two years apart, for it is
seldom that thero is more than that lapse
of time between father's going and mother's
going—two funeral& put out of sight the
01(1 7folks. But where are the children ?
The daurrhters are in homes where the ate
inearnations ea good sense, inaustry arm
piety. The sons, perhaps one a farmer,
another a merchant, another a mechanic,
another a physician, another a minister of
the gospel, useful, consistent, admired,
honored. What a power for good those
seven sons and daughters! Where did
they get the power? From the schools,
and the seminaries, and the colleges? Oh,
no, though these may have helped. From
their superior mental endowment? No, 1
do not think they had unusual mental cali-
bre. From accidental circumstances? No,
they had had nothing of what is called as-
tounding. good luck.
Boys are seldom more than their fathers
will let them be. Girls are seldom more
than their mothers will let them be. But
there come times when it lieems that par-
ents cannot control their children. There
come times in a boy's life when he thinks
he knows more than his father does, and I
remember now that I knew more at fifteen
years of age than I have ever known since.
There come times in a girl's life when she
thinks her mother is notional and does not
understand what is proper and best, and
the sweet child says, "0, pshaw !" and she
longs for the time when she will not have
to be dictated to, and she goes out of doors
or goes to bed with pouting lips, and these
mothers remember for themselves that they
knew more at fourteen years of age than
they have ever known since. But, father
and mother, do not think you have lost
your influence over your child. You have
a resource of prayer that puts the stemma
thetic and omnipotent God into your par-
ental undertaking. Do not waste your time
in reading flimsy books about the best ways
to bring up children. Go into the secret
place of thunder.
The reason that we ministers do not ac-
complish more is because others do not
pray enough for us, and we do not pray
enough for ourselves. Every minister
could tell a thrilling story of sermons—
sermons hasty and impromptu, because of
funerals and sickbeds and annoyances in the
parish; yet those sermons harvesting many
souls for God. And then of sermons pre-
pared with great care and research and toil
uninterrupted • yet those sermons falling
flat or powerless. Or of the same sermon
mightily blessed on' one occasion and useless
on another.
Oh ! pray for us! Poor sermons in the
pulpit are the curse of God on a pra,yerless
parish. People say: "What is the matter
with the ministers in our °time ? So many
of them seem dissatisfied with the Bible
and they are trying to help Moses and Paul
and Christ out of inconsistencies and con-
tradictions by fixing up the Bible." As
well let the musicians go to work to fix up
Haydn's "Creation," or Handel's "Israel in
Egypt," or let the painters go to fixing up
Raphael's "Transfiguration, or architects
go to fixing up ChriEltopher Wren's St.
Paul's. But I will tell_ You what is the mat-
ter. There are too many uncoverted
ministers. Their hearts have never been
changed by the grace of God. A mere in-
tellectual ministry is the deadest failure
this side of perdition. Alas for the Gospel
of icicles! From apologetics and her-
meneutics, and dogmatics, good .Lord de-
liver us ! They are trying to gets their
power from transcendental theology, or
from profound exegesis, or from the art
of splitting hairs between north and north-
west side, instead of getting their power
from the secret place of thunder. We want
the power a man gets when he is alone, the
door locked; on his knees; at midnight;
with such a burden of souls upon him that
makes him cry out, first in lamentation and
then in raptures.
Let all the Sabbath school teachers,
and Bible Class instructors, and all re-
formers, and all evangelists, and all minis-
ters know that diplomas, and dictionaries,
and encyclopedias, and treatises, and libra-
ries, are not the source of moral and spirit-
ual achievement, but that the room of
prayer, where no one but, God is present
and no one but God hears, is the secret
place of thunder. Secret ? Ah, yes 1 So
secret that comparatively few ever find it.
At Boscobel, England, wg visited a house
where a king was once hid. No one, un-
less it were pointed out to could
find the door in the floor through which
the king entered his hiding -place. When
there hielden the armed pursuers looked in
vain for him, and afterward through an
underground passage, far out in the fields
he came out in the open air. So this im-
perial power of spiritual influence has a
hiding -place, a secret place which few
know, and it conies forth soinetimes in
strange and mysterious ways, and far off
from the place where it was hidden. You
can find it onlyhy diligent searching. But
you may find it, and some of you will find
it, and I wish you might all find it, the
secret place of thunder.
Stub Ends of Thought.
Our years move slowly at first.
Hope can only die by our own hand.
Economy is as commendable as avarice.
isn't.
Industry overcomes a world of discontent-
ment.
Some men think alike, and some don't
think at all.
We love the flowers, but they give us no
recognition.
After all, we are not so very much better
than our neighbors.
A woman who says silly things, easily
learns to say malicious ones.
We never know how cold the wind blows
until our own window panes are out.
Most men find out too late that they
should have taken their wives' advice.
The Recipient of the Holy Rose.
The Queen of Portugal is this year the
recipient of the Holy Rose, which the Pope
bestows every year upon some Roman
Catholic Princess "for virtue." The esti-
mated value of the jewel is 50,000 francs.
($10,000). The jeweller who made it is a
member of an ancient family of sgoldsiniths
which has worked in the neighborhood of
St. Peter's. for the last 300 years. His fee
was $1,600._ The stein of the rose is of
solid gold, and measures about one yard.
The cup of the flower is of the most delicate
workmanship, and is set with magnificent
precious stones. The leaves are similarly
set ‘vitli small gems, in resemblance of dew-
drops. The whole work of art lies in a
inaguiticent ease of white satin, mounted
with silver studs.
Memories of a Great Man.
On one occasion Mr. Spurgeon said to Dr.
Hall: "Going on a day of the general elec-
tion to preach in the West End, I was a few
minutes late by stopping to vote The pastor
reproved me for this political act, saying,
We ought to mortify the old man.' I re-
plied that my old man was a Tory, so I
mortified him by voting for a Liberal."
"When on a visit to Mr. Spurgeon at his
beautiful country home," says Dr. Hall, "1
saw a cart with his name painted on it—
' Charles Haddon Spurgems, cow -keepers'
He told me that he sold the best milk to his
neighbors at a fair and good price, devoting
the profits to the support of two elderly
ladies who had no idea whence the monthly
check came. He quite chuckled at the
thought of their igeoraoce of the method in
which Providence supplied their wants."
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Mr, Thomas Strachan, postmaster, Robal-
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and had been attended by four of the best
doctors in cur section. She began the use of
Dr.Williams' Pink Pills,and two boxes have
done her vastly more good than all the
'medicines she took from those doctors,.
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or separately. Apply on the premises or address
Clinton P. 0. CHARLES AVERY. 1273 tf.
FARR FOR SALE.—For sale, that desirable and
conveniently situated farm,ad joining the village
of Redgerville, being Lot 14, let Concession, Hay,
mile from Rodgerville post.office'and one and a
half miles south of Hensall on the London Road.
There are 97 and a quarter ares, of which nearly all
Is cleared and in a high state of cultivation. Good
frame house 14 storeys, 8 roOms, a largo kitchen also
attached with bedrooms and pantry ite. Good cellar
under main part of house, stable holds over a car-
load of horses, besides exercising stables, two barns
two drive houses, one long wood -shed, good cow -
stable also pig and hen houses, three good wells with
pimps. Farm well fenced and underdrained.
Veranda attached to house. Good bearing orchard.
The farm will be sold cheap and on easy terms, as
the undersigned has retired from farming. For par-
ticulars apply to JAMES WHITE, Pcoprietor, Hen -
Ball. 127641
FARM FOR SALE.—The splendid farm owned by
Robert Ferguson, late of the Township of Hay,
and lying and being in the said township of Hay, and
being composed of Lot 21, in the 8th Concession, con-
taining 100 acres more or less, 80 clear and 20 bush,
all well drained; land, clay loam, every foot of the
lot beibg first-class sol!; large brick house with kit-
chen attached; two large frame barns and sheds,
also wood shed and all other necessary buildings and
improvements required on a good farm. There is a
good bearing orchard on the premises. A goo title
will be given on and after the 15th day of December
next. Terms—One-third part of purchase money to
be paid down on the day of sale, balance to suit pur-
chaser, by paying six per cent. interebt. Anvrpur-
chaser to have the privilege to plow fall plowing
after harvest, oleo to have room for lodging for
himself and teams. Call early and secure one of the
best farms in this Township. Land situated on Cen •
tre gravel road, three miles to Hensall or Zurich.
Apply to MRS. FERGUSON, Exeter, or M. ZELLER,
Zurich. ELIZABETH FERGUSON, Administratkix.
1276-4
Oft in the stilly night,
When Cholera Morbus found me,
"Pain Killer" fixed rne right,
Nor wakened those around me.
Most OLD P-EOPLE are friends of
Perry Davis'
• PfUN
KILLeR
and often its very best friends, because
for many years they have found it a frier)._
in need. It is the best Family Rersies:
for Burns, Bruises, Sprains, Rheumatisrr
Neuralgia and TOothache. To get rid of
any such pains before they become ache4;
use PAIN KILLER.
Buy it right now. Keep it near yell.
Use it promptly.
For sale everywhere.
IT KILS PAIN
W. SOMERVILLE
Agent G. N. W. Telegraph and Can-
adian Express Companies,
SEAFORTH, •
ONT.
Telegraphic connections everywhere. Low ra4s
an money packages, and remitters guaranteed againSt
loss. The convenience and safety of our nlonly
order service is attracting the attention of and pleas-
ing many patrons. Special rates on produce and
poultry. Toronto train service only 41 hours, MO -
real hours. 1228 i
' I
SPRING GOODS.
.1111••••
Arrived at RICHARDSON & McfNNIS' a complete stock of Spring
Goods.
Ladies', Misses' and Ohildren's Fine Footwear
IN
Dongolas, French Kid, folished Calf and Cloth Tops,
Also in MEN'S AND BOYS'
Dongolas, - Kangaroos, - Calf - and - Cordovans.
—A FINE ASSORTMENT OF—
TUNES-A-W1D
To choose from, which will be sold cheap. We have everything in our line
and prices to suit everyone. Special inducement given to cash customers.
RICHARDSON & McINNISf
SEAFORTH.
SPRING, 1892.
As we are entering upon the spring season we beg to
return thanks to our numerous customers for the immense
patronage bestowed upon us during the year 1891, which
has proven to be the largest year's business in our history.
In calling your attention to our NEW SPRING STOCK
we invite you to be fair with yourself and see it. It pre-
sents an opportunity for economical buying that nobody can
afford to miss. 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 depaitment of our elegant line
of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ordered and
Readymade Clothing, Hats, Caps Carpets, Millinery, etc.
DEPEND UPON ITS FOR PEREECT SATISFACTION
AND VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY. We desire your
trade because we give the fairest opportunity for buying
honest goods at bed rock prices. Come to 1113 for your
Spring Goods and you will come out ahead. Our Millinery
Department will be found unusually attractive.
WM. PICKARD,
The Bargain Dry Goods and Clothing House, Seaforth.
What Makes it so Popular ?
It is Recommendations like this that make
MANDRAKE BLOOD BUILDER
"1 got a bottle of yonr Bitters (says a customer) for my daughter, who
-
was all run down. She took it along with Iron Pills, and to -day is as smart
as a cricket. It works like a charm, producing a fresh, clear, healthy cora-
131exion, and a perfectly healthy body."
Sampiles free at the Medical Hall. Price, 75c a bottle.
R,
FAMILY' CHEMIST, SEAFORTH.
Important -:- Announcement.
BRIGHT BROTHERS,
sFORTII
The Leading Clothiers of Huron,
Beg to inform the people o Seaforth and surrounding -,antry, 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
--IN THE COUNTY.
--
Prices Unequalled. We lead the Trade.
Remember the Old Stand, Campbell's Block, opposite the Royal Hotel,
Seaforth.
BRIGHT BROTHERS.
THE - SEAFORTH - FOUNDRY.
Having completed rebuilding and repairing the old foundry, and introduc-
de the latest equipments and the most improved machines, I am now prepared
to do
All Kinds of Machine Repairs
AND GENERAL FOUNDRY WORK.
LAND ROLLERS.
We are now- turning out some of the best improved Land Rollers, and
invite the farmers to see them before buying elsewhere.
T. T. COLEMAN.
ANOTHER YE -ELECTION
The People's Candidates Lead.
When you see crowds- of people rushing aloqg the street, you would
naturally suppose there was another Bye -Election or a fire, but no ! our bar-
gains are the magnet. Painstaking and careful judgment have so marked our
assortment of Groceries, 44., that we' feel proud and confident that with
prompt attention and 'ground floor prices, we guarantee to satisfy all.
CURED MEATS A SPECIALTY. 1
R, BEATTIt & CO. OT
SEAFRH
THANK YOU!
W. G. GLENN
Wishes to thank the people of S.
forth for their sympathy, so kindly ex-
presssed since the "devastating ele-
ment " made it necessary for himself
and family to accept a home and other
assistance from their fellow townsmen.
He hopes that matters may be arranged
so that he will be in a potition to
demonstrate to his friends that their
kindness is fully appreciated.
The above does not apply to those
who ransacked and stole goods from
the premises.
W. G. GLENN.
BUGGIES
—AND—
WAGONS.
The greatest number and largest as-
sortment of Buggies, Wagons and
Road Carts to be found in any one
house outside of the cities, is at
0. 0. WILLSON'S,
ii SM.A.MIOTZ.111-11
They are from the following celebrated
makers : Gananoque Carriage Com-
pany, Brantford Carriage Company,
and W. J. 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
Wagonswhat I say. Wagons from Chatham,
Woodstock and Paris, which is enough
about them. Five styles or Road
Carts. All kinds of Agricultural Im-
plements.
0. 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 claim against the Estate
of John Traquair, late of the township of Tucker-
-smith, deceased, who died on or about the 6th day
of March, 1892, are required on or before the 20th
day of June 1892, to send to the undersigned, Solidi -
tor for the Administrator of the Estate, full partici],
Jars of their claims and the securities (if any) held by
them, duly verified by affiAf
davit. ter the said date
the Administrator will proceed to distribute the
Estate amonth
g e parties entitled, having reference
only to the elairne of which he shall have received
notice, and after such distribution he will not be re-
eponeible for any part of the estate to any creditor,
of whose claim he shall not have received notice at
the time of such distributioe. This notice is given
pursua,nt to the Statute in that behalf. Dated at
Seaforth this 17th day of May, 1892. F. Holmested
licitor for the Administrator. 1275 4
FREE TRADE!
The Tariff Wall thrown down and you
have a Horne Market for your
Butter and Eggs, and great
value for your Money.
As I have a full line of Dry Goods. Groceries, table
and barrel Salt, School necessaries,Patent Medicines,
Wall Paper, &e. You will find that my prices are -
unequalled, as 14 18 all the talk of the day how every-
thing is so cheap at J. re. As I am just starting in
businees I would like a liberal patronage of the sur-
rounding country, as I feel confident I can sell toyou
cheaper than you can buy elzewhere. Will take any
quantity of good print or roll butter at highest
market price, also will pay cash for eggs. It will
cost you nothing to call and be convinced that my
prices are right.
1261 J. T. McNAMARA, Leadbury, Ont.
DUNN'S
BAKINC
POWDER
THECOOK'SBEST FRIEND
LARGEST SALE IN CANADA.
FARMS FOR SALE.
TOWNSHIP OF MORRIS.
South half 21 on 5th concession, 100 acres.
TOWNSHIP OF GREY.
Lott 1 and 12011 13th 0013eCii8i011, 200 acre
TOWNSHIP OF TUCKERSMITH.
Lot 38 on 3rd concession L. R. S., 100 acres.
For terms &c., apply to the undersigned. _
P. HOLMESTED,
119? tf Barrieter 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
plac,e to buy a first-class Watch for the
least money, and the chplace to
plato
buy your
Clocks, Wedding Presents, Jew-
elry, Siectacles, 84e.,
And where one trial convinces the
most sceptical that only the best goods
at the lowest prices are kept, is at
R MERCER'S
Opposite Commercial 1-1Otel, Seaforth
CDN'TRIC3
Mutual - Live - Stock
INSURANCE CO.
Head Office: - Seaforth.
THE ONLY Live Stock Ir.suresee Compata in
Ontario having a Governirent Deposit and being
duly licensed by the same. Ate nett carrying on
the business of Live Stock Insurance and solicit the
patronage of the importers mad breeders of ,the
province. .
For further particulars address
• 116? •
JOHN AVERY, Sec.-Treas.
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