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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-11-25, Page 2enesee-...Weh ateeereenne a THF HURON EXPnRITOR NOVEMBER - 25 1892 GOLDEN CALF. THE IMAGE OF AMERICAN iDOLATRY LOCATED IN WALL STREE1 • coasting Boom peace and Piro Proof - Safes are Its Temples --The ItiivirijoI the Stock enrohangehs the very Worship of the alai itself. BROOKLYN, November 13.-Thc tubject of discourse chosen by Rev. rik. Talmage for hia:first sermon after the national elec- tion was one peculiarly appropriate to the money -making spirit of the times. It was the “The Golden Calf," the text selected being Exodus 32 : 20, "And he took the calf wide!i thee: had made andl burnt it in the 'fire, and ground it to powder and strewed it upon the water and made the hhildren of Israel drink of it." . VeoPle will have a god of 110Mer kind, and they prefer one of their own makIng. Here come the Israelites, breaking off their golden earrings, the men as well as the Women, for in those times there were m,asculihe as well as feminine decorations. Where did they gee these -beautiful gold earrings, boining up as they did from the desert? Oh, they "borrowed" them of the Egyptians when they left Egypt. These earrings are piled up into a pyramid of glitterieg beauty. • "Any more earrings to bring?" says Aaron. None. Fire is kindled ! the ear- rings are melted and poured into a mold, not of an eagle or a war charger, but of a calf; the gold cools off; the moldids taken away, and the idol is set upon its four legs. An altar is built in front of the shilling calf. Then the people throw up their arms, and - gyrate, and shriek, and dance mightily, and worship, Moses has been six 'Weeks on .Mount Sinai, and he -comes back and hears the howling and sees the dancing of these golden calf fanatics, and he losehis pa- tience, and he takes the two plata of stone on. which were written the Ten Command- ments and flings them so hard a,gainst a rock that they split alri to pieces. When a inan gets mad he is very apt to tweak all the Ten Commandments! Moses i'ushes in arnd he takes this calf -god and throws it - into a hot fire, until it is melted all out of shape, and then pulverizes it -not by the modern appliance of nitro-murialc acid, but by the ancient appliance nitre, or by the old-fashioned file. .110 makes for the people a most nauseating dratighte Be takes this pulverized golden calf and thbews it in the only brook which is aCCeStitb.le, and the people - are coinpelled to drink of that brook or not drink at all. But they did not drink all the glittering stuff thrown on the surface. Some of it flows on down the surface of the brook to the river, and then flows on down the river to the set and and the sea takes it up ancl hears it to the mouth of all the rivers, and. when the tide sets back, the remains Of this golden calf are carried up into the Hudson, and the East River, and the Thames, an the Clyde, and the Tiber, and men go out and they skim, the glittering surface, and they bring it ashore and they make another golden calf, and California and Australia breaks off their golden earrings to augment the pile, and in the fires of financial excite- ment and struggle allithese things are melt- ed together, and while we stand looking and wondering what Will come of it, le 1 we find that the golden calf of Israelitish wor- ehip has become the golden calf of Eutopean and American worship. I shall describe te you the god spoken of in my text, hie tample, his altar of sacrifice, the mueic that is made in his temple, and then the final breaking up of the whole con- gregation of idolaters. Pat aside this curtain and you see the golden calf of modern idolatry. It is not like other idols, made out of stocks of stone, bat it has an ear so sensitive that it can hear the whispers on Wall street and Third street and State street; and the foot -fells in the Bank of England, and. a flutter of a Frenchman's heart on the Bourse. It has an eye so keen that it can see the rust on the farm of Michigan wheat and the insect in the Maryland peach -orchard, and the trampled grain under the hoof of the Rua. :Sian war charger. It is so mighty, that it swings any way it will the world's shipping. It has its foot on all the merchantmen and the steamers. It started the American Civil War, and under God stopped it, and it decided the Turko-Russian contest. One broker in September, 1869, in. New York shouted: "One hundred and sixty for a million,!" and the whole continentshivered. This golden calf of the text has its eight front foot in New York, its left front foot in Chicago, its right back foot in Charles- _ ton, its left back foot in New Orleans, and s when it shakes itself it shakes the world. Oh this is a mighty god -the golden calf of the world's worship. ., But every god must have its temple, and this golden calf of the text is no ex- ception. Its temple is -vaeter than St. Paul's of the English, and St. Peter's of the Italians, and the Alhambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the Greeks, and the Taj Mahal. 9f the Hin- doos, and all the other cathedrals put to- gether. Its pillars are grooved and fluted with gold, and its ribbed arches are hover- ing gold, and its chandeliers are descend- ing gold, and ita floors are tesselated gold, and its vaults are crowded heaps of gold, and its spires and domes are soaring gold, and 'its organ pipes aee, resounding gold, and .its pedals are tramping gold, and its atop e pulled out are flashing gold, while standing at the headofthe temple, as the presiding deity, are the hoofs and, phoulders and eyes and ears and nostrils of the calf of gold. Further: eveI-y god must have not, only ite temple, but its &her of sacrifice, and this golden calf of the text is no exception. Its altar is not mede out of stone as other altars, but out of counting room desks and fire -proof safes. and it is a broad, a long, a high altar. The victims sacrificed on it are innumerable. What does this god care about the groans and struggles of the vic- tims before it?. With gold, metallic eye it looks on and yet, letsthem suffer. Oh heaven and earth., what an altar ! what a aterifiee of body, niind and soul? The pliesicial health of a great multitude is thing on this sacrificial altar. They cannot sleep, and they take chloral and nfotphine and intoxicants. Some of them struggle in a nightmare of stoelts, and at one o'clock in the morning suddenly rise up theuting : "A thousand glares of railroad etock-one hundred tend eight and a half 1 take it!" until the whole family is effright- td, end the speculators fall back on their pillows and sleep until they are awakened again by a- "corner" or a sudden hrise" itt annething else. Their nerves gone, their digestion gime, theie brifre gone, they die. , The clergyman and reacts the. fun- eral Ken' ; (LIT11 (111(1 %%!1()die in the 1-orri. Si islake, flees did not ttdie in the Lord golden ad{ kicked them ! The troulee is, v en Jinn •ea- rifice thcai- selvem on thie :dee- eieseet in the text , thetain t lenie ee •La eaaeiv !rut Ll.tc•V vaerince heir fate.s, e it :4 toet lee aniii ioursc is deteasee, in p• eithin, I zuppose yea v. ie. iee .1 .; ; he pats his NI iff- •:.!! that ie the aehione e, • . leek ei the driver Lielua • •••• • e .t;:- Winds, and tile sn , , • . rese the golden headgear of the harness gleams, until Mack Calamity takes the bits of the horses and stops them, and shouts to the luxurious occupants of the equipage :-"Get out !" They get out. They get down. That husband and father flung his family -so herd they never got up again. There was • the mark on them for life -the mark of a 15plit hoof -the death-dealiug hoof of the golden calf. Solomon offer di in one itncrifice, on one occasion twenty-two tnousana oxen &net ea th k, re he he of m- s; a he is ho he eu ey er ch et ng nt s ; Tit x - es er Si 11 gi at c- it 11 e. of 21 1 d- one huniired and twenty thousand ehee that Wai a tame sheep sacrifice compar with the multitudeof men who are sacrifi ing themisehOes on this altar of the gold calf, and sacrificing their families. wi I them. The soldiers of General Ha;veloc in India, walked literally ankle deep in th blood of the "house of massacre," whe two hundred women and Children .had 'be slain by the Sepoys but the blood aroun this altar of the golden calf flows to t knees, flows to the girdle, flows to t shoulder, fiows to the hip. Great God - Heaven and earth, have mercy! The gold. calf has none. Still the degrading worship goes on, an the devotees kneel and kiss the dust, an meant their golden beads,' aud crois the selves with the blood 'of their own:Baer fice. The musks rolls. on under the arche it is made of clinking ,silver and clinkin gold, tend.the rattling Specie of the bank and brokers' shops and the voices of t exchanges. The soprano of the worship carried by the timid voices of men nv have -just begun to speculate; while t deep bass rolls out ftoin those who for t years of iniquity have been doubly damne Chorus of voices rejoicing. over what th have made. Chorus of voices wailing ov what they h4ve lost. This temple of whi I speak stahds open day and night, ai there is the glittering god with his four fe on broken hearts, and there is the smoki altar of sacrifice, new victims every mome on it, and there are the kneeling, devotee and the doxology of the worship rolls o while Death stands with mouldy an skeleton arm beating time • fot the chorus "More ! niore !more !" Some people are very much surprise at the action of folk on the Stock E change. Indeed, it is a- scene sometim that paralyzes description, and is beyon the imagination of any one who has nev looked in. What snapping of finger an thumb and wild gesticulation, and meths like hyenas, and stamping like buffaloe and swaying to and fro, and running on upon another, and deafening uproar unt the president of the Exchange strikes *it his mallet fonr or five times, hryin "Order ! order !" and the astonished spe tater goes out into the fresh air feeling th he has escaped from pandemonium. Wha, does it all mean.? I will tell you what means. The devotees • of every heathe temple cut themselves to pieces, and ye and gyrate. This vociferation and gyratin of the Stock Exchange is all appropriat This is the worship of the golden calf. , But my text suggests that this worshi must be broken up, as the behavior Moses in my text Indicated. There . ar those who say that this golden calf spoke of in my text was hollow, and merel plated with gold; otherwise, they say Moses could not have carried it. I do no know that; but somehow, perhaps by th assistance of his -frieeds, fie takes up thi golden calf, which is an open insult to Go and man, and throws into the fire, audit melted, and then it comes out and is cdole off, and by some chemichl appliance/ or b an old-fashioned file, it is pulverized, an ,t is thrown into the brook, and, as punishment the people are compelled to drink the nauseating stuff. So, my hearers you may depend upon it that God will bur and He will griud to pieces the gcdclen cal of modern idolatry, and He will compel th people in their -agony to drink it. If no before, it will be -so on the lest day. . 'know not where -the fire will begin, whethe at the "Battery" or Central Park, whethe at Brooklyn Bridge or at Bushwick,whethe at Shoreditch,. London, or West End ; bu it will • be a very hot blaze. • All th Government securities of the United States and Great Britain will *curl up in th first blest. All the money safes and de positing vaults will melt under the firs touch. The sea will burn like tinder, and the shipping will be abandoned forever. The melted gold in the hroker's window .will burst through the melted window glass and into the street; but the flying popula- tion will not stop tcescoop it up. . The cry of “Fire" from the mountain Will be an swered by the cry Of "Fire"in the plain. The conflagratien will burn out from the continent toward the sea, and then burn -in from the sea toward the land. New York and London witeh one cut of the red scythe of destruction will go down. Twenty-five thousand -miles of conflagration The earth will wrap itself round and round in a shroud of flame, and lie down to perish. What then will become of your gokien calf? Wile then so poor as to worship it ? Melted, or between the upper And the nether millstone of falling mountains ground to powder. Dagon down. Mo- loch down. Juggernaut down. Golden calf down. But, my friends, every day is a day of judgment, and God is all the time grinding to pieces the golden calf. Merchants of Brooklyn and New York and London, what is the characteristic of this time in which we live? "Bad," you say. Professional men, what is the characteristic of the times in which -we live? "Bad," you say. Though I should be in a minority of one, I venture the opinion that these are the best timed We have had for the reason that God is teach- ing the world, as never before, that old- fashioned honesty is the only thing that will stand. , We have learned as never be- fore that foreeriee will not pay ; &that the spending of fifty 'thousand dollars on coun- try seats and a,palatial city residence, when there are only thirty thousand dollars in- come, will not pay; that the appropriation of trust funds to out own private specula- tion will not pay. We had a great national tumor, in the shape of fictitious presperity. We cailed it national enlargement ; inetead of calling its enlargement, we might better have called it a swelling. It has been a tumor, and God is cutting it out -has cue it out, and the nation will get well and will come hack to the principles of our fathers and grandfathers when twice three made six instead of sixty, and when the apples at the bottom of the barrel were just as good as the apples on the top of the barrel, and a silk handkerchief was not half cotton, and a man who wore a five -dollar coat paid for was more honored than a man who woe a fifty -dollar coat not paid for. - - Thi' golden calf of our day, like the one of the text, is very apt to be made out of borrowed gold. These Israelites - of the text borrowed the earrings of the Egyptians and melted them into a God. That ie the way the golden calf is made nowadays. A great meney housekeepers, nue paying for the erticlesthey get, bornew Of thug. eeer and the baker and the buteher /eel the. dry -pods seller. Then the in- t:ear herrows of the wholesale dealer. Tlice the wholesale dealer boirows of the 4:apit :LliSt, and we borrow, and borrow, and borrow until the 6:immunity is divided into two ehtas, those who borrow and those who are nor: owed of; and after a while the capi- talist wants his money and he rushes upon thie evholehele dealer, andthe wholesale dealer wanes his mon y and he ru.t:hes upon the retailer, Lied the tentiler w ants hie money and! he rushes upon the consumer, and we all go down together. There is many a man in this day who rides in a car - Hegel and owes the'bleickstnith for the tite, and the wheelwrightffor the wheel, and the driver for unpaid wages, and the h4ness.maker for the bridle, and the furrier f r the robe, while from the tip of the carriage tongue clear back to the , tip of the. shawl fluttering out of the back f t he vehicle, everything' is paid for by nhtee that have boen three times renewed. , it is this temptation to borrow, and bind row and borrow, that keeps the people everlastingly praying to the golden calf for help, and Nat at the minute they expect the help the golden calf 'treads on them: The judgments of pea, like Moses in the text, will rush in and break up thiswore shape and I say, le the work go on until every man shall lleojrn to speak truth with his neighbor. and nee who niiike annages thetas Bata keel themselves bouria ro Keep them, and when a man who will not repent of his business iniquity, but goes on wish- ing to Satiate his cannibal appetite by de- vouring widows' houses shall, by the law of the land, he compelled to exchange- his mansion for Sing Sing. Let the golden calf perish! But, my friends, if we have made this world our god, when we come to die we will see our idol demolished. How much of this world are you geingnte take with you into the next? Will you have two pockets -one in each side of your shroud? Will you 'cushion your doflin with bonds and mortgages and certificates of stock? Ah! no. The ferry boat that crosses this Jordan carries no baggage -nothing heavier than a spirit. Yon may, perhaps, take five hundred dollars with you two or three miles, in the shape of funeral trappings, to Greenwood, but you will have to leave them there. It would not be safe for you to lie down there with a gold watch or a diamond ring; it would be a temptation to the pillagers. Ah, my friends if we have made this world -our god, when we die we Will see our idol ground to pieces by our pillow, and We will have to drink it in bitter regrets for the wasted opportunities of a lifetime. Soon we will be gone. 0! this is alfleeting world, it is a dying world. A man Who had worithipped it all his days, in his dYingmoment described himself when he said: "Fool! fool ! fool!" I want yeti to change temples, and to give up the worship of this unsatisfying and cruel god for the services of the Lord Jesus Christ. Here is the geld that will never crumble. Here are securities that will never fall. Here are banks that will never break: Here is an altar on 'which there has been onesacrifice once for all. Here is a add who will comfort you when you are in trouble, and soothe you when you are sick, and save you when you die. When your parents have breathed theirlast, and the old, wrinkled, and trembling hands can no more be put upon your head for a blessing. He will be to you father and mother both, giving you the defence of the one and the comfort of other; and when your children go awayfrom you, the sweet darlings, you will no kiss them good -by for ever. He only -wants to hold them for you a little while. He will give them back to you again, and He will have them all waiting for you at the gates of eternal welcome. Oh! what a God He is! He will allow you to come so close this morning that you can put your arms around His neck, while He in respon will put His arms around your neck. and all the windows of heaven will be hoisted to let the redeemed look out and see the spec- tacle of a rejoicing father and a returned prodigal locked in glorious embrace. Quit worshipping the .golden calf, and bow this day before Him in whose presence wemust all appear when the world has turned to ashes and the scorched parchment of the sky shall be iolled together like an historic scroll• . Carno---‘t-------t Always Spotlessly Attired. No president of the French republic has undertaken so many journeys up and down France as M. Carnot'. Thanks to his scien- tific training, the chief Of the state is able to model all his trips On the same methodi- cal plan and no hitches of any kind occur during any of his tours. The trips are carefully mapped out longbefore they begin, nothing being left to whim or caprice. A day is fixed for the departure, a special train is prepared and the president starts punctually at, the appointed time. His travelling outfit is arranged on the same simple and orderly plan. In two large boxes are stowed away three dress suits, eleven shirts, three cordons of tha legion, four. pairs of varnished boots, and dozens of socks, cravats, and white gloves, with two buttone in .each of them. If his dress clothes be even slightly damaged by dust or rain the president changes at once without delay, so that he is able to walk as spick and ,span as if he had just come out of the Elysee into a banquet or reception room While travelling thee,president talks to his entourage nearly all the time, never giving himself up to a reverie or to reading. He devotes himself altogether, in fact, to those around him. M. Grevy was less methodical but equal- ly simple in his arrangements for his anneal trip to Montsous-Vaudrey. Marshal Mac - Mahan was also simplicity itself, his chief preoccupation in travelling being his gloves which were always spotlessly white. M. Tillers invariably superintended his own travelling arrangements, and never went anywhere without his bed -a small military one. On a recent occasion M. Carnet was visiting a provincial town and attended a 'review at which everybody, himself includ- ed, was drenched by a sudden ana furious downpour of rain. The presidential car- riage took him to the prefecture, where he was staying, in a very bedraggled condi- tion. 'Several hundred guests had been asked to assemble at 4:30, to meet him, and as it.was nearly twenty minute k past when he drove up from the review everybody expected to see him come in with limp col- lar and spotted garments -like most of the people present. But on the strike of 4:30 the little president strutted in, immaculate as if he just stepped cut of a bandbox. His valet had prepared one of the reserve suits and long habit has enabled the president to dress in ten minutes, decorations and all. Some Turkish Proverbs, Sitnlown crooked if you .like, but talk straight. • If you come empty-handed they will tell you : "The effendi is asleep." If you come with a present they will say: "Effendi, pray step in." - It is not by saying "Hoeey, honey," the sweetneseeotnes into the Mouth. ' - The dog barks, but the caravan passes. If all ear wishes could be gratified, every beggar would be a pasha. Measure yourself by your own yardstick. Waiting on a young prince and grooming a spirited horse are two very difficult things. One hour of justice (righteousness) is worth mote than seventy years of prayers. A poor man without patience is like a lamp without oil. A Hecret shared by more than two be- comes common property. A king without justice is a river without water. -II Carlini,. Unspoken Opinions. The Mast triiring feee in connection with every form of eiociel ditheneaty is that no- body is dicsived after all. It is customary to say that no two Itenien souls can really unden tend each ether, but for all practieel puepoees they understrind each other very well idlead. Anv women of . ordinary intution could, if 11 choice write out the unspoken opinions of all her friencli concern• iug herself, end come amaziegly pear the truth. ., The things we leave ursa,id are nover unfelt by those abeet us: They per- meate our personal atincopheee, and convict our lips of honeyed Hee at the moment of utterance. The woman who makes you ill at .f see is the'woinan who surrounds, hereelf, as with a flue mist, . in an atmnrphere tec petty criticism, micrracepic etandardo and' inaect, arnbitioes. What avail her flexible smiles and spceeees when 3 oe feel her true .cbaracter ? Through this personal etmos- -phere we are always proolaimirg our real selves, and th a •unly way to ern Ceal the things that are left u et aid is to see th et they are left nuthought.--Ethel wen Wetherald in Wivfie and Daughter. for Novembtr. All Stock Raisers use bick'sUniversalMedicines REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. FARM FOR SAL. -For sale en improved, 100 acre farm, within two and a half miles of the tows of Seaforth. For further particulars apply on the premises, Lot 12, Concession 4,11. R. S., Tucker - smith, or by mail to JOHN PRENDERGAST; Sea - forth P. 0. 1290 WARM FOR SALE. -Splendid 100 acre farm for J. sale, one mile nest of Brucefield station, being Lot 14, Concession 3, Stanley, well underdrained with tile, good buildingiestone stables, good orchaid, never failing well at Same and never failing spring in the bush. Apply to JOHN DUNKIN, Brumfield P. 0. 127941 161ARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE. -For sale X cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Road, Stanley, containing 64 acres, of which 52 acres are cleared and in a good state . of cultivation. The bal- ance is well timbered with hardwood. There are good buildings, a bearing orchard and plenty of water. It is within half a mile of the Village of Varna and three miles from Brucefield station. Possession at any time. This is %rare chance to buy a first class farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 1144tf 'LIAM FOR SALE.—For sale, lot 6, concession 1, .r H. R. S., township of Tuckersmith, containing one hundred sores more or less, 97 acres cleared, 65 of which are seeded to gran, well underdrained, three never failing welie. On one fifty -of said lot there is a log house, frame barn and very good orchard, and on the other a good frame house and barn, stables, and good orchard. The whole will be sold together or each fifty separately to suit pur- chasers, located 11 miles from Seaforth, will be sold reasonable and on easy terms as the proprietor is re- tiring from fanning, For further particulars apply to the undersigned os the premises'and if by letter to Seaforth P. 0. MICHAEL DORSEY, 12/7-tf MIAMI IN IficKILLOP FOR SALE.—For sale the eouth hall of lots 1 and lot 2, concession 4, Mc- Killop, being 150 acres of very choice land mostly in a gnod state of cultivation. There is a good holm and bank barn, a good ybung bearing orchard and plenty ,of never failing water. A considerable portion seeded to grass. Convenient to nisrkets and schools and good gravel roads in all directions. Will be sold cheap. Apply to the proprietor on the premises, MESSRS. DENT & HODGE, Mitchell, or at TIIE HURON EXPoSITOR Office, Seaforth. JOHN O'BRIEN, Proprietor. 1298-tf $41000 FARM FOR SALE. -Being north half thof Lot 22, in e 6th Concession of Morrie. The farm contains 100 acres of choice land, 90 cleared, and balance good hardwood, The farm is in a good state of cultivation, well fenced, a never failing strearn rune through the farm, a first-olaas orehard, brick house and good frame barn and other i outbuildings. The farm s within three nines of the Village of &meals. Title perfect and no encune bmnoe on farm. Forfurther particulars apply to IL P. WRIGHT, on the premises, or Bruseels P. O. 1270 tf. ARM IN TUCKERSMITH FOR SALE. -For sale r Lot 8, Concession 7, Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres, nearly nil cleared, free `from stumps, well underdrained, and in a high state of cultivation. The land is high arid dry, and no waste land. There is a good brick residence, two good barna, one with stone rtabling underneath, and all other necessary outbuildings; two never -failing wells, and a good bearing orchard, it is within four miles of Seaforth. It is one of the best farms in Huron, and will be sold on easy terms, as the proprietor desires to retire. Poesession on the 1st October. Apply on the prem. Ism, or address Seaforth P.O. WM. ALLAN. 1276-tf mum FOR SALE—For Sale, SO acres in Senna° County, Michigan, 76 acres cleared and in a good state of cultivation, fit to raise any kind of a crop. It ie well fenced and has a good orchard on it, and a never failing well. The buildings consist of a frame house, stabling for 12 horses with four box stalls, 86 head of cattle and 100 sheep. Ninety ewes were win - tared last yearerold 8680 in wool and lambs this sum- mer. There are also pig and hen houses. The un- dersigned also bas 80 acres, with buildings, but not so well improved, which he will sell either in 40 acre Jots or as a whole. These properties are in good Jocalitim, convenient to markets, schools and churches. The proprietor is forced to sell on ac. count of ill health. It will be a bargain for the right as it will be sold on easy terms. GEORGE A. TEMPLETON, Doronington, Senile° County, Mich'. gan. 1298x44f "VARA FOR SALE.—For sale, that desirable and r conveniently situated farin,adjoining the village of Redgervilie, being Lot 14, let Concession, Hay, 1 mile from Rodgerville poet-office'and one and a half miles south of Hensel! on the London Road. There are 97 and a quarter acres, of which nearly all Is cleared and in a high state of cultivation. Good frame house 11 storeys, 8 rooms, a large kitchen also attached with bedrooms and pantry &c. Goad 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 scow - stable also pig and hen houses, three good wells with primps. Farm well fenced and underdrained. Veranda attached to house. Good bearing crehard. The farm will be sold cheap and on easy terms, as the undersigned has retired from farming. For par- ticulars apply to JAMES WHITE, Proprietor, Hen- sall. 1275 -ti WARM FOR SALE. -For sale that splendid farm J in the township of Hay, belonging to the estate of thd late Robert Ferguson. It is composed of Lot 21, in the 6th concession, containing- 100 acres more or less, 80 clear and 20 bush, all well drained: land, clay loam, every foot of the lot being first•class soil; large brick house with kitchen 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. Terms -One-third part of purchase money to be paid down on the day of sale, balance to suit purchaser, by paying six per cent. interest. Any purchaser to have the privilege to plow fall plowing after harvest, also to have room for lodging for himself and teams. Call earlyand secure one of the beat farms ie thie township. Land situated on Centre gravel road, three miles to Hensali or Zurich. Apply to MRS. FERGUSON„ Exeter or M. ZELLER, Zurich. ELIZABETH FERGUSON, Administratrbc 1283-41 FIRST CLASS OA= FOR SALE. -For sele Lot 12 Conceeeion 13, H. R. 8 Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres of choice land, nearly all cleared and in a high state of cultivation, with 00 acres seeded to graas. It is thoroughly underdrained and well fenced with.; straight rail, board and wire fences and does not metain a foot of waste land. There is also an orchard of two acres of choice fruit•trees; twe good wells, one at the house, the other with a wind -mill on it at the out buildings, on the premises is an ex- cellent frame house, containing eleven rooms and cellar under whole house, and soft and hard water convenient. There are tw6 good bank barns, the one 32 feet by 71 feet and the other 36 feet by 66 feet with stabling for 50 head of cattle and eight horses. Besides these there are sheep, hen and ig houses and an Implement shed. The farm is well adapted for grain or stock raising and hp one of the finest farms in the country. It is eituated 3/ miles from Seaforth Station, b from Brucefield and Kippen with good gravel rc s leading to each. It is also convenient to churches, pod office and school and will be sold cheap and on easy terms. For further particulars apply th the proprietor on the premises or by letter to THOMAS Oa SHILLINGLAW, Egmondville P. 0. 1285 tf JUST OUT! HAVE 'YOU SEEN IT? THE BIG EOTTLE PAI N -K I LLER DOUBLE THE QUANTITY ' OF CLD SIZE. -7i, • /%1 I 4igs=?.iet..-t- fir) r' _ 'aftr,,i-1,;(2 • , 6,, 4.0 , • -44 ZOV1 4 e:1;11 4,1 11.,r 4 d7t , Le, ' . j, , rd.."Wat'a U.SA: . 4 .21eicreleMIWw Old Popular 28e.1Plice CHRISTMAS COMING. Weare again to the front with our usual stock of choice Groceries for the Christmas trade. EXTRA SELECTED V4ENCIA RAISINS, EXTRA FINE VOSTIZZ' CURRANTS, - CHOICE IMPORTED P ELS, VALENCIA ALMONDS, GRENOBLE WALNUTS, • CHOICE EXTRACTS, PURE GROUND SPICES Full line of Canned Goods, including t t e celebrated Horse Shoe Salmon. Highest price paid for Butter, Eggs and Poultry. J. FAIRLEY, Post Office Grocery, Seaforth. FILL STOOli 011PLETE. Those buying Boots and Shoes for Fall houlcl call and. see our well - assorted stock before buying elsewhere. We h ve taken great care in select- ing the Most Durable and he Cheapest Lines in both Canadian and Ainerican goods. n Rubbers and Overshoes we surpass anything ever before shown in Seafort We make a speciality of the celebrated American GOOD -YEAR G OVE RUBBER. We also handle the GRANBY GOOD -YEAR Rubb r, the Lycoming and the Montreal Rubber. 1101.a••••• TRUNKS AND ALISES. We make a specialty id the celebrated L ngmuir Manufacturing, Com- pany's Trunks and Valises, which are noted for •eing the best and cheapest (roods manufactured in Canada. Give us a call, and see that our goods and pr ces suit the timea. RICHARDSON & 1 cINNIS, CORNER MAIN AND JOHN STRE TS, SEAFORTH. Get the Best for Yur Money. Quality amounts to little unless the pric is fair, Low prices are not bargains unless utility is there. We are now carrying a large and we1l-seleotc1 assortment of the most elegant Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Dress Goods, Ma tles, Hosiery, Underwear, Olothing, Carpets, &C,,, Which we offeK at BED ROCK PRICES, and; we defy competition. No trouble to show goods. A cordial invitati4 is extended to all to examine our selection at the Bargain Dry Goods Cloth ng and Millinery House of &aforth. WM. kCKAIip. THE - SEAFORTH FOUNDRY. Having completed rebuilding and repairing the oldI oundry, and introduc, de the latest equipments'and the most improved mach 6s, I am now prepared to do All Kinds of Machin Repairs AND GENERAL FOUNDR WORK. LAND ROLLE S. We are now turning out some of the best impro ed Land Rollers, and invite the framers to see them before buying elsewhere. T. COLEMAN: THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE i Established mom HEAD OFFICE, TORONT OAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLAF1S - 86.000,000 RESTg - - - - - SI ,000, 000 B. E.. WALKER, GENERAL MANAGER. SEAFORTH BRANCH. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes Discounted, Drafts issued payable at all points in Canada and the pr ncipal cities in the United States,Great Britain, Ber uda,lec. SAVINGS BANK DE PARTMENT. Deposits of fei.00 and upwarde received, and current rates of iz4terest allowed. INTER- EST ADDED TO THE PRINCIPAL AT THE END OF MAY AND NOVEall3 R. IN EACH YEAR, Special Attention given to the Collection. of Commercial Pa er and Farmers' Sales Notes. F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor. M. MORRIS, Manager Important • Annou cement. BRIGHT—BROTH RS, SM.A.HTDIVT1=1 The Leading Clothiers of Beg to inform the peo1240 of, Seaforth and surrounding -- added to their large ordered clothing trade o Most Complete and best selected stocks o and Men's Read3rmade Cloth' -----IN THE COUNTY. Prices Unequalled. We lead t Huron, =try, that they have e of the Boys', Youths' Trade. Remember the Old Stand, Oampbelre Block, opposice the Royal Hote Seaforth. BRIGHT BROTHERS. BARGAINS BARGAINS TO BE HAD AT A. G. AULT'S 331:rii- GOODS —AND— Grocery Store SEAFORTIL The new Seaford' Bargain House will commence giving great bargains on SATURDAY, the 5th day of No- vember. Bargains will be given in all kinds of Dry Goods Hats, Caps, Men's and Boys' Readyma:de Clothing in full suits; a large assortment of Men's Overcoats;.also a large and fresh stock of all kinds of Groceries and Provi- sions. I invite every one to come who wishes a good bargain, as I have now a bran new stock in all kinds of goods, and they must be sold; therefore, no* is the time to buy your goods at prices that cannot be had elsewhere. Don't forget the place --it is the new Seaforth Bargain House. gar- Wanted—Butter, Eggs and all kinds of Poultry, for which the highest price will be paid. A. G. AULT, Seaforth, Is Any Horse worth $20 ? DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER, 80c.: BLISTER, 60c, DIME'S OINTMENT, We. , DICK'S -LINIMENT, 50c. IF HE IS NOT HEALTHY AND SOUND? Every animal that isnot worth keeping over winter should have DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER in the spring. It will take less food to keep them in condition. They will sell better. A horse will do more work, DICK'S HORSE AND CATTLE MEDICINES ARE THE BEST IN THE WORLD. Sind a postal card for full partiesulars, and a book of valuable household and farm receipes will be sent . free. DICK & CO., P. 0. Box 482, MONTREAL Sold Everywhere. 1800-52 HAY! CHOICE HAY it and 10 cars. Must be guaranteed good sound baled hay OR NO SALE. Quote bottom price and when you. can. ship to 1294-9 ALFRED BOYD, TOronto. 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 O. O. WILLSON'S, SIC.A.IPORTIEE.. 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 par:,s. I mean what I advertise, and baek up what I say. Wagons from Chatham, Woodstock and Paris, w-hich is enough about them. Five styles of Road Carts. All kinds of Agricultural Im- plements. 0 C. WILLSON, Seaforth, FOR MANITOBA. Parties going to Manitoba should call on W. G. DUFF The agent for1, the Canadian Pacific Railway, Seaforth, who can give through tickets to any part of Mani- toba and the Northwest on the most reasonable terms. Renaember, Mr. Duff is the only agent for the a P. R. in Seaford' and parties going by the 0. P. R. would consult their own interests by calling on him. Office—next the Commercial Hotel and opposite W. Pickard's store. W. G. DUFF, Seaforth. d. McKEOWN, -DISTRIaT AGENT FOR TUB - People's Life Insurance Company, -FOR THE - Counties of Huron, Vruee,' Perth a,nd West 44rey. The People's Life is a purely Mutual Company organized for the purpose of insuring lives, conducted isolely in the interests of its policy -holders among whom the profits are divided, therseheing no etock- holders to control the company or to take any pertion of the surplus. The only Mutual Company in Canada 'vine endowment insurance a ordinary life 'rates is THE PEOPLE'S LIFE. Agents wanted Address J. McKeown Nov 0.01.0.1 lvf It was stid the b conseonet At one girls who end gave other en.d died toga oessible. ts old -C4 a girl a h she held the Old, r ' and band their bee The pair .pendent, and pre ,,, with se -151 ell -brei thee Of til After 1 the pePe with a iekly-se riougbect vied at 1 all the o ter. Ma surprheo the way 1 flowers t The gi few moo' eel:igen I group, SOITIe lad gentians didte't itt e a therght adticee classes. . 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