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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-12-16, Page 21-1UPON FXPOSITho DECEMBER 16, 182. 41.85011INNINNINOOM4 .1•21,.....4.•••••••••••••••••01., .611IZPAlt ON Tin ROCK" REV. OR. TALMAGE'S SERMON ON SACKCLOTH AND SEPULCHRES. ithipah Sitting •inittesolation—A Tragedy That Beate Anything Shakesporian or Victor Eugoiacn. BROOKLYN, N.1.,Dee. 4.—This is one of those discourses of r. Talmage, delivered from texts which no one seems to have esed before. Important and practical lessons were drawn. The opening hymn, in which many thousands joined was: Come ye disconsolate where'er ye languish. The subject of the sermon was, "Rizpah on the rock," the text selected being 2, _Samuel, 21: 10: "And Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah, took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heeven, and. suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the bats of the field by night. Tragedy that beats anything Shakesper- ian. or Victor Hugoian. After returning • from the Holy Land I briefly touched upon it, but I must have a whole sermon for that scene. The explosion and flash of gunpowder have driven, nearly all the beasts and birds of prey from those re- gions, and now the shriek of the locomo- tive whistle, which is daily heard at Jeru- salem, will, for many miles around -clear Palestine of cruel claw and beak. But in the time of the text those regions were populous with multitudes of jackals and lions. Seven sons of Saul had been cruci- fied on a hill. Rizpah was mother to two, and relative to five of the boys. What had these boys done that they should be cruci- fied? Nothing, except to have a bad father and grandfather. But now that the boys were dead, why not take them down from the gibbets? No. They are sentenced to hang there. So Itizpah takes the sack- cloth, a, rough shawl with which in mourn- ing for her dead she had wrapped herself, and spreads that sackcloth upon the rocks near the gibbets, and acts the part of a sen- tinel watching and defending the dead. Yet• every other sentinel is relieved, and after being on guard for a few hours some one else takes his place. But Rizpa.h is on guard both day and night and for half a year. One hundred and eighty days , and nights of obsequies. What nerves she must have had to stsald that. Ah ! do you know that a mother can stand anything. Oh ! if she might be allowed to hollow a place in the side of the hill and lay the bodies of her children to quiet rest ! If in • some cavern of the mountains she might find for them Christian sepulture. Oh if she might take them from the gib- bet Of disgrace and carry them still fur- ther sway from the haunts of men, and then lie beside them in the last long sleep. Exhausted nature ever and anon falls into slumber, but in moment she breaks the snare, and chides herself as though she had been cruel, and leaps up on the rock, shouting at wild beasts glar- ing from the thicket and at vulturous brood wheeling in the sky. The thrilling story of Rizpah reaches David, and he comes forth to hide the indecency. The corpses had been chained. to the trees. The chains are unlocked with horrid clank, and the skeletons are let down. All the iieven are buried. And the story ends : But it hardly' ends before you cry out.: What a hard thing that those seven boys shottlel suffer for the crimes of a father, and grandfather! Yes. But it is always so. Let every one who does wrong know that he was not only, as in this case, against two generations, children and grandchildren, but against all the generations of coming time. That is what makes dissipation, and. uncleanness so awful. It reverberates in other times. It may skip one generation, but it is apt to come up in the third genera- tion, as is suggested in the ted command- ments, which say: 'Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generations." Mind you, it says nothing about the second generation, but mentions the third and the fourth. That accounts for what you sometimes see, very ood parents with very bad children. Go Far enoagh back in the ancestral line ancl you &id dee source of all the turphtude. "Visiting the iniquities of the fathers upon the chil- dren, unto the third and fourth generation." If wheo Saul died, the consequence of his iniquity could have died with him it would not have been so sad. Alas. no! Look on that hill a few miles out from , Jerusalem and see the ghastly burdens of those seven gibbets, and the wan and wasted Rizpah Watching them. Go to -day through the wards and alms -houses, and the reformatory institutions where unfortunate children are kept, and you will find that nine out of ten had drunken or vicious parents. Yea, day by day on the streets of our cities you find men and women wrecked of evil harentage. They are moral corpses. Like the seven sons of Saul, though dead, unburied. Alas for Rizpah who, not for six months, but for ye.sta and years, has watched them. She cannot keep the vultures and the jackals of e Furthermore, this strange incident in Bible story shows that attractiveness of per- son and elevation of position are no security against trouble. Who is this Rizpah sitting in desolation? One of Saul's favorites. Her personal at- tractions had won his heart. She had been caressed of fortune. With a mother's pride she looked on her princely children. But the scene changes. Behold her in ban- ishment and bereavement, Rizpah on the rock. Some of the worst distresses hive come to seer* of royalty and wealth. What por- ter at the mansion's gate has not let in champing and lathered steed bringing evil despatch ? On what tesselated hall has there not stood that solemn bier? Under what exquisite fresco has there hot bean enacted a tragedy of disaster? What, cur- tained couch hath heard no cry of pain? What harp hath never thri:led with sor- row ? What lordly nature hath never -leaned against carved _pillar arid made utterance of woe? Gall is not less bitter when quaffed from a golden chalice than when taken from a pewter inure Sorrow if often attended by miming 1Zotnien, and laced lackey e mounted behind. Queen Anne Boleyn is desolate in the palace of Henry VIII. Adolphus° wept in German castles over the hypocrisy of friends. Pedro 1. among Brazilian diamond S shiver- ed with fear of inessacre. Stepheil of Eng- land sat on a locking throne. And every niast of pride has bent in the stolen, and toe higheet mountains of honor and fame are covered with perpetual snow. Sickness will frost the rosiest cheek, wriiikle the smoothest brew and stiffen the sprightliest step. Rizpah quits the courtly eithle and sits on the rock. .Perhaps you look back upon scenes dif- ferent from those in which now froth day to, day you mingle. You have'exehringed the. feisty and luxuriance of your fatheh's house or privations and trials known to God and your own heart. The morning of life -was flushed with promise. Troops of calamities since, then have made desperate charge .Uponyon. Darkness has come. $orrows have swooped like carrion .birds :from the like, and Larked like jackals trom the thicket -1 You stand amid yoer slain, angaielaed and woe -struck:- Rizpah on the rock. So it has been in all ages. Vashu must doff the spangled robes of the Persian court, and go forth blasted from the palace gate. Hagar exchanges oriental comfort tor the wilderness of Beersheba. Mary Queen Scots must pees out from, flattery and pomp to suffer ignominious death in the catitie of Fotheringay. The hileel of fortune keeDe turnips& and mansions and nuts .exonange, and he wlid rode t chariot pushes the barrow, Midi instead the glare of festal lights is the simmering the peat7fire, and in please -of Seta's palm is the rock, the cold rook, the desola roek. h But that is the place to which God come Jacob with his head on a stone saw shining ladder. Israel in the desert belie the marshalling of the fiery baton. John o barren Patmos heard trumpeting, and t clapping of wings, and the stroke of ser phie fingers on golden harps,, eald nothin but heavenly strength nerved Rizpah f her appalling mission amid the screams wild birds and the steelthy tread of hungr monsters. The grandest visions of glor the most rapturous experiences of Christie love, the grandest triumphs of grace hair come to the tried and the hard-peessed an the betrayed and the crushed. God stoo ing down from heaven to comfort Rizpah o the rock. Again, the tragedy of the text display the courage of woman amid great emerge cies. What mother or sister or &eighth would dare to go out to fight the cormoran and jackal? Rizpah did it. Ad so woul you if an emergency demanded. ' Woman naturally timid and shrinks from exposur and depends on stronger arms for th achievement of great enterprises. And sh is often troubled lest there might be occ isions demanding fortitude whenehe woul fail. Not au. Some of those evlho ar afraid to look out of door after riightfal and who quake in the darkness at the leas uncertain sound, and who start at the sla of the door, , and turn pale in a thunde storm, if the day of trial came would b heroic and invulnerable. God has arrange it so that woman needs the trumpet of mem great contest of principle or affection rouse up her slumbering courage. The she will stand under the cross fire of op posing hosts at Chalons to give Wine. to th wounded. Then she will carry into priso and dark lane the message of salvation Then she will brave the pestilence. De borah goes out to sound terror into th heart of God's enemies. Abigail throw herself between a raiding party of infuriat ed men and her husband's vineyards. Riz pal fights back the vultures froni the rock Among the Orkney islands an eagl swdoped and lifted a, child to its eyrie, fa up on the mountains. With the spring o a panther the mother mounts hill abov hill, crag above crag, height above height the fire of her own eye oatflashing the glar of the eagle's; and with unmailed hand stronger than the iron beak and the terribl claw, she hurled the wild bird down th rocks. In the French Revolution, Gaeott was brought out to be executed, ,when his de...tighter threw here' elf on the body of he father, and said, "Strike ! barbarians! Yot cannot reach my father but through m heart !" The crowd parted, and linkin arms, father and daughter 'walked out, free During the siege of Saragossa, Augustin carried refreshments to the gates. Arriv ing at the battery of Portillo, she found that all the garrison had been killed. Sb snatched a match from the hand of a dead artillery -man and fired off a, twenty-si pounder, then leaped on it and vowed sh would not leave it alive. The soldiers looked in and saw her daring, and rushed up and opened another tremeudou fire on the enemy. The life of James I. of Scotland was threatened. Poets have sung those times, and able pens have lingered upon the story of manly en- durance, but how . few to tell the story of Catherine Douglasone of the Queen's maids, who ran to bolt the door, but found the bar had been taken away so as to facilitate the entrance of the assassin. She thrust her arm into the staple The murderers rush- ing against it, her arm was shattered. Yet how many have since lived and died who never heard the touching, self-sacrificing, heroic story of Catherine Douglas and her poor shattered arm. You know how dalm- ly Madame Roland went to execution and how cheerfully Joanna of Naples walked to the castle of Munrn, and howelearlessly Madame Grimaldi listhned to her .condem- nation and how Charlotte Corday smiled upon the frantic mob that pursued her to the guillotine. And there would be no end to the recital if I attempted to present all the historical incidents which show that woman's courage will rouse itself for great .emergency.. But I need not go so far. You have known some one who was considered a mere butterfly in society.Her hand had known no toil. Her eye had wept no tear over misfortune. She moved among obsequious admirers as careless as an insect in a field of blossoming buckwheat. But in eighteen hundred and sixty-seven financial tempest struck the husband's estate. Before he had time to reef sail, and make things sneg, the ship capsized and went down. Enemies cheered at the misfortune and wondered what would become of the butterfly. Good men pitied and said she would die of a broken heart. "She will not work," say they, "and she is too proud to beg." But the prophecies have failed', Disaster has transformed the shining sluggard into a practical worker. Happy 'as a princess, though compelled to hush her own child to sleep and spread her own table and answer the ringing of her own door -bell.' Her arm had been muscled for the conflict against misfortune, hunger and poverty and want,. and all the other jackals Rizpah scares from the rock. I saw one in a desolate home. Her merciless companions had pawned even the children's shoes for rum. From honorable ancestry she had come down to this. The eruse of oil was empty and the last candle gone out. Her failed. frock was patched with fragments of antique silk she had worn on the bright marriage day. Confi- dent in God, she had a etrong heart, to which her children ran when they trembled at the staggering step and quailed under a father's curse. Though, th e heavens were filled with fierce wings and the thickets gnashing with rage, Rizpah watched faith- fully day after day and kear after year, and wolf and cormorant, by her God - strengthened arm, were hurled, down the rock. You pass day by day along streets where there are heroines greater than Joan of Aro Upon that cellar floor there are conflicts as tierce as Sedan, and heaven and hell mingle in the fight. Lifted in that garret there are tribunals where more fortitude is de- manded than was exhibited by Lady Jane Grey or Mary Queen of Scots. Now I ask if mere natural courage can do so much, what may we not expect of wo- men who have gazed on the Great Sacrifice, and who are urged forward by all the voices of grace that sound from the Bible, and all the notes of victory that speak from the sky. Many years ago the Forfarshire steamer started from Hull bound for Dundee. After the vessel had been out a little while, the winds began to rave and billows to rise until a tempest was npon them. The vessel leaked and the fires went ont, and though the sails were hoisted fore and aft, she was speeding to. ward the breakers. She struck with her bows foremost on the rock. The essel part- ed. Amid the whirlwind and the darkness all were lost but nine. These ciung to the wreck on the beach. Sleeping that night in Longstone Lighthouse was a girl Of gentle spirit and comely countenance. As the morning dawns, I see that girl standing amid the spray and tumult of contending elements looking through a geese upon the wreck and the nine wretched sufferers. She proposes to her father to take a boat and put out across the wild sea and rescue them. The father says "It cannot be done ! Just look at the tumbling surf !" Bet she per- sisted, and with her father bounds into the boat. Though never accustomed to plying the oar, she takes one and her father the other. Steady now! Pull away! Pull away! The sea tossed up the boat as thoueh it were a bubble. but amid the roam Ali theWrath of the sea the wreak was reached, the exhausted people picked up and saved. Huniane societies tendered their thanks. Wealth poured -into the lap of the poor girl. .Visitors from all lands came to look on her sweet face; and when soon after she launched forth on a dark seit and Death was the oarsman, dukes and duchesses and mighty, men sat down' in tears in Alnwick Castle, to think they never again might see, the face of Grace Darling. No such deeds of- daring will probably be asked of you, but hear you not the howl of that awful storm of trouble and sin that hath tossed ten thousand' shivered hulks into the breakers? Knove ,you not that the whole earth is strewn with the shipwrecked? That there are wounds to be healed and broken hearts to be bound and drowning souls to be rescued? SOME have gone down and you come too late, but others are clinging to the wreck, are shivering with the cold, are Strangling in the wave are crying to you for deliver- ance. Will you not, oar in hand, put out to -day from the lighthouse? When the last ship's timber shall have been rent, and the last Longstone beacon shall have been thundered down in the hurricanee, and the last tempest shall ' have folded its wings, and the sea itself shall have been licked up by the tongue of all -consuming fire ,• the crowns of eternal reward shall be kindling into brighter glory on the brow of the faithful. And Christ, pointing to the in- ebriate that you reformed, and the dying sinner whom you taught to pray, and the outcast whom you pointed. to God for shelter, will say, "Yon did it to them! You did it to Me !" The Chinese Tule Tree. With us even the yule -tree has degener- ated into a toy • with the Chinese the tree is still a tremendous reality—so real, in fact. thatits branches have obscured their spiritual sunlight, and left them in the darkness of superstition, It is not strange that so idolatrous a nation should in this one case have so much refrained from the actual representation of an idea exercising so powerful a control over their hearts and imaginations? Even in idol processions, where the sacred dragon himself is manceu- vred, the peach -tree seldom appears on any of the numerous floats which constitute the chief glory of these pageants. Yet, despite the great mystery which shrouded the rites of the Cybele, the pine of the geeat goddess was openly carried through the streets of Rome when her cult became the state religion, and an excellent repre- sentabion of what the Chinese mystic w�uld immediately recognize as corresponding to his notion of the Tree of Life was once a distinct feature of the Lord Mayor's Show in London. From the branches of that tree still floated the cords of hell— although the giant guardians Gog and Magog have been relegated to Guildhall—and its significance was still further accented by the presence of that type of self -Sacrifice, the pelican destroying herself for her young. Throughout all Christendom the axe is now rudely laid to the roots of the unhappy fir or beech, their best service being 'deemed the amusement of our children and the gladdening of Christmas -tide. In China, however, the beatific peach -tree is ipermit- ted to freely scatter its blossoms on the air of spring as unmolested as if on holy -Mount Tu Soh itself.—Harper's Magazine for December. Eastern Beauty. Then on a sudden, came a niaid, With tambourine, to dance,for us— Allah il' Allah ! it was she, The slave -girl from the Bosporus That Yussuf purchased recently. Long narrow eyes, as black as black! And melting, like the.stars in June; Tresses of night drawn smoothly back. From eyebrows like the crescent moon. She paused an instant with bowed head, Then, at a motion of her wrist A veil of gossamer outspread And wrapt her in a silver mist. Her tunic w -vs of Tiflis green Shot through with many a starry speck ; The zone that claspt it might have been A collar for a cygnet's neck. - prone of the twenty charms she lacked Demanded for perfection's grace; Charm upon charm in her was packed Like rose leaves in a costly vase. Full in the lantern's colored light She seemed a thing. of Paradise. 1 knew not if 1 saw alight, Or if my vision told me lies. Those lanterns spread a cheating glare : Such stains they threw from bough and Vine As if the slave-boys;i here and there, Had split a jar of brilliant wine. And then the fountain's drowsy fall, The burning aloes' heavy scent, The night, the place, the hour—they all Where full of subtle blandishment. —Harper's Magazine. Young Girls and Jewels. It is not in America alone that the mat- ter of jewels, would be likely to come up for consideration in -a young girl's toilet. Ex- cepting a string of small pearls or some dainty brooch miniature affixed to a band of velvet around the throat, ornament ef the kind is almost unseen in full dress among the really *ell bred people hereto- fore alluded to. Indeed, it has been re- cently a fashion amounting to a fad among girls fortunate in round, white, well -cover- ed necks and throats, to omit every vestige of jewelry on the person (and to have no ornament in the hair, if a tiny band or bow of ribbon be not suffered to nestle in those siiken solitudes). Cheap jewelry, masque- rading in the guise of real; the thousand and one bow knots and Rhinestone pins, and false enamel trinklets that now glitter in the shop windows—and their adoption among maid servants and shop girls—are no doubt responsible for the forsaking of muchhhat is fascinating and appropriate for wear in the goldsinith's art.—Ladies' Home Journal. 11 ere3d i ty. It is a fact well established by student% ofhereditv that children are apt to ieherit not only the physical, mental, and Moral traits of their parents, but to be influenced by their age as well. Children born of very young tattlers and mothers never attain so vigorous a growth of mind or body as those of older men and women, while childFen of old people are born old. One of the bloat surprising cases in medical history isthat of Marguerite Cribsowna, who died in 763, aged 108 years. When 94 she Was ma ried to a man aged 105. Three •children 'prime of this union, but they had grey hair, no teeth, were stooped, -yellow, and wrinkled, decrepit in movement, and could eat only • bread and vegetables.—.Charleston News mei Courier. —Mr. J. W. Laird hat been presented with a handsome puler cabinet by the Firbt Presbyterian Sabbath School of St. Molts, in recognition of his toog service as sniper- iutendent, an office until lttely baa by him, when his ill -health compelled 41m to give up the work, —Mr. A. H Alex older has resigned his position ha organitt a the Congregatienal church, Stratford; au'd ficeepted the lead- ership of the ohoir of Knox church, at $300 per annum. He will also be the organist. It is rumored that the purchtee of a large pipe organ is contemplated by the congrfgetiore —At the last meeting of ti,e St. Marys Coat Owe Ies'itute Board, S. Martin, B. A., wae re engaged SA Price pal ata salary of $1,400, an iee eieee of $200 ; F. Riddle, ingteematiral nastier, Et his former &airy �f$950, and Miss Claytoa, modern languags teacher, at $950, au', in - crew e of -$50 —The Se MtrYs Journal stys " Rev. J. Edmonds. of Peton. ro loomed the ser- vices in St. Jaitesi phurch here, on Sunday, and preached two excellent aliment. In his eveeing diecoursfe he paid it high tribute to the giod work 'aecompliehed by the Sal- vation Army. Dick's Condition Powders Fattens Horses an4Cattlo REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. Q00D FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, north half Lot 81, Concession 2, East Wawanosh, 100 sore.; good fences, good orchard and never -failing creek. Apply to B. J. I). COOKE, Barrister, Myth, or PHILIP HOLT, Goderioh. 1278 MIARM FOR SALE.—For sale an improved, 100 sore farm, within two and a half miles et the town of Seater*. For further particulars apply on the premises, Lot 12, Concession 4, 11. R. O., Tucker - smith, or by mail to JOHN PRENDERGAST, See - forth P. O. 1290 MIARM FOR SALE.—Splendid 100 acre farm ft; eC sale, one mile west ot Brucefield station, being Lot 14, Concession 8, Stanley, well underdrained with tile, good buildings,stone stables, good orchard, never tailing well at house and never failing spring In the bush. Apply to JOHN DUNKIN, Bruoefield P. 0. 127941 ACRE FARM FOR SALE.—The 200 acre farm, being lots 11 and 12, concession 16, Grey, is offered for Sale. 120 acres are. cleared and the balance le well timbered. Buildings first-olass. Orchard, weli, leo. School house within 40 rods. Possession given at once if desired. ,For further rartioniars as to price, tonne, etc. apply to MRS. WALKER, Roseville P.O., or to NELSON BRICKER, on the farm, 1299-tf 200 letAttii IN STANLEY FOR SALE.—For sale r cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Rayfield Road, Stanley, containing 84 acres, of which 62 acres are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The bal- ance is Well timbered with hardwood. There are good buildinp, a bearing orchard and plenty of wster. 11 is within half a mile of the Village of Varna and three miles from Brucefield station. Possession at any tune. This is a rare chance to buy a first class farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 1144E1 IOARM FOR SALE.—For sale, lot 6, concession I, X H. 11.8., township of Tuokersmith, containing one hundred sores more or less, 97 acres elesred, 56 of which are seeded to grasp, well underdrained, three never failing wells. 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, lonated 11 miles from Seaforth, will be sold reasonable and on easy terms as the proprietcr is re- tiring from fanning. For further particulars apply to the undersigned ON the premises, and if by letter to Seaforth P. 0. MICHAEL DORSEY, 1277-tf "DARK IN McKILLOP FOR SALE.—For sale the J2 south half of lots I and lot 2, concession 4, Me- Killop, being 160 acres of very choice land mostly in a good state of cultivation. There is a good house and bank barn, a good young bearing orchard and plenty of never failing water. A considerable portion seeded to grass. Convenient to msrkets and schools and good [treeel roads in all directions. Will be sold cheap. Apply te the proprietor on the premises, MESSRS. DENT & HODGE, Mitchell, or at TIIR HURON EXPOSITOR Office, Seaforth. JOHN O'BRIEN, Proprietor. 1298-tf tiARM IN TUCKERSMITH FOR SALE.—For sale, J Lot 8, Concession 7, Tuckeremith, containing 100 acres, nearly all cleared, free from stumps, well underdrained, and in a high state of cultivation. The land is high and dry, and no waste land. There is a good brick eesidence, two good barno, one with stone etabling underneath, and all other necessary outbuildings; two never -failing wells, aud a good bearing ot chard. It is within four miles of Seaforth. It ie one of the beet farme in Huron, and will be sold on easy terms, as the proprietor desires to retire. Possession on the 1st Octoher. Apply on the prem- ises, or address Seaforth P. 0. WM. ALLAN. 1276 -ti VAR/ii FOR SALE.—For Sale, tiO acres in Sanilac ` County, Michigan. 76 acres cleared and in a good state of cultivation, fit to raise any kind of a crop. It is well feno:d and leas a g ood orchard on it, and a never tailing well. The buildings consist of a frame house, stabling for 12 horses withiour box stalls, 86 head of cattle and 100 sheep. Ninety ewes were win- tered lest year,sold $630 in wool and lambs this sum- mer. There are also pig and hen houses. The un- dersigned also has 80 acres, with buildings, but not So well improved, which he will sell either in 40 acre lots or as a whole. These properties are in good localities, convenient to markets, schoole and churches. The proprietor is forned to • sell on ac- count of ill health. It will be a bargain for the right man as it will be sold on easy terms. GEORGE A. TEMPLETON, Doronington, Sanilac County, . Michi- gan. 1298x4 -t -f 'LURK PON, SALE.—For stale, that desirable and J conveniently situated fartn,adjoining the village of Redgerville, being Lot 14, let Concession, Bay, 1 mile from Rodgerville post•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 storeys, 8 rooms, a large kitchen also attached with bedrooms and pantry &c. 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 farmwill be sold cheap and on easy terms, as the undersigned has retired from fanning. For par- ticulars apply to JAMES WHITE, Proprietor, Hen - sail. 1275-tf MIARM FOR SALE.—For sale that splendid farm X in the township of Hey, belonging to the estate of the late Robert Ferguson. It is composed of Lot 21, in the Oth concession, containing 100 acres more or less, 80 clear and 20 bueh, 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, balence 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 early and secure one of the beet farms in this township. Land situated on Centre gravel road, three miles to Helmuth or Zurich. Apply to MRS. FERGUSON, Exeter, or M. ZELLER, Zurieh. ELIZABETH FERGUSON, Admieistratrix 1288-tf FIRST CLASS FARM FOR SALE.—For ssie Lot 12 Concession 6, 11. R. 8 Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres of choice land, nearly all cleared and in a high state of cultivation, with 90 acres seeded to grass. It is thoroughly underdrained and welt fenced with straight rail, board and wire fences and does not contain 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 windmill 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 two good bank barns, the one 32 feet by 7Z feet and the other 36 feet by 56 feet with stabling for 50 head of cattle and eight horses. Besides these there are sheep, hen and pig houses and an Implement shed. The farm is well adapted for grain or stock raising and is one of the finest farms in the country. It is situated 8- miles from Seaforth Station, 5 from Brucefield and Kippen with good gravel re s leading to each. It is also convenient to churches, post office and school and will be sold cheap and on easy terms. For further particulars apply to the proprietor on the premises or by letter to THOMAS G. SHILLINGLAVY, Egiuondville P. 0. 1286 tf 'Vex emmasemisegolullb eas -p,„„ymms, Ifqs demonstrated its wonderful power of num EXTERNAL and IAITERNAL PMN. No wonder then that it le found on The Surgeon's Shelf The Mother's; Cupboard The Traveer's The So) dies' s Knapsack The .Sclilor's Chest The Cowbcy's Saddle The Faricn, er's Stable The Inoneer's Cabin The Sportsman's Grp The Cyclist's. Duridlo ASKFORTHEE NEW ROBERTSON GOING S On or about Januar): lst, it is our intention to get up and get south— about five doors from our present quarters, when we will open )ut one of the best assorted and most extensive stocks, in one of the finest aid, largest Fur- niture and Undertaking Warerooms west of Toronto. Before removing from our present stand, we wish to reduce the stock. Therefore, w have marked everything away down, placed everything at prices within the each of every body. We are placing before the people an opportunity seldo4 offered, This is the snap of the season—the opportunity you have been lo king for. We don't offer bargains like those every day. Come and bring everybody you know—we'll attend to those you don't know. Remember, from now until January lst is your special eh nee. The M. 'Robertson Furniture -E porium, MAIN STREET, - SEAFOR H. CHRISTMAS GIF s. Below we would suggest to our numerous patrons and riends a few of the articles amongst our immense stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Clot mg, Hats, Caps, Carpets, Millinery, gc, Which would inake sensible and satisfactory Christmas gifts for father, mother, brother, sister, uncles, aunts or cousins: Fur Coats, Fur Seth, Fur Caps, Gloves, Hosie y, a Dress for Sarah, a Suit for Johnny, Silk Ties, Silk Handker- - chiefs, a pair of Corsets, a new Overcoa , a pair of Blankets, a White Bed Cover, a p ir of Lace Curtains, a Dozen Napkins, a Linen or Damask Table Co ver, Bonnet or Trimmed Hat. The above goods being the newest, nobblest and lat st designs, may be purchased from us at a small advance on cost. We take p easure in showing intending purchasers through our various departmenta. a our Bargain Dry Goods, Clothing and Millinery House. WM. PICKAR 131R,T10:TPT McIntosh's Great Ca h Sale FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS. Greatly reduced prices for amounts' of $5 and upw rds. Special reduc- tions on large parcels. Stock new and fresh, there being radically 1\TO OLD G-0 S.. Dress Goods, Tweeds, Overcoatings, Blankets, Carpets, Underclothing, Cottons, Corsets,. Hosiery, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, 'Patent -Medicines, Tea and Dinner Sets, Fancy Lamps, Fine Glassware, i4nives and Forks, Spoons, Silverware, &c. Special Value in New Season Te Genuine Bargains. We can furnish the best Watches manufactured in Gold, Silver, Silveroid and Gold-filled Cases at lower prices than they can be obtained elsewhere. Butter, Eggs and Fowl of all kinds wanted. J. McINTOSH, Corner. Store, Brumfield. GRANBY RUBBERS Honestly Made. Latest Styles, Beautifully Finished. Everybody Wears Them. Perfect Fit. All Dealers Sell Thern. THEY WEAR LIKE IRON. 1301-16 THE - SEAFORTH - FOUNDRY. 8 Having completed rebuilding and repairing the old foundry, and introdue. 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 We are now turning out some of the best improved Land Rolle.rs, and invite the farmers to see them before buying elsewhere. T. T COLEMAN. Important -:- Announcement. RIGHT fit—OTHERS, ; • SM.A.M101?,1113HE The Leading Olothiers ' of Huron, Beg to inform the people of Seaforth and surrounding • vantry, 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 THE COUNTY. Prices JUnequalled. We lead the Trade. Remember the Old Stand, Campbell's Block,4 opposite the Royal Hotel, Seaforth. BRIGHT BROTHERS, BArRGAINS BARGAINS TO .BE HAD AT A. G. AULT'S, 3:31rY- G-0.0738 —AND— Grocery Stores SEAFO The new Seaforth Bargain House will commence giving great bargains on SATURDAY, the th day of No- vember. Bargains will be given in all kinds of Dry Goods, Hats, Caps, Men's and Boys' Readymade 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, now 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. AULT7 Seaforth • Is Any Horse worth $20? DIOR'S BLOOD PURIFIER, 50c. DICK'S BLISTER, 50c. DICK'S OINTMENT, 500. DICK'S LINIMENT, . 500. IF HE IS NOT HEALTHY AND SOUND Every animal that is not worth keeping over winter should have DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER in tbe 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. Send a postal card for full partipulars, and a book of valuable household and farm receipes will be sent free. DICK & CO., P. 0. Box 482, MONTREAL &Id Everywhere. 1800-62 HAY! CHOICE RAY 5 and 10 cars, Must be guaranteed good sound baled hay OR NO SALE. Quote bc:itom price and when you can ship to ALFRED BOYD, Toronto, 1294-9 B U G Gi E —AND --- WAGONS. The greatest number and Is.rgest as- sortment of Buggies, Wagons and Road Carts to be found in any -one house outside of the cities, is at O. C. WILLSON'S, xw' smAm-top.mt3a.. Th,ey 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. 1 raean what 1 advertise and back up what 1 say. Wagons advertise, Chatham, Woodstock and Paris, which is enough about them. Five styles of Road Carts. All kinds of Agricultural 1231 - plena en ts. O. C. WILLSON, Seaforth, FOR MANITOBA. Parties going to Manitoba should call on W. G. DUFF The agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Seaforth, who can give through tickets to any part of Mani- toba and the Northwest on the most rezsonable terms. Remember, Mr. Duff is the only agent for the C. P. R. in Seaforth and parties going by the C. P. R woild consult their own interests by calling on him. Office—next the Commercial Hotel and opposite W. Pickard's store. W. G. DUFF, Seaforth. J. 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