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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1892-12-23, Page 24 THE HURON E)(PCISITCIR. • DECEMBER 23, 1892. or e ea • • s THE MOTHER OF US ALL 'GOD COMFORTS PitS PEOPLE )SS A MOTHER HER CHILDREN; A Mother's simplicity of instruction—A Mothers* maroaritism—A, mother's Caps. eity for Tending to Tattle Troubles—A mother's 'way of Putting a child to sieep. • BRboximis, Dec. 11.014tev. Dr. Talmage to -day; in selecting a subject for his ser- mon, ehose an aspect of the Divine charac- ter which is seldom considered. To an unnaually large audience he discoursed on God as "The Mother of All," the text be- ing taken? frakt Isaiah • 66, 13 "As one whom his mother comforteth, so -will I comfort you.'" • The Bible is a warm letter of affection from a -parent to a child, and yet there are many who see chiefly the severer passages. As there may be fifty or siety nights of gentle dew in. one summer, that will not cause as much remark as one hail -storm of half an hour, so there are those who are more struck by those passages of the Bible that announces the indignation Of God than by those that announce hi a affection. There may come to hotfsehold twenty or fifty letters of affection during the year, and they will not make as much excitement in that home as one sheriff's writ; and iso there are peo- ple who are more attentive to those pas- sages which announce the judgments of God, than to those which announce His mercy and His favor. God is a Lion, John says in the Book of Revelation.- God is a Breaker, Micah announces in his prophecy, God is a, Rock. •God is a King. But hear aim& that God is Love. A father and his child are walking out in the fields on a sum, inees day, and there comes up a thunder storm, and there is a flash of lightning that startles the child, and the father says, "My dear, that is God's eye." There comes a peal of thunder, and the father says, "My dear, that is God's, voice." But the clouds go of the sky, and the storm is gone and light floods the heavens and floods theland- scape, and the father forgets to says, "That is God's smile." The text of the 'morning bends with great gentlenees and love over all who are prostrate in sin winnable. It lights up with com- passion. It melts with tenderness. It breathes upon us the hush of an ,eternal lullaby, for it announces that God is our another. "As one whom his mother com- forteth, so will I comfort you!' „ • I remark, in the first place, that God has a mother's simpiicity of instruction. A father does not know how to teach a child the A, B, C. Men are not _skilful in the primary department, but a mother has so much patience that she will tell a child for the hundredth time the difference between F and, G, and betweenel and J. Though we are told a thing a theusand times, and we do not understand it, our heavenly Mother goes on, line upois line, precept upon precept, here a little and there- . lit- tle. God has been teaching some of us thirty years, and some of us sixty years, one word of one syllable, and we do not know it yet—faith, faith. When we come to that word we stumble, we halt, We lose our place, we pronounce it wrong. Still, God's patience is not exhausted. God, our Mother, puts us in the school of prosperityt and the letters are in sunshine, and we cannot spell them. Ged puts us in the school of adversity: and the letters are black, and we cannot spell them. If God were merely a king, he would punish us; if he were simply a father, he would whip ; but God is a mother, and BO we are borne with and helped all the way throngle. God wishes to set forth the fact that in the judgment and good will be divided from the wicked. How is it done t By a picture; by a paratale—a fishing scene. A group of hardy men, long -bearded, geared_ for standing to the waists in water; sleeve* rolled up. Long oar, sunlit; boat battered as though it had been a playmate of the storm. A full net, thumping about with the fish, which have just discovered their captivity, the worthless moss -bunkers and the useful flounders all in the same net. The fisherman puts his hand down amid the squirming fins, takes out the mesa - bunkers and throws them into the; water, and gathers the good fish into the pail. So, says Christ, it shall he at the end of the world. The bad He will cast away, and the good He will keep s Another picture, God, our Mother, wanted to set forth the duty of neighborly love, and at is done by a picture. A heap of wounds on the road to Jericho. AS traveller has been fighting a robber. The robber stabbed him and knocked him down. Two minis- ters come along. They look at the poor fel- low, but do not help him. A 4raveller comes along — a Samaritan. Ile says "Whoa !" to the beast he ie riding, and dismounts. He examines the wounds; he takes out sorne wine, and with it washes the wounds, and thea he takes kome oil, and puts that in to niake the wound stop smarting ; and then he tears off e piece of hia own garment for a bandage. i Then he „helps the wounded man upon the beast, and walks by the side, holding: him on until they come to a, tavern. He says to the landlord, "Here 18 money to pay the man's board for two days, take care of him, if it costs anything more, charge it to me, and I will pay it." Picture—The Good Samaritan, or Who is Yorir Neigh- bor. Does God, our Mother, want to Iet forth what a foolish thing it is to goaWay from the right, and how glad divine inercy is to take back the wanderer? How is it done? By a picture. A good fattier. Large farm with fat sheep and oxen. Fine house, with exquisite wardrobe. Discontented boy. Goes away. Sharpers fleece him. Feeds hogs. Gets homesick. Starts back. Sees an old man running. It is father The hand, torn of the husks, gets a ring. The foot, inflamed and bleeding, gets a sandal. The bare shoulder, showing through the tatters, gets a robe. The stamnaoh, knew- ing itself with hunger, gets a full platter earnoking with meat. The father cannot eat for looking at the returned adventurer. Tears running down the face until they come to a smile—the night dew melting into the morning. No work on the farm that day; for when a bad boy re- pents, and wanes back again, proinising to do better, God knows that is enough for one day. "And they began to be merry." Picture—Prodigal son returned from the wilderness. So God, our Mother, teaches us everything by pictures. The sinner is a lost sheep. Jesus is the bridegroom. The lumina man a barren fig tree. The Gospel is a great mapper. • Satin, a sower of tares. Truth, a mustard seed. That which we could not have understood in the abstract 'statement, God, our Mother, presents to us in this Bible-alburn of pictures, God -en- graved. le not the divine Maternity over thus teaching us? I remark again, that God has a another's favoritism. A father sometimes shows a sort of favoritism. Here is a boy -- strong, well, of high forehead and quick 'intellect. The father says, "I will take that boy into my firm yet ;" or, "I will give him the very best possible education." There are instances where, for the cul - lure of the one boy, all the others have been robbed. A sad favoritism; but that is not the mother's favorite. I will tell you her favontee There is a child who at two years of age had a fall. He has never got over it: The scarlet fever muffled his hearing. He is not what he once was. That child has caused the mother more • anxious nights than all the other children. If he coughs in the night, she springs out of ; a sound sleep and goes to him. The last I tiling ane does when going out of the house is to give a charge in regard to him. The first thhig on coming in is to ask in regard to him. Why, the children of the family all know that_he is the favorite, and say, "Mother, you let him do just as he plows, and you . give him a great many things wits& you do not give us. He is your favorite." The mother smiles; she knows it is so. So he might to be; /or if there is anyone in the world that needs sympathy more than another'it is an invalid Wild, weary on the first. mile of life's journey; carrying an editing head, a- weak nide' an irritated lung. So the mother oughtto make him a favorite. God, our Mother, has favorites. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth." This is, one whom he es- pecially loves he chasteneth. God loves us alt; but is there one weak, and sick, and sore, and wounded, and suffering, and faint? That is the one who lies nearest and more perpetually on the great, loving heart of God. Why it never -coughs but our Mother, God, hears it. It never stirs a weary limb in the bed but our. Maher, God, knows of it. There is no such a watcher as God. The best nurse may be overborne by fatigue, and fall asleep . in the chair, but God, our Mother, after benag up a year of nightswith a suffering child,never slumbers or sleeps. When I see God especially busy in tioubling and trying a 'Christian, I know that out of that Christian's character there is to come some especial good. After a while the mantle of affliction willfall off, and his soul will be greetod by the one hundred. and forty-four thousand, and the thousands of thousands?, as more than conqueror. Oh, my friends, God, our Mother, is just as kind in our afflictions as otir prosperities. God never touches us but for our good. If a field clean and cul- tured is better off than a barren field, and if a stone that has become a statute is bet- ter off than the marble in the quarry, then that soul that God chastens may be his favorite. Oh, the rocking of the soul is net the rocking of in earthquake, but the rock- ing of God's cradle._ "As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." I have been told that the pearl in an oyster is merely the result of a wound, or a sick- ness inflicted upon it, and I do not know but that the brightest gems of heaven will be found to have been the wounds of earth kindled into the jeweled brightness • of eternal glory. , I remark that God has a mother's capacity for attending to little hurts. The father is shocked at the broken bone of the child, or at the sickness that sets the cradle on fire with fever, but it takes the mother to sympathize with all the little ailments and little bruises of the child. If the child have a splinter in its hand,it wants the mother to take it out, and not the father. The father says'"Oh, that is nothing," but the mother knows it is something, and that a little hurt sometimes is very great. So with God, our Mother; all our annoy- ances important enoughto look at and sympathize with. Nothing with God is something. There are no ciphers in God's arithmetic. And if we were only good enough of sight, we could see as much through a microscope as through a telescope. Those things that may be impalpable and infinitestimal to us, may be pronounced and infinite to God. 1 remark farther that God has a mother's patience for the erring. If one does wrong first his associates in life cast him off; if he goes on in th partner casts im off; if he goes on, his wrong way, his business best friends cast him off ----his father casts him off. But after all others have cast him off, where does he go? Who holds no grudge, and *gives the last time as well as the first? Who site by the murderer's counsel all through tbe long trial? Who tarries the longest at the windows of a cul- prit's cell? Who, when all others think 111 of a man, keeps on thinking well of him? It is his mother. God bless her grey- hairs, if she be still alive, and blest her grave, if she be gone! And blew the rocking -chair in which, she used to rock, and bless the Bible she used to read ! So God, our Moth- er, has patience for all the erring. After everybody else has east a man off, God, our Mother, comes to the rescue. God leaps to take charge of a bad case. After all the other doctors have got through, the heavenly Physician comes in. Human sym- pathy at such a time does not amount to much. Even the sympathy of the Church, I am sorry to say, often does not amount to much. I have seen the most harsh and bit- ter treatment on the part of those who pro- fessed faith in Christ toward those who were wavering and erring. They tried on the wanderer sarcasm, and 13illingsgate, and caricature, and they triedtittle-tattle. There was one thing they did not try, and that was forgiveness. A soldier in England was brought by a sergeant to the Colonel. "What," says the Colonel, "bringing the Man here again! We have tried every- thing with him." "Oh, no," says the ser- geant, "there is one thing you have not tried. I would like you to try that." "What is that ?" said the Colonel. Said the man, "Forgiveness." The case had not gone so far but that it might take that turn, and so the Colonel said, "Well, young man, you have done so and SO. What is your excuse ?" "I have no excuse,. butI am very sorry," said the man. "We have made up our minds t?,forgive you,4' said the colonel. The tears started. He had never been accosted in that way before. His life was refdrmed, and that was, the starting point for a positively Christian life. Oh, church of God, quit your sarcasm when i a man falls! Quit your rony,quit your tit- tle-tattle and. try forgiveness. God, your Mother, tries it all the time. A man's sins may be like a continent, but God's forgive- ness is like the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, bounding it on both sides. The Bible often talks about God's hand. God's hand is a mother's hand. What it touches it heals. ' If it ignites you it does not hurt as if it were another hand. Oh, you poor wandering soul in sin, it is not a bailiff's hand that seizes you to -day. It is not a hard hand. It is not an unsympa- thetic hand. It is not a cold hand. It is not an enemy's hand. No, it is a gentle hand, a loving hand, a sympathetic hand, a soft hand, a mother's hand. I want to say, finally, that God has a mother's way of putting a 'child to sleep. You know there is no cradle -song like a mother's. After the excitement of the evening it is almost impossible; to get the child to sleep. If the rocking -chair stop a moment, the eyes are wide open; but the mother's patience and the mother's sooth- ing manner keeps on until, after awhile, the angel of slumber puts his wing over the pillow. Well, my dear brothers and sisters in Christ, the time will come when we will be wanting to be put to sleep. The day of our life will be done, and the shadows of the night of death will be gathering around us. Then we want God to soothe us, to hush us to sleep. Let the music at our going not be the dirge of the organ, or the knell of the church. tower, or the drumming of a "dead starch," but let it be the hush of a mother's lullaby. Oh! the cradle of the grave will be soft with the pillow of all the promises. When we are being rocked into that last slumber, I want this to be the cradle song: "As one a -horn a mother comforteth, so will I com- fort you." Asleep in Jesus! Far from thee Thy kindred and their graves may be; But thine is still a blessed sleep, - From which none ever wake to weep. A Scotclunan was dying. His daughter Nellie sat by the bedside. It was Sunday evening, and the bell of the church was ringing, calling the people to church. The good old man, in his dying dream, thought that he was on the way to church, as he used to be when he went in -the sleigh across the river; and as the evening bell - truck up, in his dying dream he thought it WAS the call tiechurch. tie said. "Hark. - children, the Manama ringing; we shall be lite; we must make the • mare step out click 1" He shivered, and then said, "Pull the buffalo robe up closer, my lass! It is coldcrossing the riven; but we will soon be there, Nellie, we will soon be there !" And he smiled and said, "Just there now." No wonder he smiled. The good old man had got to Osumi!). Not the old country church, but the temple in the skies. Just across the river; Mow comfortably did God hush that old man to sleep! As one whom his mother bomforteth, so God com- forteth him. I HEAVY TELECOPE MOUNTINGS. •••••••..••• I The Massive 'earn:Aunt that Will Hold the , Lens of the Yorke* Instrument. The contract for the new Yerkes tele - wiper was forniallY let yesterday to War - nee & Swasey, a Cleveland firm. The mon- ster instrument, which will possess the dis- tinction of being the largest telescope in the world, is to be the gift of Mr. Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago; to the Chicago Univer- sity. The gift will also include an observatory, in which' the telescope will be placed, the entire amount given to the university for thispurpose aggregating half a million dollars. Work on We new instrument will be advanced at once, and it will be pushed to completion as quickly as possible. It is the wish of the company to have the telescope entirely finished in one year. ' The Yerkes telescope will have an ob- ject glass. of forty inches clear aperture, and the total length of the tube, with its ac - cowries, will not be less than seventy-five -feet The instrument complete will have thecenormoue Weight of sixty tons. The tube alone will weigh six tons. The polar • which carrieS the entire -Weight of the tube and its attachments, will weigh five tome The driving clock, which is to auto- matically move this immense tube with a motion corresponding to the -exact appar- ent' Motion Of the I star being observed, will weigh one ton. The weight of the column' supporting the mecheitisin of the telescope willr he len than thirty tons. The in - etre ent will be provided with all the corn - plicated motions whieh are necessary on such a large telescope; The machinery af- fording this variety of movement can be operated by the hand of the astronomer or by electric motors at the will of the obser- ver. The electric motors' are governed by a small switchboard, which can be placed on the operator's table or in any other con- venient position. In design and general conetijuction the lierkes will be very simi- lar to We Lick, although it will be 25 per cent. more powerful than that instrument. Theconstructionof the instrument will, of tiec salty, be undertaken in section. It would require an ordinary six -story build- ing to afford room for its building as a whole. As it is, the second and third floors of the large shops: of the company will be for hriaell removed in order to make room big visitor. —Cleveland Leader. AN.AID TO MEMORY. Collecting a J Debt by a Very Nowell • Method. . A story told recently was of a big burly fellow who used to drive a team from the Kennebec Valley into Piscataquis County, sciling crackers for a bakery. On one of the outlying farms on hie road lived a small man Who had won almost a State reputation for beating his creditors. He met the ped- dler, who; did not know him, and bonisht a , barrel of brackens to be paid forj when he came back along , on his rattan trip. By that timeithe peddler was ted on the pe- culiaritiea'of his customer. e was told at the house he as out in the field and went to seek him. W en he asked for his pay the little fame co ked his head on one side and looked at im with a leer. "Who are you?" he Hailed. "I don't know you. I never bought an crackers of you.", The peddler grabbed im by the collar and began to swish the ir with him. "Don't know me, do you? in't acquainted with me, bey? Don't, know who I am? Never bought any crackers of me, hey ?" "Yes, yes, yes," the victim began to yell, "I knowyou now. r,I remember you. .rn pay; I'll pay." The peddler dropped him, accepted the proffered naoney, and drove on as if nothing unusual had 'happened during his call.— Lewiston JournaL I r Had Business.. "This is an insurance agency, is it not ?" The questiou was asked by a thin, busi- ness -like, nervous -looking man who invaded an office on La Salle street yesterday morn- ing. "Yes, sir, replied the clerk to whom he had spoken. "Fire insurance "Yes, sire' "Do you represent .any company with a cash capital of $2,000,000 or over ?" "We do." "One that you Gan recommend as 'safe, strong and conservative ?" "One of t e best in the world. What deacriptioni f property do you wish to " "Does' it insure against loss by light- ning?" ' "It will gree to cover every possible nail( from fir , no matter what may be the cause' • "And give permission to use coal oil or gasoline stoves?" "Certainly, with the usual restrictions." "I think that is the kind of company I should insure in," said the caller, after a thoughtful pause, "if I had I anything to insure. May I ash for half a (linen blotting pads? Thanks. Good morning,"—Chkage Tribune. A Cheap Feed. In grinding corn into meal for family use, large flouring mills reject the soft part and germ, using Only the flinty poition. Thie refuse can be used only for c ttle feed and is even better for that purpOse than the same weight of clear corn sneal.It is bulky, wbeighing about 25 lbs.- to the ushel. It can be' botight for $10 to $12 per ton and is not on the market, as dealers and far- mers near th mills buy the noatof it. • 'X co For a DonkeY., He thong t, and alWays had thought, that he was orn a humorist. I "Whet quantities of dry grasses you have collected; Mss Jones! Nice room for a donkey to ge into." I "Make yqurself at home," she said, sweetly. I I - Two Kinds of Girls. There are two kinds of girls.' One is the , kind that appears best abroed—the girls that are good for parties ride Oats, etc., and whose chief delight is in all such things; the other ha a ;kind which sp.) ears best at home—the girls that are usefiI and cheerful in the dining -n ons the sick -room, and all the precincts or home. They dtffer widely in 6st-eater. One is freqnently I a tonnent at home ; the ather is a hlessieg. One is a moth, coneunii g everything about her ; the other hi a snnb man, inspiring life and glad• nem along her Datbway. Which will you atrive to be ? An 'Abused Wife. Merried da gliter—Oh, dear ! Such a. time as I do have with that husband of mine. I don't have a minute's peace when he's in the hou e. He is always/calling me to help do som tlhing or other." ' Mother -se" Ihat does he *ant now ?" Deughter-e' He slants me to traiptehaway up stairs just to thread a. nersedle fro him, so he cen mend his clothes."—The New York Weekly. For Iorses an Cattle Use Diqc's Blood •rifler REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. nOOD FARM FOR SAUL—FOY sale, north half ur Lot 81, Concession 2, East Wawanosh, 100 earn ; good lences, good orchard and never -failing creek. Apply to II. J. D. COOKE, Barrister, Myth, or PHILIP IhOLT, Ooderich, • 1278 'LIA.RM FOR SALE. --For sale an improved. 100 ae sore tom, within two and a half miles of the town of &aortas. For further partiouhers apply on the proniesia Lot 12, COBOBBB1011 4 11. R. fa, Tucker- tenitla or brs snail to JOHN PRENDERGIAST, Bea - forth 1.0. 1290 104EN FOR SALE—Splendid 100 sore farm for .r sale, one mile west of Brucefleld station, being Lot 14, Concession 8, Stanley, well underdrained with tile, good buildinge,stone stables, good orchard, never failing well at house and never failing 'spring In the bush. Apply to JOHN DUNKIN, Brumfield P. O. ' 127941 200 taCtr. brlAn IMot-er?1, aril; conce200 essions°17, Grey, is offered for Sale. 120 acres are cleared and the balance is well timbered. Buildings first-class. Orchard, well, &e. School house within 40 rods. Possession given at once if desired. For further particulars as to price , terms, etc apply to MRS. WALKER, Roseville P.O., or to NELSON BROOKER, on the farm, • 1299-tf lamina• IN kiTANLEY FOR SALE.—For sale r cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Road, Stanley, containing 04 acres, of which 62 acres are cleared and in a good state of cultivation. The bal. once 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 Brumfield station, Possession at any time. This is a rare chancre to buy a flret ones farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Omforth. 1144t1 FARMFOR SALE.—For sale, lot 5, concession 1, H. R. 8, township of Tuckersmith, containing one hundred sores more or less, 97 sores cleared, 55 of which are Deeded to grass, well underdrained, three never failing wells. On one flfty of mid 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 mid together or each fifty separately to suit pur- chasers, located a miles from Seaforth, will be sold reasonable and on easy tenter as the proprietor is re- tiring 1 rom fanning. For further particulars apply to the undenigned on the premises, and if by letter to Seaforth P. 0. MICHAEL DORSEY, 1277 -ti MIARM IN McKILLOP FOR SALE.—For sele the .r south half of Iota land lot 2s concession 4, Mc- Hallop, being 150 acres of very choice land mostly in a good state of cultivation. There is a good home and bank barn, a good young bearing orchard and plenty of never failing water. A considerable portion seeded to grass. Convenient to mutate 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 THS HURON Exposrroa Office, Seaforth. JOHN O'BRIEN, Proprietor. 1298-tf DARK IN TUCKERSMITH FOR SALE.—For sale .12 Lot 8, Concession 7, Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres, nearly all cleared, free from stumps, well rinderdrained, and in a high state of eultivation. The land is high and dry, and no waste land. There is a good brick residence, two good barns, one with stone etabling 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. Possession on the let October. Apply on the prem- ises, or address Seaforth P. 0. WM. ALLAN. 12764f laARtri FOR 8ALE.e-For Sale, a0 acres in Smilers -1-• County, Michigan/75 acres cleared and in a good state of cultivation, fit to raise any kind of a crop. It is well fenced and has a good orchard on it, and a never failing well. The buildinp consist of a frame house, stabling for 12 horses with four box stalls, 86 head of cattle and 100 sheep. Ninety ewes were win- tered last year,sold MO 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 store lots or as a whole. These properties aro in good localities, convenient to markets, schools and churches. The proprietor% toned 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, Hanna° County, Michi- gan. 1298x444 • LURE. FOtt SALE.—For sale, that desirable and E conveniently situated farmadjoining the village of Redgerville, being Lot 144 lst Concession, Hay, 1 mile from Rodgerville post -office, and one and a half mile! south of Hensell 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 1/ storeys, 8 rooms, a large kitchen also attached with bedrooms andpantry &c. Good cellar under main part of house, stable holds over a car- load of horses, beerides exercising stables, two barns two drive houses, one long wood -shed, good cow - stable also pig and hen houses, three good wells with pumps. Farm well fenced and underdrained. Veranda attached to house. Good bearing orchard. The farm *ill be sold cheap and on easy terms, as tae undersigned has retired from farming. For par- tibulaes apply to JAMES WHITE, Proprietor'Hen- anal.• 127541 WARM FOR SALE.—For sale that splendid farm ✓ in the township of Hay, belonging to the estate of the late Robert Ferguson. It is composed of Lot 21, in the Oth concession, containing 100 acres more or lees, 80 clear and 20 bush, all well drained: land, clay loam, every foot of the lot being first•clase soil; large brick house with kitchen attachoi •, two large frame barns and shed/rodeo wood she,' and all other necessary eundingiend improvements required 012 a good !anal There is a good bearing orchard on the premises. I Terms—One-third part of purchase money to be paid down on the day of sale, balance to suit purchaser, by paying six per nent. 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 best farms in this township. Land situated on Centre gravel road, three miles to Hensali or Zurich. Apply to MRS. FERGUSON, Exeter, or M. ZELLER, Zurich. ELIZABETH FERGUSON, Administratrix 128841 laIRST CLASS FARM FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 12 .JC Concession 6, H. 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 wellfenced 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 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 two good bank barns, the one 112 feet by 71 feet and the other 86 feet by 68 feet with stabling for 60 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 situatedn miles from Seatorth Station. 5 from Brucefield and Hippen with good gravel re s leading to each. It is also convenient to churches, poet 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. SHILLINGLA'W, Egmonciville P. 0. 1285 tf JUST OUT! HAVE YOU SEEN IT? THE BIG DOTTLE PAIN: -KILLER DOUBLE THE QUANTITY OF o ID SIZE.. pEFE,..4 Old Popular 25c. Price ROBERTS01\ GOING SOUTH On or. about January 1st, it is our intention to get up and get south— about five doors from our present quarters, when we will open out one of the best assorted and most extensive stocks, in one of the finest and largest Fur- niture and Undertaking Warerooms west of 'Toronto. Before removing from our present stand, We wish to reduce the stock. Therefore, we have marked everything away down, placed everything at prices within the reach of /every- body. We are placing before the people an opportunity seldom offered; This is the snap of the season --the opportunity you have been looking 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 -chance. The M. Robertson Furniture Emporium, MAIN STREET, • SEAFORTH. CHRISTMAS GIFTS. a Below we would suggee to our numerous patrons and friends a few of the articles amongst our immense stock of Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Clothing, Hats, Caps, Carpets, Millinery, &c., Which would make lensible and satisfactory Christmas gifts for father, mother, brother, sister, uncles, aunts or cousins Fur Coats, Fur Sets, Fur Caps, Gloves, Hosiery, a Dress for Sarah, a Suit for Johnny, Silk Ties, Silk Handker- chiefs, a pair of Corsets, a new Overcoat, a pair • of Blankets, a White Bed Cover, a pair of Lace Curtains, a Dozen Napkins, a • Linen or Damask Table Cover, a • Bonnet or Trimmed Hat. The above goods being the newest, nobbiest and latest designs, maybe purchased from us at a small advance on cost. We take pleasure in showing intending purchasers through .our various departments at our Bargain Dry Goods, Clothing and Millinery House. PICKARD. McIntosh s Great Cash Sale FOR THE NEXT 30 DAYS Greatly reduced prices for amounts of $5 and tipwardet: Special reduc- tions on large parcels. Stock new and fresh, there being practically 11-0 OLD GOODS_ Dress Goods, Tweeds, Overcoatings, Blankets, Carpets, Underclothing, Cottons, Corsets, Hosiery, Boots and Shoes, Groceries, Patent Medioines, Tea and Dinner Sets, Fancy Lamps, Fine Glassware, Knives and Forks, Spoons, Silverware, &c. Special Value in New Season Teas --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. MoiNTOSH, Corner Store, • Brumfield. GRANBY RUBBERS Honestly Made. Latest Styles, Beautifully Finished. Everybody Wears Them. Perfect Fit. All Dealers Sell Them. THEY WEAR LIKE IRON. -is. 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 sae them before buying elsewhere. T. T COLEMAN. important IN ▪ ND Announcement. ,•••••.1....01111.ana.c, BRIGHT BROTHERS, 8ELAFQPTII 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 --IN THE COUNTY.— Prices Unequalled. We lead the Trade. Remember the Old Stand, Campbell's Block, opposite the Royal Hotel, Seaforth. BRIGHT • BROTHER& ••:•••; BARGAINS BARG INS TO BE IIA AT A. G. A LT'S, DirY. GrOCMS —.— Grocery Store; SEAFORTII. The new Seaforth 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, Rats,-Caps,'Men's and Boys' Readymade Clothing in full suits; a large asso ment of Men'f3 Overcoats; also a 1ar1 e 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. Itar 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, 50c, DICK'S BLISTER,. a0e. 01/aTMENT, We. • DICK'S LINIMENT, frOc. IF HE IS NOT REA.LTHY AND SOUND Every animal that isnot wiwth keeping over winter should have DICK'S BLOOD PlaRIFFER lathe 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 particular,s, and a book of valuable household and farm reoeipes will he sent free. DICK & CO., E 0. Box 482, MONTREAL Bold Everywhere. 180052 HAY 1 CHOICE HAY! 5 and 10 ears. Must be guaranteed good sound baled hay OR NO SALE. Quote bottom price and when you can ship to ALFRED BOYD, Toronto. 1294-9 BUGGIES • WAGONS. OIMMIMMI•IMaimIN•1•••• The greatest number and lanest 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 sm..A.Niclivina. They are from the following celebrated makers : Gananoque Carriage Com- pany, Brantford Carriage Company, and W. J. Thonapson's, of London. These buggies are gpranteed 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 workmamthip. We do no patching, but furnish new parts. I mean what I advertise and back up what I say. Wagons from Chathana, Woodstock and Paris, which is enough about them. Five styles of Road Carts. All kinds of 21.g,ncu1tural Im- plements. 0. 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 reasonable terms. Remember, Mr. Duff is the only agent for the C. P. R. in Seaforth and parties going by the C. 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. J. McKEOWN, -Name? AGENT FOR THE— People's Life insurance Company, —FOR THE -- Counties of Huron, Bruce, Perth and West Grey. 41.1.•••••••01111••••. The People's Life is a purely Mutual Company organized for the purpose of insuringlives, conducted solely in the Intereste of ite policy -holden among whom the profiteers divided, there being no stock- holders to control the company or to take say portion of the surplus. The only Mutual Cowpany in timid& givoug endowment limousine at ordinary life 'lees le THE PEOPLE'S LIFE. Agents wanted Address 1238- J. McKeown, Box 55 Seale znothee M out rthouali jfls 00110, 01 Butrehesala •lXleoyes And ati ex The -carrots 4 1 The eolat • Now, boYBA But go tent1 A Lord, a iiPt4Y ow, A Whom Rejoict • near iBlpF•PIFFnisieste°,1rtittlittizbet:Iihve, il Of that Where Of all TO e Now, I bow Forth Auto Oh, let Be fed:. 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