The Huron Expositor, 1893-01-13, Page 2•
THE HURON EXPOSITOR
JANUARY 131 1893
NEW YEAR'S SERMON.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE:BIBLE, OR GOD
AMONG THE CENTURIES. 'se
*Consider tho 'Years of Many Goners
-
Mons 1P—Dr. Talmage Preaches the Vale-
dictory of the Dying Year—The Old
'Mond and the Stranger—Good-by 1892 I
Welcome 1893 2
BROOKLYN, Jan. 1.—Rev. Dr. Talmage
this morning appropriately took for the
subject of his New Year's Day sermon
"The Chronology of the Bible, or God
Ameng the Centuries." Before the dis-
course the great audience which crowded
the Tabernacle sang the hymn :
Our God, cror help in ages past,
Our hope for year to come.
The text chosen was Deuteronomy xxxii,
7, " Consider the years of many genera-
tions."
At 12 o'clock last night, while so many
good people were watching, an old friend
passed out of our homes and a stranger en-
tered. The old friend making valedictory
was 1892; the stranger arriving is 1893.
The old friend was garrulous with the
occurrences of many days, but the stranger
put hi a finger over his lip and said nothing
and seemed charged with many secrets and
mysteries. I did not see either the depar-
ture or the arrival, but was sound asleep,
thinking that was for me the best way to
be wide awake now. Goodby, 1892! Wel-
come, 1893!
As an army is divided into brigades and
eziments and companies, and they observe
this order in their march, and their tread is
majestic, so the time of the world's exist-
ence is divided into an army divinely com-
rna.ncled. The eras are the brigades the cen-
turies are the regiment, and the years are
the companies Forward into the eternity
- past, oat of the eternity to come ! For-
ward is the command, and nothing can halt
them, even though the world should die.
While obeying my text "Consider theyears
of many generations." /propose to speak
of the "Chronology of the Bible or God
Amoog the Centuries." ;
THE DIVINE CHRONOLOGY.
We make a distinction between time and
eternity, but time is only a piece of etern-
ity, and chronology has been engaged in
the snblime work of dividing up this por-
tion of eternity that we call time into com-
partmentand putteng events in their right
compartment. It is as much an injustice
against the past to wrongly arrange its
events ite it would be an injustice if.
through neglect of chronological accuracy,
it should, in the far distant future, be said
that America was discovered in 1776, and
the Declaration of Independence was signed
in 1492, and Washington born on the 22nd
of March, and the civil war of the United
States was fought in 1840.
As God puts all the events of time in the
right place let us be carefor that we do not
put them in the wrong place. The chron-
ology of the Bible takes six steps, but they
are steps so loog it makes us hold our
breath as we watch the movement. From
Adam to Abraham. From Abraham to the
exodus out of Egypt. From the exodus to
the foundation of Solomon's temple. From
the foundation of Solomon's temple to the
destruction of that temple. From the de-
struction of the temple to the return from.
Babylonish captivity. From Babylonish
captivity to the birth of Christ.
Chronology takes pen and pencil, and
calling astronomy and history to help says:
"Let us fix one event from which to calcu
late everything. Let it be a star, the
Bethlehem star, the Christmas star." And
' from that we go back and see the world was
created 4,004 years before Christ; the
deluge came 2,348 years before Christ; the
exodus out of Egypt occurred 1,491 years
before Christ, and Solomon's temple was
destroyed 586 years before Christ. Chron-
ology enters the first chapter of Genesis and
says the day mentioned there is not a day
of twenty-four hours, but of ages, the word
there being translated as "day" in other
places meaning ages. And so the Bible ac-
count of the creation and the geologists'
account of the creation are completely har-
monious.
Chronology enters the book of Daniel and
says that the words "time and a half" mean
a year and a half. Chronology enters at
another point and shows us that the seasons
of the year were then only two—summer
and winter. We find that the Bible year
was 360 days, instead of 365 : that the day
was calculated from six o'clock in the morn-
ing to six o'clock at night; that the night
was divided into four watches—namely, the
late watch, the midnight, the cock crow-
ing, the early evarch. The clock and watch
were invented so long after the world began
their mission that the day was not very
sharply divided in Bible times.
THE DIAL OF AHAZ.
Ahaz had a sundial, or a flight of stairs
with a column at the top, and the shadow
which that column threw on the steps be-
neath indicated the hour, the shadow
lengthening or withdrawing from step to
step. But the events of life and the events
of the world moved so slewly, for the most
part, in Bible times that they had no need
of such timepieces as we stand on our man-
tels or carry in our pockets in an age when
a. man may have a half dozen or a dozen en-
gagements for one day and needs to know
the exact minute for each one of them. The
earth itself in Bible timeswas the chief time-
piece, and it turned on its own axis and
that was a day, and once around the sun
that was a year. It was not until the
Fourteenth century that the almanac was
born the almanac that we toss carelessly
about not realizing that it took the accumu-
lated ingenuity of more than 5,000 years to
make one.
Chronology had to bring into its service
the montunents of Egypt, and the cylinders
Of Assyria, and the bricks of Babylon, and
the ppery of Nineveh, and the medals
struckt)it Antioch, for the battle of Actium,
and oAl the heiroglyphics that could be de-
ciphered, and had to go into the extremely
delicate business of asking the ages of
Adam and Seth and Enoch and Methuselah
who, after their 300th year, wanted to be
thought young. I think it must have been
in recognition of the stupendous work of
making an almanac that all the days of the
week are named after the gods, Sunday
after the sun; which was of old worshipped
as a god.
Monday, after the moon, which was also
worshipped as a god. Tuesday, after Tues -
co, the god of war. Wednesday, after
Woden, the chief god of the Scandinavians.
Thursday, after Thor, the god of thunder.
Friday, after Free, the goddess of marriage,
and Saturday after Saturn. The old Bible
year began with the 25th of March. Not
until 1752 did the first of the month of
January net the honor in legal documents
in Englan.d of being called the first day of
the year. Improvements all along have
been made in chronology until the calendar,
and the almanac, and the clock, and the
watch seemel to have reached perfection,
and all the eations of Christendom have
eitnilarity of tittle calculations and have
adopted what ia called '-'near style," except
fauaeia, which keeps what is called the "old
.tele," and is twelve days different, so that,
writine from :here, if you wish to be accu-
rate, you date you !letter Jan. I and Jan.
13, or Dec. 10 and Dec. 22.
It is something to thank God for that the
modes are so complete for calculating the
cycles, the centuries, the decades, the
years, the months, the days, the hours, the
seconds. Think of making appointments,
as in the Bible days, for the time of the new
moon. Think of making one of the watches
of the night in the Bible times a rooster's
crowinte. The Bible szLira "Pnf,,*.•L. --
crew orlon shalt deny me thrice." "If the
nester cometh at cockcrowing," and that
was the way the midnight watch was indi-
cated. 'The crowing of that barnyard bird
has alWays been most uncertam. The
.crowing is at the lowest temperature of the
night, and the amount of de* and the di-
rection of the wind may bring the lowest
temperature at 11 o'clock at night or 2
o'clock in the morning 'and it any one of
six hours. Jost before a rain the crowing
of chanticleer in the night is almost per-
' iultASIIIMMENT OF Timm
petual.
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Compare these modes of marking time
with our modes of marking time, when. 12
o'clock is A.2 o'clock, and 6 o'clock is 6
o'clock, and 10 0'0104 is 10 o'clock, and in-
dependent Of all weather, and then ' thank
Godthatyeti live now. But notwithstand-
ing all the iMperfect modes of marking
hours or ydara or centuries Bible chronol-
ogy never trips up, never• falters, never
contradicts itself, and here is one of the
best argumentis for the authenticity of the
Scriptures.
If you earl prove an alibi in the courts,
and you can prove beyond doubt that you
were in some particular place at the time
you were charged with doing or saying
something ih quite another place, you gain
the victorya and infidelity has tried to
prove an alibi by contending that events
and circumstances in the Bible ascribed to
certain timeSlmust have taken place at
some other time, if they rex* place at all.
But this book's chronology has never been
caught at faith. It has been proved that
when the Hebrews went into Egypt there
were only seventy of them, and that when
they came out there- were 3,000,000 of
them. "Now," says infidehty, with a guf-
faw that it cannot surpress, "what an
absurdity! They went down into Egypt
seventy and came out 3,000,000. That is a
falsehood on the face of it. Nations do not
increafle in that ratio." ,
But,'my skeptical friend, hold a moment.
The Bible says the Jews were 430 years in
Egypt, and that explains the increase from
seventy persons to 3,000,000, for it is no
more, but rather less, than the ordinary in-
crease of nations. The Pilgrim Fathers ,
came to America in the Mayflower—one
small shipload of passengers—less than 300
years ago, and now we have a nation ot 60,-
000,000. Where, then, is the so-called im-
possibility that the seventy Jews who went
into Egypt in 430 years became 3,000,000?
Infidelity wrong and Bible chronology
right.
Now stop and reflect. WIty is it that
this sublime subject of Bible chronology
hss been so neglected, and that the most of
yoa have never given ten minutes to the
uonsideration of it, and that this is the
first sermon ever preached on this stupen-
dous and overwhelming theme ? We have
stood by the half day or the whole day at
grand reviews and seen armies pass. Again,
and again and again on the Champs Elysees
Frenchmen by the hundreds of thousands.
have stood and watched the bannered
armies go by, end] the huzzA, has been three
miles ?Ong and until the populace were so
hoarse that they could huzza no longer
But put all grand reviews togetner, and
they are tame compared with the review
which on this New Year's day you from the
pew and I from the pulpit witness.
Hear them pas in chronological orderz--
all the years before the flood; all the years
since the flood; decades abreast.; centuries
abreast; epochs abreast; millenniums
abreast; Egyptian civilization, Babylonian
populations, Assyrian dominions, armies of
Persian, Grecian Peloponnesian and Roman
wars ; Byzanthie empire, Saracenic host,
crusaders of the first, the second, third and
the last—avalanche of men; Dark Ages in
sombre epaulets and brighter agestal-
i
shields of silver and helmets of gold; It ly,
Spain, France, Russia, Germany, Engl nd
and America, past and present dynasties,
feudal domains, despotisms monarchies, re-
publics, ages on ages, ages on ages, passing
to -day in a chronological review, until one
has no more power to look upon the ad-
vancing columns, now brilliant, now squa-
lid, now garlanded with peace, now crimson
with slaughter, now horrid with ghastli-
ness, now radiant with love and joy.
THE WORLD GETTIMG BETTER.
The chronological stutly affords among
many practical thoughts especially two—
the one encouraging to the least degree and
the other startling. The encouraging thought
is that the main drift of the centuries has
been toward betterment, with only here
and there a stout venereal, Grecian civili-
zation was a vaat improvement on Egyptian
civilization, and Roman civilization a va3t
improvement ori Grecian civilization, and
Christian civilization is a vast improvement
on Roman civilization.
What was the boasted age of Pericles
compared with the age of Longfellow and
Tennyson? What was Queen Elizabeth as
a specimen of moral womanhood compared
with Queen Victoria? What Were the
cruel warriors of olden times compared
with the most distinguished warriors of the
last half century, all of them as much dis-
tinguished for kindness and good morals as
for prowess—the two military leaders of
one civil war on northern and southern side
communicant members of Christian churches
es and their home life as pure as their
public life?
Nothing impresses me in this chronolog-
ical review more than the fact that the
regiments of years are better and better
regiments as the troops move on. I thank
God that you and I were not born any
sooner than we were born. • How could we
have endured the disaster of being born in
the Eighteenth or Seventeenth or Sixteenth
century? Glad am 1 that we are in the
regiment now passing the reviewing stand
and that our children will pass the stand in
a still better regiment. God did not build
this world for a slaughter house or a den of
infamy.
A good deal of cleaning housewill .be ne-
cessary before this world becomes as clean
and sweet as it on tht to be,but the brooms
and the scrubbingrubes and the uphol-
sterers and plumbers are already busy, and
when'. the world gets fixed up as it, will be,
if Adam and Eve ever visit it, as I expect
they will, they will say to each other.
"Well, this beats paradise when we lived
there, and the pears and the plumbs are
better than we plucked from the first, trees,
and tho wardrobes are more complete, and
the climate is better." Since I settled in
my own mind the fact that God was
stronger than the devil I have never lost
faith in the emparadisaaion of the planet.
With the exception of a retritgression in
the Dark Ages the movement of the world
has been on and on, and up mad up, and I
have two jubilant hosannas—one for the
closing year and the other for the new year.
sow IS YOUR ONLY CERTAIN TIME.
But the other thought coming out of this
subject is the Biblical chronology, and in-
deed all chronology, is urging the world to
more punctuality and immediateness. What
an unsatisfactory and indefinite thing it
must have been for two business men in the
time of Ahaz to make anliappointment, say-
ing, "We will settle that business matter
to -morrow when the shadow on the dial of
Ahaz reaches the tenth step from the top,"
or "I will meet you in the street called
Straight in Damascus in the time of the new
moon," or when asked in a courtroom what
time an occurrence took place should answer,
was during the time of the latter rain,"
or, "it was at the time of the third crowing
of the barnyard."
You and I remember when ministers of
the Gospel in the country, giving oot a no-
tice of an eventrig service, instead of saying
at 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock, would say, "The ser-
vice will begin at early candle light."
Thank God for chronological achievements
which have ushered in calendars and al-
manacs and clocks arid watches, and at so
cheap a rate all may possess them. Chron-
ology, beginning by aoureciatime the value.
or years anti tne value os nays, has item on
until it cries out, "Man, Immortal; woman,
immortal; look out for that minute; look
out for that second 1"
We talk a great deal about the value of
time,
but will never appreciate its value
untilthe last frfgment of it has passed out
of our possession forever. The greatest
fraud a man oan cpmmit is to rob another of
his time. Hear it ye laggards, and repent!
All the fingers of chronology point to pone.
tuality as one of the graces. The minister
or the lecturer or business man wbo comes
to his place ten minutes after the appointed
time commits a crime the enormity of
which can only be estimated by multiplying
the number of persons present by ten. If
the engagement be made with five persons,
he has stolen fifty minutes, for he is ten
minutes too late, and he has robbed each
of the five persowi of ten minutes apiece,
and ten times five are fifty.
If there are 500 persons present, and he
be ten ininutes too late, he has coinmitted
a robbery of 5,000 minutes, for ten times
500 are 5,000, and 5,000 minutes are 83
hours, which make more than three days.
The thief of dry goods' the thief of bank
bills is not half so badas the thief of time.
Dr. Rush, the greatest and busiest physi-
cian of his day, appreciated the value of
jtime, and when asked how lie .had been
'able to gather so much information for his
books and lectures he replied : "I have
been able to do it by economizing my time.
I have not sp,pnt one hour in amusement in
thirty years. And taking a i blank -book
from his pocket he said, "I fill a book like
this every week with thoughtal that occur
to me and facts collected in the rooms of
my patients."
THE PERILS Oil DELA y.
Napoleon appreciated the vaiiie of time
when the sun was sinking upon Waterloo,
and he thought that a littlemore time
would retrieve his fortunes, anihe pointed
to the sinking sun and said,
"What would
I not give to be this day possessed of the
power of Joshua and enabled to retard thy
march for two hours !" The good old wo-
man appreciated the value of time when at
ninetyl-three years of age shel said, "The
judge of all the earth does not mean that I
shall have any excuse for not being pre-
pared to meet him." Voltaire, , the blatant
infidel, appreciated the value of time when
in his dying moments he said to his doctor,
"I will give you half of what I am worth
if you will give me six months of life," and
when told that he Could not live six weeks
he burst into tears and said, "Then I shall
go to hell."
John Wesley appreciated the value of
time when he stood on his steps waiting for
a delayed carriage to take him to an
pointment, saying, "I have lost ten min-
ntes, forever. • Lord Nelson appreciated
the value of time when he said, "I owe
everything in the world to being always a
quarter of an hour before hind.' A clock -
maker in one of the old English towns ap-
preciated the value of time when he put on
the front ofthe town clock the words,
"Now or when ?" Mitchel, the astronomer,
appreciated the value of time w en he said,
"I have been in the habit of calc lating the
value of a thousandth part of a sec nd.
The minister of the Gospel did not ap-
preciate the value of time who during a
season of illness, instead of employing his
time in useful reading and writing, wrote
a silly religious romance, which in some
unknown way /Came, into the 'possession of
the famous Joe Smith, who introduced the
book as a divine revelation, which became
the foundation of Morm,onism, the most
beastly abomination of nil time. They
best appreciate the value of time whose
opportunities of repentance and usefulness
are all gone.
THE END MUST COME.
But do not let us get an impreseion from
chronology that because the years of time
have been so long in 'procession they are to
go on forever. Matter is not eternal. No,
no! If you watch half a day, or a whole
day, or two days, as I once did, to see a
military procession, you remember the last
brigade, and the last regiment, and the last
company finally passed on, add as we rose
to go we said to erieh other, "It is all over."
So this mighty procession of earthly
years -will terminate. Just what I have no
power te prognosticate, but science con-
firms the, Bible prophecy that the earth can-
not always last. Indeed there has been a
fatality of worlds. The moon is merely the
corpse of what it once was, and scientiste
have again and again gone up in their ob-
servatories to attend the deathbed of dying
worlds and have seen them creniated. So
I am certain, both from the word of God
and science; and the world's chronology
will sooner or later come to its last chapter.
The final century will arrive and pass on,
and then will come the final deoade, and
then the final year, and the final month,
and the final day. The last spring will
swing its last censer of apple bloisoms and
the last winter bank its snow. The last
sunset will burn like Moscow and the last
morning radiate the bilk The clocks will
strike their last hour, and the watches will
tick their last sound. No incendiaries will
be needed to rile' hither and yon with
torches to set the world on fire.
Chemistry teaches us that there is a very
inflammable element in water. While
oxygen wakes up a part of the water the
other part of the water is hydrogen, and
that is very combustible. The oxygen
drawn out from the water, the inflammable
hydrogen will put instantly into conflagra-
tion the II -admen and Savannahs and Mis-
sissippis and Rhines and Urals and Data -
Jibes, and Atlantic and Pacific and Indian
and Mediterranean seas. And then the
Angel of God descending from the throne
might put one foot in the surf of the sea
and the other on the beach and cry to the
four winds of heaven : "Time was! But
time shall be no longer !" Yet found in
Christ pardoned and sanctified, we shall
welcome the day with more gladness than
you ever welcomed a Christmas or New
Year's morn.
Tho Queen Congratulates Gladistone.
LONDON, Jan. 2.—Queen Victoria was
arM'ang the earliest to congratulate William
E. Gladstone on the arrival of his 84th
birthday. : Her telegram was unusually
gracious in tore. Hundreds of other tele-
grams and letters have been received, many
at Havvarden and others at Biarritz, where
Nr. and Mrs. Gladstone are staying. Mr.
Gladstone is said to be enjoying excellent
heaith.
Laundering, Silk Handkerchiefs.
Two Christmases egi I receivel a set of
silk handkerchiefs,. Scene were cream
white, embroi !era in the same shade,others
had colored borders, Sum especially having
an edge of delicate blue forgenme-nota, the
scallops worked in pale piek, When I
showed them to thy friends one and all ex -
clamed : 'Beautiful ! but no good ; w hen
they are soi!ed yOu can't use them again,"
I wore them frequently around my neck,
therefore they had soiled lines where the
silk came in contect with my hair. Wash-
ing at length became a necessity, and I re-
eolved to do the Wolk myself, so I proceeded
thus: I dippedeach handkerchief into
blood • wax m water intc which 1 bad shaved
a small quantity,of Ivory soap, When sat-
urated, 1 rolled the silk between both hands,
dipped again, re;rolled, redipped, rinsed in
clean blood -warm stater. lhen, catching
by two corners, I shcok and shook the arti-
cle until it was' nearly dry, then ironed
with a warm, not hot iron, until quite dry.
Dat was ready two yeare ago, and thepro-
cess hs been repeated many times sirice,but
they are. still as soft and unfaded as on the
day they reaehed me.
No Condlion Powders like
D!ck's Blood Purifier. „
REAL ESTATE FOli, SALE.
GOOD FARM FOR f4ALE.—For sale, north half
Lot 81, Concession 2, Beet Wawanosh, 100
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creek.' Apply to H. J. D. COOKE? Barrister, Blyth,
or PHILIP ROA Goderich. - 1278
tIARII FOR SALE,—For sale en improved, 100
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Veranda attached to house. Good bearing orchard.
The farm will be sold cheap and on easy terms, as
the undersigned has retired from farming. For par-
tieulers apply to JAMES WHITE, Proprietor, Hen-
sel!. 1275-tf
VIM CLASS FARM FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 12
12. Concession 6, H. R. S Tuckersmith, containing
100 acres of choice land, nearly all cleared and in a
high slate of cultivation, with 90 acres seeded to
grass. It is thoroughly underdrained and well fenced
with straight Tall, board and wire f6110410 and does
not contain a foot of waste land. There is also an
orchard of twe acres of choice fruitarees ; twe good
webs, one at the house, the other with a wind -mill
on it at tbe out buildings, on the promises is an ex-
cellent frame house, containing eleven rooms and
cellar under whole house, and soft and hard watcr
convenient. There are two good bank barns, the one
82 feet by 73 feet and the other 88 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 situated 31 niiles from Seaforth
Station, 6 from Brumfield and Kippen with good
gravel rc 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. SHILLINGLAW, Egmondville P. 0.
1286 ti
ASPLENDID CHANCE.—The undersighed now
offers for sale those excellent farms in the
township of Stanley, belonging to the estate of the
late John Ross. The farms consist of Lots 8 and a,
Concession 1, London Road, Stanley, and are well
situated, being convenient to schools, 8 miles from
Seaforth and the same distance from Clinton, 1/
miles from Brucefield station and the same distance
from Kippen station and 6 miles from Hensel!, with
good gravel roads leading to each place. Each farm
contains 100 acres, more or less, every foot of which
Is first class soil and in a high state of cultivation.
They are thoroughly underdrained and well fenced
with rail, board and wire fences. On lot 9 there are
80 acrea cleared and free from stump, the remainder
good hardwood bush, good frame barn 40x60 feet and
horse and cow stables adjoining. There is also an
orchard of 11 acres al choice fruit trees. One good
well, convenient. Twenty one acres seeded to grass,
9 acres to fall wheat, the remainder is all plowed and
ready for crop in the spring. On lot 8 there are 90
acres cleared and free from stumps, the remainder
good hardwood bush, large fmme barn large com-
fortable horse and cow stablee and other nemetery
out buildings, and large brick house suitable for a
large family. There are three wells of good water,
one at the house, one convenient to the stabam and
the other at the rear of the farm. There is also an
orchard of 81 acres of the choicest fruit tree, There
are 24 acres seeded to gram, 10 acres of fall wheat,
the remainder is all web plowed and ready for pring
crops. This is a rare chance. The farms will be
sold on reasonable terms separately or together.
For further particulars apply on the premises, or by
letter to, MRS. JOHN RO S, 13rucefie1d 1'. 0*
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Happy.
New Year
TO AJLIi
Whatever success we have had in the past in contributmg to this most de-
sirable condition of things, we can assure the benevolent people of Seaforth
and surrounding country that this year we are in a position to eclipse all
former records. We have bought in better markets, in larger quantities, and
we are determined to give our customers the benefit of it. Our store is too
small to display all our stock to the best advantage. We would, there-
fore, respectfully request all who are interested in seeing and securing JUST
WHAT THEY WANT AT THE RIGHT PRICE, to call early and avoid
the rush and excitement of Christmas Eve. We will be pleased to show you
our goods and prices, and we think it will be to your advantage to see them.
You need not purchase, as you may select and have the goods laid aside for
you till you require them. There area lot of bargains just now that will be
picked up before the 24th. Who are to have them first? We have a great
many beautiful goods that cannot be had elsewhere, and we have also a great
many lines that can be had elsewhere, but you can save money by purchasing
from us. See our assortment of Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books, beautifully
bound volumes; Albums, Portfolios, Toilet Cases, Leather Goods, Games,
Purses, Mirrors, Perfumery, Dolls, Doll Carriages, Cradles, Picture Frames,
Brackets, China Ornaments, Smokers' Sets or Pipes, Cigar Cases, Dressing
Cases, Fountain Pens, Pocket Pencils and hundreds of other useful and suit-
able articles which we cannot classify, but come and see, even if you have to
come twenty miles, it will pay you to be at
LIIMSDEN - & - WILSON'S,
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FEAFORTHI • g•
• ONTARIO.
ROBERTSON GOENG SOUTH,
On or about January lst, 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 1st is your special chance.
The M. Robertson , Furniture Emporium
MAIN STREET,' - - SEAFORTH.
CHRISTMAS GIFTS.
Below we would suggest 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 sensible and satisfactory Christmas gifts for father,
mother, brother, sister, uncles, aunts or cousins:
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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, may be
purchased from us at, a small advance oncost. We take pleasure in showing
intending purchasers through our various departments at our Bargain Dry
Goods, Clothing and Millinery House.
WM. PICKARD.
THE - .SEAFORTH - FOUNDRY.
Having completed rebuilding and repairing the old foundry, and introduca
de the latest equipments and the most improved)machines, I am now prepared
to dc
All Kinds of Machine Repairs
AND GENERAL FOUNDRY WORK.
eiMmemere •••••••••01••
LAND ROLLERS.
We are now turning out some of the best improved Land Rollers, and
invite the farmers to see them before buying elsewhere.
T. T COLEMAN.
Important Announcement.
BRIGHT ofkoTHERS,
sm.s..m-gcnErzii
The Leading Clothiers 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 Unequalled. We lead the Trade.
Remember the Old Stand, Campbell's Block, opposite the Royal Hotel,
Seaforth.
BRIGHT BROTHERS.
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BARGAINS
BARGAINS
TO BE HAD AT
A. G. AULT'S,
JDIR7Y" G-C3CODS.
—AND—
Grocery Stores
SEAFORTH.
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 -Hats, Caps, Men's
and Boys' Readymt: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; therefor; 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.
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,
50e.
DICK'S
BLISTER,
50c.
'DICK'
OINTMENT,
50c.
DICK'S
LINIMENT,
50c.
IF Ef KIS NOT HEALTHY AND SOUND
Every animal that is not worth keeping over winter
should have DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER ur the epring.
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 postai card for full particulars, and a benk
of valuable household and farm recelpes will be /tent
free.
DICK & CO., P. 0. Box 482; MONTREAL nold
Everywhere.
1200,01 ,
BUGGIES
—AND_
WAGON S
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:
SMA_MIORTIX..
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 iA
material or wOrkmanship. We do no
patching, but furnish new parts. I
mean what I advertise, and back up
what I say. Wagons from Chatham,
Woodstock and Paris, Which is enough
about them. Five styles of Road
Carts. All kinds of Agricultural Im-
plements.
0. C. WiLLSON, Seaforth.
The Kippen Mills.
Gristing and Sawing Cheaper than the
Cheapest.
JOHN rifi'NEVIN
Desires to thank the public for their liberal patronage
in the past, and be wishes to inform them that he
can now do better for them than ever before. He
will do chOpping for 4 cents per bag from now to the
1st of May, and satisfaction guaranteed.
GRISTING also a specialty, and as good Flour as
can be madeguaranteed.
LOGS WANTED.—He will pay the highest jnioe
in mob for Hard Maple, Basswood and Soft Elm Jogs
Mac Custom Sawing promptly attended to.
IdeNevin gives his personal attention to the busies,
and carguarantee the best satisfaction every time.
Remember the Kippen Mills.
JOHN MoNEVIN.
FOR MANITOBA.
Parties going to Manitoba /should
call on
W. -G. DUFF
The agent for the Canadian Pacific
Railway, Seaford', who can give
through tickets to4ny part of Mani-
toba and the Northwest on the most
reasonable terms.
Remember, Mr. Duff is the only
agent for the 0. P. R. in Seaforth 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.
McKEOWN,
—DISTRICT AGENT FOR THE—
People's Life Insurance Company,
—FOR THE—
Counties of Huron, Bruce, Perth and
Weat Grey.
•••1=OPIRMII•••••11.
The People's Life is a purely Mutual Company
organized for the purpose of insuring brae, conducted
solely in the interests of ite policy -holders among
whom the profits are divided, there being /30 stook -
holders to oontrol the company or to take any portion
of the surplus. The only Mutual Cowpony in Canada
Fiving endowment insurance at ordinary life rates
te THE PEOPLE'S LIFE. Agents wanted Address
J. McKeown,
1%8 Box 56 Seaforth
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