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THE"- HURON EXPOSITOR,
JANUARY 20 1893 _
GOD AMONG THE MIA
DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE,
DENIZENS OF THE AIR. -
Surely He Who Planned Such Ingenioeisly
Constructed Nest,. as Those of the Boo -
link and SparrowWill Also rztovide a
Horne for Min.
BROOKLYN, January 8.—Dr. Talmage
thia morning continued the course of ser-
mons begun a few Sabbaths ago. Having
preached about "The Astronomy of the
Bible; or, God Among the Stars," and the
"Chrendogy of the Bible; or, God,
Among the Centuries," this morning
discoarsed on the "Ornithology of the
Bible; or, God Among the Birds." The
text was, Matthew 6: 26: "Behold the
fowls of the air."
There is silence now in all our January
forests, except- as the winds whistle through
the bare branches. Our Northern woods
are deserted concert -halls. The organ -
late in the temple of nature are hymnless.
Trees which were full of carol and chirp
and chant are now waiting for the coming
back of rich plumeand watb1Mg voices,
solo; duets, quartets, cantatas and Te
Deums. But the Bible is full of birds at
all seasons, and prophets and patriarchs
and apostles and evangelists and Christ
Himself employ them for moral and
religious purposes. My text is an extract
from the Sermon on the Mount, and
perhaps it was at a moment when a flock
of birds flew past that Christ waved his
hand toward them, and said; "Behold the
fowls of the air." And so in this course
of sermons on God Everywhere, I preach
to- you this third sermon concerning !the
Ornithology of the Bible, or God among
the Birds.
-Most of the other sciences you may study
or not study as you please. Use your own
judgment, exercise your own taste. But
about this science of ornithology we have
no option. The divine command is posi-
tive when it says in my text, "Behold the
fowls of the air !" That is, study their
habits. Examine their colors. Notice
theirspeed. See the hand of God in their
cOnstruution. It is easy for me to obey the
cOrnmand of the text for I was brought up
among this face of wings and from boyhood
heard their matins at sunrise, and their
veepers at sunset. Their nests have been
to me fascination, and ray satisfaction is
that I never robbed one or them, any more
than I would steal a ehfld from, a cradle,
for a bird is the child of the sky, and its
nest is the cradle. They are almost human
for they have their loves and hates, affini-
ties, 8,nd antipathies, understand joy and
grief, have conjugal and material instinct,
_wage wars, and entertain jealousies, have a
language of their OWD, and powers of
association. Thank God for birds and
skies full ot them. It is useless to expect
to understand the Bible unless we study
natural history. Five hundred and ninety-
three times does the Bible allude to the
facts of natural history, and I do not
wonder that it . makes so many allusions
ornithologicalThe skies and the caverns
of Palestine are friendly to the winged
creatures, and so many fly and roost, and
nest and hatch in' that region that inspired
writers do not have tar to go to get ornitho-
logical illustration of Divine truth. There
are ever forty speOes of birds recognized in
the Scriptures. 'Oh, what a variety of
wings in Palestine! The dove, the robin,
the eagle, the cormorant, or pluming bird,
hurling heal from sky to wave and with
long beak clutching its prey; the thrush,
which especially dislikes a crowd, the par-
tridge, the hawk, bold and .littiless hover-
ing head to windward, while watching for
prey; the swan, home among the marshes
and with feet so constructed it can walk on
the leaves of water plants; the raven, the
lapwing, malodorous and. in the Bible de-
nounced as inedible, though it has extraor-
dinary head-dress; the stork, the ossifrage,
that always had a habit of dropping on a
stone the turtle it had lifted and so killing
it for food, and. on one occasion mistook the
bald head of sEschylus, the Greek peet, for
a white stone, and dropped a turtle upon it,
killing the famous Greek; the cuckoo, with
°reedited head and crimson throat and wings
snow -tipped, but too lazy to build its own
nest, and so having the habit of depositing
its eggs in nests belonging to other
birds; the blue' jay, the grouse, the
plover, the magpie, the kingfisher,
the pelican, which is the caricature
of 8,11 the feathered. creation; the owl, the
goldfinch, the bittern, the harrier, the bul-
bul, the osprey, the vulture that king of
scavengers, with neck covered with repul-
sive down instead of attractive feathers; the
quarrelsome starling,' the swallow flying a
mile a minute, and sometimes ten hours in
succession; the heron, the quail, the pea-
cock, the ostrich, the lark, the crow, the
kite, the bat, the blackbird and many others,
with all colors, all sounds, all styles of
flight, all habits, all architecture of nests,
leaving nothing wanting in suggestiveness.
They were at the creation placed all around
on the rocks and in the trees and on the
ground to serenade Adam's arrival, They
took their places on Friday as the, first man
was made on. Saturday. Whatever else he
had or did not, have, he should have music.
The first sound that struck the human ear
was a bird's voice.
Yea, Christian geology (for you know
t here is a Christian geology as well as an
intideleseology). ehristiv.n geology conies
in and helps the Bible show what, we owe
to the bird creation. Before the human
race came into this world, the world was
eccupied by reptiles, and by all style of
deetruetive monsters, millions of creatures
enethesoine and hideous. God sent huge
bird e to clear the earth of these creatures;
before Adarn and Eve were created. The
remains of these birds have been found im-
bedded in the rocks. The skeleton of one
eagle has been found twenty feet in height,
and fifty feet from tip of Wing to tipof wing.
Many at :nit sof beaks and claws were neces-
sary to clear the earth of creatures that
would have destroyed the human race
with one clip. I like to find this harmony
of revelation and science, and to have de-
monstrated that the God who made the
world made the Bible.
Moses, the greatest lawyer of all time
and a great man for facts, had enough senti-
inent and poetry and. musical taste to weh
eome the illumined wings and the voices
divinely drilled into the firet, chapter of
Genesis. How should Noah, the old shin -
carpenter, six hundred years of age, find
out when the world was tit again for human
reeidence after the universalfreshet ? A
bird will tell and nothing else can. No
man can come down from the mountain to
invite Noah and :his family out to terra
firma, for the rnomitains were submerged.
As a bird first heralded the human race into
the world, now a bird will help the human
race back to the world that -had shipped a
sea that whelmedeverything. Noah stands
on Sunday mornint at the window of the
ark, in his hand a, cooing dove so
gentle, so innocent, so affectionate, and he
said: "No, my little dove, Ely away over
these waters, explore, and come back and
tell us whether it, is safe to land." After
a long flight it returned hungry and weary
and wet, and by its looks arrd manners said
to Noah and and his family : "The world
is not fit for you to disembark." Noel:
waited a week, and next Sunday lin ening
he let the dove fly again for a second. ex-
ploration, and Sunday evening it came back
with a leaf that had the sign of just havine
been plucked from a living fruit tree, and
the bird reported the world would do toler-
ably well tor a bird to live in, but not yet,
sufficiently recovered for human residence.
Noah waited another week, and next Sun-
day morning he sent out the dove on the
ultra expioranon, Mit it returned not, tor
it found the world so attractive now it did
not want to be caged again, and then the
emi rants from the ante-deltivian world
when
lanet.
bird's
sow,
lan ed. It was * bird that told the
to take possession of the resuscitated
So the human race was saved by a
wing; for attempti to land too
they would have perg ed.
Aye, here comes a4rhole flock of doves—
rock-doves, ring -doves, stock-doves—and
they make laillah think of great revivals
and great awakenings, when fends fly for
shelter like a flock of pigeons swooping to
the openings of a pigeon coop, and he cries
out: "Who are these that fly as doves to
their windows ?" David, with Saul after
him, and flying from cavern to cavern, com-
pares himself to a desert partridge, a bird
which especially haunts rocky places, and
boys and hunterito this day take after it
with sticks for the partridges runs rather
than flies. David, chased and clubbed and
harried of pursners, says: "I am hunted as
a partridge on the mountains." Speaking
of his forlorn condition, he says: 'I am
like a pelican of the wilderness." Describ-
ing his loneliness, he says: "I am a swal-
low alone on a housetop." Ilezekia.h, in
the emancipation of his sickness, compares
himself to a crane, thin and wasted. Job
had so much trouble that he could not
sleep nights, and he described his insomnia
by saying: "I ani a companion to fo‘vis."
Isaiah compares the desolations of ban-
ished fermi to an owl and bittern and
cormorant ainong a city's ruins. Jeremiah
describing the creelty of parents toward
children, compares them to the ostrich, who
leaves its eggs in the sand uncared for, cry-
ing: "The daughter of my people is become
like the ostriches of the wilderness."
Among the provisions piled on Solomon's
bountiful table, the Bible speaks of "fatted
fowl." The Israelites in the desert got
tired of manna and they had quails--quaih
for breakfast, quails for dinner, quails for
supper, and they died of quails. The Bible
refers to the migratory habits of the bird,
and says: "The stork knoweth her appoint-
ed time and the turtle, and the crane, and
the swallow the time of their going, but
my people know not the judgment of the
Lord." Would the prophet illustrate the
fate of fraud, he points to a failure of incu-
bation, and says: 'As a partridge sitteth
on eggs and hatcheth them not, so he that
getteth riches and not by right shall leave
them in the midst of his days, and at his
end shall be a fool." The partridge, the
most careless of all birds in choice of its
place of nest, building it on the ground and
often near a frequented road, dr in a slight
depression of ground, without reference to
safety, and soon a hoof, or a scythe, or a
cart -wheel ends all. So, says the prophet,
a man who gathers under him dishonest
dollars will hatch out of them no peace, no
satisfaction, no happiness, no security.
But here is a man, to -day as poor as Job,
after he was robbed by Satan of everything
but his boils; yet, suddenly, to -morrow he
is a rich man. There is no accounting for
his sudden affluence. He has not yet fail-
ed often enough to become wealthy. No
one pretends to account for his princely
wardrobe, or the chased silver, or the full -
curbed steeds that rear and neigh like Bu-
eephalus in the grasp of his coaehman. Did
he come to a sudden inheritance? No. Did
he make a fortune on purchase and sale?
No. Everybody asks where did that par-
tridge hatch? The devil suddenly threw
himnp and the devil will suddenly let him
come down. That hidden scheme God saw
from the first conception of the plot. That
partridge, swift disaster will shoot it down,
and the higher it flies the harder it, falls.
The prophet saw, as you and I have often
seen, the awful mistake of partridges.
But from the top of a Bible fir treeI hear
the shrill cry of the .stork. Job, Ezekiel,
Jeremiah, speak of it. David cries out:
"As for the stork, the fir tree iiher house."
This large white Bible bird is supposed
without alighting some times to wing its
way from the region of the Rhine to Africa.
As winter Comes all the storks fly to warm -
en climes, and the last one of their number
that, arrives at the spot to which they
migrate is killed by them. What havoc it
would make in our species if those men
were killed who are .always behind. In
oriental Cities, the stork is domesticated
and walks about on the street, and will
follow its keeper. In the city of Ephesus I
saw a long row of pillars, on the top of
each pillar a stork's nest. But the word
"stork" ordinarily means znercy and affec-
tion, from the fact,that this bird was dis-
tinguished for its great love to its parents.
It never forsakes them, and 'even
after they become feeble, protects -
and provides for them. In migrating, the
old storks lean their necks on the young
storks, and when the old ones give mit the
young ones carry them on their back. God
forbid that a dumb stork should have more
heart than we. Blessed is that table at
which an old father and mother sit. Bless-
ed that altar at which an old father and
mother kneel. What it is to have a mother
they know best who have lost her. God
only knows the agony she saffered for us,
the times she wept over our cradle and the
anxious sighs her bosom heaved as we lay
upon it., the sick nights when she watched
uS long after everyone was tired out but
God and herself. Her life blood beats in
her heart and her image lives in our face.
That man is graceless as a cannibal who ill-
treats his parents, and hewho begrudges
them daily bread and clothes them but
ina,y God have patience with him:
I cannot. I heard a man once say: "i
now have my old mother on my hands."
Ye storks on your way with food to your
aged perents, shame him ! 1
But yonder in this Bible sky flies a bird
that is speckled. The prophet describing
the church cries out : "Mine heritage is
unto me as a speckled bird, the 'birds
around about are against her." So it was
then ; so it is now. Holinesa picked at.
Consecration picked at Benevolence picketi
at. Useful picked at. A speckled bird is
a peculiar bird, and that arouses the an-
tipathy of all the beaks of the forest. The
Church of God is a peculiar institution, ancl
that enongh to evoke attack of the world,
for it, is a speckled bird to be picked at.
The inconsisteucies of Christians are a ban- .
quet on which multitudes get fat. They
ascribe everything you df) to wrong motives
Put a dollar in the poor box, and they will
say that he dropped it tliere only that he
might hear it ring. invite them to Christ
and they will call you a fanatic. Let
there be contention among Chnstains, and
they Will say "Hurrah 1 the church is
in decadence. Christ, intended that .His
church should always remain •a speckled
bird. Let birds of another feather pick at
her, but, they cannot rob her of a single
plume. Like the albatross she can sleep
on the bosom of a tempest,. She has gone
through the fires of Nebuchadnezza,r'sfur-
mice and not got burned, through the
waters of the Red Sea ahcl not been drown-
ed, through the shipwreck on the breakers
of Melita and not been foundered. Let all
earth and hell try tol, hunt down this
eeckled bird, but far above human scorn
and infernal assault, it shall sing over
every mountain -top and fly over every na-
tion'and her triumphant song shall be,
"The Church of God! The pillar and
ground of the truth. The gates of hell
shail not prevail against her."
But we cannot stop here. From a tall
cliff, hanging over the sea, I hear the eagle
calling unto the tempest and lifting its
wing to smite the whirlwind. Moses,
Jeremiah, Hasea and labekkuk, at times
in their writings take their pen from the
eagle's wing. It is a had with fierceness
in its eye, its feet armed with claws of
iron, and its head witfi a dreadful beak.
Two or threeofthem can fill the heavens
with clangor. But geperall r this monster
of the air is. alone and unacteimpanied, for
the reason that its habits are predaceous
it requires five or ten Imiles of aerial or
eartriiy aornmion all tor Melt. The black- I
brown of its back, and the white of its
lower feathers, and the fire of its eye; and
the long flap of its wings make one glimpse
of it as it swings down into the valley to
pick up a rabbit, or a Iamb, or a child, and
then swings back to its throne on the
rook, something never to be forgotten.
Scattered about its eyrie of altituclinoue
solitude are the bones of its conquest. But
while the beak and the claws of the eagle
are the terror of the travellers of the
air, the mother eagle is most kind and gen-
tle toiler young. God compares His treat-
ment of His people to the eagle's care of
the eaglets. Deuteronomy 32 II; "As the
eagle stirrefth up her nest, duttereth over
her young, spreading abroad her wings,
taketh them, beareth them on her wings, SO
the Lord alone did lead." The old eagle
first shoves the young one out of the nest
in order to make it fly, and then takes it
on her back and flies with it, and shakes it
off in the air, and if it seenis like falling,
quickly flies under it and takes it on her
• •
wing again. So God does WW1 us. Disaster,
failure in business, disappointn lent, bereave-
ment, is only God's way of shaking us out
of our comfortable nest in order that we
may learn how to fly. You who are com-
plaining that you have no faith or courage,
or Christian zeal, have had it too easy. You
never will learn to fly in that comfortable
nest. Like an eagle, Christ has carried us
on Iiis back. At times we have been shaken
off, and when we were about to fall He
came under us again and brought us out of
the gloomy valley to the sunny mountain.
Never an eagle brooded with such love and
care over her young as God's wings have
been over us.
But what a senseless passage of Scrip-
ture that is, until you know the fact which
says: "The sparrow bath found a house
and the swallow a rest for herself where
she may lay her young, even thine altars,
0 Lord of hosts, my King and my God."
What has the swallow to do with the altars
of the temple of Jerusalem? Ah 1 you
know that swallows are, all the world over
very tame and in summer time they used
to fly into the windows and -doors of the
temple at Jerusalem, and build a nest on
the alter where the priests were offering
sacrifices. These swallows brought leaves
and sticks and fashioned nests on the alter
of the temple, and hatched the young
swallows in those nests, and David had
seen the young birds picking their way out
of the shell while the old swallows watch-
ed, and no one in, the temple was cruel
enough to disturb either the old swallows,
or the young swallows, and David burst, eut
in rhapsody saying: "The swallow hath
found a nest for hereelf where she may lay
her young, even thine altars, 0 Lord of
hosts, my Sing and my God !"
REAL ESTATI4 FOR SALK ;
fl 001) FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, north half
k)r Lot 81, Conoession 2, Emit Witwarrosh, r00
acres • goed fences, good orchard and never -failing
creek: Apply to H. J. D. COOKE, Barrister, Blyth,
or PHILIP HOLT, Goderiesh. 1278
11
ARM FOR SAL131.—For, sale en improved, 100
1. aorefarrn, withiretwo and a half miles of the
Wesel of fieaforth. For further partieulars apply on
the premises, Lot 12, Concession 4, lf. It. S., Tecker-
smith, or by mail to JOHN PRENDERGAST, Sea -
forth P. 0. 1290
VARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE.—For sale
cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Road,
Stanley, containing 64 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 buildings, a bearing orchard and plenty of
water. It is within half a mile of the Village of
Varna and three miles from Brucefield station:
Possession at any tone. This is a rare chance to
buy a find class firm pleasantly situated. Apply
to ARTHUR, earlIBES, Seaforth. 1144t1
ITARM FOR SALE.—For sale, lot 6, concession 1,
r H. R. 8., township of Tuokeremith, ooetaining
one hundred .crete more or less, 97 acres _cleared, 66
° of which are seeded to grate!, well underdrained,
three never failing wells. On one fifty of said lot
there is a log house, frame barn and vary good
orchard, and on the other a good frame home and
barn, stables, and good orchard. The whole will be
sold together or each fifty separately to snit pur-
chasers, located 11 poles from Seaforth, will be sold
reasonable and on easy thrum as the proprietor is re-
tiring from farming. For further particulars apply
to the undersigned on the premises, and if by letter
to Seaforth P. 0. MICHAEL DORSEY. 1277-tf
Yes, in this ornithology of the Bible I
find that God is_determined to impress upon
us the architecture of a bird's-nest and the
anatomy of a bird's -wing. Twenty times
does the Bible refer to a bird's-nest •
"Where the birds make their nest." "As
a bird that wandereth from her nest."
"Though thou see thy nest among the -
eters." "The birds of the air have their
nests," and so on. Nests in the trees,
nests on the rocks, nests on the altars.
Why does God call us so frequently to con-
sider the bird's nest? Because it is one of
the -most wondrous of all styles of archi-
tecture, and a lesson of Providential care
which is the moat important lesson that
Christ in my text conveys. Why, just look
at the bird's nest, and see what is the pros-
pect that God is going to take care of
you. Here is the blue bird's mit under the
eaves of the house. Here is the brown -
thresher's neat in a bush. Here is the blue -
jay's nest in the orchard.. Here is the groat;
beak's neat on a tree -branch hanging over
the water so as to be free from at-
tack. Chickadee's nest in the stump of
an old - tree. Oh, the goodness of God
in showing the birds how to build their
nest, What carpenters, what masons, what
weavers, what spinners the birds are! Out
of what salon resources they make an ex-
quisite home, curved, pillared, wreathed.
Out ;mosses, out of sticks, out of lichens,
out of horsehair, out of 'spiders' web, out
of threads swept from the door by the
housewife, out of the wool of the sheep in
the pasture -field. Upholstered by leaves
_actually sewed, together by its own sharp
bill. Cushioned with feathers from its
own breast. Mortared together with the
gum of trees and the salivaofits own tiny
bill. Such symmetry, such adaptation„
such convenience, such geometry of. struc-
ture.
Surely these nests were built by some
plan. They did not just happen so. Who
draught:3d the plan for the bird's nest?
God ! And do you. not think that if He
plans such a house for a chaffinch, or 'an
oriole, for a bobolink, for a sparrow, he
will see to it that you -always have a
home? "Ye are of more value than many
sparrows." Whatever surrounds you, you
can have what the Bible calls "the feathers
of the Almighty." Just think of a nest like
that, the warmth of it, the softness of ite
the safety of it—the feathers of the Al.'
mighty." No flamingo, outflashing tht
tropical sunset, ever had such brilliancy
of pinion; no robin red -breast vsr• had
plumage dashed with such crimson, and
purple and orange and gol(l—"the feathers
of the Almighty." 1)o you not feel the
touch of them now on forehead and cheek,
and spirit, and was there ever such tender-
ness of brooding—"the feathers of the
Almighty." So also in thisornithology
of the -Bible God keeps impressing us with
the anatomy of a bird's wing. Over fifty
times does the old Book allude to the wing,
"Wings of a dove," "Wings of the morn-
ing," "Wings of the wind,' "Sun of right-
cousnes with healing in his wings," "Wing;
of the Almighty." "All fowlsof every wing.'
tl'hue does le all mean ? It suggests uplift-
ing. It tePle you of flight upward. It
:leans to reraind you, that, you, yourself,
have wings. David *cried out, "01) that I
had wings like a dove, that ! might fly
away and beat rest." Thank leicel that you
have better wings than any dove of longest
or swiftest flight.
Will Do the Square Thing.
Debtor—I have done well in businetss,
and 1 have come back to clear up all s the
debts contracted by me. In fact, I have
repented and intend henceforth to lead an
honett life.
Creditor—That is good news.
Debtor—Now, what I want to know is,
will you accept twenty cents on the dollar?
—Puck.
For the Home Washerwoman,.
Da many mothers, I wonder, know of
home-made ox -gall rsonp for washing ging.
hams, sateons, etc. ? Out up and melt ten
ceete' worth; of whits cettile soap, auct,while
hot, heat in as much ox -gall as the soap will
absorb, then put it away to harden. Goods
of delicate color, washed with this soap
alone, will for years retain their good
looks.
A Good Thought.
"If yonare_very busy, think and pray all
the more, or your work will Rear you and
drag you away from God. For your work's
aske break away from it and give the 'soul
a breathing time."
—Mr. Fred. Noll, of Mitchell, came
very near being killed the other day. He
was riding on ft leed of wood when his sleigh
upset, burying him underneath. He is sup-
pssed to leive lair, in that position for near-
ly half au hour, when a women came along
azid zemoved the wood end tiles released
him. He was unconscious for a long time,
and susts,ined severe but not dangerous in-
juries.
Dick's Linithent cures
All Lameness and Sprains
"VARA( IN lifeKILle9P FOR SALE.—For sale the
touth half of lots 1 and lot 2, col ceseion 4, Mc-
Killop, being 160 acres of very choice land math in
a geed state of cultivation. There is a good hou-s
and bank barn, a good young bearing orehatd nod
plenty of never failing water. A considerable
portion seethd to gran. Convenient to msrkets
and schools and good gravel roads in all directions.
1Vill be sold oheaps Apply to the proprietor on the
premises, MESSRS. DENT & HODGE, Mitchell, or at
Tux _HURON EXPOSITOR 99/00, Seaforth. JOHN
O'BRIEN, Proprietor. , 1298-tf
"LURE IN TUCKERSMITH FOR SALE.—For sale
r Lot 8, Conceseion 7, Tuckenmith, containing
100 acres, nearly all cleared, free from etunips, well
nederdralned, and in a high stet° of cultivation.
The land is high and dry, and no waste land. There
Is a good brick residence, two good !mune. one with
stone rtabling underneath, and all other necessary
outbuildinge ; two never -failing wells, and a good
bearing oi chard. It is within four miles of Seaforth.
It is 0170 of the best faring in Huron, and will be sold
on easy terms, as the proprietor desires to retire.
Poeseseion on the lst October. .Apply on the prom-
isee, or address Seaforth P. 0. WM. ALLAN.
1276-tf
FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, 80 acres in Senile°
County, Michigan, 76 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 tailing well. The buildings consist of a frame
house, @tabling for 12 hones with four box stalls, 86
head of cattle and 100 sheep. Ninety ewea were win-
tered last 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
cenvenient to markets, school° and
churches. The proprietor is for ed to sell on suo
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 •
FARM FOR. SALE,—For sale, that desirable and
conveniently situated farrreadjoining the village
of Redgerville, being Lot 14, let Concession, Hay,
. mile from Rodgerville post -office, and one and a
half miles south of Hensall on the London Road.
There are 97 and a quarter acres, of which nearly all
is cleared and in a high state of cultivation. Good
frame housell store,' s, 8 rooms, a large kitchen also
attached with bedrooms and pantry &c. Good cellar
under main ran of house, stable holds over a car-
load of horses, besides exercising stables, two barns
two chive,houees, one long wood -shed, good cow -
stable also pig and hen houses, three good wells With
primps. Farm well fenced and underdrained.
Veranda attarhed So house. Good bearing crehard.
Tho farm will he sold cheap and on clay terms, as
the undersigned has retired from farming- For par-
ticulars apply to JAMES WHITE. Proprietor, Hen.
sail. 1275-tf
FIRST CLASS FARM FOR SALE—For sale Lot 12
Concession 6, 11. R. S Tuckeremith, containing
100 acres of choice land, nearly all cleared and in a
high sotte of cultivation, with 90 metes seeded to
gran. It is thoroughly undordrairied abd well fenced
with straight rail, board and wire knees and does
not contain a foot of waste land. There is also an
orchard of two acres of choice fruit trees; two good
wells, one at the house, the other witho wind -mill
on it at .the out buildings, on the premises is an ex-
cellent frume 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 7 feet and the other 36 feet by 56 feet
with stabling for 60 bead of cattle and eight horses.
Besidesehese there are sheep, hen and pig houses and
an Implement shed. The farm is well adapted for
grain or Wick raising and is one of the finest farms
in the country. It is situated 3/ miles from Seaforth
Station, 5 from Brucefleld and Kjppen 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.
1285 tf
ASPLENDID CHANCE.—The undersighed now
offers for sale those excellent !arms in the
township of Stanley, belonging to the estate of the
late John Ross. The farms consist of Lots 8 and 9,
Concession 1, Loodon Road, Stanley, and are well
situeted, being convenient to schools, 8 miles from
Seaforth and the same distance from Clinton,
miles from Brucefield station and the same distance
from Kippen station and 5 miles from Hensel!, with
good gravel roads leading to each place. Each farm
contains 1e0 acres, more or less, every foot of which
is first class soil and in a high state of cultivation.
They are th ,rovaghly underdrained and well fenced
with rail, board and wire fence". On lot 9 there are
80 acre t cleared and free from stumps, the remainder
good hardwood bush, good frame barn 40x60 feet and
horse and cow stables adjoining. There is also an
orehard of 14 acres sf choice fruit trees. One good
well, convenient. Twenty one acres seeded to gran,
9 acres to fall wheat, the remainder is all plowed and
ready for crop in the epring, On lot 8 there are 90
acres cleared and free from stumps, the remainder
good hardwood bush, large frame barn, large com-
fortable horse and cow stables and other necessary
out buildinge, and large biick house suitable•for a
large family. There are throe wells of good water,
one at the house, one convenient to the stab.es aud
the other at the n ar of the farm, There is also an
orchaid of sit acne of the choicest fruit trees. There
are 24 acres seeded to grass, 10 acres of fall wheat,
the remainder is all well plowed and ready for spring
coop. This is a ,are chance. The farms will be
void on reasonable terms, eeperately or together.
For further particulare apply on thi's premises, or by
letter to, MRS. JOHN ROSS, Bruceth ld P. 0'
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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 1st is your special chance.
The M. Robertson Furniture Emporium,
MAIN STREET, -
SEAFORTH.
We, the undersigned, wish to convey to our many customers at this season
of the year, our thanks for the amount of trade we have received during 1892,
and wd can assure you that it will be our constant aim to still merit your
patronage \by fair dealing and having goods such as we have to choose from,
and whether you purchase from us during 1893
A Furnace, a Parlor Coal Stove with or without
oven Coal or Wood Range, a Cook
Stove, a Heater,
Or anything that is to be found in a first-class Stove, Tin and House Furnish-
,
ing House, we have it and are here to sell, so with greetings for 1893, we
remain,
_MULLETT & JACKSON, Seatorth.
DISCOUNT SALE
OF
13001TS & SI -10S
AT
RICHARDSON 84. IVIcINNIS',
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•••••••••....1.1.41.
In order to reduce our stock and make room for Spring Goods, we have
decided to give 15 per cent. off FOR CASH on 'all leather goods, except
Custom Work, till the first 'of February. We have some excellent values in
Women's, Misses' and Children's French Kid Dongola, Polish Calf and Glove
Grain Goods, both in Button and Balmorals. We have also a large stock in
Men's, Boys' and Youths' in all designs and makes.
Those desiring bargains will do well to give us a call before purchasing
elsewhere, as we will do what we advertise, our goods being all marked in
plain figures. We down them all in Rubbers and Overshoes, Trunks and
z
RICHARDSON & McINNIS
CORNER MAIN AND JOHN STREETS, SEAFORTH.
1309-4
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WE'VE HAD OUR OPPORTUNITY,
And have already sold three times our usual quantity of woollen goods. To
do so we bought heavily at close prices.
Now's Your Opporlunity.
We have still on hand a large stock, and instead of holding till the cold
weather.is past, when you cannot use them;
e Drop at Once to Slaughter Prices.
10"A new stock of Loni Boots to be icleared out at prices that will,
astonish.
J. McINTOSH, Corner Store.
1309
THE SEAFORTH - FOUNDRY
Having completed rebuilding and repairing the old foundry, and introducs
de the latest equipments an.d the most improves' machines, I am now prepared
to do
Al! Kinds of Machine Repairs
AND GENERAL FOUNDRY WORK.
LAND ROLLERS.
We are now turning out some of the best improved Land Rollers, and
invite the farmers to see them before buying elsewhere.
T, T COLEMAN.
Important M. Announcement.
BRIGHT BROTHERS,
SM.A.P101?..11'1-1
The Leading Clothiers of Huron,
Beg to inform the people of Seaforth and surrounding • antry, that they have
added to their large ordered clothing trade one of the
Most Complete and best selected stocks of Boys', Youths'
and Men's Readymade Clothing
----IN THE COUNTY.
Prices Unequalled. We lead the Trade.
Remember the Old Stand, Campbell's Block, opposite the Royal Hotel,
Seaforth.
BRIGHT BROTHERS.
BARGAINS
BARGAINS
TO BE HAD AT
A. G. AULT'S,
3211R,"1"" G-CDCIDS
—AND—
Grocery Store,
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' Ready-nit:de Clothing in full
suits; a large assortment of Men's
Overcoats also a large and fresh stock
of all kinds of Groceries and Provi-
sions, I invite every one to come who
wishes a good bargain, as I have now
a bran new stock in all kinds of goods,
and they must be sold; therefore, 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.
ram 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,
50o,
IF HE IS NOT HEALTHY AND SOUND
Every animal that is not worth keeping over winter
should bare DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER in the spring.
It will take less food to keep them in eondition.
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 particulare, and a book
of valuable household and farm receipes will be sent
free.
DICK & CO., P. 0, Box 482, MONTREAL Sold
Everywhere.
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BUGGIES
—AND_
WAGONS
The greatest number and largest as-
sortment of Buggies, Wagons and
Road Carts to be found in any one
house outside of the cities, is at
0. 0. WILLSON'S,
sm_A.Fictivria..
They are from the following celebrated
makers: Gananoque Carriage Com-
pany, Brantford Carriage eompany,
and W. J. Thompson's, b.f. London.
These biiggies are guaranteed firsts
class in all parts, and we make good'
any breakages for one year from date
of purchase that comes from fault of
material or workmanship, We do no
patching, but furnish new parts. I
mean ;hat 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.
JOHitti IWNEVIN
Desires to thank the public for their liberal patrorase
in the past, and he wishes to inform them that he
can now do better for them than ever before, MS
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
C50 be made guaranteed.
LOGS WANTED—Hc will pay the highest
in cash for Hard Maple, Basewood and Soft Elm
Also Custom Sawieg promptly attended to.
MoNevin gives his personal attention to the buitineeer
and can guarantee the best satisfaction every time.
Remember the Kippen
JOHN MoNEVIN.
FOR MANITOBA.
Parties going to Manitoba should
call on
W. G. DUFF
ac7iopposite
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 0, P. R. would
consult their own interests by caning
osihinmc*
The agent for the Canadian Pacific
ext the Commercial Hotel
n
W. Pickard's store.
W. G. DUFF, Seaforth.
McKEOWN,
—DISTRICT AGENT FOR THE—
People's Life Insurance Companit
—FOR THE—
Counties of Huron, Bruce, Perth and
West -Grey.
The People's Life is a purely Mutual Cotopaxi,
organized for the purpose of insuring lives, conclucted
solely in the interests of its policy -holders among
whom the profits are divided, there being to stock-
holders to control the company or to take any portie0
of the surplus. The only Mutual Company in Canada
giving endowment insurance at ordinary life testes
is THE PEOPLE'S LIFE. Agents wanted Addrite
J. McKeown,
1288 Box 55 Seaforta
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