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HOOK HERR
NEW ARRIVALS OF
'Spring - (Goods
—AT THE—
Post Office Store,.
V`AR1�TA- .
We have a large stock of Tweeds and Fine Worsted
Suitings, and a big 'election of Fine Pantings, and
as we have secured the services of Mr. W. A. Mac-
Brayne, a first-class tailor, we are prepared to turn
out Snits from $11 and upwards ; Vine Pants from
14 and upwards. choice Worsted Pante from f$5 to
17, well trimmed( and well -made, and a good fit guar-
anteed *very time. Give Mac, our jolly tailor, a
trial ; he is sure to please you. Ladies' Mantles eut
and made to fit.
1318
JOSEPH MORROW.
THE FARMERS'
Banking House,
�- :EL& FtORTS_
(In connection with the Ban& of Montreal.)
LOGAN & 00.,
BANKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENT
"? REMOVED
To the Commercial Hotel Building, Main Street
A General Banking Business done, drafts ietue and
embed. Interest allowed on deposits.
MONEY TO LEND
On good notes or mortgages,
ROBERT LOGAN, MAI AGBP
1665
Every owner of a
Wanted ho
torseknow hor cow owwants
to
keep his animal in
good nealth while in the stable on dry /odder.
DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER is now recognized
as the best Condition Powders, k gives a good
appetite and strengthens the digestion so that all the
food is assimilated and forms flesh, thus saving more
than it costs. It regulates the Bowels and Kidneys
and turns a rough coat into a smooth and glossy one.
Sound Horses are al-
ways in demand and at
this season when they
are so liable to slips and
swains DICK'S BLIS-
TER will be found a
t stable necessity; it will
remove a curb, spavin,
splint or thoroughpin or any swelling. Dick's Lini-
ment cures a strain or lameness and removes infiam-
masIori figments and bruises. For Sale iry all Drug-
gists. Dick's Blood Purifier 50 c. Dick's Blister 50c.
Dick's Liniment 25c. Dick's Ointment 25c.
Send a
Sound
Horses
Fat far Cattle postafiull parcard
-
ticulars, &
a book of valuable household and farm recipes will
be sent free.
DICK lit CO., P. O. Box 482, MONTREAL.
BUGGIES
—AND—
WAGONS.
ND
WAGONS.
The greatest number and largest as-
sortment of Buggies, Wagons and
Dead Carts to be found in any one
house outside of the cities, is at
0. 0. WILLSON'S,
IN 8:...43..F'ORTI-
31hey 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 parte, 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 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. O. WILLSO14, Seaforth,
alemeramemenneelellienla
THE HURON EXPOSITOR.
THE IMPELS
PUREST, STRONGEST, BEST.
Contains no Alum, Ammonia, Lime,
Phosphates, or any Injuiriant.
E. W. CILLETT, Toronto. Ont.
' L i 1 rJ l '' 3'. n 1
FARM FOR SALE.—For sale en improved 100
acre farm, within two and a half miles of the
town of Seaforth. For further particulars apply on
the premises, Lot 12, Concession 4, H. R. S., Tucker -
smith, or by mail to JOHN PRENDERGAST, Sea -
forth P. O. 1290
FARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE.—For sale
cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Road,
Stanley, containing 64 lanes, of which 62 acres are
cleared and in a state of cultivation. Thee bs1-
anoe is well timbered with hardwood. There are
good buildings, a bearing orchard and plenty of
water. It is within halt s► mile of the Village of
Varna and three miles from Brucefieid station."
Possession at any time. This is a rare chance to
buy a first class farm pleasantly situated. Apply
to ARTHTJR FORBES, Seaforth. 1144tf
MIAMI McKILLOP FOR SAL$.—For sale the
south halt of lots 1 and lot 2, concession 4, Mc-
Killop, being 160 acres of very choloe land mostly In
a good state of cultivation. There is s good house
and bank barn, a good young bearing orchard and
plenty of never failing water. A considerable
portion seeded to grass. Convenient to markets
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
Tug Htnxox Exroerroa Office, Seaforth. J129 9HN
O'BRIEN, Proprietor.
The Kippen Mills.
Gristing and Sawing Cheaper than the
- Cheapest.
JOHN NI'NEVIN
Desires to thank the public for their liberal patronage
in the past, and he wishes to inform them that he
can now do better for them than ever before. Ho
will do chopping for 4 cents per bag from now to the
1st of May, and satisfaction guaranteed.
GRIBTING also a specialty, and as good Flour as
can be made guaranteed.
LOGS WANTED.—He will pay the highest price
in cash for hard Maple, Basswood and Soft Elm Loge
Also Custom Sawing promptly attended to. Mr.
McNevin gives hie personal attention to the business,
and can guarantee the best satisfaction every time.
Remember the Kippen Mills.
JOHN MeNEVIN.
FOR MANITOBA.
FARM IN TUCKERSIIRTH FOR SALE.—For sale
Lot 8, Concession 1, Tuckersmith, oontaining
100 acres, nearly alt cleared, free from stumps, well
underdrained, and in a high state of cultivation.
The land is high and dry, and no waste land. There
is a good brick residence, twogood barns, one with
stone stabling underneath, and - all other necessary
o',�ruildingse two never -tailing wells, and a good
bring orchard. It is within four miles of Seaforth.
It is one of the best farms in Huron, and will be Bold
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.
1276
FARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, 80 acres is Sanilac
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 buildings consist of a frame
house, stabling for 12 horses with four box stalls, 86
head of cattle and 100 sheep. Ninety ewes were win-
tered last year,sold 8680 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 whoie. These properties are in good
localities, convenient to markets, schools and
churches. The proprietor is forced to sell on pre•
count of ill health. It will be a bargain for the right
man as it will be sold on easy terms. GEORGE A.
TEMPLETON, DoronIngten, Sanilac County, Michi-
gan. 1298x4 -t• f
Parties going to Manitoba should
call on
W. G. DUFF
The agent for the Canadian Pacific
Railway, Seaforth, who calf 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.
HAND -MADE
Boots and Shoes
D. McINTYRE
RELIGION IN THE HOME,
RFV. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON
THE SUBJECT.
What Righteonsness in the Household
Dogs For the Fancily—Is it a Profitable
Thing?—The Great Preacher .Draws a
Sermon From ,Joshua's Saying.
CHICAGO, March 19, 1893.—Rev. Dr.
Talmage, who is now in thiscity on a
brief visit, did not preach to -day, He
prepared for the press, however, the fol-
lowing discourse on "Religion at Home,"
the text selected being Joshua, 24:15: "As
for ins and my house we will serve the
Lord."
Absurd, ,Joshua 1 You will have no
time for family religion ; you are a military
character, and your time will be taken up
with affairs connected with the army ; you
are a statesman, and your time will be
taken up with public affairs ; you are tho
Washington, the Wellington, the Mc-
Mahon of the Israelitish host, you will
have a great many questions to settle, you
will have no time for religion. But Josh-
ua, with the same voice with which he
commanded the sun and moon to halt and
stack arms of light on the parade ground
of the heavens, says, "As for me and my
house, we will serve the Lord."
Before we adopt the resolution of this old
soldier, we want to be certain it is a wise
resolution. If religion is going to put
my piano out of tune, and clog the feet of
my children racing through the hall, and
sour the bread, and put crape on the door
bell, I do not want it in my house. I once
gave six dollars to hear Jenny Lind warble.
I have never given a cent to hear anyone
groan. Will this religion spoken of in my
text do anything for the dining -hall, for
the nursery, for the parlor, for the sleeping
apartment ?
It is a great deal easier to invite a dis-
agreeable guest than to get rid of him. If
you do not want religion you had better not
ask it to come, for after coming it may stay
a great while. Isaac Watts went to visit
Sir Thomas and Lady Abney at their place
in Theobald, and was to stay a week, and
stayed thirty-five years; and if religion
once gets into your household the probabil-
ity is it will stay there forever.
Now the question I want to discuss is :
What will religion do for the household?
Question the first. What did it do for
your father's house, if you were brought up
in a Christain Koine ?
The whole scene has vanished, but it
comes back to -day. The hour for morning
prayers came. You were invited in. Some-
what fidgety, you sat and listened. Your
father made no pretensions to rhetorical
reading, and he just went through the
chapter in a plain, straightforward way.
Then you all knelt. It was about the
same prayer morning by morning and
night by night, for be had the same sins to
ask pardon for, and he had the same bless-
ings for whieh to be grateful day after day
and year after year. The prayer was longer
than you would like to have had it, for the
game at ball was waiting, or the skates
were lying under the shed, or the school-
books needed one or two more looking at
the lessons. Your parents, somewhat rheu-
matic and stiffened with age, found it diffi-
cult to rise from their kneeling. The chair
at which they knelt is gone, the Bible out
of which they read has perhaps fallen to
pieces, the parents are gone, the children
scattered no rth, east,south and west; but that
whole scene flashes upon your memory to-
day. Was that morning and evening exer-
cise in your father's house debasing or ele-
vating? Is it not among the most sacred
reminiscences? Yon were not as devotional
as some of the older members of your
father's house who were kneeling with you
at the time, and you did not bow your head
as closely as they did, and you looked
around and you saw just the posture your
father and mother assumed while they
were kneeling .on the floor. The whole
scene is so photographed on your memory
that if you were an artist you could draw
it now just as they knelt. For how much
would you have that scene obliterated from
your memory? It all comes back to -day,
and you are in the homestead again.
Father is there, mother is there, ull of your
children are there. It is the same old
prayer, opening with the same petition,
closing with the same thanksgiving. The
family prayers of 1840, 1850, as fresh in
your memory as though' they were uttered
y+sterday. The tear that starts from your
ewe melts all that scene. Gone, is it? Why,
many a time it has held you steady in the
struggle of life. You once started for a
place, and that memory jerked you back,
and yon could not enter.
The broken prayer of your father has
had more effect upon you than all you ever
read in Shakespeare, and Milton, and Ten-
nyson, and Dante. You have gone over
mountains and across. seas. You never
for a moment got out of sight of that
domestic altar. 0, my! friends ! is it your
opinion this morning that the ten or
fifteen minutes substracted from each day
for family devotion was an economy or a
waste of time iii your father's household ?
I think some of us are "coming to the con-
clusion that the religion which was in
our father's house would be a very appro-
priate religion for our homes. It family
prayers did not damage that household there
is no probability that they will damage our
household.
"Is Cod dead?" said a child to her
father. "No," he replied; "why do you
ask that?" "Well," she said, "when
mother was living we used to have pray -
ere, but since her death we haven't had
family prayers, and I didn't know but that
God was dead, too." A family that is
launched in the morning with family
prayers is well launched. Breakfast over,
.the family scatter, some to school, souse
to household duties, some to business.
During the day there will be a thousand
perils abroad—perils of the street car, of
the scaffolding, of the ungoverned horse,
of the misstep, of the aroused temper, of
multitudinous temptations to do wrong.
Somewhere between seven o'clock in the
morning and ten o'clock at night there
may be a moment when you will be in
urgent need of God. Beside that, fancily
prayers will be a secular advantage, A
father went into the war to serve his conn
try. His children stayed and cultivated
the farm. His wife prayed. One of the
sons said afterward, "Father is fighting,
and we are digging, and mother is praying."
"Ah !" said some one, "praying and dig-
ging and fighting will bring us out of our
national troubles." We may pray in the
morning, "Give us this day our daily
bread," and sit down in idleness and starve
to death ; but prayer and hard work will
give a hvelihood to any family. Family
religion days for both worlds. Let us have
an altar in each one of our households. You
may not be able to formulate a prayer.
Then there are Philip Henry's prayers, and
there are McDuff's prayers, and there ore
Phillip Doddridge's prayers, and there are
the Episcopal Church prayers, and there
are scores of books with supplications just
suited to the domestic circle.
"Oh !" says some man, "I don't feel
competent to lead my household in pray-
er." Well, I do not know that it is your
duty to lead. I think perhaps it is some-
times better for the mother' of the house-
hold to lead. She knows better- the wants
of the household. She can read the Scrip-
tures with a more tend -r enunciation. She
knows more of God. I will put it plainly,
and say she prays better. Oh 1 these
mor others decide almost everything.
A young man received a furkough to
return from the army to his father's house.
Afterward he took the furlough back to
the officer, saying. "I would like to nos(..
FARH FOR SALE.—For sale, that desirable and
conveniently situated farm,ad joiving the village
of Redgerville being Lot 14, let Conceesion, Hay,
} mile from ftodgerville post -office, and one and a
half miles south of Hensel! on the London Road.
There are 97 and a quarter acres, of which nearly all
is cleared and in a high state of cultivation. Good
frame house 1h storeye, 8 rooms, a large kitchen also
attached with bedrooms and pantry &c. Good cellar
finder main part of house, stable boldly over a car-
Timid
arlioad of horses, besides exercising stables, two barns
two drive houses, one long wood -shed, good cow -
Stable also pig and hen houses, three good wells with
pimps. Farm well fencedand underdrained.
Veranda attached to house. Good bearing orchard.
The farm will be eold cheap and on easy terms, as
the undersigned has retired from funning. For par-
ticulars apply to JAMES WHITE, Proprietor, Hen-
sall. 1275-tf
FIRSTF'F
CLASSARM FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 12
Cone -anion 6, H. It. S; Tuckeremith, containing
100 acres of choice land, nearly alt cleared and in a
high state of cultivation, with 901 teres seeded to
grass. It is thoroughly underdrained and well fenced
with straight rail, board and wire fences and does
not contain a foot of waste land. There is also an
orohard of two acres of choice fruit•treee; two good
wells, one at the house, the other with a wind 4)101
on it at the out buildings, on the premises is an ex-
cellent frame house, containing eleven rooms and
cellar under whole house, pied soft and hard water
convenient. There are twee -good bank barna, the one
32 feet by 7f' feet and the other 36 feet by 56 feet
with etabling for 50 head of cattle and eight horses,
Besides these there are sheep, hen and pig houses and
an Implement shed. The farm is well adapted for
grain or etock raising and is one of the finest farms
in the country. It ie situated 3t• miles from Seaforth
Station, 6 from Brucefield `and Kipper* with good
gravel re a leading to eache It is also oonvenlent
to churches, poet office and school and willbe 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
Has on hand a large number of Boots and Shoes of hie
own make, beet material and
Warranted to give Satisfaction.
11 you want your feet kept dry come and get a pair o.
our boots, which will be sold
CHEAP FOR CASH,
Repairing promptly attended to. All kinds of Boote
and Shoes mode to order. Al! parties who have not
paid their acoounte for last year will plow call and
Dottie up.
1162 D. McINTYRE, beaforth.
Valuable Farm for Sale
Lot 31, Concession 2, Goderich Township, situated
on gravel road, four miles from Bayfield and eight
miles from Goderich, 'comprising 80 acres, of whieh
10 acres are good hardwood bush. Soil, clay loam.
Good frame house with ten rooms, on stone founda-
tion ; also good bank harn. On the premises are two
acres young, bearing orchard, also a good creek and
never -failing well. Apply to
DANIEL 3. NAFTEL, Goderich P.O.
March let, 1893. 1310tf
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pone my visit for two weeks." At the
end of the two weeks ho camp and got the
furlough. He, was asked why he waited.
"Well," he replied, "when I left home I
told my mother I would be a Christian in
the army, and I was resolved not to go
home until I could answer her first ques-
tion." Oh, the almost, omnipotent power
of the mother ! But if both the father
and the mother be right, then the
children are almost sure to be right.
The young people may make a wide
curve from the straight path, but they
are almost sure to come back to the right
road. It may not be until the death of one
of the parents. How often it' is that we
hear some one say, "Oh ! he was a wild
young man, but since his father's ':death he
has been different !" The fact is, that the
father's coffin, or the !nether's coffin, is
often; the altar of repentance for the child.
Oh ! that was a stupendous day, the day of
father's burial. it was not the officiating
clergyman who made the chief impression,
nor the sympathizing mourners : it was the
father asleep in the casket. The hands
that had toiled for that household so long,
folded. The brain cooled off after twenty
or forty years of anxiety about how to put
that family in right position. The lips
closed after so many years of good advice.
There are more tears falling in mother's
grave than in father's grave ; but over the
father's tomb I think there is a, kind of awe.
It is at that marble pillar many a young
roan has been revolutionized.
0, young man, with cheek flushed with
dissipation ! how long is it since you have
been out to your father's grave? Will
you not go this week ? Perhaps the storms
of the last few days may have bent the
headstone until it leans far over. Yon
had better go out and see whether the
lettering has been defaced. You' had better
go out and see whether the gate of the lot
is closed. Yon'had better go and see if you
cannot find a sermon in the springing
grass. 0, young man! go out this week
and see your father's grave. Religion did
so much. for our Christian ancestry, are we
not ready this morning to bo willing to re-
ceive it, into our own household? If we do
receive it, let it come through the front
door, not through the back door. In other
words, do not let us smuggle it in. There
are a great any families who want to be
religious, but they do not want anybody
outside to know it. They would be morti-
fied to death if you caught them at family
prayers. They would not sing in the wor-
ship for fear their neighbors would hear
them. They do not have prayers when they
have company !
They do not know much about the nobil-
ity of the western trapper. A traveler
going along was overtaken by night and a
storm, and he entered a cabin. There were
firearms hung up around the cabin. He
was alarmed. He had a large amount of
money with him, but he did not dare to
venture out into the night iv the storm.
He did not like the looks of the household.
After a while the father, the Western trap-
per, came in, gun on his shoulder, and
when the traveler looked him he was still
more affrighted. After a while the family
were whispering together in one corner of
the room, and the traveler thought to him-
self, "Oh! now my time has come; I wish I
was out in the storm and in the night rather
than here." But the swarthy man came up
to him and said: "Sir, we are a rough
people; we get our living by hunting, and
we are very tired when the night comes ;
but before going to bed we always have s
habit of reading a little out of the Bible and
having prayers, and I think we will have our
usual custom to -night; and if you don't be.
Neve in that kind of thing, if you will just
step outside the door for a little while 1
will be much obliged to you."
Oh ! there are man y Christian parents
who have not half the courage of the
Western trapper. They do not want their
religion projecting too conspiculously.
They would like to have it near by so as to
having it dominant in the household from
the first of January, seven o'clock a. m.,
to the thirty-first of December, ten o'clock
p. m., they do not want it. They would
rather die, and have their families perieh
with them than to cry out in the bold
words of the soldier"in my text : "As for
me and my household we will serve the
Lord."
There was, in my ancestral line, an in-
,oident so strangely impressive that it
seems more like romance than reality.
It has sometimes been so inaccurately
put forth that I now give you the true
incident. My grandfather and grand-
mother, living at Somervile, New Jersey,
went to Baskingridge to witness a revival
under the ministry of the Rev. Dr. Finlay. '
They came home so impressed with what
they had seen that they resolved on the
salvation of their children.
Theoung people of the house were to
go off Foran evening party, but my grand-
mother said:
"Now, when you are ready for the party,
come to my room, for I have something
very important to tell you." All ready for
departure, they came to her room, and she
said to them: "Now, I want you to re-
member while you are away this evening
that I am all the time in this room praying
for your salvation, and I shall not cease
praying until you get back." The young
people went to the party, but amid the
loudest hilarities of the night they could
not forgetethat their mother was praying
for them. The evening passed and the
night pawed.
The next day my grandparents heard
an outcry in an adjoining room, and they
went in and found their daughter implor-
ing the salvation of the Gospel. The
daughter told them that her brothers were
at the barn and at the wagon house under
powerful conviction of sin. They went to
the barn. They found my uncle Jehiah,
who afterwards became a minister of the
Gospel, crying to God for mercy. They
went to the wagon house. They found
their son David, who afterwards became
my father, imploring God's pardon and
mercy. Before a greet while the whole
family were saved, and David went and
told the story to a young woman to whom
he was affianced, who, as a result of the
story, became a Christian, and from her
own lips—my mother's—I have received
the incident. 1
The story of that converted household
ran through all the neighborhood, from
family to family, until the whole region
was whelmed with religious awakening,
and at the next communion in the village
church at Somerville, over two hundred
souls stood up to profess the faith of the
Gospel. My mother, carrying the memory
of this scene from early womanhood into
farther life, in after years was resolved
upon the salvation of her children, and for
many years every week she met three other
Christian mothers to pray for the salvation
of their families. I think that all the mem-
bers of those families were saved—myself,
the youngest and the last.
There were twelve of us children. I
trace the whole line of mem back to that
hour when my Christi•rn gr n !r 1„rr
ie her room imploring the f
upon her children. Nine of her
because preacher.. of the (;,+-.r,c:. ' !,u : of
her descendents :r.rc in heave. , n a.:'' . r
them still in the Christian c{nil;i,t. lei i it
pay for her to spend the ww hole
prayer for her household ? .Ask her L,'::.r,
the throne of God, surrounded h; herciirl i -
ren. In the presence of tits-. (;,trishaw
Church to -dao, I make this record of anct.s-
tral piety. Oh! there is a beauty, dud n
tenderness, and a sublimity in family t t!-
ligion.
There are two arms to this subject. The
one arm puts its hand on all parents. It
says to them : "Don't interfere with your
children's welfare, don't interfere with
their eternal happiness, don't you by any-
thing you do, put out your foot and trip
them into ruin. Start them under the
shelter, the insurance. the everlasting help
MARcx 31, 1893
of unrtst►an parentage. Catechisms will
not save them, though catechisms are
good, The rod will not save them,
t houg:i the rod may be necessary. Les-
sons of virtue will not save them, though
they are very important. Becoming a
through and through, up and down, out
and out Christian yourself will make them
Christians."
The other arm of this subject puts its
hand upon those who had a pious bringing
up, but who hava as yet disappointed the
expectations excited in regard to. them. 1
said that children brought up in Christian
households, though they might make a
wide curve, were very apt to come back
to the straight path. Have you not been
curving out long enough? and is it not most
time for you to begin to curve in?
"Oh," you say,' they were too rigid."
Well now, my brother, I think you have a
pretty good character considering what
you say you parents were. Do notboaet
too much about the style in which` your
parents brought you up. Might it not be
possible that you would be an exception to
the general rule laid down, and that you
might spend your eternity in a different
world from that in whieh your parents -are
spending theirs?
I feel anxious about you; you feel anxious
about yourself. Oh! cross over into the
right path. If your parents prayed for yon
twice a day, each of them twice a day for
twenty years, that would make 29,000
prayers for you. Think'of them!
By the memory of the cradle in whieh
your childhood was rocked with the foot
that long ago ceased to move, by the -crib
in which your own children slumber night
by night under God's protecting care, b
the two graves in which sleep those two old
hearts that beat with love so long for your
welfare, and by the , two graves in which
you, now the livin' father and mother,
will find your last -i repose, I urge you to
the discharge of your duty.
To Paris by Rail.
Mr. John D. Hutchinson, one of the en
ginsers who have been making a survey for
an Alaskan railway which is to bridge Ber-
ing Strait and connect with a Siberian
road, thus making possible an overland
voyage from this country to Europe, has
reached San Francisco. He states that the
survey—the money far which was raised at
a dinner given by New York capitalists -to
Henry Clews in 1890 -has been completed
from Vancouver, B.C., to Cape Prince of
Wales, the point of Alaska Nearest to Asia,
on Bering Strait, a distance of 2346 miles.
Atthat point the work was suspended for
the winter.
The project of an all -rail trip from this
country to Paris is so dazzling that there
Will be a natural inclination to pronounce
the scheme chimerical. It is undoubtedly
true that engineers, though ordinarily a
hard-headed class of men, may be misled
by their enthusiasms, as was Ferdinand
de Lesseps in the Panama Canal project.
Yet in these days of gigantic planning
and achievement it would rather be the
part of rashness to condemn a scheme
'witthout a full hearing of its merits, or to
adjudge it impracticablebeoause of its vast -
nese.
As far as the engineers have traversed
the proposed route they have found it
available. Topographically no difficulties
were encountered, the grades being easy,
and permitting an air line tor much of the
distance. Geologically the condition seem
to have been equally favorable. The engi-
neer rays :
There is no quicksand anywhere, and
the bottom of the strait furnishes a sound
and solid foundation for piers. Nor is
there any danger -from icebergs, for all the
larger ones are stranded forty miles up.
In one place a stonebreakwater would have
to be built to protect the piers from the
smaller bergs.
There is one probable source of diffi-
culty not touched upon in the San Fran:
Disco interview, and which would per-
tain not so much to the construction
as to the operation of the line ; and
that is the question of climatology.
The railway system of the Northwest-
ern States of the Union is at the present
time in a disorganized condition by reason
of the winter's stress ; and what elemental
obstruction might not be expected to rail-
roading in the farther Northwest ? Be-
sides, this problem would involve not only
the question of clear tracks, but the diffi-
culty of maintaining the cars at a habit-
able temperature. It is fair to assume,
however, that this view of the project has
not escaped the attention of the practical
men who are said to be interested in it.
As Mr. Hutchinson says
Henry Clews & Co., Drexel, Morgan &
Co., and Isaac C. Seibert, a Jewish banker
of fin Petersburg and Prague, are interest-
ed in extending the road from East, Cape,
on the Siberian shore of Bering Sea, to
Ssndeluske, on the Great Siberian road, a
distance of 2275 miles. There would thus
be formed an all -rail route from Vancouver
to Sandeluake of 4621 miles, which would
enable Americans to travel by rail all the
way to`St. Petersburg and connect there
with all the rest of Europe and Asia.
If men of this stamp can discern merit in
such a venture, all question of its feasibility
is likely to vanish from the popular mind. j
NEB • SPRING • GOlUS
Coming to hand daily. Cases upon case, and bale upon bale of new Spring
Goods are finding" their way into our Store, keeping us busy marking and
placing upon our shelves the products
Austria, Germany and the United Stat
We can safely assert that never before
were we in a position to show so large
give as close prices, as we will be enab)
all the newest fabrics, styles and desig
Muslins, Hosiery, Gloves and Ties in
f Great Britain, France, Switzerland,
s, as well as our own beloved Canada,
lin the annals of ours trade in Seaforth
a variety, so well -selected stock, or to
led to do this spring. Dress Goods in
s. Prints in immense variety. Linens,
►rofusion.
Gents' F'urnis .ling Department
Will be replete with the most elegan goods in Shirts, Ties, Collars, Under-
wear, Hats and Caps in abundance.
Readymade Clothing Departm nt well assorted.
In House Furnishings we show
Linoleums, Oil Cloths and Draperi
Our new milliner,MISS S
is on hand, supported bpi the most
byus in Seaforth.
a magnificent range of Carpets, Curtains,
s.
EPPARD, with her several assistants,
elegant stock of Millinery ever yet shown
We invite all to call and ins ct our magnificent range of new Spring
Goods at the Bargain Dry Goods, Clothing and Millinery House of Seaforth.
How 'to Water Flowers.
All writers on floriculture agree in the
importance of moisture, but not all agree
as to how water shall be applied in the ef-,
fort to secure a moist temperature.!,
"Sprinkle daily," one says. "First water
over them with a whisk broom," says an-
other. I notice that I have made use of
the term "shower." I presume that the
other writers quoted from had the same ef-
fect in mind that I have, but the term
"sprinkle" is a misleading -one, and a whisk
broom i is not the proper instrument to use
is distributingwater over and among
planta You must have something more
than 4 mere sprinkling to do muchood,
and with a brush broom a mere sprinkling
is about all you ever get. You should aim
to throw water up among the branches, so
that the lower side of every leaf is wet ;
unles's this is done you but half accomplish
what you aim at, and anything that does
not throw a stream of water foreibly'in any
direction where you want it to go. Every
person growing plants in the window ought
to be the owner of te brass syringe made
expressly for florists' use. With one of
these implements it is the easiest thing in
the world to get water just where it is
needed, and the red spider is sure to be
rouetd by the persistent use of it.
WM. I'ICKARD.
M
E 08 R,
THE LIVE JEWELLER,
Would call attention to the lark i and choice stock now on hand. We buy
nothing but the best goods in The latest designs. Prices are reduced, and
BIG BARGAINS for the next few weeks will be given in.
—Mre. Francis Hiller, of Boston, said to
be worth $75,000,000, was married recent-
ly to her former coachman, who is about
one-third her age.
A`T
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A
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COMPLEXION 818 BETTER.
31y doctor says it acts gently an the stomach,
liver and kidneys, and is a pleasantlazative. This
drink is made from herhs. and le prepared for use
as easily as tea. It is called
WATCHES,
CLOCKS,
JEWELRY,
''I
SP E CTAOLL'iS,
SILVERWARE,
NOVELTIES.
LANE'S IVIEDIGTHE
All druggists sell It for 500, and $1.00 per
Buy one to -day. Lane's Family Medicine
heeves the bowels each day. In order to De
ir' this is necessary,
Headquarters for Wedding Presents and Repairing.
A WORD TO THE WISE IS SUFFICIENT,
R. MERCER, - - - - SEAFORTH.
Friends, Roillaus, Conntrymen,
Stop and Examine those Gro-
cries of
BEATTIE', BROTHERS.
Never were we in such shape las we now are to satisfy everybody. We
lead in TEAS. Also in MEATS, a large stock carefully cured by that
veteran, Dorrance, which has no equal in Canada,
Give us a call. We can positively convince you that we are here telely
IN YOUR INTERESTS.
A STORE AND ROOMS TO RENT ADJOINING.
BEATTIE BROS., SEAEORTH.
BgR, G 1 N S
AT
MULLETT & JACKSON'S
DURING THE NEXT
—
3 e - 1� AYS - 30
In Cook Stoves of .every deserip,ion.
Also Heaters for either Goad. or
Wood.
MTJLLETT/& JACKSON, Seaforth,
STOVES, TINWARE AND HOUSE FURNISHING EMPORIUM.
Important -.
BRIGHT BRO'T'HERS,
Announcement.
The Leading Olothiers of Huron,_
Beg to inform the people of Seaforth and surrounding a :untry, 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 Readyu4lade Clothing
IN THE COUNTY.
giSMINMF
- Prices Unequalled. We lead the Trade.
Remember the Old Stand, Campbell's Block, opposite the Royal Hotel;
Seaforth.
BRIGHT BROTHERS.
In our last eomP•
n0r)g 545
gf n. 300to(
our e mcoup
At the elopegrs of (tic £l
x,otftied of their ane
fust as we pre-crt:.3
(iii evidence ilia
our ?atr0ns -�
(exoapfing those oaf;
address on receipt We do this instead f31
of thetitst being
ctoinpe"
�tcmers to count t'
hi the diel.', With
To the first sires
answer
we will €r
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movement. AV e
of the three eorrcet
senfromchngtli ill theala. t
each be given watch
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can, for years aft
delighted possessor>
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,TEWELLERY.
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for intermediate eo
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the correct numbs
accompanied by 500
for a box a Dr -Mar
thepIlls and give 3r
who i `_,dissa.tisiie
exactly as Nye retire -
money. Our sole Of
nark- offer is to int
Late every home In
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worn-out business
opted to his en
energy-. and null
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(hearing (Torun pay
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the system, enriell
plum i. bright aft
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kidnoor bitui:crfOl1lnS:Osofeit
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vigor of youth to e.
and mental. t
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all these sympton
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and e _$e ¢o the lx
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11 tale persons
triiiutc our prPse
t'n-ttno mention
respect their wi..:
presents to any
knowledge of ev(
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meat plan, or
Cloneertinas and
music, books
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