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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1893-05-12, Page 2IE r 2 Ciuff Bennett's Planing Mill. THE ]-IUP iN EXPOSITOR MAY 12, 11398. -r. The undersigned would beg leave to thank their many customers for their very liberal support for the put and would say that they are in a much better position to serve them than ever before, as they are adding a new Engine and Boiler, aloo.a dry kiln and enlarging their building, which will enable them to turn out work on short notice. Lumber, Sash, Doors, Mould- ings, Shingles, and Lath always on hand. Contracts taken and Estimates furnished. Clufl`• & Bennett. P. S.—A11 in arrears please pay up. 13214 f Barr's - Dye - Works, SEAFORTI-, --Is the place to have your-- CLEANING our—CLEANING — AND — DYING _ Done, as we spare no pains to make oiir work first ohms, and we are new in a position to turn out the best work ever done in. Seaforth. T.A.:D=LS' Dresses, Jackets, Feathers &c. done in a style to suit THE MOST FASTIDIOUS. CMNTLI MMTT'S Overcoats and. Snits made to look AS GOOD AS NEW; Remember the stand, One• Door North of D. D. Wilson's Egg Emporium. R. H.' 12BARR. THE FARMERS' Bank -ng - HoUSe, Srg.FORTx (Iia oonneetlon with the Bank of Montreal.) LOGAN die CO., BANKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENT REMOVED To the Commercial Hotel Building, Main Street A General. Banking Busineoe done° drafts istue and dashed. Interest allowed on depoelts. MONEY TO LEND On good notes or' mortgagee. ROBERT LOGAN, MANAGEP 1068 Every owner of a \Vanted horse or cow wants to know how t0 keep his animal in good Health while in the stable on dry ebdder, DICK'S BLOOD PURIFIER is now recognized as the best Condition Powders, it gives a good e appetite andstrengthens the digestion so that all the food is assimilated and forms flesh, thus savingmore 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 toy 'slips and strains DICK'S BLIS- TER. will be found a stable necessity; h will remove a curb, spavin, splint or tboroughoin or any swelling. Dick's Lini- ment cures a strain or lameness and removes inflam- wation:from:cuts and bruises. For Sale by all Drug- gists. Dick's Blood Purifier 50c. Dick's Blister 50c. Dick's Liniment 25c. Dick's Ointment 25c. 1 Send a Fat Cattle #oPostalfull carpard r - Oculars, & a book of valuable household and farm recipes will be sent free. DICK & CO-, ` P.O. Box 482, MONTREAL. Sound Horses BUGGIES —AND— WAGONS. ND 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 O. C. WILLSON'S, IN S .A -FORTH - They are from the following celebrated makers Gananoque Carriage Com- - pany, Br ntford Carriage Company, and W. 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 thatfrom fault of comes r material or workmanship. We do no patching, but furnish new parts. I advertise mean what I a se, and d 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, t A FOR MANITOBA. THE IMPS PUREST, STRONGEST, REST. Contains no Alum, Ammonia, Lime, - Phosphates, or any Injuriante E. W. CILLETT. Toronto. Ont. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE: FARM FOR SALE.—For sale en improved, 100 sore 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. 8., Tucker - smith, or by mail to JOHN PRENDtERGASTi�a- forth P. 0. n OOD FARM FOR SALE. -For sale, north half kel" Lot 31, Concession 2,; Esat Wawanosh, 1091 acres ; good fencer, good orchard and never -failing . creek. Apply to 11.3 . D. COOKE, Barrister, Blyth, or PHILIP HOLT, Goderich. 1278 PROPERTY FOR SALE CHEAP.—For sale cheap in Hills Green, one half acre of land on which are erected a good frame house and kitchen, with stone cellar, and a frame stable and driving shed, There is a good cistern and a good well with pumps, convenient to the house. There are also some trees on the property. For further particulars apply to JOHN TROYER, Hills Green. 1323x4 Parties going to Manitoba should call on W. G. DUFF The agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Seaforth, who can give through tickets to any part of Mani- toba and the Northwest on the most reasonable terms. Remember, Mr. Duff is the only agent for the 0. 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 200 ACRE FARM FOR SALE.—The 200 acre ¢rm, being lots 11 and 12, oonoession 16 Grey, is offered for Sale. 120 acres are oleared and the balance is wall timbered. Buildings firet-Blase. Orchard, well, &o School house within 40 rods. Possession given st once if desired. For further particulars as to price , terms, etc., apply to MRS. WALKER, Roseville P;O., or to NELSON *BRICKKER, on the farm, 129941 Boots and Shoes D. McINTYRE FOR SALE•—A neat and attractive country home- stead, being part of lot 1 concession 7, in the Township of Turnberry, consisting of three acres of rich land, two acres are now under grass and balance is occupied by orchard and garden. There is a good frame house and stable on the premises, also a never failing well and first-class cistern. The owner has removed to Manitoba and the property must be sold. For particulars apply to JOHN W. GREEN, Lot 5, CCoO ession 6 •, Turnberry, or bex No 1t' WWro, eter FARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE.For sale cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bay eld 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 Brumfield station. Possession at any time. This is a rare chance to buy a first class farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR FORBES, Seaforth. 1144tf Has on hand a large number of Boots and Shoes of hie own make, best material and farranted to give Satisfaction. you want your feet kept dry Dome and get a pair o. our boote, which will be sold MARK IN McKILLOP FOR SALE.—For sale the south half of lots 1 and lot 2, concession 4, Mc- Killop, beingmostly 150 acres of very choice land at y in a good state of cultivation. There is a good house and bank barn, a good young bearing orchard and plenty of never failing water. A considerable portion seeded to grass. Convenient to markets and schools and good gravel roads in all directions. Will be sold cheap.1 Apply to the proprietor on the premises, MESSRS] DENT & HODGE, Mitchell, or at Tun HURON Exposrroa Office, Seaforth. JOHN O'BRIEN, Proprietor. 12984t FARM IN TUCKERSMITII FOR SALE.—For sale Lot 8, Concession 7, Tuckersmith, containing 100 sores, nearly all cleared, free from stumps, well underdrained, and in a high state of cultivation. The land is high and dry, and no waste land. There is aood brick residence two good .barna one with stone stabling underneath, and all other necessary oiiienuildings ; two never -failing wells, and a good bMing orchard. 1t is within four miles of Seaforth. It is one of the best farms in Huron, and will be sold on easy terms, as the proprietor desires to retire. Possession on the 1st October. Apply on the prem- ises, or address Seaforth P. 0. WM. ALLAN. 1276 ri ARM FOR SALE.—For Sale, 80 acres in Sanilao 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 omit, and a never failing well. The buildings consist of a frame house, stabling for 12 horses with four box stalle, 36 head of cattle and 100 sheep. Ninety ewes were win- tered last year,sold,8630 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 ither in 40 acre lots or as a whole. These properti re -in good localities, convenient b markets, hools and churches. The proprietor is forced to , sell on ac• count of ill health. It will be a bargain for the right man as it will be sold on easy- terms. GEORGE A. TEMPLETO.N, Doronington, Senile° County, 'Michi- gan. 1288x4-t•f. CHEAP FOR CASH. Repairing promptly attended to. All kinds; of Boots and Shoes made to order. All patties who have not paid their accounts for last year will please call and - eettle up. 1162 D. McINTYRE, Seaforth, MIDNIGII'T IN THE CITY. THE DARK TIDE OF OUR MODERN SOCIAL LIFE. boys' pockets were 'nougat up in that way. The wore born in a thieves' garret. Their childish toy was a burglar's dark lantern. The first thing they remembered was their mother , bandaging the brow of their father, struck by the police club. They begin;by robbing and now they have come to Graphic Description of the Carnival of Crime and Drunkenness in the Great Metropolis—Dr Talmage Delivers an Eloquent Sermon Thereon. BROOKLYN, April 9, 1893.—Rev: Dr. Talmage chose for his sermon today a theme of universal interest—the dark tide of social life in our great cities. The text chosen as the basis of the most graphic dis- course was Genesis 1, 5 : "Ana the dark- ness Heocalled ight•". Two granddivisions of time. The one of sunlight, th other of shadow, the one for work, the ` ther for rest; the one a type the cheerless home? Stir up the fire. of everything glad and beautiful, the other Bring on more drinks. Put up more stakes. used in all languages as a type- of Badness, That commercial house that only a little dig the underground passage to the oeUar of the bank, and ars preparing to blast the gold -vault. I Just so long as there are neglected child- ' ren of the street, just so long we will have Cthese desperadoes. Soma one, wishing to ! make a good Christain point and to quote a passage of scripture, expecting to get a Scriptural passage in answer, said to one of these poor lads cast out and wretched, "When your father and'mother forsake you, who then will take you up ?" and the boy said, "The perlice, the perlice!" In the midnight, gambling does its worse work. What though the hours be slipping away, and though the wife be waiting in and affliction, e,nd sin. These two divis- ions were made by the Lord himself. Other divisions of tiime may have nomen- clature of human invention, but the dark- ness held up its dusky brow to the Lord and he baptized it, the dew dripping from his fingers u he gave it a name—"and the darkness he Drilled night." My subject is midnight in town. The thunder of the city has rolledi out of the air. The slightest sounds cut the, night with such distinct- ness as to attract your attention. The tingling of the bells on the street car in the distance, and the baying of the dog. The stamp of a horse in the next street, The slamming of a saloon door. The hiccough ofj the drunkard. The shrieks of the steam -whistle rive miles away. Oh ! how 'suggestive, my friends; midnight in town. There are honest men' passing up and down the street. Here is a city mission- ary who has been carrying ascuttle of coal p -to that poor family in that dark place. Chatham street pocket -handkerchiefs. The Here is an undertaker going up the steps clerks of the store take a hand after the of a building from which there comes a shdtter are put up, and the officers of the bitter cry which indicates that the destroy- court while away their time while the jury ing angel has smitten the first born. Here is out. In - Baden-Baden, when that city was the greatest of all gambling places on while ago put out a sign of co -partnership will this season be wrecked on a gamblers' table. There will be many a money -till that will spring a leak. A member of -Con- gress gambled with a member -elect and won $120,000. The old way of getting a living is so slow. The old way of getting a fortune is so stupid. Come, let ns toss up and see who shall have it. And so the work goes on, from the wheezing wretches pitching pennies in a rum grocery u to the millionaire gambler in the stock market. In the midnight hour pass down the streets of our American cities, and you hear the click of the dice and the sharp, keen tap of the pool -room ticker. At these places merchant princes dismount, and legislators, tired of making laws, take a respite in breaking them. All classes of people are robbed by this crime, the im- orter of foreign silks and the dealer in ARl¢ F FOR SALE. For sale, that desirable and conveniently Situated farm,adjoining the village of Redgerville, being Lot 14, let Concession, Hay, 1 mile from Rodgerville post -other 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 11 storeys, 8 rooms, a large kitchen also attached with bedrooms and pantry &c. Good cellar under main part of house, stable holds over a car- load of horses, besides exercising stables, two barna two drive, houses, one long wood -shed, good cow- stablei and hen house three good wells with also pig e, pumps. Farm well fenced and underdrained.. 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 palr- ticulars apply to JAMES WHITE, Proprietor, Hen- sall. ]275-tf , FIRST CLASS FARM FOR SALE.—For elle Lot 12 Concession 6, 11. R. S Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres of choice land, nearly all cleared and in a high- state of cultivation, with 90 aerea seeded to grass. It is thoroughly underdrained and well fenced with straight rail, board and wire fences and dons 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 with a windenill on it at the out buildings, on the premises is an ex- cellent frame house, containing eleven roo us and cellar _under whole house, and soft and hard water convenient. There are two good bank barns, the one 32 feet by 72 feet and the other 36 feet by 56 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 3k miles from Seaforth Statidn,.5 from Brucefield and Kippen with good gravel rc a leading to each. It is also convenient to churches, post office and school and will be sold cheaptand on easy terms. For further particulars apply Ito the proprietor on the premises or by letter to THOMAS G. SHILLINGLAW, Egmondville P. 0. 12854f 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 which 10 acres are good hardwood bush. Soil, clay loam. Good frame house with ten rooms, on stone founda- tion ; also good bank Karn. On the premises are two acres young, bearing orchard, also a good creek and never -failing well. Apply to DANIEL J. NAFZEL, Goderich P.O. March 1st, 1893. 1316tf WM. D. TROTT'S SPLENDID STUDIO FOR FINE PHOTOS. This Studio has been refitted,refurnished and re- neu•ed, and is now fully equipped with the MOST per- fect photo appliances obtainable. Ground glass light, best light known. All the latest 'things in photos, including the CELLULOID FINISH, fade- less and washable. Sizes from postage itanips to life size. My New Process Cabinets are the finest finished ever produced. All those who wish to get the highest grade of work, embodying artistic effect, find finish, permanency, etc., should go to the OLD -NEW STUDIO, SCOTT'S BLOCK, CALDER'S OLD STAND, SEAFORTH, and all doing so may rely upon getting satisfaction. Calder's stock of frames will -be sold at half price. This is a chance. ° VI -Copies made from Calder'enegatives. 1322-13 is a minister 6:1 religion who has been giv- ing the sacrament to a dying Christian. Here is the physician passing along in great haste, - the messenger afew steps ahead, hurrying on t the household. Nearly all the lights hay gone out 'in the dwellings. That light in the window is the light of thunders of eternal destruction roll in the the watcher, -for the medicines must the ed- deep rumble of that gambling ten -pin alley, ministered, and the fever must be watched, and asmen come out to join the long pro. and the restle tossing off of the coverlid cession of sin, all the drums of woe beat the must be resisted, and the ice must be kept dead March of a thousand souls. In one on the hot temples, and the perpetual pray- year in the city of New York there were �p from hearts soon to be seven million dollars sacrificed at the gam - he midnight in town! What ing tables. Perhaps some of your friends thought—a whole city at have been smitten of this sin. Perhaps some of you have been smitten by it. Per - re :ring for to -morrow's haps there may be a stranger in the house earth, it =was no unusual thing the next morning in the woods around that city to find the suspended bodies of suicides. What- ever be the splendor of the surroundings, there is no excuse for this crime. The er must go broken. Oh! a stupendous teat ! Weary arm; p p toil. Hot brainbeing cooled off. Rigid this morning come from some of the hotels. muscles relaxed. Excited nerves`soothed. Look out for those agents of iniquity who The white hair of the ootogensarian in thin drifts across the pillow, fresh fall of flakes on snow already fallen. Childhood with its dimpled hands thrown out the pil- low, and with every breath taking in a new store of fun and frolic. God's slumberless eye will look. , Let one great wave of re- freshing slumber roll over the heart of the great town, submerging care, end anxiety, and worriment; and pain. Let the city sleep. But, my friends, be not deceived. There will be thousands to- night who will not sleep at all. Go up that dark alley, and be cautious where you tread, lest you fall over the prostrate form of a drunkard lying on his own doorstep. Look about yoc, lest you feel the garroter's bug. Look through the broken window- pane, and see vehat you can see. You say, "Nothing." Then listen. What is it? "God help us!" 1. No footlights; but tragedy ghastlier and mightier than Ristori or E win Booth ever enacted. No light, no fire, no bread, no hope. Shivering in the cold, they Lave had no food tor twenty-four hours. You'' sa�, "Why don't theybeg ?" They do, but they get nothing. Yu say, "Why don't they deliver themselves -over to the almshouse ?" Ah ! you would not ask that if you ever heard the bitter cry of a man or a child when told he must go to the almshouse. 4 "Oh?" you say, "they are the vicious poor, and, therefore, they do i not demand our sympathy.' Are they vicious? So much more need they your pity. The Christian poor, God helps them. Through their night theretwinkles the round, merry star of hope, anthrough the broken win- dow -pane they see the crystals of heaven ; but the vicious poor, they are, more to be - pitied. Their last light has gone out. Yon excuse yourself from helping therm by say- ing they are eobad, they brought this trouble on themlelves. I reply, where I give ten prayers for the innocent who are (suffering I will give twenty prayers for the guilty who are suffering. The fisherman, when he sees a vessel dashing into the breakers, comes out from his hut and wraps the warmest flannels around those who are most chilled andl most bruised and most battered in the wreck ; and I want you to know that these vicious poor have had two shipwrecks—shipwreck of the body, ship- wreck of the soul—shipwreck for time, shipwreck tor eternity. Pity by all means, the -innocent who ,'are suffering, but pity more the guilty. - Pass on through the alley. Open the door. "Oh," you, say, "it is locked." No, it is not locked ; it has never been locked. No burglar would be. tempted to go in there to steal anything. The door is never lock- ed. Only a broken chair stands against the door. Shove back. Go in. Strike a match. Now look. Beastliness and rags. See those glarin eyeballs. Be careful now what you say. Do not utter any insult, do not utter any suspicion, if you value your life. What is that red mark ,on the wall ? It is the mark of a' murderer's :hand ! Look at those two eyes rising out of the darkness and out from the straw in the corner, com- ing toward you, and as they come near you, your light goes out. Stikeanother match. Ah ! this is a babe, not like the beautiful children of your household, or the beautiful children smiling around these altars on baptismal day. This little one never smiled ; it never will smile. A flower flung on an awfully barren beach. Oh !Heavenly Shepherd, fold that little one in Thy arms. Wrap around you your shawl or your coat tighter, for the cold night wind sweeps through. Strike another match. Ah ! it is pos- sible that that young woman's scarred and bruised face was ever looked into by maternal tenderness ? Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh word. No ray of hope has dawned on that brow for many a year. No ray of hope ever will dawn on that brow. But the light has gone out. Do not strike another light. It would be a mockery to kindle another light in such a place as t hat. Pass out and pass down the street. Our cities of Brooklyn and New York, and all our great cities, are ful .f such homes, and the worst time the midnight. Do you know it is in the midnight that criminals do their worst work ? At half -past eight o'clock you will find them in the drinking -saloon, but towards twelve o'clock they go to their garrets, they get out their tools, then they start on the street. Watching on either side for the police, they go to their worko darkness. S This is a burglar, and the fall key will soon touch the store lock. ',Pili„ is an incendiary, and before morning Mit r,, will be a light on the sky, and cry at "Fire! fire jj" This is an assassin, and to- morrow mclrning there will be a dead body in oneof the vacant lots. During the daytime these villains in our cities lounge abont, some asleep and some awake, hut when the third watch of the night arrives, their eye keen, their brain cool, their arm strong, their foot fleet to fly or pursue, they are ready. Many of these poor creatures tarry around about the hotels, and .ask you, "Would you like to see the city?" Yes. "Have you ever seen that splendid building up town?" No. Then the villain will undertake to show you what he calls the "lions," and the "elephants," and after a young man, through morbid curiosity, or through badness of soul, has seen the "lions" and the "elephants," he will be on enchanted ground. Look out for these men who move around the hotels with sleek hatf —always sleek hats—and patronizing air, an unaccountable interest about you wel- fare and 'entertainment. You are a fool is you cannot see through it. They want your money. In Chestnut street Philadelphia, while I was living in that city, an incident occurred which was familiar to us there. In Chestnut street a young man went into a gambling saloon, lost all his property, then blew his brains out, and before the blood was washed from the floor by the maid, the comrades were shuffling cards again. You see there is more mercy in the highwayman for the belated traveler on whose body he heaps the stones, there is more mercy in the frost for the flower that it kills, there is more mercy in the hurricane that shivers the steamer on the Long Island coast, than there is mercy in the heart of a gambler for his victim. In the midnight hour, also, drunkenness does its worst. The drinking will be re- spectable at eight o'clock in the evening, a little flushed at nine, talkative and germ., bons at ten, at eleven blasphemous, at twelve the hat falls off and the man Calls to the floor asking for more drink. Strewn through the drinking -saloons of the city, fathers, brothers, husbands, sons, as good as von are by nature, perhaps better. fn the high circles of society it is hush- ed up. A merchant prince, if he gets noisy and uncontrollable, is taken by his fellow -revelers, who try to get him to bed, and take him home, where he falls flat in the entry. Do not wake up the child- ren. They have had disgrace enough. Do not let them know it. Hush it up. But sometimes it cannot be hushed up, when the rum touches the brain and the man becomes thoroughly frenzied. Oh, if the rum touches the brain, you cannot hush it up. You do not see the worst. In the midnight meetings a great multitude have been saved. We want a few hundred Christian men and women to come down from the highest circles of society to toil amid the wandering and destitute ones, and kindle up a light in the dark alley, oven the gladness of heaven. Do not go from your well-filled table with the idea that pious talk is going to slop the gnawing of an empty stomach or to warm stockingless feet. Take bread, tala raiment, take medicine as well as take prayer. There is a great deal of com- mon sense in what the poor woman said to the city missionary when he was telling her how she ought to love God and serve him. "Oh!" said, she, "if you were as poor and cold as I am, and as hungry, you could think of nothing else." Agreat deal of what is called Christian work goes for nothing for the simple rea- son it is not practical; as after the battle of Antietam a man got out of an ambulance with a bag of tracts and he went distribut- ing the tracts, and George Stewart, one of best Christian men in the country, said to him, "What are you distributing tracts for now? There are three thousand men bleeding to death. Bind up the wounds, and then distribute the tracts." We want more common sense in Chris- tian work, taking the bread of. this life in one hand, and the bread of the next life n the other hand. No such inapt work as that done by the Christian man, who dur- ing the last war, went into a hospital with tracts, and coming to the bed of a man whose legs had been amputated, gave hitn a tract on the sin of dancing! I rejoice be- fore God that never are sympathetic words uttered, never a prayer offered, never a Christian almsgiving indulged in but it is blessed. There is a place in Switzerland, I have been told, where the utterance of one word will bring back a score of echoes ; but I have to tell y'cu this morning that a sympathetic word, a kind word, a generons word, a helpful word uttered in the dark places of the town will bring back ten thou- sand echoes from all the thrones of heaven. Are there in this assemblage this morn- ing those who know by experience the_ tra- gedies of midnight in town? I -am not here to thrust you back with one hard word Take the bandage from your bruised soul and put on it the soothing salve of Christ' Gospel and of . God's compassion. Many have come. Three others coming to God this morning, tired of the sinful life. Cry up the news to heaven. Set all the bells ringing. Spread the banquet under the arohes. Let the crowned heads come down and sit at the jubilee. I tell you there is more delight in heaven over one man that gets reformed by the grace of God than. over ninety and nine that never get 62' the trait. I mould give you the history, in a minute,' of one of the best friends I ever had. Outside of my own family, I never had a better friend. Hr welcomed me to my home at the West. He was of splendid personal appearance, and he had an ardor of soul and a warmth of 'affection that made me love him like a brother. I saw men Doming out of the saloons and gambling hells, and they surrounded my friend, and they took him at thee weak point, his social nature, and I saw him going down, and I had a fair talk with him —for I never yet saw a man you could not talk with on the subject of his habits if you talked with him in the right way. I said to him, "Why don't you give up your bad habits and become a Christian?" I remem- bar now just how he looked, leaning over his counter as he replied : "I with I could. Oh! sir, I should like to be a Chris- tian, but I have gone so far astray I cgn't get back." So the time went on. After awhile the day of sickness came. I was summoned to his sickbed. I hastened. It took me but a very few moments to get there. I was surprised as I went in. I saw him in his ordinary clothes, fully dressed, lying on the top of the bed. I gave him my hand, and he seized it convulsively, and said, "Ohl how glad I am to see yon. Sit down there!" I sat down, and he said, "Mr. Talmage, just where you sit now my mother sat last night. She has been dead twenty years. Now, I don't want you to think I arra out of my mind, or that I am superstitious, but, sir, 'she sat there last night just as certainly as yon sit there now—the same cap, and apron, and spectacles. It was my old mother—she sat there. Then he turned to his wife, and said, "I wish you would take these strings off the bed ;. some- body is wrapping strings around me all the time. I wish you would stop that annoy- ance." She said, "There is nothing here." Then I saw it was delirium. He said, "Just where you sit now my mothtr teat, anh she said, `Roswell, I wish you Mould do better—I wishou would do better.' 1 said, `Mother,I wish I could do better. I try to do better, but I can't. Mother; you used to help me ; why can't you help me now? And, sir, I got out of bed, for it was reality, and I went- to her, and threw my arms around her neck, and I said, `Mother, I will do better, but you must help ; I can't do this alone !' " I knelt down and prayed. That night his soul went to the Lord that made it. Arrangements were made for the obse- quiee. The question was raised whether they should bring him to church. Some- body said, "You can't bring such a disso- lute man as that into the church." I said, "You will bring him in the church ; he stood by me when he was alive, and I will stand by him when he is dead. Bring him." As I stood in the pulpit, and saw them carrying the body up the aisle, I felt as if I could weep tears of blood. On one side of the pulpit sat his little child of eight years, a sweet, beautiful little - girl that I had seen him hug convulsively in his better moments. He put on her all jewels, all diamonds, and gave her all pic- tures and toys, and then he would go away as if hounded by an evil spirit, to his cups and house of shame—a fool to the correction of the stocks. She - looked up wonderingly. She knew not what it all meant. She was not old enough to under- stand the sorrow of an orphan child. On the other side the pulpit sat the seen who had ruined him; they were the mea who had poured wormwood into the or- phan's cup ; they were the men who had bound him hand and foot. I knew them. How did they seem to feel ? Did they weep? No. Did they say, "What a pity that such a generous man should be de- stroyed?" No. Did they sigh repentingly over what they had done?" No ; they sat there looking as vultures look at the oar- eau of the lamb whose heart they have ripped out. So they sat and looked at the coffin -lid, and I told them the judgment of God upon those who had destroyed their fellows. Did they reform? I was told theywere in theplacesof iniquity that nigt after my friend was laid in Oakwood Cemetery, and they blasphemed, end they drank. Oh! how merciless men are especi- ally after they have destroyed you ! Do not look to men for comfort or help. Look to God. But there is a man who will not reform. He says, "I won't reform." Well, then, how many acts are there to a tragedy. I believe five. Act the first of the tragedy. A young man starting off from home; parents and sisters weeping to have him go. Wagon rising over the hill. Farewell kiss flung back. Ring the bell and let the curtain fall. Act the second. The marriage altar. Full organ. Bright lights. Long white veil trailing through the aisle. Prayer and congratulation, and exolamation of "How well she looks!" Act the third. A woman waiting for staggering steps. Old garments stuck into the broken window -pane. Marks of hard- ship on her face. The biting of the nails of bloodless fingers. Neglect, and cruelty, and despair. Ring the bell and let the cur- tain drop. - Act the fourth. Three graves in a dark place—grave of the child that died for lack of medicine, grave of the wife that died of a broken heart, grave of the man that died of dissipation. Oh ! what a - blasting heath of three graves. Plenty of weeds but no flowers. Ring the bell and in let the curtain drop. oP. Act the fifth. A destroyed soul's eter- nity. No light. No music. No hope. Anguish coiling its serpents around the heart. Blackness of darkness forever. But I cannot look any longer. Woe ? Woe ! I close my eyes to this last act of the tragedy. Quick ! Quick ! Ring the bell and let the,curtain drop. "Rejoice, 0 young man, in thy youth, and let-Iiy heart rejoice in the days of thy youth, but know thou that for all these things God will bring you into judgment." 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