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The Huron Expositor, 1897-04-09, Page 2*BICYCLES AND willows Fmk During the Year 189T. For full gorticulars see advertisements, Orapply to LEVER BROIL, LTL, 23 Soon Sr., TOW° REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. MUMS FOR SAL. -The undersigned has twenty X °litho Farms for saki in East Huron, the ban- ner °aunty of the Province ; all sine, and price* to sulk. For full information, write or oall personally. No troubled* show thein. F. B. SCOTT, Brussels P. O. 1391-tf "DARN FOR SALE. -100 sores, inthe township of X Grey, near. Brawls. There is on it nearly 60 acres -of bush, about half black ash, the rest hard- wood. A never -failing epring of water runs through the lot. Will be sold at a big bargain. For particu- lars, apply to MRS. JANE WALKER, Box 219, Brume& 1470 WARM FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 6, conceesion 12, X township of Ribbed, oontaining 100 acres of good land in a good state of cultivation. Well fenced; good brick house ; good baok barn and out buildings; 13 acres of fall wnest, and ploughing all done; 2 goodwells and 2' never failing epringe ; 85 acres cleared ; posseseion at any time, For further particulars, apply to PETER MELVILLE, Cromarty . P. O., Ontarid. 15254f MURK FOR SALE.-Eait half Lot 41, Conceesion X 2, Township of East Wawatiosh, containing 100 acres. This is one of the beet farms in the Township, and is situated in a good neighbor- hood, soil of the best and no waste land. There are on the farm, frame barn and stables, also two acres of orchard, plenty of good stater, and within one mile and a half from the village of Blyth. For -,•• further particulars apply on the premises or to Box • Blyth P. 0. 15144f COMFORTABLE PLACE FOR SALE. --For sale -cheap, thalami of the undersigned in Harpur hey. There are between 28 and 30 acres, all cleared, drained and in a good state of cultivation. There is a good frame house, barn and driving shed: It is within a mile of Seated)), and is admirably adapted for a market gszdener or a email dairy farm. Apply to the proprietor on the premises, ISAAC MILLER. 152244. MIARM FOR SALE OR TO RENT. -For sale or to. rent, lot 9, and south half of lot ,10,. concession 12, Hollett, oontaining 150 sores, &Wahine& except about 8 acres of good hardwood bush. The land is all ma good state of cultivation, well undertrained and well fenced. On the premises are erected a geod frame house, with atone foundation and heated by a furnace, with plenty of hard and soft water; a good bank barn 74x44,„ with good stabling under- neath, and two hey borne attached, as well as other out -buildings. A spring creek runs in front of ,the barn through the two lots. There are also two good orchards. It is 5 miles from Blyth, and 12 from Sea - forth, and about ilhe same distance to °Lipton ; con- venieni to sohooh and churches. Poesession can be had at once, and parties either renting or buying can have the use of the implements. Terms easy. Apply to R. H. KNOX, Blyth. 1527x4 WARM FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 36, Concession X 2, Kiniose, containing 100 acres, 85 cleared and the balance in good hardwood bush. The land h in a good state of cultivation, is well underdrained and well fenced. There is a heune barn and log house on the property, a never -failing opting with windmill, also about 2 ae-es of orchard. It is an excellent farm and is within one mile of Whitechurch station, where there are stores, blacksmith 'limp and churches. There is a school on the opposite lot. It is six miles from Wingham and six from :Lucknow, with good roads leading in all directions. This de - Kimble property will be .old on reasonable terns. For.further particulars apply to JAMES MITCHELL, Varpa P P. 1495.15044f EOR SALE OR TO RENT ON EASY TERMS, - 2 As the Owner wishes to retire from business on accetuit 01 111 health, the following valuable property at Winthrop, 4i miles north of Seaforth, on leading road to Brussels, will be sold or rented as one farm or inparte to suit purchaser: about 600 acres of splendid farming land, with about 400 under crop, the balance in pasture. There are large barns and all other buildings necessary for the implements, vehicles, etc. This land is well watered, has good frame and brick dwelling houses, etc. There are grist and saw mills and store which will be sold or rented on advantageous terms. Also on 17th. con- cession, Grey township, 190 acres of land, 40 in pasture, the balance in timber. Possession given after hervest of farm lands; mills at once. For par- ticulars apply to ANDREW GOVENLOOK, Winthrop. 1486-tf Our direct connections will -save you time and money for all points. Canadian North -West Via Toronto or Chicago, Brieish Columbia and California points. Our rates are the lowest. We have them bo suit mierybody and PULLMAN TOUR- IST CARS for your aocommodation. Call for further information. Station G. T. R. Ticket Office. Train Service at Seaforth. Grank Trunk Railway. Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton stations it.s follows Goma West- SNATORTIT. CLINTON. Passenger .........12.47 P.M. 1.03 r,.u. Piumenger .. 10.12 P. M. 10.27 P.M •Mixed Train 8.45 A. M. 10,15 P.M, Mixed Train .. 6.15 P. M. 7.06 P. M. Goma Freer - Paseenger 7.66 A. M. Passenger .. 3.16 P. M. Mixed Train. 5.20 P. M. Wellington; Grey and GOING NORTII-. Ethel...-. Brussels.. Bluevale Wingbam- . Gem Sours- Wingham.... Bluevale Bruseele- . • - Ethel- ........7.33 Passenger. 12.40 r. 12.52 1.06 1.15 Passenger. 6.55 A.M. 7.07 7.21 7.40 A. M. 2.59 P. M. 4.35 P. M. Bruce Mixed. 9.13 am, 9.44 10.20 11.10 Mixed. 5.30 p.n. 603 6 37 7.02 London; Huron and Bruce. GOING NORTH - London, depart- ---- - Centralia.... ......... Exeter. Hensel', - - Kippen Brucefield Clinton .. _ Londesboro Blyth Belgreve......... _ _ Wingha.m arrive GOING .SOUTII-- Wingham, depart , - Belgrave ' Myth. . . - - Londesboro - - - - Brucefield-- Kippen - - - - Hensall - - - Exeter -- Centralia............-... London, (arrive) Paseenger. 8.15s.it. 4.45 P.M. 9.18 5.57 9.30 6.07 9.44 6.13 9.50 6.25 9.58 6.33 - 10.15 6.55 • 10.34 7.14 10.41 7.28 10.56 7.37 11.10 8.00 • Paseenwr. 6.501..u. 3.30?.a 704 84 7.16- 4G0 7.24 4.t6 7.47 4 8.06 450 ' 8.17 4.69 / . 8.24 5.04 8.38 5.16-j 8.5 5.28 10.00.,S air. 8.0 • TgN • ,.1;1:11.40:N._.: S.X1- 0s11:01t.. Bla B.G. THE CiTY. NEHEMIAH'S IMDE TO THE RUINS f OF JERUSALEM. The inciumtment of the Moonlight and • Neheml;Uh's Resolve -Love of the Church of Ger; ..... Ruin- and Redesnption .-. The o Great Good That Comes Prom Trouble. Washington, April 4. -From the weird and midnight experiences of one of aucient times Dr. Talmage.ht his sermon draws lessons startlingly • appropriate. His text I was Nehemiah 11, 16, "Then Went I un in the night by the brook and viewed tile wall and turned back and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.1 • A deanecity is niore suggestive than a living city -past Home than present Borne -ruins rather than *lowly frescoed cathedral., But the best time to visit a ruins is by moonlight. The Coliseum is far more fascinating to the traveler after sundown than before. You may stand by daylight amid the 'nonage° ruins of Melrose ahbey and study shafted oriel and insetted stone and mullion, belt they throw their strongest witchery by moon- - light. So Me of you remember what the enchanter ef Scotland geld in the "Lay of the Last Minstrel" :- . Wouleist thou view fair Melrose arighle- Cio visit it by the pale moonlighit. Washingten Irvbig describes the Anda- lusian moeeilight upon the Alhambra ruins as anieunting to an enchantment. My text preaeafts you Jerusalem in ruins. The tower down. The gates down. The walls down. Everything down. Nehe- miah on horselnick by moonlight looking upon the itiins. While he rides there are 1, some friea on foot going „with him, for they do ot want the many horses to disturb th suspicions of the -people. These people do not know the secret of Nehemiah'sheart, but they are going as a sort of bodyguard. I hear the clicking hoofs of the horse on 'which Nehemiah rides as he uides it this way and that, into this gat1e and out of that, winding through than gate aroal the debris of once great , erusalem. building the City. NOW the iorse .comes to dead halt at the tumbled masonry where he cannot pass. Now he shies off at the charred tim- bers. Now ne comes along where the water under the 3poonlight- flashes from the mouth of the brazen dragon after which the gate as named. Heavy hearted Nehemiah! ;Riding in and out, now by his old home desolated, now by, theole- faced temple, now amid the scars of the city that had gone down under battering ram and. cimflagration. The escorting party knows l not -what Nehemiah means. Is he getting crazy? Have his own per- sonal sorroWs added- to the sorrows of the nation, unbalanced his intellect? Still the midnighnexploration goes on. Nehe- miah on horseback rides through the fish gate, by theitower of the furnaces, by the king's pool, by the dragon well, in and out, in and Out, until the midnight ride Is completed; and Nehemiah dismounts from his hoise, and to the amazed and confounded and incredulous bodyguard declares the dead secret of his heart when he says, "Ceme, now, let us build Jeru- salem." "What, Nehemiah, have you any money?" "o." ninsave you any kingly authority?" "No." "Have you any elo- quence?" "No." Yet that midnight moonlight ritle-of Nehemiah resulted in the glorious rebuilding ' of the city of Jerusalem, The peoale . knew not how the thing was tobe &me, but with great enthtudaran bey cried out, "Let us rise up now and b, uild the city." Some peo- ple laughed and said it could not be done. Some People were infuriated and offered physibal violence, saying the thing should not be done. But the workmen went right on, standing on the wall, trowel in one hand, sword in the other,. until the week was gloriously completed. At that very time in Greece Xenophon wai-aimiting a history, and Plato was making philosophy, and Demosthenes was rattling his rhetorical thunder. But all of them t,ogether did not do so much for the world as this midnight, moon- light ride of arraying, courageous; home- sick, close Mouthed Nehemiah. LOve of the Church. My subject first impresses me with the idea, what an intense thing is church affection. Seize the bridle of that horse and stop Nehemiah. Why are you risk- ing your life here in the night? Your horse will stUmble over these ruins and fall on you. Stop this useless exposure of your life. No. Nehemiah will not stop. He at last tells us the whole story. He lets us know d he was an exile in a far distant land,, and he was a servant, a cupbearer in the palace of Artaxerxes LongimanusS and one day, while he was handing the top of wine to the king the king said to him: "What is tlie matter with you? YOu are not sick. I know you. must leave some great treuble. What is the matter w,ith you?" Then he told the king how that beleved. Jerusalem was broken down; how that his father's tomb had been desecrated; how that the tem- ple had becn. dishonored and defaced; how that the; walls were scattered and broken. "Weil," says King Artaxerxes, "what do yoli. want?" "Well," said. the cupbearer Nehemiah, 'I want to go borne. I want to fix up the grave of my father. I want to restore the beauty of the temple. + I want to rebuild the masonry of the city wall. Besides I want passports SO that I shall not be hindered in my journey. And. besides that," as you will find in the context, "I want an order on the xnan who keeps your forest for just so Much timber as I may need for the rebuilding of the city." "Hew long shall you be gone?" said the king. The time of 'absence is arranged. In hot haste this seeming adventurer comes to Jerusalem end in my texts we find him on horsel;ack, in the midnight riding around the , ruins. It is through the spectacles ofithis scene that we discover the ardent a tachment of Nehemiah for sacred Jerusalem, which in all ages has been the type.of the church of G,od, our Jerusalem, which we love just as neuch as Nehemiah loved his Jerusalem. The fact is that you love the church of God so much that there is no spot im earth so sacred, uoless it be your own fireside.. y-lewing the Ruins. The chureh has been to you. so much comfort and illumination that there is nothing that makes you so irate as to have it talls'ed against. If there have been times whei:nyou have been carried into captivity by sickness, you longed for the church, our! holy Jerusalem, just as much as Nehemiah longed for his Jerusalem, and the first day You came out you came to the house of the Lord. When the tem- ple was in !ruins, like Nehemiah, you walked roomed and looked at it, and in the moonlight yoU stood listening if you could. hear the voice of the dead organ, , the psalm cif the expired Sabbaths. What Jerusalem Was to Nehemiah,, the °hutch of God is tO you. Skeptics and infidels may scoff eit the church as an obsolete affair, as alrelic of the dark ages, as a conventienkif goody goody people, but all he impreseion they have ever made on your Mind Iagainst the church of God is absolutely nothing.. You would make more sacrifices for it to -day than any ther institution. and. if it were ,needful 6 0 • yen *WO irriniltrItirlinfeniK TOW On take the words of the kingly poet as he Odd, "If forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my night hand forget her °tinning." You Underetand in your own experience the pathos, the homencleness, the courage, the holy enthusiasm of Nehemiah in his midnight, moonlight ride around the ruins of his beloved Jerusalem. Explorsition Necessary. Again, my text impresses me with the fact that before reconstruction there must be -an exploration of ruins. Why was not Nehemiah asleep under the cov- ers? Wily was not his horse stabled in the midnight? Let the police of the city arrest this midnight rider, out on some mischief. No. Nehemiah is going tore - build the city, and he is making the pre- liminary exploratioo. In this gate, out that gate, east, west, north, south. All through the ruins. The mune must be explored before the work of reconstruc- tion can begin. The reason that so many people in tills day, apparettly converted, do net stay 'converted is because they did net first explore the reins of their own heart. The reason that there are so many professed Christians who Lu this day lie and forge and steal, and ooramit abomin- ations, and -go to the penitentiary, is be- cause they first do not learn the ruin of their own heat. They horse not found Out that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." They hadan idea that they were almost right, and they built religion as a sort of ex- tension, as an ornamental cupola. There was a superstructure of religion built on a substratum Of unrepented sins. The trouble with a good deal of modern the- ology is that instead of building on the right foundation, it builds on the debris of an unregenerated nature. They at- tempt to rebuild Jerusalem before, in the midnight of conviction, they have 'seen the ghastliness of the ruins. They have such a poor foundation for their religion that the first northeast storm of tempta- tion blows them down. I haie no faith in a man's conversion if he is not con- verted in the' old fashioned way -John Bunyan' s. way, John Wesley's way, John Calvin's way, Paul's way, Christ's way, God's way. A dentist said to me, "Does that hurt?" Said I: "Of course it hurts. It is in your business as in my profes- sion. We have to _hurt before we can help." You will never understand re- demption untirkou understand ruin. The Old' and the New. A man tells me that some one is a member of the church. It makes no im- pression on my mind- at all. I simply want to know whether he was converted in the old fashioned way, or whether he was converted in the nee* fashioned way. If he was converted in the old fashioned way, he will stand. If he was converted io the new fashioned write he will not stand. That is all there is about it. A man comes to mo to talk about religion. The •first question I ask him is, "Do' you feel yourself to be a sinner?" If he say, "Well, I -yes," the hesitancy. makes me ' feel that that man wants a ride on 'Nehe- nalah's horse by midnight through the ruins -in by the gate of his affection, out by the gate of his will -and before he has got through with that 'midnight ride he will diorethe reins on the horse's neckaand will take his right hand and smite on his heart and say, "God be merciful to me a sinner," and before he has stabled his horse he will take his feet out of the . stirrups, and he will slide down on the ground, and bewill kneel, crying: "Have mercy on me, 0 God, ac- cording to thy loving kindness, according unto the multitude of tby tender mercies. Blot out thy transgressions, for I acknow- ledge my transgressions, and my sins are ever before thee." Ah, My friends you see this is not a complimenta4 gospel. That is what makes some people so mad. It comes to a man of a 'ninon dollars'and impenitent in his sins, and says, "You're a pauper." It comes to a woman of fairest cheek, who has neveo repent',ed, and says, "You're a sinner." It comes to a men priding himself on independence, and says, "You're 'bound hand and foot by the devil." It comes to our entire race, and says, "You're a ruin, 'a ghastly ruin, an illimi- table ruin." Satan sometimes says to me: "Why do you preach- that truth? Why don't you preach that truth? Why don't you preach a gospel with no repent- ence in it? Why don't you flatter men's hearts so that you make them feel all right? Why don't you preach a humani- tarian gospel, with no repentance in it, saying nothing about the ruin, talking all the time about the Redemption?" Redemption a Faroe Without Ruin. I say, "Get thee behind me, satan." I would rather lead five souls into safety than 20,4/00 into perdition. The redemp- tion of the gospel is a perfect farce if there is no ruin. "The whole need not a phasician, but they that are sick." "If any one, though he be an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel than this," -says the apostle, "let him be ac- cursed." There ,must be the midnight ride over the ruins before Jerusalem can be built. There must be the clicking of the hoofs before there can be the ring of the trowels. Again. My subject gives me a speci- men of busy and triumphant sadness. If there was any man In the world who had a right to mope and gine up every- thing as last, it was Nehemiah. You say, "He was a cupbearer hi the palace cif Shushan, and. it was a grand place." So it was. The hall of that palace was 200 feet square, and the roof hovered over 36 marble pillars, each pillar 60 feet high, and the intense blue of the sky, and the deep green of the forest foliage, and' the white of the driven snow, all hung trembling in the uphol- stery. But, my friends, you know very well that fine architecture will not put down homesickness. Yet Nehemiah did not give up. Then when you see him go - beg among these desolated streets, and by these dismantled towers, and by the tome up grave of his -father, you would suppose that he would have been dis- heartened, and that he would have dis- mounted from his horse and . gone to his room and said: "Woe is me! My father's grave is torn up. The temple is dishonored. The •walls.are broken down. I have no money with which to rebuild. I wish I had never been born. I wish I were dead." Not so says Nehemiah. Al- though Ise had a grief ao intense that it excited the commentary of his king, yet that penniless, expatriated Nehemiah rouses himself up to rebuild the city.. He gets his permission of absence. He gets his passports. Be hardens away to Jeru- salem. By night on horseback he rides through the ruins. He overcomes the. mostferoelous opposition. He arouses the piety and patr1ot14. of the people and 'minis than two imonths-namely, 62 -demi -Jerusalem was rebuilt. That's what I call busy and triumphant sad- ness. The Design of Trouble. My friends, the whole temptation is with you when you have trouble to do just the opposite to the behavior of Nehe- miah, and that is to give up. You say, "I have lost my child and •can never smile again." You say, "I have lost my property, and I never can repair my for- tunes." You saY, "I have fallen into sin, and I never can start again for a new life." If satan can make you form that resolution and make you keemit, he has ruined you,. Trouble is not sent to crush you, but to arouse you, to animate YOui to.12tODO you, Pb b14.0ks.Plitti 4991.4 • 1 I neFtlirtiet the nein . We; tile rorge WM . then blow away vAth the bellows and ' then bring the hot iron out- on the anvil and beat with stroke after stroke to. ruin the iron, but to prepare it for a better 'nee. On, that the Lord God of Nehemiah would arouse up all broken hearted peo- ple to rebteld! Whipped, betrayed, ship- wrooked, imprisoned, Paid went right on. The Italian martyr Algerius sits in his dungeon, writing a letter, and he dates it, "Prom the delectable orchard of the Leonine prieon." That is what I call triumphant sadness. I - knew a mother who buried her babe Jen Friday Aid on Sabbath appeared in the house of God and said: "Give me a class. Give me a Sabbath school oless. I have no `child now left me, and I would like to have aclass of little children. Give me a class oft the back stied." That, I say, Is beautiful. That is triunaphant sadness. At ii o'clock every Sabbath afternoon for years in a beautiful parlor in Philadel- phitana parlor pictured and 'statuetted- theee_were from 10 to 20 destitute- chil- dren of the street. Those destitute chil- dren reeeived religious instruction, con- cluding with cakes' and sandwiches. How • de I know that tltat. was going an for 16. years? I know it in this . way: That Was the dret home in Philadelphia Where I was called to comfort a great sorrow. They had a splendid boy, and he had , been drowned. at Long Branch. , The father and mother almost idolized the boy, and the sob and shriek of that father and mother as they hung over the coffin resound in my ears to -day. There seemed to be no use of „praying, for when I knelt down to pray the outcry in the room drowned out' all the prayer. But the Lord comforted that sorrow. They did not forget their trouble. If you shoOld go any afternoon i-nto Laurel Hill you would find a monument with the word "Walter" inscribed upon it and. a wreath of fresh flowers around the name. I think there was not a,n hour in 20 years, winter or .summer, when there was not a wreath of fresh fiowers around ' Walter's name. . Triumphant Sadness. But the Christian mother Nebo sent those' flowers there, having no child left, Sabbath afternoons. mothered 10 to 2(1 of the lost ones of the street. That is beau- tiful. That is what I call busy and tri- umphant sadness. Here is a man who has lost his property. He does not go to hard drinking. He does not destroy his own life. He comes and says: "Harness me for Christian wiirk. My money's gone. I have no treasure• on earth. I want treasures in heaven. .I have a voice and a heart to serve God."' You say that that man has failed. He has nob failed-' he has triumphed. • Oh, I wish I could persuade all the people who have /any `kind of trouble never to give up i I wish they would look at the midnight rider . of the text, and that the four hoofs of that beast on whieh Neheircfah !rode might out to pieces all your discourageMents and hardships and prials. Give up! Who is going to give up when on the -bosom of Grid he can have all his troubles hushed? Give up! Never think of giving up: Are you borne down with poverty? A little, child was found. holding her dead mother's hand in the darkness of a tene- ment house, and some one coming in the little girl "cooked up, while holding her dead mother's hand, and Said, "Oh, I do wish that God had made more light .,,,, for poor folks!" My . d.God will be your light, God will be you shelter, God will be your home. Are yo, borne down with' the bereavements of life? Is the house lonely now. that the child is gone? Do not give up. Think of what the old sexton said when the minieter aeked him why he put so much care on the little .. graves in the cemetery -so Much more care than on the larger graves -,and the old sexton said; "Sir, you know that 'of such is the kingdom of heaven,' and I think the Saviour is pleased when he sees so much white clover growing around these little graves." ' , Do Not Give Up. • But when the minister pressed the old sexton fox -a more saiiisfactory answer the old sexton said, "Sir, about these larger graves, I don't know who are the Lord's saints and who are not, .1int you know, means of' chains and antihero. /rear the upper end and built so that it can slide on the rod is a big, hound _hollow Boat, ehaped like a chetieebox. AttaChedto the lower side of ibis float, ono . on either side of the central rod, are the barrels of two long pumps whose piston rods are madelfast to a arose -piece on the central rod below. It is evident that if the oent- ral rod is held firmly the rise and fall of the floating cylinder at the top will Work the pumps. The difficulty to be overcome lies in the fact that tbe central rod would naturally rise and fall with the float. To overcome this tendency Mr. Fletcher has carried the lower end of the central rod down into the sea below the zone of Wave action, rued there fast- ened a great fiat disk to the rod. This disk offers so much resistence to move- ment that it bolds the central rod poe- tically still while the float rises and falls and does the pumping. A email machine _ which was used, at Dover, had a float ; about 4 feet in diameter and a stroke to the pumps of 4 feet, and this, when in ; full action, developed 8.1 horsepower. A plant is now being built which is ' intended to develop 800 horsepower *lien it is fully operated by the waves. -New York Sun. sir, it is clean different with the bairns." Oh, if you have -had that keen, tender. indescribable sorrow that comes from the Ioss-of a child, do not give up. The old. sexton was right. It is all well with the bairns. Or, if you have sinned, if you have sinned grievously -sinned until you have been cast out by the church, sinned natil you have been cast out by society - do not give up. Perhaps there may be this house one that could truthfully utter the lamentation of another:- , Once I was pure as the snow, but I tell - Fell like a snowilace, from - heaven to hell - Fell to be trampled as filth in the street - Fell to be scoffed at, spit on and beat. Praying, cursing, wishing to die, Selling my soul ,to whoever would buy, Dealing in shame for a morsel of bread, Hating the living and fearing the dead. Do not give up. One like unto the Son of God comes to you to -day, saying, "Go and sin no more," while he cries out to your assailants, "Let him that is with- out sin cast the; first stone at her." Oh, there is no reason why, any one in this house by reason of any trouble or sin should give up! Are you a foreigner and in a strange land? Nehemiah was an exile. Are you penniless? Nehemiah was poor. Are you h_onaesick? Nehemiah was homesick. Are yen broken hearted? Nehe- miah was broken hearted. But nut gee him in the text, riding along the sacrii- eged grave of his father and by the dragon well and through the Joh gate and by the king's pool, in and out, in and .out, the moonlight falling on the broken masonry, which throws a long shadow, at which tie horse shies, and at the same tense that moonlight kindl- ing up the features of this man till you see not only the nark of sad reminis- cence, but the courage and hope, the enthusiasm of a man who knovrs that Jerusalem will he rebuilded. I pick you up to -day, out of your sins and out of your serrow, and [put you against the warm heart of Christ. "The eternal God Is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlating arms." Utilizing Wave Power. I Morley Fletcher, an associate mem- ben'of, the British Institute of Civil En- gineers, bas been engaged for sore° time it craning on experiments in Enghind Pinking to the utilization of the force developed by the rise and fall of the waves of the sea. Many attempts have been made to use this enormous power for mechanical purposes, and it has' been estimated that a very small fraction of the energy developed in the , sea by the winds would suffice for all human needs. Mr. Fletcher has succeeded in making an experimental machine which promises to be of real utility for many purposes. The machine is simply a pump ar- ranged in an ingenious manner, so that the waves shall work it up and down, and the force of the stream of water thus propelled may be used either directly for operating engines or be carried to reser- voirs and used from these for producing energy. Mr. Fletcher's machine consists, first, of a strong metal rod, the lower end of which is held stationary at a fixed dis- tance from the bottom of th_e sea by Cabinet Offices. An effort will be made during this congress to have the nueiber of cabinet officem increased to nine. The proposi- tion being agitated is to &cote a cabinet department, of tiommerce and industry, says the Washington Star. The first oabinet, that of Washington, consisted of five members. The secretary of state was paid $8,500 a year, . and the others $8,000 each. War and navy formed oneeleparimient, and there was no de- partment of the interior or of agriculture. The first increase in the number of cab- inet officers was under President Jeffer- son; who had a secretary of the navy and a secretary of war instead of the two. offices beliag in one. The number re- mained at six until President 'Taylor's term'when a _secretary of the interior was added. Just beforesthe close of Presi- dent Cleveland'ailret term the depart- ment of agriculture was established and a secretary of agriculture was ereated. Prior to that there had been a commis- sioner of agriculture. The salaries of the cabinet officers have been increased from time to tines until now they are $8,000 each per year. During the first three or four adminis- trations of the 'United States the cabinets were not composed exclusively of men who agreed in politics. Washington's administration was kept in a state of turmoil by the disagreements between Hamilton and Jefferson, until finally the aabinet was' -broken up. Madison, John Adams and Jackson had much trouble with their cabinets. Madison !had 17 men in his cabinet during two terms. Jack- son had 10 and. Grant had '21. It has been a rare thing for a, cabinet to hernain without change throughout an entire ad- ministretion. A Versatile Applicant. • The persistency, -fertility and, resource of the office seeker are often matters of amazement even to the oldest 'mernin public life who have coped with the question for years. Chauncey M. Depew recently received a most astonishing epistle from a Pennsylvanian who seeks, to Serve the country. The writer pre- , faced his letter with the remark that he had been told that Mr. Depew would be made embassador hcopngland and made application for I the ' position of private secretary. He went on with an account, of his- hunt for office by saying that pi- ma:illy he had honed to get an office from Major McKinley, but that the president hid disappointed him. He continued thatl he had relied on Mr. Hanna next, but that he was also disappointed there. Then he turned to Colonel McCook, but finding the latter was net to -be in the cabinet he thought he would like to go abroad and so ap- plied to Colonel john Hay for the post of private secretary, understanding that,he was to be embassador. He inclosed a reply from Colonel Hay, in which the latter said that he had not been appointed em- baseador and didn't know whether he should be, and if he was he should not need the services,offered. Then the writer turned. to Mr. Depew as a lastresort and concluded, "In the event that you should not be appointed embassador to England, could you not give me employ- ment on your railroad as flagman, brake- man or something , of the kind?" Mr. Depew laughed heartily 1 over the letter and said that candor and scope.were cer- tainly virtues of this remarkable appli- cant.-rIsTew York Tribune. Sun, Mina a Printing Press. Attempts have been made to utilize the sun's heat to do useful mechanical work, and Ericsson,the'Pwedith tor, devised a form of engine in which the rays were reflected from and concen- trated by a curved • inimer upon a small pipe filled with water, steam being there- by generated, -which was utilized to drive a steam engine, furnishing power to run a printing press of two Oorsepower cap- acity -Boston Budget. Drum and Bagpipes. Of) all the numerous instruments atm- ployed in our•times the oldest and ramie widely knirarn are the drum , harp and bagpipe. I The first of these, simple as its construction is., bas literally played an important partin music. It originated in the north of Asia, and was for more than1,000 years the only * in unbent knorete to the rude sod roving Tevtacg -On Sunday morning, 28th ult., hn Moore, of Boston, Peel county, went to the barn as usual to do his chores. While throwing down feed for the stock out of the mow, he fell to the been floor, striking his held on a stone. His wife waited some time for him to come to breakfast, and then went to the barn. When she found him he was still breathing, but died in a few min- utes. Keep up hope. There are thousands of cases where re- covery , from,- Consumption has been complete. Plenty of fresh air and a well-nour- ished body will check the progress of the -disease. Nu- tritious foodsare well in their way, but the best food of all is cod-liver Oil. When partly digested, as in Scott's Emulsion, it does not dis- turb the stomach and thu body secures the whole bene- fit of the amount taken. If you' want to read more about It let us send you a book - SCOTT & B07E, Belleville, Ont. - APRIL 9,189 DOMINION 7;7' BAN- IMMOINIMIM qAPITAL, (pAip urn S1,1500, REST, Oki MI IP $1,500 SEAFORTII BRANCII. MAIN STREET, SEAFO A general banking business transacted. Drafts on all paint of the United Great Britain and Europe bought and mold. Letters of credit issued, available in sil of Europe, China and japan. .Farmers' Sale Notes collected, and advancemade at lowese rates. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of One Dollar and upwards received, and interest .ohllowad at Wei* rates. Interest added to principal twioe each year -at the end of June and No notice of withdrawal is required for the whole or any portion of a deposit. R. S. HAYS, Solicitor. W. IL PEARCE, n-Sni Hied ninth- yz1 riftZ..b4 . eters. apt() briek-selaxa, • TOWahl at the CODS, 84 Nagel]. tOthp It is poor economy to buy cheap Tea, and use twice a's and not get half as much satisfaction as from a good one. iG CEYLON TEA is a good one and sure to please., In Lead Packages, 2e, 40e, 50c and. 600. FROM ALL -LEADING GROCERS. 0 M E PLA CANDID STATEMENTS .1FOR TilE, PEOPL We are placing in stock some of the' nicest and mos 1 fashionable Goo that it will be your privilege to see' outside this store. We have made v elaborate preparation for the Spring tirade; and are now in a position to you Goods, which for value, we defy compthsen; We are showing some bea fill things in Dress Goods and Trimmings, our Embroideries and Laces, will found to exceed anything you have seen before. We imported. direct through agents al our Table Linens, Towellings 'Apron Linens, from the Brookfield Linen d' o., Belfast, Ireland, so that enableus to offer you Linens at prices not hitherto obtainable. Our Ladies' Vests Are models of beauty and in them we can please the most fasiidious. Ladies' Underwear. We intend to make a specialty of Ladies' Blouses, Wrappers and Und wear ready to wear. Ready to Wear Clothing for Spring T� hand, and. in this department we are bound to know no oppositi Every Man, Youth and Boy cordially invited to call and look through our cl mg, we think the Imagnitude of the stock will surprise those who are inth habit of buying where small docks are kept. Grocery Department. Our Grocery Department is complete with the latest in everything, an under the direction of Mr. James Purcell, who will be pleased to welcome and all to the brightest and lightest Grocery Store in this County. Our aim is to make this, store to the °linty of Huron, what Mars Field's is to Chicago, Wanamaker's to Philadelphia, and Timothy Eaton's Toronto. 014 aclvertisingl agent, Professor Golding, will probably call on you week and will show you literature that will pay to carefully peruse. . B. GUNN, SEAFOlt 191119911191•111111, 411gionv Urn arid AC ;to =MAI lot 5, coma rNEY sitof 130110Wer. 41004-T0d A, 00BIN EfEn011aTii 0350 wil ,0 teem it is coral the south a Miles fi HABLAM, Brussels, 1 $ 300 $ 500 700 14000 $1,500 42,500 F"s' and lion, hog 111011A1 chi roonths4 Awe lam IClistai, 01 11:10R1 filso rinse -fr of the b4 tratIont gold rig izatin,11 OVUM 0 Gm In color -WW1 LOt van THE CANADIAN BANK OF CONNER, ESTABLISHED 1867. HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. OAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS $6,004 • B. - E. WILKE-R, GgantliAL iitActo-za;- 11,000 REST SEAFORTH BRANCH. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, D issued, payable at all points in Canada and the princird cities in the United States, Great Britain, France, Bermuda, dm SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1.00 and upwards zeceived, and current rates of int allowed. larInterest added to the principal at the end of May and Nov ber in each year„ Special attention even to the collection of Commercial raper and mers' Sales Notes. F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor. M. MORRIS, Manager, 1897 FURNITURE We have started the New Year with as fine al-ine of Furniture as wish to see, and at prices that will astonish you for cheapness. All our g are warranted to give satisfaction, and we extend to you an invitation ttv and inspect our large stock of Bed Room Suites, Parlor Sultes,Sideboards, tension Tables,. Dining Room Chairs, Centre Tables, Hat Racks, War Chiffoniers, Bamboo Goods and Chairs of all kinds. When we know we please you in quality and price. "Give us a trail." Undertaking Department. Our Undertaking department is complete in every .respect, and purchase from first-class manufacturers only, we can guarantee to give satisfaction in all its branches, as we have an Undertaker and Embalm fifteen years' experience, and any orders we may be favored with shall re the very best attention. Don't forget the old stand. P. S. Night calls attended to by calling at our Funeral Directoi sidence First Door East of Drs. Scott & McKay's Office : or at Dr. Oain Old Office on Main Street Seaforth. BROADFOOT BOX & CO 9 I * Main Street, Seafortb, Porter -is 01