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In BICYCLES AND
WATCHESFoR
- During the Year 189t.
For full particulars see advertisements, or apply to
LEVER BROS., LTO., 23 SpOTT ST., TORONTO
REAL ESTATE FOR SALE.
"PARRS FOR SALL-The undersigned has twenty
I Choice Farms for sale in East Huron, the ban -
me: County of the Provinoe; all sizes, and prices te
milk For fullinformation, write or call personally.
No trouble to show them. F. & SCOTT, Brunel.
P.O. 1391 -ti
MIAMI FOR 8ALE.-100 scree, n the township of
1 Grey, near Bruise's.- There is on it nearly 50
acres of bush, about half black ash, the rest hard-
wood. A never -failing spring of water runs through
the lot. Will be .old'at a big bserain. For particu-
larsapply to MRS. JANE WALKER, Box 219,
Brussels. 1470
"EWE SALE. ---That valuable property tetuatecl on
.1 the east side of north Rain street, Seaforth.
This property consists of four lots, and a fine d wel-
trig house, containing a- dining roon,. parlor, 4 bed
- TOOMB, kitchen and cellar. There ts alao a fine
stable, carriage house, store house and wood shed.
The grounds are pleasant end well shaded; also well
planted with hoot trees, and Knell fruits, bard and
soft water. For terms apply on the premises. M.
ROBERTSON, fiestorth. 15354f
"WARM FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 6, concession 12,
1 township of Ribbert, containing 100 acres of
good land in a good state of cultivation. Well
fenced ; good brick house ; good bank ham and out
buildings.; 13 sores of fall wheat, and ploughing all
dons; 2 goad wells and 2 never failing springs; 85
acres cleared; possession at any time. For further
partioulan, apply to PETER MELVILLE, Cromarty
P. O., Ontario. 1525-tf
MIAMI FOR SALE, 100 ACRES. -Being lot 18,
conceision 7, township ot Grey, one mile watt
of - Ethel; 51 from Summits. Ninety-ilve acres
clewed; free of stumps and stones; well under -
drained and fenced with straight fence.; good brick
house andgood outbuildings ; 95 acres in fall wheat
and 50 sere* seeded down. Will be *old cheap and
OS easy terms. A. Mai:EL-VEY, Brussels.
1527t1
VOR SALE. -A valuable fruit and grain farm,
1 on good road, within six miles of Clinton.
The Lot is Na. 67, Midtland Concession, Goderich
township, and contains 75 acres. It yields annually
from 80 to 100 barrels of-wlater apples, and ti a good
grain hem, the land being a No. 1 clay Imam There
las No. 1 frame house on the Lot, a good barn with
stone stabling underneath, and it is well watered in
every field. A large portion of the purchase rooney
may remain on mortgage. For terms, etc., apply to
THOMAS BURNS, Carlow -P. 0., or to W. W. FAR -
MAN', Clinton. 1586-tf
'VARY FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 86, conoession
2, Meow containing 100 sores, 86 cleared and
the balance in goad hardwood bush. The land Is in
a good state of cultivation, is well underdrsined and
well fenced. There's a frame barn and log house on
the property, a never -failing spring with win
also about 2 soda of orchard. Tit is an exoellen
farm and is within one mile of Whitechurch station,
where there are stores, - blacksmith shop and
churehes. There is a school on the opposite lot. 14
la six miles front Wingham and six from :Lucknow,
with good roads leading in all directions. This de -
nimble property will be meld on ressonable terms.
For -further portioulars apply to JAMES BirronELL,
Varna P. 0. 1495-1604-41
'DOR SALE OR TO RENT ON EASY TERMS. -
1 As the owner wishes te retire from business on
scarred of ill health, the following valuable property
at Winthrop, 44 mule north of Seaforth, on leading
road to Brussels, will be sold or rented as one farm
or In parts to suit purchaser: about 600 sores of
splendid farming land, with about 400 under crop,
the balance in pasture. There are lancebarns and
i
all other buildings neceesary for the mplements,
vehioles, etc. This land is well watered, has good
frame and brick dwelling houses, eto. There are
grist and saw mills and store which will be sold or
rented on advantageous terms. Also on 174h. con-
cession, Grey lowuship, 190 acres of land, 40 in
pasture, the- balance in timber. Possession given
after barred of farm land,; mills at once. For par-
ticulars apply to ANDREW GOVEN LOCK, Winthrop.
1486 -ti
PURE PEA MEAL
OMEMA.P.,,
Ten tons at a very reasonable price,
in exchange for Oats or Peas.
Seaforth Oatmeal Mills.
1519-14
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Our direct connections will save you
time and money for all pointe.
Canadian North West
Via Toronto or Chicago,
British Columbia and California
points.
Oar rates are the lowest. We have them
to suit everybody and PULLMAN TOUR-
IST CARS for your accommodation. Call
for farther information.
Grand Trunk Railway.
Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton stations as
follows;
GOING WEErr- SEATtoRTII.
Passenger 12.47 F. 31,
Passenger- - - - - 10.1.2 P. M,
Mixed Train .... .. 9.20 A. M.
Mix' ed Train ...... .. 6.15 P. M.
GOING- EAST -
Passenger.. .. .... 7.55 A. M.
Passenger.. .. - 3.11 P. M.
Mixed Tralu .... .. 6.20 P. M.
CLINTON.
1.03 r. M.
10 27 P. M.
10.15 A. M.
7.05 P. M
7.40 A.M.
2.55 P. M.
4.35 P. 3!.
___........_
Wellington, Grey and Bruce.
GOING Nortatt- Passenger. Mixed.
Ethel.- -. 9.49 r. Al..
Brussels.. .. 10.01.
Bluevale.. _ _ 1.01
Wingbare 10.25
GOING SOUTH- Paesenger.
Winghsin.: . . ... ..... 6.50 A. al.
Bluevale . 7.00
Brussels.... ...... 7.16
Ethel-. . - . ... , 7.28
1.40 e. M.
2.06
2.26
2 95
Mixed.
8.56 A. M.
9 17
9..45
10.02
London; Huron and Bruce.
GOING Nolail- Passenger.
London, depart............ 8.16 a.m. 4.45 r.M.
Centralia. 9.18
Exeter-. - . ...... .
Hensall
... • .
Brooefieta .
.. . .
Londesboro -
Blythe.- -
Beigrave- ......
Wingham arrive: .....
Goma Sorra-
Winghani, depart.........
Bel ave.
BIw. • w•••••••••• •...
Londesb;ro... • • • • • - ••
Clinton- .....-
Kippen- • • • .14 .4 w • • •
Henson -
Beater 8.38 5.16
Centralia. . ...... 8.60 6.25
lemdon, (ertive). Mete M. 6.30
9 30
9.44
9.50
9.58
10.16
10.33
10.41
1056
5.67
6.07
6.18
6.26
6.33
6.55
7.14
7.23
7 97
11.10 8.09
Passenger.
- 6.53 &M. 3,30 r. x.
7.04 3.45
7.16 400
7.24 4.10
7.47 4 30
8.06 4.60
8.17 4.69
8.24 5.04
TO THE STORE CLERK
ENCOURAGEMENT TO THOSE M-
PI-OtrED IN STORES AND
FACTORIES.
Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches to a Might" -
Host of Toliters•-•lie Gives Good Advice
for the Life That Now is as Welrfor the
Life to Come.
Washington, July 18. -This sermon of
Dr. Talmage addressed to the greet host
of clerks in stores and offices and factor-
ies will inspire suoh persons with health-
ful ambition and allay many of their
annoyances. Text, Acts xvi, 14, "And
a certain woman named Lydia, a seller
of purple, of the city of Tbyatira, which
worshiped God, heard us whose beat
the Lord opened." Proverbs xxii, 22;
"Seest thou a man' diligent in his busi-
ness? He shall stand before kings."
The first passage introduces to you
Lydia. a Christian raerchantess. Her
business is to deal in purple cloths or
silks. She is not a giggling nonentity,
but a practical wornam mot ashamed to
work for her living. Ail the other women
of Philippi end Thyatira' have been for-
gotten, but Geld has made immortal in
our text Lydia, the Christian tulles -
woman, The other text shows you a man
With head and hand and heart and foot
all busy toiling on up until he gains a
princely success. "Seest thou a man dili-
gent in his business? ' He shall stand
before kings."
Great encouragement in these two
passages for men and woraen who -it'll
be busy, but n� solace fer those who are
waiting for good luck to show them:at
the foot of the rainbow a casket of buried
gold. It is folly for anybody in this world
to wait for something to turn up. It will
turn down. The law of thrift is as in-
exorable as the law of the tides. Fortune,
the magician, may wave her evancle is
that direction until castles and palaces
come,but she will after awhile invert the
same wand, and all the splendors will.
vanish into thin air.
There are -certain styles of behavior
which lead- to usefulness, honor and per-
xnanent success, and there are certain
styles of behavior- which lend to dust,
dishonor and moral default. I would like
to fire the ambition of young people. I
have no sympathy with those who wituld
prepare young folks for life by whittling
down their expectations. That man or
woman will be worth nothing to church
or state who begins life cowed down.
The business of Christianity is not to
quench .but to direct:human ambition.
Therefore it is that I utter words of en-
couragement to those who are occupied as
clerks in the stores and shops and Insult-
ing houses of the country. They are'not
an exceptional class. They belong .to a
great company of tens of thousands who
are in this oountty, amid circumstaeces
whioh will either make or break them
for time and for eternity. Many of these
people have already achieded a Christian
manliness and a Christian WOmanlinesa
which will be their passport to any posi-
tion. I have seen their trials. I have
watched their perplexities. There are
evils abroad which need to be hunted
down and dragged out into the nomrday
light..
Only a Schoolroom.
In the fleet placa I counsel clerkto
remember that for - the most peet their
clerkship is only a school from which
they are to be graduated. It takes about
eight years to get into one of the learned
professions. It takes about eight years
to get to be a merchant. Some of you
will be clerks ell your lives, but -the vast
majority of you are only in a, transient
position. After awhile some December
day the head men of the firm will. call
you into the back' office, and they will
say to you: "Now, you have done well
by us. We are going to do well by you.
We invite you to have an interest in 'our
concern." You Wilt bow to that edict
very gracefully. Getting into a street car
to go home an old comrade will meet you
and say, "What makes you look so happy
to -night?" "Oh," you will say, "noth-
ing, nothing!" But in a few days your
name will blossom on the sign. Either
in the store or bank where you are now,
or in some other store -or bank, you will
take a higher position than that which
you now occupy. So I feel I am now
addressing people who will yet have their
hand on the helm of the world's &im-
mense and you will turn it this way or
that. Now clerks, but to be bankers, im-
porters, insurance company directors,
shippers, contractors, superintendents of
railroads - your voice mighty "on
'change" -standing foremost in the great
financial and religious enterprises of the
day. For, though, we who are in the pro-
fessiontemay on the platform plead for
the philanthropies, after all, the mer-
chants must come forwaed with their
millions to sustain the movement. '
Be therefore patient and diligent in
this transient position. You are now
where you cen learn things you can
never learn in any other place. What you
consider your disadvantages are your
grand opportunity. You see an affluent
father some day come down a prominent
street with his son who bas just grad-
uated from the university and establish-
ing him in business, -putting e50,000 of
capital in the store. Well, you are envi-
ous. You say. "Oh, if I -only had a
chance like' that young men -if I only
had a father to put $59_,000 in a business
for me. then I would have some chance
in the world." Be not envious. •You
have advantages over that young man
which he has not over you. As well
might I come down to the docks when a
vessel is about to sail for Valparaiso and
say, "Let the pilot this ship out to sea."
Why, I would sink crew and cargo before
I got out of the harbor simply because I
know nothing about pilotage. Wealthy
sea captarns put their sons before the
roast for hhe reason that they know it is
the only place Where they can learn to
be successful sailors. It is only under
drill that people get to understand pilot-
age and navigation, and I want you to
understand, that it takes no more skill
to conduct a vessel out of the harbor.and
across the- sea than to steer a commercial
establishment clear of the rocks Yea
see every day tir folly of people going
into a business they know nothing about.
A man makes a fortune in one business.
thinks here is another occupation more
comfortable, goes into it and sinks all.
Many of the commercial establishments
of our cities are giving their clerks a
mercantile education as thorohgh as Yale
or Harvard or Princeton are giving mien -
title attainment to the students nratricu-
late& The reason there are so many men
foundering in business from year to year
is because their -early mercantile educa-
tion was neglected. Ask the rnen in high
commercial circles, and they will tell you
they thank God fur this severe discipline
of their eater clerkship. You can afford
to endure the wilderness march if it is
going to end in the vineyards and
orchards of the promised land.
"But you say, "Will the womanly
clerks in our stores have promotion."
Yes. Time is corning when women will
be as well paid for their toil In raercan-'
tile circles as men are now paid for their
toil. Time is coming when a woman will -
be allowed to do , anything- she eau do
_well.. -This min al -little while _ago when
laneaste.
women Enevrmillinig ortelegrarite and
thee were kept out of a great ntaaty 00M-
3111001/11 eircles where they are now
wel-
oonie and the time will go on 'lentil the
Minima who at one, counter in a store
seals' $5,000 worth of goods in a year will
get as high a salary ea the man whO at
the other vomiter of the same store aella
f5,000 'Worth of goods. All honor to Lydia,
the Christian saleswoman!
Discipline.
The second counsel I have to give to
clerks is that you seek out what are the
lawful regulations of your 'establishment
and then submit to them. Every' well
°razed house hag its usages. In military
life, on ship's deek, in commercial life,
there mutt be order and discipline. Those
people evho do not learn how to obey will
never know how to command. I will tell
you what teeing num will mike ruin,
financial and moral. It is the young ream
who thrusts his thumb into his vest and
says: "Nobody shall dictate to me. I am
my own 'master. I will not eubMit to the
resmlations of this house." Between an.
establishment in which all the einployea
are under !thorough discipline and the
estiblishment in which the employes do
about as they choose is the differerese
between success and failure, between
rapid accumulation and utter bankruptcy.
Do not come to the store ten minutes
after the time. Be there within two sec-
onds, and let it be two seconds before in-
stead of two seconds after. Do not think
anything too insignificant to do well. Do
not say, 'It's only just once." From the
most important transaction in -commerce
down to the ,pertioular style in which
you tie a string around a bundle obey
orders. Do not get easily. disgusted.
While others in the store may lounge or
fret or complain, you go with ready
hands and cheerful face and contented
spirit to your work. When the bugle
sounds, the good- soldier asks no ques-
tions, but shoulders his knapsack, fills
his canteen and listens for the command
of "March
Do not get the idea that your interests
and those of your employer are antagon-
istic. His success will be your honor.
His embarrassment will be your ,dismay.
Expose none of the frailties of the firm.
Tell no store secrets. Do not blab. Re-
buff those persons who come to find out
from clerks what ought ° never to be
known outside the store. Do not be
emong those young men who trike,on a
mysterious air *hen something is said
against the firm that employe them, as
much as to say, "I could. tell you some-
thing if I would, but,I won't." Do not
be among those who imagine they can
build theniselves up by pulling somebody
else down. Be not asharaed to be a sub-
altern.
Again, I counsel clerks to search out
what are the unlawful and dishonest de-
mands or an establishmentand resist
them. In the 6,000 years that have passed
there has never been an occasion when
it was one's duty to sin against God. It
is never right to do wrong. If the head
men of the firm expect of you dishonesty,
disappoint them. "Oh," you say, "I
should lose my place then." Better leen
your place than lose your soul. But you
will not lose your place. Christian hero-
ism is always honored. You. go to the
head ntan of your store and say: "Sir, I
want to serve you, I want to oblige you.
It is from no lack of . industry on my
part, but this thing seems to me ere be
wrong, and it is a sin against my con-
ecienee, it is a sin. against God, and I
beg you, sir, to excuse me." He may
flush up and swear, but he will cool
down, and he will have moremdmiration
for you than for those who submit to his
evil dictatian, and. while they sink you
will rise. Do not because of seeming
temporary advantage give up your char-
acter, young man. Under God, that is
the only thing you have to build on.
Give up that, you givo up everything.
That employer asks a young man to hurt
himself for time and for eternity, who
expects him to make a wrong entry, or
change an invoice, or say goods cost so(
much when they cost less, or impose
upon the verdancy of te oustomer, or mis-
represent a style of fabric. How dare he
demand of you anything so -Insolent?
Annoyances.
Again, I counsel all clerkto conquer
the trials of their particular position.
One great trial for clerks is the incon-
sideration of customers. Thefts are people
who are entirely polite everywhere else,
but gruff and dictatorial and contempt-
ible -when they come into a store to buy
anything. There are thousands of men
and women who go from store to store
to price things without any idea, of pur-
chase: They are not satisfied until every
roll of goods is brought down and they
have pointed out all the real or imaginary
defects. • They try on all kinds of kid
gloves an4 stretch them out of shape,
and they put on all styles of cloak and
walk to the mirror to see how they look,
and then they saki out of the store, say -
Ing, "I will not take it to -day," whioh
means, "I don't want it at all," leaving
the clerk amid a wreck of ribbons and
laces and cloths to smooth out $1,000
worth of goods, not a cent of which did
that man or woman buy or expect to
buy. Now, -I call that a dishonesty on
the part of the customer. If a boy runs
into a store and takes a roll of cloth off
the counter and sneaks into the street,
you all join in the cry pellmell, "Stop
thief!" When I see You go into a store
not expecting to buy anything, but to
price things, stealing the tline of the
clerk and- stealing the time- of his em-
ployer,.I say, too, "Stop thief I"
If I were asked which class of persons
most need the grace of God amid their
annoyances, I would say, "Dry goods
clerks." All the indignation of customers
about the high prices comes on the clerk.
For instance, es great war comes. The
manufactories are closed. The people go
off to battle. The price of goods runs up.
A customer comes into a store. .Goods
have gone up. "How inuoh is that
worth?" "A dollar." "A dollar? Out-
rageous! A dollar!" Why, who is to
blame for the fact that it has got to be a
dollar? Does the indignation go out to
the manufacturers on the banks of the'
Merrimac because they have closed up?
No. Imes the indignation go out toward
the employer who is out. at his country
seat? No. It comes on the clerk. He got
up the wen He levied the taxes. He puts
up the rents. Of course the clerk!
Then a great trial comes to clerks in
the fact that they see the parsimonious
side of human nature. You talk about
lies behind the eounter--there are just
as many lies before the counter. Augute,
tine speaks of a man who advertised
that he would on a certain occasion tell
the people what was in their hearts. A
crowd assembled, and he stepped to the
front and said, "I will tell you what is
in yonr hearts -to buy cheap and sell
dear." Oh, lay not aside your urbanity
when you glop into a store! Treat the
clerks like gentleenen and ladies, proving
yourself to be a gentleman or a lady.
Remember that if the prices are high
and Your purse is lean teat is no fault
of the clerks. And if you have a son or
a daugbter amid those perplexities of
,commercial life and such a one comes
home au Worn out, be lenient and knew
that the martyr at the stake no more
certainly needs the grace of God than
our young people amid the screen times
heated exasperations of a clerk's life.
Bad Employers.
Then there are all the trials which
HURON EXPOSIT
JULY 23 1897.
Wei thi" .gretit- ittelfe bf liNs
judgment day have tolled at the burning
of a world. -.�n that day alli the affairs'
of banking bowies and stores will.came
up forinspectiOni Oh, what! an °Veining
o of eccoent_hooks! Side by side the derive
a d the men who employed tlieru.
i °lee tirade mit, all the labels of goods,
al certificates of stook, all 'felts of price&
all private snarks of the firm, now ex-
plained so everybody can .understand
them. ALI the maps of cities, that were
never built, bue in which lett were sold.
Ail bargains, fall gouging& all snap
judgments, all false -entries, all adultera-
tion of liquors with copperas and stry-
t All miiiug of- teal and sugars
. and coffees and' sirups with:cheaper ma-
terial. All embezzlements of trust funds.
.All swindles in ecial and iron and oil and
silver and stooks. On that day, when the
cities of this world are smoking in the
last conflagration, the trial will go on,
and down In an avalanche of destruction
will go those who wronged nian or wo-
mtan, inaulted God and defied the judg-
ment, Oh, that will be a great day for
you, honest Christian clerk! ;No getting
up early, no retiring late, no walking
around with weary Willem but a mansion
In which to live and a realm of light and
love and joy over which to hcild everlast-
ing dominion. Hoist him up' from glory
to .glory, and from song to song, and
fiom throne to throne; for, while others
go down intothe sea with their gold like
a millstone hanging to their neck, this
one shall come up the heights of ame-
thyst and alabaster, holding in his right
hand the pearl ,of great price in a sparkl-
ing, glittering, flaming easket.
Horsetails Wagon vs. Horse.
Never sweaht • ,
Doesn't feel its oats.
Has no kick coming.
Couldn't if he had.
Can go on a mile track without a skip
aild never turn a hair.
Can't jockeyed.
Never scares ;at trolley -ears.
Doesn't "eat its head off."
Goes like lightning.
Never stalls in an ash Wagon.
I Can't be spurred.
Doesn't get hot under the Mier.
Not afraid et bikers.
Never backs over the dump.
Doesn't buok like a broncho.
Isn't afraid ,Of the stable boss.
Not a high-flyer.
Will not junm on the horseshoer.
"Anybody can ride it" -if he or she
knows bow.
Defies the hostler.
Doesn't demolish the dashboard with
its heels. 1` ,
Doesn't want to stop at every water-
ing -trough on the road.
Has no objeot in taking the bit in its
teeth.
It will not bite.
Doesn't eat much.
'Isn't afraid of getting its hoof caught
iia slot. ;
Has no reeson to eepond on mane
strength. :
STILL -L
ectilt-e tb &AO fie* ItiNtthdelft- of Tn
considerate employers. There are pro,
fessetl Christian men`who have no more
regard for their clerks than they have
for the scaleS on whiab the sugars are
weighed: A clerk is no more than s
mu& store furniture. No consideration
for tfieir rights or interests Not one
Word of encouragement from sunrise t�
sunset, nor from January to December,
but when ibnything goes- wrdng-a streak
of dust on the counter or a box with the
,- cover off -thunder showers of scolding,
Men : imperictuse caprioious, cranky to-
ward their clerks, their Whole manner
as much as to say, "All the interest I
have in ,you its to see what I can get ou
of you.' Then there are all the trials of
incompetent wages, net in suols times as
these when ig a man gets half a salary
for his services he ought to be thankful,
but I mean in prosperous times. Some of
you remember when the war broke oue
and all merchandise went up and mer-
chants were raade millionaires in sli
months by the simple rise in value of
goods. Did the clerks get advantage of
that rise? Sometimes, not always. I saw
estates gathered in thaw times covet
whiele the curse of God has Ming ever
einoe. The cry of unpaid men and wo-
men in those stores reached the Lord of
Sabaoth, and the indignation of God hart
been around those establishments ever
since flashing in the chandeliers, glows
ing from the crimson upholstery, rumbl-
ing in the long roll of the tenpin alley.
'Such men may build up palaces of mer-
chandise heaven high, but after awhile.a
disaster willemme along and will put
one hand on this pillar and another hand'
on that pillar and throw Welt forward
until down will come the whole struc-
ture, crushing the worshipers as grapes
are mashed in the wine press.
Then there are boys ruined by lack of
compensation. In how ninny prosperous
stores it has been for the last 20 years
that boys were given just enough money
to teach them how to steal. Some were
seized upon be the police. The vast ma-
jority of instances were not known. The
head of the 'firm asked, "Where is George
now?" "Oh, his isn't here any more." A
1a4 might better starve to death on a
blasted heath than take one farthing
from his employer. Woe be te that era-
ployhr who unnecessarily puts a tempts -
thin in a boy's way. There have been
great establishments in these cities,
building marble Palaces, their owners
dying worth inillions and millions and
millions, who made a vast amount of
their estate out of the blood and muscle
and nerve of half paid clerks. Such men
as -well, I will not mention any name,
but I mean men who have gathered. up
vast estates at the expense of the people
who were ground under thee heel.
"Oh," say such merchants, "if you don't
like it here, then go and get a better
place." As much as to say: "I've got
you in my grip, and I mean to hold you.
You can't get any other place."
Good Employers.
Oh,what A contrast between those men
and Christian merchants who to -day are
sympathetic with their ' clerks, When
they pay the salary-, acting -in this way:
"This salary that I give you is nee all
my interest in you. You are an imraertel
man; you are an immortal womaxt.
am interested in your present and your
everlasting welfare. I want you to un-
derstand that if I am a little higher up
In this store I am beside you in Chits-
tian sympathy." Go back 40 dr 50 years
to Arthur Tappen's store in New York,
a man whose worst enemies never ques-
tioned Ms honesty. Every morning he
brought an the clerks, and the account-
ants, and the weighers into a room for
devotion. They sang, they prayed, they
exaorted. On Monday morning the clerks
were asked where they had attended
church on the previous day and what the
sermons were about. It must have sound-
ed strangely, that voice of praise along
the streets where the devotees of Minn -
Mon were counting their golden beads.
You oily Arthur Tappen failed. Yes he
was unfortunaate, like a great many
good men, but I understand he met 1 all
his obligations before he left this world,
and I know that he died in -the peace of
the gospel, and that he is before the
throne of God to -day, forever blessed. If
that be failing, I wish you m ght all fail.
There are a great many young men
and young women who want a word of
encouragement,Christhin encjouragement.
One smile of good cheer wou d be worth
more to them to -morrow morning in
their place of business than a present of
$15,000 ten years hence. Oh, I remember
the apprehension and the tremor of en-
tering a profession. I remember very
well the man who greeted me in the
ecclealastical court with the tip ends of
the long fingers of the left hand, and I
remember the other man who took my
hand in both of Ms and said: "God bless.
you, my brother. you have entered a
glorious profession. Be faithful to God
and he will seeyou through." Why, I
feel this minute the thrill of that hand-
shaking, though the man who gave me
the Christian grip has been in heaven 20
years. There are old men here to -day
who can look back to 40 years ago when
some one said a kind word to them.
Now, old men, pay back what you got
then. n is a great art for old men to be
able to encourage the young. There are
many young people in our cities who
have come from inland counties, from
the granite hills of the north, from the
savannas of the south, from the prairies
of the west. They are here to get their
fortune. They are in 'boarding houses
where everybody seems to be thinking of
himself, They want companionship and
they want Christian encouragement. Give
it to them.
The Pinot Lesson.
° My word is to all clerks -be mightier
than your temptations. A Sandwich
Islander used to think when he stew an
enemy all the strength of that enemy
came into his own right arm. And I
have to tell you that every misfortune
you conquer is so much added to your
own moral power. With omnipotence for
a lever and the throne, of God for a ful-
crum you can move earth and heaven.
While there are other young men putting
the cup of sin to their lips, you stoop
down and drink out of the fountains of
God and you will rise up strong to thrash
the mo hntains. The ancients used to
which, °meting the surface of the sea,
think tat pearls were Mee raindrops,
hardened into gents, then dropped to the
bottom. I have to tell you to -lay that
storms of trial have showered imperish-
able pearls into many a young man's
lap. 0 young man, while you have goods
to sell, remember you have a soul to
save! In a hospital a Christian captain,
wounded a few days before, got deliri-
ous, and in the Midnight hour he
sprang out on the floor of the hospital,
thinking he was in the battle, crying:
"Come on, boys! Forward!. Charge!"
Ah, he was only battling the specters of
his own brain, but it is no- lanaginary
-confilet into which I call you, young
man, to -day. There are 10,000 spiritual
foes that would capture you. In the name
of God up and at them.
After the last store has been closed,
after the last bank has gone down, after
the shuffle of the quick feet on the cus-
tom house steps has stopped, after the
long line of merchantmen. on the sea
have taken sail of fiame, after Washing-
ton and New York and London and
Vienna have gone down into the grave
where .Theites and Babylon and 'Lyre lie
.., ,
It can't do much plowing.
Hence -it is not the farmer's friend.
, Wouldn't be much account, in a hurdle
race -'cause it can't jump 'fences and
things.
Couldn't "follow the hounds" in a
tOZ hunt.
Doesn't know gee from haw.
It is liable to come on top of the pedes-
trian "so sudden."
It has wheels.
- BUT -
It's a good thing .which doesn't -need
pushing along.
, A. Comparison. .
The parliamentary system in- vogue in.
the Canadian' provinces has et" tendency
to detrelop-strong leadership, and to give
that leadership a continuity sof service
that results in 'statesmanlike traininged
great value. Our American system gives
high average training in public life to a
la'rger number of men; but it Would not
seem so well to !promote the deeelopmeni
of permanent and highly trained leaders
of the first rank, whose Positions depend
upon their unquestioned qualities of in-
tellect -and character- There is no par-
ticular reason why we in the United
States should not feel as much interest
and as much pride in the strong and ad-
mirable inen who are our eteighbors
across the line in Canada'as anybody is
entitled to feel in Great Britain. - Thew
men are the products of American rather
than European conditions. They owe -
nothing more to their traditional ties
with the old home beyond sea , than we
In the United States owe to our historical
European ties. -From" The Progress of
the World," in Anserkan Monthly Re-
view of Reviews.
Removing Statue lfrom Linen.
Wine stains in linen may be effectually
removed by holdingg the stained article
in milk that is still boiling on the fire.
Fruit stains are best treated with yellow
soap, well rubbed into each aide of the
stain, after which tie a piece of Pearlash
in the etained portion of the fabric) and
boil the article in water. When finally
removed and exposed to the liglet and
air in 'drying, the marks will grieleally
disappear. Mildew spots on linen should
be rubbed- with soap and. fine chalk
powder.
When Time Lags.
"Scientists are going to &meager it so
we can tell the time by flowers."
"That won't work. Whenever I take
roses to Mabel she lets me stop the
clock."
-The government has presented the city
of Brantford, for park purposes, with four
big cannon. Two of them are bronze nine -
pounders, and can be used fpr firing salutes
on special occasions.
-Fire desteoyed the barns and* theds of
Alfred Deftop, concession 2i Nissouri, the
other day and the three-year-old son of
James Sager, tenant onahe farm, was burn-
ed to death in it horrible manner.
You think of Scott's,
Emulsion as only for 4ose
tyl) o' have consumption or
who have inherited a ten-
dency • to it. Almostl its
greatest. use is -for t4ose
whose condition is so
paired as not to be able to
get the good they should:out
of their ordinary food. In
nearly every case with these,
Scott's Emulsion of Cod-
liver Oil brings back appeOte,
stimulates digestion, restores
color and plumpness, land
controls the diseases of
ness. Book about it, free
50 cts. and $x.00, at all druggists. 1
SCOTT & BOWNE, Belleville, Om I
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purchase from first-class manufacturers only, we can guarantee to give good
satisfaction in allits branches, as we have an Undertaker and Euabalmer of
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HEAD OFFIOE. TORONTO.
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all Papers
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