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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-08-06, Page 2• • INSICYCLES AND WATCHES FoR 1011.14 •$oAci itAppER, During the Year 1897. For full particulars see advertisements, or apply to LEVER BROS., LTD., 23 Sten ST., TORONTO REAL ESTATE FOE SALE. MIARMS FOR SALE. --The undersigned has twenty .12 Chao. Farms for sale ha East Huron, the ban- ner County of the Provinee ; all sheer and pricee to emit, For full information, write or call personally. No trouble to show them. P. S. SCOFT, Brussels P. 0. 13914f • MIAMI FOR SALE. -100 acres, n the township of • je Grey, near Brussels. There is on it nearly 50 • aoreSOf bush, about half black aeh, the rest hard- + wood. A never -failing spring of water runs through the lot. Will be 'sold at a big bargain. For particu- lars, apply to MRS. JANE WALKER, Box 219, Brunelle. 1470 MIOR SALE.-7•That valuable property situated on the east side of north Main street, Seaforth. This property enesists of four tots, and a fine dent- ing house, containing a dining roont parlor, 4 bed rooms, kitchen and cellar. There 1E1 also a fine ebible, carriage house, store house and wood shed. The grounds are pleasant and well shaded • also well planted with froot trees, and mall frulte, 'hard and, soft water. For terms apply on the premises. M. ROBERTSON, Seatorth. 16354f "DARE FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 6, concession 12, I township of !fibbed, containing 100 acres of good land in a good state of cultivation. Well toured good brick house ; good bank barn and out ; 13 sores of fall wheat, and ploughing all done ; 2 good wells and 2 never failing springs ; 85• acres cleared ; poseession at any time. Iror further prationises, apply to PETER MELVILLE, Cromarty P. O., Ontario. 15154f MlARM FOR SALE, 100 ACRES. -Being lot 18, concession 7, township of Grey, one mile west of Ethel ; from Brussels. Ninety-five acres cleared ; free of stump, and stones ; well under - drained and fenced with ;straight fencea ; good brick ' house and good outbuildings; ys sores in fall wheat and 50 acres seeded down. Will be sold cheap and on easy terme. A. MeKELVEY, Brussels. 1527tf fOR SALE. -A valuable fruit and grain farm, on a good road, -within six miles of Oliaton. e Lot is No. 67, lisitland Concession, Goderich township, and oontains 75 sores It yields annually from 80 to 100 barrels of winter apples. and is 11_,Irood grain tarn, the land being a No. 1 clay loam. There is a No. 1 frame home on the Lot, a good barn with stone stabling underneath, and it ia well watered in every field. A large portion of the purchase money may remain on mo e. For terms, eto., apply to RAR, Clioton. 11.531141 WARM FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 86, conoession' r Kinloss, containing 100 aores, 86 cleared and the balsam in good hardwood bush. The land Is in a good state of cultivation, is well underdreined and well fenced. There is a frame barn and log house on the property, a nererfailing spriug with windmill, -WM and Li within one mite of Whiiechuroh station, where there ere stares, blacksmith shop and churches. There is a school on ths opposite lot. It Is six miles from Wingham and eix from :Lucknow, with good roads leading in all directions. Thies de- sirable property will be sold on reasonable terms. For further particulars apply to JAMES MITCHELL, Varna P. 0. 1495-1504-tt • won SALE OR TO RENT ON EASY TERMS. - r As the owner wishes to retire from business on aceeunt of ill health, the following valuable property at Winthrop, 4,} mils* north of Seatorth, on leading road to Bruseets, will be sold or rented as one farm 4rin parrs to suit purchaser : about 500 acres of iplendid farming land, with about 400 under crop, the balance in pasture. There are large berrs and all other buildings necessity for the implementer vehicles, eto. This- lend is well watered, has good frame and brick dwelling houses, etc. There are grid and saw mills and store which will be sold or rented on advantageous terms. Also on 17th eon- cepsion, Grey township. 190 aeres of land, 40 in paiturerthe balance in timber. Poseession given after harvest of farm lands ; mills at once. For par- tio*maapply to ANDREW GOVENLOCK, Winthrop. PURE PEA MEAL, Ten tons at a very reasonable price, in exchange for Oats or Peas. Seaforth Oatmeal Mills. 161944 Our direct connections will save you time and raoney for all peints. Canadian North West Via Toronto or Chicago, British Columbia and Calliornia Our rates are the lowest. We have them to *nit everybody and PULLMAN TOUR- IST CARS for your accommodation. Call for further information. Grand Trunk Railway. Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton stations as follows : GOING WEST- SEAPOETEi. CLINTON.. Wellington, Grey and Brune. GOING NORM,- Passenger. • --151i7ed. GOING 80IITEI- Passenger. Mixed. Ethel. 7.28 10.02 London, Huron and Bruce: GOLSO NORTH - Centralia Kippen Brumfield Loudesboro Belgrave Blyth Erie ter Passenger. 9.18 5.57 9 30 6.07 9.44 6 18 9.50 6.25 9.68 6.83 10.15 6.55 10.33 7.14 10 56 7 37 11.10 8.00 7.04 3.45 7.10 4.00 7 47 4 30 8.06 4.60 8.17 4.69 8.24 5.04 8.88 5.16 8.50 5.26 LITTLE INIQUITIES DR. TALMAGE ON SIN§ THAT NIB- BLE AT THE HEART. Gambling is a Vice Tbat Degins With Lit- tle Sins and Grovrs to.Fearful Enormities -Severe A,rraignment of Gift Erterprises and Stook Gamb/ing. Washington, Aug, 1. -Dr. Talmage in Vitt sermon depicts the insidious raodes by which eviI habit gains supremacy end shows how splendid men are cheated to ruin. Text,Isalah v, 18, "Woe unto them , that sin as it were with a cart rope." There are some iniquities that only nibble at the heart. After a lifetime of their work, the man still stands upright, respected, and honored. These vermin have not strength enough to gnaw through a man's oharacter. But there are other transgressione than lift them- selves up to gigantic nroportions and seize hold of a man and bind him with thongs forever. There are some iniquities that have such great emphasis of evil that he who commits them may be said to sin as with a cart rope. I suppose you know how they make a great rope. Tbe stuff out of whioh it le fashioned is nothing but tow which you pull -apart without any exertion of your fingers. This is spun into threads, any of which you could easily snap, but a great many of these threads are interwound. Then you -have a rope etrong enough to bind an ox or hold a ship in a tempest. I speak to you of the sin of gambling. A cart rope in strength is that sin, and yet I wish more especially to draw your attention to the small threads of influ- ence out of which that luighty iniquity is twisted. This crime is on the advance, so that it is well not only i that fathers and brothers and sons be interested in such a discussion, but that wives and mothers and sisters and dAughters look out lest their present home be sacrificed or their intonded home be blasted. No man, no wcinan, oan stand aloof from such a subject as this and say, "It has no praotioal bearing upon my life," for there may be in a short time in your hie - tory an experience in which you will find that the discussion involved three worlds --earth, heaven, hell. There- are gambl- ing establishments by the thousands. There are about 5,000 professional gam - biers. Out of all the gambling establish- ments how many of them do you sup- pose profess to be honest? Ten -these ten professtng to be honest because they are merely the antechamber to those that are acknowledged fraudulent. A Gilded Den. • There are first class establishments. You step a little way out of Broadway, New York. You go up the marble stairs. Yon ring the bell. The liveried servent introduces you. The walLs are lavender tinted. The mantels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are "Jephthah's Daughter" and Dore's "Dante's" and , yirgli's "Frozen 'Region of Hell," a most appropriate selection, this last, for the place here is the roulette table, the finest, costliest, most exquisite piece of furni- ture in the United States. There is the banqueting room where free of 'charge to the guests, you may find the plate and viands and wines and cigars sumptuoue i beyond perallel. Then you come to the second class gambling establishment. To it you are introduced by a card through ecime "roper in." Having entered, you must either gamble or fight. Sanded cards, dice loaded with quicksilver poor drinks mixed with more poor drinks, will soon help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short meter with staccato passages. You wanted to eee. You saw. The low villains of that plane watch you as you come in. Does not the panther squat in the grass know a calf when he sees it? Wrangle not for your rights in that place or your body will be thrown bloody into the street or dead into the river. You go along a little farther and find the policy establishment. In that place you bet on numbers. Betting on two numbers is called a "saddle," betting on three nuinbers is called a ngig," betting on four numbers is called a "horse." And there are thousands of our young men leaping into that "saddle" ann. mounting that "gig" and behind that "horse" riding to perdition. There is always one kind of sign on I the door. "Exchange," a most appropriate title for the door, for there, in that room, a man exchanges health, peace and heaven for loss of health, loss of home, loss of fam- ily, loss of immortal soul. Exchange sure enough and infinite enough. _ The Inclination to Gamble. Now you acknowledge that in a cart rope of evil, bun you want to know what are the small thieads out of which it is made. There is in many a disposition to hazard. They feel a deliglet in 'walking near a precipice because of the sense of clanger. There are people who go upon Jungfrau, not for the largeness of the prospect. but for the feeling that they have of thinking. "What would happen if I should fall off?" There • are persons who have their blood fillipped and accel- erated by skating very near an car hole. There are men who find a positive de- light in driving within two inchee of the edge of a bridge. It is this diaposition to hazard that fincle development in gaming practices. Here are $500. I may stake them. If I stake them, I may lose them, but I may win $5,000. Whichever way it turns, I have the excitement. Shuffle the cards. Lost! Heart thumps. Head dizzy. At it again -just to gratify this desire for hazard. Thela there are others who go into this sin through eheer desire for gain. It is espeoially so with profession gamblers. They alwaya keep cool. They never drink enough to unbalance their judgment. They do not see the dice so much as they see the dollar beyond the dice, and for that they watch as the spider in the web, looking as if dead until the fly passes. Thousands of young mon in tire hope of gain go into these practices. They say: "Well, my salary is not enough to allow this luxury. I don't get enough from my store, office or shop. I ought to nave finer apartments. I ought to have better wines. I ought to have more ritihly flavored cigars. I - ought to be able to entertain ray friends more ex- pensively. I won't stand thie Any longer. I. ean with one brilliant stroke make a fortune. e Now, here goes, principle or no principle, heaven or hell. Who cares?" When a young man makes up his mind to live beyond his inoome, satan has bought him out and out, and it is only a question of time when the goods are to be delivered. The thing is done. You may plant in the way all the battteries of truth and righteoosness-that man is bound to go on. When a inan makes $1,000 a year end spends $1,200, when% young man reakes $1,500 and spends $1,700, all then harpies of darkness cry out, "Ha, ha, we have him!" And they have. How to get the extta $500 or tho extra $2,000 is the question. He says: "Here is my friend wbo started out the other day with but little money, and in one night, so groat was _his nuck, he rolled up hundreds and thousands of dol- lars. He got it -why not I? It is such dull work, this adding up long lines of figures in the oounting house; this pull. THE waiting upon eemebody else, when I could put $100 on the race and pick up • An Insidious Sin. This sin works very insidiously. Other sins 'sound the drum and flaunt the tiag and gather their recruits with wild huzza, but this marches its procession of pale victime in dead of night, in silence, and when they drop into the grave there -is not so much sound as the click of the dice. Oh, holw many have gone down under it! Look at those men who were once highly prospeeed. Now their fore- head is licked by a tongue of flame that will never go out, In their souls are plunged the beaks which will never be lifted. Swing open the door of that man's heart and you see a coil of adders wriggling their V‘ indescribable horror until you turn away and hide your face and ask God to help you tocliforget it. The most of this evil is tine vertised. The community does not hear a it. Men defrauded in gaming establishments are. not fools enough to tell of it. 'Once in awhile, however, there is an exposnre, a when in Boston the police swooped upon a gaming establishment and found in it the representatives of all classes of citi- zens frorn the first merchants on State street to the low Afill street ganibler; as when Bullock, •the °ashler of the Central Railroad of Georgia, Was found to have stolen $108,000 for the purpose of carry- ing on gaming practices; as when a young man in one of the savings banks, of Brooklyn many years ago was found to hatenstolen $40,000 to carry on gam- ing practices; as when a man connected with A Wall street insurance company was found to have stolen $180,000 to carry -on his`gaining practices, but that is exceptional. . Stook Gambling. qenerally the money leaks silently frdin the merchant's till. into the gam- ster's wallet. I believe that one of the main pipes leading to this sewer of iniquity is the excitement of -business life. Is it not a significant fact that the majority of the day gambling houses in New York are in proximity to Wall street? Men go into the excitement of stock gambline, and "from that they plunge into the gambling houses, as, when men are intoxicated, they go into a liquor naloon to get more drink. The agitation that is witnessed in the stock market When the chair announces the word "Northwestern" or "Fort Wayne" or "Rock Island" or "New York Cen- tral," and the rat, tat, tat, of the auc- tioneer's hammer, and the excitement of making "corners," and getting up "pools," and "catrying stook," and a "break" from 80 to 70, and the excite- ment of reshing around in curbstone brokerage, and the sudden cries of "Buyer three!" "Buyer ten!" "Take 'em!" "How manyf" -and the making or lasing of $10,000 by one operation, tinfits a man to go home, and so he gees up the flight of stairs, amid business offices, to the darkly curtained, wooden 'shut- tered room gayly furnished inside and takes his place at the roulette or the faro table. But I cannot tell all the prooess by which men get into this evil. A man went to New York. He was a western merchant. He went into a gaining bowie on Park place. Before morning he had lost ail his money save $1, and he moved around about with that dollar in his hand, and after avrhire, caught still more powerfully under the infernal infatua- tion, he came up and put down the dol- lar and cried out until they heard him through the saloon, "One thousand miles. from home, and my last dollar on the gaming table!" visit to a Gfaribling Den. Many yeare ago for. sermonic purposes and in company with the chief of police of New York I visited one of the most brilliant gambling houses in that city. In was night, and as we came up in front all seemed dark. The blinds were aown, the door was guarded, but after a whispering of the ,offIcer with thn guard, at the door we Were admitted into the ball, and thence into the parlors, around one table finding eight or ten men in midlife, well dressed,.all the work going on in silence save the noise of the nal- ' ing "chips" on.the gaming table in one I parlor and the revolving ball of the rout tette table in the other parlor. Some of t these rnen, we were told, had served berms in prison; some were shipwrecked beakers and brokers and money dealers, and some were going their first rounds of vice, but all intent upon the table as large on small fortunes moved up and down before them. Oh, there was some- thing awfully solemn in the silence, the intense gaze, the suppressed emotions of the players. No one looked up. They all had money in the rapids, and I• have no doubt some saw . as they sat there horses and carriages and houses and lands and • hem° and. family rushing down into the vote'. A man's life would not have been worth a farthing in that presence, -had he not been accompanied by the police, if he had been supposed to be on a Christian errand of observa- tion. Some of these men went by private key, some went in by careful introduc- tion, some were taken in by the patrons of the establishment. The officer 'of the law told me, "None gets in here except by police mandate or by some letter of a patron." While we were there a young man came in, put bin money down on the roulette table and lost; put more money down on the roulette table and lost; put raore money down on the roulette table and lost. Then feeling in his pockets for more money, finding none, in severe silence he turned his back upon the scene and passed out. While we stood there rnen lost their property and lost their souls. Oh, merciless place! Not once in all the history of that gaining house has there been one word of sympathy uttered for the losers at the game. Sir Horace Walpole said than °a man dropped dead in one of the clubhouses of London. His body was carried into the clubhouse and the members of the club began imme- diately to bet as to Whether he were dead or alive, and whee it was proposed -ito test the matter by bleeding him it was only hindered by the suggestion that it would be unfair to some of the players. In thete gaming houses of our cities men have their property wrung away from them, and then they go out, some of them to drown their grief in strong drink, some to ply the counterfeiter's pen, and so restore their fortunes; some resort to the sulaide's revolver, but all going ilo'wn. And that work propeeede day by day and night *night. "That cart rope," says one young man, "has never been wouncnaround. my soul." But have not some threads of that cart rope been twisted? I arraign before God the gift enter- prises of our cities wnich have a tendency to make this notion of gainblers. What- ever you get, young man, in such a place as that, without giving a proper equivalent, is a robbery of your own soul amine robbery of the community. Yet how we are appalled to see men who have failed in other enterprises go into gift concerts, where the chief attraction I is not music', but prizes distributed 1 among the auclience, -or to sell boo.ks where the chief attraction is not the book, but the package that gabs with the book. Tobacco dealers advertise that on dav they will nut menev. into • HURON EXI OSITO R, tobacco in Cincinnati or New. York -iniSY unexpeOtedly come upon a magnificent gratuity. Boys hawking through the 'cane packages containing nobody knows what Until you open them and find they con- tain nothing. Chrifitiall M012 with pie - tures on their wallt gotten in a lottery, and the brain of community taxed to lind out some new way of getting things without paying for- them. Oh, young men, these are the threads that raake the cart rope, and when a young man con - gents to these practices he is being bound hand and foot by a habit which has already destrnyed "a great multitude ' that no man can number." Sometimes these gift enterprises are carried on in the name of charity, and some of you re- member at the close of our civil war how many gift enterprises. were on foot, the proceeds to go to the orphans and widows of the soldiers and sailors. What did the Dien who had charge of those gift enterprises care for the orphans and widows? Why, they would have allowe'd them to freeze to death unon their steps. I have no faith in a charity which, for the sake of relieving present suffering, opens a gaping jaw that has swallowed down so much of the virtue and good. principle of the community. Young man, have nothing to do with these things. They •only sharpen your appetite for games of chance. Do one of two things -be honest or. die. you on the lookout. It is a great neat easier to fall than it is to get up again. Tne trouble is that when men begin to go astrey frona the path of duty they are apinto say : There' s no use of my trying to get back. rye sacrificed my respect- ability. I can't return." And they go on until they are utterly destroyed. I tell you, my friends, that God this monient, by-- his Holy Spirit, can change your en- tire nature, so that you will be a differ- ent man in a minute. The Path of Safety., Your great- want -what is it? More salary? Higher social position? No, no. will tell you the great want of every man, if he has not already obtained it- inis the grace of God. Are there any who -have fallen victims to the sin that. I have been reprehending? You are in a prison. You rush against the wall of this prison and try to get out, and you fail, and you turn around and dash against the other wall until there is blood on the grates and blood on your soul. Yon' win never get out in this way. There is oply one way of getting out. There is a key that can unlock that prison house. It is the key of the house of David. It is the key that Clerist wears at his girdle. If you will allow him to put that key to the lock, the bolt will shoot back and the door will swing.open and you will be a free hi Christ Jesus. Oh, pro- digal, what a business this is for yen, feeding swine, when your father stands in the front door, straining his eyesight I to catch the Aria glimpse of your -return, !and the calf is as fat as it will be, and the harps of heaven are all strung and I the feet free I There are converted gam- ' biers in henven. The light of eternity -•flashed upon the green baize of their billiard saloon. In the layer of God's forgiveness they washed off all their sins. They quit trying for earthly stakes. They tried for heaven and won it. Tiler° stretchat n -hand from heaven toward the heed of the worst offender. It is a hand, not clinched as if to smite, but out- spread as if to drop a benediction. Other seas have a shore and inlay be fathomed, bid, the sea of God's love -eternity haf3 no plummet to etrike the bottom and immensity no iron bound shore to confine it. Its.,tides are lifted by the heart of in- finite oompassiOn. - Its2 waves are the hosannas of the redeemed. The argosies that sail on it drop anchor .at last amid the thundering salvo of eternal victory, but alas for that man who sits down to the final game of life and puts his, im- mortal soul en the ace while thiangels of God keep the tally board, and after kings and queens and knaves and spades are nshuffied" and "out" and the game is ended, hovering and impending worlds disnover that. he has lost it, the faro bank of eternal darkness clutching down intb its wallet all the blood stained wagers. - Seeking Solace. • nt was one of the sultriest days of the senson when the unhappy looking man mint into the physician's office. It was a heav, sullen heat, in which every twig annl leaf hung absolutely inotionless. n Doctor," he said, "I want you to re- peat something that you told 1110 last t'Sorne advice that you have forgot - I haven't forgotten it. I simply went to hear it over again. You re- member early this spring you warned Me that I would have to take better care of nity general health." PAnd,you especially pointed out to -me that I mum% sit in a draft." recall that." 5.41 can't remember your exact lange nante, but you were very eloquent in iMpressing the riske a man ran when he sat by an open window without any coat on and permitting the zephys th splash against his chest." I -I don't believe I used exactly those -"No. That is one reason why I want you to say_it all over again. I'm willing to pay the regular consultation fee to have you go through vrith that speech. The only way I can eet comfort out of this weather is to be reminded with al/ the emphasis that rhetoric can command of hOw dangerous it would be to sit in a draft if there was any draft to sit in." - Washington Star. Blaming the Superiors. The frequent dismal failures of French vessels of war are chiefly due to changes of naval administrations, each new one having its particular hobby to ride. The. blame for overweight, unseaworthy ships is therefore not to be laid to the con- structors, but rather upon the superiors. A BATTLE WITH RUM. With Liquor. I began drinking when I was 17 years, old. Unfortunately at the age when many another, perhaps no more worthy of bet- ter fortune than myself, was surrounded by the restraints of home, it became ray lot to go out into the worlde The com- panionship of older men who were drain- ing the cup of life served . to open the way to the broad' road which many an- other has trod and the byways of socia- bility and good cheer, and along the road I sowed the seeds which in time matured the harvest of thistles and thorns, gall and wormwood. This is a chapter of the experiences of everyday life which many have learned by heart. Ocoasional sprees marked my first five years as a drinking man. They lasted overnight and tapered themselves into morning thirsts which nothing but drafts of good, cold ice water would quench -mornings when the very thought of liquor produced nausea. A man never becomes a drunkard until he learns to take his morning drink, never until the fire kindled over night demands its.fiery fuel meth° morrow. Six or seven years of intermittent drink- ing will Wine this fie111011. It_ _MHO tO "bracer" was an unpleasant dcise, but time took care of that, ,and the habit grew. The period of drinking became more frequent. The ability to drinlg more with less show of intoxication ,and the system's demand for higher stimulation, coupled with longer sprees, were the first symptoms of a habitual desire for drink. Three and. four dayS of steady drinking, witin little sleep and less a,ppetite for food, Was not an uncommon thing when ten years as a "drinking man" had rolled around. NervOUS prostration, with that remorse onconsalence and penitence which in such times conieS to every man whose personal pride ainonnts to anything, fol- lowed these periods. Sometimes total abstinence for a week forced by a desire to get rid of the habit, only prepared the system to stand a longer and harder spree. This is in keeping with the theory that when the brain cells become habitu- • accustomed to alcoholic stimulants they cry out for replenishment when their stoek is exhausted. The periodical drinker htores in his- .brain a supply of alocohol, as a ship coals up for sea. When any task is to be met, when under any uniisual excitement. the periodical drinker nifty be depended upon to take on an extra. allowance of fuel. - The amount of whisky that a man can consume on a heavy periodical spree is almost astonnding to one unacquainted with the habit. From a quart to a gallon of whisky; 40 -per cent. alcohol, drunk in 24 hours, scarcely expresses the range of the habit fully developed in the case of a inan of strong constitution.. Many men have been known to drinn a gallon of whisky within a day. A pint drunk within the same length of time would utterly incapacitate a man unaccustomed The symptoms of an approaching period of drunkennesstare intense nerv- ousness, uneasiness of mind, and ' an in- ability to - center • the mind • upon any particular- subject or arouse interest in business or occupation. The first day's drinking alleviates this suffering and adds buoyancy to the mind. Deeper un- certainty of mind, with the return of nervousness, follows the first few hours' sleep. More liquor is demanded. Twelve hours adde to the high tension of the nervous •system, kept constantly keyed by increasing the amount of liquor. The hours drift rapidly into days and nights. Everything except -drink, ,constant drink, has been.abandoned. Finding for the first time in my life that I was unable to control my desire foe liquor, I determined to seek a cure. During the latter drinking periods and the sleepless nights which followed them zny mind was almost coostantly haunted by a specter of myself, emaciated and in rags, reeling in the streets. This awful vision came upon me in my sleep. It fol- lowed me when all other conscionsness left me, and I was continually wakened from inandlin drowsiness by the sight of it. This nightmare was the forerunner. 'of delirium. My experience in alcoholic delirium came after I had been a "drinking man!' for the greater- part of 14 years. After a siege of sickness I arose filled •with the purpose never te drink .another drop qf liquor. • This resolutionheralded the two happiest years of my life.- Many times the craving for liquor and the syniptonis of nervous exhaustion asserted them- selves, but I withstood them until they became less frequent and finally, 'I thought, had disappeared. Then came the step which can be laid at no other -door than my own. I thought I was rid of the old craving, and in a Moment of thoughtlessness I drank a glass of cham- pagne, "just to be sociable," said. chided my conseienee, which ',rose up to recall the titter pavt. With onb drink my resolutions were shattered. The next day r drank fully 40 glaeses of whisky. On the third day I drank reore, and on the did drink. These sprees followed 'each other at close intervals for siX months. Alcoholic tranoe asserted itself in more pronounced form. these periods Of drunkenness lengthened and became more frequent. A constant effort to at- tend bo business, at the same time keep- ing the mind clouded with liquor,' added to -the nervous strain. * * It was six weeks yesterday sines I took my last drink of whisky,: and I believe 10 will be 80 years before I take another.. -Wade Mountfortt in Kansas City Star. A Wife Sat in a Mart's Lap: A queer tale, but well authenticated, comes from the Black Hills which illus- trates the direful effects of giving an un- ruly tongue and a malicious mind full swing. The story goes that a young woman in the town of Galelia ciroulaVed the report that a certain monied wo- rutin had been seen sitting in a man's lap. The report proved to be truit, but the man in_ question was her husband, who became so indignant that he sought out • the reckless gossip and gave her a severe tongue lashing, from the effect of which she went into hyeterics and died. Of course the death is to be regretted, but if the incident be a true one it ought certainly to emphasize the necessity a a close watch on one's utterances where the reputation of others is concerned. - Minneapolis Tribune. A comparison of the statistics of orin2e with the cost of our penal institutions and courts shows that the drunkards of the country cost the nation through the crime committed under intoxication about $59,000,000 a yea. -Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone Sunday celeb- rated the 58th anniversary of their wedding. Many visitors joined in their family rejoic- ings at Hawarden, and scores of the towns- people saluted the venerable couple while on their way to church. Both are in excellent health, Mr. Glanitone Wnlking off with as much vigor as at any time within the past ten years, shaking hands energetically, and conversing with great animation. Your cough, like a dog's bark, is a sign that there is something foreign around which shouldn't be there. You can quiet the noise, but the danger may be there just the same. Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil is not a cough specific; it does not merely allay the symptoms but it does give such strength to the body that it is able to throw off the disease. You know the old prov- erb of "the ounce of pre- vention?" Don't neglect your cough. Your druggist keeps Seott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil. Gold 1 Lie ink fast This *eek we offer Special Values; Ladie at 812 - Oh alli Ladle upwa discot at cos Hose at 9c and 10e -fast black. Crumb's hest Prints and 9c, Victoria Lawns at 81.c, worth 14c to 18e. s at 812c to dear. Ladies' Belts at 11c, regular 25c. ' IT Vests for 50 and upwards ; Art Muslins at 60 and ds ; Cream and Butter Laces at cost ; Parasols, 20 per cent. nt ; Umbrellas, 20 per cent. discount ; Men's Straw Hats to clear. J. L. SMITH, Seaforth. NEXT TO O. W PAPST'S BOOKSTORE. DOMINION CAPITA (PAID UP) MB N B - S1,500,0006 SEAFORTH BRANCH. MAIN OTREET, SEAFORTHI A general banking business transacted. Drafts on all parts of the United Stabil Great Britain and Europe bought and sold. Letters of credit issued, available in ail pa& of Europei Chine, and Japan. Farmers' Sale Notes collected, and advances made on seas at lowest rates. 6 SAV I NGS DEPARTMENT. Depositsfof One Dollar and upwards received, and filtered allowed at highest awns rates. kterest added to principal twice each year -at the end of June and Deoembit.- No notice of iwithdrawal is required for the whole or any portion of a depoSt. It is poo economy to buy cheap Tea, and use twice as mue and not get half as much satisfaction as from a good one. LL PEYLON TEA is a good ohe and sure to please. In Lead Packages, 25e, 40o, 50e and 60e. 1 FROM ALL LEADING GROCERS. 1897 FURNITURE 189 For the next 90 days, we will sell all goods at Factory prices. Call and try us, you will save freight and packing. Undertaking Department. Our Undertaking department is complete in every respect, and as we purchase from,first-class manufacturers only, -we can guarantee to give good satisfaction in all its branches, as we have an Undertaker And Etilbalmer of fifteen years' experience, and any orders we may be favored with shall receive the yery best attention. Don't forget the old. Etand. P. S. Night calls _attended to by calling at our Funeral Director's re- sidence, First Door East of Drs. Scott & McKay's Office ; di at Dr. Campbellte Old Office on Main Street Seaiorth. BROAD'OOT, BOX 8c CO., Main Street, Seaforth, Porter's Old Stan& THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE:, ESTABLISHED 1867. HEAD OFFICE. TORONTO. CAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS 118,000,006 B. E. WALMER, GENERAL MANAGER. SEAFORTH BRANCH. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, Diu* issued, payable at all points in Canada and the principal' dace in the United States, Great Britain, France, Bermuda& dm SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received, and current rates of interest allowed. BarInterest added to the principal at the end of May and Novels, ber in each year. Special attention given to the collection of Comro.ercial Paper and Far. mArs' Sales Notes. F. IIOLMESTED, Solicitor. M. MORRIS, Manage AT A BM REDUCTI ALL SUMMER GOODS AT GREA4LY REDUCE') PRICE W. W„ ROFFMAN. 300 Priltli 1.11 FATIlengusAL 11 el fljoil Es. grilcbuszitilwa1sAnyt wind till August 9t for Scheel &Won a Sri clan teri REAL ES' pod.":713:°,0:R:7-cpbucrivcceeinAsu:d: On the premises. itssWENCB IN water i:rsethreevnifieundLig anY•03ardeal. e the In tritium AND "Mae if 01 &stage h orarlyzew *atria alx rooms and semlne -water Willhe OUSE AND LOI bitable present three soresof land,' fruits. There icoll house, sitry end * *table, There is fir This property Is Apply to ADOLPH 1 -Daum IN Awe* bark, contain - cleared sod lree Big within lour 'rod stx- Enna and on now lawn. on the pretniseer MIL ruin( -FOR 14A1.1 'sera,* elnisrod• The laud ie la sec andersirained, sad, harm, franwitahlew 11001111-012 the proper dont lifers. of on sad is within trir Exeter end Hem wile. and is oatmeal -preperty will be soli sloe even alter he; apply to JOHN met 100R 8LLE.-Fei cleared lad free oil good hardwood hold state et cultivation., 'mold, principally -ings Demist of a re warzeitpen and three wells, an ileirin pally win r o f lienosli, convenient to &Uri guarter from -Chile suall. 83.000 of the tke property If den 01111Aler may have pi d esired. Per fru premises. or to .3-01' GERALD. thiselhu - the late John. LA rz FOR Ski has forestal -111116 11141p for omit arebesed from and winner nt Men -41-payable an *in DOMANDE, LOS STOOI ItntILL FOR 131 AP keep for re Eibbett, the them Duoraven." 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