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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-08-13, Page 2-IN BICYCLES AND WATCHES FoR VNIFI4 .$40Ap pE During the Year 1897. For hill particulars see advertisements, or apply to LEVER BROS., LTD., 23 Soon ST., TORONTO REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. IMAMS FOR SAL. -The undersigned has twenty X Choice Farris for sale in East Huron, the ban- ner County of the Provinoe ; all sizes, MA prioes to suit. For full information, write or call personally. No trouble to show them. F. 8. COM, Brussels P. O. 139141 "MEM FOR SAIX.-100 acres, n the township of X Grey, near Brussels. There is on it nearly 60 acres of bush, about half black ash, the rest hard- wood. A rtever-failing spring of water runs through the IA Will be sold at a big bargain. For particu- lars. apply to MRS. JANE WALKER, Box 219, Brussels. 1470 T1OR SALE. -That valuable property situated on 12 the es.st side of north Main street, Seaforth. This property correlate of four lots, and a fine dwelt ing house, containing a dining roan,parlor, 4 bed rooms, kitchen and cellar. There is also a fine stable, carriage house, store house ani wood shed. The grounds are pleasant and well shaded; also well planted with hoot trees, and small fruits, hard and soft water. For terms apply on the premises. M. ROBERTSON, Seaforth. 15354f -VARA FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 6, concession 12, J. township of Hibbert, containing 100 acres of good land in a good state of cultivation. ' Well fenced; good brick house ; goad bank barn and out buildings; 13 sores of fall wheat, and ploughing all done; 2 good wells and 2 never failing springs; 85 scree cleared; possession at any time. For further particulars, apply- to PETER MELVILLE, Cromarty P.O., Ontario. 1525-tf TJ'IARM FOR SALE, 100 ACRES. -Being lot 18, X ,conceesion 7, township of Grey, one mile west of Ethel; 51- from Brussels. Ninety-five acres cleared; free of stumps and stones; well ander- drained and fenced with straight femme; good brick house and good outbuildings; i5 acres in fall wheat and 50 aeres seeded down. Will be sold cheap and on easy terms. A. McKELVEY, Bruesels. 1527t1 -DOR SALE. -A valuable fruit and grain farm, X on *good road, within six miles of Clinton. The Lot is No. 67, Meitland Conceseiou, Goderich township. and contains 75 scree. It yields annually from 80 to 100 barrels of winter apples, and is a g-ood grain farm, the Land being a No. 1 clay loam. There is a 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 money may remain on mortgage. For terms, etc., apply to THOMAS BURNS, Carlow I'. 0., or to W. W. FAR. RAN, Clinton. 153641 UAW FOR SALE. -Fpr sale, lot 36, concession X 2, Kinloes, containing 100 acres, 85 cleared and tne balance in good hardwood bush. The land Is in a good state of cultivation, is well underdrained and well fenced. There is a frame barn and log house on the property b a never -failing spriqg with windmill, also about 2 ac -es of orchard. It is an excellent farm and is within one mile of Whitechurch station, where there are (tares, blscksmitla shop and churches. There is a school on the opposite lot. It is six miles from Wingbam and six from ;Lucknow, with good roads leading in all directions. This de- sirable property will be sold on reasonable terms. For further particrulars apply to JAMES MITCHELL, Varna P. 0. 1495-15044f MIOR SALE OR TO RENT ON EASY TERMS. - 12 As the owner wishes t511 retire from business on account of ill 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 In pans to suit purobaiser. about 500 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, vebielee, 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 eon- ce,selon, Grey township, 190 acres of land, 40 in pasture, the balance in timber. Poseeesion given after harvest of farm lands '• mills at once. For par- ticulars apply to ANDREWGOVENLOCK, Winthrop. 148641 PURE PEA.MEAL citmA.E), Ten tons at a very reasonable price, in exchange for Oats or Peas. Seaforth Oatmeal Mills. 1519-fef Our direet comiections will save you time and money for all points. Canadian North West Via Toronto or Chicago, British Columbia, and California points. Our rates are the lowest. We have them to suit everybody and PULLMAN TOUR- IST CARS for your accommodation. Call for further information. Grand Trunk Railway. Trains 'leave Selforth and Clinton stations as follows: GOING WEST- SEAFORTII. " CLINTON. Passenger 12.47 r. M. 1.03 P. al. Passenzer._ .. .. 10.12 P. X.- 10.27 P. M. Mixed Train.... , 9.20 A. M. 10.15 A. M. Mixed Train 6.16 P. K. 7.05 P. M GOING EAST -- Passenger_ .. .... 7.65 A. M. 7.40 A.M. Passenger.. .. .... 3.11 P. M. 2 56 P. M. Mixed Train..... „ 5.201'. 31. 4.35 P. M. Wellington, Grey and Bruce. GOING NORTH- Passenger. Ethel 9149 P. 34 1.40 P. N. • Brussels.. .. 10.01 2.05 Bluevale.. .. 1.01. Winghain 10.25 001n0 SOUTH- • Passenger. VVinghara............ ' e.50 a. M. Bluevale .. .......... 7.00 Brussels-. . ...... .. 7.18 EthL. 7.28 2.25 225 8.56 A. M. 9 17 9.46 10.02 London, Huron and Bruce. GOING NORTIT--• Passenger. , London, depart 8.15 A U. 4.45 -' Centralia...... . .. • .. 9.18 5.57 - Exeter-- . . .... ....... 9 30 6.07 „. 'Jensen- . 9.44 6 18 Kippen... . . ..... ...... - 9.50 6.25 Brueefield- .. .. . . . . . .. 9.58 6.33 Clinton.. . 10.15 6.55 Londesboro - .... .... 10 33 7.14 BlYth-- - ..... . . 10.41 7.23 Belgrave....., .... . . . 10 66 7 57 Wingham arrive. - ... 11.10 8.00 Ooncet 8OUT11- Passenger. Wingham, depart.... 6.63 A.M. 8.80 P. M. Belgrave . 7.04 8.45 Blyth.. .... . .. ..... 7.16 400 LondesbOro. ..... .... ..*7.24 4.10 Clinton.- . .. . .. ...... 7.47 4 30 - Brueefield 8 06 4.60 • Kippen - ... ........ ... 8.17 £ 59 Henult.„„..... . . ... . • 8.24 5.04 Dieter .. . .. . . . .. .. .. t38 6.16 Centralia 8.50 5.25 Lenlon, (srrive).....,9.5024 M. 6.30 0.1 OSITOR i-infilel=e51' his? 'Why Wait when Weary, land. his -feet stone bruised, when he might have taken the splendors et the sunset for his equipage and moved with horses and °harlots of fire? Why beg lia drink• from the wayside.when out, of tIe elTstel chalices of eternity he poured the Euphrates the Miesissippi and the Anta. zon, and, client/1g his hand in the foitii- tains of heaven and shaking that hand over the world from the tips of his fingers, dripping the great lakes and the oceans? Why let the Roman regiment put him to death, when he might have ridden down the sky, followed by all the cavalry of heaven, mounted on white horses of eternal victory? You cannot_ understand. Who oan? You try to eonfound me. I am con- founded before you speak. Paul said it was unsearchablee He went climbing up from argument to argument, and froni antithesis to antithesis; and from glory to glory, and then sank down in exhaus- tion as he saw far ahoy him other heights of divinity unsealed, and ex- claimed "that in all things he might have the pre-eminence." Again, Christ was Wortderful in his teaching. The people had been used to formalities and technicalities. Christ upset all their notions as to how preach- ing aught to be done. There was this peculiarity about his preaching -the peo- ple knew what he meant. His illustra- tions were taken from the hen calling her chickens together, from salt, from candles, from fishing trial% from a hard creditor collaring a debtor. How few pulpits of this day would have allowed bim entrance! He would have been called undignified and.faniiliar in his style of preaching, and yet the people went to hear him. Those old Jewish rabbiirmight have preached on the side of Olivet 50 years and never got an audience. The philosophers sneered at his ministrations and said, "this will never dot" The lawyers caricatured, but the common people heard him gladly. Suppose you that there were any sleepy people in his audiences? Suppose you that any woman who ever mixed bread was ignorant of what he meant when he compared the kingdom of heaven with leaven or yeast? Suppose you that the sunburned fisher- men, with the fish scales upon their hands, were listless when he spoke of the kingdom of heaven as a net? We spend three years in college studying ancient mythology and three years in the theological seminary learning 'how to make a sermon, and then we go out to save the world; and if we cannot do it according to Claude's "Sermonieing." or Blair's "Rhetoric," or Karnes' "Critio]. ism," we will let the world go to perdt- don, If we save nothing else, we will save Claude and Blair. We see a wreck in sight. • We must go out and save the crew and passengers. We wait until we get on our fine cap and coat, and find our shining oars, and then we push out methodically and scientifically while some plain shdresman in rough fishing smack and with broken oarlock goes out and gets the crew and passengers and brings them ashore in safety. We throw down our delicate oars and say: "What a ridiculous thing to save men in that way! You ought to have done it scient- ifically and beautifully!' "Ah !" says the shoresman. "if those sufferers had yraited Until you got out your fine boat, they would lave gone to the bottom." The work of a religious teacher is to save men, and though every law of grammar should. be snapped in the undertaking, and there be nothing but awkivardness and blundering in the mode, all hail to the man who saves a soul. Christ's Sympathy. Christ, in his preaching, wa.s plain, earnest and wonderfully sympathetic. We cannot dragoon men into heaven. We cannot drive them in with the butt end of a catechism. We waste our time in trying to catch flies with acids instead of the sweet honeycomb of the gospel. We try to make crab apples do the work of pomegranates. , Again, Jesus was wonderful in his sorrows. The sun smote him and the cold chilled him, thenain pelted him, thirst parched him and hunger exhausted him. - Shall I compare his sorrow to the sea? No, for that is sometimes hushed into acalm. Shall I compare it with the night? No, for that sometimes gleams with Orion, or kindles with Aurora. If one thorn should be thrust through your temple, you would faint, but here is a whole crown made from the rhamnus, or spina Christi -small, sharp, stinging thorns The mob makes a cross. They put down the long beam, and on it they fasten a shorter beam. Got him at last. Those hands, that have been doing kind- nesses and wiping away tears -hear the hatnmer driving the- spikes through them. Those feet, that have been going about on ministrations of mercy -bat- tered against the cross. Then they lift it up. Look, look, Jook! Who will help him now? Come. men of Jerusalem, ye -whose ,dead he brought to life, ye whose sick he healed, who will help him, who will seize the weapons of the soldiers? None to help! Having carried such a cross for us; shall we refuse to take our cross for h ? Shall Jesus bear the cross alone And all the world go free? - No; there's a cross for every one, 'And there's a cross for me. You know the process of ingrafting. You Lore a hole into a tree and put in the branch of another tree. This tree of the cross was hard and rough, but into the holes where the nails went there have been grafted branithes of the tree of life that now bear fruit for all nations. The original tree was bitter, but the branches ingrafted were sweet, and so all the nations pluck the fruit and live fi°rAegyfr, i3tie, Christ. was wonderful in his victories. First, over the forces of nature. The sea in a crystal sepulchre. It swallowed the Central. America, the President and the Spanish Armada as easily as any fly that ever floated on it. The inland lakes are fully as terrible in their wrath. Galilee when aroused in a storm is over- whelmingand yet that sea crouched in his presence and licked Ms feet. He knew all the waves and winds. When he beckened, they came. Wheniiim frowned, they fled. The heel of his foot made no indentation on the solidified water. Medical science has wrought great changes In rheumatic limbs and diseased blood, but when the muscles are entirely withered no human. power can restore DIVINE MAGNETISM. DK TALMAGE REGARDS CHRIST FROM AN UNUSUAL STANDPOINT. Sermon on the Prophecy of Isaiah. "MIs Name Shall be Wonderful". -Dr. Talmage Denies Reports of His Dissatisfaction With His Church. • , Washington, Aug. 8. -Dr. Talmage, referring to recent reports as to the san- er:nice of his present pastoral relations, has authorized the following statement: - "I have denounced the infamous false- hood concerning my dissatisfaction with nay Washington °Much and the state- ment that I had determined not to re- turn there. Relations between that oon- gregation and myself are perfectly happy, and the church has met all its oblige- tione to me. Our attendance was larger last year than ever before, . many more people coming than we could accommo- date. I w ill be in my regular pulpit the second eabbath in September." In th discourse below by Dr. Talmage Christ s looked at from an unusual standpoint. His text is Isaiah ix, 6, "His mains shall be called wenderful," The prophet lived in a dark time.For some 8,000 years the world - had "been getting worse. Kingdoms had arisen and perished. As the captain of a vessel in distress sues relief corning across the water, so the prophet amid the stormy times in which he lived, put the tele- scope of prophecy to hie eye and saw 750 years ahead one Jesus advancing to the rescue. I want to show that when Isaiah called Christ the Wonderful he spoke wisely. Popular Pictures of Christ. In most houses there is a picture of Christ. Sometimes it represents him with face effeminate; sometimes with a face despotic:. I have seen West's grand sketch of the rejection of Christ; I have seen the face of Christ as cut on an emerald; said to be by command of Tiberius thesar, and yet I am convinced that I shall never know how Jesus looked until, on that sweet Sabbath morning, I shall wash the lag sleep from my eyes in the cool river of heaven. I take up this book of divine photographs, and I leek at Luke's sketch, at John's sketch and at Paul's sketch, and I say, With IS01011, "Wonderful !" I think that you are all ,interested in the story of Christ. You feel that he is She only one who can help you. You have unbounded admiration for the command- er who helped his passengers ashore while he himself perished, but have you no admiration for him who reecued our souls, himself _falling back Jae the waters from which he had saved us? Christ was wonderful in the magnet- ism of his person. .A.Iter the battle of Antietam, when a general rode along the lines, although_ the soldiers were lying down exhausted, they rose with great enthusiasm and huzzaed. As Napoleon returned from his captivity his first step on the wharf shook all the kingdoms, and 250,000 men joined hie standard. It took 3,000 troops to wateh him in Ms exile. So there have been Men of wonderful magnetism of portion, but hear me while I tell you of a poor young man who came up from Nazareth to produce a thrill such as has never been excited by any other. Napo- leon had around him the memories of Austerlitz and Jena and Badajos, but here was a man who had fought no battles, who wore no epaulets, who brandished no sword. He is no titled man of the schools, for he never went to school. He had probably never seen a prince or shaken bands with a nobleman. The only extraordinary person we know of as being in his company was his own mother, and she was so poor that in the most delicate and solemn hour that ever comes to a woman's soul she was obliged to lie down amid camel drivers groom- ing the beasts of burden. I imagine Christ one day standing in the streets of Jerusalem. A man descend; ed from high lineage is standing beside him, and nays: "My father" was a mer- chant prince. He had a castle on the beach at Galilee.. Whe was your father?" Christ answers, "Joseph, the carpenter." A man from Athens is standing there unrolling his parchment of graduation, and says to Christ, "Where did you go to school?" Christ answers, "I never graduated." -Aha! The idea of such an unheralded young man attempting to command the attention 01 the world! As well some littledishing village on Long Island shore_ attempt to arraign New York. Yet no sootier does he set foot in the towns or' cities of Judaea than every - thine is in commotion. The people go out on a picnic, taking only food enough for the day, yet aro so fascinated they follow him out into the wilderness. A nobleman falls down fiat before him, and says, "Lord, that my eyes may be opened." A poor, sick, panting woman, pressing through the crowd, says, "I rgust touch the hem of his garment." Children, who love their. mother better than any 000 else, struggle to get lace his arms, and to kiss his cheek, and to run their fingers through his hair, and for all time putting Jesus so in love with the little ones that there is hardly a nur- sery in Christendom from which he does not take one, saying: "I must have them. I will fill heaven with these, for every cedar that I Plant in heaven I will have 60 white lilies. In the hour when I was a poor man in Judaea they were not ashamed of me, and now that I have come to a throne I do not despise': them. Hold it not back, oh, weeping mother! Lay it on my warm heart. Of such is the kingdom of. heaven." What is this coming down the read? A triumphal procession. He is seated - not in a chariot, but on an ass, and yet the people take off their coats and throw them in_ the wan. Oh, what a, time Jesus made among the children, among the beggars, among the fishermen, among the philosophers! You may boast of self control, . but if you bad seen him you would have put your arms around his neck and said, "Thou art altogether _ lovely." Apparent inconsistencies. Jesus was wonderful in the -opposites and seeming antagonism in his nature. You want things logical and consistent, and you say, "How could Christ be God and man at the same time?" John says Christ was the Creator. "All things were made by him, and without him was not anything made." Matthew says that he was omnipresent "Where two or three are met together in my name, there am I in the midst' of them." Christ declares Ms own eternity. "1 am Alpha and Omega." How can he be a lion, uader his foot crushing king- doms, and yet a lamb, 'hiking the had Shat slays him? At what point do, the throne and the manger touch? If Christ was God, why flee into Egypt? Why not stand his,ground? Why, instead of bear- ing the cross, not lift up his right hand and crush his assassins? Why stand and be spat Upon? Why sleep on the moun- tain, when he owned the palaces of eter- nity? Why catch fish for his breakfast on the beach in the chill morning, when all the pomegranates are his, and all the vineverstnibiss and all the_cattle his. and I• . , •-:,..-.,,ti _ them, and when a limb is once dead it is dead. But here is a paralytic, his hand lifeless. Christ says to him, "Stretch forth' thy hand!" and he stretches it forth. In the eye infirmary how many dis- eases of that delicate. organ have been cured. But Jesus says to one born blind, "Be open!" and the light of heaven rushes through gates that have never before been opened. The frost or an axe may kill a tree, but Jesus smites one dead with a word. Chemistry can do many wonderful things but what chemist at a wedding when ihe refreshment gave out could change a pail of water into a cask of wine? What human voice could. command a school Of Ileh-? Yet here is a voice that marshals the scaly tribes, until in the place where the had let down the .net 1ahdpnfledft tip with' bo 110 In 'It they let 15 down again and the disciplee lay hold and begin t4; -pull, when, by reason of the unititude of lish; the net break. Nature 10 Ws istrVirt. The flowers, he twieted them into elite eermone; the Wind% they were hie lullaby when he slept in the beat; le rain, 15 hung glit- tering ofl. the thick °liege of the para- bles; the Star of Bethlehem, it sang a Christmas carol over his birth; the rooks, they heat a dirge at his death. Victory Over the grave°. *hold his victori, over the grave! .The hinges of the family vault become very rusty because they are never opened ex- cept to take another in. There is a knob on the outside of the sepulchre'but none on the inside Here Icomes the Conqueror of Death. He enters that realm and sayst. "Datighter of Jaritis, sit up," and she sat up. ,To Lazaru% "Come forth," and he came forth. To the widow's son he said, "Get up from that bier," and he goes home with hie mother. Then' Jesus matched tip the keys of death and hung • them to his girdle and cried until all the graveyards of the earth heard him: "0 death, will be thy plague! 0 grave, I will be thy destruction!" But Christ's victories have only jug begun. This world is his, and he must have it. What is the matter in this coun- try? Why all these finanolal troubles? There never will be permanent prosperity in this land until Christ rules' it. This land was discovered for Christ, and. until our pities shall be evangelized and north, south, east and west shall acknowledge Christ as King and Redeemer we cannot have permanent prosperity. What is the Matter with Spain, with France, with all of the nations? All the congresses of the nations cannot bring quiet. When governments not only theoretically but practically acknowledge the Saviour of the world, there will be peace every where. In that day the sea will have more ships than now, but there will not he one "inan-of-war." The foundries of the world will jar with mightier indust- ries, but there will be no molding of bullets. Printing presses will fly their cylinders with greater speed, but there shall go forth no iniquitous trath. In laws, in constitutions, on exchabge, in scientifie laboratory, on earth as in hea- ven, Christ shall be called Wonderful. Let that work of the world's regenera- tion begin in your heart. 0 hearer! A Jesus so kind, a Jesus so good, a Jesus so loving! How can you help but love him? Itis a beautliul moment when two persons who have Wedged each other heart and, hand staid in church and have the -banns of marriage proclaimed. , Father and mother, brothers and sisters stand around the.altar. The minister of Jesus gives the counsel, the ring is set, earth and heaven .witness it, the organ sounds, and amid many congratulations they start out on the path of life together. Oh, that this might be your marriage day! Stand up, immortal soul! Thy Beloved comes- to get his betrothed. Jesus stretches forth his hand and says, "I will love thee with ah everlasting love," and you respond, "My Beloved is mine, and I am his." I put your hand In his. Henceforth be one. No trouble shill part you, no time cool your love. Side by side on earth, side by side in heaven. Now let the blossoms of heaven- ly gardens fill the house with their redol- ence and all the organs of God peal forth the wedding march of eternity. 'Hark! "The voice of my believed! Behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountates, skipping upon the hills!" • Designing a Vessel. Nowadays very little latitude is left to designer, especially in cargo vessels, as the builder has generally to conform to She rules of some registry society and obtain its classification. Of these socie- ties there are a oonsiderabie number. The most important are Lloyd's Registry For the British and Foreign Shipping, the French Bureaus Veritas and the British Corporation For the Survey and Registry of Shipping. Classification has now become practic- ally compidsory in the United Kingdoni since the - passi g of the 1890 load line act and these three bodies are licensed by the board of trade to assign free boards along with that board. Now a free board can only be assigned when a vest eel is up to a certain standard of strength, and must be assigned by one of the above mentioned bodies, and it will thus be seen that a designer's originality is much restricted. It is fortunate, however, that we escaped. the impositfort of a monopoly in the assignment of free -boards which nearly became law in 1890, or even the small freedom which is now left a designer would by this time have practically vanished. The 'designer, therefore, in preparing his midship section has simply to turn up the rules of the registry society chosen, where he will find the scantlings for the ship of the dimensions chosen with more or less clearness. -Archibald Denny in Cassier's Magazine. Whisky Did It. Seldom have Shakespeare's words: "Oh, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains." . been so strikingly illustrated as in the following touching incident related in a late newspaiter:- It seems that one of the best Greek scholars in New York is a guard on the Sixth avenue elevated road. Not long ago a famous professor in one of our leading universities published a volume on cer- tain features of the ancient Grecian dia- lee& of interest only to scholars. The L guard referred to wrote out several er- rors made by the professor in his book. He signed himself "Sixth Avenue Ele- vated Guard, No. -." A reporter sought out the inan whose badge bore the number, and after a few minutes' conversation asked: "How does it happen that you, a Greek scholar, should be doing such work as this?" The man hesitated and his red face flushed still deeper, but he finally replied: "My Greek is still what it used to be, but my tamer has been ruined by whisky." ENGLISH INTEMPERANCE. Classifi anon of the Several Types of Drankenness. England ranks _as a tolerably hard - drinking country, and has cheap so since it took its place in -history, carrying its liquor, however, with a steadineme which one has to go to Holland or Kentucky to see paralleled. Still, legislation for the control and retgulation of its drinkers is constantly required, and invites frequent amplification and revision, leaving, after all, the statistics of intemperance much as they were, says the New York Tri- .bune. In the classification of the intem- perate a certain proportion are recognized as ineane drinkers, for whom special statutory restraints are provided, • and these are again divided into subclasses: First, those who inherit /I the propensity; second, those who evince it as the chief manifestation of some form of cerebral disease; third, those who are afflieted with it as a result of injury to the head, severe fever or other wasting bodily ail- ment, mental "ohmic, heavy grief, reverse of fortune, and, indeed, causes similar to those antedating some other insanities; and fourth, those who acquire it through a vicious course of indulgence in stimu- lants. Cases of this kind maize mediae! '7 • AUGUST 13 1897. rather trali tfelitiffebt, and 'in the opinion of the British -Medical As- sociation should, be liscriminated from those of the criminal drunkards who re. quire the application of ordinary penal and reformatory agencies. The doctors ought to know more about this shbject than anybody else, and it is discouraging that in the main they are obliged to ad- mit the inadequacy of all expedients to She correction and remedy of the evil. Whatever form the disease or vice as- sumes, it is obstinate or refractory, and there as here the only thing that society can do is to battle constantly with ali- ne manifestations, employing statutory, hortatory, leducational an all other means against it without looking for Its extirpation, and necessarily being con- tent with a moderate measure of ameli- oration, This is a Difference. Most persons think that the chief difference between men's and women's clubs is that the one is intellectually inclined and the other isn't. But there are other distinctions. At what organi- zation of men could the following inci- dent have taken place? asks the New Yotle Sun.. It was at a gathering of feminine clans the other afternoon, and somebody, With that delightful Irrespon- slblliSy conimon to such occasions, want- ed to know the time. "Yon see, I forgot and left my watch at home'," she added, regretfully, if not officially. "Why, so did I leave mine," piped up the president, not to be out - dens in informality. "So did I„" '"So did I," chimed in the- secretary 'and the treasurer, whilethe chairman of the executive committee announced gravely: "Mine was already put on, but 1 came off in smith a hurry that I forgot it, after all." All this while however, the first vice.: itresidant bad been tugging away at her belt In a business -like way, and she now protiuced a small timepiece. "Ladies," she began, in a virtuous tone, while all the rest gazed at her with the utmost respect, "let me give you the time. 'Yea can always depend upon-" But here' she was stopped, and, after staring at the timepiece for full two seconds,- she began to shake it and rap it in a man- ner thst might have alarmed any one unfamiliar with women and their ways. with watches. . The gathering before her, however, being of herown sex, took it all most seriously. Suddenly the first vice-presi- dent put the timepiece to .her ear. "Oh," she cried, while a sweet smile of satis- faction irradiated her face, "there's no- thing the matter, after all. I wound it this morning, but forgot to set it, that's all." Marrying a Man to Reform Him. "The most subtle and deceitful hope which ever existed, and one which wrecks the happiness of many a young girl's life," writes Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, in the Ladies' Home Journal, "Is the common delusion that a woman can best reform a xnan by marring Min. , It is a mystery to me how people can be so blinded to the hundreds of cases in every community where tottering homes have 'fallen and innocent lives have been wrecked, because some young girl has persisted in marrying a scoundrel in the hope of saving him. I have never known such a union'and I have seen hundreds of them, result in anything but sadness and disaster. Let no young girl think that she may be able to accomplish what a loving mother or sympathetic sisters have been unable to do. Before there is any contract of marriage there should be convincing proof that there has been real and thorough regeneration." Hard to Reclaim a Drunken Woman. ; It is not flattering to • women to be told that when one of their sex gives iway to drink she is much harder to re- claim than a man. This statement was made the other day by Miss Gorham, of She Church of England Temperance so- ciety, at the Woman's Guild Conference in Edinburgh.. She said that after 14 years' experience in the oause of temper- ance she had.found that it needed three Christians to bring a man back to so- briety. and at least six to bring a wo- man back. She declares that drunken- ness was much on the increase in Loin don. A public house in the Old - Kent road was watched one day last August and from seven in the- morning till 12 at night 2,412 women, 1,169 children and °369 • babies entered it. -St. Louis Re- ptiblic. . • J Campbell v. Leyden. •When Sir Walter Scott repeated "Hohenlinden" to Leyden the latter commented: - "Dash it, man; tell the fellow that I hate him, but, dash him, be has written the finest ,verses that have been published these fifty years." Six Walter faithfully carried ,out his errand, and had for answer• --i "Tell Leyden that I detest him, but I know the value of his critical approba- tion." • - Rightly Put. "After, having viewed the 'body and made ;ill the investigations I deemed necessa , I find that the said Joel Lyles came to hli death through alcoholic pois- oning, resulting from leis drinking a poisonous, drunk -making mixture fur- nished by one Joseph Stewart,said Stew- art operating a saloon for that purpose by authority of the United StateGov- ernrnent."-Coroner's Inquest, Gibson County, Ill., December 10, 1896. -The hearing of the appeal against the judgment entered by the Supremo Court of Canada in October, 1896, in proceedings be- tween the Attorney -General of Canada, on the one side, and the Attorneys -General of 'Ontario Qu.:ibeo, and Nova Scotia, on the other,relative to the jurisdiction over waters within the limits of the provinces, was con- cluded Friday. Judgment was reserved.i • Y ur anxiety is for your deli ate child; the child that lin spite of all your care- ful over -watching, keeps thin, and pale. Exercise seems to weaken her and food fails to nourish. That child needs Scott's Emulsion with the Hypophosphites- not as a medicine, but as a food containing all the elements of growth. It means rich blood, strong ,bones, healthy nerves, sound digestion. No child refuses Scott's Emulsion. It is pleasant and palatable. SCOTT & BOWNE, Belleville, Ont. 7.• Golden Lion ITT31.:Y"'SAIE This Week we offer Special Values e., Ladies' Hose at 7e, 9e and e -fast black. Crumb's beet Prints at 810 and 9c. 'Victoria Lawns at 8ic, worth 14e to 18c. Ohallies at 6ic to clear. Ladies' Belts at 11c, regular 25c. Ladies' U Vests for 5c and. upwards; Art Muslins at Go and upwards; Cream and Butter Laces at cod ; Parasols, 20 per cent. discount; Umbrellas, 20 per cent. discount ; Men's Straw Hats at cost to clear. J. L. SMITH, Seaforth. NEXT, TO C. W PAPST'S BOOKSTORE. DOMINION BANK. CAPITAL, (PAID UP) REST, 011•011•••1•10•11•11=11/111111•014.1111•11 MP $1,500,0004 so INF $11500g0000 • SEAFORTH • BRANCH. MAIN STREET; SEAFORT1L A general banking business transacted. Drafts on all parts of the United Stets, Great Britain and Europe bought and Bold. Letters of credit iesued, available in all para, of Europe, China and Japan, Farmers' Sale Notes collected, and advance's Made on sma at lowest rates. • SAVINGS DEPARTMENT.. Deposits of One Dollar and upwards received, and interest allowed at highest eruTer rates. Interest added to principal twice each year -at the end of June and December. No notice of withdrawal is required for the whole or any portion ole deposit. R. S. HAYS, Solicitor. W. K. PEARCE, Agent. It is poor economy to buy cheap Tea, and use twice as much, and not get half as nauch satisfaction as from a good one. 6 6 DEL CEYLON TEA is a. good one and sure to please. n Lead Packages, • 25c, 400, 50c and 60e, FROM ALL LEADING GROCERS. 1897 FURNITURE 1897 For the next 90 days, we will sell all goods at Factory prices. 0411 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 Embalmer of fifteen years' experience, Nad any orders we may be favored with shall receive - the very best attention. bon't forget the Old i tand. • P. S. Night calls attended to by calling at our Funeral Director's re- sidence, First Door East of Drs. Scott & McKay's Office; or at Dr. Campbell's Old Office on Main Street Seaforth. BROADFOOT, BOX & Main Street, Seaforth, Porter's Old Stand THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, 'ESTABLISHED 1867. HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. CAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS /161000i000 REST • • • • • • • • $1,000.000 B. E. WALKER, GENERAL KANAGER. SEAFORTH BRANOK. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, Drafts issued, payable at all points in Canada and the principal cities in the United States, Great Britain, France, Bermuda, drc. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1,00 and upwards received, and current rates of interest allowed. earInterest added to the principal at the end of May and Novem- ber in each year. Special attention given to the collection of Oommercial Paper and Fa& mers' Sales Notes. F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor. M. MORRIS, Manager, Sporting Goods. Base Ball, Football, 'Tenotis, Cricket, Croquet,. . • • • And other Ames in great variety, and prices as low as i'nywhere in Canada. Bab; _Carriages, Express - Waggons, . . And other Musical Instruments at reduced prices at _ LUMSIJEN & WILSON'S, &MT'S BL008, aiiietta - MAIN STREET SMA.P0111113a, YAP rivRA ifl:CBR eined by aletitiOu No. 1, It -Male teacher. lu HOBERT ALLA ACITEB W a Sad elites tor $ebeci Se2ti =ewe haigust Refired till Aflgnsl ALEX. FOSTER, REAL f4ObniCHA OR NAAR satesof eboice la nor a marketped and every emcee on the premises. MESH:SNOB For *ale the the railway *tad .tsins. ten rooms ; water in theta= splinter sere of lan Brueetield. TI -OUSE AND ,i1 house and I Owned mown -pie house leen seton nearlyinny and " &LK 1001135 andanni water. Will be E , prietor, Seaford:4 - OUSE AND TOVSE pro three -Sere. 01110 11111in. There ie house, -dozy an stable. There is This Property ii anauld =eke s del Apply to AD012 WARM IN AL r south FAA eontainin cleared and free tortablekg bull *within four and Six wiles Findlay. Thiele and an easy tenn On the premie teld. 'VASIL FOR S- E .Ion,lCWt sores. 85 el The land la ID .» underdrained, barn, frainestab beim on the pro *bout itaoreso anais-within& Muter and He mile, and is con ploperty *Jibe: slim given 'after apply 'to JOHN TOR SALE X Tunkerseni elegized -and free: good hardwood -state Of cultiOa fenoed, retun- ing's consist 01 warm plapen three good wel (principally wi fruit. This pro of liessell, an nonvenient-to quarter from C mail. $3,000 -of - the property if elsaser.may bav desired. For premises, or SO --of the iste John TOR und has for sue keep for arolsased and winner at -*payable at of teeming if DOBRA/ICIC, :nth P. Q. illiantILL FOR Mil keep to Ribbert, tbe Onntavert." STONEMAN, DOA R FO JD! keep for ersmith, tired has1 dleaex Dou -service, with JOHN W. 110 FO keeplor VW, the tho TbIsbullw*s 10 frOta Imp° MCKAY: with Una of tory. ROOS ihaited juni extra goody ceossalseir 40 Terms 41, wi OEN II Th giv an tis