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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-09-24, Page 6• The Only One To Stand the Test. Bev. William Copp, whose father was a physician for over fifty years, In New Jersey, and who himself spent many years preparing for the practice of medicine, but subse- quently entered the ministry of the M. E. Church, 'writes: am glad to testify that I have had analyzed all the sarsaparilla prepara- tions known in the trade, but AYER'S •is the only one of them that I could 'recommend as a blood-purifier.Ihave given away hundreds of bottles of it, as I consider it the safest as well as the best to be had."—Wm. Corr, Pastor M. E. Church, Jackson, Minn. YE TES camy WORLD'S PAIR Sarsaparilla ANNIE KILBURN. BY WILLIAM DEANHOWELLS. CHAPTER XXIV.—Continued„ "You don't mean that charity is played out ?" asked the doctor. "In the old-fashioned way, yes." "But they say poverty is on the increase. What is to be done ?" "Justice," said Annie. " Those who do Most of the work in the world aught to share in its comforts as a right,' and not be put off with what we idlers have a mind to give them from our superfluity as a grace." "Yes, that's all very true. But what till justice is done ?" "Oh, we must continue to do charity," cried Annie with selfoontempt that amused him. "But don't yon see how mtioh more complicated ft -is? That's what 1 tneant by life not being simple any more. It was easy enough to do charity when it used to seem the right and proper remedy for suffer- ing; but now when I can't make it appear a finality, bat only something provisional, tenapotary-- Don't you see ?" "'Yes, I see. But I don't see how you're gobig to help it. At the -same time, I'll allow that it makes life more difficult." For a moment they were both serious and silent. Then she said: "Sometimes I think the fault is all in myself, and that if I were not so sophisticated and--and—selfish, I should find the old way of doing good just as effective and natural as ever. Then, 'again, I think the conditions are all wrong, and that we ought to be fairer to people and then we needn't be so good to them. I should prefer that. I hate being good to When in dOtibt, askfOrAyer'S PIUS people I don't like and I can't like ifeople who don't interesetne. I think I must be very hard-hearted." The doctor laughed at this. "Ob, I know," said Annie, "I know the fraudulent reputation I've got for good works." "Your charity to tramps is the oppro- brium of Hatboro'," the doctor consented. Oh, I don't mind that. It's easy when people ask you, for food or money, but the horrible thing is when they ask you for work. Think of me who never did an to earn a cent in nay life,being humbly asked by a fellow -creature to let him work for something to eat and drink! It's hid- eous 1 It's abominable! At first I used to be flattered by it, and try to conjure up something for them to do, and -to believe that I was helping the deserving poor. Now I give all of them money, and tell them that they needn't even pretend to work for it. I don't work for my money, and I don't see why they should." JAMES L KILLORAN, They'd find that an unanswerable argu- ment if you put it to them," said the doctor. He riniched out his hand for the paper-eutter, and them withdrew it in a way that made her laugh. "But the worst of it is," she resumed, "that I don't love any of the people that I help, or hurt, whichever it is. I did feel remorseful toward Mrs. Savor for a while, but I didn't love her, and I knew that I only pitied myself through her. Don't you see ?" "No, I don't," said the doctor. "You don't, -because you're too polite. The only kind of creature that I can have any sympathy with is some little wretch like Idella, who is perfectly selfish and naughty every, way, but seems to want me to like her, and a reprobate like Lyra, or some broken creature like poor Ralph. 1 think -there's something in the air, the atmo- sphere, that won't allow you to live in the old way if you've got a grain of conscienee or humanity. I don't mean that I have. Bat it seems to me as if the world couldn't go on as it has been doing. Even here in America, where I used to think we had the millennium because slavery was abolithed, people have more liberty, but they seem just as far off as ever from justice. That is what paralyzes me and mocks me and laughs in my face when I remember how I used to dream of doing_good after I came home. I had better staid at Rome." I VETERINARY. TORN GRIEVE, V. S., honor geadnate of Ontario eif Veterinary College. All tilses of Domestic anfosals treated. Calls promptly attended to and alarm moderate. Vete emu Dentistry a specialty *Moe and residence on Goderioh street, one door Mit Ot Dr. Soars office, Seaforth. 111211 G. H. GIBES, Veterinary Surgeon and Dentbt, Toronto College of veterinary deadde, Honor Graduate of Ontario Vet- erinary College, Honor member of Ontario Veterin- ary Medical Ifooletee Ail diseases of domestic animals Wittily treated. Ail calls promptly attended to day or night. Dentiatry and Surgery speohdty. Moe and DIspenary—Dr. Campbell's old' office, Main street Seaton's. Night celhianswered hem the 'Moe. 1408-62 LEGAL Banister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Money to loan. Office over Pickard's Store, formerly Mechanics Institute, Main Street, Seaforth. 1528 G. CAMERON, formerly of Cameron Holt A In Cameron, Barrister and Solieitor, Gioderich, Onta7rio. Office--Hamiltoo street, opposite Colborne Motel- 1452 TAXES SCOTT, Barrister, &o. Solicitor for Mon el son's Bank, Clinton. Office — Elliott lock, Clinton, Ont. Money to loan on mortgage. 1451 HAYS, Blarrister, Solieitor, Coeveyanoor and .Ly Notary Publio. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. 011ice—Carduo'e block, Street, Seaforth. limey 80 loan. 1235 • T M. BEST, Barrister, Solicitor, Notary, km. Offin—Boome, five doors north ofOommercia find, ground floor, next door to 0. L. Papas eveky store, Main street, Seaforth. Goderieh ents—Carneron, Holt and Cameron. 1218 'NARROW a PROUDFOOT, Barristers, Solicitors, Ur do., Goderioh, Ontario. I. T. Cleauce, Q. O.; Wt. PIODDFOOT. OM rollIZEON, HOLT & HOLMES, Barrister* So- ld Bolton in Obancerl. ko.,Goderich, Oni IL 0. t AMOK, Q. O., PIMP BOLT, DIMS! Hwang sott ROLIIESTED, succeseor to the late firm of „ McCaughey & Holmested, Barrister, Solicitor Conveyancer, and Notion- Solicitor for the Can adian Bank of Commerce. Money to lend. Farm for sale. Office in Scott's Block, Main Street Seaforth. DENTISTRY. F TWL „ son & MoInnis' shoe store, corner Main and *DDLE, Dentist. Offiee—Over Richard. nohn streete, Soaforth. D R. BELDEN, dentist; crowning, bridge work ster and gold plate work. Special attention given to the preservation of the natural teeth. All work earefully performed. Office --over Johnson Bros.' unaware store, Seaforth. 1451 'FIR. H. S. ANDERSON, graduate of Royal College JO' of Dental Snrgeons,- Ontario, I). D. S., of To- ronto Univereity. Office, Market Block, Mitchell, Ontario. 1402 11D AGNEW, Dentist, Clinton, will jne, visit Hensel' at Hodgene' Hotel every Monday, and at Zurich the seemed Thureday in each month 1288 ye A. R. KINSMAN, L. D. S., D. D. S., j -Heiner graduate of Toronto University, Den - tint, will practice dentistry at his fe,ther's rooms in Exeter, and at hie room at Mrs. Shafer's restaurant, Hensel', every Wednesday. H. Kinsinan, L. D. S., at Zurich the last Thurdsday of each month. 154E-13 MEDICAL. Dr. John McGinnis, Hon. Graduate London Western University, member of Ontario College of Physioiana and Surgeons. Office and Residence—Formerly occupied by Mr. Wm. Pickard, Victoria Street, next to the Catholic Church BirNight calls attended promptly. 1463x12 TAR. ARMSTRONG, Ai. B., Toronto, M. D. 0. M., 11 Victoria, M. C. P-8., Ontario, successor to Dr. _Elliott, office lately °coupled by Dr. Elio% Bruce- eicliOntario. ISCS E. COOPER, M. D., IL L. F. P. and S. Jae, Glasgow, &o., Pnyeician, Surgeon and Ace coueher, Constance, Ont. 112e LEX. BETHUNE, II. D., Follow of the Royal tea_ College -of Physicians and Burgeons, Kingeton. %amasser to Dr. Maonid. Office lately occupied oy Dr. Maokid, Ma". Street Seaforth. Residence —Corner of Victoria Square, in house letely °emoted by L. E. Dancey. 1127 DR. F. J. BURROWS, I Late reeldent Physicdan and Sureeon, Toronto GenLi eral Hearken Honor graduate L.Trinity University member of the College of Physicians and Surgeon& of Ontario. Coroner for the County of ;lucerne gaTOFFICE.—Same as formerly oocupied ey Dr. Smith, opposite Public School, Seaforth. Telephone Ho. 48. R. B --Night calla anmvered from office. 1388 DRS. SCOTT & MacKAY, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, oderich street, opposite Methodist church,Seatorth 4 ._ G. SCOTT, graduate Victoria and Ann Arbor, ard member Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons. Coroner for County of Huron. 0. MecKAY, honor graduate Trinity University, geld medalist Trinity Medical College. Member College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario. 1483 AUCTIONEERS. 1•3ICHAR,D COMMON, 'teemed auctioneer for ,the Xne County of Huron, sales and bine attended to promptly, chargee in keeping with times, Seaforth, Ontario. 152342 s WM. PAVLOV, Auctioneer for the Counties of Huron and Perth, and Agent M Ele.nsall for the Massey -Harris Menu- laeturing Company. Sales promptly attended to, eherges moderate and satisfaction guaranteed. Orders, by mall -addressed to Hensall Poet Office,' Or lett at his residence, Let 2, Concession 11, Tuck. ersenith, will receive prompt attention. 120841 TORN H. MoDOUGALL, Licensed Auctioneer for eJ the County. of Huron. Sales attended in all ' parts of the County- Terms reasonable. From Mr. I McDougall's long experience aira dealer in farm ; stock of all kinds, he is epecially qualified to judge of values, and can guarantee eatisfaetion. All orders left at Tue Exeosnean office), or at his residence, Lob en Huron Reed, Tuckeremith, near Alma, will be crorzeptly attended toe, • 1468 The doctor said, vaguely, "I'm glad you didn't," and he let his eyes dwell on her with a return of the professional interest which she was too lost in her self-repebach to be ablate resent. . " I blame myself for trying to excuse my own failure on a. plea, that things generally have gone wrong. At tienes it seems to me that I'm responsible for haviing lost my faith in what I used to think was the right thing to do; and then again it seems as if the world were all so bad that no real good could. be done in the old way, and that my faithis gone because there's nothing for it to rest on any longer. I feel that something must be done; but I don't know what." "It would be hard to say," said the • doctor. She perceived that her exaltation amused him, but she was too much in earnest to care. "Then we are guilty—all guilty—till we find out and begin to. do it. It the world has come to such pass that you can't do anything but harm in it—" " Oh, is it so bad as that ?" he protested. "It's quite as bad,"" she insisted. "Just see what mischief I've done since I came back to Hatboro'. I took hold of that mis- erable Social TJnion because I was outside of all the life about me, and it seemed my only chance of getting into it; and I've done more harm by it in one summer than I could undo in a lifetime. Just think of poor Mr. Brandreth's love affair with Miss Chapley broken off, and Lyra's lamentable triumeh over Miss Northwiek, and Mrs. Munger's duplicity, and Ralph's escapade— all because I wanted to do good ?" A note of exaggeration had begun to pre- vail in her self -upbraiding, which was real enoug,h., and the time came for him to Bug gest, I think your a little morbid, Miss Kilburn." " Morbid ? Of course I am! But that doesn't alter the fact that everything is wrong, does it ?" " Everything?" " Why, you don't pretend yourself, do you, that everything is right?" - " A true American aught to do so, oughtn't he ?" teased the (lector. "One mustnt be a bad citizen." "But if you were a bad citizen ?"'she per- sisted. "Ob, then I relight agree- with you on some points. But I shouldn't say such things to my patiente., Miss Kilburn!" "It would be a great comfort to them if you did," she sighed. The doctor broke out in a laugh of delight at her prefervid coneentration. " Oh, no, no ! They're mostly nervous women, and it ewould be the death of them —if they understood me. In fact, what's the use of brooding upon such ideas? We can't hurry auy change, but we can make Ourselves uncomfortable.", " Why should I be comfortable ?" she asked with a solemnity that made him laugn again. " Why shouldn't you be ?" " Yes, that's what 1 often ask myself. But I can't be," she said, sadly. _ They had risen, and he looked at, her with his professional interest now openly domin- ant as he stood holding her hand. " I'm going to Send you a little more of that tonic, Mies Kilburn". She pulled her hand away. "No, I shall not take any more -metliaine. You think everything is physical. Why don't you ask .at once to see my tongue ?" He went out latighing, and she stood look- ing wistfully at the door he had passed through. The bell on the othodox church called the members of Mr. Peck's society together for Ue business meeting with the same plang- ent, lacerant note that summoned them to 1 XXV. THE .r. -4-", coming: To the fort "The enemy is for your lives!" 1 d'he ceives a plain warning .,.... of danger, he does not wait to let it overtake When a Wise man re- ‘cti, i ishim; he seeks every reasonable means to fight it off. Disease would almost nev-- er get the best of the average man if he was prepared to P resist it, and took the natu- ral precautions dictated by common sense. When a man's stomach and liver get up- set and fail to do their regular work, he can be certain that something worse is bound to follow, -if he doesn't look out for himself. Headaches, indigestion, biliousness and eonstipation are simply Nature's warnings that the enemy of serious disease is coming to attack him. The sensible thing to do is to immedi- ately fortify the system with Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. It vitalizes and Invigorates the entire constitution. It helps the liver to inter out all bilious impurities, It gives the digestive and nutritive organs power to extract nourishment from the food and turn it into rich, red, healthy blood. It creates appetite, good digestion, and solid, 'muscular strength. It is far superior to the mere temporary stimulus of malt -extracts. It is better than pod liver oil emulsions because it is assimi- lated by the weakest stomach. "About fifteen years ago" writes Mr. John Mc- tlichael. editor of the Plattsburg, (Mo.) Leader, "1 was in very poor health, had no appetite, was sluggish, and so lifeless it seemed impossible for me to do anything that required effort. Every fall and spring this ill -health seemed to affect me par- lticularly. A friend advised me to use Dr, Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery asserting- that it would restore me to perfect health, and make ' a new man' of me. Finally he induced me to try the medicine. I weighed at the time about 125 lbs. I used several bottles. and upon quitting it weighed 17.5 lbs. Since that time my weight has varied from this to vos pounds- -A sure. and permanent etre for constipa- ton is Dr. Pierce's Pellets. One " Pellet " Is a gentle laxative, two a Mild cathartic. 9OMMININIIMMEW -91111111111111MMIIIII worship an Sundays. Among these who crowed th; house were Many who had not _been there before, and seldom in any place of the kind. There were edmirers of Put- ney; worlimen of ithellioue repute and of advanced opinions on social and religious questions ; nonsnited plaintiffs and defend- ants of shady record, for whom he had at one time or another done what he could. A good number of the summer folk from South Hatboro' were presext, with the ex- pectation of something dramatici which every one felt, and every one hid with the discipline that subdues the outside of life in a New England town to a decorous pas- sivity. At the appointed time Mr. Peak rose to open the meeting with prayer; then as if nothing unusual were likely to come, before it, he declared it ready to proceed to business. Some people who had been gathering in the vestibule during his prayer came in; and the eleotrio globes, which had been recently hung above the pulpit and on the front of the gallery in substitution of the old gas chandelier, shed their moony glare upon a house in which few places were vacant. • Mr. Gerrish, sitting erect and solemn beside his wife in their pew, shared with the minister and Putney the tacit in- terest of the audience. _ He permitted the transaction of several minor affairs, and Mr. Peck, as -Moderator, conducted the business -with his habitual exactness and effect of far.off impersonality - The people waited with exemplary patieoce, and Putney,who lounged in one turner of his pew, gave no more sign of excitement, with his chin sunk in his rumpled Shirt front, than his sad -faced wife at the oiLher end of the seat. Mr. Gerrish rose, with the air of rising in his own good time, and said, withdry pomp, "Mr. Moderator, I -have prepared a reso- lution, which I will ask you to read to this meeting." He held up a paper as he spoke, and then passed it to the minister, who opened and read it : " Whereas, It is indispensable to the prosperity and well-being of any and every organization, and especially of a Christian church, that the teachings of ite minister be in accord with the convietiOns of a ma- jority of its members upon vital questions of eternal interest, with the end and aim of securing the greatest efficiency of that body in the community, as an example and a shining light, before men to guide their steps in the straight and narrow path therefore "Resolved, That a committee of this so- ciety be appointed to inquire if such is the case in the instance of the Rev. Julius W. Peck, and be instructed to report upon the same." A satisfied expectation expressed itself in the eilence that followed the reading of the paper, whatever pain and shame were mixed with the satisfaction. If the contempt of kindly esage shown in offering such a reso- lution Without warning or private notice to the minister shocked many by its brutality, still it was satisfactory to find that Mr. Gerrish had intended to seize the first chance of 'airing his grievance, as everybody had said he would do. Mr. Peck looked up from the paper and across the intervening pews at Mr. Gerrish. "Do I understand that you move the adop- tion of this resolution ?"' " Why, certainly, sir," said Mr. Gerrish, with an accent of supercilious surprise. • " You did not say so." said the minister, gentlY. "Does any one second Brother Gerrish's motion?" A murmur of amusement. followed Mr. Peck's reminder to Mr. Gerrish, and an iron- ical voice called out. "Mr, Moderator !" "Mr. Putney." "1 think it important that the sense of the meeting should be taken on the question the resolution raises. I therefore second the resolution for its adoption." Putney sat down, and the murmur now broadened into something like a general laugh, hushed as `with a suddenisense of the impropriety. Mr. Gerrish had gradually sunk into his seat, but now he rose again; and when the minister formally lannounced the motion, be- fore the meeting, he called,' sharply, " Mr. Moderator !" " Brother Gerrish," res onded the minis- ter, in recognitiom "I wish to offer a few remarks ie support of the resolution which I have had the honor • —the duty, I would say—of laying before this meeting." He jerked his head' forward at the lest word, and slid the fingers of his right hand into the breast of his coat like an orator, and stood very straight. " have no desire, sir, to make this the occas- ion of a personal question between myself and my pastor. But, sir, the q uestion has been forced upon me against my will and my—my consent • and 1 was obliged on the last ensuing Sabbath, when I sat in this place, to enter my public protest against it. "Sir, I came into this community a poor boy, without a penny in my pocket, and unaided and alone and by my awn exertions I have built up one of, the business interests of the place. I will not stoop to boast of the part 1 have taken in the prosperity of of the place; but I will say no public object has been wanting—that my support has not been wanting—from the first proposition to, concrete the sidewalks of this village to the introduction of city water -works and an im- proved system of drainage, and—er—elec- trio lighting. • So much for my standing in a public capacity ! As for my businese capacity„ I would gladly lit that epeak for itself, if that capacity has not ea. HURON EXPOSITOR bee turned in the sanctuary itself, against the personal reputation which every man hol s dearer than lifeitself, and which has had a deadly blow aimed at it through that —that very eapaoity. Sir, I have estab- lished in this town a business which I may humbly sat that in no other place of the eane numerical size throughout the common- weilth will you find another establishment so early corresponding to the wants and --er—faoilities of a great (AV. In no other estebliehment in a place of the same import- ance will you find the interests and the de. maids and the necessities of the whole corn-, !nudity so carefully °considered. ' In no otr--" alley got upon his feet 'and called out, "Mr. Moderator,tvilhBrother Gerrish allow me to ask him a single question 7" • r Peck put the request, :and Mr, Ger- riali involuntary made a rinse, in whioh Putney pursued : My question is simply this: doesn't Brother Gerrish think it would -help us to get at the business in, hand sooner if he would print the rest of his advertisement in the Hatboro' Register 7" "A laugh broke out all over the house as Pitney dropped back into his seat. Mr. Gerrish stood apparently undaunted., "1 will attend to .you presently, sir," he said, with a school -masterly authority whieh made an empreesion in his favor with sot -4e. And I thank the gentleman," he continued turning again to address the min- ister, " for recalling me front a side issue. As ihe acknowledges in the suggestion which he utended to wound my feelings, but I cars' assure him that my self-respect is be- yond the reach of slurs and innuendoes; I care little for them; I care not what quar- ter: they originate from, or have their— their origin; and still less when they spring froin a sours° notoriously incompetent and unworthy to -command the respect of this community, which has abused all its privi- le es and trampled the forbearance of its fe ow-oitizens under foot, until it has be- covie a—a byword in this place, sir." utney sprang up again with, "Mr. Mederator— III NO, sir ! no, sir I" pursned Gerrish ; "I will riot submit to your interruptions. 1 • hayo the floor, and I intend to keep it. 1 ;5 int nd to cha lenge a full and fearless swat - in of my mo lves in this matter, and I in- teid to pro those motives in others. W y do we find, sir, on the one side of this i qus tion as itmost active exponent a man outside of the church in organizing a force within this soeiety to antagonize the moat cherished conyictions of that church? We &dot asperse his motives; but we ask if th ' motivesi coincide with the relations • ise wh oh a Christian minister should sustain to his flock as ;expressed in the resolution wh oh I have had the privilege to offer, more in eorrow thanin anger." Putney made some starts to rise' but quelled himself, and finally sank hackwith an air or ironical patience. Gerrish's per- sonalities had tinned public sentiment in his favor. Colonel Marvin came over to Put- , 1 ney's pew and "hook hands with him before sitting down by his side. He began to talk with him in a whisper while Gerrish went on: "But on the other hand, air, what do we see? • I will not allude to i myself in this co neotion, but I am well aware, air, that I re resent a large and growing majority of this church in the stand I have taken. We are tired, sir—and I say it to you openly, sir, what has • been bruited about in secret long enough—of lhaving what I may call a one-sided gospelPreached in this church and from this pulpit, We enter our protest against • the neglect of very essential ele- ments of Christienity—not to say the es- sential—the representation of Christ aa --a —e spirit as well as a life. Understand me, sir, we do net object, neither I nor any of those who agree with me, to the preach- ing of Christ as a life. That is all very well in its place, and it is the wish of ev- ery true Christiao to conform and adapt his ewii life as far as—as eircumstances will permit of. But when I come to this sanc- tuary, and they come, Sabbath after Sab- bath, and hear nothing said of my Redeemer as a—means of salvation, and nothing of Hina crucified; and when I find the precious , promises of the gospel ignored and neglect- ed continually and—and all the time, and each discourse from yonder pulpit filled up with geeeralities—glittering gen- eralities, as has been well • said -by another—in relation to and connection with mere conduct, I an disappointed, sir, and dissatisfied, and I feel to protest against that line of -of preaching. During the last six months, Sabbath after Sabbath, have listened in vain for the ministrations of thelplain gospel and the tenets under which we have been blessed as a church and as—a —people. Instead of this I have heard, as I hex() said—and I repeat it without far of contradiction—nothing but one -idea ap- peals and mere moralieings upon duty to °there, which a child and the veriest tyro eould not fail therein; and I have culmin- ated—or rather it has been culminated—or ratl4er it has been culminated to -me—in a cov rt attack upon my private affairs and my ivay of conducting my private business, in aJ manner which 1 could not overlook. For that reason, and for the reasons which I hay recapitulated—and I Ohallenge the elos at scrutiny—I felt it, my duty to enter my ublic protest and to leave this sanc- tuaey, where I have worshipped ever since it wias erected, with my family. And I now urge the adoption of the foregoing resolu- tioni because I believe that your usefulness r has come to an end to the vast majority of the constituent members of this church; and—and that is all." • r. Gerrish stopped so abruptly that Putney, who was engaged in talk with Col- oneMarvin, looked up with a startled air, li too ate to secure the floor. Mr.Peck recog- n,ized Mr. Gates, who stood with his wrists caught in either hand across his middle,and looked round with a quizzical glance before he began to speak. Putney lifted his hand in playful threatening toward Colonel Mar- vin,' whc got away from hini with -a face of nois less laughter, and went and joined Mr. . Wil ington where he sat with his wife, who ente ed into the talk between the men. r. Moderaror," said Gates, "1 donit kno as I expected to take part in this de- bate ; but you can't always tell what's gd- ing o happen to you, even if you're only a me ber of the church by marriage, as you migl t may. I presume, though, that I have a right to speak in a meeting like this, be- caus,e I am a metnber of the society in my own right, and I've got its interests at heart as uch as any one. I don't know but wha I got the interests of Hat- boro at heart too, but I can't be certain ; som times you can't; sometimes you think you.' ,e got the common good in view, and you ome to look a little closer, and you find it's the uncommon good; that is to say, it's not so much the public weal you're afte as what it is the private weal. But that s neither here oor there. I haven't got , anything to say against identifying you elf with things iu general; I don't kno but what it's agood way ; all is, it's apt o make you think you're personally at- tack d when nobody is meant in particular. I th nk that's what's partly the matter with Brother Gerrish here. I heard that scrm in, and I doe! t suppose there was any. thio in it to hurt anyone especially; and I was onsid'ably surprised to see that Mr.Ger- rish seemed to take it to himself, some- how, and worry over it ; but I didn't really kno jast what the trouble was till he ex- plained here to -night. All I was thinking was When it come to that about large com- merce devouring the small—sort of lean and fat kine—I wished Jordan & Marsh could hear that,or Stewart's 1E1 New Yorkor Wan- ama er in Philadelphia. I never thought of B other Gerrish once; and I don't pre- sumel one out of a hundred did either. I—" The llectrio light immediately over Gates's head began to hiss and sputter and to ouffer the sort of syncope whieh overtakes electric lights et such times, and to leave the house in darkness. Gates waited, standing, till it revived, and then added: "1 twee I hain't got any more to say, Mr. Moderator. If .1 had it from me now. I'm more used to speaking by kerosene, and I always lose_ my breath when an electric light begins that way." Putney was an his legs in good time now, and secured recognition before Mr. Wil- mington, who made an effort to catch the Moderator'e eye. Gates had put the meet- ing in .good-humored expectation of what they might now have from Putney. They liked Gates's pointi very we, but they hoped from Putney something Imore oruel and'unsparing, and the greater part of those present =let have shared his impatience with Mr. Wilmington's -request that 'he would give way to him for a moment. Yet they all probably 'felt the same euriosity about what was going forward, for it was plain that Mr. Wilmington and Colonel Marvin were conniving at the same point. Marvin had now gone to Mr. Gerrish and had slipped into the pew beside him with the same sort of hand -shake he had given Putney. • "Will my friend Mr. Putney give way to me for a moment 7" asked Mr. Wilmington. "1 don't see why I should do that,' said Putney. I "1 assure him that I will not abuse his courtesy, and that I will yield the floor to him at any moment." Putne;,-- hesitated a moment, and then, with the contented laugh of one who se- curely bides his time, said, "Go ahead." " It is simply this." said Mr. Wilmington, with a certain formal neatness of speech: "The point has been touched by the last speaker, which I think suggested itself to all who heard the remarks of Brother Ger- rish in support of his resolution, and the point is simply this—whether he has not mieepplied the words of the discourse by which he felt himself aggrieved,and whether he has' not given them a particular bearing foreign to the intention of their author. If, as I believe, this is the case, the whole mat- ter can be easily settled by a private confer- ence between the parties, and we can be saved the public appearance_ of disagree- ment in our society. And I would now ask Brother Gerrish, in behalf of many who take this view with me, whether he will not enonsent to consider the matter, and whether in order to arrive at the end proposed, he will not, for the present et least, withdraw the resolution he has offered ?" . Mr. Wilmington sat down amidst a gen- eral sensation, which was heightened by Putney's failure to anticipate any action on Gerrish's part. • Gerrich rapidly finished something he was saying to Colonel Marvin, and then half rose, and. said, "Mr. Moder- ator, I withdraw my resolution—for the time being, and—for the present, sir," and sat down again. "Mr. Moderator," Putney called,. sharp- ly, from' his place, "this is altogether un- parliamentary. That resolution is properly before the meeting. Its adoption has been !moved and seconded, and it cannot be with- drawn without leave granted by a vote of the meeting. I wish to discuss the resolu- tion in all its bearings, and I think there are a great many present who share with me a desire to know how far it represents the sense of this society. I don't mean as to the supposed personal reflections which it was intended to punish ; that is a very small matter, and as compared with the other questions involved, of no consequence what- ever." Putney tossed his head with inso- lent pleasure in his contempt for Gerrish. His nostrils swelled, and he closed his little jaws with a firmness that made his heavy black mustache hang down below the cor- ners of his chin. He went on with a wicked twinkle in his eye, and a look all round to see that people were waiting to take his next point. '1 judge my old friend Brother Gerrish by myself. My old friend Gerrish cares no more really about personal allusions than I do. What he really had at heart in offering his resolution was not any supposed attack upon himself or his shop from the pulpit of this church. 1le cares no more for that than I should care for a reference to • my notorious habits. These are things that we feel may be safely left to the judgment, the charitable judgment, of the community, which will be equally merciful to the man who devours widows houses and to the man who 'puts an enemy in his mouth to steal aw,a,ymhr.is mbroadienrsa!to"r,,, said Colonel Marvin, getting upon his feet. "No,sir!" shouted Putney, fiercely • "1 can't alow you to speak. Wait till I' get done I" He stopped, and then said, gently; "Excuse me, Colonel; I really must go on. I'm speaking in behalf of Brother Gerrish, ifnd he doesn't like to have the speaking on his side interrupted." "Oh, all right," said Colonel Marvin, amiably ; "go on." " What my old friend William Gerrish really designed in offering that resolution was to bring into question the kind of Ohristianity which has been preached in this place by our pastor—the one-sided gospel, as he aptly called it—and- what he and I want to get at is the opinion of the society on that question, Has the gospel treached to us here been one-sided or hasn't t ? Brother, Gerrish says it has, and Brother Gerrish, as I understand, doesn't change his mind on that point, if he does on any, in asking to withdraw his resolution. . He doesn't expect Mr. Peck to convince him in a private conference that he has been preaching an all-round gospel. I don't con- -tend that he has; but I suppose I'm nct a very competent judge. I don't propose to give you the opinion of one very fallible and erring man and I don't set myself up in judgment Of others ; but I think it's im- portant for all parties concerned to know what the majority of this -society think on a question involving its future. That im- portance must excuse—if anything can ex- cuse—the apparent want of taste, of hu- manity, of decency, in proposing the in- quiry at a meeting over which the person chiefly concerned would naturally preside, unless he were warned to absent himielf. Nobody cares for the contemptible point, the wholly insignificant question, whether allusion to Mr. Gerrish's variety store was intended or not. What we are all anxious 111191=91=022251:912799=11131:11211:11119. Fler Womb i Diseases emase s afid disorders of the organs peculiarly itching. feminine, often cause intense •itching, which in many cases ,amounts to agony. In bed at night it grows worse and scratching intensifies the trouble. :ct of DR. CHASES • Ointment is magical in soothing the parts, giving instant relief, and ensuring rest and comfort. 1110 Cr9.1791 A BOX. Sold by all dealers, or rnannon, Bates & Co., TOronto. Ont. SEPTEMBER 249 1897. to know is whether he represents any con- siderable portion of this society in his gen- oral attack upon its pastor. I want a vote on that, and I move the previous question." No one stoppe4 to enquire whether this was parliamentary or not. Putney sat down, and Colonel Marvin rose to say that if a vote was to be taken, it was only right and just that Mr. Peck should somehow be heard in his own behalf, and half a dozen voices from all parts of tlfe church support- ed him. Mr. Peck, after a moment, said, "1 think I have nothing to say " ; and he added, "Shall I put the question ?" " Question I" Question !" came from different quarters. " It is moved and seconded that the resin lution before the meeting be adopted," said the minister, formally. "Alt those in favor will say ay." He waited for a dis- .tinot space, but there was no response; Mr. Gerrish himself did not vote. The minister • proceeded, "Those opposed will say no." The word burst forth everywhere, and it was followed by laughter and inarticulate expressions of triumph and mocking. Order 1 order 1" called the minister, gravely, and he announced, "The noes have it. The electric light begin to suffer another syncope. When it recovered, with the usual fizzing and sputtering, Mr. Peek waa on his feet, asking to be relieved from his duties as moderator, so that he might make a statement to the meeting' . Colonel Mar- vin was voted into the chair, but refused formally to take possession ofit. He stood up and said, There ii no place where we would rather hear you than in that pulpit, Mr. Peck." "I thank you," said the minister, making himself heard through the approving mur- mur • "but I stand in this place only to ask to he allowed to leave it. The friendly feel- ing which was been expressed towards me in the vote upon the resolution you have just rejecited is anthat reconciles me to its defeat. Its adoption might have spared me a duty which I find painful. But perhaps it best that I should discharge it. As to the sermon which called forth that resolu- tion is is only just W say that I intended no personalities in it,and I humbly entreat any one who fetthimself aggrieved to believe me." (To be continued.) As You Go Through Life. • Don't look for the flaws as you go through life ,; And even if you should find them, 18is wise and kind ,to be somewhat blind, And leak for the virtue behind thew; • For the cloudiest might has a glint of lieht Soinewhere in its shadows biding; • It is better by far to hunt for a star • Than for spots on the sun abiding. The current of life rune ever away To the bosom of God's great ocean, Don't set your force 'gained the river's course And think to alter Its motion, • Don't waste a curse on the univerre— Remember it lived before you. - Don't butt et the dorm with your puny form— But bend and let it go over you. The world will never adjust Veen To suit your whims to the Utter. Some things must go wrong your whole -life long, And the sooner you know it the better; 78 18 folly to fight with the infinite, And go under at last in the wrestle; The wise man shapes into God's good plan As the water shapes into a vessel. —Meet WO/1MM WILCOX. Since Baby Came. Since baby came The birdall sing a brighter, merrier lay, The weary, darksome shades have fied away, And night has blossomed into perfect day Since baby came. Since baby came The world is joyful aad the home life sweet, A- d every day with brightneee is replete, And time speeds by on swift and lightsome feet Since baby enure. Since baby came Dark, grim-faerd sorrow is rephieed by mirth, At lest I realize lifeet precious worth, And far-eff heaven seems very near to earth Since baby came.- -Feonetion CAVIAR= BAIRD in September Ladies' Home Journal. AFFLICTED F1103/I INFANCY. A Lad who had been Dropsical from His • Childhood Cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills—the Remedy that Never Failed MOINTYRE, Ontario, September 201ih. — The young son of Hugh Lamont, of this place, has been afflicted with dropsy since infancy. Be was bloated and swollen all over. His parents were at their wits' end to find some Mire for him when they read of Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mr. Lamont got six boxes of the pills and the boy began taking them. Before, the sixth box Was finished be was cured. It doesn't matter whether- the patient is young or old,the pills will effect a cure of any kidney disease, or of anydisease arising from disordered kidneys. Bank of England Notes. The Bank of iEngland notes now in use are the most elaborately manufactured "bits of paper." The paper is remarkable in many ways; no other paper has that pe- culiar toughness and crispness, and the eye may dwell with admiration on the paper remarkable whiteness. Its thinness and transparency guard against the two once popular methoda of forgery -erasure with 4 knife, and washing out the printing with turpentine. The water mark or wire mark is an additional precaution against counter- feiting, and is produced in the paper while in its pulpy state. In the old manufactured bank notes this water mark was caused by the enormous number of over two thousand wires stitched and sewn together ; now it- is engraved in a steel -faced dh3, afterward hardened, and is then ueed as a punch to stamp the pattern out of plates of sheet brass. The difficulty of eoueterfeiting is still further increased by the shading of the letters in the water mark. The paper is inade entirely from pieces of new linen and cotton, and its toughness is so great that a singie bank note will, when unsized, sup- port a weight of thirty -'six pounds, while when sized you may lift fifty-six pounds with it. • Cycling a Benefit to Women. Women, perhaps more than men, are benefitted by wheeling.' Before the bicycle was perfected, horseback riding was the only outdoor exercise of the kind suited to feminine needs, and good, gentle, sound riding horses were hard to find, expensive t� buy, and still more expensive to take care of, so that few women kept one. Geed bi- cyles, although costly, seem to be within the means of almost every person; at all events hundreds and thousands of women and girls who never could have owned a horse go gaily over our streets and roads on bicycles that are quite equal in price to any but the finest Kentucky steeds. The good effect of this change from sedentary indoor life to free and exhilarating exercise in the open air is already quite noticeable even to the casual observer. Prejudice has already given way before the fascinating progress of what at first seemed but the fad of an bour, and we have already become accustomed to seeing sunbrowned faces, once sallow and languid, whisk past us at every turn of the street. The magnetism of vivid health has overcome conservative barriers that ware impregnable to every other force. And this is, let us .hope, but the beginning of a revelation, humane and tiouficily rational, which -will bring an,era of vigorous physical life to women. —A report has boen received at the De- partment of Agriculture at Ottawa, on the condition in which a shipment of early ap- ples in the cold storage chamber an the steamship Kastalia arrived at Glasgow. The cablegram received states that the cold storage was a complete success, and that the apples returned the shipper a handsome profit. , • CENTRAL Hardware Store SEAFORTH. 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