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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1897-10-22, Page 2CODIJMO And compete for the 110 STEARNS' Arid BIOYOLES -AND- 97 GOLD g 'WATCHES ARE - GIVEN. AWAY EVERY MONTH' Your Grocer will give you particular, 'or drop a postcard to LEVER BROTHERS, Limited, 23 Scott St, Toronto. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. 'DARNS FOR SALE. --The undersigned haa twenty Choice Farms for sale in FAO Huron, the ban- ner County of the Province; all sizes, and prices to snit -For full information, write or call personally. No trouble to show them. P. S. SCOTT, Brussels P. 0. 18i-tf WARM FOR SALE. -100 acres, n the township of X Grey, near Brassels. There is on it nearly 60 acres of bush. about half black ash, the rest hard- wood. A never -failing spring of water rune through the lot. Will be sold at a big bargain. For particu- lars apply to MRS. JANE WALKER, Box 219, Bru'asels. 1470 OPLENDID FARM FOR SALE. -For sale Lot 3, 0 Concession 18, Township of Stanley, containing 83 acme. It has No. 1 soil, and no waste land, brick haute, with summer kitchen and woodshed; frame barn with stone stabling underneath, well fenced and mostly all underdrained, four acres of &chard and small fruit, also ten acres of good bush. Thera are twelve acres of fall wheat sown. Plenty el water. One hall mile north of the village of Blake. Apply- to HENRY W. OTTERI3EIN, Blake. 1555x8 TOR SALE -That valuable property situated on 12 the past side of north Hain street. Seaforth. This propertY cos/lists of four lots, and a fine dwel- ing house, containing a dining soon, parlor, 4 bed rooms, kitchen and cellar. There is_ also a fine stable, carriage house, store house and wood shed. The grounds are pleasent and well shaded; also well planted with froot trees, and small fruits, bard and soft water-. For terms apply on the prenalees. M. ROBERTSON, &Worth. 168541 MURK FOR. SALE. -For sale, lot 6, concession 12, sU township of Hibbert, containing 100 acres of good land in I, good state of cultivation. Well fenced; good brick house ; good bank barn and out buildings • 18 acres of fall wneat, and. ploughing all done ; 2 lood wells and 2 never failing springs; 86 acmes cleared; possession at any time. For further paTtioulars'apply td PETER MELVILLE, Cromarty P. 0., Ontario. 15E5 -t1 WARM FOR SALE, 100 ACRES. -Being lot 18, 1,;! concession 7, township of Grey, one mile west of Ethel; 5 frem Brume& Nidety-five acres cleared; free ot stumps and stones; well under - drained and fenced with straight fences; good brick home and good outbuildings; 5 acres in fall wheat and 50 acres seeded down. Will be sold cheap and on ems,- terms. A. McKELVEY, Brussels. 1527tf XTALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. -Lot 42, Coa- l' cession 4, Best Wawanosh.. County of Huron, containing 200 notes, (nearly allcleared, well under - drained, excellent fencing, large good bearing orchard, and buildings all that could be desired. Beautiful -location on gravel road, two mites north of Blyth, and within easy access of the thriving towns of Clinton, Wiugham and Brussels. Mug_be sold to vs ind up the Estate of the ,late George Stewart Full particulars to C. HAM/[TON, Blyth, or _T. P. STEWART, Parliament Building*, Toranto. 1657-8 VARM FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 36, concession ✓ 2. Kinioss„ containing 100 acres, 85 cleared and the balance in good hardwood bush. The land le in a good state of cultivation, is well underdrained and well fenced. There is a frame barn and log house on the property, a never -failing spring with windmill, also about 2 aces of orchard. It is an exsellent farin, and is within one mile of Whitechurch station, where there are stores, blacksmith shop and churches. There is a school on the opposite let. It is eix miles- from Wingham and six from `,,Lucknow, with good roads leading in all directions. This de - rabic property will be sold on reasonable terms. further partioulare apply to JAMES MITCHELL, P. 0. 14954504-tf sfilOR SALE OR TO RENT ON EASY TERMS. - 12 As the owner wishes to retire from businese 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 parrs to suit purchaser: about 600 acres of spiendidlarming land, with about 400 under crop, the balance in pasture. There are large barns, and all other buildings necessary for the implements, vehieles,-etee This land is well watered, has good frame and brick dwelling houses, etc. There are grid and savr mills and store which will be sold or rented on advantageous terms. Also on 17th con- cession, Grey township. 100 acres of land, 40 in pasture, the balance in timber. Possession given after harvest of farm lan4s ; mills at once. For par- ticulars apply to ANDREW GOVENLOCK, Winthrop. 14864 Our direct connections will save you tine 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 Seaforth and Clinton stations as SEAFORTIT. CLINTON. Passenger 12.47 le st. 1.03 r. follows: GOING WEST - Passenger.... Miaed . Mixed Train... °owe Kan - Passenger.. .. 7.65 A. M. Passenger.. .. 3.11 P. M. Mixed Train 6.20 P. M. 10.12 P. Id. 10.27 P. Id. 9.20 A. M. 10.16 A. M. 6.15 P. M. 7.06 P. M 11•.••••••M.M....11.•.111 7.40 A.M. 2.66 P. M. 4.36 P. M. Wellington, Grey and Bruce. GOING NORM-, Passenger. Ethel ... . . ..... 9.49 e. u. Brussels.. . _ .. 10.01 Bluevale .. .. .. 1.01 Wingham 10.25 QOM SOUTH- Passenger. Winghams ..... 6.60 A. M. Bluevale .-...........7.00 Brussels.. s. ...... .. 7./6 Ethel -t .... ..... .... 7.28 Mixed. 1.40 P M. 2.05 2.25 225 Mixed. 8.66 A. M. 917 9.46 10.02 London, Huron and Bruce. GOING NOItTII- London, depart.- . . Centralia Exeter Hansen_ .... Brucelield .... • ....... • • Clinton . Londesboro Blyth.... ..... Itelgrave...... .... Wingham arrive GOING SOUTH -a Wingham, depart...... Belgrave. Blyth.. - ........ Londesboro.. . ... Clinton- . Brucefield...... ...... . . KIPPell••• 1€4. • • • . ... • • Hensall-.... . . ...... Exater . . , ..... .... . . Denim; . • • Passenger. 8.15 a.m. 4.45 9.18 5.57 980 6.07 9.44 618 9.60 6.25 8.5E1 6.33 10.16 6.56 1033 7.14 10.41 7.23 10 56 -787 11.10 8.00 Passenger. K53 A.M. 8.80 r. 24. 7.04 8.45 7.16 400 7.24 4.10 7.47 430 800 4.50 8.17 4.59 8.24 5.04 818 5.16 8.50 5.25 %to A. M. 6.80 THE THREE A:URNS • DR. TALMAGE DISbUSSES THE DISSIPATIONS 0 THE DAY. The Sailor' Who Come Ashore and Ars Wrecked in Harbor --T e College of Deg- radation -Pani and Blis Example -The Mysterious Bar -rooms --But One Neal Dow. [Copyright 1497, by Amcr1an Press Associsa time] • Washington, Oet. 1i. -In a unique way Dr. Talmage here discusses the dis- sipations of the day an1 eulogizes the great reformers of the Past and present. His text is Acts xxviii,1 15, "They came to meet us as far as I ppii forum and the three taverns." Seventeen tulles sonth of Rome 'there was a village of unfortunate name. A • tavern is a place of eneertainment, and in our time part of the entertainment is a provision of intoxicants. One suoh place you would think sit}s1uld have been enough for that Italifen village. No. , There were three of them, with doors opened for entertainment and obfusca- tion. The woild has nev r lacked stimu- lating drinks. You rein mber the condi- ' ton of Noah on one ccoasion, and of . Abigail's husband, Na t and the 'story of Belshazzar's feast, and Benhadad, - and the new wine in oId bottles, and whole paragraphs on prohibition enact- ment thousands of y rs before Neal Dow was born, and no d ubt there were whole shelves of infiam story liquid in those .hotels which gave he name to the village where Paul's fr ends came to meet him-nainely, the rhree Taverns. In vain 1 search anolent geography for some satisfying account df that village Two roads came from t e sea coast -to that place -the one frott Actium and the other from Puteoli, the last road being the one which aul traveled. There were no doubt In that village houses of 'merchandise snd mechanics' shops and professional offfces, but noth- ing is known of them., 11 vve know of that village is that it had a profusion of inns -the three taverns. Paul did not choose an one of these taverns as the place to meet his friends He certainly : was very abstemious, but they made , the ' selection. He had enlarged about keep- ing the body under, though once he pre- scribed for a young theological student a stimulating cordial for a stomachic dis- order, but he told, himi to take only a small dose -"a little wine for thy stomach's sake." • Few Escape the Three Taverns. One of the worst things about these three taverns was that t ey had especial temptation for those who had just come ashore. People who had just landed at Actium or Puteoll were oon tempted by these three hotels, whici were only a, little way up from the beach. Those who are disordered of the sea -for it is a phy- . steal dlsorganizer-insteaI of waiting for the gradual return of ph sleet equipoise, are apt to take artificial neans to brace up. Of the 1,000,000 saIllors now on the sea, how few of them coning ashore will I ia escape the three taverns! After surviving hurricanes, cyclones, icebergs, collisions, many of them are wreckrd in harbor. I warrant that if a calcula ion were made of the comparative nun4ber of sailors lost at sea and lost ashor, , thosedrovfned by the crimson wave of dissipation would far outnumber those droWned by the salt ' water. - Alas that the large ma ority of those who go down to the sea in ships should have twice th pass the three taverns-, namely, before they go out and after they come in. That fact was what aroused Father Taylor, the great mailers' preacher, at the Sailors' Bethel, Boston, _ . , and at a public meeting at Charlestown he said: "All the mac inery of the drunkard making, soul testroylng husi- ' ness is in perfect runnijig order, from the low grog holes on tie docks kept open to ruin my poor sailor boys to the great establishments in Still House square, and when we ask men what is to he done about it, they say 'you can't help it,' and yet there is Bunker Hill, and you say you can't stop it, and up there are Lexington and Concord." We might answer Father Taylor's remark by saying "the trouble is not that we can't stop it, but that we won't stop it." We (,, must have more generati ns sladii before the world will fully 1 ake up to the evil. That which tempted the travelers of old who came up from the seaports of Actium and Puteoli, is n w the ruin of seafaring men as they cm e up from the coasts of all continent -namely, the three taverns. In the autjimn, abaut this time, in the year 1837, the steamship Home went out from New York for Charleston. There were 'abciut 100 pass- engers, some of them widely known. Some of them had been summering at the northern watering ph ces, and they wore on their way south, all expectant of hearty greeting by their friends on the wharfs of Charleston. B t a little anore than two days out the ship struck the rocks. A lifeboat was lau died, but sank with all its passengers. la. mother was seen standing on the deo] of the steamer with her child in her srms. A wave wrenched the child fro4t the mother's arms and rolled it into the sea, and the mother leaped after it. i I The Drunken Sea paPtain. 1 The sailors rushed to the bar of the boat and drank the selves drunk. Ninety-five human bein went down, never to rise or to be floated upon the beach amid the fragments of the wreck. What was the cause of -tae disaster? A drunken sea captain, but not until the judgment day, when the i sea shall give up its dead and the stor of earthly dis- asters 'shall be fully old will it he known how many ya hts, steamers brigantines, men-of-war fP.nd ocean grey- hounds have been lost through captain and crew made incompetent by alcoholic dethronement. Admiral Farragut had proper appreciation of what the fiery stimulus was to a man ii the navy. An officer of the warship sai to him, "Ad-' rniral, won't you consen to give Jack a glass of grog in the morning -not enough .to make him drunk, but! enough to make him fight cheerfully?" he admiral an- swered: "I }Ave been to sea considerably and have seen a battl or two, but I never found that I needed rum to enable me to do my duty. I will order two cups of coffee to each man at »o'clook in the morning, and at 8 o'cloc I will pipe all hands to breakfast in M bile bay." The three taverns of my text were' too near the Mediterranean shipp ng. But notice the multipli ity. What could that Italian village, so sinail that history makes but one mention f it, want with mare than one tavern? There were not enough travelers comin through that insignificant town to support more than one house of lodgraent, t at would have furnished enough plllo s and enough breakfasts. No. The world's appetite is diseased, and the subsequent drafts inns be taken to slave the thi st created by the preceding drafts. St ong kin - dies the fires of thirst fas zr than it puts them out. There were three taverns. That which cursed that Italian village curses all Christendom to -day - too many taverns. There are streets in some ;Amor cities where th are three. or THE HURON EXPOSITOR four tii-feffifi ISA eitery 'Mak-aye, Where every other house Is a twain: You oan take the Arabic numeral of my teat, the three, and put on the right hand side Of it one cipher and two ciphers and four ciphers, and that reinforcement of nu- merals will not express the statistics of Ameriegn rutruneries, Even it is were a good. healthy busineSs, supplying a ne- cessity, an article superbly 'nutritious, it is a business mightily oVerdone, and there are three taverns where there ought to be only one. The Down Grade. The foot is, there are in another sense three taverns now -the gorgeous tavern for the affluent, the medium tavern for the working classes, and the tavern of the slums -and they stand in line, and riany people beginning with the first come down through the second and come out at the third. At the first of the three taverns the wines are of celebrated vint- age, and the whiskies are said to be pure and they are quaffed from 'cut glass at marble side tables, under pie:tares ap- proaching masterpieces. The patrons pull off their kid gloves and. hand- their silk hats to- the waiter and push back their hair with a hand on one finger of which is a cameo. 'BUt those patrons are apt to stop visiting that place. It is not the money that a man pays for, drinks - for what are a few hundred or a Ow thousand dollars to a man of large in- come -but their brain gets totiohed and that unbalances their judgment, and they can see fortunes in ?anterprises sur- charged with disaster.‘, In longer or shorter time they change taverns, and they come down to tavern the second, where the pictures are not quite so scrupulous of suggestion, ,and the small table is rougher, and :the icaster standing on it is of German silver, and the air has been kept over from the night before and that which they sip from the pew- ter mug 'me a larger percentage of ben- zine, am bergris,_ creosote, henbane, strychnine, prussin acid, ooculus indious, plaster of paris, copperas and nightshade. The patron may be aeon almost every day and perhaps many times the same day at this tavern the second, but he is preparing to graduate. Main, liver, heart. nerves, are rapidly giving away. That tavern the second bas its dismal echo in.his business destroyed and family scattered and woes that choke one's Vo- cabulary. Time passes on, and he enters tavern the third, a red- light outside, a hiccoughing and besotted group inside. He will be dragged out ot doors about 2 o'clock in the morning and left on the sidewalk because the bartender wants to shut up. The poor victim has taken the regular course in .the college of degrada- tion. He has his diploma written on his swollen, bruised and blotched physiog- nomy. He is a regular graduate of the three taverns. As the police take him up and put him in the ambulance the wheels seem to rumble with two rolls of thunder, one of - which says, "Look not upon the wine when it is' red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup,. for at the last it biteth like a serpent and sting- eth like an adder." The other thunder roll says, "All drunkards shall have their place in the lake that burneth fire and with brimatone." , _E•aul's Good Example. I am glad to find in this scene of the text that there is suoh a thing as declin- ing successfully great tavernian tempta- tions. I can see from what Paul said and did after he had traveled the following 17 miles of his journey that he had re- ceived no damage at the three taverns. How much he was tempted I know not. Do not suppose he was superior to tempt- ation. That particular temptation has destroyed many of the grandest, mighti- est, noblest, statesmen, philosophers, heroes, clergymen, apostles of law -and medicine and government and _religion. Paul was not physically well under any circumstances. It was not in mock de- predation that he said he was "in bod- ily presence weak." It seems that his eyesight was so poor that he did his writing through an amanuensis, foe mentions it as something remarkable that his shortest epistle, the one to Phil- emon, was in his own penmanship, say- ing, "I, Paul, have written it with my own hand." He had been thrown from his horse, he had been stoned, he ha been endungeoned, be had had his nerves pulled on by preaching at Athens to the most scholarly audience of all the earth and at Corinth to the most brilliantly profligate assemblage, and been howled upon by the Ephesian worshipers of Diana, tried for his life before Felix, charged by Festus with being insane, had crawled up on the beach, drenched in the shipwreck, and much of the time had an iron handcuff on his wrist, and If any man needed stimulus Paul needed it, but with all his physical exhaustion he got past the three taverns undamaged and stepped into Rome all ready for the tremendous ordeal to which he was sub- jected. Oh, how many Mighty men, feel- ing that they must brace up after ex- traordinary service, have called on the spirit of wine for inspiration, and in a few years have been sacrificed on the altar Of a Moloch, who sits on a throne of hurnan carcasses! It would not be wise, Or kind, 'or Christian to call their nantes itt publis but you call them out of your own memory. Oh, how many splendid men could not get past the three taverns r Notice that t profound mystery is at- tached to these Italian hostelries. No hotel register tells . the names of those who stopped at those taverns; there is no old account book as to how many drank there; there is no broken chalice or jug to suggest what was the style of liquid which these customers consumed. So an awful mystery hangs about the barroOnis of the modern taverns. Oh, if they would only keep a book upon the coun- ter or a scroll that could be unrolled from the wall telling how many home- steads they have desolated and how many immortal souls they have blasted! You say that would spoil their business. Well, I suppose it would, but a business that cannot plainly tell --its effect ,upon its customers is a business that .ought *e.) be spoiled. Ah, you mysterious bar- rooms, speak out and tell how many sui- cides went out from you to halter or pistol or knife or deadly leap from fourth story window; how many young men, started well in life, were halted by you and turned on the wrong road, dragging after them bleeding parental hearts; how many people who promised at tha. mar- riage altar fidelity until death did them part were broth by you to early and ghastly separation; how many mad- houses have you filled with maniacs; how many graves have you dug and filled in the cemeteries; how many ragged and hungry children have you beggared through the fathers whom you destroyed. If the skeletons of all those whom you have slainwere piled up on top of each other, hovi'high would the mountain be? If the tears of all the orphanage and widowhood that you have pressed out were gathered together, how wide Would be the lake or how long the river?- Ah, they make no answer. On this subject the modern taverns are as silent as the oriental three taverns, but there are mil- lions of hearts that throb with most ve- hement condemnation, and • many of them would go as far as the mother in Oxford, Mass., whose son had been long absent from home and was returning. and at the tavern on the way he was Persuaded. to drink, and that one drink again'anci again he drank, and ha was found the next mth morning dead in the barn of e tavern. The owner of the tavern who gave hine the rum helped carry his body home, and his broken hearted mother, afterward telling about it, said: "It was wrong, but I cursed him; I did it. Heaven forgive him and me." The Plague is Mighty. But what a glad time when the world comes to its last three taverns' for the sale of intoxicants. Now there are so many of them that statistics are only a more or less accurate guess as to their number. We sit with half olosed eyes and undisturbed nerves and hear that 111'1872 in the 'United States there were 1,964 breweries, 4,849 distilleries and 171,669 retail dealers, and that possibly by this time these figures may be truth- fully doubled. The fact is that these establishments are innumerable, and the dimension is always disheartening, and the impression is abroad that the plague Is so mighty and universal it can never be cured, and the most of sermons on this subjeat close with the book of La- mentations and not with the. book of Revelation. Excuse me from adopting any such infidel theory. The Bible reit- erates it until there is no nmee -power in inspiration to make it -plainer than the earth is to be not half or three-quarters, but wholly redeemed. On that rock I take rny triumphant. stand and join in the chorus of hosannas. One of the most advantageons move- ments in the right direction is taking this whole subject into the education of the young. On the same school‘ desk with the grammar, the geography, the arithmetic, are books telling the lads and lassies of 10 and 12 and 15 years of age what are the physiological effects of strong drink, what it does with the tissue of the liver and the ventricles of the brain, and where,as other generationa did • not realize the 1 evil until their own bodies were blasted we are to have a generation taught what the viper is be- fore it stings them, what the hyena is before it _rends them, how deep is the abyss before it swallows them. Oh, boards of education, teachers in schools, professors in _colleges, legislatures and congresses, widen and augment that work and you hasten the complete over- throw of this evil. It will go down. I have the Word of Almighty God for that in the assured extirpation of all sin, but shall we have a share in the universal victory? The liquor saloons will drop from the hundreds of thousands into the score of thousands, and then from the thousands into the hundreds, and then from ithe hundreds into the tens, and fromthe tens to three. , The Two Natural Beverages. The first of. these last three taverns will be where the educated and philosoe_ phio and the high up will take their dram, but that class, aware of the power of the example, they have been setting, will turn their back upon the evil custom and be satisfied with the two natural beverages that God intended for the stimulus of the race -the Java coffee plantations furnishing the best of the one and the Chinese tea ' fields the best of the other. And some day the barroom will be crowded with people at the vendn and the auctioneer's mallet will pound at the sale of all the appurtenances. The second of these Iast three taverns will take down its flaming sign and exting- uish its red light and close its doors, for the working classes will have concluded to buy their own horses and furnish their own beautiful helms and replenish finely the wardrobe of their own wives and daughters instead of providing the distillers, the brewers and liquor sellers with wardrobes and mirrors and car- riages. And the next time that second tavern is opened it will be a drug Store, or a bakery,or a dry goods establishment, or a school. Then there will be only one more of the three dissipating i taverns Wt. I don't know in what cotinti7 or city or neighborhood it will be, but look at it, for it is the very last. ¶lhu last inebriate will have staggered uib to its counter and, put down his penni s for his dram. Its last horrible adultera ion will te mixed and quaffed to eat j out the vitals and inflame the brain. The last drunkardewill have stumbled lown its front ste s. The last spasm of delirium tremens 4used by it will be struggled through. I The old rookery will be torn down and with its demolition will close the long and awful reign of the mighti- est of earth's abominations. The last of the dissipating three taverns of all the world will be as thoroughly blotted out as were the three taverns of my text. But One Neal Dow. With these thoughts I cheer Christian _ =formers in their work, and what rejoic- ing on earth and heaven there will be over the consummation! Within a few days one of the greatest of the leaders in this cause went up to enthronement. The world never had but one Neal Dow and may never have another. He has been an illumination to the century. The stand he took has directly and indirectly saved bundreds of thousands from drunkards' graves. Seeing the wharfs of Portland, Mea farmed with casks of West Indian rum -nearly an acre of it at one time - and the city smoking with seven distil- leries, he began the warfare against drunkenness more than half a century ago. The good he has done, the homes he has kept inviolate, the high moral sense with whibie lie has infusedten genera- tions are a story that neither earth nor heaven can afford ,to let die. Derided, belittled, caricatured, maligned, for a quarter of a. century as few men have been, he has lived on until at his decease universal newspaperdom speaks his praise and the eulogiums of his career MI this side of the sea have been caught up by the cathedral organ sounding his requiem on the other. His whole life having been for ,God. and the world's betterment, when at half past 3 o'clock in the after- noon of Oct. 2 he left his home on earth surrounded by loving ministries and entered the gates of his eternal residence, I think there was a most unusual wel- come and saluation given him. Multi- tudes enter heaven only because of what Christ has done for them, the welcome not at all intensified because of any- thing they had done for him. But all - heaven knew the story of that good man's life and the beauty of his death.; bed, where he said, "1 long to be free.?' I think all the reformers of heaven came - out to hail him in, the departed legisla- tor who made laws to restrain intern- - perance, the consecrated platform orator who thrilled the generations that are gone, with "righteousness, temperance and judgment to come." Albert Barnes and John B. Gough were there to greet him, and golden tongued patriarch Ste- phen H. Tyng was there, and John W. Hawkins, the founder of the much derid- ed and gloriously useful "Washingtonian movement," was there, and John Stearns and Commodore Foote and Dr. Marsh and Governor Brigbgs and Eliphalet Nott, And my lovely friend Alfred Col- quitt,1 the Christian senator, and hun- dreds of those who labored for the ever - throw of the drunkenness that yet °urges the earth were there to meet him and escort him to his throne and shout at his coronation. Great Souls Departed. God let him live on for near a oent- 4-17. nry,. -th elidw What iocii Inidtitts .ahtl cheerfulness and faith in the final tri- umph of all that is good oan do for a man in this world and to add to the number of those who would-be on the other side to attend his enrance. But he will come -back again. • "Yes," say • some of You, with Martha, about Laz- arus kis Jest's, "I know he will rise at the resurrection of the last dayr:'' Ali, I do not mean that. Ministering spirits are all the time coming and going be- tween earth and heaven - the Bible teaches it -and da you suppose the old hero Just ascended will not -come down and help us in the battle that still goes on? He will. Into the hearts of discour- aged reformers he will come to speak good cheer. When legislators are deciding how they can best stop the rum traffic of A.meritia by legal enactment, he will help them vote for the right and rise up undis- mayed from temporary deleat. In this battle will Neal Dow be until the last victory is gained and the smoke of the last distillery hat; curled on the air and the last tear of despoiled homesteads shall be wiped awa . 0 departed non- agenarian I After y u have taken a good rest from your struggle -of 70 active years, come down again into the fight and bring with you a host of the old Christian warriors who once mingled in the fray. _ . In this battle the visible troops are not so mighty as the invisible. The . gospel campaign began with the supernatural - the mi lnight chant that woke the shep- herds the hushed sea, the eyesight given where the patient had been without the optic nerve, the sun obliterated from the noonday heavens. the , law of gravitation loosing its grip as Christ ascended, and as the gospel campaign began with the supernatural, it *111 close with the supernatural, and the winds and the waves and the lightnings and the earth- quakes will come in on the right side and against the wrong side, and out ascended champions .will return whether the world sees them or does not see' •them. I do not think that those great soul!! departed are going to do nothing hereafter but sing psalms and play harps and breathe frankincense and walk seas of glass mingled with .flre. The mission they fulfilled while in the body will be eclipsed by their post mortem mission, with faculties quickened and velocities multiplied, and it may have been to that our dying reformer referred when he said, "1 long to be free!" , There may be bigger worlds than this to -be redeemed and more gigantio abominations to be overthrown than this world ever saw, and the discipline got here may only be preliminary drill for a campaign in some other world and pert - haps some other constellation. But the crowned heroes and heroines, because of their grander, achievements in greater spheres, will not forget this old world whore they prayed and suffered and tri- . umphed. Church militant and churcli triumphant, but two divisions of the same army -right wing and left wing. One -army of the living God, - At his command we bow. Part of the host have crossed the flood And part are crossing now. - Sargent's Portrait of Duse. When Eleanor Duse first went to act in London, one of the men who admired her talents most was John Sargent, the American artist. He saw her in all the roles she acted and determine if it were possible to paint a portrait of her. Most persons would be very proud of such an honor, but it required some diplomacy to make the Italian -actress pose • for her portrait. Finally this was accomplished, and one day Mr. Sargent had the satis- faction of seeing Duse in his studio. But her attitude was not encouraging even then. She dropped into a chair with an air of fatigue. There was not the least pretense of pose in her attitude. She sat as any woman might have done who was weary and ill. "Now paint me," -was the enthusiastic phrase- in which she submitted herself to the distinguished artist's brush. Duse sat for more than an hour. Then she left without any particular under- standing as to the time when she would return. Before she left London Mr. Sar- gent received a note in which • she said that she was very sorry, but that it would be impossible for her to go to his studio again. She was tired, she said, and overworked, and would have to give up the idea of the portrait. - In a few days she returned to Italy. When she consented to pose for hint, Duse had very little idea of Mr. Sar - gent's eminence, She had never been in London before and had heard nothing about him. Her contact with the world outside of her own country had indeed been slight until the time she went to the United States. A few appearances in Germany, Austria and South America made up the sum of her travels. But after awhile she came to know more about the celebrated people of other countries, and she learned of Mr. Sar - gent's reputation. So when she got to Italy again he received it note from her. In it she wrote that if he oould come to Venice some time - when she was not acting she would be happy' to pose for him until he finished her portrait. ,She said that she would have plenty of leisure then and that be oould have as many sittings as he wanted. Mr. Sargent was not discouraged by his first attempt. He has told his friends that he will go to Venice when be has the time to finish the portrait begun two years ago in Lon- don. -New York Sun. • ARRESTED AT HIS WEDDING. -Charles Hysali, a member of a gang that has been terrorizing the inhabitants of Meigs and sur - .rounding counties, in Ohio, has been arrest- ed under sensational eircumstances. Hysall was standing beside Miss Georgia Manley, at the home of Squire Long, in Pomeroy, Ohio, awaiting the word that would have made them man and wife, when the* officers suddenly appeared on the scene. Rewards aggregating $2,000 have been offered for his capture and conviction. 4•0•111111=1•11•PIPING* '111•1•111.111111111MMININI , You can't go on losing flesh under ordinary con- ditions without the knowl- ' edge that something is wrong, either with diges- tion or nutrition. If the brain and nerves are not fed, they can't work. If the blood is not well supplied, it can't travel jpn its life journey through the body. Wasting is tearing down; Scott's Emulsion is building up. Its first action to im- prove digestion, create an ap- petite and supply needed nu- trition. 'Book free. scorr & WINNE, Bellevilie$ Ont. OCTOBER 22, 1897s 013 Beau4deal " Shape lijknevE4urvgel"iors,orK, M.ereptiburihd -makes the foot look slender. Straight sided sole -full box toe, ridged at top, in latest mode. Roomy but narrow looking. Laced, Buttoned, Congress, or Oxford. Black,sTan, Seal Browh, Carmine, Wine color, 13 leathels -13 half sizes. -5 widths. -Goodyear Welt. -$3. oo, $4. 00, $5. too. Stamped on sole. 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"Why didn't you keep to your own side of the road You Blooming Idiot' Well, perhaps it ce,ar riy fault, hut rever rrind, I have a pot ot "Quickture" in lay kit and it will cure our bruises before we get home. You Lever !.-nw any- thing like the, wy it will heal a cut r a 1,ruit-e f iny kind, and for sprains and strains it i --well, it J. ju. t "out of sight," HENRY 'EVERS, L.D.S., Queloc...c, writes: One of my children sprained hcr became much swollen a.nd discoloured. Some 'QUickture' was spread on linen, and applied.; . the pain =fed at 0:-:C3, swelling was gone the next day, ad on the fourth day sine 1:11;cd' to school as usual. I have also proved ft to b3 a wonde:ful rcs.mccly (2; , for cuts and bruises. - 40, It-S=INIOLSIMPINLI=ZikR, TOVES We have now our line of Stoves in shape, and a visit to our store will con- vince anyone that we carry a fine assortment, and our prices can't be beat, call early and examine our • S • 1 O. • . Coal Heaters, . Ranges, . Wood Cooks, . Small Stoves, Whether you buy our not. 11 S. MULLETT & CO., Seaforth. HARDWARE, STOVES and TINWARE. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, ESTABLISHED 1867. HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. OAPITAL (PAID UK SIX MILLION DOLLARS • REST - 1 •le SO IR B. E. WALKER, GENERAL MANAGER. $8,000,000 $ 000,000 SEAFORTH BRANCH. 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, dro. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received, and current rates of interest allowed. EIPP'hterest added to the principal at the end of May and Novem- ber in each year. Special attention given to the collection of Commercial Paper and FRP M11/11P Sales Notes. F. HOLIKESTED, Solicitor. M. MORRIS, Manager. *e* BRAME, Di County Co la "1111"4 end tria store, Main sire cA115 AND BM] quantity of Butch's, hest cash IP be paid for CO,, Seaforth Y BRUER, 5, Tuckereu ,ber, a heifer xi man osier. Any pei -will lead to) her restive JOHN CAMPBELL, 134 STRAY MARE. -0 undersigned, -at inert. She &sheen Ir She owner oan have snd plying theism I ANTED H-ELP.- ity. load or tri disherery and keep e trees, fences and bri SteedY en :skim I 00 per month paned in any bank W . svelte THE WORLD PANT. London, Ontar 1 300 Private $b00 ratea of i 4 700 borrower 11,000 pleted a 4111500 *Mint' 42,500 8.11A-rs,1 BEAL EST4 131170138E AND MILL; ,ti tent or exchange; brick bottle On James* D. Age Od AS in the kitchen ;ago tern; s good 'orchard • Vides' and Jelly Mill. A se the proprieter bite JOHN KLINE, on the p tpirsiDEscit m is At Per sals-thatranis the railway station in tab* ten mai,; este* water In the honer; $14 quarter genii land. firnoefleld, 11110•••••••...el•••1•11•Ill•M••••••••••1 -1'111.7 `0SE FOR SALE) „11. Lindeborough, wl ;evidence lu F.grnoadviA mar. Thie is in every -with good brick and wateroorabined seal or in teller, and every tu JOHN LANDS13011.013 IN ALGOMA South East quarte Awed ed free b= iiontainin 1001 • fortable log bail lite within four and six miles of Findley. Thiele *PP and On easy terms. Ai -on the premises, :or I Sold. -LIARIEERS' AITEN11 je edit. intermit that pared to lend money class farm security, up value ; straight loans ; anent. -to suit borrower door south of Jeekeni PLEN,DID FARM I alon. 4, town,hi sores. This is one of and Is situated in a hood 0011 of the besl on it. -There are idi aired, ;The wbOletI drained. 4.12 orchard good water, convents °ince and market. Al 1 WARM FOR SALE. X 8, Mullett, opal of which are under timber and pasture, with tile, and in it brick house and s ling; about 10 utiles •• ton, and within two n P. O. It is one of the /*Linty -and will be eel big west. Apply on t Awe P. 0. McGBE $T0011 reIGS FOR SALE. L undersigned, b shires,has for este bos *so keep f or serviom drelissed /rain Mx and winner at liontr -111. payable Ai the t efreturning If nooses ORRANCE, Lot 20, or* P. O. STOCK i3uu. ron SEI keep for serv ibbert, the thoroui Dunraven." Term . ?OXMAN, Propri moan FOR BEI keep tor servie enunith, thorcui pdrohlised from 11 MiMiesex Oounty. - service with privi JOHN W. ROUTLE DULLS FOR SE JO keep for Servi( the there:40h Thjs bult was ourele is from impeded WRAY. -tflANWORTH BO .igned will ke Factory,. w ith registered ped Mate of service wilt sow.:HUG I1 NOW J. VIAMWORTTEpj *geed bee for McKillop, -a Ham' limited number of extra good pig and cross their nerkshi JOHN Mo Termit *II with ri B0ABB FOR SE keep for servi w dbnlfaouU,of hear, and imaged ported stock. Tem In if necessary. I laG TOR SERV premises in13 bite Pig, to *hi be admitted. -This breed in the -count the meet ennui.* Terms -One dollar Serviee, with the GEORGE HILL, AU TTRBrownushoelfils, hasESERTtoo oseEiriVe;Dirp mop t;iotS l'u.:sctity:kelis oeul cc kvn .pt:b idt 13; years old ; one Exit*, coining 2y bred oow and go ahurerrake:ioizeiptirloir, h the proprietor has 011:GraitUta4°fIddnYears.alnelmt ir APTPe4 ,Asia prasorzasertap; offrife