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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth Sun, 1901-06-07, Page 7Amusements of Life Talmage Commends Elevating Sport and Rep- rehends That Which Is Debasing +4•44-1-1.4.444-14-1 4-1÷1.14.1-E-I-1-14.1^4-1÷1-1-1^4^4÷1eleieleecliaeleeeWelelee+ Washington report ; !Mit discouree of Dr. Talmage is rin• accord with all innocent hilarities, While it reprehends amusements that belittle or deprave; text, 11 Sameel ii, 14, "Let the young men novir arise and play before us." There are, two armies encamped by the pool of Gibeon. Thetime hangs heavily on their hands.' One army proposes a game of sword fencing,. Nothing could 'be more healthful and Innocent. The other army accepts the challenge. Twelve men against twelve ' nen, the sport opens. But something ;Went adversely. Perhaps 'one of the swordsmen got an unlucky clip or in Some way had his ire aroused,•and that :Which opened in sportfuinese ended In violence, each one taking his contest- ant by the hair and with the sword thrusting him in the side, so that that ,e-vbich opened in Innocent fun ended in the massacre -of all the twenty-four eportsmen. Was there ever a. better Illustration of what was true then and Is true now -that that which is Irmo- ' cent'onay be made destructive? What of a worldly nature is more important and strengthening and in- nocent than amusement, and yet what has counted more victims? I have no sympathy With a straight -jacket re- ligion. This is a very bright world to me and and I propose to do eel 5 pan to , make it bright for others. ' I never could keep step to a dead march. A book years ago issued -says that a Christian man has a right to some amusements. For instance, if 'he comes home at night weary from his work, and, feeling the need 02 recrea- tion, puts on his slippers and goes into garret and walks lively round the ' floor several timee there ran •be no harm in it. -1 believe the church of Godmade a great mistake in trying to suppress the sportfulness of youth and drive out from rnen their love of amusement. If God ever implamted -anything in us, los implanted this de- sire.. But instead of providing for this remand of lour nature the church of . God has for •the main part ignored it. .•:!As in a riot the mayor plants a bat- tery at tee end of the street and has it ,fired off, so that everything is cut down that happens to stand in the range, the good as well as the bad, so there are men in,the church who plant • *heir batteries of condemnation and lire away indiscriminately. Every- thing is condemned. But Paul the apestle condeinne those who use the world without abusing it,, and in the' natural world God bas dime everything to please and amuse us. In poetic figure we sometimes speak of natural objects as lieing in pain, but it is a ettere fancy. Poets say the clouds weep, but they never yet shed a tear, and that the winds sigh, but they • never did have any trouble. and that ,the storm howls, but it never lost its temper. -The world is a rose and the eal.eatierset a garland. „, a And I am glad to ltnow that in all teur cities there are plenty of places avhere we may find elevated morel .entertalionent . But all honest men :and good women will agree with me the statement that one of the avoret things in these cities is car. ,rup t amusement. Tvlultitudes have 'gone . down under the blasting fella- -a -nee never to rise. If we may judge , pee what is going on in many of the places 02 amusements by the pictures. On board fences and in many of the show windows, there is not a Much 'tower depth of profligacy to reach. At Naples, Italy, they keep such pic- !tures locked up frotn indiscriminate enspection. Those pictures were ex- humed from Pompeii and are not fit for public gaze. If the effrontery of eoad places of amusement in hanging 'out Improper advertisements of what they are doing night by night grows ,worse in the same proportion, In 50 years some of our modern cities will beat Pompeii. 1 remark, in the 'first place, that ;you can Judge of the moral charac- 'ter of any amusement by its healthful result or by its baneful reaction. There are people who seem made up of hard pgacts. They are a combination of mull- etiplication tables and statistics. If you 'show them an exquisite pletere they begin to discuss the pigments in M the coloring. 'If you show dtbem a 'beautiful rose they will submtt It to a botanical analysis, which is only the post-mortem examination of a flower. They have no rebound in their nature. They never do anything more than smile.' There ars no great tides of teeling surging up from the depths .of their souls in billow after billovvof reverberating laughter. They seem QS if nature ha' built thern by contract 'and made a bungling tob out of it. But, ..blessed be God, there ate people in the world who have bright faces and whose life is a song, an anthem, a paean of victory. Even their troubles are like the vine that erawle'up the side of a *Teat tower on the top of Which the sunlight sits and the soft airs of • summer held perpetual carnival. They are .the people you like to have come to your house; they. are th'e people I like to have come to my house. If you but touch the hem of their garments you ere !healed. ' r. Now, 11 18 these ,exhilarant and sorra- . gps.thealc and vOarrn-hearted people that are raost tempted to pernicious amuse- ments. In proportion as a ship is awift it wants a stroag helmsman, in pro- portion as a horse is gay It wants a atout driyee, end these people of ex- nberant nature will do well to look at tithe reaction of ail their amusements. If an amusement sends Yeti home at night , nervous, so that you gannet sleep, ,and you rise up in the morning not because you are elept out, but be- cause your duty dregs You from your elembers, you have been where you ought not to have been. There are amusements that send a man next day to his work with hie eyes blood- shot, yawning, stupid, nauseated, and they are wrong kinds of amosement. They are entertainments 'that give a man disgest with the drudgery of life, with tools .because they are not swords, vllh everking aprons because they are not robes, with cattle because they are not infuriated bulls of the arena. If any amusement sends you home long- ing for a life of romance and thrilling • adventure, love that takes poison, and shoots itself, moonlight adventures and hairbreadth escapes, you may depend upon it that you are the sacrificed vic- tim of unsanctified pleasure. Our rec- reations are intended to build us up, and if they puti us down as to our moral or as to our phyrecal strength you may come to the oonclusion that they are obnomient. • 'There is nothing more depraving than attendance upon senueements that are full of innuendo and low sugges- tion. The young man enters. At first he sits ear -back, with his hat on and his coat collar up, fearful •that some- body there may know him. Several nights pass on. He takes off his hat earlier and puts his coat collar down. The blush that first came into his cheek when anything indecent was enacted comes no more to bis oheek. Farewell, young marl! You have prObably start- ed on the long road which ends in con- summate destruction. The stars of (hope will go out one by one, until you will be left in utter darkness. Still further, those amusements are wrong which lead you, into expendi- ture beyond your means. Money spent in recreation is not thrown away. It is an folly for us to come from a .place of amusement feeling that we have wasted our money and time. You nay by it have .macie an investment worth more than the trans- action that yielded you hundreds Of thousands ot dollars. But how many properties have been riddled by eostItc amusements. X saw a .beautlful home, where the bell rang violently late at night, The son had been off ie sinful indulgences. His comrades were bringing him bome. They carried him to the door. They rang the bell at 1 o'clock in the more - lag. Father and mother came 'down, They were waiting for the wandering son, and then the eomrades as soon as the door was openecIthrew the prodigal headlong into the doorwa,y, crying: "There he is, drunk as a fool! Hal ha!" When men ge into amusements that they cannot afford, they first bor- row name they cannot earn, and then they ioteal what they eannot borrow. First they go' into embarrassment and then into lying. and then into theft, and when a man gets as far on as that he does net stop short 01 the penitentiary. There is not a prison in the land where there are not victims of unsanctilled amusementi. Merchant, is there a disarrangement in your accounts? Is there a leakage in your money drawer? Did not the cash account come out righteast night? I will tell you. There is a young man in your store wandering, off into bad amusements. The salary you give him may meet lawful expenditures, but not • the sinful indulgences in which he has • entered, and he takes by theft that which you. do not give him in lawful How brightly the path of unrestrain- ed amusement opens! The young' Man says: "Now I am off for a good throe, Never mind economy. 511 get money • somehow. What a fine react! -What a beau:Wei. day, eor 0 itieel, tdrink Ibe whip, and over the -turnpike! Come, boys, fill bige your glasses. Drink! Long elfe, health, plenty of rides just. like this!" Hard-working' men hear the clatter of the boots and look ulo and say: "Why, I wonder where those fellows get their money from. We • have to toil and drudge. They do noth- ing." To these gay men life iS a thrill of excitement. They stare at other peo- ple, and In teen are staree at. The watch chain jingles. The cup foams. The cheeks flash. The eyes Bash. The midnight hears their guffaw., They swagger. They jostle decent men off the sidewalk. They take tloe name of God in vain. They parody the hymn they learned at, their mother's knee, and to all' pictures of coming disaster they cry out, "Who cares!" and tothe counsel of some Chrietian friend, "Who are you?" Your sports are merely means to an end. They are alleviationa and helps. The arm of toll is the only arm strong enough to bring up the bucket out of the deep well of pleas- ure.. Amusement is only' the bower where business and philanthropy rest while on their way to stirring achieve- ments. Amusernents are merely the vines that grow about the anvil of toll and the blossoming of the he,mrnere. Alas for the man who spends his life in laboriously doing nothing, his days in hunting up lounging • Name and loungers, his nights in seeking out some gaslightecl foolery! The elan who al- ways has on his sporting jacket, ready te hunt for game in the mountain or ash in the brook, -with no time to pray or work or read, is not so well oft as the greyhound 'that runs by his side or the fly bait with which he whips the stream. A man who does not 'work does not know how to play. If God had intended us to do nothing but laugh he would not have given us shoulders with which to lift and hands with which to work and braine with which to think. The amusements of life are merely -the orcheetra playing while the great tragedy of life plunges through its five acts -infancy, child- hood, manhood, old age and death. Then exit the last earthly opportunity. Jenter the overwhelming realities of an eternal world!" I go further and say that all Neese amusements are wrong which lead into bad eampany. If rat go to any place where you have to associate With the intemperate, with the un- clean, with the abandoned, however well they may be dressed, in the name of God quit it They will despoil your nature. They will undermine your .moral character. They will drop you vveen you are destroyed, They will not give one cent to sapport your chil- dren when you are dead, They will weep not, one your your burial. I was surnin6inicrtd the deathbed of a friend. hastened. I entered the room. I found him, to my surprise, lying in fulf everyday dress on, the top of the couch, 5 put out my hand, He grasped it excitedly and said, "Sit down, Mr. Talmage, right there." I sat down. He said: , "Lest night I saw me mother, who has been dead twenty years, and she sat just where you sit now, It was no dream. I was wide awake. There was no delusion in the !matter. I esaw her just as plainly as I see you. Wife I wish you would take these strings off me. There are strings spun all around my body. I wish you would take them off me." I saw it wee delirium. "Oh," replied his wife, "my dear, there is nothing- there, there is nothing there." He Wertt on and said; "Just where you sit, Mr. Talmage, my mother sat. She oiled to ree 'Henry, I do wish you would a. better,' I got out of bed, put my arms around her and said: 'Mother, I want to ao bet- ter. I have been trying to do better, Won't you help me to do better? Yoe used to help me.' No mistake about it, no delusion. I saw her -the cap and the apron and the spectacles, just ag the used to look twenty years ago. But I do wish you would take these strings away. They annoy Inc so! I can hardly talk. Won't you take them away?" I knelt down,and pray- ed, conscious of the fact that , he did not realise what I was saying. I got me 5 said: , "Good-bye, I hope you will be better score" He eaid, "Geed - bye, good-bye." , That night hie 00111 Vent Up to the God who gave It. Arrangements were made for the obsequies. Some said: "Don't bring him to , the church; he is too dissolute." . • "Oh," I said, "bring him. He was a, geed friend of mine while he was alive, and 5 shall stand by him now that he is dead. Bring him to the chureh." As I sat in the pulpit and saw his body coming up through the aiele felt as if I could weep tears of blood. I told the people that day: "Title man had his virtues, and a good maroy of them, He had lois faults, and a good many of them. But if there is any man in this' audience who is with- out in, let him cast the first tone at this coffin lid." On one side the pulpit sat 'that little, child, rosy, sweet faced, 55 beautitul as any little child that at at your table tine morning, I warrant You. She looked up wistfully, not knowing the full sorrows of an orphan child. • Oh, her countenance haunts me to- day, like some sweet face looalng up - bio us tarough a horsed dream. On the other slde of the pulpit were the men who had destroyed him, There they sat, hard visaged, some of them pale from exhausting dieease, some of there flushed until it seemed as if the fires ot iniquity flamed through the cheek and crackled tbe lips. They were the rnen who had done the work. They were the mea who had bound him hand and foot. They had bloodied the fires. They had poured the wonnwood and gall into that orphan's cup. Did they weep? No. Did they sigh repentingly? No, no; not one bloated hand was lifted to wipe away a tear from a bloated cheek. They- sat and looked at the coffin like vultures gazing at the carcass of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out. I cried ih their ears as plainly as I could: ''There are a God and a judgment day." Del they tremble? Oh, no, no. They .went back from the house of Gad, and teat night, though their victim lay in teakwood cemetery, I was told that they blas- phemed, and they drank, and they gambled, and there wag not one, less customer in all the houses of Iniquity. This destroyed man was a Samson in physical strength, but Delilah sheared him, and the Philistines of evil com- panionship clug his eyes eut and threw him into the prison ee evil habits. But In the hoer of els death he rose up .and Molr hole of -the ,two. 0+118001 • curses of God. against drunkenness end uncleanness and threw himseli forecard until down upon blm and his Com- panions there came the thtmders of an eternal catastrophe. Again, any amusement that givee you a distaste fey domestic life is bad.' How many bright domestic circles have been broken up by sinful amuse- ment! The father went off, the moth- er went off, the child went oft. There are to -day fragments before me ot bleated households, Oh, if you have wandered away, 5 would like to charm you back by the sound of that one word, 'home." Do you not knew that you have but little more time to give to demeetie welfare? Do yeti not see, father, thee your children are soon to go out into ehe world, and all the in- fluence for good you are to have over them you must have new? Death wilt break In on your conjuga.1 relations, and alas if you have to stand over the grave of one who penished from your neglect. Ah, my friends, there Is an hour coming when our past life will prob- ably pass before us in review. It will be. our last hour. If erom our death pillow ere have to look back and see a life spent in setae amusement, there will be a dart that will stelke through our soul sharper than the dagger with which Virglnius slew his child. The memory of the past will make us quake ,like Macbeth. The Iniquities of rioting through which we have passed will eorne upon us, weird'and skeleton' as aleg-Merrilies. Death, the old Shy- lock, will demand and take the re, maining drop of flesh and the remain- ing drop of blood, and upon our last oppertenty for repentance and our last ehance for heaven the curtain win drop forever. • A HORRIBLE CRIME. _ Tramp Brutally Assaults a. Six -Year- , Old Child. Soren ton, • Pa.. June C. -Thomas Brennan was lodged in the county Jail yesterday ohafr,ged with assault- ing a, six-year-old girl at alloosic last night. 'Ithe cell -del name is Gertrude cliRriolertli.ng rued .n shet• Ls 1,. a. critical con - Brennan had a nerrow eecape from lynching, Ile is a, tojam of about 85 years of ago, and eppears to be a tramp. He says to is from Mauch Cheek. He arrived in itfloosic yester- day, and loitered about the town. In the evening the little girl was sent by her mother to a etere for bread. The child had to pass a lonely road. W11110 On her way sloe was seized by the brute and carried to an adjoining barn where she wag brutally, treated. A' man earned Schoonover arrived ail the barn with .his horses and made the horrible dis- covery. The cl 'le was unconscious steel her moire s uf ed with dirt to prevent an oetct pon the man ecl. tuchgnatio run bighere ahe it- / Schoonover Po. 1 and ihelcl him u tit esistance aerie - Ole town and( it wag ithetheigr t est difficulty the con. We' kat bl prisoner teboafrcl a train and lo hire in hill hero. f black ones-Marryitt. , a WhIto Iles are bat the useery to SUNDAY SCHOOL INTBRNATioNAii alfISSO,N NO. X. JUNE 9, 1901. Jesus Appears to neut.-Acts 22: 6-16 Comonentary.-The elders of the church at Jerusa,lem desired to have Paul eho w eo the ems that lie ob- erved the law. Four men had come to Jarusaleno to,eomplete a NaZalitie VOW. Paul i'eluotmtly. agreed to pay their neceseare expeuses, and tier a week to live with them in the temple, and then to stand with them while their head& were shaved, and while they took ,their hair to burn it "under the sacrifice of the peace -offerings." Certain ifews who had been Peeler opponents at Ephesus were in the clty and ,were watching hen. They at once stirred up a howling mob against Pane charging hino with baying pol- luted the temple. He was dragged by tae crowd down the steps through the'.gate Beautiful into thef court of Ole Geortilee. Ile would ha,ve been killed but for- thio arrival of the Ro- man guards trotu the Tower of An - St AO I made my journ.ey-Paul, whose Hebrew name WAS Saul, Wee oU d110 Way to Dainescus, with letters from the high prieet granting him au- thorety to areept the Chrletlans and bring them bound to Jerusalem. Dam- asous--The oldest city in the world, situated one hupdred aed forty miles northeast of' Jeremiah. In Paul's time it contained aboirt forty Jewiell synagogues, and between 40,000 anti' 50,000 Jews At present it is under Turkish rule, and has a population of about 150,000, elliefly Mohammedans Abetet noon -When the bent was shin- ing so tbere couki be no deception. A. great lightIt was "above the brightheas of the Sum" 7. Fell tentci the ground -The whole coeupa,ny fell to the earth. Acte xxvi. 14. • Heard a Y0100 -to the Hebrew tongue. .The voice Witte) clear and 515 - tint to Sane but to tboae with lam It was catty a myeterlotts eaand. See ate v. 9. Why peaesecuteet thou me - Mutat thou give any good reason for 10 ? Meet 1 afrese be crucified by 8. Who ;Art Thou -Jesus knew Saul before Saul Icnew awes. Lord-tleed to denote reepece for some ueknown, august pereoma-Binnete. I am Testis - He takes the name which was the ob- teat ot hate.--Ilarlbut. Thy enmity le ngainet nos and my religion. -Clarke. Be Whom yoa pereecnth 10 the Lord of life end .giory ; not dimply poor fugitive cliersiples.-Bib: Mus. et: wale et this -lint that Jesus add to hen, to rd for thee to kick agalnot the goad." Acts terve 14, 10,7. 9. They heard not the voice -We are told by Luke (Acte ix. 7) that these with him heard the voice. "Whet /8 meant le that, they did not hear the Worde • as werds-could attach no Meaning to the sounds." -10. What Shall I clo-Wbere is now Ole fury- of the oppreesor ? Convinced that lie load in reality persecuted Christ. the Lord; and thee his rellg- Ions views and character were wrong; and knowing not what the future held in stort . for lilm, Ile submits him- s.elf tothp will of Him who had arrested lam le hie 'blind career ; as though he 'week] entreat Rim to be hie guicleettrel that he week/ be 'abediefitated all 'hie directions+. Which are aorpoInted--iSaul was a chosen vessel unto the Lord (Acts ix..15), arta throngli him the gospel was to be Carried to the Gen- tiles and to kings, 05 Well as to the ehilcIrep QZ Iseael, et . 11. Could net gee -He was blind for three clays (Acts ix. 9); 'during that time Winn so frilly absorbed about his apt -ritual condetion that Ile fieither nte nor drank, but spent the thne In fasting and praying. 12. One Anareae-We know nothing about this man except what we' find • In tide 'verse and in chapter ix. 10-17. 1.3. Came ante me--_Amanlas had re- ceived explicit directions in nvision Iran the Lord. Saul had also seen In it 'vision a man named Ananias coining; in and restoring his sight. 0rother Saul-Xnowing to waat ea: oral office the Lord had choaen Saul (verse 15), Ananias felt a respee,t far lam, Bureau Interest in his seleation. Receive thy sight -"And immediately there fell from hie eyes as it had been. ecales." "Tide shows that the blindness its well as the awe was supernatural." At thie time Sant also received spiritual sight. Looked up upon hint -The verb signifies not merely to look up, but to recover sight; the clause Might be trans- lated. I received sight and looked up on him.-Whitalaw. • 14. Hath chosenthee-"Hath ap- pointed thee." -11. V. Gold chose and appointecl Saul because Saul had ebosen the Lord. Saul nelght hate rejected Christ inetead of acoept- Lag, Him. Tinow His will -Was Saul favored above others ? 15. lets witnees-The preaching of the gospel must be backed up by the expertance of the preacher en order to be really effective. Godee people are a, witnessing people. They are, ready to testify In behalf of the One who hag saved them Unto all no.en-To th.e Gentiles, to governors and kings. ' ,16, -Baptized -He was baptized by Ananias.- Wash away thy Siris -In Lukeia account before Saul was bap- tized Ananias said that the Lord had sent him. that Saul might receive his sight and "be filled with tire Holy Gltoet." Calling on ...the Lord -rt is the. Lord, and the Lord ortly who can -save the Soul, and every stoner, should call mightily on. Him for com- plete deleveraeocei team all sae We Phould trust to no outward ordle- ande for salvation,. , Teachengs-The Lord le able to save the worst. What. Jeeus speaks be Is der duty to Obey. When, Christ, reveals itieneelf to .tee seeking soul, earthly joys are lost to 'view. If we, Would help people and lead them away from their slas -to God, we must go to them weth tenderness !nod love. . PRACTeCAlt SURVEY. deans represented in His followers. The inquiry from Heaven addressed to the fallen and astonished zealot wag not, Why persoeueest thou ley church, or IVfy followers, but "Why Persecutest thou Me, 9" Thocoloseions- ly, but none the Icies truly? Saul, in persecuting the followers of jestis, wee perseeeting tee aerie!: Himself, for whom the metion had been looking for 'generations, and oteehose coming their prophets had' foretold - arid their bards had sung; but who, wheal He appeared, "came mita His men .and His own received iilm not." "But to t1.9' MainZ 0.2 roceivea Ulm, to' them gave He the' power to become the sons of God.". ^ The pereeoutor enlightened. Pro- ceeding hastily on els mad mission, "armed teeth anthority," deternaued to make "havoc." of the infant (March at Damaecue as. he heel done at Jere- foalene and with Me coveted prey, al- most wildan Lite grasp, "suddenly, there shone from Heaven a great light about him" "above the bright- ness of the sun.", Jesus declared Him- self to be "the Light of the World.e Jelin Said of Nina 'Timt is the 7.-aue Light that lighteth every man tbat cometh Into the world." It was this • "aerate of Nazareth," who, meeting Saul, shone upon 'him, and in that blinding fleet disclosed to the man les own mistaken zeal, and the dig- nity and glory of Him against whom Ole 120,5 ignorantly. striving. . . A seneere inquirer. "Who are Thou, Lord V- was the atatonksbed inquiry of the Overwhelmed and hoOnlble Pharisee. 'Tim response, ani Jesus of Namaretbe annouuced the authori- tative source of the eudden and unex- pected eireeet. This settled, "What welt thou has ine to do?" camo as tate loyal and sincere inquiry of the trembleng and astoaished persecutor. Immediately there came directioue euffideetly explicit for the present A timid disciple encourag,ed. The unenvitoble fame of Saul of Tereus had preceded hem. The havoewroaght at Jerusalem had become known through all that region and bad doubtless reached Damascus. The ohurch trembled at the approacla of tale manothe puipose ot whose com- ing they knew only too well. A ehresen vessel. Seca was the cla vine purpoee, though the subject seemed so unlikely. God's inetru- notate have usually been those whose natural qualleleceione or dispoei- teens avould have caused. the "wis- dom of men to pees them by." Here was tee one oleeeen of God to fill the ranks of the apostles depleted by the treachety and suicide of Ju- das 'scarlet ; and having received title revelittn of Jesus Chrise he wile "not a whet behind the chiefest of the apo.selese- Deep in the lower etreta of Iranian conditions are jew- els of resplendent lustre, only wait- ing to be touched by a. loving heart, • wakened by Wadi -less, and restored, by the grace of God to deck forever the coronet cif the Savlour.-William el. Clark. SPIllITDALIMI1IS.BANE, Wife Victim of a Medium's Cunning Trickery. SHE BATTERED HUBBY'S TILE New York, June 3.-Mitua Hate, the wife of William Clifford, the vaude- ealo eOneedian, apparently forgot yesterday aftereoan that she had agreed to a &alteration from Clifford and proceeded to hammer les coun- tenance and smash hie elik hat as though_ still happily mated to Lira. Site ineleted ou exercising all the pre- rogetives, of a wife, alehoega the itas agreed to forego them. Mr, Clifford coneequently feelquite hurt at Miss Huth's, eendupt and will welcome the divorce decree that deprives her of tizeocIght to tam, per esith his feta t Soma time ago Mies Huth inform- ed Mr. Clifford that althouge, they had been pleasantly married for 55Y. eral years and load as a soavener of that association a seven-year-old son, ole wee neverteees Goat -Weed that their union was a inietake. See had dereded that it Wain best to dissolve the bond,s that united them. The Tdedium in tt. Mr.- Clifford etranae ea say, had many objeetions. He did not ap- prove of Mass Ruth's spiritualistic views and did not look favorably upon anyone intermeddling. cier- tate medlum'a act in transmitting to. Mese Huth mesenges from her first Inusbatel advising her to leave Clif- ford and maery the comedian waS looked upon by Mr. Clifford with something of suspicion. He even halted that the- meesages were bogus, walla so incensed Miss Huth that she would hardly speak to bar They a.greed to finish the vaudeville season together, however, and re- mainea in the same company until last • Saturday night, when they closed in Montrieel. /dies Moth then signed an a.greement permitting Mr. Cfiffera to ere hits boy once a week, and they parted 00 a very friendly fashion. Mr. Clifford, It le true, felt eornewhat piqued when he went into Mies Huth's apartmentat the Au- dubon recently and found the elect - 111111 there In partial undrese and per- fectly at home, but he bet Ide rules ferecely and eseetrolled himself with masterly attempt. Then Sbe in Turn Objected. 'Yesterday Miss Huth was passing the Opener of Thirty-fifthl street when. she saw Mr. Cliftord talking to a very beautiful young woman, not iof the profession. Nebo balls from Baltimore. Miss Euth halted tee cab and sailed Clifford to her. Theo slhe epolke Savagely to her. anti told him that sloe had elteng,ed her meld and would pot permit him to see the son at all at any time and that she dis- approved of hts condnot ia talking to women more beautiful tha,n her- self in open daylight on crowded Broadway. , It was not the way for- a lfusband tweet, sloe told himi as stile beat him wildly in the face and clawed at him with leer nicely manieured nails. Mr. Cliffoed remarked that her con- versation was decidedly irrelevarlt, whereupon fine struck Men With nee parasol, breaking lois silk hat and Injuring hie topionoPo. , feave the Driver Orders. 30,v this tione 21 lane crowd load gathered and was applauding the bent, Mr. Clifford, who naturally shrinks frompublicity, except when noonthe etage, insisted that • Miss Huth tobould cease eler punching bag exercise and eailed to the driver to "Drive Cite wOhnown to the East Riverand dropher In," he said. "Ay, ay, Sir,", Raid the cabman, ariving ea/oldie' away. . It is not known, however, that he carried out his inetruetione. Hen, at el. Gibsee attended the an.nual meeting of the West Elgin Liberal Associatien and spoke. , Leading Wheat Markets.: FolloWlag fere the clueing quota- tionoht important,tylcieatcentre:wto- am daY: i..s Ohica.go ••• $0 78 3-4 MiNerwaIukC)reke 0--75 00 779a 511 80'. LOUIO Dgtrott, red 000 77 00 7625 1:8. 0 777540, 83-1 DDueletluitt, 'Teloca.lt neo..i..th". 076074 - 5-8 07-4 7-8 leuinluntmlepNoloio,N .1 hard,o1 0 77 5-8 - m northern ... ---- 072 3-8 Toronto iritrnteSS' Market. Ditty 30. -The street, market here t o -day woes very quiet, with small receipts. Tee Wet Weather aud poor roads were reeponeible for a portion of the dulneos, a,nd the blaming oper- ations teroughout the country doubt - •leas kept etternere away from the maaket. Only four loads of grain were received. One load bf tallith wheat sold 1-20 lower at 72 1-2e 'teethe', One load of red 1-.2c higher at 72 1-2e, and 100 imehels of goose unchanged at 68 1-20. Two loads of bay sold about Steady at $18. per ton, Other Produce Wafir 20111 en..c1 nominally un- • changed. Wheat, white, 72 1-20 ; red, 72 1-2c; goose, 68 1-2c; spring, 710; pb aear ey6, 6:6; i15 ll ay,$ ; ,s t 5r Isiwl $ e s; ;b bu eakt -- wheat, 55 1-20; Mote, 36 1-2 to 1370; tar. 14 to 17c ;I eggs, 11 to 14c. Toronto 1:lve.StoeeMo; k e: e. ptoptt1a,0hoi0a,parcwt.ot$5 30 d7.caiim... I 70 to 6 00 Export cows I- 00 to 4 50 Betalien cattle. picked.. 1 75 to 5 15 Butahere' cattle choice 4 55 to A 75 Butchers' cattle fair. do cows 9 00 to 1 25 3 50 to 4 00 do ulls, export, heavy, per owt3 75 to 25 Builaexporalight, ear cwt390500 lo 33 6750 f3 Feedere.ebortkeep 505 CO 75 Stockers, 100 to 600 lbs off -colors and heifers stihdillish78:0o0wwkes0., cap: re .cw t, 3003°00i Ltet: 1°01 4:3 5705 1100 45 0000 Lambs,grain-fed, per cwt 2 50 to 3 00 do barnyard, per cwt 4 00 to 1 50 Etoadog.go0:Siciphgrohlitlig,ep,.praw eeaorhorb 72 0020 tow 05 0005 Calves, per head. 1 00 to 8 00 070 to 0 00 0 75 to 0 00 • 4 00 to 4 50 STIoors: ;tar to, we te r 0150 Stags 2 00 to 0 00 Toronto Dairy Markets. Butter -Receipts are raoderate, and prices nnehanged. Pound rolls sell at 18 to 14o; new, 01 tubs, at 121-2 172. ;Ipie,fleorelo.t., 10 to 12ce boxes, 17 1-2 to 18c, and tettrometaniliclese. rlYYle:Sr Eggs -Market is steady at 10 1-2 to 110 pee dozen, in large lots, and occasionally 11 1-2c for case lots. leo. 2 chips, 81-2 to 90. 1 Cheese -Market quiet. Full creams; September, 91-2 to 9 3-4c ; nen, Be. ....-... Cheese Markets. Napanee, May 29e -At the Cheese Board here to -day there were -1,577 white and 40 colored boxes' boarded. Nearly all sold at 8 1.2e. Platen, May 29. -At our Cheese Board to -Say eta:en-teen faetortes boarded 90 colored fund 1,138 white; total, 1,228. Highest bid, 6 11.16c; .90 colored and, Seta white, °sold. Woodstoek, Ont., May 211, -To -clay's Meese market was stronger than us- ; 14 factoriee boarded 1,724 boxes -920 wiulte and 804 colored. Two sales were made -59 hintes white at 8 0-1.6e and 83 boxes colored at Reeeell, Ont., May 29. -On the Cheese Beard, held here to -night, 4,25 white were boarded; 86 sold at 8 1-2englif EslLive Stook Markets Liverpool, May 29. -Here and at' London cattle are strong at from 10 3-1 to 521-40 per Th., dressed weight; "tops" are quoted at 12- -2a; refrigerator beef is quoted at 91-2 to 100 per lb. Manitoba Wheat Markets. The market for Manitoba wheat, says the Winnipeg Commercial of Saturclae, keeps dull rend quiet, al- though at the beginning of the week theme Winn a spurt ifn prices, especial- ly on No. 3 hard, bat part of it has Sibtleie been last. 'nate demand is light andithe supply Ls also light, and hold- ers are not pressing their wheat on the market. Oats -Dement Is steady an.d confined to current requirements. ONVialg to high prices being offered for northern Alberta, pate at the, coast prices have advanced at ship. piing polets and receipts have fallen off as prevent quotations are con- midered to. be too high. Both Alberto and Manitoba oats ere lc per bushel higher than a week ago. We quote Ontario oats', No. 2 white, 460 per bushel.; Alberta oats 42 'to 440; Maratobe grades, 40 to 42c in car lots on track here. Bracistreete' on Trade. A fairly good eorting trade has been done at Montreal this week in eeasOu- able linee, although the weather -through the country has not been each as to encourage purchases at all twines. Tee lateness of the season, llowever, makes it inoperative for re- tailers to sort stocks. , 1.1: Quebec businese le generally re- ported favorable. Fall ordero continue to come In. Large quantities of graini continue to arrive over the Great Northern. The latterie resources are being heavily taxed. Trade at Toron-- to hao been a little more active this weelc in spite of the wet weather. 'Owing to the lateneste of the season retailers beve been ['meal to send in eortine, orders, because they expect increased activity in summer goods as! soon as the weather gets loot. Travellers out vvitli fall samples are reporting a fair amount of business for title time of the seiteon. Trade at Hamilton this week lets shown some expenelion. 'Travellers are sending in come nice orders for the current sea- son, and fell business is already being beaked Ili coesiderable volume. Re- tailers have been, fairly busy and aave been replenieleng stocks to meet the immedette tvante of customers. Labor le well employee and well paid, tall the faetorlea and mills are run- ning full time with orders in suffi- eiehe volunoe to keep them buoy- for some months, Country remittance are fair for tble season. Beeiness at Winnipeg has assemed a more cheerful aspect, owing to the encouraging reports of the growing tenure :ma the large estimates of the caw nerensly nmdc. There has been a fair amonnti of trade passing at London thil3 week. The' bright out- look for the crop W reassuring and traders ere jubilnet over the pros - peter toe, truzinese., J IFIE SEIlFeilill SUN IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING AT THE 010152011, MAIN STREET, SEAFORTH, ONT. W. ff. WESTOOTT, roe r tor. • rlIMIZMS •. If pad striotly in advance, /MOO per Annum: otherwise eta). Ne lame allecoraimea un arrears are paid, except at the omen of the publisher. 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Office -lately oce cupled by DalVlackid, Maia street, Seafortb. Residence -the house lately oceepiea by L. E. Annecy, opposite Victoria Pare. BR. F .1. BURROWS Late resideet Physicisn ited^ Surgeon, Toronto General Beepitai. Honor graduate Trinity University, member acne aolloge of Ptye- 0ans and Surgeons Of Ontario. Coroner for the county of Huron. Office aud residence -35 Gua- m -lob. street west. Roper Graduate of Oetaos leery Col. , lege. All diseases of doinestii anionale liteeteda: " Calls promptly attenctod to and (hexane rum - orate. Veterinary Dentistry a spvcialty. Of- fice-OverW. N. Watson's office, Seaforth. FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEAR THE COOK'S BEST FRIEND LARGEST SALE IN CANADA. LOSS BY BEICIITION Of Machinists' Officers Foot • Up to $83,429. NOW BONDS WILL BE ASKED. Toronto, June 3. -The couvention of the Dite,omational Machinists' Union , was opened this Morning- with 1,50 delegates flout the United States, Mexico rend Canada in attendance. The union Is growing fast, per capita clues from 80,000 members having beee paid in connection with the con- ventlien. The delegates e,era wel- comed by the Mayor and members of the Council, and afterwards the con- vention went into executive session. Many Important matters will coma up In addition to the questions arts - low from Ole strike. During the last two years through defalcation of offizere $88,429 ilas been embezzled, end It 10 proposed to, require that all local ana general ()fritters Inindling Panda shall provide boucle for the proper performance ot their duties. The convention will else "vo00 on the nueetion of abblishing pteca Work, and Merensing the dues ot unions to 75' cents a, month. 13Ig &french (event. Peale, ,Tune 3. -The Prix tin jockey Club (France' Derby), of $27,540, for 8-year-olcie, dista,noe 1 1-2 miles, wile 00111 ou Sunday :at Chantilly, anel won by Saxon, Seam Bart IT. being eve - on aloe elbere third. Thirteen horses ran. The 'victory of the favorite wag very popular. 2510 Leminence is Sold. Chicago, Ia., ;lune 3. -me Eminence, winner of the Kentucky Derby, anti a prominent Amerione Derby candi- date, west sold yesterday by Freak B. Van Meter for a reputed price of $18,- 000. Mr. Vat Meter eefused to give Ole mune of the buyer, but gold he wale a New Stove ma n. Tern -fleas lat of American. 'Chicago, June 3.-Tanninus vv'ai not be etarted in the American Derby'. 1110 trainer, Ed. Moore, Moe decided that he canoct win much in the west, reul nas sent his string 00 10 the oest, where Terminns has a nrenber Of stake arrangements. TernilIMS was well pla yea in the winter beaks. .