The Exeter Times, 1890-10-16, Page 2TRANGE COURTSHIP,
CHAPTER XXVII.
AN OrtvE4 BY PROXY.
It as out of the season at Brackenerc,
which was (team (tingly deeei•ted, same by the
aborigines. To all of these, Martha Barr
was es well knoern as the town gock Mad
consideree equally correct), and the report
that she had put herself on ludestations in
the natter of domestic s.ervice, convulsed
society. The news, on the other hand, that
Miss Jenniugs hatt made a fractional addle
tion to her establishment, fell comps ra-
tively flat nothing WAS mare -com-
mon than the sub.stitution of a page-
boy for a parlour -maid, or even of a foot-
man for a page -boy; but any diminution of
a domestic staff was rare, and reeentedupon
publie grounds. Brackniere was a "grow-
ing favorite" as a place of resort, and it was
important that it should hold its'head. up.
On the espianatle, then, where the good
folk of the town were wont to congregate,
evenin the early spring ; out on the pier -head,
to which the hardiest'denizens of the plaee,
linkett two by two, would struggle against
the wind; in the Palazzo% Belvederes, and
St Aueelos, this topic was exhaustively dis-
cussed; nor was it long in reaching the ears
of the great Siamese of Tiddliwinks.
"I tlaresey Mr. Simeee will not like i
my dear." had been Martha's reflection,
when the news of Rachel's semi -departure
had been brokeu to Mabel, and received with
a philosophy Ivieek was only affected, inaS-
meet' as she had some ditlleulty in xi:Tres/Mee
an extravagant.joy.
"It is most hand stud sensible of 'von, lam
sure, to say you wiU not Ignitenrsued
Martha ; "and doiug a little work for our-
eelves is better far, of course, than getting
into debt. But then, yent see, it certeinly
aloes look like crying poverty ; awl Mr Sint-
coeiseo particular about the prosperity stf
the place, and especially of that of his own
tenants : Mrs. Ilemetere says she shouldn't
be bit aurprised if he ga.ve me notice to
"I am perfectly certain. Alerthe, that Mr
Simeoe will di:nothing of the kind," seed
'Mabel iuslignautly ,• "but indeed, as loag as
the rent is peel, shan't see what it matters
to hint whether we have half a servant or
laalf.eeslozen."
" Thet is because yon don'tunderstand
the saaturel distaste for poverty, my dear,
which belongs more or lees to all men, but
espeeially to lenallords. They may mean
rery well to you; but if youare "gozn,e down
as they call it, they will reemanneud
you to fakea hoese more atlepted to your
reslucesi eireamstancee, Nidlieta a. servant is
taken ill It ith smile infeetioue disorder, even
4 kind nustrese, you know, paths her off to
the hospital, "where she will be Se much
better looked after;" and will even let her
run a little risk in being removed thither,
rather than keep her in the house. Now,
poverty is like the scarlet fever itself in
that respect."
" And you have caught it of me," sighed
Mabel
oNe uo, no," said Martha vehemently.
"Texan me, my darling, for giving way to
bitterness, which, believe me, was not upon
my own account at all. Heaven knows that
so far as 1 ern concerucd, I would as soon he
nay own servant—so long as / am my own
nuetress—as possess Suncoe'sehariot and
prancing steeds. But I do wish for elite°
money now, I own, not on account of those
little bilis I told you about, for we ehall
soon save enough to settle elem, but be.
cause"—She looked at Mabel, so tender,
so fair, so alelicate ; and thinking of all the
&lifts and etruggles that she taught be put
to, her soft heart melted within her, and
she fairly burst into tears. "It was wrong
of me, my darling—it was selfish and wrong
of me," cried she, wringing her hands, "to
bring you laere and mate you thus with
sordial toil. I advised you ill in urgiug you
to refuse the offera of others. I did it for
the best, as I flattered myself; but I was
too venturesome ; and now, alas it is you
who have to pay for my own folly !"
"Nay, Alartha ; it is your too generous
thought for me that bee been in error. I do
not speak of your hospitality ; let it suffice
to say that I would not exchange this roof
for that of a palace ' • but you should. have
told me from the firs texactly la ow you stoocl.
Then, instead. of being a burden to you, I
might have been a support, as I will be now,
God willing."
" You are not going to work your oyes
out over that fine lace, I do hope ? ' exclaim-
ed Martha apprehensively.
"Certainly not, my dear," said Mabel,
tying on an apron that had onceadorned the
excellent Rachel, in preparation for her new
household' duties. hope I know any
place better them that; and now," cried. she
with a gay. laugh, "I'm off work, so
please to give me a kiss before my cheek
gets emudged."
It seemed as though Alabel's spirits bad
risen in inverse proportion to her fortunes,
for she went about tee house all that after-
noon with a song on her lips as joyous as
any lark's.
The dinner, which the hostess hacl cook-
ed with her owu hands, was pronounced to
be a great success; and after it, Martha had
gone out for "a blow" on the esplanade.
The two ladies could no more go out in the
• afternoon together; and this, perhaps, was
the greatest inconvenience attaching to the
new state of affairs—because it did not do
to leave the house without any one in charge;
and. on this occasion it was Mabel who was
on guard. She was engaged in dusting Mar-
tha's room—the prettiest little household
fairy she looked, believe me, that ever used
a bunch of feathers for a wand—when there
came a ring at the front -door.
Mabel ran into her own room and peered
cautiously out of the window—a measure of
prudeneewhich Marthabad reconunended to
her on the score of tramps. She forgot at
the moment that this particular window
was, as a post of observation, valueless, be-
cause the front -door had a little porch,
which would. generally conceal the visitor.
On the present occasion, however, it did not
conceal him, because the visitor was too
large for the porch. He bulged out on. all
sides of it, and without disclosing the feat-
ures, revealed the proportions of Mr. Samuel
Simcoe, without the possibility of a doubt.
Mebel's heart beat high within her when
she saw who it was. She had a plan in her
head—the secret of her present high spirits
—for succouring honest Martha, which de-
pended upon this gentleman's assistance, and
Mabel felt assured that it would be given.
The new organist of St. Etheldreda had fail-
ed to give satisfaction. She had resolved to
apply to Mr. Simeoe for the vacant situation.
She hacl been used to play the organ in her
lather's church, and was really no mean per-
former on that instrument ; but even if she
haci been less skilful, she flattered herself
that she would still have got the place, and
the stipend, which was sixty pounds per
annem. The relations between herself and
the neat Simcoe were BO very cordial, that
• she was sure he would not refuse her a fav-
our, and particularly one which would not
only cost Ines nothing, but be a convenience
to himself. How tacky it was that she had
persaaded Martha, to go out for a walk, and
pould hme a km words with this opportune
visitor alone. She tripped down -stairs and.
opened the door to him with a eourtesy of
profound lumaility,
"Ler, then, it's true 1" said. Mr Simeoe,
looking at her blue apron, which the hail
designedly retained. "So many people have
told. me about it, that I thought it must be
a lie. So you wait epee yourselves do you,
Miss Mable? Well, it must be one good
thine; to hese got rid of that cursed Rachel."
"1 am glad you take that view of the
matter, Mr. Sinicoe," said Mabel, smiling,
and ushering him into the parlour; "for
somebody did say that because we were
growing poor, von would probably, as a
prudent landlora, proceed to turn ms out of
house and. home."
"That must heve beeu Sister 13annacre,'
observed Mr Simeoe decisively, "That
woman has made a religion for herself, as it
were, out of the worst parts of Christianity.
Or if that shocks you, my dear," for Mabel
looked very serious, "let lee say she has suf-
fered the good. wine of relig,ion, of 1040 slie
has such an immense stock in hand, to timis
to vinegar. But never mind her, my dear,
just now ; I want to talk to you."
He had called Mabel twme "my dear,"
which she thought rather strange ; but the
little excess was in the right direction—as
looked at frorn the orgau-loft—and. she let
it Tres without notice. Mr. Siancoe had
neenuested for some time a very fatherly
rammer tweeds her, and. this Was 4014bt-
Vas only a development of it.
4'No. my dear,' continued Mr. Simeoe,
after an interval of gasps aud pelting, "I'm
not quite such a sordid monster as Airs.
llauuaere aud Mies of her kidney reline me.
like my money awl ether people's too, for
the =Ater of that, if I can get hold at it by
fair meatus ; but I don't wensh everything V
avoirdupois. It gal% trate that 4 thing is
worth exactly what it. will fetch, or elese
whet wouldn't one give for a retriever ?"
Tickled withtlits wittielasm, it wee eeme
time before Mr. Sinnott recovered from the
perilous condition in will& tomtit always
placed him, and purple and pauting, once
more resumed the thread of his disconivo.
"Brains, my dear Miss Mabel, aro better
than money, and goodneee than heath, and
au free to cogess that I respect your cousin.
Martha Baer, with her half -servant, a deal
more tixeu the lord of this manor. I hate
him like the devil, to be sure, for shutting
up that footpath to my church, across the
fields; but that's neither here nor there.
Well, uext to your cousin, now, who doyou
think. I am pang to mention who has brews
and goodieees (or I am much mistaken), and
beauty, about which there can be no MIS.
take whatelmr, and, a:1;1nd word for every-
body, and who stands up for a fat old fellow
like me behind his beck—chl Well, at'e
you, Miss Mabel, and that's the truth; 80 I
won't make your pretty cheeks burn any
louger. It's you as I respect, and more,
and hope to find thet I may have the right
to eall yousomething dee than just " Aliss
Mabel,' and that's what live some hero to
talle about, if I had only the breath for it."
It, is aeid that women are de,stituto of
humour ; but it must, be stated, to Mabel
Denhanes 'credit, that it was with no slight
difficulty that she could etthispoiat restram
a. burn of merriment. The idea had sud-
denly flashed upon her that this funny old
em
gentleman was about temp alt Ids previous
feats of facetite by proposing himself as a
husband.
"Now, I daresay you can 'pretty well
guess, my deem's' continued Mr. Simeoe,
wbat I ant driving ; but still I had
better put the matter in plain words
You have met my sou Claude again and
again, and I daresay have long taken the
measure of his wits. He's not a wise mau,
that's trate; but he's an honest and a kind
one, and it is not the cleverest men, let me
tell you, that make tbe best husbands.
Well, Claude, as you know, is the rat that
mei the malt tbut lies in the church that
Sam built. He has got a very tolerable in -
Come; and wben I pop off the hooks—which
may happen any day, as I am told, with my
habit cf body—he'll come into property. I
want to see Claude married to a sensible
woman, who will take care of it and of him.
fre's a fool, you'll say ?" Mabel raised. her
band, and was about to open her mouth in
protest; but Mr. Simcoe motioned with his
hand for silence. "He is a fool, my dear—
grauted, granted ; but he's a good man in
his way, and I'll settle five thousand pounds
upon you on the day you marry him."
Mabel looked at the old man with grave
respect, all inclination to mirth quite dead
within her. His earnestness and honest solici-
tude had something attractive in them. He
was by far th e mostvulgar man—in the ordin-
ary sense—that she had ever met with ; but
of the sterling worth with which she had
been always inclined to credit him, she felt
now assured.
"My dear Mr. Simcoe," said she softly,
"pray, believe me, when I say, that your
generous offer evidences a good opinion of
me, for which, however undeserved, I feel
most sincerely and keenly grateful. I am
not so ignorant of the world as not to know
that to a penniless orphan like myself"--
"Not a word about that," ejaculated the
old gentleman -with energy. "I don't care
about that, my dear—I don't, indeed."
"But, unhappily, Mr. Simeoe,"saidMabel
firmly, "I have nothing to give you in return
for your generosity, except my thanks : I
cannot marry your son Claude.
"I see," replied the old gentleman mourn-
fully; "you won't take him at the price,
nor perhaps at any price, eh 1 Or else, when
I've set, my heart upon a thing, mind you,
I'm not balked for a few thousands. I said
five ; but you're worth more than five. I'll"
"Mr. Simcoe," said Mabel with dignity,
"I here spoken once for all. I am sure you
will not forget yourself so far as to bargain
for a wife for you own son."
Ler, it's often done," replied the old
gentleman simply. "If you happened to
have a mother, she and I would be auction-
eering here for half an hour ; but,. of course,
in this case—treating with a principal only,
as the money-lendets say—it would be In-
delicate. Well, I'm sorry, I'm most uncom-
mon sorry; and it will be a deuce of a blow;
mind you, to my boy. Efoviever, I am sure
I can trust you to keep silence in thematter,
so that he need never know."
• "But surely Mr. Claude is aware ?" began,
Mabel, With kindling eyes.
" Tut, tut; not a bit of it 1" answered the
old gentleman. "Lor bless you, don't put
yourself in a pucker aboa that, my good
young lady. Why, he'd' no more have had
the pluck to say: 'Go and ask her for me,
father,' than to climb the steeple of his owe
church, to gild the weathercock. He has
never even so much as said he loved you, '
within my hearing."
So it seems if I had accepted this offer
by -proxy, that it might have been repudiat-
ed by Mr. Claude himself," observed Mabel
coldly.
"Nay, nay, Miss Denham : you don't
think so ill of me as that, I hope, remon-
strated the old gentlemen. "If I had foiled to
a match of it between you, you may depend
, upon it that I would have paid forfeit hand-
somely ; but it was impossible that I should
have failed. Though I suffer Master Claude
to do much as he lakes with the blessed. St..
Etheldreda, he knows Pm uot one to be
trifled with on a matter of serious impork-
a:ace ; for where I've once set down my foot,
as you may imagine," :added the' old
gentleman with a rueful glance at hie
• portly form, "I'm not to be easily stirred.
If Claude hail never set eyes on you in hie
life, I say he would, have taken you to wife,
from his father's hand; but, indeed, iny
poor lad is over head end ears in love with
you, Miss Mabel. When I've been in vestry,
and told him—just for a bit if fun,. you
know—that you were in chetah., he'd put on
all his paraphernalia higgledy-piggledy.
Tbat little -shift he puts his head through
over his clatlaes—wbatever's the nem of
"The alb, I suppose, jou Mean r suggest-
ed Mabel delicately.
"Ale the alb. Well, I've seeu hiet with
that alb on wrong side before. When tem
are near him, the poor lad. don't know
whether he is standing on his head or his
heels. tYlaenever he turns Isis face upon you
in the pulpit, you'd think the. painted
wiudow was throwing gules upon lum.
watched him often from my pew, my dear,
as gules as he was, and like to burst with
laughter. You, can't deceive a father's eye,"
observed Mr. Sinicoe with sudden, gravity.
"If you don't believe me, Miss Nebel, iilet
look up at him, quite straight, when be
gives out the text next Sunday, and see
whether he don'tat once begin to stammer
end blush ; slow, juet do Mai, and see."
Mabel courteously but llmuly deelined to
venture upon this experiment.
"Well," said Mr, Slincoe,' rising slowly,
and apeaking with quite apletneive accent,
"it seems that I have come on a fruitless
errand. I have been indifferent honest—for
a business man—and when men have staid
to me e Well, we cau't traded I've
mostly been able to reply to them ; "That's
your loss as much as mine." But here,
Miss Mabel, 1 can't say that; I feel that
this is my loss and Cleude's—uot yours.
However, we shall be as good neighbors as
ever, 1 hope. For my part, at least, I pro.
Igoe you that though you laave declined a
father-in:law, you. have uot lost a friend.
Good -by, lass, and God bless you." He
lingered ou the door -step to sigh, and shake
lue ponderous head. How deuced well
you look in that blue apron: I'm main sorry
for poor Claude I"
Mabel was sorry too, and not ouly for
Claude. Her hopeful scheme of obtaining
the organist's place at St. Etheldreda's was
put an end to at once and for ever by this
unlooked.for ecenumuication. It was im-
possible that she could apply for an ecclesi-
astical !situation, the acceptence of which
woule cause the officiating tweeter to wear
his robes inside out, aud break clown in his
=mom She sat down at the table with
her head in her hem's, to think out some
new plan, She was not without devices
bulges:a projects for adding her mite
to Martha's NT/Jay income—even now; but
it is necessary to describe them. An event
was about to happen, which, in its conse-
quences, was fatcd soon to place them in the
limbo of purposes twinned.
(To 118 CONTI:WM.)
The Black and the White Slave.
[The following thrilling verses are taken from
an old paper of the year 1810, and at tho Unto
they werewritten wore terribly descriptive of
tbe condition of the:slave on this continenbe
Md a dream of slavery,
A vision or the night;
-end metliought I saw, on either hand.
The victims—blackand white.
glanced my eye to the negro sky,
And I looked to the spinner's rooMI
And ono was lit with the hues of Maxon,
And ono was a 1011 01 gloom.
There were fruitftd, bright, and shining fields,
And the sun was all abOYO,
And there was something in the air
That evens slam° might love.
And there was the quick incessant whirl
01 wheels revolving fast,
And there was the rank and moted air—
Like a, siroo's d oadly blast.
Then the negro's shell and. the factory bell
For brief relief rang out—
Some ran to the shade where the blue stream
played
Some raised the revel shout.
But ns for yon poor sickly child,
When her mid day was come.
She still abode in that region wild,
Sho could. not reach her home.
There was no gladdening stream for her
A.beit her tender years;
The stream that strayed, in that horrid shade,
Was the factory infant's tears.
Aye !tears direct from the throbbing heart—.
Hot drops from the burning brain—
Yet no relief from that shower of grief—
Her tyrant wine again.
Then I heard the crack of the sounding whip
Ring sharply through the air;
But the slave WM a huge and hardy man,
That well the lash might bear.
The next was the dull and sickening sound
Of the "strap" in that vale of tears;
I saw no man, save the wretch who struck
The child. of tender years.
He smote the infant o'er the face,
The neck, the trembling breast ‘•
And the words that fell from his brutal tongue
But made her the more distressed.
.And still as the blood came creeping down
Towards the crime stained floor,
Still on was urged that little slave,
Till hor hateful task was o'er.
While the "man" slivve sat at his cottage door'
Or iay in the plaintain shade,
That worn-out child crept sadly home,
Where her hod of chaff was laid.
Yet aye in her sleep the infant hears
That over °haunting chime,
And she starts from her healthless rest and calls
" Oh ! Mother! is it time 1"
Then I knelt me down, in that vision wild,
And raised my hands to God:
I breathed a prayer for the man and child
Who groan %teeth the taskerk rod.
Great God 1 like thy pure and balmy air,
Let all thou hest made, be free,
And blot from thy fair and beauteous world
The ban of slavery.
Headache is the result of eating too much
and exercising too little. Nine times out of
ten the cause is in fact that the stomach was
not able to digest the food last introdstced
mto it, either from its having been unsuitable
or excessive in quantity. A diet of bread and
butter, with ripe fruit or berries, with moder-
ate or cotitiuuous exercise in the open air
sufficient to keep up a geutle perspiration,
would cure almost every case in a short time,
Two teaspoonfuls otpowdered oharcoalin half
a glass of waterand drank of ten gives instant
relief. Sick headache with some persons
comes on at regular intervals, and is the gam
al of distress which the stomach puts out to
iinform us that there is an over alkaline con.
clition of its fluids ; that it needs is natural
acid to restore the battery to its normal work.
leg condition. When the first symptoms of
headache appear, take a tablespoonful of
lemon juice, clear, fifteen minutes before
each meal, and the same dose at bed time.
Follow this up until all symptoms are pass-
ed taking rit) other remedies, and you will be
able to -go free from. this unwelcome nui sauce.
Many will object to this bemuse the remede
is too simple ; but many cures have been ef-
fected in this way.
THE GOODNESS 01' GOD.
From oeSeenton by Rev. ler. 'Farb:alma, of
Oxforfl,
He laid His right hand, upon me, sayiug
unto zne. year not, 1 atil the first and the
len; I am He that liveth eanienete deed; and
behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen ; and
thaitz telk70-11 of hell and of death,—Reveta.
Dr. Fairbairn. described John Oa the island
of Patnaos, where, to him, mg through hint
to us, the word of God came. John was an
exile, and the lonely rock was, perhaps, only
the more desolete because of the bright skies
that smiled upon it. The minister deserib.
ed Joba's affeetion for Ephesus/ his home
where Petal bad sown, and he Lad watered:
it city of learning, and, of old, devotedto re-
iigion. Here John proposed to remain ; but
men proposes anal God doesnot always seem
to dispose. John, loved to be amoug men
and, in Patmos, he was in deep solitude;
but solitude, for a num who loves Clod, be.
comes full of God. Dr. Palaver -a told how
010 Sea which had eaused a blind poet of the
ant:lents th write, "The loud sounding ma,"
and it later one to speak of "multitudinous
laughter of the sea," bad made John, when
Ito came to tell of the voice of God, to des-
cribe it "as a sound of many waters,"
The heavenlycity waa a eeit of burnished
i
brass." John n Patmos became more re-
ceptive of God, aud of God's truth than he
had over been in Ephesus. This harkening
to the voice of God he called being in the
spirit. Man ie in the spirit of God when
the spirit is in him. To a heart vacant of
God the universe is a godless vacancy. To
an atheistic reason there is an atheeun in
all things. Ib needs e God within num to
discover it God withoub. So John came to
those supreme visions of the Eternal that
live for all time. At Ephesus he was for it
day; at Pantos he was for eternity.
Promise is the glory of youth; perform:moo
is the honor of age. Hero John's hopeful
youth was translated into experienced age;
and, this experience waS preserved for all
time. Dr. ltairbah•.n pictured John resting
on the Master's bosom, and in the happiness
of that moment realized that an eternity of
happiness was but e moment.
The minister took up the words of the
text, "1 am the first and. the last." In this
personal form of speech "I 11411" He express-
ed His eternity, Of created things man
alone has the right to say "I am." Only the
spirit really exists. Matter is through's:mg,
and. not mind through matter. Subtract
mind from matter, and where would be mat-
ter? Mind is; matter appears. The spirit
abides; matter disappears. Matter changes
eyelet moment, and. is never what it was the
moment before. Here God says He is,
and
that He is the first. There had noverbeen
a time when He was not. Dr. Fairbairn
said that, as a youth, he had often been puz-
zled by the old, hard saying that Gori acted
from His own good. pleasure. But the ques-
tion should be put, whether it would be bet-
ter for man to be the subject of mere blind,
inexorable law, or that he should be ruled
by the ever -living God, full of mercy and
goodness, and ready to listen to the appeals
of man's weakness.
• The minister then expounded the text, "I
have the keys of hell .and death." Here hell
evidently does notmean the place of punish;
anent. God does not speak of himself as the
keeper of is dungeon. The revised version
distinguishes between the terms gehenna and
hades. In the text the word. "hell" could
not be used in the sense in which it is used
in the sentence, "Ye generation of vipers,
ye shall not escape -the punishment of hell."
Evidently in that sentence the word does
not mean what it does when Christ says,
"Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell."
Christ could never have feared thee His soul
would be sent :to a place of punishment.
Bub the word "hell" so used means the
entire unseen world, all that is beyond our
material perceptions. So, too, death eau
not be shadowed any more than hell. It
means simely the passing from the known
the unknown. It is not a ceasing to her
Over two thousand years ago a philosophe.
had written works which to.dity stand on
the thelves of every scholar. There were
immortal thoughts about government, about
poetry, about death, and many other sub.
jeets. To -day there are minds that never
knew Plato, yet feel his power. Is it pos-
sible for a mind that made these imperish-
able thoughts to perish ? Could such a thing
he thouult of ? If God made men He made
them worthy of God, and for an sternal God
to.have men less than eternal •vvoulcl have
been to make them less than wordy.
• Aisoehe keys onset' and death are stun.
belical.' They speak of power. The throne
and the crown speak of power ancl .glory.
The keys speak of, the rignt to judge and
the poem to excess te the judgments. Christ
is, also, euthroned and crowned. Dr. Fair-
bairn asked Isis auditors if they had honor-
ee -the Ring as they had honored the Cruel -
'fled. Were we not all too apt to think only
of Christ as on the cross? •
The minister narrated an allegory of a
spirit, stripped of it mortality and left only
its weak human heart, sent out by • God
through the boundless universe, a great
angel being its guide. On and ,m their
flight carried them, out of the region of
worlds into infinite spaces where the only
light was that of the cosmimclust made bright
by its rapid motion, the atoms attracting
and repelling each other, collecting here
and there and forming into new worlds, pre -
wing for the conditions of life and some of
them just ready to burst inth bloom.
Finally the weak human heart of the travel.
7-11r
• „tc
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im=.4.7....ges to beginners* Stook 00melete, wItlz lastesullieli specialties.
OlETTFIT PREF. Ws onamntss W44 qos ocivortisa, Write IMAMS
ISROTBRItS, INiorsers,men, Toronto. Ontt intis helmets reliable.)
Exeter Lumber Yard
%he Uuder3igoed wiehea to informhe.public ingenue'. that he keeps
--constantly tn. stock—
All Kinds of .BUILDING MATERIAL
DRESSED OR UNDRESSED,
A large stook of fletoleolr always on hand at mill prices. Flooring, Sidi g
dressed—inch, inelt-anclet-quarter, %eh -and -a half and. two inch. Sash Door.,
Blinds. Mouldings and all Rigel:Lino' Material, Lath, ite,
SHINGLES A SPECIALTY.—CompetiGion challenged. The best and the
largest stock„ and at lowest prices. Shingles A 1.
All dressed lumber thoroughly seasoned and ready for use. No strinha.e
assured. A call will bear out the above.
THE` OLD ESTABLISHED. Jas. St
••••••••10M11.6.100011••••••=110•0•10111,
wo.ow
er eries out for relief, for relief from tho'
oppression of the infinite and eternal. It
arms out to be put in some grave where it
eau rest But now it is taken to the ahels
tering breast of Christ, and there finds the
place that it maws. There is no end to the
universe of God, and there is no beginuing.
In Christ alone Is there rest.
"Do you say that any man. dies by chance,"
exclaimed Dr. Faith:time "aceideuts concern
main, not God." A man dies et the moment
it seems best to Gad. The Savior is the
judge. The person who redeems is the
person who motes out the final reward.
The speaker spoke of the comp Issionnte
sadness of God, and said. that it was more
awful than sternness. He closes his sermon
• by relating a dream, in which ho saki vaxions
• types of mankind come before the great
white throne to lae received into eternal joy
or met by the awful sentence: "1 know
you not." Tho closing scene was that of a
mother receiving her babe from Christ's arms
and of the joy of that union in their hea,venly
home.
PEARLS 01' TULE,
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
To be good. to the vile is to throw water
into the sea.
Gaming finds a xnan it cully, and leaves
him a knave.
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith
when I enter cities.
Summer friends vanish when the cask is
drained to the dregs.
The earth with its scarred face is the sym-
bol of the past; the air and heaven of futur-
ity.
Superiority to eircumstances is one of the
most prominent characteristics of great
men.
A, few feet under ground reigns so
profound a silence, and yet so much tumult
on the surface.
A man must be excessively stupid, as well
as uncharitable, who believes there is no
virtue but ou his side.
it is the art of mankind to polish the
world, and every one who works is scrub-
bing at some part of ib.
Philosophy has often attempted to re-
press insolence by asserting that all condi-
tions are leveled by death; a position which,
however it may deject the happy, will
seldom afford much comfort to the wretch-
ed.
Are you not awe-stricken, you . . . .
who have passed through many struggles of
defeat, success, crime, remorse to yourself
only known 1 to think how you are the same
You whotn in childhood you remember be-
fore the voyage of life began !
Wood. Notes.
1. IN THE WOOD.
Without a fear in childhood days
I wandered through those woodland ways;
But maidenhood a shrink ng brings
From nameless, once unthought of things,
And angel forms are not so near
As in the oldon days, I fear,
To guard me from the vague alarms
With which tho wood repels and charms.
II. FR= ene WOOD.
Pins and needles oneSI thought them,
Long ago ;
From a mossy bank I brought them
Where they grow
While the hemlock boughs above them
Stoop to whisper how they love them,.
And the woodbine clasps the hedges
All along the shadowed edges.
III. PAIS AWAY.
,Could any sigh t.of surpliced choir,
Or oven i ight.illumined cross
That crowns the sacred chapel spire,
Repay me for the yearly loss
Of that strange velvet cup of fire
9.'hat glows amid the woodland moss?
mill& artist paint it, could I Poo,
With Wonder rootlets threading white
The meshes of some fallen tree.
Its scarlet chalice glowing bright
With lichens gray for company?
CoitA A. 1VIA'rsoN.
Ten
Reasons
FortheWonderful Success
of Hood's Sarsaparilla,
the Most Populd and
Most Extensively, Sold
Medicine in America.
I
Hood's Sarsaparilla possesses great
medicinal rnerit, which it ppsitively
demonstrates when fairly tried/
el It is most economical, being the
A only medicine of which zoo
Doses One Dollar " can truly be said.
3It is prepared by a Combination,
Proportion and Process Peculiar to
Itself, unknown to other preparations,
and by which all the medicinal value of
the various ingredients is secured.
4It effects remarkable cures where
other medicines have utterly failed
to do any good whatever.
It is a modern medicine, originated
la by experienced pharmacists, and
still carefully prepared under their per-
sonal supervision.
6It is clean, clear and beautiful in
appearance, pleasant to take, and
always of equal strength.
7It has proven itself to be positively
the best remedy for scrofula and all
blood disorders, and the best tonic for
that tired feeling, loss of appetite and
general debility.
0 It is unequalled for curing dyspepsia,
419 sick headache, biliousness, catarrh,
rheumatism and all diseases of the kid-
neys and liver,
9It has a good name at home, there
being more of Hood's Sarsaparilla
sold in Lowell, Mass., where it is made,
than of all other sarsaparillas and blood
purifiers combined.
n Its advertising is unique, original,
4.0 honest, and thoroughly backed up
by the medicine itself.
A Point for You.
If you want a blood ptiei y or
strengthening medicine, you sh 41 get
the best. Ask for Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and insist upon having it. Do not let
any argument or persuasion influence
you to buy what you do not waet. Be
sure to get the ideal Medicine,
c,
d
Sarsa a
Sold by all druggists, 31; six for 86. Proparedouly
by 0.1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
• 100 Doses One Dollar
Spirits of turpentine will take grease or
drops of paint out of cloth. Apply till the
palinhtocarenalsioensctrhaspreicvloemff.
ea are
so ma' oh.
!nore
sociable thau men is because they act more
tom the heart than the intellect.
Moderation is the silken string running
throughethe pes,r1 chain of all virtuca
. . ,
.
,.....
,I. ,
2, J----:---
•adi
.72,a
st Miraculous meeicine.—eur, J. H. Can.
Pray, St. Camille, writes"SQnd me at once
three d04021 NonTIIROP se ieratoes warm=
Dtscovxav. It is a miraculous medicine and has
performed great cures, testimonials of which we
can give you,
KnovsititsGoodt. —Ains.C.Jonssos,kielville,
writes:--“Ihave greatpleasurein recommending
youeveoeesesas Disco -v=1% 1 haveuSod two bet-
ties, and it completely, cured me of a bad ease of
Dyspepsia. I also found it aa excellent Blood
Medicine, dna eure mire for gidtioy troubles.,"
. ......,.
The Rest Illetlicine.—Ma, Jso,BtAcswm,
of. the Bank of Comozerco, Teroeto,writess "Ray,
lag suffrred tor over tour years front Dyspepsia
and weak stomach, and having tried numerous
remedies with hat little effect,Iwasat last advised
to giveNoaTusor&LvaiAtesVscrrang nacoyzer
•
.
11 Gives Strensill.—Ms, 5.5. Daiscott, of
Granite Rill, writes: Ali have derivedgreat bent,
ilt from the use of your Yee:minxA Discover::: -•
My appetite ha.s returned, and I feel stronger "and
A. Invosote to itts.—Ala. IF. IL 13OURCIBR, of
Ripon, P.Q., writes: ,,It is with great pleasure;
If you are Despondent, Low-
-
spirited, Irritable and Peevish,
unpleasant sensations are
felt invariably after eating',
.
a trial. I did so, with a happy re.sult, receiving
great benefit from onobottle. I then tried a w-
Qua and third bottle, and now I find ray appetite
somuch restored and stomach strengthened, that
I Can partake cf ahcarty meal without aoy of the
unplcasantnessitormerlyeeperieneed, 1 censicier
040e.
•ai-'/
"''''''
intormyou that eourereeerematAiscovear cured
ma of DYsPoesia. I tried many remedies, but
none bad any effect on me until I eamoacross
Rename& Lvm,s'ArscreASTAR DISmYnnY ; ono
bottlerelieved me, and a seeend completely owed
use; you =nee recommend item highly."
teen gds. bottle of Noaeuxor 4 Imax's Yea.
TA= DmoavEuV, and it will g,iveyourelieL Won
Isave Dyspepsia., lin. R. H. Dawsca, of St.
Nary% WrIMS : "Pour bottles of YMETABLB Inn^
corm' entirely =red me of Dyspepsia ; mine was
°noel Menotti cases4 I now feellike a neve TrAllt,"
-
it tb.e bestsnedicine in the market torthestongielt
and system gen =AV'
aut.ozo. Tom:, uru,,lost, Gravel:aunt, Oak,
write 5 : "MyClintomerunvhobarousedNOIMMOr&
/NHANB VEGMBLZAISCOVICBT say thxtitbasdozse
tbere more peen= aeything they ever used:*
THE GOODNESS 01' GOD.
From oeSeenton by Rev. ler. 'Farb:alma, of
Oxforfl,
He laid His right hand, upon me, sayiug
unto zne. year not, 1 atil the first and the
len; I am He that liveth eanienete deed; and
behold, I am alive forevermore, Amen ; and
thaitz telk70-11 of hell and of death,—Reveta.
Dr. Fairbairn. described John Oa the island
of Patnaos, where, to him, mg through hint
to us, the word of God came. John was an
exile, and the lonely rock was, perhaps, only
the more desolete because of the bright skies
that smiled upon it. The minister deserib.
ed Joba's affeetion for Ephesus/ his home
where Petal bad sown, and he Lad watered:
it city of learning, and, of old, devotedto re-
iigion. Here John proposed to remain ; but
men proposes anal God doesnot always seem
to dispose. John, loved to be amoug men
and, in Patmos, he was in deep solitude;
but solitude, for a num who loves Clod, be.
comes full of God. Dr. Palaver -a told how
010 Sea which had eaused a blind poet of the
ant:lents th write, "The loud sounding ma,"
and it later one to speak of "multitudinous
laughter of the sea," bad made John, when
Ito came to tell of the voice of God, to des-
cribe it "as a sound of many waters,"
The heavenlycity waa a eeit of burnished
i
brass." John n Patmos became more re-
ceptive of God, aud of God's truth than he
had over been in Ephesus. This harkening
to the voice of God he called being in the
spirit. Man ie in the spirit of God when
the spirit is in him. To a heart vacant of
God the universe is a godless vacancy. To
an atheistic reason there is an atheeun in
all things. Ib needs e God within num to
discover it God withoub. So John came to
those supreme visions of the Eternal that
live for all time. At Ephesus he was for it
day; at Pantos he was for eternity.
Promise is the glory of youth; perform:moo
is the honor of age. Hero John's hopeful
youth was translated into experienced age;
and, this experience waS preserved for all
time. Dr. ltairbah•.n pictured John resting
on the Master's bosom, and in the happiness
of that moment realized that an eternity of
happiness was but e moment.
The minister took up the words of the
text, "1 am the first and. the last." In this
personal form of speech "I 11411" He express-
ed His eternity, Of created things man
alone has the right to say "I am." Only the
spirit really exists. Matter is through's:mg,
and. not mind through matter. Subtract
mind from matter, and where would be mat-
ter? Mind is; matter appears. The spirit
abides; matter disappears. Matter changes
eyelet moment, and. is never what it was the
moment before. Here God says He is,
and
that He is the first. There had noverbeen
a time when He was not. Dr. Fairbairn
said that, as a youth, he had often been puz-
zled by the old, hard saying that Gori acted
from His own good. pleasure. But the ques-
tion should be put, whether it would be bet-
ter for man to be the subject of mere blind,
inexorable law, or that he should be ruled
by the ever -living God, full of mercy and
goodness, and ready to listen to the appeals
of man's weakness.
• The minister then expounded the text, "I
have the keys of hell .and death." Here hell
evidently does notmean the place of punish;
anent. God does not speak of himself as the
keeper of is dungeon. The revised version
distinguishes between the terms gehenna and
hades. In the text the word. "hell" could
not be used in the sense in which it is used
in the sentence, "Ye generation of vipers,
ye shall not escape -the punishment of hell."
Evidently in that sentence the word does
not mean what it does when Christ says,
"Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell."
Christ could never have feared thee His soul
would be sent :to a place of punishment.
Bub the word "hell" so used means the
entire unseen world, all that is beyond our
material perceptions. So, too, death eau
not be shadowed any more than hell. It
means simely the passing from the known
the unknown. It is not a ceasing to her
Over two thousand years ago a philosophe.
had written works which to.dity stand on
the thelves of every scholar. There were
immortal thoughts about government, about
poetry, about death, and many other sub.
jeets. To -day there are minds that never
knew Plato, yet feel his power. Is it pos-
sible for a mind that made these imperish-
able thoughts to perish ? Could such a thing
he thouult of ? If God made men He made
them worthy of God, and for an sternal God
to.have men less than eternal •vvoulcl have
been to make them less than wordy.
• Aisoehe keys onset' and death are stun.
belical.' They speak of power. The throne
and the crown speak of power ancl .glory.
The keys speak of, the rignt to judge and
the poem to excess te the judgments. Christ
is, also, euthroned and crowned. Dr. Fair-
bairn asked Isis auditors if they had honor-
ee -the Ring as they had honored the Cruel -
'fled. Were we not all too apt to think only
of Christ as on the cross? •
The minister narrated an allegory of a
spirit, stripped of it mortality and left only
its weak human heart, sent out by • God
through the boundless universe, a great
angel being its guide. On and ,m their
flight carried them, out of the region of
worlds into infinite spaces where the only
light was that of the cosmimclust made bright
by its rapid motion, the atoms attracting
and repelling each other, collecting here
and there and forming into new worlds, pre -
wing for the conditions of life and some of
them just ready to burst inth bloom.
Finally the weak human heart of the travel.
7-11r
• „tc
MERfig,tuaE te04. Wgrae,147:1"
im=.4.7....ges to beginners* Stook 00melete, wItlz lastesullieli specialties.
OlETTFIT PREF. Ws onamntss W44 qos ocivortisa, Write IMAMS
ISROTBRItS, INiorsers,men, Toronto. Ontt intis helmets reliable.)
Exeter Lumber Yard
%he Uuder3igoed wiehea to informhe.public ingenue'. that he keeps
--constantly tn. stock—
All Kinds of .BUILDING MATERIAL
DRESSED OR UNDRESSED,
A large stook of fletoleolr always on hand at mill prices. Flooring, Sidi g
dressed—inch, inelt-anclet-quarter, %eh -and -a half and. two inch. Sash Door.,
Blinds. Mouldings and all Rigel:Lino' Material, Lath, ite,
SHINGLES A SPECIALTY.—CompetiGion challenged. The best and the
largest stock„ and at lowest prices. Shingles A 1.
All dressed lumber thoroughly seasoned and ready for use. No strinha.e
assured. A call will bear out the above.
THE` OLD ESTABLISHED. Jas. St
••••••••10M11.6.100011••••••=110•0•10111,
wo.ow
er eries out for relief, for relief from tho'
oppression of the infinite and eternal. It
arms out to be put in some grave where it
eau rest But now it is taken to the ahels
tering breast of Christ, and there finds the
place that it maws. There is no end to the
universe of God, and there is no beginuing.
In Christ alone Is there rest.
"Do you say that any man. dies by chance,"
exclaimed Dr. Faith:time "aceideuts concern
main, not God." A man dies et the moment
it seems best to Gad. The Savior is the
judge. The person who redeems is the
person who motes out the final reward.
The speaker spoke of the comp Issionnte
sadness of God, and said. that it was more
awful than sternness. He closes his sermon
• by relating a dream, in which ho saki vaxions
• types of mankind come before the great
white throne to lae received into eternal joy
or met by the awful sentence: "1 know
you not." Tho closing scene was that of a
mother receiving her babe from Christ's arms
and of the joy of that union in their hea,venly
home.
PEARLS 01' TULE,
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.
To be good. to the vile is to throw water
into the sea.
Gaming finds a xnan it cully, and leaves
him a knave.
I always seem to suffer some loss of faith
when I enter cities.
Summer friends vanish when the cask is
drained to the dregs.
The earth with its scarred face is the sym-
bol of the past; the air and heaven of futur-
ity.
Superiority to eircumstances is one of the
most prominent characteristics of great
men.
A, few feet under ground reigns so
profound a silence, and yet so much tumult
on the surface.
A man must be excessively stupid, as well
as uncharitable, who believes there is no
virtue but ou his side.
it is the art of mankind to polish the
world, and every one who works is scrub-
bing at some part of ib.
Philosophy has often attempted to re-
press insolence by asserting that all condi-
tions are leveled by death; a position which,
however it may deject the happy, will
seldom afford much comfort to the wretch-
ed.
Are you not awe-stricken, you . . . .
who have passed through many struggles of
defeat, success, crime, remorse to yourself
only known 1 to think how you are the same
You whotn in childhood you remember be-
fore the voyage of life began !
Wood. Notes.
1. IN THE WOOD.
Without a fear in childhood days
I wandered through those woodland ways;
But maidenhood a shrink ng brings
From nameless, once unthought of things,
And angel forms are not so near
As in the oldon days, I fear,
To guard me from the vague alarms
With which tho wood repels and charms.
II. FR= ene WOOD.
Pins and needles oneSI thought them,
Long ago ;
From a mossy bank I brought them
Where they grow
While the hemlock boughs above them
Stoop to whisper how they love them,.
And the woodbine clasps the hedges
All along the shadowed edges.
III. PAIS AWAY.
,Could any sigh t.of surpliced choir,
Or oven i ight.illumined cross
That crowns the sacred chapel spire,
Repay me for the yearly loss
Of that strange velvet cup of fire
9.'hat glows amid the woodland moss?
mill& artist paint it, could I Poo,
With Wonder rootlets threading white
The meshes of some fallen tree.
Its scarlet chalice glowing bright
With lichens gray for company?
CoitA A. 1VIA'rsoN.
Ten
Reasons
FortheWonderful Success
of Hood's Sarsaparilla,
the Most Populd and
Most Extensively, Sold
Medicine in America.
I
Hood's Sarsaparilla possesses great
medicinal rnerit, which it ppsitively
demonstrates when fairly tried/
el It is most economical, being the
A only medicine of which zoo
Doses One Dollar " can truly be said.
3It is prepared by a Combination,
Proportion and Process Peculiar to
Itself, unknown to other preparations,
and by which all the medicinal value of
the various ingredients is secured.
4It effects remarkable cures where
other medicines have utterly failed
to do any good whatever.
It is a modern medicine, originated
la by experienced pharmacists, and
still carefully prepared under their per-
sonal supervision.
6It is clean, clear and beautiful in
appearance, pleasant to take, and
always of equal strength.
7It has proven itself to be positively
the best remedy for scrofula and all
blood disorders, and the best tonic for
that tired feeling, loss of appetite and
general debility.
0 It is unequalled for curing dyspepsia,
419 sick headache, biliousness, catarrh,
rheumatism and all diseases of the kid-
neys and liver,
9It has a good name at home, there
being more of Hood's Sarsaparilla
sold in Lowell, Mass., where it is made,
than of all other sarsaparillas and blood
purifiers combined.
n Its advertising is unique, original,
4.0 honest, and thoroughly backed up
by the medicine itself.
A Point for You.
If you want a blood ptiei y or
strengthening medicine, you sh 41 get
the best. Ask for Hood's Sarsaparilla,
and insist upon having it. Do not let
any argument or persuasion influence
you to buy what you do not waet. Be
sure to get the ideal Medicine,
c,
d
Sarsa a
Sold by all druggists, 31; six for 86. Proparedouly
by 0.1. HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
• 100 Doses One Dollar
Spirits of turpentine will take grease or
drops of paint out of cloth. Apply till the
palinhtocarenalsioensctrhaspreicvloemff.
ea are
so ma' oh.
!nore
sociable thau men is because they act more
tom the heart than the intellect.
Moderation is the silken string running
throughethe pes,r1 chain of all virtuca