The Expositor, 1869-01-15, Page 4THE SEAFORTii EXPOSITOR.
The Power of Influence.
_ There is no fact more obviietts to one
who'tobserves what passes around him,
than: the power -of influencei 'It is a
powerOat, like the ilight or thei frost,
worksquietly-) and invisibly,_ but pro-
duces the most surprising results.
Ex-
nip1e often makes deep and leating
impressions : it fashions opininion. : it
moulds character, it gives shape to the
career and destiny ofeindividuals and
• • of nations. On influences' • seemingly
important and excercise without de -
Sign, great events in the world's history
have oftentierned. In the moral world
their is something: analogous to what
we 'see in the physioal, when the change
in directionof a few pounds' -pressure
on its helm, guides a vessel to the desir-
edhaven,- or sends it shattered upon
-• Aline rocks. The final character and
cloom• of mana e determined, like the
• the lines ou the daguerreotype -plate,
by influences, as subtle and impalpable
often as those of •a . pencil of light.
A single word, unwisely. spoken, has
had a histea7 as fatal as that of the rash
sheut that startled the toppling- ava-
; lanche to the destruction of the village.
The act of a moment has changed the •
complexion of a life. A mother's tears
net improbably robbed the ocean ,of a
victim, ancl saved to the world a wash-
ing,ton. The martial inspiration deriv-
ed from Homer's pages sent Alexander
forth on his conquests.' Caesar's- ain-
- bitibn Wss•fired from reading and en-..
vyingi the life of MacedOnia. Napoleon's
plaything when.- a boy. was a cannon.
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No thoughtful man can. afford to over-
look or disregard facts like these. We
live in a world wheie example gives
• shape to human character and destiny ;1
where we are for ever giving off'
and receiving impressions that will en-
dure when the :ohisseled lines of the
granite have -crumbled, and -when the
headstones at our - oven graves ellen
have Chained • kindred with the olust
they once comraenloratecl. We 4eed
to walk crefully ancl circumepectly,
for We are-tireerling .not only on human
hearts, but o11 the springs of human
destintet--Baciaae
'
Let no Man. Ask for, Leisure.
The most fallaci.ous ideas prevail re-
specting leisure. People are always
sayingto themselves "I would do
tlils and I would do -that, if I had a
little leisure." Now there is no condi-
.
tion in which the chance of doing gopcl
is less than in the condition of leisure.
The man -fully employed may be able
to gratify his good • disposition by im-
proving himself or his neighbors, or
serving the public in some useful way.;
but the man who has all the tinie to
dispose of as he pleases, has but a poor
'chance of doing so. To do, increases
• the .capacity of domg, and it is far less
difficult foi%a man .whe)is in an habitual
. course of erection, to exert " himself a:
little more.for an extra purpose, •than
for themanewho_does little or nothing
to 'Put hienSelf into motion for the same
encl. There is a reluctane? in all)
• things to be set a -agoing, but -when
that is got over, then --evetything, goes
sweetly enough. J ust So. with: the idle
man. In loosing the habit he looses
the power' of doing. But a man who
is busy, about : some 'regular employ-
mentfor a proper 'length.of time every
• day, can easily do something else dur-
mg the remammg hours, indeed the
recreation of the weary man is apt to
• be buiser than the perpetual leisure of
the idle. A.s he walks through the
• world, -1;is hands hang unrauffied and
ready by his side,and he can sometimes
do more by k single touch in passing
•• than a vacant' -man is likely to do in
twelve months. Let no man cry for
leisure in order to do anything. Lei
him. rather :pray that he may never have
leisure. 'if he really Wishes to do any
good thing, hewill always, find time
for it, by properly arranging his other
eniployment. ••
• •
DISAPPoiNTMENTs.-Y ou are disap-
. •
pointed. The 'steamer has gone, leave
• ing you standingon the wharf. The
• ca'es haertelef .you fat .the station. Quite
too bad I your plans !are•all frustrated,
You are incliued to be out iof humor
with., yourself and everything else. You
• chide -your wata ,foi being five; mins
utes too slow, the,ha'ok driver for be-
ing slower than. yeekr watch ; and' the
hotel proprietor I'O'r'P retesting over and
over aging, that therb was time enough:
andto els4e. Stop, my friend ! you
are in danger of'. being faster than either
steamier or ears. Let, your moderation
bo known unto all men, and 'you1. prac-
tical good sehse, too. ••Let me illustrate.
The late Rev. Di:. Wayland? leftthe
.city of ,Providdficee. for New 'York, to.
ttdeb a steain4r to be in England at a
, certeise time on- important business.
Driving from hisiarother-in-law'sthouse,
in the latter city, the caniage ' broke
down, and the "'driver mistook the -Way
-so that ho reached the.w.h.arf only in
tim4o_sseethe steamer -disappear in the
offing.; .B.i wits. ;deeply disappointed -;
but epeihtly remarked to a friend, I"Pro-
• videnee jias undoubtedly seine vkFy
good reason for delying my jourrp."
AL ad was there: no.,‘ el good moon ?
That steamer-th e ‘11'resident'---/1eft
Port to be heard of no mare. •
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• The Atlantic! Cable: -
The following beautiful remarks were
made by the Hon. W. C. Cryant at the
?Morse Banque t in New York:
- Bat see whatehartges a Century brings
forth: Whatawas ths then an absurdi-
ty, what was arrant nonsense, isnow
the statement of a naked fact. Our
pest has annihilated -both space and
time in the transmission of intelligence.
The bredth of the Atlantic, with all its
waves, is s nothidg, and in sending a
in Europe to this continent
• computed by the clockeis
hours less_ than notliin,g.
e view of this great inven-
lectric telegraph which im-
• with :awe. Beside url; at
this board, along with the illustrious
we are met to honor, and
• will go down to the latest
• of eivilized man, sits the
o whose clear-sighted perse-
to whOse energy -an en -
knew no discouragement,
no wearme s no pause -we owe it that
the telegr
which conn
New throu
imaginatio
of the mid
where repo
of coral, a
the bottom
with the •b
skeletons of
message fr
the time,
some six
There -is o
tion. of the
presses me
:
Man whom
whose nam
generations
gentleman
verance anc
erey which
1
phic cable has been laid
cts the Old World. with, the
h the Atlantic -ocean. •My
goes down -to the chambers
le sea, to those vast depths
es the mystic wire on beds
ong forests of tangle, or on
f dim blue gulf& strewn
nes of .whales and sharks,
drowned men, and eibs and
masts of fo indered barks, laden with
wedges of g Id never:to be coiieed, and
pipes of the„choieeit vintages Of earth
never to
watery solit
of the grea
petual sileri
huMan pres
e tasted, Through these
des,. aniong the fountains
deep- the abode of per -
e,• never visited by living
nce and beyond the sight
of humaal eye there are •gliding to and -
fro, by night. and by day, in light and
in darkness' in calm and in tempest,
currents of luinan thought borne by
the electric -pulse whicit -obeys the bid-
ding of man That slender -wire thrills
with the hopesand fears of nations, it
vibrates to every emotion that can. be.
awakened by any event affecting the
welfare of the huenan race. • A volume
of contemporary history passes every
hour of the day from. one continent to
the other.. An operator on the conti-
nent of 'Europe gently touches the keys
of an instrument in his quiet room, a
message is shot with the swiftness of
light through the abysses of, the' -sea,
and before his hand is lifted from the
machine the story of revolts and revo-
lutions, of monarchs _ dethroned and
:new dpasties set up in ,their place, of
battles- and conquests and treities of
peace • of great statesmen fallen in
death, lights of the world one out -and
new ' luminaries glimmering the
horizon, is written down, in 'another
quiet room on the other , side of the
• •
°lobe. Mr. President, I, see? ' in the
circumstances which I have enumerated
a new proof of the superiority'ot mind
to matter,, of the independent existence
of that part of our nature which we,
call the spirit, when it canthus subdue,.
enslave, and edAl
ucate the subtlest; e
most active, and in certain of its-mani=
festations the most intractable and ter-
rible of the elements, maiing it in our
hands the vehicle of thought -and
compelling it to speak • everyIanguage
of the civilized world. • I infer the ca-
pacity of the spirit for a separate state
of being, its indestructible essence and,
its noble dkstiny, and I thank the great
disdoverer whom we have assembled to
honor for this confirmation of my faith.
,THE FIRST SNOW. -The first Show
came. Hew beautiful' wee, falling
so silently al the day. long, all mat
long, on the mountains, on. the' mea-
dows, on the roofs of the living, on the
graves of the dead ! All white, save_
the river that marks its course by a 'win-
ding black line across the landscape,'
and the leafless trees that against the
leaden sky * now revealed more
fully the wonderful beauty and intri-
cacy of their branches. What silence,
too, came with the now, and what se-
clusion Every. sound - waS muffled,
every noise changed to something soft.
and mueical• No mere trampling
hoofs, no more rattling wheels. ,Only
the chiming sleigh -bells, _beating .4ts
swift as the hearts of childrena=eftwig-
fellow. ••
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The Cornell University paper says
that a few days ago a 'gentleman from.
Ithaca saw a farmer's boysstanding by
the roadside holding a horse, which he
recognized. • He asked the boy whO
was. the owner. of the borse, and the
b,,,y replied It belongs to a.zeraky
Dutchman looking for birds' nests over
yonder ih the wods.?' The "crazy
Dittchinan" war Pref. Louis Agassiz.
The head of a ts, rtle, for several
clays after its separation froni the body;
rethins and exhibits animtel life and sen-
sati-n. An Irishman decapieted one,and
ierdave afterwards was ahlusialc4i,m-
- •
selfby puttino•b sticks into its mouth,
W.11 fell it bit with violence. A lady who
•FM the proceeding, exclaimad, "Why,
Patick,te r thought the turtle was
thead ?" "So he, is, ina,‘am, but the
crather's not Sensible of
A. Talk with Young Men.
•
. Accidental -greatness die § young;
audit knows no resurreetion. It exci-
ted, boating, egotistical, and tyrannical.
All theilittleness of its childhood is lost
in the shadow of its present brief lofti-
ness. It assaSsinates poverty, courts
godliness under the sun and stabs it un-
der the _moon., flatters knowledge to
keep secret its own ignerance. Char-
acter never dies; it is born to live. It
is never beyond improvement. Man
makes his character, and his character
preserves him. Little Ipro-mises, little
acts and little words are small in. them-
selves, but they are the very weights'
we throw in the •ballance over against
a man's reputation. ' One noble deed
doesn't ' establish true • nobility. No
man can be trusted with the cares of a
high station until he- has proven
self capable and hones& in lower ones.
Better see him swim the brook before
you bid him try • the river. And
yet)some men begin to rise only when
Fate -seeks to pull them down. Diffi-
culties awake them, end what to others
seems certain defeat, is all that nerves
them to win the battle. True bravery
and, true nobility are shy, unassuming.
It is the traitor who boasts dills loyaly,
and the villan who modifies his honesty,
Honor "vaunteth not itself," looks
every- man in the face, fearing none,
asketh for no advertising and cannot be
flattered. Boys, remember these little
things, and do not boast of your honesty,
Boast not at all ! And I think it poor
philosophy to lend a man. feur dollars
by enticing him to pay the one he
already owei you. Weigh our pro-
nalees well, and -when you have made,
keep them, no _matter what it costs
Judge others by what they have done,
not by what they are going to do
Don't keep your .eyes on the stars and
stutable over nuggets.
A Lady Sued for 13reaeh of Promise.
A London paper says :•-•• An inqui-
ry took _pace before the COurt of Queen's
Bench in Dublin, and a jury to assess
damages in an action brought to recover
compensation laid at £2,000, for breach
Of promise of marrige. The plaintiff,
Mr. Thomas Jackson Marks lived near
,
Ardee in the county of Louth, and in
1860 he -entered into an engagement to
'y the -female defendant, Mrs. Row-
, then Miss Smith,- who also lived
he county of Louth.- After sometime
engagement was broken off, and the
tiff then went to New Westmin-
im British Columbia. While
a eorrespondence was opened be -
him and Miss Smith, which led
renewal of the marriage engage -
t. ,The letters that passed were of
most affectionate character, and
hesied the happiness the parties
• ld enjoy when the engagement was
'ed. In August, 1867,. the. plain -
old off his farm to come to get mar-
.• When he reached Canada a letter
ited him from Miss. Smith, stating
she could not love him, that the
xised affection was a mistake, .and
the engagement must be broken
• She, shortly afterwards married
_Rowland, who wrote to the plain -
stating that he had long possessed
affedtions of the young lady. The
rs 'between the injury
were read
.
e jury, and the to the plam-
.y the lady's recesOion froin. her in-
ment commented on. It was al-
thatthe •plaintiff disposed of his
and left Columbia only because he
,cted to Marry -the defendant. The
found a verdict for the plaintiff--
,
eges £200."
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Encourage the Young.
11 at young man deserves praise be
slim' and give it to 'him, else you not
otil rim a chance of driving him from
thee-. eightroad f want of encourage -
but 'demi yourself of the liaPpi-
rivilage yea will ever have of re-
g hie labour. For its only the
gerwho can receive such. reward
men's praise. The old, when. they
eat, get too far above and beyond
you may think of thein. You
urge them . with acclimation, but
will dou.bt, yewr pleasure and des -
your praise. • You might have
'ed- them rn their race through the
del meadows of theneyouth ; you.
t have brought the proud, bright
etoAheir faces if you hadcried
ncpe ;Well done l' as they dashed
e%isi goal of their earley
ajiibiti-
Put now their pleasure is memory,
heir ambition is in heaven' They
-kinixyou, .ancleyou. Lan. ne4ter
be kind to them: .
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R TURN4Oy. AATEPAY .p.RS, -The Pro -
vme al si6e.retaiy-giveg notice that the
rettlin, of Ratepayers reqeired under
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be made forthwith to the Treasury
tario, :where blank forms Can be
.ed 'upon application. 'The . Re -
required by Mimi. 156 the
Act is to be forwarded to the
f, Office, at 'Ottawa, from whieh
Amen -b.' the necessary forms will
sued to the Clerks Of the several
pipalities.
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• TAKE NOTICE
THAT JOHN HALDAN, has, been
appointed Official Assignee for the ()jaunty
of Huron..
•Office at SEAFORM,-J. S. currE s.
Office at GoDEBIan,_Threct1r opposite the
Post Office:
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Agent for the Queen's Life In
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e the Trade
6th, 1868.
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Families and Iviannfactu-rer
OA, 0011.FAITY .
TO. IN \v3e,stRo, Tsosrinonlito,onaased 8
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LETTER Cr-aest Leatar and. elo
Manufa,ctufing Machme.
LETTER E -or CYlinde Machine, for
Harness making, Boot and Shoe Pitt'
and Saddlery ork where he form --of t
1w8o6r1k. must b'd retained. w e Stitching, ie
est Premium at the World's air in London,
IPG MACHIATES were aw: (led- the. High -
1862, and Gold. Medal at P Expositim,
the most complete and oaf t in the world.
THESE _WORLD BRATI W.ATBD SEW-.
They are celebrated_ for doing the best
work, using a much smaller needle for the
same thread than any other naaebine, and by
the !introduction of the moat' improved. m1.
chinery, we are new able to supply the very
best machines in the world.
THE QUALITIES WHICH 1?EGrahl.
IiiESD THEN' ARE: 1. Beatity and Ex.
-celleney of Stitch, Alike both sides of
the fabric sewed. 2. &Tee b, Firnmess
andrpure.bility of Seam, t t will not Rip
or, Ravel. 3. Economy of ti -ad. 4, At-
tachments and wide range s f application to
purposes and materials.
The above canl)aluid at t e Branch Office
in Seaforth, from W; W nee.. -
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Who is also Agent for the eelebrated
ITANZER A.9/1 WIN MAO '/NES, which
for facility of management neatnessand,
durability of stitch) and. wid range of seamg. -
and Annivalled as a Family wing machine.,
Thread, Silk, Twist, Sh les, Bobbins,'
Needles, e p 11,0machine ap-
p13 „Office at &a -
forth, where machines ma -be neatly .
W. N. WA SON, Seafortia.
April lath 1868. 19-1y.
King 8
Paul's Str
ncy for Seafo
ri n
Mo( -)w by the
.of mli-ers and • .
vp Inintary leVee;
poetatIiose the deser
blenein.
on fiFes
•assemble,
the fortn
-decorated
t night
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ththe
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and noblest of the
and merriment reign
During the dance t
prpathed thon; they
lent felt no feat eik
ng next te the, One ai
on fire. Corning to ti
gazed on'the billows
• -the eity, and returne•d
ment. Agein and aga.
Treasures to watch the
ilamea At length the
and the neeessits- of l
of merriment .became
• They were enveloped in
• and gazed en with dee
lemnity. •
At last the fire,
eir, o
, GUBTRE
M EIODEON AND CABftIET ORGAN
F A:C TO WY
BELL, WOOD & 100.
OULD ultimate to thepublic of the
Dominion that tlieyjni ufaCture Me-
lodeons and Cabinet Organs uperier to any
'on the oontinent, at prices &S 10W as tlme of
any other good niaker, -Th
tion and cliaienge coin
firm are practical 1VIei n
Mri Wood has 'worked as.
the.best factories of Camas'
State. His tuning has lee
first priee wherever exhibi
lodeons are all Piano styled,
and durable than the i)ortabl
All instruments are wari
years., Perfect satisfaction
lustiated Catalogues conte
from &great number of eeleb
sent free on application.
FIRST-CLASS PIANOs
Factory and .Ware -rooms
Square, Guelph.
• WN. BELL,
H..B. Weep,
J. L. WILKIE,
January'16, 1868.
4 .
defy competi-
mon. All of the
akers.
ead turner for
d the 13nited
ably taken the
d. Their Me-
me more firm
style.
anted for Eve
araaitedd.:11-
g tesihnonia.ls
ted musicians
OR SAE.
East Markt
R. 'W. DELL
11-,. Maxon.'
gent, Clinton.
6-ly,
REDUCTION IN
SEAFORTH
LORI
MHE Sdbscribers are now
• ply the inhabitants of
FLOUR itc
AT REDUCED
ORDERS LEFT A
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-repar‘d to itup-
Seaforth with
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THE
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Or at W. Scott Ifob
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Italian War house
;
'ill have immediate attentiqn, and be de-
livered at the residence of the p yb
IS/Zeal/S:0V
Seaforth, Dec. 2nd 186a
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because it haetheee
more tlian. we hire.
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we love to fan seeselei
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