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STRA NING OUT A GNAT, AND SWAL-
LOWING A CAMEL
Bev. Dr. Talmage Proaehes a Powerful
Soresson Against the Tendency to Formal-
ism in Religion -Society Scorehed for its
Ilynocritical Pretence -Another Curious
Text.
BROOKLYN, N.Y., March 27, 1892, -The
tendency to formalism in religion and to
hypocriticel pretence in aociety received a
severe castigation from the pulpit of the
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning. Dr.
Talmage made a vigorous onslaught upon
it, basing his remarks on, the text. Matt.
23:24 :-"Ye blind guides, who strain at a
gnat and. swallow a camel.'/
A proverb is compact wisdom., know-
ledge in chunks, a library in a sentence,
the electricity of many clouds discharged
in one bolt, a river put through a mill race.
When Christ quotes the proverb of the
text, he means to set forth the ludicrous
behavior to those who make a great blust-
er about small sins and have no appreciation
of great ones.
In my text a small insect and a large
quadruped are brought into comparison
-a gnat and a ca.mel. You have in
museum or on the desert seen the latter,
a great awkward, sprawling creature, with
back two stories high, and stomach hav-
ing a collection of reserviors for desert
travel, an animal forbidden to the Jews
as tood, and in many literetures entitled
"the ship of the desert," The gnat
spoken of in the text is in the grub form.
It is born in pool or pond, after a few
weeks become a chrysalis, and then after
a few days becomes the gnat as we re-
cognize it. But the insect spoken of in
the text is in its very smallest shape, and
it yet inhabits the water -for my text is
a misprint and ought to read "strain out a
gnat."
My text shows you the prince of incon-
sistencies. A man after long observation
has formed the suspicion that in a cup of
water he is about to. drink there is a grub
or grandparent of a gnat. He 'goes and
gets a sieve or strainer. He takes the water
and pours it through the sieve in the broad
light. He says, "I would rather do any-
thing almost than drink this water until
this larva be extirpated." This water is
brought under inquisition, The experiment
Is successful. The water rushes through
the sieve and leaves against the side of the
sieve the grub or gnat. Then the man care -
fu removes the insect and drinks the
w ter in pIazidity. But going out one day,
and hungry, he devours a "ship of the
desert,' the camel, which the Jews were
forbidden to eat. The gastronomer has no
compunctions of conscience. He suffers
from no indigestion. He puts the lower
jaw under the camel'. forefoot, and his
upper jaw over the hump ot the camel's
back, and gives one swallow and the drome-
dary disappears forever. He strained out
a gnat, he swallowed a camel.
While Christ's audience were yet smiling
at the appositeness and wit of his illustra-
tion -for smile they did in church, unless
they were too stupid to understand the
hyperbole -Christ practically said to them,
"That is you." Punctilious about small
things; reckless about affairs of great mag-
nitude. No subject ever withered under a
surgeon's knife more bitterly than did the
Pharisees under Christ's scalpel of truth.
As an anatomist will take a human body to
pieces and put them under a microscope for
examination, so Christ finds His way to the
heart of the dead Pharisee ad cuts it out
and puts it under the glass of inspection
for all generations to examine. Those
Pharisees thought that Christ would flatter
them and compliment them, and how they
must have withered under the red-hot words
as he said: "Ye fools, ye whited sepulchres,
ye blind guides which strain out a gnat and
swallow a camel."
There are in our day a great many gnats
strained out and a great many camels swal-
lowed, and it is the object of this sermon to
sketch a few persons who are extensively
engaged ia that business.
_First, I remark, that all those ministers
of the Goapel are photographed in the text
who are very scrupulous about the con-
ventionalities of religion, but pat no parti-
cular stress upon matters of vast import-
ance. Church services ought to be grave
and solemn. There is no room for frivolity
in religioue convocation. But there are
illustrations, and there are hyperboles like
that of Christ in the text that will irradiate
with smiles any intelligent auditory, There
.are men like those blind guides of the text
who advocate only those things in religious
service which draw the corners of the
mouth do ern, and denounce all those things
which have a tendency to draw the cor-
ners of thelkinouth up, and these men
will go to installations and to presbyteries
and to conferences and. to associations,
their pockets fall of fine sieves to strain
eat the gnats, while in their own churches
at herne every Sunday there are fifty
people sound asleep. They make their
churches a, great dormitory, and their
somniferous sermons are a cradle, and the
drav,ded out hymns a lullaby, while acme
wakeful soul in a pew with her fau keeps
the flies off unconscious persons approxi-
mate. Now, I say it is worse to sleep in
church than to smile in church, for the lat-
ter implies at least attention, while the
former impliee the indifference of the hear-
ers and the stupidity of the speaker. In old.
age, or from physical infirmity, or from
long watchine with the sick, drowsiness
will sometimes over -power one; but when a
minister of the Goepel looks off upon an
itudienee aced iinds healthy and intelligent
people strueeling with drowsiness, it is time
for -him to give out the doxology or pro-
nounce the benediction. The great fault
of churcit services to -day is not too much
'vivacity, bat teo mach somnolence. The
one i an irritating gnat that may be
easily straineo out ; the other ie a great,
sprawling and sleepy-eyed camel of the
dry desert. In all Selibeth schools, in all
our iiilde classes, in all our pulpits ave,
need to brighten up one religious messages
with Buell, Christ -like vivacity as we tine in
our text.
I take down from my library the biog-
raphies of ministers and writers of past
ages, inspired and uninspired, who have
done the most to bring souls to Jesus
Christ, and I find that without e single ex-
ception they consecrated &heir wit and
their humor to Christ. Elijah used it when
he advised the Baalites, as they could not
make their god reepond, telling them
to call louder, as their god might be Hound
asleep or gone hunting. Job used it when
he said to his self -conceited eionforiete
"Wisdom will die with you." Christ, not
only used it in the text, but when he ironi-
cally complimented the putrid Pharisees,
saying, 'Ile whole need nota physician,"
and when by one word he described the
cunning of Herod. saving. "Go ve. and tell
Mat lox." Matthew Henry's Comment-
aries from the first page to the last corus-
cated with humor as summer clouds with
heat lightning. John Bunyan's 'writings
are as full of hurnoreas they are of saving
truth, and there is not an aged man here
who has ever read Pilgrim's Progress who
does not remember that while reading it he
smiled as often as he wept. Chrysostom,
George Herbert, Robert South, James Wes-
ley, George Whitefield, Jeremy Taylor,
Rowland Hill, Nettleton, George G. Finney,
and all the men of the past who greatly ad-
vanced the kingdom of God consecrated
their wit and their humor to the cause of
Christ. So it has been in all the ages, and
I say to these young theological students,
who cluster in these services Sabbath by
Sabbath, sharpen your wits as keen as
scimitars, and then take them into this
holy war.
Oh, how particular a great many people
are about the infinitesimals, while they are
quite reckless about the magnitudes. What
did Chriat isay? Did he not excoriate the
people n His time who were so careful to
wash their hands before a meal, but did
not wash their hearts? It is a bad thing
to have unclean hands ; it is a were&
thing to have an unclean heart. How
many people there are in our time who
are very an<dous that after their death
they shall be buried with their feet
toward the east, and not at all anxious that
during their whole life they should face in
the right direction, so that they shall come
up in the resurrection of the just whichever
way they are buried. How many there are
chiefly anxious that a minister of the Gospel
shall come in the line of apostolic succession,
ndt caring so much whether he comes from
Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas. They have
a way of measuring a gnat until it is larger
than a camel.
Again. My subject photographs all those
who are abhorrent of small sins, while they
are reckless in regard to magnificent thefts.
You will find enemy a merchant who, while
he is so careful that he would not take a
yard of cloth or a spool of cotton from the
counter without paying for it, and who if a
bank cashier would make a mistake and send
in a roll of bills five dollars too much would
dispatch a messenger in hot haste to return
the surplus, yet who will go into a stock com-
pany, in whieb, after a while, he gets con-
trol of the stock, and then, waters the
stock and makes $100,000 appear like
$200,000. He only stole $100,000 by the
operation. Many of the men of fortune
made their money in that way. One of
those_ men, engaged in such unrighteous
acts, that evening, the evening of the
very day when he watered the stock, will
find a wharf -rat stealing an evening
newspaper from the basement doorway,
and will go out and catch the urchin by
the collar and twist the collar so tightly
that the poor fellow cannot By that it was
thirst for knowledge that led him to the
dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter
and tighter, saying, "I have been looking
for you a long while; you stole my paper
four or five times, haven't you? you miser-
able wretch." And then the old stock
garnbler, with a voice they can hear three
blocks, will cry out, "Police, police 1"
The same man, the evening of the day in
which he watered the stock, will kneel with
his family in prayer and thank God for the
prosperity of the day, then kiss his child-
ren good night with an air which seems to
say, “I hope you will all grow up to be as
good as your father !" Prisons for sins in-
aectile in size, but palaces for crimes dro-
medarian. No mercy for sins animalcule in
proportion, but great leniency tor mastiglon
iniquity.
This subject does not give the picture of
one or two persons, but is a gallery in
which thousands of people may see their
likenesses. For instance, all those people
who, while they would not rob their
neighbor of a farthing, appropriate the
money and the treasure of the public. A
man has a house to sell, and he tells his
customer it is worth $20,000. Next day
the assessor comes around and the owner
says it is worth $15,000. The govern-
ment of the United States* took off the tax
from personal income among other rea-
sons because so tew people would tell the
truth, and many.. man with an income of
hundreds of dollars a day made statements
which seemed to imply he was about to
be handed over to the overseer of the poor.
Careful to pay their passage from Liver-
pool -to New York, yet smuggling in their
Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris
and a half-dozen watches from Geneva,
Switzerland, telling the custom house officer
on the wharf, "There is nothing in that
trunk but wearing apparel," and putting a
five dollar gold piece in his hand to punctu-
ate the statement.
Described in the text are all those who
are particular never to break the law of
grammar, and who want all their language
an elegant specimen of syntax, straining
out all the inaccuracies of speech with a
fine sieve of literary criticism, while
through their conversation go slander and
inuendo and profanity and falsehood
larger than a whole caravan of camels,
when they might better fracture every law
of the language and shock their intellectual
taste, and better let every verb seek in vain
for its nominative, and every noun for its
government, and g very preposition lose its
way in the sentence, and adjectives and
participles and pronouns get into a greed
riot worthy of the Fourth Ward on election
day, than to conunit a moral inaccuracy.
Better to swallow a thousand gnats than
ne eztniel.
Such persons are also described in the
text who are very much alarmed about the
small faults of others, and have no alarm
about their own great transgressions. There
are in every community, and in every
church, watch dogs, who feel called upon
eo keep their eyes on others and growl.
They are fall of suspicions. They wonder
if that man is not dishonest, if that Man is
not unclean, if there is not something
wrong about the other man. They are al
ways the first to hear of anything wrong.
Vultures are always the first to smell car-
rion. They are self-appointed detectives.
I lay this down as e rule, without any ex:
ception, that those people who have the
most faults themselves are most merciless
in their watching of others. From scalp
of head to sole of foot they are full of
jealousies and hypercriticisms. They spend
their life ie hunting for musk rats and
mud Wades insiead of hunting for Rocky
Mountain eagles, always for something
mean instead of something grand. They
look at their neighbors' imperfections
through a microscope, and look at their
own imperfections through a telescope up-
side down. Twenty faults of their own do
net hurt, them half so much as ono fault of
somebody else. Their neighbors' imperfec-
tions are like gnats and they strain them
out; their own imperfections are like camels
and they swallow them.
Btit lest anv might think thev moms the
4
THE HUR0N EXPOSITOR
scrutiny ot the text, I have to tell you that
we • all come under the divine satire when
we make questions of time more prominent
than the questions of eternity. Come, now,
let us go into the confessional. Are not all
tempted to make the question, Where shall
I live now? greater than the question, Where
shall I live forever? How shall I get more
dollars here? greater than the question,
How shall I lay up treasnres in Heaven?
the question, How shall 1 pay my debt to
man? greater than the question, How shall
I meet my obligations to God? the ques-
tion, How shall I gain the world?
greater than the question, What if
I lose my soul? the question, Why did
God let sin come into the world ? greater
than the question, How shall I get it ex-
tirpated from my nature? the question'
Mat shall I do with the twenty or forty
or seventy years of my sublunar existence
greater than the question, What shall I
do with the millions of cycles of my post
-
terrestrial existence? Time, how small ,it
is! Eternity, how vast it is! The former
more insignificant in comparison with the
latter than a gnat is insignificant when com-
pared with a camel. We dodged the text.
We said, "That doesn't mean me, and that
doesn't mean me," and with a ruinous
benevolence we are giving the whole sermon
away.
•
News Notes.
-Sir Andrew Agnew, who was born in
1818 and fought in the Canadian rebellion of
1838, died in London on Saturday.
-.-Itis estimated that six hundred and
fifty miles of railway will be built in Mani-
toba and the Territories daring the coming
summer.
-Thirty marriages, one hundred and
three births, and sixty•four deaths were
registered at the. Toronto city clerk's office
during the past week.
- Richard T. Connell, of Cape Vincent,
on trial in Utica, New York, on a charge of
smuggling Chinese from Canada into the
United States, has been acquitted.
-The Ontario Government has intimated
its willingness to give sites on the Normal
School site at Kingston fora public school
and collegiate institute if the 'Dominion
Government emisents.
-Rev. F. W. Dobbs, of Portsmouth, cele
brated his 77th birthday on Thursday last
week. He has been rector of St. John's
church for 37 years, and is greatly esteemed.
He is an uncle of Sir Richard Cartwright.
- Three car -loads of silk valued at about
$275,000 and one of gold ore were recently
ferried by the C.P.R. transfer boats at
Prescott,
-The body of Mr. Richard Wigmore, of
Peterborough, who has been missing since
last December, was found' floating in the
river Monday morning.
-The death of Daniel Lilly, a native of
Ireland, at the age of one hundred and six
years is announced from Waterdown, near
Hamilton.
-S; B. Harman, formerly city treasurer
and at different times mayor and assessor
for Toronto, is dead, He retired from the
city treasurership three years ago with a
pension of $2,000 a year.
- J. H. Metcalfe M.P., has arrived in
Kingston from Ottawa in a very bad state
of health. He was hardly able to speak to
friends and seemed very downcast. It is
evident he had a. very severe attack,
-The serge patrol jacket of the pattern
approved for the imperial army has been
adopted for the officers of the Canadian
militia, and will be worn in marching, field
day and drill order.
-The Mining Association of Ontario have
resolved to use all possible endeavors to ob-
tain the abolition of royalties on minerals,
and also to secure from the Government the
most liberal policy possible for the coestrue-
tion of railroads and rosds.
- Mr. W. 0. McDonald, of Montreal, leas
given $85;000 to McGill University, to be
applied as an endowment for the mainten-
ance of the Experimental and Engineering
buildings, which were founded by him.
-A farmer named John McMillan, living
two miles west of Bowmanville, was retnrn-
ing to his home on Saturday night when he
W&8 thrown out of his wagon by the upset-
ting of the vehicle, run over by the front
wheels, and instantly killed.
- Rev. Jabez R. Jacques, D. D., Ph.D.,
LL.D., formerly of Belleville, and of late
vice-president of Hending College, Abing-
don, Illinois, is dead.
-The fourteenth anniversary of Rev. Dr.
Laidlaw's pastorate was celebrated on Sab-
bath, March 20th, in St. Paul's church, Ham-
ilton. Rev. W. J. Clark, of London,
preached, and the congregations were very
large.
- The other day as Miss Lotto Hays, of
Haysville, was making a Pin -cushion of her
mouth one of the pins got into her throat
and lodged there. She was taken to Dr.
Brown, of Platteville, and the pin went on
in its journey down the- throat and has not
troubled her since.
--St. George, Brant county, has another
new paper, the Enterprise, and it announces
that it has come to stay. It is to be inde-
pendent in politics. St. George is a stirring
place and should be able to take the new
editor by the hand and make him feel at
home.
-A rather peculiar accident heppened
at the farm of Mr. Robert Hewitt, near
Haysville. Mr. Hewitt has a two•horse
treat -power for pulping turnips, pumping
water, etc. Wishing to stop the machine
the man put the lever down too quickly
when the fly -wheel burst and part of it went
through the roof of the barn and a piece
struck one of hired men, breaking his arm.
-A case of a man being conscience strick-
en is reported by a physician of Arnprior.
Thirty years ago the physician sued a debtor
for $1O; the debtor perjured himself and
the doctor lost the suit. Last week the man
sent the amount to his creditor, saying that
he knew God had forgiven him the deed and
hoping the doctor would do the same.
-Bee. Dr. Smith, at Hsin-Chen Corea,
in a letter to Queen's College, Kingston,
students, said: "At times I have to teach,
preach, and dispense, as well as do all the
squabbling myself. Don't be alarmed -
every little bargain that is made is the
cause of e great amount of talk and wrang-
ling, andrwhat would be settled in five
minutes at home often takes five hours
here."
-The Globe of Monday says "The Rev.
J. A. Turnbull, of the West Presbyterian
church, Toronto, ga,ve a most able address
yesterday afternoon, showing that intoxi-
cants were always working against happi-
nese, health, work, wealth and morality,
and that 2] out of every 28 in prisons in
Ontario and Quebec came there through the
influence of drink, and seven out of ten
patients in the hospitals in London, Eng-
land, from the eame cause.
-The project of putting in interlocking
switches and track tanks along the Canadian
division of the Michigan Central Railway,
is assuming definite shape. When all is com-
pleted a continuous run will be made from
Falls View to Windsor, a distance of 225
miles; which will be covered by the limited
trains in 41 hours, and will be the longest
railway run without stopping in the world.
-It is announced in London, England,
that Sir Edward William Watkin, 73 years
old, is about to marry Mrs. Ingram, 80
years old. Mrs. Ingram is the widow of
the founder of the Illustrated London News
and is wealthy. Sir Edward's first wife died
four years ago. He is a pamphleteer of con-
siderable note, and some 40 years ago he
published a book about hie trip through the
United States and Canada. He has sat in
,t'arlianient since 1874 for Rythe and has
held good political offices, Charles Ingram
• says that his mother received under his
Children Cry for
PUREST, STRONGEST, BEM
Canted= no Alum, Ammonite Lime,
Phosphates, or any Injeriante
father's will nearly £1,000,000, without any
condition or reservation whatever, and
should she marry Sir Edward her husband
would have all the rights in her property
which English law provides.
-A Haysville correspondent writes the
following notice of the death of one of the
early residents of that village: "Died it
Stratford on Monday, March 21st, Mrs.
John Sydney Smith. The above lady was
well-known in this village, having lived here
a good many years with her husband the
late J. S. Smith, who kept store here for a
number of years and built the store and
dwelliug in which Mr, T. Somerville resides
as well as the house in which Mr. Jacob
Anderson lives, coming to this township
fifty-two years ago with her father, mother,
three brothers and three &stem. Mr. R. C.
Tye is her only survivine brother. Of the
two sisters, the eldest, Mrs. 11. Fenner, has
lived in South Orange, New Jersey, nearly
fifty years, and the other is Mrs. W. D.
Harrison, of Stratford, who has been con-
fined to the house of her sister, Mrs. Fenner,
for more than a year from an accident she
met with by slipping on an icy road, while
walking from the atation to her sister's
house. Mrs. Smith leaves five children.
Albert, the eldest, lumber merchant, Mus-
koka; Mrs. 11. M. Johnson, well-known in
this village; Mrs. George Motherel, Ottawa;
Edward, Q,C,, Stratford, and Mrs. Wm. A.
Machaffie, Winnipeg.
A Novel Advertising Scheme.
In racking one's brain for some device to
catch the shy and wary customer, the fol-
lowing may serve as a suggestion. It is tbe
story told by the Sentinel of Indianapolis of
a druggist of that city. He found a stray
nickel on the floor of his store one morning,
and resolved to post this notice on the win-
dow of his store.
"A sum of money found on Tpesday last
in this establishment. The owner will re-
ceive same within upon describing tbe
money."
The scheme worked like a charm. Hun-
dreds of citizens came in daily for over a
week while the notice was left io the win-
dow, describing their losses and bewailing
their misfortune. Invariably every appli-
cant for the lost money bought a cigar.
Some were satisfied with five eent straight
whiffs, but the great majority, anxioue to
impress the drug man favorably toward their
claims, invested in two -for -a -quarter. So
great was the rush that the fortunate drug-
gist had to order a fresh consignment of
choice brands. None of the applicants ever
applied for the nickel.
Old Jack.
We are favored here in Houghton with a
lesson on the law of kindness to that noblest
and most serviceable of all animals -the
horse, which is honorable to the town, and
in which every citizen should take pride.
We refer to old Jack, a worn out horse, be-
longing to the A. Haas CotnpanY. Nearly
all our citizens have seen him perambulating
the streets and wharves making his way at
his own sneet will and looking the picture
of comfort and content. Although giving
evidence very plainly that he ie old, worn-
out, and past work, it appears that he is not
considered by his owners as an encumbrance
to be put out of the way, but as worthy of
being as well kept, groomed, and cared for
as any animal in their stables. He has
worked for them sixteen years, and is now
about twenty-five years old. For the past
three years' he has done no work, been al-
lowed to choose his GWEI °mime, and, to
wander about at will. Nobody molests
him; even the email boy refuees to shy a
stoneest him; and as a representative of
genial, gentle old age after s well spent life,
he walks around, the recipient of general
respect. Such treatment reflects great
credit on his owners. Good old Jack, we
like to see him on the street, where his de-
meanor is that of one who bas the utmost
confidence in all he meets. But principally
we look upon him as teaching ueeful lessons
of kindness in this community,which should
be learned and carried into daily practice by
us all. -From the Mining Gazette, Portage
Lake, Michigan.
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which govern the operations of digestion and nutri-
tion, and by a careful application of the fine proper-
ties of well -selected Cocoa. Mr. Epps has provided
our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured bev-
erage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills.
It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet that
a constitution may be gradually built up until strong
enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hun-
dreds of subtle maladies are floating arsund us ready
to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may
escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselve well
fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished
frame." -Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with
boiling water or milk. Sold only by qrocers, labelled
thus: JAMES EPPS & CO., Heniceopathie Chem-
ists, London, Eagland. 1246-52
-or •
Monthly Prizes for Boys and
Girls.
The " Sunlight" Soap Co. Toronto, offer the fol-
lowing prizes every month till further notice, to boys
and girls under 16, residing in the province of On-
tario, who send the greatest number of " Sunlight "
wrappers : 1st, $10 ; 2nd, $6 • 3rd, ;3; 4th, ; 5th
to 1 m
4th, a Handsome Book; and a petty picture to
those who send not less than 12 wrappers. Send
wrappers to 'Sunlight" Soap Office, 43 Scott St..
Toronto, not later than 29th of each month, and
marked " Competition ;" .aleo give full name, ad-
dress, age, and :number of wrappere. Winners'
names will be published in the Toronto Mail on first
Saturday in each month. 1218-52
-re • ea
MEDICAL HINTS.
CURE FOR DYSPEPSIA.
As is well known, this troublesome complaint
arises from over -eating, the use of toa much rich
food, neglected constipation, lack of exercise, bad 26 J. W. SNELL.6
e_-
air, etc, The food should be thoroughly chewed and
never bolted or swallowed in haste, stimulants must
he avoided and exercise taken if possible. A remedy
whish has rarely failed to give prompt relief and ef-
fect'permanent cures, even in the nost obstinate'
eases, is Burdock Blood Bitters. It acts by regulating
and toning the digestive organs, removing costive-
ness and increasing the appetite and restonng health
and vigor to the *retch!. As a case in eoire we
quote from a letter written by Miss L. A. Kuhn, of
Hartillton'Ontario "Two years ago life seemed a
burden. I could not eat the simplest food without
being in dreadful misery in my stomach, under ray
shoniders and acrose the back of my neck. Medical
advice failed to procure relief, and seeing B. 13. B.
advertieed, I took two bottles of it, and have bees
entirely free from any syinptoms of my complaint
since."
TY is gives very conclusive proof of the efficiencj of
this wonderful remedy.
Oh, What a Cough!
w u you heed the warning. The signal perhaps of
the r approach of that more terrible disease con-
' SUM n. Ask yourselves if you can afford for the
sak of saving 50e., to run the risk and do nothing
for i . We know from experience that Shiloh's Cure
will cure your cough. It never fails. 1259-52
• OP
Drunkenness -Liquor Habit- In
all the World there is but one
Cure -Dr. Haines' Golden
Specific.
It can be given in s cup of tea or coffee without
the knowledge of The person taking it, effecting a
speedy and permanent cute, whether thq patient; is a
modbrate drinker or an alcoholic wreck. Thousands
of drunkarde have been cured who have taken the
Golden Specific in their coffee without their know-
ledge, and to -day believe they quit drinking of their
own free will. No harmful effect results from their
administration. Cures guaranteed. Send for ;cir-
calm. for full particulars. Address in confidehe,e,
GOLDEN SPEDIPIC Co., 185 Race Street, Cincinnati,
Ohio. 1280-132
At Home and Abroad.
PhYsici we, travellers, pioneers, settlers, invalids
and all classes of people of every degree, testify to
the medicinal aud tonic virtues of Burdock Blood
Bittere. the most popular and effective medicine ex-
tant. It cures all diseases of the stomach, liver,
bowels and blood.
Cold Weather Trials.
DEAR. Sias,-ThIs fall and winter I suffered from
neurallria in my face and had the best medical ad-
vice without avail, 1 at last thought of trying B.B.B.
and after tieing one bottle have not felt any symp.
toms of neuralgia since. I regard it as a fine family
medicine.
J. T. Daosr,
Teaslip, Man.
Entitled to the Best.
Al are entitled to the best that their money will
buy, tio every family should have, at once, a bott c of
the best family remedy, Syrup of Figs, to cleanse
the aysterr. when costive or bilious. For sale in 75c.
bott es by all leading__...drug.g.„Ists.
Dr. T. A. Slocum's
OXYGENIZED EMULSION of PURE If
E COD LifER
OIL. If you are Feeble and Emaciated -Use it. For
Sale iy all druggists. 35 cents per bottle.
__n..
When Baby was sick, we gave her Castor's,.
When she was a Child, she cried for Castoria!
When she became Miss, sho clung to Castor*.
Wen she had Children, she gave them Castello,
4 Cure for Constipation and
Headache.
Dr, Silas Lane, while in the Rocky Mountains, dis-
covered a root that when combined with other herbs,
maks an easy and certain cure for constipation It
is in beforce of dry roote and leaves, and is known
as L fle53 Family Medicine. It wifl cure headache
in o e night. For the blood, liver and kidneys, and
for blearinr up the complexion it does wonders.
Druggists sell it at 50c a package.
News About Town.
It ts the current report about town that Kemp's
Balsam for the Throat and Lungs is making some re-
war4able cures with people who are troubled with
Coughs, Sore Throat, Asthma,. Bronchitis and pon-
sumption. Any druggist will you a trial bottle
The Large Bottles are 60c. and 81.
free Of cost. It is guaranteed to relieve and cure.
1
MONTREAL, August 4th, 1891.
MY head was literally full of Dandruff and nothing
applied gave visible relief until using Anti -Dandruff,
a few aplications of which has so thoroughly re-
moved thc dandruff there is not a grain to be fmind.
W. H. O'REGAN, .
_ Mail Clerk.
3 Applications.
It takes only this to thoroughly reinove Dandruff,
stop itching of the scalp, and make the hair soft, and
pliable. In fact Anti -Dandruff is a perfect hair iconic
-al i say so who use it.
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Unsightly pimples, blotches, tan, and all itc•ning
humors of the skin are removed bY using Dr. Low's
i
Sulphur Soap.
_1 -• • I
Constipation claims many victims. Ward off this
dread diseaee by the use of Small Sugar -Coated
Burdock Pills when rif_ovede:....___.
I
Dr. Lew's Worm Syrup has removed tape worms
from 16 to 30 -feet long. It also destroys all other
kinds of la onus.
TI e meet agreeable, restorative and tonic stim-
ulant is Milburn's Beef, Iron and Wine.
4, • OP, ,
U ique-K.D.C. is not advertised to "cure all the
ills that1iesh is heir to," but is specially prepared for
the ure 1 Indigeetion or Dyspepsia. Cure guaran-
te
teed ! T y it !
Oa
Gid Found by the K. D. C. Company, the Dye-
peptie's old Mine -K. D. C. Dyspeptics Invited to
test the q ality. A free sample package inail9c1 to
any addr K. D. C. Company, New Glasgow,
Nova Scotia.
The WOrld's Faii-'Twill be fairer still when all
dyspeptics have been cured by the use of K. D. C. -
the Greatest Cure of the Age. Cure guaranteed or
money refunded.
SUBSTITUTE nothiq for K. D. C -The Perfect
Cure. It acts like naa.gio on the stomach. Test it
for yourself. A free sample package mailed to any
address. K. D. C. Company, New Glasgow, Nova
Scotia.
Rulis for Football Cornpetition.
1. The competition will be confined to bona fide
pupils of public schools in the Counties of Huron and
Perth, who are under 18 years of age, and rose
nanlies are on the rolls of the respective school for
the!year 1891,or previous; to April 1st, 1892.
2. All clubs desiring to compete must send Itheir
entlries to the Secretary if the Seaforth Recreation
Grqunds Society on or bqfore the lst of May, 1892.
8. If more tban six etitries are received the tie
system will be adopted, 14 six or less the series, sys-
tern will be adopted. ;
4. The Secretary of Ole Society will send notices
of matches as arranged tio each competing club, and
any club or clubs failing, to appear for any Match
shall be declared losers oft that game.
5. The first prize in this competition will be a
School Library of 60 volumes, valued at 825; Second
prize, We ster's International Dictionary (with irn-
proved in ex), valued at 814 ; Third Prize, Football,
83.60.
(i. An entrance fee of $1, will be charged each
competing club and must accompany entry, •
7. Four teams to enter or no 'competition.
S. All matches to be played on the Seaforth Re-
creation Grounds.
p. Refereee and Umpires will be selected by the
Seaforth Recreation Grounds Committee.
10. Each team must, at each match, produce certi-
fleatew from the teacher showing their eligiplity,
and any lub playing a man nct eligible, will orfeit
all laim te the prizes. I
ALEXANDER WILSON. F. HO L51 ESTED,
S. R. G. S. - President.
Seaforth April let, 1892. 1268-3
PUBLIC NOTICE.
e- -
$1,000 REWARD
For any machine that will do as great a range of
work, and do it as easily and as well, as can be done
on the
Davis Vertical Feed Sewing
Machine.
This offer has been before the public for the past ten
years. It has not been claimed, proving that the
Davis Vertical Feed is THE BEST ON EARTH.
Agricultural Implements.
Steam Cutters, Grain Crushers, Horse Powers and
En Ilage Cutters, two style Root Pulpers, Pulpers
an Slicers combined. Those machines are from the
hosimakers in Canada. A full line of PLOWS,
fifteen different styles. The Chatham, Bain and
Adams Wagons.
-VM MEET Cr...,M S
Fine Canines, Top Buggies, Phaetons, Glad -
stones, Kensingtons, Mikados, and all kinds of
Fanoy Rigs, and a special line of Road Carts, includ-
ing ithe famous Daisy Hill, manufactured at Gan-
ano 4
e. A180 a full line of
C TTERS AND .SLEIGHS.
Come and get one of those champion washers on
a menth's trial, and save your wife's back from being
broken.
Satisfaction guaranteed or no sale ,
All kinds of PLOW CASTINGS and REPAIRS for
all the different kinds of plows that are in the
market always on hand at 0. C. Wiljson's Implement
Emporium,
0. C. WILLSON,
Seaforth.
I CURE FITS!
When I say I cure I do not mean merely to stop them
for a time and then have them return again, 1 mean a
mdlcal cure. I have made the disease of FITS, EPILEP-
SY or PALLING- SICKNESSia.lifelong Study. I warrant
my remedy to cure the woraWaseb. BeCatige others hme
failed is no reason for not new ree,eiviug a cure. Send at
once for a treatIse and a Free Dottie of my infallible
comedy- Give EXPRESS and P0ST-OFF10E.
G. RQDT, M. C., 186 ADELAIDE ST.
WEST, TORONTO, ONT.
Wellington,
Goma NOLTH-.
Ethel
Brussels
Bluevale
Wingham..
Gouts Sorra-
Wingham
Blnevale
Brussels
Grey and Bruce.
Passenger.
3.00?. IL 9.31 P.U. 846 P.n.
3.16 9.45 9.85
8.30 10.00 1040
3.40 10.10 11.10
Passenger. Mixed,
6.80 a.m.11.10 A. w. 7.36 P.M.
6.39 11.29 8.06
6.63 11.62 8.55
7.05 12.07 9.31
•
London, Huron and Bruce,
Gots Neeen-
London, depart
Exeter
Ilensall..
Rippe° , • 9.84
Brumfield 9.42
Clinton.... ..., 10.00
Londeibero 10.19
...... 10.28
Belgrave
Wingliam arrive
Gorse Sours-
Wingham, depart
Belgrave
Blyth
Londesboro 7.22
Clinton' 7.66
Brumfield 8.16
Rippen.. ..... 8.24
Ilencsall 8.32
Exeter... 8.60
Passenger.
8.15e.m. 4.45r.m
9.16 6.02
9.28 6.14
6.21
6,80
6,60
7.08
7.17
10.42 7.31
11.00 7.66
Passenger.
6.45A,M. 3.20P.M.
7.00 3.46
714 4.20
Grand Trunk Railway.
4.60
9.09
6.17
5.24
6.88
Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton station as
follews:
GODUO WZ8T- SEAVORTU.
Passenger 1.07 r.
Passenger._ .. 0.16 P. M.
Mixed Train.. _. 9.20 a. m.
Mixed Train.. ...... 6.20 r. M.
Gotha Ease-
Peesenger. 7.69 A. M.
Passenger 2.65 r. s.
Mixed Train.. 6.40 M.
Freight Train,. .. 4.25 P. M.
CLINTON.
1.23?. w.
9.82 P. M.
10.06e.m.
7.00 r.m.
7.43 a. ie.
2.36 P. M
500p. w.
3.30 r.
SHILOH'S
1CONSUMPTION
CURE.
This' GREAT COIJGH CURB, this Stie-
eessful CONSUMPTION CURE, is without
a parallel in the 'history of medicine. All
druggists are authorized to sell it on a pos-
itive guarantee, a test that no other cure can
sutcessfully stand. If you have a Cough,
Sere Throat, or Bronchitis, use it, for it will
cure you. If your child has the Croup, or
Whooping Cough, use it promptly, and relief
is sure. If you dread that insidious disease
CONSUMPTION, don't fail to use it, it will
cure you or cost nothing. Ask your Drug-
gist for SHILOH'S CURE, Price io cts..
5o cts. and $i.00.
John S. Porter's
Undertaking and Furni-
ture Emporium,
S EAF OR - ONTARIO.
OUTSIDE OF THE COMBINATION. g
Funerals furnished on the ehortest noticel
and satisfaction gui anteed. A large assort --S
anent of Caskets, Coffins and Shrouds, &e.1.
always on hand of the best.quality. The best'
of Embalming Fluid ased free of charge and
prices the lowest. Fine Hearse.
S. T. HOLMES, Funeral Director. Real- •
donee - GODERICH STREET, directly op-
posite the Methodist church in the house
formerly occupied by Dr. Scott.
inzu. eimixammainincassess
GODERICH
Steam Boiler Works,
(ESTABLISHED 1880.)
Chrystal & Black,
Manufacturers of all kinds of Stationary
Marine, Upright & Tubular
BOILERS
Salt Pans, Smoke Stacks, Sheet heir Works,
etc., etc.
Also dealere in Upright and Horizontal Slide Valve
Engines. Automatic Cut-':ff Engines a specialty. All
sizes of pipe and pipe -fitting constantly on hand.
Ect4mates furnished on short netice.
Works -Opposite G. T. R. Station, Goderich.
FARMERS.
Where are you going with your next
grist. Remember we are giving from
38 to 40 lbs.
Of Flour to the bushel for good
wheat,
FLOWER AND FEED
The und r*ned hereby begs to Notify the citizens
of Sea Or* and vicinity that be has opened ont a At the lowest living prices.
Renovating Establishment. DI
..,,ealers and others buying
in
ANY ONE IN NEED OF quantities, it will pay you to call and
Clothes Cleaned and Pressed,
see us before purchasing.
Repaired or byed
; Remember the place, Seaforth
Roller Mills, formerly known as the
Red Mill.
Will do well to give him a. trial.
Stain from Oil, Pitch, Tar, Paint or Grease Vein be
thoron hly removed and nicely pressed up again,
maliM ttult0 look as clean and fresh as when new.
Sat*grairdlateed. °bargee moderate.
01:110rE in IleGinnis' Block, Main Street, SeafOrth,
Pitcher's Castoria.
W. H. -CODE & Co.
Five Hundred
NEW
WINDOW
BLINDS
Just arrived this week comprising
24 Patterns and Fringes
From 50 cents upwards.
All our shades mounted on Harts -
horn's Double Ratchet Spring Rollers,
are guaranteed to give satisfaction.
C_"i7VT_P.APST
Windows Shade Dealer,
SEAFORTH, ONT.
NEW BUTCHER SHOP
IN SEAFORTH.
JONES & McCUAIG,
Beg to inform the people of Seaforth and vicinits that
they have started the Butchering business on Mhin
Street, Seatorth, in tbe shop formerly occupied by
Mr. George Ewing, and wili be glad to serve all who
may call me them, with fresh meat of all kinds. They
both have a practical knowledge of the business and
guarantee agood article and prompt attention toque -
towers.
Orders solicited and meat delivered in any part
of the town.
1289 tf. JONES & McCUAIG.
Pumps, Pumps.
BUSINESS CHANGE.
17V-MT_JSMEE
Who is well and favorably known to the people of
Seaforth and vicinity, has purcbased from Messrs.
Cluff & Bennett their pump making business and
machinery, and is now prepared to furnish the best
and most improved kiwis of Wooden Pumpe, guar-
anteed to give good satisfaction and on reaeonable
terries. He also makes Cisterns and tank* of &II
kinds. Give him a trial. He will always be found
at Cluff & Bennett's factory, North Main Street, Sea.
forth. Communications by mail promptly answered,
and estimates furnished.
J. S. WELSH, Seafortb.
1252-13
THE BIG MILLS,
SEAFORTH.
-The above mills have now been thoroughly rebuilt
tipon the oomplete
HUNGARIAN ROLLER PROCESS.
Th. Mill and Storehouse Buildings have been
greatly enlarged, and new machinery spplied
throughout.
THE LATEST IMPROVED ROLLS
-AND--
Flour Dressing Machines
From the best Manufacturing Firms have been put
ID, and everything necessary added to enable her to
turn out our
SECOND TO NONE
In the Dominion. The feciliLes for receiving gni
from farmers and for elevating and shipping have oh
been extensively improved. Grain can now be Saki
from fermate' wagons, weighed, and loaded Wee.
care at the rate of 700 buels per hour, by the
work of two men.
A LARGE FEED STONE
-FOR-----
CUSTOM CHOPPING
Has been put in, and the =colliery machinery for
handling chop and coarse grain..
A good shed has been ereotel, so that wagons can
be unloaded and relosded under cover.
WHEAT EXCHANGES.
Promptly attended to, and
FIRST-CLASS ROLLER FLOUR
GUARANTEED.
CD-STOWE PMMT.3
Chopped satisfactorily and without delay.
ROLLER -FLOUR, BRAN, SHORTS
And sal kinds of ,
APPLE BARRELS
-AND-
CHOPPED FEED
Constantly on hind.
..0•••••••••••••
Highest MarketPrice Paid in Cush
for any Quantity of Wheat.
Only first-class and obliging men will be kept to
attend customers. The liberal pstronge of fares -
ere and general trade respectfully solicited,
A. W. OCILVIE
PROPRIETORS
KIPPEN MILLS.
Always Ready' to Serve the Public
by Giving Good Flour.
JOHN. MeNEVIN
Begs to inform his friends and the public that he is
again able to give his, personal attention to business,
and Ma ing engage Mr. John B. Austin, a thor-
oughly competent,pr cticalmiller,he is preparedthdo
GRISTIN
AND CEfOPPING
On .the shortest neice, and most reasonable terms
1
to all who may call. i
tar Satisfaction s-traranteed every time.
1'7'
trial solicited. ii
. JOHN McNEVIN, Kippen.
NERVE
BEANS
NERVE BEANS are a new dis-
covery that cure the worst eases of
Nervous Debility, It Vigor and
Failing lirfanhood; restores the
weakness of body or mind caused
by over -work, or the errors or eice
misses of youth. This Remedy ate
isolutely cures the most obstinate eases when all other
TRELTMS21211 have failed even to relieve. Sold by drug-
gists et el per package, or six for $.5, or sent by mail on
receipt or price by addressing THE JAMES MEDICINE
00., Montreal, P. Q. Write for pamphlet. Sold in -
For sale by J. S ROBERTS, druggist, Seaforth.
THE FARMERS'
Banking - House,
(In connection with the Bank of Montreal.)
LOGAN & CO.v
BANKERS AND FINANCIAL AGENT
REMOVED
To the Commercial Hotel Building, Main Street
A General Banking Business done drafts issue and
cashed, Intereat allowed on deposits,
MONEY TO LEND
on good notes or mortgages.
ROBERT LOGAN, MANAGEP
1058
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