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The Huron Expositor, 1892-10-21, Page 2, 2THE HURON EXPOSITOR imarssamammwmostmenffsiismasmwsan0 "IT GANT-BE-DONE" A CRY THAT KEEPS BACK ENTER- PRISES AND PROGRESS. "It Cant -E• -none," They Said to Colum- , , bne--And Ku Are Shouting the Same Old Cry To-Day-ttaimage Speaks Elo- quently About Christopher Columbus. BROOKLYN, 0\0t. 9. -Pum Dr. Talmage's discourse to -day wasi oOrtsioned by the Columbus observance now taking place. In the oierflowing audience were Many who had come to the city to participate in the patriotic ceremonies. The subject was: "Thaf a Planet," the text being Deu- teronomy 327; "Lift up thine eyes west- ward." • So God said to Moses in Bible times, and so he said to ' Christoforo Colombo, the son of a wool -comber of Genoa, more than four hundred years ago. The nations ;had been looking . chiefly toward the East. The sculpture of the world, the laws of the world, the architecture of the world, the p llosophy of the wotal, the civilization h ofi tthe world, the religion of the world clone from the East. But, while Columbus,. Beads name was eailed after it was Latin- - ized, stood studying map; and examining 'globes and reading cosmography, God said to him : "Lift up thine eyes toward the West." The fact was it must have seemed to Columbus a very lop -sided world. Like a cart with one wheel, lfke a scissors with one blade like a sack on one side of a camel, needing a sack on the other side to balance it. Here was a bride of a world with no bridegroom. When God makes a half of anything, he does not stop there. He makes the other half. We are all oblig- ed sometimes to leave things only half done. But God never stops half way, because he has the time and the power to go all the way. I do not wonder that Columbus was ;not satisfied with half a world, and so went to wowk to find the other half. The pieces ,ef cared wood that were floated to the shores of Europe by a Western gale, and. two dead human faces,unlike anything he had seen before, likewise floated from the West, were to him the voice of God, saying: '"Lift up thine eyes towards the West." But the world then as now had plenty of Can't-be-Done's. That is what keeps indi- viduals back and enterprises back and the church back, and nations back -ignomin- ious and disgusting and dishearteningCan't- be-Doness. Old navigators say to young .Columbus, "It can't be done." The repub- lic of Genoa, said "It can't be cloned' Alphonso V. said "It can't be done." A committee on maritime affairs, to whom the subject was submitted, declared "It can't be done." Venetians said "It can't be done." But the father of Columbus' wife died, leaving his widow a large number of area charts and maps, and. as if to condemn the slur that different ages put upon mothers-in-law, the mother-in-law of Co- lumbus gavehimithe navigator's materials, out of which he ciphered America. After a while the story of this poor but ambitious Columbus reached the ear of Queen Isabella, and she pays eighty dollars to buy him a decent suit of clothes,. so that he may be fit to appear before royalty. The interview in the palace was successful. Money enough was borrowed to fit out the expedition. There they are, the three ships, in the Gulf of Cadiz, Spain. If you ask me which have been the most -famous boats of the world, I would say, first, North's ship, that wharfed on Mount Ararat; second, the boat of bulrushes, in which Moses floated the Nile; third, the May- flower that put out from Plymouth with the Pilgrim Fathers; and now these three ves- sels that on this, the Friday morning, Au- gust 3rd, 149% are rocking on the ripples. I am so glad it is Friday, so that the prows of those three ships shall first of all run down the superstition that things begun or voyage started on Friday must necessarily prove disastrous. Show me any Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday on Thureday or Sat- urday that ever accomplished as much as this expedition that started on Friday. With the idea that there will be perils eon - fleeted with the expedition, the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper is administered. Do not forget that this voyage was begun under religious auspices. There is the Santa Maria, only ninety feet long, with four masts and eight anchors. The captain walk- ing the deck is fifty-seven years old, his hair white, for at thirty-five he- was gray, and his face is round, his nose aquiline, and. his stature a little taller than the average. I knew from his decided step and the iset of his jawthathe is a determined num. That is Captain Christopher Colum bus. Near by, but far enough off not to run MO each other, are the smaller ships, the Pinta and the Nina, about large enough and iiefe enough to cross the Hudson River or the Thames in good weather. There are two doctors in this fleet of ships, and a few landsmen, adventurers who are ready to risk their necks in a wild expedition. There are enough provisions for a year. "Captain Columbus, where are you, sailing for ?" "I do not know." "How long before you will get there ?" "1 canteen say." "All ashore that are going," is heard, and those who wish to rely -Jane go to the land. Now the anchors of the three ships are being weighed and the ratlines begin to rattle and the sails to un- furl. The wind is dead east, and it does not take long to get out to sea. In a few hours, the adventurers wish they had not started. The ships begin to roll and pitch. Oh, it is such a delightful sensation for landsmen! They begin to bother Captain Columbus with questions. They want to know what lie thinks of the weather. They want to know when he thinks he will probably get there. Every time when he stands taking observations of the sun with an astroiable they wonder what he sees and ask more questions. The erew are rather grouty. Some of them came on under four months' advance pay and others were impressed into the service. For sixteen days the wind is dead cast, and that pleases the Captain, because it blows them further and further away from the European coast, and further on toward the shore of another country, if there is any. After a while, there comes a calm day, and the attempt is made to fathom the ocean, and they cannot touch bottom though the line and lead run down 200 fathoms. More delightful sensations for those who are not good sailors. A fathom is six feet, and two hundred fathoms, one thousand two hundred feet, and below that it may be limey hundred feet deeper. To add interest, to the voyage, on the 2.0tli day out, a vio- lent storm sweeps the sea, 'and the Atlantic Ocean tries what it can do with the Santa Maria, the Pinta and the Ninaname of you know something of what a sea can do with the Umbria, the Majestic, the Teu- tonic and the City of Paris, and you must imagine what the ocean could do with those three small ships of olden time. You may judge what the ocean was then by what it IS now; it has never changed its habits. It can smile like the morning, but often it is the Archangel of Wrath and its most rolicking fun is a shipwreck. The mutinous crew ' would have killed Columbus had it not been for the general opinion on shipboard. that he waa the only one that could take them hack home in safety. The promiee of a silk waiscoat and $40 in money to the man who should first discover land appeased them somewhat, but the indignation and blasphemy and threats of assassination must have been awftai. Yet, God sustained the .great sailor commanding the Santa Maria. Every evening on shipboard they , had prayers and sung a vesper hymn. But after all the patience of those on board the shires had been exhausted, and the great Cantain or Admiral has been cu s d b aveu anathema that human hips could frame, one night a sailor saw a light mov- ing along the shore, and then moving up and down and then disappearing. On Fri- day morning .at two o'clock, just long enough after Thursday to make it mire that it was Friday and so give another blow at the world's idea. of unlucky days -on Fri- day morning, Oct. 12th, 1492, a gun from the Pinta signalled "Land Ahad" Then the ships lay to, and the boats were lower- ed, and Captain Christopher Columbus first stepped. upon the shore, amid the song ,of birds and the air a surge of redolence,. and tOok possession in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost. So the voyage that began with the Sacrament ended with Gloria in Excelsis Deo. From that day onward, you say there can be nothing for Columbus,.but honors, rewards, rhap- sodies, palaces and world-wide applause. No, no! 011 his way back to Spain, the ship was so wrenched by the tempest and ao threatened with destruction that he wrote a brief account of his discovery and put it in a cask, and threw it overboard, that the world might not lose the advantage of his adventures. Honors awaits him on the beach, but he undertook a second voy- age and with it came all maligning and persecution and denunciation aed. poverty. He was called a land -grabber, a liar, a cheat, fraud, a deceiver of notions. Specu- lators robbed him of his good naMe, courtiers depreciated his disnoveries, and there carie to him ruined health, -and im- prisonment and chains, .of which he said while he rattled theni on his wrists : will wear them as a memento of the grati- tude of princes." Amid keen apprecia- tion of the world's abuse and cruelty, and with body writhing in the tortures of gout, he groaned out his last words: "In menus tuas Domine commend° spiritum meum "Into thy hands, Oh, Lord, I commend my spirit." Of course he had real obsequies. That is the way the world tries to atone for its mean treatment of great benefactors. Many a man has had a fine ride to his grave who during this life had to walk all the way. A big funeral, and instead of bread they gave him a stone. But death that brings quiet to the body of others did not bring quiet to his. First buried in the church of Santa Maria. Seven years afterward removed' to Seville. Twenty-three years afterward re- moved to San Domingo. Finally removed to'Cuba. Four post-mortem journeys from sepulchre to sepulchre. I wish his bones might be moved just once more, and now that they have coine so near to America as Cuba, they might during the great Colum- bian year be transported to our own shores, where they belong, and that the fifth cen- tury after his decease the American conti- nent might, build a mansoleum worthy of him who picked this jewel of a hemisphere out of the sea.and set it in the crown of the world's geography. But the bright noonday sun of that old sailor's prosperity went down in thickest night, and though here and there a monu- ment has been lifted in his memory, and here and there a city called after him, the continent that he was the means of found- ing was named after another men and no fitting commemoration of his work has been proposed until nearly four hundred years after his bOdy turned to dust. May the imposing demonstration now being made in his honor on the Atlantic coast, and to be inside next year in his honor mid-continent, be brilliant enough and far -resounding nough and Christian enough and rnagnifi-, cent enough to atone for the neglect of cen1 tuhies, May the good Lord allow that most illustrious sailor of all time tp look over the amethystine battlements long enough to see some of the garlands wreath- ed around his name and hear something of the hemispheric shout that shall greet his memory. What most impresses me in all that won- drous life which, for the next twelve months, we will be commemorating by ser - Mon and song and military parade and World's Fair and • Congress a Nations, is Isomething I have never heard stated, and that is, that the discovery of America was a religious discovery and in the name of God. -Columbus, by the study of the pro- phesies and by what Zechariah and Micah and David and Isaiah had said about the `ends of the earth," was persuaded to go but and find the "ends of the earth," and he felt himself called by God to carry Christianity to the "ends of the earth." Then, the administration of the Last Sup - Per before they left the Gulf of Cadiz, and the evening prayers during the vbyage, and the devout ascription as soon as they saw the new world and the doxologies with which they landed, confirm me in say- ing that the discovery of America was a re- ligious discovery. Atheism has no right here; infidelity has no right here; vaga- bondism has no right here. And as God is not apt to fail in any of his undertak- ings (at any rate, I have never -heard of his having anything to do with a failure). America is going to be gospelized, and from the Golden Gate of California to the Narrows of New Y,ork Harbor, and from the top of North America to the foot of South America, from Behring Straits to Cape Horn, this is going to be Imman- uePs Land. All the forms of irreligion and abomination that have cursed other parts of the world will land here -yea, they have already landed -and they will wrangle for the possession of this hemis- phere, and they will make great headway and feel themselves almost established. But God will not forget the prophecies which encouraged Columbus about the tend. of the earth seeing the selvation of God," nor the Christian an- them which Columbus led on the morning of the 12th of October, 1492, on the coast of San Salvador. Like that flock of land birds which met the Santa Maria and the Pinta and the Nina far out at sea, indicating to the commanders of that fleet that they were approaching some country, so a whole flock of promises and hopes, gold- ete winged and songful, this morning alight around us, assuring us that we are ap- proaching the glorious period of American evangelization. A Divine influence will yet sweep the continent that will make iniquity drop like slacked lime, and make the most blatant infidelity deelare it was only joking when it said the BiKe was not true, and the worst atheism annolince that it always did believe in the God of Nations. The great Indian navigator also impresses me with the idea that when one does a good thing, he cannot appreciate its ramifi- cations. To thenenoment of his death, Co- lumbus never knew that he had discovered America., but thought that Cube was a part of Asia. He thought the island Hispaniola was the Opleir of Solomon. He thought he had only opened a new way to old Asia. Had be known. what North and South America were and are, and that he had found a country three . thousand miles wide, ten thou- sand , miles long, of seventeen million square miles, and four times as large as tirope, the happiness would have been too much for mortal. man to endure. He had no idea that the time would conie when a , nation of sixty million people on this side of the sea would be joined by all the intelligent nations on the other side the - sea, for the* most part of a year reciting his wonderful deeds. It took centuries to reveal the result of that one transat- lantic voyage. So it has always been. Could Paul, on that June day, when he was decapitated, have had any idea of what effect his letters and the account of his life would have on Christendom? Could Martin Luther have had any idea of the echoes that would ring through the ages from the bang of his hammer nailing the Latin theses against a church door at Wittenberg' Could Eli Whitney have realized- the continents of wealth that would be added to the South by,the Inven- tion of his cotton gin? Could John Gutten- berg. toiling year after xear. Making tens. Ana ismoriousty setting Mem side by ' side, and with presses changed now this way and now that, and sued by John Faust fer money loaned, and many of the people try- ing to cheat Guttenberg out of his inven- tion, he toiling on until he produced what is known as the Mazarin ;EN°, have any idea that, as a result of his invention, there would be libraries that placed side by side would again and again engirdle the earth, or showers of newspapers that snow the world under? While studying the life of this Italian navigator, I am also reminded of the fact that while we are diligently looking for one thing, we find another. Columbus started to find India, but found America. Go on and do your duty diligently and prayerfully, and if you do not find what you looked for, you will find something better. Saul was hunting for the strayed animals of his father's barnyard, but met Samuel, the.prophet, who gave him a crown of dominion. Nearly all the great inven- tions and discoveries were made by men who at the time were looking for something else. Professor More gone to Europe to perfect himself in chemistry, on returning happens to take the packet -ship Sully from Havre, and while in conversation with a passenger learns of some experiments in France, which suggest to him the magnetic telegraphy. He went to Europe to learn the wisdom of others and discovered the telegraph. Hargreaves by the Upsetting of a machine, and the motion of its wheels while upset, dis- covered the mspinning jenny. So, my friend, go on faithfully and promptly with your work, and if yon do not get the success you seek, and your plans upset, you will get something just as good and perhapabetter. Sail ahead on the voyage of life, keep a correct log -book, brave the tempest, make the best use of the east wind, keep a sharp lookout, and I warrant you in. the name of ,the God of Columbus that if you do' not find just what you want of an earthly nature, you will find heaven, and that will be better. What was worn-out India, crouching under a tropical sun, compared with salu- brious and radiant and almost illimitable America and what is all that this little world in : which lave live, can afford you compared with that supernal realm, whose foliage, and whose fruits, and whose riches, and whose population, and whose grandeurs, and whose worship, and whose Christ make up an affluence that the most rapturous vocabulary fails to utter. Another look at the career of that Admiral of the Santa Maria persuades me that it is not to be expected that this world will do its hard workers full justice. If any man ought to have been treated well from fitst to last, it was Columbus. He had his faults. Let others depict them. But's greater soul the centuries have not produced. This conti- nent ought to have been called Columbia, after the hero who discovered it, or Isa- belliana, after the queen, who furnished the means for the expedition. No. The world did not do him justiae, while he was alive, and why should it be expected to do him justice after he was dead? Columb, in a dungeon! What a thought? Columbus, in irons! What a spectacle. And, now, while I am thinking of this illustrious Ship Captain of Genoa, let me bespeak higher appreciation for the ship captains now in service, many of them this moment on the sea, the lives of tens of thousands of passengers in their keeping. ' What an awful responsi- bility is theirs !, They go out through the Narrows, or start from Queens. town, or Southampton, or Glasgow; not knowing what cyclone, or collisions, or midnight perils - are waiting for them. It requires bravery to face an army of men, but far more bravery to face an army of Atlantic surges led on by hurri- canes. A more stupendous scene is not to be witnessed than that of a ship captain walking the bridge of a steamer in the midst of a cyclone. Remember theme heroes in Your prayers and when worn out in the service, and they have to com- mand inferior craft or return to the land and go out of service, do them full, honor for what they once were. Let the ship companies award them pensions worthy of what they endured until they start on their last voyage from this world to the next. Aye, that voyage we must all take, landsmen as well as seafarers. Let us be sure that we have the right pilot, and the right chart, and the right captain, and that we start in the right direction. It will be to each of us who love the Lord a voyage more wonderful for dis- covery than that which Columbus took, for, after all we have heard about that other world, we know not where it is or how it looks, and it will be as new as San Salvador was to the glorious captain of the Santa Maria. "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have enter- ed. into the heart of man." May the light from that Golden Beach flash on the dark- ness, and we may be able to step ashore amid groves and orchards and aromas such as this world's atmosphere never ripened or breathed. Through the rich grace of Christ, our Lord may we all have such blissful aie rival! It a Man Can Write, Let Him Write. If a man believes that he has some talent for writing, it is indeed strange that he can aliovv himself to be directed by a Master or by the rule of any school, no matter how great the master may be or how skilfully devised the rule may seem. In the first place, is it possible for a writer, no matter how much he may wish to believe it, to belong to any particular school? No, and very fortunately, it seems to me. A writer should do whet he wishes -to do, and do it in his owe way, obeying only the ell -powerful impulse that he has felt rising from the depths a his nature, without ac- cepting any Other judge than the wholly spoutaneous- impression his own Work gives him. Whet an author has written in this wity, whether it be memoir, phantasy, ro mance, drama, poem, or any other name you please, whether it can or cannot be put into asehool catalogue, whether it have or have not Success with the mob -all • thisdis immaterial ; for all true lovers of artistic work will surely recog,nize it if they find in it the .hrea,th of life, without which no- thing can _exist for them. -October Forum. A hippometer, invented by a French of-- ficeri will measure the paces and ground covered by a horse. . . Her Hat Was Removed. A young lawyer in Boston was &eked the other day why in English courts a woman must always remove her hat. He could not tell, but an old lawyer to whom the question was referred recalled the opinion of Sir Ed- ward Coke on the matter. It was a murder trial wbere the prifoner was a woman and appeared before the court with her head covered.' Sir Edward Coke ordered the prisoner to remove her hat and mad: "A woman may be covered in church but not when arraigned in a court of justice." The accused party replied: It seems @jugular that I may wear my hat in the presence of Gcd but not in the preeence of mar." "It is not strange at all," replied the judge, "for that man, with his weak intel- lect, cannot discover the secrete which are kpown to God, and, therefore, in investiget- ng truth where human life is in peril and are is charged with taking life in the court, the court should see all obstacles removed. The countenance is often the index to the mind, andaccordingly, it is fitting that the hat should' be removed and therewith the shadow which it casts upon your face." The hat of the priaoner was taken off, but she was allowed for modesty sake to cover her hair with a kerobief.-Brandon Buck- saW. IWEAL ESTATE F0.11 SALE. Goie. Faat SLE.—Forale,air, north half h, 100 sores; gtoPfenomsc,e;Al orldiard andnever-failing creek. ApprIli to H.0,1( D. COOKE, Barrister, Blyth, or PHILIP OLT, erich. 1278 MIAMI FOR SALEi-For sale en improved, 100 X acre fan, within two and a half nines of the town of Seaforth. For further particulars apply on the premleeri, Lot 12, Concession 4, H. R. S., Tucker - smith, or bymail to JOHN PREND,ERGAST, Sea - forth P. 0. 1290 MIARM FOR SALE. -Splendid 100 acre farm for X sale, one mile welt of Brueefield station, being Lot 14. Comm:don 81 Stanley, well underdrained with tile, good buildingtestone stables, good orchard, never failing; well at house and never failing spring In the bush. Apply Id JOHN DUNKIN, Brumfield P. 0. 127941 FARM FOR SALE. -For sale that splendid and conveniently situated farm adjoining the VII. loge of Brumfield, and owhed and occupied by the undersigned4 There are 118, acres, of which nearly all is cleared end in a high state of cultivation and all but about 20 acres in grass. Good buildings and plenty of water. It adjoins the Brucefield Station of the Grand Trunk Railway. Will be told cheap and on easy ternis. Apply on the premises or to Bruce - field F. 0. P. Mc:GREGOR, 1258 tf. ElARII IN STANLKY ,FOR SALE. -For sale cheap, the East half of Lot 20, Bayfield Road, Stanley, containing 84 acres, of which 52 acres are cleared and in a good ;tate of cultivation. The bal. awe is well timbered with hardwood. There are good buildings, a hearing orchard and plenty of water. It is within half a mile of the Village of Varna and three railed iron: Brucefleld station. Possession at any time.This is a rare chance to buy a first class farm pleasantly situated. Apply to ARTHUR. FORBEth Seaforth. 1144tf UOR SALE OR TO RENT. -A nice house, painted X and newly shingled, with a good cellar and well of good water. It is well situated for a small family. The lot contains a little ,over a quarter of an acre,- has a good stable, &c., also apple, cherry, and plum trees, and currant bushes On it. It is situated nearly opposite Mayor Holmeetedn residence. It will be sold cheap, as the owner intelids to remove to town for better prospect of , business. Apply to 11. A. STRONG & Bro., Seaforth, ot to J. licNAKARA on the premisea. 12884f 1GIARli FOR SALE. -Por sale, lot 6, concession 1, X H. R. S., township of „Tuckersmith, containing one hundred scree more or less, 97 acres cleared, 55 of which are teeded to grass, well underdrained, three n.8log house, failing wells., On one fifty of said lot t frame barn and VV good obgiriear:1, andonthe other a good frame house and barn, stables!, and good orchard. The whole will be sold together or each fifty Separately to suit pur- chasers, located 1 miles froth Seaforth, will be sold reasonable and on easy terns as the proprietor is re- tiring from farming. For further particulars apply to the undersigned OR the premises, and if by letter to Seaforth P. o. mionaDid DORSEY, 12774f -EIARMS FOR SALE, -401' sale, parts of Lots 46 IC and 47, on the 1st Concession of Turnberry, containing 100 acres, about 08 acres cleared and the balance noeuiled hardwood bush, Large bank barn and shed, and stone otabling, and good frame house with -kitchen and woodshed attached. There is a good orchard and a branch of the River Maitland running throligh one corner. 11 1. nearly all seeded to grays, and is one of the hest dock farm in the county. Also the 50 ogre farm occupied by the un- dersigned, adjoining the Village of Bluevale, all cleared, good buildings, and in first-class state of cultivation. It is a neat and comfortable place. Most of the purchase Money an remain on mortgage at a reasonable rate of interest. Apply to HUGH ROSS, Blitevale, 126241 1G1ARM IN TUCKERSMIT# FOR SALE. -For ale X Lot 8, Concession 7, Tuckersenith, containing 100 acres, nearly all cleans, free from stumps, well underdrained,i and in 4 high state of cultivation. The !audio high and dry, and no waste land. There is a good brick reeldence, two good borne, one with stone etabling 'underneath, and all other necessary outhuildinga ; :two never -failing wells, and a good bearing !animal. It he Within four miles of Seaforth. It is one of the beet totem in Huron, and will be sold on easy terms as the .proprietor desires to retire. Possession on the 1st October. Apply on the preen- isea, or addressi Seaforth P. 0, WM. ALLAN. 12'43M TURK FOR SALE.-Foreale, that desirable and 12 conveniently Winded farm,adjoining the village of Redgerville, being 1,ot 14, ist Concession, Hay, mile from Rodgerville Post -office, and one and a half miles south of lieetall on the London Road. There are 97 and a quarter spree, of which nearly all W cleared and In a high state of cultivation. Good frame house 1i atoms, 8 rooms, a large kitchen also attached with bedrolim and pantry &c. Good cellar under :nein part of house, stable holds over a car- load of horses, besides exercising stables, two barna two drive houses, one long wood -shed, good cow - stable also pig and hen hotilsei, three good wells with pumps. Farm well fenced and underdrained. Veranda attached to housegood bearing orchard. The farm will he sold cheap and on easy terms, as the undersigned has retired from farming. For par- ticulars apply to JAMES WHITE, Proprietor, Ren- tal!. 12754f MIAMI FOR ALE -For sale that splendid farm .12 In the township of HaYi belonging to the estate of the late Robert Ferguson. It is composed of Lot 21, in the 6th concession, containing 100 acres more or less, 80 clear and 20 busli,,all well drained : land, clay loam, every foot ol the lot being firstblass soil; large brick house with kitchen attacheA ; two large frame barns and sheda,also, wood shed and all other necessary buildings and improvements required on a good farm. There is a good bearing orchard on the premises. Terms -Doe -third part of purchase money to be paid down on the day of sale, balance to suit purchaser, by Wing six per cent. interest. Any purchaser to have the privilege to plow fall plowing after harvest, elan to have room for lodging for himself and teams., WI early and secure one of the beet farms in this toe/in:hip. Land situated on Centre gravel road, three Miles to Hensale or Zurich. Apply to MRS. FERGUSON,IExeter, or M. ZELLER, Zurich. ELIZABETH FERGUSON, Administratrix 128841 -E111IST CLASS FARM FOR SALE -For sale Lot 12 X Concession 6, H. IL 5 Tuckersmith, containing 100 acres of choice land, nearly all cleared and in a high state of cultivation, with 90 acres seeded to grass. It is thoroughly underdrained and well fenced with straight rail, board and wire fenced and does not contain a foot of waste land. There is also an orchard of two acres of choice fruit,trees; two good wells, one at the house, the other with a wind.mill on it at the out buildings, on the preening is an ex- cellent frame house,,, oontaining eleven rooms and cellar under whole house, and soft and hard water convenient. There are two good bank barns, the one 32 feet by 72 feet arid the other 86 feet by 56 feet with stabling for 50 head of cattle and eight horses!. Besides these there are sheep, hen and pig houses and an Implement shed. The farm is well adapted for grain or stock raising and is one of the finest farms in the country. It is situated et miles from Seaforth Station, 5 from Brucefield and Kippen with good gravel rc n s leading to each. it is also convenient to churches, poet office and school and will be sold cheap and on easy tetme. For further particulars apply to the proprietor an the premises or by letter to THOMAS G. SHILLINGLAW, Egmondville P. 0. 1285 tf *Vve 41111110161fts'issim.."' (1111110.1111m0010"6" 00Iisommoilli11116 eaVS -PERRYDAVCSI • ille.r lias.. demonstrated Its wonderful power of 1(14LINO EXTERNAL and INTERNAL PAIN. No wonder then that it is found on The Surgeon's Shelf The Mother's Cupboard The Traveler's Valise, The Soldier's Knapsaak The Sailor's Chest The Cowboy's Saddle The Farmer's Stable The Pioneer's Cabin The Sportsman's Cirip The Cyclist's' Bundla ASK FOR THE NEW "BIG 25c. BOTTLE." Liquidation .=••••••••=1.10•M. ,m,mioa.m.•••• Sale. Circus and Fair have passed, but the Great Liquidation Sale of the big stocks of POCYTS —AT— C. Good's Stores,Seaforth & Brussels, Still goes on. We've had some big days. We've thousands of pairs of all styles and sizes yet to sell. We are showing some splendid values in Men's and Boys' Long Boots, fresh Oroceries, Hats and Caps, Crockery and Glass- ware, Fancy Goods, &c.; all will be cleared at much reduced prices. Butter and Eggs taken in exchange for goods. U'Store in Seaforth for sale. Store in Brussels to rent. J. R GREGORY Liquidator. 'FILL STOCK (011PLET.E. Those buying Boots and Shoes for Fall should call and see our well - assorted stock before buying elsewhere. We have taken great care in select- ing the Most Durable aiad the Cheapest Lines in both Canadian and American goods. In Rubbers and Overshoes we surpass anything ever before shown in Seaforth. We make a speciality of the celebrated American GOOD -YEAR GLOVE RUBBER. We also handle the GRANBY GOOD -YEAR Rubber, the Lycoming and the Montreal Rubber. TRUNKS AND VALISES. We make a specialty of the celebrated Langmuir Manufacturing Com- pany's Trunks and Valises, which are noted for being the best and cheapest goods manufactured in Canada. Give us a call, and see that our goods and prices suit the times. RICHARDSON & McINNIS, CORNER MAIN AND JOHN STREETS, SEAFORTH. • THE - SEAFORTH - FOUNDRY. Having completed rebuilding and repairing the old foundry, and introduci de the latest equipments and the most improved machines, I am now prepared to do All Kind_s of -Machine . Repairs AND GENERAL FOUNDRY WORK. LAND ROLLERS. We are now turning out some of the best improved Land Rollers, and invite the farmers to see them before buying elsewhere. T. T COLEMAN. TEAS. TEAS. TEAS. During the month of September, I will sell Teas at a big reduction fromregular prices. Stock is all new season Teas, and quality guaranteed. Come and. get bargains. Full stock of GENERAL GROCERIES. Highest price for Butter and Eggs. J. FAIRLEY, Post Office Grocery, Seaforth. THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE Established 1867. HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. CAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS - $6.000,000 REST, - - - - - - - $1,000,000 B. E. WALKER, GENERAL MANAGER, SEAFORTH BRANCH. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes Discounted, Drafts issued payable at all points in Canada and the principal cities in the United States,Great Britain, Bermuda,dtc, SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT. Deposits of OM and upwards received, and current rates of interest allowed. INTER- EST ADDED TO THE PRINCIPAL AT THE END OF MAY AND NOVEMBER IN EACH YEAH, 'special Attention given to the Collection of Commercial Paper and, Farmers' Sales Notes. F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor, M. MORRIS, Manager Important -:- Announcement. BRIGHT B1170 HERS, SM..A.M'ORT The Leading Olothiersj of Huron, Beg to inform the people of Seaforth and Burro ding -..antry, that they have added to their large ordered elothin trade one of the Most Complete and best selected st cks of Boys Youths' and Men's Readymadp lothing oseme IN THE OOTTN •••••••NINIMMINMINO Prices Unequalled. We lead the -Trade. Remember the Old Stand, Campbell's Block opposite the Royal Hotel, Seaforth, BRIGHT BROTHERS. OCTOBER 21.1 1891 BUGGIES WAGON S. The greatest number and largest as- sortment of Buggies, Wagons and. Road Carts to be found an any one house outside of the cities, is at 0. 0. WILLSON, SMaet.H`CDIR,Tiat.. They are from the following celebrated. makers: Gananoque Carriage Com- pany, Brantford Carriage Company, and W. J. Thompson's, of London. These buggies are -guaranteed first- class in all parts, and we make good any breakages for one year from date of purchase that comes from fault of material or workmanship. We do no patching, but furnish new parts. I mean what I advertise, and back . up what I say. Wagons from Chatham, Woodstock and Paris, which is enough about them. Five styles of Road Carts. All kinds of Agricultural Im- plements. 0. C. WILLSON, Seaforth. in the Surrogate Court of the County of Huron. IN THE NATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DUNCAN STEWART DECEASED. A" Persons having claims against the Estate of Duncan Stewart, Farmer„ late of the Village of Hensall, in the county of Huron, deceased, who -died on or ithout the twenty second day of July 1892, are required on or before the 15th day of November 1892, to send to the undersigned Solicitor for the Executors of the Estate, fall particulars of their claims and of the securities if any) held by them, duly verified by affidavit. After the said date the Executors will proceed to distribute the Estate among the persons entitled, having reference only to the claims of which they shall have received notice, and after such distribution theYwill not be respon- sible for any part of the Estate;to any creditor of whose claim they shall not have received notice, at the time of such distribution. 1This notice is given in pursuance to the statute In that behalf. F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor for the Executors. Dated at Seaforth this llth4iay of October, 1892. 1296.4 • The Popular Grocery. As we have commenced packing for the season we will have on hand Fresh Pork, Sausage, Bologna, and Cuttings, also new cured beef ham extra choice. Highest market price in 'ash or trade for good Butter, Eggs, Potatoes and apples. Estate of H. ROBB FOR MANITOBA. Parties going to Manitoba should call on W. G. DUFF The agent for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Seaforth, who can give through tickets, to any part of Mani- toba and the Northwest on the most reasonable terms. 6 Remember, Mr, Duff is the only agent for the 0. P. cit. in Seaforth and parties going by the C. P. R. 'would consult their own interests by calling onohflliee,m_. next the Comraercial Hotel and opposite W. Pickard' s store, W. G. DUFF Seaforth. J. McKEOWN, -DISTRICT AGENT FOK THE - People's Life InsurantO Company, .-FOR THE -- Counties of Huron, Bruce, Perth and West Grey. The People's Life is a purely Mutual Company organized for the purpose of insuringlives, conducted solely in the Interests of its policy-hokiers among whom the profits are divided, there being no stock- holders to control the company or to take any portion of the surplus. The only Mutual Company in Canada giving endowment insurance at ordinary life rates is THE PEOPLE'S LIFE. Agents wanted Addrets 12S8 - J. :McKeown, Box .55 Seaforth. DUNN'S BAKING POWDER THECOMCSBESTFRIEND a LARGEST SALE IN CANADA. FARMS FOR 8ALE. TOWNSHIP OP IKORRIS. South half 21 on 5th concession, 100 acne. TOWNSHIP OF GREY.: Lott 1 and 12 on 184h conceseion,i 200 acre TOWNSHIP OF TUCKERSAIITH. Lot 88 on 8rd eeneekleien L. R. S, 100 :scree, For terms &c., apply to the undersigned. P. HOLMESTED, 1197 tf: Barrister ire„ Seaforth. DO YOU KNOW That the best place to have yonr watch repaired so that you can always depend on having the correct time; the best place to buy a first-class Watch for the least money, and the cheapest place to buy your, (Mod* Wedding Presents, Jew- ehy, Stectaeles, at, And •where one trial convinces the most sceptical that only the best goods atthe lowest prices are kept, is at R. MERCER'S, Opposite Commercial Hotel, Seaforth Cols.71140‘1'Zia Mutual - Live - Stock INS URANC CO. Head Office:i. eaforth. THE ONLY Live Stock Insurance Compunor Ontario having a novermeent Deposit and being duly licensed by the game. Ale now carrying on the business of Live Stock insurance and solicit the patronage of the importers and 'breeders of the Pr:winos. Per further particulars address JOHN AVERY, Sec. -Irma nef Oc voinowei On ewe! Fro vro. And The i Fro' Fro wThe Go Her SOU *Wit Oro 44:13C ajan tLe 11 Li - Fo Tr ' Th Ti f -Ab Th All Ar 11 I Al .1 *heti I vl W 1 I Who161 ili6 tea11 :ei me II I r ma* for I to -0*114 evel ing tbe 1: toic 13e wi my an A WO pe AU " :th- at