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The Huron Expositor, 1897-10-15, Page 2THE HURON EXIE1081T011, 12 STEARNS' BICYCLES - R. TALMAGE DRAWS INSPIRk TION FROM THE CORNFIELD. ORN _HUSKING TIME. WATCHES -ARE-- GIVEN AWAY EVERY MONTH FOR To those who eend the largestinamber of Your Grocer Will give you particulars, or drop a postcard to LEVER BROTHERS; Limited 23 Scott St, Toronto. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. FOR SALE. -The undersigned haa twenty Choice Farms for sale in East Huron, the ban- ner County of the Province; all sixes, and prices te intit: Per full information, write or call_ personally. Nit trouble to show them. F. S. soon, Brussels P0. 1391.-tf - . 161ARM FOR SALE, -H10 acres, n the township of X Grey, nearlirussels. There is on it nearlY 50 acres Of bush, about half black ash, the rest hard- wood. A never -failing liming of water runs through the lot. Will be sold at a big bargain. For partiori- lark apply to MRS. JANE WALKER, Box 219, Brussels. 1470 OPLENbID FARM FOR SALE. -For -sale Lot 8, ; Conceesion 13, Township of Stanley, containing 83 Ores. lt has- No. 1 soil and no waste land, briok hone), with summer kitchen and woedshed ; frame bare with stone stabling underneath, well. fenced mostly all underdrained, four acres of orchard and small fruit, also ten acres of good bush. There SO.- twelve acres of fall wheat sown. Plenty of water. One half mite north of the !Mike of Blake. Apply to HENRY W. OTTERBEIN, Blake. 1665x8 1E1011 SALE. -That valuable property situated on X the Oist side of north Main istreet, Seaforth. This property consists of four lots, and a fine dwel- ing house, containing a dining roon, parlor, 4 bed rooms, kitchen and cellar. There is also a fine stable, carriage house, store house ani wood shed. The grounds are pleasant and well shaded; algo well planted with froot trees, and small fruits, hard and soft water. For terms apply on the premises. M. ROBERTSON, Seaforth• 15135-tf a=N•ib intARM FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 6, concession 12, X township of Bibbed, containing 100 acres of good land in a good state of cultivation.. Well fenced; good brick house ; good bank barn and out ' buildings; 13 UFOS of fall wneat, and ploughing all done; 2 good wells and 2 never failiggeprings •, 85 *arse cleared; possession at any timF. For further paeticulars, apply to r ETER MELVILLE, Cromarty P. 0.2 Ontario. 1515-11 • "MUM FOR SALE, 100 ACRES. -Being lot 18, X concession 7, township of Gra', one mile west of Ethel; 5 frem Brustels. Ninety-five acres cleared; free of stumps and stones; well under - drained and fenced with straight fences; good brick house and good outbuilding.; f5 sores in fell wheat sod 50 acres seeded down. Will ba sold cheap and _es easy tenni. A. McKELVEY, Bruseels. 15271f 'LURK FOR SALE. -That valueble farm, kncwn X as the north laslf of Lot 27, •Coneeesien 9, •Blorrkis now offered for sale in order to wind up an eetata. The farm consists of 100 acres, fal clear- ed and in a high state of cultivation. The balance is goad bush. The soil is a clay loam and is well underdrained. IC ie well watered and fenced. There are two acres of excelientyoung apple bearing rohard. The buildings consisteof a frame dwelling house, 22x28 and kitchen 18x28; also two large barns with stabling underneath. This prep trty well situated, being 21 miles from Walton and 6 from Brussels, and close to church and scholl. For further particulars apply to JOHN SMITH, Ontario, one of the executors, or to G. F. BLAIR, Solicitor for executors, Brussels, Ont. 1554 4 " -LIARM FOR SALE. -For sale, lot 36, concession It 2, Kinloss„ containing 100 acres, 85 cleared and the balance in good hardwood bush. The land Is in a good state of cultivation, is well underdrained and well fenced. There ig a frame barn and log house on the property, a never -failing spring with windmill, also about 2 apes of orchard. It is an exnellent farm and is within oneinile of Whitechurch station, where there are stores, blacksmith shop and churches. Tiabre is a ached on the opposite lot. It is six miles frcen Wingham and six from ;Lucknow, With good roads leading in all directions. This de- rabic- property will be gold on reasonable terms. further particulars apply to JAMES MITORELL, P. 0. 1495-1504-tf MIOR SALE OR TO RENT ON EASY TERMS. - X As the owner wishes to retire frotn business on account 01 111 health, the following valuable property at Winthrop, 44 miles north of Seatorth, on leading • road to Brussels, will be sold or rented as one farm grin parrs to suit purchaser: about 600 acres of splendid farming land, with about 400 under crop, the balance in pasture. There are large barns, anti all other buildings necessary for the implements, vehloleee do. This land is well watered, has good frame and briok dwelling houses, eto. There are grist and saw mills and store which will be sold or rented on advantageous terms. Also on 17th con- cession, Grey township, 190 acres of land, 40 in pasture, the balance in timber. Posseselon given after harvest of farm lands; mills at once. For par- ticulars apply to ANDREW GOVENLOCK, Winthrop. 14e6-tf Our diiect connectiona will save you time and money for all points, Canadian North West Via Toronto or Chicago, British Columbia and California points. Our rafes are the lowest. We have them fat suit everybody and PULLMAN TOUR- IST CARS for your accommodation. Call for further information. 1 Grand Trunk :Railway. Trains leave Seaforth and Clinton stations as, follows: Gone SEAPORT11.CLISTON. Pasgenger 12.47 le n. 1.03 r. t. Passenzer. . 10.72 P. M. 19 27 P. M. Mixed Train.... 9.20 A. 31. 10.15 A. M. Mixed Train: - 6.15 P. M. 7.05 P. M GOING EAST - Passenger.. .... 7.65 A. M. 7.40 A.M. Passenger.. .. 3.11. P. 31. 2.55 P. M. 31ixecl 5.20 P. M. 4.35 P. M. Wellington, Grey arid Bruce. . GOISC1 NOltr11- Paesenger. Ethel.... ...... 9.49 r. n. Brussels.. .. .. 10.01 Bluevale,. .. .. 1.01 Wingham 10.25 Goma Sotera- Pasgenger. Wingham- - - - - 6.00 A. n. Bluevale - ..... .... . 7.00 • Brussels.... ...... .. 7.16 ! Ethel- .... • . ...... .• 7.t3 i Mixed. 1.40 r,M. 2.05 2.25 225 Mixed. 8.66 A. 31. 9 17 9.45 10.02 London, Huron and Bruce. GOING NOILT11- Passenger. London, depart . 8.15 A.111. 4.46 1.'.31. Centralia .. . ... .......... 9.18 Exeter. Hensalle.......... ...... . 980 9.44 Rippe/a . . .. 9.50 • Brucefield- .. . .... ....• 9.58 Clinton - 10.15 Londesboro .2... 10.83 - . .. Baigewo . 10.4 I.• 10 66 Wingham arrive •• 11.10 G01114 &MTH- Winghana, depart......... Belgrave. Biyth .• Londesboro.. Clinton s• Brucefleld Rippea Fleeter • Ceatralia.... ............ Lenion, •••• •• 6.0• 7 618 6.25 6,33 6.55 7.14 7.23 787 3 Paasenger. 6.53 a.m. 3.30 r. M. 7.94 8.45 7.16 400 7.24 4.10 747 430 806 4.60 8.17 4.59 8.24 5.04 828 - 5.16 8.50 5.25 9.50.A. _K. 0.80 Villa& Pen Picture of the Busking Bee- , Beath the Biassing of Blessings te the Good Man -The Chill of the Frosts Fol - owed by Gladness. IcopyrIght nen, by A.merlean Press Assoc1a- tion.1 Washington, Oct. 10. -This sermon by Er. Talmage is peculiarly seasonable at the present time, when the teeming bur- sts all over the land are awaiting the shandman. His text is Job y, 26, "As a ehook of corn cometh in in his season." Going at the rate of 40 miles the hour a few days ago, caught this sermon-. you have recently been in the fields of Jennsylvania, or New Jersey, or New York, or New England, or any of the oaerntry districts, you know that the corn L e nearly all out. The sharp knife struck t ough the stalks and left them all a ong the fields until a Mall came with a bundle of straw and twisted a few of these wisps of straw into a band, and then gathering up as much of the C01411 a; bund it with this wisp of straw, and he could. compass with his wens he then stood it In the field In what isealled a [shock. It is estimated that there are now Sev- eral bushels of corn standing in the shock, waiting to be husked; Some time during the latter part of next month the farmers will gather, one day en one fakm, another day on another farm, and, thy will put on their rough husking ap,on, and Will take the husking peg, which is a pies* of boil with a lea - r loop fastened to the hand, and with It unaheath the con from the husk and to s it into the golden heap. Then the • wi4gons will come along and take it to th corncrib. ow vividly to all those of us who w re born in the country comea the re- in minimise of husking time! We waited folt it as for a gala day of the year. It vv s called a frolic. The trees having for th most part shed their foliage, the fatmers waded through the fallen leaves ant1 came through the keen raorning air to the gleeful company. The frosts, which had silvered everything during the night, be an to melt off of the top ot the corn sh oks. While the farmers were waiting fori others, they stood blowing thefr br ath through their fingers or thrashing thIr arms around their bodies to keep up w rath of circulation. Ruskin! the Corn. oaring mirtl greeted the late farmer as ie crawled over the fence. Jeke and repartee and rustic salutation abounded. Al ready, now! The men take hold the shtick of corn arid hurl it prostrate, 'while the moles and Mice which have. secreted themselves there for warmth attempt escepe. The withe of straw is unwound from the corn shock, and the stalks, heavy with the 'wealth of grain, are rolled into two bundles, between vehich the huSker sits down. The hushing peg Is thriest in until it strikes the corn, and thee the fingers rip off the sheathing of the ear and there is a crack as the root of the corn is snapped off from the hu hu k, and the grain, disirnprisoned, is ed up into the sunlight. he air is so toisio, the work is so very • exhilarating, the company is so blithe, some laugh, and some shout, and e sing, and some banter, and some e a neighbor for a romantic ride Mow the edge of the woods in an even- tide', in a carriage that holds but two, and some prophesy as to the number of bushels to the field, and others gointo coin m0 A fro surr gry cella place there unio ory, tears longl hand tha 80111 teas -attain as to 'which shall rifle the .corn, shooks before sundown. - ter awhile the dinner horn sounds the farmhouse, and the table is unded by a &temp of jolly and hun- en. From all the pantries and the S and the perches of fowl on the the richest, dainties come, and are carnival and neighborhood re - and a scene which fills our 'mem- art with smiles, bet more with as we remember that the farm be - now to other owners, and other gather in the fields, and many of thotee who rningled in that merry -husk- ing s ene have themselves been reaped "like as a shock of corn cometh in in his s ason " Tb re is a difference of opinion as to whet er the orientals knew anything &bon the eorn as it stands.in our fields, buti r cent discoveries have found out that he Hebrew knew all about Indian maiz for there have been grainseof the corn Joked up out of ancient crypts and exhuxied. from hiding places where they were ut down many centuries ago, and they Iave been planted in our thus and have �ozne up just such Indian maize as we ra se in New York and Ohio. So I am ri ht when I say that my text may refer t a shock of corn just as you and I bound it, just as you andI threw it, just as you and I husked it. There may come some ractical and useful and comforting lesson to all our souls while we think of coin g in at last "like a shock of corliec riling in in his season." D ath the Blessing of Blessings. It is high time that the kliatz of terrors were thrown out of the Christian vocab- ulary. A vast multitude cd people talk of deat as though it were the disaster of dis stars instead of being to a good man th blessing of blessings.' It Is mot- inti g out of a cold vestibule 1nto a warru temple. It is migrating in groves of redolen e and perpetual fruitage. It is a change from bleak March to roseate June. It is a change of manacles for garland. It is the transmuting of the Iron ha dcuffs of early inearcenition into the di mended wristlets of a bridal party; cr, to use they suggestion of any text, it Is only husking time. It is the tearing eff of the rough sheath of the body that the bright and the beautiful soul may go free. Coining in "like a shock of corn conieth in iii his season" Christ broke up a funeral procession at the gate of Nein by making a resurrec- tion day for a young _num and his mo- ther. Ad I woulcl that I could break up your adnesses and halt the long fun- eral proc salon of the world's grief by some che ring and cheerful view of the last tran Mon. We all know that husking time was a time of f ost. Frost on the fenoe. Frost 011 the et bble. Frost on the ground. Frost on he bare branches of the trees. Frost in lha air. Frost on the hands of the buskers You remember We used to hide behi d the corn stalks so as to keep - off the NV1 shivering was the c the bands high up the air, eohoes an up, "Aha, joy from Mao!". So we a friends is tions, the Ing of ma being a so frigid nort from lift W .bemuuttcd d, but still you remember how was the body and how painful, eek and hOw b ebed were mna But after awhi e the sun was nd all the frost went out of nd hllarities awakened the joy from one corn shook went aha" and Was answered by another Mill shock, "Aha. I realize that the death of our he nipping. of many expecte- oozing, the chilling, the frost- y of our hopes. It is far from th wind It comes from the , and when r they go away stand benumlsed in bodehand n. mind and I &numbed in OCTOBER 15, 1897. teltfr.We'eftEfidredfnong our Gem map - hors, our dead familieei and we "Will we ever get ova it?" Yes, We will get over it mid the shootings of heaven- ly reunion, and we will look _ back to all theta distresses of bereavement only as the temporary distresses of hoaxing time. "Weeping may endure for a night, joy cometh in the morning." "Lig and but for a moment" said the apo as he clapped his hands, "light, and for a moment." The chill of the fr followed by the gladness that cometh "like as a shock of corn oometh in his season." God's Way of Parting. • Of course the husking time made rough work with the ear of core. *The husking peg had to be thrust In and the hard- thumb of the husker had to come down on •the swathing Of the ear, and , then there Wail a full and a mthless tear- ing and then a complete mapping off before the corn was free, and if the husk could have spoken it would have said: "Why do you lacerate me? Why do you Wrench me?" Ah, my friends, that is the way God has arranged that the ear and the husk shall part, and that Is the Weer he has arranged that the body and soul shall separate. You can afford • to have your physical distresses when you know that they are only forwarding the soul's liberation. „Every rheumatic pain is only a plunge of the husking peg. Every neur- algic twinge is only a twist by the husker. There is gold in you that must come out. Some way the shackle must be broken. Some way the ship must be launched for heavenly voyage. You must let the heavenly Husbandmen husk off the mortality from -the immortality. There ought to be great consolation in this for all who have chronic ailments, since the Lead is gradually and more mildly taking away from you that which hinders your soul's liberation, doing gradually for you what for many of us in robust health perhaps he will do in one fell blow at the last. At the close of every illness, at the close of every par- oxysm, you ought to say; "Thank God, that Is all past now. Thank God, I will never have to suffer that again. • Than God, I am so much nearer the hour of liberation." You will never suffer the same pain twice. You inay have a new pain keen old place, but never the same pain twice. . The pain does its work and then it dies Just so many plunges of the crow- bar to free the quarry stone fur the building. Just so many strokes of the chisel to complete the statue. Just so many pangs to separate the soul from the body. You who have chronic ail- ments and disorders are only paying in installments that which some of us will • have to pay in one payment when we pay the debt of nature. Thank God, therefore, ye who have chronic disorders, that you have so much less suffering at the last. Thank God that you will have so much less to feel in the way of pain at the hands of the heavenly •Husband- man when "the shock of corn °meth ha In his season." Perhaps now .this may be an answer to a question which I asked one Sabbath morning, bue did not answer. Why is it that so many really good people have so dreadfully to suffer? diem ofteu find a good man with enough paths and aches and distresses, you would think, to disci- pline a whole colony, while you will find a man who is J perfectly useless going around with easy digeetion and.. steady nerves end shining health and his exit frora the world is comparatively painless. How do you explain that? Well, I noticed In the husking time that the husking peg was thrust into the corn and then there must be a stout pull before'the sweathing was taken off of the ear and the full, round, healthy, luxuriant corn was developed, while on the other hand there was corn that hardly seemed worth husking We threw that into a atm all by itself and we called it "nubbins." told I the table thatnight. They are jewels Of Me. peril' Kash' MUT those *Mai Jaya utibts told the immortal •soul. Would aod that some had 'song rolling up out of the deserted nurs- how ery of your childhood or IMMO song roll - hag up out of the cornfields, the song of xiCithiffeari M1. earth le "be 'Meagre -ea say, They meant Well enough, but they you how sick you looked, and they you how many hard things they beard about you, and they told You often they bad to stand up for you some battles until you wished alm but that they bad been slain in some of thee ht, battles. • Good pious, conseerated,,well stle meaning disagetsables. but , At the'Gate of the Granary. oste in New, in heaven all their offensiveness had been husked off. Each one 18 88 in happy as he can be. Every one he meets as happy as he can be. Heaven one great neighborhood reunion.' All kings and ost the buskers 20 or 40 yeargeago, might turn all our feet out of the paths of sin into the paths of righteousness, Would God that thine memorthe wafted in on odor or song might start uts this moment with swift feet towardthat blessed place where so many of our loved Ones have already preceded us, "as wished{ of corn cometh In in his season." Corn Not Worth Husking. Somerof it was mildewed and some of it was mice nibbled and some of It was great promi e and no fulfillment. ; All cobs and no orn. Nubbins! After the good corn had, been driven up to the barn we came aroend with the corn bas- ket and we picked up these nubbin's. They were worth saving, but not worth much. So all around us there are people who amount to nothing.They develop. into no kind of usefulness. They are nibbled on one side by the world and ' nibbled on the other side by the devil and inildewed all over. Great promise and no fullfilment. All cob and no corn. Nubbins 1 .. They are worth saving. I suppose many of them will get to heaven, but they are not worthy to be mentioned in the same day with those who went through great tribulation into the king- dom of our God. Who would not rather . have the pains of this life., the misfor- tunes of this life -who siould not rather =be torn, and wounded, and lacerated, and wrenched, and husked, and at last go in amid the very best grain of the granary, than to be pronounced not worth husking at all? -Nubbins! In other Words, I want to say to you people who have distress of body and distress in business and distress of all sorts, the Lordahas not any grudge against you. It is not derogatory; it is compIhnentary. "Whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth," and it Is proof positive that there is something valuable 111 you, or the Lord would not have husked you. The God Fashioned Grain. You remember also that in the time of husking it was a- neighboring reunion. By the-grent fireplace in the winter, the fires roating around the glorified back- ' logs on an old fashioned hearth, of which the modern stoves and registers are only - the degenerate descendants, the farmers _ used to gather and spend the evening, and there would be much sociality, but it was not anything like the joy of the husking time, for then i all the farmers came, and they came in the very best humor, andtheycame from beyond the meadow, and they mune from beyond the brook, Owl they came from regions two and three miles around. Good _spirit reigned supreme, and there were great handthakings, and there was carnival, and there was the recital of the brightest experiences in all their lives, and there was a neighborhood reunion the memory of which makes all the nerves of my body. tremble with emotion as the strings of a harp when the fingers ef a player have swept the chords. •The husking time was the time of neighborhood reunion, and so 'leaven will be just that. There • they come 1.1'1 They slept in the old village churchyard. There they come up. They reclined amid the fountains and the sculpture and the parterres of a city cemetery. There they come upl They went down when the ship foundered off- Cape Hat- teras. They come up from all sides -from potter's .ileld and out of tbe solid raasonry of Westminster abbey. They come up! Thety comae up! All the hindrances to their better nature husked off. All their physical ailments husked off. _All their spiritual despondencies husked off. .A11 their hindreneas to usefulness busked off. The grain, the golden grain, the God fashioned. grain, viellge and con- spicuous. Same of them on earth were such disagreeable Christians you could hardly stand it in their presence. Now In heaven ,they are go radiant you hardly know them.. The fact is all their 'raper- heseehusked off.. They did • 2.„ queens, all songsters, all millionaires, all banqueters. God, the father, with his children all around him. No "goodby" In all the air. No grave out in all the hills. River of crystal rolling over bed. of pearl, under arch of chrysoprasius, into the sea of gloss mingled with fire. Stand at the gate of the granary and see the grain come in, out of the frosts into the sunshine, out of the darkness into the light, out of the tearing and the rippl- ing, and the twisting, and •the wrench- ing, and the lacerating, and the husking time of earth into the wide open door of the king's granary, "like as a shook of corn comethin in his season." • Yes, heaven, a great sociable, with joy like the joy of the husking time. No one there feeling so big he declines to speak to some one who is not so large. Arch- angel willing to listen to smallest cherub. No bolting of the door of caste at one heavenly mansion to keep out the citizens of a smaller mansion. No clique In one corner whispering about it clique In another corner. David taking none of the airs of a giant killer. Joshua making no one halt until he passes because he xnade the Stun and moon halt. Paul mak- ing no assumptions over the most ordin- ary preaoher of righteousness Naaman, captain of the Syrian host, -no more hon- ored than the captive maid who told him where he could get a good doctor. 0 my soul, what a country! The humblest man a kifig. The poorest woman a queen. The meanest house a palace. The shortest lifetime eternity. And what is more strange about it all is, we may all get there. "Not I," says some one stand- ing back under the galleries. Yes, you. "Not I," says sense one who has not been in church in 15 years before. Yes, you. "Not I," says some one who has been for 50 years filling up his life with all kinds of wickedness. Yes, you. No Monopoly of Religion. , There are monopolies on earth, mon- opolistic railroads, monopolistic tele- graph companies and monopolistic grain dealere but no monopoly in religion. All who want to be saved may be saved, "without money and Without price." Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ for all the people. .0f course, use cominon sense in this matter. You cannot expect to get to Charleston by taking ship for Portland, and you cannot. expect to get • to heaven by going in an opposite direc- tion. Believe in the 'Lord. Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Through that one gate of pardonand peace; all the race may go in. "But," says some one, "do you really think 1 would be at home in that super- nal society if I should reach it?" I think .you would. knoi you would. I rememl3er that in the hus ing time there / was a great equality of feeling among the neighbors.There at one corn shock a farmer would be at work who owned 200 acres of ground. The naan whom he was talking with at the next corn shook owned but 30 acres of ground, and per- haps all covered by a Mortgage. That evening, at the close of the husking day, One man drove- hoine a roan span so frisky, sofull of life, they got their feet over the traces. The other man walked• home. Great difference in education, great difference in worldly means, but I noticed at the husking time they all Wehened to enjoy each other's society. They did not ask any man how much property hinoWned or what his education bad been. • They all seemed to be happy together In those good times. .And , so it will be in heaven. Our Father will gather kis children around him, and the ne1ghlors will come in, and the past will e rehearsed. And some one will tell of !dory and we will all celebrate it. And soots one will tell ,pf great struggle, and we will all praise the grace.that fetched him out of it. And some (Me will say: "Here is my old father[that I p1.t away with heart- break. Jest look at him, he is asyoung as any of us!" And some one willesay: "Here is ray darling child that I buried in Greenwood, and all the after years of any lifts were shadowed -with desolation. Just leek at her! She doesn't semi as if she had been sick a minute." Great soci- ality. Great neighborhood kindness. What though John Milton sit down on one side and John Howard sit down on the other aide. Noembarrassment. What bhough Charlotte Elizabeth sit' down on one side and Hannah More sit down on the other side? No 'embarrassment. A monarch yourself, why be embarrassed among monarchs? A songster yourself; why be embarrassed amid glorified song- sters? Go in and dine.. All the shooks coming in in their sea- son. Oh, yea, in their, season. Not one of you having died too soon, too late, or having died at haphazard. Planted at. just the right time. Plowed eat just the right time. Husked at just the -right time. Garnered -at just the -right time. Coining in in your season. ' The Song of the Rinker. Oh, I wish that the billions of bushels of corn now in the fields or on the way to he seaboard might be a type of the grand yield of honor and glory and im- mortality, when all the shooks come in. I do not know how you are consti- tuted, but I am so constituted that there Is nothing that so awakens reminiscences in me as the odors of a cornfield when I cross it at this time of year after the corn has been cut and it stands in shoeks. And so I have thought it might be Owe tically useful for us to -day to cross the sornfield, and I have thought perhaps there might be some rensiniscence roused In our soul that might be salutary and might be saving. In Sweden, a prima donna, while her house in the city was being repaired, took a. house in the coun- try for temporary residence, and she brought out her great'arkay of jewels to show a friend who wished to see them. One night after displaying these jewels andeleaving them on tha table, and. 11 her friends had gone, and the servants had gone ---one summer night -she sat thinking and loOkIng into a mirror just in front of her chair, when she saw in that rnirror the face of a robber looking In at the window behind IA and gazing at those jewels. She was in great fright, but sat still, and hardly knowing why she did so she began to sing an old nurs- ery song, her fears making the pathos of the song rnore telling. Suddenly she noticed while looking at the mirror that the robber's face had gone from the window and it did not come back. A few days after the prima donna received a letter from the robber, saying, "I heard that the Jewels were t:31 be out that night and I came to take thein at whatever hazard, but when I heard you sing that nursery song with which nay mother so often sang me to sleep, I could not stand it and I fled, and I have resolved upon a new and an honest life." Oh. nur friends. there Are iambi .in • About Bulbs. Bulbs should be planted as early in the fall as possible. Theenshould be put into the ground as soon as received. Never take bulbs out of the package in which the florist sends them and leave them exposed to the action of light and air. rf you do this, they will part rapidly with the inoisture in them, and the loss of this moisture is a loss of vitality. The scales of lilies often become soft and flabby when left in the light. They have wilted because of evaporation of the sap, which is the lifeblood of the plant. Such bulbs have become so weakened that they are hardly worth planting. If it is not possible to set out your bulbs as soon as received, put them in the cellar or some other dark, octet place. • it is a good plan to prepare your bed for them while you are waiting for the dealer to fill your order. Dig up the soil to the depth of at least a foot. .Add to it • a liberal quantity of old manure. That from the cowyard is better than any other. But fioely ground bonemeal can also be used with very good results. A pound to each 12 square feet of soil will be about the right quantity to use. Work the bed over until it hilline and -mellow. The best soil for bulbs is a sandy loam. If your soli is rather heavy, light- en it by adding sharp sand and turfy matter. • Always choose it well drained location for your bulb bed. If not nat- urally so, put at • least six inches of some material like old cream, brick and the like in the bottom of the bed. Here is a hint for thole) who have an* accumulation of • old cans, boots and shoes and other refuse to act on. You can dispose of them to the benefit of your bulbs as Well as of the back .yard. -Harper's Bazaar. Murder Statistics. American newspaper readers are ex- cusable if they have received of late an impression that next to the wheat crop the most notable product of this country this year has been homicide. The cowl - try is big and it accords with reasonable expectation that in one part or another of ft killing should be in progress all the time. But this year, and especially this summer, there certainly seems to have been much more than the usual amount of it, and it will be interesting, when the returns are • all in and some one has tabulated them, to learn whether this impression is well founded` or not. For ten years past the Chicago Tribune has kept the run of Murders and homi- cides se far as it could,and has made.an annual report of them. According te. table based on these reports there Were 1,449 hoimoides in the country in 1886, and 7,900 in 1895. The tables show a great but irregular annual increase. The Tribune's • estimate of the murder of lynchings is interesting. It gives 188 in 1886, 286 in 1892 and 160 in 1895. It shows 22.20 executions to every 100 homicides. The statistics of murders in Europe, as given in The World Almanac, show that Italians kill moist readily, the aver- age annual number of murders in Italy being 2,470, or 29.4 to every 10,000 deaths. Spain follows with a ratio of 28.8. Austria's ratio is 8.8; France's, 8.0, and England's 7.1. These European figures, however, apply toMurders alone, and do not inalude, like the tablets for the United States, all *sorts of man - slaughters, justifiable or otherwise. -Har - per's Weekly. The Green Turtle. The green turtle is a sea anhnal and swims hundreds of miles in a day. It • has an aversion to mud and quickly de- parts from unclean water. It has a much lighter shell than the ordinary turtle, which, reducing its weight, adds to its swimming powers. It has no claws and its flipliers resemble those of seals. Its beak is powerful and it can easily crush an oai-' or bite teleg through bone and flesh at the ankle. The turtle's temper Is aggressive. Text() males that were found with their jaws looked in a viselike grip were sent here from Florida. They did not release one another, even after they were killed. The turtles are caught asleep on the surface of the sea or when they make their way ashore on the scores of small islands in the gulf of Malthus. Tha turtle hunters usually are negroes. They anchor their vessels off a key at night, row sil- ently ashore and make a tour of the beach. Nunibers of the slow moving turtles are seeiriclunisily crawling out of the turf. 'The Y are turned on *heir backs, collected and taken to the vessel, from which they are transferred to a steamship bound far New York. It may not be exciting sport, but it is a laborious task to capture a 400 pound turtle anddirag it into a boat perhaps 0110 half the size of the prisoner. -New York Commercial. Ovation was once applied to a triumph, In whioh sheep, intead of bullocks, were sacrificed to the gods. • -There are indications that arrange - mens are being made for a re -union between General Booth; of the Salvation Army, and his son, Ballington Booth; News has come from England that beth armies would cele- brate October 7th, as reconc*I'lliation day, and the further announcement that General Booth would visit this country in January. It has been learned that all the details have been arranged, and that Ballington Booth is to beiaken back and is to have command of the forces in America. NMI •••••0011111111111M••• Scott's Emulsion is Cod.. liver Oil prepared as a ibod. At the same time, it is a blood maker, a„, nerve tonic and an Up -builder. But principally it is a food for tired and weak digestions; for those who are not getting the fat they !should from their ordinary f?od; for chil- dren whom nothing seems to nourish; for all who are fat -starved and thin. It is pleasant to take; at least, it • is not unpleasant. Children like it and ask for more. Some druggists have a "just as good "kind Isn't the kind all others try to equal good enough for you to buy? 0000.000000-0000-04040•000-0-0-0-0-0 fibre bath, followed by honest frictional brilliance. The life and glory of leather. ATER SHOC.-.POJJSH'i Black or colored leather. For Ladies, Getitlemens or ChilcIrens Shoes. ••••• • • ........... • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ROBERT WILLIS. SOLE AGENT FOR SEAFORTH. .0 DOMINION CAPITAL, (PAID UR REST, mu mean , • oad se Will . P 07I10F4 gTEAT tee uodessigned. three eteersend me suet on JAMS X BAN*: SEAFORTII BRANCH. MAIN STREET, - op riaz WAN of MUM.) 110 bowel! fenced and slats Omani S1,500,000.' - S1,500,000. SEAFORTH. A general banking business transacted. Drafts on all parte of th tTni taw Great Britain and Europe bought and sold. Letters of credit issued, available ikt all pa* of Europe, China and Japan. Farmers' Sale Notes collected, and advances made on seat at lowest rates. SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. Deposits of One Dollar and upwards received, and interest allowed at higheit °urns rates. Interest added to principal twice each year -at the end& of June and Deeerablf. No notice of withdrawal is required for the -whole or any portion of a deposit. R. S. HAYS, Solicitor. ••W. K. PEAROA, Agent, AND SUCCESS. Our Millinery ,Opening Was a big success; everybody pleased with our styles and display. We made more sales than on any former opening. New Hats and Millinery goods opened this week, which puts our stock in good shape again. Have you seen our Ladies' Coats perfect in fit and finish. 'Timm 013MAILP C.A.ST=1: STORM. W. W. HOFFMAN. 1 CARDNO'S BLOCK, SPAFORTH. Agent for Butterick's Patterns and Publications. Is the quickest remedy ever known to cure Burns, Bruises, Scalds, Cuts, Sores, Boils, Sprains, Strains, etc. The many well knownz people, of high standing in the community, who have spoken and written of the merits of Quickcure, show that, it is an honest - remedv of great efficacv. OVES W6 have now our line of Stoves in shape, and a visit to our store will con- vince anyone that we carry a fine assortment, and our prices can't be beat, call early and examine our 0 I • • • III • . Coal Heaters, - . Ranges, . Wood Cooks, .Small •Stoves, Whether you buy our not. S. MULLETT & CO., Seaforth. HARDWARE, STOVES and TINWARE. THE • CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, ESTABLISHED 1867. HEAD OFFIOEI TORONTO. OAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLARS REST • ••• •. B. E. WALKER, GENERAL MANAOKE. StAFORTH BRANOH, A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, Drafts issued, payable at all points in Oanada and the principal cities in the United Stake, Great Britain, Prance, Bermuda, dr.c. SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMENT, Deposits of 81.00 and upwards received, and current rats. of interest allowed. E"Interest added to the principal M the end of May and Novem- ber in each year. Special attention given to the collection of Commercial Paper and Far- mers' Sales Note. IfOLMESTED, Solicitor. • M. MORRIS, Manager. - se,000;000 $ 1,000.000 • T• ucker's's bee, la heifer Any ter recovery 13X144 MICR ‘42113ID Ns.V., Township •lac * 1Idrd tdass first or eiVid by th• e n UAW to oenunenos BOBBIRT XeMORDIS, Ontario, ANTED BEL?. boil erica ry and 1 our limes stid . Steady .135 per month "raited in spy bank w Write THE -WORLD 11 FANY, London, Ontario, clams ramie Ay. °civet by the ten P. 0, Ossierke, ter the metal of the lure farms; liontlibilf cession of IfelBilop, said bin Of LDS 17, on Katy, oon 10 *ad nebetter far plenty of g water. both fawns or for seek rented for terms of from Wattles* most be ad Minton, P. O. $ 50 Private $ SOO rates of in $ 700 borrowers. $11000 &tea 41,600 within_two • 43,1500 S.Hava, REA.L. ESTA nzDEC IN SS ..tit For sale thelrame the railway station in Ulm ten rooms ; s Waif in the house ; natter sore of land. id. •MUSEImideborough, FOR 13 noel* Errand 11E•r• This is in every with good brick and water, nombinedioalor inoollar sad ever, JOHN II,ANDSBOROUG ABM IN -A1:00111. South Feet quark tiontaloing 100 °leaved and free brow fortable log buildings. 14 1. within four miles and SIN MIMI of the Findlay. Weiss good widen easy toms. A on the premises, or Reid. • WARMERS' ATUITTI _V tient. Interest lb pared to lend money st dose farm 'entity, up value; *height loans ; mints to suit bonower. door IOU* Of Jeckson nztrom riutir Mon 0, townthi M. This Is one of and la situated in * keod. Soil of the 08 14 'Morisse al uirid. The whole rained. 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