The Huron Expositor, 1898-01-14, Page 2REAL ESTATE FOR SALE,
10ARMS FOR SALE. -The undersigned hes twenty
X- Choice Farms for rale in East Huron, the ban-
ner County of the Province; all sine, sn4 prima te
suit. For full information, write or WI_ personally. REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE INFLU-
No trouble to show them. F. S. SCOTT, Brussels
P.O. Hotel ENCE OF THE CLUB.
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‘1.1111IONSIIINS•••••..31.1.41101•11•1•11,
IN TIME OF LEISURE..
eneESIDENCE IN ERUOEFIELD. FOR SALE, -
Lb For sale the frame dwelling home wad lot near
the railway station in Brnoefieli. The house con-
tains ten rooms ; a stone cellar and hard end soft
water in the house; aleo a good stable. There is a
quarter acre of land. gpply to ALEX. 311,'ST1RD,
Brucefield. 161641
MIARM FOR SALE. -For stile, Lot 12, Ccncession
16, containing 100 acres, in the township of
Grey, near Brussels. There Le on it nearly 50
acres of bush, about half black ash, the feat hard-
wood. A never -felling spring of water runs through
the lot, Will be sold at a big bargain. For particu-
lars. apply to MRS. JANE WALKER, Box 219,
Brussels. 1470
MIARM TO RENT. --The north half of Lot 15, Con-
cession 9, Morrie. containing 100 acres, 46 acres
gleared, and. in a good Ettate of cultivation, balance
timered with hen:dock, cedar and hardwood. A
comfort: ttWbouse, god frame barn, good -bearing
oreharttr terrns and part!culars apply ortthe
premises, Or to MRS. JA3IES DICK, BIyth P. O.
1566.4
T.TOUSE FOR SALE, OR TO RENT. -Mr. John
Landeborough, will sen or rent hio fine new
residence in Egmondville, which was built lest 811111.
met. This le in every respect a firfteclass house,
with gitod brick and well finiahed, bard and set;
water, combined coal or wood furnace, cereent fleor
in cense mina ovary modern convenience. Apply to
JOIIN LAIMSBOROUGH, Seaforth. 1576-tf
MIAMI FOR SALE. -For eats, lot 6, concession 12,
_U township of Hibbert, containing 100 acres of
good land in a goad state of cultivation. Well
fenced; good brick -house ; good bank brim and out
buildings ; 18 acres of fail waest, and ploughing all
done 2 good wells and 2 never failing sprit) ; 85
'ther
arty
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acres cleared; possession at any time. For
palticulars, apply to PETER MELVILLE, Cro
P. O., Ontario, 16
WARN IN ALGOMA FOR SALE. -For ,le the
ein South East quarter of section F., township of
Laird, containing 160 acres. There sae fort) acres
cleared avd free from stumps and under crop. Com.
fortobie log buildings. The balance is well timbered.
It is within four miles of Echobay railway station,
and six miles of the prosperouo village of Port
Findlay. Thiele a good lot, and will be sold cheap,
and on easy terms. Apply to WILLIAM SIMPSON
on the premises, or to ALEX. MUSTARD Btude-
field. 1546-tf
MIAMI FOR SALE. -For sale Lot 7, BayfieldCon-
J
cession, Goderloh Township, containing f.4
acres. II of which aro cleared and in a good state
of cultivation, 40 acres good -hardwoed bush, un -
culled, conapoeed at maple, beech, cherry and ash,
with a few acres of good cedar at rear end of lot.
There is on the land a good frame house. with out
buildings; large bearing orchard; and small spring
creek, which orogen the farm. It is 2 nines from
Bayfield, 7 mike from Clinton and 12 from Goderich.
There is no incumberence on the faim. Owner
must give up fanning owing to poor health. Terme.
-Thirty dollars per sere, half cash, balance on time
to suit purchatrer. Address JOHN E. EAGLESON,
Bayfield P. G., Ontario. 15 -tf
UAW& FOR SALE. -A rare chance. Being the
8. E. j Section 20, Township 24, R. 20, W. let
P.M. in the Dauphin District, Province of Manitoba.
- This farm woman to be Inc of the beat in the
province it contains 160 acres of land, more or less,
allot which's fit for cultivation It ia one mile from
a school house. and one mile and a hsit from Spruce
Creek pest °See. There are 53 acres fenced and
under cultivation. There is a good hewed log
house, one snd &half story, 16x20 feet, and a good
log stable, 18x24 feet. There are about 12 or 14 acres
of good popular bush an the farm, soil is a rich black
roam surface, with a clay subsoil. lile well situated,
lying between two creeks, neither of them touching
the farm. There is also good water within twelve
feet of surface. My reason for selling to tailing
health. 1 will take SIO per acre for 14 11 sold before
Christmas, it is well worth $15 per acre. Apply to
WM. MURRAY, Proprietor, Box 83, Dauphin, Man-
toba. 15184f
THE HOLIDAY
RUSH IS OVER,
And there ere some who have neg-
lected to provide themselves with
something warm, suitable for winter
wear. We have had the best -holiday,
trade known in our experience, but
we have still left a large stock of,
winter geode whith we will heve to
clear out this month, to make room
for Spring goods. If you want bar-
gains that prove their worth in use
as well as in quality, come and see
our splendii lines- of Men's Chuckle
felts; men's and boys' Socks, Rub-
bers, Overshoes and Slippers. Also
our women's and misses Skating
Shoes, 4' Overshoes, Cardigans, Rub,
hers and Fancy Slippers, and all other
lines found in an up-to-date shoe
store, and at rock bottom prices.
Those indebted to us will please call and
settle at once, as we must have all
our aeeounts paid this month.
•••••••=1••
Richardson & McInnis,
WHITNEY S BLOCK,
SEAFORTH.
LUMBER
Be Shows the Effect of Bad Clubs -Tho
Test of Merit of a Club -.The Struggls
Against Evil Habits and How to Coa-
1 'quer.
[Copyright 148, by American FressAssocise
time.]
Washington, Jan. 9.—This discourse of.
Dr. Talmage will be helpful to those who
want to find places with healthful and.
improving surroundings and to avoid
places deleterious. His text is II. Samuel
11, 14, "Let the young men novrarise and
play before us."
There are two armies encamped by the
pool of Gibeozi. The time hangs heavily
on their hands. One army proposes a
game of sword fenonag. Nothing could be
more healthful and innocent. The other
army accepts the challenge. Twelve men
against 12 men„the sport opens. But
something went it/aversely. Perhaps one
of the swordsmen got an unlucky clip or.
In some way had his ire aroused, and that
which opened in sportfulness ended ir.
violeece, each one taking his centestaut
by the hair and then with the sword
thrusting him in the side, so that that
which opened in innocent fun ended in
the massacre of all the 24 sportsmen.
Was there ever a better illustration of
what was true then and is true now, that
that which is innocent may be inade de-
itructive?
At this season of the year the club
houses of our towns end cities are in full
play. I have found out that there is a-
• legitlioate and. an illegitimate use of the
clubhouse. In the one case Unroof become
a healthful recreation like the contest of
the 24 men in the tee; when they began
their play; in the other case it becomes
the massacre of body, mind and soul, as
in the casi Of these eoatsettints of the text
when they had gone too far with their
sport. All tritelligent nes have had 'their
gatherings for Witte& social, artistic.
_literary purposes--gaikerings character-
ized by the blunt 4Aa Anglo-Saxon desig
nation of `t club."
Parties intending to build will find it to
there advantage to buy their lumber from
P. KEATING, as I handle nothing but the
best. SHINGLES.—I also keep the best
brands of Red Cedar Shingleseextra
and at the lowest, possible price.- Any
amount of Cedar Post for sale.
P. KEATING, Seaforth.
1667
THE MAN
With The Book
This most excellent work ehould be in every hause
in the county of Huron.
PRICE, $1.00 PER COPY.
Copies can be had from Mr. B. R. Higgins, Bruce-
fie/d, or Mr. David Rose, 640 Church street, Toronto.
Rev. Dr. McVicor, Principal of the Presbyterian
College, -says :- I am profited and greatly pleased
with what I have read, and I intend next Monday to
advise all our students toput it into their libraries
and to study it deligently as affording rich in-
etruation in pastorial theology and practical godli-
nese. I shall read them a few peerages that they
may see that it is far from being dull or dry.
Mr. N. Drysdale of Wm. Drysdale & Co., Publishers
and Bookeellers, Montreal, says :-Rev. John Rees
was a grand man, and the writing of his life could
not have been pined in better hands. What we
Deed to -day more and more are books of this class
The reeding of which tends to the better circulation
of theblood,and stiring one's soul. 1665-tf
• GODERICH
Steam Boiler Works.
(ESTABLISHED IWO.)
A. C]IIRYSTAL
Successor to Chrystal Mirk,
Mantifectureri of all kinds of Stationary
Marine, Upright & Tubular
BOILERS
• Salt renegue lee Sticks, Sheet fres Werke,
etett OtO$ -
Abe dealers a hi and Horizontal illide Valve
neines. Alarms o teed Engines a specialty. All
ses of pips and pipe.iltgui constantly on bind
Tolmatee furnished on short pollee.
Warks—Opposite et. L Siatioes Hoderiele
Famous Cubs.
If you have read history, you know
that there' was a King's. Head club, a'
Ben Jenson club, a Brothers' deb, to
wbich Swift and Bolingbroke belonged;
a Literary club, which Burke and Gold-
smith and Johnson and Boswell rnade
inamortal; a Jacobin club" a Benjamin
Franklin Junto (Aube -mime of those to
indicate justice, some to favor the arts,
some to promote good manners, some to -
deepen the habits, loner to destroy the
soul. If one will write en honest history
of the clubs of England, Ireland, Scot-
land, France and the rutted States for 1
the last 100 year)), h.'0111write the his-
tory of the world. Tke club as an in-
stitution born on Ensile's soil, but it has
thrived well in Aniericen atmosphere.
Who shall tell how may belong to that
kind of club where min put purses to-
gether and open house, apportioning the
exjsense of caterer end servants and room,
and having a sort of diOnestic establish-
ment—a style of oltiblmasse which in my
opinion is far bettelt tkan the ordinary
betel or boarding hots'? But my objet
now is to speak of elnUouses of a differ-
ent sort, melt as go Cosmos or Chevy
Chase or Lincoln club of this capital, or
the Union League let many cities, the
United Service club as Loudon, the Lotos
of New York, where journalists, dramat-
ists, sculptors, volute* and artists from
all branches gather tegethe,r to discuss
newspapers, theaters and elaborate art,
like the Americus, which camps out in
summer time, dimpling the pool with its
hook and arousing the forest with its
stag hunt; like the Century club, which
has its large group et venerable lawyers
and pacts; like the Army and Navy
club, whore those who engaged in warlike
service. once on the land or the see now
conae together to talk oeer the days of
carnage; like the New York Yacht club,
with its floating palaces of beauty uphol-
stered with velvet and paneled with
ebony, having all -the advantages of elee,-
tric bell, and of gaslight, and of king's
pantry, one pleasure boat costing $3,000,
another $15,000, another $30,000, another
$65,000, the fleet of pleasureboats belong-
ing to the club having oast over $2,000,-
000; like the America* Jockey club, to
which belong men whe have a passi.onato
fondness for horses, line horses, its had
Job when, in the Soriptures, he gives us
a sketch of that king of beasts, the ° arch
of its neck, the nervousness of its foot,
the majesty of its gait, the whirlwind of
its power, crying out "Host thou clothed
his neek with thend4q1 The glory of his
nostrils is terrible; _he ilaweth in the
valley and rejoieeth IS bis strength, he
slid) among the triOnpets hal ha! and
he smelieth the battle afar off, the thun-
der of the captains, and the shouting,"
' like the Travelers' olub, the Blossom
olteb, the Palette club, the Commercial
club, the Liberal club, tip) Stable Gang
club, the Amateur B�$ Clete the gambl-
o
Ing clubs, the mine a , the clubs of all
sizes, the club* of a morals, clubs as.
good as good can beeezie ollebe as bad as
bad cab he, dribs inigitnerable. During
the day they are raparatively lazy
places. /lere and Ore an aged man
reading a, newspaper, gem employe dust-
ing a sofa, or a clerk writieg up the
accounts, but when the certain ot the
night falls an the nitturel day then the
. curtain of the clubhoese hoists for the
entertainment Let us hasten up now the
Marble stairs. What 0 braperial hallway!
See, here are pari•fte on the side, with
the upholstery of the leremlin and. the
'Tuileries, and here are dining halls that
challenge you to mention any luxury
that they cannot afford, and here are
gallerlea with sculpture and paintings
and lithographs and drawings from the
best of artiste, Cropsay and Blerstadt
end Church and Hart and Gifford—pic-
tures for every mood, whether you are
impaesioned or placid; shipwreck or sun-
light over the sea, Sh.eridan's ride, or the
noofiday 'party of the farmers uneer the
• tees, foaming deer pursued by the hounds
14 the Adirondneks or the sheep on the
bilge. On this side there are reading
jemmy where you find all newspapers and
Inagazines. On that side there is a
library, where you find all books, from
hermeneutics to the fairy tale. Coining
In and' out there are gentlemen, some of
whom stay ten minutes, others stay
many hears. Some Of these are from lux-
uribus Isms', and they have excused
teemselves for awhile from the domestic
Crete that they new enjoy the larger
Neciabilitz et the clubhouse. Thee* are
bora diemeniblred households, and they
lilyve a plain lodgihg somewhere, but
come to this dub room- to have
eir °hid enjoYmegt One blackball
**Id ten votes Will &bat a Miami be-
lomeng a member. Tor rowdyism, for
drunkenness, for gambling, for any kind
of raisdemeanor, a member is dropped
out. Brilliant clubhouses from top to
bottom. The chandelier!, the plate, the
furniture, the companionship, the litera-
ture, the social prestige, a complete en-
chantment.
But the evening is passing on, and so
we hasten through the hale and down the
steps and into the street and from block
to block until we ORMO to another iltyle
at aliddiause....thasaineLtawaster. wc.flail
TIIE EXPOSITOR
tEe Minds of strong drink and tobacco full piggelision Of it, Tat the wilt RfiCeS- rre-nave married you ivitn suet' pros -
something almost intolerable. These tors, who earned the money by hard poets?
young men at this; table, it is, easy to knocks, foresaw how it was to be, and
Time will pass on, and the son will be
understand what they are at from the they tied up everything in the will. NoW 16 or 17 years of age, and you will be at
flushed cheek, the intent look, the almost there is nothing of that unworthy descend- the tea table, and he will sheve back and
an way of tossing the dice or of mov- ant but his grandfather'sesame and roast have an engagement, and he will light
RJ • ing the "chips." They are gambling. At beef rotundity. And yet how many
'Another table are men who are telling vile steamers there are which feel honored to
stories. They are three-fourths intoxi- lash fast that worm eaten tug, though it
cated, and between 12 and 1 o'clock they drags them straight into the breakers. .
will go staggering, _ hooting, swearing, Another test by which you ean find
shouting len their way home. That is an whether your club is legitimate or illegiti-
only son. On him all kindness, all care, mate--ethe effect it has on your secular
all culture has been bestowed. He is pay- occupation I can understand how throagh
Ing his parents in this way for their such an in
kindness: That is a young married man • commercial
who only a few mouths ago at the altar have formed t
made promises of kindness and fidelity, through such a channel. If the club has
every one of 'which he has broken. Walk advantaged you in an honorable calling,
through and see for yourself. Hero are 14 18 a legitimate club. But hasyour
all the insplements of dissipation and of credit failed?, Are bargain makers more
quick death. As the hours of the night cautious how they trust you with a -bill
go away the conversation becomes lin- of goods? Have the men whose names
becile and more debasing. Now it is time were down in the commercial agency Al
to shut up. Those who are able to stand before they entered the club been going
will get out on the pavement and balance down ever since in commercial standing?
themselves against the lamppost or Then look out! You. and I every day
against the railings of the fence. The know of commercial establishments going
young man Who is not able to stand will to ruin through the sooial excesses of one
have a bed improvised for him in the or two members, their fortunes beaten to
clubhouse, or two not quite so overcome death with ball players' bat, or cut amid -
with liquor will conduct him to his ships by the front prow of the regatta, or
father's house, and they will ring the going down under the swift hoof of the
doorbell, and the door will open, and the fast horses, or drowned in large potations
two imbecile escerts will introduce into of cognac and monongahela. Their club -
the hallway therghastliest and rnost hell- house was the "Loch Earn." Their buSI-
ish spectacle that ever enters a front door nese house was the "Ville du Havre."
—a drunken. son. If the dissipating club- They struck, and. the"Ville du Havre"
houses of this country would make a con- went under.
tract with the inferno to provide it 10,000.
A. Test of Merit.
men a year, and for 90 years, on tho con-
dition that no more should be asked. of i
them, the clubhouses could afford to whether the club to which you belong, or
make that contract, for they wouldsave the club to ' whose membership you are
homesteads, save fortuxes, save bodies,
invited is a legitimate club or an illegiti-
minds and *rolls. The 10,000 men who
would be eacrifieed by that contract
would be but a small part of the multi-
tude sacrificed without the contract.
But I make a vast difference between
clubs. I have belonged to four clubs—a
theological club, a ball club and two lit-
erary clubs. I got from them physical
rejuvenation and moral health. What
shall be the principle? If God will help
me / will lay down three principles bY
Mullion a min can reach
messes. I know sgrile mere
eir best business relations
mate club is this: What .is its effect on
your sense of moral and religious obliga-
tion? Now, if I should take the names of
all the people in my audience and put
them on anall and then I ehould lay that
roll back lathe organ and 10,0 years from
now some 'tie should take that roll and
call it -from A te Z, there evuld not one
of .you answer. I say that an association •
that makes me forget that fact is a bad
associable's). Now, to many of the cities
which you may judge whether the club there are but two routes, and you ean
where yeti are a member orethe chils to take the Pennsylvania railroad or the
which you have been invited. is a legiti- Baltimore -and Ohio; but suppose that I
mato cr an illegitimate clubhouse. hear that on one route the track is torn
First of all I want you to test tho club up, and the bridges are torn down, and
by its influences on home, if you have a the switches are unlocked? It . will not
, home. I have been told by a prominent take me a great vrhile to decide which
elub life that three-fourths
gentleman in road to take. Now, here are two roads
of the members 'of the great clubs of into the future, the Christian and the
these cities are married men. That wite un -Christian, the sate' and the unsafe.
soon loses her influence over her husband An institution or any association that
who nervously and foolishly look* upon confuses my idea in regard to that fact is
bad association.
all evening absolve as an assault on a .bad institution and le
domesticity. How are the great enter- I had prayers before I joined the elub.
prises of art and literature and beneficence Did I have them after? I attended the
and public weal to be carried on if every house of God ,before I connected myself •
man is to bave his world bounded on one with the club. Since that union with the
side by his front doorstep and on the club do I absent myself from religious
back window, knovring infiriences? Which would • you rather
other side by his ba
nothing higher than his own attic or have in your hand when you come to die,
nothing lower than his own cellar? That a pack of cards or a Bible? Which would
wife who becomes jealous of her hue- you rather have premed 40 your lips in
band'e attention to art or literature or ! tbe closing moment, the cup of Belehaz-
religion or charity is ,breeking her own zarean wassail or the chalice 'of Christian .
- scepter of conjugal power. I know an communion? Who would you rather have
instance where a wife thought that her for your pallbearers, the elders of a Chris -
husband was giving too many slights to tian church or the oompanions whose con -
Christian service, to charitable service, to ' verfation was full of slang and innuendo?
prayer meetings and to religious convo- ' Who would you rather have for your
cation. She systematically decoyed him eternal companions, those men who spend.
away until now he atiends no church their evenings betting, gambling, swear -
and is on a rapid way to destruction, his ing, carousing and telling vile stories,. or
morals:gone, his money gone and, I fear, your little child that bright girl Whom
bis soul gone. Let any Christian wife the Lord took? Oh, you would not have
rejoice .when her husband consecrates been away so rumen nights, would you,
evenings to the service of God, or te ; if you had known she was going away so
to anything ole-
, soon? Dear me, your house has never
charity, or to art, or
vated, but let not men sacrifice home life • . been the same place since. Your wife has
to club life. I can point out to you a I never brightened up. She has not got
men who are guilty * over it; she never will get over it. How
great many names of
of this sacrilege. They are as genial as . long the evenings aie, with no one to put
and no one to tell the beautiful
angels at the clubhouse and as ugly as to bed
sin at home. They are generous on all Bible storyl What a pity it is that you
subjects of wine suppers, -yachts :and fast cannot spend more evenings at home in
horses, but they are 'stingy about the trying to help her bear that sorrow! You
ildren's, shoes. can never drown that grief in the wine
wife's dress- and the ch
That man has made that which might be P. You can never b k away from the
a healthful recreation a usurper of his little ernes that used be flung around
- affections, and he has married it, and he . your neck when she u to say, "Papa,
do stay home to-nightdo stay home to-
night." You will never be able to wipe
away from your lips the dying kiss of
your little girl.
The fascination of a dissipating club-
house is so great that sometimes a man
has turned his back on his home when
his child was dying of scarlet fever. He
went away. Before be got back at mid-
night the eyes had been closed, thgunder-
taker had done his work, and the wife,
worn out with three weeks' watching,
lay unconecious in the next room. Then
there ti a rattling of the night key in the
door, and the returned father comes up-
stairs and sees the empty cradle and the
window up. He says, 'What is the mat-
ter?" In God's judgment day ho will
find out what WAS the matter. Oh, man
astrey, God help you.1 . .
The influence which some of the club-
houses are exerting is the more to be de-
plored begause it takes down the very
best men. The admission fee sifts out the
penurious and leaves only the best fel-
lows. ;They are frank, they are generous,
they are whole souled, they are talented.
Oh. I begrudge the devil such a prize 1
After awhile the frank look will go out
of the face and the features will be ' hag-
gard, and when talking to you,, instead
of looking you in the eye, they will look
down, and ivory morning the mother
will kindly ask "My son, what kept you
out so late last night?" and he will make
DO answer, or he will say, "That's my
• Wetness." Then thine time he will come
• to the store or the bank cross and be-
fogged, and. he will neglect some :duty,
and after awhile he will lose his place,
and then with nothing to do he will come
down at 10 o'clock in the morning to
curse the servant because the breakfast
is cold. , The lad who was a clerk in the
cellar has got - to be chief clerk in the
great commercial establishment; the
young man who ran errands for the
bank has got to be cashier; thousands of
the young men who were at the foot of
. the ladder have got to the top of the lad-
der, butthere goes the victim of the dissi-
pating clubhouse, with staggering step
and bloodshot eye and mud bespattered
hat set sidewise on a shock of greasy
hair, his oravat dashed with cigar ashes.
Look at him 1 Pure hearted young man,
look at him! The clubhouse did that. I
know on such who went the whole
round, and, :turned out of the higher club-
houses, went into the lower clubhouses, -
and on down, until one night -he leaped
out of a third story window to end his
wretediednees. .
Is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this
process the wife, whatever her features,
becomes uninteresting and homely. He
becomes critical of her, does not like the
dress, does not like the way she arranges
her hair, is amazed that he ever was so
unromantic as to offer her hand and
heart. She is always wanting money,
money when she ought to be discussing
Eclipses and Dexter and Derby day and
English drags with six horses, all an-
swering -the pull of one "ribbon."
Clubbed to Death.
I tell you there are thousands of
houses in the cities being clubbed to
death. There are clubhouses whore mem-
bership always involves domestic ship-
wreck. Tell me that a man has joined a
certain club, tell me nothlog more about
hlin for ten .years, and I will write his
history if he be still alive. The man is a
wine guzelor, his wife broken hearted or
prematurely old, his fortune gone or re-
duced and his home a mere name in a
directory. Here ari !ix eiroular nights in
the week. "What shall 1 do with them?"
says the father and the husband. "I will
give four of those nights to the improve-
ment and entertainzuent of my family,
either at home or in good neighborhood.
I will devote one to charitable institu-
tions. I will devote ono to the club." I
congratulate you. Here is a man who
'says: "I will make a different division of
the six nights. I will take three for the
club and three for other purposes." I
tremble. Here is a man who says, "Out
of the sixeecular nights of the week I
will devote five to the clubhouse and one
to the home, which night I will eperid in
scowling like a March squall, wishing I
vras out *pending it as I had spent the
other five." That man's obituary is writ-
ten. Not one out of 10,000 that ever gets
so ittr on the wrong road ever stops.
. Gradually his health will fail through
late hours and through toe much stimu-
lus. He will be first rate prey for erysipe-
las and rheumatism of the heart. The
doctor, coming in, will at a glance see it
is not only present disease he must fight,
but years of fast living. The clergyman,
for the sake of the feelings of the &rally,
on the funeral day will only talk 'in re-
ligious generalities. *hen men who got
his yacht in the eternal rapids will not
be at the obsequies. They will have press-
ing engagements that day.They winsome'
flowers th the coffin lid and send their
wives to utter words of sympathy, but
they will have engagements elsewhere,
They never come. Bring me tuallet and
chisel and I will cut pp the tombstone
that man'e epitaph, "Moused are the dead
who die in the Lore." "leo," you say,
"that would not be appropriate." "Let
me die the death of tee righteous, and
let my last and be lite his." "No," you
his cigar, and he will go out to the club-
house, and you will hear nothing of him
until your hear the night' key in the door
after midnight. But his physical consti-
tution is not quite so strong as yours,
and the liquor he drinks is more terrific, -
ally drugged than that which you drink,
and so he will catch up with you on the
road to death, though you got such a long
start of him, and eio you will both go to
hell together.
The revolving Drummond light in
front of a.hotel, in trent of a locomotive,
may flash this way and flash that upon
the mountains, upon the ravines, upon
the city, but I take the lamp of God's
eternal truth, and I flash it uporiall the
clubhouses of these cities, so that no
young man shall be deceived. By these
twits try them, try them! Oh, leave the
dissipating! Paid your money, have you?
Better sacrifice that than your soul. Good
fellows, are they? Upder that process they
will not remain such. -Mollusca may be
found 200 fathoms down beneath the
Norwegian seas; Siberian stag get fat on
the stinted growth of Altalan peaks•,
hedysarium grow ami a the desolation of
Sahara; tufts of osier and birch grow on;
the hot lips of volctanio Snecbattan, but a
pure heart and an honest life thrive in a
dissipating clubhouse—neverl
The way to conquer a wild beast is to
keep your eye on him, but the way for
you to conquer 'your temptations, my
friend., is to turn your back on them and
• fiy for your life.
Oh, my he,art ache! I see men strut:lel-
ing against evil habits, and they want
help. I have knelt Weide them, and I
have heard them cry for help, and then
we have risen, and, he has put one hand
on my right shoulder and. the other hand
on my left shoulder and looked into my
face with an infinity of earnestness which
the judgment day will have no power to
make me forget, as he has cried out with
his tps scorched in rails, "God help me I"
For such there is no help except in the
Lord .God Almighty. I am going to make
a very stout rope'. You know that some-
times a roeemaker will take very small
threads and wind them together until
after awhile they become ship cable. A.nd
I am goiug to take some very small, deli-
cate threads and wind them together
until they make a very stout rope. I will
take all the memories of the marriage
-day, a 'thread of laughter, ri-thread of
light, a thread of menthe a thread of ban-
queting, a thread of congratulation, and
I-tevist them together and I have one
strand. Then I take a thread of the hour
of the first advent In your house, a thread
of the darkness that preceded, and a
thread of the light that followed, and a
thread of the beautiful scarf that little
child used to wear when she bounded out
at eventide to greet feu, and then a ehread
of the beautiful dress in which you laid
her away for the resurrection. And then
I twist all these threads together, and I
have another strand. Then I take •
thread of the scarlet. robe of a suffering
Christ, and a thread of the white raiment
of your loved ones before thethrone, and
a string of the harp oherubio, and a
string of the harp serephio, and I twist
them all together, and I have a third
strand. "Oh," you say, "either strand
is strong enough to hold fast a world!"
No. I will take these strands and I will
twist them together,. and one end of that
rope I will fasten, not to the communion
table, for it shall be rereoved, not to the
pillar of the organ, for that will crumble
ID the ages, but I wind it round and
round the cross of a sympathizing Christ,
and having fastened one end of the rope
to the cross I throw the other end to you.
Lay hold of it! Pull for your lifel Pull
f or heaven!
A' Terrible Struggle.
Let me lay to fathers who aro becom-
ing diselpated, your sons will follow you.
You think your eon dorm not know. He
knows all about it. I have heard men
, say, "that would not be appropriate." who say, "I am profane, but never In the
. Teen give me the zgalliel and the chisel P nce of my children." Your children
and I will cut an hotest epitaph, "Here kno you swear. I have heard inen say,
lies the victim . a a dissipating club- "I drink, but never in the prep:aloe of ney
house." children." Your ohildxen . know you
I think that damage hi often done -by drink. I describe now what occurs in
,
the scions of some aristocratic family hundreds of households in this country.
who belong to ens of these dissipating The tea hour has arrived. The family are
-clublieuses. People arming up from hem- seated at the tea table. Before the rest of
• bier °Woes feel it an kenor to belong to the family arise from the table the father
the sanie. club, forgeteing the fact that 1 shoves back hie chair, , says he has an
many of the sons Mg 'grandsona of the engagement, lighta a cigar, goes out,
large commercial ultablishments of the comes back after midnight, and that is
lase generation ere leer, as to mind, im- the 1111017 of 866 nights . of the year.
beetle; as to boy, Mewed; onto neerals, ' Doeseiny man want to stultify himself by
rotten. They would have got through i saying that that Is healthy, that that is
' &hair Ilransztr. lona . pm 11 their had had that.. thas that Itheserablef Wcuild YOU
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1:)1.00R`.COPY
I Had a Cat.
'The domestio cat is said to have affixes
don for places and not for persons. I am
strongly inclined to think that this le a
misapprehension. As a schoolboy I had a
pot eat which would follow me to school
just like a dog, and, remaining in the
shrubbeiles around, would wait to return
with me. My father at one period always
returned home from his duties at a cer-
tain hour in the evening. This cat would
wait for him at a certain point in the'
road, and as soon as he approached would
spring out, gambol a little round him
and then trot a yard or two in front of
him for the quarter of a mile between
the meeting point and home. Later' in
life, I had a cat which accompanied my
family during three removals. On each
occasion he was carried in the arma
througb, the open road from the old' house
to the new one. Not onoe did he desert
us or return to the former dwelling. My
experience is that the cat is not a selfish
creature.—Chicago Times.
Mighty Niagara.
One hundred million toes of water pour
ever Niagara Falls every hour. This is
said to represent 16,00,000 horse power.
Some idea of this enormous amount Of
water may be leed by understanding that
the coal produced in the world would not
snake enough abeam to pump a area*
.of equal size.
1
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JA.NtrARY
esa.7 -aneeeseserneeseeesemeaweesesewea.eveweeeware
41 1898.
The Flow of Milk
will b' Inc
Why go td the tro
ing COWEi itild get onl
the milk they' should
DICK'S 11 001)
strengthenthe dige
4 ,
vigorates the whole
that the nutriment is all drawn from the food.
the same trouble to care for a cow w114„0 she give
quarts as when she gives a pail. Dick's Blood
pay back Its cost with good interest ititt few wee
AGENTS. MONTREAL. A PACKAGE,
60 CEN 4:S Di
LEMING, MILES & CO.,
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eised.
1
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Me of keep- .1
abbUt half 1
produce. 1
URIFIER
tion and hi;
system so
t takes just
only three I
urifier wili
s.
PROPRItTO*fl .3
DOMINION
_
CAPITAL, (PAID UP)
REST,
SEAFORTH BRANCH.
MAIN STREET, -
I •
A general banking business transacted. Draftii on all pa
Great Britain and Europe bought and sold. Lettere of credit iss
of Europe, China and Japan. Farmers' Sale Notei collected, an
at lowest rates.
SAVINGS DEPART: MEN
Deliosits of One Dollar and Tar& received, and interest
No notice of withdrawal is required for the whole tit any portion
R. S. HAYSZSolicitor.
rates. Interest added to print:rips twice eat& yeare-at the end
A N K,
81,600,000.
S1,1500,00X).
SEAFORTH.
of the United States
ed, available in all parte
advanoes made on sant
lowed at highest curries
f June and, Damnifies
4. deposit,
PEAIi0E, Agent.
—The forty-one offices of the Frankfort
lottery, scattered over Louisville, ere
closed New Year's day for the first time in
25 years, and no drewines were made at the
principal nffice. The lettery is closed for
good. The mandete of tee Supreme Court
has not been received, but the owners of
the lottery felt that no hieg would be gain-
ed by keeping open,as Criminal JudgeBark-
en who assumed his duties at the beginning
of the new year, announced that his first
act would be to proceed against the lottery
without waiting for, official notice. Thus
has eeded a fight that has been waged for
22 years against the policy shops of Louis-
ville. The company had two drawings
daily, and its profits averaged $10,000 a
day.
The germs of consump-
tion are everywhere.
There is no way but to
fight them:.
If there is a hi -story of
weak lungs in the family,
this fight must be constant
and vigorous.
You must strike the dis-
ease, or it Will strike you.
At the very first sign of
failing health take Scott's
Emulsion of' -:-Cod-liver Oil
with Hypophosphites.
It gives the body power to
resist the germs of consump-
tion.
I see. and$.�0, all druggists.
SCOTT & 'TOWNE, Chemists, Toronto.
-eirift----ellEC215,--ee!gpree QUICKGP
(-60 -
• -
kw if 1 only. had n little pot of
Qulekcine in my tool.beg.66
The bicy lists' -
Lame t.
ittfJo., wise whee
bag 'contairus som
medicine or a da
He is- 34.it as liable
own skin as to pun
more liable to bruis
to break his wheel.
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1
1.11C (ciU-
,
is the emergency cure for unexpectlei injtiries. Li.
comes with every pot of Quickcure. Make your ow/
on the. wound, Quickcure will do the rest" -quickly, s
At all druggists 25c., soc. and Sr.ocio. -g
THE GUiCKCURE COMPANY. :kia. -QUEBEC
, -
4gurr'"‘VEC Me.""" ---7)111w OUICKCUIFit
man whose tool
thing besides
aged machine.
o puncture his
ture his tire—
himself, than
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plaster --lay it
ely, pain le.sEly.
Can.
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JANU
IMPORT
✓ FUNDS
tilde yearly, on
to ft, S. HAYS, Don
I.TitcKENNASurveyor, Mem
,
LeadSurveyom, Dub
TOON BlIA.Trin,
• .C#13zirernfiT
veryanner, ee, Loan
/tweeted And to L
Ivens' eters. Mein sir
TienANS A-1IDBUT
ittd quantity s
epasntify of first -char
psy the highest cash
win shoo be paid for
cASE & CO., Sesta
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,EV ANTED HELP
. V, Ity, local oe'
eIteovtly and kee
trees, fences and
&entity. Ready
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posited in any honk
virile THE WOK.
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'WARMERS' A
je oent. interest
-
pared to lend money
elms farm security,
v.alue atraight loan
toentelOAUlt borrow
door settee of J-
8TOC
MIMI SALE, five
-seed 10
grind lot. Prices .a
DAVID MILNE, Elbe
IDULL FOR SALE.
_pi *thoroughbred
pedigree, bud by
"Ontario. Its three
Apply to 11.0.McGo
Wiwanosh, Blyth P.
UIGS FOlt BALI
undeteigaed,
ehlrea,has formal*
480 keep ler lorries
arehreed from Mr.
and winner at Men
4-111 payable et the
ciratuming if
ORRANCT, Lot Ile,
orth O.
STOCK
TARs FOR -MR
101 keep forservine
Tainwetth boar, and
boar. OfOROR NIL
-FICIAR FOR SFR
Xi keep foreervlee•
oremith, *lame tho
boar, purcbutdftOIfl
leer where eversh
privilege of returning
pOARB FOR SFR
MO • keep -ter service,
a Thoroughbred
two linproved large
Hord, of Parkhill,
Laren, of Bibbed. T.
iervloe, with the
lorl. HECTOR RE
ill0Alt FOR BIS
IL) keep imageries
,erstnith, a tem
lpgrehesed IronR.
Middlesex County.,
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JOHN 1w. ao
CANADIAN BANK F 01 MMERCE,
ESTABLISHED .867.
HEAD OFFIOEip TORONT
4
OAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX MILLION DOLLA - *6,000.000
REST el 1,000,000
B. E. WALKER, GaistAtar. MARL°
SEAFORTH [BRANCH.
A General Banking Businese Transacted. ,Parmors' N. tea discounted, Dtafts
issued, payable at all points in Oanaclix and the p cipal cities in
the United States, Great Britain, Prance, Be lids, are.
- SAVINGS BANK DEPARTM NT.
Deposits of OM and Apwards receed, and cu nt rates of interest
allowed. ErInterest added to the principal at the si of May and Novem-
ber in each year.
Special attention given to the colleeticiti of Oommercial Paper and Far-
mers' Sales Notes.
F. HOLMESTED, Solicitor.
F. O. G. MINTY, Manager.
A Call to Holid4y Bargains.
In remembering your friend4, this season of the year,
don't forget we carry a fine line bf!„1..
• • . Cutlery
. Carving ;Sets
algn.dwftik
*ion 7, Stanley, the
bossy: Finn prine(41
M Toronto And Land
4 months. Tmaa
with the priviWg419/
AWOL of all ages 1
Varna P. 0.
nvoirwovni BOA
VIOL—Th. end
et. the BfuoadeldJh
Tiunwortir BOST, With
41; psy.bl.sttrnen
turneug if neormary.
bred yOUbs Vamwort
111eillife
AMWORTH PIG
I_ signed hae foram
MoBillop, thercee
*Wilted -ameba of
extra good pig and b
,oroma their berkiddre
iTerins $1, with
4", 01IN MoMIL
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TTNRESERVED A
t) GRADE BURR
-Mr. Wm. MeCloy he
Will, A, Ross, tosell
Conversion Si townshi
January lith, 1828, at
Vastuable proPerty, v's
ake aboutthe 1st of
2 thoroughbred Durh
16 heifers rising two
tears -old, 1 fat heifer
One year old oolt, al
heavy, mare -six years
pigs four month, old, .5
of February. Tile atm
rererve, to make TOOM
101 February, Terms.
ash; over that amen
given on furnishing
discomit at the tate of
ellowed off forte& on
A. A033, Pm:mitten
80knee
And made it p
fective eyesig
Lamps boa library and haltAigo a fine 1in.9 of
Silver Knoys and Forks.
EXTRA VALUE
S. MULLETT & O., Seaforth.
HARDWARE, sTovEd and TINWARE.
THE QUALflV
Is the first thing to consider in: (Nothing. The pricc. comes next.
Quality means good material well Made up. it means a good fit;
it means good wear; it means a gnteel appearance. Our clothing
is distinctively quality clothing the price is only a little more than
you would pay for the shoddy go8c10, but you'll find a vast difference
in the wear and looks.
firmwmarammw•••••••.1.,
THREE POINTS.
Thereis a good deal of satisfactiOn in knowing that your clothes
fit youandlook well. It is os itnportant as the wearing qualities,
and when the three points are conabined, you have just the kind of
clothing we are selling. Our stoek comprises all the best lima of
Tweeds to be had, while our Hata and Haberdashery is =excelled.
The price is in strict accord with the quality,'and is the sa.me to all.
Special line °Units for business tind professional men.
, •
BRIGIrt BROS.,
SEAFORT4e'
Having taken*,
Detroit OptiCal
to fit all defect's
Hypermetrople.,
or any cOMponto
Astigmatism is d'ite
, and is usually congeri
properly fitted gluei.
this defect are called
glasses they may hew
This is (mites -comma
rnetropis, is -6 mato
muscle In oenstatt
at rest when looking
neglected, ms y result
and even prostration.
of the eye, which sho
prevent an inereese o
mate blindness. Pres
lion in theeye which
rected by stt.fichtl sld
headaches, and also
'by crie or more of tit
no charge for testing
j 84
Chemist and
McKIIop
JOHN MORRISO
WILLIAM IBM
hney P0.
WM,. lloGAVIN,
JOSEPH 0, moan
1.0.
DANIEL MANLEY,
- JOHN -0. 1401414I80
DAVID M. ROSS,
Wil. EVAN%
CHARLES DODDS,
RICHARD POLLA
lazy P. O.
Ainutti
The annual meetin
Niilop Muturd Mrs Ins
In the TOWN IIALL,
FRIDAY, J
The husinees ad the
of receiving the sauna
the company, the Aud
oialStatomeu4 the el
the towntlitp of Men
that may be Setae Inte
GEORGE WATT,
Preeiden