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The Huron Expositor, 1898-03-25, Page 2f TRE HURON EXPOSITOR MARCII 25 1898. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. IGIOREALE.—For este. Lumleypost-officeietore, X daily rail, 14 antes land, choice ; acres goad orchard, good well and barn. Possesaion given right away. School quarter mile off. W. DINSIN, Pedometer, Lumley. `1577-tf CARMS FOR SALE.—The undersigned ime twenty Mace Farms for sale in East Huron, the ban he? Conety of the Province; all fdlea, and prices to suit. For full Information, write or call personally. No trouble to show them. F. S. Boort Brawls P. 0. 13914f VARY FOR SALE CHEAP OR TO RENt.—Be- ing north helf of Lot 40, Concession 10, East Wasininesh, 44 miles from Wingham. There is 85 acrescleared, 15 acres good bush; good bonne bate, stable, straw shed and house, a good orchard and two never -failing wells. Apply to HENRY J. PEAHEN. Wingham P. 0., Ont. 1576119 liDESIDENCE IN BRUCEFIELD FOR 8ALL— .1.11 For sale the frame dwelling house and lot near the railway dation in • Brueefield. The house an- teing ten rooms; a stone cellar and hard and soft water in the house; also a goad ottable. There is a quarter acre of land. Apply to ALEX. MUSTARD, Brims:Meld. -1616-ti OUSE FOR SALE, OR TO RENT.—Mr. John Landsborough, will sell or rent his fide new reeldence hi Egmondville, which was built last sum- mer. This is in evers respect $ firet-class house, with good brickand well finished, bard and eon water, combined coal or wood furnace. eminent Eiger is cense an thIIPTV znedern convenience. Apply to JOHN LANDSBOROUGH, Seaforth. 1564 MURK FOR SALE.—For sale, 101 6, concession 12, X township ot Hibbert, containing 100 sores of good land in a good state of cultivation. Well fenced; good -brick house ; good batik barn and out buildings; 13 sores of fall wneat, and ploughing all done; 2 good wells and 2 never failing springs; 85 acracleared ; pentagon at any time. For further paitionlars, apply to PETER MELVILLE, Crornaity P. 0.1 Ontario. 1525-tf MIARM FOR SALE.—For sale, 104) acres,. in the J towage:so of Howick, being Lots 15 and 16, Con. cession 0. Eighty scree are cleared, and 20 sores in bush. There's on the farm a bask barn, with stone stabling underneath; and frame house, with cellar; and a good thriving- orchard. The .farm is eituated three miles from Wroxeter. For further particulars apply to ALEXANDER HISLOP, Wroxeter P. 0. 1570-1? 0.11.110.1 MIAMI FOR SALE OR TO RENT.— For X sale or to rent, Lot 5, Concession 6, Hallett, near the . village of Constance, centaining about 100 acres. All cleared and in a goodostate of cultivation. There are good buildings, good orchard,and plenty of excellent water. There are 11 stores of fall wheat; and 35 acres seeded to pass. This ia a eplendid farm. and will be sold cheap. If not sold by spring it will be rented. Immediate poesession. Apply to IRS. SCHOALES, Conaeance. 1577-tf -DOR SALE.—For sale, Lot 8, and part of Let 7, r in range F,village of Hayfield, containing all to- gether 10 acres. The property le situated oa the Hayfield Road, and will -he sold either in one lot, or in separate parcels, as purchasers may desire. For terms and particulars apply to tho undersigned executors of the will of John Watson, deceased. ROBERT WATSON, Brueefield ; HENRY PECK. Hayfield. 1577-4 MIAMI IN ALGOMA FOR SALE.—For sale the X South East quarter of section F., townehip ot Laird, containing 160 scree. There are fort) acres cleared and free from stumps and under crop. Com- fortable log buildings. The balance is well timbered. It is within four miles of Eehobay railway station, and six miles of the prosperous village of Port Findlay. This% a good lot, and will be sold cheap, and on easy terms. Apply to WILLIAM SIMPSON on the premises, or,to ALFA. MUS£ARD, Brim- field. 1546-11 MIAMI FOR SALE.—For sale, Lot 7, Bayfield Con - _U cession, GoderIch Township, coatalning F4 scree, 44 of, which a% (dared and in a good state of cultivation, 4.) acres good .hardwood bush, un - culled, compwed of maple, beech, cherryand ash. with a few acres orgood cedar at rear end of lot. Tnere it on tne land a good frame house. with out buitdings ; large bearing orchard; and smell spring meek, WhiCh crosses the farm. It is 2 miles tram Hayfield, 7 miles from Clinton and 12 from Gaderich. There is no incumberance on the farm. Owner must give up farming owing- to poor health. Terms. —Thirty dollars par acre, hal cash, balance on-time to suit purchaser. Address 3011N E. EAGLESON, Hayfield P. 0., Ontario.' 1569-tf FARM FOR SALE.—A rare chance. Peing the S. E. &Section 20, Township 21, R. 20, W. Isti P. M. in the Dauphin District, Province of 'Manitoba. This farm_ Promises to be one ot the best in the province. it contains 160 acres of land, more or I.se, all of which is fit for cultivation It ie dne mile from a school house. and one mile and a half poin Spruce Creek post offiee. There are 53 acret fenced and under cultivation. There is a good hewed log nouse, one and a half story, 16x20 feet, and a -good los stable, 18x24 feet. There are about 12 or 14 acres of good popuhr bush on the farm, soil is a rich black loam surfe_ce, with a clay subsoil. It is 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 is failing health. I will take 810 per acre for 11 11 sold before Christmas, it is well worth $.15 per acre. Apply to W11. MURRAY, Preprietar, Box 33, Dauphin, Man- tobs. 1558-tf ON THE STeCieteIR 'RIVER) SARNIAIONTARIO. 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Mr. William Ganimage. a practical Florist of Lon- don, will leeture in the Town Hall, Seaforth, on Friday Evening, April 1st,' - under the atisnicee of th3 Horticultiral Ormiety. His subject will be 'The Flower Garden." Every- body invited. Admission free. F. G, NEELIN, Secretary. 1579-2 . GIVING UP MISINES S. Groceries at Cost for 15 DAYS. As I am going out of business' and intend going West, I will dispose ofmy entire stock of Groceries, etc., at cost and under. tithe whole met be disposed of within the next 15 days. Alratcounts must be settled, at once. JAMES B. THOMPSON,_ 1579x2': Soeth Main Street, Seacrth. WELLS OF COMFORT REV. DR. TALMAGE FINDS INSPIRA- TION IN THE DESERT, Our Duty io-to Find Our Lifo's Work and Stick to It -We Are Prone to Try to Load When We Are Only Plaid to Influence of Parents on Children. (Copyright 1828, by American Press Assoc's. tion.) Washington, March 20.—This dis- course - of Dr. Talmage draws from an oriental scene some stirring lessons_and points to 'wells of comfort In unexpected places: text, Genesis, 1.1ri, 19, "And God opened her eyes, and she saw; well of water, and she went and filled t o bottle with wider and gave the lad drink." Morning breaks upon Beersheba. Theee is an early stir in the house of old .Abraham. There bas been trouble among the domestics. Hagar, an assistant in the household, and her son, a brisk lad of le years, have become impudent and insolent, and Sarah, the mistress of the household, puts her foot doyen very hard and says that they will have to leave the premises. They are packing up now. Abraham, knowing that the journey before bis servant and her eon will be very long across desolate places, in the kindness ot his heart sets Mullet putting up stame bread and a bottle with water In it It is a very plain lunch that Abrahfun providessbut I warrant you there would hive iteen enough of it had they not lost their way:, "God be with you," said _old .Abraham as he gave the ' lunch to Hagar and a good many charges as to how she should conduct the journey. Ishmael, the boy. I euppose, bouoded away in the morning light. Boys always like a Change. Poor Ishmael! He bas no idea of the disasters -that are ahead of him. Hagar gives one long, lingering look on the familiar place • Where she had spent so many happy days, eaeh scene associated with the pride nod joy of her heart, young Ithmael. The scorching noon comes on. The air is stifling and moves across the desert with insufferable suffocatiOn. Ishmael, the boy, begins to complain and lies down, but Hagar rouses him up, saying -nothing about her own weariness or the sweltering heat; for 'mothers can endure anything. Trudge, trudge, trudge. • Cross- ing the dead level of the desert,- how wearily and !slowly the miles slip! A tamarind that seenied hours ago to stand only just a little ahead, inviting the travelers to come under its slaadow, now Is as far off as ever, or seemingly so. Night drops upon the deeert, and the travelers are pillowless. Ishmael, very weary, I -suppose instantly falls asleep. Hagar,as the shadows of the night begin to lap over each other—Hagar hugs her weary boy toher bosom and thinks of the feet that it is her fault that they are in the desert. A star looks out and every falling tear it kisses' with a sparkle. A wing of wind comes over the hot earth and lifts the locks from the fevered brow of the boy. Hagar sleeps fltfully, and in her dreams travels over the weary day and halU awakes her son by crying out in her sleep: "'Ishmael! Ishmael!" Wo_Hust Find Onr Sphere. And so they go on day -after day and night after night, for they havelost their way. No path in the shifting sands no sign in the burning sky. The sack empty of the flour; the water gone from the bottle. What Chat' she do? As she puts her fainting Ishmael under a stunted shrnb of the arid plain she sees the blood - °shot eye and feels the hot hand and watches thec blood bursting from the cracked tongue, and there is a ehriek in the desert ofiThersheba: "We shall die! 'We shall die i" Now, no mother was ever Made strong enough to hear -her son cry in ram for a -drink. Heretofore she had cheered her boy by promising a speedy - end of the journey, and even smiled upon him when she felt; desperately enough. Now there is nothing to do but place him under a shrub and let him die. She had thought that she would sit there and watch until the spirit of her boy would go away forever, awl then she would breathe oub her own life On his silent heart, but as the boy begins to claw his tongue in -agony of thirst and struggle -in distortion and begs his Mother to slay him slie -Cannot endure the spectacle. She puts him under a shrub and goes off a bow shot, and begins to wcep until all the desert seems sobbing, and her 'Cry strikes clear through the heavens, and an angel of God comes out on a cloud and looks down upon the -appalling grief and cries, "Hagar, what aileth thee?" She looks up and sees the angel pointing to a well of water, where she fills the bottle for the lad. Thank God! Thank God! I learn from this oriental scene, in the first place, what a sad thing it is when people do not know their place and get too proud for theif business. Hagar was. an assistant in that household, but she wanted to rule there. She ridiculed and ' jeered- until her son, Ishmael, got the same tricks. She dashed out her own happiness and threw Sarah Into a great fret, and if she had staid much longer in that household she would have upset calm Abraham's equilibrium. My friends, one- half of the trouble en the world to -day comes from the fact that people de not know their place or, finding their place, will' not stay in it. When we come into the world, there is always a place ready for us. A place for Abraham. Apiece for Sarah. A place for Hagar. 4. place for Ishmael. A place for you and a Place for nee. . Our first duty is to find our sphere; our seeond is to keee it. We may be born in a sphere far off from the one for which God finally intends us. Sixtus V. was born on the low ground and was a swine- herd. God called him up to wave a scep- ter. Ferguson spent his early days in looking after sheep. God called him up to look after stare and be o shepherd watching the flocks of light on the hill- sides of heaven. Hogarth began by en- graving pewter pots. God raised him to stand in the enchanted realm of a paint- er. The shoemaker's bench held Bloom- field for a libtle while, but God raised him to sit in the chair of a philosopher and Christian scholar'. The soap boiler of London could not keep his son In that business, for God had decicled.that Haw- ley was to be. one of the greatest astron- omers Of -England. Labor is Honorable. On the other` hand we may be born in a sphere a little higher than that for which God total:ids us. We may be born in a castle, and play in a costly conserva- tory, and feed high bred pointers, and angle for goldfish in artificial ponds and be familiar with princes, yet God may better have fitted us for a carpenter's shop. or dentists' forceps, or a weaver's shuttle, or a blacksmith's forge. The great thing is to find just the sphere for which God_intended us apd then to occupy that sphere and occupy it forever. Here is a man God fashioned to make a plow- ; There is a 'nen God fashioned to make a constitution. The man who makes the plow is just as honorable as the man:who makes the constitution. There is a wo- man who was meth' to fashion a robe, and yonder is one intended to be a queen. and NYW it. Ili s.e.enes to 111Q OM tu the • one casse as in the °tiler God appoint" the sphere, and the needleoie just as Medea, able in his sight as the seedter. I do not know but that the wdrld would long ago have been- saved if some of the men out of the 'ministry were in it and SOMO of those who are in it were out of It Ireally think that ione•half the world may ba divided into two quarters—those who have not found their sphere and those who, having found iteare nut wilting to stay there. How many are struggling, for a position a little higher than that whioli God intended them! The bondswoman wants to be mistress. Hagar keepaterowd- ing Sarah. The small vvheel of a watch which beautifully wenttreading its golden pathway wants to be the 'balance wheel, and the sparrow with chagrin drops into the brook because it cannot, like the eagle,- out a circle under the sun. a Joy of contentment. In the Lord's army we all want to be brigadier generals 1 The sloop says: "More mast, More tonnage, more canvas.' Oh, that I were a topsail schooner, or a full rigged brig, or a Cunard steamer!" And so the world is filled with cries of discon- tent becausewe are not willing to stay In the place where God put us andintended us to be. My 'friends, be nottoo proud to do anything God•tells you to do; for the lack et a right " disposition in this respect the world is strewn with wander - Ing Hagars and Ishmaels. God has given each one of us a work to do. You carry a scuttle of coal up that dark alley. You distribute that Christian tract. You give $10,000 to themissionary cause. You for 15 years sit with chronic) rheumatism, displaying the beauty of Christian Rub - mission. Whatever God calls you to, whether it win hissing or huzza; whether to walk under triumphal arch or lift the sot out of the ditch; whether it be to preach on a Pentecost or tell some Wan- derer of the street of the, mercy of the Cbrist of Mary Magdelene; whether it be to weave a garland for a laughing child on a spring morning and call her a May queen, or to comb out the tangled lecke of a waif of the street and cut up one of your old dresses to fit 'her out for the sanctuary—do it, and do it .right away. Whether it be a crown or yoke, do not fidget. . Everlasting honors upon those who do their work, and do- their whole work, and are contented in the sphere in which God has put them, while there Is wandering and exile and desolation and wilderness for discontented pager and Ishin a el. Again, I find in this oriental scene a lesson of -sympathy with woman when she goes forth trudging in the desert. What; a, great change it was for this Hagar! There was the tent, and all the surroundings of Abraham's house, beau- tiful and luxurious, no doubt. Now she is going out into the hot sands of the desert. Oh, what a change it was! Atil in our day we often see the wheel Of for- tune turn. Here is some one who lived in the very bright home of her father. She had everything possible to adminisear to her happiness—plenty at the table, music in tho drawing room, welcome at the' door. She is led forth into life by some one who cannot appreciate her. A dissi- pated sold comes and takes her out in the desert. • Cruelties blot out all the lights of that home circle. Harsh words wear out her spirits. The high hope that shone out over the Inarriage altar while the ring was beiug set, and the vows given, and the benediction pronounced, have;a11 faded with the*orange blossoms, and there she is to -day broken hearted, thinking of past joys and present desola- tion and coming anguish.. Hagar in the wilderness! Woman's Responsibilities. Here is a beautiful home. You cannot think of ahything that cah be added to it. For years there has not.been the sug- gestion of a trouble. Bright and happy children fill the house with laughter and song. Books to read. Pictures to look at. Lounges to rest on. Cup of domestic joy full and running over. -Dark night drops. Pillow hot. Pulses flutter, 'Eyck close. And the foot whose well known steps on the doorsill brought the whole household out at eventide crying, "Father's com- ing!" will never sound ,on the doorsill again. A lung, deep grief plowed through all that brightness of domestic life. Para - disci lost. Widowhood. Hagar in the wild- erness! How often is it we see the weak arm of woinan conscripted for this battle with the rough world. Who is she going down the street in the early light of the morn- ing, pale with exhausting work, not half. slept out with the slumbers of last night, tragedies of suffering written all over her face, her lusterless eyes looking far ahead, as though for the comlng of some other trouble? Her parents called her Mery or Bertha or Agnes on the day 'when they held her up to the font and the Christian minister sprinkled on the Infant's face the washings- of a baby baptism. Her name* is changed now. I hear it in the shuffle of the wornout shoes. I see it in the figure of the faded calico. I findlit in the lineaments of the woe begone countenance. Not Mary nor Bertha nor Agnes, but Hagar in the wilderness. May God have mercy -upon woman In her toils, her struggles, her bardships, her desolation, and may the' great heart of divine sympathy inclose her forever!_ Again, I find in -this oriental scene the fact that every mother leads forth tre- mendous destinies. You say, "That isn't annnusual scene, a _mother leading her child by the hand." Who is it that she is leading? Ishmael, you say. Who is Ishmael? A great nation is to be.founded—a nation so strolIg that 11 is to stand for thousands of years against all the armies of the world. Egypt and Assyria thunder against it, but iu vain. Genii's brings up his army, and his army is smitten. Alexander de- cides upon a campaign, brings up his hots and dias. For a long while that na- tion monopolizes the learning of the world. It is the nation of the Arabs. Who founded it? Ishmael, the lad that Hagar led- into the wilderness. She had no idea she was leading forth such ,destinies. Neither does any mother. You pass along the street and see and pass boys and girls who will yet make the earth quake with their influence. . "As the Twig is Bent." 'Who is that -boy at Sutton pool, Ply- mouth, England, barefooted, 'Wading down nate the slush and slime until his bare foot comeupon a piece of glass and he lifts it, bleeding. and pain struck? That wound in the -foot decides that he be sedentary in his life, decides that be be a student. -That wound by the glass In the foot deoides that he shall be John Kitto, who shall provide the bestreligious encyclopedia the world has ever had pro- i vided, and with 'his other writings as well throwing a light mien the word of God such as has come from no other man in this century. 0 mother, mother, that little hand that wanders over your fage may yet be lifted to hurl thunderbolts of war or drop benedictions,! That little voice may blaspheme God in the grog - shop or cry "Forward!" to the- Lord's hosts as they go out for their last victory. My mind this morning leaps 80 years ahead, and I see a merchant princeof New York. One stroke of his pen brings a ship out of Canton. Another stroke of his pen -brings a ship into Madras. He is mighty in all the money markets of the world.- Who is he? Ho sits on Sabbaths 644-44-4.4.4 'aside yOui�hurdh. iyfifihd leaps so years forward from this time and I find myself in a relief agsoolation. A great multrtude of Christian women have met together for a generous purpose. There is one woman in that crowd who seems to have the confidence of all the others, and they all look. up to her for her counsel and for her prayers. Who is she? This afternoon you will! find her in the ,Sale• Sab- bath school, while, the teacher tells her of that Christ who clothed the naked and fed the hungry and healed the sick. My mind leaps forward 80 years from now, and I find myself in an -African jungle, and there is a missionory of the.eross ad- dressing the natives and their lusky countenances are irradiated withgthe glad tidings of great joy and salvation. Who is he? Did you not hear his voice to day In the opening 'song of your church serv- 1' leer My mind leaps forward 80 Years- from now, and I find myself looking through the wickets of a prison. I see a face scarred with every crime. His chin ozi his open palm; his elbows on his knee—et pieture of despair. As I open the wicket, he starts and I hear his chain clank. The jailkeoper tells tne that he has been in there now three times—first for theft, then for arson, now for murder. He steps upon the trapdoor, the rope is fastened - to his neck, the plank falls, his body swings into the air'his soul swinge off into eternity. Who is he, and where is he? Thie afternoon .playing kite en the city commons. Mother, you are now hoisting a throne or - forging a chain; you are kindling a star or digging a dungeon! Child Follows parent. A Christian mother a good many yeari ago sat teaching lessons of religion 00 her child, and he drank in those lessons. She never knew that. Lamphier would come forth and establish the Fulton street prayer meeting, and by ono meeting revolutionize the devotions of:the whole earth and thrill the eternities with his Christian influence. Lamphier said it was his Mother who brought him to Jesus • Christ. She never had an idea that she was leading forth such destinies. But, oh, when I see a mother reckless of her influ- ence, rattling on toward destruction„ gar- landed for the - sacrifice with unseemly mirth and godlessness, doming on down -10 perdition, taking her children in the same direction, preparing them for a life 'of frivolity, a death of shame and an eternity of disaster, I- pannot help but say, "There they go, there they go— Hagar and Ishmael!" I tell you there there are wilder 'deserts than Beersheba in many of the fashionable circles of this day. Dissipated parents leading dissipated children. Avaricious parents loading avaricious children. Prayerless parents leading prayerless children. They g6 through every street, up -every dark alley, into every cellar, along every highway. Hagar and Ishmael! • And while I pro- nounce their names, it seems like the moaning of theelesert wind, Hagar and Ishmael!" • I learn one More lesson from this ori- ental scene, and that is that every wild- erness has a well in it. Hagar and Ish- mael gave up to die. Ilagar's heart sank Within her as she beard her child crying: "Water! Water! Water!" "Ah," she says, "my darling, there is no Water! This is a desert."' And then God's angel said from the cloud, "Whetraileth thee, Hagar?" And she loo -ked up and saw him pointing to a well of water'where she filled the bottle for the lad. , Blessed be God that there is in levery wilderness a Well, if you only know; how to find it— fountains for all these thirsty souls! On that last day, on that great day of the feast, Jesus.stood and dried, "If any man thfrst, let him come to me and drink." .All these other fountiins. you' find are mere mirages &the desert. Paracelsus, t13 you know, spent his time in trying to find out the elixir oflif --a liquid, whieh, if taken, would keep ono perpetually young in this world and would change the aged back again to Youth. Of course he was disapfieinted. He found not the elixir. But hero I tell; you of tho elixir of everlasting life bursting from the "Rock of Ages," and that drinking that water, you shall neverhget old, aed you will never be sick, .tiod you will never die. "Ho, every OM th t thirsteth, coine who says, "I have been looking for that all e -ca to the waters!" Al , hero is a man fountain a great while!, 'hat- can't find it." And here is some quo else who says, "I believe all you say, but I have been trudging along in th wilderness and can't find the fountain. ' Do you know the reason? . I will tell you. You never looked in the right dire tion. "Oh,"'you say, "I have looked everywhere. I have looked north, south. easiJ and west, and I !haven't found the fountain." Why, yea , are not lookihg in the ight direction at ll a. ' A Well in Eve+ Desert. -I Look up, where Hagar lookea. She never would have foundr the fountain at., all, but when sho he,ardlthe voice .of the angel she looked up eget saw the:finger pointing to the supply. -And, 0 soul, if lb to -day with one earne , intense prayer you would only look lup to Christ, he would point you down I to the supply in the wilderness.- "Look I unto me, all ye ends of the earth, and be ye saved; for I -am God, and there is.none else!" Look! Look; as Hagar looked! Yes, there is a well for every desert of bereavement. Looking 'ver any audience I notice signs of mourning and wee. 'Have you found consolation? Oh, man bereft, oh, woman bereft, have you found consolation? Hearse after hearse. We step froni one grave hillock to apother grave hillock. We follow corpSes, ourselves soon to be like them. The World is in mourn- ing for its dead. Every?eart has become the sepulcher of some burled joy. But sing ye to God; every wildernees bas a well in it, and I come to that well to- day, and I begin to draw water for you from that well. 1 ! Ifyou have lived in the country. you have sometimes taken held of the rope of the old well sweep, and you know hove the -bucket came op, dripping -with bright, cool water. And I lay hold of the- tope of God's mercy, and I ;begin to draw on 1 that gospel WM sweep, and Isee the buckets coming up. Thirsty soul! Here is one bucket of life! Come and drink of it. "Whosoever • will,Jet him owns and , take of the water of lif .freely." I pull i away again at the rime, and another! bucket comes up. It is this promise: ' "'drooping may endure for a night, but: joy oometh in the morning." I lay hold; Of the rope again, and, I pull away with all my strength, and ithe buoket comas, up, bright and beautifol and cool. -Here, is the promise: "Come unto me, all yel who are weary and heavy laden, and I; will give you rest." i A. New Asttology. The old astrologers used to cheat the people with the idea that they could tell from the position of the stars what would occur in the future, 4nd if a cluster of stars stood in one relation,why, that would be a prophecy of evil; if a bluster of stars stood in anether relation, that Would be a prophecy of good. What super- stition! But here is la new astrology in which I put all my faith. By looking up to the star of jamb, the morning star of the Redeemer, loan, make this prophecy in regard to those wile put their tritst in God: "All things work together for geed to those who love Godt" Do you love him? Have you seen the nyetanthes? It is a belatitiful Bower. bat i it aives very. little ] eregranee WWI after sunset. Then re pours its riohness on the air. And this grace of the gospel that I commend to you now, While it may be eery sweet dur- ing the day of prosperity, it pours forth its richest aronia, after sundown. And it will be sundown.vvith you and me after awhile. When you come to go out of this world, will it be a desert, march, or will it be drinkineat a fountain? A converted Hin.deo was dying, and his heathen comrades came around him and tried to comfort him by reading seine of the pages of their theology, but he waved his hand, as much ! as to say,' "I don't want to hear it." Then they celled in a heathen priest, and he said, "If you will only recite the Numtra, it will deliver yob. from hell." He waved his hand, as much as to say, "I don't want to her that.", Then they said, "Call on Juggert naut." He shook his head, as much as ..to say, "I can't 'do that." Then they thought perhaps he was too weary to speak, and they' said, "Now,' if you can't say `Juggernaut,' think of him." He shook his head again, as mijoh as to say, "No, no, no!" . Then they bent down to his pillow, and they said,' nwhat will you trust?" His face lighted up with the very glories of the celestial sphere as he cried out, rallying all his dying energies, "Jesus!" Oh. come this hour to the foun- tain! I will tell you the whole story in two or three sentences. Pardon for all sin. Comfort for all trouble. -Light for all darkness. And every wildernees has a well in it. , HOW COAL WAS FORMED. An Interesting Theory Advanced by • French Engineer. M. Fayol, an eminentFrench engineer, - having in ("barge the coal mines at Com- mentry, advances the following theory of the formation of coal; claimed to be bated on Buell facts and experiments as receive the support of seientific men.' The rnines in question,, being partly Worked in the open air, have rendered it easy to observe the relations of the different strata mak- ing up that region. It appearing at first that the pebbles constituting the podding stones were formed of rockswhose place of origin was sometimes quite distant and the coal being the result of vegetable de-, brie laid down in 'horizontal layers, one above the other, the conclusion arrived at from these data assumed that a liquid must have been necessary to transport and arrange in this way such .different ele- ments—coal, therefore, not having been . formed in the place where now found, but is a product of transportation.' It is urged that the climate of the Coal epoch being very moist,' abundant hoods carried "•away trees and whole forests and swept them • into lake basins, the trees thus forming groat rafts of logs; the heaviest materials—gravel, sand, clays—were de- • posited in the order of their density, - the lighter vegetable matter floating longer and being deposited- last.- This, it is thought, explains why the layers of earth and coal aro not parallel and why all tbose layers, as has been observed in del- tas, are inclined in the same direction and at different angles. — Locomotive Engineering. The Moon and the Earth. Among the theories of scientists is one regarding the original unity of the moon and the earth. It is believed that out of a mass of rapidly. revolving elements, molten fluid or gaseous, the earth and the moon took suchshapethat the mass was divided into two- parts. Theo' con- tinued their revolution and becalme:the earth and the moon. Each had its own . axis on which it spun, each also revolv- ing about the other. Tho months were but a few hours long and the days not much shorter. Then the graoity mutually exerted by these rapidly revolving bodies disturbed them, tidal friction held them back, and the, earth, moving more rapid -- 4 of the two, held its course, while the moon slowly receded. During ages of time, the earth took on its present shape and hardehed; thus paving the way for such conditions as would make it habit- able. It is • thought that the moon has never become entirely symmetrical, and that one and the same side is always thrned toward the earth.—Now York Ledger. ' Byron's Death. The Vita Darlene has discovered among the state archives of Rome certain copies of a Greek journal published at Alissolon- ghi in 1821, the year of Byron's-death. This journal, the Telegra.plie Grec, relates Many things of Byron's last days, and it gives the reason why the poet died. He was killed by disobedience te the doctors. He died becauee he would not' be bled. And this is preyed by the autopsy of. the poet, which the Telegraphe Gree records in extenso. 2•101•110M A Freak Town. "1 see it speaks in the paper, husband, about a town where there are 6,000 odd inhabitan ts. " "That must be the place where all the freaks come from."—Detroit Free Press. Gratitude and Generosity. Whenever I find a great deal of grati- tude in a poor man, I take it for grant& there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.—Pope. An Ancient Clock. The great. clock at Rouen has been measuring the time and striking the hours and quarters for over 509 years. • , --Vahi1e41aying hockeY during intermis sion at school, Thursday afternoon, Master Arthur Schmidt, the 13 -Year-old son of Mr. G. Schmidt, of Stratford, had his collar bone brokee. In the exciting play be fell and was accidentally tramped upon by one of the other boys. Dr. D. B. Fraser attend- ed to his injuries and he is now doing nicely. UFO November the little fellow fell and met with a similar accident. 1106"•1711111M11•111113111113,0111111k Coughs and colds need not be endured;, they can be cured, and that quickly. Many mixtures are tem- porary in effect, but Scott's Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil with Hypophosphites is a permanent remedy. The oil feeds the blood and warms the body; the hypophosphites tone up the nerves; the glycerine soothes -the inflamed throat and lungs. The combination cures. This may prevent serious lung troubles. 5oc. and $t.00 ; all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, Toronto. 18: 'Bicycle .Sessott-L-- Lumsden 84 Wilsons Bicycle Room now open in Kidd's Halls. A. splendid opportunity for Ladies or Gentlemen to • learn the art of riding before the season opens. 'Call and dee the new wheels and prices. We have also some second hand wheels to dear ont cheap. LITMSDEN &WILISON, SCOTT'S BLOCK, OHMISTS AND DRUGGISTS, - . MAIN STREET EA DY FOR BUSINi SS The New Jewelry Store in the Whitney Met, .1&..MmICD1R,'111-1 WITH A FULL LINE OF . . . . Watches, Clocks, , Jewelry, Silverware and Optical Goods. Reliairin in an lines a Specialty. Call and Bee Us. c. A. HUMBER ige SON, Jewellers and Opticians, Seaforth and Goderieh. - THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE, ESTABLISHED 18,67. HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO. CAPITAL (PAID UP) SIX ' MILLION DOLLARS $8,0001000 REST - - - - - • - - - S1,000,000 B. E. WALKER, GENERAL MAIRAGER. SEAFORTH BRANCH. A General Banking Business Transacted. Farmers' Notes discounted, Drafta issued, payable at all points in Canada and the principal citiee In the United States, Great Britain, France, Bermuda, dm SAVINGS BANK DEPARTMEliT, . Deposits of $1.00 and upwards received, and current rates of Interest allowed. WInterest added to the principal at the end of May and Novem- . ber in each Year. . _ Special attention given to the collection of Commercial Paper and -Far, tun's' Sales blotes. F. MIL u ESTED, Solicitor, P. C. G. MINTY, ManagerL A Pretty Foot Goes a LongWay UJ But what is the use of a pretty foot, in this country in, the winter time, if you do not have a perfect fitting Rubber . or Oveiirshoe, Now, this may be news to you, but you will find it to be a fact; there is only one make of Rub - !fit finish quality and durability try i that are right up-ta-dge in bers and Overshoes, in thicoun- , aetting° bottom the: 1 know what I and they are the am II want toInc "Granby- on the ) Y . i i Granby- Rubbers - and OVERSHOES thin, lght, comfortable, Extra thick at ball and heel. . i1 'f GRANBY RUBEERSIVEAR LIKE IRON." L *44 Sorry Plight. Your a prepiation of the comforts of the old easy chair has been so great that you have wOrn it out. Well, it's easy enough to fret a new chair out of the old by having the upholstering renewed. We repair otld furniture as- well rus sell the best new*goods. • Our Stock -taking Sale Has commenced, and in order to reduce our very large stock of Furniture before the 1st of April, consisting of Bedreom Sets, Sideboards, Extension Tables, Centre Tables, Dining Room. Chairs, Parlor Suites, Couches, Lounges, Easy Chairs, and a nice lot of Rockers. No reasonable offeg be -refused for the above named goods. OUT "I-ndertaking Department is complete and strictly up-to-date, with a larger Bele tion than ever before, and prices to suit every one's needs. We have a quantity of suitable chairs to be used at funerals, which we will lend free of. charge, and any orders that we are favored with shall receive our best attention. Night calls promptly attended to by our undertaker, Mr. S. T. Holmes, GodeD• ich street, Seaforth, opposite the Methodist church, BROADFOOTI BOX & 00.1 •