The Huron Expositor, 1898-06-24, Page 2•
REAL ESTAr$ FOR sALL.
wants Mtn SALL-The waderned has twenty
.10 Choto. Farms for sale in East Huron, the ban-
ner 0ounty of the Province-, all stale, and priors to
suit. For full information, write or call pereonaiiy.
No trouble to scow them. r. S. Ecom, Brows%
It. O. 11101- D
ARM FOR SALE CHEAP OR TO RENT.—Be-
ing
ENT. Be -Ing worth heli of Lot 40, Concession 10, East
Wawanosh, 4} relies from Wingham. There is 85
acres cleared, 15 acres good bush ; good frame barn.
stabtwwolenevveer-failing w shed and wells. Applyood orchard
toHENRY J.
PEAREN, Wingham P. 0., Ont. 1578127
ESIDENCE IN BRUOEP1ELD ` FOR SALE.—
IA- For saliallas frame dwelling hens and lot near
the railway station in Brumfield. The house cod -
tains ten rooms, a stone 'cellar and hard and soft
water is the house ; also s good nibble. There Ise.
r sore of land. Apply to LEX. MUSTARD, uoefisld.
Met ROPERTY IN VARNA FOR SALE.—For sale in
the village of Varna, a good frame house, con-
taining eight rooms snd woodshed, hd, s well as ward and
stable and drive house ; plenty odsoft
water. The lot contains an acre and three quarters,
on which is an excellent orchard. Apply on the
premises or by letter to MRS.SECORD, Varna.
- 1590x4
,ARM FOR SALE.—For salt, in the Townshlp of
Morris, lot 27, oonoession 9,100 urea, 80 olesr
ed ; the balance in hard -wood bush ; 's barns with,
etahg�, s frame house, good orchard •
and plenty of
water. One toile from the village of Walton. Also a
hone and let with wagon sand lumber shed. in
the be �ohesp. App-Visitoly too MarrREW ess Ond. Will
RRISON,
be add pp
In the village of Walton, of JAMES YoDONALD, on
the farm. 157041
Ft13M FOR SALE OR TO RENT.— For
=le or to ` rent, Lot 5, Conoeesion 8, ,
llstt, near the vlllsge of Constance, containing
about 100 acres. All cleared and in a good slats et
cultivation. There are gocd buildings, good
orchard,and plenty of exoelieat,water. There are 11
sores of fall wheat and 85 sores seeded to grass.
This is a splendid farm, and will be sold cheap. If
not cold by spring it will be rented. Immediate
possession. Apply to 11B8. SCHOALE9, Conatsn .
enRei IN ALGOMA FOR SALE.—For sale the
South East quarter of notion F., township of
Laird, 0 ntainiog leo sores. There are forty acres
cleared sod free iron stamps and under orop, . Com-
fortable log buildings. The balance Is welltimbsred.
i4 is within four les of Eehobsy railway station.
sad six miles of the prosperous village of Port
Findlay. Thisisa good lot, and will be sold cheap,
snd on easy terms. Apply to WILLIAK SIMPSON
on the premises, or to ALEX. MUSTARD, B uo
field.
allatUELDING LOT FOR SALE —The very desirable
JD building lots, being numbers 87, 88, 39 and
is situated on Main street of Egmondville sod Sea -
forth. The whole contains about one .sere, and will
be sold in separate parcels or together $o snit the
Wpurchaser. Thin property is just south of the
oollen Bills, and Mr. B.Diekson's property south of
the corporation, and is con3idere `the most desirable
building site either' for private residence's or a
factory. It is high and convenient, and has a street
south and west. Apply to JANE nr JOHN SPROAT,
Egmondvllle P. 0., Executors to the Estate of the
late John Sproat. 1583•tf
WARM. IN RULLETT F.)R SALE.—For sale, the
centre part of Lots 6 and 7 on the 14th Con-
esision of Hallett, containing 106 sorer, all cleared
and in a good state of cultivation. New frame
hoose and barn and stone stabling , under barn.
Plenty of good spring water. Four miles from
Blyth and about twelve miles from Seaforth and
Clinton, good gravel roads running in every
direction. School within a mile. A good place and
will be sold cheap. For particulars apply to either
of the under.igned Executors of the estate.
ALEX ANDER REID Harlook P. O.
R. R. WATT i
1592•tf
Robert
Devereux
BLACKSMITH and -
to Horseshoeing and 'CARRIAGE — Opp.
oeen'tel.e o
General Jobbing. MAKER
Goderich street, -
- - - Seaforth.
H. R. Jackson
& SON.
Di eon IMPOETEBs ler
Jules Robin & Co's Brandy, Cognac,
France; Jno. de Kuyper & Son, Hol-
land Gin, Rotterdam, Holland ;
Booth's Tom Gin, London, England ;
Bulloch & Co.hr Scotch Whisky, Glas-
gow Se ttland ; Jamieson's Irish
Whisky, publin, Ireland ; also Port
and Sherry Wine from France and
$gain, Agents for Walker's Whisky,
Ontario ;;Royal Distillery and Davis'
Ale and Porter, Toronto.
To THE PUBLIC
We have opened a retail store in
connection with our wholesalebusi-
business in the rear of the new Do-
minion Bank, in Good's old stand,
where we will sail the best goods in
the market at bottom prices.: Goods
delivered to any part: of the town
free.
TELEPHONE 11. I51.8-tf
TO THE
PITBLIL
To satisfy our patrons that we do no
elaughter any animals that are not in al
healthy condition, we therefore employ
Dr. Gibb, of Seaforth, to- examine all
animals we slaughter for sale locally, before
being slaughtered.
Hoping our council will compel the other
butchers to do likewise.
T. R: F. CASE & CO.
SEAFORTH.
1591 tt
Money to Loan.
Any amount of money to loan. on good tarm pro-
perty, at 5 per cent. per annum. Straight loans,
payments made to suit borrower, Patistaotton guar-
anteed, chargee low. At otfic3 Friday atternoon and
all day Saturday.
ABNER COSENS,
McDonald Flock, Wingbani.
1587
Wool...
WANTED
I have put in Blyth a full stock of Drees
Goods, Tweeds, Shirtings, Sheetings,
Blankets, Yarns, Boots and Shoes, Teas,
&e , &e,
Mr. Wm. Campbell, who
known to you, will handle the
Eggs, 110 ; tub butter, 14c.
1690•tf
is favorably
wool.
G. E. KING, Blyth.
McKillop Directory for 1898
JOHN MORRISON, Reeve, Winthrop P. 0.
-DANIEL MANLEY, Deputy -Reeve, Beechwood
P. 0.
Wei. YoOAVIN, Councillor, Leadbury P. 0.
JOSEPH C. MORRISON, Cou-no:llor, Beechwood
P O. -
JOHN 8. BROWN, connoillor, Seaforth P. 0,
JOHN C. MORRISON, Clerk, Winthrop P. 0.
DAVID 11. ROSS, Treasurer, Winthrop P. O.
WM. EVANS, Aeeessor, Beechwood P. O.
CHARD DODDS, Oolleotor, Seaforth P. 0.
RICHARD POLLARD, Sanitary Inspector, Lead.
bury P.O.
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Washington, June 19.—From an un-
usual ata p t Dr.Talmage nd cinTelma e
in this
dis-
course discusses amusements and applies
tests by which they may be known as
good or bad. The text is Judges xvi. 26:
'`And it came to pass when their hearts
were merry that they said,: Ca11 for Sam-
son, that he may make u;3 sport. And
they called for fiamson out'of the prison
housedand he made them sport."
There were 8,000 people assembled in
the Temple of Davis. _ They had (somata
make sport of eyelessSamson. They were
all ready for the entertainment. They
began to clap and pound, impatient for
the amusement to begin, and they cried:
"Fetch him out! Fetch him out!" Yon-
der I see the blind old gist' coming, led
by the band of a child into the very
midst of the temple. At his first appear-
ance there goes up ; a shout of laughter
and derision. The blind old giant pre-
tends he is tired and wants to rest him-
self against the pillars of the house, eo he
neje to the lad who leads him, "Bring
nae whore the main pillars etre." The lad
does so.. Then the strong man puts his
hands on one of the pillars, and with the
mightiest push that mortal' ever made,
throws himself forward until the whole
house comes down in thunderous crash,
grinding the audierrce like grapes in a
wine press. "And do it came to pass,
when their hearts were merry, that they
said, Call forSamson. that he may make
us sport. And they called for Samson out
of the prison house, and he made them
sport." In other words, there ase amuse-
ments that are destructive and bring
down disaster and death upon the heads
of those who practice there. While they
laugh and cheer they die. The 3,000 who
perished that day in Gaza are nothing
compared with the tens of thousands who
have been destroyed, body,- mind and -
soul, by bad amusements and by, good
amusements carried to excess. -
In my sermons you must have noticed
that I have no sympathy with ecclesias-
tical straitjackets or with that wholesale
denunciation of amusements to which
many are pledged. I believe the church
of God has made a. tremendous mistake
in trying to suppress the sportfulness of
youth and drive out from men their love
of amusement. 'If God ever implanted
anything in no, be implanted this desire.
But instead of providing for this demand
of our nature the church of God has for
the main part ignored it. As in a riot
the mayor plants a battery at the end of
the street and has it fired etff, so that
everything is cut down that happens to
stand in the range, the good as well as
the bad, so there are men in the church
who plant their batteries of condemnation
and fire away indiscriminately. - Every-
thing is condemned. They talk as if they
would like to have our youth dress in
blue uniform, like the children of an
orphan asylum, and march down the path
of lite to the tune of the dead march in
"Saul." They hate a blue sash, or a rose-
bud in the hair, or a, tasseled gaiter, and
think a man almost ready for the lunatic -
asylum who utters a conundrum.
A Glorious Work.
Young Men's Christian associations of
the country are doing a glorious work.
They have tine reading rooms, and all the
Influences are of the best kind, and are
now adding gymnasiums and bowling
alleys, where without any evil surround-
ings our young men may get physical as
well as spiritual improvement. We are
dwindling away to a narrow chested-,
weak armed, ` feeble voiced race when
God calls us to a work which he wants
physical as well as spiritual athletes. I
would to God that the time might soon
cotrie when in all our colleges and theo-
logical seminaries, as at Princeton, a
gymnasium shall be established. We
spend seven years of hard study in pre-
paration for the ministry and come out
with bronchitis and dyspepsia• and liver
complaint, and then crawl up into the
pulpit and the people say, "Doesn't he
look heavenly!" because he looks sickly.
Let the church of God direct rather than
attempt to suppress the desire for asnuse-
mente The best men that the world every
knew have bad their sports. _ William
Wilberforce trundled hoop with his chil-
dren; Martin Luther helped, dress the
Christmas tree; ministers have pitched
quoits; philanthropists have gone' a-skat-
fng; prime ministers have played ball.
Our communities are filled with men
and women who have in their souls un-
measured resources for sportfulness and
frolic. Show me a span who never lights
up with sportfulness and has no sympathy
with the recreations of others, and I will
show you a - man who i0 a. stumbling
block to the kingdom of God. Such men
are caricatures of religion; They lead
young people to think that ec man is
good in proportion as ho ' groans and
frowns and looks sallow, .and that the
height, of a man's Christian stature is in
proportion to the length of his face. I
would trade off 600 such men for one
bright faced, radiant Christian on whose
face- aro the words, "Rejoice evermore!"
Every morning, by his cheerful face he
preaches 50 sermons: I will • go further
and say that I have no confidence in a
man who makes a religion of his gloomy
looks. That kind of a man always turns
out badly, I would not want him for the
treasurer of an orphan asylum. The
orphans would suffer.
Suspicious. Piety.
Among 40 people whom I received into
the church at one connnunion, there was
only one applicant of whose piety I was
Auspicious. He had the longest story to
toll, had seen the most visions and gave
an experience so ivonciorful that all the
other applicants were discouraged. I was
not surprised the year after to learn that
he had run ' off with the funds of the
bank with which .he was connected. Who
is this blackangel that you call religion
—wings black, feet Mack, feathers black?
Our religion is a bright angel—feet
bright, eyes bright, wings bright, taking
here/hoe in the e.QuL She mile a roue
THE LIURON EXPOSITOR
tDef'reaobei to this fires dii3' lets all the mink Olt It 1d it geed den TA be pearly,
bells of heaven a -chiming. There are and bsoalise Richard Baxter and Robert
some persons who, when talking to a Hall were invalids they think that by
minister• always feel it politics to look the same sickness they may conte to the
litehb ions. Go forth, 0 people, to your samegrandeur of character. I want to
held•
lawful amusement. God means you to be tall Chrisian people othatur invalidism d it it
hippy. But when there are so many you' responsibley
souroes•of innocent pleasure why tamper is your ..own fault and when through
with •-anything that is dangerous and right exercise and prurience you - might
polluting? Why -stop our ears to a heaven be athletic) and well. The effect of the
full of songsters to listen to the hies of a body upon the soul you acknowledge.
dragon? Why turn back from the moan- Put a man of mild disposition upon the
.tain side all a -bloom with wild flowers animal diet of which the Indian partakes,
and a --dash with the nimble torrents, and and in a little while his blood will change
with blistered feet attempt to climb the its chemical proportions. It will become
hot side of Cotopaxi? , like unto- the blood of the lion or the
Now, all opera houses, theatres, bowl- : tiger or the bear, while his disposition
Ing alleys, skating rinks and all styles of will changetand (become fierce, cruel and
amusement, good and bad, I put on trial unrelenting. The body has a powerful
today and judge of them ' by oertain oar- effect upon the foul. There are people
dinal principles. First, you may judge of , whose' ideas of heaven _are all shut out
any amusement by its healthful result or
by its baneful reaction. There are people
who seem made up of hard facts. They
are a combination of multiplication tables
and statistics. Lf you show them an ex-
quisite picture, they will begin to discuss
the pigments involved in the coloring, If
you show them a beautiful rose, they
will submit it to a botanical analysis,
which is only the post-mortem examina-
tion of a flower. They neverdo anything
more than feebly smile. There are no
great tides of feeling surging up from the
depth of their soul in billow after billow
of reverberating laughter. They seem as
if nature had built them by contract and
made a bungling job out of it. But,
blessed be God, there are people in the
world who have bright faces and , whose
life is a song, an anthem, a paean of
victory. Iden their troubles are like the
with clouds of tobacco smoke. There are
people who dare to shatter the physical
vase in which God put the jewel of etern-
ity. There are men with great hearts and
intellects In bodies worn out by their own
neglects. Magnificent machinery capable
of propelling a great Etruria across the
Atlantic, yet faStetted in a rickety North
river propeller. P bysinal development
which merely shows itself in a fabulous
lifting or in perilous rope walking or` in
pugilistic encounter -excites only our con-
tempt, but we confess to great admira-
tion for the man who has a great soul • in
an athletic body, every nerve, muscle and
bone of which is consecrated to right
uses. Oh, it seems to me outrageous that
men through negipot should allow their
physical health to go down beyond re-
pair, spending the rest of their life not in
some great enterprise for God and the
vines that crawl up the side of a great , world, but in studying what is the beat
tower on the top of which the sunlight i thing to take for dyspepsia. A ship which
site and the soft airs of summer hold per- I ought with all sailo set and every man
petual carnival. They are the people you : at his post to be carrying a rich cargo
like to have come to your house. They - for eternity, employing all its men in
are the people 1 like to have come to my stopping up leakages! When you may
house. Now, it is these exhilarant and . through some of the popular and health-
sympathetic and warm hearted people , ful recreations of our time work off your
that are most tempted to pernicious ( spleen and your querulousness and one=
amusements. In proportion as a ship is half of your physical and mental ail -
swift it wants a strong helmsman, in menta, do not turn your book from • such
proportion as a horse is gay it wants a a grand medicament.
strong driver, and these people of exu-
berant nature will do well to -look at the
reaction of all their amusements. If an
amusement sends you home at night
nervous so you cannot sleep,- and you rise
in the morning not because yo
out,=but because your duty
from your slumbers, you Lave been
where you ought not to have been. There
are amusements that send •a man next
day tree his work bloodshot, yawning,
stupid, nauseated, and they are wrong
kinds of amusements. Tigre are enter-
tainments that give a_ma disgust with
the drudgery of life, with tools because
they are not swords, with working aprons
becakise they are not robes, with cattle
because they are not infuriated bulls of
the. arena. If any amusement sends you
h use longing for a life of romance and
thrilling adventure, love that takes poison
and shoots itself, moonlight adventures
and hairbreadth escapes, yet may depend
_upon it that you are the sacrificed victim
of unsanctified pleasure. Our recreations
are intended to build us up, and if they
pull ns down as to our moral or as to
our physical strength you may come to
the conclusion that they are obnoxious.
.Danger of Unrestrained Amusement.
Still further, those amusements are
wrong which lead into expenditure be-
yond your means. Money spent in reorea-
tion:is not thrown away. It is all folly
for us to come from -a place :of amuse-
ment feeling that we have wasted our
money and time. You may by it have
.< nede an investment worth more than.
the transaction that yielded you $100 to
$1,000. But how many properties have
been riddled by costly amusements? The
table has been robbed to pay the club.
The champagne has cheated the children's
wardrobe. The carousing party has burn-
ed up the boy's primer. The tablecloth
of the corner saloon is in debt to the
wife's faded dress. Excursions that in a
day make a tour around a whole month's
wages, ladies whose lifetime business it
is to "go shopping," have their counter-
part in uneducated children, bankrupt-
cies that shook the money market and
appall the church and'that send drunken-
ness staggering across the richly figured
carpet of the mansion and dashing into
the mirror, and drowning out the carol
of music with the whooping of bloated
sons. come home to break their old
mother's heart. When men go into amuse-
ments that they cannot afford, they first
borrow what they cannot earn, and then
they steal what they cannot borrow.
First they go into embarrassment and
then into theft, and when a man gets as
tar on as that he does not stop short of
the penitentiary. There is not a prison in
the land where there are not victims of
unsanctified amusements. - How often I
have had parents come to ane and ask me
to go and beg their boy off from the con-
sequence of crimes that he had commit-
ted against bis employer—the taking of
funds out of the employer's till, or the
aisarrangements of the a000unts! Why, he
had salary enough to pay all lawful ex-
penditure, but not enough salary to meet
his sinful amusements. And again and
again I have gone and implored for the
young man—sometimes, alert! the peti-
tion unavailing.
How brightly the path of unrestrained
amusement opens! The young man says:
"Now I am off fora good time. Never
mind economy. I'll get money somehow.
What a Ane road! What a beautiful day
for a ride! Crack the whip and over the
turnpike! Come, boys. fill high your
glasses! Drink! Long life,.,healtlr;' plenty
of rides just like this!" Hardworking
men hear the clatter of the hoofs and
look up and say: "Why, I wonder where
those fellows get their money from! We
have to toil and drudge. They do noth-
ing." To these gay; men life is a thrill
and an excitement. They stare atother
people and in turn are stared at. The
watch chain jingles. The cup foams. The
cheeks flush. The eyes flash. The mid-
night hears their guffaw. They swagger.
They jostle decent men on the sidewalk.
They take the name of God in vain.
They parody the hymn they learned at
their mother's knee, and to all pictures
of coming disaster they cry out, "Who
oaresf" and to the counsel of some Chris-
tian friend, "Who are you?" Passing
along the street some night you hear a
shriek In a grogshop, the rattle of the
watchman's club, the rush of the police.
What is the matter now? Oh, this rock -
loss young man bas been killed in a grog -
shop fight ! Larry him home to his father's
house. Parents will come down and wash
his wounds and close his eyes in death.
They forgive him all he ever did, -though
he cannot In his silence ask it.igjee prod•
igel has got home at last. Moth7F will go
to her little garden and get the sweetest
flowers and twist them into: a chaplet for
the silent heart of the wayward boy and
push back from the bloated brow the
long locks that were once her pride. And
the air will bo rent with the father's cry:
"Oh, my son, my son, my poor son!
Would Clod I had died for then, oh, my
son, my son !" •
Effect of the Body on the Soul.
You 'nay judge of amusements by
their effect upon physical health. The
need of many good people is physical re-
cuperation. There aro Christian men who
write hard things against their immortal
souls when there is nothing the matter
with them but an incompetent livor.
Tire al. Qheistlan Pkople w:bo seem to
are slept
drags you
Italian. The paths I tread are through
meadows deified and primrosed. Come
with mei" •
The young man hesitated hesitated at s time
when hesitation ars run, and the bed
c�dd !i it de -
angel smote the g r angel: until
parted, spreading wings through the star-
light upeyard an away until a door
Sashed open- in the I sky and forever the
wings vanished. That was the turning
point in that young man's history, for,
the good angel flown, he hesitated no
longer, but started! on a pathway which
is'beautiful at the/opening, but blasted
at the last. The f bad angel, leading the
, way, opened gate after gate, and at each
' gate„ the road bewme rougher and the
sky more lurid, aiid, what was peculiar,
''1 as the gate slammed shut it came to with
la jar that indicated that it would never
1 open.
• I Passed each po tal, there was a grind-
Ing of look's and a shoving of bolts, and
. 1 the scenery on/ either side of the road
changed from gardens to deserts, and the
'June air become a cutting December
blast, and the l$rlght wings of the, bad
angel turned to ,sackcloth and the eyes of
light became ho
and the founts!1
- tossed wine pou!
and foaming bl
of the road th was a serpent, and the
man said to the bad angel, . "What is
that serpent?"' And the answer was',
"'That is the 1_ serpent of stinging re-
morse." On the left slue of the road there
was a lion, and the man asked the bad
angel, "What if that lion?" And the an -
Swipe was, "That is the lion of all de-
vouring despai ." A vulture flew through
the sky, and the man asked the bad angel,
"What
vulture?" And the answer
was, "That Is the: vulture waiting for the
carcasses of th slain." And then the
man began to try to pull off of him the
folds of sometting..that had wound him
round and ro nd, and he said to the bad
angel, "What is it that twists me in this
awful convolution?" And the answer
was. "That is the worm that never dies!".
' And then the (man said to the bad angel:
"What does all:this mean? I trusted in
what you said at the corner of the street
that night. 4 trusted it all, and why
hay* you thusi deceived ase?" Then the
last deception fell off the charmer, and it
said: "I was sent forth from the pit to
destroy. your soul. I watched my chance
formany a long year. When you hesitated
that night on the street, I gained my
tritisnph. Now you are here. Ha, ha! Yon
areIhero! C$me, now, let us All these
two,chalices of fire and drink together to
darkness and woe and death.. Hail, hail!"
0 young mai, will the good angel sent
forth by Christ or the bad angel sena
forth by silo get the victory over your
soul? Thein wings are interlocked this
moment above you, contending for your
destiny, as !above the Apennines eagle
and condor flght midsky. This hour may
decide •your j destiny. God help you! To
hesitate is to die!
I,
Sin Pl•ssures. .
Again, judge of the places of amuse-
ment by the companionship into which
they put you. If you belong to an organi-
zation where you have to associate' with
the intemperate, with the unclean, with
the abandoned, however well they may
be dressed. in the- name of God quit it.
They will despoil your nature. They will
undermine your moral character. They
will drop you when you are destroyed.
They will not give one cent to support
your children when you are dead. They
will weep not one tear at your burial.
They will chuckle over your damnation.
But the day comes when the men who
have exerted evil influence upon their
fellows will be brought to judgment.
Scene, the last day. Stage, the rocking
earth. Enter dukes, lords, kings, bilggers,
clowns. No sword. No tinsel. No crown.
For footlights, the kindling flames et a
world. For orchestra, the trumpets that •
wake the dead. For gallery, the clouds
filled with angel spectators. For applause,
the clapping floods of the sea. For cur-
tains, the heavens rolled together as a
scroll. For tragedy, the doom of the de-
stroyed. For farce, the effort to serve the
world and God at the same time. For
the last scene of the fifth act, the tramp
of nations across the stage, some to the
right, others to the left.
Again, any amusement that gives you
a distaste for domestic life is bad. How
many bright domestic circles have been
broken up by sinful amusements? The
father went off, the mother went off, the
child went off. There are all round us
the fragments of blasted households. Oh,
if you have wandered away, I would like
to oharm you back by the sound of -thats
one word, "Home." Do you not know
that you have but little more time to
give ,to domestic welfare? Do you not see,
father, that your children are soon to go
out into the world, and all the influence
for good .you are tee have over them you
must have now? Death will break in on
your conjugal relations, and, alas if you
have to stand over the grave of one who
perished from your neglect.
I saw a wayward husband standing at
the. deathbed of his Christian wife, and I
sa* her point to a ring on her finger and
heard her say to her husband, "Do you
see that ring?" He replied, "Yes, I see
it." "Well," said she, "do you remember
who put it there?" "Yes," said he, "I
put it there." And ail the past seemed
to rush upon him. By the memory of
that day when in the presence of men
and angels you promised to be faithful
in joy and sorrow and in siokness and in
health; by the memory of those pleasant
hours when you sat together in your new
house talking of a bright future; by the
cradle and the excited hour when one life
was spared and another given; by that
sickbed, when the little one lifted up the
hands and d called for help and you knew
he must die, and he put one arm around
each of your necks and brought you very
near together in that dying kiss; by -the
little grave in the cemetery that you
never think of without a rush of tears;
by the family Bible, where in its stories
of heavenly love is the brier but expres-
sive record of births and deaths; by the
neglects of the past and by the agonies of
the future; by a judgment day when hus-
bands and wives, parents and children,
in immortal groups will stand to be
caught up in shining array or to shrink
down into darkness -by all that I beg
you to- give home your best affections. I
look in your eyes to -day, and I ask you
the question that Gehazi asked of the
Shunammite: "Is it well with thee? Is
it well with. thy husband? Is it well with
thy child?" ,God grant that it may be
everlastingly well!
Deciding Destiny.
Let me say to all young men your style -
of amusement will decide your eternal
destiny. One night I saw a young mac
at a street corner evidently doubting as
to which direction he had better take. He
bad his hat lifted high enough so you
could see he had an intelligent forehead.
He had a stout chest; he had a robust
development. Splendid young man. Cul-
tured young man. Honored young ma.
Why did he stop there while so many
were going up and down? The fact is
that very man has a good angel and a
bad angel contending for the mastery of
hie spirit. And there was a good and a
bad angel struggling with that young
man's soul at the corner of the street.
"Come with me," said the good angel.
"I will take you home. I will spread my
wing over your pathway, I will lovingly
escort you all through lite, I will bless
every cup you drink out of, every couch
you rest on, every doorway you enter; I
will consecrate sour tears when you weep,
your sweat when you toil, and at the last
I will hand over your grave into the
hand of the bright angel of a Christ
resurrection. In answer to your father's
petition and your mother's prayer I have
been sent of the Lord out of heaven to be
your guardian spirit. Come ;with mei"
said the good angel in a voice of unearth-
ly symphony. It was music like that
whioh drops from a lute of heaven when
a seraph breathes on it. "No, no," said
the bad angel, "come with me! I have
.something better to offer. The wines I
pour are from chalices of bewitching car-
ousal, the dance I lead is over a floor
tessellated with unrestrained indulgences.
There -is no God to frown on the temples
et sin where I worehin: The skies ate
low with hopeless grief,
s that at the start had
forth bubbling tears
, and on the right side
I Scotch Humor.
An old gentleman is recorded to have
emerged gloriously from the difficulty
propounded by a canny little urchin in
the Sunday' school, who, when "Jacob's
Ladder" was under consideration, wanted
to know if hall angels had wings;" and
when answered in the affirmative, pro-
ceeded: "Vieel, whit did they want tae be
olimbin' up an' loon a ladder for?" A
gleam came into the old Sootehman's eye
as he, responded,, pawkily: "Weel, weal,
my laddle,i it's gay like the angels were
on the poulk" (molting). '
Having missed one of his students for
several Sundays, be Bald to one of her
relatives: f'I haena seen yeer cousin Bell
at the class for a long while. Ye ken it's
her duty t./e attend the schule. Whaur
has she g en?" "1 canna very weel tell
ye that, eenister," was the cautious re-
ply, "but she's deed."
Scotsmen are sometimes very funny
when theyf joke, but some of those grim
old sons o the Covenant are even more
humorous when they 'pray. In an old
volume, published in Edinburgh in 1693,
entitled "Scottish Presbyterian Elo-
quence,!' is to be found the following
notice: "Mr. Areskin prayed in the Iron
Kirk last year: 'Lord, have mercy on all
fools an' idiots, and particular on the
Magistrates of Edinburgh.' "—The Arena.
T11. Bight Time for Work.
This 'story is told of an eccentric
preacher, lOne day, on visiting the church,
he found a whitewasher at work in the
church cellar, and, to his horror, the man
was whistling a very lively air as he
worked,- The preacher reproved him
sharply, reminding him that such music
was out of place In such an . edifloe,n
:, ev
if it was n the cellar. "Beg your par-
don !" said the whitewasher. "I forgot
where I was." And then, to show he was
sorry, he Started to whistling "Old Hund-
" Hie hand, of course, kept time to
the music ll and "Old Hundred" made the
whitewash brush go wonderfully slow.
The preaher watched him for a few
minutes; then he cried: "Oh, go back to
your dance tune, or the job will never be
done!"
Cost of American Wars.
The estimated cost of American wars
is as follol+.: Revolutionary war, 1776-89,
1186,193,000; -war with Great Britain,
1812-15, $107,169,000; Mexican war,
1846.48; $66,000,000; civil war, 1861-65,
48,025, 000„1000.
d,atsk1ns In Fur Trade.
More th4n 1,000,000 oats' skins are used
every year lin the .fur trade.
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—A runaway accident, which, fortunate-
ly, had no serious consequences, took place
on Friday afternoon of last week, in Lis-
towel. A team of horses got beyond the
control of their driver on Main street, and
wentat a fu' roue pace, until ati obstruction
in the shape of the gas pipe fence, surround-
ing W. Mor_ is' property, brought them to a
standstill. he driver, though thrown out,
was unharm d, nor were the horses injured.
The only me erial damage was a permanent
twisting of t a fence aforesaid.
JUNE 24 1898.
The Canadian Bek of Commerce.
OAPITAL (PAID -UP) 81XMILLIO N DOLLARS 6%000000r
BEAFORTH` BRANOH.
A general banking business transa - farmers' Notesdiscounted, and
special attention given to the coils* on of Sale Notes.
SAVINGS BANK.—Interest allow td on deposits of $1 and upwards.
Specia facilities for transaction of business In the Klondike District.
F. ,SGLMEBTED, Solicitor. F. 0. G. MINTY, Manager.
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Shorey's coats is here illus-
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from a photograph. The
great advantage, of a coat
properly stated is that it
keeps its shape until it is
worn out, and does not
look like an old garment after a few tweeks wear.
An ordinary r�eady-made garment may llook well at
first, but it is made to sell not to wear.
Shorey'S make all have a guarantee card in the pocket
r Rou4hSeas.
The guest may have come, and
for every reason is given a hearty
welcome ; so is our- furniture by
`whomsoever bought. Over the rough
sea of -hard times it has come,
getter, finer and cheaper for the
struggle.
An inspection of our stock will
convince you that our prices are as
reasonable as the goods are reliable.
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Our Undertaking' Department is complete and strictly up-to-date, with ti:
larger selection than ever before, and prices to Suit every'one's.needa We have
a quantity of suitable Chairs to be used at funel .ls, which we will lend free of
charge, and any orders !that we are favored with shall receive our best attention.
Night calls • kromptly attended to by our undeittaker, Mr. S. T. Holmes, Goder-
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to our breakfast tables.
Only six weeks from
the gardens of India
Coug is and colds need not;
be end red; they can be
cured, and that quickly.
Many\ mixtures are tem-
porary 'ii`x effect, but Scott's
Emulsion of Cod-liver Oil
with Hyp-
ophosphites 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 trou-les. , .
Soc. and $r.00; all druggists.
SCOTT & BOVINE, Chemists, Toronto.
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cuffs, linen crash coag and skirts, exquisite
organdies, dimities, ghams, muslins,prints,
ducks, etc.
All the above goods pare new
and at the very bottom tprices
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OARDCNO'S BLOB, SEAFORTII.
Agent for Butterick's Patterns and Publications.
Post Office Grocery.
Something SpeciaI in Teas
Grand Mogul, Saluda Ceylon, and India Ceylon in packages.
Special blend in Indian Ceylon and Congo, also Japan and Green, at all
prices.
We are offering good values in fresh cleaned Fruits. Currants and
Raisins 8c and l0c a pound.
Try our own blend Coffee. _
In Canned Goods, we have all lines of Ve etables ; also Peaches, Pears
Plums, &c., from the best factories.
Highest g t price paid for Farm Produce in cash or trade.
A call solicited.
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