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The Huron Expositor, 1900-09-21, Page 21 REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. FARM IN STANLEY FOR SALE —For sato Lot et conoession 1, Leaden Road, near the village of Brueelield, containing about 100 amen, 90 are cleared and in a good state of aultivation, the re. matador 1s -hardwood bush. There are ga od build- Ing‘12 sores of wheat, 30 seeded to grass, a good Orchard and plenty of water. VV111 be sold oheap and on eaey terms, Apply to A. J. ROSS, 13ruce- field P. O. 167641 -f‘ESIRABLE PROPERTY IN SEAFORTII FOR, SALE.—Beautifully situeted on Centre Street adjoiniog Beattie' e Grove. There are two lets planted with the choicest of fruit trees of all kind, and shrub. k frame bowie, stone Gerber underneath the whole home, a sitting tO3M, dining room, summer and whiter kitchens and four b ' edrooms hard and ecft water. it Is one of the meet pleasently loeated, comfortable and convenimat residences in Seat atili and will be sold cheap. Apply to J0SIA.11 WAT- SON, Seatorth. 170041 VINE FARM FOR SALE—Fcr sale Lit 24, Con - I ceseion 8 Stanley, containing 1.00 acres. The land is all clear but 12 acree vthich is in gond hard- wood bush. Fifty acres are under oultivation, 8 acres is in• wheat and the balance is seeded to grass There is a good frame bowl°, franie barn and stablea. • The far e% is well fenced -and underdrained and has a vault, never failinir epring creek running through one =Tier of it. It Is completely free from all foul weeds. Terms cash. Posseesion given imme- diately. For further partictilsire apply to JOHN GILMORE, Brucetield P. 0. 168141 7 --- MIAMI IN Hinitzrr FOR -SALE.e-For eats, .Lot J. 4, Concession 13, Hullo% °embattling 76 aoree, all cleared, underdrained, well fenced, and about 40 ..oree seeded, to grase There are fair buildings.. There le a good orchard, and a none -failing spring creek euns througb the farm and a good well at the bonsai` It is near scholl and post office, and eo0. venient to the best markets It is a splendid farm, not a keit of wade land on it, and le well adapted tor ski& raising. It will be Bold cheap and on easy terms. Apply ta the undersigued, Seaforth P. O. JANE ROBISON. •1669 tf • DESIRAELE PROPERTY FOR SALE.—That de - Bitable and pleasantly situated property on the 2nd Concession of Tuckersinith, a quarter of a mile west of Egroondville, ie offered for sale cheap. There la a good frame dwelling house, with sbne founda:- tion, also a stable with room for three head of (settle and 110.• or 40 fovls. There is a splenpid orchard, con- sisting of stunneer, fall mid winter apples, red, white and Englieh. cherry, 'pear and peaeh trees, and plenty of room fora nice kitchen garden ; a never - tailing spring of water. Apply ta MRS. BURGESS, on the premises, or to Egmondville P. 0. A bargain If sold before the 30th September. Also one Olen - did dairy cow and calf about three months old. 1708x3 'VARA( IN TUCKERSMITH FOS SALE.—For sale J Lot 11, Conceesion 8, Tuckeremith, containing 100 sores, all °leered but about 8 aeres of good bush. It is underdrained, well fenced, and in a high state of cultivation. There is a good stone house ; good barns, stables and out -houses. It adjoins a good school; is within five miles lot Seatorth, and three ladles from Kippen. There hi plenty of gated water. Will be eold with or without the crop. It is one of the beet farms in the townahip, and will be sold on easy terms, as -the proprietor wants to retire. Also 60 acres within a mile and a quarter, a good grating lot, well fenced,Jeut no buildings. Will be sold to. gether or separately. Apply on the prennees, or ad- dress Egmondville P 0. JAMES MeTAVISIL 1639 11 _ FA R M FOR S kLE.—For sale tot 13, Concesgon 3, Tuokersmith, li miles from Seeforth, contain - ng 97i acres; The land is be a good etete of cultiva- tion. On the piece is a large frame homes in good repair and heated by a furnace, barrk barn with good stabling, new etone pig pen 24x46, driving shed, woodshed and everything in first class c)ndition. - Plenty of god water.and windmill to pump t. The land is well underdreined. There le ahead 12 sores of fall wheat and the ploughing is all done. It will be sold cheap and on easy teems as the/ proprietor la going West. Possession given at any time. For further particulars apply to WILLIAM EBERHART, on theapremises, or to Seaforth post °Mae. 168441 1 1A.1131 IN STANLEY 'FOR SALE —For Rale, Lot I it and the wet half of Lot 8, on the 12th conces- sion, or Brownson Line, of St nley. This, farm con - tales 160 acres, all of which is °leered, except four sores. It is in a state of firs -class oultivation, well fenced and all underdrained, motly with tile. There . ie a large frame dwelling _ho e as good as new, with cod stone foundation and- eller, large bank barn with stone stabling underneath. and numerous other buildings, lnoludiirg a large. pfr house Two good orchards ot choice fruit, a so nice eheele and erns. mental trees. There are two spring oreeke running hrough the tartar and plenty of good water all the It is well situated for year round without pumping. arkets, churches, schools, post offite, aao., awl good gravel roadsleading from it in all directions. It es within view of Lake Huron, and the boats can be /seen passing up and down !vim •th house. This is . one of the best equipped farm in the county, and will be sold on easy term, al the proprietor wants to retire on account 01 111 health.. Apply on the pre. Ise% or address Blake P. 0,_ JOHN DUNN. 164941 VAR( IN HAY TOWNSHIP FOR SALE.—For • sale, Lot ge, on the North Boundary of Hay Township. This farm contains 100 aorea, 86 acres cleared, the rest good hardwood bush. It Is well un- derdrained and fenced. There Is a goad atone house with a No. 1 °eller '• large bank barn ; implement shed; sheep house 70x76, With first -elms stablirig and root miller underneath; a good orchard; 2 good wells and cistern. There bet* acres of fall wheat sowed on a rich fallow, Well manured ; 40 vireo seeded down recently, the oat in good shape for crop. This is a No. 1 term, well situated for markets, churches, schools, post office, eto., and ' will be sold reaeonably. Apply on the premises, or address ROBERT N. DOUGLAS, Blake,Ont.1668x8tf OPLENDID FARM FOR SALE.—For sale, a splen. lij• did farm and hotel proPerty. This farm is on the 13th ooncession of the Township of MoKillop, at the Village of Leadbury 11 containe 112i- acresall I of which are cleared, except about three mores. t is In s good state of cultivation, being well fenced and nnderdrained, and suitable for grain growing or stock raising and feeding. There is not a foot of west° land on the farm. There are two good dwelling houses, a large bank barn with stone etabling under- neath, &large implement house and all necessary buildings in firs Whin repsir. There are three or- chards and four never failing wells. The berm ad- joins the Villageof Leadhura, wheie are alreftie; post office, blacksmith shop, school. etc. The well known Leadbury hotel is on the farm, and will be sold with I. Itt. now under lease for a term of years. This Is one of the best and most profitable farm proper- ties in the County of Huronaand will be sold oheap on euey terms of payment. For further partioulare, • apply on the premiseis, or address the undersigned proprietor, Leadbury P. 0. JOHNSTON KINNEY. •1663 _ _ CAUSTIC BALS AM. Eureka Veterin- ary. A Reliable and Speedy Remedy- for Curbs, Splints, Spavins, Sweeny, g gen' can be used in every case of Veterinsry Praetien:- where Stinaulating Liniment@ or Blisters are pre- scribed. See pamphlet vticch accompanies every bottle. It has no superior. Every bottle a -old is guaranteed to give sett ifaceon. Price 76o a bottle: Sold by all druggists. Invaluable in the treatment of Lump Jaw In cattle. See Pamplalet. Prepared by— - THE EUREKA VETERINARY MED.E0INE CO., London Out. 169452 • Special Attention to Horseehoeinig and, • General Jobbing. Goderich atreeh, Robert Devereux BLACKSMITH and CARRIAGE *pp. MAKER Qum] Hotel. - Seaforth, Merton Stock Farm LOT 27, CONCESSION S, HIBilERT Thoroughbred- Durham Cows', Heifers and Bulls G., the most faehionable strains for •saie at reasonable prices. -Post. office adyress, DAVID HILL, Staffa. icst-tf Store And Grocery Business itor Sate. For sale in the thrivine town of Sc ; a e)ea brlek Store, with dwelling' above, ant trend neck stable at the back, ale° a firet-elaes sto.ei oftleroceries all fresh,. best part of town and doine goad inieleeiff, good rename for selling. Apply qui ik'y to box 372, Seaferth, Ontario. 1700 M. JORDAN. MONEY TO LOAN Fuilds of private parties, also company funds, to lozui at loweet rates -on lint mortgage; terms to suit borrowers. JA -MES L. KILLORAN, Barrister, &gentle 165941 God's Judgment Are Swift n Sure, Says r. THE BREADTH FFGOD' LiVE National $1ns Arel•P nis ted by Kee strumet ts—No Calm at Ha mew Chalice, But Is in u..yff Div eted Divine Wiskont. Washington, Sol t." 16.—lir. image, in his journey is este through leurope,, h Is • ecentl vie scenes of thrilliig istori eve He sends this senior), in w licit sholv that natioi s re ju geci this world and he God resv them for their vi tue and • uni • them fell their cremes. , The tex Iaalith vli, 20, "Pe t e sa e hail the Lord. saav with a r that is hired, neenele, by' ti em yond the river, by he kin of syria." The Bible is the _no lest bo ok s,er written. There are no si 'little es in., Ossian or the Ilia or t e Oct s- • .sey so daringi Its magere :so 0 - times seems on the 'Verge of re k - lees, but only seems so. he .. ct Is that God would st tle an i aro se and propel men d net MIS. i A. tame and limping ad qitud .wce 14 fail to occoMplish th object , Wh Ie !there are times when he em loys in the Bible the -gentlei d it in t e 'Morn:- ing cloud and .the do a and he dos: - break in the present tion of truth, we often find the iro chari • t; • lightning, the earthq 1, th s.pre7,- the sword .and, my ext,' the razor. This keen bl ded in treraent has• advanced in usef Imes ith the ages. In Bible ;times and 1 nde the beard remained um t SONO in • ' he. seaeons of mournit g and humll a--= tion, - but th.e razor we's . ways a suggestive symbol. aavid aid -of Dcieg, his antagonist, "Thy t rig:to is a sharp razor work ng decttfull ---that is, it' pretend to clear he face, but it is really ised fo cleat ly . incision. ,• • ,.. In this striking te t this wea.p n .of the toilet ap-pears under the fee- loeeing circumstances: .Juda e. need- • ed to have some -of_ its prosperitaes cut off, _and God sen s eget st it three .Aegyrian kin see -fir t • Sen- necherib, ' then Esarh ddon nd • af- terwerd. Nebuchadi ozzar. These three gharp invasions *hat c it clown. the glory of -endace a c coin eixed to so many sweeps of t e razo • across the face qf the land. e.And these de:- vaptations were •callel a hirigi razor because God took th - kings syria, with whom e had pathy, • to: ; do the viark! ' them in palc.ces and spoilS nexations. : These ci11gs we to execute the divincl behests. And now the text, which on. .its first reading may-leveeseemed tirlval or inapt, is charged wilih snOmeritous int:pert, "In the samq day shalle the Lord shave with a. ramie that is hired, namely, by t ern: beyond the river, by the king of Assyria," Well, if God's Jedgn en4s are razors, we had better be car ful how we usa them on other -peoile. In carefel sheath these domesti .weapons are put away where no • ne by • accident may touch: them and here the hands of children may not reach them. Such instruments rn st be -dare-ally handled or not handl d at ale. But how recklessly some eople wield the judgments of Gpd! • f!a man meets with business misfort ne, how many there are ready to .cr out: '4That is ii.j-udgenent of Gtid u on him because he was unscrupttliius or arrogant or over -reaching or rats rly. What a clean sweep of everyt ing! His city house and country h use gone;: His, stables amptied of al the fine bays and sorrels and gray that used to prance by his door. " 11 his resources overthrown and all that he -prided, himself on tumbled i Co demolitions G-ood for him!" St p, my brother; Don't sling aroun too freely the judgments of God, • for they are razors. • Some Of the most vicked business men succeed, ansl th live and die in prosperity, and e 10. of the Most honest • and conscient ous are driven into leo,nkruptcy. P rhips the -un- successful mares man r -wes unfor- tunate, and ihe was not really 1:s proud as he looked t. be. Some of those who carry1 t eft. heads erect and look imperial- a e humble as a child, while i many a man in- seedy coat and slouch hat and unblacked shoes is as _peoud as • ',heifer,. You cannot tell. byi a ina 'S look. Per- haps he was not. nacrupulous in business, for there a e two sides to every story, and ere ybody, that_ ac -7 cproplishes anything or himself or others gets industrio sly lied abo•it, P-Prhaps his businees, nisforturie was not a punsihment, b t - the fatherly distipline to prepare im. for heaven, and God may love hi tar more than he loves you, who can pay dollar for dollar and are p t -down in the -comelier c i al catalogue. • as Al. Whom the Lord loveth he gives $400,000 and lets die on -embr leered pillows? No; whom, the Lord °vete-lie- chest teneth. Better keep your hand off the Lord's razors, :le. t they cut and wound people that 'do not deserve it. If you want to shave off some of the bristling pride of you own heart, do so, but be very careful •how voe put the sharp edge on oth es. How I clo dislike the beliavio f elipse persons W110 when ]Teople re tinfortunitse Spy, "T 'told you so getti4i: punish-. ed—served him right!" - If those ' I- I old -you -ed.'s got Abel desert, they w ould• long have be n pitched over the hattleineets. Thi mote in their ,trielthor's eyee, s small that it. ieekes a microscope t - 'find it, gives • I htin more t rou hid than 'the beam At 11 iCli ohsellN,S 1 lie'r 1 oat -re, optics. Willi air sometimes . uPercilions and sometimes • pharitsaital and *int -0'S Ha eiplienions they. ta e the 'razor of divine judement, and sharpen' it, (in the hone -of their -oe el hard hearts tied. thi•if oc) to Negri._ in lawn cliprata 1 -- ad out at full length under-alististor, alit 1 ince iiiereile. sly. rhea: litqa•in la.: -soft• expeeseiiiiis of .yilipat hy and e)itv and half praiSe ind lather the victim all over hefor they, put on the sharp edge. _ Let us In. careful h< w we shoot at .ot hers les e . \VC, tithe d i.e'vn the \sar 0 ng one, rententheriing• the servant of King Will jail). 1tA1f1AS; who shot at a. _deer, hut the arrow lancedegainst a tree and killed the king.. ",Instead of g-oing out with hafts to pierce and razors to cut we ha : bet er' int- i - ita e ttle friend of R ch d C eur cle '1 10 - by byl rd ed ite CIS 08 is - y or ets- of As, - lo nd paid and an. - e hired THE HURON EXPOSITOR lean, seicnaree In th-e' war of the Cruslidese was captured and impris- oned,' but' none of hie friends knew where, so loyal friend went -around the land ,froine stronghold to stronghold and sang to each window :a snatch of song that Richard Coeur de Lion had taught him in other clays. And one day, coining before a jail where. he suspected his king might he. incarcerated, he sang two lines of eorig, and immediately King Richard responded from his cell with the other two lines, anci so his whereabouts were discovered, and a suecessful - movement was at on made for his liberation. So let us go up and down the sworld with the music of kind words and sym- pathetic 'hearts, serenading the un- fortunate! and trying to. get out of trouble men who had noble natures,. but by • unforeseen eircumstaneee have been -incite:cerated, thus liberat- ing kings. ; More;hynanbooks..and .lesa razor. Especially ought we to be apologetic and merciful toward those who, While they have great faults, have also great virtues. Some peo- ple are barren of virtues. No weed verily, but no' flowers. I must• nor, be too much enraged at a nettle along the fence if it be in a field containing 40 acres of ripe Michigan. • wheat. Seine time ago naturalist told' us -there .was on the sun a spot 20,000miles loeg, but frlora the brightnees- and warmth 1., concluded it was e good deal- of a sun still. The suncan afford to have a very large spot upon it, though- it le 20,- 000 'miles long,. and I am very aPolo-• getic for those mexe.who have great faults,. while at the s,anhe time they ha,ve magnificent 'Virtues. --Again, when 1 read in niy text that .the Lord shaves with the hired razor, of Assyria,' the land of Judaea I think 'myself Of the precision of God's providence. A' razor swung the tenth part' of an inch out oi the right line means either failure or laceration, ;but -God's dealings never ,slip; and they do net miss by the .thousandth part of .an -etch the right direction. . People • talk as though. thingsin this world were .at loose :ends. ChOlera, sweep's across Mar- seitles I and. Madrid and Palermo, awl we vvg.tch anxiously.; Will. .the •dernic sweep Evrope and, America? People say, .''That will entirely de- • pend on whether the inoculation is succeSgful .experiment; .that will • de- pend ' entirelyion quarantine regula- tions; that will depend on the earls - or , late appearance of frost. That epidernips_is • pitched into the world, and it gees blundering across the continents,; and it . -Is all guess work. and an.appalling perhaps." I thirds; perhaps, that -God had something to_ do with ;it and that his mercy may have in Siorne way protected us; that he may have done as much for us as the iquerantine and the health offic- ers. It was right and a necessity that all 'caution should be used, but there have come enough macaroni from Italy, and enough grapes from • • the south of France, and enough rags from tatterdemalions, and hidden in these articles of transportation en- ough chcepraic germs to have left by this • time all the cities mourning in tee cemeteries. . I thank all the doc- tors and quaeantines, but more than all, and -first Cif all, and last of all, and all the time, I -thank .God. In. all the 6,000 Years of theworld's ex- istence there has not one -thing mdre- • ly "happened . so." God is not an anarchist, but a King, 8, Father.. When .little Tad, the son of Presi- dent- Lincoln., died, .all America sym- pathized with • the sorrow in the White 'House. He used to rush into the room where the cabinet was in sessicrnTand while the most eminent men of -i -the land were discussing the questions. of motional existence. But the child had no .care about those - questions. Now. God the Father and. God the son and God the Holy Ghost are in perpetual session in regard .to this world and kindred worlds. Shall you, his child, rnsh in. to criticize or arraign or condemn the divine gov- ernment? IVO; the cabinet of the Eternal Three can govern and will .governin the wisest and best way, and there never will be a. mistake and, like - razor skillfully swung, 'shall mit that which ought to be 'elle and avoid that Which ought to be avoided. Precision to the very. hairbreadth. Earelller-t•i•empieees may get out :of oreir • and strike- wrong, saying it is 1 -'clock when it is 2, or -2" when it is 3. God's deck *is alivays right, and when it is 1 it -strikes .1, and -.when it is 12 it -strikes 12; and the second hand Is as accurate asthe- minute. hand. ' . Further my text tells es that God sometimes shaveitnations, - 'In the 'same day ?than the Lord iriave -with a- razor that' is hired." With one sharp sweep he- went across Judaea, and down went its pride and its power. • In 1861 -Gpd shaved the American' nation.' • We had allowed • to, grow Sabbath desecration. and op -- pression and blasphemy and fratn1 and impurity and all sorts of turpi- tude. The south had its sins, and the north its sins, and the east .1te sins, a,ncl the west its sins. We had • been warned again and again, and we did not heed.. • At length' the sword of war eut from the St. Law- rence to the gulf and from Atlantic seaboard to 'Pacific seaboard, The prideof theland, not the cowards,* but the heroes, on both sides 'went. down. And that which we took for. the's:word of war was the Lords razor. In 1862 againit went across the land: in 1863 again; in 1864 again. Then the sharp instrumeta was incased and put away. Never in the history of the ages was any land more thoroughly shaVe ed. than during those four years :of civil;combat, and, My brethren, if we do not quit some of our individual, and 'natiOnal sins the Lord . will -again take us in hand. He has other razors within reach besides war — epidemics, droughts, deluges, p1aguee. —gras-ehopper and locust — or our overtowering success may se far ex- cite she jealousy of other lands that under some pretext the' great nations may conif.iine to put us down. .0 ur nation,• so easily approached on north and south from both oceans, might, have op hand, at once more hostili- ties than were ever arrae ed against any one power. hope no such po-w- any -one *power. I -hope no such' com- bination again -1 us will ever sbe forieed, 'hut 1 Want to show that, as Assyria'-' was title hired razor akainst Judaea., and Cyrus 'the hired razor against 13abylop, and the Huns the hired razoragainst the Cloths, thei e are now, many razors that the Levi could hire if, because of our national • sins, he should undertake to shave us: In 1870 Germany was the razor ;with. whir/1i the Lord shaved France. _1 • Japan was the razor With Which he •sheved Mee and America the razor with whieh he shaved arrogant, op- pressive end Bible hating Spain. But, nations are to !repent in a, day. May a speedy and wcirldwide coming - to Goed hind r on both sides the sea all national us as a law at • among calamity. But do not let alien either by unrighteous Washington or bad lives rselves defy the Althighty. One w uld thiek ehat our nationtil symbol o the eagle* might sometimes euggest another ' eagle—that which ancient ome carried. In the talons of that e gle wee clutched at one time Bei ain, France, Spain, Italy, Dalmatia. Rhaetia, Noricum, Pan- nonia, M esia, Dacia, Thrace, Mace- donia, Geece, Asia, Minor, Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine e Egypt and - all • northern frica and all the islands of the Medi erra.neate indeed all the 'world th t was worth having, a hun- dred and twenty millions of people under th wings of that one eagle. Where is she now? Ask Gibbon, the historian in his prose poesa, "The • Decline •a d Fall of the Reiman Em- pire." slc her gigantic ruins, be- moaning their sadness through the ages, the screech owl at windowe out of hich worldwide conquerors looked. Ask the daY of judgment, when her croWned debauchees, Com. - modus a d Pertina,x and, Caligula and Dixie etia.n shall answer for their, • infamy.. As men and as nations let us repen and have our trust .in a, pardonin God rather than depend on • former a ccesses for inununityl Out of 13 of the greatest battles of the world Napoleon had lost but one be - fora, Wat rloo. Pride and destruc- tion ofte ride in the same saddle. But no ice once more, and more than all, in my text, teat God is so kind and loving that when it is let *cessary f r him to- cut he has to go to other for the sharp edged wea- pon. 'In the same day shall the Lord sh ve with a razor that :a hired." God is love. God As pity. God is h Ip. God is shelter. God is rescue. here are no sharp edges about hi , no thrusting points, no instrume ts of laceration. If you want bales for wounds, he has that. If you ant divine salve for eye- sight, he has that, But if there is sharp an cutting work to do, which • requires razor, that he hires. God has noth ng:about him that hurts, 'save wh n 'dire necessity demands, and -then he 'has to go clear off to some on else to get the instrument. This dive e clemency will be no nov- elty to t ose who have pondered the Calvareari--Maesacre, where God sub- merged llutself' in human tears and orimsone himself from punctured ar- teries an let the -terrestrial and in- fernal, t orlds •maul him until the • chandelle s of the sky had to be turn - sed out, ecause the . universe could not endu e the outrage. Illustrious for love e must have been to take all. that as .our substitute, paying out his 3wn heart the price of our admlssioift to the gates of heaven. • King enry II of England crowned his son king and on the day of doronati.n put on a servant's garb: and vvated, he, the king, at the son's ta le, to the astonishment of all the p inces. But we know of a, more wo drous scene — the King of heaven a d earth offering to put onl. you, his child, the crown of life and in the fo m of a servant waiting on you wit blessing. Extol 'that love, all paint ng, all sculpture, all music, - all arch'tecture, all wo ghipl In Dresden: gallery let Raphael hold hi up as a child, arid in Ant- werp ca edral let Ruben e Lhand him • down fr.m the cross as a martyr, and Hane el make all hie oratorio vi- brate ar und -th t one chord—"1{e: • was w� 1 ded fo our transgressions, bruised fir' our niquities." But. not until all the red emed get home, and from the counte ances in all the gal- leries of the ra somed shall be re- vealed t e wo ders of redemption, shall elt er man or seraph or arch- angel kn w the 1 eight and depth and length a d brea th of the love of God. • At our nationlel capital a monu- ment to im wh did more than any one to chieve ur American inde- pendence was fo scores of years in building, and m st of us were dis- couraged and sa d it never would be complet.t1 An how glad we all —were hen . in the presence of the highest official of the nation the work was done! . But will the monu- • mlt_ to im who died.for the eternal 1lteratio of the human race ever be coimplete ? For ages the work has been-goi g up. Evangelists and apos- tles and Martyrs have been adding to the heavenly pile, and every one of the millions •of redeemed going up from earth has made to it contribu- tion of gladness, and weight of glory Is swuni at the top of other weight of glory, higher and higher as the centuries go by, higher and higher as the whole millenniums troll, sepphire on the top of ja.sperir sarelgtoyx on the top of chalcedonya,4t:et chryso- prasus above topaz, until far beneath shall be the walls and towers and domes Of our earthly capitol, a. monument forever and forever risme and yet never done, "Unto him who bath loved us and washed us from • our sins in his own blood and made us kings and priests forever," Alle- luia., amen. • An Argument. ( Wife (earnestl 1 )--G-e4rge, dear, I have prayed so fervently of late for a tailor-made g -ern, that I feel it would be flying 'n the face of provi- dence not to go and get measured at once. ....-- EbIRECTOR*- OF THE SKY. How the Astronomers Are Making Photo- graphs of 'all theaStars. , At a congrel 's held in Paris in 1887 it was decided that the end of the , nineteenth ceritury. should see the making of a great catalogue of all the stars in the sky upon a scale of completeness and precision sur- paseing;anything' previously attempt- ed, says The loternational Monthly. It is impossible to exaggerate- the importance of such a -work, for upon our star catalogisee depends 'ultimate- ly 1 he entire strecture of astronomi- cal science. The work was • far to vast. for the powers of nn ohsere tory elone: 'Theeefore the whole sk s from pole to pole,' was diN 1<hd in 0 eight helts Or zones of appro isece y aria' circa, and -each of I ht“;t,.. was Lesigned to a single ohservate ry 't s: be 1 holo - graphed. " A seri -s of eecopes as 1 - spe- c constru •ted, s.) that ea ery part of the work should be done Vs ith the same type of thstrumebt. As far • as possible, an attempt wp.s math lo secure uniformity of methouS and particularly a uniforni. scale of pre - To cover the en- tire slur noon the plan 1SEPTEMBER 21, 1900 pr Op osed no less than SelelIOS negatives are reduired, and most 1,1 these have now been finished; 11:e. .further trieaSureMeot Of the pictures and ! the 'drawing I up of a vast print. ed 4tar catalogs0 are also well. tee der way. One of the participating observatories, that at Potsdam, *(;et - many, has just published the first volume :.of its part of the catalowie. is7 estimated that this obseree- tory alone will require 20 gaze io volumes -to contain merely the! onal results of its work on the catalpeeii Al together not fewer thaii 2,00) lee) stare will find place in this oue lat- est directory of the heavens. Life, At Its Worst. A clergyman once told this marvel- lous story: "Thirty years ago I two young men started to attend Pare Theatre, New York, to see, a _play which made religion ridiculous and hypticritleal. They had been brought up in Christian families. They start- ed for the theatre to see the .vileipla-y- and their early convictions cameibac'e upon them. They felt that it was note right to go, but still they vent • They came to the door of the l the- atre.. One of the young Men stoo- ped* and started for home, but re -- turned and came up to the -door}, but. had not the courage to go in.! He again started .for home, and • went home. The other young man went "in. He went from one degree of temptation to another. ;Caught in the whirl of frivolity and sin he sank * lower and lower. He lost his. busi- ness position. He lost his m9rals. He lost his eoul. He died a, citc.adful .death, not one star of mercy shining °it'll. I stend before you to -day," said the minister, **to thank` God - that for 20 e4ears I have been per- mitted to preach the gospel. 1 • ant the other young man." Decadence of Family Life. ' "There are other and graver facts of which I can, but hint here which prove how deep is the decadence of the old sacred family life, and how rapidly the instinct of motherho d is dying ' -L out among our women," writes "An American Mother" ii the 1 -Ladies' Home Journal. "One i the I - rapid and enormous increase of di- vorces in this country, especial y in the Northeastern farming State . It Is not only the gay, self-hidu gent husband and wife who tire of each, other, but the plodding farmer and the w oman Who is old and worr out with work. Another fact, even 1 ore tragic 4ind significant, is the number of chilcless • homes in the Northern States. Hundreds of the oldest lead- ing American families have beeoine extinct in the last decade. The wo- • men of these .families Were notably active in _public work. So large has • been the decreeme of births of 'Aimee - can parentage in one section of; this country that there is a real danger that the native stock there will en- tirely die. . out. There are darker depthhere which t shall not uncov- er. . All women have looked into them,'' Tw _Century Ilappeninee. The 1 sentieth century will haire 24 leap yei rs, the greatest possible num- ber. February will have five !Sun- days t ree times -1920, 1940 and 1976. The earliest possible date on iNhiCh aster can occur is Marchi 12; The last time its occurred on that date was 1818. The latest date, that Easter can occur is April 25. RI will occur but one time in the coming cen- tury on that date -1S'4,3. Thea.mid- dle day e the century will be Jan- uary 1, 1951. There will be [ 880 eclipses during the coming centety. The lrbit Fair. • Fairs are very numerous in Siberia and possess a great importance. The greates , and ancient Siberiafele is that of Irbit, founded in 1643. The 'resit f ir is open from Februarly 1 to Mar h 1, and during this time the little t wn wakes up and weloomes 25,000 strangers, doing bueiness worth from 40,000,000 to 55,000,- 000 rut les. The chief article of trade are tea, peltry, honey, rax, nuts,, hardware, cultery, woolenfand co ttons The Mianisalppi dunetion. The Mississippi jetties are among the most gigantic engineering feats of the world, costing in the neigebor- hood of $5,000,00, and nsakiele a 26 -foot channel • out of a afros= where there was formerly but 'eight feet of water... This has made 'of New 0 leans a port for the largest among cean going vessel's. Spectacles for a Pet cat,. A pet Maltese cat belonging to an English woman has- been seccesefully provide with spectacles to counter- act fail ng eyesight. • A picture of a mouse Was used by the oculist to test thei cat's eyes. TitIM igratiam to Eastern Siberia. From 1882 to the first of January, 189'), t iere arrived in Eastern fls- beria 1,117,715 migrants from Euro - pearl R ssia overland and 33,608 by sea. F om 1883 to 1899, 582 per- soeui re urnold to Russia. th er yo be en ne An optimistic English physician says t !modern life is easier, safer, and smooth - than life a hundred years ago OW ng people are healthier, stronger and ter grown than their great -grand par- s, and that the complaints of increasing retie endencies • are wholly unfounded. Dr. Chase Cures Piles Without the Danger, Palm or Eronso of- an oparation—The Only COarantood Cure. Fnearly every town and village in Canada come letters feom persmiis who have been rescued from the mis- t rit-s ( of piles by using • Dr. Chase's ei:iditri.e:ber.:. Ls. token, 116 Dunlop street,!Bar- rIe, Ont., • writes:—" I was troubled ;tsti blind, ',Wiling piles for yearss and (teed get nothing to stop the eonetant itching. 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We every one to come and see us and atotoratoosiltex; 13-1\TIDM This department is complet obliging attention given to this Night calls promptly atte Goderich street, Seaforth, opposi omit re Store d enlarged, and now we are the newest designs of Parlor,' very tempting piioes. Also a newest style4. New line of extend a cordial invitation to ur stock. with a ranch of ded to e the M 31 TI the bUsiness. the best goods, and arge selection y our Underta er, Mr. S. T. Holmes thodistt church C+.. • BROADOOT, BQX & -011 RTWEIN'S Up-to-date Dry Goods and Grocery House. MoVVVVVOWAAAAMAAMAAAA • New Goods Just ilrriied. As the early bird catches the wor pleased likewise. The showing of new d store is remarkable. It is a show that elegance. Immense variety, exquisite st are some of the attractive features. Our Dress Goods !Dv rtment. The goods have been selected with l great care froni able centres, and represent the choicest weaves for thi prices are remarkable. We have a specia range of suitin Our Mantle. Department is right Our Flannelette depax Inent so Ithis seasola the early buyer is y gods in ev ry department of the vill delight al lovers of taste and le, eXcellent q ality and low prices Is second to none, as we have ove We also have the nicest range of Wra showing a line of Silkoline for sofa cushi New York, ranging from laic t� 25c. Our new- -department. We have,* the request of our creasing business a full stock of Choice prices. WANTED—We want for export quarter cut farmers' dried apples. We w for which we will give the highest price 160 different p pereths ever sh ns, hich was any farm cwt roceries, which by the 1st of nt all the butt ing. the leading fashion- beason's wear. The s at 35c and 50e.. up-to-yate. tterns to choose from. wn in town. We are imported direct from rners, added to our in - we will run at close etober, one carload of r and eggs we can get, Cash or Produee an Remember the place— One P TW ice Only. EIN, -Seaforth's Only Cash Dry Goods tore, under th i3 Town Clock. A ;070NDERFUt ANT A Medicated Toilet S ap of the Britai A FEW REASONS WHY Ytl Reg. No. 3007. W AT IT 1—Prevents all contagious diseases from approaching where it is used. 2—It will clean and polish paint work and nbt kill the gloss of the paint. 7 3—It will clean carpets without taking them up. 4—It will clean' lineleums like new. 5—It will clean bieyele chain and ri s. Novo is claimed to be the cheapest and best jniut cleaner on market. Try it on finger marks ou doors. Estate JOHNSON 13R0 SEPTIC COMPOUND Purest. Awarded Sliver Medal Greatet Exhibition, 18970 U SHOULD USIE NOVO. ILL O. —It•ill clean and remove paint, oil arid grea stains from woolen and cotton cloth- ing, Also cleans coat collars and hats. —It c ntains no elkali and is strongly re- com ended for washing the head, as it impa ta a silky and nature.' gloss to the: hair, and is especially useful for ehildren. TO RICE lec and 20o a BLOCK Full directions on blocks. Hardware, Seaforth 1687-52 int TANTEI VI' help. good wages. Red, tiesPel WARM TO X Hellen wheat farm. 0 good tena JOSE rens' teeene ,Ve Ices in each. Mao Bete taken Pcultry.—A winners' at fa Jerre, gocel table. Eggi ee TOJ leo. 7, Wang ,aco or gravel, on' 0MP; -15141- frames:able, able houss,in ten acres o frano Seafore **cheat, Kialeurn, privilege of v 'OULU* -I trTLE. era hold Diaties to CI cations, 0.40 ree1ved bg PJ.OET. McKie .EACHER I bolding, lneboo1 Bee wi4I be reeeiv ea•beiow. St gin. BEER' grave P. D., ANTBA Unto ratheett et, mite from Se 4301timencis Oc toreatisfartie to September .11ICKS.Pi = URA LIOl SALP bouLot 120 se and 1 UpOn epplica VAR/it F011 . beans, 'vetoed, -goo • aeres in pat eleen ti Poet Oletelet soorce o mental teems easy. ere URNS' Segottle W-erISE Pi ' Seafort es as* far Win end ern< sear. Will b• , to4LL. KILL ARM YOB townshli under fence,. hank hare; plentiful *up veiticulars ifr to N. Cf OUSE A. enders' + bey witbe ;planted 3 aood stab Itoiltweter. A men rooms i (maniocs may- VrALUABI.; V the villt pleaeantly lo The prrperty drained and frame house,'. ,estary outbul • tolt wider. appleis, frbite. it is: Orr rr nimbi to :Whi. C. CI tl OOD SOLn l)s farm Ise p of Stinfi ta ne aere0, the balance drained. bduse, a good good welt at I never failing! •this UM. T.. frnife Thls entaket, etc.: nrendees pr a Blake 1.-o. VARld 101 farm he 4::',Oncession. is well tenee4 and itairee fa Ortherd and 1 frame licuisea lar and wood neVer-failing. quarter ol ehurehes, pc balf miles h apply on the. T. P. EYRE. ai••••=..1 SI "rad PIO -13x J.. 'On IAA therotiglain bred Youvani be admitted', of eeritleeen White Pigaft f 4WO , VICE I% the 13 • Eeetworah ; payublei kateing 11 qv bred yonn RITOLI 6lAfi -Math Campt ir eineilal at aloe A I:mos Auetid Perth. Beii: underttandit =cots, pladre lees. Cb no pay. '1 ctr ,at Let attended to , EABLVSEEK , 0 s from M: Auction, on; day,,E1 eptem horse, geresea Old; 1 eprim driver -seven calf to gab° In December steers ..risingi rising two ye two yearaad Terms.—Alf aniount 13 nu approved join for (meth. or eoprieler tclorietor ; and Huron.