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The Huron News-Record, 1896-09-09, Page 711. ttp f 1. YIF . '7r`a.J�,r.N.G..�. amu",.alley,..-gaT..•�.l�{a'TRCW:,,+s. • BUSINESS DIRECTORY ?lli 1DLDN 1111. tleoorporeted by AA of Parliament 1866. aAPITAL, • - - $2,000,000 REST, - - $1,87b,000 MA (Moe, - MONTREAL, LL A. 11, MOL8ON President. 1. WOLFEESTAN )THOMAS, General Mane .r. Notes diseounted Collections made, Drafts Issued, Sterling and American ex• ohangs bought and Bold at lowest current rates. Isamu: ALJAw1D oar DarO.IT.. 73a.A11.MMUS- easy adva to farmers en their owe notes lir., ono or P endemism. No mortgage re- 111iW as security. Dueember, 1898. $ O. BREWER, )na it ' L1 Ten. G. D..NcTaggart BANKER ALBERT STREET, CLINTON. A GENERAL BANKING NG BUSINESS TRANSACTED. Notes Discounted. • - Drafts Issued. Interest Allowed on Deposita. O)lnton, Janet/0h, 1801 8887 • 4tdtlCa I. DR. W. GUNN, 111.10. 1'. and L, R. O. S., ,Edinburgh. Of8ee— Ontario street Clinton. Night calla at front door of tseidenca on Nattenbary street, opposite Presbyter !an church. DRe TURNBULL. J. L. Turnbull, M. B. Toronto NIT. ) M. D. ; J. M., Victoria Univ. M. 0. P. A B. Out, ; B Uow of the obstetrical society of Edinburgh. Late ,f London, Eng., and Edinburgh hospitals Office: Dr. Doweley s steed, Ratteahory M. Night calls 1 nswered at Office. DR. SHAW. Otfla. in Hodgen% Block, Rattenbery 8t., Clinton, Night eons at same Owe. Jas. 8. Freeborn,1LD G. 8.�( 0. P., L, M. 0 P, & B. 0., &o., ate. ire( "Jla'��f Zing's & Queen's College of Phyelcfane, ebl )ln, land. Lloenttate of the General Medloal OoencU, Great Rritatn. Member of College of thysiolass and Surgeons, Ontario. Formerly resl- iatko the Roteshda Hospital (Lyleg•in and Gyne• lolonical), Duhl'n. Special attention to di of volume and childre•n. Omoe and reddenee, Rattenbury St., next door to Ontario Bt. Methodist parsonage. 829-1y menthes. Dr. Bruce, Surgeon Dentist OFFICE—Over Taylor's Shoe Store, Clinton, Ont. Special attention -to pre- servation of natural teeth. N. B.—Will visit Blyth every Monday, and Bayfield every Thursday afternoon during the summer. R. Agnew, L. D. S., D. D. S. DENTIST. Graduate of Royal College of Dental Sur- geon" of Ontario. Honor Graduate of Trinity University, Toronto. Bt st Local Anaesthetic for painless extraction. Office opposite Town Na1I, over Swallow's Store. Night Bell ar swered. Will visit Henson cry Monday, and gulch the 2nd Thursday cf each month Segal. gG. CAMERON, BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, Conveyancer, &e. Office—coiner Hamilton and t. Andrewv-ate., opposite Colborne Hotel, Goderlch. 88841 0. HAYS, Barrister, Solicitor, &o. Office, corner • North street and Square, inear Registry Om.e, derlch, Ont. 87. ar Money to lend at lowest rates ot interest. J. SCOTT, • Barrister, ¢o., BLLIOTT'e BLOCK, - - CLINTON. Money to Loan. Orange. Lr Oe L. No. 710 OLIN T O N, Meets saooan Monday of ever) 'eolith. Hall 2nd eat, ]1c a, block. Visiting brethren ala'ayt made welcome. OR. J. B. t'ttEYBORN, W. M, P. CAN'r6LON, JR. Sec. J. P. SHEPPARD, D. til E. CAMPION, Q. 0 , BARRISTER; - - • SOLICITOR., NOTARY, ¢o., G•oderloh, Ont. Office—Over Davis' Drug Store. Money to loan: M. 0. JOHNSTON, BARRISTER, - - SOLICITOR, COMMISSIONER, ETC,, Gi oderloh, - - - Ont. Omoe—Oor. Hamilton and 86. Andrew's Sts. W. BRYDONE., BARRISTER • - SOLICITOR. NOTARY PUBLIC, 40., OPBi011 BEAVER BLOCS - • CLINTON. 817 -If Ditty to gtuU. MONEY to lend to large or small sums ov good mortgages or personal security at the lowest current rates. H. HALE, Huron et. Clinton. Money. Honey to lend on good seeurity at 6d and 8 per tent. Apply to C. BIDOUT, Albert 81., Clinton. 862 ti. Tittztoouir. CLINTON Lodge, No. 84, A. F. b A. M. meets every Friday, on or after the moon. visit Ing brethren oordlally invited A. J. HOLLOWAY, W. M. THOS. BUMISALL, Sao. Clinton, Deo. 8, 1896. +trimmer Cantelon Bros, 11ENERAL GROCERS & PROVIS- ION MERC RANTS. Grocicery, Class d Chinaware ALBERT RT., CLINTON. ONT. Highest Cash Price for Butter and Eggs Maly K.,0. T. M. Hearns Tent lvo. 88, Knights of the liaeeabees oI the World: $1,000, 02,000 and 88,000 Pollution. Mem- berehip ever 109,000. Aeseeement prinulple—has never exceeded 12 assessments to a year. Cheapest and safest !n existimes. Meets hi Orange Hall, elle- ton, first and third Friday oI every month. COOK'S FLOUR & FEED STORE, Clinton. BRAN and SHORTS in Large or Small Quantities. OIL CAKE. LINSEED MEALS 10 lbs. Choice Oatmeal for one Bushel Oats D. COOK. CLINTON. 762-tf HILL'S FEED STORE HURON STREET, CLINTON. The Beat Early Seed Potatoes, and all kinds of first-class Clover, Timothy, Field and Garden_ Seeds, Flour and Feed of an kinds. Closest living prices for cash. SALT in stock and for sale. TEAS of the choicest varieties and blends. Excellent valve. J. W.. HILL, Huron Bt., Clinton Central Butcher Shop. COUCH & WILSON 8nbeerlbers desire to notify the public that they have bought out the butchering buelneee lately con- ducted by Mr. Jas. A. Ford, and will oontlaue the same ander their personal supervision. Orders will haverompt and careful attention. Fresh meats of all kinds will be kept In session, sold at reasonable rates and delivered anywhere in town. ARTHUR COUCH, CHAS N, WILSON. CLINTON. CENTRAL BUTCHER SHOP FORD SZ MURPHY, (Swimmers to J. W. Langford.) Having bought out the above business, we intend to conduct it on the cash principle, end will supply our customers with the boat meats at the lowest pay- .gprioes. '"FORD & MURPHY. LIVE HOGS WANTED, Highest Market Price Paid. D. CANTELON, Clinton. v98•tf. B. THOMLINSON, VETERINERY SURGEON, Honorary Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary Ool• lege, Toronto. Treats all diseases ol, Domestic Animals on the most modern and Scientific Principles. Day and Night Calls Promptly Answered. Residence—Rattenbury Street, West. CBeton, Out, J. E. BLACKALJL, Veterinary Surgeon - and Veterinary Inspector. Office on Isaac street, next New Era office. Residence, Albert St., Clinton. Geo. Trowhill, TO THE FARMERS. Study your own laoerest and go where you can goo Reliable Wik Harness, 1 manufactupre none but the Baer or STOOK. Dewar, of stops asst sell cheap, as Utes have got to live. ar Call and get prices. Orders by mall promply attended to Co 11N 13ELL, HARNESS EMPORIUM, BLYTII, ONT NOTICE, There being some misunderetanding with re• gard to wreckage, let h be distinctly understood that if any ;moon feline poesessIo0 of any kind of wreckage and falls to report to me 1 shall al 0000 take proceedings. Remember this le the lest warning 1 shall give, CAPT. WM. RABB. ,1lecelver of Wrecks, Ooderlch, Ooderlolt, Sept. 7th 1891. Horseshoer and General Black- smith, Albert Street, North, - Clinton. JOBBIVG A SPECIALTY. Woodwork Ironed and first class material and work guaranteed ; farm Implements and machines rebuilt and repaired. Card of Thanks. TO MY MANY PATRONS : I desire to tender my ainoere thanks for the very liberal patronage accord• ed me in the past and to inform the public that I am still in the Carpet Weaving Business on East Street, Goderiob, next the Bicycle Factory, Personal and mail orders will as usual receive prompt attention. All classes of work a specialty, at the lowest poe• tibia prices, and satisfaction guaran- teed. W. A. Ross, East Street, GODERICIi. The McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Farm and Isolated Town Proper- ty only Insured. oymmo. George Watt, President, rfarleok P. O.; James Broadfoot, viae -Pres., Seaferth P. 0.; W. J. Shan- non, 8eoy. Treaa., Seaforth P. O.; Mlobael Hurdle, inepeatot of levees, 8eafnrth P. 0. nee TIMM', James Broad feat, Beafnrth;Mlehacl Mutate, Sea - forth; George Dale, 8eafnrth; Denise Watt, Harleak Thome(' R, aya,Beofort Alex (i ardiner, eadbury Themes Oarbott, Clinton; John McLean, Rlppen. antra -re. Themes Nellane, Rarleck; Reboil McMillan, Bea. forth and James Cnmmfnge, tfgmondvllle. Parties desirnue to effect Insurance or trans- act ether business will he promptly Attend- ed to nn application to any of the above officers ad- dreased to their reapectfve poet eines'. FOR SALE. The property at present 000upted by the un- deretgned as a residence on the Huron Road, In thu Town of Godarictt, consisting of one half of an acre of land, good frame house—story and a half—seven rooms, including kitchen, hard and soft water, good atone collar, stable, wood and oarriage houses, There are also some good fruit trees. This property is beautifully situated and very suitable for any parson wit hang to live retired. Forfurther particulars apply to 111. CAMPION, 642-tf • Barrister,Ooderieh. J. C. STEVENSON, Furniture Dealer, -&c. THE LEADING UNDERTAKER AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Opposite Town Hall, - Clinton, Ont GO TO THE • Union Shaving Parlor For flrst•claas Hair -Cutting and Shaving. Smith's block, opposite Post Office, Clinton J. EMERTON, Proprietor, WATTS & CO CHEMISTS & DRUGGISTS Great Northwestern Telegraph office, Albert Street, • Clinton. ., PUMPS ! PUMPS I If you want a first -eines, well -made pump one that will , give you satisfaction, Bend your order to the undersigned. He will dig and Olean wells and do It at the closest prices. He also handles a first-class FORCE PUMP. JAMES FERGUSON Oppos(t Queen's Hotel High Street Clinton. 809-81 F. W. F IIHNO OJIIB (MEMBER OF ABS'N OF P. L. B.) Provinoial Land Surveyor and Civil. Engineer, LONDON, ONTO omits—At G. J. Stewart's Oroeery Store, Olin' ton. Don't Build Without A Plan, J. ADES FOWLER & CO., Architects and Civil Engineers Are opening a permanent office In Clinton and aro prepared to supply Plans, Speoldcations and detail, for any elan of work et most reasonable rates. Patent Drawings prepared and patents obtained. Valuations and inspections carefully made. 25 Years Experience in Ontario. 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Naw Poen. 301 BBOADMA7 REMEDY FOR FLIES ON CATTLE. A Valuable Recipe Which Every Farmer Should Know. Take coal tar two parts and coal oil and grease one part each and mix with a sthall amount of carbolic acid. Ap- ply with a cloth by moistening the hair and horns of the animal with the liquid. In the application include feet and legs and it will drive every fly away, and one application will last ten days or more in dry weather. Apply as often as necessary and your cows will he entirely secure from flies of all kinds. Any kind- of old lard or grease can be used., Coal tar is the base of this remedy, and when .too thick to spread well, use more ooal ail; when too thin to adhere well, use more coal tar.. Carbolic avid will cost about 50 or 60 cents in cryat.als by the pound, and every farmer should always keep it on hand, as it, in its many uses, ds indispensable.. This remedy is equal- ly effective as a lice exterminator on poultry, and is used simply by paint- ing the sides of the hennery and roosts and dropping boards with the liquid. For young chickens sat urate a cloth and place in the bottom of a box, and place the mother and young chickens in the box for an hour or so, This recipe is equal to any preparation in the market. THE TRUTHFUL CHILD. Mamma, the rector skit me why you didn't come to Matra. Khat did you tell him, Bobby? i said you were a -keeping all your gond rinlhes clean ter go to t.h' sea- shore. THE LOVED AND LOST, THE SHADOW WHICH DARKENED THE HOME AT HARVEST. The Full Blossom' and Its Blissful Transi- tion From Earth is Heaven—A t'hud's Power ever the Parental Retort -The Beuuly of Childhood. Washington, Aug. 80.— While the reapers are busy in many parts of the land and the harvests are being gathered the scene brought before us in this subject in especially appropriate. The text is II. Kings, iv., 18, 19, 20; "And when the child was grown it fell an a day that he went out to his father to the reapers. And he aaid unto his father, 'My head, my head 1 And he said to a lad, 'Carry him to his mother.' and when he had taken him and brought him to Ina mother he sat on her knee till noon and then died. There is at least one happy . home in Shunem. To the luxuriance and splendour of a great house had been given the advent of a child. Even when the angel of life brings a new .soul to the poor man's hut a star of jay shines over the manger. Infancy with its helplessness and innocence, bad passed away. Days of boyhood had come, days of laughter and frolic, days of sunshine and promise, days of strange questions and curiosity and quick development. I suppose among all the treasures of that house the brightest was the boy. One day there is the shout of reapers heard afield. A boy's heart always bounds at the sound of sickle or scythe. No sooner have the harvesters cut a swath across the field than the lad' joins them, and the swarthy reapers feel young again as they look down at that lad, as bright and beautiful as was Ruth in the har- vest fields of Bethlehem gleaming after the reapers. But the sun was too hot for him. Congestion of the brain seiz- ed on him. I see the swarthy laborers drop their sickle, and they rush out to see what is the matter, and they fan him, and they try to cool his brow, but all is of no avail. In the instant of conscious- ness he puts his hands against his temples and cries out, "My head, my head 1" And the father said, "Carry him to his mother," just as any father would have said, for our hand in too rough and our voice is too harsh, and our foot is too loud to doctor a sick child if there be in our home a gentler footstep. But all of no avail. While the reapers of Shunem were busy in the field there came a stronger reap- er that way, with keener scythe and for a richer harvest. He reaped only one sheaf, but, oh, what a golden sheaf was that 1 I do not want to know any more about that heart- breaking scene than what I see in just this one pathetic sentence. "He sat on her knees till noon and then died." Though hundreds of years have passed away since that boy' skipped to the harvest field, and then was brought home and died on his mother's lap the story still thrills us. Indeed chit - hood has a charm always and every- where. I shall now speak to you of childhood—its beauty, its susceptibility to impression, its power over the parental heart, and its blissful transi- tion from earth to heaven. The child's beauty does not depend upon form or feature or complexion or appeal. That destitute one that you saw on the street, bruised with un- kindness and in rags, has a charyn about her even under her destitution. You have forgotten a great many per- sons whom you met, of finely cut fea- tures and -with erect posture and with faultless complexion, while you will always remember •the poor girl who, on a cold, moonlight night, as you were passing late home, in her thin shawl and barefoot on the pavement, put out her hand and said, "Please to give me a penny ?" fib, how often we have walked on and said, "Oh, that is noth- ing but street vagabondism!" but after we got a block or two on we stop- ped and said, "Ah, that is not right 1" and we passed up that same way and dropped a mite into that suffering hand as though it were not a matter of see, and thougnt, so ashamed were we of our hard-heartedness. With what admiration we all look upon a group of children on the play- ground or in the school, and we clasp our hands almost involuntarily and say "How beautiful!" All stiffness and dignity are gone, and your shout is heard with theirs, and you trundle their hoop,. and fly their kite, and strike their ball, and all your weari- ness and anxiety are gone as when a child you bounded over the play- ground yourself. That father who stands rigid anfLunsympat.hetic amid the sportfulness of children ought, never to have been tempted out of a crusty and unredeemable solitariness. The waters leap down the rocks, but they have not the graceful step of childhood. The morning comes out of the gates of the east, throwing its silver on the lake and its gold on the towers and its fire on the cloud, but it is not so bright and beautiful as the morning of life There is no light. like that which is kindled in a child's eye, no color like that whwli bl't oat on a child's cheek, uo music like the sound of a child's voice., Lt's face in the poorest picture redeems any im- perfection in art. When we are weary with toil, their little hands pull the burdens off our hack. Oh, what a dull stale, mean world this would be with- out the sportfulness of childrenl When I find people that do not like children I immediately doubt their moral and Christian character. But when the grace of God comes upon a child how unspeakably attractive! When Samuel begins to pray, and Timothy begins to read the Scriptures, and Joseph shows himself invulnerable to tempts, - tion, how beautiful the 'scene! I know that parents become. pious, because they have the idea that good children always die. The strange question about God and eternity and tine dead excite apprehension in the parental mind rather than oongratulalton: in- deed, there are some people that seem marked for heaven. This world is too poor a garden for them to bloom in. The hues of heaven are in the petals. There is something about their fore- head that. IDa.11es you think that the hand of Christ has been on it, say- ing, "Let this rme come to Me, and let. it come to Me soon." While that, 0110 tarried in the house you feltthere was an angel in the room, and you thought. that every sickness would be the last, and when finally the winds of death did scatter the Leaves yuu were nu more surprised than to ane a star come out above the cloud on a dark night fur yuu had often said to your com- panion, "My dear, we shall never raise that child.But 1 scut the idea that good children always die. Samuel the pious buy became Samuel the g,kcat prophet. Christian 'Timothy became a uns ster at Ephesus. Young Daniel consecrated to God, become prune minister of all the realm, and there are in hundreds of the schoula and families of this country today children who love God and keep los commandments and it ho are to be foremost among (he Christians and the philanthropists and the refurutera of the neat century. The grace of llud never kills any one. A child will be more apt to grow up with religion than it will be apt to grow up without it. Length of days is promised to the righteous. The re -1 ligiout of Christ dues nut cramp the ' cheat or curve the spine or weaketl tete nerves. 'There are no maladies 1 floating ul, from the river of life. Thu religion ot Chri.t throws over tilts beart and life of a cluld a supernal beauty. "filer ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace." I pass on to consider the suscepti- bility of childhood. Meet piride them- selves on their unchangeahility , They will make an elaborate argument to prove that they think nowust a.s they did 20 years ago, It is charged to •fraility or fraud when a man ci a'nges his sentiments in pIolitics or in religion, and it is this determina- tion of soul that so often drives back the gospel from a man's heart. It is so hard to make avarice charitable and fraud honest, and pride humble and skepticism Christian,. The sword of God's truth seems to glance off from those mailed warriors and the helmet seems battle proof against God's battle- ax. But childhood—how ausceptible to example, and to instruction! You are not surprised at the record, "Abraham begat Isaac, and Isaac begat Jacob," for when religion starts in a family- it is apt to go all through. Jezebel a mur- dreas, you are not surprised to find her son Jehoram attempting assassina- tion. Oh, what a responsibility upon the parent and teacher 1 The musician touches the keys, and the response of those keys is away off amid the pipes a.nd the chords, and you wonder at the distance between the key and the chord. And so it is in life—if you touch a child the result will come back from manhood or old age, telling just the tune played, whether the dirge of a great sorrow or the anthem of a great joy. The word that the Sabbath school teacher will this afternoon whisper in the ear of the class will be echoed back from everlasting ages of light or darkness. The home and the school decide the republic or the deapotism, the barbarism or the civilization. the upbuilding of an empire or the over- throwing of it. Higher than parlia- ment or congress are the school and the family, and the sound of a child's foot may mean more than the tramp of a host. What, then, are you do- ing for the purpose of bringing your children into the kingdom of God? If they are 8o susceptible, and if this is the very best time to act upon their eternal interests, what', are you doing by way of right impt$sion ? There were some harvesters in the fields of Scotland one hot day, and Hannah Lemond was helping them gather the ha,y. She laid her babe under a tree. While she was busy in the fields there was a flutter of wings in the air, and a golden eagle clutch- ed the swaddling band of the babe and flew away with it to the mountain eyrie. All the harvesters and Hannah Lemond atarted for the cliffs. It was two miles before they came to the foot of the cliffs. Getting there who dared to mount the cliffs? No human foot had ever trod it. There were sailors there who had gone up the Ina.t in the day of terrible tempest. They did not dare ril,;ik it. Hannah Lemond sat there for awhile and looked up and caw the eagle in the eyrie, and then she leaped to her feet, and she started up where no human foot had ever trod, crag above crag, catching hold of this root or that root until"she reached the eyrie and caught her babe, the eagle swooping in fierceness all around about her. Fastening the child to her back she started for her friends and for home. Oh, what a dizzy descent, slid- ing from this crag to that crag, catch- ing by that vine and by that root, Doming down farther to the most dangerous pass, where she found a goat and some kids. She said "Now, I'll follow the goat. The goat will know just which is the safest way down." And she was led by the ani- mal .nimal down to the plain. When she got there, all the people cried, "Thank God, thank God!" her strength not giving way until the rescue was ef- fected. And they cried: "Stand back. now. Give her air 1" Oh, if a woman will do that for the physical life of her child, what will you do for the eternal life of your boy and your girl? • Let it not be told in the great day of eternity that Hannah Lemond put forth more exertion for the saving of the physical life of her child than you U parent, have ever put forth for the eternal life of your little ones. God help you. I Casson to consider the power which a child wields over the parental heart. We often talk about the influence of parents upon children. I never hear anything said about the influence of children upon theirpparents. You go to school to them. You'no more edu- cate them than they educate you. With their little hands they have caught hold of your entire nature, and you cannot wrench yourself away from their grasp. You are different men and woman from what you were be- fore they gave you the first lesson. They have revolutionized your soul. There are fountains of joy in your heart which never would have been discover- ed had they not discovered them. Life is to you a more stupendous thing than it was before those little feet start- ed on the pathway of eternity. Oh, how many hopes, how many joys, how many solicitudes that little one has created in your soul IYou go to school every day, a school of self-denial, a school of patience. in which you are getting wiser day by day, and that influence of the child over you will in- crease, and, though your children may die, from the very throne of God they will roach down an influence -to your soul, leading you on and leading you up until you mingle with their voices and act beside then- thrones. Tho grasp which the child has over the parent's heart Ls seen in what, the parent will do for the child. Storm and darkness and heat and cold are nothing to you If they stand between you and your child's welfare. A great lawyer, when yet unknown, one day stood in the courtroom and made are eloquent plea before same men of great legal attainments, and a gentleman said to him afterward, "How enli Id you be so calm standing in that august presence?" "CII;:' said Erskine. "1 felt my children pulling at my skirts cry- ing for liread." What stream will you not swim, what cavern will you not enter, what battle will you nnl fight, what. hanger will you not endure for your children? 'Y OUT nblldren must have bread though you starve. Your) children must be well Line lied thuugla ygiyls. Ys•'My hildruq atollous o ben a lueraat.ed, thuuoughay. 1 unvne.r heal any chttuue. "What to you are weary lifnbs and aching head and hands hardened and callous a only the welfare of your children oars be wrought out by al 'Their SOT ruw is yuul surruw, their joy in your joy, their advamcente.nt your victory. And, uh, when the last siul- neee comes, how you fight batak the march of disease, and it is only after tremendous atruggle that yuu sur- render. And then when the apirit hasp fled the groat deep La broken up, and Rachel will not be ooutforted because her children are not, and David goes up the pa.laue atairs, crying, "U, Ab- salom, myt scut, would trod, I heal died fur thee. O Abnalarrnto, my 5011, my, 54)11 l" L'ttere is not a large family, or hardly a large family, that has not bent over such a treasure and loot it. In thy family fold is there no dead lamb? II have seen many such cases of sorrow. There is one pre -automat seamy memory as pastor—Scoville Baynes McCollum. The story of his death was brought unto God. He belonged to my pariah in the west. A thorough boy, 9 or 10 Year's of age. Nothing morbid, nothing dull about hint. Has voice loudest and his foot swiftest un the play -ground. Often he has come into my house alyd thrown himself down on the floor in un exhaustion of boisterous mirth and yet he wasp. Christian, consecrated tq Cod keeping His commandments. That its the kind of childish piety I believe in. When the days of aickness Dame suddenly and he was told that he could not get well, he etld: "Jesuit alone can save me. Jesu.s will save Me. He has saved me. Don't erg Mamma. I shall go right straight up to heaven." And then they gave him; a glass of water to cool his hot lips, and he said: "Mamma, I shall take a draft from the water of life after awhile, of which if one drink he shall never get thirsty again. I lay myself at Jesus' feet, and I want Him to do just what He thinks best to do with me." In those days, "Rest For the Weary" was a new hymn, and he had learned it, and in a perfect •epstasy o4 soul in his last hour he Dried outs "In the Christian's home in glary There remains a land of rest, There my Saviour's gone before me To fulfill my soul's request; - There is rest for the weary, There is rest for you. "Sings, oh, sing, ye heirs of glory, Shout your triumphs as you gel Zion's gates are open for you, You shall find an entrance through, There is rest for the weary. " There is rest for you, papa ; there is rest for you, mamma." And then put- ting his hands over his heart, he said t " Yes, there is rest for me." Arld then he asked them to read " The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. He rnalreth me to lie down in green pas- tures and leadeth me beside still waters," and he cried out: " O death, el^ re is thy sting ? 0 grave where is tfiy victory 1" Only 10 years old. And then he said: " Now I wish you would just turn this bed so 1 can look once more on the foliage and see the sun set." And they turned the bed. And he said: "I do eo wish that Jesus would hurry and come and take me." They said to him' "Why are you not willing to await the Bcrd'e time?" " Yes," he said, " am, but I would rather Jesus would come and hurry and take me." And so: with a peace indescribable, he passed away. Oh, there is nothing sad about a child's death save the grief In the parents' heart. You see the little ones go right out from a world of sin and suffering to a world of joy. How many sorrows they escape how many temp- tations, how many troubles. Children dead are safe. Those that live are hi peril. We know not what dark path they may take. The day may come inever. which they will break your heart, but children dead are safe—safe for - The brightest lights -that can be kindled Christ has kindled. Let us, old and young, rejoice that heaven is gathering up so much that is attrao- tive. In that far land we are not strangers. There are thofse there who speak our name day by day, and they wonder why so long we tarry. If I could count up the names of all those who have gone out from these families into the ktn dam of heaven, it would take me all day to mention their names. A great multitude before the throne. You loved them once, you love them now, and ever and anon you think you hear their voices calling you upward. Ab, yes they have gone out from all these families, and you want no book to tell you of the dying ex- ppeerienoe of Christian children. You have heard it. It has be,en whispered in your oar, 0 father, 0 mother, 0 brother, 0 sister. Toward that good land all Christians are bearing. This snapping of heartatrLngs, this flight of years, this tread of the heart re- minds us that we are passing away Under spring blossoms and through harv8sta and across autumnal leaves and through the wintry snowbanks we are passing on. Oh, rejoice at it, children of God, rejoioe at it I How we shall gather them up, the loved and the last 1 Before we mount our throne, before we drink of the fouuqr twin, before we strike the harp of ot1Y eternal celebration, we will cry out: " Where are our laved and lost?" And then how we shall gather them upr Oh, how we shall gather them apt In this dark world of sin and pain We only meet to part again, But when we reach the heavenly shore We there shall meet to part no more. The hope that we shall see that day, Should rhase our present griefs away When these short years of pain are past We'll meet before the throne at last. NOT A BAD IDEA, A French paper tells a story of an old beggar wcxnan whose regular stand is outside (me of the principal church- ' es in Paris. There it is her habit. to stand with a lathy enveloped in an old 'shawl and solicit. alma.( I Why, your baby's a sham, a doll, said a passer-by the other day'. Yes, sir, replied the unlashed men- dicant. Itwas so hot that I Left the real one at home. e THE BICYCLE CRAZE IN ENGLAND. The most striking feature of the Som- erset. House, Fmgland, returns of new companies registered during the first six months of 1896 is the greatrush of ryrling manufacturers to avail them- selves of the erase for this pastime among the moneyed erases. The com- panies registered connected with this industry have an aggregate capital of $70,061,371, as igoinett $1,330,000 in the first half of 1895. ,p,