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If we told you that your baby was starving, that it actually didn't get enough to eat, you might resent it. And yet there are thousands of babies who neyer get the ftthey should in their food or who are flot able to digest the fat that they do get.* Fat 18 a necessity to your baby. It is baby life and baby beauty. A few drops of r Scott's Emulsion for ail littie ones one, two and three years of age is better than cream for them. They thrive and grow on it. SGOTT & 1BOWIqL, Belleville. ont In Spring Time get Pure Blood by using B.B.B. No other remedy pessesses such per- fetcleansing, healing and purifyiug prprties as Burdock Blood Bitters, et eo- nly cicanses internally, but it heaý, '7hn applied externally, al soreseicers, abscesses; scrofulous sores, blotches, eruptions, etc., Ieaving the skia dlean and pure as a babe's. Taken internally it removes ail morbid effete or waste matter frein the system, and thoroughly regulates ail the ýorgans of the body, restoring the stomach, liver, bowels and blood to hcalthy action. FOR 1W EýTY-SEVEN Y', 1-S, THE USE OP TROUBLE THE BEAUTY OF FRIENDSHIP WHEN IT IS SORE NEEDED., The r udiitu Att.t<'hneit of lieli &iand Rôaz a Tcjjic of Iuterest te the Chugreli of 1i1 -xs-* A Serinon Fut of the Itseah Of the Fields. Rey. Dr. Talinago preacheil on Sun- day from thse text: Ruth ài, 3, "Aid as waut sud camne sud L-eaned lu the field sfter the reapers, sud ber hap -was tOJ light ou s, part of thef ield belonginig u.toBoaz, Who wnas etthe kindreil ef Eiimeiowh."1 The tine that Ruth and Nsomi arrive at Bethlehemi la arvest time. It was the curston wbe a sheaf f ail froin a8 boai lu tise harvest fieldl for the reapers te, refuise te, gather it up. That Was td lie loft for theqp~oor wbo mlght happeni te oine aleng that wsy. If thero were h"suifuls of grains scattereil across the field after the main, barveat bad beaut reaped, listeail of raking it, as farinera d» uiow, iL wiaosby tise custon et the laid ieft liisi place, se that the peut' ceming aloug that wayi might glean it snd got tiseir breail. But yen say; "Whist ila the tisa of ail thesa harvest fields to Ruth sud Naomi ? Naemi is tee, nid sud feeble toi go out and toil lu the sulu, and can you aspect that Ruth, the Yousng and the beautiful, shoulil tan her obeeksansd blister hem bauds lu the bar-' vest field VI Boas dwns a large tarm sud ho ggees celit te -»a tise reapers gather iu thse grain. Coring there right bebinil the swartlsy, su-browued reapers, he ho- hlWds a. boa titul w emsu gieaniug-a womau more fit te' boend te a barp or' sat upoa a thaxne thau te stoop among! tise shcaves. Ah, that was am evettul day, t was lova at first sight. Boas ferras an attachinent for the w omanly gleanr-an attacismeut fui et uudying interest te tise cisnrch of Godinlual ages, wiile Ruth, wben an ephah, or uearly s butsel et barley, gees home te Nacmi te tell ber the! successes sud ail- vontures ofthtie day. That Ruth who eft hber native landl efJlMoab lu darknesS aind traveleil, through anunudyiug affec- tien for hermomthem-iu-law, la in the barvest fieofet Iesz, is affianceil te eue of tise bst familles lu Judais sud ba- ceuses luaferime tise aucestress et Jeans Christ, the Lord ot Glery. Ont et so dans s niglat ililtheR'O ever dawe se brightist n mingî ous martyrs of Sootch history. It took the stormy sea, and the IJecember bîsat and the desoiste New Englaud coast and the wsrrwiaoop of savages te show forth the pruwes et the pilgrin fathers- Wheu amid the stormns they sang, And the stars beard aud the sea, And the sounding aiisies ot the dira wood, Itang to the anth.ems of the free. It took ail our past national dis- tresses, snd it takes ail our present nationalI sorrows to lit up oui' nation on that higli career where it will ruarob long after the foreign aristo- cracies that have mocked snd tyrannies thst bave jeered shali ho swept dowxü under the omnipotent wrath ef God, who hates desnotisin, and who, by the the strength of His ewu stroug rîght arm, wiil make ail men free, sud ire the church, an.d lu the world, that through darkuess aud storm and trou- ble, men women, churches, nations; are developed. Again, IL see lu my text the besuty ef unfsltering friendship. 1 suppose there wvere plenty of friends for Nsomi while she was in prosperity, but of al ber acqusintauces how msny wer wlll- ing te trudge off with her toward Ju- dsh -wheu lise had te malte that ionely journeyi One, the hemroine of my text. One, absoiuteiy eue. I suppose wrhen Naomi's busband was living, aid they hnd pienty ot mongy, and ail thingg went well, they had a great many callera, but 1 suppose thst attex lier husband died, anddlber property went, and sbe got oid snd poor, she wss not troubled very much with caliers. Al the birds that sung in the bower svhen the sunaboie have goue te their nests,i no- the night ha lien. Oh, these besutiful suufio"vers that spread ont their coier in the morning heur. But they aie alsvsys ssleep wheu the sun is goiag down! Job had plnyof friands whoi eh was the rhetman in Uz, but wisau his pro- perty wieunt sud tihe triai came, then thiene were noue so mur-h that pestored as Eflpbsz the Temanite and Bildad the Shubite sund Zophax the Naamath- ite. dLifa otten seenis te ho a more gume, wheire the suspoeffltul playar' pulls dowu ail the other men luto bis owu iaP. JLet suspicion arise about a man's character and ho becomes lika a bank in a psuip, and ail the imputations rush on hlma and break down lu. a daY that character which in due tiniewouhd bave hsd strength to defoud itseif, There are reputations that hlave been hai£ a century la building whieh go down under oeapush, as % vast temn- ple is conalumed by thse toueh of a &ulphurous mnatch. A hog eanuuproot a century plalnt. Iu tiins world Bo full et heartiessls sud ýhypocrisy, lie wthriliiiig it is to fiud sanma friands as fuithfii]. in days et adversity us Ln days of prosporityl David bail such a frieand inu Hushai; the Jtews bail snob a friand Lu Mordeca4 who nover torget tlieir cause; PauI bad such a frienil in Oniesiphooe-us, who vis- ited himin jail; Christ h- u-' lu te et music, ealling them harp andl ergan, but they were the introduction Of al the worid's miustrels-y, and as you heur the vibration Ot a stringed instruinent evon atter the fingeîs have beeu tak- on away f rom it, se all music new of- lie andi druin and cornet 18 ouly the long continueil strains of Jubal's harp sud Jubal's oLgau. It seemeil to be a matter et very littia importance that Tubai Cain learned thse uses t coppar and ion, but that rude teunidry et an- cient days bas its echo lu the rattlo ef Birmingham machinery andl the rear and bang et factories on tihe Marri- mac. Again, I se in my subject au illu- stration efthtie beauty of fensala in- dustry. Bebold Ruth toiling in the harvest field undar thse bot sun, or at noon taking plnin bread with the rapers or eatiug the parched con, wbîch Boaz handeil te ber. The customns ef soiety, Of course, have ebangeil, sud wtheut thse hurdsbipsansd exposure te whicb Rtuth was auhjected every intelligent wenian will finil aonrthiug te do. 1l know theXea la s ickiy sentimental- ity On this subject, In some familles thora are persens ef no reai service to thse heuaebeld «îr to the cemmunity, sud altheugb thaere are se many woe ail around about them. in tisa world, thoy speuil thai time lnnguishiug over a .flw pattern, or bursting into tears at midniguit ovar tis tory of some lov- er Who shet hinseif. They weuld not deigu te 4ook at Ruths carrying back the barley on the way home te bier nsther-in-law, Naorai. kâl this tastidi- business inay seem te do very weli wbiie they re under the shalter of thoir tfa- ther's bhouse, but wbeu the sharp Win- ter ot mistortune cames, what of these buttertiies? Persens under indulgent parentago inay geL upon theinseives ha- bits of indolence, but wheu thoy corne onUt ie pxactical lite their seul wiii receil with disgust sud chagrin. T bey Se seves'ely satirizeil when hoe said: Folks are se arvkward, thiugs se impe- lite, They're eiegantly pained ftrom moru- ing until uL-ht., Tbxeuigh tia gate or indolence how inaY mon and xromeu bave marched. u.eless ou earth, te s destreyed aterni- tY. Spinola said to Sir Horace Vere: "0f wbat did yeur brother die?" "0f having nothiug te do," was thse answer. Ï0Ah 1" said. Spinola, "that's eucugh to kili sny genoral ot us." 'Oh, eau iL ho Possible lu this world, wisere thero 15 80o munis auffering to be. aileviateil, se much dsrkuoss tebe enligisteneil sud se mauy burdens, te bu cai'ried, that there la any poison who cannuot tind auything te do t Once more 1 learu, fren my suhject the value of gleauing. SRuth geiug f ute thst isarvest fieldl might have said: "There la a straws, sud there las straw, but. what is a straw? I ca't get suy bably for 1UY- solf or my motbur-ju-law out et those separate stras-. Not se saLd boanti- fui Ruth. Sheàj gabisereil two straws snd se put themr together, sud more straws Until shxe gel eeougb te make s sheaf. PuttIng that dcxvise went *The. Same o *0Ok. Sarsaparilla, * Thatàs Aver's. The saine eld snra raî5 ris 'f nthpla as .itwa', Irnt * UTere mfodemn appliances lend sspeed to skillQ ansepeince. But the sarsaparilla iste saine oid Q sasapalilathat made the recor-50 years of cures.Q 'tVy dn'twe better it? We1l, we 're inuch iu the conidition of the Bishop and the raspberry: "Doubt- 0'Is, h ad "God might have made a better berry SBut doubtless, aiso He never did." Why -don't we __ better the sarsaparila? We can't. We are using the @~ same Old Plant that cured the Indians and the Spaniards. It bas not been bettered. -And since w 'm iake sarsaparilla compound out of sarsaparilla plant, we see ne way of imprevement. 0f course, if we wereÇ~ 'ii'naking some secret che'micai compound, we might... ~ But we're net. We're making the saine eld sarsaparilia @te cure the saine old discases. Yeu can teli it's the\i Sarne old sarsaparPilla because it works the same@ as na r po The undersigned desire to thank the farmers of West Durharn for the liberal patronage extended te us during the past season, also te rernind theni that we are stil in the market and prepared te psy th e HIHEST MARKET PRICE. IFORT ALI KINDS 0F delivere.d at our storehouse cor. King and George streetss., or at Por Darlington. We have aise on hand a large stock, ofOCanadian and Liverpool Coarse Salt in Bags. Rock Sait foc' eattle and horses, and Fresh Grotind Grey Plaster in Barrelfi which we are prepared to seli Ail kîuds of Lumber, Wood and DRY CLEÂN SCREENED OGÂL always in stock. --c-t-- -~ w' -j ½Lil Z¾~ f~+ ~ ~-h-~-r i,',-h4,~ i-,~ -