VOL. 13. ATWOOD, ONT., FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1902. Well Bought Is Half Sold! E buy direct from the best wholesale houses in the vel Dominion, from people who are absolutely up- to-date in every particular,and who would rather be out of business than be anywhere but at the head of the list. Buying from such conéerns, we cannot help but be on an equal footing with the best dry goods houses in Canada. e are not iu business for the good of our health, nor do we advertise for the sake of monopolizing the space in the paper. No! weare inthe business to make money for our customers and ourselves. Wecon- stantly endeavor to inform and keep you in 'touch with our business by our weekly announcement, so you are in in a position to take advantage of our specia! sale days. We want and expect you to read our advertisements. If ou see an article you.can make use of, make it your usiness to come in and ask for it ; we will be only too glad to show you the goods. <te-- We Want Your Trade ----_*> and spare no effort in getting it. If you are not yet ac- quainted with us or our staff, come in and introduce your- self ; we will treat you like an old friend. Everybody used alike here ; positively no partialty shown. First come, firstserved. We pay cashfor butter and eggs, and refund money if an article is not as we recommend it. Specials for Saturday and Monday, April 19 and 21: 86 Silkeline Cashions,fancy top.20 inches square, worth $1.00 each,sale price 50c. 2 dozen patent leather Belts for Ladies, regular 25c., sale price 1 24 Men's black and brown Christy Hats, " $2.50, " 24 Men's black, brown and light grey Hats," $2.50, One lot wide brim black and brown Hats, " 65c., 2 dozen Ladies'black and white Sailor Hats, " 65 and 75c., " All black and colored Dress Goods, regular $4.25, sale price 12 pairs Pant, regular 31.59, sale price : * 2 " rocery" Dep artmen Raisins, per lb, 5e. Prunes, 3 Ibs. for 25c. Soap, 8 bars for Sc. Highest Price Paid for All Farm Produce. kualter Bros., Figs, per Ib,, bc. Sign of The Elrhant, LISTOWET. Boots & shoes' at Manufacturers' Prices ! Pb bbb tt ; The Boot & Shoe Stock, which we bought of Mr. Zinn om a at 30 per cent. discount, must be sold during the next 40 days. The price we paid for the stock enables us to sell at manufacturers' prices, which means a big saving, 25 to 40 per cent., on every pair purchased from us, not only onafew lines, but on every pair in our shop. Many lines we have bought new within the last 30 days ; these we sell at cut prices with the rest. Your time is now, when the stock is complete. When in Listowel, call and see what we have, and price them. If you do this you will buy, for the goods and prices speak for themselves. Our stand is on Wallace Street, two doors from Seott & Son's Bank. ' J. K. BRICKER, ExXecatses 2? We have a large stock of Men's Felt Hats, for Spring and Summer wear. Listowel. | HATS ! HATS ! HATS ! Latest styles justin; all English goods. Prices from 75e. to $3.00. eo =e es a my -- Our Prints-are attractive in design and price. See them befors purchasing. Guaranteed Tested Seed Corn! Bought by the car lot before the rise, and will be_ sold 1 cheap. aaacien A Mangold and Garden All our new Tweeds are to hand. Come in and pick out your suit as we are sell- ing them at the rate of thrée suits per day." First In, First Made. All kinds of Shirts ; something immense ! Cap uy Overalls and Readymade Seeds. Suits just arrived. Calland Potatoes Wanted. [see them. Th ' M, Ni. HILESi! x -| Boundbrook, the youngest son . | effort. Rey. Dr, Talmage Dead. The Celebrated Preacher Died Saturday Night. SKETCH OF HIS CAREER, ASHINGTON, D.©., April 12.--hev, T. DeWitt Tals . mage, the noted Presby- terian divine, died at 9 o'clock to-night at his residence in this city, It had been evident for some days that there was no hope of his recovery, and the attending physicians so informed the family, The patient gradually grew weaker unti' life passed away-so quiet- ly that even the members of the family all of whom were watching at the bed« side, hardly knew that all was over, The immediate cause of death wa inflammation of the brain. Dr, Tal mage was in poor health when be staut- ed away from Washington for Mexico for a vacation and rest six weeks ago. He was then suffering from intluenza and serious catarrhal conditions. . The last rational words uttered by him were on the day preceding the mar- riage of his daughter, when he said "of course I know You, Maud." Since then be has been uncouscious. - At Dr. Talmage's bedside, besides his wife were these members of bis family: Frank DeWitt 'Talmage, Chicago ; Mrs, Warren G. Smith, Brooklyn ; Mrs Daniel Mangam, Brookiyn ; Mrs, Allen E. Donnan, Richmond ; ;Mrs. Clarence Wyckoff and Miss Talmage, Washing ton. Interment will be made in the family plotin Greenwood cemetery, Brook- lyn, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH. "There is but one wan in America who san draw, and hold, and thrill, every Sabbath the year round, an aud- jence of thousands, and who preaches the Gospel every week to twenty mil- lions--but one man who thinks in pic- tures and paints witha large brush in colors that barn and glow; and the nations gather around his pictures and feekan uplift and a holy thrill." This was said by a celebrated orator ten years ago of Thomas DeWitt Talmage, the farmer's boy, whose remarkable career has just ended. Yet there was nothing in his boyhood home or early surroundings from 'which an augur could be drawn of the world-wide fame he afterward attained. "Ou a little farm in the New Jersey weiage of a family of twelve cmildren, the future pulpit orator first saw the light seventy ears ago. His parents toiled hard and lived frugally, that they might give their children an education. DeWitt chose the profession of the law. After graduating with honor from the University of the City of New York. he spent.a year in special _stud- ies, But his parents never ceased to hope that be might become a preacher. Their hopes were fulfilled, and in 1853, at the age of 21, he entered the College of New Brunswick to prepare for the ministry. Asa student, he was eccentric rather than brilliant. He set the laws of pul- pit oratory at deflance, and with bold originality spoke the thing that was in him in current phraseology, and in his own way. "You must change your style," bis teacher said to him, other- wise no pulpit will be open to you." But, somehow,.the people listened to the daring young preacher, whose doc- trines, while familiar and orthodox, were explained in novel and unconven- tional language, and illustrated by fig- ures and events of the ordinary daily life. At the conclusion of his theological course he.received an invitation from a church at Belleville, N.J., to become its pastor. He accepted it and spent three years in that quiet town, He next accepted a call to Syracuse N.Y. There his powers became more widely knowg,,and invitations to more prominent pulpits poured in upon him, In 1862 a call came from the Second Reformed Church, from Philadelphia, giving bim the opportunity of reaching the people of a great city, He accept- ed it,and his yivid, dramatic address, his aneedotal afluence, and bis fresh and pertinent illustrations took the people by storm, This sudden popu- larity might bave spoiled some men, but young Talmage kept a close watch on himself. It gaye him a sense of en larged responsibility, and he became even more careful, pot only in the preparation of bis sermons, but in his general conduct, In #869, seyen years after his settle- ment in Philadelphia, Dr. Talmage re- ceived simultaneous calls to Chicago, Brooklyn and San Francisco, Their demands spurred him to still higher Hie chose brooklyn, as he be- lieved that city needed him most.y The call bore only seventeen signatures, but it was unanimous, for there were but seventeen members in the church, They had a large building, but the pews were mostly empty, and though it stood umong a teeming population, the church was exerting little influence, In March, 1869, he. preached his first ser- mon there. The transformation. that followed seemed magical, 'Every ser- vice was crowded. Within a.year, it was decided to erect a new-edilice, cap- able of seating 3,000. Dr, 'falmage's first sermon was from the text, "Com- | them to come in," butitseemed an inaptitude, for the people came in such ii HOR SPRING WEAR ! Our 1902 Spring Stock of Dress Goods is Here, and we invite our lady friends to see them before passin judg vefore has t so pretty. We have Staple Goods, Cottons Flannelettes, &c., &e. ment or buying elsewhere. Never e range been so large, or the designs also a complete stock of , , Cottonades, Shirtings, Frints for Children's ~wear! The prettiest patterns wear. Just the thing for sc Boots and Shoes. - imaginable for children's hool dresses. We keep a full line of The John McPherson Co.'s famous footwear; Phesegoods need no recommendation from us, 'They are well known 'everywhere good shoes are worn, Hats, Caps, Ties, Braces, and gents' furnishings generally, select line of including @ Men'sand Boys' Ready-to-wear Clothing. Groceries, Meats, Field and Garden Seeds, &c.. Farm Produce taken as Cash Call and See ts. The People's Store. numbers that many were compelled to stay out. Two years afterward, on a Sunday morning in December, 1872, Dr. Talmage looked from the windows of his house and saw his beloved church "putting on red wings of fire" until it swept tue heavens, a lurid mass of con- flayration, Undismayed by the destruction of their church, the congregation soon began to build a still larger structure which would seat five thousand, ' Al-| lips, I though the completed evidence was the | from lid to lid, Ww. R. Erskine. Few men in literary life retained their intelleetual vigor so long. Ever those who know him best could detec6 no diminution in the force of his eloe quence, and he had turned seventy, tlis sermons were every whit as brile liant as those he compused when in his prime. Dr. Talmage's doctrine' was of the old-fashioned orthodox type, but it felt with new attractions from his eloquent He believed in a Bible "inspired and many times dure ] largest church-building of its denomi-| 10g his career he came to the front as ® nation in America, it was not large enough to hold the crowds who came to hear the now famous preacher. For fully fifteen years the church bad unin- terrupted prosperity, which was rudely broken on October 18. 188¥, by the com- plete destruction of the second 'Taber- nacie by tire,. A third Tabernacle "was built, still larger than its predecessors, It was finished in 1891, and its, dedica- tion was a great public ocersicn, Large delegations, drawn from every section of the Union, came, bringing cougrat- ulations. 'Three years Javer, when a series of meetings were held to cele- brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of his pastorate in Brooklyn, the State, the city and the ciergy of the neighbor- hvod united in recognition of the em- inence Dr. Talmage had achieved. He was overwhelmed with yerbal~ congra- tulations and good wishes, and tele- grams, letters and cable despatches came from illustrious persons here and beyond the seas, It was, however, the closing scene, in his long succession of -| Brooklyn triumphs, for on the follow- ing Sunday, May 18, 1894,a fire broke outin the church at the close of the morning service, and the fine building in a few hours became a pile of smok-+ ing ruins. Saddened by the destruction of his third and most beautiful 'labernacle, Dr, Talmage for a time ceased active pastoral work, and went abroud, on a tour of the globe. He preached to large audiences in Australia, New Zsa- land, ludia and Great Britain, and on bis return published an account of his journeyings. He now deyoted bimself almost exclusively to his editorial duties on The Christian Herald, Louis Klopsch, the proprietor of that journal, had been his intimate friend and business associate fur many years, Ile had syndicated Dr. Talmage's ser- mons since 1883, furnishing them regu- larly every week to over 3,000 news- papers. It is estimated that the total number of weekly readers reached by the syndicate and through other chan- nels was not less than twenty millions, an audience far more vast than has ever been addressed by any other writer or preacher in the world, ane- ient or modern. During the next two years, he varied his literary work by frequent preaching and lecbure tours, and au occasional visit abroad, He had a big, warm heart and generous impulses, and he wus interested in various philanthropic movements, some of them of wide scope. His lovs of such work was fos- tered by his experience, iu 1892 when be visited Rassia with Dr, Klopsech on a "mission of bread," first sendiuy on ahead the steamship Leo, laden with 50,000 sacks of flour, the gift of gener- ous Americans to the starving Russian peasants. While in St. Petersburg, the Americans were summoued to Peter- hof, the imperial summer residence, where they were presented to the Czar Alexander, the Empress, Czarevitch Nicolas (the preseut Emperor) and other royalties, : In 1895 Dr. Talmage accepted for 2 time a pastoral call from the First Presbyterian chureh io Washington, which is known as "The Church of the Presidents," many incumbents of the White House baviung worshipped there in former years. mong his parish- oners were President Cleveland, many Cabinet.members and other high offic- alps oe jie, : om & defender of the integrity of the Book of Books. He repudiated the "higher criticism," as a menace to the old ree ligion, and denounced as impious tha doubts concerning miracles and in- spiration. His religion was the ald satistying "corn and wine" of the Gos- pel, which the multitudes appreciated, He was always in his best vein when facing a miscellaneous assemblage iu the great cities. He has freqa spoken before 10,000 persons | great audiences at the Music,New York, in the Chicago Audi- torium, and in London, Liverpool and Glasgow, haye rarely been equalled ia point of numbers, Such gatherings never failed to comprehend his homely doctrines. He used to say that he had long sine "lived down" the frilis and hon-essentials of religion. "At twenty," he would explain, "I believed several hundred things; at fifty, I believed about a score, but now, with clearer vision, as I grow older and come nearer the close of the journey, I hold only te three things as vital--that God our ather loves us far better than we know ; that Jesus Christ, His Son, is our Redeemer -- Saviour, and that L amasinner, enriched b i i though all unworthy." Sow Speaking of the secret of his own power, Dr. Talmage once said :--'£ take tue subjects that are interesting people around most every day, and pare ticularly at the moment. L jot dows my notes in a little book, and always try and getdown the precise point wish to make. Then I take all avail- Able sources of information 'on that point, and sift them thoreughly, ayoid= ing beaten tracks. I suppose 1 preached more sermons than any living on texts that are overlooked other preachers, Academy of I never bad me than three lessons in elucution. | rec? , me. si nil au early experience that hei) As an editorial writer, Dr, Talmna | Was versatile and prolific, and his wes | ly contributions on an immerse ¥ | of topics would Hil many volumes, writing was as entertaining sud gent as nis preaching, and full « liant eeccentricities--"Talmagist Sey were called. He cotned rds, and invented new phra the topie was to his king, raced to keep time with the twas the same with «i Once concetyed in the busy br committing to paper was swilt : citing. Stull, with ail this foes: ing could exceed the serupu}ois he took with the finished In person, Dr, "fatmage wi j the medium height and well jtioned. fiis head was of ey with marked evidence ot wer. His eyes were Hela complexion fresh and indicative o ; bust health. His face shone w lability aud cheerfiubkiess, | j tien was animated, } jand cordial in the extreme, {-re- liauce, calmness aud judyment were fapparent, wkd his' bearing indicated dignity and self-possession : ye he was nowise ostentetious or affected, and (Concluded on Page 8) | } f } : \ + the wear po 3 CUUVeTSA- HS Manner ce * Sell