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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1888-03-09, Page 2gf. 1‘18.0. 411, jInlOnfifmn tke expert:men or very :0, arth Trembled. "I am iadmo figroo with you,* he ehewered, very ,quuttly. few Pomenta later he r,040 to take bift leave. She gave him her hand wiohout rising, and WW1, "Good night, rat not going to leave this Ilovely scene till I ani sleepy. Come again wheu you want companion- ship. Drop conventionality. I would like a friend who would talk to me as men of brains talk to men of brains, without circumlocution." "Very well then, I shall begin at once. You have a head that ought to inspire an artist, but I like its furniture. I am going to read up on our point of disagreement. If I actually prove you are wrong you must yield like a man," "I will." The smile on her lips still linger- ed as she looked out upon the moon- lit waters, and she passed into a de- licious reverie. At last she mur- mured, "Yes, he has a chance. I don't know how it will end. I may yield to his argument, but as to yielding to him that is another af- fair. The best part of it all is that he is so slow in yielding to me. Here, in this out-of-the-way corner of the world, is a cup that I can at least drain slowly." Clancy sauntered up Meeting street, his thoughts preoccapied with the interview. Then half a block in advance two persons entered the thoroughfare, and. he recognized Captain Bodine and Mara. He crossed the street so as not to meet thetn, and they passed in low, ear- nest conversation. If Miss Ainsley had been in the farthest star he would not have cared. Every drop of his Southern blood was fired, and, with clenched hands, he strode homeward and passed a sleepless night. AY E. 'P. ROI.' Author of "11e Fell in Love with hie Wife," " 0.peuing a Chestuut Burr." eto. • COWINDED. D.ing Clancy's visit to New York in the winter, Mr Ainsley had spoken of him to his daughter in termsthat inter ested her before she even saw the young men, and the moment the experienced woman of the world (for she was.it woman of the World, though but little past her majority) looked upon him she was was still more interested, recogniz- ing at a glance the truth that what- ever Clancy teight, be, he was not comraonplace. This explains why he was perplexed by the intentness and soft fire of her eyes. If, the way opened, she was inclined to give him "a chance." It might cast him dear, as it had others, but that was his affair. She felt that he was highly honored and distinguished in being given what she contempt- uously denied to the great naajority. The way had opened. She was in Charleston, and now, this particular and lovely June evening found her on a balcony overlooking the shin- ing ripples of the bay, reclining in A cane chair, with her head leaning against a -pillar and her eyes fixed on him with all the dangerous fasci- nation they possessed. Some soft, white flowing material draped her form, that was rendered more grace- ful than usual by her well chosen attitude. 'A spray from an ivy vine hung above her, and its slightly moving shadow flickered on her throat and bosom. She knew she was entrancingly beautiful; - so did he. He felt that if he were an art - CHAPTER XIX. ist nothing was left to be desired. As a roan he was flattered with her GENTILITY TESTED. preference and charmed with her It must bo admitted that Clancy beauty. He did not and could not had some cause for his perturbation. believe that he had more than a Captain Bodine was a middle-aged passing interest in her mind as yet, man, who had had deep, if not wide and he telt that she would never be experiences. He had come to re - Wore to him then a gifted, lovely gard himself as saddened and way - friend, who could at one and the worn, halting slowly down the west - same rime gratify his taste and be- ward slope of life, away from the stow fine intellectual companionship. exaltations of vanished joys and the They talked freely, with lapses of almost despairing grief of former silence between them. These she sorrows. would occasionally break with little Memory kept both in sharp out snatches of song from some opera. line; nevertheless the, were reced- Her familiarity with life abroad en- ing, as do hills and mountains which abled her to say much which sup- the traveller leaves behind him. 'demented his reading, and which The veteran had believed that he interested him. So he was not bad no future besides earning an, averse to these interviews and was honest living, and providing for his conscious of no danger. .beloved child. To her they had an increasing The traveller -to employ again 'pleasure. She was delighted that the figure -often journeys forward Clancy thawed so deliberately, that in what promises to be a monoto- instead of speedily verging towards nous road. ,He is not expecting sentiment he found more pleasure anything, ner is he looking forward in her intellectuality than in her to any material change. Unawares oatward beauty. 8o many others be surmounts tr little eminence, and to whom she.slia had given a chance there opens a vista which kindles had quickly lost both their heads his dull eyes with its beauty, and *, and their hearts, and she was be- stirs his heavy heart with the sug- ginnine to rejoice in the belief that gestion that he has not passed by it might require a summer's tactics and beyond all the best things of life. to beguile him of either. His gray Mara's glance of profound and in - eyes, which appeared dark in the telli-rent sympathy had opened such moonlight, were regarding her with a vCste, to Bodine's - mental vision. quiet admiration, but instead of It had been enough then; it had paying a compliment , he would been enough since, in the main, that broach some topic interesting in it- she was the daughter of his old and self, that before she knew it she was clearest friend, and that their talking well and even brilliantly. thoughts, beliefs, and sorrows were This present evening he did pay in such complete accord. Mara had her a compliment, however, which become his daughter's closest friend delighted her. She had stated her as well as co -laborer, and so he heard view of a subject, and ho had replied, of her daily, and saw her very often. "1 must difilr with you most de- All that he saw and heard Confirmed cidedly, aliss Ainsley." Then be and deepened his first impressions. added, with a little apologetic laugh, A cornpanionship,wonderfully sweet "1 could have made such a remark and cheering, was growing between to very few ladies: I would have them- He had not yet begunto said, '1 beg your pardon, do not analyze this, or to recognize whither think I am contradicting you, but it was tending, while not a shadow possibly on further reilection---' of suspicion erossed her Mind: She In brief, I would have gone through only felt that she hacl found a friend the whole conventional circumlocu. who diverted her thoughts, solaced tion. You are a woman of mind; all her troutle, and made the past, anci you put your views so strongly to which she believed she belonged, and clearly that I forgot everything more .roil, more full of precious except your thought. Good reason memories. The days in the main why, your thought is so interesting, were passing quietly and evenly for all the more so because it is your both,' full of work and deeply -in te- view, not mine, and because I do resting thoughts and the delightful not agree with you. Have made reunions around' the chair of' the sufficient apology ?" genial invalid, Mrs Bodine, increas- " Yolt have done much more, Mr ed in number. Clancy, you have paid me the only The old lady talked and acted as kind of a compliment that I enjoy. if she had emerged into the warmest .1 am sick of conventionalities, and sunshine of prosperity, and only Ella as for ordinary crilatpliments, I am could aurpasa her in blitheness of as satiated as one would be if the spirit and comical speeches. They entire contents of Ifuyler's candy- cat•icatured each othe”, every one, shop had been sent to Mw." • every thing, yet without a particle "Oh, I knew that much before I of malice. -Even poor old Mrs Hun - had seen yen five minutes. The ter sometimes had to relax her grim only question in my mind was idle- rigidity, and Bodine often laughed ther you had not been madeill, with the hearty ring of his old cam - mentally by them as one ""'0111(.1 paigning days. At times Mara was physically by the candy." beguiled into the belief that she was "In other weeds,. whether I was happy, and that her deep wound was O fool or not." healing. The illusion would last "Precisely." for days together I then something " Well ?" unexpected would occur, and the "No need of that rising inflection. love of her heart would reveal itself If you were a fool I would not be .here." in bitter outcry against its wrong. If she could only see Clancy in some "1 reckon not, as you say in the light which her veritable God -be - South." • stowed conscience could condemn, "Yet Yon value your bcauth she believed that her struggle would Miss Ainsley." be much easier; but he always con- " Indeed I do, very highly." fronted her with his earnest, steady "And you know equally well that eyes, which said, "I have RS true a I admire it greatly, but I value your tight to think as I do, as you have power of companionship more. Why to think differently. Not even for shohld not a man and woman enter- pan sake will I be false." Thus, tain each other without compli- after days of comparative peace, the ments, conventionalities and senti- tempest Would i'age again in her mentalities." soul. "NO reason in the world, if they Buoyant, happy Ella felt now AS are capable of such companionsbip. if she could trip oh' through life in - The ticetilale with so many is that finitely • but (me summer morning they tumble into these things, ; she tripped into a little adventurej pecially .the last, as if they wcro at !rich brought unwonted expres- blind dacha in their path." sions of porplexity into her fair face. ca "That is excellent. Do you taa 1Sb° was returning along the shady ' is gard love as a blind ditch r street from her duties, "Tho deepest and worst of them I side of the I re her Nee like a hlush-rose from the ; sp heat, when ,she observed oommg to- wards her a. young.Man who, (row his garb and beam% -caught her eyets. Pretty Eno knew she at - tree** groat deal of attention; froin the opposite sex when she appeared in the street* and she woo not Boob a demure little saint aa to let a fine, wanly figure pass wituout her obser- vation,but her observance wee quick, furtive, like the motion of a bird's eye, that looks you over before you are aware of the bird's presence. No staring fellow ever niet her blue eyes in the street. On the present occasion the little maiden said to herself, "There's a style of a man I haven't seen, and he's evidently a Northener, too. Well, he's not bad: indeed, he is the best -looking Van- dal, as Mrs Hunter would say - Oh, merciful Heaven 1 that old tV0- mart will be run over." Her commentary had been inter- rupted by an express waggon driven recklessly araund the corner. Pick- ing her way slowly across the street was a plain, respectable -looking old woman, with a basket of parcels on her arm, and, at the moment of El - la's ory, she was almost under the herso's feet, paralyzed with terror. Hey cry caught the young man's at- tention. With a single bound he was in the street, his right hand and arm forcing the horse back on his haunches, while with his left he gathered up the old woman. Then, by a powerful effort, he threw the horse's head and fore -quarters away frome. him with such force that the shafts cracked. Bearing the woman to the sidewalk, he placed her upon. her feet, then went, back, picked up her parcels and placed them in her basket. Without waiting to hear her thanks, he lifted his hat and was turning away, P5 if all had been a trifle, when he was confront- ed by the enraged expressman pour- ing ferth volleys of vituperation. With a chivalric impulse the girl drew nearer the stranger, who look- ed the bully steadily in the eyes while he kept his hands in his pock- ets. The man made a gesture as if to strike. Instantly the young fel- low's left arm was up in the rnost scientific attitude of self-defence! " Don't do that, you fool," he said. "Are you too drunk not to see that I am strong ? Clear out, or I'll have you arrested. If you touch me, I'll knock you under the feet of your horse." There was something in the all• lete's bearing, and the way he put up his left arm, which brought the expressman to his senses, and he drew off swearing about the blanked "Northerners, who acted as if they owned the city." George Houghton --for we tuay as well give his name at once -re- garded the fellow contemptuously an instant, and again turned to pur- sue his way, regardless of the gath- ering crowd. But his attention was arrested by a pair of blue eyes which were so eloquent with admira- tion and approval, that he smiled amain and lifted his bat. "You are a gentleman," Ella breathed softly, the words coming with scarcely Any volition on her part. A frown instantly darkened Houghton's face, and, with a slight, stiff' acknowledgment, be strode away. "Whte'the deuce, shouldn't I be a gentleman 1" he muttoted. "The very young girls of this town are taught to look upon Northerners as brain. One has only to save an old woman from being rue over, face a blackguard, and the wondering expression is wrung, from one of the blue-blooded scions, You're agen- tleman !' And she was blue-blood- ed. A fellow with half an eye and in half a minute could see that. And I suppose that she thought that one of mylilk was on more capable of such a deed than Tools or Uriali Heep. Bah !" . Having thus relieved his mind, young Houghton's step seen grew slower .and slower. It was evident that 'a new and different train of thought bad begun in his mind. At last, with characteristic fore, he communedwith. himself :- " Thin-skinned fool ! why didn't I look at the girl, instead of think- ing of my blasted self and pride'? Why, that girl's face will haunt me for many a day, whether I ever ,see her 'again ora not. I'm as bad as these Bourbons themselves in my prejudice. Now. I think of it she stood almost alone at my side v'hen others were keeping at a safe!: clis. distance, fearing a fight. Her look was one of simple, ingenuous ap- proval, -almost expresRion of a child, and I acted like a brute. That a the Old Harry with me, I act first and think afterwards." A few minutes later he was at tlui office, and Writing rapidly at his fa- ther's dictation. After a time Mr Houghton said, "Take 'these two letters to Bodine's desk, and tell hie] to make copies. Then you can go, George. Your vacation is too, new for me to take so moll of your time." "Seo here, father," replied the young man, putting his hand on the old gentleman's shoulder, "you've been here all these years working like thunder to make money, and I ve been spending it like thunder. If you're going to keep on working, I'm going toavork with you; if you will knock off, and t -P3 on a lark with me, I'll guarantee that you'll be ton ear's younger before fall." The old man's face softened won- derfully. Indeed, one could scarcely imagine it was capable of Birch an expression. "Ali, George 1 yen don't, you n't know," Le said, "yet my heart not so 'dead but that I feel and cog,nize the spirit in which you eak. My place is hero, tight here, awl 1 84014 not be content anywhere else. 1340.7Oo are ..1 &QM /QUM itudi.ej. Tal4 dit sloth° faculty by your perfortpanOttaa Perhaps they would say you were a little too flinch given to boating and thot sort of thing. But ana Sage- fied thot you have come a MA; and. not a 1;lue- spectacled milk -sop. Help me out a little, arid then go off on your ltuk yourself and recuperate." " Recupereter and the young fel- • low made the office ring with his laugh. "feel of that muscle, old gentleman. All the recuperation I need I can get a few hours before and after sundown. I'll go now, however, for there's a spanking breeze on the bay, and I'd like to make a run around Fort Sumter." "George, Geo••ge, be prudent. You know that your brother lies at the bottom of that accursed bay." "There, father, there, he died doing his duty as a man, and you mustn't grieve for him so. Good- bye." The old man looked wistfully af- ter him a moment, then turned his mind, like a strong motor power, to the complicated machinery that was coining wealth. George went to Bodine, wire= he had never seen before, and of whom be knew nothing, And began in his half -boyish way, "Here, mine an- cient, father wants- Beg your pardon. Didn't know that you had lost a leg." "What is it that Mr Houghton wishes ?" said the captain coldly,and turning upon the young man a vis- age which impressed him instantly. "1 beg your pardon again," sai George. "My father would lik copies made of these lectors ." an he touched his hat as he turned away. "Thunder !" he muttered as he loft the counting -house. "1 was told that I was a gentleman for a little trumpery net in the street. That man tells you he is one by a single glance from his sad, stern eyes. He is another of the bluelaloods, Southener to the bockhone. How is it that ho the old gentleman's employ, I wonder 1 I supposed fa- ther hated ex -Confederates, as the Devil does holy water. Bodine, Bodine. I must find out who he is, for he evidently has a history." He soon forgot all about Bodine in the pleasure of skillfully sailing hie boat close to the wind. Ella had parsued her, way home. ward with a bowed head and a sense of shame and resentment. " Sup- pose I did speak to him, a stranger,', she murmured, "was he so dull, or so cold and utterly conventional as to make no allowance for the cir- cumstances I No matter, I've had a lesson that I shall never forget. Hereafter, he and his kind may save all the old women in Charleston, and fight all the bullies, and I won't even look at them. If he, had had the brains and blood of it frog even, he would have understood me. And he did seem to understand me at first, for he smiled pleasantly and lifted his hat. Does he consider it an insult to be told he is a gentle- man I Perhaps lie thought this fact too apparent to be mentioned, or else lie thought it bold and um-mid- enly to open my lips at all. A plague on him for not being able to see the simple truth. No Southen- er would have been so stupid, or ready to think evil. Thus she communed with herself till she reached her own room. Af- ter it little . thought she decided not to speak of the adventure. She had an unusual share of common sense, and knew that the affair would only give pain to her father and cousin, and that its relation would serve no earthly good to any one. CHAPTER XX. TH E S'rfi AN'G EXPLAINS. • N. ed tOo devoted, to me, but we have livecl 14 et such a precarieus life of late -indeed 4- it has been the vital lunation bow we were to hve at all. We overflow very differently situated: Yes, you are right. MIA should see some. thing of society, and enjoy eome of its pleasuree, and, as you say, should have her chance." At these final words he sighed deeply. . TORE CONTINIIED. When Baby was sick, we me her Castorla, When *helves* Child, eke cried for Cardona, When aho became Mien, ahe dung to Ceded*, When sho had Children, ahe gave them Canaria .C.,57.S.1.•••• BUSINESS CHANGE. CARD OF THANKS. 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There. a..e those who touch our life closely, and become essentially a part cf it; there are many who are but casual and passing acquaintanc- es, and yet these vary people become the most' important factors in our destiny. Ella I3odine was soon t� prove this truth. It will of course be understood that her life was not so secluded and restricted that she practically bad no acquaintances be- yond the pharactets of our story. Sensible Mire Bodine had no inten- tion that 'her pretty cousin should be hidden behind the prejudices so powerful in those with whom she was immediately associated. " Cousin Hugh," she said, one day soon after Ella's encounter with Houghton, "how was it with you when you were a young fellow 1 how was it with me when I was a girl? Do you suppose, y our-- daughter in made of different flesh and blood / She is so unselfish in nature and sunny in temperament that you will never learn from her that she has longings for society of her own age. We have no right to keep her among our shadows. We belong to the past ; she . has a future, and should have the chance which is the right of every young girl. You must not judge her by Mara, who stands by herself, and is not a re- presentative of any ordinary type. She is as old as you are, and a great deal older than I ar». She hat grown up among shadows and loves them. Ella loves the sunshine, and should have all of it that wo can give her. Now yon must let her go oul; more. • I will choose. her chaperons, and E reckon I know whom to choose. If I do say it, would liko you to mention any one in Charleston more competent. know about the fat hots end mothers, the grand‘athers and grandmothers, aral the remote anceaters of every ore in Charleston who is any ono." " Cousin Sophy, 1 believe you are right. T have perrnitted E O A. J. HOLLOWAY, STORE OPPOSITE POST OFFICE, CLINTON. INVENTION Has revolutionized the world during the last half century. 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Sulnnie incea0.15 6.10 rhill, Tuesday and British m'il0am. ails, Monday,VVed- Friday, Y 5.30 p.m. Money Orders Issued and Depo3sitsreeeived from one dollar upwards. Oboe hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Savings Bank and Money Order Office close at OM p.m. 2.60 p.m 8 ail/ 8 a.m 1.15 p.m 10.45 a,m 5.10. p.m 10.45 6.40 p,111 8.15 4.25 5.30 THOMAS FAIR, Postmaster, Clinton, Aug. 1887, CI WUIL ETI 1P4'71ZWLI 0 Z rs:g 3<01 ati Om $50,000 to Lon at 6 per cent. Why pay others 17, 8, 9 .and 10 por cent, vv hen you can get money from us at 6 per c. First•claea loans 5i. per cent. Large loans 5 per cent. TERMS made to suit borrower, re- garding payment and period of loan. Apply to FARRAN & TIS DALT., BANKERS, CLINTON. The Molson Bank. fncorpora.ted by Act of Parliament, 1855. CAPITAL, - - $2,000,069. HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. THOMASeWORKMA61,. President. J. H. R. MOISON. Vice -Pres, F. WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, GelteraUdan:ap Notes discounted, Collections made,Drafs issued, Sterling and American ex- e6ange bought and sold at lowest current rates. Interest at 4 per cent allowed on deposits. FA. M JEC EIS . Money advanced to farmers on their OlVII 110tes with one or more endorsers. No inOrtaage re- quired as surity. H. C. BREWER, Reneger, January 18E7. Clinton Ws' Excelsior ORGAN After the severest. test at the late fair in Clinton, it was universally ad- mitted that FOR PERFECT AND EASY ACT/ON, BEAUTY OF FINISR, AND sWEET- NESS OF ToNE, the EXCELSIOR was away ahead of all others, and destined to be the popular instrument of the day. This, along with the fact that a special prize was awarded it, certainly speaks velumes for thc instrument; and partiespurchasing should see the EXCELSIOR before buying elsewhere. GEO. F. OAKES, PROPMET0R. Factory three doors west of Mulloy's Pump Shop, Rattenbury St., Clinton. J. BIDDLECOMBE. Watch & Clock Maker JEWELLER, &c., OPPOSITE THE MA RI1 ET SQUARE, 5. Union, Where he keeps a Weer assortment of. Watches, Clocks, Jewellery, Silverware, wh ;oh we will eell ni reaaonahte rates. Repait•inpof every description promptly atten tett to, omit all wnrk warranted. .7. 131DDLECOMBE. molten, Nov. 1482. 144:77#E4 PAINTER, 1101,18.41 DROOKATOR, • MINgs; Hvzso AT 120. rim RiUnk QAP811.4 I,,fErT AT a DAM' ST0/1.1i) Wondera 'exist fie thOneentiteef -Er. weal, bet Newport by tee Meritale Ittlfell1104. THOM nib° aro In needef, pre. t laiWork that figa be done while flyingatlfeeaff should at once aend their addrem te Hallett* Co., Tortlarel, Maine, one reeeive.froge ran Ise formation how either sex, ot alI ages, eon $9from $6 to 420 per diy aud. upwards whiterever they live. Yon are Extorted free. Omni! *et required. Some have made ever $60 ha a elegle day at Shia work. All succeed. • A GOOD CHANCE FOE REALESTATE INV ESTO - Those substantial Brick Stores known. as senile% Block for sale, either single or en bloc. For terms apply to W. C. SEABEE. S. WILSON, GENERAL DEALER IN TiftWARE, HURON STREET, CLINTON. Repalrng of all kinds promptly attended to at reasonable rates. A trial solicited. • BENMILLEH NUICSERY. FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREEi NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, Tile LATTBR oF Wilton WE RARE A SPECIALTY, LARGE STOCK ON HAND. The above ornamental trees and shrubbery wi be sold at very low prices, and those wautiii allYthing In this connection- will save mons - purchasing here, Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART, Benmiller. THE MERCHANTS' Protective & Collecting As sociatio -OF CANADA onto°, flaisauen, out. Etrreetiennn 1884. Is an Association of business and profession, men, having fur its object the COLLECTION OF DEBTS; And to prevent its members making bad de by furnishing them with lists of patios who net pay, Eferchaats and others having accounts to collee andwishing to become members, by remittise $7 to our Managers, Hamilton, Ont., will receive by return mall, full particulars, certificate of membership, dm. J.E.Mitts & Co., Managers, Hamilton Or to JAS.THOMPSON, Agent, Clinton NOTICE TO CREDITORS Pursuant to Section 31 of Chapter 107, Re- vised Statutes of Ontario, and Seaton 1 of Chapter 9--46 Victoria, Out., notice is hereby given teethe ereditors of CharlesMiddleton, late of the Township of Goderich, in tho County of RUM), yeoman, deceased, who died on or about the twenty-ninth day of September, A. D., 1587, to send by post, pre- paid, on or before the 16th day of Marchnext, to Elizabeth Middleton, Hayfield P. 0., mite Charles George Middleton, Clinton P. O.. or to John Middleton:Clinton 1'. 0., Executrix and Executors of thelast will and testa.- ment of the said late Charlea Middleton, their christian and surnames, addresses e,nd descriptions, the full particulars of their claims, a statement of their accounts, and the nature of the securities ( if any) held by thein, and immediately after the 15111 day of March next, the assets of the said Charke Middleton (then distributable, if any) will be distributed among the 'parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which notice shall have been furnish- ed as above required, and the executors will not bo liable for the assets so distributed, or any part thereof, to any person of whoso Claim notice shall not have been received by them at the time of such distribution. ELIZABETH MIDDLETON, JOHN MIDDLETON, CHARLES GEO. afIDDLETON, and } Executrix Executors Dated this 6th day of February, A.D., laSS. toillicsino 11,011cp Vilis After being thoroughly overhauled and re-fittod uith NEW MACHINERY of the most approved kinds, thew niills are now in splendid running order, an will not be surpassed in the quality of thework done, by any mill in the country. Special A ttention given to GR1STING CHOPPING DONE ON SHORT NOTICE. Fintisfactizin guliratiteed. Parties wanting any- thingwIlidever in Obi line will find it to their , Ifitere:d to give tvia call. 0. 111.11E11, Proprietot. 1055) lel 7:421 l find them from their homes and fainilies. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now making several hundred dollars a month, It is easy for any 1)014011m to make 8s8 per day. and upwards, who is willing to work. Either sex,yonng or old; capital not neededave start you. Everything new, No special ability required; you, readencan do 10 05 well' as pay ono. Write to us at once for full particulars, . which we mail free. Address Stinson ar Co., P ortland, Maine. HURON -AND BRUCE Loan & In vestment Co'y This Company is Loaning Money 01, Porn?, Security at Lowest Rates of Interest. 111 0 WM M1ES - - PURC Fl A S E]: SAVINGS BANK BRANCJI. 3, 4 and ,5 iwr (lent, Interest A (lowed on DepOsits,accortlinp to amount and time left. OFFICE: -Collier of Market Square anti North 5 HORACE HORTON, DIANAoRs. Goderich, /limiest fith Use Fire Ineurande. All I, Inds of property insured at lowest tariff rateS,' First-class cm»panies, riliCKETS VIA N. W, T. CO. LINE BOATS J. TO WINNIPEG AND ALL LAKE POINTS, ALSO by all rall lines over the GRAND TRIJNK and CANADA PACIFIC to any point Oil that line, Winnipeg, Brandon, &co Dakota, Kansas, or eny meat reached by rail, local or foreign. Come and 800 foo before you buy tickets any - Where. J. THOMPSON, Clinton. ()UT .1•,1 N Planing Mill • DRirLILN filuz SUBSCRIBER HAYING JUST Com PLATED and furnished hia new -Planing abi ith machinery of the latest Improved patterik k now prepared to attend to All orders tifi I i ne In the most prompt and satisfactory manner and at reasonable rates. /le would also return thanes to all a ho patronizedtte old firm before they were burned out, end tirM !mina Inn het • ter pommel, to execute ordets expedttIonety feoN confident he Call giv satisfaction to all. FACTOR 1"-1\oar the Grand Trunk Raihray, Clinton THOM t11( KENZIE