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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1889-08-23, Page 2FRIDAY, AUG. 23, 1889. Could Aught Atone ? BY THE AUTUUtt OF "MAGDALEN'S LEGACY," ETC, CONTINUED. Try as she would, elle could not resist the impulse which urged her to speak a little more kindly to him --perhaps it might be for the last ti time. "1 cannot understand that," site Said—aud he noticed with eager gladness that face and voice alike softened. "I have always thought that love sought to ennoble and ex- alt its object; you (would drag me down to such a, depth of unworthi- ness that every good woman would shun me, and in yea to coma my own child would sh' iii --.with horror from the bare mention of my name. To know that ycu have entertained such thoughts respecting me lowers me in my own esteem; to listen to your words 1 at been in itself a de gradation." She uttered the concluding words rapidly; she raised her head even more proudly than before. His eyes fell under the passicnate, re- proachful scorn that he read in hers. "I sincerely trust that you and I may never nieot again," she con: tinned. "If you make any attempt to fene'w-this conversation, Philip Rainsforth shall give you answer. I think you will find that my hus- band knows how to guard his honor." Not another word, not another look did she deign to bestow upon him: Like a grand insulted queen she moved away from before him. "I%Irs Rainsforth! Wynne!" If she heard she gave no signs of hearing; but she, quickened her pace. "yrs Rainsforth, say teat yeti forgive us('!" But the head, haughtily erect, turned neither to the right, nor to the left; the fleet footsteps showed no signs of wavering or halting. Ar- ley Gough, with an ejaculation which was half a muttered curse, half a groan, sank upon a seat and. watched her receding figure—wateb- ed her with a l+itter•sense of defeet and humiliation and shame. "What a blind, besotted fool she must hays thought mel" he reflect- ed. "And this is the end of the battle I fought this afternoon, and in which I bad so confidently ex- pected to conquer! She said rightly, I must be mad. And this is the end of my golden, drearily, Elysian summer:" He watched her—the mad, un- holy love surging within him. lie had permitted it to buret through. all restraint, and not at once could it be ht ought into subjection; he had become the willing slave of his own passions, and not at once would lee be able to regain the mastery. He watched her. He saw her join. Vashti, and,'taking the child's Land in her own, walk on as swiftly' as betore—so swiftly that the tiny feet could scarcely keep pace with those of the mother. Ile watched until the last: vestige of them had faded in the distance•—the last flutter of their garllients was no longer dis- cernible --until they were lost to his sight, -"I shall never see her again," he told himself. "I will start for Af- rica,or one of the South Sea Islands, or on an exploring expedition to Egypt, or to Fiji, or on some other equally desirable mission,to-morrow: Perhaps in time I may become im- mortalised by permitting myself to be killed by wild beasts, or eaten by savages, or by discovering a long - sought stone, covered with altiiost indecipherable hieroglyphics, which shall throw a light upon one of' the lost tribes, or something equally mysterious and startling, Any- where 'away from Broadlands--any- where until I have regained my„ lost, scattered senses!" -Ailey Gough rose wearily from his seat after arriving at this cons-• mendable decision, ,and walked to-' wards Lis house; 'but before be has reached it his.plans had undergone another change. "Why should I go away?" he ask- ed himself. "Why should I leave a pleasant home and every, earthly comfort a•man can desire—leave my new road in its advanced state of progress for another to superintend after goodness knows what fashion —leave my model cottaget unbuilt, my gauge undisturbed in the woods and fields--anri ell because a woman has snubbed me—a woman who dif- fers ftom the rest of her kind merely in that her eyes are of a brighter blue a hair a little more golden, her oottpluxion a little more decided in its lilies and roses—a heartless, soulless flirt, who has drawn me in- to her toils, and spread her nets to trap me, just that she night have the supreme gratification of laugh- ing at me for my pains? I won't go away! She sha'n't have the plea- . sure of thinking that I go Mourn-, ing and broken-hearted all the day long for her sweet sake! I'll stay at Broadlands, see to my improne- ments,build the hest model cottages in all England, and marry the first boautif'al women with black hair and eyes who will have me." Arley 'trough made this decision just as firmly asnhe bad made the other. Ire felt b tterly disappoint- ed, andsavagely indignant against Wynne; ho felt himself a wronged and injured man just for the time. But during the long, silent hours ref the night ---Lours in which,anheppy and dissatisfied wtth himself, he tossed restlessly and sleeplessly upon his bed—ho formed other resolutions which were only to share the same ctliPriro6P 0,"1 fcr fate—only to be revoked and, give place to new ones. They all ended however iu this ---the ura,t day saw him vgi t?carr, iot Patin. lIAI'TER X11. \Vynu Rainsforth awoke from her dreaul'rig—the veil was torn I; vu, Ler eyes. Through the frag- i raur, biig!t,t-hued flowers which covered it, s' a glanced down and saw the precipice upon which she had been standing --saw that she ued hovered upon the very ,blink, and that one false step would have precipitated her into its unknown, i„ltueasurable depths. She could never dream that dream again; she could never more close her eyes to the danger encompassing her. Her idol had been dethroned from the pedestal whereon her fancy. had set tiinl up, and she had proved him to be of the veriest clay. Her grand ideal hero she had found to belong to the commonest type of mankind. How she thankel Heaven that night that the awakening had come before it was too late! How she kissed her child again and again, and rejoiced to know that never in thought, or word, or deed had she forfeited the right to so caress her pure, innocent darling! But the awakening had come, and she knew now what had made this summer so .golden and ,happy, what had filled her life with light and sunshine; she kn w that if Arley Gough lo.Yodliere she also loved him. The knowledge brought a flanging flush of shame to her cheeks,a thrill of horror to her heart. • She, the wife of a true, honest man, the mother of a child so beautiful and innocent, to awaken to such a cer- tainty as this! How earnestly,how resolutely she had resolved to wage fierce, unfaltering battle against the foe which had crept towards her, armed so strongly, advancing so in- sidiously! She felt very !,rave then,but with the slowly Passing clays came a reaction. Philip was so cold, so reserved, so indifferent—Miriam so unkind, so inconsiderate, her speech so Laish and wounding. And there were moments when even her child could not quiet the. hungry cry 'in cess::ntly going up from Wynne's heart, non l till the , empty, ach'n; void which depressed her. There were times when she felt it hard to put from her the dreams and sfaecies. wherein she had lived of late when she thought the fkte bitter, the ditty cruel, which so complete]; cut --her off from , companionship with the only 'man who loved her, or whom she had 'ever loved. T3et on the whole. she fought her battle bravely and well. .Sbe prayed in those days as she had never prayed before— every waudering thought, every tender, longing freffey, she combated 'and` beat down. She clung to ,her little •Va iti with a .clinging tena- cious love which had in it some small element of hopeless despair. She gave up her rambles by the riverside and through the woods— Broadlands Park she never ventured to approach. She confined her daily walks to 'the garden and the mea- dows in the immediate neighborhood of Clovernook,and,feeling the strong necessity for something to employ her time and thoughts, she busied herself as she had never done, never thought to do, in domestic affairs. Miss Rainsforth looked on in grim delight. I-Ior teacdgings, her example, had not all been wasted. Thanks to her, Philip's wife might yet settle down into a proper com- panion for hire—a suitable, serious mistress for Cloyer•noolr. The good lady took immense o,rdit and plunl- d herself infinitely as she silently noticed the change in poor Wyune's ways and marine's. It was a far greater pleasure to Miriam to see her lair young sister-in•law employ- ed upon the heninming of coarse tow- els, and making crash rollers, or in dusting the prirn,orderly parlor,than in sketching, even if ever soexquis- itely, a lovely landscape, or sitting down to the piano which Philip bad bought for her, and playing with consummate skill a brilliant over- ture or sweet, tender sonata, COM - posed by the greatest• master who ever lived. Philip Rainsforth—gtliet, unob- servant Philip-nioticed the change; be could not fail to do that, it was. so marked. But he saw, ton, •that the eyes were heavy, the steps slow and languid; that the cheeks were pale, and the mouth bore an expres- sion of patient weariness; and he concluded that his wife was ill. "What does thee think of Wynne?" he asked Miriam one day, about a fortnight after Arley Gough had departed from Broadlands. "She does not appear like the same wo- man she was only a few weeks back." "I think she is improving," Mir- iam told him, with evident satisfac- tion. "I am beginning to hope, Philip, that she will one day be a fitting representative of our beloved mother." -. "Thee mistakest my meaning, Miriam. I think that Wynne is not well." "Thy penetration is clearer than thine, if thee discernest that aught ails thy wife," Miriam responded curtly. "Nay, but sister, come here, he said, moving tov ards the window. "Look at her walking in the garden with Vashti. See, now that her face is towards us—her cheeks are white, her eyes heavy, and her step has lost its elasticity; when mho speaks, her tones are slow and lan• grid. I tell thee, .Miriam, that she is not well." Miriam cenld see all this now that her brother had pointed it out, Fitchew Ci f3to ia, bat she admitted the fact relue• tautly. ` "She is rather pale," she snapped; "but it she is ill, why does she not say so?" "I shall be in Kinfo.e to -morrow, Miriam; I think perhaps it would be as well to ask Doctor Turton to come to C'over'nook and look at her. She is not strong, you know, like thee and me." "I am sure there is no need for a doctor, Philip. The summer has been a hot and try iug one to most people, and I think a change of air and scene would be more beneficial to Wynne than medicine. Dorcas Thurston and herhusband have long wished to make friends with thy wife—send her to them for a few weeks." "But their home is too far away." "Beacon's Crag, in Worcestershire —about a hundred miles! Thee speakest as a child, Philip ; the dis- tance is as nothing in these days of railway travelling." "It is not only the distance," he said dreamily, as though spea6king to himself, "hut the house will seem strange without her." f "Thee will miss no comfort," Mir- iam" spoke, sharply. "It is not as though I proposed going myself." The acidity with which the words were spoken recalled him to him- self. "If the id:a pleases Wynne," he said, "she shall, go. _W .wi.11 ask her now; she is cousin; in." "Wynne," he began, going to• wards her •3s she entered, and tak- ing her hand in his own, with an awkwardness which showed how all unused he was to making the small - eat approach to a caress—"Wynne, Miriam and I have been holding some little conversation together re specting thee." She looked at him with wonder- ing eyes. The action, the kind in- terest discernible in his voice and manner, were things of rare occur- rence from him. "•\Ve have noticed that thou art looking rather pale and languid. Miriam purposes that I should let thee go into Worcestershire for a time, in the hope that thee would derive 1 eiefit from the change," Wynne looked other sister -in -'law gratefully. It was seldom that Mir- iam consulted her comfort or ad- vanceinertt in any way. " The•Thurstona,of Beacon's Crag, have long desired 'to know thee," Philip Rainsforth continued. "They are old and valued friends of ours, and would welcome thee right glad- ly. The county, too, is a p'easant one, and Beacon's Crag is a pretty and healthy spot. Worild thee like to go, Wynne?" ' She thought silently a few 'min- utes,before replying. Yes,she would' like to go—she world be .glad of a change. Her pale cheeks and heavy eyes were only faint outward signs of the powerful combat warring within. Anywhere for change— anywhere away from the scenes which were constantly rescinding hei,of him of whom she knew it was sin to think—anywhere, so that she might only fight her battle more bravely, more deterwinately, and find the waters of Lethe, and drink until she had forgotten! So she looked quietly into her husband's face, her own betraying nothing Of what was passing within her mind. "I should be pleased to go," she said, "if you are quite willing." "Had I not been willing, and thought that the visit would do thee good, I should never have proposed it, Wynne;. and I think now that the sooner thee canst arrange to start,, the better it will be. There is but one drawback" to the scheme that I can see, and that is, that, as harvest time is conning on, I cannot stay with thee. I could ill be spar- ed from home at such a time." "But you can accompany are there, I suppose?" "Yes, and I will fetch thee again whenever thee desirest to return," he said, still speaking very kindly, hut experiencing a' vague sense of ,pain and disappointment, because in Ler manner he -saw no sign of reluct- anceto, leave hire or the home which he considered to be desired before all others. "I think," interposed Miriam,. "that would bo an unnecessary waste of time and money, •Philili. If Wynne must go, there is nothing to prevent her travelling alone. She is not a child!" But he was watching• his wife's face, and he saw' that -there cpept into the sweet blue eyes an expres- sion of alarm and, dismay as she lis- tened to Miriam. "I should not like that," she cried. "I am so unused to travelling I should fear to take such a long; journey alone." "Thee shall not go alone," Philip assured her. "I will write' to the Thuratpns to morrow, and when I have received their reply I will take thee to Beacon's Crag." He sat down then with an air of grave self-satisfaction. The room was very quiet; nothing disturbed its stillness but the occasional rustle of Philip Rainsforth's newspaper ox the click -click of Miriam's busy needle. •Wynne took her child with her and seated herself in the recess of a deep bay window at the farther end of the room, overlooking the clover meadows and the path had ing to the river, and began whisper- ing to Vashti of the proposed break in their monotonous life. She re . garded it herself with something akin to pleasure. She had heard of the Thurstons from others besides her husband—of their many acts of kindness, of their simple redness of heart, But f u Idenly Miss It my, forth broke dr Ler thread -with a T'p 1Idr.c- i, A.r r,i for decided snap;tlhe folded up her work, and thele her voice broke through the still silence. "That is finished," she said. "I shall get np, more done -this evening, for the twilight is coming on. How thee dost indulge that child,Wynne! The idea of nursing a great girl!" "It is nearly time she was in bed, I should think," Philip Rainsforth remarked, looking up from his pa- per. "Suppose thee earnest to me, Vashti, for a.few minutes, and tell - est me how thee hast passed the days, It was rarely that the grave re- served father bestowed such notice upon his child. She left her mother's side immediately, and moved rather slowly towards bini.; she stood in considerable awe of him, brit she had early learnt the grand lesson of obedience. Philip stretched out his hand and drew the child close to his side; he pushed back the dark clustering rings of hair that lay upon the broad, white forehead, and then very gravely and gently bent do en towards her and kissed the rounded damask cheek. "She will grow wonderfully like thee, Wynne," he said. "Although her forehead is broader than thine, and her hair and eyes are dark, and the• curve of her lips is more firm and decided, yet, to a casual obser- ver, the resemblance must be strik- ing." .J She has the brown hair azid eyes of the Rainsfor•ths"' Miriam remark- ed; "she promises to be taller and of larger build than thy wife,Philip." "lies," he agreed a little absently, gently stroking the rebellious, rip- pling hair of his little girl. "Well, Vashti, and what has thee been do- ing all day?" "I awoke very early this morn- ing,",the-cbildbegan, a little hesita• time!, shyness in her manner; "the birds, who have built their nests in the great elm. tree the breeches of which tap against the window chose to my cot, sang so loud and shrill— but must I tell ynu from the very beginning, father?" `!Yes," he told her, kindly. "The birds sang so loudly that I could not sleep, and I wanted to get up. I was glad when mother came in to dress tee. She said that it was early, but tii.,t the birds and in- sects and flowers had all awoke long before and were enjoying the morn- ing sunshine, and it was right that I should; and thou site told me some pretty verses, and said that by-and- by she would teach • them to me. Oh, they are eo pretty—about a lit- tle child who did • not want to do any work at all,and said that every- thing was lazy -that the flowers, and the bird's and the butter flies,tho cat and the dog, and even the -wind were playing. I can re•nember the Tait verse—shall I say it to you, father?" "Thee call try, Vashti.'," He wondered not a little at him- self even as he gave the permission It was something new for'him so to unheard from his usual chilling re- serve—new to listen to the innocent prattle of his own little daughter. "It is:the most beautiful of all," Vashti cried, forgetting her s:iyness in her enthusiasm—"it is lovely." I wish, oh, I wish, I was yonder cloud, That sails about with its misty shroud! Books and work I no more should see, And I'd come and float, dear mother, o'er thee.' Aliriam Rainsforth could scarcely restrain her angry impatience. Such idle, frivolous teaching for her niece filled her with indignant dismay. Widely different bad been her own early training. She 'never remem- beend to heave learnt a verse which had not some moral lesson to convey. "Wouldn't it bo nine to be a cloud, and beep watch over mother?" Vashti continued. "I wish—I al- -most wish I were a aloud." Worse and worse! This was positively heathenish—and from her own niece, her brother's child, too! Oh, it was time, if ever any good was to be effected with her, that she should be removed from the frivol- ous, the, worse than frivolous, the pernicious teachings and example of her own mother. CHAPTER XIII.' "I should imagine it much nicer to be a little girl, with a good home and kind friends," Philip Rainsforth said, as Vashti paused. The child hesitated a moment be- fore making reply. "Perhaps it is," she said, with a slow lingering in her speech. "Per- igaps if I was a cloud mother would not know it was I, and would not love me.,' "That is very likely. Well,what did thee do next?" "Then I said my Brayer©." "Much good those would be likely to do her," Miriam Rainsforth men- tally decided,—"with her little head filled with the senseless, wicked wish of becoming a floating cloud.' "And then?" "Then I bad breakfast;then a run round the garden; and then I came in and repeated my lessons and read my chapter to aunt Miriam!' "And I suppose," that lady said, with considerable acidity, "that it was because thy little, silly head was running upon the nonsense thy mother had repeated to thee, that thy lessons were 80 imlrerfeot, and thy reading so careless and faulty.', All the animation died out from Vashti's manner, the red sensitive lips gnivereil, the brown, starlike eyes brimmed over with tears. "I am afraid it was," she said; and her father noticed how tremulous he" voice had become. "But, aunt Miriam, they are beautiful verses; r wish mother would say them for yo(it to hear." "Thank thee, I would rather not hear thew," her aunt told het• grimly. " Wynne,, in her distant window seat had not been unobservant. Her husband's kindly notice of her al- tered appearance had touched and gratified her; it pleased,her, too,that he should call thtir dsu, hter to his side and evince such new and unusual interest in her pursuits and occupations. "Perhaps, after all," she thought, "future years may hold for me quiet contentment, if not great bewildering happiness. Our child, as she grows into maidenhood, may form a bond of unity between .us; perhaps -Philip is not really so cold and indifferent as he appears." Then carne Miriam's strictures, and the old bitterness, the old feel- ing of wounded pride, of affection cast back upon itself, resumed its sway. There ensued an awkward lull in the conversation; and then Philip hail sforth resumed his in- vestigation. "And then, Vashti—what did thea do then?" "Then I hemmed a towel—very nicely Aunt Miriam said." ' "It was excellently well done for a child," Miriam said, graciously, "I am resolved, Philip, that, as far as I can exercise my influence, thy daughter shall be trained to useful and good habits. But thee must not become vain drily praise,Vashti, or I shall think that I have acted injudiciously," "And then,' Vashti continued, encouraged by a grave smile from her fatber—"then we dined; and afterwards I played tea -time with the dog and Queen Emma." . "Queen Emma!" he repeated, wonderingly. "My doll, father—I forgot that you did not know, When tea was over, I went into the meadows with mother—and that is all." The dignified "father" and "moth- er" sounded stiff and formal corning from the lips of so young and graceful a child as Vashti. To Wynne it always sounded peculiarly so, but Philip Rainsforth, easy or indiffer- ent upon all other points where the child was concerned, was firm and determined upon this one. Much to his sister's dismay, he had per mitted Vashti to he reared ignoring the "thee" and "thou" of the sect to wish he belonged, but upon the use of the more endearing terms "papa" and "mamma" he passed a strict veto; it sounded babyish and undig- nified, he asserted. "Father," said Vashti suddenly, "why do we never go into the park now?" • The question corning so unexpect- edly, so abrubtly, startled Wynne, Aid for a moment Philip Rainsforth. was at a loss losslew to reply. • • • "I know off` no reason why thee should not go," he told her at last, "unless it be that thy mother does not feel equal to the exertion• of walking so far lately," "We have not been for a great many days—never since the even- ing when mother would not let me run back to wish Mr Gough good evening." 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WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, Geaeral Manager Notes discounted,Collections made,Draffs issued, Sterling and American ex- , clz'sge bought and sold at lowest current rates. Interest at 3 per cent allowed en deposits. - F' A1 INT PEttea . Money advanced to fanners on their own notes with one or more oudursers. No lhortgage re- quired as scuracy, II. C. BREWER, Manager, Jatyuaryf11857. Clinton Clinton Post Office Time Table Mails are due for delivery and close for despatch at the Clinton Pont Office as follews:— 1 CLosm I Lug Hamilton, Toronto, Strat- ford, Seaforth, Grand Trunk oast and Interme- diate offices 7.00 a.m., 1,50 p.m Toronto Sttatford, Sea - forth, 1P, and S, east,— 1.55 p.m.! 8 a,m Godorich, Holmesville and Grand Trunk west 1 p.m.' 8.10 a.m Goderich, 8.45 p.m, 12.40 a n' HIamilton, Toronto, .... 4,15 p,nt,'t0,25 a,m London, L., IL & 13, south a,m, p.m. a.m. p.m and intermediate offices 7,00 4.15 10,25 7.00 Blyth, Wingham, Kincar- dine, Luokuow, north and. intermediate a.m, p m.' a.m. p.m offices 9.30 0.15 8.10 5,00 British malls, Monday, Wed- nesday, Thursday 7.00 a,m.; Bayfield, Varna, Ilerbison, . daily- ! 2.30 p.m, 12.45p.m. Summerhill, Tuesday and Friday, 5,30 p.m,' 5,30 p.m Money Orders issued and Deposits received from one dollar upwards. 0d1nc flours from 8 a,n,, to 7 p.m. Savuhs Bank and Money Order Otiee closel at 6.30 p.m, THOMAS FAiR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 20, 1899, H' URON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company is Loaning Money or Farm Security at Lowest Rates of interest. MORTGAGES - PURCHASEI SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Cent. Interest A flowed on Deposits,according to amount and time left. OFFICE -Corner of Market Square and North S HORACE HORTON. Godortch,August 5th 1895 J. BIDDLECOMBE. Watch CIaclalcar JEWELLER, &c,, OPPOSITE THE MARiOET SQUARE, Clinton. Where he keeps a select assortment of Watches Clocks, Jewelloqt Silverware. Which we will sell at reaeorableraV,e, tlepairingof every descrlpptien prnn,ptl) 5ttent„t td, and an ^:•rat war,-ant,.rl t' l DIF1.1-1t'0 U IiR. 'CIT ,•, ., Are taking the lead in Gristing and Chop• ping, which will be done at all times, on the shortest notice. CROPPING only 5 cents, a bag. Give us a trial, and you will be con- vinced that this is the right place to get your Gristing done, as everyone gets the flour manufactured from his own wheat. Farm - ere can depend ou getting their stuff home with them. FLOUR AND FEED.—Flour and feed kept constantly on hand. D. 13, McLEAN, Kippen Mills: CLINTOE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE, Library and Reading Rooms, Town Hall, down stairs. About 2,000 volumes in the Library and all the Leading News papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Memberehip ticket 81 per annum m. Open cam tions for meambersh p received fly the Librarian in the room.: BENMILLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREEt NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, TtlS LATTER OF w•UICU wE MAKE A SPECIALTY, LARGE STOCK ON HAND The above ornamental trees and shrubbery w i be sold at very low prices, and those wantin anything in this connection will save none purchasing here. Orders by Hail will be promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART, Benlniiler. lYIcKtllop 111lltuR1 Icsard>tct Co, fdEILANS, HARLOW( GENERAL AGENT. Isolated town and village property, as wet as farm buildings and stock, insured. Iusut- anees effected against stock that may be killed by lightning, If you want insurance drop a card to the above address. PAINTING. PAINTING. Tho undersigned desires to intimate to the people of Cliutou and vicinity that he has returned to town, and intouds to remain here pe mauently, and is better prepared than ever to do anything whatever in the painting or paper hanging line. All orders entrusted to hint will receive prompt and careful attention. GEORGE POTTS, Kirk St., Clinton. J. C. STEVENSON, —THE LEADING - UNDERTAKER EMBALMER.. A FULL LINE OF CTOODS KEP.. to STOCK The bestEmbaimieg Fluid used ,t,plendid Hearse. ALI3EIIT ST.,CLINTODi, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL • f .ARRAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT Advances made to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transacted Interest allowed ou deposits. Sale Not sebought J. P. TISDALL, Manager. RICHLY Rewarded are those who read this and then act ; they will find honorable employment that will not take theta from their homes aud families. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now malting several hundred dollars a month, .It is easy for any person to make 33 ger day and upwards, who is willing to work. tithe sec,youug or old ; capital not noeded,westar you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, reader.can do it as well as any one. Write to us at once for full p erticulere - which we mail free, Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. CJL1" 'r()N Planing Mill DRY KILN— r1111E SUIISCRIBER HAVING JUST COM, 1 PLRTRD and furnished nis new Planing Mil with machinery of the latest improved patter Is now prepared to attend to all orders in hl line in the .cost pronipt•and Satisfactory Manner and at rete made rates, He would also retur thanks to all who patropized the old m before • they were burned out, and now being fn.a bet. ter osition to execute orders sly feels confid confident he can give s tisfaction otlall. FACTORY—Near the Brand Trus Railway, Clinton, IHOSMAS 3faFENZIE ROBERT DOWNS, . CLINTON, Mant,tactarer and Proprietor for the best sea AIM Dog In use. Agent for the sale and appliGatlon of the reFISIIRR PATENT AUTOMATIC BonLRg CLRAFRR, STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on ahnrt notice Hollers, Engines. and 1811 kinds of Machinery rcpnlred oepp 1.110 sty and to a vnliwrnctory moaner. Faro, melements manufactured and repaired • ST0,1111 and Witter Pipes fm•niaI'e,i and put 1,1 ,n.1,!..1 pr} Hilus fitted u,, on ap;,f.at'.cn ('h are. set. ler. it,