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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1890-06-20, Page 2YAMAY. ATNE 20111190. D O NOV A i 1, A MODERN ENGLISHMAN. BY 1!iDNA LYALL. Published by_Wm. Br e, Toronto.) CONTINUED, "Yes, in the will he made at the time of his marriage, which was the most terse will ever heard of—very little more than 'All to my wife!' " "Well, well," said the lawyer, laughing, "though it's against my own interests to say so, it's the con- cise wills which ens wer beat; end no doubt this little man will be no real loser for receiving his property through his mother." Donovan grew very sleepy at desert, and found it difficult to maintain his upright position. The two gentlemen sat long over their wine, and he was beginning to won- der drowsily why people eat and drink so much more in the dining - room than in the ml:sery, when he was aroused by hearing his own name. "Look here, little man'—it was Cousin Ellis who was speaking- "are there any cards in the house?" "Cards? Oh, yes, lots!" said Donovan, rubbing his eyes. "They came after grandpa's last stroke with "kind inquiries" on them, Mrs Doery said." Cousin Ellis and the lawyer laughed heartily. "Not those cards, but .playing - cards, Dono, Didn't 1 see a card - table in the library?" But Donovan only looked puzz- led, and his surprise was great when on adjourning to the next room, Ellis Farrant cleared one of the tables of the books and papers which bad accumulated on it, and, with the slightest push, turned the top, disclosing in its center two or three packs of cards. In another minute the whole thing was transformed into a square of green baize, r nd Cousin Ellis and the lawyer were shuffling the cards for their game. Donovan was nos at all sleepy now. He felt all a child's delighted cur- iosity in something which was new and mysterious, and then, too, what splendid things these would be to calculate with; he wished he bad found their hiding -place before. "Do tell me their names.' Do wait me watch you," he begged. d Ellis Farrant, who was in goou a mor at having found some- thing to hile away his dull ever.- ing, took t e l tle boy on bis knee, and while he p d taught him his cat ds. ewe playing his advers:ery's cards with the strictest Toupee tiality. Another occupation there was, too, which herged to relieve the te– dium of the long days, and this was carpentering. He was very clever with his fingers, .and, luckily, the housekeeper did not object to this pursuit, so long, as she expressed it, "he did'nt hurt the carpets or him- self." And Donovan obligingly cleared up all his shavens and chips, and bravely endured his cuts and mishaps in silence. He became very expert, and one unfortunate day, when elra Doery had gone out to see a friend, his ambition rose to such a height that he resolved to take the nursery clock to pieces in order to see how it was made, in- tending after heithoreughly mastered the details, to put it together again. So to work he went as soon as the housekeeper was well out of sight, aud, with the aid of pinchers, screw- drivers and dexterous little fingers succeeded in dissecting the clock. It was wonderfully interesting work, so interesting that, although he was studying the anatomy of the record- er of time he forgot that there was such a thing as time at all, and that although the hands of the clock were detached from its face, and the pendulum was lying motionless in his tool box, the inexorable. old gentleman with the scythe was travelling at his usual pace, and bringing tea time and Mrs Doery in his train. He had just settled everything entirely to his own mind, and arranged which wheels to re– adjust first, when the door opened; he looked up—and there stood Mrs Doery with a face of mingled as- tonishment and wrath whicch baffles description. It was in vide that Donovan pleaded to be allowed to set it right, and showed how neatly he had arranged the pieces, Mrs Doery would not listen to a word, but taking the culprit to his room, gave him the severest whipping he bad ever had, and Donovan cried piteously, not at all on account of the pain, for . he bore that ,pike a little Trojan, but because he was quite sure he could put the clock together again if "Doughy" would only let him. It was not only by fits of tnischief and willfulness that Donovan gave the housekeeper trouble.. Soon after his grandfather's death, he began, as she said, "to plague the very life out of her with questions." What was this? and why was that's and what was the reason of the other? pursued poor Mrs Doery from morning till night. Taking the doctor's general directions into every detail, she had brought up her little charge in utter igeoranee; he k;,ew no more of religion than the -veriest To hear once was ib len-ember little heathen, and th etigh Mrs with Donovan. He not o y.learn- Doery had taught hire a short dog– ed the names of the cards, bt ` ere;yet to sett' as he went to gan to understand the principles of sr ep, he was much teo matter -of - the game, and pleaded bard to be fact and logical to care to say a allowed to play too. But neither charm addressed, as fas as he- knew, Cousin Ellis Icor the lawyer would to no one in particular, and for believe in his capabilities for ecarte. which he could not understand the The lawyer was good-natured, how- reason. It did not make him any ever, and, seeing the grievous lis- happier to say -- appointment in the little boy's "Three in One, and One in Three, face, suggested that they should let One in Three save me." him have a game of vingt-et-un, It only puzzled him completely, so and Cousin Ellis complied, limiting the stakes to three -pence, and sup- plying the penniless Donovan from his own pocket. Here was excitement indeed— calculation, judgment, memory all called into action at once! And the little pile of coins before him was growing with magic speed, and vingt-et-ud fell to •him twice run- ning, and the gentlemen told hire laughingly that he was certainly born to win. It ended long before he wished, and Cousin Ellis chang- ed his winnings for him into great bright half-crowns, and he went off to bed proud, and excited, and vic- torious, to play vingt-et-un in his dreams, only being disturbed now and then by a nightmare of a gi– gantic queen of spades sitting on his breast and stifling him. And so ended Donovan's first introduc– tion to the "tapis vert." The next morning Cousin Ellis and the lawyer left for London, and the child was once more alone. The terrible flatness and depression which be felt that day might have been a lesson to him in after -life, and he did never forget it, although his experience had to be bought more dearly. He wandered drearily over the deserted house, and stole half timidly into the library, and looked again at the magical table, and felt the half–crowns in his pocket. But the fascination and excitement of the previous evening were gone,and, now that the sensation of triumph and victory had died away, he did not greatly care for the money. Hie head ached, too; the dreary empti- ness of the house oppressed him; he began to feel that his grandfather's absence made a great difference to him, and that there was something very forlorn in the idea of being left alone with Mrs Doery. As time passed,, however, he be- gan to grow accustomed to things, and slipped back into much the same routine as before: meals,walks and pretty frequent flghte with Mrs Doery, solitary games, fits of wild mischief, whippings, imprisonments, and vague wonder at the perplexi– ties of life. His greatest enjoyment was to steal down into the library, softly to draw aside one of the shut- ters, and, when quite sure that Mrs Doery was not likely to interrupt biim, to take those wonderful cards from their hiding place. Then, with a dummy adversary, he would play the two games of which he had mastered the rules, and various others of his own invention, always he left off saying it. But the service at his grandfa- ther's funeral had awakened his curiosity; he could not understand it, and he could not bear not being able to understand. Mrs Doery found herself obliged to give an answer now and then in order to quiet him, and Donovan learned that people knelt down to "ask God for things," that "God was a Being who loved good people and hated 'gad people„' and that, "grandpapa had gone to heaven.” "Why that's what you say when you're surprised!" he exclaimed, when this last piece of information bad been received. "'Good bes,ven!' you know. Is Leaven a great sur– prise ? What is heaven?" "It's a nice place where good folk go," Said Mrs Doery, as if she grudged the adinission. "Is it in India ?" "Dear heart" The ignorance of 1 the boy ! No, it's up in the sky." "What do they do up there ?" "Sit and sing hymns and say prayers," "What like they did at the fun- eral ?" ‘• Blois the child ! I don't know ; but you needn't trouble so about it, for it's only good boys as go there." "I don't; want to go, I'm sure," said Donovan defiantly. "I hate sitting still." But his mind was not satisfied, and Mra Doery was questioned still fur ther. "Doughy, what did they mean when they said grandpapa will never be ill again ?' "Why folks never are ill in hea- ven." Children Cry for her with a perplexity which had w4ls aQmetbing terrible indeed. .[t f MQ xl #Y O T Sr l MV TFYI long beeni troubling him. l got worse and "wettes as the evening that the lives of professing Chris- f We sett make a few goodloons from private "Doughy, who gives us homes?" advanced, and at last he could bear "Your papa, of course, Master it no longer, but, wishing his mother Donovan." good night, he crept up stairs, "And who gave papa his home?" though it was not yet his bed -time, "Why, your poor grandpapa." and shutting himself into the cup - "But who gave the first papa that board among Mra Doery's presses, gave vent to his misery. He did net often cry even at the severest whipping, huf that night he sobbed as though his heart would break ; life had seemed hard and perplex- ing already, and now his ideal was gone ! rpt the loving hand which was guiding Donovan, though he so little evet was his homer "Bless the child ! how should I know? I don't suppose Adam had a home, so to speak." "Why are some people's homes so much happier than other people's? It's very unfair." "The good little boys are happy," said Mrs Doery, "and the bad ones aren't." knew it, was not going to leave him "Then, if I was never naughty, desolate. The perfectly loving, should 1 have a nice home like little sympathetic mother had been de - Tom Harris, with a mother to take vied him, but another treasure had me out with her?" been provided for him,whicb, though "That's impossible to say," re- ! it could not entirely fill the place plied Mrs Doery, gravely; "let alone of the dethroned ideal—the place the unlikeliness that you ever would which was to be always empty, be good, you see there's all then) always longing to be filled—was past times you was naughty; so yet to call out his best and strongest you've not much of a chance." feelings. When at last be checked, Poor Donovan went away sadly, his sobs and crept out of the cup - and yet with a great sense of jujus- board once more, the first thing his tice in his childish mind. That was eyes rested on was the new baby almost the last question he troubled sister lying asleep in her cradle.— Mrs Doery with. Ile was so miserable that he would But, though he was represented even have thrown himself on Mrs as so incurably bad, he would not Doery's mercy if she had been there, entirely hew to Mrs Doery's opinion. and in another minute his tears In his heart of hearts he cherished broke forth again, as he pressed his an ideal mother, who was to come face close to the baby's and told her back from India, make him good, all his trouble. Of course she woke and fill his life with happiness; she directly, for he still sobbed out his was to be just like Mrs Harris, the story. grocer's wife, who took her little "Oh! baby, I'm so miserable—so boy out walking, only her dresses miserable5--mother isn't a bit what were to be prettier, for the one I expected,". thing he remembered about his mo- The baby began to cry feebly,and ther' was that she always wore Donovan, penitent at having dis- pretty clothes. The events of his turbed her, took her with great care life were the arrival of the Indian and difficulty from her cradle,hind letters, in which "papa and mamma began to rock her in his arms, and sent their rove to Dono;" but these she slept once more, and as she were few and far between, for, al- became more and more difficult to though Mrs Doery wrote each nail bear, a new sense of love and pro - to give an account of Master' Dono- tecting care sprung up in the little van's well being, neither Colonel boy's heart, and he was comforted. Farrant nor his wife understood the Before long Mrs Doery's step was importance of keeping their memory heard without, and Donovan knew green in the remembrance of the that if he were found he would child by writing to hien. The Colo- certainly lie whipped, -bat to try to nel was absorbed in his work, Mrs put the baby back in the cradle Farrant was absorbed in herself.— ,would be sure to wake her, and she Donovan had his ideal mote was worth suffering for. nevertheless, and would reb.';arse Mrs Doery was of course wrath - her return, and talk to her by'the ful, and poor Donovan went to bed hour; and when Mrs Dt,ery took supperless and sore both inwardly him for his walk he would put his and outwardly; but as his wistful hand a little out :fen G i the side away eyes closed on that day of disap— from the houseeper, making be- pointment, he clung to his one sieve that bia/mother held it, ano comforting thought, the little sister, would tur.0 J his face up, as if he his new possession. As time passed were ttaiking to her, just as he had on the bond between these two seen Tom Harris do. grew stronger and stronger. Dono- At Last, one never -to -be fotgotten van centered all the love of his day, Donovan heard that he bad a heart on the frail little life of the little baby sister, and before the baby. The element of protection novelty and delight of this pews was his most pronounced character had had time to fade came a second istic; be was strong, and liked above letter with more wonderful tidings, all things to have some thing to a large letter for Mrs Doery, and a take care of. And Dot, as they little one inclosed for Donovan from called the tiny 'delicate little girl, his father—"Mamma and baby were needed any amount of attentio coming to England to live with From the very first everything Dono, and lie must take great care seemed against her; her Indian of them, and try to make them hap- birth, the trying voyage, the want py." of any real care from her mother, Never had the little boy known the miserable mismanagement of such happiness; his dream was actu- an incoml;etent doctor, all told ally coming true, mother was corn- grievously on the delicate little ing—mother who would not mind child. She had only just learned answering his questions, who would to walk, or rather to trust herself make him good, who would rescue to be piloted along by Donovan, him from Mrs Doery's whippings. when she began to pine and dwindle, He could watch the grocer's little and before long the hesitating foot boy now when he passed by without steps were hushed forever, and Dot the least shade of envy, foe in a few lay down upon the couch on which weeks would not he too be walking her life -drama was to be acted. A out with his mother ? fall from her ayah's arms had, it was He watched the preparations supposed, been the cause of the dis- which were being made in the house ease which now declared itself. For with a sense of exultant happiness, a time every one was sorry and dis- his grave step changed to the bound- turbed, but soon they became re— ing, skipping pace of a merry child, signed, and talked about "the dis— and he was so good that even Mrs pensation of Providence." Only Doery had no complaint to make of Donovan nursed his sorrow and in - him. Then at length cane the real dignation apart, conscious, in spite day of arrival, and Donovan's fever- of his youth, that it was human ish impatience was at length re- carelessness, human misunderstand - warded; a carriage stopped at the ing, which had ruined the only life door, Mrs Doery, smoothing her he cared for. black apron, bustled out into the In the meantime the lease of Oak - hall, and Donovan rushed headlong dene Manor came to an end, and down the white steps to throw his Mrs Farrant and her children left his arms around his mother's neck. the house where Donovan's child - But a sudden chill of disappoint- hood had been passed, to make their ment fell on his heart, it was so home in that place which old i\ Ir different from anything he had plan- Farrant bad planned so carefully, ned. The tall, pretty looking lady but had never seen. stopped to kiss him, indeed, and her The change was in some respects voice was soft and refined if some- good for Donovan ; he was just old what languid, as she exclaimed : enough to take an interest in the "Dear me ! what a great boy you property which would, he supposed, have grown I" but it was not his be his own some day, and he liked ideal at all, not the mother to whom the free country life. But in that he could tell everything, or who comfortable English home, the ap- would care to know. All this Dono- parent mode of refinement and pro - van read in almost the first glance, priety, he grew up somehow into a as clearly as he had read Mrs very unsatisfactory mortal, unsatis- Doery's character on Southampton factory to himself as well as to Pier. others. He was scarcely to be He followed every one else into blamed perhaps, for, with the ex - the house and shut the door. Mrsaception of little' Dot, there was not Farrant was already on her way to one good influence in the manor's her room; and took no further no- household. tics of•him, and he was too bewil- His mother's selfishness was per- dered and disapopinted to care to featly apparent to him; he accepted bestow more than a glance on the it now with a cold indifference when ayah and the little baby in long it only affected himself. It was so, clothes. and there was an end of the matter; By and by, he saw bis mother he just put up with it. But, when again, but by this time he had Mrs Farrant's absorption in self grown shy, and only made the affected Dot, Donovan's indignation briefest responses to her questions, was always roused; there was ail and before long she had disposed almost fierce gleam in his eyes when herself on the drawing room sofa he found Dot suffering from the with a book, and he was left stand- unmotherliness whioh bad chilled ing at a distance with a Calcutta and cramped his own life. costume doll, she had just given him, What, however, told most fatally and a very heavy heart. The doll on him was bis mother's convention - only added to his disappointment. al religion. Mrs Farrant went to Surely the ideal mother would have church because it was proper, and understood how little he, a boy of insisted on her son's accompanying eight years old, would care for a her. He obeyed, but went with e doll ? He did not want presentee sort of grevious disgust, hating to at all; he wanted the dream mother share in this act of hypocrisy. bank again, and the conviction that He was .naturally acute, and at she never could come back again a very early age he found out Children Cry for :Pitcher's Castorla. "What never ? Oh that's an- other, reascn then, why I don't want to go there, for the nicest time I ever had was when I had the measles ; you never were so little cross in your life, Doughy." Mrs Doery made no comment on this, and the little boy continued, rather anxious- ly, "I suppose, Doughy, you are very gond, aren,t you ?" "Well, Master Donovan, I try to do my duty about the house, and by you," said Doery, rather gloomily. "That's a good thing!" said Dono- van, relieved, "for you see, Doughy, I don't think we'd better go to the same place ; we should be happier away from each other." Mrs Doery was wonderfully un- commnnioative, bet still the boy cc- caaionally plied her with fresh questions. One day she Dame to Pitcher's eastoria. A • as aG low rates anQ ruodarato ezotiset flans around him were dASlnetricallsy Terms mado tosafttriFriare. opt osed to the principles of Chris- hidNNING & acOTT, - – — –contort tranity. It was all a hideous mock- ery, a ho.low profession; he came to EDWARD HARRIS, a child's sweeping conolusibn, "They ' Real Estate Broker Financial aro gall shams, these Christian peo. Agent, &e., 23 Toronto pre, And naturally went oreelie she I Street, Toronto resolution, I at least will profess nothing." His views received a sol t of am- used encouragement from his tutor, a man whom Mrs Farrant had been delighted to secute for her sun , -.Y cause he was "so highly connec_Adr such a gentlemanly man." Alleyiie was, however, in spite of his high connections, unfit to be the tutor of a boy like Donovan. He was clever, but shallow, and he had dab- bled in science, and rather prided himself on being able to appreciate the difficulties which great minds found in reconciling the new discov- eries of science and the old faiths. He quoted Tyndall and Huxley with great aptness, and, though on occasion he was quite capable of appearing to be exceedingly or- thodox, yet, he was rather fond of styling himself an Agnostic when he was sure of bis audience. He was not a sincere man; he liked talking of his "intellectual diffi- culties." and regarded skepticism as "not bad for nowadays." When Mr Alleyne found that his pupil was as he termed it, "a thorough going young atheist," he was a little am- used and a good deal interested. He was not at all unwilling to forsake the more ordinary rou— tine,and, throwing aside the classics, he allowed. Donovan to devote most of his time to scientific subjects, .which were far more interesting to both teacher and pupil. Donovan had no respect for his tutor, but he was a good deal influ- enced by him. When by his father's desire he was sent at last to a public school, he was just in the state to derive all the evil and none of the good from school life. He had grown up in isolation, and he was naturally reserved, so that he did not easily make friends, and he was too wilful and incomprehensible to. be a favorite with the masters. In mathematics, indeed, he could beat every opponent with ease, and car- ried off se% eral prizes,but his success was merely that of natural talent, and never of industry, so that even to himself it brought little satisfac- tion. And all the time slowly strength- ening and developing was the intense love of play which had shown itself in his earliest childhood. Ellis Farrant had crossed his path several times since their first meeting, and Donovan, though he diel not like his cousin, always enjoyed hisvisits, for then his passion could be grati- fied, and his monotonous and already unsatisfying life could be broken by the most delicious of all excitements. Later on came the temptation at school; the suggestion made by a weaker and more timid boy was carried out unscrupulously by Dono- van, his conscience completely over– mastered by the thirst for self gratification. Then followed ex– posure, disgrace, some injustice, and a most bitter humiliation. His school days were abruptly ended. What was now to become of him ? .123 'r0 BE CONT INUED. rotegOiona1 anti Our Gordii Particulars of Farms, Residences,. Business Properties, &c., for intend- ed sale, can be sent to the above address, or given to HORATIO HALE, BANKER, &C., • - - - - CLINTON Dec. 18119, NDR T AKIN 11. 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Office hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Savings Bank and Money Order Office close a1 6.30 p.m. THOMAS FAiR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 29, 1889. elm A. U. W. The Clinton Lodge, No. 144. meet iu Jack- son's Hall on the 1st and 3rd Fridays In each month. Visitors cordially invited. R. STONEHAM, 51. W. J. BEAN. Recorder. A COOK BOOK FREE By mail to any lady sending us her post chit r " address. Wells, Richardson & Co„ Montreai- CLINTOE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE, Library aud Reading Rooms, Town Hall, down etaire. About 2,000 yolumee . 1 a the Library and all the Leading News papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Membership ticket 11 per annum Open from 2 to 6 p. m., and from 7 to 9 p. m. Applications for membership received oy the Librarian in the room. BENIIIILLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREEI NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, TUB LATTER OF WHICH WE MAILS A 8P8CIALTT LARGE STOCK ON HAND, The aboye ornamental trees and shrubbery wi be sold at very low prices, and those wantin. anything in this connection will save money purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART,"'Benmilter. McKillop luta Ilsaraoce Co. T; NE(LANS, HARLOW(' ` GENERAL AGENT. Isolated town and village property, as wel as farm buildings and stock, insured. Insur- ances effected against stock that may be killed by lightning, If you want insurance drop a card to the above address. PAINTING. PAINTING. The undersignedues::n' to intimate to the people of Clinton and vicinity that he has returned to town, and intends to remain here pe -manently, and is better prepared than ever to do anything whatever in the painting or paper hanging line. All orders entrusted to him will receive prompt and careful attention. GEORGE POTTS, Kirk St.,Clinton, J4. C. STEVEYSON, —THl+4 LEADING— UNDERTAKER —AND— EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEP 1 ill STOCK The bestEmbalming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE • TOWN HALL 1 FA.RRAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT Advances made to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transacted Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager HURON 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 6 per Cent. Interest Allowed on Deposits,according to amount and time left. OFFICE—Corner of Market 9 acre and North 8 HORACE HORTON. MANAGER. Goderlch,Au,uet 511 1886 • BIBLES & TESTAMENTS AT COST The Clinton Braneb Bible Society have for sale at DR WORTHINGTON'S DRUG STORE, Albert Street„a fine assortment of Bibles and Testaments. TESTAMENTS PROM Sots. UPWARDS BIBLES FROM 25085 UPWARDS. come AND Sas. DE WORTAINOTON,D3- pository. CLINTON Planing Mill —AND— DRY KILN! THE SUBSCRIBER HAVING JUST COM METED and furnished his new Planing M with machinery of the latest improved patter le now prepared to attend to all orders in hi line in the.noet prompt and satisfactory manner and at rem moble rates. He would also tptur thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, and now being fn a bet • ter position to execute orders expeditiously feels confident he can give eatlsfadtion to ,all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Prun Railway, Clines?! THOMAS McKENZIE ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, Mant.faoturer and Proprietor for the best Saw SIM Dog in use. Agent for the sale and application of the a/'FraHRR PATENT AI OVAT10 Boman CLEANER. STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on short notice. Boilers. Engine.. and all kinds 01 Machinery repaired espeditIonsly and lie a satisfactory manner. Faro: Implements man,tfaotured andreral steam and Water Pipes furnish, position, Dry Kilns fitted up Charge gmoderate