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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1890-07-04, Page 2'• FRIDAY, JULY 4, 180. would not, show what his real feel• ing on the subject wake,. but .only hardened his face, dud, thanking 51 j'a Trewuin for her kindness' wished her good-bye. CI. APTER IV. "h1Y ONLY SON, DONOVAN." - to drives self•luve through just, and through unjust, No one Man's pow r, ambition, lucre, lust. Pore. ()it the folluwiug evening the little inn. pallor witnessed a very different scene. Donovan, who had known what was coming, had, after a night and day of misery, settled down into a stony speechless sorrow, white dress, and her small soft hands seem to touch the keys al most caressingly. Donovan forgot his sorrow for a moment, and felt vexed when, as she stopped playing, the spell which had bound him was for the time broken by a voice which came from within the room. "Sing something, Gladys; I am tired of those old `songs without words,' " and the speaker crossed the room, and came close to the pi- ano, so that Donovan could see he was a boy of about his own ago, of slight build and fair complexion,but not sufficiently like Gladys to be any relation, he fancied. "You dare to grow tiled of Men- d'elashon ?" says Gladys, with a fine show of indignation. "You boys have no taste whatever ; one might as well play to --to—" She paused for a comparison. "To the heathen Chinee," sug- gested her companion. "What a lot of . chop-stickks, bombs, and gongs' !—you remember the song, of course. That's Chinese art, you know." Gladys laughed, and there was a merry little squabble carried on, as the two tried to play the air of the old nursery rhyme. "Well, now, will you sing, after all ?" said the boy at last ; "we DONOVAN, MODERN ENGLISHMAN. BY EDNA LYALL. Published by Wm. Bryce, Toronto. CONTINUED. Her task was no easy one, she trembled a little when she was act- ually standing in the passage of the inn, having sent a xnesenger to ask if Mr Farrant would see her. Dr. Tremain had bpeu called out, and she had been obliged to come alone: this made the interview seem all the more formidable, but she was too unselfish to shrink froni the difficulty. The messenger returned quickly, and she was ushered into the little sitting room, speedily for- getting all thought of herself as she saw the misery written on Don - oven's face. He came forward to meet ber, and bowed gravely ; then, as she held out her hand with a few words of explanation and sympathy, he took it in his, answered briefly but courteously, and drew a chair•' toward the fire for her. She sat down, and he fell back into his for- mer position, with his elbows rest- ing on the mantel -piece and his face half hidden, as if he had crone all that courtesy required of him, and intended to return to his own thoughts. approached one of tbu wiry ieWS, aua i every. one with drewsy 'eolewuity, looked thtoegh thelialf•open Yam- ! he cuddled, up nein to, his tnother Liao blirid"at the scene within. I and was carried riff to bed. Not a detail pf that picture es- i "There is no doubt that those caped him. A soft light falling two understand each other," said through the opal lamp globe ills`- the doctor, smiling thoughtfully. mined the room; the pale French "No, indeed!" said Gladys and gray walls, the running oak -leaf Stephen emphatically. patterned carpet, the deep crimson- "No, indeed!" echoed Donovan, ed curtains, all harmonized to pre- under his breath, and he turned fection. Seated at the piano was quickly away with burning tears Gladys Tremain her bright hair in his eyes, unable to bear the sight gathered back front her face,and of the little home drama any longer. her complexion, which was at tunes Mr Ellis Farrant happen to be almost too highly colored, looking in town when the news of his cous- most beautitul in the mellow lamp- In's death reached him. It was light, she wore a very simple the time o'.' year when he found largely teiugled now with bitterness, for the meeting with his Mother I Lad been most painful. 'I'Lu trouble had sharpened Mrs Narruut, and in the selfishness of Ler grief slie made nut the slight- est allowance for the feelings of utter people. \V ithout intentional cruelty, without indeed thinking at all, she was absolutely merciless. Donovan had tried hard to meet her affectionately. Even his stiff re- serve had Melted in the greatness and honesty of his desire to comfort ber. Any one not absorded in self must have seen and accepted such very real sympathy, hut Mrs ("arrant saw nothing, thought of nothing, but wearied with her jour- ney, unnerved by the sudden shock, vented her petulant grief on the only victim at hand. Mrs. Trewain's voice roused him ; it was a very low, gentle voice, and fell pleasantly on liis ear. "I cannot :)ear to think of your being alt alone here," she began. "This inn seems 80 forlorn and com- fortless for you. 1 wish we could persuade you to come to our house ; you should be perfectly quiet and undisturbed." She hardly thought that he would consent to this plan, but it made an opening for conversation, and it roused Donovan at once ; his tone, as be replied, was more than merely courteous, and his sad eyes met hers fully. "You are very kind and good to think of it, but 1 don't think I can come, thank you ; to -morrow my mother will be here, and to -night I can't leave—I would rather—" he broke off hastily, unable to con- trol his distress. "You must do just what you like best," said Mrs. Tremain ; "I can quite understand your feelings." "It would be -of no use," contin- ued Donovan, recovering himself, but speaking in a low, constrained voice. ''Can I escape from my thoughts at your house any more than here Nothing can make mis- ery and remorse bearable." "1 suppose we all see the full beauty and goodness of those we love only wli.en we lose them," said Mrs. Tremain, not quite understand- ing him, "and then we wish we had often acted differently with them. Those bitter regrets are very hard to bear." "Ah ! you don't know, you can't understr nd what reason for remorse I have !" cried Donovan ; and then he looked steadily at Mrs. Tremain for a minute, to decide whether he should tell her of his disgrace or not. He saw a sweet, gentle, motherly face, a calm, serene forehead, smooth bands of dark hair begin- ning to turn gray, delicately arched and penciled eyebrows, and dark - gray eyes, which seemed to shine right into his—eyes which were clear and unswerving, and truthful, yet full of tender sympathy. His voice trembled a little, but it was a relief to him when he said, with lowered eyelids, and a burn- ing flush on his cheek, "I have dis- graced my father." Before long Mrs. Tremain had heard the particulars of his trouble j at school, and had listened sadly to his account of the journey, and of his father's illness. She was sure that it was good for him to talk. If she had known that he had never in his life had such a disburdening, she might have encouraged him stillQrnore. She gave hint all her sympathy, And when at length he relapsed into silence, it was with a look of less hopeless misery on his face. Mrs. Tremain glanced round the room then, and saw that the meal prepared on the table was un- touched. "I have been keeping you from dinner !" she exclaimed regretfully. "No, indeed. I want nothing. 1 could not eat," said Donovan, de- cidedly. Mrs. Tremain hardly felt sur- prised, as she looked at the tough steak and greasy gravy, now per- fectly cold. "You must eat something," she said, assuming a gentle authority over him, which he was not at all inclined to resist. "Give me carte blanche with the landlady, and you WW1 have something you can eat directly. This must have been waiting." "Yes, it bas been up an hour or two," said Donovan; wearily, and he threw himself back in an arm- chair, while Mrs Tremain left the room, returning before long with some het coffee and a far more ap- petizing repast. She sat down with him, taking some coffee herself, and inducing him both to eat and to talk; and when at last she was ob- liged to go, ho was really cheered and refreshed. "Mrs Farrant will be hear to- morrow," she said, at parting, "that will be a comfort to you." Donovan did not answer. He It was a very grievous scene. On the sofa lay the widow, a beautiful and still young looking woman, ber face distorted now, however, by passionate sorrow, and wet with tears --that violent stormy grief which is soon spent, and which even already was mixed with angry re- proaches. Standing by the window, in an attitude of rigid endurance, was the son, his face very still and quiet in contrast to his mother's, but with an indescribable bitterness about it which almost overpowered will allow, if you like, that it's a the sadness. He bad learned quick- case of pearls before swine." ly that his presence was irritating `-Dont, Stephen,': and Glddys instead of comforting to his mother. In a sort of proud hopelessness he moved away from her, and stood looking out across the dreary street to the gray sky beyond, while, as if in a sort of dream, he heard all that was going on; the ceaseless drip of the rain, the distant breaking of weaves upon the shore, the weary reiteration of sobs and reproaches from within. IIarder and harder `Frew his tate as be listened, just really looked vexed. "Why, isn't even that allowable? [ didn't know you were such a lit- tle Puritan." "You know I can't bear that kind of thing, it is such a pity to use—" ll arrant; lefts face was dark aqd prou4 and cold, yet even then the contrast between the cousins was very warked. Douovan's though the wore hopeless face of the two, had a certain. nobility nowhere traceable in Ellis's bold self-satisfied mein; the one face expressed a rest- less craving for something beyond self, restrained only by a powerful will, the other expressed little but self-satisfaction and a !sort of de- fiance and bravado. Yet the sympathy which Ellis expressed so readily and fluently both to Donovan and to his mother was not altogether artificial; he that it answered best to be in town, wa.f by no means heartless, although a time when he was sure of plenty' undoubtedly he was a selfish, of amusement, and could reckon on scheniing man, bent upon further - getting most of hia dinners out. ing his own interests. In the pur- lie was a wan without any settled suance of his own aims, however, profession, of moderate income but he occasionally felt kindly disposed expensive hadits, and, in order to towards others, and he admired, reconcile these elements, he found even liked, Donovan. it necessary to live as Much as pos- But on the Monday all was sible on his friends. It was not un- changed. The simple and beautiful til late on Saturday afternoon that, Burial Services had fallen with on returning from his usual saunter i little affect on the ears of the two in the Park, he found Donovan's' chief mourners. ('olonel Farrant's letter, with its brief formal intim- body had been laid in the little ation cf his father's death. Ellis church -yard of Porthkerran. The Warrant was at-trtled, awed; he did two cousins and the doctor had not like being confronted with eay- returned in silence to the inn, and thing so gloomy yet so inevitable as then, as soon as Donovan was out death; it was a subject he invari- of ear -shot, Dr. Tremain took Eilis ably dismissed from his mind as Farrant aside. quickly as possible, and now his "there is but one more duty, Mr cousin had died with an awful sod- Farrant, which I have to discharge, denness, and Ellis, whether he and that is to put you in possession would or not, found his thoughts of the will which ('olonel Farrant turning to bis own death, that dis- executed just before his death. I mal goal which awaited him in the should have given it you earlier in future. Where should he die, and the day, only there has been no bow, and—and wheal opportunity. His hand trembled a little as he "A will—a codicil 1 suppose," again took up Donovan's letter, and said Ellis Farrant, hurriedly taking strove to banish the uneasy retlec- the sheet of paper from 1)r Tremain, ttions which were troubling him, by I and unfolding it. Though he was a fresh perusal of the startling weak and impulsive, he was too news. He found himaelf, however, thorough a man of the world not to gazing vacantly at the handwriting, have his facial expression in very rather than reading the sense con- fair command; he betrayed little veyed by the firm, clear, somewhat but surprise as he read his cousin's cramped letters. Then his mind moat unwelcome change of purpose, wandered off to Donovan himself; and his voice was cool and steady perhaps something In the writing as he again folded the paper and reminded him of the clever, strong- turned to Dr Tremain. I am willed, self-reliant boy who had so named as my cousin's sole executor, often been his companion. He had I see; this must be referred to his been expelled from school, the letter lawyer in London. Many thanks stated, the very absence of further to you doctor for your considerate comment or explanation showing help." how deeply the disgrace had galled Dr Tremain rose to take leave, the proud nature. Well, he would and Ellis, accompanying him to the pass from disgrace to ease and door, found Donovan in the passage pleasure, for was not he is father's outside, and left him to see the last heir Ellis Farrant reflected for a of the guests. few minutes on his good luck. 'then "We leave early to -morrow," lie with a sudden and vehement ex- began, hurriedly, '"so I must wish claimation, he started to his feet. you good bye now, Dr. Tremaia— No, it was not so --he recollected thank you for your kindness." now his cousin's simple will at the' "I hope we may meet again," time of his marriage—Donovan was said the doctor, shaking his hand not his father's heir; everything had warmly, and looking with gtave been left to Mrs Farrant, It had compassion at the miserably hope - been little more than "All to my less face before him. wife." He had laughed over the story of the shortest will long ago, he could not recall where or with whom, but be remembered clearly that Colonel Farrant's will had been to that effect, and the remembrance seemed to excite him strangely. "In another year I shall be forty," he mused to himself—" what the world will call a middle aged tnan. I hate that term middle-aged; but anyhow I shall not look it, and I ani tolerably—yes, really decidedly handsome. He rested his elbows on the man- tle -piece and surveyed himself criti- cally in the mirror. In coloring and general outline of face he was sufficiently like Colonol (''arrant and Donovan to show near relationship, but hia features and expression were entirely different. The eyes of very dark steel gray lacked the peculiar admixture of brown in the iris, which was so noticeable in Dono- van's; they were hard, bold looking eyes, unpleasant to meet. 'The firm well shaped chin was contradicted by a weak mouth, which was only partially concealed by a bristling black mustache. But in spite of DR APPi.ETON-OFFICE- AT RESI- these defects, ho was, as he said, OENCE on Ontario street, Clinton, op - Stephen declares that it's; absurdly a handsome man, or, at any rate he Kate English church. Entrance by side impossible." was possessed of a certain brilliancy "Of course it is!" said 4tephen, which generally passed far good'. TR STANBURY, ORA DCATF. OF THE looks. d1 Mediva! Department of Victoria Uni- hotly. "Why, do you think when Satisfied apparently with his own I varsity, Turonto, formerly of rho Hospitals my father returns from his voyages tad Otal.ru.sanrs, New Yors Gorgon` For reflection, he turned at length from the County of if limo, Bayfield, Out. that he feels a stranger to me, or that my mother doesn't know every the mirror, and, sitting down to the thing about me—rather too much, table, dispatched first a telegram to I 77�� W. WII,elaste. B. A., M. D., GRADU- rhe sometimes." Donovan announcing his intention 1� pTu: or TorontoUnivnrsity; member of pe ps, the Coltege of Physicians and Surgeons, The doctor could not help miss- of coming to Porthkerran the fol- Ont. 01,-w,: REirI)t Nctr the house rov- ing at the rueful tone of the last lowing day, and, secondly, the ad- nierly occupied by Dr Reeve, Albert Street sentence. vortisement of Col. Farrant's death "Well, Stephen, I think in your to the Times, with an elaborately i DENT[sT, gradn- case it would be 'absurdly impos- worded eulogy and eeling deacrip- 7 ,ate Royal ege of Doutal Surgeons sib}e,"" he said, laughingly. "But tion of the grief of the family,— ti °°y�arerunyl operations ns. estheiicslaa afraidperfect comprehension After that he relapsed into a pro- I ministered for the painless eatraet;att of I am p teeth. Otiice - Keefer's old stand, Coats.' between parents and children is not found reverie, from which he only Rloek, Clinton. W;II visit Blyth profession so universal as it ought to be, or se roused himself to calculate what was ally every Motiday. at Mason's Hotel. you seem to think it. Here comes the probable wcrth of the Oakdene estate. Donovan's Sunday at Porthker- ran was almost as trying a day as the previous one at school had been. Possibly bis grief and wretchedness might have induced him to enter the church, had not his recollections of the last Sunday deterred him.— Never could he forget the slow tor• Lure to which he had then been sub- jected. The intolerable length of the day,the two sevioes,thesermons with their direct reference to the sin which he had promoted, their un DR3. ELLIOT & GUNN. sparing condemnation of the ring- leader, the sudden turning of all eyes to his place, the struggle be- tween his sense of shame and his pride, the angry resentment of the injustice and exaggeration—he liv- ed it all over again as he walked gloomily along the Porthkerran (DRS. REFVF & TURNBULL cliffs, and the silent repressed in• dignation did him no good. It was with his very worst ex- pression that he went to meet Ellis ,.r MVN +, Mkr E ` MU ,k,s 1 Wo c4nma)re a Low gocdtiaaustreaiprLYata Nude at lave. rates anti moderate expellee - Tavola made to suit borrowers. DIANNINIG & tiOOTT, - 011ntOZ 'EDWARD HARRIS, Real Estate Brok.er,Financial Agent, mac., 23 Turonto Street, Toronto "A fellow can't be always pick- ing his words --I'm sure it's as good as a proverb now," interrupt- ed Stephen. "If you only knew what it was to have such a strait- laced mother as 1 have, you—" because his heart was anything ''Find me a song," said Gladys, but hard, and ached and smarted handing him a portfolio, and, thougl4 under that "continual dropping." she spoke sweetly, there was a cer- How long it went on he had not tain grave dignity in her tone. the faintest ides, but it seemed to Tha choice was soon made, but him that Ile had heard many times Donovan was so absorbed in watch - of his "disgrace," had often winced ing Gladys that he scarcely noticed at the mention of his father's name, the first verse of the song, until and silently listened to many un- a mournful refrain of "Strangers just accusations, had long felt the Yet" recalled him painfully to him- . gratingincong: nit! of this stormy self. With strained attention he passion with the silent room of listened to the remaining -verses: death above. It was a relief when "After childhood's winning ways, at length, exhausted with her sor- After care and blame and praise, row, Mrs Fa, rant fell asleep. He Counsel asked and wisdom given drew nearer then, and stood silent- eml heavett, ChildAftr and utuaparentsprayers scarceto regret ly watching, her looked at her soft When they part are strangers vet. brown hair, her faultless features, her singularly delicate complexion. "Will it evermore be thus, It seemed incredible that one so Spirit still imprevious .,Shall we never fairly stand beautiful and gentle -looking could Soul to soul and hand to hand .' have uttered such cruel reproaches, Are the bonds eternal set but it was by no means surprising To retain us etrangers yet' to Donovan. He had been quite "Absurdly impossible," was the prepared for it, had learned many comment of Stephen, at the end. "I years ago that his mother was a had no idea it meant that kind of mother only in name, that the ont- strangers—vevy dull, too." going love of true motherhood was "The song or the parenta?" asked not in her, that the moat he could Gladys, laughing. "In either case even expect for himself or Dot was your answer will be equally rude. a gastly shadow in place of a reals- Here is papa,' alae continued, as Dr ity. He had been a fool to thinis Tremain came into the room. "1 of comforting her! He would waste shall telt him what a tease ,you are, no more hopes on anything so hope- Stephen; you-rereally getting worse loss. He flung back to the win- Particulars of Farms, Residences, Businees Properties, &c., for intend. edsale, can be sent to the abuse address, or given to HORATIO HALE, BANKER, &L., • Dec- . 1889. than Dick." dow, yet returned to spread a shawl ., What is that doleful song ?'r over her feet. asked the doctor, putting his hand The wretched evening wore on, on her shoulder, as he bent down to Mrs Farrant awoke, and with look at the piece of music. "'S•trang- scarcely a word went upstairs to ers yet:' Who. were the strangers?' bed. Once more the room was "A parent and child, papa, and lonely and still --infinitely more I lonely even than it had been on the previous evening,for now Donovan's whole being was crying out et the injustice of its loneliness. Why, when he would willingly have shown tenderness and love was he Boldly repulsed? Why was he coldly cut off from all sympathy? What meant the pain which had relentlessly pur- sued him from his very childhood i '1b these que3tions what answer could lie make?—all seemed to him hopeless confusion and injustice.— If for a moment his mind did revert to the thought of a Providence rul- ing over all, it was only to be as quickly repelled by the vision of the God, presented to him in his childhood, for it was always tolthis the mother to give her opinion. - teaching that he recurred when he But how is this?" for Mrs Tremain allowed the subject to enter his had in her arms a clinging four year thoughts at all. Mrs Doery's mis- old boy, in the tiniest of white representation had left ita impress night shirts. on his mind, while in later years "Jackie had a very bad dream, the truths he had heard had always and the only thing that would set been so resolutely and speedily re - him right was to come down -stairs jected that they had failed to leave and see all the world again," she their mark. explained, smiling at the general The room began to grow intolre- exclamation. able to him; he rushed out into the In a moment the suffering Jackie open air, and breathed more freely became the hero of the evening, as the cold night wind blew upon and was allowed to confide all his him. The rain was still falling terrors td "paps," how a great tig- fast, but he scarcely noticed it, as er from the "Shosical Dardena" be strode on recklessly. The mere bad come close to his bed to eat mechanical exercise was in itself him up, till just at the supreme soothing, and he might have trud- moment "mother" had heard his ged along the muddy road for an screams and had rescued him. A indefinito time, had not his atten- little reassuring talk on the safety of tion been attractod by a distant tigers' cages, and a laughing aflirma- sound of music. Drawing:nearer, he tive to the question "And 'oo is found that the house from which it very strong isn't'oo?" soon set Jack - proceeded was Dr. Tremain'a, and, ie's mind at rest, his sleepy eyelids hardly knowing what he did, he began to close, and having kissed Children Cry for CLINrON (')N CI Nt'14i) LLBER T K1N G. The subscriber would intimate to the public generally that he has added to his business that of UNDERTAKING, And is prepared to supply all fun- eral necessaries at short notice and in a satisfactory manner. Collins, Caskets, ShroudS, &c , CARRIED IN STOCK. 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All orders entrusted to him will receive prompt and careful attention. GEORGE POTTS, Kirk St., Clinton. J. H. R. MOLSON.. ... Pres. F. WOLFI:RSTAN THOMAS, Geseral Manager Notes d,.vcoonted,Collrsctions made, Drafts i.v • gid, Sterling and Annerican ex. c'szagv bought and .sold at lowest current rates. Interest a: 4 per cent allowed en deposits. Moneyadvanced to farmers on their own notes with one or more endorsers. No utax*.gage re- quired as security. BREWER, Manager, Jan•wry 1887. Clinton Clinton Post Office Than® Table Mail. are due for del.,ery and clo;o 1.,r dot') tt�" at the CI,ntun 1' ,t Otto as follows: - D11 WORTHINGTON, - PHYSICIAN, Surgeon, Aceoucher, Licentiate of the College of Physicians, and Surgeons of Lower Canada, and Provincial Licentiate and Coroner for the County of Huron. Of- fice and residence, -The building formerly 000upied by MrTliwanes, Huron Street. Clinton, Jan.10,1871. (I.osit o 10 Hamilton, Toren -to, Strat- ford,Scaforth, Grand Trunk east and interme• - d iat a offices .. 7.00 a.m. • 1.50 p.m Toronto, Stratford, Sea forth, T. and S. east.. . 1.50 p.m.. 8 a.m Goderich, HoIm•esv;ll� and; Grand Trunk west 1 p.m. i 8.11 a.m Godench, 8,a5 p.m.! 2.4) p.nt Haint:too, Toronto, 4.15 p.m. 10.113 :dmLondon, L., H. & B. south a nt. p.m, � ant. pyo and intermediate officesi 7.00 4.10.10,2;, 7.00 Blyth, Wiughom, Kincar dine, Lucknow, L.,[I,&B.'• north and intermediate a.m. p in.41.m. p.m offices 9.:30 0.171 8.10 British mails, Monday, Wed - 7.00 a.m.; T• E. BLACHALL VETERINARY SUR- . oEON, Honorary Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats all diseases of domesticated animals on the moot modern and scientific principles. Office - immedi- ately west of the Royal Hotel. Residence - Albert St., Clinton. Calls night orday at- tended to promptly. H. R. Elliot, M. D., W. Gunn, M.D., L. R. L.R.C.P., Edinburgh, C.P„ Edinburgh, L. R. L,R.C.S.. Edinburgh, C. 8., Edinburgh, Li - Licentiate ottbe Mid• oeuttete of the Mid- wifery, Edinburgh. wifery,Edin, Odloe,on Office at Brueefleld. corner of Ontario and William Ste., Clinton Pitcher's Castoria. timidity, Thursday Bayfield, Varna, 13erbie,in, Bail,.. 2.30 p.m.;d2 45p.m. Surnar',-hill, Tuesday and Fri lay, 5.30 p.m.5.30 p.m J. C. STEVENSON —THE LEADING— UNDERTAKER' —ANc— EMBALMER. A FULL'LINE OF GOODS KE'P 1 is STOCK The bestErabalming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBEW111 ST.,CL1NTCrN, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARR AN & TISDA.LL Mone} Orders sewed and Deposita received from ono dollar upwards. Office hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p m. Savings Bank and Money Order Office close at 6.30 p.m. THOMAS FAIR, Postmaster. Clinton, April 011, 1889. DDr. Reeve, Coroner for County of Huron. r. Turnbull, Graduate of Toronto and Vic- toria Universities; member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; Fellow - of Obetotrical Society of Edinburgh; late of London, Eng„ and Edinburgh Hospitals Mae: -Murray Block, Ratteubury 8t„ Olin ton. Night calls anewored at Dr. Roeve'a residence, Huron 8t., or at Grand Union Hotel, Telop.,ono BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT A°.vances made- to farmers on their own notes, at law rates of interest. A 4eneral Banking Business transacted Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, /'tanager RICHLY Rewarded are those who read 1 1 tbiaand the¢ act; they will find honorable employment that will not take them from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now making several hundreddollarss month 1': io easy for any person to make SS per day n.nd upwards,who is willing to work. Eithe eex,young or old ; capital not noeded,we star you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, reader.can do it as well as a,�y� one. Write to its at once for full part[oulary which we [nail free. Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. HURON AND BRUCE Loan Sr 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 Allowed on Depoeits,according to amount and time left. OFFTCF.-Corner of Market Square and North a HORACE HORTON. M&NAGAR. Godorich, August 5th 1885 C L 1N•i oN Planing Mill.. —ANDD— DRY KILN! THE suasoudBER HAVING JUST COlT- TLaTSD and furnished his new Planing Mitt with machinery of the latest Improved patterns, le now prepared to attend to all orders in his line in the.aoet prompt and satlafactorywanier and at real ,table rates, He would also return thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, and now being ins bet- ter position to execute orders expeditiously feels confident he can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Trunk Railway, Clinton. THOMAS MaRENZIII ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, Mant.faoturer and Proprietor for the best Eau 81111 Dog in use. Agent for the sale and application of the saFlslroa PATatrr AOTOMAn6 Botta° CLaANta. STEAM FITTINGS furnished BIBLES & TESTA VENTS AT COST j end applied on strut notice. The Clinton Branch Bible Society nave for sale at DR WORTHINGTON'S DRUG STORE, Albert Stpook,a fine assortment of Bibles and Testaments. TSOTAM0NTA mom Sots. UPWARD maw`s PROM 25618 UPWARDS. COMSANDsula, DR WORTHINOTON,IDO pOaitOry. Dollars. Engines. and all kinds et Machinery repaired expeditiously and In a satisfactory manner. Barn. implements manufactured andrepa Steam and Water Pipes furnishe position. Dry Kilns fitted up Charge moderato