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Home My WebLink AboutThe Clinton New Era, 1890-07-11, Page 6• vsurt4y.. aux,F ],I.. 1890,. ' VAN MODERN ENGLISHIIIA BY EDNA LY4LL. N P disb ed by Wm. Bryce, Toronto. CONT1NLED. off &pec. tem bairn? AeaTeetTali eiAne UUytil;lms'•ot' Ytiau. Tetchy and wayward wire thy infancy, Thy school days frightful, desperate, iatild estd furious _ _ • • • a 'What comfortable lour caust thou name That ever graced ume iu thy company? lithe Rtctuun. If 1 be so diagraciuus iu your eyes Let me march on, and trot offend you, madame. King Richard 1I1.– Act iv.•Se. 4. in this country the power of the man in and out of society is all but supreme. rules «Will :you thank Mrs Tremain Wherever he is he overpowers end „ and shadowy crowds yield to his spell. fpr her kindness to me, continued At his beck they juiu a crusade, or for- TIoA4yan, still with the air of one swear their own existence. As be die- 4.'ealily discharging a duty of court tater they are lirotoplasnms and sporules, or divinities. ',.'hey throb with his af- , "and for the flowers she kindly „ factons, they pant with his desires and Aetst this morning. . rise to his a.,ptratious. T Tey see as he -"Certainly, I will give her your sees, hear as lie hears, and believe as he nessage, and when next you come believes. This is aha power for evil or .westward, I hope we shall see you f1SorS0. good. The Tiuies, Christmas day, $tc Port/shaman. Good bye!" and ui Uek1 lti.) isr was a cuuifor- the doctor turned away rather sad• • y, and set out homeward. Before he had gone far, however, 'he beard hurrying steps behind, 'stud his late companion once wore stood beside him. "Forgive me," he said hoarsely; "I was cold and ungrateful, I shall not forget your kindness, only now I'm too wretched to feel it. Don't think too hardly of rue." And be- fore Dr. Tremain could do zuore than show his answer by look and gesture, Donovan was half -way bank again co the inn. During this titue Ellis F.rtrant had been giving vent to his rage and disappointment within the house. That all his schemes should be frustrated by a paltry piece of mote -paper, witnessed by a doctor and a servant, wits inexpressibly galling. Had the will been elabor- ately drawn up, apd duly besprink- led with meaningless legal phrases, it would not have caused him halt the annoyance. It was the absurd littleness the pertect simplicity of the thing which chafed hint so. Was there no flaw to be detected! No, not the very slightest even to his longing eye. Would it be pos- sible to call his cousin's sanity into question? No, quite impossible; there could be no doubt of that, There 'was a moment's pause in Ellis Farrant's thoughts, a pause in which he fully realized the defeat of his purpose; he heard Donovan return to the inn, and at the sound of his footsteps he hastily shuffled the will into his pocket, but the precaution was needless, for the footsteps' passed by, and presently the door of Donovan's room closed and locked. Again Ellis drew out the will and looked at it fixedly; it was a little crumpled now; he no- : t'iced the impression of his 'Indian– grass cigar -case upon it. What a frail, trumpery, perishable thing it was!—he began to dwell on this tlhought with satisfaction instead of bitterness. Then he looked again at the signatures of the witne.ises; "Thomas Tremain, Surgeon, Tre- nant, Porthkerran," Mary Pen- gelly, Servant, Penruddcck Arms Iain, Porthkerran." A, maid servant and a doctor liv- "; :ibg in an obscure Cornish village -- what had he to fear from then(? And the boy upstairs? Why, he icnaw nothing, and never need know —never should know; and with a sudden resolution Ellis tore the i aheet of paper in half; and then in =lialf again. Then a great horror iaeized upon him; he turned very ;cold, and fell back in bis chair, "shuddering violently. It was done, "and. there was no retrieving the ',deed ! Ile mechanically fingered .;rand counted the six fragments, r ' looking at each with a vacant terror. F' ty and by the terror began to take ';+definite shape. What if the boy ;,!;ewere to come down? He must de- (?,"'etroy all remains of this detestable Vein, of this little heap of paper Which had been the will. He was ,very cold, he would order a fire,and i'',lie crossed the room with unsteady Vs' steps to -ring the bell, but paused <'"with the caution of guilt when his `shand was on the bell rope. Sup - :;:::posing Mary Pengelly should come, ';".'supposing she caught sight of these .fragments 1 be felt as if she would instantly perceive them in the se- eurest hiding place. No, be must "Slight the fire himself, and with `.: nervous haste he drew a box of fusees from his pocket, and with •• eonsideiable difficulty succeeded in kindling the damp wood into a blaze. Then he carefully placed the little heap of paper in the very _: •entre of the grate, and watched ,ss anxiously while gradually the edges %:;'curled upward, the whiteness was ;Iscorched to brown, then to black, .fringed with sparks of red, finally do • a swift yellow blaze, while the last black shreds of Colonel Far- ,,<•;1'pnt's will were borne up the '^ebimney by the sudden draught.— Not quite the last, however, for ,Not fragment had fallen to the side ;':•;tif the fits -place, and floated down to the fender jusii asEllie thought was ail over. He snatched it up rand would once more have thrown It to the flames had not something fdteed him to look at it; scorched 'and half charred as were its edges, be could plainly read the words— "Yty only son, Donovan." A swift pang of regret thrilled him for a moment; then a sound in the prlasage outside renewed his guilty •error, and, stooping down, he held the fragment to the blaze with his t>Wn fingers, scarcely feeling the inter approach of the hot flames, in ''1 t relief that time last vestige of the :Will wag finally disposed of. Children Cry for table thuu;h somewhat pr modern house, Luilt by Co Furrata's father on the site o old Manor Ilouse "farm, which helouged to the Farrent's from immemorial. It stood on the verge of a beautifully wooded overlooking one of the simple lovely valleys which aboun Mountshire, with distant glint of blue -gray downs, a view of w it was iin possible to tire. shtuba, which had been pia neatly eighteen years, were no their full perfection; a longappr hotdrred on each side by pines laurels, led to the pretty cre laden porch, which beyond an the front ot the house lay a curi ly planned gtrdon, formed into f terraces cut one below the othe the side of the hill. At the foo the lowest terrace there was a r er overgrown pond, and bey this a thi<•k wild wool, slop down to the valley. It was a late t-esson, and, tbo the first week in June was ne over, the trees were only just be niug to. Lok really green. It se ed a wonderfully slow process reclothing of Nature, at least little Dot I''ar rant it seemed but elle lay watching the trees continuously from day to day t although Mrs Doery affirmed t she must see them grow, the 1 expectancy of spring wee rea more protracted to her than to th who watched the growth and p gross less carefully. Her couch was, as usual, dra close up to' the window en a sho ery afternoon of early June, a she bad contrived to while a•w the time very pleasantly by wat ing the sndaen changes of sto and sun on the wood below, for D had something of an artist's ey and was quick to mark the effe of light and shade. Happy litt observations of this kind wore i deed but too often all she was for; grievously fragile and delicat she was, as Mrs Doery expressed in broad terms, "diseased throng and through." And yet it was o the whole a happy and singularly child -like face. Her complexion was pale but very fair; the delicate contour of her features was still so far unharmed by suffering as to show her childish years; her hair was strained back from her forehead and just fell to the shoulder in soft dark -brown masses, and her eyes were almost exactly like Donovan's --dark hazel, full of pathos, but expressing less painfully the sadg unsatisfied cravinso noticeable in his. This was perhaps to be accounted for; in Dot everything she needed, so it seemed to her, was summed np in her brother. Donovan was her friend, her comforter, her teach- er, her playfellow; when ho was with her her days wore almost uni- formly happy. She would bear her pain in patient silence for the sake of pleasing and sparing him; and when he was absent the thought of what he would have liked; and the re- membrance of his own patience and control nerved her still to endure and to copy her ideal. tier love really amounted to worship. But, deeply as be loved her, Dot could not at all fill this position to Donovan. She was indeed to him both friend and comforter, and, in a sense, also teacher and playfellow, hitt he was of course the strong one. She leaned on him utterly, and he —ho had nothing ro lean on but himself, or rather would accept nothing. -The strong craving was there, only his pride of will held it in iron fetters. "If the ash before the oak, Then you may expect a soak; If the oak before the ash, Then 'twill only be a splash," 0 Mean e,, wy'{)eg," anti. She thought .witjt a,atgh Ogle lOt1 Of the fftther i .13004-- rhe had carred learned t.o kngw, rind of Donovan'a school' tits; grace. "I've lived sixty-eight years come -Michaelmas," replica Ms , Doery, "and I never kr:ew it otherwise ; folks generally get just what they don't want, and when they don't want. There was your poor grand - papa, just as he'd built this house he was laid up with paralysis, and never so much as saw it finished. There was rue myself" (Mis Doery was very fond of dilating on her past life), "just as I'd got used to doing for my poor master, comes Master Donovan 'to plague the life out of me; and then, as if I bad not enough of trouble and worriting, you, who I thought would have been a good baby, turns out sickly and invalidated." (Mrs Doery ra- ther confused long words et times ) "This last month, too, has been a regular chapter of misfortunes; I osaic , counted on it that at least Mr lone! Donovan would have done us some f the i credit at school, seeing that all the had folk say he's so clever—too clever, time I),.. ,Simpkins used to say when he very was little; and now here he is home hill again, with nothing but disgrace to yet bring us." d in "Doery, how can you?" interrul,t• pfes Pd Dot, with burning cheeks- "You hrch , know how sorry he is—how dread- 'I'he fully unhappy." nted i� "Miss Dot," said Doery, a little w in i; severely, "I've known M: Dcnovan oach ' a sight longer than you, and, mark and . my words, he's no more sorry—than aper; —than you are," she ended, not d to very conclusively. "It always was onus- . the way; the more I punished him our for bis faults, the less sorrow he'd r on show; he'd only get angry, and that t of is what he is now. I know well sill ! enough that look on bis face, and and it's never sorrow that brought it Ing there. If you think he's a'grieving over his fault, you're mistaken, Miss ugh Dot." arly Doery had a good deal of shrewd gin common sense, and she was not far em- wrong here; the only pity was that this fherurther, and convince her how very penetration did not go a little to so; much at fault her early system of an training had been. bat • "Oh 1 but, Doer•y, they were so hathard and unjust," pleaded 1)ot,with ong tears in her eyes. "How can you ]ly I wonder that he felt angry? Oh ! I ose cannot think how any one could ro- have thought such thinks of my dear, dear Dono!" wn "Those who do wrong suffer for w• it," said Mrs Doery, Mr Donovan nd had done wrong at the school, and a the school was bound to show what y it felt.. Not but what I m sorry y rte enough that they've explelled him, ot for now he can never go into the o army, and he's a fine handsome lad, cis no one can't deny," and for a mo- le ment the old wontan's face was n_ softened, fo' she was not without a fit ! certain pride in her troublesome, e; . ill-starred ne'er do -well. it "Will people always remember h about it, do you think?" questioned n I Dot, anxiously. "Always," said Mrs Doery, with a sigh; "he'll be marked by that , disgrace like Cain, to his dying day." "Who is Cain?" asked Dot, whose bringing up equaled Donovan's In ignorance. "Cain was a bad man who mur- dered his brother, and had a mark put on bis forehead," said Mis Doery. "How horrid!" shuddered Dot. "But I thought you said the other day that it wasn't proper for little girls to hear about murder's, when I wanted to "hear what cook had shown you about one in the news- paper." "There are murders and mur- ders," said Mrs Doery, sagely. "Cain is different from the ones nowadays," he's—he's--instructiv e as well as destructive." Dot smiled a little, but did not ask for the story; her theugbts had wandered back to Donovan. "I'm sorry you know, Doery, that people will always remember that Dono was expelled. I did so want them to forget very soon." "You won't find that folks will forget, Miss Dot, so don't expect it; a bad beginning is a bad beginning, nobody can't deny, and I've always found that, if people once get a bad name, they keep it.I can't say, either, that I see any signs of Mr Dono- van's turning over a new leaf; be's as obstinate and as headstrong as ever. I've told biro many a time since he wasn't higher than that table bow 'Don't care' came to the gallows, but he was always one for tossing back his head in that haugh- ty way, minding no one in the world but himself. He'll come to no good." quoted Dot merrily, as she lay watching the dripping trees glisten- ing in the sunlight. "Doery, do you heat? We are going to have a fine summer, for the oaks are twice as forward as the other trees." Mrs Doery was sitting before a large woik•basket darning stockings. By the gloom and sourness express- ed on her features it might have been supposed that she was the con- stant sufferer, and bright faced Dot the able bodied person. "Well, Miss Dot," she answered in a depressed voice, "I'm not much of a believer in such signs as them. The weather is as contrairy as most other things and folks; reckon that it'll do one thing, it's sure to go and do another!' "I suppose things do go rather contrairily," said Dot, coining a word upon Mrs Doery's model. -- "Certainly, just now evetthing "Pitcher's Castoria. "Don't say such dreadful things Doery," said Dot between laughing and crying. "Dono will be 'eon— trairy,' as you say the weather is: He will turn out exactly the oppo- site to what you fancy he will, I am sure. People cannot help loving him, and then, you know, he will be happy again. "Ob ! I am so glad he comes back from London to -day. How long it seems since cousin Ellis took him away! What is the time, Doery? Please look before you begin that now row. He was to be at the station at four o'clock." Mrs Doery's respectable silver time -keeper pronounced it to be four already, and, though the ate - tion was th►ee miles off, Dot inaist- ed on having her couch wheeled to the window facing the carriage drive, that she might watch for Mm. In the drawing room below, Mrs ,Farrant Wats rol)pest by they imund t returning llgt afternoon. aQA was "Doery really ehoald oil the wheels of Dot's couch," she reflected drowsily, with the discomfited feel- ing of one disturbed in the middle of it siesta. But somehow she could not comprise herself to sleep again, though she still lay comfortably on the sofa, /Bowing her thoughts to roam idly where they pleased. It was nr,w three weeks since Col. Farrant's funeral. His widow had returned to Oakdene, and had resumed her former habits of life, not exactly with the courageous '-re-begiuning" of submission—for it was no great effort to her—but rather with the acquiescence of an inert mind. The passionate vehe– mence of her grief had exhausted itself at Portbkerran. It had an unusual effort to her, for was not by nature passionate. reproachful anger with Don her long fits of weeping had her out; all bodily exertion wa tasteful to her, and this exce agitation, so very foreign to had told greatly on her phy health. It was, therefore, pet well for all parties that her ina mind and dormant affections alio her so soon to return to her ordi life, though Donovan, with seemed like inconsistency, m tained that he would rather gone through endless repititio the stormy scenes at Porthker than have witnessed this calm, cid forgetfulness. To his at and positive nature his mot character was a complete enig The bitter anger was somethin could comprehend, though it wounded him to the quick, but speedy return to quiet indiffer could not possibly be understood him, or sympathized with, and that reason it wounded hint r rude of vow" teruiinatgcl b>r• a 'riga of Sharp barks from Fido. "Down, Fido, down. What ie poor Little dog ? Ah ! be hea wheels, Good little Fido, qui right, little doggie, bark away, on not too near my ears, please'! cannot be a visitor, fon+' I't-e nit se out my 'rcturn thanks.' Iqt.� must al Donovan. .1 do hope'be as Qom hack in better spirits, it is so welt ing to we to see him with a gloom face. Is my cap straight, 1 wo der?" and she (;lanced at her retie tion in the looking -glass. "Th new cap really suits , the very wel only the lappets are so in the wa on a sofa. What a quick, shar step Donovan has—quitea minter tread, like his poor father's. Ah ! he has gone upstaits to Dot's room, s I as we v o may 11 have afters y my con been tea before seeing him." Another she thoughtless interval, this time brok- en by the entrance of the servant with a little solitaire tea service,and a plate cf broken biscuit for Fiuo. Mrs Farrant roused herself. "I forgot to tell Charlotte this morning that )Ir Donovan was expected. Just tell her to get his room ready." The page received the message, and retired noiselessly while Mrs Farrant stir red her tea, and sighed over the cares and troubles of housekeeping. In the room above the "quick, sharp step" had been listened to with very different feelings. Dot wriggled about on her couch im- patiently. "Oh! Doery, do open the door," she cried. "I'm so afraid he will go into the drawing -room. I want so to hear. Yea—no—he is cont• ing upstairs!" and she half raised herself in her excitement. "Lie still, Miss Dot, and be pa- tient," said Doery, scrutinizing the heel of a fresh stocking. "Dear me! one would think you were ex- pecting the Prince of Wales and all the royal family!" "Here he is! here he is!" cried Dot, ecstatically. "Oh! Dono!" and het little, weak arms were round his neck in a minute, with all the clinging warmth of a child- isb, half -worshiping love. "Well, little woman," he exclaim- ed, after she had released him, "how have you been getting on? You have actually a little color in your cheeks for once." "Oh! it is so beautiful to have you back again," said Dot, happily. "It has seemed such a long fort. night; and how tall and old you look, Dono. And oh! you are let- ting your mustache grow again. Look at him, Doery." Thus reminded of Mrs Doery's presence, Donovan turned round hastily to greet his old enemy. "How are von, Doery? And how do you think" Amiss Dot is?" . e" ! it, rd to ly EDWARD HARRIS, It nt be e r - y n c i 1 y p y GFX] lktQjv'FXI We eanmake a-fewiQodtaaasCrow ilrfvate Hinds at low testes naafi moderate expense. Terms trade toe sit borrowers. SUNNING] 4t $COTTA CluttQn ilex cyan, worn s dls- saive her, sical haps ctive wed nary what aln- have ns of ran, pla- rong her's ma. g he had the ence by for still to mer, nd eal my Iry ny- ar- on ed re- nd lit - ad nd, ide to th nt us, ak TO ed d ed y– k- er t, n d t t e 0 t, t a 8 e e 0 r e r more. And yet it would be hard blame poor Mrs Farrant altogetl for her natural temperament a her circuwstagces had agreat d to do with her';failings. The o daughter of a widowed cava officer, she had never known a thing of home life. She had m ried Colonel Farrrnt almost as so as she left school, and had pass at once into all the cares and sponsibilities of a household, a the pleasures and trials of a mi ary life abroad. At Malta she h been the gayest of the gay, a though feeling some natural pr in her child, had very little time give him at all. In India her heal had suffered, and naturally indole she had falen into the luxurio seihi-invalid ways so hard to bre loose from. Then carne the retu to England, which had been are upon on account of her health, an for the last ten years she had 1 a "uiet indulgent, easy life, enjo ing the society to bo had near Oa dene in a subdued, lazy way of b own, and making one yearly effor namely, the removal to the tondohouse fcr the months of May an June. So far as circumstances an natural character can be pu forward as an excuse, Mrs Ferran -night reasonably claim a lenien judgment, but no one need be th "slave of circumstances," and n nature can be so hopelessly iner or weak, or bad, that highly three ed and resolute efforts will not re form it. But Mrs Farrarat ha never made a resolute effort of thi kind. She was one of those peopl who let themselves drift along tb stream of life. She never tried t row, never hoisted a sail, neve even touched a steering -rope. Sh had had a sharp, sudden shock; fo a moment her quiet course had been interrupted, but now she had resumed it, and allowed herself to drift along placidly as before. This was the head of the Oak- dene household, the influence for good or for evil of the inmates of the manor; a woman who could best be described by negatives --- not good, and yet not exactly bad; not evil intentioned, and yet with- out a single good motive; not un- kind to her children, yet never loving; not in the world's opinion irreligious, yet never penetrating beyond the outer shell of religion. There was only one thing in which she was positive --love for herself. Her dreamy, unregulated thoughts generally hovered round this point of interest; her health, her comfort or discomfort, her dress, her em- ployments, her amusements, and curiously one exception outside herself, her lapdog. Upon a hand- some, bad-tempered, snowy Pome- ranian nan9ed Fido, she lavished the time and caresses which her children had failed to obtain from her. On the afternoon in question she lity calmly meditating on the sofa in her usual fashion, meandering on from subject to subject. "Doery should really oil those wheels. 1 wonder what nerve is BO strangely affected by any sound like that ? Perhaps it is the sym- pathetic nerve. If so, my sympa- thetic nerve is very susceptible— very. But all my nerves are sus- ceptible, as Dr. McLean used to say at Calcutta; 'You are all nerves, my dear madame.' He was a handsome man, Dr. McLean, only a little too gray. How pleasant those years in Calcutta were; if it had not been for the heat and for my health suf- fering so, I could really wish to go back there. Charming society i used to be, only one paid for the exertion of going out; the balls were delightful, but I was a martyr to headaches the next day. An inter - Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoriat To IIF: t•ONrINI'ril,. prof¢.s,,stonal anti other Cirarttl MANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, Solicitors, CONVEYANCERS, &C., einmiasionera for Ontario and Manitoba Ora14.;4 Nes- I),,,a TO Naw EaA, CLINTON A l ONEY TO LOAN. MORTGAGES ..1.r1 Bought. Private Funds. C Office over J Jackson's Store, Clinton. Ili ARRIAGE LICENSES.- APPLY TO V& the un0terslgned at the Library Rooms, JAMES 'COTT, Clinton. ATARIHAGE LICENSES ISSUED BY THE 1A- undersigned, at residen r,e or drug store, MRS A. WORTHINGTON. 1trONEY TO LEND IN LARUE OR 11''11 9mal I sums on good mortgage security, moderate rate of interest. 11 HALE,Clinton DR APPLETON-OFFICE-AT RESI- poeite English lut OCihurc iii.street, EutrauClinton, si,Ie gate. DR STANIURY, GRADUATE OF THE Medical Department of Victoria Uni- versity; Toronto, formerly of the Hospitals and Dispensaries, Now York, Coroner for the County of FIuron, Bayfield, Ont. I) W. WiLL1A5TS, R. A., M. L1, GRADU- b ATE of Toronto University; member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Ont. OF•rrce & RIO41DFNCE the house for- merly occupied by Dr Reeve, AibertStreet Clinton. 1 C. BRUCE, L.D.S., DENTIST, gradu- 1 • ate Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario. All operations of modern den- tistry carefully performed. Anwstiteties ad ministered for the painless extraction of teeth. Office — Keofer's old stand, Coats' Block, Clinton. Will visit Blyth profession- ally every Monday, at Mason's Hotel. DR WORTHINGTON, - PHYSICIAN, Sureonhe College of Phyaiciana, a dAccoucher,OeSurgeons iate of t of Lower Canada, and Provinelai Licentiate and Coroner for the County of Huron. Of- fice and residence,—Time building formerly occupied by MrThwaltes, Huron5treet. Clinton, Jan,10,1871. TE. BLACKALL VETERINARY SUR - el • noon, Honorary Graduate of the Ontario Veterinary College. Treats all diseases of domesticated animals the most modern and scientific prion iplea n Office — Immedi- ately west of the Royal Hotel. Residence— Albert St., Clinton. Calle night orday at- tended to promptly. DRS. ELLIOT & GUNN. H. R. Elliot, M. D., I W. Gunn, M.D., L. R. L.R.C.P., Edinburgh, C.P„ Edinburgh, L.R. L,R.C.S.. Edinburgh, C. S. Edinburgh, Li - Licentiate otthe Mid- oentiate of the Mid- wifery, Edinburgh, wifery,Edin, O►nee,on Otfloe at Brucefleid. corner of Ontario and William Ste., Clinton DRS. REFVE & TURNBULL 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 Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh; late of London, Eng„ and Edinburgh Hospitals Office:—Murray Block, Rattenbury 8t., Olin ten. 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JOS CHIDLEY Undertaker and dealer in Furniture, Clinton. G. H. COOK, Licentiate of Dental Surgery, Honor Grade ate of the Toronto School of Dentistry. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered for the painless extraction of teeth. Office over Jackson's Clothing Store, next to Post Office, Clinton. 4T Night bell answerei ly J. T. WILKIE, SURGEON, DENTIST Holds the exclusive right for the county for the Hurd process of administering ohe mi- oally pure Nitrogen Monoxide, which is time safest and beet system yet discovered for mme oderate, satisfaction guaranteed.of teeth. C Orrice, ELLIOTT'S BLOCK, over Rauo8'e Tailor Shop, Huron Street,^•Linton. EXHAUSTED - ViTAUTY; rIlEE SCIENCE of Life 1 tegreat the age on Mart Workof hood Nervous and Physi- cal Debility, Premature Decline, Errors of Youth. and the untold miseries consequent thereon, 300 pages 4 vol., 1.25 prescrip- tions for all diseases,— Cloth, full gilt, only 41; by mail, sealed. Il- lustrated sample free to all young and tuid- dte aged omen. Send now. Tho Gold and Jewelled Medal awarded to the author by the National Medical Association. Address P. O. Box 18.95, Boston, Maas., or Dr. W. II. PARKER, graduate of Harvard biedical Col- lege, 23 years practice in Boston, Who may be consulted confidentially. Specialty, Dis- ease of Man. Office, No. 4 BulOnch St. The Molsons Banka Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1855, CAPITAL, - $2,000,000. REST FUND, - $1,000,000 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL - .J. J. H. R. MOLSON Prot. F. WOLFERSTAN THO1IAy, Oeceral Manager `i des d isrou uted,Co1i(,-.ons made, Drop.; ia.o.ed, Sterling and Ameri<•an ex- �4zage bought and sold at lowest current rates. Interest at 4 per cent ah.,wed en deposits. FA. RM "TX Money advanced to farmers on their nun uo5ra with one or more endorsers. No mortgage re- quired as security. Jaucarr 1887. Clinton Post Office Time Table 5tail.are doe for de!i„.n• ac'1 cb,,e f ti,a,, p. at the Clinton Pe,t tlr}irr a, fo:io,ci: Hamilton, Toronto, Strat-i ford, Seafortl , Grand Trunk east gond interne-: dtate offices ........ . 7.00 a.m.' 1.30 p.m Toronto, Stratford, sea - forth, T, and S. east.... 1.55 p.m, N a.m Goderich, llnlmesville and Grand Trunk West 1 p.m. S 10 a:,n Goderich. 18,45 p.m. 2.4.0 p.m llarntlten, Toronto, 4.15 p.m..m London, L., [f, & R.:xmuth a.m. p.,tm,'a.m ,,, p.m and intermediate offices! 7.00 4.15'10,15 7.00 Blyth, %%Ingham, Eincar-; dine, Lucknow, L.,H.&n. north and Interntediate'a. m. p m, .5.1o. p.m offices 9.3U 6.131 British mails,Monday,We,i-' 8•-u5•,)U nesday, Thursday ... Bayfield, Varna, •• 1.00 a.m,! H•erbison,) d:nl) 11.30 p.m., t2.45p.m. Summerhill, Tuesday and. Fridny. 1 5.30 p.m.'! 5.30 p.m Money Orders issued and Deposits received from 0110 dollar upwards. Office hours from 8 a.rn. to 7 min. Savings Bank and Money Order Office close at 6.30p,m. THOAS FAiR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 20, 1889.M HURON AND 'BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company is Loaning Money o,, Farm Security at LowPsl Rates of Interest, • MORTGAGES - PURCHASEI SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. J, 4 and 5 per Cent. Interest Allowed on Deposits,according toamount and time left. OFFICE—Corner of Market Square and North 8 HORACE HORTON, Goderich, August 6th 11188 MANAoaR, asassetionalmommiummimminianwsimmas BIBLES & TESTAMENTS AT COST" The Clinton Branch Bible Sooiety nave for sale at DR WORTHINGTON'S DRUG STORE, Albert Street„a fine assortment of Bgrles and Testaments. TESTAMENTS FROM Sets. UPWARD BIDLns PROM 9sot8PwARDs. COMM AND sirs, Dai WORTHINGTON , {D poetics.• A. COOK BOOK FREE By mail 2o any lady sending usher post oMit address. Wads, Richardson & Co,,Manti'54e CLINTOE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE, Library and Reading Rooms, Town Hall. down stairs. About 2,000 volumes i i the Library and all the Leading News papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Membership ticket $1 per annum Open from 2 to 6 p m., and from 7 to 9 p. in. Applications for memberehipreoelved oy the Librarian In the room. BENMILLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREE! NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, Tae LATTER OP WHIM WE MAAS A SPSOIALTT LARGE STOCK ON HAND. The above ornamental trees and shrubbery w” be sold at very low prices, and those wantin anything in this connection will save moue purchasing here. Orders by .11f0jl will be promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART, Renmiller• lY1cKi11op Mutual Insurance Co. T: NEVLANS, HARLOCK GENERAL AGENT. Isolated town and village property, as wet 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 undersigneddssires to iutimate to the people of Clinton and vicinity that he hay 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 ordere entrusted to him will receive prompt and' careful attentio. GEORGE nYOTTS, Kirk St., Clinton. J. C. STEVESON —THE LFADING— UNDERTAKER —ANf — EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF • GOODS HP, iv STOCK The bestEmbalm img Fluid used Splendid Uiearse, ALBERT ST.,,CLINTON, Residence over store, OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARRANSLTISDALL. BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT Advances made to farmers on their own; notes, at low rates of interest. 1 A Banking general B u €, Ilusiness transactsA Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TIS'DALL, Manager RICHLY Rewsanrded earea those who read honorable employment thatwilly not take them from their homes and (amities. The profits are largo and suite for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now making several pphundred dollars a moutrh, I. is and upwards any is willing ton to o work. e $$ per Rf he aex,young or old ; capital not needed,we star requirou. ed; you, I'eaeler.can do It new. No as well asial many one. Write to as atonce for full particulars which we trail free. Address Stinson dr Co Portland, Maine. OLIN roN Planing Mill —AND -- DRY KILN! min SUBSCRIBER A. P1 TIIDan d furn sh d hist new Planing NG JUST 21 1 with machinery of the latest improved patterns, line in the noel prompt and satisfaared to attend to all cttoorycastanet and at real ,noble rates. HeIs now would also return thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, and now being Ina bet- ter position to exeoute orders expeditiously feels confident ho can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Trut k Railway, Clinton, [SOMAS MCKENZIB ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, Mantfaotarer and Proprietor for the hest $a Mail Dog in use. Agent for the sale and application of the itarPMITER PAT/NT AUTOMATIC Bon,aa CLEANER. STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on ah -rt notice, Boilers. Engines. ond sill kinds of Machinery repaired eopeditloa.ly and in a.siisfhetory snowier. Para implements manufaotured andrepit Steam and Water Pipes turnishe position, Dry Kilns flitted. up Ohartfe natodereto nt