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The Clinton New Era, 1890-08-15, Page 2fi ,a "Well, Gladys dear, live up to the best meaning of your name, and I shall be quite satisfied. Now let us have our reading together. The weather looks promising for our picnic this afternoon, does it not?" Later in the day the whole faro sly, including Stephen and Mrs Causton, were to meet for an out- door tea -drinking. It was a half holiday, and the two younger boys, intervening between Dick and little Jackie, were to come over from the school at Plymouth. The doctor had promised to get his rounds done early and Stephen had been released from ^-' his duties for an hour or two. To children, and to ohild-like minds, it is seldom that a great expedition or an expensive picnic gives the pleas- , are which a more simple and home- ly one does. It is not the great for- mal, country excursion, with its grand toilets and champagne lunch, which dwells on the memory, and is looked back upon with pleasure, it is rather the simple "day in the country," when there were no liveri- ed servants to carry the provisions, when our own arms ached with the burden, when, with a sencs of delici- bus novelty, we ourselves spread the cloth on the turf, or boiled the ket- tle over a gypsy -like fire of sticks, or roamed in delightful freedom in • what seemed a paradise of rest and greeness, away from the "haunts of men." About two miles west of Porth- kerran the cliffs were broken into a sort of cleft or valley, and here a beautiful wood had sprung up, which in spring was carpeted with primroses and anemones, whore in summer forget-me-nots were to be found by the side of the little stream which trickled through the wood to the sea. It was in this space that the ['remains were to spend their afternoon. "It was very good of you to spare i;, Stephen," said Mrs Causton to the doctor, as he helped her out of the llitte pony carriage, in which the two elder ladies and the two younger children had come. "I sometimes fancy that he don't get out enough. I hope he deserves his holiday ?" "Yes, a little country air will sharpen him up," said the doctor, without replying directly to the question. "I hope you are really satisfied with Stephen 1" she said anxious- ? ly. "I hope he isn't idle 1" "Oh" said the doctor reassuring- ly, "I don't think he is more idle than many boys of his age. I dare say he told you that I was down upon him rather sharply yesterday. • 'He forgot an important message, 'and I was obliged to lecture him a little." "He never told me," said Mrs Causton, with some vexation in hor tone. "I would always so much rather know things of that kind. I can not get him to be open with me." "You can hardly expect that he will tell you of every trifling 'crape he gets into," said Dr. Tremain. "That was all very well while he WAR in petticoats, and the more spontaneous telling there is still the better, but perhaps one can hardly look for it in such a [natter is that." "I like perfect confidence between >4 ililul�l , 4'UGTJ8 16, VI*. DONOVAN, MODERN ENGLISHMAN ' BY EDNA LYALL. 4'eNislred by Wm. Bryon, Toronto. CONTINUED. "Po you know," said Mrs Tr e - Main, smiling, "that you are a very heti .iittle.arguer, Gladys? I fancy, JiUe' most women, that you have Pat a little personal feeling mixed With your views. Were you not thinking of Dick when the other Professions were being decried?" "You always know everything," ,paid Gladys, resting her arae on =71i;ra Tremain's knee, and abading ,be)' brow with her hand. "Yes, I was thinking of Dick. I uolieve he is the beat middy in all the navy. You know, mother, what Captain Smith said about him. I aw sure he is wo:th tea Stephens." "We are getting rather little and personal," said Mrs Tremain. "Don't let us take to crying up our � .-own -- belongings, and comparing them with other people's. Of course you are proud of Dick, dear, and 8o am J, but he is not a paragon of virtue." "Oh, no, I can't bear paragons," "[aid Gladys, laughing ; "they are always prigs. Dick is a regular boy still, thats why he's so nice. I wonder whether Aunt Margaret thinks it very risky for him to be left to himself so much. I believe --Stephen wants to be left alone a little, he always looks so bored when she begins to talk to him. You know, mother, she really does tal rather much ; sho always tries t a mother and aan." said Mrr Caus• tun. "Who shquid help him and advise him if ii do uotl'' "Quite s0. It is everything to have strong sympathy and udder standing, 'bill furled confidence is worthiests, and a boy of nineteen is generally rather a tough customer to deal with." "You think sol" questioned Mrs ()Austen. "Yes,I think undoubtedly that from eighteen to one -and -twenty is one of the most difficult periods of life. Boys, and in many instances girls too, begin then to have a good deal of liberty. The old discipline is cast off, they have to rule their own actions to a great extent, they have to face the problems of life, and forming their own opinions atrongly on every point, whether it is beyond their comprehension or not, they battle along not unfre- quently a misery to themselves and to their friends, till after dearly bought experience, they at last set- tle down, more or less contendedly, with some of their conceit knocked out of them." "Stephen is not conceited," broke in Mrs Causton. "I don't think any one could call him conceited; and, as to his opinions, why he holds everything that I do. He has never been any trouble to me in that way, and in these days, when young men so often hold such dreadfully unorthodox views, that is saying a great deal." "I don't think Stephen is in any danger of being unorthodox," said the doctor, rather dryly. Then after a little pause he added; "I meant that I don't think he ever thinks enough to have any difficul- ties. But in one way, Mrs Caus- ton, I do think he might be in k danger—he is far too easily led." o j "He is naturally gentle and pli- drag in religion, and sometimes it does come in so oddity. And then she is always saying "humanly speaking," I cannot bear those little phrases. I think auntie n.ust 1,e descended from some of the old Puritans. I am sure she'd have liked those funny, made-up names. She chose Stephen's name 'oecause was in the Bible, and she thinks Gladys sounds so like a heathen. Sha wonders you and papa chose it for me." Mrs Tremain laughed. Children Cry for able," said Mrs Causton. She would not say "weak." "And there is, 1 think, his dan- ger," said the dcetor. "Old John Bunyan showed a wonderful know- ledge of life when he made Pliable the one to go half -way into the Slough of Despond, and never win through it. I don't want to make you anxious about Stephen, but of c au -se, since the lad's been with me, he has been in my mind a good deal, and I cannot help thinking that ho wants more of a backbone. He has not enough steadiness; he is too loose in his management of himself. I do not think he knows how to steer his own coarse." "But I sin still with him; he can not go wrong now very well," said Mrs Causton. "But you can not always be with him," replied the doctor. "Depend upon it, the bebt thing you can do is to teach hire self-management. There is an old saying; which of course you know, about the child who is 'tied to hitt mother's apron strings ;' perhaps it seems cruel of me to quote such a rough simile to you, but, you see, there is danger in it—it makes a boy weak and help- less instead of bracing him for his part in life, as I know you and all good mothers would wish to do. "Well, what shall I tell him ?— what is the chief fault in his work?" said Mrs Causton, with the rather fretted manner of one taking un- congenial advice. "Don't bother him --let him alone a little," said the doctor more cheer- fully. "Some day I intend to give him a good blowing up ; he must learn to keep the surgery more tidy?" Mrs Causton was a little annoyed at thissudden descent to what seem- ed to her such a trifling and num- dane matter, but Dr Tremain's next sentence cleared her brow once more. "You must not mind my talking so plainly to you about the boy. You see, I'"e been his fathers friend ever since we were lads together, and so I can't help taking a sort of special interest in Stephen. But don't let us spoil our afternoon's pleasure by talking about educa- tional bothers. Where will you and the mother sit ? Here is a nice tree ready felled—what do you say to that 1 I shall leave you to gossip while I go mothing. So the doctor, taking his butter- fly -net, walked off into the wood, tapping the tree -trunks every now and then in search of spoil, and closely followed by Jackie, who promised to be as keen a. naturalist as his father. Mrs Trot -train took out her knit- ting, and, while talking with her companion, kept an eye on little Nesta, who was now more than a year old, and just beginning to run alone. From their place the two ladies could catch glimpses of the deep blue of the Porthkorran Bay through the overhanging trees, while occasionally merry voices in the distance told of the presence of the children. The quiet country stillness was very refreshing, but Mra Cauaton could not quite free herself from the uncomfortable im- pression which the doctor's words had left on her mind; had she been able to see into her eon's heart at that moment her anxiety would have been still greater. "How jolly this is!" said Stephen as, leaving the dusty highway, they enter the cool green shade of the wood. ''I used to think it must be so dull here at Portbkerran, it seemed like (the ends of the earth when we lived in Sussex." "Cornwell is the best place in the world," said Gladys, with pride. "I cannot think how people can live in places where they have to wear gloves always, and walk about in their best clothes." "I thought girls always liked Pitcher's Castoria. dress," sit%d Stephen. "Ob! yes, of ;come, in a way; it • is nice to have pretty things, but not to be alway4 bothered with them," said GladI, stooping down to {father some forget -rue -little. The younger boys had wandered on in front. Stephen was not sorry to be left behind, for he was rapidly gliding into love with Gladys. He gave to her now the confidence which his another had so much wished for. "Sometimes I think, Gladys, that I shall be obliged to go away from here," he began—"before my year is over, I mean." "Oh; will you?" said Gladys. "Would you—would you be sorry if I went?" goestioned Steph- en, anxiously. "Of coiirse," said Gladys, with almost more frankness than he de- sired -"dreadfully sorry. We should all miss you; and besides, Aunt Margaret has taken the house now.' It was too general and prosaic a view to please Stephen; however be continued: "I fancy your father is not pleas ed with me; he was awfully$vexed yesterday." "Was he? Why was that?" asked Gladys, looking up with innocent symyathy. "Why, they sent up word from the inn that Mary Pengelly was much worse, and I forgot to tell him." "Oh, Stephen! and did it matter much?" "I don't know. 1 don't think it could have made much difference. Sbe died this morning." There was a little silence after this, then Gladys said: "I have often noticed that papa is more vexed by carelessness than by great faults, and you see, Steph- en, this might have been so dread- ful, if he could have saved her by going earlier!' "Oh, I don't think he could. She's been supposed to be dying for a week. Don't look so awfully grave, Gladys; I shall be very care- ful, of course, after this. I mean to tern over a new leaf. You don't know how I should hate to leave this place. You don't know how 1 cure for—for you all." lasting influence Of his life. When he resolved to. devote himself to pat, i natiactively his thoughts grew less morbid and sela>l, Ria life, which taverna.eo purposeless end useless, twined itself round her life, and found the object it needed. His creed indeed remained unalter- ed; the angry sense of injustice still lurked in his heart, but every- thing was now eubservient to the one ruling interest, and, through all the bad influences whioh were besetting him continually during the tin, years which elapsed after his father's death, the unconscious loving influence of the little child kept its hold upon him. His was a nature formed either for great good or for great evil. Whatever he did he did thorough- ly; whether it was the reading of a fairy tale to Dot, or the mastery of some difficult passage of music, or his mighty pard -playing at the Grey- ' shot Club, he hent his whole will to 1 the work, intent upon making , whatever he was engaged upon a masterpiece of its kind. In spite, • then, of all the evil at work within him and without, Donovan had really improved. 9 t twenty, he was far more manly, more tender and considerate, and though his self-reliance was still unshaken, he was no longer the self-absorbed, gloomy, taciturn fellow he had been To make himself companionable to Dot, he had been forced. to rouse himself; abstract speculat1Ons, long, dismal reveries, were incompatible with the line of life which he had marked out for himself. What might have done very well among the Alps, must be avoided in the invalid's room, and he exerted himself with such firmness of pur- pose that in spite of his natural tendency to melancholy, and the bitter spirit which his early educa- tion had produced, he became bright ardcheerful, sometimes even merry. fhis was, of course, when he was with her; at other times he often sadly moody, and the coldness with his mother increased rather than diminished; indeed, he saw very little of her, for, when Dot did not need him, he could always find amusement at Greyshot, though his passion for cards did not lead him among the very best compan ions. And all the time Mrs Farrant allowed herself to drift down the stream of lift placidly. The world seemed to hor a little dull, but no doubt other people found it so. She had many comforts ; she would not complain. In what she called peace- ful and virtuous content, she strok- ed Fido, received visitors, drove out in her victoria, and read light•litera- tur'e. Twice a day she visited Dot's room, a sort of duty call, which both mother and child took as a matter of course, but did not in the least care for ; and occasionally Dono- van occupied her mind for a few moments. She would feel a kind of pride and pleasure as she noticed what a fine looking fellcw he was, or would be vexed and annoyed that the neighbors shunned him, but it never occurred to her that she was at all reoponsible for him, thatit was through her neglect and un - motherliness that he was driven away from home to spend his even- ings at the disreputable club. In the second spring after ;Colonel Farrant's death, it was arranged that the Oakdene family should go up to town for the season. Mrs Tarrant had left off her weeds. Ellis and Adela urged them to come up for at least a few weeks, and as the house in Connaught Square, which bad been let for the last two years, was now at liberty, there seemed no reason against it. Dono- van was glad enough to go. He had begun to crave for a change of scene, and though he was too unsoci• iablo and silent to care for the gay- eties which his mother enjoyed, yet London offered many other attrac- tions to him. Dot's room was in front of the house, that she might have the bene- fit of the square ga rden, and, when she had recovered from the fatigu of the journey, she was able thor oughly to enjoy the change. Dono- van bad not noticed how very thin and weak she bad grown lately. He was never away from her, and so did not see the change as a fresh comer would have done. It was a chance word of Adela Farrant's which first dre w his attention to the fact. - "Why, my poor little Dot," she exclaimed, coming into the room a few days after their arrival, "how thin and white you have grown : you're ,just like a shadow. What have you been doing to her Dono- van 1" The light tones annd smiling face of the speaker were a strange con- trast to the startled, abrupt interro- gation which escaped Donovan, and the look of pain which came over his face. "You think her changed 1" ''Yes, very much ; I believe, dear, they've kept you mowed up in the country a great deal too long. You wanted a little change and amuse- ment. You wanted me to look aster you, now dide't you 1" Conscious that she had made rather an unfortunate remark, Adele talked on good-naturedly to the little girl, and once or twice tried to draw Donovan into con- versation. He did not seem to hear her, but stood leaning against the wall at the foot of Dot's conch, looking at her with a sad, anxious pained scrutiny. Adela's words had sent a cold chill to his heart. Was it true ? Was she really changed 1 The color bad risen to the roots of his hair, and Gladys for the first time caught his meaning. Half pleased, half frightened, her strongest impluse was to run away, to put astop sanrehow to the tete- a-tete; for the first time sho felt that there was a difference between walking alone with Dick and walk- ing alone with Stephen, and, with sudden shyness which she had never known before, she looked about for some wav of escape. - A brilliant butterfly fllutttered past her, and, with relief in her voice, she said, quickly : "Oh ! I do beleive there is that rare 'blue' that ,Jackie wanted. 1 must catch hila." And, while Stephen wished all the rare 'blues' at the other side of the world, Gladies sprang across the brook running in swift pursuit of her victim. Stephen sauntered on'rath- er discontentedly, but taking care not to lose sight of the brown holl- and blue ribbons, which flashed hither and thither in the rapid chase threading the woody labyrinth. When at length he came up with her, the butterfly was secured, and the rest of the party were in sight. Then came the merry preparation for tea ; the boys gathered sticks and nursed the flickering blaze, Gladys began to spread bread and honey, like the Queen in the nursery rhyme and Dr Tremain, returning with his prey in a dozen little boxes, devoted himself to making jokes for Mrs Causton's benefit, and good-nature- edly entered into all the children's arrangements, though, like most middle-aged men he hated an out- door meal. The most noteworthy incident in the day to Stephen was the afterward as they were resting in the shade, from time to time singing rounds and catches, Gladys began to make her fotget-me-cots into nosegays. There was one for everybody, but the g"eater number of them were destined to "bloom their hour and fade," only one was carefully preserved among Stephen's untidy haunts. There was this much about him, that he was cap- able of recognising Glady's beauty and goodness, but unfortunately she did not greatly influence him. i'IFAPTER IX. DOT VERSUS TIFF WORLD. She was sent forth To bring that light which never wintry blast Blows out, nor rain nor snow extin- guishes— The light thatlshines with loving eyes upon Eyes that love back, till they can see no more. LANDON A little child shall load them. Book of the Prophet Isaiah. It is an old saying, and perhaps a truism, that self-sacrifice always brings its reward; not exactly the substantial reward promised in a certain moral song which is put in- to the lips of children, in which a charitable loaf -giver is represented as receiving "as much and ten times more," but a reward in some form perhaps hardly understood now, but no less real because we eitn not grasp or fathom it. In one sense great gain is consistent with loss, perhaps follows upon it almost as closely as joy follows upon pain. It was not a tangible reward which Donovan's self-sacrifice met with. Our highest and best gifts are never tangible, but it was a re- ward which was the heat and most Children Cry for *Si Pitcher's Castoria. Wig l 4lte. mo'e fragile than usual? e ted to look at her ae if he were a stranger—tried to find the bare undisguised truth, Dot was now' twelve years old, though her little helpless form was so tiny that she seemed more like a child of eight. He seemed never to have really looked at her before, and, though he knew every line of her face by heart, its beauty had never before struck hint. She had alwaya been to him just Dot herself ; it had never entered his dead to think whether she was pretty or not. She wore a lose white dress and over her feet was a maty -colored Indian shawl, the same shawl which he remembered seeing in the ayah'a arms on that dry of wretchedness and disappointment in his child- hood. The window was open, and the summer wind played with her brown hair as it lay on the pillow, he noticed a strange waxen look about the childish face, and beauty of the well rounded, serene forehead, with its too apparent net work of blue veins, the soft grey brown eyes, the tender smiling mouth, struck him as it never struck him before. It could never be, oh—surely it could never be—that she would be taken from him ! Fate had been so cruel to hint, it would surely leave him the only thing be cared for still 1 The mere thought of it caused him such agony that he could hardly contain himself; it was only from his habitual self-control, and from his love to Dot that he could force a smile to his lips as she looked up at him pleadingly. "Dono, do you hear what we are saying ? We r re saying you must go out more while you are here. Cousin Adele says you are very unsociable." "Yes, you are a regular bear," said Adele. "I'm quite ashamed of you, sir ; you've no excuse what ever. With your advantages you might turn the heads of half the girls in town." "A desirable employment," said Said Donovan, veiling far deeper feeling with a sarcastic smile. "There I told you he was a bear! See how he speaks to me !" said Adele, with mock anger. "I beg pardon," said Donovan, "But if that is the 'whole duty of a man,' it's beyond me ; I can't turn neat compliments to pretty women it's not in me. 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OFFiCE—Corner of Market Square and North 8 HORACE HORTON, Goderich, August 5th 1885 MANAGER. 0311001, BIBLES & TESTAMENTS AT COST The Clinton trench Bible Soolety have for gale at DR WORTHINGTON'S DRUG STORE, Albertetreet,,a fine assortment of Bibles and Testaments. TESTAMENTS FROM Bots. UPWAR BIBLES FROM MIER UPWARDS. ooMtillo st1R. DIt Wetton oro , D ,po$ltOr',, A. O. U. W. The Clinton Lodge, No. 144, meet in Jack - eon's Hall ou theist and 8rd Fridays in each month. Visitors cordially invited. R. STONEHAM, M.W. J. BEAN, Recorder. A COOK BOOK FREE By mail to any lady sanding us her post odic) address. Wells, Richardson & Co„ Montreal- LINTOE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE. Library and Reading Rooms, Town Hall. down stairs. About 2,000 Volumes 1 a the Library and all the Leading News papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Membership ticket $1 ger annum Open from 2 to 5 p. m., and from 7 to 0 p. m. Applications for membership received oy the Librarian in the room. — — BENhIILLER NURSERY FRUIT Acro ORNAMENTAL TREE[ NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, TUG LATTER 013 wUtcU WE MARS A 5PROIALTY LARGE STOCK ON HAND. The aboye ornamental trees and shrubbery wt be sold at very low prices, and those watitin anything in this connection will save mone purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed tn. Address, JOHN STEWART, Benmiller. McKillop lifotIIal Insurance Co. T; NEHLANS, HARLOCK 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. PAIINTING. The undersigneddesires to intimate to the people of Olinton and vicinity that he has returned to town, and intends to remain here pe maneutly, 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. J. C. SflVEYSO —THE LEADING— UNDERTAKER —AND— EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEH in STOCK The bestEmbalming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARRAN &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 RICHLYRwaanrddotdheanroactthoseewy hwoil rfinadd honorable employment that will not take them from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every induetri- ou's person, many have made and are now making several hundred dollars a month, IF is easy for any person to make $$ per day and upwards, who is willing to work. Eithe sex,young or old ; capital not noeded,we star you. Everything new. No special ability required ; you, reader.ean do i t as well as any one. Write to us atonco for full particulars which we mail free. Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. CL1/NT 'roZIT Planing Mill —AND— DRY KILN! rIIHESUBSORIBER HAVING JUST 00E- 11 METED and furnished his new Planing Mill with machinery of the latest improved patterns, is now prepared to attend to alt orders In his line Inthe .nos tprompt and satisfactory Winner and at real ,noble rates. He would also return thanks to all who patronized the old es before they were burned out, and now being in a bet- ter position to execute orders expeditiously feels confident ho can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Trunk Railway, Clinton. THOMAS Me ENZIR ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, Mansfaoturer and Proprietor for the best Sow Mtil Dog In use. Agent for the Rale and application of the ttrFtenna PATRNT At'TOMATIe BOILRa CLRANRR. STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on shaft notice. Bollen. Enitines. and all kinds Machinery repaired erpedltlons), and In a satisfactory manner. Farre implements manufactured andre Steen and Water Pipes /undide position, Dry Kltns fitted lip ()Santo moderato