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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton New Era, 1891-03-27, Page 2Flttpe,'Y, MARCH 27, 1801. D VAN Or— A MODERN ENGLIaIMAN BY EDNA LYALL, Published by Wm. Bryce, Toronto. CONTINUED. "Radical that I am, can J fail to root out the evil in myself I Professing to go straight to the root of all grievances, must I yet be un- able to get rid of this?" He was o Aged to own that his power was absolutely limited to the suppi ession of evil in action; he had come to the very end of his strength; be might by great effort be pure in deed, but pure in heart he could never make himself. Yet actual purity was no dream. Gladys was pure; purity was written on every line of her face; he could not im- agine her harboring an impure thought or desire for an instant. Yet he knew that she was not in Lerself perfect. He was not at all the sort of man to fall blindly in loge. He had noticed many trif- ling thoughts in Gladys, had heard her speak hastily, had discovered that she was a little too desirous of standing first with those she loved, was apt to exaggerate and to tell small incideuts with pretty little imaginative touches of her own. She was not faultless, but, in spite of occasional tend momentary fella, she wsa pervaded by a purity of thought and deed, of word and desire, which to Donovan was ut- terly incomprehensible. He was xouscious, as he had latterly been with Dot, that sbe was breathing an altogether different atmosphere. He was like the shaded valley, little air and little light reaching Slim; she was like a .beautiful snowy 'mountain peak in sunshine; a pass -j ing fault likea cloud might for a time dim the brightness,' but only for a time—the sunshine would illumine all again And then his own metaphor flashed a conviction en him -it must be a reflected brightness, a reflected loveliness that he saw in Gladye! Unsatisfied as he had long been with agnosticism, he was now fully aware that he had reached the limit of what it could give hint. He had tried with all his might to live a self denying, pure life, and in some degree he had succeeded; but if he lived a hundred years he saw no chance of getting further. There would of course be constant oppor- tunities for fresh self denial, but he could not of himself ever attain to verity of heart. ghat then? Thote was a great want somewhere; he was incomplete; he reproached himself with being so; but yet had 11e not striven to the utmost? Might there not be a living Purity, a living strength other than himself, bo fill this void. to round off this incompleteness? It was only a speculation, but speculations are helpful if they go hand in hand with honest work; if they lead to nothing, they at least teach us our awn ignorance, and they may lead toward the unveiling of the hidden truth. One Sunday in Jaunary it hap- pened that Donovan was out alone; for though Rouge generally went with him ..on his long Sunday ram- bles, the afterneon had seemed so raw and cold and unpromising that he bad preferred to stay in doors. It certainly was not a comfortable sort of day, but the weekly chance of a twenty mile stretch was not to be lightly loaf, and, rain or shine Donovan generally spent the great- • er part of the Sunday in exercise. Even had be not been exceedingly fond of walking, there was Waif to be considered; as it was, both dog • and master looked forward to the -day of rest, and used •it to the best 9k their present abilities. It was quite dark by the tinfe they bad reached the suburbs; walk- ing on at a brisk pace, they made their way further into London.- -The belle had ceased ringing, and, becoming aware that he was ex- ceedingly hungry, Donoven glanced at his watch, finding to his surprise that it was already a quarter to eight. They were passing through s very poor neighborhood, and he ;lad just turned from a crowded thoroughfare into a quiet side street, •fes when a man, flushed, bareheaded, and breathless, dashed ttit of a building to the left, an,' is haste almost knocked Dono i an over. "Beg pardon, sir," he panted. "A lady in a fit in the church, and Hea- ven knows where I am to find a doctor !" "Better have me; I'm half a doe - ter," said Donovan. "Be quick; anything is better than losing tittle," "A providence !" gasped the vee - ger. "This way, sir, this way." Now the church had been built on what au architect would have considered a very "ineligible site," for it was wedged in between the houses in a way which cruelly spoil- ed its beauty. The site, however, was in other respects exceedingly "eligible," that is to say, it was within a stone's throw of hundreds of the poor and ignorant. It wae not, however, a convenient church for people afflicted with fits, for there was no separate entrance to the vestry, and the vestry was at the east end. The verger, followed :>y Donovan and Waif, walked straight up the church, to the dis- traction of the congregation; some people were amused, home were scandalized at the entrance of the ' tonin a time when, with the gen- ftx terrier. Orae of the church ! ac;cieust},ess of a certain etrengtd, we Wardens tried to drive him bacl'►;1 long to be fres agents to shake ofi' but W aif'e master had called bins. I all authority, to go out in the world to heel, and to heel hs would keep, and fond for ourselves. And the though all the` church wardens in real recognition of a father implies the world were to set upon him. obedience, and obedience is hard to Donovan found bis patient all men. stretched on the floor in an epileptic "But, on the other hand, I roust fit, au old woman kneeling beside defend my use of the word father her, vainly trying to restrain her from misconceptions. Not in the wild movements. Or tie little room Mohammedan sense of a gigantic was usedasa choir vestry;two unused man do we gall God our Father. surplices were hanging on the wall; The term given to us by. Christ he snatched one of them down, brings to our mind a conception of cl usbed the white folds remorseless- love and protection, it ought to ly together, and put them between twee in us the child sense of reve- his patient's teeth. Presently see rence, obedience—in a word, 'son - grew quieter? Donovan, seeing a -ship.' 'Words!' you exclaim, 'mere half open dt}or, glanced in, and terms!' But remembering that we found a second room with a sofa and must use finite terms in this life, a larger window; with the verger's even in speaking of infinity. You help he carried the girl in, and soon feel the terms to be a limitation? she became herself again. Ile de- Perhaps that is well; to be conscious creed, however, that she should rest of limitation points to a larger,fuller, where she was till the service was J grander possibility dawning for us over, when the verger could get her a cab. Leaving her under her mother's I the grand, simple Anglo-Saxon word care, he went back into the little 'father?' You will not better it outer vestry; but realizing that with all your laborious efforts, your Waif might be considered out of many worded and complicated sub - place in a church, he would not statutes. again go down the aisle; besides it "Using, then, this much abused Will lead roe on O'er weere and fen, o'er crag anal torrent, till The night is gone. ..ne with the morn those angel faces smile, Which I have loved, long aiaoe, and lost awhile." He turned away with hot tears in his eyes. He had lost all his "an- gel faces,' and did not yet believe that "the more was coming; be could not believe in the hereafter, and he bad given up all that wits beautiful in the present. Life will feel black to such. " He began to poke the fire, be picked up the crumpled surplice from the floor, folded it methodical- ly, and laid it on the table, then, finding such work too mechanical to answer his purpose, he retreated into the inner vestry, and began to talk to his patient's mother. Before very long there was a hum of voices in the next room, then the door opened and the ver - in the hereafter. Why should we ger appear, followed, to Donovan's for tbat reason be too proud to use utter amazement by Brian Osmond. "Halloo! who would have thought of seeing you here!" he exclaimed. "Why didn't you hurry to the res- cuer "I was the other side of the choir and didn't see what waa up," said might be better that he should see term, let us turn back to our recol-' Brian; "thio first thing I did see his patient fairly out of her trouble. lections of childhood. Some of us waa the entrance of you and Waif. The waiting, however, was dull; to at least—I hope very many—have How a your patient?" pass the time be noiselessly opened had fathers Remaly of the name. "All right again," said Donovan; the vestry door, and, through the i We did not understand our father, wemustget her a gab." nateowest of openings, took a glance at the congregation,. They apeared to be listening very intently. He could not see the preacher, but he could hear him quite plainly, and later life we had doubted him, instinctively be, too, began to listen. doubted his very love for us, cast How many years was since he had off our family name, lived in inde- 1f y nearly seven, pendence and lovelessness? The elan`E.pat never -to- really loving father would be griev the school ed, cut to the heart, never vindic- e recollection tively wrathful. ry glow to his "This father I would take,as the shadow of the Divine reality. I can not doubt that God has often been represented to you as a jealous potentate, an autocrat with human passions; but I would beg you to night to put those thoughts from you, to turn instead to the revela- tion of d esus Christ, the revela- tion, that is, of the 'Father of lights,' the Father in whom there is no variableness or shadow of turning; who, in spite of our sin, our doubt, our unworthiness, will be our Fath- er forever and ever. "My friends, my brothers, will you not think of the infinite pain which is caused by the doubt of one heart i Will you not struggle to free yourselves from it ? "'But,' I think I hear some one say, 'this man can know nothing about doubt or unbelief: if he did he would know the impossibility of willing to - believe, willing to free yourself from doubt.' "Yes that is true. To will, belief is quite impossible. By stiuggling to free yourselves from doubt I mean making a constant effort to live the Christ life—the life of self renunciation that God has consecrated and ordained as the high road to Himself. There may be some here who know nothing of God, some who know Him in part; but to all alike there is but that one road which can lead to know- ledge of things divine—the road to the cross. "The law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus,' says St. Paul, 'has made me free from the law of sin and death.' "The law, that is, of loving sacrifice, Christ's new law which sets us free from selfishness and ignorance of God. "And that bard road of self denial, so uncongenial to tis all in itself, has proved, to every one who has taken Ms way honestly along it, in every truth the way of light. For the Father of lights will Him- self meet us as we walk that road; when we are `yet a great way off,' He will appear to us from afar, saying—'Yea, I have loved thee with an everlaating love; therefore with loving kindness have I drawn thee.' "Now unto Him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all we can ask or think," etc. The congregation rose; Donovan pushed the door to. "•H'm, so that's what you think about its" he muttered to himself, giving his mind a sort of matter of fact twist because he was conscious of a certain choking sensation in his throat. "Yet could any one im- agine such a Being? It would take a strangely pure mind to form such a conception. If there were a God, He must be like that l the utter lovelessness of Doery's 'offend- ed autocrat' had been its own dis- proof. Could there be truth in that saying in the Sermon on the Mount, 'The pure in heart shall see God ?' From a confused train of thought like this he was roused by the sound of one of Dot's favorite hymns, Newman's "Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom." Why it had been such a favorite of hers he had never found out; it was but we revered and loved him; he rown will do that. You come with me now; I want you to see was at once friend and cousellor my our standard in everything. What father." would have been his feeling if in "Your father?" This is his church; did you not know?" Was it then Brian's father who had been preaching? Donovan did not ask, but followed him into the other vestry, where several rather shabby looking little boys were just disappearing through the door way, having left what Mrs Doery would have called their "whites" behind them. There was only one clergyman; he was standing by the fire talking to a church warden, and Donovan had a minute or two in which to take a survey of, biro. Charles Osmond was a man of eight and forty; he was tall—nearly six feet—squarely made rather, muscularly very strong, but consti- tutionally delicate. His character was much like his body; ho united in a very rare way the man's strength and the woman's tender- dess. Looking at him superficially, he seemed older than his years, for be was nearly bald, and the fringe of hair that remained round what he called his "tonsure" was quite grey; but his eyes were young, Ms voice wes young,tbere was a spright- liness, almost a boyishness, in his manner at times. "Clever and honest, and too clsri- cai," was Donovan's comment, the last adjective being, from his lips, of the nattue of a compliment; for he bad a great dislike of the clergy as a class. Ho had received from -ndividual members of the profes- sion some injustice and no kindness, and he not unnaturally proceeded t'o judge them as a class, and to abuse them wholesale. A patient who has received mistaken treat- ment from a doctor, invariably scoffs at all doctors, and ever after terms them quacks. A client receiving an exorbitant bill from his solicitor, relieves his annoyance by proclaim- ing all lawyers to be grasping and avaricious. In this, as in other cases, a little fire kindles a great matter. Charles Osmond turned in a min- ute- or two, and Brian introduced Donovan. "I saw you and your dog cotne in," he observed with laughter in his eyes. "Now, if certain religious newspapers get hold of that incident we shall have some beautiful para- graphs. 'Strange new innovation,' 'Ca nine processions,' etc. I hope your patient is better ?" By this time Donovan liked the man, instinctively liked and trusted him. Charles Osmond had a very strange fascination about him. He had an extraordinary power in his touch; to shake bands with him was to receive no conventional greeting, but to be taken closer to the pian himself, to be assured of his honest, hearty spwpathy. His eyes were to Donovan like Waif's eyes; all his soul ,seemed to look out of them. They were eyes which never looked in a hard way at people, never seenied to be forming an opinion about them, but, like the bright eager eyes of a dog, expreased al- most as clearly as words, "Let us come as near each other as we can." He was a man who cared .not a rush for what was said of people, a man who would have preferred dining with an excommunicated heretic to dining with the queen. He was no res e_ctcr of persons, and rather disliked official dignitar- ies as such; but he could admire worth whatever its surroundings, and he had a profound respect for man a8 man. I''or a few minutes he was left alone with Donovan while Brian hardly a child's hymn, and Dot and the verger were helping tate had been the simplest of little had to a cab. children. Perhaps the pure Saxon Before this there had been or English had attracted her, as it (unary small talk, a sort of jumble usually does attract simple child . of epileptic fits, fox terriers, Bar - like souls, How many times could 'Hard and Bishop stoves, etc., but as Donvan !time -niter playing the soon as they were alone, Donoven, tune for her. IIe see�r�le1 now al- obeying the plea of those dog like most to hear the sole child voice • eyes, did draw a little nearer, a little singing with the congregation. more out of his shell. e With almost painful intentness he "I heard e s end of your sermon listened, the words of the last verse tO night," ho said, rather abruptly. It is the filet I have fie,:rd for floating in to him with perfect several years. If it wouldn't be distinctness. asking too much, would you let me "So long Thy power bath blessed, me, have it to read?" sure it still-_ - Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorla. heard a sermon? and the last had be -forgotten sermon i chapel. Even now of it brought an an face. But the remembrance died away as soon as be began to listen to the clear tones of the present speaker, whose rather unpommoa delivery attracted him not a little; it was manly, straightforward, quite free• from the touch of patronage or the conventional sanctimonious drawl, which goes far to ward making many sermons unpalatable. "I speak now more particularly to those who have some faith in God, but whose faith is weak, vari• able, largely mingled with distrust. I ask you to look at your every day life and tell me this : Which suffers most, the father who disciplines, or the child wbo is disciplined ? You who have had anything to do with little children will surely answer: 'It is the one who disciplines who safe's most—the father bears his own pain and the child's as weft' "Look once more at your daily life and answer me or,e more ques- tion. Two friends are estranged— which (milers most, the one who doubts or the one wbo is unjustly doubted? You who can speak from experience will, I think, answer without hesitation, 'the oao who is doubted,' "Believe me, you who are in the twilight of a half faith, you who are in the darkness of skepticism, you who are hungering after you scarce- ly know what—hungering perhaps for en unknown goodness ; a far distant holiness—your pain, creel and gnawing and remorseless as it is, is a mere nothing compared with the pain which He whom you doubt suffers. "Yes, look again at your own experience; realize as keenly as you can what is the pain of being un- justly doubted. Take it all ways. —the string of the injustice, the grievous disappointment in your friend, the dull ache of forsaken- ness, that is your own share, but you bear your friend's as well. There .is his disappointment, his loneliness, his sense of betrayal, his indignation to be taken into account the thought of its weighs on you more than your own personal pain. Oh ! without question the pain of, the one doubted is keener than the pain of the one who doubts; it is double pain. And in proportion to the strength of the love will be the sharpness of the suffering. To in- finite, unthinkable love, therefore, we who doubt must be infinite, unthinkable pain. It can hardly he, however, that in this congrega- tion there have not been many dis- sentient thoughts during to night's sermon. Even as I read my text I wondered how many will object to those words, 'tire Father of lights with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.' 'Father! How many shrink from using the word ! Sometimes they are people who tell you they believe in 'a God'; I notice that always use the word 'a' they do not say 'we believe in tEe God.' Some- times they are people who accept the latter part of the text only; they believe in a 'force' in which there is `no variableness.' Some- times they believe in an 'imper- sonal God,' which— allowing that by person you mean the `ego,' the spirit—is about equal to speaking of an 'nnspiritual Got:.' I do not wish to say one harsh word about ti'n'e of you who hold such views, bi - 1 -,itis you urge again the old objections, `degrading ideas,' 'an- thropomorphism,' and such like, I should like you to ask yourselves, with perfect honesty, this question: 'Did not my first objection to the father rise from dislike to the ne- cessary scquence that I was His child, rather than from real belief that the term was degrading to the Deity? ' Spiritual life has it ana- logies with natural life; there does -Pusher's Castori a.~ Children Cry ttor "With all my beatrt. if it were 7 readable," said. r Qsutoad; with a humorous twinkle in t1a eyes, as be handed half a, sheet of paper to Donovan, with'a few notes written on it, "Oh 1 you preach extempore. I am sorry," remarked Donovan. "It is the only *ay for a church like mine," said Mr Osmond. "DIA I oan, if you like, give you plenty of sermons on that subject, and books too, much more to the point than anything you can have heard to night," "Thank you," said Donovan; "but I am afraid I must ungrac- iously refuse that offer. I have read some dozen of theological books to very little purpose, and have just made a clean sweep of them, and bought a polarizer for my mic- roscope with the proceeds." "And find it of much more use, I die say," said Mr Osmond, laughing. "But if you cared enough for such matters to get and read theological books, why were you so many years without the far less tedious process of sermon hear- ing?" "Because I am an agnostic," said Donovan; "and as there is no ne- cessity, I do not care to stand, sit and kneel through a meaningless form. I would not do it even to bear you again, and I own that I should like to bear you." "-Then any Sunday that you care to look in here at a quarter to eight you shall find the seat nearest the door empty," said Mr Osmond. "Of course we extend the invita- tion to the dog as long as he'll sit quiet; I see you are inseparable. What an intelligent looking mortal be is!" "I could not tell you the number of times he has saved my life," said Donovan. "He won't defile your church; he is much more of a Chriri- tian than many church goers I have known." "Did you ever hear the story of the eccentric man of Bruges?" said Mr Osmond, "He was passionately fond of his dogs; the cure remon- strated with him, and told him that if he went to heaven be must part with them. 'I will go nowhere,' ex- claimed the good man, 'where I can not take my dogs.' " "Capital fellow!" said Donovan, laughing. "I I? ti it() agree with him." By that time Brian hadrethtrned; the verger was beginning to turn out the gas. "Come and have supper with us," said Mr Osmond, as they walked together down the empty church. "Thank you" replied Donovan; "I am afraid I must go home; I have been out most of the day." "Microscope, or the old man of the sea?" questioned Brian. "The latter," said Donovan, with a laugh. "Good night." He wnistled to Waif, and they disappeared in the dark street. TO BE CONTINUED. FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS Will be given for a cuss ofdCatarrh which cannot be cured permanently by Clark's Catarrh Cure. Step right up to the office and prove your case. 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Specialty, Dis- ease of Man. Office, No. 4 Bulanch St. The. Molsons Bank. Incorporated Ay Act of Parliament, 1855. CAPITAL, 7, $2,000,000. REST FUND, - $1,000,000 HEAD OFFICE, MONTREAL. rn i7 A. O. U. W. The Clinton Loflge, No. 144, meet in ck. sot's Hall on the 1st and srd Fridays in each month. Visitors oordial�lp invited. R. STONEHAM, M. W. 3. BRAN, Recorder. A COOK' BOOK FREE Sy malt to any lady sending usher post otRct address. W eils, Richardson & Co., Montreai- CLINTOE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE, Library and Reading Rooms, Town Hall, down stairs. About 9,000 voium e t a the Library and all the Leading News Papers and Periodioals of the day on the table. Membership ticket ii per annum Open from 2 to 5 p. m., and from 7 to 9 p m. Applications for membership receive oy the Librarian in the room. BENIIIILLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREEt •NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, THR LATTER 01, WHICH WE MARE A sPEOLLLTT LARGE STOCK ON HAND. The above ornamental trees and shrubbery wt bo sold at very low prices, and those wantin anything in this connection will save moue purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend eft to. Address, JOHN STEWART, OenmIllera �FlcKillup Mutual Fire Insurance Company FAIRM & ISOLATED TOWN PROPERTY ONLY INSURED ,QFFICH_RS. Thos. E. Hays, President, Seaforth P. O„ W. J. Shannon, Seoy-Tretis.,Seaforth I'.O.;Jno' Hannah, Manager, Seaforth P. O. DIRECTORS. Jas. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Donald Rose ' Clinton: Gabriel Elliott, Clinton; Geo. Watt, Harlock; Joseph E vans, Beech wood; J, Shan- non, Walton; Thos. Garbert, Clinton. AGENTS. Thos. Neilans, Hariock; Robt. Mc Seaforth; S Carnoohan, Seaforth; John 0' Sullivan and Goo. Murdie, auditorr. Parties desirous to effect Insurances or rans act other business will bo promptely tteuded to on application to any of the hove officers, addressed to their respecive faces. J. C. SFEVENSON, —THE LEADING— UNDERTAKER -ANP- EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEP i ill STOCK The bestEmualming Fluid used Splendid hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL J. H. R. MOLSON ...........Pres. F. WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, General Manager Notes discoutated,Collections made,Draftts issued, Sterling and American ex- ciznge bought and sold at lowest current rates. interest at 4 per cent allowed on deposits, FARMIERii. Moneyadvanoed to farmers on their own notes with one or more endorsers. No mortgage re- quired as security. H. C. BREWER, Manager, January 1887. Clinton Clinton Post Office Time Table Mails are due for delivery and close for despatch at the Clinton Post Office as follows :- llandlton, Toronto, Strat- ton], Seaforth, Grand Trunk east and interme- diate oaices Toronto, Stratford, Sea - forth, T. and S. east1.55 p.m. Ooderich, Holmesville and Grand Trunk west 1 p.m. 8.10 a.m Godorich, 8.45 p.m, 2.40 p.m Hamilton, Toronto, 4.16 p.m. 10.26 nim London, L., IL & B. south a.m. p.m, aim. p.in and intermediate offices 7.00 4.16 10,257.00 Blyth, Wingham, Rincar- dine.Lucknow, north and intermediate offices British msils,Monday,wed- nesday, Thursday 7.00 a.m. Bayfield, Varna, Herbison, dai,y Sumniorhfil, Tuesday and Friday, 5.30 p.m. I 6.80 p.m Money Orders issued and Deposita received from one dollar upwards. Office hours from 8 aim. to 7 p.m. Savings Bank and Money Order Office close at 6.30 p.m. M Clinton, April TIIO29, 188AS0. FAIR,Postmreter, CLOBR ! DOR 7.00 a.m. 1.60p.m 85.01 a.m. p m. a,m. p.m 9.30 6.15 8.105,00 2.30 p.m. 12.45p.m. HURON A ii1 O BRUCE Loan & Investment C'o'y This Company is Loaning Money or Farm Security at Lowest Rates of Interest, MORTGAGES - : - PURCHASE' SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Gent. Interest Allo Oed on Deposits,aecordinp toamount and time lc/'t. OFFICE -Corner of Market &md enNorth 9 JORACEMANA6Rn. t3odorheh,August 5th 1880 FARRAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT - Advances made to farmers on their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Rosiness transacted Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager RICHLY Rewarded are those who read this and then net; they will find honorable employment that will not take them from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ons person, many have made and are now. making several hundreddollarsa month, It is easy for any person to make SS per day and upwards, who is willing to work. Eitbe sex,young or old ; capital not needed,we star you. Everything new. No speoial ability required; you, reader.can do it as well as any ono. Write to us at once for full particulars which we mail free, Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. (J Planing Mill -AND- 111 DRY KILN! r'I;lfiE SUBSCRIBER HAVING JUST COIN - 1 PLRTED and furnished his new Planin• )fir withmachineryof the latestimproved.pu ,, is now prepared to attend to alt orders in his line in the. east prompt and satisfactory msnner and at rens ,n.ihle rates. He would also return thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, and now being! bit- ter position to execute orders expo y Nola confident he can give satisfaction to 11. FACTORY -Near the GrandTrutk Railtray, Clinton. r110MAS McKENZIE r3 ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, Mnnafncterer nod Prnpriet or /or the hest NU is Mill Dog in use. Agent for tho sato and application of the sane oan PATRNT AUTOMATIC] Sons CLEANER. STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on shirt notice, Broilers. Engines. and all kin Machinery repaired el, petite I and in t4 satisfactory mann Farm Implements innnnfacttircd and re- paired. Steam and water pumps furnished and put in position. Dry Riles Ottod tip en application. barges Modoato