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The Clinton New Era, 1890-09-05, Page 2F.RI11.14, i', SEPTEMBER b, 1830. DC N:OVAN, A. MODERN ENGLISHMAN BY EDNA LYALL. Published by Wm. Bryce, Toronto. CONTINUED. Her simple, unquestioning accep- tance of the most incomprehensible doctrines was a marvel to Donovan; he could not the least understand it. Dot once or twice spoke with him .on the subject, but he always si- lenced her gently, for, though he ,eould not understand or sympathize with her new happiness, he was unwilling to interfere with it, or to Rrouble the child's mind with his own views. Ile thought it all a delusion, and it pained him that 'she should believe it; but, seeing how much it must soften both life and death to her, he was willing 't,hat she should believe in the delu- sion. Still the trial to himself was wery hard to bear, for though to Dot the change seemed only to in• .tensify her love, and in no way to interfere with Donovan's place in her heart, he necessarily felt that there was a barrier between them; what to him did not exist was everything to her; till lately she tad depended on him, now he was superseded—dearly Loved still, lbtet yet superseded. This was a greater trouble than all the annoy- ance of his mother's second math - age. Donovan loved Dot so blindly and solely that the idea of not reign- ing alone in her heart was terrible to him. Ever since his childhood the had been her protector; to yield liner to any other love in which he (believed would have been very herd, but to allow his place to be usurped by that which he could not compre- hend or believe to be, was bitter beyond all thought. It was, per - Ihaps, the Most severe test of his Bove that there could have been; he passed through it without faltering, tried to find comfort in the sight of fuer serene happiness, and bore his main in silence; the fact that it was a strange, unnatural, morbid pain did not make it any easier to bear, but quite the contrary. Ellis Farrant, not having too ten- der a conscience, managed to enjoy his new position for the first few months. He was in many ways a good natured man, and it was very pleasant to him, after his bachelor life and small income, to find him- self at the head of a comfortable .and even luxurious home. His wife was pretty and placid, his tureens were ample, be was able to ask his friends down to Oakdene for rube shooting, and altogether he ap- preciated his change of fortune.— For a little while he even felt kind- ly diaposed to Donovan, for, as he said to himself, the poor wretch would have a hard enough life next year, when he came of age, and might as well enjoy the present.— Me even at times began to regret tthepart he had set himself to play, wavered a little, and half contem- pleted starting hia ward in some profession fairly and honorably. If Donovan had behaved sensibly, this [really might have conte about, but the was not sensible. In a very short time he began to grow weary of snaking polite responses to his .step -father's patronage; he never ,openly disputed his authority or actually quarrelled with him, but he allowed his dislike to show itself,' and took no pasns to be pleasant and companionable. Ellis was not a man to be trifled with; his kind- ness was a mere impulse, and di- rectly he found that Donovan did not respond to it he took offense, and •dieliked him a great deal more than be 'had previously done. It was a most unsatisfactory 'household. An outsider looking into the luxurious dining room of the manor, might not have discov- ered anything amiss, certainly; Mrs Farrant, at the head of the table, looked young and pretty and lan- guid; Ellis, at the opposite end, seemed hospitable and good natured; Donovan had apparently everything that could be wished in the circum- stances—health and personal ad- vantages. But beneath all this outward appearance was a miserable 'werility of injustice, jealouey and ,hatred. One evening in December, after Ales Farrant had left the dinner table, the storm broke at laet.— Donovan had been more than usu- ally gloomy and depressed. Dot 1iiad just had one of ber bad attacks; ,Ile was worn out with attending to :her; he was morbidly unhappy at ,the change in her views and her ',.apposed change toward himself, and his manner toward his step- father bad been so short and sullen tat the elder man's patience at length gave way. Pie the door closed behind Mrs Farrant, ber husband refilled his glass, drained it, and then suddenly confronted his step son with the (fierceness of a weak, impulsive man w110 is thoroughly exasperated. "I tell you what, Donovan, if you go on any longer in this way, yoa can't expect me to be civil to you. Do you think I shall stand having a mute, morose idiot of a fellow always at my table, a skele- ton at the feasts If you don't mend your manners pretty quickly, you won't find this house comfortable." Donovan did not reply, but .;tracked three walnuts in succession Children Cry for without even looking up. The ab sence of retort Only made Ellie more angry, however. "Do you not hear me, girl" he continued, still more vehemently. "'Yea," said Donovan, looking up t t last, and speaking in a singularly controlled voice, which contrasted strangely with his step father's violence. Ellis raged on, doubly irritated by the monosyllable. "Do yo think it is pleasant to me to have your gloomy face always hauntine are? I tell you I'd rather tit opposite a skull and cross bones! . I aw not going to have my new home spoiled by an insufferable cub of your age." Now, will) all his faults, Dono- van had one good quality which often stood hies in good stead. Old Mrs Doery had at least taught him one useful lesson in his childhood. She had taught him to restrain himself, a lesson which, in these Jaya of universal license to the young, is too often neglected. Many people would have fired up at once, if they had been spoken to in such a way. It would have been hard under any circumstatces, but when the words were addressed to him in the house which had been his own father's, and by the man who had ousted him from his proper place, it must be owned that they were most intolerab'o Ile flushe I deeply and bit his lip. "I am glad to see you have the grace to be ashamed," said Ellis provokingly, impatient of this con- tinued silence. By this time Donovan had him- self well in hand. His face was calm and rigid; and he could trust himself to reply without losing his temper, though his cold pride was not likely to choose wise words. "I am sorry to have annoyed you, but, naturally, 'as you have brewed so you will drink.' I have not changed touch in the last few months, and buppose last summer you foresaw that there would be two incumbrances in you new home." Of course this only angered Ellis still more. "You ,,dung puppy," he exclaim- ed, angrily, "do you remember to whom you aro speaking? Do you know that I can turn you out of the house, if I like? Do yon recollect who 1 and?" "Yes," said Donovan, ironically. "I remember fiat you are my fa- ther's executor and my guardian." Ellis suddenly changed color, pushed back his chair, and began to lace up and down the room. His step son's words had stung him far more deeply than the speaker in- tended. "His father's executor!" yes, and what an executor! The nacre itself was a reproach and a mockery ! Ile felt afraid of Dono- van, ashamed to look at him; his recent anger and hatred suddenly died away into a trembling, shrink- ing dread. This boy, whop) he had cheated and robbed, and fatally in- jured, was able at times to influence him greatly. He felt that be must be pacified and kept at bay during the few months which remained of his minority. On the whole, Ellis did not look very much like a happy bridegroom and head of the household as ho came back to the table. He was ashy pale, and his hand s:iook as he poured out his next glass of wine. Donovan, as he waited with his cold, impassive , face, expecting a fresh burst of anger, was surprised, when his step father next broke the si- lenee, to find that the storm had been as brief as it had been severe. There was almost a pitiable struggle for really frank reconciliation in Ellis'a tone as he said : "Come, od fellow, don't let us qua_ rel; we have always been friends. I spoke hastily just now, but, you know, you really cut your own throat by looking so glum. Every one would like you twice as well if you had a little more go in you.— Probyn was saying only the other night what a clever fellow you were. He said he had not met a better whist player for years. You think every one's against you, and so you are morose and reserved, but I do not know a fellow who has more advantages than you, if only you'd condescend to use them a little more. There! you sec I'm giving you quite a paternal lecture. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.— What do you say to some cribbage now?" "I'11 come down at ton," said Donovan, allowing his face to relax; then, sweeping up a handful of wal- nut shells, he lett the table, and spent the rest of the evening with Dot, making a miniature fleet of boats, to her great content. CHAPTER XI. "LET NOTHING IOU DISNAV." Heart's brother, bast thou ever known What meaneth that no more? Haat thou the bitterness withdrawn, Close hidden at its core? Oh ! no—draw from it worlds of pain, And thou shalt surely find, That in that word there doth remain A bitterer drop behind. ARCHBISHOP TRENCH. "Pha'be says she doesn't think I shall be really frightened when the time comes, and there isn't anything to be afraid of you know --it is so different now. Whop- we talked about it at Codrington it all seemed so dark and dreadful I could not bear ever to let it come up to be thought over. How long one can put away things when they are not nice to think about?" "Then why do you talk like this? what good does it do?" questioned Pitcher's Castoria. Donovan. It WA.* R Deeetx►ber af- teenooln. and they were talking in the twilig4t4 "re) cora!; 1 had forgotten. I was• very eelflab," said Dot, peni tenely. It was so hard for her t remember that Donovan did no share in her new sense of relief, tha she wore than once made littl allusions of this sort. Had sh been less simple and childish, hi want of participation would hay made her unhappy; as it was, how ever, she was content to leave it sure that in time it would come t him. Donovan was very irritable tha day, not, of course, with Dot --h was always gentle with her, eve when in his worst moods—but h was in one of his querulous, carpin humors, and quarrelled with every thing he read. The oft -quoted lin of Pope's -- "One truth ie clear,whatever is,is right, was quite sufficient to call forth a angry tirade. It was a lie, it could not possibl be proved ! Were murder, an fraud, and oppression, and injustic right? People had no business t make great, false, sweeping asser tions of that kind. The anger Soo came down to more personal matters "Was it right,do you think, tha you and I should have been left t old Doery, and bullied and torment ed as we were? Was it right tha you should be mismanaged and hal killed by an owl of a country doctor Is it right that you should be suf fering as you are nowt "Sonic things do seem hard," said Dot, "but we have not got to understand why everything is, and I think it's best to be atilt, and take what comes. Do you know I)ono, sometimes when I am very cross with the pain for corning back so often, I think of what we saw at Codrington. Do you remember the little bay whore the rocks were, and how we used to watch the waves dashing so angrily against the very tall, upright rock, and pass- ing so quietly over the little ones? I think if we are patient, and don't set ourselves up to fight against the pain, and grumble at it, it is not half so hard to bear." Now Donovan had always felt a sort of sympathy with the tali, soli- tary rock, with its hard, jagged outline, braving in its own strength the power of the waves. Dot's idea did not please him; patience, lowli- ness and submission were virtues far beyond his comprehension, and he felt very strongly that painful sense of separation which had sprung up so strangely between them dur- ing the last few months. He felt far away from Dot, and he hated the feeling and quickly changed the subject. "Shall I read something else to you ?" he asked. "I should like some music," said Dot, knowing that this would lead to no discussion which could dis- please Donovan; and then ensued what some people would have thought a rather incongruous selec- tion, ranging from Sebastion Bach to the latest popular song, and from "Vedrai (tiarino" to "The green hill far away." There was no distinc- tion in music to Donovan; he played all Dot's favorites, ono after the other. In the middle of the last hymn Mrs Farrant carpo in. [t was the time of her second daily visit. "Pray stop that tune, Donovan," she said plaintively. "We are al- ways having it in church, and I am so tired of it; the boys sing it fright- fully out of time, and always get flat in the 1st line. How do you feel this afternoon Dot?' "Better, thank you, mamma," said Dot, looking wistfully across the room at Donovan, as he tossed aside the hymn book impatiently. "Really better?" questioned Mrs Farrant, with anxiety—for Dot had been suffering so much more lately that even her calm, phlegmatic na- ture had been stirred to uneasiness and apprehension. "Yes, I think so," said the little girl. "Done and I have been sett- ling our Christmas presents; and what do you think he is going to give mo, 1natnma? A clock—a dear little clock of my very own." She had gained the end she want- ed. Donovan, who had been at the other side of the room, turned round, met ber eyes and came to her. "1)ono upolls you, I think," said Mrs Farrant, smiling; and somehow the words, trifling as they were, drew the three together. Donovan recovered his temper, and for once talked naturally before his mother, teased Dot merrily, and quite sur- prised Mrs Farrant by his high spirits. `fI never saw you so talk- ative before," she remarked as the dressing bell rang and she rose to go. "It is Dot who teaches us bow to laugh," said Donovan. "You are a little witch, and sweep away bad humors instead of' cobwebs." Christmas to Donovan only meant a full house, an incomprehensible gayety and good humor, a conven tional old fashioned dinner, which he did not like, and a certain amount of holly and ivy. In bis different way he was quite as far from understanding it as old Scrooge in the "Christmas Carol." l'he year before old Mr Hayes bad dined with them, but he was now far away, for not many weeks before his "castle in the air" had become a reality. An old fi iend of hia had returned from the United Status, having made his fortune; he had come to Oakdene to seo Mr Hayes, bad discovered the great wish of his old school fellow, and bad suggested a six months' tour on the Continent, Children Cry for 0 t t e e 6 e 0 t e n e g e n y d e 0 n is which he vie to bear the greeter part of the eapeu e. Sq the old man in child like glee had let his cottage and started for Italy, taking a cordial farewell of Donovan, and recommending him to follow bis plan,wbioh was now coming to such a succeesful issue. The guests, therefore, this year only consisted of Adele and two of Ellis' friends—nor was the miaan- throp)cal Donovan sorry that such should be the case. There was something almost ghastly to him in the merriment which every one seemed to think it right to force up. The real happiness of the season was of course unknown to him, and he had not even any recollections of the "Merry Christmas" of childhood to fail back upon. Adele tried to tease him into a little conversation, as she sat beside him at dinner, but it was hard work. "Do you know, Donovan, I was staying at a country house in Sussex last September, and the first night I. got there I saw some one who reminded me so much of you." "Indeed !" rel lied her taciturn companion. "He was not so much like you in face as in manner; I thought to my- self, no one but my cousin Donovan t sits through an evening in such o ccmplete silence; and afterward— . what do you thinkl—I found out t that your double was dumb." f Donovan laughed a little. "I can't make small talk," he said —"I told you so long ago." "Oh ! of course your great intel- lect can't stoop to frivolities," said Adele, with pretended sarcasm in her tone, but laughter in her bright eyes. "Perhaps you would kindly give me a little instruction, though, on some of the weighty subjects that fill your brain." He laughed again; but then,think- ing of his misery at Codrington, added, quite gravely: "My brain is anxious just now to forget certain weighty subjects, not to rake them up. Dot came out with one of her quaint remarks the other day, which mix in so strangely with her childishness; she noticed how wonderful it was that you can put any subject out of your head, when it is not pleasant to think of it, for an almost unlimited time." "My dear cousin," said Adele, "do you mean you always keep skeletons in your cupboard?" "The world is full of grim things —I try to forget them," said Dono- van. "You're the most extraordinary person," said Adele. "You actually never mean to face these things?" "Not till I'm obliged to," said Donovan, "Perhaps that accounts for your stupidity," said Adela,with a daring flash of her dark eyes. "A thou- sand pardons—I mean the brevity of your remarks." . "There you have the worst of it, for 'Brevity is the soul of wit,' " said Donovan. "Ah well, I think you are im- proved; you shall not be scolded," replied Adele, good humoredly; then resuming her playful malicious- ness, she continued: "It was such a pity you weren't at church this morning; the decorations were bean- tiful, really .luite wotth seeing—a cross and two triangles of white azaleas sent by the Wards, any amount of wreathing round the pillars, and some charming devices in Epson) salts on a red background." Donovan naturally scoffed at this. "I can't think how you can like that sort of thing. If you despise and condemn pagans, why do you borrow their customs!" "You hard, matter of -fact crea- ture! \Vhy, of course we must have a little beau'y. C'an't you understand what a help it is?" "No, I can't," said Donovan, shortly. Then,as the blazing Christ- mas pudding was brought in he continued his grumble. "This, too, is an absurd, senseless custom. -- What good does it do ns all to sit around the table and watch blue flames, and then cart a horrible, black burned compound like hot wedding cako?" "You are a wretch," said Adela. "You would like to sweep away all the dear old manners and customs, and start us in a Ilew order of things, where men would be ma- chines, and everything would bo done by rule and measute. You would like us all to bo as tational and comprehensible as vulgar frac- tions, now would yoa not?" "It would simplify life," said Donovan, smiling. "I knew you'd say so," said Ade - la, triumphantly. "It's really quite dreadful to talk to such a flint. Have you no associations with the dear old things? Were you never young?" "No, I don't think I ever was," said Donovan, with a touch of sad nese in his voice. The conversation somehow paused here, until an uncontrollable yawn on Donovan's part stimulated Adele to a fresh effort. "You are horribly uninteresting," she said. " Yes, Pin most abominably sleepy. i was up last night." "Ah ' so Dot told mei" replied Adele. "You tell her stories, she says, just like the wonderful story teller in the `Arabian Nights,' one after the other." "It amuses her," said Donovan, "and sometimes I have sent her to sleep in that way; but we couldn't manage it last night. She is dread- fully worn out to -day after all the pain." "These attacks seem much more frequent than they used to be," said • P itcher's Castoria. Adele. "Yes," he replied; and there was something in his voice which wade Adele suddenly grave, but in a minute he recovered himself,. and with his ordinary manner asked if he should peel an orange for her. Just then some carol singers be- gan a hymn outside, but the rest of the party were not quite in the humor for hymns. "Oh, those boys sing eo badly," said Mrs Farrant. "Do send them away, Ellis." "Yea, t think we had about enough of them this morning at church," said Ellis, and he would have sent word to them to go, had not Donovan risen. "I'll take them round to the other side of the house," he said.— "Dot like's music." "What!" exclaimed Adele, "you mean to countenance a heathenish old custom, after all you have said?" "Dot will like it," he replied, as if this were a sufficient reason for countenancing anything. The little invalid's room seemed very quiet and dim atter the merry voices and bright lights down below, and yet it waa an unspeakable re- lief to Donovan to be there with her once more, away from the hollow merriment of his step father and the other guests, away from Adela's good humored banter. Dot was in bed, and there was about her that terrible stillness of utter exhaustion which makes illness, and especially a child's illness, so very sad to see. She was quite worn out with sleep- lessness, and, though the pain was less severe than it had been, her face still bore marks of suffering. She did not move as Donovan en- tered, but welcomed him with her eyes. "You have done dinner quickly to -night," she said. "You have not been hurrying to get back to me?" "No; but some carol singers have come," said Donovan, " and I thought you would like to hear them." "Oh, T am so glad !" she said with child -like pleasure. "I did so want to hear the carols that Phoebe has been telling me about. Please draw up the blind, Phoebe, so that they may know we are listening.— "Oh ! there is my clock striking.— Hark 1" Donovan's present, an exquisite little travelling clock, stood on the mantel piece, and as Dot spoke it chimed the hour, then struck eight o'clock in sweet, low, muffled tones, like the sound of a distant cathe- dral bell. '1'O BE CONTINUED. Minard's liniment is used by physicians WILSON'S PLY POISON PADS. 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No mortgage re- quired as .security. If. C. l7I EVER, Manager, January 1887- Clinton Clinton Post Office Time Table Mails are due for delivery .aclose f„r despatch at the Clinton Pot Office as follows:-- ei.eea I I/ 4' llamilton, Toronto, Strat- ford, Seaforth, Grand. Trunk oast and interme- diate offices Toronto, Stratford, Sea-. forth, T. and S. east Goderich, Ilohnesville and Grand Trunk west 1 p.m. 8.10 a.m Goderich, I R,45 p.m.' 2.40 p.m Hamilton, Toronto, 4.15 p.m. 10.25 a,ln London, L., 11, & B. south'a. m. p.m..a.m. p.rn and intermediate offices 7.(.10 4.15110.257.00 Blyth, Wingham, Kincar- dine,Lueknow, L.,11.& 8.1 north and intermediate aro, p m. a.m. p.m offices ' 9.",0 6.1.5( 8.10 5.00 British mails, Monday,Wed-I nesdsy, Thursday 7.00 a.m. 1 Bayfield, Varna, Herbis.'tn, daily,2.30 p.m.: 12.45p.m. Summerhill, Tuesday and Friday, ... 5.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m Money Orders issued and Deposits received from one dollar upward,. 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 29, 1889. 7.00 a.m. 1 1.50p.m 1.53P.m.: Sa.m HURON AND BRUCE Loan Sc InvestmentCo'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 Deposits,aceording to amount and time left. OFFICE—Corner of Market Sq ea re and North 9 HORACE HORTON, MANAmt. Goderich, A ugust 6th 1881 BIBLES & TESTAMENTS AT COST The Clinton Rrannh Bible Society have for sale at DR WORTHINGTON'S DRUG STORE, Albert Streot„a Rne assortment of Bibles and Testaments. TESTAMENTS PROM SOLA. UPWARD MIMES PROM 26ote UPWARDS. cOMEANDSEO, DR WORTHINGTON, De- pository. 6/1 crn o v■lam iirnZZ4'M m 21,10(0) A. O. U. W. The Clinton Lodge, No. 144, meet in Jack- son's Hall on the 1st and 3rd Fridays in each month. Visitors cordially invited. R. STONEHAM, M. W. J. BEAN, Recorder. A COOKBOOK By mall to any lady sending us her post offs) address. Wells, Richardson & Co„ Montreal. OLINTOE MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE, Library and' Reading Rooms, Town Hall. down stairs. About 2,000 volume/. i a the Library and all the Leading Newo papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Membership ticket Si per annum Open from 2 to 5 p. m., and from 7 to 9 p. m. Applications for membership reoeived oy the Librarian in the room. BENMILLER NURSERY FRUIT, AND ORNAMENTAL TREE! NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, TRA LATTER OF WRICi WE MAKE A SPECIALTY LARGE STOCK ON HAND, The aboye ornamental trees and shrubbery wi be sold at very low prices, and those wautiu anything in this connection will save tnone purchasing here. Orders by Mail will he promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART, Benmiller. McKillop Mutual Insoraneo Co. T; NEILANS, 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. PAINTING. The undersigned desires to intimate to the people of Clinton and vicinity that lie hao returned to town, and intends to remain here permanently, 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. STEYENSON, —THE LEADING— UNDERTAKER —ANP— EMBALMER A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEPI ill STOCK The bestErubalming Fluid used Splendid Iiearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARRAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT fr Advances made to farmers ontheir own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transacted Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager RICHLY Rewarded aro diose who read this and then act; theywili find honorable employment that will not take them from their homes and families. Th profits are large and sure for every industr' ous person, many have made and are nr making several hundred dollars a month, is easy for any person to make SS per and upwards,who is willing to work. Ei eex.young or old ; capital not needed,we you. Everything now. No pecial abilt required; you, reader.ean do as well as any one. Write to us at once for fu 1 particulars wbichive mail free. Address Stinson it Co Portland, Maine. CJLiNTON Planing Mill —AND— DRY KILN! MBE SUBSCRIBER HAVING JUST COR- I- PLATED and furnished his new Planing Milt with machinery of the latest Improved patterns, is now prepared to attend to all orders in his line inthe .aost prompt and satisfactory winner and at roas ,noble rates. He would also return thanks to all who patronised the old m before they were burned out, and now being Ina bet- tor position to execute orders expeditiously feels confidonthe can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Trunk Railway, Clinton. THOMAS McKENZIE ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, 6fam.facturer and Proprietor for the hest Saw Mill Dog In use. Agent for the sale and application of the earFISURR PATENT AW Mi4ATto BOILER CLEANER. STEAM FITTINGS furnished and applied on short notice. Boilers, Engines. and all kinds Machinery repaired erpeditionely and In a satlnraetory manner. Farm implements manufactured and re- paired. Steam andlwater pumps furnished and ptputloatlon . in position. Dry Kilns fitted up on Margot, Moderato. 4