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The Clinton New Era, 1891-03-18, Page 6FIA$DAY,, McaAt011 13, 1891. tongue fee tine: refeertlety keep'aelf ,,-. .. , etrapg1e tlaa words Of self- �t ,_ \ /; j�. jiletifieation which Must expose so l r Y PT (nu b, .of en,o,thel'8 gat.lit ! An.d yet e e . e ore : o Pett 80-1 eenli•"extol in himself. The struggle 4 \IOD.EPt 1 ENarsiSpI:d:N of the• previone day seerned to have t-xhpusted bis btrengthe ea Ile ,step,; pal Qat illta the,(latrk rsi(ly N'ovttrte By EDNA LY4r.r. hegnight he ,felt ern, alltnost,aas,oa1n; Publiphed by Wm. Bryce, Toronto. CONTINUED. The doctor, chafed and annoyed es hca was. could not help laughing; Sweepstek. a niiwioding hint in a senseless titter, and old Rouge him- selfjoining heal tily. "Clever bird; isn't he? Brought Mtn from West Africa years ago. Would stake my life he's the best talker in England." Then, looking keenly at the doctor, be said, hes- itatingly: "You are not a detect- ive, are yen?" The doctor beeped, and told him his name and profession. "Oh ! that's a comfort," said Rouge, heaving a sigh of relief. "Now we can talk freely. To tell you the truth, 1 thought you were tackling my son, who is just off to America. Boat sails this very day; in fact, Donovan's now gone to see him off, I doubt if he'll be home till evening." "Why, you told me half an hour just now," said the doctor, impa - tiently. "When I took yon for a detec- tive," said Rouge, with a sly smile. The doctor Was so much vexed that he fairly lost his temper. "I don't know who you may be!" he exclaimed, "but I must sav I am surprised to find Donovan Far - rant living with people wbo are in terror of a detective's visit, Have the goodness to tell me at what time you do expect him to return." Poor Rouge was so much fluster- ed by the doctor's hasty speech that he was quite incapable of giving a plain and aatisfectory answer. "I wouldn't for the world bricg discredit on the lad," he faltered, the ever ready tears slowly trickling down his wrinkled cheeks. "I am as fond of the lad as if he were my own son,,- and iit's•.a son -he'll be row• me now that my own sins left Iiia native land." Here he began to sob like a child, but still struggled to make himself' heard. "I am not such a fool as I look—time was when I was captain of the 'Metora' —I was driven to it"—he pointed to the brandy bottle—"I was di iv - en to it—and it's made me what I am!" "Will you tell me when Mr Arrant will he home?" said the exasperated doctor. "Toward evening," faltered the old captain; "but I couldn't say for certain. Perhaps you'll leave a mersagel" "I will come in again later on," said the doctor, and he hastily took up his hat and left the room, quite out of patience with the tearful old captain. It was a miserable afternoon, cold and foggy; a fine drizzling rain fell continuously. The:doctor felt very wretched; he bad hoped to gain some fresh light by a conversation with Donovan, but his interview with Rouge Frewin had only per- plexed and disheartened him. How was it that Donovan had taken up again with his old companions? How could he endure to have such a maudlin old wretch as a fellow lodger? Things certainly looked darker and darker! Evening came, De Tremain went back to York Road, still Donovan had not returned, and By this time the old captain had solaced his grief so frequently and effectively that he was by no means sober. A wretched hour of waiting followed. The doctor looked at his watch at least twenty times; the minutes were passing rapidly by, and at the end of the hour he knew he must love°ihe house to catch the last querable shriuk'ing from the in- evitable pain which was before him. If be could but win through with it. If he cpuld but do;tbe difficult Eight and there floated through his mind the definition of Itight which both he and the doctor held—that which beings the greatest happi- cess to the greatest number of people for the greatest length of time. He honestly thought that his silence would be right, and clung desperately to the one strengthening thought of the gain to others which this five minutes might bring. It was the generous mistake of a utilitarian. The doctor's voice. broke in upon his mental strug&e. He set his face like a flint and listened. "1 wanted sone explanation of all this, Donovan, and I hat: hoped tor plenty of time with you; we are limited now to a very few minutes. I must say that all I have seen of your way of life both to -day and yesterday bas surprised and grieved me. I come to your rooms and find a disreputable old man in dread of a detectiye's visit, and not too sober. He tells me he is an old friend of yours. I thought you made up your mind to break with such friends as those?" "There wete special reasons why Captain Frewin should be an ex- ception to that rule," said Donovan in a voice so well reined in from yielding to any sign that it sound- ed cold and indifferent. "There are always special reasons I suppose, for backsliding!" said the doctor, hastily. There was a silence, then De Tremain went ort-, more quietly: "That is, of course, your own concern; but, as to your relationsth with Stephen. I have some right to ask. ,..His father is my oldest friend. IIe will hold rue responsible for -hewrig- al -le wed - 'sr ou-=to ibare. rooms. Stephen has himself'told me that he fell into habits of gatnb• ling. I am not surprised—he is grievously weak. But be tells me that you were with hint, and that explains everything far too easily. You are strong willed enough to lead him as you please. Only I could not have believed it of you. 1 neverwould have believed it if I hadn't met you with him at Z—." Donovan breathed hard, but did not speak. "Have you nothing to say?" said the doctor, in the tone of one cling- ing to a forlorn hope. "Can you not tell me that I am at least in part mistaken ? Can you not ex- plain anything to me ?'' He looked steadily at Mw as he spoke; thinking perhaps of Glady's words: "You will believe in him when you see him." But Dono- van's . face was dark and cold and hard looking now. The doctor bad never seen such a look on his face before; he misinterpreted it entirely. But his yery grief made him speak gently and pleadingly. "God forgive ale, Donovan, if I have been harsh with you; but jus' let me know from your own lips that you can not explain things— can not free yourself from blame. Gladys told ale what you said to her; but could not rest till I bad heard the truth from yourself." "I have nothing mote to say," said Donovan, clinching his hands so fiercely that even then the feel- ing of bodily pain came as a relief to him. ` "I can explain nothing. It would have been better if you had not come to see me." "Ay, better indeed !" said the doctor, with bitterness, "for then I should at least have had some hope that I was mistaken. The only thing is that Stephen is in part ex- cused, if, as he says, you did go with him, did lead him wrong. Ona more question let me ask you; I do not wish to play the inquisitor, but just tell me whether this was the reason yeti would not come to us in the summer?" For the first time the burning color rose in Donovan's face. How could he answer that question? They hadjust entered the crowded sta- tion; there under the flaring gas - lamps, amid the noisy traffic his reply must be made—somehow. What if he told the -doctor his real reason, told him that he loved Gladys? He hated mysteries; ib would be infinitely° easier to be perfectly, open. Besides, the con- fession would explain so much, would at once bring him into his old place with Dr Tremain. And yet, taking all things into account; it would be better for every one train to Z-- FivQ minutes to eight 1 the doctor held his watch in his hand now. Three minutes! No sound but the 1 heavy breathing of the old captain,. who had fallen asleep. Two min- utes ! how fast the hands moved 1 the doctor's heart sunk down like lead. One minute ! with a heavy sigh he put back his watch,absently brushed his bat with his coat sleeve, and got up. At that very moment a key was turned in the latch, the front door was opened and sharply closed,. a -quick firm step, which must have been Donovan's, was heard in the passage; the door was opefied. Yes, there he wad. The doctor stepped hastily forward. "I had just given ,you up; I've been in town since two o'clock; hop- ing to see you!" he exclaimed, anx- iously scanning every line of Dono- van's face. His last hope died as he did so, for an unmistakable expression of surprise, annoyance, and perplexity passed over it; his color rose; be glanced from the doctor to the old captain before speaking; then, with no word of regret at having missed so much of his friend's visit, he hastily enquired after Stephen. "Stephen is better; going on per- fectly well," repled the doctor short- ly. "I must be off at once, though or I shall not be able to get to Z— to-night. Perhaps you'll walk with me to the station." Dr•Tremain was human, and he had bad a great deal to try him that day, his tone was almost bit- ter. Donovan winced under it. One comfort was that the ordeal must be short—a five minutes' walk. Surely he could hold his Children Cry foga And yot l Ftfe>z riow Gurus Inresionate sigh of longing, human weaknesses alternating with the lofty solf-renunciation. If only -them bad beers n'—;o at3stacCe7---Why was he beamed in by thick dark• nese why were his doubts iusur- motrntaltlel And then he ahudder ed to iihinit that he was beginning to len fpr knowledge of the truth, chiefly that he might be in a posi- tion to win Glad's. These thoughts had rushed tu- multuously through his mind, and rneantime the doctor waited for bis answer, and they had walked up the platform. "Was this the rea- son you would not come to use He could not tell av untruth; the crimson flush which bad risen to his brow, the long- pause, both told un- favorably against him with Dr' Tremain. So did the iron voice in which at length his unsatisfying answer was made. "I invented an excuse last sum- mer—my real reason for not coin- ing I entirely decline to tell you." "I am disappointed in you, Dono- van," said the doctor, and his voice even more than the words carried a terrible pang with it, and sent a momentary spasm of pain over Don• oven's strong face. "Just forget me, that is all I ask of you," be said, unable to free his tone from all expi ession as he would have wished. The doctor had taken` his place. Something in that last speech of Donovan's touched him; he would have spoken in reply, but one of those trivial interruptions which break in so rudely upon the moat anxious moments of life prevented him, The shrill voice of a boy inter- vened. " `Punch,' `Judy,"Fun,' 'Evening Standard,' and 'Echo.' Paper, sir?" Some passenger wanted an Even• ing Standard; at that minute the train began to move. By the time the newspaper boy had sprung down from the step, Dr Tremain was too far from Donovan to do more than wave a farewell. Once more Glady's words flashed baclinto his mind:— "Yon will believe in him when you see Mm," and this time, in spite of all. ,that had -.. -passed, the doctor. c11d -waver: For in that tall dark figure on the platform there seemed to hien a certain majesty—a majesty insep- arable from right or absolute con- viction of being in the right. He could not clearly see the face now, but the last look he had seen on it had been a strange blending of pain and strength, the strength predomi- nating over the pain. Could he after all have been mistaken? Like the warm Hearted, impetuous roan that ire was, the doctc,r at once tore a sheet from his pocket book and, with tears in his eyes wrote I)ono- v,:n such a letter as the best of fathers might write to his son. The ordeal was over, the victory had been complete; self had been kept under; but the victor was too entirely crushed to feel even a sha- dow of triumph. IIe stood per fectly still, watching the train as it steamed out of the station with an odd sensation—more numbing than keenly painful—that it was drag- ging with .it a great part of himself. Presently he must rouse himself to go on with life, to make the most of what was left. There are great nts and voids in most lives. At first we feel stunned and helpless, but after a time we become ascus- I towed to the new order of •things, and live on, "learning perforce," as some one has well expressed it, "to take up with what is left," That the loss had come about by his own will did not at all soften matters to Donovan, but rather the reverse. He was?past reasoning— almost past thought. When the red lamps on the last carriage had quite disappeared, he turned slowly away, aware that he had deliberately with his own hand turned the brightest page of his life's 'history. A new page must be begun—of that too he was dimly aware. He left the station and walked slowly through the wet, muddy, cheerless streets. It did not actual- ly rain, and the wind had risen; there was some comfort in that.— With his usual craving for air and space, he bent his steps to the river, walked along the Embankment, turned on to Blackfriars Bridge, and chose as his halting place one of its recesses. Not since the first days after Dot's death had such a crushing, deadening sense of loss oppressed him, and now, as then, he had to bear his pain alone. But he was stronger , than in the old days ; stronger because he was growing conscious of his owrn weakness, and bedause he was infinitely wider in its sympathies. He was not in the mood to see anything, though the dark flowing river, and the re- flected lights, and the great loom - but himself if he just held his ing outline of the dome of St. Paul's tongue. Better for Stephen, better 1 would at any other time have that he should lose his plaee in the4 Tremain household, and be entire- ly forgotten, better—infinitely bet- ter—for Gladys. If his name ceased to be mentioned, if they all believed Mm to be what, he now appeared, in time she, too, would conte to share that belief. He hon- estly believed that to forget him would be her truest happiness, and the remembrance of their last in- terview, when she had been unable to hide her pain, strengthened him now. Anything to save her from life long sorrow! • "Think evil of me, dear love," was now his inward cry; "suffer, if it must be, that short Visit, but only learn to forget :" • Pitcher's Castoria. a little, saw. tbat ►ia sighbor a mall ragged boy, wastryltlrg whether a light oQ.uld possibly l +4 kindled frolic a bo;i of 8eWOh had —Eisen son rl�edT thfuroughesrwa>lld through. "Ye were a fool, Pat, me boy, to go to sleep in the rain!" exclaimed the elf,with a few superfluous oaths. Finding his efforts to strike a light ineffectual, be scrambled to his feet, and with great deliberation and muttered ejaculations about the "blissed saints," threw the three boxes of fusees one after another into the river. "Why do you throw them awayl" said Donovan, with some curiosity. "They was wet through, yer hon- or," said the small Iriah boy, look- ing up at Donovan with a friendly grin. "I chucked 'em into the river for fear the devil abould get into 'em." "How?" asked Dono'en, with an involuntary senile, "Ooh 1 yer honor has had. no dealings with the divil thin, or ye'd niver ask such a thing. Why, says I to meself, 'Pat, vme lad, lave 'em to dry and ye'll sell 'em right enough; but thin says I to meself again, 'But, Pat, may be the divil 'ud be in the coppers vo'd get for 'em.' Yer honor don't know how terrible aisy it comes to chate a bit when there ain't nothing else to do." "Yes, I do know," said Donovan, gravely. "Do ye railly. now 1" said Pat, with a broad grin. "And did the divil get inside your honor? Och, he's a terrible cratur to have deal- ings with ! Last year, yer honor, I was half starved, and one day I prigged a loaf hoc and frish from a baker's, and eat it up like a shot for fear o' being cotched by the peeler, and if ye'll belave it, yer honer, the divil was -in the loaf.— Och! I could have danced with the pain of it; and after that says I to meself, 'Pat, me lad, kape clear o' the divil, or maybe he'll gripe ye warse next time.' "Do you see that fire at the other end of the bridge, Pat 1" said Dono- van, looking down gravely at the lit`ler grubby faced Irish boy,• The-petatie-•stall,- yer - hortorP said Pat, wistfully.' "Yes," said Donovan, with a smile. "Do you think the devil would be in the potatoes?" Pat nodded emphatically. "Bedad and I do, yer honor, if I was to stale 'ern." "But if I were to give them to you /'' tly, thin, yer honor," cried Pat, grinning from ear to ear, "it wud be the blissed saints as wud reward yer" "Come along then," said Donovan, and the strangely contrasted com- panions walked off together—the barefooted, superstitious, but honest lirtle gamin, and the grave, per- plexed, but honest agnostic. "If yer honor wud but eat one !" exclaimed Pet, looking up with shining eyes from the double enjoy- ment of the hot potatoes and the charcoal fire. So Donovan eat a potato—and began his new life. CHAPTER XXXII. TE3Ii'TA'r'ION. Thy face across his fancy comes And gives the battle to his hands. TENNYSON. The encounter with Pat served to turn Donovan's thoughts for a short time from his trouble; it made him realize that there were other beings in the world besides Tremains— men, women and children more or less poor, more or less suffering, more or less in need of help. By and by, however, being but human, his own sorrow overpower- ed him again, shutting out for the time all thought of others. He was no novice in sorrow; one by one, everything that was of most worth to him had been either taken away or voluntarily renounced; but this last call, this greatest sacrifice, seemed to have exhausted his strength. He went about his work more like a machine than like a man; he lost all interest in what but a short time before had ab- sorbed him. Had he been ordered never to go to, the hospital again, he would have acquiesced without a word; had he been warned of the most imminent danger, his heart would not have beat more quickly. To rouse his energy, to awaken bis love, hate, interest of any sort, seemed impossible. Dr Tremain's letter did indeed sharpen his pain; and in a few day's time Mrs Tremain wrote too—a long letter, cruelly kind, cruelly trustful, urging in almost irresist- ible words that Donovan would write to her and tell her all he could—that he would be open with her, would remember what old friends they were, and would not allow any formality, or even any mistake, to raise a barrier between than% ''''i 13e sure to write to me when you can," the letter ended, "for till I hear I shall not be happy about you, and you know your place in my heart is very near Dick's. You see I put -my request on selfish grounds entirely ! My husband seems to have seen so little of you the other day, and I can't help fancying that you misunderstood each other. "Even if it was not so please let me hear from you. Remember that you adopted Portlikerran as your home, and that even if things have gone wrong, we should like to have a little home confidence." pleased his eye. To -night he just leaned on the parapet, getting a sort of relief from the fresh night wind, but almost unconscious of time and place. He was roused at last by becom- ing aware that there was another occupant of the recess. A small elf—whether boy or girl he could not at fii''st tell—was yawning and stretching itself, having just awak- ened from' sound sleep. Presently a dismayed excl`lmation made Don- ovan draw a little nearer. "By all the blissed saints ! if they ain't wet thrctligb, all the three of 'em!" Then came sounds of t iolent scraping, Donovan, stooping down Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. Ierh*ps Donovan bad never be- fore realized bow. much Mrd Tra main weft to bitD, inantualiy leas` rr.Iran t� tk a yea -before,-lit- . h been too much absorbed with the pain of leaving Gladys to have a thought for any one.else, but now, 4e he read the motherly letter and 1 aroi.OII+tljwll. VETERINARY BUR' 0 . 80).,.11ORDIy�fy0rydn40OftheOnterio Va erivary Goll'#ge. Trerhail all ( ernes o1 4omuatlelited *Mends on the meetanoder>L: ung; andyciauillo tidot�ttueipleo, O)._i nleill,*. ad attslg alt Of bio loyal 'floral; -'Ravi 401100 -- Albert St., Clinton. Cally night orda, at- tetrded. to promptly. D1t3.'ELLIOT a GUNN. recalled all Mrs Treulnil's goodnestt lf, R, iClliot, M, D., W. (}Iran, M,A., L R C 1P., Edinburgh, O P„Edhrburgh,L.R. to hint, he did realize the ..trt)tlt, (n. ,O.s,;:Edlnbur b, p,t3. Bdin>:urgb, 11 - very bitterly. How wonderful her mice etiateoft o?ged weeiy, din heoeM,on sympathy had been ar the dill@ Pf lLf oa at Brucefleld. warner ofOntario and his illness ! how comforting it lead wlill4m std ,QUnton been to tell her about Dot 1 "Re- member that this is your borne" --- how cruelly tempting were the words ! If he could but have writ- ten in answer to that letter, if he could but have written that "home confidence' for whi.b she asked ! Well, it was no use going over the old arguments again. Ile bad to be silent—merely to hold his tongue, merely to let all letters re- main unanswered ---an easy enough role, surely—merely silence. Noth- inI to be learned before that part can he played, no need for beauty of voice or grace of speech; for th'e silent player nothing is required but self restraint. The end of it was that Mrs Tre- main's letter was quietly dropped into the hottest part of the fire; when the sudden blaze died out Donovan turned away, and with something added to the dead weight of depression which be had borne before, set out for his "day's walk. For some weeks things went on in this way, the only change was that those black depths of dejection lost their horrble novelty; it seem- ed as if for long ages he had fagged throughweary uninte:esting days, had borne this load at his heart. In time, however, he came to real- ize the truth that dejection is self- ishness, and no more excusable tin the ground of naturalness than selfishness is. It was-naturalcer- tainly to be dejected after a great loss, it was also natural to put self first, but it was not for that reason right, lie had been wrapped up in himself and in those bitter sweet recoilec;ions of the past. When he was fully awake to the fact bis strength came back again; detection wa.s:rletean..elisyloe .to sccanbit,luit he went Tooth and nail, and£he strange incentive to the work was none other than the old captain. Poor Rouge was a curious person perhaps to save a fellow being from spiritual death, but nevertheless bis presence did save Donovan. It was the sight of thst feeble old man dragging through his useless, aim- less days, with his pipe anal his brandy and water, his weak fits of laughter and his maudlin tears which first roused Mut. TO 'BE CONTINUED. Every tissue of the body, every bone, muscle and organ, is made stronger and more heatthfu; by the use of Hood's Sarsaparilla. TIIE FOOLS NOT ALL DEAD YET. 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WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, General Manager Notes diacounted,Collections made,Drafls issued, Sterling and American ex- r4znge bought and sold at lowest current rates. Interest at 4 per cent allowed en deposits. FARMERK. Money advanced to farmers on their own notes with one or more endorsers. No mortgage re- quired as security. 11. 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: - 1 °Lees I pea Hamilton, Toronto, Strat- ford, Seaforth, Grand Trunk east and interme- diate offices Toronto Stratford, Sea - forth, T. and S. oast Goderich, Holmesville and Grand Trunk west Goderich, Hamilton, Toronto, London, L., H, & B. south and intermediate offlcee Blyth, Wingham, Kincar- dine, Lucknow, L.,H,&B- north and intermediate' a.m. p m. a.m, p.m offices 9.30 6.15 8.10 5.00 British mails, Monday, Wed- nesday, Thursday 7.00 a.m, Bayfield, Varna, Herbieon, daily Summerhill, Tuesday and Friday, ....,..,,,., 5.30 p.m. 6.30 p.m Money Orders itteiie'd'and Deposits received from one dollar upwards. Office hours from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Savings Bank and Money Order Office close at 6.30 p.m. THOMAS FAIR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 29, 1889. 7.80 a.m. 1.65 p.m. 1 11 p.m. 8.4 p.m. 4.15 p.m. a.m. p.m, 7.00 4.15 1.50 p.m S a.in 8.10 a.m 2.40 p.m 10.26 a,m a.m. p.m 10.25 7.00 2.30 p.m. 12.45p.m. HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company is Loaning Money or Farm Security at Lowest Rates of interest.• MORTGAGES - :-PURCHASEI SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. 3, 4 and 5 per Cent. Interest Allowed on Deposits,aecording to amount and time left. OFFICE -Corner of MarketSgnareand North 8 IORACE HORTON, Gorfaricb,August 5th 1888 MANAGRR, A. O. AT, W. The Clinton Lodge, No. 144 tneet 1t �iok. con's Hall on the rat and Srdl'rlday4 fin ewe month. Visitors cordiallyinvited. 0i STONEHAM, M. W. J. BEN, Recorder. A COOK BOOK FREE By mall to any lady -sanding. usher posf elk1 address. Wells, Richardson 1 Coo Moatreai- ru,INTOE MEOHANIC'S INSTITUTE. \-!Library and Reading Rooms, Town all. down stairs. About 2,000 volume t the Library and all the Leatltng Nowa papers and Periodicals of the day on tire table. Membership ticket $1 per annum lciosmbeoie in. Open from for emerhpreoev oy the Librarian in the room. BENMILE ER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREE! NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCII AND ASTRACHAN PINE, TIIR LATTER OF WUICf wit MAKS • 8P/IMALTr LARGE STOCK ON HAND. The above ornamental trees and shrubbery wt be Bold at very low prices, and those wautin, anything in this connection will save mono purobaamg here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed to. Address, JOHN STEWART, Benmillsr. McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company FAR![ & ISOLATED TOWN PROPERTY ONLY INSURED • OFFIOr:Rs. Thos. E. Hays,President, Seatorth P. O.: W. J. Shannon,Secy-Treas., SeatorthP.Cs.;Jno Hannah, Manager, Seaforth P. O. DIRECTORS. Jas. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Donald Ross Clinton: Gabriel Elliott, Clinton; Geo, Watt, Harlook; Joseph Evans, Beechwood; J. Shan - pen,.Walton; Thos. Garbert, Clinton. AGENTS. Thee: N'eilatis, Harloeli; ROM. MoMillau,- Feaforth; 8 Carnooban, Seaforth; John 0' Sullivan and Geo. Murdie, auditorr. Parties desirous to effect Insurances or ransaot other business will be promptely trended to on application to any of the hove officers, addressed to their respeolve Moes. J. C. ST1VENSON, -THE LEADING— UNDERTA.KER —AND— EMBALMER. A FULL LINE OF GOODS KEPI ill STOOK The beatEml,alming Fluid used Splendid Hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL FARRAN & TISDALL BANKERS, CLINTON. ONT Advanups made to farmerson their own notes, at low rates of interest. A general Banking Business transaotea Interest allowed on deposits. Sale Notes bought J. P. TISDALL, Manager RICHLY Rewarded are those who read this and then act ; they will find honorable employment that will not take them from their homes and families. The profits are large and sure for every industri- ous person, many have made and are now making several hundred dollars a month, It is easy for any person to make lit per day and upwards,who is willing to work, Eithe eexyoung or old ; capital not needed,we star you. Everything new. No special ability required; you, reader.can do it as well as any one. Write to us at once for full particulars which we mail free. Address Stinson & Co Portland, Maine. Ole. INSI` ON Planing Mill —AND— DRY RILNl•- THE SUBSCRIBER HAVING JUST COM - 818880 and furnished his new Planing Mil with machinery of the latest improved patterns, is now prepared to attend to all orders in his line in the.aost prompt" and satisfactory manner and at real moble rates. He would aleo rn thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, and now being in a bet- ter position to execute orders.,expeditiously feels confident he can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY—Near the Grand Trt Railway, Clinton. ,THOMAS M. KENZ=E ROBERT DOWNS CLINTON, • Manufacturer and Proprietor for the best meta Mill Dog In use. Agent for the sale and appll eat ion of the o'FIsn RR PATENT A tTCM ATM BOILER CLEANF.E. STEAM FITTiNOS.turn iehed and applied on eh jet notice. *toilers, Ergines. and all kin Machinery repaired esprint l nod in a satisfactory .Hann Farm implements mannfsetered and re- paired. Steam and wster pumps furnished and put in position. Dry Kilns fitted up on application. barges Modeato -r