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The Clinton New Era, 1891-07-31, Page 2A,Z JTJL Y s1 t8 . liardy ,1.3- ,: • Bat BIWA LULL. UONTZ VER. He made a his mind to leave OW. as a last resource, and turn- ing to the heading of Sweden and Norway looked out the address of the Consulate. He must go there the first thing the next day, and get what advice and help he could. There was also in Fleet Street a Soandinavin club; be would go thereand get a list of the members, its was possible that he might meet with some familiar name, and at any rate he should hear his own language spoken, which in. itself Would, be a relief. This arranged, he tried to steep, but with little lsucaes ; his brain was too much ggerwrought with the terrible re- versala of fortune he had met with that day, with the sorrows that had -come to him, not as "Single spices, Hut in battalions 1" •Whenever. he did for a_few min- utes sink into a doze, it was only to be haunted by the most horrible dreams, and when morning came he was ill and feverish, yet as deter- mined as before to go through with the programme he had mark- ed out. The Swedish Minister received him very kindly, and listened to as much of his story as would bear telling, with great patience. 'It is a very hard case,' be said. 'The English firm perhaps consulted i their own pockets in making this new arrangement; but to break off • .an old connection so suddenly, and as it chanced' at inch a trying mo- .. Mont, was hard lines. What sort Of people are they, these Morgans? *You have met them?' 'Oh yes,', said Frithiof coloring. 'One of the brothers was in Norway 4 this summer, came to our house, •~-1ind -with -us,- -professed the great- est friendliness, while all the time he must have known what the firm was meditating.' 'Doubtless came to see bow the land lay,' said the Minister. 'And what of the other brothel?' 'I saw him yesterday,' replied Frithjof. 'He was very civil; told me the telegram had been sent off that morning about the affair, as it would not bear delay, and spoke very highly of my father. Words cost nothing, you see.' The Consul noted the extreme bitterness of the tone, and looked searchingly into the face of his vis- itor. 'Poor fellow!' he reflected; **he starts in life with a grievance, and there nothing so bad for a • maxi ,;ass- that. A fine, handsome too. If he stays eating his heart out in London he will go to the dogs in no time.' 'See,' he said, 'these Morgrns, though they may be keen business men, yet they are after all human. When they learn at what an un- lucky time their telegram arrived, it is but natural that they should regret it. Their impulse will be to help you, I should advise you to go to them at once and talk the af- fair over with them. If they have " any proper feeling they will.offer you some sort of employment in this now Stavanger branch, or they might, perhaps, have some opening for -you in their London house.' 'I cannot go to them,' aaid Fiith- 1-of in a choked voido. 'I would rather die first.' 'I can understand,' said the Con- sul, 'that you feel very bitter, and that you resent the way in which they have behaved. But still I think you should try to get over 'that. After all they knew nothing of your father's affairs; they did not intentiorally kill ,.him. That • the two disasters followed so closely on each other was but an accident.' 'Still 1 would never accept any- thing from them; it is out of the ouestion,' said Frithjof. 'Exoute me if I speak plainly,' maid, the Consul. 'Yon are very young, and you know .but little of the world. If you allow yourself to be go'verned by pride of this sort you cannot hope to get on. Now :tura it over in your mind, and if •ybu do not feel that you can see these people, at any rate write to them.' 'I cannot explain it all to you, sir,' said Frithjof. 'But there are private reasons which make that altogether impossible.' The blood had mounted to his forehead, his lips had closed in a 'straight line; perhaps it was be - Carse they quivered that he eons- , pressed them so. 'A woman in the question,' re - fleeted the Consul. 'That compile - sates mattera, All the more reason that he should leave Lohdon.' Then aloud, 'If you feel unable to apply to them, I should recommend you strongly to try America. Every on 0 flocks to London for work, but as a matter of fact London streets Fust now are not paved with gold; Overything is at a standstill; go Where you will you will hear that trade is bad, that employment is scarce, and that living is dear? 'If I 'could hear of an opening in America I would go at once,' said Frithjof. 'But at Bergen we have .Beard of late that it is no such easy thing even over there to meet with Work. I will not; pay the expenses 0 the voyage merely to be in my Children Cry for present State, and hundreds of Mile 'farther LQrri home.'' 'What ' can yptx • dQ`l' asked the Consul, 'Is yclur tlgfish pretty good?' 61 can write and epeak it easil and,: of courses` German too. I u derstand hook keeping.' 'Any taste for teaching?' ase Cowie'. n u . 'None,' said Frithjof decidedly , that em e o i h se e only n thing .nth Y g open to you is the work of a see tory, or a clerkship, or perhap bu you could manage translating, that is not easy work to ge Everything now is overcrowded, s dreadfully overcrowded. Howeve of oourae I shall bear you in mind and you yrfurself will leave no Ston unturned. Stay, I might give you a letter of introduction to Her Sivertsen; he might possibly fin you temporary work. Ho is tb author of' that well known book o Norway, you know. Do you kno your way about yeti' 'Pretty well,' said Frithjof. 'Then there is his address - Museum Street. You had bette take an omuibus at the Bank. Any of the Oxford Street ones will put you down at the corner, by Mudie's. Let me know how you get on; I shall be interested to hear.' Then with a kindly shake of the hand Frithjof found himself dis- missed, and somewhat cheered by the intervietw, he made his way to theaddress Which had been given him. Herr Sivertsen's rooms were of the gloomiest; they reeked of tobac- co, they were ill lighted, and it seemed to Frithiof that the window could not have opened for a week. An oblique view of Mudie's library was the only object of interest to be seen without, though by cran- ing one's neck, one could get just a glimpse of the traffic in Oxford street. He waited for some min- utes wondering to himself how a successful author could tolerate such a den, and trying to imagine from the room what sort of being was the inhabiter thereof. At length the door opened, and a gray- haired man of five and fifty, with a hilge forehead and "somewhat stern, square jawed face, entered. 'I have read the Consul's letter,' he said, greeting Frithiof and mo- tioning him to a chair. 'You want what is very hard to get. Are you aware that thousands of men are seeking employment and are unable to meet with it?' 'I know it is hard,'said Frithjof. 'Still I have more chance here than in Norway, and anyhow I mean to get it.' The emphatic way in which he uttered these last words made the author look at him more attentively. 'I am tired to death of young men coming to me and wanting help,' he remarked frankly. 'You are an altogether degenerated race, you young men of this generation; in my opinion you don't know what work means. It's money you want not work.' `Yes,' said Frithjof dryly, 'you are perfectly right. It is :money that I want.' Now Herr Sivertsen had never before met with this honest avow- al. In reply to the speech which be had made to many other applic- ants he had always received an eager protestation that the speaker was devoted to work, that he was deeply interested in languages, that Herr Sivertsen's greatest hobbies were his hobbies too. He liked this bold avowal in his secret heart, though he had no intention of let- ting this be seen. 'Just what I Maid?' he exclaimed. 'A pleasure seeking, money grabbing genera- tion. •What is the result? I give work to be done, and as long as you can get gold you don't care how the thing isscamped. Look here! He teak up a manuscript from the table. `I have paid the fellow who did this. He is not only behind time, but when at last the work is sent in it's a miserable perforamance, bungled, patched, stamped, even the hand writing a disgrace to civ- ilization. It's because the man takes no pride in the work itself, because has not a spark of interest in his subject. It just means to him so many shillings, that is all.' 'I can at least write a clear hand,' said Frithjof. 'That may be; but will you put any heart into your work? Do you Dare for culture? for literature? Do you interest yourself in progress? do you desire to help on your genera- tion?' 'As far as I am concerned,' said Frithjof bitterly, 'the generation will have to take care of itself. As for literature, I know little of it and care less; all I want is to make money.' s..,.duwn,,Ntlseutu, Street. To hav wetly,* sack a Atka from fel- equntrymen. seerried to llinl hard;, specially in this time of hia treehle, He had net enough in- ,ssight into character to understand n- the eccentric old author, and be forgot that Hera Sivertsen knew d nothing of hie circumstances. He was too r ab opt, too independent, • perhaps. iso top refined, to push hie s way as n unknown foreigner iu a re- huge e m� r osis �o was p He utterly s unable to draw a picturesque de. t so i tion r p of the plight he was in, he t. could only rely on a sort of dogged o perseverance, a fixed resolve that ✓ he must and would fine work; and , in spite of constant failures this eI never left him. He tramped down to Vauxhall ✓ and began to search for lodgings, d looked at some half dozen sets, and e finally lighted on a clean little n house in a new looking street a few w hundred yards from Vauxhall Sta- tion. There was a card up is the window advertising rgoms to let. He rang the bell and was a little ✓ surprised to find the door opened to him by a middle aged woman who was unmistakably a lady, though her deeply lined face told of privation and care, possibly also of ill. temper. He asked the price of the rooms. 'A sitting room and bedroom at fifteen shillings a week was the reply. 'It is too much, and besides I only need one room,' he said. 'I am afraid we cannot divide them.' He looked disappointed. An idea seemed to strike the landlady. 'There is a little room at top you might have,' she said, 'but it would not be very comfortable- It would be only five shillings a week, in- cluding attendance.' `Allow me to see it,' said Frith- jof. He felt so tired and ill that if she had shown him a pigstye, he would probably have taken it merely for the sake of settling matters. As it was, the room, though bare and comfortless, was spotlessly clean, and, spite of her severe face, he rather took to his landlady. 'My things are at the Arundel Hotel,' he explained. 'I should want to come in at once. Does that suit you?' 'Oh yes,' she said, scaning him closely; 'Gan you give us any re- ferences?' 'You can, if you wish, refer to the Swedish Consul, at 24 Great Winchester Street.' 'Oh, you are a Swede,' she said. 'No, I am a Norwegian, and have only been in London since yester- day.' The landlady seemed satisfied, and having paid his five shillings in advance Frithiof went off to secure his portmanteau, and by five o'clock was installed in his new home. 'Did I not tell you so?' roared Herr Sivertsen. 'It is the accurs- ed gold which you are all seeking after. You care only for money to spend on your own selfish indulg- ences. You are all alike! A worth- less generation!' Frithiof rose. 'However, worthless, we un• luckly have to live,' he said coldly. 'And as I can't pretend to be in- terested in oulture,' I must waste uo more time in discussion.' He bowed and made for the door. 'Stay,' said Herr Sivertsen; 'it will do no' harm if you leave me your address.' 'Thank you,brlt at present I have none to give,' said Frithjof. 'Good morning.' He felt very angry and very sore hearted as he made bis way Pitcher's Castoria. It was well that he had lost no time in leaving his hotel, for dur- ing the next two days he was un- able to quit his bed, and could only console himself with the re- flection that at any rate be had a cheap roof over his head and that his rent would not ruin him. Perhaps the cold night air from the river had given him a chill on the previous night, or perhaps the strain of the excitement and suf- fering had been too • much for him. At any rate he lay in feverish wretchedness, tossing through the long days and weary nights, a misery to himself and an anxiety to the people of the house. He discovered that his first im- pression had been correct. Hiss Turnour, the landlady, was well born; she and her two sisters -all of them now middle aged women - were the daughters of a country gentleman, who bad either wasted his substance in speculation or on the turf. He was long since dead, and left behind him the fruits of his selfishness, three helpless wo- men, with no particular aptitudes and brought up to no particnlar profession. They had sunk down and down in the social scale, till it seemed that there was nothing left them but a certain refinement of taste, which only enabled them to suffer more keenly, and the family pedigree, of which they were proud, clinging very much to the peculiar spelling of their name, and strug- gling on in 1 heir little London house, quarrelling much among themselves, and yet firmly deter- mined that nothing on earth should part them. Frithiof dubbed them the three Fates. He wondered sometimes whether after long years of poverty, be and Sigrid and Swan- hild should come to the same mis- erable condition, the same hopeless,. cold, hard spirit, the same pinched, worn faces, the same dreary mono- tonous lives. The three Fates did not take much notice of their lodger. Miss Turnour often wished she had had the sense to see he was ill before admitting him. Miss Caroline, the youngest, flatly declined wait- ing on him, as it was quite against her feelings of propriety. Miss Charlotte, the middle one of the three, who had more heart than the rest, tried to persuade him to see a doctor. 'No,' he replied, 'I shall be all right in a day or two. It is nothing but a feverish attack. I can't af- ford doctor's bills.' She looked it hint a little corn - passionately, his poverty touched a chord in her own life. 'Perhapa the illness has come in Children Cry for erdelr that you bavntjtl?e to think,' sbe aid tllgrdly, She was a very small little wo- man, like a white wvuse,, but Tcith- tof had i*peedily found that,she was the only cue of the three from wheel be could expect any help. She was the snubbed one of the family, partly because she was timid andentle partly gentle, p t y because she had lately adopted certain religious views n which u o ' the other two looked down with the most supreme contempt. Frithjof was in no wood to re- spond to her well meant efforts to convert him, and used to listen to her discourses about the last day with a stolid indifference which altogether baffled her. It seemed as if nothing could possibly rouse him. ,she would say as she left the room with a sad little shake of the head, 'I shall be caught up at the second Advent, >i am not all sure that you will be.' The eldest Miss Turnour did not trouble herself at all about his spir- itual state; she thought only of the risk they were running and the possible loss of money. 'I hope he is not sick with any infectious disease,' she used to re- mark a dozen times a day. And Miss Charlotte said nothing but silently thanked Heaven that she had not been the one to accept the new lodger. . CHAPTER X1 There is no suffering so severe as that which we perceive to be the outcome of our own mistaken de- oidion. Suffering caused by our own sin is another matter -we feel in some measure that we deserve it. Bnt to have decided hastily, or too hopefully, or while some false view of the case was presented to us, and then to find that the decision brings grievous pain and sorrow, this is cruelly hard. It was this consciousness of his own mistake which preyed upon Frothiof's mind;as he tossed through those long, solitary hours. Had he only insisted on speaking to Blanche's uncle at Balholm, or on at once writing to her father,: all might have been well -his father yet alive, the bankruptcy averted, Blanche his own. Over and over in his mind he revolved the things that might have happened but for that fatal hopefullness that had proved his ruin. He could not con- ceive now why he had not insisted on returning to England with Blanche. It seemed to him incred- ible that he had stayed in Norway merely to celebrate his twenty-first birthday, or that he had been per- suaded not to return with the Mor- gans because Mr Morgans would be out of town till October. His san- guine nature had betrayed him, just as his father had been betrayed by bis too great hopefulness as to the Iceland expedition. Certainly it is true that sanguine people in partic- ular have to buy their experience by bitter pain and loss. By the Saturday morning he was almost himself again as far as phys- ical strength was concerned, and his mind was healthy enough to turn resolutely away from these useless breedings over the past, and to ask with a certain amount of interest, 'What is to be done next?' All is not lost when we are able to ask ourselves that question; the mere asking stimulates us to rise and be going, even thuurh the direction we shill take be utterly undecide 1. When Miss Charlotte camp to in- quire after her patient, she found to her surprise that he was up and dressed. 'What!' she exclaimed. 'You are really well, then!' 'Quite well, thank you,' he re- plied in rather a cold tone of voice which had lately become habitual to him. 'Have you a newspaper in the house that you would be so good as to lend me?' 'Certainly,' said Miss Charlotte, her face lighting up as she hasten- ed out of the room, returning in a minute with a special organ of the religious party to Which she belong- ed. 'I think this might interest you,' she began timidly. 'I don't want to be interested,' said Frithjof dryly. 'All I want is to look through the advertise- ments. A thousand thanks, but I see this paper is not quite what I need.' 'Are you sure thatyou know what you really need?' she said earnestly, and with evident reference to a deeper subject. Had she not been such a genu- ine little woman, he would have spoken the dry retort, 'Madam, I need money,' which trembled on his lips; but there was no suspicion of cant about her, and in spite of his bitterness still retained much of his Norwegian courtesy. • ' You see, he said 'smiling a little, ' if I do not find work I cannot pay my rent, so I must lose no time in getting some situat- ion.' The word, ' rent ' recalled her eldest sister to Miss Charlotte's mind, and she resolved to say no more just at present as to the other matters. She brought him one of the daily papers, with a little sigh of disappointment removed the re- ligious ' weekly, ' leaving Frithjof master of the columns headed ' Sit- uations vacant. ' Alas ! how short it was compared to the one dedicated to ' Situations wanted.' There was an editor reporter. P ither's Cast needed, mho must be .a.'frstrelaifs all mood pan;' bet l r'ithiof emild not feel that he, was deservit}g of`, such •.epitbete and he could not Oven write. sherthagd. There was, a 'gentleman needed for the can- vassing and p,ibllahiug department of a weekly,' but he must be pas sassed not only of energy but o experience. Agents were need for steel pens, toilet soap, and boys' b t clothes, a no novices need apply. Even the advertisement for billiard hands was qualified by the two crushing wads, 'experienced only.' 'A correspendence clerk wanted' made bio took hopefully at the lines which followed, but unluckily a knowledge of Portuguese was de- manded as well as of French and German; while the corn merchant who wou'd .receive a gentleman's son in an office of good position was prudent enough to add the words, 'No one need apply who is unable. to pay substantial premium.' Out of the whole list thele were only two situations for which he could even enquire, and he soon found that for each -of these there were hundreds of applicants. At first his natural hopefulness reas- serted itself, and each morning he would set out briskly resolving to leave no stone unturned; but when days and weeks had passed by in the monotonous search, his heart began to fail him;• he used to start from the little back street in Vaux- hall doggedly, dull despair eating at his heart, and a sickening, aver present consciousness that he was only an insignificant unit strugg- ling to find standing room in a world where selfishness and money grubbing reigned supreme. Each week brought him of course letters from Norway, his uncle sent bio letters of introduction to various London firms, but each let- ter brought him only fresh disap- pointment. As the Consul had told him, the market was already overcrowded, and though very pos- sibly he might have mat with work in the previous summer when all was well with him, no one seemed inolined to befriend this son of a bankrupt, with his bitter tone and proud bearing; the impression he gave every one was that he was an Ishmaelite with his . hand against every man, and it certainly did ream that at present every man's hand was against him. TO BE CONTINUED. f , T E. er A9EAI,L vNtais RA$Y SUR - Vecry oCoor ar G eutyttsa o f duOant ear 1 of do estioato anigassnthe Uoaf oedro andseientitle principles. Office immedi- ately weetefthHat1edyaAlbrt St„ Clinton.oCallnight ora tondedtopromptly. DR. TURNBULL. J. L. Turnbull, M,B., Toronto University, M D., C.M., Victoria University, M. C. P & 8„ Ontario; Fellow of the Obstetrical Society of Edinburgh; late of London, Eng„ and Edin- burgh Hospitals. Office: Dr. Dowsely old office Rattenbury St., Clinton. Night calls answered at the same place. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. $745.00 FOR ANT AXE. We will give to the first person telling us before the 20th of September, where in the New Testament the wgqg�d "Ars" is first found $100 in gold. Td -the next $50. To the third, $25. To the fourth $20. To the fifth, $15. To the sixth, $10; to the next 25, $5 each. To the next 25, $2 each. To the the next 25, $1 each. To the person sending in the last correct answer we will give $100 in gold. To the next to the last $50 and so on same as from the first. With your answer send 25ots, in silver, or 27 cts. in stamps, for a box of Dr. Cole's Blood and Liver Pills, tthe best Blood, Liver, and Stomach Pill ever made. Sure cure for sick headache. Don't Gripe. REMEMBER the presents are ABSOLUTELY FREE, being given away to advertise Dr. Cole's Perfect Pills and Family Remedies. A valuable Watch given each week to the first correct an- swer received: Send at once and be first. Address, A. 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WOLFERSTAN THOMAS, General Manager Notes discounted,Collcctions made, Drafts issued, Sterling and American ex-, rtiznge bought and Aold at lowest current rates. Interest at 4 per cent allowed on deposits. FARMERS. Money advanced to farmers on their own notes with ono or more endorsors. No mortgage re• quired as security. H. C. BREWER, Manager, January 1887. Clinton BENMCLLER NURSERY FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREE; NORWAY SPRUCE, SCOTCH AND ASTRACHAN PINE, Tn8 LATTER of Wni@I WE MARE A SPECIALTY LARGE STOCK ON HAND. The aboyo ornamental trees and shrubbery wi be Bold at very low prices, and those wantln anything in this connection will save mono purchasing here. Orders by Mail will be promptly attend ed to: Address, JOHN STEWART. Benmiiler. HURON AND BRUCE Loan & Investment Co'y This Company is Loaning Money or, Farm Security at Lowest Rates d'f Interest. MORTGAGES : - PURCHASED SAVINGS BANK BRANCH. $, 4 and 6 .per Cent. Interest Allowed on Depoeits,according toamount and time left. OFFICE --Corner of Marlcot Sgunreand North S clORACN HORTON, •MANAaeR 6th 1886 MRS., 'Mi/f#t'' I'' Oka AN. . . TE4QHER OR' hMUSXQ. 16410, organ 'PS Teeheleou, or gruel developer; foe use of peons, Rooip at Axis S. Harty:, Iiattppbuxy Streat, Clinton INC POVDER. THE COOK'S BEST �'BiEI LARGEST SALE IM CANADA. A. O. U. W. The Clinton Lodge,No.144. meet in Biddle - combo Hall onithe let and 3rd Fridays 14 eaoh month. Visitors cordials invited. R. STONEHAM, M. W. J. BEAN,yRecorder. A COOK BOOK FREE By mall to any lady sending us her post one) address. Wells, Richardson & Co,, Montreal. CLINTOE MECHANIC'S INBTITu1'E, Library and Reading Rooms, Town Hall, down stairs. About 2,000 volume ,, i 1 the Library and all the Leading Newe papers and Periodicals of the day on the table. Membership ticket al per annum pelciosfmeepiemAppiatnor embrhireoev oy the Librarian in theroom. Clinton Post Office Time Table Mails are due tor delivery and close for despatch at the Clinton Poet Office as follows: - GLOSS f DIT1 Hamilton, Toronto, Strat- ford, Seaforth, Grand Trunk east and interme- diate offices Toronto Stratford, Sea - forth Toronto, and S. east., Goderic'h Holmesville an, Grand Trunk west Godorioh, ,..,,..... Hamilton, Toronto, London, L., H, & B. south and intermediate office: Blyth, Wingham, Kinoar • dine, Lucknow, L.,B,&B, north and intermediate offices ....... British mails, Monday, Wed nesday, Thursday Bayfield, Varna, Herbison daily Summerhill, Tuesday an, Friday, 7.00 a,m. 1.55 p.m. 1 P.M. 8,45 p.m. 4.15 p.m. a.m. p.m, 7.00 400 a.m. p m. 9.30 6.16 7.00 a.m. 2.30 p.m- 1.50p.m 81441 8.20 a.m 2.40 p.m 10.28 a,na a.m. p.m 10,267.00 a.m. p.m 8.10 5.011 2.45p.m 6.30 p.m. 6.80 p.m Money Orders Issued 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 8.30 p.m. THOMAS FAIR, Postmaster, Clinton, April 29, 1889. McKillop Mutual Fire Insurance Company- FARM ompanyFARM & ISOLATED TOWN PROPERTY ONLY INSURED OFFICER:. Thos. 5, Hays, President, Seaforth P. 0.; W. J . •Shannon, Secy-Treas., Seaforth P.O.; Jno Hannah, Manager, Seaforth P. 0. DIRECTORS. Jae. Broadfoot, Seaforth; Donald Rosa Clinton: Gabriel Elliott, Clinton; Geo. Watt, Harlook; Joseph Evans, Beechwood; J. HUM! non, Walton; Thos. Garbert, Clinton. AGENTS. Thos. Neilans, Harlock; Robt. McMillan; Seaforth; 8 Carnoohan, Seaforth; John O' Sullivan and Geo. Mnrdie, au&torr. Parties desirous to effect Insurances or ransaet other business will be promptely ttended to on application to any of the bove officers, addressed to their -respecivo ffioes. J. C. STEVESON, -THE LEADING - UNDERTAKER -AND--- EMBALMER. A FULL LIN E OF GOODS KEP 1 i1 STOCK The bestEmbalming Fluid used Splendid hearse. ALBERT ST.,CLINTON, Residence over store. OPPOSITE TOWN HALL R' it+�J 1 Rewarded are thoae who rea 1Fthio and then sot; theywill&nd honorable employwent that will not take them from their homes and families. Tb e profits are largo and sure for every indnstr i- ons person, many have made and are no W making several hundred dollars a month, is easy for any person to make 88 per day and upwards, who is willing to work. Eith e sex,young qr old ; capital not needed,we eta r 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, �JL.INTVN Planing Mill DRY KILN! MBE SUBSCRIBER HAVING JUST 0015. 1. PLETED and furnished his new Planing 51i1 with machinery of the latest improved pattern%, is now prepared to attend to all orders in his line In the.aost prompt and satisfactory mouser and at rens mable rates. He would also return thanks to all who patronized the old m before they were burned out, and now -being in a bet- ter position to execute orders expeditious! feels confident ho can give satisfaction to all. FACTORY -Near the Grand Tru Railway, Clinton, THOMAS McRENZ a ROBERT DOWNS, CLINTON, Mant.faoturer and Proprietor for the bestNw a 311tH Dog in use. Agent for the sale and application of the A'FiSusR PATENT AUTOMATIC Boman CLEANER. STEAM FITTiNGS furnished and applied on short notice. Boilers. Engines. anis all kin Machinery repaired espedltl and in a satisfactory mann Farm implemonta manufaotered and re- paired. Steam and water pumps furnished andut in position. Dry Kilns fitted on application . Charges Modes te