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"Cards, under 6 lines, per annum ..... 5 00 £3 - Letters containing money, when ad- di to this Office, pre. paid dnd regester- : Tu: ta decidedly one of the best companies ORT NTARI AND GENERAL A OBS. DVERTISER "VOL XXII, NO. 7.f PORT PERRY, PROVINCE OF ONTARIO, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1879. WHOLE NO. 1104 Fcrth Ontaric Obaeruer. A WEEKLY POLITICAL, AGRICUL- TURAL .& FAMILY NEWSPAPER, 18 PUBLISHED AT PORT PERRY, ONT., EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, M BY BAIRD & PARSONS. TERMS. --$1 per annum, if pald in ad- vance ; if not $1.50 will be charged. No subscription taken for less than six months; d no paper discontinued until all arrears are id RATES OF ADVERTISING. Wor each line, first insertion ........$0 08 Subsequent insertions, per line vw 002 will be at our risk 5 hp reste mh measured by Nonpareil, mud charged according to the space they oc- cupy. Son raitigonts received for publication. without specific instructions, will lie inserted until forbid and chaiged Accordingly. No advertisement will be taken out untilpaid for A liberal discount allowed to Merchants and others who advertise by the year or 1f-year, ; hr These terms will in all cdses be strictly v. e~d to Job Department. hlets, Hand Bills, Posters, Pro- a Bill Heads, Blank Forms, Receipt Books, Checks, Books, Circulars, Business Cards, Ball Cards, &c.,of every style and lor, executed promptly and at lower rates than any other establishment in the County. B&F Parties from a distance getting hand Wills, &c. printed canshave them done to take Business Sarvs. ONTARIO BANK. CAPITAL $3,000,000 PORT PERRY BRANCH. SAVINCS DEPARTMENT. A Savings Department is now open in connection with this Branch. Deposits of FiveDollars and upwards received and inter- est allowed thereon, No notice of withdrawal required. A. A. ALLEN, MANAGER. . BURNHAM, Clerk of the Third Divi on aati A Ditton in "Digelow's. Block, Port Perry, OmMee hours from 10a mm, to3 p. m. INO, & D. J. ADAMS, Money, Land & Insurance BRORERS, HAE large sums of money on hand for Investment, Mortgages Purchased. A number of excellent Farms for Sale or to Rent. AGENTS FOR THE "ALLAN T. C. FORMAN, INSPECTOR of WEIGHTS § MEASURES For the County of Ontario. Port Perry, Nov 1, 1875. 46:tf | HRISTIE, TOWNSHIP OLEREK, ssuer of Marriage Licenses--Conveyancer, Commissioner &c. Office--Manchestet. OHN C . ISSUER OF Midrriage Licenses. T C. FORMAN, "we home with them, One door west of the Walker House I 0 LOAN J. BAIRD. H. PARSONS. | port Perry. In any manner to suit borrowers, Morigages y > | -- Bought, Accounts, Notes, &e., Collected and oe > Sy prompt r ttances made. 3 a The party borrowing money can get it Professions Car as. without commission, at the Lowest rate, and a meme is allowed to fix his own ti H, SANGSTER, ., Physleian, Sur- « Beon and Accoue Coroner for the County of Ontario PORT PERRY. Office over Nott's Furniture Store, corner of Queen and Perry Streets. Office hours from § a. m. to 12 m. Residence, the dwelling recently occupied by Mrs. Geo, Paxton. . WARE, Coronor for the County of In Physician, Surgeon and Ac- ucheur, ©Omoe. opposite the town hall. Port Perry. } Port Perry, July 1st, 1874. ENRY CHARLES having been re- 5 appointed Marriage License Agent-- (after sixteen years duty) continues to fur- nish Licenses as heretofore--at Port Perry. . MCGILL & RAF, Physclans, Surgeons, i &ec, Office and Residences, King st. Oshawa, WM. WGILL, MT. FRANCIS RAF, M.D. M. F. MCBRIEN, M. Hospital, London, KE wn, Oshawa, R. (1. 8, Guy's id. The luye R. - « adny E. FAREWELL, LL. B, County Crown » Attorney for Ontario, Barrist hy Balicitor, and Nof Public. Of cuplad by 8. HL. Cochrane, Esq., Whitby. N TI. ENGLISH LI wcery, Attorney, Con Oshawn. OMece--Simecoe street, opposite the Post Dfflee Y™ Ch B., Barrister, At- YOUNG SMITH, Ll. Sa . torney-i w, Solicitor in Charicery, and Insolven tary Publie, &e! Office--MeMiilan's Block, Brock street, Whi W. Maurice Cochrane, TTORNEY-AT-LAW, Solicitor in Chan cery Notary Public, &c., &c. Office hours punctually from 9 a.m. to 5 p,m. Money to Loan at 8 per cent, on all kinds of good security. 'Office, Bigolow's Royal Arcade, PORT PERRY. F. PATERSON, (late of Beaverton.) Barrister and Attorney-at Law, Solici- tor in (hancery, Conveyancer, Notary Pub- | die, &o., &c. Ofce over Brown & Currle's Store Port Perry. ILLINGS & McGILLIVRAY, Barristers Solicitors, Notaries Public, &e, Port Perry. £8 A large amount of money to loan at 8 r cent. John Billings. | John A. McGillivray. : rat Law, and Solicitor e A Royal Arcade, Port Perry. J. .A. MURRAY, ATE Patterson & Feuton, Surgeon Dentist, Office over Corrigan & * Camp- bell's Store, Port Corry. All work dome in (j¢ very J datest and |, otyle and warranted to give sktisfact oy 4 Port Per °' rch 28, 1877. C. N. VARS, L. D. 8. EETH iaserted on all the latest princi- ples of the art, and as cheap as the cheap- est, and as good as the best. Teeth filled with 'Gold and Silver. Teeth extracted withotit pain by producing local anmsth- esia. Benficil Rooms--in Cowan's new block, over Atkinson's Drug Store, King Street, Oshawa, HE Subscriber would beg to inform 'owners of Horses and Cattle that having completed a Session in the Ontario Veterin- ary College, Toronto, he has mow located tin Port Porty, for the practice of his pro- Yession and is now prepared to give advise on and fully treat all di to which horses and cattle are liable, From Jong ¥tidy and close investigation of the matare' and habits of Horses and Cattle and long practice in treating the Diseases of such "Observer" Office, Port Perry, and arrange for days of Sales. ¥ t A R. RICHARDSON Re-appointed Issuer Marriage Licenses. Under the New Act. Office, lot 10, in the 1st con. Brock. Brock, Aug. 5,187. uh ENRY GRIST, Paves Soviciror } Dravciraay, Ottawa, Canada I'ransacts business with the Patent Office and other departments of the Government bts and the Registration of. Trade A nd Designs procured. Specifications, and other Documents neces- sary to seonre Patents of Invention, prepared | in receipt of the model of the Invention. AND | The Subseriber in returning his sincere thanks for the very liberal patrenige be- stowed on him in the past wotlld inform the | public generally that having bought a pro- | perty and moved into the ge of Albe v a future giv ert, everything 11 execute on the shore notlee and in the best and most durable The best 1a in he done. le a good job , s work ma and firs Port Perry, Jan. JAMESLUND, BROKER, MONEY "I 1 i> ER # [the Col &5 ir gage Lo a I small, and apply it as a di new Marriage Act. il cost will he very jam acting bot; several Companies th publicity in the transaction, Lands Drawings, tures, Bank*and other macketable Stocks, Ww SPENCE, Coxtraptor, BuiLber, ec. Whitby, April 10, 1873, NOTICE TO FARMERS & GTHERS rE ndersigned would say to the owners of Re ¥ ble aps--in and at the very lowest figure at hie and m Sat Of St hips JOHN & DAVID J.*ADAMS, Office in Mr. Ross' Ontario Buildings, Port Perry. 1870, MONEY, LAND & INSURANCE ONVEYANCER, Commissioner for taking Aftidavits in Court of Queen's Bench, &e. of interest on ¥ (not in ime, Just as cir part or all of the principal, VN binding thems. Ives inthe mort- ept such sum, whether large or rect reduction of 1e can at permit r E 2 to farm, or good pioductive town Inall eases where the title Is perfe ght to the borrower, Agent and Valuate nw here ean possibly be no t, the 1 If the title is perfect the money will be paid here in two weeks after making applica- JAMES LUND, , troker, &o., Parrish's Block, Cor, Brock nid « streets, Uxbridge. EY TO LU. [PORT PERRY LIVERY STABLES "KENZIE, PROPRIETOR. mae Subscriber having riotv fully ec uipped his new and extensive Livery Stabls with « supply of snperibr Horses and Carri ges, is prepared to furnish first cluss LIVERY RIGS On Moderate Terms. €. MCKENZIE. Port Perry, Aug. 6, 1873 . ghotels. R HOUSE PORT PERRY THE Subscriber having leased the above hotel, it will be his endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the approbation and patronage of the public, THE WALKER HCUSE whether for extent or quality of accommo- dations is equalled by few Hotels in the Province ahd surpassed by none out of the best cities, Commercial Travelers, the Traveling Public, Farmers and others doing business in the Village and the general public will find in TEE WALKER HOUSE all that can be required in the matter of accommodation and moderation in charges. The Charges are No Higher at the Walker House than at any other Hotel in Town. The House is fitted up thronghont in FIRST CLASS STYLE. The Tables and Bar supplied with the choice of the market and the utmost atten-- tion paid to the convenience and comfort of ALL. GUESTS. An abundance of comfortable Stable and Shed accommodation, and attentive hostlers, W. B. McGAW. Port Perry, April 20, 1876. post PERRY HOUS PORT PERRY .|JAS. V. THOMPSON, - PROPRIETOR, The above House is now most comfort- The undersi ned hasany amount of Money to lend upon Farm and Town Property, at | 33 Unusually Low Rates of Interest! | Additions have heen made which maker Loans can be repaid in any manner to suit the borrower. | Also several Improved Farms, and Wild | sale, cheap, Investments made in Municipal Deben Apply to JAMES HOLDEN, Broker, &e. MONEY TO LOAN. ate, that he has in his hands a f private funds which he is st for periods to suit horrow- sight per cent Expedition le terms assured. CHRISTIAN, ge epar RN. Manchester, October 17, hips War. SPENCE. Prince Albert, April, If WW. MM. WILICOX = Nas Wk LICENSED AUCTIONEER. I ETURNING my sincere thanks to my R numerous friends and patrons for their liberal patronage bestowed upon meé as Auctioneer during the past eight years, I one to twenty yi | Savings Company, large amount of Private Funis, Port Perry, May 20, 1878. LOAN ared to lend money y for terms from MONEY TO HE Subscriber is pre; on improved prope: Agent for W N Cinapa Loan axp He has also been instructed to invest a Later st Eight per cent. No Commission, N. F. PATERSON, Solicitor would now beg to offer my services to all who may have Farm Stock, Implements, or other property to sell by Auction anywhere in North Ontario, the township of Mariposa | or Cartwright, 2 My long and extensive practice as Auc- tioneer has enabled me to judge the value of Farm Stock with an accuracy second to none in the County, and this is of import- ance as it the Auctioneer is not a go judge of the value of Stock he may soon N gages mission, AJ INIT I CLEMENT DAWES, AS Money to Loan on Farm security in any manner to suit borrowers, Mort. bought at lowest rates, Accounts, otes, &c, collected on reasonable Com. Apply personally, or by letter to C DAWES, Auctioneer, &c., Port Perry, March 7, 1878. lose far more thgn his fee in any sale, Bill stamps al®ays on hand. Sale Bills ged and notes free of charge. Days of Bale may be arranged at the qd Opserver Office, where a Sale Register will | tel be kept. : Terms Liberal. W. MW. Port Perry, Sept. 4, 1877. N E. MAJOR, "I'o Loan on good Farms, at 8 per cent' {a- MONEY & [Private Funds,] al rest. LYMAN ENGLISH, A BagrrisTER, &c., Oshawa ovember 21, 1866. 4 ICENSED AUCTIONEER. All parties wishing his services can call at the Glen Major, Oct. 10, 1876. together with the great advantages derived WM. GORDON, from a Session at the Ontario Veterinary | LL d Auctio y &e. College, Toronto, I flutter myself that parties | R the T hip of Brock, U. . placing their Horses and Cattle under my Scott, Thorah, Rama, Mara, Mariposa treatment will find it to their advantage. and Eldod, Any order or commuaication for me left at Mr, Allison's Drug Store will be promptly attended to. i '© D. BATEMAN. Port Perry, March 27, 1878. way rely on the utmost atteation being given 10 their interests. pay Parties entrusting their Biles to me WM. GORDON, Sunderland, Brock. I usic. ROF, RINGTON, Teacher of Music PEE SAT, Also dealer in Musical In- stpuments. on Union Avenue. NT ISS 8. 8. HARRINGTON, Teacher of | Moe Ap lications by Post or in person solicited. Residence, on Union Avenue, Port Perry. | The VICTORIA . MUTUAL Fire Insurance Company of Canada, HEAD OFFICE,....... HAMILTON. in the Dominion, and parties baving property to insure will do well to consider the many advantages of insuring with this J, Een Auctioneer for the Township North Oatario ; Mariposa, etc., in the County of Victoria. =Residence--Cannin Orders left at this office, or at his residence will be punctually attended to. Debts col= lected in Cannington, or otherwise, ahd prompt i made. WALSHE, the North Ontario Auctions eer. STEAM MARBLE WORKS. tles, Monuments, &c., Dundas £¢ , Whitby, T. H. WALSHE, ASSURANCE COMPANY. OAPITAL . . cmrent rates on Buildings, Merchandise, and other property, against loss or damage by fire. A Port Perry, Jan 22, 1879, WESTERN INCORPORATED 1851. 8800000. (With power to increase to $1,000,000.) " HEAD OFFICE, TORONTO, B&¥™ Insurances effected at the lowest JNO. & D. J. ADA gents, | et Vv. of Brock, Thorah, Mara & Rama in n, Brock. Farmers' Mutual Insane Coy This C THE ONTARIO Head Office, Whitby, ain is now fully organized and is WHITBY : : ® J. & R. WOLFENDEN, HOLESALE and Retail dealers in Foreign and American Marble Man- | "Also, Agent for the Scottish Genito, © | Also Building Stone cut to orde:', 3 Companys. o. HIWALSHE, Agont, JOHN NOTT, Canvington, Ont. . Agent, Port Perry. Csnuington, Sept. 26,1876. Whitby, July 29 1874. : 32 pre An and Churches, thereby support a Home Insurance Company have now an opportunity of doiig so, either by applying to the Head Office, or to any of the local Agents of the Company. Our rates Brock St., Whitby W. H. BROWNE, General Agent. e red to accept risks on Farm Buildings J their contents, country School Hotises Those wishing to insure and ill be found as low as those of any respon- ble Mutual Insurance Company in Canada, Head Ofice--Opposite the Royal Hotel C. NOURSE, Seeretary. | style, and offers every accommodation to attached. and renovated the entire premises even to the Sheds. guests. The Ouly First Class House in Town, B ably furnished, and Guests are cared the Home Style. Good Liquors and ( also, first class Stabling and good Ost] this the largest and best House in this section of country. Fare $1.00 per Day. AILWAY HOUSE, (Opposite the Railway Station,) PORT PERRY. This House has been thoroughly over. hauled, fitted up and arranged with a view to the accommodation and comfort of guests, Meals and Refreshments on the arrival of trains. First-class stable and shed accom- modation, C. HOLT, Proprietor. RoE= not M By GEO. HOUCK. Having leased the alove excellent Hotel it will be my endeavor to conduct it in every particular so as to merit the appro- bation and patronage of the public, Manchester, Oct. 6, 1875. HTranio AOTEL, WHITBY, fT. MASON, - - PROPRIETOR. The public well card for, and all Guests will please feel at home, Whitby, Nov, 9th, 1876. UEENS HOTEL, Corner of Cameron and Laidlaw Sts, CANNINGTON, On.' D. CAMPBELL, . ', PioprisToR This Hotel is now furnished in the best travelers p&y™ First class Sample Rooms. Livery Cannington, Oct. 20, 1875. 43 AT LO-AMERICAN HOTEL, PRINCE ALBERT. W. H. PARK, PROPRIETOR, Having p d the above pl situated Hotel, 1 have thoroughly repaired h The Hotel has been furnished in First-Class Style and Stocked with the best Liquors and Cigars! Strict attention paid to #he comfort o The table and bar well supplied. W. H. PARK. Prince Albert, June 12, 1875. Anson HOUSE, (LATE ALBION) WHITBY, ONTARIO. E. ARMSTRONG, PROPRIETOR, ENSON AOUSE, lute Jewett House, Kent Street, Lindeay. Board, $1.50 per day. E. BENSON, Proprietor. Lf bik QUEEN'S HOTEL, WHITBY, ONT, McCANN & TAYLOR, PropriToms. Every accommodation for the traveling public, ; E. LEBEAU, PAINTER, PAPER TANGER, ----ARD---- KALSOMINER Woo respectfully inform the public that he is prepared to do sll kinds of work! in his line, in first-class style and at reasonable rates. All the latest designs in Sizn Writing, Ornamental Painting, &c. Orders left at Hallet's Hotel, Queen Street, Pert Petry will be promptly attended to. E. LeBEAU, October 9th, 1878. - y | L "Rhodain her pale pink bonnet and white gown, had paid particular a'= tention to the sermon of the Rev. Erastus Burtram that Sabbath morn- ing, as it would seom. But in truth she had not heard a'sylable after the text, 'If ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? And when at length he gave out the bymn, "Let me u oneal of me My dearest fut my best." then, for the first time, he let his gaze wander over the church till it lingered among the bright enrls on Rhoda's Had secret influence warned, him forehead. some that she had half a mind to confide her troubles to his keeping? Or, as her spiritual 'ddviser and constience- keeper, did he perceive a new seriousness about tho sweetness of the smiling mouth--a seriousness born, perbaps,of doubt and trouble ? Bo that as it may, he sat dowh now, a little paler about the lips, and listened with all his might to the rich-voiced choir, hearing only like one in a trance. And then, when the congregation rose up like a per- fumed cloud and swept breezily out of church, he foMowed deliberately, as if it were unseemly for the Rev. Mr. to the others. Bertram follow his own sweet will with Bat out on the lawn he overtook Rhoda, who had been in no haste to leave the church door, 'Are you going home ?' said he, touching ber hand in pastorial greeting. "I was going round to old Prude's cottage first,' sho answered, looking hard across the hills, as if she could sce that humble edifice. 'I was going there myself--shall we go together 7 'Ol yes; why rot? [I am sure I woul\l alway's rdther have company than to be alone.' «7 would not.' "Then perhaps T had better turn back,' laughed Rhoda, in a merry peal, that echoes among the hills and disturbed the Sunday solitudes ; and thon she bethought her of her durden and sighed drearily. © Ah! said he, '1 don't half like the sequel to your merriment. The old witches used to say. "A sighing heart Foreruns u smart.' " were right," she 'The said, gravely. witches ¢ And yet you don't resemble one buffeting with the swollén waves of fate.' "And yet Iam such a one, sho persisted, her lips trembling, her eyes troubled and misty with tears. ¢ Indeed, indeed," he murmured, I did not dream, I did not believe trouble ever What right has the rose to hang her head 7' ¢ Oh, Mr. Bertram, don't langh at me; indeed I am sorely troubled.-- "forgive my (trifling! dared visit such .as you. have been thinking all day of you--' 'Of me I' ecstatically: ¢ And wondering would I have the courage to tell you--' 'Tell me everything, dear child, overything that is in your heart.' "And you will promise not to laugh or scold me "1 will promise not to laugh or scold you ?' : 'But you will help me? You will show me the way togo? 1 rely on you. "Iwill show you the way to go, according to my light.' ¢ Ob, but he loves me so after all. He' ¢ Who love you ?' he questioned, almost tiercely. ' My father. He means it for the best ; but oh it is hard I" ¢ What is hard, Miss Rhoda ?-- You have not told mie, | (No. Tt was something I promised great while ago when I was six- teen. ¢ A great while ago,' he repeated smiling sadly. "Yes ; it was before you came. 1 A PROMISE IS A PROMISE. 'Yes. And you promised. It was after Amy's misfortune you know; after sho had married Eliot Rankin, in spite of everybody; after he had deserted her, and she had died ot a broken heart, and left us all alone. We 'wore so down- hearted then, Amy bad been my father's boast, and he Was almost crazed. And then he made me promice--fof he had a feeling that I should follow in her footsteps--he made rie promise to marry whom he should choose; and no other; and I promised. And oh, he haschosen, ho has chosen!' Mr. Bertram walked on by her side, in the green gloom of the over- arching boughs, in utter silence; twice his lips moved, as if he would have spoken, but no sound had come; instead of that, a sort of ghastly pallor had been creeping like a shadow over lip and brow. 'Oh, you are n6t well Mr. Bertram!' ericd Rhoda regarding him * It is selfish of me to trouble you when you have so niuch to think of ; but you sce I have no mother, no no sister--' "And your lover, Miss Rhoda?' suggested Mr. Bertram--'the per- son your father has chosen ? Tho color played across Rhodu's face like red lightnings, while. she stooped to pluck a clover growing on the way-side before replying. 'Oh it is wrong, perhaps, quito wrong; but, Mr. Bertram, I do not love him I : "You do not love him? he re- peated, as one might read a death warrant; ' you do not love him? 'Do not look at me so,' she en- treated ; 'it makes mo feel guilty; | never said 'Jove' to me.' 'ITow, then --" began Mr. Ber- | tram. | 'Ob, itis all my father's mistake, you see. Ile says to me, 'Rhoda, | when Iam dead you will be a rich woman. Yon will have many suitors ther who will love your money, child, and you may not be wise enough te discriminate. Now here is one who loves you so much he can hardly trust himself to look at you--who, because you are rich and heis poor, would never have courage to cross the gulf, unless you And then I answer him, ¢ But, father, do you wish me to go to him and say, 'Dear bridged it for him.' Sir, here am I; with all my worldly goods, going a begging--pray take mercy on me;" 'No,' my father answers ; 'but show him that he has a chance at stake, that he is as agreeablo to you as another.' And 80 I must, for I have promised; and yet Mr. Bertram, I donot love him.' ¢ And how, then, can I help you ?' Mr. Bertram asked. ' You can fell me what it is right to do. Tf I must keep my word with my father--if I must.' 'It is a plain questions said be, 'but take heart; because you do not love this young man now is no reason why you should not love him by-and-by. We always love our own. And thén, as to the other matter, a promise is a promise; and the ashen hue never once for- sook his countenance while Le spoke, and his eyes looked out straight be fore him, without a tremor in their blue.veined lids, as if Lo saw the sorrow of his future, but refused to flinch before it, while bis voice had astrange olian tone, both sweet and mournful, like the wind that blows ever solitary mountain heights in spring--a tone that might have been a sob. 'Then the die is cast,' she said pensively. 'Thank you for show- ing me the way.' ; : "It iS sorry help, I fear. Still, that word 'love' has a marvelous power; you ean not speak It with- out | without feeling it, nor near it spoken. When he speaks it, 1 be- lieve you will listen.' i ¢ I must, you know,' shé said.-- ¢ See, here's Prude's cottage; you are coming in ?' "I think not, to-day; I am not am twenty now, quite well--not quite myeelf, But shall I tome and seo you sometimes, and see how the charm works ?' "Yes; come and help me keep my promise--if you can.' § 'Tt will bo best to glow sed 16 things 80," thought this young man, retracing his steps through green glooms and freckled sunlight ; ¢all my life long to see her come and go, another's | To plead the cause of my rival, to put my band to my own undoving--oh, this ia too hard ! But a promise is a promise. Soit happened that Mr. Bertram went a ltttle more frequently than the hill, hidden among its gardens ; because before to the house on there was no such a cheerful con- trast between the lodgings where no one waited for him and the fra- grant apartments over which Rhoda presided--such a difference between the gentle warmth of hor manner and the careless greetings without. And besides, there was a secret be- tween them, which, by virtue of his unconstrained intercourse, he must seem to forget, and yet must al- ways hold in bitter remembrance. So he came again and again; and read the Greek poets with her father, and discussed theologies and isms ; which of the hand some youths clustered about Rhoda's chair was the Fairy Prince. and wondered 'You don't talk to me at all, pouted Rhoda one day, detaining 'You think, because 1 can't understand Greek, I am only fit for the discourse of boys.' him on his way out. 'No. I listen to you a great deal,' he answered, ¢ which is much better than that you should listen to me.' 'Allow mo to contradict you; I and yot how can I help it? Ile has! hear you and father saying such delightful things about the Pre- Adamatic period and all that, and 1 try to listen, but then these vain babblers come in with a common. place, ard all's lost.' 'I pity you, profoundly,' he said, mockingly., ¢ And pity is akin to love,' ventured one ofthese same babblers. And then Mr. Bertram took his hat up and made his bow, before he should be tempted to retort, and show how little the chance arrow had gone astray. After this perhaps another man would have absented himself and shown his colors, but Erastus Bertram was one to face the worst at the onset; besides he would rather not mildew her rose tinted youth with any vain regrets of his own. And then, atcustoming him self to seeing her fair but not fof him, he 'would one day, perhaps, find himself disenchanted; and though the thought of such a sequel guve him a pang like a sword thrust stillit was simply better than cov- ctousness and breaking the law which he had been sent Ito fufiil. One day there was a wedding in the neighborhood, where Mr. Bert- ram performed the ceremony. and that Rhoda, in a cloud of pink tulle, was bridesmaid. ' Ihope that the next wedding will be yours.'spoke the bride, from under the burden of her congratulations; and Rhoda, blushing like an incarn- ation of sunset, looked wp and caught the gaze of Mr. Bertram fix. ed upon her. 'Yousee,' she said to him, apolo- getically as it were, 'I begin to think my father was mistaken,' holding her wine glass up between them, and idly crumbing her cake. ¢ The man is a blockhesd; bo said hotly. " Indeed he is no suth thing,' sho veturnéd, firing &t the suggestion. "Ibeg your pardon"--that any living man could be insensible to so fair a face, or a manner so winsome, was proof positive of a blockhead -- *I beg your pardon, but I can't re- tract.' "It's because you don't know him; he is very different from a block. head she insisted. + Ah | sits the wind in that corner?' he laughed, uneasily. "And what if it does?' che anwer- ef archly. 'Am 1 not your prophecy ?' fulfilling} 'So you see bi m often ? 'Quite often,' dropping her ya 6 like a plummet into her glass, as 'f to catch the bubble of sunshine coil- ed there in the hoart of the molten ruby. That night when Mr. Bertram found bimselfalone, he bestowed one long look upon his reflection in the mirror. What was there to attract ? A transparent, colorless skin ; ey(8 too pale to darken with expression ; a nose too large for symetery; a mouth lacking, just now the smile which made the whole flash with meaning, 'No wonder," he said, as tle shadowy face confronted him I feel as if it were my ghost.' And then he pat ous the light and sat in dark- ness, trying to reason himself into acqiescence with Fate. After that there was the parich picnic to go through with : and was it not a bardship to watch Rhoda and young Theriott unpack the hampers together and spread tho tables, with much laughter and What teader things might not be said between many 'asides ?' while, what glances exchainged ? Ob, if one could only choose the color of one's bair, the shape of one's nose! but what unholy thoughts for the Rev. Mr. Bertrem to cherish, -- Avaunt Satan, 'Mr. Bertram,' called Rhoda, 'if you desire to be useful as well as ornamental, some squeeze these lemons with me, while Mr. Theriott goes on a pilgrimage to the spring.' ¢ With all my heart,' says Mr, Bertram. 'Oh, we want your bands here not your heart! 'But you don't want my hard without my heart?' 'No,' said Rhoda, quite gravely, adjusting a lemon in the machine; and then the lemon fell out, and both reaching to rescue it, their hands met over it, their eyes met above it, Mr. Bertram's soul, his lips parted and unwonted tremors shook trembled ; the sudden hush, there came a voice, and just then, in like the voice of God walking in the garden, and some one on the further side of the laurel bushes, but quite hidden, was saying to her tete-a-tete, in the way of conversation, 'But a promise is a promise, yoli know ;' and Mr. Bertram plucked away his hand, picked up the mischicvous lemon, and, wrung it dry with one effort. ' Who would think there was so much in the little thing?' he ques tioned 'Someone says that marri- age is lemonade. but a single life is milk and water." And then certain he had said tie very worst thing that he could have said, he fell to As for Rhoda more with the lemons, but sat with folded arms till his task with a will. she meddled no he asked ler to bring the sngar.-- ITe fancied she was hurt or offended. Had he lost control of bis secret ¥-- Did she despise him because she had heard his heart beating at his lips? And yet he had thoaght-- but that could not be, it was an illu: sion, something not possible. And thus he abandoned himself for the moment, and sought to divert Ler, as well as to forget for & time. But a sudden eclaircisswent had happened to Rhoda, as onesees the landscape after a flash of lightning, standing out likean intaglio, so she bad se¢n and comprehended the situation, When she had first gone to Mr. Bertram for help it had been rather to satisfy herself that she was a martyr, and to make sure there was no escape; and so she had gone on satisfying herself, till now the features of the case were assuminga new and alarming expression. In brief, she had grown to love martyr. put it beyond her reach! You see, perhaps, what ous little mancuverer she had and how richly rewarded. 'She said in ber heart, '1 g w for the young rely acl dom, and lo, by her own aet, she had ~~