by that you 'meant that, having given ~ my promise to you to' be your wife at some fature time, T must school myself to love you, and will be consicde ced false if love do net come at my bidding or yours, Tsay te vot sole lemaly, re mn me new. Bynay not love "but'l cann will not deceive sou, ever by Gmaalicting _ love that (oes pot exist. Suppose that Jove were to be kindled in my heart, + Copyright Ali Righ's R--ery° THE DESERTER ty CART. CHARLES KING, U, 8. A. ee *Eunraven Ranch." "The Cole wel's Itach er," "Marloa's _ Fatih," Ete, Sie ty with the aff Suppose I were to learn to care for seme one here. You would be the first one to know it; for 1 would tell you as as I knew it myself. Then what colds hope for--or you? Surely you would not want to marry a girl who loved another /man. But isit much better to marry one who feels that she does not love yous * "Think of it, Steven; Iam -very Jonely, very far from happy; very wretched over Kaie's evident trodble, and all the sorrow Iam bringing you and yours; but have I misled or ,decerved ¥ you: in any one thing? Once only has a word been spok- en or ascene occurred perhaps have objected to. I told you the whole thing in my letter of Sunday last, and why Ihad not told Kate. not met since that night, Mr. Hayne and I, and may not; butbe is a man whose story excites my profound pity and sor- row, and he is one of the two or three I appears at Hayne squarters hee ** see the leutenant. CHAPTFR IX feel that I would like to see more of. Is Kate holding secret interviews with this Blake, then stood gazing this being false to you or to my promise? If #>, Steven, you cannot say that I have « not given ) you the whole truth. "It is very Jate at night--1 eclock-- and Kate is not yet asleep, _ the cap- tain isstill down stairs, reading. He is not looking well at all, and Kate is sore ly anxious about him. It was his evi- dence that brought years ef ostracixm and pe! Pa Views. Hayne, and that in his ae ii : own eta arte officers are beginning "MRS CLANCY, YOU MUST WATCH HIM." to believe that sage he was not the _.. hase boon.reading over-your. letter .guilty...man.... The... cavalry officers, of Thursday last, dear Steven," wrote Course, say nothing to us on the subject, Travers, " end there is much that and Ihave never heard the full story, I feel T ought to answer. You and Kate If he has been, as is suggested, the vie- gre very much ofa mind about the 'temp- tim of a scoundrel, and Capt. Rayer tations' with which I am surrounded; was at fault in his evidence. no punish- but you are far more imaginative than ment on carth could be too great for the she is, and far more courteous, There is villain who planned his ruin, and no re- somuch about your letter that touches morse could atone for Capt. Rayner's medeeply, that 1 want to be frank and share. f never saw sosad a face on mor fair in in iny Shin d I have been danc- tal man as Mr. Hayne. Steven Van ening, was out at dinner Antwerp, I wish I were a man! I could that, "tat have made many calls trace that mystery to the bitter end. phi afternoon; but, tired as lam, my let "This 4 is a strange letter to send ready I at the repetition of to-day. Is iethat aim. more than-- expecting ¥ ian cold and utterly heartless that Ican and nae me conditionally; and you eitand write so calmly in reply cone, ought to do it, Ido not say I want it. "Faithfully, at least, yours, of) "NELLIE, me; but, if cold'and heartless to'you, I). "P. S.--Should you write to Kate, you have certainly given no man at this gar- are not to tell her, remember, oe faintest reason to think that he meeting with Mr. Hayne. Of cc has inspired any greater interest They are all kinds all very attentive, I later; b pe eee Or Row War mE aye dance,~ Gon--not teas should aieninicdes who am pledged paneages, though rejoiced by | to you--not that alone, I frankly confess, Then he took from an inner pocket the because it in "itself is pleasant. It letter that had reached him a few days me, Very possibly it is becausel previous, and all alone in his room, late vain. at night, he read it' over again, threw it And. yet, though my hours are con- upon the table at which he was sitting, that she had not closed the door leading \y converted into steam, nd passionate abandonment, into the hall, though both she and the pjo.ions. enwe vaned laundress of Company B had lowered waters and the It was disgraceful at best,' creat waves, which we call <a. abundant atantly occupied, though the "y arehere then, with from morning till night, ne one of them buried his face in his arms and gre is more attentive than another. There -- in anguish, are five or six who come dady. There Two-days after writing this letter Mise are some who do not come at all, Am I) Travers was so unfortunate as to hear a a wretch, Steven? Therearetwo orthree conversation in the dining room which that do not call whom I wish would call, was not intended for-her ears. She had IT would like to know them: gone to ber room immediately after "Yet they know--they could not help breakfast, and glancing from her, win- it, with Kate here, and [ never forget-- dow saw that the officers were just going that Tam your promined wife, Steven, to. oe irters for the daily inatinee, times forget the eoiitions falf or threesyinirters" of an hour, of that promise? Even now, aguin and haat fore, there could be no probable in- again, do I not repeat to you that you, terruption; and she, decided to write an ought to release me and free yourself?) answer to the letter which came from Of course your impulse will be tosay my) Mr. Van Antwerp the previous afternoon, heart ischanging--that have seenothers! A bright fire was burning_ in the old- Llike better, No; Lhave scen nol favhioned stove with which frontier one 1 like as well, But is 'like' what you _ rs are warmed if not ortiamented deserve, what you ask Andis it nét all) and she perchod her little, slippered feet Tiave ever been --able--to ise-you?upen-the-henrth took her portfolioin-her Steven, bear me witness, for Kate is bit-! lap and bean. Mrs, Rayner was in the terly unjust t meat. times, I you! pursery, alsorbed with the t and the and again last sumer; and fall, | nurse, whena servant came sand announe- that I did not Tove you and ought not to! ed that "a lady was in the kitchen" and think of 'being your wife. Yet, poor, wanted to speak with the lady of the homeless, dependent as lam, how strong , house, Mrs, Rayner promptly respond- was the temptation to say yes. to your! ed that she-was busy and coalint-be-dir | turbed, and wondered who it "You know that Idid not. and would! that came to her kitchen tosce her. not until time and again your sweetamp-| "Can I-be of service, Kate?" called) "ther, whom I do love, and Kate, who had | Miss Tray ers. "T wall run down, if .you been a mother to me, both declared that! say so. that should make no difference; the love} _*I wish you would," was the reply, and woukl come; the happiest marriages the} Miss 'Travers put aside her writing. world over were those in hoa h the girl} "Didn't she give any name?" asked Mrs: Rayner of the Abigail, who was standing] with her head just visible at the stair- You yourself de- clared you could wait in patience--you| tenets of frontier ddmestics to go no far. would woo and win by and by. Only] ther than is absolutely necessary in con- "promise to be yodr wife before refurning | vevi ing messages of any kind, and thi- 'wo the frontier and you would be content, | damsel, though new to the neighborhood, Steven, are you content? You know you} ¥as native and to the manner born in al! are not; you know you are unhappy; and) the tricks of the trade. 4t-is-all, not because [ain growing to love! "She said knew her name, ma"am. gome ove else, but because 1 am not grow-| She's the lady from the hospital." in "Here, Jane e the baby! Never mind, Nellie; Imust go!" And Mrs. Ray- ner -started with surprising alacrity; but as she passed her door Miss Travers "More than that, if you say that it is} saw the look of deep anxiety on her face. [your will, that I seclude myscif from, A moment later she beard voices at the these attentions, give up' dancing, give| front door--a party of ladies who were np rides, drives, walks, and even reeciv-! t going to spend the tn lca - ing visits, bere, so "i it: I will obey;! colonel's wife at some ' 'but write this to me, Steven--not to} work which many of them a hdeokeeead a way piromston te owed and abel a and 3 of arose could be way, it being one of the unconquerable} tear nerself away until certain utterly irrelevant giatters had been lightly touch- ed tipen and lingeringly abandoned. The officers were just beginning to pour forth from headquarters when the group of finally got under war again and Miss Travers closed the door, It wax rev useless to return to her letter; so si edhel iutethe parlor just as she sister's voice at the kitchen sas thems door: ~ Come right in here, soon Now, quick, what is it?" And from the dining room came the & 4niwer, hurpied, half whispered and tnyate rious: "He's been drinkin' ever since he got out of hospital, ma'am, an' he's wore than ever about Loot'nant Hayne. It's mischief he'll be doin', ma'am; he's crazy ake ---- * Mrx. You-- And Mrs, Clancy. Clancy, you must watch him, Hush!" here she stopped sbert, for, in that you could astonishment at what she bad already after reading a long time I heard, and in her instant effort to hear no more of what was so evidently not from the parlor, the swish of her skirts telling loudly 6f her presence there, She went again to her room. What hors it mean? Why washer proud, in coarse and vulgar woman? What con- cern was it of bers that Clancy should be worse" about Mr. Hayne? It could not mean that the mixchief he would do, was mischief to the man who had saved. his life and his property, That was out of the question. It could not mean that the poor, broken down, drunken fellow had the means in his power of further harm- ing a man who has already been made to suffer.so much. Kate's very.ex- clamation, the very tone in which she ™ spoke, showed a distress of mind that no. fear. for..one.whom she hated es - hated Hayne. Her anxiety was t was for her husband tone and tongue never yet revealed a se- cret. Nellie Travers stood in her stunned and bewildered, yet trying hare to recall and put together all the scat- tered stories and rumor that had renched ber about the strange conduct ef Clancy after-he was-taken_to the hos- pital expec ially about his heart-broken' wail when told that it was Licut. Hayne who had recuod him and t_J 'Kate room how, this man was ; connected wi th the mystery which encircled the long-hidden : truth in Hayne"s oo possible that he did n that her sister had Resale it? Could it be wa and solve the 'riddle once pny for Taal They were still earnestly talking to-! gether down in the dining-room but she could not listen. Kate knew her so well their voices. thought Miss Travers, it was beneath her sister, that she should hold any private conversation with a woman of that class. Contidences with stich were con-, tamination. She half* determined to rush down stairs and put an end to it, but was saved the scene; fresh young voices, hearty ringing sini and the stamp om heary "hoot hects were heard at the door; and as Rayner catered, usher- ing in Royee and Graham, Mrs. Rayner and the kuundress fled'once more to the kitehon, When the sisters found themselves ine, watehing-- -- iv HE face. The y@yng girl hardly "Neoke at all, Itwas evident 'othe elder what her thoughts must be "I suppore. you 'think I should explain | Clancy's agitation and mysterious she tinally and sudden- Mrs. contact, Neblie,' mk thing, Kate, that you yourself do not wish totell me. You understand, of course, how eee to be there?" ing so agitated, I mean." No answer. Spal t you?" inking of her at all." antly, yet trembling and growing white. be talking with her in such a way." "She was worried about her husband --his drinking so much--and came to' consult me. "Why, should she--and you--show such consternation at his connection wi the name of Mr. Hayne?" . 'Nellie, that matter is oné you know Icannot bear totalk of." ("Very recent- ly only," thought the younger.) once 'asked understand the matter fall. We are Loth worried about Clancy. n 'Kate. Iam wo heey 'wask her to show with enthusiasm). 'I want to see Ming kx has ived/ Travers, just a minute," she heard. a cognized ree - the pleasant some strange cannot understand tenes of Mys. Curtis, the young wife of he thinks he Pron second thing one of the infantry officers; soa ime she put aside her writing, and then He is not himself; he is wild and im- aginative when he's drinking. He has} fancies since the fire, andj Seip to do some- to the éfficer go ae him, and his head is full of- Police "tains are'we | wa I do not 'want you to tell me any-| There was thinking ot me wasn't " ion did you think then?" half defi-| "1 thought it strange that you should wt his tris. "De 7 mean that what Clancy says i any woy affects them 7 asked Nell, with quickening pulesid ¢ olor. "ht teight, if there was a word of i tatidlin dream of a liquors am dened Drain. Mrs. Claney and | Loth lnow that what he says is ut- terky i Index|, he tells no two stories alise. " terview? He looked wistfully at the lace curtains that shrouded fhe interior, and ther the clank of a cavalry sabre sounded in his ears, and a tall ofticer came springily across the road. "Who the devil's that" was the blunt military greeting. ayne," was the quiet reply "What! Mr. Hayne? Oh! Beg your yarn. man--couldn't imagine who it fas mooning around out here after mid- night." "I don't wonder," answered Hayne. "Lam rather given to late hours, and often take a 'his ale ni poe ble. etre r age tu h, yes; I ing in. Well, won't you 'drop We have intended for her, Miss Travers hurried in and chat awhile? I'm officer of the day, and have to owl to-night." "Thanks, no, not this time; I must go tebed. Good night, Mr. Blake." "Good night to you, Mr. Hayne," said direction y perplexedly afterhim. "Now, my fine fellow," was his dissatisfied query, "what on earth do you mean by prowling around Rayner's , at this hour of the bight ?' BELOW THE SURFACE. The Great Caverns in the Earth from Which Hot Rivers May Flow. red to = reader that we cowmoaly yoombed" with enormous cavities, or caverns, of all dimensions! asks the Boston Journal. If #, why should those here earth covered, as the Great Mammoth Cave of mortal eye! These huge cavities, originally oui: the earth's ee u al coolii ot differ t _-- . ' args og forea me Ff looking for it in the wro tica prion: may form the basis of very itera ing For i they may be generally filled with water, and hoe may exist great wi nd inland seas, The source of the guif ----, has always been a dispute! question. great body of warm rer in erthinn merece gw than ~orriver in" the "ocean, Sowing" It was former- Piorida reefs, Receatiy the office we rengg, Reon cage endeavoring t determine if orifice by the use of the if a stream of of the gulf does issue from an orifice in the fires t the rock of the boiler, and the water, rushing in is Instan- wonder if ex- that cause the overlying earth's crust to sho - Very probably this is the case, for evidence of these * caused by the « re of fire aud water when the earth's cru.t was first commencing to form isevery- where apparent, only the effect of atmos- pheric has covered! the bardvess of the _--< the carth witha kindly soil, and m has clothed this soil with the amie of life. But aineetae the mow 'Wwe seothe evidences of these explosions There is one great rock in the Yosemite ple! several ------ of feet high, stand. . 2 alone, from some great convuk sion of nature has pee off a buge fragemont and buried it no one knows whither, But , earthquake, Or, perhaps, itis the forma- --~ steam that raises the lava to the wath of the volcano and forces it out upon | the plain, until another wal has been built between re and the water in the depths of the earth. Then, too, the hot springs may show the existence of the subterraneous ters. are numerous other 'cumstinces Which seem to be explained by thix theory. For secnancs, it is said that a reat stermon the Atlantic coast uf the pecu liar cir- and this might beexplained if it could be proved that a subterraneous water way fren om ocean to springs existed, It may be that this sub-water protects the surface of the earth from a great beat. However, if earth be not "solid," as we general! suppose, but permeated with seas, ----e and passageways of various kinds, it gives reasonable basis for some of Jules Vents stories, and probably explains many occur- solve this problem. an Old Friend. The memory of a horse is remarkable. | He keeps the recollection of people and places to which he is driven. Six years rot a dairyman had a colt of very quick yard nize his step and go foot of welcome. The young creature PHRASES. Aa Account of Their Origin, History and | Meaning. ~- The phrase "1 acknowledge the corn" originated with a siave in the t 'ound in his possession. with him he was also charged with steal- ing that, His reply was: "No, sar. I 'know ledge de corn, but Tain't gwine to 'knowledge to de sack "Tipping the wink," generally regard- ed as a vulgar phrase, is to be found in agrave historical romance. It occurs in "Valerius; a Roman Story," by John Gibson Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott's sone in-law, and for many years editor of the Quarterly Review. "Any color, so it's red," originated atho ong the class of characters called Jakeys in the local drama. One of them, being on a committee appointed to procure a new fire -- was what color the a = sired the apparatus replied, "* Why. any color, so it's ra." The origin of the phrase "I can't see it" is traced to Lord Nelson, who, at the battle of Copenhagen, was told that es gd er to cease firing and the pointed out to Seizing a telescope he applied it to his blind eye and exclaimed, "I can't see it." "Hauling over the coals" dates six or seven centuries back, when feudal bar- ons often used harsh methods of exact- ing gold from the rich Jews by suspend- ing their victims above slow fires until they paid ransom or died. There isa scene of this sortin "Ivanhoe," in which the Templar endeavors to exort money from Isaac of York, father of Rebecca. 'Barking«ip-the common expression in the west. It originated from the fact that a dog will bark at the foot of a parti tree-to i ter where the game is and for sennit she feared, or woman's Kentucky, and others never yet seen by the animal, he discovers it on another tree, and it finally escapes him altogeth: er. nxious mothers pest tell their handsome daughters that Berea is but skin deep." The --e in- ated with these two "Beauty is but skin cm --, doth fall Short of those statues made of wood or stone," Which oceur 'in Rev. Robert Fleming' '. 7: m, pu in 1691. The term bine ¢ stocking" was origin- armas a este Haman about the year 1400, to designate literary clases by color. In of my it be--oh, heaven! no!--could it be sety, Florida, 'comet is just as "wall dedod of bed told that members of the various ac- ademies were Hannah Moore's admirable descripti made Of a "Blue Stocking Club" in her "Bas Bleu." < Corporatio' have no souls" is a much older expression than most peo- It originated with Sir Ed- 4 legal writers of the age. He says, in one of his treatises, "Corporations 'cannot committ trespass; nor be outlawed, nor excommunicated, for they have no il "Drowning the miller" originated ian the following fact: If the mill stream below the mill is dammed or stopped, the water is ponded back, and the mill becomes what the millers call "tailed." There is too much water, the mill will not work, and the miller is said to be "drowned out." Hence, when top.much of anyone into a mixture, it is called "drowning the miller." There are few such c wrong tme" is every : pat - B. F. YOUNGS, Guilder and Contractor. STRATFORD, Manufacturer of Doors, Sash, Stites Sep Factory, 38 & 40 Albert-st. ane; Bans a Marble and Granite Works | EB. SYDNEY-SMITH MEN WANTED. BE U. & NURSERY Co., of Rochester HN. Y. Presideat, wants rood veliahis IDINGION & PALMER, ARRISTERS, &c.. STRATFORD. JOHN IDINGTON, Crown Attorney. 3. FRANK P, ct ee Stratford, in isn ten Money to Lend, Rustonabie poten: ~~: alata foment ; se w ies Walang ably At ros, as "every manis the his own fortune." ° Appius -- a Roman censor, used it in a speech de- alone again, it was late in the evening. jy the course of time the earth's crust has livered by him 450 .years. before the Mrs. Rayner came to Nellie's room and grown thicker, and we at present Know | Christian era. talked on various topics for some little little of these subterranzan explosions ex- | carth **Better late than never" was used faa oFer 800 years ago by "Thomas Tucker, a] in his "Five Hundred Points of Good | Husbandry." Later on Bunyan used it" in his "Pilgrim" 8, Progress." Not afew of the phrases in use at this day originated with Lyly, and are found in his Euphues," a popular book published in 1580. Among them might be mentioned "caught napping," 'a crooked stick or none," "brown study," "catching birds by putting salt on their tails," . When people do not particularly like each other it' is sometimes said '*There is no love lost between them." The phrases occurs in the old ballad of '*The Babes of the Wood," and: in a tale of the days of Shakspeare, entitled**Mont- chensey." Walt Whitman on Poets and Poetry. Grand as to-day's -accumulative fund of poetry is, there is certainly something unborh, not yet come forth, different probably have to prove itself by itself and its readers, One thing, it must run thread, 4 pebbles or prancingly to meet gold, from God and the soul, and like him, and without command lift up the God's dynamicsand sunshine _illustrat- ing all and having reference to all. was sold, andthe dairyman did not see From anything like a cosmical point of jens pcongherPnamibgemas Then the View, the entirety of man was walking in a strahge city and, ature's themes and liter- | and. results as we get | painfully narrow. "i hix former pet pony, and there was.q country, nectmal a in ghe renewal-of South, and especial! } freniship. - E y ¢ it \ Medical, Dr. D. M. FRASER, :--At his Ressdence on Dewnle Steet f= Stratford, Oct. 10, 1683, rls J. G. YEMEN, M.D., L.D.8.