TERMS: flU.SG Per Year, J r Year,) CE. ) AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 75 Cento or 6 Months f 40 Cta. for 3 months. JiV AD VANi Vtol. VII. New Ulooinlieltl, I?a., Tuesday, September J), 1873. TVo. 36. IS PUBLiailED EVERY TUESDAY HORNINO, BT FRANZ MORTIMER & CO., At New Bloomfleld, Terry Co., Ta. Being provided with Steam Power, and large Cylinder ana tioo-rresses, we are prepared to do all kinds of Job-Printing In good style and at Low Prices. ADVERTISING BATES I Traruimt 8 Cents per lino for one Insertion 13 " " twoinsertions 15 " " three insertions Business Notices in Local Column 10 Cents per line. 3-For longer yearly adv'ts terms will be given upon application. Kissing the Servant 'Girl. I, CONFESS I was very angry. Woll, I may as well begin at the beginning and tell you the whole story. When I mar ried Tom Wilkins, all my friends said I had mode a fool of myself really thrown myself away with my advantages, too. I should have done so much botter, and much more to the same purpose. Well, to be sure, Tom is a big,stupid fellow, neither rich nor handsome, but I loved him, and what other excuse does a woman need for an act of folly ? But Tom had one fault that troubled me greatly ho was a most inveterate kisser. Before he was married ho used to kiss all the girls who visited his sisters, end afterwards he kissed all my old school friends who came to the house, and even ' kissed mother, and you must concede that a man is a great kisser who would kiss bis mother-in-law. Well, all this I bore in silence, if not with pat ience, till one morning coming out of my room, what should I see but Tom at the bead of the stairs actually kissing Sara Ann, the hired girl. That was a little more than human nature, or at least, woman nature could bear. I sat down till I bad recovered myself a little, and allowed Tom time to reach the dining room. When at last I went down, he advanced with his usual smile to kiss me, but I drew back angrily. " Why, Jessie, what's the matter?" be said, looking surprised, " am I not to have a kiss this morning?" " As you have already bad the pleasure of kissing Sara Ann, I think that will do for one morning. I should not fancy the flavor of your kisses after that." ' Tom actually blushed. "Oh, you saw that, did you, Jessie? Woll, whore's the great harm in that ? It's my motto to cm bib sweetness wherever I And it" " Woll, I fancy you did not embibe a greatdeal from that source, and the barm is that it lowers your dignity as bead of the family, besides giving the servants ex ngerated opinions of their own import ance." " What nonsense. I dou't suppose Sara Anu will ever think of it again, any moro than I should if you had not taken me to task about it." " You seem to forget, Tom, that persons in her position are not so intelligent as those in ours. They judge almost wholly by actions, and I am quite suro Sara Ann thinks you aro in love with her." "Don't make a mountain out of a mole bill, my dear." " Well, Tom, how would you like to see me kissing old Ebon ?" ' " Well, really, if you should ever have the least? desire to kiss old Ebon, I don't think I could find it in my heart to object," laughed Tom, as be closed the, door and went away. Old Ebon had cbmo from my own neigh borhood, and was our man of all work, and was the ugliest mortal that I ever set eyes on. So 1 could not but acknowledge there might be a difference between kissing him and Sara Ann, who 'was really good look ing. Well, I felt so bad that I could not help sitting down and having a good cry. In the midst of it I saw some one coming up the walk, who was smiling and beckoning to me, as though well assured of a welcome. It proved to be my brothor John, who bad been from home five years. We were ex pesting him, but not so soon. After the greetings were over, and we wove a little quieted, he questioned me about my tears, and at length drew from me the whole story. . , " So they were not far wrong in saying you made a fool of yourself by marrying him, h, Jessie ? Well, why 4ion't you make him put himself in your place?" f Oh, John, you dou't mean for me to to " "Kiss old Eben? hardly," said John, dryly, " but you can put me in Ebon's place for a few days." ;,, "Oh, John, that's just the thing. lie was to have gone borne lost week for a few days, but his nephew, who was coming to take his place was taken ill, and he was obliged to give up going." . " Well, tell him you have got some one to take his place, and get him off this fore noon, and now, beforo any one sees me, I'll go back to the hotel where I left my baggage and disguise myself a little." Well, I sent Eben off and soon John came back changed beyond recognition with a blue shirt and overalls and his hair combed back behind his ears and plastered smoothly to his head. He looked very funny, but he went about his work in such a stoical, indifferent way that one would have thought it the life he had always led. When Tom came home I casually re marked that Eben's nephew, Teddy' O' Brien, hod come to take his place, and he had at last gone to pay his visit, and I was so pleasant and chatty that Tom thought I hod quite forgotten the occurrence of the morning, and ho was very amiable and Bweet in consequence. In the morning 1 was up betimes. Tom likes his morning nap, and while appar ently solicitous that he should not be dis turbed, I at the same time took care to make noise enough to keep him wide awake, though ho lay with his eyes shut pretending to sleep. ' At last I heard a step in the hall, and opening the door cautiously, called Sara Ann, but it was Teddy who answered. " The top o' the niorniu' to yon, Missus: it's as fresh and as swate as a rose you're lookin' ; an' .what cau I do for you, Mum?" "Ah, Teddy, is it you? I'd like some hot water, if you'll tell Sara Ann to bring it. . "I'll bring it myself in a jiffy," said Teddy, disappearing down the stairway. In an incredibly short time he reappeared with it. , ' Why, Teddy, how quiok you are?" " Shure, Mum, and who wouldn't bestir himself for so swate a leddy as you ?" "Ah, Teddy like all your countrymen you have kissed the blarney stone ?" " Niver a stone Mum, but I mind well when we were children together. Many's the time I've kissed your swate lips ; ah, and I would I were a boy again. "What for, Teddy?" " Shure, and wouldn't I be doing that same again. Ah, Mum, this is for the sake of old times," and thereupon he kisiied mo with a "noise little less than a cl&p of thunder. " Why, Teddy, have you taken leave of your senses ? Do yon forget I'm a mar ried woman ?" . " MoreV the pity, Mum ; but where's the harm ? you'll never miss the swatenoss I stole." " Suppose my husband had heard you ?" " He never fear, he's sleepin' like an elephant." "Oli, yon naughty Teddy, begone." " Going, Mum ;" and repeating the smack ho disappeared down the stairway. just as Tom called to know who was thero. " It is I, Tom dear,',' I answered sweetly. "And who else ?" " Oh, only Teddy brought up the hot water. Will yon get up now beforo it gets cold?" Tom said no more, but I saw he was furtively watching me all the time he was dressing. At length he said : . " What sort of a fellow is this Teddy ?" "Oh, Tom," I exclaimed; "the nicest fellow. I'm sure when you see him you'll agree with me that it will bo better to dis miss Ebon and keep him in stead ; you know we were children together." "My dear Jessie, ain't you a littlo I I thought I heard" "Ah, yes, "I interrupted j "that door does squeak dreadfully. I'm sorry it awoke you ; but it woinV make any differ, euce, for its time to get up, anyway. Thero, I'm all dressed before you have begun, so I'll go down and get some flow ers." j. When Tom cauio down I was lu the din ing room arranging ruy flowers. Teddy was stauding by mo, and as Tom came in he, he pretending not to see him, remarked: "Well to my thinking, there's not a flower among them half so swate as you," then, perceiving Tom, he pulled his fore lock and scraped his foot in regular serv ant style. . . " Mornin sir , it's the roaster I s'pose you are foiue weather, sir, for the time of year." - Tom looked just furious. , " It seems to ine, young man, you don't know your place very well i in future, con fine yourself to your own quarters and speak when you aro spoken to." " Shure, I meant no offence, sir." " Will you go, and without replying ?" Tom stormed. " Why, my dear Tom," I repliod smiling sweetly, " what a strange dislike you seem to have taken too poor Teddy. I was in hopes you would like him as I do, and take him in Eben's place" " If he don't mind what he's about, I'll kick him out of doors." The breakfast passed in absolute silence. As we wore passing the pantry on our way to the parlor, we heard Teddy's voice, and I made Tom stop to listen. "It'safoine lookin' girl you are, Sara Ann, and I'd give you a kiss, I would in dado, if your brith didn't smell so of in gions." " Ingions indado, and who axed you for a kiss? No you'd 'spose I'd be wantin one from the like of you when I can got them from your betters ?" " My betters ! and who do you call my botters?" "Shure and isn't tho master himsolf that kisses me every blessed mornin' of his life, and does bo spake of ingions not much." " The master 1 Now it's jokin' you are, Sara Ann ; do you 'spose I'm fool enough to belave that ?" " Belave it or not, it's the blessed truth I'm tollin' you. Shure, if anything should happen to the missus, it's not long I'd be the servant here." "And it's kisses you, you say he does ; woll, it's quare crayturs you wimmen are anyway. Now men think it disgraceful to kiss and tell, and here you boast of it." We wanted to hoar no more, but. Tom's face was in a blaze, and ho took his hat and loft without a word or look. The next morning Teddy and I manag ed to be in the same place on the stairs where I had seen Tom kiss Sara Ann, and as he opened the door, Teddy kissed ' me loud enough to be heard all over the house, and then hurried away while I went on to the dluing-room. Tom came in present ly with an awful frown, which I pretended not to see, and hold up my face to be kiss ed, but he pushed me rudely from bim. "Why, Tom! ain't you going to kiss me?" " Do you think I'm blind, Mrs. Wilkins? I saw that Teddy kiss you just now, and it's not the first time either. Do you think I'll stand such doing ? No 1 I'll break every bone in the rascal's body, if I hang for it, and you shall go home to your mother till you learn to behave yourself." " Now my dear Tom, where is the barm in that ? I believe in imbibing sweetness wherever I find it; so don't make a moun tain of a molehill." ' You should have seen his face when he heard me repeat his own words. "Look here, Jessie," he said at length, " you've got tho best of mo, though it was a hard way of giving me my lesson." "Not more severe thaa the case required Tom. I only made you put yourself in my place." 1 Well, Jesslo, if it filled you with such intense disgust to see me kiss Sara Ann as as it did me to see you kiss that confound ed Toddy I don't wonder you were angry." " Woll, we talked the matter over at length, and agreed to dismiss both Teddy, and Sara Ann, giving them a month's wagos instead of a warning. 1 .heard Sara Ann mutter to Teddy, "shure and I believe the misses suspicts the master is swate on me." "Niver you fool . yousself that way," said Teddy ; it's himsolf is a sendin' us away." Well, at length they were off, and tho next day Eben came back and I had a new girl ; but in all this time Tom had not kissed me. and treated mo almost with aversion as though my sins were too great for forgivenoss. While we wore at dinner brothor John arrived. I was a little curious to see if Tom would recognize him. lie looked at him with a puzzled expression, but said nothing ; but presently he became imme diately gay, and ludeod almost brilliant. Later, when we were all alone, he took me in his arms and kissed me, and whispered : " Well, Jessie, I see you have got Toddy back after all. Oh, if you knew the relief it gave me to see you bad not degraded yourself.'' ' - " O, you foolish Tom ! do you think I could ever have dared to have descended to tfiat, eveii to give you a much needed lesson ? But see how inconsistent you men are ; you have no forgiveness for the least false slop a women makes, even when she is only following your example to the letter." THE MYSTERIOUS FRIEND. IN the town of Catskill, on the Hudson Kiver, thero dwelt, some years ago, an attorney of the name of Mason. He was in considerable practice, and had two clerks in his office, whose names were Mansell and Van Buren. In ability these young men were nearly on a par, but they differed widely in disposition. Van Buren was cold, close, and somewhat sullen in temper; but in business, shrewd, active and perse vering. Mansell, although assiduous in his duties, was of a gayer temperamont, open as the day, generous, confiding and true. Mason, without being absolutely dishon est, was what is called a keen lawyer, his practice being somewhat of the sharpest ; and as the disposition of his cleik, Van Buren, assimilated in many respects to his own, ho was a great favorite moro inti mately in his confidence, and usually em ployed on those delicate matters which sometimes occur in an attorney's business, and in which the honesty of Mansell might rather hinder than help. Mason had a niece, who, he being a bach elor, lived with him iu the capacity of housekeeper. She was a lively, sensitive and clever girl very pretty,if not positively handsome. She had the grace of a sylph and tho step of a fawn.' It was natural that such a maiden should bo an object of interest to two young men living under the same roof ; and by no means a matter of astonishment, that one or both of them should fall in love with her; and both of them did. But as the young lady had but one heart, she oould not retain the love of each. Iu making her selection, the choice fell upon Edward Mansell. Matters went on this way for some time ; a great deal of bitterness and rancor being displayed by Mason and Van Buren on the one hand, while Kate and Edward Mansell found in the interviews they occasionally enjoyed, more than compensation for tho aunoyance to which they were thus neces sarily exposed, i It happened, at the time when Edward's engagement was within a month of its ex piration, that Masou had received a sum of money as agent for another party, amount ing to nearly three thousand dollars, of which the greater portion was solid coin. As the money could not be conveniently disposed of until the following day, it was dopositcd in a tin box in the iron safe, tho key of which was always in the custody of Mansell. Soon after he received the charge, Van Buren quitted the office for a short tirao, and in the interim an applica tion from a client rendered it necessary for Mansell to go up to the court-house. Hav ing despatched his business at tho hall, he roturned with all expedition, and in due time he took the key of his safe to doposit thorein, as usual, the valuable papers of tho office over night when to his incon ceivable horror, he discovered the treasure was goue. He rushed down stairs, and meeting Van Buren, communicated the unfortunate cir cumstance. He, in turn, expressed his as tonishment in strong terras, and indeed ex hibited something like sympathy in his brother clerk's misfortune. Every search was mode about the premises, and infor mation was given to the nearest magistrate but as Mason was from home, and would not return till the next day, little else could bo done. Edward passed a night of intense agony nor were the feelings of Kate more enviable. Masou roturned some hours earlier than was expected, aud sent imme diately for . Van Huron, and was closeted with him for a long time. ' Mansell, utterly incapacitated by tho overwhelming calamity which had befallen him, from attending to his duties, was walking, ignorant of Mason's return, when Kate came, or rather flew towards him, and exclaimed : "O Edward, my uncle has applied for a warrant to apprehend you ; and, innocent though I know you are, that fiend in hu man form. Van Buren, has wound such a web around you, that I dread the worst. I have not time to explain; fly instantly, and meet me at nightfall, in the Devil s Hol low, when I will explain all." Mansell, scarcely knowing what he did, rushed out of tho garden and through some fields; nor did he stop till he found himself out of town on the banks of the river. Then for the first tirao, he repented of haviug listenod to the well-meant but unwiso counsel of his dear Kate. But the Btep was taken, and ho could uot retrace it now. He proceeded until he arrived at a thick grove, in the vicinity of the Devil's Hollow, where he lay completely hid, until night closed upon htm. Mansell returned, and lingered on the skirts of the grove, until the sound of a light footstep on the gravellod path which led to the place announced tho approach of the loved being whom he felt ho was about to meet for the last time. The poor girl could not speak n word when they met, but bowing her head upon his shoulder, burst into a flood of passionate tears. By degrees she became more calm, and then detailed to bim a conversation she had overheard between Van Huron and her uncle ; and gathered thouco that the former has suc ceeded in convincing Muson of Edward's guilt, by an artful combination of facts which would have made a prima fnti case against the accused tho most formidable one being tho finding of a considerable sum of specie in MauseU's trunk. Knowing that he oould not satisfactorily account for the possession of this money, without the evidence of a near relative who had depart ed for Europe a week before, and whose address vas unknown and return uncertain Edward, to avoid the horror and disgrace of lying in tho county jail ia the interme diate time, resolved on evading the officers of justice, until be could surrender himsolf with the proofs of his innocence in his hands. The moon had now risen above the hill which bound the prospect, and warned the lovers that it was time to separate. "And now, dearest," said he, "I leavo you with the brand of thief upon my fair name, to be hunted like a beast of prey from one hiding-place to another. But, O Kate, I bear with me the blost assurance that one being, aud that being the best loved of my heart, knows me to be inno cent; and that thought shall comfort me." " A remarkably pretty speech, and well delivered 1" exclaimed a voice, which caus ed the youthful pair to start, and turn their eyes in the direction whence it proceeded, when from behind a solitary tree that grew in the Hollow, a tall figure wrapped in an ample cloak walked towards them. Tho place, as we have before said, had an evil reputation, and although Edward and his companion were of course free from the superstitious fears which characterized the country people, an undofinabla feeling stole over them, aa they gazed on the tall form, before them. Mansell, howover, soon recovered himsol? and told the stranger that, whoever it was, it ill became him to overhear conversation, was not intended for othor ears than their own. - - i "Nay," was the rejoinder, "benotangry with me ; perhaps you may have reason to rejoice in my presence, since being in the possession of the story of your gr ief, it might be in my power to alleviate it. I have assisted men in much greater straits. Edward did not like the last sentence,, nor the tone in which it was uttered ; but he said: " I see not how you can help mo ; you cannot give me a clue by whioh I can find the box." ., i . " Yes, hero is a cluoi" replied the other, as be held forth about three yards of strong, cord. " Here is a line; go to the river at a point exactly opposite the hollow akr wade out in a straight line until you find the box; attach one end of . the cord to the box, and the other to a stout cork, but re move it not yet." i : "The devil 1" said Mansell. Whether ho really believed himself to be in the presence of the evil one, or that the word was merely expressive of surprise, we know not. Tho stranger took the compliment, and acknowledging it with a bow, said, " The tin box of which you have been accused of stealing, is at the bottom of the river, and you will find that I have spoken no moro than tho truth." ; . Mansell hesitated no longer, but accom panied the stranger to the spot, and iu a few minutes the box, sealod as when he last saw it, was again in bis possession. Ho looked from the treasure to the stranger, and at lost said, " I owe you more than lifo for in regaining this, I shall recover my good name, which has been foully tradu ced." . He was proceeding towards the shore, when the other cried: , .. ..... . "Stop, young gentleman ! not quito so fast ; just fasten your cord to it and re place it where you found it, if you please." Edward started, but the stranger continu ed : " Were you to take that box back to your employer, think you that you would produce any other effect on him than the conviction, that finding your delinquency discovered, you wished to secure impunity by restoring property ?. We must not only restore the treasure, but convict the thief. Hush 1 I hear a footfall !" As he spoke, he took the box from Ed ward, who now saw his meaning, ' fastened the cord to it, and it was again lowered to the bottom of the river, and the cork on the other end of tho cord was swimming down with the tide. " Now follow me in silenoe,"' whispered tho stranger, and the three retired aud hid themselves behind the huge trunk of tho trco, whence by the light of the moon they beheld a figure approach the water looking cautiously around htm, "That is the tbiof," said the stranger, in a low voice, iu Edward's oar. " I saw him last night throw something into tho. river, and when he was gone, I took the liberty of raising it up ; when, expecting that he would return and remove his booty,. I replaced it, and had been unsuccessfully watching tho place, Just before I mot you in the Hollow." By this timo the man reached the river's brink, aud after groping some time through the water, he found the box, but started back in astonishment on seeing a long cord attached to it. ' His back was turned to the witnesses of the transaction, so that Edward and the stranger had got him se curely by tho collar before be could make an escape. " The surpriso of Mansell and" Kato may be more easily conceived than painted, when as the moonbeam fell on tho face of the culprit, they recognized the features of Van Buren, his fellow-clerk. Mansoll's oharacter was now cleared,, while Vau Buren, whom Masou, for reasons of his own, refrained from ' prosecuting', quitted tho town in merited disgrace. The stranger proved to be a gentleman of largo landed property iu tho neighborhood, which ho had now visited for tho first time in many years, and having been interested in the young pair whom lie had delivered so opportunely from tribulation, he subse quently appointed MaDsell his man of business, and thus laid the foundation of his prosperity. It is almost needless to add, that Kato, who had so long shared his heart, became his wife, ahd shared his good fortune.
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