Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1857-04-29
From the Portland Transcript.
MONEY is ALL.

MONEY Is ALL.
This is what they say, know, but that
doesn't quite make it so. Money is an excel
lent thing, aud has done great work for the
vorid--as the drunken sailor said water had
!gr nayiga.,on; but sometimes it so happens
nat when q man secures all he aims at, he is
discontcnted before he had dollar in
Phi Louse.
re girls make the most Of the mischief in
~ tier; for they will hardly look at any
cody who is hot ssrich,'' and hence many a
vor1g fellow, who is competent to make a wo-
2 IN harnr s., ..er days, is obliged to take up
nth shivery bachelor's commons, till he is
either in luck or in his grave. And that is Of
tS.. Just about the same thing.
Sara. Storms was one of family of seven
-cen daughters and that family unfortunately
CHARGED to be poor. Hence the mother kept
c sharp eye on all the opportunities that Offer
e1 for "matehes." She grew as keen as an
operator in State street, and didn't disguise it
one half .s much, either. Sarah ought to
have been married long ago, said her mother.
She Uts-I am not going to guess how old !;
but old enough to take the prefix, Mrs., Ger.
tauiy. Her mother had been looking out for
hei, Lnd she had been looking out for herself.
Two three energetic, enterprsing and like
" ycrns rlen had bestowed their favors in
vain, and two or three more had concluded
that Il ras no use for them to try either. So
there she was, pretty well ashore, you can
see for Yourself. What to dor she didn't know,
till along came a rich, old bachelor-both
rich and old-who seemed to have moved into
the place expressly for the purpose of reliev-
i..g tie worthy Storms family of their trouble.
He was stranger to everybody. All that was
known of him was, that he was rich. And for
Mrs. Storms, and Sarah, too, that was enough.
It was enough for all the money hunters be-
sides. To find rich stranger come 10 settle
among them, was like waking up some fine
morning, and finding the whole menagerie-
elephant and albright before their doors.
II would make q deacon laugh in meeting,
to tell him the many little devices that were
practissd by the mother Storms, to first enlist,
and then eDgross the attention of Mr.. Multi
gan, the rich stranger. And they did it; of
course they did, though every other female in
town cut them off from their friendship in con-
sequence. Then, having secured his acquain-
tance, how they watched, and worked, and
coutrived, to win over his-well, his partiality
and they did that, too. All the world could
not have stopped them. Other girls were jeal-
Gus, and held back this only gave the Storms
q clearer field for operation. What did Mrs.
Storms know about Mr.. Mulligan's DISPOSE
tion7 Nothing. What did she care Less.
What did she think Of but the swiftest way Of
marrying off her darling daughter, and marry
her 80 tceilf
And she succeeded in that, too. Sarah
Storms had pretty, infsntile face, and show
cd row of teeth as white as curds whenever
she laughed. She had a rather tall and grace
ful figure too, and took pains to show pretty
foot as often as Mr.. Mulligan was in the way
of seeing it. And what did he know about
women--or matrimony-or any OF the liner
and fairer qualities that are so essential to do
mestic felicity 2 Nothing -nothing-nothing.
Sarah was pretty girl, and he liked her looks
she appeared to be very attentive to him,
and his fancy bewildered and deluded him.
SO he stole over one evening, and offered him
self plump. She didn't refuse him, and you
needn't think she did. Nor did her mother
sit down after he had gone until Sarah had
told her the story, and cried an hour or two
about it. No, kind reader, you know better
as well as / do. They made family Thanks
giving over the event, hoping that every other
la.oiiy in the town felt like instituting Fast.
They were married. Sarah Storms was
raeh.aay Mrs. Mrlligan. Some of the girls
s.i2 they never would own such name; but
II Is fair to say of them that they were envious.
How could they we'll help it, when Sarah hao
drawn the only prize, and they nothing but a
bominable blanks They made great party
on the occasion, and great fuss. All thc
fc"n and country were set in an uproar, just
because an old man was going to marry
young girl-as if that would mend the matter
at all, when there was no such thing as mend
ing It in the world. Mr.. Muiligan moved his
new young wife into nice house, nicely fur
nished, and told her thsrs she was, meaning,