Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-11-26
EATON, PREBLE CoUNI O. NOV, 26, 1857. d.. "

tor was forty five yIeSssEEs yesEEs OF age. A sic
chamber, WE think is a singGirrar singGraTr- plac
wherein to make love; but the DocTo
was of different opinion. He pile
his medicines to Mrs. Irving, and mad
love to her companion at the same tim
to her, and was coquetishl,
lREFUsED-spoke of ghisc houses ant
lands, and was accepted. 4, Mrs. Irwin!
soon after recovered, to the great joy o
Helen, N from. her fit of sickness. 4
1week afterwards, Mrs. Jason, the wi
dow, became the wife of DR.. --
and gave up the occupation of scam
stress. Helen now begin to think agair
of the CATERS ). and it was high timt
NV s'sSs sas1IssIis = : 1t last tic
6ng wished Tor time came, when she
found Herself enabled to purchase the
gaitersg With half dollar in her
hand, which ,aby, dint of auntiring perse-
verance and economy, she had managed
| to save from her rscanty earnings, the
poor girl repaired joyfuily to the exten-
sive establishment which contained the
coveted articles The clerk with the
red hair and pug nose waited upon her.
Now it happened that the young lady,
richly dressed, and apparently about
twenty years of age, was bargaining for
a pair of CATERS of the most costly ma
terial and workmanship. After having
been fitted to her satisfaction, the rich
ly- dressed lady told the clerk who wait
ed upon her to do up the articles. At
the same time Helen gave a like order
to the clerk with the pughose. A noise
in the street, at, that instant, attracted
the attention, of both women. and they
turned around 'to.look towards the door.
In the meantime, the two clerks having
done UP the separate pair of CATERS,
laid them side by side upon the "coun-
ter, and having paid for them, ran to-
wards the door, in order to see what was
going on. Two men were fighting in
the street, and. as Helen caught glimpse
through the door of their bloody faces,
a feeling of terror crept over her. She
caught up one of the packages in great
haste and leaving the shop, hurried
home as fast as she could. Upon arriv
ing at the house, her first step, was to
open the package, in order to show the
CATERS to her mother-when 10! what
did she see, upon undoingit, but a beau
ti.ul pair of the most exquisite work
III lnship, They were magnificent, beau
tiful; and, for few moments, the poor
girl stood gazing upon them in the ut
most bewildcrment.
II have taken the wrong package:
is to be done?" she said
at length, recognizing them as those
she had seen the, rich lady, purchase,
and making her mother acquainted with
the fact .....-
Find out the address of the lady,
and take them back. As you have ta-
ken her CATERS, it is likely that she has
yours also .....,, i
f GLOW beautiful murmurcd Helen
to herself, as shewrappcd them up again
in the paper. e." - p. .7ra-. Fl
In the meantime, the lady who had
purchased the elegant CATERS, had pick
ed up the remaining package from tie
and entered a, coach which was
in waiting outside, was whirled rapidly |
to a splendid residence in the upper |
part of Broaiway.d The name of, this |
lady, We will inform the reader, with
out further delay. was Lydia Living
ston, the daughter of an extensive mer-
chant of this city. 1t was before her
fathers house that the carriage stop
pedo Grcatiwas the astonishmento of Miss
Livingston upon undoing the package
to behold a pair of cheap fifty cent gal
ters. instead of the. elegant articles she
had purchased, r Instead of feeling an
cry, however, as would have many in a
similar situation, she set about thinking
how the affair could have happened.
''0h! l now recollect!' she suddenly
exclaimed, with a merry laugh. ''Thcre
was poor girl ins the store. purchasing
CATERS at the same time with myself
She must have taken my package b.
and left her own upon, the
counter. Poor thinS-she is perfectly
welcome to them. Lean get me anoth-
or pair And, with these words, she
went down into the parlor and related
the affair to her brother George, the
young man whom we introduced in the
of this sketch, George
was considerably amused, and, after he
had laughed sufficiently over the mat
ter, his sister said:
"Do you know, brother, there was
very interesting about that
poor girl. 1t seemed to ME as though
had seen her countenance before"
"Describe her." said George, sudden
y starting up; chad she not on pair
Of ragged CATERS p
II believe SO, said his sister, smiling
1T the question, and then proceeded to
give full description of the girl. 49,.
at is the samcI" exclaimed George,
vehcmently. "Lidy, have seen this
girl, and was impressed in the same
manner as yourself by her looks. What
can this mean? ?'' r...
A timid ringing was at that instant
heard at the door bell, and the next mo-
ment, a servant looked into the parlor
and said: s.....
"There is poor girl at the door, who
says she wants to see Miss Livingston"
'sShow her in here" said Lydia.
The servant departed, and re-appear-
ed the next moment, ushering in Helen
Irving. With graceful case and deli
,acy which charmed her hearers, the
young girl explained the nature of her